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The so-called "crack tax" applies to controlled substances like marijuana and cocaine, and also illicit alcoholic beverages like moonshine. It allows someone to anonymously purchase stamps in person from the Department of Revenue based on the type and amount of the substance ($3.50 for a gram of marijuana, $50 for a gram of cocaine, etc.) with the understanding that doing so cannot be used against them in a criminal court. Posessing drugs is still illegal the tax works completely outside the criminal justice system. A stamp cannot provide immunity from criminal prosecution, and a conviction of possession isn't required for the Department of Revenue to assess the penalties.
Of the 726 stamps sold so far (some to collectors as novelty items), none have turned up during a seizure. The penalty for not having a stamp can exceed 10 times the original cost and the Department of Revenue concedes that the tax was instituted with the expectation that most dealers won't buy the stamp. "Dealers can do it either way," says Assistant Commissioner for Operations Sam Chessor. "But in reality, the payoff for us is going to be on the back end, not the front end. "
And what a payoff: since the tax was enacted in 2004 it has netted Tennessee $3.5 million in extra revenue, 75% of which goes directly to the enforcement agencies that carry out the drug busts. Still, some opponents argue that adding such steep penalties on top of criminal charges amounts to a second punishment, and thus a violation of double jeopardy law. "Aside from this incredible acrimony and bill-collecting mentality," says Knoxville attorney Gregory P. Isaacs, "you are divested of all your constitutional rights."
For that reason, a Davidson County chancellor last summer ruled the tax unconstitutional, and stopped the state from collecting Robbins' $1.1 million. But the Department of Revenue, confident the ruling will be overturned on appeal, is continuing with the assessments. Says Deputy Commissioner Reagan Farr, "It's fine to have a criminal and a regulatory scheme running in tandem. We've made sure our statute is purely regulatory, not punitive." But no matter how you define it, the bottom line for Tennessee is that crime pays.


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One of my developers has asked me to come up with a way to delete rows based on a timestamp. He wants the row to be deleted after 48 hours. I was thinking a stored procedure with DBMS_JOB running it at certain intervals. Is this overkill could I use a trigger - after insert if list_dt > SysDate + 48 then delete from...I'm not familar with stored procedures or DBMS_JOB so I don't want to bit off more than I have to. Thanks for the help.

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By Golnaz Esfandiari, RFE/RL
The blog of 35-year-old Iranian Sattar Beheshti, who died in Iranian police custody in October or November.
Before he was arrested last month, 35-year-old Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti wrote that he had been warned against expressing his anti-regime views.
"They threatened me yesterday and said, 'Your mother will soon wear black because you don't shut your big mouth,'" he blogged.
On October 28, according to available information, Beheshti was arrested at his home in Rabat Karim, a town southwest of the Iranian capital, by members of Iran's cyber police -- the year-old force that was created to crack down on online crime.
On November 6, police officials informed his family that he was dead. They told the family to collect his body from the Kahrizak detention center -- the same place where at least three detainees were said to have died under torture during the crackdown that followed President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's disputed 2009 reelection.
Beheshti, who has been described as a simple worker and the breadwinner for his family, was apparently taken into custody for what he wrote online. However, he appears to have been a minor figure in the blogosphere, because several prominent bloggers contacted by RFE/RL said he was not known.
Beheshti's sister told the opposition website Kalame, "They summoned my husband, told him to prepare [our] mother. 'Buy a grave. Come to get the body tomorrow.' That's all."
She said authorities told her husband that Beheshti had been ill, although her brother was healthy and had not been suffering from any illness.
And she said authorities had warned the family not to give media interviews about what happened.
But three online news sites have looked into the case.
Kalame, which has ties to opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi, reported that Beheshti's fellow prisoners said he was physically tortured during interrogations. "Political prisoners in Section 350 of Evin Prison, where Beheshti spent one night, said his body had been crushed under torture and that there wasn't a healthy spot on his body," it said.
The opposition Sahamnews website, which is aligned with reformist cleric Mehdi Karrubi, also reported that Beheshti had died under torture by security officials. The website said Beheshti had been jailed in the past for his criticism of the Iranian establishment.
And the Baztab Emrooz website, said to be close to senior Iranian politician and former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Mohsen Rezai, also reported that Beheshti died during interrogation. "The unfortunate death of this young man is likely because of negligence or error on the part of those involved in his case," the website said.
The arrest of Beheshti, a minor figure in the Iranian blogosphere, could be a sign of increased scrutiny by the cyberpolice of Iranian citizens' online activities.
The reports of his death under torture -- which cannot be independently confirmed -- have prompted fresh concern over the treatment of prisoners in the Islamic republic.
Several Iranian political prisoners have died in custody in recent years, including Canadian/Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who reportedly died from beatings sustained under interrogation in Evin prison.
Drewery Dyke, an Iran researcher with Amnesty International, told RFE/RL there needs to be an open and transparent investigation into Beheshti's death in custody:
"While recognizing that death in custody takes place in many, many different countries for many, many different reasons and in contexts where there is no foul play, unfortunately in the Iranian context, be it with Zahra Kazemi, be it with women detainees held in recent years and in light of the recent hunger strike undertaken by women protesting against forms of ill treatment -- sexual ill treatment that they faced -- it really calls into question what exactly is happening in Iranian prisons."
British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has also called on Iranian authorities to provide an explanation.
Iran has long ignored calls for independent investigations into the death of its prisoners, but Baztab Emrooz reported that a group of lawmakers is planning to summon police officials to parliament over the matter.
Beheshti's body has not been yet delivered to his family.


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Only you can decide when it's time to retire, but you should know that your age at retirement can affect your pension benefit. Some New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) members are in special plans that allow for retirement after a certain number of years, regardless of age (for example, police officers, firefighters, correction officers or sheriffs). But for most members, you can retire with full benefits at the age specified by your plan. Most members can choose to retire as early as age 55, but if you do, you may receive a permanently reduced pension benefit.
Full Retirement Ages
Most retirement plans have an age requirement to retire with full benefits. For Employees' Retirement System (ERS) members in Tiers 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS) members in Tiers 2, 3, 5 and 6, the full retirement age is 62. For ERS Tier 6 members, it's 63. PFRS Tier 6 members who have left their PFRS employer are eligible for their benefits at age 63.
Service Credit Exceptions
In some retirement plans, members with a certain amount of service credit can retire at age 55 without being subject to benefit reductions. Benefit reductions don't apply to ERS Tier 2, 3 or 4 members who have 30 or more years of service credit and Tier 2, 3, 4 and 5 Uniformed Court Officers and Peace Officers employed by the Unified Court System who have 30 or more years of service.
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Retirement benefits for all other ERS Tier 5 and Tier 6 members, and PFRS Tier 2, 3, 5 and 6 members not in a special 20- or 25-year plan, will be reduced for early retirement — even if they have 30 years of service credit.
These benefit reductions are prorated by month, so the closer you are to your full retirement age, the less the reduction will be. Once you retire with a reduced benefit, that reduction is permanent.
Here's a look at how reductions break down by membership tier:
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The video below (300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds), from the Post Carbon Institute, is very well done. It tells the story about the development of industrial civilization based on fossil fuel energy, and the mega-crisis that now confronts us. While it is inaccurate in pointing to fossil fuels as the main driver of economic growth, it is well worth the five minutes it takes to watch it.
As I've been saying for a long time, the availability of cheap fossil fuel energy has been the enabler of continuous economic growth, but it is not the driver. The driver of the growth imperative which has been operating for about the past 300 years is the political interest-based debt-money system. It is a system that creates money based on interest bearing "loans." It is the compound interest that is built into the global money system that requires the continual expansion of debt, which in turn forces the physical expansion of economic output. Now nature is putting on the brakes, telling us it's time to STOP.
We can make the transition to a regenerative economy consciously and deliberately, or we can try to deal with the developing problems on an ad hoc basis in the midst of inevitable chaos. The end of the industrial era should not be mourned, nor does it need to be painful. We have before us the opportunity to create a happier, more peaceful world, one in which we all have enough to live a dignified and fulfilling life with enough time and energy to restore our communities and our environment. For more about that, see my presentation on The Butterfly Society.—t.h.g.


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March 12, 2010
Farmers growing corn and soybeans in 2010 should start considering the challenge of marketing the beans, according to market-plan ideas from a University of Missouri crop economist.
While there is upside price potential, soybean price volatility could lead to significant downside risks.
Melvin Brees, market watcher at the MU Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), says market planning is uncertain at best and carries price risk. However, he urges farmers to prepare written plans to guide sales through the coming year.
While U.S. soybean ending stocks of 210 million bushels are below average, there is expected record production with export competition coming from South America. Also, the expected U.S. soybean plantings in 2010 will lead to another year of large production. Declining livestock feeding cuts soy meal usage.
The corn outlook remains more stable, with carry-over more than adequate and increasing ethanol demand expected.
A starting point for a market plan is to know a farm's break-even cost. This helps determine profit margins to be achieved with any crop.
Too often the only plan is to sell on the day the market hits the highest point of the year, Brees said. Spreading marketing over the year reduces risk.
Brees recommends setting price goals on the upside. That locks in a profit for at least part of the crop. Equally important is setting a "trap price" on the downside. That protects a minimum profit above breakeven.
Setting those goals isn't an easy decision, Brees admits. Pulling the trigger when goals are reached becomes more difficult.
Current projections for soybean prices run from $8.60 to $9 per bushel. Those should be well above farm break-even points. However, some farm-price outlooks see $7.75 or lower at the bottom of the range.
"Profitable prices can be locked in," Brees said.
Crop break-even points can be determined by using budgets available from the MU FAPRI Web site. Based on projected average Missouri prices, the budgeted breakeven for soybeans shows $6.42 per bushel.
Actual costs from a farm are best used for calculating those break-even points. "Prices vary considerably from farm to farm depending on yields and production costs," Brees said. "Owning, share leasing or cash renting land affects cash flow and break-even costs."
When to sell is another decision. Historical price trends show seasonal highs in the months before harvest. Pre-harvest highs often come before and during planting. Prices rise again in June and July, especially with drought scares. Prices usually decline through harvest. Brees thinks that without weather problems the high soybean prices seen earlier this year are not likely to return.
Ideas on the Brees market plans are available in the Farmers' Corner.
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
Beatrix Potter
Reading Level: 2-4
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
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The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
by Beatrix Potter
What a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen! Listen to the story of Jemima Puddle-duck, who was annoyed because the farmer's wife would not let her hatch her own eggs. Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rebeccah Puddle-duck, was perfectly willing to leave the hatching to some one else"I have not the patience to sit on a nest for twenty eight days; and no more have you, Jemima. You would let them go cold; you know you would!" "I wish to hatch my own eggs; I will hatch them all by myself," quacked Jemima Puddle-Duck. She tried to hide her eggs; but they were always found and carried off. Jemima Puddle-duck became quite desperate. She determined to make a nest right away from the farm. She set off on a fine spring afternoon along the cart-road that leads over the hill. She was wearing a shawl and a poke bonnet. When she reached the top of the hill, she saw a wood in the distance. She thought that it looked a safe quiet spot. Jemima Puddl duck was not much in the habit of flying. She ran downhill a few yards flapping her shawl, and then she jumped off into the air. She flew beautifully when she had got a good start. She skimmed along over the tree tops until she saw an open place in the middle of the wood, where the trees and brushwood had been cleared. Jemima alighted rather heavily, and began to waddle about in search of a convenient dry nesting place. She rather fancied a tree stump amongst some tall fox gloves. But seated upon the stump, she was startled to find an elegantly dressed gentleman reading a newspaper. He had black prick ears and sandy coloured whiskers. "Quack?" said Jemima Puddle-duck, with her head and her bonnet on one side"Quack?" The gentleman raised his eyes above his newspaper and looked curiously at Jemima "Madam, have you lost your way?" said he. He had a long bushy tail which he was sitting upon, as the stump was somewhat damp. Jemima thought him mighty civil and handsome. She explained that she had not lost her way, but that she was trying to find a convenient dry nesting-place. "Ah! is that so? indeed!" said the gentleman with sandy whiskers, looking curiously at Jemima. He folded up the newspaper, and put it in his coat-tail pocket. Jemima complained of the superfluous hen. "Indeed! how interesting! I wish I could meet with that fowl. I would teach it to mind its own business!" "But as to a nest there is no difficulty: I have a sackful of feathers in my wood-shed. No, my dear madam, you will be in nobody's way. You may sit there as long as you like," said the bushy long-tailed gentleman. He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox gloves. It was built of faggots and turf, and there were two broken pails, one on top of another, by way of a chimney. "This is my summer residence; you would not find my earth my winter house so convenient," said the hospitable gentleman. There was a tumble-down shed at the back of the house, made of old soap boxes. The gentleman opened the door, and showed Jemima in. The shed was almost quite full of feathers it was almost suffocating; but it was comfortable and very soft. Jemima Puddle-duck was rather surprised to find such a vast quantity of feathers. But it was very comfortable; and she made a nest without any trouble at all. When she came out, the sandy whiskered gentleman was sitting on a log reading the newspaper--at least he had it spread out, but he was looking over the top of it. He was so polite, that he seemed almost sorry to let Jemima go home for the night. He promised to take great care of her nest until she came back again next day. He said he loved eggs and ducklings; he should be proud to see a fine nestful in his wood-shed. Jemima Puddle-duck came every afternoon; she laid nine eggs in the nest. They were greeny white and very large. The foxy gentleman admired them immensely. He used to turn them over and count them when Jemima was not there. At last Jemima told him that she intended to begin to sit next day"and I will bring a bag of corn with me, so that I need never leave my nest until the eggs are hatched. They might catch cold," said the conscientious Jemima. "Madam, I beg you not to trouble yourself with a bag; I will provide oats. But before you commence your tedious sitting, I intend to give you a treat. Let us have a dinner party all to ourselves! "May I ask you to bring up some herbs from the farm-garden to make a savoury omelette? Sage and thyme, and mint and two onions, and some parsley. I will provide lard for the stuff lard for the omelette," said the hospitable gentleman with sandy whiskers. Jemima Puddle-duck was a simpleton: not even the mention of sage and onions made her suspicious. She went round the farm-garden, nibbling off snippets of all the different sorts of herbs that are used for stuffing roast duck. And she waddled into the kitchen, and got two onions out of a basket. The collie dog Kep met her coming out, "What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-Duck?" Jemima was rather in awe of the collie; she told him the whole story. The collie listened, with his wise head on one side; he grinned when she described the polite gentleman with sandy whiskers. He asked several questions about the wood, and about the exact position of the house and shed. Then he went out, and trotted down the village. He went to look for two fox-hound puppies who were out at walk with the butcher. Jemima Puddle-duck went up the cart road for the last time, on a sunny afternoon. She was rather burdened with bunches of herbs and two onions in a bag. She flew over the wood, and alighted opposite the house of the bushy long tailed gentleman. He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air, and kept glancing uneasily round the wood. When Jemima alighted he quite jumped. "Come into the house as soon as you have looked at your eggs. Give me the herbs for the omelette. Be sharp!" He was rather abrupt. Jemima Puddle-duck had never heard him speak like that. She felt surprised, and uncomfortable. While she was inside she heard pattering feet round the back of the shed. Some one with a black nose sniffed at the bottom of the door, and then locked it. Jemima became much alarmed. A moment afterwards there were most awful noises barking, baying, growls and howls, squealing and groans. And nothing more was ever seen of that foxy-whiskered gentleman. Presently Kep opened the door of the shed, and let out Jemima Puddle-duck. Unfortunately the puppies rushed in and gobbled up all the eggs before he could stop them. He had a bite on his ear and both the puppies were limping. Jemima Puddle-duck was escorted home in tears on account of those eggs. She laid some more in June, and she was permitted to keep them herself: but only four of them hatched. Jemima Puddle-duck said that it was because of her nerves; but she had always been a bad sitter.
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George Rebane
When there's a problem, don't bet against government as being its source.
For the Rebanes today is HD23. Given the comment stream under the 26mar20 posting of HDD, in addition to sharing my own hunker down doings, I am going to make this an ongoing repository of readers' experiences, views, and opinions concerning the Covid19 pandemic. Hopefully we will draw strength and get a laugh or two from each other's fears, feats, and foibles as we cope and spend time with family (and friends?) in close quarters for the duration.
Jo Ann and I have taken this time to finish long-languishing projects, add to our already extensive reading lists, and continue our normal intercourse with family and friends through new means of distance socializing. My own direction has been, unsurprisingly, to look at our cultural changes and public policies that are driven by the current social distancing and economic slowdown. When we emerge on the other side, things are going to be markedly different in how we conduct our lives. I intend to offer a structured list of the affected areas which I hope will draw some stimulating discussion and, of course, expansion from the fertile minds of RR readers.
In the meantime, I share with you the scariest news I've heard about C19 that was just published by the LA Times (here or here) – the virus is definitely and pervasively transmitted by aerosols exhaled by pre-symptomatic infected people, aerosols which can dwell for hours suspended in the air we breathe.
An interim C19 'vaccine'? On the more hopeful side, the biggest and most suppressed news is about the efficacy of hydro-chloroquine (HCQ) in protecting against C19 onset, and the combination of HCQ and azithromycin (AZM) in treating the disease after onset of symptoms. Multiple reports have now emerged about the successes in the use of these drugs in controlled hospital settings here and abroad. (here and here) So here's an idea for a possible interim C19 vaccine from Dr Rebane (PhD NOT MD) – administer a sequence or combination of (weakened if possible) C19 virus and/then HCQ, either one after the other, say, a day apart, or together in a cocktail. The hopeful idea being that the virus would set off the body's natural mechanism for producing C19 antibodies, and the presence of HCQ would ameliorate the onset of the disease, allowing the individual to recover with an effective level of immunity. I wouldn't recommend this to people with pre-existing medical conditions that already make them more vulnerable to C19. Anyway, as always, readers' thoughts on this are most welcome.
On the more mundane side, it's worth noting with some alarm that our stores continue to be out of sanitary and paper products. Hunker down hoarding continues to take its toll on many things, and now more than ever since President Trump has extended the HD advisory to last through April.
Anyway, to whet your curiosity, here's an output plot of a test run. In this scenario the total vulnerable and uninfected population (popU) numbers 100M (say, the approx US pop who don't isolate themselves and remain vulnerable). The disease starts with the introduction of 1,000 infected people (popI). The timescale (horizontal axis) is in weeks. The reproduction rate of the disease (rI) is variable, and is a function of the various population cohorts that employs some nice mathematics to account for what epidemiologists call 'herd immunity' which plays a critical part in how contagious diseases spread in a population.
The plot displays five population cohorts over a period of 60 weeks – popTot (cyan) is the total vulnerable population which in this scenario remains constant, but which can also be varied to study the effects of different levels of time-dependent imposed quarantines and self-isolation. popU (blue) is the uninfected population. popI (red) is the infected population (here we take the C19 experience that once a person becomes infected, he will take nI = 4 weeks to either die or recover and be immune. The recovered cohort is popR (green), and the dear departed is popD (black).
Here we see that the disease plays itself out in less than 25 weeks from onset. The maximum number infected (popI) will number about 62M in week 18. The appropriately time-lagged recovered (popR) and deceased (popD) cohorts stabilize at 72.5M and 2.25M respectively. In this scenario I have set at two the max weekly reproduction rate (rImax) per pre-symptomatic person and the death rate (rD) at 3%. This rate will reduce as herd immunity takes effect. And, as shown, the disease plays itself out with approximately 25M having never been infected.
For those who can't wait for my post on Epidyne2, and want to examine in more detail, or perhaps even program up the model in spreadsheet form (a formidable undertaking), I will offer the iterative equations in an update to this post.
[Update] Here is the complete Epidyne2 model that can be programmed into Excel. Click on image to get a more readable version.


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EU-AIMS - an overview
Speakers: Professor Declan Murphy (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) and Dr Will Spooren (Roche)
Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Will Spooren give an introductory talk about EU-AIMS. They present a general overview of EU-AIMS, its aims and how these aims are being accomplished.
Biomarkers in EU-AIMS
Why do we need stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder? An overview of the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project
Speaker: Dr. Eva Loth (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London)
Over the past years, researchers and clinicians have begun to recognize the enormous diversity between individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a fundamental feature of this condition. For example, some children with ASD grow into independent adults while others remain very severely impaired throughout life. Some children with ASD also develop ADHD, depression or anxiety while others do not. Currently, we do not know what underpins these different symptom profiles and developmental trajectories, but we assume that different (genetic and environmental) factors may cause different forms of autism. We also recognize that different people with ASD not only want and need different types of treatment but also that many treatments may only work effectively for certain individuals. Precision medicine is a new approach that aims to match specific treatments to specific individuals that are most likely to benefit from them through use of stratification biomarkers. These are tests that help us to ascertain what form of autism a person may have based on a better understanding of his or her biological profile. So far, we do not have any validated biomarkers for ASD primarily because most previous studies treated people with ASD as a uniform group and/ or because many studies were too small to look at sub-groups.
In this talk, Dr. Eva Loth (responsible for the Project Science Coordination and Deputy Lead Clinical Research in EU-AIMS) gives an overview of the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP). LEAP is currently the worldwide largest study that aims to identify markers or tests that help us to divide ASD into different (biological) subgroups. The study is concurrently carried out in seven European study centres and includes over 800 individuals and their families. Each participant is comprehensively characterised in terms of his or her autism symptoms, associated mental health symptoms, functional outcomes, neurocognitive (psychological, emotional) profile, brain structure and function, biochemical markers and genomics.
Dr. Loth describes the study design, procedures, and the clinical characterisation of the sample. She outlines some approaches to identify subgroups using a persons strengths and weaknesses across different cognitive tests as an example. Dr. Loth also describes the procedures intended to move the field forward by increasing transparency, robustness and reproducibility of the analyses, which is key for a biomarker to be used eventually in clinical practice.
Sex/Gender Differences and Autism
Why are sex and gender important for understanding autism?
Speaker: Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai (University of Toronto)
Autism has long been perceived as a male-predominant condition. Studies from clinical samples typically find a male:female prevalence ratio of 4-5:1, whereas population-based studies with active case ascertainment find a ratio closer to 3:1. These sex/gender ratios suggest sex/gender-related liability to developing autism, but the difference in clinical versus population estimates suggest some degree of ascertainment and diagnostic bias. Overall this may have resulted in male-biased identification and understanding of autism to date. Understanding autism in the light of sex and gender informs their moderating roles in both the presentation and emergence of this condition.
First, understanding how sex and gender moderate the presentation of behavioural characteristics of autism will inform why males are more likely to be identified. Females with autism tend to be under-recognized owing to higher likelihood of subtler and partially different behavioral presentation, and possible biases on the interpretation of their behaviours by the source of referral or the clinician.
Second, clarifying how variables related to sex and gender contribute to the male-predominance of prevalence will inform the diverse aetiologies and developmental mechanisms of autism. This may involve particularly the convergence of developmental pathways between the emergence of autism characteristics, typical sexual differentiation and gender socialization.
The optimization of supports for girls and women with autism is best based on the understanding of their needs and characteristics considering the moderating roles of sex and gender, targeting at resilience and person-environment fit, and taking into account the influences of gendered social-cultural contexts. This involves not only skill-building and graded exposure for the individual, but more importantly, the adjustment of the social and physical environments.


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Gerry SanduskySports Director, Voice of the Ravens
Gerry Sandusky, a Baltimore native, tackles all sports coverage for WBAL-TV 11 as sports director and the Voice of the Baltimore Ravens.
Gerry has anchored sports coverage at WBAL-TV since 1988. His chosen profession is no surprise because Gerry literally grew up with a ball in his hand. His father's career with the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins made football and sports and integral part of the Sandusky family.
Gerry graduated from Towson University, and got his first break as a sportscaster at WSVN-TV in Miami.
Gerry was honored with an Emmy award in 1992 for his story on the uncertain future of Memorial Stadium. He won a second Emmy award in 2003 for a tribute special to the late Johnny Unitas. Gerry has also won two Edward R. Murrow awards. In 2012, the Carson Scholars Fund honored Gerry with its Sonya Award, which honors someone who demonstrates drive, determination and perseverance.
As part of the Ravens Broadcast Team, Gerry announces play-by-play for Ravens football games, and anchors coverage on WBAL-TV 11, WBAL Plus, WBAL 1090 AM and 98 Rock.
In 1993, Gerry and his wife, Lee Ann, founded the Joe Sandusky Fund through the Baltimore Community Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to raising money and granting scholarships to financially needy students from Baltimore. He and Lee Ann started the foundation in memory of Gerry's brother, who died from complications of pneumonia in 1978.
Gerry and Lee Ann have two children and live in Baltimore County.


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With summer fast approaching, many parents are signing their kids up for swim lessons so they can feel more confident in their child's abilities in the water. However, it is important for parents to be aware of what their children will need for these lessons. Most parents simply buy any swimsuit for their child and that is it. Whether you want your child to become involved in competitive swimming or you just want him to know how to handle himself in the water, the proper swimwear and goggles are important to his success.
Girl's Swimwear
If you have a girl, you need to look for a swimsuit that provides the coverage every girl should have without interfering with her ability to move in the water. Speedo makes a large line of girl's swimsuits that make the perfect option for those swimming lessons, allowing you to choose the right style, design and colors that will make any girl happy to wear the suit.
Boy's Swimwear
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MILWAUKEE (AP) – MILWAUKEE (AP) – There's a 15-year-old Florida girl who didn't really know much about Charlie Sheen before this week – but does now.
The actor wired $10,000 to Teagan Marti and her family on Thursday for a therapy dog to help in her rehabilitation from injuries sustained when she plummeted 100 feet from a Wisconsin amusement park ride in 2010.
'I think he's a very kind person for helping me and my family and very generous,' Teagan Marti said by phone Thursday from her home in Parkland, Fla.
Teagan Marti suffered brain, spine, pelvis and internal injuries in July 2010 when nets and air bags that were supposed to catch riders on a free-fall ride were not raised. She had convinced her family to make the trip from Florida to Extreme World in Wisconsin Dells after seeing the amusement park's Terminal Velocity ride on the Travel Channel.
She was hospitalized in Wisconsin and Florida for three months. She initially had no use of her arms or legs but through physical therapy is able to walk again with a walker.
Teagan Marti's mother, Julie Marti, said they are financially in trouble from the medical bills and her recent divorce. Their house is being foreclosed upon and insurance isn't covering physical therapy anymore, she said. She had no idea how they would pay for the English Golden Retriever puppy.
'I'm in such disbelief,' Julie Marti said. 'I was crying. … What a guy. What a guy.'
The dog is being trained in Fond du Lac to turn on lights, pick up objects and be the teen's constant companion.
Lucia Wilgus, of Eau Claire, became friends with the Martis after hearing of the accident and has spearheaded fundraising and helped find the dog and arrange training.
She sent a letter this week to Sheen through Sheen's godfather, who is a Wilgus family friend and Benedictine brother in the Benet Lake, Wis. She estimated the training and related costs would be around $6,000.
Sheen said he decided to give more for extra costs. The request had a 'personal vibe' since it came through his godfather, and 'if there's a need for more I told them to call me,' he said.
'I like to pay it forward,' Sheen said Thursday in a phone interview from Los Angeles. 'People come into your orbit for a reason. You don't always know what that is ahead of time, but if I ignore these requests then I don't have any opportunity to see where these things lead us, or lead me.'
He said he doesn't like to publicize most of his donations, but wanted to talk about this one to inspire others to donate.
Teagan Marti gets the dog on her birthday in September but hasn't made up her mind on a name.
'I think they should name the dog Charlie,' Sheen joked.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
• It's like a Who's On First scenario, except with the word "balls": Lou Piniella, presumably after some Jimmy Dugan-level dribbling, ran out to argue a call with his junk all ajangle. You say accident, but I say genius: as any woman who has ever been pulled over for speeding knows, sometimes you have to flash some assets to best argue your case. Unfortunately for his self esteem, the Cubs ultimately lost 5-4 to the Reds off a Drew Stubbs grand slam in the 8th. [pic via OMGReds]
• Speaking of badgering managers, you know how stat people love to say attention-grabby things like "humans spend a full year of their lives looking for their car keys?" Well, after getting ejected last night in the Braves' 5-4, 13-inning loss to the Giants, Cox is just 8 games away from an entire 162-game season of YEROUTTAHERES. Some enterprising intern should make a compilation of these moments, NFL Films video yearbook style, when the time comes. (Also: "With a two-run lead and closer Billy Wagner in to pitch the ninth, the bleary-eyed Braves had reason to be confident." LOLOLOL!)
• More fun with stats: "Through five games Milton [Bradley] has as many middle fingers as he has hits on the season."
• The Chicago Bulls, battling for a playoff berth, lost in double overtime to the Nets 127-116. That should count as like, five losses. Terrence Williams was the first Nets rookie to earn a triple double since Kenyon Martin did so in 2001.
• Indiana edged Cleveland 116-113 as Mike Brown opted to bench most of his starters, having secured home court advantage throughout the playoffs. Are people get all bent out of shape about "tempting the gods" the way they did with the Colts?
• More proof that bathroom boning is all the rage: Ben Roethlisberger won't be charged with any wrongdoing in connection with his most recent sexual assault accusations. One can only imagine how he celebrated this news.
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To most Americans, table tennis is a minor Olympic sport, shown on late-night TV coverage of the Olympic Games, if at all.
But it is this sport that is credited with warming American diplomatic relations with "Red China"-the first step in opening a country that was diplomatically cut off from the West when Mao Zedong declared it the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949.
Ping Pong Diplomacy, as the press dubbed it, first played its key role in 1971. At the 31st World Table Tennis Championships, held that year in Nagoya, Japan, an American table tennis player hitched a ride on the Chinese team bus. Two days later, the Chinese government invited the entire American table tennis team to visit China immediately after Worlds.
The table tennis players-literally and figuratively-started the ball rolling. Ten months later, in February 1972, Nixon paid his historic visit to China.
Thirty years later, International Olympic Committee members overwhelmingly voted for Beijing to the host of the 2008 Olympics.
"The idea that the global games of the Olympics can now be held in Beijing is a result of the normalization of China's relations with the world," says Sandy Quinn, assistant director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, which is hosting "American/Chinese Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Rematch" on June 10-12, 2008.
"It's interesting to historians how much of this can be traced to the original Ping Pong Diplomacy of 1971 and 1972, where the world saw the Chinese and Americans having fun and competing together for the first time. It paved the way to the Olympics."
"Just about everyone knew about Ping Pong Diplomacy, but not very many people knew how it all came about," says George Braithwaite, then a 37-year-old table tennis player with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Guyana who used vacation time from his job at the United Nations to play for the U.S. at the 1971 World Championships.
"Quite a few people thought it was all arranged by President Nixon. But that really wasn't so."
It all began outside a table tennis practice hall in Nagoya, says Tim Boggan, another of the American players on the 1971 team and now a noted table tennis historian.
On April 4, with the 31st World Table Tennis Championships about to end, a 19-year-old Californian named Glenn Cowan was too busy practicing table tennis to realize that his team bus had left. Only the Chinese bus remained at the curb. So Cowan jumped on.
"I think it was accidental that Glenn got on this bus, because he had no other transportation back to the hotel or the playing area, I'm not sure which he had to go to," recalls Boggan, who was then 40 years old and taking time away from his assistant professorship in English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, N.Y., to play at Worlds. "He knew the bus was a Chinese bus, and he was surprised that they asked him to come on."
The Chinese team was attending the World Championships for the first time in six years, and the month prior to Worlds, the president of the International Table Tennis Federation, a Welshman named H. Roy Evans, had stopped in Beijing on his way to Nagoya.
While there, Evans met with Prime Minister Chou En-lai, who "expressed great pleasure at China's re-entry into World Table Tennis, and talked of further steps they could take to re-establish themselves quickly," wrote Evans in the forward to Boggan's book, The History of U.S. Table Tennis, Vol. V.
Evans suggested that China invite several countries' teams to China after Worlds. But he states that "no promise was given, and indeed no recommendation on my part, as to which countries should be invited."
Back on the bus, the leader of the Chinese team, former world champion Zhuang Zedong, said-in a talk at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California last September-that he debated for several minutes whether or not to approach the American.
"Why had this thought entered my head?" he said through an interpreter. "Because in 1970, Chairman Mao said to Edgar Snow on the Tiananmen Rostrum: China should now do its best to establish a good relationship with the United States. Also I came out of a scholarly family. My Confucian education taught me to be amiable towards others." (Edgar Snow was an American journalist who wrote Red Star Over China, an account of the foundations of communist China.)
Even though the Chinese team leader had warned them to avoid American "imperialists," the Zhuang Zedong looked in his bag and found a piece of silk embroidery. He walked to the front of the bus and presented it to Cowan.
Cowan had nothing to give Zhuang Zedong in return (although the next day he presented the Chinese table tennis player with a red, white, and blue t-shirt emblazoned with the words "Let It Be"). But when they got off the bus, journalists who were following the Chinese team took photos of Zhuang Zedong, Cowan and the gift.
News of the encounter reached the Chinese government and after much debate, Mao told his prime minister to invite the U.S. table tennis team to China for a weeklong tour of the country and exhibition tournaments with the Chinese team.
Braithwaite says he was naïve and first saw it mainly as a way to improve his game. Not until the team reached Hong Kong, where they entered China, did it dawn on him that this trip would have historic ramifications.
Back in the States, the trip made front-page news. Headlines started with "Communist Chinese Paddlers Refrain From Running Up Score Over Guests," but by midweek were far more political in nature: "Steps to Ease Chinese-American Relations Announced by Nixon; Chou Is Warmer, Also."
Years later, Braithwaite learned from Henry Kissinger that Washington held its breath as this team of "ping pong players" made the first official visit to China in over two decades.
It was in 1997, at the 25th anniversary of a reciprocal visit by the Chinese table tennis team to the U.S., that Kissinger made a speech.
"He said when Washington first heard that a team of ping-pong players were going to China, they kept their fingers crossed because they didn't know what we would do or say," Braithwaite says. "But after about the third day, from reports they were receiving back in Washington, they were able to become much more relaxed because they realized we were conducting ourselves like true ping-pong diplomats."
Now, with the Olympics just months away, the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation is presenting another reunion of the pivotal 1971 and 1972 matches where sport prevailed over politics.
"It was the idea of the Nixon Foundation's executive director John H. Taylor who went to China earlier this year and proposed a rematch to The Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries," says Sandy Quinn. "They were instantly excited and receptive."
The reunion will feature Boggan and Braithwaite, along with Liang Geliang, a member of the 1972 "Ping Pong Diplomacy" Chinese team. (Glenn Cowan died in 2004.)
Former American Olympians Tawny Banh, Khoa Nguyen, and Mark Hazinski will complete the American table tennis delegation. Representing China are three former world champions,:Qiao Yunping, Zhang Lei, Son Shichao.
Due to training and competition schedules, no 2008 Olympians are able to attend.
The reunion will bring attention to table tennis, says Braithwaite, who at 74 still actively plays and is the defending Empire State champion. It will also bring attention to China, "the world leader in table tennis."
And it will look toward the Beijing Olympics, which had its beginnings on a bus full of table tennis players.
Peggy Shinn is a freelance contributor for teamusa.org. This story was not subject to the approval of the United States Olympic Committee or any National Governing Bodies.


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Incidence of head and neck cancer linked with HPV infection is on the rise and more common in men especially among middle-aged whites, according to a research.
Research led by Lauren Cole, a public health graduate student, and Dr. Edward Peters, Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the Epidemiology Program at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, reports that the incidence of head and neck cancer has risen at sites associated with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection, with the greatest increase among middle-aged white men.
At the same time, younger, Non-Hispanic blacks experienced a substantial decrease in these cancers. They also found that the disease process for tumors associated with HPV is different from those caused by exposure to tobacco and alcohol, with implications for treatment. The findings are published this month in the PLoS ONE journal.
The objectives of this study were to assess the recent incidence of head and neck cancer in the United States and to investigate the trends of these cancers associated with HPV infection. Using incidence data for 1995-2005 from 40 US population-based cancer registries, the researchers described the epidemiology of head and neck cancer (HNC) in the US and examined the variation in cancer rates by age, sex, race/ethnicity, stage and cancer location.
As some HNC sites are strongly associated with a tendency for HPV infection, they also examined if rates varied by those sites associated with HPV. "During 1995-2005, we observed a significant overall increase in head and neck cancer incidence among HPV-associated sites, while in the same time period, non HPV-associated sites underwent a significant decline in incidence," notes Lauren Cole, an Epidemiology PhD student at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health.
The researchers found overall, younger age groups, Non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanics experienced greater increases in incidence for HPV-associated sites, while incidence declined for Non-Hispanic Blacks independent of HPV-association of site. The evidence from this large population-based study suggests that since the disease process for HPV-associated tumors is different, HPV tumor status should be incorporated into treatment decisions for head and neck cancer patients to improve prognosis and survival.
"With the introduction of the HPV vaccine, this study suggests that the vaccine can not only be used to help prevent cervical cancer, but head and neck cancer as well," adds Dr. Edward Peters, Associate Professor and Director of the Epidemiology Program at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health.Head and neck cancer includes cancer in the nasal cavity, sinuses, lips, mouth, salivary glands, throat, or larynx (voice box).
According to the National Cancer Institute, head and neck cancers account for approximately 3 percent of all cancers in the United States. These cancers are nearly twice as common among men as they are among women.
Head and neck cancers are also diagnosed more often among people over age 50 than they are among younger people. More than 52,000 men and women in this country were expected to be diagnosed with head and neck cancers last year.
Source: Eurekalert


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Ryan Newman replaces Martin Truex in NASCAR chase after controversy
CONCORD, N.C. His reputation has been battered, his team blasted by NASCAR for manipulating the outcome of a pivotal race. Now Clint Bowyer will do his best to pick up the pieces and try to salvage his season.
"No rearview mirrors in life, just windshield ahead. It's been a great year and is going to be a great chase. Time to move on!!!" Bowyer posted on Twitter late Monday night.
It was his first public comment since NASCAR launched an investigation into his Saturday night spin at Richmond and ultimately uncovered a series of deliberate actions by Michael Waltrip Racing to alter the race results and the field for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. The sordid saga concluded Monday with a hefty penalty that saw Ryan Newman replace Martin Truex Jr. in the Chase as MWR was fined $300,000, and general manager Ty Norris received an indefinite suspension.
Truex, Bowyer and Brian Vickers were docked 50 points apiece — but Bowyer's deduction does not affect his position in the Chase, which begins Sunday at Chicago.
"We penalize to ask for it to not happen again," NASCAR President Mike Helton said. "It's a message from the league or the sanctioning body saying 'You can't do this.'"
Newman was leading with seven laps remaining Saturday night at Richmond, where a victory would have given him the final spot in the 12-driver Chase field. But Bowyer spun to bring out a caution, setting in motion a chain of events that ultimately led to Newman losing the race and the Chase berth, which instead went to Bowyer teammate Truex.
While examining the situation, NASCAR reviewed communication between Bowyer and his Michael Waltrip Racing crew that seemed to indicate the spin was deliberate, as well as additional evidence that suggested MWR had Bowyer and Vickers take a dive over the final three laps so Joey Logano would knock Jeff Gordon out of Chase contention in yet another attempt to help Truex.
NASCAR did not adjust the standings to put Gordon into the Chase — he was in before Bowyer's spin — because Helton said it was impossible to address all the scenarios.
"We don't react to the ripple effect of an occurrence because I don't think there's any way we can reasonably do that," Helton said. "We look at the incident and only the incident because we know from experience that if you try to look at the ripple effect of an incident, you can't cover all those bases. You can't ever come up with a conclusion that is equitable and credible across the board."
Newman was moved into the Chase because the points deductions to the MWR drivers were made to their totals at the conclusion of Saturday night's race. Once Truex lost his 50 points, it dropped him to 17th in the standings and below Newman, who then moved into position for the second wild card into the Chase field.
Gordon was never eligible for the wild card, and MWR tried to further manipulate the standings by knocking him out of the top 10 to make sure Logano didn't grab the wild card the team wanted for Truex. They did it by having Vickers and Bowyer pit in the closing laps of the race, which was revealed in team communications reviewed by The Associated Press on Sunday.
It was those transmissions between Norris and a surprised Vickers that alarmed NASCAR.
"We're probably going to pit here on green," Norris says.
"Are you talking to me?" Vickers replies in surprise.
"Yeah, we're going to pit," Norris says.
"What? I've got to pit? I don't understand. Pit right now?" Vickers says in disbelief.
"You've got to pit this time. We need that one point," Norris responds.
"10-4. Do I got a tire going down?" Vickers says.
Vickers then pitted as the field went green. When he asked after if his crew found anything with the tire, Norris replied, "I'll see you after the race, Brian, I owe you a kiss."
Helton indicated Monday that the conversation between Norris and Vickers, with Vickers' confusion over the directives he was given, was the smoking gun against MWR.
"The preponderance of things that happened … the most clear was the direction that the 55 driver was given and the confusion around it, and then the conversation following that occurrence," Helton said. "That's the most clear piece of evidence."
Waltrip also mentioned the sequence when he apologized in a statement on Monday night.
"What occurred on the No. 55 radio at the end of Saturday night's race in Richmond was a split-second decision made by team spotter Ty Norris to bring the No. 55 to pit lane and help a teammate earn a place in the Chase," he said. "We regret the decision and its impact."
Norris also apologized in a series of tweets posted late Monday night.
"There was no time to think just act. Though it was to benefit MWR it is now clear it was to the detriment of the sport I love and have called home for the past 24 years," he posted.
Gordon's reaction to NASCAR's ruling focused on Truex, who did nothing to land in his teammates' mess, and Bowyer, who escaped unscathed.
"Feel bad for Truex. He got in under controversy now out due to it. But the guy who started all of this not effected at all??? Don't agree!" Gordon posted on Twitter.
Bowyer denied Saturday night he intentionally spun and Truex was an unwitting participant. Waltrip said the team will learn from what happened and move on.
The controversy surrounding Saturday's race put a damper on Newman's announcement Monday that he had reached a deal with Richard Childress Racing to replace Jeff Burton next season in the No. 31 Chevrolet.
"What happened to me Saturday night is the toughest thing that I've ever gone through in any kind of racing in my 30 years of driving because of the way everything went down," Newman said.
Now Newman gets the chance to compete for the title in his final races with Stewart-Haas Racing. He won the Brickyard this year and has 17 career victories overall.
"Obviously, we're very pleased with NASCAR's decision to provide Ryan Newman's rightful place in this year's Chase," SHR co-owner Tony Stewart said in a statement. "NASCAR was put in a very difficult position Saturday night at Richmond and we commend the sanctioning body for taking the time to do the necessary due diligence to ensure that the right call was made."
MWR will not appeal the penalties, which included probation for crew chiefs Brian Pattie (Bowyer), Scott Miller (Vickers) and Chad Johnston (Truex) through the end of the year.