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I didn't realize that the Junket Rennet Tablets that I had just purchased for the purposes of making fresh mozzarella cheese had expired. By the time I discovered what the numbers on the top of the Junket box meant, which was that the tablets had expired in February, it was too late. I had already discarded a batch of would-be cheese that never produced good curds and another that never achieved a "clean break" - the separation between the curds (the white matter on top) and the whey (the liquid beneath). You can picture my disappointment when my third attempt, this time with active rennet, did not yield a good result either.
During this effort, I could not get the cheese to roll into the smooth, shiny and pliable ball I was expecting. While the "mozzarella" cheese was delicious and attractive and could be molded and chilled into a firm ball, it lacked the elasticity and melting qualities of premium fresh mozzarella cheese, such as that sold in cheese shops and specialty stores like Connie Rockhill's Village Pasta Shop, in Bluffton. (Call the shop ahead, at 540-2095, if you want to try some - it's good.) After some exploration, I became convinced that my mozzarella problems rested squarely in the supermarket milk I had used. Although the milk was not ultra-pasteurized, that is, pasteurized to higher than normal temperatures (a no-no in cheese making), the milk still was likely pasteurized at too high a temperature to make proper mozzarella curds. Further study also revealed what cheesemaking experts have always asserted - that to make really good cheese, you have to begin with really "good (good for making cheese) milk." So, I began my hunt for "good milk" and, lo and behold, found it (grade A pasteurized, non-homogenized milk from Edgefield, South Carolina's Hickory Hill Farm) just a few miles from where I live at Cahill's Market and Chicken Kitchen (757-2921), on May River Road, in Bluffton. Fortunately, after finding the milk, my fourth (and last) try at making mozzarella ended in triumph, with my mozzarella cheese looking, tasting and behaving just the way good fresh mozzarella cheese should. I cannot overemphasize what a difference using the non-homogenized milk made. If you are eager to begin your own cheese making adventure but are worried about your ability to obtain the right kind of milk, you can start out by making creamy, fresh ricotta cheese, which is far more forgiving of the brand of milk you use. (I'll have that recipe for you next week.) Once you see how easy and satisfying it is to make your own fresh cheese, at home, you'll be hooked for life.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 683-0375.
Dr. Fankhauser's original recipe comes inside the box of Junket Rennet Tablets.
For a picture tutorial, go to biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/Mozzarella_American/Mozzarella_American.html.
6 quart covered stainless steel saucepot with heavy bottom
Thermometer (one that goes from 0 to 220 degrees)
Long bladed knife
Sterile handkerchief or linen (not terrycloth) dish towel for lining strainer
Large strainer or colander for draining curds
Pot or large bowl to catch draining whey
Slotted spoon
Microwave-safe bowl for heating curds
1000-watt microwave oven
(Do not use chlorinated water in this recipe. It will kill the enzymes in the rennet tablet.)
½ Junket Rennet Tablet dissolved in ¼ cup cool unchlorinated water
1¼ teaspoon citric acid dissolved in ½ cup cool unchlorinated water
1 gallon milk (whole milk for a richer flavor or skimmed milk for low calorie cheese- do not use ultra-pasteurized milk)
1 teaspoon kosher salt, more or less to taste (optional)
Yield: About 12-ounces finished cheese
*Kitchen Ade note: Junket Rennet Tablets can be found at the Kroger store, at Belfair Towne Village, Bluffton. Be sure to check the expiration date.
1. Pour milk into the pot and slowly heat the milk up to 90 degrees, stirring frequently to prevent scorching. Once the temperature reaches 90 degrees, pour the citric acid solution into the milk, stirring for about 20 seconds with the slotted spoon.
2. Allowing the temperature to reach 100 degrees, slowly add the rennet solution, gently stirring back and forth with the slotted spoon for no more than 30 seconds. (For good curd formation later, it's important that you don't over stir the milk.) Remove the pot from the heat, cover, and allow it to sit, undisturbed, for 1 hour. After 1 hour, check the pot to see if the mixture has achieved a "clean break." You can test for a clean break by poking a clean finger into the mixture. If there's a clear separation of the curds (the white matter on top) from the whey (the liquid on the bottom) and the liquid has turned from white to a nice, pale lime green color, you're there. (The curds will look like soft custard.) If the liquid still looks milky, your mixture needs to set longer; check it again in another hour. (It took my mixture more than two hours to achieve what I considered a clean break - some folks can do it a lot faster, but that was not my experience.)
3. Once there is a good separation between the curds and the whey, cut the curds into 1-inch cubes, checkerboard fashion. (The purpose of cutting the curds is to hasten the release of whey, but, if your mixture looks more like ricotta cheese, than custard, you can skip this step.)
The curds will be very delicate at this point; allow them to rest for 10 minutes.
4. Return the pot to the stove and warm the curds and whey over low heat to 105 degrees, stirring gently to get the curds that may be resting on the bottom of the pot. Remove the pot from the heat and continue to stir for 2 to 5 minutes more. (The longer you stir, the firmer the cheese will be.)
5. Line a large mesh sieve with a linen dish towel placed over a pot or large bowl. With a mesh strainer, remove the curds from the pot and place them in the lined sieve, allowing the curds to drain for at least 15 minutes. As the curds drain, they will get firmer. (You can use the leftover whey to make ricotta cheese, if you like. To see directions for making ricotta using leftover whey, see Dr. Fankhauser's website at biology.clc.uc.edu/fankhauser/Cheese/Ricotta/RICOTTA_00.HTM.
6. Place the drained curds in a microwave-safe bowl, and microwave on HI power for 1 minute, draining off excess whey.
7. With a spoon, quickly work the cheese from the sides of the bowl, then mix with hands (wear clean rubber gloves for this step - mixture will be hot) to evenly distribute heat. Repeat process, one or two more times, microwaving at 30 second intervals each, making sure to drain off accumulated whey each time.
8. If you want to add some salt to the mixture, this would be the time to do it. A teaspoon of kosher salt, more or less to taste, would be about right. Working quickly, knead and shape the mixture into a ball. (If the cheese becomes too firm to work with, microwave it again for just a few seconds to soften it.) When everything goes perfectly, fresh mozzarella cheese can be stretched and folded and becomes very elastic. It will become shiny and smooth and look a lot like taffy while you are kneading it. If that doesn't occur for you, just form the cheese into two neat balls, and quit.)
9. This cheese is best consumed the day it is made, but will keep for up to two days, tightly wrapped, in the refrigerator.
Please check back next week to learn how to make easy ricotta cheese. I'll have an easy lasagna recipe, using no-boil noodles, for you too.


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Thomas More set six single-game school records in a 75-6 win over across-the-river rival, the College of Mount St. Joseph in Bridge Bowl XVII at The Bank of Kentucky Field in Crestview Hills, Kentucky.
Thomas More set the single-game record of most yards in a game (703), most passing yards (404), most first downs (35), most points in a game (75), most touchdowns in a game (10) and biggest margin of victory (69).
With the win, the Saints finish the season at 7-3 and gave Head Coach Jim Hilvert his 50th career victory. With the loss, the Lions end the season at 4-6.
The Saints never trailed in the game as they led 20-0 after one quarter 48-0 at halftime and 62-6 after three quarters.
Thomas More took a 7-0 lead when sophomore quarterback Luke Magness (Pleasureville, Ky./Henry County) scored on a 10-yard run and junior place kicker Tim Gormly, Jr. (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas) added the point-after-attempt at 10:57 in the first quarter. The Saints increased the lead to 14-0 with 5:15 to play in the first quarter when freshman running back Scootie Middleton (New Albany, Ind./New Albany) scored on a two-yard run and Gormly added the PAT. Senior wide receiver Mercier Doucette (Florence, Ky./Boone County) scored on a 39-yard pass from freshman quarterback Jensen Gebhardt (Kings Mills, Ohio/Kings) and Gormly's PAT was blocked to increase the lead to 20-0 with two-seconds to play in the opening half.
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Thomas More increased the lead to 55-0 with 14:06 to play in the third quarter when sophomore wide receiver Bobby Leonard (Edgewood, Ky./Dixie Heights) caught and 80-yard touchdown pass from Magness and Gormly added the PAT. Mount St. Joseph cut the lead to 55-6 when James Clay caught a 12-yard pass from Brian Pitzer and Daniel Dipps missed the PAT with 12:56 to play in the third quarter. Middleton increased the Saints' lead to 62-6 when he scored on a two-yard run with 7:08 to play in the third quarter and freshman place kicker Bill Rose (Louisville, Ky./Christian Academy) added the PAT.
With 11:05 to play in the fourth quarter the Saints increased the lead to 68-6 when Rauch scored on a 21-yard run and Rose's PAT failed. Thomas More closed out the scoring with 9:28 to play in the game when Middleton scored on a one-yard run and Rose made the PAT for the final score of 75-6.
Thomas More had 703 yards of total offense (299 rushing/404 passing) and held the Lions to 192 yard of total offense (100 rushing/92 passing).
Gebhardt led the Saints' offense as he was 16-of-20 passing for 240 yards and three touchdowns and had two rushes for 15 yards. Rauch led the Saints on the ground as he had 21 carries for 150 yards and two touchdowns and Magness had seven carries for 53 yards and a touchdown. Doucette led the Saints' receivers has he had four catches for 108 yards and one touchdown and Cohorn had four catches for 83 yards and a touchdown.
Defensively, the Saints were led by senior defensive back Zach Autenrieb (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder), who had eight tackles (seven solo, one assisted). Senior linebacker Nick Gramke (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) finished the game with six tackles (all solo), including one sack and three tackles for a loss, sophomore defensive lineman Erick Butler (Eminence, Ky./Henry County) had five tackles, including three and a half sacks and junior linebacker Alex Taylor (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) had five tackles.

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1/22: Army 1-star defers plea on sex charges 12/18: Army 1-star faces court-martial on sex charges 11/6: Aide: 1-star in sex case threatened to kill me
In the eight months surrounding the time prosecutors claim Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair forced a female captain to perform oral sex on him, the couple carried out their affair while trading hundreds of text messages, many of them sexually explicit.
"Is my sexy baby sleeping?" wrote Sinclair, now accused of sexual misconduct with four other subordinates.
"Your panda is in main missing pappa panda sexy pants," she replies, as part of the Sept. 4, 2011, exchange.
As Sinclair was being arraigned Jan. 22 on a variety of charges, most of them related to the affair, a private public relations team representing Sinclair launched a website countering the prosecution's claims and echoing the defense strategy aimed at undermining the accuser. The accuser was a junior officer and Sinclair was her commander, the deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Defense attorneys see the blend of romantic and angry text messages as proof that Sinclair's accuser was a willing participant in their sexual activity who became vindictive when Sinclair grew distant. But prosecutors argue that, in spite of the consensual nature of the affair, there were two instances of sodomy that were nonconsensual.
The heart of the website's defense is the accuser's side of the text message exchanges. The site also contains her journal entries and excerpts of her courtroom testimony. (A spokesman for the PR team provided Army Times with both sides of their exchanges.)
The website is designed to debunk the Army's case against Sinclair, claiming the charges have been inflated as part of the Army's deliberate misinformation campaign against him. The site also aims to discredit the female accuser, painting her as "distraught" and "isolated" and attacks the prosecutor in the case.
The Army declined to comment on the website, www.sinclairinnocence.com. The site is blocked on Army computers.
The female captain could not be reached for comment.
Although the typo-ridden text messages are clearly indicative of a consensual sexual relationship at first, a stormy series of text messages at the end suggest something more complicated. In March 2012, shortly before Sinclair's accuser reported their affair, she told him she felt suicidal and manipulated by him.
"Please just stop [expletive] pretending that you care at all and just be honest with me," she writes. "yoy are a selfish [expletive] that cares only about you and your family and yoy dont give a [expletive] about how you have emotionally destroyed me, you plan on using me until you can move on as if nothing happened because I mean nothing to you, just be honest and say what your actions are telling me and that is that I'm nithing to you but youe [expletive] whore."
Sinclair, a married father of two, was deputy commander in charge of logistics and support for the 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan before being relieved in May during the criminal probe. He has been on special assignment since then at Fort Bragg, N.C. The woman, who Army Times is not identifying, was an unmarried aide.
At Sinclair's arraignment at Fort Bragg, he deferred entering a plea to charges that include forcible sodomy and other alleged misconduct committed while furthering an affair with the female captain. He also faces charges he engaged in inappropriate relationships with four other women — soliciting nude photos from two of them — and charges he possessed alcohol and pornography in the war zone.
Prosecutors have presented testimony about Sinclair's conduct with the five women who were not his wife, including officers who served under his direct command. The charges involve activities when he was in Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany and at bases in the U.S.
The female captain at the heart of the case said she carried on a three-year sexual relationship with Sinclair. Adultery is a crime under military law, and her admission could end her career.
The defense has cast her as scorned lover trying to ruin the life of an outstanding warrior and patriot.
The texts
In a database labeled as evidence in the ongoing court case against Sinclair, there is a stream of nearly 400 text messages.
Although most sexual assault cases rely heavily on testimony and physical evidence, prosecutors have offered no physical evidence in this case, and the female captain has testified at evidentiary hearings in November that their relationship was an emotional roller coaster for her.
She has also said amid hours of testimony that Sinclair threatened to kill her if she revealed their relationship. She said he was extremely controlling, even telling her how much water to drink and when and where she could use the bathroom during a combat tour in Afghanistan.
She said she repeatedly tried to end the relationship and, while both were stationed in Afghanistan, she asked Sinclair for a transfer.
On two occasions, she testified the general ended such conversations by exposing himself and physically forcing her to perform oral sex. She testified that Sinclair should have known she was unwilling because she was crying.
She testified that the two first had sex in 2008 at a forward operating base in Iraq, but the relationship eventually went sour. She said she reported the affair to Sinclair's former commanding officer, Maj. Gen. James Huggins, in March 2012, when she suspected Sinclair of sleeping with another woman.
The text messages in evidence (and those provided to Army Times) span the latter half of the affair, from September 2011 to March 2012. They also coincide with their deployment to Afghanistan, although Sinclair returned home for several weeks in the midst of it to undergo back surgery.
In an exchange after Sinclair meets the captain's parents, ostensibly at a pre-deployment ceremony, she sends him messages expressing joy.
"You make me happy!" she writes.
"I am going to trash you......fair warning," he replies. "watching you standing there so smitten with your parents drove me nuts......god i wanted to chew you up."
Although he is codenamed "Nathan Lancaster" in her phone, she calls him Mr. Sexypants, and he calls her Panda. Amid the sexual overtures are mutual expressions of love and tenderness, and the two discuss their mundane daily work, travel and family activities.
"You control my life and my happiness," he writes. "i am blessed to have met you and to have you. life is full of searching looking for a real connection. i want to take a month and drive cross country with you. just days of looking at the cool things in our country.....meeting other couples....loving you every night. this is my dream
"Oh [expletive] that is so [expletive] hot and would absolutely be a dream come true," she replies.
The two arrange the details of their assignations. On Sept. 6, 2011, before the deployment, she writes: "Oh Sweetheart,i just remembered, you wil not be able to park in the garage, it is full with all of my lawn furniture!"
At 5:45 a.m., before his visit, she texts "Okay ready."
At 9:05 a.m., apparently after leaving, he writes, "Love you........relax."
Hours later, she writes to him: "god you were so perfect this morning, just this perfect amount of loving, [expletive], kissing, caressing and laying peacefully with that magnificent body pressed against mine."
And while the stream of text messages begins affectionately, they are less frequent after September 2011, perhaps owing to their proximity to one another in Afghanistan.
A tempestuous series of texts comes March 5, 2012.
After complaining that Sinclair is not answering her calls, the female captain appears to threaten to report the affair to Huggins and alludes to having suicidal thoughts. Although she does not say so explicitly, according to her testimony, she suspected Sinclair of having sex with another woman.
"Okay you want to keep [expletive] screwing me over and not giving a [expletive] about me how about I just [expletive] call hu ggins and have him resolve this, Im sure he will take the time to keep me from being suicidal. I well not let yoy continue to screw me over."
Sinclair, who was home from the war zone for back surgery, alternately attempts to soothe her, takes umbrage — suggesting she is attempting to break up his family — and insists she come visit him.
"Is that how you feel? You want to attack me and my boys? I have done nothing but love you," he writes. "I have never slept with my wife since we met."
In an emotional stream of texts, she refers to herself as desperate, hysterical, "not healthy and not stable."
In the end, he urges her to toughen up.
"You and I have rough roads but your imagination of my love life is [expletive]," he writes. "Stop feeling sorry for yourself. I know you hav e some medical stuff. Get over it.....I do too and I'm an Alpha male. Step to the plate with me and get a little harder."
She lashes out at him days later, accusing him of abandoning her.
"yoy are the worst person ever and I swear to god you care nothing about me other then having me in the side line to suck your [expletive], you are so cruelsna heart less," she writes.
He writes that he tried to help her, but she would not let him.
"I didn't call because I don't want to be attcked anymore," he replies. "I am a walking zombie. I'm trying to get back to you and you are just caustic as hell. You r not Helping me you are just hurting me and living in a crazy world of your own."
Over the next two days, the texts do not betray any of the earlier acrimony. In their final exchange, she writes from aboard a plane as it is about to take off: "We are getting ready to fly sweetheart, loooooove you, get better please," she writes. "All right well I guess this is the last time we will talk, love you
"Will call you baby....safe trip. Love you."
He replies, "Will call you baby....safe trip. Love you."
Virtual defense
As Sinclair was being arraigned in a Fort Bragg courtroom, his team from the New York public relations firm MWW went live with www.sinclairinnocence.com. The site presents Sinclair's official biography and photos of him at work in Afghanistan, and strikes back at his accuser and the prosecutor in the case, Lt. Col. Will Helixon.
"If you have read the news coverage surrounding Brigadier General Jeff Sinclair, you likely believe the worst. Army prosecutors have carefully managed a public relations campaign to try and convict General Sinclair in the public sphere, before he even has his day in court," it reads. "But in America, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty."
Sinclair's wife, Rebecca Sinclair, meanwhile, has appeared on CBS "This Morning," wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post and provided several interviews for print newspapers, including Army Times.
A spokesman for MWW said the firm built the site "on behalf of a group of Sinclair's friends and supporters," but without the input of Sinclair or his military attorneys.
MWW's plan is to update the site with breaking news and evidence from the case, and to extend its campaign into social media.
The Sinclair website was modeled after several sites established by supporters of Amanda Knox, an American student in Italy charged with murder in 2007 and ultimately exonerated, the MWW spokesman said.
"The nature of this case is unusual: It's a very public case, and yet the military attorneys are strictly governed in their ability to engage in a public defense," the MWW spokesman said of Sinclair. "That's why friends and supporters believe that it is imperative to build awareness."
Beyond his accuser, Sinclair's website also accuses the prosecution team of "illegal and unethical conduct" in violating Sinclair's right to attorney-client privilege.
Sinclair's defense attorneys have argued in court that Sinclair's rights were violated when the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate accessed thousands of pages of emails between Sinclair and his defense attorneys, his wife and his pastor.
"This massive violation of privilege may disqualify the entire prosecution team and could leave Helixon vulnerable to further disciplinary action from the Texas state courts," Sinclair's team writes.
At the evidentiary hearings, prosecutors said they never viewed information in the emails marked "client-attorney privilege" when they obtained reams of military and personal emails from investigators.
A military judge has yet to decide the issue.


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As a result, I have spent three years interviewing hundreds of seniors and their caregivers, and researching all available products and technologies learning how to keep seniors "aging in place" safely. When I learned of walk-in bathing technology, I was amazed and fascinated. But, I knew nothing about them. So, I researched and analyzed every walk-in tub I could find (including recently tubs from China), in order to learn how to determine which product is right for a given situation, which one's are high quality and which were not. I know every manufacturer, product and re-seller in the market. I learned that the some of the BEST MARKETERS are selling the WORST PRODUCTS!
Even so, I have come to believe walk-in bathing technology is, without question, the single most important "first step" to being able to live, and thrive, independently in place for as long as you chose.
Let me share with you the general problem and the three most serious issues every senior who wants to age in place needs to address. I will also discuss how walk-in bathing technologies can help alleviate them.
As you read this information, have your goal clearly in mind, and ask yourself, how does walkin bathtub technology address it? Simply stated, most often the goal is how do you or your loved ones, bathe and experience longevity Walk In Tubs For Seniors in your preferred location, with safety, and dignity.
After interviewing hundreds of seniors, and learning first hand their health and bathing challenges, I have created a few simple questions to determine those who will benefit from this powerful technology.
Longevity – Do you suffer from joint problems, diabetes, or any chronic condition? Are you taking any prescription medication? Do you experience cleansing whole body exercise or stimulation at least 3 times a week?
Safety – Do you put off bathing? Do you shower instead of soak? If so,… why? Do you have to maneuver your body or grab onto support to get in and out of the tub or shower? Has anyone observed what you do to use a tub or shower? Do you use a movable seat? Can you get down into your tub without stress? Can you get up without strain? Have you had a fall, or a near fall, in the past 7 years?
Dignity – Is living independently in your own home for as long as possible important to you? Does your spouse or a loved help you bathe? Are you a private person? Would it make you uncomfortable to be bathed by strangers? Is being lifted or transferred into the bathing area something you'd prefer not to need?
The problem.
As we age, our strength, stamina and flexibility diminish. We eventually face a range of bathing issues that did not exist when we were young. However, our bathing environment stays the same. We don't remodel our bathrooms to incorporate technology to eliminate the dangers.
Many Dinwiddie, VA seniors are embarrassed Walk In Tubs For Seniors to acknowledge that they have these problems. Often, they would rather ignore them. Few spouses, or grown children ever observe the gyrations and stress that many seniors experience as they quietly struggle to bathe in the privacy of their bathrooms. We tend to ignore the problem until a senior is injured and forced into assisted bathing. I believe that walk-in bathing appliances offer the ability to delay this result for many years, perhaps forever.
Let's take a realistic look at the impact traditional bathtubs have on seniors.
Reality #1 – Your bathroom is the most dangerous room in your home! Currently, 80% of all people in nursing homes are there due to complications from fall related injuries. Falls, sprains and scalds in traditional bathrooms account for the vast majority of these injuries.
Solution – Dinwiddie, VA Walk-in bathing appliances have high side walls and a low threshold door that permits bathers to enter without needing to lift their feet more than a few inches. Appropriately placed ADA grab bars provide personalized stabilization throughout this process. Once in, the bather can lower onto a raised integral seat – AND RELAX! There is no risk of slipping, falling, or trying to get up or down from floor level. Anti-scald valves, drains and accessories are within easy reach.
Reality #2 – Every injury or illness can financially devastate a senior's savings and financial stability. Healthcare costs are soaring. Many long-term care insurance companies are going under. With my Mom's hip, my parents spent over $30,000 in uninsured medical expenses, and, $8,000 or more, each and every month, IN CASH, for her nursing home care. Few seniors can afford this.
Solution – Investing in preventative bathing safety products saves money and pays for itself. Even the most expensive walk-in bathing solution can cost far less than a nursing home stay. The investment in prevention and health is crucial to thriving in older age and preserving your cherished financial resources. Think of it this way, if someone is barely getting by financially,… they cannot afford to NOT invest in bathroom safety! As with my Mom, once an accident occurs, it is often too late,… and it nearly bankrupted my parents.
Reality #3 – Few Dinwiddie, VA seniors have sufficient access Walk In Tubs For Seniors to healthy, non-aggressive, whole-body exercise. Most diseases, like arthritis, diabetes, MS, joint problems, cancer and many others, are due to long term, low grade inflammations. Unresolved, these conditions worsen and can shorten life. Certainly, pain and discomfort become more problematic. As we age, we often don't have any way to exercise, and stimulate our body to help cleanse the toxins and contaminants that lead to inflammation, pain and debilitating degenerative conditions.
Solution – Medical Hydrotherapy(TM) delivers sanitary, gentle whole-body massage, and can have truly life altering impact on a senior's health, relaxation and sense of well being. High quality walk-in bathtubs offer the option of hydrotherapy(not dangerous jetted "hot tubs"). Art Linkletter (currently 95) once told me: "Some people are more afraid of being old than they are of dying,.. The important thing is to have a positive attitude and exercise." Every single client I have raves about the relaxation, pain reduction and invigorating benefits they receive from hydrotherapy. Many report they are able to reduce expensive, harmful medications.
My Mother always told me: "Knowledge is Power!" We MUST make bathrooms safer, and do our best to prevent injuries from ever happening. Once an injury occurs, it may be too late, like it was for my Mom. You cannot live independently until you have resolved bathing issues for the long-term. Knowledge of bathing technologies, like walk-in tubs, can empower you to take control of your intention to live independently for as long as possible.
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I'm using an Android charger -- same plug as my old HTC phone and recent Blackberry. Old blackberry devices had a trapezoid "mini USB" connector, which is not the same as this one.
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Detwiler gets in some much-needed work before WBC; big 5th inning carries Braves past Nats 9-5
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Washington's Ross Detwiler got in some much-needed work before the World Baseball Classic, while the Atlanta Braves scored five runs in the fifth on the way to a 9-5 win over their division rival Tuesday.
Detwiler pitched two scoreless innings before failing to get out of the third, allowing two runs. The left-hander gave up five hits and walked two in a game delayed an hour by rain.
The Braves erased a 3-2 deficit against loser Ryan Perry, who allowed Jordan Parraz's homer and run-scoring singles to Ernesto Mejia and Juan Francisco. Brandon Mann walked Ramiro Pena with the bases loaded before Joey Terdoslavich closed the big inning with a sacrifice fly.
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Barbecued Mutton at the Moonlight Cafe
My friend Tom Jamison and I were spending some time wandering around Murfreesboro, Tennessee, near Nashville, which, as you might know, is great 'cue country. Tom had just moved into an old farmhouse outside town, and I was helping him break in the kitchen by splattering grease around and dripping barbecue sauce on the newly sanded counters. We'd been sampling pulled pork - long-cooked shredded pig meat with hot sauce slathered on — for about a week when we heard about a place in Owensboro, Kentucky, called the Moonlight Café that served great barbecued mutton. We had had enough of pork, for that week anyway, so we decided to "get an early start" so that we could have either a late lunch or, if we showed up too late, an early dinner. We figured we could kill an hour or two watching the Ohio River float by if we had to wait for dinner. We had neglected to find out, though, that it's almost 300 miles from Murfreesboro to Owensboro.
Our plan was to get on the road about eight o'clock on a Sunday morning, but what with sampling the local home-smoked bacon and backyard eggs, we didn't get rolling till about ten or so. Tom may be a bit slow starting, but he's no slouch on the road. We soon reached our cruising speed of 75 miles an hour on the winding country roads. After whizzing through tiny hamlets and past many a country store and farmhouse, we arrived at the Moonlight Café at exactly 3:01 p.m. The time was significant, since it turned out they don't serve Sunday dinner — only lunch — and they close at 3 p.m. sharp. The doors were locked and the shades were drawn.
We pounded on the door until a kindly looking lady opened it up. She explained that they were closed, but I begged shamelessly, telling her that I had come all the way from California to taste her food. She relented, apologized that the fried chicken was sold out, but opined that they probably had a bit of barbecued mutton left. We said that that would be all right with us, so she ushered us into the biggest buffet I had even seen. The 30-foot table was still set up with salads (more Jell-O salads than you could ever imagine), hot side dishes like the eternal macaroni and cheese, collard greens, braised cabbage, green beans, black-eyed peas, and creamed corn. And then there were barbecued pork ribs, platters of pulled pork, and a whole mound of barbecued mutton with bowls of smoky sauce on the side. As we headed for the table, I noticed a table of equal size next door filled with desserts.
The mutton was falling off the bone, very smoky and tangy, especially delicious when doused with the spicy sauce. We sampled around, of course, passing up the macaroni and the Jell-O salads. The pork ribs were fantastic, succulent, and sweet in a tomato-y sauce, and we tasted a bit of the pulled pork, just for comparison's sake. We averted our eyes from the dessert table, although Tom whispered longingly, "I think there's pecan pie over there, and peach cobbler and ambrosia cake." I silenced him with an imperious (and somewhat greasy) hand: "Let's not get carried away; we might spoil our dinner."
After a tour of the kitchen, which had a huge smoke oven that could easily handle a whole herd of sheep, and a peek in the walk-in fridge loaded with 150-pound sheep carcasses, we paid the bill. I think it came to less than $15 for us both. We then headed for the Ohio River. We wanted to say we'd been to Ohio, and besides, there was this place I'd heard about that served great barbecued goat. After all, we still had dinner to think about.
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Somewhere right now, in some remote farm, maybe in the Midwest or clear on the other side of the globe, a sheep is rubbing obsessively against fence posts and barbed wire, as if trying to reach some incessant itch. The sheep will scratch itself until its wool disappears, right down to the skin, and then to the bone if no one stops it. It's terrible for the sheep but perhaps fortuitous for human beings. Because of the sheep's self-destructive behavior, scientists with Scripps Research Institute may someday find a cure for one of modern day's most feared diseases.
That sheep was on the minds of Scripps scientists recently as they unpacked microscopes and centrifuges at a temporary lab set up at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. There, they'll study the sheep's ailment, a fatal disease called scrapie, and try to figure out why it has never been transmitted to humans. What's significant about scrapie, says Scripps neuroscientist Chris Baker, is that it acts in similar ways to something more deadly to people: mad cow disease. Figure out what makes humans immune to scrapie and the Scripps team just might find a way to save us from mad cow disease. "If we could develop something that could prevent people from being infected," Baker said while taking a break from the unpacking, "then it's possible we could develop a treatment."
If that happens, perhaps in years or decades from now, Scripps will begin the arduous task of getting the treatment into drugstores. They'll start with animal testing and then, with government approval, give doses to human volunteers. If things go wrong during testing, as they often do in the world of biomedical research, Scripps has Florida law on its side. State law offers just the kind of immunity from civil actions that make researchers developing new pharmaceuticals feel right at home, Scripps President Richard Lerner noted to a luncheon crowd recently. "If you do your best to help people," Lerner explained, "then you can't be sued when it hurts them."
It was a moment of candor for Lerner, and it was the first time that anyone from Scripps had publicly spoken of the loophole. Clearly, the loophole is one reason, perhaps a major one, why California-based Scripps decided in October to build a massive new branch in Palm Beach County. As more details emerge on Scripps' move to Florida, protection against legal action is just one of several alarming problems with the deal Gov. Jeb Bush cut to get the institute to make a home in the Sunshine State.
Overflowing with optimism last fall, Bush called the Scripps Florida project "a seminal moment in our state's history." His plan immediately received widespread praise in a county where fellow Republicans have launched a massive campaign to attract voters. Despite all the paeans to Scripps' bounty and idealism, however, it soon became clear that Scripps Florida would fall far short of Bush's vision of uninterrupted bounty and idealism.
Scripps Florida will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, if not billions, more than projected. It is not likely to produce anywhere near the number of jobs pledged, and taxpayers probably won't see the returns on their investment promised by Bush, critics say. Florida's proposed investment in Scripps and connected projects has grown to at least $1.6 billion, more than three times higher than original estimates. The actual number of jobs created may be only half of the 50,500 new jobs promised by Bush's office. Worst of all, biotech experts and economists now say the financial benefits may never compare to the money paid by the state's taxpayers.
Of greatest concern to environmentalists, the Scripps complex, which will be a self-contained city, will be built among Everglades wetlands that have been slated by the county government for protection. Environmentalists fear the Scripps city will undo years of efforts to restore the Everglades and stop South Florida's sprawl. Nat Reed, a founder of Florida's preservation efforts and aide to Presidents Nixon and Ford, said the Scripps deal, by attaching the biomedical program to plans for a western city, has become a way for developers to build in what should be protected wetlands. "This is a land scam that ranks right up there with the biggest boondoggles in Florida history," Reed says. "It could set off a series of land deals that will destroy the environment, overrun roads, and the whole thing will probably result in a legal challenge which could hang it up for years."
The work done by a Scripps' Palm Beach County branch could be monumental: cures for diseases, work on the human genome, and astonishing developments in science with a Florida dateline. Founded 80 years ago by lifelong philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, the research center is an organization with noble goals, including searching for cures to cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer's disease. But the big question surrounding the Scripps deal -- which likely won't be answered for decades -- is whether the likelihood of those accomplishments outweighs the possibility of damaging the Everglades and spending billions in state and federal money.
During a recent speech, molecular biologist Dr. Charles Weissman, one of Scripps Florida's principal scientists, acknowledged the pressure put on his organization. "The only thing I can complain about," Weissman joked, with the buoyancy of someone who has just won the lottery, "is that I've been given so much positive publicity that I don't know how to live up to it." On the shoulders of Scripps scientists are no less than the Everglades restoration efforts, the legacy of Gov. Bush, and the reputation of just about every Palm Beach County elected official. Now, Scripps must find a way to succeed with a plan that, from the beginning, has been beset with problems.
Like a salesman refusing to remove his foot from the door, Gov. Bush landed the Scripps deal for Florida by talking his way into a long car ride. Last July, the governor got a tip that Scripps was considering opening a new branch now that its La Jolla, California, headquarters had become cramped. Bush immediately saw the vast potential of Scripps' picking Florida. He deemed it "Operation Air Conditioning," calling it as important to Florida as the invention of Freon-cooled homes. Scripps could provide much-needed jobs during a downturned economy and fulfill an election promise by Bush to get the biotech industry into Florida. Bush flew out to Scripps headquarters July 17 and found a way to get a two-hour, uninterrupted conversation with Lerner: He tagged along with the Scripps president while he drove to catch a flight at the Los Angeles airport.
Chatting their way north, Bush's 120-mile sales pitch to Lerner proved successful. The Scripps president, a Democrat who financially supported former Sen. Bill Bradley for president in 1999 over Bush's brother, was impressed by the governor. Lerner attributed it to Bush's charm, but it was also his willingness to give Lerner whatever he wanted. In a follow-up discussion, Bush agreed to give Scripps a new facility, as much land as it needed, and to pay its payroll for the first few years. He made these promises without approval from any other elected official or from Florida taxpayers.
The only thing left was to pick a location. Bush's office narrowed down potential sites, with Orlando and Palm Beach County the finalists. He told a few select local officials only that unnamed businessmen would soon visit to consider relocating. The mysterious "businessmen," Bush explained, must be given 100 acres, with another 400 acres surrounding it for other companies that would follow. On September 23, two Scripps officials arrived at Palm Beach County International Airport. Gary Hines, senior vice president of development for the Palm Beach County Business Development Board, picked them up, and, acting out the clandestine deal that it was, they introduced themselves only by their first names.
Hines drove the pair through the Palm Beach Park of Commerce and around the spacious Pratt & Whitney campus, both in the rural northern outskirts of the county. The spots were big enough, but neither had 500 connected acres. After dinner, the Scripps officials sequestered themselves for two hours in the Business Development Board's conference room. When they came out, they revealed who they were and their intentions for relocating. But they had bad news. Neither site seemed perfect. "You guys let us know if you find a better site," Hines recalls one of them saying.
The Business Development Board searched frantically for a new site. "We were very downtrodden that day," Hines says. They knew they would lose the Scripps deal if they couldn't find enough open land. At a meeting of its board of directors days later, one member suggested a stretch of farm and ranchland off North Lake Boulevard. Mecca Farms and the Vavrus Ranch were not for sale, but the directors knew all farmland has its price. As the Business Development Board suspected, the owners were willing to sell 4,000 acres for a price that would amount to $120 million.
On October 6, Scripps officials returned for a helicopter ride over the land that would keep the research facility in Palm Beach County. This time, Bush expanded the circle in the know and included some Democrats. It was a smart move, assuring they'd be on his side. In on the deal early was state Sen. Ron Klein, and the Democrat from Delray Beach immediately became a staunch proponent of the plan.
Scripps officials who took the bird's-eye tour of the property that day didn't see the inhospitable marsh and scraggly grazing land. They saw a research park and a city on the edge of the Everglades, says Weissman, the Scripps molecular biologist. "It's probably like sex," Weissman says. "Imagination does more than reality. I was also taken out to see nothing, but the idea of what's possible is so much better."
Four days later, Bush and Scripps officials made the announcement of a deal he compared to having Walt Disney and NASA choose Florida. The excitement of that day has apparently been enough so far to conceal the deal's mounting problems.
When Gov. Bush needs to drum up support for a project, he calls one of his father's old friends, economist Tony Villamil of Coral Gables. Villamil served as undersecretary of commerce under the first President Bush, has contributed thousands to Republican campaigns, and now acts as a top economic adviser to the governor. Last fall, when Gov. Bush needed public support for putting the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) headquarters in Miami, he asked Villamil to be the pitchman for the project. Villamil claimed the state would gain 89,000 new jobs with the FTAA headquarters. Unfortunately for Bush, the report was roundly criticized as an exaggeration. Even the FTAA itself admitted it would produce no more than 58,000 jobs. But the report still received wide circulation in the press, and Villamil did his job as Bush's cheerleader.
So in October, when Bush needed public support for Scripps, he again called Villamil, who produced a report lavishing economic praise on the project. Owner of the Coral Gables-based Washington Economics Group consulting firm, Villamil claimed that in 15 years, Scripps would help bring an astonishing 50,500 jobs to Palm Beach County. The state would see a 45 percent return on its $310 million investment, he claimed. Bush and local lawmakers used the numbers to gain broad support for Scripps. In announcing the deal, the governor said, "Just as the visions of Henry Flagler and Walt Disney changed Florida's future, so too will the people of Scripps."
Critics soon found Villamil's report rife with errors and exaggerations that call into question the economic benefits of the Scripps plan. But the euphoria of the initial announcement, with its rosy projections, seemed to eclipse dire news that has trickled out about the program since. First, the initial figure pledged wouldn't come close to the total to buy the property, supply it with utilities, build temporary lab space, put up 364,000 square feet of research space, and pay Scripps' expenses and payroll for seven years. Updated estimates now reach somewhere near $600 million. Road and utility upgrades could bring the total near $1 billion, critics say, and Bush has added another $1 billion investment from the state's pension fund to be used in risky biomedical ventures.
Robert Cruz, a Barry University professor who wrote the original report for Villamil's company, stands by his initial figures. The report was produced free of charge to Bush "as a public service to the state," Cruz says, and errors were no more than "minor discrepancies." As to whether the report was exaggerated so Bush would look good publicly, Cruz says, "No, that wasn't our goal."
Gov. Bush did not respond to numerous calls, faxes, and e-mails from New Times requesting comment. Spokeswoman Alia Faraj said she could not comment on Scripps and referred questions to the governor's Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development. But Pam Dana, director of that office, did not return phone calls either.
County officials are still holding fast to the original job projections and say they've already received dozens of calls from companies interested in locating near Scripps. "The Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, they all want to be next to Scripps," says Mary McCarty, a county commissioner. "I think this is going to actually be more successful than we first thought."
After touring Scripps in California and the biotech companies that have gravitated to it, county commissioners envision the same thing happening in Palm Beach County. "If you look at the La Jolla location," Commissioner Tony Masilotti says, "you can see there are thousands and thousands of jobs created around it. There's no reason to believe it won't be created here [as well]."
Fearing Bush's numbers were inflated, though, state Rep. Dan Gelber commissioned his own study. In October, Gelber, a Democrat from Miami Beach, hired a former economist with the Florida Legislature, Ed Montanaro, who found that the initial study grossly exaggerated the potential benefits. Villamil's report had used a dubious best-case scenario, asserting that 499 private firms would follow Scripps to Palm Beach County, adding 44,000 new jobs to the 6,500 generated directly by Scripps. A more accurate projection, Montanaro determined, would see Scripps attracting 109 new firms, generating 16,000 jobs, with Scripps itself creating 5,700 jobs -- all in all, less than half of Bush's rosy job projections.
State Sen. Klein, the Palm Beach County Democrat, says he always suspected the governor deliberately exaggerated the numbers to get backing from the public. "I've said from the beginning that the jobs-creation numbers weren't necessarily substantiated, but over a five-, ten-, or 15-year period, if we give this enough support, it will become something very substantial." Klein says Bush, by hyping the numbers, underestimates his constituents. "I didn't think the governor needed to exaggerate. People would've been on board anyway, even if it was as low as 16,000 jobs."
Despite dissent from critics, the Florida Legislature approved spending $310 million in money it got from the federal government for economic development. Bush called a special session of the Legislature to approve the money, and in the four days of discussion in Tallahassee, the plan met little scrutiny. "It was rubber-stamped with very little input," Gelber says. "They said there would be an economic impact, but if you spend half a billion on anything, it would create jobs."
The contract the state signed with Scripps requires little of the firm, says state Rep. Doug Wiles, a Democrat from St. Augustine. Of the thousands of jobs promised, Scripps is required to create just 545 jobs over the next seven years and 3,000 jobs within 15 years. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars per job and a snail's-pace return on the state's investment, says Wiles, the House minority leader. "It took 30 years for Scripps to develop in California," Wiles says. "Let's hope it doesn't take 30 years for them to develop in Florida."
Montanaro also found that Scripps itself may have embellished its ability to get government grants to pay for its operating expenses in Florida. Roughly 85 percent of Scripps' current $200-million-a-year budget comes from government sources. Montanaro doubts Scripps can double its government grants to pay for the budget of the Florida branch.
Perhaps even more ominous than Montanaro's report is an analysis of the Scripps Florida plan by Joe Cortright, an economist who has done work for the Brookings Institute on biomedical research centers. According to Cortright, Palm Beach County lacks the local researchers and venture capitalists needed to make biomedical centers successful. Cortright, from his office in Portland, Oregon, says: "The fact that they are building this campus in a metropolitan area that has none of the key ingredients makes it seem destined for failure. It's ludicrous, really."
On a recent Monday morning, two of South Florida's top environmentalists took a field trip. Trespassing is what some might call it, as the pair made their way onto the now-wild land Scripps will soon call home.
Joanne Davis, director of the 1000 Friends of Florida, drove, and beside her in the Toyota SUV was environmental land attorney Lisa Interlandi. They made their way along a road of sugar sand that runs parallel to the C-18 canal, with developed Palm Beach County to the east. To the west was the sprawling J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area, a 60,000-acre stretch of nature that nearly surrounds the future Scripps city on all sides. Swampland here runs west into untouched marshland that makes up the eastern edge of the Everglades. After a five-mile drive, Davis pulled over next to a barbed wire gate. She pointed to a poster-sized aerial picture of the territory. "This strip of green," she said, pointing to a stretch of iguana-colored foliage running south for miles, "that's where we're going to hike."
The path meandered under the cabbage palms and giant oaks, covered with lygodium vines that gave the area the appearance of a South American rain forest. The trail, running through the Corbett reserve next to the future Scripps city, was dotted with droppings and hoof prints. The woods rustled constantly. Not long into the hike, a jet-black hog halted in the center of the path, eyed the hikers, and then, grunting a goodbye, disappeared. "You see that?" Davis barked with excitement. "This area is teeming with wildlife."
Soon enough, at least a piece of this wildlife preserve will be largely bulldozed to make way for a road to the future Scripps site. While most of Scripps' new buildings will be built in an orange grove nearby, much of the new development that will surround Scripps will go in on pristine lands full of wetlands and wildlife. It is a place the county government tried desperately for years to protect and keep from becoming the kind of development that Scripps will bring.
The land has a rough history. The native people, who built a city of mounds here thousands of years ago, suffered genocide from diseases brought by Europeans. Seminoles, escaping the charging U.S. military in the 19th Century, hid in swamps here that were impenetrable to the army's cavalry. The troops merely surrounded the Seminoles and in time starved them into surrendering. Since then, locals have called that area Hungryland Slough.
In the last century, ranchers and timber companies bought the land. Some sold off to the Corbett reserve, and for most of the last century, the government eyed the rest for preservation, refusing most development plans. The Mecca property, where Scripps Florida headquarters will soon go, was previously limited by Palm Beach County to no more than one home per ten acres in hopes of keeping the land largely rural. That rule will be abandoned so Scripps can come.
Government officials have attempted to control development of Vavrus Ranch as well. In 1991, rancher Charles Vavrus submitted plans to the state for 18,000 homes and 7 million square feet of office space on the area now targeted for the Scripps city. Vavrus, an Illinois farmer, planned to spend $2 billion over about two decades on the project. He hired contractors, who drew up his project in two volumes about a foot thick each, and paid tens of thousands of dollars in fees to submit them to regulatory agencies. He promised to develop "with great emphasis placed on the preservation of existing wetlands." With little consideration, the Army Corps of Engineers and other government agencies shot down the Vavrus plans as too detrimental to the environment.
The old Vavrus project is remarkably similar to the new plan for Scripps, which will be surrounded by 10,000 homes, more than a half-million square feet of commercial space, and 2 million square feet of research labs and offices. In just a few years, the new Scripps city would rival west-county towns established for decades, eclipsing Belle Glade and perhaps even Wellington (population 40,000). But no government officials have objected as they did to the Vavrus project.
With orders from Bush, the 80 or so agencies that must review such a massive project have agreed to a fast-track schedule, requiring them to spend no more than three months reviewing it. Even the federal agencies, under the auspices of the governor's brother, have agreed to attempt the deadline. The Army Corps, which typically takes two or more years to approve such plans, will try to finish within the three-month deadline. All of the reviews are expected to be completed in August.
Complaints over the unseemly haste of the review process have come from unlikely sources. In April, Michael Busha, executive director of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, sent a letter to an official under the governor to question the deadline. "Unfortunately," Busha wrote, "the plan seems to be suffering partly from the speed at which we all have been asked to work under the expedited permitting process." Asked about his letter, Busha hesitated from saying the Mecca and Vavrus sites were not a good choice. "I think everybody questioned the location they chose," Busha says. "But that decision wasn't the choice of the Regional Planning Council. The governor chose it; Scripps chose it. The decision has been made, and really there is no reason to debate it further."
Conservationists fear this hurried process won't allow regulators time to consider the impact to the environment and charge that the plans will be approved only because they are attached to a state project that's supposed to generate jobs. The environmentalists have so far been drowned out among the hordes supporting the possible economic benefits of Scripps. Still, a half-dozen or so conservationists frequent the near-weekly hearings on Scripps, often the only people from the public to comment on the plans.
Over the past decade, Palm Beach County has made dozens of attempts to buy the Vavrus property to preserve it. Using money approved by two voter referendums, the county made several written offers to Vavrus that were repeatedly shot down. Rosa Durando, the environmental chair of the Audubon Society's Everglades branch, says the county's decision to now back developing the land makes no sense. "With the blessings of the government, they have raised swamp-busting to a new art, and I think it stinks," Durando says. "The public never had a choice in this."
Friends of the Everglades, the grassroots organization that has done perhaps more than any other to preserve wetlands, decided against a lawsuit to stop Scripps, board member Juanita Greene says. "It would be a fine thing to have Scripps here, but only if it were not in such pristine wetlands," Greene says. "They could not have picked a worse spot if they tried, but unfortunately, we just don't have the resources to file a lawsuit for every bad plan that comes our way."
Reed, the former assistant secretary of the Interior under presidents Nixon and Ford and Florida's first head of the Department of Environmental Protection, says a lawsuit against Scripps could tie the project up for years, if not decades. "I suggest to you that the wetlands issues alone could result in a legal challenge that would put the future of this project in jeopardy for years to come." A 70-year-old retiree in Hobe Sound, Reed has long been a voice of reason among hot-headed conservationists. He's a Republican, and his family donated the nearly priceless waterfront land that became the Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge. Reed believes a legal fight over Scripps is destined, although just which organization will file it isn't clear, and Reed believes the environmental issues will eventually sink a Scripps plan that could be beneficial elsewhere.
Davis also drove to the Vavrus ranchland and the orange grove on the Mecca property and continued out to the western lands of Corbett. There, she found wild orchids, great blue herons, and a sign warning that the dirt road continued for 20 miles to nowhere. "People say we environmentalists bitch about every project and that there's got to be something that's not sacred. But when you stand here on this property, you can see this is land that should be saved."
Back in the mid-1970s, pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG, a partner of Scripps, thought it had developed a drug that would finally fight Parkinson's disease. The Swiss company began testing the drug, called Parlodel, on humans. While it didn't get far in helping people with Parkinson's, it did have an odd side effect that would prove valuable. Women who had recently given birth who took Parlodel found that their mammary glands would go immediately dry. Novartis quickly reshaped its target audience for Parlodel and in 1980 began selling it as an anti-lactation drug for women who chose not to breast-feed.
Then came the lawsuits. Dozens of women who took the drug had strokes and seizures not long after. Just how many suffered or died will never be known since Novartis settled many of the suits before they went to trial. In 1994, the company took Parlodel off the shelves after pressure from the government to do so. But the lawsuits are still coming. In February, a Kentucky jury awarded $18 million to the estate of a woman who took Parlodel and died from a stroke just days after giving birth.
Novartis' lawsuit nightmare isn't uncommon in the high-stakes world of pharmaceuticals. Lawsuits against drug manufacturers are increasing, many of them claiming the companies failed to adequately test drugs before bringing them to market.
Scripps, on the other hand, can benefit from Florida law meant to protect government agencies from lawsuits because it has partnered with the state.
Lerner, the Scripps president, revealed this legal benefit during a question-and- answer period after his speech before a Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce luncheon. After Lerner's comments, Scripps officials, typically extremely accessible to the media, declined to discuss it further. Over several weeks, calls from New Times seeking comment on this issue were not returned by Keith McKeown, Scripps' spokesman, or Douglas Bingham, vice president and general counsel.
Scripps and Novartis both stand to gain in Florida courts. Novartis has a contract that pays Scripps $20 million a year for first rights on any new drug Scripps creates. If Novartis chooses to accept the marketing of a new drug, it can also become a partner in the human testing, making both companies potentially liable if something goes wrong.
According to Lerner, the Florida law that will protect his company from lawsuits is called "sovereign immunity," which harks back to old English decrees meant to protect government agencies and officials from lawsuits.
Scripps could benefit from the law thanks to its deal with Florida, says Victor Schwartz, general counsel with the American Tort Reform Association and part-time Hollywood resident. "By partnering with the state," Schwartz says, "they're less likely to be held liable." When new drugs are brought to market, companies set up what's called an "institutional review board" to monitor the success. With the Florida deal, Scripps could set up a board comprised entirely of state employees, meaning Scripps would escape blame for problems with the testing.
The losers in such an arrangement are the test subjects who could be injured, says Barbara Noah, a University of Florida law school research associate. According to a 2001 study by a University of Maryland biochemist, an estimated 5,000 people a year die during clinical trials and tens of thousands more are injured. "There is inadequate protection of human subjects," Noah says.
While Scripps did not respond to questions on this issue, drug manufacturers and researchers say lawsuits have hampered their ability to bring new cures and treatments to the market. Noah acknowledges that fear of legal action has made some companies leery of testing new drugs, and Florida's protections for Scripps could give it more freedom to introduce new medicines.
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Drug testing has become a deadly business because of the way the federal government operates, says Don Farber, a lawyer in San Rafael, California, who has made a career suing pharmaceutical companies. Drug makers need only two successful trials to get government approval to sell a new product. Meanwhile, companies can have dozens of unsuccessful trials, with injuries or deaths resulting, and still get approval, Farber says. Those unsuccessful trials often get buried in the mounds of paperwork drug companies submit to get government approval. "The whole process is dubious," Farber says. "There are often times drug companies filter out the bad information to get drugs to market."
At the temporary Scripps lab at Florida Atlantic, scientists say they're not thinking about human testing or bringing drugs to the market. Their concerns are developing cures, and then others in the company see if they're marketable. Baker, the neuroscientist working on mad cow disease, says Scripps isn't like pharmaceutical companies that often place demands on researchers to come up with new drugs. "Scripps isn't exactly industry, where there's pressure to develop new things, and it's not exactly academic research either," Baker says. "What Scripps wants is to develop new cures, and I think that's the best goal."
Soon, Scripps Florida may be the site of new announcements of treatment and cures for big-name diseases, Baker says. "It could be decades away, but we're hopeful."
If so, such announcements could give supporters of the state's deal credibility. But if the decades pass with no announcements or miracle medicines, critics of Florida's ten-figure pact with Scripps will surely feel that the state has been swindled, and the environment with it.


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Billy Dale Reese
June 19, 1932 — Dec. 13, 2010
BREMEN — Billy Dale Reese, 78, of Bremen, passed away Monday, Dec. 13, 2010
at Goshen General Hospital.
He was born June 19, 1932 in Marshall County to David and Violet (Hepler) Reese. He married Martha A. Griffin March 14, 1952. She preceded him in death March 16, 2010.
Bill was a welder for NIPSCO in Plymouth and was a lifelong farmer. He loved the outdoors; he enjoyed hunting, fishing and hunting for mushrooms. He also enjoyed traveling and playing cards.
Survivors include three daughters: Cynthia A. Schroll of Cromwell, Vicki D. Hogan of Nappanee, and Sherri L. (Jeff) Berger of Plymouth; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Jane Ringle of Bremen and Joyce Manning of Plymouth; and a sister-in-law, Janice Reese of Bremen.
He was preceded in death by his wife Martha, daughter Susan M. Schlemmer, and grandson Randy Berger.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17, at the Mishler Funeral Home, Bremen and will be officiated by Pastor Kevin Miller.
Burial will follow at the Bremen Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16, and one hour before the service, all at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the National Kidney Foundation.
The Mishler Funeral Home in Bremen is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Bring on the beer for Adriana Lima!
The Victoria's Secret Angel and her husband, former NBA player Marko Jaric, welcomed daughter Sienna on Wednesday, Sept. 12 in New York City, Lima announced via Twitter.
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The couple, who announced the pregnancy in March, were "excited" about their delivery surprise, with Lima passing the time indulging in (most!) of her unusual cravings.
"It's very strange because I normally don't like beer. Now I want some, but I cannot drink it," the Brazilian beauty, 31, told PEOPLE in May.
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I'm one of those sappy people who can get emotional watching commercials. One of my favorite commercial ad campaigns is the Liberty Mutual campaign. The TV ads show people "doing the right thing" and setting off a chain reaction of other people doing the right thing. In one of the commercials, a woman stops a man from stepping into the street in front of a bus, then a man who witnessed that act allows someone to cut into line in front of his car. For the next minute or so, you witness a variety of good deeds. It always tugs at my heart and makes me want to do good deeds.
Some recent studies have shown that doing a good deed can enhance your mood and make you happier. A 2007 study conducted by the University of Louisville in Kentucky found that people who do things that are meaningful were happier than people who do things for their own pleasure.
Another study by Stanford University psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky found similar results. She asked one group of students to perform five acts of kindness during the week but did not ask another group to do the same. Students who performed the acts of kindness reported feeling happier than the control group, and students who performed all five acts of kindness in one day were the happiest.
So if doing a good deed on an individual basis can make you feel happier, just think about what doing a good deed as a group can do for you, your staff and your members. Lately, we've had plenty of reasons to get depressed about things. The economy hasn't been kind to many fitness facility owners and operators. Some of you may have had to lay off staff. Many of you probably saw your membership numbers or revenue fall as you offered deals to entice prospects to your facility. Many of your members may be struggling without a job or with reduced wages.
So what better time than now to do a collective good deed? Many of you probably already collected money or food for the Haiti earthquake survivors. Why not expand to even more good causes? You could work as a club with Habitat for Humanity to build a house. As spring arrives, so will charity runs and walks for causes such as breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, arthritis and diabetes. Why not get together a team to train at your club and then run or walk as a group?
Each year, for-profit clubs raise money for ALS through Augie's Quest. The big fundraiser is occurring this month at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association Convention and Trade Show in San Diego, but you can donate year-round to the cause.
Late last month, many clubs participated in Ride 2 Recovery, a Spin event to benefit injured soldiers. Why not create a training team to prepare for the next Ride 2 Recovery?
The cost to get together a group to participate in any of these events is minimal — often just that of time. Participation in these events may bring in new members and additional revenue for your clubs, but that's not the main purpose for reaching out to your community. Helping others offers a feeling of connectiveness to those around you — the people you work with during the event and those for whom you do the charity event. And when you make someone else's life better through that connection, the change you create keeps right on giving. What a great way to lift up yourself and others during a time when many are struggling.


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Did you know that paper and paperboard products (paper towels, tissues, etc) made up 20.7 % of the municipal waste discarded in 2008--more than any other type of refuse? (6,550,000 tons!)
Think about it, every time you clean your house how many paper towels do you go through? What about sponges, disposable mop heads and dust cloths? What about all those harsh chemicals you spray into the air or toss away on a dirty paper towel?
Common household cleaners (including toilet bowl cleaners, air deodorizers, floor cleaners, window cleaners, and some detergents) often contain very toxic chemicals. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, even when used properly, these toxins make their way into the environment through evaporation of volatile components.
One obvious solution is to switch to reusable cleaning products - items like microfiber cleaning cloths, reusable scrub stones and refillable spray bottles. You could also switch to all-natural cleaning products - but those are often expensive and still come in throw-away containers - so we suggest making your own cleaners at home.
It might take a little getting used to - in fact, our photographer Sarah wrote a post on her journey to a "greener" clean earlier this year. (Check out Sarah's video below.) But once you make the switch, you'll marvel at how much money you save on disposables and how much lighter your cleaning-day trash bags become.
As Sarah mentioned in her post, we offer a few kits to get you started making your own all-natural cleaning products at home. In addition, we have a DIY Household Cleaners article in our DIY section, with links to some basic recipes for homemade cleaners.
Finally, our brand-new DIY playlist on YouTube features videos handpicked by us, demonstrating how to make your own dish soap, bath tub cleaner and more.
With just a few basic items, a handful of ingredients and a little elbow grease, you'll have an eco-friendly, sparkling clean home in no time. Check out this video of Sarah making DIY cleaners:
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. -- Greenville College and Massachusetts - Boston traded the lead four times on Thursday, but Greenville College ended up on top with a 7-3 win over UMass-Boston.
Greenville College took the lead in the fourth inning and held on for the victory. Greenville College scored on an RBI single by Tim Osbourne off Michael Boughton, scoring Mitchell Cernek.
Cole Lawson racked up three RBIs on three hits for Greenville College . He doubled in the second inning and singled in the first and fourth innings.
Josh Wagemann got the win for Greenville College . He allowed three runs over 6 2/3 innings. He struck out two, walked three and surrendered seven hits.
The top of the second saw UMass-Boston take an early lead, 1-0. After Matt Consiglio singled, Luke Fischetti tripled, plating Charles LaPaglia.
It didn't take long for Greenville College to answer as it scored three runs of its own in the second. Greenville College scored on a three-run double by Lawson.
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As my pod-mates and neighbors will attest, I am generous with the bounty of my kitchen and my garden, even during times of meager harvest. Eggs and honey are handed out like candy on Halloween.
I share roasted chiles and recipes, contribute my labor and jars to the production of jam from neighbors vines and trees, and provide space for composting bunny poop in exchange for the right to dig some in to prepare next year's garden beds.
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This Saturday three-time Academy Award-winning costume designer James Acheson visits the Wex to discuss his career working on such films as Brazil, The Last Emperor (AA), Dangerous Liaisons (AA), Restoration (AA), Spider-Man, and even this summer's Superman film Man of Steel. Having worked with such great directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, and more, James is sure to have some great stories to share!
To whet your appetite, I posed three questions to James in advance of his visit.
1. Do you have a single favorite when it comes to another film's costumes?
A: Piero Tosi's costumes for Luchino Visconti's The Leopard.
2. Is there a character or actor/actress you haven't been able to work with (either past or present) for whom you would like to design?
A: Johnny Depp and Tilda Swinton
3. You've won three Oscars. Do you have another film for which you would rather have been recognized?
A: No.