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(UPDATED COVERAGE, 4:20 p.m.) Four months after inspecting the farm, Food and Drug Administration officials suggested that the owner of Chamberlain Farm Produce Inc. check his operation for "a source of wide-spread contamination" in relation to a salmonella outbreak that sickened 261 and killed three in 2012.
Cantaloupe grower Tim Chamberlain said in a press release, issued through his attorney, that he has already had an independent microbiologist investigate the situation.
Chamberlain contends the bacteria responsible for the outbreak "was present on surrounding lands and ... the source of the bacterial contamination was not (his) packing facilities, equipment or operations."
The FDA's warning letter said environmental tests at Chamberlain's outdoor packing facility — as well as cantaloupe samples from his fields and at retail — tested positive for the outbreak strains, as did his growing fields.
Despite those findings, Chamberlain said in his press release that "the overwhelming evidence is that the bacterium that caused human illness ... was unrelated to any observed conditions of the (Chamberlain Farm Produce) operating procedures ..."
FDA inspectors first visited the Owensville, Ind., farm Aug. 14. The agency's Detroit district office sent a warning letter to Chamberlain on Dec. 14; it did not appear on the FDA website until Jan. 2.
The warning letter cites conditions the FDA reported on Oct. 3 and gives Chamberlain 15 days from receipt of the letter to respond.
Chamberlain's lawyer, Gary Zhao, said on Jan. 2 he was preparing a written response.
The FDA warning letter was sent 11 weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the salmonella outbreak over on Oct. 5.
Before the Dec. 14 letter, FDA officials had not publically raised the issue of a possible source of widespread contamination at Chamberlain Farms. The letter notes that samples from Chamberlain's growing fields "which were separated by more than a mile" tested positive for salmonella strains that were indistinguishable from those that sickened people in 24 states.
The FDA letter also states that some wellheads providing water for the cantaloupe operation were not capped. Also, wells that were capped were not appropriately sealed, according to the letter.
FDA tests of water from the wells and spigots tested positive for coliforms and E. coli, which the warning letter states should not be present in properly protected wells.
Although the FDA letter does not mention it, a report by Indiana's Department of Health made public in early October showed a small feedlot for show cattle adjacent to one of Chamberlain's cantaloupe fields. The Indiana inspector also reported well water used in the cantaloupe wash basin was at least 56 degrees.
Chamberlain said in the prss release that he will not grow cantaloupe until the FDA investigation is complete and it is determined that the "surrounding environment can be made free of potential sources of bacterium that could contaminate (his) growing fields."
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Neil Funk: "Hibbert went straight up, I'll give him that," before continuing to believe that Deng was fouled on that play. The Bulls announcers are the worst part of the NBA.
In other news, the Bulls may have as ugly a style as we do. But we won because PG was hot from every spot on the floor. It wasn't clear if he was having his way with Deng, or fate was. Great win, road or not. This team needs this kind of pick me up.
Really wish Lance would have hit the free throw though. Gotta hit start getting to the top third of the league in that category if we're going to be as good as Seth says.
So awesome to see PG do this against Deng and a Thibodeau defense.
Now...to be the fly in the soup.......let's see if PG can simply score as efficiently and consistently as he did this game ( and last season ) on a regular basis.
Before you jump on me and call me a 'hater', I'm not. I'm glad that PG got out of his slump....he was really the best Player on the floor....and we really needed it...especially with GH and BAMF running on fumes. We've him up and down on the scoring end all season long....I'm just saying that this Team will only be as good as it is consistent. It begins with the Starters and filters down to the 2nd unit.
As Trader Joe suggested....PG doesn't have to put up 30 a night....he just has to continue to do what he was doing tonight....attack the basket, show some confidence/swagger and ( most of all ) be more aggressive on the offensive end.
Doing this will allow him to be an effective and efficient scorer, just like he was last season. The same goes for Hibbert. Given our defense.....all we need is for all of the Starters to contribute in a meaningful manner every night.
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First part is what I find most important in PG's performance and most significant point you bring forward. It was mentioned elsewhere here, too, and I completely agree. Vogel et all apparently finally got the memo that there's nothing wrong with a mid-range jumper. Everything perimeter by our wings doesn't have to be threes. In fact, it better that there be a more equal distribution of mid to long two and three point attempts.
Second graph, I don't know. Yes, PG was fantastic offensively. Yes he carried us when we needed it. Personally, I still don't see him as a likely top tier offensive option on a team, or on this team with Granger out. Great defender with ability to be a solid offensive contributor. I still like West & Hill as offensive initiators, unless they are having an off night, and everyone else playing off them for the most part. Not to say anyone else never get a play run for them, that we don't ride the hot hand on a given night, or that our guys don't have option to freelance some. I just think that's how this team works best.
Apologies for the disagreement to the those who find silver lining in our bench unit, but seems to me it's not getting consistenly better. I continue to view Mahinmi as the best guy so far, but his weaknesses pointed out by Nuntius - bad hands, bad passing and (my addition) foul prone - drive me nuts because they keep him from having a consistently substantial game impact.
Young is a nice unexpected surprise, but bound to be inconsistent. Everyone else new or returning right now is maddeningly nondescript and/or flat out ineffective. There's a reason why the bench was "benched" so much last night. They just aren't good enough to keep us close right now against a decent team. However, we need something or somebody to step up. Oh, the agony.
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Nice win. Pretty ugly game, but then they have all been ugly. Good to finally get a win against a team with a record above 0.500.
Says something about our defense when only 1 player on offense could do anything and come away with a win.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Just want to "special mention" the West to Lance play in the final seconds of the game. That is what I talked about in the other thread. They should draw up more plays for Lance to cut inside and try to make some backdoor plays. With his speed, build and ability to finish, that will surely be a very good percentage shot especially when they can't make anything from the perimeter. And with good passers in Hibbert and West, it shouldn't be a problem with delivering the ball to a cutting player.
Actually, he needs something else: better shot selection and getting to the rim. It finally happened last night.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Has anyone noticed how many elite passes David West is making? This guy is showing us more and more this year.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
Honest question here, not picking a fight.
If he can drive against Deng, who won't he be able to drive against? Deng's no slouch defending the ball.
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I thought there were several times where the starters made it a special point to get it to Lance. DWest on the fast break, Paul George on the oop (that was a pass, right?), and so on.
I didn't think (and don't think) they were freezing Lance out, but I do think they're intentionally looking for him now. Quinn talked about it briefly, if I was understanding him correctly.
I did like one point where DJ tried to take the ball from Paul George, and Paul shook him off and went and scored.
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Guys what a great game but honestly I'm a little concerned...
Have the pacers been taking those pills again? Kudos to DJ Augustin for having the courage to just say no
To me this was the most enjoyable game of the season. I just love tough defensive battles.
Some of the baskets Paul George scored yesterday were out of this world.Off balance,almost ready to fall down,hands all over his face and arms and still made it and won the foul too.Great great night by Paul.Led the team by example.
Can we get once again a winning record tonight?Please?
I don't know if anyone else noticed, but I'm pretty sure the Pacers went from being out of the playoffs, to the 4th seed with this game.
It's still too early in the season to talk about over and under .500 for those 9 teams that around the .500 mark.
It IS interesting to wonder why we haven't seen that play until the very last minute in a close game with our biggest rival.
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Saw a tweet this morning saying last night was the 9th game that the Pacers have held their opponents to under 40% shooting. Impressive 50% clip.


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ELLICOTT CITY, MD -- Howard County Executive Ken Ulman signed an executive order to ban the sale of high-sugar drinks in parks, libraries and other county properties, and at county-sponsored events. He announced the ban at the kickoff of the Howard County Unsweetened campaign at a local school, where officials dumped 9.6 tons of sand, representing the amount of sugar students would consume if each drank one 12-fl.oz. soda a day for a year.
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Fire union chiefs have called on brigade bosses to reverse their decision to take one of Bury fire station's two daytime engines off the frontline.
One of the engines will be taken out of service from Monday as part of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) plans to find more than £20 million in savings.
Three staff at the town's fire station in Magdalene Road have been moved and redeployed else-where, as part of changes to the way some fire stations are staffed.
Greater Manchester Fire Brigades Union (FBU) secretary Gary Keary said: "We have grave concerns about the loss of any fire appliances. The service that Greater Manchester pays for is for fire engines to be on the street and be available if needed.
"The union believes that the last place we should be making cuts is on the frontline. All other alternatives should be looked at.
"We will be raising our concerns and trying to make a campaign to bring this to the knowledge of the council and the people of Bury to see if we can put pressure on management for a reversal of this decision."
Although fire chiefs say the second engine will remain at the station as a "strategic reserve" along with a special appliance, and could be used if required, Mr Keary said: "It will be parked up in a garage and nobody will be available to ride it."
The loss of Bury's second pump was one of a number of proposals which formed a GMFRS six-week consultation last year. A presentation was given to Bury Council and a stall set up in the town to get the views of the public.
GMFRS County Fire Officer and chief executive Steve McGuirk was given approval by the Fire Authority to make the decision on whether the changes should go ahead.
Fire chiefs say the latest measures are part of a four-year plan that has already seen more than £6 million in back-office savings, senior officers reduced by 33 per cent and 500 firefighter posts cut. They stress the savings are needed because GMFRS' budget has been cut by 20 per cent since 2008/9.
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Cllr Alan Matthews, Bury Council's representative on the fire authority, said: "The thing is that we haven't got the money to reverse this decision, full stop. It could mean sacking people to reinstate the appliance. The Government is taking money from the fire authority the same as it's taking it off councils."
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Even as his latest book attracts international attention, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lawrence Wright premieres his new play at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. A reporter renowned for his work with The New Yorker - and the bestselling author behind The Looming Tower and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Wright is also the playwright who penned My Trip to al Qaeda and The Human Scale. Now he debuts a fictional play about the last days of legendary journalist Oriana Fallaci. Don't miss this sizzling new script, which is directed by Oskar Eustis, stars Concetta Tomei and Marjan Neshat, and features an incredible team of designers. The 65th world premiere presented by Berkeley Rep, Fallaci begins previews in the Roda Theatre on March 8, opens March 13, and runs through April 21.
"Oriana Fallaci was a hero of mine," Wright remarks. "She was dazzling and fearless and she made journalism seem like the most exciting job on earth - no doubt, one of the reasons I went into that profession. But after 9/11, she turned her formidable intellect on Islam, a subject that I was also exploring at the time, with my book The Looming Tower. The argument that you see between Oriana and Miryam onstage mirrors the quarrel I have in my mind with my former idol, who still has the power to explode comfortable dogmas. It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to present this play at Berkeley Rep, which has been so supportive in the development of a play that is bound to engender controversy and arouse strong opinions. But that's part of the joy of working in the theatre, one of the last refuges for the honest, brutal dialogue we so badly need."
"Whether reporting from a war zone or aggressively confronting the world's most powerful leaders, Fallaci continually thrust herself into the very vortex of human history," says Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Rep. "She became a darling of the left and one of the first rock stars of modern journalism - until the inflammatory books she wrote about Islam surprised everyone and made her a hero to the right. Now, armed with a tremendous amount of hard information about her, Lawrence Wright has applied his substantial talents as a journalist and dramatist to invent a story that gets beneath the facts. Producing Larry's play has also allowed me to exploit the skills of my good friend and colleague, Oskar Eustis. It is a great pleasure to welcome them to Berkeley Rep with this terrific cast and creative team."
The executive producers of Fallaci are Bill Falik and Diana Cohen and Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau. The Bernard Osher Foundation serves as production sponsor. The season producers are Wayne Jordan and Quinn Delaney, Marjorie Randolph, Jack and Betty Schafer, and the Strauch Kulhanjian Family. For the eighth straight year, BART and Wells Fargo serve as the official sponsors of Berkeley Rep's season - and now the San Francisco Chronicle has signed on as a season sponsor as well.
With Fallaci, Wright turns the spotlight on a fellow reporter and her fascinating contradictions. Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was larger than life. Her childhood courage resisting the Nazis fueled her work as a war correspondent with an antiauthoritarian zeal that perfectly matched the '60s and '70s. She gained fame by grilling Kissinger, Castro, Khomeini, Qadaffi, and other public figures who squirmed under her ferocious questioning. In this world premiere, a young woman interviews the fiery author at the end of her life, when she became a darling of the right. What begins as a discussion of journalism ends with two women exchanging life-changing lessons about destiny and empathy.
"The journalist Lawrence Wright possesses a knack for clarifying complicated problems," notes the New York Times. "Obviously this comes in handy in his regular line of work, but it is just as useful in his secondary vocation, as a public raconteur trying to elucidate thorny topical issues from the unlikely pulpit of an Off Broadway stage." "Like that cool professor whose courses always fill up first, Wright is the kind of conveyer of wisdom who doesn't so much lecture as seduce," says the Washington Post.
Lawrence Wright is an award-winning journalist, author, screenwriter, and playwright who has written four previous plays. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, where he won two National Magazine Awards for reporting. He is the author of eight books, including The Looming Tower (2006), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, and most recently Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, which was released last week. His first play, Cracker Jack, was produced at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX (1984). Sonny's Last Shot received two productions in Austin, at the Arts on Real Theater (2003) and the State Theater (2005). Wright performed his one-man play My Trip to al-Qaeda at the Culture Project in New York (2007), and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and New York's Town Hall (2008). Oskar Eustis directed Wright's second one-man show, The Human Scale, for The Public Theater in New York (2010) and at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv (2011). Wright has written two movies, The Siege (1998) and Noriega: God's Favorite (2000). His next play, Camp David, will premiere this autumn at Arena Stage in the nation's capital.
Oskar Eustis has been artistic director of The Public Theater since 2005. From 1981 through 1986, he served as resident director and dramaturg at the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco, and then as its artistic director. In 1989, he moved to LA's Mark Taper Forum as associate artistic director, where he remained until 1994. Then he became artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company, where he served for 11 years. At Berkeley Rep, Eustis staged the world-premiere production of Rinne Groff's Compulsion (2010), the world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda's Fish Head Soup (1991), and co-directed Execution of Justice (1985). At The Public, he staged the 2008 Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet, featuring Michael Stuhlbarg and Sam Waterston, and the New York premieres of Compulsion; The Ruby Sunrise, also by Groff; and The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright. His numerous directing credits at Trinity Rep include the world premiere of Paula Vogel's The Long Christmas Ride Home (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), Homebody/Kabul (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production), Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director), and Angels in America Part II: Perestroika. Eustis has also directed world premieres of plays by David Henry Hwang, Emily Mann, Eduardo Machado, Ellen McLaughlin, and Suzan-Lori Parks, among many others. Along with Tony Taccone, he commissioned Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka and directed its world premiere at the Taper. He received the 2009 Tony Award for The Public's revival of Hair.
Concetta Tomei portrays Oriana Fallaci. Her Broadway credits include Cyrano de Bergerac, The Elephant Man (opposite David Bowie), Goodbye Fidel, and Noises Off. Her other New York credits include The Clean House at Lincoln Center Theater (East Coast premiere); the original cast of Tommy Tune's Cloud Nine; Fen, directed by Les Waters; Nora Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore; the original cast of The Normal Heart; A Private View at The Public; and Richard III (St. Clair Bayfield Award). Tomei has also appeared at Alley Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, and the Taper. Her film credits include Deep Impact, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Muse, and Out to Sea, and her television credits include China Beach, Necessary Roughness, Providence, Weeds, and more than 50 others. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Chicago's Goodman School of Drama.
Marjan Neshat plays Miryam. Her recent theatre credits include Aiesha Ghazali in The Near East, Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Masha in The Seagull with Dianne Wiest, and Nawal Marwan in Scorched with David Strathairn, as well as 365 Days/365 Plays at Barrow Street Theatre/The Public, Girl Blog from Iraq (Best Ensemble nomination, Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and The Tempest. She just finished filming a role in the new RoboCop remake. Neshat's other films include Alfie, Coney Island Baby, Cry Funny Happy, First Person Singular, A Jersey Tale, A Season of Madness, Sex and the City 2, and the forthcoming Almost in Love with Alan Cumming. Some of her television credits are Blue Bloods; Funny in Farsi, a pilot for ABC Studios directed by Barry Sonnenfeld; Fringe; New Amsterdam; Rescue Me; Six Degrees; and multiple guest appearances on Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. Neshat is a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company in New York City.
A team of distinguished designers brings Fallaci's world to life. Robin Wagner (scenic design) is the recipient of three Tony Awards and has been nominated for seven others. He has designed more than 50 Broadway shows including the original productions of 42nd Street; Angels in America; Chess; A Chorus Line; City of Angels; Crazy for You; Dreamgirls; The Great White Hope; Hair; Jelly's Last Jam; Jesus Christ Superstar; Lenny; On the Twentieth Century; The Producers; Promises, Promises; and Young Frankenstein. His work has been seen around the world in productions for opera, film, dance, and rock and roll. Jess Goldstein (costume design) won a Tony Award for The Rivals in 2005 and has designed more than 30 other Broadway shows, including The Apple Tree, Black Comedy, Brooklyn Boy, Cymbeline, Enchanted April, Golda's Balcony, Henry IV (Tony nomination), The Homecoming, Inherit the Wind, Jersey Boys, Judgment At Nuremberg, Julius Caesar, King Lear, The Merchant Of Venice, Next Fall, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Night Must Fall, Proof, The Rainmaker, Sight Unseen, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Sue, Take Me Out, and Tintypes. He has also worked at theatres and operas nationwide. Michael Chybowski (lighting design) designEd Berkeley Rep's productions of The Beaux Stratagem, Compulsion, and Much Ado About Nothing. He has worked at most major regional theatres in the U.S., as well as at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, the Royal Ballet in London, and Théâtre de Carouge in Geneva. Chybowski frequently designs for Mark Morris as well, including the recent Beaux at San Francisco Ballet. He is the recipient of the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, an American Theatre Wing Design Award, and two Lucille Lortel Awards. ACME Sound Partners (sound designer) has designed more than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including The Addams Family, Avenue Q, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), La Bohème, A Chorus Line (2006), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fences (Tony nomination), Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), Legally Blonde, The Light in the Piazza, Lombardi, The Merchant of Venice, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination), Ragtime, [title of show], and Venus in Fur. The stage manager for this production is Angela Nostrand.
Fallaci provides a full bill of special events for curious theatregoers:
Meet Lawrence Wright at a free talkback and book-signing on Monday, March 4 at 7:00 PM.
Teen Night begins at 6:30 PM on Friday, March 8 and includes dinner, a presentation by a member of the artistic team, and a performance of the show. Tickets are only $10 for high-school students. For details, call (510) 647-2973 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Low-cost previews take place on Friday, March 8; Saturday, March 9; Sunday, March 10; and Tuesday, March 12.
Opening-night festivities are held on Wednesday, March 13 with a pre-show dinner for donors at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza and a post-show party for the audience in the Roda Theatre.
Post-show discussions moderated by theatre professionals follow the 8:00 PM performances on Thursday, March 28; Tuesday, April 2; and Friday, April 12. Post-show discussions with Berkeley Rep's docents take place after all matinees.
Free 30-minute docent talks begin at 7:00 PM every Tuesday and Thursday evening. Docent talks are also held in three local communities: at the Orinda Library on Tuesday, March 12 at 7:00 PM; at the Lafayette Library on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:00 PM; and at the Moraga Library on Wednesday, March 20 at 2:00 PM.
And, on select evenings, patrons can whet their palates for the play with free tastings from culinary artisans one hour before curtain: Tres Agaves on Friday and Saturday, March 15-16 and Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, as well as Semifreddi's on Sunday, March 17 and Sunday, April 7.
See tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep. Seven shows developed here have ended up on Broadway in the last 10 years. Twelve landed off Broadway, two moved to London, two turned into films, and one is headed for Hong Kong! So don't miss the current season of exhilarating plays at the Theatre... There's still time to catch the riotous world premiere of Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright. Next The Wild Bride returns for a honeymoon engagement before Berkeley Rep brings the Bard back with a bang in MarK Wing-Davey's production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Then Sarah Ruhl and Les Waters reunite in May for the West Coast premiere of Dear Elizabeth.
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Individual tickets to see Fallaci start at only $29. Additional savings are available for groups, seniors, students, and anyone under 30 years of age - meaning discounted tickets can be obtained for as little as $14.50. The Roda Theatre is located at 2015 Addison Street, near bus lines, bike routes, and parking lots - and only half a block from BART. For tickets or information, call (510) 647-2949 or simply click berkeleyrep.org.
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It makes shampoo lather up, toothpaste foam and cuts straight through grease and oil – but is sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) safe for your family?
There's been a backlash against SLS recently – maybe because this wonder cleaner is used both in personal care products we apply to our skin and hair as well as in harsh, industrial-strength floor cleaners.
More and more personal hygiene products are now proudly declaring themselves SLS-free. But is this a chemical to avoid?
SLS is what's called an "anionic surfactant" – in very simple terms it reduces the surface tension of the water so it can wet the fibres and surfaces then loosen and encapsulate any dirt or oil.
Basically, it is a detergent, as well as a very cheap and effective foaming agent, which behaves similarly to soap.
If you're looking for the name on a product's list of ingredients, it can also be known as sodium lauryl ether sulfate.
Besides dishwashing liquids and laundry detergent, sodium lauryl sulfate is prevalent around the house is in shampoos and conditioners.
SLS is one of the most effective ways to remove oils and dirt from the hair because it basically grabs on to the oily dirt and is then washed away.
Because of its ability to attach itself to dirt, as well as foam up, it's also found in soaps, facial scrubs, toothpaste and, of course, baby products.
SLS is actually the gentlest of surfactant detergents. Its closely related compound, sodium laureth sulfate, or SLES, is even less harsh and often pops up in shampoos and cleansers for sensitive skin.
However both compounds have been known to cause irritation. The US organisation Cosmetic Ingredient Review re-examined the potential for SLS and SLES to cause skin irritation in 2010 and concluded that neither had "evoked adverse responses in any toxicological testing".
It went on to add that these detergents appear to "pose less potential hazard when in products designed for brief, discontinuous use, following which they are thoroughly rinsed from the surface of the skin" – that is, use them clean your skin, hair or teeth and then wash off well.
While there are some websites which claim hat SLS and its chemical cousins are linked with cancer, the American Cancer Society says they are not carcinogenic.
Any detergent can be harsh on the skin and hair because it strips away the natural oils. Therefore it can also exacerbate dermatitis.
For that reason, many families choose to buy sodium lauryl sulfate-free products for use on beautiful baby skin.
This article was written by Fiona Baker for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource. Sources include Product Safety Australia.
Last revised: Saturday, 28 April 2012
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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The family of the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Facility inmate who died of an apparent suicide plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the county, according to Richard Martinez, a paralegal at The Rothstein Law Firm.
"We're reviewing it as information becomes available," Martinez says.
The county previously settled for $1.8 million when the same law firm sued on behalf of an inmate who suffered brain damage during an attempted suicide at the jail, arguing that the facility failed to provide adequate supervision.
Word of the impending lawsuit on behalf of Robert Montoya, 33, who died the day after he was discovered hanging in an SFCADF cell on Dec. 7, has already reached the county. Spokeswoman Kristine Mihelcic told SFR Jan. 10 that, because of the threatened lawsuit, SFCADF Director Annabelle Romero can now only respond to questions in writing. The county didn't answer any of the written questions SFR submitted before press time.
The county was tight-lipped after the incident, declining to explain why Montoya was found hanging in a cell by himself, when he had been in general population when he made multiple calls from the facility to family and friends. When SFR first looked into the case, Mihelcic said county officials were waiting for the results of the autopsy and internal investigation before discussing details in the case. Romero did defend Montoya's access to the laundry bag drawstring he apparently used to hang himself. Although Romero said issuing such materials to inmates, even those in seclusion, is common practice at many facilities, SFR's survey of two other New Mexico facilities and the American Correctional Association contradicts that statement.
A supplemental Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office report raises yet more questions about Montoya's death. The report makes clear that Corrections Officer Craig Lynn didn't discover Montoya hanging in his cell by checking on him, but happened to notice him through the window of another cell approximately 25 minutes after he had last checked on him. At this point, it's unclear whether Montoya was visible to other inmates who failed to call for help, and how frequently officers are supposed to check on secluded inmates under SFCADF policy.
According to ACA standards, inmates should be checked on every 30 minutes on an irregular schedule, and those on suicide watch are to be monitored continuously. SFCADF still hasn't answered whether Montoya was on suicide watch, but he was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center right after he was arrested for medical issues, and his family was concerned he was a suicide risk.
The supplemental report also contradicts prior statements facility staff made to Montoya's family regarding an injury he sustained while in custody. Montoya's sister Elena Fuller told SFR last month that Montoya's nose was heavily bruised and appeared to be broken, and facility staff had told her he sustained that injury when the corrections officer who found him cut the laundry string without supporting his body. The supplemental report states that Lynn called for backup when he found Montoya and was assisted by Corrections Officer Nicholas Baca and a supervisor, Major Dean Lopez, who "ordered Officer Nicholas Baca to cut the string around Mr. Montoya's neck."
Fuller previously told SFR that she believes Montoya's injuries might be the result of a jail beating, because Montoya told his family during phone calls from the facility that he was in fear of his safety because he was housed with "the heavies" in alpha pod.
The results of Montoya's autopsy haven't been released yet because toxicology test results are still pending, Office of the Medical Investigator Director of Operations Amy Boulé tells SFR.
Mihelcic says a tort claim hasn't been filed yet in the case, but the county has been notified that the family intends to sue.
Fuller told SFR that, when Montoya was at the hospital and had already been declared brain-dead, SFCADF staff pressured their mom to post bail for him, saying jail guards wouldn't leave the family alone to say their good-byes unless she did. A nurse told Fuller that was because the county was still liable for what happened to Montoya before he was bonded out.
"I mean, why do you have to bail your dead child out of a bed?" Fuller asked. "It just didn't make no sense."


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|The lobby of an apartment building in Long Beach mangled by Hurricane Sandy.
LONG BEACH, N.Y. ( TheStreet) -- It's taken me a week to be able to sit down at my computer and peck out words between an evacuation, a clean-up and the emotional trauma of surviving a hurricane like Sandy. It's not one I'll ever forget. I live in Long Beach, N.Y., a coastal community located on a barrier island on the south shore of Long Island. I've lived here for the better part of 11 years, and the reason I love it so much is not only for the beautiful ocean views from my apartment located right on the Atlantic, but for the strong sense of community encouraged in the town.
About 30,000 people live in Long Beach. Before the storm, it was usual to see joggers at all hours of the day on the 2-mile boardwalk, riders on their cruiser bicycles, surfers in the water (even in the dead of winter) and locals wearing flip flops year-round. Between the limitless benefits, road races, summer music concerts on the beach, happy hours in popular bars in the West End and the annual Polar Bears Super Bowl Splash in the winter, the residents and businesses of this town have created a sense of connection, comfort and security. But Hurricane Sandy put Long Beach to the test. The weather forecasts weren't wrong when they warned of dangerous storm surges and massive flooding. I was one of many people who stayed in town during the storm. (I live on the fourth floor of an apartment building about 20 feet from the ocean and assumed the storm would be similar to Tropical Storm Irene in 2011.) I wish that were the case. During the worst of the storm, I watched water, 4-feet high, rush through the streets. Large chunks of our beloved boardwalk were ripped off by the wind and carried by the surge up my block. My building and the one near me have apartments on the ground floor. One poor soul had his door forced open by the surge, so besides flooding, he had tons of sand enter his apartment. Car alarms kept sounding off all night by those unlucky enough to leave cars parked in the lots closest to the water. They floated around like bumper cars crashing into one another.
Tuesday morning after the storm, I decided to head outside to survey the damage, since my apartment had none. What I saw shocked me. It was similar to Hurricane Katrina photos. >>>Hurricane Sandy: A Hoboken Perspective Those who live in ground-floor apartments came back to absolute ruin. Many of my closest friends have had to throw out their most personal possessions because of the flooding. The boardwalk now has huge gaps, and it is unsafe to walk on. Sand was piled as high as the ground-floor windows. The beach was literally in my lobby as the doors and windows broke open from the strong surge. Anyone who had a car in Long Beach, no matter where it was parked, was soaked on the inside. Businesses, no matter how far from the ocean, had at least some water damage. Our power, water and sewer still remain out of order. In those first days, it felt like the town would be permanently ruined. But that strong sense of community started to peak almost immediately. And, quite frankly, this could not be done without the power of social media. I have received all of my information about my town and resources like FEMA and the Red Cross to help through the evacuation process and recovery via social media. The City of Long Beach's Facebook ( FB) and Twitter pages have been at a fever pitch, with constant updates on getting our town livable again. An unofficial, yet informative, resource is the Facebook page Long Beach, NY Hurricane Information. Although it was set up little more than a week ago, more than 10,000 people have liked the page, which offers by-the-minute updates and messages. Two people have even set up a crowd-sourcing page on Indiegogo -- Rebuild Long Beach. The creators are looking to raise $100,000 by Christmas to help the people of Long Beach who were most hurt. And community members are sharing as much as possible through Facebook. To know there are others going through the same experience and emotions as I am, even though I've had to temporarily relocate to another part of Long Island, has made the process of dealing with this disaster a million times better. Being a small-business reporter, once I secured safety for myself and my cat (big thanks to my boyfriend and his father for helping me), my thoughts turned to the businesses that have been affected by Hurricane Sandy. And I keep remembering a statistic that was told to me that more than 25% of small businesses affected by a natural disaster never reopen their doors. In New York and New Jersey, that number is likely to be higher, especially as power continues to be down in many areas. There's a severe gas shortage, and now another coastal storm is coming Wednesday. Small businesses typically don't have the cash reserves to sustain an extended closing (while losing product, such as spoiled food). A natural disaster can sink a business. But the resiliency I've seen over the past week by local businesses has been uplifting, especially as the nation talks about the fragility of our small-business economy and how important hiring and supporting these businesses is during a difficult economy.


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Evolution of Memory Related Activity
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|Alzheimer's Disease Mild Cognitive Impairment
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Evolution of Memory-related fMRI Activation Over the Course of MCI and AD
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|Study Start Date:
|May 2006
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|May 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|May 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Normal older controls, not cognitively impaired; MMSE 27-30 and performance above education adjusted cutoff scores on the Logical Memory II subscale (LM-II Delayed Paragraph Recall) of the Wechsler Memory Scale
Very mild cognitive impairment; less severe objective memory deficit, scoring .5 to 1.5 S.D. (standard deviation) below education adjusted norms on the LM-II
significant mild cognitive impairment; objective cut off of 1.5 S.D. level below education adjusted norms on the LM-II
Mild Alzheimer's disease; meet NINCDS/ADRDA criteria for probable AD with mild dementia severity (CDR Total = 1), MMSE 20-26
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The development of biomarkers is now especially critical, as there are a number of promising disease-modifying therapies entering early phase clinical trials, with additional novel therapeutic strategies in development. It is essential to develop biomarkers that can detect a "signal of efficacy" over a relatively short time frame for use in Phase II trials. Ideally biomarkers are needed that can reliably detect the earliest brain alterations due to AD pathology, perhaps at a point when there is synaptic dysfunction but not yet widespread neuronal loss. Functional neuroimaging, in particular functional MRI (fMRI), has significant potential, having already shown promise in detecting regionally specific pharmacological effects on memory related neural activity, and as a sensitive marker of very early cognitive impairment.
This study, a parallel ancillary study of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), will first examine reproducibility of fMRI activation, using a face-name associative memory paradigm, and then the alterations in memory-related activation that occur over the course of MCI and mild AD. The study will also examine the relationship of fMRI activation to clinical variables, memory task performance, genotype, and other imaging techniques cross-sectionally and longitudinally, sampling at multiple time points over a 3-year period.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|55 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
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|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages 55-90
- General good health or stable medical problems
- Study partner/caregiver able to provide an independent evaluation of the participant's daily functioning
- No contraindications to MR scanning
- Modified Hachinski Ischemic Score ≤4
- Geriatric Depression Scale ≤10
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease or other neurological illness
- Presence of clinically significant/uncontrolled medical conditions
- History of stroke, brain tumor, brain surgery, seizures, significant head trauma with loss of consciousness, depression or other psychiatric illness, alcohol or drug abuse in the past 2 years
- Significant uncorrectable visual impairment
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00902499
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|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02129
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|Principal Investigator:
|Reisa Sperling, MD
|Director of Clinical Research, Memory Disorders Unit, Brigham and Women's Hospital
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|Reisa A. Sperling, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00902499 History of Changes
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5R01AG027435-04 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|May 13, 2009
|Last Updated:
|July 23, 2010
Keywords provided by National Institute on Aging (NIA):
functional magnetic resonance imaging
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease
Cognition Disorders
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
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Ortiz experiences both extremes in Rangers' loss
ANAHEIM -- Rangers rookie left-hander Joe Ortiz pitched heroically in the 10th inning. With one out, the bases loaded and the game tied, he got two former Most Valuable Player Award winners to hit ground balls that kept the Angels from bringing home the winning run.
But his glorious moment was fleeting. Ortiz returned in the bottom of the 11th and gave up a one-out home run to Howie Kendrick that lifted the Angels to a 5-4 victory over the Rangers. The loss on Tuesday night at Angel Stadium snapped the Rangers' four-game winning streak.
"Somebody's got to win and somebody's got to lose," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "We felt good with Ortiz out there. But he got a pitch over the plate that Howie could handle. Howie has done that before."
The home run was Kendrick's second of the game. He had a two-run home run in the fourth off Rangers starter Alexi Ogando that gave the Angels a 4-0 lead. The Rangers were able to come back, mainly on Nelson Cruz's three-run home run off Angels starter Jason Vargas in the sixth, to tie the game.
But a tremendous catch by Angels left fielder Mike Trout kept them from going ahead in the ninth, and that was their last real chance for a second straight comeback victory.
"We came back. ... It was a great game," Cruz said. "We battled, but at the end, most of the time it's going to end on a home run."
That was the case on Tuesday night.
"It's a great feeling, to know that you can leave the other team on the field, no matter when it is," Kendrick said. "But to get the victory is the most important thing. Every game against these guys is really tough. Neither team lays down, and it seems like the ninth inning rolls around and it's always a tied score."
The score was tied at the end of nine innings because the Rangers were 1-for-13 with runners in scoring position. The missed opportunity that hurt the most was in the ninth.
The Rangers had Ian Kinsler on third with two outs against Angels reliever Ernesto Frieri when Beltre launched a drive deep toward the left-field corner. But Trout raced over and made a breathtaking diving catch to take way a go-ahead hit.
"Once it was hit, it was hooking away from me a little bit, and the only chance I thought I had was to dive a little bit and brace myself from hitting that wall," Trout said. "Once I caught it, that was the next thing on my mind was hitting that wall."
Beltre stood beyond first base and watched the play over again on the giant video screen beyond right field. He turned away in disbelief.
"I saw it," Beltre said. "I couldn't believe it, but I saw it. When I hit the ball, I saw where he was playing and I saw the ball hooking. I thought he had no chance to get to that. I was wrong. It's not fair. It's not fair for them to have three center fielders playing the outfield here."
Ogando gave the Rangers seven-plus innings, allowing four runs on six hits and three walks while striking out five. He had some trouble early but found an effective changeup and then started commanding his fastball. Two unearned runs the Rangers gave away in the first didn't help matters.
Ogando retired Peter Bourjos on a grounder to start the inning and struck out Trout on a slider in the dirt. Catcher A.J. Pierzynski blocked the ball, and it rolled just a few feet away. Trout still broke for first and ended up being safe. Pierzynski threw low and first baseman Mitch Moreland failed to come up with it for an error.
Ogando, after getting ahead 0-2 in the count, walked Albert Pujols. Josh Hamilton followed with a fly ball deep down the left-field line and Jeff Baker made a terrific sliding catch as he went into the wall.
But he also suffered a bruised right knee and had to be replaced by David Murphy. Baker said he is going to probably miss a couple of games until the swelling goes down. But the inning wasn't over and run-scoring singles by Mark Trumbo and Kendrick put the Angels ahead, 2-0.
"A simple out ... a strikeout, unfortunately we didn't finish it off," Washington said. "That's two runs they got when we should have been off the field."
Kendrick gave the Angels a four-run lead with his first home run in the fourth and Cruz pulled the Rangers within one with his three-run shot in the sixth. The Rangers tied it up in the eighth when, with the bases loaded and nobody out, Murphy brought in a run by grounding into a double play. But that was also a missed opportunity for a bigger inning.
The Angels loaded the bases themselves with one out in the 10th off reliever Robbie Ross. Ortiz came in to face Pujols and Hamilton, and kept the Angels from scoring. Pujols hit a grounder to Beltre, who threw home for the force. Hamilton then grounded out to second to end the inning.
Washington was hoping Ortiz could get them one more inning before turning it over to long reliever Derek Lowe. But Kendrick foiled that and brought a terrific game to an end.
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|HIV Sex
|Behavioral: Planning tasks
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Using Implementation Intentions to Increase Safe Sex Practices Among and Australian Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men
- Self reports of anal sex with and without condoms [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- Variables in the Theory of Planned Behaviour: attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, and intention [ Time Frame: at baseline and 3 months later ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Control
The control group receives the TPB questionnaires but receives no intervention
Experimental: Implementation intentions
Participants are asked to specify when, where and how they will use condoms in the future. They will be sent weekly email reminders of their implementation intentions.
Behavioral: Planning tasks
Implementation intentions: Participants are asked to specify when, where and how they plan to use condoms in the future.
Executive function training aims to improve planning ability and therefore aims to increase condom use planning.
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Experimental: Planning task
Participants will be asked to practice the Tower of Hanoi task four times per week for ten to fifteen minutes.
Behavioral: Planning tasks
Implementation intentions: Participants are asked to specify when, where and how they plan to use condoms in the future.
Executive function training aims to improve planning ability and therefore aims to increase condom use planning.
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The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first part of the study aims to assess the validity of a theory of health behaviour, known as the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) in predicting condom use in and Australian sample of men who have sex with men (MSM). The TPB states that a person's intention to use condoms is the best predictor of their actual condom use behaviour. The TPB indicates that intention is predicted by an individual's attitude towards condom use, whether they believe their family and friends feel that they should use condoms (known as "subjective norm"), and how much control the person feels that they have over condom use (known as perceived behavioral control). In order to measure this, participants will be asked to complete questions regarding their attitudes, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, intention towards condom use, and actual condom use behavior. It is expected that the TPB will be successful in predicting condom use in this population.
The second part of the study aims to assess whether two different interventions are effective in increasing condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM).
The first intervention is known as "implementation intentions" and asks that participants specify when, where and how they might increase their condom use in the future (e.g. by buying condoms). It is predicted that in making this plan that the likelihood of preparing to use condoms will increase as will actual condom use.
The second intervention asks participants to practice a task several times per week that is thought to improve planning ability. The task is known as "The Tower of Hanoi" which is a computer based program that requires participants to shift discs across three different pegs in and ordered and planned way. It is thought that this practice can improve an individual's planning ability. It is thought that this planning ability may then generalise to other tasks such as planning to use condoms. It is predicted that this intervention will increase actual condom use among this population.
A control group that receives no intervention will also be employed.
Measures of the TPB will be taken at baseline and three months after the interventions have taken place to assess any changes to the variables thought to predict condom use, and any changes in condom use behavior. It is expected that the the TPB variables will all increase in the intervention groups.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men who have sex with men
- Adults (over 18 years old)
- Sexually active
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women
- Minors (under 18 years old)
- Those who have never been sexually active
- Those unable to provide consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01926418
|Contact: Benjamin J. Andrew, DCP/MSc
|+61 414416906
|Contact: Barbara Mullan, PhD
|+61 2 9351 6811
|Australia, New South Wales
|The Albion Center
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2010
|Principal Investigator:
|Barbara Mullan, PhD
|University of Sydney
|Principal Investigator:
|Benjamin J. Andrew, DCP/Msc
|University of Sydney
|Principal Investigator:
|John de Wit, PhD
|National Center in HIV Social Research
|Principal Investigator:
|Kim Begley, PhD
|The Albion Center
|Responsible Party:
|Ben Andrew, Mr, University of Sydney
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01926418 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|August 17, 2013
|Last Updated:
|August 19, 2013
Keywords provided by Ben Andrew, University of Sydney:
Men who have sex with men
implementation intentions
executive function
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Just as hemlines rise and fall with the stock market, colors, too, wax and wane with consumers' bank accounts.
During the recession — you know, that indulgence drought that was the last six years — any color that smacked of luxury was run out of town like a corrupt politician. But after several years of living with a restraining order on flash, consumers are sick already of subdued.
I know I am.
That's why I was so excited to see a bright bullish color — one I had not seen since the opulent '80s — tumble onto fashion runways last year. Since mood drives fashion, and fashion drives decorating, this meant it was only a matter of time before this fancy, splashy color hit homes.
It's gold, baby.
Move over tight-fisted silver and poor-cousin nickel. We're having a gold rush. It's back with a fervor, and looking lavish.
Last year's runways, which trotted out 2014 fashions, were awash with gold. Tuned in interior trend types took note. One of them was Los Angeles designer Nikki Chu.
"It only takes one little shift like that for the light bulb to go off and tell me that's the direction I have to go," said Chu of her reaction to the gold accents and apparel she saw on Paris catwalks.
As a result, her new luxe and heavily metal home d?cor line will launch at the end of July. The collection has gilded tables, mirrors, stools, candlesticks, vases and more. (See it at www.NikkiChuHome.com and buy through www.Wayfair.com.)
About 85 percent of the line is metallic, mostly gold, said Chu, who has been designing home fashions for 10 years.
"But wait a minute," I said, checking my enthusiasm for practical reasons. "How is gold going to go over in homes today? Most are silver."
This may seem a minor sticking point to those who live in a more ethereal world than I do, but there is no getting around the fact that — after those brassy gold fixtures, faucets, knobs and handles popular in the affluent '80s fell out of favor — a humbler brushed nickel has been the hardware of choice for decades.
"People have been living with that for a long time," Chu said. "They are ready for something different."
"I get that," I said. "But there's a ripple effect. It's like when pants go from low-rise to high-rise and suddenly you not only need new pants, you need new belts and underwear, longer shirts. It gets expensive." (More problems men will never have.)
Chu gets it, and has solutions along with these suggestions for how to infuse a little gold at home:
• Don't be afraid. Unlike those bachelor party secrets, metallic furnishings don't need to stay in Vegas. If placed well, they give every home edge and glamour, said Chu.
• Start in your closet. After years of wearing mostly silver jewelry, I busted out last month and bought a gold purse — it goes with everything — and a big shiny gold necklace that looks positively trashy — in the best sense. It made me realize how much I'd missed gold, and warmed me up to the idea of trying some at home.
• Suit your style. Although metallic accents slide effortlessly into high-end or modern interiors, they also work in more humble or traditional homes. The trick there is to add traditional items, such as a lamp or serving tray, that have a metallic finish. Save that gold-framed octagonal mirror for a contemporary setting.
• Mix your metals. A lot of people have a one-metal rule: all silver, all gold or all copper. Not Chu. "My core concept is not to be afraid to mix metallic. That's what makes a look." Chu tells me about the bracelets she has stacked up her arm. They are gun metal, brassy gold, shiny silver, and antique bronze. They are matte and shiny, distressed and polished. Do the same in your home, she said.
• Create a balance. When introducing gold items into a home where all the existing hardware — faucets, handles, hinges and knobs — are silver, the secret is to create balance. Just one gold jar against all that silver won't work, she said. You need to infuse a lot of the new color to balance what's there.
• Go ombre. Like the current hair fashion, where locks change from dark to light, d?cor items that blend silver and gold can create a visual bridge when mixing in a new metallic. Chu's new line has ombre vases and candlesticks. Fabrics that weave silver with other metallics can also marry tones.
• Keep it on top. Because of their reflective nature, metallics jump out. So don't put them in the background, as they want to be out front. Chu's own home is furnished with muted grays and greens, but all the accents are metallic. Thus, rather than putting a black pillow on a gold chair, put a gold pillow on a black chair. Think gold purse with little black dress — and maybe a flashy gold necklace.
Syndicated columnist and speaker Marni Jameson is the author of "House of Havoc" and "The House Always Wins" (Da Capo Press). Contact her through www.marnijameson.com.


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Machi making case to stick with Giants
SAN DIEGO -- Manager Bruce Bochy indicated Sunday that right-hander Jean Machi could remain with the Giants even after left-hander Jeremy Affeldt makes his anticipated return from the disabled list this week.
If this occurred, the Giants would have a 13-man pitching staff.
Machi was recalled from Triple-A Fresno on April 17 after Affeldt strained his right side. Since then, Machi has pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings spanning four appearances, including Saturday night's three-inning gem that spanned the ninth through 11th innings.
"He really has shown he's a Major League pitcher and can help out anywhere," Bochy said.
Sending Machi back to Triple-A would be the simplest way to clear roster room when Affeldt is activated, which could be as soon as Tuesday. Should the Giants decide that Machi is valuable enough to keep around, they might take a hard look at their three-catcher contingent, thus making reserves Guillermo Quiroz or Hector Sanchez vulnerable.
"It's not going to be an easy call," Bochy said, emphasizing that he has not yet discussed this subject at length with general manager Brian Sabean.
Meanwhile, the 31-year-old Machi is trying to seize the moment. He spent 13 seasons in the Minor Leagues before appearing in eight late-season games with San Francisco last year.
"I want to take advantage of this opportunity and do my best when I get out there," he said in Spanish through outfielder-interpreter Andres Torres.
Machi displayed a split-finger fastball which he used as his out pitch and a quick pickokff move that caught Chase Headley off first base in the ninth innning. Asked how long he has possessed both gifts, Machi said, "Always." Third baseman Pablo Sandoval confirmed the effectiveness of his fellow Venezuelan's pickoff move.
"I played with him in winter ball," Sandoval said.
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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