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Idaho teen loses cancer fight after delivering son (AP)

POCATELLO, Idaho ? Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, though she was not destined to become just another teenage mother.

That much, she knew.

While being admitted to the hospital, she pulled her nurse down to her at bed level and whispered into her ear. The nurse would later repeat the girl's words to comfort her family, as their worst fears were realized a day after Jenni's baby was born.

"She told the nurse, `I'm done, I did what I was supposed to. My baby is going to get here safe,'" said Diana Phillips, Jenni's mother.

In photographs, the baby's ruddy cheeks and healthy weight offer a stark contrast to the frail girl who gave birth to him. She holds the newborn tightly, kissing the top of his head. Jenni, at 5 feet and 4 inches tall, weighed only 108 pounds at the full term of her pregnancy.

A day after the Nov. 9 birth, Phillips learned that her daughter's decision to forgo treatment for tumors on her brain and spine so she could carry the baby would have fatal repercussions. The cancer had marked too much territory. Nothing could be done, Phillips said.

It was only 12 days past the birth ? half spent in the hospital and the other half at home ? before Jenni was gone.

Even so, her family and friends insist her legacy is not one centered in tragedy, but rather in sacrifice.

This month, her family gathered at their ranch style home in Pocatello, where a Christmas tree in the living room was adorned with ornaments picked out just for Jenni, including one in bright lime green, her favorite color. She had passed away in a bedroom down the hall.

Recalling Jenni's infectious laugh and a rebellious streak, her mother held the baby close, nuzzling his head, and said, "I want him to know everything about her, and what she did."

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The migraines started last year, when Jenni was a 16-year-old sophomore at Pocatello High School. She was taken to the family doctor, and an MRI scan found a small mass measuring about two centimeters wide on the right side of her brain.

She was sent to a hospital in Salt Lake City, some 150 miles south of Pocatello, and another scan there showed the mass was bigger than previously thought.

Jenni had a biopsy Oct. 15, 2010, and five days later was diagnosed with stage three astrocytoma, a type of brain tumor. With three tumors on her brain and three on her spine, Jenni was told her case was rare because the cancer had spread from her brain to another part of her body with no symptoms.

Her parents, who are divorced, remember they were brought into a room at the hospital and sat down at a long table as doctors discussed her chances of survival.

"Jenni just flat out asked them if she was going to die," said her father, Mike Lake, 43, a truck driver who lives in Rexburg, north of Pocatello.

The answer wasn't good. With treatment, the teen was told she had a 30 percent chance to make it two years, Lake said. While he was heartbroken, Lake marveled at how strong she seemed in that moment. "She didn't break down and cry or anything," he said.

But her mom recalled Jenni did have a weak moment that day.

"When they told her that she might not be able to have kids, she got upset," said Phillips, 39.

Jenni started aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, while also posting videos on a YouTube site titled "Jenni's Journey," where she hoped to share her story with updates every other day. She managed to upload only three videos, though, as her treatments left her tired and weak.

On her second video, posted Nov. 20, 2010, Jenni appears distraught while a family friend records her having lunch with her mom.

"Last night, like, I was just lying in bed and I was thinking about everything that was going on and it just like, it just hit me, like everything, and I don't know, it made me cry," Jenni says on the video.

Her mom is shown burying her face in her hands. "Do you know how hard it is to be a mom and know that she's sick and there's nothing you can do," she says, before collapsing into tears.

Jenni persists: "It's hard. It's like, I don't know how long this is going to last and I just want it to go away ... I feel like this is holding me back from so much ..."

By March of this year, the tumors had started to shrink, the family said.

In a picture taken at her prom in early May, Jenni is wearing a dark blue strapless dress and gives the camera a small smile. There's a silver headband in her hair, which is less than an inch long. Chemotherapy took her shoulder-length blond tresses.

Her boyfriend, Nathan Wittman, wearing a black dress shirt and pants, is cradling her from behind.

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Jenni started dating Nathan a couple of weeks before she received her diagnosis. Their adolescent relationship withstood the very adult test posed by cancer, the treatments that left her barely able to walk from her living room to her bedroom, and the gossip at school.

"The rumors started flying around, like Nathan was only with her because she had cancer," said Jenni's older sister, Ashlee Lake, 20, who tried to squelch the mean-spirited chatter even as the young couple ignored it.

They were hopeful, and dreamed of someday opening a restaurant or a gallery.

Jenni had been working as an apprentice in a local tattoo shop. "She was like our little sister," said the owner, Kass Chacon. But in May, Jenni's visits to the shop grew less frequent.

She had been throwing up a lot and had sharp stomach pains. She went to the emergency room early one morning with her boyfriend and when she returned home, her family members woke up to the sound of crying. "We could hear Jenni just bawling in her room," said her sister, Kaisee, 19.

She had learned that she was pregnant, and an ultrasound would show the fetus was 10 weeks old.

Jenni's journey was no longer her own.

From the start of treatment, she was told that she might never have children, her mother said, that the radiation and chemotherapy could essentially make her sterile.

"We were told that she couldn't get pregnant, so we didn't worry about it," said Nathan, 19.

Jenni, the third of her parents' eight children, had always wanted to be a mom. She had already determined to keep the baby when she went to see her oncologist, Dr. David Ririe, in Pocatello two days after she found out she was pregnant.

"He told us that if she's pregnant, she can't continue the treatments," Phillips said. "So she would either have to terminate the pregnancy and continue the treatments, or stop the treatments, knowing that it could continue to grow again."

Dr. Ririe would not discuss Jenni's care, citing privacy laws, but said, generally, in cases in which a cancer patient is pregnant, oncologists will consider both the risks and benefits of continuing with treatment, such as chemotherapy.

"There are times during pregnancy in some situations, breast cancer being the classic example, where the benefits of chemotherapy may outweigh the risk to mother and baby," Ririe said. "There are other times where the risk outweighs the benefits."

There was no discussion about which path Jenni would choose. Her parents didn't think of it as a clear life or death decision, and Jenni may not have, either. They believed that since the tumors had already started to shrink earlier, she had a strong chance of carrying the baby and then returning to treatment after he was born.

"I guess we were just hoping that after she had the baby, she could go back on the chemotherapy and get better," her mother said.

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Jenni and Nathan named the baby Chad Michael, after their dads. Nathan has legal custody of the child, who is primarily cared for by Nathan's mother, Alexia Wittman, 51.

"Nathan will raise him," she said. She brings the baby to Jenni's house to visit her family whenever they ask.

Jenni didn't show regret for her decision, not in the final weeks of her pregnancy as she grew weaker, and not when she started to lose her vision as the cancer took its course, her family said.

Jenni's last words were about her son as he was placed beside her a final time, her father said. As she felt for the baby, she said: "I can kind of see him."

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Jenni's Journey: www.facebook.com/jennis.journey

Jenni's YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/jennisjourney

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Building the Hoover Dam Bridge [Slide Show]

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A photographic essay captures the construction of a 1900-foot addition to the iconic American landmark


PEERING DOWN: This view from above the pylons looking down through the cables to the Arizona bridge deck. This is the first concrete-steel composite arch bridge in the U.S. Image: Courtesy of Jamey Stillings (www.jameystillings.com)

Over a two-year period, photographer Jamey Stillings documented the transformation of an American landmark. The building of the structure that connects the Arizona and Nevada sides of a concrete arch appears in a coffee table book called The Bridge at Hoover Dam (Nazraeli Press, 2011).?

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Nearly one million people visit the 76-year-old Hoover Dam each year. In 2010 the historic site greeted visitors with a new addition: a 1,900-foot bridge. The Mike O?Callaghan - Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge is a part of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project, which was built to alleviate traffic on Route 93. "Today, the bridge is significant for its aesthetic, functional and geographic connection to the Hoover Dam and for its technical achievement, crossing the Black Canyon over the Colorado River with the longest concrete arch span in the western hemisphere," Stillings writes in his book. To see some of his photographs from this project, check out the following slide show.

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Revolution, disaster, Charlie Sheen, Rob Ford: TV?s year of weird

Charlie Sheen. The Arab Spring. The arrival of Sun News Network. The CBC under attack and diving for cover. Don Cherry putting both feet in his big mouth. Don Cherry apologizing. Kevin O?Leary putting his foot in his big mouth. Kevin O?Leary apologizing. A federal election fought with vicious TV advertising.

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It was a year of weird, of too much news, another year in which television-related stories became big, all-encompassing stories, and vice versa. We look to television first as it engages immediately with unfolding events, imploding societies and the constancy of change. And so this was a year when everything was a television story.

And the above is only the shorthand version of 2011 in the TV world. There?s more ? Toronto Mayor Rob Ford fleeing Mary Walsh from This Hour Has 22 Minutes and calling 911, the Kardashian marriage that was and then wasn?t. The Academy Awards hosted by youth-appeal actors James Franco and Anne Hathaway ? dull and duller. Eerie, frightening coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan followed by a nuclear disaster. A royal wedding. A royal visit. MTV?s series Skins demonized as ?porn? and advertisers pulling out. The miniseries The Kennedys demonized as ?character assassination? and the U.S. History Channel declining to air it. History Television, in Canada, then airing it, and it was just dull.

Let?s start with Charlie Sheen, the iconic figure of 2011. Remember this ? in January of 2010, the big story in the TV racket was Conan O?Brien?s bitter dispute with NBC and raucous departure from The Tonight Show. In January of this year, the story was Charlie Sheen and his increasingly outlandish behaviour, which led to a bitter dispute with CBS and bizarre departure from Two and Half Men.

Now consider the difference between the O?Brien mess and the Sheen meltdown. So much attention has been paid to Sheen; the world has shifted. This was the year that things got weirder than ever.

In January, when the TV critics met the U.S. network bosses for the mid-season powwow in Los Angeles, CBS boss Nina Tassler was asked about Sheen. ?We have a high level of concern. How could we not?? she said, adding, ?Charlie is a professional. He comes to work and he does his job extremely well.? And she ended her remarks by noting, ?The show is a hit.? Weeks later, the world was agog as Sheen disintegrated over and over on TV, railing against CBS, the producers of Two and a Half Men and anyone who suggested he sober up.

Meanwhile, one night on Fox News, Geraldo Rivera declared, ?Autocratic regimes give me the willies.? Then he shouted, ?Mubarak, get out.? And announced, ?That's my editorial.? The Arab Spring brought out the best and worst of TV news. Coverage was chaotic. Sometimes CNN anchors were talking on the phone to American tourists in Cairo who peered out the window and described what they saw. It was the footage of mass protests that mattered, though. No one who saw the multitudes in Cairo?s Tahrir Square or on the streets of Benghazi in Libya would be in doubt that change was happening. And Al-Jazeera, demonized in the United States after 9/11, provided the best, most informed coverage.

It took a while before the true horror of the situation in Japan became evident. And for a while, weirdness reigned. On CNBC, the financial news channel, host Larry Kudlow jawed about what it meant in business terms. A co-host said, ?The markets are taking this in stride.? Kudlow jabbered, ?The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that.? Later, he apologized. The TV footage from Japan was formidably disquieting.

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Riots in London

Mike Askin posted this link on Facebook - nice shots of a
couple of working boats Chiswick and Alton

But the ending - today they would all be in chockey with
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made

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Strange version of O Canada at Chicago Stadium

its an unofficial bilingual version. the anthem was originally written in french in the early 1900s but the official anthem wasnt accepted until 1980.

O Canada! Our home, notre pays!
La feuille d'?rable: One flag from sea to sea.
Sol de libert?, sol d'?galit?,
Where freedom's banner flies.
Chantons tous la gloire d'une riche histoire,
Our home 'neath northern skies.
O Canada! O ma patrie!
Hold high the Maple leaf o'er land and sea.
O Canada, my country, mon pays.

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