Historic Garden Week: An Early Glimpse of Tour's Homes, Gardens ...

Feb 28th, 2013 | By juliepierce | Category: GARDEN

This year the Garden Club of Virginia celebrates 80 years of Historic Garden Week, a spectacular statewide event referred to as ?America?s Largest Open House.? This year?s local tour, sponsored by Hillside Garden Club and The Lynchburg Garden Club, will be held Tuesday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Featuring beautifully appointed homes and gardens, historical sites, refreshments and activities galore?there?s something for everyone to enjoy during this much-anticipated event.

Here at HOME, we are delighted to share a preview of the homes and gardens that await your discovery on Garden Day.

106 Lee Circle

A stone pathway leads to the triple-arched loggia and entryway door made of gum tree wood and into a home (c. 1924) designed by architects Craighill and Cardwell, considered to be Lynchburg?s masters of period-house design. A first-floor addition dates from 2002. The dining room boasts hand-painted Chinese wallpaper. The owners run a statewide food service and catering business as well as a local cafe. The kitchen, a gourmand?s dream, reflects this passion and includes special features such as an antique samovar. The kitchen and family room share an open floor plan with columns defining the space and rich gray walls adding to the stately elegance. A painting by Roberto Ferruzzi of Venice hangs in the family room over the fireplace. The early-1900s Steinway piano has remained in its current location for over 80 years. It is flanked by two clerestory windows in the living room. The garden echoes the Mediterranean style of the home. Pea gravel walkways and boxwood lead to an Italianate fountain. Oak leaf hydrangea, espaliered little gem magnolia and climbing hydrangea are sheltered by a crepe myrtle canopy and the home?s original pergola. Open for the first time for Historic Garden Week. Rie and Eddie Godsey, owners.

118 Oakwood Place

Built in 1925-26 for the E.P. Miller family, this brick Georgian Revival was also designed by noted architects Craighill and Cardwell. Two brick pillars cascading with autumn clematis define the entrance. A curved brick walkway as well as
European linden and magnolia trees add structure to the front lawn. An adjacent living porch and a carriage house-style garage joined by a series of Doric columns finished with a slate roof create an attractive open-air breezeway. The year-round garden is filled with hydrangea, magnolia, maples and roses. The boxwood on the hill and the albelia grandiflora and rhododendron that border the living porch are original plantings dating to the late 1920s. The Pennsylvania bluestone patio offsets sloped lawns that continue into a dell containing cypress and hydrangea. The owners share a passion for both Eastern and Western art, reflected in their extensive collection which includes works by local artists. Noteworthy is a 2010 renovation of the kitchen. Open for the first time for Historic Garden Week.
Dr. and Mrs. David Frantz, owners.

102 Oakwood Place

A composition of outdoor urns and vines offset a white arched portico and a pair of Ionic columns that frame the entrance of this pale yellow Colonial Revival (c. 1924). The mullioned windows from the second floor lend natural light in the foyer, showcasing a large Impressionist oil painting by Santa Fe artist Deborah Gold. The oak staircase leads upstairs to the master bedroom, the nursery and the children?s bedroom. A recent renovation of the kitchen and family room is period-appropriate and includes the preservation of a bank of glass breakfront cabinets from the original butler?s pantry. White Carrera marble countertops, custom cabinetry and an intimate dining space with an antique French crystal chandelier are highlights of this transformation. In 2009, an outdoor living space and terraced hillside garden was completed. Designed for continuous color and fragrance throughout the year, it includes roses, gardenias, peonies, hellebore, rosemary, lavender phlox, hydrangea and boxwood. Yoshino Cryptomeria and Nellie Stevens Holly create a natural fence along Rivermont Avenue, the bordering thoroughfare on this corner residence. Open for the first?time for Historic Garden Week.?Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Meyer, owners.

303 Madison Street

In 1813 Walter Dunnington purchased land from the family of John Lynch, the founding father of Lynchburg. Approximately 12 years later, he built a federal-style house on the parcel. In 1851, Samuel Garland, Sr. purchased the house for his nephew, Samuel Garland, Jr., who later became Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America. The house was well-known for its hospitality during the young Garland era. Annexed into the city in 1870, Garland Hill (named after Samuel Garland, Sr.) is one of the original seven hills upon which Lynchburg was built. The Garland family added the distinctive polygonal tower. In the first-floor study, the signature of H. Garland (a descendant of Samuel Garland, Sr.) is etched in a windowpane, which is still visible today. The house remained in their family until 1901 when it was enlarged and updated by James B. Noell. Today, the Dunnington-Garland-Noell House exists as a Queen Anne Victorian with porches that overlook rose bushes, original plantings and a new garden. In 2008 the current owners began a two-year restoration which preserved the original ground floor kitchen (c. 1825) and restored the home to its original grandeur. Of note is the large portrait by Peirson Ricks (1908-1950) whose book, The Hunter?s Horn, is also on display. Open for the first time for Historic Garden Week. Anne Taylor and Joe James, owners.

912 Old Trent Ferrys Road
(garden only)

Towering deodora cedars and American boxwood border a pea-gravel drive lined with cobblestone that leads to the garden. The backdrop is a turn-of-the century home referred to as the Early House, built by relatives of General Jubal A. Early, who served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee. The aged flagstone terrace acts as a bridge to the informal spring garden that is designed as a series of garden rooms. The owners have worked on this effect for three decades. Each ?room? includes a variety of plantings. Fragrant daphne, edgeworthia, hellebore, maidenhair fern, tree peony and wood poppy are abundant. There is a fountain that feeds into a small pool, as well as garden vessels tucked in amongst the plantings and a bird bath. The space includes several raised-vegetable beds, as well as mature Cedar of Lebanon, copper beech, evergreen and deciduous magnolia. Boxwood and hand-hewn bamboo fencing lend structure to this enchanting garden. Toni and Jim Piggott, owners.

1929 Quarry Road

The owners fell in love with this site that was once home to the Rivermont Corporation Quarry, which closed in the early 1930s. Modeled after their previous home, this French Country-style home was completed in 2009. A terrace leads through a set of French doors into the white-beamed living room featuring a vaulted ceiling and dual fireplaces. Here a collection of porcelain that belonged to the owner?s great-great-grandmother is on display. The den reflects the couple?s affinity for the West. A Joan of Arc sculpture made of cypress root by Pierre Daura sits on a console table, juxtaposed by a chair that belonged to Wade Hampton, a general in the Civil War passed down to his great-great-grandson, Mr. Davis. Comfortable furnishings complement both the antiques and local artwork by Purnell Pettyjohn and Sarah Wilson Saunders. The kitchen has white wooden floors and sketches by Queena Stovall. The living room and den open on to a screened porch with views of the preserved quarry.?Jane and William Davis, owners.

Other places of interest open during Garden Day include Sweet Briar House, Old City Cemetery, Miller-Claytor Gardens, Point of Honor, Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, Poplar Forest, Sandusky, the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum, and Awareness Garden. Several of these sites have benefitted from Garden Club of Virginia?s efforts. For more information about these sites, see vagardenweek.org/guidebook.cfm.

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Sitting less and moving about more could be more important than vigorous exercise to reduce risk of type 2 diabetes

Feb. 27, 2013 ? New research led at the University of Leicester reveals that individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes would benefit from being told to sit less and move around more often- rather than simply exercising regularly. The experts suggest that reducing sitting time by 90 minutes in total per day could lead to important health benefits.

Currently, at risk patients are advised to engage in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) for at least 150 mins per week. But the new study published in Diabetologia (The journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) suggests that patents should in fact be advised to reduce their sedentary time (time spent moving very little or not at all, for example sitting or lying down).The research was led by Joseph Henson and colleagues from the Diabetes Research Unit, University of Leicester and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit (BRU), UK.

Henson and colleagues analysed patients from two studies: 153 from project STAND (Sedentary Time and Diabetes study, mean age 33 years, 29% men) and the Walking Away from Diabetes study (mean age 64 years, 65% men). The team examined the extent to which sedentary time, breaks in sedentary time, MVPA and total physical activity were independently associated with cardiometabolic risk factors in a population with known risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Accelerometers were used to assess sedentary time, MVPA, and total physical activity. Breaks in sedentary time were defined as a transition from a sedentary to an active state.

The researchers found that for these patients with known risk factors for type 2 diabetes recruited from primary care, sedentary time was detrimentally associated with 2 h glucose, triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol, independent of measured confounders. These results remained significant after further adjustment for MVPA and adiposity.

Furthermore, the findings were consistent across groups with diverse age ranges, providing evidence that the negative consequences of excess sedentary time exist across young to old adults. Interestingly, sedentary time was shown to have stronger associations with several important cardiometabolic markers (2 h glucose, triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol) compared with total physical activity and MVPA, after adjustment for each other and other important confounders.

"These studies provide preliminary evidence that sedentary behaviour may be a more effective way to target the prevention of type 2 diabetes, rather than just solely focusing on MVPA. Moreover, sedentary time occupies large portions of the day, unlike MVPA," says Henson.

He adds that the new data raise questions regarding the possible prescription of optimal daily movement for health. He concludes: "Diabetes and cardiovascular prevention programmes concentrating solely on MVPA may overlook an area that is of fundamental importance to cardiometabolic health. Along with messages related to accumulating at least 150 min/week of MVPA, which form the cornerstone of diabetes prevention programmes, such interventions may be more effective still if individuals are further encouraged to simply sit less and move more, regardless of the intensity level."

He concludes: "This approach requires a paradigm shift, so that individuals at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes think about the balance of sedentary behaviour and physical activity throughout the day."

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Now hear this: Researchers identify forerunners of inner-ear cells that enable hearing

Now hear this: Researchers identify forerunners of inner-ear cells that enable hearing

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a group of progenitor cells in the inner ear that can become the sensory hair cells and adjacent supporting cells that enable hearing. Studying these progenitor cells could someday lead to discoveries that help millions of Americans suffering from hearing loss due to damaged or impaired sensory hair cells.

"It's well known that, in mammals, these specialized sensory cells don't regenerate after damage," said Alan Cheng, MD, assistant professor of otolaryngology. (In contrast, birds and fish are much better equipped: They can regain their sensory cells after trauma caused by noise or certain drugs.) "Identifying the progenitor cells, and the cues that trigger them to become sensory cells, will allow us to better understand not just how the inner ear develops, but also how to devise new ways to treat hearing loss and deafness."

The research will be published online Feb. 26 in Development. Cheng is the senior author. Former medical student Taha Jan, MD, and postdoctoral scholar Renjie Chai, PhD, share lead authorship of the study. Roel Nusse, PhD, a professor of developmental biology, is a co-senior author of the research.

The inner ear is a highly specialized structure for gathering and transmitting vibrations in the air. The auditory compartment, called the cochlea, is a snail-shaped cavity that houses specialized cells with hair-like projections that sense vibration, much like seaweed waving in the ocean current. These hair cells are responsible for both hearing and balance, and are surrounded by supporting cells that are also critical for hearing.

Twenty percent of all Americans, and up to 33 percent of those ages 65-74, suffer from hearing loss. Hearing aids and, in severe cases, cochlear implants can be helpful for many people, but neither address the underlying cause: the loss of hair cells in the inner ear. Cheng and his colleagues identified a class of cells called tympanic border cells that can give rise to hair cells and the cells that support them during a phase of cochlear maturation right after birth.

"Until now, these cells have had no clear function," said Cheng. "We used several techniques to define their behavior in cell culture dishes, as well as in mice. I hope these findings will lead to new areas of research to better understand how our ears develop and perhaps new ways to stimulate the regeneration of sensory cells in the cochlea."

Cheng recently received a grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to study the limited regeneration of the same sensory hair cells that occur in a different region of the inner ear called the vestibular system, which helps us balance. Lessons learned there may also translate into aid for patients with hearing loss.

Although regeneration of sensory hair cells does not happen naturally, recent research has suggested that the mammalian ear may harbor a sub-population of ? presumably inactive ? progenitor cells. The research team led by Cheng and Nusse used a strain of laboratory mice that allowed the scientists to track the activation of a cell-signaling pathway driven by a protein called Wnt. The Wnt pathway has previously been shown to be involved in many developmental functions, and it drives the renewal and proliferation of many types of stem cells.

"We wanted to investigate the Wnt pathway because of its tremendous influence in the development and regeneration of many other organs," said Cheng.

The researchers found that tympanic border cells, or TBCs, which form a thin layer under the sensory epithelium, are actively dividing in mice during the first three weeks after birth (the time corresponding to about the first trimester of human development, during which the ability to hear is established) and give rise to at least a subset of sensory and non-sensory cells in the ear. They also divided vigorously in isolated cochlea when the Wnt pathway was activated, and stopped when the pathway was inhibited. Finally, the researchers showed that purified TBCs were able to specialize into hair cells and support cells when cultured in a laboratory dish.

"It's surprising to think that these progenitor cells are among this largely underappreciated group of cells," said Cheng. "This study also highlights that, even in mice, there is a lot of maturation occurring after birth as hearing develops. There's clearly a lot more to be understood. Next we'd like to look at these cells in models of hearing loss. Do they have the ability to regenerate? If so, under what conditions?"

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Fierce clashes near landmark mosque in Syria

A Syrian woman walks past a house destroyed from a government airstrike, at Jabal al-Zaweya village of Sarjeh, in Idlib, Syria, Monday Feb. 25, 2013. Syria is ready to hold talks with the armed opposition trying to topple President Bashar Assad, the country's foreign minister said Monday, in the government's most advanced offer yet to try to resolve the 2-year-old civil war through negotiations. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A Syrian woman walks past a house destroyed from a government airstrike, at Jabal al-Zaweya village of Sarjeh, in Idlib, Syria, Monday Feb. 25, 2013. Syria is ready to hold talks with the armed opposition trying to topple President Bashar Assad, the country's foreign minister said Monday, in the government's most advanced offer yet to try to resolve the 2-year-old civil war through negotiations. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Displaced Syrian children play with cleaning tools in the Azaz camp for displaced people, north of Aleppo province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. According to Syrian activists the number of people in the Azaz camp has grown by 3,000 in the last weeks due to heavier shelling by government forces. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an unexploded rocket from a Syrian warplane, in the neighborhood of Karam Alqasir, near Aleppo International Airport, in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb near the Damascus headquarters of Syria's ruling party killed scores on Thursday, while a government airstrike on a rebel field hospital in southern Daraa left several dead, opposition activists and state media reported. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

A citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows people searching the rubble for dead bodies and injured victims at a site were houses were hit by a missile attack by Syrian government forces, in the neighborhood of Ard Al-Hamra, Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Syrian rebels battled government troops near a landmark 12th century mosque in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while fierce clashes raged around a police academy west of the city, activists said.

The fighting near the Umayyad Mosque in the walled Old City threatened to further damage the historic structure, part of which was burned during clashes last year.

Since July 2012, government forces and rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad have been battling over Aleppo, the country's largest city and a major prize in the civil war. While rebels have gradually expanded the amount of turf under their control, seven months of street fighting, airstrikes and shelling have left much of the city, considered one of Syria's most beautiful, in ruins.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported intense clashes with heavy gunfire and explosions near the mosque. Syria's state news agency said "terrorists" had detonated explosives near the building's south wall, causing "material damages."

Assad's regime refers to the opposition as "terrorists."

The mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Aleppo, sits near a medieval covered market in the Old City, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The mosque was heavily damaged in October, 2012, just weeks after a fire gutted the market.

Syria's nearly 2-year-old civil war has left its mark on other gems of the country's rich archaeological and cultural heritage.

At least five of Syria's six World Heritage sites have been damaged in the fighting, according to UNESCO, the U.N.'s cultural agency. Looters have broken into one of the world's best-preserved Crusader castles, Crac des Chevaliers, and ruins in the ancient city of Palmyra have been damaged.

Both rebels and regime forces have turned some of Syria's significant historic sites into bases, including citadels and Turkish bath houses, while thieves have stolen artifacts from archaeological excavations and, to a lesser extent, museums.

To the west of Aleppo, activists reported fresh fighting Tuesday near the police academy that has become a key government military installation.

The Observatory said the two sides were shelling each other's positions while the government launched airstrikes in the area.

Video posted online in recent days shows rebel groups firing homemade rockets and mortars at the academy and blasting it with captured tanks. The videos appeared genuine and corresponded with other Associated Press reporting.

The Observatory said the dead in the last two days of fighting in the area included 26 rebel fighters, 40 soldiers and five pro-government militiamen.

The police academy, which activists say the government has turned into a military base, has recently emerged as a new front in the battle for Aleppo. Losing the facility would hinder the regime's ability to shell opposition areas and support its troops inside the city.

An Aleppo activist who goes by the name Abu al-Hassan said via Skype that rebels coming from Idlib province to the west are now trying to clear the army from residential areas near the academy before they attack it.

"Yesterday and today they have been trying to go forward but there are lots of shelling and airstrikes," he said.

The fighting has largely destroyed Aleppo and caused humanitarian conditions for the city's remaining civilians to plummet.

On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said more than 141 people, including 71 children, had been killed in at least four missile strikes by the Syrian government in and near the city of Aleppo last week. The New York-based group said the strikes hit residential areas and called them an "escalation of unlawful attacks against Syria's civilian population."

A Human Rights Watch researcher who visited the sites said up to 20 buildings were destroyed in each area hit by a missile. There were no signs of any military targets in the residential districts, located in rebel-held parts of Aleppo and its northern countryside, said Ole Solvang, the researcher.

"The extent of the damage from a single strike, the lack of (military) aircraft in the area at the time, and reports of ballistic missiles being launched from a military base near Damascus overwhelmingly suggest that government forces struck these areas with ballistic missiles," HRW said in its report.

It added that the Aleppo neighborhoods hit were Jabal Badro, Tariq al-Bab and Ard al-Hamra. The fourth strike documented by the group was in Tel Rifat, north of the city.

UNICEF said in a statement that it is "appalled" by the deaths of children, and called on all parties in the conflict to "ensure that civilians ? and children especially ? are protected, at all times."

U.N. political chief Jeffrey Feltman condemned the bombings in Aleppo and Damascus and repeated a call "to immediately end the supply of arms to both sides in this brutal conflict." He pledged that "perpetrators of serious crimes will be held accountable."

Syria has never acknowledged the strikes, and portrays the conflict as a foreign conspiracy carried out by "terrorists" to weaken the country.

The missile attacks have outraged the leaders of Syria's exiled opposition who have accused their Western backers of indifference to the suffering of civilians caught up in the conflict.

Also Tuesday, the Observatory said the death toll in a car bomb attack in Damascus had risen to eight. All were regime security officers, it said.

The blast late Monday struck a security checkpoint in the neighborhood of Qaboun, less than a kilometer (mile) from Abbasid Square, northeast of downtown. It was followed by several other smaller blasts thought to be mortar shells landing in various districts of the capital.

The explosions and subsequent gunfire caused panic among residents who hid in their apartments.

Syria's state news agency said the blast was caused by a suicide car bomber and caused an unspecified number of casualties.

The U.N. says some 70,000 have been killed since Syria's conflict began in March 2011.

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Associated Press writer Ryan Lucas in Beirut and Edith M. Lederer at the U.N. contributed.

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Feds to probe Ford cars and SUVs for stalling

DETROIT (AP) ? The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it will investigate problems with stalling or surging engines in nearly 725,000 Ford cars and SUVs.

The probe affects Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner SUVs and Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans from the 2009 through 2011 model years.

The vehicles can unexpectedly go into "limp home mode" at reduced power, the agency said in documents posted Monday on its website. NHTSA and Ford have received almost 1,500 complaints about the problem. There were three crashes and one injury.

NHTSA began looking into the cars and SUVs after getting a request from the North Carolina Consumers Council last year. Nonprofit safety groups and consumers can petition the agency to investigate vehicle problems.

The cars and SUVs haven't been recalled, but the investigation could lead to a recall.

The Fusion and Milan are nearly identical cars with the same engines, as are the Escape and Mariner. Ford scrapped the Mercury brand in 2010.

The North Carolina organization said it received two complaints about 2009 Escapes that had been diagnosed with throttles either stuck open or closed. The group said that owners reported repeated stalling and surging.

Ford told NHTSA that vehicles made from June 22, 2009, to Oct. 15, 2009, may have faulty printed circuit boards that control the throttles. Ford and its throttle body supplier, Delphi Corp., changed the circuit board manufacturing process after Oct. 15, 2009. That resolved the problem, NHTSA said in documents posted Monday on its website.

NHTSA said it analyzed 123 complaints about the cars or SUVs going into what's known as limp mode, in which vehicle speed was limited to 20 mph or 900 engine revolutions per minute. Drivers may interpret the limp mode as stalling, even though the engines still move the vehicles, the agency said. Vehicles usually go into limp mode when computers detect an engine problem. This allows drivers to get to a safe place while protecting the engine from damage.

Power surges appear to happen when the engine revolutions fluctuate to prevent stalling during limp mode, the agency said.

But even though Ford said the throttle problem with the Escape was resolved with the manufacturing change, NHTSA still decided to investigate vehicles from the 2010 and 2011 model years. The agency says it received 59 complaints of engine stalling in 2010 and 2011 Fusions. Eighty percent of the complaints were received starting in March of 2012, showing an increasing trend, the agency said.

In addition, Ford has received 27,505 warranty claims in which the throttle bodies were repaired or replaced, NHTSA said.

Ford said Monday that it's cooperating with NHTSA on the investigation.

Its shares rose 4 cents to $12.52 in morning trading. They have traded in a 52-week range of $8.82 to $14.39.

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Benedict to be called 'emeritus pope,' wear white

VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Two pontiffs, both wearing white, both called "pope" and living a few yards from one another, with the same key aide serving them.

The Vatican's announcement Tuesday that Pope Benedict XVI will be known as "emeritus pope" in his retirement, be called "Your Holiness" and continue to wear the white cassock associated with the papacy has fueled concerns about potential conflicts arising from the peculiar reality now facing the Catholic Church: having one reigning and one retired pope.

Benedict's title and what he will wear have been a major source of speculation since the 85-year-old pontiff stunned the world and announced he would resign Thursday, the first pope to do so in 600 years.

There has been good reason why popes haven't stepped down in past centuries, given the possibility for divided allegiances and even schism. But the Vatican insists that while the situation created by Benedict's retirement is certainly unique, no major conflicts will arise.

"According to the evolution of Catholic doctrine and mentality, there is only one pope. Clearly it's a new situation, but I don't think there will be problems," Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, said in an interview.

Critics aren't so sure. Some Vatican-based cardinals have privately grumbled that it will make it more difficult for the next pope with Benedict still around.

Swiss theologian Hans Kueng, Benedict's one-time colleague-turned-critic, went further: "With Benedict XVI, there is a risk of a shadow pope who has abdicated but can still indirectly exert influence," he told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last week.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Tuesday that Benedict himself decided on his name and wardrobe in consultation with others, settling on "Your Holiness Benedict XVI" and either "emeritus pope" or "emeritus Roman pontiff."

Lombardi said he didn't know why Benedict had decided to drop his other main title: bishop of Rome.

In the two weeks since Benedict's resignation announcement, Vatican officials had suggested that Benedict would likely resume wearing the traditional black garb of a cleric and would use the title "emeritus bishop of Rome" to avoid creating confusion with the future pope.

Adding to the concern is that Benedict's trusted secretary, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, will be serving both pontiffs ? living with Benedict at the monastery being converted for him inside Vatican grounds while keeping his day job as prefect of the new pope's household.

Asked about the potential for conflict, Lombardi was defensive, saying the decisions had been clearly reasoned and were likely chosen for the sake of simplicity.

"I believe it was well thought out," he said.

Benedict himself has made clear he is retiring to a lifetime of prayer and meditation "hidden from the world." However, he still will be very present in the tiny Vatican city-state, where his new home is right next door to the Vatican Radio transmission tower and has a lovely view of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.

Kueng said it was a mistake for Gaenswein to serve both men and for Benedict to remain so close to the center of action.

"No priest likes it if his predecessor sits next to the rectory and watches everything he does," Kueng was quoted as saying in Der Spiegel. "And even for the bishop of Rome, it is not pleasant if his predecessor constantly has an eye on him."

However, others reasoned that Benedict's retirement plans and title were in keeping with those of other retired heads of state.

"I was somewhat surprised that Benedict would still be called 'His Holiness' and would wear white, but it's akin to the former U.S. presidents being addressed as 'Mr. President,'" said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit writer and editor. "It's a mark of respect for the former office he once held."

"Overall, I don't think that after the conclave there will be any doubt about who the pope is, or who is in charge," he said.

While Benedict will no longer wear his trademark red shoes, he has taken a liking to a pair of hand-crafted brown loafers made for him by artisans in Leon, Mexico, and given to him during his 2012 visit. He will wear those in retirement, Lombardi said.

Lombardi also elaborated on the College of Cardinals meetings that will take place after the papacy becomes vacant ? crucial gatherings in which cardinals will discuss the problems facing the church and set a date for the start of the conclave to elect Benedict's successor.

The first meeting isn't expected until Monday, Lombardi said, since the official convocation to cardinals to come to Rome will only go out on Friday ? the first day of what's known as the "sede vacante," or the vacancy between papacies.

In all, 115 cardinals under the age of 80 are expected in Rome for the conclave to vote on who should become the next pope. Two other eligible cardinals have already said they are not coming, one from Britain and another from Indonesia. Cardinals who are 80 and older can join the College meetings but won't participate in the conclave or vote.

Benedict has already given the cardinals the go-ahead to move up the start date of the conclave ? tossing out the traditional 15-day waiting period. But the cardinals won't be able to set a date until their official meetings begin Monday.

Lombardi also described Benedict's final 48 hours as pope: On Tuesday, he was packing, arranging for documents to be sent to the various Vatican archives and separating out the personal papers he will take with him into retirement.

On Wednesday, Benedict holds his final public general audience in St. Peter's Square ? an event that has already brought in 50,000 ticket requests. He won't greet visiting prelates or VIPs as he normally does, but will meet some visiting leaders ? from Slovakia, San Marino, Andorra and his native Bavaria ? privately afterward.

On Thursday, the pope meets with his cardinals in the morning and then flies by helicopter at 5 p.m. to Castel Gandolfo, the papal residence south of Rome. Benedict will greet parishioners there from the palazzo's balcony ? his final public act as pope.

Then, at 8 p.m., the exact time at which his retirement becomes official, the Swiss Guards standing outside the doors of the palazzo at Castel Gandolfo will go off duty, their service protecting the head of the Catholic Church finished.

Benedict's personal security will be assured by Vatican police, Lombardi said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/benedict-called-emeritus-pope-wear-white-195150170.html

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Samsung's comically large Galaxy Note 8.0 smartphone: purely a brand play, if nothing else

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The doors to this year's Mobile World Congress have just barely been opened, but you might say the show is already won. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's Samsung doing the winning. For those who were far too busy enjoying their Saturday evenings to notice, I should point out that Samsung has just taken the wraps off of the world's largest smartphone. The global version of Galaxy Note 8.0's fantastically (hilariously?) large display is indeed embedded onto a device that will not only surf the soothing waters of the world wide web, but also make phone calls for those brazen enough to toss it upside their noggin'.

The question, obviously, is "Why? But as I let the announcement wash over me, the answer became all too clear: "Because it can."

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Alcatel One Touch Star hands-on

Alongside Alcatel's other launches today at Mobile World Congress the One Touch Star is another example of an affordable handset that still manages to maintain good looks with excellent fit an finish. Featuring a 4-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, quad-band GSM and 900 / 2100 UMTS, all powered by a 1GHz dual-core CPU.

The handset is a little on the heavy side, but not in an awful way, more like a quality sort of feeling, reminiscent of iPhone's weight. Clever touches such as the corner tab being recessed a little more to get at the 1500mAh battery and SIM slots -- or dual-SIM slots when optioned with that -- is also a clever touch and just generally adds to the device's appeal. Of course the One Touch Star will be a budget phone but it is also a brilliant example of how lower pricing and excellent quality can coexist. Well done Alcatel, well done. No word on pricing but it is expected to begin shipping sometime in March 2013. A Gallery showing off the cranberry variety is just below the break.

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Ceton reveals Android, Windows Media Center integration details for its Echo

Just after launch, Ceton announced it would bring Android to the Echo Windows Media Center Extender by the end of last year. Owners of the device have been left wondering ever since then: what's the holdup? Now the Ceton Blog has spelled out what's taking so long. Essentially the story goes that Android is optimized for touch screens, rather than the big screen, and the company decided to hold off until some changes could be made. Most interestingly, one of those changes is integrating Windows Media Center into Android, allowing users to access all the content that both platforms have to offer in a single user interface. A hefty goal indeed and one worth waiting for, but the question of when remains. While the post does include some interesting screen shots and other details -- like Windows 8 support -- it stops just short of making another promise to deliver the update in any particular amount time.

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Administration warns of impact of broad budget cut

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Widespread flight delays and shuttered airports, off-limit seashores and unprotected parks.

The Obama administration is painting a dire portrait of the many ways the public will feel the effects of automatic federal spending cuts due to begin March 1.

The grim picture is emerging as the White House and lawmakers count down the days until the government is forced to trim $85 billion in domestic and defense spending with hardly any leeway to save some programs from the budget knife.

In detailing the costs of the cuts, President Barack Obama is seeking to raise the public's awareness while also applying pressure on congressional Republicans who oppose his blend of targeted savings and tax increases to tackle federal deficits.

"I've been very clear that these kinds of arbitrary, automatic cuts would have an adverse impact on families, on teachers, on parents who are reliant on Head Start programs, on our military readiness, on mental health services, on medical research," Obama said Friday. "This is not a smart way for us to reduce the deficit."

Just in case those consequences didn't capture the public's attention, the White House also had Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood spell out the impact on travelers: a frequent-flier nightmare of 90-minute airport waits, limited flights and closed regional airports. Republican lawmakers dismissed LaHood's warnings as "exaggerations."

But LaHood said the cuts would require slicing more than $600 million from the Federal Aviation Administration, resulting in furloughs of one day per pay period for a majority of the agency's 47,000 employees.

"Once airlines see the potential impact of these furloughs, we expect that they will change their schedules and cancel flights," LaHood said.

Moreover, he said, the Transportation Department is looking "to likely close" air traffic control towers at 100 airports that have fewer than 150,000 flight operations per year.

"We're talking about places like Boca Raton, Fla.; Joplin, Mo.; Hilton Head, S.C.; and San Marcos, Texas," he said. All in all, nearly two-thirds of the airports are concentrated in three states ? California, Florida and Texas.

But in a statement, Airlines for America, an industry group, said the organization, the FAA and airline carriers would be meeting soon to plan for potential cutbacks. "Air transportation is a key driver of our economy, and should not be used as a political football," the statement said.

Paul Rinaldi, the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said the reductions will not just inconvenience passengers, it will also affect local economies and result in more lost jobs. "The fact that they will not just be furloughing critical FAA personnel but closing air traffic control towers means the system will be even more compromised than anticipated," he added.

Still, top Republicans on congressional transportation and aviation panels accused the administration of unnecessary alarm.

"Before jumping to the conclusion that furloughs must be implemented, the administration and the agency need to sharpen their pencils and consider all the options," the lawmakers said in a joint statement issued by Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Sen. John Thune, the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; and Frank LoBiondo, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation.

Throughout the administration, agency heads have been depicting an onerous after-effect to the cuts. The federal government is required to spell out the consequences to federal workers, but the details are also designed to warn lawmakers that the cuts could have a fearsome result: angry constituents. Some of the warnings:

? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week said that automatic cuts, known in Washington budget language as a sequester, would harm the readiness of U.S. fighting forces and he said the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian workers would have to lose one day of work per week, or 20 percent of their pay, for up to 22 weeks, probably starting in late April. The biggest potential losses, in term of total civilian payroll dollars, would be in Virginia, California, Maryland, Texas and Georgia, according to figures provided by the Pentagon.

? On Friday, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said cuts of more than $300 million to his agency would mean less money to solve outbreaks, fight hospital infections and keep illnesses overseas from making their way here. For instance, Dr. Tom Frieden said, the cuts could limit the agency's investigation of a tuberculosis outbreak in Los Angeles.

? At the National Park Service, employees would be furloughed, hours would be cut and sensitive areas would be blocked off to the public when there are staff shortages, according to a park service memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The giant sequoias at Yosemite National Park in California would go unprotected from visitors who might trample their shallow roots. At Cape Cod National Seashore, large sections of the Great Beach would close to keep eggs from being destroyed if natural resource managers are cut. Programs on the chopping block include invasive species eradication in Yosemite and comfort stations on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi.

Gettysburg would decrease by one-fifth the number of school children who learn about the historic battle that was a turning point in the Civil War. And in Yosemite, park administrators fear that less frequent trash pickup would potentially attract bears into campgrounds.

Over the years, budget threats have inevitably resulted in grim warnings, no matter which administration, about calamitous consequences. Many have been avoided; others have been short-lived. But Obama administration officials say they are not exaggerating or bluffing.

The cuts, with few exceptions, are designed to hit all accounts equally. The law gives Obama little leeway to ease the pain.

Even if granted flexibility to apply the cuts with more discretion ? a legislative step Republicans say they might pursue ? White House officials say that would still require severe reductions.

"It's essentially rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said of such a proposal in a recent interview.

LaHood, in response to a question, denied that he was simply describing a worst-case scenario that would scare the public and put pressure on Republican lawmakers.

"What I'm trying to do," he said, "is wake up members of the Congress with the idea that they need to come to the table so we don't have to have this kind of calamity in air services in America."

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Cone reported from Sacramento, Calif. Associated Press writer Joan Lowy and AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard contributed to this report.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/administration-warns-impact-broad-budget-cut-223232012--politics.html

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NYPD to work with Apple to track down stolen Apple iPhones and Apple iPads

Thefts of the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad have become so prevalent in the Big Apple, that cops have a name for it. "Applepicking" occured 4,000 more times in 2012 than in 2011 and single handedly was responsible for the rise in crime last year in New York City. Now, the cops have assigned a special team to work directly with Apple to get stolen devices back into the hands of victims. When an Apple mobile device is stolen, its unique IMEI number (International Mobile Station Equipment Identity) is reported to Apple. Apple then can report back to New York's Finest the location of each device even if it is running on a different carrier than when it was originally purchased.One stolen Apple iPad was traced to the Dominican Republic and with the help of an NYPD intelligence officer stationed in Santo Domingo, the tablet was recovered. Another time, Apple helped the NYPD bust a guy selling stolen iPads by a bus stop. The cops say that 74% of stolen Apple devices end up popping up somewhere in the 5 boroughs. Unfortunately, most of the devices confiscated were sold to unknowing buyers who didn't know they were purchasing a stolen device. But the original owner does have the right to his Apple iPhone or Apple iPad, even if someone else bought it afterward. To prevent something like that from happening, your best bet is to buy an Apple device from a legitimate Apple dealer, or from Apple itself. We've already shown you what can happen if you trust someone in a parking lot trying to convince you to buy his iPad for a great price.

Kevin Mahaffey co-founder of cellphone security firm Lookout, said that the use of IMEI numbers were always seen as a key to busting handset and tablet thieves, but getting together with law enforcement had always been the hard part, until now. The wireless industry's own listing of stolen smartphones and tablets is not expected to be up and running until November.

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How Do I Resize Rdp Window, Windows 7

hoping since rdp gets used by many here someone can help.? the whs2011 rdp window on my win7 client pc is always smaller than it needs to be, but i can't change it.? checking the screen resolution on the whs rdp screen it shows 1024*768 and a message that it can't be changed during an rdp session.

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i've opened an rdp session a few times and was able to full screen it on my client, but i can't get it to work again and i don't know what was different.

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Florida's Dendy sets SEC record at indoor event; top-ranked Arkansas men take overall lead

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FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas ? Marquis Dendy wasn't about to complain about setting a meet record with a long jump of 27 feet, ? inches at the Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday.

The Florida sophomore, however, would have preferred to jump just a bit farther ? even after setting the mark for the longest jump in the world this year.

Dendy leaped a personal best, but he was just a bit short of the 27-5 mark he needed to earn the new car his father had promised him.

"I've got to talk to the delegation," Dendy said. "My dad's here, so I've got tell him, 'Two inches, can't you just give me two inches or whatever?' I'm going to talk to him about that. Surely, right after these interviews, I'm definitely going to talk to him about that."

New car or not, Dendy's win gave the defending national champion Gators a much-needed 10 points in their effort against top-ranked Arkansas. The Razorbacks, who won the SEC meet last year and have won six of the last seven, held a 52-34 team lead after Saturday.

Dendy will be back at work inside the Randal Tyson Track Center on Sunday, hoping to earn more points in the triple jump on final day of the three-day meet.

For the time being, however, he reveled in repeating as the long jump champion ? besting his previous best of 26-5½. The record jump came on his second attempt, following a foul on his first, and it topped the previous SEC best of 27-0 was set by Alabama's Miguel Pate in 2002.

Dendy held off LSU's Damar Forbes, who was second with a jump of 26-5¾ inches, and it gave him plenty of confidence approaching the national meet ? which also will be held in Fayetteville in two weeks.

"This is just basically a pre-meet of nationals," Dendy said. "So, I definitely can go out there and just jump farther at nationals. I've got a second try."

The Razorbacks actually rested a few of their top performers in the meet, including Kevin Lazas, who entered the weekend as the conference's top performer in the heptathlon. Lazas will compete in the pole vault on Sunday, and Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam said his focus is on entering the nationals rested and with momentum.

Even without Lazas, the Razorbacks appear poised to do both.

"It's like in any sport, it's all about momentum," Bucknam said. "It's all about feeling good. It's all about, again, that body language and coming off a good performance leads to the next one.

"So, we don't want to take a step back. We always want to step forward, and I was pleased with how things went."

With Lazas not competing, Georgia's Garrett Scantling won the heptathlon with 5,889 points. The sophomore set personal bests in all three events on Saturday, including the 60-meter hurdles (8.15 seconds), pole vault (16-¾) and 1,000 (2 minutes, 50.41 seconds).

"The 1,000 meter was just all guts, but it feels great and it feels awesome," Scantling said. "I have never been that nervous before a race before, but it felt great. I pushed it to the end and got what I wanted."

Also, Mississippi's Ricky Robertson won his fourth straight high jump championship at the event by clearing 7-5, becoming just the second person in SEC history to accomplish the feat.

The Arkansas women also took the lead entering the final day of the event, leading 37-28 over second-place Georgia. Top-ranked LSU is fifth with 13.5 points.

The Razorbacks received 10 points on Friday when senior Makeba Alcide won the pentathlon with a college-record 4,569 points.

Source: http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/25d4aa631a194a3b9bf69b8397eb42ab/ATH--SEC-Championships/

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California Democrats lose supermajority in state Senate

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Democrats who control California's legislature lost their supermajority in the state Senate on Friday when a business-friendly moderate from the state's Central Valley abruptly resigned.

Senator Michael Rubio, elected in 2010, said he was stepping down to take a job with Chevron Corp, which will leave fellow Democrats with 26 seats in the Senate. Two other Democratic-leaning seats in the 40-member Senate are vacant.

Rubio had been expected to spearhead the effort to overhaul environmental laws in a more business-friendly fashion.

With the loss of the 27-seat supermajority, Democrats will have to put on hold, at least temporarily, some of their more ambitious plans opposed by the Senate's Republican minority. Rubio is likely to be replaced by a member of his party in a special election.

Democrats in the November election won supermajorities in the Senate and Assembly, which notably gave them the power to pass tax hikes or put constitutional amendments before voters on their own.

Prior to the election, Democratic lawmakers had to court Republican colleagues to be able to reach the required two-thirds vote of the legislature to approve bills to raise taxes, efforts all too often snubbed by anti-tax GOP lawmakers.

Rubio had planned to lead efforts to change the California Environmental Quality Act. He chaired an environmental issues committee seen as key to overhauling the law.

Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, also is in favor of changes to the 40-year-old law. Its critics have long held the law can be used to impose costly delays on construction projects.

(Reporting by Jim Christie; Editing by Jackie Frank)

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Let's do coffee | Urban Pundit

Getting up for work in the morning can be a difficult task for the best of us, especially during these cold winter months. Getting ready for work half asleep is a ritual many of us experience every day, applying a little too much foundation and barely dressing ourselves in time to make it out the door. With little time free in the mornings for breakfast, a great deal of us will rely on their morning coffee fix en route, and if we?re in a rush (which we all generally are) it needs to be the good stuff.?So sit back, put your feet up and take great comfort in the following list of some of London?s best coffee shops, all located in close proximity to the a variety of commuter portals (tube/train).

Nude Espresso
Closest Tube: Tottenham Court Road
A sanctuary away from many of bad chains that litter the stations of London, Nude Espresso offers its customers great coffee without the fuss. With the beans roasted in house (nice pong) customers can ensure a great tasting blend, freeze dried need not apply.

Notes Music & Coffee
Closest Train: LondonCharing Cross
A coffee house that encourages relaxation, Notes Music & Coffee is fast, approachable and best off all provides great tasting beverages. Though not the cheapest of coffee shops, after you have tried one of their drinks you will be certainly be glad you paid the extra.

Monmouth Coffee
Closest Tube: Covent Garden
One of the great leaders in pour-over filter coffee, Monmouth coffee takes its coffee making very seriously. Using organic Jersey Milk, their luscious lattes and other drinks are velvety and smooth, and owe a lot to their rich milky blends. Monmouth is one of a few coffee houses that takes its milk choice as seriously as its coffee blends.

Kaffeine
Closest Tube: Goodge Street
Offering some of the best value for money, Kaffeine uses Square Mile beans for its ridiculously great tasting coffee. Charging only ?2.50 for a latte, I can hear the stampede already!

Tapped & Packed
Closest Tube: Warren Street
With speedy baristas making your drinks in a mere matter of seconds, Tapped & Packed offers some of the best filter coffee in London. With two separate grinders, each blend is custom used according to the drink you order, so a stronger tasting combination will be used to cut through really milky styles. With an inviting interior you?d be sure to overstay, if only you had the time.

So if these little drops of coffee heaven just happen to be on your way to work then you are truly sorted for your caffeine fix. And if they aren?t your boss will have to get use to you being 15 minutes late for work. Sorted.

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White House: First lady has reduced childhood obesity rates | The ...

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Michelle Obama has turned back childhood obesity nationwide, the White House declared Thursday.

?Mrs. Obama launched?Let?s Move!?on February 9, 2010 to unite the country around our kids? health and create real support for families to live healthier lives,? reads an announcement from the Office of the First Lady. ?Since then parents, business leaders, educators, elected officials, military leaders, chefs, physicians, athletes, childcare providers, community and faith leaders, and kids themselves have stepped up to improve the health of our nation?s children.??(RELATED:?Michelle Obama going on national tour to celebrate her healthy eating initiative)

?Thanks to these efforts ? the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off, and even declined in some cities and states,? the statement says, marking the third anniversary of the first lady?s signature public health program.

That assertion is bolstered in part by a late-2012 report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ? an organization that has been publicly supportive of the first lady?s initiative ? that revealed a decline.

?In recent years, the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off. However, some cities and states have reported modest declines in their rates, following peaks in the early 2000s,? an overview of the RWJF report reads.

The report received wide attention last year thanks in part to the?New York Times? reporting,?and credits expanding food regulation in cities like New York and Philadelphia with small declines in childhood obesity between 2006 and 2010.

But The Times cautioned against giving the first lady too much credit for the shift:

Though obesity is now part of the national conversation, with aggressive advertising campaigns in major cities and a push by Michelle Obama, many scientists doubt that anti-obesity programs actually work. Individual efforts like one-time exercise programs have rarely produced results.

Defining childhood obesity can be a tricky business ? even for the Obama administration.

In?a 2010 report?announcing ?Changes in Terminology for Childhood Overweight and Obesity,? the Department of Health and Humans Services admitted that ?[f]or children, there is no precise widely accepted definition of obesity in terms of body fatness.?

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Meanwhile, hunger statistics in the United States continue their upward trajectory.

An Obama administration report from late 2012 revealed that in 2011, nearly 17 million Americans suffered what the Department of Agriculture calls ?very low food security,? an uptick of approximately 800,000 people from 2010.

Of Americans in that category, ?48 percent reported having lost weight because they did?not have enough money for food,? according to the USDA.

The USDA reported that children are less affected by food insecurity than adults, but that approximately half of all food-insecure households with children have ?low food security? or worse.

The unemployment rate still stubbornly holds around 8 percent nationwide and approximately 48 million Americans now rely on food stamps, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Nicole Lafond contributed to this report.

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PFT: 49ers GM: All option on table for Alex Smith

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For media purposes, the NFL Scouting Combine is a whirl of interviews and player availability.

For television watchers, the 40-yard dashes and drills take center stage.

But for the teams that come to Indianapolis to scout, the priority isn?t anything that happens on the field, but rather behind the scenes at the hospital.

The medical checks shared by 32 teams are the primary benefit for most teams.

National Football Scouting president Jeff Foster asked teams years ago to list their priorities, and the results were loud and clear.

?All 32 teams, medicals were No. 1,? Foster told Mike Chappell of the Indianapolis Star. ?All 32 teams, interviews were No. 2. Then there was a mix between the on-field stuff and the psychological testing.?

So for the seven-day duration, players are poked and prodded and tested and quizzed on their medical histories, with no detail to minute.

?This will be the most comprehensive exam they can ever hope to get,? said Dr. Arthur Rettig, one of the Colts team doctors. ?If possible, you want to save [a team] from investing a few million dollars in someone who may play one year and then he?s done.

?It?s our job to try and predict that.?

Retting said he expected to order up 350 MRI scans, using 17 machines they have on hand, including three mobile ones at Lucas Oil Stadium. In the past, they?ve found tumors in players while looking at other injuries.

Colts tackle Anthony Castonzo said he was amazed by the thoroughness of the process, going through six orthopedic stations, X-rays, MRIs, along with heart tests, baseline concussion tests and drug scans.

?You basically lay on a table in the middle of the room and you?ve got people coming over and poking and prodding on you, fiddling with your ankle or your knee or whatever it is you possibly had wrong,? Castonzo said. ?You kind of feel like a corpse at the morgue. Everyone is trying to figure out what?s wrong.?

For NFL teams trying to avoid investing millions in a bunch of stiffs, the process is worth it.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/21/49ers-gm-says-all-options-are-on-the-table-for-alex-smith/related/

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