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Given his history with the organization, it?s more than reasonable to believe the Buccaneers would have continued to give Ronde Barber a job.

But without a clearly defined or significant role, it was easier for Barber to decide to retire yesterday.

Barber admitted as much to Mike Garafolo of USA Today, saying the Buccaneers? offseason additions left little for him to contribute to the process.

?Now don?t get me wrong, if [GM] Mark [Dominik] and [coach] Greg [Schiano] would?ve said, ?Hey, we absolutely need you to play, you played great last year, here?s X amount of dollars, come play, we need you?? That wasn?t necessarily the case,? Barber said. ?They?re reshaping that football team. You?re spending a quarter of a billion in free agents in two years, they?re definitely going in a new direction.

?But that wasn?t a factor. I?ve had that conversation with Mark the past couple of years about them needing to sign guys for the future and put players on this team again. Let?s be honest, we have a hard time drawing [fans] in this town, so those additions for us are almost essential.?

Over the last two offseasons, the Bucs made aggressive moves to replace Barber in the secondary, signing free agent cornerback Eric Wright and drafting safety Mark Barron last year, then signing safety Dashon Goldson, trading for cornerback Darrelle Revis and drafting Johnthan Banks this year.

That would have left him with a small role as a backup, and that was going to be hard to accept. Barber said if he had a starting job, he might have returned.

?Possibly. That would?ve made it a little bit harder of a decision, obviously,? Barber said. ?But that wasn?t the case. They wanted me to play, I don?t doubt that at all. I had open lines of communication with Mark the past couple of years about continuing to play.

?At the end, it was me deciding I didn?t need football as much as I once did and it was time to venture into a new thing.?

That new thing will be on television, though he didn?t say where he planned to work or what he planned to do for them.

But in the end, a career that included 240 straight regular season games, 47 interceptions, 14 touchdowns on returns, over 1,000 tackles and a Super Bowl ring makes it easier to step into the next phase of his career.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/05/08/santonio-says-sanchez-is-the-starter-in-new-york/related/

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News in Brief: Gut bacteria adapt to life in bladder

E. coli moving between systems may cause urinary tract infections

E. coli moving between systems may cause urinary tract infections

By Meghan Rosen

Web edition: May 9, 2013

The culprits in recurrent urinary tract infections may be hardy strains of E. coli.

These bacteria have gained the power to hop between the bladder and gut and thrive in the two very different environments a team of scientists reports in the May 8 Science Translational Medicine.

By monitoring levels of microbes in the gut, doctors might be able to catch the bacteria before they travel to the urinary tract, the team suggests.

Scientists knew that gut bacteria that infect the bladder adapt to their new (and usually sterile) environment. Unlike microbes in the gut, bladder-based bacteria use sticky nubs to cling to the organ?s walls and take cover from antibiotics by clumping together and ducking inside individual bladder cells. But researchers thought these lifestyle tweaks would prevent the bacteria from living in the gut.

By analyzing urine and fecal matter from four women with recurrent bouts of urinary tract infections, Jeffrey Gordon of Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues instead found that the same bacteria could survive in both the gut and the bladder. A closer look at one such bug revealed that the strain excelled at finding food in both places and had the equipment to attach to and travel between locations.

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Fungus in Capri Sun? Yes, but so what?

Yes, scientists found five types of fungus in Capri Sun beverages after consumers reported finding mats of mold in the popular kids' drinks. But they're mostly harmless.

By Rachael Rettner,?MyHealthNewsDaily.com / May 2, 2013

Five types of fungus have been identified in the popular kids' juice drink Capri Sun, researchers say.

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The study was spurred by reports of consumers finding mold ? mats of fungus consisting of millions of cells ? in the drink.

While the findings have an "ick" factor, the fungi probably aren't harmful to most people, said study researcher Kathleen Dannelly, associate professor microbiology at Indiana State University. Fungi are all around us ? in the soil, air, and even on our skin and inside our digestive tract ? but they are generally kept in check by our immune systems.

"Probably, those of us with healthy immune systems, we could even eat that, and that wouldn?t be a problem," Dannelly said, referring to the fungal mats in Capri Sun.

However, for people with compromised immune systems, such as those with AIDS, leukemia or cystic fibrosis, fungus exposure may be a health concern, Dannelly said.

For instance, the fungus Aspergillus is found in air, and most people breathe it in without problems.

Kraft, which manufactures Capri Sun, acknowledges that mold can grow in the drink, but says such reports are not common.

"Since there are no preservatives in our drinks, mold can grow, especially in a leaking pouch," Kraft says on its Capri Sun frequently asked questions website.

During the manufacturing process, the drinks are heated to temperatures that exceed those used for pasteurization. But punctures in the products' package ? even microscopic ones ? can allow air inside the package, and mold to grow, Kraft says. Fungi need oxygen to grow, Dannelly said.

Capri Sun packages have a shelf life of about a year. The company urges consumers to discard leaking or damaged packages.

In the new study, the researchers filtered Capri Sun through filter paper, and then checked whether any microorganisms were left behind on the paper. The juice contained just a few fungal cells, which grew in laboratory dishes.

Dannelly said if this experiment was done on any juice after it was opened and left in the refrigerator, she would expect both fungus and bacteria to grow.

In a second experiment, the researchers, including Leah Horn, an undergraduate biology major, punctured Capri Sun packages with a sterile needle to mimic damage to the product. When left in a sterile environment for three weeks, fungal mats grew in the juice.

A problem with Capri Sun is that the packages are not see-through, so unlike mold on bread or cheese, consumers can't tell when Capri Sun goes bad.

Kraft said it tried creating clear packages for Capri Sun, but stopped making the packages after it created manufacturing problems.

The company said it will not add preservatives to the product because their customers don't want this. Preservatives give food a longer shelf life, but some, such as the preservative nitrite, have been linked to an increased risk of certain cancers.

Dannelly said there are some natural preservatives, such as citric acid, which are not harmful and could be added to the product (although it would make the product more acidic).

"If you're going to have a package you can't see through, I think you need to do something," Dannelly said.

The study has not yet been published in a peer reviewed journal, but the researchers plan to submit the work for publication.

Pass it on: Five types of fungus have been found in Capri Sun, but they are likely not harmful.

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Iron Man 3 Review: More Human, Less Soul

The third Iron Man could have been one of two movies. It could have gone on a light and self-referential victory lap of the Ocean?s Thirteen variety. Or it could have decided that after two outings?one great, the other basically good enough?we had enough foundation with the characters to really dig in. Either might have worked, but it tried to be both. And didn't quite pull it off.

Some spoilers ahead, obviously.

Let's just make one thing clear: Iron Man 3 is incredibly entertaining. It knows exactly the beats it wants to hit, and generally, crams in all the raw materials of a genuine action opus. But it never quite builds up to itself. Too many of its parts aren't connected to anything; many plot points seem to have been discarded entirely (there's a whole excursion to Tennessee that leaves you feeling like 20 minutes is missing), while others are brought up, and only returned to once, briefly, as an afterthought, in the final act or epilogue. It has the effect of making the movie seem somehow both too long and in a hurry.

Some of those pacing changes might stem from who's behind the camera; while the first two Iron Man movies were directed by John Favreau, Iron Man 3 has Shane Black at the helm. Black made his name writing action movies like the Lethal Weapon series and Last Action Hero, and his impact can be felt in not just the structure but also the tone. There?s noticeable shift in how the movie?s humor works, even when it?s telling the same jokes as the first two. It?s a different movie, and in more ways than just, ?Shane Black writes haha-funny.?

The plot of this Iron Man will be vaguely familiar to anyone who kept up with the "Extremis" or Ezekiel Stane storylines from the comics; Tony has to face down an international terrorist threat in the form of a group using a highly volatile biological injections to bomb the world.

The charm of the first two Iron Man movies (and the first more than the second) is that they were working on their own schedule. They were action movies, for sure, but part of what made them work is that they were really telling relatively small stories?by superhero standards?on a grand and explode-y scale. Look back at those plots. Not much happens, really, but they moved so methodically from scene to scene that you always knew what was happening, and why. Here, you often get the sense that the action moves from scene to scene because Shane Black wrote a good joke for Tony?s workshop, and hey, shouldn?t we have an early scene in there anyway?

To Black's credit, this doesn't amount to much of a negative. Iron Man 3 is still fun.

The performances are what you expect from the cast by now. Robert Downey Jr. totally, absolutely, symbiotically is Tony Stark, and two hours of him chewing on scenery as the character would be more than enough reason see this movie. The supporting cast is on point, as well; while some scenes that start out with a very ?I?m getting too old for this shit? vibe, Don Cheadle and Gwyneth Paltrow and others actually manage to achieve genuine emotion and affection before the film dips back into schtick.

And oh, what schtick there is. While the first two films largely let Downey quip his way through scenes, this one takes out whole blocks to tell one joke, which itself is often not much more than a riff on jokes from the first two movies. Iron Man 3 is at its best, though, when it?s zipping around, streamlined, sprinkling zingers through its actually fairly compelling plot instead of slamming on the brakes for a punchline.

There?s smart here, too. At the very least, the movie has an intelligent take on the modern movie bad guy. Ben Kingsley as the Mandarin is totally convincing as a global terrorist, but we see so little of him through the first two-thirds of the film that by the time we get real time with Kingsley?who, again, is a delight?he feels secondary. The real shame, though, is that he and Guy Pearce, the other villain, never really has a chance to step into what should be meaty role.

One of the reasons that the first film worked so well was that the actual tension was between Tony Stark and his past, not some random drummed-up bad guy; the actual villain plot was didn't matter nearly as much as Stark's internal struggles. IM2 didn?t pull quite the same trick, but it gave Mickey Rourke plenty of time to do nothing but sit in a room and build his character, to help make us care. Here, despite a clever twist, the villains never seem driven by much more than wanting money or power. That's fine, but it's also stale in a way that Iron Man shouldn't be.

Ultimately, Iron Man 3 amounts to a very good buddy copy movie with excellent?but not awe-inspiring?visuals. The stakes and even the location seem off from what you?re used to from the series. The last scenes from the first movies had plenty of problems, but they were basically everyday conflicts (a corporate power struggle, an old business rivalry) played out on a gigantic and futuristic stage. It gave them meaning, even if the action mostly fell flat. Here, you?ve got a grand plot (Look, it?s the President!), but the principles of the infinitely better staged action are empty suits and faceless superpowered grunts. The movie is much more concerned with its cast as humans than its predecessors, especially in the fight scenes, but somehow loses track of their humanity in the process. Even when it builds to its emotional kicker in the final scene?a riff lifted straight from a Lethal Weapon final act, mind you?Iron Man 3 doesn?t stop to take a beat to let it set in. It?s just right back to robot fights.

That final scene, teased in the trailers with every Iron Man suit in existence showing up on command, serves as a pretty good glance at the film as a whole. Fun, elaborately and expertly choreographed, with all the objectively exciting bits?in this case, all that armor?added to excess, but adding up to something that's ultimately disposable.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/iron-man-3-review-more-human-less-soul-489345201

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Protecting our Families: How the U.S. Falls Short in Protecting New ...

Last weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at the National Convention for American Mothers, Inc. about motherhood in the 21st Century. ?Because this is such a vital issue for mothers that live in the U.S. (since a large majority of families have two full-time wage earners), I thought it would be appropriate to share my speech here. ?With the understanding that this a forum for feminism, I believe that this topic fits this forum because it continues to show how unequal the treatment is between the sexes ? whether it is pay, position in employment, healthcare, education, or simply balancing the responsibilities of family/career. ?For those that live in the United States, there is often a sense of exceptionalism, and as I clearly demonstrate in this speech, we are certainly a far cry from being role models that when it comes to protecting mothers (whether by birth or adoption) and families.

As a side note: ?One topic that was not explored, due to lack of data, is how maternity/paternity leave impacts same sex couples who become new parents ? I have to believe that this is a topic to also examine (and I am would encourage any feedback here). ?

Recently the United States ranked 25 out of 165 countries for being the best place to live if you are a mother.? This number is up from 31 a year ago and places us between Belarus and the Czech Republic.

You may be asking yourself, Why isn?t the United States in the top five or even in the top ten? The answer to that question becomes evident once we examine how that determination is made. The categories examined are:

• The Election of women to government office;

• Breast feeding programs.? In the United States 75% of mothers breastfeed their babies, 35% continue to breastfeed after six weeks. The number shrinks because mothers usually return to work and find it difficult to to pump at the office;

• Maternal death rate is another factor, which stunned me when I found out that the US has the highest maternal death rate of any industrialized nation. Approximately 1 in 2,100 women are at risk of dying during child birth;

• Infant death rates is another category.? Infant deaths are estimated to be 8 per 1000 births ? a number that throws us behind 40 other countries;

• The final item is maternity leave benefits for mothers working outside the home. This seems to be one of the biggest problems.?? That is why I think it is important to take a closer look at this issue with the hope of educating ourselves so we can perpetuate change.