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Fear factor: Missing brain enzyme leads to abnormal levels of fear in mice, new research reveals

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A little bit of learned fear is a good thing, keeping us from making risky, stupid decisions or falling over and over again into the same trap. But new research from neuroscientists and molecular biologists shows that a missing brain protein may be the culprit in cases of severe over-worry, where the fear perseveres even when there's nothing of which to be afraid.

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Party leaders spar over Senate rule changes

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Proposed changes to Senate rules would either ease the way for President Barack Obama to assemble his second-term team or permanently threaten the body's deliberative style, the chamber's top Democratic and Republican lawmaker said Sunday.

Democratic Leader Harry Reid and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell once again strongly disagreed during separate television segments on the eve of a rare closed-door summit that could reduce the Senate's reputation as deliberative to the point of inaction. Reid and McConnell ? along with their rank-and-file members ? have been trading barbs over just what the proposed changes would be, both for Obama's current slate of nominees who are awaiting confirmation and for future senators who prize their ability to delay action.

Democrats, who are the majority in the Senate, are pushing to erode the rights of minority Republicans to block confirmation of Obama's picks for posts on a labor rights board and a consumer protection bureau. Republicans previously stalled confirmation votes for Obama's pick for labor secretary and chiefs of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Export-Import Bank, but last week GOP lawmakers stepped aside and said they would allow those nominees to move forward.

Reid said the changes were not about the appointment of judges or passing legislation. "This is allowing the people of America to have a president who can have his team," he said.

McConnell called Democrats' proposed changes contrary to Senate tradition, which typically requires 60 votes to end debate and move forward on nominations or legislation.

"I hope that we'll come to our senses and not change the core of the Senate. We've never changed the rules of the Senate by breaking the rules of the Senate," McConnell said.

All 100 senators ? but not reporters or the public ? have been invited to a meeting Monday evening to seek a compromise that a handful of lawmakers are now exploring.

"We need to start talking to each other instead of at each other," McConnell said.

It's not clear a conversation would produce any agreement.

Reid calls the changes minor and narrow. McConnell calls them unprecedented and overbroad.

Reid says the proposal applies only to those tapped to serve in the administration, not for lifetime posts as judges. McConnell says it would fundamentally deny senators their prerogative to query potential officials.

Reid said the nominees would protect consumers, workers and the environment. McConnell and his GOP allies say the picks are payback to Obama's political base.

"They're driven by the unions," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

Countered Reid: "They have nothing against the qualifications. They don't like the jobs these people have."

In particular, Republicans have objected to a pair of union-backed members, Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, on the National Labor Relations Board, who were appointed by Obama when he said the Senate was in recess. An appeals court has ruled that Obama exceeded his authority, and the board's actions since they took their seats are in legal limbo.

Republicans also have objected to Obama's pick to lead the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which was created as part of Wall Street overhaul legislation, which the GOP opposed. Obama nominated his pick, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, more than two years ago.

"I think a president should have the right to put their team out there," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.

"Why we can't just do 51 votes is beyond me," she added.

Reid and McConnell spoke during separate interviews with NBC's "Meet the Press." Hatch and Klobuchar were on ABC's "This Week."

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Iceberg: Antarctica loses Chicago-sized chunk of ice

Iceberg: Antarctica is somewhat smaller this week, as the?frozen continent's Pine Island Glacier calved off a massive iceberg on Monday.

By Denise Chow,?LiveScience Staff Writer / July 12, 2013

An aerial shot of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier. On July 8, 2013, a huge piece of the glacier's ice shelf (the portion that floats on the water) broke off to form a new iceberg.

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A massive iceberg, larger than the city of Chicago, broke off of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier on Monday (July 8), and is now floating freely in the Amundsen Sea, according to a team of German scientists.

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The newborn iceberg measures about 278 square miles (720 square kilometers), and was seen by TerraSAR-X, an earth-observing satellite operated by the German Space Agency (DLR). Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridgefirst discovered a?giant crack in the Pine Island Glacier?in October 2011, as they were flying over and surveying the sprawling ice sheet.

At that time, the fissure spanned about 15 miles (24 km) in length and 164 feet (50 meters) in width, according to researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. In May 2012, satellite images revealed a second rift had formed near the northern side of the first crack.

"As a result of these cracks, one giant iceberg broke away from the glacier tongue," Angelika Humbert, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, said in a statement. [Photo Gallery: Antarctica?s Pine Island Glacier Cracks]

Humbert and her colleagues studied high resolution radar images taken by the TerraSAR-X satellite to track the changes in the two cracks, and to observe the processes behind glacier movements.

"Using the images we have been able to follow how the larger crack on the Pine Island Glacier extended initially to a length of 28 kilometers [17 miles]," Nina Wilkens, one of the team researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, said in a statement. "Shortly before the 'birth' of the iceberg, the gap then widened bit by bit so that it measured around 540 meters [1,770 feet] at its widest point."

As the?Pine Island Glacier retreats?and flows out to sea, it develops and drops icebergs as part of a natural and cyclical process, Humbert said. But, the way the ice breaks, or "calves," is still somewhat mysterious.

"Glaciers are constantly in motion," she said. "They have their very own flow dynamics. Their ice is exposed to permanent tensions and the calving of icebergs is still largely unresearched."

The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the part of the glacier that extends out into the water, last produced large icebergs in 2001 and 2007.

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GOP State Senator To Launch Governor Challenge

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DENVER (AP) ? A Republican state senator known for gun-rights advocacy is planning to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper next year.

Sen. Greg Brophy of Wray plans to launch his campaign Sunday in Parker.

Brophy joins a Republican slate hoping to challenge Hickenlooper. Former Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is also in the race, and Secretary of State Scott Gessler and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler have said they?re considering running.

Brophy represents a sprawling rural district in northeastern Colorado. He was appointed to the Senate to fill a vacancy in 2005 and is serving his second full elected term.

Brophy vigorously opposed gun control measures adopted this year after mass shootings in Aurora and Newtown. Conn.

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Daily Chronicle | U.S. Jamboree requires health-conscious Scouts

GLEN JEAN, W.Va. ? This year?s Boy Scouts of America?s national Jamboree is being billed as the most physically demanding in its history: There?s rock climbing, rappelling, whitewater rafting and biking. And Scouts will go about the sprawling, hilly landscape the old-fashioned way ? on foot.

Thousands of Scouts gather for 10 days starting Monday at a new location in West Virginia. Officials designed the 1,000-plus acre Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve to take advantage of the Mountain State?s natural assets, and they also put into place new physical fitness requirements that eliminated morbidly obese Scouts from participating.

?Part of the design in building this site was to address the need for physical fitness in our youth, which of course is a longstanding component of Scouting,? said Dan McCarthy, director of the BSA?s Summit Group. ?We saw this as an opportunity to integrate some new challenges ... so we deliberately spread the site to enable us to encourage Scouts and basically require Scouts to move about the site by foot.?

This year, 30,000 Scouts ages 12 to 20 and their leaders were required to meet a threshold for body mass index and other health factors before being allowed to participate. Jamboree applicants with a BMI ? a measure of body fat determined through height and weight ? of 40 or higher were deemed ineligible. Those who fell between 32 and 39.9 faced providing additional health information to Jamboree medical staff.

Nationally, about 17 percent of children ages 2 to 19 are considered obese ? triple the rate from a generation earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

?We required a level of fitness in order to come to the Jamboree that we haven?t required before,? McCarthy said. ?And that has motivated an enormous return in terms of both kids and adults getting serious about improving their health.?

Soon, the Scouts will know why. Besides offering a whole lot of fun, dozens of venues will test their physical skills and fitness. At some point during the Jamboree, every participating Scout will be asked to take a 3-mile trek up a mountain.

Their reward: A barbecue waiting at the top.

?We certainly want to get the Scouts outdoors, challenge them and have a healthy lifestyle,? said Gary Hartley, the Summit?s director of community and governmental relations. ?We talk about the three C?s as kind of the pillars, and that is cardio, character and citizenship. We have all of those embodied here.?

From 1981 to 2010, the Jamboree was held every four years in Fort A.P. Hill, Va. That gathering on a flatter, borrowed Army base limited the size and scope of the Jamboree?s operations.

In 2009, southern West Virginia was chosen out of 80 proposals from 28 states as the Jamboree?s new home. Along with being the permanent home of the national Jamboree, whose theme is ?Go Big, Get Wild,? the Summit will serve as one of four high-adventure camps for the Scouts and will host the 2019 World Jamboree.

While Scouts will be roughing it outdoors, Hartley said walking won?t be that rough. It?s 1.5 miles from the furthest tent to the center of activity at the Summit, compared to 3 miles at Fort A.P. Hill.

Even the short, casual stroll isn?t meant to be boring. A 786-foot suspension bridge connecting two of the Summit?s six base camps to one of the outdoor activity centers has catwalks on either side.

The Summit?s offerings are numerous. There are simple activities such as fishing on four different lakes. There?s also the chance to get even wetter with whitewater rafting trips and learning to scuba dive and kayak in the Summit?s Olympic-sized pools.

Among the bigger, more extreme venues, there are 50 mountain bike trails. The 11 BMX tracks and jumps total the size of about five football fields. A paved skateboard park was built by the same team that designed venues for the Summer X Games, and it includes a bowl, a vertical ramp, street-style combinations and a foam pit for Scouts to try out new tricks.

?This is the exact opposite of ?no skateboards or roller blades allowed,?? Hartley said.

Some of the venue designs fit in with the BSA?s motto of building Scouts? confidence because they enable the youngsters to choose what fits their skill levels. Venues at Fort A.P. Hill addressed only the average skill set.

?Those are very different approaches to what we?ve done here that clearly is going to excite kids and provide opportunities that we?ve never had before,? McCarthy said.

The planning includes incorporating safety procedures into staff training and venue oversight. Scout leaders want to be careful that exercise doesn?t become exhaustion or worse.

In 2005, four adult Scout leaders were killed in an electrical accident on the opening day of the Jamboree. In the four days of intense heat that followed, more than 300 Scouts and visitors fell ill. In 1997, a Scout was killed at the Jamboree after the Army Humvee he was driving overturned.

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Past is Prologue for Climate Change Threats to U.S. Energy

A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy suggests that blackouts and other energy disruptions are likely to increase as a result of climate change

By Umair Irfan and ClimateWire

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Energy and climate change are intertwined, a fact that the Obama administration recently acknowledged with plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from generators. Experts note, however, that shifting rainfall, heat waves and storms have severe consequences for the energy sector, as well.

The Department of Energy issued a report yesterday definitively linking certain energy infrastructure disruptions like power plant shutdowns, blackouts and transmission interruptions to the changing climate, projecting that these threats may get worse and create cascading impacts (Greenwire, July 11).

The new report pieces together energy production problems over the past decade linked to climate variables like drought, extreme heat and floods, filling in a picture of America's vulnerability. "No one has ever thought to compile this and look at them together in one place," said Jonathan Pershing, deputy assistant secretary of Energy for climate change policy and energy at DOE, who supervised the report's production.

While U.S. EPA is getting the ball rolling on carbon emissions restrictions on fossil fuel-fired generators, Pershing explained that DOE is illustrating in this report how these plants are creating problems for themselves already, along with what managers can do to dampen these risks now. "It is explicitly about adaptation," he said.

Climate change may still be a touchy subject in energy, especially when it comes to fossil fuels, but plant managers are growing increasingly concerned about how environmental factors may drive their bottom line. "A lot of that is driven by concerns about extreme weather events more than long-term climate," said Thomas Wilbanks, a corporate research fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who co-authored the report.

Many of the power plants, transmission lines, transformers and substations that provide electrons on tap were constructed decades ago in an era of cheap fuels and blissful ignorance about climate change. Pushed to extremes by the climate -- whether it's millions of air conditioners running simultaneously during a heat wave, or water too warm to cool a steam column, or record snowfall -- these systems start to crack.

From mining fuel to the generators to the hardware carrying electricity, every segment of America's energy infrastructure faces climate repercussions, according to DOE.

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Earlier this year, 660,000 customers lost power in the Northeast following a winter storm due to transmission damage. Barge traffic on the Mississippi River, including coal and petroleum shipments, slowed due to low water levels (ClimateWire, March 22). Last summer, eight power plants in Illinois sought and received permission to discharge water hotter than is permitted under federal Clean Water Act permits. The report highlights 30 examples of such anomalies, which may become the norm.

Though acute events like storms have obvious and well-understood effects on electric infrastructure like knocking down power lines, a more ominous threat is presented by two key climate variables: heat and water.

"If you think about temperature, at higher temperatures, your efficiencies of power generation go down," said Vincent Tidwell, a distinguished member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories and a co-author of the report. "You also lose capacity in transmission lines."

On the demand side, cooling needs create load spikes during the hottest part of the day. Meanwhile, high temperatures increase risks of wildfires, which can burn through transmission lines that cross grasslands and forests. "Any single piece by itself may not be a huge factor, but when you put together all those factors, it becomes pretty important," Tidwell said.

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Report: Bill O'Brien presents grounds for reduced NCAA sanctions

Exactly one year ago, Penn State was leveled by revelations released in the Louis Freeh Report. The NCAA responded swiftly and severely, hammering the PSU program with restrictive sanctions that would potentially devastate Nittany Lions football.

On Friday, PSU coach Bill O?Brien made a private, hourlong presentation to the board of trustees that indicated the university might be planning an appeal to the NCAA to reduce some of the sanctions levied.

According to the Centre Daily Times, O?Brien used several presentation slides, including one that read ?potential proposal to modify sanctions.? Another addressed the impact of scholarship reductions, while another warned of the negative impact of individual lawsuits filed against the NCAA.

Trustees chairman Keith Masser told reporters that the board "would like to" appeal the sanctions "at some point" but said that there is no timetable for doing so and the board still needs to develop a plan. According to the Centre Daily Times, Masser said he had invited O'Brien to update the board on the football program.

O?Brien and president Rodney Erickson declined to comment after the presentation.

According to the university, Penn State has implemented 115 of 119 recommendations made in the Freeh Report, which investigated Penn State?s response to allegations made against former coach and now convicted felon, Jerry Sandusky.

Meanwhile, the board of trustees announced several tentative settlements have been reached with Sandusky victims.

The deals are limited to a range of dollar values that the board received in a closed-door session before their public meeting Friday at a branch campus and another meeting held June 25.

The school won't be commenting on specifics until the deals have been made final, which could happen in the coming weeks. Erickson called approving the settlement offers "another important step toward the resolution of claims from Sandusky's victims."

"As we have previously said, the university intends to deal with these individuals in a fair and expeditious manner, with due regard to their privacy," Erickson said in a statement issued after the settlement resolution was approved.

Sandusky, 69, was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including violent attacks on boys inside school facilities, after a three-week trial last summer in which eight victims testified against him. He is serving a 30- to 60-year prison term and maintains he was wrongfully convicted. He is pursuing appeals.

The university said in a statement that "no settlement agreements have been signed and the discussion with counsel for the various individuals remains confidential."

More than 30 have come forward with sex abuse claims involving Sandusky. The school said it won't comment until settlements have been finalized, executed and delivered.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Humane Society of Bay Co. Welcomes Rescues - WJHG.com

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The Humane Society of Bay County has just received 3-neglected dogs from Tallahassee.

They're taking-in the animals at the request of the Humane Society of the United States.

It's all part of a rescue mission that has Humane Society chapters all over Florida stepping up to help.

This isn't the first time the Humane Society of Bay County has received a call about neglected animals.

Humane Society of Bay County Director Starla Raiborn says, "We quite frequently get calls about animals who've been abused, neglected, situations in which there are too many animals in the home and placement needs to be made pretty quickly.

Thursday afternoon, the National Organization called the local chapter asking for assistance.

In this case it's 3-dogs, Blue, Buff, and Bernie.

Buff spent the afternoon getting bathed, and volunteers say this could be his first shower ever.

Blue was combed for fleas.

And Bernie had several of his injuries treated.

Volunteers are struggling to figure out just how old they are.

Raiborn says, "Hard to tell based on their teeth what they're age is. They're teeth are really, really worn down probably from anxiety, chewing rocks, that sort of thing."

Both Blue and Buff will be ready for adoption in just a day or two.

Bernie is currently in quarantine until his injuries completely heal.

Unfortunately these 3 dogs aren't the only victims.

Several other Florida Humane Society chapters will also be lending a hand.

Raiborn says, "We've taken in three animals here, and there are a lot more animals that have already been placed and potentially more that will need to be placed later on."

Authorities are not releasing too many details on this particular animal abuse case because of on-going negotiations with the owner.

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House Dem: Documents show IRS probe was flawed

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Treasury Department investigator whose probe of the Internal Revenue Service's treatment of tea party groups helped fuel a national uproar failed to tell Congress that his own investigators found no evidence the targeting of conservatives was politically motivated, a top House Democrat said Friday.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released documents that also seemed to indicate progressive groups seeking tax-exempt status may have been handled the same way as conservative organizations. While it has been known the term "progressive" appeared on a list that IRS screeners used, it is unclear whether liberal organizations received the same close scrutiny as conservative groups.

The documents were attached to a letter Cummings sent Friday to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. That panel, on which Cummings is top Democrat, has been among three congressional committees investigating the IRS' handling of conservatives' applications for the tax-exempt designation.

Cummings' letter is the latest Democratic attempt to challenge the fairness and accuracy of the Treasury investigator's probe of the IRS.

Several Republicans have said they believe the IRS' tough handling of conservative groups was politically motivated and flowed from the White House or allies of President Barack Obama. There has been no evidence of any political motivation or of involvement by any top officials outside of the IRS.

Ali Ahmad, a spokesman for Issa, said the documents Cummings released don't disprove that conservative groups received harsher treatment than others.

"These documents, once again, refute misleading attempts to equate routine scrutiny of other groups involved in advocacy to the systematic scrutiny of Tea Party groups by IRS officials," Ahmad said.

Documents attached to Cummings' letter included an email that a top investigator for Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George sent on May 3, 2013, to other officials in George's office. George conducted the IRS probe and released a report two weeks later.

The email said that after meeting with George, his investigators examined 5,500 emails from IRS screeners. Those emails showed that the workers set aside applications from tea party and other groups "because the IRS employees were not sure how to process them, not because they wanted to stall or hinder the application.

"There was no indication that pulling these selected applications was politically motivated," the May email from the top investigator said.

Cummings wrote that George's report should have included that top investigator's finding. George's report said IRS officials denied any outside influence in their decision to closely scrutinize conservative groups.

A spokeswoman for George said he would stand by his report and previous congressional testimony.

Cummings released a PowerPoint document used at a July 2010 meeting of IRS screeners that listed "progressive" groups along with "tea party," ''patriots" and "9/12 project" ? an effort supported by conservative Glenn Beck ? as groups for whom the workers should look.

He also released minutes from that meeting that made the treatment of progressive groups less clear. The minutes said "progressive" groups should be flagged for review, but also said progressives "are not considered 'tea parties.'"

Another document Cummings released showed that "Occupy organizations" were also on a watch list for IRS screeners.

Cummings' letter asked Issa to have George testify at an Oversight committee hearing scheduled for Thursday on the IRS controversy.

The investigation "has been characterized by one-sided and partial information leading to unsubstantiated accusations with no basis in fact," Cummings wrote.

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Methods for making jobs in banking come to you

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By Sarah Butcher, 09 Jul 2013

It?s a clich?, but unfortunately true: looking for a job is itself a full time job, just without the camaraderie, commute and compensation associated with actual employment. If you eliminate the hassle of looking for work, you could have a lot of free time to spend meandering about in the sun.

How can you make top banking headhunters?come to you? We asked some top headhunters, and some careers advisors. This is what they said.

1. Make sure your social media presence is impeccable?

Most headhunters have their own proprietary ?market maps? which tell them who?s working where and what they do there. Nevertheless, they are also prone to scouring the web in search of potential hires. If you have a comprehensive presence on social media, they?re more likely to come across you and call you up.

?Whatever Google shows when people search for your name has effectively become your CV,? says Janet Moran of The CV House, a CV writing specialist which works with senior banking professionals. ?You need to make sure that the information that?s publicly available about you on the web is comprehensive and accurate.?

2. Maximize your personal SEO

Just as companies spend fortunes on search engine optimization to ensure they rank near the top of Google searches, so you need to optimize your CV. Whether recruiters are searching an online CV database or the web, your CV is a piece of content and it needs to be as searchable as possible.

Moran advises that you spend some time studying advertisements for the kinds of jobs you?re interested in. Look at the skills they?re asking for and the words that are used to describe these skills. Weave these deftly into your online CV or profile.

?You need to know the skills and experience that your target audience is looking for and then target your CV towards that audience,? says Moran. ?It sounds simple, but a lot of people don?t do it.?

3. Increase your visibility in every way possible?

If you want jobs to come to you, you need to be visible. Having excellent personal SEO is one way of increasing your visibility, but it?s not the only way.

Headhunters will often talk to clients to get soundings about who the best bankers are in a particular market said?St?phane Rambosson, managing partner at search firm the Veni Group. ?You need to make sure that clients will give you good references,? said?Rambosson. ?Do your job well and devote time to making sure clients say nice things about you.?

It will also help if you?re named in the press, or speak at conferences. In some instances, Rambosson said senior M&A bankers have been known to hire personal press officers to help manage their image in the market.

4. Get colleagues and ex-colleagues to recommend you?

?The best way for a headhunter to find you is when you?re recommended by one or two respected people,? says Oliver Rolfe, managing director at the Spartan Partnership. ?If any of us get a recommendation from a client in particular, we are likely to take a candidate more seriously.?

5. Resort to extreme measures?

If you?re truly desperate and aren?t averse to possible humiliation, you can walk the streets wearing a sandwich board. This will take time, but will get out in the sun. You could also spend several hundred pounds on a conspicuously placed billboard advertising your availability.

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SEC Lifts Ban On General Solicitation, Allowing Startups To Advertise That They're Fundraising

The SEC has just voted 4 to 1 in favor of implementing section 201(a) of JOBS Act, which lifts the ban on general solicitation and permits startups, venture capitalists, and hedge funds to openly advertise that they're raising money in private offerings. While it may pose risks to investors, it should make it easier for companies to raise capital to start or continue financing a business.

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TOWIE wedding: Carol and Mark Wright Senior renew vows

09 JULY 2013

The stars of?TOWIE were out in force at the weekend to celebrate as Carol Wright and Mark Wright Senior renewed their wedding vows. As the sun shone down, the cast gathered for the outdoor ceremony and watched as the happy couple reaffirmed their love for one another.

The bride wore a long, strapless white gown and carried a pretty summer bouquet as she walked down the aisle with her mum, Nanny Pat. Her proud husband, meanwhile, was dressed for the occasion in a smart blue suit.

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Guests including Joey Essex, Sam Faiers and her sister Billie, James Argent, Mario Falcone and Lucy Mecklenburgh cheered and threw confetti once the service was complete.

Others invited to share in the happy occasion included Bobby Cole Norris, Charlie King, Chloe Simms, Ricky Rayment, James Diags Bennewith and James Lock.

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During the ceremony, Carol was pictured releasing an owl as a symbol of the couple's love, and their daughter Jessica Wright sang live to the audience as a cellist played behind her.

Being TOWIE, the day wasn't without its dramas. Jessica was spotted arguing with her ex-boyfriend Ricky, who recently admitted to being unfaithful. He appeared to be pleading with her before she walked off, leaving him in tears.

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'Play Ball!': Waltham boy battling cancer enjoys special Fenway visit

Since he was diagnosed with Hodgkin?s lymphoma in January, 10-year-old Ryan Keleher of Waltham has been battling the disease with courage and toughness, his parents say. On Saturday, June 29, Keleher was honored at Fenway Park during Pan-Massachusetts Challenge (PMC) Day when he got to shout ?Play Ball!? at the start of the Red Sox game.

?It?s very exciting and we?re really proud of him,? said Mary Keleher, Ryan?s mother. ?He?s had a big battle just to get here.?

Immediately after being diagnosed with Stage 4B Hodgkin?s lymphoma, a type of cancer that has spread to Keleher?s lungs, he began undergoing chemotherapy treatments. He completed chemotherapy two weeks ago, and within a week he will begin radiation.

Shortly after being admitted to Dana-Farber, Keleher received a special visit from three Red Sox players, Daniel Nava, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jonny Gomes, and Wally the Green Monster. Keleher said Nava is his favorite player on the Red Sox, and he was very excited when he came to visit.

Keleher, a typical 10-year-old child, loves playing video games and riding his bike, and he is a big baseball and hockey fan. Ten is an unusually young age to be diagnosed with Hodgkin?s lymphoma, which usually doesn?t appear until young adulthood.

?He?s handling things so well,? said Tom Keleher, Ryan?s father. ?Throughout the therapy, he?s been going to school. He?s a great kid, and all these things they?ve been doing for us have been great.?

Keleher came to Fenway on a sunny Saturday afternoon sporting a Red Sox jersey and Red Sox hat, and holding a sign that read ?I?m beating my cancer with a little Red Sox therapy! Go Red Sox! Thank you Team 9!?

Team 9, the PMC team of Red Sox employees and friends that supports Keleher, is named after Red Sox legend Ted Williams, who wore number 9 and was a big supporter of the Jimmy Fund. They will ride 192 miles for the Pan-Mass Challenge on Aug. 3 and 4.

?The PMC means a lot to me,? Keleher said, ? because it helps raise money for the patients of the Jimmy Fund.?

After shouting ?Play Ball? to the crowd of 37,437 fans, Keleher came off the field with a beaming smile and a star struck look in his eyes.

?It feels great,? Keleher said after his moment.

This year, the PMC has an overall fundraising goal of $38 million, which is all donated to the Jimmy Fund for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The PMC is the Jimmy Fund?s largest contributor, generating 52 percent of the fund?s annual revenue in 2012. The PMC is also the most successful single fundraising event in the nation.

The Pan-Mass Challenge and the Red Sox Foundation have been partners since 2003.

?The entire Red Sox Foundation is very supportive and really helpful,? PMC Founder and Executive Director Billy Starr said. ?Their money, the team, the publicity, the fact that we get this day and have hosted so many functions here. It?s a win-win for everybody.?

Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino is a big PMC supporter, and his wife Stacey is a member of Team 9.

?It?s a partnership that we have that we are most proud of,? Lucchino said, ?The connection between the Red Sox and the Jimmy Fund has been around for 60 years and with the PMC for 11 years, but they also fit together and result in an even deeper Red Sox commitment to the Jimmy Fund.?

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Ideas For Making The Best Real Estate Purchase | Pete Siegel

Purchasing property is becoming popular today, whether as a hobby or for a career. The demand for buying a piece of property without falling for scams or losing money, is on the rise. So, if you?ve been thinking about getting into the game, there?s no better time than the present to begin looking at property to purchase. Here are some tips that you can use to get you started with your property purchases.

Real estate agents would do well to reach out to former clients during the holiday season or the anniversary of a purchase date. Hearing from you again will remind them how helpful you were during their home buying experience. Let them know that you make your income from referrals, and ask them if they could kind mention your name to people they know.

If you are with kids or are planning on having kids, you need a home that has a lot of space. Look into the home?s safety as well. This is particularly true if the home that you?re considering has steep stairs or a large swimming pool. You should have a safer house if the previous tenants had children.

TIP! Real estate agents need to get a hold of their former clients during anniversaries and holidays of their date of purchase. This will remind people of how helpful you have been to them during their real estate experience.

Homes that need multiple improvements or updates are sold at a reduced price. You will save money on the purchase, and you can use that money to repair and upgrade the home as you wish. You can use the money you saved to improve the home in a way that truly suits you. At the same time those improvements will likewise increase the value of your home. So always consider a home?s potential, rather than just focusing on the negatives that you can see. Your perfect new home could be hidden behind superficial drawbacks like bad paint or cracked paneling.

Buying commercial property can be easier if you have a partner that you can trust. Qualifying for a large loan is more difficult for a single purchaser than a partnership. Having a partner is a great way to ensure that you have the necessary down payment amount as well as the creditworthiness required by commercial lenders.

You should now have a greater understanding why real estate buying and career choice is very popular. It can be done in such a wide variety of ways. There is lot of information available that you can use to research and buy properties effectively. By utilizing the above tips, you?re on the right track towards buying property you need or want.

For more real estate info, visit: http://www.rebny.com/. When you first begin looking for property, it can seem like the process is too complicated to understand, but once you get some information and add your own common sense, it?s not so bad. Heeding these tips gives you an advantage as you begin investing in real estate.

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Walking the dream of an indigenous church

By?Diana Swift on July, 07 2013

Bishop Mark MacDonald leads the singing with the ACIP members during their presentation.? Photo: Art Babych

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With Archdeacon Sid Black at the helm, the presentation by the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples kicked off with a couple of rousing Gospel-style tunes sung and played by Bishop Mark MacDonald, NIGP (?national indigenous guitar player").

The audience joined enthusiastically as Bishop Mark, in clerical collar and fringed buckskin jacket, led them in ?I Have Decided to Follow Jesus? and ?I am Satisfied with Jesus.?

Spirits were particularly high in view of the synod?s vote just minutes earlier in favour of the creation of a new indigenous diocese in the northern part of the current diocese of Keewatin. ?This has been a glorious, wonderful day, all about dreaming and a vision and fidelity,? said Black.

The Rev. Ginny Doctor, the church?s ?indigenous ministries co-ordinator, introduced a Church House video production capturing the spirit of the seventh Sacred Circle gathering, ?Walking the Dream,? held at Pinawa, Man., in August 2012.?

Indigenous people have been seeking to create a sovereign, self-determining identity within the Anglican church. ?The dream begins at Sacred Circle. There it is put forth, it is explained, it is nurtured and it has grown,? Doctor said, adding that the 2012 circle attracted more than 200 intergeneration people, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

The presentation featured a second video on Sacred Circle and indigenous spiritual values, which was produced by indigenous youth in two short days. Hoping that the video sends a clear message, co-producer Sheba McKay said, ?We all had the same dream. Sometimes our voices may not be heard, but we have a voice.?

In his reflection on past injustices, Bishop MacDonald said that we should not forget the past, but ?use the past as a stepping stone to a better tomorrow, to create a better way of life for the church and for the nation.?

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By?Diana Swift| July, 07 2013

Source: http://www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/walking-the-dream-of-an-indigenous-church

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AKRON, N.Y. -- Park golf was invented in Japan more than 30 years ago.

Now the first park golf course in the continental United States is open in Akron.

Destroyer Park Golf held its ribbon cutting Sunday.

Officials from Japan's Nippon Park Golf Association helped open the course.

Players says it?s a mix between putt-putt, golf, and croquet.

Buffalo native Dick Beyer was inspired by the game after spending time in Japan.

His family transformed their small farm into the 18-hole course.

"He loved the game when he played it and really wanted to bring it back here to the United States as a way for people to enjoy the outdoors and have family time, and he knew that it was a game that anybody could play," said Kris Beyer Jones, Beyer's daughter and owner of the course.

Owners say they hope to hold tournaments in the future.

For more information, visit the Destoryer Park Golf website.

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AP IMPACT: MIA work 'acutely dysfunctional'

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.

Largely beyond the public spotlight, the decades-old pursuit of bones and other MIA evidence is sluggish, often duplicative and subjected to too little scientific rigor, the report says.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the internal study after Freedom of Information Act requests for it by others were denied.

The report paints a picture of a Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt. The command is digging up too few clues on former battlefields, relying on inaccurate databases and engaging in expensive "boondoggles" in Europe, the study concludes.

In North Korea, the JPAC was snookered into digging up remains between 1996 and 2000 that the North Koreans apparently had taken out of storage and planted in former American fighting positions, the report said. Washington paid the North Koreans hundreds of thousands of dollars to "support" these excavations.

Some recovered bones had been drilled or cut, suggesting they had been used by the North Koreans to make a lab skeleton. Some of those remains have since been identified, but their compromised condition added time and expense and "cast doubt over all of the evidence recovered" in North Korea, the study said. This practice of "salting" recovery sites was confirmed to the AP by one U.S. participant.

JPAC's leaders authorized the study of its inner workings, but the then-commanding general, Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Tom, disavowed it and suppressed the findings when they were presented by the researcher last year. Now retired, Tom banned its use "for any purpose," saying the probe went beyond its intended scope. His deputy concurred, calling it a "raw, uncensored draft containing some contentious material."

The AP obtained two internal memos describing the decision to bury the report. The memos raised no factual objections but said the command would not consider any of the report's findings or recommendations.

The failings cited by the report reflect one aspect of a broader challenge to achieving a uniquely American mission ? accounting for the estimated 83,348 service members still listed as missing from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

This is about more than tidying up the historical record. It is about fulfilling a promise to the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and sons and daughters of the missing. Daughters like Shelia Reese, 62, of Chapel Hill, N.C., who still yearns for the father she never met, the boy soldier who went to war and never returned.

She was 2 months old when heartbreaking word landed at her grandmother's door a week before Christmas 1950 that Pfc. Kenneth F. Reese, a 19-year-old artilleryman, was missing in action in North Korea. To this day, the military can't tell her if he was killed in action or died in captivity. His body has never been found.

"It changed my whole life. I've missed this man my whole life," she says.

She's not alone.

Reese is among 7,910 unaccounted for from Korea, down from 8,200 when the war ended 60 years ago this month.

A sense of emptiness and unanswered questions haunted many families of the missing throughout the second half of the 20th century, when science and circumstance did not permit the almost exact accounting for the dead and the missing that has been achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the government's efforts have provided closure for hundreds of families of the missing in recent years, many others are still waiting.

Over time, the obscure government bureaucracies in charge of the accounting task have largely managed to escape close public scrutiny despite clashing with a growing number of advocacy groups and individuals such as Frank Metersky, a Korean War veteran who has spent decades pressing for a more aggressive and effective U.S. effort.

The outlook for improvement at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, he says, is not encouraging.

"Today it's worse than ever," he says.

People disagree on the extent of the problem. But even the current JPAC commander, Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly K. McKeague, says he would not dispute those who say his organization is dysfunctional.

"I'd say you're right, and we're doing something about it," McKeague said in a telephone interview last week from his headquarters in Hawaii. He said changes, possibly to include consolidating the accounting bureaucracy and putting its management under the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, are under consideration.

The internal report by Paul M. Cole was never meant to be made public. It is unsparing in its criticisms:

?In recent years the process by which JPAC gathers bones and other material useful for identifications has "collapsed" and is now "acutely dysfunctional."

?JPAC is finding too few investigative leads, resulting in too few collections of human remains to come even close to achieving Congress's demand for a minimum 200 identifications per year by 2015. Of the 80 identifications that JPAC's Central Identification Laboratory made in 2012, only 35 were derived from remains recovered by JPAC. Thirty-eight of the 80 were either handed over unilaterally by other governments or were disinterred from a U.S. military cemetery. Seven were from a combination of those sources.

?Some search teams are sent into the field, particularly in Europe, on what amount to boondoggles. No one is held to account for "a pattern of foreign travel, accommodations and activities paid for by public funds that are ultimately unnecessary, excessive, inefficient or unproductive." Some refer to this as "military tourism."

?JPAC lacks a comprehensive list of the people for whom it's searching. Its main database is incomplete and "riddled with unreliable data."

?"Sketch maps" used by the JPAC teams looking for remains on the battlefield are "chronically unreliable," leaving the teams "cartigraphically blind." Cole likened this to 19th century military field operations.

Absent prompt and significant change, "the descent from dysfunction to total failure ... is inevitable," Cole concluded.

He directed most of his criticism at the field operations that collect bones and other material, as opposed to the laboratory scientists at JPAC who use that material to identify the remains. Cole is a management consultant and recognized research expert in the field of accounting for war remains; he still works at JPAC.

More broadly, the government organizations responsible for the accounting mission, including the Pentagon's Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, or DPMO, which is in charge of policy, have sometimes complicated their task by making public statements that their critics view as disingenuous or erroneous.

The head of DPMO, for example, retired Army Maj. Gen. W. Montague Winfield, said last month at a public forum that the U.S. government has "no evidence" that U.S. servicemen taken prisoner in North Korea during the 1950-53 war were later moved to the former Soviet Union against their will and never returned.

Washington made a detailed case in writing to Moscow in 1993 that such transfers did happen, and the AP has obtained a videotape produced by U.S. officials and given to the Russians at the same time to support the U.S. case.

The tape, which has never before been made public, was provided to the AP by a former government official who was not authorized to release it. It says that based on interviews and other research, U.S. investigators believe "10s if not 100s" of American POWs were transferred to the territory of the former Soviet Union. In some cases they were moved to Russia through rail transfer points in China, the tape asserts.

"Certainly we understand that these operations were never meant to see the light of day," the film says.

The Russian government has repeatedly denied it received American POWs from Korea.

Mark Sauter, a private researcher and co-author with John Zimmerlee of "American Trophies and Washington's Cynical Attitude," an e-book about POWs to be published this month, found in government archives a U.S. intelligence report from August 1955, two years after the war, calling for a bigger intelligence effort to learn about such POW transfers.

"Continued and numerous fragmentary intelligence reports give credence to possible detention of a large number of American POWs in China, Manchuria, U.S.S.R., and North Korea," it said. It cited one "significant report" describing "a large number of U.S. POWs being shipped into U.S.S.R. by rail" from northeast China.

Accounting for the nation's war dead has been a politically charged issue for decades. The debate is not about the practicality of the mission, which some might question, but how it should be pursued.

Sometimes overlooked amid the squabbling is the emotional toll on the families of the missing. They are often bewildered by the bureaucracy and left to watch hope wear away with the passage of time.

In 1975, more than two decades after Pfc. Kenneth F. Reese was declared missing in Korea, his widow, Chris Tench, who had by then remarried, described her feelings in her local newspaper, the Gastonia (N.C) Gazette.

She wrote that initially she was relieved to realize that the policeman who delivered the news about Reese on Dec. 18, 1950, was saying that her husband was missing, not dead. He might turn up alive, she recalled thinking.

Later she thought differently.

"No, missing isn't dead," she wrote. "It's worse than dead."

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