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Legendary singer Whitney Houston died of an accidental drowning partially to blame on heart disease, cocaine and metabolites, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner.
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The coroner's office released its report Thursday afternoon, calling the 48-year-old's death accidental. Houston was found dead by a member of her entourage on Feb. 11 in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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"It appeared that the cocaine had been used in the time period just probably immediately prior to her collapse in the bath tub at the hotel," Coroner's Chief of Operations Craig Harvey said.
Harvey said the singer suffered a "cardiac event."
"A 60 percent artery narrowing resulted in the finding of a heart condition. That condition, combined with chronic cocaine use, exacerbated the fact that she died of accidental drowning," Harvey said.
In addition to cocaine and metabolites found in the singer's system, the coroner also identified traces of marijuana, Xanax (anti-anxiety), Flexeril (muscle relaxant) and Benadryl (antihistamine), although they did not contribute to her death, according to the report.
"We are saddened to learn of the toxicology results, although we are glad to now have closure," said Houston's sister-in-law and manager, Patricia Houston.
After the singer's death, investigators issued subpoenas for records of her medical prescriptions, apparently pursuing the possibility that prescription abuse was a factor in her sudden death.
Prescription bottles were found in Houston's room at the Beverly Hilton hotel, investigators said. However, after weeks of rigorous lab work, the coroner's report indicates that prescription drugs do not appear to have played a significant role in the singer's death.
On the day of her death, Houston had planned on attending Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy party. Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was at the hotel at the time of Houston's death.
A final report is expected to be released within the next two weeks.


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If you've ever heard of Lamaze, chances are you've also heard that they are the "breathing" childbirth education group (hee-hee, hoo-hoo). Over the years, however, Lamaze has evolved into a comprehensive approach to childbirth, part of which includes comfort measures for labor; breathing is just one of the suggested comfort measures. So what does it mean to "breathe" during labor? Here's a little on what you should know (excerpted from The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence by Judith A. Lothian and Charlotte DeVries):
Breathing in Pregnancy: A Daily Check-in
Finding the time, energy, and peace to face your fears—or do anything that requires mental focus—is a challenge in our culture. One pregnant woman shared that after years of working at her office, she'd tuned out the sounds of phones ringing and computers clicking. She didn't even notice how noisy her office was until an older coworker looked at her across the bank of desks and said, "You're bringing this child into a world of sounds my babies never heard."
It's true: In just a decade or two, technology has changed the world dramatically. From cell phones to ATMs, from microwave ovens to Facebook friends, from high-definition DVDs to iPods, technology fills our days with vivid images and messages. It's a noisy, busy world that can crowd out the peace we need to connect with ourselves.
Connecting with yourself is an important task during your pregnancy. It's a big job to pay attention to all the physical, emotional, and spiritual changes you're experiencing. It takes concentration to envision a future that includes a new role and a new person. Finding a place of stillness for a few moments each day can help you do this crucial work.
Even if your space and your schedule are crowded, you can find a place and time to keep a daily appointment with yourself. Perhaps you can retreat to the corner of your bedroom, the bathroom, a closet, or an empty room at your workplace. Perhaps you can sneak a moment before others wake up, after they've gone to bed, before you get in the shower, or during your lunch break. You might want to "check in" at the same time each day so you treat this appointment with yourself as the important time it is.
Your daily check-in may be a few moments of silence, meditation, or prayer. You can use this time to get in touch with not only your feelings, but also your body and the little one who is taking up more and more of it. Close your eyes for a moment and listen to your breathing, then take an inventory of yourself: Are there any tense areas in your body—neck, shoulders, throat, hands, back? Is anything nagging at your mind? Doing a full-body and -mind check will help you identify what needs to be released, relaxed, or dealt with.
Breathing Benefits from Yoga Practice
Yoga, an ancient form of exercise that includes breath control, meditation, and body postures, has become popular among pregnant women. It's easy to understand why: Many yoga exercises include movements that open the pelvis. Yoga also teaches rhythmic breathing, concentration, stamina building, and relaxation. Some women who do yoga report improved physical coordination and more balanced emotions.
Lamaze Classes and Breathing
Lamaze classes prepare women for a safe, healthy birth by providing the most current, evidence-based information about birth, simplifying birth, and helping women navigate the maze of modern obstetrics. Be wary of "Lamaze" classes that spend a lot of time practicing relaxation and breathing and little or no time building your confidence or discussing how to keep things simple and how to have the safe, healthy birth you want in the birth setting you have chosen.
Breathing: Finding Comfort in Labor
When allowed and encouraged to, a woman will naturally move, moan, sway, change her breathing pattern, and rock to cope with contractions, eventually finding the right rhythm for her unique needs. Such active comfort-seeking helps her baby rotate and descend and helps prevent her labor from stalling. As her contractions get stronger, her body releases endorphins—nature's narcotic—to ease her pain.
Conscious Breathing
Conscious breathing (especially slow breathing) reduces heart rate, anxiety, and pain perception. It works in part because when breathing becomes a focus, other sensations (such as labor pain) move to the edge of your awareness.
Conscious breathing is an especially useful labor tool because it not only keeps you and your baby well oxygenated, it's also easy to learn and use. It's naturally rhythmic and easy to incorporate into a ritual. And best of all, breathing is the one coping strategy that can't be taken away from you—even if you're stuck in bed attached to an electronic fetal monitor and intravenous fluids.
Conscious (or patterned) breathing used to be the hallmark of Lamaze childbirth education. For many women, it's still an important way to stay relaxed and stay on top of their contractions. It's true that conscious breathing can help you relax and feel less pain during contractions. There's no "right" way to breathe in labor, despite what others may tell you. Slow, deep breathing helps most women manage the pain of contractions. But the right way for you to breathe is whatever feels right to you. Issues like your number of breaths per minute, breathing through your nose or your mouth, or making sounds (like hee-hee) with your breaths are only important if they make a difference for you.
It may help you to have a visual focus to accompany your conscious breathing. You can recall an image with your eyes closed, focus on a picture or special object from home, keep your eyes on your partner, or simply stare at a spot on the wall. You may also find that as labor progresses, faster, shallower breathing—like a dog gently panting—feels better. You'll figure out what works best for you. And what works best will probably change as you move through labor.
Many women "practice" breathing during pregnancy by using conscious breathing when everyday life presents stressful situations, like being caught in traffic, running late for an important meeting, or worrying about any number of things.
Find Your Rhythm
At some point in labor, you'll "find your rhythm" or "get in a groove," much like a marathon runner does. You'll be living in the moment, doing without thinking. To others you'll appear to be in another world. Your movements will be rhythmic; you'll relax between contractions; you'll respond to contractions in the same way over and over again, perhaps shaking your arms, rolling your head, breathing slowly, chanting, or praying.
You'll be totally focused, but you won't necessarily look comfortable. You'll look like you're working very, very hard—which you are. When this happens, you'll know endorphins are working their magic—dulling your pain and helping you ride your contractions intuitively. You'll be doing exactly what you need to do. You won't need to be rescued; in fact, the worst thing that could happen to you at this point is to be disturbed or interrupted. A healthy dose of encouragement, support, and respect are all you'll need from your support team.
Do you have experience with conscious/patterned breathing during labor? How did it affect your birth experience?

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"This glorious Amarone made with Corvina grapes was partially fermented on the skins for 45 days before being allowed to finish the fermentation in French oak barrels. The aroma has notes of raisins, cherries and toasted oak. The wine has flavors of tobacco and fig, and goes well with game and ripe cheese. Hannibal of Silence of the Lambs fame, of course, had his with fava beans. In the movie version, they had him drinking the more pedestrian Chianti wine type. Try it with stews but because of its richness, it also goes well with cheeses, salads and antipasti. It is one of the great wines to use with light game such as wild boar, venison, pork, and antelope because despite its rich fruity flavor it has the right qualities to cut through and clean the taste of game."
"While some styles of Amarone can be very bitter (that's where the name comes from), newer styles like ours are more fruity. Our Amarone has soft tannins and alcohol of around 14%."
Let's take a look at the articles 1,2 3 and 7 of Italian laws governing the production of wines named Amarone:
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The controlled appellation of origin "Amarone della Valpolicella" already registered as DOC with the DPR 21st August 1968, is reserved to wines meeting the requirements of the following production regulations for the types of wine: "Amarone della Valpolicella" also with specifications "Classico", "Valpantena" and "Riserva".
Art.2 - Amarone Grape Varietals
Wines with appellation of origin controlled and guaranteed "Amarone della Valpolicella" must be obtained by a blend of grapes in the following percentages:
- Corvina Veronese (Cruina or Corvina) between 45% and 95%. It is nevertheless allowed a percentage of Corvinone up to 50% in substitution to a similar percentage of Corvina.
- Rondinella between 5% and 30%.
Art. 3 – Amarone Production Territory *
Production area of wines with controlled and guaranteed denomination "Amarone della Valpolicella" includes all or part of the territory of the municipality of: Marano, Fumane, Negrar, S. Ambrogio, S. Pietro in Cariano, Dolce, Verona, San Martino Buon Albergo, Lavagno, Mezzane, Tregnago, Illasi, Colognola ai Colli, Cazzano di Tramigna, Grezzana, Cerro Veronese, San Mauro di Saline and Montecchia di Crosara. Vineyards for the production of "Amarone della Valpoliella" wines should be listed in the DOCG Register.
The production area of wines with controlled and guaranteed denomination of origin "Amarone della Valpolicella" with the specification "Classico" includes the municipality of Negrar, Marano, Fumane, Sant'Ambrogio. S. Pietro in Cariano.
( *Note: Nowhere does it say vineyards in California, Virginia or Texas)
Art.7 Amarone Labeling
1) On the label of wines of the appellation of origin controlled and guaranteed "Amarone della Valpolicella" it is forbidden to add any specification beside those allowed by this production regulation, including worlds such as: "extra", "fine", "selected", etc.
2) It is allowed the use of indications referring to names, companies, private brands and consortiums as long as they do not have any laudatory meaning and are not misleading for consumers.
3) On the label of wines "Amarone della Valpolicella" can be used the indication "vineyard" (vigna) as long as it is followed by the corresponding toponym, the specific vineyard is reported in the DOCG Register of vineyards and the drying, fermentation and ageing of the wine occurs in separated containers.
4) On the label of wines "Amarone della Valpolicella", for all different typologies, it is mandatory to specify the vintage of the production of grapes.
Here's what I have to say to winemakers in Texas or California or Italy:
If you want to make an Italian wine, make it in Italy.
If you want to make a California wine, make it in California.
And if you want to make wine in Texas, make it from Texas grapes, label it clearly and honestly, and for Heaven's sake, never, ever try to sell Amarone, real or "imagined", by diminishing another wine (like Chianti). It is against the spirit of all we do and it is ineffably specious.
And when you do make a wine and label it "reserve" how about attaching a vintage to it? NV really doesn't cut the bacon.
Said from one who has made wine in Texas from Texas grapes and knows how bloody hard it is to do. But it is the right thing to do.
Texas, all y'all (who don't know any better) need to put on your big boy pants and get all yourself right with your Lord, your wine-making and your wine-naming. Do it soon.


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Fed Officials Slightly Downgrade Growth for Future
The Federal Reserve projected economic growth of 2.3 -2.8% for the rest of the year. Sudeep Reddy and PNC Financial Services chief economist Stuart Hoffman discuss. Photo: Getty Images.
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I they are clearly taking into account ... the effect of budget cuts effective ... the slow growth that we're seeing and factory then ... go their forecasts of course have traditionally ... overshot where the economy has been in so they have tended to be ... a little too optimistic and so the Fed saying for instance that they still expect ... the growth this year of ... about two point three to two point eight percent is is brought roughly in line with a lot of private sector forecasts but it's certainly not the economy ticking off and they recognize that I mean it's certainly not what we've seen of the last couple of quarters that ole them it's a long way from that would look like a red pot roast compared to what we soul recently ... exactly you don't see even when you look after twenty fourteen twenty fifteen ... any of these four percent growth projections that you might've seen a couple years ago so it seems like ... going through what we've gone through these false starts these false ... hopes for the economy ... of the last couple years it seems like that officials ... have taken this into account ... when making their projections and a cut of the ads themselves down a little bit ... and it's for a really interesting to see and we'll see with the press conference now ... if that that it held this meeting a week ago maybe they'd all feel little bit more optimistic when ... you look at where the stock market was on ... preaching summing highs ... and outward Europe was of course there are these new routes that always pop up ... and they have to wonder and be asking themselves the last two days ... a week going to go through this exact same cycle that we've gone through ... the last three years ... 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I'm ... it looks like from all these forecasts ... by ... the vast majority of members of the committee still ... are holding on to that ... outlook of bread raising interest rates ... in twenty fifteen and that's what they see in unemployment dropping down six point five percent so it's a very long road ahead from their perspective that is a very long but especially to improve job stay with us today for bringing still Hoffman of PNC Jonathan pets but ... aam Stuart ideally you'd disappointed by the Fed's outlook or are you thinking it's ... way optimistic ... disappointed that I'd I don't think it's way optimistic ... I don't have a very few are a few little tweaks to their outlook ... for real GDP growth ... virtually nothing for next year ... I'm there are of the range a little bit this year ... I know it's wildly optimistic that all I mean that the ... economic growth ... closer to trend ... next year ... the drilling no change in their outlook for the unemployment rate ... and given that I'm you know the minutes are not management statements dose says ... six nap percent unemployment rate is a key thresholds ... this really help them market their their time frame ... sometime in the latter half of twenty fifteen ... to consider raising the Fed funds rate is still in place ... the leading me through and with an incentive to keep buying eighty five billion ... they did re emphasize which are member thank you said ... they're looking to cause the benefits of the eighty five billion baht ... they continue to look at that but it's clear they did ... did you think that the benefits outweigh the pots ... so I don't see any sense in here that that ... that at least is a majority ... is yet ready to even think about cutting back ... the amount of quantitative easing to do in every month ... not now still we had to ALM over the last ... few months I'm out of Washington all all all the squawking ... about how the sequester the of the month of the so-called mass in a span of a tree spending cuts coming on a government with wording of the economy ... do you see it that has actually seen the economy and in any meaningful way or is it was a poll of the storm in a teacup ... the yellow thing is that a bit of a ... really it's more going forward the SciQuest ration began March first the ... worst attack sites ... are already began ... 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The Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers insists being top of the league is brilliant and he is sleeping better than ever, despite the perceived pressure which comes with the position.
The Reds are five points clear of Sunday's visitors Chelsea and six ahead of third-placed Manchester City, who have a match in hand, with three games to go.
Liverpool are closer to the title than they have been in the 24 years since they last won it, but Rodgers stressed it would not be a failure were they not to win it from this position.
"No chance. We have next year to go again so it is not the end of the world," he said. "We want to win, we are in a brilliant position, but the focus is only on Chelsea.
"That is a big game for us and we will hopefully get over that hurdle – we might clip it, but as long as we get over it that is important – and then it is on to the next one. We must enjoy it. We are not going to not enjoy it.
"There is no pressure with it. People say to me: 'Are you not enjoying it? You must not sleep at night.' I haven't slept better!
"This is brilliant, we are top of the most competitive league in the world, the city has a real vibe and excitement around it, the supporters are loving it and we are showing the real scale of the club.
"I'd be lying if I said I expected us to be top of the league, but I certainly believed in the players and trusted their qualities and believed we could challenge for the top four.
"Yes we are a year ahead (of expectations), but we're not going to complain. We'll embrace it.
"We really want to help the supporters dream by making their dreams happen, but that is something we can only do by performing well and the consequence of that is hopefully winning games."
Despite suggestions they did not have the mentality to win the title, Liverpool have so far answered their critics with 11 successive victories.
Rodgers said because the likes of Chelsea and City had begun the season with title aspirations, they were likely to be finding it more of a strain than his squad.
"I think everyone is talking about pressure but that is Manchester City or Chelsea – when you spend that sort of money and expect to win the league," he added.
"I don't think there is pressure on ourselves, only from what we have within. Look at Tottenham, you spend over £100-odd million you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
"We will do the best we possibly can. At this moment in time we have been absolutely outstanding."
Were Liverpool not to complete the job in the next three games, Rodgers said it would not be as a result of them cracking.
He said: "I believe it won't be because of pressure; a bit of luck might go against us or we make a mistake – which can happen in football – but the players have shown since the second half of last season we have coped with pressure."
The Chelsea manager José Mourinho suggested that, with a finely-balanced Champions League semi-final second leg at home to Atlético Madrid on Wednesday, he would field a weakened side at Anfield, but Rodgers paid that no attention. "José is a winner, he won't give up," he said. "There are certainly no mind games on behalf of him to me, he knows me well enough to know it wouldn't bother me one iota what he says or does.
"I've seen some stuff saying a weakened team will be played, but that is hugely disrespectful to their players if they are deemed to be the weaker ones in the squad.
"Whatever team they put out will have cost more than ours and will be more experienced. It is difficult because they have the game in the week and there is no doubt if they played the same team on Sunday and Wednesday there is a cost.
"You saw it with Manchester City. When they played us it was a really intense game, and I think Manuel [Pellegrini] felt on the Wednesday when they played Sunderland they had a real cost and ended up drawing the game."
Rodgers also expressed some sympathy for David Moyes after he was sacked by Manchester United earlier this week. "I'm saddened that a man who is an outstanding manager lost his job in the circumstances he did," added the Northern Irishman. "I find it fascinating and sad he was opened up to the ridicule he was."


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DescriptionStars of television and cinema, and now stars of their own video game. Join Moe, Larry & Curly (in no particular order) who must collect $5000 to try and save an orphanage and the young children who live there from the evil banker, all while keeping pie out of their face. Featuring platform level designs based on classic Stooge scenes from their many TV episodes and movies and level objectives re-living many of their antics plus original Stooge voices and Stooge trivia.
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|Commodore User
|May, 1988
|8 out of 10
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Jun, 1988
|78 out of 100
|ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
|Jul, 1988
|695 out of 1000
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Jul, 1988
|7.6 out of 12
|Happy Computer
|Jul, 1988
|44 out of 100
|Power Play
|Jul, 1988
|4 out of 10
|Computer Gaming World (CGW)
|Aug, 1988
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Multiple endingsThere are multiple endings, depending on the amount of money earned. Less than $5000: the bank takes back the orphanage; $5000-$8995: the rent is paid, but the orphanage still requires repairs; $9000-$19995: the orphanage is fully repaired; $20000+: the Stooges marry the daughters.
ReferencesAt the beginning of the NES version, the Stooges stand in front of the Ghostbusters II logo, and make comments about how they are in the wrong game.
In the PC version, the Stooges stand in front of a Defender Of The Crown title screen.
References to the gameThis game is featured in the movie Lethal Weapon 3 on Lorna Cole's (Rene Russo) computer. Part of her background in the film is that she's a Three Stooges fan.
SoundThe digitized voices and pictures used in this game come from real Three Stooges shorts.
On the PC, The Three Stooges was much more enjoyable on the Tandy/PCjr series over the traditional PC and clones because the sound chip was utilized quite well. Not only was it used for 3-voice music and sound effects, but for the digitized speech as well. This enabled the sound of Larry, Moe, and Curly to come through much clearer than through the conventional PC speaker.
Timothy SkellyOne of the game's designers was Timothy "Tim" Skelly. Skelly worked with Cinematronics to design and program many early 80's arcade games including Star Hawk, Star Castle, Armor Attack and more.
Information also contributed by Guy Chapman, J. Michael Bottorff, Peter Ferrie, Ricky Derocher, and WildKard
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Achievement is not about having resources or connections. It's rather about what you do despite your limited resources and your lack of connections. In our times of economic recession, thousands of people lose their jobs everyday. If you are looking for a new position these days, using Mongol tactics might help you achieve your goal faster.
During the whole 13th century, Mongols dominated the world. They did not succeed thanks to their meagre resources. Neither were they able to resort to their political connections, since they didn't have any. From being a tribe of shepherds, Mongols managed to grow to rulers of the world exclusively by their own efforts.
How did Mongols win battles against ten-times bigger armies? Even more remarkable is the fact that, physically, Mongols were relatively small in size. Nevertheless, they crushed the Persian, Russian, and Bulgarian armies one after the other, each in its home territory.
If Mongols conquered the world starting with nothing, applying their tactics might give you a decisive advantage in your job search. The three principles that I am presenting here can benefit anyone seeking employment.
First, become single-minded in your purpose. Mongols knew that their life was at stake in every battle and they never hesitated which way to go. It was always forward. Finding a job is certainly much easier than building a world empire, but in any case, determination will dramatically increase the speed of your success.
Since talking yourself into becoming single-minded is unlikely to work, how can you acquire the necessary determination? My answer will surprise you. All you have to do is to be realistic and use basic economic common sense. The truth is that you can always find a job, no matter how bad the economy situation is, because the demand for work, for services, is infinite.
- If you are willing to accept the salary that someone is willing to pay, you will find a job.
- You might need to move to another town to get that job, but you can be sure that there is always someone somewhere who needs to get something done.
- If you are flexible about salary and conditions, there are always people out there willing to hire additional help for their business or private needs. All you have to do is find them.
Compared to Mongols living in the 13th century, the Internet allows you countless possibilities to learn at low cost. You can find vacancies in data bases. You can use electronic templates to prepare your curriculum vitae. You can listen to podcasts and watch videos on interviewing techniques. The more knowledge you accumulate, the quickest you'll find employment.
The third principle is the most important. You must move as fast as you can. When Mongols fixed themselves an objective, they gathered information quickly, sharpened their swords, and off they were. Riding horses for hours on end was their daily routine, day and night if necessary, until they reached their target.
You don't need to become obsessed about your job search, but taking relentless action is a proven approach for maximizing your achievements. Take the first step in your chosen direction and follow up with a thousand steps more. Let your learning grow rapidly and it will show you the path to success.
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Departing Electronic Arts chief John Riccitiello's parting words
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello stepped down from his position at the Redwood City video game company Monday, posting this goodbye letter on EA's website under the headline, "A Message from John Riccitiello."
To Everyone at EA --
I am writing with some tough news. I have resigned my position as EA's CEO. I will be around for a couple of weeks, and I hope to have the chance to say goodbye to many of you. Larry Probst will be stepping in as Executive Chairman to help smooth the transition. Larry first hired me at EA in 1997 and he was an incredible leader for the company during the 16 years he served as CEO. While he will continue to be the Chairman of the US Olympic Committee, he will also provide leadership for EA until a permanent CEO is appointed.
My decision to leave EA is really all about my accountability for the shortcomings in our financial results this year. It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued to the Street, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. And for that, I am 100 percent accountable.
Personally, I think we've never been in a better position as a company. You have made enormous progress in improving product quality. You are now generating more revenue on fewer titles by making EA's games better and bigger. You've navigated a rapidly transforming industry to create a digital business that is now approximately $1.5 billion and growing fast. The big investments you've made in creating EA's own platform are now showing solid returns. I believe EA is alone in mastering the challenges of building a platform for our games and services -- a platform that will provide a more direct relationship with our consumers. You are number one in the fastest growing segment, mobile, with incredible games like The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Real Racing 3, Bejeweled, SCRABBLE and Plants v. Zombies. You have worked to put EA in a position to capture industry leadership on the next generation of consoles; and I believe two of our titles -- Battlefield and FIFA -- will be among the top few franchises in the entire industry. And the industry's most talented management team -- Frank, Rajat, Peter, Gaby, Andrew, Patrick, Blake, Joel and Jeff -- are certain to lead the company to a successful future.
I remain an incredible fan of EA and everyone who works in our world -- from Stockholm to Seoul, Orlando to Edmonton, Guildford, Geneva, Cologne, Lyon, Bucharest, Montreal, Austin, Salt Lake, LA and, of course, EARS. My hope is that my travels and yours allow us the opportunity to talk more in the months and years to come.
In a few weeks, I will be leaving EA physically. But I will never leave emotionally. I am so incredibly proud of all the great things you have done, and it has been my honor to lead this team these past six years. After March, I will be cheering wildly for EA from the sidelines.


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Americans Worried, Uninformed About Student Data Privacy, Survey Finds
Nine of ten American voters are concerned about advertisers using personal data to market to children, and an overwhelming bipartisan consensus has emerged in support of proposals geared towards safeguarding children's personal information.
So says Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based nonprofit seeking to institutionalize such privacy protections before the digital devices, software, and apps now flooding schools become completely ubiquitous.
On Wednesday, the group released new findings from a survey of 800 registered voters—research that CEO James Steyer called the first of its kind.
"American families feel by incredible margins that students' personal and private information should not be for sale, period," Steyer said in an interview.
The new findings are the result of telephone interviews with 800 registered voters (including 227 parents) conducted Jan. 6 - 9 by pollsters from the Benenson Strategy Group. The results contain a 3.5 percentage-point margin of error for all respondents, and a 9.5-point margin of error for parents alone.
Student data privacy has become a hot-button issue in recent months. This week, Education Week took an in-depth look at what has some parents and privacy advocates so concerned, including the potential for identity theft, nuisance advertising, wrongful profiling of students, and even physical harm. Common Sense Media is spearheading an initiative to get leading ed-tech companies to agree to broad principles related to protecting children's data, and Steyer said his group is playing an active role in trying to help shape the related legislation that has started popping up in statehouses around the country, as well as in Congress.
In its new survey, Common Sense Media found broad support for action across the country's bitter partisan divide: 91 percent of respondents support stronger parental-consent requirements related to the sharing of sensitive student data, and 89 percent supported tighter security standards for cloud storage, with no meaningful differences between Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.
Steyer said it's important to leverage that consensus in order to prevent the establishment of troubling norms in which children's sensitive information is automatically shared or sold for non-educational uses unless parents decide to opt out.
"That's how the consumer world works, because those rules were written by the tech industry," he said. "We should be automatically safeguarding student information unless parents want to give it up."
But while many Americans have strong feelings about student data privacy and seem willing to support regulatory action, the group's survey found, there remains a huge knowledge gap about what is currently taking place with children's data. Most respondents reported knowing little or nothing about the information that schools now collect about students, the increasingly common practice of districts contracting with private companies to store that information in the cloud, and the lack of restrictions on what those companies can do with children's data.
"It's the Wild West out there, with a grab-bag of [privacy-related] proposals" that vary from state to state and district to district, Steyer said.
Not everyone agrees with the increasingly loud alarm bells being rung over student data privacy, or the proposed fixes. The Software and Information Industry Association, for example, has maintained that current federal laws contain strong restrictions and that businesses are committed to their responsibilities to student privacy.
Next month, Common Sense Media will host a forum on the issue at which U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is expected to speak, said Steyer.
"The good news is that we believe we have the chance to get this right," he said.
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Millions of dollars in undeclared cash is seized each year from passengers at Vancouver's airport, in far greater amounts than at Pearson International in Toronto, Canada's busiest airport.
Most of that money is arriving from China.
Canada Border Services Agency has the authority to search for and seize cash, traveller's cheques, drafts and bank notes in amounts over $10,000, which must be declared when travelling into or out of Canada, and federal customs agents at Vancouver International Airport use scanners, X-rays, physical searches and trained dogs to sniff it out.
From April 2011 to June 2012, over $15 million of unreported funds was intercepted at the airport, Canada's second busiest. Almost two-thirds, or $9.7 million, arrived from China, according to documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun under an Access to Information request.
There were 887 seizures at the Vancouver airport during those 14 months. Of those, 592 were from passengers flying out of China.
Money landing in the Pacific Region far outstrips that landing in Eastern Canada despite less traffic overall. Last year just over 17.5 million passengers went through YVR, where seizures of Chinese money outweigh Canadian money more than five to one.
At Toronto's Pearson International Airport, where 32 million people flew in and out last year, about $6.6 million in total was discovered by customs agents over the 14-month period. Nearly $1.4 million was from China whereas almost twice that amount — $2.6 million — was from departing Canadian passengers.
In the single-largest seizure over that period, $177,495.50 was discovered on a Chinese passenger who landed at Vancouver International Airport last June. A $2,500 fine was levied against the passenger and the money was released, which is the most common scenario, according to the documents. A penalty between $250 and $2,500 is typically issued for failure to report and the money seized is returned to the passenger.
"In my experience, I've seen a lot. It's thousands and thousands of dollars in cash," said Danielle Getzie, a border services officer who has worked at Vancouver's airport since 2007, and has seen firsthand the creative methods used to smuggle cash in luggage and under clothing. Deliberately concealing money, such as hiding it in a suitcase lining, can result in the higher fine.
"If it's in the form of cash, even if you're using large notes, that's quite a bit of paper," she said. "There's also stocks, bonds, bank drafts — all that kind of thing."
Despite the high incidence of cash smuggling by passengers arriving from China, border agents do not target any one nationality, Getzie said.
Experts say stuffing wads of cash into carry-on luggage is just one way China's elite are smuggling their wealth out of the country, where foreign exchange rules prohibit the transfer of more than $50,000 per year.
But an increasing amount of capital is leaking out. According to Washington-based anti-money laundering organization Global Financial Integrity, $602.9 billion fled China in 2011, up from $172.6 billion in 2000, the majority of which the group attributes to tax evasion.
The Hurun Report, a Chinese market research organization, estimates that China's wealthy maintain at least 19 per cent of their assets abroad, and observers have long warned that elite corruption and income inequality are rising despite economic reforms and liberalization.
China's wealthy are motivated to move their money out of the country not only over fears it could disappear, but also because the money itself could be ill-gotten gains. And moving money out of the country illegally can exacerbate both problems, according to Global Financial Integrity.
Under the Canadian Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, there are no restrictions on the amount of money that can be brought into or taken out of Canada, but amounts over $10,000 or its equivalent in foreign currency must be declared to CBSA, which then reports to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, a financial intelligence agency in the Ministry of Finance. It does not report to foreign governments.
It's also much easier to fly into Canada than into the U.S. with suspicious amounts of cash. Here, money is rarely forfeited unless suspected of having criminal origins. At U.S. entry points, failure to declare currency worth over $10,000 can result in a fine of up to $500,000 and 10 years in prison, as well as forfeiture.
One national security expert said there are generally three types of people who smuggle money.
"It's not uncommon for people — whether they are business types, criminal types or people involved in the intelligence community — to want to bring a lot of cash whether they keep it in their luggage or on their person," said Andre Gerolymatos, who teaches military and diplomatic history at Simon Fraser University and is a member of the federal government's Advisory Council on National Security.
"China is in an interesting situation. It's a country developing really rapidly and expanding their economy. It's becoming a country of haves and have-nots. And it's still run by a Communist party, which can be really arbitrary. If you run afoul of the authorities for any reason, they can take away everything you have.
"The smart thing is to take your money, put it somewhere else," Gerolymatos said.
Transporting cash could be a strategy simply to move funds out of China or it could be to launder money, even as the Chinese government moves to crack down on corruption.
"Money flow between mainland China and Canada is now increasingly prominent," said Shiu-Hing (Sonny) Lo, a political-science professor and director of the Centre for Governance and Citizenship at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
"Some Chinese transfer money through the underground banks in Canada and also in China. Some people transfer money in a more explicit way," said Lo, an expert on cross-border crime and international relations. Legal and illegal money flows have been occurring for almost a decade, with an increase in the last five to 10 years, he said.
An "underground bank" refers to informal, personal networks of associates willing to transfer money, a long-established practice between China and Macau, and China and Hong Kong, Lo said.
Profits and earnings in China belong to a sort of grey area as the country undergoes rapid economic changes, he said. The transfers are difficult to identify and even harder to prove and enforce.
"I don't know the extent to which the Chinese authorities fully grasp the situation because China is a huge country. There are so many local governments, provincial, central governments so the situation may be regarded as not a policy priority," he said.


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Witness: Hostage-taker did not have working gun
Xang Khang, 26, shot after standoff at Sacramento Jack in the Box
A woman who works near a fast-food restaurant in Sacramento where two women were taken hostage over the weekend said Monday that the hostage-taker apparently did not have a working gun.
Erika Aldama is the owner of Taqueria El Festiva, a Mexican restaurant on Folsom Boulevard in the same strip mall where police said a man with a gun tried to rob a Jack in the Box on Saturday.
Police said the man took two female workers hostage at the restaurant and held them for several hours during a standoff with officers.
Aldama said the Jack in the Box's manager fled to her restaurant at the beginning of the incident and one of the hostages later came running in.
"One of them, she said he tried to pull the trigger once or twice -- and the gun didn't go off. So, that tells you he's ready to shoot somebody," Aldama said.
Police have identified the hostage-taker as Xang Khang, 26, of Sacramento.
Police said Khang was shot by officers at the end of the standoff. He was taken to a hospital and later died.
Sacramento police spokeswoman Michele Gigante said she could not comment about reports that Khang's gun might have failed to fire.
According to an account of the incident released by police on Monday, Khang entered the restaurant and grabbed an 11-year-old girl by the hair while pointing a gun at her father.
When Khang moved toward the kitchen, the father and daughter were able to escape -- along with four other people, according to police.
Khang appeared to smoke some kind of narcotic throughout the incident and repeatedly struck one of the hostages, police said.
Darmesh Patel, co-owner of the restaurant, told KCRA 3 the two hostages were "doing very well."
He said at least one of them plans to return to work when the restaurant reopens Wednesday.
The names of the hostages were not released.
Several customers who did not realize the restaurant was closed on Monday lined up at the drive-thru and waited to be served.
Rosendo Rodriguez said he was a regular customer, and recognized the hostages when he saw them on TV.
"It did worry me when I saw it, because I told my son, 'That's where I had lunch just (Friday),'" Rodriguez said.
A woman who works in the shopping center where the hostage situation took place told KCRA 3 the situation concerns her.
"We're all neighbors. We all know each other. It's scary, because it can happen to any one of us," Sonia Maldonado said.
A man who frequents Jack in the Box said his thoughts are with the employees-turned-hostages.
"Everybody in there is just a nice person trying to do their job," Marcus Smith said.
KCRA 3's Mallory Hoff contributed to this report.


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Feeding Tubes and Gastrostomies
Feeding Tubes
Feeding tubes are alternative ways to enter the gastrointestinal system while bypassing the mouth. Feeding tubes are used for children who need additional help to gain weight or protect them from complications from oral feeding, and to ensure that the child receives enough fluids to stay adequately hydrated*. These tubes also provide options to give medications when a child can't or won't take them by mouth. Tubes also can help to vent (relieve gas) and remove or drain unwanted fluids from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. This section explains the basic differences of the various feeding tubes and gastrointestinal ostomies, and addresses common questions and concerns. The resource links provide useful additional opportunities to learn more about these topics. Decisions about placing and removing any tube that goes in the body can be difficult. It is important for families and medical personnel to discuss benefits and possible risks associated with the various options before making a decision.
Oral vs. Tube Feeds
Indications for a Feeding Tube
- Unsafe oral feeding. In some children, tube feeding may be necessary due to frequent coughing, choking, and aspiration. Even if maximum efforts are made to prevent aspiration of food and drink into the lungs (with gastrostomy tube feeding and Nissen fundoplication), oral secretions may still be aspirated;
- Severe reflux and the need for preventative surgery to prevent it (Nissen fundoplication) - a feeding tube will usually be inserted at the time of reflux surgery.
- Inefficient feeding due to oral motor dysfunction leading to prolonged labor-intensive feeding or poor weight gain. Families often don't realize how long they spend preparing food and feeding their child with a chronic condition - for children with CP and swallowing problems, estimates are 3.5 hours/day compared to 0.8 hours/day for typically developing children. Families who have opted for tube feeding often report an improved quality of life due to a reduction in feeding times, improved medication administration, and decreased worries about their child's nutrition. [Sullivan: 2004];
- Recurrent periods of dehydration or weight loss due to frequent illnesses; and
- The need for an alternate route to give medications, fluids, or an unpalatable diet (ketogenic diet formulas).
- If malnutrition is present, oral feeds, even with nutritional supplementation, are rarely enough to resolve it. Sometimes however, a period of tube feeding (nasogastric or gastrostomy tube) supplementation may allow the child to catch up to a normal weight and then continue with oral feeds alone.
- Percutaneous placement of a gastrostomy tube or gastrojejunal tube is recommended if the child will require tube feeding for more than about six weeks. These are readily removable when no longer necessary.
- The child with a temporary feeding tube can be fed by tube at night, allowing hunger and thirst to occur during the day so that oral feeding can continue. This may also be a time that oral-motor skills to improve oral feeds may be optimized, allowing a better transition back to oral feeding.
Nasogastric (NG), Nasojejunal (NJ), and Orogastric (OG) Tubes
Gastrostomy "G-tubes" and Gastrostomy-Jejunostomy "GJ-tubes"
Ostomies generally refer to surgically created pathways to enter or exit the body, such as a gastrostomy that is a pathway to the stomach, or a jejunostomy that is a pathway to the jejunum (part of the small intestine). The site where the gastrointestinal tract (stomach or intestine) is pulled up to meet the skin heals into an opening called a stoma. There are many other kinds of ostomies in the body not covered in this section, such as colostomies and ileostomies as exits for chime (digested food and fluid) or stool, tracheostomies for respiration, and urostomies for removal of urine. Stoma nurses (or enterostomal teams) have specialized experience in caring for common problems such as irritation or leaking.
- Stamm gastrostomy - open surgical procedure
- Janeway gastrostomy - laparoscopic procedure
- Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) - endoscope or image-guided radiography to insure proper g-tube placement
Balloon-bolster low profile gastrostomy device
- Contains an internal, water filled balloon which holds the low-profile device in place and prohibits displacement
- The balloon is breakable, so g-tube changes may be required more frequently than non-balloon devices.
- The valve is located on the outside of the body
- Relatively easy and painless to change
- Has a feeding adapter locking mechanism
- Contains a mushroomed shaped tip which prevents displacement
- The mushroom tip is less likely to break than the balloon tip, and therefore needs to be changed less frequently (once per year)
- The valve is located inside the stomach, making the non-balloon button less noticeable than the balloon device
- More difficult to change
- Does not have a feeding adapter locking mechanism
- Care should be taken to select the appropriate formula – consultation with local nutrition experts or pediatric gastroenterology may be helpful.
- Formula, milk and water are the only fluids permissible to use through a G-tube.
- The child should always be held upright during a feeding.
- Oral stimulation (chewing, sucking on pacifier) is recommended during the feed to promote normal development.
- Participation at the dinner table, or routine family eating activities should be performed during a G-tube feed to promote socialization.
- The G-tube should be flushed with water after each feeding to avoid obstruction due to drying of residual formula or medications. Recommended flushes are 5-10cc of water for infants and 15-30cc of water for older children.
- Venting of gas may be needed for the child's comfort, similar to burping a baby after a feeding. Venting can be done using an empty syringe, opening the extension catheter to drain air out, or with a specialized decompression tube for Bard buttons.
Gastrostomy-Jejunostomy Tube (GJ)
To prevent medical errors and improve patient safety, it is important to think about which medications, formulas, and supplements are given, how they are formulated (liquid versus pill, immediate-release formulations versus time-release, etc.) and how they are metabolized (processed) in different parts of the body. All prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, supplements, and natural or holistic remedies need to be discussed with the medical provider and pharmacist to help prevent interactions. Medical errors can arise from crushing certain medications, mixing medications together for administration, or even mixing certain medications with nutritional formulas. Some medications, including some liquids, require diluting before administering through a tube. The tube may become clogged or deteriorate with exposure to certain chemicals and formulations. Co-administered liquid medications can alter the pH and cause denaturing of either or both medicines. Viscous liquid medications may adhere to the interior of the tube, despite flushing. Immediate-release products are more likely to be able to be crushed and given by tube, however the finer particle size caused by crushing can still change the drug's metabolism in the body. Extended release or enteric coated pills, tablets, or capsules are not designed to be crushed and given through a feeding tube. Feeding tubes should be flushed between each medication.
- Parents should clamp the g-tube or close the valve prior to bathing the child.
- Avoid overtly hot water, which could irritate the surrounding skin.
- Use mild soaps and soft washcloths to avoid further irritation and abrasion.
- Granulation tissue represents a foreign body reaction in the skin surrounding the tube. It is red/pinkish inflamed epithelial tissue.
- Excess granulation tissue can be controlled or reduced by topical application of triamcinolone cream three times daily for
a week, or cauterized using silver nitrate sticks obtained through a physician.
- Major complications in a retrospective cohort of 208 patients with gastrostomy placement by interventional radiology included peritonitis (3%), and death (0.4%). [Friedman: 2004] Spearing or poking the transverse colon can occur, requiring surgery to fix.
- Minor complications in this cohort included tube dislodgement (37%), tube leakage (25%), and g-tube skin infection (25%).
[Friedman: 2004]
- Children can pull-out their g-tube directly or inadvertently through contact or traction while playing.
- Dressing children in a "onesie," a one-piece undershirt with the tube tucked inside, or placing the end of the tubing under the tabs of a disposable diaper can help avoid the tube being pulled out.
- Using an abdominal binder can also help protect the tube from being pulled out.
- A dislodged GJ tube typically requires fluoroscopy to replace.
- Leaking is a common problem with feeding ostomies. Ensuring that the tube is properly placed and, if there is a balloon, that the balloon is properly inflated, can reduce leaking.
- Balloon style buttons for children vary in the volume contained in the balloon. Typically this is 3 mL (cc) for infants up to 1 year and 5 mL (cc) for older children. If unsure, contact the physician who placed the button.
- Other factors such as granulation tissue, damaged or displaced tubes, or weight changes can affect the fit of the tube. Leaking may also occur if the stomach is too full, which can happen with poor gastric motility (slow emptying) or with rapid bolus feeds.
Role of the Medical Home
- Facilitating family coping strategies
- Adjusting the child's diet for optimal growth and nutrition (and prevention of obesity)
- Adjusting the child's feeding schedule for optimal family/child functioning
- Monitoring the feeding tube for complications (feeding intolerance, reflux with aspiration, stoma leakage etc.)
- Ensuring that the family has adequate equipment for using and caring for the feeding tube
- Ensuring that the family is aware of what to do if the tube dislodges
- Working with the family to ensure adequate and safe feeding at school, childcare and respite settings
- Helping the child and family continue to focus on advancing oral feeding by monitoring safety, prescribing oral motor therapy (if indicated), and optimizing the feeding schedule to enhance hunger during meal times
Protective Clothing
- Adaptations by Adrian is a commercial site offering sales of adaptive clothing including onesies, sizes small child to 2XL adult.
Information & Support
For Professionals
Nonoral Feeding for Children and Youth With Developmental or Acquired Disabilities (AAP)
This clinical report provides (1) an overview of clinical issues in children who have developmental or acquired disabilities that may prompt a need to consider nonoral feedings, (2) a systematic way to support the child and family in clinical decisions related to initiating nonoral feeding, (3) information on surgical options that the family may need to consider in that decision-making process, and (4) pediatric guidance for ongoing care after initiation of nonoral feeding intervention, including care of the gastrostomy tube and skin site; American Academy of Pediatrics.
When a G-Tube is Dislodged (Brown University)
From the Hasbro Children's Hospital Surgery Handbook – a detailed explanation of what to do when a new (<2 month old) G-tube becomes dislodged. This is for professionals and includes symptoms of dislodgement.
2009 Enteral Nutrition Practice Recommendations ( 859 KB)
Bankhead et al. Journal of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition. 2009; 33; 122 originally published online Jan 26, 2009.
Preventing Errors when Administering Drugs Via an Enteral Feeding Tube (ISMP)
Summary of precautions about incompatible medications, improper preparation of medications, and other safety tips; Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
Continuous Drip Nasogastric Feeding with Pump (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
Instructions for parents using a continuous drip tube feeding with pump. Includes supplies, preparation, general information, and a link to instructions in Spanish.
For Parents and Patients
Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation
A very comprehensive, parent-focused site offering information about feeding tubes, their use, and troubleshooting.
Enterostomal Therapy (Primary Children's Medical Center)
Website for Primary Children's Medical Center's Enterostomal Therapy service, with information, videos, diagrams, and common questions and answers; pertains to G-tubes and other kinds of ostomies.
Gastrostomy Tube Home Care (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
Parent instructions on caring for a gastrostomy tube. Includes cleaning, flushing, giving meds, venting, protecting and problem solving.
PEG Tube Home Care Instruction (Boston Children's Hospital)
Parent instructions on caring for a child after having a PEG tube placed.
Gastrostomy Feeding by Syringe (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
Instructions for parents on gastrostomy feeding - includes explanation, supplies, procedure and safety tips. Also available in Spanish.
Ostomy Care ( 246 KB)
Transcript from 2007 Medical Home conference call; provides information about ostomy care and resolving problems with gastrostomy tubes; includes a "Let's Talk About" on gastrostomies.
Gastrostomy-Jejunostomy Tubes (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
Includes information about flushing, protecting, adding medications, and solving problems related to gastrostomy-jejunostomy (G-J) tubes.
Patient Education
Feeding tube information (Cincinnati Children's Hospital)
What You Need to Know (about feeding tubes) ()
A 26-page comprehensive Parent Guide produced by the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation.
Services for Patients & Families in Rhode Island (RI)
|Service Categories
|# of providers* in:
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|Developmental - Behavioral Pediatrics
|Nutrition Assessment Services
|Pediatric Gastroenterology
For services not listed above, browse our Services categories or search our database.
* number of provider listings may vary by how states categorize services, whether providers are listed by organization or individual, how services are organized in the state, and other factors; Nationwide (NW) providers are generally limited to web-based services, provider locator services, and organizations that serve children from across the nation.
Page Bibliography
Friedman JN, Ahmed S, Connolly B, Chait P, Mahant S.
Complications associated with image-guided gastrostomy and gastrojejunostomy tubes in children.
Pediatrics. 2004;114(2):458-61. PubMed abstract
Heyman MB, Harmatz P, Acree M, Wilson L, Moskowitz JT, Ferrando S, Folkman S.
Economic and psychologic costs for maternal caregivers of gastrostomy-dependent children.
J Pediatr. 2004;145(4):511-6. PubMed abstract
Patrick J, Boland M, Stoski D, Murray GE.
Rapid correction of wasting in children with cerebral palsy.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1986;28(6):734-9. PubMed abstract
Petersen MC, Kedia S, Davis P, Newman L, Temple C.
Eating and feeding are not the same: caregivers' perceptions of gastrostomy feeding for children with cerebral palsy.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 2006;48(9):713-7. PubMed abstract
Sleigh G, Brocklehurst P.
Gastrostomy feeding in cerebral palsy: a systematic review.
Arch Dis Child. 2004;89(6):534-9. PubMed abstract / Full Text
Sullivan PB, Juszczak E, Bachlet AM, Thomas AG, Lambert B, Vernon-Roberts A, Grant HW, Eltumi M, Alder N, Jenkinson C.
Impact of gastrostomy tube feeding on the quality of life of carers of children with cerebral palsy.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 2004;46(12):796-800. PubMed abstract
Sullivan PB, Lambert B, Rose M, Ford-Adams M, Johnson A, Griffiths P.
Prevalence and severity of feeding and nutritional problems in children with neurological impairment: Oxford Feeding Study.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 2000;42(10):674-80. PubMed abstract


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We learned last week that Reeves was no longer attached to direct Warner Bros.' feature film iteration of The Twilight Zone on the heels of the news that he had signed a deal to return to television, and I noted at the time that I'd love to see him direct another feature before he develops a new TV series. Now Deadline reports that Reeves has landed the Apes job, which is very welcome news indeed.
Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes surprised a lot of people, as the film turned out to be a thoughtful, thrilling, and emotional prequel to the classic Planet of the Apes films. The ending of the film opened up a number of exciting possibilities for a few follow-up films, and Rise screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have apparently turned in a much-liked script for Dawn. We know that Andy Serkis—the heart and soul of the first film—is returning, and I think the project is in swell hands with Reeves. The pic should be an excellent use of his filmmaking talents, I can't wait to see what he puts together.


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"This is very positive news and we will be delighted to welcome these two athletes in London in a few weeks time," IOC President Jacques Rogge said in a statement. "The IOC has been striving to ensure a greater gender balance at the Olympic Games, and today's news can be seen as an encouraging evolution."
Saudi Arabia received intense international pressure to send women athletes to the Olympics, but it wasn't the only country debating the issue — Qatar and Brunei are also including women on their teams in an unprecedented move. This means that every single country will be represented by female athletes for the first time ever. History in the making!


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Pamukkale Travel Guide
As you approach the UNESCO World Heritage Site of PAMUKKALE from Denizli, 20km south, a long white smudge along the hills to the north suggests a landslide or mine. Getting closer, this clarifies into the edge of a plateau, more than 100m above the valley and edged in white travertine terraces. The Turks have dubbed this geological fairyland Pamukkale, or "Cotton Castle". This incredible natural phenomenon was created by the hot spring waters that gush up at the centre of the ancient city of Hierapolis, whose blissfully located ruins would merit a stop even if they weren't coupled with the stunning terraces.
Only a fraction of the huge number of daily visitors to Pamukkale stay the night. Most foreign travellers who do so stay in PAMUKKALE KÖYÜ, a sleepy village at the base of the cliff that's still, by and large, a rural settlement – you'll see more tractors than cars on its outskirts, and its main "drag" holds only a small concentration of shops, restaurants and travel agencies. Accommodation is cheap, and almost all hotels feature spring-water swimming pools. Despite the incredible draw of Hierapolis and the travertines, it's one of western Turkey's best places to chill out for a few days.
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The therapeutic properties and bizarre appearance of the hot springs were known for thousands of years before an actual town, Hierapolis, was founded here by a Pergamene king during the second century BC. After incorporation into the Roman Empire in 129 BC, Hierapolis enjoyed considerable imperial favour, especially after catastrophic earthquakes in 17 AD and 60 AD – no fewer than three emperors paid personal visits, stimulating local emperor-worship alongside the veneration of Apollo and his mother Leto, who was venerated in the guise of Cybele.
The presence of a flourishing Jewish community aided the rapid and early establishment of Christianity. Hierapolis is mentioned in Paul's Epistle to the (neighbouring) Colossians, and Philip the Apostle was martyred here, along with his seven sons. However, as at Aphrodisias, paganism lingered well into the sixth century, until a zealous bishop supervised the destruction of the remaining ancient worship sites and the establishment of nearly one hundred churches, several of which are still visible.
Hierapolis slid into obscurity in late Byzantine times, nudged along by Arab and Turcoman raids. After the Selçuks arrived in the twelfth century, the city was abandoned, not to figure much in the Western imagination until Italian excavations began in 1957.
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Executive Summary
OWASP Site Generator is a great tool, but it could be even better and more widespread. There's a lot room for improvements to both its functionality and user experience. The way I see it, main user needs to be addressed and specific development objectives for the next release of OWASP Site Generator would be the following.
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- Create multiple types of sites easily
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- Change the look and feel of the resulting sites easily
- Create sites for multiple web backend technologies easily
- Learn how to use OWASP Site Generator easily
Development Objectives
- Create a vulnerability library that can be used for web services, HTML forms, AJAX, etc. instead of having to craft the same attack for each
- Add support for logging of all received requests, as well as querying resulting log files
- "Templatize" the code generation process, so it can support skinning of the resulting sites
- "Templatize" the code generation process, so it can support different backend web technologies
- Fix all significant defects in the current release of OWASP Site Generator
- Redesign the GUI to make it more efficient and user friendly
- Create a smooth setup program which would install both client and server components as effortlessly as possible
- Write documentation and articles about it
- Make the development process open to the public and, hopefully, driven by its feedback from day one
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"On our first night in Austin we went out to a late night diner. After a 20 hour journey with 3 different flights, a triple decker club sandwich really hit the spot.
Usually I am not able to finish such large quantities of food but I allowed myself in advance to pig out this week with the intention of coming back at least a stone heavier or else I would feel cheated. Food was almost as big a part of this trip as the whole music side of things. Throughout the week we had to keep reminding ourselves that we had shows to do as we kept forgetting and thinking we'd just gone on a lad's holiday in the sun. We were out in Austin with fellow Scots: The Twilight Sad this added to the lad's holiday feel of the week.
We mainly tended to hang about in an area known to us as "The Cage" which was basically a fenced off area just off 6th Street which provided artists with free booze and hotdogs. On one memorable occasion in "The Cage" I had to physically drag Johnny Doc of Twilight Sad out of a rap battle with members of The Wu-Tang Clan before he bust out his famous "Suck a guy's dick" rap. That night I also got the world's biggest pizza slice for $3 which, when handing it to me, the server said "Welcome to America".
Another memorable day at SXSW involved me going to a house party about an hour out of town. By the time I got there I was sunburnt and really needed a beer, which was provided free of charge as long as you tipped the girl a dollar or gave her a cigarette. The atmosphere at the house party was brilliant and I got to watch one of my favourite bands Moon Duo play in what was basically someone's living room.
Greg and I visited a brilliant sea food restaurant (see below) that provides you with crayons and encourages you to draw on the paper table cloths before they dump a bucket of food directly on the table.
When standing washing my hands in a toilet in a restaurant a large fat man entered and walked up to the children's urinal and pulled his trousers and underpants down and began urinating and screaming. I took a photo for posterity (LOL).
The apartment we stayed in was about 40 minutes walk out of town. Each day we passed by this BBQ restaurant with the slogan "You don't need no teeth to eat my beef!".
The area didn't feel entirely safe but on the last day we plucked up the courage to take the photo. That same night Johnny Doc busted out his previously mentioned rap on this same street on an unsuspecting audience.
The last image I will leave you with is of Henry the puppy biting my hand as I get ready to go to the airport. Henry was living in the apartment we were staying in and and kept hiding my shoes and socks every morning.
Our shows went well and it was good to meet people on the other side of the world who had not only heard of us but were requesting specific songs of ours.


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Lionel Messi Breaks Goals Scored in Year Record
Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi has broken Gerd Müller's 40-year record of 85 league and international goals in a calendar year. WSJ's Joshua Robinson has been keeping tabs. Photo: Getty Images
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With an essay and a gorgeous array of imagery selected by Laird Borrelli-Persson, The Cocktail Dress is the first volume to pay homage to this fashion classic. Along with an entertaining history of the dress and its evolution, the book features a dazzling presentation of cocktail frocks throughout fashion history. This colorful gallery includes fine art and photography, runway shots and design sketches, stills from classic films, and vintage magazine covers. Included are works by painters and photographers Otto Dix, Alex Katz, Raoul Dufy, Gordon Parks, and Edward Steichen, as well as illustrations by designers Chris Benz, Cynthia Rowley, Isaac Mizrahi, and Peter Som. Throughout are alluring images of fashion and film icons clad in stunning cocktail attire, among them Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Wallis Simpson, Twiggy, Kate Moss, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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