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A Trade War In The Solar Industry Doesn't Make Sense
China's production of lower and lower cost solar panels is destroying the American solar industry (think Solyndra). But instead of trying to artificially stop that decline, we should focus on becoming solar innovators.
The 20th century, a period of unparalleled economic growth in United States, can be summed up in a phrase: "As GM goes, so goes the nation." Throughout the century, the Midwestern industrial heart of America—Detroit and surrounding cities from Toledo to Youngstown, Cleveland to Pittsburgh—pumped out iron and steel and autos. It was a microcosm of our present global supply chain economy.
Lobbying on Capitol Hill was left to the big boys: GM, Ford Chrysler, GE, AT&T, big energy companies, big food companies, and more. A steel supplier relied on the Big Three auto companies to work with Congress to create the market for steel and tires. GE helped its own supply chain through its lobbying efforts.
That was the 20th Century.
The playing field of the 20th century no longer exists. Twenty-first-century technologies have turned the concept of trade on its head, eliminating borders and changing the rules of the game. Anyone running a fast-growth company must navigate this new world, and America-centric thinking will not provide the competitive capability necessary to succeed in it.
The lack of understanding of these truths in the solar industry has been brought to my attention in the past few weeks. SolarWorld, a predominantly German solar panel manufacturer (with locations in the U.S.), is upset that the Chinese government is subsidizing its homegrown solar panel manufacturers by copying earlier German and Japanese subsidy programs. These subsidies are driving down the cost of panels worldwide.
We have already seen the casualties—over 300 manufacturers in China and U.S. companies like Solyndra and Evergreen that could not compete globally on price. Now, SolarWorld has submitted a petition asking President Barack Obama's administration enact punitive duties on China for unfair trading practices.
SolarWorld president Gordon Brinser noted in PV Magazine that "China will dominate a new generation of technology that will reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels, and we will see our increasing dependence on our Far East energy source eclipse our future potential for greater energy security." But this is a false worry. The 20th-century world of America as the producer and seller of goods from cradle to grave has not existed for decades. America is no longer the world's core manufacturer. But it is a technological and creative leader.
The combination of American design and global manufacturing has created an international economic network that has supplanted the country-specific world of old. That's why Apple products are "Designed by Apple in California" but assembled in China. America is a master of creative design and early engineering; China has become a master manufacturer in the global supply chain.
While SolarWorld is focused on maintaining America as a solar manufacturing leader, the solar industry should actually be focused on solar deployment in America. It doesn't matter where the panels come from, it matters that we put them up. In the U.S. alone, we have created 100,000 jobs in the deployment of solar doing it rooftop by rooftop and community by community. A key to making that work is reliable, low-cost panels.
If China successfully replicates German manufacturing subsidies to manufacture low-margin commodity solar products, the solar industry and America should let it. This increases deployment, and deployment is the ultimate goal.
Many companies have had to reinvent themselves as low-cost producers to gain marketshare. But it takes entrepreneurs to reimagine industry sectors, and those people still largely live in the United States.
SolarWorld has the resources and expertise that could quite possibly create a technological advancement that would be the envy of the rest of the solar industry. Their breakthroughs could further lower costs, and lead the industry in its efforts to deploy more PV to create even more American jobs. What we don't need is a trade war that breaks down the global supply chain and destroys American jobs. Wouldn't it be nice if in the near future we could all read with pride, "Designed by SolarWorld in California?"
A 21st-century global market takes 21st-century thinking. Because, "As goes solar deployment, so goes America's (and the world's) 21st-century energy system."
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Here's an example of what I mean:
Yes, it takes entrepreneurs to reimagine industry sectors but it seems unfair for our tax dollars to artificially support businesses that are not fully developed. (Too bad I couldn't get a subsidy a 30 year old business that I had to close in 2010).I am sadden by the ever declining support towards research and development. Solar can only improve, by the government investing in education and science. Having a child in the Chicago Public School system now, I am shocked the abysmal educational resources that my tax dollars have supported. I no longer have the luxury of sending my child to private school. Our children are falling behind. They are our future. Nurture our garden: Plant the seeds, feed and water them, and they will grow. Stop looking for the quick buck and lining the wrong peoples' pockets. Support EDUCATION and R&D.


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This weekend, the long awaited debut of Chicago on the ITU World Triathlon Series schedule will come to fruition. It is the only U.S. stop on the 2014 ITU World Triathlon Series circuit.
Universal Sports Network will broadcast the elite women's race Saturday, June 28, at 1:30 PM ET LIVE and the elite men's race Sunday, June 29, at 5 PM ET.
Below is a preview of both races:
Elite Women
After becoming the first American woman to win a World Triathlon Series event last year in San Diego, Gwen Jorgensen will look to repeat her winning ways on home soil yet again. If her last two wins in Yokohama and London are any indicator, Jorgensen is well primed to duplicate her 2013 win. As Lake Michigan will likely require a wetsuit, which could work in Jorgensen's favor, the cold temperatures have also taken the American out of the race before it's begun. But as we saw in Cape Town, that won't stop this powerhouse from running herself onto the podium.
While the Brits like to podium in pairs, Helen Jenkins will be Great Britain's big hope with Jodie Stimpson off the start list. After missing a year of competition to rehab an injury, Jenkins blasted back onto the racing scene as if she never missed it, scoring top three performances in Auckland and Cape Town. Like Groff, she's dangerous across all the disciplines, which will make for interesting race strategies amongst the ladies.
Ai Ueda (JPN) is hot off a hat trick of wins at the Huatulco World Cup, as well as a silver from WTS Yokohama, meaning the pocket rocket Japanese boasts the most powerful weapon of all – confidence. Ueda has also stated she likes a hot and humid race, which the Blues City will certainly offer up. Emma Moffatt (AUS) has yet to score a top three finish this year, but don't count the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist out.
Chicago will see a school of solid swimmers start with Paula Oliveira (BRA), Yuka Sato (JPN), Claudia Rivas (MEX) and Carolina Routier (ESP) on the lists. Oliveria, Rivas and Sato are also stealthy cyclists, which could bode well for all around athletes like Jenkins and Moffatt, as they can all match that fast front end speed. Jenkins and Moffatt have also each won on US soil at WTS events, so they know what it takes. And while the race won't be won on the swim, its pace could certainly determine who crosses the finish line first.
Elite Men
Having won three of the four WTS races this season, Javier Gomez (ESP) remains the man to beat. While he faltered slightly in London with a lack of explosive speed off the end of the 5km run, Gomez doesn't take lightly to subpar performances. Expect the Spaniard to be back to his conquering ways in Chicago. Without the presence of the Brownlees, there's no reason why Gomez shouldn't clench his fourth win of the season, which would subsequently be his first ever WTS gold on US soil.
Mario Mola (ESP) and Richard Murray (RSA) each cemented their seats on the men's leaderboard in London with mind blowing speed. Although their velocity has produced higher results in sprint distances, both athletes have this year proved they can step up the speed over double the distance. This weekend, with just Gomez driving the pace, these speed demons have a solid shot at medals.
While the three jump out as heavy favourites, the men's race is riddled with potential game changers. Four-time Olympian Hunter Kemper returns to WTS racing for the first time since last year. Despite varied results the last several years, Jarrod Shoemaker will start as the only American man to have won a WTS event.
Dmitry Polyanskiy (RUS) shouldn't be discounted. Polyanskiy captured bronze in Cape Town when he held off Mola and Murray on the run, and is hot off a silver from the European Championships. Look for him to lead out of the swim and charge for the bike course out front.
Portugal's Joao Pereira perked attention with his bronze medal in the sprint London race, but it remains to be seen if he can spread his speed out over a 10km run. Meanwhile, compatriot Joao Silva has yet to produce top results this year but can certainly compete with the best of them, and Ryan Sissons (NZL) can sizzle on the bike if he makes it out of the water in solid position.
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One of the highlights of the forthcoming Marco Polo album PA2: The Director's Cut, as Large, Rebel INS, O.C. and Trag all go in. DJ Revolution steals the show, however, with what can only be described as scratching so great it should be illegal.
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I want to like Marco Polo's beats, but they never quite grab me. It's boom bap with a lot of energy, but I always feels there is something missing. I just don't get a real feel from his beats.
The sound quality is amazing but the lack of real soul in his beats keep me from ever listening to his jams for a second go round.
Great technical skill isn't enough to make me want to hear a song again.Comment by RigaTony 10.25.13 @
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You nailed it!! You can see he's studied his craft and you can hear the potebtial but think about the first time you heard any of, say Premo's joints. They immediately go on repeat. Even his substandard joints warrant at least a second listen. The only MP joint that I really felt was Large Pro's "Professor @ Large", which strangely enough was the best beat on that whole album.Comment by oskamadison 10.25.13 @
Word to RigaTony…..I don't know why these true school dudes keep gravitating to these bland producers. Just because you love "real" hiphop doesn't mean you're ready for primetime.Comment by Truth Powell 10.25.13 @
@ RigaTony, that's exactly the way I feel about Marco Polo. His beats are cool, but for the most part, I listen to them once and I never really want to listen to them again. I don't know, maybe it's just a matter of taste for me. I prefer a Madlib, an Alchemist or A Roc Marciano over a Marco Polo.Comment by esto 10.25.13 @
I guess my comment didn't post…Another co-sign for Riga Tony. You can tell Marco has studied his craft and his beats have that potential but that thing that make you want to keep runnin' it back is missing. Even one of Premo's third tier joints is at least worth a second listen. The best joint I've heard from MP so far is Large Pro's "Professor @ Large" which strangely was the best joint on that album.Comment by oskamadison 10.25.13 @
This shit is fuckin official.. I'm looking forward to port authority 2. I think Marco polo's a beast..Comment by lex 10.26.13 @
This Has to be One of trag ppls makin a comment like tht ,the only one wit the real hunger? u gotta be smokin the same shit he smoked out tht crack pipe..lolComment by po boy 10.28.13 @
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December 2, 2015
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon health officials have confirmed that a man who tried to save a mouse from the mouth of a stray cat has the plague.
State public health veterinarian Dr. Emilio De Bess says the man was infected when he was bitten by either the stray his family had befriended and named Charlie or the mouse.
The body of the feline is being sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing.
The unidentified man, who is in his 50s, remains in critical condition at St. Charles Medical Center-Bend.
His illness marks the fifth case of plague in Oregon since 1995.
More than a dozen people who were in contact with the sick man have been notified and are receiving preventive antibiotics.
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Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships twelfth day of racing was hampered by light and shifty conditions.
Tom Slingsby of Australia - Laser - Men's One Person Dinghy event of the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships
Australian Tom Slingsby continues to lead the way in the Laser fleet following the final day of qualification races.
Competition is set to heat up from Thursday with the leading sailors set to face off against each other in the Gold fleet with Slingsby taking a seven point lead over Great Britain's Paul Goodison into the next stage of competition.
The triple World Champion had a mixed day with another impressive race win to kick off the day before being forced to fight back from deep in the fleet to finish ninth in race two.
'I had a good one and a not so good one today, it was a crazy day,' said Slingsby. 'In the first race I was doing well in about third and picked the left hand side when the wind went funky, I was able to get up to first and then hold on to win.'
'In race two we had a massive wind shift which was practically a self tacker to the left for me, with the guys who started at the other end of the line rounding the top mark minutes ahead,' he said. 'I had to play catch up again and caught as many as I could heading towards the finish.'
Slingsby said that he'll take some confidence into the Gold fleet following four race wins from the first six races, but that the conditions continue to challenge the entire fleet.
'I know that I'm sailing well when the breeze is normal, when it goes crazy it's a bit of luck of the day but I'm in good shape going into tomorrow,' he said. 'It's weird what's going on with the wind, it's a hard time to lead an event because you're trying to watch your opposition and who's close to you on points but in stuff like that you can't cover them.
'If it comes back to the Fremantle Doctor I'll rest a bit easier because I know it'll come down to the little shifts and nothing crazy on the race course where the others could get 20 or 30 points on me,' said Slingsby.
Fellow Australian Ashley Brunning has jumped up to fourth overall after another very strong day of racing off the coast of Fremantle.
Brunning has been towards the front of the fleet in all of the conditions thrown at the sailors and Wednesday was no different, with Brunning picking up a fourth and a second to be just four points behind the second placed Goodison.
Tom Burton is also in touch with the leaders in 16th position following a third and a fourth, leaving him nine points outside the top 10.
In the 49er fleet Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen have continued their move up the leaderboard, ending their third day of racing in third overall.
The 2009 World Champions are just five points off the leaders, John Pink and Rick Peacock, following an eighth and a fifth in shifty conditions.
'We only got two races in today but I think we were out there for five hours or so,' said Outteridge. 'The conditions were pretty tricky today, the forecast was for a seabreeze to come in and when it did it was for five minutes then it disappeared so it was really shifty and erratic.
'We toughed it out in both races and ended up with an eight and a fifth, probably not the best day results wise but it could have been a lot worse,' he said.
Jensen said that the pair had to take some risks on a day that kept all of the crews on their toes.
'Today was one of those days where you couldn't be too conservative,' said Jensen. 'If you went up the middle you'd get passed by both sides so you had to kind of sail high risk and it turned out that we had a couple of consistent results by sailing high risk so it all worked out in the end.'
Will and Sam Phillips ended the day in 17th overall following a 20th and a race win, leaving them just 11 points off 10th.
The 49er fleet will have a lay day on Thursday before finals racing kicks off on Friday.
Australia's Women's Match Racing crews suffered double disappointment with both teams bowing out at the quarter-final stage of the competition.
After the highs of finishing second and third in the repechage round robin and qualifying Australia for the London 2012 Olympic Games the crews were unable to replicate those results, with both teams losing three wins to nil.
All eight crews in the quarter-finals spent hours floating around on Fremantle Harbour waiting for the breeze to fill in before the race committee made the decision to move the course out of the river to ensure the quarter-finals could be completed later in the day.
Unfortunately the move didn't pay dividends for the Australians with both missing out on a spot in Thursday's semi-finals.
Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty lost to Russia's Ekatrina Skudina while Nicky Souter, Jessica Eastwell and Katie Spithill were beaten by America's Anna Tunnicliffe.
Though both Price and Souter's crews will back in action on Thursday, competing in the fifth to eighth place playoff.
Elise Rechichi and Belinda Stowell have continued their move up the leaderboard in the 470 women's class, with each race together proving invaluable for the new pairing.
Competing in just their third regatta together the pair finished with an eighth and a ninth on Wednesday to be 12th overall and just three points off 10th position.
Luke Baillie is the highest placed Australian in the RS:X men's fleet in 35th, with Tim Gourlay and James Levy the next two best placed in 46th and 60th respectively.
In the Star class Paul McKenzie and Phillip Toth are the leading Australian crew in 22nd overall, following their best day of the regatta so far with a 17th and an eighth place finish.
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Today's post picks up where the one from last week left off, with more of the high points covered at the GANA Fall Conference held in Toronto September 23-25.
Handrails, obviously, are still getting a lot of attention. Being in Toronto, where so much of the news about guardrails is emanating, it seemed only natural to hear how the Canadians are addressing the issue. CSA's Dwayne Torry, talked about the A500 standard, which is being developed with cross-representation of regulators, suppliers, architects and users (not sure what that means: installers? building owners?). They're looking to develop a standard to serve as "a consistent baseline for design." The plan now is for spring 2015 publication. Like the AAMA/WDMA/CSA standards for doors and windows, it might be beneficial for those of us on this side of the border to pay attention.
Also, testing of handrails was discussed, both in the pre- and post-construction phases. Most exterior guardrails use the exterior cladding wind load, either from wind tunnel testing or by code, to determine the design load for the handrails. Further research is required to determine if that's realistic, but no one has stepped up to do that, yet. Likewise, there is now additional attention being paid to more stringent post-installation maintenance requirements – everything from checking glass fittings to checking the connection of the guard rails to the structure, etc. If you install handrails, this is certainly worthy of consideration.
Not a lot is being talked about the causes of the handrail glass breakage, due in large part to the on-going "who's to blame" game being played on many projects. It's not only nickel sulfide, but other causes, such as improper installation (e.g., grommets not installed around bolts passing through the glass, posts not installed vertical or in plane with the glass, etc.). The root causes may not be known for years.
Associated with the handrail discussion were some of the items covered in the GANA Laminating Division meetings. There was some talk about the edges of laminated glass in handrails, and whether they should be finished, pre- or post-laminating. If the architect uses tempered glass, a finished, polished edge is often specified. But, laminated glass complicates that, as most laminators will polish the edges before laminating, and getting the lites in the laminating sandwich to match up is difficult, plus the laminating layer oozes out from between the lites. One possible alternative would be to polish the glass after lamination, but apparently that's not easily accepted given the budget and schedule constraints of most projects.
One thing I learned about that I didn't know before: using a cementitious material to set laminated glass into sill shoe isn't such a good idea. The cement-based material can damage the laminating layer. I know for the next project where this comes up, a discussion will be warranted between suppliers and glass fabricators.
The use of laminated glass in doors, and the effects of clamping hardware and/or patch fittings is still being researched, they're looking for a door manufacturer to lead the testing.
One issue that's starting to surface, and it's really early on, so no immediate cause for alarm, is whether ceramic frit on spandrel glass is causing the glass to loose strength. There's no data on this, yet, either. What follows is strictly my take on this, not a lot of consensus, and therefore no conclusions were reached. On one hand, some manufacturers talked about applying frits to glass before the glass was heat-strengthened, in which case they report there's no loss of strength if the glass gets the proper treatment. But, other manufacturers may be applying the frits as a secondary operation after heat treating, and the re-heating may weaken the glass.
What's confusing this was two of the leading fabricators are on opposite sides of the question. One insisted that there is no evidence that ceramic frits were causing breakage due to wind loading, that ASTM E1300 still worked with no drop in performance for heat-treated, fritted glass. Another said there was. So, we'll have to wait and see where this goes.
A lot covered. A lot to do. Many of the industry manufacturers are well represented at GANA. We'll look to cover some of this at BEC in the Technical Committee, especially if it rises to the level that the glazing contractors will start being asked about it going forward.


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Officers, many of them undercover, raided an illegal moonshine distillery in Landrum on Thursday, a spokeswoman with the SC Law Enforcement Division confirms.
SLED Spokeswoman Katherine Richardson said the agency assisted Spartanburg County deputies with the bust on Plantation Drive.
The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office said it couldn't release details of the bust until mid-afternoon at a press conference planned with Sheriff Chuck Wright.
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This is a quote originally by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who I learned was a poet and lecturer that lived during the 1800's. However, I heard this quote for the first time tonight by a wonderful speaker at UE. Kanav Kashyap is an extremely successful graduate of UE who came back to share his experience, knowledge, and advice with current students.
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I'm thankful for my student loan debt. Now I'm not saying that if I won the lottery it would be a bitter breakup with the loan officers, or if for some reason college costs (gasp) decreased I'd be upset. But for now as I pay for college with a combination of scholarships, loans, and money earned working jobs both over the summer and during the school year, yes, I am thankful for my student loan debt.
This morning I got up, took one look at the temperature on my weather app, and immediately decided that any day where it started at 5 degrees was a day for wearing a sweatshirt, thick leggings, and a pair of fuzzy boots to class. Forget about fashion; when it drops below 40, it's all about staying warm. But that got me thinking about the fact that some day (some day soon, perhaps) I'm going to be a real adult. With a real job. A real job that most likely won't like me just showing up in a sweatshirt, regardless of how many "I'm more productive when I'm comfy" arguments I make.Along this topic, I bring you the 5 things about being in college that I'm really going to miss.
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GOTHAM Casts Its Bruce Wayne And Catwoman
The final two regulars for Fox's Gotham series have been found. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the upcoming series focusing on a younger Jim Gordon as he navigates the weird and corrupt streets of Gotham has found its Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, better known to all as Catwoman.
According to THR, David Mazouz (Kiefer Sutherland's son on Touch) has been cast as the young Bruce Wayne. The site describes the son of Thomas and Martha Wayne as a preteen sentenced to a solitary life after the tragic murder of his parents. He is "serious and soulful, and relies on the guidance and protection of Alfred Pennyworth (Sean Pertwee) and James Gordon (Southland's Ben McKenzie)." Mazouz impressed Fox with his role in Touch, so they were apparently eager to work with the young actor again. This will be a huge role for the actor that will play out for years as long as Gotham is on the air. It has been said that the series will end when Bruce actually becomes Batman, so whether or not that means it's Mazouz will depend on how long the series runs.
It is also reported that relative newcomer Camren Bicondova will play Selina Kyle. The series will be introducing younger versions of Batman's notorious rogues before they become the people we know from the comics, so Bicondova will join the recently announced Penguin (Robin Lord Taylor) as the first two big name villains on the series. Selina is described as "a teenage orphan who is suspicious and wholly unpredictable. She's a street thief and skilled pickpocket who is dangerous when cornered." Some of the actress' credits include Girlhouse and Battlefield America.
The two actors join Ben McKenzie as Jim Gordon, Donal Logue as Harvey Bullock, Zabryna Guevara as Capt. Essen, Erin Richards as Gordon's gal pal, and Jada Pinkett Smiith as Fish Mooney. Now that the cast is in place, what do you think about Gotham?
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As Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher and Jameis Winston, his quarterback, stood atop the stage in the middle of the Rose Bowl on Monday night with the crystal football held high, the Seminoles sent a message — the SEC is not the only conference capable of winning national championships.
With Florida State's 34-31 win over Auburn in the final BCS title game, the ACC's Seminoles — who opened the BCS era with three consecutive appearances in the national championship game — shattered the SEC's streak of seven consecutive national crowns.
"I think it's very fitting that Florida State has come full circle back," Fisher said.
College football wasn't always dominated by the SEC, and Fisher, an assistant at LSU from 2000-06, can remember a time when the SEC was not regarded as the nation's premier conference.
"They said (the SEC) wasn't good enough," Fisher said. "It was Miami and Florida State every year. They had the teams. They were in it. The Nebraskas and the Oklahomas. The SEC couldn't get in."
Then came the dominance of Urban Meyer's Florida teams and Nick Saban's Alabama dynasty. In 2012, SEC-mania hit a new high when Alabama played LSU for the national championship.
It's been a long time since the ACC was relevant in the sport's top echelon. But as the BCS system gives way to the College Football Playoff, Florida State is finally back on top.
The Seminoles (14-0) finished No. 1, with all 60 first-place votes when the final Associated Press Poll was released Tuesday.
Auburn (12-2) came in second, with Michigan State (13-1) third. It marked the first time since 2005 that an SEC team has not finished atop the polls.
"The SEC is great football. I coached in that league for 13 years, and I respect every bit of it," Fisher said. "But there's some other folks in this country that can play some football, too."
It's too early to say whether the Seminoles' national championship marks a changing of the guard.
The SEC is still unquestionably college football's best conference. But if anything, this year's BCS games showed that the mighty SEC can be beaten.
Alabama fell to Oklahoma from the Big 12 in the Sugar Bowl. In the championship game, the Seminoles engineered their thrilling comeback against Auburn.
"The ACC is an unbelievably competitive league (with) great players," Fisher said, citing the ACC's 11 bowl-eligible teams and Florida State and Clemson's BCS bowl wins as hallmarks of the conference's strength. "Hopefully, now we get a little more respect … when you go through it from the players and the number of NFL players, Pro Bowlers, the whole thing, we're right behind the SEC in everything we do."
The Seminoles likely will begin 2014 ranked No. 1. They will lose only three seniors on offense, four on defense and perhaps a couple of juniors to the NFL Draft, from a young team.
Fisher wants to show that college football dynasties can exist outside the rarefied air of the SEC.
"Maybe we don't play in the SEC, but we play in the south, and we've got good football," Fisher said.
Perhaps the Seminoles have hit the reset button for the rest of the country too.
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The protective effect of family meals on unhealthy weight gain and diet has been shown across multiple age groups; however, it is unknown whether a similar effect is present among diverse immigrant populations. In addition, little research has focused on factors associated with the frequency of evening family meals, such as feeding styles (how parents interact with their child around feeding). Therefore the goals of this paper are to explore the 1) association between the frequency of evening family meals and child weight status among new immigrant families, and 2) influence of immigrant mothers' feeding styles on the frequency of evening family meals.
Baseline self-reported socio-demographic information and measured heights and weights were collected for both mother and child (age range: 3–12 years) among 387 mother-child dyads enrolled in Live Well, a community-based, participatory-research, randomized controlled lifestyle intervention to prevent excessive weight gain in recent (<10 years in the U.S.) immigrant mothers and children. For children, height and weight measurements were transformed into BMI z-scores using age-and sex-specific CDC standards and categorized as overweight (85th–94th percentile) and obese (≥95th percentile); mothers' BMI was calculated. Frequency of evening family meals, eating dinner in front of the TV, acculturation and responses to the Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ) were also obtained from the mother. Children were categorized as "eating evening family meals regularly" if they had an evening family meal ≥5 times per week.
Overall, 20% of children were overweight and 25% were obese. Less than half (40.9%) of families had regular evening family meals. In multivariate analyses, adjusting for covariates, children who were overweight/obese were significantly less likely to have ≥5 evening family meals/week compared with normal weight children (OR = 0.51, 95% CI 0.32-0.82) . Mothers who had a low demanding/high responsive or a low demanding/low responsive feeding style, were less likely to have ≥5 evening family meals/week compared to mothers with a high demanding/high responsive feeding style (OR = 0.41, 95% CI 0.18-0.0.96, OR = 0.33, 95% CI 0.13-0.87, respectively). Future interventions and programs that seek to help parents establish healthy household routines, such as family meals, may consider tailoring to specific maternal feeding styles.
Keywords:Family meal; Feeding styles; Children; Obesity; Immigrants
Although there is evidence to suggest that rates of childhood obesity have stabilized among some populations, disparities among racial/ethnic populations still persist [1-3]. Immigrants, including immigrant children, become at greater risk for overweight and obesity with increased length of stay in the U.S. [4-10]. The challenges immigrant families face as they are exposed to a new culture are likely to have a direct impact on their health and wellbeing [10,11]. One challenge includes navigating the U.S.'s "obesogenic" environment. This environment is characterized by the high availability of inexpensive, energy-dense foods, and limited opportunities for either meal-oriented food preparation or sufficient physical activity, all of which have been shown to contribute to excessive weight gain [4-7,12-14]. Exploring the presence of protective routines, such as family meals, and the factors associated with them, such as responsive or more authoritative feeding styles, within a diverse cohort of new immigrants is important for the prevention of obesity in this population.
Family meals are associated with increased fruit and vegetable consumption, and better psychosocial health [15-18]. The protective effect of family meals has been shown across multiple age groups, including a nationally representative sample of preschool-age children, as well as among school-age children and adolescents [18-21]. However, it is unknown whether the effect of family meal frequency on weight and diet is similar among diverse immigrant populations. While little research has focused on factors associated with the frequency of family meals, especially among diverse populations, there are data to suggest the strong role of parental and familial dynamics, as they influence the occurrence and frequency of family meals [22]. Given the critical role parenting style and family dynamics play in determining children's eating behaviors, habits, and attitudes, as well as the physical and social food environment of the home, it is not surprising that these factors influence the frequency of family meals [23,24]. For instance, a recent study found a positive association between maternal and paternal authoritative parenting style and frequency of family meals [25]. Exploring feeding style, as opposed to general parenting style, may be more helpful in predicting the frequency of family meals because of the context-specific impact of feeding [26]. The notion of feeding styles assumes that parents possess overarching styles that reflect how they interact with their children during feeding situations that can be described across two dimensions: demandingness and responsiveness. Demandingness refers to how much the parent encourages eating, whereas responsiveness refers to how parents encourage eating, that is, in a responsive or nonresponsive way. Based on the two dimensions, parents are categorized into four feeding style typologies: high demandingness/high responsiveness (i.e., actively encouraging eating using non-directive and supportive behaviors), high demandingness/low responsiveness (i.e., encouraging eating using highly directive, unsupportive behaviors), low demandingness/high responsiveness (i.e., making few demands on the child to eat and being warm and accepting) and low demandingness/low responsiveness (i.e., making few demands on the child to eat and being unsupportive) [27].
An increasing number of studies with low income, diverse families have found that children of parents who are responsive to their child's emotional states but refrain from setting appropriate boundaries with their child (low demandingness/high responsiveness) are at the greatest risk for childhood obesity [27-32]. In addition, this same feeding style has been associated with poor diet quality [33,34]. However, the association between maternal feeding style and family meal frequency has not been explored; furthermore, it is unknown whether the beneficial effect of family meals on weight and diet is also present among diverse immigrant populations.
Given the unique situation that immigrant parents and children face as they acculturate to a new social, cultural and physical environment, the role of feeding styles may be particularly important in influencing the frequency of family meals. The goals of this paper are to test the following within a sample of recent immigrant families (living in the U.S. < 10 years): 1) the association between the frequency of evening family meals with child weight status and 2) the relation between maternal feeding styles and the frequency of evening family meals.
Study structure
The data analyzed for this study were collected at baseline from Live Well, a randomized controlled lifestyle intervention that utilizes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. The central premise of Live Well is that an intervention co-created by community partners and academic researchers can prevent excessive weight gain in recent immigrants. Mother/child dyads were enrolled in the study and data from 387 dyads were collected at baseline. To be eligible for the study, the mother must have resided for <10 years in the U.S.; be of Haitian, Latino or Brazilian descent; be 20–55 years of age; not be pregnant (or ≥6 months postpartum); have a child between the ages of 3–12 years; live in the Greater Boston area; and be willing to be randomized. Informed consent was obtained for all participants: written consent from all caregivers as well as assent for children over 7 years of age. Mother-child dyads attended a measurement day at a nearby community center where they completed the assessments. The study protocol was approved by the Social, Behavioral and Educational Institutional Review Board of Tufts University.
Caregiver's feeding styles questionnaire (CFSQ)
The CFSQ is a self-administered instrument measuring parenting approaches to child feeding (e.g., feeding styles) [27]. The feeding styles construct assumes that parents possess overarching styles that reflect how they interact with their children during feeding situations and are based on two dimensions. The demandingness dimension refers to how much the parent encourages eating, whereas the responsiveness dimension refers to how parents encourage eating, that is, in a responsive or nonresponsive way. Demandingness and responsiveness are derived through 7 child-centered and 12 parent-centered feeding directives measured on a 5-point Likert scale (ranging from never to always). Child-centered feeding promotes child autonomy (e.g., reasoning, complimenting, and helping the child to eat). Parent-centered feeding uses directives that control children's eating through external pressure (e.g., demands, threats, and reward contingencies). Based on the two dimensions, parents are categorized into four feeding style typologies: high demandingness/high responsiveness (i.e., actively encouraging eating using non-directive and supportive behaviors), high demandingness/low responsiveness (i.e., encouraging eating using highly directive; unsupportive-behaviors), low demandingness/high responsiveness (i.e., making few demands on the child to eat and being warm and accepting) and low demandingness/low responsiveness (i.e., making few demands on the child to eat and being unsupportive) [27]. Information about the development, reliability, and validity of this instrument is published elsewhere [27,35] as well as information about the use of the CFSQ in this population [32].
In this study, feeding styles are described along the two dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness rather than the four more commonly used labels of authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent and uninvolved. The community partner members of the study's steering committee expressed concern about the commonly used feeding style typology labels, and the potential for erroneous or judgmental ethnic-specific interpretations. The concern arose primarily from the labels themselves, as opposed to the inherent meaning of the typologies or the specific questions on the CFSQ. Therefore, the decision was made to use the two dimensions as descriptors, and avoid the application of the labels. This has been described previously [32].
Evening family meals
Mothers were asked: "How many days per week does your family sit at a table to eat dinner together? (this includes eating with some or all of the family and occasions when it is just your child and you, this does not include eating dinner together in front of the television)" [36]. According to definitions used by others [15,18,37] and the response distribution for this question in our sample, we categorized children as having the routine of eating regular evening family meals if they had evening family meals ≥5 times per week.
Other variables of interest were collected through the self-administered (or interpreter-assisted) survey completed at baseline measurement. Mothers reported their child's date of birth and gender, as well as their own age, race/ethnicity, marital status, education level, employment status, number of jobs worked, and household size and composition. Child's country of birth, and the number of months the mother has lived in the U.S. were used as proxy measures for acculturation.
Body mass index (BMI)
Height and weight were obtained from mothers and children. Measurements were taken in triplicate following standardized procedures [38]. Height was measured, without shoes, to the nearest eighth of an inch using a portable stadiometer (The Shorr Board vertical stadiometer, Shorr Production, Olney, MD). Weight was measured in light clothing, without shoes, to the nearest 0.5 lb on a portable digital scale (Befour PS-6600 Portable Scale; Befour Inc., Saukville, WI). Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from the average of the three body weight and height measurements for each dyad (kg/m2). Each child's BMI was transformed into a z-score relative to the age- and sex-specific CDC reference [39]. The percentile score corresponding to the z-score, and the following terminology, were utilized to classify child weight categories: underweight (<5th percentile), normal weight (≥5th to <85th percentile), overweight (≥85th to <95th percentile), and obese (≥95th percentile) [40]. Maternal weight status was classified based on BMI using the categories: underweight (<18.5), normal weight (18.5–24.9), overweight (25.0–29.9), and obese (>30.0) [41].
Statistical analysis
Descriptive statistics were used to characterize frequencies, including family meals overall and by socio-demographic characteristics (child's age; maternal education, marital status, employment and number of jobs, and number of children in the household). We compared the prevalence of obesity in children exposed and not exposed to eating family meals ≥5 times per week. Statistical significance for these comparisons was based on a level of .05 using Chi-square tests.
According to the scoring procedure for the CFSQ [27], demandingness is calculated as the total mean score across all items (child-centered and parent-centered), while responsiveness is the ratio of child-centered items over the total score. Dichotomization at the median within the entire sample results in a typology of the different feeding styles. The median for demandingness in this population was 3.05 and for responsiveness was 1.11, which is similar to the median splits found among other samples [27,42-44].
For the multivariate models, logistic regression estimated the odds of child overweight and obesity associated with exposure to eating family meals ≥5 times/week. Findings are presented as unadjusted odds ratios (ORs) and ORs adjusted for ethnic group, child age, BMIz, and gender, and maternal education, employment status, marital status, BMI, and age. Multivariate logistic regression models also estimated the odds of eating as a family ≥5 times/week associated with the feeding style typologies. Based on previous research, a high responsiveness/high demandingness feeding style, often referred to in the literature as authoritative, was used as the referent category [28,29]. Interactions between length of time in the U.S. and feeding style, and ethnic group and feeding style were also tested. Final models adjusted for the following variables: ethnic group; child gender, age and BMIz; maternal age, education, employment, marital status, and BMI; these selections were based on previous research and whether a covariate was significantly associated with the outcome [15,18,37].
Overall, 20% of children were overweight and 25% were obese, resulting in a total of 45% who were at or above the 85th percentile. Fewer than half (40.9%) of families participated in evening family meals ≥5 times per week. In bivariate analyses, significant differences in child overweight and obesity were seen by maternal obesity and parental feeding style. Those mothers who were not obese were less likely to have an obese child (38.0% vs. 59.2%); those with a low demanding/high responsive feeding style had a higher percentage of overweight/obese children compared to other styles (55.8% vs. 40.7% for high demanding/high responsive, 39% for high demanding/low responsive and 44.1% for low demanding/low responsive) (Table 1).
Table 1. Prevalence of overweight and obesity and evening family meals according to socio-demographic characteristics
Significant bivariate differences for families who ate family evening meals ≥5 times/week were seen by employment, number of jobs, and eating dinner in front of the TV. Differences by ethnicity were of marginal significance (p = 0.06). Latino families had more evening family meals ≥5 times/week compared to Brazilians and Haitians (50% vs. 38% and 36%, respectively). The Latina women in this study were from Central and South America (32% from El Salvador, 11% from Colombia, 9% from Guatemala, and 48% from other countries such as Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Peru and Honduras). Also, a higher percentage of mothers who were homemakers/students or who were unemployed had evening family meals ≥5 times/week (54% and 47%, respectively) compared with mothers who were employed full-time or part-time (33.7% and 30.1%, respectively). A higher percentage of those who did not have a job had evening family meals ≥5 times/week compared with those with one or two jobs (52.6% vs. 35.3% and 7.7%). Mothers who reported their child ate dinner in front of the TV rarely/never ate evening family meals ≥5 times/week more often than those that answered a lot/sometimes (53.6% vs. 33%).
In multivariate analyses, when adjusting for covariates, children who were overweight/obese were significantly less likely to have ≥5 evening family meals/week compared with normal weight children (OR = 0.51, 95% CI 0.32-0.82) (Table 2). We then explored the association between feeding dimensions and styles and frequency of evening family meals. Mothers who had either a low demandingness/high responsiveness or a low demandingness/low responsiveness feeding style were less likely to have ≥5 evening family meals/week compared with mothers who had a high demandingness/high responsiveness feeding style (OR = 0.41, 95% CI 0.18-0.0.96, OR = 0.33, 95% CI 0.13-0.87, respectively) (Table 2). We found no significant interaction between length of time in the U.S. and feeding style, and ethnic group and feeding style.
Table 2. Logistic regression analysis for family meals by overweight/obesity and feeding style
The goals of this paper were to explore the association between the frequency of evening family meals and being overweight and obese, and to understand the relationship between maternal feeding style and the frequency of evening family meals. In this study of recent immigrant mother-child dyads, we found, similar to other studies, that having a high frequency of evening family meals is protective against child overweight and obesity. We also found that having a low demandingness feeding style was associated with a lower frequency of evening family meals. Targeting family meals as an intervention tool may help when designing obesity related interventions for predominately immigrant populations.
To our knowledge, this is the first report of family meal frequency being protective against child overweight and obesity among recent immigrants. These findings are similar to what has been found in predominately Caucasian, and some Hispanic and African American, populations [18,22,45]. Our findings support this relationship, which has also been shown in a diverse, nationally representative sample from the U.S. of preschool aged children, as well as in older children and adolescents [18-21]. Although there is strong evidence that family meals and overweight and obesity in children are negatively associated, there have been fewer studies exploring the possible contributing factors that may explain why some families have a higher frequency of family meals. One study using data from Project Eating Among Teens, found that a maternal high responsiveness/high demandingness parenting style was associated with more frequent family meals [25]. We found similar results in that a greater percentage of mothers with a high responsiveness/high demandingness feeding style reported frequent eating of evening family meals. We also found, in multivariate models, that mothers who had a low demandingness style, had a lower frequency of evening family meals. Although this has not been reported in the literature previously, it follows the reasoning that a mother who has a less demanding style of feeding may provide less structure and rules around family eating, and hence the family meal. Future studies should explore a mediation analysis between feeding styles, meal frequency and child weight status.
In our sample, it is likely that new immigrant mothers have other life stressors, such as employment, that compete with family meals, and this in turn influences the feeding environment [46]. In addition, given the high level of stress associated with the acculturative process, combined with a lack of social support, mothers may find it hard to engage in household routines such as family meals [47]. Given that parent–child relationships are bidirectional, it is also possible that children's wishes may influence the mothers. Children of recent immigrant mothers may be more motivated to engage in certain "American" eating habits (e.g., eating in front of the TV, no scheduled meal time), which were unusual in their home country [48], and may pressure their mothers accordingly. Future work is needed to further understand how certain parental factors may positively and negatively influence the occurrence and frequency of family meals, and understand how parental and child factors interact to influence health behavior.
It is important to note that of those mothers who were employed, 75% reported having one or more jobs. Having a higher number of jobs was associated with a lower frequency of family meals. Conversely, mothers who reported either being unemployed or a student/homemaker reported a higher frequency of family meals. Future research is needed to help understand how much time is spent in meal preparation; how that and planning influences the occurrence of family meals; and how interventions may incorporate this knowledge.
Our findings should be interpreted within the context of the study limitations. Although our sample represents a diverse group of mother–child dyads, generalizability may still be limited given the focus on families from Brazil, Haiti and Latin America (predominately Central and South America). As a cross-sectional study, one can neither discern the direction of influence, nor look at change over time. For example, we do not know if family meal frequency was different before moving to the U.S., whether maternal feeding style was different in the home country, and whether maternal feeding style changed since moving to the U.S. Further, mothers are not parenting in isolation, but in response to many factors including child traits [49]. Thus, the parent–child relationship is bi-directional and additional studies that also include measures of specific child behaviors (e.g., food intake) are needed to understand causal pathways between parenting behaviors (especially from multiple caregivers) and child weight status. Also, although our measures captured some aspects of acculturation, we did not gather specific information about how the acculturative process may influence the dynamics of family feeding or other socio-cultural norms. Future studies should explore this process.
In conclusion, we found that evening family meals are protective against child overweight and obesity in this sample of immigrant families. This suggests that providing more structure and routine around mealtime may help promote healthy family practices.
Competing interests
No competing financial interests exist.
Authors' contributions
All the authors contributed to the various stages of this study. AT contributed to the study design, performed all of the statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript. EH contributed to the study design and helped draft and revise the manuscript. AP, AM, DG, and SH participated in the design of the study and revised manuscript. SS, RB, EKV, CLK and KT collected data and revised manuscript. CDE conceived of the initial idea of the study, contributed to design of the study, revised the manuscript and contributed especially to the intellectual content. All the authors read and commented on the drafts and approved of the final version for submission.
We would like to thank these members of the Live Well Steering Committee (Nesly Metayer, Franklin Dalembert, Raymond R. Hyatt, Warren Goldstein-Gelb, Maria Landaverde, Melissa McWhinney, Joyce Guilhermino de Pádua, Helen Sinzker, Heloisa Galvão, and Ismael Vasquez). In addition, we thank the Live Well women and their children for participating in this study. Funding for this research was provided by grant 5R01HD057841 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda MD. Postdoctoral research funds for Alison Tovar were provided by an NIH supplement from this grant.
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Tax season is stressful for both taxpayers and tax preparers, but this year is worse because of a delay in the season's start, area tax preparers say.
In the aftermath of the fiscal cliff debate, which Congress partially resolved in January, the Internal Revenue Service delayed the start of tax season until late January for more than 120 million filers. In addition, people claiming residential energy credits, depreciation of property or general business credits weren't able to file until late February or March.
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The funeral procession for Asheville police officer Rob Bingaman, who died in a traffic accident involving his patrol car last week, is expected to create traffic problems along the procession route Monday.
The service will be at 10 a.m. at Biltmore Baptist Church on Clayton Road. Interment will immediately follow at Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Black Mountain.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI arrested a Pentagon analyst Wednesday on charges that he illegally passed classified information about potential attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq to employees of a pro-Israel group.
Larry Franklin, 58, of Kearneysville, W. Va., turned himself in Wednesday morning, FBI spokeswoman Debra Weierman said. He was
scheduled to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Virginia later Wednesday, Weierman said.
Franklin, who specialized on Iran and Middle Eastern affairs, allegedly gave the information to two people not entitled to receive it at a luncheon meeting at a restaurant in Arlington, Va., in June 2003, the Justice Department said in a statement. The people at the lunch were employees of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, a law enforcement official said on condition of anonymity because they are not identified in court papers.
FBI agents twice searched AIPAC offices as part of the investigation about whether Israel improperly obtained classified U.S. information on Iran. They also have interviewed two AIPAC
employees about whether Franklin gave them classified information that wound up in Israel's hands.
AIPAC said it gave the FBI files related to those same two employees, who previously were identified -- Steve Rosen, the director of research, and Keith Weissman, deputy director of
foreign policy issues. Neither still works for the group.
AIPAC declined to comment Wednesday.
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The Coralville 12th Avenue Bridge over Interstate 80 will be closed from Monday through Aug. 2 for the final phase of the Iowa DOT's Bridge Deck Repair Project.
Traffic will be detoured using Fifth St., First Avenue and Holiday Road.
The 12th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge over the interstate will remain open.
Coralville Transit will make the following route changes during the bridge closure:
Transit routes south of Interstate 80:
? No A.M. stops for the North Liberty Route on 12th Avenue.
? There will be no A.M. stops for the Express Route on 12th Avenue or Highway 6 (Dairy Queen).
? No P.M. stops for the Express Route on Highway 6 between 1st Avenue and 12th Avenue.
Passengers are encouraged to use the 10th Street and Lantern Park stops located on 14th Avenue and Fifth Street.
Transit routes north of Interstate 80:
? Express Route will stop at both the 12th Avenue and Holiday Road intersections and the 12th Avenue and Ozark Ridge intersection.
? Reroutes due to Heartland Drive improvements will remain the same and the North Liberty Route will remain unchanged.
Bongo will be disabled on all Express Routes and will not provide predictions.
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On Worthy Wednesday, we look at a move to ask friends to contribute to a charitable organization instead of buying a gift that you may or may not want. It's a different type of approach to Christmas that you may want to explore.
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Hubert's Limeade uses a 10 percent base of lime juice concentrate, which gives the product a very potent lime flavor. It's sweetened with a blend of sugar and stevia, although there's absolutely no detectable stevia flavor, which might be the result of low levels of stevia or it being masked by the tart and acidic flavor. Either way, at 160 calories per 16 oz. bottle, it's an extremely drinkable product that delivers flavor that's on par with the frozen concentrate limeade drinks that you'd find in a grocery freezer. Packaging is clean and wholesome, but also gives off a vibe of being a premium product. We like the playfulness of the lime character on the front of the label, which they've managed to do without making the product look corny. Also, we like their choice of bottle, which is taller and thinner than the stock 16 oz. bottle that's used by so many other brands. All in all, this is a very straightforward but well executed product – exactly the type of product that we could see consumers purchasing on a regular basis.
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|Results of resting and ambulatory electrocardiograms in patients with hypothyroidism and after return to euthyroid status.
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|PMID: 11720599 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Hypothyroidism is not infrequently associated with an abnormally long QTc interval (> or = 450 msec). Rarely, marked prolongation of the QTc interval and malignant ventricular arrhythmias have been reported. In this study, QTc intervals on resting electrocardiograms (ECGs) were compared in 10 patients before and after treatment of hypothyroidism. The QTc interval increased in seven patients during euthyroidism compared with hypothyroidism, and decreased in three patients. During hypothyroidism, the QTc interval was mildly prolonged in 2 of the 14 patients; both had mild decreases in triiodothyronine (T3) or thyroxine (T4). The 24-hour ambulatory ECGs measured during hypothyroidism and after restoration of biochemical euthyroidism also were compared in 9 patients. There was no significant difference in ventricular ectopy. None of the 13 patients assessed during hypothyroidism had > or = 4 beats of ventricular tachycardia. There was no relationship between thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) or T3 levels and QTc intervals during hypothyroidism. A moderate correlation between lesser degrees of T4 depression and increasing QTc interval was present. Mild QTc prolongations are relatively common in patients with hypothyroidism and are usually associated with milder degrees of thyroid underactivity, but are not associated with clinically significant ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
|L A Osborn; B Skipper; I Arellano; S D MacKerrow; M H Crawford
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|Title: Heart disease (Hagerstown, Md.) Volume: 1 ISSN: 1521-737X ISO Abbreviation: Heart Dis Publication Date: 1999 Mar-Apr
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|Created Date: 2001-11-26 Completed Date: 2002-01-04 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 100887299 Medline TA: Heart Dis Country: United States
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|University of New Mexico School of Medicine and University Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
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Hypothyroidism / blood, complications, physiopathology*
Long QT Syndrome / blood, complications, physiopathology*
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Statistics, Nonparametric
Thyrotropin / blood
Thyroxine / blood
Triiodothyronine / blood
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Auditions for Marching Band are held during band camp (the week before fall semester classes begin). Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Orchestra, and Jazz Ensemble auditions are held during the first week of classes.
Instrumental ensembles include:
- Marching/Pep Bands: The famed Yellow Jacket Marching Band and Pep Bands for men's basketball, women's basketball, and volleyball.
- Concert Band: Comprised of 65-85 players who perform the masterworks of wind literature designed for the rich sonorities of an expanded instrumentation.
- Wind Ensemble: Comprised of 60-65 student musicians, the group explores the best in wind ensemble repertoire while realizing the limitless possibilities of winds in performance.
- Orchestra: Comprised of 80-90 student musicians, the concerts and repertoire expose participants to a variety of orchestral literature from the Classical through Contemporary periods, including popular and film music.
- Jazz Ensembles and Combos: Exploring concert jazz works from the late 1920's through the present day and techniques of improvisation.
- Percussion and MIDI: The Percussion Ensemble is a traditional concert ensemble that studies classic and contemporary literature, as well as transcriptions of standard, jazz and popular styles. The Electronic Percussion/MIDI Ensemble presents new percussion performance practices in a contemporary medium through the use of electronically triggered devices and theatrical lighting and staging.
- Chamber Ensembles: Includes the saxophone quartet, clarinet quartet, flute choir, woodwind and brass quintets, and tuba ensemble.
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[1956] Application of the IASLC/ATS/ERS Classification of Lung Adenocarcinomas and Implications for Tumor Grading
Lauren Xu, Thomas Huebner, Fabio Tavora, Allen Burke. University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Messejana Heart and Lung Hospital, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
Background: The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) in association with the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society has recently re-classified adenocarcinomas of the lung based on histological patterns. However, there is lack of consensus about a grading system for these tumors. We studied a series of invasive lung adenocarcinomas and correlated the revised classification system with histologic features and metastatic potential to identify features relevant to grading.
Design: A series of invasive lung carcinomas resected over a 5-year period were retrospectively reviewed and classified by the new IASLC system. Proportion of each histologic subtype was estimated at 5% increments. Tumors with clinical and pathologic staging were included. 15 histologic parameters were blindly recorded and subsequently correlated with lymph node and distant metastasis.
Results: There were 125 patients 61 men (66 ± 8 years) and 64 women (65 ± 11 years). Tumors were reclassified by predominant pattern as lepidic predominant (LPA) (n=9), acinar (n=71), solid (n=21), papillary (n=11), and mucinous (n=13). Rate of lymph node metastasis was greatest in the solid type (p=.02). Rate of distant metastasis was greatest in the mucinous and solid groups (p<.02). Features associated with metastasis in the acinar group included predominant cribriform pattern (P=.03), prominent nucleoli (p=.05), solid or micropapillary areas <20% (p=.01), mitotic activity > 5/10 high power field (hpf) (p=.005) and lymphovascular invasion (p=.005); the latter 3 were independently significant when adjusted for tumor size. A 3 tiered grading system was devised with LPA, papillary, and acinar tumors as well differentiated, mucinous tumors moderately differentiated, and solid tumors poorly differentiated. Furthermore, solid growth <20%, lymphovascular invasion, or mitotic activity >5/10 hpf increased LPA, papillary, acinar, and mucinous tumors up one grade. Using this system, there was a stepwise increase in rate of lymph node metastasis (p<.0001) and distant metastasis (p=.0004) from well, moderately, to poorly differentiated tumors, which numbered 38, 45, and 42, respectively.
Conclusions: Application of the IASLC classification in this series resulted in a predominance of acinar adenocarcinomas. In order to stratify tumors into clinically relevant grades, additional histologic features of increased mitotic rate, lymphovascular invasion, and non-predominant areas of solid growth are useful.
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College of Engineering Ladies Night Out - A Code Red Party!
Event Date/Time:
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College of Engineering Ladies Night Out A Code Red Party!
To celebrate Women in Engineering and the start of a new school year.
Everyone wearing the color red will be entered into a raffle to win great prizes. There will be engineering faculty, food, games, music, prizes, a photo booth, Sparty and more, all for your enjoyment! This is a fun celebration to welcome "Women in Engineering" and the start of a new school year.
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Wood County Health Department teame up with the State Patrol, Wisconsin DOT to protect children in vehicles by distributing child safety seats.
For national Child Passenger Safety Week, Sept. 15 to 21, Wood County Health Department received a supply of child safety seats that will be distributed to eligible low-income expectant mothers and families.
State Patrol officers delivered the infant car seats and booster seats, which were purchased with federal funding administered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 13, according to the ...


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Some Mon Valley communities on board with TreeVitalize program
It's easy to take trees for granted. They're part of the scenery in most parts of the planet, though not all locales are equally endowed.
Urbanized areas by their very nature tend to come up short on trees and greenery.
Re-establishing flora in areas where concrete and buildings dominate presents problems that a squirrel randomly hiding acorns is likely to solve.
"We're doing our homework," said Jim Butler of McKeesport, who is one of three residents endeavoring to re-establish the city's long dormant shade tree commission.
The reformation of the commission — which Butler said was founded in 1924 — is one of several formal efforts going on to bring more greenery to this part of the Mon Valley.
Bringing back the commission was done primarily so the city could apply to Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's TreeVitalize program. The group submitted its application earlier this month.
The TreeVitalize program has planted more than 20,000 trees since its founding in 2008, and local conditions appear favorable for continued growth.
Like McKeesport, West Homestead has submitted an application to the program this month with hopes of being accepted for a round of fall plantings.
The borough appointed a shade tree commission to fulfill a requirement of the application process.
West Homestead and TreeVitalize representatives already have identified park areas near Calhoun Ballfield and the fire station for tree plantings.
TreeVitalize has plans to work with Glassport, Wilmerding and Pleasant Hills to identify potential areas for trees in those communities, according to Marah Vecenie of TreeVitalize. She said the assessment is being done in advance of a fall application deadline for the program.
"Trees increase property value," said Vecenie, who noted participating communities can get 25 trees for free, provided they fall within the organization's median income guidelines. TreeVitalize uses 150 different varieties of trees from locally sourced nurseries based on the needs of a site.
"We make sure it's a worthwhile spot," Vecenie said.
The program has installed containerized trees in industrialized areas, and Vecenie said having support from local government and trained volunteers who look after the trees is essential.
"We get really close and we help them develop tree ordinances," she said. "We make sure care is given to trees. We want to make sure the trees live."
Hopes are high in West Homestead that the borough will be accepted this year into the TreeVitalize program.
Just this week, the community was recognized as a silver level member of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Sustainable Community Essentials Certification program.
The award, from Sustainable Pittsburgh, recognizes municipalities that deploy sustainability policies and practices.
In McKeesport, Butler said he is getting support from city hall for his efforts and that the commission is looking first to plant trees in the vicinity of the new Twin Rivers Primary/Intermediate School complex, an area that has been dubbed the Cultural and Educational Sector.
"There are a lot of trees that have died up there," said Butler, who has received training from TreeVitalize. "We feel if we concentrate in a tight geographic area and show impact, it will grow."
Other members of the shade tree commission in McKeesport are Leon Coleman and Nancy Merriman.
Eric Slagle is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.
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Terex Corporation manufactures equipment for construction, infrastructure, quarrying, mining, shipping, transportation, refining, and utility industries worldwide. What do you believe for the future?
Terex Stock has risen from under $40 this time last year, breaking through the $90 level just recently and now pulling back. I am sure that the executives and insiders are all continuing to work very hard. But basically their gut instinct is to sell when it comes to managing their own money. Real guidance? True intentions? Sometimes its short and sweet just like that.


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that little word focus!!!! keeps me going-- just say it over and over throughout the day or during a tempting time!!!
I've found that browsing and reading blogs that focus on maintaining and having a healthy lifestyle keep me focused on my goals.
Focus and forgiveness. keep focused on the goal...if you have a stumble...forgive yourself and jump back up,
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reunited and it feels so good.
The Boston-raised BFFs, who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay back in 1999 for their film Good Will Hunting, are teaming up once again for an upcoming flick about mobster James "Whitey" Bulger.
"The nice thing about working with Matt, somebody that you've known a long time, is you don't have to worry about how you're going to get along or what the process is going to be like," Affleck gushed to us at last night's Artios Awards in Beverly Hills.
Affleck will direct the flick with Damon playing Bulger, the notorious Massachusetts fugitive who disappeared for 16 years before being caught in Santa Monica in 2011.
"We've developed a pretty good story over the years and we don't lie to each other," Affleck dished. "If it's not good, we say it's not good. And it makes the whole process a lot easier."
Casey Affleck is also set to star as Bulger's politician brother Billy Bulger.
While we'll have to wait and see if Affleck and Damon's next joint project earns them Oscar gold, Affleck says he isn't holding his breath for any awards for his latest flick Argo.
"Honestly, that's something I really try not to think about at all," the 40-year-old actor smiled. "I've had situations where I've allowed it to creep into my mind. It was always just frustrating and disappointing…so I try to just keep my focus."


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2015 Reunion
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Home of the world's largest Amish settlement.
September 22-27, 2015
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Includes an extra, optional, day for sight seeing.
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Any person who was attached to the destroyer, USS Hollister DD 788, for any length of time during the years which the ship was in service,1946 through 1979, is invited to participate in this gathering.
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Astell & Kern, iRiver launch $1,300 AK120 portable audio player
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Pair of DAC, hand-crafted leather case perks of boutique audio player
At the High End 2013 conference in Munich, Germany. electronic gadget company iRiver announced the launch of the second model from the Astell & Kern line of Mastering Quality Sound (MQS) portable players, the AK120. Astell & Kern was first launched in 2012 as the high-end brand of iRiver with the first MQS portable player. The AK120 was developed for professional users and audiophiles who demand the very best sound available.