Thursday, May 31, 2012

Are you eating your vegetables? This laser can tell you

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Invasive tests and unreliable recall make getting good information on food intake difficult for nutritionists and healthy eaters alike. A new device may allow doctors to tell how well you've been eating after doing nothing but shining a laser on your skin for 30 seconds.

It's well known among those in the field that what you eat can show externally ? and not just in your waistline?or smeared on your sleeve. As the body metabolizes certain things, like vegetables, some of the byproducts make their way to your skin, your hair, even your eyes. You are what you eat, and apparently you look like it too.

But only in subtle ways: a vegetable-rich diet will produce lots of what are known as skin carotenoids. They accumulate in the skin and can be measured to infer one's eating habits. But no one wants to give skin samples, and doctors would rather not waste time sending them in to the lab. Luckily, a chance meeting between two experts?produced something better.

Susan Mayne, a nutritional epidemiologist at Yale, happened to sit next to a laser physicist from the University of Utah on the way to a conference. By the time their?16-hour flight was over, they were drafting a grant proposal.

Using a technique called resonance Raman spectroscopy, results can be gotten in as little as a minute simply by shining a special blue laser on a person's palm and observing the results. Thirty seconds of laser, 30 seconds of processing on the computer, and your skin carotenoid levels are there for you and your doctor to talk about.

The test is non-invasive, cheap to administer and quick. It's so easy to use that one researcher managed to check the levels of 60 children in one afternoon. It could even be done while they napped.

It's not perfect; no one knows yet just how long it takes for the levels of carotenoids to build up or fade away in the skin, and they're not sure whether it will work on people with different levels of pigmentation in the skin. The technique?is promising and its?creators are already imagining many applications, but it's still in a fairly early phase and would face years of clinical testing before being deployed widely.

More information can be found at this article from Yale's School of Public Health magazine.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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Scientist Rick Gaitskell, a physics professor at Brown University, talks Tuesday, May 29, 2012, about the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D. The lab's experiments will include the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector. Gaitskell says that he's been hunting for dark matter for 23 years, and that the lab _ housed inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine 5,000 feet beneath the earth _ could help scientists understand the origins of the universe. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

Scientist Rick Gaitskell, a physics professor at Brown University, talks Tuesday, May 29, 2012, about the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D. The lab's experiments will include the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector. Gaitskell says that he's been hunting for dark matter for 23 years, and that the lab _ housed inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine 5,000 feet beneath the earth _ could help scientists understand the origins of the universe. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

A sign warns visitors not to tap the glass of an above-ground version of the laboratory to be opened nearly 4,900 feet beneath the earth in Lead, S.D. Tuesday, May 29, 2012. The lab's experiments will include the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector. Scientists say that the Sanford Underground Research Facility _ housed inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine _ could help scientists understand the origins of the universe. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

A scientist works in an above-ground version of the laboratory to be opened nearly 4,900 feet beneath the earth in Lead, S.D. Tuesday, May 29, 2012. The lab's experiments will include the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector. Scientists say that the Sanford Underground Research Facility _ housed inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine _ could help scientists understand the origins of the universe. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

A scientist works Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in an above-ground version of a laboratory to be opened nearly 4,900 feet beneath the earth in Lead, S.D. The lab's experiments will include the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector. Scientists say that the Sanford Underground Research Facility _ housed inside the now-shuttered Homestake Gold Mine _ could help scientists understand the origins of the universe. (AP Photo/Amber Hunt)

LEAD, S.D. (AP) ? Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.

It's hard to spot from the surface. Looking around the rustic town, there are far more nods to its mining past than to its scientific future, but on Wednesday, when part of the closed Homestake Gold Mine officially becomes an underground campus, Lead's name will be known in scientific circles as the place where the elusive stuff called dark matter might finally be detected.

Unimpressed? Consider this: It's sure to earn itself a reference on TV's "The Big Bang Theory."

"This year, 2012, is going to be a very significant year because we get to turn the ... detector on and know very soon whether we have actually found dark matter or not," said Rick Gaitskell, a scientist with Brown University who has worked alongside dozens of scientists over the past few years to move forward with the Large Underground Xenon experiment ? or LUX ? the world's most sensitive dark-matter detector.

For most people, dark matter is a term that made their eyes glaze over in science class. But for Gaitskell and scientists like him, it's the mystery meat of existence.

"It makes up a huge amount of the universe," said Kevin Lesko, of Lawrence Berkley National Lab, who is the principal investigator for the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Problem is, scientists can't see it.

"It has to be there because of its effects through gravity, but it also has to have properties that make it very unusual ? otherwise, we would have detected it already," Lesko said.

Regular matter ? people and planets, for example ? make up about 4 percent of the total mass-energy of the universe, he said. Dark matter makes up about 25 percent.

"So it's five times as much as us, and yet we've never directly observed it."

Scientists hope the lab buried 4,850 feet beneath the earth's surface will change that.

On Wednesday, Gov. Dennis Daugaard is to give tours of the underground lab for scientists, dignitaries and media. William Brinkman of the federal Department of Energy confirmed his plans to attend Tuesday, said Bill Harlan, spokesman for the research facility.

The unveiling has been a long time coming: The Homestead mine opened during the Black Hills' gold rush in 1876 and outlasted many counterparts. In the late 1990s, it still employed about 1,000 people, but as the value of gold dropped, it became clear that the mine's days were numbered. It shuttered for good in 2003.

The science community seized on the closure. Dark matter is too sensitive to detect in normal laboratories, but one so far underground would help shield it from pesky cosmic radiation. Also, the LUX detector is submerged in water, further insulating it.

Gaitskell said he's worked with 70 scientists and 14 institutions over the past four years to finally make the LUX experiment a reality.

That detector will be in the Davis Campus, named after Ray Davis, who won a Nobel Prize for Physics for an experiment he started in 1965 inside the then-working mine. Nearby in a new hall called the Transition Area will be the Majorana Demonstrator Experiment. That's aimed to search for a rare form of radioactive decay, which could help physicists understand how the universe evolved.

Experiments are set to begin this year, Harlan said. All told, the site has cost more than $300 million ? a mix of private donations and state and federal funding. Among the contributors: a $10 million Housing and Urban Development grant, $40 million from the South Dakota Legislature and $70 million from philanthropist T. Denny Sanford.

About 70 former mine workers now work for the lab. Greg King, a lifelong Lead resident, is one of them.

"The whole town was built up around the Homestake," King said. "As the property closed and people left, a lot of employees left. Now, there's a lot of excitement in town. People are very thrilled that the Homestake is once again, albeit not as a mine."

Liz Tiger, who owns a consignment store on Main Street, said the resurrection of the mine represents hope for Lead, a town of about 3,100 residents about a half-hour from the Wyoming border. Three generations of Tiger's family worked for the mining company.

"The economy up here really died after Homestake shut down," she said. "It was absolutely devastating."

Had it not been for Deadwood, Lead's higher-profile neighbor that draws about 2 million tourists a year, the town might have gone under, she said.

"I was raised through Homestake. I was very sad when it was shut down. (The mine) definitely needed to be used for something."

Associated Press

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

In Alabama, strict immigration law sows discord

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama tomato farmer Darryl Copeland looked out over his seedlings and fretted about this year's harvest.

He was afraid his seasonal migrant workforce might not return for the summer picking season, opting to stay away rather than risk running afoul of Alabama's stringent immigration law. The crew he awaits is picking the Florida harvest.

"I had to cut back my planting not knowing if the labor is going to be available," said Copeland, 47, who planted just two-thirds of his 30 acres on the far side of Straight Mountain in northeastern Blount County.

"I don't know what we're going to do if they run every illegal out of here. It's going to be hard to stay in business."

Fellow Blount County tomato farmer Tim Battles planted just 12 of his 25 acres because of uncertainties engendered by the law.

"I've got $160,000, $170,000 in my crop," he said. "Let's say (immigration enforcement officers) come in July and haul everyone off. I lose it all. What they're doing down in Montgomery (the state capital) is governing us out of a job."

Modeled after Arizona's controversial 2010 immigration law, Alabama's statute and others also passed last year - in Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah - require state and local law enforcement officers to verify the immigration status of those they suspect of being in the country illegally.

Now, Alabama is finding out whether it can live without undocumented immigrants, estimated to number 120,000 in 2010, who flocked to this southern state only in recent decades. They've been working in border states for several generations.

More states are considering their own laws but first want to see how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on provisions of the Arizona law, a judgment expected before the end of June. Based on questions posed by justices during oral arguments heard on April 25, some analysts expect the Roberts court to uphold much of the Arizona law, potentially inviting other states to follow.

A federal appeals court has said it will await the Supreme Court's Arizona ruling before deciding whether to strike down any aspects of the Alabama law, also known as House Bill 56.

Alabama's law requires state officials to be more vigilant about suspected illegal immigrants, denying them public services. Approved last June by the Republican-held legislature and signed by Republican Governor Robert Bentley, the law took effect in September, though sections were put on hold by the federal courts.

"Without question, Alabama's H.B. 56 is the most comprehensive anti-illegal immigration state law ever drafted," said Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and intellectual author of both the Arizona and Alabama laws, who has consulted with 10 other states on immigration legislation. "It includes just about everything a state can do to discourage illegal immigration."

Kobach, an informal adviser to presumed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, is a proponent of "self-deportation," creating conditions so unwelcome that undocumented immigrants leave voluntarily.

By that measure the Alabama law has succeeded, driving tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from the state, according to data gleaned from labor surveys and supported anecdotally by employers, politicians and immigrants themselves.

At the same time, employers have so far escaped sanctions. One section assigns escalating penalties for employers caught hiring undocumented workers, ranging from a three-year probation for the offending company to a permanent suspension of all business licenses in the state. Officials report virtually no instances where such sanctions have been enforced.

"This law is scapegoating the vulnerable population. Cracking down on those people is a lot easier than going after businesses," said Mary Bauer, legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. "I don't see how we can see it as anything other than a civil rights crisis."

WHAT AFFECTED WORKERS SAY

At Gordo's Market in a Birmingham strip mall, Mexican day laborers tell of compatriots who fled after the law was approved, either to another U.S. state or back to Mexico.

"Those with families left," said Abel Trevino, 30, from San Luis Potosi. "They were afraid they were going to get deported and split up."

Proponents of the law boast that with U.S. citizens and legal immigrants taking jobs vacated by illegal immigrants, Alabama's unemployment rate fell from 9.3 percent in June when the bill passed to 7.2 percent in April. That compares with national figures of 9.3 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively, with Alabama outperforming the national rate by a full percentage point or more in January, February and March.

Not everyone agrees the law has helped employment.

"The fall in the unemployment rate is merely because of the shrinking labor force and not because this law helped anything," said Samuel Addy, a University of Alabama economist. A cost-benefit analysis he published in January said the law could cost the state between $2.3 billion and $10.8 billion in annual gross domestic product, based on estimates that between 40,000 and 80,000 undocumented workers would flee.

"Most immigration researchers find a net (economic) benefit as a whole for the nation" when migrants are allowed to work, Addy said.

Each immigrant represents an additional consumer. Some experts, however, say illegal immigrants, just like low-earning U.S. citizens, are a net drain on public finances, largely from the cost of educating their children.

Immigration from Mexico has slowed since the U.S. economy fell into recession at the end of 2007. The estimated population of unauthorized Mexicans living in the United States dropped from 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center.

From 2005 to 2010, he said, as many Mexicans returned home as came to the United States.

"Part of what people are responding to in states like Alabama, Georgia and Arizona is the rapid growth of the undocumented population from the late '90s to 2007, but by the time the response occurred the phenomenon seems to have been over," Passel said.

HELP WANTED

Albertville, Alabama, is home to 25,000 people and half a dozen chicken-processing plants that drew undocumented immigrants to low-wage jobs. The plants run three shifts a day: two to process the chickens and one to clean up after the slaughter.

Once the law passed, illegal workers left the Alabama poultry industry, and U.S. citizens filled those jobs.

As one consequence, Albertville's sales tax revenue increased 9.3 percent from October to April, an increase Mayor Lindsey Lyons attributed to citizens taking those jobs and spending their money locally rather than sending it over the border.

Poultry processors, including Tyson Foods Inc, for the most part declined to discuss the impact of the Alabama law. Only Georgia-based Wayne Farms LLC talked publicly.

"We had to replace about 130 employees (of a 900-employee workforce) at our Albertville plant," said Wayne Farms spokesman Frank Singleton. "We can't say for sure that was because of the Alabama law, but the inference certainly was there that we can assume the people left because of their concern about the law. It definitely had a chilling effect on the migrant community."

To attract the new employees, Wayne Farms offered "a little above the prevailing minimum wage" of $7.25 an hour, Singleton said.

"When Wayne Farms had a job fair not long after the bill was signed, there were 250 people standing in line," Lyons said. "The poultry industry has hired a lot more whites and blacks that are glad to have the work."

RESPONDING TO CRITICS

Some, citing Alabama's racist past, see in the Alabama law evidence of bigotry, an argument Governor Robert Bentley rejected.

"As Christians, we are taught to obey the law. There is nothing unkind or unjust about asking people to obey the law," Bentley said in an email to Reuters.

"What took place in the civil rights era was a series of unlawful actions against lawful residents. It was a shameful chapter in our state's history. The immigration issue of today is entirely different. The government is not persecuting people."

Bentley supported removing a section of the law that has been temporarily blocked by the courts: one requiring schools to determine whether students and their parents are legal residents.

Lawmakers led by the main sponsor of H.B. 56, state Senator Scott Beason, voted on May 18 to preserve that provision and added one requiring law enforcement to publish online the photographs and any criminal charges against undocumented immigrants brought to court.

Fifty-four percent of Alabama voters approved of the law compared with 35 percent opposed, according to a February poll by Anzalone Liszt Research.

"We're not talking about a hard-hearted policy," Beason told Reuters in his legislative office in Montgomery. "It's a trespassing issue. Federal law, properly enforced, would be sufficient. If we close the border and enforce the law, states wouldn't have to pass these kinds of laws. It's an issue nationally, and Alabama just had the courage to deal with it."

Farmers simply shake their heads.

Jerry Spencer is founder and chief executive of Grow Alabama, a farm advocacy group that also runs a for-profit business helping farmers market their crops. When farmers complained the law left them short of labor, he spent $3,000 of his own money, he said, on a 30-day experiment to take unemployed workers from Birmingham to tomato farms an hour away.

"It was pretty disastrous. The people that we took were not prepared for the level of arduous work involved. And the farmers were not prepared to teach them what to do," Spencer said.

In a state where one in five jobs is supported by agriculture, other farming advocates seek greater access to seasonal workers on temporary visas, saying the current system is too costly for all but the largest farms, requiring the employer to provide transportation and housing.

"Over the last two generations (of Americans), we just don't have anybody that can do that work, that backbreaking work," said Brett Hall, Alabama's deputy agriculture commissioner.

NOT JUST FARM LABOR

Building contractors, among others who have long depended on undocumented workers, complain the law has also had the effect of driving out legal employees. Families and work crews tend to stick together, so if one or two lack papers, the entire group leaves together.

"My counterparts around the country are saying, ?thanks for sending workers our way,'" said Henry Hagood, chief executive of AGC Alabama, an association of contractors.

"The Republicans took over the Senate and the House, our so-called friends," Hagood said. "From a business point of view, it's a terrible piece of legislation. It's just mean-spirited."

Across Alabama's border to the west, Mississippi considered its own immigration law. The bill passed the state House this spring but died in a Senate committee.

"We saw what was happening in Alabama," said Mississippi state Representative Preston Sullivan, chairman of the state Agriculture Committee, "and we didn't want that happening here."

(Editing by David Adams and Prudence Crowther)

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? Neurology ? ? Tobacco & Marijuana ? May 29, 2012

The advocates of proposition 19, the bill that tried to legalize cannabis in California, must be turning cartwheels at the news coming out of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. It?s especially ironic coming just a few weeks after the Federal raid and almost complete shutdown of Oaksterdam University, the privately run school in Oakland, California that teaches students how to grow and harvest the much derided herb.

A clinic trial of 30 adult patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis appears to have demonstrated its ability to reduce spasticity and pain, when compared to a placebo.

Multiple Sclerosis is a degenerative disease that affects the lining of the nerve fibers and reduces their ability to transmit properly, a little like an electrical cable with worn insulation. It can also cause ulceration on the brain. Like Parkinson?s and Alzheimer?s it?s a slow and degenerative disease, without a cure, thus the best hope for doctors is finding treatments that reduce symptoms and slow the progression.

The findings of principal investigator Jody Corey-Bloom, MD, PhD, professor of neurosciences and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at UC San Diego, and her colleagues will be published in Canadian Medical Association Journal this month.

In short, the trial was conducted by dividing the group in two parts, one half smoked placebo cannabis for three days, while the remaining half had the real thing. The scientists then swapped over the supply so the placebo group smoked the real thing and visa versa. The researchers didn?t mention whether or not anyone cheating by scoring their own supplies on top.

Cannabis truly helps multiple sclerosis sufferers

Cannabis may loosen the stiff and spastic muscles of multiple sclerosis sufferers, and not just their minds, a follow-up study has found.

The results contradict findings from the first phase of the study, where improvements seemed to be largely due to ?good moods?.

?There does seem to be evidence of some benefit from cannabis in the longer term that we didn?t anticipate in the short term study,? says John Zajicek, at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, UK, and one of the research team.

In 2003, Zajicek and his colleagues published results on the largest study to date of cannabinoids and MS. The trial included 630 advanced-stage MS patients who took either cannabinoid compounds or a placebo for 15 weeks.

Compared with those on placebos, patients who received active compounds said they both felt less pain and less muscle spasticity - the spasms characteristic of this neurodegenerative disease.

There have been previous studies that looked into the possibility of treating neurological conditions with cannabis, but they mainly focused on oral treatments, presumably because smoking was considered unhealthy. However, with a recent report showing that cannabis smokers are not affected nearly as badly as tobacco smokers, which has been attributed to its anti inflammatory properties, and taking into account that most people enjoy smoking cannabis far more than they do eating it, this new study makes more sense. There were also reports amongst the pot smoking community that cannabis was seen to relieve symptoms.

Researchers used what is known as the Ashford scale to better assess the intensity of muscle tone by grading resistance in range of motion and rigidity. The secondary study of pain levels was measured using a visual analogue scale. Physical performance was assessed by sending the patients on a timed walk, and they were also questioned about their ?highness? to assess cognitive function.

Corey-Bloom said :

?We found that smoked cannabis was superior to placebo in reducing symptoms and pain in patients with treatment-resistant spasticity, or excessive muscle contractions.?

Although cannabis is generally well tolerated, researchers noted the need for more wide ranging studies over longer time periods. They also commented on the reduced cognitive function on concentration and attention span, and postulate the idea of using lower doses to assess if the same medical results can be achieved with less side effects.

CANNABIS AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
An estimated 350,000 people in the United States are living with multiple sclerosis (MS), a debilitating and sometimes fatal disorder of the central nervous system. MS is the most common debilitating neurological disease of young people, often appearing between the ages of 20 and 40, affecting more women than men. Current treatment of MS is primarily symptomatic, focusing on such problems as spasticity, pain, fatigue, bladder problems and depression.

MS is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that manifests due to the immune system attacking the myelin of neurons and dendrites. As the disease progresses, normal neurotransmission is inhibited and such additional symptoms develop as: pain, spasms, spasticity, limb tremor, fatigue, and incontinence. All of the disease symptoms have a large negative impact on the quality of life of MS patients. MS most frequently presents at onset as a relapsing and remitting disorder, where symptoms come and go.

MS exacerbations appear to be caused by abnormal immune activity that causes inflammation and the destruction of myelin (the protective covering of nerve fibers) in the brain or spinal cord. After repeated attack from the immune system, nerves lose plasticity, which creates stress in nerve tissue.

This stress leaves nerve tissue vulnerable to progressive damage and death.

Although symptom-specific treatments exist, these are often associated with adverse side effects.

This has prompted many people who suffer from MS to seek alternative therapies. Cannabinoids, the active ingredients in cannabis, have demonstrated the ability to control aspects of MS disease progression.

Anecdotal reports on the self medication of cannabis to treat MS are supported by recent advances in the understanding of the biology of cannabis and the cannabinoid receptors.

Controlled studies have found that cannabis and cannabinoids can control such symptoms as pain, spasms, spasticity, and incontinence.?

The leading effects of prolonged neurodegeneration in MS cause permanent disabilities. This neurodenergation has yet to be effectively treated.

Initial neurodegeneration occurs with inflammation, cannabis and cannabinoids have been shown to have neuroprotective effects during immune attacks on the CNS.

This is the fifth cannabis study in a row from University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research to show positive results in treating neuropathic pain. We can only hope that the Feds are not planning to raid the facility for promoting an illegal drug, as they did in Oakland.

Igor Grant, MD, director of the CMCR, which provided funding for the study concluded:

?The study by Corey Bloom and her colleagues adds to a growing body of evidence that cannabis has therapeutic value for selected indications, and may be an adjunct or alternative for patients whose spasticity or pain is not optimally managed.?

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When Zachary Tomaselli was sent to prison for sex crimes last month, he asked the judge to delay his sentence for a week.

The Lewiston man said he needed those seven days to wean himself off methadone, the drug he had been getting at a clinic to help him kick a prescription drug habit.

Thousands of addicts living ?on the outside? visit Maine?s for-profit clinics for weeks, months and even years for their prescribed methadone doses. A large majority of those addicts are MaineCare clients, paying for methadone treatments with taxpayer dollars.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine spends about $9 million in state and federal funds every year to dose just over 3,100 MaineCare and Medicare clients every day. The state spends another $7 million a year to transport clients to methadone clinics.

That?s $5,140 per MaineCare patient per year.

Under the recently passed state budget, MaineCare clients are subject to a 24-month lifetime cap for methadone treatment. That cap is expected to save Maine more than $1.3 million a year.

According to Susan Sullivan, director of CAP Quality Care Clinic in Westbrook, patients there ?are anxious and afraid of losing their treatment. Some are looking to be proactive and starting to taper themselves out because they don?t know what?s going to happen.?

If Tomaselli believed he could lick his drug habit in just a week, why wouldn?t ? or shouldn?t ? every drug addict do the same?

The answer, according to experts, is as complex as the subject of drug addiction itself.

Withdrawal is harsh reality

The good news for Tomaselli, experts say, is that he likely wasn?t in any danger of serious health risks had he decided to go cold turkey before trading his street clothes for jail garb.

The bad news ? depending on how long he had been treated with methadone and at what dosage ? is that his withdrawal might have been more grueling than his looming 3?-year prison sentence.

Dr. Michael E. Kelley, chief of psychiatry at St. Mary?s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston, said the effects of withdrawal from methadone are unique.

Because the medication is used as a maintenance narcotic for clients limited to a single dose each day, the drug typically stays in the body longer than other narcotics, he said.

?It is incredibly long-lasting,? he said.

That means withdrawal from that drug can linger for a week or longer. Sometimes up to a month.

Although not physically dangerous in an otherwise healthy adult, withdrawal can make you feel like you?re dying, Kelley said in an interview at the hospital, where he works as an addiction specialist, treating people with chemical dependency in residential and day programs.

?They can have a very miserable withdrawal,? he said.

It often includes severe flulike symptoms, including vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, chills and muscle cramps.

?But you won?t die,? Kelley said. The only possible medical risk is dehydration, he said.

The greater risk for narcotic addicts is relapse, experts say.

?Jail isn?t a hospital?

While withdrawal from narcotics, including methadone, is usually safe, withdrawal from certain other drugs and alcohol can be dangerous, even fatal, according to medical experts.

Withdrawal from alcohol, benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) and barbiturates can be ?very dangerous,? Kelley said.

Stopping those drugs too quickly can sometimes trigger seizures, heart arrhythmias and delirium tremens (in alcoholics), he said. The latter can be dangerous because those patients become disoriented and may inadvertently harm themselves.

Jails sometimes bring prisoners into the emergency room if they?re suspected of alcoholism or addiction to tranquilizers and show signs of withdrawal, Kelley said.

While the jail might let someone addicted to narcotics ?tough it out,? they won?t take a chance on the other addictive populations, Kelley said.

?The jail?s not going to risk that,? he said. ?The jail isn?t a hospital.?

When inmates come to St. Mary?s emergency department for medical clearance, hospital staff screens patients for drugs and toxic substances, checking their general health.

Doctors quiz the patients about drug use.

?Hopefully, they?ll be honest.? he said. But, too often they?re not. They fear their candor might get back to their probation officers. Although emergency room chats with doctors are confidential, inmates are on their guard generally and may not confide in the medical staff.

?Sometimes they lie to us,? Kelley said, ?which is part of the scary thing.?

Doctors typically watch inmates suspected of drug or alcohol abuse for 12-16 hours, he said, but added, ?There is no magic [time] line.? And there is no predicting a patient?s tolerance based on his or her history of drug or alcohol use.

No methadone for prisoners

At Maine?s correctional facilities, including its prisons, the state contracts its medical services with Corizon, a national company based in Tennessee. Three county jails in Maine, including Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, also have contracts with Corizon.

The company has 150 health care professionals working at the state facilities. An additional 65 workers staff the three jails, according to Pat Nolan, a company spokesman.

Corizon would provide only written answers to questions posed by the Sun Journal for this story.

While it declined to detail how chemically dependent inmates are treated during intake at Maine?s prisons and jails, the company said it uses ?standard, humane and medically approved detox protocols for these addictions.?

Inmates who attend methadone clinics prior to incarceration are not dispensed methadone at any of the correctional facilities where Corizon is under contract. Pregnant inmates using methadone are treated by an off-site OB-GYN doctor licensed in prescribing Buprenorphine, a semisynthetic opioid used to treat opiate-based drug addiction. After delivery, those inmates follow the standard detox protocols, Nolan said.

If an inmate were to come to jail or prison with a current prescription for Oxycontin or oxycodone, those drugs wouldn?t be dispensed, except in ?very rare? cases, the company said.

Inmates with a medical marijuana certificate won?t be dispensed that drug at Maine?s prisons and jails, either, but substitutions could be considered on a case-by-case basis, the company said.

In all, roughly 90 percent of the inmates who enter Maine?s prisons and other correctional facilities have a history of addiction to one or more drugs (including narcotics, benzodiazepines or barbiturates) or alcohol.

Relapse rate is high

So, why don?t all methadone addicts spend a week weaning themselves from the drug like Tomaselli?

Some may try. But most will need more time. And a small percentage likely will need to stay on methadone until they die, experts say.

Sullivan, the director at CAP, where opioid addicts are treated with methadone, said the first goal is to stabilize clients on a suitable dose of medication.

Opioid addiction is a brain disease, she said, best treated with medication and psychosocial support. Clients who come to her clinic get both.

Like any addiction, ?It?s a progressive disease,? she said. ?The longer you use, the worse it gets and the more you use ? so that treatment is based on the individual.?

Studies have found that patients with this chronic disease undergo a change in brain chemistry in which they are lacking free endorphins which, for many, means they likely will need medication throughout their lifetimes, she said.

The long-term goal of treatment is to improve a client?s ability to function at home, at a job and in the world.

Studies show it works.

Typically, relapse rates are 70-90 percent among those who leave methadone maintenance treatment, she said, even among those who taper to zero.

An alternative for opioid addicts to being on a maintenance program at a methadone clinic may be to seek street drugs, which can expose addicts to hepatitis C and HIV through shared and dirty needles, blood clots and possible overdose, among other health risks.

Some may try prescription shopping, a ploy medical professionals are increasingly more aware of and on which federal and state drug agencies have cracked down.

A patient on Sullivan?s caseload was in methadone treatment before he tapered his dosage to zero and left, she said.

?Within a year, he relapsed,? she said. ?And then he came to this clinic and he?s been here about 9? years and he?s tapering out, decreasing his medication so he can leave. To zero eventually. That?s his desire.?

By taking a gradual approach, that client is more likely to succeed, she said.

She said patients and staff at CAP are anxious about the new 24-month MaineCare cap. Under the new DHHS rule, that cap can be exceeded with prior MaineCare authorization.

However, Sullivan said, ?We?re waiting for the criteria for prior authorization. We have no idea what that?s going to be.? Once that process is established, ?that will probably be the determinant on who loses treatment,? she said.

In the 10 years her clinic has been open, Sullivan said the number of clients has averaged about 550 at any given time.

?We?ve had over 3,000 patients come and go,? she said. ?And some stay.?

The MaineCare cap will have an adverse effect on methadone clinics across the state, Sullivan said. Nearly 70 percent of all clients are on MaineCare. And, under the MaineCare reimbursement cap, that patient load is likely to decrease if MaineCare-capped patients can?t pay out-of-pocket.

Fewer than 200 methadone patients pay for treatments with private insurance, which leaves about 1,000 patients without MaineCare or private insurance paying for their own treatments.

Although her clinic exists to treat addiction to narcotics, some people who became addicted started with a doctor?s prescription for pain, she said.

Pain and narcotic addiction ?are not necessarily mutually exclusive,? she said.

?Even addicts get real pain,? St. Mary?s Dr. Kelley said. Those are the ones who are likely to stay on methadone or Suboxone (a partial narcotic, offered by St. Mary?s instead of methadone) the rest of their lives, he said.

The other group that would have to stay on clinical treatment includes those who are so addicted they likely would harm themselves otherwise through risky drug behavior. No rehab program, however proven and long-term, is going to work for them.

?There?s just that once-in-a-while person that everything?s failed, no matter what,? he said.

But studies he?s seen show that opioid addicts who attend methadone clinics are less likely to contract HIV or hepatitis C and less likely to be charged with crimes. They work more days and achieve higher levels of education.

?So it does reduce the harm, not only to them, but to society, in many ways [to maintain methadone treatments],? he said.

St. Mary?s approach to addiction is that 99.9 percent of addicts can be weaned off and can stay off drugs and alcohol ? ?all chemicals,? Kelley said.

?And that requires a hell of a lot more than just taking a pill,? he said. ?It requires learning about yourself, doing what we call the recovery work ? learning why I use, how I can cope with life without drugs.?

Addicts who have been using drugs to cope with life will have to relearn how to cope without them. ?That?s how they dealt with every single emotion,? he said.

And some addicts who have been abusing drugs since their early teens will have to learn those coping skills for the first time.

?How many coping skills do you have at 13 years old?? Kelley said. ?Once you start using drugs for everything, you don?t learn new coping skills because you don?t need to. You?ve got a coping skill. It?s right there in your pocket. And so, some of these people are starting from scratch.?

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Dengue Fever, Omar Souleyman at Union Transfer on 06/05/2012 08:30 PM EDT

Dengue Fever

Dengue Fever

L.A.'s Dengue Fever has perhaps the strangest cultural cross-pollination of any band in recent memory. They are left-field enough for a group of white musicians to cover psychedelic rock oldies from Cambodia, but finding a bona fide Cambodian pop star to front the band is the kind of providence that could only touch a select few places on Earth. Dengue Fever's roots can be traced to organist Ethan Holtzman's 1997 trip to Cambodia where he was introduced to the sound of '60s-era Cambodian rock. The standard sound bore a strong resemblance to Nuggets-style garage rock and psychedelia, heavy on the organ and fuzztone guitar, and with the danceable beat of classic rock & roll. It also bore the unmistakable stamp of Bollywood film musicals, and often employed the heavily reverbed guitar lines of surf and spy-soundtrack music.

Omar Souleyman

Omar Souleyman

Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994, he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than five-hundred studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. Born in rural northeastern Syria, he began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators that remain with him today. The myriad musical traditions of the region are evident in their music. Here, classical Arabic mawal-style vocalization gives way to high-octane Syrian dabke (the regional folkloric dance and party music), Iraqi choubi and a host of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish styles, among others. This amalgamation is truly the sound of Syria. The music often has an overdriven sound consisting of phase-shifted Arabic keyboard solos and frantic rhythms. At breakneck speeds, these shrill Syrian electronics play out like forbidden Morse-code, but the moods swing from coarse and urgent to dirgy and contemplative in the rugged anthems that comprise Souleyman's repertoire. Oud, reeds, baglama saz, accompanying vocals and percussion fill out the sound from track to track. Mahmoud Harbi is a long-time collaborator and the man responsible for much of the poetry sung by Souleyman. Together, they commonly perform the "Ataba," a traditional form of folk poetry used in Dabke. On stage, Harbi chain smokes cigarettes while standing shoulder to shoulder with Souleyman, periodically leaning over to whisper the material into his ear. Acting as a conduit, Souleyman struts into the audience with urgency, vocalizing the prose in song before returning for the next verse. Souleyman's first hit in Syria was "Jani" (1996) which gained cassette-kiosk infamy and brought him recognition throughout the country. Watching Omar live, offers a rare glimpse into Syrian street-level folk-pop and Dabke - a phenomena seldom heard in the West, not previously deemed serious enough for export by the Syrians and rarely, if ever, included on the import agenda of worldwide academic musical committees.

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5 DIY Projects to Increase Sales Value by More Than $10000






5 DIY Projects to Increase Sales Value by More Than $10,000


?It?doesn't?have to cost a fortune to improve a home and make it more sellable, according to HomeGain?s 2012 National Home Improvement Survey.

HomeGain surveyed nearly 500 real estate professionals nationwide to determine the top do-it-yourself home improvement projects that offers some of the biggest bang for your buck when selling a home.

?In a buyer?s market, sellers need to dress their homes for success before putting them on the market,? says Louis Cammarosano, HomeGain?s general manager. The survey shows ?that do-it-yourself home improvements like cleaning and de-cluttering and lightening and brightening your home are cost-effective ways of increasing your chances of selling faster and closing closer to the asking price than homes rushed to the market with no improvements.?

Here are the top five projects that real estate professional recommend to their clients?projects that have the potential to offer some of the highest returns on investment at resale, according to the 2012 HomeGain survey:





1. Clean and declutter

What to do: ?Removing personal items; wash and clean all areas of inside and outside of house; freshen air; remove ALL clutter from furniture, counters, and all areas of the home; organize closets; polish woodwork and mirrors.?

Estimated cost: $402

Potential ROI: 403% or $2,024 to the home?s sale price

2. Lighten and brighten

What to do: ?Open windows; clean windows and skylights inside and outside; replace old curtains or removing curtains; remove other obstacles from windows blocking light; repair lighting fixtures; make sure window open easily.?

Estimated cost: $424

Potential ROI: 299% or $1,690

3. Repair electrical and plumbing

What to do: ?Update leaky or old faucet spouts and handles; repair leaks under bathroom or kitchen sinks; laundry room pipes; toilets should be in good working condition; remove mildew stains.

?Update electrical with new wiring for modern appliances and/or Internet and other audio/visual equipment requested in homes today; door bell should work; service sprinkler systems; fix lights and outlets that do not turn on; replace old plug points with new safety fixtures.?

Estimated cost: $808

Potential ROI: 293% or $3,175

4. Landscaping

What to do: ?Front and back yards; add bark mulch; rake and remove leaves, branches and debris; plant bushes and flowers; add planters and hanging plants; mow grass; water lawn and plants; remove weeds and dead plants; manicure existing plants; any yardwork that improves the curb appeal of a home.?

Estimated cost: $564

ROI: 215% or $1,777

5. Staging

What to do: ?Add fresh flowers; removing personal items; reduce clutter; rearrange furniture; add new props or furniture to enhance room/s; play soft music; hang artwork in walls.?

Estimated cost: $724

ROI: 196% or $2,145

However, the survey finds that the home improvement projects that offer the highest potential price increase to a home?s resale value continues to be updating the kitchen and bathroom. Home sellers could potentially see a $3,255 price increase to their home at resale by tackling kitchen and bathroom projects, according to the HomeGain survey. But those projects aren?t usually cheap to do.

Gary Tippner is Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource Certified.

Call 1-877-311-GARY

"Eight Seven Seven Three Eleven... Gary"

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

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How Some Types of Roof Materials can Change How Toronto Houses











Exceeding other architectural elements, the roofing can specify the figure of your property, such as how long it will endure and how critically it is being taken care of. The architectural style may give its form, but the roofing will still literally control the exterior structure-it being the topmost and the most apparent portion from a range. Roofs provide protection and design to your home.

Being llocated on top, nevertheless, can have its pluses and minuses. Since it shields the top section of a structure, it functions as a defense from the weather, but its inaccessibility causes it to be least visited or maintained. The second is a result of its presence, or non-visibility, although it is certainly among the most important parts of the house.

The importance of the roof construction could not be overemphasized-any damage to it will definitely impact the whole home. Therefore, its right servicing should be among leading issues of a homeowner. Given that roofs are often difficult to access without the need for a long step ladder, the owner must take added works during roofing examination and servicing.

In Canada, particularly in developed cities like Toronto, there are several styles of houses. While the prevailing climates decide on the sort of roofing materials used in the town, the architecture usually takes precedence as the basis of selection. A southern colonial house would look awful with cedar shakes roofing, although metal roofs may not be suitable for a old-time design house.

Probably the most common roofing material in Toronto is the asphalt shingles, which also appear in some residences across the country. They are not only relatively less expensive, asphalt shingles can also adapt to almost any kind of home buildings and are simple to install. This is one cause nearly all households decide on this material for assembly by roofing contractors in Toronto.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

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testimo side yvette Corona Health ClubsThe health and fitness club industry was rated as one of the top five businesses that business persons should buy in this time of recession. There are actually seven of ten people who purchase Corona Health Clubs who feel that they are over paid for this business. Corona Health Clubs provide predictable revenue, attractive lifestyle and fantastic services.

The Corona Health Clubs industry is really a great business. And it is a fact that even in times of recession; Corona Health Clubs facilities that are run well by their operators are able to increase their profit. Buying Corona Health Clubs is really a good idea for those business persons who know well the risks and rewards involved in owning one. Even if you will buy distressed Corona Health Clubs, it can still be a lucrative option if you are prepared enough for the turnaround. So, with Corona Health Clubs, there are no bad moves as long as you know what you are doing. However, you should also strive to keep your Corona Health Clubs business in good shape too. There are no other ways to make this possible except by having quality and satisfied employees.

Just like with any other businesses, Corona Health Clubs will not strive if you don?t have quality employees. In Corona Health Clubs, just like in any health clubs, customer service is the biggest reason why your customers will either stay with you or go. Basically, if you don?t have enough staff in your Corona Health Clubs who have the right skills, then it will be difficult for your Corona Health Clubs business to attract customers and even retain its current customers. That is the very reason why it is crucial for you to know the right way of managing and retaining good fitness employees for your Corona Health Clubs.

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Salinas boxing coach arrested, accused of inappropriately touching girl, 14

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Lujan Sr.

A veteran amateur boxing coach from Salinas was in Monterey County Jail on Friday after a 14-year-old female boxer told police he had touched her inappropriately on multiple occasions over the past few years.

Police said Daniel Lujan Sr., 66, was accused of rubbing a topical cream on her body, including her breasts and buttocks. The girl told police that Lujan also attempted to touch her vaginal area on numerous occasions, and that the coach had recently been expressing a desire to have a sexual relationship with her.

Lujan operates the Salinas Boxing Club in Closter Park, and previously was in charge of the Breadbox Boxing Gym. He is the father and former trainer of Danny Lujan Jr., who fought professionally from 1993-99, including world title bouts sanctioned by the World Boxing Federation and Universal Boxing Federation, both fringe organizations.

Detectives interviewed Lujan Sr. about the accusations Thursday, and he was arrested and charged with an undisclosed number of sexual assaults on a child.

Because Lujan has had access to children for many years, police asked anyone with information about other possible victims to call detective Byron Gansen at 758-7137 or the Investigation Division at 758-7226.

Rick Noble, trainer of four-time world champion Carina Moreno of Watsonville, said the topical cream, Abolene, is a makeup remover that promotes sweating by opening up the body's pores. It's used for accelerated weight loss.

"Boxers will rub it on

their loins, stomach, legs, small of the back, shoulders and arms," he said. "I've applied it to Carina's back, shoulders and arms, but always in a crowded gym with a whole bunch of people around.

"I know Danny. He's been around a long time. This is hard for me to believe."

In July 2006, Lujan was publicly accused of verbally abusing youth boxers during a heated public forum in front of a Salinas City Council subcommittee.

Max Garcia, now a pro trainer with Garcia Boxing, Rudy Puga, head coach of the Backyard Boxing Club, and former No. 1 pro contender Jose Celaya told the subcommittee that Lujan was emotionally, verbally and physically abusive to his boxers, and routinely banished youths and trainers from the publicly funded Breadbox Recreation Center out of personal vendettas.

"He was a time bomb waiting to explode," Garcia said Friday. "Something was going to happen sooner or later."

Garcia and Lujan both coached Celaya during his amateur days. Celaya split with Lujan and left the Breadbox gym, choosing Garcia as his professional trainer.

He told the city subcommittee that he left the Breadbox because of Lujan. "Kids there are being abused," he said. "That has to stop."

Puga and Garcia said they are familiar with the topical cream Lujan allegedly applied to his accuser's body and say there's no logical reason for a trainer to apply the cream to any part of a fighter.

Puga said he cautioned Lujan several years ago after watching him apply cream to the legs of a female boxer at the Breadbox gym.

The Breadbox Recreation Center was home to a boxing program on North Sanborn Road in East Salinas from 1991 until 2006, when it moved to its current location in Closter Park.

"The program has been there for 15 years," Lujan told The Herald when the program was being ousted from the Breadbox by the city in 2006. "It's not just about boxing. It's about turning boys to men, teaching respect and discipline and some basics, like reading, writing and even business."

Celaya, Lujan Jr., Jesus Rodriguez and Jesus and Beto Vega were among the prominent Salinas boxers who trained there under Lujan.

"I can only speak about Danny Lujan from the experiences I had with him 15 or 20 years ago, when I was booking Danny Jr. to fight on my shows, but my observation back then was that he seemed to be running a pretty decent program at the Breadbox. And I guess he probably saved a few kids by getting them off the street and into the gym," said Jerry Hoffman, a boxing promoter who staged two decades' worth of shows in Monterey and Santa Cruz.

Lujan has trained several female boxers at the gym over the years, most recently Jamie Mitchell of Pacific Grove, whom he took to the 2012 USA National Championships in March.

"I've probably known Danny for 14 or 15 years and I'm at a loss for words except to say that I'm completely shocked by this, and I just hope it's not true," said Brian Contreras, who has worked closely with Lujan as CEO of Second Chance Youth Program in Salinas. "If the allegations are true, then I truly feel bad for the victim, but there's obviously an investigation process that needs to take its course. An accusation like this, true or not, could ruin Danny, so it's important to wait and see what happens."

Dennis Taylor can be reached at 646-4344 or dtaylor@montereyherald.com.

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Cops: Ind. gunman who took, released hostages dies

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Dad Creates Fake Porn Site Profile for Principal Who Confiscated Son's iPod [WTFriday]

When an assistant principal confiscated his 13-year-old son's iPod, Robert Dale Esparza Jr. did what any responsible parent would: He started a fake profile under the principal's name on a hardcore porn site, and impersonated him via email. Yep! More »


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