This undated photo provided by Karanda Williams shows Daniel and Belinda Conne. The couple and their adult son were found injured but alive Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 after they got lost while picking mushrooms and survived six days deep in the Oregon coastal forest, taking shelter part of the time in a hollowed-out tree. Belinda and Daniel Conne, both 47, and their 25-year-old son, Michael, were spotted by a helicopter pilot and later flown to a hospital. Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said Daniel Conne suffered a back injury, Belinda Conne had hypothermia, and their son Michael had a sprained foot. All three also were dehydrated and hungry. (AP Photo/Karanda Williams)

Curry County Sheriff John Bishop stands by his truck Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 in Brookings, Ore., after search and rescue crews found 3 family members lost for nearly a week while picking mushrooms in the rugged forest of southwestern Oregon. A helicopter search crewe found Daniel and Belinda Conne and their 25-year-old son, Michael, on the edge of a small clearing in a stand of big trees on the western edge of the Rogue River-Siskiyuou National Forest. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Curry County Sheriff John Bishop describes the clearing in a forest where a helicopter pilot found three family members lost for nearly a week after getting lost while mushroom picking, in Brookings, Ore., Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Daniel and Belinga Conne and their son, Michael, 25, were found Saturday outside Gold Beach, Ore. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead.

Without food, water or even warm clothing, Belinda and Daniel Conne, along with their 25-year-old son, Michael, survived by drinking water from streams and taking shelter in a hollowed-out tree.

On Saturday, they managed to crawl to a clearing, where a search helicopter spotted them several miles outside the community of Gold Beach, roughly 330 miles south-southwest of Portland.

“It’s a miracle, really,” Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said.

The three were airlifted to a Gold Beach hospital, where Bishop spoke with them at an emergency room. He said the Connes told him they could see search helicopters just a few hundred feet above them while they were lost but had nothing to signal them with through the thick, coastal forest vegetation.

Bishop said Daniel Conne suffered a back injury, Belinda Conne had hypothermia, and their son had a sprained foot and minor frostbite. All three also were dehydrated and hungry.

“They just got turned around,” Bishop said. “They sought some shelter in a hollowed-out tree and basically they stayed in the same place. But it was heavy vegetation where they were.”

Bishop said the three were “remarkably in pretty good shape,” given the amount of time they spent outside. He said they likely could have survived for two or three more days in the area, where fresh water is plentiful but food is scarce. The weather was mostly clear, with temperatures in the 40s and 50s.

Bishop said the family was spotted by Jackson County Commissioner John Raschor, who was searching for them in his own helicopter with Curry County Sheriff’s Lt. John Ward.

Raschor is the same pilot who found a San Francisco family lost in a snowstorm in 2006 just 35 miles from where he found the Connes. In 2006, Raschor flew Kati Kim and her two young daughters to safety after spotting them near their car. James Kim died of hypothermia trying to hike out for help.

After being spotted by Raschor and Ward, the Connes were transported by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter to Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach. A nursing supervisor said Saturday afternoon the three were in a doctor’s care and were unavailable for comment.

At the emergency room, Bishop said the Connes were “very thankful for the rescue” and were able to eat solid food.

People frequently get lost or stranded in the area where the Connes went missing ? rugged country in the Klamath Mountains riddled with a maze of logging roads.

The ordeal began last Sunday when the three went out looking for hedgehog mushrooms, an orange-topped fungus prized by mushroom hunters for its sweet and nutty flavor. The three had been living in a trailer at a campsite after leaving Oklahoma for Oregon last summer.

Dusk fell during the family’s hunt. They started to return to their Jeep but couldn’t agree on directions.

“Pretty quickly, they found they were lost,” Bishop said.

The family found a forest road next to a river bank and huddled together with their dog, a pit bull-terrier mix.

Search parties were dispatched Tuesday, when their campsite manager realized the Connes hadn’t returned. The Jeep was found on a logging road Wednesday, along with two small dogs and the family’s jackets.

Searchers found a trail and a few hopeful clues along the way: a can of Pepsi, mushroom-picking buckets, a few pieces of clothing.

Bishop said Daniel Conne told him he had a sinking feeling every day the family wasn’t found. Daniel Conne would watch the search helicopter pass but was unable to get their attention.

“They said, ‘You were right above us,’” Bishop said.

When the family was finally found Saturday, they were only 200 yards from the nearest group of searchers.

The search had focused on a 4-square-mile area. Bishop said the family was in the search area but likely kept moving, making the search for them more difficult.

“We were actually right near them all three days” of the search, Bishop said. In the area’s canyons, “you think people can hear you, but they can’t.”

The search involved three Southern Oregon counties and one California county.

When dawn broke Saturday, Bishop said searchers entered the woods without much hope.

“We were sort of getting ready to go into body-recovery mode,” he said.

Joe Dykes, who works at the Huntley Park campsite where the family was staying, said Belinda and Daniel Conne arrived at the campsite in July after moving there from Oklahoma. Their son arrived later.

Belinda Conne works as a housekeeper at the Jot’s Resort, where motel owner Virginia McKinney said the Connes were preparing to rent a home in Gold Beach before the disappearance.

McKinney said Belinda told her she always wanted to live on the Oregon coast, and finally left Oklahoma last year with the intention of settling down.

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The demographics of Nevada may have something to do with Romney’s huge lead, despite the fact he hasn’t campaigned in the Silver State very much.

Overall Population

Nevada’s overall population is more in line with New Hampshire’s. Florida, by far, has been the largest state to hold an early primary to this point. The U.S. Census states Nevada’s population is just more than 2.7 million people. That’s about 14 percent of Florida’s population and twice that of New Hampshire’s.

Nevada’s residents are roughly 66 percent white, 26.5 percent Hispanic, 8 percent black and 7 percent Asian. Most of the Hispanics in Nevada come from Mexico, making immigration one factor to decide who will be chosen from Nevada. Florida has fewer Asians and Hispanics in terms of percentage of the population.

Unemployment

The one demographic that unifies all Nevadans is a high unemployment rate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has the latest unemployment rate for the state at 12.6 percent. That’s the highest in the nation. New jobs reports state the overall unemployment rate in the U.S. is 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years. Yet Nevada has lagged behind in the number of jobs for its citizens.

AFP reports Romney may be a front-runner in Nevada because he is a former business owner. Caucus goers felt in local polling numbers that Romney would be able to help the state recover from some of the highest foreclosure rates in the U.S.

Voters

KOLO TV expects around 50,000 GOP voters will turn out to caucus in 17 Nevada counties. In 2008, Romney picked up 22,646 votes or just over 51 percent of the total, according to the New York Times. That race was marred by Paul’s assertion that there were irregularities in the caucus system in Nevada.

Should Romney’s polling numbers continue in the Nevada caucus, he should match or exceed his vote total from 2008. The nationwide GOP nominee in 2008, Sen. John McCain, came in a distant third place with just 5,650 voters or around 12.7 percent.

William Browning is a research librarian specializing in U.S. politics. Born in St. Louis, Browning is active in local politics and served as a campaign volunteer for President Barack Obama and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

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There are some categories of disorders which are more prevalent than other categories of Diagnostic as well as Statistical Guide of Mental Disorders-IV-Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR). Generalized stress and anxiety disorder as well as panic attacks are one of those disorders which show up in the general population more than additional disorders.

Panic attacks are concentrated expressions of the bigger stress and anxiety disorder. These are the indications of extreme stress and anxiety. They are like fits of ten minutes. During these ten minutes, an personal encounters advanced heart beat, dizziness, sweating, chest pain, shortage of control over his self as well as hot or chill flushes. Throughout initial attack, an individual might interpret these attacks as heart attack.

Psychoeducation is a very dynamic item in clinical settings. It indicates to enlighten people on psychological concerns. In some cases, people by having mental disturbances carry out not approve their medical diagnosis. If they will not recognize, they will not seek to treat their issues. It is equally important to enlighten folks who are in direct contact with the sufferer.

Sometimes, there are biological basis that create stress and anxiety disorders in an individual. An individual could experience a panic attack after enduring some demanding life events or stress. After facing any anguish, whenever the individual locate any cue related to that anguish, could experience an attack. Often, it takes place that heap up stress and anxiety manifests itself in the form of panic attack. There are different types of attacks and various individuals may experience different types of attacks.

Generally, there are three types of attacks. The first types are uncued attacks. These attacks appear without any apparent cue in the environment. Sometimes, it takes place that the individual thinks about the stressful situation as well as gets an attack. Second types of attack are called situationally bound attacks. In such attacks, a individual gets an attack whenever he confronts by having an anxiety provoking stimulus or cue. 3rd types of attacks are called situationally unbound attacks. In such attacks, an individual may not experience an attack after exposure to an anxiety provoking stimulus. Stress and anxiety disorders make physiological procedures of an personal faster than typical. Hormonal secretions have fast, and in some cases develop additional physical issues. This is why, stress and anxiety disorder as well as panic attacks are required to treat at an early phase.

Clinicians use various treatments for panic attacks. As panic attacks are anxiety disorder, antianxiety can be beneficial in doing away with the symptoms. Antidepressants and benzodiazepines are additionally efficient therapies. Benzodiazepines draw quick effects on the symptoms. One must be thorough while utilizing drugs for any psychiatric problem, since there are possibilities of development of drug dependence. The other necessary thing is the psychoeducation of the sufferer. A sufferer must be vigilant as well as strive to learn regarding his disorder, and the techniques that can protect against him from the severity of the disorder. Exposure as well as response treatment is also beneficial in treatment of panic attacks. In this remedy, a sufferer is left open to anxiety provoking situation, but his anxious results are broken with teaching relaxation procedures. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is one more modality to eliminate indicators by changing the meaning of sufferer?s thoughts and their interpretation. So, this is all about causes, indicators as well as treatment of stress and anxiety disorder and panic attacks that is valuable in increasing one?s expertise pertaining to theme.

What you just learned about dealing with panic attacks is just the beginning. To get the full story and all the details, check us out at How to deal with panic attacks at work

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In this photo from Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi poses for a portrait in New York. Lorena Beniquez, commissioner of the Central Pennsylvania Film Office heard that officials in Hoboken, N.J. have refused to issue a permit for the new reality show that will feature Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley. So, Beniquez thought, why not invite the ?Jersey Shore? stars to the borough of the same name, about 140 miles northwest of Philadelphia, and only slightly farther than that from Hoboken. Failing that, Beniquez is hoping the producers might consider shooting in Williamsport, the Lycoming County seat.(AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? If Snooki and JWoww need a place to live, Jersey Shore will welcome them with open arms.

Jersey Shore, Pa., that is.

The Central Pennsylvania Film Office wants the stars of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” reality show to go to the tiny borough in north-central Pennsylvania or to nearby Williamsport to shoot a planned spinoff of their gym-tan-laundry lifestyle.

The commissioner of the film office, Lorena Beniquez, was quick to jump on the news that officials in Hoboken, N.J., had refused to issue a permit for the new reality show that will feature hard-partying stars Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley.

So, Beniquez thought, why not invite the “Jersey Shore” stars to the borough of the same name about 140 miles northwest of Philadelphia and only slightly farther than that from Hoboken? Failing that, Beniquez is hoping the producers might consider shooting in Williamsport, the Lycoming County seat.

“Most of the time, when we make headlines, it’s for the Little League World Series,” Beniquez said, referring to the global tournament played in Williamsport each summer. “Or the gas industry. We want to be known for something once the gas industry is done and gone.”

A phone call and an email seeking comment were left with 495 Productions, the Beverly Hills, Calif., production company that was snubbed by Hoboken.

But MTV said it was “flattered by the invitation” to Pennsylvania.

“We love all Jersey Shores!” it said.

Officials in Williamsport, population 29,000, and Jersey Shore, which has about 4,300 residents, say they’re all ears if MTV or the production company wants to pitch the show to them.

“It would be fun to have the spotlight on the borough,” said Jersey Shore borough manager Gretchen Speicher. “But we’d like to know what the show’s going to be about, will it be shot inside or outside … and I would like to know because I’ve never seen (‘Jersey Shore’).”

Williamsport city clerk Janet Frank was excited at the prospect, too.

“Oh, my gosh, yes,” Frank said when asked if she’d be interested in hearing a pitch for the show. “I think that’s awesome. I think that’s a great idea. It’s a great way to get attractions here.”

Hoboken officials refused to issue the permit that would allow the reality stars to be filmed around the clock, citing public safety and other concerns. Some critics have said “Jersey Shore” perpetuates negative Italian-American stereotypes that are sometimes referred to as the “guido/guidette” lifestyle.

Some local historians think the Jersey Shore borough got its name because some of its original settlers in the early 1800s were from the Jersey shore, Speicher said. Others say Jersey used to mean “opposite” and the borough was so named because it was across the Susquehanna River from another settlement, Speicher said.

Whatever the case, Beniquez said she believes the show focusing on the two reality TV stars would work in Lycoming County, one of nine served by her office.

“From what we’ve heard in their press,” Beniquez said, “it sounds like it could be a good fit for our region.”

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The minimally invasive treatment, they report, increased by 10 to 15 percent the number of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) who could function independently six months following the procedure.

At the International Stroke Conference taking place Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 in New Orleans, the researchers will present their findings from 93 patients, ages 18 to 80, who randomly got either the new treatment or standard-of-care “supportive” therapy that essentially gives clots a chance to dissolve on their own.

The new study was coordinated by Johns Hopkins and the surgical review centers at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Chicago. All 93 patients were diagnosed with ICH, a particularly lethal or debilitating form of stroke long considered surgically untreatable under most circumstances.

“The last untreatable form of stroke may well have a treatment,” says study leader Daniel F. Hanley, M.D., a professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “If a larger study proves our findings correct, we may substantially reduce the burden of strokes for patients and their families by increasing the number of people who can be independent again after suffering a stroke.”

ICH is a bleed in the brain that causes a clot to form, often caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure. The clot builds up pressure and leaches inflammatory chemicals that can cause irreversible brain damage, often leading to death or extreme disability. The standard of care for ICH patients is general supportive care, usually in an ICU; only 10 percent undergo the more invasive and risky craniotomy surgery, which involves removing a portion of the skull and making incisions through healthy brain tissue to reach and remove the clot. Roughly 50 percent of people who suffer an intracerebral hemorrhage die from it.

Although in the United States just 15 percent of stroke patients have ICH, that rate translates to roughly 30,000 to 50,000 individuals — more often than not, Asians, Hispanics, African-Americans, the elderly and those who lack access to medical care. The more common form of stroke is ischemic stroke, which occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain is blocked.

Surgeons performed the minimally invasive procedure by drilling a dime-sized hole in each patient’s skull close to the clot location.

Using a CT scan that Hanley likens to “GPS for the brain,” they guided the catheter through the hole and directly into the clot. The catheter was then used to drip small doses of the clot-busting drug t-PA into the clot for a couple of days, shrinking the clots roughly 20 percent per day. Those patients who underwent supportive therapy saw their clots shrink by about 5 percent per day.

A major advantage is that the minimally invasive surgery busted the clot without the potentially injurious side effects associated with craniotomy, Hanley says.

The minimally invasive approach was also found to be as safe as general supportive therapy, which can involve intense blood pressure control, artificial ventilation, drugs to control swelling and watchful waiting for the clot to dissipate on its own.

For the new study, patients were treated at more than two dozen sites throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, by staff neurologists and surgeons. Hanley says it’s a bonus that patients don’t need specialized equipment to have the procedure done.

“More extensive surgery probably helps get rid of the clot, but injures the brain,” he says. “This ‘minimalist approach’ probably does just as much to clear the clot while apparently protecting the brain.”

The research is supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke.

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The “supergiant” amphipods are more than 20 times larger than their typical crustacean relatives, which are generally less than a half-inch (1 centimeter) long, and thrive in lakes and oceans around the world. They are sometimes called the “insects of the sea.”

“We pulled up the trap, and lying among the fish were these absolutely massive amphipods, and there was no inkling whatsoever that these things should be there,” said Alan Jamieson, a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and leader of the expedition that turned up the fantastical creatures in November 2011.

The largest of the seven specimens was about 11 inches (28 cm) long.

“They actually don’t feel real,” Jamieson told OurAmazingPlanet. “They feel like plastic toys. They have a waxy texture to them.”

The pale, leggy creatures were found 4 miles (6 kilometers) down in the Kermadec Trench, off the northeast coast of New Zealand, one of the deepest trenches on Earth.

In addition to the animals captured in the trap, a seafloor camera more than a mile (2 km) away spied at least nine supergiant amphipods. It’s not clear why so many of the typically elusive creatures were in the area. A week later, when the expedition returned to the same spot, there was no sign of the supergiant amphipods, which was “very, very strange,” Jamieson said.?

It appears the Aberdeen expedition has retrieved the largest complete specimen ever collected. (In 1983, an albatross regurgitated a supergiant amphipod, that, not surprisingly, was in poor shape. Researchers estimated at the time that, when alive, the creature would have been 13 inches [34 cm] long.)

Supergiant amphipods (Alicella gigantea) were first discovered in 1899, when a trawling expedition turned up two specimens from the Atlantic Ocean. The species wasn’t seen again for nearly 100 years. In the 1970s, scientists photographed the oversized creatures in the northern Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles north of Hawaii.

Then in the 1980s, scientists managed to bring back a few specimens of the giant crustaceans from the same area.

“Nobody has ever really mentioned them since,” Jamieson said. “They’re one of these strange deep-sea anomalies.”

Although the amphipod find was exciting, the expedition’s true quarry was a deep-sea snailfish that has only been sampled once before, in 1952.

“Nobody has ever caught one since,” Jamieson said. Yet in among the weird amphipods? Seven snailfish.

“To do what we wanted to do we really just needed one fish, so to get seven fish was amazing ? and to get seven supergiants is incredible,” Jamieson said.

“It was a pretty good day, let’s put it that way,” he added.

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The scientists are mounting a return sampling expedition to the same swath of deep sea off the coast of New Zealand in a week.

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For anyone who is a ?go getter? and want to either sell your own home, or buy a home made available as Real Estate for sale By Owner, there are specific things you should understand and some guidelines that must be implemented. The guidelines are the regulations set by the state you live in, and those procedures are the real estate legal guidelines of which govern buying or selling of houses. There are procedures that needs to be put into practice in a certain order. Besides this, some forms that have to be used which you can not deviate from, because these forms are exactly the same forms that any person must use, what state they are located in, because many of these forms will ultimately go to whomever the lender is. The correct forms can be downloaded from an internet site, and the typical real estate rules can be found also on the internet.

When you work with a real estate office to handle the sale, you must pay a commission rate based on a percentage of the sales price so it could help you save much money if you want to handle the sale on your own so long as you use the suitable forms, understand the sequence of the processes you MUST FOLLOW. There could be a little ?foot work? for you, on the other hand, consider the commission fees you?ll be saving if you choose the Real Estate for sale By Owner option.

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Hotels seeking positive reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor have two legitimate options:

• Provide great service and hope, or even gently encourage, customers to post an online review.
• Post management responses to guest reviews.

Instead, the marketing director at a chain of 10 hotels in Ireland apparently urged hotel employees to post fake reviews on the TripAdvisor site.

The Irish Times reports?that in the summer of 2010, Jean O?Connell, director of sales and marketing for the Dublin-based Carlton Hotel Group, sent email to the hotel?s directors and more than two dozen employees detailing a plan to organize 150 internal ?TripAdvisor Posters? who would review the company?s hotels, take pictures and post false write-ups.

In addition to noting how ?pooling TA posters? would insure that ?IP addresses will be from across the country,? the Irish Times reports that the memo asked hotel managers to appoint employees to take photographs ?that reflect the excellent product you have,? and suggested that the photos not be professional ?but good quality from a digital camera is fine.? According to the Irish Times, the memo also told employees not to post reviews using Carlton laptops or PCs.? ?

O?Connell told the Irish Times that although she sent the email, the plan was merely a proposal that had never been put in place. A statement sent to the Irish Times from lawyers representing the hotel group said that ?Immediately following the email being sent, steps were taken by our client to contact the hotel managers to explain that a mistake had occurred??

Still, TripAdvisor is looking into the matter.

?As with all instances of alleged fraudulent activity, we take these claims extremely seriously and a full and detailed investigation is underway as a matter of priority by our dedicated team of investigators,? said TripAdvisor communications director Emma Shaw in a statement. She added that while ?attempts to manipulate TripAdvisor are extremely rare ? we take serious steps to penalize businesses who are caught attempting to game the system.??

False reviews, positive or negative, are a big issue for consumer websites such as TripAdvisor.?

TripAdvisor has measures to deal with scofflaws, Shaw said, which include posting notices on properties that have made attempts to manipulate their ratings. “There are significant risks associated with being caught,” she said.?

?TripAdvisor and others are continually?developing increasingly sophisticated methods to detect false reviews,? Bjorn Hanson, divisional dean of?New York University’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, told msnbc.com.??Most consumers seem to understand there may be some false reviews, and that even legitimate reviews can offer extreme views,? he said, but ?executives encouraging false reviews create substantial risks and damage to the reputation of hotels and brands.?

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Manuka honey stopped a skin strep in its tracks. Katherine Harmon reports.

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Honey soothes a sore throat. Now research suggests that it could also help fight serious skin infections.

People have used honey’s antibacterial properties for centuries. Now, scientists are discovering just how it works?and that it might be even better than antibiotics.

After surgery or a skin injury, many otherwise harmless bacteria that live on the skin can infect the wound site. One type of strep is particularly common and can lead to stubborn wounds that refuse to heal. But researchers found that honey?in particular that made from bees foraging on manuka flowers?stopped this strep in its tracks. The study is in the journal Microbiology. [Sarah Maddocks et al, Manuka Honey Inhibits the Development of Streptococcus pyogenes Biofilms and Causes Reduced Expression of Two Fibronectin Binding Proteins]

In lab tests, just a bit of the honey killed off the majority of bacterial cells?and cut down dramatically on the stubborn biofilms they formed.

It could also be used to prevent wounds from becoming infected in the first place. Hospital-borne infections are all too common, with more and more strains developing resistance to standard antibiotic treatments. So if the honey works in clinical trials, too, this sweet news will be all the buzz.

?Katherine Harmon

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