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Nurses strike: Almost 23,air jordan,000 nurses at hospitals in northern and central California won',chanel 2 55;t report to work on Thursday as they stage a one-day strike to protest concessions demanded by hospitals that the nurses say will hurt their role as patient advocates and cut their health and pension benefits.

The strike by members of the?California Nurses Association/National Nurses United targets hospitals operated by Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente as well as Children's Hospital in Oakland.

Among their grievances, the? nurses say job concessions sought by Sutter Health would require them to report to work when ill, endangering patient health,chaussures air jordan, according to a statement on the union's website.

At Kaiser,chaussures air jordan, nurses are striking in sympathy with co-workers who face cuts in their health coverage and retirement plans, the nurses' union says.

Complaints at Children's Hospital include cuts to health care plans that would make it too expensive for nurses to bring their own kids to Children's for treatment, according to the union statement.

Obama jobs speech: President Barack Obama head to Cincinnati on Thursday to pitch his $447 billion jobs bill C a combination of infrastructure spending, tax cuts and aid to state and local governments.

He'll speak with the Brent Spence Bridge as a backdrop. The span across the Ohio River carries one of the country's major trucking routes, but it is in need of $2.4 billion in repairs,air jordan femme, .

The bridge links the constituencies of the top two Republicans in Congress - House Speaker John Boehner',chanel sito ufficiale;s district is on the Ohio side while Kentucky is home of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and could be pivotal to Obama's re-election.

Taiwan arms: China warned the United States Thursday that will create "severe obstacles" between Beijing and Washington, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

"The wrongdoing by the U.S. side will inevitably undermine bilateral relations as well as exchanges and cooperation in military and security areas," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said, according to Xinhua. Zhang summoned U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke to lodge a protest.

The $5,jordan.3 billion arms package includes upgrades to Taiwan',air jordan femme;s F-16 fighter fleet, a five-year extension of F-16 pilot training at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona and spare parts for the upkeep of three different planes used by the Taiwanese, according to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland,chanel sito ufficiale. The deal is part of the U.S,nike air jordan. Foreign Military Sales program.

“Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!”

Those creatures? had Dorothy worried on the yellow brick road in "The Wizard of? Oz" – and now you may need to worry about seeing them and other large carnivores in your backyard, an Ohio State University researcher says.

OK, there shouldn’t be any tigers – they aren’t found in the wild in North America – but lions (mountain), bears, wolves and coyotes are finding urban areas to be just right for a comfortable existence, says Stan Gehrt, an associate professor of environment and natural resources.

Gehrt says coyotes are leading the urban invasion by formerly rural carnivores,air jordan femme.

“The coyote is the test case for other animals. Raccoons, skunks,jordan, foxes they’ve already been able to penetrate the urban landscape pretty well,chanel. The coyote is the most recent and largest,” Gehrt said in .

One pack of coyotes has established a territory and is thriving about five miles from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country,air jordan femme, .

“That’s an indication that they don’t have to go far to find food and water. They’re finding everything they need right there, in the suburbs of Chicago,” Gehrt said.

And he said the urban environments may be even better than rural ones for the coyotes, with pups surviving in urban areas at five times the rate they do in rural settings.

“They’re so adaptable and so opportunistic,” Gehrt said. “In adjusting to urban life, they may change dietary items and habitat use, and become nocturnal, whereas in the country they’re active day and night. But with other things, they don’t change at all. Here, they’re able to maintain their social structure,nike air jordan, territorialism,borse chanel prezzi, packs and mating system, even in the face of all these challenges of trying to live among 9 million people.”

In an earlier release, Gehrt said one trait that may be helping coyotes thrive in urban areas is their monogamy, which means dads are around to help raise the kids.

“If the female were to try to raise those large litters by herself,chanel sito ufficiale, she wouldn’t be able to do it. But the male spends just as much time helping to raise those pups as the female does,” he said.

The urban coyotes pose little danger to humans, Gert said,chanel borse, and can be easily scared off by yelling at them or throwing a rock at them.

“You’re doing them a favor. They show a healthy respect and fear of people and that’s the way it should be,” he said.

They also eat rodents and even bugs which can pose dangers to human health, he said. Of course,jordan, they may also eat your dog or cat.

The abundance of carnivore food may also bring larger carnivores into urban settings.

Gehrt said a mountain lion was recently killed in the Wrigleyville area of Chicago.

Sightings of mountain lions and bears in suburban areas are increasingly common. And they can pose a bigger danger to humans.

“They are going to be an even bigger challenge,” Gehrt said.

Gehrt’s coyote research has been going on for 12 years. His team has tracked about 680 coyotes by placing radio collars on them.

Gehrt spoke at the EcoSummit 2102 in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday,air jordan pas cher.

An American student is in critical condition after?undergoing two operations?after chimpanzees tore apart?his body in front of tourists at a South African animal sanctuary, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN on Tuesday,moncler 2012.

Andrew Oberle,?a primatology?student from University of Texas at San Antonio,?was being treated at a Johannesburg hospital after two chimps attacked him Thursday, spokeswoman Robyn Baard said.

Oberle?had been at the since May, according to Eugene Cussons, the?facility's managing director. Oberle was at the?sanctuary, near Nelspruit, South Africa, for the second time after training and volunteering there in 2010. ,giubbotti Moncler?His training included?an explanation?about "no-go" areas - spaces?for animals where people are not supposed to go.

Witnesses to the attack said that Oberle went into a no-go area because he seemed to want?to remove a stone close to one of the?animals that could have been picked up and thrown around, Cussons told CNN.

Oberle crossed one barrier and approached a second one, which is a main fence?with 24 strands of electrical wiring, Cussons said.?Two male chimps grabbed Oberle and tried to drag him under the fence, but were not able to yank him into their enclosure.

Cussons said he estimates the attack lasted 15 minutes.

At some point, people tried to stop the chimps, and Cussons shot two rounds in the air to see if that might get them to retreat, he said. One of the chimps then charged at Cussons, he said. Cussons shot that chimp in the abdomen, he told CNN, and it?seemed to shriek as a kind of signal to other chimps?that there was a more powerful threat present. The chimps then backed off,louis vuitton borse, he said.

Oberle was rescued and transported for medical care.

None of the 13?tourists - most of them from local areas –?were harmed, officials said.

The?chimp that was shot had an operation at the Johannesburg?zoo to repair damage to his small and large intestines.

Hospital spokeswoman Baard declined to discuss the nature of Oberle's wounds. She said the student's?parents had requested privacy, adding that they are "quite traumatized."

The sanctuary, which is featured in the Animal Planet program "Escape to Chimp Eden," remains closed and its staff is receiving counseling, executive director David Oosthuizen said.

There are no plans right now to euthanize the chimps involved in the attack, said Dries Pienaar, who is leading the investigation into the incident. He?works for a parks agency that makes sure zoos, sanctuaries and breeding projects comply with the law.?Pienaar told CNN that his?preliminary findings are that human error is to blame, but he cautioned that his investigation is not complete and that he wants to interview Oberle. He hasn't spoken to all of the tourists yet,scarpe hogan, either.

Chimp Eden was established as a home for rescued chimpanzees. Many of the primates have suffered "horrible injuries and abuse from humans," according to the sanctuary.

Dave Salmoni, an expert in?large predators for the television channel Animal Planet,hogan uomo, said abused and captive chimpanzees can be particularly dangerous, likening the chimps to troubled prison inmates.

"Now this is a very nice prison, but it's a prison nonetheless," he said Monday,louis vuitton sito ufficiale. "And that's why you can see a lot of acting out behavior, and in some cases, with chimpanzees, they act out just because they can."

Oberle?was passionate about?studying chimpanzees,borse louis vuitton,?his friend?Anthony Reimherr told CNN affiliate KXAN-TV. He said it was "intriguing" to listen to?Oberle when he spoke?about the animals.

"It',giubbotti Moncler;s just something that he loved to do,hogan, and I think it's something that he'll always continue to do," Reimherr said,hogan uomo.