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Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. More than 90 percent of those afflicted are adolescent and young adult women. It is suggested that the reason women in this age group are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders is because of their tendency to go on strict diets to achieve an "ideal" figure. Researchers have found that such stringent dieting can play a key role in triggering eating disorders.
The consequences of eating disorders can be severe - 5 percent to 20 percent of cases of anorexia nervosa leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest, other medical complications, or suicide.
Increasing awareness of the dangers of eating disorders - sparked by medical studies and extensive media coverage of the illness - has led many people to seek help. Nevertheless, some people with eating disorders refuse to admit they have a problem and refuse treatment.
Anorexia nervosa (or simply anorexia) is an eating disorder in which people intentionally starve themselves. It causes extreme weight loss, which the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), defines as at least 15 percent below the individual's normal body weight.
Food and weight become obsessions. Compulsiveness may cause strange eating rituals or the refusal to eat in front of others. It is not uncommon for people with anorexia to collect recipes and prepare gourmet feasts for family and friends, but not partake in the meals themselves. They may also adhere to strict exercise routines to keep off weight.
The cause of anorexia nervosa is not known. Anorexia usually begins as innocent dieting behavior, but gradually progresses to extreme and unhealthy weight loss. Social attitudes toward body appearance, family influences, genetics, and neurochemical and developmental factors are considered possible contributors to the cause of anorexia. Persons who develop anorexia are more likely to come from families with a history of weight problems, physical illness, and other mental health problems, such as depression or substance abuse. Further, often persons with the disorder come from families that are challenged by appropriate problem solving, being too rigid, overly-critical, intrusive, and overprotective. Persons with anorexia may also be dependent, immature in their emotional development, and are likely to isolate themselves from others. Other mental health problems such as anxiety disorders or affective disorders are commonly found in persons with anorexia.
The occurrence of anorexia nervosa has increased over the past 20 years. Approximately 90 percent are women between ages 12 and 25. Initially found mostly in upper- and middle-class families, anorexia is now found in all socioeconomic groups and a variety of ethnic and racial groups.
Most people with eating disorders share certain personality traits and use abnormal eating rituals as a means of handling stress and anxiety. These personality traits often include, but are not limited to, the following:
People with anorexia nervosa:
It is believed that they restrict food - particularly carbohydrates - to gain a sense of control in some/one area of their lives. Controlling their weight appears to offer two advantages:
There are two subgroups of anorexic behavior aimed at reducing caloric intake, including the following:
The following are the most common symptoms of anorexia. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The following are the most common physical symptoms associated with anorexia - often that result from starvation and malnourishment. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Persons with anorexia may also be socially withdrawn, irritable, moody, and/or depressed. The symptoms of anorexia nervosa may resemble other medical problems or psychiatric conditions. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
Parents, family members, spouses, teachers, coaches, and instructors may be able to identify an individual with anorexia, although many persons with the disorder initially keep their illness very private and hidden. A detailed history of the individual's behavior from family, parents, and teachers, clinical observations of the person's behavior, and, sometimes, psychological testing contribute to the diagnosis. Family members who note symptoms of anorexia in a loved one can help by seeking an evaluation and treatment early. Early treatment can often prevent future problems.
Anorexia, and the malnutrition that results, can adversely affect nearly every organ system in the body, increasing the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. Anorexia can be fatal. Consult your physician for more information.
Specific treatment for anorexia nervosa will be determined by your physician based on:
Anorexia is usually treated with a combination of individual therapy, family therapy, behavior modification, and nutritional rehabilitation. Treatment should always be based on a comprehensive evaluation of the individual and family. Individual therapy usually includes both cognitive and behavioral techniques. Medication (usually antidepressants) may be helpful if the person with anorexia is also depressed. The frequent occurrence of medical complications and the possibility of death during the course of acute and rehabilitative treatment requires both your physician and a nutritionist to be active members of the management team. Families play a vital supportive role in any treatment process.
Medical complications that may result from anorexia include, but are not limited to, the following:
To understand eating disorders, researchers have studied the neuroendocrine system, which is made up of a combination of the central nervous and hormonal systems.
The neuroendocrine system regulates multiple functions of the mind and body. It has been found that many of the following regulatory mechanisms may be, to some degree, disturbed in persons with eating disorders:
Many people with eating disorders also appear to suffer from depression, and is believed that there may be a link between these two disorders. For example:
Because eating disorders tend to run in families, and female relatives are the most often affected, genetic factors are believed to play a role in the disorders.
But, other influences, both behavioral and environmental, may also play a role. Consider these facts from the National Institute of Mental Health:
Preventive measures to reduce the incidence of anorexia are not known at this time. However, early detection and intervention can reduce the severity of symptoms, enhance the individual's normal growth and development, and improve the quality of life experienced by persons with anorexia nervosa. Encouraging healthy eating habits and realistic attitudes toward weight and diet may also be helpful.
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- About 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's, the Alzheimer's Association says
- More than 15 million Americans are providing unpaid care for a person with dementia
- Don't begin conversations with people with dementia with "Do you remember ..."
- Instead, try saying "Wasn't it fun when we ..."
Judy Warzenski didn't realize how bad her father, Donald's, memory had gotten until he turned to her sister Joyce and asked, "Where's the girl who was sitting next to you?" He did not recognize Joyce as his own daughter.
This Thanksgiving, Warzenski and her younger siblings will eat Thanksgiving dinner with their father in a private dining room at a nursing home in Pennsylvania. Moving her father there in October was an agonizing decision.
"It's really very upsetting to me," said Warzenski, 62, of central New Jersey. "I promised him I would never do this. I promised him I would never put him in a nursing home, which I've come to realize is an unrealistic promise."
Warzenski, who had commented on a previous CNN dementia story, is one of many baby boomers who must watch their loved ones suffer from Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia. The condition, which robs people of their memory and thinking skills, necessitates tough decisions about caring for people as their minds slowly slip away.
"Often, the baby boomers are thrust into the position of caring for a loved one with dementia because that loved one declines and needs 24-hour supervision," said Laura Wayman, a dementia care specialist and author of "A Loving Approach to Dementia Care."
'Generation Alzheimer's'
The Alzheimer's Association says that unless a treatment or cure is found, Alzheimer's "will become the defining disease of the Baby Boom Generation" or, as the association calls it, "Generation Alzheimer's." Currently, there is no proven method to fully stop the progression of symptoms or reverse them.
Approximately 10 million baby boomers will develop Alzheimer's, according to estimates from the Alzheimer's Association. Of those who reach the age of 85, nearly one in two will get it.
Most people with Alzheimer's begin experiencing symptoms after age 60, according to the National Institutes of Health. Only 5% of people with the condition start showing signs of it before age 65; this is called early-onset Alzheimer's. Symptoms can even begin in the 30s, 40s or 50s, and in some cases there is a clear genetic link.
Many of the boomers taking care of loved ones with dementia have children of their own, forcing them into a "sandwich generation" situation that comes along with a lot of financial strain.
Some caregivers are resistant to asking for help, but it's essential that they have a support network, Wayman said. The caregiver's own health, finances, income and employment may suffer. Wayman's own mother died of a heart attack while caring for Wayman's father.
"They feel like they should be able to take care of this person, and they can't do it by themselves," she said.
More than 15 million Americans are providing unpaid care for a person with dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Association. That care amounts to $210 billion in unpaid hours. And 80% of home care for people with dementia comes from family members.
Living with Alzheimer's
Bill Carey, 54, of Ferndale, Michigan, is one of those with early-onset Alzheimer's who is still able to articulate and understand what's happening. He is the third person in his family to receive a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
Carey has known he has the condition for about nine years, as he wrote in the comments on a previous CNN story. A spinal tap confirmed that he has high levels of a protein associated with Alzheimer's. His speech is still coherent, but he had to give up his job as an apartment manager because he was making mistakes: for example, he could no longer handle adding up the amounts on rent checks.
"Even with simple arithmetic, my brain just shuts down," he said. "It's like there's nothing there."
But Carey isn't sitting by idly. He goes to a local support group with others who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's. They talk about the things that they remember and share coping techniques. He also takes the medications Aricept and Namenda, designed to slow the progression of symptoms, and they appear to be working. To keep his mind challenged, he does jigsaw puzzles on his computer.
Carey's domestic partner, Larry Stowell, sorts out his medications, handles Carey's finances and has "been extremely supportive" overall, Carey says. The two will spend Thanksgiving alone. Although Carey doesn't cook as much as he used to, he is charge of the turkey.
"I haven't set fire to the house yet," Carey said. "I'm sure Larry will tell me when I reach that point."
Caring for a wife
Others are still in their 50s and further gone. Mike of Massachusetts writes in an e-mail that he is "Feeling as if I've lost my wife and had her replaced by a child who looks like her."
His wife, Sally, is only 51 and has dementia. The couple is unsure whether it is specifically Alzheimer's, but she may get further testing to find out.
"I feel as if we can't really talk seriously about anything anymore, and I have to make all of the decisions in our lives," Mike said.
Mike asked that his wife's name be changed and that their last name not be used. He requested to be interviewed over e-mail instead of the phone so that his wife would not overhear and get upset.
Their adult daughter lives with them and helps out. Mike is also looking into adult day care and is trying to get friends to take Sally out of the house now and then so he can have some respite.
Mike says the two are rarely physically intimate anymore.
Mike and Sally are not going to be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday. Mike has to work that day, and Sally cannot cook. She can no longer operate a shower, plug in a hair dryer or use a dishwasher, Mike says.
What to do for Thanksgiving
Wayman offers these tips for spending Thanksgiving with a person with dementia:
• While preparing the food, reminisce about past Thanksgivings. But don't ask, "Do you remember when ..." something happened, since you don't know how much has been forgotten. Instead, try starting your memories with "Wasn't it fun when we ..."
• Limit the number of guests at the meal. You might even want to have two different Thanksgiving meals if there are a lot of people who would want to come. People with dementia have trouble processing and tracking information, so if there a lot of people, they may have extra difficulty following a conversation.
• Make sure there is a place for the person with dementia to rest if he or she feels overwhelmed.
• Fill your home with pleasant, traditional, soothing aromas. Put a couple of teaspoons of vanilla in a baking pan to make the kitchen smell like desserts baking. Cooking the meal may also produce smells that are familiar to your loved one with dementia.
• Incorporate the person with dementia in food preparation as appropriate, perhaps by stirring a mixture or setting a table. But safety is the priority: Wayman knows a family whose mother with dementia went to get the turkey from the oven but fell and burned herself.
And after
Although Warzenski feels bad about her father having to be in a nursing home, he doesn't say that he needs to go home. Instead he might say, "I need to get my car," she says.
Warzenski is grateful that he is safe and won't hurt himself in the middle of the night. He does not appear to be aware that he's in a facility. At this point, she just wants him to be comfortable.
"For him to pass would be a blessing to him," Warzenski said. "He was a police officer. If he ever realized what had become of him, he would be mortified."

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Posted by David Horowitz on Feb 13th, 2011 and filed under Daily Mailer, FrontPage.
David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and an editor of its largest magazine,Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter Collier, of three best selling dynastic biographies: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976); The Kennedys: An American Dream (1984); and The Fords: An American Epic (1987). Looking back in anger at their days in the New Left, he and Collier wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of their second thoughts about the 60s that has been compared to Whittaker Chambers' Witness and other classic works documenting a break from totalitarianism. Horowitz examined this subject more closely in Radical Son (1996), a memoir tracing his odyssey from "red-diaper baby" to conservative activist that George Gilder described as "the first great autobiography of his generation."
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The critics have called Pachinko (amongst other flattering things) : "mean and unclean", "a cross between a handgun, a remote control and a good 40-ounce", and "thug-core at its finest".
Spewing out songs of hate and cynicism, Pachinko espouse the virtues and valor of breakdancing gay trucker love. Pachinko have finally released their fully realized amateur porn soundtrack to match their fire-breathing live sicko-love fest. A sordid mix of the AmRep sound (Tar, Halo of Flies, etc., c'mon, the band's main guy Brech had Killdozer play at his wedding), AC/DC, Skynyrd, and good ol' fashioned Black Flag, Pachinko has finally exposed what a truly filthy mind can produce -- a streamlined, clear, and all-together demented vision of pain and sickness. They've toured with a whole bunch of hip bands and stupid stuff like that, but who cares when Bruce Campbell (the Evil Dead Guy), said "If I were you, I wouldn't transport this album across state lines." 'Nuff said.
Go get one. You'll never need to drink castor oil and raw eggs ever again.


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|After five consecutive third-place-finishes, UMMC finally won their second EuroLeague Women title
When UMMC Ekaterinburg team captain Maria Stepanova lifted the EuroLeague Women trophy on Sunday night, the relief was perceptible in DIVS arena - among the 5,000 fans, the players, coaches and management of the club.
Hosts Ekaterinburg remained undefeated during the Final Eight, capping off their campaign with an 82-56 victory in the title game against Fenerbahce.
The success ended a 10-year-drought for the Russian powerhouse, with the only previous EuroLeague Women crown dating back to 2003.
Russian sports news website sports.ru reviewed the road to the title, mentioning UMMC's convincing victories against Polkowice, Kosice, Galatasaray and Bourges, before analysing the final triumph against Fenerbahce.
Stepanova echoed that UMMC were the strongest team at the Final Eight.
"Our team includes the best basketball players of America, France, Spain, Poland and Latvia. We have a team full of 'MVPs'," she said after the game.
The star-laden team is known for their offensive skills, but impressed at the Final Eight with their team defence.
On the way to the final, the hosts locked down their rivals, with no opponent being able to score more than 45 points. Fenerbahce broke that barrier with 56 points, but came nowhere close to their previous season output of 78.4 points per game.
It came as no surprise that sports news portal rsport.ru picked their headline upon the defensive performance of the home team, quoting head coach Olaf Lange.
"I am proud of our team defence," said the German coach, adding: "It's no secret that our team is renowned for the attack, we have many offensive players, but we are working hard on defence - and the result is obvious. I am proud that our team was able to become a unit."
|Silvia Dominguez has collected three EuroLeague Women titles in the last three years - each one with a different club
Spanish newspaper El País as well took a closer look at the Final Eight champions, focusing on Spanish international Silvia Dominguez with the headline "El inverosímil triplete de Silvia" (The unlikely triplet of Silvia).
The point guard achieved the feat of winning three consecutive championships with three different clubs: Halcon Avenida, Ros Casares and UMMC Ekaterinburg.
"It's very special. I am thrilled. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, in ambitious clubs with the biggest goals," the 1.66m playmaker is quoted.
Dominguez also provided the recipe for her team's success, claiming that head coach Lange found a role for each of his 13 star players.
Additionally, the players didn't have to worry about anything in Ekaterinburg, except for playing basketball.
"The structure is very professional. It is a treat how they treat us. They do everything to make you feel comfortable," Dominguez told the paper.
Her own determination has brought her respect and praise from numerous sources, including Fenerbahce head coach Roberto Iniguez.
The Spanish play caller knows Dominguez well, having been at the helm of Ros Casares last season, guiding the team to the EuroLeague Women crown.
Iniguez (@Robertoih5) tweeted on Monday: "Wholehearted congratulations to Silvia Dominguez (@sdominguez6) for another European title. Example of work, principles and improvement."
Although Fenerbahce missed out on a historic win, Iniguez was proud of his players and assured that they will rebound: "I know these players. They will work for getting back strongly. SURE. No doubts."
Meanwhile, French media kept an eye on the fairy-tale-run of Bourges Basket.
The injury-plagued team sprung a surprise in Ekaterinburg, reaching the semi-finals and eventually clinching third place with a 65-57 triumph against Good Angels Kosice.
Bourges made the front page of France's biggest sports newspaper L'Equipe on Friday, with the headline reading "Quel exploit!" (What a feat!) and the author stating Bourges did the unthinkable by advancing to the last four.
L'Equipe followed the success up with an article online after the third-place game, underlining the importance of Celine Dumerc and claiming that a fourth EuroLeague Women title is not out of reach after all.


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Smith: Software to replace thinking
Published 8:57 pm, Saturday, November 17, 2012
It's not enough that technology is disrupting the financial model that has long sustained journalism. Now researchers are developing software that offers a new way to read.
Great. That leaves just one more step — computer code that second-guesses everything it bumps up against — and my line of work is done for.
But first, that reading breakthrough: The announcement came from Cornell University the week before Election Day, an unfortunate bit of timing, since better reading skills on the part of voters might have made this year's campaigns a bit less contentious. Manipulative campaign advertising wouldn't work, you know, if it weren't for an electorate that hasn't read up on the issues.
Researchers in Cornell's Communication and Information Science departments have applied a concept known as "selectional preference" to content from major media outlets and political blogs. In linguistics, "selectional preference" is a way of identifying relations among words in order to help analyze how we think about a concept.
Cornell's announcement of the new online tool, which it calls "Reflext," cites the word "water," and its typical association with such verbs as "pour," "flow," "freeze" and "splash." Fine. You wouldn't expect a noun like "water" to be associated with verbs like "snowshoed" or "indemnified."
But take the word "Medicare." In the text studied by Cornell's researchers, it often appeared with such words as "slash" and "end," but also with "reform" and "save."
Those are very different ways of explaining what may be the same policy choices. One person's plan to "reform" something may be another's view of "ending" it. You can label either a tax cut or a tax hike as "reform."
It's by analyzing the frequency of such word associations that the Cornell researchers say they can better grasp what Americans are thinking.
"Examining how we talk about issues can provide insights into how we think about them," said Eric P.S. Baumer, a researcher working on the project.
Long before Cornell began this sort of research, journalists were struggling daily to figure out just the right word to describe what they learn. A word that's neutral may be dull; a more powerful word may be inaccurate.
This isn't just about avoiding what is trite. We're well-practiced in that from the get-go. One of my early editors shoved back a piece of copy I had written reporting that ambulances had "rushed" fire victims to the hospital. "Ambulances always rush," he said. "Don't write stuff that isn't news." In my brief career as a sportswriter, I covered only one golf tournament, which is fortunate, because I quickly ran out of verbs: Golfers, I learned, either "shoot" or "fire." Boring.
This issue was well-known to Samuel Clemens, whose career as the writer Mark Twain began in newspapering. "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter," Twain wrote to a friend. "It's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
What Cornell researchers hope to do, however, is go beyond precision of word choice. They aim to detect nothing less than what is said between the lines — the patterns in language use that suggest how people are discerning issues.
It's the next step beyond a word cloud, a rather simple bit of software that gives visual weight to words that appear most often in a text. In a word cloud of the U.S. Constitution, for example, the word that emerges as most prominent is "States," followed by "President."
What might a "selectional preference" analysis of last week's news show? Perhaps the connection of "general" to "scandal," or "fiscal cliff" to "taxes," and "entitlements?" During a campaign season, it might reveal word manipulation on the stump.
But blaming candidates and their backers for language that distorts reality diminishes our own responsibility. Persuasion has been an energetic human practice since the first cave-dwellers' mating rituals. It's the task of person receiving the message to sort the truth.
We who labor in journalism can help, and the Cornell research might be useful. But there's no substitute for careful reading: watching out for value-laden words, for phrases that seem to twist your mind and for rhetorical flourishes that shroud complex issues in simplicity.
That doesn't take software — just the human brain we're all already packing.
Rex Smith is editor of the Times Union. Share your thoughts at http://blogs.timesunion.com/editors


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The final recording for these indie kings finds them in the studio with Martin Bisi in NYC. Rejoined by original guitarist David Giffen, the additional oomph is highly visible and gives added depth to an already more-than-capable line-up.
"One of punk rock's longest running bands has called it quits. After nine years and seven albums, New York's Alice Donut amicably split up, playing its final show in November. Vocalist Tomas Antona cites financial hardship and a jones to try something new as his reasons for the break up. "After nine years," he says, "it's exciting to do a new project." Though it also features Donut bassist Sissi Schulmeister, Antona's new band, the Mambo Killers, is a few shades different from his previous outfit. "It's industrial-mambo-punk, "Antona says. Donut, whose final LP, Pure Acid Park, was released on Alternative Tentacles last year, was, according to Antona, "hanging by the skin of our teeth financially. I couldn't do (Mambo Killers), Donut and have a job." Donut drummer Steven Moses is currently working on an avant-garde jazz project, although the other members of the band, guitarists Michael Jung and David Giffen, don't have any music plans. Releasing its first record, Donut Comes Alive, in 1988, Alice Donut's out-of-control punk noise, augmented by occasional trombone howls, was a staple of the indie-punk scene for almost a decade. Over the years, Donut lost a guitarist (Richard Marshall) and some of the noise, but gained a stronger sense of melody, best displayed on Pure Acid Park, the band's most critically acclaimed release."- Magnet
"Tomas Antona told me of this new recording outside an East Village cafe in April. Sans his infamous rain slicker, with bassist/vocalist Sissi Schulmeister, Antona almost slipped by. "Pure Acid Park is the name, and we just finished it," was the extent of the chat, but at least he wasn't lying. This latest Alice Donut incorporates '60s pop-psych, twisted rural instrumentation and a cover of Roxy Erikson's "I Walked with a Zombie" for a fine, if less abusive, follow-up to Untidy Suicides… Antona's voice, apparently still flossed with Steven Tyler's hair extensions, is recognizable like Jello's though Alice Donut has always managed to philosophize with less pretentiousness. Their music has improved with each recording, revealing teamwork in a Bad News Bears vein. Michael Jung's Les Paul channels hooks from every Nuggets compilation in the same mystic hiccup as hardcore/metal. Stephen Moses drums like a seasoned cabbie hell-bent on getting through to someplace five minutes ago. Schulmeister manages the first portion of Erikson's song, and her increased German school girl vocals are welcomed throughout.
Martin Bisi produced Pure Acid Park, and while it's less urbanely thematic than Mule, there's a strong sense of disgust and humor in the same vein as "Big Ass" or "Mrs. Hayes." As usual, it's difficult to separate the innocent from the guilty, but entertaining to try. Stand out tracks include "Millenium," "Insane," "The Unspeakable Pleasure of Being Me" and the Erikson cover. Thought I heard a glockenspiel. Swore a toy piano's unstrung. A slide guitar scares black cats and for the Donutholes who need it, there's mo' better blues. A remarkably twisted vision directed toward a future with dotted eyes. Not disappointing, and I hate rock and roll."- Ink
"Look no further for proof that Alice Donut instinctively grasp the anarchic-fun element of rock and roll than their hillbilly-psychedelic version of Roky Erickson's "I Walked with a Zombie." With el-cheapo guitar, cheesy organ, and nursery-rhyme vocals, it's pure New Wave--the last known era in contemporary music when punters and musicians alike had fun. But then, Alice Donut hail from New York's East Village, birthplace of assorted Yippies and Fugs, so it figures somehow.
Don't mistake a goofy neo-hippie persona for slack, though; this band deliver musically (and have done over seven albums in seven years). "The Senator and the Cabin Boy" (now there's a title Fugs Ed Sanders or Tuli Kupferberg might've come up with over doobies) is a tightly wound number constructed from a sproingy guitar riff, perfectly metronomic drumming, a timely trombone solo (the marching-band styling no doubt called for in a "political" song), and some insane yet precise doo-woppy call-and-response guy/gal singing. All this and a false ending too--Alice Donut pay serious attention to detail, in the most song-crafty manner.
They can also crank out the Big Rawk (check the Zep riffs and arena build-up of "Insane"). They have the little gestures (dig the lo-fi Flying Nun pop of "The Unspeakable Pleasure of Being Me"). And just to keep the chemical quotient high, they frolic in the pure acid park of the album's title ("Freaks in Love" sounds like My Bloody Valentine doing a vicious parody of Jane's Addiction). What Alice Donut won't do, however, is allow your attention to wander. Sign me up for the Donut Army."- Puncture


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Red Sox's rally steals ALCS mojo
Two innings in Game 2 turn tide on once-rolling Tigers
BOSTON -- It was in the seventh inning when Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia began telling his teammates that something improbable was about to happen.
"This isn't over," he announced.View Full Game Coverage
He made sure everyone in the dugout heard it. He didn't stop there, either. He told 'em how it was going to play out.
"We're going to get into the bullpen," he said, "and we're going to beat 'em."
He added something that also stuck.
"This team is too good."
There are magical nights like this in playoff baseball. Nights that defy description and logic and percentages. Nights when one team is punched in the gut and the other has its notion of a magical season reinforced.
Sometimes, there are things that can't be explained, and that's how it was Sunday night in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series at Fenway Park as the Red Sox rallied from a five-run deficit to win, 6-5.
Suddenly a series that seemed to be getting away from them looks completely different. Rather than going to Detroit for the next three games down, 0-2, they're all square and the long, tough series that seemed likely may have begun.
In the other clubhouse, the issue could be a hangover. It's not just that the Tigers lost. It's how they lost.
"You've got to have amnesia," Tigers starter Max Scherzer said.
Game 2 changed in an instant, and the Tigers had better hope the entire series didn't change with it.
For 16 innings on Saturday and Sunday, this series was headed one direction. Maybe the Tigers wouldn't admit to that. After all, the guys in the arena have to play it out and fight and claw for every inch.
But the Tigers rode a dominant rotation here, and a night after right-hander Anibal Sanchez threw no-hit ball for six innings in Game 1, Scherzer followed by allowing two hits in a seven-inning, one-run, 13-strikeout performance.
If you're inclined to second-guess Tigers manager Jim Leyland for pulling Scherzer after seven innings, don't. Leyland left himself open to being second-guessed, but this wasn't it.
"I told them I was done," Scherzer said.
Scherzer turned a 5-1 lead over to his bullpen, and Leyland figured he could close it out from there. And then with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, with the bases loaded, with the Red Sox finally having some hope, Ortiz did something that added to his own legend.
His grand slam off Tigers closer Joaquin Benoit soared over the right-field wall, and a game that had seemed lost, a game in which the Red Sox had seemed so lifeless, became another special moment in a season filled with them.
"Giving up isn't an option with this team," Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes said.
Leyland may wonder what would have happened if he'd chosen a different matchup in the eighth when he summoned Benoit for a four-out save. He'd already used one of his lefty relievers, Drew Smyly, in the game, but still had another, Phil Coke.
Leyland stayed away from Coke, who was going so badly at one point this season that he was shipped back to the Minor Leagues. Still, Coke and Ortiz have a history.
Ortiz is just 2-for-18 against Coke. Beyond that, his batting average this season is 79 points lower against left-handers.
In the bottom of the ninth, the Sox finished it off with Gomes' infield single, an error, a wild pitch and a Jarrod Saltalamacchia walk-off single.
Baseball players always say momentum doesn't mean much because starting pitching sets a tone. Still, if any defeat could linger, this is it.
"I think winning this game is going to tell a lot," Ortiz said.
Or it could just be the first two games of a series that features two good teams punching and counter-punching.
"We're going to play it to the final out," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "And once again our guys don't quit until that final out is made."
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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The 3dConnexion Space Navigator would be wonderful as a pan and zoom control. I find it extremely useful in SketchUp and when I switch from that to QCAD am always disappointed to find it doesn't work.
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A report released in October by the AIM Group, a global team of consultants in interactive and traditional media, found that Village Voice Media, with its backpage.com classifieds site, is the new leader in online sex advertising. The site recently announced the acquisition of an online security specialist and an initial take-down of roughly half of their sex-related categories while putting others under review. The other half of the frequently misused categories to advertise illegal sex, often related to trafficking, remain active and girls continue to be exploited on backpage.
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In a clash of the two undefeated teams Uganda defeated USA to secure a birth in the WCL Division 3 final. Uganda posted a modest 175 batting first but totally outplayed the USA, as the US was dismissed 82 runs short of the mark, all out for 93.
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Review: Darkness pervades `Men We Reaped'
09/19/2013 6:31am"Men We Reaped: a Memoir" (Bloomsbury USA), by Jesmyn Ward
Blending the best of ginger and banana breads
09/19/2013 6:44amThe great thing about quick breads also is the most obvious. They're quick.
Joan Allen back at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre
09/19/2013 8:48amMore than two decades after she last acted on the Steppenwolf stage, Joan Allen has returned to the theater where she started her career as the lead in the company's season premiere.
Junot Diaz still feels like an immigrant
09/19/2013 9:17amHe has won a Pulitzer, teaches Americans how to write at MIT and his Spanish-sprinkled stories have been acclaimed in the United States. But Junot Diaz, who arrived from the Dominican Republic at the age of 6, says he has never stopped feeling like an immigrant.
Pynchon, Lahiri among book award finalists
09/19/2013 10:05amPublishers hope that the new rules in place for the National Book Awards, for which the first-ever long-lists were announced this week, will lead to the kind of sales enjoyed by winners of Britain's Man Booker Prize.
Indie rock disc inspired by Kerouac novel
09/19/2013 10:17amSeveral indie rockers have collaborated on a disc that pays tribute to a Jack Kerouac novel _ and it's not "On the Road."
Adam Goldberg plays back his youth on a new sitcom
09/19/2013 10:21amFrom "I Love Lucy" at the dawn of TV, through "Roseanne" and "Seinfeld" and scores of long-forgotten shows, situation comedy has found inspiration in the lives of its creators.
Thousands welcome giant rubber duck to Taiwan
09/19/2013 10:52amThousands of people crowded the harbor of a Taiwanese city on Thursday to welcome a giant floating yellow rubber duck.
Costume National deconstructs womenswear in Milan
09/19/2013 11:32amCostume National hung out an `'under construction" sign on the long-awaited Milan return of its women's collection.
Fendi offers a chic summer women's wardrobe
09/19/2013 11:39amThe latest Fendi collection is both feminine and flip _ in short, very chic.
Review: New albums from electronic dance musicians
09/19/2013 12:05pmIn electronic dance music, popularly abbreviated as EDM, what can make you can also break you. Artists like Swedish House Mafia and David Guetta have stamped their meal tickets with floor-filling tracks and collaborations with top-flight singers and hip-hop stars. But sometimes the creative cacophony falls short, cheapened by an artistic marriage of convenience rather than strong songwriting or deft arrangements.
Carole King is MusiCares person of the year
09/19/2013 12:23pmCarole King will be honored as the MusiCares person of the year during the 2014 Grammy Awards week.
NBC developing Johnny Carson miniseries
09/19/2013 12:28pmThe late Johnny Carson is coming back to NBC.
Urbanski extends deal with Indianapolis orchestra
09/19/2013 12:38pmThe Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will keep its music director through the 2017-18 season.
Americans increasingly hungry for hipster foods
09/19/2013 1:14pmSo maybe the chance to taste the flaky spawn of a doughnut and croissant won't get you lining up at the crack of dawn. Maybe you're holding out for a burger nestled between fried ramen noodles. Or perhaps it's the elusive McRib that moves you.
Prada looks project feminine strength
09/19/2013 1:15pmMiuccia Prada is the most eclectic designer on the Milan runway. Every season she goes to a new place, either literally or figuratively, for inspiration and comes up with a collection that is different from everybody else's and almost always brings down the house.
Online orders replace mom's college care packages
09/19/2013 1:22pmIn the decade Sarah Tetley has worked with college students, she's seen a change in care packages sent from home.
Carter among Ali Humanitarian Award winners
09/19/2013 1:27pmFormer President Jimmy Carter will receive a lifetime humanitarian achievement award bearing Muhammad Ali's name next month, headlining a list of winners that includes singers Christina Aguilera and Michael Bolton for the first-ever awards that promote achievements in the fight for social justice.
Cranston books a post-'Breaking Bad' movie role
09/19/2013 1:43pmBryan Cranston will star as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in a film that's to be his first after wrapping "Breaking Bad."
Milan fashion week celebrates homegrown creativity
09/19/2013 2:04pmMilan is seeking to reclaim its fashion pre-eminence with a re-energized fashion week not only through strong messages from the runways but concrete acts of to enhance the city's prestige.
Max Mara: Neutrals with playful bursts of color
09/19/2013 2:07pmMax Mara has clean looks for next summer that are alternatively playful and workaday.
Tupac Shakur biopic to be filmed in 2014
09/19/2013 4:44pmA new biopic on slain rapper Tupac Shakur is coming.
Canals run dry at Venetian in Vegas for 1st time
09/19/2013 5:49pmIt's not often you can use the word "dry" to describe a Las Vegas landmark, but tourists hoping to cruise along the Venetian hotel-casino's indoor canals are finding them tapped out.
CO makes massive rescue pet friendly
09/19/2013 9:28pmSome helicopters rescuing people after massive flooding in Colorado carried more dogs, cats and fish than people. Rescuers using zip lines to evacuate people over raging rivers also risked their lives to make sure the four-legged members of families were safe.
Vendors: Clown Posse festival checks bouncing
09/19/2013 10:05pmVendors at the latest outdoor festival featuring rap-metal group Insane Clown Posse are complaining they're owed thousands of dollars by promoters of the southern Illinois event, who now pledge they'll find a way to pay the tab.
Correction: TV-Dexter's Exit
09/19/2013 10:37pmIn a story Sept. 18 about the finale of the television show "Dexter," The Association Press erroneously reported that the character Debra is Dexter's half-sister. She is his adopted sister.
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A name to remember for fantasy football this year is RB Giovani Bernard. Word out of the Bengals camp is that he's been opening eyes with both runs and catches.
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An explosion in Tehran Wednesday killed an Iranian nuclear scientist while he was driving his car. It's the fifth such death in five years, and Iranian officials immediately blamed Israel. The attack is the latest manifestation of escalating tensions between Iran and the West.
Television footage showed the street where engineer Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's life ended, in much the same manner as other nuclear scientists before him, in Tehran rush-hour traffic. Eyewitnesses told Iranian media that a motorcycle pulled up alongside Roshan's car and a man attached a magnetic bomb before speeding away.
There was no claim of responsibility, but officials called it the work of "the Zionists," Iran's term for Israel. It's impossible to say if they were aware of remarks made Tuesday by Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz to an Israeli parliamentary committee. Gantz predicted that 2012 would be a year in which Iran experiences increased international pressure including, in his words, "events that happen unnaturally."
David Albright, a nuclear analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, speaking before the latest assassination, said Tehran must be feeling the pressure financially, diplomatically, and from covert operations:
"It knows that some of its scientists are under threat [of] assassination; there's been cyberattacks; there are efforts to get Iranians to defect. We've called it kind of a third way all those things are continuing, and that's added to the pressure," he says.
Latest In Series Of Belligerent Signals
The American and European drumbeat for ever more painful sanctions has been greeted by Iranian war games, missile tests and threats to close the vital oil shipping lanes of the straits of Hormuz. U.S. and British warships have since raised their profiles in the Persian Gulf.
Most analysts agree that there is a built-in disincentive for Iran to try to block the straits the fact that it would also choke off Iran's own oil exports. But Columbia University Middle East expert Gary Sick says there is one circumstance under which Iran might take such a drastic step if Western sanctions against the Iranian central bank are implemented, because that would mean Iran could no longer get paid for its crude.
"Iran has indicated quite clearly and I'm not sure this has been understood in the West they've indicated that if they are no long able to sell their oil, they will regard that as a blockade or an act of war, even if it's done through the banks. In that event, they have said they're not going to just sit on their hands," Sick says.
Groundwork For Diplomatic Solution?
Much of the hostility can be traced to Western fears that Iran's nuclear program includes a drive for weapons capability, which Tehran denies. Iran's announcement that uranium enrichment has begun in a hardened underground site called Fordo near the holy city of Qom hasn't helped matters.
Analyst Mark Fitzpatrick at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London says the most troubling aspect of the move is Iran's current emphasis on enriching uranium to 20 percent, which is closer to weapons-grade. But he also notes that amid all the saber-rattling, Iran has offered to resume nuclear talks with six world powers. No date has been announced, and Fitzpatrick says he's pessimistic about a breakthrough anytime soon, but there may be a diplomatic component to Tehran's insistence on enriching to 20 percent.
"Iran may feel that it's strengthening its hand in any upcoming negotiations, by making more valuable this card of being willing to stop producing 20 percent enriched uranium. It's probably equivalent to the Western view that by ratcheting up sanctions the West strengthens its hand, because it's a sanction that could be later withdrawn in negotiations," Fitzpatrick says.
Analyst Gary Sick says a deal that sees Iran agreeing to stop its 20 percent enrichment may be the only plausible avenue for a diplomatic success in the near future. Whether that's possible in the current climate, and if it is whether that would ease the current tensions, are among the questions now being debated in Tehran and Washington.


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Trans Mongolian Route - is not arguably the most interesting route. The weekly Trans-Mongolian (train 4 eastbound, train 3 westbound) train leaves Moscow for Beijing every Tuesday night. The 7,621 km (4,735 mile) journey takes 6 days. This train crosses Siberia, cuts across Mongolia and the Gobi desert, then enters China and passes through the Great Wall. There's a second weekly train between Moscow and Ulan Bator (train 6 eastbound, train 5 westbound). Alternatively, there are daily trains between Moscow and Irkutsk and a daily train between Irkutsk and Ulan Bator (train 263/264). There are two trains a week between Ulan Bator and Beijing.
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