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V. S. Naipaul (Routledge Revivals)
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First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul's narratives pair off histories and novels, travel-writing and psycho-biography, reinforcing one...
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English Accents and Dialects
An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition
Series: The English Language Series
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides a detailed description of key features of...
Published April 27th 2012 by Routledge
Supporting Children's Reading
A Complete Short Course for Teaching Assistants, Volunteer Helpers and Parents, 2nd Edition
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Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve – for learning and for pleasure. Supporting Children's Reading gives you the understanding you need of the reading process to ensure that children are effectively supported in their...
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Personal Transport and the Greenhouse Effect
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The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global warming. Unless the use of cars can be brought under control, there is little chance of meeting government...
Published October 1st 2009 by Routledge
Exploring Intelligence Archives
Enquiries into the Secret State
Series: Studies in Intelligence
This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a series of documents, nearly all of which...
Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge
Introduction to Environmental Physics
Planet Earth, Life and Climate
The changing climate and its affect on all of us is becoming increasingly apparent - ozone depletion, hurricanes, floods and extreme weather behaviour. Introduction to Environmental Physics challenges the way we think about how and why environmental change occurs.This authoritative book aims to...
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I'm old, I stay away from "hot spots." My fav "hot"spot is in a lounge chair by a pool haha. I like local bars and places with good food, good beer, and outside seating.
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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - Grading & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Ok, I will give it a C+.
The cast is universally great to watch and it was a fun romp. I didn't object to the reveal about Harrison's character, although they could have put a bit of effort into establishing a more credible ethnicity. The plot would have worked as easily, if not better if it had been Joachim instead but as a villain, Harrison worked very well. I will also give a big thumbs up to the use of Uhura on away missions. I thought she was unnecessary in the opening mission (I'd have preferred them to use someone else more qualified) but used to good effect on Q'onos - she should have been on the away team to the Narada as well, since she was fluent in Romulan (as opposed to rusty in Klingon) but I digress. Good use of Scotty and Sulu as well and those who were worried that Uhura would usurp McCoy could not have been more wrong. Kirk's dressing down by Pike was like my thoughts had been vomited onto the screen - I loved it and the evolution of both Kirk and Spock was well done, as in the first movie. I loved the nods to the recent comic stories (I felt like I was in on the jokes) right down to what looked like Lt Boma on the security detail to Q'onos. Great cameo by Nimoy.
However, on balance, this was a very, very silly movie. The worst things were:
Dear god the movie was still soooo sexist. What is the matter with these writers? Very few women among the Starfleet captains at the conference. No (noticeable) women among the Dreadnought crew, no female security officers among Khan's security detail, and an all male security team on the Q'onos mission (another wasted opportunity to use Janice Rand dammit!). We did however get a load of female nurses and a female replacement on the phones so that certainly helped to even up the numbers... It was, however, good to see a female replacement at navigation (I was really hoping for Ilia but, while bald, the actress didn't pull off that kind of allure and also had an American accent) and the copper-skinned alien is still on board but they are waaay short on women overall and the gender roles could easily hark back to the sixties. Shame on them.
I felt a genuine pang of sadness when Carol announced that Chris Chapel has transferred off the ship and was much happier. If it's a prelude to using her character as the focus for an upcoming comic story then I'm ok with that but it felt like they were sweeping Majel's character under a rug and given her fairly recent passing after she gave her blessing to the reboot it felt really disrespectful. They even featured several nurses later on as a sort of slap. Chapel was a research biologist - her character would have been perfect to conduct the tribble experiment instead of McCoy - it would have been a respectful nod to the woman who gave a lot to the franchise. They wrote out some female characters in the comics too, such as Dehner and yet seem more than happy to include most of the men who were in the original stories. Why they don't view Chapel and Rand and the other women as worthwhile characters is a mystery to me.
I hate the way Starfleet is such an administrative shambles. They can transport light years but can't detect ships within visual range? The importance of Yeoman Rand comes to the fore when nobody checks transfer orders? Resignations and QUALIFIED replacements aren't resolved before you leave on a crucial mission? Starfleet command sits on its hands while two ships blast each oter in orbit and they have no defences in place to stop vessels crashing into populated areas. I'm assuming, based on my knowledge of physics, it would take a long time to crash into the surface, and the planet is moving really really fast. Harrison could have crashed at speed using his engines but Enterprise was free-falling - if her angle of re-entry was wrong she would have bounced off the atmosphere wouldn't she? It looked like the writers believe that the Earth is stationary - I don't think it is...
ENSIGN Chekov - the navigator and maths genius who qualified from Starfleet Acadamy a year ago - being promoted to CHIEF engineer instead of one of a dozen more experienced, oh I don't know, actual engineers? I would have been fine if tehy had taken the opportunity to introduce a new chief - preferably a woman - and have Chekov working as her deputy. Fine. But this was so contrived I actually put my head in my hands. Terrible script writing. Just terrible.
The timings were a minor gripe. They keep painting themselves into a corner by hopping star systems. Don't they know that fans were miffed at the trip to Q'onos taking only a few days in Enterprise. Here it happens in, what, 8- 10 hours? Given that Vulcan took only half an hour in the last movie I suppose we should view it as progress? The reluctance to accept that space is really, really big also grated in the last movie and it is generally unnecessary, or would have been if they had not invented transwarp beaming... What I don't understand about transwarp beaming is how you can find sensors powerful enough to scan your destination so that you don't die when you arrive - the planet is moving really really fast subspace signals take hours when far from home, and they can't even get a proper lock on moving targets at close range. I could get on board with Stargate's linked chain of relay stations ending on a receiving transporter pad but as shown in the movies I simply do not get how this is supposed to work - again I think it's just terrible, childish writing that doesn't pay enough respect to the original concept of what transporters were there for.
The homage to TWoK was hilarious. It was like watching a spoof. I don't know if that was the intent. I liked it but it was very obvious where they were headed. The only emotion I felt was when Spock's face cracked. McCoy's surgery on a torpedo was hilariously silly in VI - I loved the homage but once again - ship of 400+ people and your doctor is the guy you send? Daft. This is one instance where I could have seen some logic to using Chekov.
It was fun but I think I've enjoyed the comics' take on the franchise more. I'm ready for them to animate these characters now. I don't think the movies are going to satisfy me!
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Overall: B After a malfunction in their spacecraft, the crew crash-lands on an unfamiliar planet where they find a primitive species of man who are hunted and abused by a ruling class of educated apes.
Violence: C Spaceship crash lands in water. Aged but preserved dead body shown. Armed apes shoot at people, catch them in nets, hit them, and chase some over a small cliff, others into a pit. Men injured when falling off cliff. Man shot and killed. Man shot in throat, blood shown. Dead men's bodies shown hanging by their feet or in piles on ground. Man with hands and feet bound to pole is carried to caged cart, man fights off other people who are trying to restrain him, burning torch is used to threaten a man on several occasions, apes control unruly behavior by capturing the offending man using a long pole with noose on the end or beating them back with a club. Man clubs ape in escape attempt, apes chase, throw rocks, whip him, and try to capture him with throat hooks and nets. Stuffed human bodies shown in a taxidermy museum display. People sprayed with water, man is leashed, man is bound, clubbed and netted, man threatened with prospect of having experimental brain surgery performed, ape knocked unconscious during kidnapping, weapons distributed, gun fight results in ape being shot and killed, another held hostage, rebellious teen expresses lack of trust for elders.
Sexual Content: C- Male rear nudity shown when characters skinny dip, male and female characters dress in scanty primitive clothing, woman presented to man as present, ape characters touch their mouths together in an affectionate kiss and hold hands on several occasions, man shown sleeping beside a woman (no sexual inference is made), man comments on a world with "lots of lovemaking but no love," man is disrobed causing humiliation and male rear nudity is shown, talk of emasculating a man.
Language: B At least 12 mild profanities, and 2 terms of Deity used as expletives.
Alcohol / Drug Use: B Man uses needle to inject himself with hibernation medicine, main character and incidental ape character shown smoking cigar on a couple of occasions, blood transfusion performed with primitive medical equipment.


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Maybe because the same **** has been asked nearly every single day for the last few years? I guess you're one of those little impatient kids then, amirite?
Also, will LA have lots of underground sections too, like as many as SoC? Make them scary as **** again please. :D
Will LA have any new music?
What a shame.
The subtitles are lols. Good video though! Looks awesome!
Nice! Can anyone give a link to google maps to show the real street so we can compare?
I guess the battery drains quite quickly for that one, am I right?
Oh god that's ugly.
Jesus, shut the **** up already
Yeah this is going to fail...
The same Collision from BM forums?
Nice Idea, transit system monitoring room. That room was kind of empty and stupid in Op4
lol what's with the chick?
Awesome soundtrack! I really like this ambient kind of music, so I'll be interested to see how it fits in with the game.
Hey! Did you hear that pigs can fly now too? And that we'll be colonising Mars in the next 5 years?
Oh, just the doors and the hanging lights are all matte grey, sorry for misinterpreting.
Look at the hanging fluorescent lights, and the door to the left, it's obviously missing textures because the map isn't finished.
Maybe you find it in a police station, since it seems like the type of gun law enforcement would use in tight quarters.
It's missing alot of textures so it will look even better still when it's done!
Looking great, but it looks too clean and friendly even if the lights are going to go out. It would enhance the mood if it was darker and more shadowy. But judging from the light fixtures and lack of textures I'm guessing its still WIP.
So now can you see why they don't want to give another release estimate? It will be out this year, relax. There's lots of other things to do besides waiting impatiently, there's lots of new games out to keep you busy in the meantime and whining and nagging for a release date isn't going to speed things up one bit.
I'm just laughing at the infinite amount of shitheads on here spouting 'dead'. If you check the forums regularly you'll see developers posting all the time, there's a reason they stay away from this shithole..
they're busy making the mod. So shut up and wait.
That made me lol
Yeah! That's great! I mean it's unreasonable to expect every room to have old junk in it, but at least you're making the effort. :) I mean GSC didn't even bother doing that.
Ah that's not too bad. Maybe if it gets enough recognition it could be included on the dvd of some game magazines?
Any rough estimate on the download size of final mod in GB? And will you use an installer or will it just be zipped?
Will you add more random junk to the interior of buildings? I was abit disappointing when I played Call of Pripyat, and most of the buildings were completely empty, making the interiors of most buildings pretty boring. Now I know they removed alot of stuff when they evacuated Pripyat, but if you look at current day reference photos there is still alot of junk that has been left there, furniture, books, creepy dolls, brains in jars etc. It would be awesome if some of the interiors had some random junk in them, just for some visual interest, and to make the interiors less boring.
You guys can see a demo of the dark forest in action in the Merry Christmas video at around 1:30, it looks freakin' scary! It looks like you could get lost really easily.


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Law clerks must have a broad understanding of how the law works and must be prompt in finding the necessary information in their research. Legal proceedings often move very quickly and cannot be halted because the law clerk is taking a long time to find the information. Therefore, law clerks must be skilled at using information systems. The position of law clerk is usually a stepping stone leading to other major positions in law, such as the positions of a lawyer or a judge. A law clerk's work setting can include a legal library, legal office, private office, or courtroom. Law clerks may often perform their duties around the regular hours in which courts are open. Courts are generally open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but they may have to perform research at all hours of the night and on weekends. Law clerks generally do the "grunt" work of the legal profession while building their skills to move up in the system.
Law clerks must be graduates of law schools. They do not usually need any professional experience, as many law clerks come straight out of school. They must be highly organized and able to make good use of documentation computer programs. They also must be skilled writers and legal researchers. Many positions also require accomplishments such as graduating in the top 10% of the class.
The job of a law clerk is an important position that assists those in higher positions in the legal process. Law clerks must work diligently to perform their duties, even when it inconveniences their personal life. This is the entry-level position in the legal profession that lawyers and judges often hold early in their careers.
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The prevalence of obesity and overweight is increasing globally. Frequently coexisting with under-nutrition in developing countries, obesity is a major contributor to chronic disease, and will become a serious healthcare burden especially in countries with a larger percentage of youthful population. 35% of the population of Saudi Arabia are under the age of 16, and adult dietary preferences are often established during early childhood years. Our objective was to examine the dietary habits in relation to body-mass-index (BMI) and waist circumference (W_C), together with exercise and sleep patterns in a cohort of male and female Saudi school children, in order to ascertain whether dietary patterns are associated with obesity phenotypes in this population.
5033 boys and 4400 girls aged 10 to 19 years old participated in a designed Food Frequency Questionnaire. BMI and W_C measurements were obtained and correlated with dietary intake.
The overall prevalence of overweight and obesity was 12.2% and 27.0% respectively, with boys having higher obesity rates than girls (P ≤ 0.001). W_C and BMI was positively correlated with sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage (SSCB) intake in boys only. The association between male BMI and SSCB consumption was significant in a multivariate regression model (P < 0.0001). SSCB intake was positively associated with poor dietary choices in both males and females. Fast food meal intake, savory snacks, iced desserts and total sugar consumption correlated with SSCB intake in both boys (r = 0.39, 0.13, 0.10 and 0.52 respectively, P < 0.001) and girls (r = 0.45, 0.23, 0.16 and 0.55 respectively, P < 0.001). Older children reported eating significantly less fruit and vegetables than younger children; and less eggs, fish and cereals. Conversely, consumption of SSCB and sugar-sweetened hot beverages were higher in older versus younger children (P < 0.001). BMI and W_C were negatively correlated with hours of night-time sleep and exercise in boys, but only with night time sleep in girls, who also showed the lowest frequency of exercise.
A higher intake of SSCB is associated with poor dietary choices. Male SSCB intake correlates with a higher W_C and BMI. Limiting exposure to SSCB could therefore have a large public health impact.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity amongst children in Saudi Arabia has previously been reported to be between 8-14% and 6-17% respectively [1,2]. Several studies suggest that these levels are rising alarmingly [3,4]. Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease [5], Diabetes [6] and certain types of cancer [7]. It can also be associated with non-fatal but debilitating illnesses such as respiratory difficulties, infertility and musculoskeletal disorders [8]. Additionally, increased waist circumference (W_C) has been associated with the risk of developing Insulin Resistance [9] and Metabolic Syndrome [10]. Several recent studies suggest that increased abdominal adiposity and W_C is a strong predictor of all-cause mortality [11,12]. Worldwide obesity has increased dramatically, and in the last two decades this condition which was once considered primarily a disease of industrialized countries, now increasingly affects individuals from developing countries at even higher growth rates [13,14]. According to data available in 2004 from the WHO Global Database on Body Mass Index, the adult prevalence of overweight in Saudi Arabia was 72.5% in the population aged between 30 and 70 years [15]. Additionally, 35% of the Saudi population are under the age of 16, compared to 20% in the United States, and thus the burden of healthcare is likely to increase considerably in the next several decades. Childhood corpulence is a predictor for adult disease [8,16]. In particular, recent studies have shown that increased BMI in childhood may predict the occurrence of obesity in adulthood [17,18]. Since the prevalence of obesity amongst the existing adult Saudi population is already high [19,20], and in view of the poor success rate of adult obesity treatment programs [21], there is a growing need to develop preventive strategies aimed towards the younger population. In children as opposed to adults, the BMI values vary with both age and gender, thus the preferred assessment is BMI-for-age, in which children with a BMI-for-age between the 85th and 95th percentile are classified as being overweight and those in the ≥ 95th percentile are considered obese [22].
Excessive calorie intake in the form of a number of macronutrients has been associated with weight gain. Energy intake from sugar-sweetened carbonated beverages (SSCB) now accounts for a significant fraction of the total caloric intake of young people [23], and consumption has been implicated in promoting obesity in several [24-27], but not all studies [28-31]. Sucrose, fructose and glucose-sweetened beverage intake has been associated with poor diet quality [31,32] and fast food consumption [33]. Although SSCB intake has increased dramatically over the past several decades [34], the effect on health outcome associated with SSCB intake is still the subject of much debate [35]. Out of 25 individual cross-sectional and prospective cohort studies, only 12 have identified significant associations between soft drink consumption and weight gain [35]. SSCB intake has also been associated with hypertension and dyslipidemia [36], components which together with increased adiposity constitute the Metabolic Syndrome, a common for-runner of Type 2 Diabetes. Recent studies indicate that the prevalence of adult obesity, diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome is increasing in Saudi Arabia [19,20,37,38], in line with other developing countries world-wide.
Given these observations, the influence of SSCB on diet quality can be viewed as a worldwide health concern. The aims of this study were to examine the dietary patterns that may affect anthropological factors of male and female Saudi school students between the age of 10 and 19, and to determine the prevalence of any nutritional trends which may impact on health outcomes in the future. A designed questionnaire was used to collect data regarding dietary habits, weight, height, BMI, waist circumference, physical activity and sleep patterns.
Subjects and survey procedure
This was a cross-sectional study conducted during the scholastic year of 2007, which included both male and female Saudi children between the ages of 10 and 19, randomly selected from 450 intermediate and secondary schools in different regions of the capital city of Riyadh, corresponding to 2.7% of the Riyadh student population for that year. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and because all data were collected anonymously, a waiver of consent was granted by the Research Ethics Committee of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre. Parents were notified in writing about the objectives of the study and were invited to contact their respective schools to ask questions or to withdraw their child from the study. A total of 10,000 subjects were interviewed, and after removing subjects with missing/incomplete data, 9433 anonymized entries were included in the study, aged between 10 and 19 years, with an overall male to female ratio of 1.14. Anthropometric measurements of weight, height and waist circumference were carried out by the same team of experienced nurses and one attending physician in order to avoid inter-examiner variability. Weight was measured in light clothing and without shoes using a digital scale, and was recorded to the nearest 100 g. Height was measured as the distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet without shoes using a fixed stadiometer. BMI-for-age (calculated as Kg body weight/m2) was categorized as < 5th percentile, ≥ 5th and < 85th percentile, ≥ 85th and < 95th percentile, and ≥ 95th percentile using 2000 Centre for Disease Control gender-specific growth charts [22]. Waist circumference was measured at the narrowest part between the lower rib and the iliac crest (the natural waist) using a non-elastic flexible tape and recorded to the nearest 0.1 cm. Age and gender-specific W_Cs were divided into the following percentiles according to Fernandez et al [39]: ≤ 10th percentile; ≥ 10th and ≤ 75th percentile; ≥ 75th and ≤ 90th percentile and ≥ 90th percentile.
Dietary assessment
A purpose-designed 7-day food frequency questionnaire (FFQ), previously translated into Arabic and including colored pictures of the food items under investigation was used in this study. Children were briefed as to how to complete the questionnaire prior to filling out their response. The variables studied were related to 7-day recall of intake of several types of commonly available fast food meals such as beef burger meal with French fries and a choice of either sugar-sweetened or diet carbonated beverage, chicken burger meal, chicken nugget meal or fried chicken meal. Other items such as apple pie, frozen desserts and pizza were included in the survey on the basis of their availability at fast food restaurants. Major nutrient sources queried included eggs, cheese, fish, selected fruits (apples, oranges bananas and dates) and vegetables (carrots, salad and corn), bread, sweetened and unsweetened cereal, sweet and savory snacks and drink consumption. Items included in the questionnaire were selected from a larger list of food and drink items, the frequency of consumption having previously been tested in a small pilot study performed with 420 Riyadh school children during the preceding scholastic year. The survey included questions related to SSCB intake either as part of a fast food meal, or alone. Other items included as independent variables based on their possible relationship with beverage intake were donuts, muffin/cake, ice cream, and savory snacks such as potato crisps and popcorn). Local foods were also featured in the questionnaire in the form of shawarma, and a typical rice and meat dish (Kabsa). For tea, coffee and milk, number of cups consumed per week were recorded. The number of spoonfuls of sugar added to beverages (5 g per serving) was also included in the questionnaire. The nutrient content of these food items was calculated from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference [40] and verified wherever possible by nutritional information from food manufacturers.
Physical activity and sleep patterns
The frequency of physical activity was monitored. Students were asked to report the number of occasions per week that they took part in exercise consisting of 30 minutes or more of moderate activity. Students were also asked to record their normal duration of night-time and day-time sleep.
Statistical Analysis
Only forms with a complete set of valid data were included in this study, in which we aimed to sample 10,000 children. The response rate was 94.4%, with the remaining subjects electing not to participate. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 13.0 (SPSS, Inc., Chicago IL.). One way ANOVA with Tukey's posthoc test was used to compare differences in means of BMI, W_C, food intake frequency, exercise frequency and sleep patterns amongst gender within the three age groups (n = 9433). Percentage data were compared using the z-test for column proportions. Statistical significance was set at P ≤ 0.05 for all tests. For the correlation analysis, the data was filtered for possible over and under reporting by mean intake ± 1 standard deviation [41] of mean total Kcal intake as recommended by Ventura et al [42]. Following this exclusion, 7031 (74.5%) data entries were used in the correlational analyses. Pearson's correlations were calculated for males & females separately to evaluate the association of anthropometric variables BMI & W_C with self-reported food intake frequencies & the nutrients calculated based on the intake. Spearman's correlations were calculated for the categorical variables of self-reported hours of night-time and day-time sleep, and number of exercise occasions. Gender-specific Multiple Linear Regression analysis was applied for the determination of the best predictors among the self-reported dietary intake variables, sleep and exercise patterns of BMI and W_C. Variables were subjected to bivariate analyses versus BMI or W_C. Those with a P-value of < 0.2 were then entered in a Multiple Linear Regression model using the stepwise method. Results were reported for the final model as standardized beta coefficient (β), level of statistical significance and 95% confidence intervals.
The study sample consisted of 9433 male and female students divided into 3 age groups (10-13 yrs, 14-16 yrs, 17-19yrs), with a male: female ratio of 1.14 to 1 (Table 1). The overall prevalence of overweight children (BMI ≥ 85th and <95th percentile) was 15.5%, whereas obese (BMI ≥ 95th percentile) children constituted 21.1% of the study population. Regardless of age or gender, approximately 55% of this population had a BMI-for-age within the normal range of between ≥ 5th and < 85th percentile. Male and female underweight (≤ 5th BMI-for-age percentile) children accounted for 10% and 6.8% of the population respectively. Overweight children (between the 85th and 95th BMI-for-age percentile) accounted for 14.4.% of males and 16.7% of females, with the remainder (25.8% male and 15.7% female) having BMI-for-age values of ≥ 95th percentile (Table 1 and Figure 1). There were significantly more boys achieving a BMI-for-age ≥ 95th percentile than girls, indicating a higher prevalence of obesity amongst male students (P < 0.001). The numbers of obese male, but not female children also increased with age, so that there were higher numbers of obese children aged 16-19 years than at 10-13 years (P < 0.001). Waist Circumference (W_C) measurements showed similar gender differences, with a higher percentage of boys achieving W_C scores in the ≥ 90th percentile compared to girls, regardless of age group (Table 1 and Figure 2, P < 0.001). A greater number of female students also had W_C measurements in the ≤ 10th percentile range compared to males (Table 1 and Figure 2, P < 0.001).
Table 1. Anthropometric characteristics of the subjects divided into tertiles by age.
Figure 1. Distribution of Body Mass Index groups by gender and age group.
Figure 2. Distribution of Waist Circumference (W_C) groups by gender and age group.
The mean BMI, W_C and weekly intake of selected food items and macronutrients per age group for male and female children is shown in Table 2. Amongst the 9433 children surveyed, mean W_C significantly increased with age, with boys having larger W_C measurements than girls (Table 2, P < 0.001). Mean BMI measurements were higher in boys versus girls only at age 17-19 (P < 0.001). Sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage (SSCB) consumption varied from 5.93 to 9.04 servings a week, and was significantly higher than consumption of non-caloric sweetened "Diet" carbonated beverage (DCB), which varied between 0.92 and 1.52 servings per week (Table 2, P < 0.001). Whereas there was no significant difference between the total Kcals from the self-reported variables consumed by children aged 10 to 19, the reported frequency of weekly consumption of milk (both full fat and low fat), fruit, vegetables, fish, eggs and cereal, pizza, sweet snacks, ice cream and DCB decreased with advancing age in both genders (Table 2, P < 0.01). Conversely, the frequency of reported consumption of SSBC, added sugar in hot beverages and total sugar intake increased with age in both males and females, suggesting a trend towards sugar-rich foods and away from healthier food choices with advancing age. Additionally, whereas boys consumed significantly more SSCB than girls, and also more DCB, full-fat milk, eggs, fruit, savory snacks and added sugar in hot beverages; boys did not report consuming more fruit juice, low-fat milk, vegetables, fish, cheese, bread, cereals, fast food meals, pizza, sweet snacks or ice cream than girls, regardless of age group.
Table 2. Descriptive characteristics of self-reported weekly food intake, exercise and sleep patterns in males and females; n = 5033, 4400 respectively.
Hours of both night-time and day-time sleep were surveyed, together with frequency of exercise occasions per week. The number of children reporting less than 6 hours of night-time sleep increased with advancing age, with a higher percentage of girls reportedly having <6 hours sleep compared to boys of similar ages (Table 2, P < 0.05). Conversely, more girls reported sleeping for one or more hours during the day compared to boys (P < 0.05). Frequency of exercise decreased with increasing age in both genders (Table 2, P < 0.001). Additionally, boys exercised more than girls across all age groups, with up to 40% of girls reporting performing no exercise at all (P < 0.05).
Table 3 shows SPSS output tables for Pearson r correlations among male and female BMI, W_C and selected food intake frequencies for each of 21 food items. In order to exclude potential over- and under-reporting, we used a ± 1 standard deviation cut-off for the mean total Kcal intake as recommended by Ventura et al [37]. After this exclusion, a total of 7031 data entries (74.5% of the total population) were subjected to correlation analysis, comprising of 3781 boys and 3250 girls. Of the data entries excluded from the correlation analysis, 11.1% of the survey population were found to be under-reporters based on the ± 1SD cut-off values, and 14.4% were over-reporters. Correlation analysis of the main portion of our population indicated that waist circumference (W_C) and BMI were positively correlated with SSCB intake in boys but not girls (r = 0.10 and 0.09 respectively, P < 0.001). SSCB consumption was positively associated with poor dietary choices in both males and females. Fast food meal intake, savory snacks, iced desserts and sugar intake correlated with SSCB intake in both males (r = 0.39, 0.13, 0.10 and 0.52 respectively, P < 0.001) and females (r = 0.45, 0.23, 0.16 and 0.55 respectively, P < 0.001). Full fat milk intake positively correlated with fruit, vegetable, eggs and cheese preferences in both boys (r = 0.20, 0.14, 0.17, 0.14 and 0.12 respectively, P < 0.001) and girls (r = 0.19, 0.14, 0.14, 0.15 and 0.17 respectively, P < 0.001). There was a negative correlation between W_C and full fat milk, fruit, vegetable and fish intake in males only (r = -0.07, -0.1, -0.09 and -0.07 respectively, P < 0.001).
Table 3. Pearson correlation coefficients, between BMI, W_C, self-reported measures of food intake.
Although both BMI and W_C were inversely correlated with frequency of exercise in males (Table 4, P ≤ 0.001), this was not the case for females. However, exercise positively correlated with fruit, vegetable and unsweetened cereal intake in both genders, and also with full-fat milk intake in males only. Hours of night-time sleep was negatively correlated with BMI and W_C in both boys and girls, whereas day-time sleep correlated positively with SSCB intake in boys and negatively correlated with SSCB in girls.
Table 5 shows the final multivariate regression model for the correlates of BMI in boys and in girls. BMI positively correlated with male SSCB consumption (β 0.10, P < 0.0001), suggesting that every unit increase in self-reported SSCB consumption is associated with a 10% increase in BMI. BMI was also positively correlated with bread consumption in both genders, (P ≤ 0.0001), and added sugars in beverages also had a significant positive association with BMI. In both genders, hours of night time sleep was negatively correlated with BMI, and in boys, BMI was negatively correlated with number of exercise occasions (P ≤ 0.0001). Similarly, waist circumference was positively correlated with self-reported male SSCB intake in a multivariate regression model (Table 6, β 0.10, P < 0.0001).
In this study we surveyed BMI, W_C, dietary habits and exercise/sleep patterns of a cohort of 9433 male and female Saudi school children aged 10-19, since many aspects of adult physical and nutritional behavior are often established during childhood and adolescence [43]. The overall prevalence of overweight children (BMI ≥ 85th and ≤ 95th percentile) was 15.5%, whereas obese children constituted 21.0% of the population, which is higher than previous reports [1,2]. A significantly higher percentage of boys achieved BMI scores ≥ 95th percentile and waist-circumference scores ≥ 90th percentile compared to girls. Increased prevalence of obesity amongst boys aged under 11 compared to girls was recently noted in a report based on National data from the Health Survey for England 2005 [44]. Within Saudi Arabia, boys aged 10-16 showed the largest increase in the prevalence of obesity in a study occurring between 1994 and 2000, whereas girls showed the smallest increase at ages 14-16 [45]. However other epidemiological studies in various areas of Saudi suggest that obesity is more prevalent in girls [1,2]. The reasons for this apparent dissimilarity are open to conjecture.
Our study indicated that the frequency of reported consumption of SSBC, added sugar in hot beverages, total sugar and number of local rice dishes increased with age in both male and female children, suggesting a trend towards sugar-rich foods and away from healthier food choices with advancing age. This was accompanied by a decrease in reported weekly consumption of milk (both full fat and low fat), fruit, vegetables, fish, eggs and cereal. These observations tend to confirm other studies which show that the quality of children's diets decrease over time [46] possibly due to a lessening of the parental influence [47] and increasing exposure to external influences and advertising. In the present study, self-reported consumption of SSCB and added sugars in hot beverages was significantly higher in boys aged 14-19 compared to girls of equal age, in keeping with previous observations in Saudi [48], the United States [49,50] and Great Britain [51]. The reason why boys tend to consume more soft drinks than girls is not fully understood, and should be explored further. SSCB consumption was positively correlated with larger W_C and BMI in Saudi boys, but not girls. Several [24-27] but not all [28-31] epidemiological studies have shown a link between sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption and obesity in children, and soft drink intake has also been associated with poor dietary choices [32,52], low protein and milk consumption [53]. We found that a high intake of SSCB correlated strongly with total sugar intake and total Kcal intake. One possible explanation for the association of SSCB intake and BMI, W_C could be that excessive sugars consumed may be stored as fat [54], leading to weight gain and increased adiposity. High sugar diets have also been shown to contribute to the development of Insulin Resistance and hyperlipidemia [55], components of the Metabolic Syndrome in which weight gain is a commonality. Our study also showed a positive association between SSCB intake and fast food meals, pizza, savory and sweet snack intake, and an inverse correlation with fruit, vegetable and milk intake. Fast food meals were also inversely correlated with fruit, vegetable and milk intake, in agreement with observations by French et al [56]. Conversely, full fat milk consumption correlates with more healthful dietary choices such as fruit, vegetable, eggs and cheese preferences, in both males and female Saudi children. Studies have shown that a greater intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with lower risk of overweight in children [57,58], and a recent cross-sectional analyses of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) demonstrated an inverse association between central obesity and intake of fruits, vegetables and dairy products [59]. Several suggestions as to why increased vegetable and fruit intake might be protective against obesity include the notion that the replacement of high fat/energy-rich nutrients with relatively lower energy dense, water-rich vegetables and fruits might reduce weight gain [60], and secondly that the higher fiber content of fruits and vegetables might blunt postprandial glycemic and insulinemic responses in the small intestine leading to a reduction in hunger and subsequent energy intake [61]. The inverse correlation of milk intake with SSCB consumption demonstrated in this and other studies is also a cause for concern, since a lower intake of milk may be associated with decreased bone density in children [62].
Our study indicated that fast food meals were consumed by Riyadh school children at an average of 4.5 times a week. This frequency contrasts markedly with data from the southwestern region of Saudi Arabia [2], in which a much smaller frequency of twice a month was reported for school children in the city of Abha. One reason for this difference in consumption may lie in the fact that Riyadh, with six times the urban population of Abha, is the capital city of Saudi Arabia, with an affluent infrastructure and approximately 35,000 fast food outlets [63]. It is also noteworthy that the overall prevalence of overweight and obesity in Riyadh is significantly higher than that of Abha [2].
The frequency of exercise occasions decreased with advancing age, and was inversely correlated with BMI and W_C in boys only, in keeping with previous observations [64]. Females were less likely to exercise, with up to 40% of girls performing no exercise at all, which may have important implications for the future, since a sedentary lifestyle is a major factor in all-cause mortality rates amongst adults [65].
The usual limitations of this cross-sectional study is that causal relationships between various types of food and beverage consumption and body measurements cannot be ascertained, but can only be used to generate hypotheses which may be evaluated by future prospective randomized trials if necessary. The present study is further limited by the accuracy of the self-reported dietary intake, a feature shared by many studies of this nature. The issue of reporting bias has recently been addressed by Savage et al [66], who concluded that plausible reporting of energy intake may predict BMI in pre-adolescent children. A simple analytical procedure was used to identify reporting bias, using a ± 1 standard deviation cut-off for energy intake plausibility. This approach was also adopted by Ventura et al [42], whereas Huang et al [41] found that biological plausibility was highest with energy intake cut-offs of between ± 1 and ± 1.4 SD. In adopting a cut-off of ± 1SD, we retained three quarters of our original study population for the correlative analysis, and thus the associations between SSCB and BMI in Saudi boys can be considered valid.
This study of 9433 school children points to an association between SSCB intake, W_C and BMI in boys age 10-19. Secondly, SSCB intake correlates with poor dietary choices such as fast food meals, savory snacks, and ice cream desserts in both males and females. Conversely, milk consumption was inversely correlated with BMI and W_C, and positively associated with fruit, vegetable, dates, eggs and cheese intake in both genders. SSCB and fast food meal intake may be important factors in evaluating the relationship between overall dietary intake and dietary choices, particularly in the adolescent population. Our data points to a need for further studies into the effect of dietary choices on the growing trend towards obesity.
SSCB: sugar-sweetened carbonated beverage; DCB: Diet carbonated beverage; W_C: waist circumference; WHO: World Health organization; %DV: percentage Daily Value; SD: standard deviation.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
KSC conceived of the study and participated in its design, data analysis, interpretation, presentation and drafted the manuscript. MZZ participated in the data collection and analysis, and in the generation of figures and tables for the manuscript. SS participated in the data collection and analysis. MS oversaw statistical considerations and KA-R supervised data collection. FA-M participated in the study design, manuscript drafting and data analysis and interpretation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Research Advisory Council project #2061 027.
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A Washington state police officer accused of leaving a loaded handgun in the family van where his young son could grab it and fatally shoot his 7-year-old sister has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree manslaughter charge, reports KING 5.
Marysville police officer Derek Carlile spoke just five words during his arraignment in Snohomish County Superior Court. The two most important: not guilty.
Carlile is charged with second-degree manslaughter for the March 10 death of Jenna Carlile.
Read the full KING 5 story.
Wash. Officer Charged In Daughter's Death
Daughter of Wash. Officer Dies After Shooting
Tags: Accidental Shootings, Firearms Safety, Families of Officers, Marysville (Wash.) PD
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Even POLICE need to think twice, need to be XTRA considerate ragarding their weopons and safety of those around, How easily this could have been avoided, by simply leaving the gun secured and locked, on his person.


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If you are visiting for the first time, welcome! Please read all about my CoffeeShop blog here.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
FREE CoffeeShop Christmas Card Templates!
Here is a set of ten 5x7 CoffeeShop Christmas Card .psd templates. They were made with the CoffeeShop Christmas Pattern set, Download Here. Just open the card in your editing program of choice, open the image you wish to add, then use the move tool to drag the image UNDER the card template. Press Ctrl-T and transform your image to fit in the cutout. You can change the text.
My next post will have a step-by-step tutorial on making your own custom patterns AND cards in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Then I will move away from scrapbooking for a few posts and get back to my photo-editing roots and release my CoffeeShop PowderRoom Redux action (bigger and better!), the CoffeeShop White Chocolate Action set with tutorial, and another vintage action and tutorial. Plus tons of more stuff that is keeping me up late at night tossing in bed because it wants to come out!
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Well, we got some of that in Losing the Peace. Perhaps the Enterprise, with Worf and his ties to Martok/Klingons, etc. (Picard too), would've worked better in a Kinshaya-focused novel. I believe that Christopher's e-book is about the Kinshaya and featuring the TNG cast. I think that would've been a better fit.
With Shar being part of the DS9 relaunch and the DS9 books setting the groundwork for what happened in Paths, it just felt more natural to me to have those characters fit. It wasn't like Picard bought all that much diplomatic skill to the events in Path and perhaps bringing Bashir back onboard Aventine was a good enough substitute for Beverly.
Of course that would've screwed up Zero Sum Game, or had some complaining that the Aventine was getting too much exposure, so I guess you can't win for losing.
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The reason I ask is because my friend gave me 4 or 5 and we have been using them. And I have loved it! The rest of my stash is Grovia AI2s and some Kawaii GNHW for bedtime. I am seriously considering selling all my Grovias and replacing with Sunbabys. Am I crazy??? DH is not on board yet.
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All the above! Ha! I have a 35 month old and 17 month old wearing them right now. Fits them both great. Easy to clean poop out of. Having no leaks. Fast drying. Easy because I prestuff them. I am sold. (Now to just get DH on board.) He probably thinks I am just trying to feed my dipe fetish!
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love mine too. i've restashed every other brand (besides BG and one blueberry minky) for more sunbabies because i love the fit and the trimness and all the cute prints. i like the older 'size 1' better for my skinny LO, i'm not a fan of the giant ones. i don't use the microfiber inserts, i like to stuff with bamboo or hemp for more absorbency and less bulk.
I don't get 'drunk' I get less classy and more fun
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Depending on the perspective — and the spin — U.S. News & World Report is either shutting down or taking the next step in a long transition from print to online with the announcement that the December issue will be its last. In an internal memo sent Friday afternoon and posted on Romenesko, Editor Brian Kelly and digital head Bill Holiber told the staff the magazine will only publish "select" single-topic issues, ie the rankings isssues that make the money.
Kelly and company insists the Mort Zuckerman outlet, once a weekly print magazine, will continue to produce content online but that cutting regular print editions was the only option. The emphasis online will continue to be on rankings and research, what they call "useful journalism."
With an average unique audience of 9 million and counting, we've become a significant publisher in the digital space, creating content that people want and an audience that advertisers will pay for. Each of our channels — Politics & Policy, Education, Money, Health, Autos, and Travel — are now fully-formed business units that are developing on their own best course. By working both in the vertical channels and horizontally across them, the company has diversified its revenue beyond display advertising to include e-commerce products, lead generation, licensing and other sources.
What you won't see any mention of in that memo is news. That's not what USN&WR is about these days although it does produce "news you can use" — and it is expanding its digital-only U.S. News Weekly, launched in 2009, to tablets.
That makes it harder to say that USN&WR is shutting down, which was the instant reaction. It's not. It may even make more money from print this way.


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With stadiums rising across the country for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament and in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics, it is clear Brazil itself is rising on the world stage. The country's economic growth has led it to overtake the UK as the world's sixth-largest economy while the announcement last week that it won the bid to host the next Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) will spotlight the role that entrepreneurs have played in the country's newfound economic prowess and international standing.
While the Baltic countries are small compared to their EU partners, they are said to have an outsized role in generating new start-ups, particularly through their big ideas in the tech sector. Today, we look at Lithuania, which has been campaigning aggressively through Global Entrepreneurship Week in the Baltics and has rapidly been gaining a place on the entrepreneurial map.
One of the prime reasons I founded the Public Forum Institute was a strong belief in the role ordinary citizens can play in addressing chronic stalemates on vital national policy issues. After moderating hundreds of congressionally-chaired health policy forums over the years, I conclude it will be other developments outside of top-down reform that drive improvements in health care. It seems inevitable that with so many people's income dependent on our health care industry, even the most well-meaning politicians face a never-ending path of discourse in their efforts to improve health care without disrupting such a large chunk of the American economy. The revolution in consumer data may be just one of those new game changers.
Last November, Costa Rica joined the global movement to unleash startups by celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). The response surprised its local champions. Costa Rica´s host, Yo Emprendedor, managed to get strong support from 28 key partners from across the private, public, NGO and education sectors—including the Ministry of the Economy, the largest media group in the country and angel investors.
At a Community College Workforce Alliance meeting today here in Richmond, Virginia, there were clear signs of heightened interest in the role that community colleges can play in advancing entrepreneurship as a means of getting Americans back to work. Following support from President Barack Obama and Startup America, plus a recent announcement of a $1 million grant from the Kauffman Foundation to scale one model to more schools around the country, a new generation of educators appear intent on maximizing the potential of their communities to produce more new innovative firms.
Two prominent Japanese professors recently authored the Fukao-Kwon report, which revealed that from 1996-2006, when total employment in Japan decreased by 3.5 million, young, newly established firms and foreign companies were the only ones to create net job growth. This report also suggests that new companies have higher success rates than older, established companies in Japan and that entrepreneurs clearly need to be the central catalysts in Japan's next chapter. Have the great innovators of the post-war years – Toyota, Nippon Steel, Sony, etc – become so huge and successful that they have lost their propensity to create disruptive new technologies?
While the startup genome in Silicon Valley is always mutating, some formulas are becoming basic tenets in the science of startups. A critical mass of email about my use of the word "iterative" in my blogs prompts me to revisit one such startup fundamental—the so called "Lean Startup" formula.
As elections approach and there is a lot of debate on which is the best road to a robust economy with more jobs, policymakers should take time to listen to the message of the just-released Kaufman Foundation videos on the benefits of high-skilled immigration. With Washington being unwilling to separate the obviously different issues of high-skilled immigration and how to handle illegal immigrants, a net job gain strategy remains hostage to politics as usual in the nation's capitol.
From an outsider perspective, Belgium has a very diverse economy with dozens of influences coming together at its prime location in the heart of the EU. Being the home to several major European universities, and a mix of service-based economy in the north and industrial-based in the south, Belgium has a diverse market structure that keeps it competitive and one of the highest income per capita economies in the world. However, when it comes to entrepreneurship, Belgium is not thriving.
I recently returned from Brazil, the world's sixth largest economy, where President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist revolutionary, is using pro-growth incentives such as lower interest rates, proposed tax cuts and infrastructure investment to fuel her nation's quest for sustained economic growth and help more Brazilians stand on their own two feet. That Rio will host the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2013 is obviously important for Brazilians. It might be more important for the rest of world.
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