Study: Low-calorie diets don't necessarily make you live longer, if you're a monkey

A 25-year study of rhesus macaques overturns previous findings that calorie-restricted diets tend to increase monkey longevity.

By Eoin O'Carroll,?Staff / August 30, 2012

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A previous study had found otherwise. Research begun?in 1989 at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in Madison, Wisc., found that rhesus macaques placed on a diet with?30 percent fewer calories than is considered normal (for a monkey) tended to escape age-related monkey illnesses.?Those investigators found that 13 percent of the perpetually hungry monkeys died from age-related causes, compared with 37 percent of the well-fed control group.

The results of the?Wisconsin?study, which was published in 2009, are consonant with earlier research, dating from the 1930s, indicating that other animals, from mice to roundworms, placed on calorie-restricted diets tended to be less?susceptible?to aging.?

Among human primates,?these studies have spurred a cottage industry of 'longevity diets'. There has never been a long-term clinical study of?gastronomically?mingy humans, so we don't know whether or not it actually extends human life. ?

And now new data published in Nature this week complicates the picture even more. A 25-year study of rhesus monkeys at the?National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md., found no increase in the lifespans of the monkeys that were placed on restricted diets.

There are big uncertainties with both studies. An article on Nature's website notes that the monkey meal plans for both groups in the Wisconsin study were less healthy than those in the Maryland study, and that the monkeys in the control group in the Wisconsin study were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, which, as anyone who lives within waddling distance of an all-you-can-eat buffet, is not exactly a recipe for healthy eating.

Furthermore, as Wired's Brandon Keim writes,?monkeys in both studies were kept in isolated cages, which can be psychologically devastating for such intelligent, social animals, with profound implications for the animals' physical well-being. ?

?It?s not that one group did right and the other group wrong," University of Texas gerontologist Steven Austad told Wired. "They all did a fine job with the experiments. This just shows that fine details matter,? said Austad. ?People shouldn?t say, ?Let?s drop [calorie restriction].? They should say, ?Let?s figure it out.??

So as things stand right now, there's no wrong way to eat, if you're a rhesus.?

What does this mean for humans? At this point nobody knows whether or not a calorie-restricted diet tends to extend the human lifespan. But it's safe to say that being hungry all the time will certainly?make your life feel longer.

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BMWK Talks to Anthony Anderson About His Upcoming Sitcom ...

We all know Anthony Anderson, the talented actor/comedian from his roles on NBC?s ?Law & Order?, ?Me, Myself, and Irene?, ?Transformers?, ?The Departed,? ?Scary Movie 3,? ?Barbershop,? ?Kangaroo Jack,? ?Exit Wounds,? ?Cradle 2 the Grave,? ?Two Can Play That Game?, ?Malibu?s Most Wanted?, K-Ville? and more. In his latest venture, he?ll be starring in the highly anticipated sitcom, ?Guys with Kids?, premiering Wednesday September 26 on NBC.

?Guys with Kids? is a new comedy from Emmy Award-winning executive producer Jimmy Fallon about three 30-something dads who try to hold on to their youth as they face the responsibilities of having kids. Thankfully, Gary (Anthony Anderson), Chris (Jesse Bradford, ?The West Wing?) and Nick (Zach Cregger, ?Friends with Benefits?) have each other to help navigate the highs and lows of fatherhood ? while still trying desperately to remain dudes.

Balancing work or staying at home, being happily married or happily divorced, taking care of the ?littles? while maintaining a social life are all daily challenges that the guys face. Whether it?s hosing down their babies in the kitchen sink or hitting the bar strapped with ?babybjorns,? these guys are taking on fatherhood in ways no one has ever seen before. Nick and Gary?s wives ? Emily (Jamie-LynnSigler, ?The Sopranos?) and Marny (Tempestt Bledsoe, ?The Cosby Show?) also offer their own parenting advice along with Chris? ex-wife, Sheila (Erinn Hayes ?Children?s Hospital?).

Because he?s so good in his craft and because I absolutely love Jimmy Fallon, I am looking forward to seeing this sitcom. ?I?m sure it will be full of comedic interludes and improv from the actors, getting back to doing what comes naturally?making us laugh!

Recently, BMWK had the pleasure of speaking with Anthony Anderson about the sitcom, his family life and his demanding career. It was such a pleasure to speak with him, as he is innately a comedic genius and very down-to-earth. Anderson currently lives in Los Angeles. He is married to his college sweetheart and they have two kids.

Let?s see what he had to say:

Is it hard for you, after it?s being so many years on a serious show, to come into a show like this, or is it fun, exciting, different, and all those things above?

Anthony Anderson: It was it a bit difficult. Outside of it being difficult, all those things above. I mean, I started my career in comedy with some of the best ?? the Farrelly brothers, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Bernie Mac?I got to work with them at an early age and cut my comedy chops. And then, I had something that I wanted to prove as an actor on the dramatic side. And so that?s why I made the turn. And a lot of people, a lot of my fans over the last five or six years that I?ve been in this dramatic turn, and have been asking me, ?When am I coming back to comedy??

[Thinking] Would they miss me in the comedic world? And I was like, it?s coming soon, it?s coming soon. I just have something that I need to prove to myself and to show to Hollywood that I?m more than just, you know, the comic relief in something.?And I think I did that. And with the cancellation of ?Law and Order,? that allowed me to be available sooner than I anticipated to step back into the half hour comedy world. And ?Guys with Kids? just fell into my lap and so here I am.

So what was it about this that you liked, besides the fact that it was comedy? What was it that really drew you to it? I?m sure you had a choice of a couple of things.

AA: [laughing] Obviously you didn?t hear me when I said there was an unexpected cancellation of Law and Order?One, it came from Jimmy Fallon, who I?ve been friends with for a long time now. Two, it was mostly (comedy), which is what I want to get back into. You know, I actually had a development deal with the FX Network to do a half-hour comedy. And the ?Guys with Kids? script fell into my lap. I read it. It came from Jimmy. They offered it to me. It was great. I could see where this show could go. Everything jumped off the page at me. And I just felt it was a no-brainer. And with the cancellation of ?Law and Order,? that allowed me to be available sooner than I anticipated to step back into the half hour comedy world. And ?Guys with Kids? just fell into my lap and so here I am.

Anthony, how easy was it for you playing that role of stay-at-home parent? Was it something that you naturally fell into, or was it something that maybe you always wanted to do in your personal life, as well?

AA: You know what, working as hard as I have been (in this industry, for the last 16 years) I would welcome falling into the role of the stay-at-home dad. I get the comforts of home. I get to raise my kids, I get to have fun with them. I get to watch them grow.

I mean, you can go for the quick and easy laugh all the time, but that?s short-lived. And like I said, I applaud them for allowing us to find the humor in the situations of just parenthood. And not, just fart jokes and pee jokes, and diaper jokes, and all of that. You know, it goes to show that we?re all invested in this for the long run, and I applaud them for it. And it makes coming to work and bringing life to the words that are on page that much more fun and that much easier.

Anthony, I was wondering, how does your own parenting style compare to Gary?s?

AA: You know what? It?s pretty much the same. I get to live, re-live, vicariously through Gary. Some of the things that I couldn?t do with my kids because I didn?t know how they would turn out, if I raised them the way that I was raised.

And?we?ve?had talks earlier on, ?even before we shot the pilot, about my experience growing up, especially with my mother and my father. And, we just shot an episode where I think every parent goes through what we went through in the episode. Its like, I want to raise you differently than how my father raised me. Not to say that our father raised us bad. It?s just a different time, a different era, and we have different sensibilities. And, I get to have time as Gary, through my four boys at home, just like I have time at home.

I?m the only father in the cast. I was the only parent until we recast, but now I?m the only father that we have in the cast. And, you know, I get to tell the guys what I?m going through, how I want to just have some fun with it. You know, that?s what it?s about. And I think that?s what resonates ? I think that?s going to resonate with the audience and that?s what?s going to show onscreen.

Can you tell us about your son Nathan and daughter Kyra? How old are they and what do they do for fun?

AA: My daughter Kyra is 16 years old, junior in high school now (who started today), plays volleyball, and ?has a boyfriend, that I have to deal with now as a father. (mutters: Never thought these days would happen) ?He (daughter?s boyfriend) happens to be the quarterback of the football team. My daughter happens to be one of the stars of the volleyball team. So, you know, it?s kind of cool, that they both are athletic, and are both the stars of their teams!

My son is 12 years old and when I tell you the apple doesn?t fall far from the tree, truer words have never been spoken. I just took him on an audition yesterday, you know. Four or five years ago, he pointed to my wife and said, ?Mom, I want to be an actor.?

What do you like most about fatherhood? Do you have any special fatherhood memories to share?

AA: You know what, both are pretty simple. Both of my children, being there, and that being the crowning achievement in my life, and it actually made me feel invincible. And it makes me feel that I can live forever now. And secondly with my son, I do stand-up comedy. I host a monthly comedy show in New York.

Going back to the story where I told you, four years ago my son told my wife that, he wanted to be an actor and that he also wanted to tell jokes. I invited him to New York on Father?s Day weekend to come into the room, the (Gotham) Comedy Club and perform at eight years old. And he got up and there was no fear, no trepidation, and he was funny. And that was the most memorable thing that I have to date, as a father with my son, watching him on stage, alone, tell ?yo mama jokes? on Father?s Day, and having the audience respond favorably to him. So that is the most memorable that I can think of right now, outside of watching them come into this world.

And he?s actually pretty good at it, you know. He?s been studying for it since then for the last four years and, you know, is really enjoying going out on auditions. And, you know, he?s come close on a few things, and one day he?ll get a job. We had a long talk the other day about it, ?You know what, son, you can?t have what you want this soon. You just have to work for it. And eventually the chips will fall in your favor. ?

Anthony, I noticed that you are married to your college sweetheart. That?s so inspiring. I just want to know what are some of the things she does to help support you with such a demanding career?

AA: Oh, wow?everything! From ? I?ll go back to the beginning ? her letting me use her car to go to my first audition?And me coming home from that first audition and running into the back of the school bus and totaling the car on the 91 Freeway. So, that?s how it all begins. She?s always been a constant pillar for me.

And, I put this on my wife for my character of Gary. My wife is a homemaker who decided to give up her career working in the electronic publicity department at NBC for ten years ?to sit at home and raise the children and to support me because I?m constantly on the go.

And that?s what she does. You know, what she does as a stay-at-home mom, just like all the other stay-at-home moms and dads across the country is invaluable and unquantifiable. And, ?I applaud her for putting her career and her life on hold to help out with our life. It?s an ultimate sacrifice, what these stay-at-home mothers and fathers do.

Awesome. I love to hear that. That is so inspiring. You are so successful. You?re very positive and you?re seen in a very positive light, and I really appreciate that ? as a father and as a wonderful actor. Do you have any advice that you share with your children about the industry?

AA: You know what, about the industry? I guess, and life in general, I tell them that we ? the Andersons ? aren?t quitters. We finish what we start. And no matter what it is. Like, you know, my daughter wanted to give up on volleyball early on when she first started. And I was like, ?Sweetheart, this is what you chose to do, it?s the middle of the season, we are not about to quit. Now, if you want to stop at the end of the season, then that?s your choice, but we?re going to ride this out.?

The same with my son in everything that we do. It?s just like, No? we put in the work because you get out of it what you put into it. And that?s the philosophy that, you know, I live my life by and that I try to lead by example with my children.

When you were a kid, what was the worst lie you ever told your parents?

AA:?[laughing] Yes, I don?t think the statute of limitations are up on the lies that I told my parents.

I can?t say, the worst lie, other than, I didn?t take the money, I didn?t do it, I didn?t have a party, ?and I didn?t wreck the car. ?But, I always wanted to play the piano. And my mom enrolled me in piano lessons. But we didn?t have a piano at home for us to play. So I went in her pocketbook and I took out her credit card, the one and only credit card that my mother has ever had in her life, and I called and bought a piano, a baby grand piano, and had it delivered to the house. And to ensure that I wouldn?t get in trouble, I bought my father a gold-plated cubic zirconium ring and had it delivered to the house. So that?s what I did. It wasn?t a lie, but that?s some of the stuff that I did as a kid. And, I think that was the time my mother tied me to the avocado tree [laughing].

What do want audiences to take from the show? What would you like them to feel and keep coming back for?

AA:?I grew up in a point in time, watching Cosby and watching other shows where we got together as a family. We sat in front of the television and watched these shows, in fellowship as a family. And, some of these shows had messages to them without beating you over the head that you could take and impart to your family. That?s what I want people to take away from this and just to sit back.

Because the way we watch television now and entertained (especially with me, having a 16-year-old and a 12-year-old) things are just so fragmented now. My daughter?s off with her volleyball schedule and her friends. My son is off playing his video games and online with his friends. I think this is a show that will and can bring the family back together for at least a half hour?after dinner? for family time, which is what we used to do when we watched television growing up.

That?s what I hope people take away from this. And, it sounds kind of clich? and corny and hokey-dokey. ?But to bring the family back together again; that?s what I hope for.

?Guys with Kids? premieres Wednesday, September 26, at 8:30 pm EST on NBC, and will also have a special preview Wednesday September 12 at 10:00 pm EST following ?America?s Got Talent.?

BMWK, do you think you will give the show a try??I?ll definitely be tuning in.?

About the author

Sheree is a Christian, wife, WAHM of three, nurse, blogger and speaker, who is forever drawn to all things health-related. You can find her blogging about marriage, family, health tips and more as Smart & Sassy Mom. Sheree is committed to helping blended families and keeping marriages strong, healthy, fun and SPICY!

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Taylor Swift 'Never Ever' Video: Watch A Sneak Peek Now!

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Overwhelmed by instant access to news and information? Most Americans like it

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The study was published in the journal The Information Society.

"Little research has focused on information overload and media consumption, yet it's a concept used in public discussions to describe today's 24/7 media environment," said Eszter Hargittai, an associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern and lead author of the study.

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"We found that the high volume of information available these days seems to make most people feel empowered and enthusiastic," Hargittai said. "People are able to get their news and information from a diverse set of sources and they seem to like having these options."

Most of the participants said television was their most used form of media, followed closely by websites. When asked how they felt about the amount of information available to them, few mentioned feeling overwhelmed or that they suffered from "information overload." Here are highlights of the responses:

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• Trivial social media posts and opinionated political pundits are top sources of frustration when seeking information

"There's definitely some frustration with the quality of some of the information available," said Hargittai. "But these frustrations were accompanied by enthusiasm and excitement on a more general level about overall media choices."

The few participants who did feel overwhelmed were often those with low Internet skills, who haven't yet mastered social media filters and navigating search engine results, Hargittai noted.

Other authors of this study are W. Russell Neuman, professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan and Olivia Curry, a former undergraduate research assistant at Northwestern.

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Benzene in California groundwater occurs infrequently and is mainly from natural sources, study finds

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? Benzene occurs infrequently in California public supply wells and comes predominantly from naturally occurring petroleum deposits deep in the ground, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey. Spills associated with underground fuel storage and above ground distribution systems have long been considered the main source of benzene in groundwater. This unique study finds that contamination most often occurs in older, brackish, groundwater located near naturally occurring deep underground oil and gas deposits.

As part of a statewide studyassessing groundwater quality, scientists analyzed untreated groundwater from wells, not treated tap water. Groundwater used for public supply is typically treated by water providers to ensure compliance with water quality standards.

"This study illustrates the value of letting scientific facts speak for themselves when dealing with critical issues such as the frequency and potential sources of groundwater contamination," said USGS Director Marcia McNutt. "Mitigation for contamination can be costly, especially if the source is not properly identified, confirming the importance of putting science first."

Benzene is an organic chemical compound. The liquid is derived from petroleum and is used to make motor fuels, insecticides, and other chemical products. California is an important location for this study because it has a high fuel use rate, a high density of fuel storage facilities, abundant natural underground petroleum sources, and large urban populations dependent on groundwater. Because many regions worldwide have similar characteristics, the finding that natural, underground sources of hydrocarbons play an important role in benzene occurrence in groundwater provides new insight for resource managers globally.

According to the study, benzene was found in 1.7 percent of untreated public supply wells, and generally occurred in concentrations below the maximum contaminant level health standard. When detected, nearly half (45 percent) of benzene detections were related to geogenic or natural sources, compared to 27 percent attributed to human activity. The remaining 28 percent of the detections may be either geogenic or anthropogenic, or a mixture of the two. Similar relationships were found for the group of 17 other hydrocarbons analyzed in the study. Data from 14,390 wells sampled throughout California by the California State Water Resources Control Board's Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program and the California Department of Public Healthwere evaluated.

"This study indicates that naturally occurring, deep hydrocarbons can affect the quality of groundwater used for drinking supply," said Ken Belitz, lead scientist for the GAMA Program's Priority Basin Project.

"This research improves our understanding of why and where hydrocarbons occur in groundwater. In general, the unexpected results indicate that hydrocarbons are detected most often in deep aquifers near naturally occurring subsurface petroleum reservoirs, less often in shallow layers subject to fuel spills and leaks on the land surface, and least frequently in the middle layers of aquifer systems. Natural seepage or petroleum-extraction by people could contribute to hydrocarbons reaching aquifer layers used for public supply; this study did not assess the pathway by which natural hydrocarbons reach aquifers," said Matt Landon, a USGS hydrologist and lead author of the study.

The study, funded by the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development and conducted in cooperation with the GAMA Program's Priority Basin Project, synthesizes statewide data to focus on factors explaining hydrocarbon in aquifers used for public supply in California. The USGS California Water Science Center is the technical lead for the GAMA Program and is monitoring and assessing water quality in 120 priority groundwater basins, and groundwater outside of basins, across California over a ten-year period.

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The former Holly's World and The Girls Next Door star, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Pasquale Rotella, PEOPLE confirms.

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Sony's Xperia J arrives in style and on budget, we go hands-on

The Xperia T may have been Sony's flagship phone for this year's IFA, but the company's promised some style for a tighter budget in the form of the Xperia J -- what exactly "budget" means in this case, we're not exactly sure. The style thing we get, however -- the J's a pretty nice-looking phone and clearly in the aesthetic vein of its Sony Xperia brethren. The 4-inch FWVGA display is nice and bright (we had to turn it down a bit, even with that white Sony tablecloth in the background) and fairly shiny, offset by a matte black back.

At 9.2mm thick, Sony's talking up the handset's svelte design. And it's certainly slimmer than a lot of handsets we've seen -- though not even close to the slimmest. It's also not the most powerful handset we've seen by any stretch with a 1GHz single-core processor inside, but it does a zippy enough job with the Ice Cream Sandwich it's rocking. All in all, the J seems like a fairly solid choice for those who don't want to shell out an arm and a leg on its bigger brother -- although we'll hold off full judgement until we figure out exactly what "budget" means. Check out our hands-on video after the break.

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There are several self-help CD and DVD in the market with training created to help many people battling with various health diseases such as fatness, cardiovascular problems, and allergies. The advent of satellite television as well as internet means access to numerous workout lessons in the convenience of our residences. Though the benefit that a person can gain from those can?t be ascertained, it would be beneficial to remember that most of these are business promotions intended to get as many individuals as they possibly can.

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Serbs pray for rain amid raging fires

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ? Several hundred people have answered a call by a Serbian Orthodox church bishop to pray for rain as fires rage in the Balkan country, and forecasts indicate their prayers may be answered.

The church prayers in the town of Valjevo in central Serbia were held Sunday after months of record-setting temperatures and unprecedented drought that has triggered fires, destroyed crops and dried out rivers.

Emergency measures have been introduced in parts of central Serbia as two Russian firefighting planes try to extinguish blazes that have destroyed hundreds of acres of forests and threatened some villages.

Serbia's government, which called the Russians for help and deployed army troops to fight the fires, held an emergency session Sunday to deal with the disaster.

Weather forecasters predict showers for Serbia overnight.

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Isaac hugs Cuba coast; Cat 2 hurricane likely in Gulf

Florida's governor declares a state of emergency as residents and tourists flee Key West. Storm preparations are under way all along the Gulf Coast. NBC's Thanh Truong reports.

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Updated at 6 p.m. ET:?Tropical Storm Isaac was hugging the northern coastline of eastern Cuba on Saturday after claiming at least three lives in Haiti. Isaac should become a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday just as it nears the Florida Keys, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, and then grow into an even stronger Category 2 storm with 100 mph winds.

Isaac "could be significantly stronger than currently forecast" once it enters the Gulf of Mexico,?the center said in an advisory.

It will first sweep past southwest Florida and the Florida Keys, where "hurricane conditions are expected ... Sunday," it said in a separate update.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Saturday declared a state of emergency to make sure local and state agencies would be ready.

Republicans cancel first day of convention

Isaac is a massive storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending 230 miles from the center. Key West International Airport was halting all flights at 7 p.m. Saturday until the storm had passed.

Tropical Storm Isaac is picking up steam as it barrels through the Caribbean. The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports on the storm's effects.

In Haiti, a woman and a child in the town of Souvenance were killed in the storm, a local official reported.

In the capital Port-au-Prince --?where some 350,000 people are still living in tents or shelters after the 2010 Haiti earthquake --?a girl, 10, was killed when a wall fell on her.

Power outages and flooding were reported as Isaac moved across the hilly and severely deforested Caribbean country.

"There's a lot of rain, a lot of wind," said Magdala Jean-Baptiste, who huddled with her frightened children in their home in the southern coastal city of Jacmel. "We haven't had any power since the storm started yesterday. We passed the night with no sleep."?

Tropical Storm Isaac lashes the island of Hispaniola, killing at least three people in Haiti, where thousands still live in tents after an earthquake over two years ago. NBC's Mark Potter reports.

In neighboring Dominican Republic, Isaac felled power and phone lines and left at least a dozen towns cut off by flood waters. The most severe damage was reported along the south coast, including the capital Santo Domingo, where more than half the city was without power.

Cuba prepared by closing beaches and evacuating tourists in vulnerable areas, NBC's Mary Murray and The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reported from Havana. Flights across Cuba were also suspended.?

In Baracoa, a city on Cuba's eastern side, high seas began topping the seawall Friday night, Radio Baracoa reported.?

Now with 60 mph winds, Isaac should exit Cuba on Sunday and then move south of the Florida Keys and into the Gulf.

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Residents wade through a flooded street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday.

Republicans are preparing to gather in Tampa, on Florida's central Gulf Coast, for Monday's start of their national convention ahead of the November presidential election.

The convention is expected to proceed as planned but Gulf of Mexico operators began shutting down offshore oil and gas rigs on Friday ahead of the storm.?

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Tampa's weather forecast includes rain and high winds Sunday night and into Monday, The Weather Channel reported. The winds could gust up to 60 mph.

The Weather Channel's Bryan Norcross tracks Tropical Storm Isaac's movement and predictions about where it is headed.

Monday and Tuesday include a risk of tornadoes across south Florida.?

Officials were handing out sandbags to residents in the Tampa area, which often floods when heavy rainstorms hit. Sandbags also were being handed out in Homestead, 20 years after Hurricane Andrew devastated the community there. Otherwise, however, convention preparations were moving ahead as usual.

Isaac's exact path is still unclear, but the hurricane center said models suggest it will make landfall somewhere?between the Florida Panhandle and New Orleans on Tuesday night.

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Men stand behind the seawall as waves brought by Tropical Storm Isaac splash over them in Baracoa, Cuba, on Saturday.

The storm's anticipated path did shift closer to the Keys than previously forecast and emergency managers urged tourists to leave the islands if they could do so safely. A single road links the chain of islands to the Florida Peninsula.?

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NYPD confirms: All bystanders hit by police bullets

Officials in New York City defend police officers use of deadly force, as seen on graphic video, to stop gunman Jeffrey Johnson outside the Empire State Building. Nine bystanders were injured. NBC's Lester Holt reports.

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All nine people wounded during a dramatic confrontation between police and a gunman outside the Empire State Building were struck by bullets fired by the two officers, police said Saturday, citing ballistics evidence.

The veteran patrolmen who opened fire on the suit-wearing gunman, Jeffrey Johnson, had only an instant to react when he whirled and pointed a .45-caliber pistol as they approached him from behind on a busy sidewalk.

Officer Craig Matthews shot seven times. Officer Robert Sinishtaj fired nine times, police said. Neither had ever fired their weapons before on a patrol.

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The volley of gunfire felled Johnson in just a few seconds and left nine other people bleeding on the sidewalk.

In the initial chaos Friday, it wasn't clear whether Johnson or the officers were responsible for the trail of wounded, but based on ballistic and other evidence, "it appears that all nine of the victims were struck either by fragments or by bullets fired by police," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters on Saturday at a community event in Harlem.

Surveillance video shows what transpired Friday when gunman Jeffrey Johnson drew his weapon and opened fire on police on a street packed with pedestrians in midtown Manhattan. Who was Johnson and what possibly caused him to become violent?

He reiterated that the officers appeared to have no choice but to shoot Johnson, whose body had 10 bullet wounds in the chest, arms and legs.

"I believe it was handled well," Kelly said.

The officers confronted Johnson as he walked, casually, down the street after gunning down a former co-worker on the sidewalk outside the office they once shared. The shooting happened at 9 a.m., as the neighborhood bustled with people arriving for work.

'Look of death': Co-workers tell of office feud

The gunman and his victim, Steve Ercolino, had a history of workplace squabbles before Johnson was laid off from their company, Hazan Import Corp., a year ago. At one point, the two men had grappled physically in an elevator.

John Koch, the property manager at the office building where the men worked, said security camera footage showed the two pushing and shoving. The tussle ended when Ercolino, a much larger man, pinned Johnson against the wall of the elevator by the throat, Koch said. Ercolino let him go after a few moments, and the two men went their separate ways.

"They didn't like each other," Koch said.

On Friday, Johnson shot Ercolino five times in the head and face, a medical examiner's spokeswoman said. After the shooting, Johnson, an eccentric T-shirt designer and avid bird-watcher who wore a suit every day, even when photographing hawks in Central Park, walked away as if nothing had happened.

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Alerted by a construction worker, Officers Matthews and Sinishtaj gave chase as Johnson rounded a corner and walked along Fifth Avenue, in front of the landmark skyscraper.

A security videotape from the scene shows several civilians ? including three sitting on a bench only a few feet away ? scattering as the officers opened fire.

Police have determined that three people were struck by whole bullets ? two of which were removed from victims at the hospital ? and the rest were grazed "by fragments of some sort," Kelly said.

Three people remained hospitalized, all in stable condition, police said.

Both Matthews, 39, and Sinishtaj, 40, joined the nation's largest police department 15 years ago.

Matthews had drawn attention earlier this year by filing a lawsuit against the New York Police Department that accused his superiors of unfairly punishing him for not meeting arrest quotas. A judge threw out the complaint.

There was no immediate response to a message left with the union representing the two officers.

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The shooting didn't deter tourists from flocking to the Empire State Building as usual on Saturday.

Patricia Flynn, 57, a retired schoolteacher, visited the building's peak with her elderly mother, who once worked in the skyscraper as a secretary.

"But I didn't tell her what happened," said Flynn, adding that her mother was unaware of Friday's shooting. "And she really enjoyed the view."

A group of 31 tourists from all over France held a meeting Friday night at their nearby hotel to decide whether to cancel their planned Empire State Building visit.

"We were scared, and we thought it was a risk," said Catherine Krukar, 38, a teacher.

But in the end, they went ahead with the visit, she said after descending from the observation tower,

"We know it can happen anywhere, and we wanted to see the Empire State Building," Krukar said. "It was beautiful!

WNBC's Jonathan Dienst contributed to this report.

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When-if Ever-Was Cycling Drug-Free?

Armstrong riding in the 2005 Tour de France. Credit: Bjarte Hetland via Wikimedia Commons

It s a great rarity today for someone to achieve athletic success who doesn t take drugs. That quote seems rather timely, in the wake of the news that cyclist Lance Armstrong will no longer fight the accusations of doping leveled at him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The charges may cost Armstrong all seven of his Tour de France titles. The development in Armstrong s case follows two recent drug suspensions in baseball in the past 10 days Melky Cabrera, an All-Star outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, and Bartolo Col n, a starting pitcher for the Oakland Athletics, both received 50-game bans after testing positive for artificial testosterone.

But the quote above has nothing to do with modern-day athletics. It comes from a retired track coach quoted in a 1971 New York Times Magazine article. (The article s author, sportswriter and activist Jack Scott, who died in 2000, has one of the more interesting biographies you ll find Oberlin College athletic director, Bill Walton confidant, onetime suspected associate of the Symbionese Liberation Army.) Whether or not the coach s statement then was somewhat hyperbolic, it s clear that the drug problem has loomed over the sports world for a long time. And although the abuses in cycling have become harder to ignore in just the past two decades, the sport has been home to all manner of chemical enhancements for more than 100 years.

Jacques Anquetil, a French cyclist who won the Tour de France five times in the 1950s and 1960s, openly admitted to doping. Everyone in cycling dopes himself, he said in Scott s 1971 article. Those who claim they don t are liars. In Anquetil s era, the agents of choice were stimulants such as amphetamines, but as early as the late 1800s cyclists fueled up with a mixture of coca leaf extract and wine called Vin Mariani, according to a 1983 Hastings Center report.

Baseball, too, had its period of rampant amphetamine use, which is viewed in an almost nostalgic light now that stronger performance enhancers such as anabolic steroids and human growth hormone have tainted the game s image. But in endurance sports such as cycling, performance enhancement can be especially deadly. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, a Danish cyclist named Knud Enemark Jensen lost consciousness during a race, fell from his bicycle and died. Postmortem tests reportedly revealed the presence of amphetamines in his system. After English rider Tom Simpson collapsed and died during the 1967 Tour de France, amphetamines were found both in his bloodstream and in a vial tucked inside his jersey.

More recently, cyclists have boosted their endurance with the use of an artificial version of the hormone erythropoietin, or EPO, which stimulates red blood cell production and boosts the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood. Danish cyclist Bjarne Riis, who won the 1996 Tour de France, later admitted that he used EPO during that time.

EPO thickens the blood, and it also has proved dangerous. After a spate of suspicious rider deaths, a 1991 New York Times article highlighted the deadly potential of the drug du jour. ?There is no absolute proof, but there?s so much smoke that most of us are convinced,? University of Oklahoma hematologist Randy Eichner told the newspaper. ?You just don?t get 18 deaths in four years, mysteriously, with 10 of them attributed to cardiac problems.?

Cycling insiders, too, noticed drastic changes in 1991. That is the year that three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond thinks that EPO took over his sport. As he told Scientific American writer Michael Shermer in 2008, Something was different in the 1991 Tour. There were riders from previous years who couldn t stay on my wheel who were now dropping me on even modest climbs. LeMond had won the race the two previous years, but he fell to seventh place in 1991.

Indeed, since the mid-1990s there have been few Tour winners who did not later run afoul of antidoping authorities. A quick look at 15 years of victors:

• 1996: Bjarne Riis (EPO; retains title)
• 1997: Jan Ullrich, Germany (found guilty of doping in 2012; race results annulled back to 2005)
• 1998: Marco Pantani, Italy (failed a blood test at the 1999 Giro d?Italia; died of a cocaine overdose in 2004)
• 1999 2005: Lance Armstrong, U.S. (accused of doping; titles likely to be stripped)
• 2006: Floyd Landis, U.S. (race-day tests revealed elevated testosterone levels; title stripped)
• 2007: Alberto Contador, Spain (see below)
• 2008: Carlos Sastre, Spain (clean)
• 2009 2010: Contador (tested positive in 2010 for clenbuterol, an anabolic agent; 2010 title stripped)

It s a sad state of affairs, but perhaps the latest developments will provide some vindication for LeMond, who has long voiced suspicions about Armstrong, Contador and others. If Armstrong s seven Tour wins are vacated, just as Landis s 2006 victory was, LeMond will once again become the only American cyclist to have officially won the world s most prestigious race.

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Immigrants march in Greece against racist attacks

ATHENS (Reuters) - Thousands of immigrants marched in Athens on Friday to protest police sweeps and a rash of racist attacks in Greece as the country struggles to pull itself out of a huge debt crisis.

Greece is a major gateway for mostly Asian and African migrants trying to enter the European Union. They face increased hostility as the country struggles through its deepest post- World War Two recession and record unemployment, propelling the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party to parliament for the first time since the fall of a military junta in 1974.

About 5,000 protesters marched to parliament holding banners reading "No Islamophobia" and "Neo Nazis out!" in one of the biggest anti-racism marches in Athens in recent years.

Tensions between immigrants and Greeks have risen sharply in recent months and the demonstration was held a day after police detained hundreds of undocumented immigrants in the western city of Corinth as part of a nationwide sweep and held them in a former army camp.

The move enraged local authorities and residents who rallied outside the army camp to protest against its conversion into an immigrant detention centre.

"We will do everything possible to prevent such a disaster," Corinth's mayor Alexandros Pnevmatikos told Skai TV. "We don't want the camp, which is in the centre of the city, close to densely populated neighbourhoods, to become a holding centre".

Far-right protesters and supporters of Golden Dawn clashed with police at the entrance of the camp on Thursday and hundreds of protesters, including small groups of ultra-nationalists, returned to protest on Friday. Some hurled bottles of water at a conservative deputy visiting the camp.

Police this month launched a sweep operation called "Xenios Zeus" after the ancient Greek god of guests and travellers. They have so far arrested hundreds of illegal immigrants.

Racist attacks against immigrants have increased in Greece since the economic crisis flared in 2009, according to pro-immigrant groups which accuse the police of turning a blind eye.

Human Rights Watch said in a report last month that it had interviewed 59 people who suffered or escaped a racist incident between August 2009 and May this year. But the advocacy group added that the true extent of xenophobic violence in Greece was not clear given many victims do not report the crimes.

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Getting Better at Great Budgeting | Personal finance blogs

The first idea to realize is that you should back up and picture a big picture view of the recent currency problems. If people have lots of unfiltered emotion fueling your motivation without a long-term plan for the future prepared, then as soon as your raw emotion becomes dampened, peoples want to work hard and get funds will also come to an end. This is how people can create a long term plan geared towards earning monies as fast as possible. Consider the next month or two instead of the next 24 hours. Recall what caused your requirement to make money quick, and decide if there is a way we can put off making the payment to give yourself some more time. Additionally, figure out the amount of money you?ll be required to have to make sure that we can?t wind up in the same situation of requiring money as bad as you do here. Now with a plan in place, it?s the time to put our plan in action. To get some money quickly, people have a couple of key choices. First, people should sell some items you have laying around that we don?t usually use on the Internet, or people can try our hand at doing simple services for workers on the Internet. Ignore offers requiring people to fill out surveys ? almost all of these are tricks. The real method to earn some money is to find a message board on the Internet for people that develop websites or work in Internet marketing, then offer your services to help them in a buying and selling services kind of subforum. This method is great because there are always developers who need simple tasks done like checking website stats or writing comments, but just don?t use time to do it for themselves, so these people pay out to people actual money often to to work for them.

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To-Do THURSDAY; Improv, Comic Competition, Baseball Art

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Improv Nostalgia
Anything is fair game with improvisation. This new show,? Nostalg-sick, takes on the 90s with sketches, songs and audience participation at 8 p.m. at Improv Asylum, 216 Hanover St., Boston. Tickets are $20. For information, go to www.improvasylum.com.
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? Artists celebrate baseball in? ?Play Ball!? an exhibit by 11 Fort Point artists in honor of the 100th birthday of Fenway Park. The show, featuring photography, paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and collage, is open 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. at Atlantic Wharf Gallery, 290 Congress St., Boston. Free. For information, go to www.fortpointarts.org.
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Personal Health: Medical Radiation Soars, With Risks Often Overlooked

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Radiation, like alcohol, is a double-edged sword. It has indisputable medical advantages: Radiation can reveal hidden problems, from broken bones and lung lesions to heart defects and tumors. And it can be used to treat and sometimes cure certain cancers.

But it also has a potentially serious medical downside: the ability to damage DNA and, 10 to 20 years later, to cause cancer. CT scans alone, which deliver 100 to 500 times the radiation associated with an ordinary X-ray and now provide three-fourths of Americans? radiation exposure, are believed to account for 1.5 percent of all cancers that occur in the United States.

Recognition of this hazard and alarm over recent increases in radiological imaging have prompted numerous experts, including some radiologists, to call for more careful consideration before ordering tests that involve radiation.

?All imaging has increased, but CTs account for the bulk of it,? said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a specialist in radiology and biomedical imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. ?There?s clearly widespread overuse. More than 10 percent of patients each year are receiving very high radiation exposures.?

The trick to using medical radiation appropriately, experts say, is to balance the potential risks against known benefits. But despite the astronomical rise in recent years in the use of radiation to obtain medical images, this balancing act is too often ignored. The consequences include unnecessary medical costs and risks to the future health of patients.

Both doctors and patients have a responsibility to better understand the benefits and risks and to consider them carefully before doctors order and patients undergo a radiation-based procedure.

Patients may be surprised to learn that some of the newest uses of radiological imaging, including CT scans of coronary arteries to look for calcium buildup, have not yet been tested in scientifically designed clinical trials, and thus their true benefits are at best a guess. Experts have estimated that widespread use of coronary artery scans, which deliver 600 times the radiation of a chest X-ray, could result in 42 additional cases of cancer for every 100,000 men who have the procedure, and 62 cases for every 100,000 women who do.

For every 1,000 people undergoing a cardiac CT scan, the radiation adds one extra case of cancer to the 420 that would normally occur. This risk may seem inconsequential, but not to someone who gets a cancer that could have been prevented.

Complicating the matter is the enormous variation ? sometimes tenfold or more ? in the amounts of radiation to which patients are exposed from the same procedure at different institutions, or even at the same institution at different times.

Although the cancer-causing effects of radiation are cumulative, no one keeps track of how much radiation patients have already been exposed to when a new imaging exam is ordered. Even when patients are asked about earlier exams, the goal is nearly always to compare new findings with old ones, not to estimate the risks of additional radiation.

As Dr. Michael S. Lauer of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine three years ago, ?The issue of radiation exposure is unlikely to come up because each procedure is considered in isolation, the risks posed by each procedure are low and seemingly unmeasurable, and any radiation-induced cancer won?t appear for years and cannot easily be linked to past imaging procedures.?

After an extensive review of the environmental causes and risk factors for breast cancer, the Institute of Medicine reported last year that sufficient evidence of risk was found only for combined hormone therapy used by postmenopausal women and exposure to ionizing radiation, at doses much higher than those received during a mammogram.

Everyone is exposed to a certain amount of background radiation ? about three millisieverts a year from cosmic rays, radon gas and the earth?s radioactive elements. By 1980, according to The Harvard Health Letter, various introduced sources, like medical tests, nuclear power plants, nuclear fallout, television sets, computer monitors, smoke detectors and airport security scanners, added another 0.5 millisieverts per year.

Now, however, the amount of radiation used medically rivals that of the background radiation, adding three millisieverts each year to the average person?s exposure. (A mammogram involves 0.7 millisieverts, a dose that is doubled with a 3-D mammogram.)

There are many reasons for this increase. Doctors in private practice who have bought imaging equipment tend to use it liberally to recoup the expense. The same goes for hospitals just a few miles apart that needlessly duplicate certain equipment so they can boast of having the latest and greatest capacity to detect disease. Doctors ordering tests suffer no adverse effects, and patients feel they are getting the most that modern medicine can offer.

Dr. Lauer wrote in a commentary about cardiac tests, ?Most physicians who order imaging tests experience no consequences for incurring costs for procedures of unproven value. On the contrary, they or their colleagues are paid for their services, and their patients don?t complain because the costs are covered by third parties. Patients are pleased to receive thorough evaluations that involve the best cutting-edge technologies.?

According to a new study, the rise in medical imaging clearly goes beyond financial motives. Dr. Smith-Bindman and her colleagues reported in June in The Journal of the American Medical Association that a dramatic rise in imaging rates from 1996 to 2010, including a tripling of CT scans, occurred in six large prepaid health systems where the financial incentive ought to have encouraged fewer, not more, tests. The increased testing doubled the proportion of patients who received high or very high radiation exposures.

By 2010, the researchers reported, 20 CT scans were performed for every 100 adult patients; for every 100 patients ages 65 to 75, about 35 CT scans were done. And among the 10 to 20 percent of children in the study who underwent a single CT scan of the head, radiation doses were in the range previously shown to triple the risk of later developing brain cancer or leukemia.

Dr. Smith-Bindman urged patients to participate in the decision to undergo medical imaging. She said, ?Patients should ask, ?What is this test for? Do I need it? Why? Do I need it now?? ?

Legislation can help curtail, or at least monitor, radiation doses, she said, citing a California law that took effect in July requiring that the dose used for CT scans be recorded in every patient?s medical record and that inadvertent overdoses be reported to the state immediately.

If such recording were to become a national mandate, electronic medical records could help doctors and patients keep track of radiation exposures and provide further incentive to avoid unnecessary imaging.

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Sidebar: Limiting the Fallout of Cancer Treatment

Radiation therapy to treat cancer depends on much higher doses than are used in imaging, and these treatments have long been known to increase a patient?s risk of later developing another cancer. Doctors consider this risk of radiation therapy reasonable when the goal is to prevent death from the original cancer.

Last year in a report in The Lancet Oncology researchers from the National Cancer Institute and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston reported that among 647,672 adult cancer patients treated five or more years earlier, about 8 percent developed a second cancer years later related to radiation treatment of the first cancer. More than half of the second cancers occurred in survivors of breast and prostate cancers.

As expected, the risk of developing a second cancer was highest among those originally treated at younger ages and most often involved organs exposed to the highest doses of radiation.

In recent years, radiologists have taken great pains to limit radiation exposure to nontarget organs ? for example, by using a cone beam when treating breast cancer ? which should reduce the risk of radiation-induced second cancers.

Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=510f8abc99fdb2aa765978256375a061

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Ecosummit Lounge Silicon Valley 6 September 2012 - ECOSUMMIT ...

Ecosummit and Climate-KIC, the EU programme to foster cleantech entrepreneurship and education, joined forces to invite you to an evening of Smart Green Business Networking in California. The Ecosummit Lounge Silicon Valley takes place on 6 September 2012 at the famous Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. Doors open at 18:00, at 19:30 our programme starts and we network until 22:00. We will enjoy 2-minute pitches by the 13 European cleantech startups that participate in the Climate-KIC USA Tour to Silicon Valley, Washington and Boston. At the lounge, we also serve you short presentations by the hosts, a VC keynote, tasty drinks, finger food and all that Jazz. Tickets for the Ecosummit Lounge Silicon Valley are available for $30,00. We look forward to meeting you soon in Sunnyvale.

At Plug and Play Tech Center, we have space for 100 guests representing smart green investors, startups, corporates, utilities, service providers and press. Ecosummit Lounge is the perfect event to meet young cleantech entrepreneurs from Europe, accelerate your business development, swap business cards and have some serious fun. To get into the right mood you can watch Ecosummit TV about Ecosummit Lounge Berlin on 6 December 2011.

The address of the Plug and Play Tech Center Sunnyvale Campus is:

440 North Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA

Tickets for the Ecosummit Lounge Silicon Valley are available for $30,00 incl. VAT on our Tickets page.

Registration and our food and drinks service start at 18:00 and early arrival is appreciated. At 19:30, we start the show. Around 20:45 we continue with networking and drinks and go on until 22:00.

• Frans Nauta, Entrepreneurship Lead The Netherlands, Climate-KIC, co-hosts the lounge and presents the European innovation network Climate-KIC
• Canice Wu, President, Plug and Play Tech Center, co-hosts the lounge and presents the accelerator Plug and Play
• N.N., VC, gives a keynote on cleantech investing in the valley
• Jan Michael Hess, CEO, Ecosummit, organises the lounge, moderates the evening and pitches the German Smart Green Business Network startup
• Arslane Kechkar, CEO, AirSerenity, pitches the French indoor air treatment startup
• Remi Blokker, CEO, Bluerise, pitches the Dutch deep ocean thermal energy startup
• Oliver L?nstedt, CEO, Carzapp, pitches the German p2p car sharing startup
• Martin Riedel, CEO, Enbreeze, pitches the German small urban wind turbine startup
• Chokri Mousaoui, CEO, Eternal Sun, pitches the Dutch solar testing startup
• Alex Zosel, CEO, e-volo, pitches the German electric helicopter startup
• Peter Haug, CEO, Greasoline, pitches the German biofuel technology startup
• Miguel Molina Cosculluela, CEO, My Sollars, pitches the Swiss carbon consumer loyalty startup
• Gordon Povey, CEO, PureVLC, pitches the British wireless data LED startup
• Thomas de Leeuw, CEO, Sunuru, pitches the Dutch solar tracking startup
• Pete Higgins, CEO, UWI Technology, pitches the British smart product label startup
• Kirsten Steinbusch, CEO, Waste2Chemical, pitches the Dutch waste to chemical materials startup

We are grateful for the generous and productive support of our sponsors and partners who help us make the Ecosummit Lounge Silicon Valley very successful.

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Source: http://ecosummit.net/articles/ecosummit-lounge-silicon-valley-6-september-2012

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