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TextWrangler is BBEdits little brother. You can code HTML or PHP with it. It has multiple file search, syntax coloring, etc.
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don't forget support for grep/regular expressions! this one feature, plus its command line-based diff tools, are what "sold me" on this marvelously useful app in the first place.
it has multi-file, and more importantly, multi-line find and replace, for which i love it.
(that may be a common feature, i dunno. but textwrangler was the first free app that i came across to support multi-line replacing in such an easy way and it's saved me a whole lot of time ever since.)
i found an amazingly comprehensive collection of TextWrangler scripts geared towards web development (mostly dealing with css, html & xhtml), here:
there are so many scripts included that it sometimes "overloads" the menu, so you may have to reorganize the scripts folder a little bit after dropping this in there, but otherwise i have found them to be extremely useful.
I love the fact that it has the FTP built in. It makes developing things so much easier than if I'd have to use another program for it. For the price (free), I don't think it gets much better than this.
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I love TextWranger - GUI grep and regex find and replace! Yay! I've been tempted by Smultron and TextMate, but can't beat free and I've yet to find something TextWrangler can't do. Danke BB!
For what I paid, I love this software. Able to open most files, even non-text files, its great! Add that in with the various plug-ins, and its great! Minor annoyances, but overall I love having this as an addition to TextEdit.
It doesn't look that nice and the user interface is quite complicated, but unlike most text editors, it does not choke on enormous text files like server logs or SQL dump files -- it handles them with ease.
For anyone who is interested I created an alternate TextWrangler icon here in the style of the new (as of yesterday) BBEdit icon
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Indianapolis 500
Opening Day, May 11
Takuma Sato and took to the track on Opening Day to shake down the No. 14 ABC Supply/Honda as the race team begins its preparation for the 97th Running of the Indianapolis 500. As the IZOD IndyCar Series points leader, Sato and the ABC Supply team enter the Speedway with strong momentum but Sato believes all is reset to zero as the series runs on the first oval track of the season.
The primary objective of the yesterday's running was to check all the systems on the brand new chassis which has been prepared especially for the 500 since the team took delivery on it back in January.
"It's good to be back in Indy and to have A.J. back on the pit stand!," said Sato after climbing out of the car when practice finished yesterday evening.
"Although we are carrying a lot of good momentum coming here, we have to remember that we are starting from square one because the Speedway is so different from the last four events," Sato cautioned.
"Today we shook down the No 14 car which is a brand new chassis so it had zero miles. The team prepared the last four months to building up this beautiful Indy car and we just went through all the basic procedures. We had a base line setup to see the effects of the ride height changes, and used all the tools to see how they affect the car. Today was a very easy day and it was good to get some miles in today and to see all the functions are working."
Sato ran a total of 29 laps with a top speed of 217.7mph which was 13th of the 16 cars (including four back-ups) that ran.

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Definición de official en inglés:
1Relating to an authority or public body and its duties, actions, and responsibilities: the governor's official engagements
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- All official bodies have a responsibility for it in policy-making, management and resource allocation in their spheres of activity.
- This is a very tricky question, not helped by the official response to recent public debate, which has been pure spin-doctoring.
- It was the third official investigation into his activities.
ceremonial, formal, solemn, ceremonious;
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- The opinions contained are those of the authors, and no official endorsement is intended or should be inferred.
- Whatever happens, few members of the public accept the official line that the case is criminal and not politically motivated.
- Parents are being urged to ensure their children obtain official authorisation if they need to be out of school for any reason.
authorized, approved, validated, authenticated, certified, accredited, endorsed, sanctioned, licensed, recognized, accepted, legitimate, legal, lawful, valid, bona fide, proper, ex cathedra
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- Then, during the Second World War, he was employed as an official cartoonist to the US forces stationed in Europe.
- This, the Prime Minister's official spokesman said, reflected the continuing value that the public placed on the honours system.
- The report said the blame for the tests not being carried out rested with official veterinary surgeons employed within abattoirs to look for suspect animals.
1.3Emanating from or attributable to a person in office; properly authorized: official statistics
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- The opinions contained are those of the authors, and no official endorsement is intended or should be inferred.
- Whatever happens, few members of the public accept the official line that the case is criminal and not politically motivated.
- Parents are being urged to ensure their children obtain official authorisation if they need to be out of school for any reason.
A person holding public office or having official duties, especially as a representative of an organization or government department: a union official
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- Mostly obviously they now can use the right to be represented by a union official in disciplinaries.
- He said that the questioning of another media representative and a public official is expected today.
- The small boxes were delivered to his office through an official in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
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- Actually, to delay reporting about disasters is almost a tradition here, partly because of officialism and localism.
- Stunned by the cultural assumptions of this re-christening, Tseng became Kwong Chi in his photographs, posing with phony officialism in front of famous landmarks.
- It is alarming that surgeries are bogged down by farcical officialism and red tape, instead of leaving medical staff to use their own discretion.
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- They supposedly prefer dollars to pesos already, so it wouldn't be a big deal to officialize it.
- When it came time for his brother to sign the witness statement officialising the marriage, he paused for several long moments and simply looked at the groom.
Middle English (originally as a noun): via Old French from Latin officialis, from officium (see office).
Palabras que riman con officialartificial, beneficial, initial, interstitial, judicial, sacrificial, solstitial, superficial
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The 9- and 10-year-old Truckee Wolverines of the Freshmen division of the Sierra Youth Football League are heading to the playoffs for the second straight year after wrapping up the regular season with a 47-3 trouncing of the Wooster Colts last Saturday.
The team finished the regular season at 5-2-1.
Against Wooster, the scoring parade started with Truckee's first play from scrimmage when Patrick Hogan took a sweep and ran 54 yards to the end zone. Drake Riina punched in the PAT to make it 7-0. On Truckee's third play from scrimmage, Riina took the ball to the house on a 28-yard run. Matt Villalba converted the PAT to give the Wolverines a quick 14-0 lead.
After Wooster turned the ball over on downs, Owen Slusher, George Skaff and Gavin Kelly carried the ball for 15, 31 and 17 yards, respectively. Successful passes from Conner McMullen to Jordi Brenes and Mason Cutler set up a Villalba 36-yard TD run. Hunter Kacarka punched in the PAT, putting the Wolverines ahead 21-0.
Following a Wooster 26-yard field goal, McMullen called his own number on an option and scored on a 12-yard TD. Truckee's stifling defense led by Darrien Sveistrup, Dylan Lewis and Logan Bates forced a fumble that was recovered by Garrett Kirk.
Defensive Coordinator Steve Hogan gave credit to a season-long defensive effort: "Our front five are routinely outweighed by 50-100 pounds per player. However, in true Wolverine fashion, these boys get it done and find a way to win on each play."
On the ensuing possession, Kirk carried the ball 8 yards, setting up a 52-yard touchdown dash by McMullen and a PAT by Slusher.
After another great kickoff by Juan Olivas, Hogan and Kelly tackled Colts for consecutive big loss sacks, forcing Wooster to punt. Jordi Brenes, playing heady football, snapped up the shanked punt and returned it 22 yards.
On the first two plays Eric Spillman carried Wooster defenders to a first down with carries of 6 and 5 yards. George Skaff swept around the left side for 28 yards, followed by a nifty 37-yard scamper by Drake Riina.
McMullen then punched in a 22-yard TD, followed by a Dillon Kane PAT. Kane rounded out the scoring when he broke loose up the middle for a 28-yard TD.
"The key to today's victory and a successful season has been our line blocking up front by Cutler, Bates, Kelly, Lewis, Spillman and Kirk," said Truckee coach Chris Skaff. "When these guys have gone down, Ethan Hatcher, Nate Bromley, Villalba and Hunter have done an admirable job."
Truckee took a knee to close out the regular season with their sights set on a first-round playoff game against the Greenwave of Fallon at Hug High in Reno on Saturday at 1 p.m.
"Today's game was a great way to finish the regular season. Thirteen of our 18 boys carried or caught the ball and seven different boys score points," said Truckee coach Kevin Kelly.


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ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know regarding mathematics. ALEKS then provides instruction on the topics the student is most ready to learn. ALEKS also provides the advantages of one-on-one instruction, 24/7, from virtually any web-based computer for a fraction of the cost of a human tutor.
ALEKS is one part of the MATH 021 course at Penn State. You may get a head-start on MATH 021 concepts with ALEKS. Students who complete the MATH 021 content provided by ALEKS may be ready to enroll in MATH 022 at Penn State. Note that completing this material in ALEKS does NOT give you credit for MATH 021. You may send a message to the Mathematics Department through ALEKS asking for advice based on your work.
The two main parts of ALEKS are the Assessment Mode (determining what you know and don't know) and the Learning Mode (where you work problems). ALEKS will automatically assess you after every 10 hours or every 20 objectives to insure that you retain the knowledge you have gained.
1. Before you begin, you will need to register with ALEKS.
2. Go to the ALEKS website.
3. Click on "New User, Sign Up Now!" on the upper left corner of the page.
4. Enter the course code (refer to the ALEKS flyer in your Orientation packet).
5. Confirm your course information (Prep-UP / College Algebra / Math 022 Content).
6. Click on "Purchase an Access Code Online" and follow the instructions to pay with a credit card.
Purchase "ALEKS Math (6 weeks)" for $32.
7. Complete the registration process. You will now be ready to have a quick tutorial.
8. Take the Assessment after reading the directions below.
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The ALEKS plug-in is used by your browser when you are logged on to ALEKS. It is inactive at other times, and does not do anything except provide functionality for ALEKS. However, if you remove the ALEKS plug-in from your computer, you won't be able to access ALEKS on that computer until you re-install it. This is a safe operation for your computer.
Using ALEKS
Once you register, you will be guided through a 10-minute tutorial that will help you to become familiar with the ALEKS system.
After the tutorial, you will take an initial placement assessment in the ALEKS "Assessment Mode." The assessment will create a precise understanding of your knowledge of mathematics. Try to answer each question to the best of your ability. If you do not know the answer, just click "I don't know." Answering questions correctly during your assessment will enable you to avoid repeating these topics later in ALEKS.
Once your placement assessment is complete, the "My Pie" report will show you precisely how much of each topic area you know and what you are most ready to learn next. You can navigate the pie chart to enter the ALEKS "Learning Mode." Once you begin learning topics ("Practice"), ALEKS will provide you with feedback on your answers and will inform you of how many times you need to answer this type of question correctly to add the item to "My Pie." If you need help with a problem, just click on "Explain." Once you see the solution, you can rework a similar problem that contains different variables.
Occasionally, ALEKS may trigger another assessment for you. This is to both reconfirm that topics added to your pie are still mastered and to reassess your overall knowledge of mathematics. Please do your best and take these assessments seriously as they will affect your ongoing work in ALEKS. ALEKS may also take you to a Review Area upon logging in, allowing you to refresh recently learned items. If you do not want to work in this area, you can simply click on My Pie located on the upper right hand corner to return to learning mode to learn new items.
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What do music, mime, the circus and science have in common? They are all elements of Garry Krinsky's "Toying with Science" program.
The Massachusetts native and former street performer will bring his free act to Washington State Community College at 2 p.m. Saturday as he tours the country bringing entertainment and science together to wow audiences of all ages. The program is the final program this fall of the Evergreen Arts and Humanities Series.
"This is our children's show for the season," said Tanya Wilder, chair and director of the program. "We expect a big turnout. There aren't really too many venues in the area that are especially for children's performances."
Created in 1995, "Toying with Science" has toured the U.S. and Canada and Krinsky has appeared on many well-known stages as well as on NBC's "Today Show," according to his management company's website.
Combining circus skills, mime, original music and audience involvement, Krinsky and the audience investigate the scientific principles of gravity, leverage, fulcrums and simple machines.
"As my background is in mime, juggling, music and physical comedy, I approach science in a rather unique way," Krinsky said in an email to The Marietta Times. "We'll explore gravity, simple machines and how to learn step-by-step. There will be lots of audience participation, loads of fun and learning a thing or two won't hurt, either."
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If you go
What: "Toying with Science," part of the Evergreen Arts and Humanities Series.
Where: Washington State Community College, Graham Auditorium.
When: 2 p.m. Saturday.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Details: Seat passes available in advance by calling 374-8716. Find the Evergreen Arts and Humanities Series on Facebook for information on upcoming events.
Wilder said the show is for all ages and seats will most likely fill up quickly.
"It's funny and educational - it's learning through fun," she said. Seat passes are available by calling Washington State at 374-8716.
Other series performances this year will include National Banjo Champion Steven Moore and friends, Icho Daiko Japanese Taiko Drumming, The Rain Crows, featuring local musicians and the Cashore Marionettes.
"We've had really good attendance this year for the series and we anticipate filling the house for the rest of the year," Wilder said.
A complete list of upcoming programs can be found at www.wscc.edu/evergreenah.


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GSK bids for Human Genome Science
20.04.2012 - Human Genome Science Inc. rebuffs an unsolicited takeover bid from GlaxoSmithKline.
London – European pharma companies have had no luck with US M&A activities recently. First Roche walked away from its acquisition of gene sequencing specialist Illumina Inc. Now Human Genome Science Inc. (HGS) has rejected an unsolicited US-$2.59bn bid from GlaxoSmithKline. Great Britain's largest drugmaker offered US-$13 per share in cash, an 81% premium on HGS's closing share price on March 18.
In spite of that, the Maryland-based biotech said "does not reflect the value inherent in HGS" and therefore rebuffed the offer. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse will now advise it on "strategic alternatives" including a possible sale of the company. Obviously, the door for the deal has not closed yet. According to HGS, Glaxo "has been invited to participate in this process".
GSK's chief executive, Sir Andrew Witty, said he was disappointed that Human Genome had rejected his offer without discussion. "Having worked together with Human Genome Sciences for nearly 20 years, we believe there is clear strategic and financial logic to this combination for both companies and our respective shareholders – and that now is the appropriate time in the evolution of our relationship for our two companies to combine." GSK's move has been seen as a bet on the sales prospects of several drugs the companies are developing or marketing together. The results for a clinical trial with a diabetes drug are expected for this summer. Last year, the two companies jointly launched Benlysta, the first new drug for lupus in fifty years.http://www.european-biotechnology-news.com/news/news/2012-02/gsk-bids-for-us-biotech-hgs.html


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The Giant Panda Conservation Fund helps the National Zoo help save giant pandas from extinction by bringing Tian Tian and Mei Xiang to the Zoo, creating a new state-of-the-art exhibit for them, and financing a variety of research projects and other important activities in China and the United States.
While the giant panda still faces threats to its survival in the wild—division of panda habitat into fragmented "islands," risk of starvation from bamboo die-offs, and loss of genetic diversity from inbreeding—there are clear reasons for hope for its future. Some positive signs:
Nevertheless, there remains much to do, and much to learn about the "bamboo bear."
|A population of giant pandas in zoos acts as an insurance policy against extinction and an accessible group of animals for study, education, and possibly future reintroductions into the wild.
The National Zoo was home to a panda pair, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, from 1972 to 1999. For more than 25 years, National Zoo scientists studied giant pandas, amassing an unparalleled body of information about their biology and behavior. They also developed an extensive network of relationships with their Chinese counterparts, working together to ensure the giant panda a future.
Building on this experience, the Zoo and FONZ launched an initiative in 1998 to acquire a second pair of giant pandas to continue research efforts, including collaborative work with other zoos to develop a viable captive population. In the same year, the Giant Panda Conservation Fund was established to bring new pandas to the Zoo, create a new state-of-the-art exhibit for them, and finance a wide array of research projects geared to save the species from extinction. As an interim step toward a new habitat, the original giant panda exhibit was renovated to accommodate the late-2000 arrival of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian. In 2006, their new exhibit—the Giant Panda Habitat—was completed.
|After years of habitat loss, there are reasons for hope that important panda habitat can be saved and expanded. Joining isolated fragments remains a challenge.
The Giant Panda Conservation Fund has played a key role in financing the design of the 2000 exhibit renovation, travel by American and Chinese staff in preparation for the arrival of Mei Xiang and Tian Tian in Washington, camera and sound systems, graphics, and educational materials related to the giant panda.
However, one of the most important uses of the Fund is financing giant panda research in China and the United States. Since 2000 these research projects have included a wide range of activities, including training and monitoring systems with two basic thrusts:
Diverse research includes studies of panda endocrinology, reproductive biology, nutrition, exposure to infectious diseases, and environmental education in communities within panda reserves. The fund also enables important training courses on such topics as remote sensing and geographic information systems of China's giant panda habitat, clinical diagnostics of panda diseases, and behavioral enrichment.
|The Zoo's veterinary staff drawing blood from the Zoo's female giant panda, Mei Xiang. A keeper rewards her cooperative behavior with treats such as apples and pears.
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Ruger adding new AR, 10/22 accessories: Mags, sights and lasers
Ruger, never standing still, is now make a handful of accessories that will make a lot of people happy. They've put together a set of polymer flip-up back-up iron sights, joined forces with LaserMax to make a new 10/22 forend-mounted laser sight and are also making steel AR-15 magazines.
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In April, a cow from McPherson County tested positive for rabies at the Kansas State University Rabies Laboratory in Manhattan. The cow was submitted by Dr. Lacey from the Smokey Valley Animal Hospital in McPherson. This is the first case in McPherson County and the 25th case in Kansas in 2013.
This year's positives include 18 skunks, three bovine, two dogs, one cat and one bat. In 2012 there were 56 animals testing positive in Kansas. The animals testing positive in 2012 included 34 skunks, six bats, five horses, four bovines, two raccoons, one coyote, and four cats.
The risk of exposure to rabies is real, but the disease is preventable in both humans and domestic animals. In the US, there are around 7,000 animal rabies cases diagnosed every year. In the Midwest, skunks and bats are the main sources and the most common animal species positive for rabies. Domestic pets and livestock can be infected from exposure to these wildlife sources of rabies. Rabies prevention consists of vaccinating domestic animals, education of humans to avoid exposures, and providing exposed persons with prompt post-exposure rabies prophylaxis. The World Health Organization estimates that ~70,000 people die of rabies infection worldwide every year.
The K-State Rabies Laboratory offers these tips to prevent rabies:
- Have your veterinarian vaccinate all dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, and valuable livestock against rabies.
- If bitten by an animal, seek medical attention and report the bite to your local public health department or animal control department immediately.
- If your animal is bitten, contact your veterinarian for an appointment for the animal to be examined.
- Do not handle, or feed wild animals. Never adopt wild animals or bring them into your home.
- If wild animals appear sick or injured, call animal control or an animal rescue agency for assistance.
- Teach children never to handle unfamiliar animals, wild or domestic, even if they appear friendly.
If you have additional questions, please contact your veterinarian, local or state health department, or the K-State Rabies Laboratory at 785-532-4483.
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ROCHESTER — On Feb. 19, Melissa St. Hilaire, 31, of 216 Main St. in Somersworth, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor level offense of willful concealment and possession of a controlled drug. The incident occurred at Kmart in Rochester. Melissa St. Hilaire was held on $2,500 cash bail with an arraignment date of March 20 at 11 a.m., at the 7th Circuit District division Rochester Court.
The Rochester Police would like to remind the public that shoplifting will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that accordingly RSA 637:3-a (g) a person who has been twice convicted of shoplifting (637:3-a II) within a 36 month period shall be charged with a class B felony.
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Radical changing of marriage
Published: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 8:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 8:06 p.m.
I am disappointed with the House of Commons for voting to approve a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Britain.
Marriage is an institution that predates civilization and is exclusive to one man and one woman who have the responsibility to procreate the human race and to nurture, educate and pass on shared values and mores to their offspring. Neither church nor state invented marriage, and neither can change its nature.
The sexual union of a man and woman is called the marital act because the two become physically one in a way that is impossible between two men or two women.
Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. Gender is inextricably bound up with physical sexual identity, and "gender-free marriage" is a contradiction in terms, like a square circle.
This new gender ideology, which is increasingly being imposed on society by Western governments, undermines the fundamental understanding of what it means to be a human. In seeking to make every individual completely autonomous, it destroys the understanding of the family as a community designed for the rearing of children.
In this radical new understanding of sexuality, children lose their own rights and become mere objects of adult possession.
Paul Kokoski
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Chris Burke didn't think himself old enough to be named a Hall of Famer. In his mind, honors like that were for people much older. Thanks to the weather last January, he got an extra year to get used to the idea.
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Monday, Feb. 11, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) -- A spokeswoman for a suburban Atlanta school system says excitement is building as President Obama plans to visit an early childhood learning center there.
Decatur City Schools spokeswoman Courtney Burnett says Obama intends to visit the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center on Thursday in Decatur. She told The Associated Press that people she's heard from within the school system are excited, and the visit "is a big deal" in the community just east of Atlanta.
The White House has said that Obama plans to travel to two Southern states after his State of the Union address on Tuesday. A stop in Asheville, N.C., on Wednesday will be followed by Thursday's visit to metro Atlanta.
The White House hasn't released details of Obama's visit to Georgia.
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A national controversy is set to touch down in Walnut Creek in September.
A Concord man is planning to protest the scheduled Sept. 20 opening of a Chick-fil-A restaurant at 2750 N. Main St.
The peaceful protest is aimed at the views of the fast food restaurant's President Dan Cathy, who recently spoke out against gay marriage and has donated millions to conservative organizations that oppose homosexuality.
Rik Newby is organizing the Walnut Creek protest mainly through Facebook. Already more than 200 people have signed on for the all-day action.
"I just felt this business was too conservative for a progressive area like Walnut Creek," he said. "Of course, Dan Cathy is free to say whatever he likes and we are free to exercise our right to act on his freedom of speech."
Newby has always known Chick-fil-A ran on a Christian-based business model, which includes being closed on Sundays. But it's the donations to anti-gay groups that made him want to get the word out to others.
"I don't want to see anyone go out of business, but you have to ask yourself if you are OK with a company in your backyard that promotes an anti-gay agenda," he said.
The event page for the protest is on Facebook at "Picket Chick fil-A opening in Walnut Creek."
A statement on the company's website says the restaurants treats everyone with "honor, dignity and respect" regardless of religion, race, gender or sexual orientation.
"Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena," according to the statement.
The Walnut Creek restaurant is still under construction at the former concrete batch plant site on North Main, as is a 24-Hour Fitness center.
Contact Elisabeth Nardi at 925-952-2617. Follow her at Twitter.com/enardi10.


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Our hunger for a weight-loss miracle
Dieting is our national repast-time
Last in a series
Nov. 25: America's all-consuming war with fat
Dec. 2: Are all calories created equal?
Dec. 9: Food: easier to get, harder to resist
This week: Losing it: Dieting, surgery and pills
Read the series here.
With about two-thirds of American adults overweight or obese, it's no surprise that dieting is our national repast-time.
At any given moment, up to half of all American women (and 25 percent of men) say they are actively attempting to lose weight by changing what and how much they eat.
"The majority of the nation is perpetually dieting, feeling guilty, eating alone, while driving in their cars, etc.," said Andrea Garber, an associate professor of pediatrics and chief nutritionist for UC San Francisco's adolescent eating disorders program and its child obesity clinic. "(Food writer) Michael Pollan calls it 'our national eating disorder.' "
The typical attempt at dieting begins informally and unsupervised: We vow to eat less, to eat better, to cut down on things like sweets and soda. When that doesn't work, we turn to commercial remedies, of which there are many, from Weight Watchers, Atkins and The Zone to South Beach, Dukan and the so-called Paleolithic Diet.
All of these diet regimes operate on the same basic premise: Reduce caloric intake. But simply telling consumers to consume less doesn't sell many books, videos, meal plans, devices and smartphone apps, so commercial diets tend to key upon reducing a particular source of calories — low-fat or low-carbohydrate, say — or how those calories are used by the body.
The Paleo diet, for example, urges practitioners to eat like hominids, though it is quite unlikely that ancestral hunter-gatherers would recognize most modern fare.
Some diets emphasize basic biological aspects or variations in people, such as how food may affect gene activity (nutrigenomics) or differences in individual basal metabolic rates (the amount of energy expended at rest) or blood types.
The science supporting many of these diets is confounding and contradictory. Often, it's dubious. Sometimes, it doesn't exist. Moreover, said Dr. Will Yancy, a professor of medicine and weight-loss researcher at Duke University, no diet works for everyone, every time.
"It is not clear if one single approach is better than the others," said Yancy, "but some approaches may be better for some individuals."
Yet all commercial diets promise success, despite abundant evidence to suggest most inevitably fall short. They prove unsustainable, for example, or the weight loss is transient. The frequently cited rate of diet failure is 95 percent, though some critics claim it's really higher.
Nature can take some of the blame. While it's relatively easy to lose initial pounds, our bodies eventually push back, adjusting metabolic and cellular activities to resist further weight loss. It's a survival mechanism involving a phenomenon called homeostasis intended to preserve a biological status quo.
Unfortunately for dieters, the more they weigh, the longer they remain at that weight, the higher their homeostatic point can become and the more difficult it becomes to reset it to an earlier, lower weight.
Case in point: A University of Melbourne study published last year that found obese dieters who shed significant weight on a strict low-calorie diet were hungrier than when they started and had higher levels of hormones that signal the body to eat more, conserve energy and store food/fuel as fat. Most of the dieters eventually quit and regained lost weight.
"Our study has provided clues as to why obese people who have lost weight often relapse," said senior study author Joseph Proietto. "The relapse has a strong physiological basis and is not simply the result of the voluntary resumption of old habits."
Proietto and colleagues say a lasting remedy will likely require behavioral changes and medications capable of safely, effectively modifying human metabolic needs over the long-term, maybe over a lifetime.
In other words, a miracle anti-fat pill.
The thrill of a pill
Thus far, that quest has been tortuous and unsatisfying. Over the decades, amphetamines, diuretics, antidepressants and compounds that block the intestinal absorption of fat have been conceived, tested and marketed. None has proved even remotely miraculous; many have proved to be ill-advised, even deadly.
Amphetamine-based diet pills, for example, were eventually pulled from the diet market for reasons of addiction and abuse. The drug rimonabant, sold in parts of Europe under trade names like Acomplia and Slimona, was rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after it was linked to depression and suicidal thoughts.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the weight-loss drug of choice was a combination of two short-term appetite suppression aids called fenfluramine and phentermine. Based on limited testing, the FDA approved "fen-phen"-based diet drugs and sales subsequently soared. In 1996, The Wall Street Journal said 18 million fen-phen prescriptions were being written monthly. Then came reports of users suffering serious, sometimes fatal, heart valve problems. In 1997, the FDA ordered fen-phen-based products off the market.
After a 15-year hiatus, the FDA this year approved two new anti-obesity drugs. Lorcaserin (marketed as Belviq) works by activating brain receptors for serotonin, a neurotransmitter that triggers feelings of satiety and satisfaction. Qsymia is a combination of two older medications: topiramate, an anti-seizure drug, and phentermine, a stimulant.
It remains to be seen whether either drug will be broadly effective or popular. Both have side effects, some of them potentially serious. Belviq works similar to fenfluramine — half of the notorious fen-phen combo — but its maker says the drug works at a lower dosage that avoids heart valve damage.
Under the knife
Neither Belviq nor Qsymia can promise the dramatic, rapid weight loss of metabolic and bariatric surgery — a variety of procedures ranging from reducing stomach size with constrictive bands or folding to resecting and rerouting the gastrointestinal system to reduce food digestion.
According to the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), patients who undergo these surgeries can lose as much as 60 percent of their excess weight six months after surgery and up to 77 percent a year after surgery. Conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels, all associated with obesity, are often immediately improved or resolved.
The popularity of metabolic and bariatric surgery has steadily risen in recent decades. The ASMBS estimates 200,000 such procedures occur each year. The group says this represents just 1 percent of the surgically eligible population.
"It's become more mainstream. It's not as scary," said Dr. Jaime Ponce, a Georgia-based bariatric surgeon and ASMBS president. "There are more types of procedures. They're less invasive and safer. They're more established within the medical establishment and with insurance companies."
Increasingly, they're also being done on younger people whose body mass index may be as low as 30. "We think there's value in sometimes using surgery to prevent greater obesity," Ponce said. "You don't necessarily want to wait until the obesity becomes severe with multiple medical issues. That makes it less likely you will get the best results."
Ponce doesn't expect surgery to ever compete on the same scale as dieting or other mass anti-obesity efforts, but he says it is indisputably "the best treatment" for obese persons in the "morbidly" and "super" categories, with BMIs above 40 and 50, respectively.
These people, he notes, are also the fastest-growing segments of overweight America.
Cheerfully chubby
To be sure, being fat isn't necessarily unhealthy.
"Obesity as a whole is certainly associated with increased morbidity with diseases like atherosclerosis and hypertension, yet there are many 'metabolically healthy' obese individuals," said Tsu-Shuen Tsao, an assistant professor in the departments of chemistry and biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona.
Some people, Tsao said, can be quite heavy but not suffer from health risk factors like high blood pressure or high levels of cholesterol or blood sugars. There is also the so-called "obesity paradox," which notes that overweight and moderately obese patients with certain chronic diseases frequently live longer and fare better than thinner patients with the same conditions.
Activists in the so-called "fat acceptance movement" say the biggest issue of obesity isn't just health, but also the associated social bias and stigma.
"The major hurdle to seeing fat people be treated equally is this whole notion of personal responsibility, that all fat people are lazy gluttons who make bad life choices, eat junk food all day and never get up and move," said Peggy Howell, executive director of National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. "Many people continue to believe that all we need to do is push away from the table, eat less and move our fat backsides."
Losing our weigh
By virtually every measure, most of us know we could lose a few — or many — pounds. At some level, we also recognize the health risks, though an American Academy of Family Physicians survey this year found that only 30 to 40 percent of primary care doctors routinely assess their patients' risk of obesity or discuss corrective measures with them.
With ever-increasing urgency, we know too that the consequences of the nation's obesity crisis are likely to come crashing down upon us like 550 million Big Macs — the number sold each year. Some of those consequences seem already apparent: The CDC estimates one in 10 Americans currently has diabetes, of which obesity is a major risk factor. In 2050, if trends continue, the ratio is projected to be one in three.
We live lifestyles of the rich and gluttonous in bodies not evolutionarily designed for modern-day overabundance and the myriad inventions of technology and chemistry. We are endlessly encouraged through public policies, capitalistic imperatives and social norms to eat less and better and exercise more, yet these same forces also make sure that this is very hard to do.
Call it our unresolved edible complex. We know what needs to be done, both as individuals and as a society, but not exactly how to get it done. It is, as always, a question of resolution. But cheer up, New Year's is just 16 days away.
Scott LaFee, a former science writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, is a senior public information officer for health sciences research at the University of California San Diego. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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SPARTANBURG, SC-- Kim Walker Knight, 58, of 502 Cambridge Drive, died at his home on March 8, 2013, after battling cancer.
A native of Spartanburg, he was predeceased by his parents, James and Doris Knight; and brother William Knight. He was the father of Monica Allen and Kimberly Knight; the father-in-law to Nick Allen, the brother of Debbie Knight, Loretta Millwood; and brother-in-law to Buddy Millwood. He was also the long-time companion of Virginia Robertson.
He was a graduate of Spartanburg High School and he served in the U.S. Army. He was employed with Pack Center for 9 years.
He was saved by the grace of God on February 1, 2013, and we will celebrate his life during a memorial service at Poplar Springs Baptist Church at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, March 16. A family gathering will follow at 502 Cambridge Drive.
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The Morning Download: Apple Feels the Heat of Competition
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Good morning Apple, which shaped the modern smartphone market by offering a limited range of premium products, may offer a cheaper alternative phone to fend off rival products based on [wsj-ticker ticker="GOOG" onlinesignificance="prominent" name="Google" postfix="'s"] Android operating system. (More on that below.) Apple's success also gave rise to the era of consumerization, in which employees bring their own devices to work. That forever changed the role of the CIO and the corporate IT department, which ought to be paying close attention to the unfolding drama in the mobile device market.
A line of cheaper phones may well help Apple slow down or even reverse the erosion of its market share, and its stock price. But that alone isn't likely to be enough. Apple got where it is today because its introduced new products that inspired a remarkable level of passion and loyalty among its consumers. To maintain its edge, it will have to keep innovating in the post-Steve Jobs era.
The shifting fortunes of Apple and its rivals will define the next phases of consumerization, and have a huge impact on the agenda of CIOs everywhere. That impact will extent beyond the issue of which devices to support, shaping organization and governance, too.
Red Cross ramps up fundraising with new IT. As the East Coast prepared for Superstorm Sandy, the American Red Cross's IT platform allowed users in the storm's path to read geographically tailored warnings and shelter information on the organization's homepage. And when Americans reached into their pockets after the storm, a scalable e-commerce platform allowed the organization to handle as many as 75,000 concurrent donations — the most ever, CIO Journal's Joel Schectman reports.
Banks experiment with remote tellers. Don't be surprised if the next teller you see in a bank branch office is communicating with you via video conferencing, CIO Journal's Rachael King writes. Banks are experimenting with so-called personal teller machines that handle conventional ATM tasks but can also do more complex transactions. Tellers working at a remote call center can assist customers with complex deposits, open checking accounts and help with official check printing. Smaller banks such as Dollar Bank and Coastal Federal Credit Union are already using the technology and larger banks are starting to experiment with the units. "Banks are now reliant on their CIOs to help them figure out how to improve the customer experience," says Nicole Sturgill, research director at the Corporate Executive Board Company's TowerGroup.
A CIO's guide to CES. On the surface, there is not much to recommend about CES for the CIO, but as Information Week's Eric Lundquist reminds us, today's smart fitness gadget or talking kitchen appliance may be "gabbing with business operations" tomorrow. "At CES, businesses can see the wave of data that's coming, then figure out how to turn that data into revenue," he writes. Besides gadgets, Lundquist recommends that CIOs pay attention to what's being said on the CES showfloor about automotive tech and eHealth.
Android makes Internet of Things its business. Google Inc.'s Android system will be on display at CES, not just in phones and tablets, but in refrigerators and cameras, report Bloomberg's Cliff Edwards and Ian King. Overall, the market for the "Internet of Things," the term used to describe Internet-enabled objects, will double to four billion units in 2015, Bloomberg says. Google is counting on such adoption to collect more data that build upon its search business. But while Android's price (free) makes it easier for adoption, device makers are required to do more work to make the open software work within their systems. "The open part isn't as important as the reliability," said Carl Howe, an analyst at Yankee Group. "It requires support and courting of customers. If Google has no interest, it's not going to go anywhere."
Sony CEO sets sights on smartphone market. Recent market share losses by Nokia, Research in Motion, and HTC, have propelled Sony Corp. to No. 3 smartphone maker. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai tells the WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi that he hopes to expand Sony's 5% share. "The ingredients are there for us to garner the kind of market share that I think we deserve," Mr. Hirai said. One could say that Sony deserves its current struggles, brought on by a bloated, confusing array of business that sometimes competed against each other. But Mr. Hirai tells Wakabayashi, who documented Sony's travails in an earlier WSJ series, that Sony will come back. "There is more to come," he said.
Mickey Mouse invades augmented reality Walt Disney is showing off a new line of toys at CES boasting additional interactive play when a child points a smartphone or tablet camera at it, reports Reuters's Ronald Grover. Image recognition software included in an accompanying app triggers interactive images and video clips stored on remote server that appear, on the device's screen, to interact with the toy. "The technology may be great, but no one has proven to me yet that a kid will sit in front of an iPhone or iPad instead of playing with a toy that's right in front of him," toy analyst Sean McGowan of Needham & Co. tells Reuters. Parents world-wide with mobile devices bearing smudgy, little fingerprints may disagree.
Apple working on a less-expensive phone. Apple is considering a cheaper iPhone that could launch as early as this year, the WSJ's Jessica Lessin reports. The device, built with a less-expensive shell of polycarbonate plastic, would mark a major shift for the company, which prides itself on profits over scale. People familiar with the efforts tell the WSJ that Apple has been considering a less-expensive iPhone since at least 2009, viewing it as a way to grab market share and introduce people to the brand. In the 2012 third quarter, Apple held only 14.6% of world-wide smartphone shipments, down from a peak of 23% in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, according to IDC.
Online bank hacks were work of Iranians, officials say. U.S. government official and security researchers are convinced that Iran is behind the wave of online attacks on American banks in recent weeks. "The scale, the scope and the effectiveness of these attacks have been unprecedented," said Carl Herberger, vice president of security solutions at Radware, tells the NYT's Nicole Perlroth and Quentin Hardy. "There have never been this many financial institutions under this much duress." Security researchers says that the attackers turned business's move towards cloud computing against the banks, remotely hijacking networks of computers in data centers to employ DDoS attacks. No bank accounts were breached. The attacks made use of a sophisticated form of malware found on cloud services.
Apple CEO makes another visit to China. Apple CEO Tim Cook is meeting with partners and government officials in China on his second visit to the firm's second-largest market in less than a year, Reuters reports. Despite strong iPhone sales in China, the company's longer-term outlook in the market may hinge on expanding its partners to include China Mobile, the country's top telecoms carrier.
Google names new Asia-Pacific head. Google named Karim Temsamani as its new head of the Asian-Pacific region effective immediately, in the latest executive change following the departure of Marissa Mayer to rival Yahoo Mr. Temsamani succeeds Daniel Alegre, who now oversees Google's operations with its various global business partners at the Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, the WSJ's Juro Osawa reports. Mr. Temsamani, who hails from France, will oversee all of the U.S. company's sales and operations in the region, which is playing an increasingly important role in the Internet giant's global strategy.
Businesses call for help to fight cyber attacks. U.S. businesses want more help from government officials in fighting cyber attacks, although they continue to oppose government-prescribed safeguards MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga said. Mr. Banga is head of the information and technology committee at the Business Roundtable, a trade group that is set to start a push Wednesday for closer cooperation with Washington on computer security, the WSJ's Danny Yadron reports. The effort is, in part, intended to head off a push by some policy makers for more regulation of private sector computer security.
Google drops Microsoftnt claim. Google dropped a pending patent claim against Microsoft Corp., following the Internet search firm's agreement with U.S. regulators to limit how it can wield its technology patents, reports the WSJ's Shira Ovide. Google on Tuesday asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to drop claims that Microsoft was infringing two patents held by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC claims date to 2010, before Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
Chinese piracy case cracked. A Chinese man named Xiang Li pleaded guilty Monday in Federal District Court in Delaware to one count of conspiring to steal copyrighted software – prosecutors say he sold more than 2,000 pirated software products worth more than $100 million. Agents recovered six disks from Mr. Li containing an assortment of data pirated from an unidentified American software company, including military and civilian aircraft image models and a software module containing data about the International Space Station, the NYT's Andrew Martin reports.
Samsung uses EU bureaucracy to make patent cases moot. Samsung Electronics Co. has been trying to delay patent cases filed by Apple in German courts by making its own filings against Apple at a European trademark office in Spain. The hope is that by the time Europe shuffles through its paperwork, the products will no longer be on the market, reports Bloomberg's Karin Matussek. Last year a Dusseldorf court filed in Apple's favor, issuing an EU-wide ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.
Some film execs express doubts about Facebook. Some movie executives are increasingly skeptical that advertising on Facebook Inc. can produce big returns. As the Los Angeles Times' Dawn C. Chmielewski and Jessica Guynn report, some studios are even considering drastically reducing Facebook spending, just as General Motors did last year. One Facebook marketing firm tells the LA Times that after Facebook adjusted the algorithm determining what appears in users' news feeds in September, 72% of movies and TV shows saw a drop in the users who saw Facebook posts. A possible Hollywood pull-back is happening as Facebook faces pressure from Wall Street to create revenue. Facebook was up 0.79% to $29.29 in after-hours trading yesterday.
Enabler of cord cutting raises $38 million. A Web TV service currently limited to New York City said it is applying $38 million raised in a recent funding round led by Barry Diller's IAC to expanding services to 22 U.S. cities, reports AllThingsD's Peter Kafka. Aereo takes and routes over-the-air TV signals to Internet users. Needless to say, the company's business plan has drawn the ire (and the lawyers) of broadcasters.
Holiday Apple, Android purchases help drive AT&T to record smartphone sales. AT&T Inc. set a quarterly record in smartphone sales, topping 10 million units in the fourth quarter, reports Bloomberg's Nick Turner. The results break the previous mark, 9.4 million smartphones, set in the year-earlier period.
The perils of upgrading an old machine with Windows 8. AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg wants us to know that he spent "big chunks of the past week" trying to upgrade a 2008 Lenovo laptop and a 2009 H-P touch-screen desktop to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8. He got both to work, eventually, but only after losing files, tweaking both machines, and spending time on various help lines. "The industry really wants you to get Windows 8 via an all-new PC," he writes. "But, if you don't, or can't, and have even a three-year-old PC, you may want to just stick with the Windows you've got."
Gameplay as reportage. Apple recently rejected a game that explores the various factions in Syria's ongoing civil war, saying its App Store bans titles that "solely target a specific race, culture, a real government." Gamemaker Tomas Rawlings tells Wired's Liat Clark, that although he understand the decision, Apple needs to understand that in today's interactive media-driven culture, games like 'Endgame: Syria' can allow users to explore complicated subjects "in ways that linear media can't do so well," he said.
Dish bids for Clearwire. Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen has set his sights on Clearwire in a broadside against Sprint Nextel's agreed-upon buyout offer, the WSJ reports. Dish's offer values Clearwire at $3.30 a share. The per-share price tops Sprint's bid by around 11% and is a 13% premium to Clearwire's closing price Tuesday. Sprint claims the right to veto asset sales by the company, but Mr. Ergen could find enough support from big shareholders to force Sprint to the table. "At minimum, his bid sets up a new round of bitter wrangling for a wireless industry that seemed to be on a path to consolidation in the wake of a series of mergers in recent months."
Swiss central bank make risky bet. Switzerland is engaged in a high-risk strategy to protect its export-driven economy, literally betting the bank in a fight to contain the prices of Swiss products sold abroad, write the WSJ's Brian Blackstone and David Wessel in this A1 deep dive. The SNB's holdings of currencies, bonds, stocks and gold are nearly the size of the nation's GDP. But it's also highly vulnerable to swings in exchange rates. Switzerland's central banker acknowledges the risks but says there was no alternative. "It's not excluded that we could suffer a loss, but the risk of doing nothing was greater," SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan says.
Dimon departs New York Fed. J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has left the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York after his second three-year term expired at the end of December, DealBook reports. Dimon faced calls to resign back in May when JPM's trading losses raised questions about how the risky position could have gone undetected by regulators, which include the Fed. So far, Mr. Dimon hasn't been replaced.
Tom Loftus contributed to this article.


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The LEGO® Friends Penguin's Playground features a slide to play on, comfy bed, tasty fish and a cute pink bow for the penguin!
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A Quote by Walter Benjamin on history, progress, destruction, angel of history, paradise, storm, dead, past, catastrophe, irreversible, and angelus novus
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.
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Kdenlive 0.7.6 Released
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Just 3 months after the last release, Kdenlive is out with 0.7.6. They even had a pre-release message on their homepage for the last week or so.
The new features are:
- Title module: rewrite, now allows for basic animation (title zoom & scroll)
- Track rename: users can now rename tracks
- Composite transition: keyframes can now be moved
- Clip management: image and audio clips are automatically monitored and updated in the timeline whenever they change on disk
- User interface cleanup: cleaner look for timeline
- Capture monitor improvements: now shows available disk space & timecode, also allows to choose a name for captured files
- Project management: project settings dialog now allows you to clear the thumbnails cache and delete all videoclips that are not used in the project
- Improved clip markers: they are now displayed in the clip monitor ruler, and user can easily go to each marker from the context menu
- Shutdown computer after rendering
Apparently stability is improved as well, through using the latest 0.4.6 version of the MLT Framework.
Read all the details on the Release Notes page and download the application from the Kdenlive website.
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In Their Own Words – Autism in the News
This "In Their Own Words" is by Pranita Sookai, a junior at New York University, majoring in Journalism and Economics. She is a recipient of the JPMorgan Chase Smart Start Scholarship.
People sometimes look at the world as if they were staring through a view finder. They are disconnected. They step away from the lenses with a generalized and often inaccurate understanding of the community in the distance. The people being observed here become ingrained in this broad picture, but their reality is not seen.
Greater awareness would help the public connect to these communities, such as to the community of families affected by autism.
Autism, one of the most prevalent childhood disorders, affects more children than juvenile diabetes, childhood cancer, and pediatric aids combined.1 Yet, autism often goes unnoticed. It is hardly picked up by the mainstream media, and because of this, their group suffers from misrepresentation in the public eye.
Autism is a general name that groups together a complex set of brain disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders, or PDD. This group includes Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified, Asperger's Syndrome, Rett Syndrome, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.
Autism usually appears during the first 18 to 36 months of a child's life. Because the symptoms vary, the paths to confirming a diagnosis vary as well. The main signs of autism involve difficulties in communication, social development, and the development of routine behavioral patterns. Children with autism can be verbal or non-verbal. They have difficulty expressing emotions, understanding the emotions of others, and having a conversation. They also form behavioral patterns, which include repeating words, or obsessively following routines. In some cases, the children are identified as having developmental delays before obtaining a diagnosis. Although there is no cure, an early diagnosis often results in dramatically better outcomes for autistic individuals because they can begin therapy sooner. Unfortunately, sometimes a child's diagnosis of autism is delayed.
Because there is no medical test for autism, diagnosis is based on the observation of a child's behavior, as well as on educational and psychological examinations. There is also no know specific cause for autism. But, abnormalities can be seen in an autistic child's brain structure when compared to the brain of a non-autistic child. Currently, researchers are investigating the suspected triggers of the disorder, which include genetic inheritance and environmental factors. 2
The stark severity of the disease can devastate families, and can be devastating to the individual's lifelong development. Michael Giangregorio is the Chair of Autism Speaks Long Island Executive Committee, Chair of the Leadership Council, and a Board Member of The Elija School. He is also the father of a child who suffers from autism.3
When asked what his greatest concern is for his son, he said, "What will happen when I die? Who will look out for my son's needs? Who will ensure that he will remain safe when I am gone? He is nonverbal, and needs help with everything, even the simplest tasks most of us take for granted."
Families who are affected by autism are concerned with the future of their children. They want to know about the things that directly affect them. This includes information on medical developments, legislation on autism, and funding for autism treatment, research, and programs.
Yet, the intersection of the mainstream media and autism occurs in a way that does not really touch on the concerns of the autism community. Instead, journalism overlooks the important developments. To the general public, the concerns of these families are not conveyed, and the public therefore maintains an inaccurate image of these people. The stories published are subject to sensationalism and an emotional bias. Even more so, some families affected by autism don't have access to the news they need about their group.
Looking through some of the main news outlets– The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox– there is little coverage that is relevant to the community itself.
According to Michael, the mainstream media misses the mark when covering autism. He said, "When many people think of autism they think of Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man. The media needs to help get the word out. It needs to help break the stereotype. It needs to help educate the general public."
Stereotypes about people with autism are not uncommon in society. In his work on stereotypes of autism, Douwe Draaisma acknowledged that most of the public's understanding of autism comes from the way it is represented in novels and movies. In an example of autism stereotypes, he describes Sigourney Weaver's character in Snow Cake. He says, "We understand why Linda is carefully aligning shoes in the hallway, for we all know that autistic people hate it when things are in disarray. We understand why she is fascinated by the spinning of a shiny coin. We understand why she throws a temper tantrum when people try to touch her."4
An article published by USA Today does nothing to correct the inaccurate images that the public maintains about autistic children. It describes a new airport check in program, where autistic children can learn about flying.5 But, the article fails to acknowledge that autism can take many forms, and that some children diagnosed with autism have relatively mild symptoms. Instead, it assumes that autistic children generally are not capable of handling flying, and they need to be trained so that when they reach adulthood, they would have had the experience. The article belittles them.
It quotes Wendy Ross, a developmental pediatrician at Albert Einstein Medical Center. She says, "New or unexpected things that have lights, sounds, movement can make them more likely to get upset or have a tantrum." She later continues, saying, "Many families with autistic children are reluctant to fly and often drive long distances for family vacations. It's a large portion of the flying public to ignore."
This piece of autism news does nothing to let the public truly connect to the community. It does not put the readers in touch with the autistic individual or his family. Instead, it gives a superficial account, and redistributes throughout the public the stereotype that autistic people are generally incapable and emotionally unstable.
When looking at other types of autism news, the coverage seems to linger along the side of soft, over-romantic, and nonetheless irrelevant. Although emotional stories are nice to hear, and can allow the public to see the great strides that autistic individuals make, the autistic community faces a lack of media coverage that is truly relevant to their needs. An example of this is the lack of reporting on changes in autism health care coverage. Instead, the media focuses on sensational stories. Here, there is an imbalance between what the community wants to see in the news, and how journalism portrays the community to the public.
A recent New York Times' article6 on autistic children falls into this category of sensationally heart-warming stories. It focuses on the interaction of therapy dogs with autistic children. The article describes the positive effects that dogs can have on improving the communication skills of moderately to severely autistic children. However, the article only highlights two residential autistic centers, and acknowledges that success is found on a case-by-case basis.
In this instance, journalism is not serving the autistic community well because it focuses on the things that don't apply to most autistic individuals and their family members. Individual success stories, although a testament to human dedication and progress, is relatively extraordinary. When the media focuses on these occurrences, it leads to sensationalized and biased coverage.
For Michael, the mainstream media does a poor job of reporting on things that are important to his community. He says, " Knowing your rights as a parent of a child with autism or as an individual with autism is the keys to success. For example, in New York State, the Department of Education just decreased services for speech and language from 5 times per week to 2 times per week. This happened without any hype. It just passed under the radar. This is so important to our community yet it was only picked up by one local television station."
The television station that did cover this key piece of news is CBS.7 Because funding and legislation about autism heath care coverage affects the entire community, reporting on these events is critical to serving the group well. According to Michael, "Autism receives less funding per incidence than any other disorder. For example, juvenile diabetes affects 1 in 500 and receives $156mm in funding. Autism affects 1 in 110 and receives $79mm in funding. With a NIH budget of $30 billion in 2008, $118mm went directly to autism research, which represents .3%. "
The lack of news about funding and legislation becomes a greater problem when autistic individuals depend on the mainstream media for updated information. If the media does not satisfy this demand, people in the community who do not have many other resources become disadvantaged.
Unlike most of the journalism about this community, stories on medical advancements are more widely covered and directly address the community's concerns. Newsday, Business Week, and Time magazine are a few outlets that covered the recent development of a brain scan that can possibly detect autism.8 The researchers used a brain imaging test that shows the connections within the brain in order to distinguish between an autistic brain and a non-autistic brain. They successfully identified the autistic person more than 90 percent of the time.
A breakthrough like this is a critical piece of information for this community because it can lead to the early detection of autism. In this case, the mainstream media was the main component in passing along this information. Generally, journalism serves the autistic community well when covering these important medical advances.
With an increase in reporting news that is important to the autistic community, the public will have a greater understanding of who these people really are. Their concerns will be more widely acknowledged, and they will have more access to the information they need.
To better serve the community, mainstream journalists need to move away from sensationalist and stereotypical reporting. They need to fill the gap between the community and the rest of the public by digging deeper, and covering topics that appear in specialized publications such as Psychology Today and Scientific American. By doing this, the public and the autistic community will benefit from more meaningful and relevant journalism.
Instead of looking at the community from a distance, the public will be able to look inside and connect with its people. Journalism will no longer act as a view finder, but will allow the public to travel into the communities, and learn about their realities.
1 What is Autism. Autism Speaks.
2 What is Austism. Autism Society.
3 Michael Giangregorio. (516) 398-5721
4 Douwe Draaisma. Stereotypes of Autism. Heymans Institute, University of Groningen, 2009.
< http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677582/>
5 Yu, Roger. Airport Check-in: Autistic kids learn about flying. USA Today.
< http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-11-29-airportcheckin29_ST_N.htm>
6 Jones, Karen. "For Autistic Children, Therapy on Four Legs." 10 November 2010.
7"Paterson Vetoes NY Autism Treatment Insurance Bill." CBS New York, 21 October 2010.
< http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/10/21/paterson-vetoes-ny-autism-treatment-insurance-bill/>
8 Melnick, Meredith. "Study: More Hope for a Brain Scan for Autism". Time Magazine, 3 December 2010.
< http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/03/study-more-hope-for-a-brain-scan-for-autism/>
January 3, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I can't believe how poor the mainstream media is with regards to reporting and doing investigations, whether it being autism, on stories period. Whether it being the bias' or the amount of special interest greed involved with these news outlets its getting very sickening.
The mainstream public needs to have a much better understanding of people who are suffering from auutism. Not all people who are diagnosed with autism are like Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, even though I've never seen the movie because I'm not much of a movie buff.
January 4, 2011 at 9:28 am
Well done Pranita! You insightfully discussed so many salient issues. Thank you.
As a mother of a chronically ill and severely affected non verbal child I feel my son's issues have been completely ignored by both mainstream media and the majority of the autism research community. All those "heart warming" stories are nice but they often leave the reader the impression that all it takes is love and understanding for those with autism to live a quality life. If only! I would like to see more stories on the all too real suffering of severely affected kids as well as reasons why there few interventions to help them.
I don't know other parents but I have had it with the 90th multi million dollar early identification blood or MRI test. What is being done to help kids like mine now? Almost nothing. All helpful interventions I have found for him are the result of endless hours of my own research on the internet, attending conferences and cold calling researchers. It should not have to be this difficult.
January 4, 2011 at 1:52 pm
I'm with you Katie re: the feel good, heartwarming, hard work, loving parents stories or, even worse, like-minded parents, for that matter. I cannot stand it when a parent takes sole credit for their child's improvement.
Clearly, you and I have different children whose UNDERLYING ASD-disease states are very, very different. We have been at this exactly the same time (almost to the month). I adore and respect you so much (and your parents). I have learned so much following your child's story all these years (and everyone's). Never in my wildest dreams would I call you anything other than an amazing mother/researcher/advocate/person.
I am literally furious if anyone dares to call me a "good mother" or "see how far your child has come, due to all your hard work." I go for it, as it is an opportunity to teach… ME: "When you call me a good mother – what is the other side of that coin? What does that say about mothers of severe children?" Then, I go off re: subtypes, medical issues, trajectories, you name it. I go off on all the kids I know of – and how different every aspect is – and some of the children I know who have recovered – including one where the mother screams at all of her children 1,000x/day – and some of the very severe children I know whose parents have done everything for years on end.
I am convinced that single most important detail in all of this is the child's underlying disease state and the resulting ability to respond to treatment(s).
The "good mother" bunk the media portrays is so hurtful to us all (and gives the population to ammunition to moralize).
I will not accept the "good mother" (or the "bad mother") label for any of us – or it's implications. I will only accept both terms when they are both used for for ALL OF US.
We area all simply doing our best within the confines of our circumstances (and our circumstances, children and their underlying disease states are all so different – a fact the media glosses right over).
January 4, 2011 at 12:33 pm
The mainstream media loves the happy ending/silver lining; hence all the "Rain Man" stories – idiot savant abilities in ASD individuals. Meanwhile, the percentage of ASD individuals that have idiot savant abilities is quite small (I'm not writing down the percent I remember – as it would likely not be accurate – I'm not looking for this statistic at the moment, but have read or scene low statistics presented a number of times).
This idiot savant subset presented by the media is so extreme – that an old friend from college (without children) who lives far away – when told in a phone conversation that my then 5 year old son was on spectrum (diagnosed at 2) – she brightened and told me not to worry and asked what was his idiot savant ability. I explained that he didn't have an extreme ability (or even a special interest for that matter). She told me I was wrong and I just hadn't found it yet?????
I explained that even some of my NT friends' kids have deeper interests than my child (e.g., kids who REALLY like superheros or Disney Princesses) – and that this type of child (whether NT or ASD) will always have special interests, but they will morph and change over time (much like my NT younger child – who was only a toddler at the time – who has gone from Dora, to The Wiggles, to pretending to be a rock star, then on to coloring non-stop, first anything, then NHL hockey logos/rinks/players, to Olympic flags, back to the NHL, to world cup teams/soccer games/literally pictures of soccer action/red cards/you name it, to coloring the Tour de France – now he's into Club Penquin and being a hockey goalie (and I'm grieving almost two years of non-stop coloring that has suddenly stopped – as we are not in control of his special interests – just what he is exposed to – and the older he gets – the less we are in control of his exposure – we did NOT expose him to Club Penquin – that crime was done on a play date). So, our NT child is Mr. Special-Interest, but always developing, moving and growing (whether we like it or not – you'll be happy to know his screen time is limited to 15 minutes a day). He is NT. Duh??? (you all know this – this is nothing special – this is normal).
I tried to explain, that when ASD children have special interests they are usually more intense than NT kids' special interests and may not change an morph over time (or may not always be age appropriate). But, certainly while many ASD children have special interests (but not all), most do not have extreme/incredible abilities (e.g., numbers like the fictional Rain Man, poetry & prose like Tito Mukhopadhyay, art like Chris Murray). I tried to explain that my then five year old ASD child is a generalist and really just likes "new": new toys, new anything and get's bored as soon as he "learns" a toy (or anything for that matter) – he doesn't have the imagination to build a story line, nor does he sit and stim on a toy, it's just garbage (and certainly, on top of his ASD diagnosis, he has a huge dose of ADHD to go with it). I tried to explain, that if he had a special interest – it would develop on it's own – that I can't control if he has a special interest or not (just his exposure to the world). And certainly, I cannot control if he is to be extremely gifted in an area. An aside – You'll be happy to know he's gone on to be a fantastic reader (but again, no real special interest – just reading for reading's sake).
She insisted that I was absolutely wrong, that all ASD children have extreme abilities and insisted that I needed to find his special interest so that his idiot savant ability could be nurtured – by me, the person solely responsible for all aspects of his personality/ability/failings. Despite the fact that she was faced with the evidence: I had been his mother for five years and I had been reading all about ASD for three years non-stop (and I might have more knowledge about ASD more than she did). I simply gave up and changed the topic (rather than tearing her head off).
Where did she get this unshakable knowledge from? The media.
Don't even get me going on the deliberate ignorance of the media (and therefore the public) about ASD science: Epiginetics/medical issues VS. simply 100% genetics/behavioral/better diagnosis tripe that the media loves so much… You've heard enough from me and I write too much as it is, with way too many run-on sentences (like this one). I need an editor (or should repeat high school English/get out a grammar guide).
Pranita Sookai – thank you so much for your thoughtful (and well written) article. Please stay with our community; we need you desperately.
January 15, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Thank you, Pranita, and all of the above comments from Sarah, Katie, and Adam.. I'm a loving grandmother of a precious 4 year old autistic boy… The love I have for my grandson is immeasurable… This article and your comments actually show me that there are more severe ASD cases than what i see everyday, even in the Autism Speaks posts… It seems all I see are stories of Asperger's, or other high-functioning ASD issues… I wondered if the little guys that still don't speak, that are still not potty-trained, and that have some developmental delay as much as two year to 18-month olds, when they are 4 to 5 years old, just go un-noticed, as if "hey.. that's your problem, your job" (referring to mom, dad, grandparents)… I'm not a well-educated person that knows how to express myself so eloquently as other writers, but, i did want to thank you all for letting me know that there are other children out there, and that you struggle as much as we do… after a very difficult "issue" with my grandson's special needs teacher, i needed this… thank you all…