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A recent study, "Calcium supplement intake and risk of cardiovascular disease in women," published online ahead of print on May 7, 2014 in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Osteoporosis International, found no independent associations between supplemental calcium intake and risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. But remember, companies and associations of those who make and sell supplements want to show you studies that say good news about the effects of supplements on participants of studies so they can sell more supplements. They're not going to tell you whether calcium or magnesium is more suited for your body and in which amounts because that's between you and your health care team regarding how your body reacts to foods or supplements at the cellular and physiological levels.
Other studies have found different results when it comes to facts about health risks associated with calcium supplements, according to the book The Calcium Lie by Robert Thompson, M.D. and Kathleen Barnes. In fact, that book mentions recent studies and the basic biochemistry that every doctor studies in depth in medical school show calcium supplements taken alone can cause:
Increased arterial plaque (which causes heart attacks)
Brain cell dysfunction, brain shrinkage and dementia
Kidney and gallstones
Bone spurs
Calcium deposits in tissues other than bones
The research continues. On the other hand, for example, a recent prospective cohort study of 74,245 women in the Nurses' Health Study, with 24 years of follow-up, counters studies from a research group in New Zealand that suggested calcium supplements may be associated with increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The authors noted, according to the June 4, 2014 news release, Large Study Reaffirms Calcium Supplementation Safe for Women's Heart Health, "In this large-scale, long-term prospective cohort study in women, calcium supplement use was inversely associated with the risk of CHD. Our findings do not support an increased risk of CVD with calcium supplement use in women." But readers should know that other studies come up frequently, and science often changes every few years as the studies accumulate.
In addition, the study findings actually suggested that calcium supplements are associated with decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. The researchers identified some potential limitations around this finding and advised more research would be needed to confirm it. You have to remember that the industries that make supplements look for studies that communicate positive findings about the supplements being sold. You're the consumer, and the goal is to sell you certain supplements. The issue is how do specific supplements affect your individual body when you take those blood, cell, organ, or serum tests?
Noteworthy studies to ponder
This is the fourth study in the past 18 months to reaffirm calcium's safety, in line with the total body of scientific research. You can check out the studies such as "Influence of calcium supplements on the occurrence of cardiovascular events,"Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013, and "Health risks and benefits from calcium and vitamin D supplementation: Women's Health Initiative clincial trial and cohort study," Osteoporos International 2013.
Or see the study, "Calcium intake is not associated with increased coronary calicification: the Framingham Study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. December 2012. The question is how is calcium affecting or changing your own body, based on your particular metabolic, chemical, and cellular response to various calcium supplements as compared to food or compared to a wide variety of trace minerals suspended together in liquid supplements such as multiple minerals with silica, for example?
Are your calcium supplements driving calcium into your bloodstream, arteries, and organs, or putting the calcium where it belongs in your teeth and bones?
You need to find out whether calcium supplementation raises your blood pressure or whether magnesium normalizes it. The bottom line is how any supplement acts in your body and whether or not you need other supplements to make sure the calcium or any other mineral gets into the place it belongs, your bones and teeth, not your arteries. The same can be said for fats. You don't want a fatty liver from the wrong diet. Each element in specific amounts has its place where it supposed to belong in the human body.
There are going to be frequent studies on health risks and various supplements from time to time. So you have to compare the studies and research what has more weight. Comparing studies is difficult for the general consumer who may not have the experience to discern which studies are flawed and which have large enough groups participating or about the expertise of who is reviewing the various studies.
Duffy MacKay, N.D., senior vice president, scientific & regulatory affairs, CRN, said, according to the June 4, 2014 news release, Large Study Reaffirms Calcium Supplementation Safe for Women's Heart Health, "Calcium is an essential nutrient most widely used for its bone health benefits, and government data show most Americans don't get enough. We encourage continued studies on calcium's safety and benefits, but this study should help women feel confident that calcium supplements are an appropriate choice if they are not getting enough from food alone."
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing 100+ dietary supplement manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and companies providing services to those manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to complying with a host of federal and state regulations governing dietary supplements in the areas of manufacturing, marketing, quality control and safety, our manufacturer and supplier members also agree to adhere to additional voluntary guidelines as well as to CRN's Code of Ethics. You also may wish to follow the Council on Twitter @crn_supplements and @wannabewell and on Facebook.
Of course, you're going to read numerous studies against calcium supplementation as well, saying you may be getting enough calcium from your diet or that magnesium helps bones and that you don't need excess calcium if you're getting enough from your food or from small trace mineral supplements you take that are not in excess doses for your body.
Check out works such as The Calcium Lie by Robert Thompson, M.D. and Kathleen Barnes. Or view The Calcium Lie YouTube video on this link. Another recently published book is Dr. Carolyn Dean, M.D. N.D's The Magnesium Miracle. And don't forget the section on the health benefits of magnesium (in the proper amount) stated in Dr. Sherry A. Rogers, M.D. book titled, Is Your Cardiologist Killing You? But first make sure your health conditions such as certain kidney or heart issues don't forbid you to take magnesium supplements. Vegetables and fruits contain minerals such as magnesium and calcium. For example, broccoli is a rich source of calcium.
View two of Dr. Roger's videos on uTube on the effects of air pollution on your body and other health and nutrition topics. Are you taking a small amount of multiple minerals and silica to balance your minerals? Your first step is to investigate what multiple minerals in ionic form you do need. What works best for you?
You also may be interested in these resources: Michael H. Alderman, Dietary Sodium and Cardiovascular Health in Hypertensive Patients: The Case against Universal Sodium Restriction, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Jan 2004; 15: S47 - S50. Published: Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. Or see, Eric N. Taylor, Teresa T. Fung, and Gary C. Cu DASH-Style Diet Associates with Reduced Risk for Kidney Stones August 13, 2009. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
If you check out recent and older studies on calcium, often they don't mention magnesium
Which is worse for postmenopausal women--too much calcium or too much vitamin D? And if you're taking vitamin D, which is healthier, vitamin D2 or the fish-oil derived vitamin D3? Should you take magnesium or calcium and magnesium with vitamin D? Or can you get from food what your body needs as an older adult? People are told they can't absorb calcium without taking vitamin D with the calcium.
You may want to browse some of the books on magnesium versus calcium such as , The Magnesium Solution for Migraine Headaches. And see the article based on another study, Effects Of Vitamin D Deficiency Amplified By Shortage Of Estrogen. Then see the book, The Calcium Lie. Also see the book, Calcification: The Aging Factor: How To Defuse The Calcium Bomb, by Mark Mayer. What do you do if you keep taking calcium, but your bone density continues to decrease?
Why aren't more studies looking at the health effects of magnesium and vitamin K-2 instead of calcium and vitamin D3 for postmenopausal women? For example, magnesium, not calcium alone or with added vitamin D3 is sometimes recommended for migraines. If the latest studies make you curious, more research is recommended by the experts.
At UC Davis, Naziyath Vijayan MD, performs diagnosis and treatment for patients suffering from chronic headaches
For more than 20 years, he has conducted research into the causes and treatments of migraine, cluster and tension headaches. Vijayan also has written extensively about headache symptoms, causes and treatments.
He's involved in clinical research and trials of new headache drugs. See the website, UC Davis Department of Neurology Faculty | Naziyath Vijayan, M.D. Do you worry that too many calcium supplements added to foods or taken as a separate mineral are raising your blood pressure? But magnesium seems to lower it? Or do you have a kidney condition or slow heart beat that might be worsened if you take magnesium other than what you get in foods?
Can Calcium and Vitamin D Increase Your Risk of Heart Attacks and Strokes? New Study Looks At Postmenopausal Women
Apparently, one study released April 20, 2011 and a report on this study appearing in the April 20, 2011 article published in Medical News Today, "Calcium Supplements Appear To Raise Heart Attack And Cardiovascular Event Risk," notes that, calcium supplements may raise the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular risks.
See the article, Calcium Supplements Appear To Raise Heart Attack And Cardiovascular Event Risks. Calcium supplements, which are often prescribed to postmenopausal women, appear to raise the risk of cardiovascular events, especially heart attacks in older females, report researchers from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, revealed in the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
Mature women and bone health
Older women take calcium supplements to maintain good bone health - the authors suggest that doctors should consider reassessing their use. See the abstract in the BMJ, Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D and risk of cardiovascular events.
In this paper, "Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D and risk of cardiovascular events," Bolland and colleagues updated their recent meta-analysis of calcium supplements and cardiovascular risk to include calcium supplements given with vitamin D.
They found that calcium supplements with or without vitamin D modestly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, especially myocardial infarction (heart attack), a finding obscured in a previous study by the widespread use of personal calcium supplements. Check out an accompanying editorial, regarding the study, by professors Bo Abrahamsen and Opinder Sahota.
Ask yourself, does the vitamin D or the calcium increase the risk of heart attack in postmenopausal women? Postmenopausal women are sometimes prescribed vitamin D combined with calcium supplements. The authors explain that nobody has yet known whether the impact on the heart is just with calcium supplements, or together with vitamin D.
Women's Health Initiative
In the Women's Health Initiative, or WHI study, no evidence of cardiovascular effects were linked to taking combined calcium and vitamin D supplements. However, most of the females had already been taking personal calcium supplements, which may have compromised the findings.
In the current study, Professor Ian Reid and team re-examined the WHI data to see whether they could predict cardiovascular event risk according to calcium supplement intake, with or without vitamin D. The study reported that those prescribed combination calcium and vitamin D supplements had a higher risk of having a cardiovascular event, especially a heart attack. However, they found no association between combined calcium and vitamin D supplements and cardiovascular event risk among the women who had been taking personal calcium supplements when the trial began.
Sudden change in blood calcium levels
What does this look like to you? The researchers believe that "the sudden change in blood calcium levels, which occurs when patients start taking the supplement, causes the adverse effects, and not the amount of calcium being consumed." People with high blood calcium levels tend to have a higher risk of hardening (calcification) of the arteries.
So, if you have a high blood calcium level, your LDL, for example, would you have a higher risk of calcification of the arteries from calcium supplements, vitamin D supplements, or both? Or would you also have a higher risk of calcification of your arteries just from eating foods containing calcium as well? Researchers examined 13 more trials involving 29,000 women and found a link between stroke and heart attack risk and taking calcium supplements, with or without vitamin D.
The only problem is that Professors Bo Abrahamsen and Opinder Sahota say that, according to available evidence, it is not yet possible to confirm or deny a link between calcium supplements and cardiovascular event risk.
What do you think, do calcium supplements with vitamin D cause or not cause adverse heart-related issues?
The study is limited. So no one can say for sure, again, and more studies are needed. And so the studies continue. You have a modest increase in heart attack or stroke risk. But you can't conclude that calcium supplements with vitamin D cause heart attacks and strokes. All you can say is that in this one study, researchers saw an increased risk.
What scientists need to do is to find out what effects calcium supplements really have on heart health. First you need to find out for you as an individual whether the risk outweighs the benefits of calcium and vitamin D supplements. Doctors usually tell menopausal women to take calcium and vitamin D to prevent bone loss.
There are doctors who tell women not to take calcium
Read the book by an obstetrician, Robert Thompson, M.D. and author, Kathleen Barnes, The Calcium Lie. Remember that calcium hardens concrete. Also, table salt is called a health destroyer, according to the book, The Calcium Lie: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know Could Kill You. That book points out that the salt that went on people's tables beginning in the early 20th century containing only sodium and chloride is not the same as the rock or sea salt used historically which contained "the other 76 minerals" present in rock salt or sea salt.
All over the world, goiter appeared due to iodine deficiency. Then the addition of iodized salt put back some of that mineral, but left out the rest of the minerals.
Table salt: Processed with aluminum?
Some companies process table salt with aluminum. According to the book, The Calcium Lie, you also should not take colloidal minerals. The Calcium Lie also explains that colloidal silver, for example, over time, accumulates permanently between your cells.
Colloidal forms of minerals get into your skin, in that area between the cells. Your body can't excrete colloidal minerals, and the minerals build up too much.
Minerals in excess are dangerous. Instead, you need sea salt-derived ionic multiple minerals. What happens when the larger moleclules of colloidal silver or other colloidal-derived minerals get between the cells in back of your eyes, in your retina or in your organs and stay there? Check out my other Examiner.com article, Why are table salt and MSG called health destroyers? - Sacramento Nutrition | Examiner.com.
What Really Happens When You Take Calcium with Vitamin D?
Why aren't scientists ever mentioning what happens when you take magnesium supplements? For example, 360 mg for women and 420 mg for men of magnesium, such as magnesium citrate, if the brand you select has a low enough level of mercury or lead to meet California's minimum requirements for supplements. How about getting your minerals from foods?
What doctors in the latest study also may be saying that is if your physician tells you to take calcium and vitamin D you shouldn't stop taking them, but instead to discuss your worries with your doctor. That may be because the study needs continuing research to find out what's really happening.
Unfortunately for this study, no one is mentioning the benefits of taking magnesium in small amounts and getting your calcium from a balanced diet of foods. See the latest article or abstract on the study, "Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D and risk of cardiovascular events: reanalysis of the Women's Health Initiative limited access dataset and meta-analysis", by Mark J Bolland, Andrew Grey, Alison Avenell, Greg D Gamble, Ian R Reid. The study appears in BMJ (2011).
Can vitamin D alone be tied to heart disease if you have a particular variant of genes?
Can vitamin D in excess possibly be tied to heart disease if you have specific types of genes? Why are so many Sacramento consumers rushing to wolf down higher and higher doses of vitamin D3 supplements without knowing whether they are deficient?
And why is there so much about vitamin D in the media these days? There are blood tests to determine whether you need extra vitamin D. And if you do, how do you know whether you have the genetic variant that processes vitamin D differently than most people?
Are there some people who shouldn't be taking supplements containing vitamin D and just get what they need of the vitamin from healthy foods? According to a December 3, 2009 article in HealthDay Daily News, "Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes," if you have a specific gene variant that reduces vitamin D activation in the body and high blood pressure, according to a new study, you were found to be twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure as well as the high blood pressure, the study found.
Also see the Dec 3, 2009 UPI article: Heart failure linked to vitamin D gene, (U.S. researchers linked congestive heart failure to a gene variant affecting vitamin D activation.) What does this study mean for consumers of vitamin supplements?
The purpose of the study is to hopefully identify people at increased risk for heart disease, according to Robert U. Simpson, an assistant professor of pharmacology at the University of Michigan Medical School and his research colleagues, as reported by HealthDay Daily News.
The University of Michigan Medical School researchers analyzed the genetic profiles of 617 people. One-third had hypertension, one-third had hypertension and congestive heart failure, and the remaining third served as healthy controls. Scientists found that a variant in the CYP27B1 gene was associated with congestive heart failure in people with hypertension. The study appears in the November 2009 issue of the journal, Pharmacogenomics.
Previous research showed that mutations that inactivate the gene reduce the conversion of vitamin D into an active hormone. "This study is the first indication of a genetic link between vitamin D action and heart disease," Simpson noted in a news release from the University of Michigan. "If subsequent studies confirm this finding and demonstrate a mechanism, this means that, in the future, we may be able to screen earlier for those most vulnerable and slow the progress of the disease," he added. Check out the article, "Heart failure linked to vitamin D gene."
Vitamin D supplements and genetic variations
When consumers examine this study, the main question arises as to whether someone with the gene mutation should or should not take supplements of vitamin D. For example, would the vitamin D from vitamin pills quicken the path towards congestive heart failure in a person with high blood pressure and the gene mutation, or would extra vitamin D be beneficial and slow down the decline?
Does the gene variant that inactivates the gene prevent vitamin D from dietary sources from being converted into an active hormone? Or is more vitamin D needed? Does the gene mutation cause vitamin D to calcify the aorta or not? What should persons with the gene mutation and high blood pressure eat--more or less vitamin D either in supplements or dietary means? That's the question consumers would like to know when they read the study. The natural form of vitamin D is vitamin D3.
What are the risks of taking vitamin D supplements? Do you have that specific gene mutation?
Do you have the gene mutation? Did anyone in your family have it? Could you find out whether you've inherited that specific gene mutation? What are some of the risks of taking too much vitaminD? Where can you go to find out whether you have the gene mutation, assuming you also have high blood pressure and a family history of hypertension and congestive heart failure. Those are health questions consumers would like to have answered.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone, according to a Nov.17th, 2009 news article, "Effects Of Vitamin D Deficiency Amplified By Shortage Of Estrogen."
In a recent national study of men presented on Nov. 15 at the American Heart Association's (AHA) annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando, FL, researchers reported that the new findings build on previous studies showing that deficiencies in vitamin D and low levels of estrogen, found naturally in differing amounts in men and women, were independent risk factors for hardened, narrowed arteries and weakened bones.
What does vitamin D actually do? It plays an important role in calcium balance so you get normal bone strength. The major function of vitamin D is to improve the efficiency of calcium absorption from the small intestine, according to Dr. Ray Sahelian's newsletter and nutrition information sites. Can taking too much vitamin D calcify your aorta? What are the risks? And do you have to inherit a specific gene variation for vitamin D to calify your coronary arteries? What does the research show?
What happens to the way your body handles, absorbs, or builds up vitamin D after menopause when the estrogen level plummets? And were you born with or without the gene variation that takes the vitamin D3 you eat along with the calcium and calcifies your arteries with it instead of putting it into your bones where it belongs? How do you find a genetics/DNA test to tell you whether you have inherited that genetic mutation or variation?
Epidemiological data show low levels of vitamin D lead to a higher incidence of breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, as well as multiple myeloma, according to Dr.Sahelian's site. Patients with Crohn's disease are known to have low levels. Vitamin D supplementation may even improve mood during the winter months, according to Dr. Sahelian. But you'd be better off taking less than more until you know how much you'll really need of vitamin D.
Scientists repeatedly warn vitamin consumers of the danger regarding excessive intake. Vitamin D taken in high amounts can cause excessive calcification of bone, calcification of soft tissue, kidney stones, headaches, weakness, nausea, and vomiting.
There answer right now is that no one knows exactly the long-term effects of high dose daily use of vitamin D
You may wish to find out whether or not you need to supplement at all. Research is ongoing. In the meantime, are you taking a teaspoon full of cod liver oil that already has 400 units of vitamin D in it along with some vitamin A? Look at the label and see whether it tell you the vitamin content of the oil. How do you compare the different answers given by your various heath care professionals?
When you take all those vitamin D3 supplements that are recommended in so many articles in the media, how do you know whether your body will use it to protect your organs against bone loss or use it to send calcium deposits into your organs, heart valves, and arteries?
You could find out from your doctor whether or not your blood test tells you that you may or may not need to supplement. Does your diet have plenty of vitamin D? Do you get enough sun exposure?
Most people may benefit from taking 400 units a day either as part of a multivitamin product and a balanced diet. A few people without much sun exposure and a poorer diet, or if you live in latitudes where there's not much sun, might benefit from 600-800 units of vitamin D3.
The only questions scientists have is that over a long term, we don't know what the risks are. You're doctor should talk with you if you have chronic medical conditions whether you need up to 1,000 units daily. But the question is for how long without posing a risk of calcifying your arteries from too high a dose for too long a time of taking supplements of vitamin D.
When you do take a supplement, you'd want to know whether you should take the natural form of vitamin D3, not vitamin D2. The conclusion is the final word is not yet in on the danger of calcifying your brain and arteries with too much vitamin D supplementation.
Why take the risk when you can keep your supplementation, if any, to a dose related to what your body needs. You can find out what vitamin deficiencies you have by taking a test to see what's actually absorbed into your cells and what's just floating in your bloodstream.
What needs to be evaluated right now is whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder. In plain language, how many gene variations control the way calcium and vitamin D3 are processed in your own body? And how can you find out? Are there genetic tests that show you how your body handles vitamin D3?
Do your genes allow the processing of certain supplements to be in the best way for your body?
The media is full of articles saying that the 400 mg of vitamin D3 is too little to protect you against cardiovascular problems, that you probably need 1,000 mg. But what happens if you have a genetic variation or mutation that communicates to your body in a different way, where when you take vitamin D3 and calcium in supplements or at high food intakes, that the calcium doesn't go into your bones, but into the arteries and valves around your heart?
Will vitamin K2 in the MK-7 form protect you from calcification if you have this genetic variation? And where can you find out if it will? All these answers require scientific studies, namely, research.
Another article at BioMed Experts, Osteoporosis and calcification of the aorta, Bone and Mineral, 1992;19(2):185-94,1992: Frye M A; Melton L J; Bryant S C; Fitzpatrick L A; Wahner H W; Schwartz R S; Riggs B L, notes, "Aortic calcification was not associated with any measures of calcium metabolism, after adjusting for age, except for a slight negative association between linear aortic calcifications and 25(OH) vitamin D levels (P < 0.05)."
Another abstract of a 2003 article, "Influence of sex and estrogen on vitamin D-induced arterial calcification in rats" notes, "It is known that the process of arteriosclerosis is affected by sex and estrogen. The present study was thus undertaken to examine the effects of these factors on arterial calcification, a form of arteriosclerosis, using a rat model of vitamin D toxicity.
The article concludes with, "These results suggest that sex and estrogen can modify the process of arterial calcification. The mechanisms remain to be determined, although the effects were independent of serum calcium level."
Will taking vitamin K2 in the MK-7 form help you if you have this gene variation whereby taking too much vitamin D starts to calcify your aorta? Or not? Only science can tell you for sure, and the science needs to be tailored to your individual genes. Is science ready yet? Have they developed a test? Or does science still not know yet how many genes need to be tested to see how your body handles vitamin D3 and calcium?
You hear all the talk about increasing your daily natural vitamin D3 intake from 400 mg to at least 1,000 mg to prevent arterial calcification, bone loss, and certain diseases. The media says so many diseases could be due to too low vitamin D3 intake. But what happens if you have a certain gene variation that instead causes vitamin D3 to calcify your aortic valves?
There is some early research that high amounts of vitamin D, such as 2,000 iu, taken daily for many months or years may lead to calcification of arteries, according to Dr. Ray Sahelian's newsletter. How do you know what to take?
Until more studies are published we prefer to be cautious and have people only take one or two vitamin D 400 iu a day. Some doctors are recommending daily dosages of 1000 units or higher. Research in medical journals report that many people in this country are not getting enough of this vitamin. But what is the right dosage for supplementation so you don't calcify the arteries in your brain or heart?
If you have a gene variation, does vitamin D cause calcification of your aorta? See the article at the CAT. Inst. site. Another article in the Journal of Vascular Research, Aortic Calcification Produced by Vitamin D3 plus Nicotine, notes that "Calcification of the elastic arteries of the young rat by treatment with vitamin D and nicotine (VDN) has been proposed as an animal model of arterial calcification associated with age and age-related vascular pathology in man.
The calcium-binding protein, S-100, which is found in human atherosclerotic lesions was associated with medial calcification of the aorta in VDN rats, especially in cases of severe calcification." The abstract's conclusion is that, "In conclusion, the mechanisms and consequences of aortic calcification in VDN show several similarities with calcification occurring in human athero- and arteriosclerosis."
See the conclusion of the article in the MD Consult Preview, The vitamin D receptor genotype predisposes to the development of calcific aortic valve stenosis. - Ortlepp JR - Heart - 01-JUN-2001; 85(6): 635-8 (MEDLINE is the source for the citation and abstract of this record) that notes, "There is a significant association of vitamin D receptor polymorphism with calcific aortic valve stenosis. The B allele of the vitamin D receptor is more common in patients with calcific aortic valve stenosis. It now needs to be evaluated whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder."
See the article, at: Oxford Journals, Cardiovascular Research, titled, Uraemic hyperparathyroidism causes a reversible inflammatory process of aortic valve calcification in rats. Uraemic hyperparathyroidism causes a reversible inflammatory process of aortic valve calcification in rats Renal failure is associated with aortic valve calcification (AVC). Our aim was to develop an animal model for exploring the pathophysiology and reversibility of AVC, utilizing rats with diet-induced kidney disease.
See the publication, Heart, and Education in Heart, a peer review journal for health professionals in all areas of cardiology. The article, Cardiovascular medicine, "The vitamin D receptor genotype predisposes to the development of calcific aortic valve stenosis", J R Ortlepp, R Hoffmann, F Ohme, J Lauscher, F Bleckmann, P Hanrath, tests the hypothesis that vitamin D receptor polymorphism is associated with calcific aortic valve stenosis.
The conclusion noted, "There is a significant association of vitamin D receptor polymorphism with calcific aortic valve stenosis. The B allele of the vitamin D receptor is more common in patients with calcific aortic valve stenosis. It now needs to be evaluated whether other genes that control calcium homeostasis are involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder."
What this means is if you have a genetic variation, a polymorphism on your vitamin D receptor, it's association with calcification of your aortic valve
How do you know whether you have this particular gene variation that makes your body react a certain way to vitamin D3 by developing calcium deposits in your aortic valve? What should you do? Keep asking whether the test is ready yet. And keep searching to find out whether science has found all the genes necessary to tell you how your body handles vitamin D3 supplements versus natural food intake, calcium, magnesium, and fish oils containing vitamin D3. Until you know, eat whole foods, get enough sunshine or other natural light, and keep researching.
Find out whether you have the B allele of the vitamin D receptor. Science knows those with it, at least in rats and some human patients, it's more common to see calcification of the aortic valve. But because it is more common, how does that tell us whether the gene variation is a risk? Or how many genes or alleles are involved? That's why you have to keep asking those experts that are talking about health care with you.
Also, on the subject of food cravings, according to the article, "Combat Your Food Cravings," in the June 2009 issue of Natural Solutions magazine, page 79, if you crave sweets, what your body really needs are trace amounts of chromium, carbon, phosphorus, sulfur, and tryptophan. You can get all of these in small amounts from the following foods: To get enough chromium, eat broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, and chicken. Think about this. But do you agree with this information you read in popular consumer magazines on health not meant for your doctor to read, but for the general consumer?
How can you find out whether this idea has been validated in credible medical journals?
Where can you turn to for nutrition information after reading interviews in magazines? The only problem with articles where health professionals are interviewed is where can you go to validate all these statements in scientific studies or journals if references aren't listed in a sidebar? Where can you find the resources without having to subscribe to the medical journals? Start with the public library or some of the online nutrition sites that have references.
Check out the study, "Effects Of Vitamin D Deficiency Amplified By Shortage Of Estrogen." November 17, 2009. Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, but not testosterone [read article]. You may also wish to see the abstract of a study, "Vitamin K status and vascular calcification: evidence from observational and clinical studies." [Adv Nutr. 2012]. Or see, "Coffee consumption and coronary calcification: the Rotterdam Coronary Calcification Study." [Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008].


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Jon, I concur with Hans and David. Actually, I agree with most of what David says except for the bottom line where he says that there are lots of available collectors in the literature and therefore it will be easier for you to look at a GC generator and use the basic blocks you like. It seems to me that this approach may be too complicated to start with. I think if I were you, I would look for concurrent collectors that have been previously implemented in the industry. These are typically chosen for simplicity and efficiency. Maybe the most popular concurrent collector is the mostly concurrent collector that Hans proposed. It was used by IBM, BEA, SUN, and more. a detailed report on an IBM's implementation of a modern mostly concurrent algorithm (with some algorithmic extensions for efficiency and various engineering efforts for scalability) appears in [1]. SUN's version was published in [2]. The disadvantage of this choice is that this collector has a stop-the-world phase in the end , and is thus not fully concurrent. (It is mostly-concurrent.) The second collector I would check, which has much shorter pauses, but is not as simple, is by DLG [3]. It is on-the-fly (or fully concurrent.) A report on an implementation by IBM for Java appears in [3,4]. Finally, an additional collector that is on-the-fly, has very short pauses (like DLG), seems somewhat simpler than DLG, but not as simple as the mostly-concurrent one, is the sliding views collector from [5]. All of these (three) collectors were implemented by Xiao-Feng Li for the Apache Harmony VM. As far as I know, they have not yet performed proper measurements that allow publication, but you can probably get his off-line opinion on what it takes to implement them. A presentation on his work is available at http://people.apache.org/~xli/presentations/harmony_tick_concurrent_gc.pdf . [1] Katherine Barabash, Ori Ben-Yitzhak, Irit Goft, Elliot K. Kolodner, Victor Leikehman, Yoav Ossia, Avi Owshanko, and Erez Petrank. A Parallel, Incremental, Mostly Concurrent Garbage Collection for Servers. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 1097 - 1146, Nov. 2005. Available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/mostly-concurrent-toplas.ps [2] Detlefs, D. and Printezis, T. 2000 A Generational Mostly- Concurrent Garbage Collector. Available at http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=974992 [3] Damien Doligez, Georges Gonthier: Portable, Unobtrusive Garbage Collection for Multiprocessor Systems. POPL 1994: 70-83. [4] Tamar Domani, Elliot K. Kolodner, Ethan Lewis, Elliot E. Salant, Katherine Barabash, Itai Lahan, Erez Petrank, Igor Yanover and Yossi Levanoni. Implementing an On-the-fly Garbage Collector for Java. The 2000 International Symposium on Memory Management, October, 2000. Available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/cgc9.pdf [5] Tamar Domany, Elliot K. Kolodner, Erez Petrank. Generational On- the-fly Garbage Collector for Java. An extended abstract appears in the ACM SIGPLAN 2000 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2000), June, 2000. Available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/gen.ps [6] Hezi Azatchi, Yossi Levanoni, Harel Paz, and Erez Petrank An on- the-fly Mark and Sweep Garbage Collector Based on Sliding Views. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'03), October 2003. Available at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/Papers/ms-sliding-views.ps Check out my publication page for some power point presentations for some of these collectors (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez/papers-by-area.html ). Best, --Erez --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erez Petrank, Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Inst. of Technology. Email: erez <at> cs.technion.ac.il Phone: +972-4-829-4942. Fax: +972-4-829-3900 homepage: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~erez --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 11-Jan-10, at 12:20 PM, gclist-owner <at> lists.iecc.com wrote: > Daily gclist MIME digest > Volume 5 : Issue 121 : "text" Format > > Messages in this Issue: > Re: concurrent garbage collection and POSIX threads > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:54:08 +0000 > From: Jon Harrop <jon <at> ffconsultancy.com> > To: "David F. Bacon" <dfb <at> watson.ibm.com> > Cc: gclist <at> lists.iecc.com > Subject: Re: concurrent garbage collection and POSIX threads > Message-ID: <201001101454.08707.jon <at> ffconsultancy.com> > > On Sunday 10 January 2010 03:14:09 David F. Bacon wrote: >> "simplest" and "fully concurrent" are fundamentally in conflict. >> the more >> concurrent you want to make it, the more complex it gets: are you >> willing >> to perform a global barrier when collection starts to snapshot the >> roots? >> if not, are you willing to pause a thread while snapshotting its >> entire >> stack? or only for one frame? > > Ah yes. > > I consider the VCGC algorithm to be simple because it does not > perform any > fine-grained synchronization, just a stop-the-world. I was not > technically > thinking of fully concurrent GC but, rather, GC without global > synchronization. > > So I suppose my question should have been: what GC design that does > not stop > the world contains the fewest fine-grained synchronizations? > > I am developing a VM in my spare time as a non-expert so it is very > important > that I keep my milestones attainable by keeping my implementation > simple > without sacrificing my goals (e.g. numerical performance). > >> to put it another way, the basic algorithms for marking (and >> sweeping) are >> not that complex. the complexity comes when handling the phase >> transitions >> and corner cases. getting all of those things done concurrently is >> the >> "last mile" of GC. and it's a long one. > > I see. > >> of course, if you have a ridiculous implementation it's much >> easier: just >> keep everything in the heap (even stack frames) and then when you >> start >> collection all you have to do is record a single root. of course, >> your >> language will be running 100x slower because you will have to perform >> barriers on every stack operation. no free lunch. but it's useful >> to >> think about this way because you realize that the stacks are just >> another >> "special" part of memory, like a nursery. > > Right. > >> the algorithm you outline is basically yuasa's snapshot algorithm. >> it's by >> far the simplest and most elegant among the basic styles of >> concurrent >> collector. > > Great. > >> the literature is littered with scads of gc algorithms, so many >> that it's >> overwhelming to figure out which one to use. but all of them are >> made up >> from a set of building blocks, combined in various ways depending >> on the >> performance demands of the particular language and machine >> environment. if >> you can get a clean understanding of those building blocks, putting >> together the right GC for the job becomes much easier. for a >> pragmatic >> exploration of this, see my paper with vechev et al in ecoop'05; more >> theoretical treatment is in pldi'06/07. > > Thanks. I'm reading your ecoop'05 paper now. How would you classify > VCGC > though? I haven't seen its approach to ageing use anywhere else... > > -- > Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. > http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e > > ------------------------------ > > End of [gclist] Daily gclist MIME digest V5 #121 > **********


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Productivity increase in 1999
February 09, 2000
Productivity increased 2.9 percent in the nonfarm business sector during 1999, about the same as the 2.8 percent rise in 1998.
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During 1999, output in nonfarm businesses rose 4.7 percent, and hours of all persons increased 1.7 percent. The increase in labor productivity in 1998 resulted from faster growth in both output and hours, 5.2 and 2.4 percent, respectively.
Unit labor costs in the nonfarm business sector grew 1.8 percent in 1999, slightly less than their 2.4-percent increase in 1998. This reflected, in part, an hourly compensation rise of 4.8 percent in 1999, compared with a 5.2 percent increase in 1998.
These data are a product of the BLS Quarterly Labor Productivityprogram. Data are subject to revision. Additional information is available in "Productivity and Costs, Fourth Quarter Measures, 1999," news release USDL 00-37.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Productivity increase in 1999 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/feb/wk2/art03.htm (visited June 28, 2016).
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Chocolate-Cherry Cupcakes
The chopped cherries blend into the ultra-rich chocolate cake, giving these cupcakes a slight cherry flavor while keeping it super-moist with little added oil. The combination of reduced-fat cream cheese and sour cream gives the frosting cheesecake-like flavor with about 40 calories and 3 grams saturated fat less than a traditional cream cheese frosting.Yield: 12 cupcakes
Active Time: 40
Total Time: 180
- 3/4 cup whole-wheat pastry flour (see Note)
- 3/4 cup cake flour
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup nonfat buttermilk (see Tip)
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pitted cherries, fresh or frozen (thawed and drained), plus 12 fresh cherries with stems for garnish
- 6 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese (Neufchâtel), at room temperature
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1 cup packed confectioners' sugar
- To prepare cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 12 (1/2-cup) muffin cups with paper liners.
- Whisk whole-wheat flour, cake flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat granulated sugar and oil in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla until well combined. With the mixer on low, alternately mix in the dry ingredients and buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredients and scraping the sides of the bowl as needed, until just combined. Fold in chopped cherries until just combined. Divide the batter among the prepared cups (they will be full).
- Bake the cupcakes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 22 to 26 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
- To prepare frosting: Meanwhile, beat cream cheese, sour cream and confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Refrigerate the frosting until very cold, about 2 hours. Spread the frosting on the cooled cupcakes and decorate with a cherry on top, if desired.
Tips & Notes
- Ingredient Note: Look for whole-wheat pastry flour in the natural-foods section of large supermarkets and natural-foods stores. Store in the freezer.
- Tip: No buttermilk? You can make "sour milk" as a substitute: mix 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice or vinegar to 1/2 cup nonfat milk.
Nutrition Per Serving
|10 g (3 g sat, 4 g mono)
|32 mg
|42 g
|5 g
|2 g
|286 mg
|150 mg
Nutrition Bonus
Carbohydrate Serving 3
Exchanges 3 carbohydrates (other), 2 fat
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Jackson Parish Hospital
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Welcome to Jackson Parish Hospital. We have provided quality healthcare to the citizens of Jackson Parish for over 50 years. We take pride in the service provided by our nursing and ancillary staffs. Maintaining an adequate staff is a challenge in todays environment , but we have been very fortunate in this area. We are also in the process of upgrading our facility with a new heating and cooling system , new roof, and the latest up-to-date equipment. Please come by and give us a try.
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BOISBRIAND, Quebec -- Halifax Mooseheads left wing Jonathan Drouin, one of the top prospects for the 2013 NHL Draft, will not play for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team against Team Russia in Game 1 of the Subway Super Series on Monday (7 p.m. ET, NHLN-US, Sportsnet) due to a foot injury.
Drouin, 17, suffered the injury Saturday blocking a shot in the Mooseheads' 5-1 win at the Drummondville Voltigeurs. He played in Halifax's 6-5 shootout loss at the Rimouski Oceanic on Sunday, which snapped the Mooseheads' 14-game winning streak, but was limited to spot duty because of the injury.
Mooseheads general manager Cam Russell told the Halifax Chronicle-Herald that Drouin suffered a bruise and added that it was possible he would play in Game 2 of the series, Wednesday night in Val-d'Or, Quebec.
Drouin missed six games earlier this season with an undisclosed upper-body injury. In 12 games this season, the 5-10.75, 185-pound forward has 11 goals and 13 assists. He is listed as an A skater on NHL Central Scouting's preliminary rankings of players to watch for this year's draft.
Drouin's teammate and fellow top 2013 draft prospect goaltender Zachary Fucale also won't play for Team QMJHL on Monday. However, he is expected to play Wednesday in Val-d'Or after playing in back-to-back games over the weekend.
Val-d'Or Foreurs defenseman Matt Murphy, listed as a C skater in Central Scouting's preliminary rankings, also will miss Monday's game for Team QMJHL but will play in front of his home crowd Wednesday.
Goalies -- Francois Brassard, Quebec (Ottawa), Etienne Marcoux, Blainville-Boisbriand (2013 Draft eligible)
Defensemen -- Nikolas Brouillard, Drummondville (2013 Draft eligible), Ryan Culkin, Quebec (Calgary), Dillon Fournier, Rouyn-Noranda (Chicago), James Melindy, Moncton (Phoenix), Jimmy Oligny, PEI (2013 Draft eligible), Xavier Ouellet, Blainville-Boisbriand (Detroit), Jonathan Racine, Moncton (Florida)
Forwards -- Brent Andrews, Halifax (Nashville), Francis Beauvillier, Rimouski (Florida), William Carrier, Cape Breton (2013 Draft eligible), Christopher Clapperton, Blainville-Boisbriand (2013 Draft eligible), Phillip Danault, Victoriaville (Chicago), Jean-Sebastien Dea, Rouyn-Noranda (2013 Draft eligible Samuel Henley, Val-d'Or (2013 Draft eligible), Jonathan Huberdeau, Saint John (Florida), Charles Hudon, Chicoutimi (Montreal), Nathan MacKinnon, Halifax (2013 Draft eligible), Anthony Mantha, Val-d'Or (2013 Draft eligible), Cedric Paquette, Blainville-Boisbriand (Tampa Bay), Ryan Tesink, Saint John (St. Louis)
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Super 8 Hotel Central Avenue - Harbin
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- Address: 5 Jingwei Sidao Street, Daoli District
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The latest addition to a popular Raleigh restaurant has caught the attention of the City of Raleigh—and not in the best way.
Located on 320 ½ Glenwood Avenue, the owners of The Rockford recently commissioned an artist to paint "The Rockford" on the front of its building. Currently, the zoning code limits maximum signage to two square feet per linear foot on the side of the building facing a street from which the establishment has a direct grade level public entrance for a property.
The City of Raleigh claims that the signage was not pre-approved, arguing that it violates the city's sign ordinance and should be permanently removed.
Supporters of the Glenwood mainstay are now fighting back. Groups that support small, local businesses like Shop Local Raleigh and Greater Raleigh Merchants Association have joined together in an effort to "save" the new sign, a sign that the groups claim is not only imperative in sustaining the business of The Rockford due to its obscured upstairs location, but serves as a piece of artwork as well.
The petition "Allow The Rockford to keep their signs" has been created on the Change.org website to generate support and has garnered 1,678 signatures as of Thursday morning so far.
From the Change.org petition:
As a small business in the bustling Glenwood South district, we have witnessed tons of growth and expansion in the area. Despite all of this new foot traffic, our upstairs location makes it hard for people to find our business. We have been a staple in the community for 20 years and in order to keep up with the newer/larger businesses, we needed better visibility. While we feel the hand-painted signs are indicative of The Rockford "charm", we also feel that the historic design of the signs adds a feeling of nostalgia to the Glenwood South street-scape.
The City of Raleigh may make us remove the signs based on an ordinance that does not take our unique location into consideration. We are asking the city for a variance that would allow us to keep our signs and we would love your support.
If you would like to show your public support for The Rockford keeping the hand-painted signs, please sign our petition!"
The Twitter hashtag "#saverockford" has also been gaining in popularity and raising awareness across social media platforms.
The owners of The Rockford will plead their case before the City of Raleigh's Board of Adjustment meeting on June 9.


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Custom Benefit Solutions That Save Money, Increase Coverage
A medium-size company was losing top talent to larger competitors that offered superior employee benefit packages. With insurance premiums skyrocketing and money tight, the beleaguered employer turned to Benemax, one of New England's most innovative providers of customized benefit solutions, for help.
"We went right to work," says David Cowles, co-founder and principal. "We combined a traditional, high-deductible insurance coverage with a thin layer of additional benefits, self-funded by the employer and customized to meet all of their benefit objectives. Net result: we reduced the company's overall cost while increasing member benefits. This company is now paying about 20 percent less for their health benefits than they would pay for a comparable package purchased off-the-shelf."
Typically, the Benemax System™ delivers double-digit savings without reducing employees' benefits and usually without requiring employers to switch insurance carriers. Most clients save at least $1,000 a year per enrolled employee.
More than a broker, Benemax is a true benefit consultant, offering customized design and funding solutions tailored to the unique needs of each employer and its employees.
"Most companies begin with a benefit design and then invite carriers to bid based on that design, but not Benemax," Cowles explains. "First, we identify the highest value product in an insurer's portfolio and then we retrofit that contract to match the employer's customized benefit design. We often begin with a high-deductible plan but we mitigate the impact of that deductible by adding an additional layer of benefits. In the long run, everyone gets better coverage, for less!"
Benemax provides comprehensive online support through its Virtual Benefit Manager®, which allows members to manage benefits and access information 24/7. Benemax also offers a variety of wellness tools and incentives, including a free online second opinion, courtesy of Harvard Medical School and the Center for Connected Health (formerly known as Partners TeleMedicine). Cowles believes that when the economy turns around, employers that have slashed benefits during the recession will suffer as their employees migrate to companies that maintain attractive benefit packages. Benemax, he says, can help companies rebuild their plans, without adding cost.
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AT&T, the second largest wireless provider, agrees to purchase DirecTV for $48.5 billion. Both groups reached a decision to merge last week. However, the final verdict rests in the hands of Congressional lawmakers. Being that this will be the fourth-largest partnership within the telecommunications industry noted in history. And, a few months prior, Comcast publicly announced its petition to acquire Time Warner Cable.
DirecTV was launched nearly 24 years ago offering a wide variety of satellite TV packages and audio services to consumers in the U.S., South America, and the Caribbean. It was once the second largest company in the market until recently. Last August, the company reported a significant loss in sales due largely to a decline in subscribers.
With the newer and more innovative trends in the market, DirecTV was apparently feeling the heat of competition from other cable companies. They appeased customers with more affordable bundle package deals. To date, DirecTV has a debt of $67 billion, on which AT&T plans to take.
Together, AT&T and DirecTV will have a stronger competitive niche in the industry. Consumers will have wider options from which they can choose: voice, TV, home security, wireless Internet, etc. As the companies aim to increase sales and annual revenues, AT&T will be able to invest in additional land-line networks, thus, enabling faster Internet connections. They plan to reach at least 15 million more homes.
AT&T CEO/Chairman Randall Stephenson believes this merger is a good move because it will enable premium content to be transferred beyond TV to various devices such as smartphone, tablets, and laptops. Consumers would have access at their hands whenever they desired.
Consumers can expect a few changes in the near future:
- AT&T has committed to maintaining the current rates for cable over the next three years. However, once the three-year spectrum has ended, the rates will more than likely rise.
- Subscribers will have access to additional channels and content, such as on-demand selections.
- The companies plan to offer better quality and high-definition (HD) for its overall appearance.
- Customers, who would like AT&T's U-verse –a package comprised of digital television, Internet, and voice services, that are not offered in rural areas, will have the preference to purchase similar packages through DirecTV.
As for now, all services offered by the companies will continue uninterrupted. Many consumers are awaiting these new benefits, though, skeptical of the rate adjustments.


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The purchasing season begins for most shoppers this week, but we've been scoping the fall deliveries in boutiques from LA to San Tropez since June. Whether you're hitting the stores during New York Fashion Week or getting back from a farflung holiday, you're just in time for our tight pick of the season's best investment pieces.
Sophie Theallet Cashmere Color Blocked Sweaters
Color blocking is having a fashion moment, and Sophie Theallet has responded with a tangy sweater program for fall. As perfectly paired with the designer's chic chiffon dresses as with a pencil skirt or high waisted trousers, these cardis and pullover cashmeres come in combinations like purple and navy, pumpkin and lemon or royal and navy blue, and are the season's perfect pick of sweaters.
Celine Silk Blouse
We were thrilled back in Spring 2010 when silky button down blouses started turning up in various collections. The trend was no doubt a result of the cool minimalism that Celine ushered into vogue just seasons earlier, so it's only fitting that the look's instigator is also responsible for this season's best interpretation. Narrow in the body with a thin lapel and the perfect silk weight, Celine's silk blouse comes in tasty royal blue, olive, cream and who knows what other colors on special order at international boutiques. It's pricey but worth it. Consider this one a workhorse.
Junya Wantanabe Felt Hat
Famed milliner Borsalino is the best place to start when seeking a quality hat. Throw in visionary Japanese designer Junya Wantanabe and the result is bound to be something fierce. The dark navy wool felt hat from the Borsalino for Junya Wantanabe collaboration can be worn several ways: high on the head, low cast over the eyes and still fold up and packed in your suitcase. It's sold for men but looks oh-so-sexy on a woman too.
Nicholas Kirkwook Knee-high boots
Nicholas Kirkwood's eponymous footwear label is the fastest growing shoe line because, quite simply, he makes exquisite shoes. Kirkwood's architectural pumps have been favored by daring fashionistas for a few years now, but as the label expands, some of its quiet models are emerging as the best investment. Case in point, this season's knee-high boots are classic in feel with a standout trompe l'oeil buckle detail and a sexy short round toe.
Tom Ford Makeup
On more than one occasion in the last week, we received five unsolicited testimonials about Tom Ford's makeup range. Women have cooed to us about the gorgeous colors, the slick packaging, the hi-defness of it all. Not that we needed much persuading, but such unanimous acclaim gives us yet another reason to bow at the Tom Ford altar.


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The Country Reacts to Cleveland Ruling
"Finally, I have a chance to give my children hope of succeeding in the school system and they try to take it away."
Roberta Kitchen
guardian of five children
Associated Press
"[W]hat is finally compelling about the images we now see in Cleveland is the sense that we have been here before: Black children and their families walking to a new school in the teeth of opposition from narrow-minded authorities. The enemy may not be Jim Crow, but the choice revolution today is picking up some of the momentum that propelled the fight against officially mandated school segregation. This time what the children want is a real education, and may they overcome."
Wall Street Journal
"This is an act of desperation by people who are on the wrong side of history. Vouchers and other forms of school choice are spreading from coast to coast as parents rightfully demand a say in what schools their children attend. Judge Oliver can no more stop this train than King Canute could order the tides to recede."
Charles Byrne
member of Ohio's elected state board of education
"By waiting until the last possible second to yank 4,000 voucher-supported kids out of private school and in essence order them to be deported back to the educational Third World, Oliver betrayed the desperation of school-choice opponents. All they have left is the argument that school choice is unconstitutional because it amounts to state support of religion. Sure, it's nonsense, but that's all there is.
"They can't argue school quality. They can't argue educational results. They can't argue student safety. Not if they want to win. . . ."
Kevin O'Brien
columnist, Cleveland Plain Dealer
"This case is not about the state imposing religion. This is about parents having the right to choose an appropriate school for their children. . . . [The ruling is a] judicial overreach with serious casualties__Cleveland's disadvantaged children."
Texas Governor George W. Bush
Associated Press
An "offensive" example of "judicial activism run amok."
GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes
Associated Press
"This decision is reminiscent of the Dred Scott decision that returned an escaped slave into bondage. And as long as there is ONE CHILD forced to attend a school other than their school of choice--we will protest this outrageous ruling."
Vernon Robinson
Executive Director
Carolina Educational Opportunity Fund
"Children should not be pawns while adults battle. No matter where they go to school, their opportunity to study should not be given or yanked away at any stage of the legal journey.
"Halting the program at this preliminary level of litigation . . . is wrong under any circumstances. Doing so the day before school opens is an act of arrogance, carelessness, and utter disregard for the needs of children across the city.
"Oliver's leanings against the program were obvious at a hearing 10 days ago. . . . Handling the matter as he has makes the judge appear downright spiteful."
Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Put away your champagne bottles, Cleveland school-voucher opponents, and see what you have 'won.' Perhaps the Ohio Education Association, American Civil Liberties Union, and People for the American Way--who filed suit to challenge the scholarship program--could explain why [children] should have to return to a government school system that was unable to pass a single one of the state academic requirements for this past school year.
"School choice opponents have no right to take academic performance and security away from students who have no serious option in Cleveland public schools. . . . Tuesday's decision was not a victory for religious freedom, as school choice opponents claimed. It was a vote to lock low-income children out of the quality education system they deserve."
The Washington Times
"Even if the program were eventually invalidated, it's hard to see how the opponents would suffer 'irreparable harm,' if it were allowed to keep operating until then. Taxpayers probably don't pay anything extra for the program; more likely they gain for each student who leaves the public schools. But if children are forced to leave their private schools for months or years and the program is ultimately upheld, there is no way to restore that lost time."
Chicago Tribune
"Decades ago, federal judges defied the racists and opened the schoolhouse doors for the poor. Now a federal judge in Cleveland seems determined to slam the door in the face of 4,000 mostly black children desperate for an equal shot at an excellent education. . . . To the cheers of the teachers unions and liberal elitists everywhere, U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. threw cold water on Cleveland's voucher plan, which provides the princely sum of $2,500 to desperate parents seeking effective alternatives to their dysfunctional public schools."
W. Russell G. Byers, senior editor
Philadelphia Daily News
"To have little kids turned away from school is a remnant of something that is quite ugly. That was wrong to do."
Florida Governor Jeb Bush
Miami Herald
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Frey, Bruno S; Stutzer, Alois (2004). The Role of Direct Democracy and Federalism in Local Power. Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics No. 209, University of Zurich.
"Alienation to politics weakens political competition and can undermine the acceptance and legitimacy of democracy as a political system. Governance andnrepresentation problems at the local level cause part of citizens' lack of power andnpolitical alienation. Citizens have local power if they can process so that its outcomes are closer to their preferences and if they feel to be effective in the political sphere. In order to increase citizens' local power, we emphasize the role of institutions of local governance. Local democratic governance is concerned about the relationship between citizens and local governmentninstitutions, political representatives and officials. This relationship is fundamentally shaped by the federal structure of a nation's government and by the scope and depth of citizens' participation possibilities in the political process. "
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Abstract: The kinetics of the aromatisation of both rearranged and non-rearranged monoaromatics have been investigated in the laboratory under free radical conditions. These studies have indicated that the aromatisation rate constant for the non-rearranged is greater than that for the rearranged isomers at any one particular temperature. Since the members of the rearranged series coelute with their non-rearranged counterparts when both series are present in geological extracts, these results suggest that care needs to be exercised when assessing extents of maturation using monoaromatic and triaromatic steroid hydrocarbons.
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THIBODAUX -- A Houma man, whose wife died in the Lafourche Parish jail more than two years ago, can proceed with his lawsuit against the Lafourche Sheriff's Office, a judge ruled this morning, despite defense arguments that the lawsuit was not filed in a timely fashion.
Plaintiffs generally have a year from an incident to file suit. But District Judge Hugh "Buddy" Larose ruled that Kevin Prestenbach's time frame to file suit in district court reset after a federal judge dismissed his federal suit against the Lafourche Sheriff's Office in February 2009. The new suit was filed Feb. 10.
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Brief history of Shelburne
Early industries in Shelburne
|As more settlers moved to Shelburne, there was a growing need for industries to support the farming and logging that was the backbone of the local economy. About a mile southeast of the original town center lay a series of falls where the LaPlatte River cut down through local bedrock on its way to Shelburne Bay. As in most of New England, flowing water and falls were a perfect source of power for many types of mills, and Shelburne took full advantage.
By the late 1700's, there were a series of dams across the LaPlatte, serving a sawmill, forge, carding mill, and grist mill. A log bridge, later replaced by a covered bridge, was built over the river at this point, and for many years this was the best way to cross the river. Thus, the main route from Shelburne to Burlington actually ran through Shelburne Falls and up Spear Street. Today's Route 7 corridor was not developed until much later.
Early sawmill at Shelburne Falls (view south)
Town Rivalries
|Water-driven industrial growth in Shelburne Falls helped it became a thriving separate settlement, building a distinct rivaly with Shelburne Village as each vied for control over the rest of the town. The question of dominance was not truly decided until the advent of the railroad.
Grist mill at Shelburne Falls (view north)


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COLUMBUS, Ohioˇ?An Arizona relay team and 10 individuals qualified for the Day 3 finals of the NCAA Womenˇ?s Swimming Championships, giving the Wildcats a good chance at their first national championship.
Arizonaˇ?s two-day point total of 361 leads second place Auburnˇ?s 244 and third place Texas A&Mˇ?s 227.
ˇ?Iˇ?m very impressed with the way the womenˇ?s team handled the morning session,ˇ± said head coach Frank Busch. ˇ?The third day of this meet can make or break a team and I am extremely please with the way the girls performed. Iˇ?m excited to see how they swim tonight.ˇ±
The meet finals begin at 7 p.m. here, where snow has been falling outside the McCorkle Aquatics Pavilion on Saturday.
Again the Wildcats show their strength in the sprint freestyle events with five swimmers within the top 16 earning them a second swim in the 100 freestyle in tonightˇ?s finals. Senior Lacey Nymeyer and junior Anna Turner qualified for the finals with second- and sixth-seed times respectively. Juniors Taylor Baughman, Justine Schluntz and Lara Jackson earned spots in the consolation final for the event.
In the 200 breaststroke, sophomore Annie Chandler chased NCAA record holder Rebecca Soni of USC to qualify for the finals with a time of 2:11.20. Wildcat senior Jacquelyn Craft and junior Jessica Embick posted ninth and 16th seeds to slide into the consolation final.
Showing the teamˇ?s depth, Wildcat sophomores Caitlin Iversen, Andrea Bortizke and Ana Agy swam their way into the finals of the 200 backstroke. Iversen slipped in the finals of the event with the time of 1:54.93, while Boritzke and Agy earned fourth and eighth seeds in the consolation event.
In the final event of the morning session, the 400 freestyle relay snuck into the finals with an eighth place seed and earned itself an outside lane in the finals.