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Phone: 201 866-9191, Ask For: Peter Campelo
Fax: 201 866-0812
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Founded in 1971 as a family-run operation P. V. Contracting & Co. performs residential and commercial work. As the company has grown and mature over the years, it has taken on new business service including faux finishes and plastering.
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Fax: 215 458 7074
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Phone: 800-794-5325, Ask For: Dennis P. Hogan
Fax: 732-381-6762
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All work is supervised and comes with a written contract and guarantee. CLARK BUILDERS INC. Established in "1969" by Dennis P. Hogan, CLARK BUILDERS has 34 years of experience in repairing and installing: ROOFING,SIDING,GUTTERS & WINDOWS ETC. for residential and commercial buildings.
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Phone: 1917 291 8032, Ask For: Michelle Zheng
Fax: 718 661 2071
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Phone: 732-234-3783, Ask For: Danny
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Phone: 646-209-9493, Ask For: Jerry
Fax: 831-299-9493
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Phone: 9732022006, Ask For: Jerzy Ostaszewski
Fax: 9735649336
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Fax: 347 275-2755
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Phone: 973-445-2193, Ask For: Maria Figueroa
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Demographics pose a major hurdle for many colleges that market primarily to high school students. The number of new high school graduates peaked in 2011, after 17 years of growth, and is not projected to reach a new high until 2024, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Analysts and educators expect that a rising share of incoming students will need major financial aid.
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Nationwide, college enrollment fell about 2 percent this past school year.
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Nowhere is the challenge more visible than at St. Mary's, a public honors college in Southern Maryland. Two consecutive years of declining freshman enrollment jolted the school, resulting in an abrupt change in leadership, a lower credit rating and a drive to find qualified students. This fall, there are 384 freshmen, the smallest class in 13 years.
Admissions officers who failed to visit key areas of Maryland in the last cycle are now fanning out to all corners of the state. Professors are lunching with prospective students and parents on the tranquil waterfront campus. Tuition discounts will be dangled to more admitted students.
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Loyola University New Orleans and Central College in Iowa, both private, had notable enrollment shortfalls this year. Enrollment plunged at the private Howard University in the District in 2012 but rebounded partially this fall. Moody's Investors Service has downgraded its credit ratings of Howard, Central and St. Mary's, among other schools, and warned that colleges face heightened recruiting competition.
With high fixed expenses, few colleges are rolling back prices. Average tuition and fees have soared 27 percent, to $8,893, at public four-year colleges since 2008, and they have risen 14 percent, to $30,094, at private nonprofit schools. Those College Board numbers account for inflation but not discounts offered for financial need or academic merit.
At St. Mary's, tuition and fees for Maryland residents are $14,865 this year, compared with $9,161 at the public University of Maryland at College Park. St. Mary's froze in-state tuition this year after years of increases.
Administrators and faculty say a few big mistakes fueled the enrollment meltdown.
The college cut back on small merit awards for admitted students with solid credentials and offered larger scholarships to those with exceptional records. The move backfired. Many targeted students chose more prestigious schools. "We think that really hurt us," Newbould said.
Matthew Fehrs, an assistant political science professor who is versed in the college's financial aid and admissions policies, said that in 2012, St. Mary's offered admitted students about 150 scholarships worth less than $3,000 each. In 2013, he said, it offered about 30 of those.
Small merit awards are sometimes known as "cocktail party scholarships" because they give parents something to brag about with their friends. But they are often deal-clinchers. St. Mary's officials say they will offer more of them during this cycle.
Another misstep: The admissions team visited fewer Maryland high schools than in years past. Fehrs said recruiters inexplicably bypassed Howard County, one of the state's top producers of college-bound students.
Also, the college set what in hindsight was an unrealistic enrollment target of 470 freshmen. In the previous decade, St. Mary's drew an average first-year class of 448. But in 2012, the total fell sharply, to 419. In May, the college's president, Joseph R. Urgo, disclosed that enrollment was falling far short and that the school would need budget cuts.
Those and other issues led to Urgo's exit. The college's Board of Trustees pressured him to leave after his three-year contract ended in June. Newbould, who took over in August, installed a new team of admissions "hunters" whose quarry is not only high school seniors but also community college transfers.
With a picturesque campus on the St. Mary's River, 70 miles southeast of Washington, the college regularly places among the top 100 liberal arts schools in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings. Its student-faculty ratio is 11 to 1, lower than at most public colleges and universities.
One morning this month, Bianca Calin, a sophomore from McLean, led two Howard County families on a campus tour. "You're working with professors one on one, which is nice," Calin said. "You don't have a student teaching your class."
They strolled through the library (iPads and Kindles available for free checkout); the dining hall ("dessert crepes are big here," Calin said); a dormitory where students can monitor washer/dryer cycles remotely by computer; the recreational center (yes, with a climbing wall); and a boathouse, where students can check out kayaks and other water gear.
At lunchtime, biology professor Robert W. Paul and a colleague ate with two families, fielding questions on study abroad and campus culture. "Cool place," Paul told them. "Small, friendly. Has lots of faculty-student interaction."
Rachel Harris, 17, a senior at Poolesville High School in Montgomery County, said afterward that she is also considering American University, the College of William and Mary, Dickinson College and Elon University. St. Mary's impressed her, she said, especially its "sense of community" and "the vibe you get."
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Soccer referee punched by player in Utah dies
A 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma has died, police said.
Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following the assault last weekend, Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal said Saturday night.
Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card.
"The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face as a result of the call," Hoyal said in a press release.
The teen, whose name hasn't been released because of his age, has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault. Hoyal said authorities will consider additional charges since Portillo has died.
An autopsy is planned. No cause of death was released.
Portillo suffered swelling in his brain and had been listed in critical condition, Dr. Shawn Smith said Thursday at the Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray.
The victim's family, which publicly spoke of Portillo's plight this past week, has asked for privacy, Hoyal said.
Johana Portillo, 26, said last week that she wasn't at the April 27 game in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville, but she said she's been told by witnesses and detectives that the player hit her father in the side of the head.
"When he was writing down his notes, he just came out of nowhere and punched him," she said.
Accounts from a police report, Portillo's daughter and others offer more details about what occurred.
The teenager was playing goalie during a game at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville when Portillo issued him a yellow card for pushing an opposing forward trying to score a goal. In soccer, a yellow card is given as a warning to a player for an egregious violation of the rules.
The teenager, quite a bit heavier than Portillo, began arguing with the referee, then unleashed a punch to his face. Portillo seemed fine at first, then asked to be held because he felt dizzy. He sat down and started vomiting blood, triggering his friend to call an ambulance.
When police arrived around noon, the teenager was gone and Portillo was laying on the ground in the fetal position. Through translators, Portillo told EMTs that his face and back hurt and he felt nauseous. He had no visible injuries and remained conscious. He was considered to be in fair condition when they took him to the Intermountain Medical Center.
But when Portillo arrived to the hospital, he slipped into a coma with swelling in his brain. Johana Portillo called detectives to let them know his condition had worsened.
That's when detectives intensified their search for the goalie. By Saturday evening, the teenager's father agreed to bring him down to speak with police.
Portillo's family said he had been attacked before, and Johanna Portillo said she and her sisters begged their father to stop refereeing because of the risk from angry players, but he continued because he loved soccer.
"It was his passion," she said. "We could not tell him no."


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25 Best Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes
Valentine's Day Marshmallow Treats
Dress up rice cereal hearts with frosting, pretzels, peanut butter, chocolate and other toppings for Valentine's Day sweets.
Valentine's Day Chocolate Trail Mix
Sweet, salty, chewy, crunchy—this trail mix has everything you want in a snack. Plus chocolate, of course!
Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes
Top these gooey-center, intense chocolate desserts with powdered sugar.
Red-Hot Velvet Brownies
These cinnamon-spiked red velvet bars taste just like red-hot candies—with a layer of luscious cream cheese frosting on top!
Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies
Use a basic sugar cookie dough to create any of four heart-shape designs for this sweetheart of a Valentine cookie.
Red Velvet Cheesecake
We took the red velvet cake we love and gave it a creamy twist. Don't let the red color fool you: The flavor is all chocolate.
Three-Tiered Chocolate Cake
Few foods say "celebration" like cake, especially chocolate. We challenged our Test Kitchen to come up with a fresh, delicious twist on this all-time favorite. The result is a decadently rich dessert. The recipe includes variations such as Hot Chocolate Cake, Spice is Nice Chocolate Cake and Mocha Chocolate Cake.
Candy-Box Caramels
Make packaged caramel squares a perfect, easy Valentine treat by dipping them in sprinkles, crushed nuts and bits of candy. Drizzle with dark or white chocolate to add even more color.
Mini Chocolate Soufflés
These warm, bittersweet puffs have coffee in them, but you'd never know it. Performing culinary sleight of hand, the hidden ingredient just helps chocolate taste more chocolatey, like a capful of vanilla would, but with a darker intent.
Fudge Brownie Hearts
These Valentine treats combine bittersweet and semisweet chocolate with plenty of butter, eggs, granulated sugar and brown sugar for a moist, rich dessert. After the brownies have cooked and cooled, you can cut them into bars or use 3-inch heart-shape cutters. Drizzle with a vanilla glaze.
Red Velvet Pots
For a cake that comes together in minutes, just mix and microwave. Top with a powdered sugar heart.
Cocoa and Brown Butter Shortbread Bites
Browned butter infuses irresistible nuttiness into these four-ingredient cookies without sullying their essential simplicity or sandy texture. Dip them in satiny chocolate for effortless glamor.
Creamy Peanut Butter Truffles
Minnesota's Saint Paul Hotel features truffles similar to these at its annual Chocolate Lovers' Tea.
Salted Almond Truffle Tart
One of our testers described this tart's filling as "chocolate butter." We couldn't agree more. It's fantastically rich, with roast-toasty salted almonds in the crust and flaky sea salt on top to balance the sweetness.
Cookie canvas
Whip up flavored icing for cookies, sweet rolls, cakes or coffee cake in minutes. Just mix 1-1/2 cups powdered sugar with 2-3 tablespoons liquid, then drizzle away. For a Valentine's Day treat, try maraschino cherry juice for pretty pink color.
Maraschino cherry juice, coffee and creme de menthe add color as well as flavor. Most other liqueurs and citrus juices yield white or cream-color icing. For unflavored drizzle, use milk.
Cake Bites
Candylike tiny cakes require just a basic recipe using a mix, frosting and candy coating. Customize to suit your tastes with extra flavor and toppings!
White Chocolate-Cherry Shortbread
Dip these cookies in melted white chocolate, then roll in nonpareils and edible glitter for Valentine color.
Vanilla Pudding with Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle
Put a twist on old-fashioned cookies and milk with this creamy vanilla pudding topped with crispy-buttery cookie bits.
Valentine's Cocoa Angel Cake
Flavored with cocoa powder and generously frosted with sweetened whipped cream, this tender Valentine's Day dessert from our Test Kitchen was featured on a Midwest Living® cover.
Mocha Meringue Kisses
These light-as-air sweet kisses, flavored with cocoa and espresso powders, are fat-free and just 32 calories each.
Double Thumbprint Cookies
Fill these pretty Double Thumbprint Cookies with cherry or raspberry preserves for a Valentine dessert.
The Original Chocolate Fondue
Fondue stars at the Melting Pot restaurant in Indianapolis. We offer The Original Chocolate Fondue recipe as well as versions based on s'mores and caramels. Dippers include fruit, angel food cake, pound cake cubes and marshmallows.
Puffed Heart Lemon Cookies
A lemon-flavor glaze, colored white or pink, adds a sweet-tart topping to these cakelike confections for a Valentine's dessert.
Ebony and Ivory Cupcakes
Drizzle this chocolate cupcake with Powdered Sugar Glaze and then rolled in chocolate shavings if you want it to look like ours. Or top the glaze with nuts, hard candies, chopped chocolate or colored sugar.
Heavenly Devil's Food Cake
This moist and rich creation includes unsalted butter, eggs, cocoa powder, two kinds of sugar and buttermilk. Serve with whipped cream and berries, if you like, or your favorite flavor of ice cream. Or frost with desired cake frosting.
Honey and Poppy Seed Hearts
Honey gives these cinnamon-spiced cookies great flavor and a slightly soft texture.
Tinted Angel Cake
The many colors of Kool-Aid, a Nebraska invention, mean there is an array of choices for this angel food cake that starts with a mix. Pink lemonade Kool-Aid adds pastel Valentine dessert prettiness and a delicate flavor to Tinted Angel Cake.
Black Tie Cupcakes
You can get creative with the finishing touches on these cupcakes, which are topped with seedless red raspberry or blackberry preserves, chocolate ganache, decorative icing and small decorative candies.
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Wow – here it is the middle of April, and I'm just now getting to the March update. Yikes!
March was a great month, garden speaking. I actually got my spring garden in on time! I planted a lot really, and am happy to report that potatoes, peas, beets, kale, spinach and arugula are all up already. Some of my lettuce didn't come up so I'm thinking I'll have to replant it.
A switch must have flipped for the chickens, since March 1st, we've collected 99 eggs. Ninety-nine!
Plant Something: Potatoes, Alaskan sugar peas, blue curled kale and red Russian kale, yellow cylindrical beets, Ringmaster onions, spinach, arugula, Boston lettuce, red romaine, Tom Thumb lettuce, Little Gem lettuce, peas and oats cover crop blend in the chicken area.
Harvest Something: Eggs: 99!! Enough spinach for a pizza and for Emmett to graze on.
Preserve Something: Froze 1# pizza dough.
Waste Not: Scraps given to chickens and/or compost pile.
Want Not: At the beginning of March, we bought a case of pasta, and at the end of the month we ordered some olive oil in bulk. Also, the neighbor gave us steel posts so we could get started on the last run of the fence, and two old rusty iron tractor seats that we plan to turn into a garden bench.
Eat the Food: From the Pantry we've eaten peach preserves, peanut butter, strawberry jam, pasta, nuts, plum lavender jam, the last of the dried tomatoes and pickles, pickles, pickles. From the freezer: elk flat steak, bell peppers, tomatoes, corn, black bean burgers, peaches, elk back strap, turkey stock, and pizza dough.
Build Community: In March, we hosted our second potluck and a seed swap. It was great to get to know friends a bit better and I got some new seeds (peas, cilantro and hollyhocks). We helped the neighbor get started on a new raised bed in his front yard.
Skill Up: Our neighbor showed Rick how to properly sand and paint steel posts.
We are headed into one of the busiest times of the year for homesteaders. The planting season is in full swing. We had the warmest March I can remember, not one drop of precipitation in what is normally Colorado's snowiest month, and it is being followed by a chilly April so far. But everything seems to be growing well, and I've certainly gotten the planting itch!
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Some agencies see state falling behind again
CANTON — Things are slightly better today than a few years ago for the Fulton County Rehabilitation Center, which at one point was 18 months late in receiving bill payments from the state of Illinois.
The group which, like EP!C and the Community Workshop and Training Center in Peoria, works with people with physical or mental disabilities and helps them find employment, now sees swifter payments from the state treasury. But, executive director Rex Lewis said, the delays are slowly starting to grow week by week.
It's a matter of worry for the agency that serves 105 people, employs 43 staff and already has had to arrange a $600,000 line of credit to dip into for tough times.
They've taken more steps to become self-sufficient and to make the state pay up, meaning not much else can be done.
"We've worked harder on getting donations; I think everybody's into that now," Lewis said. "...We used to just have one big fundraiser every year, and we still do, but we run several others to help get some of the money."
They've also gotten onto the expedited payment list with Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka's office, moving them and other social service agencies closer to the head of the line when money is available.
Nevertheless, with the comptroller's office identifying $5.6 billion in backlogged bills and nearly 108,000 vouchers awaiting payment as of Friday, there's still a wait.
"When the state catches up, that's really a good thing," Lewis said, noting that things have gotten better recently, but that the lag is beginning to again show.
"A couple years ago we were looking at that thinking how much longer can we exist," he said. "Then things get a little better, then you fight it again and things get better again."
He credits state Rep. Mike Unes, a Republican, and Sen. Dave Koehler, a Democrat, for helping the agency navigate through the last few years with state officials, as well as members of the Fulton County Board with lending a hand.
Until lawmakers manage to free up additional cash to pay off late bills, "the only thing we can do is hope," Lewis said.
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Tablets are invading our schools, our offices, and our homes. Back in June, we heard that nearly a third of U.S. Internet users already own a tablet. The vast majority of them have an iPad, but Apple is no longer the only company at the table and we're seeing more and more tablets announced every day. If you've yet to take the tablet plunge, or perhaps you're looking to snag a second tablet or upgrade, we've got a roundup of the best upcoming tablets (and rumored tablets) for you.
If you can't wait, be sure to check our list of the our favorite tablets currently on the market.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
Rumors gave way to confirmation from mobile boss, JK Shin that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will be shown off at MWC this year. You can probably guess how big the screen is going to be (the clue is in the name). Samsung seems to be intent on introducing devices at every possible size from small budget smartphone through phablets to large tablets. We expect it to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or later and sport a quad-core processor. The resolution is likely to be 1280×800 pixels and the big draw (if you'll pardon the pun) is the inclusion of Samsung's super stylus – the S-Pen.
Sony Xperia Tablet Z
Check out our review of the Sony Xperia tablet Z.
Sony's flagship Android smartphone, the Xperia Z, grabbed the headlines at CES this year and the company has already confirmed the existence of an Xperia Tablet Z. With a 10.1-inch Reality Display at 1920×1200 pixels, a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, support for LTE and NFC – not to mention Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and an 8.1-megapixel camera – this is worth checking out. It's a svelte slate that's only 6.9mm thick and weighs in at just less than 500 grams. If you aren't already excited then maybe the fact it's waterproof and dustproof will be clincher.
LG Tab Book
Here's a Windows 8 tablet from LG with a built-in keyboard and support for 4G LTE. It will run full Windows 8 on an Intel Core i5 processor, and we're expecting an 11.6-inch display with a 1366×768 pixel resolution. It could be the ideal solution for students and mobile employees seeking something smaller than a laptop, but not ready to give up a physical keyboard. A button at the side allows the screen to slide up at an angle to reveal the keyboard, but that does also mean this is a chunky-looking and relatively heavy tablet.
Nokia Windows Tablet
We know Nokia and Microsoft are the best of pals, so could a Nokia tablet be on the cards? There have been persistent rumors about a 10-inch, dual-core Nokia tablet running Windows RT. The Finnish mobile giant was apparently keen to see how Windows tablets performed in the market before committing and so it might never make it out of the R&D department. Nokia does have a well-deserved reputation for quality hardware, so it would be interesting to see the company dive into the tablet market.
The iPad mini refused to conform to the 7-inch small tablet brigade on Android and now we are seeing more Android tablets with that extra inch. The ZTE V81 wants a head-to-head and it boasts an 8-inch display with a 1024×768 pixel resolution, a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and 4GB of storage. Thankfully, it does have a microSD card slot and there's also GPS, Bluetooth, and a 2-megapixel rear-facing camera alongside a VGA front-facing camera. It doesn't sound irresistible, but ZTE will be looking to deliver that knockout blow on price and we expect it to be very affordable.
Asus Fonepad
We've had two Padfones from Asus already so it's about time we got a Fonepad. While the Padfone is a tablet shell that you can slide a separate smartphone in and out of, the Fonepad is apparently a more conventional hybrid device which combines smartphone features into a tablet. Early rumors point to an Intel Atom Lexington processor, a 7-inch 1280×800 pixel screen, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a 3-megapixel camera, and 16GB of storage, which would suggest a budget price. It should also have cellular support, but we're talking 3G not LTE.
Acer Tablets
On the heels of the budget Iconia B1, a 7-inch Android tablet for under $150, we're expecting to see 8-inch and 10-inch Android tablet releases from Acer. It looks like the MediaTek MT6589 quad-core processor will be powering them, but we don't have any other details yet. The specs may not match the cutting edge tablets, but what we can expect is extremely competitive pricing.
Polaroid M7 and M10
A pair of Android tablets from Polaroid might sound unlikely, but that's exactly what the M7 and M10 are. Those numbers refer to the screen size and both tablets have a 1280×800 pixel resolution, run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, sport 2-megapixel front-facing cameras, and have microSD card slots. The M7 has a dual-core processor and 8GB of storage. The M10 goes quad-core and has 16GB of storage, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and HDMI out. These are budget devices at an eyebrow-raising $130 and $230 respectively.
Lenovo ThinkPad Helix
If the Lenovo Ideacentre Horizon strikes you as a bit big for a tablet at 27 inches then perhaps you'd prefer this stylish hybrid. The ThinkPad Helix has an Intel Core i7 processor, runs Windows 8, and has an 11.6-inch full HD 1080p display. If you want to go to town you can get 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, NFC support, and LTE connectivity. There's a keyboard attachment that doubles up as a stand and offers additional ports, or you can just take the screen and use it like a conventional tablet. It also has a fancy stylus, or digitizer pen, with some handy functionality.
Panasonic 4K 20-inch Tablet
Is 20 inches too big for a tablet? Before you answer that take a look at Panasonic's 4K tablet. It is basically a Windows 8 all-in-one with an incredibly gorgeous display. It will be available in Intel Core i5 or i7 varieties and it has an accelerometer and support for a Bluetooth pen which could make it a worthy contender for artists. Is it practical? No, not really. It weighs 2.4 kg and it's over 10mm thick. Inside there's 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD, and a 720p HD camera. The resolution is 3840×2560 pixels and it can handle 10-finger gesture control. We anticipate an off-putting price tag.
iPad Mini 2
There's no indication exactly when we might expect to see a new version of the iPad Mini, but you can bet that we will. Reports suggest that it has been selling well and possibly even cannibalizing sales of Apple's larger iPad line. The big complaint with the original was the screen resolution and so we expect the follow up to have a Retina display. There have also been rumors about a thicker body which suggests a beefed up battery (likely to handle the high-resolution screen). With the iPad Mini still flying off the shelves it may be a while before the new version makes an appearance.
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Screaming at the top of his lungs in ecstasy.
I'm the old man, sitting near the window
Waiting for someone to wave at him.
I'm the puppy that wags its tail, and licks your hand
Following you home.
I'm the florist, delivering flowers
Spreading smiles on everyone's faces.
I'm the girl, sitting there all by herself
With a book in her hand, and a smile on her face.
I'm the sun that sets, bathing everyone
In it's orange glow, as they look up in awe.
I'm the moon, that comes peeking out at night
And disappears at the light of dawn.
I'm the stars that shine, only in the darkness
In the velvety night sky.
I'm the book you love, the one
You read over and over again.
I'm the creases in the corners of your eyes,
I'm the wrinkles on your skin.
I'm the dust that settles in your shelves,
The dimples on your cheek.
I'm the rain on a sunny day, and
The rainbow that comes after it.
I'm the wide grin on a child's face, and
I'm the feeling of falling in love.
I'm the bird, that soars high in the sky
As high as I can go.
I'm the sunshine, and the dark sky.
I'm life, and death, and everything in between.
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One of nation's youngest fighter pilots recalls WWII action
Harold C. Rosser was one of World War II's youngest fighter pilots, but when the war broke out he was worried it would end before he got to serve.
Rosser, the author of several books, spoke to the National Association of Federal Employees (NARFE) recently at the DoubleTree Hotel in Oak Ridge about his experiences during the war.
"I was a senior in high school when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor," the Oneida native recalled. He said he and his friends were angry about the bombing and wanted to join the military. After graduation, he and a friend traveled to Chattanooga to join the Army Air Corps in September 1942. They were told they'd have to wait and they'd be called. His buddy was called first.
"I just thought the war was going to be over before they ever called," Rosser recalled.
But call Uncle Sam did in March 1943. Rosser rode the bus to Nashville, later training in Montgomery, Ala., and Perry, Fla.
In Montgomery, he said, he went through hazing by some of the others — having to conduct a funeral for a mouse he was told he allowed to drown in the showers.
Among the planes he trained on in Florida was a twin-engine Stearman.
"They tell me they killed more boys in training than they did in combat," Rosser said.
While training in Florida, Rosser said he remembered being pleasantly surprised by five new B47s coming in — "flown by women."
"(We were) excited about those women coming in flying those B47s," he said.
"Finally we made it into Assam (India)," Rosser said. Servicemen already there were under attack by the Japanese and the new group, which included Rosser, landed and immediately got into foxholes.
He — along with 19 comrades — landed in China on his 20th birthday. The "runway" was 3,900 feet long and graveled, which came as a surprise.
"We'd been trained on mile-long runways," Rosser said.
They joined a group of angry servicemen who thought they were getting ready to go home to the United States — but plans had changed.
Rosser had various memories about coming under attack. The bullets hitting the ground around him — "it's (the sound) just like popping corn" while he tried to lay on the ground, making himself as small as possible so he'd be a smaller target; the buddy who burned up inside his plane while he and the others had to flee the bullets — "I remember the smell of burning flesh."
He flew two missions in the old planes flown by the "Flying Tigers," — predecessors to Rosser's group — 81 missions total during World War II. Rosser was a member of the U.S. 14th Air Force, which absorbed the U.S. Army 23rd Fighter Group, which replaced the original "Flying Tigers."
Rosser, who was born in 1924, received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Distinguished Flying Cross, according to information about the author on the website, amazon.com. After college training at the University of Tennessee, he joined a natural gas pipeline firm, with which he was affiliated for 35 years.
His books include "Take-Off From Hazel Valley," "No Hurrahs for Me," and "For lack of a meddlesome preacher."
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"The Blacklist," NBC's series about a brilliant criminal mastermind who for mysterious reasons begins to help the FBI apprehend serious evildoers, is one of the big hits of the fall season. Starring James Spader in de facto scene-stealing mode, the show, which airs Monday nights, has more than 10 million viewers a week in the all-important demo and has already been given a full season order by NBC. Its premise is simple, but savvy to the point of elegance: As Grantland's Andy Greenwald succinctly put it, "it's a cop procedural with a criminal as the lead investigator," the powerhouse marriage of a reliable genre and the trendiest of archetypes, the antihero.
As this high-concept premise suggests, "The Blacklist" is both utterly shameless and, in its way, genuinely (if cynically) sophisticated. Its protagonist, Raymond "Red" Reddington, will manipulate, kill, flatter, scare, flirt, joke to get what he wants, namely the trust and affection of a young FBI agent. "The Blacklist" will manipulate, kill, flatter, scare, flirt, joke to get what it wants, our attention and affection. "The Blacklist" has coolly learned one of the lessons of "The Sopranos" and "Breaking Bad" — that despite their creators' best intentions, scads of viewers thrilled to the violence and troubled murderers they contained, even if they were not "meant" to — and has decided to offer them up, guilt free. "The Blacklist," like its protagonist, is not concerned with ethics, just opportunity.
Spader stars as Reddington, who, in the first episode, promises to help the FBI nail a huge list of very bad guys, but only if he can work with a brand new agent named Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boon). His Reddington is a man of refined tastes, the amoral aesthete who appreciates poetry, a good tumbler of scotch and beautiful women. Like most of Spader's recent characters he is a strange, alluring mixture of clipped line readings, smarm, freaky sexual bravado and deranged self-possession. Unlike most male actors who have an outsized on-screen presence, Spader vamps, crossing the line into camp like it's the threshold to his front door. (What I would not do to see him and Jessica Lange in "American Horror Story" mode in a room!) It's a kicky, kinky and mannered performance grounded by an implacable, if inexplicable, self-confidence.
The early episodes heavily intimated that Keen is Reddington's biological daughter. Every conversation the pair have had about why he insists on working with her has been carefully constructed so that it will signify differently in retrospect if and when we find out he is her father. On a sting, he tells Lizzie she can pretend to be his daughter; later, he explains he is interested in her primarily because of her father. Creator Jon Bokenkamp has learned from "Lost": Don't tease mysteries you can't answer.
Bokenkamp cribs widely, in fact. Red owes so much to Hannibal Lecter, I presume his favorite meal is a meat course served with fava beans and chianti, he just hasn't mentioned it yet. Keen's house is being surveilled by a number of thuggish men, a setup straight out of "Homeland." In one episode, Keen and Red hunt an assassin, nicknamed "The Stewmaker," who dissolves his victims in the bathtub using chemicals and a gas mask, like he has learned how to get rid of corpses from Jesse and Walt. (Skinny Pete also appears on the show, implausibly, as Red's polished attaché.) Last week, in a story straight from the original Scandinavian version of "The Bridge," a guy got buried alive. And this is to say nothing of all the procedural plots "The Blacklist" happily lifts from. If these nods to other TV shows are lazy, that's part of "The Blacklist's" bravado, its brazen willingness to cadge from the best, no untended wallet safe in its presence.
"The Blacklist" is aware of the morally complex protagonists who have come before it in the golden age of the antihero, but it is not burdened by grandiose ambitions: It's pure pop. Unlike "Boardwalk Empire," "Ray Donovan," "Magic City," "Hell on Wheels" and other shows made in "The Sopranos' " image with long faces and nothing new to say about their tortured semi-good, semi-bad guys, "The Blacklist" delivers its no news with a fresh, fun attitude.
I can't say that I find this ethically acceptable. (Emily Nussbaum, in her review for The New Yorker, called the show "odious torture porn," and she's not wrong.) But I also can't deny that I find it a more entertaining than any of the aforementioned Fauxpranos. "The Blacklist" makes you like the bad guy without feeling bad about it.
A recent episode was devoted to trapping a killer who couldn't feel pain and hid objects in his own self-inflicted wounds, a perfect villain for "The Blacklist," a show in which nothing is supposed to hurt.


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Jeter ready to move forward in injury-plagued campaign
TORONTO -- The batting stance looks the same as ever, as does the confident strut to home plate. Even the bat, that black Louisville Slugger P72, is the identical model Derek Jeter has been swinging through strike zones for nearly two decades.
But there has been a change for the captain, who returned to the lineup on Monday and went 0-for-3 with a walk in New York's 5-2 loss to Toronto at Rogers Centre. Jeter hears "voices" in his mind instructing him to "run under control" after contact, a reminder that everything isn't what it always has been.
"I'll try to do as much as I can to keep strong for this last month, but all I can do is go out and play and hope everything's fine," said Jeter, who was activated from the disabled list on Monday and batted second against the Blue Jays. "I can't change anything that's happened."
Jeter may still not be 100 percent as he returns from a strained right calf -- just the latest injury in what he has called a "nightmare" season that featured three stints on the DL -- but the Yankees will gladly accept whatever percentage he is.
"He looked fine," said manager Joe Girardi. "Everything looked OK to me. I'm curious to see how he feels [on Tuesday], but it looked OK."
Facing Toronto's R.A. Dickey, the 39-year-old Jeter jogged down the first-base line after grounding out to shortstop in the first inning, then seemed to run slightly harder on a double-play grounder in the fifth.
He walked in the fifth, then struck out in the seventh facing left-hander Aaron Loup.
Jeter said that it was an unwelcome challenge having to face Dickey's knuckleball in what was just his sixth Major League game of the year.
"It's not fun. Ironically, I faced two [knuckleballers] when I was in Scranton," he said. "You just throw everything out the window and hope it goes in the direction you're swinging."
This has been the most frustrating year of Jeter's career by far. He has missed more games (125) over his three trips to the DL in 2013 than he did in his prior five stints combined (82), and has still played more games as a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRider than as a Yankee.
"It's good having him back," Girardi said. "It gives us more depth. He's a guy that has been very successful at the top of the order and has played very good shortstop for us. It's good to have him back."
But at what percentage? Jeter joked before the game that he had been running at "93.7 percent" the last time he played, a light-hearted attempt to pin a numeric value on something that can't really be quantified.
Interestingly, though, he acknowledged on Monday that he has not been able to work out his legs normally since fracturing his left ankle in pursuit of a ground ball during last year's American League Championship Series.
He suggested that the resulting weakness may have contributed to his other injuries -- a new fracture in his left ankle during Spring Training, then a strained right quadriceps in his first game off the DL, on July 11 against the Royals.
"I wish I would have had more time to do things, but I didn't, and we are where we are," he said. "So now let's move forward, and hopefully, there's no more issues."
Knowing that he may have to treat Jeter with some caution, Girardi plans to watch Jeter closely and make decisions each day based upon how the veteran feels.
"You kind of think the more time he gets away from the ankle injury and the stronger it gets, it should even out," Girardi said. "It should be OK, but we'll see what happens."
Jeter said after Monday's game that his job is to play, so he would tell Girardi that he wants to play -- not exactly groundbreaking news to anyone who has read the transcript of one of his postgame interviews in the last two decades.
He knows it can do no good to think about what has already transpired this year, but acknowledged that it has been difficult to completely put all of the injuries out of his mind. The voices are still there.
"I'm hoping I have no other problems, I really am," he said. "I can't tell you what I'm going to do. I'm trying to be smart. I guess the game will dictate it. I don't really think you can play not to get hurt. I think that's when you get hurt."


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Back to the Pliocene Epoch
True enough, but there's nothing all-natural about the cycle in this chart. It shows the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. For the last 800,000 years, it has oscillated between 180 and 250-280 parts per million.
Then came the industrial revolution. Since then, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by 41 percent. And on May 9, the tracking station at Mauna Loa that has been measuring fresh air just off the Pacific Ocean for more than 50 years, registered its first daily average CO2 concentration over 400 ppm.
Carbon dioxide, though still a small percentage of the atmosphere, is the most important of the heat-trapping greenhouse gases. To think that humans could make such a dramatic change in the chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere without consequences is an act of ignorance and arrogance.
The last time CO2 levels were this high, scientists say, was 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch. The climate was far warmer then, the polar ice caps far smaller, and sea levels as much as 60 to 80 feet higher. Of course there were no people then, living in highly developed seacoast cities, and the wooly mammoths presumably had an easier time moving inland.
The carbon dioxide milestone "feels like the inevitable march toward disaster," Columbia scientist Maureen E. Raymo told The New York Times. As I note in a Sunday editorial, there are lots of things happening more important than the scandals obsessing the Washington press corps and the political commentariat, none of them more significant than the milestone recorded at Mauna Loa.


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Foxconn Plant in Peanut Field Shows Labor Eroding China's Edge; "China's advantage in low-cost manufacturing will end much sooner than expected, I believe within five years,"
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Foxconn Plant in Peanut Field Shows Labor Eroding China's Edge
Standing on a street corner near Foxconn Technology Group's (2038) plant in central China that makes iPhone 5 handsets, employee Wang Ke says he'll quit if his wage doesn't double.
"I don't have high expectations, I know I'm a migrant worker," said Wang, 22, who earned 1,600 yuan ($258) in December, after deductions for lodging. "But I want to make 3,500 yuan a month, net. That's a fair price."
Wang's attitude springs from a labor-market squeeze across the country after China's pool of young workers shrank by almost 33 million in five years at the same time as industry added 30 million jobs. The resulting wage pressure means Foxconn, Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) biggest supplier, pays the same basic salary at the Zhengzhou plant it built in 2010 among the corn and peanut fields of Henan province, as it does in Shenzhen, the southern city that spawned the nation's industrial boom.
"China's advantage in low-cost manufacturing will end much sooner than expected, I believe within five years," said Shen Jianguang, Hong Kong-based chief economist at Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. "Wages are rising faster inland than on the coast. More companies will consider moving to countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines."
Higher pay and the relocation of factories are undermining China's three-decade export model that concentrated production, cheap labor, infrastructure and supply chains in one place, allowing savings that made it the world's supplier of low-end goods. As manufacturing costs rise, price increases will be passed on to the world, said Tao Dong, head of Asia economics excluding Japan at Credit Suisse Group AG in Hong Kong.
Feeding Inflation
"The days of China as the anchor of global disinflation have ended," said Tao. "When global demand picks up, global inflation may arrive sooner rather than later. This will affect everything, from the Italian housewife to Federal Reserve monetary policy."
China's pool of 15- to 39-year-olds, which supplies the bulk of workers for industry, construction and services, fell to 525 million last year, from 557 million five years earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News from the U.S. Census Bureau's international population database. The number employed in industry rose to 147 million from 117 million in the five years through September.
The labor squeeze means wage costs inland are fast catching up with the industrial belt in the south and east. Average factory pay in Henan, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) from the coast, rose 110 percent in the past five years and gained 84 percent in Chongqing, 1,700 kilometers up the Yangtze River. In the same period, salaries rose 78 percent in Shanghai on the east coast and 77 percent in Shenzhen's province of Guangdong (CHAWMAGD).
Narrowing Gap
"The wage differential between inland and coastal regions is down by more than half since 2006," said Jitendra Waral, a Bloomberg Industries analyst in Hong Kong.
Pay pressures are set to intensify with the supply of young workers forecast to shrink by 20 million to 505 million by 2015 and a further 22 million by 2020.
In Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, Japanese automakers Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. pay a basic wage of $333 a month, compared to $352 in Guangzhou and $317 in Shenzhen, according to an April 2012 report by the Japan External Trade Organization.
The gap between manufacturing costs in the U.S. and China has almost halved in the past eight years and will fall to 16 percent this year, according to Hackett Group Inc., a Miami- based consulting company. That's a "tipping point" that will prompt some companies to shift factories back to the U.S. or to destinations nearer consumers, says Hackett, which lists customers including Pfizer Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Boeing Co. on its website.
Cambodian Bras
Nations including Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh already are reaping gains. Vietnam's foreign investment increased more than threefold to $7.4 billion in 2011 from five years earlier, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In Cambodia it surged 85 percent to $892 million and in Bangladesh 43 percent to $1.1 billion.
Hong Kong-based bra maker Top Form International Ltd (333). shuttered its factory in Shenzhen last year and is expanding production in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital.
We are "trimming down our expensive capacity in China," Chairman Fung Wai Yiu wrote in the company's 2012 annual report.
The average monthly pay for a factory worker in Guangzhou was $352, compared with $111 in Hanoi, $82 in Phnom Penh and $78 in Dhaka, the Japan External Trade Organization's survey said.
Other producers, such as automaker Great Wall Motor Co. (2333) in Baoding, are investing in automation to reduce headcount.
"The hard fact is that unless China moves up the value chain the future contribution of exports to economic growth will decline," the World Bank said in "China 2030," a report released last year in cooperation with the Development Research Center of the State Council.
Early Mover
Foxconn was one of the first of China's big exporters to build plants inland where the bulk of the nation's migrant workforce comes from. More than 90 percent of the 250,000 workers in its 5.5 square-kilometer Henan plant are from the province's population of 94 million.
"Every company I talk to has been taken by surprise by the tightening of the labor market," said Auret van Heerden, president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based Fair Labor Association. "Foxconn chose to shift to very populous provinces where they thought there would be a deep pool of labor. What they're finding is that the younger generation simply doesn't want to work in factories."
Zhuge Leilei, 24, signed on with Foxconn in Zhengzhou two years ago and was sent to the company's Shenzhen plant for four months to train as a team leader.
"The pressure is huge," Zhuge said in January. "Once I get my year-end bonus, I'm going to quit."
Rural Exodus
The new factories have denuded many rural communities of young workers. In five central provinces, more than 90 percent of men in villages and about 76 percent of women between the ages of 20 and 40 now work elsewhere, according to a poll of 2,020 rural households conducted by Beijing Forestry University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Stanford University.
"Young, mobile labor is gone," said Scott Rozelle, head of the Rural Education Action Project at Stanford in California. "Moving inland helps, but only a little. It is mainly for tax purposes and cheap land, not cheap labor."
On field trips since 2008, Rozelle offered about 300 students and interns a 100-yuan reward for every person they could find between the ages of 20 and 40 who worked on a farm.
"I have never paid out one cent," he said. "In northern Sichuan, Guizhou or Gansu, there are zero people between 20 and 40 on farms. My students have looked long and hard."
Jujube Orchards
Thirty kilometers from Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory is the village of Mengzhuang, surrounded by orchards of jujubes, or Chinese red dates. On the dusty main street, Hao Yong crouches in his one-room store over a metal stove to keep warm, surrounded by boxes of jujubes he hopes to sell to passersby.
"All the young people have gone," said Hao, 30, who says he was turned down by Foxconn because of a disability.
Foxconn increased its China workforce by 50 percent in two years to 1.2 million. The company has suffered suicides, riots and strikes in the past three years. Employees, who work up to 12 hours a day, complain of difficult demands from managers.
As many as 4,000 workers walked off the job at Zhengzhou in October, according to advocacy group China Labor Watch. A dispute occurred when employees became frustrated trying to prevent scratches on iPhone casings, according to two people familiar with the matter.
"Workers are becoming increasingly demanding," said Li Qiang, executive director of the New York-based labor group. "They want to spend, they don't want to work long hours."
Wages Doubled
After pressure from Apple and the media, Foxconn more than doubled wages in 2010 for some workers in China and employed counselors. The company is giving workers greater representation in unions. Its dormitory complex in Zhengzhou looks like a private residential development, with shops and a karaoke lounge.
"If you want to exist for a long, long time, you must create a system providing not only jobs but also lifestyle," said Liu Kun, a company spokesman, in an interview in Zhengzhou.
Factories shifting inland also face other challenges. Moving away from subcontractors and parts makers stretches supply chains and often increases transportation costs.
Jeans maker Yi Ding Hong Clothing Co. shifted production to Huaxian in Henan in 2009 from Guangzhou, lured by tax incentives and cheaper land, said founder and chairman Kang Xunda. Two years later, Kang moved back to the coast.
"It cost us millions," he said. "There were virtually no savings on wages and the logistics was a nightmare."
Few Suppliers
Kang said he could find 30 suppliers on the coast for each one in Henan.
"In Guangzhou, delivery promised in three days will be delivered in three days," he said in a telephone interview. "In Henan, delivery promised in a week can take a month."
Companies that do move inland often worsen the labor shortage on the coast because many of the staff they hire are former migrant workers.
Henan resident Wang Xiaohong used to work at an electronics factory in Hangzhou, south of Shanghai, before taking a job last year at Foxconn in Zhengzhou. After deductions for food and board, Wang earns the same starting wage as she did in her previous job, about 1,500 yuan a month.
"It's nice to be a bit closer to home," said Wang, 23, from Dengfeng, a nearby wheat-growing county. "I can go home often and have my mother's homemade braised noodles."
Other Benefits
China still has advantages for manufacturers other than cheap labor, including the scale of its domestic economy, superior infrastructure, proximity to component suppliers and established logistics networks, said Beijing-based Fred Hu, founder of private equity firm Primavera Capital and former Greater China chairman at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The share of exports produced inland rose to 8.7 percent in April last year, from 5.5 percent in December 2010, Goldman Sachs said in a Dec. 11 research note. Last year, exports from central and western China rose 22 percent and 38 percent, respectively, compared to a 5 percent gain on the east coast.
After a leadership change this month, new Chinese Premier Li Keqiang promised on March 17 to open the economy more to market forces to achieve 7.5 percent annual growth through 2020.
International Monetary Fund researchers Mitali Das and Papa N'Diaye say China's cheap labor may last longer than five years. The nation has a pool of 150 million unemployed or underemployed workers that probably won't be exhausted until between 2020 and 2025, they wrote in a paper released in January.
Shrinking Pool
Still, they say forecasts may understate prospects of a labor shortage because the pool of workers below 40 years old will shrink faster than the overall workforce.
Older workers "don't want to work in factories and factory owners don't want to hire them," said Stanford's Rozelle.
As farms in central China give way to factories, Tao at Credit Suisse estimates China will face a shortfall of almost 18 million workers by 2020. The shift of labor-intensive industry will only delay the loss of China's comparative advantage, said Cai Fang, head of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
"The surplus labor pool is diminishing," said Cai, a member of the National People's Congress. "Central and western regions cannot afford more factories of Foxconn's size."
–Kevin Hamlin and Zhou Xin. With assistance from Tim Culpan in Taipei. Editors: Adam Majendie, Scott Lanman.
To contact Bloomberg News staff on this story: Kevin Hamlin in Beijing on email@example.com; Xin Zhou in Beijing at firstname.lastname@example.com


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November 6th, 2013
Study: Signs of autism may show up as early as first month
The first signs of autism may be visible as early as the first month of a child's life, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.
"These are the earliest signs of autism ever observed," says lead study author Warren Jones.
Researchers at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta followed 110 children from birth to age 3, at which point a diagnosis of autism was ascertained. Fifty-nine babies were considered "high risk" for developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) because they had siblings with autism; 51 were considered "low risk" because they did not have first, second or third-degree relatives with ASD.
Data was collected at 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 24 months of age. Each time, the children watched videos showing actresses playing the role of a caregiver. "Every baby watched the same videos, and then we could measure what was different about the responses of infants later diagnosed with autism versus infants who were typically-developing," Jones says.
Lack of eye contact is one of the red flags when it comes to autism - a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that can cause significant social, communication and behavioral challenges.
Jones, who is the director of research at Marcus Autism Center and assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says he really expected the children later diagnosed with autism would have diminished eye contact from birth. Instead, he and his colleagues measures how much time each baby was looking at the eyes of the caregiver in the video.
"Basically from birth, (all) babies will look more at the eye part of faces," says Jones. But at about 4 to 6 weeks, he says the attention to eyes decreases, then in typical babies picks up again at 2 months. Jones found, "in the first 6 months of life we're seeing a decline in the amount of looking at other people's eyes in children who later are diagnosed with autism."
The research suggests that a baby's initial eye contact ability may be an almost a reflex-like behavior, but then there may be a second phase of development that depends on different brain and gene systems which lead to social interaction, Jones says. That's where a typically developing child's development may differ from a child with autism.
The study authors conclude that "the observation of this decline in eye fixation - rather than outright absence - offers a promising opportunity for early intervention."
This is not something parents are going to see by just holding their baby, Jones points out. This type of eye-tracking requires sophisticated technology that can track even the slightest movement of the eye.
"It's a very interesting study with intriguing results. " says Wendy Stone, a longtime autism researcher and director of the Research in Early Autism Detection & Intervention (READI) lab at the University of Washington. But, she adds, "many researchers in this field have not seen behaviors under 6 months to be predictive of later diagnosis."
She also cautions that babies looking at videos of their mothers are not the same as the actual stimuli created by a mom interacting with her baby. "Are these babies less interested in eyes because mouths are more interesting to look at and more attractive because there's more movements? To me that's one of the big questions," says Stone.
Dr. Max Wiznitzer, a pediatric neurologist and autism specialist at the Rainbow and Babies Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, says this new study is a continuation of previous work in babies. He says this research makes sense to him. "There's a decrease in the amount of attention to eyes as an early marker of social behavior (think of it as a primitive level of socialization)." Wiznitzer suggests the failure to establish these early social skills has ramifications later as "social behavior shifts into more sophisticated patterns."
If this research bears out, then maybe at some point a pediatric practice could track eye movements as one way to diagnose a child with autism, says Stone. "But we're really, really far away from that."
Wiznitzer says this may explain why the autism symptoms may be more apparent at 18 to 24 months, "even though 'subclinical' onset was months earlier." He also suggests these study results may offer another explanation why the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, which isn't administered until a baby is at least 12 months old, cannot be blamed for causing autism.
Everyone agrees this research needs to be replicated in bigger studies with more children, Wiznitzer says. "The authors are correct that a replication study using a larger number (of children) is necessary. Before that time, I would not devote extensive resources towards assessing eye attention in infants or designing major intervention programs."
Jones says, "what we really want to do is create growth charts for social behavior, just like we have growth charts for charting a child's height and weight." He says these those are the kind of tools that pediatricians need and parents are looking for.
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