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SEFFNER, Fla. (AP) — Engineers worked gingerly Saturday to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground.
Jeff Bush, 37, was in his bedroom Thursday night when the earth opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five other people were in the house but managed to escape unharmed. Bush's brother jumped into the hole to try to help, but he had to be rescued himself by a sheriff's deputy.
On Saturday, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokesman Ronnie Rivera said one of the homes next door to the Bush house also was compromised by the sinkhole, as determined through testing. The family, which had evacuated Friday, would be allowed to go inside for about a half-hour to gather belongings, Rivera said. The family was outside, crying and organizing boxes.
Engineers had been testing since 7 a.m. Saturday. By 10 a.m., officials moved media crews farther away from the Bush house so experts could perform tests on the home across the street.
It's unclear how large the sinkhole is or whether it leads to other caverns and chasms throughout the neighborhood. Experts say the underground of West Central Florida looks similar to Swiss cheese, with the geography lending itself to sinkholes.
Experts spent the previous day on the property, taking soil samples and running various tests — while acknowledging that the entire lot where Bush lay entombed was dangerous. No one was allowed in the home.
"I cannot tell you why it has not collapsed yet," Bill Bracken, the owner of an engineering company called to assess the sinkhole, said of the home. He described the earth below as a "very large, very fluid mass."
"This is not your typical sinkhole," said Hillsborough County administrator Mike Merrill. "This is a chasm. For that reason, we're being very deliberate."
Officials delicately addressed another sad reality: Bush was likely dead and the family wanted his body. Merrill, though, said they didn't want to jeopardize any more lives.
"They would like us to go in quickly and locate Mr. Bush," Merrill said. Officials added Saturday morning that a fund had been set up to help the families affected by the sinkhole.
On Saturday, Jeremy Bush — who tried to rescue his brother when the earth opened — lay flowers and a stuffed lamb near the house and wept.
Hillsborough County Fire Chief Ron Roger called the situation "very complex."
"It's continuing to evolve, and the ground is continuing to collapse," he said.
Sinkholes are so common in Florida that state law requires home insurers to provide coverage against the danger. While some cars, homes and other buildings have been devoured, it's extremely rare for them to swallow a person.
Florida is highly prone to sinkholes because there are caverns below ground of limestone, a porous rock that easily dissolves in water.
"You can almost envision a piece of Swiss cheese," Taylor Yarkosky, a sinkhole expert from Brooksville, Fla., said while gesturing to the ground and the sky blue home where the earth opened in Seffner. "Any house in Florida could be in that same situation."
A sinkhole near Orlando grew to 400 feet across in 1981 and devoured five sports cars, most of two businesses, a three-bedroom house and the deep end of an Olympic-size swimming pool.
More than 500 sinkholes have been reported in Hillsborough County alone since the government started keeping track in 1954, according to the state's environmental agency.
The sinkhole, estimated at 20 feet across and 20 feet deep, caused the home's concrete floor to cave in around 11 p.m. Thursday as everyone in the Tampa-area house was turning in for the night. It gave way with a loud crash that sounded like a car hitting the house and brought Bush's brother running.
Jeremy Bush said he jumped into the hole but couldn't see his brother and had to be rescued himself by a sheriff's deputy who reached out and pulled him to safety as the ground crumbled around him.
"The floor was still giving in and the dirt was still going down, but I didn't care. I wanted to save my brother," Jeremy Bush said through tears Friday in a neighbor's yard. "But I just couldn't do nothing."
He added: "I could swear I heard him hollering my name to help him."
A dresser and the TV set had vanished down the hole, along with most of Bush's bed.
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Deputy Douglas Duvall said he reached down as if he was "sticking his hand into the floor" to help Jeremy Bush. Duvall said he didn't see anyone else in the hole.
As he pulled Bush out, "everything was sinking," Duvall said.
Engineers said they may have to demolish the small house, even though from the outside there appeared to be nothing wrong with the four-bedroom, concrete-wall structure, built in 1974.
Jeremy Bush said someone came out to the home a couple of months ago to check for sinkholes and other things, apparently for insurance purposes.
"He said there was nothing wrong with the house. Nothing. And a couple of months later, my brother dies. In a sinkhole," Bush said.
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DETROIT, MI - The real story behind a Detroit wedding photo that spread across Twitter and Facebook is even better than the viral joke that spawned a hashtag.
The Washington Post tracked down the story behind the hashtag #westillcoming, which took off on the Internet after a wedding couple apparently mistakenly invited strangers on Twitter to their wedding photo shoot. The stranger allegedly replied "We still coming," which led thousands of people around the world to coin the hashtag.
The actual story, though, is just as good. Amy and Ian Hicks, from Washington D.C., did take a wedding photo in front of the Michigan Train Depot. As the wedding party lined up its photo, they noticed the rap group 7262 shooting a video at the depot. The two groups hit it off and the wedding party ended up dancing in the video, and the two groups taking the picture that ended up going viral.
Rapper Jojinoo of 7262 told People magazine the group was enjoying the Internet fame.
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Photographer Adam Sparkes, who took the photo that sparked the viral #westillcoming, told the Detroit Free-Press he was surprised it took off.
"It was fun, but it's not like it was a huge deal," Sparkes said. "We crashed them. When you hear a wedding party crashed a rap video, how Detroit is that? The fact it went viral as it did was perplexing.
So the story behind #westillcoming is made up, but the hashtag is likely here to stay. People on Twitter are using it for all kinds of jokes, usually related to someone canceling something (see examples below). The real story is pretty funny in itself, and you can see the (explicit) video here. VIEWER BEWARE ... this is not safe for work, children, or anyone easily offended.
Here's a safer 5-seconed animated GIF from the video:
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From The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank the staff and participants in the ARIC Study for their important contributions.
Grant Support: The ARIC Study is supported by contracts from the NHLBI (N01-HC-55015, N01-HC-55016, N01-HC-55018, N01-HC-55019, N01-HC-55020, N01-HC-55021, and N01-HC-55022) and a grant from the NIDDK (5R01-DK56918-03).
Potential Conflicts of Interest:Grants received: H.C. Yeh (NIDDK), B.B. Duncan (Brazilian National Research Council), N.Y. Wang (NIDDK, National Center for Research Resources), F.L. Brancati (NIDDK).
Reproducible Research Statement:Study protocol: ARIC protocols are available in the public domain through the ARIC Web site (www.cscc.unc.edu/aric/). Statistical code: Not available. Data set: ARIC data are available through request from the NHLBI data repository.
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Current Author Addresses: Drs. Yeh and Brancati: Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2-600, Baltimore, MD 21205.
Drs. Duncan and Schmidt: Graduate Studies Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Avenida Luiz Manoel Gonzaga, 630/8, Porto Alegre, RS 90470-280, Brazil.
Dr. Wang: Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, The Johns Hopkins University, 2024 East Monument Street, Suite 2-500. Baltimore, MD 21205.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: H.C. Yeh, B.B. Duncan, M.I. Schmidt, N.Y. Wang, F.L. Brancati.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: H.C. Yeh, B.B. Duncan, M.I. Schmidt, N.Y. Wang, F.L. Brancati.
Drafting of the article: H.C. Yeh.
Critical revision for important intellectual content: H.C. Yeh, B.B. Duncan, M.I. Schmidt, N.Y. Wang, F.L. Brancati.
Final approval of the article: H.C. Yeh, B.B. Duncan, M.I. Schmidt, N.Y. Wang, F.L. Brancati.
Statistical expertise: H.C. Yeh, N.Y. Wang.
Obtaining of funds: F.L. Brancati.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: F.L. Brancati.
Collection and assembly of data: H.C. Yeh.
Background: Cigarette smoking is an established predictor of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus, but the effects of smoking cessation on diabetes risk are unknown.
Objective: To test the hypothesis that smoking cessation increases diabetes risk in the short term, possibly owing to cessation-related weight gain.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: The ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) Study.
Patients: 10Â 892 middle-aged adults who initially did not have diabetes in 1987 to 1989.
Measurements: Smoking was assessed by interview at baseline and at subsequent follow-up. Incident diabetes was ascertained by fasting glucose assays through 1998 and self-report of physician diagnosis or use of diabetes medications through 2004.
Results: During 9 years of follow-up, 1254 adults developed type 2 diabetes. Compared with adults who never smoked, the adjusted hazard ratio of incident diabetes in the highest tertile of pack-years was 1.42 (95% CI, 1.20 to 1.67). In the first 3 years of follow-up, 380 adults quit smoking. After adjustment for age, race, sex, education, adiposity, physical activity, lipid levels, blood pressure, and ARIC Study center, compared with adults who never smoked, the hazard ratios of diabetes among former smokers, new quitters, and continuing smokers were 1.22 (CI, 0.99 to 1.50), 1.73 (CI, 1.19 to 2.53), and 1.31 (CI, 1.04 to 1.65), respectively. Further adjustment for weight change and leukocyte count attenuated these risks substantially. In an analysis of long-term risk after quitting, the highest risk occurred in the first 3 years (hazard ratio, 1.91 [CI, 1.19 to 3.05]), then gradually decreased to 0 at 12 years.
Limitation: Residual confounding is possible even with meticulous adjustment for established diabetes risk factors.
Conclusion: Cigarette smoking predicts incident type 2 diabetes, but smoking cessation leads to higher short-term risk. For smokers at risk for diabetes, smoking cessation should be coupled with strategies for diabetes prevention and early detection.
Primary Funding Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Individuals may have met more than 1 exclusion criterion. ARIC = Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities.
Estimates are simultaneously adjusted for race, sex, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study center, level of education, baseline age, body mass index, waist circumference, physical activity, triglyceride level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, and systolic blood pressure. Bars indicate 95% CIs. Never-smokers are the reference group. Summary HRs were estimated in a model in which pack-years were handled as a continuous variable. HR = hazard ratio.
Estimates are simultaneously adjusted for race, sex, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study center, level of education, baseline age, body mass index, waist circumference, physical activity, triglyceride level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, and systolic blood pressure. Bars indicate 95% CIs. Never-smokers are the reference group.
The circles connected by the solid line represent adults who quit smoking between baseline (1987–1989) and visit 2 (1990–1992). The squares connected by the dotted line represent smokers who continued to smoke. Nonsmokers are the reference group (not shown). Estimates are simultaneously adjusted for race, sex, Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study center, level of education, baseline age, body mass index, waist circumference, physical activity, triglyceride level, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, and systolic blood pressure. Bars indicate upper and lower CIs (for clarity, only one interval is shown for each estimate).
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DHEA is low in diabetes. It is my hypothesis that all drugs of abuse cause a reciprocating reduction of DHEA which triggers a rebound of DHEA. I suggest this is the basis of addiction. Therefore, smoking triggers, periodically, an increase in DHEA which would function to counteract diabetes, periodically. When one quits smoking, therefore, this periodic increase in DHEA is stopped. Hence, diabetes is momentarily exacerbated.
Furthermore, I suggest this increased cycling of DHEA ultimately shortens the life span production of DHEA. Therefore, smoking is also connected with type 2 diabetes earlier than diabetes appears on average in nonsmokers.
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Yeh and colleagues (1) report that smoking cessation may increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, an observation that may be somewhat startling to both physicians and patients. This finding is perhaps not really that surprising given the well-known relationship between smoking cessation and weight gain that has been exploited by cigarette manufacturers for many years (2). Yeh and colleagues (1) found that weight gain did, in fact, explain some of the excess risk of incident diabetes in those who quit smoking. However, the mechanism of the increased risk of type 2 diabetes among those who stop smoking is undoubtedly more complex. In this regard, it is worth noting that smoking cessation can trigger a major depressive episode (3,4). An individual with a major depressive episode triggered by smoking cessation may be at risk for the development of type 2 diabetes as a result of being less attentive to healthy behaviors like following an optimal diet, taking prescribed medications or exercising. Depression is also associated with diminished insulin sensitivity among individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (5). Furthermore, depression is associated with systemic inflammation (6) that may increase the risk of developing diabetes.
The article by Yeh and colleagues (1) should make physicians and patients more aware of the possibility that smoking cessation may increase the risk of developing diabetes. The period of time after an individual stops smoking may also be one in which he or she is more vulnerable to changes in mood that may have numerous effects on physical health and health risks. While Yeh and colleagues did not report on depression in the patients in their study, the development of a major depressive episode should be considered as a possible mechanism for the important observation they make regarding smoking cessation as a risk factor for the development of diabetes.
1.Yeh HC, Duncan BB, Schmidt MI, Wang NY, Brancati FL. Smoking, smoking cessation, and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2010;152:10-17.
2.Boyd TC, Boyd CJ, Greenlee TB. A means to an end: slim hopes and cigarette advertising. Health Promot Pract. 2003;4:266-277.
3. Covey LS, Glassman AH, Stetner F. Major depression following smoking cessation. Am J Psychiatry. 1997;154:263-265.
4. Glassman AH, Covey LS, Stetner F, Rivelli S. Smoking cessation and the course of major depression: a follow-up study. Lancet. 2001;357:1929- 1932.
5. Wagner J, Allen NA, Swalley LM, Melkus GD, Whittemore R. Depression, depression treatment, and insulin sensitivity in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009;86:96-103.
6. Irwin MR, Miller AH. Depressive disorders and immunity: 20 years of progress and discovery. Brain Behav Immun. 2007;21:374-383.
We congratulate Yeh and colleagues for a job well done (1). Tonstad and colleagues had similar findings among patients with coronary heart disease: ex-smokers were more likely to have full metabolic syndrome and increased waist circumference (2). We have reported that tobacco and other drugs of abuse are associated with appetite suppression and discontinuation with hyperphagia and weight gain (3,4). Discontinuation of drug taking is so regularly associated with weight gain that most abstinence-oriented rehabilitation centers that detox and treat addicts have incorporated prophylactic diet and exercise into their programs. Drugs of abuse and food compete at the same brain reinforcement sites thus, cessation of an addictive substance can propel the patient to rebound hyperphagia and the rapid weight gain which is so highly associated with metabolic syndrome and diabetes (5).
It is unfortunate that data on eating habits were not available in the study by Yeh et al as frequencies of consumption as well as types of foods consumed are important variables. Many addiction professionals and self help groups teach that eating can soothe drug cravings and avoiding hunger is a helpful tactic to keep from "falling off the wagon". Thus, some recovering addicts carry sugar and many recovery meetings have cakes, cookies, and candies readily available. Indeed, some research using sugar placebos have found effects which augment smoking cessation recovery rates. Researchers support the idea that overconsumption of palatable foods (sweet, high salt and/or carbohydrate-rich) may be a sign of food addiction and another reason for the obesity problem and subsequent issues (6,7).
So as we move forward, patients contemplating cessation will likely need a comprehensive yet individualized program that includes checking of fasting blood glucose, fasting insulin (e.g. to calculate QUICK), C- reactive protein, behavioral and nutritional counseling (and for some pharmacotherapy) to ensure the removal of tobacco does not lead to overeating, weight gain, and increased risk of diabetes (8). For example, the usage of bupropion to mitigate the orexigenic effects of nicotine withdrawal (9).
It is also possible that the systemic inflammation (another risk factor for diabetes) that is supposedly reduced during smoking cessation may actually increase due to the rebound hyperphagia and/or a possible loss of beta 3 receptor adipocyte influence on thermogenesis during nicotine withdrawal, all resulting in rebound adiposity (10,11). More studies are needed to shed light on this issue.
1. Yeh HC, Duncan BB, Schmidt MI, Wang NY, Brancati FL. Smoking, smoking cessation, and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: A cohort study. Ann Int Med 2010; 152: 10-17.
2. Tonstad S, Svendsen M. Premature coronary heart disease, cigarette smoking, and the metabolic syndrome. Am J Cardiol 2005; 96:1681-1685.
3. Gamberino WC, Gold MS. Neurobiology of tobacco smoking and other addictive disorders. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1999; 22(2):301-12.
4. Hodgkins CC, Cahill KS, Seraphine AE, Frost-Pineda K, Gold MS. Adolescent drug addiction treatment and weight gain. J Addict Dis 2004; 23(3):55-65.
5. Gold MS, Graham NA, Cocores JA, Nixon SJ. Food Addiction? J Addict Med 2009; 3:42-5.
6. Cocores JA, Gold MS. The salted food addiction hypothesis may explain overeating and the obesity epidemic. Med Hypotheses 2009; 73(6):892-9.
7. Corsica JA, Pelchat ML. Food addiction: true or false? Curr Opin Gastroenterol 2009 Dec 29.
8. Corwin EJ, Klein LC. C-reactive protein and depressed mood in a sub-group of smokers during nicotine abstinence. Hum Psyhopharmacol 2003; 18(5):329-37.
9. Richmond R, Zwar N. Review of bupropion for smoking cessation. Drug Alcohol Rev 2003; 22(2):203-20.
10. Jessen AB, Toubro S, Astrup A. Effect of chewing gum containing nicotine and caffeine on energy expenditure and substrate utilization in men. Am J Clin Nutr 2003 Jun;77(6):1442-7.
11. Yarnell JW, Sweetnam, PM, Rogers S et al. Some long term effects of smoking on the haemostatic system: a report from the Caerphilly and Speedwell Collaborative Surveys. J Clin Pathol 1987; 40:909-13.
Diabetes, Risky Behaviors and Stress:
Those Pesky Confounding Factors.
Introduction - Background
Yeh et al report that smoking cessation slightly increases the risk for diabetes. They attribute this iatrogenic effect to the weight gain common after cessation(1). However, two important factors were not considered. Stress particularly during childhood(2) has strong graded effect on tobacco initiation and maintenance as well as obesity. Insular stroke(IS) was found to be related to smoking cessation(3). Because this relationship was observed in a convenience sample of the existing population, IS must play some role in the current tobacco cessation process.
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Stress, through levels of cortisol, has an adverse effect on all major human sub-systems, but especially respiratory disorders and metabolic syndrome x (insulin resistance). Stress related depression is common to tobacco initiation(2), asthma(4), digestive disorders(5) and cardiovascular disease including stroke. Depressive symptoms are common in smoking cessation.
Nicotine a CNS and respiratory stimulant has been used to treat respiratory disorders including asthma. It increases respiratory drive, reducing hypoxia.
The insula translates internal and external senses into feelings to motivate action to achieve homeostatic balance. IS may disrupt the natural response to glucose and hypoxia levels, defeating self-medication efforts. However, in statistical studies, there would still be a correlation between reported smoking status and diabetes. We should not rule out the possibility that those who smoke are simply treating (self-medicating) stress related respiratory disorders.
Memories are malleable.
Studies of ACE's find that survivors of traumatic stress often lose autobiographic memory of details surrounding the event. The cessation process, often part of current mental health therapy entails changes in thought. Psychotherapy, group dynamics, hypnosis have been used to re-creating images and thoughts to foment a change in behavior. Imagine yourself as a nonsmoking (or thin) person. The population of interest, has had a high exposure to stress with an increased risk for tobacco use and obesity, and more likely exposed to memory changing influences. So, just how much credence can we give to self-reports of former or nonsmoking status?
As exquisite as the Yeh, Naqvi and ACE studies are by current standards, this demonstrates the difficulty trying to establish causality in human adaptive behavior. If A correlates with B, A may cause B, or C may be caused by a yet undiscovered factor C. Only when close attention to the temporal and specificity issues can relationships be considered causal. And, even then, some new undiscovered confounding factor may come to light.
1. Yeh HC, Duncan BB, Schmidt MI, Wang NY, Brancati FL.
Smoking, smoking cessation, and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cohort study.
Ann Intern Med. 2010 Jan 5;152(1):10-7.
2. Anda RF, Croft JB, Felitti VJ, Nordenberg D, Giles WH, Williamson DF, Giovino GA.
Adverse childhood experiences and smoking during adolescence and adulthood.
JAMA. 1999 Nov 3;282(17):1652-8.
3. Naqvi NH, Rudrauf D, Damasio H, Bechara A.
Damage to the insula disrupts addiction to cigarette smoking.
Science. 2007 Jan 26;315(5811):531-4.
4. Scott KM, Von Korff M, Alonso J, Angermeyer MC, Benjet C, Bruffaerts R, de
Girolamo G, Haro JM, Kessler RC, Kovess V, Ono Y, Ormel J, Posada-Villa J.
Childhood adversity, early-onset depressive/anxiety disorders, and adult-onset asthma.
Psychosom Med. 2008 Nov;70(9):1035-43.
5. Thomas C, Hyppönen E, Power C.
Obesity and type 2 diabetes risk in midadult life: the role of childhood adversity.
Pediatrics. 2008 May;121(5):e1240-9.
A graphic (flow chart) of the diabetes, smoking, & stress system can be viewed at:
In 1994, the author requested an educational grant from the Council for Tobacco Research to study the relationship between tobacco use and sleep apnea. This request was denied. However the letter seems to have become part of the tobacco archives: http://tobaccodocuments.org/ctr/60024574 4574.html. Aside from this, the author has no financial interest in the tobacco, diet, or health industries other than as a consumer of their products and services.
Authors examining prospectively the association of smoking status with the development of incident type-2 diabetes in the ARIC cohort (1) arrived at the conclusion that smoking predicts incident diabetes, and smoking cessation leads to higher short-term risk. The first part of the conclusion was not convincing for several reasons: Firstly, because excess risk did not emerge in one-third (mild smokers) of the smokers.
Secondly, the study does not clarify whether this risk is valid only for men or for both sexes, since sex-stratified analyses are totally missing. In the regression analyses, the referent never smokers and the top tertile were composed predominantly of different sexes differing substantially in risk. Sex adjustment may not disclose the situation for women who may well have been unaffected by the habit, though adjusted combined analyses have yielded excess risk.
Thirdly, adjustment for body mass index (BMI) may be biased depending on whether or not smoking led to a reduction in obesity in this cohort. If it did, which seems to be so from the significantly lower BMI values noted in increasing categories of smoking, this would conceal a possible beneficial BMI-mediated effect of the habit to the risk of diabetes. This adjustment might introduce bias to male smokers as well.
Finally, compared with never smokers, the adjusted hazard ratio persisted to be slightly raised at least a decade after discontinuance and was reported to be increased 1.54-fold among those who had quit 3-5 years previously.
Despite the statement in the introduction that cigarette smoking is consistently identified as a risk factor for incident diabetes, the issue is far from established, and several studies (2,3) indicate smoking may partly protect (women) against diabetes. Indeed, in a part of the ARIC cohort, adjusted subjects with isolated impaired glucose tolerance, a prediabetic state more prone to diabetes, were less likely to smoke than those with normal or impaired fasting glucose (4). In most studies concerned, the group which subsequently developed diabetes had fewer smokers than those who did not develop. The D.E.S.I.R. study cited in authors' article offers convincing findings to explain these observations. Authors were right in considering the effect of smoking on the pro-inflammatory state mediating the development of diabetes. Yet a large meta -analysis on circulating CRP in over 160,000 participants (5), noted same or marginally lower CRP concentrations compared to non-smokers in female current smokers, though male current smokers had higher CRP levels. Thus the reader would appreciate to learn the effect of smoking in this study on the risk of diabetes in each sex without the mediation by BMI.
References 1. Yeh H-C, Duncan BB, Schmidt MI, Wang N-Y, Brancati FL. Smoking, smoking cessation, and risk for type 2 diabetes. Ann Intern Med 2010:152:1-17
2. Onat A, Ozhan H, Esen AM, Albayrak S, Karabulut A, Can G, Hergenc, G. Prospective epidemiologic evidence of a "protective" effect of smoking on metabolic syndrome and diabetes among Turkish women -without associated overall health benefit. Atherosclerosis 2007; 193:380-9
3. Nagaya T, Yoshida H, Takahashi H, Kawai M. Heavy smoking raises risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese men; but, light smoking reduces the risk in lean men: a follow-up study in Japan. Ann Epidemiol 2008; 18:113-8
4. Pankow JS, Kwan DK, Duncan BB, Schmidt MI, Couper DJ, Golden S, Ballantyne CM. Cardiometabolic risk in impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:325-331.
5. The Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration: C-reactive protein concentration and the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and mortality: an individual participant meta-analysis. Lancet 2009 Epub Dec 22
In Response: We agree with Dr. Ziegelstein that smoking cessation may trigger depression, which could in turn increase the risk of type 2 diabetes due to unhealthy behaviors, decreased insulin sensitivity, and/or increased systemic inflammation. Unfortunately, the ARIC Study did not include a specific assessment for depression. At the year 3 follow-up visit, ARIC participants were asked to complete a survey of 'vital exhaustion(1)thought to measure feelings of fatigue and exhaustion (scored on a scale of 0-42) that might precede myocardial infarction. As Dr. Ziegelstein suspected, vital exhaustion was greater in quitters than in never smokers (age-gender-race-ARIC center adjusted mean (SD): 11.3(9.3) vs. 9.1(8.3)), but adjustment for vital exhaustion did not appear to explain the higher risk of incident diabetes in quitters in the fully adjusted regression model.
Dr. Onat makes several interesting comments. First, he correctly points out that there was no excess risk for diabetes in smokers in the lowest tertile of cumulative pack-years (compared to never smokers). This 'lowest tertile group' was largely composed of former smokers (77%) who had likely quit over 10-15 years prior to enrollment in ARIC. Therefore, the results seem consistent with our finding that diabetes risk drifts down to the 'background rate' over this time interval. Second, he suggests that the common practice of introducing of BMI into multivariate models that relate smoking to diabetes risk might constitute inappropriate over-adjustment for a risk mediator (insofar as smoking-related weight loss might contribute to reduced diabetes risk) that would bias risk estimates upwards. We therefore conducted an additional analysis excluding BMI and waist circumference from the fully adjusted model. Removing BMI and weight circumference led to a small attenuation in the risk estimates, but the relationship remained graded and statistically significant. Third, he questions the appropriateness of pooling men and women into a single analysis, since the effects of smoking on weight might differ by sex. We therefore assessed for possible interactions in models with and without BMI and waist circumference. There was no evidence of effect modification by sex in either model. We therefore stand by our pooled approach.
Finally, Dr. Shriner's comments regarding potential changes in eating habits after quitting are well-taken. Unfortunately, we are unable to test his hypothesis in ARIC: the ARIC Study used a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to collect usual dietary intake, which does not reflect daily eating behavior per se, but rather long-term dietary patterns. Dr. Shriner also recommends fasting insulin and CRP as part of a post cessation monitoring plan. Although additional assays would provide further information, we do emphasize that demographic and clinical factors readily available in the primary care setting without extra cost appear to carry a great deal of predictive information: older men who were heavy smokers and gained more weight after quitting have by far the highest risk of developing diabetes. Physicians and patients should be aware of those risk factors even without additional blood assays.
1. Appels A, Hoppener P, Mulder P: A questionnaire to assess premonitory symptoms of myocardial infarction. Int J Cardiol 17:15-24, 1987
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DSL is embarking on an initiative that will formally collect, identify and assess the large-scale I/T project needs of each department. In this context, a large-scale project is a new application or, an enhancement or repair to an existing system that the department could not support within their annual budget allotment. The reasons for this process are three-fold:
- The collection process will allow for the identification of commonalities and the possibility of merging project requests together. It also allows the potential to leverage existing systems within DSL to accomplish the goals of new project requests.
- DSL is represented on two major Institute groups that make prioritization recommendations for projects that will receive some form of central resources (funding and/or labor). One group is geared toward student information systems (SSSC) and the other looks at enterprise level administrative systems (ASPCC). Many of our departments serve both academic and administrative customers, therefore our needs span across both realms. Having the DSL inventory of new project requests (wish list) available to these groups will allow an even higher level of review where commonalities across Institute projects can be identified. There is also potential for these groups to adopt and support our projects to receive central support, or possibly identify alternative solutions.
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Director Milos Forman, riding on waves of Mozart's incomparable music, makes something undeniably thrilling out of Peter Shaffer's 1980 Broadway smash. But admirers of the show, about a fictional battle between God and 18th-century Italian composer Antonio Salieri over a prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, must be prepared to make some adjustments for the film version. The play, turning on the conflict between Salieri's mediocrity and Mozart's then unrecognized genius, was faster, funnier and innately more theatrical. Shaffer hasn't simply adapted his work for the screen; he has rigorously rethought it. There's a new central character: the voice of God in the form of Mozart's music. Onstage, the music was an afterthought piped through tinny theater speakers. Onscreen, music coordinator John Strauss and conductor Neville Marriner make the Mozart melodies speak more eloquently than any of the characters. The result is a trade-off: a feast for the ear that wreaks havoc with dramatic flow. Forman doesn't help the pace, using a musty flashback technique to frame the film. But once the story begins in earnest, with court composer Salieri's first meeting with Mozart in Vienna, Forman guns his engines with all the brio he deployed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The location work in Prague and the Tyl Theater, where Mozart himself conducted the premiere of his Don Giovanni 200 years ago, pays off not just in beauty but also as inspiration for the actors. Though Shaffer and Forman sometimes use irritatingly anachronistic dialogue ("Show me your stuff") and mixed accents, the film is cunningly cast without star names. Jeffrey Jones, who appeared on Broadway with David Bowie in The Elephant Man, is wickedly splendid as Emperor Joseph II, Elizabeth (Natural Enemies) Berridge brings surprising strength to the one-dimensional role of Mozart's scheming wife, and stage actor Roy Dotrice is a mix of fire and ice as Mozart's ramrod father. But Amadeus centers—as it must—on Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham, two American actors rising marvelously to the challenge of their careers. Abraham's Salieri moves from unholy glee at sabotaging God's "obscene creature" to racking guilt. Abraham, so good as the nervous gangster in Scarface, is a master of nuance. Hulce, the nerd in National Lampoon's Animal House, is Mozart. His flat voice and open face are as American as the Nebraska prairie. And the way he exaggerates Mozart's hyena laugh and childish gestures sometimes ties a tin can to his performance. But Hulce grows in the part and on the audience. His deathbed scene, as he dictates the Requiem to Salieri, is the screen's most successful attempt to date at depicting genius. With Mozart's magical music swirling around them, Hulce and Abraham share a dual triumph in a film that stands as a provocative and prodigious achievement. (PG)
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MedImmune, AstraZeneca's global biologics research and development arm, and The Johns Hopkins University said today they entered into a five-year, $6.5 million research collaboration focusing on the company's therapeutic areas of interest, including cardiovascular and metabolic disease; oncology; respiratory, inflammation, and autoimmunity; infectious disease; and neuroscience.
The partners said their new collaboration model will extend to both MedImmune's portfolio of biologics and AstraZeneca's portfolio of small molecule compounds. Key projects will include:
MedImmune and Johns Hopkins said they will each contribute funding, personnel, and materials to address the collaboration's focus areas and exchange knowledge through joint research efforts, training programs, and access to specialized knowledge, facilities, and equipment.
"We believe this significant collaboration with Johns Hopkins University will create a new standard on how academia and industry can work together," said Bahija Jallal, Ph.D., evp, MedImmune. "Our partnership with this prestigious research university will leverage each organization's strengths, advance research in critical therapeutic areas, and strengthen Maryland's presence as a growing hub in the bioscience industry."
MedImmune is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, and serves as one of AstraZeneca's three global R&D centers under a restructuring announced in March.
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A holiday from hell?
Paul Hopkins knows only too well a parent's worry when a child goes travelling on a gap year
Published 18/04/2008
It's every parent's unuttered nightmare — the thought that your child might die before you. They're young, they're healthy, with their whole life seemingly before them and then, in an instant, like the five young British girls in Ecuador, death snatches them from you.
My father once told me that worry is not an emotion that a parent can control, that whether your kids are five or 50 you worry about them from the day they are born until, well ... hopefully and statistically, until the day you die and they move centre-stage.
Will they get over the chicken-pox? Where are they at 3am?
Or, later still, you hope that job/mortgage/spouse-to-be works out for them. That and a million other silly things. It's called being a parent.
When I was not much older that 20, I took myself off to a far-flung corner of Africa to cut my teeth in journalism in a war zone. These were days without email, mobiles or texting, and landline phones — when you could get one that worked — were expensive.
And so for months on end I had no contact with home and it was only by watching the daily papers for my byline from abroad that my parents had any inkling that I was safe and sound. I never gave it a thought. I was young. And, like all young people, I was invincible.
Today, the world is a much, much smaller place. Communications are instant — and cheap, as is airline travel, so it is little wonder that more than 250,000 young people from these islands annually take what is euphemistically called the Gap Year.
And what parent would begrudge them their year of freedom, of hanging out, of traipsing through jungles and tubing down murky, disease-infested waters?
The world is, literally, their oyster, and a year out travelling is in itself a wonderful addendum to their education. And, because the world is a smaller place, you are lulled into a false sense of security about their safety. They are, after all, just a mobile call away.
And so they go, but we as parents still worry. And the wretched sadness and sense of hopelessness with which the parents of Ecuador victim Indira Swann faced the media this week only reinforces in every parent that worry.
But, as a parent, you have to let go, as I did earlier this year with my eldest son who, at 23, had spent five long years at college and wanted his year out.
His mother was bordering on hysterical almost. My fears, though no less founded, I kept in the recesses of my mind.
He kept us up to date with generous email accounts of his travels around Asia — and then, suddenly, there was silence for almost a week. You imagine the worst.
And though, now thankfully, he is sound in mind and body, he was struck down with Typhoid Fever in some far-flung island off Vietnam and ended up in a makeshift clinic without the proper facilities to look after him. He was drifting in and out of delirium with a temperature of 104.
Thankfully his friend stayed with him. But mobile communications were not great, the clinic's staff presented a language problem and, then, the insurance said they had no record of his cover. So we had to bring in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Embassy, and consulates and all the time we worried ourselves sick ... and the more we learnt about Typhoid Fever, the more we worried.
But now, he is back home recuperating and his mother is like a new woman.
His plans to continue his journey in a month or two seem lately to be low on his priority list.
He now seems more intent on getting a 'proper job' at home with his degree being put to good use. And, if I am honest, I'm a happier parent for that.
If they are intent on going, then go they must. But it only takes a step onto an unfamiliar roadway or a coach to your next stop-off to make it all go horribly wrong.
Something all the parents of those five talented young girls learnt this week. And something they are going to have to learn to live with for the rest of their days.
... but Gráinne McCarry says it's the trip of a lifetime
When I look back on my round-the-world trip, my most memorable moments were of all the new experiences I gained along the way. I will most likely never have the opportunity to repeat the adventure but, when the going gets tough, I love to think back to the highs and lows of my travels.
Growing up, I always had a trip earmarked and spent endless hours dreaming about jetting off around the world. Once I had booked my flight, the departure date couldn't come quickly enough.
I set off with four friends, heading first to Kuala Lumpur. We had two months scheduled in south east Asia, making our way through Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia and then on to Perth in Australia for a year of sunbathing and occasional work.
I have lots of great memories, and nostalgia has a habit of making the not-so-good moments appear rosier too. Bad experiences included get robbed, robbed and robbed again, and the never-ending search for work in Australia.
However, when I think of camping under the stars at the red centre of Oz and hiking around Uluru, Kata Tjuta and the Olgas, or abseiling down a waterfall in the outback, those thoughts are far from my mind.
For me, the trip was intended to broaden my horizons and to meet new people, and I certainly did that. When things were going slightly pearshaped, I reminded myself that someday I would be able to laugh about it — I just didn't expect trouble only minutes after touching down at Kuala Lumpur airport.
Our driver was trying to read our hostel directions and break the speed limit at the same time. He turned around to chat and the pages, including our booking confirmation, blew out of the window and up the motorway.
He didn't seem fazed by this at all, he simply pulled up on the hard shoulder and walked up the motorway — at his leisure. Never mind that it was the middle of the night and we had to be at the hostel at a certain time. He was gone for at least 20 minutes, eventually returning without it.
In the end, he phoned a few hostels and our booking was confirmed. All that and we had just started our trip.
That our first potential disaster had been averted, after a few prayers, was the yardstick by which we measured all other hairy moments, of which there were many, along the way. Another time we decided to educate ourselves in Hindu culture. We set off on the local bus to the Batu caves in the northern suburbs of Kuala Lumpur, where the Thaipusam festival is held.
A DIY trip was a much better idea than those expensive guided tours for the rich tourists, we thought. We were proper backpackers on a budget, so we hopped on the bus with the school kids.
Little did we know, but the date changes every year, according to the Tamil calendar, so we arrived a day late and missed all the fun. We were greeted by what looked like a deserted field of litter.
However, we persevered and climbed the 272 steps to enter the spectacular limestone caves and were promptly set upon by wild monkeys foaming at the mouth. We came down the steps faster than we climbed up them — a pretty hard thing to do when you're wearing flip-flops. After that, we stuck to guided tours.
Travelling taught me to appreciate the small things in life — like electricity and hot water.
We were staying up a mountain in Cambodia and the highlight was watching the sun set over the paddy fields with Vietnam on the horizon.
Then the power went out and we had to put up with ice-cold showers and had to go to bed early by torchlight on a Saturday night.
Counting pennies got pretty monotonous, and I was fed-up being asked about the Troubles.
That stopped in Australia, though, everyone we met was from Ireland!
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Why We Shouldn't Let Fear of Rejection or Failure Hold Us BackEmi Beth
Much to my embarrassment, when I was thirteen, I tried to get a "book" published. In actuality it was a thirty page short story that I had written for a school assignment.
I know, I know. I was naive, crazy, and I figured if the story was good enough to get an A+ it must be good enough to publish, because that's the way all books work, right? (At least this one actually had a plot, instead of the "Very Perfect Princess" I wrote in fourth grade). So, I emailed a publisher proposing the idea that they publish my "book."
Unsurprisingly, they didn't. Shocker, right? I think they were nice enough to say something along the lines of, "We're not publishing that genre right now", instead of, "Look here, little 13-year-old, we're not publishing your book because a) it's not long enough to be a book, b) it's written by a 13-year-old who has no concept of grammar, and c) it's boring, the title sucks, and it is very obviously written to be a school assignment."
The point is, even as a semi-crazy 13-year-old, I wasn't afraid of putting myself out there and getting rejected. I'm still not I believe that if you want something to happen badly enough, you need to try and make it happen. If you fail or get rejected in the process? Well at least you tried, and knew you did everything you could.
This is part of the reason I sent the initial email that got me writing for Babble. A lot of people ask me if Babble was looking for a teenage blogger — they weren't (as far as I know, at least). Me? I had no experience blogging, nor did I have any experience writing anything which wasn't for a school assignment.
Did I think I was good enough to blog for them? Hahaha, no. Did I think they would hire me? No. Did I hope they would hire me? Yes. Did I think I was crazy for reaching out to them and suggesting they hire me as a teenage blogger when it was a parenting site, and I was just a 17-year-old high school student with pretty bad grammar and the tendency to ramble and over-use metaphors? Definitely.
Nevertheless, the 99.9% chance that they wouldn't hire me didn't stop me. I figured the worst that would happen is they would laugh at my presumptuous email and blatant idiocy, and I wouldn't hear back. Sure, the rejection would sting, but you never know until you put yourself out there.
To be honest, I still don't know what prompted them to hire me, but if I had never sent that initial email? (Which, for a week afterwards I regretted sending, thinking they would report me to the police as a crazy teenager obviously stalking them, and I would get a restraining order put on me … I'm nothing if not dramatic) I would never have gotten this opportunity.
You can't be afraid of being rejected, because people aren't going to hand you opportunities. While we all know "a dream is a wish your heart makes," there isn't a Fairy Godmother in real life, just waiting to hand you everything you want neatly wrapped with a bow on top. The only Fairy Godmother you have, is you — go out and seek those opportunities you want. Do everything you can to achieve your goals and your dreams, and if, at the end of the day, you're not successful? At least you know you did every little thing possible — you weren't passive, and you weren't scared to fight and go after your dreams.
Failure and rejection do have their benefits, though. Believe me when I say that failure and I got extremely close in school — for about five years, I failed — Every. Single. Math Test. (Unless they included money, because I'm nothing if not that child that sat every night counting her money like a baby Scrooge and charging people interest if they were stupid enough to borrow money off me).
Just recently, I failed my driving test — twice. And last year, I felt like I had failed AP English, because everyone (and this isn't just me being dramatic, I literally mean everyone) else got As and A+s, and for the whole of the year, I got nothing except for a B, which, in AP English, is pretty much a fail. That one stung the most, because I had a long-standing battle with my school to let me do that class, because they didn't think I was good enough to be in it. Failing was pretty much proving them right, but hey, like I said before, failing is something that happens to the best of us. As it it turns out, I'm not very good at applying literary theories, but that's life.
Failure and rejection hurts, but it isn't something we're going to go through life without experiencing. One of my favorite quotes ever is from the movie A Cinderella Story. Written on the walls of the diner in the movie, are the words, "Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game." It's so true — you can't let the fear of failing or being rejected keep you from pursuing your goal, or your dream.


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Tomorrow night, Louis C.K. will find himself in a series of awkward situations live on television. He's hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time ever, and, as he told Jimmy Fallon last night, he's nervous. And he should be. As he says, learning lines and performing sketch comedy is not what he does for a living. "I've bombed onstage a thousand times as a stand-up, and that's very educating," C.K. says, adding that he screwed up every single line he had at this week's first table read. And although the ever self-deprecating comedian has imagined a meeting between Lorne Michaels and his staff, wherein they simply cancel his hosting gig because of his lackluster rehearsals, in the end, the Louie creator says he has absolutely loved the experience.
In addition to his time at NBC this week, C.K. and Fallon chatted about Hurricane Sandy — "I live above the line of misery [in Manhattan]," C.K. says — a recent boat trip he took with Chris Rock and much more. Check out all three parts of the interview below!
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Airbus has announced that it will build a new assembly plant in Alabama where it will assembly its line of narrow body airplanes. The airplane manufacturer said it will employ about 1,000 workers at the plant which is expected to begin production in 2016-2017.
Airbus said it hopes to be able to roll out four planes a month by 2017, and that the plant will assemble its A319, A320 and A321; all of which compete against Boeing's 737 models.
"The decision to locate an assembly facility in the U.S. was more marketing and political than for sound business revenue purposes", says Jared Smith, an aviation industry expert.
Boeing has long complained that Aribus unfairly received subsidies from European countries, a violation of WTO rules according to Boeing. But Boeing is not without controversy, with Airbus charging the same thing against Boeing. The two have been embroiled in a long and costly legal battle over this issue for more than 10 years.
Boeing currently employs about 2,700 in Alabama for various aviation related jobs.


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Today is September 27, 2016 -
Yitro 5764
Posted on March 23, 2011
by Sylvie Grossbard
According to tradition, the Torah enumerates six hundred and thirteen mitzvot, or commandments, none more recognized than the "Ten Commandments" (or, more accurately, "Ten Utterances") listed in this week's Parashat Yitro. With so many mitzvot, which were given so long ago, it is only natural that many of them would not be applicable today. We see this often in the various laws concerning sacrifices and worship in the Mishkan and the Beit Ha'Mikdash. But in this week's parashah, with its ten essential commandments that continue to shape both our religious and secular lives, how can we account for a law that seems not to apply anymore?
The second mitzvah in Aseret Ha'Dibrot commands that "You shall have no other gods before Me." In our modern society, idolatry as we usually recognize it is a rare phenomenon. Most of the world's major religions follow basic precepts of monotheism, and while philosophers certainly argue over whether various elements of other religions actually qualify as a distinct belief in one God, it is true that we almost never witness our peers bowing down to stone sculptures. In her New Studies in Shemot, Nechama Leibowitz identifies a problem the second mitzvah raises in our world: "We read in a number of our ancient sources that the ghost of idolatry was laid once and for all, by our ancestors, and that the sin of worshipping sticks and stones has, long ago, ceased to figure in the temptations to which we are subject. Is it conceivable that the second commandment of the Decalogue should have ceased to be applicable? Does it bear no message today?"
Various commentators over the years have offered a solution to this problem by proposing an alternate definition of idolatry: the accumulation of excessive wealth. However, these commentators do not suppose that the Torah outlaws all acquisition of property, because certainly many of the important figures in the Torah were exceedingly wealthy, and the Torah even lists laws pertaining to the protection of wealth. Rather, they address the idea that, in Leibowitz's words, "idolatry may be defined as the transformation of means, even perfectly legitimate ones, into ends themselves." In other words, possessing wealth itself is perfectly fine. It is in worshipping our physical possessions and devoting all our strength to the pursuit of these possessions that our transgression of the mitzvah comes into play.
Thus, the second mitzvah is very much relevant in our everyday lives. As teenagers in North America, we are constantly immersed in a consumerist culture. We are devoted to making money, saving money, and then using our money to buy all the things we see advertised on television, in magazines, and in the labels on our friends' clothes. This more contemporary interpretation of the mitzvah reminds us that accumulating these possessions is not inherently wrong, and that in order to be good people, we do not need to wear paper bags and live in cardboard boxes. However, it is important that we remember that these possessions are simply objects that we can use to help us in our worship of God by reminding us of how lucky we have been to acquire so many things and not, as our culture might make us think, the gods to whom we should bow and give thanks.


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What materials did you use? This is some old Lion-brand Jamie-pompadour yarn I had for ages. I finally found a project for. I also used a size d hook and 2 buttons,
What are you most proud of? That I got it done (lol)! This pattern was a big challenge. It sat around for months unfinished because I couldn't figure out the construction. I had to wing a lot of the pattern. But, it is now done, and she loves it. I do love the finished product. I might attempt designing something similar one of these days.
What advice would you give someone starting this project? The instructions have been translated from German to English. I think there were some things left out in translation. I would not recommend this for a beginner. Also, I would look at other people's project pictures that show the jacket in progress. That helped me tremendously in figuring out the construction of this jacket.


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Fox (Mon., Aug. 26, 8 P.M. ET)
Three coeds take off for spring break madness in Palm Springs in what initially seems like a giddy remake of Where the Boys Are. But this vehicle for Carrie (The Bold and the Beautiful) Mitchum, Lisanne (Heathers) Falk and Renee Estevez (yet another offspring of Martin Sheen) shifts from high speed to reverse so suddenly that it drops its transmission in the process.
On a tipsy joyride in the desert, the girls get involved in a fatal hit-and-run. For the rest of the movie, the trio must slog through a crisis of morality that immobilizes them as surely as if they had wandered into a giant roach motel. Before it's over, Mitchum gets hired as a reporter by a local Palm Springs TV station and is pressed into investigating guess which story. Well, it ain't Sonny Bono's reelection campaign.
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Bay Roberts teenager takes in blind hockey camp
It was in a hockey rink in Burnaby, B.C., where Bay RobertsŌĆÖ Dylan Bradbury found himself among his peers.
© Photo by Nicholas Mercer/The Compass
Bay Roberts' Dylan Bradbury holds up the large puck used in blind hockey. Bradbury recently returned from the Courage Canada National Youth Blind Hockey Camp in Burnaby, B.C., Aug. 7-12.
Editor's note: Originally, this article referred to Dylan's mother is Annette. That is incorrect. It should read Amanda. This article has been fixed to reflect these changes.
The teenager, who is legally blind, was skating inside the new Fortius Athlete Development Centre Aug. 7-12 as a part of the Courage Canada National Youth Blind Hockey Camp.
Dylan joined more than a dozen visually-impaired players in the camp to hone his skills. The camp featured pro skaters Ryan Kesler, Eric Brewer and concluded with a showdown with VancouverŌĆÖs Eclipse blind hockey team.
He was given the opportunity after Courage Canada came to St. JohnŌĆÖs earlier this year.
ŌĆ£It was mind blowing,ŌĆØ said mother Amanda of the Burnaby camp. ŌĆ£You had to see it to believe it.ŌĆØ
For a week, Dylan was skating, shooting and scoring with others who were visually impaired just like he was.
Finally, he was playing the game he loves without a disability. For once, Dylan was just like every other player on the ice.
He did not have 20/200 vision. He was just another player and one of the best players in the country.
ŌĆ£It was exciting,ŌĆØ the 15-year-old told The Compass.
It is not an experience he does not get at his home rink in Bay Roberts. A minor hockey player with the Bay Arena Minor Hockey Association, Dylan spends a lot of time making two or three strides up the ice before having to turn around and do the same thing towards the other end.
That was until he went to Burnaby. There, Dylan was just one of the guys. There, he handled the larger than life puck used in blind hockey.
Every time he rolled his wrists from one side of the other, he hears the rattle of the puck. It sounds like a rock locked inside an old tin can.
This rattling helps him pass and shoot the puck like the players back home. Streaking up and down the ice, the tail of his red and white jersey flying in the wind, Dylan played the game like he always imagined playing it.
ŌĆ£It was cool,ŌĆØ he noted.
One thing was like home, however. Amanda was in the stands cheering him on, and his stepfather Johnny Snelgrove was on the bench as his coach.
ŌĆ£I didnŌĆÖt take it easy on him,ŌĆØ said Johnny with a smile.
ŌĆ£It was great seeing him out there,ŌĆØ added Amanda, a slight crack in her voice. ŌĆ£(Dylan) was as good as everyone on the ice.ŌĆØ
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ESPN to Carry BNP Paribas Showdown Live From
Madison Square Garden on Monday, March 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Maria Sharapova vs Caroline Wozniacki and Andy Roddick vs Roger Federer
MSG Networks to Re-Broadcast Matches on March 16 & 18
NEW YORK, N.Y. (February 27, 2012) – MSG Sports and StarGames announced today a comprehensive broadcast plan for the 2012 BNP Paribas Showdown that involves ESPN to broadcast the much anticipated matches live from Madison Square Garden on March 5 with Maria Sharapova playing Caroline Wozniacki and Roger Federer taking on Andy Roddick.
Live coverage of the matches begins at 7 p.m. on ESPN3 domestically and on ESPN International to over 130 countries. A tape delayed broadcast of the event will air at 11:30 p.m. on ESPN2 featuring Chris Fowler, Mary Joe Fernandez and Patrick McEnroe.
MSG Networks will re-broadcast the BNP Paribas Showdown, with Al Trautwig, John McEnroe and Katrina Adams handling the commentary beginning on March 16 at 8:00 p.m. on MSG Plus and again on March 18 at 10:00 p.m. on MSG.
"It is great to once again have television partners working with us to showcase tennis at this unique annual celebration of the sport," said Jerry Solomon, president, StarGames, Inc. "ESPN has become the standard bearer for coverage of the sport, MSG is certainly the authority on events in this building with the same name. The coverage from both partners will give the Showdown a great presence on television."
"The BNP Paribas Showdown has become a must-attend event in New York and a staple on the tennis calendar. Working with our amazing broadcast partners at ESPN and MSG Networks, we are excited to once again take this event from The World's Most Famous Arena to an audience around the world," said Scott O'Neil, president, MSG Sports.
With the participation of Sharapova, Wozniacki, Federer and Roddick in 2012, the five-year run of the BNP Paribas Showdown has now included 14 players who have combined for 1,393 weeks at No. 1, 84 Grand Slam singles titles and 597 overall career titles.
The BNP Paribas Showdown is produced by StarGames and MSG Sports. Tickets remain available for the 2012 event and can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden box office and all Ticketmaster outlets. BNP Paribas Showdown information can be found atwww.tennisshowdown.com.
The BNP Paribas Showdown, in partnership with the United States Tennis Association, will continue their efforts to grow youth participation in the sport of tennis through "Tennis Night in America", a national program which is among the largest ever grass roots initiative the sport has ever seen. To find a sign-up location please go to www.tennisnight.com.


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While walking in the woods, you encounter a beautiful and unfamiliar flowering plant. If you want to know whether it is a monocot or dicot, it would help to look at the _____.
number of seed leaves (or cotyledons) present in its seeds
In angiosperms, each pollen grain produces two sperm. What do these sperm do?
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This is an intense one, but WELL worth the effort.
You will need:
*1 recipe marinara sauce (I guess, if you are short on time, you could use jarred stuff. When I was a beginner, that's what I'd do. It cuts a lot of time out, and will be cheaper. But making everything from scratch is such an accomplishment!)
*1 recipe Italian Cashew Cheese
*2 - 4 Eggplants (Depending on how much you want to make. I like leftovers.)
*Salt and pepper
*Olive oil
*Roughly a pound of pasta (I use a 13.5 oz box of Dreamfields Low Carb Penne Pasta)
Basically, we are making an eggplant Parmesan here. But it's not breaded or fried! It doesn't have dairy in it! So, it's healthier, and maybe I'm biased, but I think it's tastier (though I do love fried food, don't get me wrong. I love it when people refer to me as a health nut, I scoff in inside my head, BUT on the OUTSIDE I'm totally FLATTERED).
I like to roast my eggplant first. It cuts down on the cooking time dramatically and it can roast while I make the cashew cheese and marinara. Preheat the oven to 375. Cut your eggplant into GENEROUS 1/3 of an inch thick pieces. Liberally sprinkle each side with salt and pepper (I have coated before and ugh - too salty). Put on a greased baking sheet and drizzle each piece with olive oil. Bake for 20 minutes.
Cook yo' pasta. I mean boil, whatevs. I like to do a layer of pasta underneath the eggplant. Ever since Crystal started making her baked mac'n'cheese I have LOVED the taste/idea of baked pasta dishes. That crunch! YUM. In a casserole pan, dish, baking apparatus, layer pasta, marinara sauce, one layer of eggplant, cheese, eggplant, marinara, cheese AND BAKE. 375 for about 20 mins or so. (If you don't roast your eggplant beforehand, it will take about 45 minutes to an hour and a half until done and you will want to cover with foil.) Test - if it's fork tender, (the bottom pieces) bake for another 5 or ten, til 'cheese' is browned.
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|Women, Girls
The Pinecone cowl can be made in three sizes: a large hood cowl, a small cowl, and an infinity scarf. The large hood cowl is long enough to be worn over your head as a hood while still keeping your neck cozy! The small cowl is meant to fit slightly loose around your neck. And the infinity scarf is meant to wrap twice around your neck and also be slightly loose. All three sizes include the option to add ribbon around the edge.
Yardage depends on size:
Large Cowl Hood: approximately 730 yards.
Small Cowl: approximately 310 yards.
Infinity Scarf: approximately 380 yards.


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PARAMUS — Wildlife officials tranquilized a young bear after it became stuck up a tree near a commercial area in Paramus Thursday afternoon, according to authorities and reports.
The male bear, believed to be about a year old, was hit with two darts around 4:30 p.m. and fell safely into a net rescuers set up below the tree on Winters Avenue, near the Capri Institute of Cosmetology, WCBS-TV reported.
Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Bob Considine said the 98-pound bear was not hurt and would be relocated.
The animal was spotted wandering around Parkway Elementary School, near the Garden State Parkway, hours earlier, according to police.
Residents also spotted a cub roaming through backyards on Highland Avenue, near Linwood Avenue, late Wednesday morning, police said.
Saving bears all day long #paramus #bear pic.twitter.com/X2F4UoRksn— Eric Schauer (@eschauer3) June 5, 2014
Scene outside of our United Water office building in Paramus today. Hoping for safe removal of a Bear from a tree! pic.twitter.com/7YWitGA8vg— United Water NJ (@UnitedWaterNJ) June 5, 2014


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Outstanding workmanship and exceptional material are the distinguishing characteristics of this striking frame made of high quality acetate. Especially lavish the intricate temple design combining metal with genuine birch wood.
92010 - Davidoff Optical frame in brown – red wood acetate
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the ultimate douchemaster
yo he iz da illist douche monster.
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Calvin focuses primarily on designing and engineering user-interface for mobile and Web, but also enjoys doing illustration and graphic design work.
Calvin previously worked for Genesix inc (genesix.co.jp) as a mobile app designer to design iOS apps and create interactive web services on mobile platforms. Combining with his prior experience in building web applications, creating digital illustrations and designing printed materials, Calvin can help users to achieve their goal through designing and executing interaction in multiple channels.
Calvin received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is particularly interested in improving the efficiency and experience of communicating ideas with simple visual and minimal interaction.
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The Grand Feature Parade, one of the major highlights of the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, will step off at 1 p.m. today in Buckhannon.
Units from France, Jamaica and Canada will join with units from across the United States to delight the thousands of spectators who line the 2.5-mile parade route down Strawberry Lane for the Grand Feature Parade. Always the Festival highlight, the parade will be broadcast live on WDTV Channel 5.
Serving as the in-state Honor Band will be the Lincoln High School band from Shinnston. Under the direction of Brad Channel, the Cougar Band was the Sweepstakes winner in the competition held during the 2011 West Virginia Strawberry Festival and was given the honor of returning in 2012 to represent the school in the Grand Feature Parade.
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The Inter-Mountain photo by Melissa Toothman
Several spectators browse entries of the annual Strawberry Festival Photography Contests organized by the Buckhannon-Upshur Camera Club. The display will be up until the end of May. More photos of other Strawberry Festival events are available at cu.theintermountain.com.
Lincoln High School has performed in the 2010 St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City and has performed at Virginia Beach in 2011.
The out-of-state Honor Band is Battlefield High School from Haymarket, Va.
Under the direction of Matt Brodt, Battlefield is a seven-time Virginia Honor Band, which is the highest award a band can receive in that state. The band is one of only three that has earned this distinction every year since it began.
Parade spectators will appreciate this fine band clad in purple, black and silver uniforms as it represents its school in the Grand Feature Parade.
On Armed Forces Day, it is with humble hearts and with pride that the West Virginia Strawberry Festival presents the Parris Island Marine Band leading the 2012 Grand Feature Parade down Strawberry Lane.
The West Virginia Strawberry Festival's Antique Car Parade will wind down Strawberry Lane at 12:30 p.m., today. All trucks and cars entered in the parade must be at least 25 years old or be registered at least 25 years.
Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m. behind the Camden Dorms of West Virginia
Wesleyan College in the big parking lot. Cars will be lined up at this location and then moved to Pocahontas Street, where they will move on to the parade route at Pocahontas and Marion streets.
This year's West Virginia Strawberry Festival Field Exhibition is an event you won't want to miss. The event will be held at Ross Stadium on the West
Virginia Wesleyan College campus at 5 p.m. Tickets are $5, and the lineup is exceptional. A rain-out alternative is the Creative Arts Center on College Avenue.
Party Gras will continue today on Main Street from 9 p.m. to midnight. Today's entertainment includes Bowyer Drive and Kala DeHart.
Sunday will bring Gospel Music to the Strawberry Festival streets, highlighted by a concert by the Gospel Harmony Boys at 2 p.m. at the Wesley Chapel on the West Virginia Wesleyan Campus. The group recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, having been organized in 1952 in Huntington. In 2008, the group was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.
The Jack Barker Memorial Canoe Race will be held at noon Sunday on Wood Street, and Irish Road Bow ing can be found at 1:30 p.m. on Turkey Run Road.
The Gambill Amusement Carnival will be open from 1-6 p.m.


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|Written by Christin Miller on Monday, February 13, 2012
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I discovered Eternal Perspectives Handbags in Jackson Hole a couple of years ago, and I have wanted to feature them on Maverick Style ever since! Most of their handbags are made from American raised buffalo leather, which is virtually unparalleled in its cushy softness, strength, and durability. Each bag is hand cut and designed to be a one of a kind work of art which can be enjoyed for years to come.
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The Eternal Perspective handbags featured below are available on the Buffalo Trails Boutique website. The Deborah Handbag (left, $265) is hand made in black buffalo leather with black croc embossed leather for the snap closure and sides of the bag. It is accented with a turquoise stone, brass studs, and fringe detail. It also includes an art-to-wear bracelet from 3 Angels Jewelry that can remain on the bag or removed to wear on the wrist. The Heart Stone Sling (center, $135) is made of brown leather accented with black and brown fringe, an appliqued animal print cowhide, and a genuine heart shaped turquoise stone. The Deborah Handbag (right) is on currently on sale for $245. It is brown buffalo leather with a croc embossed cowhide snap closure and double handle straps. The sides of the bag are brown textured cowhide with with tatoo inspired embroidery in dark brown. The snap closure features three large polished stone accents in green and brown tones. This bag also includes a fringe accent and art-to-wear bracelet from 3 Angles Jewelry. As you can see, Eternal Perspective Handbags are quite distinctive and garner lots of compliments for those who carry them!
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A two-alarm fire destroyed a home on Lewis Hill Road in Bethlehem, leaving one resident homeless.
Firefighters arrived on the scene shortly before midnight Sunday, and continued to battle the blaze until 2 a.m. Monday morning. Crews continued to monitor hot spots until 8:30 a.m.
The home was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, and the freezing temperatures caused problems with their water supply.
The homeowner was not present at the time of the fire, and no injuries were reported.
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Does Wal-Mart Sell Inferior Goods?
Emek Basker
U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies; University of Missouri - Department of Economics
Economic Inquiry, Forthcoming
I estimate the aggregate income elasticity of Wal-Mart's and Target's revenues using quarterly data for 1997-2006. I find that Wal-Mart's revenues increase during bad times, whereas Target's revenues decrease, consistent with Wal-Mart selling "inferior goods" in the technical sense of the term. An upper bound on the aggregate income elasticity of demand for Wal-Mart's wares is -0.5.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 16
Keywords: Retail, Wal-Mart, Target, Inferior Goods
JEL Classification: L81, D12
Date posted: April 28, 2008 ; Last revised: August 25, 2008
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