Firefighters serenade Judi Dench in London

LONDON (AP) — Judi Dench has been serenaded by firefighters as she arrived for the London premiere of her latest film.

Dench walked the red carpet in Leicester Square Wednesday for the London Film Festival screening of "Philomena."

The movie tells the true story of an Irishwoman's quest to track down the son she was forced to give up for adoption 50 years earlier.

Members of the Fire Brigades Union, drinking at a pub after a protest march against pension cuts, spotted the 78-year-old star, chanted "We love you Judi" and broke into a rendition of Beatles song "Hey Jude."

The Stephen Frears-directed film also stars Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith, a journalist who helped Lee in her search and wrote a book about her story.

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US lower house to vote on own plan to end stand-off

Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives will vote on its own bill to end a government shutdown and debt ceiling standoff, Republican lawmakers said Tuesday, just two days before Washington exhausts its borrowing authority.

The Republican plan is similar to a measure being worked up in the Senate, which would fund government through January 15 while extending the debt ceiling to February 7, according to Congressman Darrell Issa.

But he said the House bill will include provisions aimed at chipping away at President Barack Obama's health care law by delaying for two years a medical device tax that helps fund the reforms.

"We're today going to vote a bill that we believe the Senate can accept," Issa said.

"Now if the Senate wants to say 'my way or the highway,' then I suggest that Senate Republicans not go along with that strategy."

The US federal government has been partially shut down for just over two weeks since Congress failed to agree a budget for the new fiscal year, and the Treasury has warned that it will could hit its debt ceiling any time from Thursday.

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Iran hints at nuclear concessions, next talks set for Nov 7-8

By Louis Charbonneau and Yeganeh Torbati

GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran appears ready to scale back activity of potential use in making nuclear bombs, suggesting it is willing to compromise for a deal to win relief from harsh economic sanctions, diplomats said on Wednesday, and follow-up talks will be held on November 7-8.

Details of Iran's proposals, presented during two days of nuclear negotiations in Geneva with six world powers, have not been released, and Western officials were unsure whether Tehran was prepared to go far enough to clinch a breakthrough deal.

But, in a clear sign of hope, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said it was agreed to hold the next round of negotiations in three weeks in Geneva, and Iran's chief negotiator praised this week's discussions as "fruitful".

After a six-month hiatus, Iran and the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany began negotiations in earnest on Tuesday to end a long, festering stand-off that could boil over into a new Middle East war.

Diplomatic paralysis reigned during the eight-year tenure of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a bellicose hardliner. But a door to serious negotiations opened in June with the landslide election of moderate Hassan Rouhani on a platform of conciliation to overcome Iran's international isolation.

The powers want the Islamic Republic to stop higher-grade uranium enrichment to allay concerns that it would provide Iran a quick path to bomb-grade nuclear fuel. Iran says it is refining uranium only to generate more electricity for a rapidly expanding population and to produce isotopes for medicine.

Ashton told a closing news conference that the powers were "carefully" examining Iran's proposals and that this week's discussions were "the most detailed (discussions) we have ever had, by, I would say, a long way."

Ashton, presiding over the talks on behalf of the six powers, said the two sides had agreed that nuclear and sanctions experts would convene before the next high-level negotiations.

Iranian Foreign Minister and chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tehran looked to a new era in diplomatic relations.

"We sense that members of the (six powers) also have exhibited the necessary political will in order to move the process forward. Now we need to get to the details," he told reporters. He said two sides had for the first time agreed on a joint statement after the talks, but declined to elaborate on what had been discussed.

After Tuesday's initial round, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi suggested Tehran was prepared to address long-standing calls for the U.N. nuclear watchdog to have wider and more intrusive inspection powers.

He also told the official IRNA news agency that measures related to its uranium enrichment were part of the Iranian proposal, but hinted the Islamic Republic was not inclined to make its concessions quickly.

"Neither of these issues are within the first step (of the Iranian proposal) but form part of our last steps," he said without elaborating, in comments reported on Wednesday.

The sequencing of any concessions by Iran and any sanctions relief by the West could prove a stumbling block en route to a landmark, verifiable deal. Western officials have repeatedly said that Iran must suspend enriching uranium to 20 percent fissile purity, their main worry, before sanctions are eased.

"Are we there yet? No, but we need to keep talking," a Western diplomat said as talks resumed on Wednesday.

Israel, Iran's arch-foe, urged the powers to be tough in the talks by demanding a total shutdown of enrichment and ruling out any early relaxation of sanctions. But it did not repeat veiled threats to bomb Iran if it deems diplomacy pointless.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague underscored Western reluctance to move fast, saying during a trip to Tokyo that any changes in sanctions would only follow action by Iran.

"We are not today in a position to make any changes in those sanctions. Sanctions must continue. Sanctions are important part of bringing Iran to the negotiating table," he told reporters.

HESITATION

Western diplomats were hesitant to divulge specifics about the negotiations due to sensitivities involved - both in Tehran, where conservative hardliners are skeptical about striking deals that could curtail the nuclear program, and in Washington, where hawks are reluctant to support swift sanctions relief.

But Iran, diplomats said, has made much more concrete proposals than in the past, when ideological lectures and obfuscations were the norm, to the point that Tehran's negotiators were concerned about details being aired in public before they had had a chance to sell them back in Tehran.

Zarif said earlier in a post on Facebook that secrecy was working in the negotiators' favor. "Normally, the less negotiators leak news, the more it shows the seriousness of the negotiations and the possibility of reaching an agreement."

Diplomats said other proposals Iranian envoys had made regarding eventual "confidence-building" steps included halting 20 percent enrichment and possibly converting at least some of existing 20 percent stockpiles - material that alarms the powers as it is only a short technical step away from weapons-grade - to uranium oxide suitable for processing into reactor fuel.

COMPLETE HALT TO ENRICHMENT OUT OF QUESTION

But Iran did not intend to renounce all enrichment itself "under any circumstances", the Russian state news agency RIA quoted an unidentified Iranian delegation source as saying.

He was dismissing the maximal demand of U.S. and Israeli hawks which Western diplomats concede would undermine Rouhani's authority at home by exposing him to accusations of a sell-out from conservative hardliners in the clerical and security elite.

Most Iranians of whatever political persuasion equate the quest for nuclear energy with national sovereignty, modernization and a standing equal to the Western world.

"Apart from suspending 20 percent enrichment, it is possible to consider a scenario involving reducing the number of centrifuges (enriching uranium)," RIA quoted the delegate as saying. "However, for this, concrete steps from our opponents are required, which we do not see yet."

Iran has sharply expanded its uranium enrichment capacity in recent years and it now has roughly 19,000 installed such machines. Of those, about 10,400 are currently enriching.

The fact that Iran has so many idle centrifuges potentially allows it to swiftly expand enrichment, if it wanted, or to use them as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the powers.

Rouhani's election in June turned Western pessimism into guarded optimism that Iran might be ready to do a deal before tensions escalated uncontrollably into armed conflict.

The sprawling Shi'ite state of 75 million people has become anxious to be rid of Western-led sanctions that have impaired its economy, slashed its critical oil export revenues by 60 percent and brought about a devaluation of its rial currency.

Iran has previously spurned Western demands that it shelve 20 percent enrichment as an initial step in return for modest sanctions relief encompassing, for example, imported aircraft parts. Instead, it has called for the most far-flung and painful sanctions, targeting oil and banking sectors, to be rescinded.

(Additional reporting by Fredrik Dahl, Yeganeh Torbati, Justyna Pawlak and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, Marcus George in Dubai, Kiyoshi Takenaka in Tokyo and Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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Watch: Elizabeth Berkley Recreates Her ‘Saved By The Bell’ Performance Of ‘I’m So Excited’ On ‘Dancing With The Stars’

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Over the weekend we learned that actress Elizabeth Berkley was planning to pay homage to her Saved By The Bell days with her performance this week on Dancing with the Stars. Elizabeth and her partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy danced the jive to I’m So Excited by the Pointer Sisters, the very same song she performed to on Saved By The Bell in a very special episode of the show that dealt with drug abuse. Last night, Elizabeth and Val gave the PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME! Click the video embedded above to watch the performance in full (including her pre-performance interview). The performance starts at about the 2:35 mark of the video but watch the whole thing, it’s fun. I think she should’ve received a perfect score but … she got robbed.

Elizabeth did make it thru to the next round of the competition. I’m PRAYING TO THE OLD GODS AND THE NEW that her next performance will be an homage to Showgirls. I mean … right? Who wouldn’t want to see Nomi Malone in action again?

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Activist Group Asks Comic Cons to "Protect Our Secret Identities"

Attendees of last week's New York Comic Con might have been surprised to see messages appearing on their social media streams that they hadn't actually written. It turned out that the tweets and Facebook status updates rhapsodizing about how great the show was ("Can't. handle. the. awesome" went one) were automatically generated and sent by a system once the attendees' RFID chip within their convention badge registered that they had arrived at the show, which was a surprise to those who didn't know that was even a possibility -- which is to say, all of them.

Within a day, ReedPOP, the organization behind NYCC, had turned off the automated messages and released a statement apologizing for being "too enthusiastic in our messaging" and "any perceived overstep." That wasn't enough for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, which has responded with an open letter to all the comic cons, asking them to "protect our secret identities."

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"Being too enthusiastic is only one issue. Regardless of the messaging, ghost tweets are at best tacky, at worst creepy, and always unnecessary," the letter -- written by the organization's Dave Maass -- reads. "Even more problematic is that if even journalists such as Jill Scharr, for whom words are their livelihood, were unaware they were granting that kind of authority over their online personas, then NYCC did not do an adequate job of making its intentions clear. As a result, NYCC has tainted the safe spaces that these gatherings are to many a geek."

Even more troubling than hijacked social media accounts, Maass argues, is the potential for abuse of the RFID chips in the NYCC badges. "How many fans would steer clear of controversial graphic novels or manga tables (or even cheesy guilty childhood pleasures) if they knew someone was creating a log of every booth where they lingered? Think about the young LGBT artists who have yet to come out to their parents, but are finding the courage through sitting in the back of a queer comics panel. Would they still enter if they had to scan their personally identifiable badges at the door?"

The response to NYCC and ReedPOP's use of new technology has proven that a lot of work remains to be done not only in terms of exploring the potential for use, but also fine-tuning the way in which convention attendees are made aware of what the technology is actually being used for. As Maass writes, "You can still have a convention at the cutting edge of culture, without bleeding your attendees' privacy away." Just ask yourself: What Would Batman Do? (Actually, maybe not.)

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Supreme Court takes on affirmative action in Michigan ban case

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Students protest in support of affirmative action, outside the Supreme Court during the hearing of "Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action" on Oct. 15, in Washington.

By Pete Williams and Daniel Arkin, NBC News

Demonstrators crowded the sidewalk outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday as the justices took on the hot-button issue of affirmative action, hearing oral arguments in a case about Michigan's voter-backed ban on using race as a criterion in college admissions.

The gathered advocates urged the top court to stand by a 2003 ruling which held that the country's colleges can choose to use affirmative action practices in deciding which students to admit.

At issue is whether a 2006 Michigan constitutional amendment that blocks the state from taking account of race and gender in public education, employment and contracting constitutes discrimination or preferential treatment.

"It's wrong to treat people differently based on your race or the color of your skin," said Michigan's attorney general Bill Schuette, whose office is defending the Proposal 2 measure. "So we're saying: 'Equal treatment under the law.' That's our approach in Michigan."

But opponents of the ban sued and won in a federal appeals court, arguing that the prohibition is tantamount to discrimination, blocking only minority students from seeking preferences in school admissions.

During Tuesday’s courtroom argument, Mark Rosenbaum, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who argued to strike down the Michigan measure on behalf of University of Michigan students and faculty, said that other groups pursuing preferential treatment in school admissions could appeal to administrators, only race may not enter the conversation.

“I want the same rule book. I want the same playing field. The problem with Proposal 2 is that it creates two playing fields,” Rosenbaum said, according to the Associated Press.

Shanta Driver, a Detroit-based lawyer also arguing in support of affirmative action on behalf of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, called on the justices to bring the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause “back to its original purpose and meaning, which is to protect minority rights against a white majority, which did not occur in this case.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the most outspoken justice on the bench about the Michigan ban, at one point saying: "It was intended to bring back segregation, and appears to have done just that."

When Michigan Solicitor General John Bursch, the state's representative in court, suggested Michigan could get rid of legacy admissions as a way to admit a more diverse student body, Justice Sotomayor remarked: "The minorities finally get in and have children, and now you want to do away with alumni preferences."

And yet a bare majority of the justices appeared to believe that Michigan's ban could withstand a constitutional challenge.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked: "Why can't a state say, 'Do all you can to achieve diversity without racial preferences?'"

And Justice Antonin Scalia defended the Michigan measure, which 58 percent of the state's voters approved, saying: "It's not a racial classification. It's the elimination of racial classification."

No matter the outcome of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, any ruling is likely to fan the flames of the decades-old debate over affirmative action.

A ruling that strikes down the Michigan ban could send dominoes toppling across the country, potentially threatening bans in seven other states — Arizona, California, Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.

And a move to uphold the Michigan amendment could represent a victory for affirmative action opponents, who may attempt to recreate their wins at the ballot box in other jurisdictions.

Tuesday's oral arguments came just four months after the justices avoided a major decision on the race-based admissions policy at the University of Texas at Austin, ruling instead to send the closely-watched case back to the lower court.

In a June 7-1 vote, with Justice Elena Kagan having recused herself, the justices said an appeals court did not apply the proper standard in determining whether the university's policy runs afoul of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

That case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, was brought by a white student who claimed she was turned away from the University of Texas while racial minority students with lower standardized test scores were mailed acceptance letters.

The Michigan case arrives at the Supreme Court after time in front of a federal appeals court in Cincinnati.

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in an 8-7 decision, said the Michigan provision violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as it places a burden on affirmative action boosters who would be forced to launch their own extensive, circuitous campaign to strip the constitutional provision, according to the AP.

That burden "undermines the Equal Protection Clause's guarantee that all citizens ought to have equal access to the tools of political change," Judge R. Guy Cole, Jr., write for the majority on the Cincinnati appeals court.

Opponents allege that due to the ban, proponents for racial considerations in admissions are blocked from directly lobbying universities like those seeking to use other advantages — such as family alumni "legacy," for example.

Instead, those opponents would be required to push for the passage of an entirely new amendment to the state constitution, reversing the 2006 voter-backed measure, Reuters reported.

The Michigan case, like the Texas one, will be heard by only eight of the top court's nine justices. Justice Kagan, who prior to her 2010 appointment was the U.S. solicitor general and managed some affirmative action litigation, has rescued herself.

The long-simmering debate over affirmative action dates back to the early 1960s, when President John K. Kennedy first called on federal contractors to take "affirmative action" to hire racial and ethnic minorities, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In a 1961 Executive Order, President Kennedy directed government employers to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."

For more than a quarter-century, the Supreme Court has often been at the center of pitched legal and political battles surrounding the issue.

In the watershed Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case in 1978, brought by white aspiring medical student Allan Bakke, the top court outlawed quotas but said educational institutions could balance race against other admissions criteria.

African-American and Latino enrollment at the University of Michigan has plummeted since the prohibition on affirmative action went into affect, according to the AP.

And at California's leading public universities, African-Americans make up a smaller share of incoming freshmen, while Latino enrollment has spiked slightly — although still far below the state's growth in the overall percentage of Latino high school graduates, according to the AP.

Some 86 percent of people surveyed by Pew Research said society "should do what is necessary to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed." And yet only a third of Americans surveyed agreed with the statement: "We should make every possible effort to improve the position of blacks and other minorities, even if it means giving them preferential treatment."

Related: NBC News/WSJ poll: Affirmative action support at historic low

NBC News' Polly DeFrank, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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How Earth's rotation affects vortices in nature

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French researchers develop sophisticated mathematical model to study the behavior of earthly vortices, like hurricanes and ocean currents

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 15, 2013 -- What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring.

In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique in France describe their study of one such geophysical vortex behavior, radiative instability, and how it is affected by two factors, density stratification and background rotation.

Radiative instability is a phenomenon that alters the behavior of fluid flows and can deform a vortex. The "radiative" tag refers to the fact that it is an instability caused by the radiation of waves outward from a vortex.

"These waves can exist as soon as there is a density stratification -- a variation of densities -- throughout the vertical column of the vortex," Park said. "In this study, we have considered how background rotation -- in this case, the rotation of the Earth -- impacts them."

Examples of density stratification in nature, Park explained, include the decrease in air density as one moves higher in the atmosphere or the increase in water density due to salinity and temperature with increasing ocean depth. "So, the waves in our mathematical model are somewhat analogous to waves on the ocean surface," he said. "Likewise, the impact from background rotation on our modeled waves serves as an equal for the impact of the Coriolis force caused by the Earth's rotation."

"What we learned from our models is that strong background rotation suppresses the radiative instability, a characteristic that had been expected but whose dynamics had never been studied precisely," Park said. "We've now developed a sophisticated mathematical means to explain this phenomenon, and that's important to being better able to study and understand the behavior of geophysical vortices such as hurricanes and ocean currents."

Park said that he and Billant next plan to study instability behaviors in vortices with non-columnar shapes. "For example," he said, "there are pancake-shaped flows called Mediterranean eddies, or meddies, that would be worth studying since we know they affect the mixing of the components that make up the ocean ecosystem."

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The article, "Instabilities and waves on a columnar vortex in a strongly-stratified and rotating fluid" by Junho Park and Paul Billant appears in the journal Physics of Fluids. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4816512

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French researchers develop sophisticated mathematical model to study the behavior of earthly vortices, like hurricanes and ocean currents

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 15, 2013 -- What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring.

In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique in France describe their study of one such geophysical vortex behavior, radiative instability, and how it is affected by two factors, density stratification and background rotation.

Radiative instability is a phenomenon that alters the behavior of fluid flows and can deform a vortex. The "radiative" tag refers to the fact that it is an instability caused by the radiation of waves outward from a vortex.

"These waves can exist as soon as there is a density stratification -- a variation of densities -- throughout the vertical column of the vortex," Park said. "In this study, we have considered how background rotation -- in this case, the rotation of the Earth -- impacts them."

Examples of density stratification in nature, Park explained, include the decrease in air density as one moves higher in the atmosphere or the increase in water density due to salinity and temperature with increasing ocean depth. "So, the waves in our mathematical model are somewhat analogous to waves on the ocean surface," he said. "Likewise, the impact from background rotation on our modeled waves serves as an equal for the impact of the Coriolis force caused by the Earth's rotation."

"What we learned from our models is that strong background rotation suppresses the radiative instability, a characteristic that had been expected but whose dynamics had never been studied precisely," Park said. "We've now developed a sophisticated mathematical means to explain this phenomenon, and that's important to being better able to study and understand the behavior of geophysical vortices such as hurricanes and ocean currents."

Park said that he and Billant next plan to study instability behaviors in vortices with non-columnar shapes. "For example," he said, "there are pancake-shaped flows called Mediterranean eddies, or meddies, that would be worth studying since we know they affect the mixing of the components that make up the ocean ecosystem."

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The article, "Instabilities and waves on a columnar vortex in a strongly-stratified and rotating fluid" by Junho Park and Paul Billant appears in the journal Physics of Fluids. See: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4816512

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Book News: Oscar Hijuelos Remembered As 'A Cultural Pioneer'

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos attends the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) Awards in 2003 in New York City.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos attends the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) Awards in 2003 in New York City.

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• Novelist Oscar Hijuelos, whose book The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love made him the first Latino author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, died on Saturday at age 62. NPR's David Greene interviewed Hijuelos' friend Gustavo Perez Firmat, a Columbia professor who said Hijuelos made Americans realize that there is a "rich and diverse body of writing being done by young Latinos in this country," noting that it "helped to open doors with both publishers and readers to other Latino writers." Hector Tobar of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Hijuelos was "a cultural pioneer who wrote elegant novels about ambitious Cuban expatriates and music-loving New Yorkers." Tobar added, "He told stories that revealed the texture and passion of the Latino immigrant experience to legions of non-Latino readers for the first time."


• With the announcement of the prestigious Man Booker Prize looming, The Guardian announced the winner of its aptly-named annual contest, the Not the Booker Prize. This year, Life After Life, a novel from the "tremendously talented writer" Kate Atkinson took the award.


• The poet, professor and critic James Emanuel died Sept. 28 at age 92, The New York Times reports. His poems often deal with racism in America. One, "Deadly James (For All the Victims of Police Brutality)," was written after his son, who Emanuel said was a victim of police brutality, committed suicide. In September, Emanuel spoke to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley about moving to Paris to escape racial discrimination in the U.S.: "It's the tragedy that I never can talk about. It was too evil, too vicious. And any country that would tolerate it is a country I can't put my foot in." He added, "If America ever solves its racial problem, it will be the greatest country in the world."


• Carl Bernstein is writing a memoir about his time as a rookie journalist at The Washington Star, the legendary D.C. newspaper that went bankrupt in 1981. The book will be titled The Washington Star and will be published in 2016 by Henry Holt. In a press release, Bernstein wrote ,"My understanding of journalism, and the world I've covered and written about, and the life I've led, crystallized in those five incomparable years at a uniquely great newspaper."


• The Color Purple author Alice Walker will publish excerpts from her personal diaries as a book, to be called Gathering Blossoms Under Fire. The Simon & Schuster imprint 37 Ink will publish it in 2017. The Associated Press notes that "the 69-year-old Walker has been keeping a diary for half a century, filling dozens of notebooks that track her rise from poverty in Georgia to international fame."


• Donna Tartt rails against prescriptivism in English in an interview with her editor Michael Pietsch: "English is such a powerful and widely spoken language precisely because it's so flexible, and capacious: a catchall hybrid that absorbs and incorporates everything it comes into contact with. Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages. Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers — not just literary writers, but popular writers as well — breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class."

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Operation Homefront fires co-founder after $36K in goods donated to military families go missing

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Amy Palmer, co-founder of Operation Homefront, talks during a press conference in 2010.

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

A founder of Operation Homefront, one of the largest safety nets for wounded veterans in financial trouble, has been fired for allegedly possessing goods meant for struggling military families — many of which now face heightened money worries as the government shutdown threatens their benefit checks. 

Amy Palmer, formerly the organization's chief development officer, was terminated within the past three weeks after employees at the San Antonio-based nonprofit noted a $36,000 discrepancy between their records of donated items and what goods actually were on hand, available for delivery to current military members and ex-troops, confirmed Tom Greer, a spokesman for Operation Homefront. 

"Regardless of role, we hold all Operation Homefront employees accountable to the very highest standards of conduct," Greer said. He did not elaborate on what donated items were involved. 

Palmer did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News.

Founded in 2002, Operation Homefront helps military families navigate rough financial times by providing food assistance, auto and home repair, vision care, travel and transportation, moving assistance, essential home items, and financial aid. This includes help to veterans who were wounded or became ill after Sept. 11, 2001. 

According to the nonprofit watchdog site Charity Navigator, Operation Homefront has earned a perfect score for accountability and transparency.

During 2012, the group accepted $66.8 million in contributions, donations and grants and, in turn, spent $51.7 million on its programs and services. The nonprofit reports that it has helped 4,200 "wounded warrior families." 

The work to plug holes in the budgets of military and veteran families gained urgency Wednesday when Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki warned a congressional oversight committee that, if the federal shutdown lingers into late October, more than 5 million veterans would not receive their November compensation checks.

Should that occur, veterans would likely need to turn increasingly to organizations like Operation Homefront to keep their homes and feed their families. 

In his explanation of Palmer's termination, Operation Homefront spokesman Greer acknowledged the importance of the group maintaining the public's trust.  

"Given that our ability to deliver our mission is based on the bonds of trust and confidence we hold with each other, and in turn, with those who so generously support us, we had no choice but to take this action," Greer said.

 

 

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The Story Of Solutions: Sustainable Is Better

Saturday, October 12th, 2013

The Story of Solutions explores how we can move our economy in a more sustainable and just direction, starting with orienting ourselves toward a new goal. In the current ‘Game of More’, we’re told to cheer a growing economy — more roads, more malls, more Stuff! — even though our health indicators are worsening, income inequality is growing and polar icecaps are melting. But what if we changed the point of the game? What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better — better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?

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When It Comes To Brain Injury, Authors Say NFL Is In A 'League Of Denial'

The casket bearing the body of former Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster is surrounded by flowers, after funeral services in Pittsburgh in September 2002. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, authors of League of Denial, point to Webster's autopsy as one of the most significant moments in the history of sports.

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When the Pittsburgh Steelers won four Super Bowls in the 1970s, you could argue that no one played a bigger role than Mike Webster. Webster was the Steelers' center, snapping the ball to the quarterback, then waging war in the trenches, slamming his body and helmet into defensive players to halt their rush.

He was a local hero, which is why the city was stunned when his life fell apart. He lost all his money, and his marriage, and ended up spending nights in the bus terminal in Pittsburgh. Webster died of a heart attack, and on Sept. 28, 2002, came the autopsy.

"His body ends up in the Allegheny County coroner's office," ESPN investigative reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada tells NPR's David Greene. "And there's a young junior pathologist there named Bennet Omalu. He makes this decision sort of on the spur of the moment to study Mike Webster's brain."

Fainaru-Wada and his brother, Steve Fainaru, have written a new book called League of Denial, which was also turned into a Frontline documentary on PBS. They take an exhaustive look at how the NFL has dealt with allegations that playing football can lead to brain damage. They interviewed doctors, scientists, former players and their family members — though, not NFL officials, who declined interview requests to them and also to NPR. The authors point to that autopsy of Webster as one of the most significant moments in the history of sports.

Omalu found Webster had a disease that would be called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. The disease can cause the behavioral changes that afflicted Webster. He was sure the CTE came from repeated pounding on the football field.

"He thought that well, this is information that the National Football League would probably like to have," Fainaru says. "He says he thought [the NFL] would give him a big wet kiss and describe him as a hero."

That's not what happened. Instead, the NFL formed its own committee to research brain trauma. The league sent its findings to the medical journal Neurosurgery, says Fainaru-Wada. "They publish in that journal repeatedly over the period of several years, papers that really minimize the dangers of concussions. They talk about [how] there doesn't appear to be any problem with players returning to play. They even go so far as to suggest that professional football players do not suffer from repetitive hits to the head in football games."

Over the last decade, the NFL has repeatedly avoided tying football to brain damage, even as it has given disability payments to former players with dementia-related conditions.

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Dave Duerson (right), in 1988. Duerson committed suicide in 2011 and wrote a note that included this request: "Please see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank."

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Dave Duerson (right), in 1988. Duerson committed suicide in 2011 and wrote a note that included this request: "Please see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank."

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On the death of safety Dave Duerson in 2011

Fainaru-Wada: Duerson was a long-time safety, a defensive back for the Chicago Bears — and one of the hardest hitters in the game. He had a reputation as just a powerful, powerful hitter. Also, ultimately, after his retirement, a very, very successful businessman. He also was on this committee that was giving out disability payments to players, and became sort of a lightning rod for retired players who believed that Duerson was effectively becoming a shill for the league and the union and trying to keep retired players from getting money. ... So, that's the backdrop in which you see Dave Duerson — until he ends up committing suicide and he leaves a note basically describing why he killed himself and how he realized that he basically was going mad.

Fainaru: One of the more chilling things about this whole thing is that the people who are dying, many of them are dying in very macabre ways. They're drinking antifreeze or they're driving their trucks into a tanker truck at 100 miles per hour. Duerson, after spending years denying that this was an issue and warning that the NFL was turning the league into a league of sissies, he then shoots himself in the chest to preserve his brain and then he writes this note:

"My mind slips. Thoughts get crossed. Cannot find my words. Major growth on the back of skull on lower left side. Feel really alone. Thinking of other NFL players with brain injuries. Sometimes, simple spelling becomes a chore, and my eyesite goes blurry ... I think something is seriously damaged in my brain, too. I cannot tell you how many times I saw stars in games, but I know there were many times that I would 'wake up' well after a game, and we were all at dinner."

And then on the last page, it's almost as if he had remembered something that he had forgotten: "Please, see that my brain is given to the NFL's brain bank."

Fainaru-Wade: Indeed, his brain was studied, and it was found to have CTE.

On reaching a scientific consensus linking football to brain injury

Fainaru: I do think there is a consensus now among neuroscientists. I think the real question now is, what is the prevalence, is it still relatively rare, or is this something that's an epidemic, as some people have suggested? And then, are there other mitigating factors? Mike Webster and some of these other people we know had a history of mental illness in their families. Webster had used steroids and some people have suggested that the combination of the head trauma and these other abuses might be contributing to it. We just don't know at this point.

“ Clearly they're making changes to the sport in an effort to make it safer. Whether it can be safer or not is a whole other question. It's a collision sport whose violence is loved by all of us who love the game.

- Mark Fainaru-Wada

On what's at stake for the NFL

Fainaru-Wade: This is a $10 billion industry, right? And it's hard to imagine that the NFL goes away. Clearly they're making changes to the sport in an effort to make it safer. Whether it can be safer or not is a whole other question. It's a collision sport whose violence is loved by all of us who love the game. There's a powerful point in the book where Bennet Omalu — the scientist we described who first sees CTE in a football player — is showing his slides and his findings to a doctor who is connected to the NFL, and the doctor says something like, "If 10 percent of mothers come to believe that football is dangerous — to the point of brain damage, effectively — that's the end of football as we know it." I think we are at that point now, not necessarily where it's the end of football, but where there's a dialogue beginning about whether you want to let your kids play or not.

Fainaru: I think it's a very personal decision, and it's one that I've grappled with myself, with my own son. As I said, the issue of prevalence with this disease is not yet established. There are some very, very ominous signs, obviously. But at the same time, we all know that there are lots of things in life that involve risk, and I personally don't want my son to be making all of his decisions based on fear — particularly for something like football, which I love and which was a really formative experience for me, playing high school football. I think, like a lot of things in parenting, I'll deal with it when I have to and not until then.

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Twitter hands down new rules to beat abusive talk

LONDON (AP) ? Twitter says it's handing down new rules to control abusive language after several high-profile British women reported receiving a flood of nasty, harassing, or threatening messages on the microblogging site.

In a message posted to its website, Twitter says it is introducing a one-click button to report abuse and updating its rules to clarify that "we do not tolerate abusive behavior."

Over the past week Britain's media has been full of stories detailing the angry misogyny and gruesome rape threats directed against female public figures, including journalists, campaigners and lawmakers.

In a message posted to Twitter on Saturday, General Manager Tony Wang said he wanted to "personally apologize to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through."

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Restaurant report card ? Whitfield County ? Local News ?

Whitfield County Environmental Health conducts inspections of restaurants. The inspectors may require a re-inspection. Restaurants are required by law to post their most recent inspection permit.

The Daily Citizen lists areas where the establishments are out of compliance with the regulations. Recent restaurant scores for all six counties within the North Georgia Health District are available at www.nghd.org.

Improve Lifestyle, 400 N. Hamilton St.

Current score: 99?? ?

Current grade: A

Previous score: None

Previous grade: None

Comments: Outside trash can with lid is required.

Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries, 1303 W. Walnut Ave., Suite 203

Current score: 98

Current grade: A

Previous score: 99

Previous grade: A

Comments: Several tiles require re-grouting.

Big Mack?s Pig Shack, 124 Old LaFayette Road

Current score: 97

Current grade: A

Previous score: 95

Previous grade: A

Comments: Clean vent in kitchen. Walls and ceiling in walk-in are in poor condition.

Dalton Golf & Country Club ?The Grill, 333 Country Club Way

Current score: 97

Current grade: A

Previous score: 98

Previous grade: A

Comments: Label all bulk food containers properly.

Red Lobster, 901 Westbridge Road

Current score: 97

Current grade: A

Previous score: 87

Previous grade: B

Comments: Two wet cloths were observed on table tops, but quickly noticed and placed into sanitizer buckets. Wet cloths must be in sanitizer bucket when not in use.

Hardee?s, 1301 Glenwood Ave.

Current score: 95

Current grade: A

Previous score: 94

Previous grade: A

Comments: Replace torn gaskets. Clean gaskets. Flies. Keep window closure on.

Los Caporales Mexican Cuisine, 603 Fleming St.

Current score: 96

Current grade: A

Previous score: 89

Previous grade: B

Comments: A personal drink was observed in kitchen. Drink did not have lid and straw as required by state regulations. All personal drinks must be in single-service cup with lid and straw.

Subway, 142 Carbondale Road

Current score: 96

Current grade: A

Previous score: 92

Previous grade: A

Comments: Original Certified Food Safety Manager documentation is not available and the copy was not posted for public view.

Western Sizzlin Steakhouse, 501 Legion Drive

Current score: 94

Current grade: A

Previous score: 95

Previous grade: A

Comments: A bucket of sanitizer solution for wiping cloths was located between clean utensils, containers of food and a pan of croutons. Food was relocated. Sanitizer water may carry pathogens and toxic chemicals. Maintain food away from all possible sources of contamination. Food was covered with lid or clear plastic wrap. Multiple wiping cloths were observed on tabletops. Cloths must remain in sanitizer bucket when not in use. A handle was found in contact with food. Handles must remain out of contact with food. The ?ceiling? of ice machines was observed to contain some buildup and some rust. Equipment must be in good condition and clean to sight and touch.

Gill?s Grill, 1511 Abutment Road

Current score: 92

Current grade: A

Previous score: 90

Previous grade: A

Comments: The nozzles and nozzle base were not clean to sight or touch. Buildup was visible on soda fountain. Maintain all food contact surfaces clean, free from buildup to sight and touch. A cook and two employees working with food orders were observed with bracelets, rings with stones, nail polish and acrylic nails. None of the above are allowed. Food handlers must remove hand/arm jewelry/nail polish, and long/acrylic nails are not permitted. Corrected on site.

Hardee?s, 900 S. Thornton Ave.

Current score: 92

Current grade: A

Previous score: 90

Previous grade: A

Comments: Handles of hand washing sink had buildup, dough perhaps. Maintain all parts of hand sinks clean and free of debris. Also keep trash container at sink to discard paper towels. The can opener has visible buildup and sticky substance on blade. Maintain all food contact surfaces free of buildup to avoid contamination.

Subway, 1281 Glenwood Ave.

Current score: 91

Current grade: A

Previous score: 94

Previous grade: A

Comments: Bologna at 46.4 degrees, salami at 50 degrees, pepperoni at 51.6 degrees, tuna at 50.3 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods cold at 41 degrees or below. Corrected on site.

Longhorn Steakhouse , 1315 W. Walnut Ave.

Current score: 91

Current grade: A

Previous score: 87

Previous grade: B

Comments: Employee drink without lid. All drinks must have lid and straw. Corrected on site. Wet stacking. Air dry containers. Invert single-service items. Hand sink has leak. Repair leak. Shield all lights.

Miller Brothers Rib Shack, 603 E. Morris St.

Current score: 91

Current grade: A

Previous score: 99

Previous grade: A

Comments: Hot dogs at 46.5 degrees, chicken at 47 degrees, butter 46 at degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods cold at 41 degrees or below. Corrected on site.

Dalton Golf & Country Club, 333 Country Club Way

Current score: 90

Current grade: A

Previous score: 87

Previous grade: B

Comments: Several foods past discard date. Keep potentially hazardous foods that are ready-to-eat for seven days maximum at 41 degrees or below. Day one is day you prep/open. Corrected on site. Some parts of the buffet did not have sneeze guard. Self-serve buffets must be protected form cough/sneeze of public. Invert plates at buffet. Invert single-service items. Keep hood on when cooking.

El Pollo Alegre, 323 S. Grimes St.

Current score: 90

Current grade: A

Previous score: 85

Previous grade: B

Comments: Hand sink in grill building was not equipped with hand towels (paper towels). Hand sinks must be provided with paper towels and hand soap. Two chemical bottles (roach spray) were observed in establishment. One was stored next to condiment containers; both were removed from establishment. A scoop was observed with the handle in seasoning. Keep all handles out of food to avoid contamination. Light bulb in storage room lacks shield. Must maintain shield on bulb to protect food from shattered glass.

McDonald?s, 2545 E. Walnut Ave.

Current score: 89

Current grade: B

Previous score: 91

Previous grade: A

Comments: Large pitcher and soiled rags in hand wash sink. It must be for hand washing only and fully accessible. Corrected on site. Hot handle stripped on hand sink. Repair/replace handle. Flies.

Toyo Japan, 100 Rhythm Drive

Current score: 89

Current grade: B

Previous score: 94

Previous grade: A

Comments: Garlic and oil at 81 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods at 41 degrees or below. Service Ansel.

Waffle House, 1515 Cleveland Highway

Current score: 89

Current grade: B

Previous score: 77

Previous grade: C

Comments: Diced ham at 46.5 degrees, sausage at 45.3 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods cold at 41 degrees or below. Corrected on site.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, 938 Market St.

Current score: 87

Current grade: B

Previous score: 92

Previous grade: A

Comments: Eggs at 75 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods at 41 degrees or below. Corrected on site. Mashed potatoes at 123 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods hot at 135 degrees or above. Corrected on site. Wet stacking. Replace broken floor tiles. Re-grout floor tiles.

La Michoacana 100% Natural, 816 Walnut Square Blvd., Suite 30

Current score: 86

Current grade: B

Previous score: 76

Previous grade: C

Comments: Employee was observed washing blenders and taking them back to prep area to use without sanitizing them first. Employee was asked to prep sanitizer sink for utensils. All equipment and utensils must be washed, rinsed and sanitized. Cut potentially hazardous foods and yogurt were observed without date marking. All cut potentially hazardous foods and fruit must be date marked with prep/open date. Jalape?os in an open container are available for self- service without any protection from contamination. All food for self-service must be protected form contamination. Consider moving them so that food handler may provide them to customer. Toilet paper was not available in employee restroom. Provide all necessary supplies.

Dawnville Drive-In, 1359 Dawnville Road

Current score: 85

Current grade: B

Previous score: 63

Previous grade: U

Comments: Bacon at 61 degrees, hold potentially hazardous foods cold at 41 degrees or below. Flies and roaches.

The Spiced Apple, 443 Gillum Drive, Suite 6

Current score: 85

Current grade: B

Previous score: 84

Previous grade: B

Comments: Owner was observed not washing hands before putting on clean gloves. Hands must be washed between tasks and glove change to avoid possible contamination of food. Bare hand contact was observed when employee was cutting and touching lettuce without gloves. Ready-to-eat foods must not be touched with bare hands to avoid contaminating food. Multiple containers of food, all potentially hazardous, were not date marked. Date mark all ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food that has been removed from its original packaging or prepared in establishment. Date mark if food will remain greater than 24 hours.

Waffle House, 1912 Chattanooga Road

Current score: 85

Current grade: B

Previous score: 90

Previous grade: A

Comments: An employee was observed opening wrapped cheese, grabbing cheese and placing it in container, all this without wearing gloves. Bare hand contact is prohibited on ready-to-eat food due to increased chances of contaminating the food. Cheese was discarded. Hands must be washed and clean gloves used to handle ready-to-eat foods. Corrected on site. Employee was observed using a clean, wet cloth to clean food surface, but did not use sanitizer or sanitized cloth to clean the surface. Food contact surfaces must be sanitized to remove any possible pathogens from surface. Soda fountain nozzles have buildup in and around nozzle piece. Maintain all food contact surfaces clean and sanitized. Floor tiles need grouting and cleaning of back splash as well, due to what may be mold spots due to moisture. Water (dirty) is in floor and can?t be clean due to missing grout.

McDonald?s, 142 Carbondale Road

Current score: 80

Current grade: B

Previous score: 85

Previous grade: B

Comments: Soda fountain nozzles were not clean to sight and had mold buildup in and around nozzle. Food contact surfaces must remain clean and free of buildup and possible contaminants. Nozzles removed are going through wash, rinse and sanitize. Eggs on top of prep cooler were found out of temperature and were discarded. Potentially hazardous foods must be stored at a temperature less than 41 degrees. If temperature cannot be maintained, record time as a control. Clean spoons were stored with mouth piece up and handles down. Store them with handle up to avoid contaminating mouth piece. Door by drive-thru window was observed open. All openings must be self-closing and fitting to frame to avoid entry of pests and insects. Door was closed and will be fixed. Corrected on site.

Salon Rio Bravo, 514 Commerce Drive

Current score: 80

Current grade: B

Previous score: 87

Previous grade: B

Comments: No paper towels at any hand sink. All hand sinks must be properly supplied with soap and paper towels. Corrected on site. Unapproved bug spray. Use only those insecticides approved for use in commercial food service. Unlabeled chemical bottle. Label all chemicals with working name of chemical. Water bottles stored on floor. Store all food/drink items 6 inches up off floor. Plates stored on floor. Store all food contact items 6 inches up off floor. Service Ansel. Repair holes in wall(s). Replace damaged ceiling tiles. Roaches. Fly strips are not permitted. Corrected on site.

Waffle House, 1527 W. Walnut Ave.

Current score: 80

Current grade: B

Previous score: 86

Previous grade: B

Comments: No sanitizer in cloth buckets. Maintain 200 ppm quat in cloth buckets. Changed out. Corrected on site. Half and half at 51 degrees, chocolate milk at 48 degrees, bacon at 47.3 degrees, beef pattie at 46.5 degrees, cheese at 50 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous food cold at 41 degrees or below. Unapproved bug spray. Use only those insecticides approved for use in commercial food service establishments. Removed. Corrected on site. Several floor tiles missing. Replace missing tiles.

Luigi?s Pizza Italian Restaurant, 3957 Cleveland Highway, Suite C

(Inspected July 15)

Current score: 77

Current grade: C

Previous score: 81

Previous grade: B

Comments: Food utensils, cups, knives and pizza slicers were observed in top of prep cooler in soiled container with buildup residue. Utensils and visible buildup of grease and other food particles. The utensils were about to be used, but employee was stopped and these were washed, rinsed and sanitized. These had not been washed for more than a day since the establishment was closed yesterday. Wash, rinse and sanitize all utensils that come in contact with potentially hazardous foods every four hours. Corrected on site. A prep cooler contained ham and other meats at less than 41 degrees for more than 24 hours. This was the case for the bottom part but the food at the top was in temperature. Food (potentially hazardous food) was discarded if above 41 degrees. Maintain food less than 41 degrees. Corrected on site. Lasagna, meat sauce and ham were observed without any date marking. All ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous foods must be date marked with the use-by date or prep date. Use for a maximum of seven days with day one being prep/open day. Clean utensils were observed in plastic container that held debris in contact with clean utensils. Clean food contact surface (utensils) must be stored in a clean, dry location to avoid contamination. A sponge was found in the lard container. Do not use sponges on food contact surfaces. Sponges are difficult to clean and harbor bacteria that can contaminate surfaces. Microwaves had food debris stuck to inside walls. Keep clean to sight and touch. Fryer has considerable grease buildup. Hand sink in men?s restroom was observed with dried dirt. Women?s restroom had pieces of toilet paper on floor.

Luigi?s Pizza Italian Restaurant, 3957 Cleveland Highway, Suite C

(Re-inspected July 18)

Current score: 98

Current grade: A

Previous score: 77

Previous grade: C

Comments: Torn gaskets were observed on bottom prep coolers. Replace torn gaskets. Ceiling (around vents) fan and prep cooler doors and sides were observed to contain buildup dust and splash/dried food. Maintain surfaces clean to sight and touch.

Mr. T?s Pizza, 831 N. Tibbs Road

Current score: 74

Current grade: C

Previous score: 90

Previous grade: A

Comments: Observed employee touch pizza toppings with bare hands. Toppings are also used on sandwiches and salads. Only pizza toppings may be touched and only when going on pizza. Corrected on site. Pepperoni at 51 degrees, ham at 45.6 degrees, sliced tomato at 45.3 degrees, diced chicken at 49 degrees. Hold potentially hazardous foods at 41 degrees or below. Sanitizer in bucket way too strong (greater than 200 ppm). Maintain 100 ppm chlorine. Do not put equipment in sink to dry. Use drainboards and racks. Repair hot water at front hand sink.

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Tennis Canada ads take light-hearted shot at hockey

A despondent little boy emerges from the penalty box, picks up a puck, and chucks it into the stands. A goalie sighs as a shot glides pathetically slowly into her net. Tennis Canada?s new advertising campaign is part of a longstanding effort to get children involved in the sport, and it is doing so with a friendly jab at our national obsession.

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The punchline of the ads, which begin airing nationally this weekend during Rogers Cup broadcasts, is that ?not every kid in Canada wants to play hockey.?

Tennis is not among the top sports that parents consider for their kids, so Tennis Canada is trying to rebrand, using marketing to fight off the sport?s image as a hobby reserved for the country-club set. In fact, according to Tennis Canada, 80 per cent of participation happens on public courts.

?There?s a perception of the tennis whites, and the formality of it,? said Josephe Bonnici, creative director at the ad agency behind the ads, Bensimon Byrne. ?You just need a racquet and a ball.?

But that?s another challenge for the sport: Those racquets and balls have traditionally been the same size for kids as they have been for adults. Five years ago, Tennis Canada created a kids? tennis program, selling kits with smaller equipment and nets that could be put up anywhere, and has been working to get equipment into schools. It wants to persuade parents to give children tennis lessons at a younger age, when they are more likely to develop a lifelong love of the sport.

According to Tennis Canada, only 24 per cent of Canadians age six to 11 have played the game. (The study had 1,400 respondents, weighted to reflect the demographics of Canada?s population.) And tennis does not even make the top 10 most practised sports among children, according to data from Statistics Canada. (Soccer is No. 1.)

The new ad campaign taps into Canada?s passion for hockey to grab viewers? attention. ?We know it?s going to get some attention, ? and that?s good. We?re standing up for our sport,? said Michael Downey, Tennis Canada president and chief executive officer.

Like many athletic associations, the organization is not-for-profit, and Mr. Downey noted that its ads need to make an impact with the small amount of media time they have.

Since it began the Kids Tennis effort, the organization has seen participation rates improve, especially among children. About five million Canadians of all ages play tennis, Mr. Downey said, up about 3 per cent in the past year.

The ads come at a sensitive time for Canada?s most heralded sport. Concerns about concussions have cast a pall on all contact sports, especially hockey. According to research published this week by Bauer Hockey Inc. and Hockey Canada, there are other barriers to entry, including the cost of hockey participation, and the time commitment. The report cited ?historically low participation growth rates over the last few years,? and the fact that 90 per cent of families and kids choose not to play hockey.

To address the challenge, last October Hockey Canada launched a loyalty program. It sent out about 1.3 million cards to families in its database, and engaged sponsors to offer benefits to members who registered their cards.

?The goal is to increase participation in amateur hockey and reduce the cost,? said Steven Hoffman, president and CEO of Boston-based Exchange Solutions, which operates the program.

As Tennis Canada continues its advertising, it sees an opportunity of courting new Canadians, from countries where hockey does not have as high a profile. Tennis, by comparison, is played in more than 200 countries, Mr. Downey said. The low-cost message, as well as stars such as Daniel Nestor and Milos Raonic, who were once new Canadians themselves, could give the marketing effort a leg up, Mr. Downey believes.

?As our population continues to change, we think many of those new Canadians will have had some association with tennis,? Mr. Downey said.

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