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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) —WhenTim Peterson finishedplantinghis 900 acres ofwin-ter wheat last week, the usu-ally market-savvy Kansasfarmer unexpectedly foundhimself struggling to makecritical marketing decisionswithout being able to accessto vital agricultural reports,casualties of the federal gov-ernment shutdown."We have no clue what is

going on in the market," saidPeterson, who farms nearMonument in northwestKansas. He typically protectshis investment in seed andfertilizer by "locking in" theprice his wheat crop willfetch next Julywith a futurescontract that shields farmersfrom market fluctuations byguaranteeing a price whilethe crop is in the ground.Farmers and livestock

producers use the reports putout by the National Agricul-ture Statistics Service tomake decisions — such ashow to price crops, whichcommodities to grow andwhen to sell them— as wellas track cattle auction prices.Not only has the NASSstopped putting out new re-ports about demandand sup-ply, exports and prices, butall websites with past infor-mation have been takendown."It is causing a direct void

in information that is imme-diate," Peterson said.

Thisworries him farmorethan his other problem:When will his $20,000 sub-sidy check from the govern-ment, which usually comesin October, arrive?Since theU.S.Agriculture

Department's local farm serv-ices offices also have been

shuttered, farmers can't applyfor new loans, sign upacreages for government pro-grams or receive governmentchecks for programs they'realready enrolled in. And at atime when researchers whoare seeking new wheat vari-eties and plant traits should

be planting experimentalplots, all work has ground toa halt.Kansas Farmer's Union

president Donn Teske, agrower in the northeastKansas town of Wheaton,

Shutdown spawns farm info vacuum

BISMARCK (AP) —Some of the hundreds ofpeople in southwesternNorthDakotawho lost elec-tricity during a weekendsnowstorm could remain inthe dark for a while.It could be aweek before

power is restored to all cus-tomers, and replacing 700downed power lines couldtake even longer, Don Fran-klund, co-manager of Mor-Gran-Sou ElectricCooperative andSlopeElec-tric, toldTheBismarckTrib-une and KXMB-TV.The storm dumped up

to 1 ½ feet of snow on theregion. At least 550 Mor-Gran-Sou and Slope Elec-tric customers remainedwithout power at mid-dayMonday, down from about800 Sunday, co-managerChris Baumgartner toldThe Associated Press."This morning we

brought on 100-150 peopleso yes, we're making greatprogress," he said. "Theweather is nice, so thathelps. But it's going to be afewmore days."Crews are coming in

from neighboring electricco-ops in Wyoming andSouth Dakota to help with

repairs, but finding lodgingfor them is difficult becauseof the housing shortage inthe western North Dakotaoil patch, Franklund said.MontanaDakotaUtilities

Co. had about 325 cus-tomers without power atmid-day Monday, downfrom750customers onSun-day, spokesmanMark Han-son told the AP. Crewshoped to fully restore powerby late Monday or earlyTuesday, he said."The bulk of it (remain-

ing outages) is in NewLeipzig," he said. "Those inHeil andLeithmight go intotomorrow."The weather has

warmed since the storm thathit late Friday and intensi-fied on Saturday — Mon-day's forecast from theNational Weather Servicecalled for high temperaturesin the 50s in the region —but that was causing an-other worry."Ournext concernwill be

flooding," Franklund said.Flooding forced Papa's

Pumpkin Patch, a popularfall attraction in rural Bis-marck, to shutdownSunday

Hundreds in N.D.remain withoutpower after storm

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WASHINGTON(AP)—Amarket-rattling federal de-fault loomed and the partialgovernment shutdown lin-gered onMonday, but a grid-locked Congress betrayedlittle or no urgency towardresolving either of the na-tion'smost challenging short-term economic disputes.Stocks got a case of the jit-

ters on Wall Street, andhalfway around the worldChina stressed the impor-tance for the global economyof raising the U.S. debt limit."Safeguarding the debt is

of vital importance to theeconomy of the U.S. and theworld," Vice Finance Minis-ter Zhu Guangyao said, ac-cording to the officialXinhuaNews Agency. China holds$1.277 trillion in U.S. Treas-ury bonds, second only toJapan.At home, the political

rhetoric was unchanged —and generally uncompromis-ing — while a new poll sug-gested Republicans arepaying a heavier price thanDemocrats for the deadlock.President Barack Obama

said the House should voteimmediately on ending thepartial closure of the federalestablishment. He accusedHouseSpeaker JohnBoehnerof refusing to permit the nec-essary legislation to come tothe floor because he "doesn'tapparently want to see the ...shutdown end at the mo-ment, unless he's able to ex-tract concessions that don'thave anything to do with thebudget."

Boehner, in rebuttal,called on Obama to agree tonegotiations on changes inthe nation's health care over-haul and steps to curbdeficits, the principal GOPdemands for ending the shut-down and eliminating thethreat of default."Really, Mr. President. It's

time to have that conversa-tion before our economy isput further at risk," the OhioRepublican said in remarkson the House floor.Obama saidhewould talk

with the Republicans onthose topics or virtually anyothers. But the White Househas said repeatedly the pres-ident will not negotiate untilthe government is fully re-opened and the debt limithas been raised to stave offthe nation's first-ever default.White House aide Jason

Furman told reporters that ifBoehner "needs to have sometalking point for his caucusthat's consistent with us notnegotiating ... that's notadding abunchof extraneous

conditions, of course he'swelcome to figure out what-ever talking point he wantsthat helps him sell some-thing."The current standoff is the

latest in a string of clashesover the past three years be-tween Obama and a HouseRepublicanmajority that hassteered to the right with therise of the tea party.Most Democrats and

many Republicans have as-sumed the GOP will pay aheavier price for a shutdown

than the Democrats, sincethat was the case in 1996.And a survey released by

the Washington Post-ABCsaid disapproval of Republi-canswasmeasured at 70per-cent, up from 63 percent aweek earlier. Disapproval ofObama's rolewas statisticallyunchanged at 51 percent.In the Senate, where ma-

jority Democrats forced ap-proval of legislation beforethe shutdown aimed at

Setting priorities straightDebt limit overtaking shutdown as U.S. crisis focus

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Flushing water mainscontinues to be the strat-egy to eliminate concernsabout water quality in cer-tain areas of the valley,Minot City Council mem-bers learnedMonday.Two residents from

separate, affected areasasked the council to pushthe Public Works Depart-ment to correct the waterproblems. Both indicatedthey stopped drinking thewater after a private watersample in northwestMinot tested positive forbacteria. The city’s follow-up samplinghas shownnobacteria.“Can we get multiple

water tests done over thecourse of a month to con-firm the water is safe?”asked Nathan Mugaas, aresident of the old LincolnSchool area in northwestMinot. “It just varies inquality from day to dayand it really seems like itneeds to bested from dayto day.”Jason Sorenson, assis-

tant publicworks director,said in the last week, thedepartment has deter-mined that the area af-fected in northwest Minotis relatively small, onlyabout eight square blocks.Theproblemappears to be

Residentsask councilfor waterqualitysolution

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday. TheRepublican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse, neitherside backing down after House GOP conservatives linked the funding bill to President Obama'sexistent health care law.

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Cows are herded into waiting trucks following an auction on Oct. 1 at theOklahoma National Stockyard in Oklahoma City. Across rural America,farmers are feeling the effects of the federal government shutdown. Duringthe shutdown, the USDA won't provide sales reports from Oklahoma live-stock auctions that are used to help set prices on the Chicago MercantileExchange, state Department of Agriculture employee Jack Carson said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) —The glitch-ridden rollout ofPresident Barack Obama'shealth care law has oppo-nents crowing: "Told you so!"and insisting it should bepaused, if not scrapped.

But others, including in-surancecompanies, say there'sstill enough time to fix theon-line enrollment system beforeuninsured Americans startgetting coverage on Jan. 1.

After emergency repairsover the weekend, con-sumers in different parts ofthe country Monday contin-ued to report delays onhealthcare.gov, as well asproblems setting up securityquestions for their accounts.The administration says thesite's crowded electronic"waiting room" is thinningout. Still, officials an-nounced it will be downagain for a few hours start-ing at 1 a.m. Tuesday formore upgrades and fixes.

Despite the confusion,the insurance industry hasheld off public criticism.Alarmed that only a trickleof customers got through ini-tially, insurers now say en-rollments are starting tocome in and they expectthings to improve.

The last major federalhealth care launch — theMedicare prescription pro-gram in 2006 — also had bigstartup problems. Govern-ment leaders who oversaw itsay things could look very

different in a couple ofmonths for Obama's law ifthe administration managesto get a grip on the situation.

"There wasn't enoughtime for testing, so the dressrehearsal became openingnight," said Michael Leavitt,who as President George W.Bush's tophealth official,was

responsible for the Medicaredrug plan debut.

"The moment of truth isgoing to come in the middleof November, when peoplewant to see the real deal,"said Leavitt, who currentlyheads a consulting firm thatadvises states on the healthoverhaul. "If they don't have

this running smoothly bythen, it's going to be a biggerproblem than we're seeingtoday."

The insurance industry iscalling for patience. "This is amarathon and not a sprint,"Karen Ignagni, head of thetrade group America's HealthInsurancePlans,saidinastate-

ment. "We anticipate enroll-mentswillcontinuetoincreasein the days andweeks ahead."

Obama's law — alsoknown as the AffordableCare Act — was designed toprovide insurance for peoplewhodon't have access to cov-erage on the job.Middle-classuninsured people can buy agovernment-subsidized pri-vate plan,while the poor andnear-poor will be steered toMedicaid in states that agreeto expand the safety net pro-gram. The online insurancemarkets were envisioned asthe 21st century portal to anoverhauled system.

But when the health caremarkets went live last week,millions of curious Ameri-cans overwhelmed federaland state insurancewebsites.The level of interest could beread as a good sign, sincepolls just prior to the launchfound most uninsured peo-ple unaware it was coming.Yet for many, the consumerexperience was like a Satur-daymorning spent twiddlingthumbs at the localmotor ve-hicle department.

Some prospective cus-tomers got a screen that toldthem to wait — and nothinghappened, for hours. Othersstarted to sign up and gottrapped by a recurring glitchwhen they tried to set up se-curity questions to protecttheir personal accounts.Somewhogot through all theway to the end found their

sessions had timed out, andthey had to start over.

The federal website thatserves 36 states wasn't theonly problem; several statesalso had a rough launch. AsRepublicansopposed to "Oba-macare" showed they werewilling to shut down the gov-ernment in an effort to stop it,the administration seemed tobe its own worst enemy.

Technologyexperts say theproblems are probably due toa combination of factors: un-expectedly high demand, aswellaspossiblesoftware flawsand shortcomings in design.Sometimes a high volume ofusers can expose softwareproblems that went unde-tected in testing, they said.

The administration hasmainly blamed high volume.TheHealth andHumanServ-ices department says it isadding servers —workhorsecomputer equipment — tothe system to handle the vol-ume of user requests.

Official media releaseshave hinted at software andsystem design problems,without providing detail. Forexample, one referred toprocuring "dedicated hard-ware" for an unnamed "spe-cific componentof the systemthat became over-stressed."

Problems caused by web-site overload should ease asmore equipment is added.Software and design flawsare trickier to fix, meaningmore overnight repairs.

Health law glitches: fatal or fleeting?

SALTLAKECITY (AP)—Minutes after 14-year-oldElizabeth Smart wassnatched from her bedroomin the dead of night, a policecruiser idled by along aneighborhood street as shewas forced to the ground atknifepoint. "Move and I willkill you!" her captor hissed.

It was one of several fleet-ing times Smart watched arescue slip away during hernine-month ordeal, she re-counts in "My Story," a 308-page book released by St.Martin's Press on Monday.

Shewrites that shewas soterrifiedof the street preacherwho kidnapped her thatwhen shewas rescuedbypo-lice in a Salt Lake City sub-urb in March 2003, she onlyreluctantly identifiedherself.

Between theheartbreak ofmissed chances, Smartwrites, she was treated as asex object by Brian DavidMitchell and as a slave byhiswife, Wanda Barzee. Shesays they denied her foodand water for days at a time.

AU.S.attorneycalleditoneofthekidnappingcrimesofthecentury.Smart,aquiet,devoutMormonwhoplayed theharpand loved horses, vanishedwithouta trace fromherhomehighaboveSalt LakeCity.

Smart, now 25, is mar-ried, living in Park City, fin-

ishing a music degree atBrigham Young Universityand traveling across thecountry giving speeches anddoing advocacy work. Shecreated the Elizabeth SmartFoundation to bring aware-ness to predatory crimesagainst children. For her, thebook was another way tohelp bring nine months ofbrutality to a close.

"I want people to knowthat I'mhappy inmy life rightnow," Smart toldTheAssoci-ated Press. "I also, even moreso, want to reach out to peo-ple who might not be in agood situation.Maybe they'rein a situation thatwas similarto the one that I was in."

Smart said she hopes thebook,whichTheAPreceivedin advance of its release fromthepublisher,will help othervictims know that it's possi-ble tobehappyandmove for-wardwith their lives andwillshed some light on what wasgoing through her head dur-ing what she called "ninemonths of hell."

Her account was writtenwith help from Chris Stew-art, aUtah congressmanwhohas authored books with re-ligious and patriotic themes.

Smart says she doesn'tcare to understand Mitchell,yet her bookopens awindowon his personality.

Elizabeth Smartdetails kidnappingin new memoir

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Former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt participates ina news conference on Sept. 18 near the steps of the Utah State Capitol inSalt Lake City. Leavitt, who as President George W. Bush's top health of-ficial oversaw the troubled debut of the Medicare prescription plan, said:"There wasn't enough time for testing, so the dress rehearsal becameopening night."

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Elizabeth Smart talks with a reporter before an in-terview on May 7 in Park City, Utah. More than adecade after her kidnapping and rescue grabbednational headlines, Smart is publishing a memoir ofher ordeal. The 308 page book, titled "My Story,"was released by St. Martin's Press on Monday.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Amysterious onetime fugitivecharged with running a$100 million multistateNavy charity fraud was por-trayed at his trial Mondayby prosecutors as a lyingthief and by his defense as alaw-abiding fundraiser.

Assistant Ohio AttorneyGeneral Brad Tammaro toldthe jury that the defendant,who calls himself BobbyThompsonbuthasbeeniden-tified by authorities as Har-vard-trained lawyer JohnDonaldCody,67,wasthemas-termindof the alleged scam.

But Joseph Patituce, thecourt-appointed defense at-torney, said the defendant'swork was legal and followedfederal tax regulations gov-erning charities.

The defendant, who satpassively and took notes atthe trial, has been chargedwith defrauding donors to areputed charity, the United

States Navy Veterans Asso-ciation based in Tampa, Fla.

He showered politicians,oftenRepublicans,withpolit-ical donations. Lastweek, thejudge rejected a renewed de-fenserequest tosubpoena tes-timony from leading OhioRepublicans including U.S.HouseSpeaker JohnBoehner.

"This defendant was re-sponsible for taking millionsof dollars out of Ohio," Tam-maro said.Hewas a thief un-able to tell the truth,Tammaro said.

Nearly $3millionwasdo-nated by people in Ohio tothe charity, according toTammaro, and "that moneydisappeared — gone."

Tammaro said that thedefendant shifted themoneyamong various accounts,paid fundraising costs and asmall staff, and that the restdisappeared in ATM cashwithdrawals and throughchecks made out to the de-

fendant or to cash.Patituce told jurors the

prosecution lacked proof ofthe charges and hinted againthat the defense would claimthedefendantwas involvedina secret government project.

To buttress the argument,Patituce displayed a photo-graph of the defendant withformer President George W.Bush.Hisclientwill testifyonhis own behalf, Patituce said.

Using a white board, Pat-ituce detailed the organiza-tional structure of the charityand said itwas authorized tomake political contributionsand had done so legally.

Jeff Testerman, the retiredTampa Bay Times reporterwho broke stories thathelped uncover the allegedfraud, was the first witnessand testified that he couldn'treach people identified bythe charity as its accountantor internal auditor.

Testerman started poking

around when he heard thedefendant identify himselfas a retired Navy com-mander. Instead, Tammarosaid the defendant was acaptain in the Army andArmy Reserve and left theservice when he twice wasdenied promotion to major.

Some of the charity's do-nations to nonprofits like theUSO were made after thenewspaper began investigat-ing, Testerman told jurors.

Under cross-examinationas the defense tried to showit wasn't a one-man opera-tion, Testerman acknowl-edged he was familiar withseveral people who had vol-unteered with the charity orserved as a legal adviser.

Testerman, asked by theprosecutor how many peo-ple he had managed to con-firm out of the 60,000association members listedby the charity, responded,"One" — Bobby Thompson.

Ohio opens $100M charity fraud case

KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — A Kansas City busi-nessman who swore anoath of allegiance to al-Qaida and three years agopleaded guilty to providingfinancial support to the in-ternational terror group wassentenced Monday to 14years in prison.

Khalid Ouazzani, 35,whohad facedup to65yearsin prison for bank fraud,money laundering and con-spiracy to support a terroristgroup,was sentenced in fed-eral court in Kansas City.

Federal prosecutorsclaimed Ouazzani providedmore than $23,000 to al-Qaidaandhadpledgedmore,with the hope of eventuallytraveling to theMiddleEast tojoin the fight against the U.S.

In his May 2010 guiltyplea, Ouazzani admittedmaking false claims to bor-row money for a used auto

parts business and wiringthe proceeds to a bank inDubai. Thatmoneywasusedto purchase an apartment inDubai that later sold for a$17,000 profit, which wasgiven to al-Qaida. Ouazzanialso admitted sending theterror group $6,500 from thesale of his business.

Ouazzani, amarried fatherof twowhobecameaU.S. cit-izen in June 2006, admittedin his plea bargain to bankfraud,money launderingandconspiracy to support a ter-rorist groupafteradmittinghegave money and things likewatches and Garmin GPSunits to al-Qaida. He also ac-knowledged swearing anoathof allegiance to the terrornetwork in 2008.

His lawyers said he hasapologized for his actions.

In a plea bargain withprosecutors, Ouazzani ad-mitted making false claims

to borrow money for a busi-ness, Truman Used AutoParts, then wiring proceedsfrom a line-of-credit com-mercial loan to a bank inDubai. Thatmoneywasusedto purchase an apartmentthat later sold at a $17,000profit,whichwas given to al-Qaida, prosecutors said.

Ouazzani also admittedsending $6,500 from thesale of his business to theterror group.

Federal officials con-firmed last year that Ouaz-zaniwaspart of a small terrorcellwith twoNewYorkmen,Sabirhan Hasanoff andWesam El-Hanafi, both ofwhompleadedguilty in June2012 to their roles in theconspiracy.

Ouazzani's contributionswent through Hasanoff, aBrooklyn accountant atPricewaterhouseCooperswho moved to Dubai in

2007, according to court doc-uments. El-Hanafi, who ac-cepted Ouazzani's oath ofallegiance toal-Qaida,wasaninformation security special-ist in Brooklyn with LehmanBrothers before moving toDubai around 2005.

The three met in Brook-lyn in May 2008 to discussmembership in the terroristorganization, about a yearafter El-Hanafi had con-nectedwith twoexperiencedterrorists in Yemen, courtrecords show.

Those terrorists — re-ferred to in court documentsas "Suffian" and "The Doc-tor" — later told FBI agentsafter being arrested inYemen that the Americansbelieved the money andequipment they sent werebeing set aside for their mil-itary training that eventuallywould land them in Soma-lia, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Missouri man gets 14 years for al-Qaida support

MARLBORO, Vt. (AP) —Mention the name RudyardKipling, and images of tropi-cal forests,mongoosesandco-bras come to mind — not thesnowyvistas ofVermont. Butthat's exactly where many ofthe British writer's best-known tales, including "TheJungle Book," took shape.

In honor of his connec-tions to Vermont, a group ofscholarsknownas theKiplingSociety is holding its sympo-siumoutside theUnitedKing-dom for the first time — andtouring a home the authorbuilt in the shape of a ship,high on a hill overlooking theConnecticut River.

During the four years helived there, one of the great-

est chroniclers of 19th-cen-tury British imperialismsnowshoed in winter, wentto barn dances and madefriends with his neighbors.

"I found the neighborswere flattered tohaveKiplingamong them. They werekeenly interested inhiswork,that they respected ratherthan resented his apparent,and only apparent, wish tokeeptohimself," saidThomasPinney, a retired professorfromCalifornia'sPomonaCol-legewhogave thekeynotead-dress Monday at the two-daysymposium, "Kipling inAmerica," at Vermont's Marl-boro College in Marlboro, notfar from Kipling's home inDummerston.

Kipling lived inDummer-ston from1892 to1896whenhe wrote "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,"the story of a mongoose thatbattled two vicious cobras inIndia while protecting hishuman family from harm.While in Vermont, he alsowrote the other stories in hiscollection "The JungleBook";"Captains Courageous"; thepoems of "The Seven Seas";and many of the stories in"The Day's Work" and "ManyInventions."

Hewasdrawn toVermontbecause of hiswife, the sisterof one of Kipling's literarycollaborators, who was fromBrattleboro. Part of the drawfor the 60 scholars visitingthis week from the United

Kingdomand theU.S.will bea tour on Tuesday ofNaulakha, the home he builtin the shape of a ship.

They are also viewingsome of the college's Kiplingholdings, such as the con-tentsof a safedeposit box thatwasdiscovereduntouched inthe early 1990s after almost acentury in a bank in Brattle-boro. Among the items in itwereacopyofhismarriage li-cense, a will and other per-sonal documents.

Organizershope themeet-ing will serve to reviveKipling's reputation, whichamong scholars declinedthrough the middle years ofthe20thcenturyas theBritishimperial era lost esteem.

Scholars visit birthplace of 'The Jungle Book'

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Pool level midnight Sun-day, 1833.9 feet mean sealevel, down .1 feet. Dis-charge 14,000 cubic feet persecond. Pool level high for2012, 1,839.3. Pool level oneyear ago, 1,832.6 feet. Tail-race water temperature, 49degrees.

Garrison: Patchy fog be-fore 7 a.m., becomingmostlysunny. High, 65. West wind6 to 13mphwith gusts to 21mph.Tonight, partly cloudy.Low, 41. West wind 5 to 8mph.

New Town: Mostlysunny. High, 65. West wind7 to 16mphwith gusts to 24mph.Tonight, partly cloudy.Low, 39. West wind 5 to 9mph.

THURSDAY

Partly Sunny,20% Rain

High: 64Low: 42

Warm temps continue again today with highsreaching into the upper 60s. Todaywill also be a bit breezy withwesterly winds gusting up to 25mph. By late Thursday, rainchances increase with anapproaching low pressure system.The weekend will be much cooler.

AmandaLindquist

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Deathof amovieOn the same day, CNN and NBC

both dropped their plans to makemovies about Hillary Clinton. Inter-estingly, it looks likea win both for theClintons and for RNCchair Reince Priebus,who boldly told thetwo networks thatthey wouldn’t bemoderating any GOPpresidential debatesin 2015 or 2016with those promo-tional films in the pipeline.Apologies might be owed from

The Wall Street Journal editorialpage, which prematurely waved awhite flag: “God grant Reince Priebusthe serenity to accept liberal mediabias. ... The Hollywood-media com-plex is going to line up hard behindHillary’s 2016 Presidential bid, andthis is the first salvo. Mr. Priebus can’tstop it, he can’t even hope to containit, so all he has done is open himselfto complaints that he’s acting as LordRepublican Media Censor.”The same charges of censorship

aren’t often lobbed at the Clintons,whose idea of “message discipline”doesn’t just pertain to their ownstatements, but toward “discipline”of anyone who might damage theirlifelong narrative of ambition.Charles Ferguson, the leftist doc-

umentarian signed up by CNNFilms, wrote a commentary for TheHuffington Post explaining why hewas canceling his movie. “When Iapproached people for interviews, Idiscovered that nobody, and I meannobody, was interested in helpingme make this film. Not Democrats,not Republicans — and certainly no-body who works with the Clintons,wants access to the Clintons, ordreams of a position in a HillaryClinton administration.”Ferguson’s road to nowhere began

with a Hillary Clinton functionarynamed Nick Merrill. “He interro-gated me; at first I answered, buteventually I stopped.” Hillary wouldnot agree to an off-the-record con-versation. Longtime aide PhillippeReines “contacted various people atCNN, interrogated them, and ex-pressed concern about alleged con-flicts of interest generated becausemy film was a for-profit endeavor.” CNN declined to comment on

this pressure campaign. Fergusonsaid he believed that Clinton aidestried to stonewall his attempts to per-suade people to talk on camera. Such is the power the Clintons

wield over the national media.There is still one Hillary movie

project on the horizon, a biographi-cal film called “Rodham” that fo-cuses on Hillary’s 1974 work for theHouse Judiciary Committee duringthe Watergate probe. An early scriptleak to the Daily Beast had fictionalelements. Hillary is asked if she andBill have premarital sex, and shereplies, “It depends upon what themeaning of the word ‘sex’ means.”The leaked script also suggests

Hillary had a flirty relationship withBill Weld, the future liberal Republi-can governor of Massachusetts (whoalso served on the House Watergateeffort). That ends when young SlickWillie calls on her birthday and playsthe saxophone over the telephone,both “Happy Birthday” and “Hail tothe Chief.” This apparently sealstheir lifelong bond.The early script also had Hillary

dropping all kinds of F-bombs, espe-cially of the “mother” variety, “muchto Bill’s delight.” It shouldn’t beshocking to find that the moviemak-ers are hiking backwards on this vul-gar trail. James Ponsoldt, the directorattached to the project, told The At-lantic Wire that he’s “not really in-terested in airing the dirty laundry offamous people” and the story “pre-dates any of the feelings people haveabout the Clintons, for better or forworse,” but that is simply not true.The New York Times reported that

a “person briefed on the film’sprogress said the script had beentoned down” after the script leaked,and “the new version, this personsaid, will be more genteel, with agreater focus on the love story.” Be-cause, as we all know, the Clintonswould like the media elites to describeBill’s romantic style as “more genteel.”The likeliest Hillary movie on the

horizon is another documentaryfrom the feisty conservatives of Citi-zens United. When they produced“Hillary: The Movie” in 2008, Clin-ton liberals took them all the way tothe Supreme Court, only to lose. PartDeux should be a doozy.

BrentBozell

Shutting down the government in aneffort to use a budget fight to get rid ofObamacare is not the strategy I wouldhave recommended forthe GOP. And while Re-publicans can beblamed for starting theshutdown, it’s increas-ingly apparent that Pres-ident Obama and theDemocrats deserve thelion’s share of blame fornot only prolonging it,but for making it aspainful as possible.Obama has always had a bit of a vin-

dictive streak when it comes to politics. Ithink it stems from his Manichaean viewof America. There are the reasonable peo-ple — who agree with him. And there arethe bitter clingers who disagree for irra-tional or extremist ideological reasons.In his various statements over the last

week, he’s insisted that opponents ofObamacare are “ideologues” on an “ideo-logical crusade.” Meanwhile, he casthimself as just a reasonable guy inter-ested in solving America’s problems. Ihave no issue with him calling Republi-can opponents “ideologues” — they are— but since when is Obama not an ideo-logue?The argument about Obamacare is ob-

jectively and irrefutably ideological onboth sides — state-provided health carehas been an ideological brass ring for theleft for well over a century. But much ofthe press takes its cues from Democratsand sees this fight — and most other po-litical fights — as a contest pitting theforces of moderation, decency and ra-tionality against the ranks of the ideolog-ically brainwashed.What’s unusual is the way Obama

sees the government as a tool for his ide-ological agenda. During the fight over thesequester, Obama ordered the govern-ment to make the 2 percent budget cut aspainful and scary as possible.“It’s going to be very painful for the fly-

ing public,” Transportation Secretary RayLaHood warned Americans.“The FAA’s all-hands furloughs man-

aged to convert a less than 4 percent FAAbudget cut into a 10 percent air-trafficcontrol cut that would delay 40 percent offlights,” The Wall Street Journal noted atthe time.The Department of Homeland Secu-

rity announced it might not be able toprotect the nation’s borders, and in an ef-

fort to prove the point summarily re-leased a couple thousand immigrant de-tainees, many of them with criminalrecords.Obama, the avowed problem solver,

set out to create problems for the Ameri-can people, just to prove how great gov-ernment is and how crazy Republicanswere for wanting to cut spending —much of the money borrowed from China— a little. But don’t you dare call him anideologue!Now, with the government shutdown

and the looming fight over the debt ceil-ing, Obama’s doubling down this ideo-logically perverse strategy.The National Park Service, which has

somehow become the unofficial goonsquad of American liberalism, reversedcourse and let American World War IIvets visit the WWII memorial in Wash-ington, D.C. This is obviously good news.(I was waiting to see if Steven Spielbergwould come out with a new Obama-friendly director’s cut of “Saving PrivateRyan” in which the old guy at the end isdragged off in cuffs before he can reachTom Hanks’ grave.)Still, it cost the government more

money to try to keep WWII vets out of anopen-air memorial than it would have tojust leave it be. In Virginia, the NPS or-dered the Claude Moore Colonial Farm toshut down, even though it’s privatelyfunded.Far worse, Obama told CNBC’s John

Harwood that Wall Street should be farmore panicky about Republican efforts touse the debt ceiling to win concessionsfrom the White House. I don’t blameObama for being annoyed with Republi-cans for trying to use the debt ceiling theexact same way he did when he was asenator. But normally the president does-n’t try to talk down the economy just towin a political point.Whenever the Bush administration is-

sued terror warnings, Democrats insinu-ated that it was all a cynical politicalstunt. But this week, the White Housesent out National Intelligence DirectorJames Clapper to whip up fears that na-tional security would be imperiled by ashutdown less than 48 hours old.In the 17 previous government shut-

downs since 1977, presidents haveworked to avoid them or lessen their im-pact. Obama has made no such effort outof an ideological yearning to punish hisenemies, regardless of the collateral dam-age.

JonahGoldberg

Showing his vindictive streak

In the showdown over the shutdown ofthe U.S. government, the Obamaites tippedtheir hand last week as what their strategy is.Taking a page out of Saul

Alinsky’s “Rules for Radi-cals,” the plan is to maximizethe people’s pain — to maxi-mize the political damage tothe enemy, the RepublicanParty.What else explains it? Consider this: Asked

Wednesday if there wereany danger of America de-faulting on her debt, Presi-dent Obama rushed toassure a reporter that, yes, indeed, there cer-tainly is such a peril.Why would a president act in so perverse

a manner, were he not trying deliberately torattle or panic the markets? Obama’s tactic worked. Thursday, the

Dow plunged below 15,000. Equally telling is what happened at the

World War II Memorial.This is an open memorial on the mall, to

which the old soldiers of the Greatest Gener-ation, flown here on honor flights, come to alast roll call with their comrades. The me-morial is dedicated to them, to what they andtheir buddies did, and to those who nevercame home. But when the old soldiers got here, the

Park Service, apparently acting on ordersfrom the White House complex, had thrownup steel barriers and crime-scene tape to keepthem from visiting the site on what is surelythe last trip many will ever make to see theirmemorial.What kind of sick mind does something

like that?To their credit, the vets and their families

pulled aside the barriers to walk throughtheir monument, singing songs in memory of

the heroes who had gone before. Now one reads that Obama has ordered

the cemetery and beaches at Normandyclosed. Again, what kind of mindset pro-duces this? Undeniably, Republicans have voted to

defund Obamacare, to suspend it for oneyear, and to reform it. But in each of thesethree votes, the House also voted to fund theentire government.Why, then, is the government shut down?

Because Harry Reid and Barack Obama haveissued an edict: Either Obamacare is fullyfunded and untouched in the continuing res-olution, or we kill the CR, shut down the gov-ernment, and blame you. And this is exactly what is going on. This is all about a petulant president

whose prize program the people do not want,but who insists it be imposed upon them, toassure himself a paragraph in the historybooks. This week, Republicans tried to pass leg-

islation that would keep open all memorialsand monuments, all tourist sites in Wash-ington, D.C., and all programs for America’sveterans.Who stonewalled that? Nancy Pelosi,

Harry Reid and Barack Obama.Why would Reid sabotage the funding the

National Institute of Health. Why would Reid sabotage what is trans-

parently a humanitarian act? Again, Reid and Obama do not want to

ease the pain of the people. They want to in-tensify that pain, ratchet it up, maximize it, toput maximum pressure on and do maximumdamage to the GOP.The Obama-Reid strategy is, in a word,

sadistic. They are inflicting pain on fellow Ameri-

cans — to break their political enemies. Andthey can only succeed in sustaining their BigLie — that it is Republicans who want to

keep the government shut down — becauseof a collaborationist press. Case in point: The Washington Post.Several days ago, the Post wailed that Re-

publicans were endangering the nation’shealth by failing to fund NIH. But now thatthe Republican House has tried to fund NIHin full, where is the editorial denouncingPelosi or Reid for blocking funding for NIH?Nowhere. Which suggests the Post’s real con-cern was never about funding NIH but aboutbashing the GOP.In Thursday’s lead editorial: “National Se-

curity at Risk,” the Washington Post asks, “Ata time of war, how can Republicans justifyfurloughing much of the intelligence work-force?”Excellent question. Yet, not a word in the editorial about the

indispensable role of Reid and our com-mander-in-chief in preventing America’s se-curity agencies from being funded.What should the House Republican do

before week’s end? Pass bills funding thePentagon, State, CIA, NSA, Homeland Secu-rity and any other agency having to do withthe national security. But when Harry Reidagain balks that he is not going to “play thislittle game,” anyone think the Post will holdhim accountable?The Obama-Reid strategy — inflict maxi-

mum pain on the country for maximum gainfor themselves — coupled with a refusal totalk with the GOP — reflects this city’s con-tempt for conservative Republicans. Yet, the sadistic strategy of Obama and

Reid, and the poisonous atmosphere it hascreated, is telling America that: In its assess-ment of this city’s ruling establishment, theTea Party has more than a small point.Yet, with Reid now on the defensive, try-

ing to justify his refusal to cooperate in fund-ing any agency, the truth may be gaining onthe Big Lie.

Sadistic strategy of Obama and Reid

PatrickBuchanan

The news this past weekend that a 9-year-old boy without a ticket boarded aflight in Minneapolis and flew to LasVegas is greatly disturbing, to say theleast.Delta Air Lines said Monday that air-

line and airport officials will review poli-cies and procedures to determine how the

boy passed throughsecurity screenersand gate personnelto board the plane.The flight crew be-came suspicious be-cause the child wasnot on their list ofunattended minors.The crew contactedLas Vegas police,

who took the boy into child protectiveservices when the flight landed in LasVegas.We’re amazed that anyone, much less a

child, was able to get past TSA screeners,ticket agents and the flight crew to makeit aboard the plane. Any time we’veflown, we’ve been asked for identificationat various points along the journeythrough an airport. How does a child withno ticket and no identification actuallyboard a plane? What if the boy had beenallowed to disembark the plane in LasVegas?The situation doesn’t exactly fill us

with confidence in the security systemsinvolved. Let’s hope the situation was aonce-in-a-lifetime mistake attributed tohuman error, and that a thorough investi-gation gets to the bottom of what hap-pened.

How didchild sneakonto plane?

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Dear Annie:When our daughter was a child, shehad emotional issues and extensive anger manage-ment problems.With tremendous concern and love,we got her professional support and therapy, and ulti-mately, our daughter learned the skills to control her-self. What we did not do was tellextended family members of theseprivate problems.We had seen theirextreme intolerance for any kind ofmental health issues and did notwant our daughter to suffer prejudicefrom her own family.In college, the troubling incidents

started again. Because of our daugh-ter’s refusal to let us have access toher medical information, we had noreal idea of what was happening.The next few years included trou-bling breakups with both friends andboyfriends, extreme weight loss andtalk of suicide.Our daughter is now 32 and recently married. She

suddenly and inexplicably has cut us off. Whenwetry to communicate with her, she becomes hystericalwith rage. We have learned she has been saying horri-ble things about us to the same extended family mem-bers we tried to protect her from in childhood.We aredevastated. One relative actually told my husbandthat wemust have done something terrible to ourdaughter for her to treat us this way.These family members now have a special, almost

frenzied new importance to our daughter. They judgeus constantly. To be accused of suchmistreatment isinsulting and painful. Please print this so these familymembers will stop jumping to conclusions. — Read-ing This Can HelpDear Reading:Most likely, the only thing that will

change their perspective is to be on the receiving endof your daughter’s erratic behavior. Despite all thetherapy she had when younger, her problems haven’tdisappeared. She has simply chosen to deal withthem in her ownway, which currently precludes aloving relationship with you.We hope that willchange. While you cannot control what the relativesthink, please take comfort in knowing you handledyour daughter’s issues in a way that protected andhelped her. That is what good parents do.Dear Annie: Like many people, I suffer from the ef-

fects of multiple sclerosis. To look at us, you wouldn’tknow anything is wrong. But the pain I suffer fromdaily is sometimes unbearable. How should I reply toinconsiderate people whomake comments like,“Come on, hurry up” or “What is wrong with you?” Iwish people would think before they open theirmouths. They do not know the struggles I face.There is treatment for MS, but no cure. I maintain

my regimen of daily injections, but most of the time Icannot control its rampage. Maybe this letter willbring awareness to people not to judge on outward ap-pearances. — Suffering inMichiganDear Suffering:We hope so, but unless you are

willing to tell these impatient people what the prob-lem is, they will continue to behave rudely towardyou. Please, folks, the people around youmay be cop-ing with terrible difficulties that are not visible. Bekind.Dear Annie: I loved the letter from the “Lady Doc-

tor,” who was so thrilled with her MD degree that shewanted everyone to address her mail to “Dr. Jane DoeandMr. John Doe.”Mywife and I met in grad school. She went on to

get a Ph.D. Her mother is so proud that she addressesall of mywife’s letters to Dr. Jane Doe. However, she isalso a traditionalist, so when she writes to both of us,she addresses her letters to Mr. andMrs. John Doe.Mywife will quickly tell anyone who asks that she isat least as proud of her Mrs. degree as she is of herPh.D.—Mr. John Doe

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By HOLIDAY MATHISScientists can tell the difference betweenbad

stress and good stress because of the chemical re-action it causes in the blood. You can tell the dif-ference because of how you feel. Brave theunfamiliar under this Mercury/Saturn conjunc-tion, andyou’ll get both kinds of stress. But at theend of the day, all you’ll remember is the excite-ment.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 8)Overdoing things is counterproductive this

month. You are lucky when you relax, do lessand let things unfold, especially inmatters of theheart. November brings news that you’ll act onand eventually turn into amoneymaking oppor-tunity. Sever a tie in January, and you’ll makethree more that better suit your life. Cancer andVirgopeople adore you.Your luckynumbers are:24, 33, 31, 28 and 17.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)Everyone is flawed in some way. Accepting

your own imperfections takes courage. Youdon’thave to be fearless; you onlyhave to bewilling toendure the fearful feelings and standbyyourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)Theway to amplify your attractive qualities is

to feel good inside about who you are. A stellarshampoo is an easier route, but you won’t besorry for the effort you make to get right withyourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21)Don’t start a competitionwhere there doesn’t

need to be one. Why put yourself in a positionthat requires you todomore just to prove apoint?Besides, itwill be a pain if youhave to soothe theego of a sore loser.

CANCER (June 22-July 22)You’ll have many options, and you’re in just

the mood to make the most of them. You canclearly seewhat needs tohappennext, andyou’lldo the thing that makes you feel healthy, robustand vital.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)Progress is coming gradually these days—so

gradually, in fact, that youmay be too impatientto call it a win. Day-to-day forward movementwill contributemore to your success than a sud-den sweeping victory.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Superficial beauty is as much an illusion as

superficial ugliness. You’re after somethingdeeper now, a kind of beauty that is unchangedby the passage of time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)When it’s time to call on a stranger for help,

for instance a repair personor other professional,you may encounter a certain amount of reluc-tance in yourself. Today this is an instinct toheed, not a fear to overcome.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21)The situation you believe is causing you un-

happiness isactuallynot thecauseatall.Thecauseis something random, and the solution is exercise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Beetlesandroacheswerebornwithhardshells

on their backs, but the hardest parts of you are onthe inside—andthey’realso thesoftest.Surrenderto your human frailty, and you’ll find the sense ofconnection you seek.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Refrain from comparison. Right now, you’re

likely to feel threatened by other people’s assets,which inrealityhavenothing todowithyourownsuccess. Do your best, and ignore the rest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)There’saquietconfidence thatcomesfromgiv-

ing back that cannot be duplicated through anyother action. Selfless generosity orients youdiffer-ently. You radiate outward instead of being self-conscious.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)Forget about themistakesof thepast; younow

have the chance to start new. You’ll walk a littlefaster and speak a little louder today— two of themain reasons you get things done.

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preventing it, officials saidMajority Leader Harry Reidwas drafting a bill to raise thecurrent $16.7 trillion debtceiling before the Oct. 17deadlinewhenTreasurySec-retary Jacob Lewhas said thegovernment will reach itsborrowing limit.Themeasurewould allow

the government to meet itsborrowingneeds through the2014 elections, officials said,although few details wereimmediately available.Assuming Democratic

support, the bill could passthe Senate quickly if Repub-licans merely vote against itas they press for concessionsfrom the White House. Butpassage could be delayeduntil Oct. 17 if the GOP de-cides to mount a filibuster.Separately, aWhiteHouse

aide said Obama would bereceptive to an interim, short-term measure to prevent de-fault.In theHouse, Republicans

declined to say when theywould put debt limit legisla-tion on the floor for a vote.Instead, the public agenda

for the day consisted of legis-lation to reopen theFood andDrugAdministration, the lat-est in a string of measures to

soften the impact of the par-tial shutdown.EarlierHouse-passed bills

would end the shutdown atnational parks, the NationalGuard and Reserves and theWomen, Infants and Chil-dren nutrition program, andease effects for the Washing-ton, D.C., government,among other locations. Eachof the measures cleared theHousewith someDemocraticsupport.Yet each is under a veto

threat by the White House,and Reid opposes them intheSenate as far less than thefull restoration of govern-ment services that most De-mocrats favor.Still, the shutdown eased

over the weekend, whenabout 350,000 civilian de-fense workers were recalledas the result of legislationCongress passed and Obamasigned after the shutdownbegan.That left an estimated

450,000 federal employeesidle at agencies responsiblefor domestic programs, rang-ing from the Departments ofEducation to Energy, and in-cluding Labor, Health andHuman Services, Interior,Transportation andmore.The shutdown was felt

unevenly, however, becauseof bewilderingly complexrules and the ability of senior

officials to declare someproj-ects essential and thereforeallowed to remain open.Some routine food

checks by the FDA weresuspended, but the Depart-ment of Agriculture's meatinspections continued unin-terrupted. Much of the na-tion's space agency wasshuttered, although workcontinued on plans tolaunch a robotic probe toMars, which has a bienniallaunch window.Despite the order return-

ing civilian Pentagon work-ers to their government jobs,defense contractor LockheedMartin announced it wouldfurlough about 2,400.The Federal Emergency

Management Agency, whereObama visited, served as ademonstration for the vari-able impact of the partialshutdown.Officials said the agency

had furloughed about 86per-cent of its workers, then hadrecalled about 200 of themlast week to prepare for thethreat posed by TropicalStorm Karen in the GulfCoast region.With the threat passed,

Obama said at least 100 ofthem have been re-fur-loughed."That's no way of doing

business," he said.Whatever the shutdown's

inconveniences, itwas easilyrivaled by the warnings overa default, in which theUnited States would not beable to pay all its bills."A default would be un-

precedented and has the po-tential to be catastrophic," aTreasury report said. "Creditmarkets could freeze, thevalue of the dollar couldplummet, U.S. interest ratescould skyrocket, the negativespillovers could reverberatearound the world."Private economists gener-

ally agree that a default onthe U.S. debt would be ex-tremelyharmful, especially ifthe impassewasnot resolvedquickly.Lew has said that while

Treasury expects to have$30 billion of cash on handon Oct. 17, that moneywould be quickly exhaustedin paying incoming billsgiven that the government'spayments can run up to $60billion on a single day.

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worried about payments he'sowed for idling some envi-ronmentally sensitive landunder the Conservation Re-serve Program."I always look forward to

that check coming in themail," the 58-year-old said.But all of that, farmers

say, pales in comparison tothe lack of agriculture re-ports, because farmers todaydepend far more on globalmarketplaces than govern-ment payouts.The reports, for instance,

can alert them to shortfalls inoverseasmarkets or if there'sa wide swing in acresplanted, both of whichwould prompt U.S. growersto plant extra crops to meetthose demands or hang on toa harvest longer to get a bet-ter price."That information is

worth a lot of money, a lotmore than $20,000 a year,"Peterson said, a reference tohis subsidy.Major commodity players

can pay for crop size esti-mates usually provided inthe NASS reports from "pri-vate sources," said DaltonHenry, director of govern-mental affairs for the indus-try group Kansas Wheat."Producers aren't going tohave that same luxury," hesaid.During the shutdown, the

USDAwon't provide sales re-

ports from Oklahoma live-stock auctions that are usedto help set prices on theChicago Mercantile Ex-change, state Department ofAgriculture employee JackCarson said."We are working. They

are not," Carson said.Another ripple effect is

that farmers may see a delayin checks they're owed fromfederal support programs,said Wisconsin agriculturesecretary Ben Brancel.Brancel alsonoted thathis

office heard froma farmer onthe first day of the shutdownwhohad received a check fora cowhe sold, but becausehehad a Farm Service Agencyloan,he couldn't cash itwith-out obtaining a signaturefrom an FSA official."Our advice tohimwashe

was going to have to wait,that therewasn't anythinghecould do about it," he said.The shutdown came just

as the current farm bill ex-pired. Farmsubsidies remainintact for fall crops currentlybeing harvested. Crop insur-ance, fundedunder a perma-nent authorization, ismostlyunaffected.The expiration of the law

won't have an impact untilthe end of the year, whensomedairy supports end andmilk prices are expected torise sharply.Congress has been debat-

ing the new farm bill formore than two years, but aresolution has likely taken aback seat.

FarmsContinued from Page A1

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rust from old cast-iron watermains, he said.The city has increased

the chlorine in its pipes andestablished a flushing pro-gram from north to south inthe affected area, introduc-ing freshwater to try to clearthe system.“We are hoping it’s a

permanent solution,”Sorenson said. “Sometimesit’s just a matter of gettingsome high volume throughthe pipes, scour them andget the rust out.”Mugaas said he noticed

water discoloration andodor after moving back intohis flood-repaired home lastDecember. This fall, anoverflow valve on his nine-month-old water heater had

to be replaced due to sedi-ment in the water, he said.“There’s disagreement on

what’s going onbutweknowthat something is going on,”he said. “Can you, as cityleaders, really help pressurethe water department to getto thebottomof this problem,hold them accountable to geta resolution?”CarolynMoore, a resident

of Green Valley in southeastMinot, reported damage toappliances installed new inherhomeafter the flood. FirstDistrict Health Unit testedthe iron level in her water at2.5 parts per million on ascale in which 0.3 ppm cancause staining of fixtures.Iron is not an element regu-lated in drinking water byhealth officials.Moore said the city has

been running water througha hose on a hydrant near

her home on a continuousbasis, which is helping toclear the water. But shequestioned whether it is along-term solution.“I would like to see a per-

manent solution,” she said.“The bottom line is even ifthere proves to be no safetyconcern with the water,there’s definitely a qualityconcern. I think that deservesattention too.”Sorenson said there may

have been a coating oncast-iron mains that woreaway when water sat stag-nant in the lines after theflood. It is unknown howlong it might to to restore acoating, he said.Askedby thecouncilwhat

the department’s next stepwould be if flushing doesn’twork, Sorenson’s initial re-sponse was “more flushing.”However, he added, the de-

partment might investigatewhether anychanges in treat-ment can help encouragecoating of the pipe.In other business, the

council approved 23 re-quests that came through areview committee from resi-dents seeking extensions onthe temporary housing unitsthat they acquired from theFederal EmergencyManage-ment Agency. The exten-sions carry a June 2014deadline for removal.The review committee

will meet again Oct. 22 toconsider additional re-quests. City planner DonnaBye reported the number ofknown units in use aroundthe city now is up to 68, andnot all owners have re-quested an extension. Shesaid the city will order re-moval of units that don’thave the extension permits.

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NEWYORK (AP)—TwoAmericans and a German-American won the NobelPrize in medicine Mondayfor illuminating how tinybubbles inside cells shuttlekey substances around likea vast and highly efficientfleet of vans, delivering theright cargo to the right placeat the right time.Scientists believe the re-

search could someday leadto new medicines forepilepsy, diabetes and otherconditions.The work has already

helped doctors diagnose asevere form of epilepsy and

immune deficiency dis-eases in children. It hasalso aided research into thebrain and many neurologi-cal diseases, and openedthe door for biotech compa-nies to make yeast pumpout large quantities of use-ful proteins like insulin.The $1.2 million prize

will be shared by JamesRothman, 62, of Yale Uni-versity, Randy Schekman,64, of the University of Cal-ifornia, Berkeley, and Dr.Thomas Sudhof, 57, of Stan-ford University.They unlocked the mys-

teries of the cell's internal

transport system, which re-lies on bubble-like struc-tures called vesicles todeliver substances the cellneeds. The fleet of vesiclesis sort of the FedEx of thecellular world.When a pancreas cell re-

leases insulin or one braincell sends out a chemicalmessenger to talk to a neigh-boring one, for example, thevesicles have to deliver thosesubstances to the right placeson the cell surface. They alsoferry cargo between differentparts of a cell."Imagine hundreds of

thousands of people who are

traveling aroundhundreds ofmiles of streets; how are theygoing to find the right way?Where will the bus stop andopen its doors so that peoplecan get out?" Nobel commit-tee secretary Goran Hanssonsaid. "There are similar prob-lems in the cell."Jeremy Berg, former di-

rector of the National Insti-tute of General MedicalSciences in Bethesda, Md.,said the prize was long over-due and widely expectedbecause the work was "sofundamental and has drivenso much other research."Berg,whonowdirects the

Institute for PersonalizedMedicine at theUniversity ofPittsburgh, said theworkpro-vided the intellectual frame-work that scientists use tostudy how brain cells com-municate andhowother cellsrelease hormones.So theworkhas indirectly

affected research into virtu-ally all neurological diseaseas well as other diseases, hesaid.In the 1970s, Schekman

discovered a set of genes thatwere required for vesicletransport. Rothman revealedin the 1980s and '90s howvesicles delivered their cargo

to the right places.Also in the'90s, Sudhof identified themachinery that controlswhenvesicles release chemi-cal messengers from onebrain cell that let it commu-nicate with another."This is not an overnight

thing. Most of it has been ac-complished and developedover many years, if notdecades," Rothman said.Rothman said he lost

grant money for the workrecognized by the Nobelcommittee, but he will nowreapply, hoping the prizewill make a difference in re-ceiving funding.

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