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- Summary
Drawing upon more than 50 years of culinary experience, we've designed and developed an exclusive line of nonstick kitchen tools—perfect for use with nonstick cookware. Great for whipping cream and beating egg whites, our professional-quality balloon whisk features heat-resistant silicone-coated wires that quickly aerate ingredients without scratching bakeware or pans. The ergonomically engineered brushed-stainless-steel handle ensures excellent balance and control—and makes the whisk exceptionally comfortable to use.
- Designed and developed by Williams Sonoma, and exclusively ours.
- Stainless-steel wires are coated with durable silicone that's heat-resistant to 440°F (220°C).
- Handle is made of heavy-gauge, nonreactive 18/10 stainless steel with a brushed finish.
- Weighted, ergonomic handle offers optimal balance, comfort and feel.
- BPA-free and safe for use with nonstick cookware, bakeware and electrics.
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- 7" long.
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- Dishwasher safe.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Tony from Extraordinarily Disappointed in WS We purchased our entire kitchen arsenal from Williams Sonoma, and many other things for our home. I've never seen a kitchen utensil at this price point deteriorate so quickly. The silicone is nearly gone from nearly a quarter of this whisk, after a year in our possession and perhaps only 3-4 uses. So, so disappointed that WS is selling a product like this, and has not addressed its multiple negative reviews. I can't even put an accurate "Con" quality for this product as there isn't one that says "Falls apart easily."Date published: 2018-04-11Rated 2 out of 5 by SMWS from Fast Deterioration I purchased this whisk, along with several other cook tools in this collection, about 10 months ago. The silicone is already splitting and peeling away. The same has happened to the silicone coated tongs from this collection. It is great to use, just very overpriced for a 10 month lifespan.Date published: 2015-03-17Rated 2 out of 5 by KayLeo from Get the stainless steel version instead! This looks great and feels great in your hand, just like the rest of the Williams-Sonoma cooking tools, but this particular piece is not worth buying. There is no real reason why you should get a balloon whisk that is nonstick safe. Balloon whisks are generally used for aerating creams and egg whites, mixing soft batters, and mixing/sifting dry ingredients. All of these things are done in mixing/prep bowls, not nonstick cooking surfaces! Unless you're like me and is OCD about having to own every single piece in a set, do not get the Williams-Sonoma Silicone Balloon Whisk. Get the Stainless steel version instead! That one even has an improved design on the tines to maximize aeration.Date published: 2014-06-04


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The final tally of the November 3, 2015, voting in the town of Coeymans, New York, is in, and the results are disturbing, but characteristic of the backwoods, backwater, backward everything town of Coeymans.
Shame on You, Coeymans Voters!
Shame on YOU, especially, Coeymans Scoff-Voters!
Despite intensive coverage. Despite exposing the facts. Despite recent history and widespread reporting of the scandals surrounding the illegal and unethical conduct and cronyism of Tom Dolan (D), Richard Touchette (D), Jim Youmans (D), and worst criminal of them all, disgraced corrupt town of Coeymans judge, Phil Crandall (D), Coeymans voters put them all in public office on November 3, 2015. Coeymans is hopeless, disgusting, corrupt. Coeymans is too stupid to even be ashamed of itself.
About 3 years ago Coeymans voters gave Touchette and Youmans the boot, only to elect that human, political garbage back into public office: Youmans back to the Coeymans town council and Touchette to the Albany county legislature. Tom Dolan, a.k.a. Dithering-Tom Dolan, despite allegations of absentee ballot tampering about 3 years ago, appears to have misused his position as director of the Ravena Choices program, a give-it-all-away benefits program for local ghetto denizens, recently misused his position to misinform the public (with the enthusiastic circus act provided by Jim Youmans) and disclose a confidential draft report from the Office of the New York State Comptroller. Wrongful abuse of his office. Despite the current attention given to bullies of all ages, Coeymans voted known bully Jim Youmans, also allegedly having an arrest record for harassing his neighbors, back into office where he can continue his harassment of town of Coeymans employees and residents, just as he is known to have done when he last deposited his bloated stench in the corridors of Coeymans town hall.
Phil Crandall was forced by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct for violations of NYS Judicial Law and discrediting the judiciary. In the agreement with the Commission, Crandall had to agree never again to run for judicial office. But that didn't stop him from running for Coeymans town supervisor! And it didn't stop the idiots voting in Coeymans from putting the disgraced former town justice, Crandall, who was forbidden from running for judge again, into the supervisor's office. Now that's a real deal! Have a corrupt, disgraced judge run the town! Does it get any better, Coeymans? Sure does! Put Tom Dolan, a local loser with a known record of corruption, and Rick Touchette, the other criminal, who got the crooked judge dumped in the first place into office, together with a known used-car salesman bully Jim Youmans. And you wonder why you're dying, Coeymans?
What's worse even than Dithering-Tom Dolan's corrupt practices in the Ravena Choices program and his ballot tampering scandal, is that Dolan, an historical loser, is also chairman of the Coeymans Democrap committee and couldn't find anything better in the manure pile known as the town of Coeymans to put on the Democrap line. So he had to recycle the available garbage, Crandall, Youmans, Touchette and, of course, Dolan himself. Are the pickings that slim in the town of Coeymans?
Coeymans goes beyond "Shame" !
You've really outdone yourselves in stupidity this time!
Coming up next: How many dead people and non-residents were included in New Baltimore's absentee ballots? Will an illiterate, town employee's ballot be counted (it's signed in the "witness" space but not signed where the "voter" should have signed)? Will a Democrap judge rule in favor of the idiot? The town employee was apparently not absent but will have to prove that she was absent on November 3rd. And Why?, Mr George Acker, did only about half of Independence party voters show up at the polls on November 3rd?

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TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Raptors have re-signed forward Patrick Patterson.
Toronto announced the deal with the restricted free agent on Saturday. The terms were not disclosed.
The 6-foot-9 Patterson was acquired in a seven-player trade with Sacramento in December. He averaged 9.1 points and 5.1 rebounds in 48 games with the Raptors.
Masai Ujiri, Toronto's team president and general manager, says "We were very pleased with what Patrick brought to us both on the court and in the locker room last season."
The 25-year-old Patterson is averaging 8.4 points and 4.6 rebounds over 252 career NBA games with Houston, Sacramento and Toronto. He was selected by the Rockets with the 14th overall pick in the 2010 draft.


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Aviation Partners Boeing Launches Split Scimitar Winglet Program
United Airlines to Retrofit Next-Generation 737 Fleet
Jan 15, 2013, 09:00 ET
SEATTLE, Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) today announced it has launched its new Split Scimitar Winglet program with an order from United Airlines. Using a newly patented design, the program will consist of retrofitting existing Boeing Next Generation 737 Blended Winglets by replacing the aluminum winglet tip cap with a new aerodynamically shaped "Scimitar" TM winglet tip cap and by adding a new Scimitar tipped Ventral Strake. This revolutionary design was flight tested by Aviation Partners, Inc. in 2012 and demonstrated significant aircraft drag reduction over the basic Blended Winglet configuration.
APB has identified eight unique Boeing Next-Generation 737 configurations that will be considered for possible certification by the FAA; these include: the structurally provisioned and non-provisioned 737-700, 737-800, 737-BBJ, the structurally provisioned 737-900 and the 737-900ER. The initial FAA certification program will be for retrofit conversion of Blended Winglets on 737-800 aircraft that were delivered with wings structurally provisioned for Blended Winglets at time of delivery from the Boeing Next-Generation 737 production line (line numbers 778 and on). FAA supplemental type certification is targeted for October of this year. FAA certification of 737-900ER Split Scimitar Winglets is expected to follow by March 2014.
"We are very pleased that our eco-friendly friends at United have agreed to become the first airline to order Split Scimitar Winglets. This will mark the fifth program that the management team of United has partnered with Aviation Partners Boeing to launch," said Aviation Partners Boeing executive vice president and chief commercial officer Patrick LaMoria. "We are immensely grateful for United's continued support."
United has either been the launch customer for, or otherwise ordered, Blended Winglets for every Boeing commercial aircraft type for which APB offers a winglet system, in chronological order this includes the: 757-200; 737-800; 737-700; 737-900; 737-900ER; 737-500; 737-300; 757-300 and the 767-300ER. APB estimates that, once Split Scimitar Winglets are installed, APB winglet technology (Blended and Split Scimitar) will save United more than $250 million per year in jet fuel costs fleet wide.
"Fuel is United's largest, most volatile expense and we are always looking for opportunities to improve the fuel efficiency of our fleet. The Next-Generation 737 Split Scimitar Winglet will provide a natural hedge against rising fuel prices while simultaneously reducing carbon emissions," said Ron Baur, United's vice president of fleet. "We are looking forward to partnering once again with APB to launch this new winglet program."
APB expects Scimitar Winglet Systems installed on a provisioned 737-800 to save the typical airline more than 45,000 gallons of jet fuel per aircraft per year resulting in a corresponding reduction of carbon dioxide emissions of 476 tons per aircraft per year. The fuel savings can enable a 737-800 to increase its payload up to 2,500 pounds or increase its range up to 75 nautical miles. APB also expects to certify an improvement in low speed performance that will generate significant take-off benefits from high/hot or obstacle limited runways.
Nearly 5,000 Blended Winglet Systems are now in service with over 200 airlines in more than 100 countries. APB estimates that Blended Winglets have saved airlines worldwide more than 3.5 billion gallons of jet fuel to-date.
Aviation Partners Boeing is a Seattle based joint venture of Aviation Partners, Inc. and The Boeing Company.
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Discussion: The Hill, Liberaland, Washington Post, New York Times, National Review, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Associated Press
Deroy Murdock / National Review: With Bergdahl, Obama Out-Nixons Nixon
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller: Poll: Overwhelming Majority Of Democrats Fear Bergdahl Deal Puts Soldiers In Danger
Justin Sink / The Hill:
WH surprised by Bergdahl — The White House has been caught off guard by the negative reaction to the deal that freed Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the last American prisoner of war in Afghanistan. — It has been particularly surprised by criticism of Bergdahl, who is accused of walking away …
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com: CNN: Intercepted Radio Chatter Indicated Bergdahl Sought Contact With Taliban
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The ghastly transaction that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
The ghastly transaction that freed Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
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McChrystal on Bergdahl: 'We don't leave Americans behind. That's unequivocal'
McChrystal on Bergdahl: 'We don't leave Americans behind. That's unequivocal'
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Behind P.O.W.'s Release: Urgency and Opportunity
Behind P.O.W.'s Release: Urgency and Opportunity
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Scott Johnson / Power Line: The Bergdahl deal: The authorized version
Washington Post: Obama administration briefs senators on decision to make deal for Bergdahl's release
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Scott Olson / NPR: Bergdahl's Hometown Scraps Celebration Amid Uproar
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Report: White House Aides Accusing Bergdahl's Unit Comrades Of 'Swift Boating' Him
Report: White House Aides Accusing Bergdahl's Unit Comrades Of 'Swift Boating' Him
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo
Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo
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Jim Acosta / CNN: Bergdahl backlash surprises White House
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA: Sen. Lindsey Graham Threatens Obama With Impeachment For Trying To Close GITMO
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Impeachment To Save Gitmo
Alex Berenson / New York Times:
A Prisoner of War, but Not a Hero
A Prisoner of War, but Not a Hero
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show: Novelist Alex Berenson on Bergdahl Deal and Bush-Obama Afghanistan Record
Seamus Kelleher / Independent Journal Review: 8 Ways Bowe Bergdahl Is Eerily Similar To Homeland's Nicholas Brody
Adam Weinstein / Gawker: Angry Conservatives Forgot Their Old Angry Tweets Supporting P.O.W.
Suzanne Moore / Guardian: Bowe Bergdahl: hero or traitor? War doesn't allow an easy answer
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
McCrystal: Don't 'Judge' Bergdahl And The Prisoner Swap Yet (VIDEO)
McCrystal: Don't 'Judge' Bergdahl And The Prisoner Swap Yet (VIDEO)
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Burgess Everett / Politico: McCaskill assails 'rush to judgment'
Repair Man Jack / RedState: Why The White House Valued Bowe Bergdahl
Paul Szoldra / Business Insider: General In Charge When Bergdahl Was Captured: 'We Don't Leave Americans Behind'
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McDaniel rep, others locked in courthouse — An official investigation has been opened into three people who were found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse hours after it was closed by election officials Tuesday after returns had been counted in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. — CONNECT
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Tea Party Regains Steam With Cochran U.S. Senate Runoff
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Thad Cochran backers face agonizing choice
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The jury in Rolf Harris's indecent assault trial is continuing its deliberations for a seventh day.
Harris, 84, from Bray in Berkshire, is accused of indecently assaulting four women between 1968 and 1986, which he denies.
The panel of six men and six women, sitting at London's Southwark Crown Court, is considering a total of 12 counts and has now been deliberating for more than 28 hours.
During his trial, which opened on May 9, prosecutors claimed that the entertainer was a "Jekyll and Hyde" character who had a dark side to his personality and used his fame to abuse under-age girls with impunity.
But his defence team told the jury that Harris's reputation had been "trashed" by a prosecution which did not reach the standard of criminal proof.
The first alleged victim claims Harris groped her when she was seven or eight after she went to get his autograph at a community centre near Portsmouth between 1968 and 1970. She told the jury he aggressively assaulted her "out of nowhere" at the packed venue.
The second alleged victim claims Harris touched her bottom when she was waitressing at a celebrity event in Cambridge, either in 1975 or 1978.
She said she saw Harris "playing up to the crowd", crouched on all fours barking at a dog, before he groped her.
The third is a friend of Harris's daughter Bindi, who alleges that Harris abused her from the age of 13 for several years, starting while she was on holiday in Hawaii.
She claims that one assault took place when Bindi was asleep in the same room, and Harris appeared to get "a thrill" out of it.
Seven of the 12 counts that Harris faces relate to the woman – four allege that he indecently assaulted her when she was 15; two relate to claims that he performed oral sex on her against her will before she was 16; and one relates to an occasion when he allegedly indecently assaulted her in a swimming pool when she was 19.
The fourth alleged victim, Tonya Lee, who has waived her right to anonymity, said she was abused while on a tour of the UK with an Australian youth theatre group in 1986. The aspiring theatre star, then 15, said she "felt disgusting" after Harris groped her when he went for dinner with the group at a London pub.
He admits an adult consensual affair with Bindi's friend, but denies assaulting her or any of the other women. The jury began its deliberations on June 19.


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by Tyler Peck, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Georgia College & State University's women's basketball team (12-5, 7-3 PBC) won their fourth straight game and seventh out of last eight tonight (Jan. 28) overpowering Peach Belt Conference (PBC) opponent Columbus State University (11-9, 4-6 PBC) 64-52.
Tucker native Dominique Huffin was on fire tonight for the Bobcats nailing 7-of-10 three-pointers and was the leading scorer of the night with 24 points.
Senior forward Tiauna Brantley (Woodstock, Ga.) supported Huffin scoring 12 points. Brantley extended her double digit scoring to 14 games in the 2008-09 campaign.
Junior transfer Shandrea Moore (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) was also in double figures tonight for the 'Cats tallying 11 points along with six assists. Antoinette Reames (Orlando, Fla.) made her presence known down low scoring nine, grabbing five boards and one block. Reames ties Dalana Watson in single season blocks with 36. Watson had 36 blocks in the 2001-02 season.
With tonight's victory the Bobcats tie the series at 20 games apiece with the Cougars. Georgia College outscored the Cougars 21-11 in points off turnovers. The 'Cats also outshot their opponent .526 (10-19) to .333 (5-15) from beyond the three-point line.
The Bobcats are tied for second place in the PBC at 7-3 with Clayton State University and USC Aiken who both won tonight. All three teams sit behind Francis Marion University (8-1 PBC).
Georgia College continues their six-game homestead when they face Augusta State University Saturday Jan. 31 at 2 p.m..
Visit www2.GCSU.edu/Bobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement.


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In the first half of play, Brandeis controlled the run, outshooting Lasell, 11-4, although the Lasers had three corner kicks to two for the Judges. Brandeis got the first four shots of the game before breaking through in the 21st minute. Rookie midfielder Sara Isaacson (Medfield, Mass./Medfield) found sophomore forward Dara Spital (Miami, Fla./Gulliver Prep) five yards out of the top of the box. Spital blasted it in off the fingertips of Lasell keeper Leah Pappalardo (Whitman, Mass./Whitman-Hanson Regional). The goal was Spital's team-leading 10th of the season, while the assist was Isaacson's second.
After Pappalardo made four saves on three different players to start the second half, Brandeis scored what proved to be the game-winner in the 63rd minute. Edalati tracked a ball down in the corner and sent a perfect cross through the goal mouth to a waiting Robinson, who one-timed it home for her first career goal. The assist was Edalati's fourth, tying her with Spital for the team lead.
As the game progressed, Brandeis looked to take control, but the Lasers had a key momentum shift in the 74th minute. Pappalardo was called for a foul inside the six-yard box, giving the Judges a penalty kick. The Lasell sophomore immediately atoned for the error by stopping the ensuing PK.
The Lasers went on to get their only three shots on goal over the next two minutes. Brandeis sophomore Michelle Savuto (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) made saves on rookie Molly Masiero (Richmond, Mass./Monument) and sophomore Kayla Lynch (Dover, N.H./Dover) in the 74th and 75th minutes. Masiero's chip in the 76th minute eluded Savuto, spoiling Brandeis's bid at a school-record 12th shutout of the season.
Lasell was able to keep momentum and work their way deep into the Brandeis zone, but the Judge defense kept the visitors from getting any quality chances. Brandeis added an insurance goal in the 87th minute when Edalati blasted a shot from about 35 yards out into the upper 90. The goal was her sixth of the year, trailing only Spital.
Brandeis finished the game outshooting Lasell, 25-9, after earning a 14-5 margin in the second half. Savuto had two saves for the Judges in the second half after senior Francine Kofinas (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills West) was untested in the first. Pappalardo finished with 11 saves, her second-highest total of the season.
Brandeis returns to action on Friday afternoon with a University Athletic Association (UAA) contest against unbeaten and top-ranked Emory University at 4 p.m. Lasell's final regular-season Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) contest is Thursday at St. Joseph's (Maine) at 3 p.m.
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Springfield's Technology Park is a 15.3-acre site which provides attractive work environments for technology-based and a variety of other companies. Businesses are attracted to Tech Park through its physical resources, location, unique historic setting on the grounds of the former Springfield Armory and the close proximity to the faculty and highly-skilled graduates of Springfield Technical Community College. Businesses also come to Tech Park because of its Business Growth Center, located in the Scibelli Enterprise Center, to get advice, connections, and training to start new companies and expand the capacity (and profits) of existing companies.
STCC Assistance Corporation was selected by the US Department of Commerce as the sole national winner of the 2001 Excellence in Urban or Suburban Economic Development Award, as well as the International Economic Development Council's 2002 Excellence in Economic Development Award.


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Avalanche's Zadorov and Grigorenko are going against their old team too
With much of the attention on Ryan O'Reilly's return to Denver heading into Wednesday night's Avalanche-Sabres game at the Pepsi Center (here's my story after the morning skates), it's easy to overlook the fact that Colorado center Mikhail Grigorenko, 21, and defenseman Nikita Zadorov, 20, also are going against their former team.
"It's always fun," Zadorov said after the Avalanche's morning skate. "Lots of friends off the ice. But as soon as you're on the ice, you have to compete and show what you can do."
Zadorov spent two months with San Antonio of the AHL before rejoining the Avalanche last week. He said he can't get caught up in worrying about attempting to validate the deal that sent O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn to the Sabres for Zadorov, Grigorenko, University of Michigan captain J.T. Compher and a second-round draft choice.
"I'm going to step up and play my best game, then you guys are going to make the decision, was it a mistake or not," he said.
Grigorenko has been on the Colorado roster all season. Here's my profile of him from Sunday. But he was a healthy scratch the past three games. He's ticketed to be back in the lineup against the Sabres.
"I'm really excited and really happy the coaches put me in and hopefully I'll make the most of this opportunity," he said.
Grigorenko called his time with the Sabres "a good three years. I learned a lot and it was a good experience. That's the team that I played my first NHL game for and I'll always remember it."
Terry Frei: email@example.com or @TFrei


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DISCOVERY BAY — Leaders here will consider approving an ordinance for its town park rules that would allow law enforcement to crack down on troublemakers.
Discovery Bay Community Services District directors introduced an ordinance Jan. 2 for rules at Cornell Park, Ravenswood Park and the Roberta Fuss Tot Lot.
The board will consider final adoption of the ordinance at its Jan. 23 meeting. If approved, the rules would kick in 30 days later.
Discovery Bay adopted a set of park rules in April of 2011, but police cannot enforce them until an ordinance is in place. "That piece of the puzzle that was never put together," board Vice President Kevin Graves said. "It will help the sheriff's department enforce the rules that already exist. Right now, if we tell them something is going on, they tell us that they don't have any authority."
The rules would help curb commonly heard complaints about park behavior such as smoking, alcohol use, after-hours loitering and dogs off leash at the parks, said Fairin Perez, the district's parks and landscaping manager. Other issues the ordinance would stop include littering, excessive noise, vandalism, park use and the operation of motorized vehicles.
The penalty for violating the ordinance would be a $250 fine.
Town officials receive several complaints a month about bad behavior in the parks, though it varies depending on the site, Perez said.
"Some residents are telling us it can be uncomfortable," she said. "Safety is a priority of ours. We want people to have a comfort level when they go to a park and not be distracted while there."
All other Discovery Bay parks are owned by the county and have similar rules to the proposed ordinance. When and if those parks are transferred to Discovery Bay, they would fall under the same rules.
Contact Paul Burgarino at 925-779-7164. Follow him at Twitter.com/paulburgarino.
What: Discovery Bay Community Services District board meeting
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Town offices, 1800 Willow Lake Road, Discovery Bay


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In the last article of this series I discussed artificial sweeteners, and gave you my take on whether you should include them in your diet. This week, I want to talk about sugar alcohols, which are another popular low-calorie sugar substitute.
Xylitol is the most popular and most extensively researched, so I'll focus my discussion on it, but the general takeaway of this article applies to other sugar alcohols as well, such as sorbitol and erythritol.
Xylitol and sorbitol are commonly used as sugar replacements, but are they safe? Here's what you need to know!
What exactly are sugar alcohols?
Sugar alcohols are a type of 'low-digestible carbohydrate,' a category that also includes fiber and resistant starch. Sugar alcohols occur naturally in many fruits and are also known as 'polyols,' which you may recognize as a FODMAP. Unlike artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols aren't completely calorie-free, because we are able to digest and absorb them to some extent. The absorption rate varies among sugar alcohols, from about 50% for xylitol to almost 80% for sorbitol, depending on the individual. Erythritol is almost completely absorbed, but is not digested, so it provides almost no calories.
Compared with artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols have very few safety and toxicity studies, and are generally accepted as safe. In one long-term human study, 35 participants consumed xylitol as their primary dietary sweetener for two years, and no adverse effects other than GI distress were observed, and GI symptoms dissipated after the first couple months. The amount of xylitol consumed during this trial regularly exceeded 100g per day, often going over 200g per day, depending on the participant.
Metabolic effects of sugar alcohols
Sugar alcohols are a popular choice for weight loss due to their reduced calorie content, and for diabetics due to their low glycemic index. There's not nearly as much research on the metabolic effects of sugar alcohols as there is on artificial sweeteners, but the evidence we have suggests that sugar alcohols are at least harmless, and possibly beneficial.
For the most part, sugar alcohols cause no appreciable changes in blood glucose or insulin in humans, and sorbitol and xylitol have not been found to raise blood glucose following consumption. In diabetic rats, 5 weeks of xylitol supplementation (as 10% of their drinking water) reduced body weight, blood glucose, and serum lipids, and increased glucose tolerance compared with controls. Two other rat studies also found that xylitol-supplemented rats gained less weight and fat mass compared with control rats, and had improved glucose tolerance.
Because sweetness does not predict caloric value in sugar alcohols, one might expect that they would cause the same 'metabolic confusion' that is seen with noncaloric artificial sweeteners. Unfortunately there isn't enough evidence to form a conclusion about this, but my feeling based on what I've read is that this isn't a significant issue for sugar alcohols.
For one, sugar alcohols aren't 'intense sweeteners' like artificial sweeteners, which are hundreds of times sweeter than sugar. In fact, many are less sweet than sugar. Also, sugar alcohols do provide some calories, so there's not as much of a discrepancy between the caloric load your body expects and the caloric load it actually gets.
Does xylitol prevent tooth decay?
The most well-known health benefit of xylitol is easily its effect on dental health, and evidence for xylitol's ability to prevent tooth decay is pretty robust. A couple trials have found xylitol to be more effective at preventing cavities than fluoride, and benefits of xylitol consumption have even been observed in children whose mothers chewed xylitol-containing gum. Unsurprisingly, the most drastic effects are observed when xylitol replaces sucrose in either the diet or in chewing gum, but significant reductions in cavities have been observed when xylitol is simply added on top of a normal diet as well.
Although some effects of xylitol are undoubtedly due to nonspecific factors such as increased saliva production or the replacement of sugar, it does appear to have specific properties that support dental health. Xylitol is not fermentable by common plaque-forming oral bacteria like sugar is, so it doesn't provide a food source. Additionally, xylitol actively inhibits the growth of these bacteria. It also forms complexes with calcium, which may aid in remineralization.
Sugar alcohols and digestive health
While sugar alcohols appear to be safe and potentially therapeutic, they are also notorious for causing digestive distress. Because sugar alcohols are FODMAPs and are largely indigestible, they can cause diarrhea by pulling excess water into the large intestine. The fermentation of sugar alcohols by gut bacteria can also cause gas and bloating, and sugar alcohols may decrease fat absorption from other foods. However, most evidence indicates that people can adapt to regular sugar alcohol consumption, and the adverse GI effects reported in studies tend to fade after the first month or two.
Erythritol is probably the best-tolerated sugar alcohol, and a few human trials have found that if the amount of erythritol is gradually increased and doses are spread throughout the day, many people can tolerate large amounts (up to1g/kg of body weight) of erythritol without GI distress. The average tolerance for xylitol and sorbitol is lower; most study subjects could tolerate about 30g per day without a problem, but significant adaptation was necessary to increase xylitol content in the diet.
A few studies indicate that sugar alcohols may have a prebiotic effect. This isn't too surprising, considering the prebiotic effects of other low-digestible carbohydrates such as fiber and resistant starch. Animal studies have found that xylitol causes a shift from gram-negative to gram-positive bacteria, with fewer Bacteroides and increased levels of Bifidobacteria. A similar shift has been observed in humans, even after a single dose of xylitol. Additionally, the shifts observed allowed for more efficient use of the sugar alcohols by gut bacteria, which largely explains the reduction in GI symptoms after a few months of regular consumption.
In addition to the potential metabolic, dental, and prebiotic benefits already discussed, xylitol shows promise for preventing age-related decline in bone and skin health. One interesting study found that 10% xylitol supplementation over 20 months increased collagen synthesis in the skin of aged rats, resulting in thicker skin. Preliminary rat studies have also shown that xylitol can increase bone volume and mineral content and protect against bone loss.
Overall, sugar alcohols appear to be safer than artificial sweeteners with several potentially therapeutic effects. Although the metabolic and weight loss benefits of sugar alcohols haven't been studied as extensively, I would recommend sugar alcohols over artificial sweeteners to anyone who needs a low-calorie sweetener, although I wouldn't recommend that anyone consume huge amounts of them. I'll also be interested to see additional research on their ability to alter the gut microbiome and disrupt biofilms, because this could make sugar alcohols a useful tool for certain patients.
At this point, there don't seem to be any major problems with sugar alcohols, so if it's something you're interested in, I would experiment with your own tolerance and see how they affect you. However, people with gut issues should be cautious.
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It's Only a Play
by Terrence McNally
- 2002-2003 Season – Fall Production
- October 19, 20 and
- October 24, 25, 26, 2002
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Read our Press Coverage:
- General Review (pdf)
- A Collection of Abbreviated Reviews (pdf)
Play Description
(from the Dramatists Play Service, Inc. catalogue)
An hilarious send-up of show business and its often bizarre practitioners, which uses the occasion of a disastrous opening night party to pile one wildly funny comic sequence upon another. Produced with great success by New York's famed Manhattan Theatre Club. "This show is without a doubt hilariously, sidesplittingly funny…These are among the funniest lines to roll off a stage in years…IT'S ONLY A PLAY deserves only a rave." -NY Times.


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March 6 - Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancestor.
I have a few items that are special to me that I have inherited from my grandmother's. My two most treasured items are from my mother's mother, Mary Ellen Hayes Roe.
The first most treasured item are her pearls. My grandmother was very ill, battling cancer, when I went to my high school senior and junior proms. James and I had been together a few months when we went to our Junior Prom. That year I wore a peach colored satin dress with bare shoulders. My grandmother saw that and knew that I needed to wear her pearls with it. She lent them to me, and when I went to return them after the prom, she told me to keep them. She said "honey your momma bought me those ear rings and I've had that necklace for years. I want you to have them." Little did any of us know how sick she was at that time. She was gone just over a year later. She was still with us when we went to our Senior prom, but I didn't wear the necklace that year. It was more important to have the right jewelry with the right dress back then. If I had known that she would have left us a month later I would have found another dress to go with those pearls. I did however wear her pearls a few days after we lost her to my high school graduation and also to her funeral. I still have them safely locked away in a box. The clasp broke some years back on me and I need to get it fixed.
The next treasure of her are a set of pigs. After James and I married that following November we went to visit my step grandfather, Paul. As we were getting ready to leave that day he told me to hold on, he had something that he thought my grandmother would have wanted me to have. He brought me a set of ceramic pigs. They are a dark pink. They are a creamer and sugar set. The head comes off the sugar one and the cream pours out of the mouth of the other one. Even my family knows that if you drop my pigs you die (well not really, but they will hear about it).
Last is a treasure that has seen it's better days. This one is from my dad's mother. When I got married my father handed me a small 10 Commandments plate that use to hang on their walls. He told me that it was his mother's and to take good care of it. I promised I would and carefully packed it in newspaper before putting it into a box that fit just right and then placing it into a bigger box. We got all my things to my new home the day before we married. I went home that night and didn't return to our apartment until we were married. I was old fashioned. We never lived together. I stayed with my parents until the day we married. A new bride of one day and my heart was broken by my dear husband. He was trying to be helpful when he was unpacking my boxes and not knowing what was in the little white box, he dropped it on the floor. I heard it and screamed. I knew it couldn't have survived. We opened it to see all the little pieces and I was in tears. It stayed in that box and I never threw it away. It's still in the box today. My dear husband though, knowing how much it meant to me, set one day and pains stakingly glued the whole thing back together. There is one tiny missing piece, but it's together. Maybe someday I will find a way to smooth out the cracks, but either way I will always keep it. My dad's mother was the religious one who always had her bible and really believed and lived by it. That's why the 10 Commandments plate reminds me of her so much.
My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
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Help me help the Rolling Dog Farm win a $25,000 donation from Mozilla. The charity that raises the most for the Mozilla campaign will win.
This was a project that my dad cared deeply about and he passed that passion on to me. Please help these animals. Throw them a bone.
The Rolling Dog Farm in northern New Hampshire rescues and shelters disabled animals. Every animal who arrives at the Rolling Dog Farm gets another chance to have a safe and loving home. Their residents include blind dogs, blind horses, deaf dogs, blind cats, and animals with other neurological and orthopedic disabilities.
Although these animals may have disabilities, they do not consider themselves handicapped. They just want to get on with life and enjoy themselves. Thanks to the support of the Rolling Dog Farm's friends, that's what they get to do here.
By giving your support and donating to Rolling Dog Farm your helping make space for animals in need today. My father was a big supporter of this Farm and every dollar given to this cause matters. Each and every animal deserves a special place where they can live a happy life.
Plus if you make it exactly $18, you'll automatically be entered to win an "I Love you Man" poster signed by me. Or, donate $29 and you could win a voicemail greeting recorded by me for your phone. No joke. The rules and other important stuff are below.
To learn more about Rolling Dog Farm visit: http://rollingdogfarm.org/
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The entire pool of 9/11 imagery was crafted by the planners of the 9/11 hoax. The TV imagery was, as demonstrated, entirely computer-generated - i.e. entirely fake. And so was ALSO the so-called "amateur" footage and pictures released later on. I personally suspect a man called Steven Rosenbaum - and his "CAMERA PLANET company" to have manufactured most - if not all - of the 9/11 "amateur" videos.
More about Mr. Rosenbaum here.
Steven Rosenbaum http://www.911memorial.org/blog/filmmak ... gives-talk
This is the sort of video quality that the CAMERA PLANET "9/11 amateur imagery" proposed until circa 2008/9 :
Here's a prime example of the sort of video clips we have - supposedly filmed by some "amateur" videographer:
September 11th 2001 Second Plane Crash WNBC Dub9_01
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpQSLI8VCE
Did you notice those doves flying by ?
Now, take your video camera, hold it steady towards a distant scenery - until a bird flies in front of your lens
- and see if you can capture sharp, sequential frames such as these on film. Good luck!
Next, let's have a look at this 2001 video frame credited to "Mr. Clifton Cloud", who allegedly captured the crashing "FLIGHT 175" from a Manhattan rooftop. Today, a 15-year-old can tell this is cheap computer imagery - not a real cityscape.
Here you can watch the full Clifton Cloud sequence: http://www.septclues.com/ANIMATED%20GIF ... 0zoom1.gif
Here's the infamous closeup shot credited to "EVAN FAIRBANKS". Not a splinter of the 'aircraft' shears off as it hits the WTC!
Here's the miraculous zoom-in shot (credited to "Jennifer Spell"), capturing "FLIGHT 175 striking the WTC":


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Video Preview - Coach's Corner
BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's soccer team hits the road for its final non-conference match of the season on Friday, Sept. 14 against VCU. The Retrievers will look to knockoff the Rams for the first time in VCU's last nine home matches. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at Sports Backers Stadium. Live stats and video links for the contest can be found onwww.umbcretrievers.com.
UMBC (1-6-1) looks to bounce back from a 0-2 week and build momentum for the start of their America East schedule on Sunday, Sept. 23. The Retrievers fell at the hands of Bucknell last Friday, allowing two quick goals to start off the contest, and let one slip away in a 1-0 loss to Longwood on Sunday, surrendering a goal on the Lancers' only shot of the second half.
Junior goalkeeper Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) recorded nine saves over the weekend to bring her season total up to 52, tying for eighth nationally in Division I in total saves. Kadet sits in fourth place all-time at UMBC in stops (255), 12 shy of third-place Christy Friedrich.
The Rams (3-2-2) are unbeaten in their last three games following a 2-0 weekend in which they picked up a pair of 1-0 victories versus American and Pittsburgh. Senior goalkeeper Kristin Carden led the way with her first two shutouts of the season, marking the ninth and 10th of her two-year career.
Junior forward Courtney Conrad tallied her second goal of the season in the overtime win against the Panthers. Sophomore midfielder Cristin Granados has recorded a team-best five points on the year, tying Conrad with a team-leading two goals and adding an assist.
The all-times series is all tied up as the two programs meet for the first time since Oct. 23, 1996, with VCU taking a 2-1 overtime victory on its home field. UMBC took the first-ever meeting between the two schools the year before, a 4-2 victory.
The contest marks VCU's Massey Cancer Center Blue Out in support of prostate cancer awareness month.


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Davis: Make Cross the Man at Lamar
Butler's Brad Stevens and VCU's Shaka Smart are two of the best storylines in this year's Final Four and share two striking similarities – they both coach at mid-major programs and they're both very young to be so successful so early.
Stevens is 34 and is taking the Butler Bulldogs, with its 4,400-student enrollment, to the school's second consecutive Final Four. Smart is only 33 and has taken the VCU Rams, a school that was ridiculed for even making the tournament, through an absolute gauntlet, slaying five-BCS conference opponents in convincing fashion along the way to Houston.
So why should Lamar fans take notice?
Because the Cardinals have a potential prodigy a mere 15 miles south of the Montagne Center – Lamar State Head Coach Matt Cross.
"He's a very mature young coach, and he's got great character," said Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, the president at Talladega College in Talladega, Ala. Hawkins gave Cross his first head coaching job at Texas College in 2006 and then brought Cross with him to Talladega where the two revived an athletics program that had been dormant for six years, with Cross winning a small college national championship in 2009.
"Everywhere he's been, he's done nothing but win," Hawkins said.
And it's not a surprise because the soon to be 28-year-old Cross is a basketball junkie. The guy lives, eats and breathes basketball and has a passion for the game that is evident when you watch him on the sideline. A native of Shreveport, La., Cross has been coaching basketball since he got out of high school and was a graduate assistant under former Lamar Head Coach Mike Newell at the University of Arkansas-Monticello for three years.
Cross left UA-M in 2006 to be an assistant at Texas College, an NAIA school in Tyler where the then 23-year-old Cross found himself thrust into the head coach spot after a 1-11 start forced previous head coach to resign. The Steers went 5-7 under Cross and qualified for the Conference Tournament where they upset the conference's No. 1 seed, Houston Baptist, before bowing out in the second round. Baptist was in its last year as an NAIA member before it started play as a Division I school the next season.
The next season Cross led the Steers to a 21-13 record and the school's first Red River Conference Championship.
Then Cross left with Hawkins to take over as athletics director, head basketball and golf coach at Talladega, where the program, thanks to the great foundation laid by Cross, is now an NAIA school and has won another championship in men's basketball in 2010.
If there was ever any question as to whether Cross can make the jump to Division I from the JUCO ranks, Hawkins said debating that argument is futile.
"At Talladega, he beat almost every school in the SWAC, and those are all Division I programs," Hawkins said, "so that shows you what type of athlete he recruits, because they competed and won against Division I competition."
And at Lamar State the last two seasons, Cross followed up a 20-11 first year with an incredible 26-11 season this season that included a Region 14 Conference Tournament Championship and a trip to the JUCO National Tournament in Hutchison, Kan., a feat that Larry Cooper, CEO of The Premier Sports Network, called the "most improbable run in JUCO sports history."
So what makes Matt Cross a good fit at Lamar?
For one, the guy is a relentless recruiter. Hawkins raved about Cross' ability to relate to young athletes, and having watched him interact with his Seahawk players and talking to those guys, they respect Cross because he is driven and dedicated to what he does. "I'm crazy when it comes to recruiting, I don't take no for an answer," Cross told me last week.
He's also a disciplinarian, a self-described old-schooler who is committed to getting young men to perform at their best on the court and in the classroom. He appreciates hard work, and in May he's traveling back for Talladega's commencement ceremony to watch several of his former players graduate.
While it's easy to highlight Cross' ability to recruit and coach up the Xs and Os, and it's great to point out that Cross has won everywhere he's been, what makes Cross the ultimate pick is his attention to detail and the way his teams play defense. That's right; Cross coaches defense, a trait that was sorely lacking the last three years.
I'm not guaranteeing that hiring Matt Cross means Lamar has the next Shaka Smart or Brad Stevens. But this much I do know, outside of Terry Evans, the names that have been floated as Roc's replacements, their track records speak for themselves. Pat Knight, the alleged leader in the coaching-search clubhouse, couldn't win at Texas Tech, his teams played a boring brand of basketball and it's not like other schools are beating down his door.
So if you're Larry Tidwell and you want to reenergize your fan base and send a message to the community that the school is serious about winning, you drive down to Port Arthur, pick up Matt Cross, schedule a press conference and introduce him as the next head basketball coach at Lamar University. You generate some national buzz because you've hired the youngest coach in Division I basketball, put a couple seasoned veteran coaches alongside him and then you let Matt Cross loose on the rest of the Southland Conference as he puts Beaumont back on the basketball map.


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MechWarrior Online, the reboot of the MechWarrior series, has been officially announced for release next year, though it is now a free-to-play title, according to the developers. Because of legal conflicts involved in making console versions, MechWarrior Online will be available only on the PC as a multiplayer game.
We've heard precious little in over two years about the MechWarrior reboot, a game where players control machines known as BattleMechs in combat against other BattleMechs and armies. Initially the developers announced that they intended for the reboot to have four-person co-op in addition to single-player and multiplayer modes, but MWO will only allow for multiplayer. The game is only confirmed for first-person view, eschewing the third-person alternate view available in later versions of the first run of the game.
As an online game, the FAQ indicates the game will have some online persistency where players can fight for control of border planets in the game universe. While there will be some items in the game players can buy with money, Bryan Ekman, MWO's creative director, told PCGamer that any item that would give players a tactical advantage will have to be earned by playing the game.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of U.S. financial firms received a boost, closing higher Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged and forecast moderate economic growth.
Shares of Aflac Inc. AFL, -0.11% were the sector's best performer after the insurer reported first-quarter results late Tuesday in which earnings more than doubled. Aflac's shares closed up 7.8%.
Also, management boosted the outlook for Aflac's Japanese operations — its largest revenue stream.
Chief Executive Daniel Amos said Aflac Japan's full-year sales are now expected to increase 10%, compared with the company's previous expectation for a sales decline. Read more on Aflac.
After market close, Assurant Inc. AIZ, +1.19% reported its first-quarter profit rose 16% to $163.3 million. Shares of Assurant Inc., which closed up 3.1%, slipped 0.3% after hours. Read more on Assurant.
Other notable advancers in a solid Wednesday session for Wall Street included regional banks Regions Financial Corp. RF, -0.48%, Fifth Third Bancorp. FITB, -0.07% and SunTrust Banks Inc. STI, +0.39% — all scoring gains of 2% or more.
Financial stocks received an added boost after the Fed decided not to change the course with regards to interest rates for now and provided new forecasts on growth, inflation and unemployment.
The sector remained on an even keel as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke took to the podium. Read more on Bernanke, Fed stance.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, +0.13%, which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 Index, closed up 0.9%. The KBW Bank Index BKX, -0.15%, which tracks a group of 24 leading U.S. banks, also rose, up 1.1%. Both were up around 0.5% before the Fed announcement and Bernanke's news conference.
Among the financials in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.00%, American Express Co. AXP, -0.01% added 2.2% and Travelers Cos. TRV, -0.14% gained 0.7%, while Bank of America Corp. BAC, -0.27% rose 0.7% and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.58% closed down 0.3%.
In banking sector news, taxpayers are still owed $119 billion in outstanding Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, a watchdog for the government crisis response program said Wednesday. That's down from $133 billion in TARP funds owed as of January; the government expects TARP to lose $60 billion. Read more on TARP.
Most of the remaining costs come from investments including taxpayer-funded stakes in American International Group Inc. AIG, +0.02%, General Motors Co. GM, -0.34% and Ally Financial, as well as $18 billion from banks that still must repay their TARP injections. Another $15 billion in costs come from a public-private investment program, in which the government matched private investment into mortgage securities.
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DENVER — Pudge Rodriguez has never played an inning for the Rockies. Neither has Ramon Hernandez. But in many ways, they hold the key to Yorvit Torrealba's return to the Rockies.
According to information obtained this morning, Torrealba is seeking a two-year, $6-million deal, while the Rockies have offered $5.6 million. Both sides have talked optimistically that a gap can be bridged, but they have alternatives (San Francisco and the Mets for Torrealba; Miguel Olivo for the Rockies).
Which brings us back to Rodriguez and Hernandez. Rodriguez signed a two-year, $6-million deal with the Washington Nationals this week. And Hernandez, who was out hit by his backup in Cincinnati, returned to the Reds in November on a $3 million deal with a vesting option for $3.25 million in 2011. cq
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Though the Giants inquired about Detroit's Gerald Laird, they are pursuing Torrealba on a one-year deal. And Torrealba is scheduled to travel to New York next week to resolve his pending grievance with the Mets, which could ignite talks on a new deal with them if they are unable to agree to terms with primary target Bengie Molina.
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Garrett Atkins will be non-tendered Saturday, making him a free agent. Atkins struggled last season, losing his starting job to Ian Stewart in the first week of June. But it's hard not see some taking a shot at the slugger. Over the past five seasons, Atkins ranks 20th in major league baseball in RBIs. cq
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A road worker in the region who suffered from stress and exposure to soot and diesel fumes can sue his former employer — even though he had sought the job that gave him fits just months earlier.
Robert Deleon was passed over as equipment superintendent before the Kalamazoo County Road Commission put him in the job in 2009 when others bowed out.
He lasted less than a year due to tension with his superiors and health problems. Deleon went on a medical leave in 2010 and didn't return to work.
In a 2-1 decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Deleon, who is Hispanic, can pursue a claim of discrimination.
Judge Damon Keith said it's plausible that Deleon was set up to fail, and it makes no difference that he had formerly applied for the job, which carried warnings about noise and fumes.
"No case within this circuit has ruled on this precise issue," Keith said last week in an opinion joined by Judge Timothy Black.
Deleon said he was repeatedly blowing black soot from his nostrils and regularly wiping it out of his garage office. He had bronchitis and headaches.
"The testimony presents sufficient indication that the work environment was objectively intolerable," the court said.
A message seeking comment was left with the road commission's attorney Monday.
In a dissent, Judge Jeffrey Sutton said the decision will cause confusion about workplace law in Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky, the states covered by the 6th Circuit.
"Even after plumbing the depths of logic, experience, case law and common sense, I must return to this surface point: When an employee voluntarily applies for, and obtains, a job transfer, his employer has not subjected him to an adverse employment action," Sutton said.
The case now returns to a Kalamazoo federal judge who had ruled in favor of the road commission.
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MEXICO CITY — One recent Sunday afternoon, music blared from a set of huge speakers and filled the streets of Mexico City's leafy Avenida Paseo de la Reforma. A dance instructor in a powder blue suit stood high on a stage before 30 or so people — mostly women dressed in jeans — leading them through a vigorous workout disguised as a dance routine.
Bicyclists snaked through the crowds, maneuvering around the dancers. Some were dressed in race gear; others pedaled leisurely through the streets with family or friends.
Among them was 13-year-old Mariana Colores, in a bright yellow Nike tracksuit with iPod headphones plugged in her ears. Mariana rides with her father and sister. Her mom, a spunky little woman dressed in spandex and T-shirt, comes for the dancing.
"My mom's been coming for a while," Mariana said. "Me, I do this mainly for fun, but to stay healthy, also. But, for many people, this is the way to get them outside doing something."
Mariana is one of thousands who participate in Mexico City's "Muevete y Metete en Cintura" campaign — "Move and Get in Line" — an exercise program aimed at the obesity epidemic in this country of 110 million people.
While the biking and other exercise attract many, physicians and nutritionists lament the fatness of Mexico.
"Anyplace you look in Mexico, there's an obese person," said Dr. Claudia Sanchez-Castillo, an obesity specialist at the Salvador Zubiran National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition in Mexico City.
Mexico has the dubious distinction of the world's second fattest country, behind only the United States.
According to a 2006 study by the National Institute of Public Health, 24 percent of the male population older than 20 and 35 percent of the female population older than 20 is considered obese in Mexico. By comparison, a 2006 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 31 percent of the male population and 35.3 percent of the female population in the United States is obese.
With obesity comes a hefty price tag of other diseases, particularly diabetes. Often referred to as the rich country's disease, diabetes is now the leading cause of death in Mexico.
"Diabetes, hypertension, these used to be diseases of the rich, and now they are of the poor," said Dr. Abelardo Avila, a malnutrition specialist at the Zubiran institute. "It's the democratization of diseases in Mexico."
As Mexico's battle against obesity and diabetes intensifies, however, the country still faces a longtime enemy: malnutrition.
Experts blame the typical Mexican diet for this double whammy of diseases.
On nearly every corner, Mexicans huddle around street vendors and wait for their five-minute fix: tacos and tortillas stuffed with cheese melted on top of beef or chicken that's cooked in animal fat, or perhaps a pancake drowning in caramel sauce that's doused with rainbow sprinkles.
Wash it down with a cool "refresco" such as Coca-Cola, and have a taste of Mexico's sugar-crazed culture.
"The new generation is what I call the 'ketchup generation,' " said Dr. Hector Bourges, nutrition director at the Zubiran institute.
As the "ketchup generation" tries to satisfy its sweet tooth, the health of rich and poor alike decays.
"It's a fictitious image that malnutrition is improving in Mexico. Not all areas of the country are improving," Avila said, referring to the malnourished population of Mexico's poor southern states. "But, even so, as malnutrition decreases, obesity increases. There's no happy medium."
Even so, the battle against these twin plagues has taken a back seat to what Mexico considers a more pressing public health concern. The drug wars in Mexico's border areas — some 7,000 people are said to have perished in the last year — have grabbed the government's attention.
"Violence is the number one priority right now, and with this, everything gets left behind," Sanchez-Castillo said.
She said she thought that the widespread fear of violence had made people reluctant to leave their homes, and that "there are no safe places to exercise ... and people are afraid to walk around outside alone."
The drug war isn't the only problem.
As the number of Mexican women working outside the home increases, so does the country's reliance on fast food. Street vendors offer their alternative to a famous McDonald's combo: a torta de tamal, referred to as "fried carbs wrapped in carbs," or greasy tacos al pastor.
"There's so many options to eat unhealthy in Mexico, and everything is cooked in animal fat," Sanchez-Castillo said. "People consume more refrescos than water."
Not only do Mexicans prefer the taste of Coca-Cola, she said, it's also much cheaper than bottled water, which they have to buy because the country's running water isn't safe to drink.
According to a report published by the Journal of Nutrition last year, Mexico is the second-largest consumer of soda in the world, having consumed more than 16 billion liters, about 4 billion gallons, in 2005.
"The mothers of poor families in the south see these Coca-Cola ads, and they put the Coca-Cola in babies' bottles in addition to or in place of milk," Avila said.
Many of the poor southern areas have towns made up solely of women, Avila added. The men have left to work in the United States, and the women are left to do the hard labor such as working in the fields.
"At the end of the day, they are tired, and instead of cooking a meal they will just walk up the road to grab quick food for the family," Avila said.
Over the past 40 to 50 years, Mexico has tried a variety of programs to combat its health issues, but there's never been a sustained effort, the doctors said.
"Health programs change in Mexico each time the government changes," Avila said. "For example, in Costa Rica or Chile, there have been continued programs and actions, and 20 years ago they eradicated malnutrition."
Mexican programs do provide free food for kids in poverty or basic food packages, Avila said.
However, "It's a naive vision to think malnutrition will be solved by just giving food away," he said.
(Petri graduated this month from Penn State University. This story was reported from Mexico City for a class in international journalism.)
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