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Lowe?s home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, gives some helpful tips on how to clean and organize your garage. Start with organizing all your items into groups. This could include gardening tools, holiday and seasonal decorations, sports gear, tools, garbage and recycling. Once you have grouped your items, create a map of your garage, making zones for each group. This is the step you want to be sure your most often used items are in easily accessible areas. After you know where to place everything, you can purchase the right storage containers, shelving units and storage racks. Put a garden tools rack by the garage door so you can pick them up on your way to the yard. Try putting sports equipment in clear plastic storage containers and on shelving units. Also, place bikes on hoists so they are out of the way and above your car. Anything that is rarely used, usually holiday decorations, should be put up on high shelves. Finally, place trash and recycling bins close to the house door so you can quickly drop in trash and recyclables. To find more great organization tips and the printable instructions for this video, visit www.Lowes.com Subscribe to Lowe?s YouTube for great how to videos and home improvement tips: www.youtube.com Or head to our channel: www.youtube.com
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The following text is a post on the wall of Victor Costa from a good FaceBook friend, Steve Dupere from Izmir, Turkey on his insights on Dr. Young, building blood, building muscles or bodybuilding, calories and microwaving food.
Steve Dupere@mehar - "I thought that Dr. Young would find this statement by a man on bodybuilder Victor Costa's page quite disturbing as I did."
"Mehar Bhogal: The theory of it is that food quality does not matter, but instead outcomes are based solely upon macronutrient intake, ?ie. a McDonald's hamburger vs chicken breast, potatoes, butter --- assuming the macros would be similar."
"I was wondering what your thoughts are as to if this holds up or not. Whether the quality of macronutrients will determine an athletes performance aesthetically and 'on the bar'."
"Icecream fitness has an in depth video on it -- but you seem pretty knowledgable and I'd like to know your view."
Steve Dupere@mehar continues - "Microwaves denature the molecular structure of food, hence I avoid them at all cost. As stated, only when necessary -- otherwise it's oven all day long WHEN and only when I cook my food, as raw is best. "Live food, live bodies. -- Jay Kordich, Dr. Norman Walker, raw food experts. "The human organism is only as healthy as the blood coursing it." -- Dr. Robert O.Young, world renowned blood scientist, speaker, author.
"Food frequency is what matters. All foods are electron-based, thus the frequencial congruence of living, raw foods are synonymous to that of human biology, as has been proven by Dr. Robert Young. We do not run on calories, but rather electrons if we delve further down into the quantum realm. This as well as been shown by Dr. Young via ultra dark and light field microscopy. His discoveries are cutting edge and being proven around the world. Sounds off the wall, but believe me the man knows his stuff. Does it not make sense that living, enzymatic foods would have a concurrent physiological synergy synonymous to human biology, especially when you consider chlorophyll's molecular structure is almost identical to that of human blood with the center atom being magnesium in chlorophyll and iron in blood? Keep the blood healthy and you'll build the most quality muscle. Dr. Young has discovered that many bodybuilders are the most unhealthy athletes in the world due to excess lactic acid buildup and over-consumption of protein. Many don't, or won't, want to hear this, nor will they believe it, but it's true. Fit does not equal health. Remember that my friend."
In response to Steve Dupere questions, Dr. Robert O. Young states, "the purpose of food and drink we ingest is to provide the body with:
1) Electron energy found in its greatest quantity in living raw organic green foods to fuel the body.
2) Flexible oils that can bend to form the lipid membranes that make up all stem cells, blood cells and body cells.
3) Green vegetables and green fruit that are high in chlorophyll for the purpose of building hemoglobin. Why? ?Because you are only as healthy and fit as your blood.
4) Alkaline minerals to buffer metabolic and dietary acids and to act as the matrix for the transport of electron energy to all living anatomical elements that make up all of the body cells. And, finally
5) Alkaline water to maintain the alkaline design of all body cells that make up the blood, tissues, glands and organs and to keeping things moving. ?We are a body of alkaline water with a little mineral.
The objective is to maintain the alkaline design of the body fluids and cells with an alkaline lifestyle and diet and to remove the acidic waste products from our daily diet and metabolism.
Source: http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-build-muscle-with-blood-not-protein.html
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Five years ago during the closing speeches of a summit in Chile, Spain's king told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" in an exchange that epitomized the fruitless meetings between Europe and Latin America at the time.
Dominated by leftist rhetoric and instability in the Andes, the summits were sideshows to the rapid economic growth in Europe that followed the introduction of the euro a decade ago, and the concerns of Madrid and Brussels lay elsewhere.
But a debt crisis in Europe has turned the relationship between former imperial powers and their colonies on its head. EU leaders meeting in Santiago for a summit with Latin American heads of state this weekend were frank about their eagerness to piggy-back onto the region's impressive economic growth.
"This is now a strategic relationship between equal partners," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, leading a huge delegation of European Union leaders and business executives.
With so many bilateral meetings during the two-day summit, Merkel had barely finished delivering her remarks before she rushed off to Santiago's business district to try to arrange investments and seal trade deals.
"We invite you to invest in Germany," she said, echoing Spanish premier Mariano Rajoy, who the day before made his plea from Chile's presidential palace.
With 60 percent of young Spaniards unemployed, and the German economy, Europe's biggest, struggling with the impact of a public debt crisis that nearly broke up the euro zone last year, Latin America clearly has the upper hand.
Latin America's economic output is expected to grow almost 4 percent this year, while the 17-nation euro zone will probably contract. Europe wants Latin American companies to follow Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, who has invested in Dutch telecoms company KPN.
European governments also want to ensure their companies win big infrastructure contracts for ports, highways and airports in Latin America, including those for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics in Brazil.
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Diplomats at the Santiago summit spoke of a new, relaxed mood among the more than 60 countries represented, helped by a big dose of humility from the Europeans.
"Latin America likes the idea that the European Union has problems too," said one EU diplomat who worked closely with Chilean colleagues during the summit.
Clearly anxious to get the message across, two of the European Union's most senior officials, Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso, gave five speeches each in less than two days, vaunting Latin America's successes and speaking of the "intertwined destinies" of the two regions.
That went down well with leaders such as Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, who praised Europe's change of tone: "The Europeans have finally realized ... we need a relationship where both sides win."
While the threat of a euro zone break-up was overcome last year, EU leaders in Santiago addressed questions about the future of the wider, 27-nation European Union after British Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans last week to hold a referendum on British membership if he wins re-election.
Meanwhile, summit host Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos appeared to revel in the turnaround in a continent once synonymous with hyperinflation, dictatorships and guerrilla violence.
"We've never been so well off," Santos said, trumpeting his pro-business drive that has experienced soaring foreign investment and a 30-month run of falling unemployment in Colombia. "Every one of our citizens coming out of poverty is a potential new consumer and a consumer for Europe."
(Additional reporting by Alejandro Lifschitz, editing by Stacey Joyce)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/search-business-europe-changes-tone-latin-america-220514873--finance.html
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Next time you hear someone in Washington come up with a long-term plan to balance the federal budget, take it with a Capitol Building-sized grain of salt.
As the tax and spending battle rages on in the nation?s capital, Democrats and Republicans are vowing to replace temporary, stop-gap budget measures with a long-term plan to narrow the gap between how much the government raises in taxes and how much Congress agrees to spend.
Though bitterly divided over how to pull it off, both sides agree that a gradual, long-term, budget-balancing plan would do less damage to the economy than the steep, short-term spending cuts set to take effect in a few weeks.?Earlier this week, House Republicans set a 10-year timetable for bringing revenues and spending into line.
"Balancing the budget over the next 10 years means that we save the future for our kids and our grandkids," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said when the deal was announced.
Even if every member of Congress agreed with that goal, it?s a promise none of them can keep.
Any long term budget is subject to a long list of unknowns ? from disasters and wars, to recessions and financial crises - that can quickly knock it off course.?The list includes a future Congress that decides to tear up the plan and replace it with a new one.
?You can talk about a budget as a establishing a sense of direction but you can?t talk about a long term budget as a precise point of arrival,? said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a policy advisor in the Clinton administration. ?All sorts of things can alter the assumptions that underlie any long-term planning.?
Congress hit the pause button in the ongoing budget battle this week) by delaying a looming deadline to prevent the government from borrowing to pay its bills. The deal lets the Treasury Department continue to sell bonds to make up the gap between the taxes it collects and the spending Congress has authorized.
That measure effectively postponed the debt ceiling crunch until mid-May. The exact date is difficult to predict because the Treasury is able to juggle its bills for a few weeks as it approaches the borrowing cap.
The next hard deadline comes with automatic budget cuts ? the spending side of the so-called ?fiscal cliff? ? that were delayed until March 1 and pared down by $24 billion in the last-minute, year-end deal that raised taxes on the wealthiest households.
Those cuts, the so-called ?sequester,? were enacted in July 2011 after the last debt-ceiling standoff.
The hope was that the impact of the cuts would be so dire that the deadline would force a compromise in the long-standing budget deadlock. Republicans and the White House remain on a collision course over a long-term plan to replace the sequester?s meat clever approach to spending cuts.
Both sides agreed to come up with a long-term budget plan ? or forego their paychecks. (That?s another promise easier made than kept. The 27th Amendment requires that any change in elected representatives? salaries apply only to the next session of Congress. So the move is largely for show.)
Replacing the short-term budget measures with a 10-year plan begins with a series of guesses about future spending that are all but impossible to make. Will the U.S. fight a war in the next decade? How many natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy will prompt emergency relief spending? Will the cost of health care continue rising faster than the rate of inflation?
There are even bigger wild guesses embedded in the economic projections used to estimate how much money the government will take in through taxes. Will there be a recession in the next 10 years? If so, will it be mild or severe? Short or long?
Like any long-term plan, a relatively small miss on that estimate can have a big impact down the road. If the current $16 trillion U.S. economy grows at the 50-year historical average pace of about 3 percent, for example, in 10 years gross domestic product ? a rough measure of the nation?s income - will hit $21.5 trillion. If that growth rate continues at the current, roughly 2 percent pace, GDP will hit only $19.5 trillion ? generating less tax revenue from businesses and households even if tax rates remain steady.
?You can solve a lot of problems if you simply build in the kind of economic performance that we saw in the last six years of Reagan or the last five of Bill Clinton,? said Galston. ?It?s possible to do anything on paper if you don?t care what you?re doing.?
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/congress-making-budget-promises-it-cant-keep-1C8115972
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghan police say a suicide car bomber has killed five civilians and wounded another 25 in a botched attempt to hit a convoy of NATO supply trucks in eastern Afghanistan.
Gen. Faziluddin Ayar, who is responsible for the east, says the bomber missed the convoy, which suffered no damage. The attack took place Friday in the Tagab district of eastern Kapisa province.
The Ministry of Interior says in a statement that the bomber instead rammed into a residential home, killing those inside. It says four of the dead were from the same family.
The Taliban claimed responsibility in a text message sent to news media.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-police-suicide-bomber-misses-nato-kills-5-065337943.html
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Dendritic cells, or DCs for short, perform a vital role for the immune system: They engulf pathogens, break them down into their component parts, and then display the pieces on their surface. This in turn signals other immune cells capable of recognizing these pieces to help kick-start their own default program for fighting off the invaders. In order to do their job, the DCs are dependent upon the support from a class of immune system molecules, which have never before been associated with dendritic cells: antibodies, best known for their role in vaccinations and diagnostics. Now, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to show that antibodies are essential for dendritic cell maturation. The researchers' findings have been published in the renowned scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The human immune system is made up of some half a dozen different cell types that are all working in tandem. Team work is key since each cell type has a single unique job to perform, which is central to its ability to help defend the body against invaders and ward off disease. If one of these players is taken out of commission, the entire system is thrown out of whack.
This is precisely what Dr. Siegfried Weiss, head of HZI Department of Molecular Immunology, and his team of researchers observed when they looked at immunodeficient mice. "Our 'RAG' mice are lacking adaptive, or acquired immunity," explains Weiss. "Basically, what this means is they are missing their antibody-producing B cells, among others."
The dendritic cells belong to a different branch of the immune system - innate immunity, which, although far less pliable, is capable of a fairly rapid response. Which is why these cells should not be affected by a defect in acquired immunity. Still, the scientists noticed that DCs obtained from this particular murine strain were not working properly - their maturation process was faulty and instead of breaking down a pathogen into small pieces, they ended up destroying the pathogen altogether. "The broken down pieces are called antigens. Presenting antigen is the dendritic cells' main job," explains Dr. Natalia Zietara, one of the scientists who worked on this study. "In fact, it is one of the most important points of intersection between the immune system's innate and acquired branches. If it goes missing, any subsequent immune responses don't ever get triggered," adds her colleague, Dr. Marcin Lyszkiewicz. The cells' normally highly precise interplay comes to a standstill and the acquired immune response becomes largely ineffective at a targeted defense against invading pathogens.
Starting with this observation, the immunologists were interested in identifying the cause behind the defect in the DCs' function. To this end, they initially examined the dendritic cells' surface markers for any potential deviation from the norm - albeit to no avail. Only once they began studying the transcriptome, the sum total of genes that are active in the cells that were being examined, the researchers found what it was they were looking for: The activity of a select few genes, among them those encoding a family of receptors capable of binding antibodies, had been altered. Through a series of subsequent experiments, the researchers were able to show that it was these very molecules, which stimulated dendritic cell maturation.
Antibodies, also called immunoglobulins, are proteins made by B cells. Their normal job is one of neutralizing toxins or viruses and labeling bacteria for destruction by other immune cells. The concept of vaccination is based on artificially prompting the organism to make antibodies, which, at a later stage - specifically, upon contact with the actual pathogen - helps the body ward off disease. Until now, this new role for antibodies was completely unknown. "We had no idea that B cells and dendritic cells use immunoglobulins to communicate with each other. It just goes to show you how complex the immune system really is and how we are a long way from truly grasping the full scope of its complexity," says Dr. Andreas Krueger, head of the Lymphocyte Biology research group at the MHH's Institute of Immunology. In a way, you might say the researchers discovered a 'hidden talent' of antibodies.
Natalia Zietara and Marcin Lyszkiewicz are both named as the study's primary co-authors. They initially kicked off their investigation during the time of their doctoral work in Siegfried Weiss' department at HZI and, upon earning their PhDs, transferred to the MHH where they were able to see the project to its conclusion working in Andreas Krueger's lab. According to Weiss, "this is a prime example of a genuine scientific collaborative." Two other HZI research groups, along with scientists from Freiburg University and the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, were also part of the research project.
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Awkward Moment #1: ?Waiting around to catch the flu. ?Even though our family chose not to get flu vaccinations this year (I'm not a health expert and am certainly not trying to tell you what to do in that regard, your own physician probably thinks they're great), we have been fortunate to stay pretty healthy this winter. ?We'd heard of other local families coping with the flu, and I tried to find another mom to sample the product for me, with no luck.
Finally, feeling perfectly well, I decided to simply try a dose myself. ?The stuff is easy to take, is like tiny little beads of candy (sweetened with lactose and sucrose), and has no bad taste. ?It was a lot like taking a sugar pill.
Awkward Moment #2: ? Discovering what I just ate. ?As I sat down to write this review, I thought it was time to look up the active ingredient in the Oscillo, "Anas barbariae hepatis et cordis extractum 200CK HPUS." ?Turns out, that's a fancy way of saying there's a tiny bit of duck liver and heart, diluted by a homeopathic method, that is supposed to be the main ingredient in this product. ?Apparently, there are mixed opinions on whether such a tiny bit of an active ingredient can do anything.
Well, since I wasn't feeling sick in the first place, I cannot tell you whether the product eased my feeling of any flu-like symptoms like headache, chills or fatigue. ?I like the general idea that a more "natural" product offers no side effects and won't make me drowsy. ?I'm also not sure it did anything at all.
While searching for "natural" ways to fend off winter illnesses, it will take a lot to impress me any more than the traditions my mama taught me, like "get extra rest," "drink plenty of liquids," and "eat your vegetables."
*I received a free sample of Oscillococcinum, and my opinions are clearly my own.
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January is a time of inaugurations. ?Today we witnessed the swearing in of President Barak Obama for his second term, and Washington?s new governor, Jay Inslee, took the oath of office in Olympia last week.
No matter what your own political leanings are, we all live in a representative democracy. ?We have the right to speak up, advocating for issues we hold dear. ?One of the issues relevant to readers of this website is a provision in the Affordable Care Act, specifically relating to home- based care.
There are many ways to pay for home based services. ?Veterans receive support for home care through the Aid and Attendance or Homebound programs. ?Persons who hold long-term care insurance may find their needs covered through these policies. ?Others rely on private pay or state-funded supports. The Affordable Care Act recognized three facts among the aging population:
*Most seniors express the strong desire to ?age-in-place? rather than to be relocated to a nursing facility as their healthcare needs increase;
*Even persons needing skilled care can be very effectively served at home, often with better outcomes than in a long-term care facility;
*Providing care at home is more cost-effective than providing care in a nursing home setting.
In light of this, the Affordable Care Act contains incentives for states to make home care more affordable for more seniors. There is a Community First Choice Option, which offers an incentive to state funding if Washington takes action to provide home care attendant benefits to seniors and persons with disabilities. ?There is also a State Balancing Incentive Payments Program, which offers additional grants to states that achieve a balance of at least 50% of long-term care services delivered in home settings. ?Many families will be interested to know that the ACA also has a Spousal Impoverishment Protection clause, which is intended to limit the devastating effects of a Medicaid ?spend-down? requirement before a spouse can be eligible for services.
Whether these provisions are good public policy is debatable. What is important and inarguable is that the needs of seniors and persons with disabilities are being actively discussed in the centers of power, and that the need for more access to home care is seen as an urgent public priority. ?This is the time for senior advocates, long-term care providers, seniors, concerned family members and governmental bodies to work together to ensure that every senior has access to the care they need. ?Won?t you join the discussion by contacting your legislator and expressing your concerns and recommendations on this important topic?
Resources for Further Reading:
AARP Health Care Reform Fact Sheet, http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ppi/ltc/fs192-hcbs.pdf
National Academy for State Health Policy, http://www.nashp.org/node/2131
Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, age in place, Aid and Attemdamce. VA benefits, Community First Choice Option, home care, Jay Inslee, long term care, long term care insurance, President Barak Obama, seniors
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A Yemen security official says an explosion in the province of Bayda has killed at least 13 suspected al-Qaida militants.
The official in Bayda's capital city of Radda says the explosion went off in a house owned by a known al-Qaida operative, Ahmed Abdullah Deif-Allah Al-Zahab. It appeared to be an accident.
Residents were barred Sunday from approaching the scene of the incident by militants with links to al-Qaida, the official said.
Early last year Al-Qaida's Yemen-based branch briefly seized the town of Radda, an outpost 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the capital.
The group is active in southern Yemen and has launched deadly attacks against the military since it lost control of key southern cities it overran in 2011.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-13-suspected-al-qaida-men-killed-yemen-211309910.html
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Cravings for comfort food seem to get stronger during the cold winter months when we want to huddle up indoors with loved ones and fill the house with the aromas of homemade cooking. And baking or cooking with your kids is a fun bonding activity and way to pass the time, which also results in the delicious reward of getting to eat or drink the finished result. There?s nothing like soup to warm the body and the spirit. Try your hand at making this creamy vegan baked potato soup, or this vegan peanut butter stew, which are crowd pleasers for the whole family. Macaroni and cheese is a beloved comfort food. We put a spin on the classic by adding a healthy dose of pumpkin! Your kids will love creating a batch of organic soft pretzels or whole wheat cinnamon rolls to sink their teeth into! Try to give little ones a more sophisticated palate by baking a loaf of organic, zucchini carrot quinoa bread. If your family gets a hankering for something sweet, make delicious raw chocolate pudding from avocados, a vegan deep dish cookie pie, or vegan and gluten-free pumpkin donuts. And nothing beats a mug filled to the brim with a warm, satisfying drink. Here are five healthy and comforting drinks for kids, including easy mulled cider and Russian fruit tea. Skip the prepackaged mix if you want to make hot cocoa. We show you how to make organic, fair trade hot cocoa at home.
Source: http://www.inhabitots.com/kid-friendly-comfort-food-drinks-for-cold-winter-days/
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TOKYO (AP) -- The burned insides of a battery in the Boeing 787 at the center of a worldwide grounding of the aircraft indicate it operated at a voltage above its design limit, a Japanese investigator said Friday, as U.S. officials joined Japan's probe into the incident.
The All Nippon Airways plane made an emergency landing Wednesday morning in western Japan after its pilots smelled something burning and received a cockpit warning of battery problems. Nearly all 50 of the 787s in use around the world have since been grounded.
Photos provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board of the lithium ion battery that was located beneath the 787's cockpit show a blackened mass of wires and other components within a distorted blue casing.
Japan transport ministry investigator Hideyo Kosugi said the state of the battery indicated "voltage exceeding the design limit was applied" to it.
He said the similarity of the burned insides of the battery from the ANA flight to the battery in a Japan Airlines 787 that caught fire Jan. 7 while the jet was parked at Boston's Logan International Airport suggested a common cause.
"If we compare data from the latest case here and that in the U.S., we can pretty much figure out what happened," Kosugi said.
The 787 relies more than any other modern airliner on electrical signals to help power nearly everything the plane does. It's also the first Boeing plane to use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for its main electrical system. Such batteries are prone to overheating and have additional safeguards installed that are meant to control the problem and prevent fires.
GS Yuasa Corp., the maker of the lithium-ion batteries used in the 787s, said Thursday it was helping with the investigation but that the cause of the problem was unclear. It said the problem could be the battery, the power source or the electronics system.
U.S. safety officials and Boeing inspectors joined the Japan Transport Safety Board investigation Friday.
The American investigators - one each from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board and two from Boeing Co. - inspected the ANA jet on the tarmac at Takamatsu airport in western Japan.
An initial inspection by Japanese officials of the 787 found that a flammable battery fluid known as electrolyte had leaked from the plane's main lithium-ion battery beneath the cockpit. It also found burn marks around the battery.
Aviation authorities in Japan have directed ANA, which owns 17 of the planes, and Japan Airlines, with seven, not to fly the jets until questions over their safety have been resolved.
The 787, known as the Dreamliner, is Boeing's newest jet, and the company is counting heavily on its success. Since its launch after delays of more than three years, the plane has been plagued by a series of problems.
The FAA has required U.S. carriers to stop flying 787s until the batteries are demonstrated to be safe. United Airlines has six of the jets and is the only U.S. carrier flying the model.
Aviation authorities in other countries usually follow the lead of the country where the manufacturer is based.
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Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - "Lincoln", the story of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's battle to end slavery starring Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, won 10 BAFTA nominations on Wednesday, putting it ahead of the pack at Britain's top film honors.
The biopic was shortlisted in categories including best film, actor, supporting actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and supporting actress (Sally Field), but director Steven Spielberg was not nominated.
Added to its domination of the Golden Globe contenders going into Sunday night's awards ceremony, British critics said the film appeared to be in pole position to sweep Oscar nominations which are announced on Thursday.
"Les Miserables", the movie version of the global hit stage musical, and shipwreck saga "Life of Pi" followed with nine BAFTA nominations each, while the latest installment of James Bond, "Skyfall", garnered eight.
Iranian hostage thriller "Argo" won seven nominations and "Anna Karenina", an adaptation of the Russian novel, earned six.
Quentin Tarantino's quirky slavery-era Western "Django Unchained" and "Zero Dark Thirty", about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, were just behind with five nominations apiece.
"Amour", Austrian director Michael Haneke's moving portrayal of death, bagged four nominations, an unusually high number for a film in a foreign language.
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Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, the company behind Les Miserables and Anna Karenina, said he was pleased that two potentially risky projects had been recognized.
Les Miserables, by Oscar-winning director of "The King's Speech" Tom Hooper, was sung live on set, while Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley and Jude Law, was set against the backdrop of elaborate stage sets.
"We knew that it was a much-loved musical and there was a large part of the world's population who were also aware of the book," Fellner said of Les Miserables after the BAFTA nominations were announced.
"But it didn't stack up as a mainstream movie because over the past decades very few (musicals) have worked. It was a big risk," he told Reuters, adding that awards recognition could provide a big lift for a picture just hitting theatres now.
Of Anna Karenina, he added: "The minute you do anything different it becomes harder to get it made. But we really believe in our film makers."
Skyfall's Judi Dench was nominated for best supporting actress as Bond's spymaster M and Spanish actor Javier Bardem was nominated for best supporting actor as the villain Silva.
There is likely to be disappointment, however, that the movie which has become the most successful in British box office history, with critical acclaim to match, was not included on the most coveted shortlist - best film.
That award will be contested by Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi, Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty.
Up for best actor alongside Day-Lewis is Ben Affleck (Argo), Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook), Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables) and Joaquin Phoenix in Scientology tale The Master.
The best actress award is between 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), Helen Mirren (Hitchcock), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone).
As well as Haneke and Affleck, Ang Lee is in the running for best director (Life of Pi) as is Tarantino and Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty).
The BAFTAs have a patchy record in predicting which films go on to scoop the biggest movie honors, the Oscars, although last year the main winner in London, "The Artist", also swept to success at the Academy Awards.
The awards ceremony for the BAFTAs, formally called the EE British Academy Film Awards, takes place in London on February 10.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/lincoln-leads-bafta-film-nominations-10-075135298.html
Jan 8, 2013 4:40pm
Reported by Dr. Katherine Day Rose:
One in eight American women engages in binge drinking, according to a new report from the?U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And among high school girls, the rate increases to one in five.
Excessive alcohol is implicated in about 23,000 deaths among women and girls in the United States each year, according to the CDC. Of these deaths, the agency estimates that binge drinking is responsible for about 12,000 deaths annually.
In a Tuesday teleconference, CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden called binge drinking ?the most common and dangerous form of drinking,? citing it as a risk factor for unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, heart disease, reduced cognitive function, breast cancer and other health problems in women. Also present at the teleconference was Dr. Richard Brewer, head of the CDC?s alcohol program, who said binge drinking ?is not a new problem for women and girls, but it is an underrecognized problem for women and girls.?
How Much Is Too Much?
Technically speaking, binge drinking is defined as consuming four or more drinks in a sitting.? In its report, the CDC found that the overall prevalence of binge drinking in women over the age of 18 was 12.5 percent, with an average of 3.2 episodes per month and 5.7 drinks per episode.?They also found that it?s most common among women aged 18 to 24, with 24 percent of women stating that they had an episode of binge drinking in the past 30 days.? Binge drinking is more common in white women and those with household incomes over $75,000.
Among high school girls, 38 percent reported current alcohol use, with just over half of current users admitting to binge drinking.? Binge drinking behavior increased as girls got older, with 27 percent of 12th grade girls reporting binge drinking, compared to 13 percent of 9th grade girls.
Model Behavior?
Drinking?among?high school girls is correlated with alcohol consumption by adult women at the state level, suggesting that adult behavior may influence teens who aspire to be like young adults.? Additionally, teens often obtain alcohol from adults, and the availability and price of alcohol are known to affect consumption.
Overall, binge drinking continues to be more prevalent among men, with about twice as many men as women engaging in binge drinking. However, this difference is less pronounced in teenagers, with 24 percent of boys and 20 percent of girls reporting binge drinking.
Regardless of age, Frieden and Brewer warned that women are at high risk for the negative consequences of binge drinking. After drinking, women tend to have higher blood alcohol levels due to differences in the way women metabolize alcohol. Additionally, women who binge drink are more likely to have unintended and unknown pregnancies and may inadvertently expose a fetus to the dangers of alcohol.
Facing the Problem
Frieden and Brewer said families, communities and health care providers all have the power to curb binge drinking ? both in women and in society as a whole.
?Parents play a key role in preventing youth from starting or continuing to drink,? Frieden said, adding that community programs play a role and that it is imperative for health care providers to ask about and counsel on drinking issues. For women and girls, these interventions may have a big impact on both current and future health.
As a final rule of thumb, Frieden offered the following advice to women who drink alcohol: ?Never four or more.?
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/01/08/1-in-8-u-s-women-binge-drinks/
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