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ATLANTA – The Georgia Lottery Corporation's Million-Dollar Hoopla promotion passed through Lenox Square in Atlanta, giving a lucky player the chance to win $1 million. Frank Belcastro, 45, sank the most free throws to win a trip to the Grand Prize Million-Dollar Hoopla Event, which will be held at the Atlanta Hawks game on April 1. Cheered on by former Atlanta Hawks great Dominique Wilkins, Mr. Belcastro sank eight free throws in 30 seconds at the final Million-Dollar Hoopla Regional Qualifying Event. "It was the thrill of a lifetime," says Mr. Belcastro, who lives in Buckhead, Ga. on Lake Oconee. "I can't believe it." To prepare for the qualifying event, Mr. Belcastro shot hoops for three days. He says that he will continue practicing to get ready for the Grand Prize event. Mr. Belcastro, who owns Thoroughbred Automotive Group in Buckhead, Ga., plans to invest if he wins the $1 million grand prize. Million-Dollar Hoopla is an exciting promotion held in conjunction with the popular instant game $100 Million Cash Spectacular. Georgia Lottery players were able to enter a second chance drawing for the opportunity to win $1 million. From the second chance drawing, contestants were chosen to participate in 10 regional free throw basketball events around the state – including Saturday's event at Lenox Square. From the 10 regional events, the contestant who makes the highest number of free throws at each event will travel to Atlanta for the Grand Prize Million-Dollar Hoopla Event. One of the 10 lucky finalists will have a chance to win $1 million. $100 Million Cash Spectacular tickets went on sale on Feb. 1. The game and promotion were launched at Philips Arena with the support of Atlanta Hawks/Thrashers owners Michael Gearon and Rutherford Seydel along with Wilkins. After two exciting months, the promotional events will culminate at Philips Arena with the Grand Prize Million-Dollar Hoopla Event. $100 Million Cash Spectacular has 20 $1 million top prizes and the highest payout percentage in Georgia Lottery history. To date, Georgia Lottery players have won more than $119 million playing $100 Million Cash Spectacular with eight $1 million top prizes claimed. Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned over $7.2 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs. These include Georgia's HOPE scholarship program; a statewide, voluntary pre-kindergarten program for four-year-olds; and a wide range of technological and capital upgrades for the state's schools, technical institutes, colleges, universities and public libraries. Play Responsibly – It's All About Fun! CONTACT:
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Authentix's technology spots fake fuel and drugs—and could help millions of poor people.
The problem is about basic economics: Each month, the Indian government ships about a billion liters of deeply subsidized kerosene for hundreds of millions of people to use for cooking and heating. But about a third of the supply is stolen by gangs who mix it with diesel to sell to gas stations, which resell the fuel for big profits.
This 15-year-old phenomenon hurts the poor and costs the government as much as $5 billion annually in lost revenue. So last fall, India began rolling out an ambitious solution—using nano-scale chemistry to detect the stolen fuel. "The economic incentive [to cheat] is what we're trying to remove," says Pramod Nangia, director of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
India's partner is Authentix, a Dallas-based nano-engineering company. Authentix already marks 48% of the branded fuel supply in the United States, and also does authentication work for tobacco, consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals. The company claims to have saved clients in those industries $3 billion since its founding in 2003. "We use technology to provide information on who's cheating and who's not," says CEO David Moxam. "It's a little like watching CSI."
How it works: Before the kerosene is distributed, it's injected with molecule-sized "markers" at a rate of a few parts per billion. The markers can't be detected by chemical analysis—but they can be by field testers using Authentix's handheld equipment, which spots impurities as low as 1%. So even small amounts of stolen fuel mixed with diesel show up.
Authentix says it will be up to a year before it has hard results on its impact on corruption. Meanwhile, it's starting on the next big crisis: counterfeit prescription drugs in Africa, which leave millions of sick people with the wrong medicine—or none at all. Authentix has already developed an organic molecular marker, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, that can be injected into authentic drugs to distinguish them from fakes. Commercial versions may start appearing within 18 months. Authentix is ramping up plans to coordinate with African governments, learning from its experience with India. Says Moxam: "It's this concept of fiscal transparency that's meaningful." And good medicine for curing social ills.
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Counterfeit drugs account for 60% of all pharmaceuticals sold in developing nations.
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Monday, June 09, 2008
Portals, continued
It wasn't all that early, but the light was just beginning to pour in from the raising sun as I tried to get more pictures of the tachi cauaçu tree (Tripolaris sp.) Since I didn't get good pictures of the tachi ants, I consider this to be my best shot of the day. I remember this tree from a young sapling when it was less than two meters high. It must be at least five meters high now. The greatest concentration of ants is always in the top branches and the new leaves. It would be interesting to know how many individuals make this tree their home. Hundreds of thousands, for sure.
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Like a lot of Florida cities, Homestead officials pinned their hopes for a brighter economic future on baseball.
They spent $22-million on a 6,700-seat spring training stadium to lure the Cleveland Indians from Tucson, Ariz. The team signed a 22-year contract and planned to start playing in the salmon-colored stadium in early 1993.
But the Indians never got a chance to use it: Andrew rendered the new ballpark unusable.
Because Homestead officials believed it was so important to the city's economic recovery, they rebuilt the ballpark before many other public facilities.
They even had crews working overtime to get the stadium ready for a 1993 exhibition game between the Indians and the Florida Marlins.
Cleveland's response: No thanks.
"The Indians reneged on the contract," said city marketing director Charles LaPradd.
The Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles had an exhibition game there in 1994, and there was some college spring training, but that was it. Meanwhile, the city spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on upkeep.
Finally, Hollywood came calling. In 1999, director Oliver Stone used the stadium as a football training facility for his movie Any Given Sunday.
And this year, a New York-based television production company leased the stadium for a year for more than $200,000 to shoot 13 episodes of a new HBO drama series, Baseball Wives. The show is set around the fictional Miami Kings baseball team.
One reason producers liked the Homestead stadium: it has no tenant and no scheduled games to work around.
From the state wire Hurricane Jeanne appears on track to hit Florida's east coast Rumor mill working overtime after Florida hurricanes Developments associated with Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne Four killed in Panhandle plane crash were on Ivan charity mission Hurricane Frances caused estimated $4.4 billion in insured damage Disabled want more handicapped-accessible voting machines USF forces administrators to resign over test score changes Man's death at Universal Studios ruled accidental State child welfare workers in Miami fail to do background checks Hurricane Jeanne heads toward southeast U.S. coast Hurricane Jeanne spurs more anxiety for storm-weary Floridians Mistrial declared in case where teen was target of racial "joke" Panhandle utility wants sewer plant moved to higher ground State employee arrested on theft, bribery charges Homestead house fire kills four children, one adult Pierson leader tries to cut off relief to local fern cutters Florida's high court rules Terri's law unconstitutional Jacksonville students punished for putting stripper pole in dorm FEMA handling nearly 600,000 applications for help Man who killed wife, niece, self also killed mother in 1971 Producer sues city over lead ball fired by Miami police Tourism suffers across Florida after pummeling by hurricanes Key dates in the life of Terri Schiavo An excerpt from the unanimous ruling in the Schiavo case Four confirmed dead after small plane crash in Panhandle Correction: Disney-Cruise Line story


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's family laws would reflect the legality of same-sex marriage under a bill headed to the governor's desk.
SB1306 passed the state Assembly on a 51-11 vote Monday.
The bill removes language from the family code that says marriage must be "between a man and a woman" and substitutes gender-neutral language throughout. The bill also would remove limits on recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages.
Democratic Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco says his bill brings California law in line with court rulings allowing same-sex marriage to resume last year.
The California Supreme Court struck down language limiting marriage to heterosexuals in 2008. Voters responded with Proposition 8 amending the state constitution, but a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that ruling in 2013.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross Varsity Club has
announced that six individuals have been selected for induction
into the Holy Cross Athletic Hall of Fame. Included among the 2010
inductees is former men's lacrosse player John Vrionis (Class of
Vrionis was a letterwinner on both the football and men's
lacrosse teams during his time at Holy Cross. On the gridiron, he
won two letters while catching 39 career passes for 570 yards and
seven touchdowns. Vrionis' top year came during his senior
season, when he led the team with 511 receiving yards and 42 points
scored. He was also a member of teams which scored victories over
Boston College (32-26 in 1966) and Yale (26-14 in 1967, the
Bulldogs' only loss of the season). In lacrosse, Vrionis led
the team in scoring as a senior with 47 points on 36 goals and 11
assists. He scored eight goals against Worcester Polytechnic
Institute on April 13, 1968, to set a school single-game record
which still stands. Vrionis was also selected to play in the United
States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association North-South College
All-Star Game following the conclusion of his senior season.
This year's other inductees are Lee Hendrickson (Class of 1992,
soccer), Tom Kelleher (Class of 1988, football), Lynn Liberatore
(Class of 1995, cross country, track & field), Patrick
Rissmiller (Class of 2002, ice hockey) and Dr. James Walsh (Class
of 1952, honorary).
These six individuals will be formally inducted into the Athletic
Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 8, at the Varsity Club's annual
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November 23, 2011
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Simon Curtis
MPAA Rating: R (for some language)
Screenwriter: Adrian Hodges
Starring: Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, Dougray Scott, Toby Jones, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, Simon Russell Beale, Dominic Cooper, Geraldine Somerville, Eddie Redmayne, Julia Ormond, Philip Jackson
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Official website: MyWeekwithMarilynmovie.com
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In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl." The film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams), who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Aurthur Miller (Dougray Scott). Nearly 40 years on, his diary account "The Prince, the Showgirl and Me" was published, but one week was missing and this was published some years later as "My Week with Marilyn" – this is the story of that week. When Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for Colin to introduce Marilyn to some of the pleasures of British life; an idyllic week in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from her retinue of Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.


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Hull Zero Three | |||||||
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A review by Steven Brandt
The story begins with a fully grown man being literally birthed from a placental sack. The man, known only
as Teacher, emerges from his cocoon into utter chaos. The ship is dark and freezing cold and there are
dead bodies all around him. He has only the vaguest memory of who he is and what he is supposed to be doing,
but he knows right away that this is not right. Teacher is only saved from freezing to death by a little
girl who seems to know what she is doing as she leads him to a warmer compartment. And so Teacher's
journey begins. He soon learns that Ship has been badly damaged, although he does not know how or why.
He knows that he was not supposed to come out of hibernation until Ship reached its destination, but
his first view out of an observation port tells him that this has not happened. When he catches a
glimpse of the ice rock to which Ship is tethered, he can see that the planetoid is much too large; most
of it would have been used up by the time the journey was complete. Teacher is also discovering that
each new thing he sees, and each new situation he experiences unlocks more memories from his confused
mind. As Teacher and his young companion make their way through the damaged Ship, they meet up with other
passengers, some friendly, some not, and none quite human. They are all suffering from fragmented
memories, just like Teacher, but little by little they begin to piece together what happened.
They learn that Destination Guidance, the crew responsible for locating a suitable planet for
colonization, suffered a schism within its ranks. The schism erupted into all-out war, with one
faction trying to complete the mission, and the other trying to abort. Teacher and his new companions
must fight to stay alive as they piece together what caused the split. Then they will face a
monumental decision as they unravel the secrets behind Ship's true mission.
Hull Zero Three is Greg Bear's entry to the generation-spanning, space-ark branch of
science-fiction, and it's a doozy! Imagine three twelve kilometer long ships and a moon of ice, all
rocketing through the universe at twenty percent light speed. The author throws a nice little twist
into this one, answering the moral question: What if the planet selected for colonization is already
inhabited? Bear never does anything small, does he?
The story is told entirely from the perspective of Teacher, who is unable to access much of his
memory. This allows the reader to figure things out right along with the main character, which really
makes you feel like you're part of the story. I may be showing my age here, but watching the characters
wander through the ship, finding objects which were not always immediately useful, and gathering clues
as they go, made the book feel like a game of Dungeons and Dragons.
The only drawback I found in Hull Zero Three was that I sometimes had trouble picturing what Bear was
trying to describe. He has such a powerful imagination, that sometimes I couldn't keep up. I still enjoyed
the audiobook, though. It has interesting characters who are placed in interesting situations. I even
liked the ending, which is something that I think a lot of authors struggle with.
Dan John Miller is primarily known as a musician; he played Johnny Cash's guitarist in "Walk the Line." He
is also an award-winning narrator, however, and in 2009 was nominated for two Audie awards. This was my
first experience with Dan John Miller, and I thought he did a decent job with Hull Zero Three. He
used different voices for the characters and read with a lot of enthusiasm.
Overall, Hull Zero Three is a good piece of science fiction from one of the genre's heavy
hitters. I've never read anything by Greg Bear that I didn't like.
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Hi Jim...
>>but why do you hit the wrong app?
I think mostly because I'm impatient!!! =)
The genie zooming thing gives me a headache so I have it static on the right
side of my screen. And, yeah, you got me, the icon's aren't set that big.
About a quarter of an inch high each.
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Wine and art at Glenelly
Bianca Coleman
Did you know there is an original Salvador Dali artwork residing in Stellenbosch? I did not. It can be found in the glass museum at Glenelly. And there is wine as well. -
Walk on the wine side with Bouchard Finlayson
Bianca Coleman
Picture the scene – a softly lit wine cellar full of barrels, a hound sleeping on the floor, a table set with glasses and a huge platter of bread, olives, olive tapenade, olive oil, cheese, salami, mixed nuts, biltong and droëwors, bottles of some of the finest wines in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley, and a tasting led by the wine-maker Peter Finlayson. -
50 of the best clubs and bars in Cape Town
Rob Peters and Kelly Lodewyks
So you're looking for a night out are you? A couple of drinks you say? Maybe you want to cut loose on the dance floor, but aren't sure where to go? Our handy list of 50 of the most popular clubs and bars in the Mother City will help you on your way then! Enjoy! -
Kayamandi Walking Tour is a People's Route
Bianca Coleman
It's interesting to note how popular townships tours have become with visitors to our country who are searching for personal and authentic encounters with our citizens. A walking tour of Kayamandi in Stellenbosch does exactly that.
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Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 13 March to Sunday 15 March, 2015
If you haven't got tickets to Jazz Fest this weekend, not to worry, there is plenty happening in Cape Town to keep you busy!
Eggciting Easter activities in Cape Town
There are so many things to do in Cape Town this Easter. Everything from special lunches to Easter Egg hunts for the kids. Here's how to make the most of this holiday in Cape Town.
Cheetah Outreach Doing Important Work in Somerset West
There are just 7 500 cheetahs left in Africa and less-than 1000 of these majestic cats in South Africa. Thankfully, the Cheetah Outreach programme in Somerset West is doing everything it can to turn things around.
Have a jazzy week in Cape Town
It's the Cape Town Jazz Festival this weekend and whether or not you were one of the lucky few to get your hands on those much desired tickets, here are some events to get you into a jazzy mood this week.
Get Lost in Cape Town
Just over half an hour out of Cape Town, along the N1, is Klein Joostenberg Farm. It's a poorly hidden gem that few people no about and one that is incredibly child-friendly and well worth the visit.
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 20 March to Sunday 22 March, 2015
There's so much happening in Cape Town this weekend. Be sure to catch some of these events!
5 reasons why the IRB Sevens Series belongs in Cape Town
Sevens Rugby is back in Cape Town from December this year with the South African leg of the IRB Sevens Series moving to the Mother City! We're pretty happy about and you should be too – here are five reasons why the tournament belongs in Cape Town.
Infecting the City leaves its mark on Cape Town
The Infecting the City festival has become one of the big crowd-pleasers in the city with its 'takeover' of the CBD challenging the audience's understanding of art by using the urban space as its stage. The latest edition once again left its mark on the Mother City.
Cape Town Carnival 2015 Pics
Cape Town's diverse african identity was marvelously show cased and celebrated at the 2015 Cape Town Carnival. Creativity and unique talent was evident in the beautiful and bright costumes specially designed for the carnival.
It was truly an Elemental affair show casing the elements with flair and style.
Vergelegen Wine Estate offers history, relaxation and fun for all
With a history dating back to the 1700s, it's clear that Vergelegen is more than just a regular wine estate. It's a historical destination that offers so much for everyone. We recently spent some time in Somerset West and we couldn't resist popping in to this incredible place.
Morgenster tasting sessions are solid gold
You are going to be hard-pressed to find a better view than the one on offer at Morgenster Wine and Olive Estate. The stillness of the reed-lined dam creates a mellowness you won't find in the city and the looming Helderberg mountain range is a sight to behold. Suffice to say it sets the mood rather nicely for an afternoon spent tasting olive oils, olives and wine.
Stellenbosch Golf Course a Winning Combination
If spending the day on a beautiful golf course in glorious weather is enormously good fun, then sending pictures of your day out to friends stuck at home in foul weather is even more so. When those pictures extend to glorious wine estates visited after your round, you're set for some extremely envious mates…Few courses offer the golf and wine combination as perfectly as Stellenbosch.
Halaal restaurants in Cape Town
Is there anything more tempting than the smell of a delicious chicken curry or a plate of denningvleis, prepared in the traditional Cape Malay way?
In Cape Town, there are plenty of restaurants and cafés that cater for visitors and residents who prefer their meals cooked according to Halaal standards.
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 13 March to Sunday 15 March, 2015
Whether you're seeking adventure, festive celebrations or live music this weekend, there is something for everyone. Take a look at what's on this weekend in the Mother City.
The Chaeli Champaign Ability Festival: Be Heard
We all have different, needs, desires, dreams and aspirations. This is not only for us, but for our friends and the future. But what people tend to forget is that our dreams, needs and aspirations stem from somewhere, and in some circumstances, a lack of something.
50 Cape Town Restaurants You NEED to Visit
Cape Town is a food lover's paradise. The Mother City has restaurants a-plenty, from traditional African fare to the more exotic such as Asian, Mexican and Italian, the sheer variety of choices on offer speaks to the city's incredibly diverse heritage. Here we bring you 50 restaurants you NEED to visit in the city.
Happy Birthday, Georgina
Georgina turns 100 on the 10th March 2015. I have the distinct pleasure of sharing a birthday with her, so I was absolutely delighted when I was given the green light to meet her and her daughter, Sue, at Georgina's home in Rondebosch this morning for a pre-birthday chin wag!
Cape Town gets 'infected'
The Mother City is about to be 'infected' as the annual public arts festival, Infecting the City kicks off on Monday. This spectacular event will play out across theatres, galleries and public spaces through a range of exciting and socially-engaging performances that will transform the city into one immense outdoor venue for the arts. Here we highlight some of the performances to keep an eye out for across the week.
Bikes and Wine Tour in the Winelands
When you hear the words 'bikes' and 'wine', you may think they are complete contradictions. Riding a mountain bike while drinking is crazy, right? Well, here in Cape Town we just blame the mountain air and get on with it.
Hoffman wins 2015 Cape Town Cycle Tour
South African cyclist Nolan Hoffman won the 2015 Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday to retain his title.
Your #lovecapetown weekend: What's on from Friday 6 March to Sunday 7 March, 2015
Two bike rides this weekend - one with clothes, one without - cocktail specials at The Waterfront and a concert at Spier! It's another big weekend in the Mother City!
Cape Town Cycle Tour 2015: Road Closures
This weekend around 35 000 cyclists will take part in the Cape Town Cycle Tour. Due to the fires raging in Cape Town, organisers have been forced to shorten and rework the route. We bring you all the road closures in effect this weekend.
12 spots you can carbo-load at before The Argus Cycle Tour
The Cape Town Cycle Tour may have been cut to 47km, but there is nothing stopping you loading up on on some much-needed fuel before taking on the historic ride this year. Check out these 11 carb-friendly spots in the Mother City!
Cape Town Cycle Tour cuts route to 47km
The Cape Town Cycle Tour announced on Wednesday that the route would be dramatically cut as a result of the fires raging across the Southern Peninsula. Cycle Tour Director David Bellair said that the decision had not been taken lightly and that it was done so with the safety of the race's participants in mind.
Unlocking the wonders of Jonkershoek
Most people know of Long Street and its sleepless nights, the lovely scenery of Camps bay and its wonderful restaurants, but have you ever felt like a tourist in your own city? I did when I was recently invited to Jonkershoek Nature Reserve in Stellenbosch.
Cape Town Fire: How You Can Help
The wildfires in Cape Town continue to rage with firefighters working around the clock to put them out. The fire began above Boyes Drive on Sunday morning and has spread to Muizenberg, Hout Bay and Noordhoek. Here are some ways you can help these brave men and women as they battle tirelessly against the blaze.
Paarl Ommiberg Round the Rock festival
When it comes to wine routes in and around Cape Town, we are spoilt for choice. There are so many right on our doorstop. Admittedly, an area that often gets overlooked in favour of the more popular ones is Paarl. And to give everyone a taste of what the Paarl farms offer, there's the Ommiberg Festival happening this Saturday. Here's what you can expect from all the various farms.
Travel like a local: Your neighbourhood guide to Muizenberg
Ok, so Surf rules in Muizenberg, or "Muizies" as it's affectionately known to locals. For many locals like me though, it's more than just a Summer destination where shallow waters offer great family fun and learning to surf has become the number one activity on the jam-packed beachfront. If you move away from the beach you will discover some quirky characters in this distinctly bohemian seaside village.
Pride in Cape Town: All the pictures
The Cape Town Pride festival exploded in a rainbow of colours in the Mother City on the weekend as locals and visitors came together from a wide variety of backgrounds to celebrate and support the same cause.
Photo essay: Cape Town from all angles
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Food Production, Population Growth, and Environmental SecurityGretchen DailyStanford University - Department of Biological Sciences Partha DasguptaUniversity of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics; The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics Bert BolinStockholm University Pierre CrossonResources for the Future Jacques Du GuernyUnited Nations - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Paul EhrlichStanford University - Department of Biological Sciences Carl FolkeStockholm University AnnMari JanssonStockholm University Bengt-Owe JanssonStockholm University Nils KautskyStockholm University - Department of Systems Ecology Ann KinzigArizona State University (ASU) - Department of Biology Simon LevinPrinceton University - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Karl-Goran MalerThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics Per Pinstrup-AndersenCornell University - Department of Economics; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Domenico SiniscalcoMinistry of Economy and Finance, Italy; Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; University of Turin - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) Brian WalkerCSIRO, Mathematical and Information Science March 1998 Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Paper No. 21.98 Abstract: There are two broad criteria by which one can judge humanity's success in feeding itself: (i) the proportion of people whose access to basic nutritional requirements is secure; and (ii) the extent to which global food production is sustainable. Even though the two are related, they have usually been discussed separately in popular writings. This has had unfortunate consequences. Writings on (ii) have often encouraged readers to adopt an all-or-nothing position (viz. the future will be either rosy or catastrophic), and this has drawn attention away from the economic misery that is endemic in large parts of the world today. On the other hand, writings on (i) have frequently yielded no more than the catechism that the nearly 1 billion people in poor countries who go to bed hungry each night do so because they are extremely poor. In short, if (ii) has focused on aggregate food production and its prospects for the future, (i) in contrast has isolated food-distribution failure as a cause of world hunger. In this article we will adopt the view that (i) and (ii) should not be studied separately, that their link can be understood if attention is paid to the dynamic interactions between ecological and economic systems operating primarily at the geographically localised level. Number of Pages in PDF File: 10 JEL Classification: O10, Q28, Q38 Date posted: September 17, 1998Suggested CitationContact Information
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In Reply to: a question about sodium posted by erin2 on September 5, 2007 at 8:08 am:
In February of 2004 the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the new Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate. The report list hypertension, cardiovascular and kidney diseases as the major adverse effects of a toxic or excessive salt (sodium) intake. The report also notes evidence linking excess salt intake (as in the American diet) to atrophic gastritis and stomach cancer and increased calcium loss in the urine, which contributes to kidney stone formation and osteoporosis. In addition it has also been linked to Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Also, while I dont know the your personal details or specifics, people who dont have existing hypertension shouldnt feel "safe" from eventually getting it, if they continute a high salt diet. Currently about 90% of Americans can expect to be diagnosed with hypertension during their lifetime. More recently, data from the long running Framingham Heart Study determined the residual lifetime risk of developing HTN in men and women who were free of HTN at age 55y or 65y. The risk of developing HTN continues to increase with age even into the 8th and 9th decades. About 70% of women age 65-75y have developed HTN, and by age 65 almost 80% of african american women have HTN. It is now clear that 90% of people age 55y or 65y without HTN will likely develop it within the next 20-25 years. The residual lifetime risk of developing HTN even for those who make it to the age of 55y or even 65y with BP still in the normal range is about 90%. There are several factors involved in the regulation of blood pressure and potassium (and calcium and magnesium) is another one. But, having a higher potassium intake doesn't cancel out a high salt intake. Hope that helps
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ABC Studios, Beacon PicturesCast and Crew
John TerleskyScreenwriter
Terence Paul WinterMain Cast
- Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle
- Stana Katic as Kate Beckett / Vera Mulqueen
- Jon Huertas
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Dr. Valerie Monroe is found dead in a coffin. We know, we know. What's so unusual about that? Well, Dr. Monroe was stuffed inside a coffin at someone else's funeral. An empty syringe was plunged into her carotid artery causing a fatal air embolism. Someone with medical training may have been the killer.
Dr. Monroe had a private meeting with a nurse at her hospital. Castle has seen enough medical dramas on TV to theorize that the nurse is probably hot. Beckett asks if he'd like to revise his theory when they meet Greg McClintock, the smooth-talking male nurse who was scolded by the victim for being too flirty with the female residents. Greg may flirt with every female doc on staff, but he hasn't slept with any of them. He also has an alibi and says he saw his boss leave the hospital with a mystery man.
Several nights a week, Dr. Monroe spent the night at a hotel suite belonging to a brutal drug lord named Cesar Calderon, who is a huge fan of Castle's work. Calderon employed Monroe as his private physician for his bad heart. The drug lord's brother, Manuel, says he dropped off Valerie at a diner where the mystery man mentioned by Nurse Greg was often waiting.
The guy that Dr. Monroe met with is Leonard Maloney of the Attorney General's office. She was working for him in an undercover sting investigating misappropriation of funds at her hospital. Monroe discovered evidence of prescription fraud and a possible smuggling ring.
Dr. Monroe's investigation led her to a women's prison upstate. Nurse Greg has been making weekly visits there to an inmate named Amy Porter, who has just had a stroke. Guess which hospital she's sent to for treatment? Castle and Beckett are shocked to learn that Amy Porter died while having an MRI. Or did she? The corpse at the hospital does not belong to Amy Porter. Nurse Greg switched the bodies. This was a prison break!
Nurse Greg charmed an unwitting hospital staff in order to get signatures on the medical orders and release papers needed to help Amy escape. He smuggled in drugs to simulate a stroke and fake Amy's death to switch her body with one from the morgue. Love letters lead Castle to believe that the fugitives may revisit the place where they first met â a Burgeropolis restaurant in Jersey. Hey, can we get some fries with that prison break?
Greg is captured and claims Amy was in prison for a crime she didn't commit. He happens to be right, so Beckett helps the couple out once she realizes Greg didn't have anything to do with the murder. During his chat with Dr. Monroe, Greg noticed her special bracelet. Castle and Beckett recognize the jewelry's design in a photo. It matches a necklace that Cesar Calderon wears.
Nylon fibers found on the victim's body match the carpet the sits inside the back of Calderon's Coupe de Ville. The drug lord admits he gave the doc his mother's old bracelet, but maintains that he was in his hotel suite when Monroe was killed. He then realizes that his brother took the keys to the car that night.
Manuel Calderon killed Dr. Monroe when she realized that she was working with the Attorney General's office. He was worried she was informing on his kin. When Cesar gave the doc his mother's bracelet, Manuel realized that his brother was too blind with love to see the truth. Manuel used the syringe skills he developed caring for Cesar to murder Dr. Monroe. Case closed.
In other news, Castle gets a little miffed when Gina steals his thunder by getting Alexis some sweet Taylor Swift tickets. He realizes that he was being a jerk and later apologizes. Gina then lets Alexis know that the tickets were from both of them. It's a nice gesture that impresses Martha.
Martha refuses to get sucked into her son's love life, but does pose a question after hearing about Nurse Greg's efforts to free his innocent girlfriend. Martha says, "When you come right down to it, would you be willing to break her out of prison? Because that, my boy, is true love." Castle has to ponder this. But when a similar hypothetical is presented to Beckett, the response is almost immediate. Beckett says, "Don't worry, Castle, I'd get you out." We believe she would, too.


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William W. Morrow (July 15, 1843–July 24, 1929) was a US Representative from California from 1885–1891. Born near Milton, Wayne County, Indiana, he moved with his parents to Adams County, Illinois in 1845, attended the common schools and received private instruction. He moved to Santa Rosa, California, in 1859, taught school and explored mining regions. Morrow went East in 1862 to join the Union Army and served in the National Rifles of the District of Columbia. While in the Army of the Potomac he was appointed a special agent of the United States Treasury Department in January, 1865, and was detailed to California. He remained there and was employed during the next four years in confidential positions under the Secretary of the Treasury. Morrow studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in San Francisco. He was assistant United States Attorney for California from 1870–1874, assisted in organizing the San Francisco Bar Association in 1872 and served as its president in 1892 and 1893. Morrow served as chairman of the Republican State central committee of California 1879–1882, attorney for the State board of harbor commissioners from 1880–1883, and also special United States attorney before the French and American Claims Commission 1881–1883, and before the Alabama Claims Commission 1882–1885. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884, elected as a Republican to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885–March 3, 1891). Morrow was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.
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Still need the sounds for reload and draw for the regular magazine scar.
Still need the sounds for reload and draw for the regular magazine scar.
You know, I'd be happy to release some Crysis 2 sounds if you don't plan on releasing yours.
Those sounds won't matter if there are no animators or compilers to make use of them, and you people pretty much drove all of them away with your trolling and shit, so lawl.
Im not trolling. Im just asking if anyone wants the gun sounds from crysis 2.
i do
Alright. Homefront Express 870 Shotgun release.
Original model, textures & animation: KAOS Studios
Porting & Animation adjustment/modif: BravoSix
Sound Porting: rollis
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?ng53wim8sjlrzij
Would be better if its without red dot, in game it looks like a picture not realistic at all, Oo
Whats wrong with u guys why this thread is not active as it was, Ive been fallowing you trough, whereare the Other Modders ? :) Come BACK GUYS -.-'
lol @ Dumb Raters.. u just don't accept what is wrong ALL Your Compiles from Homefront are the Worst Complies I ever saw. No Offense but it is.. sad to say its truth. You Should be Jealos on Se7en Skills, Miaka, And other guys.. They should be ur teachers...
Yea the red dot does kind of suck, I'll try to replace it on my own later.
I could be wrong (I haven't been able to download or look at the files) but I think the reedot could be removed with some hexing and a $no_draw 1, that is assuming it uses a separate texture than the rest of the shotty.
Yeah I was right, you just have to duplicate the "reflex" folder under mateirals/bravosix/HF/weapons, then hex the shotgun model to use the duplicate, then simply put "$no_draw" "1" in every vmt in that folder. The hexing is only required if you want bravosix's other homefront ports (like the t3ak) to have reflex sights.
I'd just make it smaller, mainly because I'm making them into SWEPs for Garry's Mod and I need the sights.
Not saying you are :3
Flipped normals and bad illumination... your compile is the worst thing ever made (it's true i'm being sincere!)
Gamebanana would beg to differ.
Why is gamebanana here in the first place?
Or should I say "Cool."? Like that thing above you said.
Its my first release so please tell me if i forgot something !
"thing"? Who the fuck do you think you are?
Someone lol
Or should I say "Cool."?
His left arm is really shaky.
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Nice job!
Sounds for that FELINE, finally.
EDIT: Was that released for CS:S? If then, can I have a link?
Alright alright... looks like I don't have to release my version after all
hey saint could i request you port the death sound from crysis 2 multiplayer for css as well? thanks
yea i know this isnt a request thread so by rating me dumb you yourself dont read now dont you?
can someone please reupload DMG's bo m16? i rly want
LIMITED RELEASE , key word LIMITED and its over therefore you no longer can get it unless someone pulls it out of their cstrike for you or they have it buried somewhere on their computer and decide to give it to you
Google it, that's how I found it, it's packaged with the colt and galil though.
Alternately if you have garry'smod you could go to garrysmod.org, download the blackops SWEP pack, and hex the m16 from that to replace your famas.
Also I know this isn't a request thread but if anyone's working on more homefront weapons, mind saying which ones?
Of course I'll do it!
well i would really appreciate it if somebody reuploaded the m16 because the anims are awesome =)
I, have it digged in my HDD (for future RR? hm) but I wont reup...limited is limited, hahaaaha
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There are spies here, alot of them! And most of them share our hard worked ripped models and animations!
5: Don't post things like those stupid stealer idiot's work. It's wasting space.
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Boskabady Mohammad Hossein - - 2007
Respiratory and allergic symptoms were evaluated in 66 Iranian carpet weavers and 66 controls with similar age and gender characteristics using a questionnaire including questions on work-related respiratory symptoms in the past year, allergies, smoking habits, and work exposure duration. A total of 28 carpet weavers (42%) reported work-related respiratory ...
Ciacci Carolina - - 2007
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Celiac disease is a condition in which genetically predisposed people have an autoimmune reaction to gluten proteins found in all wheat types and closely related cereals such as barley and rye. This reaction causes the formation of autoantibodies and the destruction of the villi in the small ...
Hoff Michael - - 2007
Roundup Ready soy contains the CP4-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (CP4 EPSPS) protein. Serum IgE from two distinct populations of soy-allergic patients were recruited to determine their IgE-binding specificity. One population consisted of 10 adult patients from Europe, whose primary diagnosis was soy food allergy with some also having mite allergy. In addition, ...
Lidén Maria - - 2007
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the rectal mucosal response to gluten as an indication of gluten sensitivity in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Rectal challenges with wheat gluten were performed in 20 patients with pSS and 18 healthy control subjects. Fifteen hours after challenge the mucosal production of ...
Vlieg-Boerstra B J - - 2007
BACKGROUND: A cardinal feature of the double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge (DBPCFC) is that placebo administration is included as a control. To date, the occurrence and diagnostic significance of placebo events have not extensively been documented. OBJECTIVE: To analyse the occurrence and features of placebo events in DBPCFCs and to assess ...
Ohmori Keitaro - - 2007
IgE-reactive beef components were examined by an immunoblot analysis using a serum from a dog with food hypersensitivity against beef. The immunoblot analysis revealed a distinct band at approximately 66 kDa and a faint band at approximately 50 kDa. The immunoblot analysis for serum IgE reactivity to bovine serum albumin ...
Werfel T - - 2007
Food allergy and atopic eczema (AE) may occur in the same patient. Besides typical immediate types of allergic reactions (i.e. noneczematous reactions) which are observed in patients suffering from AE, it is clear that foods, such as cow's milk and hen's eggs, can directly provoke flares of AE, particularly in ...
Chiang W C - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Food allergy seems to be increasing in Asia as well as world-wide. Our aim was to characterize food protein sensitization patterns in a population of Asian children with possible food allergy. METHODS: Children presenting to our allergy clinic over 3 years with symptomatic allergic disease and at least one ...
Clark A T - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Oral challenge is widely used for diagnosing food allergy but variable interpretation of subjective symptoms may cause error. Facial thermography was evaluated as a novel, objective and sensitive indicator of challenge outcome. METHODS: A total of 24 children with a history of egg allergy underwent oral challenge, which were ...
Canani R Berni - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the diagnostic accuracy of atopy patch tests (APT) in the clinical practice of pediatric gastroenterology. Moreover, APTs containing purified food extracts have recently become available, but their diagnostic accuracy is largely undefined. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of food challenge, skin prick ...
Niggemann B - - 2007
Although controlled oral food challenges are considered to be the gold-standard in the diagnosis of food related symptoms, especially if performed in a double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenges (DBPCFC) manner, there are still many unanswered questions and newer aspects, which may explain some pitfalls encountered during oral food challenges. For stopping ...
Adlerberth Ingegerd - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Stimulation of the immune system by gut microbes might prevent allergy development. OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the hypothesis that sensitization to food allergens and atopic eczema are influenced by the infantile intestinal colonization pattern. METHODS: Infants were recruited perinatally in Göteborg (n = 116), London (n = 108), ...
Grigolon A - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Twenty-four hours oesophageal pH monitoring is considered the reference-standard for the diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, but it is limited by catheter discomfort and limitations of daily habits. AIM: We evaluated tolerability and impact on food intake and daily activities of catheter-based compared to wireless pH monitoring. PATIENTS: One-hundred ...
Wassenberg Jacqueline - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Lupine allergy is caused by ingestion of the flour of a plant called Lupinus albus, a member of the Leguminosae family. Lupine allergy has been described in adult patients previously known to have peanut allergy (cross-reactivity). OBJECTIVE: To describe the first case of an anaphylactic reaction caused by ingestion ...
Sugita Kazunari - - 2007
Oral allergy syndrome (OAS) is a complex of symptoms induced by exposure of the oral and pharyngeal mucosa to food allergens. A 23-year-old female presented in 2006 with oropharyngeal irritation and facial angioedema occurring within 15 min after eating raw fish. Her medical history was significant for mild atopic dermatitis ...
Zuo X L - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Post-prandial worsening of symptoms as well as adverse reactions to one or more foods are common in the patients with functional gastrointestinal diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia (FD). However, the role played by true food allergy in the pathogenesis of these diseases is still ...
Chehade Mirna - - 2007
Our understanding of the mechanism of food allergy has substantially increased over the past decade. Food allergies can be classified into those that are IgE mediated and those that are non-IgE mediated. Various advances have been made in treating IgE-mediated food allergies. A phase II clinical trial of a second ...
Marklund Birgitta - - 2007
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present article presents an accessible review of research results on food hypersensitivity and quality of life (QoL), including 15 original articles on the subject. RECENT FINDINGS: Research on food hypersensitivity and QoL covers children and their parents, adolescents and adults. Several domains of QoL are affected, ...
Yamamoto Takeshi - - 2007
Food allergies have become increasingly prevalent during the past few decades. Diarrhea is one of the most frequent intestinal symptoms caused by food allergens and is characterized by imbalanced ion exchange and water transfer; however, the underlying mechanism of allergic diarrhea remains unclear. Water transfer across the intestinal epithelial membrane ...
Morita Eishin - - 2007
Food-dependent exercise induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a distinct form of food allergy induced by physical exercise. Symptoms are typically generalized urticaria and severe allergic reactions such as shock or hypotension. Whereas various food items are responsible for the development of FDEIA, wheat is reported to be the allergen with the ...
Maintz Laura - - 2007
Histamine intolerance results from a disequilibrium of accumulated histamine and the capacity for histamine degradation. Histamine is a biogenic amine that occurs to various degrees in many foods. In healthy persons, dietary histamine can be rapidly detoxified by amine oxidases, whereas persons with low amine oxidase activity are at risk ...
Rodriguez Virginia - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Sea urchins are increasingly used as culinary products in Japanese and Korean cuisine throughout the world. OBJECTIVE: To investigate a possible IgE-mediated allergy in a patient who experienced an anaphylactic reaction after eating sea urchin roe and mussels. PATIENT AND METHODS: A 40-year-old man experienced generalized pruritus and urticaria, ...
Ballmer-Weber Barbara K - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Soybean is a relevant allergenic food, but little is known about individual threshold doses in soy allergy. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the clinical characteristics of soy allergy in Europe, including a dose-response curve. METHODS: Patients with a history of soy allergy underwent a titrated, double-blind, placebo-controlled food challenge. ...
Iacono Giuseppe - - 2007
BACKGROUND & AIMS: The clinical significance of lymphoid nodular hyperplasia (LNH) of the lower gastrointestinal tract is unclear. The aim of this study was to define the frequency and clinical significance of LNH in pediatric patients undergoing colonoscopy. METHODS: Two hundred forty-five children (101 male, 144 female; median age, 8.5 ...
Arslan Lied Gülen - - 2007
As many as 25% of the general population in Western countries believe that they suffer from adverse reactions to food. However, the actual prevalence of food allergy is much lower. Food-induced allergic reactions cause a variety of symptoms including cutaneous, gastrointestinal and respiratory tract. Food allergy might be caused by ...
Thong B Y H - - 2007
INTRODUCTION: The patient characteristics, clinical features and causative foods in 74 consecutive adult patients with immediate food hypersensitivity were studied. METHODS: A retrospective review of 74 consecutive adults who presented during the study period from July 1, 1994 to April 30, 2002 was performed. RESULTS: There were 35 male and ...
Hon Kam-Lun Ellis - - 2007
Issues related to empirical dietary restriction are important, but they have been inadequately studied among children with atopic dermatitis (AD). To evaluate whether any association exists between food atopy, food avoidance, and AD severity, investigators in the present study reviewed all skin prick tests (SPTs) performed between January 2005 and ...
Noh Geunwoong - - 2007
Food is closely associated with the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis. Food allergy is usually mediated by IgE antibody to specific food proteins and determination of specific IgE antibody is the basis of the common diagnostic test for food allergy. IgG4 have been reported as blocking antibody and the protective effects ...
Izumi Toru - - 2007
A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was conducted to clinically evaluate the effect of soy isoflavone aglycone on the aged skin of middle-aged women. Twenty-six women volunteers in their late 30s and early 40s were randomly assigned to receive either a test food (13 women, the test food group) or a placebo ...
Kalach N - - 2007
AIM: To analyze the results of a systematic survey of biological tests in a symptomatic pediatric population consulting for the exploration of a possible food allergy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: 406 children included in this study, mean age 3.3+3.2 years (2 months-16 years), 159 girls and 247 boys, had cutaneous tests ...
Failla Marco - - 2007
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the current knowledge of noninvasive monitoring of allergic airway inflammation by analysis of leukotrienes in the exhaled breath condensate. RECENT FINDINGS: Treatment of respiratory allergies involves chronic treatment based on clinical symptoms and pulmonary function tests. Evaluation of local inflammation would be desirable but is ...
Patriarca Giampiero - - 2007
The possibility of obtaining oral desensitization in patients with food allergy is still a matter of debate. We decided to evaluate the safety and efficacy of standardized protocols for oral desensitization with the most common food allergens. Forty-two children (ages up to 16 years) diagnosed as affected by food allergy ...
Asero Riccardo - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Lipid transfer protein (LTP) is a widely cross-reacting plant pan-allergen. Adverse reactions to Rosaceae, tree nuts, peanut, beer, maize, mustard, asparagus, grapes, mulberry, cabbage, dates, orange, fig, kiwi, lupine, fennel, celery, tomato, eggplant, lettuce, chestnut and pineapple have been recorded. OBJECTIVE: To detect vegetable foods to be regarded as ...
Oyefara Benjamin I - - 2007
Food-dependent, exercise-induced anaphylaxis (FDEIA) is a clinically distinct form of anaphylaxis in which symptoms occur only when the patient exercises within a few hours of eating the food. Its precise mechanism remains unclear and has been reported to have a wide spectrum of presentations. The objective of this report is ...
Moore Laura M - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Alaska's marine mammals compose a large portion of the diet of indigenous coastal Alaskan people. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) and bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus), inhabitants of the Bering and Beaufort seas along Alaska's western and northern coasts, are 2 of the most important subsistence species, serving as major food ...
García C - - 2007
BACKGROUND: Clinical and laboratory evidence increasingly supports the notion that food allergy plays a role in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis (AD). However, the prevalence of clinically significant food hypersensitivity among children with AD remains an unanswered question. OBJECTIVE: To prospectively determine the prevalence of IgE-mediated food hypersensitivity among patients ...
MacDermott Richard P - - 2007
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the outpatient with chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a difficult but important challenge to recognize and treat. It is very helpful to have effective treatment approaches for IBS that are practical and use minimal medications. Because of the underlying chronic inflammation in IBD, IBS ...
Beausoleil Janet L - - 2007
Food allergies and asthma are increasing worldwide. It is estimated that approximately 8% of children aged <3 years have food allergies. Foods can induce a variety of IgE-mediated, cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and respiratory reactions. The most common foods responsible for allergic reactions in children are egg, milk, peanut, soy, fish, shellfish, ...
Raap U - - 2007
There are very few reports on allergic reactions to lychee fruit in the literature. We describe the case of a 26-year-old man who developed pruritus, generalized urticaria, and severe angioedema of his lips and tongue with dyspnea within 15 minutes after lychee fruit intake. Although we found no lychee-specific immunoglobulin ...
Ueno H - - 2007
The diagnostic accuracy of the skin prick test (SPT) for food allergies remains to be fully accepted and substantial individual differences in the prevalence of skin test reactivity have been reported. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic value of absolute wheal size and skin index (SI; ...
Heffler E - - 2007
A 20-year-old woman developed anaphylaxis after eating pizza on 4 different occasions in 2 restaurants. Both restaurants made their pizza dough with a mixture of wheat and buckwheat flours. A prick-to-prick test with buckwheat flour was positive. Skin prick tests and specific immunoglobulin E responses to soybean and peanut were ...
Peterson C G B - - 2007
Mast cells play a central role in many inflammatory diseases and assessment of their activation may be of use to provide objective confirmation of the outcome of food challenge in the diagnosis of food hypersensitivity. However, to date, assessment of mast-cell activation using serum markers has been unsuccessful. The aim ...
Vidal C - - 2007
A 42-year-old woman with no history of atopy reported several episodes of generalized urticaria and shortness of breath after eating shellfish (prawns and barnacles) but with good tolerance of the same foods between episodes. Skin prick tests (SPTs), serum enzyme allergosorbent tests (EAST) for specific immunoglobulin (Ig) E, Western blot ...
Gellerstedt M - - 2007
The standard of reporting in diagnostic studies has generally been low. Fortunately, this issue has begun to be addressed in recent years through the discussion of important methodological issues in educational series, textbooks, and checklists. Double-blind, placebo-controlled, oral food challenges (DBPCFC) are considered to be the gold standard for diagnosis ...
Ibero M - - 2007
Patients who are allergic to latex (Hevea brasiliensis) may exhibit cross-hypersensitivity with foods. We present a case of anaphylaxis due to cassava in a patient suffering from pollinosis, latex allergy, and latex-fruit syndrome. We performed sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and immunoblotting with cassava, avocado, chestnut, banana, kiwi, ...
Mansueto Pasquale P Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e delle Patologie Emergenti, Via del Vespro n degree 141, Palermo 90127, Italy. - - 2006
Food allergy is a common and increasing problem worldwide. The newly-found knowledge might provide novel experimental strategies, especially for laboratory diagnosis. Approximately 20% of the population alters their diet for a perceived adverse reaction to food, but the application of double-blind placebo-controlled oral food challenge, the "gold standard" for diagnosis ...
Kumar Raj - - 2007
Sensitization to foods varies in different countries reflecting a possible interaction of genetic factors, cultural and dietary habits. Rice is a major food consumed world wide and needs evaluation for IgE mediated reactions. The present study was carried out to identify rice allergy in patients of rhinitis and asthma and ...
van Wijk Femke - - 2007
Immediately after birth the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, which represents the greatest body surface area exposed to the outside environment, is confronted with a large variety of foreign antigens. The immune system of the intestine now has to meet the task of discriminating between pathogens and harmless antigens, such ...
Kumar Raj - - 2006
Studies suggest the importance of serum total and specific IgE in clinical evaluation of allergic manifestations. Such studies are lacking in Indian subcontinent, though a large population suffer from bronchial asthma. Here relevance of serum total and specific IgE was investigated in asthmatics with food sensitization. A total of 216 ...
Eigenmann Philippe A - - 2006
Negative food challenges for follow-up in patients previously diagnosed with food allergy should logically be followed by a normal diet. However, all patients do not reintroduce the food. The aims of the study were to define the proportion of negative food challenge not followed by a normal diet, and to ...
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In front of national and international television here in New York, Ashcroft announced criminal indictments against four defendantsincluding an American citizen, the well-known New York defense attorney Lynne Stewartfor helping convicted terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman send messages to the Egyptian-based Islamic Group (IG) of which he remains the spiritual leader.
The sheikh, convicted of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and also of failed plots to blow up the United Nations and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, is imprisoned for life plus 65 years.
One of the criminal conspiracy counts against Lynne Stewart alleges thatin violation of her agreement to communicate with Rahman only on legal matters and not to pass on any communications from him to anyone, including the mediashe "facilitated and concealed communications between Sheikh Abdel Rahman and Islamic Group leaders around the world."
Lynne Stewart was arrested the morning Ashcroft arrived in New York. At her arraignment, dozens of defense attorneys were in the courtroomnot only offering her support but also apprehensive that the Justice Department's aggressive war on terrorism might include monitoring their conversations with particularly controversial clients.
In 1998, before Ashcroft became attorney general, the Justice Department went to a federal judge and secured a warrant to monitor conversations between Stewart and Rahman at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. The government also got permission to execute wiretaps on other Rahman associates elsewhere. Among those indicted with Stewart is Mohammed Yousry, the Arabic interpreter and translator of conversations between the sheikh and his attorneys in prison. Lynne Stewart does not speak or understand Arabic.
Permission to violate lawyer-client confidentiality, which is at the heart of the Sixth Amendment guarantee of "the assistance of counsel," is rare. A judge can, however, grant this breach of the privilege if the prosecution can show probable cause that the lawyer to be monitored is acting in furthering the crimes, or acts of fraud, by the defendant.
During his dramatic announcement of the indictment, Ashcroft repeatedly said that his own order last year allowing the FBI and other government agents to monitor lawyer-client conversations in federal prisonswithout first showing probable cause to a judgewas only now going to be implemented. That's one of the reasons defense lawyers are so concerned with this case, which Lynne Stewart expects will be a "a touchstone case."
When Ashcroft first announced his new order to listen in on lawyer-client conversations, that abuse of the Sixth Amendment was vehemently attacked by the American Bar Association and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, as well as by various newspaper editorial writers.
Now, with this very high-visibility indictment of a lawyer for allegedly helping to spread messages from a terrorist leader (among them, "Kill [Jews] wherever they are!"), many defense attorneys expect that Ashcroft will be encouragednot that he needs much encouragementto expand the government's presence as a very attentive third party in consultations between lawyers and their clients.
There was another reason all those lawyers were in court as Lynne Stewart answered the charges against her by pleading "Emphatically not guilty!": the government's search of her office the day of her arrest. Imagine yourself as a lawyer watching the FBI carting away your confidential files. Or imagine yourself a client with the information you've given your lawyer now in the hands of prosecutors.
As the April 10 New York Times reported, that lawyers' nightmare has come to life. "Late yesterday, FBI agents could be seen leaving Ms. Stewart's law office at 351 Broadway (Franklin Street), carrying two computers, a box filled with sealed envelopes, and a large sealed evidence bag.
"Martin R. Stolar, a lawyer whose office is near Ms. Stewart's, said, 'They went through everything, hard drives, her files, books, you name it. It's scary when you walk into an attorney's office and see that type of thing.' "
Meanwhile, there are serious questions as to the quality of the alleged evidence against Lynne Stewart. New York Times reporter Ben Weiser, whose work there and at The Washington Post I've admired for years, cited one example on the April 9 NewsHour With Jim Lehrer on PBS: "There's no evidence that the alleged information from Stewart led to subsequent terrorist attacks or to 9-11."
And constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley told me that the prosecution "will have to show clearly that Stewart was aware of the illegal nature of the communications from Rahman through his interpreter, Mohammed Yousry." Since she doesn't understand Arabic, what did she know of those communications?
However, a jury ultimately will decide that question. Stewart's computers and files, including her Rolodex, are currently in the hands of the Justice Department. Among her clients are some of interest to the FBI and the New York Police Department. Those clients may be somewhat uneasy at the moment, aware that prosecutors may eventually browse through their confidential information.
Previously, when a lawyer's files have been scooped up by the FBIin certain drug and money-laundering casesthe Justice Department has set up a screen. A group of lawyers in the Justice Department who are not connected with that particular case sift through the files; they do not show the prosecutors anything not related to the case at hand.
These screeners are supposed to be independent, a way of sheltering evidence that ought to remain in the defense lawyer's private files. But in view of the politicalization of the Justice Department under Janet Reno, and now under John Ashcroft, it is not unduly cynical to wonder how truly independent any screening panel will beespecially in a "terrorism" case so important to the department's zealous boss.
Accordingly, Lynne Stewart's lawyer, Susan Tipograph, an experienced and astute counselor, has asked the judge to assign a special master to go through everything taken from Stewart's office before Ashcroft's prosecutors can inspect it. The judge is considering the request, and the files will remain insulated from the prosecutors until both sides agree to a review procedure.
The prosecution says it will take about eight weeks to provide the defense with all the discovery materialvideotapes, audiotapes, transcripts, copies of warrants, etc. At that point, a schedule for motions can be set up. There will be a status conference before the court on June 12.
Among other things, the prosecution claims to have hundreds of secretly recorded phone conversations from the other defendants.
Lynne Stewart is free to continue practicing law for as long as she is free on a $500,000 bond, but much of her time will now be otherwise occupied, and both clients and potential clients may be concerned that her notoriety in a terrorism case could result, for example, in their getting a worse deal from the prosecutors in their own cases.
Apart from what happens to Lynne Stewart, the result of this indictment of a defense attorney for aiding terrorism will, according to Jonathan Turley, "create a huge, chilling effectindeed, a glacial effecton attorneys approached by highly controversial clients to represent them." This is all the more likely if John Ashcroft does increase the warrantless monitoring of lawyer-client conversations.
Some highly combative defense attorneys will not be intimidated, but much depends on the prosecution's evidence in this trial, on how it was obtained, and, of course, the verdict.
What concerns Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics and evidence at New York University School of Law, are the signsevident to me from Ashcroft's emphasis at his press conference on going ahead with listening in on lawyer-client consultations without a previous court orderthat this monitoring will indeed multiply.
"Ashcroft," says Gillers, "is abusing his authority as attorney general. He should not be doing this invasion of lawyer-client privilege on his own. He is a prosecutor, and needs to get a court order firstshowing probable cause that illicit communication is going on."
Defense lawyers will also be watching to see if Lynne Stewart can get a fair trial, in view of the inevitable pre-trial publicity that has already linked her in the public mind with terrorism. With suicide bombers being so effective in Israel, and with "sleepers"hidden terrorists who could also eventually use their bodies as weaponsamong us here, it may be difficult to get a reasonable, open-minded jury.
One of the counts against Stewart, for instance, is that when Yousry, the translator, read letters to Sheikh Rahman from his confederates in the terrorist Islamic Group, Stewart "actively concealed the conversation . . . from the prison guards by, among other things, making extraneous comments in English to mask the Arabic conversations between Sheikh Abdel Rahman and Yousry."
But since Stewart doesn't understand Arabic, what was she "masking"? The prosecution may have an answer to that and to other chargeslike the one that accuses Stewart of announcing to the media that after an internal debate in the Islamic Group the sheikh had decided to withdraw his support for a cease-fire in the group's terrorist activities. The defense claims that decision was already a matter of public record. Still, Stewart did technically violate her agreement not to relay messages from Rahman to the outside world.
If much of the other prosecution evidence is as slight as that, the defense might be more concerned about the jury being aware of this 1995 New York Times interview with Stewartfrom which the Times reprinted excerpts on April 10, the day after she was arrested: "Ms. Stewart suggested that violence and revolution were sometimes necessary to right the economic and racial wrongs of America's capitalist system. 'I don't believe in anarchistic violence, but in directed violence,' she said. 'That would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism, and sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and accompanied by popular support.' "
How would a juror react to that credo? Particularly when Stewart is repeatedly described in the press as a "radical lawyer," with an apposite partial list of highly controversial former clients? (Her client Sammy "the Bull" Gravano is a terrorist of a non-ideological sort.)
There are high stakes for John Ashcroft in this trial, as well as for Lynne Stewart, the defense bar, and the future health of the Constitution as the administration's open-ended domestic war on terrorism proceeds.
Lynne Stewart faces up to 40 years in prison.


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GAO to Investigate Sexual Abuse at Immigration Detention CentersFollow @GretchenMargFebruary 3, 2012, 11:34 am ET The Government Accountability Office [GAO] recently announced it will look into the problem of sexual abuse at immigration detention centers across the United States. This comes as the Obama administration is debating whether to include these facilities in new regulations covered under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA. Last month, 30 members of Congress asked the GAO to investigate the issue, citing our film Lost in Detention. The group specifically requested that the review: Lost in Detention examined complaints of sexual abuse at the Willacy Detention Center in Raymondville, Texas, and our reporting, in conjunction with documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, found that illegal immigrants held in immigration detention facilities across the U.S. filed more than 170 allegations of sexual abuse over the last four years. RELATED
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