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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Skin cancer awareness and prevention
Colorado has the highest ultra violet index in the U.S.
Just one blistering sun burn can double your risk of developing melanoma, and Coloradans are at the greatest risk.
Cancer survivor Debra Hess spent a lot of time under the sun in her youth but now she's the lady at baseball games with a hat and an umbrella handing out sunscreen by the handfuls to anyone who needs it.
"As a young lady we laid out with baby oil and iodine on our skin because we didn't know any better and now I have malignant melanoma," said Hess.
Now Hess works at the St. Mary's cancer center and does community outreach for cancer survivors and cancer prevention.
Hess said sunscreen is really your last resort against sun damage and its better to cover up with clothes, but if you are going to be outside apply it 30 minutes before going outdoors and re-apply every two hours.
It's important to be aware of your body as well and there are 5 things to look out for:
A- Asymmetry- Is one side symmetrical to the other?
B- Boarder- Is the boarder irregular?
C- Color- Does the mole have multiple colors?
D- Diameter- Melanomas are usually greater than the size of a pencil eraser.
E- Evolving- Does it look different from the rest or is it changing in size, shape or color?
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Must Go
Salon:
It?s time for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step down.
Read the whole story at Salon
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Iraqi Catholics celebrate Easter
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's Catholic Christians flocked to churches to celebrate Easter Sunday, praying, singing and rejoicing in the resurrection of Christ behind high blast walls and tight security cordons.
It was the first Easter since the election of Pope Francis in Rome, and worshipers said they hoped their new spiritual leader would help strengthen their tiny community that has shrunk under the joint pressures of militant attacks and economic hardships.
At the St. Joseph Chaldean Church in Baghdad, some 200 worshipers stood and sat during parts of the Easter mass led by Father Saad Sirop.
"We pray for love and peace to spread through the world," said worshiper Fatin Yousef, 49. Like most worshippers she arrived have dressed immaculately for mass, her hair tumbling in salon-created curls, wearing a tidy black skirt, low-heeled pumps and a striped shirt. "We hope Pope Francis will help make it better for Christians in Iraq."
There are an estimated 400,000 to 600,000 Christians in Iraq, with most belonging to ancient eastern churches. There has been no census in Iraq for 16 years, making precise figures difficult to obtain.
An estimated two-thirds of Iraq's Christians are Catholics of the Chaldean church and the smaller Assyrian Catholic church. Worshipers of both churches chant in versions of ancient Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke, although the dialects would be mutually unintelligible.
Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi Christians have suffered repeated attacks by Islamic militants. Hundreds of thousands have left the country, with church officials estimating their communities have at least halved. The worst attack was at Baghdad's soaring Our Lady of Salvation church in October 2010. It killed more than 50 worshipers and wounded scores more.
More broadly, decades of immigration have shrunken the size of Christian communities throughout the Middle East, with most leaving for better opportunities and to join families abroad.
Other Christians in the region no longer feel comfortable among majority-Muslim communities that many believe have become more outwardly pious and politically Islamist over the decades.
They included Iraqi Christian worshiper Yousef's son, who moved to live with relatives in Arizona last year. Yousef said she was arranging for her other daughter and son to immigrate.
"There's still fear here, and there's no stability in this country," she said.
Iraqi officials have made efforts to secure churches since the violence of 2010.
High blast walls topped with netting and barbed wire surrounded the St. Joseph Church in Baghdad in the middle-class district of Karradeh. Blue-khaki clad Iraqi police guarded roads surrounding the church and checked papers of passers-by as worshipers filtered inside.
Four Iraqi Christian volunteers, two men and two women, stood at the church entrance to double-check who was coming in.
White-robed church volunteers marched down the church aisle behind Father Sirop, who chanted and waved thickly-scented incense that wafted through the building. The white-painted interior was adorned with three ornate chandeliers and a series of simple paintings illustrating the life of Christ.
Worshipers stood for lengthy passages of Sirop's mass, at one point bursting into applause when he told them, "Celebrate! You are Christians!"
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraqi-catholics-celebrate-easter-075830377.html
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Egypt issues arrest warrant for TV satirist
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's state prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Saturday for a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and the country's president, in the latest legal action to take aim at a critic of the nation's Islamist leader.
The warrant against Bassem Youssef is also the latest in a series of legal actions against the comedian, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart. Youssef's widely-watched weekly show, "ElBernameg" or The Program, has become a platform for lampooning the government, opposition, media and clerics.
The fast-paced show has attracted a wide viewership, but has also earned itself its fair share of detractors. Youssef has been a frequent target of lawsuits, most of them brought by Islamist lawyers who have accused him of "corrupting morals" or violating "religious principles."
The comedian has faced several court cases in the past, also accusing him of insulting President Mohammed Morsi. One of Youssef's attorneys, Gamal Eid, said this is the first time an arrest warrant has been issued for the comedian.
In a post on his official Twitter account, Youssef said he will hand himself in to the prosecutor's office Sunday. He then added, with his typical sarcasm: "Unless they kindly send a police van today and save me the transportation hassle."
Eid said the warrant fits into a widening campaign against government critics, media personalities, and activists.
"The prosecution has become a tool to go after the regime's opposition and intimidate it," Eid said.
A call to a top aide to the country's chief prosecutor, Hassan Yassin, for comment went unanswered.
Opposition figures have expressed concerns about freedom of expression and assembly for what they call a crackdown on dissent at a time of deep polarization in Egypt's politics.
The political standoff pits Morsi, a Brotherhood veteran, and his Islamist allies in one camp against a mostly secular and liberal opposition backed by moderate Muslims, minority Christians and a large segment of women in the other.
The opposition charges that Morsi and the Brotherhood have failed to tackle any of the nation's most pressing problems and are trying to monopolize power, and breaking promises of inclusiveness. Morsi blames the country's woes on nearly three decades of corruption under his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, and accuses the opposition of stoking unrest for political gain.
On Monday, Egypt's top state prosecutor, Talaat Abdullah, issued arrest warrants for five of Egypt's most prominent democracy advocates and activists over allegations that they instigated violence last week near the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo.
It was one of the worst bouts of violence in months, where nearly 200 people were injured in clashes between anti-government protesters and supporters of the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails.
Morsi harshly criticized his opponents, calling them hired thugs out to derail Egypt's democracy. The Brotherhood also blamed privately-owned media for fanning the violence.
The criticism was followed by a two-day protest by dozens of Islamists outside the studios of TV networks critical of Morsi. The Islamist protesters pelted police and prevented some talk show hosts and guests from going in and out of the complex west of Cairo.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said the escalation of anti-press "rhetoric" by Morsi and his supporters and the sit-in outside the media city were "deeply troubling."
The series of prosecutions and arrest warrants come amid a legal challenge to the general prosecutor, whose appointment by Morsi last year was declared void by a court ruling earlier this week.
On Saturday, Egypt's chief prosecutor Talaat Abdullah said he will appeal the court ruling, saying it is "in violation of the constitution and the law," Egypt's state news agency reported. The decision signals a protracted legal battle is likely to ensue, further confusing the legal scene in Egypt.
Already some, including members of the journalist union, have declared they no longer recognize the legitimacy of the prosecutor's decision.
Also on Saturday, an Egyptian rights group said police detained 13 people, including five lawyers, and accused them of assaulting police in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city.
The arrests inside the police station mark a rare instance in which lawyers face potential criminal charges.
The Haqanya Center for Rights said the 13 are accused of insulting security officials, attempting to free other detainees held at the police station, and illegal assembly.
The arrests prompted an angry response from lawyers at Cairo's Bar Association, who demanded an apology from the police.
Mohammed Abdel-Aziz, an attorney, said the lawyers and activists were beaten and assaulted at the station, where they had been since Friday to represent three opposition members reportedly arrested by members of a political party affiliated with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood who handed them to the police.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-issues-arrest-warrant-tv-satirist-132500262.html
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Men Who Do More Housework Have Less Sex
See Inside Men who do more housework have less sex
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Conventional wisdom suggests that women are drawn to men who help out around the house. Yet new research indicates that some divisions of labor may be sexier than others. A February paper in the American Sociological Review reported that married couples in which men take on a greater share of the dishes, laundry and other traditionally female chores had sex less often than average, which in this study was about five times a month. Yet couples in which men confined themselves largely to traditionally male chores such as yard work enjoyed sex more frequently than average. Taken to the extreme, men who performed all the traditionally female chores would have had sex 1.6 times less often than men who did none of them. The study authors, from the Juan March Institute in Madrid and the University of Washington, arrived at the correlation by crunching data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NFSH), which gathered survey information from 4,500 U.S. married couples. The researchers ruled out any kind of coercion on the part of the ?manly? chore-performing husbands by looking at data from the same survey on sexual satisfaction: they found that women from households with more traditional divisions of labor felt no less happy with their sex lives than women in more gender-neutral ones.
The study has its skeptics. Its data were gathered between 1992 and 1994, making demographer Sharon Sassler of Cornell University wonder about their relevance today. ?In the past two decades,? she says, ?who gets married has changed considerably.? Today most couples cohabit before marrying, and a large proportion of the women in those couples, Sassler argues, are not satisfied doing a disproportionate share of so-called women's housework. According to Sassler, frequently those couples do not marry, making the set of couples who would qualify for the NSFH today profoundly different from the set in 1992.
Study co-author Julie Brines, a sociologist at the University of Washington, says men and women have deep-seated ideas about what is masculine and feminine. Displays of masculinity may evoke feminine displays in women, which activates or intensifies sexual charge. Put the man on a rider mower, in other words, and boom?fireworks. Stand him at a sudsy sink, and it's a probable no go.
This article was originally published with the title Of Lust and Lysol.
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Panasonic explains how its color splitter sensor works in a vividly detailed video
You'd be forgiven if you weren't entirely on the same page with Panasonic regarding its micro color splitter sensor: it's a big break from the traditional Bayer filter approach on digital cameras, and the deluge of text doesn't do much to simplify the concept. Much to our relief, DigInfo TV has grilled Panasonic in a video that provides a more easily digestible (if still deep) interpretation. As the technology's creator says, it's all about the math. To let in so much light through the splitters requires processing the light in four mixed colors, and that processing requires studying the light's behavior in 3D. Panasonic's new method (Babinet-BPM) makes that feasible by finishing tasks 325 times faster than usual, all while chewing up just a 16th of the memory. The company isn't much closer to having production examples, but it's clarifying that future development will be specialized -- it wants to fine-tune the splitter behavior for everything from smartphone cameras through to security systems. Catch the full outline after the break.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/31/video-explains-how-panasonics-color-splitter-sensor-works/
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Frontier Airlines To Suspend Trenton Flights Due To Runway Work
EWING, N.J. (AP) ? Frontier Airlines will suspend all flights at Trenton-Mercer Airport this fall while runway work is completed.
The airline announced Friday that the gap in service will last from Sept. 9 through Nov. 7.
During that time, the airport will upgrade its main runway with safety enhancements mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Frontier recently announced that the planned shutdown of Trenton-Mercer Airport's air traffic control tower due to federal budget cuts won't affect service.
The airline is scheduled to begin service to Atlanta, Chicago-Midway, Columbus, Ohio, Detroit and Raleigh, N.C. next month. Frontier already flies between Trenton-Mercer and New Orleans, Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa, Fla.
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Lawmakers tighten belts amid automatic budget cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are contending with long lines to get inside their offices and fewer prospects of a raise. Such are the indignities thrust upon the men and women who brought the country $85 billion in government spending cuts this month.
There probably won't be much sympathy for a senator or congressman making $174,000 a year who is in no danger of being furloughed or laid off, at least until the next election. Still, there has been an effort, especially in the Republican-led House, to show that no one should be exempt from sacrifice.
"As those who are charged with the care of taxpayers' dollars, we need to lead by example," Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., who chairs the House Administration Committee, said last week in promoting a bill to slash the budgets of House committees by 11 percent.
Earlier in March ? after Congress and the White House failed to come up with an alternative to across-the-board cuts in most federal programs ? the House imposed an 8.2 percent reduction in lawmakers' personal office budgets. That came on top of 11 percent cuts to members' office budgets during 2011-2012.
"We've drastically reduced travel both for myself and my staff," said Republican Rep. John Campbell, who must cross the country to visit his southern California district. He said he tends to stay in Washington on two-day weekends rather than return home. "I'm more productive here when I'm not rushing to get home," he added.
Campbell said other "little things" he is doing to economize include reducing the office phone bill, cutting off magazine and newspaper subscriptions and using email rather than letters to communicate with voters.
Rep. Luke Messer, a freshman Republican from Indiana, said he hired fewer people when he came to Washington because "we essentially began the term knowing there was a high possibility of a sequester"? Washington-speak for the automatic spending cuts.
So far, congressional staffers appear to have escaped the furloughs that are likely to send thousands of public servants home without pay for several workdays over the next six months and disrupt some government services. "I hope to avoid that," said Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., "but we will take any steps to ensure we don't exceed our budget." Under House rules, a lawmaker must pay for excess spending out of his or her own pocket.
The fiscal pressures are weaker in the Senate, where senators have staff budgets about double the amount of the $1.3 million average in the House and where the office cuts ordered because of the sequester were limited to 5 percent.
While staffers still have their jobs, they may have a harder time getting to them. Security officials have cut costs by closing 10 entrances and several side streets around the Capitol complex, creating long lines to get through screening stations. People "have started to adjust to those changes at the entrances," although it is still a challenge on busy days, said Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer.
Gainer, who oversees nearly 1,000 security and administrative employees, said he hopes to abide by the 5 percent sequester cut without layoffs by enlisting 70 or 80 people for a voluntary retirement program.
Some House members also are feeling the pinch during the two-week Easter break, a prime time for foreign "fact-finding" tours. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced last month that members must book commercial flights rather than make use of more convenient but more expensive military aircraft.
Some Democrats have complained the GOP enthusiasm for frugality has come at too high a cost.
"At a time when most members of this body are representing newly formed congressional districts with a need to open new offices or move to new locations, we find ourselves with an 8.2 percent decrease in the very operating budgets that support constituent services," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
Wasserman Schultz, who also is the Democratic Party's chairwoman, criticized House Republicans for cutting budgets while spending some $3 million for the legal defense of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
"We are past the point of cutting what we want, and we are now into cutting what we need ? our ability to attract and retain expert staff," said Rep. Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, the senior Democrat on the House Administration Committee.
Brad Fitch, president and CEO of the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to improve congressional operations, said it's still possible that House members will have to resort to furloughs or layoffs. So far, he said, they have been able to cope with the cuts of the past three years with less drastic steps, such as reducing the size of their staffs through attrition, making more use of interns and using email rather than mass mailings.
At the end of 2011, Fitch's group recommended 46 possible ways for members to cut $90,000 from their 2012 budgets, ranging from pay freezes, holding more town hall meetings by telephone, delaying purchases of new computers, eliminating Washington staffers' visits to district offices, closing district offices, eliminating bottled water from offices and reviewing spending on food and beverages for constituents.
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Airlines should charge for overweight passengers, economist ...
Airlines around the globe have gone to great lengths in recent years to reduce the weight they carry, with an eye to decreasing fuel requirements and increasing profit.
The Great Seat Squeeze: How airlines are trying to pack more people on a plane without anybody knowing
Without much fanfare, WestJet Airlines Ltd. has been quietly rolling out some strategic changes to its fleet of Boeing 737s in recent weeks, altering the cabin configuration fairly dramatically to add a new class of seating, all the while packing in more travelers in the rest of its planes.
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That was especially true when soaring fuel prices in 2008 threatened to upend the industry ? a year before the recession actually did. But one economist suggests airlines haven?t gone far enough, that it?s time airlines built a system to monetize their greatest weight variable: the passenger.
Removing excess weight from an aircraft can have a tremendous impact on overall profitability and allows it to be more competitive by keeping fares lower.?WestJet Airlines Ltd., for example, has gone to extraordinary measures to reduce weight, from shrinking the size of its in-flight magazine and printing it on lighter paper stock to using a lightweight paint on the aircraft.?Simple things like switching to lighter service carts are saving roughly 1.8 million litres in fuel a year, the carrier said.
Air Canada has done the same, switching to lighter seat covers, carpeting, and even using iPads on flight decks rather than manuals, which save about 40 kilograms per flight.
Both airlines are reducing the amount of water ? even the amount of fuel ? they carry on shorter flights to lighten the load.?The benefits are clear ? Air Canada estimates that for each kilogram it removes from one of its Boeing 763 aircraft, it will save 3,925 kilograms of fuel every year.
At the same time, while charging for excess weight for checked bags has long been the standard, charging to check a second bag ? even a first ? has become common.
Air Canada and WestJet will also be rolling out higher-density cabins in the coming months using lightweight seats that allow for more passengers without overly impacting comfort or the weight of the aircraft.
Many passengers ask why airlines only charge for overweight baggage but not for overweight passengers, if weight is the key concern for an airplane operation and more weight results in more fuel consumption
But while passengers might be already feeling the squeeze, an economist from Norway has another modest proposal for airlines to better balance the weight they carry with the revenue they collect by charging passengers based on overall weight ? including themselves and their luggage.
Bharat Bhatta specializes in econometrics and choice modeling and is an economist working as an associate professor in Sogn og Fjordane University College in Norway. He argues that more airlines should consider a ?pay-as-you-weigh? model for ticketing where those who weighed more than the average passenger would pay more, while those who weighed less would get a discount.
In the March issue of the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Mr. Bhatta wrote that the model would not be discriminatory toward obese people and would also strike a better balance for those who are underweight.
?A passenger gets a fixed amount of weight for the baggage and an unlimited amount of weight for oneself under the status quo,? he wrote in the article.
?Many passengers ask why airlines only charge for overweight baggage but not for overweight passengers, if weight is the key concern for an airplane operation and more weight results in more fuel consumption,? he added.
To be clear, no airline has openly discussed implementing such measures since Irish low-cost carrier Ryan Air first floated the idea in 2009 after nearly a third of its passengers responding to an online survey said they supported the move.
Richard Bartrem, WestJet spokesman, said he believes no carrier, even the ultra-low-cost carriers, has taken the step yet because of the backlash they would receive from consumers.
?The public uproar would not be worth the risk, ? he said. ?Who would want to be the one to take the first step??
But the Canadian Transportation Agency has no specific precedents that would prevent such measure from being implemented, said Chantal Laflamme, a spokesperson for the agency.
The Supreme Court did uphold the CTA?s one-passenger-one-fare policy in 2008, which now prevents Air Canada, WestJet and Jazz from charging the disabled for a second seat, including those who are considered disabled by obesity and unable to fit in a single seat. But the regulations in Canada do not apply to people who are obese but not disabled as a result of their obesity.
Both WestJet and Air Canada require a medical certificate for obese passengers to qualify for the extra seat at no charge. In order to remove error or confusion, Air Canada?s assessment form instructs the qualifying physician to seat the patient on a ?paper covered examination table? and carefully measure and record the size of their posterior. In many other countries, the free seat is not an option.
Several international carriers, including Southwest Airlines, encourage obese passengers to purchase an extra seat under their so-called ?customer of size policy,? which will see the last person to check in to a full flight bumped if it is deemed that the person is too large to fit into a single seat. But not necessarily the obese one.
Last year, the U.K. Court of Appeal also opened the door to so-called ?fat taxes? on passengers when it ruled that the Montreal Convention, a framework of international rules and regulations on air travel, takes precedence over parts of Britain?s discrimination and disability laws once the aircraft leaves the runway, eliminating a passenger?s ability to seek redress for being charged for a second seat.
Linda McKay-Panos, a lawyer and executive director of the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, was the complainant in one of the cases that led to the Supreme Court?s one-passenger-one-fare policy after she was forced to fly in an economy seat on an Air Canada flight in 1997 that couldn?t accommodate her.
Her 11-year fight with the airline to change its policy to accommodate obese people contributed to the changes it has since adopted to not charge for a second seat.
She said the pay-as-you-weigh policy might make a good economic argument, but doesn?t think it would fly here in Canada.
?I think that?s ridiculous,? she said. ?That?s a slippery slope of blaming people. When you?re in the business of serving the public, you take them as they come.?
While the statement may prove contentious, Mr. Bhatta argues the current system is already discriminatory in that passengers who weigh less or are carrying less luggage are already subsidizing the flights of those who are carrying more weight and raise the overall average weight of passengers and therefore fares.
Mr. Bhatta argues airlines have dynamic pricing models that charge different prices to different passengers based on when they book their flights, whether they?re flying direct or with a layover, among other variables to maximize the price of fares and minimize the amount of empty seats on their flights.
?We emphasize that the fare policy that charges heavier passengers more but does not give any discount to lighter passengers can benefit only the airlines but harm the passengers and the society at large,? he said.
But he said carriers are failing to maximize their profitability by not charging more to passengers who are above the average weight and cost them more to fly, he said.
?Charging according to weight is a standard principle in transporting goods by any transport modes such as rail, road, human or pack animals, air and water,? he said.
The more weight in a plane, the more fuel it costs to fly; as a result it is justifiable to say that a passenger should contribute to the cost of flying the plane
?The more weight in a plane, the more fuel it costs to fly; as a result it is justifiable to say that a passenger should contribute to the cost of flying the plane?? he added.
But Mr. Bhatta acknowledged it may be a difficult system to enforce without impacting check-in times and causing major disruptions for the travelling public.
He floated several models from charging based strictly on the weight of the passenger plus their luggage, or the passenger themselves with a weight limit on their bags.
Or, he said, airlines could determine an average weight for a passenger and their bags, and grant them a 25% window on other side before the fees or discounts kick in.
He argued the measures could be enforced either through self-declaration at the time of purchase, with random checks to enforce the issue, or charging a fixed fare with an extra fee tacked on or refunded to a credit card after a weigh-in.
But he also argued it could cut down on security lines, because it could replace the need to charge for a first and second checked bag and reduce carry-on luggage.
?Although every passenger will not benefit from the model, one does not pay for others? excess weight as in an average fare policy. Charging according to weight and space is a universally accepted principle not only in transportation but also in other services,? he said.
What do you think? Should airlines start charging passengers by the pound? Take our poll.
Source: http://business.financialpost.com/2013/03/29/should-airlines-start-charging-passengers-by-the-pound/
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
Fringe therapy may help heart patients, study finds
A treatment that removes heavy metals from the body has long been touted as an alternative therapy to combat hardening arteries. Now a 10-year, $31-million clinical trial has found that chelation therapy does help heart attack patients slightly reduce their risk of serious heart problems ? but not enough for the researchers to encourage mainstream cardiologists to offer it to their patients.
The trial revealed a very modest benefit for patients who took chelation therapy rather than a placebo, according to results published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn.
The findings came in for harsh criticism by other experts who worried that the results might encourage patients to take up a still unproven and potentially dangerous treatment.
"It's a type of medical quackery that has been around for many decades," said Dr. Steven Nissen, chair of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Chelation therapy was introduced around World War II as an antidote against an arsenic-based poison gas called Lewisite. The drug tested in the JAMA study ? called ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid, or EDTA ? was used to treat lead poisoning in Navy personnel who repainted ships' hulls.
About 50 years ago, it came into vogue as an apparent way to remove mineral-rich deposits of plaque that can cause arteries to harden in a condition known as atherosclerosis.
Though still on the fringe, chelation therapy has been gaining traction: A National Center for Health Statistics report estimated that 111,000 patients had the expensive, time-consuming therapy in 2007 ? a 68% jump from 2002. Patients clearly needed more information about this unproven treatment, said Dr. Judith Hochman, a cardiologist at New York University who was not involved in the study.
"There was an imperative to study it," Hochman said.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ? two branches of the National Institutes of Health ? agreed to fund it. Researchers from 134 facilities agreed to administer a cocktail comprising disodium EDTA, vitamins and electrolytes or a placebo to 1,708 patients who were at least 50 years old and had suffered a heart attack at least six weeks earlier. The 40 infusions were spread out over more than a year.
The researchers found that chelation did reduce patients' overall risk of heart problems, such as stroke and angina requiring hospitalization. Chelation patients' heart attack rate was 6%, compared with 8% for those on the placebo.
The strongest effect was seen with procedures to reopen the coronary artery: 15% of chelation patients needed them, compared with 18% of patients who got the placebo treatment. The difference was small, but it was just enough to be statistically significant, said Dr. Gervasio Lamas, the Columbia University cardiologist who led the study.
"I can't overemphasize how unexpected these results were," he said.
But the clinical trial was beset by a host of problems, said Nissen, who wrote an editorial in JAMA that was deeply critical of the study. Many of the patients dropped out of the trial, thus weakening the results, he said. What's more, some of the patients were treated in alternative medicine centers that sold unproven remedies such as aromatherapy and crystal therapy.
"How do you get good research done at places like that?" Nissen said. "I think you don't."
In addition, the Office for Human Research Protections in the Department of Health and Human Services launched an investigation, mentioning ? among several other concerns ? that a few researchers had been involved in insurance fraud and three were convicted felons.
Lamas said all researchers were thoroughly trained for their duties, whether they were doctors experienced in clinical trials or alternative medicine practitioners with expertise in chelation treatments. He also said some patients were bound to drop out of a study that was so time-consuming. (Each infusion lasted several hours.)
JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner said the study was put through the wringer before it was published, with the results vetted by a team of cardiologists, statisticians and other researchers. It deserved to be published regardless of negative attitudes toward the paper, he said.
But the findings are far from definitive, Hochman said: "The therapy's not ready for prime time."
Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University cardiologist who was not involved in the study, said that any apparent benefits to chelation would be hard for physicians to swallow.
"A lot of people thought this would be a good study because it would be a chance to disprove a therapy that had little support among mainstream academics," Krumholz explained. "It's a terrific group of investigators who've addressed an interesting question, who've come up with a surprising result that nobody knows what to do with."
amina.khan@latimes.com
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
An Unsentimental Look at Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care ...
Boston, MA, March 26, 2013--Health care workers are experiencing an epidemic of demoralization, fatigue, and risk of injury that threatens not only their safety, but the safety of the patients under their care. That?s the central premise of Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care, the latest white paper from the Lucian Leape Institute at NPSF. During a well-attended webcast on March 19, members of the Leape Institute Roundtable that produced the paper discussed the issue and proposed pathways to improvement.
Julianne Morath, RN, MS, an internationally recognized authority on patient safety and a founding member of the Leape Institute, began the program with evidence suggesting widespread dissatisfaction with health care as a workplace. For example, 60% of those responding to a survey of physicians said they are considering leaving practice, while 37% of newly licensed nurses are thinking of leaving their jobs.
Ms. Morath noted the dual problems of physical and psychological harm. In the former category, needlestick injuries, back injuries from lifting patients, and the exposure to chemicals all place health care workers at greater risk of injury. Psychological harm is rampant, with lack of respect, lack of support, and production pressures all adding to an environment short on joy and meaning.
?People working under stress, and in the absence of psychological safety, are found to be less vigilant with regard to safety practices, both for patients and for themselves,? she said.
Workplace safety, Ms. Morath said, is a precondition for joy and meaning in work. ?These are not sentimental notions,? she added. ?The costs of inaction are significant.?
David Michaels, PhD, MPH, assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, US Department of Labor, was among the presenters. He pointed out that many people are surprised to learn that health care workers experience the highest rates of injury and illness in the country. ?The same lessons that we know from manufacturing, from construction, to reduce injury and illness are the ones that can be applied to health care,? he said.
Improving the situation will require leadership commitment, robust systems of reporting and evaluating risk, and the evolution of the health care culture from one of disrespect to one of healthy teamwork.
Also speaking during yesterday?s program were Paul O?Neill, former chairman and CEO of Alcoa and the 72nd Secretary of the US Treasury, who has been involved in health and safety issues for much of his professional life, and Sandy Shea, policy director, Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare.
Questions posed to the panel covered a range of concerns, one being that health care organizations? primary focus is ?generating revenue.? How, then, to get leadership to understand the importance of this issue?
?It doesn?t cost more money to be respectful,? said Mr. O?Neill. ?It doesn?t cost more money to investigate things gone wrong in real time.?
In response to a concern about employees? fears of reporting, Ms. Shea suggested that managers and supervisors, ?need to model good, responsible, conscientious behavior. You have to communicate that it?s a safe environment for reporting.?
Through the Eyes of the Workforce recommends seven broad actions that organizations should pursue if they are serious about improvements in this area.
This topic is one of five transforming concepts identified by the Leape Institute as areas requiring system-level attention and action to improve patient safety. The white paper is the result of two interdisciplinary roundtables and focus groups held on the topic.
To read more or download the white paper or the webcast audio and presentation slides, click here.
If you would like to send your thoughts on this work to the Leape Institute members, visit our online comment form.
Workers who want to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can call a toll-free number: 1-800-321-OSHA (6742); TTY 1-877-889-5627. For additional information on worker rights, people should visit the OSHA website.
Read answers to questions that did not get addressed during the webinar.
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Suicide bombers kill 5 Afghan police as Kerry visits
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban suicide bombers killed at least five policemen in Afghanistan's restive east on Tuesday, officials said, in a three-hour attack that coincided with a visit to the country by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
The pre-dawn attack on a police compound in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan's largest city, came as the country braces for the beginning of the spring fighting season in the 11th year of the war.
One attacker detonated an explosive-laden car at the entrance of the Afghan National Police compound in a bid to let other attackers inside, provincial police chief Amin Sharif said.
"Three suicide bombers triggered their explosive vests and five were shot dead," he told Reuters, adding that five policemen were killed and four wounded.
Amin said the attackers were armed with rocket-propelled grenades and light machineguns, sparking a three-hour battle with Afghan security forces. Six civilians were wounded.
Kerry was in Kabul to discuss transfer of security to the Afghan forces, as most U.S.-led NATO combat troops prepare to leave by the end of next year.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in a text message.
(Reporting by Mohammad Rafiq; Writing by Hamid Shalizi and Dylan Welch; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-suicide-bombers-kill-five-afghan-police-kerry-053550409.html
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Digg Hints Its Google Reader Replacement Will Go Beyond RSS Alone To Include Content From Social Media, HN, Reddit & More
Digg today responded to early user feedback about its plans for a Google Reader replacement announced earlier this month, saying that it has narrowed down incoming requests to four key points: keep it simple, make it fast, synchronize across devices, and, finally, allow for easy import from Google Reader, of course. However, the company also hinted at its plans to go beyond just a Reader clone, saying that in future versions, it wants to design a tool that can pull in news and content from other sources, including social media sites, Reddit, Hacker News, and elsewhere.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/pFabSaztsTk/
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Filipino Journey As well as Travel and leisure A watch Opener
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Global scientific experts convene in Cape Town to report on progress toward tuberculosis vaccines
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South Africa recognized as innovator in worldwide effort to address disease, as global concerns rise over drug-resistant strains
CAPE TOWN 25 March 2013 At a time of growing global concern about the rising level of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in South Africa and worldwide, the world's top TB vaccine experts are meeting this week, the first time this scientific forum has been held in Africa, where they will present new research aimed at advancing development of vaccines against the deadly airborne disease.
In coming to Cape Town, the international TB research community recognizes the role of South Africa as a nation with a high-burden of disease, but also as a leader among emerging market nations in innovation and scientific research in the global battle against TB.
Among the new findings being presented at the conference are the results of modeling study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine that suggest new efficacious TB vaccines for adolescent and adults could alleviate up to 67 million (50-83) cases and 8 million (5-12) deaths by 2050 in the 22 high-burden countries and is cost effective.
Further research results show that within the remit of vaccine research the medium term needs of countries such as South Africa are likely to be best served by developing and testing vaccines that would be effective in adolescents and adults. New TB vaccines are essential if high TB burden countries are to meet the 2050 TB elimination goal.
South African Minister of Health Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, who will open the international conference, has set a path for South Africa that includes ambitious targets to reduce tuberculosis in his nation, where TB incidence has increased by 400% over the past 15 years.
"We must be innovative in our approach to TB treatment and diagnosis, which is why I have made deployment of a faster new diagnostic tool a priority for the nation. New, more effective vaccines must also be part of the solution and I am committed to supporting their development led by the world's leading researchers, many based right here in South Africa," said Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi.
The economic burden of TB weighs heavily on entire nations where the disease is endemic; in parts of Africa it exacts its greatest toll on individuals during their most productive years, from 15-44 years of age.
"In the Worcester areas, where our field research is conducted, we meet families who are eager to participate in the search for new TB vaccines, because they live with the consequences of TB every day," said Prof. Willem Hanekom, Director of the South African Tuberculosis Initiative (SATVI) of the University of Cape Town, the host of the Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines. "Their commitment to the search for TB vaccines is a testament of the terrible impact of TB on our community. At SATVI, we are proud to be applying the absolute best that science has to offer to develop and deliver new TB vaccines for South Africa and for the rest of the world."
The Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines is convened under the auspices of the Stop TB Partnership, an initiative of the World Health Organization and brings more than 250 scientists, researchers and TB advocates from all over the world on the heels of World TB Day. The World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria last week called for global action to fill a US $1.4 billion annul gap for TB research and development, "including clinical trials for new TB drugs, diagnostics and vaccines."
"TB elimination can only be possible with intensified research and development particularly for new vaccines," said Dr. Mario Raviglione, the Director of the WHO's Stop TB Department. "This area has a major funding gap and we need a wake-up call to investors to accelerate research efforts to make a potent TB vaccine a reality."
The conference will be held one year after the launch of a new global framework for TB vaccine development. It will provide a rich setting to strengthen collaboration and review progress in several areas including basic research, immunology, and clinical research in TB vaccine R&D.
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About the Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines
The Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines brings together researchers, policymakers, donors, civil society and other stakeholders interested in the development of new TB vaccines that will contribute to global efforts to eliminate TB. The main goals of the Forum are to: review progress in the field, with a particular focus on the key issues and challenges outlined in the Blueprint for TB Vaccine Development, and discuss strategies to continue to advance and sustain the field; share the latest data and findings on key issues in TB vaccine research; and promote partnerships and collaboration amongst multiple stakeholders across sectors to accelerate and streamline TB vaccine research.
To request interviews, please contact
SATVI - Alison September
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) - Erna Balk
Aeras - Jamie Rosen
About Aeras
Aeras is a nonprofit biotech advancing the tuberculosis vaccines for the world. In collaboration with global partners in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe, Aeras is supporting the clinical testing of six experimental vaccines as well as a robust portfolio of earlier stage candidates. Aeras receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a range of other governments. Aeras is based in Rockville, Maryland; Cape Town, South Africa; and Beijing, China. http://www.aeras.org.
About SATVI
Established in 2001, the University of Cape Town's South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) is the largest dedicated TB vaccine research group on the African continent. It is located within the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine of the University of Cape Town. Its mission is to conduct innovative, high-quality TB vaccine research In Africa and impact the global epidemic. A new, effective, affordable vaccine has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. SATVI is conducting registration standard clinical trials of several novel TB vaccine candidates. It is also engaging in projects to address critical clinical, epidemiological, immunological and human genetic questions in TB vaccine development. http://www.satvi.uct.ac.za
About TBVI
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) is an independent non-profit foundation that facilitates the development of safe, more effective vaccines to protect future generations against tuberculosis. Since its formation in 2008, TBVI has brought together an integrated network of over 50 mainly European universities, institutes and the private sector in the development of new vaccines that are globally accessible and affordable. http://www.tbvi.eu
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TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative
South Africa recognized as innovator in worldwide effort to address disease, as global concerns rise over drug-resistant strains
CAPE TOWN 25 March 2013 At a time of growing global concern about the rising level of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in South Africa and worldwide, the world's top TB vaccine experts are meeting this week, the first time this scientific forum has been held in Africa, where they will present new research aimed at advancing development of vaccines against the deadly airborne disease.
In coming to Cape Town, the international TB research community recognizes the role of South Africa as a nation with a high-burden of disease, but also as a leader among emerging market nations in innovation and scientific research in the global battle against TB.
Among the new findings being presented at the conference are the results of modeling study by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine that suggest new efficacious TB vaccines for adolescent and adults could alleviate up to 67 million (50-83) cases and 8 million (5-12) deaths by 2050 in the 22 high-burden countries and is cost effective.
Further research results show that within the remit of vaccine research the medium term needs of countries such as South Africa are likely to be best served by developing and testing vaccines that would be effective in adolescents and adults. New TB vaccines are essential if high TB burden countries are to meet the 2050 TB elimination goal.
South African Minister of Health Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, who will open the international conference, has set a path for South Africa that includes ambitious targets to reduce tuberculosis in his nation, where TB incidence has increased by 400% over the past 15 years.
"We must be innovative in our approach to TB treatment and diagnosis, which is why I have made deployment of a faster new diagnostic tool a priority for the nation. New, more effective vaccines must also be part of the solution and I am committed to supporting their development led by the world's leading researchers, many based right here in South Africa," said Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi.
The economic burden of TB weighs heavily on entire nations where the disease is endemic; in parts of Africa it exacts its greatest toll on individuals during their most productive years, from 15-44 years of age.
"In the Worcester areas, where our field research is conducted, we meet families who are eager to participate in the search for new TB vaccines, because they live with the consequences of TB every day," said Prof. Willem Hanekom, Director of the South African Tuberculosis Initiative (SATVI) of the University of Cape Town, the host of the Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines. "Their commitment to the search for TB vaccines is a testament of the terrible impact of TB on our community. At SATVI, we are proud to be applying the absolute best that science has to offer to develop and deliver new TB vaccines for South Africa and for the rest of the world."
The Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines is convened under the auspices of the Stop TB Partnership, an initiative of the World Health Organization and brings more than 250 scientists, researchers and TB advocates from all over the world on the heels of World TB Day. The World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria last week called for global action to fill a US $1.4 billion annul gap for TB research and development, "including clinical trials for new TB drugs, diagnostics and vaccines."
"TB elimination can only be possible with intensified research and development particularly for new vaccines," said Dr. Mario Raviglione, the Director of the WHO's Stop TB Department. "This area has a major funding gap and we need a wake-up call to investors to accelerate research efforts to make a potent TB vaccine a reality."
The conference will be held one year after the launch of a new global framework for TB vaccine development. It will provide a rich setting to strengthen collaboration and review progress in several areas including basic research, immunology, and clinical research in TB vaccine R&D.
###
About the Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines
The Third Global Forum on TB Vaccines brings together researchers, policymakers, donors, civil society and other stakeholders interested in the development of new TB vaccines that will contribute to global efforts to eliminate TB. The main goals of the Forum are to: review progress in the field, with a particular focus on the key issues and challenges outlined in the Blueprint for TB Vaccine Development, and discuss strategies to continue to advance and sustain the field; share the latest data and findings on key issues in TB vaccine research; and promote partnerships and collaboration amongst multiple stakeholders across sectors to accelerate and streamline TB vaccine research.
To request interviews, please contact
SATVI - Alison September
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) - Erna Balk
Aeras - Jamie Rosen
About Aeras
Aeras is a nonprofit biotech advancing the tuberculosis vaccines for the world. In collaboration with global partners in Africa, Asia, North America and Europe, Aeras is supporting the clinical testing of six experimental vaccines as well as a robust portfolio of earlier stage candidates. Aeras receives funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a range of other governments. Aeras is based in Rockville, Maryland; Cape Town, South Africa; and Beijing, China. http://www.aeras.org.
About SATVI
Established in 2001, the University of Cape Town's South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) is the largest dedicated TB vaccine research group on the African continent. It is located within the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine of the University of Cape Town. Its mission is to conduct innovative, high-quality TB vaccine research In Africa and impact the global epidemic. A new, effective, affordable vaccine has the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. SATVI is conducting registration standard clinical trials of several novel TB vaccine candidates. It is also engaging in projects to address critical clinical, epidemiological, immunological and human genetic questions in TB vaccine development. http://www.satvi.uct.ac.za
About TBVI
TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (TBVI) is an independent non-profit foundation that facilitates the development of safe, more effective vaccines to protect future generations against tuberculosis. Since its formation in 2008, TBVI has brought together an integrated network of over 50 mainly European universities, institutes and the private sector in the development of new vaccines that are globally accessible and affordable. http://www.tbvi.eu
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Severe U.S. storm brings heavy snow, baseball-sized hail
By Mary Wisniewski
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A major early spring storm brought heavy snow, severe thunderstorms and floods as it moved east across the United States on Saturday, closing highways, forcing flight cancellations and causing a pileup involving dozens of vehicles.
The weather system forced the cancellations of more than 100 flights in and out of Denver International Airport on Saturday and blowing and drifting snow closed several roads in Colorado, including Interstate 70 in both directions east of Denver to the Kansas state line.
"Travel on the eastern plains is strongly discouraged," said Mindy Crane, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation. "It is snowing half an inch an hour with sustained winds of 25 miles an hour with gusts up to 40 miles an hour."
A chain-reaction crash involving some 50 vehicles and at least four tractor-trailers shut down Interstate 25 about 30 miles north of Denver for several hours on Saturday, the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement. A tanker involved in the accident burst into flames.
Several injured people were taken to the hospital but no fatalities were reported, police said.
Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said some counties in far eastern Colorado had seen a foot of snow by mid-afternoon.
Snowfall accumulations in the Denver metropolitan area could top 10 inches, with higher amounts in the foothills west of the city, he said.
The snow was expected to move east to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, over the next 24 hours, before moving into the mid-Atlantic states, Kines said.
Rough weather also was forecast in the Gulf Coast region from Florida to eastern Texas throughout Saturday, with large hail, damaging winds and possible tornadoes, Kines said.
In northern Florida, the National Weather Service in Jacksonville had reports of high winds and possible tornado touchdowns, though no twisters have been confirmed, according to meteorologist Phil Peterson.
Peterson said the weather service also had reports of baseball-sized hail west of Lawtey, Florida, early in the afternoon. Lake City received two inches of heavy rain in 30 minutes, he said.
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski and Keith Coffman; Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Dan Whitcomb, David Brunnstrom and Jackie Frank)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/severe-u-storm-bring-heavy-snow-possible-tornadoes-164536444.html
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
A tireless connoisseur of Texas barbecue gets ready for the main course
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 24, 2013
By DALLAS ? Daniel Vaughn stood at the counter at Lockhart Smokehouse here, ordering dinner. Lockhart serves smoked meat the way butchers serve raw meat ? wrapped in a large rectangle of butcher paper ? and its customers are encouraged to eat it the way cowboys used to, or maybe Neanderthals, without sauce, forks or even plates.
Vaughn, 35, gave polite but direct instructions to the man with the knife: a few slices and burnt ends of beef brisket, pork spareribs, jalapeno sausage, an end-cut pork chop, some of the clod (beef shoulder), three slices of smoked turkey. Before long, a $50 pile of Texas barbecue held together by sheets of butcher paper sat before him on the counter ? he was ordering for himself and three others ? and the cashier asked if he wanted any sides.
"No," he replied. "We got pork."
Vaughn had eaten barbecue for lunch and planned to eat barbecue for lunch the following day; he also planned to spend part of the weekend at the inaugural Houston Barbecue Festival.
Asked at the counter if he ever got tired of barbecue, Vaughn replied, without hesitation, "Not good barbecue."
He was wearing a pair of custom cowboy boots emblazoned with charts that show the various cuts of meat from a cow and a T-shirt reading "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em," which had nothing to do with cigarettes. His Twitter handle is BBQsnob. His blog is Full Custom Gospel BBQ. Most important, he had just decided to take a sizable pay cut and quit his job as an architect at a respected Dallas firm to devote all of his time and gastrological energy to writing about Texas barbecue.
On Thursday, Vaughn became a walking milestone in the history of Texas barbecue when Texas Monthly announced that it had hired him to be its first barbecue editor, a position that exists at no other magazine in America. National barbecue experts said Vaughn would be the only full-time barbecue critic on the staff of a major newspaper or magazine. He will be part of Texas Monthly's ever-expanding barbecue franchise ? the magazine has its own dedicated barbecue website, a barbecue finder app for cellphones and a once-every-five-years behemoth issue that lists the state's top 50 barbecue joints. It holds the annual BBQ Festival in Austin, which last year drew a crowd of 3,000.
"It speaks to the extraordinary explosion and interest in barbecue over the last five to eight years," said Jim Shahin, a freelance journalist and associate professor of magazine journalism at Syracuse University who also writes about barbecue and grilling for The Washington Post. "Even in Texas, where you already had a major barbecue culture, it has only grown. It's surprising that Texas Monthly hadn't done something like this years ago."
Shahin and other barbecue writers said Vaughn ? a native of Ohio, resident of Dallas, husband of a woman who does not particularly care for barbecue and father of two toddlers ? was the right man for the job. Vaughn estimates that, since he began keeping track in 2007, he has eaten at more than 600 barbecue joints in the country, with more than 500 of those being in Texas. In five days last week, he had eaten barbecue at six locations.
Barbecue experts, in Texas and outside, said the state was experiencing a kind of "golden age" of barbecue, as evidenced by Vaughn's new position. Some of the best places used to be out-of-the-way rural outposts, but now their artistry and time-consuming techniques can be found in Dallas, Austin and other cities. Restaurants in New York City and Washington have imported the Texas style to the East Coast, and national accolades are pouring in. In 2011, the magazine Bon Appetit declared Franklin Barbecue in Austin the best barbecue restaurant in America.
Vaughn had a kind of epiphany in 2006, five years after moving to the state, while on a three-day, 16-joint barbecue trip through Central Texas with a friend. One Saturday morning, they headed to Louie Mueller Barbecue in Taylor.
"We got there right as they opened," Vaughn recalled. "We had this pile of meat in front of us. I took a bite of the brisket. We were sitting across the picnic table from one another and we just looked at each other like, ?Oh wow, this is what they've been talking about."'
That meal, and others after it, led him to start his barbecue blog in 2008. The blog led to assignments for D Magazine in Dallas and other publications, including Texas Monthly.
Vaughn's last day as an associate at Good Fulton & Farrell is Tuesday, and he starts his new job in April, a few weeks before the release of his book, "The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue." He spent six months exploring the state's barbecue spots and collecting pitmasters' recipes, eating at up to 10 restaurants a day and logging 10,000 miles.
Standing at a table at Lockhart, with his dinner scattered about the oily butcher paper and not a plate in sight, he pulled apart the brisket, which had been smoked for 14 to 16 hours. Lockhart opened in 2010 seeking to replicate Central Texas barbecue, using the same techniques, wood ? post oak ? and down-home style that is both anti-fork and anti-sauce.
"They leave some fat on," Vaughn said, brisket in hand. "If you go to East Texas, you're going to get basically just gray slices of brisket. The saddest thing you can see is for them to pull out a fresh new brisket, slap it down and it's got this nice jiggle to it. Then they'll take the back of the knife and scrape the fat off in one fell swoop and throw it away. They love the fat in Central Texas."
Both Vaughn and Jake Silverstein, the editor in chief of Texas Monthly, said they did not discuss any sort of fitness program as part of his new job.
"We have not discussed the health implications of being the Texas Monthly barbecue editor," Silverstein said. "He's figured out how to make the barbecue lifestyle compatible with staying above ground."
One of Vaughn's co-workers at the architecture firm wanted to plan a goodbye lunch for him and asked him where he wanted it. His answer: Kalachandji's, an Indian vegetarian restaurant. "I gotta eat my veggies," he said.
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