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The screening today at Jackson's Mill went perfect. With about 200 in attendance, the West Virginia Building at Jackson's Mill was all but packed out. And the good folks at JM went all out to make this event a successful one, including baking a very special cake! Afterwards, Mr. Dean Hardman, JM's Historic Area Program Specialist, told me that the film has re-energized much of the community's interest in Jackson and brought many facets together to promote the area's history, heritage, and tourism and that they were most appreciative of our efforts. Actually, it is I who should be the most appreciative. The hospitality and kindness expressed by all at Jackson's Mill and the surrounding area has been overwhelming. Their enthusiasm for the project is helping to make the film a success. One of the most interesting chats I had after the film was with Ms. Marie Burleigh. Marie serves as Jackson Mill's Public Relations Specialist. It was largely due to Marie's hard work that today's screening was so well attended and successful. Her efforts were largely behind the scenes, but without her contributions and marketing expertise, the event would not have been near the success it was. While we chatted, Marie shared with me the fact that her uncle, Luther Foster, was one of Tuskegee University's former Presidents. Others at JM also contributed much to both the filming as well as today's screening: Susan Church, a local historian and recently retired as Lewis County's Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director, was instrumental in the early stages of the filming at Jackson's Mill. Mr. Terry Jackson, Program Director at JM, was most gracious in giving the initial go ahead for both the filming and the screening. As I've said before, this is a wonderful place to visit and I would highly recommend a stay at the lodge and spending a few days in Lewis County taking in the history and natural beauty of the area.
The 2nd image shown here is the West Virginia Building where the first public screening of Still Standing - The Stonewall Jackson Story was shown. You can read the very interesting history of this structure here. The third image is of the Jackson's Mill Lodge where we stayed during both of our visits.
I'll be posting some more photos and comments soon.
11 November 2007
Jackson's Mill Screening
Posted by Richard G. Williams, Jr. at 10:53 PM
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- Lawrence Underwood said...
My, oh my. What a wonderful film you've made. the message of the film is wonderful. The texture is rich. I am making it required watching for the men in my congregation.
My family watched it last week and then we took off to a reenactment. At the reenactment I ran into several men who have also watched the film. Some of them were not Christians, but they are being prodded now by the Holy Spriit as a direct result of watching the life of one of their heroes be accurately displayed.
Thank you, Richard.
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Party name: John D. Ashcroft
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Number 10 yesterday justified the deal by claiming that in the private sector 40% of occupational schemes allow for retirement at 60, and not 65. It also argued that with 10% of public sector employees changing jobs every year, 70% of the public sector workforce will be on a later state pensionable age of 65 within 10 years. All new workers will get a pension age of 65 under the deal struck with the unions by the industry secretary, Alan Johnson.
The shadow industry secretary, David Willetts, disputed these claims. He argued that the government estimate that 40% of private schemes allow for retirement at 60 "includes defunct schemes as well as pension schemes for organisations such as the Royal Mail, the Bank of England and the universities. The true figure is that for truly private sector schemes, only 17% have a retirement age of 60."
He added that the government's own parliamentary answers showed that only 40% of public sector workers would be on later retirement age in 10 years, and not the 70% figure put forward by Number 10 yesterday.
The dispute about the deal on public sector pensions overshadowed the government's tensions as to how to handle the central recommendations of the Turner report tomorrow, especially its plans to propose a higher basic state pension in part funded by a later pension age.
A letter from the chancellor to Lord Turner was leaked last week suggesting Mr Brown will reject its key finding proposing a more generous basic state pension, arguing the proposal is too expensive. Mr Brown's aides also oppose a larger basic state pension linked to earnings on the grounds that it will mean less targeted help for poorer pensioners. The Treasury has targeted this help through the pension credit.
In another sign of the tensions, the Treasury's permanent secretary, Nick Macpherson, sent a letter to Number 10 policy director Mathew Taylor denying that the Treasury was accusing him of leaking the letter. There had been unattributable briefings suggesting the "Teenage Taliban" at Number 10, and Mr Taylor in particular, had been responsible for the leak.


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In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel-efficient and just as clean. The mode-switching capability could appear in production models within a few years, improving fuel economy by several miles per gallon in millions of new cars each year. Over time, that change could cut oil demand in the United States alone by a million barrels a day. Currently, the U.S. consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day.
The MIT team presented their latest results on July 23 at the Japan Society of Automotive Engineers (JSAE)/Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2007 International Fuel and Lubricants Meeting.
Many researchers are studying a new way of operating an internal combustion engine known as "homogeneous charge compression ignition" (HCCI). Switching a spark-ignition (SI) engine to HCCI mode pushes up its fuel efficiency.
In an HCCI engine, fuel and air are mixed together and injected into the cylinder. The piston compresses the mixture until spontaneous combustion occurs. The engine thus combines fuel-and-air premixing (as in an SI engine) with spontaneous ignition (as in a diesel engine). The result is the HCCI's distinctive feature: combustion occurs simultaneously at many locations throughout the combustion chamber.
That behavior has advantages. In both SI and diesel engines, the fuel must burn hot to ensure that the flame spreads rapidly through the combustion chamber before a new "charge" enters. In an HCCI engine, there is no need for a quickly spreading flame because combustion occurs throughout the combustion chamber. As a result, combustion temperatures can be lower, so emissions of nitrogen pollutants are negligible. The fuel is spread in low concentrations throughout the cylinder, so the soot emissions from fuel-rich regions in diesels are not present.
Perhaps most important, the HCCI engine is not locked into having just enough air to burn the available fuel, as is the SI engine. When the fuel coming into an SI engine is reduced to cut power, the incoming air must also be constrained--a major source of wasted energy.
However, it is difficult to control exactly when ignition occurs in an HCCI engine. And if it does not begin when the piston is positioned for the power stroke, the engine will not run right.
"It's like when you push a kid on a swing," said Professor William H. Green, Jr., of the Department of Chemical Engineering. "You have to push when the swing is all the way back and about to go. If you push at the wrong time, the kid will twist around and not go anywhere. The same thing happens to your engine."
According to Green, ignition timing in an HCCI engine depends on two factors: the temperature of the mixture and the detailed chemistry of the fuel. Both are hard to predict and control. So while the HCCI engine performs well under controlled conditions in the laboratory, it is difficult to predict at this time what will happen in the real world.
Green, along with Professor Wai K. Cheng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and colleagues in MIT's Sloan Automotive Laboratory and MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment have been working to find the answer.
A large part of their research has utilized an engine modified to run in either HCCI or SI operating mode. For the past two years, Morgan Andreae (MIT PhD 2006) and graduate student John Angelos of chemical engineering have been studying the engine's behavior as the inlet temperature and type of fuel are changed.
Not surprisingly, the range of conditions suitable for HCCI operation is far smaller than the range for SI mode. Variations in temperature had a noticeable but not overwhelming effect on when the HCCI mode worked. Fuel composition had a greater impact, but it was not as much of a showstopper as the researchers expected.
Using the results of their engine tests as a guide, the researchers developed an inexpensive technique that should enable a single engine to run in SI mode but switch to HCCI mode whenever possible. A simple temperature sensor determines whether the upcoming cycle should be in SI or HCCI mode (assuming a constant fuel).
To estimate potential fuel savings from the mode-switching scheme, Andreae determined when an SI engine would switch into HCCI mode under simulated urban driving conditions. Over the course of the simulated trip, HCCI mode operates about 40 percent of the time.
The researchers estimate that the increase in fuel efficiency would be a few miles per gallon. "That may not seem like an impressive improvement," said Green. "But if all the cars in the US today improved that much, it might be worth a million barrels of oil per day--and that's a lot."
This research was supported by Ford Motor Company and the Ford-MIT Alliance, with additional support from BP.
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Look around your hospital. Really look. Look at the people making beds in patient rooms, drawing blood in the phlebotomy lab, or wheeling patients to radiology. What if you could take the best and brightest of them and help them become RNs? And what if you could further guarantee that they'd launch their RN careers right in your hospital?
It might sound like a crazy idea, but that's exactly what we did. It all started when one of our promising health care assistants, Trent Bassett, couldn't get in to nursing school. He had great grades and solid work experience, and yet he'd been rejected by multiple programs. But he didn't come to us to complain. He came to us with an idea.
A nursing assistant driving change.
We helped Trent create a program in our hospital called FUUN—Future University of Utah Nurses. The group met to discuss nursing application strategies, hear from admissions counselors at local schools, and help each other through the application process. The networking and collaboration paid off. Within a year, all but one FUUN participant had been accepted to nursing school. And today, Trent is one of our critical care nurses.
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Carmen Cannon knew she wanted to be a nurse at University of Utah Health Care, but there was only one problem. She didn't have an RN, and she had no idea how long it would take to get into a traditional nursing program. She didn't want to give up, but she was having a hard time moving forward. "I was working in the cafeteria at the U—I just wanted to get into the hospital any way I could, and I knew I had to start somewhere."
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 144. Sunday, 7 March 1993.
Date: Saturday, 06 Mar 93 23:24:44 EST
Subject: Re: College Productions *TGV*
Jeff Nyhoff's query about college productions of Two Gents catches me a week
after I worked through the text in a Shakespearean Comedy course. It could be
done well, as long as a director and actors could play the wonderfully abrupt
slides up and down the linguistic registers. Those jumps up into
super-courtly diction and down into pots and pands and codpiece pins have to
be negotiated with reckless daring. Otherwise any lapse into monotone
rendering of kool-ade linguistic intensity will sink the project. Maybe other
people saw the ACTING COMPANY on tour with a Wild West rendering.
Magnificent, especially because cowboys and bandits and cattle barons and
mariachi bands have the conventional possibilities of courtly adventure that
Shakespeare was playing with. Gene Autry stands not all that far from Sir
Phillip Sidney as a codifier of now-ancient gestures usable in funny ways for
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Mediterranean diet (MD) has been associated with lower risk of ischemic cerebro- and cardio-vascular disease, neurological degenerative disease, and breast and colonrectal cancers. Nevertheless, adherence to this pattern has decreased. Food labels are a potentially valid means to encourage towards healthier dietary behavior. This study, conducted on a subsample of 883 subjects enrolled in the Moli-sani Project, evaluated whether food labels reading (LR) is associated with MD adherence. Participants completed a questionnaire on nutrition knowledge, information, and attitudes, with a specific question on food labels reading. Biometric measurements, socio-economic status, education, physical activity, and smoking habits were collected. The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) food frequency questionnaire was used to collect dietary habits, and subsequently evaluated by both the Mediterranean diet score (MDS) and Italian Mediterranean index (IMI),
Mediterranean diet (MD) has been associated with lower incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, neurodegenerative diseases, and some forms of cancer [
However, in spite of the growing scientific and cultural [
Nutrition information on food labels, that have been standardized in the USA by the 1990 Nutrition Labeling and Education Act [
To our knowledge, no study addressed the impact that food labels could have on the adherence to complex dietary patterns. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between labels reading and adherence to the Mediterranean diet in an adult population living in a central-southern region of Italy, with strong MD traditions.
The study includes a subsample of subjects enrolled in the Moli-sani Project, a population-based cohort study on citizens resident in the Molise region, placed between Central and Southern Italy. The Moli-sani study started in 2005 and randomly recruited men and women aged ≥35 years from subjects included in the city-hall registries of Molise [
The Moli-sani study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Rome. All participants signed the informed consent before taking part in the study.
The Italian validated European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was administered in-person to determine food intake [
To obtain a broader picture of healthy habits, we evaluated the adherence to a Mediterranean diet using two scores. The first one was the Mediterranean diet score (MDS), elaborated by Trichopoulou
MDS scoring was based on the intake of the following nine items: vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, dairy products, cereals, meat and meat products, fish, alcohol, and the ratio of monounsaturated-saturated fats. For most items, consumption above the study median received 1 point; all other intakes received 0 points. For dairy products and meat, of which consumption is considered unhealthy, an intake below the median received 1 point. Medians are gender specific. For ethanol, men who consumed 10–50 g/day and women who consumed 5–25 g/day received 1 point; otherwise, the score was 0. The possible scores ranged between 0 and 9, the latter value reflecting the maximal adherence.
IMI scoring was based on the intake of 11 items: a high intake of six typical Mediterranean foods (pasta; typical Mediterranean vegetables such as raw tomatoes, leafy vegetables, onions, and garlic, salads, and fruiting vegetables; fruit; legumes; olive oil; and fish); a low intake of four non-Mediterranean foods (soft drinks, butter, red meat, and potatoes); and alcohol consumption. If the consumption of typical Mediterranean foods was in the third tertile of the distribution, the participant received 1 point; all other intakes received 0 points. If the consumption of non-Mediterranean foods was in the first tertile of the distribution, the participant received 1 point. Ethanol received 1 point for intake up to 12 g/day; abstainers and participants who consumed >12 g/day received 0 points. Possible scores ranged from 0 to 11. High adherence to MD, as stated by MDS, was defined when the score was >4 points, whereas low adherence when the score was <4 points. For IMI, respectively, high and low adherence were at >3 and <3 points. Subjects with intermediate values (MDS = 4 or IMI = 3) were excluded from this analysis to focus on the two extreme categories of adherence to MD.
The food consumption pattern was obtained using principal component analysis (PCA). The purpose of PCA is to derive a small number of components that can account for the variability found in a relatively large number of measures. This procedure, called data reduction, is typically performed when a researcher does not want to include all of the original measures in analyses, but still wants to work with the information that they contain. PCA was conducted on the correlation matrix of 45 food groups [
Food grouping used in the dietary pattern analyses.
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|Tomatoes (cooked)
|Tomato sauces, tomatoes
|Beans, lentils, peas, chick peas
|Apples, pears, kiwi, bananas, grapes, peaches, apricots, oranges, tangerines, plums, strawberries, melon, khaki, figs, cherries
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|Peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, dried figs, dried dates, prune
|Fresh cheese
|Mozzarella, ricotta cheese, taleggio cheese, gorgonzola cheese, melted cheese slices, other soft cream cheese
|Seasoned cheese
|Fontina cheese, emmenthal, gruyere, parmesan, caciocavallo cheese, other seasoned cheese
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|Pasta, yellow maize meal
|White bread, bread with oil, and other bread
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|Canned tuna fish and other fish
|Crustaceans, molluscs
|Crustaceans, molluscs
|Other fish
|Vegetables oils
|Seed oils (except olive oils)
|Olive oil
|Olive oil
|Animal fats
|Visible fat from meat, poultry skin, fat from ham
|Sugar & sweets
|Sugar, honey, cakes, ice cream, confections, pastry, pudding
|Fruit juices
|Orange juice, grapefruit juices, other fruit juices
|Soft drinks
|Soft drinks
|Other sauces
|Dressing sauces for pasta other than tomato sauce
|Vegetable soups
|Meat and stock-cube broth
|Vegetable quiche
|Red wine, rosé wine, white wine
|Alcoholic beverages other than wine or beer
Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as kg/m2. Lifestyles were assessed by a structured questionnaire including smoking habit and physical activity. Regarding the latter, 24 questions were asked on working time, leisure time, and sport participation. Physical activity was expressed as daily energy expenditure in metabolic equivalent task-hours (MET/day) [
Household net income categories were considered as low (<25,000 euro/year), medium (>25,000 and ≤40,000 euro/year), and high (>40,000 euro/year).
Education level was considered as low (≤8 years) or high (>8 years). Socioeconomic status (SES) was expressed as a score based on five variables: dwelling ownership and ratio between the number of rooms and number of living-in family members (rooms per person), both currently and during childhood, and availability of hot water at home during childhood. The five components were dichotomized according to the median value, and a score of one was attributed to the category supposed to be marker of higher social status in comparison with the opposite category: thus we assigned a score of 1 to people living in a house with living-in family members/room density >0.6 or dwelling ownership or with availability of hot water, and a score 0 to people with living-in family members/room density ≤0.6, no dwelling ownership or with unavailability of hot water. We recorded missing values for SES for 5.7% of the subjects.
The instrument for measuring food labels use was included in a larger questionnaire aimed at studying exposure to media information, trust in various health information sources, health, and dietary knowledge and attitude toward healthy behavior (the "Moli-info" questionnaire, developed by some of us (AB, MB, LI) and available upon request) [
Attention to food labels' single items.
|Usually, which item do you look at in food labels?
|Usually I do not read food labels
|Don't know
Consecutive subjects (
People declaring to read any of the food labels' items were classified as readers while those answering "usually I do not read food labels" or "do not know" constituted the non-reader group.
Taken as a whole, the Moli-info questionnaire have been validated for a Nutrition knowledge score and a Mass media exposure score. Scores between test and retest groups were highly correlated (Sperman correlation coefficient
Values for continuous variables are means ± Standard Deviation.
In validation, scores between test and retest groups were evaluated by using Spearman correlation. Consistency with which participants answered the single question regarding label reading was assessed using Cohen's Kappa.
Multivariable analysis of variance for continuous or categorical variables was used for testing the associations of general characteristics or adherence to Mediterranean diet scores or other dietary pattern (considered as the dependent variables) with LR categories. The potential predictors tested for association with labels reading included socio-demographic variables (age, sex, income, smoking, educational level, and socioeconomic status), BMI, total caloric intake, smoking habit, and physical activity (expressed as MET/day). Basic model included age and sex, whereas fully adjusted model included age, sex, total caloric intake, socio-economic status, income, BMI, smoking, physical activity, and educational level. By using multivariable logistic regression analysis, odds ratio (ORs) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated to quantify the association of LR categories with food consumption patterns.
A specific category "non-respondent" was created for income and SES in order to consider the missing values in the multivariable analyses.
The data analysis was performed using SAS/STAT software [
The final study sample was 883 subjects. Subjects who were excluded from the analysis because of missing relevant data (
Characteristics of the population sample.
|Read Food Labels
|Sex/Age Adjusted
|Age (year)
|52.5 (9.6)
|53.3 (9.3)
|51.9 (9.2)
| Women
|441 (49.9)
|167 (43.2)
|274 (55.2)
| Men
|442 (50.1)
|220 (56.8)
|222 (44.8)
|370 (41.9)
|150 (38.8)
|220 (44.4)
|243 (27.5)
|109 (28.2)
|134 (27)
|270 (30.6)
|128 (33.7)
|142 (28.6)
|27.9 (4.6)
|28.0 (4.4)
|27.8 (4.8)
|Total caloric intake (kcal)
|2089 (607)
|2114 (622)
|2069 (596)
|Physical activity (MET-h/day)
|43.8 (8.2)
|43.3 (8.1)
|44.1 (8.3)
|Social status score
|221 (25)
|104 (26.9)
|117 (23.6)
|258 (29.2)
|110 (28.4)
|148 (29.8)
|354 (40.1)
|153 (39.5)
|201 (40.5)
|Non respondent
|50 (5.7)
|20 (5.2)
|30 (6.1)
|Education level
|Low (≤8 years of education)
|425 (48.2)
|192 (49.7)
|233 (47)
|High (>8 years of education)
|457 (51.8)
|194 (50.3)
|263 (53)
|359 (40.7)
|154 (39.7)
|205 (41.3)
|196 (22.2)
|83 (21.5)
|113 (22.8)
|64 (7.2)
|29 (7.5)
|35 (7.1)
|Non respondent
|264 (29.9)
|121 (31.3)
|143 (28.8)
Both in univariate and in multivariable (adjusted for age and sex) analysis, the label reading attitude was significantly more diffused among women than men. People using food labels information were slightly younger, an observation significant in univariate analysis and borderline significant in multivariable. No significant associations were found for smoking habits, BMI, total caloric intake, physical activity, social status score, education level, and income.
People reading food labels information showed a higher adherence to Mediterranean diet according both to MDS and IMI (
Differences in adherence to Mediterranean diet and in dietary patterns between food labels readers and non-readers.
|Mediterranean Diet and Dietary Patterns
|Read Food Labels
|Basic Model
|Fully Adjusted Model
|Mediterranean Diet Score (MDS)
|4.2 (1.6)
|4.5 (1.6)
|Italian Mediterranean Index (IMI)
|3 (1.5)
|3.3 (1.6)
|Dietary Pattern 1
|−0.2 (0.8)
|0.1 (0.8)
|Dietary Pattern 2 (Pasta and Meat)
|0.2 (0.8)
|0.01 (0.9)
|Dietary Pattern 3 (Eggs and Sweets)
|0.2 (0.9)
|0.1 (0.8)
Basic model: Adjusted for age and sex; Fully adjusted model: Adjusted for age, sex, total caloric intake, socio-economic status, income, body mass index (BMI), smoking, physical activity, and educational level.
Regarding food consumption patterns, the label reading group showed a higher adherence to the pattern "Olive oil and vegetables" than non-readers, both in the sex/age adjusted model (
Such findings remains unchanged when we considered specific components of the food label. In particular, we did not find difference when only subjects declaring to pay attention to calories (
MDS was then divided into two categories to get both a minimum (score from 0 to 3) and a maximum adherence (score > 4). The same was done with IMI score, obtaining a minimum from 0 to 2 and a maximum > 3.
In multivariable logistic regression model controlling for age, sex, total caloric intake, socio-economic status, income, BMI, smoking, physical activity, and educational level, odds of eating Mediterranean were higher in the label reader group than in non-readers. In fact, participants reading food labels had 73% higher probability to have greater adherence to MDS (OR 1.73, 95% CI: 1.24–2.42) (
Odds ratios of having high adherence to Mediterranean diet score (MDS) according to food labels reading.
|Adherence to MDS
|Read Food Labels
|Low (<4)
|High (>4)
|Model 1
|Model 2
|138 (52.1%)
|167 (40.4%)
|127 (47.9%)
|246 (59.6%)
Odds ratios of having high adherence to Italian Mediterranean index (IMI) according to food labels reading.
|Adherence to IMI
|Read Food Labels
|Low (<3)
|High (>3)
|Model 1
|Model 2
|152 (49%)
|132 (37.9%)
|158 (51%)
|216 (62.1%)
In our study, 56.2% of participants reported to consult information on food labels at least for one item. This percentage is similar to the one found in a USA study (61.5%) [
In this context, we found that food labels consulting is associated with greater adherence to Mediterranean diet according to two different scores, MDS [
To further evaluate the association between label reading and dietary patterns, beside an "
These observations suggest that people paying attention to food labels have a nutrition behavior, not only healthier, but closer to the Mediterranean model, albeit with an observed limited difference of just 0.3 points both for MDS and IMI. A limited amount of variance in nutrients intake explained by food labels reading have been reported also in other studies [
In our findings the only socio-demographic characteristics having effect on food label reading are gender and, marginally, age, unlike other studies in which also education level and income do have an effect [
The first limitation in this study is its cross-sectional nature. Nevertheless, this type of investigation is useful to set new hypotheses to be tested in future prospective studies. Secondly, caution is needed in extending the results presented here to larger contexts as data were collected in a region located between Central and Southern Italy, Mediterranean by tradition and culture [
Another weak point is the possibility of over-reporting of food label reading, due to social desirability bias, as suggested by previous findings [
Finally, we must consider that the observed association between labels reading and Mediterranean diet adherence does not prove that labels use by consumers has impact on dietary habits. This much-debated issue was not addressed by the present study. Changing decisions in buying or not a specific product after reading labels have been previously reported for one-third of consumers [
This study highlights, to our best knowledge for the first time, the association between food labeling and healthy nutrition choices, not just in terms of single food or single nutrients, but also in the wider range of a complete dietary pattern. We cannot exclude that this association may only reflect a healthy lifestyle in general, and the potential role of food labeling in encouraging healthy dietary habits cannot be concluded without further research. More evidence in this direction could lead to a new concept of labeling, aimed to present foods according to whether they belong to the Mediterranean diet, and to what extent. This could be used in the framework of already used, new informative messages (Front-of-Package systems), such as the "traffic light" system developed by the United Kingdom Food Standards Agency [
On behalf of the Moli-sani Project Investigators, AB, MB, LI designed the research; FDL, MB, MP, FZ managed data collection; AB, ADC, SC analyzed the data; AB, MB wrote the paper; MBD, GdG, LI critically reviewed the manuscript; they were also responsible of the whole Moli-sani project and obtained financial support for it. All authors were involved in the subsequent edits of the manuscript, and have read and approved the final version. The Moli-sani Project was partially supported by research Grants from Pfizer Foundation (Rome, Italy) and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR, Rome, Italy)—Programma Triennale di Ricerca, Decreto no. 1588.
Moli-sani research group would like to thank Vittorio Krogh and Sabina Sieri from Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy for their precious contribution to dietary questionnaire analysis and interpretation.
All authors had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. None of the authors had a personal or financial conflict of interest. Neither sponsor had any role in study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.


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CHICAGO — With a packed schedule of summitry, President Obama will have no time to catch his beloved Chicago White Sox while he's back in the Windy City.
Obama is in his hometown with leaders from 60 countries for the NATO summit, discussing the way forward in Afghanistan and the future of the alliance. Meanwhile, the Sox are playing their cross-town rival Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field this weekend on the city's North Side.
But there will be no time for baseball on this visit.
Obama, who still has a house on the city's South Side, commiserated with Abdon Pallasch — a veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter — about not getting a chance to catch a few innings of the game.
"I missed it," Obama joked after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "They did not let me have fun."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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The cofounders were Laurent Massaloux, Olivier Sidet, and Robert Stadler. Claudio Colucci was associated with RADI from 1994 to 2000; and Florence Doleac was associated with the company from 1997 to 2003. Its output includes ceramics, furniture, glass, installations, and interior and product design. The company produces its own work, but also creates designs for such clients as Air France, Fondation Cartier, Galerie kreo, and Groupe SEB. RADI was named Creator of the Year at the Salon du Meuble, Paris, in 2000. In the same year, it received prizes for a public drinking fountain at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris; for a light switch, awarded at the Seventh International Design Competition in Japan; and for garden furniture, awarded at Le Jardin, Paris. In 2001, it received a Carte Blanche grant from the VIA (French Furniture Association).
* Designer biographies provided by Merrell Publishers, London and New York.


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Although the electronic movement has become most famous these days for the fully budded EDM genre, others forms of electronic music have grown just as rapidly. Almost as long as the video game and computer era has existed, electronic musicians have been incorporating the high-pitched bleeps and bloops of the various consoles in the genre known as "chiptune."
Today's music scene finds chiptune going beyond the electronica genre, with bands like New York's Anamanaguchi fusing digital sounds with punk and indie rock. The band's guitarist, Ary Warnaar, talked to CMJ about the band's most recent album, Endless Fantasy, their relationship to chiptune, and how they perform live with an NES [Nintendo Entertainment System] that's older than they are.
Didn't the songwriting for Endless Fantasy have at least 45 songs on it? Are we going to hear those any time soon?
It had probably even more than that honestly, but those will probably never go anywhere. We'll probably revisit some of them but we write a lot of stuff, especially because three out of the four of us are writing pretty constantly so [we] make a lot of demos, a lot of stuff to go through.
What's your opinion on the progress of chiptune over the decades?
The history of chiptune has evolved so much.l I like it, I love it. It's a great world. It's a really fun world to write music in. It can get insular at times. A lot people kind of impose a lot of limitations on themselves in the genre. Like they'll only want to write music if it's chip-music; they'll only want to play with other artists if they're doing chip music. They only want to play events that are related to chip music. It's great to have a very supportive community like that, but it can end up in a weird vicious circle-type thing where you can't grow, because all you do is support each other all day.
In terms of the actual term, or whatever falls under that category, chip comes from the NES, Gameboys, but we're using more than that. We're using instruments, kind of software-type stuff now, but it's a format we really love and enjoy. The technical aspects that are driving us will always be around, like the hardware and stuff.
Back in the day, you didn't really focus on the video game aspect of it, you wanted something more popish, i.e., Weezer or the Beach Boys, but you guys decided to include the NES and NES simulator for the video game sounds. What led to that decision?
It all kind of came to us in different ways. Pete was doing it in high school with some friends of his and they just kind of stumbled across some software and started playing with it. His good friends from high school ran 8-Bit Collective, which is the little chip music hub online. I was writing computer music for awhile until I got bored with just using a computer, and started playing with circuit bending and other formats like that. Then I discovered this whole chip music and gave it a try and I was like, "Woah this is really fun." I really enjoy it as a writing process, it made me write differently. I like it from a technical aspect.
So what were you at NYU for?
Me, James, and Pete were all doing music technology.
So is that how it led to chiptune, through music tech?
Yeah basically. We had an awful lot of homework, but it worked well with what we liked doing. I'd have like a homework assignment where I'd customize a Gameboy, like a mini-interface for a Gameboy, which I'll use anyway but it counted as homework. It worked out well.
So did you ever do your homework live?
I've used stuff that was homework. Physical stuff, like making guitar pedals or hardware for Gameboys or stuff. I didn't write a thesis: I'd pull up some demos or something I had.
How hard is it to use an NES live?
The big issue with using an NES live is that it's really old and super unreliable. It's older than any of us.
Would you go to old video game store to get your equipment?
We definitely were for a second. The NES we were using live most of the time was Pete's older brother's NES. I think James had one that we used pretty consistently. They're pretty good pieces of hardware. They'll handle a lot, but then when you're playing bigger venues like we've been playing recently, we'll run into issues like they have terrible ground tone and they'll pop when you start something, and that can destroy soundsystems. So clubs and venues will say "Yo, if you do that one more time you can't play here anymore. You're about to blow up our soundsystem."
We're kind of struggling with that right now. We're going to try to figure out a system that lets us still use our old hardware but also is reliable and not dangerous, basically. Any system that has too nice subs, once it starts vibrating, we'll pull the NES out of the socket and then the song will stop or restart, and we've reached the point where it's kind of a problem. So we've been playing with a backup constantly and we'll have all the NES parts recorded on a Macbook just in case it totally goes to shit. James is working on a system to design a more functional, live NES setup so we can take on nicer sound systems.
So have you ever been shutdown because of the NES or do you guys usually just go straight to the Macbook?
Yeah we've had places be like, "That's not an option, you can't do that. It's popping like crazy. It'll destroy our system." We'll be like, "Alright, fine, I guess we're playing off the computer tonight."
Do fans notice the difference?
No, not so much. It's more for us. It's fun to use actual hardware. At a certain point it sounds like it doesn't really matter, whether it's the computer or the NES. Whatever makes for the funnest show and sounds the best is what we'll resort to, but on a personal level it's really fun to use the hardware. Everyone who plays with a laptop is boring. There's not much performance involved though. We'll spend time at home writing for the NES a lot, but when it comes to performing with it we'll definitely perform with our instruments way more.
Why did you guys decide to use Kickstarter for your new album, and was it a lot more of a success than you expected?
Yeah, it was definitely a lot more than we expected. It was an interesting decision. We have friends that have used Kickstarter, not for music. [But] in really admirable ways, and it's a great tool in those regards. There are also many artists and bands I know that use it in the most unappealing and gross way. There are so many unsuccessful bands that are like, "Well fuck, the only way to do this is to resort to this cool, money-making thing I've heard of called Kickstarter that might really hook it up for me." In general most of the time the way I've seen people use it, it's been a very last resort tool which is gross and was a huge part of why we never even considered doing it.
But it definitely reached a point in this album where we were doing all the music on our own, we're doing all the stuff we had envisioned and saved up for and set out to do, but then it reached a point where there was a lot of other stuff we wanted to do, a lot of stuff that people had expected and wanted us to do, but we didn't have the means to do any of that. And we spoke with a couple of labels that were interested in us that would offer those sorts of things, but nothing ever clicked. People had weird views of us, like we were some super gimmicky nerd thing and they'd be like "Oh yeah, we could push that really easily, we'll get you on Friendster," and we'd be like "No, that's disgusting, that's not what we're into here at all." Or they'd offer really screwy deals where we're stuck for five years and they control everything.
Our whole lighting set for the tour, James did that through the Kickstarter. We rushed to build that before our last tour and we could not have afforded the whole set up we have right now without Kickstarter. But there's no anti-label feelings on our end. You can't fully survive on just money. You need a lot of intelligent people to work with. But with this project, it made sense to use Kickstarter because we knew what we wanted to do, whatever it would take.
What was the thinking behind "Meow"? It's very different from the other songs on the album.
"Meow" was the fastest song we wrote on the album actually, not in terms of BPM but the time to write the song. It was pretty late in the making the album. I was at Pete's place, and I was like "Maybe I could imagine the song with the Beastie Boys, kinda like somewhere between rap and punk, and meowing stuff," so I was singing the lines in a meowing sound, it's like my go-to sound. I left Pete's place, and by the time I got home, he sent me a version of the song with just meowing over it, he sampled his voice. Crazy crushed meow thing, pitched it up, and that was that. We were like cool, perfect, no work. It was a fun track; it was playful.
What was it like doing the Scott Pilgrim video game soundtrack?
It was fun. It was unlike anything we've done together. It varied so much and the kind of songs we wrote were all over the place and it was a really fast process. It felt like really fun homework, writing a bunch of things fast all over the place. It was a really fun project. It'd be cool to do a lot of more stuff like that, whether it's in the gaming world or not.


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The 13th Sustainment Command hosted a change of responsibility ceremony Friday at Hildner Field to mark the change of senior enlisted leadership at the command.
During the ceremony, soldiers, families and community partners welcomed Command Sgt. Maj. Terry D. Burton as the newest member of the command and bid farewell to outgoing Command Sgt. Maj. Terry E. Parham Sr.
"I'll look back and remember the passionate leadership within the command," Parham said reflecting on his time with the 13th. "There's no mission that cannot be accomplished when you have competent and passionate leadership like here. We have a strong foundation of soldiers and leaders; the unit is getting a great sergeant major alongside (Brig. Gen. Clark W. LeMasters, Jr., the commander of the 13th); this unit is capable of great things going forward."
Parham will depart to Fort Lee, Va., where he will assume the position as command sergeant major for the Combined Arms Support Command.
Burton joined the command after a tour serving as the senior enlisted leader of the 404th Army Field Support Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
"As I assume responsibility today, here are the six Army leadership principles I promise to give this command, your families, the Fort Hood sustainment team, and the cities of Belton and Temple during my tenure." These are: character, presence, intellect, leading, developing, and achieving, said Burton as he addressed the crowd during the ceremony.
Burton, originally from Roanoke, Va., joined the military Nov. 9, 1989, as a light wheeled vehicle mechanic and has held positions ranging from senior maintenance supervisor to first sergeant and from battle staff facilitator for United States Army Sergeants Major Academy to command sergeant major with 172nd Support Battalion and the 404th Army Field Support Brigade. Burton has previous overseas tours in Germany, Korea, Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan.


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A Ferrari has left its mark on the Great Wall of China. Literally.
During a media event designed to promote the Italian car brand's 20th anniversary in China, one of only 20 special edition Ferrari 458 Italia models was deposited on top of the ancient wall in the city of Nanjing.
While state television cameras broadcast the stunt, a local dealer took the wheel and spun the car around on the wall's top, burning the tires against the old stone, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
TV viewers were outraged.
Local officials weren't too happy either, especially when they couldn't remove the burned rubber marks from the wall.
Ferrari, which is owned by Fiat, has apologized and insists it will help undo the damage.
Chinese officials who permitted the public relations event have been reprimanded.