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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Jenna Fischer: I Haven't Lost Any Weight From Breastfeeding! (omg!)
It's been four months since Jenna Fischer gave birth, and like most new moms, The Office star is struggling to get her pre-baby body back.
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"Let me please stand in solidarity with all of the women who are not a size 2 six weeks after leaving the hospital," the 37-year-old told Us Weekly at the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in L.A. Sunday. "I thought, you read all of the stuff in magazines like, 'Oh, I breastfed my baby and I am so skinny now.' I am breast-feeding my baby and I am not getting any skinnier!"
"I think I'm just going to be a little bit bigger for a little bit longer," Fischer said, "and that's fine with me."
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The Office star wore a custom-made dress by Max Azria Atelier, which "made me look the smallest I could possibly look right now after just having had a baby," she told Us.
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Fischer, who married screenwriter Lee Kirk on July 3, 2010, said motherhood has changed her in ways she never imagined. "I love being a family. I love going from two people to three people, and it has deepened the bond between me and my husband. We love being together, the three of us. Our little unit."
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The new mom added that she was excited to get all dolled up for the star-studded event. "It took a special occasion for us to leave at first, but we have a babysitter that we really trust now, so I feel like because of that, tonight we can really relax and have fun," Fischer told Us. "We'll check in and make sure Weston gets to bed OK."
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Alcohol consumption and risk of colon cancer in people with a family history of such cancer
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A study based on more than 87,000 women and 47,000 men in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, looks at whether there is a link between colon cancer and alcohol, and if so at what level of consumption, and the importance of a family history of the disease. A total of 1,801 cases of colon cancer were diagnosed during follow-up from 1980 onwards.
The authors results found that subjects with a family history, whose average alcohol intake was 30 or more grams per day (about 2 typical drinks by US standards or 4 UK units) had an increase in their risk of colon cancer. Those at greatest risk also ate the most red meat, smoked the most, and had the lowest intake of folate (suggesting they ate fewer green vegetables and cereals. Hence, these people have the most unhealthy lifestyles in general of the populations studied. There was not a significant association between alcohol consumption and colon cancer among subjects without a positive family history in this study.
Forum reviewers were concerned that the pattern of drinking (regularly or binge drinking) was not assessed, and that there was not a consistent increase in risk of cancer with greater alcohol intake found. Further, adequate folate intake was found to lower risk, with the highest risk for subjects with a positive family history of colon cancer, low levels of folate, and in the highest category of alcohol consumption, indicating the importance of other lifestyle facts such as a healthy diet.
The present study provides some support for an association between higher levels of alcohol intake and the risk of colon cancer among subjects with a positive family history of such cancer. It should be noted that there have been changes in the guidelines for screening for colon cancer (by endoscopy, with removal of pre-malignant tumours) and other preventive measures for people with a positive family history of colon cancer, making it hard to draw conclusions on data for colon cancer that is 30 years old. The new recommendation for screening frequency and age at initiation of screening are so different now. At least some of these cases would probably have been prevented if managed according to current guidelines. Such measures could modify the effects of all risk factors for colon cancer in future analyses.
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Reference: Cho E, Lee JE, Rimm EB, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci EL. Alcohol consumption and the risk of colon cancer by family history of colorectal cancer. Am J Clin Nutr 2012;95:413.
Comments on this critique were provided by the following members of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research:
Harvey Finkel, MD, Hematology/Oncology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Lynn Gretkowski, MD, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Mountainview, CA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Dee Blackhurst, PhD, Lipid Laboratory, University of Cape Town Health Sciences Faculty, Cape Town, South Africa
R. Curtis Ellison, MD, Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Erik Skovenborg, MD, Scandinavian Medical Alcohol Board, Practitioner, Aarhus, Denmark
Arne Svilaas, MD, PhD, general practice and lipidology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Gordon Troup, MSc, DSc, School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
For the detailed critique of this paper by the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research, go to http://www.bu.edu/alcohol-forum and/ or http://www.bu.edu/alcohol-forum/critique-068-heavier-alcohol-consumption-may-increase-risk-of-colon-cancer-in-people-with-a-family-history-of-such-cancer-30-january-2012/
The specialists who are members of the Forum are happy to respond to questions from Health Editors regarding emerging research on alcohol and health and will offer an independent opinion in context with other research on the subject.
Contacts for Editors
Professor R Curtis Ellison: ellison@bu.edu, Tel: 508-333-1256
Helena Conibear: helena@alcohol-forum4profs.org, Tel: 44-1300-320869 or 44-7876-593-345
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Share ] Contact: R Curtis Ellison
ellison@bu.edu
508-333-1256
Boston University Medical Center
A study based on more than 87,000 women and 47,000 men in the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, looks at whether there is a link between colon cancer and alcohol, and if so at what level of consumption, and the importance of a family history of the disease. A total of 1,801 cases of colon cancer were diagnosed during follow-up from 1980 onwards.
The authors results found that subjects with a family history, whose average alcohol intake was 30 or more grams per day (about 2 typical drinks by US standards or 4 UK units) had an increase in their risk of colon cancer. Those at greatest risk also ate the most red meat, smoked the most, and had the lowest intake of folate (suggesting they ate fewer green vegetables and cereals. Hence, these people have the most unhealthy lifestyles in general of the populations studied. There was not a significant association between alcohol consumption and colon cancer among subjects without a positive family history in this study.
Forum reviewers were concerned that the pattern of drinking (regularly or binge drinking) was not assessed, and that there was not a consistent increase in risk of cancer with greater alcohol intake found. Further, adequate folate intake was found to lower risk, with the highest risk for subjects with a positive family history of colon cancer, low levels of folate, and in the highest category of alcohol consumption, indicating the importance of other lifestyle facts such as a healthy diet.
The present study provides some support for an association between higher levels of alcohol intake and the risk of colon cancer among subjects with a positive family history of such cancer. It should be noted that there have been changes in the guidelines for screening for colon cancer (by endoscopy, with removal of pre-malignant tumours) and other preventive measures for people with a positive family history of colon cancer, making it hard to draw conclusions on data for colon cancer that is 30 years old. The new recommendation for screening frequency and age at initiation of screening are so different now. At least some of these cases would probably have been prevented if managed according to current guidelines. Such measures could modify the effects of all risk factors for colon cancer in future analyses.
###
Reference: Cho E, Lee JE, Rimm EB, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci EL. Alcohol consumption and the risk of colon cancer by family history of colorectal cancer. Am J Clin Nutr 2012;95:413.
Comments on this critique were provided by the following members of the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research:
Harvey Finkel, MD, Hematology/Oncology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Lynn Gretkowski, MD, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Mountainview, CA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Dee Blackhurst, PhD, Lipid Laboratory, University of Cape Town Health Sciences Faculty, Cape Town, South Africa
R. Curtis Ellison, MD, Section of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Erik Skovenborg, MD, Scandinavian Medical Alcohol Board, Practitioner, Aarhus, Denmark
Arne Svilaas, MD, PhD, general practice and lipidology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Gordon Troup, MSc, DSc, School of Physics, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
For the detailed critique of this paper by the International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research, go to http://www.bu.edu/alcohol-forum and/ or http://www.bu.edu/alcohol-forum/critique-068-heavier-alcohol-consumption-may-increase-risk-of-colon-cancer-in-people-with-a-family-history-of-such-cancer-30-january-2012/
The specialists who are members of the Forum are happy to respond to questions from Health Editors regarding emerging research on alcohol and health and will offer an independent opinion in context with other research on the subject.
Contacts for Editors
Professor R Curtis Ellison: ellison@bu.edu, Tel: 508-333-1256
Helena Conibear: helena@alcohol-forum4profs.org, Tel: 44-1300-320869 or 44-7876-593-345
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Leadership scramble: GOP rivals vie for title (AP)
WASHINGTON ? The Republican presidential contenders are making a pitch to voters that sounds a lot like a children's game: Follow the leader.
When Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren't puffing up their own leadership credentials, they're running down the leadership skills of one another and President Barack Obama.
If anyone missed Monday's conference call from the Romney campaign about Gingrich's record as a "failed leader," not to worry. They could have tuned in to Tuesday's conference call. Or Wednesday's. Or Thursday's. Or checked out the "unreliable leader" banner splashed across a Romney news release that labeled Gingrich "unhinged." Romney's political biography, meanwhile, is all about his leadership as a businessman, Massachusetts governor and savior of the 2002 Olympic Games.
It's hard to miss Gingrich's frequent broadsides at Romney, meanwhile, for failing to provide consistent, visionary leadership. Or the former House speaker's pronouncements that he, by contrast, offers "exactly the kind of bold, tough leader the American people want." Or Gingrich's muscular descriptions of all that was accomplished in his four years as speaker in the 1990s.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, lagging them in the polls, keeps trying to muscle his way into the leader palooza by offering himself as the steady bet who can be counted on to offer more reliable conservative leadership than "erratic" Gingrich or "moderate" Romney.
In a race where all the candidates are trying to out-conservative one another, stressing leadership credentials gives the GOP rivals a way to try to distinguish themselves. And in a year when Obama's own leadership skills are seen as one of his weakest qualities, it gives the Republicans another arrow in their quiver as they argue over who would be most electable in a matchup with Obama come November.
Leadership is always a part of the equation in presidential elections. In 2008, for example, the candidates all were abuzz with claims that they offered "transformational" leadership. Obama announced he was running by declaring, "I want to transform this country."
This year, leadership is getting an extra dose of attention, perhaps because of statistics such as this: The share of Americans who view Obama as a strong leader slipped from 77 percent at the start of his presidency to 52 percent in a Pew Research Center poll released this month. And among Republicans, only about a fourth of those surveyed in the most recent poll viewed Obama as a strong leader, compared with 80 percent of Democrats.
At a campaign debate last week in Tampa, Fla., Gingrich and Romney both turned a question about electability into an answer about the L-word.
"This is going to come down a question of leadership," Romney said. Then the former Massachusetts governor recited his track record as a leader in business and government and took a dig at Gingrich for having to "resign in disgrace" when he was speaker in the 1990s.
Gingrich, answering the same question, aligned himself with the leadership record of conservative hero Ronald Reagan and offered himself as someone "prepared to be controversial when necessary" to bring about great change.
The answers offer a window into how differently the two candidates define leadership ? Romney more as a manager with business school credentials, Gingrich more as a big-thinking visionary.
The leadership argument is a particularly potent campaign weapon for Romney because a number of Republicans who served in Congress with Gingrich have been happy to describe his shortcomings in running the House.
"If you were somebody trying to serve with him, you were always sort of left standing with your hands empty in terms of moving forward with an actual plan or putting a plan to paper," Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., said of Gingrich on a Romney campaign conference call on Thursday. "So for me, it's an example that he's just not an effective leader. I think Mitt has the temperament and the ability to lead."
Gingrich, who resigned after a spate of ethics problems and a poor showing for House Republicans in the 1998 elections, managed to turn even his resignation as speaker into evidence that he's a strong leader.
"I took responsibility for the fact that our results weren't as good as they should be," he said in the Tampa debate. "I think that's what a leader should do."
As for the turbulence of his tenure as speaker, Gingrich casts that, too, as evidence of his bold leadership.
"Look, I wish everybody had loved me, but I'd rather be effective representing the American people than be popular inside Washington," he said earlier in the campaign.
Stephen Wayne, a presidential scholar at Georgetown University, said the harsh judgment of Obama's presidential leadership by Republicans and even some Democrats in part is due to the high hopes that he raised during the 2008 campaign. Obama the president has been measured against the words of Obama the candidate ever since.
Now that it's campaign season again, says Wayne, "he's not competing against his own image, he's competing against a real life person that has frailties. ... In a sense, that lowers the bar for Obama."
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AP Deputy Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Many Mo. farmers shut out of federal flooding aid (AP)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? Farmers whose land was damaged by Missouri River flooding expressed frustration Friday that a missed deadline will keep them from sharing in $215 million from one federal disaster program.
Farmers and communities had to apply for the aid by June 30, but many still had land under water then and couldn't do a required damage assessment. Water didn't recede from many farms in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri until late September or early October.
The money is part of $308 million in funding the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week. It is distributed through the Emergency Watershed Protection Program, which requires a sponsor such as a city, county or drainage district. The money is meant to be used to clear drainage ditches, fix levees and structures and reshape eroded banks.
Officials couldn't say Friday how many farmers missed the chance to apply for help.
About 1,200 of Bruce Biermann's 2,500 acres in northwest Missouri flooded last summer. He said he should be planting this year's crop in about 60 days but that will be tough to do without help with repairs.
"It certainly is disappointing that we can't have access to funds that are basically earmarked for disasters like this," he said.
The flooding started in June when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began releasing massive amounts of water from upstream reservoirs filled by melting snow and heavy rains. The deluge continued for months, overtopping levees and turning farms into lakes. When the water finally receded, farmers found tree limbs, trash and, in some places, a 2- to 3-feet of sand covering their land.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the application deadline set by Congress led to the money being primarily focused on disasters that happened earlier in 2011 but that didn't mean farmers who suffered later damage wouldn't get help.
"I don't think it's accurate to suggest that the folks in northwest Missouri aren't going to get help and assistance," he said during a visit to Kansas City to tout President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. "We will continue to work with our existing programs to give them as much help as possible."
The deadline for the next round of funding is Jan. 31, but it's unclear how much money will be given and whether it will come in time to help farmers and communities make repairs before this spring's planting season.
The farmers' and communities' best chance of getting some of the $215 million already allocated will be if other communities don't use all the money they requested. Unused money is placed in a pot that could be redistributed, and about $452,000 leftover from past storms already has been used to help farmers in northwest Missouri, where 207,000 acres flooded last year.
David Sieck, who has about 1,500 acres of corn and soybeans near Glenwood, Iowa, said it really bothered him that an arbitrary deadline was keeping some farmers and communities getting immediate access to the money. About half of land is in river bottoms and about three-fifths of that flooded last year.
"Never ever do I remember a prolonged flood for 3 1/2 months," he said.
Missouri and Utah shared the bulk of the $308 million in disaster aid announced last week. Missouri received $50 million, while Utah got $60 million to deal with two rounds of flooding.
Along with $35 million from the watershed program, Missouri received $15 million from the USDA's Emergency Conservation Program, which helps clear debris and grade farmland. Much of that money will go to the southeast portion of the state where the corps blew three holes in the Birds Point levee in May to relieve pressure at the height of flooding that threatened nearby Cairo, Ill.
"We appreciate the work of everyone involved in securing it for Missouri and we are glad that farmers throughout the state are going to benefit, but the people in northwest Missouri are not," said Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau.
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US judge denies bid to block NV mustang roundups (AP)
RENO, Nev. ? A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they'll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhumanely and need more protection.
U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben granted a temporary restraining order on Aug. 30 that cut short by a day a roundup near the Nevada-Utah line after he determined a helicopter flew too close to a horse in violation of the law.
But he said during a hearing in Reno Thursday that he was denying a new injunction request from the Texas-based Free Wild Horse Federation partly because the Bureau of Land Management has made some positive changes since then. He also said he can't issue injunctions based on speculation about future abuses.
"This court is really not in a position to be the overseer of the BLM," McKibben said. "This court is not going to police all gathers in the U.S. or even all gathers in the district of northern Nevada."
"This Court is not Congress, not an administrative agency. We are not the first branch of government. We are not the second branch. We're here to consider grievances," he said.
His ruling was a disappointment to horse protection advocates who were buoyed by his court order last fall when he took the BLM to task for its actions at the Triple B complex roundup near the Nevada-Utah line northwest of Ely, Nev.
"Your honor, you are the last vestige of hope here," said Gordon Cowan, a lawyer for the group. "Basically, there is no other accountability."
Erik Petersen, a Justice Department lawyer representing BLM, said the agency took McKibben's earlier order seriously and responded with its own internal review of the Triple B roundup "in great part in response to this court's ruling on the temporary restraining order."
The law already dictates the horses be treated humanely but the agency now has "a half dozen specific instructions" or guidelines for roundup contractors to follow, including prohibiting helicopters from flying too close to animals, Petersen said.
The BLM said in a formal review made public in December that some mustangs in the Triple B complex were whipped in the face, kicked in the head, dragged by a rope around the neck, and repeatedly shocked with electrical prods, but the agency concluded none of the mistreatment rose to the level of being inhumane. BLM Director Bob Abbey did, however, determine additional training is needed for the workers and contractors involved.
The government's wild horse program is intended to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. About 33,000 wild horses live in 10 Western states, of which about half are in Nevada. Under the program, thousands of horses are forced into holding pens, where many are vaccinated or neutered before being placed for adoption or sent to long-term corrals in the Midwest.
Animal rights advocates complain that the roundups are inhumane, but ranchers and other groups say they're needed to protect fragile grazing lands that are used by cattle, Bighorn sheep and other wildlife.
Petersen said the Triple B roundup ended the day after McKibben's previous order on Aug. 30. He said BLM has no plans to resume that roundup ? the only one specifically targeted in the group's original lawsuit filed last year.
But Cowan said he said there's no question BLM eventually will return to the area for another roundup.
"They finished it to avoid your temporary restraining order," Cowan said. "They are coming back whether they say it or not. Triple B is not over," he said.
If that happens, McKibben said the issue will be ripe again for legal challenge. He repeated several times that he couldn't understand why the critics won't acknowledge BLM is taking steps to treat the horses more humanely.
"Is your position that absolutely nothing constructive has happened ... that everything done so far is basically meaningless?" he asked Cowan, who answered "yes" each time.
"I don't happen to agree," the judge said. "I think frankly that hurts your argument."
Cowan said that's the group's position because group Vice President Laura Leigh continues to observe abuse of horses at other gathers.
McKibben said the new BLM guidelines were an improvement.
"While they have not resulted in the embodiment of new rules or regulations, I see some positive things that happened between the time we were in court before and today," he said.
"I would strongly urge the Bureau of Land Management to proceed in that direction. But that's a decision that must be made by the first branch (Congress)."
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Politics of Romney's tithing: generous philanthropy or dogmatic Mormonism?
The strength of Romney's religious conviction now has a?dollar sign attached to it. Will his tithing invigorate the unease that many Americans feel toward the Mormon church?
As Republican candidate Mitt Romney?s voluminous tax returns sink into the American psyche, some line items stand out for sheer size, most notably his?contributions to the Mormon church.
Skip to next paragraphAccording to his 2010 tax returns and 2011 estimate, the former Massachusetts governor?donated a total of $4.13 million to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over those years.
Tithing?at a 10 percent?level of income is required of observant Mormons. Church founder Joseph Smith wrote that members of the faith ?shall observe this law, or they shall not be found worthy to abide among you.?
A slew of poll results over the past year, from Gallup and the Pew Center to CNN and ABC, have all shown that Americans? attitudes toward Mr. Romney?s Mormon faith may play a decisive?role?in his campaign.
Now that the strength of his religious conviction has a?dollar sign attached to it, the question arises: Will his tithing invigorate the uneasiness that many Americans, including evangelicals and some other Protestants, have toward the Mormon church and its adherents?
Some?evangelicals who question the legitimacy of?the religion,?doubting its Christian credentials, may warm to Romney?s generosity, says Michele Dillon,?sociology professor at the?University of New Hampshire in Durham. Others, she adds by e-mail, ?especially some who are already highly skeptical of Mormonism, will probably use his generous tithing as further evidence that Mormons, in these voters' minds,?are too much in the clutches of their church, and who knows what he might do to advance some alleged??Mormon agenda? if elected?"
The eye-popping number may be just the push that the issue needs?to move to center stage in Romney?s campaign, says presidential historian Charles Dunn.
?Romney needs to tackle this issue head-on,? says the author of???The Presidency in the 21st Century.? He likens this moment for the candidate to the question that faced?John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race when Baptists and other?Protestant groups questioned whether his?Catholic faith would divide his loyalties.
Kennedy opted to take the?discussion directly to?the Southern Baptists, speaking at their?convention.
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Keystone Automotive to Continue as NMRA's Series Sponsor | NMRA
Keystone Automotive, the leading distributor and marketer of specialty automotive equipment and accessories, will continue as the NMRA?s series sponsor for the 2012 event season. ?Keystone?s ?support your local speed shop? campaign is near and dear to the NMRA as many of their speed & performance accounts participate with the series. ?Expect to see Keystone speed & performance customers on display as a part of NMRA?s huge manufacturers midway at most events. ?Keystone has been the NMRA?s series sponsor since 2007 and their dealer locator program, 1-800-AUTOPARTS, will continue as the official performance parts supplier of the NMRA Keystone Automotive Ford Nationals.
Keystone Automotive sells and distributes specialty automotive products, such as light truck/SUV accessories, car accessories and trim items, specialty wheels, tires and suspension parts, and high performance products to approximately 23,000?wholesale customers in the U.S. and Canada. ?For more information on Keystone Automotive log on to www.keystoneautomotive.com.
Source: http://www.nmradigital.com/2012/01/25/keystone-automotive-to-continue-as-nmras-series-sponsor/
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Costa Concordia wreck: What we know a week later
Many details have emerged about what happened before and after the Costa Concordia ran aground on Jan. 13, but it's still unclear what the captain was doing much of that time.
A week after the Costa Concordia sank in shallow water two hours into a holiday cruise, transfixing the world, attention is now focused on the behavior of the captain before and after the ship hit a rock formation at 9:40 p.m.
Skip to next paragraphWhat began as a serious tragedy off the Tuscan island of Giglio may now have some serious tabloid elements to the story.
New questions involve the role of a 25-year old blonde Moldovan, a Filipino cook, the captain?s alcohol intake, a dinner ordered after the collision, and the captain?s moves after the ship ran aground, leaving a 160-foot gash in the hull.
Captain Francesco Schettino seems to have been attentive to Domnica Cemortan, alternately described as a hostess and a dancer, for much of the evening before, during, and after the ship hit the rock, possibly dining with her as late as 10:30 p.m. The two were also together as late as midnight, according to Ms. Cemortan, at a lifeboat station, where he ordered her to leave the semi-submerged ship.
What was clarified this week: After charting an alternate course to?sail closer to Giglio Island ? a course that Costa Cruises?denies it authorized?? Schettino told investigators he ?turned too late? to avoid rocks that some maritime experts say are uncharted but do show up on other nautical charts. In?one animated mapping?using nautical GPS positioning of the Concordia, the back half of the ship is shown grazing what is described as an exposed rock.
Transcripts of radio conversations between the Coast Guard and Schettino confirm that he left the ship while hundreds of passengers were still onboard.?
In upcoming days, an accurate timeline may emerge of Schettino?s precise movements?between the restaurant and the bridge?as well as who he called and consulted?? facts that are still murky and confused right now.?The details have serious legal implications and consequences for insurance and recovery of the $450 million ultra-modern vessel. ?
Today rescue workers said the 117,000 ton Concordia is shifting on the ocean floor by 1.5 centimeters an hour, delaying additional rescue efforts and attempts at removing the oil onboard. Relatives of the 11 dead and 21 still missing are arriving from Peru, India, and European nations.
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Video: SEALs rescue American held captive
Mystery disease Morgellons: No clear cause
A strange disease in which sufferers say they find fibers, fuzz and other debris sprouting from sores on their skin is not contagious and has no clear cause, the largest-ever study of the condition called Morgellons has found.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/46138690#46138690
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Ai Wa Sensdesu Needs Roleplayers!!!
What do you do when the one you love most...is supposed to be your worst enemy?
1000 years in the past
The 6 siblings stood in front of their castle, preparing for battle. The two oldest, a boy and a girl, held their shields and swords protectively in front of their other brothers and sisters, the two middle ones were twins, a boy and a girl with their bows ready, and finally the last two, a boy, and then the youngest, a girl they were prepared to strike with their magic. All were ready.
The 6 demons came over the hill and for a second, all was silent, and then, the battle began. It went on for hours and when it was finally over, the demons retreated and faded into the background, but not without a price, the eldest of the demons swore revenge on the family.
Two years later, there was a massacre at the castle, an attack by a crazed knight, the survivors buried the royal family's bodies under the floorboards in the main room to ward off evil. A demon pendant placed with the bodies, it hides the castle from demons.
The present
6 new siblings who are related in no way to the earlier 6 have moved into the old castle on the hill after their parents die in a railway accident. The main rooms were remodeled by a group of workers from the town below the castle, they were very generous with their remodeling, making the bedrooms perfect for each of the teens and even stocking the kitchen with plenty of food. Although, half of the place was not remodeled, because of the castle's massive size, and they weren't very thorough. The bones are still in the floorboards of the living area of the castle to ward off evil.
But, when one of the siblings find them, and they have them taken away, the moving of the pendant causes a great stirring. Little did they know, that they were the reincarnations of the earlier 6, sent here by fate.
The same demons from 1000 years earlier sense the stirring and decide now is the time to seek revenge. They come in the night as travelers who need a place to stay. The siblings decide to let them stay the night.
What happens when the demons don't find their revenge, but find love?
In one week, there will be a full moon, and everything changes with a full moon...
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>The demons come to the house for revenge, but in staying a night with the siblings, they fall in love.
>On the full moon, the demons will become like monsters, losing almost all consciousness to what they are doing, and attacking everything, the siblings don't know this.
>Who knows, maybe if a sibling surrounds the demon with love, the savage beast may dissapear?
>You may decide what your room looks like, and be creative.
>This is character driven, so don't ask me about every little thing, you are old enough to make your own decisions.
Characters
Demon 1- (male), he swore revenge on the 6 siblings, and is the last to fall in love. You may choose what he can turn into.
Demon 2- (female) She likes Human 2, though she does not show it, she tries to stay cold, but ends up falling even more in love with him. She can turn into a jaguar.
Demon 3- (Female) She is extremely in love with Human 3 and will do anything to win his heart. She can turn into a dove.
Demon 4- (male)Third youngest. He falls for human 4. He is very childish for a demon and only wants love, he is afraid of what he becomes during a full moon and afraid of what he might do to her. He can turn into a wolf.
Demon 5- (female) She is the jealous type, so when she finds out that he has a girlfriend, she kills her to get to him. She has a sweet side when she is around him. She can turn into a cat.
Demon 6- (male) He is very aggressive and short tempered, but would do anything to be with Human 6. He can turn into a lion.
Human 1- (female)She is the oldest and is very close to her brother. She tries to act indifferent to demon 1's love, but is taken in by his charm. She is amazing with a sword.
Human 2- (male) He is the second oldest, only younger than his sister by a year. He hates Demon 2, but slowly falls for her. Also good with a sword. Extremely protective of family.
Human 3- (male) 18 years old, he is the twin to Human 4. He falls in love with Demon 3, he is very protective of his twin sister, Human 4. He slowly falls in love with Demon 3, and he's not a fan of how close Demon 4 and Human 4 are getting, and tries to separate them.
Human 4- (female) Also 18, she is twin to Human 3. She falls for Demon 4 when she wakes up to him sitting at the bottom of her bed, waiting for her to wake up. She treats him more like a pet than a lover. Instead of taking to archery, she is very good with guns.
Human 5- (male)He is the second youngest, 16 years old. His girlfriend was cheating on him, and he knew it, so for some odd reason, he didn't feel that upset when he found out she was dead. He loved Demon 5 ever since he met her. He has the ability to conjure up fireballs.
Human 6- (female)She is the youngest at 15 years. She doesn't even notice Demon 6, instead, she ended up falling for Demon 4, completely making Demon 6 seem invisible. She has the ability to conjure up balls of energy and electricity.
Human 7- (female) This human is not one of the siblings, but she is like one of them. She is very close to the family and is Human 3 and 4's best friend. She practically lives at the castle with them, so she does have her own room. She likes Human 3, but won't tell him. She gets increasingly jealous of how close Demon 3 is getting to him, and has been plotting to get rid of her. This human is skilled with witchcraft and can summon weak spirits and small demons. Her strongest demons that she can summon are two hell hound like demons. She is also very superstitious. Though she is close to both of the twins, she herself is almost always around Human 4, because when she's around Human 3 she gets all nervous.
Pairings
It's not too hard to figure out- EXAMPLE: Demon 1 and Human 1, get it? :)
Also, the person playing Human 3 may decide who they want their character to be with, Demon 3 or Human 7. But, I don't want him to decide right away, let there be a struggle!
Slots
Human 1- Reserved by AmiOfTheRain
Human 2- Open
Human 3- Open
Human 4- Taken by MirrorMirror1498
Human 5- Open
Human 6- Played by brigitteanncastro
Human 7- Open
Demon 1- Played by LittleKitten
Demon 2- Reserved by broken-wings
Demon 3- Played by AlyxtheStubborn
Demon 4- Reserved by Jayu
Demon 5- Reserved by Horseygirl
Demon 6- Open
Please PM me if you are interested in any of these roles!!
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Jonathan Demme Gearing Up 'Fabulous' Stephen King Adaptation
Murderous hotels, bowel-born aliens, dimension-hopping gunslingers? when you think about all of those things, Stephen King's latest crazy idea ??sending a man back through time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy ??doesn't seem too out there.
Nevertheless, King's recent novel "11.22.63" is the latest of the author's many works to undergo the film adaptation [...]
Nevertheless, King's recent novel "11.22.63" is the latest of the author's many works to undergo the film adaptation [...]
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Video: Can Gingrich momentum roll in Florida?
>> is moderator of "meet the press" and chuck todd is the political director and chief white house correspondent in tampa at the site of tonight's republican debate. good morning to you both.
>> good morning.
>> david , in that piece we hear newt gingrich saying he raised more than $1 million in less than 24 hours following the win in south carolina . i know that money will come in handy. do we have any idea how much it will cost the candidates now that the campaign has taken a dramatic turn? how much they will spend in the state of florida ?
>> it's what they will spend and what a the super pacs on their behalf will spend as well. if you're newt gingrich you're relying on debates. paid advertising has got to play a role. he's got to rely on momentum taking him in to florida at this point. i don't think he can go toe to toe with mitt romney 's funds from his own campaign and his own super pac to make an impact in such a tv-rich state.
>> chuck, i watched you on the roundtable yesterday. one thing that struck me is how few people seemed to give newt gingrich a realistic chance of winning the nomination. i know the pundits counted the guy out on a couple of occasions.
>> right.
>> is that risky?
>> i think you're right. it is risky. when you look at where the republican electorate is, they are looking for a conservative. not the most electable candidate but a conservative. mitt romney hasn't successfully made the case. with gingrich , you hear all of the back room chatter that there will be this whatever it takes to, quote, stop gingrich . you have members of the house leadership who think, look what gingrich did when he was essentially on the ballot in '96 and '98. he helped re-elect a democratic president and almost cost them the house when he was in charge. there is panic he could lose the presidency, lose control of the house and blow their chances at picking up the senate. that's why a panic that the establishment will do whatever it takes to stop him. even find a new candidate.
>> because of momentum the debate takes on more significance. it's safe to say mitt romney is wounded after south carolina . what do you expect to hear from him in the debate?
>> peter alexander 's report and interview were quite telling. this is a different mitt romney . mike murphy , republican strategist, said to me yesterday romney is in a corner with a broken bottle in his hand. he has to decide if he'll fight or be overtaken by gingrich . this is not a candidate who's been defined by that willingness to really fight in the course of a campaign. he's not in fighting shape. he has to be soon. he has to draw bright contrasts. he's up against something powerful here. he's running as a populist with a lot of insider credentials. that's the calling card of the grief-stricken right right now. the element of the conservative party . that's what he's going to have to contend with in these debates and in florida .
>> the issue of tax returns , mitt romney will release them tomorrow. does that take it off the table as a subject during the debate tonight?
>> a tiny bit. you heard gingrich himself to david on "meet the press" saying it may take it off the table. let's see what's in there. what is it that was in these tax returns that made mitt romney say at a debate, hey, you know, i'm worried about beating president obama . what's he worried about? what's in there? there is something to that. and when you go even by the president bush standard when he was candidate bush he released ten years before taking the oath of office . this isn't fully going away but it sounds like gingrich is willing to have it go away for a little while, at least from what he told david .
>> guys, thank you very much. just a reminder, you can see the nbc news republican debate tonight on a special edition of "rock center" with brian williams on nbc. it's
Source: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/46098263/
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Suddenly 'neck and neck' ? Romney, Gingrich in SC (AP)
CHARLESTON, S.C. ? On the eve of a Southern showdown, Mitt Romney conceded Friday he's in a tight race with Newt Gingrich for Saturday's South Carolina primary in a Republican campaign suddenly turned turbulent.
It's "neck and neck," Romney declared, while a third presidential contender, former Sen. Rick Santorum, swiped at both men in hopes of springing yet another campaign surprise.
Several days after forecasting a Romney victory in his state, Sen. Jim DeMint said the campaign's first Southern primary was now a two-man race between the former Massachusetts governor, who has struggled in recent days with questions about his personal wealth and taxes, and Gingrich, the former House speaker who has been surging in polls after a pair of well-received debate performances.
The stakes were high as Republicans sought a challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama. Television advertising by the candidates and their supporters exceeded $10 million here, much of it spent in the past two weeks, and mailboxes were stuffed with campaign flyers.
In a bit of home-state boosterism, DeMint said the primary winner was "likely to be the next president of the United States."
Indeed, the winner of the state's primary has gone on to capture the Republican nomination each year since 1980.
A victory by Romney would place him in a commanding position heading into the Florida primary on Jan. 31. He and an organization supporting him are already airing television ads in that state, which is one of the country's costliest in which to campaign.
If the former Massachusetts governor stumbles in South Carolina, it could portend a long, drawn-out battle for the nomination stretching well into spring and further expose rifts inside the party between those who want a candidate who can defeat Obama more than anything else, and those whose strong preference is for a solid conservative.
Romney sounded anything but confident as he told reporters that in South Carolina, "I realize that I had a lot of ground to make up and Speaker Gingrich is from a neighboring state, well known, popular ... and frankly to be in a neck-and-neck race at this last moment is kind of exciting."
Left unspoken was that he swept into South Carolina 10 days ago on the strength of a strong victory in the New Hampshire primary and maintained a double-digit lead in the South Carolina polls for much of the week.
Campaigning in Gilbert, S.C., on Friday, Romney demanded that Gingrich release hundreds of supporting documents relating to an ethics committee investigation into his activities while he was speaker of the House in the mid-1990s.
""Of course he should," he told reporters. Referring to the House Democratic leader, he said, "Nancy Pelosi has the full record of that ethics investigation. You know it's going to get out ahead of the general election."
That was an attempt to turn the tables on Gingrich, who has demanded Romney release his income tax returns before the weekend primary so Republicans can know in advance if they contain anything that could compromise the party's chances against Obama this fall.
Gingrich's campaign brushed off Romney's demand, calling it a "panic attack" brought on by sinking poll numbers.
"Don't you love these guys?" the former speaker said in Orangeburg. "He doesn't release anything. He doesn't answer anything and he's even confused about whether he will ever release anything. And then they decide to pick a fight over releasing stuff?"
In January 1997, Gingrich became the first speaker ever reprimanded and fined for ethics violations, slapped with a $300,000 penalty. He said he'd failed to follow legal advice concerning the use of tax-exempt contributions to advance potentially partisan goals, but he was also cleared of numerous other allegations.
At the same time he fended off a demand on one front Friday, Gingrich was less than eager to face further questions made by his second wife, Marianne, who said in an ABC interview broadcast Thursday night that he had once sought an open marriage so he could keep the mistress who later became his current wife.
He denies the ex-wife's account.
On his final lap through the state, Santorum campaigned as the Goldilocks candidate ? just right for the state's conservative voters.
"One candidate is too radioactive, a little too hot," he said, referring to Gingrich. "And we have another candidate who is just too darn cold, who doesn't have bold plans," he added, speaking of Romney.
His campaign also announced endorsements from conservative leaders in the upcounty portion of the state around Greenville, where the heaviest concentration of evangelical voters lives.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, dismissed Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the fourth contender in the race. "There are four, three of whom have a chance to win the nomination," he said, including himself.
Paul, who finished third in the Iowa caucuses and second in the New Hampshire primary, has had a limited presence in South Carolina.
But he flew to six cities on a burst of campaigning on the race's final day, and drew applause for having returned to Washington, D.C., earlier in the week to vote against Obama's requested increase in the debt limit.
"When you hear the word principle, you think of Ron Paul. He's the embodiment of that," said Derek Smith, a 26-year-old engineer for the Navy in Charleston. "If he were to run as a third-party candidate, I would vote for him unconditionally."
Paul has said he has no intention of doing that.
Interviewed on C-SPAN, Santorum said the race "has just transformed itself in the last 24 hours." It was hard for any of the campaigns to argue with that.
In a bewildering series of events on Thursday, Romney was stripped of his victory in the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses by state party officials, who said a recount showed Santorum ahead by 34 votes.
Then came an unexpected withdrawal by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who endorsed Gingrich. But Gingrich was suddenly caught in a controversy caused by his ex-wife's accusations.
At a two-hour debate that capped the day, Gingrich drew applause when he strongly attacked ABC and the "liberal news media" in general for injecting the issue into the final days of the South Carolina campaign.
By contrast, Romney faced a round of boos from the audience when he stuck by earlier statements that he would wait until April to release his tax returns.
Romney has stumbled several times in recent days, including once when he said he paid an effective tax rate of about 15 percent. That's half what many middle-income Americans pay, but it's what the law stipulates because his income derives from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages.
Gingrich posted his own tax returns online during the Thursday debate, reporting he paid 31.5 percent of his income to the IRS.
___
Associated Press writers Charles Babington, Kasie Hunt, Thomas Beaumont, Philip Elliott, Beth Fouhy and Shannon McCaffrey contributed to this report.
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
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ZOOM?s B3 Bass Effects Pedal Launches At NAMM
In a lot of the Paneldome demos I have done, I (flailingly) play guitar, but I am actually a bass player. That's why I am excited to hear about the Zoom B3 Effect Pedal/Amp Simulator released today at NAMM. The promise of "a stompbox pedalboard with the power of a multi-effects pedal and USB audio interface" for bass guitar is tempting. This all-in-one design would definitely be convenient to throw into your gear bag on the way to a gig, without requiring a bunch of extra cables and dongles ? you know, kind of like a regular old pedal effect. Sounds interesting.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/EQNOSQPvos8/
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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Gingrich seeks help among Florida evangelicals
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