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Today's softball game against Tennessee Tech has been cancelled.
With the threat of rain today, head coach Kristin Peck decided to cancel today's 2:00 p.m. softball game with the Golden Eagles, which will not be rescheduled.
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Senator Jeff Sessions introduces Dr. Benjamin Carson, Sr., the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Sessions says he hopes Dr. Carson can help "us sort some things out." Carson does just that.
The following is a loose transcript. The video is 27:32 minutes long. If you want to read the transcript rather than watch the video, I suggest you view the video for a couple of minutes to get the flavor and tone of how Dr. Carson speaks. He has great energy, and speaks with passion and humor.
1. The paragraphing is mine.
2. The Paragraph Titles are mine.
3. The transcript is "loose." Not every word is here, but most are.
4. Any and all emphasis is mine.
This is a transcript your child can read and understand. It should give every parent courage to challenge their child to be as good as they can be. Show your child the paragraph about Responsibility and how long it takes to count to 16 trillion.
Dr. Carson began with the following four scriptures and then moved into his address. I've summarized the first few minutes, then the transcript begins.
Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the Godless destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous escapes.
Proverbs 11:12 A man who lacks judgement derides his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his tongue
Proverbs 11:25 A generous man will prosper. He who refreshes others will himself, be refreshed.
2nd Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land.
Dr Carson said he has many opportunities to speak before people, and to speak with people, and he often asks what is their greatest concern about the spirituality and the direction of our Nation and our world. He says he speaks with very prominent Democrats and very prominent Republicans:
I was surprised by the uniformity of their answers and those have informed my comments this morning. Now it is not my intention to offend anyone…
…and he chats about how political correctness (which he says is dangerous and he thinks it's a "horrible thing," it "muffles" us from saying what we really mean. He says we must start talking about the things that were important in the founding of our Nation. As he gets going Dr. Carson says what he means, and does so respectfully.
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Here we are at a time in the world, the information age, the age of technology and yet 30% of those who enter High School in this country do not graduate. Forty-four percent of those who start a 4-year college program do not finish it in 4 years. What is that about?
Think back to a darker time in our history, 200 years ago when slavery was going on, it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach him to read. Why do you think that was? Because when you educate a man, you liberate a man.
And there I was as a youngster placing myself in the same situation that a horrible institution did because I wasn't taking advantage of the education. I was a horrible student. Most of my classmates thought I was the stupidest person in the world. They called me Dummy. I was the butt of all the jokes. Now, admittedly, it was a bad environment.
Family and Education:
Single parent home. You know my Mother and Father had gotten divorced early on. My mother got married when she was 13. She was one of 24 children. Had a horrible life. Discovered that her husband was a bigamist. Had another family. She only had a third grade education. She had to take care of us in dire poverty. I had a horrible temper, poor self-esteem. All the things that you would think would preclude success.
But I had something very important. I had a mother who believed in me. And I had a mother who would never allow herself to be a victim, no matter what happened. Never made excuses and she never accepted excuses from us. If we ever came up with an excuse, she would say, do you have a brain and if the answer was yes, then she said, you could have thought your way out of it. It doesn't matter what John, or Susan or Mary or anybody else did or said. It was the most important thing she did for my brother and myself because if you don't accept excuses pretty soon people stop giving them and they start looking for solutions. That is a critical issue when it comes to success.
We did live in dire poverty and one of the things I hated was poverty. Some people hate spiders, some people hate snakes. I hated poverty. I couldn't stand it. But my mother couldn't stand the fact that we were doing poorly in school, and she prayed and she asked God to give her wisdom. What could she do to make her young sons understand the importance of developing their minds so that they could control their own lives. And you know what? God gave her the wisdom, at least in her opinion. My brother and I didn't think she was that wise, cause it was turn-off the TV. We could watch only two or three TV programs during the week. It was in all that spare time, read two books a piece from the Detroit Pubic Library and submit to her written book reports which she couldn't read, but we didn't know that. She put check marks and highlights and stuff – but you know, I just hated this. My friends were out having a good time – her friends would criticize her. They'd say you can't make boys stay in the house reading books. They'll grow up and they'll hate you. I would overhear them and I would say, Mother, you know they're right, but she didn't care, you know.
After awhile I actually began to enjoy reading those books, because we were very poor but between the covers of those books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment, and as I read those stories I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who has the most to do with you and what happens to you in life is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision, and I came to understand that I had control of my own destiny, and at that point I didn't hate poverty anymore because I knew it was only temporary. I knew I could change that. It was incredibly liberating for me.
Alexis de Toqueville:
To continue on that theme of education, in 1831 Alexis de Toqueville came to study America. The Europeans were fascinated. How could a fledgling Nation, barely 50 years old already be competing with them on virtually every level. This was impossible. De Toqueville was going to sort it out and he looked at our government and he was duly impressed by the three branches of government – four now because we have special interest groups, but it was only three back in those days. He said, WOW, this is really something, but then he said, let me look at their educational system and he was blown away. See, anybody who had finished the second grade was completely literate. He could find a mountain man on the outskirts of society who could read the newspaper and have a political discussion, could tell him how the government worked.
His Book – America the Beautiful:
If you really want to be impressed, take a look at the chapter on education in my latest book, America the Beautiful, which I wrote with my wife – it came out last year, and in that education chapter you will see questions extracted from a sixth grade exit exam from the 1800's – a test you had to pass to get your sixth grade certificate. I doubt most college graduates today could pass that test. We have dumbed things down to that level and the reason that is so dangerous is that because the people who founded this Nation said that our system of government was designed for a well-informed and educated populace, and when they become less informed, they become vulnerable. Think about that. That is why education is so vitally important.
Five Doctors Signed the Declaration of Independence:
Now some people say, ahhh, you're over blowing it, things aren't that bad, and you're a doctor, a neurosurgeon. Why are you concerned about these things? Got news for you. FIVE doctors signed the Declaration of Independence. Doctors were involved in the framing of the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, in a whole bunch of things. It's only been since recent decades that we've extracted ourselves, which I think is a big mistake.
We need doctors, we needs scientists, we engineers. We need all those people involved in government, not just lawyers…I don't have anything against lawyers, but here's the thing about lawyers…I'm sorry, but I got to be truthful…what do lawyers learn in law school? To win, by hook or by crook. You gotta win, so you got all these Democrat lawyers, and you got all these Republican lawyers and their sides want to win. We need to get rid of that. What we need to start thinking about is, how do we solve problems?
Celebrating and Encouraging Intelligent Children – Carson Scholars:
Now, before I get shot, let me finish. I don't like to bring up problems without coming up with solutions. My wife and I started the Carson Scholars Fund 16 years ago after we heard about an international survey looking at the ability of eight graders in 22 countries to solve math and science problems, and we came out No. 21 out of 22. We only barely beat out No. 22 – very concerning.
We'd go to these schools and we'd see all these trophies: State Basketball, State Wrestling, this, that and the other. The Quarterback was the Big Man on Campus. What about the intellectual Superstar? What did they get? A National Honor Society pin? A pat on the head, there, there little Nerd? Nobody cared about them. Is it any wonder that sometimes the smart kids try to hide? They dont' want anybody to know they are smart? This is not helping us or our Nation, so we started giving out scholarships from all backgrounds for superior academic performance and demonstration of humanitarian qualities. Unless you cared about other people, it didn't matter how smart you were. We've got plenty of people like that. We don't need smart people who don't care about other people.
We would give them money. The money would go into a Trust. They would get interest on it. When they would go to college they would get the money, but also the school gets a trophy, every bit as impressive as a sports trophy – right out there with the others. They get a medal. They get to go t a banquet. We try to put them on a pedestal as impressive as we do the All-State athletes. I have nothing against athletics or entertainment. I'm from Baltimore. The Ravens won. This is great – okay. But, what will maintain our position in the world? The ability to shoot a 25′ jump shot or the ability to solve a quadratic equation? We need to put the things into proper perspective.
Reading Rooms:
Many teachers have told us that when we put a Carson Scholar in their classroom, the GPA of the whole classroom goes up over the next year. It's been very gratifying. We started 16 years ago with 25 scholarships in Maryland, now we've given out more than 5,000 and we are in all 50 states, but we've also put in Reading Rooms. These are fascinating places that no little kid could possibly pass up. They get points for the amount of time they spend reading, and the number of books they read. They can trade the points for prizes. In the beginning they do it for the prizes, but it doesn't take long before their academic performance begins to improve.
We particularly target Title One schools where the kids come from homes with no books and schools with no libraries. Those are the ones who drop out. We need to truncate that process early on because we can't afford to waste any of those young people. For every one of those people we keep from going down that path of self-destruction and mediocrity, that's one less person you have to protect yourself and your family from. One less person you have to pay for in the penal or welfare system. One more taxpaying productive member of society who may invent a new energy source or come up with a cure for cancer. They are all important to us and we need every single one of them. (carsonscholars.org)
Moral Decay:
Why is it so important that we educate our people? Because we don't want to go down the pathway as so many pinnacle nations that have preceded us. I think particularly about ancient Rome. Very powerful. Nobody could even challenge them militarily, but what happened to them? They destroyed themselves from within. Moral decay, fiscal irresponsibility. They destroyed themselves. If you don't think that can happen to America, you get out your books and you start reading, but you know, we can fix it.
Responsibility in Leadership – Debt and Deficit:
We can fix it because we're smart. We have some of the most intellectually gifted people leading our Nation. All we need to do is remember what our real responsibilities are so that we can solve them. I think about these problems all the time, and my role model was Jesus. He used parables to help people understand things. One of our big problems right now – our deficit is a big problem. Think about it. Our National Debt – $16.5 Trillion dollars – you think that's not a lot of money? Count one number per second, which you can't even do because once you get to a thousand it will take you longer than a second, but…one number per second. You know how long it would take you to count to 16 Trillion? 507,000 years – more than a half a million years to get there. We have to deal with this.
The Parable of Some People More Special Than Others:
Here's a parable: A family falls on hard times. Dad loses his job or is demoted to part time work. He has 5 children. He comes to the 5 children, he says we're going to have to reduce your allowance. Well, they're not happy about it but – he says, except for John and Susan. He says, they're special. They get to keep their allowance. In fact, we'll give them more. How do you think that's going to go down? Not too well. Same thing happens. Enough said.
What about our taxation system? So complex there is no one who can possibly comply with every jot and tittle of our tax system. If I wanted to get you, I could get you on a tax issue. That doesn't make any sense. What we need to do is come up with something that is simple.
When I pick up my Bible, you know what I see? I see the fairest individual in the Universe, God, and he's given us a system. It's called tithe. Now we don't necessarily have to do it 10% but it's principle. He didn't say, if your crops fail, don't give me any tithe. He didn't say, if you have a bumper crop, give me triple tithe. So there must be something inherently fair about proportionality. You make $10 Billion dollars you put in a Billion. You make $10 you put in $1 – of course, you gotta get rid of the loopholes, but some people say, that's not fair because it doesn't hurt the guy who made $10 Billion as much as the guy who made $10. Where does it say you have to hurt the guy. He's just put in a billion in the pot. We don't need to hurt him.
It's that kind of thinking that has resulted in 602 banks in the Cayman Islands. That money needs to be back here, building our infrastructure and creating jobs – and we're smart enough to figure out how to do that.
Health Care and Death Panels:
We've already started down the path to solving one of the other big problems, health care. We need to have good health care for everybody. It's the most important thing that a person can have. Money means nothing, titles mean nothing when you don't have your health, but we've got to figure out efficient ways to do it. We spend a lot of money on health care, twice as much per capita as anybody in else in the world, and yet not very efficient. What can we do?
Here's my solution. When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record and a health savings account [HSA], to which money can be contributed, pre-tax from the time you are born, to the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members so that when you're 85 years old and you've got 6 diseases, you're not trying to spend up everything. You're happy to pass it on and nobody is talking about death panels.
For the people who are indigent, who don't have any money, we can make contributions to their HSA each month because we already have this huge pot of money instead of sending it to bureaucracy – let's put it into HSAs. Now they have some control over their own health care and what do you think they're going to do? They're going to learn very quickly how to be responsible. when Mr. Jones gets that diabetic foot ulcer, he's not going to the Emergency Room and blowing a big chunk of it. He's going to go to the Clinic. He learns that very quickly – gets the same treatment. In the Emergency Room they send him out. In the Clinic they say, now let's get your diabetes under control so that you're not back here in three weeks with another problem. That's how we begin to solve these kinds of problems. It's much more complex than that, and I don't have time to go into it all, but we can do all these things because we are smart people.
The Parable of Just Because You Are the Biggest and Most Powerful…:
Another parable: Sea Captain, and he's out on the sea near the area where the Titanic went down. And they look ahead and there's a bright light right there – another ship he figures. He tells his signaller to signal that ship: deviate 10 degrees to the South. Back comes the message, no you deviate 10 degrees to the North. Well, he's a little bit insensed, you know. He says, send a message, this is Captain Johnson, deviate 10 degrees to the South. Back comes the message, this is Ensign 4th Class Reilly. Deviate 10 degrees to the North. Now Captain Johnson is really upset. He says send him a message, this is a Naval Destroyer. Back comes the message, this is a Lighthouse. Enough said.
An Example of Why Left and Right Work:
What about the symbol of our Nation? The Eagle. The Bald Eagle. It's an interesting story how we chose that but a lot of people think we call it the bald eagle because it looks like it has a bald head. That's not the reason It comes from the Old English word Piebald, which means crowned with white. Why is that eagle able to fly, high, forward? Because it has two wings: a left wing and a right wing. Enough said.
The Turning Poing of the War of 1812:
Two hundred years ago this Nation was involved in a war, the war of 1812. The British, who are now our good friends thought that we were young whippersnappers. It was time for us to become a colony again. They were winning that war and marching up the Eastern Seaboard, destroying city after city, destroying Washington D.C., burned down the White House. Next stop Baltimore. As they came into the Chesapeake Bay, there were armadas of war ships as far as the eye could see. It was looking grim. Ft. McHenry standing right there. General Armistead, who was in charge of Ft. McHenry, had a large American flag commissioned to fly in front of the Fort. The Admiral in charge of the British Fleet was offended, said take that flag down. You have until dusk to take that Flag down. If you don't take it down, we will reduce you to ashes.
There was a young amateur poet on board by the name of Francis Scott Key, sent by President Madison to try to obtain the release of an American physician who was being held captive. He overheard the British plans. They were not going to let him off the ship. He mourned. As dusk approached he mourned for his fledgling young Nation, and as the sun fell, the bombardment started. Bombs bursting in air. Missiles, so much debris. He strained, trying to see, was the flag still there? Couldn't see a thing. All night long it continued. At the crack of dawn he ran out to the bannister. He looked and could only see dust and debris.
One Nation Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All:
Then there was a clearing and he beheld the most beautiful sight he had ever seen – the torn and tattered Stars and Stripes still waving. Many historians say that was the turning point in the war of 1812. We went on to win that war and to retain our freedom and if you had gone onto the grounds of Ft. McHenry that day, you would have seen at the base of that flag, the bodies of soldiers who took turns. Propping up that flag, they would not let that flag go down because they believed in what that flag symbolized. What did it symbolize? One Nation, under God, [applause] indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. God Bless.
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Dr. Carson received the Presidential Medal of Honor from President George W. Bush in 2009. Read Dave Blount's take on the National Day Prayer of Speech at RightWingNews..
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Songwriting legend Diane Warren has confessed to smoking pot with rapper Snoop Dogg when they hit the studio together.
The Grammy Award-winner teamed up with the hip-hop star, a regular cannabis user, for a track called "The Good Good" and admits Snoop introduced her to some "pretty good weed" while they worked.
Warren tells TMZ.com, "Did I inhale? Ask me if I inhaled. Yes, I did. I did! Here's the thing, I breathed in the studio. All I had to do was breathe in that studio! I had a hit of that blunt. I don't care, I'm not running for office. It was pretty good weed, I have to tell you. I don't smoke a lot but. … Did he smoke during the whole session? Just during a lot of the session!"
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Congratulations to our Houston Chronicle colleague Terri Langford. Her trailblazing reporting on Medicare fraud in Houston and Texas has had tremendous impact on the national debate over Medicare reform.
Today, that impact reached all the way to the White House.
Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleeen Sebelius co-authored an op-ed article in the print edition of the Chron today explaining how the Obama administration has reacted to allegations of Medicare fraud. The guest column begins this way:
Today, our departments released a report showing that the Obama Administration's historic efforts to go after criminals who steal from Medicare and Medicaid are paying off, especially in hotspots like Houston.
The report shows that last year, we recovered a record $4.2 billion from those who prey on our health care system. In total, our efforts returned $14.9 billion over the last four years, more than double what was returned in the previous four years.
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The Chron investigation has prompted congressional hearings and action pushed by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands.
"My concern is not only the millions of taxpayer dollars lost to rampant fraud within these Medicare services but also the lack of responsiveness by Medicare to local officials raising red flags about the financial integrity of the programs," Brady wrote in a letter to Rep. Charles Boustany, a Louisiana Republican who chairs the House Ways & Means Committee's investigations subcommittee.
Terri Langford's work over the past two years on Medicare fraud has won journalism awards — which it has deserved. But, more importantly, it is having an impact to make Americans' lives better and saving taxpayer dollars.
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>>> Read 2012 Chron editorial "Stop the Fraud Now"
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Last week, the Washington Post reported on a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll:
The poll found that misconceptions about the legislation persist, including the "death panel" falsehood propagated by opponents of the legislation.
"A year after the town meeting wars of last summer, a striking 36% of seniors said that the law 'allowed a government panel to make decisions about end of life care for people on Medicare', and another 17% said they didn't know," Kaiser Family Foundation chief executive Drew Altman wrote.
Brendan Nyhan argues that "motivated reasoning appears to play an important role in the persistence of the misperception ... 55% of seniors with an unfavorable view of the law believed in the death panel myth, while only 17% of those with a favorable view did so."
I would argue that something else surely plays a role: The failure of the media to consistently and clearly explain that the "death panels" claim was false. Sure, most major news organizations made that clear at least once. But they didn't do so consistently.
Let's take the Washington Post, for example, since it reported on the persistence of the myth.
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has praised his paper's "death panels" coverage, writing on March 22: "One stellar moment for the press was the refusal to perpetuate the myth of 'death panels.' ... journalists at The Washington Post, New York Times, CNN and ABC News, among others, said flatly that this was untrue." And Post political reporter Perry Bacon said in June 21 Live Q&A: "If you recall, the death panels issue got traction in conservative media, even as papers like ours did not cover it very much."
But this year alone, Post readers have encountered more than a dozen references to "death panels" that failed to explicitly state that such panels didn't exist. The following articles and columns mention the "death panels" claim without stating its falsity:
"The doctor is (finally) in; Medicare administrator must usher in low-cost, efficient care," David Ignatius, July 9
"A patriot's second act," Dana Milbank, June 3
"Under the new health-care law, what will happen when providers' morals conflict with patients' rights?," Rob Stein, May 11
"History shows that Democrats aren't exactly the boys of summer," Al Kamen, March 26
"44: Grassley touts provisions he authored in health bill he voted against," Michael Shear, March 24
"Three points for conservatives," E.J. Dionne, March 23
"The Republicans who stirred the tea," Dana Milbank, March 22
"Would Reagan vote for Sarah Palin?; He's their hero, but Palin and the tea partiers need to understand his true legacy," Steven F. Hayward (AEI) March 7
"Political theater with a point," Kathleen Parker, March 3
"Obama ready to advance on health care; In radio address, GOP compromise still offered but has limited shelf life," Anne Kornblut, February 28
"Trig and political calculus," Kathleen Parker, February 14
"How can apple pie suddenly turn bad?; To learn what's gone wrong with health-care reform, go back to 1994," Abigail Trafford, February 2
"Funding for health-care interest groups often fuzzy," Dan Eggen, January 7
"Leader without a cause," Richard Cohen, January 5
Yes, some of those are opinion columns, including one written by an AEI staffer rather than a Post employee. That isn't a relevant defense: Opinion columns have the ability to influence readers, too -- otherwise, why would they exist? And the Washington Post is responsible for everything that appears in its pages.
And, to be sure, some of those references are critical of the "death panels" rhetoric. The March 23 E.J. Dionne piece, for example, read:
In its current incarnation, conservatism has taken on an angry crankiness. It is caught up in a pseudo-populism that true conservatism should mistrust -- what on Earth would Bill Buckley have made of "death panels"? The creed is caught up in a suspicion of all reform that conservatives of the Edmund Burke stripe have always warned against.
But it didn't say the "death panels" claim wasn't true. (To Dionne's credit, his July 26 column was explicit: "There were no 'death panels' in the Democratic health-care bills. But this false charge got so much coverage that an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll last August found that 45 percent of Americans thought the reform proposals would likely allow 'the government to make decisions about when to stop providing medical care to the elderly.' That was the summer when support for reform was dropping precipitously. A straight-out lie influenced the course of one of our most important debates.")
No such credit is owed to Kornblut's February 28 news article, which simply stated "Death panels became part of the debate last summer, after prominent Republicans, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, claimed the government would set them up to decide who could live or die." Or Kamen's misleading statement that "the tea partiers got their operation in gear at the usually dull town hall meetings with lawmakers, berating them for supporting those death panels." Really? "those" death panels? Which death panels are "those"?
Washington Post readers shouldn't be surprised to learn that many people still believe in "death panels" -- not when the Post has repeatedly mentioned the death panel claim without debunking it.
Incidentally, Washington Post reporters and editors won't answer this simple question: Does the Post think it is sufficient to occasionally debunk falsehoods, or does the paper believe it should do so every time it prints those falsehoods?
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The Preakness Cocktail/
In my rush of enthusiasm for all things post-vernal equinox, the Triple Crown is of course on my mind. I have a love/huh? relationship with horse racing which is also not a very deep relationship, but it's also a fun relationship. What I mean is, I really really don't understand horse racing, but when I lived in St. Louis I enjoyed playing "horse hooky" on summer afternoons, sneaking off with my friend Mike to the track, and of course there are all the cocktail traditions that go along with the sport.
The Preakness Cocktail actually bears a closer resemblance to a Manhattan than a mint julep, and it's not even the most "official" cocktail of the Preakness Stakes. That would be the Black-Eyed Susan, so named because the winning horse is ceremonially sheathed in a coverlet of Maryland's state flower. The Black-Eyed Susan, in turn, is like a first cousin to a Hurricane or some such monstrosity: it's made of vodka, cheap whiskey, sour mix and orange juice, garnished with an orange slice and a Maraschino cherry (skewered together on a cellophane-frilled toothpick, I'm sure). I believe it's what they serve to the muddied masses who buy the cheap tickets that allow them standing-room admission to the infield, which this May includes a Maroon 5 concert! Sounds about right.
Blech to all that! The Preakness Cocktail, I feel confident telling you even though I've never tasted a Black-Eyed Susan, is much better. It's a medicinal-tasting Manhattan, thanks to the Benedictine. (Yes, I know I've been big on Benedictine this winter. (Although actually not really, according to the archive.) Yay, winter's over! You probably won't see Benedictine here for a while.) A good five o'clock cocktail, this one, as it's all-alcohol, easy to whip up, quaffable but worth your contemplation on the way down.
The Preakness Cocktail
1 1/2 ounces Buffalo Trace bourbon
1 1/2 ounces sweet vermouth
1/2 ounces Benedictine
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Lemon twist, to garnish
Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled mixing glass or tin shaker and stir thoroughly. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist.
Tasting Notes
The traditional recipe, as you'll find it from many sources online, calls for blended whiskey instead of bourbon. But you all know that Rosie don't play that.


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DETROIT (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc, the automaker led by billionaire Elon Musk, overhauled financing strategy for the Model S electric sedan in response to criticism that its initial plan last month overstated the potential cost savings.
Changes include allowing buyers 72 months, instead of 63, to repay loans, lowering monthly costs by more than one-fourth. Tesla also guaranteed that the resale value of the Model S would top other luxury cars in its segment.
"We looked at it and decided we were wrong," Chief Executive Musk told reporters during a conference call on Friday. "Other people were right, and we needed to fix it."
The financing deal is intended to make the Model S electric sedan, which starts around $70,000 before a $7,500 tax credit, more affordable.
But Tesla got flack from critics who said the company was too aggressive in saying payments could be as low as $500 a month. The company's online payment calculator valued time saved filling up on gas at $100 an hour.
The automaker also drew criticism for pegging the resale value of the Model S to the Mercedes S class of sedans.
Tesla has since changed the default settings of its online payment calculators to be more conservative. The calculator now reflects only potential gas savings and assumes premium gas will be below $5 a gallon over the next three years.
Tesla will also guarantee that the resale value of the Model S will be higher than comparable luxury vehicles from BMW (BMWG.DE), Audi (VOWG_p.DE), Mercedes (DAIGn.DE), Lexus (7203.T) or Jaguar (TAMO.NS), the company said.
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If 70 percent of the miles put on the car are for business purposes, the depreciation benefits cuts the "effective monthly cost" of owning a Model S down to $350, Tesla said.
The new financing deal will be extended to those who financed their Model S purchases over the last month. At least one-fifth of buyers over the last month made use of the financing deal, but Musk told reporters that he expects that figure to go as high as 70 percent.
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- Matthews Named Atlantic District Player of the Year and Division III All-American -
Kansas City, Mo. - The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 2012 NABC Division III All-District teams and coaches on March 13, recognizing the best men's collegiate basketball student-athletes and coaches in the division, selected by member coaches of the NABC. On March 16, they announced the DIII All-Americans, the student-athletes who represent the finest basketball players across America.
Junior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y./Van Arsdale) was tabbed as the 2012 NABC Atlantic Region Player of the Year and also a Division III NABC Coaches' First Team All-American. These two awards place AJ in the voting for Division III National Player of the Year, which will be announed in Salem, Virginia during the Final Four games on March 16-17.
This season, Matthews was named the Skyline Conference Player of the Year after leading the conference in Scoring, Rebounding, Blocks and Defensive Rebounds, while finishing 2nd for Field Goal Percentage. He averaged 22.4 points, 16.3 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks with a .614 field goal percentage. He led the Nation in double-doubles (26) and rebounding, and ranked 3rd for blocks per game, 11th for Points and 12th for FG percentage. Matthews scored a double-double in 26-of-27 games played and became the School's All-Time leader for Career Blocks (99) in just one year, shattering the school record for blocks in a season by 60. He also broke school records for Rebounds in a game (29), Blocks in a Game (9), Points in a Season (605), FG in a season (239), and Rebounds in a Season (439). The previous record for rebounds in a game was 20; AJ matched or broke that number six times this season. He now holds 10 single-season school records and six All-Time records.
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Andrew August, Montclair State Jerome Alexander, John Jay
DiAndre Brown, Richard Stockton Pedro Burgos, Rutgers-Newark
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Winston Douglas, Medgar Evers Jordan Young, Staten Island
*AJ Matthews, Farmingdale State
Co-Coaches of the Year: Tony Petosa, Staten Island and Jose Rebimbas, William Paterson
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DaQuan Brooks, Western Connecticut, 5-10, Senior, Guard, Atlanta, Ga.
Chad Burridge, Oswego State, 6-7, Senior, Center, Hannibal, N.Y.
Chris Davis, UW-Whitewater, 6-6, Senior, Forward, Madison, Wis.
David Krombeen, Hope, 6-2, Senior, Guard, Grandville, Mich.
AJ Matthews, Farmingdale State, 7-0, Junior, Forward, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Tim McCrary, Wheaton (Ill.), 6-6. Senior, Forward, Wilmette, Ill.
Georgio Milligan, Franklin and Marshall, 6-2, Senior, Guard, Spring Valley, N.Y.
DJ Woodmore, Virginia Wesleyan, 6-3, Sophomore, Guard, Virginia Beach, Va.
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Whether you're a armchair athlete or someone who enjoys playing soccer with the kids, your body depends on ample supplies of calories to fuel your body. And while most people are familiar with eating a balanced diet that comprises carbohydrates, fats and proteins, many tend to shy away from foods that are high in carbohydrates. The truth is that sugar broken down from carbohydrates is one of your body's most important fuels. It's readily accessible by most organs and tissues, available in large quantities and is the preferred fuel for your brain and muscles.
Sources of Glucose
Beginning as simple (monosacharides) or complex (polysaccharides) carbohydrates, glucose (also called blood sugar) is derived from the food we eat, then leaves the small intestines, where it enters the bloodstream. Simple carbohydrates are foods with basic molecular structures and are found in fruits and dairy products. Complex carbohydrates are molecularly more complex and are found in refined and processed foods like pasta, white bread and baked goods. One major difference between the two types of carbohydrates is how fast they are converted to glucose and enter the bloodstream. Because simple carbohydrates are easier to break down, they enter the bloodstream faster than complex carbohydrates.
Simple Carbohydrates
While both types of carbohydrates are ultimately released into the bloodstream, there are major differences between the two and how they can affect your health. Many types of simple carbohydrates like candy, fudge and cakes enter the bloodstream rapidly and cause blood sugar levels to spike. Others like berries, grapefruit, apples and pears are better sources because they take longer to digest, reducing the time it takes for blood sugar levels to increase. Spiking blood sugar levels are particularly dangerous for diabetics.
Complex Carbohydrates
Complex carbohydrates are structurally different, because they are made up of chains of carbohydrates that take longer to digest. These are found in vegetables, whole grain breads, brown rice and oatmeal that have higher contents of fiber. The combination of the structure and the fiber slow down the digestive process and release glucose into the blood at slower rates than simple carbohydrates. This makes them better choices for diabetics who are trying to maintain stable blood glucose levels.
Glucose as Fuel
Glucose that's released into the bloodstream acts as a ready supply of fuel for your body. Under normal circumstances, it's accessible, easy to process and fast acting for exercising muscles. Glucose circulating in the bloodstream is also the preferred fuel of the brain. Through its highs and lows, the body has finely tuned mechanisms to control how much glucose circulates in the blood.
Monitoring Blood Glucose
While it's important that the body has enough glucose to supply fuel for the body's immediate needs, it's also imperative that it maintains glucose levels at safe levels and stores extra fuel for times when glucose is in short supply. For short runs or hikes, there is generally enough glucose in the blood to meet the needs of exercising muscles, up to one or two hours. Anything longer than that requires constant replenishment through quick-acting gels, sports drinks or stored fuel. The principal hormone that regulates blood glucose uptake is insulin. Insulin is made in the pancreas and facilitates the glucose uptake of active muscles. If insulin is in short supply (such as type I diabetes), the muscles can starve in the presence of adequate glucose levels. Type II diabetics suffer from a different problem: They make plenty of insulin, but their muscles cannot use it. For both type I and type II diabetics, the results are the same: abnormally high levels of blood glucose while their tissues starve.
Tapping into Stored Glucose
Under normal circumstances, the body is capable of maintaining a safe range of blood glucose levels--usually 70 to 110 mg/dl. If the blood contains more glucose than it needs, it will store it for future use in the liver and muscles as glycogen. If blood glucose levels drop below a safe range (such as in extreme exercise like marathon running), it will tap into stored glycogen by releasing two hormones: epinephrine and glucagon.
Symptoms of Low and High Blood Sugar
If you've just completed a long hike, marathon, century bicycle ride or some other extended form of high-intensity exercise, you could experience temporary dips in your blood glucose levels. Glucose levels lower than 70 mg/dl is called hypoglycemcia and can result in extreme hunger, depression, headaches, an uncontrollable craving for sweets, nervousness and irritability, drowsiness, insomnia, anxiety or heart palpitations. The good news is that these symptoms are easily rectified by eating something sweet. Eating 4 to 6g of a highly concentrated glucose product like hard candy or fruit juice should get you back on your feet within 20 to 30 minutes.
On the other hand, symptoms like frequent urination, blurred vision, high blood pressure, extreme thirst, feeling weak or tired, having a dry mouth, unexplained weight loss and fluid retention could be signs of high blood glucose or hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is blood glucose levels of 110 mg/dl or higher and could indicate pre-diabetes. If you experience any of these symptoms, seek immediate medical attention. They could be signs of much more serious complications.


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Brooke Shields on How She Stayed Grounded as a Child Star
(NEW YORK) -- Brooke Shields is one of the few actresses who made the transition from child star to adult star without a major meltdown.
At the age of 12, Shields was cast as a child prostitute in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby. At 15, she starred in the famous Calvin Klein jeans campaign that made her an icon of the fashion world.
In a new interview with Haute Living, the 47-year-old actress talks about how she stayed grounded as a young Hollywood star.
"I would get invited to Studio 54 [the New York nightclub], but I'd leave before all the craziness and drugs happened. I never saw the bag passed around," she said. "Andy Warhol and all those guys were very sweet to me. There was something about me that they wanted to protect and uphold."
Shields also cited her mother Teri, who died in November following a long struggle with dementia, as the one who helped hide her from the trouble Hollywood can bring. Teri Shields managed Brooke's career until she reached her 20s. She was often accused of exploiting her daughter.
"She wanted me to stay a kid for as long as possible, which may seem like a contradiction, but there was this freedom and naivety where I wasn't cognizant of things," Shields said. "I wasn't cognizant enough to know that you would be insecure or uncomfortable."
Shields also said that even today, she gets starstuck. She admitted she recently chased Academy Award nominee Daniel Day-Lewis down a New York City street.
"I saw him on the street and I turned around and I started following him," she said. "He must have felt someone behind him because he picked up his pace. And I thought, I have to leave the guy alone, and then I thought, I can't!
"I had no idea what to call him. Mister Day-Lewis? Mr. Lewis? Mr. Daniel? So I just walked up to him and said, 'Excuse me, I'm Brooke. I'm really sorry to do this to you, but I think you're amazing.' And thank God, he recognized me," she said.
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text: Dr Stephane De Brito BSc, MPhil, PhD In 'People' Academic StaffPostdoctoral researchersDoctoral researchers Back to 'Psychology' School of PsychologySenior Lecturer Contact details Telephone+44 (0)121 414 email@example.com View my research portal AddressUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Dr De Brito is a psychologist and director of the Social, Cognitive, Affective, and Neuroscience (SCAN) lab. Research in the SCAN lab focuses on understanding the mechanistic interplay between the social, cognitive, affective, and neurocognitive factors implicated in the development and persistence of antisocial and aggressive behaviour. A second strand of research examines those aspects among youths who have experienced early adversity. SCAN Lab: www.bhamscanlab.wordpress.com Staff detailsMedia information Qualifications BSc. (Hons) Psychology, University of Geneva (1999-2003) M.Phil. Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge (2003-2004) Ph.D. Forensic Mental Health Science, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London (2005-2009) Biography Dr De Brito completed undergraduate studies in Psychology in Switzerland (University of Geneva), followed by a move to the United Kingdom to read for a MPhil in Criminology (University of Cambridge) and a PhD in Forensic Mental Health Science (King's College London). Before moving to the University of Birmingham as a Birmingham Fellow in March 2012, Dr De Brito was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit in the Department of Psychology at University College London. Postgraduate supervision PhD students Dr De Brito considers PhD student applications on a rolling basis. Students interested in working on topics related to his research and with a competitive academic track record should email him in the first instance. For information regarding the PhD application process see the 'how to apply' section of the Psychology PhD programme. Postdoctoral researchers Dr De Brito is also looking for good postdoctoral researchers, particularly those interested in applying to the Marie Curie Actions Fellowships, which offer two years of funding for European and Non-European post-docs. If you are interested in joining the lab, please visit our lab website: www.bhamscanlab.wordpress.com Research ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephane_De_Brito/ Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LtoxlHMAAAAJ&hl=en ResearcherID: F-9737-2013 Scopus Author ID: 26657895200 Lab website: www.bhamscanlab.wordpress.com Current project: www.femnat-cd.euDr De Brito's current research funded by the European Commission is focusing on the environmental and neurobiological factors implicated in sex differences in disruptive behaviour in children and adolescents. This research uses diagnostic interviews, neuropsychological and neuroendocrine experiments, and magnetic resonance imaging on over 1800 children and adolescents across seven European countries to examine why disruptive behaviour is more common in males than females. A second strand of his research interests is to better understand patterns of resilience and vulnerability in children and adults who have experienced early adversity. The goals are to clarify why some individuals who have experienced early adversity show resilience while others do not, whether individuals who have experienced early adversity process emotions differently, and whether structural and functional neural markers of resilience can be identified. Publications 2017 Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E. J., De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2017). Modulation of amygdala response to task-irrelevant emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(4), 643-650. doi:10.1093/scan/nsw174 2016 Rogers, J. C., & De Brito, S. A. (2016). Cortical and subcortical gray matter volume in youths with conduct problems: A meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 73(1), 64-72. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.2423. Sebastian, C. L.*, De Brito, S. A.*, McCrory, E. J., Hyde, Z. H., Lockwood, P. L., Cecil, C. A. M., & Viding, E. (2016). Grey matter volumes in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(4), 639-649. doi:10.1007/s10802-015-0073-0 * Equal contribution 2015 Baker, R. H., Clanton, R. L., Rogers, J. C., & De Brito, S. A. (2015). Neuroimaging findings in disruptive behavior disorders. CNS Spectrums. doi: 10.1017/S1092852914000789 Villemonteix, T., De Brito, S. A., Slama, H., Kavec, M., Baleriaux, D., Metens, T.. . ., & Massat, I. (2015). Grey matter volume differences associated with gender in children with attention-deficit : hyperactivity disorder- a voxel-based morphometry study. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 32-37. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2015.06.001 Villemonteix, T., De Brito, S. A., Slama, H., Kavec, M., Baleriaux, D., Metens, T., Baijot, S., Mary, A., Mendlewicz, J., Peigneux, P., & Massat, I. (2015).Grey matter volumes in treatment naïve vs. chronically treated children with attention-deficit:hyperactivity disorder- a voxel-based morphometry study. 25(8), 1118-1127. European Neuropsychopharmacology. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.04.015 Villemonteix, T., De Brito, S. A., Slama, H., Kavec, M., Baleriaux, D., Metens, T., . . ., & Massat, I. (2015). Structural correlates of COMT Val158Met polymorphism in childhood ADHD: a voxel-based morphometry study. World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 16(3), 190-199.doi : 10.3109/15622975.2014.984629 2014 Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E. J., Dadds, M. R., Cecil, C. A. M., Lockwood, P. L., Hyde, Z. H., De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2014). Neural responses to fearful eyes in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous–unemotional traits. Psychological Medicine, 1-11. doi: doi:10.1017/S0033291713000482 2013 De Brito, S. A., Viding, E., Sebastian, C. L., Kelly, P. A., Mechelli, A., Maris, H., & McCrory, E. J. (2013). Reduced orbitofrontal and temporal grey matter in a community sample of maltreated children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54(1). doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02597.x De Brito, S. A., Viding, E., Kumari, V., Blackwood, N., Hodgins, S. (2013). Cool and hot executive function impairments in violent offenders with antisocial personality disorder with and without psychopathy. PLOS ONE,8(6):e65566. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065566 Cullen, A. E., De Brito, S. A., Gregory, S. L., Murray, R. M., Williams, S. C. R., Hodgins, S., & Laurens, K. R. (2013). Temporal lobe volume abnormalities precede the prodrome- A study of children presenting antecedents of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbs128 McCrory, E. J., De Brito, S. A., Kelly, P. A., Bird, G., Sebastian, C. L., Mechelli, A., Samuel, S., & Viding, E. (2013). Amygdala activation in maltreated children during pre-attentive emotional processing. British Journal of Psychiatry, 202(4), 269-276. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116624 Lockwood, P. L., Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E. J., Hyde, Z. H., Gu, X., De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2013). Association of callous traits with reduced neural response to others' pain in children with conduct problems.Current Biology, 23(10), 901-905. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.018 Kelly, P. A., Viding, E., Wallace, G. L., Schaer, M., De Brito, S. A., Robustelli, B., & McCrory, E. J. (2013). Cortical thickness, surface area and gyrification abnormalities in children exposed to maltreatment- Neural markers of vulnerability? Biological Psychiatry, 74(11), 845-52. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.06.020. 2012 McCrory, E, De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E.(2012). The link between child abuse and psychopathology- A review of neurobiological and genetic research. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105(4), 151-156. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2011.110222 Sebastian, C. L., McCrory, E. J. P., Cecil, C. A. M., Lockwood, P. L., De Brito, S. A., Fontaine, N. M. G., & Viding, E. (2012). Neural responses to affective and cognitive theory of mind in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous-unemotional traits. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69(8), 814-822. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.2070 Sebastian, C. L., Fontaine, N. M. G., Bird, G., Blakemore, S., De Brito, S. A., McCrory, E. J. P., & Viding, E. (2012). Neural processing associated with cognitive and affective theory of mind in adolescents and adults.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(1), 53-63. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsr023 Viding, E., Sebastian, C. L., Dadds, M. R., Lockwood, P. L., Cecil, C. A. M., De Brito, S. A., & McCrory, E. J. (2012). Amygdala response to preattentive masked fear in children with conduct problems- The role of callous-unemotional traits. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(10), 1109-1116. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12020191 2011 McCrory, E. J.*, De Brito, S. A.*, Sebastian, C. L., Mechelli, A., Bird, G., Kelly, P. A., et al. (2011).Heightened neural reactivity to threat in child victims of family violence. Current Biology, 21(23), R947-R948. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.015 *Equal contribution De Brito, S. A., McCrory, E., Mechelli, A., Wilke, M., Jones, A., Hodgins, S., & Viding, E. (2011). Small, but not perfectly formed- Decreased white matter concentration in boys with psychopathic tendencies. Molecular Psychiatry, 16, 476-477. doi:10.1038/mp.2010.74 McCrory, E, De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2011). The impact of childhood maltreatment- A review of neurobiological and genetic factors. Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00048 Günther, T., Konrad, K., De Brito, S. A., Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., & Vloet, T. D. (2011). Attentional functions in children and adolescents with ADHD, depressive disorders, and the comorbid condition. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(3), 324-331. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02320.x Cooke, D., Michie, C., De Brito, S. A., Hodgins, S., & Sparkes, L. (2011). Measuring life-long patterns of instrumental aggression- A methodological note.Psychology Crime & Law, 17(4), 319-329. doi: 10.1080/10683160903203953 2010 McCrory, E., De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2010). The neurobiology and genetics of maltreatment and adversity.Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(10), 1079-1095. . DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02271.x Rijsdijk, F.V., Viding, E., De Brito, S. A., Forgiarini, M., Mechelli, A., Jones, A.P., McCrory, E. (2010). Heritable variations in gray matter concentration as a potential endophenotype for psychopathic traits. Archives of General Psychiatry, 67, 406-413. DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.20 Hodgins, S., De Brito, S. A., Chhabra, P., & Côté, G. (2010). Anxiety disorders among offenders with antisocial personality disorders- Different mechanisms underlying violent behaviour.Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 55(12), 815-827. 2009 De Brito, S. A., Mechelli, A., Wilke, M., Laurens, K. R., Jones, A. P., Barker, G. J., Hodgins, S. & Viding, E. (2009). Size matters- Increased grey matter in boys with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Brain, 132(4), 843-852. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp011 – This paper was featured in the scientific commentary in Brain: Blair, R. J. R. (2009). Too much of a good thing- Increased grey matter in boys with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Brain, 132(4), 831-832. DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp051 De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2009). Psychopathic, but not thick: Temporal and prefrontal gray matter thinning in psychopaths. Invited commentary. Cell Science Reviews, 6(1), 31-34. No link available De Brito, S. A., Hodgins, S., McCrory, E. J. P., Mechelli, A.,Wilke, M., Jones, A. P., & Viding, E. (2009). Structural neuroimaging and the antisocial brain- Main findings and methodological challenges. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36(11), 1173-1186. DOI: 10.1177/0093854809342883 Hodgins, S., De Brito, S. A., Simonoff, E., Vloet, T.,& Viding,E. (2009). Getting the phenotypes right- An essential ingredient for understanding aetiological mechanisms underlying persistent violence and developing effective treatments. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3(44), 1-10. DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.044.2009 Mechelli, A., Tognin, S., McGuire, P. K., Prata, D., Sartori, G., Fusar-Poli, P., De Brito S. A., Hariri A. R., & Viding E. (2009). Genetic vulnerability to affective psychopathology in childhood- A combined voxel-based morphometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biological Psychiatry, 66(3), 231-237. DOI:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.01.033 De Brito, S. A., & Hodgins, S. (2009). Die Antisoziale Persönlichkeitsstörung des DSM-IV-TR - befunde, untergruppen und unterschiede zur Psychopathy. Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie, 3(2), 116-128. DOI: 10.1007/s11757-009-0124-x German translation of the book chapter: De Brito, S. A. & Hodgins, S. (2009). Antisocial Personality. In M. McMurran & R. Howard (Eds.). Book chapters Clanton. R. L., Baker, R. H., Rogers, J. C., & De Brito, S. A. (forthcoming). Conduct Disorder. In S. Goldstein & M. DeVries (Eds.), Handbook of DSM-5 Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Springer. De Brito S.A. & Mitchell, I. J. (forthcoming). Psychopathy. In A. R. Beech, A. J. Carter, R. E. Mann & P. Rotshtein (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience: John Wiley & Sons Ltd/Inc. Hodgins, S., Checknita, D., Lindner, P., Schiffer, B., & De Brito, S. A. (forthcoming). Antisocial Personality Disorder. In A. R. Beech, A. J. Carter, R. E. Mann & P. Rotshtein (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Forensic Neuroscience: John Wiley & Sons Ltd/Inc. McCrory, E, De Brito, S. A., & Viding, E. (2011). The neuroscience and genetics of childhood maltreatment. In D. Skuse, H. Bruce, L. Dowdney, & D. Mrazek (Eds) Child Psychology and Psychiatry: Frameworks for Practice: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119993971.ch20 De Brito, S. A. & Hodgins, S. (2009). Antisocial Personality. In M. McMurran & R. Howard (Eds.), Personality, Personality Disorder, and Risk of Violence: Wiley. ISBN: 978-0-470-05948-7 De Brito, S. A. & Hodgins, S. (2009). Executive functions of persistent violent offenders: A critical review of the literature. In S. Hodgins, E. Viding & A. Plodowski (Eds.), Persistent violent offenders: Neurobiology and rehabilitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199543533 Hodgins, S. & De Brito, S. A. (2009). Damaged development and the propensity to criminal behaviour. In B. Kamaldeep (Ed.) Psychiatry and Crime. Royal Society of Medicine Press. ISBN: 978-1-85315-883-4View all publications in research portal Expertise Violence and severe antisocial behaviour in children (e.g., conduct disorder, callous-unemotional traits/psychopathic tendencies) and adults (e.g., antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy) using cognitive neuroscience methods (e.g., brain imaging and neurocognitive assessments). Impact of childhood maltreatment on brain structure and functioning; individual and environmental factors contributing to resilience.


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New York Post's Sexist Clinton Cover Gets Fox Host Chris Wallace's Approval
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The New York Post reacted to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's January 23 congressional testimony with a front page photograph of a supposedly angry Clinton and the headline, "NO WONDER BILL'S AFRAID." The tabloid quickly drew criticism, with writers calling the cover "blatantly sexist," and "offensive sexist garbage." The Post however found a fan with fellow News Corp. employee and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
Speaking on Allman in the Morning, Wallace expressed amusement at the cover, telling host Jamie Allman: "Let me tell you -- you probably haven't seen it, the front page, the big front page of The New York Post today is a picture of her looking, screaming during her answer, and the headline is, 'No Wonder Bill's Afraid.'" A laughing Allman replied: "I don't know, that's not very nice." Wallace responded: "Well no, but it's funny" and "nice can be overrated sometimes."
Listen to Wallace's comments from the January 24 edition of KFTK's Allman in the Morning:
The Post is one of several conservative outlets and figures to push sexist attacks in response to Clinton and the Benghazi attacks. In his January 24 Washington Times column, Wesley Pruden similarly tied Clinton's supposedly "angry and combative" testimony to discredited rumors about her alleged interactions with President Clinton in the White House.
Media outlets including Fox News have a long history of sexism toward Hillary Clinton.
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We plan to have a demo day for the new EH Ovandos this Saturday. This new kite designed by Eric Hertsens in Cabarete has generated a lot of "buzz"
Come try it out and decide for yourself whether this kite has as much power as kites 2 meters larger, turns very quickly anywhere in the window, and depowers smoothly over a very short distance.
Check out the posts on Kiteforum
Please suggest where may the best spot to have the demo. Please consider crowds, safety, as well as of course the wind conditions.
We will decide by Friday evening where we will be and post it here.
See you Saturday!


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Butternut Squash Polenta Appetizers
If you're putting together a more elegant Thanksgiving meal this year, consider these appetizers. They are a great conversation starter. The appetizers connect familiar holiday ingredients--roasted butternut squash and corn--in a wholly unique way.
The primary ingredient in the appetizer is a mash of butternut squash and fromage blanc. I nested the spread in a roll of grilled zucchini on top of pan-fried polenta medallions. For a nice contrast of texture and color, I garnished the elegant appetizers with honey-roasted nuts and a sprinkling of Italian parsley.
I'm planning on serving 5 or 6 appetizers on Thanksgiving and will be sharing them as I make them throughout the month.
Yields: 18 appetizers1 (24-ounce) package pre-cooked polenta, store-bought
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 zucchini
½ butternut squash
2 tablespoons olive oil
¼ teaspoon dried sage
¾ cup fromage blanc (cream cheese or goat cheese), at room temperature
4 tablespoons Italian parsley, finely chopped
1½ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon black peppercorns, freshly ground
2 tablespoons honey-roasted nuts (your favorite kind), coarsely crushed
Prepping the butternutsquash:
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Remove the seeds and the strings (if any). Place the cubes of butternut squash on a greased baking sheet with the sprig of thyme in the center. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Sprinkle with dried sage and 1 teaspoon salt. Roast for about 30 minutes until soft. Let cool.
Coarsely mash the butternut squash with the back of a fork and mix with the fromage blanc. You could also blend the mixture into a smooth paste in a food processor. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
Grilling the zucchini:
Trim and slice the zucchini lengthwise, about ¼" thick. Sprinkle with salt. Let sit, then pat dry with paper towels. Brush a griddle pan with vegetable oil. Add the zucchini slices and cook on both sides until grilling marks are visible. Let cool. Cut the zucchini into 3-4" pieces.
For the crispy polenta:
Cut the polenta into 18 slices. (I used a circle cutter to shape smaller-sized medallions; but you could keep them larger if you like).
In a pan, heat the remaining vegetable oil. Add more oil if necessary. Pan-fry the polenta pieces until slightly golden and crispy. Transfer to a plate.
Assembly time:
When you're ready to serve, transfer the polenta medallions to a serving platter. Roll zucchini pieces on top of each polenta appetizer. Add a dollop of butternut squash spread. Cover with crushed honey-roasted nuts. Garnish with Italian parsley.
Serve immediately.
Bon appétit!
If you decide to serve the polenta rounds as an appetizer, it's preferable to serve them in serving spoons (Chinese porcelain spoons); the look is more elegant and they're easier for your guests to manage.
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Favorable rainfall that began in mid-July has begun to overstay its welcome by early August.
Local farmers have seen their crops benefit from the early rain, but worry excess water could drown the plants.
"For the alfalfa, the rain has been good for it, but it really can't handle anymore," said Brad Wiens, a farmer who lives near Hillsboro. "Most of the rain we're getting now's not soaking, it's just running off."
Joel Suderman, who is growing soybeans a mile west of Aulne, said his plants are blooming, but warmer weather could only help.
"Because of the rain, I'm not getting crops planted and weeds are growing," he said.
The ground had flooded in other low areas where beans were growing. Marion County Extension Agent Rickey Roberts said the plants should still recover.
"I think they'll rebound some," he said. "They'll bloom some more, and I think they'll make some pods, but it wasn't an ideal situation."
In the meantime, Suderman has planted a mix of cover crops to conserve the soil.
"We're finding more and more that soil health is reliant on keeping something growing all the time," he said.
If the weather does dry up, the harvest could be one of the best in recent years.
"A lot of the hay crop is going to be good, a bigger cutting than it has been in three or four years," Wiens said. "I think with the amount of hay being cut, we'll be in good shape for cattle."
Roberts said the corn crop is also set up for a good harvest.
"The yield has already been determined really, it's just a matter of getting the crop finished while we can go get it," he said. "I just hope that all the water doesn't create a problem in the stalk of that plant where we can't go get it."