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Simpson, Lynn L. MD; Malone, Fergal D. MD; Bianchi, Diana W. MD; Ball, Robert H. MD; Nyberg, David A. MD; Comstock, Christine H. MD; Saade, George MD; Eddleman, Keith MD; Gross, Susan J. MD; Dugoff, Lorraine MD; Craigo, Sabrina D. MD; Timor-Tritsch, Ilan E. MD; Carr, Stephen R. MD; Wolfe, Honor M. MD; Tripp, Tara MA; D'Alton, Mary E. MD; for the First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk (FASTER) Research Consortium
From 1Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, 2Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, 3University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, 5William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, 6University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 7Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, 8Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, 9University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, 10New York University, New York, New York, 11Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 12University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and 13DM-STAT, Boston, Massachusetts
* For members of the FASTER Research Consortium, see the Appendix.
Funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Supplemental Grant to Number RO1 HD 38652.
Presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine, Reno, Nevada, February 7–12, 2005.
Corresponding author: Lynn L. Simpson, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 622 West 168th Street, PH 16-66, New York, NY 10032; e-mail: email@example.com.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate whether nuchal translucency assessment is a useful screening tool for major congenital heart disease (CHD) in the absence of aneuploidy.
METHODS: Unselected patients with singleton pregnancies at 103/7 to 136/7 weeks of gestation were recruited at 15 U.S. centers to undergo nuchal translucency sonography. Screening characteristics of nuchal translucency in the detection of major CHD were determined using different cutoffs (2.0 or more multiples of the median [MoM], 2.5 or more MoM, 3.0 or more MoM).
RESULTS: A total of 34,266 euploid fetuses with cardiac outcome data were available for analysis. There were 224 cases of CHD (incidence 6.5 per 1,000), of which 52 (23.2%) were major (incidence 1.5 per 1,000). The incidence of major CHD increased with increasing nuchal translucency: 14.1 per 1,000, 33.5 per 1,000, and 49.5 per 1,000 at 2.0 or more MoM, 2.5 or more MoM, and 3.0 or more MoM cutoffs, respectively. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values were 15.4%, 98.4%, and 1.4% at 2.0 or more MoM; 13.5%, 99.4%, and 3.3% at 2.5 or more MoM; and 9.6%, 99.7%, and 5.0% at 3.0 or more MoM. Nuchal translucency of 2.5 or more MoM (99th percentile) had a likelihood ratio (95% confidence interval) of 22.5 (11.4–45.5) for major CHD. Based on our data, for every 100 patients referred for fetal echocardiography with a nuchal translucency of 99th percentile or more, three will have a major cardiac anomaly.
CONCLUSION: Nuchal translucency sonography in the first trimester lacks the characteristics of a good screening tool for major CHD in a large unselected population. However, nuchal translucency of 2.5 or more MoM (99th percentile or more) should be considered an indication for fetal echocardiography.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) remains one of the most significant malformations to threaten the health of infants, particularly those born when the malformation has not been prenatally diagnosed. Currently, only 15–30% of newborns with structural heart anomalies are detected prenatally.1,2 There are different strategies to increase the prenatal detection of cardiac anomalies. Unfortunately, the most common approach of performing fetal echocardiography, based on pre-existing risk factors, has not performed as well as expected in routine clinical practice.1,3 Recent studies have found a relationship between increased nuchal translucency in the first trimester and CHD.4–6 It has been suggested that nuchal translucency screening may be a useful method to identify cardiac anomalies in chromosomally normal fetuses.4 The objective of this study was to estimate whether first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement is a useful screening tool for major CHD in a large unselected population in the absence of aneuploidy.
This was an observational cohort study carried out at 15 clinical centers in the United States. Institutional review board approval was obtained at all sites, and all participants gave written informed consent. Patients were eligible for inclusion if they were aged 16 years or older and had a singleton live pregnancy, with a crown-rump length of 36–79 mm (10 weeks, 3 days, to 13 weeks, 6 days) obtained at the time of nuchal translucency screening. Cases of fetal aneuploidy were excluded from the analysis. Patients were enrolled from October 1999 to December 2002.
Nuchal translucency ultrasonography was performed according to a standardized protocol by specially trained ultrasonographers.7 Transvaginal ultrasonography was used if optimal views could not be obtained using a transabdominal approach. A formal sonographic quality assurance program was in place for the duration of the trial as described previously.7 Nuchal translucency was interpreted by using multiples of the median (MoM) values, and the mean of three separate measurements was used for risk calculation. Cases of septated cystic hygroma were followed and reported separately.8 Comprehensive ultrasonography with cardiac screening was recommended for all patients with first-trimester nuchal translucency measurements of 2.0 MoM or more.
Major CHD was defined as structural cardiac anomalies associated with poor perinatal outcome or those with the potential to be ductal-dependent after birth or both. These included heart defects with risk of significant neonatal morbidity and mortality or need for surgical correction in infancy, such as atrioventricular septal defects, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, coarctation of the aorta, Ebstein anomaly, hypoplastic right ventricle, tetralogy of Fallot, double outlet right ventricle, transposition of the great arteries, double inlet ventricle, truncus arteriosus, and severe valvular stenosis. Ductal-dependent lesions were included because their prenatal detection results in changes in postnatal management that may improve survival. Minor CHD was defined as defects expected to have favorable perinatal outcomes, such as atrial septal defects, small ventricular septal defects, and mild valvular stenosis. Patent foramen ovale and patent ductus arteriosus were not classified as CHD because these conditions cannot be diagnosed prenatally in that they are normally patent fetal structures.
Cases of CHD were obtained from pregnancy and pediatric outcome data. Trained research coordinators at each clinical site recorded patient information using case report forms from the patient's first-trimester screening visit through their pregnancy outcome. Completed case report forms were forwarded to the data coordinating center for central processing. Because there were several patient assessments to track throughout the pregnancy and assessment differed by patient characteristics, a computerized tracking system was developed to optimize protocol adherence and data quality. Specifically, the tracking system's reporting feature prompted the site research coordinator of upcoming patient assessments and had preprogrammed quality control checks, at both item and protocol level, to maximize not only quality but efficiency.
Copies of fetal and pediatric medical records, including pathologic examinations, were submitted for review by a single pediatric geneticist in all cases in which parents or the medical record suggested a possible fetal or neonatal medical problem, in all screen-positive cases without karyotype results, and in a 10% random sample of all other enrolled cases. Fetal chromosome status was determined by amniocentesis and from neonatal cord blood in screen-positive cases whose mothers declined amniocentesis, as well as in cases of spontaneous pregnancy loss, pregnancy termination, or stillbirth. All structural heart defects were identified, and each case was classified as major or minor based on above definitions and all available information. At the completion of the pregnancy and pediatric outcome data review, the study population was divided into three groups: major CHD, minor CHD, and no CHD.
Performance characteristics, including the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values, were estimated at different nuchal translucency cutoff values: 2.0 MoM or more, 2.5 MoM or more, and 3.0 MoM or more. Standard statistical methods were used to calculate means, standard deviations (SD), odds ratios (OR), 95% confidence intervals (CI), and P values. Univariable logistic regression analyses were used to compare major CHD with minor CHD and no CHD combined and to compare major and minor CHD combined with no CHD with regard to demographics and pregnancy outcomes. P<.05 was considered statistically significant.
There were 38,033 pregnancies enrolled and cardiac outcome data were available on 34,370 cases (90%). Aneuploidy was found in 104 of these cases, and these were excluded, leaving 34,266 for analysis. Completeness of ascertainment was assessed by calculating the expected number of CHD cases based on the number of women enrolled in the study and recently published birth prevalence data.2,9 This assessment suggested that 171–274 cases of CHD (5–8 per 1,000) should have been present in this study, and we identified 224 cases, suggesting that ascertainment was as expected. Of the 52 major heart defects, three (5.8%) were obtained through the random review of 10% of the medical records of FASTER participants. Demographic characteristics of this population are shown in Table 1. Infants born with major and minor CHD had lower birth weights, which may in part be due to the fact that these infants were born earlier than those without CHD.
Overall, there were 224 cases of CHD (incidence 6.5 per 1,000) with 52 major defects (incidence 1.5 per 1,000). Of the 52 major cardiac anomalies, 18 (35%) were detected prenatally and 34 (65%) were detected after birth. The incidence of major CHD increased with increasing nuchal translucency thickness (Table 2). Table 3 shows the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of nuchal translucency measurements at different thresholds for the detections of major CHD. Sensitivities and positive predictive values were low at all nuchal translucency cutoffs, but the OR for major CHD increased from 10.9 at 2.0 MoM or more to 37.8 at 3.0 MoM or more. The screening performance of nuchal translucency remained low when minor heart defects were also included (Table 4). The nuchal translucency measurements corresponding to the 98th and 99th percentiles for each gestational age in the study population of 34,266 cases without aneuploidy are shown in Table 5. Overall, measurements at or above the 98th and 99th percentile thresholds had likelihood ratios for major CHD of 9.5 and 22.5, respectively. Based on these data, for every 100 patients referred for fetal echocardiography with a nuchal translucency of 2.5 MoM or more (99th percentile or more), three would be expected to have a major cardiac anomaly. The major and minor cardiac defects are shown in Table 6. Overall, 84.6% (44 of 52) cases of major CHD had nuchal translucency of less than 2.0 MoM, 86.5% (45 of 52) had nuchal translucency less than 2.5 MoM, and 90.4% (47 of 52) had nuchal translucency less than 3.0 MoM.
Pregnancy outcome data are shown in Table 7. Terminations, intrauterine fetal deaths, and neonatal deaths were highest in the major CHD group. In contrast, there were no intrauterine fetal deaths or neonatal deaths in those with minor CHD. Excluding pregnancy terminations, the proportion of live births was lowest in the major CHD group: 91% (41 of 45) compared with 100% (164 of 164) for those with minor CHD and 99.6% (33,634 of 33,754) for those without CHD (P<.001).
Nuchal translucency assessment combined with maternal serum markers is an excellent screening tool for fetal Down syndrome in the general population, with detection rates as high as 87% at a 5% false-positive rate.7,10,11 Studies from Europe have suggested that nuchal translucency may also be a good screening test for major CHD, with one reporting a sensitivity of over 50%.4,5,12 This detection rate exceeds that expected from second-trimester cardiac screening in low-risk populations.13 If reproducible, universal first-trimester nuchal translucency assessment could surpass the traditional four-chamber view for routine CHD screening.
Our data confirm that first-trimester nuchal translucency measurement is associated with major CHD and that the risk increases with increasing nuchal translucency thickness. However, first-trimester nuchal translucency assessment does not perform well as a screening test for major CHD. In our large study of unselected patients, nuchal translucency measurement had a sensitivity of only 9.6% for major CHD and positive predictive value of 5.0% using a cutoff of 3.0 MoM or more, with only marginal improvement when lowering the threshold to 2.0 MoM or more. The landmark study by Hyett and colleagues4 reported that nuchal translucency measurement at the 99th percentile or greater had a sensitivity of 40% for the detection of major CHD. Subsequent studies have been unable to replicate these results, including our own (Table 8).4–6,12 Explanations for the promising findings of Hyett's initial study include its retrospective nature, high-risk population with a median maternal age of 34, inclusion of cystic hygromas, and the lack of extended follow-up.4 In our study, the mean maternal age was 30, septated cystic hygromas were excluded and reported separately, and most of the follow-up data on live births were obtained at 6–12 months of age. The exclusion of septated cystic hygromas may explain in part the smaller nuchal translucency measurements observed in our study and the lower screening performance of nuchal translucency for major CHD. However, in clinical practice, it is anticipated that cases of septated cystic hygroma will be evaluated and managed differently because the risks of aneuploidy and associated anomalies are considerably higher.8 The smaller nuchal translucency measurements may also reflect the large unselected population participating in this study in contrast to referral populations reported in earlier studies that are expected to be at increased risk.4,14 Over the past few years with extension of such screening to low-risk populations, the reported sensitivities of nuchal translucency for major CHD detection have steadily declined, with the lowest detection rate observed in our study.5,6 Based on low sensitivities and positive predictive values with correspondingly high false-positive rates, our findings suggest nuchal translucency measurement is not a good screening tool for major CHD in the general population.
Despite its poor performance for widespread detection of CHD, nuchal translucency assessment in the first trimester is likely to become universal in the United States for aneuploidy screening. Currently, standard recommendations for evaluating cases of enlarged nuchal translucency in which aneuploidy has been excluded are lacking. A meta-analysis of eight studies comprising primarily high-risk referral populations reported that 37% of CHD could be diagnosed by using a nuchal translucency threshold of the 95th percentile.14 However, at this threshold, 5% of the population would require fetal echocardiography, which would necessitate a substantial increase in dedicated resources. In our study of primarily low-risk patients, nuchal translucency measurement cutoffs of 2.0 MoM or more, 2.5 MoM or more, and 3.0 MoM or more detected approximately 15%, 14%, and 10% of major CHD, which supports the concept that increased nuchal translucency is a risk factor for heart anomalies even in the absence of aneuploidy. Nuchal translucency at or above the 99th percentile for gestational age increased the likelihood of major CHD by a factor of 22.5. At this cutoff, 1% of the general population would require a specialized cardiac evaluation to detect nearly 15% of major heart anomalies. This approach may be reasonable based on the screening performance of nuchal translucency and currently available resources for fetal echocardiography. Overall, screening based on traditional risk factors for CHD, such as maternal diabetes, family history, and teratogen exposure, results in only about 10% of heart anomalies being diagnosed prenatally.1 Given that nuchal translucency screening alone performed as well as these accepted indications for fetal echocardiography, specialized cardiac assessment should be recommended as part of the standard evaluation for all ongoing pregnancies with nuchal translucency of 2.5 MoM or more (99th percentile), and increased nuchal translucency should be added to the list of accepted indications for fetal echocardiography.
Early studies observed a strong association between left-sided obstructive lesions such as coarctation, severe aortic stenosis, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome and enlarged nuchal translucency.4,15,16 Coarctation was the most common major defect observed in our unselected population, but all cases had unremarkable nuchal translucency thickness. Recent studies have failed to identify obvious relationships between enlarged nuchal translucency and particular types of cardiac anomaly.17,18 A pooled analysis of major fetal echocardiography centers also found that increased nuchal translucency was not confined to specific types of major CHD.19 Although nuchal translucency of 2.0 MoM or more was observed in 4 of 5 (80%) cases of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the number of defects in each category were small, and no firm conclusions can be made about the specific spectrum of CHD associated with increased nuchal translucency in the current study.
The prenatal detection of major cardiac malformations has the potential to influence pregnancy management and impact pregnancy outcomes. Although there is no accepted definition of major CHD, most studies include defects that are lethal, require surgical correction in infancy, or are ductal-dependent at birth.5,6,9 Ductal-dependent lesions require maintenance of fetal vascular communications for adequate oxygenation postnatally and, therefore, are quite likely to benefit from prenatal diagnosis.20–22 Minor defects, such as atrial septal defects, small ventricular defects, and mild valvular stenoses, are expected to have favorable perinatal outcomes and are not commonly detected prenatally. The lack of any fetal or neonatal deaths in the ongoing pregnancies with minor CHD, along with 99.6% live births compared with only 91% live births with major CHD (after excluding terminations), support our classification of major and minor defects. Overall, slightly less than 25% of all cardiac anomalies were categorized as major, which is less than the commonly cited 30–50%.9,13 The most likely explanation for this difference is the classification of ventricular septal defects as major CHD in previously published studies.4,14 Ventricular septal defect was the most common heart anomaly observed in our population, but all had favorable outcomes and thus were classified as minor CHD. In our study, about 14% of major defects had enlarged nuchal translucency using the 99th percentile cutoff, which is also considerably lower than that reported in earlier studies and below the expected detection rate of cardiac screening in the second trimester.13 In a prospective observational study, increased nuchal translucency identified only 26.5% of major CHD compared with a 75% overall detection rate of CHD using the four-chamber view and outflow tracts.23 Abnormal views of the fetal heart during second-trimester sonographic evaluation of the fetus have become the most common indication for fetal echocardiography, yielding more cases of CHD that all other traditional risk factors combined.24,25 Based on our findings, first-trimester nuchal translucency assessment will miss about 85% of major CHD and, therefore, cannot replace screening with the four-chamber and ventricular outflow tract views later in pregnancy.
One potential limitation of our study is incomplete ascertainment. Despite a rigorous study design and review of all medical records of cases in which the parents, medical record, or outcome data suggested a possible fetal or neonatal problem, three of the 52 (5.8%) major heart defects were identified through a random review of 10% of the medical records of the remaining study participants. However, the finding of a small number of major cardiac anomalies in this group with no other abnormal indicators further supports our conclusion that nuchal translucency is not a good screening test for major CHD.
This is a large cohort study of nuchal translucency as a screening tool for CHD and is notable for being performed in an unselected population. Although nuchal translucency assessment lacks the characteristics of a good screening tool for major CHD, a nuchal translucency measurement of 2.5 MoM or more (99th percentile) in a fetus without aneuploidy is a marker for CHD and warrants referral for fetal echocardiography. Ultimately, nuchal translucency sonography is a complementary tool for screening for congenital heart defects and should contribute to an increase in prenatal diagnosis of these common malformations.
The authors thank the members of the FASTER Research Consortium: K. Welch, MS, R. Denchy, MS (Columbia University, New York, NY); F. Porter, MD, M. Belfort, MD, B. Oshiro, MD, L. Cannon, BS, K. Nelson, BSN, C. Loucks, RNC, A. Yoshimura (University of Utah, and IHC Perinatal Centers, Salt Lake City, Provo, and Ogden, UT); D. Luthy, MD, S. Coe, MS (Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA); J. Esler, BS (William Beaumont Medical Center, Royal Oak, MI); G. Hankins, MD, R. Bukowski, MD, J. Lee MS, (UTMB Galveston, TX); R. Berkowitz, MD, Y. Kharbutli MS (Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY); I. Merkatz, MD, S. Carter, MS (Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY); J. Hobbins, MD, L. Schultz, RN (University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, CO); M. Paidas, MD, J. Borsuk, MS (NYU Medical Center, New York, NY); B. Isquith, MS, B. Berlin, MS (Tufts University, Boston, MA); J. Canick, PhD, G. Messerlian, PhD, C. Duquette, RDMS (Brown University, Providence, RI); R. Baughman, MS (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC); J. Hanson, MD, F. de la Cruz, MD (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development); and K. Dukes, PhD, L. Sullivan, PhD, D. Emig, MPH, J. Vidaver, MA, Jamie Collins (DM-STAT Inc, Medford, MA). Cited Here...
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Skip to comments.New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation
Posted on 08/30/2008 6:43:48 PM PDT by ricks_place
NEW ORLEANS -- Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday _ even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.
Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars _ clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.
The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the storm of the century and told residents to "get your butts out of New Orleans now."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What he got spooked by was the NHC telling him what the job north it took today means...
Live TV broadcast from WWL-TV, NOLA.
They're talking about the evacs.
Nagin gave the order??? The mayor gives the order??
I know we shouldn't anthropomize these storms but this one looks like a cruise missile aimed at NOLA.
I can't believe people aren't sitting around waiting for the Federal Government to save them.
the anchors looked grim.
"I cant believe people arent sitting around waiting for the Federal Government to save them."
You know, there are real live people living there, including my elderly parents (Thibodaux, La. — they've left) and numerous other relatives. Maybe you could mute your smug superiority for a while.
Wonder if the gays are staying (Southern Decadence Days, y'know). Would be interesting if they did and the hurricane decides to give them a little kiss.
Will they be using the buses this time?
When I was a kid they always seemed to make sharp turns and fool us, but today they seem to stay on track. I'm praying it turns and goes to an unpopulated part of Mexico.
Works for me
Welfare Recipients one, Taxpayers zero (we are already paying for them anyway), if there has to be destruction...
Maybe they won't rebuild this time... "hope" they do the World a favor.
(Sorry for you guys in TN, (or wherever the "refugees" end up, my advice is to double lock everything,install motion detectors, buy ammo and sleep less than you did before they showed up) been there, done that.
Wolf Blitzer, Sept 1, 2005
that's a good thought!
I suspect Jindal made Nagin an offer Nagin couldn't refuse...
And Jindal let the Natl Guard in too. Five days they kept the guard out and then blamed Bush.
CBS is asking what McCain is going to do this time; now he is a Senator, so how is he any different in this than Senator Obama?
I hope they don't refuge out of NOLA and come to Texas for their little rump ranger convention.
If I misinterpreted, then I apologize. I'm too far away to do anything to help my parents, who were just getting ready to put their house on the market to move back this way. I'm a tad touchy tonight.
That's way too many syllables for NO.
"Get out!" might be more easily understood but after Katrina the only thing that would convince some is a tidal wave or a 2x4.
this one looks like a cruise missile aimed at NOLA.
Didnt Katrina do the same thing ??????
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Thibodaux, La.
I know some people there...
They are hard working, own their own house and dont rely on the govt...
yeah we need to get this information straight cause if someone dies they will blam bush even if it was a dem that created the problem.
I have heard that (Conservative Republican LA Governor) Jindal commandeered over 700 of them when he ordered evacuations starting yesterday...
Ray "School Bus" Nagin...what a loser... "git yo butts outta N'Orlins befoe I git whackt agin".
How many folks died because of that jerk?
According to AP Nagain is running the show:
Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.
I can't even imagine the frustration and anguish you're going through. God bless you, your family and everyone else who will be affected by that storm.
Did Katrina kill 1600 people?
I hope Jindal has the NG keep watch over the levees. Maybe they could install some video cameras, just in case. And the Feds should try to keep an eye on Ayers and his gang. A well placed bomb would be blamed on the Republicans (again), and give Obama a boost.
You know, there are real live people living there, including my elderly parents (Thibodaux, La. theyve left) and numerous other relatives. Maybe you could mute your smug superiority for a while.
There's a lotta Idiots on these threads,my FRiend,,,
The pig-squeeeel will start when they they figure out
that 30% of the oil and gas for the USA has been shut down.
Food shipments to the port of NOLA has been shut down,,,
No home heating oil (80%) for the North/NE,,,
1800 dead just a joke to some,,,
Glad your folks got out ok...
Well, it's kind of difficult to rebuild anew something under the management of corrupt, thieving politicians and their cronies.
Parasites like them can only survive on a healthy host, and for centuries New Orleans was healthy and thriving as a major port city and commercial hub.
Parasites can't build anything themselves, though, that requires productive, self-reliant, confident people without too many parasites sucking their blood while they build.
Katrina threatened to leave the parasites high and dry, with hardly anyone left in town to graft - they've had to resort to swindling the rest of the United States.
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Actually, I'm in TN and during the Katrina disaster, we didn't have much of any problem in our part of the state. A very toney town near us fixed up large shelters, or housed people in motels, Red Cross fed them at churches, (but most of them opted for fast food, comfort food instead most of the time with FEMA money or their own money), and the town and Nashville as well even had employers sending hiring staff to the shelters to find employees. A lot of New Orleanians had nothing to go back to, so they took jobs here and across the country. They took the chance to get out of N.O., getting their own apartments and glad for new opportunities. Some have stayed away from N.O. and started their own restaurants.
Thanks for your post. I cringe every time I read a post that says something similar to, people in N.O. are stupid, or people in New York deserve it, blah blah.
The stereotyping is idiotic.
Didn't Katrina hit during the southerndecadence parade before? Or just after it?
Yup. Hit just prior to it. Canceled it. Boy, what a coincidence. (But if Pat Robertson were to mention this "coincidence," boy, would others make sure the "wrath of God" would descend upon him for pointing it out)
The stereotyping is idiotic.
True Dat!,,,
It seems like every thread has a load of that Krap on it,,,
Most from the West or the North from lookin' at their pages.
I think it's a message - "DON'T LIVE THERE."
Are the landlords (ie., federal government taxpayers) going to be picking up New Orleans' welfare-state Democrats in limousines and giving them a ride to plush hotels this time, the way they failed to do last time? And, of course, handing out $2,000 "debit" cards like candy....
Good post, good link.
I'm glad Nagin learned from his errors with Katrina. I hope no one is killed or seriously injured there. Prayers for those in Gustav's path!
I asked on another thread, without a plausible answer, "Who has the authority to order me out of my home and for reason"? Shouldn't it take a court order?
I hear voices: "Sorry to rain on your parade"....again.
Let them parade....on another planet.
Do as you wish...at your own peril.
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PETA to Gore: Too Chicken to Go Veg?
In case you thought we were just kidding when we wrote to Al Gore urging him to go vegetarian to help stop global warming, maybe this ad will clarify our position for you.
The evidence is in, and though it may be a little inconvenient for Mr. Gore to hear, the facts don't lie. This U.N. report shows that animals raised for food generate more greenhouse gases than all cars and trucks combined, and goes on to say that meat is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global," including land degradation, air pollution, water shortage and pollution, loss of biodiversity, and of course climate change. And according to a recent University of Chicago study, switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Prius. We even went so far as to offer to cook him faux "fried chicken" as an intro to vegetarian meals, since, no matter how many of those cool little energy saving light bulbs you put in, the reality is that there just isn't such a thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.
This story about the whole issue ran in The New York Times today, but Gore declined to comment. Mr. Gore, you've done so much good by putting yourself out there as the face of the anti-global warming movement, and you're so right on so much of it, but come on, it really is high time to put some substance behind it by leading by example and doing the single most effective thing you can do to address the issue: simply going vegetarian.
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Dear PETA by being holier than thou we will never stop the cruelty towards animals as most humans can't deal with the blow to their egos. i agree with all of peta's "radical" ideas…not eating meat cruelty free products not attending animal circuses etc…BUT you have to present these in a humble manner like the faces of the abused animals. the way this letter was written seems to want to instigate a fight or argument rather than start a real civil conversation about the contribution of meat production to the destruction of the environment which is indisputably true. to represent your supporters and members more fairly stop being so damn condescending! Rachna
To Siddarth Mehrotra Please don't lecture to Christians about Jesus how did Jesus come into this discussion anyway? To J don't lecture to PETA members about what their cause should be. Animals rights IS PETA's cause and the UN coming out and actually saying that meat production is the primary source of global warming IS something to be celebrated on a PETA blog. Trying to change the eating habits of a world used to using and exploiting animals will be a long difficult battle. Maybe Al Gore can help. And maybe that's not his particlar interest. Maybe he's going to stick to reducing the use of fossil fuels a lofty goal in itself. If that turns out to be the case though then those of us for whom this issue IS primary will be the ones to pursue it. We can't bring everyone over to our point of view but the goal of persuading the world to be vegan is every bit as legitimate as trying to persuade the world to give up fossil fuels. They are all part of the same cause after alli.e. stopping global warming and all of these issues are an important part of the whole problem. The necessary changes CAN be made and in time they will be made because there will be no other choices. I would simply like to see us humans CHOOSE to do the right thing for once instead of having the choice forced on us by our own shortsightedness. GoVeg!
Blah Blah Blah. I hate factory farming too and know it's horrible for the environment duh…from the feed to the lot to the plate it's messed up no matter how you look at it. What I was saying is that it's wrong to say that meateating environmentalists don't exist and that going vegan is more environment friendly. I'm not arguing greenhouse gasses I give you that but global warming is a fraction of what environmentalism is about. Stick to the animals not environmentalism!
"Forget the teacher embrace the teachings"? And "Jesus was never trying to have people follow him he was trying to wake people up to make them aware to be more than they were being"? You obviously have NEVER in your ENTIRE life read the Bible. Jesus WAS His teachings He was the Word in human form!! And he always said to "Follow me" where do you think the 12 disciples came into the picture? And YES HE DID mean follow HIM to fashion one's life after HIM and His teachings being they were and are one and the same. PLEASE stick to what you know or find out more about what you DON'T know before making such incorrect 100 false statements. The need to apologize should be directed to those you might be misleading with your inaccuracies.
To Peta Hater it sounds like you have too much time on your hands. Why would you log into a web site you hate maybe you should spend your time doing more research on the issue and get your facts straight. Oh yeah and don't visit our web site again.
A couple of posters have stated that meat is not the 1 cause of global warming but maybe global constipation. "Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhousegas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalents reports the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This includes 9 percent of all CO2 emissions 37 percent of methane and 65 percent of nitrous oxide. Altogether that's more than the aggregate emissions caused by worldwide transportation." Since methane is 23 times worse than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas could that in fact make meat 1 in carbon dioxide equivalents? Just asking.
The world's lust for meat CANNOT be satisfied with local organic farming. Sorry to burst a few bubbles here. It's a nice thought but currently only works because organic farming is the minority provided mainly to the wealthy. Factory farms exist BECAUSE people want to eat so much meat. You turn every farm into an organic farm and produce the same amount and you're back in the same boat. It's nice for people to want to treat animals better and still consume meat but it just doesn't work that way.
I think it's sad what measurement Gore is being held to. I didn't become vegan overnight. Nor did I began to make changes tobenefittheenvir a part of my life instantly. Life is change growthprogression. Many have "evolved" environmentally nutritionally etc yet still fail the most basic respect of caring and loving unconditionally their fellow man allowing each to grow as growth happens progressively. This "do it all now" soap box mentality turns alot of people off from the movement. That's just what I feel. Today I am a dietary vegan. If I would have received a bunch of facts waved in my face with tones of Pharisiacal preaching I may not have wanted anything to do with this lifestyle. ACCEPT PEOPLE FOR WHERE THEY ARE APPRECIATE WHERE THEY'VE COME FROM AND SUPPORT THEM AS THEY MOVE ON. I agree with Judith Freedom Fighter's post. Just send the man some info oulining how to transition to veg with the benefits presented.
Paul Bucciaglia why not learn a new trade and get out of the livestock industry? It's not only screwing up the environment it's messing with your mind.
This whole post is irrelevant Global Warming is a hoax! Stick to the facts Global warming is not a fact! Al Gore is a politician Fact Al Gore uses more electricity in one month then I do all year. Fact That Live Global Warming benefit concert held all over the word did more harm then good to the environment. This Global Warming hoax is only taking your attention away from fact proven problems in this world. Try fixing Global pollution Global hunger Global reliance on oil Global corrupt politicians and Dictators and Global stupidity. Now thats real issue. and no Global Pollution and Global warming are not the same thing
kristina it is important to note that beef and lamb production primarily involves grazing. Cattle may be fed grain as nutritional supplements or in the case of feedlotting for a few months to fatten them up. Not all land is suitable for growing grains fruits and vegetables. Grazing animals for meat and wool production is a means to harvest the energy from these solar powered pastures.
to uneducated peta hater and here it is again earth save report how environmentalists are overlooking vegetarianism as the most effective tool against climate change 'by far the most important nonco2 greenhouse gas is methane and the number one source of methane worldwide is animal agriculture. methane is responsible for nearly as much global warming as all other non co2 greenhouse gases put together. methane is 21 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than co2. animal agriculture produces more than 100 million tons of methane a year.' so peta hater i hope you got it!
It is really about time we heard a lot more about the meat industry and it's contribution to the global warming crisis. I read a great article by Paul Watson published in The Animals Voice Magazine MayJune 2007 Captain Paul Watson is founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society cofounder of the Greenpeace Foundation cofounder of Greenpeace International and a former director of the Sierra Club USA The Farley Mowat Institute and http://www.HarpSeals.org. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society well worth a read. I often use this quote from it which tends to blow people away. "A vegetarian driving a Hummer produces less greenhouse gas than a meat eater on a bicycle" not that I am suggesting we 'vegies' rush out to buy Hummers!!!It's high time a lot of prominent conservationists put their arguements where their mouths are.
meat is not the number one cause of global warming as the Gore banner suggests. It is minor compared to the amount of emmissions produced creating electricity. Enteric fermentation will not cease simply by refusing to eat meat unless we wipe out ruminant animals to "save the planet". With the price of energy going up some farms are harnessing the gas from animal waste capturing methane and using it to power other processes like heating.
well here in Brazil I'm pretty sure that the soybeans some planted in the amazon aren't destined to the production of fake meat. They are destined to produce REAL meat as most of it turns into European cow food. 2 This is true. A great part of soybean's production is used to feed animals not humans.
You don't see the proof peta hater? How about actually reading the fucking blog instead of spouting off on something you have no idea about? There's a link to a U.N. report that says exactly that. The U.N. in case you haven't got that far in your 8th grade remedial history course yet is a fairly wellknown and respected international organization and yes a reliable source. Sorry if all this is going over your head.
Stan Yes eating meat is worse for the environment. You talk about pesticides on vegetables…well what do you think meat producers feed their cows? Plants! By eating meat since so much food energy is lost in the production of meat you are actually eating MORE plant matter and thus pesticides when you eat meat. Don't think the foods they give cattle are organic…that would cost too much. So YES eating meat is a huge waist of energy uses up more pesticides and is definitely more detrimental to the environment.
Karkar I feel you are wrong. I think you are the one in need of research because if there werent any meateaters we would have no reason to be against factory farming.
why can't you drive a prius to protest. hummers are just bad in every way conspicous consumption poor use of resources etc. i am all for going veg but let's all work together as environmentalists we do not need to give any fuel to the conservative fire on this issue. the worst thing that could happen would be for people to say see its okay to drive a hummer. its not okay to drive a hummer or to eat factory farmed meat.
I like Al Gore alot but one "crucial" piece of Info from his Documentry left out is that is that the meat industry contributes more CO2 gasses than ALL the cars on the globe! now how could he leave THAT out?! On purpose perhaps? He should do "An Inconvenient Truth" Part 2 and include it!
well here in Brazil I'm pretty sure that the soybeans some planted in the amazon aren't destined to the production of fake meat. They are destined to produce REAL meat as most of it turns into European cow food.
Karkar I understand what you're saying. However when you look at the information I see that it is a lot more harmful to the enviro to eat animal products then it is to eat vegetables. There is going to be some amount of harm done simply because I exist I do excrete waste right. I rather my harm come from eating rice and beans and veggies then from the all the crap and harm that comes out of raising animals. And when you compare the harm done by making leather shoes vs pleather shoes… I think I'll stick to the pleather thanks. Thanks.
Please give an email address where Al Gore can be reached.
I know very little about Al Gore. If he has pointed out a problem the Thing To Do is not to criticise him for not being the solution but to be the solution ourselves. That's what he's asking us to do with the film he has given us "An Inconvenient Truth". Calling him a hypocrite is getting the wrong end of the stick. If I get angry does that mean that I should never advise anyone to avoid anger? The point is not Al Gore the point is what he has said about Global Warming. With apologies to Christians I might point out that Yeshua whom you call Jesus was never trying to have people follow him he was trying to wake people up to make them aware to be more than they were being. To prate endlessly about how godlike a man he was without paying attention to his teachings is a mistake. Similarly to talk about Al Gore when he is trying to get us talking about Global Warming is a mistake. Forget the teacher embrace the teachings.
KarKar I think even if you do shun factory farming take a look at what "freerange" actually means. Legally it stipulates a need for 'bigger cages' doesn't stipulate how big as well as access to sunlight doesn't say how often. It is simply not really a solution. Freerange is a pretty sounding gimmick imho preventing people who would otherwise make ethical choices to go all the way. Most importantly think about it this way If as it is with our meat produced in factory farms the cattle industry takes up a third of the landmass… what will happen if you do give cows more space? we simply do not have enough planet left my friend. In fact my only gripe with the above article is If Al Gore really wants to save the planet He should be persuaded to go Vegan as the dairy industry for example is just as hurtful to both the animals and the planet.
Just in case you didn't get my first post Let's not be too hard on Al Gore. When I wrote to him about the fact that eating meat is a primary factor in global warming his people wrote back to me that they had been studying this and planned on including it in their 'platform'. Think what a persuasive advocate Al Gore could be in swaying world opinion towards not eating meat. Now that the UN has filed its report maybe Mr. Gore can be persuaded to go veg but I doubt that he will be persuaded by this kind of criticism. Let's give credit where credit is due Al Gore put his entire career on the line for the cause of global warming. I think we at PETA can give him a moment to catch up when it comes to eating meat.
My comments aren't getting posted anymore for some reason are you getting them?
Karkar I respectfully disagree. The greenhouse gases emitted by animals trapped on factory farms have a much much more detrimental effect on the environment than pesticides on vegetables which meateaters consume too! and synthetic leather is free from heavy metals like chromium that go into tanning skins to prevent them from decomposing which is what DEAD SKIN is supposed to do. Also if you do your research I believe you will find that the VAST majority of soybeans grown in thirdworld countries goes into feeding LIVESTOCK not into my organic veggie burgers!
Susan you miss the point it takes alot more water food and land to raise animals for food. Nearly all land cleared for aricultural is done to raise animals. The large number of animals also produce large amounts of greenhouse gases. So I suggest you take your own advice and do some research and you'll see.
"PLEASE stick to animal welfare" PETA is an animal RIGHTS organisation please do a little research. Did you even read the UN report?
where is your proof saying going vegan is better for the earth? i don't see it on your website. i for one don't belive any of the crap you are saying. it sounds like a bunch of crap forcing people to see your point. if i want to own a cat or eat at kfc iam going to do it. so you can clam you have 1.6 million members. big deal. peta is a lost cause.
Not only is the animal holocaust the number one cause of global warming and so much other polution like to the waters from enormous amounts of excrement but it is also the a time bomb for the next GLOBAL PLAGUE especially from the chicken. But for the environment Gore and others could at least urge people to replace some meals each week with vegetarian alternatives and do so themselves. They are not even willing to make any step. They refuse the issue completely. The animal holocaust is one of the greatest dangers and disasters on the planet and all the reasons against it should be supplied together not separately. We could wake up one day to a global plague especially from the chicken. And Al Gore apparently isn't too caring about the millions of chickens boiled alive either and he should be called on that too. All the presidential candidates are having this same failing. Edwards just said sacrifice the SUVs. I think he needs a letter from Peta.
I am an avid supporter of PETA and what PETA stands for but I don't agree with that portrayal of Al Gore as "too chicken". When I wrote to Al Gore on the subject of meateating being part of the global warming problem I got a very thoughtful answer from the Gore people about how that is being put on their agenda. I think trying to get Gore and his people on OUR side in this is much more important than alienating him by making our point at his expense. He could do SO much for ending say factory farming just by being more public about it. He has the platform and the mainstream credentials to make a huge difference. No one wants to see the factory farms AND their pollution gone more than I do but let's not jump on Al Gore who has after all put his whole political career on the line in order to try to help global warming. Maybe in light of the new UN evidence he WILL consider vegetarianism so please let's not alienate him now.
Gore is a great guy. But remember the Gore family raised cattle at one time. So what I am thinking is does Al gore have Cattle Ranchers backing him? Look's like we need to use our search engine….. He could do so much for the greater good.
I would leave my dogs $6 million each but I'd certainly leave PETA $6 million as well….I mean the dog does not need the whole $12 million…..
To Mr. Matt Prescott I just read the NY Times article and while I think you are on the right track your rhetoric may do more to hinder than help your goals. PETA would do much better to draw a distinction between confinementfeedlotfactory meat production and sustainable pasturebased livestock production on sustainable farms. I fully agree that factory livestock farming is a major contributor to global climate change water pollution animal cruelty and our country's obesity crisis. Cheap meat carries expensive 'externalized' costs to human animal and environmental health. But there is an alternative a plant based diet supplemented with modest amounts of pastureraised meat eggs and milk. Yes these foods cost more up front. But when eaten in moderation they are a healthy addtion to plantbased diets. Animals rasied on pasture get to express what they were born to do chickens peck for bugs cows eat grasss all have room to roam in the outdoors. Additionally they turn othewise inedible matter grass and bugs into a high quality healthy food product. I lead a physically active lifeI am an organic farmerand meat is something I feel I need and enjoy. What meat and milk I choose not to raise on my farm I purchase from local farmers who raise pasturebased local livestock. Increased awarness of this alternative will increase demand for this kind of production which will increase the number of farmers who farm this way and greatly reduce the harmful effects on climatemostly related to intensive grain feeding of livestock and the animal cruelty endemic to factory farms.
Kar Kar have you read the UN link? Meat Climate Change. Jack Great post!
hate to spoil your day but meat is not the number one cause of global warming that medal goes to fossil fuel burning for electricity generation.
Gore doesn't realy care about anything except his political ambition. He is using environmentalism because it is a safe issue. No one supports global warming so Gore thinks he can use the issue to hype himself. But he is not willing to sacrifice anything for the cause. He just wants to exploit it.
you're barking up the wrong tree here peta and you're doing so using incorrect claims. the claim that meat is the 1 cause of global warming as shown on your banner ad is patently false. greenhouse gas emissions from global power production significantly outpace all agricultural emissions combined even when you include nonmeat products. though there may be some doublecounting involved industrial processes and buildings are also greater contributors. your point is welltaken that we need to be clear about the relative contributors to climate change and the importance of agriculture in that mix but is your goal to derail public interest in addressing climate change by castigating the most popular spokesman on the issue? i didn't think so. these are very serious issues and they deserve a serious public outcry but there is room for you to augment the public debate on climate change by speaking to your area of expertise rather than confusing the issue by making sweeping indefensible claims.
I would like to point out that most of the soy productionat least in Brazilis destined for animal consumption in Europe. Many of these plantations exist on what was once part of the Amazon forest. In the world as a whole vegetarian soy products are insignificant compared to the amount used to feed livestock. Al Gore is well intentioned but he is cherry picking the issues.
Karkar The chemicals used to prevent animals' flesh from rotting after it is turned into clothing are highly toxic and carcinogenic. Besides there are natural alternatives to synthetic clothing that don't require harming animals bamboo cotton hemp linen etc. Huge amounts of soy are grown to feed cattle not humans. One example found on the internet Most of the soy 8090 imports into Europe are used to feed animals. Meat production is a very inefficient way to produce protein and food in general. This behaviour has consequences the production of a kilo of meat costs 15 sq. m. of rain forest. You did read the U. N. report I take it?
Al Gore is not a serious environmentalist he is a business man and he understands his business!
I agree…don't go there… When Alicia Sliverstone was on the view a couple of months ago she said it was ok as long as you do what you can to help animals.go check the video you had it on this blog For example I may not be a veggie butI don't wear leather or fur. Doesn't that count?? Nowhere in your Gore "rant" do you mention the suffering of animals. Don't get into the environment…stay focused on the animals. Please. They need our help.
susan leona also gave millions and millions to charites. who those charites are we don't know. possibly she did donate to animal shelters. kar kar you're the one who needs to do the research. the more you're into animal rights the more you learn. factory farms have manure run off that goes into the waterways. polluting the water. animal activists are not self serving!! why do you think we voice ourselves about the factory farm run offs into water and the risks of eating meat??? just 'cuz we like to hear ourselves talk?? it's your own ignorance that give you hypocritical views about peta!!!!
Cute bulletin board. I may not love everything you do PETA but I sure love the fact that you're harassing Gore. I can't stand the way he parades around everywhere like he's some sort of hero to the planet when he's really just a environmentalist when it's convenient.
So when it all boils down to it Al Gore is just another political figure "pointing out the problem" but doing everything possible to not be part of the solution.
I think it's pretty unfair and downright wrong to say "there just isn't such a thing as a meateating environmentalist." Do a little research please. There are many people who choose to eat meat and also shun factory farming. My biggest "beef" with PETA is the idea that going veg is somehow better for the environment. Unless you're eating all local andor organic produce and processed foods pretty sure Taco Bell doesn't fit that category then it's selfserving to claim that vegans are more environmentally friendly. All the pesticides running off your conventional produce and the byproducts from your synthetic leather aren't doing much to clean up Mother Earth. I won't even go into the harm done to rural agriculture and economies in thirdworld countries growing soybeans for the fake meat products you promote. I support many of the endeavors PETA takes on to stop animal cruelty. I'm just saying please PLEASE stick to animal welfare and don't "go there" with environmentalism. It's just too hypocritical.
I think that this is the best time to make everyone aware of the vegetarian lifestyle helping go green. Between the Vick situation and the Gore picture we need to voice our concerns preferences and proof that meat also kills… including the environment not only on the web sites but in our communities. Get over this passive way of stating our convictions. Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets greased.
Leona Helmsley leaves her one dog $12 million. It's great that she cared for her pooch but that amounts of money could have saved countless animals in shelters around the country. Helmsley Leaves Dog $12 Million in Will AP Posted 20070829 100346 NEW YORK Aug. 29 Leona Helmsley's dog will continue to live an opulent life and then be buried alongside her in a mausoleum. But two of Helmsley's grandchildren got nothing from the late luxury hotelier and real estate billionaire's estate.


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Obvious but apt: Total Recall is completely forgettable.
The original 1990 film, based on the Philip K. Dick short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, was tailored for Arnold Schwarzenegger — which is to say that Dick's themes of identity and alternate realities were reduced to bullet points while bullets dominated the screen time.
Despite better actors and cutting-edge special effects, the remake is largely the same. It's weak science fiction wrapped in the too-familiar trappings of a post-apocalyptic film with an overemphasis on action.
In the beginning, the lead character, Doug (Colin Farrell), is practically a drone, trudging discontentedly through life. Meanwhile, the big, bad government is crushing the impoverished populace, provoking underground rebellions.
The dystopian landscape is suffused with grays and browns, and tinted with touches of Chinese architecture. Director Len Wiseman (Live Free or Die Hard) emphasizes the dankness and claustrophobia. The streets, whether dusty or wet, are crammed with empty souls.
The only hint of pleasure comes courtesy of a company called Rekall, which implants memories. You can be anything you want, and the sensation is real.
Doug gives it a try. Instantly, we are in the midst of an elaborate chase. Doug is now known as Hauser, and he is the idolized leader of the resistance.
Like that of Jason Bourne, his memory is shot. Pursued by the government, he dispatches baddies by the dozens.
We know only as much as he does — which is very little. The plot unfurls slowly, as the film constantly reminds us that what we see might not be real.
The script throws in gratuitous psychological jargon, such as paranoid dissociative break, in an attempt to sound profound, but it can't resist action-adventure stock phrases.
No actor — not even those as talented as Farrell or Kate Beckinsale (the only one worth watching) — can make "I give good wife" and "If I'm not me, then who am I?" sound convincing.
The scenery is artfully done, and the film has some action sequences that, though not innovative, are staged with skill. The special-effects crew has crafted neat toys, including a video-camera system that should be duplicated in real life.
But to what end? When the baddies are exterminated, the film simply shrugs. What a waste for a project that wants to be taken seriously.


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Lessons From Our Past Should Guide Our Future
An active industrial policy geared toward recovering our manufacturing capability can and has worked. There are many examples from U.S. history championed by both sides of the aisle. In fact, tariffs effectively built the wealth of this country and have been a very valuable tool for managing growth for the better part of 200 years. We should not strive to return to colonial "subject" status with respect to today's new economic imperialists in Japan, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, or Mexico.
Manufacturing Core To Early American Independence
In colonial America, England prevented American manufacturing by using tactics that included arresting and jailing anyone with manufacturing talent who would move from England to the colonies. In response to the English demand that we ship to them our timber, iron ore, rice, cotton, indigo, and natural resources, and import from them the manufactured finished articles thereby remaining a banana republic, Alexander Hamilton in his famous treatise "Report on Manufacturers" called for steps instead to build up our own manufacturing and to build our country. The first bill that passed in Congress on July 4, 1789, was a tariff bill, protectionism, a 50-percent tariff on 60 different articles.
Policy Of Protecting Key Strategic Industries Like Steel, Agriculture
Later, Abraham Lincoln decided against importing steel from England to build a transcontinental railroad. Instead, he decided to encourage development of our own steel plants. He put import restrictions on British steel thereby giving birth to one of the key industrial engines of growth in this country.
Franklin Roosevelt, in the darkest days of the Great Depression, developed a system of import quotas and subsidies for America's agriculture. This system has remained to this day and that same group of farmers now receives annually over $180 billion worth of subsidies. This specific program is the subject of much free-trade discontent. However, few can imagine an America where we would put at risk the national security for the sake of ivory-tower free-trade ideology applied to agriculture and food production.
Protecting Industry Was A Common Practice
President Eisenhower, in the mid-1950s, applied oil import quotas. John F. Kennedy produced the seven-point Kennedy textile program of restrictions on textile imports in 1961. Ronald Reagan put import quotas on steel, machine tools, semiconductors, and a 50-percent import tariff on motorcycles.
Protecting US Industry Critical To Success Of First 100 Years
For the first 100 years of American independence, America was financed through protectionism. US net worth after that first century was twenty-five billion dollars more than the next wealthiest country, namely Great Britain. U.S. gross national product was more than twice that of Germany and Russia. The U.S. was so rich in goods and services that it was more self-sustaining than any industrial power in history. The U.S. had no federal income tax provision until 1913. Until that time, the government was supported almost entirely through tariffs and protectionism. Protecting the nascent U.S. chemical industry was a key in helping to defeat Germany.
In those days, more than half of the world's cotton, corn, copper, and oil flowed from America, and at least one-third of all steel, iron, silver, and gold. Even if the U.S. was not flush with raw materials, excellent manufacturing guaranteed dominance of world markets. Wall Street was awash with foreign capital. It was calculated that America could afford to buy the entire United Kingdom including their national debt. Even the world-leading Bank of England began to borrow money on Wall Street. In short order, New York City seemed destined to replace London as the world's financial center.
We Must Act To Protect And Restore Our Domestic Industry
Today we have unquestionably lost our manufacturing capability as evidenced by our massive trade deficits, dependence on imports, and foreign ownership of U.S. domestic industry. The only thing we now export in this country is title to our assets. This cannot be sustained. Protecting this country's strategic industries is an absolute necessity, one that every other country in the world recognizes.


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August 4, 2011
Fred Lackey wasn't going to let a broken jaw stop him from missing a Sunday church service for the first time in nearly 10 years but it was doctor's orders.
The next Sunday, Lackey returned to church and 50 years later, he reached the 50-year mark of perfect attendance. He reached the milestone July 3 at Westside Baptist Church, Jasper, where he serves as pastor.
Lackey said he's always been "a church man" and hasn't missed church because the congregations he has been a part of have been such a blessing.
"I've heard churches talk about bad deacons and bad congregations, but I've never seen that in my years as a pastor," Lackey said.
He served as bivocational pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Prattville, from 1956 until 1964; Westside Baptist from 1964 until 1972; and First Baptist Church, Athens, from 1972 until 1996 before he began working at the University of Mobile (UMobile) as assistant to the president.
Lackey continues to work at UMobile and returned to Westside as pastor in 1998.
UMobile President Mark Foley said, "While it is certainly a remarkable achievement to have a perfect church attendance record for 50 years, it is no surprise to me that Fred Lackey would be the one to have attained that honor. His dedication to God and commitment to serving God's people are perfect examples to me and to the remarkable span of generations he continues to influence."
Lackey added, "I hope I'm going to be well enough and healthy enough to attend [church] for several more years."


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Ingredients :
1 chicken
Oil for frying
For marination -
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp chilli paste
2 tbsp Soya sauce
2 tbsp Cornflour
1 Egg
Salt to taste
For Gravy -
3 tbsps refine oil
1 tsp ginger finely chopped
1 tbsp garlic, finely chopped
1 capsicum, cut into cubed
3 large onion, cut into cubed
¼ cup spring onions, cut into 1" long strips
2 red chilies
½ tsp chilli powder
½ cup tomato sauce
1 tbsp Soya sauce
1 tsp chilli sauce
11/2 tsp schezwan sauce
1 cup chicken stock
¼ tsp sugar
½ tsp black pepper
¾ tbsp corn flour mixed with ¼ cup water
Salt to taste
Method :
First clean and wash the chicken and cut in to small sized pieces without removing the bones.
Prepare a mixture of all the ingredients for marinade well. Marinate the chicken pieces in the mixture at least for 30 minutes.
Now heat the oil in a deep frying pan, fry the chicken pieces to a golden colour. Do not over cook the chicken pieces. Drain and keep aside.
Heat oil in an another pan, add red chilli, chopped ginger and garlic, spring onion, onion, capsicum, saute for 5-7 mins.
Next add tomato sauce , chilli powder, soya sauce, chilli sauces, schezwan sauce, sugar and pepper powder, mix well together.
Now add the previously fried chicken pieces to this gravy, chicken stock, simmer and cook covered for about 4 minutes.
Mix cornflour with a little water and make a smooth paste without lumps.
Add the paste to the boiling gravy, stir continuously till the gravy gets thicker. Stir well to coat all the chicken with the gravy.
Serve hot with Indo-Chinese Vegetable fried rice / Veg Chilli Garlic noodles.
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Brevan Howard cuts risk after losses
Brevan Howard Asset Management flagship $26.5 billion hedge fund has more than halved its risk levels this year and moved back toward interest rate trading, the specialty of its founders, during a testing 2014.
Brevan Howard Asset Management flagship $26.5 billion hedge fund has more than halved its risk levels this year and moved back toward interest rate trading, the specialty of its founders, during a testing 2014.
The fund, managed by secretive billionaire Alan Howard and renowned for its profits during the credit crisis, lost money every month in the first half of this year, hit by losses on Japanese equities, US interest rates and currencies such as the Canadian dollar.
The fund has now shifted much of its focus back toward interest rate trading, Howard's bread and butter, following his time as a developed market rates trader at Credit Suisse.
Ultra low interest rates, driven down by central bank action, have made life tough for macro traders.
"It may be that market perceptions (of interest rates are) shifting in the UK and US," said a source close to Brevan. "Opportunities in trading rates may be about to change."
The fund has also dramatically cut its risk levels during the first half of the year, according to a report sent to investors and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Its so-called 'value at risk'—a measure widely-used by banks and hedge funds to show exposure to losses—as a proportion of its net asset value dropped to 0.28% at the end of June.
That compares with 0.65% at the end of last year and as much as 1.2% early last year. While VAR can fall either because a fund manager cuts risk, changes the way it constructs its trades or simply as a result of a drop in market volatility, it means the fund's risk is now not far from its lowest-ever, when it dropped below 0.2% in early 2008 during the credit crisis.
Brevan Howard declined to comment.
The reduction in risk comes as many macro funds struggle to find interesting trading ideas, amid becalmed markets that many see as offering few bargains. According to Hedge Fund Research, the data provider, the average macro fund is up just 0.3% in the first seven months of the year.
Brevan itself is facing a testing time. Despite posting its first monthly gain of the year in July, the Master fund has still lost money in 11 out of the last 15 months of trading.
After what Howard described as a "somewhat disappointing" year in 2013, the Master fund is down 3.7% so far this year, meaning it could be heading for its first-ever calendar year of losses.
As losses have mounted, Brevan has cut back exposure to currency and equity trading and moved back toward interest rate trading.
This marks a return to a key area of expertise for Howard who, along with Brevan's other co-founders, was part of Credit Suisse's developed markets rates trading team.
"They've gone back to their roots," said one investor, who asked not to be named.
The proportion of its risk that is in currencies has been cut to 15%, according to the investor report, while its allocation to interest rates has risen to 42%. Each accounted for approximately one-third of risk at the start of the year, said the investor.
Caxton Associates LP, the $8 billion macro hedge-fund firm, is also trimming its exposure to currencies after losses in the area weighed on its performance this year.
The New York-based firm has taken down more than half of its bets against developed markets currencies to plow more into commodities, investor updates indicate.
Like Brevan, Caxton lost money for the six consecutive months to start the year before turning it around in July. Its main fund is down about 5% in 2014.
Geneva-based Howard, one of the co-founders of the firm, is ranked 53rd in this year's Sunday Times Rich List for Britain with a £1.6 billion fortune.
— Rob Copeland in New York also contributed to this article.
This article first appeared on The Wall Street Journal


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'Locke & Key' Writer Confirms Film Trilogy Rumors
We ended last week with a whole lot of comic book adaptation rumors swirling around, and we weren't quite sure which ones would actually turn out to be true. Fortunately, the one that panned out is also one of the ones that has us most excited.
Latino Review had reported on Friday that "Locke & Key" is in the process of being turned into a live-action film trilogy after the TV series failed to be picked up by Fox. While we were skeptically hopeful of that news at the time, producer Roberto Orci has confirmed that the trilogy is actually happening. Click on after the jump for more details.
One fan tweeted at Orci, who is reportedly producing and writing the script for the "Locke & Key" films with Alex Kurtzman, and asked him to clarify if the rumors were true. He did just that but nothing more, simply tweeting, "true."
Having Orci and Kurtzman behind this project is the best news we could have heard. The producing duo are responsible for powerhouse projects like J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movies, cult favorite show "Fringe" and even the upcoming "Ender's Game" movie. They both acted as executive producers for the failed "Locke & Key" television series, and we're glad they didn't stop trying to get this Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez-created horror series made when Fox didn't pick up the series' pilot. We might get less "Locke & Key" in the long run this way, but the films could end up being better quality than the TV show would have been.
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