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The Wild Myaka
Author's Note: This article appeared in Sarasota Magazine.
Usually when you paddle past an alligator, it watches you go by without blinking an eye. Not this 'gator. It slid from the bank and splashed into the water, sending a wake toward the canoe. Maybe it was ornery. A hunk was missing from its tail, recently torn out by another alligator.
This was on the Myakka River, some miles south of Myakka River State Park, on a warm, sunny spring day. A swallow-tailed kite had just sailed overhead.
Although the reptile's gaping white mouth was startling, this was not an attack. Likely, the alligator was just defending its territory with a display of aggression. Attacks are very rare.
"In the 20 years I have worked at Myakka River State Park, I have never had an alligator threaten me," says Paula Bischoff, a park naturalist and paddler.
However, the alligator's bluff did serve as a reminder (and humans need one from time to time) that the Myakka River is a wilderness. Sarasota resident Joy Scott realized that when Dick Pfaff, a kayak guide and instructor at Economy Tackle of Sarasota, took her onto Little Myakka Lake and her kayak was surrounded by large alligators.
"I wasn't afraid," Joy says, "but I decided to count the 'gators on the way back to the SR-72 bridge put-in." Her total: 99.
While now it is possible to see such natural wonders of Myakka with a little effort and a kayak and paddle or a tank of gas, it was not always so.
Many millennia before humans occupied the earth, alligators that probably looked just as they do today glided through the Myakka River, which wound through a violent land of saber-tooth tigers, weird-looking sloths, giant armadillos, and camels.
The Myakka River remained exotic and mysterious even to the early settlers. More than 300 years after the Spanish arrived, Myakka was still an unexplored foreign land for much of its length. The name "Mykka" may have first appeared on a map prepared by a Spanish spy, Juan Jose Eligio de la Puente, while the English held Colonial Florida. No one is quite sure what the name means. It has been spelled "Miaco," "Mayaco," "Mayaca" and "Miaakka." The best guess is in the book "Florida Place Names" (Pineapple Press, 1995) where the author says its origin could be Choctaw, the language of an American Indian tribe, meaning "It is so."
In the late 1800s and around the turn of the century, Myakka belonged largely to cattle-perhaps 1,000 head to a single cowboy settler. The vast range was unfenced, with some cattle branded and others identified by notches cut into their ears. The notches were registered with the Florida court as proof of ownership.
Only in the last century did the incessant activity of humans begin to change the wild lands bordering the Myakka. In some places, human development and cattle pastures have stripped the earth of native vegetation. Growing numbers of people now live along the Myakka in various subdivisions, and the river's delicate ecosystems feels their presence in a host of ways, from storm-water runoff that deposits chemicals from lawns into the river to the interruption of natural wildlife corridors by buildings and other human structures. Surrounding industries also have an effect. Some, such as tomato farming, use methods that interfere with percolation. And humans have diverted the river's historic flow-for example, severing waterways like Cow Pen Slough, now a canal, from the Myakka. Other manmade canals such as the Blackburn Canal, pull about 10 percent of the water off the Myakka and diminishes the river's flow.
Myakka River itself, however, is still wild. The river begins as a trickle from drainage streams above Myakka City, growing ever so slightly as it travels south. By Myakka City, those streams form a river, which flows south into Upper Myakka Lake, which it leaves as a stream again. Then it passes through Lower Myakka Lake. After that, a river once again, it twists and turns toward rustic Snook Haven, rolls through North Port, bends toward El Jobean and Charlotte Harbor. Near its terminus, mineral-rich water feeds into the river from Warm Mineral Springs, adding to the torrent that pours into the prolific estuary that is Charlotte Harbor.
Sometimes a trickle, sometimes a torrent, the Myakka flows for 60 miles. In the popular phrase, it flows 24/7, following the simplest of principles - water flows downhill. It can be so shallow a small child could skip across it. With heavy rains, it floods so broadly that even experienced kayak guides can become lost in the trees. Most of the time, the water level is somewhere in between.
If you lived beside the Myakka from 1963 to 1991, you would have thought the Myakka never floods. If you lived there from 1992 forward, you would think it floods all the time. Such variability is mostly just the result of the weather and how wet the ground is when the rain falls. It doesn't take a lot of water to flood the Myakka. The land is like a pancake with some dimples, bumps, and a few engineered cuts. When the pancake is soggy, just an inch or two of rain can cause flooding. When the land is saturated and lots of rain comes, as it did with Tropical Storm Gabrielle last fall, the flooding can be drastic.
"The face of the Myakka is always changing," says kayak guide Pfaff. "The seasons change, water levels rise and fall, so the environment is always in flux. No two days on the Myakka are ever the same."
Water is life, and the Myakka is good at life. Sandhill cranes flock to its banks to feed, mate, and rear their chicks. Large assemblies of wood storks graze on nearby flooded pasture land. Ferocious feral pigs root at the rich earth that surrounds much of the river. Tawny deer feed on abundant shrubs and grasses. Bobcats, coyotes, and foxes also roam along its shores. Signs of a bear have also been recently found in the Myakka area. The bear was probably a young male and may have been just passing through. It was the first sign of bear in the area since 1959. And from 1999 through May of 2001, prints that wildlife experts say were "consistent with a young male panther" were found near the Myakka. No one has actually sighted the elusive cat, which some speculate may be the offspring of free panthers or a captive-bred escapee. (Since this was written, the presence of panthers in the Myakka area has been confirmed.)
Myakka River State Park, one of Florida's largest and oldest parks, is home for much of this wildlife. Only minutes east of Sarasota and I-75 on SR-72, the 28,750-acre park provides perhaps the easiest access to the wild Myakka and the most complete recreational opportunities of any Florida state park.
The park is a busy place. Every day, fishermen line the banks. Visitors ride aboard the Gator Gal, a noisy airboat that tours the lake within the park. Canoeists paddle silently down the river while bicyclists cruise along shady roads. Miles of trails attract winter hikers. Horseback riders saddle up for tours. Up in the treetops, the intrepid explore the park from a new canopy walkway of swaying rope and wood planks. At night, campers, whether in the park's cozy log cabins or in sleeping bags under the stars, hear the rustle of foraging wild things. In the morning, flocks of birds greet the rising sun with a cacophony of calls before taking flight.
Adjoining and managed by the park is Myakka Prairie, a Southwest Florida Water Management District land. Taking a walk there is to be alone in a different kind of wilderness. The landscape, which is largely devoid of large trees- and humans -and dominated by low vegetation, recalls the vast prairies of the American West. Once the predominant ecosystem around the Myakka, the prairie is now being restored. In addition to the prairie and the river, the park includes flat lands dotted with pines, higher areas where hardwoods thrive, marsh and swamp. As the river approaches U.S. 41 and the Gulf of Mexico, twisted mangroves begin to line its shores.
High on the life list of many paddlers is a journey from the park to Snook Haven, a campground and restaurant about 15.5 miles from the S.R. 72 bridge. With sufficient water, this trip is fairly easy and can be completed in a day. In drought, it could be more strenuous, as paddlers struggle to evade fallen logs and push through vegetation jams. The trip provides close encounters with Myakka's turtles, wading birds, perhaps a deer or two, and lots of alligators. Surprisingly, some banks along this journey rise 15 to 20 feet tall.
Two Sarasota companies offer Myakka paddling tours and outfit journeys: Kayak Treks (941-365-3892) and Economy Tackle/Dolphin Dive (941-922-9671). Osprey Kayak Tours (941-966-7308) offers guided Myakka tours. Visitors to rustic Snook Haven can rent canoes and boats, including easy-to-steer and very stable pontoon boats (941-485-7221). Surrounded by primeval-looking waters and oak trees dripping Spanish moss, Snook Haven was selected as the site of a Tarzan movie, Revenge of the Killer Turtles, made there in the 1940s. One visit often leads to a Snook Haven addiction. Laid-back fishermen tell tall tales over a cold one. Banjo players pick their favorite tunes. Dulcimer players sometimes converge to pluck notes rarely heard in this day and age. Snook Haven's ever-present cats add more local color, as they accept little shreds of snook from diners who display proper humility. Snook Haven is usually a few feet above the Myakka. With high waters-as resulted from Tropical Storm Gabrielle's downpours last fall-the river can run through Snook Haven rather than by it.
Below Snook Haven lies Warm Mineral Springs, listed on the National Register of Historic Sites and claimed by many residents as Ponce de Leon's elusive Fountain of Youth. Warm Mineral Springs and nearby Little Salt Springs are the only warm springs in Florida, and both contribute to the Myakka. An average nine million gallons daily pours from Warm Mineral Springs into the Myakka River just before Port Charlotte. That's not a big spring compared to an average of 64 million gallons a day from one of Florida's 27 first-magnitude springs. But it's still a lot of water by any measure.
Warm Mineral Springs, which is thought by many to have healing properties, is contained within a private resort and health spa. The water's constant 87-degree temperature draws visitors from around the world, and families descending from their cars and vans to spend a few hours in these healing waters are as likely to speak French, German or Spanish as English. A tour guide boasts that "the mineral content of this water is five times higher than any other spring in the world." Enthusiasts claim bathing in Warm Mineral Springs helps with arthritis and rheumatism. Cancer patients believe it relieves the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. If so, Myakka is good at life in yet another way.
Can you drink the water? Yes, but do you really want to? Bottled water from the spring is sold at Warm Mineral Springs. However, it is said to be a powerful laxative, and two ounces are proclaimed as more than a healthy portion.
Little Salt Spring, Florida's other warm spring in Florida, is located two miles northeast of Warm Mineral Springs. Little Salt Spring flows into the Myakkahatchee, then into the Myakka. Its waters are a proverbial drop in the bucket.
Ancient ancestors of Native Americans lived around this other warm spring more than 10,000 years ago, and Little Salt Spring, which is an archeological research site, has preserved rich evidence of their presence. Long before the days of ancient Greece and Rome, Paleo-Indian hunters at Little Salt Springs lanced a giant land tortoise with a spear. The wounded tortoise crawled off into the spring only to have its carapace retrieved 100 centuries later by underwater archeologists, its shell still impaled. Remains of more than 200 ancient Americans, and more than 9,000 human bones, have also been brought out of Salt Spring by divers.
At last, the river emerges into Charlotte Harbor, a complex and rich estuary. The harbor lies between Port Charlotte to the north and Punta Gorda to the south, and the Myakka enters to the west of Port Charlotte. At this point, it looks like part of the ocean. What started as a trickle is now anywhere from half a mile to a mile wide, expanded by the enormous pull of the tides. But even as it disappears, the Myakka continues to be a source of life, as it joins its sister river, the Peace, in supplying the fresh water necessary to maintain the rich variety of plants and animals that thrive in a successful estuary.
The Myakka is not as long as Florida's other great rivers, the Suwannee or the St. Johns rivers. Nor does it have the thunderous rapids of the state's Aucilla or Northern Withlacoochee rivers, or the sheer flow of the most powerful Florida river, the Apalachicola. No one has yet designated it "wild and scenic" or even an official state canoe trail.
But it is marvelous, nonetheless. The Myakka is one living system, a long one, supporting a rich array of life and providing stunning visions of an earlier and untouched Florida right at the doorstep of rapidly growing Southwest Florida. And thanks to the vast acres of public lands along its banks, even today the Myakka River remains mysterious and gloriously wild.


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That's Nuts! Man Exposes Himself During 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked' Movie
A select group of Chicago movie goers were gifted with a special 'sneak pee-view', in the form of a grown man standing up and flashing his junk for all to see just 30 minutes into a screening of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.
Edward Brown, got the feeling to disrobe in front of 96 people – many of them little people, or children as they are referred to in the police report.
Is nothing sacred, Mr. Brown? This isn't the 4am showing of Tinker With Your Tailor Like a Soldier Spy. This is Alvin, Simon and Theodore, sir. The only nuts this audience wanted to see were those possibly gathered by adorable CGI chipmunks!
To Edward's credit he did have a reasonable defense, citing that he only stripped down because he was lead into the theater by an "unknown woman" who told him she'd soon return so they can do drugs and have sex.
Sounds logical doesn't it Alvin? Alvin? Aaaaaaaallllllvvvvvvviiiinnnnnnn!!!
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The Other Final Frontier
There's a strong bang-for-the-buck argument to be made for ocean-depth missions.
The United States has been out of the space shuttle business for a few months now, but the country is still seriously considering spending billions of dollars to send astronauts back to the moon, to Mars or to a nearby asteroid.
It's heartening that the pioneering spirit behind crewed missions into outer space has not been dampened by the nation's tide of red ink. But with price tags like $50 billion to return astronauts to the moon in the next decade, there's a strong bang-for-the-buck argument to be made for far less expensive missions headed in the other direction: down into the ocean depths, which remain largely unexplored and unseen by human eyes.
Read "The Other Final Frontier" in the NY Times…
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Kerala Beaches and Backwaters Tour
Duration: 09 Nights -10 Days
Destination Covered: Trivandrum - Kovalam - Thothapali - Kumarkom - Periyar - Munnar - Cochin
Tour Highlights | |
Trivandrum | Padmanabha Swami Temple, Shri Chitra Art Gallery & the Museum |
Kovalam | Beaches |
Thothapali | Houseboat |
Kumarakom | Backwaters & Bird Sanctuary |
Periyar | Wildlife Sanctuary& Boat Cruise Option Tour – Spice Plantation |
Munnar | Hill station |
Cochin | St. Francis' Church, Dutch Palace (Built by Portuguese), Jew Town, Jewish Synagogue, spice market, Chinese fishing nets & Kathakali Dance Show |
Detailed Itinerary
Day 01 : Arrive Trivandrum
Arrive Trivandrum by flight, after traditional 'Swagat' (Welcome) our representative would assist you at airport & transfer to hotel for check in.
Overnight Hotel - Kovalam.
Day 02 : Kovalam
Day at Leisure.
Overnight Hotel - Kovalam
Day 03 : Kovalam
Day at Leisure.
Overnight Hotel - Kovalam.
Day 04 : Kovalam - Thothapali (Overnight Houseboat)
Today we drive to Thothapali houseboat, locally called Kettuvallam, cruise around backwaters of Thothapali to Kumarakom to observe & experience the daily life of the villagers along the backwaters.
Overnight Houseboat (B, L, D)
Day 05 : Arrive Kumarakom
Morning after breakfast we disembark the houseboat in Kumarakom. It is a cluster of little islands, on the Vembanad Lake in Kerala. Kuttanad, the 'Wonder Land' believed to have been lying below the sea level, sprang out into the marshes when the sea receded later. The land of lakes, canals & paddy fields, Kumarakom transports you to sheer ecstasy. Holiday on the houseboats, traditional Kettuvallam, are an out-of-this-world experience. Furthermore Vembanad Lake is home to several types of marine life exclusively the Karimeen (Pearl Spotted Fish), Chemeen (Prawns) & Konju (Tiger Prawns).
Later we visit Kumarakom Bird sanctuary. There are two seasons for birds: between October & February there are cormorants, teals, & other ducks & from February to July there are darters (snake birds), night herons, egrets, & Siberian storks. It also has golden backed woodpecker, crow pheasant, white-breasted water hen, tree pie etc.
Overnight Hotel – Kumarakom (B)
Day 06 : Kumarakom - Periyar (135 kms - 4 hr)
Today we head for one of the finest wildlife sanctuaries in India, the Periyar Wildlife Reserve. Upon arrival at Periyar, we assist you to check in at our hotel. Set on an attractive lakeside, it is South India's most popular Wildlife Sanctuary. Late afternoon at 1500 hrs we shall take you to a guided Spice and palntation tour in one of the Spice Gardens / Plantations for which this region is famous.
Overnight Hotel - Periyar
Day 07 : Periyar - Munnar (160 kms - 4 hr)
Periyar is a place to cruise on the lake and gives an opportunity to see wildlife. It is home to tigers, leopards, elephants, bison (gaur), antelopes, sambhar, wild boar, money etc, and a wide variety of birds.
Early morning before breakfast at 0630 hrs we go for a wildlife viewing to the sanctuary on lake Periyar by boat cruise. After two hours of wildlife viewing we get back to the hotel for breakfast.
Later we drive to Munnar, arrive Munnar check into hotel.
Overnight Hotel - Munnar
Day 08 : Munnar
Munnar is one of the most popular hill stations in India, Munnar is situated at the confluence of three mountain streams - Mudrapuzha, Nallathanni and Kundala. Located at 1600 Mts. above sea level, this was once the summer resort of the erstwhile British Government in South India. Sprawling tea plantations, picture book towns, winding lanes, trekking and holiday facilities make Munnar a unique experience. Munnar is essentially a tea town.
Morning post breakfast we head for a half-day tour of Munnar, visiting the *world's highest tea estates spread like a green carpet over hundreds of kilometres, Lush green hills all around - a place to be seen to be believed, and Eravikulam National Park (Park is closed in the month of January and February), the best place to see the
Nilgiri Tahr (mountain goat). Rest of the day at leisure to explore the destination on your own.
Overnight Hotel - Munnar
Day 09 : Munnar - Cochin (150 kms - 4 hr)
Today we drive to Cochin always had a very popular and historical sea trade connection with Middle East, Mediterranean Europe, Dutch and British. It has one of the finest natural harbours on the Arabian coastline. Its cosmopolitan character is reflected in the buildings and structures representing different regions of the world. It is one of the few places in the world where one can see a Jewish synagogue, Portuguese churches, architecture, mosques, temples and Chinese fishing nets, all in one city. A city of peninsulas and islands, today it is Kerala's commercial hub.
Evening we see Kerala's most popular classical dance, Kathakali.
Overnight Hotel - Cochin
Day 10 : Cochin - Departure
Half day city tour
Today we leave for a half day city tour of Cochin, with visits to St. Francis' Church, Dutch Palace (Built by the Portuguese), Jew Town, the Jewish Synagogue built in the year 1568, spice market*, where the air is filled with the pungent smell of spices, and Chinese fishing nets.
Later transfer to airport to board flight for onward Journey.
Tour concludes. We thanks you for your patronage and ensures a punctual transfer to the Railway Station / Airport for your onward travel.
Package includes:
- 09 Nights accommodation on twin sharing basis.
- Breakfast as per the itinerary
- All meals in Houseboat.
- A/C transportation as per the itinerary (No transportation on leisure days).
- English speaking Guide for the Tour
- Kathakali dance show in Cochin.
- Boat safari in Periyar.
Package does not include:
- Any airfare or airport tax.
- All presently applicable taxes.
- Monument charges.
- Expenses of personal nature.
- Any other expense not mentioned in the Packages includes.


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Calculate a 1-D correlation along the given axis.
The lines of the array along the given axis are correlated with the given weights.
- Parameters:
- inputarray_like
The input array.
- weightsarray
1-D sequence of numbers.
- axisint, optional
The axis of input along which to calculate. Default is -1.
- outputarray or dtype, optional
The array in which to place the output, or the dtype of the returned array. By default an array of the same dtype as input will be created.
- mode{'reflect', 'constant', 'nearest', 'mirror', 'wrap'}, optional
The mode parameter determines how the input array is extended beyond its boundaries. Default is 'reflect'. Behavior for each valid value is as follows:
- 'reflect' (d c b a | a b c d | d c b a)
The input is extended by reflecting about the edge of the last pixel. This mode is also sometimes referred to as half-sample symmetric.
- 'constant' (k k k k | a b c d | k k k k)
The input is extended by filling all values beyond the edge with the same constant value, defined by the cval parameter.
- 'nearest' (a a a a | a b c d | d d d d)
The input is extended by replicating the last pixel.
- 'mirror' (d c b | a b c d | c b a)
The input is extended by reflecting about the center of the last pixel. This mode is also sometimes referred to as whole-sample symmetric.
- 'wrap' (a b c d | a b c d | a b c d)
The input is extended by wrapping around to the opposite edge.
For consistency with the interpolation functions, the following mode names can also be used:
- 'grid-mirror'
This is a synonym for 'reflect'.
- 'grid-constant'
This is a synonym for 'constant'.
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Waist circumference as a measure for indicating need for weight management
BMJ 1995; 311 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.311.6998.158 (Published 15 July 1995) Cite this as: BMJ 1995;311:158- M E J Lean, professor of human nutritiona,
- T S Han, studenta,
- C E Morrison, coprincipal investigator, Glasgow arm of MONICA projectb
- aDepartment of Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G31 2ER
- bDepartment of Public Health, University of Glasgow
- Correspondence and reprint requests to: Professor Lean.
- Accepted 1 May 1995
Objective: To test the hypothesis that a single measurement, waist circumference, might be used to identify people at health risk both from being overweight and from having a central fat distribution.
Design: A community derived random sample of men and women and a second, validation sample.
Setting: North Glasgow.
Subjects: 904 men and 1014 women (first sample); 86 men and 202 women (validation sample).
Main outcome measures: Waist circumference, body mass index, waist:hip ratio.
Results: Waist circumference >/=94 cm for men and >/=80 cm for women identified subjects with high body mass index (>/=25 kg/m2) and those with lower body mass index but high waist:hip ratio (>/=0.95 for men, >/=0.80 women) with a sensitivity of >96% and specificity >97.5%. Waist circumference >/=102 cm for men or >/=88 cm for women identified subjects with body mass index >/=30 and those with lower body mass index but high waist:hip ratio with a sensitivity of >96% and specificity >98%, with only about 2% of the sample being misclassified.
Conclusions: Waist circumference could be used in health promotion programmes to identify individuals who should seek and be offered weight management. Men with waist circumference >/=94 cm and women with waist circumference >/=80 cm should gain no further weight; men with waist circumference >/=102 cm and women with waist circumference >/=88 cm should reduce their weight.
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Body mass index is commonly used to identify those with a health risk from being overweight
This study shows that waist circumference may be a simpler measure for identifying need for weight management
Most men with waist circumference >/=102 cm and women with waist circumference >/=88 cm were appreciably overweight or had a high waist:hip ratio and should be urged to lose weight
Waist circumference 94-102 cm in men and 80-88 cm in women should be a warning to avoid weight gain
About half of all British adults have a body mass index (weight (kg)/(height (m)2)) of >25, while almost 15% have an index of >30, and these proportions are rising.1 2 Given the lack of success in the management of obesity and increasing associated health costs,3 4 greater emphasis on prevention is needed, particularly in young people, who often have little contact with health services. While many health professionals are now familiar with the acceptable range for body mass index (20-25),2 5 most members of the public cannot readily calculate their index to establish their own risk or need for weight management. Charts developed by the Health Education Authority are helpful but are still not understood by many.6 Height must be measured accurately as small errors in the denominator are exaggerated by squaring.
The major metabolic cardiovascular risk factors (high blood pressure, plasma lipids, insulin resistance) all aggregate independently with both body mass index and waist:hip ratio7 8 and improve with weight loss.9 10 11 12 13 The circumference of the waist relates closely to body mass index and is also the dominant measurement in the waist:hip ratio, which reflects the proportion of body fat located intra-abdominally, as opposed to subcutaneously,7 and waist circumference is the best indicator of changes in intra-abdominal fat during weight loss.14
We evaluated waist circumference as a simple predictor of health risk from being overweight and through the central distribution of fat to indicate levels at which individuals should take action.
Determination study
We randomly recruited 904 men and 1014 women, aged 25 to 74 years, from the general population of north Glasgow between January and August 1992, excluding only those who were chair bound.
Validation study
We recruited separately 86 men and 202 women by advertising locally to test the proposed "action levels" (levels at which individuals may be at risk from being overweight) derived in the determination study.
All measurements were made by trained observers with standard techniques15: weight by digital scales (Seca, Germany) to within 100 g, without heavy clothing; height barefoot by portable stadiometer (Holtain, Crymych, United Kingdom) to within 0.5 cm; circumferences to within 1 mm with plastic tapes calibrated weekly, with waist mid-way between the lowest rib and the iliac crest with the subject standing at the end of gentle expiration, and hips at the greater trochanters. We used the same methods to determine and validate studies by different researchers.
Combination with indices in the range height*RF 0.1* to height2 did not improve the correlations of waist circumference alone with body mass index (r=0.89; P<0.001 for both sexes). According to the criteria of Khosla and Lowe,16 height was therefore not used with waist circumference for further analyses.
We determined by cross tabulation between variables17 two action levels for waist circumference for weight management to identify most subjects with a body mass index >/=25 (action level 1) and >/=30 (action level 2), while including a minimum of subjects who had lower body mass index and low waist:hip ratio to maximise sensitivity and specificity.18 High body mass index was defined at two levels as >/=25 or >/=30 for both men and women.6 On the basis of consensus from previous studies,9 10 11 12 13 high waist:hip ratio was defined as 0.95 for men and 0.80 for women and low waist:hip ratio as below these cut offs.
The mean age (range 25 to 74 years), body mass index, and hip circumference were similar for men and for women (table I). However, men were heavier and taller and had a larger waist circumference and waist:hip ratio than women. In both sexes waist:hip ratio correlated positively with body mass index (men, r=0.63; women, r=0.39; both, P<0.001) (table II). Waist circumference correlated weakly with height in men (r=0.19, P<0.05) but not women (r=0.06, P=0.06). On average, men with a waist circumference above action level 1 were 2 cm taller than those below, accounting for 0.7 cm difference in waist circumference, but action levels for waist circumference determined for four different height categories (not shown) did not differ.
The figure shows distributions of the waist circumference related to body mass index divided by the proposed action levels. Table III shows the numbers of subjects in different categories of waist circumference, body mass index, waist:hip ratio. "True positive" subjects were those with high body mass index and those with lower body mass index but high waist:hip ratio; "true negative" subjects were those with low body mass index and those with high body mass index but low waist:hip ratio. "False positive" subjects were those with waist circumference above the action level but with low body mass index and waist:hip ratio; "false negative" subjects were those with waist circumference below the action level but with high body mass index and waist:hip ratio. These numbers were used to determine the sensitivity and specificity for waist circumference as an indicator of need for weight management (table IV).
False negative subjects, who would be missed by health education programmes that use waist circumference as an indicator of need for weight management, would represent less than 1.5% of the population. False positive subjects (1.7% of the population) would be included inappropriately in health promotion directed at those with high waist circumference. Among the subjects who were falsely positive at action level 1, men had a body mass index of 23.2-24.8 and a waist:hip ratio of 0.91-0.95, and women had a body mass index of 23.0-24.9 and a waist:hip ratio of 0.77-0.80. Among the subjects who were falsely positive at action level 2, men had a body mass index of 26.9-29.7 and a waist:hip ratio of 0.88-0.94, and women had a body mass index of 28.7-29.6 and a waist:hip ratio of 0.79-0.80. The misclassified subjects were therefore close to the levels at which body weight control would be recommended, and the hazards of health promotion based on waist circumference action levels would be minimal.
The validation sample was younger than the determination sample, but had similar ranges of anthropometric measurements (table I). The action levels for waist circumference showed similarly high sensitivity (>94%) and specificity (>97%) for identifying high risk subjects in need of weight management (tables III and IV). Waist circumference and height were not significantly related in either men (r=0.07; P=0.54) or women (r=-0.13; P=0.07).
The influences of body mass index and waist:hip ratio on metabolic and cardiovascular disease are multiplicative,19 20 so weight loss should be urged for all those with a high body mass index and can also be justified for those with a lower body mass index but high waist:hip ratio. Consensus emerging from prospective studies suggests cut offs of waist:hip ratio 0.95 in men and 0.80 in women—as values above which health risk increases appreciably. Metabolic risk factors, particularly serum concentrations of triglycerides and high density lipoprotein cholesterol, improve most with weight loss in men with a waist:hip ratio >/=0.9521 22 23 and women with a waist:hip ratio >/=0.80 (table V).10 11 12 In our study 48% of the women and 38% of the men had waist:hip ratios above these figures (table II); just over half had a body mass index 25 or above. The interaction between body mass index and waist:hip ratio offers an opportunity through measurement of waist circumference to target individuals at highest risk to maximise the benefits of interventions.24 25
Many analyses have found strong positive correlations between waist circumference and body mass index. This relation alone permits only limited prediction of body mass index: in our study, using waist circumference to identify those with body mass index >/=25 would have led to misclassification of about 4% of men and 7% of women and to identify those with body mass index >/=30, 10% of men and 11% of women. Health promotion targeted by waist circumference at those with body mass index >/=25 would miss about 21% of the total at risk population—that is, those with an index >/=25—and about 10% of those identified would be targeted inappropriately. However, most of those with high waist circumference but body mass index below these conventional cut offs have a high waist:hip ratio, which still justifies weight management. Most of those with higher body mass index but waist circumference below the action level have low waist:hip ratio, which would indicate a lower health risk, and less benefit from slimming. The action levels for waist circumference derived here, based on both body mass index and waist:hip ratio, are robust in that they led to misclassification of only 1.5% of the overweight men and women.
The simplicity of measurement and its relation to both body weight and fat distribution are major advantages for waist circumference over body mass index and waist:hip ratio. Self measurement and reporting of waist circumference has been reported to be acceptable in recent epidemiological studies,26 27 but better information will be needed about possible self reporting bias and about ability to monitor changes with weight management. Waist circumference is more strongly associated with metabolic function, however, than with waist:hip ratio in adults22 and in children28 and predicts myocardial infarction.20 The proposed action levels match the results of Chan et al, who found progressively increasing relative risk of developing non-insulin dependent diabetes in men as waist circumference rose from 73.7-87.6 cm to 91.7-96.5 cm (relative risk 2.2) and to >102.0 cm (12).27 Pouliot et al observed exponential increases in cardiovascular risk factors with waist circumference above 87 cm in men and 78 cm in women (which correspond to waist circumference of action level 1) and further risk factor increases with waist circumferences above those of action level 2.29 Proof of the value of waist circumference action levels in predicting health risks will require longitudinal follow up of morbidity and mortality. Longitudinal data from the Framingham study suggests that waist predicts mortality better than other anthropometric measures.30
In conclusion, the action levels for waist circumference (measured by using bony landmarks mid-way between the iliac crests and the lowest ribs) that have been identified in our study could form the basis on which health promotion might raise awareness or urge action on weight reduction. The lower action level of waist circumference (94 cm for men and 80 cm for women) represents a threshold above which health risks are increased—particularly for young men.27,31 Further weight gain and rise in waist circumference from action level 1 towards action level 2 should be discouraged. The upper action level (102 cm for men and 88 cm for women) correspond with the point at which symptoms of breathlessness and arthritis begin to develop from overweight, and the health risks are such that medical consultation and weight loss should be urged.
We thank Dr James Currall (Department of Computing Service, University of Glasgow) for statistical guidance. Data for the determination sample were kindly provided by the Glasgow arm of the MONICA project, which was funded (as was CEM) by the Chief Scientist's Office, Scottish Home and Health Department. TSH was supported by the Department of Human Nutrition Discretionary Funds, University of Glasgow.


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Place a shortcut to the frequently-used item on your desktop (Right-click, Send to Desktop as shortcut). Right click the new shortcut and click Properties.
In the Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab. In the Shortcut key box, enter a Control-Alt key combination or a Control+Shift key combination then click OK.
Quick Launch Bar key combinations (Vista only): In Windows Vista, if you enable the Quick Launch toolbar on your taskbar and add shortcuts to it, they each automatically get a keyboard combination depending on their position. The first shortcut on the toolbar is Win+1, the second, Win+2, etc. Here's more on Vista's built-in Quick Launch keyboard combos.
Turn the Run Box into a Launcher
When you can't install something like Launchy, Windows XP's Run box—which you can invoke using the Win+R key combo—is a healthy substitute. As long as a shortcut to any program or document you want is in your system path, you can launch it by typing it into the Run box. Hit the play button below to hear Lifehacker reader Richard T. describe how he navigates Windows from the Run box.
Automatically Start Applications With Your Computer
Every day when you sit down at your desk, you start up the same programs—like Outlook, the company intranet, maybe Microsoft Word. Spare yourself the repetitive clicking and make Windows start up programs for you. Simply create a shortcut to the programs, documents, and folders you open first, and drop them into the Startup folder on your Programs menu.
Create Search Folders (Vista only)
The one feature that makes the Windows Vista upgrade look attractive is its built-in support for saved search folders. Stop organizing your files into carefully-named folders; instead, you can tag your files and save searches as folders to find them later.
Turn Your Desktop into a Heads-Up Display
In Windows XP, you can set any web page to be your desktop wallpaper using that old (but still useful) feature called Active Desktop. If you use webapps to stay organized, this is one of the easiest ways to turn your desktop into a "heads-up display." Here's how to set your Google Calendar as your desktop wallpaper. Another Lifehacker reader embeds his to-do list into his desktop using the same method.
Vista users can get similar functionality using the built-in sidebar. Check out some useful Vista sidebar gadgets here.
Add More Memory to Your System with a USB Drive (Vista only)
Vista users who want a little more speed—but don't want to crack their case to install RAM—can add memory by simply plugging in a USB drive with extra space on it. Here's more on how to speed up your PC with a flash drive using ReadyBoost.
Get Portable Apps
When Windows' built-in features just don't cut the mustard and you must have something better—like, say, Firefox—it's time to start using portable applications. Check out Portable Apps for a wide selection of browsers, editors, chat clients and more which you can run on your PC even without admin rights. In terms of productivity, I can't recommend Adam's text substitution app Texter more—and it is portable, too.
What are your favorite Windows productivity tweaks—that don't involve third-party software? Shout 'em out in the comments. See also a few more IT lockdown survival tips.
Gina Trapani, the editor of Lifehacker, thinks Windows ain't so bad on its own after all. Her weekly feature, Geek to Live, appears every Monday on Lifehacker. Subscribe to the Geek to Live feed to get new installments in your newsreader.


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A "ring of fire" solar eclipse will be visible Sunday on the west coast of North America and parts of Asia on Monday morning.
In this weekend's annular solar eclipse, the moon will slide in front of the sun and block 94 percent of its light. But because the moon is near apogee — the point in its orbit when it's farthest away from Earth — it appears smaller to us, and will only cover most of the sun — leaving a ring of fiery light blasting the edges. (What, you thought it was a Johnny Cash reference?).
Of course, this ring of fire will be so awesome we shouldn't look at it. And it's relatively rare; the last one was in 1994, but strangely, we'll have another in May 2013. Link
(Image credit: Flickr user José Ángel)