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Pregnant women in the Crossroads seeking an abortion may encounter stricter guidelines from their doctors if a proposed bill is passed in the Texas Legislature.
Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, plans to introduce legislation that would require what some call more rigid protocols for physicians administering abortion-inducing drugs, such as mifepristone, known formerly as RU-486, to pregnant women.
Patrick's SB 97 would require, among other stipulations, that physicians be required to personally administer all doses of the medication to the pregnant women, even if they occur on multiple days.
The bill also requires physicians to examine the pregnant woman and chart the gestational age and intrauterine location of the pregnancy before administering the drug, as well as execute an emergency plan for unforeseen medical problems that may arise while the woman is on the medication.
Patrick's bill also requires the pregnant woman's doctor to schedule a follow-up visit within 14 days of administering the drug whereby the doctor must determine that the pregnancy is terminated. If any drug-related emergencies occur, the bill also requires physicians to report the events within three days to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or face possible disciplinary action through the Texas Medical Board.
Opponents of the bill argue the legislation would drive up the cost of medical services, impress additional costs for the drugs and create other economic disadvantages for low-income women who may live in areas such as Victoria, where the nearest clinics to obtain abortion-related medical services is more than an hour away.
Dr. Michael Klein, a Victoria general practitioner, supports Patrick's bill and the increase in stipulations it would require.
"It's not making it more challenging, it's protecting the patient," Klein said. "There's issues with any of this stuff. It's not just like you're having a bowel movement. You're passing something out of a uterus."
Klein said the bill is valid because any medication that terminates a pregnancy warrants additional supervision and protocols from physicians -- not only to make sure the doctors uphold their Hippocratic Oaths to "do no harm," but also to make sure the patient is protected in emergency situations.
"The problem is that it kills the baby, and the person still has to deliver the baby. That's what you need the doctor for, to make sure it's all gone," he said, mentioning his belief that administering the pregnancy-terminating drugs goes against the Hippocratic Oath.
"Doctors are sworn not to do any harm. How can you argue that this wouldn't cause harm?" he said. "It may not violate the mother, but it harms the baby. If you give that, somebody is going to die. Why wouldn't you want to have a doctor around?"
St. Mary's Church, the Rev. Dan Morales, also said he supports the legislation.
"Any legislation that would help to further limit or abolish abortion, I'm all for it," Morales said. "It sounds like it's taken from the perspective of protecting the woman, and that in and of itself is a good thing. In my opinion, the legislation doesn't go far enough. It's better than no regulation."
Morales said he is often confronted with questions about the government's attempts to legislate moral issues, such as abortion. But he said the church supports any issues that protect mankind from inception to death.
"Ideally, you want to change people's hearts" without referring to the government. "But we do legislate issues on morality, such as violence against one another and killing," he said. "Many of our laws do stand in defense of life and if all of our laws would stand in support of life from conception to its natural end of life, that would be ideal."
Dr. John McNeill, a Victoria internist and owner of Twin Fountains medical clinic, said many Victoria physicians do not prescribe the abortion-inducing drugs, or perform abortions, they may not be as familiar with the side effects of the drugs.
"I've only had one patient request it, and I referred her to an OB-GYN. I learned later she was referred out of town because they didn't provide the service here," McNeill said.
The bill, McNeill said, was unnecessary legislation authored by a senator with the intention of making it more difficult for women to get an abortion.
"Something like this is going to have to increase costs, especially if it requires a second physician to be present" to administer the drug, he said. "It's not a government issue. It's an issue between the woman and her doctor, and she needs to look at all the options."
Other legislative preview stories:
Crossroads experts to monitor Medicaid expansion
Cities to watch for unfunded mandates in 2013 session
Entertainment, downtown groups expect little change in legislative session
Officials say 2-1-1 help line funding vital
Texas Senate to consider law that bans texting and driving
Proposed bill could shake up criminal court procedure
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From a wonderful collection of real colour Dufaycolor slides kindly provided by Roy Cooper of the Admiralty Camera Club. These were all taken by a H.L. Hancock on or around May 1937 when Bath was decorated to celebrate the coronation of George VI.
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By MELANIE TORMOS, mixed media artist living in the East Bay. She is bushwacking her way through her first semester at CIIS as an MFA student in the Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts program.
This post was written as an assignment for professor Cindy Shearer's CIA 7091: MFA Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop. As part of a community of artists working across art perspectives, students in this course get the chance to teach each other about their art form(s), practice, lineage and influences, and are challenged to inquire into the interdisciplinary arts as well as forms new to them.
Blazing trails always appealed to me, and I never met a dirt path I didn't want to veer from. Even now I am making a map of my creative past and slowly finding my way across new artistic and conceptual terrain. Discovering my way of being in the world means that I am bringing my journey out into the open, tracing a finger over the route I have taken and plan to take. I know what inspires me and what repels me, but I've never broken down how I make the choices that lead me to the art I create. I know my process is part of what differentiates me from other artists, and if I can distill that down to a powerful essence by naming it, observing it, and articulating it, I can be completely confident in my authenticity.
Who doesn't love a treasure map, forged or not? The best part is the nudge towards adventure and discovery, not necessarily the promise of riches untold. It seems every artist, in identifying as such, makes a choice to trust the journey, to keep the map close, yet be willing to learn that the treasure is a myth. In dreams and in the richness of imagination, the artist suspects there is something precious in the legend itself, that perhaps the map and the treasure are one and the same.
On the trail I'm a loner—but as an artist, I invite the world to walk with me. Every time I present a new artwork, it is a naked meditation, a labyrinthine path into a wounded, slow-to-mend center. I bring my audience along to converse with along the way, to pass the time in the dark when the scenery all looks the same. Some stick around longer than others, even through the more desolate places. Some are drawn to the scenic beauty and take leave when the road becomes tough to tread. Either way, I welcome everyone, as equals, to see the world as I do and to talk as if there is no destination.
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Other Centers and Institutes
There are dozens of Centers and Institutes whose work touches in some way issues of religious freedom and the role of religion in public life. This list offers links to a few of them.
Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
A non-profit education and advocacy organization promoting religious liberty for all and upholding the principle of church-state separation; offers excellent analysis and resources about current issues.
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
The Boisi Center is affiliated with Boston College. Its purpose is to connect scholars, policy makers, media and religious leaders in conversations and scholarly reflection around issues at the intersection of religion and American public life.
Center for the Study of Law and Religion
An interdisciplinary academic initiative of the Emory University School of Law that seeks to bring the wisdom of religious traditions into greater conversation with law and the social sciences.
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
A research and public outreach institute devoted to increasing the understanding of the relation between religion and other features of American culture. The Center is based in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Council for America's First Freedom/First Freedom Center
A national educational center devoted to the protection and expansion of religious freedom worldwide. Its central project is the First Freedom Center in Richmond, Virginia, an interactive visitor center with exhibits exploring the development of religious freedom in America and related national and international issues.
A project of Vanderbilt University; offers research on First Amendment issues and topics, daily First Amendment news, several resources on the First Amendment, and guest analyses by respected legal specialists.
Institute of Bill of Rights Law
A project of the William and Mary School of Law that provides an interdisciplinary for discussing and debating matters of law and policy as a means of increasing our understanding of important constitutional issues.
An interfaith advocacy group that seeks to promote democratic values, defend religious liberty, challenge hatred and religious bigotry, and reinvigorate informed civic participation.
International Association for Religious Freedom
An international and interfaith organization based in the United Kingdom.
J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies
A project of Baylor University devoted to research in the broad field of church and state and the advancement of religious liberty around the world.
The Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life
A project of Trinity College that seeks to advance knowledge and understanding of the role of religion in the contemporary world, and to explore the challenges of religious pluralism and the influence of religion on politics, civic culture, family life, gender roles, and other issues in the United States and elsewhere in the world.
An institute for the advanced interdisciplinary study of religion, located at the University of Chicago.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
A research organization that gathers and disseminates information and provides forums for public discussion about issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.
A research center at Harvard University that offers excellent resources on religious diversity in America.
Religious Freedom Page, Library of Virginia
A collection of useful resources, including historical documents, constitutions, laws, court decisions, information about religious freedom organizations, and other information. Maintained by the University of Virginia library; includes a list of other religious freedom sites.
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Memorial Day weekend is pretty much synonymous with food and wine for us here at My Wine Education. It means two things: Taste of Cincinnati and opening weekend for the local wineries.
Taste of Cincinnati is the longest running culinary festival in the US. How about that? 32 years! Every year, Kevin and I go and the menu for us is pretty straight forward. I pretty much eat crepes and cheesecake and cream puffs … every dessert I can find. Kevin tries every BBQ he can find. We usually drink some Moerlein and Great Lakes beer and we have wonderful food-filled day.
Kevin and I are usually there on Sunday or Monday, as I can't handle the crowds on Saturday. It's generally hot, so we bring water and stay hydrated all day. No passing out down on Fifth Street!
You'll find all the information you need about Taste at their web site – they even have a Twitter account!
On Saturday, instead of fighting crowds downtown, we'll be enjoying a leisurely drive out to both Kinkead Ridge and Harmony Hill. Both wineries, as well as La Vigna Estate, open for the summer this weekend. However, while La Vigna and Harmony Hill will be open Fridays and Saturdays throughout the summer, Kinkead Ridge is open only this Saturday and Monday. If you want some Viognier-Roussane (I do!), get it now and get it early. It's in limited supply.
If you want to spend the day lazily going from winery to winery, I recommend this route, starting in Ripley and ending in Bethel: Kinkead Ridge, Meranda-Nixon, La Vigna Estate, and ending at Harmony Hill. If you can, stop and pick up some munchies and sit out on the Harmony Hill patio with glass of wine, listening to the music.
Have a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend. And remember, if you've had too much to drink – just call the FETCH taxi service at 513.35.FETCH.
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Montana's 2004 Teacher of the Year selected
Bozeman and Hardin teachers selected as finalists
Alyson Mike was speechless last week when learned she'd been selected as Montana's 2004 Teacher of the Year. "People at work told me it was the first time they'd ever seen me at a loss for words," she laughed.
Mike, a physical science teacher at East Valley Middle School in East Helena, was chosen by a committee including the 2003 Montana Teacher of the Year, other educators, a parent and PTA board member, a student teacher, and an Office of Public Instruction official.
Montana's Teacher of the Year program annually honors a teacher who exemplifies excellence in the teaching profession. The program is sponsored by the Montana Professional Teaching Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes great teaching.
Mike's enthusiasm for learning is "contagious," said Jennifer Mow, a teaching colleague at East Valley. "Her students love science; they can't wait to see what's going to happen in class that day. She never sells even one single student short, expecting the best of them and teaching them to expect the best of themselves."
"When my children or their friends are asked which teacher made the most impact on them, Ms. Mike is commonly the teacher they refer to," said East Helena parent Julie Buchman. "In a word, they think Ms. Mike is 'awesome.'"
Mike said her teaching success depends on making a personal connection with each of her students. That's the "hook that grabs the students and allows me to teach," she said. "I connect with every kid twice every day."
Once students are hooked, they're in for an unforgettable journey. "Science is not a spectator sport," Mike said. She believes in lots of hands-on activities to teach science concepts.
For example, in her unit on chemical reactions, Mike's students have to build a vehicle powered solely by Alka-Seltzer. They design and build bridges out of balsa wood to demonstrate weight-bearing principles. They must design a boat that will go at least eight feet powered by either a simple machine or electricity to show their understanding of those science concepts.
Because parents like to get in on the action too, Mike holds a science competition just for parents, to make sure students get to do their own projects.
That's just one way she connects with parents. Mike also sends out a monthly e-mail newsletter to parents, keeping them posted on what the class is doing, due dates for assignments, and web sites parents can use to help their children learn. "Parents love it," she said.
And when Mike found herself spending nearly $2,000 a year out of her own pocket to buy science supplies, she helped create "science stocks." Parents buy stock certificates for a dollar per share, and the money goes to the school's science department for supplies. Even though East Helena schools have struggled with funding cuts recently, "kids didn't miss out on anything because parents pitched in," she said.
Mike's passion for teaching goes far beyond the classroom. Every other year, she organizes a non-school sponsored science trip to Seattle for up to 45 students. She mentors new teachers and shares her knowledge to help experienced teachers teach their best.
Mike says her greatest accomplishment in education is achieving National Board Certification, the highest level of certification a U.S. teacher can achieve. "The process has had a profound impact on my teaching," she said.
Outside the school community, Mike has devoted her time to volunteering at a summer camp for physically handicapped children, helping resurrect a science facility for statewide use, and providing respite care for a physically handicapped person.
"Alyson Mike typifies thousands of teachers across the state who have hearts and commitment to match Montana's Big Sky," said Eric Feaver, chair of the Montana Professional Teaching Foundation.
As Montana's Teacher of the Year, Mike will represent Montana at the National Teacher of the Year event. She will also serve as a spokesperson and ambassador for the teaching profession throughout the year.
Along with Mike, finalists in the 2004 Montana Teacher of the Year event are Deborah Flanigan, 4th and 5th grade teacher at Morning Star Elementary in Bozeman, and Paulette Frazer, 6th-8th grade teacher at Hardin Middle School in Hardin.
All three finalists will be honored at a special celebration October 16 during the MEA-MFT Educators' Conference in Billings.
Number of years as a teacher:
16 (all in Montana - previously taught biology/chemistry/physics at Circle High School and biology/algebra at Shepherd High School)
University of Montana M.S.T. 1988-1992
Montana State University B.S 1980-1985
Previous awards and recognition:
2002 - National Board Certification – Early Adolescent Science
2001 - Presidential Award for Excellence in Math & Science Teaching
2001- Montana Finalist – Presidential Award for Excellence in Math & Science Teaching
2001 - Montana Science Teachers Association Middle School Teacher of the Year
1990 - Inspirational Teacher Award, Montana State University
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Rick Santorum's critique of Obama's foreign policy doesn't withstand scrutiny.
Rick Santorum doesn't doubt that President Obama was born in this country, but he does doubt whether he believes in it. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech Thursday, the likely presidential candidate argued that because Obama does not believe America plays a special role in the world, he is unfit to lead America.
Santorum's speech offered a 10-point plan for reviving American foreign policy, including protecting defense spending from cuts, support for Israel and better intelligence capabilities. At its heart though, the speech was guided by the notion that America can prosper only if its leader promotes the belief that it is a unique moral force in the world, promoting freedom and fighting evil in countries like Iran, Venezuela, and China. One of the problems with Obama, Santorum says, is that "he doesn't believe America is exceptional."
This is not a new charge. Several conservatives have made it (Mitt Romney has even reduced it to a bumper sticker: "Believe in America"). But when I talked to Santorum after his speech, however, the clear bright distinctions about ideas of freedom and America's role became less clear. As a political critique, the American exceptionalism claim is powerful. Upon examination, however, it loses much of its force.
Obama, who has spoken regularly since the early days of his campaign about the unique qualities of the American character, thinks America is exceptional. It's just that his definition of exceptional isn't the same as conservatives'. This is a legitimate debate—but it's not the same debate as whether the president believes in the idea at all.
"He was asked point blank whether he believed in American exceptionalism and his answer was people of every culture think they are exceptional," Santorum said of the president. A host of conservatives have cited this passage from an answer Obama gave at a press conference at a NATO summit in April 2009. The part of the answer they cite—and leave it at that—is when Obama says, "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." So I asked the senator about the rest of Obama's answer, starting with the next sentence, in which he said: "I am enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world." Obama then listed the sacrifices Americans had made to make the world free, and concluded by saying that "America has a continued extraordinary role in leading the world."
I asked Santorum about his claim that Obama believes "America had nothing to offer the world" given that, in the answer Santorum cites, the president also said: "I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that, though imperfect, are exceptional."
"Those are processes," said the former senator. "Yes those are processes, and I would agree that those processes are important, but what I talked about was the core concept of American exceptionalism not being in the Constitution but being in the Declaration of Independence. Which is the idea of limited government. And that the purpose of government is to create an opportunity for people to be free."
Santorum also said that Obama had apologized for America, though he couldn't cite a specific instance. Conservatives sometimes cite a line from Obama's speech in Cairo in June 2009. "We sometimes make mistakes. We are not perfect." (There are other instances.) Yet Santorum himself, when talking about America as a "moral force," makes clear that America has not always been perfect. He pointed me to "caveats" in his speech when he talked about America as a moral enterprise. "It's a moral enterprise, but like any moral enterprise, you know we all fall short. … We don't always live up to those principles, but I think we have an obligation to strive to do so."
Substantively, if not rhetorically, this view is no different than the president's. Where Santorum and other conservatives disagree with the president is the instances in which America has fallen short. But that's a disagreement less severe than the broad charge that America is a failure.
By the end of our interview, Santorum had all but abandoned his textual analysis of Obama's remarks. "Politicians always give some sort of platitudes," he said. "What American president isn't going to say America is a great country? Of course he is going to say America is a great country. Or, America is an exceptional country." He suggested that Obama be judged on whether his actions were consistent with the idea that America should play a moral role in the world based on ideas of freedom that Santorum had outlined in his speech.
Hadn't the president just launched a military operation in Libya based in part on the same kind of moral imperatives Santorum had discussed in his speech? "There will be times … when our safety is not directly threatened but our interests and values are," Obama said in March. He talked about "our responsibilities to our fellow human beings," universal rights, and the core principles Americans share with those fighting Qaddafi. He cited America's unique history—"born, as we are, out of a revolution by those who longed to be free."
Santorum dismissed the idea. "Why didn't he get involved when there was an opportunity four or five days into this conflict, when they were asking for our help; why didn't he get involved if freedom is the watch word?" He also wondered why, if the president cared about freedom, he stopped short of finishing the job and overthrowing Qaddafi.
Santorum's foreign policy vision, despite his talk of America's moral force and the obligation to support freedom, is a realist approach. He said he wasn't sure he would have intervened in Libya. The freedom of oppressed Libyan citizens was not reason enough. He also criticized the United States for not sticking with its longtime ally, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
Substantively Santorum may be right, but if Obama failed in those cases it was in part because he put too much emphasis on supporting the aspirations of the protesters demanding freedom. He behaved like the kind of president Santorum said he would like to be.
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After leaked photos of Honda's 2012 CR-V concept car reached the online world, Honda has now released official details and an image of its next-generation CR-V.
The new crossover will debut at a California show this September and be on sale in North America by the end of the year and in global markets by mid 2012.
The 2012 CR-V Concept is a pre-production model with flashy details like gloss black mouldings, but gives a clear idea of the upcoming production car.
"The 2012 CR-V Concept introduces the exterior styling for the more sophisticated and dynamic design of the upcoming production model," said John Mendel, executive vice president of sales for American Honda.
Rear styling is hard to judge, but Honda has said the current CR-V model's vertical rear taillights will be retained but with a more three-dimensional style. Inside, the CR-V will feature an all-new interior with a more spacious design and lower cargo floor.
The new CR-V is expected to be lighter and be offered with a new six-speed automatic transmission. Little is known about engine options at this stage but expect petrol and turbo diesel offerings depending on market.
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- Modern canal boats near Camden Locks, London
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Yesterday, the NHL said it would be investigating the contract signed between Marian Hossa and the Chicago Blackhawks on the ground that the two parties may have colluded to circumvent the salary cap allowed by the current collective bargaining agreement. Similarly, the league revealed today it will also have a peek at the Chris Pronger deal.
Please don't let the league know this, too, is all Sutter's fault.
Let's go back to an idyllic time, when we actually thought that Flames team wasn't a slowly rotting pile of cat turd. It's early fall 2007, and Miikka Kiprusoff, before his numbers turned near-Raycroftian, has just signed a six-year deal worth $35 million. It was, at the time, more than fair market value for the goalie that had just won the Vezina trophy the season prior, sandwiching his pay grade between perhaps the best goalie in the league (Roberto Luongo's $6.5 million) and the best goalie of all time (Martin Brodeur's annual salary of $5.2 million). Calgary fans were, rightly, thrilled.
But that contract was almost certainly the first in this salary cap era to be front-loaded: the first three years $8 million per, the fourth was for $6 million, the fifth for $3.5 million and the sixth and final for a paltry $1.5 million. A good bit of business for the Flames, certainly, and rival GMs clearly took notice. In the last few years, Detroit jumped on this bandwagon as well, signing Henrik Zetterberg to a 12-year deal that will pay him $73 million dollars, but only $5.35 million over the final three years of the deal and Johan Franzen to an 11-year, $44-million deal, though he'll only get $7.5 million over the last four years of the contract. And down in Tampa, Vinny Lecavalier's new contract, which kicks in this year, will net him $10 million a year for the first seven, $8.5 million for the eighth, $4 million for the ninth, then an average of $1.25 million for the final two.
Even those contracts that don't do this quite so egregiously as those for Zetterberg, Franzen, Hossa and Pronger still occasionally slouch in that direction. Tim Thomas' contract dips more than a little in its final year, as do those of Jason Spezza, Dany Heatley, Dany Briere, Mike Richards, Ryan Malone and, for some reason, Martin Erat.
Whether or not the teams in question did, on some level, try to circumvent the salary cap, if not in an actual sense then at least in spirit, is moot, largely because it can't tear up that many contracts even if it could prove that the deals were mutually agreed upon to do exactly that. Which it can't. So all these contracts are a-okay to mature into most of the above players' late 30s and early 40s.
The league, frankly, doesn't have the balls to take away any of Detroit's draft picks, and thus won't be able to logically argue that it should be able to do so with Chicago or Philadelphia. Fines, too, are likely out of the question.
But don't worry, all you fans of sane contracts that in no way detract from the relative parity within the league, this CBA's only going to be around for one more offseason before the next lockout! And if, when the time comes, these players find themselves dealt to Kansas City because the Scouts slightly outbid Hamilton and Las Vegas for the right to claw itself above the salary floor, then the players have no one to blame but themselves, and Darryl Sutter.
He started this whole mess and got away scot free.


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By Tim Reid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Establishment Republicans in Congress such as John McCain are openly scornful of him. Some Republican strategists say his crusade to destroy President Barack Obama's healthcare law has been a political disaster.
But at a gathering of conservatives and Tea Party faithful in Washington on Friday, Republican Senator Ted Cruz was unapologetic, defiant and received like a conquering hero.
As Republican leaders in Congress have abandoned a strategy to use a government shutdown and threat of default to dismantle Obama's healthcare overhaul - with polls showing it unpopular with voters - one thing was clear at the gathering of conservative activists: they believe the battle to kill Obamacare has only just begun.
Cruz, a freshman Texas lawmaker who made a 21-hour speech last month on the Senate floor decrying Obama's health law, has become the face of conservative opposition to the legislation.
To multiple standing ovations and cries of "tyranny" every time he mentioned Obama's name, Cruz told a big crowd of conservative Republicans at the Values Voter Summit that he knew exactly what he was doing, and battle had only just been joined.
America, he said, was just two years away from oblivion unless there was radical change. And at the heart of what was needed, he said, was "to stop that train wreck, that disaster, that nightmare that is Obamacare."
Cruz was frequently greeted with whoops of support and prolonged applause. He was also met with hecklers, whom he called "President Obama's paid political operatives." They were shouted down and removed.
Cruz said that after he spoke, he was going with fellow Republican senators to meet Obama in the White House.
"If I am not seen again please send a search and rescue team," Cruz said.
Speaking before Cruz was fellow conservative Republican Senator Mike Lee from Utah, who has partnered Cruz in the fight to dismantle the healthcare law.
"We make no apologies," Lee declared over the failed fight to block Obamacare. "We must stop it, we must defeat it, and we cannot accept it." Lee, too, was given a standing ovation.
Michelle Wiegand, 43, attending the conference with her two-year-old son Declan, said of Cruz and Lee's efforts to end Obamacare: "Even if nothing comes of it, they showed great political courage. That is rare in Washington. This is a law not supported by the majority of the American public."
With the Republican leadership now negotiating with Obama on a deal to lift the debt ceiling and reopen the government, some Republican strategists said Cruz's strategy had been a mistake all along.
"His battle is over," said Charlie Black, a veteran party strategist. "It was a bad idea. He was trying to do something that was impossible. There is a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate. He's new to Washington. Maybe he didn't know what was possible."
Senator McCain from Arizona, a former presidential candidate, and Representative Peter King from New York have been two of the most vocal opponents of Cruz's tactics, with McCain calling Cruz and his allies "wacko birds."
Cruz has also taken a hit in the polls. A Gallup poll released on Thursday found that he has gained significant name recognition, but the percentage of Americans with an unfavorable view of him has jumped to 36 percent from 18 percent in June.
Ford O'Connell, a Republican political adviser, said opposition to the healthcare law was justified, but Cruz's tactics were "completely wrong."
"Cruz has done a good job of bringing this to the attention of the American people - but the government shutdown has completely obstructed his message," Ford said.
"The key to successful political negotiating is to pull the right lever at the right time. Unfortunately for the Republican party, the Tea Party caucus is pulling the right lever at the wrong time."
(Reporting by Tim Reid; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Claudia Parsons)


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Cluess Announces 2013-14 Recruiting Class for Iona Gaels
NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- Iona College men's basketball head coach Tim Cluess announced the addition of Kelvin Amayo, Ryden Hines, Mike Poole, Daniel Robinson and Shackquiel Scott to the 2013-14 roster. The quintet joins early signee Isaiah Williams as newcomers to the Gaels this fall.
"Kelvin, Ryden, Mike, Daniel and Shack each add a unique skill set that can help us this upcoming season," said Cluess. "I'm looking forward to their development and integration into Iona and our system."
Kelvin Amayo - a 6-4, 210 lb sophomore guard - comes to New Rochelle from Marshall University in Huntington, WV. Last season, the Newark, NJ native appeared in three games and averaged 2.7 ppg in 9.3 mpg before electing to transfer. He enrolled at Marshall in January 2012. In his final season as a scholastic athlete, Amayo played for NIA School in Newark, NJ. He averaged 20 points, six rebounds, five assists and a couple of steals in leading NIA to a 26-7 record and a No. 6 national ranking among the country's prep schools. Amayo was named a Newark Star-Ledger First Team All-Prep selection for his efforts. He was teammates with Cincinnati's Shaquille Thomas and Fordham's Ryan Rhoomes and originally committed to Towson University. Early in the season, he recorded a career-best 37 points against Kiski School (Youngstown, Ohio) in the Hoop Mountain Prep Classic. Following the campaign, he appeared in the 2011 Capital Classic as a member of the US All-Stars and scored 16 points in a 136-115 victory over the Capital All-Stars.
In 2008-09, Amayo played at St. Benedict's Prep and averaged 13 points, five assists and four rebounds and had a triple double (15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists) against the Hun School of Princeton. He was part of a team that finished the season No. 7 in the final USA Today Super 25 boys basketball rankings while playing alongside current Iona teammates Mike Poole and Tavon Sledge, current Cleveland Cavalier Tristan Thompson and his former Texas teammate Myck Kabongo among others.
"Kelvin is a great athlete with tremendous leaping ability," said Cluess. "He's a slasher/scorer and will look to contribute to our rotation right away. He can also hit from long distance with the best of them on our squad."
Ryden Hines - a 6-10, 230 lb freshman forward - hails from Anchorage, AK. Hines played his postgraduate year in 2012-13 at Impact Academy in Las Vegas, NV and averaged 21 points and eight rebounds per game. As a senior at A.J. Dimond High School, Hines helped lead the Lynx to Cook Inlet Conference and Alaska State 4A Championships. He averaged 18 points and 11 boards and was named conference player of the year. Hines was named First Team All-State for three straight years and was runner up Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year in 2012. Upon committing to Iona, he became the first basketball student-athlete from his high school to earn a NCAA Division I scholarship. His teammate, Colter Lasher, followed as the second after signing an NLI with Houston Baptist University.
Hynes also lettered in football at Diamond as a tight end and defensive end.
"Ryan has a great motor and plays really hard," said Cluess. "He has a good basketball IQ and can knock down a jumper. At 6-10, he's going to have to help us right away, but as he physically matures and adjusts to the college game he has an opportunity to be a very successful player at Iona."
Mike Poole - a 6-5, 195 lb senior wing and Rutgers University transfer - appeared in 95 games and made 16 starts over three seasons with the Scarlet Knights while averaging 5.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.1 steals. Poole never missed a game and scored 524 points in his Big East career. His career-high scoring total ironically came against Iona last season in an 18-point, seven rebound effort at Madison Square Garden. Poole posted 16 games with 10 or more points and recorded one double-double, an 11-point, 10 rebound effort at UConn as a freshman on Jan. 11, 2011. His season-high scoring average came as a sophomore. He averaged 6.5 points in 22.1 minutes played. Also known for his defensive presence, Poole ranked among the top performers in steals on the Rutgers leaderboard in all three seasons. He was also named to the Big East All-Academic Team last July.
The Rosedale, Queens native is a 2010 graduate of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, NJ. He averaged 10.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 49.7% as a senior to help the Gray Bees to a 20-1 record and a No. 4 final ranking nationally from USA Today and ESPN/Rise. Poole was a Newark Star-Ledger All-Prep selection, playing three seasons at St. Benedict's under head coach Dan Hurley and served as team captain as a senior. As a junior, his squad finished 24-3 record and a No. 7 national ranking in the final USA Today Super 25 Poll on a team that included fellow Gael teammates Kelvin Amayo and Tavon Sledge.
"Mike is a veteran of nearly 100 college games and will look for a leadership role on this year's squad," said Cluess. "His all-around ability on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball will be a great asset for our program."
Daniel Robinson - a 6-11, 215 lb freshman forward - spent his postgraduate season at IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL. The Norfolk, VA native was a Second-Team, All-VISAA selection at Atlantic Shores Christian in Chesapeake, VA, where he averaged 9.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game. In 31 games played Robinson scored 10 or more points on 16 occasions and grabbed 10 or more rebounds 13 times including a career best 20 in a win over Heritage HS on Jan. 7, 2011. During his junior year with the Seahawks, Robinson grabbed 6.0 boards and averaged a block per game. Robinson also played for Chesapeake Bay Legend Boo Williams in the Nike EYBL in Hampton, VA in April 2011.
"At 6-11, Daniel can step out and hit a jumper," said Cluess. "He is not your prototypical back-to-the basket post performer but has solid offensive skills. We'll also look to use his size in the middle as a big, interior defensive presence."
Shackquiel Scott - a 6-6, 205 lb freshman wing - hails from Paterson, NJ and comes to the Gaels after a postgraduate season at the Robinson School in Irvington. Scott helped lead the Robinson School to a 25-10 mark and an East Coast Postgraduate Championship. He posted 27 points and 17 boards in the 93-74 win over Maryland's Princeton Day Academy. He averaged a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds while adding two blocks per game.
As a senior in 2011-12 at Passaic Tech, Scott averaged 11.5 points. He scored a season-best 22 points in a win over Morris Knolls at home on Jan. 7, 2012. He scored 10 or more points in all but five contests and had five double-doubles including a 10 point, 15 rebound effort vs. Paterson Eastside on Jan. 26, 2012. Passaic Tech fell to Elizabeth in the NJSIAA Group 4 semifinal.
"Shack is an extremely athletic wing with a solid mid-range game," said Cluess. "His athleticism and energy will be a great addition to our program."
Amayo, Hines, Poole, Robinson, and Scott join Isaiah Williams who signed a letter of intent to play at Iona last November. Williams completed a highly successful freshman season at State College Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, earning 2013 Suncoast Conference Player of the Year honors. He averaged 17.0 points, 8.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists in just 21.6 minutes per game. Williams started in 23 of 28 appearances for former SCF head coach and new Iona assistant coach Brock Erickson's Manatees. He had 25 games with double-digit points and 10 with 20 or more including a season-best 27 vs. College of Central Florida on Jan. 9, 2013. Williams also recorded 10 double-doubles.
"Isaiah is a 6-7 wing and can really fill it up," said Cluess said of Williams. "He can also shoot a three as well as anybody we have and will also help us a lot defensively as he is very active and has a lot of length to him."
The Gaels return five of their top seven scorers senior Sean Armand, junior David Laury, senior Tre Bowman, sophomore A.J. English and junior Tavon Sledge. Armand was one of the top three-point shooters in the nation last season with a school record 112 trifectas. Laury is the MAAC's top returning rebounder after posting 10.3 boards per game. Bowman and Sledge shined in the postseason for the Gaels. Bowman scored a game-high 20 points Iona's win over Manhattan in the MAAC Championship while Sledge led the team with 20 points against Ohio State in the NCAA Championship second round.


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I should probably know this, what with all the tutorials I've read, and the little things I've programmed, but I don't.
I'm making a program that will find and save a URL, but I don't know how to get it to recognize the entire URL. Basically, I can get it to find the "http://" and the ".com" but I don't know how to tell it to accept what's in the middle.
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Another of Midway's offerings in its over–the–top baseball game, MLB SlugFest 2006 will feature a new create–a–player mode, updated team rosters and stadiums, along with a new library of signature animations and extreme collisions that have distinguished the franchise since its debut in 2002.
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Release Date: June 5, 2006
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Also available on: PlayStation 2
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This recipe produces a pizza base that is soft and doughy on the inside and slightly crusty on the outside. Cover it with your favourite sauce and toppings to make a delicious homemade pizza.
I liked the recipe, the crust was more or less soft and crunchy depending on if I left it in the oven + or - from the suggested cooking time. Each of my kids made their own pizza. They helped with measuring the ingredients, making the pizza after rolling the dough. - 04 Jul 2014
Pretty darn good! If you aren't baking on a pizza stone, you should pre-bake it a little before putting on toppings or the middle will be under-done. - 09 Aug 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Jay thank you so much for an EXCELLENT thick, pan type pizza crust, that was crisp on the outside and chewy/tender on the inside! The only personal perference additions I did were: I added Italian Seasoning, garlic powder and onion powder along with the salt/oil. And I baked them for 10 minutes prior to adding the toppings in a 12 inch cake pan and 12 inch cast iron skillet, that were both olive oiled WELL, and dusted with yellow cornmeal. They came out of the pan very easy onto the cutting board. It was easy to make this. Just have to adjust weather and flour consistency to the stickiness of the dough. Some days need less, some days need MUCH more. Adding about a 1/2 cup grated parmasean cheese to the dough is great with the seasonings. I never roll the dough out, I just use my hands and flatten it in the bottom of the pans, working up the sides Also sometimes string cheese rolled in the crust makes the kids happy too. - 20 Nov 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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If it is a group, I'll feel more comfortable because I don't have to worry about awkward silence. There is a time-difference issue, but still a window of opportunity, and I won't waste time talking about it here. We should start a knew topic about it.
I am interested. I just don't like to be on the spot is all. But a group discussion sounds like fun.


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Beef and Pepper Kabobs
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- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 1½ teaspoons dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 2 pounds sirloin, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 each green, yellow, orange and red peppers
In a resealable plastic bag or shallow glass container, combine lemon juice, oil, onion, thyme, salt and pepper. Add meat; turn to coat. Seal bag or cover container; refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. Drain and discard marinade.
Cut peppers into 1-inch squares and thread onto metal or soaked wooden skewers alternately with meat. Grill over hot heat, turning often, 12–15 minutes or until the meat reaches desired doneness.


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It's been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms.
The Mennonites, the men in their overalls and straw hats and the women in ankle-length skirts, nurtured their corn, cotton and bean estates and apple orchards in the state of Chihuahua into some of the most bountiful farms in Mexico.
But not all is well in Mexico's Mennonite communities, and, in a curious turn of the historic wheel, a smattering are now pondering a return to Russia, the country their grandparents and great-grandparents fled amid the upheaval of the Bolshevik revolution.
"There are a lot of people who are interested in going," said Enrique Voth Penner, one of 11 Mennonites who in August visited fertile Tatarstan, along the Volga River at the edge of the European part of Russia.
In February, in the midst of the harsh Russian winter, the Mennonite delegation will return to Tatarstan to deepen discussions about what land may be available and whether Russian authorities will grant them the freedom to run independent schools, practice their religion and exempt young men from military service.
The Mennonite return to Russia, if it happens, would be more than just a historical oddity. It also is a reflection of the challenges of intensive agriculture in Mexico's arid north, where farming depends on massive irrigation and arable land is at a premium. Water tables have dropped dramatically from overuse for farming, and disputes between Mennonite and non-Mennonite farmers have turned violent.
"The No. 1 reason to emigrate is to find land for our future generations," Voth Penner said. "No. 2 is the situation with the water. We aren't permitted the water we need."
Officials say some 50,000 Mennonites reside in Mexico, most of them speakers of a Low German dialect who dwell in isolated farming communities that operate their own schools and churches. Pious and humble by religious training, Anabaptist cousins of the Amish, the Mennonites largely stick to their communities, venturing to cities only to sell cheese and grains or to conduct business. Unlike the Amish, many Mennonites use gasoline-powered vehicles and cellular telephones.
Some Mexicans admire the Mennonites' success and work ethic but the lack of assimilation, despite more than nine decades of living in Mexico, also has fueled resentments.
"They are Mennonites, and only Mexican when it suits their interests," said Pedro Castro, a historian and expert on Mennonite issues at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City. "They are white, and they are 'German.' "
Persecuted in their homelands, the Mennonites emigrated from Prussia and Germany to Russia on invitation from Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
With the October Revolution of 1917, which brought the Communist Party to power in Russia, many Mennonites fled to Canada.
"They came because the Bolsheviks were going to expropriate their land," said Dr. Karl Koth, a historian at the University of Manitoba.
Only a few years later, amid fears that religious guarantees were eroding in Canada, a few thousand Mennonites won a pledge from Mexico's then-president, Alvaro Obregon, himself a farmer, to respect their way of life. Some 7,000 of them boarded chartered trains to Mexico in the early 1920s.
They largely settled in an arid region west of Chihuahua's capital clustered around the towns of Namiquipa, Riva Palacio and Cuauhtemoc. Over the decades, their farms flourished, irrigated by wells and the intermittent Rio del Carmen.
In the 1950s and 1960s, some Mennonites moved south, resettling in Mexico's Campeche region, and also to Belize, Bolivia and Paraguay. In the 1970s, a few hundred resettled in West Texas.
As the decades passed, Mennonite farms in Chihuahua spread into new crops, turning to nuts, sorghum, cotton, wheat and apples, as well as beans and corn. Today, they produce as much as one-third of the yellow corn that's grown in Mexico.
But water for irrigation remained scarce, and the Mennonites began sinking new wells far deeper than the 100 or 200 feet initially required.
"There are wells that are 600 meters deep now," said Sergio Cano, a state manager in Chihuahua with the National Water Commission. That's nearly 2,000 feet.
In the aquifer underlying the city of Cuauhtemoc, farmers pull 300 million cubic meters of water from wells each year, while rain replenishes the water table with only 115 million cubic meters, Cano said, adding that "over-usage is very high." Both Mennonite and non-Mennonite farms are thought to have obtained licenses for wells through bribes or to have drilled illegal wells.
A severe drought that lasted until earlier this year – the worst in more than 70 years – exacerbated tensions between Mennonite communities and other farmers over water rights, leading to clashes. A non-Mennonite peasant activist and his wife were slain Oct. 22 in Cuauhtemoc, inflaming tensions.
Another unsettling factor is the presence of drug traffickers in Chihuahua, a border state that's a key corridor for smuggling cocaine northward.
"It is a region penetrated by drug trafficking. Not everyone is innocent, including among the Mennonites," said Castro, the academic.
Beginning in the late 1990s, drug agents made a handful of arrests of Mennonites taking part in cocaine-smuggling rings to Canada, and young Mennonites began turning up at a rehab facility in Cuauhtemoc or jailed in Ciudad Juarez on smuggling charges.
One group of Mennonites is thought to have forged alliances with La Linea, an enforcement wing of the Juarez Cartel, to protect its interests, Castro said.
While Mennonite family patriarchs don't express it openly, they seem eager to retreat to areas where such worldly temptations are less readily available.
A Mennonite farmer who went on the trip to Tatarstan, Peter Friesen, said he was impressed with Russians, whom he described as "very orderly and well dressed."
Asked how many Mennonites might immigrate to Russia, Friesen said: "It could be a lot if they respect our right not to take part in military activities and give us freedoms for schools and all this. People will go."
Voth Penner offered a similar forecast.
"If we see that it is good there, there will be very many (who emigrate), and not just from one community but also from all over Chihuahua," he said.
An English-language report Sept. 17 in The Kazan Herald in the Tatarstan capital reported on the possible arrival of Mennonite immigrants, saying the group's leaders were "very keen and interested" in learning about prospects.
It said the Mennonite delegation met with senior Tatarstan development officials as well as representatives of farm supply industries, slaughterhouses and construction companies.
A tentative date for the first Mennonite migration is early 2014, it added.
Chihuahua state officials worry that some Mennonites might sell their farms and emigrate. But Victor Quintana, a farming expert, minimized the impact.
"The Mennonites have always moved on because their population grows, but there's no land left," Quintana said. "This is a demographic pressure outlet for them."
Voth Penner, who has 11 children, forecast that Chihuahua shouldn't worry about a departure of some Mennonites.
"We have enough people for 10 times the amount of land we have," he said. "There will be plenty of people who remain behind."


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MOBILE, Ala. -- With Michael Vick turning 32 in the offseason and Vince Young expected to move on in free agency, the Eagles might very well look for a quarterback somewhere in the early rounds, especially since they have an extra second-round pick, courtesy of the Kevin Kolb trade with Arizona.
Stanford's Andrew Luck is expected to become the top overall pick in the draft, and Baylor's Heisman Trophy winner, Robert Griffin III, is expected to go soon after, long before the Eagles draft 15th overall. In any case, neither Luck nor Griffin will be in Mobile this week, and what looked like an extraordinary QB draft class lost a little luster when Oklahoma's Landry Jones and Southern Cal's Matt Barkley decided to stay in school.
But there are Senior Bowl QBs who could interest the Birds, particularly in the second round or later. They include Arizona's Nick Foles, Oklahoma State's Brandon Weeden, San Diego State's Ryan Lindley, and Michigan State's Kirk Cousins.
Foles, a transfer from Michigan State, hails from a school that has never produced a prominent NFL quarterback. But he's 6-5, 240, and is said to possess excellent tools.
Weeden, 6-4, 220, is intriguing in that some observers think he might be a first-round talent, but he almost certainly won't be drafted there, at age 28, having spent five years playing minor league baseball. Eagles fans no doubt will draw a parallel with Watkins, the ex-firefighter. Lindley is a 6-4, 230-pounder whose draft stock suffered this year when he managed to complete only 52.5 percent of his passes.
Cousins, 6-3, 205, had an excellent year and could be on the rise from his early third-to-fourth round projection.


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Lyme disease that isn't caught within six months of the tick bite can enter the bloodstream, becoming a chronic condition that causes fatigue, arthritis and cognitive difficulties.
Growing up in Ottawa, Canada, Holly Donohoe was just 10 minutes away from Gatineau Conservation Park, where dealing with ferocious bugs was part of life.
A nature lover, Donohoe pursued a career in environmental management, spending years working outdoors. On her off days, she was a kayaking instructor.
So, in 2010, when she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, which is transmitted from a tick bite, she had no idea when she might have been bitten — the occasions were countless.
Donohoe had read a little about Lyme disease, but the diagnosis still stunned her.
"For someone who spends all her time in an environmental management setting, I would be the type of person you would expect to be knowledgeable, and I wasn't," said Donohoe, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Tourism Recreation and Sport Management at UF.
Suddenly, a litany of health problems, including infections, joint pain and memory loss, started to make sense.
"I just thought it was aging," Donohoe said — even though she was in her early 30s when the symptoms emerged.
The diagnosis relieved her.
"I called my family and was beside myself with happiness because I knew for years that something wasn't right," she said.
But after a couple of months, the euphoria of having her intuition validated wore off.
"I started to feel the burden of the battle," she said.
Lyme disease that isn't caught within six months of the tick bite can enter the bloodstream, becoming a chronic condition that causes fatigue, arthritis and cognitive difficulties.
"Some days I couldn't even put a sentence together," said Donohoe, who suspects about five years passed between the time of her infection and the diagnosis.
Donohoe adopted a poodle named "Noble" after being bed-bound and unable to walk for several months. When she got her dog, "I could walk to the end of the driveway and back," she said. "He's been a wonderful source of energy and reason to get up."
Donohoe's son, Sabin, now 16, became the man of the house, doing laundry, mopping floors and cooking. "He's a wonderful chef," she said.
Donohoe has been able to keep her job and sometimes works from home. About six months ago, she finally started to feel better — after many rounds of antibiotics and holistic therapies designed to boost her immune system.
Now off of the antibiotics entirely, Donohoe said that she feels 70 percent back to her old self. She is glad that she can finally sit out in the sun, since before she had developed photophobia, or light sensitivity, as one of the side effects of the disease.
"I moved to Florida for the sun, but I couldn't sit in the sun," she said one day recently, wearing a bathing suit under her shirt, on her way to the pool.
"I'm an infallible optimist, so I knew that at a certain point things would get better."
Often misdiagnosed
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease — an illness caused by blood-sucking insects like ticks — in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control. It is most prevalent in the Northeast and Midwest, in states such as Connecticut and Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin. In Pennsylvania, there were 4,739 cases reported in 2011, compared to 78 in Florida, according to the CDC.
But the low reported numbers in Florida mask the fact that the disease does exist here, said Nadia Kovacevich, an epidemiologist with the Alachua County Health Department.
"Doctors are diagnosing it, but the only way it is reported to me or the CDC is with a lot of follow-up testing by the doctors," Kovacevich said. "They are choosing to treat the patients, and if [the patients] feel better, we never hear about them."
Kovacevich said that because of Florida's year-round warm climate, people should realize that tick-borne diseases occur year-round, but the one that carries Lyme, the deer tick, is primarily only a concern in the summer months.
The lone-star tick is Florida's most prevalent tick, and causes a condition called ehrlichiosis, whose flu-like symptoms resemble those of Lyme disease.
"When I hear about a tick bite, my first thought is ehrlichiosis; in New York City, it was Lyme disease," said Dr. Nicole Iovine, an infectious disease physician at the University of Florida and Shands who moved here four years ago from New York.
Iovine explained that the deer tick has a complicated life cycle, and lives on mammalian hosts. "Primary is the white-footed deer mouse, and we don't have it here," she said.
The hallmark sign of Lyme is a "bull's-eye rash" at the site of the bite — although only about 70 percent of people actually develop the rash. Otherwise, they just have to watch and wait for symptoms to develop within 30 days of the bite — and then get a blood test followed by a Western blot confirmatory test to detect antibodies specific to Lyme disease antigens.
People are typically treated with antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medications and herbal remedies.
According to Dr. Kimberly Kaye, a physician with the Haile Medical Group specializing in tick-borne diseases, patients with Lyme disease are commonly misdiagnosed with other things, since the prevalence is so low here.
"That's the most common thing I hear — that whatever they have must not be related … [doctors] have done a very brief gloss-over [of symptoms]," Kaye said. "They've missed that opportunity to treat it early."
Fatigue the most common symptom
That's what happened to Paula Pifer, an executive assistant at a local metrology consulting agency. Pifer was bitten by a tick in March 2007 while taking a walk in a friend's neighborhood in Gainesville.
The next day, Pifer woke up with two bites on her right leg that she thought were spider bites. She got violently ill, but thought it was food poisoning. She also developed a rash.
"I'm the daughter of a cop. You just suck it up," Pifer said. "I never thought a couple of bites would do this to me."
Other symptoms came and went over the next few years, from extreme fatigue and nausea to joint pain. The first doctor Pifer, then about to turn 40, saw suggested that she was just getting older. Another one asked if she was pregnant.
A third doctor thought the culprit was a brain tumor.
By the time Pifer was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2011, like Donohoe, she was relieved to know what was wrong with her after so many years of struggling with an overlooked combination of symptoms. But she also was frustrated that no one had caught it earlier.
"If he would have said, 'Have you been bitten?' " she said, of her first doctor.
Pifer has changed her lifestyle dramatically as a result of her illness. Always fit, she now considers throwing the newspaper from the curb to neighbors' doors exercise. Some days she doesn't have enough energy to get up to get a drink of water.
"It's like I'm 80 years old. I feel like I'm sleeping my life away," said the 46-year-old.
She also is a single mother raising her 13-year-old son, Hunter, and she fears her illness has been hard on him. Like Donohoe's son, Hunter has had to assume a lot of domestic responsibilities.
They have to plan extra carefully for outings to conserve Pifer's energy, and friends have to accompany them on long road trips because driving too much wears Pifer out.
Pifer tells Hunter, "If you have algebra, come to me at 4 or 5. Don't come at 9."
Pifer remains optimistic that she can feel better, though. She found out about a clinic in Palm Harbor, the Sponaugle Wellness Institute, where people with chronic Lyme disease have reportedly been cured. She's now raising money and getting the word out about her condition with her website, www.PaulasFund.com.
"I just want my life back," Pifer said, adding about Hunter: "He's got to have his childhood."
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Game Day Recon #54 – Senators @ Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks return to action after an emotional, high-energy battle against their most hated rival.
Will having the weekend off, and now facing a weak opponent, provide a speed bump in their road?
Broadcast Info
Game Time: 7:00 PM PT
The Intel
The Canucks may have poured all of their heart, soul and energy into their game against the Blackhawks on Friday night. Then they had the whole weekend to enjoy that victory, relax with their families, maybe even enjoy the Super Bowl yesterday. So is that enough time away to recharge and reset? Or will they still be sporting a Blackhawks hangover tonight?
But let's face it… the Senators are awful. Ottawa is winless in February, going 0-3-0 so far, and are 1-9-3 in their last 13 games, including 9 straight losses. This downward sprial has dropped the Sens down to 14th in the Eastern conference.
So does this all favour the Canucks. It absolutely should. The Senators are 5-15-4 on one day off, and 6-8-2 on the first game on the road, and 12-19-7 on weekday games. All signs point to Vancouver, so they had better be careful. We've said it many times before but these are the types of games that the Canucks have famously lost in the past. They've done a good job this season of putting these types of games out of reach, so the tide may be turning for the Canucks.
The Senators just can't do much right these days. They are 29th in goals per game at only 2.21, and are 28th at goals-against per game at 3.23. Their best players are Daniel Alfredsson and Erik Karlsson, tied for the team lead with 30 points while Jason Spezza is their best PPG player with 20 points in 33 games. That said, not a single player on their team who has played more than 15 games is above 0 in plus/minus.
The Three Keys
Here are the three keys for the Vancouver Canucks tonight:
1. Win the battles at even strength. The Canucks can't expect and rely on the special teams to bail them out of games, like Friday against the Blackhawks. The Senators are the worst defensive team at even strength giving up 127 goals at even-strength. Tonight is a great opportunity for the Canucks to flex their even-strength muscle.
2. Spezza is still damn good. Watch him. The Senators don't boast a lot of firepower but Jason Spezza is still a fantastic offensive player. He burned the Canucks in their last meeting, before Vancouver took over that game. Spezza is capable of putting up points. And he's terrific in the faceoff circle, winning 56.9% of his draws. The Canucks need to lock him down.
3. Get the first goal. The Canucks are 28-1-6 when scoring first. That's a league-best in terms of wins. The Senators are a league worst 3-20-5 when trailing first.
The Links
Here are your top 5 links for today's game:
1. Tale of the Tape: Senators @ Canucks (canucks.com)
2. Sammy whammy: Canucks' Mikael Samuelsson bounces back (Vancouver Sun)
3. Canucks working just as hard off the ice (The Province)
4. Gameday preview: Senators at Canucks (Ottawa Citizen)
5. Canucks vs. Senators Preview (Yahoo! Sports)


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Care and Maintenence of Furniture and Fabrics
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We discovered helpful hints for Care and Maintenance of the furniture we offer at EZmod Furniture. Proper care and maintenance of your furniture will make them last longer and maintain the luster and shine for a long period of time.
For general microfiber furniture cleaning, a drop or two of mild detergent, such as dish soap or laundry detergent, combined with water should clean your microfiber sofa in no time. Odors can be easily removed by blotting the stain with white vinegar and distilled water, applying baking soda, and then vacuuming.
It may be necessary to occasionally have your microfiber fabric steam cleaned. We recommend you go with a professional cleaning service. Finally, to clean lint from your sofa, vacuum or use a simple lint roller.
Clean with Windex or automotive chrome cleaner such as semi-chrome twice a month. Apply a coat of hard paste wax to protect against moisture.
Use Windex, Fantastik or other non-abraisive cleaners, clean twice a month or as necessary.
Finished Leather
Maintain by wiping with a cool, damp cloth. For tougher stains, use a dot of pH balanced soap on a cloth and rinse.
Naked Leather
Wipe entire surface with a soft cloth and cool water. Do not spot rub
Suede Leather
Blot up spills immediately. Dry brush occasionally. Remove general spoilage with a suede cleaning block.
Clean with a dry, lint-free cloth. Wash once a year with a mild soap and water solution, rinse with a damp cloth, and dry immediately with a lint free cloth.
Vacuum frequently or brush lightly to remove surface dust. Professional cleaning should be done regularly to remove soiling not cleaned by vacuuming. Wipe all spills immediately. Try a hidden area to test for color fastness with all stain removal methods you happen to try.
Clean with Windex, Fantastik or other non-abrasive cleaning solutions.
Clean with mild soaps or other non-abrasive cleaning agents. Apply paste wax or Dupont non-abrasive car polish #7 twice a year to prevent oxidation. For stubborn stains or discolorations, apply navel jelly aluminum cleaner.
Clean with Windex, Fantastik, or other household detergents well dissolved in water with a soft cloth.
Natural Marble
Wipe off stains and liquid spills immediately with water and soft cloth. Never use steel wool or other abrasives.
Coated Marble and Granite
Clean with a damp cloth and diluted soap. Do not use any abrasives or acid detergents. Wipe with lukewarm water. Clean more thoroughly with Windex or other non-abrasive solutions.
Clean with damp cloth with diluted soap. Do not use any abrasives or acidic detergents.
Clean with Windex, Fantastik, or other non-abrasive cleaning substances. If discoloration occurs, rub lightly with a fine steel wool to restore luster.
Use damp cloth to wipe off stains. Do not use any kind of detergent or soap. Try hidden area to test for color fastness with all stain removal methods.
Use a soft cloth dampened with a solution of mild soap or detergent dissolved in water. Rub lightly. For scratches, use liquid shoe polish and buff when dry.
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This is a RUSH transcript from "The O'Reilly Factor," November 14, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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O'REILLY: "Impact Segment" tonight. As you may know, President Obama largely won the election because Hispanic-American voters broke big for him by a whopping 71 percent.
However, many republicans believe Hispanics are not, not a liberal voting block.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Hispanics are not inherently liberal. Hispanics, you know, they're tight family. They have -- you know, they're religious Catholic, they're socially-conservative, especially on abortion.
These are a national constituency. They are a striving immigrant group and that is a natural conservative constituency.
O'REILLY: Joining us now from Washington to react is Democratic Congressman, Luis Gutierrez. So, what do you think about Charles' analysis that the Hispanic-American voting block -- I mean, obviously, talking generally here, could be persuaded to come into the Republican Party. What do you think about that.
LUIS GUTIERREZ, CONGRESSMAN, ILLINOIS (D): I think, if you make -- I mean, Charles makes an argument that has some truth to it. There are 52 million Latinos in the United States. It's a little broad.
I think, you're reducing it to "that they're more persuadable ones." I think, absolutely, I think the problem that the Republican Party has is when they begin the conversation, they begin the conversation with self- deportation.
They begin the conversation by embracing Governor Brewer of Arizona and 1070. Or they go to Iowa and say, "Well, you know, we control livestock with electricity. Maybe that's the way we should control immigrants on the border."
When you have -- when you begin a conversation like that, you don't hear very much else.
O'REILLY: OK. I thought that Mitt Romney's statement during the primaries that the self-deportation was what he wanted to do, hurt him. And, I think, you agree that that got a lot of currency in Hispanic communities.
It wasn't explained what that was all about. But here's something that I'm not sure about. Do you think that most Hispanic-Americans born in the U.S.A., not immigrants -- recent immigrants, born here, all right, want immigration controls.
Do they want to stop the mass influx across the southern border. Do they want to stop it.
GUTIERREZ: First of all, as you and I have discussed before, we know that four out of every 10 undocumented immigrants don't cross that border.
They come legally to the United States. And there are others that come through other avenues. So, I think, what -- the ones that are -- those of us like me that were born here in this country, I think what happens is that we see the other -- our fellow Latinos as our cousins, brothers, grandparents.
And so, we see them as part of an extended family. I think what is simplistic about this is to try to make this clear distinction between Latinos born in the United States and those who arrived from Latin American countries.
It just doesn't work that way. So what we have is, we have, for example, 4 million American citizen children, parents don't have papers.
We have hundreds of thousands of American citizens, husbands whose wives don't have papers. And, in other words, it's a very mixed community --
O'REILLY: All right. But the reason I bring this up is, there's never going to be an acceptance of the Republican Party by Hispanics who want open immigration, everybody comes, all right.
Because the Republican Party is never going to do that.
GUTIERREZ: But that's not -- OK. But you and I, Bill, you and I both know I can come over to New York, we can have lunch. And given our previous conversations and statements that you have made about immigration policy, we can figure this out. And we can secure our borders --
O'REILLY: Listen. I agree it's definitely --
GUTIERREZ: -- And we, definitely, can do it without opening them up.
O'REILLY: But I want to know if most Hispanic-Americans are going to support it because what it's going to entail is a very strict border.
You're going to have, "You can't come here unless you go through the process." And the people already here, I agree with you, that can be dealt with.
But you cannot have a lenient, civil-like border. And I don't know if most Americans -- Hispanic-Americans are going to support that.
GUTIERREZ: And so -- no, they won't. America won't support that. That cannot be the foundation upon which we fix our broken immigration system.
The foundation upon which we fix our immigration system is exactly what you alluded to. It's finding a way. Listen, in 2001 --
O'REILLY: So, what about stopping future immigration. That's the key.
GUTIERREZ: Abso -- I think it is critical and essential. And so, when I, with Nelson in 2004, introduced Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- remember Kennedy and McCain, the first 600 of 800 pages of our legislation was enforcement and securing the border.
O'REILLY: All right. Because, I think, if that happens and the President promised it would again, but again, he promised it four years ago and it didn't happen.
But, I think, if that gets in, then the Republican Party is going to be in a better place to try to persuade some Hispanics. Remember, 45 percent of Hispanic-Americans voted for President Bush.
GUTIERREZ: And you want to know something. If the same number of Hispanics voted for Romney, had voted -- that voted for McCain had voted for Romney, we might be having a different conversation.
But the fact is, I have many republican colleagues, good men and women. Because we have good Americans on both sides of the aisle.
And you know what they've been telling me, they said, "Luis, let's take this off the table. Let's take it off the table once and for all or you're going to run the tables on us."
We understand that. And you know what, whether you're doing it for political purposes so that your party can have a future, or you're doing it as I and others, because it makes America a better, more decent place to live, let's get it done.
O'REILLY: Yes, let's get it done. I'm with you. I don't think the McCain thing -- McCain got -- Obama got 67 percent with Latinos. It was only four points up with Romney.
I don't think that would have done it. But if they could have gotten it to 60/40, then Mitt Romney would have been president. Congressman, always a pleasure.
GUTIERREZ: Absolutely, Bush did it.
O'REILLY: Right.
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CSF oligoclonal banding
|Normal anatomy
The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) serves to supply nutrients to the central nervous system (CNS) and collect waste products, as well as provide lubrication.
Why the test is performed:
This test helps confirm the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The laboratory procedure is called CSF electrophoresis, which is a method used to study the levels of protein in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
In electrophoresis, a CSF sample is applied to a gel (solid medium allowing the movement of proteins), and a voltage is applied. The proteins migrate along the gel based on their charge (roughly on their size). The gel is stained, and significant amounts of similar proteins will cause a visible "band" to be present. The term oligoclonal bands refers the presence in CSF of two or more protein bands of a specific immunoglobin (IgG) that have greater intensity than in the concurrent serum sample. This pattern of banding is seen in patients with MS, and other conditions.
|Procedure, part 1
A sample of the CSF will be taken from the lumbar area of the spine. This is called a lumbar puncture. How the test will feel: The position used during lumbar puncture may be uncomfortable, but you must remain in the curled position to avoid moving the needle and possibly injuring the spinal cord. There also may be some discomfort with the needle prick and the insertion of the lumbar puncture needle. When the fluid is withdrawn, there may be a feeling of pressure.
Risks of lumbar puncture include:
|Procedure, part 2
A blood sample will also be drawn.
|Procedure, part 3
Both the samples are added to a gel, which is then filtered through a cartridge. The gel separates the proteins in each sample and the lab looks for oligoclonal banding.
One or less bandings found in the CSF is normal.
Results are considered abnormal if there are 2 or more bandings found in the CSF and not in the blood serum. This may indicate multiple sclerosis (MS). CSF oligoclonal bands are found in 83% to 94% of patients with definite MS. Other causes of oligoclonal banding in CSF include encephalitis, meningitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, polyneuritis, headache, and other conditions.
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Reviewed By: Amit M. Shelat, DO, FACP, Attending Neurologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Stony Brook, School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, Brenda Conaway, Editorial Director, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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Offering an outdoor pool and views of the mountain, Rancho Villa Rodeo is set in La Lucha de la Tigra in the Alajuela Region, 25-minute drive from Fortuna. Santa Elena is 26 km away. Free WiFi is featured and free private parking is available on site.
Some units feature a balcony and/or patio with lake views.
Guests can enjoy a meal at the on-site restaurant or a drink at the bar.
You can engage in various activities, such as horse riding and hiking. Juan Santamaría International Airport is 7...1 km from the property.
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Extreme poverty in the United States is giving rise to a group of infections known as the neglected tropical diseases, which we ordinarily think of as confined to developing countries.
Poor Americans are more likely to contract tropical diseases such as Chagas disease and dengue fever. Question to ponder: what geographic factors (physical and human) lead poor people in the United States to be more heavily impacted by the spread to these diseases?
Via Seth Dixon