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If Poole was a goat, it's probably because he tried too hard to be a hero. The 5-10, 215-pounder gained 10 yards on his first carry of the contest but strained his back in the process. Rather than alert the coaches to the injury, he tried to play through the pain. The result: Eight yards on eight subsequent carries before giving way to freshman backup Marlin Lane.
"I had a back strain and I couldn't move like I wanted to," Poole recalled. "That's not an excuse on my part, though. I've got to continue to take care of myself."
How much the back problem hindered Poole is something only he knows. One thing is for certain, however: He looked nothing like he did in rushing for 101 yards on 21 carries against Cincinnati seven days earlier, and that has his head coach upset.
"I think he's an inconsistent runner. That's what he is," Derek Dooley said. "We saw it last year and now in three games we've seen it this year. What I've always wanted out of him was just consistency. I hope he can develop that over of the course of this season.
"Against Cincinnati he looked great, and that was not a bad football team. He was running hard, his pads were low and he was accelerating through defenders. The other two games he didn't look the same."
Poole needed 24 carries to muster 98 yards in Game 1 vs. Montana, a member of the Football Championship Subdivision. That outing was a career highlight, however, compared to the debacle at The Swamp last weekend.
"Hat's off to Florida for playing harder than we were," Poole said. "They outworked us, outworked me, and they did it all game. We've got to be better and we've got to come out with more effort."
Tennessee's players were feeling good about themselves after trouncing Montana (42-16) and Cincinnati (45-23) in Games 1 and 2. Finishing with minus-9 net rushing yards in Game 3 at Gainesville was a slap in the face that snapped them back to reality.
"I think it was," Poole conceded. "It was embarrassing not to get the run game going. I think we had negative yards. It was very embarrassing, very frustrating on my end because I know we've got to run the ball in order to win a lot of ballgames."
That frustration isn't a recent development. Poole and his offensive teammates felt it set in during the Florida game.
"Yeah, it did, and that can't happen," he said. "We've got to keep a calm mindset and a great attitude. I definitely got frustrated because we couldn't get anything going. I can't be like that because the game's going to go against you at certain times, and you just have to continue to fight through."
Asked what will cure the Vols' ailing ground attack, Poole answered without hesitation.
"Playing fast, playing more physical and playing smarter football," he said. "We didn't play fast, physical or smart against Florida, and you see the results."
Realizing as much, Tennessee's coaches put the Vols through brisk workouts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday that featured a strong emphasis on power running.
"It's been heavy on physicality - running hard and running fast," Poole noted.
Now that star receiver Justin Hunter is out for the year with a torn ACL, Tennessee clearly will need a lot more production from Poole and the other runners.
"We're going to have to run the football, whether Justin's in or out," Poole said. "We're going to miss Justin — can't bring him back — so we're definitely going to have to run the football, be more physical and play better football as an offense.
"We've got to continue to improve. We can't change what happened at Florida. All we can do is focus on the next game, and that's Buffalo."


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Title: "Administration Backs Military Sales to Pakistan." John Malott, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs told a Senate panel July 30
that current US policy, which allows limited private commercial sales of military equipment to Pakistan, is both legal and an important means of promoting nuclear non-proliferation and other goals in South Asia. (920731)
Date: 19920731
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ADMINISTRATION BACKS MILITARY SALES TO PAKISTAN (Text: Malott Statement to SFRC, 7/30/92) (930) Washington -- Current U.S. policy, which allows limited, private commercial military sales to Pakistan, is both legal and an important means of promoting nuclear non-proliferation and other goals in South Asia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs John Malott told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee July 30.
"We are trying to maintain some degree of access and influence with a government whose cooperation is essential to meeting key American objectives in the region, from non-proliferation to counter-narcotics to stability in Afghanistan," said Malott.
The following is the text of Malott's testimony, as prepared for delivery. (BEGIN TEXT) Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to have this opportunity to appear before the Committee to testify on United States policy toward Pakistan and the importance that continued commercial military sales have on our ability to achieve our policy objectives with that country and the region as whole.
The Administration's highest priorities in the South Asia region are first, to encourage peace and reduce tensions among the nations of the region and second, to prevent the development, acquisition, and use of weapons of mass destruction, particularly nuclear weapons. These two goals are closely linked.
When it became clear in 1990 that the President could no longer make the required certification under the Pressler Amendment, we terminated our military and economic assistance. Although our decision caused outrage in Pakistan, the Administration has remained firm in its position that Pakistan must roll back its nuclear program.
Our concerns about Pakistan's nuclear program dominate our discussions with senior officials of the Pakistan Government. There is no doubt in the minds of Pakistani government leaders what our position is. We have enforced fully the Pressler Amendment, and Pakistan has paid a very heavy price. In particular, it has had a major impact on the Pakistani military, which is heavily dependent on U.S. assistance and sales. There have been economic costs as well.
We are permitting only a limited number of commercial military sales to proceed. We are not licensing any equipment or technology that will allow Pakistan to acquire new military capabilities or to upgrade existing ones. We are not licensing the sale of any significant military systems, or "big ticket items."
What is our policy interest in licensing these limited sales? After the invocation of the Pressler Amendment, our relationship with Pakistan has been severely strained. We are trying to maintain some degree of access and influence with a government whose cooperation is essential to meeting key American objectives in the region, from non-proliferation to counter-narcotics to stability in Afghanistan. We believe that if we are to promote a regional solution to non-proliferation, then cooperative ties with both India and Pakistan are essential. We believe that it is important to maintain a working relationship with Pakistan and ensure that regional security is not destabilized.
Instead of helping us accomplish our non-proliferation and other policy objectives, a termination of all sales could work against their achievement. It would undercut those in the Pakistani government who are seeking to improve their government's relationship with the United States. Rather than cave in, Pakistan more likely would look for other options.
Invocation of the Pressler Amendment has sent a clear message to Pakistan about the seriousness with which we view their actions in the nuclear field. The fact that we continue to permit limited private, commercial military sales should not be seen by anyone -- especially by anyone in Islamabad -- as an indication that we are not serious about getting Pakistan to walk back across the line they traversed in 1990. We are not accepting this as a new plateau from which they can continue to move forward. As the President indicated in his recent statement on non-proliferation, we intend to use the entire range of political, diplomatic, economic, intelligence, regional security, export controls, and other tools available to us to achieve our objective.
In addition to our bilateral dealings with Pakistan, we recognize that a broader approach also is necessary, with our ultimate goal some form of a regional nuclear non-proliferation regime. We recognize that achieving such an agreement is not likely in the near term. Consequently, we are encouraging India and Pakistan to take actions now, aimed at building confidence and reducing tensions. We are willing to help in any appropriate way.
We also have proposed a 5-party conference involving the United States, India, Pakistan, China, and Russia as another possible means of addressing the proliferation problem. The conference could address the security concerns of states in the region and help establish a framework within which to address proliferation and other security concerns.
The United States has had a cooperative and beneficial relationship with Pakistan for the 45 years of its history. Despite the current tensions in our relationship, the United States continues to have important interests with Pakistan. Pakistan occupies a pivotal position in that broader region that includes South and Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. We must continue to work together to assist the return of the Afghan people and encourage the political process in Kabul to arrive at a broadbased, representative government. We want to support the institutionalization of democracy in Pakistan and the government's efforts to liberalize the Pakistani economy.
Finally, we want to encourage Pakistan to continue its cooperation with us to stem the flow of narcotics.

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Levi Johnston is promising to set the record straight about the Palin family.
Touchstone Publishing has a fall publication date for Johnston's book, "Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs."
Johnston fathered a child with Bristol Palin, the daughter of the former Alaska governor, when they were teenagers. The pregnancy was announced days after Palin was selected as the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate. The couple broke up after the birth of their son, Tripp, and reconciled briefly.
He's had a contentious relationship with the Palins.
Johnston says the book, first reported by People.com Monday, will "tell the truth" about that relationship, including his "sense of Sarah and my perplexing fall from grace." He says he's doing it "for me, for my boy Tripp and the country."
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Update (Aug. 16): Tober has a happy ending to report!
I spilled my tale of woe to a very attentive agent. When I was done he asked if my husband and I had any future flights booked on SW.
When I said that we had, he identified himself as a supervisor and proceeded to cancel the flights, re-book the same using the funds I otherwise would have sacrificed and now I can apply the funds accrued from the flights he canceled for travel into 2012.


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In her commentary for TODAY published on the 10th of December, SIIA Senior Fellow Dr Yeo Lay Hwee discusses the impact of the EU being awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
In October, when it was announced that the European Union had been awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, there were both cheers and jeers.
For supporters of the EU, it was a much-needed affirmation of its achievements and a timely reminder of the fact that the EU is not just about the euro and economics, but is fundamentally a political project to achieve peace and reconciliation.
For the detractors, it was a cruel joke by the Norwegians (who have twice rejected joining the EU) - the timing was particularly off, with the EU mired in economic crisis and increasing social tensions as austerity began to bite in several of those debt-ridden countries. The spirit of solidarity that was supposed to underpin the European integration project was particularly in short supply at a time when it was most needed.
I appreciate the first point of view but also, to a certain degree, empathise with the second. Let me explain why.
The EU, which had its beginning in 1952 as the European Coal and Steel Community, was a determined effort by visionary leaders such as Monnet, Schuman and Adenauer of France and Germany that never again should the two continental powers go to war. What better way to reflect this resolve than to have an independent authority to oversee the production and set the price of the two key resources needed for war-making.
European integration has since then deepened and widened. From the integration of coal and steel, the EU is now a single market of over 500 million consumers; from six founding members, it has grown to a union of 27, soon to be 28 when Croatia becomes a member next year.
Besides the achievement of the historical reconciliation of France and Germany, such that war between the two is now inconceivable, the EU has also successfully integrated many of the former Central and Eastern European communist countries and the Baltic states (who were part of the Soviet Empire) after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Seen against what is happening in Asia now, with the rising tensions over sovereignty claims in the South and East China seas and the inability of Japan and China to achieve that sort of historical reconciliation needed for long-lasting peace and stability in East Asia, the achievements of the EU in the last 60 years are indeed remarkable.
Unfortunately, this historical narrative of the EU as a peace project no longer resonates among younger Europeans, as a survey of Europeans in the 15-to-30 age group in 2007 revealed. When asked about the meaning of the EU and what EU citizenship means, the majority of the young Europeans surveyed associated the EU with the freedom to travel, study and work anywhere in the EU, the protection of the rights of citizens and a means of improving the economic situation in Europe.
It is thus perfectly understandable when some people express cynicism at the peace prize being awarded to the EU at a time when unemployment is at a record high and social peace is "threatened" with strikes and demonstrations against the austerity measures adopted by several governments in the name of reform and as part of the conditions of the bailout package.
The European Union is coming to an important crossroads in its integration process. In the history of the European integration project, optimists have noted that with each crisis the EU faced, it has emerged stronger and more integrated.
Similarly, there are hopes that in the midst of the ongoing debt crisis, decisive steps may yet be taken to prepare the EU for the next stage of the journey to a deeper union.
The crisis has forced Europeans to embrace painful reforms and accept a fiscal compact put in place to focus the attention of member states on achieving fiscal consolidation and budgetary rigour. Talks on a banking union have also begun.
All these are signs that the EU is determined to pursue reforms to strengthen the EU and the euro zone.
Yet, despite the various efforts by the EU to stabilise the euro zone, detractors continue to express doubts on the feasibility and desirability of deeper integration, given what they see as a lack of political will and public support for further integration.
So what is the road ahead for the EU and what has the Nobel Peace Prize got to do with this?
The EU is in need of a new narrative. The Nobel Peace Prize reaffirms the EU as a peace project. But peace and the EU to a generation that has only enjoyed peace and affluence have a different meaning altogether.
It no longer means just the absence of war. Peace here needs to be seen in a broader context of social peace, freedom and economic security. In an increasingly globalised and inter-connected world, the EU alone can no longer guarantee this broader version of peace.
Economic insecurity and inequalities in the face of increasing economic competition from other regions is a reality the EU has to face up to and which can only be mitigated by stepping up engagement with the outside world and working in tandem with other regions towards a global rebalancing.
Youths in any other regions aspire for the same kind of peace that Europeans have taken for granted. To re-ignite hopes in the future, the EU and all its partners need to step up to prepare its peoples for the challenges and opportunities brought about by our interdependence.
And they need to refrain from short-sighted knee-jerk reactions towards economic nationalism and from building walls - both physical and psychological - to shield themselves from the challenges.
Yeo Lay Hwee is Director of the EU Centre in Singapore and Senior Research Fellow with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.


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The Decision That Transformed My Financial SituationKathleen Celmins
The year was 2005. I had just started working at my first "real" job out of college, and there were decisions to be made. What kind of health insurance plan did I want? Who would I make friends with at work? How would I afford to live in this big new city?
I was overwhelmed, to say the least. I'd just moved across the country to start a job I snagged from Craigslist, at a less-than-perfect fit in the consulting world in DC, when all I wanted to do was work in politics. I didn't know anybody. I had never been to the city before. I was in over my head.
I wasn't in debt yet, not really, but I was getting there. I spent more than half of my monthly take-home pay on a very tiny apartment in a fun part of town, and I was eating out way more than I was eating in.
It's crazy to think that amid this uncertainty and overspending I would make my best financial decision, but I did.
I started investing part of my paycheck in a retirement fund. I remember poring over the sheets, trying to understand expense ratios and portfolio balancing because I was able to pick and choose where my 401(k) retirement money would go. In reality, I think I was looking for the highest return, no matter the risk.
I only stayed at that first job for a year. Like I said, it wasn't a perfect fit. But I remember calling my best friend and asking what to do with the money that was still with the old company.
"Does your new company have a retirement plan?" she asked. No, they didn't.
"Okay, no problem. Just roll it into a Traditional IRA. You want the traditional, because it offers benefits like reducing your taxable income, which will result in you paying less in tax, which will mean a higher tax refund when you file your taxes."
Okay. Some of what she said sounded a little like the "hum de bork bork" of the Swedish Chef, but she is (and always has been) one of my most trusted advisors when it comes to all things, including money.
"But do one more thing," she added. "Automatically deposit $200/month into that IRA. I promise, you won't even notice it, but due to the magic power of compound interest, your future self will thank you."
Without thinking too much about it, I did exactly what she told me to do. And promptly forgot about it. In the ensuing years, my finances got worse — way worse — before they got better, and I thought perhaps acting like an ostrich would be the best way to get better about money.
I was wrong. But in this one case, I was right, too.
Fast forward to 2010. I finally decided to get my head out of the sand and opened a free account at Mint.com. "Do you want to add another account?" it kept asking, after I linked yet another credit card with a balance.
I thought I was done, but on Mint's account adding screen, there was a list of popular financial institutions. I saw Fidelity listed and a light went off in my head. Hmm, I do recall getting emails every month about trade something or other. I dug around, retrieved my password, and saw, to my complete shock and surprise, there was $10,000 in my account!
I thought I was broke, really broke, but seeing that number adjust my net worth in Mint's calculation was like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
But it gets better. Due mostly to my ignorance, but partially to the convoluted nature of Fidelity's website, I'd been depositing $200 per month into cash deposits, which meant that when the market was doing all kinds of negative things in 2007, 2008, and 2009, my money was sitting pretty, holding its value.
Depositing money every month into retirement was my best financial decision. Or maybe I just got lucky. Either way, it was nice to see, when I finally got serious about finances, I'd already had one thing in my favor. There were a lot of things going against me (more than $20,000 in consumer debt!), but it was really nice to have one thing in my favor.
What was your best financial decision? Or even your first good financial decision?


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It would be wonderful if the South African children now being detained, beaten and killed under the vile apartheid system could be saved by song.
It would be wonderful and simple. But unfortunately, when art and politics collide, the result is most often explosive and complicated.
That's true in the case of the benefit concert scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday at the Spectrum.
The benefit is an extension of Paul Simon's international oncert tour, featuring his controversial, Grammy-winning album "Graceland," which has introduced the rhythms and melodies of black South African musicians to appreciative audiences around the globe - and reinvigorated Simon's stagnant career.


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Eight more sectional championship will be crowned on Tuesday as the State Tournament heats up.
The Star-Ledger will have complete coverage of high school basketball's "March Madness" on Tuesday night. Jeremy Schneider will be on hand in Springfield as University and Dayton play for the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 title for the third straight season. John Haley will be in Jackson for the South Jersey, Non-Public A title game between St. Joseph (Metuchen) and Paul VI. Patrick Lanni will be in Point Pleasant as Bound Brook and Point Pleasant Beach square off for the Central Jersey, Group 2 title. Jason Bernstein will be in Newark as division rivals Irvington and Newark East Side meet for a third time, this time with the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 championship at stake.
UPDATED Boys Basketball Tournament Schedule
Central Jersey, Group 4 Final
East Brunswick 59, Trenton 49
Full game report by John Haley
Photo Gallery
Full game report by Kevin Maloney, The Times of Trenton
North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 Final
Linden 49, Ridge 46
Full game report by Richard Greco
North Jersey, Section 2, Group 2 Final
Newark Tech 55, Snyder 54
Full game report by Jason Bernstein
South Jersey, Non-Public B Semifinal
Patrick School 70, Gill St. Bernard's 59
Full game report by Jeremy Schneider
The latest Star-Ledger Top 20 Rankings.
Changes to the Tournament of Champions schedule.
In Essex and Union County:
Dayton and University get set for a fourth straight matchup in the playoffs.
In Morris County:
Mount Olive's Zach Heeman scores his 1,000th point.
In Middlesex County:
Former Piscataway standout Jeff Adkins is starring at New Haven.
In South Jersey:
Pitman and Paulsboro set for dream matchup in South Jersey, Group 1 final.
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Lawrence and Northern Burling travel similar path to Central Jersey, Group 3 final.


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Vase with dragons
China, Jingdezhen
Yongzheng reign (1723-35)
Porcelain, painted before glazing and enamelled
Museum no. C.995-1910
George Salting Bequest
This vase was probably made for the Chinese imperial court. Its most vivid feature is the yellow enamel. This was painted onto the fired pot and then refired at a low temperature to fuse it to the glaze.
Two-stage firing proved a crucial innovation. It greatly increased the colour range for decoration and made painting on porcelain in multiple colours possible.


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**** (In the video I said Matt Patchan would play Right Tackle for me, I meant to say I'd have him play Right Guard; as a tackle he'd be over coming a lot)
We're about a month away from the draft. Dallas is unlikely to make many more signings before then. I'm not even sure who all is on the roster, so I decided to estimate my own depth chart. There's a few players listed #2 who might end up starting somewhere else along the line. Let me highlight Ben Bass who was coming on strong at Strongside Defensive End, and Ceaser Rayford who looked good as a Outside Linebacker for the Colts but hasn't been able to put it together in Dallas. Among linebackers Davonte Holloman is listed as a #2 but he may start somewhere even before training camp.
Who do we even have in the front 7?
I worked out my own estimate of the current depth chart for the front 7 players; pre Draft, post Free Agency –
99 Selvie, George DE 6-4 270 27 4 South Florida
92 Mincey, Jeremy DE 6-4 265 30 7 Florida
90 Okpalaugo, Tristan DE 6-4 260 24 1 Fresno State
69 Melton, Henry DE 6-3 295 27 6 Texas
79 Bass, Ben DT 6-5 294 24 2 Texas A&M
66 McClain, Terrell DT 6-2 293 25 4 South Florida
96 Hayden, Nick DT 6-4 301 28 3 Wisconsin
70 Kearse, Frank DT 6-5 310 25 3 Alabama A&M
98 Crawford, Tyrone DE 6-4 284 24 2 Boise State
95 Rayford, Caesar DE 6-7 267 28 R Washington
50 Lee, Sean LB 6-2 234 27 4 Penn State
57 Holloman, DeVonte LB 6-2 242 23 R South Carolina
98 Lemon, Orie LB 6-1 242 26 2 Oklahoma State
54 Carter, Bruce LB 6-2 246 26 3 North Carolina
56 Wilson, Martez LB 6-4 252 25 3 Illinois
51 Wilber, Kyle LB 6-4 246 24 2 Wake Forest
52 Durant, Justin LB 6-1 228 28 7 Hampton
53 Lawrence, Cameron OLB 6-2 234 23 R Mississippi State
45 Spears, Quinton LB 6-4 230 25 2 Prairie View A&M
48 Stewart, Jonathan LB 6-3 254 23 R Texas A&M
58 Williams, Jabara LB 6-2 238 24 2 Stephen F. Austin St.
So here is a question:
Are they going to get anyone who weighs 330lbs? Dallas has avoided 330 pounders even going back to when they ran the 34. I like to have one on the roster even if he's only the 2nd string one.
Despite that lack of size at DT, with Dallas losing Demarcus Ware (who traditionally weighed 255lbs, but bulked up to 262lbs last year) and ostensibly Selvie takes his spot. Selvie carries 15lbs more than Ware pretty naturally, weighing 270lbs VS Ware's 255lbs for most of his career.
DE Anthony Spencer was listed last year at 250lbs though I believe he also was closer to 263lbs. Either way, I am currently projecting either Tyronne Crawford or Ben Bass to take his spot. Crawford weighs 284 lbs and Bass weighs 295lbs.
Keeping with the size theme — Sean Lee and Justin Durrant are among the smallest linebackers on the roster. Hard to believe Davonte Holloman came into the league at 242 lbs listed as a safety. That's a big safety.
No matter how you cut it, Dallas is getting bigger at defensive end, linebacker, but not Defensive Tackle.
Last thought. I think Henry Melton projects as a more complete 3 tech than Jason Hatcher. Where I like Melton better is on 1st and 2nd down. Melton will keep our LBs cleaner over the course of the season (EDITORS NOTE Dallas was last in 2013 on 1st down defense and 1st down run defense – like 5 yards a carry bad).
Since we have 6 7th round draft picks, I put together a mini board of possible late round picks. Here I have ranked 8 players to get in the 7th round of the NFL draft.
#1 7th Rounder
JC Copeland is a long armed Full Back with a quick gait and power in his blocks. I'm often wrong on who Dallas drafts at FB but I'm really pulling for this guy. He's a load and his Arm Length will give him some terrific match up advantages. He'd be able to contribute right away in a designated role so I have #1 in the 7th round.
#2 7th Rounder
He was seen as a top-100 player, but is recovering from an ACL tear. He's recovered this year, but apparently his draft stock has not. I think he'd be ready to start by year 2, like Ron Leary did. Spencer Long could compete to start right away, like Leary did. Leary ultimately was practice squaded, but Long may prove more capable in his first year. I think Long will definitely compete to start in year 2 and could compete in year 1, so I have as the #2 7th rounder.
#3 7th Rounder
Matt Hazel is a small school WR with NFL type measurables to go with top production at small school. I see him as a good prospective Y player, the guy opposite Dez. He'll run routes all over the field vacated by Dez. If it all worked out for him, he could be a starter in two years, and help as a slot receiver immediately. I believe Terrance Williams is a dynamite #3 WR and that in a season or two Matt Hazel could become the regular outside WR and Williams would be the slot. Williams is a match up push on the outside, but a match up buster on the inside.
#4 7th rounder
S/CB He'll stick in the NFL as a CB, his experience at S helps the roster's flexibility. He should be able to help on STs right away and has the athletic skills to challenge as a starter in the NFL. Has some physicality and demonstrated it while playing safety. He has the slew of skills to challenge starters all across the defensive backfield, though realistically it's his special teams assets that will have him stick in years one and probably 2. He's not a safety and he's not going to supplant our top 3 CBs, so he's lower priority, as the #4 7th rounder
#5 7th rounder
4.58 40 and 230lbs, highly productive back in a small school enviroment. I'm really looking for a 230lbs back in this draft, to go with Dunbar and Murray. Carlos Hyde and Jeremy Hill are the most celebrated 230lbs RBs in this draft but Lorenzo is a good option in the 7th. Lorenzo isn't the goal line back or even the short yardage back per say. I don't believe size really makes a difference. Priest Holmes was an amazing short yardage back and was rather small. What I like about Lorenzo is he presents a completely different back for a defense to prepare for, VS Murray and Dunbar. The more options that a defense will have to adjust for, the better. Where Dunbar has awesome speed, Lorenzo has great size. Murray is in between, with assets of both. What ever 230lbs running back Dallas gets, I hope they remember the days of Marion Barber closing out 4th quarters. I think Jason Garrett was even there in 2007 for many of those games.
#6 7th rounder
4.2 SS, 6.6 3 cone drill suggests he can play all the LB spots, despite his bad 40 (4.9). 6'4 250lbs he's got size. Some scout sites say he needs an NFL training regimen to catch up in core strength, but he lifts well. If he can block well enough to warrant a role on STs, I think he could develop into an ace Strong Side LB, covering the TE and beating the TE's blocks. His slow 40 doesn't lend itself to punt coverage, despite that he appears like he would be very good in Zone coverage because of his change of direction skills, and his ten yard split is pretty good at 1.68. At 6'4, Dallas may grow him in to a Defensive End in time, but I believe right now he's a good back up Strong Side LB who can start in the next couple of years. He'd need to stick on STs the first year or more. To me, he looks like a DE who needs 20 lbs. But he's entering the NFL as a strong side backer and he has the assets to succede.
#7 7th rounder
A raw prospect with a questioned mentality. I think Rod Marenelli keeps it simple and keeps his players motivated. Some proffer that he has intriuing pass rush potential but I don't really see it. He probably didn't get ideal combine coaching so perhaps I should cut him slack, but his power numbers were plain as was his Short Shuttle, so nothing would really suggest he could ever do anything special as an outside edge rusher. He would not be dynamic as a starter, I anticipate. Ideally he'd spell your started on run downs, and there is a role for those guys. (I think he could deliver 200 snaps at SDE and be moderately productive, even in 2014).
#8 7th rounder
Long legged tackle with shorter arms, he's best at Guard. He has a lot strength and could develop like Kevin Grogan (if it all works out). I think he's a year behind Spencer Long. He's also shifting positions from Tackle to Guard. He could probably give up sacks as the 3rd tackle just as easily as most 3rd tackles in the NFL. Some people think he actually could play takcle in the NFL but he'd need to elavate his technique to Joe Thomas levels. He was injured his junior year and its possible that set his technique back. He has good speed and would work well in our zone scheme, with guards lead blocking, guards pulling, and drive blocking from the Right Guard position.
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What a sweet sister! While popping by the opening of L.A.'s new Splendid boutique with mom Jessica Alba, little Honor Warren, 3, decorated a snow globe for 3-month-old baby sister Haven. The tot also created a few of the decorations to donate to homeless children, but made Haven's "extra sparkly with lots of glitter," according to a source. New moms like Ali Larter and Kristin Davis and newlywed Amy Smart also attended the event, sponsored in part by Crafting Community and benefiting the Baby2Baby organization. – Jennifer Garcia
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Critz defending W.Pa. congressional seat yet again
PITTSBURGH -- U.S. Rep. Mark Critz has spent much of his two-plus years in Congress fighting to keep the seat he won in a special election after his former boss, Democratic powerhouse John Murtha, died in office in 2010.
Now he's fighting to keep the seat in a redrawn western Pennsylvania district that tends to vote Republican despite containing a slim majority of registered Democrats, against a candidate strongly backed by the national GOP and conservative groups, Keith Rothfus.
The race is close enough that the national parties and independent political action committees have been running ads in heavy rotation on Pittsburgh-area TV stations.
The ads favoring Critz have stressed his more conservative beliefs: he's gotten the NRA endorsement in the race; his pro-military views (his former boss, Murtha, was the powerful chairman of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee), and his anti-abortion stance.
Rothfus scoffs at the last label, noting Critz received a 60 percent rating from the National Right to Life group. "When I was in school, 60 percent was an F," Rothfus said.
Critz noted he's voted to end federal funding to Planned Parenthood, though he first voted against a similar bill. Both were defeated in the Senate. Rothfus counters that Critz's backing of the federal health care overhaul undercuts Critz's anti-abortion claims.
For his part, Critz slams Rothfus' support of the budget plan put forth by Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan and its call for altering Medicare by offering it as one of several options in the future.
Despite the sniping at each other, both Critz and Rothfus are ideal for the relatively conservative 12th District, said Jon Delano, a veteran western Pennsylvania political analyst and reporter for KDKA-TV. Their biggest differences are on free trade, Medicare and the health care overhaul.


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Why aren't all our representatives in Washington, D.C., on Obamacare? Do you think they excluded themselves for a reason? Think about it.
Caller ID
Caller ID is the best way to ignore telemarketer calls. Also, don't answer the phone call between 6 and 6:30 p.m. If you have an answering machine, you can screen for your important calls.
Dog adoption
I adopted an older dog that no one wanted, and she has brought me nothing but love and joy. God believes all living creatures deserve love and good qualities of life.
Job losses
I'm sorry those jobs are being lost at SRS, but we need to remember that jobs are being lost everywhere, not just SRS. I don't know how this is Obama's fault.
Public water
We normally run our well water to our house for all our family needs but are also hooked up to New Ellenton public water. We recently had to temporarily switch over to the public water due to a well pump problem. I can tell you that the public water supply from New Ellenton tastes like Clorox bleach. It has a terrible taste. I feel sorry for people who have to use water from New Ellenton on a regular basis.
County spending
Aiken County should spend some money on the land that the citizen's own. Boyd's Pond Road needs a shooting range. This would be important for a lot of people. County Council should address this.
Clone pastor
If only it were possible to clone the Rev. Andrea, so all churches could have one.
Police blotter
I appreciate the police blotter. I think it's a nice way to stay informed about what's going on and crime in the neighborhood. I do wish the stores that were victims of shoplifting were named.
There was an accident with injuries in front of Aiken Tech today. Why can't there be a stoplight? They're putting a stoplight for Sam's Club, why can't they put a stoplight for the students?
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Ms. Phyllis Brogden, Co-chairperson
Celiac Sprue Support Group, Greater Philadelphia Area
Dear Phyllis,
Since you, Elaine Hartsook, Mary Alice Warren, Annette Bentley, and Elaine Monarch have all asked me from time-to-time about the safety for celiac patients of some particular foods, I thought I would just put together a general statement for you covering a number of the concerns. I am supplying copies to the other group chairpersons. These are my opinions based on quite a few years of research in the area of proteins as they relate to celiac disease, but, of course, do not necessarily represent those of the Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. You may use any of the information that seems of interest in your newsletters, but if you attribute it to me, it would probably be best to indicate that the opinions are mine as a researcher and are not intended to define USDA policy.
The only plants demonstrated to have proteins that damage the small intestines of people with celiac disease are those from wheat, rye, barley, and oats (and the man-made wheat-rye cross called triticale). These species are members of the grass family and are quite closely related to one another according to various schemes of plant classification (taxonomy). However, not all members of the grass family damage the intestines of celiac patients. Rice and corn, for example, are apparently harmless.
Many other grains have not been subjected to controlled testing or to the same scrutiny as wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, and corn in relation to celiac disease. If we accept corn and rice as safe, then members of the grass family that are more closely related to these species (on the basis of taxonomy) than to wheat are likely to be safe. Such grasses include sorghum, millet, teff, ragi, and Job's tears, which appear to be reasonably closely related to corn. In some cases, there are protein studies in support of this conclusion, although the studies are not sufficiently complete to provide more than guidance. Scientifically controlled feeding studies with celiac patients would provide a better answer. However, such studies are not likely to be carried out in the next few years because of high costs and the difficulty of obtaining patient participation (such studies would likely involve intestinal biopsy). In lieu of feeding studies, further studies of protein (and DNA) would provide the next best way to evaluate my suggestion that millet, sorghum, teff, ragi, and Job's tears are not likely to be toxic in celiac disease.
The scientific name for bread wheat is Triticum aestivum-the first part of the name defines the genus (Triticum) and the second part, the species (aestivum). Species falling in the genus Triticum are almost certain to be harmful to celiac patients. Grain proteins of these species include the various types characteristic of the gluten proteins found in bread wheats (including the alpha-gliadins) that cause damage to the small intestine in celiac disease. Some Triticum species of current concern include Triticum spelta (common names include spelt or spelta), Triticum polonicum (common names include Polish wheat, and, recently, Kawmut), and Triticum monococcum (common names include einkorn and small spelt). I recommend that celiac patients avoid grain from these species.
Rye (Secale cereale) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) are toxic in celiac disease even though these two species are less closely related to bread wheat than spelta and Kawmut. They belong to different genera, Secale and Hordeum, respectively, and lack alpha-gliadins, which may be an especially toxic fraction.
You have asked especially for my opinion regarding spelta and Kawmut. Evidently there have been anecdotal reports suggesting a lack of toxicity in celiac disease for spelta and Kawmut. Controlled tests would be necessary to draw a firm conclusion. I don't consider anecdotal reports as reliable for the following reasons.
The diagnosis, sometimes self-diagnosis, of celiac disease is occasionally made without benefit of reasonably rigorous medical or clinical tests, especially intestinal biopsy. Individuals who are "diagnosed" in this way without rigorous testing may not actually have celiac disease. Claims that particular foods cause this latter group no problems in relation to their celiac disease could cause confusion.
Furthermore, celiac patients who report no problems in the short run with spelta or Kawmut might experience relapse later. There is now adequate evidence that when celiac patients on a "gluten-free" diet (that is, a diet free of any proteins or peptides from wheat, rye, barley, and oats) have wheat reintroduced to their diets, times-to-relapse vary enormously among individuals, ranging from hours to months, or even years. And this is for wheat, presumably the most toxic of all cereal grains to celiac patients.
Additionally, the relapse may not be accompanied by obvious symptoms, but be recognized only by physicians through observation of characteristic changes in the small intestinal tissues obtained by biopsy. The reasons for the enormous variability of response times are not known. It may be speculated that they have something to do with the degree of recovery of the lining of the small intestine on a gluten-free diet, the degree of stress that the patient had been experiencing (including infections), and individual genetic differences.
As I have indicated, all known grain species that cause problems for celiac patients are members of the grass family. In plant taxonomy, the grass family belongs to the Plant Kingdom Subclass known as monocotyledonous plants (monocots). The only other grouping at the Subclass level is that of dicotyledonous plants (dicots). Some other species about which celiac patients have questions actually are dicots, which places them in very distant relationship to the grass family. Such species include buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, and rape. The seed of the last plant listed, rape, is not eaten, but an oil is pressed from the seeds that is becoming commonly used in cooking. This oil is being marketed as canola oil. Because of their very distant relationship to the grass family and to wheat, it is highly unlikely that these dicots will contain the same type of protein sequence found in wheat proteins that causes problems for celiac patients. Of course, some quirk of evolution could have given rise in these dicots to proteins with the toxic amino acid sequence found in wheat proteins. But if such concerns were carried to a logical conclusion, celiac patients would have to exclude all plant foods from their diets. For example, buckwheat and rhubarb belong to the same plant family (Polygonaceae). If buckwheat were suspect for celiac patients, should not rhubarb, its close relation, be suspect as well?
It may be in order to caution celiac patients that they may have undesirable reactions to any of these foods-reactions that are not related to celiac disease. Allergic reactions may occur to almost any protein, but there is a great deal of individual variation in allergic reactions. Also, buckwheat, for example, has been claimed to contain a photosensitizing agent that will cause some people who have just eaten it to develop a skin rash when they are exposed to sunlight. Such reactions should be looked for, but for most people, buckwheat eaten in moderation apparently does not cause a problem. (Buckwheat is sometimes found in mixture with wheat, which of course would cause a problem for celiac patients.) It seems no more necessary for all people with celiac disease to exclude buckwheat from their diets because some celiac patients react to it than it would be for all celiac patients to exclude milk from their diets because some celiac patients have a problem with milk.
In conclusion, scientific knowledge of celiac disease, including knowledge of the proteins that cause the problem, and the grains that contain these proteins, is in a continuing state of development. There is much that remains to be done. Nevertheless, steady progress has been made over the years. As far as I know, the following statements are a valid description of the state of our knowledge:
o Spelt or spelta and Kawmut are wheats. They have proteins toxic to celiac patients and should be avoided just as bread wheat, durum wheat, rye, barley, oats and triticale should be avoided.
o Rice and corn (maize) are not toxic to celiac patients.
o Certain cereal grains, such as various millets, sorghum, teff, ragi, and Job's tears are close enough in their genetic relationship to corn to make it likely that these grains are safe for celiac patients to eat. However, significant scientific studies have not been carried out for these latter grains.
o There is no reason for celiac patients to avoid plant foods that are very distantly related to wheat. These include buckwheat, quinoa, amaranth, and rapeseed oil (canola). Some celiac patients might suffer allergies or other adverse reactions to these grains or foodstuffs made from them, but there is currently no scientific basis for saying that these allergies or adverse reactions have anything to do with celiac disease. A celiac patient may have an allergy to milk, but that does not mean that all celiac patients will have an adverse reaction to milk.
I hope this information will be helpful. Please contact me if you need further details or clarifications.
Donald D. Kasarda
Research Chemist
Crop Improvement and Utilization Research Unit
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As you say, there will always be skeptics. Spelt appears to differ from ordinary bread wheat mainly in a gene that makes the outer coat adherent (more like oats) rather than free-threshing. Some people seem to think this means Spelt is a more primitive wheat than bread wheat, but it could even be the other way around. On analysis by gel electrophoresis, the proteins appear to be almost identical to those of certain bread wheat varieties and as far as gluten proteins are concerned, the known-to-be-toxic (in celiac disease) alpha gliadin type has been found both by protein analysis and by DNA analysis in Spelt. However, allergy probably/mostly involves different proteins from the gluten proteins.
With regard to people's judgement as to whether or not they can tolerate spelt, I will relate a recent experience. An M.D. allergist called me to ask about spelt because his wife who is allergic to wheat (respiratory distress and skin weals/rash), but apparently does not have celiac disease, felt that she could tolerate spelt very well and wheat not at all. The allergist tended to agree that this seemed to be so. I said I doubted it (mentioned the 1-in-a-million chance), but figuring that even a 1-in-a-million chance can occur, decided to carry out a blind experiment with their cooperation. We made six extractions of proteins, three from different spelt varieties (obtained from the most knowledgeable spelt research station in the country--in Wooster, Ohio) and three extractions from whole wheat flour that we purchased in the supermarket. We supplied the coded samples blind to the allergist and he fed the 6 samples (about 1 per month) to his wife and noted her response. He then supplied the results to me. When I decoded the results, the times that she reacted were about 50:50 spelt/wheat and the strongest reaction, requiring a shot of epinephrine to quell the response, was to one of the spelt samples!
I haven't the slightest doubt about the harmfulness of spelt to celiac patients, but allergy is a highly variable response and, although I am doubtful, I would have to allow for a slight chance that ordinary wheat might have a protein (a non-gluten protein) that some people are allergic to that has been lost from spelt.
As promised, the following are comments from professionals on the CEL- PRO list about oats. Our own __personal__ decision from reading the NEJM article and the CEL-PRO discussion is to not yet add oats. Here are the factors which concern us:
a) Oats seem to have a particularly significant cross-contamination problem with wheat. The oats research project obtained specially pure oats which are not readily available to us, the regular celiacs of the world.
b) The NEJM study had patients with only small amounts of oats eaten per day, and only for six months. It could be that larger amounts and/or longer periods of time will show significant damage.
c) Only intestinal damage was checked. Damage can also occur in other systems of the body, and we all know that our personal feelings are not valid indications of whether a food is causing celiac-related damage.
On the other hand, newly diagnosed celiacs with flat jejunal lesion showed recovery of the mucosal architecture whether or not oats was included in the gluten-free diet. We all certainly hope that future research will validate and extend the NEJM oats study.
The listowners of CELIAC take no 'official' position on this issue -- our job is to make the information available to you so that you can make an informed decision. So here is their discussion, with minor editing and the names removed at their request, so that each of you can judge for yourself ....
The Listowners
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***Disclaimer - this is NOT medical advise, it is a general discussion of the oats issue. See your own doctor for application to your particular situation ***
I will start off the oats discussion by commenting that this is probably the single most comprehensive study of the effects of a grain on celiacs. The earlier evidence for oats as a deleterious agent in celiac disease was based a very small # of patients or case studies. reading the report in the NEJM this week would suggest that oats are safe for most uncomplicated celiacs. There are however some reservations about the study. Severe celiac disease was an exclusion, there were some drop outs in both the oats and the control groups and patients with complications were excluded. If the findings are general is able to the whole population of celiacs then it would certainly make life a lot easier.
I have a concern about whether oat flour is reliably free of contamination with barley/ wheat. Also what would happen if we challenged a celiac with high doses of oat flour, greater than the 50g used in this study. Also would oat flour protein produce any of the subtle changes seen in the rectum with enema challenge.
Here in Finland [where the NEJM study was done] there are mixed feelings about oats. Our colleagues from Kuopio have done a very good study, and in fact the study is going on. Five year follow-up results will tell us more, the authors are this autumn rebiopsing the coeliacs eating oats. Within our Celiac Disease Study Group we have discussed this, and we are going to discuss the item within the expert team of the Finnish Coeliac Society. At this point I want to say some words regarding children.
Today we are not going to allow coeliac children to eat oats. We are first going to perform a study, our ethical committee has accepted our protocol. We are also going to look at minor jejunal changes in the *normal* mucosa revealed by immunohistochemistry. Again, the oats producer will provide us the oats for the study (same deep-freezed tested batch through the whole study). If no harm is seen, oats will be accepted also for children and this is important in our country, we by tradition consume oats. Then another story is whether all oat flour products at our market are clean. This is a real practical problem and we will study this. As you probably know, in Ireland the oats was contaminated, Dr. Conleth Feighery and colleagues used in their study oats from a German producer, tested not to be wheat contaminated (from the fields and mills). The Irish study pointed at the same direction as the Finnish one (9 adult coeliacs challenged with 50 g of oats for 3 months), oats was tolerated. The authors also looked for immunological activation in the mucosa, no changes were seen (paper presented at the 8th International Congress of Mucosal Immunology, San Diego, July 1995, abstract Srinivasan et al. Oats cereal is not immunogenic in coeliac disease. Clin Immunol Immunopathol 1995;76 (part 2):S72).
I would agree with [#2 above] about caution. I would like to see the longer follow up data before telling my patients they can eat gluten. If oats have a weak deleterious effect it may take a lot longer than wheat to produce changes that are apparent on microscopy. Could the use of the gluten reduced starch have had a confounding effect on the study. The symptom scores seemed not to be very discriminatory in that the control group in remission had a similar score to the newly diagnosed celiacs.
[editors note - the Finnish study was of celiacs who consumed low- gluten wheat starch. As we know, this is an issue of considerable controversy. Many European countries consider this perfectly safe, but in the US most celiac groups do not. It the US groups are correct, then celiacs consuming wheat starch and oats might have abnormal results compared with celiacs consuming no wheat starch and no oats, but the Finnish study would not have discovered that since it compared the oats group to control group which also consumed wheat starch]
The low amount of avedin 1.2g of avedin/ 60 grams of oats is not very much by comparison and may take a lot longer to generate damage. I am uncomfortable with the conclusions of the authors that it would help compliance to give patients the oat option with the knowledge that there is only a little protein in it. Are they likely to be any more compliant or will they just add oats to their unrestricted diet. If I am going to recommend to patients that they can eat moderate amounts of oats it will be to patients who are most likely to be compliant with the dietary restrictions on wheat, barley and rye, and who will come back for follow up. These are probably not the patients likely to benefit most from easing restrictions. Five year follow up data would be more reassuring. Also the comments about purity of the oats is important to keep in mind. It would have been interesting to look at the serological markers in these patients.
I just got back from a meeting in Europe on the epidemiology of Celiac Disease. There was a big discussion within the scientific community present at the meeting about the NEJM paper on oat tolerance in CD. We all had a mixed feeling about the conclusions of the study and my position is entirely in line with [the authors of #1, #2 and #3] comments.
The results of Kuopio group published in NEJM are probably changing our dietary recommendations. [The author of #1] has recently discussed the situation in children. The study has been carried out in adults, and in adults the demand to change dietary recommendations is strong, as we have noticed during the last days.
I think adult celiac patients can switch to oats containing diet under strict follow-up. The amount of oats tolerated, the long-term effect of oats, and the importance of gliadin contamination has to be investigated, however.
I recommend to my CD patients that they should undergo gastroscopic examination 1-2 years after starting oats-containing diet. Some antecedent information of the mucosal architecture should be available as well. If not, a duodenal biopsy should be taken even before starting of oats. By this way we also can observe possible minorinflammatory changes such as an increase in IEL or alpha-beta T-cell receptor bearing lymphocytes.
If this arrangement sounds too laborious, at least a strict follow-up by physicians and dietitians are essential. The follow-up comprises general well-being, signs of malabsorption and EmA or AGA analysis.
I would agree with [author of #5] that it may be reasonable to introduce to certain well controlled and already compliant patients. 50 grams is quite a small amount and 6 months is not long. I agree that in those patients that follow up biopsy possibly including a more sensitive markers for reaction that simple architecture is needed.
However I fear that limiting intake to 50 grams, the issue of contamination, compliance with follow up will be difficult in our setting due to cost and other factors. Many patients with celiac disease have little or no follow up.
Is any one aware of the % of patients who don't follow up? This is a difficult if not impossible question in the US due to people moving, health insurance mandated changes in doctor etc.
I have noticed that some people refer to using oats in celiac children as though that were generally acceptable. I do not believe that to be so. There have been some studies that have shown oats to damaging to children with celiac disease. The preliminary report in the new England journal of medicine I do not interpret as a license to eat oats for all or even many celiacs. The study looked at a small amount of specially prepared oats in adults without severe celiac disease. No conclusions can be drawn about children from this study.
I am not recommending to my patients that they can eat oats. There needs to be a lot more information available before oats can be used freely if at all by celiacs. If a patient want s to use oats I suggest that follow up biopsies would be prudent. No body knows if the antibody tests available will be sufficient for the purpose.
Joe Murray
Not medical advice
I am not personally knowledgeable about wild rice, but my previous statement still stands as follows:
"At least according to Hitchcock, Manual of the Grasses of the United States 1950, wild rice belongs to the tribe Zizanieae whereas oats belongs to the tribe Aveneae. I see no obvious relationship between wild rice and oats in Hitchcock's taxonomy."
Furthermore, in Hitchcock's taxonomy, wheat, rye, and barley are in Tribe 3, oats in Tribe 4, rice in Tribe 9, while Zizanieae is the name of Tribe 10, millets are mostly in Tribe 12, sorghum is in Tribe 13, and maize (corn) in Tribe 14. The tribe number in taxonomy has a limited relationship to evolutionary relationship, but it is moderately safe to say that species with neighboring tribe numbers are more likely to be closely related than those with more distant numbers. Of course, taxonomies are not perfect, but in the absence of detailed molecular analysis of all possible proteins from all possible species, which we are not likely to have in the foreseeable future, they are about the best we have to go on.
On the basis of Hitchcock's taxonomy then, I would say that wild rice and rice are moderately closely related (approximately as close as wheat is to oats), but both are fairly distant in relationship to wheat, rye, barley, and oats.
As usual, there is always a potential for contamination with wheat (as someone else pointed out) and there is always the problem of human sensitivity (of a different type from that responsible for celiac disease) to many different components of the diet. Some people are allergic to rice and corn and probably some are allergic to wild rice as well, possibly through IgE immunoglobulin-mediated responses (celiac disease does not seem to involve IgE antibodies in any fundamental way and may somewhat arbitrarily be distinguished from an allergy in that respect).
This is not meant to be medical advice. I am a wheat protein chemist, not an immunologist. Perhaps someone specializing in immunology will comment on the question of allergy vs. celiac disease and the extent to which they can be distinguished. If any taxonomists read the list, they may wish to comment on my interpretation of tribal relationships within the grass family (Gramineae)
There is an other work supporting that oat prolamines are not innocent for the celiac small intestine.
The Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (1996;22:414) published the abstracts of the forthcoming ESPGAN Meeting (June 4-8, Munich, Germany). Troncone et al will present their work:
"Oat prolamines activate mucosal immune response in the in vitro cultured treated coeliac mucosa"
The conclusion is that "oat prolamines are able to activate the T-cell mediated mucosal immune response in the coeliac jejunum, and represent a warning against the inclusion of oats in the diet of coeliac patients."
Karoly Horvath, M.D.
African Millet
Aramath Amaramthas candata
Broomcorn Millet
Buckwheat Fagopyrum esculentum
Buckwheat, Rye Fagopyrum tataricum
Italian Millet
Millet, African
Millet, Broomcorn
Millet, Italian
Millet, Pearl
Millet, Spiked
Pearl Millet
Rye Buckwheat Fagopyrum tastaricum
Spiked Millet
Teff Eragrositis tef
Abyssinian Hard Wheat Triticum durum
Barley Hordeum vulgare
Bulgar (Bulgar Wheat/Nuts)
Bulgar Wheat
Durum Wheat Triticum
Einkorn Wheat Triticum monococcum
Hard Wheat, Abyssinian Triticum durum
Kamut Triticum polinicum (Pasta wheat)
Nuts, Wheat
Oats Avena stativa
Rye, Secale sereale
Semolina Triticum
Spelt Triticum spelta
Triticale X triticosecale
Wheat Triticum aestivum
Wheat Nuts
Wheat, Abyssinian Hard triticum
Wheat, Blugar
Wheat Durum Triticum
Wheat, Einkon Triticum mononoccum
Acorn Quercus Prinus/emoroyi/lobata
Adzuki Bean
Almond Nut Prunus amygdalus
Arrowroot Maranta arundinacea
Artichokes Articiocco
Bean, Adzuki
Bean, Hyacinth
Bean, Lentil
Bean, Mung
Bean Romano (Chickpea)
Bean Tepary
Besan (Chickpea)
Carageenan Chondrus crispus
Cassava Manihot esculenta
Corn Zea mays
Cornmeal Zea mays
Cornstarch Zea mays
Flax Usitatissimum linn
Grits, Corn Zea mays
Hyacinth bean
Maize Zea mays
Maize, Waxy Zea mays
Manioc Manihot esculenta
Mung Bean
Nut, Acron Quercus prinus/emoroyi/lobata
Nut, Almond Prunus amygdalusm
Pea, Chick
Pea, Cow
Pea, Pigeon
Pigeon, Pea
Potatos Solanum tuberosum
Rice Oryza zativa
Rice, Wold Oryza fatua/spontanea
Romano Bean (chickpea)
Sago Palm metroxylon sagus
Seed, Sesame
Seed, Sunflower
Sesame Seed
Sorghum Sorgo soreg/L.syricus
Soy Glycine max
Soya Glycine max
Soybean Glycine max
Sunflower seed
Tapioca Manihot esculenta
Tepary Bean
Waxy Maize Zea mays
Wild Rice Oryza fatua/spontanea
A lot of time was devoted to the oats question at the Tampere conference. As you know, there was a Finnish study published in the New England Journal of Medicine doing a six-month follow-up on patients with CD that had been eating oats. The study compared their intestinal biopsies after six months with CD patients on a regular GF diet. Note that in this case GF has a different meaning, because they allow wheat starch as part of the GF diet there, which is generally not recommended in this country. The same percentage in both groups still had intestinal damage, and the two groups had similar symptoms. There have also been a couple of other studies in Sweden and Denmark, confirming these findings.
However, we need to consider a couple of things. In the study they used a batch of oats that was specifically grown for the study. These oats were examined in the field and it was verified that there were no contaminating grains such as barley or wheat also growing there. These oats were then specially milled and specially stored for the study. Finally, these oats were tested using the most sensitive methods available for any wheat contamination.
There were several presentations at the conference about testing commercial sources of oats in different European countries. About 10% of commercial oats and wheat-free oat-containing foods were found to have significant traces of wheat gluten in them. These tests have not been done in the USA, so we don't know how pure the oats would be in our country. Some of the largest cereal plants in the world are in Cedar Rapids, my home. I know people who work there and there is a lot of cross-contamination in that large setting of wet-milling and dry-milling of oats and other grains. So it is probably not safe for celiacs to consume oats that are commercially available in the USA.
Oats, rye, and barley, and to some extent, wheat; are all grown in the same fields, often in rotation one year after another. So there will always be some "wild" shoots sprouting from the seeds of the previous year's crop to contaminate the current crop. This problem does not occur with rice because rice is cultivated in an entirely different way.
Another point to consider: The studies that were done used 50 grams of oats per day, which is a little under two ounces. That is not very much, and may not have been at a high enough level to cause any significant intestinal damage in only six months.
So unless you can get a hold of a batch of oats as pure as that used in the Finnish study, oats are probably not safe for celiacs.
Steve Veach email@example.com, in post about grain carriers used to insert vitamins into enriched white rice, wrote:
>This carrier is typically grain based or corn based, but most (if not all
>rice manufacturer get their vitamin enrichment raw material from outside
>suppliers, whom they do not require to specify primary ingredients in most
>cases there are exceptions.
>The bottom line is that ANY vitamin enriched rice product may contain
>gluten unless the manufacturer knows otherwise.
A few years ago, I did some research into the matter because of this possibility of a problem. I contacted the two major US suppliers of enrichment material and verified that corn is used as the carrier by most rice companies. A few use rice starch, but that is a higher priced option. But the rice company has the option of requesting any carrier and that does include wheat starch. The company that had 90 percent of the US market at the time of my research was not using any carriers that would be a problem for Celiacs.
The second company was not as helpful and they admitted that wheat starch was used as a carrier. Luckily these products were not being sold in the US market.
Another friend also did some research with a person in the California rice industry who seemed highly knowledgeable about the enrichment situation. He said he has talked with celiac patients and groups about this a great many times over the years.
>First of all, there is a Federal standard for enrichment, but only 6
>states have regulations requiring enrichment of rice: NY, NJ, TX, NM,
>AZ, and CA. California follows the Federal standard. There is an
>exception in California for glucose-coated rice, which does not have to be enriched.
>He said there are two types of enrichment mixtures used, one that
>starch-based and one that is not. The latter would be completely gluten-
>free and the former would be gluten-free if corn starch is used and that
>is usually the case. However, there is no requirement for corn starch
>and so it is always possible that some rice somewhere contains wheat
>starch. His company, when using a starch-based (powdered enrichment
>mixture would always use the corn starch. They sell to a lot of people,
>who would put their own brand name on the rice, but typical labels would
>be Diamond G or Botan.
>However, according to my source, the maximum amount of enrichment
>that would be added to 100 lbs of rice is 1 oz. If we assume that all the
>material is starch and that the starch is wheat starch, and that the
>maximum>amount of gluten that could be in the starch is 0.3%.
>One cookbook states that one cup of rice is equal to 3 servings. A cup
>uncooked rice weights 7 ounces, so one serving is 2.333 ounces.
>Multiplying by 28 grams per ounce, one serving is 65 grams of rice. If 100
>pounds of rice 45,400 grams has one ounce 28 grams of enrichment material,
>then one serving of rice (65 grams would have .0403 grams = 40 milligrams
>of enrichment material. If the enrichment material was all wheat starch,
>at 0.3% gluten, one serving of rice would only have 0.12 milligrams of
>Many celiac experts feel 10 mg per day of gluten is safe and there
>somethat will argue that 100 mg is ok. It would take 83 servings of rice
>that is, if the rice used wheat carrier, and it seems most do not to
>approach the 10 mg lower limit,which itself is about one 50th of a slice
>of whole wheat bread. To put it another way, one serving of rice would
>have about the same gluten content as one 4,000th of a slice of whole
>wheat bread! Now, many celiacs, myself included, have a zero gluten
>tolerance policy .... but this vis so little that one might say it is
>effectively zero.
>Finally, it is evidently possible to wash off the enrichment mixture
>easily from the rice by rinsing it in cold water until the wash water is
>clear. This should leave almost no trace of starch and gluten on the
>rice. This washing procedure to get rid of possible wheat starch was
>evidently worked out by some professor at Cal Poly. I also had the same
>discussions with Riceland and came away with the same warm feelings. In
>fact, I feel safe enough that I have rice everyday.
The bottom line is that many celiacs eat multiple servings of rice each day and the followup biopsies do not show any damage. In the US, this appears to be a non problem.
"Absence of Toxicity of Oats in Patients with Dermatitis Herpetiformis"
The author submitted this statement, which can be read in the magazine
or viewed at the NEJM's WWW site:
"To the Editor: In their report on the absence of a toxic effect of oats on patients with dermatitis herpetiformis, Hardman et al. (Dec. 25 issue) (1) conclude that moderate quantities of oats can be safely included in the diet of such patients. This conclusion is in agreement with the results of a recent study of adult celiac disease. (2) We believe, however, that it is currently unwise to advise gluten-sensitive patients that oats are safe."
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Now, then. What does this have to do with music?
If you're going out to the Amphitheater at Clark County this summer, you're now going to the Sleep Country Amphitheater. In fact, if you could go ahead and retroactively apply the new name to your previous concert experiences, that'd be great.
It's easy. I'll go first.
I remember the time I saw Megadeth and Anthrax at the Sleep Country Amphitheater.
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RIDGEFIELD, WA - (March 30, 2010) - Sleep Country USA, the Northwest's largest seller of premium mattresses, and Live Nation, the world's largest live music company along with Quincunx of Washington, the operator of the former Amphitheater at Clark County today announced a three-year partnership that gives Sleep Country the naming rights to the amphitheater located in Ridgefield, Washington. Beginning today the amphitheater will be called Sleep Country Amphitheater.Your move, Mattress World.
Among other things, Sleep Country hopes to get more exposure for its Foster Kids Program, which sounds like a good cause. More here.
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Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., and funeral services from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 1, at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Crowley for Mrs. Ester Lee Hollier Trahan, 83, who entered rest Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Crowley at American Legion Hospital.
Ester is survived by 14 children — eight daughters, Acquenette Wood in Lake Charles, Dru Trahan, Sandra Bellard, Sammie Cease, Alisa Gallow and Ursula Hollier, all of Crowley, Paulette Cook and Frezla Hollier of Baton Rouge; and six sons, Tracy Trahan, Ronald Trahan, David Hollier of Oak, Calif., Julius Hollier, Brayn Robinson of Crowley and Johnny Robinson of Los Angeles — one sister, Gloria O'Neal of Crowley; 33 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephew and relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her mother, father, daughter, brothers, grandson and nephews.
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First-quarter Mac sales were also strong surpassing a million units. Last year, poor iMacs sales (down 23 percent in 2004) tempered strong PowerBook sales (up 22 percent) and modest PowerMac growth (15 percent). The recently introduced, sleeker new iMac and hot new Mac mini may reverse the trend.
One unanswered question is how well Apple will deal with its splitting personality. iPod sales have zoomed past $1 billion while Apple computers lost ground in terms of worldwide market share. If iPod sales keep soaring at the same rate — perhaps unlikely — they would surpass Apple computer sales in less than two years.
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NEWARK — A man was shot and killed in the North Ward early this morning, authorities said.
Joey Reyes, a 32-year-old Newark man, was shot outside on the 200-block of Mount Prospect Avenue in the city's North Ward, said Carolyn Murray, the acting Essex County Prosecutor, and Eugene Venable, the city's police director.
The shooting was reported to Newark Police around 12:30 a.m., and responding officers found Reyes suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, said Anthony Ambrose, the chief of detectives for the prosecutor's office.
Reyes was unresponsive, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Ambrose added.
Detectives are in the early stages of the investigation, the chief said.
Anyone with information about the killing should call the prosecutor's tips line at (877) 847-7432.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Playing Tintin fulfils Jamie Bell's childhood dream. Actor brings his dance training to the movie...
By T'CHA DUNLEVY, The Gazette December 9, 2011
MONTREAL - The last time I saw Jamie Bell on screen, he was playing a violent, deadly diseaseinfected soldier in Carl Tibbets's claustrophobic thriller Retreat, which screened at the Fantasia Film Festival in July.
It's hard to believe that's the same guy as the affable actor who greeted me at the plush St. James Hotel last week to discuss his equally unrecognizable role as the good-natured, tirelessly upbeat and distinctly cartoonish title character in The Adventures of Tintin.
Stephen Spielberg and Peter Jackson's animated blockbuster hits screens Friday in Quebec, 12 days before the rest of North America, as part of a gradual release strategy aimed at building hype stateside.
Unlike American audiences, the British-born Bell needed no introduction to Tintin:
"I love this character," he said. "Since I was 8 years old, I've been following his adventures with great enthusiasm. I really loved the spirit of Tintin, his relationships with people and what he stood for. He's a beacon of excellence for young people.
"I really respected him, because I felt like (Tintin author) Hergé really respected his audience. He took (kids) places, showed them real issues and really shared things with them."
Tintin isn't the only icon of his youth that Bell reconnected with on this project. Working with Spielberg was a chance to collaborate with the man who gave the actor his earliest experience with the big screen.
"Steven was my gateway into movies," Bell said. "The first film I saw in the theatre was Jurassic Park. I was in awe and amazed and terrified - everything you want to be as a kid. It was the greatest ride of my life."
A great ride is an apt description of The Adventures of Tintin. Spielberg acquired the film rights from Hergé shortly before the artist's death in 1983, but held off on doing anything until he found a way to convey the magic of Hergé's comic books.
Enter co-producer Peter Jackson, who proposed the solution with his motioncapture technology. They recruited Bell, motion-capture veteran Andy Serkis (who suited up to play Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong in Jackson's 2005 remake) as Tintin's pal Captain Haddock, and Bond-man Daniel Craig as evil pirate Red Rackham.
All three donned special body suits and hashed it out for six weeks in a dark room in L.A.'s Culver City.
The result is an enchanting journey that - though it drags a bit in the second half - does a generally commendable job of making even grown-ups feel like kids again.
Playing Tintin was a childhood dream come true for Bell, but it provided a challenge for him as an actor.
"I jumped back into that 8-year-old (me) with great enthusiasm," he said.
"I read through all 23 (Hergé) adventures. But the problem I hit was, 'I don't know who (Tintin) is. I don't know anything about him. I know he's Tintin the great adventurer, the intrepid reporter who is curious, fearless and has great heroic instincts - but what's his last name?
"How can he afford his own apartment? Why is his only friend a dog? Why does he hang out with an alcoholic? He writes for a newspaper, but nothing ever appears in print. These are really specific questions which for an actor will define how you approach the role."
In the end, Bell realized that there were no answers to his questions, and perhaps that's the point. The fact that Tintin is a blank slate is central to his appeal.
"The reason he's so successful is because he's a mystery," Bell said. "The more he's a mystery, the more you can project what you want him to be, or what you want to be. For me as an actor researching this, you can't answer those questions. It's not my responsibility."
So he left all the good lines to his boisterous (and frequently inebriated) pal Captain Haddock and concentrated on the simplicity of his role as humble hero. Along the way, he was drawn to what Tintin most obviously is - a man of action.
"Tintin is a very physical character," he said. "The way Hergé drew him, he is always very much on the move. When he thinks about something, he strikes a pose; and when he's down talking to (his dog) Snowy, he's in a very specific position.
"For me, it was about creating that sense of dynamics through a physicality that was explosive. Being a dancer for so long definitely helped."
Bell has danced since the age of 6, getting his acting start as a boy ballerina in the 2000 film Billy Elliot. He used that experience on the set, which Spielberg had plastered with Tintin images.
"We would look at panels from the comic book and go, 'Let's do that pose now,' " Bell said. "Those physical elements were crucial to the entire makeup of the character."
It was all part of the bigger picture, which was paying tribute to the man behind the original Tintin stories.
"(Spielberg) wanted it to be a Hergé adventure, nothing else," Bell said. "I think that's what he did, in his own way. I think as filmmakers - as artists, as composers of images - Hergé and Steven are not too dissimilar."
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn is playing in Montreal and opens in the rest of Canada later this month.
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Jamie Bell, who plays Tintin in The Adventures of Tintin, read all the Tintin comic books as a youngster and says playing the intrepid boy reporter provided a challenge for him. He was in Montreal last week to promote the film, which is open now in Montreal. (Photograph by: Pierre Obendrauf, The Gazette)
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Production cutbacks both in China and South Africa fueled metal prices to soar across the international market, but China still lagged behind of the international market in the upward cycle.
SHFE 3-month contract price was 19,386 yuan/t in Q1 2008, 4% higher than the average in Q4 2007.
China suffered a loss of 1.73mln tpy in its aluminum production capacities in Q1 this year. Currently, several damaged aluminum smelters are trying to resume production. With all the overhauling work ongoing well, Antaike estimates the real production loss will narrow to 450,000 tonnes for the first half of this year, but there is little news of production cutbacks outside of China.
Antaike lowered its forecast for primary aluminum production in China in 2008 from the previous 15.40mln tonnes to the current 15.10mln tonnes, by taking the dropping production in Q1 into consideration.
High consuming season will be conventionally rolling in after Q1. However, Chinese trader and consumers are complaining of that the expected peak time has not come yet. Aluminum demand is hurt by a combination of declining external demand, tightening domestic macro-economy, as well as the export-discouraging policies. Antaike adjusted down its forecast for primary aluminum consumption by 3 percent points to 14.64 mln tonnes in 2008.
But little change is made on Chinese aluminum market balance, with both production and consumption forecasts being revised. The supply surplus is set at 260,000 tonnes in 2008, similar to that in 2007, with the export equivalent to the import roughly.
Antaike's view is that softening aluminum consumption in Q2 may bring a fallback to aluminum price. The aluminum market will be under bigger pressure after production loss being recuperated.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a Conditional Use Permit today granting a tireless Agua Dulce water merchant permission to pump and sell 40,000 gallons a day.
Some Sleepy Valley residents, on Sierra Highway in Agua Dulce, representing about 70 people living in the area, are going to urge the board to decline the application.
"We firmly believe this guy will pump us dry," said Laurie Jenkins, president of the Sleepy Valley Water Company representing the thirsty residents of a tiny unincorporated area of Agua Dulce.
The "guy" she is referring to is Roy Ramey, who runs the Rainmaker Water Services company, recognizable to most in Sleepy Valley as the diligent hauler of water who regularly sports a straw hat and overalls.
"He is going to run us out of water," Jenkins said, and to that end, representatives of the Sleepy Valley Water Company will be on hand at today's board meeting in Los Angeles.
No phone number for Ramey appeared on any of more than a dozen planning and county documents.
Two addresses given for his business and his home in Agua Dulce include no published phone numbers.
Ramey wants permission to run his water distribution company on 7.67 acres next to Sleepy Valley on Sierra Highway between Sierra Vallejo Road and Steele Avenue - upstream from Sleepy Valley.
He wants to pump more than 40,000 gallons of water a day and sell it to long-standing residents of nearby Tick Canyon.
To that end, he wants the board's permission to use an existing well and pump house on his property, two 10,000-gallon water storage tanks and three 3,800-gallon tanker trucks to haul the water.
The groundwater he pumps is from the Mint Canyon aquifer.
"Our office works closely with the (Sleepy Valley) community to ensure their needs are met and that any issues have been addressed," said Tony Bell, spokesman for Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. "The actions the board approves contains the conditions necessary to address their concerns."
The residents of Sleepy Valley, who live just 1,320 feet downhill from Ramey's well, described themselves more as "Thirsty Valley" residents over the last four years and more particularly since California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought in June.
On Mar. 19, they voiced their opposition at a similar Regional Planning Commission Hearing in which it was noted in the minutes as "concerns that granting the permit would jeopardize the water supply to other users of the aquifer."
The hearing followed several debates that began in 2005 when it was noted by the commission that the applicant was missing technical information from the Department of Health Services.
At the midway point in ongoing public debates over water distribution in Sleepy Valley was "an overflow report" prepared by Charles Nestle of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, which addressed the issue of water supply directly.
In summing up Nestle's report, Bruce W. McClendon, then director of planning at the Department of Regional Planning, said the report suggests that when the water level in the Ramey's well falls below 55 feet that pumping should stop to ensure that Sleepy Valley's supply of water is protected.
Sleepy Valley residents point to the ongoing statewide drought as indications the area is not experiencing normal rainfall conditions.
Just over two months ago, plunging drought-critical water levels forced officials at the Santa Clarita Water Division to shut down a sputtering major well in the east end of the valley.
In November, water officials reported pumping pockets of air out of the Lost Canyon well where Sand Canyon Road meets the Santa Clara River.
At the time, Mauricio E. Guardado Jr., retail manager of the Santa Clarita Water Division, likened the incident to a straw sucking up the last few drops of a milk shake.
He shut the well down, "to prevent an overdraft, because we can't deplete the resource. We want to be able to sustain the appropriate water supply for the future."
The meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. today at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration at 500 West Temple Street, in Los Angeles.


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