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    GOP campaign for Iowa caucus enters final week (AP)

    DES MOINES, Iowa ? An Iowa caucus campaign that has cycled through several Republican presidential front-runners entered its final week Monday, as unpredictable as the day conservatives began competing to emerge as Mitt Romney's chief rival.

    Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, released a new television commercial for the state in which he cited a "moral imperative for America to stop spending more money than we take in. It's killing jobs," he said.

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry countered with an advertisement that said four of his rivals combined ? none of them Romney ? have served 63 years in Congress, "leaving us with debt, earmarks and bailouts."

    Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who has invested more time in Iowa than any other contender, was the only one in the state during the day.

    That changes Tuesday, with bus tours planned by Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, all eager to energize their existing supporters and attract new ones.

    Texas Rep. Ron Paul arrives Wednesday. Recent polls suggest he is peaking as caucus day approaches, and in some surveys is tied with Romney or even ahead.

    The result figures to be a short but intense stretch of campaigning through small towns and even smaller towns, the sort of one-on-one politicking that has largely vanished in the electronic age.

    Failing that, it will pay tribute to the types cuisine that prosper in early 21st century America.

    The Perry bus will belly up to Doughy Joey's in Waterloo and to the Fainting Goat in Waverly, an establishment whose website says "After 10 p.m., we are the type of place your mothers warned you about." Perry also will visit a vineyard and winery in Carroll.

    Bachmann will make an early-winter stop at a Dairy Queen, as well as Pizza Ranch establishments in Harlan, Red Oak and Atlantic, three localities with a combined population of 17,282.

    It's not all about the food, though.

    Perry has a stop arranged at the Glenn Miller Museum in Clarinda, population 5,301, where the great bandleader was born.

    The Texas governor also has a distinction that none of his rivals can boast, a town that shares his name. Thus, Perry will visit Perry.

    There were signs of strategic shifts as candidates struggled to stand out in advance of the straw poll next week that inaugurates the round of primaries and caucuses that will pick a nominee to oppose President Barack Obama next fall.

    Perry's new ad shows images of Gingrich, Paul, Santorum and Bachmann as it criticizes Congress and renews the governor's call for halving lawmakers' pay and time spent in Washington.

    Despite the commercial's implication, Gingrich and Santorum were out of Congress when the multibillion-dollar financial bailouts of 2008 occurred. Paul and Bachmann voted against the legislation.

    Still, the approach taken suggests the Texas governor is more concerned with outpacing Paul, Bachmann, Santorum and Gingrich on caucus night that he is in defeating Romney.

    The former Massachusetts governor, making his second try for the White House, has a well-funded and well-organized campaign nationally and in Iowa, as well as allies who are spending heavily on television advertisements through an independent organization known as a super PAC.

    While others have periodically risen to challenge him, Romney has kept his support from seriously eroding in the polls, consistently remaining near the top.

    A victory in Iowa does not necessarily translate into the Republican presidential nomination. Yet history suggests that contenders who finish farthest behind next week will quickly drop out, underscoring the significance of the struggle to emerge as Romney's chief rival.

    The most recent presidential hopeful to surge and then falter is Gingrich. The former House speaker's campaign imploded last summer and still shows the after-effects: a shortage of funds to counter attack ads in Iowa, and failure to qualify for the primary in Virginia in March.

    After insisting he would run a purely positive campaign, Gingrich let it be known he was about to attack Romney on one of his presumed areas of strength, his economic proposals.

    R.C. Hammond, a spokesman for Gingrich, said the candidate would make the case that Romney has advanced "very timid ideas that will do little to get people back to work."

    Gingrich favors an end to taxes on investment income and dividends, while Romney wants to end them only for individuals with incomes of $200,000 or less.

    Gingrich also has proposed an optional 15 percent flat tax on income. Under the plan, taxpayers could stay in the current system, which has a top tax rate of 35 percent on taxable income above $379,150, or switch to the new flat rate, which would apply to income at all levels.

    Romney favors retaining the current graduated income tax system, with lower rates than currently exist.

    Gingrich is at least the fourth front-runner to falter since the campaign began in earnest in Iowa earlier this year.

    Bachmann, who won a straw poll at the Iowa State Fair last summer, was briefly atop polls in the state. So, too Herman Cain, who subsequently suspended his campaign after a woman claimed they had a long-term extramarital affair.

    Santorum has yet to experience the type of sudden surge that others in the race enjoyed, but has doggedly campaigned in all 99 of the state's counties in hopes of rallying social conservatives to his side.

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    Associated Press writer Philip Elliott contributed to this report.

    Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111226/ap_on_el_ge/us_gop_campaign

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    Tuesday, December 27, 2011

    FBI shooting range is popular deer hangout (AP)

    QUANTICO, Va. ? Call it a playground for Bambi and G-Men, where imaginary criminals are hunted and deer are the spectators.

    The 547-acre FBI Academy, where some of the nation's best marksmen fire off more than 1 million bullets every month, happens to be one of the safest places for deer during hunting season.

    The property on the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., is home to some of the FBI's most elite forces and training programs as well as a de facto wildlife refuge where deer, fox, wild turkeys, groundhogs and vultures roam fearless and free.

    In recent years, a black bear was spotted running across a parking lot, and a groundhog cornered an FBI agent coming out of the cafeteria, hoping to score some human food, FBI spokesman Kurt Crawford said. Turkey vultures are often seen perched atop the 500,000-square-foot national crime lab where the FBI analyzes evidence, including the remains of the former al-Qaida leader in Iraq.

    The wild animals are as much a fixture at the academy as the hostage rescue team and criminal profilers.

    The most common furry friends on the sprawling campus some 30 miles outside Washington are the deer, a regular at the shooting ranges, driving courses and physical training trails.

    On a December afternoon, deer grazed above one of the academy's 16 practice shooting ranges. They stood just 15 feet away from the paper targets. Nearby, shots popped loudly from a Colt M4 Carbine rifle, and the white-tailed deer did not flinch.

    "They're pretty immune to the sound," said Sean Boyle, supervisory special agent bomb technician and principal firearms instructor for the Critical Incident Response Group based at the academy. The deer typically graze on top of the berm, about 15 feet away from the targets and rarely go directly in the line of fire. Boyle said he doesn't recall an instance where a deer was shot accidentally.

    "It's like they think, `We've pushed the limit for this far, and all our generations have pushed the limit for this far,'" Boyle said. "They're just so docile around here. They don't know what a gun is."

    The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries does not keep direct tabs on the deer population at the FBI academy, but a spokeswoman said statewide the deer population has remained about the same over the past decade, partly because of regulated hunting. Licensed deer hunters are allowed on parts of the Marine Corps base but not at the academy where the FBI does not hunt its animals.

    At the FBI Academy, the deer have even become part of the training in some of the driving courses, said Tim Moles, the supervisory special agent who oversees the Tactical and Emergency Vehicle Operations Center, where recruits learn to avoid crashing their cars and conduct surveillance without being spotted. The deer are convenient when recruits learn to avoid collisions, Moles said. "There's times when it seems like they're playing chicken with us," Moles said. "We respect them because they can do damage. We'd rather avoid all deer stories in this end of the academy."

    For the most part, the deer have stayed out of trouble. Twice, however, deer have eaten freshly-planted pansies at the academy's 9/11 memorial courtyard, Crawford said. Eventually a fence was built to keep the flowers off limits.

    Deer have been known to interrupt physical training, too.

    "We've had the deer walk across the middle of the track during the 300-meter sprint," said Susann Dreiling, unit chief of the academy's physical training unit.

    To become an agent, recruits must pass a physical fitness test. They are scored on how fast they can run and how many push-ups and sit-ups they perform. Sometimes, training will involve running a quarter-mile path along the lake area of the academy, stopping for push-ups, running some more and breaking to box, Dreiling said.

    During these exercises, a mother and her fawns are often close by.

    "They just stand there and watch as if they're evaluating them," Dreiling said, "just like the instructors are."

    Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/topstories/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111226/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_fbi_academy_deer

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    Scorecard: India v Australia, 1st test, Melbourne: 26-30 Dec 2011

    Match : India v Australia, 1st of 4 test match series, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, on India's tour of Australia 2011-12.
    Venue & date : Melbourne cricket ground, 26,27,28,29 & 30 December 2011.
    Debut : Ed Cowan (Australia).
    Toss : Australia, elected to bat.
    Result : to be decided.
    Man of the match : to be decided.
    Umpires : Marais Erasmus (South Africa) + Ian Gould (England).

    Head to head

    79th India v Australia test match it is, undecided. Previously, Australia have won 34, India 20 with 23 draws and 1 tie. In Australia, two teams clash for the 37th time and home team leads 22 to 5 with 9 draws. At Melbourne, two teams have met 10 times before and Australia won 7 times, India twice while 1 test back in 1985 was draw.

    Fact : India has not lost a test match to Australia in last 8 meetings, winning 5 while drawing other 3.

    End of day 1 : Australia 277/6 in 89 ovs (Haddin 21* + Siddle 34*)

    A day's play matching the hype, tides turned both ways and rested on equal terms. Indians, wicket less in helpful conditions in first hour, got a lucky rain break of 5 odd minutes which allowed them to re-think their strategy and Umesh Yadav got two wickets in two overs. Under fire Ricky Ponting, with debutant Ed Cowan, added valuable 113 runs to bring home team back into the match but Yadav made the break-through yet again and then Zaheer Khan ate up both the Michaels off back to back balls to put visitors on top again. Peter Siddle and Brad Haddin made good recovery before stumps were drawn for the day.

    Scorecard updated : at end of day 1 at Melbourne | Live scorecard.

    Australia 1st innings (elected to bat)
    Batsman ? R B 4s 6s
    Ed Cowan c Dhoni b Ashwin 68 177 7 0
    David Warner c Dhoni b Yadav 37 49 4 1
    Shaun Marsh c Kohli b Yadav 0 6 0 0
    Ricky Ponting c Laxman b Yadav 62 94 6 0
    Michael Clarke (c) b Zaheer Khan 31 68 5 0
    Michael Hussey c Dhoni b Zaheer Khan 0 1 0 0
    Brad Haddin (wk) not out 21 60 0 0
    Peter Siddle not out 34 80 4 0
    James Pattinson
    Ben Hilfenhaus
    Nathan Lyon
    Extra : 24 (lbyes=21, wides=2, noball=1)
    Total : 277 runs in 89 overs for 6 wicket. RR = ( 3.11 ).
    Fall of wickets : 1-46 (Warner, 13.1ov), 2-46 (Marsh, 15.1ov), 3-159 (Ponting, 48.3ov), 4-205 (Clarke, 64.2ov), 5-205 (Hussey, 64.3ov), 6-214 (Cowan, 67.1ov)
    Bowler Overs Maiden Runs W Extra
    Zaheer Khan 23 5 49 2 1nb, 1wd
    Ishant Sharma 20 6 40 0
    Umesh Yadav 20 4 96 3 1 wide
    R Ashwin 26 2 71 1
    India Eleven
    Batsman ? R B 4s 6s
    Gautam Gambhir
    Virender Sehwag
    Rahul Dravid
    Sachin Tendulkar
    VVS Laxman
    Virat Kohli
    MS Dhoni (c & wk)
    R Ashwin
    Zaheer Khan
    Ishant Sharma
    Umesh Yadav

    Source: http://itsonlycricket.com/entry/3014/

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    Monday, December 26, 2011

    Mayor: 'There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford'

    STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) - Fire tore through a house in Stamford early Sunday, killing five people, making it among the worst Christmas days in the city's history, the mayor said.
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    Officials said the fire, which was reported shortly before 5 a.m., killed two adults and three children. Two others escaped.

    Their names have not been released.
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    "It is a terrible, terrible day for the city of Stamford," Mayor Michael Pavia told reporters at a news briefing at the scene of the fire. "There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford."
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    Acting Fire Chief Antonio Conte said attempts by firefighters to rescue the house's occupants were pushed back by intense flames and heat.
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    He said fire officials do not yet know the cause of the blaze and will not likely get clues for a few days until fire marshals can enter the house "and figure out what happened."
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    Conte said he did not know the conditions of the two survivors.
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    "We had our hands full from the moment we arrived on the scene," he said.
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    A neighbor, Sam Cingari Jr., said he was awakened by the sound of screaming and that the house was entirely engulfed by flames.
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    "We heard this screaming at 5 in the morning," he said. "The whole house was ablaze and I mean ablaze."
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    Cingari says he does not know his neighbors, who he said bought the house last year and were renovating it. Power also was out in the neighborhood, he said.
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    The neighborhood in Stamford, a city of 117,000 residents about 25 miles northeast of New York City, juts into Long Island Sound.

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    FSU football players from Central Florida happy to spend Christmas in Orlando

    With a practice scheduled for this morning in preparation for Thursday's Champs Sports Bowl, Florida State's football players and coaches didn't have the luxury of spending Christmas at home with family and friends.

    Well, most of them didn't.

    A handful of Florida State players from Central Florida admitted they were ecstatic when they learned they would be spending the holidays in Orlando.

    Junior linebacker Vince Williams, who grew up in nearby Davenport, said the only better destination would have been a BCS bowl. But once that was out of the question, Williams said he started rooting openly for the Champs ? even when the more prestigious Chick-fil-A Bowl was still in play.

    If Virginia Tech had defeated Clemson in the ACC Championship game, there was a chance FSU could have been sent to Atlanta for the second consecutive year.

    "I was like, 'Man, I hope Clemson kills Virginia Tech. I do not want to be in Atlanta,'?" Williams said, laughing. "It's cold up there."

    Of course, the Chick-fil-A Bowl is played indoors at the Georgia Dome, but Williams had bad memories of practicing in the elements.

    "I'm like, 'I want to go home and see my family and play in this warm weather,'?" Williams said. "When we were in Atlanta last year, it was snowing at practice. I'm a Florida boy. I don't even like snow. I was like, 'I don't want to do that no more.' It's like Miami or bust, now."

    Williams got his wish, of course. Clemson beat Virginia Tech, and the Seminoles got shipped to Orlando, where the temperatures will be in the 70s this week.

    Florida State's players reported to the Orlando Hilton for a team meeting Saturday, and they will practice today, Monday and Tuesday to simulate their normal Tuesday-through-Thursday game preparation.

    Because Orlando is centrally located for most of Florida State's players, FSU coach Jimbo Fisher allowed them to make their own travel arrangements.

    "We've got so many guys (from Florida), it's easier," Fisher said. "If we were (in a bowl game) farther off, I like going as a team."

    That suited many of the Seminoles, such as Tampa's Christian Green, just fine.

    "That's definitely good ? spend time with some of my family and stuff like that," said Green, a redshirt freshman receiver. "And some of my family will be able to come to the game. That's always good, to be close to home."

    Source: http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20111225/FSU03/112250330/1001/RSS

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    The Top 30 Android Apps And Games Of 2011

    androidmarketshotAndroid apps come in all shapes and sizes - literally. Unlike iOS applications, which are basically created for two form factors, Android apps need to be developed with dozens (if not hundreds) of device-types in mind. This is on top of the inconsistent operating system releases still mucking things up. While all of this fragmentation is a headache for developers, ignoring a platform with 50 percent market share would ultimately lead to their peril. The best Android apps are thus the ones that can both push the technological envelope while also remaining accessible to the vast majority of users. This is no easy feat. We divided our list of the best 30 Android apps into four distinct categories. The top ten apps come from third-party developers, and, if not exclusive to Android, were created primarily for the platform. Additional sections include the best new or significantly updated apps from Google, as well as the best apps and games that appeared first on iOS but later arrived to Android in 2011.

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    Saturday, December 24, 2011

    New route to lowest temperature

    Researchers have developed a clever way to achieve the lowest temperatures ever recorded on Earth.

    Achieving such temperatures is necessary to study fundamental properties of matter and the strange effects caused by quantum mechanics.

    The new method relies on "optical lattices" of atoms from which only the hottest atoms are selectively removed.

    The approach, reported in Nature, may be well-suited to create memory for future quantum computers.

    The limits of low temperature have been constantly pushed in recent years, and the current best lies somewhere in the nanoKelvin regime - that is, within just billionths of a degree of "absolute zero" at zero Kelvin or -273.15C.

    That ultimate limit is set formally as the lowest possible entropy, or disorder, that is achievable.

    Optical lattices are an ideal system in which to attain temperatures ever nearer that limit. The peaks and troughs of intensity in crossed beams of light form a kind of "egg-crate" structure in which atoms are inclined to remain in the troughs - a point of lowest energy.

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    Kelvin and the very cold

    • 310K - human body temperature
    • 273K - water freezes
    • 217K - dry ice
    • 184K - lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth's surface
    • 2.7K - average temperature of deep space
    • 1K - lowest known temperature in space: expanding gas of the Boomerang Nebula (above)
    • 0.000000001K - coldest temperatures routinely achieved in laboratories
    • 0K - absolute zero

    As the atoms are added to each trough - or each point in the lattice - it becomes more difficult to add another, in a situation called a blockade.

    But researchers from Harvard University have invented a modification to this effect called orbital exchange blockade.

    It is a way to cool these assemblages of atoms that could be extended to the picoKelvin regime: within trillionths of a degree of the coldest possible temperature.

    The team carefully adjusted the intensity of the crossed light beams. The trick was to do so in such a way that only the most energetic atoms in each lattice site absorbed energy from the light fields, becoming more energetic again.

    By adjusting how frequently the light beam intensities were changed, the team was able to remove these "hottest" atoms from the system, leaving only the "coolest" ones behind.

    The approach removed entropy, or in other words, reduced the overall temperature of the lattice.

    In an accompanying article in Nature, optical lattice expert Gretchen Campbell from US measurement agency Nist points out that this ability to specifically address single lattice sites, and potentially to cool to never-before-achieved temperatures, may make the approach useful in quantum computers.

    These devices, still in early developmental stages, would make use of the slippery nature of quantum states to perform computation at incredible speeds.

    But like any computer, they would need memory, and optical lattices that keep delicate quantum information preserved in cold atoms could be a suitable solution.

    Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-16285036

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    Report: BlackBerry's Last Hope Is Totally Screwed [Rumor]

    Not even RIM's top executives dispute that the company's had a rough few months. But just hold on, they say, until BlackBerry 10. That's the rudder that'll turn this ship around. But if BGR's insider report holds up, that new course might head right smack into an iceberg of suck. More »


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    Friday, December 23, 2011

    Police: Newborn found in box on Philly sidewalk OK (Providence Journal)

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    PFT: Roethlisberger not expected to play Saturday

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    Steelers linebacker James Harrison has acted with defiance in the wake of his one-game suspension.? Now that he?s back at work, he?s still not fully accepting blame for his latest illegal hit.? Instead, he?s pointing a finger at the Browns for allowing the player into whose face Harrison planted a helmet to return to action after missing only two plays.

    ?If he was hurt so bad I don?t know why they let him back in . . . two plays later,? Harrison said.? ?Something should be done to them, I would think.? I don?t know.? I got a game, what should they get??

    They?ll get nothing, according to multiple reports.? Surprisingly, the Browns won?t be disciplined in any way for allowing concussed quarterback Colt McCoy to get back on the field without evaluating his brain.

    We know, we know.? Browns president Mike Holmgren has said that it?s unfair to criticize the team because no one saw the mammoth hit on McCoy.? You know, the mammoth hit that happened in plain view of the team?s sideline, where players and numerous other team employees were standing and watching the game.

    Of course, the Browns? misguided decision to let McCoy back into the game doesn?t excuse Harrison?s illegal hit, or his history of them.? Penalties, fines, and suspensions aren?t disseminated based on whether a player gets injured; instead, they?re based on whether the hits are illegal.

    In that regard, Harrison surprisingly seems to be willing to comply with the rules.

    ?I?m doing everything they ask me to do,? Harrison said.? ?I?ve lowered my target area, that?s it.?

    That?s really all he needs to do.? Now, the question becomes whether, in the heat of the moment, he?ll actually do it.

    Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/21/roethlisberger-not-expected-to-play-saturday/related/

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    Saturday, December 17, 2011

    Video: Consumer Protection & Capitalism

    "We should judge the risk of those activities (banking products and services), the higher the risk, the higher the capital, says Kelly King, BB&T Corporation chairman/CEO, who discusses his thoughts behind "too big too fail."

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    Friday, December 16, 2011

    High levels of tau protein linked to poor recovery after brain injury

    ScienceDaily (Dec. 13, 2011) ? High levels of tau protein in fluid bathing the brain are linked to poor recovery after head trauma, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan, Italy.

    "We are particularly interested in finding ways to predict prognosis after traumatic brain injury," says senior author David L. Brody, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at Washington University. "Right now, it's very hard to tell who is going to live, who is going to die, who is going to have severe disability and who is going to recover well."

    The results, reported online Nov. 23 in the journal Brain, show that initial tau levels in all injured patients are high and drop off over time. Those who had the highest tau levels in the first 12 hours of monitoring had worse outcomes six to 12 months later. Recovery was measured using the eight-category Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS-E): 1 indicates death, 2 is vegetative state, 3-4 is severe disability, 5-6 is moderate disability, and 7-8 is good recovery.

    "If we can identify early who is likely to have a poor outcome, we can design better clinical trials that don't include those patients who are going to do fine," he says.

    Brody says the correlation between high tau levels and worse outcome is not perfect, at 0.6 (with a perfect correlation being 1 and no correlation being 0), but they found it to be a better predictor of recovery than markers currently used, including measures of glucose, glutamate and the ratio of lactate to pyruvate in the brain.

    Tau is part of the cellular scaffolding that supports and protects the brain's nerve cells, especially the cells' long, thin "wires" known as axons that connect different parts of the brain. Abnormal tau protein that forms clumps called "tangles" is also a marker of some forms of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

    To fill its structural role, tau is inside nerve cells. Therefore, Brody and his colleagues suspected that the amount of tau outside the cells, in the fluid bathing the brain's neurons, might be a good indicator of how badly brain axons are damaged after a head injury.

    The researchers studied 16 patients with traumatic brain injury and used a technique called microdialysis to monitor tau levels in the brain every one to two hours. Microdialysis involves inserting a thin tube called a catheter into the brain to collect fluid samples. In this study, the catheter was always placed in conjunction with another procedure deemed necessary for the patient's care, such as implanting a device to measure cranial pressure.

    CT scans of the patients' brains guided catheter placement. In some patients the location of the injury was obvious and the catheter was placed nearby. In others, no injury was apparent on the scan and the catheters were simply placed in the same consistent location.

    None of the 16 patients in the study died as a result of the brain trauma, though one died from unrelated causes about two months after the injury and was not included in the final analysis. In addition, no patient was in a persistent vegetative state at the six-month assessment of outcome (a GOS-E of 2).

    Of the 10 patients with a GOS-E of 3 or 4 (lower and upper severe disability), seven had initial tau levels above 10,000 picograms per milliliter. Not fitting the pattern, the remaining three had levels below 10,000. The patient with a GOS-E of 5 (lower moderate disability) was just above the 10,000 mark. Of the four patients with a GOS-E of 6 or 7 (upper moderate disability and lower good recovery), all four had initial tau levels below 10,000. No patient received a GOS-E of 8 (upper good recovery).

    Though initial tau levels predicted recovery in the surviving 15 patients better than current clinical measures, Brody says the results need to be confirmed in a larger study that controls for such variables as age and type of injury.

    But if confirmed, measuring tau levels by microdialysis could become an additional tool for clinicians assessing brain injury. According to Brody, microdialysis provides some information that imaging does not, including changes over time. Microdialysis is also possible in severely injured patients who can't be moved to a scanner. But microdialysis only samples a small area, while images provide a view of the whole brain.

    "Imaging and microdialysis have strengths and weaknesses that complement each other," Brody says. "Ongoing work with our collaborators in Italy is to assess axonal injury with both specialized imaging and microdialysis in the same patients."

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    1. Magnoni S, Esparza TJ, Conte V, Carbonara M, Carrabba G, Holtzman DM, Zipfel GJ, Stocchetti N, Brody DL. Tau elevations in the brain extracellular space correlate with reduced amyloid-beta levels and predict adverse clinical outcomes after severe traumatic brain injury. Brain, Nov. 2011

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    Wednesday, December 7, 2011

    Senate may vote this week on new payroll tax plan (Reuters)

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to get a vote this week on a "compromise" to extend a popular payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of this month, a Democratic aide said on Monday.

    According to the aide, who asked not to be identified, the new proposal pares back a Democratic plan rejected last week. It no longer would give employers a reduction in their 6.2 percent payroll tax. But like the previous version, it would cut workers' tax to 3.1 percent, from the current 4.2 percent.

    Also, a new tax on income above $1 million a year would be scaled back from the original 3.25 percent. The exact rate has not yet been determined, the aide said, but it would be in the range of 1.7 percent to 1.9 percent.

    Without congressional action, the payroll tax on workers goes back to its normal 6.2 percent on January 1.

    The "compromise" pares back some domestic programs to pay for the rest of the projected $110 billion cost of extending the payroll tax cut, the aide said, without providing details.

    It also would impose some tighter eligibility standards that Republicans wanted on the food stamp program and unemployment benefits, the Democratic aide said.

    Last week, when the Senate defeated the Democratic tax cut proposal, it also killed a Republican plan to cover the cost by extending a federal worker pay freeze and downsizing the federal workforce.

    The aide said Reid is guardedly hopeful that his proposal will win bipartisan passage in the Democratic-led Senate, and that a vote may be held this week.

    COULD FACE OPPOSITION IN HOUSE

    Even if it does pass the Senate, it could face stiff resistance in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives where many conservative Republicans do not want to renew the tax break.

    House Republicans also are firmly opposed to any tax increase on the rich to offset the cost of the payroll tax cut extension.

    Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, said, "Senate Democrats say they have a credible 'compromise' proposal, which presumably does not include job-killing tax hikes or phony war savings. We look forward to reviewing it."

    Republicans were initially reluctant to embrace President Barack Obama's call to extend the payroll tax cut, voicing concerns about the cost and whether it would stimulate the economy.

    A simple extension of current payroll tax cut for workers would cost about $110 billion next year. The new Democratic proposal would cost more because it would lower the rate.

    But with fears of a political backlash in the run-up to November's presidential and congressional elections, their leaders have decided to push for an extension - provided an agreement can be reached on how to pay for it.

    Without congressional action by December 31, the payroll tax that workers pay would revert to 6.2 percent, up from the current 4.2 percent tax. On average, it would cost American families about $1,000 a year.

    A simple extension of current payroll tax cut for workers would cost about $110 billion next year. The Democratic proposals would cost more because they would lower the rate.

    To get an extension to Obama to sign into law, it would have to win passage in both the Senate and the House.

    The payroll tax funds the Social Security retirement program. Critics of extension say it would undermine the program over the long-run as it faces increasing financial strains.

    But Democrats contend that general funds will be used to make up for any loss of Social Security trust funds, and that an extension would help boost the economy.

    A spokesman for Senate Republican leadership objected to Senate Democrats characterization of Reid's pending proposal as a compromise, saying Republicans had not been consulted on it.

    The Democratic aide replied, "We have been talking with Republicans for three months on this. We have a clear idea what they want."

    A senior Republican aide predicted that any compromise that wins House and Senate passage would be brokered by Reid and Boehner, the top Republican in Congress.

    "It will come down to those two guys," the aide said.

    Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/uscongress/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20111205/ts_nm/us_usa_taxes

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    Tuesday, December 6, 2011

    Prep football: Valley hits No. 17 nationally

    Valley won the 4-A title vs. Bettendorf

    West Des Moines Valley finished the high school football season with national recognition.

    The Tigers, who went 14-0 and won the Class 4-A state championship, are ranked 17th in USA Today?s Super 25 high school football rankings.

    Valley is the only Iowa team in the top 25. The Tigers won the CIML Iowa Conference title and beat Bettendorf 17-14 in the state final.

    The team earned four spots on the Des Moines Sunday Register Elite team: Running back Trey Lewis, offensive linemen Trevor Hanson and Austin Stephens and defensive lineman Sam Raridon.

    Tags: Iowa high school football, West Des Moines Valley

    Source: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2011/12/03/prep-football-valley-hits-no-17-nationally/

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    Monday, December 5, 2011

    VOTE! What Do You Think of Katy Perry's Drastic New Look?

    The pop star sports a blonde, chin-length bob! Check out more star tress-formations and tell us what you think!

    Source: http://www.ivillage.com/celebrity-hair-transformations/1-b-364776?dst=iv%3AiVillage%3Acelebrity-hair-transformations-364776

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    Neandertals? mammoth building project

    Extinct hominids may have been first to build with bones

    Web edition : 2:34 pm

    Neandertals are stumping for bragging rights as the first builders of mammoth-bone structures, an accomplishment usually attributed to Stone Age people.

    Humanity?s extinct cousins constructed a large, ring-shaped enclosure out of 116 mammoth bones and tusks at least 44,000 years ago in West Asia, say archaeologist La?titia Demay of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and her colleagues. The bone edifice, which encircles a 40-square-meter area in which mammoths and other animals were butchered, cooked and eaten, served either to keep out cold winds or as a base for a wooden building, the scientists propose in a paper published online November 26 in Quaternary International.

    Mammoth-bone huts previously discovered at Homo sapiens sites in West Asia date to between 27,500 and 15,000 years ago. The new discovery comes from Molodova, a Ukrainian site first excavated in the 1950s. There, Neandertals erected a mammoth-bone structure that?s unlike later mammoth-bone huts, suggesting that the two Homo species developed these practices independently, says study coauthor St?phane P?an, also of France?s National Museum of Natural History.

    Researchers have argued for decades about whether Molodova Neandertals left mammoth bones scattered about or built something out of them.

    ?My own inclination is to assume that some type of mammoth-bone structure, maybe a wind break, was present at Molodova,? remarks archaeologist John Hoffecker of the University of Colorado Boulder. A Czech Republic site of comparable age contains a similar circle of mammoth bones, Hoffecker says.

    It?s hard to know whether Neandertals or modern humans occupied Molodova, he cautions. African Homo sapiens reached Europe by 45,000 years ago (SN Online: 11/2/11), and discoveries in the last few years indicate that those early migrants made stone tools much like those found at Molodova and traditionally attributed to Neandertals, Hoffecker says. No fossils have been unearthed at the Ukrainian site, leaving the identity of its occupants uncertain, in his view.

    Demay?s team regards Molodova stone tools as typical of Neandertals that lived in Europe and West Asia before modern humans showed up.

    Neandertals assembled the circular Molodova structure out of the largest and strongest parts of mammoth skeletons ? mainly tusks, shoulders, ribs and hips, the scientists say. Weathering and water damage on the bones indicate that they were placed in a shallow trench.

    Remains of at least 15 mammoths, all bearing stone-tool marks but few signs of chewing by nonhuman animals, were uncovered inside the bone enclosure. Excavations also produced bones of red deer, bison and other animals that contained butchery marks. Meat from these animals was cooked in 15 fire pits arrayed throughout the site.

    Neandertal groups consisting of no more than around 30 individuals, P?an proposes, periodically camped at Molodova while cutting up and consuming mammoth and other prey.


    Found in: Archaeology and Humans

    Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/336659/title/Neandertals%E2%80%99_mammoth_building_project

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    Sunday, December 4, 2011

    Video: Clinton meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar



    >>> now, we go to a place we hardly ever see, myanmar . it's been one of the most isolated repressive regimes on earth. that may not be changing. and because of that, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on an extraordinary visit there, meeting some extraordinary people , including a nobel prize recipient who recently captured the attention of the world. nbc's ian williams is there.

    >> reporter: until just a few weeks ago, this would have been inconceivable. the u.s. secretary of state in myanmar tonight meeting tzu chi . now planning to run for parliament. hillary clinton is the highest ranking u.s. visitor in more than 50 years. here to judge for herself reforms that are bringing unexpected change after decades of repressive military rule. sensorship has been eased, prisoners released, and restrictions on protests have been lifted. the changes and clinton's visit are generating enormous hope here.

    >> i hope that it is a good visit.

    >> reporter: the changes are all the more remarkable when you consider it's only been a year since tzu chi was released from house arrest where she spent 15 of the last 22 years. clinton met the leaders of what has been regarded as a pariah state . and embrace further reform.

    >> i told the leadership that we will certainly consider the easing and elimination of sanctions as we go forward in this process together.

    >> reporter: they met in the isolated almost surreal new capital built from scratch in the middle of nowhere . its vast eight-lane highway is almost deserted. until recently it was off limit toss westerners. there have been promises of reform here in the past, but myanmar 's leaders may not have decided that bringing their isolated and impoverished country in from the cold really is in their best interest. ian williams , nbc news.

    Source: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/45516636/

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    Friday, December 2, 2011

    Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux to Wed Next Month?


    We almost feel bad for OK! Magazine. The same day as Us reveals Scott Disick got Kourtney Kardashian pregnant again, they try to fake marry her off. FAIL!

    Also getting fake hitched before 2012? Jennifer Aniston!

    According to the celeb gossip magazine's new cover story, Jen has weathered her share of romantic disappointments after a devastating divorce from Brad Pitt.

    Whoop dee crap. Tell us something we don't know. Friends of the actress agree that Justin is a keeper, the real deal, etc. So naturally, a wedding is imminent!

    Jennifer Aniston Fake Wedding Cover

    How do we know that America's favorite Lonely Girl is soon to be Mrs. Theroux?

    As the pair settles into their new penthouse in NYC's Greenwich Village, "you can tell by the gleam in Jen's eye, the uncharacteristic PDA and Justin's unfailing tenderness."

    Well, we don't know about you, but we're certainly convinced after hearing that scoop. Soon, according to sources, the couple will head south of the border to elope.

    Doubtful. But we don't expect the relationship to go south. The seem happy.

    Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/11/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-to-wed-next-month/

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    Monday, November 28, 2011

    Third Eye Blind Defends Occupy Wall Street Via New Single


    You have company, Miley Cyrus.

    A few days after that young singer released a video in defense of the Occupy Wall Street protestors - applauding the participants for standing up for what they believe in - Third Eye Blind has done the same.

    This group's latest single, "If There Ever Was A Time," is dedicated to the cause and highlighted by an an audio clip from the incident when police tossed a tear canister into a crowd in Oakland and broke the skull of Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen. Listen below:


    Third Eye Blind - If There Ever Was A Time

    "I think college students are going to come to terms with the unfairness of student loans, the hallowing out of jobs from finance based capitalism, and the depletion of public wealth," says singer Stephen Jenkins. "When you take money out of politics, which is what Occupy Wall Street is about for me, you reverse these trends. This song is meant to encourage their participation. I hope we flood this movement with music."

    What do you think of celebrities getting involved with Occupy Wall Street?

    Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/11/third-eye-blind-defends-occupy-wall-street-via-new-single/

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