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Olathe, KS (PRWEB) September 23, 2005

Olathe, KS (PRWEB) September 21, 2005 ? Total Fitness Products, one of the online leaders in high performance fitness products, weight loss products, and fitness information is now offering one of the top nutritional supplement product lines in the industry, EAS.

?EAS is one of the most well-known nutritional supplement and weight loss product lines in the fitness industry,? says Brit Reid, CEO of Total Fitness Products. ?We are excited to include EAS?s full line of nutritional bars, protein shakes, creatine products, and much more.? EAS focuses on delivering products containing high quality nutrients to help athletes reach their overall fitness goals. Reid says that Total Fitness Products will initially provide a variety of EAS products such as creatine supplements, weight loss products, and protein bars, but will also offer EAS?s carb blocker and fat burner products in the near future.

Total Fitness Products is located at the online store: http://www.totalfitnessproducts.com

About Total Fitness Products:

Based in Olathe, KS, just outside of Kansas City, Total Fitness Products provides name-brand fitness and weight loss products and the latest fitness information for anyone interested in improving their overall health and fitness status. The company?s primary objective is to provide individuals with industry-leading products and information to help reach their fitness goals in order to lead a more productive and healthy lifestyle. Total Fitness Products sells a variety of name-brand products from Met-Rx, Labrada, Optimum Nutrition, and more.

About EAS:

Experimental and Applied Sciences, Inc. EAS, is located in Golden, CO and manufactures high quality nutrition products and exercise gear.

SOURCE Total Fitness Products, LLC

Web Site: http://www.totalfitnessproducts.com

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Apple has just announced its line up for the annual iTunes Festival. The event which first started in 2007 has been hugely popular as all of the tickets are given away free of charge. The live concerts all take place at London?s The Roundhouse and it all kicks off on September 1st and goes on until September 30th.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Army leaders said Wednesday they are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder following recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly overturned.

The Army said it will review the diagnoses at all of its medical facilities going back to October 2001. And top Army leaders said they will develop a plan to correct any decisions or policies necessary to make sure that soldiers are receiving the care and treatment they deserve.

The latest reviews were triggered by revelations that the forensic psychiatry unit at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state may have reversed diagnoses based on the expense of providing care and benefits to members of the military.

Over the past several years, the U.S. military has seen a dramatic spike in the number of PTSD and traumatic brain injury cases as the long and deadly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dragged on. The services have struggled to find better ways to monitor their troops, identify the often invisible wounds and beef up treatment both at the battlefront and when they return home.

“We owe it to every soldier to ensure that he or she receives the care they need and deserve,” said Army Secretary John McHugh, adding that the Army “must ensure that our processes and procedures are thorough, fair and conducted in accordance with appropriate, consistent medical standards.”

The Army review will also scrutinize how well soldiers can participate in the system that assesses their ability to receive medical retirements, including whether the appeal process is adequate and whether any nonmedical factors may affect the diagnosis.

There is also a system-wide review being done by the Army inspector general to determine if psychiatrists overturn PTSD diagnoses to save money. The evaluations are the key first step in determining soldiers’ disability benefits.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who heads the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said this is the Army’s opportunity to correct the mistakes of the past and ensure that veterans and their families don’t need to “wade through an unending bureaucratic process to get proper access to care.”

“The bottom line is that the Army needs to fix the inconsistencies we have seen in diagnosing the invisible wounds of war,” Murray said. “Out of this review, the Army needs to provide a uniform mental health policy so that service members are given the care they need.”

According to Murray, more than 40 percent of the cases since 2007 that involved candidates for retirement had been overturned. During a recent Senate hearing, she said that of the 1,680 patients screened at Madigan, more than 690 had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The psychiatric team there reversed more than 290 of those diagnoses.

On Wednesday, she said that so far, based on the review at Madigan, more than 100 service members have had their PTSD diagnosis returned.

The new Army review will be led by Joseph Westphal, undersecretary of the Army, and Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, the vice chief of staff.

Army officials say soldiers sent to war may be checked up to five times, including before being deployed, during combat, once they return home and six months and a year later. Every soldier returning from deployment completes what the Army calls a post-deployment health assessment and a face-to-face interview with a mental health professional. The Army screens soldiers for depression and PTSD, asking questions to find out about any social stressors, sleep disruption and other problems. Those who are detected as having problems go on to a second phase of screening.

Officials say, however, that no test is considered diagnostically definitive for mental illness in general or PTSD in particular.

More than 134,900 Army personnel were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries between 2000 and 2011. Of those, 75 percent, or more than 100,000, were diagnosed as having a mild or regular concussion. Army policy calls for every service member involved in a blast, vehicle crash or a blow to the head to be medically evaluated.

Associated Press

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Google’s Picasa (free) continues to impress with the smoothness with which it lets you import, organize, and perfect your digital photos. I’ve praised the app in the past for its leading integration with its online component, Picasa Web Albums in previous reviews, but since the advent of Google Plus, the clarity of this integration has become muddied somewhat, with a new emphasis on Google Plus, which unfortunately comes at the expense of sharing to places more people care about: Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. Despite that one self-inflicted injury, Picasa is still a great photo app (and basic video editor), and the new version adds a bunch of clever new effects, thanks to Google’s purchase of (and shuttering of) the much-loved Picnik online photo editor.

As a standalone photo editing and organizing app, Picasa remains one of the best free options you can choose. Its face recognition, geo-tagging, effects, and text overlay tools are class-leading, as is the ease of using these them. Some have called into question Google’s continuation of Picasa as a desktop app, though, so you may have to get it while you can. One piece of evidence for this is the new Creative Kit, an online photo editor that bears a family resemblance to Picnik. For now, though, let’s tour what you get in this standout piece of software.

Signup and Setup
Google recently abandoned Picasa for Linux, with the last Linux version at 3 (and that’s labeled “beta”), so none of the updates discussed here apply to that OS. The current version runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X (Intel only). The small 14.5MB Windows installer downloaded in a jiffy, though after installation it takes up 63MB on your hard drive. Note that the installer tries to switch your browser search engine to Google if you’re using Bing, Yahoo, or another default search.

When you first run the app, you’ll get only one choice: whether to use Picasa as your default photo viewer. Then along the lower-right side of your screen, you’ll notifications as all the photos in all the likely folders on your computer are sucked into Picasa’s database. In earlier versions, the initial run also asked whether you wanted Picasa just to scan your My Picture, My Documents, and Desktop folders or you whole computer for any added photos, but now it makes that choice for you, picking the former. On Windows, you’ll see your iCloud Photo Stream if you’ve got that set up on your iPhone or iPad, but Picasa doesn’t support iCloud on the Mac.

Interface
Picasa 3.9′s interface remains largely similar to its preceding versions. Folders on your computer are shown in a panel on the left, as are entries for Albums, People, Projects. The folders are organized by year and sorted in chronological order. Buttons at lower-right let you show People, Places, tags, or photo info in a right panel. At center bottom are the buttons that let you share to Google Plus, email, export, star, or quick rotate. A neat little touch is the animated star that flies up and spins when you start a photo. At lower-left is a tray that helpfully lets you pick photos to work on temporarily. A new side-by side comparison view helps in choosing the best of a pair of images or edited versus un-edited.

Once you click into a folder, you’ll get the shuttle control on the right instead of the standard scrollbar you see when you’re in an album. I previously thought this shuttle was a nifty interface innovation, but now it just seems inconsistent within the program. Oddly, when working in the Recently Updated auto-Album, Picasa wouldn?t let me scroll to the bottom of the photo set, though I could see more thumbnails peeking up from below the window edge.

After I clicked into a photo, Picasa’s editing tools appeared in a left panel, with a couple new additions. Now there are five tabs here, where formerly there were three. The new ones are for effects presumably brought over from Picnik. I still like the easy rotate and view zooming choices below the photo view, as well as the histogram. I could also show full EXIF info in the right panel. Nice clear buttons let you Undo any effects you’ve applied. And adding a caption (which will be transferred to the online gallery) was easy as pie from the space below the image.

Importing and Organizing
A prominent Import button gets you started, and Picasa helpfully adds a choice to the Autoplay dialog that pops up when you insert camera memory into your computer. Groups of shot thumbnails are grouped in the import dialog by time periods, similar to the Events in Apple iPhoto ($14.99, 4 stars), and you can see larger previews of the photos you’re about to import on the right side of the window. To its credit, Picasa had no trouble importing camera raw files from my Canon DSLR?Windows Live Photo Gallery (Free, 4 stars) requires a codec installation for this, while iPhoto is equally adept out of the box. You can star or reject photos even before import, but you can’t apply tags or preset edits to the group, as you can in many other photo apps. Windows Live Movie Maker lets you rate with one to five stars as opposed to Picasa’s simple on or off star, but the single star will suffice for most users. You can also apply effects in batch, or even copy multiple adjustments from one image and apply them to a selected group.

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Considering what a staple Brangelina has become in our pop culture, it’s hard to believe that only a decade ago Angelina Jolie was actually half of Angelly Bob (or Billygelina, if you prefer). The actress was married to Billy Bob Thorton from 2000 to 2003 and, in a new interview airing Wednesday night (11:35 p.m.) on ABC’s Nightline (via E! Online), Thornton admits that he "blew it" with his fifth wife.

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