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US campaigns duel over storm-ravaged New Orleans

White House challenger Mitt Romney has toured storm-ravaged New Orleans in a bid to burnish his presidential credentials ahead of his November battle with Barack Obama.

Coming off the back of a rousing Republican party convention, Romney sought Friday to build momentum by taking his new campaign plane to New Orleans, where rescue crews are clearing up after Hurricane Isaac unleashed a torrential downpour.

Obama's camp swiftly declared that the Democratic incumbent would tour the city himself on Monday, but denied they were playing catch up, insisting they did not want the president's large security detail to disrupt disaster relief.

Romney met Louisiana's Republican governor Bobby Jindal and toured disaster relief operations in still partly flooded streets with National Guard troops.

Romney told Jindal he came to Louisiana "to learn and obviously to draw some attention to what's going here", in order to let "people around the country know that people down here need help."

Seven years ago, New Orleans became a symbol of presidential failure when Obama's Republican predecessor George W. Bush was seen as bungling the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,800 dead along the Gulf Coast.

Isaac was much less devastating, and flood defenses erected around New Orleans since 2005 protected the city, but both candidates were determined to show off their crisis leadership skills.

"The decision to travel on Monday was made before Governor Romney announced his decision to travel to Louisiana on Friday," an Obama aide said in a call to reporters from Air Force One.

Obama had already made federal emergency funding available.

Romney strategist Stuart Stevens insisted the campaign had not rushed to beat Obama to the scene, and denied it was inappropriate for a candidate to attend the scene before the commander-in-chief's trip on Monday.

"So one's supposed to wait that long?" he asked. "Seems a little wacky."

Louisiana resident Doug Boulware, 54, concisely articulated how many locals thought about Obama and Romney using the storm-hit area as a political football.

"Neither one of these guys can do what New Orleans needs to have done right now, which is manual labor and getting up in bucket trucks and fixing those wires," said Boulware, who owns and manages nursing homes in the state.

Obama convened a conference call with several parish presidents and other local leaders from Louisiana and Mississippi and pledged further assistance to contend with flooding and storm damage, adding that he was releasing aid for individuals impacted by the hurricane.

The White House did not attack Romney's trip, but top Senate Democrat Harry Reid denounced Romney's tour as the "height of hypocrisy", alleging that Republican policies would gut disaster funding.

Romney flew to Louisiana in his new campaign plane, unveiled on the first day that the candidate is able to begin spending campaign funds he raised for the general election.

Romney's schedule change came immediately after Thursday's triumphal conclusion of the Republican convention, where he set the seal on his official candidacy with a promise to create millions of new jobs.

The former Massachusetts governor told Americans that Obama had singularly failed to deliver the "hope and change" he promised and that the country must act to save an economy crippled by wrong-headed policies.

Obama's camp was dismissive, insisting the convention would not change the dynamics of the race, which has seen the incumbent maintain narrow leads over the challenger in most of the swing states he needs for victory.

The Democrats hold their own convention to formally re-nominate Obama beginning Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, and will hope for a bump in support to match whatever new momentum the Republicans won in Tampa.

Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod promised the president would provide the specifics that Romney's address on Thursday -- which he said was packed with personal anecdotes and patriotic platitudes -- lacked.

"I think that what people were tuning in hoping to hear were practical solutions to the challenges that we face," Axelrod told MSNBC television.

Meanwhile Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke at a rally at the airport in Richmond, Virginia, saying voters in November faced an historic choice and needed politicians like Romney.

"We are at the proverbial fork in the road. We've got a choice of two futures," Ryan said.

"And what you need in a moment like this, when our economy is in doubt, when a debt crisis looms on our horizon like it's plaguing Europe, when we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that our children are going to get a diminished future if we stay on the current path? You need principled leaders."

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September 2, 2012 - by Tatjana Flade
Photography ? Robin Ritoss ??

Michael Christian Martinez of the Philippines missed the podium Friday by a mere 0.37 points while competing at the Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Lake Placid, New York.

Although the Philippines is not a natural skating country, they have a naturally talented figure skater that began turning heads last season: Michael Christian Martinez.

The 15-year-old from Muntinlupa, a city of 400,000 inhabitants south of the capital Manila, confirmed just this week that he is an emerging young skater by finishing fourth at the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) in Lake Placid, USA. The teen missed the podium by a mere 0.37 points.

Martinez hit his first ever triple Axel in competition in the short program at Lake Placid, but was so focused on this jump that he went on to double the solo flip and the Lutz in combination. He ranked seventh.

The short program to Toccata and Fugue, however, was not the program he originally had planned.

?In August, I joined two local US Figure Skating?competitions which were endorsed by our Philippine Federation just to have a warm up competition prior to the Lake Placid JGP,? Martinez explained. ?I used these competitions to test my two new programs and test my triple Axel. I did not have good PCS (program component scores) in my short program in these two competitions, and a judge told me that the music and program does not fit me, so I decided to change it.?

With Andy Chang, he quickly mounted a new program just a week before Lake Placid.

?I was so nervous during my short program, because it was just a week old and has not been polished yet,? Martinez admitted. ?It was a rushed choice and I didn?t have much time to choose good music and just decided to use my novice music so at least I would be familiar with it.?

?We will change the program after the JGP (in Lake Placid) as we still have two weeks before my next competition in mid- September,? Martinez he added.

In his free skate to King Arthur, the Filipino pulled off the triple Axel again as well as four triples and three level-four spins to move up three spots. The mistakes in the short cost him the medal in the end, which would have been a historical first for the Philippines. However, Martinez will get another chance when he competes in his second JGP in Zagreb.

Before the event in Croatia, however, Martinez will debut at the international senior level at Nebelhorn Trophy in Oberstdorf, Germany, at the end of September.

The skater is currently training in California, mostly with Ilia Kulik, but also with John Nicks and Peter Kongkasem. Over the summer he learned the triple Axel.

?I was actually landing the triple Axel since 2011, but was very inconsistent and sometimes cheated so we decided not to put it in my programs as it might harm my scores,? the teenager shared.

Martinez? talent is obvious; otherwise he would not have made it from a recreational skater from the Philippines back in 2005 to a Junior Grand Prix contender with a triple Axel seven years later. Especially since he started out in a shopping mall.

When training at home, the skater faces a lot of challenges.

?It?s an Olympic-size rink that we have in Manila, however, it is mainly intended for public use and there is no freestyle session,? Martinez revealed.??The ice is cut (resurfaced) only a maximum of twice a day and is not properly zambonied. It does not have the same smooth surface as in the USA. As a result, it?s very hard to execute multi-rotational jumps.?

?The ice is rough and has too many bumps and too many people,? he continued. ?I need to stay in the rink for six to eight hours, transferring from one rink to another, just to be able to execute my needed elements and to be able to practice.?

Martinez always has to check which of the two mall rinks available have less people before practicing.

?Over the years I suffered many injuries as a result of the poor ice condition like two torn ligaments on my ankle and a torn medial ligament in my knee,? he said. ?Also, the coaches are all recreational coaches only; nobody has been properly?trained for ISU coaching, so the coaching style is very different.?

In order to progress, the young skater had to go abroad. In 2008, he trained in Colorado Springs, USA as he wanted to become a competitive skater.

?I was a Pre-Juvenile skater in 2008 and was training under Janet Champion and other coaches,? said Martinez. ?I landed my first triple jumps, triple toe and?triple Salchow, in June 2008 with their?Russian guest coach Mr.?(Alexander) Zaitzev.?

Martinez was deeply impressed by the level of skating in Colorado Springs.

?I thought I could never be the same as the elite skaters,? he recalled. ?I was just watching then during the elite sessions since their maneuvers looked so impossible to do.??

He did learn his first two triples, nevertheless. Unfortunately, he lost them again when going back to the Philippines as he was not able to receive professional coaching, but this setback didn?t stop the skater.

He went on to compete in novice competitions in 2009 in Europe.

?I took first place in three out of my three competitions in Slovakia, Slovenia and Austria,? noted Martinez. ?After those competitions, I set my eyes on even higher competitions. Even though I was just 13 with just a couple of triple jumps, my mother pushed me to be a Junior skater to have the experience in competing at a higher level.?

Martinez went back to the USA to attend training camps and started to work with Ilia Kulik in December 2010.

?In 2011, we went to the USA again and I had lessons with Ilia for a total of four months,? he confirmed. ?So far this year I have taken lessons with him for three months.?

Martinez also went to California in July and August in 2010 to train with John Saita in Anaheim and also a few times with John Nicks?in Aliso Viejo.

?Mr. Nicks helped me with triple jumps,? offered Martinez. ?The lessons with Mr. Nicks, though, was very limited since his rink in Aliso?Viejo was too far from the house?we were staying at, but Mr. Nicks was very helpful.?

Martinez, then 13 years old, competed in September 2010 at the Golden West Championship in California, landing his triples and finishing third. Shortly thereafter, he debuted at the Junior Grand Prix in Japan, finishing 17th.

?I was so nervous,? he recalled, ?but my mother told me I have nothing to lose, just to gain, from this competition.?

Since then, Martinez has progressed significantly. He was ranked seventh at the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck. He considers this event as his highlight of the past season, although he was disappointed with his result.

?I felt so lucky being part of the top 16 young skaters in the world that competed in the Youth Olympic Winter Games,? he said. ?I was very proud of my accomplishment; especially as I came from a?developing-skating country.?Not even our skating?federation could believe that I would make it to the YWOG.??

?My final placement was a complete disappointment though,? Martinez continued. ?I wanted to finish in the top five, but failed.?I was in third place in the short program, but fell to seventh in the free skate.?

?We could not bring my coach, Ilia Kulik, to the competition because we did not have enough money to pay for his fees,? Martinez explained. ?Prior to and during the Youth Olympic Winter Games, there was no financial support from our Philippine?government, so it was just my mother?(Maria Teresa Martinez)?who?coached me?in such a prestigious competition. I was so?saddened about it.?

Martinez added that he received a little support by the Philippine Skating?Federation and Philippine Olympic?Committee only after the competition.

Last March, Martinez went on to finish in a respectable 15th place in his debut at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

?I landed six triple jumps,? he pointed out. ?My program component score was low, thus I was in 15th place. In the short program, my technical score was the 8th highest, but due to low component scores, I ranked only 16th in the short program. I realized that I needed a good program and not just land my jumps.?

At Junior Worlds he also realized that he needed a triple Axel and triple-triple combinations to be competitive.

?This meant that I would have to train more and harder,? acknowledged the teen. ?It also entails a lot of sacrifice and hard work on my part, and more expenses for more lessons, not to mention the sacrifice by my family in terms of time and finances.?

Martinez has set high goals for himself this season.

?The goal is to land two triple Axels in the free skate and to learn a quad,? he announced.

?My ultimate dream is to win an Olympic medal for the Philippines,? he added.?

Although figure skating is an unusual sport in his country, the athlete feels that he gets recognition by people at home.

?Whenever they see me on the ice, they are fascinated with the moves, the jumps and spins that I can do,? he said.

In skating, Martinez looks up to Patrick Chan, however, off the ice, his mother is his idol.

?She is a single parent, yet she managed to give us all a good life,? he shared. ?If not for her persistence and dedication, I could have not done what I have accomplished in figure skating in such a very short time.?

In addition to being proud of his mother, Martinez is also proud of his heritage.

?I can say that I am a truly ?home grown talent? and that I can truly represent the Philippines being born and raised there and having started and skated in the Philippines. Not like other team members that come from another country to the Philippines just for a couple of days to compete during our national championships then leave immediately right after the competition.?

In April 2012, the skater suffered a severe injury, tearing ligaments in his knee.

?I was off the ice and could not jump for two months,? Martinez explained. ?I had to re-learn my jumps again, which was so disappointing.?

Martinez? doctor suggested to the skater that he discontinue the sport due to the injuries he had accrued over the years.

?Then I would start?asking?myself?if?what I?m doing is really worth it,? he said. ?I had been out of regular school since 2008, and my time had been eaten up by skating and gym and competitions. I?ve learned many important lessons in life through the sport of figure skating, and one is to never give up.?

When asked what he wants people to say about him at the end of the 2012-13 season, Martinez gives a precise answer: ?That I deserve to represent the Philippines?in the 2014 Olympic Games.

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RACINE, Ohio ? Turnovers can prove vital in the outcome of any game.

Such was the case on Friday evening as the Southern Tornadoes (1-1, 1-0 TVC Hocking) held off a rally from the visiting South Gallia Rebels (0-2, 0-1) to score their first win of the 2012 season.

A combined five lost fumbles and three interceptions proved to be the difference maker in the TVC Hocking contest at Roger Lee Adams Memorial Field.

The hosts took the opening kickoff, taking nine plays to put six points on the board. A drive of an opening pass play followed by 10 rushing plays, was capped off with a three yard touchdown run by Tyler Barton. The extra point kick failed, leaving Southern with a 6-0 lead less then five minutes into the game.

After a four and out by the Rebels, Southern took possession at the own 24 yard line. Three plays into the drive, quarterback Tristen Wolfe?s pass was intercepted by the Rebels Seth Carpenter.

South Gallia took advantage of the turnover, marching down field to tie the game. Ethan Spurlock scored on a six yard touchdown run. The two point conversion failed, leaving the score tied at six with 1:44 remaining in the first quarter.

The game would not remain tied for long, as Southern took six plays to put an additional six points on the board. Wolfe hit Trenton Deem for the 54 yard touchdown reception 12 seconds into the second quarter.

South Gallia appeared ready for its second scoring drive, but two consecutive penalties brought back what would have been first down runs. A fumble just past midfield was recovered by Southern?s Paul Ramthun to give Southern the ball.

Neither team would reach the end zone again in the first half, leaving the hosts with a 12-6 lead at the half. Each team moved the ball into the other team?s territory with turnovers late in the have ending drives for both teams.

Jacob White recovered a fumble for the Rebels, while Wolfe intercepted the Ethan Spurlock pass.

Back-to-back series to open the second have resulted in punts, before the Rebels started a long march down field. Eight rushing plays and two pass plays moved the ball from the South Gallia 28 yard line to the six yard line of the Tornadoes. A pass on fourth down from the six yard line by South Gallia starting quarterback Landon Hutchinson was intercepted by Southern?s Tyler O?Conner at the five yard line. O?Conner took the ball 95 yards for the Southern score.

Southern held the 18-6 lead after the failed two point conversion.

The Rebels would fumble on their next two possessions, with Southern?s Wolfe and O?Conner each recovering one fumble. Southern?s first possession of the fourth quarter resulted in a turnover on downs, giving the ball to South Gallia at their own 18 yard line.

Jacob White took the only play of the drive 82 yards, breaking a tackle, for the touchdown. A run by Hutchinson on the two point conversion cut the Southern lead to four points, 18-14.

Four plays later the Tornadoes extended the lead back to double digits with a 48 yard run by Barton.

Defensively, Wolfe, O?Conner and Ramthun each had a fumble recovery for the Tornadoes, with Wolfe and O?Conner each adding an interception.

For the South Gallia defense, Seth Carpenter had an interception, with White and Brandon Campbell each recovering a fumble.

Southern had 13 first downs in the game, to 11 for the Rebels.

The Tornadoes had 300 yards rushing on 46 carries and 61 yards passing. South Gallia had 239 yards rushing on 40 carries, with 99 yards passing.

South Gallia?s White led all ball carriers with 191 (21 carries) including an 82 yard touchdown run. Spurlock added 35 yards, and Hutchinson had 13 yards.

Barton led the Tornadoes with 173 yards on 19 carries. Ryan Billingsley had 74 yards, Deem had 60 yards rushing and 61 yards receiving, and Ramthun added seven yards.

Wolfe had two completions, both to Deem, for 61 yards in the game.

Hutchinson had five completions for 99 yards. Jared Northup (44 yards), Kane Hutchinson (17 yards), Jared Nolan (16 yards), Spurlock (16 yards) and Campbell (six yards) each had one catch for the Rebels.

The win was the first for the Tornadoes against South Gallia as a league opponent. Southern last won in the matchup in 2009 (28-6), with the last victory at home over the Rebels coming in 2004 (12-9).

Southern will travel to league opponent Belpre next week for its first road game of the season. South Gallia will return home to host TVC Hocking foe Trimble. Both games kickoff at 7:30 p.m.

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Anderson: 'The Master' inspired by L. Ron Hubbard

VENICE, Italy (AP) ? Director Paul Thomas Anderson acknowledges that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was the inspiration for the title character in "The Master," but says the focus of the film is the relationship between a charismatic spiritual leader and his troubled follower, not the movement itself.

The movie, set in the 1950s, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a charismatic cult leader who captivates a tortured but sympathetic World War II veteran portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix.

"The narrative is just driven by these two guys, and their love for each other," Anderson told a news conference on Saturday ahead of the highly anticipated film's world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Anderson sought to quickly dispel any speculation about the film's influence on his friendship with Tom Cruise, who starred in Anderson's 1999 film "Magnolia" and whose Scientology beliefs are well-documented.

"We are still friends. I showed him the film, and the rest is between us," Anderson said.

Anderson said the fact that Hoffman's character, Lancaster Dodd, was inspired by Hubbard "is not an elephant in the room."

"I really don't know a whole hell of a lot about Scientology, particularly now," he said. "But I do know a lot about the beginning of the movement and it inspired me to use it as a backdrop for these characters."

Phoenix's character, Freddie Quell, is completely unhinged, unable to keep a job, drinking anything that will give him a buzz, including liquid siphoned from a ship's missile, and displaying a wide range of inappropriate behaviors throughout his journey in Dodd's entourage.

Phoenix, appearing in his first movie in several years, himself displayed some mildly erratic behavior during the news conference, fidgeting, lighting up several cigarettes and leaving the dais to go back stage at one point for two minutes.

Hoffman, Phoenix's costar, on one side and Anderson on the other tried to ignore the antics.

Phoenix responded to just one question, about how he approached the character, appeared impervious to the others, and he drew boos from news photographers when he cut his photo call off after just 14 seconds.

"I'll just say, I'll say I don't think, maybe Paul gives, or gave me, the impression I had leeway. But I don't think I ever did," Phoenix said. "I don't know where it comes from and I don't care."

Whether or not the aloof demeanor was sincere or an act was impossible to tell. But Phoenix's appearance in a documentary by his brother-in-law, actor Casey Affleck, premiered in Venice in 2010, about Phoenix's seemingly downward spiral caused many to speculate whether the whole thing was a publicity stunt.

In Phoenix's return to film, the first glimpse of the depth of Quell's troubles comes on R&R in Hawaii in the waning days of the war.

He builds an erotic sand sculpture of a naked woman on a beach crowded with sailors. As they inspect his work, Quell mimics sexual acts with the sand figure that go on for just a few seconds longer than is really funny. That the antics are a cover for a painful loneliness comes through minutes later when he lays down next to a carefully sculpted figure, head nestled near the breasts, offering an unreturned embrace.

After the war, he can't keep a job and kills, or nearly kills, a migrant worker with the poisonous swill he distills. The former sailor seeks drunken refuge on a ship that is carrying Dodd, his family and followers from California to New York via the Panama Canal.

As the two grow closer, Dodd's wife, played by Amy Adams, begins to worry about Quell's true intentions and if his destructive behavior will endanger their movement. But Dodd won't give up his protege.

Hoffman said the two characters are more similar than they appear.

"They're both wild beasts I think ultimately. One of them has just tamed it somehow and he's trying to teach other people how to do that, but ultimately that's where the doubt and the whole reluctant prophet thing comes in," Hoffman said. "Ultimately he wants to be wild like Freddie is, so there's this real attraction there over that. "

Hoffman said he can relate to the desire to act without reservation, asking: "Why can't I just run naked through the streets of Venice?"

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Record-breaking stellar explosion helps astronomers understand far-off galaxy

ScienceDaily (Aug. 30, 2012) ? Astronomers took advantage of the most distant supernova of its type to probe a galaxy some 9.5 billion light years away. The light from the exploding star, discovered by Pan-STARRS with followup spectroscopic observations by the Gemini North telescope and the Multiple Mirror Telescope, confirmed that the gas environment between the stars in the distant galaxy is "reassuringly normal.

An international research team, led by Edo Berger of Harvard University, made the most of a dying star's fury to probe a distant galaxy some 9.5 billion light-years distant. The dying star, which lit the galactic scene, is the most distant stellar explosion of its kind ever studied. According to Berger, "It's like someone turned on a flashlight in a dark room and suddenly allowed us to see, for a short time, what this far-off galaxy looks like, what it is composed of."

The study, published recently in The Astrophysical Journal, describes how the researchers used the exploding star's light (called an ultra-luminous core-collapse supernova) as a probe to study the gas conditions in the space between the host galaxy's stars. Berger says the findings reveal that the distant galaxy's interstellar conditions appear "reassuringly normal" when compared to those seen in the galaxies of our local universe. "This shows the enormous potential of using the most luminous supernovae to study the early universe," he says. "Ultimately it will help us understand how galaxies like our Milky Way came to be."

The discovery of the dying star in this distant galaxy was made using images from the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Haleakala in Maui, Hawai'i. "These are the types of exciting and unexpected applications that appear when a new capability comes on line," said John Tonry, one of the study's co-authors and supernovae researcher at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Institute for Astronomy. Tonry adds, "Pan-STARRS is pioneering a new era in deep, wide-field, time-critical astronomy -- and this is just the beginning." After the Pan-STARRS discovery, spectroscopic follow-up studies using the Multiple Mirror Telescope in Arizona and the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i provided the data used by the team to probe the gas of the distant galaxy's interstellar environment.

The spectra revealed the signatures of a distant ultra-luminous supernova, and equally important, the unique fingerprints of iron and magnesium within the distant galaxy that hosted the explosion. The galaxy itself contains a very young population of stars (~15 to 45 million years old) with a mass totaling some 2 billon Suns.

Left: Portion of the Gemini spectrum of PS1-11bam from December 5 containing several interstellar absorption features of Fe II and Mg II at z = 1.566 (black). The error spectrum is shown in blue. For comparison we plot the GRB composite spectrum of Christensen et al. (2011). Right: A zoom-in on the relevant Fe II and Mg II lines demonstrates the similarity to GRB absorption spectra. Also shown is the [O II]3727 emission line at z = 1.567 from the January 1 Gemini spectrum.

The ultra-luminous supernova explosion belongs to a relatively recently-identified and special breed of exploding stars. They are some 10-100 times more luminous than their ordinary less-energetic cousins and unusually blue in color. While the process leading to their demise is still being explored, evidence points to the central core-collapse of a star having as much as 100 times the mass of our Sun. The collapse triggers an enormous explosion that blasts prodigious amounts of heavier elements through the star's enormous outer layers before expanding into space.

Traditionally, astronomers have used two techniques to study distant galaxies: They would either; 1) look directly for chemical elements leaving bright imprints on the galaxy's spectrum of light; or 2) search indirectly for dark signatures in the spectrum of an even more distant quasar, which reveals chemical elements in an intervening system that have absorbed light along our line of sight.

Recently, astronomers have supplanted these methods with another: seeking dark absorption imprints in the afterglows of "gamma-ray bursts" (GRBs); these brief flashes are the brightest and most energetic explosions in the universe, but they fade away within hours. The method is also limited by the need for expensive Earth-orbiting satellites to first detect and pinpoint a burst's location with precision before astronomers can make ground-based studies.

"The beauty of studying distant galaxies using ultra-luminous supernovae as a tool is that it eliminates the need for satellites and offers more time for study," says Alicia Soderberg of Harvard University. "A typical ultra-luminous supernova can take several weeks to fade away."

The study by Berger and his team provides the ?rst direct demonstration that ultra-luminous supernovae can serve as probes of distant galaxies. Their results suggest that with the future combination of large survey and spectroscopic telescopes ultra-luminous supernovae could be used to probe galaxies 90 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.

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The Las Vegas Badger: Artificial Sweetners Not So Good For You

Think artificial sweeteners are good for you and help you lose weight, well maybe....
From the Orlando Sentinel: Equal, Sweet'N Low, Splenda, Truvia: All have been touted as the holy grail for those who want to indulge in sweets but dodge the calories and other repercussions of sugar.
But a growing body of science is finding that, although the artificial sweeteners in foods and beverages may lower calories, consumers pay for the trade-off in other ways.
Recent scientific studies are finding that consuming artificial sweeteners may actually pad on pounds and contribute to metabolic syndrome, an unhealthy combination of excess belly fat, high blood pressure and insulin resistance, which is epidemic in this country.
For starters, dieters often wrongly rationalize that if they have a diet soda, they can eat another slice of pizza or cake, so they wind up overcompensating, said Dr. Devendra Mehta, a gastroenterologist at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
"As a diet aid, many studies have shown that artificial sweeteners don't help," Mehta said.
And they actually stimulate rather than curb sweet cravings.
"Overstimulation of sugar receptors from frequent use of these hyperintense sweeteners may limit tolerance for more-complex tastes," said Dr. David Ludwig, obesity expert and professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. "Ultimately, consumers may find less intensely sweet foods, like fruit, less appealing and vegetables downright appalling."
But scientists think the problem goes beyond the tongue.
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Most Americans know that consuming too much sugar leads to health problems, specifically diabetes and obesity. That's because dietary sugar ? and that includes table sugar, raw sugar, corn syrup, honey, agave syrup and the like ? turns to glucose quickly in the blood. If that energy source isn't burned right away, it gets stored in the cells as fat.... "Mice studies have shown that non-nutritive sweeteners make mice more efficient at absorbing sugar from their diet." Although this hasn't been proved yet in humans, "we have the same setup for it," he said.
In human terms, that would mean if two identical people ate the same diet with the same number of calories, except one person drank diet soda and the other drank water, the diet-soda drinker would take up more glucose from the diet than the water drinker.
"This likely explains why diet-soda drinkers don't lose weight and often gain weight," he said.? http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-29/health/os-artificial-sweeteners-20120829_1_artificial-sweeteners-blood-sugar-metabolic-syndrome
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Diabetes can be controlled in patients after pancreas removal

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) ? Removing the entire pancreas in patients with cancer or precancerous cysts in part of the organ does not result in unmanageable diabetes -- as many physicians previously believed, research at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found. The study, published online August 26 in the journal HPB Surgery, evaluates how well patients who had their entire pancreas removed could control their resulting diabetes. The pancreas produces insulin to remove sugar from the blood, so when the organ is gone, insulin must be replaced, usually through an external pump or with injections.

The researchers examined control of insulin over several years in 14 patients whose entire pancreas was removed. They compared their findings with 100 people with type 1 diabetes, and must use insulin replacement. They found both groups had little difficulty controlling their blood sugar, and no complications resulted.

The findings should reassure physicians and surgeons that removing the entire pancreas is reasonably safe and effective, says senior investigator Michael B. Wallace, M.D., chair of the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

"What has confounded surgery for pancreatic cancers and precancerous cysts for a long time is the notion that if the entire organ is removed, patients will have great difficulty in controlling the resulting diabetes," Dr. Wallace says. "Most surgeons try to leave as much of the pancreas as possible."

"What we have shown here is that, due to wonderful recent improvements in insulin therapy, patients without a pancreas can control their blood sugar as effectively as type 1 diabetes patients can," he says.

Although this study was small, Dr. Wallace says the findings are mirrored in the experiences of patients treated at Mayo Clinic in Florida with total pancreas removal.

Even though the approach of preserving as much of the pancreas as possible benefits most patients, leaving part of the pancreas in some patients may put them at risk of developing hard-to-detect cancer in the remaining organ, he says.

Similarly, patients who have a potentially precancerous cystic condition known as intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm in part of the pancreas can develop the same cysts in the part of the pancreas that remains after partial removal, he says. Removing the entire pancreas eliminates the possibility of recurrence in the residual pancreas.

"Most surgeons today make difficult decisions about how much of the pancreas to remove in a patient, but that process may become a little more straightforward now that we have demonstrated patients do well when their entire pancreas is removed," Dr. Wallace says.

The study was funded by Mayo Clinic.

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Culinary Walking Tours in Belgium: Bruges, Gent and Antwerp | The ...

Starting this Saturday, Therese, her mother Eileen and I will be visiting three of Belgium?s most popular destinations: Bruges, Gent and Antwerp.? In the course of planning, I considered a culinary walking tour in one or more of the cities.? Below is a summary of what I found out.

There are three websites that offer culinary walking tours, with some overlap between the three: Q-rius, Perfect Plus Event Productions and Vizit.? They seem to favor group tours (10 or more people) over individual ones, although there are a couple tours that accommodate individuals.? The tours may be grouped into three categories: ones that offer lunch or dinner, beer tours, and snack/delicacy tours.

Lunch/dinner:? In Bruges, you can do a 3 course lunch where you travel from course to course, either on foot, by bike or by horse tram.? The tours last from 3 to 4-1/2 hours, and cost from ? 40 to ? 80 per person, assuming a minimum of 10 participants.? If you have less than 10 people in your group, you have to pay extra.? There is also a 3-course dinner tour, but only on foot.

Gent also has both a lunch and dinner tour on foot.? For a twist, there is a dinner tour by boat.? They run from three to four hours in length and cost ? 45 to ? 75/person on foot, ? 65 to ? 80 by boat (minimum of 10 people in both cases).

Antwerp?s lunch and dinner tours are only on foot.? Lunch is 3-1/2 to four hours long and costs ? 40, and dinner is 3 or 4 hours and costs from ? 45 to ? 75/person (minimum of 10).

Again, in all cases, if you have a group smaller than 10 people, you will pay to make up the difference, from 15 to 20 Euros for each person less than 10.? So for us, if we were to book any of these meals, we would pay at least an additional 15 or 20 Euros for each of us, possibly much more, making the whole venture prohibitively expensive.? Therefore, none of these options work for us, unfortunately.

Beer.? Q-rius has a tour in Bruges called ?Typical Bars and Tough Tales? for just ? 15/person where you visit two pubs and get a drink at each, but again it is for groups (in this case, a minimum of 12).

In Gent, there are culinary beer walks with Vizit where the ? 45 to ? 60 cost per person covers a beer tasting at the start and a full beer at the end, but you have to pay for whatever other beer you drink.? It also includes a main course and a drink at lunch.? You can make the beer walk competitive if you have a large group, where the guide will break the group into smaller groups and quiz the various groups.? The competitive walk includes more food ? appetizers to start and dessert at the end ? rather than the beer tasting, and costs ? 55/person.

Antwerp doesn?t have beer walks per se, but Vizit does have competitive culinary walks there that may include a pub.? These are similar in price to the competitive walk in Gent.

Once again, since all these walks are for a group of a minimum of 10 people, they won?t work for us.

Snacks/delicacies.? Q-rius has a tour called ?Sweet Bruges? where for ? 12 to ? 18 per person you can spend 2 to 3 hours exploring the city?s chocolate shops.? There is also a more extensive walk that includes a visit to the chocolate museum and a chocolate-themed lunch as well as the chocolate shop visits for ? 60/person (minimum of 12 people for both).

Vizit has tours in both Gent and Antwerp that take you to 3 or 4 local shops where you taste delicacies like chocolate, cheese and meats.? You pay ? 80 to ? 120 for a guide and then ? 5 or ? 6/person for the delicacies.? These tours are offered every day of the week.

These snacks tours are also offered to individuals on Saturdays from 3:30 to 5:30 in both Gent and Antwerp, for just ? 12/person.? Since we are going to be in Antwerp on a Saturday, this is the one walking tour option that seemed like it might work for us.

As a result, I inquired further.? Specifically, I was wondering if, among the snacks offered, there would be anything for me to eat.? So I emailed Vizit and asked.? Here is their response:

?There are 4 stops in 4 shops:

1) A bakery, for rye bread with raisins. I?m afraid it contains butter, though not very much

2) A sweet shop, for a butter cookie and a praline. Both of them contain butter. Maybe we could ask for a praline made of nothing but dark chocolate, if that?s okay with you?

3) A butcher, for charcuterie (a kind of ham)

4) A caf? for a kind of beer or a kind of gin (?elixir d?Anvers?)?

So, it looks like if we booked this tour, all I might get out of it is a bit of ham and a beer.? Nevertheless, if it is something Therese and Eileen would enjoy, I would do it.? I considered further.

We are just going to be in Antwerp for 2 days, and I?ve never been there before. ?Therese was there a long time ago, and Eileen may have been there before ? but again, that would have been a long time ago.? So in effect, our time in Antwerp is something fresh for all of us.? Would it serve us to take at least 2 hours out of our limited time to visit a few specialty food shops, or would we rather spend it in churches and museums we?ve never seen?? My judgment, confirmed in consultation with Therese, was the latter.

So, there will be no culinary walking tour for us in Belgium.? Not that I have any regrets about that ? we are going to have a blast, I have no doubt.? And drinking good Belgian beer, eating frites and mussels, and maybe sampling some rich Belgian desserts ? in short, enjoying Belgium?s culinary excellence ? will contribute greatly to our enjoyment of our trip, I am sure.

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Apple's $1 billion court win against Samsung is translating into a much bigger jump in its market value.

Apple shares are up $19, or 2.9 percent, at $682.22 in premarket trading Monday.

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'American Taliban': Let me pray with others in prison

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John Walker Lindh is seen in a file photo originally released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va. The photo was made on Jan. 23, 2002.

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Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET: American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh testified Monday that the U.S. government is forcing him to sin by denying him the right to pray daily with other Muslims in the highly restricted federal prison unit where he is detained.

He made his comments during the first day of a closely watched trial that will examine how far prison officials can go to ensure security in the age of terrorism.

Lindh was captured in Afghanistan and imprisoned in the United States after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States by Islamic extremists.

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Lindh testified in federal court in Indianapolis that the Terre Haute, Ind., prison where he's serving a 20-year sentence for aiding Afghanistan's Taliban government before its overthrow allows prisoners to eat, talk, play cards and exercise together, but bans daily group prayer. He contends this violates a 1993 law barring the government from curtailing inmates' religious expression without showing it has a compelling interest.

Lindh, 31, adheres to a school of Islam that requires group prayer five times a day, if possible.?

"I believe it's obligatory," Lindh said. "If you're required to do it in congregation and you don't, then that's a sin."?

Attorneys for the government maintain that Lindh's own behavior since he was placed in the unit in 2007 proves the risks of allowing group prayer.

The government says in court documents that Lindh delivered a "radical, all-Arabic sermon" to other Muslim prisoners in February that was in keeping with techniques in a manual seized from al-Qaida members that details how terrorists should conduct themselves when they are imprisoned.

Lindh's sermon proves "that religious activities led by Muslim inmates are being used as a vehicle for radicalization and violence in the CMU," the government claims.

The prison warden halted daily group prayers in 2009 and allowed them only on the holy day of Friday.

Lindh accuses the government of going too far in its drive for security and trampling on his freedom of religion by restricting group prayers among Muslim inmates.

A cluster of U.S. marshals surrounded a shackled Lindh as he was brought into the courtroom on Monday morning. He?was wearing an olive green prison uniform and a white prayer cap. He smiled at his mother, who was sitting in the third row of the courtroom gallery.

The bearded Lindh was led out after two hours of testimony.

With the help of a glossary for court officials, Lindh guided the court through a series of lessons on Muslim prayer traditions.?

Lindh?has been held in the federal unit at?Terre Haute since 2007.??He was charged with supporting terrorists after his capture by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Muslims are required to pray five times a day, and the Hanbali school to which Lindh belongs requires group prayer if it is possible. But inmates in the Communications Management Unit are allowed to pray together only once a week, except during Ramadan. At other times, they must pray in their individual?cells. Lindh claims that doesn't meet the Quran's requirements and is inappropriate because he is forced to kneel in close proximity to his toilet.

Thomas Farr, a former diplomat who now teaches at Georgetown University and studies religion and terrorism, said common sense suggests that the prison's need for security would outweigh Lindh's religious rights.

"The foremost responsibility of prison officials, as de facto proxies for the American people, is to prevent Mr. Lindh from obtaining any capacity to plan or carry out attacks on them," he wrote in an email. "That is why he is in prison, and if that is not a compelling state interest, I do not know what is."

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which is representing Lindh, contends the policy violates a federal law barring the government from restricting religious activities without showing a compelling need.

"This is an open unit where prisoners are basically out all day," said ACLU legal director Ken Falk, who noted that inmates are allowed to play basketball and board games, watch television and converse as long as they speak English so the guards can understand. "They can do basically any peaceful activity except praying," he said. "It makes no sense to say this is one activity we're going to prohibit in the name of security."

Falk said Lindh's speech wasn't radical and was given during the weekly prayer that inmates are permitted. He said Lindh was not disciplined for the speech.

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The self-contained unit in which Lindh resides has 43 inmates, 24 of whom are Muslim. Inmates are under open and covert audio and video surveillance, and except for talks with their attorney, all of their phone calls are monitored. Prisoners are not allowed to touch their family members when they come for their tightly limited visits. They must speak English at all times except when reciting ritual prayers in Arabic.

Without such tight security, the government claims, the prisoners would be able to conspire with outsiders to commit terrorist or criminal acts.

Joe Hogsett, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said he believes decisions about prison regulations are best made by prison officials, "not by convicted terrorists and other dangerous criminals who reside there."

"Mr. Lindh is allowed to pray in his cell; he's allowed to pray wherever he happens to be as many times every day as his religion suggests to him that he should," Hogsett said. "Where the rules must draw the line is, how often must prison officials allow prisoners to congregate together?"

According to court documents, daily prayers were allowed from the time the unit opened in 2006 until May 2007, when Muslim inmates refused to stop in the middle of a prayer to return to their cells during a fire emergency.

The lawsuit was originally filed in 2009 by two Muslim inmates in the unit. Lindh joined the lawsuit in 2010, and the case has drawn far more attention since then. The other plaintiffs have dropped out as they were released from prison or transferred to other units.

Lindh had been charged with conspiring to kill Americans and support terrorists, but those charges were dropped in a plea agreement. He is serving a 20-year sentence for supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government of Afghanistan and carrying explosives for them. He is eligible for release in 2019.?

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.?

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