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WASHINGTON -- The federal government shut down when the clock struck 12 eastern time and agencies were ordered to implement plans for closure. Congress couldn't reach an agreement and funding for federal services ran out.
And at a time when the economy's finally showing signs of life, that could be troubling.
Shutdowns don't come cheap. Federal agencies have to use up time, energy and resources to plan for one. Shutting down and then reopening the government also costs money.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the two previous shutdowns -- in late 1995 and early 1996 -- cost the country $1.4 billion.
But what will the shutdown mean for you? Will your daily life be affected?
(The answer's yes, so keep reading.)
Here are 10 ways a government shutdown would affect you.
10. Vacation all I ever wanted: Need to get away? Well, you can't. At least not to national parks. Or to national zoos. Or to national museums. They'd all be closed. That's 368 National Park Service sites closed, millions of visitors turned away.
Were you thinking more along the lines of a trip to France? If you don't already have a passport, you could bid that adieu. It's unlikely you'd get your blue book in time. The last time the government threw a hissy fit, 200,000 applications for passports went unprocessed. Tourism and airline revenues reeled.
9. Holiday. Celebrate: Don't come to work if you're a federal employee. You're on furlough. (Offer not valid for workers in "critical services," such as air traffic controllers, hazardous waste handlers and food inspectors.)
Do take some time to celebrate. In previous shutdowns, everyone who stayed home was paid retroactively after peace returned to Washington.
8. I won't back down: The good news (for you) is that the men and women in uniform would continue to keep you safe. The bad news (for them) is that they'd be paid in IOUs until the shutdown ended. In January, Sens. Mark Udall, D-Colorado, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, introduced legislation that would have protected pay for the troops during a shutdown, but it didn't get anywhere.
Rep. C.W. Young, chairman of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, told the Air Force Times, "All military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available."
Their mid-October paycheck would be the first affected. In addition, the congressman told the paper, changes of station would be delayed, medical offerings would be scaled back, facility and weapons maintenance would be suspended and most civilian employees would be furloughed until appropriations are available.
7. If you drive a car, I'll tax the street: You may be thinking, "No functioning government, no need to pay taxes." Think again. The Man would continue to collect taxes. U.S. bonds would still be issued. And other essential banking functions would go on.
6. Wait a minute, Mr. Postman: You know that whole "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night" thing? Apparently, the U.S. Postal Service works through shutdowns as well. Sorry, you won't catch a break from the junk mail. But hey, you may already be a winner!
5. I want a new drug: Oh, the irony. The Republicans want to defund Obamacare in exchange for funding the government. But the health care act at the center of this storm would continue its implementation process during a shutdown. That's because its funds aren't dependent on the congressional budget process.
4. Pass the ammunition: Not so fast. A shutdown would affect the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Translation: That gun permit you wanted processed wouldn't happen anytime soon.
3. Money (that's what I want): Well, if you own a small business and needed a loan from the government, you'd have to wait. If you were planning to buy a house and needed a federal loan, you'd have to wait. If you're a veteran, you might have to make a few trips to the mailbox before that check arrived.
If you're on Social Security, however, don't worry -- probably. Social Security payments were sent during the last shutdown. President Obama's expected to keep workers on the payroll to process checks. But would there be enough employees to process new benefits for the newly retired?
2. Anything dirty or dingy or dusty: Oscar the Grouch is a company of one. No one loves trash. But if you live in Washington, expect it to pile up if there's a shutdown. There wouldn't be anyone to collect your garbage. Washington's budget has to be approved by Congress. No budget for the city = no trash collection. And, according to The Washington Post, D.C. produces about 500 tons of garbage each week.
1. I'm proud to be an American: Perhaps the biggest hit would be to the collective psyche. America is the largest economy in the world and a beacon for how democracy ought to work. To watch elected lawmakers engage in a high-stakes staring contest with no one willing to blink is no way to do business. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found that 51% will blame Republicans if the government closes its doors. The U.S. has operated without a budget since 2009 and has avoided a government shutdown with last-minute deals. It's been one stomach-turning sequel after another.
Not only does the government run out of money on October 1, the nation is set to hit the debt ceiling and go into default in mid-October. Together, they serve -- in the words of CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta -- as a dysfunction double whammy.
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No ragging Chamberlain for this championship
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The way Joba Chamberlain threw his glove in the air and tore off his warmup jersey, he looked like he had just won the World Series. In actuality, he only won the Tigers' ragball championship, and he was just playing around.
He was, however, a Cinderella story.
"Some may say he's the first 12 seed to win the championship," manager Brad Ausmus said.
Others would say he's the first Tiger to win the championship, period. The drill, in which pitchers try to field a sharply-hit comebacker from about 30 feet away, only became part of the team's Spring Training this year, having been brought over by Ausmus from his days as a Padres special assistant.
As a symbol of the Ausmus change, ragball became the most-chronicled workout in Tigers camp since pitchers fielding practice in 2007, following the Tigers' spat of pitchers' errors in the 2006 World Series.
It was not new to Chamberlain, who knew it from Yankees camp. The familiarity helped him outlast Phil Coke in a nine-round tiebeaker to win his group, then beat out a field that included Max Scherzer and Kyle Lobstein.
Ausmus turned it into a competition after seeing how players responded to it on the first day of workouts Friday, adding a prize for the winner.
Asked what he won, Chamberlain responded, "Pride."
Actually, he won a little more than that.
"Chamberlain wins the pot," Ausmus said. "Everybody chipped in some money."


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Eliezer Diamond is the Rabbi Judah Nadich Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Diamond teaches courses in rabbinic literature and introductory, intermediate, and advanced Talmud studies.
Dr. Diamond is the author of many popular and scholarly articles, including a chapter on the rabbinic period in the Schocken Guide to Jewish Books and articles in the Reader's Guide to Judaism. He is the author of Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture, published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. The book provides a thorough reassessment of the role that asceticism plays in rabbinic Judaism, suggesting that asceticism is more pervasive than is generally thought.
Dr. Diamond is currently editing a commentary on Yerushalmi Pesahim written by the late Professor Louis Ginzberg, as well as a book on prayer. The prayer volume will address the problem of cognitive dissonance for the contemporary worshipper and will offer readings of traditional liturgy that use midrashic methodology to find meaning and relevance in these prayers for the modern Jew.
Dr. Diamond has taught in a variety of settings, including Stern College, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, the 92nd Street Y, and several Ramah camps. Dr. Diamond was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and received his doctorate in Talmud from JTS.
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Jurors trying the case of Rolf Harris should dismiss any feelings of emotion or speculation when deciding whether the veteran entertainer is guilty of indecently assaulting four women, a judge has told them.
Directing the jury on points of law, Mr Justice Sweeney said it was for them and them alone to reach their verdicts on the 12 counts he faces and they should treat Harris like any other witness who gave evidence.
Harris, standing trial at London's Southwark Crown Court, is accused of carrying out the 12 counts of indecent assault between 1968 and 1986, all of which he denies.
Ahead of summing up the case, the judge told the jury of six men and six women: "Neither media nor internet nor speculation nor emotion of any type can have any part whatsoever to play in your deliberations.
"Guarding against speculation or emotion when entering into your deliberations is absolutely essential in a case of this type.
"What is required of you is a cool, calm, careful and dispassionate consideration of the evidence together with the courage to return true verdicts based on the evidence, whatever the consequences may be."
Mr Justice Sweeney said jurors must come to unanimous conclusions on the verdicts.
He told them they should treat the evidence of those who took to the witness box the same - including that of 84-year-old Harris.
"Do not fall into the trap of discriminating against the defendant because he came to the witness box from the dock, or of thinking that because he went into the witness box there must be an onus on him to prove something. There is not," the judge said.
"As with any other witness what you make of his evidence is a matter for you."
Mr Justice Sweeney also told the 12 jurors they should use their "joint experiences of life and your common sense" in deciding their verdicts.
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Google+ for iOS is a clean and intuitive mobile app that has all of the capabilities of its desktop counterpart, save for the games and a few other minor features. The latest version adds a couple more photo-editing tools along with design tweaks to profile pages and other enhancements.
Gone is the ugly dashboard of icons that greeted you upon opening Google+ in earlier versions. Now, you can zip around this stunning mobile app via a nifty slide-out navigation window by hitting a button at the top left of the screen. This gives you easy access to your Home feed, Profile, Messenger, Photos, and People.
One big change I'll get into below is how the new Hangouts standalone app has brought about changes in Google+. It seems as though Google is trying to ease people into using Hangouts as the main communication app, so these features are in a sort of transitional phase in Google+. It's kind of confusing, but it's also an understandable step by the company to make people aware of the new app.
The Google+ Home screen is your main news feed and is the lifeblood of Google+. With the little drop-down at the top, you can choose to show feeds from All Circles, Nearby, What's Hot (trending posts), or any of your individual circles. As of yet, though, you can't create a custom feed with more than one circle (Family & Friends, for instance). Icons are sleek and the large photos that bleed off the sides of the interface are eye-catching.
From your Home screen, you can do almost everything you can in the full desktop version of Google+. You can easily comment on, share, and +1 items, and, of course, you can create and edit your own posts with pictures, videos, and location tags. A new auto-hash-tags feature in the latest version automatically surfaces hash tags at the top of a post, letting you tap to see related content. It's a great addition because it has an almost Wikipedia feel, where you can drill down to post after post of similar content and get lost in the millions of things posted to Google+.
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Branson, a "two-time Emmy nominee and a recipient of the Frank Shakespeare Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism," told her bosses she "is feeling fine and that her mangled speech was not indicative of a serious medical problem."
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WOODSTOCK – Jerry Casciaro clutched his chest in an emotional outburst in a McHenry County Courthouse hallway Tuesday after his son was found guilty of first-degree murder for a Johnsburg teen's presumed death more than 10 years ago.
"They had the blood and fingerprints [of another man] and everything, and they charged my son because he said go talk to him," Jerry Casciaro said.
The jury convicted Mario Casciaro, 29, after about seven hours of deliberation. He hung his head briefly after the verdict was read, but remained mostly expressionless as a group of family and friends behind him began crying.
Casciaro's bond was revoked, and he was immediately taken into custody. He faces a minimum of 20 years in prison; a sentencing date has not been set.
Prosecutors have said Casciaro used another man, Shane Lamb, as the "blunt force instrument" to kill 17-year-old Brian Carrick while inside the produce cooler of Val's Foods, where all three worked.
Carrick was last seen about 6:45 p.m. Dec. 20, 2002; his body never has been found.
Casciaro was first tried for murder about a year ago, but it ended with a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Four of Carrick's 13 siblings were present for the guilty verdict, as well as his father, Bill Carrick.
"Justice was served," Bill Carrick said.
But Casciaro supporters – particularly his mother, Maria – said there was a cover-up. She blasted prosecutors as she left the courthouse.
Casciaro's brother, Eugene, said he was numb.
"It's just a shame," he said. "Anybody that knows my brother knows that he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet."
Assistant State's Attorney Michael Combs, who exchanged words with Eugene Casciaro after the verdict was read, said he has lived the case for years.
"I can't describe how emotional I am right now," Combs said. "I've had witnesses threaten me; I've had witnesses lie to me. I've only wanted to get justice for the Carrick family."
The fact that Carrick's mother, Terry, died before seeing the verdict is disheartening, Combs said.
"For that, I hold Mario responsible," he said.
Combs said Casciaro deserves the maximum sentence.
"For every day [the Carricks] wake up and still do not know what suffering happened to their son, and to not give Brian a decent burial," Combs said. "Every day that they wake up, it's like a fresh wound."
The prosecution's main witness was the "henchman" Shane Lamb, who testified last week that Casciaro called him in to talk to Carrick about a drug debt.
Lamb – who has been granted full immunity from murder charges – said he lost his temper and hit Carrick, who "fell down."
Lamb has a reputation of willingly engaging in violence, Assistant State's Attorney Patrick Kenneally said. He is a convicted felon who has been to prison mutliple times and was charged with attempted murder at age 14.
"Somewhere out there on this cold spring day lies Brian Carrick," Kenneally said. "Everything he had, or would have, was snatched from him."
Kenneally said he would prefer that Casciaro had been friends with a group of nuns, but that's not the way criminals work.
"That's not who he chose to employ in his little drug cartel," Kenneally said. "Criminals flock together."
The defense countered that Lamb was "lying about lying about lying."
"He can't tell the truth about anything," Brian Telander, Casciaro's attorney, said during closing arguments. "His name should have been Pinocchio."
Kenneally asked if Lamb were lying, why would he point the finger at himself?
He had immunity and could have said Jimmy Hoffa or President Obama killed Carrick.
"Why would he do that to himself when he doesn't have to?" Kenneally said.
Telander said it was easy to get caught up in the tragedy of the story, but pointed out that the man who said he killed Carrick got no punishment for the crime.
In fact, Telander said, Lamb also got a better deal on a drug case, too.
"[Lamb] is walking around the streets today because they gave him immunity," Telander said.
Telander also said that, if Lamb is to be believed, Casciaro never told him to hurt, punch or otherwise harm Carrick.
Lamb said he lost his temper and that's why he punched Carrick, which was not at Casciaro's direction.
"It's not a crime in this country to talk to someone," Telander said.
Telander also pointed to DNA evidence from the scene that showed another stockboy's blood in the cooler: Robert Render.
Prosecutors had said Render was "a man who bleeds" after his father testified he was constantly biting his nails.
"I mean, come on," Telander said. "I don't mean to make fun of it, but come on."
Render worked at the store for only two more days after Carrick disappeared; eight days later, Render was reported missing by his father.
That showed that Render, who has since died from a drug overdose, had a guilty conscience, Telander said.
Two other main witnesses for the state, Alan Lippert and Chris "Priest" Amen, testified Casciaro made incriminating statements to them years afterward.
To Lippert, Casciaro allegedly said that Lamb was supposed to just scare Carrick, but things got out of hand.
Amen testified Casciaro said, "I make people disappear," after a confrontation at a bar.
But both are convicted felons, and Lippert was drunk the night of the alleged statements and Amen is an admitted ecstacy dealer, Telander said.
In his last statement before the jury, Combs held up an envelope with a blood stain of Carrick's inside.
That's all that's left of him, Combs said.
"That's all he was to this guy," said Combs, gesturing toward Casciaro. "Don't reward the defendant for getting rid of the body."


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Opposition activists said Syria's uprising hotspots were quiet after a deadline for a U.N.-brokered truce passed at dawn Thursday, hours after President Bashar Assad's regime promised special peace envoy Kofi Annan it would halt fighting.
It was the first brief lull after weeks of escalating attacks on opposition strongholds.
Still, expectations were low for an abrupt end to the bloodshed that has roiled Syria for 13 months and claimed more than 9,000 lives. Syria has backtracked on previous peace plans, has characterized the uprising it's facing as a terrorist plot and has escalated the shelling of rebellious areas in recent weeks.
The regime also set an important truce condition when it announced Wednesday it would halt the fighting - saying it still has a right to defend itself against the terrorists that it says are behind the country's uprising.
Under Annan's plan, the cease-fire is to be followed by the deployment of an observer mission and negotiations between Assad's government and the opposition on a political transition.
Opposition activists said the 6 a.m. Thursday truce deadline passed without reports of major violence.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said all of Syria's flashpoints in the central provinces of Hama and Homs, the northern regions of Idlib and Aleppo, the capital Damascus and its suburbs, as well as Daraa to the south and Deir el-Zour to the east were quiet.
"Nothing is happening in these hotspots so far," said Abdul-Rahman, referring to the areas that have witnessed intense attacks by government forces and clashes between troops and defectors over the past few weeks.
In the city of Homs, activist Tarek Badrakhan said no explosions or shelling were heard since 10 p.m. Wednesday, but that army vehicles were still in the streets on Thursday. Badrakhan said nights are usually quiet, with shelling resuming in the mornings, and that it was too early to judge whether attacks had been halted.
Homs has been battered by daily shelling for the past three weeks.
The Observatory said some shots were fired in the Damascus neighborhood of Qadam after midnight Wednesday and that an explosion went off in a car in a Damascus suburb, causing no injuries. Fares Mohammed, an activist in the Damascus suburb of Zabadani, said an army tank at a checkpoint fired three shells at a nearby open area between 5:50 a.m and 6:10 am. Thursday.
The rebel Free Syrian Army, a fighting force determined to bring down Assad, has said it will abide by the cease-fire. But the opposition is not well organized, and there are growing fears of groups looking to exploit the chaos.
A cease-fire could pose a major risk for the Assad regime.
Many activists predict that huge numbers of protesters would flood the streets if Assad fully complies with the agreement and pulls his forces back to barracks. But Syria has ways to maintain authority even without the military, in the form of pro-regime gunmen called "shabiha" and the fiercely loyal and pervasive security apparatus.
Over the course of the uprising, the military crackdown succeeded in preventing protesters from recreating the fervor of Egypt's Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands of people camped out in a powerful show of dissent that drove longtime leader Hosni Mubarak from power.
On Wednesday, the White House cautioned that the Assad regime has reneged on promises to stop the violence in the past.
"What is important to remember is that we judge the Assad's regime by its actions and not by their promises, because their promises have proven so frequently in the past to be empty," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters in Washington.
Annan is scheduled to brief the U.N. Security Council on Thursday by videoconference from Geneva.
Western powers have pinned their hopes on Annan's plan, in part because they are running out of options. The U.N. has ruled out any military intervention of the type that helped bring down Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and several rounds of sanctions and other attempts to isolate Assad have done little to stop the bloodshed.
"The West or Arab states have very little leverage over Syria, and the one thing which would certainly weaken the regime - which is some form of military intervention - is the one policy that is not being considered," said David Hartwell, senior Middle East analyst at the defense and intelligence group IHS Jane's.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have called for arming the rebels, but even if they follow through there is no guarantee that such efforts could cripple Assad's well-armed regime.
Asked what steps the U.S. could take if the deal collapses, Carney, the White House spokesman, cited humanitarian and other non-lethal assistance and further sanctions.
The conflict is among the most explosive of the Arab Spring, in part because of Syria's web of allegiances to powerful forces including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Shiite powerhouse Iran.
On Wednesday, Annan was in Iran - Syria's key regional ally - to press for support for his peace plan.
Annan earlier secured the backing of Russia and China, which have given Assad a significant layer of protection by blocking strong action against the regime at the U.N. Security Council. Those two countries fear a resolution condemning Assad might open the door to possible NATO airstrikes on Syria, similar to the military campaign in Libya.
Under Annan's plan, Syria was to have withdrawn its forces from population centers on Tuesday. However, the regime disregarded the deadline and was still attacking its opponents Wednesday with tanks and mortar fire, including in Homs.
Badrakhan, the Homs activist, said nearly three weeks of shelling have turned the city into a ghost town and that most of his neighborhood of Khaldiyeh was destroyed.
The wounded were being treated inside homes after a makeshift hospital was destroyed earlier this week. Dozens of corpses that were being kept inside the clinic had to be buried in a public garden, he said.
Bassam Imadi, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council, said he had no faith in the Annan initiative to stop the bloodshed.
"Peace will never come to this country before this regime is overthrown - that is something for sure," Imadi said. "The regime is using all these breaks, those initiatives, those diplomatic and political solutions only to try and finish the uprising."
AP writers Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Bassem Mroue in Beirut, Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Matthew Lee in Washington and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.


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Saving for retirement just got a little sweeter. Beginning in 2013, employees will be able to contribute $17,500 a year before taxes to their 401(k)s. That's up from $17,000 currently. While it might not sound like much, compounding interest over a 20- or 30- year period could result in a sizable sum.
The announcement by the IRS on Thursday marks the second year in a row the government agency has added $500 to the contribution limit.
However, as CNN Money notes, the catch-up contribution limit, which is the additional amount of tax-free money employees over the age of 50 can contribute to their retirement plans, on top of the $17,500 that any employee can contribute, remains unchanged at $5,500.
Along with contributions to retirement plans, which include 401(k)s, 403(b)s, most 457 plans and the federal government's Thrift Savings Plan, the agency said it will increase more than two dozen tax benefits as well, according to the network.
Among them, taxpayers will be able to gift as much as $14,000 tax-free in 2013, up from $13,000.
Also, if you're a U.S. citizen living abroad, the amount of foreign earnings you can exclude from your taxable income will rise from $95,100 to $97,600, CNN notes. Rising inflation also prompted the Social Security Administration to announce earlier this week that Social Security recipients will be given a 1.7% boost to their monthly benefits next year.


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The corvids, a group of birds that includes crows and jays, display some of the most complex behaviors seen in any birds: tool use, an ability to associate faces with behaviors, and the recognition of when one of their peers has died. In a number of cases, these birds have been seen exhibiting behaviors that, until recently, were thought to be limited to primates. Now, researchers suggest there's another complex behavior we can add to their impressive list: the ability to infer the desires of others.
This behavior was observed in Eurasian jays, a species ranging from Western Europe to India. Pairs of jays engage in courtship behavior that includes the sharing of food, which helps in the formation and maintenance of pair-bonds. Researchers at Cambridge decided to test whether the males could successfully figure out what sort of food their partners might want.
You might think that, to a bird, one meal is as good as any other. But at least for jays, you'd be wrong. The birds actually aim for variety when they make caches of food to eat later, trying to ensure they'll have a mixture of food to enjoy the next day. The researchers confirmed that Eurasian jays have a similar desire for variety. If researchers pre-fed the jays a meal of wax moth larvae (mmm!) and then offered them a mix of that and mealworm larvae (double mmm!), the birds preferentially ate the mealworms. If the researchers did that after a meal of bird food, the birds chose the wax moths at a greater frequency.
When males were given the chance to present foods to their mates, they acted as if the female had just been given bird seed—they gave their mates a mixture of wax moths and mealworms. But if the males had the chance to watch their partners being fed a bunch of wax moths, their gifts shifted, and mealworms were presented with a much higher frequency. This eliminated the possibility that the female somehow signaled the male to indicate which treat she preferred (if that were the case, it wouldn't matter whether the male watched her eat before hand).
The one remaining possibility the researchers considered is that the male ended up feeling satiated with wax worms just by watching the females chow down on them. But the males showed identical feeding behaviors whether they watched their partners eat or not.
The researchers conclude their experiments show these birds are capable of attributing a specific mental state to others (namely, desiring a mealworm). They base this on the fact that the males weren't simply giving the females what they wanted. In other words, their frequency of gift types didn't match the frequency at which they ate. In addition, they note the females didn't provide any signals that the males used to determine what to feed them. With those two possibilities eliminated, the authors conclude that the males were inferring the desires of the females.
The researchers also place this work within the framework of what's called a "theory of mind." Early on in childhood development, kids are able to infer what other humans are likely to want or hope for. By around age four, they can start inferring more complex mental states, like their beliefs or the state of their knowledge. The latter is considered a full-blown theory of mind, in that you can make inferences about the mental state of other people.
There's no evidence birds have a full theory of mind, at least not from these experiments. But it's been argued that the ability to infer desires is a key building block of humanity's ability to form a theory of mind. Based on this work, the birds may have that.
PNAS, 2013. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209926110 (About DOIs).


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Brett's two-day Navy experience gives him the reassurance that people care about him.
Navy Rear Admiral Mark Fox rarely gets a chance to meet new pilots. He spends most of his time facing the formidable task of commanding the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon, home to the famous TOPGUN program.
But Admiral Fox recently scheduled time for one recruit – 7-year-old Brett, who is diagnosed with a soft-tissue cancer. Brett's visit to NAS Fallon was part of granting his wish to be a pilot.
Turning Brett's high-flying wish into reality also involved Navy personnel. The men and women serving in all branches of the armed forces have proven to be enthusiastic wish granters, and NAS Fallon's staff upheld that tradition.
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"He doesn't really understand the concept of ranks, but the time Rear Admiral Mark Fox spent with us was a big surprise and very generous," Brett's mother, Adele, tells Navy journalists.
Brett's talk with the admiral set the stage for the rest of his day. He wears his own custom flight jacket as he inspects supersonic fighters, surveillance planes and helicopters with Commander Paul Olin, TOPGUN director. Commander Olin then escorts Brett to a rare and amazing experience – the chance to fly an F-16 Viper simulator.
Brett takes charge and grabs the controls, which are an exact replica of the Viper's cockpit.
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What is the biblical view of making restitution by the offending party to the offended party in matters such as business relationships gone bad, unjustifiable divorce, and stealing from your neighbor? Where does civil government come in and where does the church come in? Is having both parties involved being reconciled to one another any part of the equation if indeed there truly is an equation?
Assuming that both parties are believers, the Bible gives us a good deal of guidance with regard to restitution. The prime New Testament example of this is Zacchaeus in Luke 19:8. There, Zacchaeus, a tax collector turned believer, repents of his former life and he gives half his possessions to the poor (whom he formerly robbed) and paid back all he stole fourfold. This was going above and beyond what was required, often times, by the law. In Exodus 22 and Numbers 5 we find laws concerning restitution. Sometimes the offender is to simply replace what it was he took or destroyed. Other times there was an extra cost on top of the value of the property as a kind of interest or restitution for the trouble of having to deal with lost, stolen, or damaged property.
Of course, all this points to the fact that in all things we are the offending party and God is the offended one. We owe God for our sin and rebellion against him. And the only thing that can compensate for our offense is our very lives, for the wages of sin is death. But praise be to God, in his Son—his only begotten Son—we have one who has purchased us with a price. And the price he paid for our lives is his own life as he become a propitiation for our sins upon the cross. Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe, for sin has left a crimson stain but he has made it white as snow.
In light of this, we need to be quick to repent and ask forgiveness, paying back what we owe when and where it is needed. And furthermore, when we are offended we should be quick to forgive. If someone strikes us on the cheek, we should give him the other one. If someone wants our tunic, we should give him our cloak as well. If they want us to go with them a mile, we should go with them two (Matthew 5:38-42). We need to be quick to forgive, because Christ has so greatly and quickly forgiven us. We are to forgive much, because we have been forgiven much.
That said, we most certainly may and should bring our grievance, as per Matthew 18, to the offending party first in private. If he does not repent, then we should go to him again with a witness. If he still ise unrepentant then we can bring it to the church (i.e., to the elders). If we still find no justice here, and we still cannot absorb the cost of what was taken from us, we may also report the crime (if it is a crime) to the civil authorities. Hopefully there we will receive justice. But we must always keep in mind that vengeance belongs to the Lord. It may be that the state fails us. But God never fails. And it may be that we need to simply rest and trust in the Lord knowing that some day God will set all things straight and right:
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom. 12:14-21, ESV)
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Teaching respect for all through anti-racism curricula
Can respect for all be taught? A new mapping study has collected policies, practices and materials dealing with teaching respect from all over the world. The study identifies good practices to develop learners' knowledge and understanding of other cultures and peoples; exercises to develop empathy, self-confidence, openness to new experiences and flexibility in behaviour.
All these abilities help counter hatred, prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination and bullying. Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance. For example, it recommends pedagogy which encourages students to apply what they have recently studied at school and community level so as to ensure a sustainable learning experience.
Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity. The results of the study are now available online in English and French.
The advisory group for the project met for a second time from 29 October to 1 November 2012 in Brasilia, Brazil. Jointly organized by UNESCO, the Secretariat on Policies of Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), Ministry of Education and Ministry of External Relations of Brazil, the meeting allowed international experts to discuss the major components of the project such as the policy guidelines and teaching materials that have now been drafted by specialists and how to implement pilot testing with interested countries and partners. On this occasion, the experts, representatives of the national and municipal authorities, NGOs as well as teachers and educators in Brazil shared their experiences and suggestions. Recommendations included the promotion of cooperation with higher education institutions for research, data collection and training for policymakers, and the involvement of family members in educational activities so that schools can be a bridge between generations.
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Last week, 64 percent of Winnebago County property owners discovered their taxes are going up, even as the county's assessed value is dropping. Rockfordians' tax rate is now a whopping $14 per $100 of assessed valuation, the highest ever.
And yet, the majority of local governments, many run by so-called "conservatives," continue to increase their levies every year, with little or no debate.
Levies are dollar amounts set in November and December. The levy determines the tax rate based on equalized assessed valuation of the tax district. It does property owners no good to plead with local governments to cut spending AFTER their annual levies are set. You've got to do that BEFORE.
On Monday, Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen and other county leaders came in to talk with the Editorial Board.
Christiansen shared statistics about the Winnebago County's declining equalized assessed value. For the 2010 tax bill, the county's EAV was nearly $4.8 billion. In 2011 that dropped to $4.6 billion; in 2012 it was down to nearly $4.1 billion.
The 2014 tax bill is based on an EAV of not quite $3.8 billion.
That's a decline of $1 billion in EAV from 2010 to 2014. And it could get worse. The county projects that EAV will decline to $3.3 billion for 2017 tax bills. That's an additional $500 million drop!
Partly because of declining EAV, Moody's Investor Services on Monday downgraded the Rockford Park District's bond rating to Aa3 from Aa2. Moody's said, "The downgrade to the Aa3 rating reflects the district's rapidly depreciating tax base resulting from a struggling housing market, maintaining reserve levels below those of similarly rated entities, exposure to economically sensitive revenue streams, and below average socioeconomic profile."
Sooner or later the shrinking EAV will affect all Rockford-area governments' bond ratings unless we turn our economy around.
County government is trying to set a good example. Since 2008 county government has reduced employment by 200, and spending has been reduced $22 million.
Even so, "I'm not getting any calls from people saying they're not getting service," Christiansen said. The county's decision to change its health care from the "You breaka, we fixa" model, to a wellness model, is paying off.
In six months, Christiansen said, "we have reduced health care expenditures more than $1 million." The city of Rockford also is launching wellness-based care.
Local governments could all be good stewards — I wish — but we'd still have a problem in Illinois. The governor and General Assembly continue to rely disproportionately on property taxes to pay for local government services, especially public schools. Illinois ranks 50th in state dollars spent on public schools. Our constitution, however, says, "The State has the primary responsibility for financing the system of public education." We're violating our own constitution, and no one in Springfield thinks that's a problem.
That's why the campaign for governor is, at this point, meaningless. It's a series of charges and countercharges. I don't give a damn.
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner must tell us in detail how they'll improve the business climate here so businesses can create more jobs, which in turn would create more tax revenue. How will they lower the overall tax burden while reducing the reliance on property taxes?
People are not only angry, they're ready to vote with their feet: Last week a Gallup Poll found that half of all Illinoisans would leave the state if they could. The candidates must tell us how they will make us want to stay in Illinois.
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In the last few weeks, it has been revealed that NC Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Vos has hired young campaign workers and paid them more than double what an experienced teacher makes in this state.
Then this week it came out that a colleague of her husband's has been paid more than a quarter million dollars as a consultant in just eight months.
Today, the news is that another consultant has been paid $100,000.
Talk about blatant cronyism.
This is happening while Wos wants to privatize Medicaid, which will inevitably cut money for services for people in need. Privatization is what happened to mental health services a decade ago and it caused our system to implode.
Reimbursement rates went down so no one could make a profit, providers went out of business, leaving thousands of our most vulnerable people without services.
This is what Wos wants to do with Medicaid instead of expanding it, which would cost the state nothing for three years and then just 10 percent after that.
She has lied about the reason for not expanding Medicaid, saying our Medicaid program is "broken." Well, before the Republican General Assembly de-funded it two years ago, it was a national model.
Then she said it was because our computer system wasn't up to the task. She didn't mention that the state turned down millions of dollars in federal money to build the system up.
Then she said it really wasn't her decision anyway. I replied that if she and the governor had come out strongly in favor of it the way Gov. Jan Brewer did in Arizona, we could have gotten it through. I also mentioned that the shit-eating grins on her and the governor's faces were not the demeanor of people who were disappointed with the outcome of the vote.
She walked away from me.
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But Aldona Wos can fritter away hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring friends and campaign workers.
She needs to go. Now.
Here is the letter I e-mailed to Gov. Pat McCrory. Feel free to use it as a template for your own letter to the governort:
Governor, it is time to cut your losses and fire Secretary Aldona Wos. She has violated the public trust again and again.
While Secretary Wos cries about the state Department of Health and Human Services being too broke to provide health care and other services to people in need, she pays a colleague of her husband a quarter million dollars in just eight months, pays another contractor more than $100,000 and gives jobs paying $80,000 and more to young, unqualified campaign workers.
These are not the actions of a devoted public servant; they are the actions of a woman on the take. How can you criticize people who are unemployed and then approve of Secretary Wos's actions? How can you cut services, refuse to take federal money for an expanded Medicaid, slash funds for education, all because we're "broke," and allow this? It is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy.
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You can all imagine the beat from Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake? Got it? Good. here we go:
I'm bringing Pasta back,
Them Mother-Fundi's don't know how to act
Just keep preachin' t'ill you get attacked
And keep drinkin' grog until you're leveled flat
Take em' to the kitchen!
Oh FSM...
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yo I'm beating eggs ...
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yo I'll sell it all for fifty pence ...
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Come here yo -
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Come to the back
VIP? (Very Important Pirate)
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Look at those whisks
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Go ahead yo -
And get your apron on
Get your apron on
Go ahead, cook with it
I'm bringing Pasta back
Them other teachers don't know how to act
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Cause your burning food I gotta get it fast
Take em' to the kitchen!
I'm bringing Pasta back
Them I.D.N (Intelligent Design Network) watch while I attack
If that's your science you better watch your back
Cause I'll teach with FSM and that's a fact!
Take em' to the kitchen ...
Yeah. Something like that ...
Pasta Back
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I'd give you props for creativity, except that reading that made me realize that the melody, flow, and some of the original lyrics ARE EMBEDDED IN MY BRAIN!
Thanks for helping me realize that no matter what I do, a part of Justin Timberlake will live on in the inner workings of my brain, either until the day I die, or until I reach a sufficient level of senility.
Great! Now I'm praying for senility.
Thanks Cliff!
Thanks for helping me realize that no matter what I do, a part of Justin Timberlake will live on in the inner workings of my brain, either until the day I die, or until I reach a sufficient level of senility.
Great! Now I'm praying for senility.
Thanks Cliff!
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that was awesome.. good creativity, and i liked how it was just like the real song... but better.... you should do a cover of it on youtube.... happy holiday
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Struggling readers
Anyone have a lil one who has trouble reading? I feel like were getting better slowly but when I feel we get a step or two ahead he goes backwards again. Instead of knowing words hes sounded out and learned many times he will still have to sound it out. Like I said were slowly getting better but still not where he needs to be. Hell be 8 in March and not reading independently. My other kids grasped it fairly quick. So is there any advice from others like us?
Have you checked his vision?mom to 3 girls: DD10, DD9, DD6
I would do it ASAP. His reading difficulties could be just because he can't see well. I would rule vision problems out first. It might not be obvious even to a super attentive parent because young kids can adapt amazingly well in everything, but reading print.mom to 3 girls: DD10, DD9, DD6
What are you using?
It sounds like he is blending, yes? He's just really slow? This is on the later end for a child who is receiving solid, continuous instruction, but not beyond the pale. Some kids are still not totally ready to be reading at this age. It's definitely within the norm. In other words, I wouldn't freak out yet.
Still, if you've been working with him consistently, especially if you're using a good phonics program, I'll second getting his vision checked - not just by the ped, but by a vision tracking specialist. You can also consider getting him an eval for dyslexia, though I think you could wait on that a little unless you've got great insurance that'll cover a psych-ed (in which case, heck, why not, go for it).
Not knowing what you're using, I'm not sure, but often switching things up a little is good. If your older ones were quick readers, maybe you didn't go through this, but a lot of people go through a lot of programs before they hit on the "magic" one. Also, kids who are natural readers don't tend to need much instruction once they get going. He might just need a much more intensive approach - something more like Spalding or Logic of English or All About Reading another Orton-Gillingham style program.Want to read about my homeschool?
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Yes, I agree. The type of eye doctor is called a "behavioral optometrist". The test is a little different than a regular eye test. Also, though, there is a book called "Better Late Than Early" by Raymond Moore and Dorothy Moore. It is good food for thought. It is hard when you have kids that got "it" early.
I would say that any ophthalmologist (an MD) who sees lots of kids on a regular basis would be great.mom to 3 girls: DD10, DD9, DD6
I would also rule out eye problems. You will want an actual ophthalmologist, not just an optometrist at an eye glass place, and preferably a pediatric ophthalmologist but any ophthalmologist that sees children regularly would be better than none at all.
After that, if there are not any vision problems, I would rule out learning disabilities. You could have the public schools do an assessment if money is an issue or you can have a private assessment but you will likely pay for it entirely out of pocket. You do not have to be enrolled in the schools for them to do an assessment for special education. You will need to go to the special education coordinator for the school district and ask for an assessment for learning disability. You will have more clout (and less issues most likely) if you can show some kind of documentation of his issues. A short (< 5 mins) video of him reading would be good. A short narrative by you of what you have done with him and what issues he is having is something else I would bring. The copies of the results of the vision testing and any other outside testing you have had done.
If after all this, you still don't have any answers, he could just be a late bloomer. My oldest son did not read independently until he was 9. We tried every different kind of program out there. We did vision testing, we did LD testing, we tried pushing, sadly we tried punishing as if he just wasn't trying, we tried not doing anything at all for a while... nothing seemed to work. I was ready to put him in public school because I didn't know what else to do for him. His younger brother and sisters learned to read without much trouble at all, two of them before they were 5 years old and one at 6yo. I was just at a loss. Then it was like a light bulb went on one day and he was reading. He caught up to grade level quickly and soon was reading anything he wanted. By the time he went into public school when he was 13, no one could tell he had been an extremely late reader. He is graduated from high school now and serving in the military like he had wanted since he was little. It certainly caused me many sleepless nights and lots of tears when he was young but he hasn't had any ill effects from being a late reader. He still became a voracious reader when he was ready to do it.
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Sounds like your 8 year old's a sight reader, being taught phonics. It won't work. I'm a sight reader and I NEVER sound out words. I see a word, take in the majority of letters that comprise it and say alright. Atlension is a misspelling of Attention. It looks almost identical. But at age 8, I was still being read to by my mother and only reading when I felt like it.
Comic books, are great reading tools. For Better or For Worse, Baby Blues and a couple others that I don't remember quite as well are good choices as they're entertaining to both child and parent.
When left to his own devices, he'll read excellently. I pride myself on being able to look at a comparable word in another romance language and being able to half the time get the meaning right.
That's the advantage of sight reading.
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My nephew struggled with reading when he was 8 and he struggles still, now when he is 16. He has dyslexia that went undiagnosed for years. You may want to check with an educational psychologist, just in case.


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