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DETROIT — Stray Cheerios beware. The new Honda Odyssey minivan is here — and it has a built-in vacuum cleaner.
Honda Motor Co. showed off its updated Odyssey minivan Tuesday evening ahead of the New York International Auto Show. The 2014 Odyssey — which was last redesigned in 2011 — has a richer, more chiseled look, chrome-trimmed fog lights and other premium features.
But HondaVAC, the hand-held vacuum integrated into the cargo area, will likely be its most talked-about feature. Honda says it's the first to offer this family-friendly tool, which it developed with heavy-duty vacuum maker Shop-Vac. Honda's system includes nozzle accessories and a hose that can reach every corner of the vehicle. It doesn't need an outlet for recharging, and can work continuously when the motor is running — or for up to eight minutes when the van is turned off.
Minivan sales could use a jolt. They peaked at 1.4 million in 2000, but have fallen rapidly since as buyers shifted to popular crossover wagons like the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. U.S. minivan sales totaled 540,188 last year.
Still, sales outpaced the industry average last year, and should grow even more this year when Ford Motor Co. rolls out its first minivan since 2006, the Transit Connect Wagon. And if Generation Y buyers in their late 20s and early 30s choose a minivan as they start families, business could boom.
Honda is eager to be part of the action. So far this year, the Odyssey is the third-best selling minivan in the U.S., behind the Toyota Sienna and the Dodge Caravan.
Here are more details about the refreshed 2014 Odyssey:
OUTSIDE: Honda sharpened the Odyssey's looks with a more sculpted hood, two-tone mirror housings and other details. It also improved the structure so that the van can get top marks in the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's new frontal crash test, which hits a fixed barrier at an angle. The Odyssey also has some new optional safety equipment, including forward collision and lane departure warning systems.
INSIDE: There are new materials and a new control center in the dashboard. Optional new features include keyless entry and pushbutton start and HondaLink, which connects to the driver's smartphone and plays music or reads updates from Twitter and Facebook.
UNDER THE HOOD: The 2014 Odyssey will offer the same engine as the current model: a 3.5-liter V-6 that produces 248 horsepower and gets 22 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. It has a six-speed automatic transmission.
PRICE: Not released. The 2013 Odyssey starts at $28,675.
CHEERS: A Honda Odyssey with a vacuum cleaner? What's not to love?
JEERS: Strategic Vision, a consulting group, says 3 percent of U.S. buyers are considering minivans these days, down from 6 percent a decade ago. There are many other family-friendly, fun-to-drive vehicles, like the Mazda CX-5 or Honda's own CR-V, that get far better fuel economy.


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For whatever reason, I always pick a recipe for Sunday dinner that is more complicated than I want to make on a weekday and I often pick one I haven't tried before. This last Sunday was no exception. I had found a recipe for a vegan pot roast. Ok, I know now how ridiculous that sounds. I suppose I should have just told my husband what I had planned and he would have promptly laughed and pointed me towards something more likely to taste good. Truth is, I hadn't ever had pot roast (if memory serves) and I was curious. This recipe used a seitan loaf (made from wheat gluten), loads of veggies and a crock pot. I like seitan and, like any curious cat, my curiosity lead me down a disastrous path.
After I got this creation and it's vegetables into the crock pot, I started having doubts. It smelled like something I wouldn't like to eat and I had bought ingredients that I don't ever use (read: A-1 sauce). Those are bad signs right there. Hours later, I'm still thinking, "This smells weird, I don't want this for dinner." After 4 hours of cooking, with one more to go, I start digging into it to see how the "pot roast" part tastes. Let's just say if it was meat, it would have still been bloody. Ok, so now I have this pot of vegetables and broth (the "pot roast" hit the garbage can immediately) and I'm trying to think of how I can save these veggies and still come up with a dinner before my husband gets home. Two words sprung to mind "Pot Pie." I don't know the history of a pot pie, but in my mind it sounds like something that was born out of just this sort of situation—leftover vegetables, meats and gravy.
Since we're vegetarian in this house, I just left out the meat and made a vegetarian pot pie. I didn't have any interest in making a pie crust, but I remembered these tasty little biscuits from our website and I just happened to have coconut flour on hand. I doubled the recipe to cover my gigantic pot pie. These were just the thing to save my Sunday dinner. Lessons learned: "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" and "pot roast is a dish better left for meat-eaters."
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- 3/4 c. White Rice Flour
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- 1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp. Sea Salt
- 1/4 c. Butter
- 1/2 c. Buttermilk
Preheat oven to 450°F. Combine dry ingredients. Cut butter into flour mixture until it resembles small peas. Stir in buttermilk to form soft dough. Place mixture on top of wax paper and press to 1 inch thickness. Cut with a 2 inch biscuit cutter and place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Makes 9 biscuits.
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WATSONVILLE -- A pilot's fateful decision to take off toward fog and then try to turn quickly away from it -- possibly compounded by the failure of a key backup safety measure -- appears to be a major factor in a deadly 2011 plane crash near Watsonville Community Hospital.
The July 7 tragedy claimed the lives of a Santa Cruz couple, David and Dede Houghton, and their two sons, Luke and Ryan. The four were headed to a family vacation in Groveland when their Mooney M-20F fell out of the sky shortly after takeoff, struck a parking lot and skidded into medical offices, where the wreckage burst into flames.
According to recently released factual findings by the National Transportation Safety Board, the plane was climbing and turning at a relatively low speed, a potentially fatal combination. It appears the pilot -- who was licensed to fly by visual cues only -- was trying to avoid fog.
"There's always a lesson to be learned, and if you're not instrument-rated and you're not current to fly on instruments, then don't fly near the (marine) stratus," said Dan Chauvet, a longtime local pilot familiar with the airport. "Don't take off toward it."
David Houghton had earned his pilot's license less than three months before the crash, but amassed an unusually large amount of flight experience in a short amount of time. The report makes no conclusions, including if weather, inexperience or mechanical problems contributed to the crash.
On that day, Houghton checked the weather twice and was advised that a marine layer had socked in the area. While the weather at takeoff directly over Watsonville Municipal Airport was clear, a thick summer marine layer hovered over Highway 1, just south of one of two runways.`
Rather than take off from a second runway that runs east-west, Houghton tried to take off toward the fog and then steer away from it. Eyewitnesses noted a steep climb and rapid descent, the plane narrowly missing an expectant father in the hospital parking lot.
The NTSB report confirmed indications that the engine was developing "significant power" at impact, with ground scars showing that plane was relatively level and upright at impact. It suggests the Houghtons nearly escaped a tragedy that shocked the county.
One problem with turning into a bank is that it increases the speed a plane must fly to avoid stalling. The NTSB calculated that just prior to the Mooney's dive, its airspeed descended from 73 to 55 mph -- both below what's needed to keep that type of plane airborne during a 40-degree bank.
"Guys do steep banks all the time, but they don't normally do them at slow speeds," Chauvet said. "You get over 30 degrees, you get to 45 degrees, and the stall speed goes way up."
Houghton earned his pilot's license on March 17, 2011 -- the third time in five weeks he'd taken the test. On the second exam, one area deemed unsatisfactory was "Performance Maneuver -- Steep Turns," though that skill gives many new pilots difficulty.
There were not many things that held the Houghton family back. While David Houghton paid the family bills through an environmental services company, the family's love was Aqua Safaris, the Soquel dive shop they owned and through which they led local divers on worldwide expeditions.
The Mooney was flown to Mexico in April 2011, where its landing gear doors were damaged on a dirt runway. While the report doesn't say if Houghton piloted an international flight a month after getting his license, the Houghtons did live in Mexico for a year.
That was the second time the landing gear doors were damaged, and they were later removed altogether. The plane's surviving co-owner said there was "never any noticeable flight deterioration" without those doors, but it wasn't the only mechanical problem with the plane.
Built in 1974, the Mooney's stall warning switch was replaced in 2003. Standard on planes, such system give pilots a warning if they are verging on a potentially deadly stall.
Maintenance records show a 2007 effort to troubleshoot an "inoperable" stall warning system, and the co-owner told NTSB investigators that he and Houghton considered the system "totally useless."
It also doesn't appear that the 2003 replacement system was ever tested in-flight. The NTSB recovered the warning horn from the wreckage and verified that it could sound when power was applied.
What is not known is if Houghton -- who was wearing noise-cancelling headphones, which may or may not have been turned on -- ever heard the horn, or even if it sounded at all.
"(T)he investigation was unable to determine the accuracy of the system as installed on the accident airplane," the NTSB's report said. "The accuracy of the stall warning system can only be verified in flight, and cannot be determined by any ground-based means."
The factual findings are not conclusions, but can point toward the NTSB's eventual determination of probable cause. That finding is expected in about a month.
"The goal is to issue it within 30 days of the factual report," said Michael Huhn, the NTSB's lead investigator on the case.
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Beginning in September 2011, Dark Horse will begin introducing classic Marvel characters to their Syroco line. The statues portray these characters just as they originally appeared: Spider-Man, for instance, is presented with his early "web wing" costume, and Daredevil is in his yellow-and-red uniform. Spider-Man, limited to 2000 numbered statuettes, will be the first in the Classic Marvel Characters series. The Avengers will also see Syroco releases.
Each hand-numbered statuette will come packaged in a custom-tooled, full-color, litho-printed tin box. Also included is a small booklet about each character and a vintage-style pin-back button of the character.
Dark Horse's Syroco statuettes are inspired by figurines developed in the 1930s. Now highly prized by collectors, they were often used as advertising premiums featuring famous comic-strip characters. Now known as Syroco figurines, these statuettes are named after both the company that originally produced them and the woodlike resin material from which they were made at the time. Measuring between four and five inches, these statuettes have been sculpted in the original style, described by sculptor Craig Yoe as "primitive but charming."
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An asteroid the size of a 15-story building will zoom past Earth next week, flying uncommonly close but posing no danger.
If its route had been different, the morning of Friday, Feb. 15, would have been the last hurrah for a swath of landscape somewhere on Earth the size of the San Francisco Bay Area, striking with a force equivalent to 2.4 million tons of TNT.
But instead, the spinning chunk of rock will continue on its long loop, averting apocalypse and thrilling scientists.
"It is a record close approach for an asteroid of this size," said Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near Earth Objects Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, in a Thursday morning press conference.
On average, an asteroid of this diameter -- estimated to be about 150 feet -- gets this close every 40 years or so, he said. A collision would be expected every 1,200 years.
It will be tough to see from the continental U.S. The best views -- not with the naked eye, but binoculars and small telescopes -- will be in Eastern Europe, Asia and Australia, with the closest view from Indonesia. These nighttime viewers will see a traveling star-like pinpoint in the night sky, said NASA experts.
By the time the earth rotates enough to give California a glimpse, at 11:45 a.m., it will be too bright to see.
If weather cooperates, the powerful telescopes at Chabot Space & Science Center hope to catch a glimpse. Chabot's observatory is one of a team of observatories around the world that regularly searches for and tracks asteroids that may come close to the Earth.
Lick Observatory has no plans to observe the asteroid because the sky will be too bright and it will be moving too fast for the Mount Hamilton telescopes, said Elinor Gates, a Lick staff astronomer.
At its closest approach, Asteroid 2012 DA14 -- a name only an astronomer could love, based on when it was discovered -- will be 17,200 miles away, about six times the distance from California to New York City. That's about the same distance the Earth travels in just 15 minutes -- and far nearer to us than the moon.
While that's too far away to perturb most Earthlings, it's "a close shave" according to Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who is on a mission to map all the menacing asteroids.
"It's a wake-up call from our solar system," wrote Schweickart, founder of the B612 Foundation, which urges planning for the inevitable day our paths collide.
The rock will fly between us and our beloved GPS and weather satellites, which would resemble bugs on a windshield if they collided with DA14.
Fortunately, their paths are unlikely to cross. NASA has given the satellite owners the files that describe the asteroid's trajectory, so they can calculate risk. "It is extremely unlikely that any satellite would be threatened," said NASA's Yeomans. "No one has raised a red flag."
It is traveling 7.8 kilometers a second, about eight times the velocity of a bullet, said Yeomans.
With an estimated mass of 130,000 metric tons -- larger than the gross tonnage of the world's largest passenger ship, Allure of the Seas -- any impact would level trees with an "air blast," not a crater.
Upon reaching our atmosphere, it would flatten like a pancake and explode prior to striking, said Yeomans.
Just 105 years ago, a comparable asteroid struck Earth in Siberia near Tunguska, and completely flattened a forested area of about 840 square miles.
It was a much larger asteroid that struck Mexico's Yucatan and wiped out dinosaurs and three-quarters of all plant species, cooling the Earth and redirecting evolution to create the species we know today.
New asteroids are discovered every week, and they must be tracked for several days in order to verify their orbit characteristics.
We are living in a cosmic shooting gallery.
"Although astronomers have identified some 9,500 (Near Earth Objects), we estimate there may be as many as a million that have not yet been found," said Chabot's Gerald McKeegan.
More advanced tools will give scientists a chance to map its surface, learning about its craters and boulders.
NASA's asteroid researchers will use infrared-sensing telescopes to study DA14.
In addition, scientists will ping DA14 with radar from giant dishes in the Mojave Desert between Feb. 16 and 20. They also want to study its path.
"Radar provides precise estimates of an asteroid's orbit and its physical characteristics," said Amy Mainzer, principal investigator of NEOWISE Observatory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
DA14 is small, by asteroid standards. It was discovered on Feb. 23, 2012, by the La Sagra Sky Survey telescope in Spain.
It probably came from the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. But millions of years ago, Jupiter's gravity, combined with other forces, caused the asteroid to leave the main belt and move to an orbit closer to the sun, said Chabot's McKeengan.
Its close call with Earth will alter the fate of DA14 far more than ours.
That's because it is flying so close to Earth's gravitational pull that we'll change its orbit -- shortening its spin around the sun from 368 to 317 days, shaving off several months.
Never again in our lifetimes will we see it -- or need to worry.
"The Earth will put this one in an orbit that is considerably safer than the orbit it has been on," said NASA's Yeomans.


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It's no secret that Mark of the Ninja is an awesome stealth gaming experience. Featuring enjoyable gameplay and great visual style, the Klei Entertainment-developed title has managed to garner some impressive critical acclaim.
Now, Mark of the Ninja is headed to the PC via Steam. The game is being carefully ported to ensure that PC gamers get the most out of the experience.
Mark of the Ninja is due out for the PC on October 16. It'll be priced at $14.99. To get a close look at the game, check out our review, where GameZone's Robert Workman awarded Mark of the Ninja an impressive 9 out of 10.
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Such a delicious day… I could seriously eat this same group of foods non-stop for a week and not tire of it! My extra cup of veggies for the Veg Pledge Challenge snuck in via the veggie salad I served my falafel over. I normally tuck them into a pita sandwich or simply dunk 'em in tzatziki sauce, but since I'm trying to pack in more veggies, the salad made the perfect pairing for the chickpea balls. The vegetables amped the nutrition density of the meal and gave the hearty falafel a light and refreshing spin.
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chownah wrote:
This is not exactly a definition but perhaps is worth thinking about:
1. You can see a form and think "teacher".
2. You can hear a sound and think "teacher".
3. You can smell an odor and think "teacher".
4. You can taste a flavor and think "teacher".
5. You can feel a bodily sensation and think "teacher".
6. You can experience a thought and think "teacher".
What else can there be to a teacher?
Ben wrote:Hi Daniel
You might like to have a read of Ven Analayo's "Satipatthana: the direct path to realization" where he talks about contemplating the hindrances.
kind regards,
Ben wrote:Hi Daniel,
I don;t have my copy with me currently. I do remember Venerable writing about reviewing the hindrances. It could be in the Investigation of Dhammas section. I'm sorry I can't be more specific.
kind regards,
danieLion wrote:PS: Can a BOOK be a teacher?
TMingyur wrote:danieLion wrote:PS: Can a BOOK be a teacher?
Acoustical symbols and optical symbols ... both are just symbols without inherent meaning. However meaning unfolds upon contact.
Kind regards
danieLion wrote:Still, I'd rather have the flesh and blood version when possible.
danieLion wrote:3. I've observed several practitioners use the phrase "my teacher" in a way that suggests they're wearing it like a credential badge or a backstage pass, or as conferring the right to brag on them, which can devolve to: My Ajahn can beat up your Ajahn!
TMingyur wrote:danieLion wrote:Still, I'd rather have the flesh and blood version when possible.
Which of course is just an optical symbol.
Kind regards
mikenz66 wrote:And this idea that "there are only a couple of good teachers" sometimes seems to be used as an excuse not to make use of local resources which, even if not perfect, are infinitely better than nothing.
I sometimes mention that something is what my (various, they come and go) teachers have said when I don't have a good reference, or because it makes for a more interesting conversational tone (I dislike writing in the third person ). And also to emphasise that my no-name teachers tend to mostly agree with the famous ones. As one would expect from competent practitioners...
danieLion wrote:TMingyur wrote:danieLion wrote:Still, I'd rather have the flesh and blood version when possible.
Which of course is just an optical symbol.
Kind regards
As long as it's squishy I don't care if it's illusory.
Teachers lend us bits and pieces, which are merely fragments to serve as hints or as leads for us to contemplate so that they'll grow and branch out into our own wealth.
Any Dhamma that's a wealth coming from our own tactics: That's truly our own wealth. We'll never exhaust it. If we can think and probe cunningly in removing defilements until they fall away completely, using the tactics we develop on our own from the ideas our teachers lend us as starting capital, that's our own Dhamma. However much may arise, it's all our own Dhamma. What we derive from the texts is the Buddha's — and we borrow it from him. What we get from our teachers, we borrow from them — except when we are listening to them teach and we understand the Dhamma and cure defilement at that moment: That's our wealth while we are listening. After that, we take their tactics to contemplate until they branch out through our own ingenuity. This is our own wealth, in terms both of the causes — our contemplation — and of the outcome, the satisfactory results we gain step by step all the way to release from suffering and stress — and that's entirely ours. It stays with us, and no one can come to divide up any of our share at all.
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I was 14 when I saw the 1984 Grammy's and Herbie Hancock perform Rockit. It's as fresh today as is was then. When I say fresh I mean FRESH. It wasn't long before every suburban kid had pin-striped Lee's and Shell Toe Adidas with fat laces (including me). Thanks to Laughing Squid for posting this and reminding me how great it was/is!
"In 1983, Hancock had a mainstream hit with the Grammy-award winning instrumental single "Rockit" from the album Future Shock. It was perhaps the first mainstream single to feature scratching, and also featured an innovative animated music video which was directed by Godley and Creme and showed several robot-like artworks by Jim Whiting. The video was a hit on MTV. The video won 5 different categories at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards. This single ushered in a collaboration with noted bassist and producer Bill Laswell. Hancock experimented with electronic music on a string of three LPs produced by Laswell: Future Shock (1983), Sound-System (1984) and Perfect Machine (1988). Despite the success of "Rockit", Hancock's trio of Laswell-produced albums (particularly the latter two) are among the most critically derided of his entire career, perhaps even more so than his erstwhile pop-jazz experiments. Hancock's level of actual contribution to these albums was also questioned, with some critics contending that the Laswell albums should have been labelled "Bill Laswell featuring Herbie Hancock"." – Wikipedia.org
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From what we know it's patellar tendonosis. Here's yet another article about it -> http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cm...articleid=1393
It's not a bad enough injury to make someone change their whole playstyle. It cannot cripple a player's career.
It's mostly a condition. Athletes should be careful when they have this condition and they shouldn't play through pain as it could lead to a more significant injury.
But it isn't enough to turn Danny Granger into a "stretch 4". It isn't enough to turn him into DeJuan Blair. He still has all of his ACLs. His knees are not shot. They are just strained and could use the rest.
Therefore, we have no reason to assume that he will become a stretch 4 that is a defensive liability. Is there a chance? Sure. There's a chance for everything. But I wouldn't bet on it.


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PCAPS offers alternative to Philadelphia school closings
A coalition of community groups that includes the city's teachers union is calling for a temporary halt to the Philadelphia School District's plans to close 37 schools. District officials say they welcome the group's input, but that it's too late to stop the closures.
Members of the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools say that closing schools is not the best way to address the school district's dire financial straits.
"If we restored the 2008 funding formula, we would not be in this deficit," said Andi Perez, head of Students United for Change and part of PCAPS. "If we closed tax loopholes. If we collected more property taxes. There's series of things that the city and state could do to increase revenue for Philadelphia public schools, and for public schools around the state."
PCAPS members believe that the district's budget woes are the result of a deliberate campaign by Governor Tom Corbett to shrink traditional public school districts and expand charter schools. The coalition's new report calls for a temporary halt to school closures, and proposes a host of revenue boosting strategies.
District officials agree that more revenue is needed and plan meet with the coalition soon. But District spokesman Fernando Gallard also says the financial crisis is absolutely real, and said closing dozens of schools is the District's only option.
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For additional details on this case, please see, "UPDATED: Jensens face federal criminalharges in cantaloupe case"
In less than two months, cantaloupe growers Eric and Ryan Jensen are scheduled to be tried on criminal charges because their fruit was linked to the 2011 listeria monocytogenes outbreak that killed at least 33.
The charges are bringing a debate to the industry. Some say the charges against the brothers aren't enough and that others in the supply chain are also criminally liable. The Jensens each face sentences up to six years and up to $1.5 million in fines for the six charges they each face.
Others say it's outrageous the Jensens are facing any charges, that the case signals a mindset within the U.S. Justice Department that could threaten all growers.
Officials with the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver aren't saying much, partly because of the shutdown of the federal government. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaime Pena is prosecuting the case. He declined comment.
Jeffrey Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Denver office, said on Oct. 1 that charges against anyone else are "highly unlikely."
Regarding why the Jensens face misdemeanor rather than felony charges, Dorschner said "the charges filed are the best most appropriate charges given the specific circumstances of this crime." The applicable federal statute requires the government to prove intent for felony charges, but not for misdemeanors.
The lack of a need to prove the Jensens intentionally sent contaminated cantaloupes into commerce is a troubling point for growers of all commodities as far as one cantaloupe safety expert is concerned.
Trevor Suslow, University of California-Davis extension research specialist in preharvest to postharvest produce safety, said criminal charges of any level are excessive, "as they have not been applied to seemingly more egregious cases of adulteration in the past that did not result in this action."
The Jensen case marks the first time for growers to face criminal charges in relation to a foodborne illness outbreak.
"I cannot agree with statements that the Jensens should have known that these (a lack of chlorine and no pre-cooling) were deficiencies in their standards of care for food safety of cantaloupes," Suslow said. "If everyone tells you that everything is great and in good shape why would you question what you are doing?"
Suslow said he is concerned about the signal the justice department is sending. He said he does not question the need for high standards of food safety requirements and agrees that pre-cooling and sanitizing washes are part of that for some cantaloupe, but he doesn't believe the grower only should be liable.
"If the near-term standard for due diligence is that every farmer has a personal working knowledge to conduct a microbiological hazard analysis and operational risk assessment sufficient to prevent criminal charges if adulterated product enters the market, regardless of root-cause, we are all in big trouble," Suslow said.
The justice department cites a number of deficiencies at the Jensens outdoor packing facility.
According to inspection reports from the Food and Drug Administration, those deficiencies include water pooling on floors, dirt and plant material on equipment, a floor that was difficult to clean, inadequate trench drains and equipment that could not be properly cleaned.
"… it is likely that the contamination occurred in the packing facility," the FDA report states. "It is also likely that the contamination proliferated during cold storage."
The FDA inspectors reported all samples from the growing field were negative for listeria monocytogenes. The samples included soil, wild animal excrement, perimeter and furrow drag swabs, agricultural water, pond water and cantaloupes.
In its conclusion that the Jensens cantaloupe was contaminated in the packing shed, the FDA pointed to a possible contamination source.
"Another potential means for introduction of listeria monocytogenes contamination into the packing facility was a truck used to haul culled cantaloupe to a cattle (feeding) operation," the FDA report states.
"This truck traveled to and from a cattle operation and was parked adjacent to the packing facility where the contamination may have been tracked via personnel or equipment, of through other means into the packing facility."


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McDonald's recently added a new premium burger to their menu in southwest Michigan. The Bacon Clubhouse ($4.69) features a beef patty topped with caramelized grilled onions, applewood-smoked bacon, white cheddar, leaf lettuce, tomatoes, and special sauce. That last ingredient is particularly significant because the Bacon Clubhouse is the first sandwich that includes special sauce since the Big Mac.
The burger comes on a new "soft artisan roll" and is also available with a grilled or fried chicken patty. A GrubGrade reviewer called the Bacon Clubhouse "the best McDonald's burger" and noted that the special sauce makes it taste like a grown-up Big Mac.
A similar burger, named the Clubhouse Quarter Pounder, was tested last September in South Florida, but featured a different formulation of special sauce.
Will you try the new Bacon Clubhouse if it is released nationally?
About the author: Erin Jackson is a food writer and photographer who is obsessed with discovering the best eats in San Diego. You can find all of her discoveries on her San Diego food blog EJeats.com. On Twitter, she's @ErinJax
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If you grow fruit or vegetables, don't forget to harvest what you grow.
This may sound like the obvious thing to do, but you might be surprised to learn that many gardeners, despite having gone to great trouble preparing soil for planting, somehow forget about their edibles once they begin to grow.
It seems that people are so busy today, that they begrudge the time required to harvest their crops, as if the point in planting edible plants was merely to establish some connection with the earth, with the idea of being a farmer, or some other romantic concept.
During the past month, whenever I walk by a certain wrought iron fence in my neighborhood, I am impressed by the sumptuous bunches of grapes that hang there. Grapes are not difficult to grow as long as you have an arbor or fence upon which their vines can clamber.
Train developing grapevine branches along a fence line or along the arches of an arbor and, one day, you will see bunches of grapes hanging down. The grapes growing on the fence in my neighborhood, alas, are not harvested.
When any bunch reaches the peak of fruitful perfection, and should be plucked from the vine, it simply languishes there until a fungus comes along and causes it to rot.
It is true that the grapes are not as big as those you find in the supermarket, but this diminished size is common among garden-grown crops. Don't let their smaller size fool you since garden grown produce is typically more flavorful than what it found in supermarket bins.
When you first encounter the eastern redbud known as Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy,' you will find it impossible to resist. Deep burgundy foliage that is heart-shaped covers attractive gray bark and, in spring, there is a large collection of pink flowers.
A little more than two years ago, in May of 2012, I wrote the following in a column that appeared in some of these newspapers:
"For the last several years, ever since they were planted, I have been admiring a stand of 'Forest Pansy' trees on an embankment just below the Burbank Boulevard offramp of the southbound San Diego Freeway. I have noticed that one tree is already struggling and not nearly as robust as the others. I will be noting the progress and longevity of these trees to see how long they endure life in the mid-Valley."
Well, it's two years later, and when I passed that same freeway embankment today, I did not see any evidence of 'Forest Pansy' trees. So it would appear that, six or seven years after planting, they either died or had become so unsightly that it made sense to remove them. In that column from two years ago, I reported that in its rainy habitat of the Southeastern United States, 'Forest Pansy' has a life span of 30 years and I projected that it may only live half as long in the dry San Fernando Valley. It turns out that I was too optimistic estimating its lifespan in this part of the world.
It's somewhat ironic that when you come to the end of the freeway exit ramp mentioned above and turn left on Burbank Boulevard, you will arrive a few moments later at Vesper Avenue, where two incredibly robust 'Forest Pansy' specimens are flourishing. Several years from now, they probably won't be but, for now, they are the picture of health.
At the same Burbank-Vesper corner address, purple smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple') is thriving, too. Like 'Forest Pansy,' purple smoke tree reaches a height of 10 to 15 feet. It produces panicles of tiny yellow flowers this time of year that slowly turn into large, smoky, pinkish inflorescences. Purple smoke tree, however, is tougher than 'Forest Pansy,' as it can grow in just about any type of soil and is highly parsimonious regarding its water requirement.
Red birds of paradise
Back to the freeway embankment mentioned above, several gorgeous red birds of paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) have recently been planted there. Although native to the West Indies, red bird of paradise is remarkable for its drought tolerance and is frequently encountered in desert gardens along with yellow bird of paradise (Caesalpinia gilliesii). These leguminous plants, in the manner of alfalfa, peas, and beans, are assisted by symbiotic, root-dwelling bacteria that assist in manufacturing nitrogen fertilizer. These birds of paradise are thus are highly suitable to desert soils that are often lacking in organic matter and nitrogen.
Royal poinciana
There is a special tree, a relative of red and yellow bird of paradise, that only one person, to the best of my knowledge, has succeeded in growing in the Valley. This tree is known as royal poinciana or flamboyant, due to its electric orange flowers. Foliage is finely textured and the tree has a parasol shape. The person who has succeeded in growing it is Gerda Maxey, who lives in Sylmar. Maxey has more than a hundred flamboyant trees, most of which are growing in pots. Maxey refers to the tree as chivato, the name by which the flamboyant (Delonix regia) is known in Paraguay.
I wonder if Maxey has not stumbled upon an unusually cold-tolerant strain of this tree. Flamboyants are tropical in origin. They are native to the dry forests of Madagascar, an island off the east coast of Africa, but are cultivated in the tropical regions of every continent. In 30 years of plant observation in the greater Los Angeles area, I had never encountered a flamboyant tree and would be interested to hear from any readers who have succeeded in growing this species locally.
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Ok, this is going to be the 1st time I question Vogel, 3 seconds left and you call a play with Josh and Foster in? why? I like the fact that he stay with AJ Price when he got hot but why no replace Josh with Hans if you are struggling to score? hard loss to swallow,good D by Rush better shot by Frye.
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William Beaudine was a very uneven director, but sometimes, he really delivered the goods.
As Dave Kehr, writing in The New York Times, notes of this film, and Beaudine's career at Monogram, the 1940s studio where Beaudine did the bulk of his work, "Beaudine was the workhorse of Monogram, signing his name to an astonishing 71 features from 1942 to 1953 [emphasis added]. Although . . . Beaudine had been a prominent silent director [starting out with D.W. Griffith, and later directing Mary Pickford in a series of films, including the highly successful Sparrows (1926)], he seemed to have lost interest in his art by [the 1940s], and most of his films have a generic, disengaged quality . . . Not so this 1946 astonishment, the thoroughly sordid tale of a card shark (the square-jawed serial hero Kane Richmond, cast spectacularly against type) who unhesitatingly betrays pretty much everyone he comes across — including his brother, his female partner and his fiancée — as he takes over a small-town casino somewhere in the Midwest.
Perhaps Beaudine was shaken from his indifference by the strikingly sordid script by the mysterious Caryl Coleman (whose only other credited screenplay [was the equally unrelenting Monogram entry] Wife Wanted) and Harvey Gates (another silent-film veteran who had seen better days); perhaps it is a case of the material's being perfectly matched to the available means. No major studio of the time would have tolerated the cynicism that courses through this film; nor would a major studio have been capable of capturing the film's agonizingly expressive shabbiness. In Don't Gamble With Strangers, Monogram isn't just a studio — it's a way of life."
Along with the equally brutal Black Market Babies, a 1945 Beaudine/Monogram film in which Kane Richmond again appears as a sleazy con man running an "adoption service" with the help of an aging, alcoholic doctor played by Ralph Morgan, Don't Gamble With Strangers paints a truer picture of post-war American society in the mid 1940s than anything the major studios would touch, as Kehr suggests above. Much of what Beaudine produced is pure junk, and often he simply didn't care what he was directing, just so long as he got paid – a major force in silent films, Beaudine fell into disfavor after a sojourn in Britain in the late 1930s, and when he returned to Hollywood, found himself unemployable, and deep in debt. But he had to work, so he took anything he could get, and soon was the most prolific director in Hollywood, along with the equally adept Sam Newfield.
Working his way back in at the bottom rung of the studio system, for Monogram or anyone else who would hire him for his flat fee of $500 for six days work – the standard length of time it took him to direct a feature film, working at top speed – Beaudine racked up more than 350 feature films, in addition to television work on such series as the Green Hornet and Lassie – his last major job as a director – before his death at age 78 in 1970. The famous story is often told of a Monogram executive rushing on to the set of one of Beaudine's films, demanding to know when it would be finished. "You mean there's someone out there waiting for this?" Beaudine replied, pretty much indicating what he thought of much of the work he was forced to direct by economic necessity. Or, as he told another interviewer, "these films are going to be made regardless of who directs them. There's a market for them and the studios are going to continue to make them. I've been doing this long enough I think I can make them as good or better than anyone else." And at his best, he absolutely could.
Monogram films in general have frequently been derided for their poor quality sound tracks, indifferent cinematography and lighting, as if the entire film was shot through a gauze filter on outdated film stock, and recorded with the cheapest equipment available. In the pre-digital era, one could always tell a Monogram film by its flat lighting, cheap sets, and distorted soundtrack. But a new series of DVDs from Warner Archive is setting the record straight; earlier viewers were simply being subjected to cheap 16mm prints of the film, while the 35mm masters were as good in terms of pictorial quality as anything turned out by Universal or Republic. These new transfers are literally dazzling, and give a whole new life to Monogram's output as a whole. It's a revelation; these are lost films, come back to life at last.
These two 75 minute films are "pre-code / film noir / neorealism" – the real picture of life in postwar America.


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You will likely have physical concerns since your cancer may cause symptoms, and you may have side effects from your treatment. In this section, you'll learn more about how to respond to some of the most common ones. They are listed in alphabetical order.
Many people feel blue, anxious, or distressed after being told they have cancer. These feelings may become stronger if you get hormone therapy. These feelings may continue or come back throughout treatment.
Taking these actions may ease your mental stress.
Talk with your family or friends.
Consider joining a cancer support group or finding a cancer "buddy" who can help you cope.
Consider learning relaxation techniques, meditation, or yoga to help control and ease mood swings.
Exercise to help boost your mood and ease anxiety.
Ask your doctor about medications for depression and anxiety.
Consider getting a referral to talk with a social worker, psychologist, or psychiatrist.
People who eat well during cancer treatment maintain their strength better, are more active, and are better able to lower their chance of infection. It's important to remember that your body needs energy to heal itself. Maintaining your weight is a good way to know if you are giving your body the energy it needs. When you're being treated for cancer, a diet high in calories and protein is best. The problem is that side effects of treatment, especially chemotherapy, can make you not want to eat. Some chemotherapy treatments can change the way food tastes to you. Radiation to the head, neck, or chest area can reduce your appetite or make it hard for you to swallow. Some people can gain weight as a side effect from steroids or hormone therapy. If this is the case for you, focus on getting a balanced diet and increasing your activity level. Ask your doctor for a referral to a registered dietitian if you are having trouble maintaining your appetite or your weight.
Also, try these tips to stimulate your desire to eat.
If you can, eat foods high in protein several times a day. These foods include milk, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, meat, fish, eggs, beans, peanut butter, and nuts. Protein helps build and repair tissue, and cancer treatments cause you to use more protein than usual.
To maintain your weight, eat high-calorie foods to help you maintain your weight, such as margarine or butter, sugar, honey, jams, jellies, cream cheese, dried fruit, gravies or sauces, mayonnaise, and salad dressing.
Get plenty of fluids to help control your body temperature and improve food elimination. In addition to water, fruit juices, and other liquids, try gelatin, pudding, soups, fruit bars, and ice cream.
Eat small meals throughout the day instead of three large ones.
Keep snacks handy to eat when you are hungry.
Eat with friends or play your favorite music at mealtime to boost your appetite.
Eat your biggest meal in the morning. Many people getting treatment for cancer find that this is when their appetite is greatest.
If you can, increase your activity level. Doing so may boost your appetite.
On days you don't feel like eating at all, don't worry about it. Try again the next day. If you find your appetite doesn't improve in several days, talk with your doctor or nurse.
Certain kinds of chemotherapy may reduce your blood platelet count. Without enough platelets, your blood may have difficulty clotting and lead to a problem called thrombocytopenia. If your doctor tells you that your platelet count is low, take these actions to avoid causing injuries that could lead to bleeding problems.
Protect your skin from cuts, scrapes, and sharp objects.
Shave with an electric razor.
Use a soft toothbrush to prevent bleeding gums.
Take steps to prevent constipation, which can lead to hemorrhoids.
Call your doctor if you develop a rash, bleeding, or bruising.
Some chemotherapy drugs cause your body to retain water. This water retention will go away when your treatment ends.
Here's what you can do for relief.
If your bloating is severe, your doctor may prescribe a diuretic or water pill.
Take short walks.
Elevate your legs as often as you can.
Constipation, which includes difficult or infrequent bowel movements, can range from mildly uncomfortable to painful. Taking pain medications can lead to constipation so it's wise to take these preventive actions. It's also a less common side effect of hormone therapy. These same steps will give you relief if you are already constipated.
Drink plenty of fluids, 6 to 8 glasses a day, especially water and prune juice.
Eat foods high in fiber, such as cereals, whole grains, and uncooked fruits and vegetables.
Take stool softeners or a laxative only as prescribed by your doctor.
Certain hormone therapies, such as the aromatase inhibitor Arimidex (anastrozole), can increase coughing symptoms. Try these tips to soothe your cough.
Drink at least 8 glasses of fluid a day to keep the lining of the breathing tube moist.
Use a humidifier to increase the moisture in the air.
Ask your doctor about medicines to stop or control coughing.
Diarrhea, which includes loose or frequent bowel movements, or both, may lead to dehydration if you don't take these precautions. Many drugs can cause bowel changes. Try these steps.
Avoid milk and milk products.
Avoid gas-producing vegetables, dried fruit, fiber cereals, seeds, popcorn, nuts, corn, and dried beans.
Eat low-residue, low-fiber foods such as those found in the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast).
Increase your intake of fluids, such as water and broth, to prevent dehydration.
Ask your doctor about medications that may help.
Losing your hair can be upsetting because thinning or baldness is a visible reminder that you are being treated for cancer. Keep in mind that your hair will grow back after treatment.
Try these coping tips.
Consider cutting your hair short before treatment starts.
Think about getting a wig, hat, or scarf before your hair loss starts. That way, you can get a wig that matches your hair, and you'll be ready with head coverings, if you choose to use them.
Because your scalp may be more sensitive to temperature and sun, protect it with sunscreen and hats or scarves.
A hot flash is also called a hot flush. It is a sudden rush of warmth to the face, neck, upper chest, and back--with or without sweating. It can last for a few seconds to an hour or more. Hot flashes can occur with chemotherapy or hormone therapy. Some women have mild symptoms, while others have more severe ones. In many cases, hot flashes stop when treatment stops. Some women report that hot flashes last for years after hormone treatment is done. To ease them, try these tips.
Limit your intake of hot drinks, caffeine, alcohol, and spicy foods.
Avoid strenuous exercise.
Layer your clothing so that you can add or remove as needed.
Stay out of environments with very warm temperatures.
Use sprays or moist wipes to help lower skin temperature
Ask your doctor about relaxation training or acupuncture.
Ask your doctor about medications or supplements you can take to ease symptoms.
Without enough white blood cells, your body may not be able to fight infection. Many types of chemotherapy can cause low white blood cell counts, which is called neutropenia.
If your doctor tells you that your white blood cell count is low, take these actions to stay healthy.
Avoid crowds or people with colds.
Wash your hands often throughout the day to kill germs. Bathe daily to keep the number of bacteria down
Call your doctor right away if you have any of these signs of infection: a temperature of 100.5 or higher, severe chills, a cough, pain, a burning sensation during urination, or any sores or redness.
Insomnia can be caused by anxiety, depression, or your cancer treatment. Use these tips to improve your rest.
Keep a regular bedtime schedule.
Use your bed only for sleeping, not watching TV.
If you don't fall asleep within 15 minutes, get up, do something else, and try again later.
Avoid stimulants such as caffeine and tobacco, especially close to bedtime.
Don't eat, drink fluids, or exercise close to your bedtime.
Avoid long naps during the day.
If your lymph nodes are removed from your armpit, you may have swelling in your hand or arm, called lymphedema, on the side where you had surgery. This is more likely if you also have radiation therapy to your armpit. Lymphedema may occur right after surgery, or it may happen later. It is caused when excess lymph collects in tissue.
To reduce your risk or improve symptoms of lymphedema, take these actions.
Clean the skin of your arm daily and use moisturizing lotion.
Wear loose jewelry and clothes without tight bands.
Carry your handbag on your other arm.
Have your blood pressure taken on your other arm.
Do not use elastic bandages with tight bands.
Do not sit in one position for more than 30 minutes.
Watch for signs of infection, such as redness, pain, heat, swelling, and fever. Call the doctor immediately if any of these signs or symptoms appears.
Do your prescribed exercises regularly. If you have swelling, keep your affected arm raised above the level of your heart, when possible.
Keep regular follow-up appointments with your doctor.
To avoid injury and infection in your arm, take these precautions.
Use an electric razor for shaving.
Wear gardening and cooking gloves.
Use thimbles when sewing.
Take care of your fingernails. Don't cut or bite your cuticles.
Use sunscreen.
Clean cuts with soap and water, and then use antibacterial ointment.
Use gauze wrapping instead of tape; do not wrap so tightly that circulation is cut off.
Talk with your doctor or nurse about any rashes.
Avoid needles, like shots or blood draws, in the affected arm.
Avoid extreme hot or cold such as ice packs or heating pads.
Do not overwork the affected arm.
Some types of chemotherapy and hormone therapy can damage the ovaries or cause menopausal symptoms in women who've not yet reached menopause. They include symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal dryness, mood swings, and weight changes. Periods may become irregular or may stop, and you may not be able to get pregnant. However, some women may still be able to get pregnant during treatment.
If needed, talk with your doctor about birth control before treatment begins.
Talk with your doctor about ways to manage menopausal symptoms, such as using lubricants for vaginal dryness, doing mild exercise, and talking with a therapist about mood swings or signs of depression.
Report any unusual bleeding to your doctor.
Continue with regular pelvic exams.
Some types of treatment may cause mouth sores and dryness. Mouth sores may hurt and make eating unpleasant. Chronic dryness can impair your ability to taste, chew, and even speak.
To prevent sores or to treat dryness in your mouth, take these actions.
Brush your teeth after meals and before bedtime; floss every day.
Keep your mouth and lips clean and moist; try lip salves to keep your lips moist.
Suck on sugar-free candies or fruit bars or chew sugar-free gum to increase moisture in your mouth.
Sip water frequently.
Eat soft and pureed foods that are easier to swallow if you have dry mouth.
To ease the pain if you get sores in your mouth, take these actions.
Avoid alcohol and mouthwashes containing alcohol because they may irritate the sores.
Avoid hot, rough, or spicy foods because they may irritate the sores.
Avoid tobacco because it may irritate sores.
Ask your doctor about topical mouth medications.
Take over-the-counter pain medication, such as Tylenol (acetaminophen), if necessary.
Call your doctor or nurse if your temperature reaches 100.5 or higher.
Nausea or vomiting as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and sometimes hormone therapy for cancer may range from barely noticeable to severe. It may help you to understand the different types of nausea.
Acute-onset nausea and vomiting occurs within a few minutes to several hours after chemotherapy. The worst episodes tend to be 5 to 6 hours after treatment, and the symptoms end within the first 24 hours.
Delayed-onset vomiting develops more than 24 hours after treatment.
Anticipatory nausea and vomiting are learned from previous experiences with vomiting. As you prepare for the next dose of chemotherapy, you may anticipate that nausea and vomiting will occur as it did previously, which triggers the actual reflex.
Breakthrough vomiting means vomiting occurs despite treatment to prevent it. It requires other types of treatment.
Refractory vomiting occurs after one or more chemotherapy treatments--essentially, you're no longer responding to antinausea treatments.
To prevent nausea, take these actions.
Ask your doctor about getting a prescription medicine to control nausea and vomiting. Then, make sure you take it as directed. If you are vomiting and cannot take the medicine, call your doctor or nurse.
If you have bothersome nausea and vomiting even though you are taking your medicine, call your doctor or nurse. Your medicine may be changed or other medicines may be added to it.
To help ease nausea or vomiting if you have it, try these tips.
Try eating foods and drinking beverages that were easy to take or made you feel better when you had the flu or were nauseated from stress. These might be bland foods, sour candy, pickles, dry crackers, ginger ale, flat soda, or others.
Drink lots of fluids--6 to 8 glasses of liquids--such as water, broth, or Gatorade, a day to avoid dehydration.
Do not eat fatty or fried foods, very spicy foods, or very sweet foods.
Eat foods that are at room temperature or cold. The smells from hot foods may make your nausea worse.
Ask your doctor or nurse if he or she can help you learn a relaxation exercise. This may make you feel less anxious and more in control, and decrease your nausea.
Ask your doctor or nurse about using acupressure bands on your wrists, which may help decrease your nausea.
If you have numbness, tingling, or weakness in your hands and feet, you may have nerve damage called peripheral neuropathy. Some types of chemotherapy, such as Taxol, are known to cause this. Other signs of this problem are ringing in your ears or feeling too hot or too cold.
If you have symptoms such as these, let your doctor know and take precautions to protect yourself.
Take extra care walking and moving so that you don't fall.
Use warm, not hot, water for bathing to prevent burns. Consider using a shower chair or railing.
If your daily activities become too difficult, ask your doctor for a referral to an occupational therapist or a physical therapist. They can help teach you new ways of doing things so that you can stay as active as possible.
Take extra care when driving (you may have trouble feeling the gas and brake pedals). Ask friends and family to drive you places.
Try these tips to ease pain.
For mild to moderate pain, over-the-counter pain medication can help with pain in many parts of your body, such as your joints or back.
You can treat pain at an injection site with warm or cold compresses.
Take your pain medications regularly; don't wait for your pain to become severe. (Take steps to avoid constipation, a common side effect of pain medications.)
Change your activity level. See if you feel better if you rest more or move around more--either may help.
Distract yourself with music, funny videos, or computer games.
Use heat, cold, or relaxation techniques such as yoga, meditation, or guided visualization. Ask your doctor or nurse where you can learn more about these.
The removal of a breast can make your weight shift, causing you to feel off-balance, especially if you have large breasts. This can lead to discomfort in your neck and back. A bra with a fake breast, called a prosthesis, not only allows you to look like you did before your surgery, it also helps balance the weight in your chest. If you get a prosthesis, be sure to do the following:
Make sure the prosthesis fits properly.
Check that the weight of the prosthesis is similar to that of your remaining breast.
Consider getting a bra that has pockets inside to hold the prosthesis. This keeps the prosthesis from rubbing against your skin and causing irritation.
Hormone therapy may decrease your desire to have sex. Feelings of depression from having cancer, losing a breast, or fatigue from other treatments can also have a negative impact on your sexual desires.
Here are some ways you may cope better.
Talk with your partner about changes in your desire to have sex.
Explore new ways to share affection and intimacy.
Discuss sexual problems with your doctor or with other members of your healthcare team. They may be able to refer you to a counselor who specializes in sexual problems or to a sexual rehabilitation program.
Radiation treatment can cause dry or red skin in the area being treated. After breast surgery, the skin in the breast area may also be tight, or you may feel numbness or tingling over the chest area. With some types of chemotherapy, you may also have nail changes, such as splitting, or slower growth.
Try these tips.
Protect your skin from sun exposure, especially between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., by wearing sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15.
Ask your doctor or nurse what kind of lotion you can use to moisturize and soothe your skin. Don't use any lotion, soap, deodorant, sun block, cologne, cosmetics, or powder on your skin within two hours after radiation treatment because they may cause irritation.
Wear loose, soft clothing over the treated area. Cotton underwear can help prevent further irritation.
Ask your nurse or doctor about special exercises and other ways to cope with changes in sensation, such as tightness or numbness in the chest area.
Don't scratch, rub, or scrub treated skin. After washing, gently blot-dry.
Don't bandage skin with tape. If you must bandage it, use paper tape and ask your nurse to help you place the dressings so that you can avoid irritation.
Don't apply heat or cold to the treated area. Bathe only with lukewarm water.
If you must shave the treated area, use only an electric shaver. Don't use lotion before shaving. And don't use hair-removal products.
Keep your nails well trimmed and clean.
You may have mild problems with concentration and memory during and after chemotherapy. Fatigue can make the problem worse.
Taking these actions may help.
Make lists and write down important information.
Use other tools to help organize your life, such as calendars, pill dispensers, or alarm clocks.
Ask your doctor about medications or nutritional supplements that may help.
Tiredness is a very common symptom and side effect. Many things can cause fatigue, such as depression, pain, poor nutrition, certain medications, and inadequate sleep. It can also be a result of anemia caused by low levels of red blood cells, which carry oxygen throughout the body. If your body does not have this oxygen, you may feel tired. Decreased red blood cell counts can be caused by blood loss, chemotherapy or radiation, or the cancer itself. Other changes in blood counts can also cause fatigue. Tiredness can last months after treatment ends. You may feel only slightly tired, or you may suffer from extreme fatigue.
Taking these actions may help increase your energy levels.
Take short rests when you feel tired. Avoid long naps during the day so that you can sleep well at night.
Add regular exercise, such as walking, to your daily routine, under your doctor's supervision. It may also help you sleep better.
Balance activity with rest. Save your energy for important tasks.
Drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration, which can lead to tiredness.
Take action to treat a poor appetite because eating improperly can make you tired. And as long as diarrhea isn't a problem for you, it may help to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates, such as whole wheat bread.
If your fatigue is severe or chronic, ask for help with routine tasks that can drain your energy, such as grocery shopping or housework. Some people reduce their hours at work.
Talk with your doctor about medications or treatments that may help you manage your anemia.
Vaginal dryness and discharge can be bothersome side effect of hormone therapy. In addition to vaginal dryness, lowered estrogen levels may cause women to have vaginal thinning and difficult or painful intercourse. Lubricants can help with some of these problems. Vaginal infections may also occur more often. When you talk with your doctor about these problems, make sure he or she knows you've had cancer. Try these methods to ease symptoms.
Use over-the-counter vaginal moisturizers and lubricants Replens, Gyne-Moistrin, and Lubrin.
Before sexual activity use water-soluble lubricants, such as KY Jelly and Astroglide or any vaginal moisturizers.
Apply vitamin E oil to the area to ease irritation and burning.
Ask your doctor about products that may help replace estrogen vaginally.
As relief for infections, try over-the-counter antifungal creams, but see your gynecologist for symptoms that do not go away.
This can result from hormone therapy. To help lose weight, take these actions.
Exercise each day for about 20 to 30 minutes, under your doctor's supervision.
Eat foods low in fat, such as fruits and vegetables.
Ask your doctor to recommend a weight-management program.


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MILWAUKEE -- Privacy considerations prevented the Brewers from providing details, but a family matter was behind right-hander Mike Fiers' move from Triple-A Nashville to Class A Advanced Brevard County on Tuesday. Fiers' family lives only a few hours south along Florida's east coast from the Manatees' home.
"He has a personal issue that he needs to be around home, so we're trying to accommodate him," assistant general manager Gord Ash said. "He will pitch there [on Wednesday], and we're hoping it's just once, but we're not 100 percent. It serves the purpose for this week, but we're hopeful that he will make his next start back at Nashville. We'll see how circumstances play out, but I certainly wouldn't categorize it as a demotion."
To the contrary, Fiers has thrown the ball well since being sent down to the Minors after one Major League start. He allowed only three earned runs in his first 17 Triple-A innings for a 1.59 ERA, with 17 strikeouts and a .197 opponents' average.
Also headed to Brevard County was reliever Francisco Rodriguez, who threw a scoreless eighth inning there on Tuesday, with a walk and two strikeouts. The right-hander is scheduled to pitch again on Thursday and Saturday before the Brewers consider a promotion to Triple-A Nashville.
The Brewers, who signed Rodriguez to a Minor League deal on April 17, have until the middle of this month to decide whether he fits in the big league bullpen. If they do not promote him to the Majors within 30 days of his signing, Rodriguez can elect for free agency again.
Rodriguez had been throwing in extended spring training until now, because he just obtained a work visa last week. If the Brewers add him to the Major League roster, Rodriguez will earn a prorated portion of a salary just above $2 million.
"At this point, he's only thrown bullpens and batting practice, so we have no real measurements," Ash said. "But he looks fine."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The program, which serves Abingdon, Galesburg, Knoxville, and ROWVA school districts in Knox County, is designed to help high school students excel in secondary and post-secondary education. 65 Knox County area high school students, grades 9-12, are served by Upward Bound on an annual basis. Once a student has been selected to participate in the program, he or she will continue to receive Upward Bound services throughout their high school career. Limited follow-up services are provided as Upward Bound staff track program graduates as they complete their postsecondary education.
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I just saw a film last weekend called No Impact Man. It's about a journalist from New York and his family who decide to live for a year trying to have no net environmental impact. He goes to some extremes which seem ascetic from a modern Western point of view, but it's an interesting experiment nonetheless.
What struck me is how much Buddhist themes keep popping up. Admittedly, I see the Dhamma everywhere I look now, since it's about fundamentally human issues and not "Buddhist" ones. But this movie, more than others, seemed to pique my notice.
For example, reducing environmental impact inevitably involves abandoning the obsessive consumerist pursuits, which they do. Initially, it's like going through detox. The wife, self-admittedly, is struggling especially, and at one point says "It's like the wanting part of me is dying" (a.k.a. craving, clinging, nidanas) At a later point in the film when she has more perspective on the project, she mentions how "consumption for the sake of consumption" leads to a kind of "coma" (i.e. ignorance).
What's also interesting is that after the detox, they actually find life to be much more satisfying. They get out of their home (since there's no television, internet, etc.) and the days "feel like they last forever." Even the name "No Impact Man" is a restatement of ahimsa.
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We can all hope that the San Francisco-centric demonstrations featuring protesters blocking so-called Google (GOOG) buses are over.
First, Silicon Valley's tech giants this week agreed to pay the city to monitor and enforce the use of Muni bus stops by the big luxury cruisers that carry workers from San Francisco to tech campuses in the South Bay. (Who would have guessed that San Francisco would become a bedroom community for Silicon Valley?)
And then Google decided to add exclusive ferry service from San Francisco to Redwood City, as a second way to get its brilliant and brilliantly paid workforce from the land of hills and fog to the land of tilt-ups and cubes. The move could ease tensions by taking a few buses off the crowded streets of San Francisco, but for now it's only an experiment. (And God help us should activists turn from protesting Google buses to protesting Google boats. I'm seeing Greenpeace on the bay.)
At any rate, a cease-fire in the bus wars would be a good thing. The buses were always a bad target for activists with a good cause: working to counter rising rents, increasing evictions and spreading gentrification.
A little background: More and more in recent years, valley companies have been shuttling workers between San Francisco and the valley. Many hip tech workers prefer the vibe of San Francisco, and valley companies see the free ride as a valuable recruiting and retention tool. Now, as the economy has improved and demand for housing has increased, high-paid tech workers are among those bidding up rents in San Francisco and encouraging developers to convert rental apartments into more lucrative condos.
As rents soared and somewhat affordable neighborhoods got gussied up and unaffordable, activists seized on tech workers as the culprits. They took to the streets, blocking the corporate shuttles and gaining media attention.
"They're definitely, for us, a symbol of a wider systemic issue, which is these tech companies are basically becoming, if you want to call it, the ruling class or the upper class in San Francisco," Erin McElroy, of Eviction Free San Francisco, says of the double-decker buses. And she said activists haven't ruled out blocking buses again in an effort to make their larger point.
I get it. I understand why strategic activists see the Google buses and other luxury shuttles serving Facebook, Apple (AAPL), Yahoo (YHOO), LinkedIn, eBay (EBAY), Tesla, Adobe (ADBE) and others, as buzz-worthy targets. They are the perfect metaphor for the global corporations that deploy the shuttles to move their workers around the bay. Think big, powerful, machines rolling down Highway 101 and moving from diamond lane to exit lane the way aggressive companies move through the marketplace. Whether it's competing commuters or competing companies, the unspoken message is "get out of the way or get crushed."
Even Matt Regan, of the Bay Area Council, a regional business-backed nonprofit that works to influence public policy, sees the emotional appeal of railing against the buses.
"There is a legitimate cause for concern and angst in some neighborhoods and communities in San Francisco about housing affordability," says Regan, who worked on the deal that says shuttle-using companies will pay San Francisco about $1.5 million to monitor their bus programs for 18 months. "People are looking for physical ramifications to blame, and all the sudden they're seeing these large white buses on the street and they say, 'That must be the cause.'"
But look at the buses another way: Cushy, yes, but filled with people on their way to work — people, who more likely than not worked hard to put themselves in a position to land at some of the world's most successful companies. And consider that high-paying tech jobs spawn other jobs: UC-Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti puts the multiplier at five additional jobs created for every tech job created.
"They work long hours," Regan says of the tech workers, "so when they come home, they eat out and use services. They have dog-walkers and gardeners." And Moretti points out, they visit doctors and hire lawyers and architects.
It's one of the ways an economy grows — which is not to say growth is painless. In fact, what San Francisco and much of the Bay Area is experiencing with high rents and a tightening real estate market is one of those recurring themes in Silicon Valley. Think of it as the downside of the upswing.
"It's been a huge economic boom," Regan says, "and the ramification of that is rising rents and less affordability."
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It's Saturday Monday Tuesday morning around 10:30. I'm unshowered. About 15 minutes ago I put on this trucker hat I got from the Mountain Marathon. I never wear this hat. I also never blog. I decided that if I'm really committed to accomplishing one thing I never do I might as well add another—to make the final accomplishment a little more significant and all.
And seriously, after snapping a healthy selection of "me in my trucker hat" selfies, I'm really optimistic about my chances to Andy-Murray my way out of this super-long race-reporting drought.
Set 1. My original plan was to run the Marin Ultra Challenge 50k on June 22. School was ending the 18th, and I needed a thing that would help me avoid (or at least delay) a crippling, god-I-miss-those-promising-young-people summer ennui. The 50k, with its proximity to a few cool cronies and the lovely San Franny Bay (which, for being Californian, is even better than half-bad) promised to keep bored brooding away until at least late July.
I was pleased and proud about my plan. When my first year of teaching dropped me off at the station, I had a place to take my suitcases and a salve to heal my atrophied soul.
Set 2. I suppose I had it coming. First drafts are never good enough, as I routinely tell students with a gruff huff and fusillade of corrections. And when I submitted the first draft of my race plan to the high-standards Matzes, they used their figurative red pens to rip it to ribbons.
"QUIT MUCKING AROUND," they told me. REGISTER FOR THE (and I believe one of them swore, though I can't remember which) –––––––––– ING 50-MILER.
I received their remarks whilst reviewing my course evaluations—"u are like the best dressed teacher hear, or at least u would be if u got some cute shoes but i already told you that i think"— and was in a position to take feedback very seriously.
"WHAT? NO." I retorted.
The Matzes followed up with a subtly sinister combination of emoticons. And as it was the middle of the night—when emoticons prove most formidable—I registered for the 50-miler.
Set 3. I arrived in the California capital on race eve. The aforementioned Matzes, who do not believe in fribbling away any scrap of the day, ferried me through downtown, the ghetto, and Whitey's Jolly Kone before taking me on down to good old Friscy Dingles.
Set 4. I don't remember what time we got up on race morning, but it was early enough that I didn't mind the hotel's weird single-serve pouchy-coffee stuff (you know what I mean) or the lingering smell of rubber pizza and fake garlic bread. I didn't mind the cinnamon-raisin bagel I ate while in the car, nor did I mind using one of the race site's two available portable toilets, neither of which appeared to be meeting even the loosest of sanitation standards. I didn't mind making smalltalk with the fishermen out on the pier. I genuinely enjoyed the seagulls flittering around my ankles while I tried to look lively for this grand shot.
Set 5. We started running just before sunlight varnished the headlands with apricot lacquer. I squealed happily (on the inside): "I could be at an outlet mall contemplating a life of spinsterhood, but I'm doing a 50-miler instead!" And with that, I rediscovered a months-concealed quarry of intense positiveness, and I ran on its riches for the first—god, 3 hours?
—How beautiful is the mist is as it surrenders to the day!
—How fragrant is the dust as it chats coyly with with the eucalyptus!
—How melodic is the slow, contralto buzzing of the bees as they tease the shining chickweed!
The three of us chugged up the opening climbs and bombed down the ensuing descents, occasionally tossing back and forth such happy exclamations as, "Just look at the lurid sea!" and "My gel is tasting awesome this morning!"
Then came Kynan's crap miles. He and Laura had warned me about these in passing, but having never seen him—nor his delightful counterpart—wearing anything but a cheerful disposition, I paid little attention. Sure enough, however, as our mileage hit the late teens/early twenties, Kynan's spirits came fiercely and darkly gusting over our crew. For a while I continued mining my quarry of positivity, but it soon became apparent that Kynan was no longer interested in my gems. In fact, I noticed that was getting a little hot myself, so I decided to stop mining operations until further notice.
As it turned out, operations did not resume until much later than I anticipated. Because as Kynan's spirits emerged from his internal Mariana Trench, mine plunged to their own gloomy trough.
I think it was around mile 34. Maybe it was 35. But it was sudden, like a macroburst over the curséd midwest (sorry). Just moments earlier I had been practically gagging on supernatural levels of happiness, and then, with scarce a warning—mental hail, emotional downdraft. Darkness. If I'd have been an aircraft, they'd still be looking for my black box. If I'd have been a house, my roof would've blown off. If I'd been a power line, I'd probably be down and electrocuting cute squirrel families. But I was just a person running in the California sun. And so:
1. Why aren't the stupid aid station volunteers wearing deodorant?
2. Stop ringing your stupid cowbell and stop, for christsake, telling me to run.
3. Why are those stupid dayhikers wearing Camelbaks?
4. Why does this stupid pasture smell like manure? Don't those stupid farmers clean up after their stupid horses?
Everything felt stupid, including me. I was a cloud-cover native running 50 miles in the sun five days after school got out, and I was tired and I was hot and, despite my five previous 50ks and 14 marathons, I felt like I was going to die.
The long, winding hill after the aid station (the one with the deodorantless volunteers) was a scabrous stretch. An intestinal derecho moved in, and I threw up espresso-flavoured bile into the weeds. A piece of gravel worked its way into my shoe, and because I was too pissed to remove it, the little devil started a blister. My fingers got really puffy, my eyes started to burn, and I didn't want to eat anything any more. SO STUPID, I fumed.
At some point on the stupid hill the kind and wise running duo came to my rescue. Laura gave me Tums and Kynan gave me a mint and neither of them commented on my fuming. By the time I reached the top of the hill, I felt a little better. And by the time I reached the mile 40 aid station, I had discovered the fabled 10 miles-to-go second wind.
The last stretch of the race was a 6 miles up, 3 miles down affair. And while my legs were quivering like my grandmother's aspic, my mind—whew-ee, my mind! It was back cavorting with the cloud nymphs. I recall skillfully delivering a few one-liners, merrily greeting a picnicking family, and opening the quarry I'd closed so many miles ago.
—How delicate is the breeze as it greets my sweaty face!
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My mining muscles were a little wobbly, but as we knocked off the final climb and began skidding the three miles down to the finish, I was far from crotchety. Kynan started congratulating me when we were 2.5 miles out. Laura kicked up her heels shortly thereafter. I squinted hopefully and bit my lip and let the two of them run ahead.
With less than a mile to go, they let me catch up. Kynan congratulated me again; I told him to shut up. Then we ducked under the Golden Gate, scuffed past the fetid portable toilets, and rushed under the inflatable arch. It was quarter to 6 and I'd just finished a bloody 50-miler, stupid miles and all.


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Manhattan Movement & Arts Center announces auditions for Manhattan Youth Ballet's Fall Program at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. Auditions will take place on Wednesday, September 5, 2012. Appointments must be made by phone at 212-787-1178.
Applicants will train with a diverse faculty from NYCB, ABT, The Kirov, The Royal Ballet, and more, with multiple performance opportunities throughout the year, including the works of Petipa, Bournonville, Balanchine, new works, and The Knickerbocker Suite. The Manhattan Youth Ballet is under the direction of Executive Artistic Director Rose Caiola and Artistic Advisor Daniel Ulbricht.
Modeled with an emphasis on European classical ballet, Manhattan Youth Ballet (MYB) offers world-class training in a nurturing environment focused on discipline, precision and artistry. MYB is the culmination of Ms. Rose Caiola's effort for the past fifteen years to create a viable and curriculum-based ballet academy in Manhattan in order to serve the needs of the multifaceted community. Principal members of the faculty have received their training in schools such as the School of American Ballet, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and the Kirov Ballet. The faculty strives to bring out the individual potential of each student with an emphasis on artistry as well as technique to create truly versatile dancers for the current dance world. Education is a top priority at Manhattan Youth Ballet and the school has numerous community outreach programs to promote dance education. Since moving to its new home at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center in September 2008, over 2,500 New York City school children have participated in lecture demonstrations and/or been MYB's invited guests at full-length performances.
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