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CARLSBAD — Retired Carlsbad Fire Department battalion chief, Kim Blaylock, may have closed the door to one career but is having a great time opening another.Blaylock recently launched his Carlsbad-based business called Venom Vodka.Having no prior experience whatsoever in the spirits industry, Blaylock dove into the project with a mountain of research and a long "to-do" list, and after four years, he finally unscrewed his first official ultra-premium Venom Vodka bottle last December.
Blaylock retired from the fire department nearly six years ago and said he wasn't thinking of this career nearing his retirement at the fire department. In fact, the idea popped up on a get-a-way to Big River, Calif., with his family and friends a couple of years later.
"We were all having coffee one morning and we were talking about how we should make energy drinks but decided that the market was flooded with them," Blaylock said. The early morning brainstorming then went on to tequila, and then, vodka.
Blaylock's business partner, Mark Miceli, a veteran firefighter based in Seattle, Wash., thought of the name, Venom Vodka. Miceli logged onto his iPhone to see if the domain name was taken — it wasn't. Seconds later, they bought it.
Blaylock said they both looked at each other and asked, "Now what do we do because we know nothing about vodka?" But that was about to change.
Soon after, the men went to a Boston workshop to learn how to make it. They studied everything from grains, ryes, yeast, enzymes, to fruits and so much more.
They did agree on one thing: To keep the investment dollars on the smaller scale they would not purchase their own vodka stiller. Instead, they'd find someone to do the distilling for them.
They found the perfect match in Bend, Ore., called Bend Spirits. The company helps people make their own liquor while making their own spirit inventory, as well.
Blaylock called it the perfect relationship because the owner knew how to make vodka, was an expert, and walked them through all the licensing steps.
Blaylock's wife Michele also became part of the vodka endeavor and holds the position of chief financial officer.
"Michele keeps us in line," Blaylock said.
The Blaylocks' pointed out that there was a lot of tasting in the process to decide what type of smoothness they wanted Venom Vodka to have. After liking the distiller's vodka, they knew they were in the right hands.
"We relied a lot on the distiller to guide us," Michele said.
In addition to a sleek, elegant bottle design, the Venom Vodka gang knew they wanted to offer customers a premium product. Not all vodkas are the same.
"Ours is on the upper premium side of vodkas," said Blaylock, adding how the water they use is from Cascade Mountain spring water. "We also distill it five times and filter it six times."
The more vodka is distilled and filtered, the smoother the taste. Venom Vodka's filtration, Blaylock said, is done through crushed lava rock, onyx and diamond to ensure first-rate quality.
Blaylock is thrilled in how so many local businesses have embraced Venom Vodka. To date, it's in more than 30 locations, and that number continues to grow. Buyers can find the vodka in Carlsbad at Albertson's, Country Wine & Spirits, Hi-Time Wine Cellars, Holiday Wine Cellars, Royal Palms Spirits, and Texas Wine & Spirits.
When it comes to dining with a cocktail, Venom Vodka is on the shelves at establishments such as Tommy V's, Beach Club, Coyote Bar & Grill, Bistro West, Vigilucci's and many more. And Venom Vodka continues to branch out to neighboring cities.
Although Blaylock is enjoying this new venture he still thinks about the fire department.
"I miss all the guys for sure and I miss running all the emergency calls," he said. "I enjoyed going out, helping out the public and working as a team with police, fire, and the public agencies."
As a tribute to the fire department, proceeds from the purchase of each bottle of Venom Vodka sold will go towards a charity benefiting firefighters; that promise is emblazed on the bottle.
"At the end of the year we'll figure out if it's a percentage or dollar amount," Blaylock said. "We just want to give back to the fire service."
To learn more about Venom Vodka visit venomvodka.com.
The Venom Drop, by Mixologist Kim Blaylock:
1.5 oz of Venom Vodka
2 oz of Pear Juice
A splash of Cointreau
A Splash of Sweetened Lime Juice
1) Fill shakers with ice and shake vigorously.
2) (Optional) Garnish rim of martini glass with granulated sugar
3) Pour in chilled martini glass.
4) Serve and Enjoy!


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While you're clearing out clutter, don't forget your computer
By the time this article is published, it officially will be spring. With the harsh winter we have had this season, warmer temperatures will be a welcome change.
With spring time comes the traditional spring cleaning. When considering spring cleaning, do not forget to spring clean your PC. Here are some helpful things that should clean things up, and get you on the road to a faster, leaner and meaner machine.
First, start with the basics. Run a disk cleanup, which is a built-in Windows utility. Simply go to Start/Computer. Once there, right click on your C: drive and go to Properties.
On the General Tab you will see the Disk Cleanup button. Click that button and your machine will begin to scan the C drive for junk files, etc. Another screen will display a list of things you can delete. My recommendation is to check everything and dump it all.
WARNING: One of the options is to delete everything in the Recycle Bin. Make sure you do not have anything in there that you do not want deleted. (Psst! Recycle Bin is not a filing cabinet.)
Next, your hard drive needs to be defragmented. Defragmenting is a fancy way of saying, getting all your information lined up in a neat row, versus having it spread out all over the hard drive. The latter slows down your machine greatly, and eventually leads to file corruption.
In the same area where you went for Disk Cleanup, click on the Tools tab, and then click on Disk Defragmenter. Run this on your C: drive. This could take a long time, so while you can still use your computer, it will run much slower during this process. If you have a solid-state drive (SSD), please do not attempt to do this.
Second, look at your desktop. It's because I care enough that I will tell you the truth by saying it looks like the Mount Vesuvius of desktop icons exploded all over your Windows desktop. Another part of spring cleaning is about getting organized. Look over those files you have on your desktop and start moving things like pictures to My Pictures and documents to My Documents.
In those folders, you can organize your images with subfolders by simply right-clicking and going to New/Folder. The reason you do not want them on your desktop is that every time your machine starts, it's loading every one of those files into memory. Organizing the desktop will greatly speed things up, and also spruce up your desktop so that you can actually see that image of your kids you set for your wallpaper.
In the same vein of organization, we all eventually run into the problem of having duplicate files and what to do with them. This is a project that often never gets resolved because of the time it would take to go through each folder, compare file names and see which ones to delete.
Fortunately, there are some free tools out there for you to use. One of them is called Fast Duplicate File Finder. The nice thing about this file is that it has an awesome preview function, so you can double-check that the picture of your kid's first steps you are deleting actually had duplicate file names and you are not deleting the only copy.
Finally, go through your installed programs and see what things you use and which you do not. Get rid of programs you never use because they take up hard drive space. Consider using the freeware PC Decrapifier that I have mentioned in previous articles. Also, while in the Control Panel, head over to Windows Updates and make sure your machine is fully patched with the latest updates from Microsoft.
Spring cleaning your PC is something that will help breathe some new life into your system, and may get rid of some problems you have been experiencing. There are some other things you can do to clean up and clean out your machine. Should you have any questions on this, please contact me.
HUNTER BONNER, an information technologist, can be reached via his blog at techedgeblog.wordpress.com and on Twitter at @HunterBonner.

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PHILADELPHIA -- Billy Wagner became the second free agent to sign a big
contract on Monday, agreeing to terms with the Mets on a four-year, $43
million contract, a source close to the negotiations told MLB.com.
The source said that Wagner will be in New York for a physical on
Tuesday and a press conference could be scheduled for later in the
The fourth year had to seal the deal for Wags. I never thought the Phillies would match a four year deal. I believe the Mets over paid for Wagner but they can afford to do that. As my Mets friend put it, "I don't care how much they pay as long as they win."


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AVON — Lake Erie Crushers starting pitcher Todd Kibby will remember Friday night for the rest of his life.
After retiring the side in order in the first inning, he got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend, Amanda, who said yes.
And heading into the top of the ninth, Kibby's wonderful night looked like it was going to end with a win.
However, closer Jason Wilson and first baseman Andrew Davis helped spoil all the fun in a disastrous ninth inning as the Washington Wild Things escaped All Pro Freight Stadium with a 5-3 come-from-behind win in front of 3,850 fans.
"It was a good game," Crushers manager Chris Mongiardo said. "I'm not really sure what the problem is (with Wilson). I'll have to look at the videotape on that. He's thrown a couple good pitches to go 0-2, then it goes back to 2-2 instead of going right back at them. I'd have to look closer, but he might not be pounding the strike zone."
Wilson (4-2), who blew a save two weeks ago against the Wild Things, gave up four runs (two earned) on three hits in only a third of an inning Friday night. He wasn't helped by Davis, who was playing only his third game in the field this season.
After Wilson turned a potential sacrifice bunt into a force play at third for the first out, leadoff hitter Daniel Poma hit what looked like a routine grounder to first base. But Davis couldn't get his glove down, and the ball skipped off it and into right field for an error.
Sam Montgomery, who singled to left as a pinch hitter, scored from second on Davis' miscue. Instead of a potential game-ending double play, Washington cut the deficit to one and had runners on first and second with just one out.
That loomed large when Garrett Rau followed with single to center to load the bases. C.J. Beatty, after fouling off a few pitches, then drew a full-count walk to force in the tying run.
Wilson's night ended four pitches later when cleanup hitter Stewart Ijames ripped a single past a diving Davis into right. That scored Poma and Rau to give Washington a 5-3 lead.
Rookie reliever Brant Masters retired the next two hitters to end the threat, but the damage was done. Ex-Crusher Jonathan Kountis earned his 14th save with 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.
Davis' miscue was one of four errors by the Crushers. Two of the errors led to three unearned runs.
"I don't know if the errors cost us the ballgame or not," Mongiardo said. "The bases probably shouldn't have been loaded after that. But we've got to clean it up defensively for sure."
The meltdown prevented what would have been Kibby's fifth win of the season. He lowered his ERA to 1.46 with 6⅓ sterling innings. He struck out seven, walked one, gave up five hits and one earned run on a throwing error from catcher Emmanuel Quiles in the third.
Kibby had mixed emotions following the game.
"She said she was going to kill me (for proposing on the field during a game)," Kibby said of his fiancee with a laugh. "I was a little nervous going out there because it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You only get married once in your life. But after that, I settled down, got the Jell-O out of my legs and went out there and tried to do what I've been doing — throwing strikes."
Mongiardo, the Crushers' pitching coach last year when Wild Things starter Alex Kaminsky was one of the Crushers' top starters, wasn't surprised at how well he threw. Kaminsky scattered seven hits, three runs, a walk and had six strikeouts in six innings.
"He pitched some good games for us last year," Mongiardo said. "He might have pitched the best game of the year when we beat Traverse City to clinch the division. He's thrown some good games."
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WHO: Lake Erie Crushers vs. Washington Wild Things
WHERE: All Pro Freight Stadium, Avon
PITCHERS: Rein (0-2, 6.35 ERA) vs. Zach LeBarron (0-0, 6 K, 6.48)


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A man hands a customs official a none-too-old passport. It is spattered with 167 stamps. Almost all the stamps are for eastern European crossings, but even for that flabbergastingly detonated political geography, that's a lot of stamps. The agent looks at all the ink for some time, agog. The agent asks, "Sir, what's the point of all this?" The man is thinking, I can't help it, I love this Balkan shambles.
Andrzej Stasiuk, born in Ukraine and now living in Poland, is a writer of many forms—short stories, plays, poetry, essays, and novels—and stylistically promiscuous: on-the-road reportage, pungent atmospherics, moody with a haunted weighty fatalism, crisp place portraits, gobbets of history thrown in, rangy and mildly hallucinatory but less stream-of-consciousness than magic realism. On the Road to Babadag is a travel narrative through a handful of those eastern European places in all of these styles, sometimes on the same page. Which is not to say that Stasiuk fares without a compass; the writing is consistently sharp, dense, and as artfully woven as damascene, capturing his experience of a place's genius loci—"things I pluck from their landscape, making my own map of them, my own fantastic geography."
The "point of all this" is some of the best road writing to have come down the pike. He travels through the other Europe not only because he loves it but because he can, which for a long time one couldn't, and because he is drawn to the unvarnished and elemental, "drawn increasingly to places that tell of a beginning or else where sadness has the power of fate," to the hoary forgotten corners that have fallen off the edge, the detritus under modernity's table: sinister Sinistra, alarming Clit ("In Clit, people spoke an odd tongue"), confounding Shqiperia.
For sure, there is plenty of fine, grim material to be found in eastern Europe (Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova, and Romania are his hunting grounds), and Stasiuk sniffs them out like a hunting dog. He moves without dispatch, stopping to smell the pens, stables, and sties, the hickory smoke, fried onions, gasoline fumes, herbs trampled underfoot by cows, oxen, and goats. There is Transnistria, over beyond the Dniester River, a nonexistent country of "dissolution and melancholy with an undercurrent of menace," (124) and vile garbage-strewn Baia Mare, and Albania. "Albania is the dark well into which those who believe that everything has been settled once and for all should peer," where, just imagine, the first printing press in the Balkans was established 280 years ago. And forget government: "Power, violence, and madness live in concubinage, or complete legal union."
There is also much quiet, dry humor and great beauty. "In Goncruszka the sidewalks were violet from the plums." In Rasinari, Transylvania, "the air carries a dazzle we are unaccustomed to here. The African, Mediterranean light flows over the Carpathian range and descends on the village." That's some heady transport for our ride to the center of town, and we hitch along, gladly, for this is surely a guide who will give us new eyes.
Stasiuk has been well regarded in Europe for years and is now beginning to get his due in the United States. Although it's only July, it is tempting to say that if you are going to read one travel book this year, make it this one.


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so I finally picked up this bird and it's nowhere near 50 pounds, I doubt that it was 50 pounds even live! So I'm feelin a little ripped off, and this farmer won't answer the phone. whatever...
I don't understand this danger zone thing. After 168 degrees germs and bacteria are all dead, so what's the point???
Technically, yes, 168* will kill the critters...it's what they leave behind, in the form of waste, that will bite you in the rear (or the gut...just depends on how it will effect you). Most bacteria multiply and thrive in the temperature ranging between 41-135*F. If the internal temp of the meat is in this range for too long, there could be too much time for them to leave waste...think of it at this point as a toxic "dump" site.
Bear in mind, with intact whole muscle meats, one need not be concerned with this, as there is little chance for contamination of the interior of the meat unless it has been cut open and re-closed (boned-out), punctured (injected), rolled, etc. Of course if the meat is way beyond it's prime freshness and already turning, there is nothing that will help you salvage it and be able to ingest it safely.
If, after carefully inspecting inside and out, and you find that the bird has not been injected or otherwise tampered with (a slip of the knife could puncture the carcass during processing), then it too would be considered intact whole muscle. Minimum recommended smoke chamber temp is 225*, regardless, just to pasteurize the surface relatively quickly.
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Used games are a crucial commodity for retailers like Gamestop and consumers in a pinch. But the for the first time, well, ever, the next-generation of consoles may have to power to render them obsolete. Particularly the PlayStation 4.
Rumors surfaced in March of 2012 that Sony's still-unveiled next-gen console — perhaps codenamed "Orbis" — might be able to prevent the playing of used games (this was in addition, allegedly, to eschewing backwards compatibility for PS3 titles). Now, a new patent from Sony itself has hinted at the very same intent, detailing an "electronic content processing system" capable of detecting previously played discs… and prohibiting them from use.
Filed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, the patent revolves around a reproduction device within the console that would use NFC technology to scan each disc. Think of a barcode reader at Walmart. The device (essentially the console) would transmit unique user-ID data to the disc, which in turn would be coded with terms-of-use data. Once the two are paired, the device could decide whether a user's ID satisfies the disc's terms of use — in other words, are you the original owner?… and is it still cool if you're not?
"When the game is to be played, the reproduction device conveys the disc ID and a player ID to the use permission tag. The use permission tag stores the terms of use of the game and determines whether a combination of the disc ID and the player ID conveyed from the reproduction device fulfills the terms of use or not."
Here are some of the patent's blueprints for how the technology might function. Note the salient step "S26" of the start-up decision tree:
Sony also highlighted the flexibility of the design: The system isn't just limited to accepting or rejecting games — it can allow temporary access to a game, limit its number of uses, or even serve as an automated online-pass scanner. While the patent goes on to speculate that the technology could be adapted across a wide range of hardware — accessories, peripherals, even "an office suite, images, and music content" — it doesn't specify any intent for the PlayStation 4 (and never once mentions Sony's current-gen systems: the PS3 and PS Vita).
Perhaps most curious, though, is the document's forthright championing of the "suppression" of second-hand (i.e., used-game) markets. In the past we've seen high-profile Sony executives like SCEA President Jack Tretton decry any notion of blocking used games — such a move would be "anti-consumer," he cautioned last May — but the patent's language nearly paints it as mission statement:
"As a result [of the design], the dealing of electronic content in second-hand markets is suppressed, which in turn supports the redistribution of part of proceeds from sales of the electronic content to the developers."
It's important to consider that, occasionally, manufacturers in every industry seek out patents as insurance. Whether or not Sony's device goes (or has gone) from concept to console isn't a certainty; the option, as far anyone can tell, is merely on the table.
And it might turn out to be an important decision for Sony in the next generation. Second-hand games don't look to have much relevance beyond the PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, given the likely ratio of physical to digital media in, say, 2022. If Sony insists on a more… preliminary countermeasure against the practice while Microsoft remains patient (because it's not like they aren't intrigued by the idea, either), they'd be ceding quite an unnecessary advantage to the Xbox 720 and Wii U.
How do you think next-gen consoles should go about handling the second-hand market?
Follow Brian on Twitter @Brian_Sipple.
Source: FreePatentsOnline [via Eurogamer]


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Three minutes of Gabe putting a hurt on spots that most couldn't even hop onto. The amount that Gabe has progressed in the last year or so that he popped onto the scene is absolutely unreal.
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Feeding of DDGS, a co-product of commercial ethanol production, to lactating dairy cows has been shown previously to increase the concentration of unsaturated fatty acids in milk fat. An increased concentration of unsaturated fatty acids may be of interest from a consumer "healthfulness" perspective; however, unsaturated fatty acids also have been shown previously to be more susceptible to light-induced fatty acid oxidation
Oxidation of fatty acids leads to the development of off-flavors in foods, thereby decreasing consumer acceptance of those food products. When milk is stored in the dairy case at the grocery store, it is exposed to light and, consequently, milk that is less oxidatively stable could be more prone to development of off-flavors, thereby decreasing consumer acceptance of this milk. The objective of the study was to not only evaluate production parameters of cows fed DDGS, but to also evaluate oxidative stability of milk from cows fed DDGS using both sensory and chemical analyses. Read the abstract
Twenty-four healthy mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows were blocked by parity and days in milk into 2 groups of 12 cows each and assigned to one of three dietary treatments: 0% DDGS (control), 10% DDGS, and 25% DDGS by DM. Both groups received one of the three experimental diets each period. Diets were formulated to be isoenergetic. Both groups received all three diets over the course of the three experimental periods allowing for each cow to serve as her own control. Cows were group fed and allowed ad libitum access to feed. To eliminate carryover effects associated with this type of experimental design (two-group three-period crossover), milk was not collected until day 14 of each treatment period, and the first 7 days of each period were excluded from statistical analysis of daily milk yield.
Healthy mid-lactation Holstein dairy cows (n=24) were fed total mixed rations containing dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS). The objective of this study was to examine the effect of feeding DDGS to lactating dairy cows on production parameters and flavor and oxidative stability of milk. Cows were assigned to two groups and fed one of three treatment diets (0% DDGS, 10% DDGS, 25% DDGS by dry matter (DM)) as a total mixed ration. Each group was fed all three of the diets after a wash-out period of 7 days.
Milk yield was unaffected by both the 0% and 10% DDGS diets but decreased significantly when fed the 25% DDGS diet. Rumen volatile fatty acids were unaffected by treatment. Milk protein and solids-not-fat (SNF) increased with increasing inclusion of DDGS, but milk fat decreased concomitantly. Milk fatty acid composition was affected with milk fat from cows fed higher concentrations of DDGS producing milk with higher concentrations of unsaturated fatty acids. Milk oxidative stability was unaffected by dietary treatment, and milk flavor, as determined by a trained sensory panel, also was unaffected. The results of this study indicate that feeding of DDGS to lactating dairy cows, under controlled conditions, does not have negative effects on milk oxidative stability or flavor; however, feeding 25% DDGS did negatively impact milk production and changed milk fatty acid profile.
Results and Discussion
Rumen volatile fatty acids were unaffected by treatment (data not shown). Results for milk proximate analysis and yield are shown in Table 1. Milk protein and SNF increased as dietary inclusion of DDGS increased. As observed in other studies involving the feeding of DDGS to lactating dairy cows, significant milk fat depression was observed when cows were fed both the 10% and 25% diet as compared with the 0% DDGS diet.
Degree of milk fat depression did not differ significantly between the 10% and the 25% DDGS treatments. Mean daily milk yield was not different for the 0% and 10% DDGS treatments (P = 0.636), but decreased significantly when cows were fed the 25% DDGS diet (P = 0.046). Feed analysis (data not shown) confirmed that, as intended, diets were isoenergetic; however, feed intake was not measured in this experiment, which could account for some of the observed differences in daily milk production.
Milk fatty acid composition was altered (Figure 1) by treatment. The ratio of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids decreased as dietary inclusion of DDGS increased (0 % DDGS = 1.72:1, 10% DDGS = 1.41:1, 25% DDGS = 1.27:1). The decrease in the proportion of saturated to unsaturated fatty acids was accompanied by a concomitant increase in HPI as dietary DDGS increased (0% DDGS = 0.47, 10% DDGS = 0.65, 25% DDGS = 0.72), indicating that that the fatty acid composition of milk from cows fed DDGS may be more desirable from a health perspective.
As was hypothesized and has been previously reported, milk from cows fed DDGS contained higher concentrations of unsaturated fatty acids. The increased concentration of unsaturated fatty acids in the milk from the cows fed 10% and 25% DDGS, however, did not result in a decrease in oxidative stability or an increase in development of off-flavors in the milk. No meaningful differences in FFA, peroxides, or oxidative stability of milk from any treatment were detected.
Additionally, no significant differences in any off-flavor attributes, as evaluated by a trained sensory panel, occurred as a result of treatment or treatment by storage time (data not shown). These results indicate that the feeding of DDGS to lactating dairy cows did not result in milk that was less oxidatively stable and, consequently, more prone to development of off-flavors. In addition, milk from cows fed DDGS may be "healthier" as indicated by the HPI data.
Finally, it is worthy to note that the feeding of 25% DDGS by DM to lactating dairy cattle resulted in a significant decrease in milk production, indicating that a 25% DDGS diet by DM may not be advisable.
Source: Iowa State University- Eric Testroet, Graduate Research Assistant; Gerui Li, Former Graduate Research Assistant; Stephanie Clark, Associate Professor; Don Beitz, Distinguished Professor, Department of Animal Science


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- Motor stereotypies in children with autism and other developmental disordersSylvie Goldman
Saul R Korey Department of Neurology and Rose F Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Dev Med Child Neurol 51:30-8. 2009..Stereotypies are environmentally modulated movement disorders, some highly suggestive, but not pathognomonic, of autism. Their underlying brain basis and genetic correlates need investigation...
- Stereotypies in autism: a video demonstration of their clinical variabilitySylvie Goldman
Saul R Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY, USA Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY, USA Rose F Kennedy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY, USA
Front Integr Neurosci 6:121. 2012....
- Hand stereotypies distinguish Rett syndrome from autism disorderSylvie Goldman
Saul R Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Mov Disord 27:1060-2. 2012..With the advances in genetic testing, the contribution of clinical manifestations in distinguishing RTT from AD has been overlooked...
- Brief report: narratives of personal events in children with autism and developmental language disorders: unshared memoriesSylvie Goldman
The City Univeristy of New York, New York, NY, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 38:1982-8. 2008..The results suggest novel interventions to foster autobiographical memory in HFA children which may assist in their self-awareness development...
- Male predominance in autism: neuroendocrine influences on arousal and social anxietyDonald W Pfaff
The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
Autism Res 4:163-76. 2011....


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KENNY SHIELS faces further disciplinary action after being sent off during Wednesday night's match with Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
The Kilmarnock manager, returning from a four-match touchline ban, was dismissed by referee Bobby Madden and the incident has been mentioned in his report. It is understood that will be referred to the compliance officer and Shiels may face further sanctions.
The manager said he had been sent to the stand for kicking a water bottle during the 1-1 draw. However, the sanction was almost certainly applied for breaching the rule that "the coach and other occupants of the technical area must behave in a responsible manner".
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Shiels, who initially stood on a beam immediately behind the dugout after being dismissed, said he feared no further punishment, believing that the matter ended on the night. He may be disappointed on that score.
The Kilmarnock manager was returning from a four-match touchline ban imposed after he was found guilty of two rule breaches after accusing Andrew Dallas of "fabrication" of evidence that led to the manager being sent to the stand. Dallas was the fourth official during a match against St Johnstone in November.
The news off the park was no better for the club, with even their success in lifting the Scottish Communities League Cup last season unable to prevent a drop in profits. Figures released for the year ended May 31, 2012 showed profit on ordinary activities before and after taxation had dropped from £186,597 to just £11,384. This was largely due to an increase in interest payable on bank loans and overdrafts from £126,722 in 2011 to £245,349. Turnover was up around £300,000, with revenue from football activities breaking the £5m mark. Kilmarnock's net debt rose by £83,000 to £9.8m, while their Rugby Park stadium is now valued at £11.3m.
In his chairman's statement, Michael Johnston chose to focus on sporting success. "What a wonderful year we've enjoyed," it read. "At long last, we completed the domestic treble of Scottish League, Cup and League Cup wins. Kenny [Shiels'] mantra in the dressing room in the build up was "believe to achieve" and it clearly struck a chord with our entire squad and backroom staff. Gentlemen, you are now part of the history of Kilmarnock Football Club and every shareholder and supporter salutes you."


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For Palo Alto American, it's two games down and potentially even more to go as the team battles its way through the consolation bracket.
Palo Alto American took advantage of a barrage of wild pitches, passed balls, walks and errors to defeat Redwood City American, 9-4, on Wednesday night at Middlefield Ballpark in the consolation bracket of the double-elimination tourney.
PA American's starting pitcher Amit Rao came around to score in the first inning with the help of two passed balls and a wild pitch after hitting a leadoff single to start the game.
In the next inning, PA American tacked on two more runs with a little more help from Redwood City American's sloppy play. Xavi Loinaz walked and Matt Knowles was hit by a pitch to start off the inning. Loinaz scored on a wild pitch and Knowles was driven in by an RBI single from Rao.
"We're generally pretty aggressive on the base paths," said Palo Alto American manager Joe Adams, whose team had three stolen bases. "I wish our hitting had come around, but we took advantage of the opportunities in front of us."
Palo Alto was able to score four runs in the fifth with a two-out rally. Rao and Jake Rittman both reached base on errors by Redwood City's infielders and were brought home by shortstop Jason Huang's RBI single.
PA American added on two more runs the next inning despite not recording a hit. P.J. Wisowaty and Steven Marinkovich scored on the same play when the ball got by the catcher and the throw home was mishandled by Redwood City's pitcher.
Palo Alto American also got strong pitching efforts from Rao (the winner), Sam Feldman and Rittman. PA American pitchers each struck out four hitters, with all of Rittman's outs coming on strikeouts, and only allowed two earned runs on the night.
"This was Amit's first game pitching in the tournament," said Adams. "He did everything the coaches asked for tonight. Amit threw strikes and located the fastball on the outside corner."
In the fourth inning, Rao also made a nice play in right field to end a Redwood City rally. Redwood City appeared to score its second run of the inning when Roberto Alarcon singled, which would have scored Adrian Lopez from second base, but Rao gunned down Alarcon at first base with a strong throw from right field.
Palo Alto also rebounded nicely after allowing a deep solo home run to Adrian Villa in the first inning, fanning him three times afterward.
"We just went right after him with fastballs after the home run," Adams said.
Palo Alto American next plays the loser of the game between San Carlos American and Belmont/Redwood Shores at Middlefield on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.
Palo Alto National also will play Saturday, taking on San Carlos National at 10 a.m. The winner will advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Palo Alto National began its defense of last year's District 52 tournament title as 10-11 year olds with a 7-1 victory over rival Palo Alto American on Sunday evening.
PA National scored six times in the fifth inning to put away a pesky American squad that had kept National's hitters off balance for most of the game.
National used some small ball and dominant pitching to earn its first victory.
Relief pitcher Justin Hull drew a bases-loaded walk to put National ahead 2-1 after American had tied the game earlier in the inning behind Jason Huang's RBI single.
Hull's walk was then followed by a swinging bunt single by catcher Alec Olmstead, which plated two runs when the ball got by the catcher.
Earlier in the game, National scored its first run despite not recording a single hit during the inning. Brian Tracy scored on a fielder's-choice groundout to the third baseman after starting the inning off with a walk and advancing on a sacrifice bunt and error.
Left fielder Ben Cleasby then rounded off the scoring with a three-run homer to straight-away center field.
"Cleasby had two great at-bats," Palo Alto National manager Alex Byer said. "He blasted that three-run home run and had a nice double earlier in the game."
Byer also praised the work of the team's pitchers, Riley Schoeben and Hull.
"They're the hard throwers," Byer said. "Schoeben and Justin Hull are a pretty good combination. Riley's just developed a changeup and Justin has a really good curveball."
Schoeben and Hull overpowered Palo Alto American, combining for 12 strikeouts on the day. All of Schoeben's outs in the second and third innings were strikeouts and Hull struck out the side to end the game.
Playing against players he knew from Palo Alto Little League didn't stop Hull from coldly dispatching American's hitters to close out the game.
"It's kind of fun because you know a lot of the players, but there's a little extra motivation to beat them," Hull said.
In other weekend openers, Half Moon Bay beat Menlo-Atherton 7-3 and Alpine/West Menlo defeated San Mateo National 13-8.
Alpine will face Half Moon Bay on Friday at 5 p.m. in the winners' bracket. That winner also will advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday, facing the San Carlos American-Belmont/Redwood Shores winner at 5 p.m.


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Comment - Soft Drinks & Water - Shifting Focus at Coca-Cola Co
By Ray Rowlands | 1 March 2012
The Coca-Cola Co has spent the last 20 years diversifying its portfolio. Where once the rest of the stable cowered in Coke's shadow, more of the company's brands are now grabbing the spotlight and delivering growth. Ray Rowlands looks at how the firm has benefitted from covering bases.
Last month, The Coca-Cola Co released its full-year results, which came in in-line with expectations. Global volumes for 2011 came in 5% up on 2010. While the company's flagship, namesake brand grew by only 3%, still beverage volumes rose 8% for the full year.
Such a result says two things: Firstly, Coca-Cola remains a major force to be reckoned with in the global beverage market. Secondly, non-carbonated drinks are proving to be an important growth provider. In fact, the company is moving rapidly to become an all-beverage company, as recent events in Australia only go to emphasis.
In October, Coca-Cola Amatil - which is 30%-owned by Coca-Cola - positioned itself to snap up Fosters Group's spirit interests. Even if this deal does not go ahead, Coca-Cola Amatil already represents Beam Inc's brands down under. The one major beverage category that TCC is not involved in seems to be wine (yes, it has interests in dairy).
The global beverage industry is changing and its players need to adapt to survive. Just ten years ago, CSDs represented around 50% of worldwide soft drinks volumes. Today that share has shrunk to less than 40%. In some countries, the US being the prime example, the category is in a state of volume contraction. Besides approaching maturity, CSDs carry the curse of associated health risks, real or otherwise, with headlines such as " Soda Linked to Lung Disease", "Heavy Soda Drinking Tied to Asthma" and "Soda Drinks Cause Vascular Problems" tending to have an adverse influence on health-driven consumers.
One company strategy has been to concentrate on less developed economies, with Coca-Cola itself reporting double-digit growth in markets like India and China. Attempts are also being made to rekindle interest in carbonates with more consumer-friendly presentations, more innovative flavours and new sweetening agents (e.g. Stevia). However, it is obvious that consumer attitudes and beverage preferences are changing to the detriment of CSDs. Recent non-CSD growth for Coca-Cola was led by the combined efforts of water brands, energy drinks, ready-to-drink teas plus juices and juice drinks with the specific targeting of health-conscious consumers helping to drive sales.
The recession may have slowed the development of bottled water, but it has failed to effectively stem the tide. Category volumes have doubled in a decade, the segment expanding to challenge CSDs for leadership of the overall soft drinks market. Projecting forward from current consumption levels, bottled water could well be the top performing soft drink, in volume terms, in the next five years. The importance attached to bottled water by Coca-Cola, therefore, is understandable. The company is highly committed with a broad battalion of brands from Aquarius in the US to Eva in Nigeria to Wilkins in the Philippines.
Innovations like the new PlantBottle and the LOHAS/Ecoflex lightweight crushable bottle underscore the firm's commitment to the long-term sustainability of its water business.
Potentially serious adverse health effects have not deterred consumer uptake of energy drinks, meanwhile, which remains the most dynamic category across the soft drinks spectrum. Coca-Cola is active in this category in its own right, Burn, for instance, is available in around 70 markets. However, the company has failed to achieve the level of international success for its energy drink portfolio that it is used to with its CSD stable. The company's 2008 distribution deal with Hansen Natural Corp for the latter's Monster energy drink brand, could thus be classed as a master-stroke. Overnight, it more than quadrupled Coca-Cola's category share in the large US market.
It will be difficult for the multinational to ever claim global category leadership, however, due to the high proportion of traditional energy drinks against which it must compete in Asia. Nevertheless, it is clear that the cola giant has attached high importance to being at the forefront of the energy drinks explosion.
Behind energy drinks, the iced tea category is the most vibrant of all soft drinks and a useful market to be in. Company still beverage volume sales benefitted considerably during the fourth quarter from double-digit growth for Gold Peak tea. The brand has grown in leaps and bounds since its introduction into the US market in 2006. However, Nestea, a brand of Coca-Cola's joint venture with Nestle, Beverage Partners Worldwide, currently represents the cornerstone of the company's iced tea involvement.
It seems odd, then, that the joint venture is being phased out in a number of territories. What can be certain, however, is that Coca-Cola will not desert the category. Whilst the existing partnership with Nestle will, in future, concentrate on Europe and Canada, I am sure we will see the company concentrate on solo iced tea projects across the rest of the globe.
The fact that Coca-Cola reported good results for its juice and juice drink brands is an admirable achievement. Pure juice has struggled for a number of years as it faces a mixed public reception. On the one hand, juice meets growing health and nutritional needs but, at the same time, some consumers are worried about its calorie and sugar content. Also, pure juice tends to carry a premium price that suffers in the face of rising concentrate costs. It is the cheaper - and less acidic - juice drinks category that has performed well. Through a mix of organic growth and acquisition, Coca-Cola has built up a sizeable juice and juice drinks portfolio, the best known of which is Minute Maid, the second biggest juice brand in the US behind PepsiCo's Tropicana. This is no mean feat, considering that the US is the single largest market for packaged juice.
Today, with over 3,500 beverages on its books, Coca-Cola can offer its public a plethora of great brands. The way things are going, soon the company won't be best known for its flagship cola brand, but rather as the world's leading all-beverage provider.
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For the first time in American history, two Jewish lawyers in the near future are expected to be given the post successively of Attorney General of the United States. President Ford formally announced yesterday that he would nominate Edward H. Levi, president of the University of Chicago since 1968, to be Attorney General in succession to former Ohio Senator William B. Saxbe who has been named Ambassador to India.
In the contingency that Saxbe's nomination will be approved by the Senate prior to Levi's, which is most likely, the rank of Acting Attorney General will be conferred upon Lawrence Silberman, the present Deputy Attorney General, the White House said.
Silberman, who at 38 became the second youngest person ever to be named to the second highest post in the Justice Department, has been asked by President Ford to continue as Deputy when Levi becomes Attorney General, the White House also announced.
Silberman at 34 became the nation's youngest Under-Secretary of Labor in history. He became Deputy Attorney General last March. He is a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the American Jewish Committee and lives with his wife, the former Rosalie Gaull and three children in Bethesda, Md. He was born in York, Ohio.
Dr. Levi, who was dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962, before becoming the university's provost for six years, was born in Chicago June 26, 1911. He is a graduate of Chicago and Yale Universities. Dr. Levi is the son of Elsa Hirsch and Gerson B. Levi. He and his wife, formerly Kate Sulzberger Hecht, have three sons. Among honorary degrees conferred upon Dr. Levi are those from Hebrew Union College, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Brandeis University. The White House said he has "no known" political affiliations.


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Manila (Xinhua) – The Philippines, which has been promoting its tourism industry, sees China as one of its key markets, the local tourism department said Wednesday.
Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim said the government is working hard to improve the country's infrastructure, facilities, and services in preparation for the arrival of more Chinese tourists.
Lim said China's outbound travelers is expected to reach 100 million by 2020, making it the strongest source of tourists in Asia and the world.
The Philippines hope to tap the market especially after an 18 percent growth in the number of Chinese travelers visiting the Philippines last year. This means that China is one of the fastest- growing markets for Philippine tourism, Lim said.
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It's hot and getting hotter this summer in Afghanipakiraqistan - the preferred name for the ambiguous stretch of the world where the US Special Forces operate with little outside attention. Team leader Dutch Shaw is missing his late grandmother. She was the last link he had to civilian life, to any kind of world of innocence.
But there's no time to mourn. After two helicopters in a sister squadron are shot down, Shaw and his team know that they're going to be spun up and sent back in, deep into insurgent territory, where a mysterious new organization called al-Ayeelaa has been attracting high-value targets from across the region. As Shaw and his men fight their way closer to the source, mission by mission, they begin to realize that their way may have been prepared for them in advance - and not by a welcoming host.
The Knife is a debut novel of intense authenticity by a former soldier in a Special Operations Command direct-action team. As scenes of horseshoes and horseplay cut to dim Ambien-soaked trips in helicopters and beyond, Ritchell's story takes us deep beneath the testosterone-laced patter and into the lonelier, more ambivalent world of military life in the Middle East. The result is a fast-paced journey into darkness, a quintessential novel of the American wars of the 21st century.
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" Manufacturer: Tesco / Type: Ready meal "
I have been a vegtarian for over 15 years now, and in that time I have tried many products, I have tried brands such as Quorn and Linda McCartney and own brands such as the Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda ranges. In that time I have come across products I now buy regularly, those that I buy occassionally and those that I will never buy again. Unfortunately this product is one of them.
Tesco's have a meat free range which is found in their frozen section. They generally group all their vegetarian food together. The Cauliflower cheese grills come in a cardboard box, which is a huge bonus-the packaging is 100% recyclable. The price works out at about 40-50 pence per grill, which is vastly overpriced when compared to the tesco meat free burgers which are half the price and much much tastier.
The grills are breadcrumb covered oval-ish shaped food items, which contain cailiflower in the middle, with a cheesey sauce. Now that sounds nice, cauliflower cheese and breadcrumbs? I love that sort of stuff! But, this really isnt like that. It is much harder, much drier, and has no such cheesey flavour that might really add something to it.
On top of the poor taste, and dry tough texture these absolutely stink when you cook them. I know food products with Cauliflower in do normally smell, but having a nice taste at the end makes up for it, but in this case there is no such nice taste!
Horrible products, I would never buy again!
I have been a vegetarian now for most of my life, well at least since I was released from the orphanage after the war when I would wander the streets with my ever loyal pet piglet, and although I am not a keen enthusiast when it comes to ready meals, preferring instead to prepare my own in my gypsy caravan on the hill, I am willing to try one or two from time to time. I am usually less reluctant though, to try Tesco ready meals. This is not just because there are now no stores near where I live but because I was deeply disturbed one time after seeing a documentary highlighting their unsavoury food processing methods. However, I do now and again decide to risk it and once upon a time I gave Tesco Meat Free Cauliflower Cheese Grills a try.
You'll find these grills in the frozen foods section (well you used to as I can't find them anymore). The grills come in a cardboard packaging and contain four rounded grills, weighing 397g. They cost about £1.70 a box. Quite expensive when you think about it. The only thing that I find annoying about the packaging is the name of the product: why 'Meat Free'? surely 'Vegetarian' will suffice!
The grills contain chucks of cauliflower, slices of green peppers, potato, onion and vegetarian cheddar cheese and these ingredients are encased in a medium layer of crispy breadcrumbs. Apart from the main filling the ingredients also include vegetable oil, spices, salt, wheat and milk. It's the cheese that gives them most of their flavour although the peppers do add a touch of excitement I suppose. I wouldn't say they're a great tasting dish, but they'll do if you're in a rush and you certainly don't get that cauliflower smell that fills the house (or caravan) whenever you cook a real cauliflower.
They grills take about 25 minutes at 200 degrees centigrade to cook, maybe slightly less in a fan based oven and you can cook then straight from the freezer. You can also grill them for 15 minutes but cooking cauliflower based foods in this way is never the easiest task to get right as if you leave them in too long the breadcrumbs will start to burn and if you undercook them slightly the cauliflower chunks will remain hard. I'd like to say practise makes perfect, but it usually doesn't in this case.
For the obsessed: each 92g cauliflower cheese grill contains 205 calories, 6g of protein, 20g of carbohydrate (2g sugars), and 11g of fat (2g saturates). You also be consuming 3.7g of fibre and 0.7g of salt per grill. So quite a fatty mix on account of the cheese content.
Tesco Cheesy Cauliflower Grills are not the worst ready meal I've ever had and not as bad as I'd imagined from Tesco (I had some of their tinned curried mackerel the other week (I couldn't catch any fish in my pond) which was absolutely grotesque, tasted like a sweet pudding with slimy fish in it). Certainly if you're a vegetarian on the go, or if you're just a lazy sod, then you should find them a useful addition to the freezer. The grills are tasty enough without being amazing (Nigella wouldn't touch them with a barge pole so she tells me) and are nice served with vegetables, salad or the ever reliable tin of baked beans.
Some years ago, when I was in my late teens and early twenties, I was a vegetarian. These days, I do eat some meat, but I still buy quite a lot of vegetarian foods, as I often prefer the taste and texture, compared to meat. When I am in Tesco's, I usually check the frozen foods section to see which vegetarian foods are available, as there are often some on special offer. Tesco Meat Free Cauliflower Cheese Grills are packaged in a cardboard box (which is recyclable) containing four oval shaped grills, weighing 397g. They cost £1.58, but can often be found for less.
The box states that the cauliflower grills are 'a delicious blend of cauliflower and green peppers with cheddar cheese, coated in a crispy breadcrumb'. Other ingredients include potato, onion, vegetable oil and spices and salt. The grills also contain wheat and milk. They can be baked in the oven for 22-24 minutes at 200 degrees centigrade/ 400 farenheit or gas mark 6, or grilled for 15-16 minutes. They are best cooked from frozen.
Each cauliflower cheese grill (92g) contains 205 calories, 6.0g of protein, 20.4g of carbohydrate (1.9 sugars), and 10.9g of fat (2.0g saturates). They also have 3.7g of fibre per grill and 0.7g of salt (12% of the daily requirement for an adult. The overall fat content is quite high, probably due to the cheese and vegetable oil, though they are lower in saturated fat, which should be minimised in the diet, due to the increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, etc. Per 100g the fat content is a little higher, at 11.9g, and 2.2g of saturates. The salt content is fairly high, too.
I enjoyed the taste of these cauliflower cheese grills, and will buy them again, as they are useful to have in the freezer. They are quite high in fat and salt, but as part of a balanced diet, I think that they are fine. I would try to serve them with something with less fat, such as vegetables, salad or potatoes that have not been cooked in oil or butter.
... or buy a combi oven, where they come out perfectly.
I used to be veggie and these were a steadfast staple of my diet. However, since going back to meat, I'd say that they were still a big staple because they're just so lovely. I think they've changed over the years, but for the basis of health - they were a lot fattier before. I don't think these lovely little bakes should be for veggies only, and nor do I think that grilling is the best way to prepare them.
My fave way of eating them is baking them, a huge dollop of pickle next to them, and just eat away. Perfect sunday fodder. Love em, and I'll hunt them down wherever they're sold. Buy them now.
22 words left? Are you kidding? What more do you want me to say? Cheese. Cauliflower. Crumbs. Grill. Mmm. Yes. Mmm. Mmm.
I'm a vegetarian and, due to criticism originating from the relatives, I was forced to actually get in and try all the food of the category. I tried Quorn, vegetable fingers, bizarre forms of bean...but all inevitably resulted in my disgusted grimace. I'll admit to being a fussy eater, but this was a true pain; I did not like anything.
I then tried Tesco Meat Free Cauliflower Cheese Grills. I liked them and, so surprised were my family, that we immediately went out and stocked up on them. I had these grills smothered in tomato ketchup probably ever night, and they were also great with baked beans or spaghetti in tomato sauce. However, repetition eventually got the better of me, and I went off them. The stock piles of them in the home freezer went to waste.
Yet I recently turned back to them. I no longer have them every night because I know the result of such, but also due to the fact that it's utterly impossible. These grill TERRIBLY. Every single time I choose to have one of these for dinner, I regret it. It melts. It physically melts into the grill. It becomes one with the grill. It's a nightmare to turn, regularly falling in half as a result. There's still more: sometimes they leak. The contents of these will actually begin to fall out and I'm sadly not at all exaggerating when I say that often have I been left with well under half of the original.
I'm not sure what Tesco have changed to result in such ridiculous scenarios; I suppose it might possibly be the breadcrumbs. I've actually had to take up examining these prior to placing them on a grill (for my own predictions and estimations) and I've noticed some areas lack breadcrumbs completely.
Other things have changed, too, however; this time in regards to the actual process of eating. These grills contain cauliflower, green peppers, onion and vegetarian cheddar cheese. I certainly still consider them a great taste (otherwise why would I go through the torture of preparing them?) but for some bizarre reason, they've started implementing solid blocks of...well, I'm not sure - I'm supposing it the onion. These were never in them prior, but now I come across them regularly per grill and find them so off-putting that I pick them out. They just completely ruin the texture, which is otherwise sort of nice and chewy, with these impenetrable chunks.
Anyhow - would I recommend this item? I'm not sure. It depends on whether you're willing to suffer through the cooking stage; well, actually, it depends on whether the eating stage is actually worth such sufferance. I know I'll keep eating them, unless the product continues to deteriorate. They're a fairly healthy addition to a meal with 160 calories, 4.9g of protein, 7.4g of fat (1.1g of which saturates) and 0.6g salt. I notice, though, that these are nutritional values for an oven baked grill. Maybe it would be easier that way, but I think I'd prefer to have it explode on the grill than turn on the oven for something of this size.
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Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) helped pass landmark legislation to improve care for wounded troops and veterans when they return home from battle. The Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act passed the Senate today by unanimous consent.
Senator Patty Murray on the passage of this landamark legislation:
"Today, the Senate took action to provide real solutions that meet the needs of our troops and veterans from the battlefield to the VA and everywhere in between. The Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act finally recognizes our troops as a cost of this war and reverses the trend of administration inaction that has cost them so dearly.
"From inexcusably long waits for basic care and claims, to squalid living conditions, to daunting mazes of paperwork, our heroes deserve better than what they have received from this administration. Under our new direction in Congress, we have made real and immediate progress in making changes, while the administration continues to lag behind. Today, as the President considers the results of a study he commissioned nearly five months ago to examine the extent of problems, we are acting to fix them.
"Without hesitation or complaint our men and women in uniform have answered the call to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have left loved ones for years, put their careers on hold, and put their lives on the line. We owe them this prompt and comprehensive response to the problems that have plagued their care."
Here are some of the highlights of the Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warriors Act:
- Requires the Department of Defense and VA to work together to develop a comprehensive plan to prevent, treat and diagnose TBI and PTSD.
- Directs the two agencies to develop and implement a joint electronic health record so that critical medical records are not lost as our wounded troops move from battlefield doctors to medical holds and on to the VA.
- Requires the military to use VA standards for rating disabilities, only allowing deviation from VA standards when it will result in a higher disability rating for the service member.
- Requires the military to adopt the VA presumption that a disease or injury is service-connected when our heroes – who were healthy prior to service – have spent 6 months or more in active duty
The bill also addresses:
- substandard facilities
- lack of seamless transition from DOD to the VA
- inadequacy of severance pay
- and medical care for caregivers not eligible for TRICARE.


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Chef Duke LoCicero, owner of Café Giovanni in the French Quarter, is building, Duke's on the Basin, a new waterfront seafood restaurant and fish market that will open by June 2012.
Once bustling with family-friendly seafood restaurants, the lakefront has been slow to recover from Hurricane Katrina and this restaurant will be one of the first new commercial buildings to be constructed in the Lakefront area since Hurricane Katrina damaged properties there.
According to the Times-Pic, It took two years for LoCicero's partners, Jack Panno and Nick Asprodites, to secure the 50-year lease with the Orleans Levee District. Though the final permits are still pending, construction on the 4,000-square-foot restaurant and 375-foot fuel dock is set to begin in the next few months.
Duke's on the Basin will include a seafood restaurant, an open-air fish market, a boating store and a fuel dock. The restaurant will be elevated 18 feet and its windows will be able to stand 130 mph winds. The kitchen will be "on wheels," LoCicero said, making it easy to evacuate the appliances quickly in case of an evacuation.


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Polar Bear Night
Scholastic Inc., New York, New York, 2004
Whenever I design a children's picture book, my ideas about the typography and layout originate with the artwork. In this case, Stephen Savage's linocut prints hark back to classic children's books of the 1930s and 1940s. Setting the text in a simple but warm sans serif typeface (Neutraface) echoed the simple lines in the artwork and gave a clean, spare look to the pages. The title type was hand lettered by Kevin Pyle, a lettering artist I've worked with before. He and I looked at unusual Deco-period typefaces and then created a hybrid based on details we liked. Having the display type on the jacket and title page follow the curves in the artwork was a natural choice to complement Stephen's bold compositions. And finally, by printing the book on uncoated paper and using a soft, matte finish for the jacket, I tried to capture the look and feeling of Stephen's original linocuts. This particular book was an unusual experience for me because as editor, designer and art director, I was truly involved with every aspect of the book. Perhaps for that reason—being my own client, so to speak—Polar Bear Night has a strong, clear design that allows the words and pictures to speak more directly to readers. Happily, it became a New York Times bestseller and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book.
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- David Saylor
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- David Saylor
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- Stephen Savage
- Author
- Lauren Thompson
- Editor
- David Saylor
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- Scholastic Inc.
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- 10 x 10 inches
- Pages
- 32
- Quantity printed
- 10,000
- Compositor
- David Saylor
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- Neutraface Text Bold
- Printer/binder
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- Inside—Glossy Artpaper, 135 gsm. Jacket—Glossy Artpaper, 150 gsm, Opp matte film laminated
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Series I: Children's Sports Games - The two Gold 150 yuan coins contain .3334 of an ounce of Gold. The designs are of equestrian and archery events. The 4 Silver one ounce proofs depict children playing traditional games combined with a colorized element. Hoop rolling, shuttlecock kicking, goat jumping, and kite flying.
Series II: Chinese Landmarks- Gold designs are of Weightlifting and Swimming and the Silver of the Traditional Courtyard Residence in Beijing Summer Palace, Great Wall of China, and the Tibetan Tower of Beihai Park in Beijing.
Series III: Chinese Culture - Gold designs are of Wrestling and Cuju and the Silver is of Traditional Chinese Peking Opera, Yangge, Lion dances, and a Chinese Tea House.
Reverse: 2008 Traditional paired Chinese dragons the emblem of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.
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Reducing Valley Air Pollution: 560 Valley Drivers Get Free Emissions Test
More than 500 Central Valley people on Saturday received a free emissions test.
People got in line as early as 4 a.m. to see if their car would pass the test.
A typical emissions test can cost around $50.
And if a car fails the test, the bill can go up by hundreds of dollars, making it difficult for some people to foot the bill. {}
"I'm not working right now and to get this fixed, it helps me a lot," said Margaret Anderson.
She and hundreds of others received a free test and a $500 voucher toward repairs. {}
But organizers of the "Tune in, tune up event" say it isn't just about charity.
Their goal is educate people on the harmful effects of car pollution on the environment.
Organizers believe air pollution is a big deal in the valley and one that needs remedying.
"We hope they are also being conscious of what the program offers in return, which is a healthy air for everyone," said Jose Marin, a volunteer for the event.
Fresno City College students also took part in the education process.
The automotive majors conducted the tests, inspected under hood and got a close look at what makes a car hazard on the road.
The Valley Can and air district will host their next emission test event in Chowchilla on Aug. 10.


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Rapid reaction: Yankees 4, Red Sox 2
September, 1, 2011
By Gordon Edes | ESPNBoston.com
BOSTON -- First, a disclaimer: Here at ESPN Boston, the tag "Rapid Reaction" is a standing headline, and is not intended in any way to serve as an ironic commentary on the numbingly slow pace of play of Thursday night's game between the Red Sox and Yankees. We're not that smart; yes, they are that slow.
That said, we'll keep it short. Lord knows you've spent long enough watching, listening or checking your tweets while these ancient rivals plodded through the rubber game of a series that feels like it started in the Pleistocene Age. Tuesday night's game went 3 hours, 59 minutes, Boston's longest nine-inning game of the season -- until Thursday night, which clocked in at 4 hours, 21 minutes.
That's fine if you're John W. Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino, and you have Kevin Millar sitting with you to entertain you while you're sitting through the, um, dead spots. Good luck to the rest of you who have work or school in the morning.
And yet, for all of you who persevered, there was high drama at night's end: bases loaded, Adrian Gonzalez at the plate, two out in the ninth, Yankees icon Mariano Rivera on the mound.
The final act, however, was satisfying only to the Yankees, as Gonzalez was called out on a checked-swing third strike.
What it means: The Yankees won their first series in five tries this season against the Sox, who lead the overall series, 11 games to four. The Bombers leave town a half-game behind in the American League East with the Sox having 26 games left, the Yanks 27. They meet three more times, in the Bronx, in the next-to-last series of the season.
Where it went wrong for the Sox: The seventh inning, when Andruw Jones wrangled a 14-pitch walk out of Alfredo Aceves, who then brushed the jersey of Yankees rookie Jesus Montero to put two on with one out. Terry Francona went to Daniel Bard earlier than he typically likes, and it didn't work out. Bard got two quick strikes on Russell Martin, but the Yankees catcher battled back to work the count full, then drove a gapper to right-center that scored two runs. Martin took third on the throw and scored on Eric Chavez's single through a drawn-in infield.
Long night for Jon Lester: Make that a long first inning. The left-hander threw 43 pitches in the first, setting the tone for a night of long at-bats, deep counts, pitcher-catcher conferences, visits from the dugout. Lester escaped with a yield of just one run, but he was gone after five, having thrown 115 pitches.
Reprieve for A.J.: Yankees starter A.J. Burnett, trying to preserve his spot in the rotation, pitched well enough to get another chance, as the Sox got to him for just two runs, both coming on Dustin Pedroia's two-run home run in the fourth.
Pedey power: Pedroia's home run was his 18th of the season, a career high.
Mo closes the deal: Rivera walked the leadoff man in the ninth, Jed Lowrie, then walked Jacoby Ellsbury with two outs on a full count to put the tying runs on base. Marco Scutaro then singled to load the bases before Rivera whiffed Gonzalez.
Pained pinstriper: Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira has a bruised right knee and is listed as day-to-day after being hit by a pitch by Alfredo Aceves.
First impressions: Felix Doubront, called up from Pawtucket earlier in the day, walked the first man he faced, Brett Gardner, then picked him off first and struck out the next two batters in a scoreless eighth.
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"Buenos dias! Me llamo Senor Axford. ¿Habla usted inglés?"
So far, this seems to sum up my travel adventure to Santiago, Chile (as well as the extent of my Spanish language skills). As many of you know, this is pretty much what I do: Fly to faraway places, talk to execs and IT Pros about information security. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm in town this week to speak to meet some of the local Microsoft security people, talk to customers, and do some press interviews, and deliver the really fun session "Identifying Computer Attacks: Tips, Tricks, and Tools" to the local IT Pros in Santiago on March 13th. I wish I was staying to see some of the sites (aka snowboarding), but as the Bob Seger song goes "There I go, on the road again...here I am, up on the stage....."
I do love my job. I love seeing the "light bulb" come on when I explain to them that security isn't about expensive products and fancy consultants. I especially love seeing what it is you guys are doing. You're the ones who are reducing risk and changing the threat landscape. As I told some guys down in Houston last week, the problems we face as security pros is global. Wicked Rose and his gang from NCPH (great webcast BTW!) isn't just attacking one U.S. business. Data Leakage isn't just a concern in Berlin, and Bot infections aren't just happening in Santiago. I love hearing how you guys are beating back the Horde. We don't always tell you this....but you are doing a great job!
...and just so you don't think that your speakers at Microsoft are sitting back....check out the work Keith Combs and U.S. TechNet Team has going on for Longhorn Server starting on April 1st. He's trying to juggle everything. Steve Riley is also out in Asia this week doing more security events. We work hard, so you guys get the latest info!
OK, it's time for a siesta. I'll try and post a little bit each day as I enjoy the hospitality of Chile!


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Faculty, staff and students garner honors
- Philosophy Professor Duane Davis has been appointed as the 2011 Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana in Brazil.
Richard Chess and Ted Meigs
- Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina Poet Laureate and UNC Asheville Literature instructor, has released a new collection of poems, "Like Shining from Shook Foil" (Press 52, 2010).
- Former Chancellor Sam Schuman was been selected as a member of the inaugural class of National Collegiate Honors Council Fellows for his exemplary dedication to honors scholarship and leadership.
- Professor Emeritus Cathy Mitchell won the Best Fiction Award from the Dog Writers Association of America for her recent book, "Save a Spaniel." She received the award in a gala ceremony in New York in February.
- Connie Schrader, lecturer in Health and Wellness, and John McClain, lecturer in Humanities, were among just 20 faculty members nationwide selected to participate in the 2011 Freeman Summer Institute Workshop on infusing Japan studies into the curriculum.
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- Katherine Zubko, assistant professor of Religious Studies, is co-author of the new book, "Inside the Indian Business Mind: A Tactical Guide for Managers" (Praeger, 2010). The text serves as a guide for Western businesses entering the Indian market.
- UNC Asheville's Honors Quiz Bowl Team placed second in the Big South College Quiz Bowl Tournament in January 2011.
- UNC Asheville Magazine received a 2011 Special Merit Award from the southeastern district of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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- UNC Asheville's Chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars received a 2010 gold award for embracing and acting on the ideals of the organization. Of the more than 270 NSCS chapters nationwide, just 76 received the 2010 gold award.
- UNC Asheville student newspaper, The Blue Banner, won several awards at the North Carolina College Media Association's Statewide College Media annual conference in February, including Best in Show for newspapers published at universities with less than 6,000 students and Best in Show for online news. It is the second consecutive year the paper has won these two top honors.
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A police office investigates the scene where a pedestrian was killed by a vehicle. The car was heading eastbound down California Street, past Escuela Avenue and hit the pedestrian at 9:29 AM, June 21, 2012. Photo by Michelle Le
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TWO in three adults in North Wales fail to exercise enough to keep themselves healthy, a study showed yesterday.
Doctors recommend that over 16s should engage in 'moderate to vigorous' physical activity for 30 minutes on at least five days a week.
Such a fitness regime helps to prevent and manage chronic conditions, like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and mental health problems.
The physically active have up to a 50% reduced risk of developing major chronic diseases and cut their risk of premature death by up to 30%.
But the Welsh Health Survey reveals that despite high profile public lifestyle campaigns, there was little change in physical activity levels since the study began in 2003/04 up top 2010.
Wales was also a divided nation when it comes to looking after its physical well-being.
Men were more physically active than women on the target level of five or more days a week. More than a third of Welsh men (37%) and around a quarter of women (24%) reported meeting the target.
Adults in routine and manual jobs and in the most deprived areas of Wales were most likely to report having no physically active days a week, while managerial and professional staff were the least likely.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "Programmes such as 5x60 in secondary schools and Dragon Sport in primary schools are helping to create the environment necessary for children to enjoy extra curricular sport and physical activity on a regular basis.
"Our Change4Life campaign, alongside the summer programme Games4Life which encourages whole families to increase their physical activity, is part of our drive towards encouraging people to become more active."
In North Wales, adults meeting the target level of activity ranged from 30% in Wrexham and Flintshire, to 34% in Denbighshire
Meanwhile, 34% of adults in Wrexham admitted to no active days, compared to 28% in Conwy.
Powys had the highest proportion of active adults at 38%, and Powys and Monmouthshire had the lowest levels of those reporting no active days a week 26%. The lowest levels of physical activity were seen for adults living in local authorities in South East Wales.
Just over half (52%) of Welsh children aged four-15 reported 5+ active days in the past week and just over one in 10 (12%) reported no active days.


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Jay Flemma on Torrey Pines, Stonehouse
Sorry, I haven't written much lately -- I've been out of Toronto dealing with a family matter.
In the meantime, fellow blogger and budding golf writer Jay Flemma has added some neat stuff to his blog. He's debating the merits of Torrey Pines following the Rees Jones' overhaul, and he has a neat bit on Stonehouse, a neat Mike Strantz course. Mike is a great guy and a brilliant architect. He's also in the middle of a battle with cancer, though his wife tells me he's doing pretty well.
Anyway, check out Jay's site for a lot of great golf writing and course reviews.


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The Appearance of Carriers and the Origins of Money
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the circumstances where a monetary economy dominates over a redistributive barter economy in which there is not an absence of double coincidence of wants problem. For this purpose, we develop a spatial general equilibrium model where individuals must trade with intermediaries to acquire the consumption goods that they need; exchange is costly, there is no trust, and individuals act in their own interest to maximize their utilities. The model is also used to address a number of issues in monetary economics like explaining the historical emergence of commodity-money, valued fiat money, the welfare-enhancing role of money, equilibria with several mediums of exchange, and split between the utility and the medium of exchange value of the good that serves as a medium of exchange. It also provides some interesting links between the monetary and urban economics literatures.
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CCU presents �Passing the Baton II�
April 26, 2010
Coastal Carolina University will present �Passing the Baton II,� a joint concert featuring the North Myrtle Beach Community Band and the future music educators of the University, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 2 in Wheelwright Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
The future music educators of the University are music students who aspire to be public school music teachers. They are members of the University�s chapter of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), a student organization which supports and encourages the professional development of music performance and music education students. The organization is directed by Tonya Propst, assistant professor of music.
The concert will feature selections which highlight the full range of wind band literature from contemporary compositions to classic marches.
For tickets or more information, call the Wheelwright Box Office Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 843-349-2502.


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Mr. Larry Farber, with all due respect, you have been our county commissioner for 4 years. The one time I felt it was important to get to know you and called, you did not return my call. There was a road improvement project that I thought was controlled by the city. I was concerned since the road (CR32) was being redone and it did not seem like the new road was going to incorporate a bike lane. When I called the city I found that the county controlled the road improvement even though it was in city limits. I also found that a walking/bike lane was in past city plans for this road. Being one of the main county roads that leads directly to a great city resource, the Woodland Trails hiking and biking trails, I thought improving this road with a pedestrian/bike lane would be a no-brainer.
During my research I found out that the communication between the city and county was not well coordinated. This does not look like good management to me. Understandably, if you would have called me back your response may have been "It would cost too much to add a bike lane". If cost is an issue Mr. Farber, the road really wasn't that bad anyway. Why dig it up and redo it? Now, it just allows the speeders to go even faster in that stretch. And a questionable corner is still questionable. I would really liked to have discussed this with you and heard your viewpoint but you did not communicate to me or the general public.
I am in a position like many voters to choose either you or your opponent, Bruce Anderson. I really don't see a distinct difference between you two. Well sir, you have a couple weeks to show it. I would like to justify a vote for you. — Mark Makovec, Elk River