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The House Commerce and Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearings come three weeks after Firestone recalled 6.5 million tyres linked to up to 88 deaths, most involving Ford vehicles.
That the hearings begin just 24 hours after Congress returns from a summer recess signals how hot the issue is.
Mr Nasser (pictured) and Mr Ono - one with a reputation as a cost-cutting firebrand, the second steeped in reserve - will face Congress as pressure from safety groups and regulators mounts to assign blame and broaden the recall.
Mr Nasser last week reversed a plan to send only technical experts, when it became clear the hunt was as much about culpability as chemistry.
"These hearings are really the CEOs' public coming-out parties," said Michigan University automotive studies centre director David Cole.
"People know their names perhaps, but this will put more of a face out there."
The witness lists remained in flux into the evening. Mr Nasser and Mr Ono will testify at the House hearing and were invited to testify before the Senate subcommittee.
Senator Richard Shelby said other executives, not the CEOs, from both companies would testify before his panel, but Bridgestone said Mr Ono still planned to testify.
Each man will be asked to say what his company knew, and when, about reports of tread separations on ATX, ATX II and Wilderness tyres.
The first complaint was reported in 1992 to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a government agency that had 46 such complaints by the end of 1999. The number had swelled to about 1,450 last week.
The questioning is expected to be intense, particularly as to why the companies were discussing problems with the tyres overseas long before alerting US officials. Ford moved to replace some of the overseas tyres before the US recall.
Bridgestone told Ford in a March 1999 memo that Bridgestone did not want the world's number two vehicle maker to recall tyres in Saudi Arabia because the companies would have to notify US regulators, Representative Billy Tauzin claimed on CNBC's Rivera Live.
The Louisiana Republican is House subcommittee chairman.
"Whether or not they were legally obligated to notify US officials about the Saudi Arabia action is debatable," Mr Tauzin said. "Certainly they had a moral obligation."
Bridgestone public affairs vice-president Christine Karbowiak said the tyre maker did not agree with Ford's Saudi Arabia recall because "there was no evidence of a tyre design or manufacturing defect".
The companies last month blamed the tyre problems in Saudi Arabia on driving conditions.
"If Ford believed at the time there was a safety-related defect, it was Ford's obligation to comply with regulatory requirements," Ms Karbowiak said.
Ford insists Firestone played down the problem, delaying the recall and maintaining there was no concern with similar tyres in the US.
Ford spokesman Jon Harmon said: "Firestone assured us the day before this document that the Wilderness AT tyres were performing very well in the US."
Ford did not notify US regulators of the action because driving conditions, climate and driver usage were much different in the Middle East than in the US, Mr Harmon said.
"If these incidents had happened in the US at anywhere near the rate they happened in Saudi Arabia, we obviously would have notified NHTSA," Mr Harmon said.
Ford said its Dubai office notified headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1998 that workers there had been unable to get an explanation from Firestone about tread separations "for over a year".
Mr Tauzin said there may be plenty of blame to go around.
"Obviously this is a tyre failure problem, and you've got to go to the tyre manufacturer," he said on CNBC. Ford may have recommended too low a tyre pressure to reduce the risk that its sport utilities would roll over in an accident, he said.
"Then we have to take into account a federal agency - and perhaps Ford and perhaps Firestone - that failed to test these tyres at high speeds at these low pressures," he said. An aide to Mr Tauzin, Ken Johnson, said both companies asked for their CEOs to appear separately before the subcommittee.
Mr Nasser, who has worked for Ford on six continents and has been CEO since January 1999, has used commercials, interviews and news conferences to show the vehicle maker is aggressively moving to replace tyres. Mr Ono, who has spent most of his 42 years at parent Bridgestone Corp's Tokyo headquarters, has largely stayed out of the limelight.
Last week Mr Nasser gave the first public sign that the vehicle maker was losing patience with Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone/Firestone, a supplier with which it has shared almost a century of history.
By Friday, other Ford officials said they were "very disappointed" with their long-time supplier.
"The actions of Firestone from here on out will determine its relationship with Ford," said Ford spokesman Ken Zino. "The customers of Ford Motor Co will decide the fate of Firestone."
An analyst with Nextrend in California, Wes Brown, said: "Mr Nasser is going to do whatever he needs to do to get across, one, that Ford is doing everything it can as quickly as it can to address this problem and, two, that this is a tyre issue, not a vehicle design issue."
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Even now, in the last days of this horrendous campaign, we're amazed by fervent assertions coming from some progressives about Donald Trump. Here are three key myths:
Myth #1: "Trump can't win."
"A Trump presidency—made possible by his demagogic appeals to racism, misogyny, immigrant-bashing and Islamophobia—would empower the worst elements of U.S. society."
The more the establishment promotes the idea of Trump as a boogie-man, the worse Hillary's inevitable presidency is going be.
Uh oh everyone. Looks like you have to add Noam Chomsky to your list of "shillbots" now. Getting to be a pretty long list. Makes you wonder, almost.
Trump is going to win. Clinton has rendered many on the left completely oblivious to the real danger of Trump.
Clinton is a right wing war monger yes, but Trump represents a dangerous emboldening of the radical right domestically.
Either one could start WWIII, Hillary by design, Trump by accident. But if there is going to be a WWIII, I'd rather it be started by someone who looks like a genuine idiot/maniac, rather than someone who has the outward appearance of reasonableness. Because it will be easier to mobilize the world against the former, and we already can see that too much of the world is quite willing to let the latter option run wild.
Elect Hillary and your left leg gets cut off, elect Trump and your right leg gets cut off...some choice.
This article is posturing to blame third party voters if Trump wins, and blame Trump for Clinton's regressive agenda if she wins.
Whatever, the outcome on November 8, neither third party voters or Trump will deserve the blame. The blame will lie with the media and DNC who railroaded Clinton into the nomination despite polls during the primary confirming that Sanders would do better on November 8 than Clinton would against Trump or any of the other GOP primary contenders.
So are you saying that John Bolton is less of a hawk than Hillary? As in all presidential administrations, it is the people who surround the president, not the president, who call the shots. The people who will surround the president and the potential cabinet secretaries are more frightening than Trump. Sec. of State John Bolton? EPA Administrator, David Koch, Labor Secretary Charles Koch - with Don Blankenship as undersecretary for MSHA. Attorney General (or maybe DHS Secritarry) Joe Arpaio,... all likely under a Trump Administration.
In no way shape or form can a vote for MS Clinton be deemed a rational choice. Nor does it follow that a vote for Trump a rational choice.
If one concerned about wealth inequality, health care , the environment and is opposed to wars abroad the only rational choice is Jill Stein.
Prior to the announcement that Pence would be Trump's VP, Trump said he would turn domestic and foreign affairs over to his VP so Trump could concentrate on making America great again.
Recall Dick Cheney wearing the pants during the Dubya Regime. Expect Pence to wear the pants in the Trump Regime as far as day to day governing is concerned.
Irrespective of who wins on November 8, expect a repeat of the 2008 lame duck period when every day brought the announcement of another Clintonista or GOP darling into Obama's cabinet (and other appointments).
One of the things Wikileaks reveals is a letter from Citi-group to Barack Obama on his taking office. The list detailed who should be appointed to each cabinet position. The people Obama appointed were almost identical.
This was that hope and change guy championed by many of these pundits for the same reasons they now champion MS Clinton.
If Trump wins this election, there are numerous threads that can be traced back to "explain" his victory. It couldn't happen without the utter corruption of US politics and the economy carried out over the past 40 years by neoliberal financial and corporate oligarchs and neocon warmongers. The whole history of the USA, built on genocide, slavery and ecocide, and the long arc of US imperialism from 1898 to today, have plowed and fertilized this ground.
But in the immediacy of the campaign, the primary responsibility goes to the DNC and the Clinton campaign, the culmination of the sell-out of the Democratic Party to neoliberal financial and corporate supremacists and - as we now see transparently - to neocon military supremacists as well.
Supporters of dog-whistle "Make America Great Again!" are far more motivated in this campaign than hold-your-nose, lesser-evil Clinton voters. The deep corruption of the DNC and the Clinton campaign, thoroughly and obviously beholden to the looting class, give fed-up US voters no real place to turn from Trump and his overt ugliness.
Actually, the LEV strategy (Chomsky has repeatedly stated that LEV only applies to closely contested states) has never been more important than now. It is the first time in my 20 year career of canvassing and petitioning for Ralph Nader and Green presidential candidates that I recognize the necessity of strategic voting this time. At least Romney, McCain, even, maybe, GW Bush (arguably) are sane and potentially amenable to reason.
Why do you want Trump to be the next president? Why do you want the left to commit suicide by being responsible, in part, for delivering the US to fascism?
Do you personally know any psychopaths? I have a brother who is a criminal psychopath, and I have learned to avoid him at all costs. So I know something about psychopaths. Trump is a dangerous psychopath.
And oh, simply declaring someone to be "wrong" is not an argument that is recognized in any system of logic I know of.
Please outline the inspiring Clinton cabinet, and the ways her key appointees will move the US away from war and looting.
Limiting "progressives" to the common narrow definition which is basically the Green Party it would seem to make sense for them to downplay the dangers of Trump since the worse thing for them would be a center left candidate winning making the possibility of a socialist revolution virtually impossible, But Trump in the White House leading a right wing white nationalist political movement which would be intolerable to almost everyone left of center and and even some right of center might be enough to finally spark a socialist revolution. At least that is my take of why the Green Party does not view Trump honestly and downplays the danger he represents while greatly exaggerating the danger that Hillary Clinton represents.
Simply declaring someone to be "wrong" is not an argument.
But your despicable smear "Why do you want Trump to be the next president?" is far worse than simply not being an argument.
If Trump wins, which does seem unlikely, it is the DNC's fault entirely. They forced Clinton on the voters, and sabotaged Bernie Sanders campaign. They knew Clinton was wildly unpopular, but they did it anyway. If Trump actually somehow wins, it it their fault, not the fault of voters who are done voting for the oligarchs in the Democratic party. To Norman and Jeff, get this straight, I will never vote for a DNC Democrat again. I find them more effectively evil than the Republicans. It took the Clintons to get the telecommunications and financial "modernization" regulations through, they killed Glass-Steagall, they ended welfare, they privatized the prisons. No more lesser evil voting. You can't scare me into doing it ever again. We already voted early and voted Green all down the ballot. Done deal.
jmoffett, I agree totally. I live in one of the swing states (New Hampshire) and I am not planning to vote for the first time in my life. Thanks to the MSM, I know nothing of the independent candidates and I know enough of Hillary and Donald to not vote for either of them. If forced, I would vote for Trump and burn the country down. It needs a thorough cleansing.
First, without minimizing the dangers of a Trump presidency, a general comment on the article: can we distinguish between neocons? Robert Kagan, a prominent neocon with very dangerous views, a major advocate for the invasion of Iraq, and a Clinton supporter, is married to Victoria Nuland, a former assistant secretary of state under Clinton who was instrumental in destabilizing Ukraine, just one of the current flash points with Russia today. Hmmm.
Second, this post is somewhat unfair to progressives opposed to HRC on the merits, and who might wish to vote their conscience even in battleground states. Despite millions of words all over the internet, the argument for Hillary boils down to the "lesser evil" thing. Progressives, particularly those in battleground states, get it!! Enough already! They are not likely to vote Green in significant numbers in those states.
Hillary, the DNC, and the MSM promoted Trump's candidacy, thereby helping to legitimize him in the minds of many Americans. Now, joined by establishment Republicans who hate Trump because he won the nomination without their support, they have shifted gears and argue that everyone must vote Hillary because Trump is a "unique" danger to the survival of the republic. (How many Stein voters have not been the subject of withering criticism by family and friends on this point?)
That may or may not be true, but if Trump is elected will progressives be to blame? The blame will lie with the DNC and Democratic Party elites who sabotaged Bernie Sanders and have set back the progressive cause for what may be many years by having created the possibility of a catastrophic Trump presidency. All for the sake of Hillary's ego and ambition to be the first woman president? Will that have been worth such a price? If Trump wins, there'll be a lot of fingers pointing in many directions, but progressives will be the least blameworthy.
Oh, AMEN! You express my sentiments beautifully. Thank you. I voted today and did the same. As a 32 year old said to me later, "The way I look at it, we've had a black-skinned, Democratic president for the last 8 years and he, having PROMISED to support the indigenous people of the country, is letting them get beat up and abused at Standing Rock as we speak. So if that's what we're going to get within this system, it's all bullshit anyway." Again, amen!
If we NEVER begin to vote differently, (for whatever it's worth, given black box voting fraud that ultimately dictates the outcome) we will NEVER even approach an opportunity for anything to shift.
Of course, the ultimate scare tactic is, "We can't let Donald Trump get his finger on the nuclear button!" to which I reply, "Why the HELL do we allow ourselves to live in a situation in which there EXISTS A DAMN NUCLEAR BUTTON??!!!!" Of course, the current Democratic-Establishment President considers it prudent to push for the refurbishing of our nuclear arsenal after (inappropriately) winning a Nobel Prize for nuclear weapons abolition. This is one hell of a crazy world, but the Donald Trumps out there are only one facet of it.
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In an excellent article on the impact of twitter on the Arab Spring revolutions, Blake Hounshell makes an important point about twitter itself:
But five years since its founding, Twitter has hit a critical mass of activists and casual observers on the ground, journalists in the office and in the field, and analysts behind their desks. Twitter today is always buzzing with news, ideas, rumors, speculation, and juicy gossip. (It was Twitter itself that understood this shift from vanity tool to news platform earlier than anyone else, when in November 2009 it changed its prompt from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?" One of the fastest ways to tell whether someone's not worth following is if they're still answering that first question.)
This is true in politics, and it is true in other fields as well (on a related point, you can also tell which critiques of twitter aren't worth reading – they are the ones that criticise the stream of tweets answering the "what are you doing question"). It is certainly the case that there is a thriving discussion of innovation on twitter now too.
If you think about it, that change in question actually represents a business model innovation on the part of twitter. Once the question being answered changes, so does the value being created.
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If changing one small question can change the business model for twitter, what might change the business model for your organisation?
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What Is AIDS?...Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low. There are no documented cases of HIV being transmitted by tears or saliva, but it is possible to be infected with HIV through oral sex or in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in your mouth or bleeding gums. For more information, see the following Fact...
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saliva (Facts for Life: What you and the people you care about need to know about HIV/AIDS )can i catch HIV if my partner "sprays" when he talks and his salive gets in my eye? Also can i get HIV from an infected partners saliva on my anus?
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The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation..."receptive," oral sex. Assuming the latex condom was used properly and did not fail, your HIV-acquisition risk would be nonexistent. Saliva does not transmit HIV, unless there is visible blood present. See below.The only reason to consider HIV... Read more »
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Is Twitter A Valid Form Of Internet Marketing?
As you may know, I'm not a super duper Twitter trooper. It's not my favorite marketing medium. But I have noticed that there is a sort of fervor over using Twitter to amass a large following then spamming them to death with marketing messages. Quite frankly, I think that's crass.
If I were an advocate of Twitter then I'd say that's the wrong way to go about it. Actually, I do see some legitimate uses for Twitter, but using it to see how many people you can get to follow you isn't one of them.
An article at SiteProNews over the weekend said something similar. The author essentially said that using Twitter to build a large group of followers is a waste of time. You are better off using it to build a niche community and starting a conversation with them. And I would add: Marketing your niche product to that niche audience.
Twitter audiences know you are going to market your product to them. But they aren't following you just so they can be marketed to. They are also following you because they have seen something you said that they liked. The exception to this are those guys who follow you in hopes that you will follow them so they can send you marketing messages. Do you really want these guys following you on Twitter? I don't.
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Background—The use of statins increased among US adults with high coronary heart disease (CHD) risk after publication of the 2001 cholesterol treatment guidelines.
Methods and Results—We analyzed the association between lipids and CHD among 9578 REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study participants and 346 595 Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) members with baseline lipid measurements in 2003 to 2007. We performed the same analyses among 14 590 Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study participants with lipid measurements in 1987 to 1989. Analyses were restricted to blacks and whites 45 to 64 years of age without CHD who were not taking statins at baseline. Total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglycerides were measured at baseline. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and ratios of total to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol were calculated. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus, history of stroke, and antihypertensive medication use increased at higher low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in ARIC but not in REGARDS or KPSC. Over 8.9 years of follow-up, 225 CHD events occurred in REGARDS, 6547 events in KPSC, and 583 events in ARIC. After multivariable adjustment, less favorable lipid levels were associated with higher hazard ratios for CHD in ARIC. These associations were attenuated in REGARDS and KPSC. For example, the hazard ratio associated with the highest versus lowest quartile of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (≥146 versus ≤102 mg/dL) was 1.89 (95% confidence interval, 1.42–2.51) in ARIC, 1.25 (95% confidence interval, 0.81–1.92) in REGARDS, and 1.49 (95% confidence interval, 1.38–1.61) in KPSC.
Conclusion—The association between lipids and CHD in contemporary studies may be attenuated by the preferential use of statins by high-risk individuals.
In 2001, the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program, Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) provided guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia among US adults.1 These guidelines recommended that healthcare providers use an individual's low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in the decision to initiate statins for primary prevention. In ATP III, statin initiation was recommended for adults with high LDL-C or with low to moderate LDL-C levels but with a high estimated 10-year CHD risk or CHD risk equivalents.1 The percentage of US adults recommended lipid-lowering therapy by ATP III who were taking statins increased from 20% in 1999 to 2000 to 38% in 2003 to 2004 and 43% in 2009 to 2010.2,3
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Given the recommendations for the selective use of statins for primary prevention in ATP III, the group of individuals with high LDL-C who remain untreated may be enriched for adults who have low CHD risk. Therefore, it is possible that the association between LDL-C and incident CHD among adults not taking statins has changed since the publication of ATP III. This might have important implications for the interpretation of epidemiological studies conducted in the era of widespread statin use and for the accuracy of CHD and cardiovascular disease risk prediction equations that were derived from data on lipids collected before the publication of ATP III.4–6
The main objective of the present analysis was to determine the association of LDL-C and other serum lipids, including non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non–HDL-C), HDL-C, triglycerides, and ratios of total cholesterol (TC) to HDL-C and triglycerides to HDL-C, with incident CHD after the publication of the ATP III guidelines and the subsequent increase in statin use among US adults. For comparison, we conducted an identical analysis on the association between serum lipids and CHD incidence using data from an era before statin use became common in primary prevention. We hypothesized that the association of LDL-C and other serum lipids with CHD incidence in observational studies would be weaker among untreated adults in the era after publication of the ATP III guidelines as a result of the preferential use of statins by individuals with high LDL-C or low to moderate LDL-C but high CHD risk.
Study Populations
We used data from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study and Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) healthcare system to analyze the association between serum lipids and CHD risk for the time period after the publication of the ATP III guidelines. For comparison, we used data from the public-use Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study data set to analyze the same associations during the period before publication of the ATP III guidelines and the widespread use of statins.
The REGARDS study was designed to investigate reasons underlying the higher rate of stroke mortality among blacks compared with whites and among residents of the southeastern United States compared with other US regions.7 CHD events have been identified and adjudicated in an ancillary study.8 A total of 30 239 black and white men and women ≥45 years of age were recruited from all 48 contiguous US states and the District of Columbia between January 1, 2003, and October 31, 2007. KPSC is a healthcare delivery system that provides care for ≈3.9 million members in the Southern California region.9 The ARIC study was designed to investigate the origin of atherosclerosis in a cohort of black and white men and women 45 to 64 years of age from 4 US communities.10 A total of 15 792 participants were enrolled between 1987 and 1989. The REGARDS and ARIC studies were approved by the Institutional Review boards at the participating centers, and all participants provided written informed consent. The use of KPSC administrative data and electronic health records for the present analysis was approved by the KPSC Institutional Review Board with a waiver for written informed consent. All analyses in KPSC were conducted in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations.
All REGARDS study participants, black and white KPSC members with a complete lipid panel between January 1, 2003, and October 31, 2007, and ARIC participants in the limited-access public-use data set were assessed for eligibility. A lipid panel that included TC, HDL-C, and triglycerides in 2003 to 2007 was required for KPSC members to match the enrollment period in REGARDS. Additionally, KPSC members were required to have 365 days of continuous healthcare coverage before their first lipid panel. This period was used to assess baseline characteristics. We excluded REGARDS study participants and KPSC members <45 or ≥65 years of age to match the age range of ARIC participants. Further exclusion criteria in REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC were a history of CHD or the use of lipid-lowering medications at baseline (defined below) and lack of postbaseline participant follow-up to identify the occurrence of CHD events. After these exclusions were applied, 9578 REGARDS study participants, 346 595 KPSC members, and 14 590 ARIC study participants were included in the present analysis (Figure 1).
Baseline Assessment
The REGARDS and ARIC Studies
As part of the baseline evaluation in the REGARDS and ARIC studies, an interview was conducted, and a blood sample and an ECG were obtained for each participant. Self-reported information collected at baseline in the REGARDS and ARIC studies included age, race, sex, education, annual household income, alcohol consumption, current cigarette smoking, history of stroke, and use of antihypertensive medication. History of CHD at baseline was defined by self-report of a previous diagnosis of myocardial infarction, coronary bypass, or coronary angioplasty (or stenting in REGARDS). Participants with evidence of a previous myocardial infarction on the baseline ECG were also considered to have a history of CHD. Use of lipid-lowering medication was assessed by self-report in the REGARDS study and through the review of pill bottles for all medications that participants reported taken during the 2 weeks before their baseline study visit in ARIC. For REGARDS study participants, use of statins was also assessed through the review of pill bottles for all medications taken during the 2 weeks preceding their baseline study visit. Pill bottle data to identify statin use at baseline are not included in the public-use data set for the ARIC study.
With the use of the blood collected at baseline in REGARDS and ARIC, serum glucose, creatinine, and lipids were measured. Diabetes mellitus was defined as self-reported treatment with oral antidiabetes medications or insulin, fasting (≥8 hours) serum glucose ≥126 mg/dL, or nonfasting serum glucose ≥200 mg/dL.11 For each participant, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated with the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation.12 Baseline serum creatinine levels from ARIC participants were calibrated as previously described.13 Reduced eGFR was defined as <60 mL·min−1·1.73 m−2.14
KPSC Members
For KPSC members, baseline was defined by the date of their first lipid panel that included TC, HDL-C, and triglycerides between January 1, 2003, and October 31, 2007. Baseline characteristics of KPSC members before the lipid panel were identified from administrative databases and electronic health records. These characteristics included age, sex, race, education, income, alcohol consumption, smoking, diabetes mellitus, reduced eGFR, history of stroke and CHD, and use of antihypertensive medications and lipid-lowering medications (Table I in the online-only Data Supplement).
Serum Lipids Measurements at Baseline
Six serum lipids were analyzed in the present study: LDL-C, non–HDL-C, HDL-C, triglycerides, ratio of TC to HDL-C, and ratio of triglycerides to HDL-C. TC, HDL-C, and fasting triglycerides were measured by colorimetric reflectance spectrophotometry in REGARDS. In ARIC, automated enzymatic methods (Monotest Cholesterol and GPO Triglyceride procedures, Boehringer Mannheim) were implemented with the use of a Cobas-Bio Analyzer (Roche) to measure TC, HDL-C, and fasting triglycerides. TC, HDL-C, and triglycerides were measured by the Kaiser Permanente Regional Laboratory using enzymatic methods. The Friedewald equation was used to calculate LDL-C for individuals with triglycerides <400 mg/dL in each population.15 We also calculated values for non–HDL-C (TC minus HDL-C), ratio of TC HDL-C (TC divided by HDL-C), and ratio of triglycerides to HDL-C (triglycerides divided by HDL-C).
CHD Incidence
Trained personnel in both the REGARDS and ARIC studies used similar approaches to adjudicate incident CHD events.16 REGARDS participants were contacted by telephone every 6 months, and medical records were retrieved when a heart-related hospitalization was reported by the participant or a proxy respondent. When possible CHD-related deaths were reported, interviews with next of kin or proxies, medical records in the last year of life, death certificates, and autopsy reports were used to determine whether a CHD event was the underlying cause of death. Follow-up of ARIC participants included annual telephone interviews and in-person clinic visits at 3-year intervals. Additional information on CHD incidence was retrieved from hospital records and death certificates through a community surveillance system. The definition of CHD events from the REGARDS and ARIC studies included definite or probable myocardial infarction or CHD death (death preceded by cardiac symptoms or signs or a history of CHD and with no evidence of noncoronary causes).
Incident CHD events after the baseline lipid panel identified among KPSC members included nonfatal myocardial infarctions, defined by an inpatient stay with a discharge diagnosis code of 410.x according the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision in any position, or CHD deaths, defined by an underlying cause of death identified with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision codes I20 through I25. KPSC members' deaths were identified from health plan databases, State of California death certificate files, and Social Security Administration death files.
Adjudicated CHD outcomes were available through December 31, 2011, in REGARDS (maximum follow-up, 8.9 years). To match the follow-up time in REGARDS, ARIC participants and KPSC members who remained free of CHD events and alive were censored after 8.9 years of follow-up.
Statistical Analysis
Baseline characteristics of individuals in REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC included in the present analysis were calculated. For the main analysis, each lipid was divided into 4 levels defined by quartile cut points in the REGARDS study. We chose to use quartiles because few individuals were available in some categories (eg, LDL-C ≥160 mg/dL) when clinical cut points were applied. To examine preferential treatment of high-risk individuals with statins after the publication of ATP III, baseline characteristics of individuals in REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC not taking lipid-lowering medications were calculated by category of LDL-C.
Age-, race-, and sex-adjusted CHD incidence rates were calculated for each lipid category with Poisson regression. Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for CHD associated with categories of each serum lipid, with the most favorable category used as the reference (eg, lowest LDL-C, highest HDL-C). Three models with progressive adjustment were conducted. The first model included adjustment for age, race, and sex. The second model included the covariates from the first model plus education, household income, alcohol consumption, and current smoking. The third model included variables in the second model plus diabetes mellitus, reduced eGFR, history of stroke, and use of antihypertensive medication. All regression models from REGARDS also included adjustment for region of residence (stroke belt, stroke buckle, and nonbelt regions).7 Trends in incidence rates and HRs across categories of each lipid were calculated by modeling the lipid categories as an ordinal variable. A lower HR for CHD associated with the highest category of LDL-C in contemporary studies may be driven by fewer individuals with very high LDL-C. Therefore, we repeated the analysis for LDL-C after creating a fifth category for individuals with LDL-C ≥190 mg/dL. In sensitivity analyses, we calculated HRs for CHD associated with serum lipids as continuous variables and, separately, with categories of lipids defined by quartile cut points derived with ARIC study data.
All analyses in REGARDS and ARIC were conducted with multiple imputation to replace missing data, including covariates and nonfasting LDL-C and triglycerides values. For each lipid analyzed, we imputed 25 data sets using chained equations. Multiple imputation was based on observed values from all the covariates included in the fully adjusted Cox regression models and the outcome.17,18 The results were similar in analyses conducted without multiple imputation (data not shown). Analyses in KPSC were conducted with missing indicator variables rather than multiple imputation because of the large number of observations. All analyses were conducted with Stata/I.C. 12.1 (Stata Corp, College Station, TX).
Participant Characteristics
The mean age of individuals included in the present study was 56.7, 53.4, and 54.0 years in REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC, respectively (Table 1). By design, a high percentage of REGARDS study participants were black. REGARDS participants were more likely to have at least a high school education compared with KPSC members and ARIC study participants. An annual household income ≥$25 000 was more common among REGARDS participants and KPSC members compared with ARIC participants. A smaller percentage of REGARDS participants and KPSC members were currently smoking cigarettes compared with ARIC participants. Antihypertensive treatment was more common in the REGARDS study and among KPSC members. The mean HDL-C and ratio of triglycerides to HDL-C were similar in REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC. Mean TC, LDL-C, and non–HDL-C were lower for REGARDS participants compared with KPSC members and ARIC participants. Mean ratio of TC to HDL-C was lower in REGARDS participants and KPSC members compared with ARIC participants.
Association Between Baseline Characteristics and LDL-C
At higher LDL-C levels, ARIC participants had a greater burden of cardiovascular risk factors (Table 2). ARIC participants with higher LDL-C were older; were more likely to be men; were more likely to have diabetes mellitus, reduced eGFR, and a history of stroke; and were more likely to be taking antihypertensive medication. In contrast, many of these associations were not present in REGARDS and KPSC. For example, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and the use of antihypertensive medications were lower at higher LDL-C levels among REGARDS participants and KPSC members.
Lipids and CHD Incidence
Over 8.9 years of follow-up, 225 CHD events occurred in REGARDS, 6547 in KPSC, and 583 in ARIC (Table II in the online-only Data Supplement). With the exception of LDL-C in REGARDS, less favorable lipid levels were associated with a higher age-, race-, and sex-adjusted incidence of CHD in each population (Table 3). LDL-C was not associated with CHD incidence after adjustment for age, race, and sex in REGARDS. For each lipid, the association with CHD incidence was stronger in ARIC compared with REGARDS and KPSC.
Except for LDL-C, HDL-C, and ratio of TC to HDL-C in REGARDS, less favorable lipid levels were associated with a higher multivariable-adjusted HR for CHD in each study (Figure 2 and Table III in the online-only Data Supplement). The association between each lipid category and incident CHD was stronger in ARIC compared with REGARDS and KPSC. LDL-C ≥190 mg/dL was associated with an increased HR for incident CHD compared with an LDL-C ≤102 mg/dL in each study (Table IV in the online-only Data Supplement). The HR for incident CHD associated with LDL-C of 146 to 189 mg/dL was lower in REGARDS (HR, 1.18; 95% confidence interval, 0.78–1.80) and KPSC (HR, 1.38; 95% confidence interval, 1.27–1.49) compared with ARIC (HR, 1.76; 95% confidence interval, 1.30–2.38). A stronger association between each serum lipid and incident CHD was also present among ARIC participants compared with REGARDS participants and KPSC members when serum lipids were analyzed as continuous variables (Table V in the online-only Data Supplement) and with the use of categories defined by ARIC quartile cut points (Table VI in the online-only Data Supplement).
In the present study, we contrasted the association of serum lipids with incident CHD using data collected before and after the publication of ATP III and the subsequent increase in the use of statins among US adults. Among participants not taking lipid-lowering medications in the ARIC study, which was conducted before the publication of the ATP III guidelines, less favorable lipid levels were associated with a large increase in risk for CHD. In contrast, the association between less favorable lipid levels and increased CHD risk was weaker among REGARDS study participants and KPSC members not taking lipid-lowering medications, 2 populations studied after publication of the ATP III guidelines. Additionally, ARIC participants with higher LDL-C were more likely to have concomitant CHD risk factors, but these associations were not present for REGARDS participants and KPSC members. These findings suggest that the observed association between serum lipids and CHD in contemporary studies may be attenuated by the preferential use of lipid-lowering medications by high-risk individuals, representing a challenge for observational research on lipids and CHD.
Many previous observational studies have documented strong, graded associations between serum lipids and CHD risk.19–23 For example, the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration, which used participant-level data from 8 observational studies and 44 243 participants, reported that a 33-mg/dL higher LDL-C was associated with a 38% increased risk of CHD (HR, 1.38; 95% confidence interval, 1.09–1.73).24 However, most of the data used in these studies were collected before the widespread use of statins. A series of randomized clinical trials showing a significant reduction in both LDL-C and CHD risk associated with the use of statins were published in the 1990s and early 2000s.25–31 As a consequence, LDL-C became a target for CHD risk reduction therapy, and the use of statins rose substantially.2,3
In 2001, ATP III introduced risk stratification to help guide the initiation of statin therapy, emphasizing a patient's global CHD risk in addition to LDL-C.1,32 This recommendation resulted in the preferential use of statin therapy by individuals with high LDL-C or with low to moderate LDL-C but with other CHD risk factors. In a study by Aronow et al,33 90.8% of statin users in Medicare and 70.8% of statin users in US commercial health plans had hypertension, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, CHD, angina, or a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack. In our analysis, there was a marked shift in the distribution of CHD risk factors across categories of LDL-C among individuals not taking lipid-lowering medications from before to after publication of the ATP III guidelines. This shift is consistent with the contemporary use of lipid-lowering medications by individuals with high CHD risk. ARIC study participants with higher levels of LDL-C were more likely to be male; to have diabetes mellitus, reduced eGFR, and a history of stroke; and to use antihypertensive medications. In contrast, among REGARDS study participants and KPSC members, those with higher LDL-C levels were less likely to have diabetes mellitus or to take antihypertensive medication.
Results from the present study should not be interpreted as evidence of a lack of a causal effect of serum lipids on incident CHD. Instead, our results suggest that the ATP III guidelines could have contributed to the attenuation of the association between serum lipids and CHD in contemporary populations. In ATP III, the recommendation to initiate lipid-lowering medications is based on both LDL-C levels and the presence of other CHD risk factors.1 Preferential initiation of lipid-lowering therapy in individuals with high LDL-C or high burden of CHD risk factors could lead to collider stratification bias in populations after the publication of ATP III when analyses are conducted conditioning on lipid-lowering medication use.34 Adults who are not taking lipid-lowering medication in contemporary populations have lower LDL-C compared with their counterparts before the publication of ATP III. In addition, among adults with high LDL-C in contemporary populations, the average CHD risk will be lower than among individuals with equivalent LDL-C levels in earlier eras. Taken together, these changes can weaken the association between lipids and CHD in contemporary populations. An example of how ATP III may result in collider stratification bias was provided in the analysis of the prevalence of diabetes mellitus by LDL-C levels in REGARDS and KPSC versus ARIC (ie, diabetes mellitus was more common at higher LDL-C in ARIC but at lower LDL-C in KPSC and REGARDS). Although we adjusted for known CHD risk factors, unmeasured factors that are associated with lipid-lowering medication use may be present. A collider stratification bias was likely not present in populations before the publication of ATP III because the recommendation to initiate lipid-lowering medication in previous guidelines was based primarily on serum lipid levels.32 Although including individuals taking lipid-lowering medication in the analysis of contemporary populations could avoid collider stratification bias, the results with this approach would also be biased because lipid-lowering therapy modifies both serum lipid levels and CHD incidence. Another possible explanation for the attenuation of the association between serum lipids and incident CHD in contemporary populations is that individuals with high LDL-C who are untreated may be more likely to initiate statins during follow-up compared with individuals before the publication of ATP III. An attenuation in the association between serum lipids and CHD may have important implications for modern studies. For instance, the association of new lipid markers with CHD risk may be obscured. This also might change the role of lipids as potential confounders in the association of other risk factors with CHD risk. Most important, there is a need to evaluate the validity of CHD and cardiovascular disease risk prediction models that were developed with the use of lipid data collected before ATP III was published.6
The present analysis has a number of strengths. ARIC and REGARDS were population-based studies; they included large sample sizes, with the collection of blood samples and a long active follow-up period for CHD events that were rigorously adjudicated with similar approaches in both studies. Results in the contemporary era were replicated with the use of data from KPSC, a large healthcare system with a high degree of generalizability.9 The present analysis also has potential and known limitations. We analyzed only a single study from the era before the publication of ATP III. In addition, REGARDS, KPSC, and ARIC had differences in their design and methods for data collection, including the assay used to measure lipids, which may explain differences in results across these studies. We were not able to investigate some relevant cardiovascular risk factors, including C-reactive protein and albuminuria, which could have changed among individuals not taking lipid-lowering medication from before to after publication of the ATP III guidelines, because this information was not available for all 3 populations analyzed. In KPSC, information on fasting status for lipid panels at baseline was not available, and incident CHD events were not adjudicated. Additionally, we did not analyze information on the initiation of statins after baseline.
More than 50 years of research, including both observational studies and randomized trials, demonstrates that serum lipids levels are independent risk factors for CHD and that lipid-lowering medications, mainly statins, reduce this risk.19–23,25–31 As a consequence, the use of statins among US adults has increased substantially over the last 15 years. The present analysis suggests that the preferential use of statins for primary prevention in high-risk populations may obscure the association between serum lipids and CHD. Results from the present analysis need to be confirmed in future studies. Until more data become available, caution should be taken in the interpretation of the association between lipids and CHD risk in contemporary observational studies.
We thank the other investigators, the staff, and the participants of the REGARDS study for their valuable contributions. A full list of participating REGARDS investigators and institutions can be found at http://www.regardsstudy.org.
Sources of Funding
This study was supported by cooperative agreement U01 NS041588 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and R01-HL080477 and K24-HL111154 from the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Representatives of the funding agency have been involved in the review of the manuscript but have not been directly involved in the collection, management, analysis, or interpretation of the data.
Dr Colantonio was supported by Fulbright Scholarship. Dr Bittner has received research support from Amgen Inc, AstraZeneca, Bayer Healthcare, Janssen, Pfizer, and Sanofi-Aventis and has served on advisory panels for Amgen Inc and Eli Lilly. Drs Reynolds and Derose have received research support from Merck & Co. Drs Reynolds, Levitan, Rosenson, Kent, Safford, and Muntner have received grant support from Amgen Inc. The other authors report no conflicts
The online-only Data Supplement is available with this article at http://circ.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.011646/-/DC1.
- Received March 23, 2014.
- Accepted November 11, 2015.
- © 2015 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Previous studies have shown that statins are effective in reducing coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence. The proportion of US adults taking statins increased after the publication of the 2001 Adult Treatment Panel III cholesterol treatment guidelines, which recommended statin therapy based on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and predicted CHD risk. We compared the characteristics of adults not taking lipid-lowering medications by level of LDL-C and the association between serum lipids and CHD using data from populations before (Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities [ARIC]) and after (Kaiser Permanente Southern California [KPSC], and REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke [REGARDS]) the publication of Adult Treatment Panel III. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus, history of stroke, and antihypertensive medication use increased at higher levels of LDL-C in ARIC but not in REGARDS or KPSC. These findings were consistent with a preferential use of statins by high-risk individuals or individuals with high LDL-C in the contemporary era. Less favorable levels of each lipid analyzed (LDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, non–high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides, and ratios of total to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol) were associated with an increased risk for CHD in ARIC, but these associations were attenuated in REGARDS and KPSC. Results from our study suggest that the preferential use of statins by individuals with high CHD risk in the contemporary era may induce a bias in analyses of the association between serum lipids and CHD. This bias may have important implications for future studies of lipids and CHD risk and for CHD risk prediction.
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Ewan McGregor pleads for help for Syrian kids
Officials at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) fear up to 2.5 million youngsters could be caught up in the humanitarian crisis gripping the Asian nation after snowfall covered campsites and rainstorms flooded tents.
As temperatures plummet, many youngsters are forced to survive without blankets or socks, and McGregor is backing UNICEF's call for urgent funds to provide protection for the children.
The Trainspotting actor, a UNICEF Ambassador, has filmed a new public service announcement (PSA) which will be broadcast on several U.K. TV networks on Wednesday (30Jan13).
In the clip, he says, "After months of violence living in fear for their lives, the traumatised families were forced to flee for safety with nothing but their clothes they were wearing. But now these children face a new crisis. Heavy winter rain has flooded thousands of tents destroying the only place they can call home. Children have been facing freezing temperatures and fierce winds with no shelter or blankets. They are bitterly cold and frightened."
Millions of families in Syria fled their homes to escape the civil war which has raged since 2011 in the wake of the 'Arab Spring' uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.


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Japan disaster disrupts flight plans
Flight schedules for hundreds of passengers travelling to Japan have been disrupted by the earthquake and tsunami crisis.
Jetstar says about 300 passengers spent the night in Guam after their Japan-bound flights were diverted.
Two Jetstar flights, from Cairns and the Gold Coast, were flying to Narita airport in Japan when the earthquake hit.
A Jetstar spokeswoman says flights are being scheduled to take the passengers from Guam on to Tokyo, with the first due to depart about midday.
She says most of the passengers were put up in hotels.
Some spent the night at the airport because a tsunami alert for Guam forced the evacuation of some local hotels.
Jetstar says flights from Toyko to Australia should resume tonight.
Two Qantas flights out of Sydney and Perth flying to Japan are set to leave this morning after being delayed last night.
A third Qantas flight in Japan has also been held back but is set to leave tonight.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has advised against travelling to the worst-hit parts of Japan, while those already in the affected areas are being asked to consider leaving.
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Patrick Conroy, a young American student of medicine in Dublin, decides to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city and spend a month in the quietude of the wild and beautiful Glencree Valley, County Wicklow. However, surrounded by local legends and myths, he is soon dragged into an ancient mystery that has haunted the village of Ballymoor for centuries. Set on the background of the tumultuous years preceding the War of Independence, and colored by Irish folklore, the Haunter of the Moor is a ghost story written in the style of Victorian Gothic novels.
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"Nice Try for bother the Author and Narrator"
British attempted accents. The attempt at Irish and / or Traveler accents are painful. This must be an early attempt at narration. The mispronunciations of Irish place names is unforgivable.
Hard to say, The territory isn't new and a bit overdone. It certainly isn't memorable.
Seems to be an attempt to mix elements of Irish folklore with threads of Lovecraft with none of the charm of the former or dread of the latter. The writing seems to struggle to retain 19th century placement with modern language and expressions.
Nice try, but overall comes up short. Your mileage may vary.
"The performance is fine, the story is cliche'"
So the performance is just fine. The story is an admixture of bad Lovecraft elements and typical horror tropes. It's not bad, but I wouldn't spend money of a hard copy either.
"A Gothic story in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft"
The narrator, Tim Kennedy, along with his voice acting, is wonderful. Each character is voiced individually and are easily recognizable. The accents are fun while remaining effective.
Jeffrey Kosh's The Hunter of the Moor, harkens back to those grey spaces where H.P. Lovecraft and Alfred Hitchcock call home.
The Travelers as their motives and knowledge of local legends push the story along.
The stories follows an American medical student, from a wealthy family, to the Irish moors where he seeks a secluded place to study. Unfortunately, his lodgings and the surrounding area is inhabited by mysterious entities and standing stones, which draw him into unnatural occurrences.
The story is delivered via journal entries, akin to Bram Stoker's Dracula, with which it shares an ominous mood. The writing is clean and distinctly English in its charm. The characters are unique and distinct, a pleasure to spend time with. The environments are richly described, so much so that mentioned landmarks and specific items do not become obvious plot points, which is far too common in modern literature. The setting feels real and the local culture is explored to such a degree that one can imagine it completely.
The author, Jeffrey Kosh, has an unquestionable mastery of the English language, making his first person journal based writing a pleasure. His pacing feels classical, even, and unrushed. If criticism were necessary, it could be said that the intricacy of his prose require active listening rather than leisurely listening. If one were not accustomed to, nor a lover of, classical literature one might find the pacing too slow to hold one's attention.
If you like H.P. Lovecraft, Hitchcock, and Bram Stoker, then this work will be a welcomed addition to your audio library.
"Finding the darkness in a strange place."
A surprising cheery beginning that leads you into a dark story.
I liked the reading. He story a old world perspective.
"Gothic Horror"
There are lots of sprinkled in bits of Irish folklore as told by the townsfolk
The narrator did an impressive job of voicing characters individually and maintaining the rhythm and cadence or the story. I'd love to listen to more of his work!
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for a non-biased review.
I was super excited at the concept of an Irish ghost story. It's very gothic in nature. At times it drags a bit but overall I am not unhappy that I spent the time on it. The last 3rd really picks up and you do end up feeling like it all gets tied together in the end. The narrator made the story enjoyable and there were lots of sprinklings of authentic Irish foklore in the book as well.
"too many words"
There was too much folktale review and back story for my liking. Not enough action for me.
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I must confess that I wasn't too sure about this tea when it was added to the SBT lineup. You know how much I love chocolate and chocolate teas, but I'm always just a wee bit … leery of a chocolate iced tea.
But this is yum. It tastes like the name suggests: I taste chocolate and cherry and I taste black tea.
The chocolate is a little on the light side, but for an iced tea it works. I think that if the chocolate notes were stronger, it wouldn't be as refreshing, it would be more like something I'd want to drink hot.
The cherry is a sweet flavor but it doesn't taste cough syrup-y to me. It's pleasant.
A tasty iced tea.
Teavivre is one of my favorite companies, especially when it comes to Oolong teas. They have some really outstanding Oolong teas. (And green teas … and other tea types too. They're just good.)
This is a really yummy TieGuanYin. The roasting process gives it a delicious, sweet, roasty-toasty nutty flavor. I like how the strong floral and vegetal notes of a TieGuanYin take on that nutty tone when the tea is roasted.
The first cup (infusions one and two) was surprisingly full-flavored. The first cup tends to be the softest tasting tea, but this cup was very strongly flavored. Nutty, sweet with hints of orchid in the background. The buttery notes are more like browned butter.
The later infusions had developed flavors of caramel and light honey notes.
Here's my full-length article: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/13/nonpareil-anxi-yun-xiang-tieguanyin-oolong-tea-from-teavivre/
OK, so I have a bunch of huge tins for tea storage. Not your typical 2 or 4 ounce tins. I've got a lot of those too, but what I'm talking about are tins that hold a kilo of tea. Big. These are left over from my previous tea blending days. When I closed the business and started tea reviewing, I turned those big tins into my tea storage for my smaller teas, I'd keep the teas in their original packaging and I'd separate the teas into tea types: Black Teas, White Teas, Green Teas … etc. You get the picture. Well, when I received this tea way back when from Butiki, I stashed it into my Pu-erh tin and forgot about it.
(Confession Time) Because that's what I typically do with Pu-erh tea. My earliest experiences with pu-erh have left me very scarred and it takes a lot for me to find the courage to brew a pu-erh. Even though now I've learned how to best brew pu-erh for my palate's liking, and I actually LIKE pu-erh tea now. Those memories of my earliest experiences have left me scarred and so when I think 'pu-erh' – I think EWW!
Yes, I actually like pu-erh.
(insert laughter)
Anyway, when I heard that Butiki was planning to leave the tea world, after pouting a while, I decided to search through my teas and see if I had any teas from them that I had not yet reviewed and came across this pu-erh.
I wasn't planning on buying more tea from them because … I'm a tea reviewer. My purpose (or it was until I decided that after March 31st I wasn't going to be a tea reviewer any more) is to help promote teas that actually exist. I want to help the world of tea … I want to help the tea companies out there promote their product (or if I don't like the tea, I want to help them see the error of their ways and fix it.)
But I needed a tea to say goodbye with to Butiki because they have been one of my very favorite tea companies for several years. I could always count on them for yummy teas. I felt confident buying from Stacy because she seemed to embrace what I was about as a tea blender back when I started. She tasted the teas before she sent them out there into the world. She believed in the product she offered. If she didn't like it, she wouldn't sell it. I dug that. I really did. Because that was what I was about when I was selling tea. If I didn't like a tea that I created, I wouldn't sell it. I would start over with the tea until it was something I was proud of. I wouldn't put my label (my name) on a tea if I wasn't happy with what I created.
Wow, this is a long intro to a tea review, isn't it? My review of this tea isn't even this long. http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/12/organic-ancient-phoenix-pu-erh-tea-from-butiki-teas/
Anyway … this tea review was to serve as my goodbye to Butiki Teas. That is, before she went off to create teas like "Lime Marshmallow" and "Boomstick" and "Chocolate Chili Truffle" and how the heck do I resist those flavors?
Answer: I don't.
Anyway … so this tea. Let me talk about this tea a moment: Sweet! A sugary sweetness. The sweetness is stronger than the earthiness, especially in the earliest infusions. Hints of spice. Later infusions had deeper flavors, sweetness with notes of leather and cacao and wood. A very pleasant and complex tea.
I didn't like the third infusion though. I don't know why. It was like … nope. And then it got dumped. The fourth infusion was better than the third. Mushroom earthiness, molasses-y sweetness, smooth, mellow and really nice.
A really good pu-erh. All except infusion 3. Don't do the three. Infusion three can be like a mid-rinse. Yeah. That's the ticket.
As I said in my opening of the review for this tea: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/12/peach-apricot-tea-from-culinary-teas/ No two fruits say "summer" to me like peaches and apricots. My grandmother (Gramma) had a very prolific apricot tree in her back yard, as well as a peach tree. The apricot tree was a huge tree and it was a 'tree climbing tree' so I would climb it and sit up there and eat apricots when I was young.
Instead of making peach cobbler when I was little, gramma would mix both peaches and apricots together and make a peach apricot cobbler and this tea brings back all those memories. When served hot, the peach and apricot flavors remind me a lot of the yummy filling of that peach apricot cobbler. Mmm!
The peach and apricot flavors are good and strong. The fruit essence has been captured well.
Very yummy.
A really tasty tisane. I love that the base is both rooibos and honeybush. I love this combination. They seem to bring out the best in each other when they're brought together in a blend like this.
The nutty, sweet notes are a nice base for the bright, sweet-tart notes of raspberry. The raspberry is a strong flavor.
This is good hot, but I liked it even better after it cooled, which suggests to me that this would be a really yummy iced tea.
Here's my full-length review: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/11/rooibos-raspberry-tisane-from-georgia-tea-company/
I was a little surprised to find chamomile blossoms in this tea because the ingredient list doesn't say "chamomile". I saw the rosehips and rose petals and blackberry leaves, but I also saw chamomile.
This is a tasty blend. The black tea is robust. It melds nicely with the notes of creamy vanilla. I like how the malty notes of the black tea combine with the notes of vanilla. Really yum.
The bergamot is a softer flavor. When I first read the description of this tea, I thought it would be like an Earl Gray Creme, but it didn't turn out that way. The bergamot is a bit too soft to be something I'd think of as an Earl Gray Creme. The vanilla is really the main focus of this tea. I still taste the bergamot and the notes of flower, but the vanilla takes center stage.
Here's my full-length review: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/11/childrens-hospital-vanilla-black-tea-from-the-secret-garden-tea-co/
A really tasty iced tea. The flavor is very distinct. I like that as I drink this, I know that it is Apple Cider green tea – there's no mistaking it. I am not trying to search out flavors. I taste the apple and the gently warm spice. It's yummy.
And even though I taste the apple and spice clearly, the green tea isn't obscured. It's sweet and a little buttery. A very yummy tea.
I've had this as both a hot-brewed tea (I like that with the green tea pouches – and the white tea pouches – these can be resteeped with no real loss in flavor) and a cold brewed tea. I like it best cold-brewed, so I would cold-brew the new pouch, and then save it to resteep (hot brewed) when you finish off the first half-gallon.
I was approached by Newport Skinny Tea to help them promote their new Malibu Beach Beauty Tea back in November, so they sent me some to try.
This tea has a lot going on. Check out my full-length review for the list of ingredients – wowza! http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/10/malibu-beach-beauty-tea-from-newport-skinny-tea/
It has an interesting flavor. The flavor is a bit more like an herbal tisane than a tea (which I attribute to having so many ingredients). But I liked that I could taste certain elements: I liked that I was tasting lemon and lavender and honeysuckle. Notes of peppermint and elder flower and rose. And I could even still taste the teas (which includes an earl gray!)
It's a strongly floral tea, but it doesn't taste perfume-y, just floral. It's an interesting tea and I enjoyed it. If I decided to go on the 21 day 'beautification' from this tea, at least the tea is tasty! It's a tasty way to get there. I don't know that the tea actually works the way it says it will, but it's enjoyable.
This has a very strong vegetal aroma. I can definitely taste the sweet grass flavor. Very grassy in taste.
It's also sweet, honey-like, and it has hints of mint. This tea has less of a buttery quality and more of a vegetable brothy sort of quality to it. It's invigorating to drink.
I enjoyed it. I liked the contrast between sweet and bitter (a savory bitter). It is an uplifting drink.
I like this one a lot. I've tried a couple other of the MatchaBooster products from Maeda-en and I think this one might be my favorite, I like that roasty-toasty flavor. I like that this product stays incorporated until I finish the bottle. I don't have to keep shaking it. I do shake it occasionally because I like the little bit of foamy, light, frothy texture that it produces at the top of the bottle when I do shake it, but I never saw that it needed it.
I really like this with just water. I pour a level teaspoon into my favorite 16.9 ounce water bottle and shake vigorously and it's great like that. It's also really, really good mixed with coconut water.
Very rejuvenating! Here's my full-length review: http://sororiteasisters.com/2014/11/09/product-review-genmai-matchabooster-from-maeda-en/


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Starring roll...SCA-owned tissue brand, Velvet, has won two awards for its 'Three Trees' promise in this year's International CSR Excellence Awards for corporate social responsibility, organised by PPP (Partners in Protecting the Planet). The Velvet programme won not only the gold award in the Sustainability category but also the overall award as the highest scoring champion of champions. Velvet is funding the planting and growing of indigenous trees in Brazil through its partnership with the ethical forestry company Amata. The trees are being planted in areas that have been deforested by practices such as cattle ranching and illegal logging, which renders the land barren.
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by drjay, Oct 4, 2010.
Is there an expanded battery meter widget on the Droid X
Meaning what, exactly? Are you looking for a meter that will read in increments other than 10% increments like the stock meter?
I'd like to find a battery meter that measures in more accurate intervals.
I use Gauge Battery Widget, but it still reports in 10% increments. It has a nice automotive type gauge widget that displays on your homescreen. It can also display your battery percentage in your notification bar, a lot easier to interpret than the stock battery icon.
Your DX only reports battery readings in 10% increments. Any application that you may find reads from the DX, so it can't actually give you a better reading than what it's being given. You won't be able to find a battery widget or monitoring application that gives you a more detailed reading and actually have it be accurate at the same time. If you find one that gives you more, "accurate," readings, it will only be working through guesses and assumptions.
Unless someone has found a way of reading the battery in a different fashion, without going through the usual channels, there isn't a way to actually do this. I want more accurate readings too, but last time I checked, it isn't technically possible for the DX right now.
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