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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Energy Drinks Blamed For Boost In Emergency Room Visits : Bay ...
The bar at a surprise birthday party for MTV Teen Wolf?s Stephen Lunsford, presented by Monster Energy Drinks in November in Los Angeles. Photo: Todd Williamson/Invision/AP
Post by Nancy Shute, The Salt at NPR Food
Should emergency rooms track the number of people who get hurt or sick after drinking coffee? That?s what the maker of Monster energy drinks suggests in response to a recent report that emergency-room visits involving caffeine-laced energy drinks doubled from 2007 to 2011.
The energy drink maker took issue with the report, pointing out that there was no evidence in the federal government?s survey that energy drinks caused the people?s health problem ? and that energy drinks aren?t the only way to slug caffeine.
?The report did not even look at ER visits associated with coffee consumption and could not say whether people who had consumed significant quantities of caffeine from coffee or other sources so not likewise visit the ER,? Monster Beverage Corp. said in a statement. As we?ve reported recently, young people are drinking more coffee for the extra jolt these days.
True, most people don?t confess to having downed a latte when they show up sick at the ER. But public health officials and lawmakers say energy drinks pose unique hazards because they?re often sold in large sizes that deliver a potent dose of caffeine. They?re flavored and colored to look like soft drinks, making them more appealing to children and teenagers than a cup of coffee. That gives the impression that there?s no downside to drinking a lot, even though consuming large amounts of caffeine can cause problems like rapid heartbeat, muscle tremors, and seizures.
Last fall, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed that it has received five reports of people dying after drinking caffeinated energy drinks, including a 14 year-old Maryland girl. The agency says there?s no proof that the drinks caused the deaths, but it?s now investigating energy-drink safety. And the Federal Trade Commission is looking into the manufacturers? marketing, which, among other things, claims the drinks improve energy and concentration.
The new numbers on emergency-department visits come from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which tracks drug-related ER visits. They found that energy-drink related visits rose from 10,068 in 2007 to 20,782 in 2011. That?s out of more than 1 million drug-related ER visits, the agency says. Before 2007, energy drink incidents were too few to report, the paper says.
About 60 percent of the people were seeking help with adverse reactions to the energy drink alone, while 27 percent had also taken prescription drugs. Another 13 percent had downed energy drinks and alcohol, while 10 percent had combined energy drinks and illegal drugs. Teenagers and young adults were most likely to end up in the ER.
The facepalm stat: Nine percent of the unfortunates had combined energy drinks with prescription stimulants like Ritalin, giving them a double dose of chemical buzz.
The SAMHSA study doesn?t prove that the drinks caused the health problems, but tracks with other studies that have found health problems with energy drinks. People who combine energy drinks with alcohol are more likely to get drunk, and drive drunk, according to a 2010 study.
The SAMHSA report prompted three congressmen to renew their call for companies to fully disclose energy-drink ingredients, and provide evidence to support marketing claims.
?There is very clearly a lack of understanding about the health effects of energy drinks and their ingredients especially on children and adolescents,? Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a statement.
And last Thursday, Chicago Alderman Edward Burke proposed a citywide ban on sales of energy drinks. ?Chicago ought to be on the forefront of public awareness and education about the potential dangers of these products,? he told a local TV station. No word on whether the rest of the city council backs the notion of a buzz-free Windy City.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Mega Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As ?The Privacy Company?, ?Thousands Of Registrations Per Minute?
Kim Dotcom's new secure file storage-and-file-sharing venture, Mega, has now officially launched, with the timing, 6.48 AM New Zealand time on January 20, made to coincide exactly with the one-year anniversary of the raid on his home by New Zealand authorities, after the closure of Megaupload, another file-sharing and file storage site that was seized by U.S. authorities for copyright violations.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/WtoDgroB4nE/
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Dinner Party Wedding at Marvimon
Holy cow, do I ever love this wedding. As soon as I heard bride Raechel pulled her inspiration from Old Hollywood, glitter, and using local resources, I was hooked! Sarah of Arrow & Apple photographed every bit of Raechel and Jack?s dream wedding day at Marvimon House, one of our perennial favorite wedding venues.
From the bride, Raechel: Our wedding vision was greens, naturals, Old Hollywood and glitter. All though the combination might seem a bit odd together the outcome was amazing. It was also really important that we tried to use local sources as much as possible. We didn?t use any big companies to do anything and felt so proud that we could help keep our money going to local and small businesses (besides our photographer who is in a neighboring state!) We had a lot of DIY projects, partially to save money but also because that?s just who we are. We got some plywood, traced out names in a giant fun font, then cut it out with a jigsaw and glittered it with spray adhesive. It made for a great background in pictures and was an awesome accent on the brick walls of the venue.
We liked the natural feel and look of burlap so we made placemats of burlap for everyone that we thought would look great against the gold chargers and the greenery in the middle. Placemats are something we haven?t really seen at weddings and we wanted to balance the formality of a wedding with an intimate, and casual feel. For the ceremony we wanted something really traditional so we had an actual tying of the knot ceremony which made for great photos and was something some people haven?t seen before (or in a very long time anyway). We hung the knot over the entrance of our doorway as a reminder daily of our wedding and the vows we made to each other! We also wanted something similar to a unity candle but less religious so we did a wishbone breaking ceremony! Everyone was given a plastic wishbones and asked to then break them with their neighbor and make a wish for our new marriage!
Any advice for brides planning their weddings now? My biggest piece of advice is to have a little extra money even if you?re strict with a budget. We reviewed our budget on a weekly basis and in the end things crept in that I completely forgot about ? i.e. wine for our rehearsal dinner! Luckily, we had money coming back to us in the end from security deposits. My second biggest piece of advice which would easily rival with the first is to really write down what you want your wedding to be. Our wedding to us needed to involved only the people we could envision in our future. We absolutely adored our vendors and in the end everyone we worked with was very passionate about making our wedding what we wanted. My brother (bride) was our officiant. It made the ceremony that much more personal for us.
My third piece of advice is to try to sleep. I only got a few hours of sleep the last week before the wedding each night and the moment we checked out on Monday morning from the hotel I was sick as a dog which included being sick on our three week trip to Europe. My fourth and last piece of advice, do not let anyone tell you what your wedding should be. We made our wedding exactly what we envisioned. In the end, everyone told us how personal and unique our wedding was because we stayed true to our own wedding vision.
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Wedding Location: Los Angeles, CA / Wedding Photographer: Arrow & Apple / Wedding Venue: Marvimon House / Wedding Flowers: Holly Flora / Wedding Dress: Nicole Miller / Wedding Shoes: Fergalicious / Bride?s Necklace: J. Crew / Bride?s Earrings: Bloomingdales / Hair: Dominique Moreau / Bridesmaids? Dresses: Nicole Miller / Groom?s Suit: Talia / Groom?s Bow Tie: Forage / Wedding Caterer: Field Kitchen / Decorations: Bride and Groom / Wishbones: Lucky Break / DJ: DJ Swon of Red Shoe / Wedding Invitations and Paper Goods: Bride and Groom, Jack and Till / Invitation Printing: Sweet Water Press
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Friday, January 18, 2013
The Picker: What's on our college football teams' wish lists
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Left to the devices of cheerleaders and the empty-headed, the masses will go into next year expecting OU to be elite instead of incomplete.
Here is the inside business on what each of our football teams needs to find before the fall.
Oklahoma
It needs less cheerleading from the media.College football is a quarterback's game.
OU has no quarterback.
The Sooners could also stand a runner.
OU's backfield looks about like what you'd find at Iowa, tailbacks who can dominate dogs but don't have the moves to get open on their own.
No thanks to Mike "Time Out Time Out" Stoops (a leading candidate for nickname of the year), OU also needs a defense.
Were these returning starters coming back to Michigan State, they'd be worried sick.
If the media quits cowering in front of the Stoops Gang and gets real, perhaps the football team will respond as well.
Oklahoma State
This team has progressed nicely from the overnight sensation spike in the polls and doesn't need a whole lot except on the psychological level.It is, after all, the best team in the state going into the 2013 season.
The only slightly abnormal pressure comes from moneyed man Pickens, who wants to see his team play for a national title before he turns 100.
OSU needs a better defense, but in this conference, who doesn't - what skillful defensive lineman in his right mind wants to chase around bubble screens for three years?
The main thing OSU needs to do is act like it belongs up there in the college ranks and quit whining about having to play decent nonconference foes. That starts at the top. Gundy has been a Cowboy so long, sometimes he acts like they could still stink at any second.
Tulsa
As is the case with OSU, it's going to be hard for this team to get much better.Great coaching, great character, great records, about all that's slipping through the cracks are fans.
And, as is the case with all schools on the tiny enrollment side, the only way to fill the seats is by winning them all, or by recruiting some freak of nature that the big places missed.
Sleeper stars are hard to find.
Hire more assistants.
Maybe get lucky with a coach's kid.
PICKS
Sunday
San Francisco (-4 1/2) at Atlanta: Start of Harbaugh Brothers Day in the NFL - the lippy one coaches SF, the slightly quieter one runs Baltimore.This one goes on Fox, praise be, as the announcers pause occasionally for breath.
The bandwagon for the SF quarterback includes everybody who loved: Vick, then RG3, then Wilson at Seattle.
Then there was one runner left, the man from Nevada.
True, Atlanta is stodgy.
But this isn't Nevada.
Big upset, Atlanta by 4.
Baltimore at New England (-8 1/2): This, and the Super Bowl itself, go on CBS, headed by the worst announcing team ever, Saturday Nigh Live parodies included, Nantz and Simms.
Nantz would probably live in a tree by the 18th green at Augusta if they'd let him. Masters promos three months early will ring in our ears.
And Simms keeps explaining simple plays like they came from a foreign land.
New England has a unique pass attack - a very low actual air miles figure.
The average New England pass travels four yards by air, then a receiver carries it 25 more.
The Harbaugh brothers watch the Super Bowl from the family box.
NE by 7.
Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20130117_29_B1_WITHON568821&rss_lnk=2
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Apple cuts orders for iPhone 5 parts on weak demand: Nikkei
(Reuters) - Shares in Apple Inc dipped below $500 for the first time in almost one year after reports it is slashing orders for screens and other components as intensifying competition erodes demand for its latest iPhone.
Japan's Nikkei reported on Monday that the world's largest technology corporation began sharply reducing buying of liquid crystal displays about a month ago from suppliers like Japan Display Inc and Sharp Corp.
The report, later matched by the Wall Street Journal, comes as hard-charging rivals like Samsung Electronics, which makes phones based on Google Inc's popular Android software, continue to expand market share globally.
Apple stock slid more than 4 percent to an intraday low of $498.51 -- a level not seen since February 16, 2012 -- before bouncing back to trade just above $500 at midday. The news also hurt shares of suppliers such as Cirrus Logic Inc, which dived 9 percent.
Some analysts argued that Apple and its manufacturing partners had struggled with quality issues that might have curtailed production times.
"Our checks with supply chain contacts close to the situation identified a very different cause: a slower ramp in the manufacturing of iPhones and iPads (reflecting some quality control issues) and insufficient production lines," said Joane Feeney of Longbow Research.
"Rather than ordering more components and having inventory build up further, Apple put component suppliers on notice to hold off, for the time being, on further shipments until it expanded its production lines - which it plans to complete by the end of the quarter."
By some estimates, the holiday quarter may have been the worst for U.S. retailers since the 2008 financial crisis, with sales growth far below expectations. Other data yields a more mixed picture of holiday season demand.
Apple was not immediately available for comment. No one at Sharp was immediately available to comment on Monday - a national holiday in Japan - and parts suppliers to Apple in Taiwan declined to comment.
CUTBACKS
Apple has asked Japan Display, Sharp and LG Display Co Ltd to roughly halve supplies of LCD panels from an initial plan for about 65 million screens in January-March, the Nikkei cited people familiar with the situation as saying.
Japan Display's plant in southwest Japan, where Apple has invested heavily, is expected to temporarily reduce output by up to 80 percent from October-December levels, the Nikkei reported, while Sharp's dedicated facility for iPhone 5 LCDs will trim production in January-February by about 40 percent.
The move, if confirmed, would tally with analysts saying that sales of the new iPhone 5, which was released in September, have not been as strong as anticipated.
Apple has lost ground gradually to South Korean rival Samsung, as well as smaller, fast-growing rivals such as China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp.
Samsung overtook Apple in 2012 to become the world's biggest seller of smartphones, helped in part by the popularity of its Galaxy Note II phone-cum-tablet and a vastly wider range of low- to high-end devices that appeal to a broad swath of consumers. Apple rolled out a single new smartphone last year.
Jefferies analyst Peter Misek trimmed his iPhone shipment estimates for the January-March quarter on December 14, saying that the technology company had started cutting orders to suppliers to balance excess inventory.
Apple also cut its orders for memory chips for its new iPhone from its main supplier and competitor Samsung, Reuters reported in September, quoting sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
The company has been cutting back its orders from Samsung as it seeks to diversify its memory chip supply lines.
Samsung said on Monday that global sales of its flagship Galaxy S smartphones had topped 100 million since the first model was launched in May 2010. The Galaxy S3, launched last May, sold more than 40 million in seven months.
The Galaxy S IV is expected within months and may sport an unbreakable screen, full high-definition quality resolution of 440 pixels per inch, and a more powerful processor.
It's expected to increase its smartphone sales by more than a third this year and widen its lead over Apple, according to researcher Strategy Analytics. It forecast Samsung will sell 290 million smartphones in 2013 versus iPhone sales of 180 million.
Kim Sung-in, an analyst at Kiwoom Securities in Seoul, sees Samsung shipping 320 million smartphones this year and doubling sales of its tablets to 32 million.
(Reporting by Tokyo bureau, Avik Das and Sayantani Ghosh in Bangalore and Clare Jim in Taipei; Editing by Ian Geoghegan, Supriya Kurane and Andrew Hay)
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amyhoarwash: Tips on Couples Anger Management
Getting tips on couples anger management was something that we really needed now that we?d become parents. I wanted to change our relationship for the better, and finally convinced my husband that we should work on things. A counselor that we?d been talking with referred me to this book. It was a great breakthrough for us because we both took the time to read it. It was nice because we were finally able to be involved with something together, and it really offered some great insights.
Source: http://www.monologueblog.net/self-improvement-and-motivation/tips-on-couples-anger-management/
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