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Dear editor:
My father, Sgt. Carl C. Hensley, was a member of the 106th Coastal Artillery (Battery C), later the 106th Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW SP. A native of Owen County, he joined the unit in March of 1941 and served throughout the war, being in Munich, Germany at the end of the war.
Dear Editor,
Please support your Washington County High School students for the spring blood drive!
Donating is a learned activity. The American Red Cross is a non-profit organization supported by donations; it supplies 40 percent of the blood supply to our country and responds to emergencies and disasters, such as the ice storm in Washington County a few years ago, and most recently to a house fire.
Dear citizens of Washington County,
I am retiring after 22 years of law enforcement. I would like to see someone in the sheriff's office to continue the services I have provided.
That is why I am supporting Jerry Pinkston as our sheriff of Washington County.
Jerry began working for the sheriff's office in 2009 as a court security officer until he was hired as a deputy sheriff in June 2010.
Dear editor,
I always enjoy reading Ken Begley's columns. In regard to his article "Capitalism vs. Government," he talks about the relative lack of efficiency of the public vs. private sector. Of course, the marketplace rules, in regard to the private sector. But, the way government is supposed to work is that people are sufficiently interested/informed to vote in the best public officials and vote out the others.
Dear editor,
I am writing this letter to the citizens of Washington County who reside in magistrate District 3. My husband, Mark Wilkerson, is running for this position because he believes he can do a good job for the people of this county.
He has always been a hard worker. He was a home builder for more than 35 years until some back issues forced him to stop. He believes in not "burning daylight."
Dear editor,
Most Kentuckians overwhelmingly regard themselves as Christian and pro-life. So why did our legislators in committee again this session vote down Senate Bill 3 requiring face-to-face consultation 24 hours in advance of, and House Bill 575 and Senate Bill 8, which would have mandated an ultrasound before an abortion. These three bills would give women better understanding of the procedure and promote "informed consent" before they decide whether to terminate a pregnancy.
Dear Editor,
I recently encountered a selfless, anonymous person and had to let everyone, especially the people of Springfield, know that there are Good Samaritans everywhere among us.
I recently visited a friend in Springfield to help him run an errand that he could not afford to do himself. I also didn't know for sure if I had enough gas to get from my home (Lebanon) to Springfield and back, as I am currently broke and unemployed.
Dear Editor:
As distraught landowners along the proposed route for the Bluegrass hazardous liquids Pipeline, we wish to express our dismay upon finding stakes on our property on Sunday, February 16. On two occasions, we have adamantly told the pipeline reps that we said "No" to the pipeline and did not want them on our property.
Dear Editor:
I was very glad to see the Washington County archery team finally get some recognition as a sport in the "On target" article in the Feb. 19 issue of The Springfield Sun. Mr. John Overby did a fine job on the article and photos.
I think Coach Jeff Grigsby does an awesome job with these kids and I know that they have been trying to recruit more kids to be a part of this team, but that is hard to do when archery is not recognized as a sport like football, basketball, volleyball, etc. are.
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There's no doubt that everyone wants the May River to be healthy and also ready to harvest oysters.
After about three years and countless hours of research and discussion, it's time to take the necessary steps to implement the river's management plan.
A lot of time, effort and work has gone into the plan and we appreciate this. We just think it's time to take the next step and to give the citizens panel information it needs to move forward.
We also commend the group for doing its due diligence and being thorough. But they need help from Bluffton officials.
Before they can do anything the group says it needs more direction on the river cleanup strategy and the cost. Two very important pieces of an implementation plan.
Unless they have a clear directive and costs associated with it, they will be spinning their wheels. Nobody wants that as enough time has gone into the process as it is.
The May River Watershed Action Plan has been blessed by Town Council and that plan includes recommendations for restoring the river's headwaters for safe oyster harvesting.
At issue is the cost and who exactly will pay for the clean up of the river.
We look at the health of the river as an investment we all yield dividends from, but we also realize the cost of said cleanup could be very high.
Bluffton's explosive growth and development during the past 10 years have certainly contributed to the headwaters' quality downgrade as the river's fecal coliform counts exceeded federal standards.
Sticter stormwater management ordinances and a stormwater fee seem like solid answers in helping to resolve this issue.
Again, the members of the panel charged with coming up with ways to implement the plan need answers — and that's where town officials come into the plan. Until a cost for getting the oyster beds back in working order is put on the table and Town Council discusses how it will be funded, it seems like a lot of work for nothing to us.
It would be a shame for so much discussion and planning to go to waste.
At its Jan. 10 meeting, Town Council will receive a short list of projects from the town's stormwater division that are deemed ones that the four-person can handle. We hope town officials, including two new Town Council members, are ready to take action and make decisions at this meeting.
We also understand that the action plan is an exhaustive list of everything and cannot be done in one year. Nobody expects everything done in 2012, we just want a checklist and a plan of attack to be under way.
If Bluffton officials do their homework, between the Jan. 10 council meeting and the Feb. 22 panel meeting, a proposed budget and clear direction will be delivered to the citizens who took a vested interest in their community and are serving on the panel.

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SACRAMENTO — Superior courts across the state routinely fail to report the names of mentally ill Californians to the law enforcement officials responsible for keeping guns out of their hands, according to a report released Tuesday by State Auditor Elaine Howle.
State law requires courts and mental health treatment facilities to tell the California Department of Justice when it determines that an individual can no longer possess or purchase firearms. But that doesn't always happen, the report found.
From 2010 to 2012, 34 courts failed to make those required notifications at least 2,300 times, the report said. Courts in Santa Clara, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties were flagged for not reporting specific classes of mentally ill people to justice officials, the report found.
"The Santa Clara Superior Court did not notify Justice about any of its determinations that an individual was to be committed to a mental health facility for an extended period or that an individual's conservatorship was to be terminated early," the report said.
Superior Court officials in Santa Clara County did not dispute the report.
In a letter, David Yamasaki, the court's CEO, wrote to the auditor that he agrees with the findings and pledged to improve the court's reporting of names of the mentally ill.
Republican lawmakers who have opposed new gun-control measures in California had called for the audit, arguing that the state is doing a poor job of enforcing the gun laws already in place. Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian, R-San Luis Obispo, said the audit's findings confirmed "our worst fears."
"The safety of our communities relies upon government at every level doing a better job reporting this information," Achadjian said.
The need to keep firearms away from the mentally ill is one issue in an otherwise bitterly divisive debate on gun control in California that all sides seem to agree on.
The reason for consensus is obvious: Mentally ill gunmen have been responsible for an increasing number of horrific mass shootings in recent years, including massacres last year at a Colorado movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a set of bills aimed at strengthening California's already tough gun laws, including one piece of legislation that would have banned all semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines.
In May, Brown signed a bill to provide $24 million to help fund the Department of Justice's effort to confiscate guns from individuals it has identified as "armed prohibited persons." But as of July, more than 20,800 mentally ill people, felons and other people who don't have a right to own a weapon were still armed, according to department estimates.
The state auditor's report recommends that justice officials correspond more frequently with courts it believes are under-reporting information about the mentally ill.
Contact Jessica Calefati at 916-441-2101. Follow her at Twitter.com/calefati. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas is a man you want to know if you care about human rights. Whether you're talking about the poor in Africa or the unborn child scheduled to be killed by abortion, you will find an advocate for them in Senator Sam Brownback.
For us in the pro-life movement, Senator Brownback is a key ally. There are many in Congress who will vote the right way on pro-life bills. Fewer are they who will take initiatives to advance the cause – and not for purposes of political gain, but rather because the cause is right, and they believe the cause can, must, and will prevail. Sam Brownback is that kind of Senator.
In the Summer of 2004, the Human Life Review published an article by Senator Brownback titled, "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," Revisited. As you may recall, President Ronald Reagan, one of the most pro-life presidents in our history, wrote an essay called "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation" in 1983. As Senator Brownback writes, "Twenty-one years later, and 31 years after Roe v. Wade, we need to revisit "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation." We need to reflect on whether we are closer to – or further away from – having a culture of life. …We need to contemplate what personal and legislative steps we must take to draw out the best in the freedom-loving, life-loving American spirit."
Senator Brownback goes on to examine why the American conscience cannot continue to tolerate abortion any more than it tolerated slavery. He discusses how Mother Teresa of Calcutta influenced his life and thinking. He examines how Roe v. Wade has damaged our society. And he expresses the firm hope that we will win: "I believe that I will live to see the end of the abortion industry, and the sanctity and dignity of every human life affirmed. … Great labors remain before us, but the rights and lives of unborn children are absolutely worth our efforts."
The Senator makes those efforts, not only by sponsoring legislation like the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, but also by taking the initiative to hold hearings in the Senate on various aspects of abortion. For example, on June 23, 2005, Senator Brownback convened a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Constitution Subcommittee on the topic, "The Consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton." He had Norma McCorvey (former "Jane Roe") and Sandra Cano (former "Mary Doe") there to testify, along with various legal experts. The Senator declared, "To put it simply, Roe was a mistake. A very, very costly one."
On March 3, 2004, Senator Brownback held hearings called "Examining the Impact of Abortion on Women," and he is a strong supporter of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. On May 25, 2006, he held hearings on "The Consequences of Legalized Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia."
To see an example of encouraging leadership in the cause of life, read the Senator's remarks and essays by clicking here.


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I have a project I shelved a while back- it was essentially a working web app built in django but I stopped working on it to work on something else.
I plan on starting it up again in my spare time, but I'm wondering if it's worth converting a django project with about 5kloc to Rails. I'm considering this because I've been told that it'll be easier for other people to work on and easier to work on myself.
I don't have any ruby or rails experience: is it worth learning ruby, rails and then converting my django project to Rails? I understand it's a bit of a loaded / language war kind of question but would appreciate any input.


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Last week, we learned from sites around the web that Apple and the Palms Casino are partnering together to bring content from the Palms' new The Pearl concert hall onto Apple's iTunes Store. The concept intrigued me for many different reasons, so I decided to dig a little deeper into the announcement.
I found out a few different, interesting things all from one blog entry by none other then Robin Leach. On Leach's blog, Luxe Life, in an article titled "Rockin' and Recording at the Palms," we learn that this partnership was public knowledge as far back as November 22 of 2006. Apparently the reason that this news is coming to our attention now is because The Pearl is finally open, and its "grand opening" will be happening next month.
This statement made by the owner of the Palms Hotel George Maloof lets everyone know about the partnership and a bit about the means of recording:
The venue is hard wired to the studio so if the band wants to record a track from the venue they will be able to do that. It is the only studio that is equipped to do that. The natural outcome will be a series of Live from the Palms albums. We have an agreement with iTunes for 3 years and we are going to create content so that is the goal.
So not only is there a partnership, you can expect to see the new content too. If the two pieces of content already on the iTS are any indication, they will probably be hour-long movies of the performance and some interview material only from the new The Pearl venue:
The iTunes exclusive series, Live from the Palms, is one of the new ways iTunes exposes you to music from your favorite artists. We haul our video camera to the heart of Las Vegas and film an exclusive concert at the legendary Palms Rseort. We spend quality time with the artist, discussing their passion for music and why they do what they do, and then we put it all together into an exclusive package that you can't find anywhere else.
My initial question was how good would the audio recording be? For me, most live recording jobs are hit or miss. But seeing as this is a multi-million dollar facility, chances are they aren't just hanging a couple of MXL 993s from the rafters and hoping for the best.
From Zoe Thrall, recording studio director at the resort:
Well, coming from a purely studio-orientation to now have a music venue directly connected to the studio. I cannot wait until this opens. From the perspective of the artist to be able to easily and effortlessly record at a moments notice. It is very special and unique. I have never heard of any sort of thing like this before. It is a very cost effective way of doing a live album.
Even if it is to hype up the new venue, it is nice to see some excitement over this, especially if it means original content for the end user. However, part of me is disappointed. What's the deal with video? Would anyone besides me much rather see the audio tracks available for download? I can see how one might say that the Palms and Apple are, in effect, locking you into buying the entire production, but Apple does that all the time with albums anyway. The Pearl will have its grand opening on April 21st when "artist" Gwen Stefani will "perform."


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The winter storm moving up the East Coast of the United States is likely to inconvenience a large chunk of New England. Blizzard warnings -- meaning high winds and low visibility -- will be mixed with near-record snowfalls in what may be one of the nation's worst winter storms on record.
The Blizzard of 1888 By any measure, the Blizzard of 1888 was one of the worst in American history. It dumped an estimated 20 inches of snow over three days in March.
The blizzard paralyzed New York City for two weeks as all transportation ground to a halt. People were stranded in elevated rail cars for two days.
The aftermath of the Blizzard of 1888
The East River had frozen solid, allowing people to walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan without using the Brooklyn Bridge, newspapers at the time reported:
'The East River is almost entirely blocked with ice. A huge floe formed a natural bridge early in the forenoon and thousands of people crossed shore to shore. Not a train has come to New York over any road since last night.' Washington Post, Mar. 14, 1888
'This sort of travel kept up for an hour or so, several hundred people crossing from Brooklyn, and a few people crossing from New-York until the Brooklyn police authorities, fearful of a catastrophe and loss of life, put an end to any further attempts to cross.' New York Times, Mar. 14, 1888
The storm's effects were long-lasting. The lack of electricity and communications in the wake of the blizzard led the city to place all utilities and wires underground. It also sparked the development of a subway system, one that could not be paralyzed by massive snow.
The Blizzard of 1949 Across the Great Plains, the snows that blanketed the region in early 1949 are remembered for their sheer economic destruction.
The snow storms came one after another from New Year's Day until the middle of February, freezing crops and killing livestock. Deadwood Magazine remembers the storms: Although actual total snowfall amounts weren't that excessive, ranging from a foot to 30 inches, howling winds reduced visibility to less than five feet and piled drifts as high as 30 feet. Winds averaging 56 mph gusted to 72 mph or higher. An Ellsworth AFB wind indicator registered gusts above 90 mph...
The next day the temperature hit 55 degrees in Rapid City, but the respite was short lived. A newspaper headline warned, 'Second blizzard heads for the Hills.' That second storm blasted into the area right on schedule. Then another storm hit. And still another. Severe winter weather settled in for more than seven weeks, developing into an emergency situation that existed until February 22...
All modes of transportation stalled, as cars were almost fully covered in snow.
North Forty News tells of a Wyoming family killed by the cold after their car stalled in the snow.
Many dead sheep and cattle could be seen in the fields after the storm. But the most tragic episode was the death of a couple and their two children, who had lived in Wellington but had moved to Rockport. Phillip Roman and his wife, Ione, became stranded in their stalled car. They decided to leave the car and started to walk toward their home with their two children, Tony, 10, and Peggy, 8. They were found frozen to death, the mother and little girl together, and the father and son together, all four within 100 feet of each other.
The 1993 'Storm of the Century'
In March 1993, nearly the entire eastern third of the United States was covered by a monster storm that produced feet of snow. Winds reached hurricane speeds, with gusts of up to 110 miles per hour. Many areas of the South that rarely see snow received piles of it.
It was the biggest winter storm in the 20th century, according to the Weather Channel.
Denver Blizzard of 2003 The peak time of damaging storms along the Rockies comes during the early spring. In 2003, between March 17-19, more than 31 inches of snow fell on Denver, bringing the city to a standstill.
Blizzard of 2010 Snowmageddon was the term coined for a February 2010 storm that engulfed the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. More than two feet of snow fell over a short period of time, clogging the roadways in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.


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Tama County Supervisors Larry Vest, Daniel Wilkens and Kendall Jordan, met Tuesday morning in regular session. A conference call with the State Inspection of Appeals concerning the closing of the Country Living Care Center was the main topic. A special meeting was held last Friday, April 24th with members of the Country Living Care Center Board to discuss the lease with Country Living Care. After being in closed session for a couple of hours with Supervisors, County Attorney Brent Heeren, County Sheriff Dennis Kucera, Tama County Central Point of Coordinator Todd Rickert, and Country Living Care Board Members Michelle Allen and Gary Mattson and Tama County Auditor Laura Kopsa, it was decided to leave the lease with Country Living Care Center as is. At the present time it is believed the Country Living Care will close Thursday, April 30th . It is the desire of the Board of Supervisors to keep the care facility open. Their concern is for the occupants of the home, and what will happen to them if they are removed from the facility. Rickerts told supervisors he would like a little time to work with DHS and the state and others to try to keep all the residents together, wherever they may be. Several suggestions were made on a temporary placement and how to go about this.
Supervisor Jordan told supervisors he had been out to the County Home farmground and work on the waterway was pretty well completed. County workers have been working on this grading and pretty well finished in half a day. Jordan was well satisfied with the work.
A new appointment for County weed commissioner was the subject of conversation. Tama County Weed Commissioner Albert Hein passed away recently. Hein had been commissioner of weeds for several years. An ad will be placed in the paper with applications due by the 15th of May. Applications will be reviewed and an appoint-ment will be made on Tuesday, May 19th.
Sheriff Dennis Kucera was present to introduce his new deputy Lucas Dvorak. Dvorak will officially start on May 14th, however, he is already filling in. Dvorak is replacing Deputy Mike Nagle who recently resigned to start his own business in Tiling.
Kucera also had a copy of a Social Host Ordinance used by Polk County. Kucera asked supervisors to look the ordinance over and would like to use something like this in Tama County. Kucera cited a recent situation where an ordinance like this would be of great help. The ordinance Kucera had stated "It is unlawful for any social host to host an event, gathering, or party on premises when the person knows or reasonablyshould know that an underage person has consumed an alcoholic beverage, or possessed an alcoholic beverage with the intent to consume it, and the person fails to take rasonable steps to prevent the possession or consumption by the underage person. A social host who hosts such an event, gathering, or party does not have to be present at the time the prohibited act occurs". Supervisors stated they needed some time to study different situations before they could make a decision.
The weekly road report shows the weekend rain caused flooding in many places with water over the roads in many. Also some bridge damage has been noted in some of the places. The road department is making an assessment the next day or so of the damages done before repairs can be done.
In other business the County Recorder's quarterly report was approved.This shows $27,398,.66 remitted to the county treasurer.
Claims paid for the past week were $188,154.65.


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To the editor:
Several points in an editorial about the U.S. Postal Service, published in last week's Hillsboro Star-Journal, Marion County Record, and Peabody Gazette-Bulletin require clarification.
The Postal Service is working hard to deliver the best possible service for all customers, including those who subscribe to local newspapers.
Due to the rapid decline of first-class mail, the Postal Service is realigning its vast mail processing network. The transition to a new network has been a smooth one so far, but not without a few glitches.
We're taking the necessary steps to correct them. If individuals are having a particular service issue, they should contact the Postal Service either by calling 1 (800) 275-8777 or on our website at http://usps.com/.
It's important to note that while service standards for local overnight first-class mail have not changed, they have for periodicals.
Last July national service standards for periodicals (newspapers and magazines) changed from one to nine days to two to nine days, depending on the destination of the mailing.
The Postal Service will continue to work with the publisher of the Hillsboro Star-Journal, Peabody Gazette-Bulletin, and Marion County Record to ensure periodicals get to their destination as quickly as possible. Our goal is always to meet — and whenever possible exceed — our customers' expectations.
Contrary to the editorial, dedicated employees in our Kansas City mail processing center give all mail priority handling using applicable service standards for each mail class. Advertising mail does not receive preferential treatment over periodicals, and drop or direct shipments to post offices are available to all mailers who qualify.
We appreciate our customers business and ask for their continued patience as the Postal Service adapts to Americans changing mailing habits.
Rick Pivovar
District manager
U.S. Postal Service


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The Daily Express says a "breakthrough" new test for Alzheimer's could "pave the way to early diagnosis years before the devastating symptoms appear". Its front-page news story says that scientists are hailing the new test as a potential way to identify people who are likely to go on to develop Alzheimer's, so they could potentially be treated early.
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating condition, and one that is set to become more common in our ageing population. Alzheimer's is a particular form of dementia in which a protein called amyloid forms into abnormal deposits called plaques in the brain. These plaques and other protein "tangles" in the neurons are thought to contribute to the symptoms of the condition. However, at present the only way formally to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is by identifying plaques in the brain during a post-mortem after the patient has died. This new research aimed to develop a technique for confirming the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in living patients by injecting them with a special chemical that sticks to plaques and giving them brain scans to see if the chemical becomes deposited in the brain.
What it is important to note about this front-page news is that very few details of this research have been confirmed, as the research has not yet been fully published. This means it is hard to tell whether the technique will prove useful in a medical setting, particularly as there are still only limited options for slowing Alzheimer's if it is detected early.
What is the basis for these current reports?
This story is based on research that is going to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting at the end of April. The research was led by Dr Marwan Sabbagh, director of Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, Arizona. It was funded by the pharmaceutical manufacturer Bayer Healthcare, Berlin. The full abstract for this presentation is not yet available online, with only a press release published so far.
How can we currently diagnose Alzheimer's?
People with Alzheimer's disease often experience progressive problems with memory; thinking and reasoning; language and understanding; and mood and behavioural changes. At the moment, a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's is made only after all other causes of dementia (for example, vascular dementia, or dementia with Parkinson's disease) have been ruled out, based on a number of cognitive assessments and other tests, including brain imaging. A diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease cannot be confirmed during life, as the only way to confirm the condition is by examining the brain after death to look for the characteristic amyloid protein plaques.
What have the researchers done?
There are only very limited details of the study's methods and results available in the press release, but it would appear that the study looked at the performance of a potential technique for detecting the presence of amyloid plaques in the brains of living patients. These amyloid plaques are abnormal deposits of protein seen in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease during post-mortem. It seems that, in this particular study, researchers compared people's test results during life with findings in their brains after death.
The researchers reportedly enrolled more than 200 volunteers who were nearing death and were willing to have their brains examined after death. This included people with suspected Alzheimer's disease, and people without known dementia. The researchers carried out brain scans on the volunteers using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and also the new technique, which is called a florbetaben PET scan. This involved injecting the participants with a radioactive compound called florbetaben, which binds to amyloid plaques. The PET scan allows the researchers to detect whether florbetaben is concentrating in specific areas of the brain, which would suggest that amyloid plaques were present in those regions and, therefore, that the patient had Alzheimer's.
The press release states that, at the point of writing, 31 volunteers were reported to have died and had their brains examined by post-mortem. These were compared to the brains of 60 volunteers who didn't have Alzheimer's symptoms.
What did the researchers find?
The press release reports two different sets of results. The first analysis looked at amyloid plaques found in the brain at autopsy. The researchers found that the florbetaben PET scan could detect amyloid plaques with a "sensitivity" of 77% and a "specificity" of 94%. This is not further explained, but is likely to mean that the technique picked up plaques in 77% of people in whom they were found after death, and found no plaques in 94% of people who were found to be free from plaques after death. Consequently, this means that the technique missed 23% of people who had plaques, and incorrectly identified 6% of people without plaques as having them.
The second analysis appears to examine the procedures for assessing the florbetaben PET scans that would be suggested for use during clinical practice. This analysis tested the use of florbetaben PET against diagnoses made after death. In this analysis the florbetaben PET scans were reported to have 100% sensitivity – meaning they picked up everybody who would go on to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's after death. Under the proposed scan assessment technique, the florbetaben PET scans had 92% specificity, meaning that they correctly ruled out Alzheimer's in 92% of people who were diagnosed as not having Alzheimer's on autopsy.
What did the researchers conclude?
The lead study author, Marwan Sabbagh, concluded that this test provides an "easy, non-invasive way to assist an Alzheimer's diagnosis at an early stage". He said that it also offers exciting possibilities of using florbetaben as a tool in future clinical research studies looking at potential ways to reduce levels of amyloid in the brains of living patients.
Are there any limitations to this study?
It's not possible to assess the quality of this study because of the limited information available from the press release. It is very early days for this technique, and we don't yet know whether it will be helpful enough to be used in clinical practice.
Despite the Daily Express' front-page suggestion that the research is aimed at developing screening techniques to check symptomless people for Alzheimer's, it seems unlikely that this technique would be used in this way because carrying out brain scans in a large number of people is unlikely to be feasible. It seems the technique, at least from the brief details available, would be more likely to have potential for use as part of the assessment of a person with dementia symptoms in whom other possible causes have been ruled out.
If further research finds that this technology is reliable enough for further testing, studies will also need to be carried out to determine whether its use improves outcomes in people with dementia. Very early diagnosis is only likely to be truly clinically useful if the available interventions are effective at slowing Alzheimer's disease at this very early stage.
Is conference research reliable?
Scientific research is often presented first at conferences. It gives researchers a chance to speak about their results and discuss them with their peers. However, the results they present are often preliminary, and generally haven't gone through the same peer-review quality assurance process that is needed for publication in a journal. During these checks, which are applied by most journals during publication, experts in the field will assess the quality and validity of a study's methods and results, and say whether they think research is good enough to be published. Also, as conference presentations are summarised in very brief "abstracts" for the public, very limited details are usually available on the study's methods and results. This makes it difficult to judge the study's strengths and limitations.
Some of the research presented at conferences never makes it to full publication. This could be for a number of reasons, for example, initially promising findings might not be confirmed in further tests or analysis, or the research may not be accepted by peer-reviewers or journal editors. A systematic review by the Cochrane collaboration found that nine years after the release of a conference abstract only just over half of the studies described (52.6%) had been fully published.
Health news stories are sometimes published based only on conference presentations, abstracts and press releases for forthcoming research. While some of these may be newsworthy and provide useful signposts to forthcoming research, they are not based on full reports of the research in question. This approach can be compared to a newspaper writing a film review based on watching the trailer for a film rather than the whole movie. This doesn't mean that all research presented at conferences isn't reliable, it just means that it's best to reserve judgement until the research has been completed and published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
Daily Express, 16 April 2012
Alzheimer's test predicts if disease will develop
The Daily Telegraph, 16 April 2012
New test for Alzheimer's: Drug pinpoints early signs of disease
Daily Mail, 16 April 2012


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FYI Monday: Striking Gig Posters by Aaron Gresham
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TORONTO – While most Canadian students are working this summer, most of them won't make enough money to cover their college or university costs.
That's according to a new study by CIBC, which estimates that 65 per cent of college or university students currently have a paying summer job, and that most plan to spend their earnings on school.
But among those who responded to a Leger online poll conducted for the bank, 73 per cent said they will need to work during the upcoming year to support their university or college expenses.
Of the 500 people who took part in the poll, a majority of the students who are working this summer expected to earn between $1,001 and $5,000, and about one-quarter expected to earn between $5,001 and $10,000.
The poll found that 45 per cent of the students were making $11 per hour or less, and 60 per cent were working part-time hours.
Another 20 per cent of those surveyed said they had been looking for summer work but were unable to find anything, as well as 10 per cent not working for the summer and five per cent who are working at a volunteer or unpaid position.
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"The reality is that many students rely on their summer earnings to help pay for their college and university education," says Christina Kramer, executive vice president of retail and business banking at CIBC.
"Given the cost of post-secondary education, as well as all the other expenses students have, they will need to watch their spending carefully so they can stretch those summer dollars as far as possible."
Kramer says it's crucial for students to create and stick to a realistic budget while working in the summer to make it easier to manage expenses once back at school.
She also suggest tracking transactions and balances in real time, or using one of the many online tools available to set a budget limit on each spending category on their credit card. That allows them to be notified by phone, email or online message when they go above the customized budget.
Banks also tend to offer accounts for students with free unlimited banking transaction fees and no monthly fees.
The CIBC report is based on an online survey of 500 Canadian university or college students, conducted between July 11 and 17. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error as they are not a random sample and therefore are not necessarily representative of the whole population.


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To some people, cheap insurance companies are merely a myth, to others a reality they do not ever want to acknowledge, but one fact remains the same. Cheap insurance businesses are a commodity most people do not avail for different reasons. Some are scared that they might end up paying more than advertised others just do not want the extra expense.
It is true that there are quite a lot of insurance businesses out there on the internet that are not cheap at all, as well as insurance companies that are cheap and offer the best service. Then there are also cheap insurance businesses that are not just cheap with awful service (these are the ones you would want to avoid). If you want to save money while spending yet at the same time get the best service you will have to do some search into various cheap insurance companies.
There are two ways to find a good insurance company; online and by roaming around, but there is only one way to get a cheap insurance from a company i. E. Search the internet. The reason is simple, where an insurance company caters to clients across the state or just in your area, an online insurance company caters to people across America, and more business means better competition, which ultimately leads to cheaper and lower rates.
Keeping the above equation I know you will agree that the best deals are to be found online, however if you up and want to do business with the most advertised of insurance dealers, you are surely in for a heart-break. These companies in order to compensate for the high costs of advertisements offer some pretty high rates to their customers.
If you truly are looking for a cheap and reliable rate for your insurance, it would be wise for you go for the moderate kind of insurance businesses. These companies could be anywhere after the first ten or so search results. You can also choose to narrow down your results to your city, state, or even by using your zip code if you are searching for a company locally.
Remember to check on the bare minimum of insurance prerequisite in your state and then go forth with negotiating the essentials before negotiating the rates. Almost every state has some sort of bare minimum for their citizens insurance policies these days and it is entirely up to you to convert this slight problem into a blessing that does the most good for you.


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Ask a real estate agent for the three most important factors in making a sale, and the response you're likely to hear is "location, location, location." The same could be equally said of the importance of training in predicting success on the CCO certification examinations.
While other factors, such as experience, clearly have their place in defining an operator's proficiency, reports from employers, test site coordinators, and training professionals around the country indicate that the candidate who goes into the testing room with the benefit of structured, professional training has a much greater chance of success than his untrained counterpart.
But how, as an employer, do you provide that training? The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) does not offer training so as not to compromise its objective measurement of a candidate's knowledge and skills. Nor is NCCCO in a position to approve or endorse any training firm or program. That would require a review procedure outside NCCCO's mandate. Nevertheless, recognizing the critical role that training plays in certification's role of elevating operator proficiency, NCCCO works with many firms, organizations, and individuals that have endorsed the CCO certification program and who are actively training operators in preparation for their CCO certification examinations.
An excellent place to get started in the training process is the CCO Candidate Handbook for the certification being sought. Although, for obvious reasons, NCCCO does not reveal actual test questions, no one need be in any doubt about the content of the examinations. All the "knowledge areas" identified by subject matter experts and validated through operator surveys as being critical to safe crane operations (i.e., the minimum a crane operator needs to know in order to safely operate a crane) are specified there, along with a list of reference materials. These publications, including the required reading of OSHA and ASME standards, are used to develop test questions, and together provide an excellent body of study material.
With a curriculum and reference sources in hand, how do you then go about identifying a source of training? Among the first questions you'll want to ask is: Do I have the resources to develop and teach an in-house program, or would I be better off hiring a professional trainer? Apprenticeship programs, or training courses provided through labor unions' locals, may also prove to be an excellent source of quality training.
The commitment necessary to develop an in-house crane operator training program can be formidable; it takes time, funding, and expertise. Once established, however, an in-house program allows scheduling of employees for training to be done entirely at your convenience. Using some of the crane-specific textbooks and audio-visual materials now available can accelerate the process. Some training firms also offer "train-the-trainer" courses that include tutoring in teaching techniques, as well as materials that may be used as the basis of your in-house program.
Hiring a professional training firm may prove to be an easier solution, but scheduling can be more problematic. Also, bringing future new-hires up to speed will require you either send them to school or wait until it becomes cost-effective to bring a trainer back in. However, this approach does mean you will be able to conduct "refresher" training for other employees at the same time.
If you opt to outsource training, how do you select a training firm? NCCCO recommends employers start by selecting several of those companies that actively provide preparation for CCO exams and request confirmation that they cover all the knowledge areas on the test. Then, just as with any other service, request references that you can call to verify the quality of training provided.
Don't be shy of asking questions such as: How many of your instructors have taken the CCO exam(s)? How many CCO examination preparatory courses have you held? What is your success rate to date? Also, be sure to have your reference source identify the instructor(s) by name; a good program can fall apart in the hands of an ineffective trainer.
Whether your instructor is in-house or brought in from outside, one of the first things he (or she) is going to have to decide is: How much training, and when? For economic as well as scheduling reasons there's going to be a temptation to try to cram in as much material in as short a time as possible. That may not always be the best decision for the candidate, nor the best investment of your training dollars.
Some employers have learned the hard the way that only by carefully establishing the proficiency level of their operators prior to training (otherwise known as a "training needs analysis") do they really know how much instruction may be necessary.
As an example, before you can expect an operator to accurately read and interpret a mobile crane load chart, he (or she) clearly needs to be able to read. Make no assumptions! Illiteracy and learning difficulties are more commonplace than you might expect.
A simple pre-training test, perhaps comprising some of the sample questions available for each program on the NCCCO website (not actual test questions but of a type and style similar to those found on the exams), can provide useful insight into an operator's basic linguistic and comprehension skills, as well as his or her knowledge about crane operations. If remedial "basic skills" instruction in the "three R's" is required, then clearly the best time to do this is before valuable training dollars have been spent on trying to teach crane skills.
Employers often ask: What areas do candidates fail on the most? Well, as far as the mobile crane written exams are concerned (and using our real estate agent's analogy again), there are three: load charts, load charts, and load charts.
Knowledgeable crane experts all agree: there is no more abused, misunderstood, or just plain ignored aspect of mobile crane operations than the crane's load chart, a fact NCCCO can confirm based on its experience of administering hundreds of thousands of written tests. And yet, without a thorough understanding of a mobile crane's load chart, an operator cannot have an accurate picture of either its capabilities or its limitations.
In any case, the ASME B30.5 mobile crane standard requires operators to "demonstrate their ability to read, write, comprehend, and exhibit arithmetic skills and load/capacity chart usage." And they must do so "in the language of the crane manufacturer's operation and maintenance materials." Foolhardy indeed is the operator who ignores the rating chart in today's high-tech, versatile machines—equally so, the candidate striving to become a CCO-certified operator.
Pre-training tests can also be useful in achieving employee "buy-in" and overcoming any negative attitudes. Operators who express doubts about their need for training usually either genuinely believe they "know it all" or fear failing the exam and the consequences this may have on their future employ-ability.
Pre-tests allow an operator to discover for him- or herself the limitations of his knowledge, to gain respect for the training process, and to realize the personal benefit that his or her full participation can bring. After all, what better way to give crane operators the recognition and respect befitting a skilled occupation than through professional certification?
Pre-tests can also help to build confidence while at the same time defusing the anxiety of examinations that many people harbor from their school days; reports from several test site coordinators and instructors point to the benefit of having students overcome this fear by repeated test-taking during training.
This is a strategy that also allows the effectiveness of the program to be monitored and the training focus to be adjusted as necessary. Becoming completely familiar with the details of test-day procedures (registration, rules, seating arrangements, etc.) can also help to calm nerves.
Incorporating training into existing work schedules with the minimum of disruption can be a challenge. Some employers find that, short of shutting their company down for a week or more, their work schedules simply rule out putting all of their operators through crane school at one time. Others, with access to more flexible programs, have been able to organize after-hours or weekend sessions of an hour or two a couple of times a week over a couple of months.
Not only does this have the least impact on work schedules, but it also provides for a more measured approach to training. Operators can take the information they acquired one day and put it straight to work at the job site the next. Experts agree: there's simply no better method of reinforcing learning than putting new found knowledge into practice. Moreover, slower learners can use the periods between training sessions to work on their particular areas of weakness.
The decision on whether or not to train your employees is one that OSHA, industry standards, and just plain good sense have already made for you as an employer. How to provide that training, however, requires a careful evaluation of your company's resources and a thorough review of the options available, along with recognition of some of the "human factors" and logistical issues that training brings.
It is not a process you should rush; the safety of your employees and those they work with, not to mention the general public, will likely depend on it.
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I first read your book in March 2014. I read it a second time and highlighted the basic information and any parts that pertained specifically to me. Then I typed an outline of the whole book (about 17 typed pages) so I could re-read all the information in a short time to refresh my memory. That has been very helpful. I have read many good books about anxiety and depression over the years and have benefited from them, but I think that your Self-Coaching book is one of the best. I bought one for my sister and an extra one to lend out to someone else if needed.
Your simple explanation of the cause and continuation of anxiety and depression is right on target. It has helped me very much to further my journey to becoming a healthier and happier person. I know it takes a lot of work and I still have a long way to go but in the last year I have make progress because of your advice. In March of last year I decided to re-read a lot of my self-help material because I was having trouble with my mind racing on a lot of negative thoughts. After finding and reading your book, I practiced stopping the racing thoughts. At first it was hard and I no sooner stopped one, than my mind was off and racing again. It can be very frustrating. However, I keep stopping them and replacing them with more productive thoughts. After a while I was able to stop them and be at peace for some time. Now, a year later, do not have the racing thoughts. However I still have negative thoughts which I have been working to replace.
My questions is this: To stay in the present moment, you gave advice about concentrating on what you were doing in my case something like washing disheslook at the soap, think about the hot water, etc. in other words, keep your mind on what you are doing. It takes me sometimes one-half hour to wash and dry dishes. During that time I can think about what I am doing for only so long. Washing a dish is washing a dish and finally it becomes automatic (like tying your shoelaces). So then I will sometimes look out the window at my vegetable garden while Im doing the dishes and think about what I will be planting. I love gardening so this should be a happy thought. But then I start thinking about all the problems I will have trying to decide which seeds to buy and which not to buy and where I should plant them in the garden. All these decisions although very simple decisions cause me stress. Why are simple decisions like this so stressful? How can I overcome that feeling? What I have been trying to do is just decide something without worrying so much whether is the very best thing to do and then let it go. If it doesnt work, then try something else the next year not worry so much about whether it is the perfect answer. Is this the right way to do it?
Let me begin by telling you how delighted I am to hear of your progress. It's readers like you that inspire me to continue writing and expanding my Self-Coaching philosophy. For this I am grateful.
Regarding your question. First let me address your efforts to be "present" (i.e., washing the dishes). It's not possible to be in a permanent, meditative state as you found out. What's important is to use such focusing techniques merely to assist you in understanding that you always have the ability to separate from the chatter in your mind. Too often we feel victimized by our insecurities (doubts, fears, negatives). Practicing being more connected to our external world is a way to go from congested thinking to unencumbered living. But, as I said, this is simply a practice to teach you that you have the capacity for stepping apart from any thought that is stressing you.
Regarding the stress you feel about simple, innocuous decisions, let me begin by saying that this happens to be a fantastic opportunity to liberate yourself from the overly cautious need to be safe (in control). No one likes to make a "wrong" decision, but when insecurity enters the picture we often become paralyzed with fear. The fact that you're struggling with non-threatening decision making, makes this a golden opportunity to flex your self-trust muscle. You need to assert yourself against the compulsive, insecurity-driven fears and doubts. How? You do this by boldly, and simply, just making a choice. In this experiment, you're not trying to pick the right choice (i.e., seeds, etc.) you're simply practicing "doing." You're breaking the frozen patterns that insist you have to be sure, accurate, correct, etc. And here's the rub, it doesn't matter if you choose the wrong choice! In fact, sometimes it's to your advantage to be wrong. Why is this? Because you can begin to understand that the world doesn't end if you make a poor choice. Eliminate perfectionistic, controlling tendencies by boldly allowing your intuition to simply choose, right or left, black or white, vanilla or chocolate. It doesn't matter! What does matter is that you're practicing liberating yourself from the compulsivity of insecurity.
Hope this helps
Dr. Joe
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Thanks for your response. It IS helpful. What I understand from your reply is that when I keep my mind on what Im doing, that helps to keep me outside of my head and stop any reflexive thinking. So the more I can stay in the present the less chance reflexive thinking has to take over. Also when I need to make a non-threatening decision, dont spend too much time beating it to death like I usually do! Just decide and accept the results as okay. That will be a challenge for me!!!
I have had anxiety almost my whole life (I am 66 years old). At age 21, I developed Agoraphobia because of panic attacks and had it for 10 years without knowing what my problem was. Then I found Dr. Claire Weekes books which helped me understand the problem but I had to read it more than a few times before I began to understand the concept of fear of fear. It took me another 5 years to work through some of the panic. I worked as an administrative assistant from age 17 until I retired in 2008. When I was engrossed in my work I was relaxed so I did very well on my job. I hid my problem because I did not want it to affect my job and I felt there was a stigma attached to this sort of thing (I dont think that is true so much anymore).
During my life, I went to work and came home and did not go many places (except with family members). I met my husband at work and got married for the first time at age 48 (real true love, since he married me knowing about my problem! ). He has been a great support to me over our 18 years of marriage. We laugh about how I have a backup for everything (and sometimes a backup to a backup) in an effort to try to control things. That is something I have been working on also.
I have never taken medication for this and always believed that I could overcome it by myself in time. I still have a lot to overcome but hope to do it by learning that I can handle life as it comes and, as a Christian, I also believe that God is watching over me and guiding my life too. The self-help material I had in the past has helped me, but I think the Self-Coaching concept is just what I have been looking for.
Keep in mind that habits are indeed, stubborn things. Be patient and begin to recognize that a lot of what holds you back is reflexive, knee-jerk insecurity. This is why I stressed taking a "leap of faith" when it comes to making choices. You need to find out that insecurity will always call the shots if you are too passive (this is because it has been your habit for so long). Insecurity is fear-based and in order not to
be ruled by fear, you must find out that trying to over-control life doesn't make you safer, it makes you more anxious. Keep up the good fight.
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There were two highly anticipated songs the crowd wanted to hear. Of course, Deep Purple played Smoke on the Water, their best known song from classic 1972 album Machine Head, and you couldn't help but grin with delight as guitarist Steve Morse - original Purple axeman Ritchie Blackmore has long since left the band - casually launched into those distinctive opening chords.
And you couldn't help but shout along as singer Ian Gillan, who, at 67, can still hit the high notes and let rip with his guttural growl, sang, "Smoke on the water ... and fire in the sky".
But earlier, there was an equally rousing, all-in crowd sing-a-long when American soft, and sometimes heavy rockers, Journey played their 1981 hit Don't Stop Believin' - the song made famous most recently when it got the Glee treatment. It's one of those guilty pleasure songs, but as my mate (a part-time Journey fan) also pointed out, in a bid to give it even more cred, it was the song that played during the final scene of the Sopranos finale.
Such is the power of Journey, and serenades like the beautiful Who's Crying Now and Open Arms (where the band's latest singer, Filipino import Arnel Pineda stretched out his soaring and velvety voice), that there were outbreaks of man love among a group of three lads who had been singing along to every song and breaking into air-guitar solos. But while it's anthemic tunes that Journey do best, they also showed a tougher side on the (almost) prog-metal of Wheel In the Sky and the punky Keep On Runnin' with wailing and flailing drummer Deen Castronovo taking on lead vocals.
Deep Purple were among the heaviest rock bands back in the 70s. And while not so fearsome these days, they don't take long to get their heavy metal gallop on with Hard Lovin' Man, and The Battle Rages On is the first real head-banger of the night with its grunty metal riffs off-set by its lyrical and vocal grandeur.
But courtesy of cool, calm and collected drummer Ian Paice, they can rein the songs back to a tight blues band jam, and even a hammering porch song like Lazy, before ratcheting the songs up to powerful and sprawling crescendos.
And the bombastic keyboard alchemy of Don Airey (playing parts written by founding member Jon Lord who died last year) ranged from spooky doomsday wurlitzer to a noisy wall of distortion that led into Perfect Strangers.
While the laborious drudgery of Wasted Sunsets dragged a little, they ripped through Machine Head's other hit, Space Truckin', before Smoke, and the highlight of the encore was Roger Glover's bass solo that went from surf guitar (on a bass), into rolling thunder, and then arse-shaking boogie woogie, before a storming Black Night from 1970 to end.
The thing about Deep Purple is that even after 45 years they still look like they're having fun up there - even when they still have to play Smoke On the Water for the millionth time.
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Shirley Ann Ryan Smith, age 83, formerly of Old E-town Rd., Springfield, died at 5:03 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon. She had been a resident of the Village of Lebanon for the last five years.
Born Dec. 1, 1929 in Jefferson County, she was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph W. and Edith Cecilia Thompson Ryan; her husband, Albert "Snooks" Smith, June 12, 2007; a daughter, Sharon Marie Smith, April 21, 2007; a son, James Daryl Smith; her twin brother, Joseph W. Ryan; and three other brothers, Thomas Roy, Charles Robert and Edward Eugene Ryan; a sister, Edith Cecilia Compton; and a grandson, Brian Thomas Mattingly, May 16, 2000.
She was a former employee of Hanmacher-Vogel in Lebanon, was cook at St. Rose Priory and a lunchroom worker at St. Rose School, a homemaker and a member of St. Rose Catholic Church.
She is survived by three sons, Larry (Irene) Smith of Highview, Nick (Donna) Smith of Springfield and Craig (Mary) Smith of Lebanon; two daughters, Phyllis (Steve) Harmon of Lebanon and Donna Smith (Ed) Simmons of Springfield; one brother, Jerry Ryan of Mason, Ohio; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral mass will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday (today) at St. Rose Catholic Church with Rev. Kevin McGrath, O.P. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Rob, Jamie, Joey and Tony "Frog" Smith, Blake Lankin and Frankie Vize.
Hale-Polin-Robinson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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House leaders: Debt hike better fight
A government shutdown is looming on Oct. 1. But don't worry about it.
That's the message the House Republican leadership and its allies are spreading as Congress moves toward a fiscal showdown with President Barack Obama and the Democrats, a clash with huge political and economic ramifications for both parties.
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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and their allies are instead privately urging rank and file to forgo a clash over government funding — and a possible government shutdown — and instead dig in against Obama and the Democratic Senate when the debt ceiling needs to be lifted sometime next month.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP staffers want to stop Vitter)
Boehner and his top lieutenants believe that digging in for a fight over the debt ceiling gives them more leverage against Obama and Democrats. Republicans hope to take advantage of Obama's desire to blunt $20 billion in sequester cuts that kick in Jan. 1 to reach a broader budget deal with the White House.
There's even been chatter in and around leadership about holding a vote on a debt ceiling bill before the government funding measure — a way to satiate conservatives' budget-cutting hunger and help avoid a government shutdown.
Center stage in all of this is funding Obamacare. Roughly 30 Republicans refused to vote for a government funding bill if it provides money for the health care law. GOP leadership thought giving those lawmakers a vote on defunding the law and kicking it over the Senate would be enough.
They were wrong.
Now instead of leadership's strategy of moving the fight to the Senate, Republicans are coalescing around having the battle in the House. That's why leadership's strategy is far from certain to work.
( Also on POLITICO: Tough Hill vote on Syria fades)
According to internal House GOP counts, roughly two-dozen House Republicans are refusing to vote for a continuing resolution that funds Obamacare. After rejecting Cantor's funding plan — which would've funded the government at the $988 billion level while including nonbinding language defunding Obamacare — dozens of Republicans have signed on to a bill by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.), which funds the government at $967 billion in 2014 while delaying implementation of Obamacare until 2015.
Those aren't the only challenges.
House GOP leadership has acknowledged to Democrats that it has no idea how it's going to cobble together a package to boost the debt ceiling, so urging a fight there is far from a fireproof move.
Early discussions have begun over the debt ceiling, and Republicans want their opening bid to tie elements of entitlement reform to the debt ceiling, a laughable request for Democrats and the White House.
But Boehner admitted to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a private session last week that he is not even sure he has the votes to pass a debt ceiling package with entitlement cuts. He also admitted that passing a CR will be a heavy lift.
Boehner also has assured Wall Street and K Street that he will not allow the U.S. government to default on its debt — effectively removing some of his leverage in the battle.
Furthermore, Obama and Reid are telling anyone who will listen that they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling.
"We can't negotiate around the debt ceiling," Obama said during an interview aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "If Mr. Boehner has ideas about how we can grow this economy, strengthen the middle class, put people back to work in a serious way, of course we're happy to, you know, support the negotiations that are taking place between the House and the Senate."
But time is running short. The September House recess is almost certain to be canceled. This week holds big political ramifications in the House.
At this point, there's almost no doubt that Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy will have to fight back with something drastic to squeeze a government funding bill through the House.
The rejection of Cantor's CR proposal last week was widespread throughout GOP ranks. The internal Republican opposition was both ideological and strategic — rank-and-file lawmakers thought that their leadership was giving up too easily on defunding the health care law. Cantor privately told Republicans that there were no more than 190 GOP votes for his plan, far short of the 217 votes needed to pass the legislation, according to sources involved in those talks.


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These are used where I work, in an older building where outlets are few. Ideal for any space really. Easy to use, quick & the only mess you need to watch for is when putting it on the client (may spill out the top). Best avoidance of spilling is to use when client is face down (put a towel under each hand & foot) & to place on hands off to the side, away from the table. Smell's great, feels wonderful, bonus add-ons! It is pricey, but if you are a high-end spa, would pay for itself quickly.
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On Thursday night a violent storm struck a small area along Sparks Road in northern Baltimore County. The strong winds and heavy rain brought down many trees, and most homes along Sparks Road lost power. On the 1700 block of Sparks Road a large tree fell on a car, trapping the driver, who miraculously escaped serious injury. The power to our home was lost, and the power lines were down on the road and up our lane. BGE was here in less than half an hour, and with a crew of about five trucks and workers they had the power restored in less than four hours. This deserves a shout-out to BGE for a job well done.
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Sure, it's a small easter egg—just a logo, nothing major. But still, neat, right? And this is but one of many rumored easter-eggs in Far Cry 3.
Update: One of our readers, Tails89, pointed us to this other Assassin's Creed easter egg—this one mentions pieces of Eden as well as genetic memories.


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A hacking collective calling themselves the ZCompany Hacking Crew successfully hacked and hijacked the LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts of Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom.
They quickly changed banner photos and fired off several embarrassing tweets.
Here are a few of the tweets:
The Israeli Defense Force and Hamas have been in a fierce social media battle since the fighting started, but Israel in particular has suffered tens of millions of hacker attacks on government websites, banks, and private accounts.
Though most of the hacks consist of Denial of Service Attacks — sometimes called "cyber sit-ins" — some have taken it to the next level by deleting government databases or, like Shalom, online identity takeovers.
NOW SEE: The Twitter conversation between Hamas and the IDF is one of the most revealing aspects of the conflict >


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Reds officially welcome four into Hall of Fame
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Following a weekend filled with celebrations to honor the four players newly elected to the Reds' Hall of Fame, Ken Griffey Jr., Dave Parker, Ron Oester and 19th-century first baseman Jake Beckley were officially inducted at a star-studded gala across the river from Great American Ball Park on Sunday evening.
The gala, which is held every two years, set an attendance record with approximately 1,500 on hand, including 37 current Reds players, manager Bryan Price and his coaching staff, and 20 Reds Hall of Famers.View Full Game Coverage
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Following a weekend filled with celebrations to honor the four players newly elected to the Reds' Hall of Fame, Ken Griffey Jr., Dave Parker, Ron Oester and 19th-century first baseman Jake Beckley were officially inducted at a star-studded gala across the river from Great American Ball Park on Sunday evening.
The gala, which is held every two years, set an attendance record with approximately 1,500 on hand, including 37 current Reds players, manager Bryan Price and his coaching staff, and 20 Reds Hall of Famers.View Full Game Coverage
The Reds legends in attendance shared stories about the 2014 Induction Class -- each member of which grew up in the Queen City -- throughout the night.
Johnny Bench told of how Griffey and his brother Craig -- joining their father and former Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Sr. at the ballpark -- would steal items from Bench's locker in the Reds clubhouse when they were children.
"That's the one thing I didn't like about Ken Griffey Sr.," Bench joked. "He couldn't control his kids ... But we couldn't have three better players in the Reds Hall of Fame, and I'm so proud of what they've accomplished."
Griffey's coach from Cincinnati's Moeller High School, Mike Cameron, reflected on the phenom that he had under his tutelage before he became one of the greatest Major League players of all-time.
"Just a very natural, gifted athlete and baseball player," Cameron said of Griffey. "I can remember my wife would come to games and I would tell her, 'We have a pretty exceptional outfielder.' She looked at Griffey and said, 'He's going to make the Majors.' When she saw others, she had no clue, but with him, she knew."
Former Reds infielder and manager Tommy Helms fondly recalled memories of Oester, who played for Helms in 1988 and '89.
"He actually played like Pete Rose," Helms said. "He was a gamer. I'm just so happy for him to be in the Reds Hall of Fame, because he deserves it."
Former Reds outfielder Eric Davis had a special relationship with Parker, and he told the story of when he first met the man he affectionately calls "Pop" during Spring Training in 1984.
"When he came over here in 1984, I didn't know what to expect," Davis said. "I remember when we first got to Spring Training, I got there early and I finally got up the courage to introduce myself, and he cut me off and said, 'I know who you are, boy.' He really took me under his wing and taught me the fortitude of how to play the game. I don't have the words to describe how I feel about him, but he knows."
Dave Concepcion, Oester's double-play partner for many seasons, formally introduced him on stage.
"I was very, very lucky, coming up in baseball to have a great wife and great family and friends," Oester said in his remarks. "But to come up in the time I did with Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, and [many others], it was incredible.
"If I didn't come up with guys like that, I wouldn't be here. I learned the game from them. Back then, you just sat down, listened and learned. Lee May and Tommy Helms were a big, big part of my career as coaches. I got to coach Ken Griffey Jr. and [Reds Hall of Famer] Sean Casey ... How much luckier can you get?"
Oester also had a message for the 2014 Reds in the audience.
"Keep pulling," he said. "To me, what you guys lack right now is a guy in the clubhouse who can lead. I talked to a guy in the clubhouse today who can lead: Todd Frazier. It's not only his performance on the field, but the type of person he is. And Todd, we need a world championship here in Cincinnati."
Parker prepared remarks that were played on video, in which he expressed his thankfulness to have played with so many other great stars, particularly the younger players he saw blossom before his eyes.
"I got an opportunity to play with younger guys like Eric Davis, Barry Larkin and Tom Browning," Parker said. "It was a thrill to watch these players develop into young stars. I hope my influence had something to do with that."
Following the conclusion of the video, Parker addressed the audience.
"I played the game of baseball with all my heart, with a lot of passion," he said. "And I'm really glad that I had the opportunity to come back and play at home."
Griffey Sr. introduced his son as the last inductee.
"My kids aren't thieves," he began, looking directly at Bench with a smile. "It's a real thrill for me to be up here to get a chance to introduce my son. He played the game with a grin, and that's the way I was in Cincinnati as well. It's the biggest thrill of my life to introduce him to the Reds Hall of Fame."
"I didn't know I was coming to my own roast," Griffey Jr. said jokingly. "This is a great honor. To have the Reds family bestow this honor upon me is unbelievable. ... I can't express how humbled I am. I grew up here, played on the same local baseball fields as the two other guys being inducted."
Junior expressed gratitude for all he was able to absorb as a youngster around Riverfront Stadium, watching one of the greatest teams in baseball history -- known as the Big Red Machine -- win back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and '76.
"I've never played for an award. I've always played because I loved baseball," Griffey said. "Having gone to the games and watching how to play the game right, I learned from each and every one of you. And I appreciate that."
Following their remarks, the newest inductees into the Reds Hall of Fame were each presented with a ceremonial red jacket by the president of the team, Bob Castellini, symbolizing the honor that had just been bestowed upon them and their place in the history of baseball's oldest professional franchise.
Manny Randhawa is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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More than 200 compete in Gorilla Games
Friday, April 5, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Kyle Wittman has participated in a variety of technology-related competitions as a student at Lawrence High School.
"We travel across the state and even out of the state to compete in technology contests," Wittman, a junior at LHS, said. "We go all over the place."
So, when he and his fellow schoolmates visited Pittsburg State University Friday for the annual Gorilla Games competition, Wittman thought he knew what to expect.
"This turned out to be much more than anything we've seen," he said. "Of all of the competitions we've been to, this is definitely toward or at the top of the list. It's impressive."
Wittman was one of approximately 200 students from 14 area high schools who participated in Gorilla Games, an all-day technology competition at PSU's Kansas Technology Center. Students took part in a variety of tech-related competitions ranging from structural testing and quiz bowl to dragsters and robotics.
"Gorilla Games gives high school students the chance to come in and showcase their talents and abilities in the field of technology," said Eric Gudde, technology teacher at Frontenac High School who helps coordinate the event. "It is a competition, but it's also a lot of fun."
Mike Neden, associate professor in PSU's Technology and Workforce Learning program, said the event also gives many of the high school students their first look at PSU and the KTC.
"It's always nice having a large group of students on campus, especially when it's for an event that's fun and interactive," Neden said. "We have a lot to offer at the KTC in the field of technology, and this event opens a lot of students' eyes to those possibilities."
Joely Gath, a junior at Southeast High School, said she enjoyed getting to compete at Gorilla Games and having the chance to again see the KTC.
"We've been here before for other competitions, but it's always cool walking around the building and seeing what all is here," she said. "It's also cool to have an event like this that recognizes the students in technology, kind of like how games recognize students who play sports."
Along with the competitions, demonstrations and events also took place throughout the event. Topics covered included, among others, electronic gaming, construction simulation, sawmill demonstration and antique tractors.
"I think that is what makes this event different than others," Jack Clark, a junior at Lawrence High School, said. "I can't think of another competition that we attend that has the events and demonstrations. So, it's pretty cool to have something to do and see when you're not competing."


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A tough new TV ad from the Obama campaign juxtaposes rival Mitt Romney singing "America the Beautiful" with captions about his offshore tax havens and alleged ties to job outsourcing while he led Bain Capital and the state of Massachusetts.
The new ad, called "Firms," started airing Saturday in nine battleground states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
There is no audio in the ad except Romney's widely reported – and slightly off-key -- rendition of "America the Beautiful" at a campaign appearance last January in The Villages, Fla. The onscreen chyrons refer to Romney's tax shelters in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. They also charge that the firms Bain invested in while Romney was at the helm "shipped jobs to Mexico," and as governor of Massachusetts, he "outsourced jobs to India."
The silent tagline: "Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem."
The campaign backs up its charges with references to multiple media reports. Some fact-checkers have said Romney should not be held responsible for Bain investments that occurred after February 1999, when he took a leave of absence to oversee the 2002 winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. And some reporting backs up his assertion that he was not managing Bain after that.
However, The Boston Globe reported that Securities and Exchange Commission filings by Bain describe Romney as its "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president" during that period, and the newspaper refused the campaign's request for a correction. In addition, The Washington Post rejected the Romney campaign's request for a retraction of a story tying Romney and Bain to firms that pioneered outsourcing during that period.
Romney did a round of TV interviews Friday to demand an apology from the Obama campaign, which accused him of lying about when he left Bain, and to try to lay the issue to rest. He said he owned the company while he was in Salt Lake City, but he did not manage its investments. He also said he would not release tax information beyond his 2010 return and an estimate for 2011.
Stuart Stevens, a top Romney strategist, accused the Obama team of mocking "America the Beautiful" and chalked up the new ad to the president's failure to break out of a tie with Romney, despite "almost $100 million" in spending. "So now I guess it's time to attack the middle class and patriotism," Stevens said in an email to National Journal. "This is what campaigns do when anger and frustration replaces hope and change."
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who is hosting the National Governors Association in Williamsburg this weekend, urged Obama to take the ad off the air. "It's silly, it's predictable, and it's not accurate," he told ABC News. "Let's talk about the issues that people really care about in Virginia which is getting people back to work, getting people out of debt and having energy independence. Let's focus on that."


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NASA to place twin probes in Moon orbit as you snog beneath mistletoe
Formation-flying washing machines in spaaaace! Excellent
NASA has announced that it expects to place two formation-flying space probes into orbit around the Moon on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft are intended to map the lunar gravitational field with unprecedented accuracy, giving the boffinry community many useful facts about our largest natural satellite.
GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B lifted off from Cape Canaveral back on September 10. Normally a journey by rocket to the Moon requires only a few days (as was the case with the manned Apollo missions of yesteryear) but the GRAILs have taken an unusual and prolonged path, both because of the particular orbits in which they need to be inserted and in order to let their highly sensitive instrument packages completely stabilise in space conditions before approaching the target.
Originally the trip to the Moon was projected with no more accuracy than "about 3 to 4 months", but now NASA has gone firm and told the world that GRAIL-A will arrive in lunar orbit at 1:21 p.m. PST (2100 GMT) on Saturday December 31, and GRAIL-B on Sunday January 1 2012 at 2:05 p.m. PST (2200 GMT).
The space agency also informs us that:
The two GRAIL spacecraft are near-twins, each about the size of a washing machine, with minor differences resulting from the need for one specific spacecraft (GRAIL-A) to follow the other (GRAIL-B) as they circle the Moon.
The science payload on each spacecraft is the Lunar Gravity Ranging System, which will measure changes in the distance between the two spacecraft down to a few microns - about the diameter of a red blood cell.
The GRAILs also carry cameras for the MoonKAM project, an educational outreach effort which will allow students and schoolchildren to download lunar imagery directly. ®


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Mine Tragedy Spun as Profit Opportunity
Spectacular. Bad-boy investment celebrity Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money with Jim Cramer," actually recommended today investing in "mine-safety" stocks. Not because it is important for us as a country to pick up the slack left by a "paper tiger" federal mine safety agency, but because there could be lots of dough in it.
According to the blog Crooks and Liars, Cramer actually said " "we're not partisan here... we're just looking to make money, and the Bush Administration has been negligent." And why on earth not cash in?
There is simply something obscene about the very suggestion.
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Last month, we saw Call of Duty: Ghosts compared on PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4. In the following video, you can finally see the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game compared.
It's really getting harder and harder to tell the difference. At least for me. Can you spot any discrepancies? It's a YouTube video, mind you. Not the ideal medium for comparison.
In case you missed it, check out Kotaku's review of Call of Duty: Ghosts. And here's our own Kirk Hamilton, with his take on the differences he's seen between the graphics of some of the PS4 and Xbox One games that he's played.
Call of Duty: Ghosts - Xbox One vs. PS4 Graphics Comparison [IGN@YouTube]
To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft.


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A State and Federal Partnership to Safeguard Animal Health
When a large-scale animal-disease outbreak occurs, tracking its progress and performing diagnostic tests on thousands of diagnostic samples is a big challenge. To get the job done, it is very important that all the parties involved--Federal agencies and laboratories managed by State governments and universities--communicate and collaborate effectively. The National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) now forms part of a nationwide strategy to coordinate the work of all organizations providing animal disease surveillance and testing services.
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