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Image copyright St John Ambulance Service Image caption Mr Knowles has been a first aider at his church for more than 40 years

 A retired nurse talked his trainees through saving his own life when he suffered heart failure during a CPR lecture.

 David Knowles was delivering a first aid course to members of his Exeter church group when he started feeling unwell.

 The 77-year-old said he felt dizzy and weak, and had to lie down.

 He then instructed his trainees, who thought he was role playing, on what to do before he passed out.

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 "I had just started my lecture and we were talking about cardiopulmonary resuscitation," Mr Knowles said.

 "The more senior members of the group had asked for a demonstration...she thought I was role playing, but I told her it was real and that I was going to lose consciousness."

 'I woke up weeks later'

 Mr Knowles, a St John Ambulance volunteer, went into cardiac arrest, but his trainees called 999 and gave him CPR until an ambulance crew arrived.

 "I'm told I came to, briefly, and was talking to the paramedics about my condition, but the next thing I remember is waking up in hospital, two and a half weeks later," he said.

 Mr Knowles was alone setting up his lecture in the church rooms on 16 February for between 10 and 20 minutes before his students arrived.

 St John Ambulance said if he had gone into cardiac arrest during that period, with no-one on hand to revive him, he would almost certainly have died.

 At the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Mr Knowles suffered a further cardiac arrest and a pulmonary embolism.

 He was hospitalised for five weeks, and left hospital in mid-March.

 Doctors feared he might have suffered brain damage, that his internal organs could have been affected by his ordeal and predicted he would need months of rehabilitation.

 But medics say he is making excellent progress, is mentally alert and can walk unaided as he continues to recover at home in Newtown, Exeter. ||||| This was not a drill.

 David Knowles had just begun a CPR training class in his local church when he suddenly felt quite awful.

 Read: 13-Year-Old Certified to Perform First Aid and CPR Saves Little Boy Choking on Piece of Candy

 He puddled to the floor, but managed to take his own pulse.

 "Are you all right?" a student asked.

 “I’m not feeling all right at all,” Knowles, 77, told his pupil. The former nurse was having a heart attack on the first day of his emergency training course.

 First, he had to let the class know this was not a demonstration. And before he passed out, or died, he had to tell them how to help.

 “The whole group was up on its feet, looking like they weren’t doing very well, either,” Knowles told InsideEdition.com Thursday during a phone interview from his home in Exeter, England.

 Karol Chew, a fellow parishioner and also a former nurse, was taking Knowles’ class as a refresher course.

 Knowles told Chew to call an ambulance. He said he was about to experience cardiac arrest and might not survive. He asked for his wife, Nova, to be notified, but stressed that she was not to hurry.

 “She’d just had her gallbladder out and wasn’t supposed to run,” he said.

 He asked Karol to remove his false teeth and put them somewhere safe. “I was beginning to get a bit foggy,” he said.

 But he knew he had to try to stay awake. “I couldn’t really get stirred up about it,” he said, because he had to help Karol help him.

 From that point on, he doesn’t remember much.

 Read: Unconscious Woman Receives CPR from Bride in Her Wedding Gown: 'My Nursing Instincts Kicked In'

 “I woke up two and half weeks later,” he said. He had been in a medically induced coma because the damage to his heart was serious, he said. “It was quite severe. I was more dead than alive when they got me into hospital.”

 That was four months ago, and Knowles says he continues to improve. He exercises and keeps a close eye on himself.

 He said Karol performed CPR after he stopped breathing. Without her, he doesn’t know if he’d still be alive.

 “It really got bizarre, the whole thing,” Knowles said.

 Doctors say he is in good health, and he is helping St. John Ambulance, where he volunteers, celebrate its 140th anniversary.

 “I feel a lot better,” he said.

 Watch: Coach Saves Man's Life by Doing CPR to 'Stayin' Alive' ||||| A group of first aid trainees thought their instructor was role-playing during a class on how to perform life-saving CPR as he had a heart attack during a lecture.

 David Knowles, 77, began to lose consciousness as he told his students how to resuscitate people at his local church in Exeter.

 Some of the group thought Mr Knowles was giving a demonstration as he lay on the floor feeling faint and unwell.

 They managed to save the St John Ambulance volunteer's life after he told them what to do just before he passed out.

 He told the BBC: "I had just started my lecture and we were talking about cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

 "The more senior members of the group had asked for a demonstration...she thought I was role playing, but I told her it was real and that I was going to lose consciousness."

 Mr Knowles suffered a cardiac arrest but survived because his trainees dialled 999 and performed CPR until paramedics rushed to the scene.

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 The pensioner fell into a coma and had another heart attack after he was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

 He would have died at the scene if nobody was there to help him.

 Mr Knowles said: "I'm told I came to, briefly, and was talking to the paramedics about my condition, but the next thing I remember is waking up in hospital, two and a half weeks later."

 The retired nurse left hospital after five weeks and has since made "excellent progress" at his home in Newtown, Exeter, according to the BBC.

 He could have suffered brain damage, but is said to be mentally alert and able to walk unaided. |||||

– David Knowles was leading a class on CPR when he suddenly felt weak and dizzy. As the retired UK nurse lay on the floor, he realized he had little time to tell his students what to do before he passed out, the BBC reports. The group "had asked for a demonstration," Knowles says, and they thought they were getting one. When they learned this was no drill, "the whole group was up on its feet, looking like they weren't doing very well, either," Knowles tells Inside Edition. As the 77-year-old, who took his own pulse during the incident, started to "get a bit foggy," he instructed student Karol Chew to call an ambulance and take out his false teeth. Knowles knew he was having a heart attack and had to stay awake but, he adds, "I couldn't really get stirred up about it." Chew—a former nurse who was taking the class to brush up on her skills—began performing CPR after her teacher stopped breathing. "It really got bizarre, the whole thing," Knowles says. He came to briefly when the paramedics arrived, "but the next thing I remember is waking up in [the] hospital, two and a half weeks later," Knowles tells the BBC. He fell into a coma and later suffered another heart attack, per the Independent. The incident in front of his students took place in February. The local ambulance service for which Knowles volunteers says that if he'd been stricken before his students had arrived, he likely would have died. After five weeks in the hospital, Knowles was sent home to his wife, Nova, and doctors say he's making excellent progress. "I feel a lot better," he tells Inside Edition. (Did workplace bullying trigger a fatal heart attack?)


Here is a news article: In a first, a robot boarded a commercial airline flight at Los Angeles International Airport. Called "Athena," she's clearly a discerning robot — she's flying Lufthansa.

 Athena was accompanied by two scientists who are transporting her to Germany.

 It is not uncommon for travelers with precious cargo to pay for an extra seat to be sure that they can carry it on the plane. Most of that equipment doesn't have a humanoid face, though.

 "Athena" is checking in for her seat aboard @lufthansa on her way to Germany! [PIC]. Have you seen her yet? pic.twitter.com/6pYHiQLC9a — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) December 15, 2014

 "Athena" will be accompanied by scientists. A “humanoid” robot has a head, arms, & legs. Photos to come when she arrives at LAX to check-in! — LAX Airport (@flyLAXairport) December 15, 2014

 Athena's ride in the main cabin of the aircraft is not really different from that of a musical instrument or other professional equipment.

 Mary Grady, the managing director at LA World Airports, tweeted photos of Athena going through security.

 "Athena" the Humanoid Robot flys out of LAX. Off To Germany to learn to walk. pic.twitter.com/Ngxgk0jLIB — Mary Grady (@MGradyPIO) December 15, 2014

 This is the first time a robot has flown as a paid passenger on a commercial jet, according to the airport. And if airlines have any say in it, it likely won't be the last.

 Can you think of a better passenger than a robot?

 Robots don't complain about legroom, don't kick the seat in front of them (or find use for a knee defender), and don't find it unconscionable that even a soda can cost $2 aboard some flights. ||||| Alexander Herzog, a doctoral student at Max Planck Society, pushes 'Athena', the first 'humanoid' robot to fly as a passenger, as they arrive at Los Angeles International Airport, California December 15, 2014.

 Alexander Herzog (L) and Jeannette Bohg, doctoral student and senior research scientist at Max Planck Society respectively, push 'Athena', the first 'humanoid' robot to fly as a passenger, as they arrive at Los Angeles International Airport, California December 15, 2014.

 Alexander Herzog, a doctoral student at Max Planck Society, pushes 'Athena', the first 'humanoid' robot to fly as a passenger, as they arrive at Los Angeles International Airport, California December 15, 2014.

 LOS ANGELES A humanoid robot with a head, hands and feet and wearing stylish red sneakers boarded a flight for Germany at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday, becoming what was billed as the first robot traveling as a paid passenger on an airline.

 The robot, named Athena, created a scene at the Tom Bradley International Terminal as she was pushed in a wheelchair up to the Lufthansa counter to pick up her ticket to Frankfurt. Television crews swarmed, camera flashes went off and people aimed their cell-phone cameras at her, exclaiming: “It’s a robot!”

 Built by the Salt Lake City engineering and robotics company Sarcos, Athena was purchased by Germany’s Max Planck Society, which along with researchers at the University of Southern California are trying to make her perform tasks too dangerous for humans, such as cleanup after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan.

 "We don’t want humans to go there and sacrifice their lives," said Max Planck doctoral student Alexander Herzog, who was pushing Athena through the airport. "I would like to have a robot achieve the same task, such as opening up doors and cleaning up."

 Right now, Athena can do little more than sit and bask in attention. The software to make her legs move and stand is still in the works, though her arms can operate and her mouth glows blue on a white head fitted with cameras and sensors.

 She got an economy ticket but still enjoyed special treatment, including a cut to the front of the ticket line in the first-class lane.

 And while Athena did not have to go through the regular metal detector, the Transportation Security Administration had a special electronic pat-down awaiting, said airport spokeswoman Nancy Suey Castles. “TSA didn’t want us to say what it was,” she said.

 As for the flight, Athena was strapped into a seat like a regular passenger, but was put in the off position, accompanied all the way to her new laboratory home in Germany by Herzog and Jeannette Bohg, senior research scientist at the Max Planck Society.

 Representatives for Lufthansa could not be reached for comment.

 Athena could have been shipped in a big box like any other electronic gear, but the scientists "wanted to see how humans responded to a robot sitting in a plane," said Castles.

 Plus, added Herzog, "It’s cheaper to get a seat."

 (Reporting by Michael Fleeman; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Mohammad Zargham) |||||
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– No danger of this passenger experiencing an episode of nut rage: In what Los Angeles International Airport says is an aviation first, a robot traveled as a paying passenger on Monday, sitting in an economy-class seat of its own on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt, Germany, Reuters reports. "Athena," a US-made humanoid robot, was pushed through the airport in a wheelchair by two German researchers who plan to teach it to walk—and, eventually, to perform dangerous tasks like the nuclear cleanup at Fukushima. For now, she can't do much more than move her arms. An airport spokeswoman says the red-sneaker-clad Athena could have made the overseas voyage in a box, but the scientists "wanted to see how humans responded to a robot sitting in a plane." It is fairly common for people with precious cargo to buy a plane seat for it, but "most of that equipment doesn't have a humanoid face," Mashable notes. It doesn't always get special perks, either: Athena didn't have to submit to the metal detector (she got a special pat-down) and got to cut to the front of the boarding line—the first-class one at that.


One day earlier this month, Jim Vidmar bought 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for $58 from an online vendor in Pakistan.

 Mr. Vidmar programs accounts like these to "follow" other Twitter accounts, and to rebroadcast tweets.

 Rapper Dave Murrell, who calls himself Fyrare and has paid Mr. Vidmar to log into Mr. Murrell's Twitter account and "follow" other people to boost his popularity on the social network, says... ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. |||||

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– Jim Vidmar has rather unusual job: He oversees 10,000 fake Twitter accounts. And the Las Vegas man has been at it for six years, using a dozen computers and a slew of accounts to help beef up the followings of his 50-or-so clients, who pay him to help them seem more popular and important, reports the Wall Street Journal. And the accounts have gotten more sophisticated: In April, a tough new filter was applied, and the majority of Vidmar's accounts were wiped from the site. And so the vendors that sell the fakes to Vidmar put a little more work into them: The fakes now feature photos, profile details, and tweet a number of times before he buys them; he got 1,000 for $58 from a Pakistan supplier this month. From there, he has the accounts tweet, retweet, follow, and message—all in the name of clients like "Rapper/Singer/Producer/Guitarist/Fitness Model" Dave Murrell aka @Fyrare (number of Twitter followers: 238,360). Murrell has tried Twitter ads, but says he gets more bang for his buck with Vidmar. Murrell doesn't exactly express any qualms: "If you're not padding your numbers, you're not doing it right. It's part of the game." And it's not just follower count that can be affected: Client Tony Benson (aka rapper Philly Chase) says Vidmar's fake accounts pushed him onto the "trending topics" list and eventually sparked the noticed of Philadelphia media. Buying and selling both accounts and followers is, of course, barred by Twitter's terms of service, but Vidmar notes he has never been contacted or threatened with legal action by Twitter.


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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve took no new steps to support the economy Wednesday, but it said in a statement that it was ready to act if job growth did not improve.

 The statement, released after a meeting of the Fed’s policy-making committee, said that the rate of economic growth had slowed in recent months and was likely to remain “moderate over coming quarters.” As a result, the Fed said it expected the unemployment rate to decline “only slowly.”

 But the central bank deferred any effort to improve the situation at least until the committee’s next scheduled meeting in mid-September.

 “The committee will closely monitor incoming information on economic and financial developments and will provide additional accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability,” it said.

 That was stronger language than it used after its previous meeting in June, when it said that it was “prepared” to act.

 And the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has said that the Fed is “committed to ensuring, or at least doing all we can to ensure” that unemployment continues to decline, suggesting officials may simply be waiting to see the government’s estimates of job growth in July and August, which will be released before the committee reconvenes Sept. 12 and 13.

 The absence of action appeared to disappoint some equity investors. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell 4 points, or 0.29 percent, Wednesday, to 1,375.32. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped sharply after the Fed’s announcement, and then traded erratically before closing near its session low. It fell 37.62 points, also 0.29 percent, to 12,971.06.

 But much of the market’s attention already has turned to the September meeting, when the Fed also will update its economic projections.

 “This statement will at least raise some new doubts about whether the Fed will be easing again this year,” Jim O’Sullivan, chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a note to clients Wednesday. “We still expect they will, assuming that growth remains fairly sluggish, but for now at least the statement keeps the debate open.”

 Mr. Bernanke will have an opportunity to clarify his views when he speaks at an annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., at the end of August.

 Some Fed officials suggested recently that the weak rate of growth required new action. They said that the unemployment rate had stagnated above 8 percent since January, and that the most recent economic forecasts by Fed officials, published in June, projected the rate would decline slightly, if at all, during the second half of the year.

 But there were no votes for action at the meeting that ended Wednesday. Among the 12 officials who vote on monetary policy, the only dissent from the decision to stand pat came from an official who has consistently pressed for the Fed to do less, Jeffrey M. Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

 The Fed already is engaged in a wide-ranging effort to spur growth by cutting interest rates, punishing savers and rewarding borrowers. The central bank has held its benchmark rate near zero since late 2008, and said that it planned to maintain that policy at least until late 2014. It has put further pressure on long-term rates by amassing a portfolio of almost $3 trillion in long-term Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities. And it said in June that it would keep buying bonds through the end of the year.

 But those efforts have proved insufficient to set off a strong recovery. The economy has slogged along somewhere between crisis and prosperity for more than three years now. Unemployment remains pervasive; more than 23 million Americans cannot find full-time jobs. And the Fed, while insisting that it could do more, has so far declined to prove it.

 Some Fed officials remain uncertain that the economy needs help. Economic indicators are imprecise, particularly in times of turbulence. Some officials also doubt the Fed can help. Cheap loans are at best an indirect means of addressing problems like the decline in government spending, tight credit standards and high levels of household debt.

 Vincent Reinhart, chief United States economist at Morgan Stanley, said that the Fed appeared “resigned to subpar economic performance” because it lacked confidence in the available tools. “If it were more confident, it would have done more,” said Mr. Reinhart, who worked as the Fed’s chief monetary policy staff member under Mr. Bernanke. ||||| WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — A cautious Federal Reserve on Wednesday said that the economy was weaker but took no new action to help stimulate demand.

 The lack of any policy action was a surprise. Analysts had expected the Fed to at least push out its pledge to hold its benchmark federal funds rate exceptionally low. Instead, the Fed repeated that it would likely hold that rate steady until late 2014. Read text of FOMC decision.

 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

 Many economists had thought that the Fed might announce a major new asset-purchase plan.

 U.S. stocks SPX, -1.13% dropped in the immediate aftermath of the Fed decision.

 Joe LaVorgna, chief economist at Deutsche Bank, welcomed the Fed’s inaction. “The training wheels need to come off the bike and the economy needs to be left alone,” he said.

 As expected, the Fed left unchanged the federal funds rate target at zero to 0.25%, the level it has been at since December 2008.

 The central bank downgraded its view on the economy, saying that economic activity had decelerated. Previously, the Fed had said that the economy had been expanding moderately.

 Since the recession officially ended in the summer of 2009, the economy has sputtered along with the unemployment rate stuck above 8%.

 The Fed did leave the door open for action.

 The FOMC promised to “closely monitor incoming information on economic and financial developments” and said it “will provide additional accommodation as needed.”

 This is a slightly stronger promise that in June, when it said that it was “prepared to take action as appropriate.”

 Ward McCarthy, chief financial economist at Jefferies, said the Fed is “ready to pull the trigger” if the bar of sustained improvement in the labor market is not met or if downside risks intensify.

 But Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, said the statement raised doubt about whether the Fed will be easing again this year. “We still expect they will, assuming growth remains fairly sluggish, but for now at least the statement keeps the debate open,” he wrote in a note.

 Bernanke will discuss policy options in his annual speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole retreat on Aug. 31.

 Many economists are convinced the Fed will launch a new asset-purchase program, including the buying of mortgage-backed securities, at its next policy meeting in September.

 But others are not so sure that more purchases, or quantitative easing, is inevitable.

 Expectations too high for Fed, ECB? (3:55) In the context of Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" comment, are hopes set unattainably high for the Fed and ECB? Spencer Jakab discusses on Markets Hub. (Photo: Reuters)

 The Fed will have two more unemployment reports, including one on Friday, before its next meeting. Officials want to gauge whether growth will likely remain moderate and pick up gradually as forecast or if the recent soft patch is becoming something more severe.

 The FOMC vote on Wednesday was 11 to 1. The dissenter was Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker, who has dissented at every meeting this year.

 Lacker wanted the Fed to omit any guidance on how long rates will stay exceptionally low.

 Last month, the Fed extended its Operation Twist program until the end of the year. The Fed is selling short-term government securities and buying longer-term Treasurys in a bid to lower long-term interest rates.

 John Lonski, chief economist at Moody’s Capital, said there was no reason for additional stimulus at the meeting as equity markets have firms and credit spreads have been relatively well behaved. “Financial markets are not in need of additional support right now,” he added.

 Lonski also said investors would be closely watching European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s press conference following the central bank’s policy meeting Thursday.

 If Draghi follows though on his pledge to do whatever it takes to support the Europe, it will relieve pressure on the Fed to take additional action, he commented. Read ECB preview.

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 The Federal Reserve is heading toward launching a new round of stimulus to buck up the weak economy, but stopped short of doing so right away.

 The decision to make what amounted to a conditional promise of action came Wednesday at the end of the central bank's two-day policy meeting. In an uncharacteristically strong statement, the Fed said it will "closely monitor" the economy and "will provide additional accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions." Translation: The Fed will move if growth and employment don't pick up soon on their own. |||||

– Wall Street has been waiting anxiously for a few days now to see what the Fed was going to do about the economy, and the answer arrived this afternoon: Nothing. For now. The Fed sees evidence that the economy has actually decelerated in recent months, reports MarketWatch, but it's not going to enter into new bond-buying or other such stimulus until the picture clarifies in the next month or two. Friday's jobs report might be the first indicator. In Fed-speak: “The committee will closely monitor incoming information on economic and financial developments and will provide additional accommodation as needed to promote stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions," said its official statement. The Wall Street Journal parses the wording and thinks the Fed "signaled more strongly" that it will eventually take action. The New York Times, too, calls the language "somewhat stronger" than past statements.


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– A devastated mother took to social media to discuss the painful details surrounding her baby's death after critics began speculating that vaccines were to blame, Good Housekeeping reports. "To those who keep commenting and messaging trying to blame vaccines for our sons death—stop," Jordan DeRosier wrote on Facebook Tuesday, the day after the 7-month-old's death, which she had posted about on social media. "Initially I had not wanted to explain the detailed circumstances of his death because of my guilt and the fear of condemnation from others. But I will not allow anyone to try and place blame where it does not belong." DeRosier, who is well-known in the handmade and small shops communities, went on to explain that little Sloan was put to bed for the final time with two blankets. He somehow pulled one of those blankets through the rails of his crib and got stuck in it, leading to his death. In another gut-wrenching post, DeRosier told the story of how she found Sloan, who was the family's rainbow baby after two miscarriages and fertility treatments, the following morning when she went to wake him up, one of the blankets wrapped around his head. Paramedics couldn't save him, but DeRosier decided to share the details in an effort to save other parents the same grief: "Please do not put your babies to bed with a blanket," she writes. "I thought because he was crawling, standing on his own, and climbing, that he would be fine with a blanket. ... I will NEVER stop feeling responsible. I will relive this for the rest of my life knowing EXACTLY what I could have done differently." The post has been shared more than 13,000 times, and the story is being picked up widely in the media, with many outlets pointing to the AAP's safe sleep guidelines for infants in an effort to spread awareness. A YouCaring fundraiser has been set up for the family.

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 Place the baby on his or her back on a firm sleep surface such as a crib or bassinet with a tight-fitting sheet.

 Avoid use of soft bedding, including crib bumpers, blankets, pillows and soft toys. The crib should be bare.

 Share a bedroom with parents, but not the same sleeping surface, preferably until the baby turns 1 but at least for the first six months. Room-sharing decreases the risk of SIDS by as much as 50 percent.

 Avoid baby's exposure to smoke, alcohol and illicit drugs.

 Offer a pacifier at nap time and bedtime.

 Do not use home monitors or commercial devices, including wedges or positioners, marketed to reduce the risk of SIDS.

 Infants should receive all recommended vaccinations.

 Supervised, awake tummy time is recommended daily to facilitate development.

 San Francisco, CA -- Infants should sleep in the same bedroom as their parents – but on a separate surface, such as a crib or bassinet, and never on a couch, armchair or soft surface -- to decrease the risks of sleep-related deaths, according to a new policy statement released by the American Academy of Pediatrics. SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment, " draws on new research and serves as the first update to Academy policy since 2011.Recommendations call for infants to share their parents' bedroom for at least the first six months and, optimally, for the first year of life, based on the latest evidence.The policy statement and an accompanying technical report will be released Monday, Oct. 24, at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition in San Francisco. The report, to be published in the November 2016 issue of Pediatrics (online Oct. 24), includes new evidence that supports skin-to-skin care for newborn infants; addresses the use of bedside and in-bed sleepers; and adds to recommendations on how to create a safe sleep environment."We know that parents may be overwhelmed with a new baby in the home, and we want to provide them with clear and simple guidance on how and where to put their infant to sleep," said Rachel Moon, MD, FAAP, lead author of the report. "Parents should never place the baby on a sofa, couch, or cushioned chair, either alone or sleeping with another person. We know that these surfaces are extremely hazardous."Experts will present the updated policies during a news conference at 10:15 a.m. PST Oct. 24 during the national conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The news conference will be video-recorded and available for viewing afterward. More details are included at the end of this release.Approximately 3,500 infants die annually in the United States from sleep-related deaths, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); ill-defined deaths; and accidental suffocation and strangulation. The number of infant deaths initially decreased in the 1990s after a national safe sleep campaign, but has plateaued in recent years.AAP recommendations on creating a safe sleep environment include:Skin-to-skin care is recommended, regardless of feeding or delivery method, immediately following birth for at least an hour as soon as the mother is medically stable and awake, according to the report.Breastfeeding is also recommended as adding protection against SIDS. After feeding, the AAP encourages parents to move the baby to his or her separate sleeping space, preferably a crib or bassinet in the parents' bedroom."If you are feeding your baby and think that there's even the slightest possibility that you may fall asleep, feed your baby on your bed, rather than a sofa or cushioned chair," said Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, FAAP, member of the Task Force on SIDS and co-author of the report."If you do fall asleep, as soon as you wake up be sure to move the baby to his or her own bed," she said."There should be no pillows, sheets, blankets or other items that could obstruct the infant's breathing or cause overheating."While infants are at heightened risk for SIDS between the ages 1 and 4 months, new evidence shows that soft bedding continues to pose hazards to babies who are 4 months and older.Other recommendations include:

 The AAP recommends that doctors have open and nonjudgmental conversations with families about their sleep practices. Media outlets and advertisers may also play a role in educating parents by following safe sleep recommendations when presenting images and messages to the public.

 "We want to share this information in a way that doesn't scare parents but helps to explain the real risks posed by an unsafe sleep environment," Dr. Moon said. "We know that we can keep a baby safer without spending a lot of money on home monitoring gadgets but through simple precautionary measures."

 The news conference will be held from 10:15 a.m.- 11 a.m. PST on Oct. 24 in Room 125, Moscone Center North, 730 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103. Speakers are:

 Fern R. Hauck, MD, MS, FAAP, co-author of the AAP policy statement, "SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment"

 Lori Feldman-Winter, MD, MPH, FAAP, liaison from the AAP Section on Breastfeeding to the AAP Task Force on SIDS and co-author of the report

 Samuel Hanke, MD, FAAP, founder, Charlie's Kids Foundation.

 Catherine Spong, MD, Acting Director for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

 The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 66,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For more information, visit www.aap.org ; Follow us on Twitter @AmerAcadPeds. ||||| UPDATE, 7/10/2017: Nearly a week after losing her 7-month-old son Sloan, after he got tangled in his crib blanket, mom Jordan DeRosier spoke to People about the tragic accident. "I have a lot of guilt. What could I have done better? Could I have saved him? I will never be able to shake the feeling that there was something more I could have done to prevent his death," DeRosier said.

 DeRosier made Sloan's cause of death public in a Facebook post, which has since been deleted, with hopes that it would shed light on the dangers of crib blankets. "That's really the only thing giving us comfort right now. We've gotten thousands of messages from parents saying that after reading about our story, they took blankets out of cribs."

 But she has also received negative reactions, and has now made her Facebook private. "More and more people started to say hateful, hurtful things," she wrote in her latest post. "I started getting messages and comments that made me physically sick to read. It is so unfortunate that people think grief should fit their guidelines, that because my child died I cannot talk about him. My son's life mattered. His story matters."

 ORIGINAL, 7/6/2017: After a tragic accident, one grieving mom is opening up about the dangers of having blankets and other objects in a young child's crib.

 Washington mom Jordan DeRosier took to social media to express her emptiness after she suddenly lost her seven-month-old Sloan on July 3. While she originally refrained from posting the cause of death, she shared her heart-wrenching experience after critics began blaming vaccines; Sloan had passed away after getting caught in his blanket overnight.

 "I had not wanted to explain the detailed circumstances of his death because of my guilt and the fear of condemnation from others. But I will not allow anyone to try and place blame where it does not belong," she wrote in a Facebook post that has since been deleted.

 "He was last laid down to bed with this blanket made by his great-great grandmother, and one other blanket, a grey one he had been attached to since birth. They took the grey one he had been found with his head in. He had pulled it through the crib rails somehow and gotten himself stuck in it. You never think it will happen to you. You never think it will be your baby."

 DeRosier finished her message, by urging parents to learn from her "world-shattering mistake."

 "Please do not put your babies to bed with a blanket. Please. He was 7 months old, I thought because he was crawling, standing on his own, and climbing, that he would be fine with a blanket. This is the face of immense, unfathomable grief, the face of longing, of heartbreak, of self inflicted GUILT. I will NEVER stop feeling responsible. I will relive this for the rest of my life knowing EXACTLY what I could have done differently."

 In a statement to GoodHousekeeping.com, DeRosier said that she hopes Sloan's story educates others about crib safety.

 "Sloan was a light in the life of all who knew him, he was an absolute dream baby. It helps us to know that he is living on in the hearts of people around the world. We have received hundreds of thousand of comments and messages letting us know that his story has already saved the lives of so many other babies. His life was far too short, but his purpose is now so clear," she said.

 Her words certainly serve as a warning. Approximately 3,500 infants die annually in the United States from sleep-related deaths, including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); ill-defined deaths; and accidental suffocation and strangulation, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

 The Good Housekeeping Institute's Chief Technologist Rachel Rothman says bare is best when it comes to you baby's crib. "Nothing should be in the crib except the baby and a tight-fitting firm mattress and fitted sheet," she explains. "Soft objects, loose bedding or any items that could cause entrapment, suffocation or strangulation should be out of the baby's sleep area including pillows, comforters, blankets, toys, bumper pads or anything that attaches to the crib slats."

 Both Rothman and DeRosier's warnings mirror the AAP's recommendations. They suggest doing the following to create a safe sleep environment for babies:

 Place the baby on his or her back on a firm sleep surface such as a crib or bassinet with a tight-fitting sheet.

 Avoid use of soft bedding, including crib bumpers, blankets, pillows and soft toys.

 Share a bedroom with parents, but not the same sleeping surface, preferably until the baby turns one but at least for the first six months. Room-sharing decreases the risk of SIDS by as much as 50%.

 Avoid baby's exposure to smoke, alcohol and illicit drugs. |||||


Here is a news article: (CNN) - A recent study released by the Nielsen Company that examines the consumer and media habits of women in emerging and developed countries has found that women in India are the most stressed – and they spend differently.

 The Women of Tomorrow Study, which examined 6,500 women across 21 different nations from February through April 2011, found that an overwhelming 87% of Indian women said they felt stressed most of the time, with 82% claiming they had no time to relax.

 Indian women are not alone. The vast majority of Mexican (74%) and Russian (69%) women surveyed also reported feeling stressed.

 List of 21 countries surveyed in order of most stressed women:

 India (87%) Mexico (74%) Russia (69%) Brazil (67%) Spain (66%) France (65%) South Africa (64%)

 Italy (64%) Nigeria (58%) Turkey (56%) U.K. (55%) U.S.A. (53%) Japan (52%)

 Canada (52%)

 Australia (52%) China (51%) Germany (47%) Thailand (45%)

 South Korea (45%) Malaysia (44%)

 Sweden (44%)

 Reuters noted from the survey that despite being the most stressed, Indian women were also the most likely to spend disposable income on themselves. Over three quarters said they would splurge on health and beauty products, while 96% responded that they would buy clothes.

 Across the board, women in developing economies spent more of their additional cash on clothes, health and beauty items, groceries and education for their children. Women in the developed economies surveyed dedicate more of their cash to vacations, savings and paying off debt.

 “Women across the globe are achieving higher levels of education, joining the workforce in greater numbers and contributing more to the household income,” said Susan Whiting, vice chair of Nielsen, in a release that accompanied the survey. “Women are increasing their spending power, and with that they gain more control and influence over key household decisions. As a result the women of today and tomorrow are powerful consumers and understanding their habits and attitudes is critically important for marketers and advertisers.”

 Nielsen’s survey found that worldwide, women play multiple roles that contribute to their stress levels, but that the social infrastructure allowing them to navigate these roles differed between emerging and developed markets. As a result, women in emerging markets tended to be more stressed than women in the developed world, with women in India, Mexico and Nigeria feeling the most time-pressured.

 So why exactly are women in emerging markets more stressed than women in developed countries? The Economic Times suggests that, in the case of India, companies and workplaces have developed whilst society has remained static, meaning that women must juggle a modern career and busy home life as well as conforming to traditional standards.

 Although times appear to be changing – women surveyed in emerging economies saw the financial stability, education and access to technology for their daughters improving faster than their counterparts in the developed world.

 With time-pressured but empowered women controlling household budgets, how should marketers go about getting them to loosen their purse strings? The key, it seems, is social media.

 Irrespective of their global location, women are more prolific users of social networking than men. Women talk 28% more and send 14% more texts than men every month, and also visit more Internet community sites than their male counterparts. More than half of women in both developed and emerging countries say that computers, mobile phones and smart phones have changed their lives for the better.

 “To connect with women, strategies should be social and relevant,” said Whiting, noting that women’s increased use of social networking meant that they followed brands more than men.

 Nielsen’s results show that older forms of advertising still hold sway. In 17 of the 21 countries surveyed, television was rated the number one source for finding out about new products and stores. Yet around the world, over 70% of women in developed and over 80% of women in emerging markets completely or somewhat trust word-of-mouth recommendations over all other advertising mediums. ||||| An woman speaks on her mobile phone in front of a retail garment shop in Mumbai November 27, 2006.

 TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Women around the world feel stressed and pressed for time, but women in emerging markets are more stressed than their sisters in developed nations -- and Indian women say they are the most stressed of all, according to a survey published on Tuesday.

 But while women in emerging markets may be under more pressure, they are also far more hopeful, with most seeing more financial stability and better chances for education for their daughters, according to the survey of 21 developed and emerging nations by global information and analytics firm Nielsen.

 An overwhelming 87 percent of Indian women said they felt stressed most of the time, and 82 percent had no time to relax.

 Despite being stressed, though, Indian women were also the most likely to spend any extra cash they might happen to have on themselves over the next five years.

 Nearly all, 96 percent, anticpated buying clothes, while 77 percent said they would splash out on health and beauty products and 44 percent on home electronics.

 "Women across the globe are achieving higher levels of education, joining the workforce in greater numbers and contributing more to the household income," said Susan Whiting, vice chair at Nielsen, in a statement.

 "Women tell Nielsen they feel empowered to reach their goals and get what they want, but at the same time, this level of empowerment results in added stress."

 Mexican women came in second in terms of stress and lack of time, with 74 percent, followed by Russia with 69 percent, which the survey blamed partly on the intense pace of social change, with what took half a century to evolve in developed countries compressed into five for their emerging cousins.

 The highest stress levels in developed countries were Spain with 66 percent and France with 65 percent. Some 53 percent of U.S. women said they were stressed.

 MORE STRESS, BUT MORE HOPE

 Women in general felt they had more opportunities than their mothers no matter where they were living.

 But women in emerging markets believed their daughters will have more chances than they did, while those in developed nations said their girls will only have the same opportunites, not more.

 In emerging markets, 80 percent of women surveyed believe their daughters will have greater financial stability and 83 percent believe they will have more educational opportunity.

 Only 40 percent of women in developed nations saw their daughters having more financial stability, and only 54 percent forecast more educational chances.

 "The difference in perceptions is ... reflective of the belief that women in developed countries have achieved a certain level of attainment and success," said Whiting.

 "While women in emerging markets see tremendous growth in the opportunities for their daughters, a plateau of hope is evident in developed countries."

 The most optimistic women were in Turkey, an overwhelming 92 percent of whom thought their daughters would have more opportunities than they did, followed by 89 percent of Nigerians and Malaysians.

 Only half of U.S. women thought the same.

 No matter where they were, though, women were more keyed into social networking than men, talking 28 percent more and texting 14 percent more every month. They also visited more Internet community sites.

 More than half of women in both developed and emerging nations said that computers, mobile phones and smart phones had changed their lives for the better.

 "To connect with women, strategies should be social and relevant," said Whiting, noting that social networking meant women followed brands more than men.

 "Women are much more likely to engage with media that seamlessly integrates into and improves their day-to-day lives."

 The survey was conducted from February to April and covered nearly 6,500 women in Turkey, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, China, Thailand, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

 (Reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by Sugita Katyal) |||||
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– Think you've got the most stressful life in the world, ladies? Unless you live in India, that's probably not true, according to a recent study. A staggering 87% of women surveyed in India said they felt stressed most of the time, and 82% claimed to have no time to relax, reports CNN. Women in Mexico (74%) and Russia (69%) are the next most stressed, with women in the US (53%) ranking 11th. The Women of Tomorrow Study examined 6,500 women from 21 countries earlier this year, and found that there's also a correlation between women's stress and their spending habits. Those in developed countries like the US are more likely to spend on vacations, savings, and paying off debt; while those in emerging countries like India are more likely to splurge on themselves. Women are also more immersed in social networking, talking 28% more and texting 14% more than men each month. Reuters also has the study.


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The young woman who leaked screenshots of her post-resignation sexting with Anthony Weiner told TheDirty.com that she wanted to remain anonymous, but since we’re dealing with the Internet here, it took only a few hours for her to be identified. BuzzFeed has obtained images from Facebook and Formspring that seem to match the blurred shots posted on TheDirty.com, and rummaged through the now-shuttered accounts. She appears to be an Indiana woman in her early twenties who was a field organizer for Obama for America and listed Weiner as number three on her list of heroes. In separate posts, she wrote that Weiner “did nothing wrong” and “can continue sending dick pics every single day for the rest of his life as long as he continues to legislate like he does.”

 The woman used the handles “Sydney Leathers” and “sidneyelainexo,” and BuzzFeed reported early on Wednesday morning that her name is Sydney Elaine Leathers. A high school friend confirmed that the pair had raunchy online chats last summer, saying, “I saw the messages and the message said ‘Anthony Weiner.’” The friend claims that Weiner promised to “move her to either Chicago or New York,” and says Leathers “felt she was the important one,” even topping Huma Abedin.

 After nervously speaking on Weiner’s behalf at her first press conference, on Tuesday evening Abedin offered up a second defense of her husband, somewhat unwittingly. She had already penned an essay for the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and the magazine published an early excerpt (titled “The Good Wife”). In the piece, Abedin explains, once again, why she decided to stay with her husband. “Anthony has always been a smart, caring, and dedicated person, and while he’s the same public servant who wants what’s best for the people he represents, he is now something else — a better man,” she says. Her prescient conclusion: ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. |||||Summary:

– BuzzFeed has identified Anthony Weiner's newly revealed sexting partner as Sydney Elaine Leathers, a progressive activist in her early 20s who lives in Indiana. Pictures on her Facebook and Formspring accounts look pretty close to the blurred images offered up on The Dirty when it broke the sexting story, and she's talked about Weiner quite a bit online (often on accounts that are now deleted). For example, in a June 2011 Facebook post, she declared: "Rep. Weiner can continue sending dick pics every single day for the rest of his life as long as he continues to legislate like he does. I decided." Her TwitPic account identifies her as an Obama for America field organizer. She also listed Weiner as one of her heroes, wrote at least one blog post about his resignation, and said on Facebook that he shouldn't have resigned. An anonymous source confirms BuzzFeed got the ID right and says he or she saw the messages exchanged a year ago, but a BuzzFeed reporter asked Weiner last night if he knew Leathers and—shocker—got no response. The source, who says he or she has known Leathers since high school, says she "felt she was the important one" to Weiner, even more important than wife Huma Abedin. As for Abedin, Daily Intel notes that she came to a "prescient conclusion" in September's Harper's Bazaar: "People have said many things about my husband—some nice, some not so nice. And that will surely continue. Launching this campaign was not an easy decision for our family to make. Putting yourself out there comes with a cost." (Meanwhile, "cubicle guy" has become a viral sensation after Weiner's press conference last night.)


Sen. Max Baucus Max BaucusWyden unveils business tax proposal College endowments under scrutiny The chaotic fight for ObamaCare MORE (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller Jay RockefellerLobbying world Overnight Tech: Senators place holds on FCC commissioner Overnight Tech: Senate panel to vote on Dem FCC commissioner MORE (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committee, who both represent states with significant coal industries, would like to proceed cautiously.

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 “Most of the country doesn’t know what cap-and-trade is. They have no idea. I would say half the Senate have no idea what cap-and-trade is and could not explain it,” Rockefeller told The Hill on Tuesday.

 He said climate legislation should not reach the floor before July of next year, putting the controversial bill on the schedule only months before Election Day.

 “You have to get this stuff out to the American people before you change their lives, and we are not paying any attention to that,” Rockefeller said.

 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer Barbara BoxerArmy of Sanders supporters fuming over Wasserman Schultz Sanders pans chemical safety reform deal Sanders fans plan rallies near Dem convention MORE (D-Calif.) and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry John KerryGlobal Magnitsky's power to protect Obama must act to protect Palestinian youth Tough choice for vulnerable GOP senators: Embrace or reject Trump MORE (D-Mass.) would like to pass the bill as soon as possible.

 “I’d love to get it done tomorrow,” said Boxer, who acknowledged others are less intent on moving that quickly.

 In the middle is Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Natural Resources Committee whose home-state coal interests are not as significant as Baucus’s and Rockefeller’s but whose constituents are not as liberal as Boxer’s and Kerry’s.

 A sixth chairwoman with jurisdiction, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) of the Agriculture Committee, told The Hill earlier this month that the Senate should focus on jobs and the economy.

 Hanging in the balance is one of President Barack Obama Barack ObamaObama goes golfing on Friday Okla. introduces Obama impeachment measure over bathroom directive Adviser: Obama will keep low profile after term ends MORE’s top domestic priorities, as well as the president’s credibility among potential signatories to an international climate pact.

 Five of the six chairmen tried to patch up their differences Monday during a meeting in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Harry ReidLake Mead hits record low water level Dems: Warren ready to get off sidelines Clinton: 'There is no way I won't be' nominee MORE (D-Nev.), who is trying to bring his senior colleagues together before sketching out a plan on how to proceed in 2010, when lawmakers will work with one eye on the midterm elections. Lincoln was traveling and unable to attend the meeting.

 “We’ve got all kinds of difference of perspective of where the Senate is and where the votes are and where the Senate should try to move,” Bingaman said of his meeting with the other chairmen.

 Rockefeller said his state would be the most affected and that his residents need more time to know what the bill is about.

 “Right now they don’t, and therefore they are terrified and furious, and I don’t blame them,” he said.

 This, however, may be a bid to push climate change legislation into 2011.

 Democratic leaders and Democratic centrists facing reelection, such as Lincoln and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), might prefer a postponement to a tough vote on a controversial climate bill shortly before Election Day.

 A Republican leadership aide said that a vote on climate change in July or August would be a political gift for Republicans.

 “There would be nothing better than for us to talk about over the summer than Democrats pushing a huge new energy tax,” the aide said.

 Baucus, who was the only Democrat to vote against Boxer’s climate bill in the Environment and Public Works Committee earlier this month, would also prefer to proceed more slowly on a broad bill next year, according to a Democratic source familiar with talks among the chairmen.

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 Boxer noted, however, that Baucus told her he would mark up a climate change bill in the Finance Committee in January.

 The move suggests Baucus may be trying to lay down his legislative marker in the debate before it leaves him behind.

 Baucus unveiled his healthcare bill shortly before Obama delivered a major healthcare address to a joint session of Congress.

 Senate sources on the Finance Committee said that Baucus felt he had to put his bill in the mix before the president weighed in or otherwise risked losing influence in negotiations.

 A final climate law next year is critical for Obama administration officials, who will be negotiating the details of an international emissions accord to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. did not join. Failure by the U.S. to enact domestic limits would hinder U.S. leverage to help craft a binding global agreement.

 The next round of United Nations climate talks begin Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Obama and other heads of state have conceded those talks will not yield a complete, legally binding agreement, but hope they will result in a political accord that sets the stage for final talks next year.

 Boxer said that the hoped-for political accord next month in Copenhagen could help provide momentum for Senate action, easing fears among lawmakers that developing nations will not take meaningful steps on emissions.

 She said her “clear impression” is that everyone in the Senate is working to get a bill passed in 2010.

 At the moment, Reid appears to be siding with Boxer on timing. When asked Tuesday about the timing for climate change legislation, he told reporters that “we are going to try to do that sometime in the spring.”

 But that goal could easily slip, just as Reid’s targets for healthcare reform legislation have slid repeatedly this year.

 Senate Democrats will be hard-pressed to take up climate change legislation before May, because Reid has told colleagues that he will give higher priority to financial regulatory reform and a jobs bill.

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 “Sen. Reid is talking about doing financial reform and a jobs bill before [getting] to this,” Boxer told reporters at a Tuesday briefing.

 Lincoln said she did not think climate change legislation does much to address unemployment, while an energy bill passed out of the Senate Energy Committee does.

 “I’m not in a hurry to do that,” she said of climate change legislation. “I think the energy bill we did in the Senate Energy Committee gets us a long way toward job creation and moving us from an old-energy economy to a new-energy economy, which is really what the objective is — lowering carbon output and lessening dependence on foreign oil.”

 Bingaman, the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he would be willing to pass energy legislation separately from a cap-and-trade bill to address climate change.

  ||||| Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty.

 Legislation on health care, overhauling financial markets and job creation will be considered before the Senate takes up a measure to cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change, Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday.

 Climate legislation will be taken up "some time in the spring," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Tuesday after a Democratic caucus meeting.

 Enlarge Image Close Associated Press A front-end loader piles manure at a Kersey, Colo., feedlot in August. Technology was being tested there to turn cattle manure into energy.

 The delay was "just a matter of reality, they can't get anything done at this time," said Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), who has previously supported climate legislation. He has said he wouldn't support the current Senate proposal because of disagreements over its handling of nuclear energy.

 The climate-bill delay sidetracks one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities. Mr. Obama has said action to curb greenhouse gases would unleash investment in clean-energy technology and create jobs.

 White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Tuesday Mr. Obama was working with lawmakers to move the legislation as quickly as possible.

 "This is an economic opportunity for the nation that will create millions of clean energy jobs while reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and it's an opportunity that other countries like China and India are racing to take advantage of," Mr. LaBolt said in an email.

 Momentum for a climate bill has been undermined by fears that capping carbon-dioxide emissions -- the inevitable product of burning oil and coal -- would slow economic growth, raise energy costs and compel changes in the way Americans live.

 "It's really big, really, really hard, and is going to make a lot of people mad," said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.).

 Democrats looking ahead to the 2010 midterm elections are concerned about a backlash from voters in industrial and heartland states dependent on coal. Republicans are portraying Democrats' "cap and trade" proposals, which call for capping overall U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions and allowing companies to buy and trade permits to emit those gases, as a "cap and tax" scheme.

 Meanwhile, the administration is moving ahead with a plan to have the Environmental Protection Agency declare greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, a danger to public health. That would trigger potential regulations that could affect a wide swath of the economy.

 Earlier this week, Mr. Obama and other world leaders scaled back ambitions for a global climate summit next month in Copenhagen.

 United Nations leaders had called for a new, binding global agreement in Copenhagen to set caps on greenhouse-gas emissions. But at a meeting in Asia, leaders including Mr. Obama said they would try instead to use the Copenhagen gathering to forge an agreement that is "politically binding," with specific commitments by countries to reduce emissions and help poor countries fight climate change. A legally binding deal would come later; diplomats point to mid-to-late-2010.

 The Senate Finance Committee likely won't begin deliberations on the climate bill until January, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), one of its sponsors. The bill was passed by the environment panel earlier this month.

 The Commerce Committee may also weigh in on some of the bill's provisions. The panel's chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.V.), is opposed to strong emissions limits.

 "By the time we turn around, it's March," Ms. Boxer said of the likely timetable.

 The House of Representatives narrowly passed its version of a climate bill in June, with dozens of Democratic lawmakers from industrial and coal-dependent states voting no.

 Write to Ian Talley at ian.talley@dowjones.com

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– Senate Democrats have announced that they won't be debating a major climate bill until sometime in the spring. The delay, which reduces America's bargaining power at next month's Copenhagen conference, reflects weakening support for the controversial "cap-and-trade" bill as unemployment remains high, the Wall Street Journal notes. The bill strategy calls for capping overall greenhouse-gas emissions, but would allow companies to buy and trade permits allowing certain amounts of emissions. President Obama is working with Senate leaders to get the bill through as quickly as possible, said a White House spokesman. The delay, however, has raised fears that the Senate may end up putting off debating the bill for as long as 2011 to avoid holding a vote just before next year's midterm elections. "There would be nothing better than for us to talk about over the summer than Democrats pushing a huge new energy tax,” one Republican leadership aide told The Hill.


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Churchill described the German battleship Tirpitz as "the beast" Throughout most of World War II, Allied bombers tried repeatedly to sink the Tirpitz, Germany's biggest battleship and a bete noir of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill, who took to calling it 'the beast'.

 On Wednesday, tree experts at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union showed why they failed to do so until late 1944

 "The story was in the tree rings," said Claudia Hartl, a researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

 The unlikely evidence of WWII battles was uncovered during the summer of 2016, when Hartl led students on a routine survey of forests around Kafjord, one of dozens of fjords along the northern coast of Norway.

 "We got back to the lab and measured the tree rings, and saw that they were very narrow—in some cases nearly absent—for 1945," she told AFP.

 The forests, in other words, had been hit by an environmental cataclysm.

 "Of course we wondered, why is that?"

 The first suspect was insect infestation, which can come suddenly and have severe impacts, especially in high-latitude boreal forests.

 Driven north of their historic range by climate change, mountain pine beetles, for example, have recently devastated large swathes of forests in Canada, sometimes in a single year.

 But there were no known insect in northern Scandinavia that could have delivered that kind of environmental shock in the middle of the 20th century.

 "It wasn't until we spoke to a local scientist based in Tromso that we made the connection to the Tirpitz," said Scott St. George, a geographer at The University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment who took part in the research.

 The Tirpitz and its crew of 2500, it turned out, had retreated into northern Norway's watery labyrinth to escape detection. In the pre-satellite era, even a 250-metre (820-foot) behemoth wasn't that easy to spot.

 But Allied aerial scouts finally found it, and the attacks began.

 The Germans, however, had a counter-plan: producing vast quantities of artificial fog, enough to hide the ship and surrounding area from aerial view.

 And that's where the tree rings come in.

 A 1944 picture shows smoke rising from the Tirpitz following an attack by allied bombers in a Norwegian fjord

 Arboreal casualties

 "The smoke drifted into the forests surrounding the fjord and damaged nearby pine and birch trees, leaving behind a distinctive and unusual 'fingerprint'," St. George told AFP.

 The study of tree rings—called dendrochronology, literally, "timeline of trees"—is used by climate scientists to trace changes in temperature, rainfall or river flows reaching back hundreds, even thousands, of years.

 The concentric circles found in temperate zone tree trunks can also date the age of buildings, shipwrecks, musical instruments, painting frames or anything else made from temperate-zone wood.

 Because trees in the tropics grow continually, they generally do not produce rings, which show growth spurts during spring and summer.

 To investigate further, Hartl returned last summer to the scene of the battle, to see how far the damage had spread.

 She established five test sites ranging in distance from a few hundred meters from the fjord where the Tirpitz was berthed, to about ten kilometres.

 Near where the ship once lay, more than 60 percent of the trees showed virtually no growth in 1945. All of them were affected to some degree.

 Gaps in the forest where young trees sprouted up in the 1950s suggest the chemical fog caused arboreal fatalities too.

 As far as four kilometres away, more than half the tree were severely affected, taking eight years on average to fully recover.

 Pine trees—which keep their needles for up to seven years—were hit hardest. "Being stripped bare would have been a more difficult challenge for that species," St. George explained.

 The artificial fog that denuded the trees was likely made from chlorosulphuric acid which, when mixed with water, produces a thick, white vapour.

 German ships has special teams equipped with gas masks to generate the smoky shroud.

 Despite its firepower, the Tirpitz never saw much action.

 In October 1944, the German naval command moved it to Tromso, where it served as a moble artillery platform until a squadron of 32 British Lancaster bombers sent it to the bottom of the harbour the following month.

 Explore further: Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Claudia Hartl: "You don't normally see trees in this region without rings"

 The relentless campaign to find and sink Germany's WWII battleship, the Tirpitz, left its mark on the landscape that is evident even today.

 The largest vessel in Hitler's Kriegsmarine, it was stationed for much of the war along the Norwegian coast to deter an Allied invasion.

 The German navy would hide the ship in fjords and screen it with chemical fog.

 This "smoke" did enormous damage to the surrounding trees which is recorded in their growth rings.

 Claudia Hartl, from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, stumbled across the impact while examining pines at Kåfjord near Alta.

 The dendrochronologist was collecting wood cores to build up a picture of past climate in the area. Severe cold and even infestation from insects can severely stunt annual growth in a stand, but neither of these causes could explain the total absence of rings seen in some trees dated to 1945.

 Image copyright Claudia Hartl Image caption Some had a ring but you would hardly see it

 A colleague suggested it could have something to do with the Tirpitz, which was anchored the previous year at Kåfjord where it was attacked by Allied bombers.

 Archive documents show the ship released chlorosulphuric acid to camouflage its position.

 "We think this artificial smoke damaged the needles on the trees," Dr Hartl told BBC News.

 "If trees don't have needles they can't photosynthesise and they can't produce biomass. In pine trees, needles usually last from three to seven years because they're evergreens. So, if the trees lose their needles, it can take a very long time for them to recover."

 Image copyright Imperial War Museums Image caption The Tirpitz pictured in Kåfjord with the smokescreen seen drifting across the water

 In one tree, there is no growth seen for nine years from 1945. "Afterwards, it recovered but it took 30 years to get back to normal growth. It's still there; it's still alive, and it's a very impressive tree," Dr Hartl said.

 In other pines, rings are present but they are extremely thin - easy to miss. As expected, sampling shows the impacts falling off with distance. But it is only at 4km that trees start to display no effects.

 The Tirpitz sustained some damage at Kåfjord. However, a continuous seek-and-destroy campaign eventually caught up with the battleship and it was sunk by RAF Lancasters in late 1944 in Tromso fjord further to the west.

 Dr Hartl believes her "warfare dendrochronology" will find similar cases elsewhere.

 "I think it's really interesting that the effects of one engagement are still evident in the forests of northern Norway more than 70 years later. In other places in Europe, they also used this artificial smoke and maybe also other chemicals. So perhaps you can find similar patterns and effects from WWII."

 The Mainz researcher presented her research here at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.

 Image copyright Claudia Hartl Image caption Sampling shows the impacts falling off with distance

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– A German dendrochronologist stumbled on something puzzling while gathering wood cores on the Norwegian coast in 2016: some trees were missing rings. "We got back to the lab and measured the tree rings, and saw that they were very narrow—in some cases nearly absent—for 1945," Claudia Hartl tells the AFP. A local scientist had a theory, she explained Wednesday at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union: that it had something to do with the Tirpitz. The 820-foot battleship was the largest in Hitler's navy, and the BBC reports it spent much of WWII anchored and hiding along Norway's coast, including in Kåfjord, where Hartl observed the tree-ring anomaly. But then Allied forces found it, and that's when the trees suffered, believes Hartl. The Nazi ship released chlorosulphuric acid as a sort of "chemical fog" to try to cloak it from aerial enemy forces, and Hartl now believes the acid caused damage to the trees' needles. "If trees don't have needles they can't photosynthesize and they can't produce biomass," she explains, noting recovery can be a multi-year process as pine trees can retain their needles for as long as seven years. And that jibes with what she found: In one case, a tree had no growth for nine years and took three decades to revert to "normal growth." Near where the ship was stationed all the trees she studied were affected, with more than 60% not growing at all in 1945. She found the impact on the rings diminished with distance, with trees about 2.5 miles away starting to be unaffected. As for the Tirpitz's ploy, it didn't work: It was ultimately sunk. (Using ink and urine, this man recorded Nazi horrors.)


– The Bank of England introduced a five-pound note Thursday that marks the beginning of the end of a three-century run for paper money in the UK, reports the Guardian. This particular note is made of a thin plastic and designed to last more than twice as long as its paper counterpart. It features the queen on the front and Winston Churchill on the back, and it goes into circulation in September. The current five-pound paper note will remain in use for another year. Next up comes up a 10-pound plastic note featuring Jane Austen in 2017 and a 20-pound note featuring painter JMW Turner by 2020. The unveiling comes ahead of Britain's crucial vote on whether to exit the European Union, and Bloomberg notes that both sides of the debate have claimed none other than Churchill to be in their camp. Asked on Thursday about how Churchill might view the question, Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney opted to play it safe. “It’s not for me to make any inference about that,” he said.

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 It forms part of the Bank’s switch to polymer banknotes, which will end 320 years of paper money. The Churchill fiver, which goes into circulation in September, will be the first of a series of new plastic notes, followed by the Jane Austen £10 next year and the JMW Turner £20 by 2020.

 Manufactured from a transparent plastic film and coated with an ink layer, polymer banknotes are seen as cleaner, more durable and more secure than paper. The material allows the inclusion of clear “windows” to protect against counterfeits.

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 They are also more environmentally friendly than paper because they can last up to two-and-a-half times longer, according to the Bank of England. It claims that the durability will offset the higher production costs and save an estimated £100m.

 The Bank’s laboratory tests showed polymer banknotes only begin to shrink and melt at 120C, so they are expected to survive a washing machine spin cycle – although they could be damaged by a hot iron.

 The move to polymer notes will land shops and banks with a bill of up to £236m, it has been estimated, because ATMs, vending machines and self-service machines will need to be recalibrated to take the new plastic notes, which are 15% smaller than the current notes. Some older ATMs will need to be replaced.

 More than 30 countries already use polymer notes, including New Zealand, Canada, Fiji, Mauritius and Mexico. They were first introduced by Australia, in 1988.

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 The Churchill fiver will replace the current £5 note featuring prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. News in 2013 that she would be replaced with the former prime minister sparked an outcry as it meant that, apart from the Queen, there would be no female figures on British banknotes. A few months later the Bank announced that writer Jane Austen would be the next face of the £10 note.

 Churchill will be pictured alongside a view of Westminster with Big Ben showing 3 o’clock – the approximate time on 13 May 1940 when Churchill declared in a speech: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

 • This article was amended on 3 June 2016. An earlier version said that Winston Churchill will be the first statesman to feature on British banknotes. The Duke of Wellington appeared on £5 notes from 1971 to 1991.

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– Florida Gov. Rick Scott will not hand his job back to former Gov. Charlie Crist. The Republican Scott fended off the challenge from Republican-turned-Democrat Crist tonight in one of the higher-profile races of the 36 gubernatorial contests on the ballot. Elsewhere, Wisconsin's Scott Walker defeated Mary Burke to keep his seat and, as the AP notes, remain a viable presidential candidate for 2016. In Texas, Wendy Davis' rise in state politics hit a major barrier, with state Attorney General Greg Abbott easily defeating the abortion rights advocate, reports the Austin American-Statesman. As one analyst observes, Davis probably could have won the red-state race only if Abbott made a major gaffe, and he didn't oblige. Also: Pennsylvania: Democrat Tom Wolf beat incumbent Republican Tom Corbett. Kansas: Republican incumbent Sam Brownback defeated Democrat Paul Davis, even though Brownback's conservative agenda had some members of his own party backing Davis. Maryland: After a surprise win over Democratic Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Republican businessman Larry Hogan will succeed Democrat Martin O'Malley. Massachusetts: Republican Charlie Baker won, defeating Democrat Martha Coakley's bid to become the first woman elected governor in her state. Illinois: Republican businessman Bruce Rauner prevailed in a tight contest to unseat incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn. Georgia: Jimmy Carter's grandson, Jason Carter, failed to unseat Republican Nathan Deal.