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The American Telugu Association (ATA) organizes a get together once in two years and a host of prominent celebrities will be converging at the Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey from the 3rd to the 5th of July to make it a memorable event. The ATA recognizes and honors individuals of Telugu origin during the convention. Eminent personalities from different fields are expected to be honored this year as well. Representatives from the Telugu film world and prominent personalities from other fields who are taking part this year include Jr. NTR, Allu Arjun, Charmee, Hansika Motwani, Roja, Devisri Prasad, Ghazal Srinivas, Vijaya Lakshmi, Siva Reddy, Gangadhar, Gollapudi Maruthu Rao, Suddala Ashok Teja and C.Narayana Reddy. There are also a host of religious leaders who are taking part. Seminars and glittering cultural performances are being planned for the event. Awards would be presented in order to honor excellence in different fields.
American climber killed on Mexican volcano
A Mexican official says an American climber has died on Mexico's tallest mountain after slipping on an icy slope and falling about 300 feet. Charles King, 25, was scaling the Pico de Orizaba, an 18,941-foot peak that straddles the states of Puebla and Veracruz, when he and three companions fell at a height of around 15,000 feet. Ricardo Maza Limon, head of civil protection emergency services for Veracruz state, says King's body had to be physically lowered to 12,000 feet in order for a helicopter to transport it out of the area. King was climbing with another American and two Guatemalans. Maza says the three fell around 90 feet and were only lightly hurt.
American students developing underwater drones to hunt for explosives
Groups of American college students are help making the seas safer – one less explosive at a time. The Department of Defense gave $15,000 last February to the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., and four other schools to develop underwater drones that can detect unexploded bomb, missiles and mines off U.S. shores. “Some of it dates back to the Civil War. Some of it is World War II,” Michael Delorme, a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, told Fox News. “And the DOD is taking responsibility to go around and find these lost items and make sure they are safe and inert.” A drone that has been built and is currently undergoing testing at the school can be controlled wirelessly and contains a metal detector. “Its got a suite of sensors --- eyes ears nose mouth, just like you and I do,” Delorme said. More than 30 million pounds of abandoned explosives reside off the coasts of the U.S. “It was really great being on this project where we’re helping the Navy solve this real problem of having unexploded ordnance on the seafloor that could potentially hurt somebody,” Joe Huyett, a 22-year-old student at Stevens Institute of Technology.
American journalist infected with Ebola shows improvement, Nebraska hospital says
The American journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia is showing signs of improvement, The Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release Friday. Ashoka Mukpo’s condition is slightly improved,” Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit at The Nebraska Medical Center, said in the news release. “He’s been taking in some fluids and drinking Gatorade. But everyone needs to be reminded that this is still a very serious illness we’re dealing with and no one has a lot of experience treating it.” Mukpo, 33, is being treated with brincidofovir, the experimental drug by biopharmaceutical company Chimerix, the hospital confirmed Tuesday. Mukpo also received a blood transfusion Wednesday from Dr. Kent Brantly, an Ebola survivor who previously donated blood to Dr. Richard Sacra, a Massachusetts doctor who has since recovered from the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged medics to use “convalescent therapies” such as blood transfusions from recovered Ebola patients to treat Ebola patients. Mukpo’s father, Dr. Mitchell Levy, said on Friday that he was “cautiously optimistic” about his son’s recovery. “We definitely aren’t out of the woods, but it’s nice to see even a small amount of improvement,” Levy said. He noted that he was grateful for the team of 40 medical professionals caring for his son. Mukpo previously told his father he wasn’t sure how he contracted Ebola, but that he thought it may have occurred while he was spray-washing something and contamination splashed back on him. Thomas E. Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., had also been treated with brincidofovir. Duncan, 44, died Wednesday morning. The drug, which comes in tablet form, is currently undergoing additional tests in laboratory animals infected with Ebola. According to a statement from Chimerix, it was approved by the FDA for use in human Ebola patients on Monday.
American League wins third straight MLB All-Star Game, earns home field in World Series
RBI hits by Prince Fielder and Lorenzo Cain broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the fifth inning, and the American League went on to a 6-3 win over the National League in the 86th MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati Tuesday night. The result gives the American League champion home-field advantage in this October's World Series for the third consecutive year. The AL also drew within two wins of the NL in the all-time All-Star Game results race. The National League has won 43 of the 86 Midsummer Classics, with the American League capturing 41. The game has ended in a tie twice, in 1961 and 2002. The American League got off to the perfect start in the top of the first when Angels star Mike Trout hit a leadoff home run in the All-Star Game for the first time since 1977. Trout sent a 94 mile-per-hour fastball from NL starter Zack Greinke the opposite way, just muscling it over the right field wall to give the AL a 1-0 lead. It was the first run Greinke had allowed since June 13. "It's not easy," Greinke said of pitching to Trout. "You've got like a 2-inch window up in the zone. If you throw it higher than that, he takes it. If you throw it lower he does what he did." Trout, one of six starting position players under 25, earned game MVP honors for the second straight year. He also became one of just ten players in the game's history to complete a career cycle in the Midsummer Classic. Another All-Star to have turned that trick was Fielder. The Texas Rangers slugger sent Trout home with a single off Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw with two outs in the fifth to give the AL the lead for good. Kansas City's Cain followed with an RBI double to make the score 3-1, AL, at the game's halfway point. Houston's Dallas Keuchel, the AL starter with the long, bushy beard, let the National League on the scoreboard in the bottom of the second after Arizona's Paul Goldschmidt led off with a bouncer to third, reaching on an infield single and taking second as Toronto's Josh Donaldson threw wildly. Goldschmidt moved to third on Buster Posey's groundout and Jhonny Peralta, an All-Star for the St. Louis Cardinals after serving a 50-game drug suspension two years ago, dumped a two-out single into right field. "It was the most amped up I've ever been," the Houston star said. "It was just the atmosphere -- the greatest players ever, Pete Rose, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays." Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates homered off Tampa Bay's Chris Archer in the sixth, cutting the gap to 3-2. But the AL answered in the top of the seventh, as Baltimore's Manny Machado, at 23 another of the sport's fresh faces, hit a double off the right-field wall against Francisco Rodriguez and scored on Fielder's sacrifice fly to make the score 4-2. The AL added one more run in the inning on another sac fly before Minnesota's Brian Dozier, the last player added to the game as an injury replacement, hit a solo home run off Pittsburgh's Mark Melancon in the eighth to cap the scoring for the junior circuit. Stars old and young gathered for the occasion in one of baseball's most traditional towns. The Reds became baseball's first professional team in 1869, and players wore caps with horizontal stripes in an attempt at a 19th century feel. Rose, Cincinnati's hometown hero and baseball's banned career hits leader, was given an 80-second ovation when he walked onto the field before the game to join Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Barry Larkin, elected by fans as the Reds' greatest players. Wearing a red jacket and tie and walking stiffly, the now 74-year-old Charlie Hustle was applauded as soon as his image appeared on the video boards, even before he emerged from the AL dugout. And in the first All-Star Game at Great American Ballpark, which opened in 2003, fans got to see some great ballplayers. Bench, changing into a blue jacket, returned with Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, voted baseball's great living players by fans as part of a promotion. In a sentimental yet stunning reminder of generational change, Aaron, 81, and Morgan, 71, needed canes to reach the infield, and Mays, 84, was aided on and off the field by an assistant. Above the field, new Commissioner Rob Manfred watched from a luxury suite, the first All-Star Game not presided over by Bud Selig since 1992.
American woman beaten to death in Nepal during earthquake relief visit
An American woman who had traveled to Nepal to help those affected by April's deadly earthquake was beaten to death last month, Nepali officials said this weekend. Dahlia Yehia, 25, had been in Nepal since July 20 and was renting a room in Pokhara, northwest of Kathmandu. A report in the English-language Himalayan Times said that Yehia was killed with a hammer Aug. 7 and her body was thrown into the Seti River. Nepali police made the murder public Friday, one day after arresting 30-year-old Narayan Paudel, from whom Yehia was renting her room, for the crime. A police spokesperson told The Himalayan Times that Paudel had confessed to the murder. The paper also reported that Paudel jumped from the roof of police headquarters in Pokhara Friday in a possible attempt to kill himself, but survived with serious injuries. Police were continuing to search the Seti River for Yehia's body Tuesday. Police official Hari Bahadur Pal told the Associated Press that authorities plan to seek the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for Paudel, but that they need the body to help build a strong case. Pal said Paudel had described how he hammered Yehia to death and threw her body into the river. Pal also said police found blood-soaked clothes and ropes they believed were used to tie Yehia's body. Authorities believe the motive behind the murder was money, with Paudel saying he took money from Yehia, according to Pal. A native of Kalamazoo, Mich., Yehia had last spoken to her family the day before her death. The family set up a Find Dahlia Facebook page and confirmed Thursday that she had died. "Recently, we received word from the US Embassy that Dahlia's life has been taken from us. We are devastated by this senseless loss of a beautiful life," a statement posted on the Facebook page said. "For those who haven't had the joy of spending time with Dahlia, know that she is a giver, lover, and humanitarian, who devoted her life to others less fortunate both domestic and abroad." Yehia had most recently worked as an art teacher at the Sci-Tech Preparatory Academy in Austin, Texas. Students and staff there learned of her death Friday. "It was just like her to be helping others. I mean, that's just kind of who she was," school spokesperson Bailey Bounds told KTBC. "The kids loved having her for their art teacher last year," the school said in a statement on its Facebook page. "We are all saddened by the loss of such a special spirit!" The magnitude-7.8 earthquake this past April killed over 9,000 people, with the vast majority of deaths and damage occurring in Nepal.