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HONG KONG, China (CNN)  -- Bamboo, woven into the shape of human stomachs. Red, sky blue and orange pencil shavings glued onto a large canvas form a woman's traditional hair clip. A collage of magazine clippings, drawings and found materials depict Cambodia's tumultuous modern history.

Leang Seckon's "Prison Guard" depicts Duch, who is facing a genocide tribunal starting Tuesday.

These are a few of the offerings on hand in Hong Kong at one of the first large international exhibitions of artists from Cambodia. The work by 14 artists varies in practice-- video, photography, collage, wood shavings, paper, bamboo and painting-- as well as in themes, from reflecting on the Southeast Asian nation's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime to the emerging modern Cambodia, with traffic lights and all.

"Every artist in this show is referencing ancient tradition and recent history," said Phnom Penh-based curator Erin Gleeson, noting the wall-size depiction in folded paper of the serpent Naga (which in Cambodian culture represents the people's mythical birth) to a collage of 20th-century Cambodia and its six different regime changes.

"The show is looking at the present -- 'Forever Until Now' is the title -- and it is this lineage of the past, you see that in the show, and then you see artists that arrive at the present," she added.

The show opens Friday and runs through March 22 at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery. Gallery owner and director Katie de Tilly said she believed it was important the artists get international exposure.

" ... it's really at the beginning of their art emergence. Obviously, they've had a very hard history," she said. "This is really the beginning of contemporary Cambodians who are expressing very original ideas in their artworks and I think that that's what makes it very unique and to show to the rest of the world."

Cambodia, which lost an estimated one-quarter of its population or at least 1.7 million people -- including an estimated 90 percent of its artists -- under the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, has a small but growing artistic community: there are some 50 practicing artists out of its 14 million people, Gleeson said.

The genocide and ensuing war, which only ended in the last decade or so, stifled the development of the arts in one of the world's poorest countries.

"The legacy of that is now in every facet of a developing society," said Gleeson, who noted the country had no art books when she arrived in 2002 on a fellowship to teach art history. "There's an absence of infrastructure for them, there's an absence of materials, there is no art store. ... they are quite inventive about mixing materials to make them of a higher quality or last longer, but in many cases they don't know archival techniques."

The harsh weather conditions -- a dusty, hot season and a rainy monsoon -- add to the trying work conditions.

"Everything's against them," she added. "Their parents in many cases are coming from a really disadvantaged background, as the majority of the country is economically."

Some of the art included in the show looks at the Cambodia of today, such as Leang Seckon's "Three Greens" -- an acrylic painting showing children in school uniform crossing a road with a yellow light, red light and three green lights, along with cows and roosters. The piece shows the changes in a country that recently got stop lights, with animals, people and traffic mingling on the main roads of the capital.

Sopheap Pich, a Cambodian-American whose family migrated to the U.S. in 1984, works with bamboo and rattan -- materials often used in Cambodian traditional farming and crafts -- to make sculptures.

His work, "Cycle 2," is the joining of the stomachs of an infant and an elderly person that for him brought up ideas of Cambodian traditional village life.

"You belong to each other, you help each other out," he said. "But also, if you look at the lines and you see how it's shaped by hand, it's not very perfect, so it's also about struggle...

"You could say it's a cycle of trying to hold onto each other, now we are living everywhere in the world, Cambodians are all over the planet," he added. "All this technique and pattern that I am quite obsessed with ... it's about this idea of trying to hold on with very simple means."

Chan Dany, a 25-year-old artist who graduated from one of the country's three art schools, creates textured patterns that appear almost like tapestry using pencil shavings in various colors. The works on display in the show are from a series based on Cambodian architectural decor, such as door and window shutter carvings, and include ancient Khmer forms whose shapes are derived from nature.

"When I started learning art, the teacher introduced a lot of new ways of making art, new ideas that were very difficult for me, so I had to think a lot," he said through a translator. "So then I looked around at what my classmates were doing and I started to think about what they weren't using for their work, so I started to collect the things that they didn't use when they were making art and started to think about my way of making art using those materials."

"I like the first piece I did (using the pencil shaving technique) because I had never done it this way before and since then I kept on making it," he said.

The younger artists "seem to be expressing something more fresh," while the work by artists from the older generation is "much more heavy," de Tilly said.

Some of the works of the Khmer Rouge period include a painting by Vann Nath, one of seven people to survive the regime's infamous S-21 torture prison. His painting, "Pray for Peace," depicts women wearing traditional Cambodian funeral scarves praying en masse under troubled skies by stormy seas.

Another work, Leang's "Prison Guard," tells the life of Duch, a former teacher who ran S-21 and goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.-backed tribunal on charges that include crimes against humanity.

The art scene has been growing slowly in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh over the last few years: Sopheap started a group to promote contemporary Cambodian art practices and two art institutes offer programs apart from the Royal University of Fine Arts.

One factor that has also made Cambodian contemporary artists different from their counterparts, for example in neighboring Vietnam, has been the lack of outside influence, such as was the case with Chinese contemporary art 30 years ago, de Tilly said.

"Cambodia still is very much influenced by itself and so the development is happening on a slower pace but as well very interesting," she said. "They seem to not have as much international exposure to materials, magazines, publications, so you really do feel -- it was the same just after the Cultural Revolution in China -- that they didn't have exposure to many publications and things, and so their art was developing at that moment in time."

" ... it's very interesting to document it and see what's going to happen in the future," she said.

Part of the exhibit will be shown at another of the gallery's venues in Hong Kong and will run through April 25.

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answer: 14

question: What was stunted the arts in Cambodia?

answer: the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime,

text: the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime,

question: What depicts a former Khmer Rouge leader?

answer: Another work, Leang's "Prison Guard," tells the life of Duch, a former teacher who ran S-21 and goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.-backed tribunal on charges that include crimes against humanity.

text: Another work, Leang's "Prison Guard," tells the life of Duch, a former teacher who ran S-21 and goes on trial Tuesday before a U.N.-backed tribunal on charges that include crimes against humanity.

question: What country is associated with the Khmer Rouge?

answer: Cambodia,

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question: How many artists had their work displayed?

answer: 14

question: Who is Duch, who is shown in the art?

answer: a former teacher

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question: How many artists displayed their work?

answer: 14

question: What number of artists practice their craft in Southeast Asia?

answer: 14

question: What former Khmer Rouge leader is depicted?

answer: Duch,

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question: Number of artists featured in the event?

answer: 14

question: Number of artist practicing their craft in the Southeast Asian country?

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Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- Rio de Janeiro's special police forces declared Sunday that they were in full control of one of the city's biggest and most notorious shantytowns, Rocinha, after a predawn operation aimed at wresting control from drug traffickers.

The operation, involving 3,000 police and security forces, had successfully occupied Rocinha and neighboring slums Vidigal and Chacara do Ceu, the Rio de Janeiro government said on its website.

"The next stage will be looking for the criminals that were able to get out of the places we are working," military police Col. Alberto Pinheiro Neto told reporters Sunday morning.

About 100,000 people live in Rocinha.

Some 200 navy commandos with armored personnel carriers and helicopters also participated in the operation. Roads were blocked at 2:30 a.m. and troops started moving in around 4 a.m., according to the local government.

CNN affiliate Band News TV showed military assault vehicles rolling in and heavily armed police patrolling the streets.

The massive operation is part of Rio's efforts to eliminate crime and arrest drug traffickers in one of the countryÃÂ¹s most violent cities ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral said the so-called "Shock of Peace" operation was a "historic chapter."

"We are rescuing communities that were abandoned for decades and dominated by parallel powers," he told reporters. "These are people who need to be able to raise their children in peace."

Residents told Band News TV that they were happy that police had stepped up their presence.

The operation will have an impact beyond Rocinha, which supplies 80% of the drugs in Rio de Janeiro, Congresswoman Marina Magessi told Band News TV.

"We are certain that from now until the end of the year, there will be a shortage of drugs present in Rio," said Magessi, a former police inspector responsible for catching some of Rio's top criminals.

Police have already "pacified" dozens of favelas since they began operations in 2008, but it's an uphill battle. About one-fifth of RioÃÂ¹s residents live in the city's 1,000 shantytowns, many of them perched on steep hills overlooking beachside condominiums.

Sunday's operation stands in stark contrast to the invasion of the Alemao favela last year when more than 30 people were killed in shootouts.

Police arrested Rocinha's top suspected drug trafficker days before they moved in. They found Antonio Francisco Bomfim, known as Nem, in the trunk of a car.

On Sunday, police reported capturing a handful of automatic guns and other weapons. They also found the steep and winding roads leading into Rocinha covered with oil, apparently an attempt to make it more difficult for police to enter.

CNN's Marilia Brocchetto contributed to this report.

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LONDON, England (CNN) -- British bank Lloyds TSB has agreed to forfeit $350 million dollars to U.S. and New York authorities for criminally hiding information about prohibited dealings with Iranian and Sudanese customers.

Prosecutors said that the bank's misconduct took place between 1995 and 2007.

Under a settlement reached in a federal court in Washington late Friday, Lloyds acknowledged criminal conduct and forfeited $175 million to U.S. authorities and an equal amount to New York authorities.

Court documents say for more than a decade Lloyds had been falsifying data which moved through U.S. institutions by "stripping out" of wire transfers any references to business deals involving customers in the two countries.

Lloyds officials acknowledged they feared if the U.S. had been aware of the deals they would likely have been blocked because of restrictions on commercial deals with Iran and Sudan.

"For more than 12 years Lloyd's facilitated the anonymous movement of hundreds of millions of dollars from U.S.-sanctioned nations through our financial system," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich.

"Lloyds stripped identifying information from international wire transfers that would have raised a red flag at U.S. financial institutions and caused such payments to be scrutinized," he said.

Although the money must be forfeited, under terms of the deal Lloyds will not presently be prosecuted because it accepted responsibility and has vowed to abide by the U.S. laws. After two years the U.S. will forego prosecution and formally drop the criminal charge.

In a statement, the bank said: "We committed substantial resources to a thorough internal investigation, the results of which were shared with U.S. investigators and regulators.

"We are committed to running our business with the highest levels of integrity and regulatory compliance across all of our operations and have undertaken a range of significant steps to further enhance our compliance programs."

In October, the British government agreed a deal with Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland to make a multi-billion investment in the three to help them through what Prime Minister Gordon Brown described as the "first financial crisis of the global age."

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(CNN) -- Bayer Leverkusen moved to within three points of German Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich after a comfortable 4-2 home victory over Hamburg on Sunday.

A double from Stefan Kiessling helped Leverkusen on their way to another three points, leaving them clear in third, a point behind second-placed Schalke, with the top three now pulling away in the race for the title with just eight games left.

Kiessling opened the scoring after running onto Tranquillo Barnetta's through-ball and out-pacing two defenders before firing past goalkeeper Frank Rost.

But Ze Roberto volleyed home a 33rd-minute equalizer for Hamburg after a defensive mix-up involving Sami Hyppia and goalkeeper Rene Adler.

Eren Derdiyok restored Leverkusen's lead in the 55th-minute when heading home Daniel Schwaab's ball into the box -- and Kiessling quickly added a third with a simple tap-in after some great work from Renato Augusto.

Czech defender David Rozehnal gave Hamburg some brief hope when converting an 83rd minute Piotr Trochowski free-kick but the victory was confirmed just a minute later when Gonzalo Casto fired home from just inside the area.

Meanwhile, in the day's other match, Claudio Pizarro scored his 11th league goal of the season to give Werder Bremen a 1-0 home win over Hoffenheim.

The Peruvian striker lobbed goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand with just nine minutes remaining to leave Werder sixth in the table, one point away from a place in Europe.

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MADRID, Spain (CNN)  -- A car bomb exploded Friday morning in Spain's northern Basque region, killing a police officer inside the vehicle, officials said.

Police investigate the vehicle destroyed by a car bomb in Spain's Basque region.

Spain's Prime Minister blamed the attack on the Basque separatist group ETA, although there was no warning call before the explosion, as often happens in ETA attacks.

The car exploded at 9:05 a.m. (3:05 a.m. ET) in an open-air parking lot in the Basque town of Arrigorriaga and damaged five other cars. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, and police moved in to investigate.

The Spanish national police officer killed was Eduardo Puelles, said the new Basque regional president, Patxi Lopez.

"ETA showed us the road to pain," Lopez said on national TV. "We will show them the road to prison."

The officer was a senior figure in the fight against ETA and the explosion was caused by a limpet bomb placed underneath the car, officials told CNN partner station CNN+. A limpet bomb is one that is stuck to the underside of vehicle.

Arrigorriaga is about 30 miles south of the largest Basque city of Bilbao.

ETA's last fatal victim was a businessman who was shot dead in the same region last December.

"My stance to stop ETA is unbreakable, so that people in the Basque country and Spain can live in peace, to halt this barbarity," said Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, after the attack.

ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths in its more than four decades of fighting for Basque independence. The European Union and the United States list it as a terrorist group.

ETA has threatened Lopez, who is a socialist and the first non-nationalist Basque president in 30 years. He has also vowed to stop the group.

There are about 600 ETA members or suspected members in Spanish jails and 150 others in French jails, authorities in both countries have told CNN.

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text: 's

text: Basque

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text: Spain

text: 's

text: Prime

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text: attack

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text: Basque

text: separatist

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text: Basque

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text: president

text: Patxi

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text: fight

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text: explosion

text: was

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text: by

text: a

text: limpet

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text: underneath

text: the

text: car

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text: partner

text: station

text: CNN+

text: A

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text: Prime

text: Minister

text: Jose

text: Luis

text: Rodriguez

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text: for

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text: decades

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text: The

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text: in

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text: jails

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question: Where did the bomb go off?

answer: Spain's northern Basque region,

text: Spain's northern Basque region,

question: What caused the explosion?

answer: A car bomb

text: A car bomb

question: What type of bomb was it?

answer: A car

text: A car

question: Who was the victim?

answer: a police officer inside the vehicle,

text: a police officer inside the vehicle,

question: Where did the car bomb explode?

answer: Basque town of Arrigorriaga

text: Basque town of Arrigorriaga

question: what did the official say

answer: A car bomb exploded Friday morning in Spain's northern Basque region, killing

text: A car bomb exploded Friday morning in Spain's northern Basque region, killing


text:
ALPHARETTA, Georgia (CNN)  -- Ben, who's 15 months old, can already do a lot of things. He can turn on a light or open a door. He can pick up a remote control off the floor. He can pull a heavy object with his teeth.

Colise Johnson, 42, spent two weeks in September at a canine training camp getting acquainted with Ben.

But Ben, a gangly golden retriever, is more than a family pet. He is a specially trained seizure dog who may one day be able to save the life of his new owner, Colise Johnson.

"Having epilepsy and cerebral palsy is kind of like having a nonstop roller coaster ride," said Johnson, 42, of Portland, Oregon. "You never know what's going to happen, but with him, he slows the ride down so it's manageable."

Johnson, who uses a wheelchair and must wear a helmet because of persistent seizures, is among 3 million Americans who live with some form of epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures, violent muscle spasms or, sometimes, a loss of consciousness.

There are no estimates of how many patients are paired up with assistance dogs, and the benefits of having such an animal have not been studied to any great extent. But Dr. Gregory Barkley, a neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and an adviser for the Epilepsy Foundation of America, believes nearly a quarter of the people who suffer from frequent, severe seizures might be helped by a canine companion. He said the dogs have "an unqualified devotion to their master" that may offer important mental health benefits.

The dogs are sometimes credited with powers they really don't possess, Barkley said. "The dog does not predict a seizure," he said. "It may respond to the earlier stages of a seizure."

Johnson owned a seizure dog for 12 years before he died in 2007, ironically, having his own seizure.  Watch more on Ben and his new owner Â»

She recalled that the dog, named McKeever, "told me ahead of time when I was going to have a seizure. ... He helped me get off the floor if I fell, helped me retrieve items, helped me get clothes out of the drawer for a bath, open the fridge on command and took out the recycling."

She said she'd felt lost without McKeever since his death, but that recently changed.

Johnson spent two weeks in September at a training camp at Canine Assistants in Alpharetta, Georgia, getting acquainted with Ben. This year, Johnson was one of 1,100 people on the agency's waiting list.

Jennifer Arnold founded the nonprofit service in 1991 and has placed more than 1,000 dogs with adults and children with physical disabilities or other special needs.

"We work primarily with people who have mobility issues and have conditions like muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and brain injuries," Arnold said.

In the past few years, Arnold also helped train 100 seizure dogs to assist people with epilepsy.

"We train them to do basically 90 different commands," Arnold said. "They learn to do things like go for help and press buttons to alert 9-1-1."

Over time, nearly all the dogs eventually develop the ability to identify the onset of a seizure, she said.

"We have no understanding of what it is that alerts the dogs that a seizure is oncoming," she said. "Is it a smell that the body produces? We don't know to what stimuli the dog is responding."

By spending time with epilepsy patients, Arnold's dogs are taught what a seizure looks like and not to be frightened.

Some dogs are able to anticipate a seizure 20 to 40 minutes before it happens.

"If the dog feels that their person is going to have a seizure, they tend to get very restless and distressed. ... They show signs of stress and agitation," Arnold said. "Provided their human can read what that means, you have a really good alert system going on there."

Barkley has heard similar anecdotal information from his own epilepsy patients, but many of those dogs were simply family pets and were untrained, he said.

He warned patients to be wary of agencies that charge a lot of money for a dog that may or may not be able to perform certain tasks.

Canine Assistants offers its dogs free of charge to qualified patients. The group not only covers the cost of airfare and lodging during the training sessions, but it provides a lifetime of food and veterinary care at no cost.

Arnold estimated the total value at $20,000 per dog. She said that a third of her company's operating costs are underwritten by large corporate grants. The rest of the money is raised through private donations.

Arnold helped train some of the 140 dogs currently at the facility. She said she has no trouble letting the animals go to new homes because she knows they'll serve an important purpose, especially for the epilepsy patients.

"They become a prisoner," Arnold said. "They don't want to leave the house ... they're so vulnerable. Just having this dog with you means that you're not ever alone."

Johnson, the married mother of a 15-year-old, is looking forward to regaining some independence with a new dog in the house. "He's going to be able to give my family a break. He's going to be able to let them rest a little bit easier," she said.

She also looked forward to a new reason to get out of bed in the morning. "With the dog, instead of getting all bummed out or getting depressed over the seizures, I'll spend time with him and play with him and start laughing."

"These dogs will change your life in such a way you won't know how you've lived without him once you've had them."

text: ALPHARETTA

text: Georgia

text: CNN

text: Ben

text: who

text: 's

text: months

text: old

text: can

text: already

text: do

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: things

text: He

text: can

text: turn

text: on

text: a

text: light

text: or

text: open

text: a

text: door

text: He

text: can

text: pick

text: up

text: a

text: remote

text: control

text: off

text: the

text: floor

text: He

text: can

text: pull

text: a

text: heavy

text: object

text: with

text: his

text: teeth

text: Colise

text: Johnson

text: spent

text: two

text: weeks

text: in

text: September

text: at

text: a

text: canine

text: training

text: camp

text: getting

text: acquainted

text: with

text: Ben

text: But

text: Ben

text: a

text: gangly

text: golden

text: retriever

text: is

text: more

text: than

text: a

text: family

text: pet

text: He

text: is

text: a

text: specially

text: trained

text: seizure

text: dog

text: who

text: may

text: one

text: day

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: save

text: the

text: life

text: of

text: his

text: new

text: owner

text: Colise

text: Johnson

text: Having

text: epilepsy

text: and

text: cerebral

text: palsy

text: is

text: kind

text: of

text: like

text: having

text: a

text: nonstop

text: roller

text: coaster

text: ride

text: said

text: Johnson

text: of

text: Portland

text: Oregon

text: You

text: never

text: know

text: what

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: happen

text: but

text: with

text: him

text: he

text: slows

text: the

text: ride

text: down

text: so

text: it

text: 's

text: manageable

text: Johnson

text: who

text: uses

text: a

text: wheelchair

text: and

text: must

text: wear

text: a

text: helmet

text: because

text: of

text: persistent

text: seizures

text: is

text: among

text: million

text: Americans

text: who

text: live

text: with

text: some

text: form

text: of

text: epilepsy

text: a

text: brain

text: disorder

text: that

text: causes

text: recurring

text: seizures

text: violent

text: muscle

text: spasms

text: or

text: sometimes

text: a

text: loss

text: of

text: consciousness

text: There

text: are

text: no

text: estimates

text: of

text: how

text: many

text: patients

text: are

text: paired

text: up

text: with

text: assistance

text: dogs

text: and

text: the

text: benefits

text: of

text: having

text: such

text: an

text: animal

text: have

text: not

text: been

text: studied

text: to

text: any

text: great

text: extent

text: But

text: Dr.

text: Gregory

text: Barkley

text: a

text: neurologist

text: at

text: Henry

text: Ford

text: Hospital

text: in

text: Detroit

text: Michigan

text: and

text: an

text: adviser

text: for

text: the

text: Epilepsy

text: Foundation

text: of

text: America

text: believes

text: nearly

text: a

text: quarter

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: who

text: suffer

text: from

text: frequent

text: severe

text: seizures

text: might

text: be

text: helped

text: by

text: a

text: canine

text: companion

text: He

text: said

text: the

text: dogs

text: have

text: an

text: unqualified

text: devotion

text: to

text: their

text: master

text: that

text: may

text: offer

text: important

text: mental

text: health

text: benefits

text: The

text: dogs

text: are

text: sometimes

text: credited

text: with

text: powers

text: they

text: really

text: do

text: n't

text: possess

text: Barkley

text: said

text: The

text: dog

text: does

text: not

text: predict

text: a

text: seizure

text: he

text: said

text: It

text: may

text: respond

text: to

text: the

text: earlier

text: stages

text: of

text: a

text: seizure

text: Johnson

text: owned

text: a

text: seizure

text: dog

text: for

text: years

text: before

text: he

text: died

text: in

text: ironically

text: having

text: his

text: own

text: seizure

text: Watch

text: more

text: on

text: Ben

text: and

text: his

text: new

text: owner

text: Â

text: She

text: recalled

text: that

text: the

text: dog

text: named

text: McKeever

text: told

text: me

text: ahead

text: of

text: time

text: when

text: I

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: seizure

text: He

text: helped

text: me

text: get

text: off

text: the

text: floor

text: if

text: I

text: fell

text: helped

text: me

text: retrieve

text: items

text: helped

text: me

text: get

text: clothes

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: drawer

text: for

text: a

text: bath

text: open

text: the

text: fridge

text: on

text: command

text: and

text: took

text: out

text: the

text: recycling

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: 'd

text: felt

text: lost

text: without

text: McKeever

text: since

text: his

text: death

text: but

text: that

text: recently

text: changed

text: Johnson

text: spent

text: two

text: weeks

text: in

text: September

text: at

text: a

text: training

text: camp

text: at

text: Canine

text: Assistants

text: in

text: Alpharetta

text: Georgia

text: getting

text: acquainted

text: with

text: Ben

text: This

text: year

text: Johnson

text: was

text: one

text: of

text: people

text: on

text: the

text: agency

text: 's

text: waiting

text: list

text: Jennifer

text: Arnold

text: founded

text: the

text: nonprofit

text: service

text: in

text: and

text: has

text: placed

text: more

text: than

text: dogs

text: with

text: adults

text: and

text: children

text: with

text: physical

text: disabilities

text: or

text: other

text: special

text: needs

text: We

text: work

text: primarily

text: with

text: people

text: who

text: have

text: mobility

text: issues

text: and

text: have

text: conditions

text: like

text: muscular

text: dystrophy

text: multiple

text: sclerosis

text: cerebral

text: palsy

text: and

text: brain

text: injuries

text: Arnold

text: said

text: In

text: the

text: past

text: few

text: years

text: Arnold

text: also

text: helped

text: train

text: seizure

text: dogs

text: to

text: assist

text: people

text: with

text: epilepsy

text: We

text: train

text: them

text: to

text: do

text: basically

text: different

text: commands

text: Arnold

text: said

text: They

text: learn

text: to

text: do

text: things

text: like

text: go

text: for

text: help

text: and

text: press

text: buttons

text: to

text: alert

text: Over

text: time

text: nearly

text: all

text: the

text: dogs

text: eventually

text: develop

text: the

text: ability

text: to

text: identify

text: the

text: onset

text: of

text: a

text: seizure

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: have

text: no

text: understanding

text: of

text: what

text: it

text: is

text: that

text: alerts

text: the

text: dogs

text: that

text: a

text: seizure

text: is

text: oncoming

text: she

text: said

text: Is

text: it

text: a

text: smell

text: that

text: the

text: body

text: produces

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: know

text: to

text: what

text: stimuli

text: the

text: dog

text: is

text: responding

text: By

text: spending

text: time

text: with

text: epilepsy

text: patients

text: Arnold

text: 's

text: dogs

text: are

text: taught

text: what

text: a

text: seizure

text: looks

text: like

text: and

text: not

text: to

text: be

text: frightened

text: Some

text: dogs

text: are

text: able

text: to

text: anticipate

text: a

text: seizure

text: to

text: minutes

text: before

text: it

text: happens

text: If

text: the

text: dog

text: feels

text: that

text: their

text: person

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: a

text: seizure

text: they

text: tend

text: to

text: get

text: very

text: restless

text: and

text: distressed

text: They

text: show

text: signs

text: of

text: stress

text: and

text: agitation

text: Arnold

text: said

text: Provided

text: their

text: human

text: can

text: read

text: what

text: that

text: means

text: you

text: have

text: a

text: really

text: good

text: alert

text: system

text: going

text: on

text: there

text: Barkley

text: has

text: heard

text: similar

text: anecdotal

text: information

text: from

text: his

text: own

text: epilepsy

text: patients

text: but

text: many

text: of

text: those

text: dogs

text: were

text: simply

text: family

text: pets

text: and

text: were

text: untrained

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: warned

text: patients

text: to

text: be

text: wary

text: of

text: agencies

text: that

text: charge

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: money

text: for

text: a

text: dog

text: that

text: may

text: or

text: may

text: not

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: perform

text: certain

text: tasks

text: Canine

text: Assistants

text: offers

text: its

text: dogs

text: free

text: of

text: charge

text: to

text: qualified

text: patients

text: The

text: group

text: not

text: only

text: covers

text: the

text: cost

text: of

text: airfare

text: and

text: lodging

text: during

text: the

text: training

text: sessions

text: but

text: it

text: provides

text: a

text: lifetime

text: of

text: food

text: and

text: veterinary

text: care

text: at

text: no

text: cost

text: Arnold

text: estimated

text: the

text: total

text: value

text: at

text: per

text: dog

text: She

text: said

text: that

text: a

text: third

text: of

text: her

text: company

text: 's

text: operating

text: costs

text: are

text: underwritten

text: by

text: large

text: corporate

text: grants

text: The

text: rest

text: of

text: the

text: money

text: is

text: raised

text: through

text: private

text: donations

text: Arnold

text: helped

text: train

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: dogs

text: currently

text: at

text: the

text: facility

text: She

text: said

text: she

text: has

text: no

text: trouble

text: letting

text: the

text: animals

text: go

text: to

text: new

text: homes

text: because

text: she

text: knows

text: they

text: 'll

text: serve

text: an

text: important

text: purpose

text: especially

text: for

text: the

text: epilepsy

text: patients

text: They

text: become

text: a

text: prisoner

text: Arnold

text: said

text: They

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: leave

text: the

text: house

text: they

text: 're

text: so

text: vulnerable

text: Just

text: having

text: this

text: dog

text: with

text: you

text: means

text: that

text: you

text: 're

text: not

text: ever

text: alone

text: Johnson

text: the

text: married

text: mother

text: of

text: a

text: old

text: is

text: looking

text: forward

text: to

text: regaining

text: some

text: independence

text: with

text: a

text: new

text: dog

text: in

text: the

text: house

text: He

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: give

text: my

text: family

text: a

text: break

text: He

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: let

text: them

text: rest

text: a

text: little

text: bit

text: easier

text: she

text: said

text: She

text: also

text: looked

text: forward

text: to

text: a

text: new

text: reason

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: of

text: bed

text: in

text: the

text: morning

text: With

text: the

text: dog

text: instead

text: of

text: getting

text: all

text: bummed

text: out

text: or

text: getting

text: depressed

text: over

text: the

text: seizures

text: I

text: 'll

text: spend

text: time

text: with

text: him

text: and

text: play

text: with

text: him

text: and

text: start

text: laughing

text: These

text: dogs

text: will

text: change

text: your

text: life

text: in

text: such

text: a

text: way

text: you

text: wo

text: n't

text: know

text: how

text: you

text: 've

text: lived

text: without

text: him

text: once

text: you

text: 've

text: had

text: them

question: What is the cost of upkeep and training per dog?

answer: $20,000

question: When did the canine camp in Georgia start training dogs?

answer: 1991

question: What does epilepsy cause?

answer: recurring seizures, violent muscle spasms or, sometimes, a loss of consciousness.

text: recurring seizures, violent muscle spasms or, sometimes, a loss of consciousness.

question: What number of Americans have epilepsy?

answer: 3 million

text: 3 million

question: What number of Americans live with epilepsy?

answer: 3 million

text: 3 million

question: What causes epilepsy?

answer: a brain disorder

text: a brain disorder

question: Who is allowed to get free dogs?

answer: qualified patients.

text: qualified patients.

question: The Canine camp has trained how many dogs since 1991?

answer: 1,000


text:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has blocked the imminent release of dozens of sex offenders who have served their federal sentences after the Obama administration claimed many of them remain "sexually dangerous."

The Supreme Court has blocked the release of sex offenders  after claims they remain dangerous.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday ordered that the men be kept in custody while the case works its way through a federal appeals court, which had ruled as many as 77 North Carolina inmates should be released, some as early as next week.

At issue is whether the government has the power to indefinitely detain prisoners who have served their sentences but could pose a public threat upon release. Such laws are known as "civil commitments."

The Justice Department filed papers with the high court Friday, asking that any release be put on hold until the justices have more time to consider the larger legal issues raised in their appeal.

Such an early release "would pose a significant risk to the public and constitute a significant harm to the interest of the United States," wrote Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who took office this month.

The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed by Congress in 2006 included a provision allowing indefinite confinement of sex offenders. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, ruled lawmakers had overstepped their authority, prompting the emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.

The law was named after the son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh. The boy was kidnapped and murdered by a suspected child molester in 1981.

Four inmates brought suit against the law. They were serving sentences of up to eight years for sexual abuse of a minor or possessing child pornography. Their detention was to have ended two years ago, but corrections officials and prosecutors determined they remained a risk for further sexually deviant behavior if freed. The inmates argued such continued imprisonment violates their constitutional right of due process.

The justices' actions means the men remain behind bars for now.

The case is U.S. v. Comstock (08A863).

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question: how many are scheduled for release

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