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Canada: Closing down Iran's Embassy was justified

Closing down?Iran's Embassy?will?put additional pressure on the Iranian? regime for its involvement in nuclear activities, for being a long term enemy of Israel and sustaining the conflict in the Middle East,?by supporting Bashar Assad, for expanding its terrorist activities through its embassy, and most importantly, for realizing that the Iranian regime operates widely in Canada by expanding its ? fifth Column in this country.

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AP Interview: US general says Afghan deal vital

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, who commands the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. The top U.S. and coalition commander in Afghanistan said the signing of a bilateral security agreement between America and Afghanistan will send a clear signal both to the Afghan people and the Taliban that the international community is committed to the future stability of the country even as foreign forces withdraw. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

A French soldier walks past flags at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, who commands the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said during an interview with The Associated Press Saturday that the signing of a bilateral security agreement between America and Afghanistan will send a clear signal both to the Afghan people and the Taliban that the international community is committed to the future stability of the country even as foreign forces withdraw. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? The top U.S. and coalition commander in Afghanistan stressed Saturday that the signing of a stalled bilateral security agreement between America and Afghanistan was needed to send a clear signal both to the Afghan people and the Taliban that the international community remains committed to the country's future stability even as foreign forces withdraw.

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, who commands the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force, told the Associated Press it was important to sign the deal, which has been stalled since June by President Hamid Karzai. He did not say if the deal was close to signing, but there have been indications recently that it is nearing that.

Last month U.S. Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he would like to see an agreement by October to give NATO enough time to prepare for a post-2014 military presence instead of a total pullout.

"There is no doubt that the bilateral security agreement is going to send a clear message first and foremost to the Afghan people and Afghan security forces and enhance their confidence to deal with the challenges that we will have to deal with collectively in the coming months," Dunford said.

He added that "the BSA will also send a loud and clear signal to regional actors and they will know also that the U.S. and international community is going to remain committed to a stable, peaceful and unified Afghanistan, and I also think the BSA will send a message to the Taliban that they can't wait us out."

Afghanistan and the United States have been negotiating the agreement, which would allow the presence of foreign troops beyond the end of 2014. When signed, it would allow a small force of trainers and possibly counterterrorism troops to remain. Although no numbers have been announced yet, it is believed they would be about 9,000 from the U.S. and 6,000 from its allies.

There are currently about 100,000 troops from 48 countries in Afghanistan, including 66,000 Americans. By February, the American presence will be reduced to 34,000 and the NATO force will be halved. Dunford said withdrawal plans are on track.

If the U.S. does not sign the security deal, it is unlikely that NATO or any of its allies will keep troops in Afghanistan after 2014. Germany has already said that its offer to keep hundreds of trainers in Afghanistan was contingent on American and other soldiers being part of the training mission.

Talks on the deal were suspended by Karzai in June over the opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state of Qatar.

Those U.S.-sponsored talks foundered before they even began when the Taliban marked the opening of its office with the flag, anthem and symbols of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ? the group's name when they ruled the country. Karzai immediately pulled the plug on talks saying the office had all the trappings of an embassy of a government in exile.

"Eventually I believe there has to be a political solution to the conflict and it doesn't surprise me that peace talks have been difficult. We are trying to reconcile two groups that have been at war now really for 10 years, and one group that oppressed the Afghan people for 10 years prior to that time. So we are dealing with 20 years of history here as we try to resolve or reconcile the Taliban and the Afghan people," Dunford said.

Dunford also said that the fledgling Afghan army and police forces, which took the lead for security around the country two months ago, will be able to stand up against the insurgency as Taliban gear up for increased attacks following the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

But, he added, the 352,000-strong force will still need training and mentoring after foreign combat troops leave at the end of 2014.

"The fact is that on June 18 we did hand over full responsibility for security across the country to the Afghan forces. They have proven resilient. We know what the Taliban decided to do this summer, trying to seize terrain, trying to conduct high profile attacks, trying to conduct insider attacks, but mostly to crush the spirit and will of the Afghan forces, and they certainly have not been able to that," Dunford said at his military headquarters in downtown Kabul.

Dunford, who took command of international forces in February, added that Afghanistan will also need help after 2014 to counter extremist threats similar to the ones that led the U.S. to invade Afghanistan to rout al-Qaida following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on America.

Peace talks, he said, will one day lead to a political solution in the nearly 12-year conflict, as the Taliban eventually realize that they have no way of winning a protracted conflict or of taking over the country.

Dunford said that a long-term commitment to Afghanistan was needed to prevent a resurgence of the extremist groups that created the groundwork for the 9/11 attacks. Only a strong, stable and peaceful Afghanistan could prevent that from happening again, he said.

"I would just say specifically to the American people and to the international community that sacrificed so much that we are still here for the same reason we came here after 9/11," Dunford said.

He added that during the past decade "we also realized that the way to ensure that is to harden Afghanistan, harden them from a security perspective, harden them from a political perspective, harden them from an economic perspective."

Insurgent attacks have increased since the handover of security responsibility, causing a dramatic rise in casualties for Afghan civilians and security forces alike.

According to the United Nations, Afghanistan's civilian casualty toll has jumped this year as insurgents fight to recapture territory from the departing American-led coalition. In the first half of 2013, the number of dead rose 14 percent and the number of wounded 28 percent, compared with the January-June period last year, said the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan in its mid-year report.

Afghan Security Forces have so far lost 619 police officers and 468 soldiers this year, according to an AP tally. By comparison, the same tally showed that 907 police and 963 army personnel died in 2012.

Dunford said that mitigating the casualty rate was something that both the Afghan forces and coalition were trying to address, along with a high rate of police and soldiers dropping out of the security services.

But he said his biggest issue was to ensure that the Afghan people and security forces are confident that the coalition will show the commitment needed over the next year and-a-half and beyond 2015, when combat troops are to be replaced by a far smaller international force.

"The thing that is most important right now is the confidence of the Afghan people, the confidence of the Afghan security forces and trying to ensure that they know we are committed now and into the future, that we will finish what we started in terms of developing the (Afghan forces) and that more broadly the international community will stand with Afghanistan into the decade of opportunity, 2015 and beyond," Dunford said.

Many Afghans are fearful that the full withdrawal of foreign forces after 2014 could lead to a repeat of the instability that followed the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation, which led to a civil war and the eventual rise of the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan for five years until the U.S. invasion.

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Snowden's Alleged Email Provider Shuts Down, Warns Against Trusting U.S. Companies

The alleged email provider of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden has suddenly shut down, leaving just an ominous message its absence. "I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision," writes Lavabit owner Ladar Levison on the company's front page. "I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."

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Syrian Troops Kill More Than 60 in Desert Ambush

Syrian troops ambushed a large group of rebels Wednesday trudging through what once was a secret route through a desert road northeast of Damascus, killing more than 60 fighters in a barrage of machine gun fire and leaving their bodies in the sand.

State television claimed those killed came from an al-Qaida-linked group that has joined the battle against President Bashar Assad, whose troops are trying to drive opposition forces from areas surrounding his seat of power in the capital.

There were conflicting reports on the attack in Adra, which lies on a supply route between Damascus and rebel-held areas to the east that is often the scene of heavy clashes between the two sides. The dawn attack dealt another heavy blow to opposition troops following a string of recent regime successes.

Syrian troops have been on the offensive in the past few months in an attempt to clear out Damascus suburbs held by opposition fighters.

Syrian state-run media showed footage of bloodied corpses lying on the ground, some wearing camouflage gear with their weapons scattered around in the sand. One picture showed gas masks next to the weapons.

The state-run SANA news agency said "dozens" of rebels were killed in the ambush as they were on their way to attack an army post near Damascus. SANA identified the dead as members of the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, and said some were foreign fighters.

Broadcaster Al-Ikhbariya also showed a Tunisian passport, Islamic headbands and automatic rifles apparently carried by the rebels.

Some activists disputed the account, saying those killed were Syrian fighters from a mix of brigades delivering aid to besieged areas.

Mohammed Saeed, an activist based near Damascus, told The Associated Press that 65 rebels were on their way from Damascus' eastern suburbs to Qalamoun nearby. Saeed said rebels walked the 30-kilometer (19-mile) route because it is dangerous to drive in the area as it is watched by Assad's forces.

"It seems that the regime discovered the secret road that the rebels were using," Saeed said via Skype. "The regime forces riddled them with heavy machine gun fire."

He said 62 died and three escaped to Qalamoun.

Another activist said the rebels were on their way to deliver medicine, flour and other foodstuffs to the Eastern Ghouta region, which has been besieged for months. He said the rebels were a "mix of fighters," including some from Nusra Front. He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fears of retribution.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 62 rebels died in Wednesday's ambush. It did not report any government casualties.

In the north, a missile struck the rebel-held city of Raqqa, killing three people and wounding dozens including children, the Local Coordination Committees activist group said. The Observatory said that two children were among the three killed.

Amateur videos showed at least three children who suffered wounds and were rushed away in a pickup truck.

A boy, with minor wounds to his mouth, knees and feet, screamed as he was held by a man in the pickup truck and shouted "Dad!" The man holding him tried to calm him down, saying: "Dad will come soon."

The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting on the events depicted.

Wednesday's missile attack came after Human Rights Watch said missiles fired by the Syrian army into populated areas have killed hundreds of civilians in recent months.

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China Times Credibility of court martial system destroyed

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The death of Army Corporal Hung Chung-chiu has given rise to great public concern about human rights in the military. In an expression of such worry, over 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets Saturday, on the eve of Hung's funeral, to bid him farewell. A few days ago, Defense Minister Andrew Yang and his predecessor Kao Hua-chu, who resigned over the soldier's death, paid a call on ... ...

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Canada returns to Sutter seeking WJC success

After a third straight third-place finish at the IIHF World Junior Championship in 2004, it marked seven years Canada had gone without a gold medal at the elite under-20 international tournament.

For the 2005 WJC, Hockey Canada chose Brent Sutter as coach. The subsequent changes Sutter helped bring about led to a run of five straight gold medals.

Now, mired in another slump -- no gold since 2009; no medal of any kind last year, the first time that happened since 1998 -- Hockey Canada has turned back to Sutter for the 2014 World Juniors, to be held Dec. 26 to Jan. 5, 2014, in Malmo, Sweden.

Sutter again has brought his own thoughts to the process of building the national junior team, starting with a trip to Lake Placid, N.Y., to take part in USA Hockey's National Junior Evaluation Camp. Canada will spend Aug. 4-5 working at the Montreal Canadiens' practice facility in Brossard, Quebec, then travel to Lake Placid, where 32 players will practice and play exhibition games Aug. 6-10 against teams from the United States, Finland and Sweden.

It's a drastic change from previous years, when Hockey Canada would bring in two teams worth of players and have them battle head-to-head.

"The whole concept is different," Sutter told NHL.com. "This concept is totally different than what was accustomed to. Instead of doing an evaluation camp of 44 or whatever players they've done in the past and playing against each other, now you take your [32] guys and you go in there and you go in as one team. You have an opportunity to evaluate everyone within a team concept, where everyone is together, everyone is a group. You go in there, represent your country. It's summer exhibition games, but very meaningful games as far as players showcasing themselves and seeing where you're at and what you have.

"It doesn't matter if it's the true tournament or an exhibition, whenever you play another country, games are certainly more intense. We want to be an intense team, we want to be a team that's well-prepared, we want to be a quick team. This is going to give us an idea of what we have."

Sutter has one player from last year making the trip to Lake Placid: goaltender Jake Paterson, who was the third goalie on the team that finished fourth in Ufa, Russia; he never got into a game. Four other returnees will skate the first two days in Brossard: forwards Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin, and defensemen Griffin Reinhart and Morgan Rielly.

Sutter said the lack of returning players isn't something that affects him, citing his past experience of winning gold medals at the 2005 and 2006 World Juniors with groups that had different levels of experience.

"The 2005 team, we had 13 returning players from 2004 when they won the silver medal," he said of a roster that included Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Jeff Carter, Mike Richards and Dion Phaneuf. "You're sitting there and saying what fits best with those 13 key guys. ? In 2006 we had a completely new group. We had 21 new players, so you really had to evaluate what you had. The only returning guy was Cam Barker."

Paterson, a Detroit Red Wings draft pick, is one of three goalies who will travel to Lake Placid, along with Winnipeg Jets prospect Eric Comrie and Montreal Canadiens draft pick Zachary Fucale.

However, an invitation to the summer camp in no way means any of the three has locked down a trip to Sweden.

"You hope that two of those three guys will step up, but they've got to have real good first halves of the year," Sutter said of the upcoming season. "I don't want us to be selecting our goaltenders in August. What happens if they falter and don't play well in the first half of the year? ? These three guys are now in the starting blocks, but they have to run the race until December. They can't fail to run that. That's my mindset in selecting goaltenders."

He then cited another example from his past: "The goalies that came to camp in August [prior to the 2005 and 2006 tournaments], none of them were on our team in December."

The same goes for players at other positions.

"When everyone leaves here, they're going to understand that if they're going to play on the team what their role is going to be," Sutter said. "So when they go back, some of them are going to play much larger roles than they may if they're playing on the World Junior team, but we've got to be able to see, when we're evaluating them, when we're going through this process, that they're able to handle playing in those roles on the team.

"There's guys that are going to play on the third and fourth lines that are going to have to be checkers and good penalty killers, guys who on their club team might have played 20, 25 minutes a night, playing every power play, but on the World Junior team they might not be playing on the power play, they might be penalty killers. So you've got to find the right mix."

Included in that mix could be the two youngest players at the camp: Kootenay Ice center Sam Reinhart (17) and Erie Otters center Connor McDavid (16).

Reinhart is expected to be the first pick of the 2014 NHL Draft after an outstanding season in the WHL then captaining Canada to the gold medal at the 2013 IIHF World Under-18 Championship. McDavid, who made his debut in the Ontario Hockey League last season after being granted exceptional-player status from Hockey Canada, is expected to be the first pick at the 2015 NHL Draft. He's bidding to be the first 16-year-old to play on Canada's World Junior team since Crosby in 2004.

"These two players are elite-level players," Sutter said. "Where they fit in or what happens through it all is yet to be determined. These kids as young players, they're elite players. ? It's an elite tournament, and players like that, they come and they play well in it. I'm not too worried about that at all.

"To be quite honest, I'd be shocked if neither one of them was on the team just because of their skill sets and how good they are."

How good Canada is at the 2014 World Junior Championship remains to be seen, but Sutter is hopeful the changes that have come along with his return bring about past success.

"It's great to have change, as long as the change is for the right reasons," Sutter said. "? There's so much talk around the players and the staff and the team all the time about that end result, and that's what we have to get some of that focus off and focus in on the day-to-day things and what we're about and form our identity. That's what from Aug. 4 to Aug. 10 is going to be about. What are we going to be, how are we going to play, what type of players do we want to play with and how do we want to play."

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2014 CANADA NATIONAL JUNIOR CAMP ROSTER

GOALIES: Eric Comrie, Tri-City, WHL (Winnipeg); Zachary Fucale, Halifax, QMJHL (Montreal); Jake Paterson, Saginaw, OHL (Detroit)

DEFENSEMEN: Mathew Dumba, Red Deer, WHL (Minnesota); Matthew Finn, Guelph, OHL (Toronto); Dillon Heatherington, Swift Current, WHL (Columbus); Slater Koekkoek, Windsor, OHL (Tampa Bay); Darnell Nurse, Sault Ste. Marie, OHL (Edmonton); Michael Matheson, Boston College, HE (Florida); Joshua Morrissey, Prince Albert, WHL (Winnipeg); Derrick Pouliot, Portland, WHL (Pittsburgh); Ryan Pulock, Brandon, WHL (New York Islanders); *Griffin Reinhart, Edmonton, WHL (New York Islanders); *Morgan Rielly, Moose Jaw, WHL (Toronto); Damon Severson, Kelowna, WHL (New Jersey)

FORWARDS: *Jonathan Drouin, Halifax, QMJHL (Tampa Bay); Max Domi, London, OHL (Phoenix); Brendan Gaunce, Belleville, OHL (Vancouver); Frederik Gauthier, Rimouski, QMJHL (Toronto); Felix Girard, Baie-Comeau, QMJHL (Nashville); Bo Horvat, London, OHL (Vancouver); Charles Hudon, Chicoutimi, QMJHL (Montreal); Mark Jankowski, Providence, HE (Calgary); Scott Laughton, Oshawa, OHL (Philadelphia); Curtis Lazar, Edmonton, WHL (Ottawa); Brendan Leipsic, Portland, WHL (Nashville); Anthony Mantha, Val-d'Or, QMJHL (Detroit); Connor McDavid, Erie, OHL (2015 draft eligible); *Nathan MacKinnon, Halifax, QMJHL (Colorado); Sean Monahan, Ottawa, OHL (Calgary); Nicolas Petan, Portland, WHL (Winnipeg); Emile Poirier, Gatineau, QMJHL (Calgary); Sam Reinhart, Kootenay, WHL (2014 draft eligible); Ryan Rupert, London, OHL (Toronto); Kerby Rychel, Windsor, OHL (Columbus); Hunter Shinkaruk, Medicine Hat, WHL (Vancouver); Tom Wilson, Plymouth, OHL (Washington)

* -- taking part only in first two days of camp

Author: Adam Kimelman | NHL.com Deputy Managing Editor

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MJ Abbott in demand in golf and sport

Leading construction, drainage and water engineering contractor, MJ Abbott Limited, has commenced a major training ground development project for Aviva Premiership rugby club, London Irish.

Being built on a former golf course located close to the club's current Sunbury-on-Thames headquarters, London Irish's new centre of excellence will consist of five full-size rugby training pitches - one of which will be 3G - and 12 junior pitches.

The new state-of-the-art rugby training centre will occupy around 20 hectares of land on the former Hazelwood golf course, which closed in March this year.

Included within the ground development contract, secured by MJ Abbott following a competitive tender and interview process, is the demolition of the former golf clubhouse, cut and fill earthworks, installation of drainage and irrigation systems and the seeding and initial maintenance of the new pitches.

As part of the contract, MJ Abbott will also carry out complementary landscaping on the site including tree planting and the creation of a new lake and wetlands on land surrounding the training facility. Handover to London Irish is planned for summer 2014.

Continuing its work in the education sector with two projects for Balfour Beatty, the company has constructed, drained, re-soiled and seeded a football pitch and running track at Shoreham Academy in West Sussex and, at Midhurst Rother College, has constructed, drained and seeded two football pitches, a cricket wicket and outfield.

In Cheshire, the firm is engaged on a large landscaping scheme for a private client. The works comprise major cut and fill earthworks on open landscape, construction of two large lakes and streams, formal lawn areas and tree and hedge planting on the 25-acre site.

In golf, the firm's site teams have returned to a golf venue where they made their mark in previous years.

Following the company's reconstruction of greens and bunkers on the back nine at Royal Mid Surrey Golf Club's Outer Course in 2009, MJ Abbott has returned to the club to remodel the Outer Course's front nine green complexes, chipping greens, Taylor mounding and fairway bunkers.

Working to a design produced by McKenzie and Ebert within a project managed by Charles Henderson of Sports Agronomy Services, MJ Abbott will be replacing also the greens irrigation system as the contract proceeds.

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Miley Cyrus Writhes Around in New Big Sean Music Video

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Restored Ford estate in Ojai is no Edsel

Built for automaker Henry Ford's cousin William during the Great Depression, this Spanish Colonial Revival-style house features a garden courtyard. The home and grounds, designed for large-scale entertaining and gatherings, have undergone a four-year restoration.

Location: 1015 Amber Lane, Ojai 93023

Asking price: $8.95 million

Year built: 1929

Architect: Paul Revere Williams

Historical restoration: Kevin A. Clark

House size: Eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, 7,456 square feet

Lot size: 3.1 acres

Features: Mahogany-paneled library, four indoor fireplaces, butler's pantry, breakfast room, wood ceilings, early California tile, saltwater swimming pool, fountains, outdoor fireplace, rose garden, mature oaks, tangerine orchard, Mills Act property tax benefits

About the area: In the first half, 151 single-family homes sold in the 93023 ZIP Code at a median price of $455,000, according to DataQuick. That was a 1.1% price increase from the first half of last year.

Website: http://www.TheFordEstate.com

Agents: Rob Johnson, Rodeo Realty, (310) 710-2223, and Patty Waltcher, Coldwell Banker, (805) 340-3774

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As millions of Americans go gluten free, FDA sets the standard

Hostaria del Piccolo in Santa Monica serves spaghetti, penne and chocolate tortino without it. Dunkin' Donuts is developing a cinnamon-sugar doughnut free of the substance. There are even wedding cakes, hand soaps and toothpastes with barely a trace.

The ingredient non grata is gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye. It allows breads to rise and binds ingredients together. So ubiquitous is the stabilizing compound that it can be found in ice cream, ketchup and deli meats.

For the estimated 3 million Americans with celiac disease, a single bite of a food made with gluten can cause gastrointestinal distress that may take two weeks to resolve. But a growing number of Americans without the disease are shunning it too, believing it will help them with digestive issues, skin and respiratory problems, weight loss or "brain fog," or just improve their general health.

With one-third of Americans trying to avoid the protein, the "gluten free" label holds increasing cachet. On Friday, the federal government issued an official definition of that claim, bringing a measure of uniformity to a burgeoning industry.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, a food or other substance can be labeled "gluten free," "no gluten," "without gluten" or "free of gluten" if contains less than 20 parts per million of it. Manufacturers have until Aug. 5, 2014, to comply with the new definition.

Hillary Kane, operations director at the Celiac Disease Foundation in Woodland Hills, said the FDA action would greatly ease the lives of people with the autoimmune disorder.

"The entire community is elated," she said.

In announcing the definition, FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg said the agency's rule would "help people with this condition make food choices with confidence and allow them to better manage their health."

But the vast majority of beneficiaries will be those who have embraced a gluten-free lifestyle without an official medical diagnosis. (There are so many of them that "Saturday Night Live" poked fun at the fad in one of its fake commercials, describing it as a "made-up allergy that you invented just to get attention.")

For people without celiac disease, the medical benefits of dropping gluten are unproven. Yet for many people, going without gluten seems to be the natural next step after becoming vegetarian, then vegan. Celebrities have put it in the spotlight: Gwyneth Paltrow included gluten-free recipes in her cookbook, "It's All Good," and Chelsea Clinton's wedding cake was made without it.

Some parents believe their children's autism symptoms improved when they stopped eating gluten and casein (a protein found in milk products), though there's no scientific evidence to support their observations.

Even industry analysts have been surprised at the strength of the gluten-free claim, said Tom Vierhile, innovation insights director at Datamonitor Consumer, which tracks the introduction of new products into the U.S. market. So far this year, more than 18% of the new foods sold in stores make a gluten-free claim, the firm said. That's up from 11.5% in 2012 and 11.7% in 2011.

Just two weeks ago, the Whole Foods store in Mid-City Los Angeles rearranged its products to make room for a 39-foot aisle devoted to gluten-free products. Entire gluten-free stores have popped up, including Bite Market in Orange and Pam Mac D's Gluten-Free Market in Burbank.

A report from the Dallas-based research firm Markets and Markets said the global market for gluten-free food could reach $6.2 billion by 2018, with North America accounting for nearly 60% of that.

Health authorities estimate that 1 in 133 people have celiac disease, but that many of them are undiagnosed. A larger group of people may have an intolerance for gluten, a condition that's still not well understood.

In people with celiac disease, foods that contain gluten trigger production of antibodies that attack and damage the lining of the small intestine. Such damage limits the ability of celiac disease patients to absorb nutrients and puts them at risk of other very serious health problems, including nutritional deficiencies, osteoporosis, growth retardation, infertility, miscarriages, short stature and intestinal cancers.

Until a few years ago, bread bakers were among the few people who paid much attention to gluten.

The gluten-free life, however, is undeniably a diet du jour.

"The fad nature of it has ... put a lot of confusion out there," said Carol Shilson, executive director of the Celiac Disease Center at the University of Chicago.

As with so many nutrition fads, there's more than enough confusion to go around. How can chefs take people seriously when they demand a meal free of gluten but order cake for dessert?

Restaurants including the popular Susan Feniger's Street are getting "many more" calls for gluten-free dishes, said general manager Shireen Saugen. Dishes such as the grilled artichoke tossed in vinaigrette or the salmon tataki are good for people who don't eat gluten. And dishes such as the shaved kale and Brussels sprouts, usually served with bread crumbs, can be modified, she said.

Jessica Pantermuehl, an L.A.-based holistic nutrition counselor, said gluten is found in many unexpected places, making gluten-free shopping confusing for many people. The FDA regulation will help change that, she said.

"I think it is very helpful for people so they know what they're eating, so they don't have to dive into many hours of education to understand that gluten can be in hydrolyzed vegetable protein, for example," she said.

Indeed, gluten turns up in many processed foods that are not so obvious, including sauces, packaged entrees and flavorings. Alice Bast, founder and president of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness in Philadelphia, said a colleague recently ordered a Caesar salad in a restaurant before learning that the chicken in it contained barley malt ? something those with her diet call "being glutened." (Luckily, she discovered this before she took a bite.)

The FDA noted that its 20 ppm standard has been generally accepted by many food companies and third-party certifiers. As such, the regulation will separate out the food manufacturers who see gluten-free as a buzzword to sell their food but don't make sure their products comply, said Kane of the Celiac Disease Foundation.

Kane recalled the early days of the fat-free label, when produce aisles had signs for "fat-free grapefruit." She said she suspected shoppers could see signs on water or broccoli touting their lack of gluten ? if that might mean higher sales.

mary.macvean@latimes.com

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The GOP's solution to Obamacare? Nothing

This letter is in response to ?GOP needs to face reality, or else? (Column, July 30).

I could not agree more.?Republicans cannot successfully oppose Obamacare without proposing their own ideas for healthcare reform. But they won't, because they don't care about people who don't have insurance, they don't care about people with preexisting conditions. ?

Let the uninsured lose their savings to pay medical bills. Let them die prematurely. The Republicans don't think that's important. Most Republicans and their supporters have good health insurance themselves, so they have the "I've got mine, so I don't care about the rest of you" mentality.

Obamacare may have its problems, but at least it's an attempt to fix our broken healthcare system, and I'd rather give that a chance and tweak it where needed rather than go with what the Republicans are offering, which is nothing.?

? Roberta Wegner, Chicago

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U.S. issues global travel alert, cites al Qaeda threat

By Arshad Mohammed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday warning Americans that al Qaeda may be planning attacks in August, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa.

The State Department travel alert was based on the same intelligence information that prompted it to close 21 U.S. embassies or consulates this Sunday, chiefly those in the Muslim world, a U.S. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

"The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued potential for terrorist attacks, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula," its statement said.

"Current information suggests that al Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," it added, saying the travel alert would expire on August 31.

Among the most prominent of al Qaeda's affiliates is Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Yemen-based group whose attempted attacks included the Christmas Day 2009 attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

On Thursday, the State Department said U.S. embassies that would normally be open this Sunday - chiefly those in the Muslim world - would be closed that day because of security concerns.

On Friday, it said the embassies in the following countries will be closed: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

The consulates in Arbil, Iraq; Dhahran and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates will also be shut.

While the U.S. State Department routinely releases what it describes as a "Worldwide Caution" warning U.S. citizens of the general potential danger of attacks around the world, Friday's travel alert was based on more specific information, said one U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The previous "Worldwide Caution" was issued on February 19.

U.S. officials declined to provide additional details about the intelligence that led them to close the diplomatic missions and to issue the worldwide travel alert.

However, a second U.S. official said there was no information on a specific target, which was the reason for the broad alert.

The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, said on Friday that he and several other lawmakers met two days ago with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the threat.

"It's my understanding that it is al Qaeda-linked ... and the threat emanates in the Middle East and in Central Asia," Representative Royce said CNN's "New Day" program.

(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Susan Heavey, David Lawder, and Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-issues-global-travel-alert-cites-al-qaeda-162656366.html

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Two onto Alaska USA Federal Credit Union executive team

VICTORVILLE ? Alaska USA Federal Credit Union has announced two additions to its executive team ? Debbie Ingle and Brian Wolf.

Alaska USA has 58 operational branches throughout Alaska and Washington, as well as seven branches in California. Five of the seven California branches are in the Victor Valley, while the other two are in Barstow and Big Bear.

According to a news release from Alaska USA, Ingle has been hired as the executive director of mortgage and real estate lending. The release states that Ingle has 25 years of experience in mortgage lending, previously serving as the senior vice president and division manager for Green Point Mortgage.

Wolf has been hired as the executive director of retail financial services. Wolf has more than 15 years of experience in the financial services industry and has served as the senior vice president and district retail leader for KeyBank.

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A cheaper Moto X is coming for prepaid markets, according to Motorola's CEO

Thanks to a number of significant leaks, the Moto X was pretty much a known quantity even before it was officially unveiled; the major exception being the handset's pricing, which we now know is $199 on a two-year contract. Given its mid-range components, many had hoped the phone would sell for less, which was fueled in part by analysts targeting a price of $300 outright. Fortunately, if you're feeling miffed, there's good reason to turn your frown upside down. According to Motorola's CEO, Dennis Woodside, the company is keenly aware of the need for lower cost smartphones, especially within prepaid and emerging markets. In an interview with CNET, Woodside revealed that a less expensive handset is in the works, and curiously enough, it'll also carry the Moto X branding.

In Woodside's words, "We want everyone to have access to affordable smartphones." Further, "Moto X is the brand that we are most focused on... and there is more to come. You will see additional products within months." Whether the company can provide a low-cost option that's as compelling as the Lumia 620 or Nexus 4 remains to be seen, but you can rest easy in knowing that a cheaper Moto X is in the pipeline.

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Summertime in Paris plays with light and intimacy - Montreal Gazette

Ellipse CMCYCK, 2011-18, on display at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, was painted by Julie Trudel, winner of the $25,000 Plaskett award.

MONTREAL - Summertime in Paris is almost over, and an exhibition will soon close that features works by Julie Trudel, the artist who just won the $25,000 Plaskett award that will help her live in Berlin for a year.

But if you can catch the last day of Summertime at the Parisian Laundry, check out a couple other galleries in the area. Galerie Division and the Arsenal are not far away and the Global Art League is having its first show at the Montreal Art Centre.

All is light and bright at Summertime in Paris. Celia Perrin Sidarous arranges objects against a white background and photographs them as still lifes. They could be product shots for advertisers, except the objects are ambiguous.

Derrick Piens pieces together strips of painted wood veneer that resemble deformed and stitched-together Rubik?s cubes.

Down in the dark basement space is Olivia Boudreau?s film of a couple in a bathtub. Megan Bradley, the Parisian Laundry?s director of exhibitions, said Boudreau hired two actors unknown to each other to pose in the intimate space of a bathtub. It?s an uncomfortable intimacy; the man mechanically splashes water on the woman?s chest and even strokes her breast a few times. The woman smiles a bit uncertainly a couple times, but nothing breaks the uneasy silence.

Galerie Division is inside the Arsenal, which always has at least two exhibitions even with the departure of Galerie Ren? Blouin for Old Montreal. The long passageway to Division is a showcase for the Majudia collection.

The exhibition is a changing one, but the day I visited, works by Nicolas Baier, Fran?ois Lacasse, Daniel Richter, Marc S?guin, Dil Hildebrand and Evan Penny were on display. So was Maskull Lassere?s Four Foot Length, a maple bough carved in the middle to expose a skeletal spine.

Division is showing work by Michel de Broin, Sarah Anne Johnson and John Brown, a Toronto painter who makes black and white paintings with spots of colour tints.

Brown builds up layers of paint on wood panels and scrapes off most of it before applying more paint, Galerie director Dominique Toutant said. Scraping is so soothing to the artist that Brown paints to its recorded sound, Toutant said. The process of painting and scraping is repeated until an image develops.

Sarah Anne Johnson is an artist in the realm of relational esthetics. For the body of work shown in Arctic Wonderland, Johnson went on a polar expedition in a sailing vessel.

She added splashes of photo-retouching colour to her photographs, creating scenes of apparent fireworks in the sunlit midsummer polar nights, an artificial aurora borealis and unnecessary addition to a scene of stark beauty.

A couple blocks away, the Montreal Art Centre is exhibiting entries in its Global Art League competition. About 80 artists from around the world, including members who rent space in the art centre, are competing for $2,000 in prizes.

The art league is the brainchild of Allan Diamond, who founded the art centre and rents studio space to about 50 local artists. Their individual spaces are small but open, and half the building is common area, including a lounge and gallery.

Diamond said he painted as a youth, but stopped during his career in real estate and marketing. But in 1997, his wife gave him a box of paints, and he started taking art classes, where he realized the importance for artists to feel a sense of community.

Diamond decided to build his own art community in a building at the corner of William and des Seigneurs Sts. Some members are hobbyists, others are emerging professional artists, he said.

And there is Barry MacPherson, a long-time artist who does psychological portraits in an exacting, precise style.

MacPherson was almost alone in the building on a hot summer day, working on an oil painting with the words ?Push Back? inscribed. It?s time for people to stand up and push back, he said.

Standing up for oneself resonates throughout the artistic realm.

?To be a painter, you have to fight for it and be strident in your convictions,? said Landon Mackenzie, an artist who is represented by Art 45 and who co-ordinates the Plaskett award for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

That description certainly fits Trudel, the abstract painter who won the $25,000 national award for her painstaking experiments in pouring inks, drop by drop, to discover how colours combine with the physical qualities of paint to create an effect she likes.

Trudel understands that painting is a language, Mackenzie said in an interview. ?Julie is using digital and screen-based processes to build her own language that references and updates Quebec abstraction,? she said. ?She has a good sense of art history ? it both supports and challenges her.?

Hugues Charbonneau, whose gallery is currently showing the work of Trudel and three other artists, said Trudel addresses the mechanical and digital roots of contemporary images, up to how billboards are printed. Her abstract painting also refers to Claude Tousignant?s targets and Guido Molinari?s investigations into colour shifts, he said.

She exercises quality control over every aspect of her work, from the height and angles of how her work is hung, right down to the press release, Charbonneau said.

?She never turns off the idea machine.?

Point, line, plane, point, line, plane, point, line, plane, with work by Julie Trudel and others, continues until Aug. 8 at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, 372 Ste-Catherine St. W, Suite 308. Information: huguescharbonneau.com, julietrudel.ca and joeplaskett.com.

Summertime in Paris continues until Saturday, Aug. 3 at Parisian Laundry, 3550 St-Antoine St. W. Information: parisianlaundry.com.

An exhibition of works by Michel de Broin, John Brown and Sarah Anne Johnson continues until Aug. 31 at Galerie Division, 2020 William St. Information: galeriedivision.com.

The Global Art League exhibition of emerging and professional artists continues until Aug. 17 at the Montreal Art Centre, 1844 William St. Information: montrealartcentre.com.

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Taiwan orders more human vaccine as rabies returns

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ? Taiwan has ordered tens of thousands of vaccine doses to protect people against the island's first rabies outbreak in more than 50 years.

Health officials have struggled to contain the Taiwan outbreak since July 17, when a ferret badger in the southern part of the island was confirmed as rabid. Since then, 17 more ferret badger cases have been confirmed, and the case of a rabid Asian house shrew reported Wednesday indicates the disease is jumping species. No humans or dogs have yet been involved in the outbreak.

Health Minister Chiu-Wen-ta says the new human vaccine doses are expected to arrive Friday and will supplement some 3,000 in stock.

Health workers have been vaccinating animals in central and southern Taiwan to try to control the outbreak. The island currently has some 40,000 animal-use dosages in stock, with an additional half million expected by Aug. 20.

Rabies is a viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain in warm-blooded animals. It can spread from one species to another, usually through bites. If untreated, it is fatal.

Before last month, Taiwan's last reported rabies case was in 1959. A dog bit a farmer, whose wife became infected after washing the farmer's rabies-tainted clothing; the farmer himself did not contract the disease.

Now, the only jurisdictions world health officials consider rabies-free are Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, and Guam.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-orders-more-human-vaccine-rabies-returns-030309489.html

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Feds raid Crystal River Oil and Gas

BASALT, Colo. (AP) ? Federal agents with the FBI, IRS and Bureau of Land Management have served a search warrant at the offices of Crystal River Oil and Gas in Basalt.

IRS special agent Karen Gurgel said the action on Tuesday is part of a criminal investigation, but she did not elaborate.

Crystal River Oil and Gas operates 300 oil-and-gas producing wells in six states, with a focus on Texas and Oklahoma. It also has offices in California and wells in New Mexico.

The Aspen Daily News reports no one from the company could be reached for comment Tuesday and no arrests were made.

Source: http://www.abqjournal.com/228137/biz/feds-raid-crystal-river-oil-and-gas.html

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San Diego Forgot to Tell Mayor Filner Not to Sexually Harass Employees

As predicted, San Diego's City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to deny Mayor Bob Filner's request that the city cover his legal fees as he battles sexual harassment allegations from eight women. However, Filner's lawyer said in a letter today that the council might want to think twice about that decision, since his gross behavior is sort of their fault. The city canceled Filner's mandatory sexual harassment training and never rescheduled, and somehow he didn't get the training while serving 10 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives either. "Had the City provided mandatory sexual harassment training to Mayor Filner," explains attorney Harvey Berger, Filner's former communications director "may never have brought her lawsuit."

While the mayor admitted that he "failed to fully respect the women who work for me and with me, and that at times I have intimidated them," he's denying the allegations in Irene McCormack Jackson's lawsuit. "Not all behavior which is offensive is necessarily sexual harassment under California law," Berger notes. The letter continues:

While, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, many might argue that "you don't need a weatherperson to tell you which way the wind blows," and an adult male should not need sexual harassment training, I would point out that in his decades of public service for the people of San Diego as a U.S. Representative, Mayor Filner never received sexual harassment training. This is not an excuse for any inappropriate behavior which may have occurred, but having conducted sexual harassment training scores of times over the years, I have learned that many - if not most - people do not know what is and what is not illegal sexual harassment under California law. There is a very, very good reason for mandatory sexual harassment training; if nothing else, it makes people think about the subject, and how they interact with their fellow employees.?

The laws do vary by state, but just in case you spaced out during your company's hokey sexual harassment video, here are some good guidelines:? Forcibly kissing coworkers, asking them to remove their underwear, or putting them in a headlock and whispering sexual comments is generally frowned upon.

Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/filner-didnt-have-sexual-harassment-training.html

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