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Thursday, August 2, 2012
PFT: Fights break out at Patriots' practice
APIf somebody tells Derrick Coleman he doesn?t have much of a shot in Vikings camp, he won?t hear it.
Not because he?s unwilling. Because he can?t.
The undrafted rookie running back from UCLA has the added challenge of being hard of hearing, requiring effort most players don?t have to expend, just to know what play to run.
?I never let it hold me back,? Coleman told Chip Scoggins of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. ?Not once.?
Coleman was diagnosed with the condition, caused by a missing gene, when he was 3 years old. He wears hearing aids, but any situation with a lot of ambient noise (like a football game), renders them not much help and requires him to read lips. Sometimes in a huddle, that means grabbing the quarterback after a play call to double-check. He told Scoggins he only had three communication problems on the field, and two of them were as a high school freshman.
?I always know what the play is going to be,? he said. ?I don?t move until the ball moves so I shouldn?t have a false-start incident.?
His parents never let him use the condition as a crutch, and to this day he?s become a master at adapting. He wears a pair of skull caps under his helmet; one to keep his hearing aids dry and one to keep them in his ears.
He?s also been willing to talk to hearing-impaired students, trying to erase any stigma bullies might latch onto by pointing out that kids with less-than-perfect sight wear glasses all the time.
?It really serves as an inspiration to those kids because what happens is those kids tend to go into their own shell,? said Coleman?s father, Derrick Sr. ?They think, ?Well, I?m different. I?m not like the other kids.? Derrick helps dispel that.?
Whether he makes the Vikings roster or not, that makes Coleman?s story worth following, and admiring.
Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/02/fights-break-out-at-patriots-practice/related/
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BNP Paribas takes investment banking knock in Q2
PARIS (AP) ? French bank BNP Paribas saw its earnings fall significantly in the second quarter, driven in part by a downturn in its corporate and investment banking division.
France's largest bank by revenue said Thursday net income dropped 13.2 percent in the April-to-June period to ?1.8 billion ($2.2 billion).
Its revenues slumped 8 percent to ?10.1 billion as corporate and investment banking clients pulled back business in light of the uncertainty of Europe's debt crisis and the global economic slowdown.
Revenue at the corporate and investment banking arm fell 23.6 percent over the second quarter last year. "Against a general background of crisis in the capital markets and strong volatility, there was less demand from clients," the company said.
Europe's banks have been particularly squeezed by the continent's debt crisis. They often hold large amounts of government bonds, whose value has plummeted as countries have either gone bankrupt or teetered on the brink.
In addition, just as their balance sheets were taking a hit, banks were asked by European regulators to increase the quality of the assets they hold, so they can better weather any storms ahead. As they tucked away more money in those rainy-day funds, banks sometimes struggled to come up with enough cash to fund their day-to-day operations. In particular, as U.S. investors grew wary of Europe's crisis, the banks often found it hard to get dollar funding.
But BNP Paribas said Thursday that it had shored up its liquidity situation ? as the cash kept on hand for short-term financing is called. It now has ?200 billion in immediately available reserves, which the bank said satisfies nearly 100 percent of its short-term wholesale funding needs.
The bank also noted that it had nearly achieved the 9 percent ratio of good assets to risky ones that new international banking regulations will require by the end of the year.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bnp-paribas-takes-investment-banking-knock-q2-074612601--finance.html
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Parents looking to get dying New Jersey boy home after last-ditch ...
Parents looking to get dying boy home after last-ditch effort fails
A Phillipsburg, New Jersey, family is fighting time in an effort to bring home their terminally ill son.
Jacob Grecco, 8, has a glioblastoma. That's an incurable type of brain tumor.
He was first diagnosed last July.
Jacob's father, Michael, says his son is a fighter.
But in late May and early June, Jacob's condition took a turn for the worse.
Jacob's family asked the community for and got around $20,000.
His mother took him to Germany for a last-ditch effort at treatment.
But the cancer is taking its toll.
"It was on Saturday they told us he could go any second and he's still fighting along. We think that's because he's waiting to say good-bye to his brothers," said Jacob's father, Michael.
Jacob's family says it could cost anywhere from $58,000-$85,000 for a special medical flight home.
Commercial airlines don't allow patients in Jacob's condition to fly.
If you'd like to help, you can check out Jacob's website and Facebook support pages.
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Salmon Spaghetti with Plum Tomatoes and Avocado | Big Girls ...
Posted by Cara on Wednesday Aug 1st, 2012 | Print
I?m happy to report that Food Network?s Summer Fest is back! In the whirring speed of these summer weeks, I missed last week?s zucchini theme, despite the fact that I adore zucchini in sandwiches, curries,?pastas, and more. The week before, you may have caught my Summer Fest plum week post about?Grandma Esther?s Plum Cake, which keeps so well in the fridge we?re just polishing it off two weeks later.
Today, it?s tomatoes. From cherry tomatoes that taste like candy to meaty red-green heirlooms that need nothing more than a squirt of olive oil and some flaky salt, I can?t get enough of the vegetable that?s really a fruit.
There are a billion tomato recipes on BGSK. I?ll point you to just a few of them. Soon, there will be one more: I?m excited to be working on a recipe for homemade sundried tomatoes, one of my all-time favorite foods.
Another one of those all-time favorites? Raw tomato sauce for pasta. The original no-cook tomato sauce?contains just a very few ingredients, and it?s one of my go-to dinners come July and August. Diced tomatoes marinate in lots of olive oil, garlic, salt and some herbs before enveloping hot pasta in the sauce they?ve developed. Perfection.
To that formula, I?ve added a couple of twists today: handfuls of arugula, cubes of avocado, and morsels of fresh wild salmon. A punch of fresh lemon juice helps the ingredients entwine with the pasta, and ta-da, a healthful and original tomato-y dinner is born.
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**Recipe**
Salmon Spaghetti with Plum Tomatoes and Avocado
Serves 2, likely with leftovers
This method for cooking salmon comes from Amanda Hesser?s Essential?New York Times Cookbook, and it?s genius. Oh, and, I call this Salmon Spaghetti for the alliteration, but I really used fresh linguine.
Ingredients
1/2 pound wild salmon, skin removed, cut into around 2-inch pieces
1/4 cup best quality olive oil, plus more for brushing the salmon
6 Roma or other plum-sized tomatoes, chopped (about 1 cup)
1 clove garlic, minced with 1/4 teaspoon salt
big handful arugula, chopped
juice from half a lemon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 pound linguine, preferably fresh
1 avocado, cut in cubes
Bring a large pot of water to boil. Add a bunch of salt.
Preheat the oven to 300?F. Place the salmon pieces on a baking sheet brushed with some olive oil. Brush the salmon with olive oil as well. Sprinkle with salt. Cook for 10 minutes, until the salmon is just barely cooked.
While the salmon is cooking, combine the tomatoes, garlic, salt, 1/4 cup olive oil, and lemon juice in a mixing bowl big enough to hold the pasta. Add the arugula, and mix.
Cook the pasta in the salted water according to package directions ? just a couple of minutes if it?s fresh. Drain the pasta and immediately add it to the bowl with the vegetables. Toss to wilt the arugula and combine the pasta with the veggies. Now add the avocado and salmon and very gently fold them in to the pasta, trying not to break up the salmon or smush the avocado too much. Serve immediately.
**Summer Fest**
I?ve teamed up with Food Network and a host of other great bloggers to bring you Summer Fest, a season-long celebration of summer produce. Follow the links below to check out what everyone else has cooked up with their tomatoes!
Cooking With Elise: Fresh Tomato Sauce
Jeanette?s Healthy Living: Tomato Gazpacho Salsa
Napa Farmhouse 1885: Tomato Cobbler Anyone?
Virtually Homemade: Spaghetti With Tomatoes, Prosciutto and Fresh Corn
What?s Gaby Cooking: Chicken Kebabs With Romesco Sauce
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Salmon Spaghetti With Plum Tomatoes and Avocado
Chez Us: Easy Tomato Tart
Made By Michelle: Tomato and Pesto Pizza
Ingredients, Inc.: Lighter Fried Green Tomatoes
Delicious Lean: Creamy Light Tuna Salad Stuffed Tomatoes
Daily*Dishin: Spicy Tomato-Tomatillo Chicken Tenders
From My Corner of Saratoga: Tomato Jam
Dishin & Dishes: Tomato Zucchini Frittata
And Love It Too: Roasted Garlic, Basil and Tomato Paleo Tart
Healthy Eats: The Fresh-for-Once Tomato
Feed Me Phoebe:?Roasted Fresh Tomato Puttanesca Sauce
Sweet Life Bake: Pico de Gallo
Zaika Zabardast: Grilled Tofu and Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Sandwich
Thursday Night Dinner: Tomato and Watermelon Salad
Cooking Channel: How to Prepare Summer Tomatoes
FN Dish: Tomatoes Go Beyond Salads
Source: http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2012/08/salmon-spaghetti-with-plum-tomatoes-and-avocado.html
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Kids and Teens ?B? | CrossFit-HR
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 17:15 Last Updated on Sunday, 29 July 2012 20:48 0 Comments
Warmup
2 Rounds
- Bear crawl 35 M
- Sprint 100 M
- 15 Box jumps
- 10 tuck jumps
- 10 pushups
- 10 situps
- 10 squats
Skill Work
- Wall Walk Up or Handstands
- Clean
WOD
3 Rounds
- 3 minute AMRAP
- Rest 2:00 between rounds
Source: http://www.crossfithamptonroads.com/2012/07/kids-and-teens-b-2/
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Idaho may be too late on insurance exchange - Spokesman.com ...
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BOISE - It may already be too late for Idaho to set up a state-run health insurance exchange in time to meet federal deadlines, state Insurance Director Bill Deal told lawmakers Monday.
?We?ve not been given the direction to move forward,? Deal told a joint task force of the Idaho Legislature. ?So now our timelines are getting to the point that, is it realistic that we could put together a state-based exchange at this particular time??
A year ago, Gov. Butch Otter pushed for a state-run exchange to keep the state in charge of its insurance market as health care reforms take effect, and his administration received a $20.4 million federal grant to start planning for the exchange. But state lawmakers turned away the money, hoping instead that the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn the health care reform law; instead, it upheld it.
Now, Otter has convened two working groups to study options for a health insurance exchange and whether Idaho should opt into a federally funded Medicaid expansion; the groups start meeting in the next week and a half and will give Otter their recommendations by fall.
In Washington, by contrast, the state is hard at work on its own state-run exchange, and in May received a $128 million federal grant to start it up.
Deal told the Idaho Legislature?s Health Care Task Force on Monday that he?s already decided to pass on the next federal grant opportunity, which has a mid-August deadline. Idaho?s next chance at applying for federal funds to start an exchange would be in November - the same month in which all states have to have decided on their exchange plans.
He suggested the state might want to consider a ?partnership? exchange - a third option, beyond a state-run or fully federally-run exchange, in which the state and federal governments would share duties. He noted that the national law lets states decide each November if they want to change course on their exchanges.
?So many states are considering this partnership thing as a way to get started, a way to fund an exchange, and then down the road, 2015, 2016, they can put together an exchange, move in a different direction, go with a state-based operation,? Deal said.
Some legislative leaders were unconvinced. ?A lot of the rules applying to this new law are being written as we speak - there?s so much gray area,? said Rep. Gary Collins, R-Nampa, task force co-chairman. Collins said he thought the feds would likely ease their deadlines.
Sen. Dean Cameron, R-Rupert, the Senate co-chairman of the task force, said, ?I don?t think it?s too late. ? I think they very well could back the deadline off. I think it?s all still up in the air.?
Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d?Alene, who like Cameron and Collins is an insurance broker, said, ?In the traditional manner that you?d expect a state exchange to be implemented, I don?t think there?s enough time. But there may be an off-the-shelf opportunity.?
Goedde said he?s looking into reports that other states have found vendors from whom they can ?rent? an exchange, though Deal said he was unaware of that. Goedde also noted that Alaska commissioned a study that recommended that state transition to a state-run exchange several years down the line.
Cameron said if Idaho were to look at a partnership, it should look at partnering with another state, like Utah, that?s already started work on an exchange, rather than with the federal government.
?Because the Legislature failed to act, we put ourselves in a little bit of a bind - we made our job more difficult,? Cameron said. ?But it doesn?t mean that we can?t still do our job.?
Deal said going with a federally operated exchange - the default if Idaho does nothing - would mean giving up a substantial amount of the state?s authority to regulate its insurance market.
Federal officials are currently anticipating they?ll have to run health insurance exchanges for lots of states - ?as high as 30,? Joy Wilson of the National Conference of State Legislatures told the task force by phone on Monday from Washington, D.C. ?So if you have particular issues in your state, whether it?s geography or special populations or just something that is unique about your state, the likelihood that that will get addressed is diminished if it?s a federally facilitated exchange, because they just can?t do customization.?
She added, ?It kind of depends on how comfortable you are with HHS (U.S. Health and Human Services) having that big a role in your insurance market. I think it really comes down to if you can find solace in that or not.?
That drew a murmur from the crowd of about 75 onlookers at the task force meeting, which included many lobbyists and representatives of various parts of the health care industry.
Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, said he?s not convinced there could be much state autonomy in a state-run insurance exchange anyway, because it would have to comply with federal rules. Plus, he said he likes the idea of forcing the federal government to go to work on lots of state exchanges, with the idea that it will slow them down. ?That gives us more time to repeal the whole thing,? he?said.
Source: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/jul/30/idaho-may-be-too-late-insurance-exchange/
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