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how much does it cost to get your newborn circumcised ?
My first baby,and at that a boy. My medicaid won't cover the cost for my son's circumcision. On average,how much would it cost for me to get it done ?
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Regarding Jewish circumcision, please take a look at this site: http://jewishcircumcision.org There is also an amazing and powerful film about Jewish circumcision that can be watched on-line for free at this site: http://www.cutthefilm.com/Cut_Website/The_Film.htmlposted 01/14/2012 by Craig301
Honestly....sometimes there is NO getting beyond the brick wall of people's minds, no matter what you say or do! It's obvious that circumcision IS a personal choice, but it should be equally obvious that the person who owns the penis should have that "personal" choice, but clearly a mind that is a brick wall won't be understanding! It's just sad that some parents think they own their child and his body..... and find it acceptable to surgically alter and modify their infant sons body to appease their own biased preferences. Those are the boys I feel sorry for because they will have to live with that decision, even if it is not their decision. But who knows? Maybe the apple won't fall far from the tree and the son will be as much of a brick wall as his mother and equally misinformed. We just don't know!posted 08/11/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
lets agree that it each its own..after watching the video of circumcision....i am still for it. Theres pros and cons with every surgery..and while i do agree it is not medically necessary to have a circumsion it is more of a personal choice for me and my husband and our child WILL b getting circumcised. Wish u luck with your children, but stop trying to put "your" truth in others head. Parents do your research....and its benefits to your son getting circumcised.posted 08/11/2012 by cassclayandkids
I find it amazing that the nursing home myth prevails....and people are stupid enough to believe it. Not one person I have encountered who has repeated this particular myth, can answer this question: Elderly women need to be cleaned as well as elderly men.....AND they are much more at risk for infections, YET.... I don't hear people advocating for an elderly woman to be snipped and trimmed in order to make a care givers job easier and "less smelly". No one is able to answer that question which makes the elderly male argument irrelevant and ridiculous. I am continually amazed at what lengths people will go to in order to justify their behavior and their decisions about their children.posted 08/11/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
Unfortunately some circumcised fathers continue the tragic cycle of genital cutting on their own children....and many don't even know why. some feel that if they admit what was done to them.....they will be admitting they are not whole....and what better way to protect that male ego than doing the same thing to your son. It's a tragic cycle that needs to stop. Usually it is a woman who can change the mind of the father....by sharing accurate information with him and having him watch some circumcision videos so he is well aware of what happens during genital cutting and it's trauma on the newborn. More and more men are gaining a firm understanding of this cycle and deciding that it ends with them. Any "possible" benefits of genital cutting do not outweigh the risks, that's why no medical organization in the world recommends doing it to newborn boys. It's important to note that most of these possible benefits really do not hold up to the accurate facts about them either....posted 08/11/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
cassclayandkids, have your husband watch this first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bEBAdhjGgposted 08/10/2012 by Craig301
Oh, sure, there are benefits to removing the foreskin just like there are benefits to removing a baby's toes - no more hangnails, greatly reduced athlete's foot, and it would be much cleaner too. Or we could remove baby girls' breast buds - that would eliminate breast cancer and save millions of lives. What other parts of the body should we remove because we think he *might* have a problem later? The so-called medical benefits are just an excuse to continue a cultural practice which started in the U.S. in the late 1800s as a way to punish boys (and girls) for masturbation.posted 08/10/2012 by Craig301
Let's remember that the foreskin is a natural, normal, and healthy part of male anatomy. Imagine a world where circumcision didn't exist, and someone came up to you and said, you know, if you cut off part of your son's penis, it would be better. You'd probably call the cops. Don't think so? Imagine you have a circumcised son, and someone comes up to you and suggests that you should cut off part of the glans (or head) of your son's penis, and listed some "medical benefits" that it would provide. Would you do it, or would you call the cops?posted 08/10/2012 by Craig301
I did it with my son, it cost me like $275 I think good luck :)posted 08/09/2012 by krissy3804
Well hell he got his penis cut later n life...so mayb just mayb thats what messed him up. Get it done while their babies and they should be just fine.posted 08/08/2012 by cassclayandkids
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I was visiting a friends new house for the holiday. He had a maple which seemed to have very "fuzzy" leaves. It was about 15 feet tall, He's concerned because many of the branches are not leafing out that fully and it has a big seem down one side of base and a couple of the branches(I'll try to get pics).
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Seems looking like previous damage to me. Could this be source of infection, cause of poor leafing?


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The Chicago native attended Southern Illinois University and graduated with a degree in radio-TV. He became the local Bozo the Clown at WDXR-TV in Paducah, Kentucky before moving on to WDCA in Washington in 1972. He was a jack of all trades at WDCA, functioning as the station's announcer, as kids' show host Captain 20 as well as Washington's second Bozo, after Willard Scott had originated the local version of the character. The character of Count Gore De Vol originated as a character called M.T. Graves on Bozo. He stayed on as the Count until 1987 and left for Chicago in 1995.
In 1998, Dyszel became the first horror host to present a weekly show on the Internet, featuring Count Gore hosting streaming video of movies and shorts.
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"To me, pop is the darkest music of all," says singer Hayley Mary. "If you look not at what pop artists are consciously doing but at what they're reflecting about the world, pop is the most twisted, weird and scary stuff. If you wanted to study the Earth from an alien perspective, listen to pop music."
Keeping that contradiction in mind, The Jezabels set off to work on The Brink, the follow-up to 2012's Prisoner. Following a marathon cycle of sold-out shows spread over two long years of touring, the band resettled in London to pull together a dark and sweeping album of alt-rock.
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Haha wow. Another masterpiece. Good work guys!
I have to know who voiced the epic Christmas carol solo, though.
I'm guessing Mick?? Whoever it was,
Better than illwillpress's piece of shit thats for sure. It is the usual quality stuff from you guys. i love you.
Comparing this christmas special to the rest of the series is interesting. The Ice Cream short really nailed down introducing the characters in a purely humorous fashion. Applooza had pretty good writing overall with a good pay off when the story wrapped itself up but seemed like it was over powered by the gags which isn't necessarily a bad thing at all. These two animations really set up a good base for the series.
Then comes this Christmas Special.
I believe this episode fit with the duration of the episode really well. The writing was all directly relevant to the characters goals. It shows the characters good intentions all the while royally fucking everything up in the process. Even when Chris and Zach try to sing more quiet something you'd expect to not have any terrible consequences, ends up being worse than being too loud.
I thought the singing by Jason Paige was hilarious, I love how Zach and Chris's movements synchronize at the beginning of the singing. You guys really put to use the almost blank canvas likeness of the Hellbenders faces for this scene especially when Chris's face changes with Jason's singing.
The singing scene was the great climax of trial and error of these characters it really mixed the built up feelings of what was witnessed before with good humor and felt satisfying in a story sense and in a humor sense. I felt the power behind it.
The jesus scene wrapped up the whole thing in great absurdity. RicePirate really nailed jesus in a nonchalant and casual way. The voice in combination of the static like nature of his drawn body was funny as fuck.
Like always, animation and art was fantastic and watching these cartoons gives me hope for more people to raise the standards of the visuals they expect from 2D internet animation.
I'm even more interested with seeing how this series unfolds, how the characters develop how Zach and Chris's goofy nature plays off off the very straight environment and other characters.
The overall power behind Chris and Zach's expression and creativity is making me wonder how much deeper these characters go. Maybe its been just the product of merely humor but the power of creating a clay monster that devours people and having the musical ability to save christmas and summon jesus has a mysterious depth to it.
Which brings up more questions about why Chris and Zach are illustrated in a stained glass window in the original intro church scene and why they're called Hellbenders in the first place. Is there something much more sinister to these goofballs or are their intentions really all good?
I look forward to finding out.
Damn dude, thanks for the in depth review! Glad you like it, and there will be more to come.
As far as the stained glass window goes, you'll have to find out as the series progresses.
the beginning was funny, but then it got cliche, and then it got hilarious, on a side note, LOL JUPITER!


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On Tuesday, November 14, exactly one week after Election Day (and with no President yet in sight), a notable though little-noted disclosure was made to the public. I do not mean the news that the federal judge in Florida had turned down the Republicans' stop-the-hand-count motion, or the news that Bush's lead in Florida was now 388 votes, or the news that a Florida state judge had waffled on Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's decree that no county votes would be counted if reported after the 5 pm deadline that afternoon, or, for that matter, anything else that was happening in the murk of the Sunshine State. I mean the news that, according to a poll released by the Washington Post and ABC News, 45 percent of the public wanted George Bush to become President whereas only 44 percent wanted Al Gore to become President (6 percent wanted "neither," 4 percent had no opinion and 1 percent wanted "other"). The claim was all the more striking in view of the hard contemporaneous fact that in the most recent count of the actual vote of November 7, Gore led Bush by a nationwide margin of 222,880 votes.
If anyone ever had doubts that politics in the United States is dominated by polling, this poll should put an end to them. A major poll was, in a manner of speaking, calling the election a full week after the vote--and reversing the known results.
The polls had been mercifully silent since the election. Many had good reason to be. Five of seven major ones had been "wrong" about the outcome of the election. That is, their final counts had failed to reflect the winner on Election Day (though some, it's true, were within the margin of error). The New York Times/CBS "final" poll, which put Bush at 46 percent and Gore at 41 percent, had the margin wrong by more than five points and Gore's final tally off by eight points. The Battleground poll, which gave Bush 50 percent to Gore's 45 percent, likewise got the margin wrong by five points. Others were more modestly in error. CNN gave Bush 48 percent and Gore 46 percent; in the Washington Post it was Bush 48 and Gore 45; and in the Pew Research Center poll (with undecided voters counted), it was Bush 49, Gore 47. Only the Zogby poll, which put Gore ahead in the popular vote by 48 to 46 percent, and a CBS election-morning tracking poll, which gave Gore 45 percent and Bush 44 percent, picked the right winner in the popular vote, and with a margin close to the actual result. All in all, Gore's victory in the popular vote came as a surprise. Of course, it's not literally true that the polls were wrong, since there is a margin of error, and people can change their minds between the day of the poll and the election. On the other hand, election results are the only check on the accuracy of polling that there is--they are to polling what experimentation is to scientific hypothesis--and there is no reason to suppose that a poll whose final measure is 8 percentage points off the election result is not 8 percentage points off year in, year out.
Considering the decisive importance that polling had throughout the race in every aspect of the campaign, including media coverage, fundraising and campaign strategy (in the last few weeks of the election, hearts were lifting and falling on single-point fluctuations in poll numbers), these discrepancies deserved much reflection. The reason they did not get it was that on election night the magicians of public opinion went on to make even more egregious and momentous errors, by prematurely predicting the winner in Florida twice and the winner of the national election once. (The election-night calls made by the television networks, which in turn are based on exit polling done by a single, nearly anonymous firm, the Voter News Service, are not quite the same as opinion polling, since they record a deed--voting--rather than an opinion, but their use of sampling techniques to predict outcomes places them in the same general category as other polls.)
The last of these mistakes, of course, led a credulous Gore to concede the election and then, minutes later, to retract the concession. For a few hours, the networks and the candidates appeared to have assumed the power to decide the election between them. There is every reason to believe, for instance, that George Bush would now be President-elect if, moments before his concession speech, Gore had not got the news that Florida had been declared undecided again. If Gore's concession had gone unretracted, Bush had made his acceptance speech and the country had gone to bed believing it had made its decision, it is scarcely imaginable that the close results in Florida would have been contested. Even now, many observers await a concession by one or another of the candidates as the decisive event. But it is not up to either the networks or the candidates to decide who is to be President; that matter is left under the Constitution to the voters, whose will, no matter how narrowly expressed, must be ascertained.
Then a week later, the polls that had played such an important and misleading role in the election were weighing in again, this time on the Florida battle. The poll that brought the startling, seemingly counterfactual news that Bush led Gore in the public's preference also revealed that six out of ten voters were opposed to legal challenges to the Florida results--possibly bad news for Gore, who had been considering a legal challenge to the infamous butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County. However, observers who did not like that conclusion could find comfort on the same day in a New York Times/CBS poll, which reported that another 6 in 10 were unworried about a delay in finally deciding upon the next President--good news for Gore, who had been relying on time-consuming hand recounts to erase Bush's narrow lead.
If, however, the arts of reading public opinion helped get us into our current mess, perhaps we can take comfort from the hope that they can also help us get out of it. Many observers have suggested that by failing to produce a clear mandate, the ever-changing vote-count of the year 2000--let's call it the Butterfly Election--will cripple the presidency of the winner. They need not worry too much. In our day, it is not only--perhaps not even mainly--elections that create mandates, once every four years. It is polling data that, day in and day out, create our impressions, however incompletely or inaccurately, of what the public wants. Let the new President act in a way that the public approves, as determined by a poll or two, and he will have all the mandate he needs to govern.
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Providence put me on a panel debating the Gore/Nader choice with Cornel West at New York University in late October. Most of the audience was for Nader, and the lineup on stage did nothing to improve those odds.
Before the debate began, its organizers took a few moments to speak on behalf of the university's graduate students' struggle for unionization. So did West, who had been handed a flier about it from the floor. And as a man about to lose a debate (and a longtime grad student as well as an occasional NYU adjunct faculty member), I was happy for the interruption. Days later, the National Labor Relations Board set an important precedent by ruling in favor of the students. But here's what I don't understand. How can the student union supporters also be Nader supporters? Nonsensical "Tweedledee/Tweedledum" assertions to the contrary, only one party appoints people to the NLRB who approve of graduate student unions, and only one appoints people to the Supreme Court who approve of such NLRB decisions. No Democrat in the White House, no graduate student union; it's that simple. An honest Nader campaign slogan might have read, "Vote your conscience and lose your union...or your reproductive freedom...your wildlife refuge, etc., etc."
Well, Nader's support collapsed, but not far or fast enough. In the future, it will be difficult to heal the rift that Nader's costly war on even the most progressive Democrats has opened. Speaking to In These Times's David Moberg, Nader promised, "After November, we're going to go after the Congress in a very detailed way, district by district. If [Democratic candidates] are winning 51 to 49 percent, we're going to go in and beat them with Green votes. They've got to lose people, whether they're good or bad." It's hard to imagine what kind of deal can be done with a man whose angriest rhetorical assaults appear reserved for his natural allies. (The vituperative attacks on Nader, leveled by many of my friends and cronies on the prolabor democratic left, were almost as counterproductive, however morally justified.) But a deal will have to be done. Nader may have polled a pathetic 2 to 3 percent nationally, but he still affected the race enough to tip some important balances in favor of Bush and the Republicans. He not only amassed crucial margins in Florida, New Hampshire and Oregon; he forced progressive Democrats like Tom Hayden, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy and the two Jesse Jacksons to focus on rear-guard action during the final days rather than voter turnout. If this pattern repeats itself in future elections, Naderite progressives will become very big fish in a very tiny pond indeed.
Perhaps a serious Feingold or Wellstone run at the nomination with a stronger platform on globalization issues will convince those die-hard Naderites to join in the difficult business of building a more rational, Christian Coalition-like bloc to counter corporate power within the party. For now, we can expect an ugly period of payback in Washington in which Nader's valuable network of organizations will likely be the first to pay. Democrats will no longer return his calls. Funders will tell him to take a hike. Sadly, his life's work will be a victim of the infantile left-wing disorder Nader developed in his quixotic quest to elect a reactionary Republican to the American presidency.
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Giving Nader a run for his money in the election hall of shame are the mainstream media. Media portraits of both candidates were etched in stone, with nary a fact or figure allowed to intrude upon the well-worn script. Bush was dumb and Gore a liar; pretty much nothing else was allowed in the grand narrative. Like Nader, reporters assumed the enormous policy differences between Gore and Bush--on Social Security, prescription drugs, education, affirmative action, abortion rights, the environment--to be of trivial importance, hardly worth the time and effort to explain or investigate. The media's treatment of this election as a popularity contest rather than a political one between two governing ideologies was an implicit endorsement of the Bush campaign strategy, as the issues favored Gore. But even so, Bush was usually treated like some pet media cause. With regard to such consequential questions as his political program, his political experience, his arrest record, his military service, his business ethics, Bush was given a free pass by media that continued to hound Gore about whether he was really the model for Oliver in Love Story--which, by the way, he was. I guess being a Bigfoot journalist means never having to say you're sorry.
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One election development that had to gladden New Republic owner Marty Peretz's heart was how bad it was for the Arabs. I got a call one day from a Republican Party functionary telling me that Hillary Clinton supported a Palestinian state and took money from groups that supported terrorist organizations "like the one that just blew up the USS Cole." I told the sorry sonofabitch that like Israel's Prime Minister, I, too, support a Palestinian state. And, if there was any justice in the world, Hillary's "terrorist" friends would blow up Republican headquarters while we were still on the phone, so I could enjoy hearing the explosion.
This heavy-handed bit of racist manipulation grew out of a story published, surprisingly, not in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post but in the putatively responsible and nominally liberal New York Daily News, owned by Mortimer Zuckerman. It was inspired by the machinations of one Steven Emerson, a discredited "terrorism expert" last heard trying to pin the Oklahoma City bombing on the Arabs by noting that "inflict[ing] as many casualties as possible...is a Middle Eastern trait." Each actor played a dishonorable role in the tawdry drama: The Daily News invented the story. The Lazio campaign brazenly exploited it. Hillary Clinton's campaign capitulated to it. Together with the media coverage of the main event, this mini-drama will go down in history as further evidence of that unhappy nostrum of American politics that this year seems to have escaped everyone from the Nader die-hards to Palestinian militants: Things can always get worse.
As the media obsessed over the seesaw presidential poll, voters across the country quietly made their choices on more than 200 disparate ballot measures and initiatives. For progressives the results are--as usual--mixed.
First the bad news: Three campaign finance reform initiatives went the wrong way. Clean-money measures providing for full public financing were thumped in Missouri and Oregon. Similar measures had been passed in previous years by voters in Maine, Massachusetts and Arizona as well as by the legislature in Vermont--but this time around powerful, well-financed business lobbies weighed in, and dirty money beat clean money. In Oregon opponents ran an effective (and expensive) radio campaign highlighting the out-of-state financial support for the reform, and it raised the specter of extremists running for office if it passed.
In Missouri corporate opponents--including Anheuser-Busch, KC Power & Light, Hallmark Cards and the Missouri Association of Realtors--poured hundreds of thousands into their victorious antireform campaign. Californians, meanwhile, approved Proposition 34, billed as campaign reform but actually cooked up by the establishment to block real reform. The returns on these three measures should compel campaign finance reform activists to rethink their strategies. These are significant and stinging defeats.
The good news is that the failed drug war was a loser in five of seven related measures nationwide. Medical marijuana initiatives passed in Colorado and Nevada (although a full marijuana-legalization bill failed in Alaska). Oregon and Utah voted to reform draconian drug forfeiture laws. And in California, Proposition 36, providing treatment instead of jail for first- and second-time drug offenders, passed easily. But a similar proposition failed in Massachusetts (which also refused to approve a universal healthcare proposal).
Another bright spot was public education. Voucher measures in California and Michigan were beaten by wide margins. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tim Draper put up millions for the California proposal--to no avail. California voters also approved a measure that makes passage of school bonds easier. But bilingual education, banned in the Golden State two years ago, was also thrown out by Arizona voters. As he did in California, businessman Ron Unz fathered and funded the Arizona measure.
Colorado voters defeated the so-called informed consent measure on abortion, but Arizona and Nebraska approved a ban on same-sex marriages and civil unions. In Maine a measure to protect gays from discrimination was defeated. In Oregon the notorious Measure 9, which outlaws "teaching" homosexuality in schools, failed. Oregonians also rejected two antiunion "paycheck protection" measures, which the state labor federation had vigorously fought.
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DNA testing can convict the guilty; it can also destroy the privacy of millions.
In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are required to submit a DNA sample to the department of public safety. In Idaho, consensual sodomy with a partner other than your spouse constitutes a sex-crime felony. Those unfortunate enough to be caught in the act are similarly required by law to submit a tissue sample to the state's DNA databank for the purposes of preventing future sex crimes. And if Governor George Pataki is successful in the next legislative session, New York will begin collecting genetic material from any person convicted of a misdemeanor, such as resisting arrest or disorderly conduct as a result of peaceful civil disobedience.
In an age of biotechnology and computers, we are all but a needle-stick away from disclosing hereditary-disease susceptibilities, familial relationships and identifying information. Anyone who values privacy should therefore be concerned that US law-enforcement agencies are amassing ever larger portions of the general population's DNA while neglecting to implement measures that would protect the privacy and presumptive innocence of citizens. And because DNA evidence is currently enjoying an unprecedented degree of bipartisan enthusiasm, these gradual developments have tended to be sheltered from the criticism that might otherwise confront such policies.
Not that DNA evidence's celebrity isn't well deserved. It is many rape victims' best hope for identifying their assailants and law enforcement's most penetrating method of apprehending serial offenders. It can be credited with triggering a re-examination of the nation's capital punishment system by exonerating eight death-row inmates. Like its predecessor, the fingerprint, DNA profiles are a reliable means of identifying individuals (except in the case of identical twins). But glib analogies to fingerprints obscure important differences. DNA samples can reveal far more information than fingerprints, including sensitive medical conditions, traits or a person's biological parentage. In addition, while fingerprints are unique to every individual, genetic profiles are partially shared among blood relatives. Thus, databanks contain identifying information on nonoffending relatives of people explicitly covered by databanking statutes. Finally, because we shed our genetic calling cards in a trail of hair follicles, skin flecks, saliva aerosols and finger smudges, DNA can also provide a trace of our activities.
DNA databanks are premised on statistics indicating that individuals convicted of a serious violent offense often commit other violent offenses that leave behind incriminating DNA. Tissue samples, usually in the form of a blood sample or cheek swab, are thus collected from offenders covered by their state's databank laws and are analyzed using a technique called "profiling," which detects genetic variations among individuals that, at least as currently understood by geneticists, have no biological function. The resulting data are then computerized so that profiles produced from crime-scene samples can be compared with those already in the database, allowing authorities to eliminate certain suspects or target those whose profiles match. In effect, databanks provide a means of genetically frisking anyone who has ever committed a covered offense for any crime in which DNA has been recovered.
As of June 1998 all fifty states had enacted statutes authorizing state and local law-enforcement agencies to operate criminal DNA databases and to pool their DNA profiles into a national FBI-operated database called CODIS (Combined DNA Identification System). Though the earliest laws targeted convicted violent sexual felons, civil libertarians looked to the history of Social Security numbers, fingerprinting and drug-testing to warn of an inevitable migration of the technique from convict to suspect terrain. A decade later, as many states have passed laws to cover new offender categories, the Cassandras appear to have been vindicated. Delaware, for instance, requires submission of genetic samples for all those who have committed offenses against children, which include selling tobacco or tattooing minors without the consent of a guardian. Twenty-three states cover certain categories of misdemeanors, and seven states have enacted legislation that would require DNA submission for any felony, which extends DNA databanking into realms such as perjury, larceny, bribery and fraud. Thus, in addition to New Mexico's statute covering unregistered communists, Alabama's code covers tax evaders and Virginia's targets people who deface brands or marks on timber. Experts like CODIS program director Steve Niezgoda have predicted that all states will eventually amend their statutes to cover all felonies; four states have already done so, and another three have recently considered or will consider such an expansion in their next legislative sessions. Among these three, New York's proposal stands out as by far the nation's most comprehensive, targeting all convicted felons and class-A misdemeanants.
DNA databanking laws are furthermore part of the ferment that is corroding the century-old juvenile justice system that treats minors as a category of offenders separate from adults. More than half of all states authorize inclusion of DNA profiles collected from juveniles in their databanks. In contrast to the convention of sealing or erasing juvenile criminal records after a period of time--a practice grounded on a rehabilitative ideal--none of the statutes require states to remove juvenile DNA profiles from their databanks, and one (Arizona's) expressly prohibits their removal. Several states have revised their original legislation to cover juvenile offenders as well. The spread of DNA databanking to minors is especially troubling when considered against the racial inequities that plague the juvenile justice system. According to Vincent Schiraldi, president of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, "When you control for poverty, white and black [teens] commit the same amount of violent crime, [but] blacks are arrested at four times the rate of whites and imprisoned at seven times the rate of whites. So don't think for a second this databank will be race-neutral. This policy will grossly overrepresent criminal behavior by blacks and exacerbate disparities in incarceration because [databanks are] going to be used against people."
An indirect consequence of expanding DNA databanks is their partial coverage of a larger proportion of nonoffending relatives as well. Because individuals share portions of their DNA with biological relatives--half in the case of siblings, parents and children--an incomplete match between a databanked person's profile and that of a crime-scene sample might lead investigators to question an individual's immediate family. The effect of such profiling by proxy is that identifying information about nonoffenders is present in criminal databank systems as well; in effect, if you have a relative whose profile has been databanked, you're likely to be partially genetically frisked as well.
A critical unresolved question about current databanking practices concerns what law-enforcement agencies actually do with their frozen vials of human tissue. The human genome contains approximately 100,000 different genes, many of which are associated with specific illnesses. Though DNA profiles have few applications beyond linking individuals to biological specimens, the actual tissue samples submitted by offenders could in principle be analyzed for genetic traits ranging from sickle-cell anemia to schizophrenia. Since evolving typing techniques may one day outmode profiles currently being entered into computers, more than half of US states are authorized or required by law to archive their samples so they can be retested. This sustains the possibility that samples may eventually be used for purposes other than profiling.
Most statutes restrict sample use to "law enforcement"--a term whose broadness in this context can only be described as oceanic. Twenty states allow law-enforcement agencies to use samples for research on improving forensic techniques, which could mean searching banked DNA samples for genetic predictors of recidivism, pedophilia or aggression. One Massachusetts legislator publicly advocated such a use, and Tom Callaghan, program manager of the FBI's Federal Convicted Offender DNA Database, refused to rule out such a possibility when pressed at a National Institute of Justice Symposium in September 1999. Moreover, tissue repositories created by databanks would provide genetics researchers with congenial waters in which to trawl for genes thought to be involved in criminal behavior. Alabama's databanking law brushes perilously close to this by authorizing release of anonymous DNA population data collected by law-enforcement authorities to "assist in other humanitarian endeavors including, but not limited to, educational research or medical research or development."
Experimenting with offender DNA in this way would violate basic tenets of biomedical ethics by using tissues that were not obtained by consent for purposes that arguably run counter to the interests of the research subject. "If [law-enforcement authorities] want to do research," argues Boston University bioethicist George Annas, "they should follow the same rules everyone else has to follow in terms of informed consent and privacy.... Criminals have privacy rights like everyone else." As such, using databanked samples for research without consent also runs counter to recommendations by the American College of Medical Genetics.
Such research authorizations are especially troubling in light of this nation's checkered history of experimentation on prisoners. In 1875 social reformer and prison inspector Richard Dugdale wrote his famous study of the Jukes family after he noticed a disproportionate number of inmates with that last name. The availability of banked criminals' tissues may prove a valuable resource should society's interest in genetic explanations for social ills be renewed.
Legal challenges of DNA database laws have generally failed and are therefore unlikely to stem their widening sweep. Practices in Britain, the first country to enlist DNA in its crime-fighting cavalry, may portend dramatically widened use of databanking in the United States. Britain's Forensic Science Service is authorized to collect DNA samples from anyone questioned about or suspected of any offense for which a person could be detained. As of July 1999, England had collected 547,000 DNA samples; the effort was projected to reach 30 percent of British men eventually. In addition, England has conducted at least eighty "intelligence-based screens"--the official term for what is colloquially called a "genetic sweep"--in which the general population is asked to submit DNA samples to help police investigate a particular crime. Although samples are provided voluntarily, social pressures, heavy media coverage and the concern that failure to submit a sample may itself invoke police suspicion undermine the notion of submissions being truly consensual. Other countries, including Canada and Germany, have conducted similar sweeps, and while some argue that the Fourth Amendment would probably bar such practices in the United States, privacy watchdogs like New York Civil Liberties Union's executive director Norman Siegel caution that "Fourth Amendment challenges [of databanks] have not been successful; these are the only reference points we have [for predicting how courts will rule on genetic sweeps], and they're not promising."
The next battle between civil libertarians and law-enforcement authorities concerning DNA databanking is likely to concern the leap from profiling convicted felons to arrestees. Former NYPD chief Howard Safir has championed arrestee profiling, and US Attorney General Janet Reno has begun to explore the implications of such a policy by querying a National Institute of Justice commission. Arrestee profiling would dramatically broaden the reach of DNA databanking and, if not subject to careful restrictions, would empower law-enforcement authorities to arrest people for minor offenses, collect a tissue sample and search their databases for a match between the arrestee's profile and another crime-scene sample. Despite widespread enthusiasm in law-enforcement circles, profiling on such a scale isn't likely to be implemented anytime soon, given the backlog of tissue samples awaiting profile analysis and the high costs (at least $100 per sample). Nevertheless, one state (Louisiana) profiles arrestees for sexual offenses, and advancing automation technologies are likely to erode these fiscal barriers.
Though this is reason for despair among privacy advocates, there are a few hopeful signs among the various statutes. Twenty-seven states (and the federal government), for example, prohibit disclosure of genetic materials or information to unauthorized third parties. Wisconsin requires that law-enforcement authorities eliminate DNA samples of convicted persons after profiling is complete, and six states (Indiana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming) restrict what authorities can do with collected DNA by prohibiting analysis of genetic mutations that could predict a person's traits. But in an environment where the political leaders most likely to raise objections to such policies are often silenced by a fear of appearing to be soft on crime, the stability of these protections remains to be seen.
Imagining a fair and protective system for using DNA evidence in the criminal justice system isn't all that difficult. People claiming innocence should be given opportunities to volunteer DNA to clear their name. For them--and more broadly for the credibility of the criminal justice system--DNA forensic technology may be the only life vest within reach. Upon overturning a conviction, volunteered DNA samples and profiles should be promptly destroyed, preserving the individual's presumptive innocence. For people convicted of serious violent offenses and beyond the reach of such exculpatory evidence, however, the trade-off between privacy and public interest may tilt toward favoring a DNA databanking system with strong privacy protections, including sample destruction after profiling and prohibitions on uses other than comparing profiles with those collected from crime scenes. And finally, to protect the presumptive innocence of convicted offenders' family members, states should impose stringent requirements for when a match between a crime-scene sample and a databanked profile can trigger an investigation.
Privacy is a zero-sum entity: The extension of law-enforcement authorities' genetic gaze comes directly at the expense of an individual's power to withhold such information. Where most human DNA handling once occurred in medical clinics and research laboratories--institutions that are generally subject to public oversight and cautious (if imperfect) ethical review--DNA has now entered a territory not particularly distinguished for its ethical circumspection. States are not providing many reasons for the public to be confident that they are taking these concerns seriously; perhaps of even greater concern, negligence in protecting the privacy of offenders and criminal suspects may acclimate a public to weak protections of genetic materials. As the predictive powers of genetic technologies are refined, this could have grievous consequences for everyone.
As a memorial tribute to Vincent Canby, the "Arts & Leisure" section of the New York Times recently published half a page of excerpts of his prose, as selected by The Editors. Implacable beings of ominous name! With grim rectitude, they shaped a Canby in their image, favoring passages where he had laid down principles of the sort that should be cited only under capitalization. These were Sound Judgments.
For those of us who admired Mr. Canby (as the Times would have called him while he was alive, and as I will continue to call him, knowing how the style fit the man), soundness of judgment was in truth a part of his merit. A hard man to fool, he could distinguish mere eccentricity from the throes of imaginative compulsion, the pleasures of pop moviemaking from the achievements of film art; and when he was offered sentimentality in place of feeling, his heart didn't warm, it burned. These powers of discernment allowed him to bear with extraordinary grace the responsibility of being the Times critic. They also contributed a lot to his need for responsibility, since it was his sureness, as much as the institutional weight of the Times, that made Vincent Canby so influential.
That said, I confess I read him to laugh. At present, I can give only tin-eared approximations of his wisecracks--correct and ample quotation will become possible when someone smart decides to publish a Vincent Canby anthology--but I can hardly forget his review of Salome's Last Dance. This picture was the latest chapter in Ken Russell's phantasmagorical history of sex in the arts, or the arts in sex. Mr. Canby's lead (more or less): "As the bee is drawn to the flower, as the hammer to the nail, so Ken Russell was bound to get to Oscar Wilde."
I also recall Mr. Canby's description of the used car that Jim Jarmusch peddled to the title characters in Leningrad Cowboys Go America. It looked, he said, as if it had been dropped from a great height. Writing about I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, a film of relentlessly life-affirming whimsy, he claimed he'd been cornered by a three-hundred-pound elf. A typically self-regarding, show-offy performance by Nicolas Cage (was it in Vampire's Kiss?) inspired him to write that other actors must enjoy working with this man about as much as they'd welcome being shut up with a jaguar. And once, when forced to think up copy about his umpteen-thousandth formula movie, he proposed that the only way to derive pleasure from such a picture would be to play a game with yourself, betting on whether you could guess what would happen next. "As you win," he wrote, "you lose."
From these few and random examples, you may conclude that Mr. Canby's principles often emerged with a deep-voiced chuckle, and that they involved matters that went far beyond the movies. Some of these concerns were political in the specific sense, as when he gave a favorable review to Alex Cox's Walker: a film that offered a burlesque insult to US supporters of the Nicaraguan contras, in government and at the Times. His concerns were also political in a broader sense. Witness the 200 words he devoted to a little African-American picture titled Love Your Mama: a heartfelt, thoroughly amateurish movie produced in Chicago by some people who had hired an industrial filmmaker to direct their script. While quietly letting his readers know that they probably would not want to watch this film, Mr. Canby conveyed a sense that real human beings, deserving of respect, had poured themselves into the project.
Of course, the best places in which to seek Mr. Canby's principles were within the films he championed. He would have earned his place in cinema history (as distinct from the annals of journalism) had he done nothing more than support Fassbinder's work. And yet I'm not surprised that The Editors found no space to reprint Mr. Canby's writings on this crucial enthusiasm. Fassbinder, like his critic, was preternaturally alert to political and social imposture, to the bitter and absurd comedy of human relationships, and also (for all his laughter) to the pain and dignity of those who go through life being pissed on. Mr. Canby recognized in Fassbinder's work all these qualities and more (such as the presence, in the person of Hanna Schygulla, of one of cinema's great fantasy objects); but these matters seem to have been judged too unruly for an "Arts & Leisure" tribute.
Now, I've been allowed to do some work for "Arts & Leisure" and have received from my editors nothing but aid and kindness. Surely the people I've dealt with at the Times would have chosen excerpts from Mr. Canby that were funnier, sharper, more challenging. So maybe, when the Times moves to memorialize somebody as one of its own, a higher level of control takes over. It's as if the paper means to show its own best face--or rather the image it wants to see in the mirror, urbane and solid--and never mind that man in the old tweed jacket.
This tendency of the institution to eclipse the individual figures prominently in a new book by another major film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum. By "major," I mean that Rosenbaum is highly regarded by other reviewers and film academics, and that he's gained a certain public following (concentrated in Chicago, where he serves as critic for the Reader). But if you were to ask him how he fits into American film culture in particular and US society in general, he would locate himself, quite accurately, on the margins. As his friends will tell you (I hope I may count myself among them), Rosenbaum is one of the angel-headed hipsters: a sweet-natured, guileless man, wholly in love with art and wholly longing for social justice. And for these very reasons, he has become the angry man of American film criticism, as you might gather from the title of his new work, Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See (A Cappella, $24).
Rosenbaum argues--"argue," by the way, is one of his favorite words--that those American writers, editors and TV producers who pretend to cover film are for the most part hopelessly self-blinkered. It's in their interest to look at only those movies that the big American companies want to promote (including the so-called independent films that have been ratified by Sundance and Miramax). So journalism collaborates with commerce, instead of acting as a check on it; informed, wide-ranging criticism gets shoved to the side; films that might have seemed like news flashes from the outside world fail to penetrate our borders; and everyone excuses this situation by claiming that "the people" are getting the dumb stuff they want. Rosenbaum is enraged that moviegoers should be viewed with such contempt; he's infuriated that well-placed journalists should justify their snobbism (and laziness) by dismissing whatever films and filmmakers they don't already know about; and he's mad enough to name names.
In Movie Wars, Rosenbaum advances his arguments by means of a crabwise motion, scuttling back and forth between general observations (which are newly composed) and case studies (many of them published before, in the Reader and elsewhere). This means that some stretches of ground are covered two or three times. I don't much mind the repetition--even when the material shows up in a second new book by Rosenbaum, his excellent, unabashedly partisan monograph on Jarmusch's Dead Man (BFI Modern Classics, $12.95). I do worry that indignation, however righteous, has begun to coarsen Rosenbaum's tone and push him into overstatement.
When Rosenbaum is at his best, his extraordinary wealth of knowledge about cinema informs an equally extraordinary power of insight into individual pictures; and both these aspects of his thinking open into frequently astute observations of the world at large. You can get Rosenbaum at his best in his Dead Man monograph and in three previously published collections: Moving Places, Placing Movies and Movies as Politics (California). By contrast, Movie Wars is a sustained polemic, with all the crabbiness that implies.
It's a welcome polemic, in many ways. Most rants against the infotainment industry are on the level of Michael Medved's godawful Hollywood vs. America; they complain, in effect, that the movies tell us too much about the world. Rosenbaum recognizes the real problem, which is that our world (filmed and otherwise) has been made to seem small. I agree with much of what he says. But when, in his wrath, he digresses to settle scores or rampages past obvious counterarguments, I begin to wish that he, too, would sometimes pretend to be urbane and solid.
"There's a hefty price tag for whatever prestige and power comes with writing for The New York Times and The New Yorker," Rosenbaum says, "and I consider myself fortunate that I don't have to worry about paying it. Film critics for those publications--including Vincent Canby and Pauline Kael...--ultimately wind up less powerful than the institutions they write for, and insofar as they're empowered by those institutions, they're disempowered as independent voices."
To which I say, yes and no. As bad as the situation is--and believe me, it's woeful--I've noticed that news of the world does sometimes break through. David Denby, in The New Yorker, may contribute to American ignorance by being obtuse about Kiarostami (as Rosenbaum notes with disdain); but then, as Rosenbaum fails to note, Stephen Holden and A.O. Scott in the Times delivered raves to Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us. Individuals in even the most monolithic publications still make themselves heard; and the exceptional writer can manage (at least in life) to upstage an entire institution.
Rosenbaum himself has pulled off that trick at the Reader; and Vincent Canby did it at the Times. To the living critic, and all those who share his expansive view of the world, I say, "We've lost a champion. Better stop grousing and pick up the slack." And to those who mourn Mr. Canby, I say, "You can still hear his laughter. Just don't let The Editors get in the way."


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GWU women's basketball team, coaches and mascot delivers over 1,000 pounds of canned goods.
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A Helping Hand for the Holidays
"Our nation has trillions of dollars but so many people are hungry. That's why I give," says Paul Lawrence.
Day of Service
Today's volunteer event was part of NBA Cares and the league's commitment to service. The Washington Wizards have been an ardent supporter of the CAFB throughout the years.
CAFB Gives Kids Healthy Start to School Year
The food bank's child hunger programs help ensure access to quality, nutritious meals throughout the year and give the next generation a healthy start to their future.
Ambassador of Hope
This past July, the Capital Area Food Bank and the Anacostia community lost a true hunger champion with the passing of the late great Reverend Roy Settles.
Hunger Revealed
More than 530,700 people in the Washington metro region turn to food pantries and meal service programs to feed themselves and their families.
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The Washington Mystics basketball team took their game off-court to help pack and sort food at the Capital Area Food Bank.
In the Community: Our Garden Grows… Exponentially!
Here at the food bank, our soil and seeds teach partner agencies how to grow healthy food cheaply.
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Bangalore:The Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) supplementary examinations will be held from June 7.
Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri said that candidates, who have failed in the SSLC 2010 examinations, may send in their applications by May 18 to the Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board.
The schools have been provided with nominal rolls of failed candidates along with the result sheets. The schools will have to use the same to register the failed candidates for the supplementary examinations by May 15. Candidates will not be allowed to appear for the examination if they have not first registered their names with the board. The prescribed fee for the supplementary examination is Rs. 150 for one subject, Rs. 200 for two subjects and Rs. 300 for more than two subjects.
He also said that the board has made arrangements for re-evaluation, re-totalling, and photocopying of answer books in all subjects. The last date to send applications for the same is May 21. Candidates, who apply for photocopies, should not apply for re-totalling or re-evaluation. For re-evaluation of one subject, candidates will have to pay Rs. 700. The fee for photocopy of answer booklet of one subject is Rs. 300, while it is Rs. 150 for re-totalling.
About the high fees for re-dvaluation, Mr. Kageri said, "If after re-evaluation, there is a difference of more than six marks, the board will reimburse the amount to the candidate."


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The 2015 Winter Symposium again will be hosted at the Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, from February 17-20. The 2015 Winter Symposium will feature more hot topics for recorders and the business sector. There will be general sessions interspersed with work group meetings and small group discussions offering opportunities to continue developing relationships with all attendees. For schedule details, click here.
Two conference sessions certain to elicit interest are the sessions on a potential uniform law to require all real estate records to be available online and flat-rate recording fees. Both of these topics have surfaced in the final quarter of 2014 so the first opportunity for face-to-face discussion will be at the February Winter Symposium.
Located just one mile from the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, you will be just a short ride away from popular attractions, including the Arlington National Cemetery, John F. Kennedy Center for the performing Arts and the Pentagon. With a plethora of restaurants, local attractions and Washington, DC, just a metro-ride away, this will be a stay with opportunities to visit with your representatives in Congress or take in the history of Washington.
The Planning Committee, co-chaired by Kim LeGate, Davidson Co. (TN), and Liz Kelly, Ernst Publishing, will work in conjunction with the Board of Directors to design the program.
Click here to meet the 2015 Winter Symposium speakers!


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text: Victims' families tell how tainted fruit turned to tragedyBy Moni Basu, CNNUpdated 3:41 PM ET, Fri September 30, 2011William Beach is among 13 people who have died from Listeria monocytogenes. Story highlightsBefore his family knew what Listeria was, William Beach was deadAfter eating Jensen Farms cantaloupe, Beach collapsed on the floorIn Colorado, Herbert Stevens is still recuperating from his bout with the bacteriaBoth families are suing Jensen Farms William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods. He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto something else.In August, when summer's heat seemed unending in Mustang, Oklahoma, Beach took to savoring fried chicken -- and soft, sweet cantaloupe.Beach was elderly -- 87 -- but after eating the fruit, his health declined rather suddenly and before anyone in his family knew what was wrong, he was dead.He is among 15 people who died from Listeria monocytogenes in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling the deadliest U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness since 1998. Gallery: The decade's 10 biggest food-borne illness outbreaksThe bacteria was traced to Rocky Ford cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms' fields in Granada, Colorado. As of Monday, the outbreak had affected people in 19 states. The CDC first reported it publicly on September 12, six days after William Beach's family buried him.Just WatchedListeria victim's wife: It's 'pure hell'replayMore Videos ...Listeria victim's wife: It's 'pure hell' 01:56PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedBad cantaloupes kill 13 people replayMore Videos ...Bad cantaloupes kill 13 people 08:22PLAY VIDEOJust Watched13 dead after eating cantaloupereplayMore Videos ...13 dead after eating cantaloupe 00:23PLAY VIDEOListeria? What's that?Beach and his wife Monette bought the tainted cantaloupe at a Homeland grocery, where the store motto says: "the best is fresh."A week after he ate the fruit, Beach felt malaise, perhaps not unusual for a man of 87 years. But then his face turned the shade of a tomato. Soon he had trouble breathing and collapsed on the living room floor, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Jensen Farms.Monette heard him struggling to pull himself up off the floor. She hobbled into the room with her cane and saw her husband of 67 years unable to speak, unable to get up.She dialed 911 and an ambulance whisked Beach to Baptist Hospital in nearby Oklahoma City. He was discharged the next day but when he got worse at home, he returned to the hospital.One of Beach's six daughters, Brenda Hathaway met her father at the emergency room. Beach told her he didn't want Monette to see him this way.Listeriosis causes fever, muscle aches, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. It is rarely a serious concern for healthy children and adults, according to the CDC, but it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women and the elderly or people with weakened immune systems.On the evening of September 1, medical staff tried to intubate Beach but he began hemorrhaging from the mouth and nose, the court documents said. Soon after, he died.Monette never saw her husband alive again. Two days after his funeral, an official from the Oklahoma State Department of Health called Hathaway.She was told then that her father had tested positive for Listeria.Hathaway's sister Debbie Frederick said the family wondered why it took the hospital two days to release her father's body. They had assumed he died of natural causes. "We knew it was some sort of infection, but we did not know what it was," she said.But Listeria? She had never even heard that word before.What you need to know about ListeriaHealth officials began questioning Beach's daughters. What had he eaten in the weeks prior? They specifically asked if he had consumed cantaloupes.Frederick, meanwhile, glued herself to her computer, determined to learn more about the illness that killed her father."Doing all that reading, it became patently clear that the health departments knew there was an issue," she said. "They knew there was a Listeria problem."The Beach family's angst led to a lawsuit filed against Jensen Farms. Frederick said she hopes the lawsuit will help strengthen food safety laws."It's a terrible thing to lose someone you love to something that could be prevented," she said. "I pray that it's over. I hope nobody else has to lose a loved one."Battling the bacteriaIn Littleton, Colorado, Jeni Exley's parents, Herbert and Elaine Stevens, were getting ready to celebrate 60 years of marriage on September 8.They still had a good life together. Despite his age -- 84 -- he felt spry enough to take the dogs out for a walk in their Littleton neighborhood. He let Elaine do most of the grocery shopping and cooking but he could make his own sandwiches for lunch. Herbert and Elaine Stevens were getting ready to celebrate 60 years of marriage on September 8.How to keep your food safeIn early August, Elaine came home from the nearby King Soopers market with half a Jensen Farms cantaloupe. She didn't buy the whole thing -- it was only the two of them. Besides, she liked to able to see through the cellophane and decide if it was ripe enough.She and Herbert both ate the lush fruit. Herbert started to feel sick, just like William Beach. Four days before Beach was rushed to hospital in Oklahama, Stevens couldn't get up from the toilet in Colorado. He had a fever of 103 degrees and felt nauseous. Elaine called an ambulance which ferried her husband to Littleton Adventist Hospital. Unlike the Beach family, Stevens' daughters learned after a few days that their father was infected with Listeria. Exley, 55, like Frederick, went online to learn more about the bacteria that had sickened her father. Health officials, after questioning Elaine about what the couple had eaten in the last few weeks, determined that Herbert Stevens was a part of the latest outbreak. After antibiotic therapy, Stevens was transferred to a nursing home. Exley arrived on her parents anniversary with chocolate milkshakes in hand. But her father wasn't feeling well. He was sent back to the hospital when his condition worsened.Stevens eventually regained some of his strength. He was sent to a skilled nursing facility to recuperate on September 19, the same day that the Food and Drug Administration announced it had found Listeria monocytogenes in samples of Jensen Farms' Rocky Ford cantaloupes.Stevens' Listeria is gone but at that age, he will probably never return to the man he was, Exley said. A little bit of him went with his bout with the bacteria. He uses a walker now to move around; all his body functions seem affected, Exley said."I think it is amazing that he even survived," she said. "I am surprised he is not one of those people who died."The Stevens are also suing Jensen Farms in hopes of recouping some of their medical costs.Exley, who loves cantaloupe, feels extremely lucky her family escaped tragedy. She, too, had bought some of the tainted fruit and received an automated phone call at home warning her about the recall.She, like Frederick, thought she could trust what she was buying at the neighborhood grocery store. From now on, she will think twice. And fill her shopping cart with apples and oranges instead. More from healthCoffee is practically a health food: Myth or fact?Can you find the 'best' hospital for you?Parents arrested for not vaccinating children Powered by Livefyre


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Caramelized Onion Risotto
I really loved the way the caramelized onion risotto imparted sweet oniony flavor to the entire place of rice.
If you are researching what you eat on the internet, chances are you are already aware that almost every single person in the country could benefit from eating more vegetables. They're lower in calories. They are PACKED with vitamins and minerals – especially when fresh. They're more environmentally friendly and sustainable to produce. They're cheaper. Etc, etc.
But you know what? It's hard to just kick meat to the curb. Or even to kick part of our meat serving to the curb. And even when we do that, it's hard to not replace it with just bread or pasta, which is a bad idea, nutrition-wise.
At our house, we try to do several dinners a week without meat at all. It's actually pretty unlikely that our breakfast or lunch will contain meat, unless it's leftovers from the night before. As for dinners, I would say maybe half have meat in them. But I haven't been keeping exact track. But that doesn't come without making a serious effort!
This is the salad that I'll be eating for lunch today – it's got marinated artichokes, kalamata olives and ultra-sweet tomatoes. And it ties into one of my tips! Read on:
1) Open your mind and your grocery cart to the wide world of the veggies that are available – if you are totally sick of steamed carrots and peas, skip them until you have mastered a few new styles of cooking veggies that you are ready to try. What about marinated artichokes? How about braised Swiss chard? Have you had any winter squash soup yet this year?
2) Try new techniques on old familiars. Remember those carrots I was talking about? Toss them in olive oil with quartered red onions and a little balsamic vinegar. Roast in the oven until soft and even a little charred (usually at a high temperature). You will be shocked what a different cooking application can do to veggies you may have given up on.
3) And on that note, make use of low-calorie accompaniments that pack a ton of flavor in salad dressings, sauces and marinades: balsamic vinegar – ANY flavored vinegar for that matter! Or try mustard, chimichurri, pickled veggies, olives, canned Chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, pesto, hoisin sauce, miso, Greek yogurt and more.
4) Take flavors from your favorite high-calorie dishes and turn them into veggie-focused ones. That's what I did with my salad for today. I love the combination of chicken, spinach and artichoke, but let's be honest, even a "skinny" recipe for spinach and artichoke + chicken sandwich/dip is not that skinny because of the dairy and meat. So in my salad today, there's still spinach, artichokes, and some thin slices of Parmesan. But instead of tons of dairy and meat, I've added kalamata olives and super-sweet tomatoes (you won't get real sweetness from buying grocery store Romas – at least get the hothouse kind!). I've dressed the salad in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt, pepper and sunflower seeds. I can't wait to eat it! Haha.
5) This is the biggest one – plan ahead! You don't have to plan a whole meal, but when you're at the grocery store and you see that mushrooms are on sale, try to think about what you can do with them as you buy them – and try to have a couple of options. That way when meal time arrives, you aren't racking your brain to figure out what to do. Mushrooms can be cooked in red wine or the caps can be stuffed with other chopped veggies (double veggie bonus!). A spinach salad would be great if you got some sun-dried tomatoes to go with it to pack a little punch. Roasted garlic? Yes please!
No matter how you look at it, a few more veggies in all of our lives is a good thing. So the way I see it is, we might as well make it fun and insanely delicious, right?
Do you have any tips, tricks or favorite recipes that pack more veggies in? Share them in the comments!
Great tips. I am always struggling for us to eat more veggies!
Comment by Sarah W. — October 8, 2012 @ 10:32 am
I love, love, love these tips. And that salad looks just perfect.
Comment by Kare @ Kitchen Treaty — October 8, 2012 @ 7:52 pm
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I really loved the way the caramelized onion risotto imparted sweet oniony flavor to the entire place of rice.
Packed with fiber and not too sweet. The perfect way to start the day!
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CNN's future path may not necessarily be the same as parent Time Warner's.
Time Warner rebuffed an $80 billion offer from 21st Century Fox earlier this month, both companies disclosed Wednesday, that would have combined the owner of HBO, TNT and Warner Brothers with the owner of FX, Fox and Fox News. Under the terms of the deal, Time Warner's venerable cable-news outlet CNN would likely have been sold off to appease regulators and maintain its competition with 21st's Fox News Channel, according to a report in The New York Times.
Talk of a deal for now is moot, 21st Century Fox Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch is known, however, to take the long view on getting deals done, and, as evidenced by a run up in Time Warner stock, Wall Street clearly believes he could make another try. With that in mind, it's worth considering whether CNN would fit nicely under a rival's roof.
The network is in rebuilding mode, with its ratings significantly down from the days when its always-on news went unchallenged not only by Fox News Channel and MSNBC, but a bevy of emerging players like Al Jazeera America and Fusion, the new network owned by Univision and ABC News.
In recent months, CNN has placed increasing emphasis on original non-fiction series, to some acclaim. A new show, "The Hunt," led by John Walsh, the host best known from :"America's Most Wanted," led its Sunday time slot in viewership among the demographic most coveted by advertisers in news programing, people between 25 and 54. A series featuring Anthony Bourdain and an episode of documentary series "The Sixties," have garnered Emmy nominations.
And CNN has pushed forward on the digital front, making efforts to place its journalism more firmly in the streaming and social realms that more consumers depend on for breaking news. The company recently expanded its "CNNx" product that makes various CNN reports available on demand via mobile tablet and video on demand, so that news aficionados can find CNN reports as they wish,not only when they are broadcast on the flagship network.
Even so, CNN is finding other terrain more difficult. Ad buyers, crusading in the recent TV-upfront market to secure lower costs, CNN's New Programming Met With Resistance From Ad Buyers" href="http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/ad-buyers-resist-cnns-upfront-pitch-1201222831/" target="blank" rel="nofollow">pushed back on CNN's ad prices. For years, CNN has been able to secure a high rate of increase by touting itself as "the gold standard" because of its devotion to journalism. With a slate stocked more heavily with non-fiction programming and a consumer base drifting to new ways to access breaking news,, ad buyers questioned the quality of CNN's mettle.
In 2011, CNN secured approximately $347.8 million in ad revenue, according to data from SNL Kagan. In 2013, the network notched about $319.8 million, representing a dip of about 8%.
And there are also questions about HLN, the sister CNN cable outlet that is reportedly considering an alliance with Vice, the digital media outlet with youth appeal and a rebellious attitude. HLN recently revamped itself to focus on social media and the chatter it drives regarding current events.
Ripping CNN out of Time Warner would be like carving out a major organ from a living human being. That's because CNN has long contributed a good chunk to Time Warner's operating income (in 2010, analyst James Dix estimated that CNN accounted for about 12% of the figure). CNN not only brings in revenue from advertising, but from subscriber fees from cable, satellite and telecom distributors; payments from international distribution; and money from local news outlets that pay for use of CNN content.
Speaking to an investor conference sponsored by Bernstein Research in May, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said he thought CNN could grow the fees it gets from distributors and could better monetize its digital-news efforts.
A tie-up with CNN could potentially make sense for a number of rival media players, though there does not appear to be any talk going on about the prospect at present.
CBS Corp. has on several occasions explored the idea of pairing its CBS News with CNN, but those efforts were thwarted by issues involving unions, corporate culture and control. CBS has a smaller cable-network portfolio than many of its peers, and putting CNN under its umbrella would help it amortize the costs incurred by CBS News, while letting it promote further the hard-news image and emphasis on foreign reportage it has used to guide shows like "CBS Evening News" and "CBS This Morning." CBS has also been working on the launch of a streaming-video network for its news division, and partnering with CNN could lend that venture a boost.
Al Jazeera America might also find CNN to be a useful asset. The Qatar-backed cable-news outlet has deep pockets and getting hold of CNN might lend it more heft in its efforts to gain distribution from more cable systems. Disney's ABC might also want to kick CNN's tires. While ABC is a part owner of Fusion, a separate news network would give it more ways to use its ABC News, which has enjoyed new success with "Good Morning America" taking the ratings lead from NBC's "Today" as well as a partnership with Yahoo.
CNN is still the broadcaster of "New Day," "Reliable Sources" and "Crossfire"and will remain so for the present. If Rupert Murdoch should continue to covet Time Warner, however, CNN could look much different in the not-too-distant future.
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billups -player option dyess -player option murray -player option delfino -team option davis -free agent who do you think will be gone or who will return
billups -methinks he will be gone (gasp!) dice -i think he'll stay, but i thought ben would retire here murray -we gotta see how much he plays and how he does delfino -ditto davis -was he even on the team last year? (wipe dripping sarcasm)
Murray doesn't have an option I believe. [pre] Detroit Pistons Date # of total Player signed years salary misc FA Kelvin Cato ........... 9/23/97,10/28/99 3+6 $3.4 mill+ 42 mill '06 Tony Delk ............. 3/1/06 1 minimum '06 Chauncey Billups ...... 7/17/02 6 $33.7 million p-opt '07 Dale Davis ............ 8/23/05 2 $7 million '07 Ronald Dupree ......... 7/18/06 2 minimum p-opt '07 Antonio McDyess ....... 7/14/04 4 $22.5 million p-opt '07 Carlos Delfino ........ 7/14/04 4 $4,776,941 rc t-opt '08 Richard Hamilton ...... 8/12/03 7 $62 million p-opt '08 Lindsey Hunter ........ 7/18/06 2 $4.5 million '08 Ronald Murray ......... 7/18/06 2 $3.5 million '08 Jason Maxiell ......... 7/7/05 4 $4,798,012 rc t-opt '08+09 Rasheed Wallace ....... 7/22/04 5 $60 million '09 Nazr Mohammed ......... 7/12/06 5 $31 million t-opt '11 Tayshaun Prince ....... 9/2/02,10/31/05 4+5 $4,541,153+$48 mill '11 Amir Johnson .......... 8/11/05 ?? ??? '?? (ext) = the previous contract was extended on that date rc = rookie contract, 1st round picks from 1995 and on are signed to 3 year contracts at a set range, with for picks from 1998 and on with a 4th year at the team's option p-opt = player opt-out (player has the option to become a free agent) [the year after p-opt is the year the player would be a free agent if he opts out] xp-opt = player opted-out (player is free agent and rest of contract void) t-opt = team option year(s) (if team chooses, player will be under contract for another year) [the year after t-opt is the year the player would be a free agent if the option is picked up] xt-opt = team didn't pick up option year x-opt = performance based option year(s) (if the player achieves certain statistical criteria, option year becomes guaranteed) p&t-opt = mutual option (I guess both the player and team have to agree to the extra year) FA = year player becomes a free agent (year = summer of) [Note: For players who have less than 3 years of experience (most noteably, rookies), the players are restricted free agents - their team can match any offer made to the player. 1st round draft picks who have completed the 4th year of their rookie contract are also restricted free agents.] r = restricted free agent (qualifying offer has been extended)[/pre] From Patricia's http://www.nationwide.net/~patricia//contracts
billups -He'll want MVP type dollars... see ya. dyess -He'll want to leave to go to a contender. delfino -After Dyess and CBill leave, they'll keep Delfino as a sign that the franchise is committed to rebuilding around its youth. davis -Gone. Retiring or signing with the Pacers again.
Do you have a link to that fact? Everything I could find says that Murray signed a 2-year deal, but I couldn't find anything that said there was a player option.
Again, I don't keep articles so I don't have something to point you too, but Hoopshype shows the option year on their Detroit salaries page. I was pretty surprised when I heard we gave him an option, but it makes sense from his perspective because he thinks he's underpaid (he's overpaid, but that's a different thread...).
Thanks. Do you think the Hoopshype info is correct? They don't even have Tay's contract from last summer updated yet.
They don't have the exact numbers for Tay's contract so they didn't guess, but they have the years. And, yes, I think it's correct. That isn't the place I heard about the option initially (can't remember where that was but it wasn't Hoopshype).
A sad commentary on how different the prognosis is for the Pistons after the 2005-6 season. I really thought the Pistons had a window for an NBA title that would last another 2-3 years, maybe even longer. I realize Dice might not have that long to wait for it to come around again. It's sad to think that if Dice really wants a ring he might need to leave the Pistons. Who would have thunk it: that Detroit wouldn't be as good a bet as anyone to win another title soon? I still think our team can do it, but their sense of urgency, their drive and their desire to prove they can do it (like Joe said) seem to be hanging in the balance now. Time will tell. I'd love to see McDyess get a ring before he retires. With the Pistons.:fingerscr
Yeah, it felt wrong to even type that. But if Chauncey leaves for MVP type $'s somewhere else, I can almost gaurantee Dyess will be somewhere else as well.
Unfortunately, have to believe Billups and Dice are gone. Joe will have to overpay Delfino (whom I like, but I think his nitch in the NBA is as pretty good career 6th man, we'll end up paying him like a starter) just to keep some talent on the team. Flip, Super Dupe, Davis, and Lindsey, will definately be gone. And depending how the season ends, I wouldn't be suprised if Sheed is traded. And JMax won't be resigned. Which leaves, going into next year, a lot of 2's and 3's, and Nazr. Now that I think about it, Joe will have to trade Rip or Delfino (whoever he can get equal value for), just to get either a pg or power forward.
OMG 16 Mile! What a bleak outlook! If I believed all of the above was going to happen I don't know that I could go through the torture of watching them this season. I'd have to jump teams rather than witness all that. Maybe if it happened one manageable dose at a team.
I don't believe McDyess will find a gig more to his liking than in Detroit. If the Pistons want him back, he'll sign on the dotted line. Unless the Pistons have a bad season and he jumps to the Nuggets, I think Billups will sign a long-term deal with Detroit as well.
Nice discussion thread (although depressing). I was just about to start a new thread with a similar question, but then I saw this one, so I'll just post my Q in here. My question is, which Pistons will be gone DURING this season? If the team starts out poorly, how long will Joe D stand pat? IMO, it won't be long. Flip is already on a short leash and his replacement(s) are already in place. But seeing as he struck out big time this past offseason, will Joe try to over compensate or panic and pull the trigger on a blockbuster to shake up the team? Will he pull another "Sheed" type steal out of his bag of tricks and catapult the Pistons right back into title contention and the class of the East? Will he tinker? Will he stand pat and just wait for Flip to fail?
It has a lot to do with Joe's level of patience... he's put out the ultimatum that any players not playing with the desired intensity (urgency) will be shipped out. He will need to show some early restraint if Flip makes a commitment to youth development in case these kids don't show immediate production. Chauncey's contract status makes him a prime candidate for being traded... Joe will not want to come up empty again this summer... someone will overpay for his services. Sheed is also on the short leash... he has the "injury" to fall back on for now but when healthy he was often dogging it on defense (not getting back... not going for rejections etc). Tay and Rip still have more upside (just look at Rip improvement from long range). What is intriguing is the level of retooling Joe is willing to explore. If Joe wanted to he could quickly go into a rebuild mode by trading Sheed for an expiring contract... this would free up substantial cap for next year (if Chauncey didn't re-sign) to pursue FA's etc. Joe will likely not get that aggressive until the playoffs are over so he can gage the current rosters ability to reach the finals.... In retrospect not re-signing Ben has left Joe's options wide open for next year.
My money's on Delfino. Does Cato count if we don't re-sign him? As long as we're voting, I propose packaging Sheed and anybody not named Dice, Tay, Rip, Chauncy, or "Orlando pick" for KG. If we're gonna rebuild, might as well do it around a bona-fide stud!
It should be apparent soon enough into the regular season which players are hungry and which won't ever be again. The bright side of last season's disaster is that Joe will have seemingly plenty of options next summer.


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