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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Anti-depressant link to Clostridium difficile infection

May 7, 2013 ? Certain types of anti-depressants have been linked to an increase in the risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) finds a study in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine. Awareness of this link should improve identification and early treatment of CDI.

CDI is one of the most common hospital acquired infections and is responsible for more than 7000 deaths annually in the USA alone. Several types of medications are thought to increase risk of CDI, including anti-depressants, and given that depression is the third most common medical condition worldwide a team from the University of Michigan investigated the exact nature of this risk.

Firstly the team studied Clostridium difficile infection in people with and without depression and found that people with major depression had a much higher chance of CDI (a 36% increase) than people without depression. This association held for a variety of depressive disorders and nervous or psychiatric problems. Age and family support also impacted risk of CDI. Older, widowed Americans were 54% more likely to catch C. difficile than their married peers. Just living alone increased risk by 25%.

Secondly they looked to see if there was an association between antidepressant medication and hospital acquired CDI. They found that use of most types of antidepressants did not affect CDI risk -- out of the twelve drugs tested only mirtazapine and fluoxetine increased risk of CDI, in each case the risk was doubled.

People who have been prescribed these types of anti-depressants need to keep taking them unless otherwise advised by their physician. The researchers stress that it is not yet known whether the increase in CDI is due to microbial changes in the gut during depression or to the medications associated with depression.

Dr. Mary Rogers who led this study explained, "Depression is common worldwide. We have long known that depression is associated with changes in the gastrointestinal system. The interaction between the brain and the gut, called the "brain-gut axis" is fascinating and deserves more study. Our finding of a link between depression and Clostridium difficile should help us better identify those at risk of infection and perhaps, encourage exploration of the underlying brain-gut mechanisms involved."

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

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Syrian rebels shoot down regime helicopter in east

In this Sunday, May 5, 2013 image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, men stand near a wrecked helicopter, left, in Deir el-Zour, Syria. Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board a day after opposition forces entered a sprawling military air base in the north, activists said Monday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

In this Sunday, May 5, 2013 image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, armed men stand near the wreckage of a military helicopter, left, in Deir el-Zour, Syria. Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board a day after opposition forces entered a sprawling military air base in the north, activists said Monday. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter in the country's east, killing eight government troops on board as President Bashar Assad's troops battled opposition forces inside a sprawling military air base in the north for the second straight day, activists said Monday.

The downing of the helicopter was a welcome victory for rebels fighting to oust Assad as the two sides remain locked in stalemate in the more than 2-year-old conflict.

In Geneva, a U.N. commission probing alleged war crimes and other abuses in Syria on Monday distanced itself from claims by one of its members that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin, but not the regime.

The panel said it has no conclusive evidence about the alleged use of sarin as chemical weapons.

In Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said it's highly likely that the Assad regime and not the Syrian opposition was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria.

The dueling statements highlighted the difficulties of investigating allegations of chemical weapons use.

President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons by the regime is a "red line" but he needs more time to determine if Assad's forces had used chemical weapons in the Syria's civil war.

The latest controversy was sparked by Carla Del Ponte, a former war crimes prosecutor.

She told the Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster SRI in an interview late Sunday that her panel's investigators have "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas from the way the victims were treated."

"We have evidence on the use of chemical weapons, in particular sarin. Not by the government, but the opposition," Del Ponte said, adding that this was based on interviews with victims, doctors and field hospitals in neighboring countries.

On Monday, the commission said that it "wishes to clarify that it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict." As a result, "the commission is not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time," a statement said.

The four-member panel was appointed by the 47-nation Human Rights Council, the U.N.'s top human rights body, to gather evidence on suspected war crimes and other abuses. It began its investigation in August 2011.

It has had almost no access to Syria, though earlier this year it said it had conducted at least 1,500 interviews and exhaustively corroborated its findings with other sources.

The U.S. has said intelligence indicates Syria has used the nerve agent sarin on at least two occasions, but Obama has stressed that he needs more definitive proof before making a decision about how to respond ? and whether to take military action.

Fighting in Syria continued unabated on Monday as Assad's warplanes pounded rebel positions inside the Mannagh air base in the north and government troops regained control of six villages along the strategic road that links the northern city of Aleppo with its civilian airport, the country's second largest.

Also Monday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory posted a video showing several armed men standing in front of wreckage that one of the fighters says is a helicopter shot down late Sunday in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, along Syria's border with Iraq.

As the man speaks, the camera shifts to a pickup truck piled with bodies. The fighter is then heard saying that all of Assad's troops who were aboard the helicopter were killed in the downing. He says Islamic fighters of the Abu Bakr Saddiq brigade brought down the helicopter as it was taking off from a nearby air base in the provincial capital of Deir el-Zour.

The video was in line with Associated Press reporting in the area. The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said eight troops were killed.

The Syrian government did not comment.

In the past months, rebels have frequently targeted military aircraft and air bases in an attempt to deprive the regime of a key weapon used to target opposition strongholds and reverse rebel gains.

The rebels occupied parts of the Mannagh military air base on Sunday after weeks of fighting with government troops who have been defending the sprawling facility near the border with Turkey for months, the Observatory said. Clashed raged inside the base Monday and the Observatory said both sides suffered casualties in the fighting.

Much of the north has been in rebel hands since opposition fighters launched an offensive in the area last summer, capturing army bases and large swaths of land along the border with Turkey and whole neighborhoods inside Aleppo, Syria's largest city.

The rebels have for months battled regime troops over the airport complex that includes army bases and a military air field.

They've captured village and towns along the strategic highway and earlier this year advanced within a few kilometers (miles) miles of the airport, cutting the main road the army has been using to ferry troops and supplies to its bases at the airport.

But last month government troops recaptured the village of Aziza on a strategic road that links Aleppo with its airport and military bases, dealing a huge setback to the rebels unable to hold on to the territory in the face of Assad's superior air power.

The state-run news agency SANA reported Monday that "armed forces restored security and stability to (six) villages" south of the city and along the airport highway, calling it a "major strategic victory in the north."

The Syrian conflict started with largely peaceful protests against Assad's regime in March 2011, but eventually turned into a civil war that the U.N. says has killed more than 70,000 people.

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Associated Press writers John Heilprin in Geneva and Bradley Klapper and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.

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Bangladesh building collapse death toll passes 700

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ? Hundreds of survivors of last month's collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh protested for compensation Tuesday, as the death toll from the country's worst-ever industrial disaster passed 700.

The police control room overseeing the recovery operation said the death toll stood at 705 on Tuesday afternoon as workers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage of the eight-story building that was packed with workers at five garment factories when it collapsed on April 24. The factories were making clothing bound for major retailers around the world.

The disaster is the worst ever in the garment sector, surpassing the 1911 garment disaster in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory, which killed 146 workers, and more recent tragedies such as a 2012 fire that killed about 260 people in Pakistan and one in Bangladesh that killed 112, also in 2012. It is also one of the deadliest industrial accidents ever.

No one knows what the final toll will be, as the exact number of people inside Rana Plaza at the time of the collapse was unknown. More than 2,500 people were rescued alive.

Hundreds of garment workers who survived the disaster blocked a major highway near the accident site in a Dhaka suburb on Tuesday to demand the payment of wages and other benefits. No violence was reported, although traffic was disrupted for hours.

Local government administrator Yousuf Harun said they are working with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association to ensure the workers get paid.

The workers, many who made little more than the national minimum wage of about $38 per month, are demanding at least four months in salary. The workers had set Tuesday as the deadline for the payment of wages and other benefits.

Harun said no salary remained unpaid except for the month of April and there was an agreement for the workers to receive an additional three months of pay. After a team from the BGMEA arrived at the protest and pledged to make the payment later Tuesday, the workers left the highway, Harun said.

The BGMEA had said Monday that it was preparing a "complete list" of the workers employed in the factories and they would need a few more days to finish it and to clear the salary.

Bangladesh earns nearly $20 billion a year from exports of the garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.

Authorities have not set any specific timeframe to complete the recovery operation at the building site, saying they will continue until all bodies and debris are removed.

Officials say the building's owner illegally added three floors to Rana Plaza and allowed the garment factories to install heavy machines and generators.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-garment-accident-death-toll-passes-700-065952088.html

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Google+ Hangouts On Air Now Process Videos During Recording, Allowing For Live Rewind And Immediate Publishing

Google+ Hangouts allow for groups of friends or colleagues have an intimate face-to-face conversation, but the “On Air” feature of the service allows you to broadcast to the masses. The President Of The United States Of America has taken part in these conversations, but anyone can set up their own. Today, the Hangouts team has introduced some new functionality that make participating in a live On Air a little bit easier. Up until now you haven’t been able to do anything other than watch the live broadcast as it happens, which is nice until you have to run to the kitchen to grab a drink or pause to take a phone call. Today, viewers can now rewind your broadcast no matter where they are during the live filming process. Additionally, On Air videos will immediately be published instead of carrying the normal waiting period where you’ll get the infamous “processing…” dialogue. The only negatives that I see to this is that it slows down the ramp up time it takes to start your broadcast, so you should buffer some time in to get started before your actual scheduled “live” time: Other tweaks in this push include higher quality versions of a Hangout On Air via your mobile device, which is nice since these can be kind of grainy, depending on your connection at the time. Additionally, live broadcasts will now start without having to refresh a page, which was a real pain in the ass. Now if you visit a page that has the embedded On Air player, it will just automagically start playing. The Hangouts product has made its way into many of Google’s services, including its mobile offerings on Android and even Glass. The usecase for Hangouts widely vary, but Google has been dogfooding it way before its release. The “On Air” option has the attention of both local and national broadcasters, giving them away to connect to audiences in a way more intimate way. [Photo credit: Flickr]

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AP Photos: Met Gala fashion highs and lows

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday, May 6, 2013, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday, May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Anne Hathaway and Valentino Garavani attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Elizabeth Banks attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Olivia Wilde attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK (AP) ? There were plenty of risk-takers on the Met gala red carpet.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser known as "the party of the year" had a red carpet Monday night to rival the Oscars. But with stars on the arms of designers and the theme "Punk: From Chaos to Couture," many braved the chance they'd end up a "don't."

Miley Cyrus (in Marc Jacobs), Anne Hathaway (in Valentino) and Cameron Diaz (in Stella McCartney) were among the celebrities to embrace the punk theme, and Beyonce, the event's honorary chairwoman, seemed the girl on fire in a flame-motif gown by Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci.

Tisci also dressed Rooney Mara ? the kind of star who can pull off punk ? and a pregnant Kim Kardashian, a less obvious candidate. Kardashian faced insta-critics online for her floral-print, high-neck gown.

The Met gala is largely orchestrated by Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief, who acknowledged the edgy theme could have thrown some people off their fashion game.

"I think (punk) is so eclectic and so original and maybe it sort of represents what's very fearless about fashion," she said.

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Follow Samantha Critchell at http://www.twitter.com/ap_fashion and http://www.twitter.com/sam_critchell/

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Don't blame Canada: Former ambassador to Iran on Argo, America, and nukes

Canada's envoy to Tehran at the time of the Islamic revolution and the US hostage crisis, says Argo disappointed him and that he's worried about where Iran's nuclear program might lead.

By Ariel Zirulnick,?Staff writer / April 26, 2013

Former Canadian Ambassador to Iran Ken Taylor and his wife Pat, pose for photographers at the premiere of the film Argo in Washington, Oct. 2012. Taylor, who protected Americans at great personal risk during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979, has achieved some name recognition in the US since the 2012 movie 'Argo' swept theaters and the Academy Awards.

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Former Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor is neither the James Bond lookalike he hoped might portray him in the Hollywood blockbuster "Argo" nor is he quite the Austin Powers double he says might have been a more accurate choice.

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Ariel Zirulnick is the Monitor's Middle East editor, overseeing regional coverage both for CSMonitor.com and the weekly magazine. She is also a contributor to the international desk's terrorism and security blog.?

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When Taylor arrived in Tehran in 1977, ?the country was booming.?

There were rumors that Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi ? more commonly referred to as simply ?the Shah? ? was preparing to buy Pan American Airways. It did not seem like the ?stalwart of the West? was going anywhere.

For all the blame heaped on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for not predicting the Islamic Revolution, almost nobody saw it coming, he said. Afterward, the Ayatollah?s secular advisers told Taylor that even they didn?t expect the Shah?s government to fall like it did. ?

Revolutionary fervor did not sweep up the whole country the way it seemed to be portrayed in "Argo." And Taylor said a great disappointment for him was the way the movie portrayed Iranians, some of whom became ?marvelous friends? with him during his posting in Tehran.

?The movie was too heavy handed,? he said. ?It gave no idea that there is another side to the Iranian character. Everybody isn?t on the street. Everybody isn?t part of the revolution.?

Too many sanctions, too little talking

He is on board with the growing chorus of voices in Washington urging the Obama administration to ease up on its sanctions-heavy approach to negotiations with Iran although he acknowledges that Iran needs to give ground too.

Sometimes sanctions work, he says, citing South Africa during the apartheid era, but ?sometimes they strengthen resolve.?

When asked his opinion of whether Tehran has nuclear weapon ambitions, he cautions that ?Iran is an opaque society,? and there?s too little information to guess.

?I think they?ve got some military use in the back of their mind,? he says. ?But they don?t want to destroy themselves ? Maybe they are working at capabilities, but not necessarily producing [a nuclear weapon].?

That the military option for halting Iran?s nuclear development is ?on the table? worries Taylor, who points to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as cautionary for anyone considering going to war with Iran.

"A bombing mission would be a fatal error. It would solve nothing,? he says. ?It would postpone [Iran?s nuclear program] for two to three years,? but nothing more, because Iran?s nuclear facilities are too dispersed.

He says, ?I wake up every morning hoping [the military option] is still on the table? ? instead of being used.

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Neighbor who rescued kidnapped women speaks

Charles Ramsey (AP Photo)

The neighbor who kicked open a door to help free three women who police say were held captive in a Cleveland home for close to a decade says he at first thought the screaming he heard was a domestic dispute.

"I heard screaming," Charles Ramsey told WEWS-TV of Monday?s dramatic rescue. "I'm eating my McDonald's, I come outside and I see this girl going nuts trying to get out. I go on the porch and she said, 'Help me get out. I've been here a long time.' I figure it was domestic violence dispute. She comes out with a little girl and says, 'Call 911, my name is Amanda Berry.'"

Berry disappeared in 2003 at age 16. Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, who were found inside the home, went missing as teenagers in 2002 and 2004, respectively.

"I'm like, 'I'm calling 911 for Amanda Berry? I thought this girl was dead,'" Ramsey told reporters.

Ariel Castro, 52, was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.

"I barbecue with this dude," Ramsey said. "We eat ribs and listen to salsa music."

Castro's two live-in brothers, ages 50 and 54, also were arrested. Their names were not released.

The three women were taken to Cleveland MetroHealth Center for evaluation. "We're in the process of evaluating medical needs," Dr. Gerald Maloney said Monday. "They appear to be in fair condition at the moment."

Ramsey added: "I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/charles-ramsey-neighbor-amanda-berry-125709130.html

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Profile: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

Position: President of Venezuela

Incumbent: Nicolas Maduro

Date of Birth: November 23, 1962

Term: He became acting president on March 8, 2013, three days after the death of President Hugo Chavez from cancer. Maduro, the ruling Socialist Party's candidate, won the resulting April 14 presidential election and was sworn in five days later.

Key Facts:

- Maduro served six years as foreign minister before being named vice president in October 2012 and then Chavez's handpicked successor two months later. As Chavez's illness worsened, the burly, mustachioed Maduro became the South American nation's de facto leader.

- A former bus driver and union leader and self-declared "Chavista," Maduro is expected to continue Chavez's policies, including nationalizations, tight state control of the economy and financial support for allies such as communist-led Cuba.

- Maduro faced opposition leader Henrique Capriles, the centrist governor of Miranda state, in the April 14 vote. Maduro only narrowly won and Capriles refused to recognize the election result. He has alleged that there were thousands of voting irregularities.

- Like Chavez, Maduro has a penchant for extreme rhetoric. He has accused foes of plotting to assassinate him and suggested that "imperialist" enemies infected Chavez with cancer. In a March 13 speech, Maduro said that "far right" figures in the United States were plotting to kill Capriles.

- Maduro inherited an economy beset by high inflation and unemployment but buoyed by the OPEC member's oil reserves. He has said that private sector hoarding and "speculative attacks" on the bolivar currency were to blame for the economic problems.

- As foreign minister, Maduro had a relatively dull image and never diverted from Chavez's line. He traveled widely, denouncing U.S. foreign policy and cultivating allies in emerging markets such as Russia and China, which would become a key financier.

- In 1992, when Chavez was jailed for a failed coup that made him famous, Maduro took to the streets to demand his release and visited him in prison. Maduro was first elected to the National Assembly in 2000, later becoming its president.

- He was born in Caracas and attended high school in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. He began his political career as a trade unionist representing the workers of the Caracas Metro system.

- He is married to Cilia Flores, a former leader of the National Assembly who now serves as the nation's attorney general, and the two have long been viewed as a "power couple" in the government. Maduro was raised a Roman Catholic, and he and his wife are supporters of the late Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba.

(Compiled by Caracas bureau and Washington MPG Desk; Editing by David Cutler and Paul Simao)

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Mother of survivor: Bride-to-be among limo fire dead

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? A limousine taking nine women to a bachelorette party erupted in flames, killing five of the passengers, including the bride-to-be, authorities and the mother of one of the survivors said Sunday.

The limo caught fire at around 10 p.m. Saturday on one of the busiest bridges on San Francisco Bay, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.

Five of the women were trapped, but the four other women managed to get out after the vehicle came to a stop on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the patrol said.

Rosita Guardiano told the San Francisco Chronicle that the woman for whom the bachelorette party was being thrown was to be married next month. Guardiano said her daughter was one of the survivors.

Investigators haven't determined what sparked the fire, but the patrol said the white stretch limo became engulfed in flames after smoke started coming out of the rear of the vehicle.

A photo taken by a witness and broadcast on KTVU-TV showed flames shooting from the back.

Aerial video shot after the incident showed about one-third of the back half of the limousine had been scorched by the fire. Its taillights and bumper were gone and it appeared to be resting on its rims, but the remainder of the vehicle didn't appear to be damaged.

The driver of the limo ? 46-year-old Orville Brown of San Jose ? was the only person to escape unhurt.

It wasn't clear if any other drivers on the bridge stopped and tried to help those get out, or how the driver managed to escape without injury.

All five women were pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies were being conducted, San Mateo County Supervising Deputy Coroner Michelle Rippy said.

The company that operated the limo was identified as Limo Stop, which offers service through limousines, vans and SUVS.

A telephone message left at the company seeking comment by The Associated Press wasn't immediately returned. Attempts to reach the driver were also unsuccessful.

Guardiano said her daughter ? 42-year-old Mary Grace Guardiano of Alameda ? was being treated for smoke inhalation.

The three other women who escaped the fire, Jasmine Desguia, 34, of San Jose; Nelia Arrellano, 36, of Oakland; and Amalia Loyola, 48, of San Leandro, were taken to hospitals to be treated for smoke inhalation and burns, the patrol said.

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Wedding Songs: Readers Share Their Picks For The Worst Tunes To Hear On Your Big Day

One of the best parts of any wedding is the reception, where -- after a few cocktails -- guests hightail it to the dance floor to show off their awesome (or not so awesome...) dance moves. But there's nothing that slows a party down like the DJ playing a generally awful, overplayed, or just plain inappropriate song.

On Friday, we asked our followers on Twitter and Facebook to tell us their picks for the absolute worst songs to hear at a wedding. Click through the slideshow below for 36 songs you should probably add to your "do not play" list ASAP. If you have any to add to the list, tell us in the comments!

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UPDATED: A slew of tax-related bills in the House today | Trail ...

A handful of bills set for debate on the House floor that deal with taxes in a number of ways. Of course we don?t know which tax cuts will end up in the final deal hammered out on the budget between the House and Senate.

But these votes will give us a fairly thorough look at where the House is, as a chamber, on tax relief. (And we can thank our own DMN reporter Bob Garrett for most of the info here.)

POSTPONED UNDER THURSDAY?HB 416 by House Ways and Means Chairman Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville, would cost $2.5 million annually from the property tax relief fund by adjusting the tax burden on internet hosting companies ? a bill that would specifically benefit San Antonio-based Rackspace . Hilderbran has taken some heat over this bill from critics who say he?s doing a favor for a major campaign donor, and from smaller companies who complain that their competitors are being given an advantage. Hilderbran argues that Texas-based companies are actually disadvantaged by the current tax code and his legislation seeks to remedy that.

PASSED?HB 1133 by Rep. John Otto (VC of ways and means) would give telecom, cable and broadband companies up to $50 million annually (general revenue) in the 2014-2015 budget cycle (as well as the next cycle, according to the fiscal note) in the form of sales tax breaks on software and equipment they buy to provide their services. This has been endorsed by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst as part of the Senate?s tax relief package.

PASSED?HB 3536, also by Otto, helps Philip Morris and the big tobacco companies force a payment equivalent to their tobacco settlement payments onto the small, non-signatory tobacco companies. These companies (known as NSMs, or non-settling manufacturers) were not part of the 1998 tobacco settlement so, according to the author, can sell their cigs at a lower price and thus contribute to underage smoking (this is the argument in the analysis). ~~The bill would also have the effect of raising prices on cigarettes and tobacco sold by Native American tribes.~~ ?UPDATE ? they took out the tribes in the bill.

The fiscal note leaves wide open how much money the bill could bring in, but says this:

?Of the initial four settling states, Minnesota and Mississippi have imposed fees on NSMs. Information on the collection of such a fee in Mississippi is unclear as to fiscal outcome. Information for the fee in Minnesota indicates a decline in revenue, from initial collections in 2004 of $5.6 million to $2.8 million in 2012.?

POSTPONED UNTIL TUESDAY?HB 953?is a priority for the author, Rep. Angie Button, who is a big supporter of the idea that research and development be tied to the universities. This bill would give a franchise-tax credit for those activities, to the tune of?$10.3 million out of the state?s property tax relief fund for the 2014-15 biennium.

(On a related note,?HB 2780?by Houston GOP Rep. Gary Elkins allows institutes of higher education to create a special purpose corporation for R&D purposes. The fiscal note is inconclusive, as nobody knows how many of these would be created. This is not necessarily a tax bill, but it supports university R&D so we felt the need to mention it.)

HB 2770 by Dallas GOP Rep. Dan Branch would make us invest part of the Rainy Day Fund balance, as some complain the state only earns about .3% interest right now, and that could be more. It looks as though we?ll be leaving about $10B unspent after the session, so we?ll be watching this one, too.

There are others we?re watching, too:??aircraft parts, property leased to certain schools, clean energy, pollution control, landfill gas, data centers and insurance companies.

Stick with Trailblazers for updates!

Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/a-slew-of-tax-related-bills-in-the-house-today.html/

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Hornung helps kick off Gathering of Eagles | Inside Real Estate News

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Real Trends held is 2013 Gathering of the Eagles conference in Denver last week.
The conference was titled ?A New Era.?
Lane Hornung helped kick off the conference by participating on the first panel.

?All great companies have cultures that are so tight, they?re almost cult-like: Those people who do not share the company?s core values find themselves surrounded by corporate antibodies and ejected like a virus,? Jim Collins.

During last week?s unseasonal snowstorm, Lane Hornung kicked off a panel apologizing for the weather to the group of leading residential real estate executives from all across the country gathered in Denver for the 2013 Gathering of Eagles Conference sponsored by Castle Rock-based Real Trends. It was the 26th annual Gathering of Eagles conference. This year?s theme was ?A New Era.?

Lane Hornung

However, Hornung, founder and president of 8z Real Estate, had nothing to apologize to the more than 100 real estate leaders packed into a meeting room at the Westin Downtown Denver hotel last Wednesday, when moderator Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC., asked Hornung and the other three panel members what most excited them about the future of the residential real estate industry.

Hornung, whose company is a sponsor of 8z Real Estate, answered what most excited him is that increasingly in the future Realtors can be extremely proud of their chosen profession. For example, when a real estate agent walks into a room and is asked what he or she does for a living and the answer is ??Realtor,? the broker will be recognized ?as a respected professional.

?We want to raise the bar of what it means to be a good Realtor,? Hornung said, during the panel discussion among owners of new, innovative ?Beta? brokerages such as 8z, and more established ?Alpha? brokerage companies.

?It keeps getting harder to be a good Realtor, which I think is exciting,? Hornung told the audience, which represented about a third of the real estate executives who attended the conference.

Hornung was joined the panel by Kelly White, president of the GoodLife Team in Austin; Kevin Levent, president of Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Metro brokers in Atlanta; and Mark Woodroof, partner of Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene in Houston.

Chris asked each panel member to describe their company. Both 8z and GoodLife are considered Beta brokerages, while the other two are more established players.

In three years, Hornung has grown 8z to 71 agents

Last year, his agents did an average of 24 transactions each, more than three times the national average.

Both 8z and GoodLife were launched during the real estate meltdown, but not only survived, but thrived.

?There is an advantage to starting with a Tabula rasa,??a clean slate,? Hornung said.

He said at 8z, the business model was never predicated on the numbers of Realtors, but by the volume of individual brokers.

?We targeted a smaller group of Realtors with a higher production from the beginning,? he said.

White, of GoodLife in Austin, said ?our story is very similar to Lane?s. We couldn?t have started at a worst time,? as far as the real estate market.

At GoodLife, she said they have had great success in recruiting Realtors from other industries and training them in a standardized way of doing business. Now, her Realtors are in the top 3 percent in Austin, she said.

8z brokers also geographically based and ?we never intended to fill all the lots in one year,? Hornung said. ?The slots might be filled over a decade.?

When looking for the best brokers, he doesn?t call it recruiting.

?We call it selection,? Hornung said.

Hornung said the more times a broker helps people buy and sell homes, the better they get off of it.

?We not only want great brokers, but we love working with great brokers from other companies,? ?Hornung said.

?If there is an 8z broker on one side of the transaction, and a Kentwood broker on the other side, it is going to be a very good experience for a consumer,? Hornung said, noting that last year Kentwood agents averaged $10.1 million in sales per agent. Real Trends rated Kentwood as the No. 2 in the nation as far as traditional real estate brokerage firms on sales volume per associate, topped only by Washington Fince Properties of Washington, D.C., at $12.47 million per agent. However, REALHome Servies and Solutions, a REO disposition firm, ranked even higher, although it not a traditional real estate company. With a mere 27 associates, it had a whopping $67.7 million in sales per associates.

?That was really nice of Lane to give a shout-out to a competitor,? said one executive from the Portland area attending the conference. ?It showed a lot of class.?

Chris also asked the panel members to describe their core values, culture and use of technology.

Hornung noted that he came to real estate from the technological side.

He earned an engineering degree from Stanford, an MBA in finance from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and before becoming a real estate broker he was involved in the start up of Zip Realty.

?We are a very technological company, but we don?t let technology define us,? Hornung said. ?To me, it is the brokers themselves who are the tip of the spear. They are on the ground and their relationship and knowledge is what is important to the consumer.?

As far as core values, he said they are the same today as when he was a U.S. Marine helicopter pilot?and when he was growing up in Arvada.

At one point in his career, Hornung was a research assistant for Jim Collins, the best-selling author of such books Good to Great and Great by Choice.

?We have a corporate culture that is so strong, like Jim Collins says, it will eject all viruses. These are the core values I have had all of my life. They are in my DNA.?

Although it was snowing heavily outside during the first day of the Gathering of Eagles, Hornung said as the lone local speaker on the panel, it was his responsibility to assure the audience that wasn?t typical weather for the Denver area.

?It was 80 degrees here on Monday.?

Have a story idea or real estate tip? Contact John Rebchook at? JRCHOOK@gmail.com. InsideRealEstateNews.com is sponsored by Universal Lending, Land Title Guarantee and 8z Real Estate. To read more articles by John Rebchook, subscribe to the Colorado Real Estate Journal.

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Nichols takes his time with the story, dwelling on how the boy is shaped by the killer's tragic sense of romance, yet the suspense holds.

"Mud" isn't just a movie. It's the firm confirmation of a career.

"Mud" unfolds at its own pace, revealing its story in slivers. The performances are outstanding, especially from Sheridan, who plays tough, sweet, vulnerable and confused with equal conviction.

The film is drenched in the humidity and salty air of a Delta summer, often recalling the musical, aphoristic cadences of Sam Shepard, who happens to appear in a supporting role.

A wonderful, piquant modern-day variation on "Huckleberry Finn.''

One of the most creatively rich and emotionally rewarding movies to come along this year.

Mud is a potent and earnest rumination on love and change that gets muddled by moments of overblown as well as scattered storytelling.

The setting, characters and situations in "Mud" are fully formed and fully satisfying.

A modern-day Huck Finn adventure pulled along in the mesmerizing current of a crime yarn and anchored to a teenager's heartbreaking quest for emotional moorings.

Like great directors before him -- Hitchcock, Polanski, Altman, et al. -- Nichols uses duality with real skill and impact.

Poignant coming-of-age tale has some edgy content.

This is no Southern Gothic pastiche but a convincing portrait of a South rarely seen onscreen, the South of Walmarts and water moccasins, of Piggy-Wiggly and punk rock.

I liked Mud. What's frustrating is feeling as if I could have loved it.

It's a lovely, coherent piece of storytelling, with a unique sense of place. Nichols has carved out a niche as a distinctive film-maker.

With Mud, Jeff Nichols demonstrates once again that he's that rare breed of filmmaker who prefers to bury himself in the dirt of rural America rather than carve his initials into the concrete of sprawling urbanity.

Nichols weaves it all together with consummate skill and a little black pepper.

It's rare that films manage to capture the actual experience of what it is like to be a child, but 'Mud' seems to nail the ethos.

Mud is a captivating drama with well-rounded characters and fantastic performances from its three leads.

...a respectful, storyteller's approach to rural America. No mockery, no Hollywood-knows-better, no nonsense. That kind of thing is in shorter supply than the universe's collective desire for McConaughey to return to rom-coms.

Jeff Nichols' script for Mud is a lot like the Mississippi River that serves as a backdrop for the tale of unrequited love. There are times it is big and powerful and other times when it becomes so serene it's easy to forget the depths that hide below.

Mud combines the poignance of a boy coming to terms with life's realities with the excitement of top-notch suspense.

This densely atmospheric film could have used more Mark Twain-like adventure and less dreary adult intrigue.

...a movie about relationships that are tenuous and inescapable, desperate and fraught with misplaced romance.

Set in Arkansas, Mud captures the rhythm of the South in a way few films do.

Mud, from the Austin-based writer/director Jeff Nichols, is many things at once, and all enriched by David Wingo's double-stop, aching, stringed score.

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Samsung Galaxy Core is real: low-end specs with a 4.3-inch WVGA display, option for dual-SIM

Whenever a Samsung flagship arrives, it's never long before we see a fleet of lower-spec handsets swimming in its wake. The latest Remora to come out from the shadow of its bigger brother (and the rumor mill) is the Galaxy Core, a 4.3-inch handset offering a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage and a microSD slot. Running Touchwiz-infused Jelly Bean, the phone has a 5-megapixel rear camera with an LED flash and a VGA front-facer for the vain amongst you. Users will also be getting some of the more fancy Galaxy-style software features like Motion UI, Smart Stay, Smart Alert and S Voice. Of course, a phone is nothing without a screen, and here your eyes will be caressing a 4.3-inch WVGA (480 x 800) display -- but while you may not be thrilled at a low pixel count, at least there's the option for single SIM (available in July) or dual-SIM (from May) models for carrier swappers.

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Israel says Google's 'Palestine' page harms peace hopes

By Dan Williams

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Israeli official accused Google on Monday of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name "Palestine" under the banner of its search page for the Palestinian territories. (www.google.ps)

Palestinians hailed Google's move as a virtual victory on the long path to the state they seek in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, which Israel seized in the 1967 war.

With bilateral negotiations stalled for 2-1/2 years over Jewish settlement building, the Palestinians have campaigned for foreign recognition of statehood, and were upgraded to "non-member state" at the United Nations in November.

Following the U.N. lead, Google's Palestinian homepage and other products previously labelled "Palestinian Territories" were changed on May 1 to read "Palestine".

"I think that the Google decision from the last few days is very, very problematic," said Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

"When a company like Google comes along and supports this line, it actually pushes peace further away, pushes away negotiations, and creates among the Palestinian leadership the illusion that in this manner they can achieve the result," he told Israel's Army Radio.

"Without direct negotiation with us, nothing will happen."

A Google spokesman in Israel referred Reuters to a statement from last week in which it said: "We are following the lead of the U.N. ... and other international organizations."

Israel was furious at the U.N. upgrade last November, which was opposed by the United States but passed by an overwhelming majority, and reacted by withholding Palestinian government funds and announcing more settlement building.

An adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the move as a "victory for Palestine and a step toward its liberation".

Google had "put Palestine on the Internet map, making it a geographical reality", the adviser, Sabri Saidam, told the official news agency WAFA, adding that the Palestinians had invited Google's cartographers to come and gather more data for their online maps.

Google Maps currently shows little or no detail for major Palestinian towns such as Nablus and Ramallah, while many Jewish West Bank settlements have streets and parks clearly labelled.

Saidam said Israeli opposition to Google's new rubric was rooted in fear that "the recognition will destroy Israel's concept of 'Judea and Samaria'" - the biblical names that the Jewish state uses for the West Bank.

(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israel-says-googles-palestine-page-harms-peace-hopes-110627574.html

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Brighter clouds, cooler climate? Organic vapors affect clouds, leading to previously unidentified climate cooling

May 5, 2013 ? University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and humanmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on Earth's climate by making clouds brighter.

Clouds are made of water droplets, condensed onto tiny particles suspended in the air. When the air is humid enough, the particles swell into cloud droplets. It has been known for some decades that the number of these particles and their size control how bright the clouds appear from the top, controlling the efficiency with which clouds scatter sunlight back into space. A major challenge for climate science is to understand and quantify these effects which have a major impact in polluted regions.

The tiny seed particles can either be natural (for example, sea spray or dust) or humanmade pollutants (from vehicle exhausts or industrial activity). These particles often contain a large amount of organic material and these compounds are quite volatile, so in warm conditions exist as a vapour (in much the same way as a perfume is liquid but gives off an aroma when it evaporates on warm skin).

The researchers found that the effect acts in reverse in the atmosphere as volatile organic compounds from pollution or from the biosphere evaporate and give off characteristic aromas, such as the pine smells from forest, but under moist cooler conditions where clouds form, the molecules prefer to be liquid and make larger particles that are more effective seeds for cloud droplets.

"We discovered that organic compounds such as those formed from forest emissions or from vehicle exhaust, affect the number of droplets in a cloud and hence its brightness, so affecting climate," said study author Professor Gordon McFiggans, from the University of Manchester's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.

"We developed a model and made predictions of a substantially enhanced number of cloud droplets from an atmospherically reasonable amount of organic gases.

"More cloud droplets lead to brighter cloud when viewed from above, reflecting more incoming sunlight. We did some calculations of the effects on climate and found that the cooling effect on global climate of the increase in cloud seed effectiveness is at least as great as the previously found entire uncertainty in the effect of pollution on clouds."

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Israeli airstrikes on Syria prompt threats, anger

BEIRUT (AP) ? Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours ? an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war.

Syria and its patron Iran hinted at possible retribution, though the rhetoric in official statements appeared relatively muted.

Despite new concerns about a regional war, Israeli officials signaled they will keep trying to block what they see as an effort by Iran to send sophisticated weapons to Lebanon's Hezbollah militia ahead of a possible collapse of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

Israel has repeatedly threatened to intervene in the Syrian civil war to stop the transfer of what it calls "game-changing" weapons to Hezbollah, a Syrian-backed group that battled Israel to a stalemate during a monthlong war in 2006.

Since carrying out a lone airstrike in January that reportedly destroyed a shipment of anti-aircraft missiles headed to Hezbollah, Israel had largely stayed on the sidelines. That changed over the weekend with a pair of airstrikes, including an attack near a sprawling military complex close to the Syrian capital of Damascus early Sunday that set off a series of powerful explosions.

The Israeli government and military refused to comment. But a senior Israeli official said both airstrikes targeted shipments of Fateh-110 missiles bound for Hezbollah. The Iranian-made guided missiles can fly deep into Israel and deliver powerful half-ton bombs with pinpoint accuracy. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a covert military operation.

Syria's government called the attacks a "flagrant violation of international law" that has made the Middle East "more dangerous." It also claimed the Israeli strikes proved the Jewish state's links to rebel groups trying to overthrow Assad's regime.

Syria's information minister, Omran al-Zoubi, reading a Cabinet statement after an emergency government meeting, said Syria has the right and duty "to defend its people by all available means."

Israeli defense officials believe Assad has little desire to open a new front with Israel when he is preoccupied with the survival of his regime. More than 70,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad erupted in March 2011, and Israeli officials believe it is only a matter of time before Assad is toppled.

Still, Israel seemed to be taking the Syrian threats seriously. Israel's military deployed two batteries of its Iron Dome rocket defense system to the north of the country Sunday. It described the move as part of "ongoing situational assessments."

Israel says the Iron Dome shot down hundreds of incoming short-range rockets during eight days of fighting against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last November. Hezbollah fired some 4,000 rockets into Israel during the 2006 war, and Israel believes the group now possesses tens of thousands of rockets and missiles.

The Iron Dome deployment followed a surprise Israeli drill last week in which several thousand reservists simulated conflict in the north. In another possible sign of concern, Israel closed the airspace over northern Israel to civilian flights on Sunday and tightened security at embassies overseas, Israeli media reported. Israeli officials would not confirm either measure.

Reflecting fears of ordinary Israelis, the country's postal service, which helps distribute government-issue gas masks, said demand jumped to four times the normal level Sunday.

Israel's deputy defense minister, Danny Danon, would neither confirm nor deny the airstrikes. He said, however, that Israel "is guarding its interests and will continue to do so in the future."

"Israel cannot allow weapons, dangerous weapons, to get into the hands of terror organizations," he told Army Radio.

Israeli defense officials have identified several strategic weapons that they say cannot be allowed to reach Hezbollah. They include Syrian chemical weapons, the Iranian Fateh-110s, long-range Scud missiles, Yakhont missiles capable of attacking naval ships from the coast, and Russian SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles. Israel's airstrike in January destroyed a shipment of SA-17s meant for Hezbollah, according to U.S. officials.

Israeli officials said Sunday they believe that Iran is stepping up its efforts to smuggle weapons through Syria to Hezbollah because of concerns that Assad's days are numbered.

They said the Fateh-110s reached Syria last week. Friday's airstrike struck a site at the Damascus airport where the missiles were being stored, while the second series of airstrikes early Sunday targeted the remnants of the shipment, which had been moved to three nearby locations, the officials said.

None of the Iranian missiles are believed to have reached Lebanon, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a classified intelligence assessment.

The attacks pose a dilemma for the embattled Assad regime.

If it fails to respond, it looks weak and opens the door to more airstrikes. But any military retaliation against Israel would risk dragging the Jewish state and its powerful army into a broader conflict. With few exceptions, Israel and Syria have not engaged in direct fighting in roughly 40 years.

The airstrikes come as Washington considers how to respond to indications the Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons in its civil war. President Barack Obama has described the use of such weapons as a "red line," and the administration is weighing its options.

The White House declined for a second day to comment directly on Israel's air strikes in Syria, but said Obama believes Israel, as a sovereign nation, has the right to defend itself against threats from Hezbollah.

"The Israelis are justifiably concerned about the threat posed by Hezbollah obtaining advanced weapons systems, including some long-range missiles," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. He said the U.S. was in "close coordination" with Israel but would not elaborate.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague also seemed to back Israel, telling Sky News that "all countries have to look after their own national security."

Iran condemned the airstrikes, and a senior official hinted at possible retribution from Hezbollah.

Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, assistant to the Iranian chief of staff, told Iran's state-run Arabic-language Al-Alam TV that Tehran "will not allow the enemy (Israel) to harm the security of the region." He added that "the resistance will retaliate to the Israeli aggression against Syria." ''Resistance" is a term used for Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas, another anti-Israel militant group supported by Iran.

Iran has provided both financial and military support to Hezbollah for decades and has used Syria as a conduit for both. If Assad were to fall, that pipeline could be cut, dealing a serious blow to Hezbollah's ability to confront Israel.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke to Arab League Secretary-General Nabil ElAraby by telephone Sunday and both shared their "grave concern" over the air strikes, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Ban called on all sides "to exercise maximum calm and restraint, and to act with a sense of responsibility to prevent an escalation of what is already a devastating and highly dangerous conflict," Nesirky said.

Israel appears to be taking a calculated risk that its strikes will not invite retaliation from Syria, Hezbollah or even Iran.

But Salman Shaikh of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar warned: "All this could lead us into a wider conflict."

___

Federman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Ian Deitch and Diaa Hadid in Jerusalem and Bassem Mroue and Ryan Lucas in Beirut contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-airstrikes-syria-prompt-threats-anger-212205572.html

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Utah cabin swarmed with 60,000 honeybees

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? It was the biggest beehive that that Ogden beekeeper Vic Bachman has ever removed ? a dozen feet long, packed inside the eaves of a cabin in Ogden Valley.

"We figure we got 15 pounds of bees out of there," said Bachman, who said that converts to about 60,000 honeybees.

Bachman was called to the A-frame cabin last month in Eden, Utah. Taking apart a panel that hid roof rafters, he had no idea he would find honeycombs packed 12 feet long, 4 feet wide and 16 inches deep.

The honeybees had been making the enclosed cavity their home since 1996, hardly bothering the homeowners. The cabin was rarely used, but when the owners needed to occupy it while building another home nearby, they decided the beehive wasn't safe for their two children. A few bees had found their way inside the house, and the hive was just outside a window of a children's bedroom.

They didn't want to kill the honeybees, a species in decline that does yeoman's work pollinating flowers and crops.

So they called Bachman, owner of Deseret Hive Supply, a hobbyist store that can't keep up with demand for honeybees. Bachman used a vacuum cleaner to suck the bees into a cage.

"It doesn't hurt them," he said.

The job took six hours. At $100 an hour, the bill came to $600.

"The bees were expensive," said Paul Bertagnolli, the cabin owner. He was satisfied with the job.

Utah calls itself the Beehive state, a symbol of industriousness. Whether this was Utah's largest beehive is unknown, but Bachman said it would rank high.

"It's the biggest one I've ever seen," he said. "I've never seen one that big."

He used smoke to pacify the bees, but Bachman said honeybees are gentle creatures unlike predatory yellow jackets or hornets, which attack, rip apart and eat honeybees, he said.

"They just want to collect nectar and come back to the hive," he said. "Most people never get stung by honeybees ? it's a yellow jacket."

Bachman reassembled the hive in a yard of his North Ogden home, while saving some of the honeycomb for candles and lotions at his store. He left other honeycombs for the cabin owners to chew on.

"We caught the queen and were able to keep her," Bachman said. "The hive is in my backyard right now and is doing well."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/utah-cabin-had-uninvited-guests-60-000-bees-180046644.html

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90 percent of pediatric specialists not following clinical guidelines when treating preschoolers with ADHD

May 4, 2013 ? A recent study by pediatricians from the Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York examined to what extent pediatric physicians adhere to American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) clinical guidelines regarding pharmacotherapy in treating young patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The results showed that more than 90 percent of medical specialists who diagnose and manage ADHD in preschoolers do not follow treatment guidelines recently published by the AAP.

"It is unclear why so many physicians who specialize in the management of ADHD -- child neurologists, psychiatrists and developmental pediatricians -- fail to comply with recently published treatment guidelines," said Andrew Adesman, MD, senior investigator and chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Cohen Children's Medical Center in New Hyde Park. "With the AAP now extending its diagnosis and treatment guidelines down to preschoolers, it is likely that more young children will be diagnosed with ADHD even before entering kindergarten. Primary care physicians and pediatric specialists should recommend behavior therapy as the first line treatment."

Current clinical guidelines for pediatricians and child psychiatrists associated with the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) recommend that behavior therapy be the initial treatment approach for preschoolers with ADHD, and that treatment with medication should only be pursued when counseling in behavior management is not successful.

The study also found that more than one-in-five specialists who diagnose and manage ADHD in preschoolers recommend pharmacotherapy as a first-line treatment alone or in conjunction with behavior therapy. Although the AAP recommends that pediatricians prescribe methylphenidate when medication is indicated, more than one-third of specialists who prescribe medication for preschool ADHD said they 'often' or 'very often' choose a medication other than methylphenidate initially (19.4 percent amphetamines; 18.9 percent non-stimulants).

"Although the AAP's new ADHD guidelines were developed for primary care pediatricians, it is clear that many medical subspecialists who care for young children with ADHD fail to follow recently published guidelines," said Jaeah Chung, MD, the study's principal investigator who also practices at Cohen Children's. "At a time when there are public and professional concerns about over-medication of young children with ADHD, it seems that many medical specialists are recommending medication as part of their initial treatment plan for these children."

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