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Just when Friday wasn't enough.. Rebecca Black has returned with a new video, "Person of Interest". In her new video for her latest single, we see the 14-year-old viral star reporting something to the police, and from there, she has flashbacks to her big adventure.
Rebecca is just playing a game of skeeball, minding her own business and singing at the top of her lungs when her crush boy approaches — err, his friends nudge him to the machine next to her, where he dominates and tickets spill out. To everyone's surprise, he cashes them in for a giant mixed-race teddy bear, which he then hands off to the Becs, who is still keeping her distance according to the song.
The pre-teen pair engage in race cars, rides and mini golf, which is pretty much what you would expect from a first non-chaperoned date. But soon, their innocent daytime date turns into a late night arcade party. While Ms. Black is singing, she continually notes that she loses track of the boy, but he seems to pop up everywhere she goes without fail, as if he is stalking her. She finds her way outside of the arcade to watch a band play, where she then decides to hop on stage and take over the mic, which they allow despite how rude it actually is.
Later, the scene flashes back to her telling the cop her story in hopes that he can help track down her young love interest, who we presume has gone MIA yet again. In the end, it the cop is actually not a sketch artist but a cartoonist, drawing a picture of Rebecca and her dude as a souvenir … Surrounded by crime tape (yeah, we were lost on that too). She snags her drawing and we see her walk away with her prince charming, who, by the way, looks a tad too much like her for our comfort.
Now as of this writing, on YouTube the Video had half likes and dislikes, now we want you to be the judge. Let us know what you think of this Ms. Black's Return to the airwaves! Check it out below:


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Bramhope is included in a newly-published list of the top burglary hotspots in the UK – despite the fact that crime rates in the village are said to be low.
Bramhope is part of the LS16 area, which has made it into the top 20 of a national burglary insurance claim list compiled by MoneySuperMarket.
The village has found itself on the list along with areas of London, Manchester and Liverpool, also named as burglary hotspots.
LS16 – which also includes Adel, Cookridge, Eccup, Far Headingley, Holt Park, Ireland Wood, Lawnswood, Moor Grange, Tinshill, Weetwood, and West Park – is the only area of Leeds or Bradford to make it onto the list this year. Its place at number 18 has caused concern in Bramhope where many residents believe the village has gained an unjustified reputation.
Their views are backed by police who say the village does not suffer from high rates of crime.
Inspector Richard Coldwell, of the Aireborough and Wharfedale Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "Despite the recent figures that have been released, Bramhope is a relatively low crime area – especially compared with some of the more urban parts of Leeds 16.
He advised anyone wanting to look at crime rates in their area to visit the Home Office's own comparison site.
Last year five postcodes in the Leeds area featured in the top 20 on the MoneySuperMarket list, based on burglary claims to the insurance comparison site.
Kevin Pratt, home insurance expert at MoneySuperMarket, said the M21 postal district in Manchester was the country's most notorious burglary claim hotspot.
"But just because somewhere is named a claim hotspot it doesn't actually mean the area in question is not a nice place to live. Thieves often target areas with wealthy residents and desirable properties where the rewards are potentially greater or quieter areas where they think there is less risk of being caught red-handed," he said.


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UPDATE: Armed Robbery suspect identified
From the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office:
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is continuing to investigate the armed robbery which occurred on 04-15-2014 and has identified the driver of the vehicle. She is identified as
Candice Keshan Swain, 25 years old who is a transient. She is described as Native American, 5' 4" tall, approximately 145 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes.
The lead investigating deputy is still actively working on identifying the second female who was the one identified by the victims as holding the knife. She is known as, " Sonya ".
Sonya is described as Native American, approximately in her 30's, heavy set, about 250 to 300 pounds, dark short hair pulled into a bun, was last seen wearing dark clothing and in possession of a 4" to 6" blade knife. She is possibly from the Hoopa area.
A be-on-the-lookout to area law enforcement has been issued for Swain who is wanted armed robbery.
Anyone with information for the Sheriff's Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriff's Office at 707-445-7251, McKinleyville Sheriff Station at 707-839-3857 or the Sheriff' s Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
On 04-15-2014, at approximately 11:45 a.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office received a call from two adult female victims who said they had just been robbed at knifepoint. Deputies responded and met with the victims in the 4900 block of Dows Prairie Road, McKinleyville.
When the deputies arrived, the victims told the investigating deputy they were gambling at Blue Lake Casino when they met up with two females. The victims knew one of the females and asked for a ride to McKinleyville. The two females agreed to give the victims a ride to McKinleyville. While enroute the two females told the victims they needed to make a stop at a residence in Trinidad and drove there first. In Trinidad, the front passenger exited the vehicle, and another female got into the passenger seat. The driver then told the victims she would now drive them to McKinleyville. While enroute to McKinleyville, the driver drove the victims onto Dows Prairie Road. The driver stopped the car in the 4900 block of Dows Prairie Road. The female who just got in the front passenger seat of the car in Trinidad, then turned around and brandished a knife at the victims, while demanding money from them. The victims gave the suspect their money and a cell phone. They were then able to escape the vehicle and run into the brush and hide. After the vehicle left they called the Sheriff's Office.
Deputies searched the area for the suspects' vehicle, a 1995 Red Mitsubishi Eclipse, and located it parked at Moonstone Beach. Deputies also located a female in the vehicle who told them it was her car, but she was not involved in the robbery. The victims were brought to the scene and confirmed the female the deputies had detained was not one of the suspects. Deputies are currently working to identify the two female suspects. No one was injured in the robbery.


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|Raymarine SL72 Plus Raychart — July 2002
Many boaters today are interested in simplifying their helm stations--in other words, reducing the number of displays there. That's why Raymarine developed an entry-level radar/chartplotter that combines two disparate systems into one display.
The integrated unit is called the SL72 Plus Raychart, and it comes standard with a seven-inch monochrome LCD display. The screen's high contrast and 320x240 pixel resolution is said to make for easy readability. You can choose to run either the plotter or radar as a full screen or split the two screens to view them simultaneously. In split-screen mode, the plotter and radar are automatically synchronized.
The plotter works off C-Map NT+ cards, which include port and tide data. In addition, the plotter can display course up, north up, head up, and MOB and store up to 1,000 waypoints. Soft buttons at the bottom of the display make it easy to adjust the screen contrast and brightness, find ship, switch between plotter and radar settings, and access other functions of the unit.
The SL72 Plus Raychart comes with an 18-inch radome that has a range of 24 NM. The unit is available through Raymarine electronics dealers and has a suggested retail price of $2,575.
Raymarine Phone: (603) 881-5200. Fax: (603) 864-4756. www.raymarine.com.
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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - After a handful of people were caught looting Wednesday, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu imposed a curfew warning looters would not be tolerated.
"Let me clear. We are going to have zero tolerance for lawlessness during this emergency and to make sure this city is secure," said Mayor Landrieu.
Wednesday night, enforcement by police appeared to be relaxed. Tourists in the area were seen outside after curfew taking a walk.
A few restaurants also remain open. People waited in lines for about an hour, clearly aware of the mayor's order.
"I heard about the curfew, but we really want to eat some jumbo steaks tonight," said J.D. Smith, a customer.
Meanwhile, New Orleans residents endured a day of pounding squalls as Issac moved across the city.
Floods sparked evacuations to the south and forced the closure of Interstate 10 and LaPlace, Louisiana.
The storm knocked out power to more than 700,000 customers and toppled trees across the area.
Kenner Alfred Brandon and his family were awoken by a 100-year-old oak coming through the roof of their home.
"We're glad to be alive," said Brandon.
One death was reported so far in the wake of Issac.
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The Charity Bomb's - Color Burst 5K
The Charity Bomb
Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 10:00 AM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
It's simply the biggest party to kick off summer! Seriously, it's the bomb.com and you don't want to miss it.
The Color Burst 5K is an event for people of all ages. It's a unique experience focused less on speed and more on crazy color fun along the way while you run or walk with family, friends & people you thought would never dress that way. The event has 2 parts. The Color Burst 5K fun run and the After Party.
The run is a 5K run/walk with bursts of color along the way (colored corn starch) just to make sure you are fashionable.
A few simple rules for the run: 1) White shirts, togas, chicken suits, etc. line up at the start line. 2) Have a ton of fun!
The color is made of cornstarch. All products are 100% natural and safe. That's right, you could bake with it, if you really wanted. It can be easily washed or blown off from event areas. We recommend that you only wear clothes that you wouldn't mind ending up a little tie-dyed.
As the runners/walkers reach the color zones along the 5K path, they are blitzed by our volunteers, sponsors, and staff with COLOR.
The AFTER PARTY begins as the first runners finish. Once you go through the blower to clean off excess color, head over to the beer garden and food trucks for refreshments. Rock out to some music and jump into some hilarious inflatable games for all ages such as Sumo Suit Wrestling, The Velcro Wall and Quarterback Blitz.
It's truly going to be the party of the summer! Be sure to get your tickets early to save money and get your spot at The Color Burst 5k!
General Parking $5 at the gate. Arrive early for the best parking spots.
*This is a rain or shine event.
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When & Where
Irvine Lake - Orange County California
4621 Santiago Canyon Road
Saturday, June 29, 2013 at 10:00 AM (PDT)
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Broadcasters: Waltz | Minervini | Conine | Striker, Jr.
Van Horne | Blaylock | Geffner | Ramírez | Quintana | Hollandsworth
2017 marks Waltz's 13th year as the television play-by-play voice of the Marlins on Fox Sports Florida's Emmy Award Winning coverage. This is his 24th consecutive year covering Major League Baseball. This Spring, Rich served as one of MLB Network's primary voices of the 2017 World Baseball Classic. It was Waltz's third WBC assignment. In 2009 and 2013 (Puerto Rico and Japan) he called some of the WBC's biggest upsets.
From 2012-2014 Waltz was part of Fox's Saturday MLB package. His baseball experience also includes MLB Network's coverage of Thursday Night Baseball, ESPN, ESPN Radio, and FX. Prior to joining FOX Sports Florida, Waltz served as the fill-in announcer and pregame host for the Seattle Mariners television and radio networks. In 2000, he served as the fill-in voice of the Toronto Blue Jays on CBC across Canada. His minor league stops included Spokane, Wichita, and Las Vegas.
This past Winter Waltz again called College Basketball for CBS Sports, CBS Sports Network, and FS1. It was also his third season of College Football for CBS Sports Network. His College Basketball spans every major conference for the ACC Network, Pac-12 Network, Fox Sports, Raycom Sports, ESPN, ESPN Regional and Turner Sports. From 2010 through 2012 Rich was the voice for the ACC Football Game of the Week and SEC Saturday Night Football for Fox Sports Net.
From 1997-2002, Waltz called College Football for ESPN, ESPN Radio and ABC in the Big Ten, SEC and ACC conferences; including many Bowl and Championship Games. Waltz's ESPN assignments also included: Major League Baseball, NCAA Basketball, Arena Football, NCAA College Softball World Series, Little League World Series Regional Finals, and Major League Soccer. His football experience also includes NFL Europe for Fox, Pac-10 Football for FSN, the Big Sky Game of the Week and NFL Preseason games for the Seattle Seahawks. As well, Waltz has called ATP and WTA Tennis events for Tennis Channel and IMG.
In 2006, Waltz helped create and organize the Fox Sports Fantasy Auction, which in eleven years has raised a million dollars for the Marlins Foundation. In 2008, he was honored by the Marlins with their Community Service Award.
Raised in Martinez, Calif., Rich was a starting infielder on two conference championship teams at the University of California-Davis. Waltz resides in both South Florida and Issaquah, WA with his wife and two daughters.
Minervini is in his 16th season as pre/postgame host and in-game reporter for Marlins games on FOX Sports Florida, garnering his first Emmy Award in 2013. He has handled play-by-play for select Marlins games on TV/radio as well.
A baseball and hockey buff, Craig is also pre/postgame host for Florida Panthers (NHL) games, finishing his 10th season on FS Florida in 2016-17. He also filled in as TV Host on Miami Heat (NBA) games in 2016-17. In 2010, Craig was the national play-by-play voice for the United Football League (UFL) games on Versus.
Before joining FOX Sports Florida, Minervini spent seven years with WTVJ-NBC 6 in Miami as a sports anchor/reporter. He anchored sports on WNBC-TV (NY) in 2004.
Minervini's extensive television broadcasting experience includes a wide variety of assignments such as play-by-play voice for NBC Sports (Notre Dame football), CBS Sports Spectacular, ESPN (college football, baseball and Roller Hockey International), Major League Soccer, XFL Football, boxing and mixed martial arts' events.
Minervini's latest Hollywood stint includes a special appearance in Kevin James' blockbuster movie "Here Comes the Boom".
Early in his career, his first entrance on the national stage came as a TV broadcaster for World Wrestling Federation (WWF) events, as "Craig DeGeorge".
Minervini earned a broadcast journalism degree from Syracuse University where he called Orange football, basketball, lacrosse and soccer while handling AAA Syracuse Chiefs baseball.
A native of Huntington, Long Island (NY), Minervini has two sons, Chase and Maxwell, and a daughter, Spencer.
Jeff Conine returns for his seventh season as a Marlins television pre and postgame analyst on FOX Sports Florida in 2015. In addition to his pre and postgame duties, Conine will serve as a color analyst for select games throughout the season. The former Marlins outfielder also has duties in the front office, serving as a special assistant to team president David Samson.
Conine, a valuable member of both Marlins' World Series Championship teams in 1997 and 2003, enjoyed a 17-year Major League career finishing with a total of 1,982 hits, 385 doubles, 214 home runs, 1,071 RBI and a .285 batting average in 2,024 games.
A two-time All-Star (1994-95), Conine was twice named the Marlins' MVP by the South Florida Chapter of the BBWAA (1994-95) and was the MVP of the 1995 MLB All-Star Game. For his Marlins career, "Mr. Marlin" hit .290 and ranks among the all-time Marlins leaders in games (1,014 -2nd), hits (1,005 -2nd), RBI (553 -2nd), at-bats (3,471 -3rd) and home runs (120 -7th). He also hit six grand slams as a Marlin, more than any other player. He was the Opening Day left fielder in their Inaugural Game in 1993, going 4x4 with the first stolen base in Club history.
Among his career highlights, he carried a .304 average in 32 postseason games, all with the Marlins. In addition to his MVP honors with the Club, he also earned the award with the Baltimore Orioles in 2001. He garnered AL Player of the Week honors for May 27-June 2, 2002, after posting a .375 average with five home runs, nine RBI and 26 total bases. In 1995, he earned the NL Player of the Month for June, batting .340 with six doubles, nine home runs and 24 RBI. Conine was named to TOPPS and Baseball America's All-Rookie teams in 1993 and was the 1990 Southern League Most Valuable Player, the Royals' Minor League Player of the Year and a double-A All-Star as voted by TOPPS and Baseball America.
After retiring from baseball, Conine successfully completed the 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship, becoming the first former Major Leaguer to finish the endurance race. Currently, Conine also serves as a Special Assistant to the President.
Born in Tacoma, WA, Conine and his family, wife Cindy, daughter Sierra and sons Griffin and Tucker, reside in South Florida. The family has been active in the South Florida community since his arrival in 1993, including founding the Conine All-Star Classic, an annual golf tournament to raise money for the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Fla.
Jessica Blaylock enters her third season covering Marlins baseball for Fox Sports Florida. Blaylock will serve as the in-game reporter on Marlins' television broadcasts this season, as well as host of select "Inside the Marlins" episodes.
Prior to joining Marlins coverage, Blaylock served as a radio host and reporter for 1010XL in Jacksonville. She was the Jaguars beat reporter, and an active contributor on the Frank Frangie Show with Rick Ballou, as well as hosting her own evening show. She also covered the Players Championship and other various sporting events in the Jacksonville area.
From 2006 to 2011, she worked for ESPN as an operations producer for college football, college basketball and NASCAR. Blaylock originally joined FOX Sports Florida in 2010, covering five seasons of Orlando Magic basketball, as well as high school football and basketball. She has also contributed both Jaguars and high school football features for CSS.
A Jacksonville, Fla. native, Blaylock attended the University of Florida where she received a B.A. in Telecommunications and a B.A. in history.
Raul Striker, Jr. begins his 15th year as the Marlins play-by-play secondary audio programming television announcer. Striker, Jr. has called all Marlins home games since 2003 on SAP.
In addition, Striker, Jr. currently serves as the Miami Dolphins (NFL) football Spanish-language play-by-play announcer and as a regular voice of the NFL, calling games of the week, the NFL playoffs, Pro Bowls and Super Bowls XLVI & XLVII and XLIX.
Raul also serves as a sports anchor for Spanish language WLTV23 Univision in Miami.
Striker, Jr. was the Spanish-language television pregame, halftime, and in-game reporter of the Miami Heat (NBA) for the 2005 & 2006 seasons.
The versatile Striker also graduated with a nursing degree from Miami Dade College in 2011 and worked as a registered nurse in the neuroscience wing of Baptist Hospital in Miami. Before joining the Marlins, Striker, Jr. served as anchor/reporter on a variety of sports shows for the Spanish-language television network Telemundo.
Son of renowned Spanish sportscaster Raul Striker, Striker, Jr. has covered sporting events that include the World Series; FIFA World Cups; Sugar, Rose, Fiesta and Orange Bowls; ATP Tennis, PGA Golf Tournaments and NASCAR Races. Striker, Jr. also served as producer/host of Marlins Semanal, the Marlins official Spanish television show during 2003 and 2004.
A native of Santurce, Puerto Rico, Striker, Jr. resides in Miami.
Dave Van Horne enters his 52nd year broadcasting professional baseball, his 49th at the Major League level and his 17th year with the Marlins. In 2011, he was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award in ceremonies at Cooperstown.
His baseball broadcast career began in the International League where he broadcast Richmond Braves games. In 1969, he was named to serve as the lead play-by-play broadcaster for the Montreal Expos games on the English radio network. He spent 32 years as the primary Expos voice on the teams radio and television broadcasts.
During Dave's Major League broadcast career, he's been behind the mic for 13 no hitters, including three perfect games. He also had the opportunity to call the 3000th hits for Willie Mays and Tony Gwynn, also Pete Rose's 1,500th, 3000th and 4,000th hits. He called record breaking strikeouts by Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton. When Andre Dawson hit two home runs in one inning, twice, Dave was behind the microphone. Other career highlights include the Marlins exciting 2003 season, capped by the World Series Championship.
During his years spent in Virginia, he broadcast football, basketball and baseball, becoming a two-time winner of the Virginia Sportscaster of the Year Award.
In 1996, he was honored with the Jack Graney Award, presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame for contributions to baseball through broadcasting.
Dave was also the recipient in 2011 of the Career Achievement Award from Sports Media Canada.
In June 2012, he was inducted into the Wilson High School Hall of Fame in his hometown of Easton, PA.
He received the Sonny Hirsch Excellence in Sports Broadcasting Award in March 2013 at the Eric Reid and Tony Fiorentino charity dinner in Miami.
Dave was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in June 2014 in ceremonies in St. Mary's, Ontario.
His broadcast partners over the years have included Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Tom Cheek, Buck Martinez, Ken Singleton, Gary Carter, Tommy Hutton and Jon Sciambi. His current partner on Marlins Radio broadcasts is Glenn Geffner.
Dave was born and raised in Easton Pennsylvania. He has been a resident of South Florida since 1982 and currently lives in Palm Beach Gardens with his wife Josee and their daughter Madison. He also has 5 sons and many wonderful grandchildren.
2017 marks Miami native Glenn Geffner's 10th season as a member of the Marlins radio broadcast team, his 21st season in the Major Leagues and his 26th year in professional baseball as a broadcaster and front office executive.
Geffner, who called games for the Boston Red Sox and the San Diego Padres prior to his 2008 return to South Florida, owns the rare distinction of having done baseball play-by-play at every levelâfrom college, to Single-A, Double-A, Triple-A, and the Major Leagues.
Over the years, he has shared the booth with a pair of Baseball Hall of Fame broadcasters, 2011 Ford C. Frick Award winner Dave Van Horne with the Marlins and 2005 honoree Jerry Coleman with the Padres. In Boston, Glenn worked alongside Frick Award finalist and Red Sox Hall of Famer Joe Castiglione.
Geffner began his baseball career as the voice of the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League. His television work includes handling the play-by-play for the New England Sports Network's coverage of Red Sox Minor League baseball during his time in Boston as well as serving as host and reporter for a variety of Red Sox and Padres programming during his 11 seasons with those clubs.
He has two World Series championship rings (Boston, 2004 and 2007) and a National League championship ring (San Diego, 1998).
Geffner is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. It was at Northwestern where he began his broadcasting career, calling Big Ten baseball, football and basketball for the Wildcats.
Glenn and his wife Christine reside in Weston with their 3 children: Corey, Gregg and Caroline.
Felo Ramírez has been the Spanish "Voice of the Marlins" since the birth of the franchise in 1993. He has called all of the Club's five no-hitters by Al Leiter (1996), Kevin Brown (1997), A.J. Burnett (2001), Anibal Sanchez (2006) and Henderson Alvarez (2013), as well as the 1997 and 2003 championship seasons.
As one of the most recognizable voices in sports broadcasting, Ramírez was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on August 5, 2001 as the Ford C. Frick Award winner, a tribute presented each year by the National Baseball Hall of Fame to a broadcaster for "major contributions to the game of baseball."
For more than 35 years, he has been the play-by-play voice of professional baseball in Puerto Rico, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Ramírez's baseball coverage on CMQ Radio in Habana, Cuba (1953-61), was highly regarded among journalists in Latin America. Felo has been the voice of, all but nine, Caribbean World Series since 1949.
A true pioneer of baseball broadcasting in his native Cuba, Ramírez was the first Hispanic broadcaster to have his narration included in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with his call of Hank Aaron's 715th home run, his call of Roberto Clemente's 3000th hit and Don Larsen's perfect game during Game 5 of the 1956 World Series.
He has lent his voice to more than 32 World Series and All-Star Games, and was recognized by former Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in 1980 for his extensive contribution to promoting baseball in Latin America from the broadcast booth.
Felo Ramírez is also a member of the Puerto Rican National Sports Museum (class of 2004). A life-size statue of Felo was erected during the inaugural event of the National Sports Museum in Guaynabo, PR, commemorating his valuable contributions to the game of baseball. In 2010, Felo was inducted as an honoree member of the Latin American Hall of Fame in the Dominican Republican.
Rafael Ramírez Arias resides in Miami, FL.
Quintana returns for his 16th full season as the Marlins' Spanish play-by-play announcer. Besides radio, Quintana serves as the main sports anchor/producer for WJAN41 América Teve in Miami.
With more than 30 years of broadcasting experience, Quintana began his career as a journalist writing for several Cuban national sports magazines and newspapers. Over the airwaves, Quintana served as a commentator and play-by-play announcer for the providence of Las Villas' radio network.
Quintana worked for TV Cubana (1980-1993) as a sports commentator and play-by-play announcer for several national and international championships including baseball, volleyball, basketball, and boxing, among other sports.
After acquiring political asylum from the Venezuelan Republic, Quintana worked as sports analyst and play-by-play announcer for Cadena Super Suave as well as serving as the official play-by-play announcer for the "Tigres de Aragua", of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.
Quintana was selected by fans as the Most Popular Sports Commentator as well as one of the 10 Most Popular Artists in Cuba. He is also a member of the National Cuban Hall of Fame (Class of 2007) for his contributions to the sports journalism field and was named the Miami Life Awards Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 2008 & 2009. He was awarded the Premio Revista Carteles XXVIII edition as the "Best Sports Announcer in 2016.
Quintana received his bachelor's degree in Physical Education and Sports, with a specialization in baseball from Instituto Superior de Cultura Física. Quintana also served as pitching coach for several baseball national championships in Cuba.
Yiki and his wife, Lizet, reside in Miami, Fla.
Todd Hollandsworth has joined the Marlins on-air talent for the 2017 season on FOX Sports Florida. In his new role, Hollandsworth will serve as the full-time color analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Rich Waltz in the broadcast booth. Hollandsworth, a member of the 2003 World Series Champion Florida Marlins, comes to FOX Sports Florida from Comcast SportsNet Chicago, where he spent the past seven seasons as a television analyst covering the Cubs. Since 2014, he's also served as co-host on MLB Network Radio's The Leadoff Spot show on SiriusXM. During the 2008 season, Hollandsworth filled in as Comcast SportsNet's Cubs studio analyst on numerous occasions, in addition to making regular appearances on CSN's weeknight sports discussion program, Chicago Tribune Live.
Hollandsworth played 12 seasons in the Major Leagues and was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the third round of the 1991 MLB Draft. In his first full season with the Dodgers in 1996, Hollandsworth was named the National League Rookie of the Year when he hit .291 with 12 home runs and 59 RBI in 149 games. That season, he led all NL rookies in hits, doubles, home runs, RBI and stolen bases. His 12-year MLB career included stints with the Dodgers, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.


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Guernsey County Youth Commission, 9 a.m., Guernsey County Department of Job and Family Services. For information, call 439-0334.
Guernsey County Historical Society, 7 p.m., Guernsey County Museum. Election of officers will take place.
Guernsey County District Public Library Board of Trustees, 4 p.m., Library Administration Building meeting room.
Bridge Club, 8:45 to 11:45 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Center, Cambridge. For more information call 439-6681.
Lift for Life, 4 p.m., Community HealthLink. For information call, 439-8187.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., St. Johns Episcopal Church, 1025 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge.
Narcotics Anonymous, 8 p.m., open text book discussion, Addison Room at Southeastern Med.
Cambridge Area Family Al-Anon Group, 7:45 p.m., The Salvation Army, Dewey Avenue, Cambridge.
Haven of Hope victims support group, 6-8 p.m., 1109 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge. For information call 439-7233.
Grocery bingo, 1 p.m., Secrest Center, Senecaville.
Guernsey County commissioners, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., commissioners office, Cambridge.
Circle of Angels, 6 p.m., United Methodist Church, Quaker City.
Cambridge Rotary Club, noon, Holiday Inn, Cambridge.
Boy Scout Troop 526, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, Cambridge.
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Tai Chi (ancient form of self-defense), 10:30-11:30 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. Class is designed to improve balance, muscle tone, and increase energy. Cost is $15 for six weeks. For information or to register, call the Southeastern Med VIP office, 439-8187.
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE director of cricket John Bracewell is rubbing his hands at the prospect of his side taking on the South Africans in a one-day match at Bristol next Wednesday, August 22. The former New Zealand head coach is determined to put one over on the tourists, who will be finalising their preparations for a five-match ODI series against England, starting just two days after their visit to the County Ground.
But Bracewell also believes the match will be a tremendous learning experience for Gloucestershire's young squad, as well as providing a feast of entertainment for home supporters.
He said: "South Africa are becoming a formidable one-day side. Their bowling attack is gathering the ability to be successful in all forms of cricket and I am looking forward to seeing our guys tested by the likes of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.
"They are starting to be up there with the Lillee-Thomson, Marshall-Holding fast bowling partnerships and they instigate fear through pace, hostility and, above all, control.
"As far as their batting is concerned, of all the great players in the world, I think A.B.de Villiers is an absolute star of one-day cricket.
"His ability to find space in the field and also hit the ball out of the ground is something to behold.
"I hope that first and foremost we are competitive because it is always a challenge facing top international opposition and we will set out to win the game.
"Secondly, South Africa are one of the most professional units in world cricket at the moment, so I hope our players watch how they operate.
"The best teams not only have talent, but put together a lot of those one per centers to make the difference. The sides who deal in detail are the ones really worth watching."
It says a lot about Bracewell that even at an advanced stage in his own career he will be looking to pick up some coaching tips from the tour game.
He said: "I shall be looking at how their coach Gary Kirsten operates, even though he is younger and less experienced than I am.
"There is nothing wrong with people being younger than you and you looking up to them. Gary has some very special skills that I can glean information from."
Bracewell expects the tourists to field a very strong side so close to the start of the ODI series.
He said: "They will be treating the tour game as a serious preparation for the one-day series against England so our supporters will have the opportunity to see some of the best cricketers in the world gathered together."
Tickets are available from Gloucestershire CCC at advance prices of £15 for adults, £5 for under-16s and £32 for a family of four (two adults, two under-16s). There is also a group offer to buy tickets for £10 each when you buy five or more. Supporters can call the ticket phone line on 0117 910 8010 or buy online via www.gloscricket.co.uk Gloucestershire need to beat Lancashire in their final home group game of the Clydesdale Bank 40 at Bristol on Sunday (1.45pm).
They will be boosted by the return of all-rounder Will Gidman, who was named in the squad to face Kent in the County Championship this week after being kept on the sidelines for the last month with a side injury.
James Fuller has also recovered from a side injury, but fellow seamers Ian Saxelby (knee) and Paul Muchall (back) are doubtful after picking up injuries in the four-day game against Hampshire last week.
Group leaders Lancashire, who are three points ahead of Gloucestershire having played a game less, will book their place in the semi-finals with a win.
Gloucestershire's most realistic chance of qualifying is by finishing as the best runner-up from the three groups, meaning they still have to win their last two games.


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Family and friends of Stonar School pupil India Hedley, who died last August, aged 13, took part in a charity run in her name to raise money for the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal.
India's parents Alasdair and Julie organised the run with Clare Ward in gratitude for support received from air ambulance paramedics. Paramedic Matt Baskerville, who had attended to India, also took part in the run.
Mrs Ward, who had been a close friend of Mrs Hedley since their childhood in Lacock, offered to run three half marathons to raise money for the appeal in India's name. She completed the Chippenham half marathon in one hour 47 minutes and the Devizes one a minute quicker, but does not know her time in the third effort, from her home village of Urchfont to the air support headquarters in Devizes.
She said: "Despite bad weather, it was a great occasion and we have raised so much in India's memory."
Mrs Ward set off from the top green in Urchfont with friends Zoe Rucker and Rohaise des Veaux, and Gill Johnson, a teacher from the Atworth school.
Mr and Mrs Hedley, their other children, Poppy, 11, and Alexander, seven, joined the runners at All Cannings on the route to the air support unit at police headquarters in London Road, along with other friends.
Mr Hedley, who is in charge of the international section at estate agents Hamptons, said: "We are so grateful for all the support. India would be delighted."
Mrs Ward has already received almost £9,000 in pledges on her Justgiving website – www.justgiving. com/c-ward and it is still open for donations. Mr Hedley has set up his own sponsorship fund and his total now stands at £3,700.


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June 2013 Top500 List Published: Xeon Phi Takes Top Spotby Ryan Smith on 6/17/2013 1:10 PM EST
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yougotkicked - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkWow, if you'd told me Titan would be usurped in the next top500 list I would not have been terribly surprised, technology advances. If you'd told me China would take it's place with a system nearly twice as powerful, built on Xeon Phi cards, I would have laughed. I have to wonder just how much this cost, IIRC Titan cost hundreds of millions just to upgrade an underlying structure, this is all new and built on non-commercially available parts. Reply
testbug00 - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkHow much did it cost China? Probably not to much.
How much did it cost Intel? Probably quite a bit. Reply
karasaj - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkI'm not sure why it would cost Intel anything... I'm pretty sure they're lining their pockets right now :) Reply
chizow - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkTitan cost about $60M originally and about $100M to upgrade based on the various news articles you'll find quoting the ORNL director.
Looks like the Chinese used brute force with Tianhe-2 though, less than 2x the throughput at over 2x the power consumption. Reply
hammer256 - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkIt's not a trivial engineering feat to maintain almost the same level of efficiency while almost doubling performance. Pretty impressive.
Gotta say, Xeon Phi looks pretty promising. Reply
testbug00 - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkHaving talked with someone who does HPC and has worked with GK110 silicon + other video cards i can say it is not :/
It has some impressive parts, but to many issues (in this generation) i think in 3-4 generations it will be promising. Reply
hammer256 - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkOh? If possible, can you elaborate on the issues with Phi? I'm super curious. Thanks :) Reply
marimvibe - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkMeh. The difference between a lot of these systems is just number of cabinets, essentially. Doubling performance with the same number of chips, yeah, probably more power. But when you're just talking about a whole mess of cabinets tied together with QDR Infiniband, meh. Doubling performance means double power, same efficiency. Reply
TeXWiller - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkThis system does have a custom interconnect, though. Reply
fteoath64 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkThe inter-cabinet interconnects are the secret to keeping up the scaling of the machine in terms of total number of nodes and total throughput. There are many solutions to interconnects although the driver code to tie them together are really the most difficult thing to do. As far as Xeon Phi chips, since the West were lackluster in its adoption, the Chinese are willing to sweep them up to built this beast. And there will be a few more similar ones built for Universities in China as well. it shows their technological progress to date and how come the Japanese are not competing in this space ?. Fujitsu is still a supercomputer builder. They probably contributed to the design of this machine and remain low keyed just to be safe ... Well done China, you have proven one point here. Reply
marimvibe - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkIt does, but compared to the two twelve core Xeons and 3 Phis, the interconnect power consumption is going to be miniscule.
The BlueGene/Q systems are still my favorite. They've actually hit 14 PFlops in a benchmark run of a real application (not just Linpack,) and have actually used a million cores at once. The Sequoia system has as much memory as all of Tianhe-2. Until we get Graph500 results for Titan or Tianhe-2, I'm not going to be impressed. The entire architecture of BlueGene - the chips, the boards, the network topology, etc., are all designed to be scalable. Titan, Tianhe-2, etc., just hook everything up to a big router. Give me a torus over a fat tree any day. Reply
Ktracho - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkI wonder how much of the performance improvement is due to the Xeon CPUs vs. the AMD CPUs in the Titan. I've heard AMD does better in terms of floating-point performance per dollar, and perhaps even FP performance per watt, but I would imagine Intel could do better in terms of absolute FP performance. In other words, perhaps the increase in performance is not really due using Xeon Phi vs. NVIDIA Tesla, and maybe the decreased efficiency is due (at least partially) to Xeon CPUs? In any case, I don't think Cray is allowed to sell their computers to China. Reply
protomech - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkHere's a nice counter-point: In 2004 I helped build one of the bigger TOP500 computers. We saw about 20 MFLOPS/watt per node, 16 MFLOPS/watt for the entire system (not counting power used for facility cooling). Reply
hammer256 - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkSo 2 orders of magnitude improvement in efficiency in 9 years. That's pretty sweet. Reply
marimvibe - Monday, June 17, 2013 - linkGraph500 or GTFO. Reply
1008anan - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - linkRyan, it might be worth mentioning that the Tianhe-2 represents the first introduction of multi-socket Xeon Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2692.Xeon Ivy Bridge E5s also powered the 54th and 330th fastest supercomputers on this list. No Xeon Ivy Bridge E5 models are listed on the latest Intel Price List.
Tianhe-2 is the first ever top 10 supercomputer that consists entirely of processors fabricated at 22 nm.
To my surprise there was no Oracle Sparc T5 supercomputer in the 500 list.
Some other interesting observations:
1) only 26 petaflop supercomputers on this list, up from 23 petaflop supercomputers in the last list. (would have thought that more than 3 petaflop supercomputers were purchased in 7 months)
2) the 500th most powerful supercomputer only had 96.6 teraflops, up a measly 26% from 76.5 teraflops in the last list. This is the second straight list with modest growth in teraflops for the 500th most powerful system. What far will this trend go?
3) The sum of computational power for all 500 supercomputer systems was 223 petaflops, up 38% from 162 petaflops in the November, 2012. (the November 2012 list showed in increase of 31% from 123 petaflops in the June, 2012 list)
4) By performance, the most powerful supercomputer had 15.2% of the combined petaflops of all 500 supercomputers. This is almost certainly a record high percentage since the 500 list was first introduced in 1993. Reply


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To determine the frequency of nocturnal eating (NE) and sleep related eating disorder (SRED) in restless legs syndrome (RLS) versus psychophysiological insomnia (INS), and the relationship of these conditions with dopaminergic and sedative-hypnotic medications.
Prospective case series.
Sleep disorders center.
Newly diagnosed RLS or INS.
RLS or INS pharmacotherapy with systematic follow up interview for NE/SRED.
Patients presenting with RLS (n = 88) or INS (n = 42) were queried for the presence of NE and SRED. RLS patients described nocturnal eating (61%) and SRED (36%) more frequently than INS patients (12% and 0%; both p < 0.0001). These findings were not due to arousal frequency, as INS patients were more likely to have prolonged nightly awakenings (93%) than RLS patients (64%; p = 0.003). Among patients on sedative-hypnotics, amnestic SRED and sleepwalking were more common in the setting of RLS (80%) than INS (8%; p < 0.0001). Further, NE and SRED in RLS were not secondary to dopaminergic therapy, as RLS patients demonstrated a substantial drop (68% to 34%; p = 0.0026) in the frequency of NE after dopamine agents were initiated, and there were no cases of dopaminergic agents inducing novel NE or SRED.
NE is common in RLS and not due to frequent nocturnal awakenings or dopaminergic agents. Amnestic SRED occurs predominantly in the setting of RLS mistreatment with sedating agents. In light of previous reports, these findings suggest that nocturnal eating is a non-motor manifestation of RLS with several clinical implications discussed here.
Howell MJ; Schenck CH. Restless nocturnal eating: a common feature of Willis-Ekbom Syndrome (RLS). J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(4):413-419.
Restless legs syndrome, or Willis-Ekbom Syndrome (labeled RLS), is characterized by an underlying discomfort, primarily in the lower extremities that compels the afflicted to move. These symptoms are relieved, although only momentarily, with movement and may interfere with sleep initiation or maintenance.1
RLS has been associated with non-motor phenomena. In particular, patients with RLS often describe other comorbidities such as mood and anxiety disorders,2 as well as other nocturnal compulsions such as nocturnal smoking that interfere with sleep.3 Further, patients with these non-motor manifestations of RLS have more severe motor restlessness as measured by the International RLS Rating Scale.3
Recently, an investigation demonstrated a high frequency of dysfunctional nocturnal eating (SRED) in patients with RLS. This community-based case-control study found that 33 of 100 RLS patients met criteria for SRED compared to only 1% of normal population controls.4 The authors pondered whether SRED was related to underlying RLS brain pathology or whether it was merely "killing time" during prolonged nocturnal awakenings, as previously suggested.5 Conversely it has been suggested SRED in RLS may be due to anti-RLS dopaminergic agents.6,7
Most investigations of nocturnal eating (NE; eating after an arousal from sleep, prior to terminal awakening) have focused upon SRED. However, we have noticed subtler non-dysfunctional forms of NE, commonly in the setting of RLS. Also, we have noted that many cases of zolpidem-induced SRED had been originally misdiagnosed as having psychophysiological insomnia (INS), a condition for which a benzodiazepine receptor agonist was prescribed, but later noted to have underlying motor restlessness as the cause of their sleep difficulties.
Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: This study compared the prevalence of NE and SRED in RLS to INS, a disorder with similar sleep disruption to determine whether nocturnal feeding behavior in RLS is merely "killing time." We then prospectively determined therapeutic response with dopaminergic and sedative medications.
Study Impact: TThis study expands the clinical manifestation of RLS to include restless eating and proves that NE and SRED can be relieved by dopaminergic therapy. Further this study suggests that other parasomnias (such as sleepwalking) may frequently be due to the mistreatment of RLS with sedative agents.
To establish whether NE is common in RLS and whether NE is a product of frequent nocturnal awakenings, we compared the frequency of NE as well as SRED among patients presenting with RLS and INS, a distinct condition of cognitive hypervigilance that manifests with frequent nocturnal awakenings. Moreover, we reviewed prior sedative-hypnotic exposure, either benzodiazepines or benzodiazepine receptor agonists, to determine whether RLS patients were more likely to manifest amnestic SRED or other sleepwalking behaviors than patients with INS. Finally, we followed RLS patients prospectively to evaluate the effect of dopaminergic agents on NE and SRED.
Consecutive adult patients who presented to the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Sleep Disorders Center or the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center with a complaint of difficulty sleeping were screened for either RLS or INS. All patients completed a 9-page comprehensive sleep questionnaire that evaluated sleep and circadian rhythm phenomena, in addition to surveying for medical comorbidities and neuropsychiatric disease. Current and past medications were documented. One investigator (MJH) performed all clinical evaluations, using a structured interview and examination. ICSD-2 criteria were used to diagnose both RLS and INS.1 Patients were excluded if they met criteria for both syndromes or if they had other causes of sleep initiation or maintenance failure. The most common disorder of exclusion was Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder, Delayed Sleep Phase Type.
Once diagnosed with either RLS or INS, using a structured 1-page nocturnal eating questionnaire, patients were queried about the frequency and characterization of both nocturnal arousals and nocturnal eating. A prolonged nocturnal arousal was defined as lasting > 5 minutes. Previous exposure to dopaminergic or sedative-hypnotic medication was specifically asked and documented.
A patient was considered to have NE if they admitted to nocturnal eating at least once a month; inquiries were subsequently made into whether the feeding behavior was dysfunctional. SRED was diagnosed if recurrent nocturnal eating was present with one or more of the following criteria: (1) ingestion of unusual or inedible substances, (2) difficulty falling back asleep or nonrestorative sleep, (3) sleep related injury or potentially injurious behaviors, (4) morning anorexia, (5) or adverse health consequences.1
If NE was present, the food types and subjective nature of the feeding episodes were documented. In particular, the patient's hunger, memory, and control of NE were all quantified. Bed partner report, if available, was also gathered. Further, RLS NE patients were asked whether they had restlessness symptoms at the time of the NE.
Both RLS and INS patients were then treated in a standardized fashion and followed prospectively. The patients sleep initiation and maintenance symptoms, restlessness, as well as NE and SRED were serially evaluated with a structured follow-up interview.
RLS patients were overwhelmingly more likely to demonstrate NE and SRED than patients with INS, despite being less likely to have prolonged nocturnal awakenings (Table 1). Further, patients with RLS were far more likely to have amnestic SRED or sleepwalking when exposed to sedative-hypnotics than patients with INS (Tables 2, 3). Examples of other parasomnia behaviors among RLS but not INS patients on sedating agents included amnestic sexual behavior and smoking.
RLS versus psychophysiological insomnia
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Prior sedative exposure
Amnestic NE and sedative1 exposure
Of the 12 RLS patients with sedative-induced SRED or sleepwalking, all had previously been misdiagnosed and treated as having insomnia. Eleven of the 12 discontinued BRA once the diagnosis of RLS was made. All 11 patients described a cessation of amnestic nocturnal events after stopping the BRA, with complete elimination of NE in 3 patients, while the remaining 8 patients had persisting wakeful NE that was subsequently responsive to dopaminergic therapy (see dopaminergic treatment below). Conversely, in most patients with INS, treatment (either CBT-I or sedative-hypnotic) was well tolerated. Only 2 INS patients had a report of BRA induced amnestic behavior, both isolated to one event, and are still on sedative-hypnotics.
Hunger data were available on 35 RLS patients with NE. Only 31% of these patients described hunger prior to the nocturnal feeding behaviors. Patients often described that they had an urge to eat that prevented them from falling asleep, but once food was ingested, sleep was reinitiated. Conversely, of the 3 INS patients for whom hunger data were available, 2 described hunger as a predominant driver for NE.
Among the RLS patients, gender was evenly distributed between NE+ and NE- patients, and there were non-statistically significant differences in age, BMI, and ferritin levels. RLS patients who were NE were more likely to report prolonged nightly awakenings than RLS patients who were not NE (Table 4).
RLS NE+ versus RLS NE-
Prospective therapy data indicates that NE is reduced by correction of RLS with dopaminergic agents (Tables 5, 6). Several different classes of RLS therapies were used, including gabaergics and opiods, but dopaminergic treatment data were available on 44 patients. A striking reduction of both NE (30/44 to 15/44; p = 0.0026) and SRED (18/44 to 9/44; p = 0.063) was noted, and only one patient had a worsening of NE. Among RLS patients without NE there were no reports of de novo NE once dopaminergics were started. Among INS patients, 1 of the 2 patients with NE continued to have nondysfunctional NE after treatment with zolpidem. There were no de novo reports of NE among INS patients once pharmacotherapy was started.
Targeted pharmacology data
Dopaminergic treatment and NE
Among RLS patients who had resolution of motor symptoms, all NE ceased as well. Only patients who continued to have motor symptoms also continued to have NE. Several of the patients (6/9) who described no improvement in NE were unable to tolerate dopaminergic therapy. Nausea and impulsive (non-eating) behaviors such as online shopping and excessive ethanol ingestion were cited as reasons dopaminergic treatment was discontinued.
"They often have to get up and walk, ′like a caged bear,' to quote one of my patients, or they go into the kitchen and get something to eat."—Karl-Axel Ekbom, Neurology, 1960
This study augments previous reports, including Ekbom's seminal 1960 publication,8 that NE is pervasive among patients with RLS (see quote above). Further, we have demonstrated that NE is not merely "killing time" as previously suggested,5 because patients with INS were more likely to have prolonged nightly awakenings than patients with RLS but less likely to have NE. As expected, amnestic SRED was common in the setting of sedative-hypnotic use among RLS patients but not INS patients. Finally, our prospective data demonstrate that contrary to previous speculation, dopaminergic agents improve NE and SRED in RLS.
This study and a critical review of the literature suggest an intimate relationship between NE and RLS. Here the evidence and implications of such a relationship is presented.
RLS is a disorder affecting approximately 8% to 10% of the population and thus a common cause of sleep initiation and maintenance failure.1,9,10 Both RLS and SRED are more common in women.1,9,11,12
While our study demonstrated the high frequency of NE in RLS, RLS has been commonly noted among patients with SRED.13–15 This finding has been particularly profound among patients with medication-induced SRED.16–21 In fact, even among SRED cases where RLS frequency was not addressed, there is a peculiar incidence of conditions frequently comorbid with RLS, such as Parkinson disease22 and narcolepsy.23
Like nondysfunctional nocturnal eating (a non-pathological variation of SRED), RLS may be mild or only minimally interfering with sleep onset. Further, RLS sensations are often difficult for patients to define, and current symptomatic criteria are not easily translated between languages. Moreover, the pervasive use of opioid and gabaergic agents may intermittently mask symptoms, and thus RLS may go unrecognized during routine clinical evaluation.24 While these drugs suppress motor symptoms, they may be taken without the ideal timing or dosing needed to optimize sleep maintenance, allowing for breakthrough nocturnal phenomena such as NE. Thus, the actual prevalence of the RLS clinical spectrum is likely larger than current estimates. These findings bear special significance for the obesity pandemic since according to this study and others,4 the majority of RLS patients have NE, and more than a third have SRED.
Intriguingly, the compulsive nature of NE strikingly resembles the underlying RLS feeling (often poorly described) of discomfort in the lower extremities that compels movement. Motor activity relieves the discomfort, and sleep is unable to be reinitiated until this urge is addressed.1 Several of our patients described a premonition that eating would assist in the promotion of sleep. One compelling example was a 73-year-old female with a longstanding history of RLS who noticed that eating cookies would allow for sleep to be reinitiated. Interestingly, this behavior was noted in her mother who also suffered from RLS.
Previous reports of SRED noted that patients described a compulsion to eat, without hunger, which interfered with sleep maintenance. Once food was ingested, the feeling abated and sleep was able to be reinitiated.1,4,13 A more recent case noted a 74-year-old woman who originally presented 20 years prior with uncontrollable RLS and SRED. Both the nocturnal eating and RLS were well controlled with various combinations of opioids and dopaminergics. Then with the eruption of a right lower extremity zoster, the patient had a relapse of both RLS (bilateral motor symptoms) as well as distressful nocturnal eating leading to weight gain. Compellingly, the RLS and SRED resolved in parallel with the resolution of skin lesions. Medications were not adjusted in the period immediately prior to, during, or after the zoster event.20
The majority of patients in the original SRED series, where NE behaviors were predominantly amnestic, were taking sedative-hypnotic medication.13 Conversely, in a later series of 26 patients with full consciousness during nocturnal eating, all were sedative free,15 prompting the suggestion that amnesia in SRED is predominantly medication induced.25 Our investigation helps confirm that amnestic SRED is unusual in the absence of sedative-hypnotic medication (Table 3).
Further, our study demonstrates that among RLS patients NE is pervasive (61%). Conceptually, if RLS patients are predisposed for NE, then amnestic SRED would be the expected result when treated with agents that suppress memory as well as executive function. Thus it was not a surprise that 80% of our RLS patients who had previously been exposed to sedative-hypnotics had a history of amnestic SRED or other sleepwalking behavior (Table 2).
Nearly all of the sedative exposures that induced amnestic NE were from BRA. Only one RLS patient, who also incidentally had fully conscious NE without sedation, had fully amnestic NE induced by a benzodiazepine (clonazepam). These findings are of particular relevance, as benzodiazepines are occasionally prescribed for the treatment of RLS. Further investigations are needed to evaluate the frequency by which benzodiazepines may induce amnestic NE among patients with RLS.
While RLS is a condition distinct from INS, it can be easily misdiagnosed and thus mistreated as INS. In 2002, the first case series of 5 patients with zolpidem-induced amnestic SRED was reported. Incidentally, all 5 patients were noted to have RLS.16 Others have commented that RLS appears to be ubiquitous in the setting of zolpidem-induced SRED.21 In fact, we are unaware of any zolpidem-induced SRED report where RLS was explicitly considered and subsequently not discovered.16–21
Tellingly, NE (both conscious and amnestic) among our INS patients was rare (Table 3). Among our 25 INS patients treated with either a benzodiazepine or benzodiazepine receptor agonist, only 2 reported amnestic behavior. One patient described a prolonged SW event during which she left her home and vandalized an apartment complex with spray paint. Another patient described one episode of amnestic nocturnal eating 5 years prior. Both patients claimed that the events never recurred and are still on sedating medications. Prospectively, there have been no reports of amnestic behaviors among INS patients treated with sedative-hypnotics after an average treatment follow-up of 6 months.
These findings are consistent with previous reports where SRED, sleepwalking, and other complex sleep behaviors are rare (1% or less) in zolpidem-treated INS patients when RLS has been carefully excluded.26 Thus we conclude that in the absence of motor restlessness, sedative-hypnotics are safe agents for INS.
Intriguingly, among the 5 NE positive INS patients in this study, 2 reported a history consistent with atypical RLS. One patient described a family history of RLS as well as her own remote history of motor restlessness from several years prior. The other INS patient reported a need to ambulate around the bedroom in order to "cool off" from the heat of his cancer-related night sweats.
Compulsive nocturnal eating is not unexpected as investigators have described other non-motor nocturnal urges. Among 6 patients with NE and nocturnal smoking, 5 were noted to have RLS. These patients claimed that they would wake up and be unable to return to sleep without eating and/or smoking.27 In a follow-up study looking for sleep-related smoking among RLS patients there was a six-fold higher prevalence than among matched controls (12% versus 2%). Interestingly, among RLS patients with nocturnal smoking, SRED was common (83%), and both phenomena began simultaneously. In our study, consistent with these findings, patients with NE often described that NE developed in concert with motor restlessness.
Non-motor manifestations of RLS have more severe motor restlessness as measured by the International RLS Rating Scale.3 We noted that RLS patients with NE were more likely to have more frequent awakenings than RLS patients without NE (Table 4), consistent with the suggestion that non-motor manifestations of RLS are markers of more severe disease.
While we did not formally survey for nocturnal smoking, 3 RLS patients (all with NE or SRED) volunteered that they smoked on a nightly basis after an arousal from sleep. All 3 stated that the urge to smoke was different from daytime smoking urges in that they felt a profound sense the smoking was necessary to reinitiate sleep. This is not unexpected as cigarette smoking results in modulation of CNS dopamine activity,28 and thus may be therapeutic in RLS. None of our patients with INS reported nocturnal smoking behaviors.
Intriguingly 2 of our patients with RLS and NE described other nocturnal compulsive behaviors. The first patient reported that in parallel to her RLS symptoms, she had the peculiar urge to pick off her toenail polish; the second needed to look up bits of geographic trivia on the internet. These behaviors were not present during the daytime and occurred in parallel to motor restlessness. After several minutes of toenail polish picking or, for example, identifying the location of an island off the coast of Texas, they were able to fall back asleep. The first patient had noticed that all nocturnal compulsions abated with opioid therapy and the second with dopaminergics. We suspect that more thorough investigations of RLS patients will reveal other nocturnal compulsive behaviors.
Similar to RLS,1 NE and SRED are related to dysfunction in the CNS dopamine circuits. Dopamine mediates behaviors such as motor restlessness, smoking, and binge eating.1,29 A polysomnography (PSG) study of 35 SRED patients demonstrated that 77% had PSG confirmation of wakeful RLS and periodic limb movements (PLM) during sleep.15 Further, rhythmic masticatory muscle activity (RMMA) and bruxism are dopaminergic phenomena15,30 associated with RLS31 and commonly seen in SRED.13,15
It has been suggested that nocturnal eating in RLS patients may be caused by dopaminergic agents as these agents are known to trigger impulsive behaviors such as gambling.6,7 Conversely, dopamine agents suppress feeding behavior in animal models.32
This report, following up previous investigations, provides strong evidence that dopaminergic agents help treat, and are not the cause of NE. A review of the original SRED series noted that dopaminergic therapy resolved the dysfunctional eating in 7 of 8 patients in whom the treatment was attempted.13 Later, 2 cases of SRED were noted to resolve with levodopa (in combination with buproprion and trazodone).33 In a separate survey of patients with both SRED and RLS, 10 reported that NE emerged prior to or concomitant with motor restlessness, and none reported that nocturnal eating emerged after the start of dopaminergic therapy. Also, RLS patients with SRED were not significantly more likely to use dopaminergic drugs than RLS patients without SRED. In fact, subjects whose nocturnal eating symptoms were under control were more likely to be on these agents than subjects who continued to have nocturnal eating.4 Further, a double-blind treatment trial of pramipexole for SRED demonstrated improved sleep and reduced nighttime activity, although, admittedly, nocturnal eating ingestions were not reduced in this small study.34
In the series published here, we monitored therapy outcome in 44 RLS patients previously unexposed to dopaminergics with and without NE. In this population, the frequency of both NE (68% to 34%; p = 0.0026) and SRED (41% to 20%; p = 0.063) diminished by half with dopaminergics. Further, only one patient reported an exacerbation of NE after dopamine agents were initiated, and there were no cases of dopaminergics inducing de novoNE (Tables 5, 6).
Tellingly, our patients frequently noted a resolution of NE in parallel to resolution of RLS motor symptoms. One example was of a 63-year-old male who described a 10-year history of motor restlessness along with compulsive nocturnal eating that had resulted in weight gain. Both phenomena interfered with sleep onset and maintenance, and both had responded to 0.5 mg of pramipexole; however, augmentation became a problem, and dosages were increased to 3 mg. During periods of breakthrough motor symptomatology, he noted a greater frequency of nocturnal eating with subsequent weight gain. Gabapentin was added but provided only modest additional benefit, and he eventually failed both pramipexole and ropinerole due to augmentation and what he described as distressing sexual urges. He was subsequently treated with methadone 10 mg, which he states permanently resolved the motor restlessness and nocturnal eating.
Importantly, no patients with resolution of motor symptoms on dopaminergic agents had a persistence of NE.
Finally, treatment with dopaminergic agents appears to improve other non-motor manifestations of RLS. In a previous report, all RLS patients who had resolved nocturnal smoking had been treated with dopaminergic agonists.3 One of our RLS patients with nocturnal smoking was started on dopaminergics and reported a resolution of nocturnal, although not daytime smoking (the other 2 nocturnal smoking patients noted above were lost to follow-up).
A statement is necessary regarding the potential implication that these findings have to either unify or further distinguish the two major conditions of dysfunctional eating during the main sleep period. There are notable similarities and distinctions between NES (not to be confused with NE) and SRED. Both share a chronic course, familial associations, comorbid neuropsychiatric disease, and are frequently associated with weight gain and obesity.35 Investigations have suggested that NES is a circadian delay in meal timing resulting in evening hyperphagia, with or without nocturnal eating, and morning anorexia. NES is currently diagnosed if 25% of food intake is consumed after the evening meal (evening hyperphagia) and/or there are at least 2 episodes of nocturnal eating per week with clinical consequences.36
SRED has historically been distinguished from NES by amnestic eating alone without evening hyperphagia. However, changes in the definition of SRED1 expanded SRED to include non-amnestic eating increasing the overlap between these 2 conditions. Thus at this point, the only feeding behavior that is undisputably labelled SRED by eating disorder investigators is unconscious or partially conscious nocturnal eating, which as we have demonstrated, appears to predominantly occur in the setting of sedative-hypnotic medications prescribed for RLS. Thus it is plausible that the most "pure SRED" cases are in fact related to adverse events from medication misapplications. This hypothesis can be tested in prospective studies.
The purported pathophysiological mechanisms of both NES and SRED are similar and complementary. NES is attributed to an abnormality in the circadian timing of caloric intake relative to sleep, while SRED has been characterized as a breakdown in nocturnal fasting mechanisms.35,36 Of course, these explanations are not mutually exclusive, and in this regard the high frequency of NE in RLS may, in fact, explain the circadian hypothesis of NES. RLS symptoms, both motor and non-motor, have circadian fluctuations, which reach a symptomatic crescendo during the late evening in parallel with the abnormal nighttime feeding in NES.24,37 Only one study has looked into the incidence of both conditions among RLS patients and noted that compared to SRED (33%), NES was rare (3%).4 However, this study utilized a now outdated definition of NES, excluding many NES patients under the revised criteria, particularly those whose predominant feature would be nocturnal eating.38 One notable study39 investigated NES patients with PSG and demonstrated an increased number of awakenings and reduced sleep duration, suggesting an underlying sleep disrupting process. No comment was made regarding the presence or absence of RLS or periodic limb movements.
While we did not specifically survey for NES (i.e., did not systematically question about or quantitate evening hyperphagia), several of our RLS patients described evening hyperphagia, suggesting that these patients could also be given the diagnosis of NES. In fact, many of our RLS patients who reported evening hyperphagia did not have NE. Persuasively, these patients were more likely to have RLS symptoms limited to the evening, interfering with sleep initiation but not sleep maintenance.
Clearly further investigations of are needed in patients with abnormal nocturnal eating. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA), a method where a portable electronic device periodicially surveys appetite, food intake, sleep perception, and other symptoms, is an elegant method of evaluating circadian phenomena. EMA has been used by NES investigators40 and would be ideal for considering whether patients with SRED have evening hyperphagia and morning anorexia or whether NES patients have motor restlessness of RLS.
We speculate that NES and SRED may, in fact, be a unitary disorder, with restless nighttime eating existing on a spectrum and being interpreted differently by separate clinical fields. Regardless, collaborative investigations between sleep and eating disorder specialists will either unify these currently disparate disorders or with greater insight demonstrate fundamentally distinct pathologies. Engagement between collaborators will help reach the ultimate goal of identifying proper diagnoses and effective therapy for all patients.
Clinical investigations of disorders with symptomatic criteria such as RLS and INS are heavily dependent upon self-report. In the future more objective measurements such as with polysomnography for periodic limb movements, or EMA for diurnal variations in motor and non-motor phenomena, are needed to further define the relationship between RLS and nocturnal eating.
RLS is a common, diverse disorder with many associations such as renal disease, iron deficiency, neuropathy, and pregnancy. RLS may be further subtyped according to age of onset, family history, and treatment response. This study was not large enough to distinguish the prevalence of NE or SRED among these various subgroups. Future investigations are needed to help distinguish which RLS patients are at the highest risk for NE and SRED. These discoveries would be of particular therapeutic relevance, as benzodiazepines, which could potentially induce amnestic SRED, are often used in the treatment of RLS.
The evidence listed in Table 7 suggests that NE is often a non-motor manifestation of RLS and that mistreatment of RLS as INS is a crucial step in the pathogenesis of drug-induced SRED cases. The implications of establishing NE as a RLS symptom are then listed in Table 8.
The relationship between NE/SRED and RLS
The implications of a NE as a non-motor manifestation of RLS
This was not an industry supported study. The authors have indicated no financial conflicts of interest.
This work was performed at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and the University of Minnesota Medical Center Sleep Disorders Center
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