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Mechanical Finishing, Inc., a cleaning and deburring job shop in Cincinnati, OH, acquired the chemical-compound blending and spare-parts business of Rosemont Industries, also of Cincinnati. Mechanical Finishing will make and distribute burnishing soaps, cleaners, abrasives and rust inhibitors previously developed and sold under the Rosemont name.
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Thursday, April 05, 2007
The post-Oprah spin
I just watched it on TiVo. I have to admit that I went in with low expectations, having read criticism of the show in the blogosphere and elsewhere on the Internet. I expected the show to be alarmist and overwhelmingly negative, but I was pleasantly surprised. There was negativity - a lot of it. But there was also a lot of love, a lot of footage of autistic children who were not in the throes of difficult moments - children who were smiling and kissing their parents. The parents interviewed talked about their challenges, their exhaustion, the failure of a marriage, the sacrifices they've made, the stress on their neurotypical children - but they also talked about how much they love their autistic children, how much their children have brought to their lives, and how much richer their lives are because of them.
Of course, there are things I would have liked to see: An interview with an autistic adult, for one. Any mention of RDI or other promising educational practices or intervention strategies that went beyond "the importance of early intervention," for another. It struck me that most of the parents interviewed seemed to have similar backgrounds: children who were developing normally until sometime after they turned 2, at which point they lost their previously acquired abilities; pediatricians who brushed off parental concerns and failed to diagnose the autism until much later. Neither of those things were true for us - but are these experiences more common than mine? And if not, then why was such a small cross-section of parents selected for the panel?
So, those are my thoughts: it was not ideal, but all things considered, it exceeded my expectations.
What did you think?
27 comments:
- mysamiam said...
I have so many mixed emotions and was trying to put it to a post tonight and decided to cruise my favorite autism families instead for relief. I love how the father ended the show. I did not like Ms. Katie's "blowing vaccine steam", was surprisingly impressed with Ms. Autism Speaks VP on her views of how society should be supportive and not judgmental (but that was about it from her). In my head I am trying to formalize my thoughts of the sibling section. I don't know, too much to process tonight. I will tell you that I knew something was different with Sam from 4 months of age on. He did not develop normally until 2. He failed every well child check. Didn't have any words till 3, many motor delays. So yah, I thought it was interesting when they all had the (2 year) thing in common and really felt they were going to spin things and take it back to the 18 months and vaccines, but Katie handled that for them.
- April 06, 2007 12:39 AM
I am about to watch it. I'll get back.
- April 06, 2007 12:55 AM
- Jen said...
I haven't seen it so I can't comment on Oprah... but I can comment on Kyle :o) (as I often do)
While we were in the moment, with Kyle growing, we were frustrated when he hit toddler hood and cried a lot. And I mean a LOT - he was sensitive, and very often I was told by daycare that he'd had a 'sensitive' day... but he was hitting milestones... it was at 2.5 that we were getting concerned with his behavior - mostly aggression... but it was missed at 3.5 - he was diagnosed just last year - at 5.
Looking back, we see it clearly - much easier with that hind sight view firmly in place. The horribly time he had with any transition - breast to bottle, bottle to cup, bed time, the amount of crying probably due to his senses being overwhelmed, or not enough sensory input... but while we were in the moment he was our perfect little boy - it never occurred to us that there was something else going on.
And he didn't regress either... mostly it was the aggression and crying that showed itself - and his major obsession with sweatpants ;o)
- April 06, 2007 6:40 AM
I agree with your take on it, MOM-NOS. I had low expectations too, but was somewhat pleasantly suprised. I wondered the same thing about the "loosing skills at age 2" perspective throughout the whole show. I kept thinking about all the signs that autism was there from birth that I should have caught, but didn't. I'll probably blog about that later today instead of going into details here. The sibling thing really got me thinking as well.
I wish that they would have showed a better representation of the vast differences in kids on the spectrum. The kids they showed seemed to all be similar in that aspect.
However, it was a 1 hour show. I think to better cover the issues Oprah would have do at least a week long series. And personally, I don't think that people who are not affected by autism want to become that educated on it. Most of my friends tune out when I go beyond the "oh, he is doing okay" answer. They don't really want to know about it.
It was a start. And by far the best program I've seen on it thus far.
- April 06, 2007 6:54 AM
- Mom without a manual said...
I was pleasantly surprise with Oprah. I felt that it gave a very balanced (love and frustration) perspective of autism. Still merely awareness but as one of your previous visitors said...I'm not sure there rest of the world wants to go past awareness.
Our situation is much like the majority on that panel. Of course, I agree that everyone's experience is different and a panel should represent that variance. I do remember Allyson Singer articulating that her daughter didn't meet milestones from the beginning.
JP did develop on schedule. He had words, socialized and did pretend play. He was social and liked people. I have pictures of him pretending to unlock the door with my keys and giving the cat drinks from his sippy cup.
Then the words went away somewhere around 2. He started freaking out in new situations and around new people. It took us until 2 1/2 to realize something was going wrong. We were diagnosed at 3.
We had to reteach him that keys open doors and show him how to pretend to feed others. This pictures prove to me that that these skills were there around 18 months...and then they were gone.
- April 06, 2007 10:15 AM
- AshleyLeo said...
I too thought it went better than it could have. Ah...if only one hour could cover everything!
Awareness is good, IMNSHO. The American public must learn their ABCs before we can expect them to accept Autism for ALL that it is. How can one appreciate Shakespeare if they cannot even read?
Awareness gets children diagnosed.
Awareness gets children services.
Awareness gets parents talking.
Very exciting!
- April 06, 2007 10:51 AM
I agree with Momnos. It did not touch on those who didn't have the language from the beginning. And when the doctor tried to speak about the signs Oprah stepped in and said but they had the signs. I was a little upset about that. And what about the questions of low government funding, schools that are lacking the needs of these children, what to do after they turn 21 and the school system won't support them? What to do with them at an adult level? They really need a follow-up show. I konw it's hard to put everything in a 1 hour show but I think the View did a better job. I think they replayed that show today. I already have that one taped.
- April 06, 2007 11:23 AM
I was so excited to hear that Oprah was doing a show on autism. After watching it, I was a bit disappointed. I totally agree that the panel did not represent the "Bud"s out there. I think your situation (which is very similar to mine with my son) is more common. I am also an ABA therapist and I see many autistic kids. I don't think they did a great job of showing the "spectrum" of the disorder or the "faces of autism" as the show says.
Of course any awareness is good so I am thankful to Oprah for covering the topic. And to be fair, she did only have an hour. I was glad that they discussed the idea of people refraining from judging us moms out there and instead offering to help (yeah right). I have also never been a huge fan of the "Autism Every Day" video so that might be part of it. And not to be mean, but I have watched so many of these autism specials....I am getting tired of seeing these same people on all of them.
I also appreciated how Oprah took the time at the end of the show to address us parents of autistic children. Its nice to be ackowledged for your hard work and dedication to your kids. Usually moms (any moms) don't get that.
- April 06, 2007 11:25 AM
- lizziehoop said...
Oprah didn't show anything that we as autism parents didn't know or already feel but I think it wasn't really directed to us and more to the people not affected in the same way. It showed the good and it showed the bad. I didn't like the one woman being able to squeeze in the part about the vaccines because that turned me away from focusing on the kids. I think either the 11 year old or his mom said something about the younger boy's brain being broken which I was a bit offended by - I like to think of it as the brain being wired differently. I don't watch Oprah at all normally so I don't know if this is a normal thing but it seems to me that the boy on stage was coached as to what he should say. He didn't answer Oprah's questions in a way that I would expect an 11 year old to answer.
All the guests seemed to have 'lost' their children around 2 years old with no signs of any problems at all before whereas I knew my son had a problem the day he was born. I too had the doctor that said there was nothing wrong though. I don't know. I think it will have raised awareness for autism and those kids but there was only a brief mention of the high functioning kids and I didn't hear anything about Asperger's (though I kept leaving the room to get the laundry...). No mention really of aggression towards others either which is a problem for some. Hopefully what it did was get 'non-autism' people to want to learn more. I loved the part about having others offer to help. Most people are so judgemental that they will offer their opinion on what they think you are doing wrong without even considering that something might be 'different' with your child. I always tell people that we would get more empathy and sympathy if there was a 'look' to a child with autism. Maybe if we branded them it would make everyone else more compassionate?
- April 06, 2007 11:44 AM
- Daisy said...
My "Oprah" post is up, too. I found it a rather simplistic treatment of a complex topic. I was happy to hear at least two of the parents talk about the joy their children bring to their lives. Stop in if you wish: http://compostermom.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-oprah-and-her-producers.html
- April 06, 2007 11:53 AM
- Estee Klar-Wolfond said...
I found it very contradictory. On the one hand autism is a terrible "affliction." On the other hand, they "can do all the things that [others] can do, are terrific, can teach us many lessons..." What is their stand?
Also, Katie's son clearly appeared autistic in the clip where she claims he is not. I noticed a lot of echolalia.
- April 06, 2007 12:04 PM
- Another Autism Mom said...
Estee, I thought the same thing... The "talking" he did was basically echolalia. But still, that was much better than being completely nonverbal, like he became months later. It was a big regression.
- April 06, 2007 2:49 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
That's an interesting perspective. I hadn't thought about it as echolalia, probably because it didn't sound like the sort of echolalia that Bud used when he first started talking.
If I'm remembering correctly, the mom said things like "Say 'hi, baby'" and the boy responded by saying to his brother, "Hi, baby." (Am I remembering correctly? I've deleted it from the TiVo so I can't check.)
When Bud was younger, newly verbal, and almost exclusively echolalic, he probably wouldn't have responded at all to a prompt like that. (A more likely scenario would have been me saying "Say 'hi, baby,'" and Bud responding "Tinky Winky jump for fun!")
I think it was a long time before he would have been able to use echolalia successfully in a scenario like that, especially since it required the ability to use mitigated echolalia (by dropping the "say" and pulling out the "hi, baby" as the salient part to echo).
I know every child is different and that this certainly could have been echolalia, but if it was, it was probably pretty "sophisticated" (or more developmentally advanced) echolalia.
- April 06, 2007 4:26 PM
On the whole echolalia thing, there are 2 types. One is when a child repeats what is said to him/her immediately in attempts to process the words. That's the "Say 'hi' Johnny" and he says, "Say 'hi' Johnny" right back. The other is called, "delayed echolalia" which is the whole "tv talk" or scripted speech. That is more of a stimming behavior. That's my understanding of it. Both common in autistic children, but different.
- April 06, 2007 8:49 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Kristen, I guess what kept me from thinking that I was seeing echolalia from the boy was that he didn't say "Say, hi baby," but, rather, just "Hi, baby." Given that he was only two years old, it sounded to me like a very typical exchange between a parent and a new talker.
- April 06, 2007 9:58 PM
- charmian said...
The answer to why the stories seem similar is that these parents know each other from high priced Autism Schools or from the Autism charity circuit. More severely involved children attend schools exclusively for Autism, which by necessity fund raise, so you have parents who are willing to speak on camera who are the parents of more "classicly" autistic children.
Regressive Autism is probably the most frightening kind and it's outcome is often poor. My heart breaks for Katie Wright and I am grateful that she's turned her personal grief into action.
I live in Southern Westchester New York and I recognized the local supermarket so I imagine that in addition to NYC and maybe Southern Jersey it was filmed here and these kids go to school here.
I'm kind of glad they don't show kids like mine because he'd come across like an innocent little genius (which he is to me) but that doesn't raise money, and Autism needs money.
Now that my son is 7, I too am tired of early intervention---first signs rhetoric, but I needed that five years ago, so I don't begrudge new parents their learning curve.
I have strong feelings of support for the women who produced Autism Every Day and for the women who were featured. The Autism Speaks VP is named Alison and the Producer is named Lauren and they are brave in my eyes.
MOMNOS knows I feel this way but I drink Dunkin Hazelnut and REMEMBER the Beatles on Ed Sullivan so I have stature on this blog, thank you very much.
- April 06, 2007 11:48 PM
I agree with the person who said this show was not for the parents who "know" autism. The children represented were very similar and not representative of the spectrum. However, they did present for the general masses a more dramatic and memorable introduction to autism. And I think that was Oprah's intention for the show...to bring to the masses the awareness that autism exists.
So I agree...awareness is good.
- April 07, 2007 2:22 AM
- Steve said...
Our tivo decided not to record this Oprah episode, even though my wife tivos each show daily and we also tivo shows with autism or autistic in the description - oh well, we'll catch it in reruns.
Anyway, I wanted to throw our hat in the ring for regressive autism. Our story is almost word for word what Mom Without a Manual said above - everything was by the books until age 2 and we didn't really acknowledge the loss of skills until 2 1/2 and then he was diagnosed at 3. One interesting tidbit there is that he loved making animal noises before his 2nd birthday, then lost that skill completely, and just now (at almost 8) has learned it again.
- April 07, 2007 3:04 AM
- MOM-NOS said...
That's right, Charmian - you have "blog cred". :-)
- April 07, 2007 10:03 AM
- Margaret said...
Hi MOM-NOS!
I did enjoy the Oprah show, I must say. I thought she handled it well and like you, I would have loved an interview with a adult with autism, but it's only an hour show.
My experience is the same as yours - my son was developing normally, lots of eye contact (with family), lots of vocabulary and all of the milestones being reached, first words, walking, responding to name, etc. The only problem was when he started playschool and the teacher noticed no eye contact. We had his language tested and found out he had a severe expressive language delay. The ball started rolling after that with the actual diagnosis - PDD-NOS.
As far as my dh and I were concerned things seemed normal. Had he been born second, I probably would have noticed that we weren't having actual conversations, but he was my first and I didn't know.
- April 07, 2007 11:06 AM
- MOM-NOS said...
Hi Margaret! Actually, our experience was like yours in that Bud was our first, so we had no basis for comparison. But we definitely knew he was quirky from the start. He did miss developmental milestones, including using words - he didn't use any at all until he was well past two and echolalia emerged. We knew that there was something, but we weren't alarmed by it - we just thought he was developing more slowly than the books outlined. Now that I think about it, maybe this should be its own blog post...
- April 07, 2007 11:16 AM
the world may not want to go beyond awareness, but at nearly 1 in 150-at some point everyone will know someone effected. so it should be shoved down everyones throats until someone figures out what is going on.
- April 07, 2007 12:37 PM
Hi - As a mom of two NT kids (as far as I know!), I just want to tell you that I so appreciate learning from all of you who are parents of kids on the autism spectrum. Some of my favorite friends have kids who are autistic (or on the spectrum), and I hope that learning about autism will help me be a pal to my friends' kids, or any kids with autism I might meet.
In addition, so many of the posts I read here demonstrate such sensitive, thoughtful, devoted parenting that I just like to be inspired by you all.
- April 08, 2007 12:10 AM
I was somewhat disappointed in the Oprah episode. Awareness is great. It is very important. But the picture painted was extremely limited and one-sided. I didn't like the fact that the children were very similar and were all children who regressed around the age of two, and that the show focused so heavily on the Autism Every Day documentary.
That is not the first time I had seen the documentary, and I did not like it the first time I saw it (online). It paints such a "poor me" picture of the parents without focusing at all on the struggles of the children. I empathize with the parents, I do... I am, after all, a parent of a child on the spectrum. But this documentary reminded me more of something that Heraldo Rivera would produce. Let's see if we could frighten people into opening up their pocketbooks... Awareness and serious funds are needed, but I was insulted by this narrow documentary.
I look at the Oprah show and the Autism Every Day documentary and I think, "How is this going to help people understand my high functioning, highly gifted five year son who is extremely quirky (and who also coincidentally is obsessed with the Teletubbies). In my opinion, awareness needs to go beyond the severely impaired. More and more children are being diagnosed on the SPECTRUM, and they are not all low functioning. It is an illusion to think that higher functioning children are less affected, for they very well understand that they are different from NT children and many suffer lifelong depression.
Many posts mentioned that the public may not want to get too much into the topic of Autism, but with the stats at one in 150 and rising, who is the public? We are the public.
- April 09, 2007 1:45 AM
Hmmn... Upon further reflection, if it weren't for Heraldo Rivera, children with autism might still be be institutionalized. He has actually done a lot for children with disabilities, including autism.
I wonder if he'd be interested in doing an expose on how little our government is contributing financially to finding out why the rate of autism in our country is exploding.
- April 09, 2007 4:10 AM
For months I had boycotted Oprah because her producers and herself had commented that they refused to do a show on Autism because it was too sad of a subject. As if!! African girls and their mothers being rapped in their village twice a month isn't? I was so angry.
Suffice it to say, I went into this with pretty low expectations. I was pleaseantly surprised at her one hour coverage and couldn't help but giggle when she mentioned she had read thousands of letters and requests asking her to do this show.
I loved for the most part that she actually did a portion of the show on stimming behavior which, I think is greatly overlooked when talking about our kiddos and our struggles. It's one of the parts I find most difficult to explain and bring awareness to to the lay person.
- April 11, 2007 4:00 AM
Hi, I wanted to jump in with my two cents. Mom-NOS, I just stumbled onto your blog today as I was searching for info about what to do on rainy days with my 3 yr old on the spectrum. Anyway, I have to say, I was mostly disappointed by Oprah's myopic coverage of the issue. Yes, early intervention is VITAL but so is ongoing support and recognition of the broad scope of talents and abilities of people with autism.
I think Oprah fell very short of the mark in not including adults with autism or, at the very least, highlighting some highly accomplished individuals with autism.
I was also disappointed not to see my own circumstances addressed. (Not b/c I am narcissistic but b/c I don't think we are so very unique in our experience!) My son was born extremely prematurely (3 months early) and has a "significant" medical history which includes the first 7 months spent in the NICU. Yes, he has significant delays but, at some point, my husband and I recognized that there was something not quite normal about Nik's development. He didn't hit ANY of the normal milestones and, beginning around 15 months, would gain a word or sound and then lose it a short time later---mama, dada, animal sounds---all gone. When we expressed specific concerns about autism, we were told by *so many* professionals not to worry, he'll catch up.
I'd love to see more coverage (not just on Oprah) about what families can do when they *know* there is something amiss and aren't being taken seriously? Ok, sorry for the digressive rant there...(Is that even a word--"digressive"? :) )
Anyway, Mom-NOS, thanks for your wonderful blog. You are now marked as part of my "faves"!
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Football Manager Classic 2014 PS Vita console bundle announced, out April 17
Football Manager Classic 2014 is getting a PS Vita console bundle, courtesy of Sony, Sega and Sports Interactive.
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Football Manager 2013 pirated over 10 million times
Over 10 million people illegally downloaded Football Manager 2013, and its developer knows the IP address of every single one of them.
Football Manager 13 is series' best-selling entry, FM '14 confirmed for Linux release
Football Manager 13 is officially the best-selling entry to Sports Interactive's series, and as a treat the studio is bringing Football Manager 14 to Linux with cross-play functionality thrown in.
Football Manager 2013 is the fastest-selling game in the series, says Sports Interactive
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has said even though Football Manager 2013 is the fastest-selling game in the series, the team won't rest until it receives higher critical acclaim.
Football Manager Handheld: 1 in 11 Android copies are bought legitimately
Football Manager Handheld 13 is coming to Android smartphones, despite the developers claims of rampant piracy, resulting in just one in eleven copies of the game being legitimately bought and paid for.
Football Manager 2013 interview: addiction returns
Football Manager 2013 was officially announced yesterday. Dave Cook talks to Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson about this year's 900 new changes, an all new Classic mode for casual players and much more.
Sports Interactive details split from Eidos after nine years of silence
Miles Jacobson, studio director for Sports Interactive, has broken his silence on why his studio left Eidos in 2003. Turns out, the studio though Eidos was looking to replace it with Beautiful Game Studios, while life president Ian Livingstone said the firm brought the later into the fold because it has heard rumors Sports Interactive […]
Sega studio boss denies European closure rumours
Miles Jacobson, studio head of Football Manager developer Sports Interactive, has sunk rumours of major closures at Sega's European arm.
Tax cuts will "incentivise" pubs to invest in UK, says TIGA
The announcement yesterday of tax breaks for the UK games industry will "incetivise" publishers from around the world to invest in the British games industry, TIGA CEO Richard Wilson has told VG247.
Jacobson: "Still a lot of work to do" to get games industry properly recognised
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has said that there's "still a lot of work to do" in terms of getting the games industry the recognition it deserves, both "in the business world, and in education".
"Delighted" Jacobson lauds OBE recognition
Following news that Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list, the developer has told VG247 that the recognition is "important" for the games industry as a whole.
Report - Creative Assembly creating Olympics title
Eurogamer's reporting that the sports title that Total War developer Creative Assembly is working on, revealed yesterday via a job listing, is a Olympics title on London 2012.
Sports Interactive: Football Manager Live is "doing well"
Football Manager Live is doing well and going according to plan, according to Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson. So far, the game has grown to 23 game worlds with 1,000 users each. Jacobson's pleased as punch. "It's going alright. The Sega ops team is being very proactive in launching new worlds when existing ones are full," Jacobson […]
Football Manager Live to release on January 23
MCV's reporting that Football Manager Live will launch on January 23, at a cost of £30. The retail game comes complete with a whopping four months' free play. "Football Manager Live is a very different game to Football Manager – imagine a cross between Football Manager, fantasy league, eBay and social networking and you'll be […]
IGN Football Manager 09 review criticism best left to the terraces, say Jacobson
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has declined to remark on a 2/10 IGN US review for Football Manager 2009, saying criticism of the piece is best left to user comments. "I'm not a reviewer and therefore don't think it's my place to critique critique's, nor am I likely to be anything but biased," he said. […]
Football Manager authentication issues fixed
Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson just sent word that all issues with Football Manager 2009 authentication have now been resolved. So go win a cup, or something.
FM2009 gold, system specs released
Sega's announced that Football Manager 2009 is gold. The publisher also released minimum specs this afternoon. Get them after the break. The game's getting a demo on November 2.
Football Manager 2009 videos watched by 165,000 on YouTube
The Football Manager 2009 YouTube reveal appears to have worked. According to Sega this afternoon, more than 165,000 people have watched two videos about the new features in the latest version of the soccer management sim since they were released on Wednesday. "It's great to finally be able to announce the new features for the […]
No console FM 2009 because 08 interface "was crap"
Speaking to Videogamer.com, Sports Interactive front man Miles Jacobson has confirmed there won't be any console editions of Football Manager 2009 because the Xbox 360 version of FM08 had a "crap" interface. "We thought we'd improved a lot last year. It was still too hard to use. So we decided to have at least a […]
SI "pretty close to finishing" Football Manager Live
Speaking to Evo Gamer, Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson has confirmed that Football Manager Live is almost complete. Ish. "We're pretty close to finishing the first iteration now, as in the code that will be released," he said. "The game will likely never be 'finished' because, like FM, there are loads of ideas for features, and […]
Miles Jacobson latest
Football Manager Classic 2014 PS Vita console bundle announced, out April 17
Football Manager 13 is series' best-selling entry, FM '14 confirmed for Linux release
Football Manager 2013 is the fastest-selling game in the series, says Sports Interactive
Football Manager Handheld: 1 in 11 Android copies are bought legitimately
Sports Interactive details split from Eidos after nine years of silence
Jacobson: "Still a lot of work to do" to get games industry properly recognised
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Utah's love affair with chocolate may be much older than previously thought. San Juan County is where archaeologists have found the earliest traces of cocao in the United States. Cocao is the raw form of chocolate.
Details of the find are part of a new exhibit about chocolate at the Natural History Museum of Utah. The new museum is located in Salt Lake City.
Dorothy Washburn, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, made the discovery. She used pottery taken from Alkali Ridge, east of Blanding, from a collection held by Harvard University. Washburn found residue of cocao in pottery dating from 750 AD.
The tests that were used to make the discovery are very sophisticated. "It's not like she found hot fudge stains in a pot," explained Lisa Thompson, who helped develop the chocolate exhibit at the Natural History Museum.
Washburn used a solution to extract 1,250-year-old residue from the pottery. The material was run through a spectrometer, which found cocao markers.
The find may help archaeologists understand how much interaction took place between different cultures. Use of cocao is generally believed to have originated in Meso-America, where it was used as a ceremonial beverage by elites.
How it ended up in San Juan County is still unknown.
Thompson suggests that in 750 AD, at about the same time the cocao traces were left, a new type of pottery was found, Abajo Red on Orange.
The thought is that maybe the pottery and cocao came from a similar source, from trade of some type with Meso-America.
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4-7-12 PNC Park
After returning from Cleveland, we headed straight to PNC Park. Just after arriving at the gates, a special visitor dropped by to say hello to the fans:
Frank Coonelly, team CEO.
Before the gates opened, Zac Weiss, Nick and I played some catch across the street.
When the gates opened, nothing really went my way. After being shut out for a long while, I got Chris Leroux to toss me my first ball of the day.
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MLB.com reports that Juan Rivera broke the tibia in his left leg while playing winter ball in Venezuela.
It's too soon to project how the injury might affect Rivera's 2007 season and beyond, but let's assume for the moment he'll miss at least part of next year.
Rivera projected to pretty much perform the same role as 2006, the fourth outfielder and DH, but figured to assume more left-field time from Garret Anderson and perhaps Vlad Guerrero, both who were less mobile due to injury. The arrival of free-agent Gary Matthews, Jr. meant less time in CF, where Rivera had less experience and Chone Figgins often roams.
But Matthews in his career has also seen plenty of time in LF (129 games) and RF (214), so it's entirely possible that he'll cover for GA and Vladi while Figgins returns to CF.
Although the Angels could carry another outfielder such as Reggie Willitts or Tommy Murphy until Rivera heals, they could also opt to carry another bat who would DH most of the time. The main candidate for that role would be Kendry Morales. Assuming the Angels don't trade anyone, Casey Kotchman is the likely first baseman in 2007. Morales is nowhere near the 1B Kotchman is, so to get Kendry's bat in the lineup DH would be the likely slot.
Other possibilities might include Morales playing a lot of LF during spring training, or even Dallas McPherson, who could also fill the DH slot when not playing 3B. It might also improve the chance that Darin Erstad returns for another year, if the Angels are satisfied his health is good enough to get a decent performance out of him.
Rivera's injury is no reason to push the panic button and make a short-sighted trade. Injuries are the reason an organization builds a deep farm system. What it does mean is that the Angels, who've yet to secure the "big bat" promised last fall by owner Arte Moreno, will now have to rely even more on their prospects. Kotchman, Morales and McPherson will need to fulfill their potential to give the Angels' excellent pitching staff some breathing room in close games.
The injury also evokes a memory of the horrific broken leg Justin Baughman suffered while playing winter ball in Mexico after the 1998 season. The fact of the matter is that teams have no contractual right to tell a player what he does in the off-season, unless those restrictions are negotiated — which means the player will expect compensation for the restriction. Latin players in particular won't give up winter ball because it means so much to play for their home country.
Baughman was in Mexico learning second base. A career shortstop, the Angels force-fed him into the 2B role after Randy Velarde was hurt. Justin collided with a right-fielder and missed all of 1999. Speed was always his asset, and he was never the same after the injury.
Other players go to winter ball as a type of rehab assignment. That's why Casey Kotchman is playing in Puerto Rico now. After the 2003 season, Bobby Jenks played winter to make up for lost time after missing much of that year with a sore elbow. It was in April 2004 that he suffered a stress fracture in the elbow, eventually requiring surgery to insert pins to hold it together.
Life is a risk, and so is baseball as a profession. Just because a player sits at home doesn't mean he won't have an injury at some point in his career. Sitting around getting fat or not honing their skills doesn't do the team any good. That's just part of the game.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland will pay $612 million to U.S. and British authorities to settle allegations it manipulated benchmark interest rates, and regulators warned there is more to come in the global investigation.
RBS became the third bank to pay fines in the Libor scandal.
The British bank, which is 82 percent-owned by the state after the world's costliest bank bailout in 2008, said on Wednesday it was cutting bonuses to help pay for the fine, in a bid to avoid a public backlash.
The bank fears the scandal will embolden critics who want it to further shrink its profitable investment bank and focus on basic lending at home.
"What happened at RBS and other banks is totally unacceptable," Britain's finance minister, George Osborne, told reporters.
Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) signaled more large fines were in the offing.
"The size and scale of our continuing investigations remains significant," said Tracey McDermott, director of enforcement and financial crime at the FSA.
More than a dozen banks and brokerage firms, including JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup Inc, are being investigated by regulators over the manipulation of benchmark interest rates such as the London interbank offered rate, known as Libor, and Euribor, which are used to price trillions of dollars' worth of loans.
For their roles in the Libor scandal, Switzerland's UBS AG agreed in December to pay penalties of $1.5 billion, and Britain's Barclays Plc has paid $453 million.
Deutsche Bank has suspended five traders in connection with alleged manipulation of Euribor, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Recent reports have raised the possibility of other banks resolving liability through a group settlement, but in an interview on Wednesday, a top U.S. Justice Department official shot down that idea.
"Criminal cases are not resolved in a group setting," said Lanny Breuer, the head of the department's criminal division. "We are going to go after each individual financial institution."
Investigators said they discovered hundreds of attempts by at least 21 RBS employees in London, Singapore and Tokyo to manipulate Libor. RBS traders aided dealers at other banks, including UBS, to rig the rates.
The abuse at RBS occurred from at least 2006 until late 2010 - after some of the traders learned of the probe into Libor.
The FSA criticized RBS for seating derivatives traders next to people who submitted Libor rates and said the bank's systems and controls were flawed as recently as March 2012.
Like their peers at Barclays and UBS, RBS staff were blatant about what they were doing in internal chatrooms, according to extracts of exchanges released by investigators.
A Swiss-franc trader at RBS told someone submitting rates to Libor that if he submitted them in the way he wanted, he would "come over there and make love to you.
A manager said "pure manipulation" was at work.
The U.S. Department of Justice said the near 300-year-old bank was guilty of a "stunning abuse of trust".
RBS is paying 87.5 million pounds ($137 million) to the FSA, $150 million to the U.S. Department of Justice and $325 million to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates trade in derivatives.
A unit of the bank in Japan also pleaded guilty in the United States to one count of criminal wire fraud.
The parent company avoided criminal liability in the United States, meaning it can retain its banking licence there and avoid a fire sale of its U.S. business, Citizens Bank.
As part of its deferred prosecution agreement, the bank was forced to admit and accept responsibility for its misconduct.
In a 41-page statement of facts, for example, the bank admitted its employees treated requests for favorable submissions in a routine, casual manner.
In one colorful example, a trader in an electronic chat in 2009 asked for a lower submission, then told the submitter he was "like a whores drawers" in acknowledging he often passed on requests for interest rates that went up and down.
Lawyers expect a wave of civil lawsuits, potentially costing banks tens of billions of dollars. It is unclear how many individuals will be prosecuted.
U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal charges against two former employees of UBS. Days before the Swiss bank was fined, British police and anti-fraud officers arrested one of the traders later charged in the United States along with two employees of British brokerage firm RP Martin.
The U.S. Justice Department's Breuer said such inquiries continued. "As of today there are no individuals, but as you can tell, and we've demonstrated time again, this is an ongoing investigation," he said.
RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester wants to re-establish the bank as a "normal" lender, shrinking the balance sheet by 700 billion pounds and cutting thousands of jobs as he jettisons the previous management's ambition for global domination.
Speaking to reporters in London, a visibly emotional Hester failed on three occasions to give a direct answer to questions on whether he had considered resigning over the Libor scandal.
"This has been a soap opera for four years," he said. "The people who sit in judgment of us can dismiss us at any time if they feel that the bad bits get to be bigger than the good bits."
Taxpayers are sitting on a loss of close to 16 billion pounds on their RBS stake, frustrating politicians.
Britain's influential parliamentary commission on banking standards has summoned Hester and RBS's chairman, Philip Hampton, to discuss the Libor scandal and the future of the bank on Monday.
RBS said all but six of the 21 staff implicated had either been fired or had already left the bank. The remainder were being disciplined.
RBS will cut 300 million pounds from its bonus pool, including clawing back awards from previous years, to pay the U.S. fines. The UK penalty will be donated to charitable causes, including supporting soldiers and their families, the government said.
John Hourican, head of RBS's investment bank, is leaving at the end of April after it was discovered the manipulation went on after he took charge. He had no involvement in, or knowledge of, the misconduct, RBS said. Hourican will receive a year's salary but forgo share awards.
"Libor is the railroad tracks on which our banking system runs," Laura Willoughby, chief executive of consumer group Move Your Money, said of the rate rigging. "RBS and other banks have shattered trust in the very foundations of our financial system."
RBS shares finished up 1.36 percent at 342.1 pence on Wednesday.
Additional reporting by Laura Noonan, Andrew Osborn, Tim Castle and Myles Neligan in London, and Douwe Miedema and Aruna Viswanatha in Washington; editing by Mark Potter, Elaine Hardcastle, Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis