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The Cabinet of Light
|Daniel O'Mahony
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The Doctor
Emily Blandish
Honoré Lechasseur
|Telos Publishing Ltd.
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|July 2003
|1-903889-18-9 (standard)
|Preceded by
|'Shell Shock'
|Followed by
|'Fallen Gods'
The Cabinet of Light was the ninth novella published by Telos Publishing Ltd. as part of their Doctor Who novellas series. It was written by Daniel O'Mahony, and was released as a standard edition hardback, and a deluxe edition featuring a frontispiece by John Higgins (ISBN 1-903889-19-7). Both editions had a foreword by Chaz Brenchley.
The novella featured an unspecified future incarnation of the Doctor who appears to be travelling without a companion, although it is hinted that Emily Blandish may have been travelling with him. The story focuses mostly on Honoré Lechasseur, an ex-GI turned spiv who is searching for the Doctor. Although the novella is now out of print, the characters of Emily and Honoré continued their adventures in the Telos Time Hunter series of novellas. The book was not written with a spinoff series in mind, but was created by Telos after their licence to publish Doctor Who came to an end.
Honoré Lechasseur, a "fixer" with time-sensitive abilities, is hired by Emily Blandish to find someone known only as the Doctor. He soon discovers that the Doctor is a legendary figure that has drifted in and out of Earth's history. As he follows the trail of the Doctor, questions arise: what is the Doctor's connection with 1949 London and with the mysterious "cabinet of light" that another group is seeking?
Set in 1949, the novella tells the story of Honoré Lechasseur, an ex-GI who is living and working in London as a spiv. He is hired by a woman claiming to be Emily Blandish to track down her husband, the Doctor, and soon becomes embroiled in the machinations of a Nazi named Walken and a mysterious woman named Mestizer. Both are looking for the Doctor and something called "The Cabinet of Light", which is connected to him somehow.
Honoré is mistaken for the Doctor on more than one occasion because, as a time sensitive, his aura bears a passing similarity to the Time Lord's. This leads to him being kidnapped by Mestizer's servant, a hulking cyborg named Abraxas, and learn about the Doctor's apparent connection to "the girl in the pink pyjamas", a mysterious amnesiac who appeared in the East End of London after what was assumed to be the detonation of an unexploded bomb. In speaking to her, Honoré helps her regain a small part of her lost memory: her name - Emily Blandish.
Honoré confronts his employer, the faux Emily, but doesn't manage to get much information before she is killed by Abraxas. His investigation lead him back to Walken's club, but he is caught in the crossfire as Mestizer attacks. Honoré only manages to escape thanks to the aid of a mysterious stranger who identifies himself only as "The Doctor".
Honoré follows the Doctor to his confrontation with Mestizer, but fails to understand much of what he sees. The Cabinet of Light turns out to be the Doctor's TARDIS, and it is used to vanquish the enemy and allow the Doctor to escape. Mestizer disappears, leaving Abraxas to complete his mission: killing the real Emily Blandish.
Honoré manages to defeat the cyborg, and he and Emily head off into London.
In September 2008, Telos announced that a fan production company, Fantom Films, had been licensed to produce audiobook readings of the Time Hunter novellas for release on CD and as online downloads. The series begins with The Cabinet of Light, read by former Doctor Who actor Terry Molloy and released in November 2008. Changes have been made to the text of this version of The Cabinet of Light to allow it to stand as a Time Hunter novella independent of its Doctor Who connections.
The Cabinet of Light won Best Book in the 2003 Jade Pagoda Awards.[1]
- ^ Henry Potts (13 February 2008). "Jade Pagoda awards". The Worlds of Bondegezou. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
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- Telos Publishing - The Cabinet of Light
- the Cabinet of Light at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Cloister Library - The Cabinet of Light
- The Cabinet of Light foreword by Chaz Brenchley
- The Cabinet of Light audiobook
- The Cabinet of Light reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
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Maternal Mortality Rate Falls Globaly by 44% – US Rate Rises
The World Health Organization has just issued a report on maternal mortality rates, and globally, the mortality rate for pregnant women has fallen by almost half. In 2015, the rate suggests that 303,000 pregnant women will die.
In 1990, 532,000 died. The maternal mortality rate (MMR) is 216 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, down from 385 in 1990. Iceland, Finland, Poland and Greece have just 3 per 100,000, and Belarus showed the greatest improvement falling to 4 per 100,000 from 33.
Only 13 countries have seen their MMR deteriorate; the US is one of them along with countries like North Korea and Zimbabwe. It's a national embarrassment.
US maternal mortality rate has fallen from 12 deaths per 100,000 to 14 deaths per 100,000 over the past 25 years.
On the whole, the MMR correlates closely with economic development. Richer countries can spend more on healthcare, and their medical centers are more likely to have the medical equipment needed to save lives during a difficult pregnancy. The WHO press release states, "By the end of this year, about 99% of the world's maternal deaths will have occurred in developing regions, with Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounting for 2 in 3 (66%) deaths."
WHO also said, "The greatest improvement of any region was recorded in Eastern Asia, where the maternal mortality ratio fell from approximately 95 to 27 per 100 000 live births (a reduction of 72%). In developed regions, maternal mortality fell 48% between 1990 and 2015, from 23 to 12 per 100 000 live births." Eastern Asia also experienced significant economic growth between 1990 and this year.
Why Is The US Maternal Mortality Rate Twice The Level Of Canada?
So, why is the USA, the richest country in the world, stuck in the middle of the developed world standings and why has it experienced an MMR twice the Canadian rate?
Simply put, access to the US healthcare system is unequal. The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, increased health insurance coverage by millions, but it did not become law until 2010, and its main provisions are just kicking in now. For most of the period the WHO study examines, the ACA was not law.
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Moreover, even with the Act in place, one in eight Americans lacks health insurance. Gallup has stated, "The uninsured rate among U.S. adults for the fourth quarter of 2014 averaged 12.9%. This is down slightly from 13.4% in the third quarter of 2014 and down significantly from 17.1% a year ago. The uninsured rate has dropped 4.2 percentage points since the Affordable Care Act's requirement for Americans to have health insurance went into effect one year ago."
Healthy adults need to see a doctor only once every year or two, but pregnant women are definitely an exception to this. Womenshealth.gov says: Your doctor will give you a schedule of all the doctor's visits you should have while pregnant.
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In addition, the US has a significant problem with teenage pregnancies. While the figure is down, it remains about nine times greater than the average for developed countries. "In 2011, 22 percent of births to females under age 15, and 10 percent of births to teens ages 15 to 19, were to those receiving late or no prenatal care, according to Child Trends, a nonprofit research organization. The younger they are the more likely they may wait until their third trimester to seek care", according to a 2003 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The ACA should help reduce the MMR in the US, but until the remaining 12.9% of Americans have health insurance (or until finances cease affecting the decision to see a doctor), the US will not be top of the list.
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Gauddlike replied to Wuju's topic in Xenonauts Bug Reports / TroubleshootingWhen you say no longer works what exactly is the issue? Does it fail to launch at all, crash with an error message etc. Also did it work well previously and if so has anything changed like hardware, software, OS updates? What steps have you tried to resolve it, have you reinstalled, redownloaded in case of corruption and so on.
I have been thinking about this and I would much prefer a sequel over a reboot. There are definitely options that make some sense as a follow up to the original Xenonauts and still allow for a cold war situation. How about after the final battle in Xenonauts the mantle of leadership was taken up by the next strongest psionic alien. This alien was much weaker and could only control a smaller force of aliens at the time. Due to the severely weakened nature of the alien fleet they decide to keep a low profile, the good old dark side of the Moon or Mars base maybe. Back on Earth the victory and liberated Alenuim provide a boost to the planet with unlimited clean energy available to everyone. However over the next few years a new discovery is made, Alenium in it's active form only has a half life of around 10 years. Inactive Alenium was only discovered after the battle in alien storage and it quickly becomes the rarest material on Earth as it was being activated in everything. It is soon hoarded and coveted by the major powers in the same way nuclear weapons were. Without Alenium it is increasingly difficult to field advanced technology like plasma or laser weapons so humanity dusts off good old ballistic tech and starts watching their neighbours closely again. As the first Alenium age begins to burn itself out on Earth the aliens decide that the new era of distrust is their perfect opportunity to strike and try to provoke the Humans into wiping each other out. This would allow the aliens to recover some of their technology and resources without risking another full on confrontation. The aliens are still very much reduced in numbers as they only have what they could escape with last time. They would also be low on inactive Alenium so recovering this would be a priority to allow them to maintain their technological advantage. You could still have a cold war feel but you could make the funding blocks into whatever you wanted them to be for balance purposes. Maybe Europe is no longer a very rich place (i.e. no longer the best place for a starting base) while Africa became a power house. The difference in land mass could have made a difference when Alenium was raining down from the skies, Africa could have easily been able to secure enough to become powerful. The two could even have merged, literally becoming a barrier between East and West or you could fragment the USSR and USA without needing to justify how this could have happened in the 70's. I also feel this would allow the Xenonaut scientist to make a comeback as an embittered older man who was initially hailed as the father of the Alenium age then used as a scapegoat by the Earth governments when Alenium was discovered to burn brightly but fade quickly.
Gauddlike replied to Max_Caine's topic in Off-TopicI am playing in quite a stealthy manner so most of my skill choices have been stealth based. I imagine I could play through again but choose a more action oriented path. As said above the game is quite open once you enter a zone, you are just given a bunch of local missions and told what the rewards would be. Only a few of them have any story progression linked to them. The rest are just for fun and upgrades. That does mean the story is quite well hidden, especially if you don't read all of the mails and so on you steal from data terminals. On steam I have currently played around 18 hours and I am barely through the second of four/five of the city districts. The new iron man mode added in the last update should help replaying as well. All agent skills and xp are reset on death so you have a fresh clone every time you do something stupid... Will definitely give that a try next time.
Gauddlike replied to Max_Caine's topic in Off-TopicI am really enjoying playing SR at the moment. I like the mix of elements as Jean-Luc mentions.
That is at least partly the fault of the community. Too many calls for realism in the weapons and outcry over any change that reduced ammunition to an unrealistic level. Everyone knows an M-16 doesn't have an 8 round magazine so you cannot do that etc etc. Makes game balance more difficult
Gauddlike replied to Jebah's topic in Xenonauts General DiscussionWith both of those options once you download the game you can simply run the exe and launch the game without ever needing to use either service again. You could also burn the game files to a disc or on a thumb drive and keep that to reinstall later so it would be a one time deal.
Gauddlike replied to bigjackskid's topic in Xenonauts General DiscussionIf you use steam you can add the game to your wishlist and you should get a notification when it is on sale. Not sure if GoG has a similar feature but worth a try.
Gauddlike replied to sirgzu's topic in Xenonauts Bug Reports / Troubleshootinghttp://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/4127-Xenonauts-and-the-fellowship-of-the-Flat-Earth-Society http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/293-Can-radar-distance-and-travel-speed-be-adjusted-to-make-the-geoscape-more-accurate http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/8066-That-global-map Few options there if you want to read back on some of the previous discussions. There are others but these seem to be the main ones that I remember.
Gauddlike replied to skanderbeg's topic in Xenonauts Bug Reports / TroubleshootingThis shouldn't need any coding to fix up, maybe just a little time and notepad. If you have halved the dimensions of each image file then you need to half the co-ordinates in cities.xml as well. For example if your original earth image files were 100x200 but are now 50x100 then your city previously set at 50,100 now needs to be set at 25,50 to appear in the same place on the new image.
Gauddlike replied to devinemag's topic in Modding DiscussionI noticed but didn't want to presume you would be interested.
Gauddlike replied to devinemag's topic in Modding DiscussionI don't know if any of the community coders have looked into allowing the single shot modes to fire multiple rounds. That could easily allow the options you talk about without needing to change anything else. Keep burst fire the same but add a 'single shot' aim level that has poor accuracy, low TU cost, high suppression, 5 rounds fired. The code must be there somewhere for burst mode but that may not mean it is easy to re-use. For reaction fire suppression the rules really need to change a little to prevent it being a little too powerful in my eyes. I don't know how it is coded but rather than reducing the units TU to 0% when suppressed maybe reducing it by 75% of current TU? That should mean anyone suppressed in the open by reaction fire should at least be able to duck or move a few tiles to cover even if they lose the ability to fire. That could work for all suppression rather than just reaction fire. It still effectively removes the ability to reaction fire as no weapon (in vanilla) has less than 28% TU cost to fire. As a bonus maybe the amounts of TU reduced on the initial turn and subsequent turns could be brought out to the xml? That would at least allow modders to add weapons with very low TU costs and alter the suppression TU reduction to compensate. Both need the input of a friendly neighbourhood community coder who has the time and inclination to look at the issue. Might be worth brining up in the proper forum though and see if anyone is working on, or interested in working on, these areas.


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Low-Level Lead Exposure and Elevations in Blood Pressure during Pregnancy
Ellen M. Wells1,2, Ana Navas-Acien2,3, Julie B. Herbstman4, Benjamin J. Apelberg3, Ellen K. Silbergeld2, Kathleen L. Caldwell5, Robert L. Jones5, Rolf U. Halden2,6, Frank R. Witter7, Lynn R. Goldman2,8
1 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and, 3 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 4 Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, USA, 5 Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 6 Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 7 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 8 George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:664-669 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1002666 [online 03 February 2011]
Background: Lead exposure is associated with elevated blood pressure during pregnancy; however, the magnitude of this relationship at low exposure levels is unclear.
Objectives: Our goal was to determine the association between low-level lead exposure and blood pressure during late pregnancy.
Methods: We collected admission and maximum (based on systolic) blood pressures during labor and delivery among 285 women in Baltimore, Maryland. We measured umbilical cord blood lead using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Multivariable models were adjusted for age, race, median household income, parity, smoking during pregnancy, prepregnancy body mass index, and anemia. These models were used to calculate benchmark dose values.
Results: Geometric mean cord blood lead was 0.66 μg/dL (95% confidence interval, 0.61–0.70). Comparing blood pressure measurements between those in the highest and those in the lowest quartile of lead exposure, we observed a 6.87-mmHg (1.51–12.21 mmHg) increase in admission systolic blood pressure and a 4.40-mmHg (0.21–8.59 mmHg) increase in admission diastolic blood pressure after adjustment for confounders. Corresponding values for maximum blood pressure increase were 7.72 (1.83–13.60) and 8.33 (1.14–15.53) mmHg. Benchmark dose lower limit values for a 1-SD increase in blood pressure were < 2 μg/dL blood lead for all blood pressure end points.
Conclusions: A significant association between low-level lead exposures and elevations in maternal blood pressure during labor and delivery can be observed at umbilical blood lead levels < 2 μg/dL.
Key words: benchmark dose, blood pressure, hypertension, lead, pregnancy, risk assessment, umbilical cord
Address correspondence to L.R. Goldman, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, 2300 Eye St. NW, Suite 106, Washington, DC 20037 USA. Telephone: (202) 994-7270. Fax: (202) 994-3773. E-mail: email@example.com
This study received funding from the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Program Research Grant, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) grant 1R01ES015445, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowship program.
The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
Received 02 July 2010; accepted 17 December 2010; online 03 February 2011.
J. Bernert, J. Heidler, R. Quinn, and T. Shephard provided valuable assistance.
This article represents the viewpoint of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official viewpoint of the U.S. EPA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, or NIEHS.
Hypertension is a major risk factor for future cardiovascular disease (Chobanian et al. 2003; Greenlund et al. 2004). It has also been demonstrated that elevated blood pressures (between normal and clinically hypertensive) are indicative of increased cardiovascular risk (Kshirsagar et al. 2006). Pregnancy poses additional risks from high blood pressure. Hypertension occurring during pregnancy may lead to preeclampsia, a serious condition associated with substantial maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality (Solomon and Seely 2006). Hypertension during pregnancy may also predispose women to development or increased severity of future cardiovascular disease (Garovic and Hayman 2007; Moreira et al. 2009).
Well-established risk factors for hypertension include age, race, obesity, diet, and family history (Whelton et al. 2002). Primiparity and multiple gestations are additional risk factors for gestational hypertension (GH) and preeclampsia (Solomon and Seely 2006). In addition, there is evidence that lead exposure in adults is a risk factor for elevated blood pressure (Navas-Acien et al. 2007; Nawrot et al. 2002). Lead has also been associated with GH (Chen et al. 2006; Magri et al. 2003; Rabinowitz et al. 1987; Rothenberg et al. 2002; Vigeh et al. 2004; Yazbeck et al. 2009) and/or preeclampsia (Dawson et al. 2000; Sowers et al. 2002; Vigeh et al. 2006), as well as elevated blood pressure (Magri et al. 2003; Rabinowitz et al. 1987; Rothenberg et al. 1999, 2002).
However, most of these studies were conducted in populations with lead levels substantially higher than current levels in the United States and other developed countries, where blood lead levels in all age groups have markedly declined primarily due to the banning of lead in gasoline and other regulatory actions initiated to limit lead exposure [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2009; Meyer et al. 2003]. Recent evidence demonstrates that despite this general decline in population lead exposure, higher lead blood levels remain positively associated with hypertension, particularly among adult African Americans and Mexican Americans (Muntner et al. 2005). Yazbeck et al. (2009) have shown that low blood lead concentrations are related to GH. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the relationship of lead as measured in umbilical cord blood with maternal blood pressure during pregnancy, within the Baltimore Tracking Health Related to Environmental Exposures (THREE) Study.
Study population. We performed a cross-sectional study of 285 births from the Baltimore THREE Study. Details about this study have been published previously (Apelberg et al. 2007). This study had the approval of the Maternal and Fetal Research Committee, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Institutional Review Board (IRB). We obtained a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act waiver. The IRB waived the requirement for informed consent because the collected biological samples would otherwise have been discarded and the sample collection constituted no more than minimal risk to the subjects. Strict procedures protected subject confidentiality, and all data and specimens were anonymized.
There were 615 births (603 deliveries) between November 2004 and March 2005. Of these, we excluded multiple births (n = 24 infants) and births where cord blood was unavailable or of insufficient quantity (n = 291), leaving a total of 300 births eligible for the study. These are representative of all births at the hospital, except that there were fewer low-birth-weight infants because smaller babies tended to have less cord blood. Fifteen infants had missing data for key variables (n = 13) or for having outlying data (n = 2), and we excluded them from analyses. The two outliers included one subject with an admission systolic blood pressure (SBP) < 20 mmHg (likely due to measurement or recording error) and one with an umbilical cord blood lead value of 15.5 μg/dL (more than two times higher than the second largest value). Sensitivity analyses confirmed that the exclusion of the lead outlier did not substantially alter results.
Data collection. Two study personnel collected data from maternal medical records. Study clinicians reviewed a 10% random sample for accuracy.
Blood pressure end points. From the medical record we collected diagnoses of GH, preeclampsia, chronic hypertension, and use of antihypertensive medications. We created two variables to summarize these: a) those with GH or preeclampsia versus not, and b) those with GH, preeclampsia, or chronic hypertension or used hypertensive medications (referred to as "any hypertension") versus not. Hospital personnel measured maternal blood pressure at admission for labor and delivery and continuously during hospitalization using a General Electric Corometrics model 120 series fetal monitor (GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, UK), which uses a noninvasive blood pressure measurement based on the DINAMAP algorithm. The monitor measured blood pressure at programmed intervals ranging from once per minute to once per hour, depending on clinical needs. The varying time intervals, combined with the fact that women were in the hospital for varying amounts of time, resulted in large variability in the quantity and frequency of available measurements. We recorded three pairs of blood pressure measurements from each mother: SBP and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at admission, the maximum SBP and corresponding DBP, and the minimum SBP and corresponding DBP. We compared these measurements with relevant characteristics from the medical record to validate their utility. Blood pressure measurements were not related to the time of day of hospital admission. Those with a hypertension diagnosis or using antihypertensive medications had higher admission and maximum blood pressure measurements than did mothers without any hypertension (Student's t-test, p < 0.05). Minimum blood pressure was only weakly associated with measures of hypertension and was also the only blood pressure measurement significantly related to length of labor and type of delivery [Spearman correlation, p < 0.05; one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), p < 0.05, respectively]. Moreover, our observations suggest that minimum blood pressure measurements may be influenced by events during labor and delivery such as a blood pressure cuff being too loose for an accurate measurement or use of pain reduction medication and therefore were not used in analysis.
Umbilical cord blood collection and lead measurements. Trained clinical staff used a well-defined method to collect umbilical cord blood immediately after the cord was cut (Witter et al. 2001). After temporary storage (< 3 hr) at 4°C, we transferred 0.5 mL aliquots of whole blood to 2 mL polypropylene containers; to obtain serum we centrifuged blood collected in red top tubes. CDC laboratories determined that specimen containers and syringes were lead free before the study. We stored anonymized frozen samples at –80°C except during transport in dry ice.
The CDC laboratories measured lead in whole blood using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. This method has high accuracy and sensitivity with a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.25 μg/dL. Thirteen samples (4.6%) were below the LOD, which were replaced with LOD/√–2 for analyses. Because lead is readily transferred across the placental barrier, umbilical cord blood lead and maternal venous blood lead are highly correlated (Chuang et al. 2001), and cord blood lead levels can serve as a proxy measure for maternal blood lead levels in epidemiologic studies (Rabinowitz et al. 1987). CDC laboratories also measured cotinine in cord serum using liquid chromatography in conjunction with atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry (LOD = 0.015 ng/mL) (Bernert et al. 1997). We classified a mother as a smoker if cord serum cotinine was ≥ 10 ng/mL (Pirkle et al. 1996) or if the medical record stated that she smoked at any time during pregnancy.
Additional variables. We calculated prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) from prepregnancy weight and height recorded in the maternal medical record. For mothers with missing height (n = 6), prepregnancy weight (n = 3), or both (n = 1), we imputed values using regression models incorporating placental weight, weight gain during pregnancy, race, education, prepregnancy weight, and height. We also explored use of median imputation; results were similar to the multivariable regression (data not shown). Maternal medical records were also the source of information for maternal age, length of gestation, parity, anemia, and type of medical insurance.
For household income, we used U.S. Census 2000 median household income at the block group level. A block group was a subdivision of a census tract in which optimally 1,500 people reside but may range from 300 to 3,000. GeoLytics, Inc. (East Brunswick, NJ) matched 91% of maternal residences to block groups; we geocoded the remaining addresses using TerraServer USA (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA) or ArcMap 9.0 with StreetMap 2000 (ESRI, Redlands, CA).
Data analysis. We used Stata 9.3 (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX) for descriptive and multivariable regression analyses. A p-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. We used descriptive statistics to inform our unadjusted and adjusted multivariable regression analyses. Geometric means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) are presented for lead because it has a log-normal distribution.
We evaluated several dose–response functions to describe the relationship of cord blood lead levels and blood pressure measures. We modeled lead as categorical, linear, logarithmic (natural), quadratic, and as a cubic spline. We compared these by examining lowess (nonparametric) smoothing curves, Akaike's information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion, adjusted R2 (or pseudo-R2) values, and root mean squared error. We selected lead quartiles as the model of choice. This option had a similar goodness of fit and has the added benefit of not limiting the exposure–outcome relationship to a specific form. Tests for trend are based on the p-value for the lead variable categorized into quartiles.
We evaluated additional variables for inclusion based on previous knowledge (Nawrot et al. 2002; Rothenberg et al. 2002) or because of associations with blood pressure measures and/or lead levels within this particular data set. These included maternal age, education, race, prepregnancy BMI, reported alcohol use during pregnancy, smoking status, parity, marital status, medical insurance type, neighborhood median household income, neighborhood per capita income, anemia, and gestational age. No relationship of umbilical cord blood lead with gestational age was evident in this data set (Spearman's ρ = 0.04, p = 0.49).
We tested model assumptions and fit using quartile–quartile plots and residual versus fitted value plots. We performed sensitivity analyses to evaluate the effect of excluding the influential lead value (cord blood lead > 15 μg/dL) and the inclusion of imputed BMI values (data not shown). We assessed the possibility of effect modification with lead and BMI, maternal age, maternal race, or per capita income levels and saw no evidence of such effects.
To interpret results in a risk assessment context, we estimated benchmark dose (BMD) and the BMD lower confidence limit (BMDL) for the effect of lead exposure on maternal blood pressure using Benchmark Dose Software [version 2.1; developed by Lockheed Martin Corp. for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA 2011)]. The BMD is an exposure level at which one observes a prespecified amount of response [e.g., the benchmark response (BMR)] in a population. The BMR (a health outcome) is typically a 5% or a 10% change in incidence (for dichotomous responses) or a 1-SD change in response (for continuous responses) compared with control individuals (U.S. EPA 2000). In this study, "control" individuals were defined as those with lead measurements in the lowest exposure quartile. The BMDL is the one-sided lower 95% confidence limit, equivalent to a 90% two-sided confidence limit. Currently, BMDLs are used by the U.S. EPA in some contexts as a point of departure for a risk assessment, in which uncertainty factors are added to calculate a regulatory or guidance level. This approach, and how it is an improvement over prior techniques, has been well described (Sand et al. 2008). One advantage of using such an approach for a substance such as lead is that, unlike a no observable adverse effect level (NOAEL), no assumption of a threshold for effects is required. However, this technique also has some drawbacks, including that for some outcomes it may be difficult to identify an appropriate critical effect size (e.g., BMR) (Dekkers et al. 2001; Travis et al. 2005) and for some data sets it is not possible to fit a BMD model (Travis et al. 2005).
Although originally designed to be used with toxicologic data, BMD methods have also been used with epidemiologic data (Budtz-Jorgensen et al. 2001). The most current version of the Benchmark Dose Software, however, does not yet allow for multivariable model fitting. Because several important risk factors other than lead exposure influence blood pressure levels, our BMD models incorporated these potential confounders by using adjusted blood pressure measurements obtained from our multivariate models (described above). We derived these by using linear combinations of model covariates (Stata's lincom command), where we set each covariate to the study population mean. Our BMD models then consisted of lead quartiles as the exposure and adjusted maternal blood pressure as the response.
We used standard methods for determining a BMD (U.S. EPA 2000). The BMR was an increase of 1 SD of blood pressure from the blood pressure level among "controls" (those in the lowest quartile of umbilical cord lead concentrations). The 1-SD change generally approximates a 10% change (Crump 2002). We used the program's default values for all other model parameters. We ran several different types of models (Hill, linear, polynomial, and power) and evaluated model fit using AIC and visual inspection.
Age at delivery ranged from 14 to 43 (mean = 26) years. There were 70.9% African Americans, 20.7% Caucasians, and 8.4% Asians. Fifty-four women (19.0%) were active smokers during pregnancy. Almost half (49.8%) were overweight or obese before pregnancy. In bivariate comparisons, lead levels were higher among Asians and African Americans compared with Caucasians, those living in neighborhood with a median income of < US$25,000 per year versus not, multiparous women, and those who smoked during pregnancy (Table 1).
Geometric mean and 95% CIs for umbilical cord lead concentrations (μg/dL) by population characteristics: Baltimore THREE Study, 2004–2005 (n = 285).
At admission, mean SBP was 121.8 mmHg (95% CI, 119.9–123.7), mean DBP was 71.8 mmHg (70.4–73.1), maximum SBP was 144.3 mmHg (142.2–146.3), and maximum DBP was 77.4 mmHg (75.1–79.7). Sixteen women (5.6%) had GH or preeclampsia, and 27 women (9.5%) had any hypertensive condition. The geometric mean cord blood lead was 0.66 μg/dL (0.61–0.71 μg/dL), and the highest quartile for lead was 0.96–6.47 μg/dL.
We observed no increase in the odds of GH or preeclampsia or any hypertension related to increasing lead exposure levels (data not shown). However, mothers in the highest lead quartile had a statistically significant increase in admission and maximum SBP and DBP during labor and delivery compared with those in the lowest quartile, after adjusting for maternal age, maternal race, neighborhood median household income, primaparity, smoking during pregnancy, prepregnancy BMI, and anemia (Table 2). Specifically, we observed a 6.87-mmHg (95% CI, 1.51–12.21) increase in SBP and a 4.40-mmHg (0.21–8.59) increase in DBP admission blood pressure comparing the highest and lowest lead quartiles. Corresponding increases in maximum blood pressure were 7.72 mmHg (1.83–13.60) for SBP and 8.33 mmHg (1.14–15.53) for DBP.
Change in blood pressure (mmHg) by quartiles of cord blood lead exposure based on multivariable regression models: Baltimore THREE Study, 2004–2005 (n = 285).
We defined our BMR as a 1-SD increase in blood pressure; this was from 11.9 to 20.4 mmHg for all blood pressure outcomes. In comparing different types of BMD models, the power BMD models provided the best fit for the blood pressure measures overall (Table 3). Using this model, BMDs (BMDLs) were 1.46 μg/dL (1.42) for admission SBP, 1.91 μg/dL (1.43) for admission DBP, 1.45 μg/dL (1.41) for maximum SBP, and 1.47 μg/dL (1.43) for maximum DBP.
BMD values for umbilical cord blood lead (μg/dL) and maternal blood pressure, comparing Hill, linear, polynomial, and power models.
In this study we found a modest but significant association between very small increases in umbilical cord blood lead and elevations in SBP and DBP during labor and delivery. This association was observed at blood lead concentrations well below the current CDC recommended action level of 10 μg/dL for children and below the recommended level of 5 μg/dL for pregnant women (CDC 2007). Average blood lead concentrations in this study are lower than in prior studies of lead and blood pressure in pregnant women with the exception of the EDEN cohort study (Yazbeck et al. 2009).
Our findings are consistent with previous studies on blood lead levels and blood pressure during pregnancy (Magri et al. 2003; Rabinowitz et al. 1987; Rothenberg et al. 1999, 2002). Unlike other studies (Chen et al. 2006; Dawson et al. 2000; Magri et al. 2003; Sowers et al. 2002), we did not observe an association between lead and GH, preeclampsia, or clinically diagnosed hypertension as noted in the medical record. Except for that of Rabinowitz et al. (1987), these studies differed from ours in that they used maternal venous blood lead measurements and blood pressure taken before labor and delivery. Our measurements, blood pressure during labor and delivery as well as umbilical cord blood lead concentrations, have some limitations (as discussed below) but may still represent the relative lead exposure and blood pressure status of these women.
Studies of blood pressure customarily use the average of three measurements on a seated, resting subject. We did not collect, and therefore could not average, multiple blood pressure measurements for each individual; this may have introduced some nondifferential misclassification, which would be expected to attenuate results. Additionally, in our study, like Rabinowitz et al. (1987), we used blood pressure measurements taken during labor and delivery, a time of additional stress. Our blood pressure measures are therefore not equivalent to the standardized measures that one would obtain in a more controlled setting. However, because all of our blood pressure measures were taken during similar conditions for all women, they are likely to be similarly skewed. Supporting the validity of our blood pressure measures, women with previous hypertension diagnosis during or before pregnancy had higher admission and maximum blood pressure levels, and neither admission nor maximum pressures were correlated with the length of the hospital stay.
An important strength of this study was the quality of cord blood exposure measurements. Through obtaining clean samples and our use of high-quality analytic methods, we were able to obtain quantitative lead measurements for most of this population, despite the fact that their lead exposures were very low. Because of constraints of the study design, we were unable to measure maternal blood lead levels. Umbilical cord metal measurements, however, may serve as a proxy for maternal exposure. Indeed, umbilical cord blood lead is highly correlated with maternal venous blood lead [reported at r2 = 0.82 (Chuang et al. 2001)]; thus, use of cord blood lead will reasonably differentiate among different blood lead concentrations among mothers. Recognizing this, previous studies have also used cord blood lead to evaluate associations with maternal hypertension or preeclampsia (Rabinowitz et al. 1987; Vigeh et al. 2006). Several investigators report that umbilical cord blood lead concentrations are generally lower than maternal blood lead concentrations (Chuang et al. 2001; Harville et al. 2005; Rothenberg et al. 1996). In > 500 mother–infant pairs, the ratio of mean cord blood lead to mean maternal blood lead was 0.78 (Chuang et al. 2001). Assuming that this ratio holds in the present study, the geometric mean and 75th percentile of maternal blood lead would be approximately 0.86 and 1.24 μg/dL, respectively. These estimates for maternal venous blood in the present study are lower than concurrent estimates among adult women in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, where geometric mean and 75th percentile were 1.22 and 1.80 μg/dL in 2003–2004 and 1.11 and 1.73 μg/dL in 2005–2006 (CDC 2010).
Bone lead is considered to be a better marker of long-term lead exposure, and blood lead a more precise estimate of short-term lead exposure (Hu et al. 2007). However, during pregnancy there is potentially a greater release of lead from bone into blood (Gulson et al. 1997), and maternal blood may be derived from mobilization of lead in bone. Nevertheless, if the mechanism(s) by which lead affects maternal blood pressure levels is heavily influenced by long-term lead exposure, bone lead could be a better biomarker for describing a relationship of lead exposure with blood pressure. Rothenberg et al. (2002) found associations of maternal hypertension and elevations in blood pressure levels with maternal bone (calcaneous) lead but not with maternal venous blood lead. On the other hand, short-term or transient lead effects on blood pressure might be better assessed with biomarkers of recent lead dose such as blood lead (Navas-Acien et al. 2008). Knowledge of the mechanism by which lead exerts effects on blood pressure would be helpful in determining whether blood or bone lead is a better biomarker for studying this relationship; although mechanisms have been suggested (Vaziri 2008), more work is ongoing.
Although maternal venous and umbilical cord blood lead are highly correlated, this correlation is not equivalent. If factors influencing the ratio of maternal blood lead to cord blood were not related to blood pressure, this would result in random misclassification of exposure, and as a result, our findings would be biased toward the null. In contrast, Harville et al. (2005) reported that higher maternal blood pressure is related to a lower ratio of maternal blood lead to cord blood lead; in that situation, our results could have been biased away from the null. However, evidence supporting this conclusion is somewhat limited because Harville et al. (2005) observed this relationship only in the subset of women > 30 years of age or with > 40 pounds of weight gain. Meanwhile, our findings are consistent with prospective evidence among nonpregnant adults, where placental transfer of lead would not influence results (Glenn et al. 2003), providing additional support for an association between lead exposure and subsequent elevations in blood pressure.
Prior work has evaluated the influence of measurements of hematocrit or hemoglobin, stress, calcium, or zinc on the relationship between lead exposure and blood pressure levels (Hense et al. 1993; Nawrot et al. 2002; Peters et al. 2007; Rabinowitz et al. 1987; Rothenberg et al. 1999). These data were not available for this study. Although hematocrit and hemoglobin have been associated with low lead concentrations (Harville et al. 2005), their role as a confounders has been proposed to be more important among older women (> 50 years) (Hense et al. 1993). Moreover, the association between blood lead levels and GH was only slightly decreased and remained statistically significant after further adjustment for hematocrit in a study during the third trimester of pregnancy (Magri et al. 2003). Stress has been identified as an effect modifier of the lead–blood pressure relationship; those with higher stress had a higher risk of developing hypertension after lead exposure (Peters et al. 2007). The observation that women in our population with higher cord blood leads had higher maximum blood pressure levels during labor and delivery is consistent with that work.
Our BMD analysis of these data provides a different perspective of the relationship we observed between lead exposure and blood pressure increase. In terms of estimated maternal blood lead levels from cord blood levels (calculated as described above), we found a BMDL of roughly 1.4 μg/dL venous blood lead for all blood pressure outcomes. The BMDL, again, is an exposure level that, with 95% confidence, corresponds to the prespecified response (1 SD of blood pressure) (Sand et al. 2008). Although BMD analysis is frequently used in the process of creating regulatory exposure standards, our use of it here should not be interpreted in a regulatory context, but rather as a description of an exposure level in this study where we observed measurable effects.
No threshold effect of lead has been identified. Action levels for lead are based in part on our ability to create and invest in effective interventions for lead exposure, while recognizing that the goal is to reduce exposures to the greatest extent possible (Bernard 2003). There is initial evidence that calcium supplementation may be related to lower blood lead levels in pregnancy by reducing the release of lead from bone lead stores (Ettinger et al. 2009), although this needs replication. Better still would be primary prevention, or preventing lead exposure in the first place; this could occur, for example, by limiting the amount of lead released to the environment by implementing safer work practices (U.S. EPA 2010).
In this work, we show that the previously established association of blood lead levels with elevations in blood pressure can be replicated among pregnant women at the time of labor and delivery, extending previous findings to even lower lead exposure levels. Because even small reductions in population blood pressure could result in substantial public health benefits (Whelton et al. 2002), this work suggests that continued reductions in lead exposure remain an important public health goal.
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"Cops wanna knock me, D.A. wanna box me in. But somehow, I beat them charges like Rocky." - Jay-Z
I Want My AR!
That reminds me... I never did a quote of the week from last week's AR. I can't remember anything great really jumping out at me. Anyone have any suggestions?
And, finally, this week's AR hiatus allows me to watch another great show: My Name Is Earl. I got caught up with last week when there was a mini-marathon of 4 episodes before Jason Lee hosted SNL. I haven't laughed so much at a sitcom in a long time.
So, tonight, I'll watch Earl. And TiVo House.
Better watch out, AR, looks like you're pretty easily replaced.
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Heh. When I read the title, I thought it stood for Accelerated Rehabilitation.ReplyDelete
AR suggested quote from last week -"I think I see the Paolo's" (or something to that effect) when the Florida family passed a garbage truck on the highway.ReplyDelete
Earl is awesome. I love the smokey and the bandit references during the episode with the fair.
House is cool. But why doesn't Doctor House keep his english accent?ReplyDelete
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Ah country music........vibes for the redneck agenda!ReplyDelete
Earl is great! What do you think about Lost?ReplyDelete
I've never watched Lost.ReplyDelete
This is going to sound like a dumb reason but... I don't like shows that my mother likes. So, if my mother says it's good, I don't bother watching it.
Shows like Judging Amy, Lost, and Boston Legal.
And then she said that it had an alien or something on it? Yeah, not my thing.
I started to watch the first minute tonight - but there was a lot of screaming. And I don't like loud screaming.
You should really give Boston Legal a chance. When the William Schatner character told the judge during a trial that the judge had mad cow disease, and it was ok because he also had mad cow disease.ReplyDelete
It was hilarious. It is a really funny show. Especially for lawyers.
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This problem I also found in 4.1 and it occurs when running Spiceworks under a user containing Swedish national characters åäö (in a Swedish Windows installation the built-in administrator user contains national characters).
When loading the Network Scan settings page you will get the message An Application Error Occurred.
It does not matter if you run Spiceworks as a service or start it manually.
A workaround is to create a different user without national character under which you run Spiceworks.
This was tested by upgrading to 4.5.44814 from 4.1.40098 on a Windows SBS 2008 (English) and running Spiceworks under users containing both national characters or not.
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Dec 8, 2009 at 7:41 UTC
Hi Ingvar, thanks for the info, we have a bug on this but we thought it might have been fixed. Let me check to see if the proposed fix in in 4.5.44814, I'll get back to you when I have more information.
Dec 9, 2009 at 1:44 UTC
You may want to check with Connie, I sent a more detailed explanation to her since she asked for it on mail!
Dec 9, 2009 at 9:02 UTC
Thanks for the info Ingvar, I'll get with Connie.
Dec 10, 2009 at 4:21 UTC
Did a clean install of the new beta VI, 4.5.4506 and read back my 4.1 backup.
Still same problem.
Dec 10, 2009 at 6:44 UTC
Hi iahlm, we just uploaded Beta VII which has some changes for the International character issue that you are having. Can you install it and let me know if it resolves the problem?
Dec 11, 2009 at 4:46 UTC
Yes, you got it , did I mention you rock at SW :)
Thank you!
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Hi Ingvar, thanks for your help! Let me know if you have any other International character issues.


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Molokai Holokai: A fun ocean paddling challenge for all
By David Lichtenstein
The third annual Molokai Holokai on Saturday, May 19, began and ended as most events on Molokai do, with a pule. At the start, the 11 paddlers formed a circle to ask for ke Akua's blessing and safekeeping over the 8.5-mile downwind course.
As a malihini paddler with less than two years experience, competing in my first-ever SUP race made my slightly nervous. Lining up with my back against the Kamalo Wharf, 10 miles east of Kaunakakai, I could see I was facing some of the top Molokai stand-up paddlers. At the sound of the start signal the stomach butterflies gave way to the adrenaline boost of being in a race. Then the waves, currents and spray of the surf fully engulfed my senses; I had no time to be nervous.
My goal for the race was simple: don't finish last. I had completed this downwind run three or four times before in practice but I could tell I was up against some seasoned locals.
At the start I made a quick move to the outside of the pack in an attempt to get to the reef and the bigger waves, but I soon found my board bumping up against the board of Alex Mawae. Although only in fourth grade, Alex is a top paddler in his age group who has consistently beaten me on previous downwind runs. I slid outside while Alex took a more inside line.
Throughout the race, competitors enjoyed a smooth and steady wind clocking around 20 knots, making the swells easy to surf.
While some of the top paddlers headed outside the reef into the deep blue, I followed the line of Clint Labrador, the race's eventual winner, a friend of mine and the most dedicated all-around waterman I know on Molokai. Labrador found a comfortable path directly over the fringed reef. After one mile Labrador had a substantial lead. After two miles he was a small figure in the distance. After three miles he was just a dot on the horizon.
I felt I was making good time paddling an 11-foot-6-inch Naish Nalu board. The hybrid board offers a smooth combination of wave riding control and downwind coasting. The board, courtesy of Clare Mawae of Molokai Outdoors, was a pleasure to ride.
I had ridden the Nalu once before on a downwind run. But this time, in an attempt to stay aggressive, I stood farther forward on the board, forcing the nose to occasionally pearl underwater. I moved with speed through the first part of the race. With just a little effort, a couple of well-timed paddles would allow the board to surf the waves at a steady clip for 15- to 30-second rides.
In the second half of the race, as I approached the Kawela area, the waves got a little trickier to read. As I paddled harder in an attempt to make up time, the waves bucked me into the water a couple of times. One of the racers, David Dillberg, was gracious enough to wait for me as I scrambled atop my board and gathered myself to continue.
The two of us paddled together through most of the second half of the race, exchanging notes about the wave conditions and our background in SUP. David told me how Ekolu Kalama, the legendary Molokai paddler and musician, had taught him the secrets of paddling.
Ekolu had taught Dave one essential truism for open ocean paddling: "It's not about always paddling hard but knowing when to paddle hard," he said. He also shared with me a key paradox to paddling: sometimes you go faster when you learn to slow down and relax on the board. Dave also showed me how to use the paddle to stabilize and balance the board through rough sections. Thanks, Dave!
In the end, I did accomplish my goal, barely. I finished at Hotel Molokai in ninth place in 1 hour 38 minutes, a full 27 minutes behind Labrador.
Here is a list of the finishers:
1. Clint Labrador 1:11:13.9; 2. Dickie Stone 1:16:05.3; 3. Todd Yamashita 1:16:58.6; 4.Carlos Kuhn 1:20:55.1; 5. Tabitha Pupuhi 1:29:48.8; 6. Boki Chung 1:32:04.6; 7. Josie Mawae 1:34:32.8; 8. Alex Mawae 1:36:01.1; 9. David Lichtenstein 1:38:27.8; 10. Kekai Adachi 1:39:39.8; 11. David Dillberg (escorting kids and me) 1:39:46.5.
The turnout was not as strong as in previous years. This may have been the result of a recent Molokai-Maui ferry rule that does not accommodate paddleboards. The difficulty of SUP racers to make it to Molokai with their boards kept the field local.
The Molokai Ohana Surf Club, along with Clare Mawae's organization Youth in Motion, presented the Molokai Holokai. A big thanks to race organizers Todd and Noelani Yamashita, along with Clint and Loretta Labrador and anyone else I have forgotten to mention.


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The daily life of a little boy transposed into the world of SamSam, a young superhero with his superhero parents, his teddy bear SamTeddy and his friends. With SamTeddy, he ventures into space in his SamSaucer.
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Episode 11 - Mars Fools
Like every year on Marth 1, SamSam and his friends make 'April fish' the Marth way. SamSam prepared a whole heap of small Marthial fish-shaped paper to be hung on the back of his 'victims'.
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For his mum's birthday, SamSam finds a heart-shaped stone. The problem is that it has landed on Marth and that King Marthial refuses to return it to him unless... he brings back to him a hair from Beastlybeard's beard!
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Issue TRQS92 has just been modified by user andyhot You can view the issue detail at the following URL: <http://scarab.werken.com/scarab/issues/id/TRQS92> The following modifications were made to this issue: This problem is a bit bizare to me too. The point is that the datadump task doesn't use an attribute (in <torque-data-dump ... />) to specify the location of the *-data.xml output file, but instead, uses defined properties (${project}, ${database.Name}, ${dataset}) in order to choose the output filename. On the other hand, the datasql task uses its dataXmlFile attribute to find the dump file, instead of looking at the above properties. I feel that the correct solution is to modify the TorqueDataSQLTask and have it choose the dump filename using the above mentioned properties. As for the dtd, it should be searched in the torque.output.dir, instead of in torque.schema.dir
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