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Children's problems with overweight and obesity begin as early as age 3, and Hispanic children and those with obese mothers are especially at risk.
Researchers looked at a national sample of 2,271 urban, low-income 3-year-olds and found the highest rates of obesity and overweight among Hispanic children. Black children were also more likely to be overweight or obese than white children. The study's authors said they could not explain the disparities, but some factors did increase a child's likelihood of being overweight at age 3, including taking a bottle to bed, having an obese mother and having a higher than average birth weight (more than 4,500 grams, or approximately 10 pounds).
Parents who do not regularly shop at a grocery store also increase their preschoolers' odds of being overweight or obese. Having been breastfed for at least six months significantly decreased the odds that a child of an obese mother would be overweight or obese, but did not affect children of non-obese mothers. In those children surveyed, 42 percent of white children with obese mothers were themselves overweight or obese, compared to 36 percent of black children and 56 percent of Hispanic children (for normal-weight mothers, the figures were 26 percent, 25 percent and 40 percent, respectively). "Clearly, maternal weight status is a key determinant of children's obesity at age 3, either via household levels of nutrition and exercise or genetic factors," the study's authors said.
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Child labor practices in developing countries are putting children at significant risk for death and injury, and on American farms, the practice of allowing young family members to work raises their risk of injury as well.
One study that looked at the impact of child labor in developing countries found that allowing children ages 10-14 to work significantly increases child death rates, lowers a population's nutritional status and even increases the prevalence of infectious disease. In another study, researchers examined more than 1,000 pediatric farm injuries in the United States and Canada and found that raising the working age for "hazardous jobs" on farms from 16 to 18 would "be efficacious in preventing the most serious injuries experienced by young family workers. Potential reductions in injury would meet Healthy People 2010 goals for reducing traumatic injury in the agricultural sector." A current exemption allows teens to work at so-called "hazardous jobs" on farms as young as 16 if their family owns the farm. [From: "The Health Impact of Child Labor in Developing Countries: Evidence From Cross-Country Data." Contact: Paola A. Roggero, MD, PhD, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy, email@example.com and "Changing the Child Labor Laws for Agriculture: Impact on Injury." Contact: Barbara Marlenga, email@example.com .]
As people are living longer, caregiving is becoming a bigger health issue
Caregiving is an emerging public health issue with fluctuating care requirements that must touch on both the psychological and the physical needs of the caregiver and the care recipient.
In an analytical essay, public health scientists Ronda C. Talley and John E. Crews look at caregiving as a growing concern in the health field as America ages. While historically scientists and health practitioners have not recognized caregiving as a public health issue, the authors assert there is a need to do so. Caregiving is becoming a widespread concern not only with the "graying of America," but also because of increased life expectancy among people with disabilities. For example, the first-year survival rate of children born with Down syndrome increased from 50 percent in 1942-52 to 91 percent in 1980-1996.
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Black women are up to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related conditions than white women
Black women are much more likely to die from certain pregnancy-related complications than white women, yet the deaths cannot be explained by higher rates of those complications.
Researchers calculated prevalence and case-related fatality rates for five pregnancy-related conditions: preeclampsia, eclampsia, abruptio placentae, placenta previa and postpartum hemorrhage. Those five conditions account for 26 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths. The study was based on data from the National Hospital Discharge Survey from the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System collected 1988-1999. While the prevalence of complications was not significantly different between black and white mothers, case-fatality rates among black women were 2 to 3 times higher than for white women.
"To understand why black women have higher case-fatality rates for the conditions examined in this study, a complex interaction of biological and health services factors must be untangled," the study's authors wrote. "We hope that research will advance beyond the descriptive epidemiology of racial disparities in pregnancy-related mortality to studies that will help elucidate the causes of disparity."
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Research aimed at preventing the estimated 10 million yearly child deaths worldwide is not aimed in the right direction.
According to an analysis of research on the principle causes of child mortality supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation between 2000 and 2004, most grants were for developing new technologies, which would reduce child deaths by an estimated 22 percent. The analysis estimates that reduction is three times less than what could be achieved if current medical technologies were fully utilized. A mere 3 percent of child mortality grants were directed to research on health delivery and utilization.
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Houston travels to New England with a perfect record on the road. Will they be able to maintain their undeeated road status and cement the No. 1 seed in the AFC?
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The Texans, 6-0 away from Houston, will face a big test Monday night when they travel to New England, a place where a visitor hasn't won in December since 2002.
The Patriots have won 19 straight home games in December, with their last loss at Gillette Stadium in the month coming in a 30-17 setback to the
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The Texans are one of the many teams the Patriots have handled during that streak, with Houston losing 40-7 on Dec. 17, 2006 in its only visit there.
Coach Gary Kubiak said the Texans are playing with confidence and don't panic on the road. He preaches a simple mantra before each road game.
''It's about how you play,'' he said he tells them. ''It's not where you play.''
The Texans (11-1) have already secured a playoff spot, and need a win over the Patriots combined with a loss by the Colts to clinch their second straight AFC South title.
Kubiak likes how Houston has handled the noise on the road and thinks the team pulls together a bit more when faced with such adversity.
''It's really kind of your 53 against 80,000 when you show up,'' he said referring to the road crowds. ''I think they take that as a challenge and they take it personal and they know if they protect the football our team is going to have a good chance to win.''
The Texans have had a great turnover margin away from home this season. They've lost the ball just six times and forced 15 turnovers on the road. Their best performance in that area came last week against the Titans when they didn't turn the ball over and forced Tennessee to cough it up six times.
Monday night's game will be the last of three straight road games for Houston. Although the Texans have won all of their road games, they haven't been without some drama. Four of the six wins have been by a touchdown or less, including their controversial 34-31 overtime victory over the Lions on Thanksgiving.
Officials missed the call on an 81-yard touchdown run by
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in that one. But Detroit coach Jim Schwartz threw the challenge flag so the play couldn't be reviewed, the touchdown stood and Houston held on for the win.
Houston receiver
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said people talk about how close they've come to losing on the road, but that he doesn't listen to any of that.
''We've been able to go out on the road this season and win games no matter the circumstances,'' he said. ''When they ask you your record, they ask how many games you've won and how many games you've lost, not what was the score or anything like that. So whatever we need to do to go in and get the W that's what we'll do.''
A win over the Patriots, who have already clinched the AFC East, would help the Texans maintain the top record in the AFC and move them closer to a coveted first-round bye and homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
But facing
Tom Brady
Wes Welker
with a banged up secondary will be one of Houston's toughest challenges to date. Top cornerback
Johnathan Joseph
has missed the last two games with a hamstring injury. He returned to practice in a limited capacity on Thursday. Kubiak said how he looks in practice in the next two days will determine whether he plays Monday night.
Along with Joseph's injury, the Texans are also dealing with the loss of nickel cornerback
Brice McCain
, who had surgery on his left foot on Monday.
Alan Ball
, who filled in for Joseph two week ago, missed last week's game and is still struggling with a sore foot and didn't practice Thursday.
They signed veteran cornerback
Stanford Routt
, who was released from the Chiefs last month, to shore up the group. Kubiak said he ''has no choice'' but to suit him up on Monday night, but knows it will be difficult for him to absorb the entire playbook in less than a week.
''He's got a lot of skill,'' Kubiak said. ''In our situation right now he's a veteran player that could help us quickly, and pick up what we're doing quickly. He's covered a lot of good players in this league.''
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RANKIN INLET, Nunavut -- Stephen Harper looked to strike a balance between the enormous social deficit of the Far North and the region's overwhelming resource potential when he sat down with Inuit leaders from across the country on Thursday.
Much of his week-long tour of the Arctic and northern territories has been geared toward laying the foundation for an anticipated mining boom that's partially the result of a warming climate.
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Absent from the hop-scotching cavalcade of economic initiatives has been discussion of the crushing poverty of many northern communities, the lack of adequate housing and social ills, including sky-high rates of suicide.
Sitting down with Inuit leaders from across the country, Harper attempted to reconcile the disconnect.
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Critics accuse the prime minister of single-mindedly championing the notion that a rising tide of economic prosperity can lift a community while forgetting that some individuals can drown.
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"Economic development really is critical to social development," he said. "That said, we don't rely on that entirely throughout this country, not just in the North. Governments support vital ranges of social services for people, health, education, you know, you go through the list. These remain critical things for governments to do."
He insisted his government has been addressing social issues in the North with programs to blunt the high cost of food, which is double and some cases triple the price than in the south.
The territory of Nunavut gets over $1 billion annually in social transfers, and suicide prevention recently received a $30 million boost.
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"It hurts so much. It really hurts. It hurts the whole community," Beniot said. "It's not just here. It's all over Nunavut. You hear a person committed suicide, maybe you don't know them, we're all touched a lot."
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Gross simplifications and vapid comparisons make me crazy.
Ted Rall, a syndicated columnist for UTW, recently wrote a piece on the Newtown killing and aftermath. In the piece, Rall said that none of us, whether ordinary folks, the American left, or public media, absolutely nobody, has a right to be angry about our latest instance of rampage killing in Newtown, Conn. because, wait for it, U.S. national policy -- our drone/counter-terrorism campaign -- entails killing lots of innocent people as well.
Empirically even the most detached studies suggest that the bulk of killings over the entire eight year history of the US drone counterterrorism campaign have been documented "combatants": estimates of noncombatant deaths range from about 15 to 23 percent of all strikes -- a number well short of the 3,100 "murders" that Rall posits in his piece.
The great storyteller Isaac Bashevis Singer once opined that the death of a single person is the end of a whole universe. There can be little argument about this, but sometimes, sadly, protecting life or an entire society means dropping an epic diplomatic initiative (assuming that the other side will take negotiations) and resolving to roll evil back. I'm glad Rall wasn't Abe Lincoln's military advisor -- I might still be a slave. And I wonder if he would have supported the drone-centric Libyan action last year: a U.S. humanitarian intervention that forestalled as many as 750,000 deaths in Benghazi.
As readers may know, Rall is an award-winning cartoonist/graphic novelist in addition to being a nationally syndicated columnist. He's also widely traveled. And while the world of the graphic novel certainly has brilliant works with enormous intellectual/artistic power -- Art Spiegelman's Maus comes to mind -- seeing the world from this flat one-dimensional vantage can be limiting. Rall's portrayal of Barack Obama and his national security team as cold-eyed participants who are willingly engaged in a murderous campaign via our drone counterterrorism effort, is not only an outrage, it may also be an artifact of his role as a cartoonist -- someone with a flat conception of morality and the world.
For Rall, it's hypocritical to mourn the children killed in Newtown. In one of his loopiest essays that I've seen, he posits a stunning moral equivalency by proclaiming: "Until we start caring about other people's dead kids and adults -- kids and adults made dead by American weapons -- we don't have the right to mourn our own."
What Rall does not or maybe doesn't want to understand is this: Barack Obama's ascension to power sparked a fevered search for less brutal, more nuanced ways of rolling back al-Qaida's many-sided terror campaign. The search for a strategy with fewer civilian casualties and a lighter impact on the Afghan -- and later the Pakistani -- countryside, was the signal rationale for the elevated use of drones and special forces in the president's counterterrorism campaign.
Moral Justification
Al-Qaida and its sister organizations and the people who run its killing logistics have decided that Americans are to be targeted and killed at the pace and with a timing of their choosing -- a function of their lurid work program. One of the singular obligations of an American president is to protect our shores, American embassies, consulates, and our extended overseas diplomatic community and to have the capacity to support military folks when they are under attack or in battle.
We also have the "little" example of 9/11 and myriad other instances where al-Qaida and its sister organizations have attacked Americans whenever the opportunity arose and when they thought they could prevail.
Here is what one of the most serious scholars of drone policy says about the outsized ethical logic of using drones, quoting from Scott Shane's "The Moral Case for Drones" in The New York Times:
"'I had ethical doubts and concerns when I started looking into this,' said Bradley J. Strawser, a former Air Force officer and an assistant professor of philosophy at the Naval Postgraduate School. But after a concentrated study of remotely piloted vehicles, he said, he concluded that using them to go after terrorists not only was ethically permissible but also might be ethically obligatory, because of their advantages in identifying targets and striking with precision."
The Other Path
In the Second Iraq War, we witnessed a turn away from the total war notions at play in World War II and the carpet-bombing tactics that defined a big part of our Indochina/Vietnam war.
Even so, a rigorous study conducted by the renowned Bloomberg Public Health School/John Hopkins, in partnership with the national Iraq Health Ministry, came to a shocking conclusion:
"We estimate that through July 2006, there have been 654,965 "excess deaths" -- fatalities above the pre-invasion death rate -- in Iraq as a consequence of the war. Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 were due to violent causes. Non-violent deaths rose above the pre-invasion level only in 2006. Since March 2003, an additional 2.5 percent of Iraq's population have died above what would have occurred without conflict."
No Threat?
Rall went on to write: "[A]nd in any case the offed "militants" are not threats to the American people."
So, the people who executed the 9/11 plane takedowns and who blew up U.S. embassies in Kenya, elsewhere in Africa (pre-9/11), and did a myriad of big civilians kills in Western Europe: are they simply, as Mr. Rall would have us believe, aggrieved? That is, are they merely political opponents, as he says of "oppressive regimes allied with United States"?
To say, as Rall does, that terrorist operatives associated with al-Qaida and allies are not a threat to the U.S. is very troubling. Interestingly, a wide spectrum of evidence suggests that our fevered attempts to separate terrorist organization from the world financial sector, airports and other civil "hardening" efforts, and yes, the sometimes morally vexing, drone-driven campaign to decapitate al-Qaida are, wait for it, working.
If, as Rall's forcefully suggests, the president and his national security team have no concerns -- that is, "do not care" -- about innocent victims of drone attacks, why do they take elaborate precautions before attacks are ordered to minimize noncombatant casualties? Why does the president personally review, according to writer Michael Lewis and a blizzard of other diplomatic, national security, and foreign policy writers, these strikes and try to ascertain that due diligence -- that is, high level, earnest efforts have been made to avoid strikes that will be problematic given the closeness of schools, religious buildings, residential areas, ambiguity about individual targets, and so forth?
Does Rall know about the strategic review under way to reconsider our decade-plus "War on Terror" -- a high-tempo effort being pushed by top Obama national aides who are crafting new policies that what would substantially end our counterterrorism campaign or at least ratchet it down in dramatic ways? The Daily Beast reported in December:
"[B]ehind the scenes Obama has led a persistent internal conversation about whether America should remain engaged in a permanent, ever-expanding state of war, one that has pushed the limits of the law, stretched dwindling budgets, and at times strained relations with our allies. 'This has always been a concern of the president's,' says a former military adviser to Obama. 'He's uncomfortable with the idea of war without end.'"
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Alright for a president who said he was gonna focus on jobs in the economy.
I guess he -- decided maybe that his policies were nothing to brag about.
So he decided to give a full -- expression to an issue that's gonna be far less controversial.
Same sex marriage.
After Joseph Biden pretty much out of them last week on Meet the Press by speaking of his comfort with people of the same gender getting married.
President Obama hurriedly summoned a cordial interview -- to the White House so he could publicly state.
That he no longer believes what he claimed to believe four years ago when he said he believed in the traditional view of marriage of one man one woman.
Now when a Republican changes his mind he's a flip flop or when a Democrat does it he's evolving.
And showing courage.
Even more interest in Obama invoked Jesus to justify.
His breaking with 5000 years of recorded human history.
And the only legal definition in western civilization of marriage.
This isn't the first time that Obama has channel Jesus to make a policy point.
When he spoke of the national prayer breakfast in February he said Jesus -- -- to pay more taxes.
Now he thinks Jesus wants is to abandon an indisputable biblical teaching about marriage.
Because his daughters think it's a good idea.
-- when my kids were in junior high they thought to be a good idea to skip school have -- for breakfast and stay up until midnight on school nights.
But what I'd like to know as.
Why is it okay for Barack Obama to publicly invoked the name of Jesus to justify high taxes -- same sex marriage.
But when I mentioned.
That my -- leads -- -- -- what Jesus said regarding marriage as a man shall leave his mother and father and a woman shall leave her home and the two will become one flesh.
I get whacked by the press as well as the pundits.
I've been called a narrow minded -- a homophobic hate monger a Neanderthal.
A right wing religious Kook.
And lot of other things I can't mention on film and television.
So if the press isn't gonna jump on President Obama for bringing up Jesus.
Then I want there to be a long line.
From the New York Times the Washington Post Newsweek the Huffington Post -- numerous others who incoming kiss my.
Rain and publicly apologize to me for being the real religious bigots who love religious talk only when -- agrees with their own views.
But hate it when it conforms to the longstanding teaching and tradition of the faith itself.
85% of Americans believe in god and the vast majority accept the teaching of the Bible is true.
In 31 states -- the people actually vote to affirm traditional marriage the people in all 31 -- said marriage still means to people of opposite genders.
Even in liberal states like California name.
Now I don't think -- puts my view in the extreme but the mainstream.
I appreciate the president talking about morality Jesus and marriage now the rest of us can freely discuss it as well.
I just hope that he won't forget that millions of Americans don't have jobs they've lost the value of their homes and they can afford to retire in no small part due to his understanding of economics.
And I hope he won't blame that.
On Jesus.
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I think she made a few good shots and I didn't serve well on my first service game. I don't think I made one first serve, so that never helps in doubles. But, you know, I think we just needed to get some bugs out. They played good. I mean, kudos to them, because they're good doubles players. We weren't quite penetrating, especially me with my first serves. You know, that I think kind of was the turning point when I lost my service game. Q. Does this feel different for each of you than you expected, being a slam champion now? HORIA TECAU: It's an amazing feeling. It's very hard to win those. I played two finals before, and really happy to break through and get my first one. Little rush right now because I have to go to the airport soon, but this will take a little time to sink in. I'm going to try to enjoy these few moments that we have now. Q. I heard you have a flight in half an hour; is that right? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: Yeah. It's like, Yay, we won. I have to go to the airport in half an hour. HORIA TECAU: Yeah. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: We had champagne in the women's locker room, so we're going to have a little celebration. (Laughing.) HORIA TECAU: (Indiscernible.) The women's locker room... BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: There's no other women in there unfortunately, but, you know... Q. You guys played together here last year, but then not thereafter. Was there any reason for that? Why did you pair together once again? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: I actually didn't play mixed doubles after Australian Open last year. It's tough to play singles, doubles, and mixed. It's a lot. At Wimbledon you're playing out. It's not even short sets in mixed doubles or anything. So, you know, the matches get long. The men play best of five there for doubles. But it was mainly, you know, I just couldn't play mixed. I was a little bit hurt at Wimbledon and US Open. You know, I had hurt my shoulder. So, you know, that was a little bit tough. But, you know, I lost early singles here and the signin was after that. So, you know, I love playing mixed. My body just kind of fights me a bit when I'm playing all three events. Q. How does it feel to win your first Grand Slam in an event you almost didn't sign up for? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: I don't know. We were just talking about that. HORIA TECAU: Yeah, I mean, over the two weeks we had some BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: trauma. HORIA TECAU: Yeah, some good moments and some matches where, especially that day when I lost my semifinal in the doubles and then I had to come and fight for the place in the semifinal of the mixed. But Bethanie helped me a lot to stay, you know, positive and fight through that match. It was just those moments like I came through in the first match, and then this final which was amazing. Leaner and Elena, they are two good players. They had to change it up in the second set because they saw that we have the momentum and things weren't going well for them. They had to do some changes, and that's how they got back into the match. So it's a good feeling to win it like this, the hard way. Q. That's got to be pretty gratifying given that coming into the season with the shoulder you weren't quite sure what was going to happen, and now you walk away with the slam title. Talk a little bit about that. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: Yeah, it gives me a lot of confidence. Literally, you know, I didn't even start serving until two weeks before I came to Australia. So it was that close, you know, whether I was going to be able to play. The shoulder has held up good. Obviously I have been sore because I haven't played a lot of matches last year, so coming into this year I definitely was feeling it after a few of my singles especially Hopman Cup. I was pretty wrecked. It gives me a lot of confidence even just being in that moment being able to close it out. I think that does a lot for me. You know, I have been in a couple singles finals in WTA events and haven't been able to close it out. So I think finally closing one out feels awesome. Q. Were you feeling nerves on your serve late in the second? You got broken twice late in the second. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: You know what? I think I just rushed a little bit actually. You know, my serve has been tough because I had to change my technique a little bit based on my injury from last year. So, you know, I haven't had much time to practice it, but it's a quicker motion. I think I just rushed it a little bit, because my next service game I made all my first I think I missed one but I made most of my first serves and I just slowed it down. I think that was the difference on that one. Q. Then in the supertiebreak, the shot around the post crashing into the line judge had to give you some confidence. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: You know what? I didn't even see the ball, because I hit it and I was worried I was going to trip over the lines judge. I didn't hear a crowd reaction or anything, so, you know, I to Horia, and I was like, Was it in? He's like super calm. He's like, Yeah, yeah, it was in. I'm like, Okay. I guess that was ridicu okay, I'll roll with it. Next point. But it was tough, because I didn't get a reaction from I kinda looked at people's faces and nobody was giving me anything, whether it was in or out. HORIA TECAU: Everyone was trying to make sure you were okay first. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: (Laughing) I almost dove into the crowd. But, um, yeah. I just wanted to go for it. I played aggressive the whole match. I was going for my returns. That's how I play. You know, Leander is great at net, but I still was trying to go at him a little bit just to keep him honest, because I know he likes to cross a lot. So that's just my game. I like to go for it. Q. What do you guys take away from the experience of winning? HORIA TECAU: It's great to break the ice and have the first Grand Slam title. And winning a Grand Slam final, because I have been in two of them, I know how tough it is. From now on, we just gonna build on that experience. I mean, you can't substitute this experience with any other talk or any other matches. You have to go on the court and win those Grand Slam finals. It feels great. Hopefully from now on it's gonna be more to come. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: Horia wanted to stay on the court. He was gonna have security drag him off. (Laughter.) He's like, I'm just gonna stay here. Q. Can you tell us about your outfit choice today, one sleeve, no sleeve? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: Um, the outfit actually was courtesy of my husband. He cut one of my sleeves off. It was just to show the tattoo on the right side. I had done that at Wimbledon, as well. But it was just something different. So I came out with the Pat Cash it was a little sunny the beginning of the match, otherwise I would have played the whole match in the Pat Cash headband. But that was bringing me luck, too. Q. Obviously this is different from what you do most of the year, but where does this rank among your achievements? Is this the top line? HORIA TECAU: Yeah. It's a Grand Slam title. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: It's a Grand Slam title. (Laughing.) Yeah, it's top. Q. Did you guys have match points in that quarterfinal when it was 1311? Were you down a match point ever? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: No. HORIA TECAU: No. They saved a few match points, and then I think we converted our third one. But we didn't save any. Q. Horia, you had such a heartbreaking loss in the semifinal. Is it validating for you to then come back and... HORIA TECAU: Yes. It's very rewarding to win the mixed title after losing that semifinal. But even though, it was a very good tournament for me, even in the men's doubles, and I'm going to keep going forward from here. Q. Are you happy or sad that you don't get to celebrate with this crew tonight? HORIA TECAU: I'm gonna celebrate next time we see each other. BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: We'll just have to do it again. That's the plan. Get more time. Q. Do you have big plans with Justin tonight? BETHANIE MATTEKSANDS: We have big plans of packing. I go home tomorrow for a day and a half, and I fly to Paris for my next tournament. That's the tough part about it. You win such a monumental title, but you really don't have that much time to celebrate. You know, I guess in a way, it's good because you just gotta enjoy the moment and then it's time for the next moment. But, yeah, I'm sure my coach never drinks ever, so I'm gonna get him to drink a little bit. And then, I don't know. I think there was a bet I think if we won the title. I think they have to do mohawks or something. 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by Joe G in Rouxbe RecipesPan-fried, mild white fish served with a fresh and simple avocado and tomato salsa.
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The seafood watch likely says that because basa sales are beginning to seriously cut into the sales of domestically farmed catfish. As basa is raised in rivers, in the current, and domestic catfish are generally raised in ponds and tanks, it could be argued that basa farming is the more healthy and ecologically friendly of the two. Fish that are raised in closed environments are subject to a good deal more diseases than are fish raised in open current, and often antibiotics are employed in closed environments to curb them.
Also, in a study done at Mississippi State University they found that imported basa were preferred in a taste test 3-to-1 over farmed catfish. This, in conjunction with much lower prices has led many restaurants even in the south to change from local catfish to Basa.
I'm not necessarily saying buying Basa is the right thing for you to do. It just annoys me when one supplier attacks another with spurious accusations.
In November, 2000, a group of U.S. catfish farmers and processors traveled to Vietnam on a fact-finding mission. One processor was quoted as saying, upon his return, "We thought we'd find them growing fish in polluted water and processing them in crude plants, but that's not what we found. We came back scared to death."
So, basa is less expensive and tastes better (to most) than domestically farmed catfish, and environmental and health issues could be argued either way.
On the other hand, it could very well cause the American catfish industry to go the way of the American auto industry. However, competition with the American industry seems inevitable, despite the additional tariffs imposed on basa, and the law preventing them from labeling it as catfish.
I only discovered basa a few weeks ago. I can tell you it has very good flavor, is quite economical, and its texture makes it very well suited to breading and frying. I have yet to try any other methods of cooking, but I would expect equally excellent results.
So, decisions, decisions... :)
I made this dish for dinner this evening. When I told my husband we were having salsa with fish, he wrinkled his nose but I plunged ahead anyway. During the dinner he must have exclaimed 4-5 times how delicious the fish dish was!! It was a huge hit! I can't get Basa so I used haddock. Learning how to cook fish on low heat is the key! Thanks a lot. I love this school!
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