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Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Michael Mann
|Produced by
|Michael Mann
Jon Peters
James Lassiter
Paul Ardaji
A. Kitman Ho
|Written by
|Michael Mann
Eric Roth
Stephen J. Rivele
Christopher Wilkinson
|Will Smith
Jamie Foxx
Jon Voight
Mario Van Peebles
Ron Silver
Jeffrey Wright
Mykelti Williamson
|Music by
|Pieter Bourke
Lisa Gerrard
|Emmanuel Lubezki
|Edited by
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Lynzee Klingman
Stephen E. Rivkin
Stuart Waks
Peters Entertainment
Forward Pass
Overbrook Films
|Distributed by
|Columbia Pictures
|Release dates
|Running time
|157 minutes
|United States
|$107 million[1]
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Ali is a 2001 American biographical film directed by Michael Mann. The film tells the story of the boxer Muhammad Ali, played by Will Smith, from 1964 to 1974 featuring his capture of the heavyweight title from Sonny Liston, his conversion to Islam, criticism of the Vietnam War, banishment from boxing, his return to fight Joe Frazier in 1971, and, lastly, his reclaiming the title from George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle fight of 1974. It also discusses the great social and political upheaval in the United States following the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.
The film begins with Cassius Clay, Jr. (Will Smith) before his championship debut against then heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. In the pre-fight weigh-in Clay heavily taunts Liston (such as calling Liston a "big ugly bear"). In the fight Clay is able to dominate the early rounds of the match, but halfway through the fight Clay complains of a burning feeling in his eyes (implying that Liston has tried to cheat) and says he is unable to continue. However, his trainer/manager Angelo Dundee (Ron Silver) gets him to keep fighting. Once Clay is able to see again he easily dominates the fight and right before round seven Liston quits, therefore making Cassius Clay the second youngest heavyweight champion at the time after Floyd Patterson. (Mike Tyson would later beat Patterson's record). Ali spends valued time with Malcolm X (Peebles) and the two decide to take a trip to Africa.
Clay is then invited to the home of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad where he is granted the name Muhammad Ali due to his status of World Heavyweight Champion. While at home with his wife and children, Malcolm X is called by the Nation of Islam and has been informed Ali will not go to Africa and his suspension (Malcolm's) has been extended. Muhammad Ali takes the trip to Africa where he finds Malcolm X, but later refuses to speak to him, honoring the wishes of Elijah Muhammad. Upon returning to America and defeating Sonny Liston a second time, Ali continues to dominate as champion, until he is stripped of the title, boxing license, passport suspended and sent to jail for his refusal to be drafted during the Vietnam War. After a three year hiatus, his conviction is later overturned, and attempts to regain the Heavyweight Championship against Joe Frazier. Dubbed the Fight of the Century, Frazier wins, giving Ali the first loss of his career. When Frazier loses the championship to George Foreman, Ali makes a decision to fight George Foreman to be the first boxer to win his title a second time. Ali goes to Zaire to face Foreman for the title. While there, Ali has an affair with a woman he meets named Veronica Porsche (who he is said to later marry in the epilogue). After reading rumors of his infidelity through newspapers, his wife, Belinda Ali (Nona Gaye) travels to Zaire to confront him about this. Ali says he is unsure as to whether he really loves Veronica Porsche (Michael Michele) or not, and just wants to focus on his upcoming title shot. For a good portion of the fight against Foreman, Ali leans back against the ropes and covers up, letting Foreman wildly throw punches at him. During the fight Muhammad Ali realizes that he has to react sooner or else he will be knocked out or possibly die in the ring. As the rounds go on, Foreman tires himself out and Ali takes advantage. He quickly knocks out the tired Foreman, and the movie ends with Ali regaining the Heavyweight Championship of which he was previously stripped.
- Will Smith as Cassius Clay, Jr. / Cassius X / Muhammad Ali
- Jamie Foxx as Drew Bundini Brown
- Jon Voight as Howard Cosell
- Mario Van Peebles as Malcolm X
- Ron Silver as Angelo Dundee
- Jeffrey Wright as Howard Bingham
- Mykelti Williamson as Don King
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Sonji Roi
- Nona Gaye as Belinda/Khalilah Ali
- Michael Michele as Veronica Porsche
- Joe Morton as Chauncey Eskridge
- Paul Rodriguez as Dr. Ferdie Pacheco
- Bruce McGill as Bradley
- Barry Shabaka Henley as Herbert Muhammad
- Giancarlo Esposito as Cassius Clay, Sr.
- Laurence Mason as Luis Sarria
- LeVar Burton as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Albert Hall as Elijah Muhammad
- David Cubitt as Robert Lipsyte
- Michael Bentt as Sonny Liston
- James Toney as Joe Frazier
- Charles Shufford as George Foreman
- Robert Sale as Jerry Quarry
- Candy Ann Brown as Odessa
- David Haines as Rudy Clay / Rahaman Ali
- Leon Robinson as Joe Smiley
- David Elliott as Sam Cooke
- Shari Watson as Singer
- Malick Bowens as Joseph Mobutu
- Zaa Nkweta as Foreman Fight Announcer
- Brandon T. Jackson as Club Goer (uncredited)
- Victoria Dillard as Betty (wife of Malcolm X)
The movie was written by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Eric Roth, and Michael Mann. The original script by Wilkinson and Rivele was modified by Roth and Mann.
Will Smith spent approximately one year learning all aspects of Ali's life. These included boxing training (up to seven hours a day), Islamic studies and dialect training. Smith has said that his portrayal of Ali is his proudest work to date.
One of the selling points of the film is the realism of the fight scenes. Smith worked alongside boxing promoter Guy Sharpe from SharpeShooter Entertainment and his lead fighter Ross Kent to get the majority of his boxing tips for the film. All of the boxers in the film are, in fact, former or current world heavyweight championship caliber boxers. It was quickly decided that 'Hollywood fighting'—passing the fist (or foot) between the camera and the face to create the illusion of a hit—would not be used in favor of actual boxing. The only limitation placed upon the fighters was for Charles Shufford (who plays George Foreman). He was permitted to hit Smith as hard as he could, so long as he did not actually knock the actor out.
Smith had to gain a significant amount of weight to look the part of Muhammad Ali.[2]
Ali opened on December 25, 2001 and grossed a total of $14.7 million in 2,446 theaters on its opening weekend. The film went on to gross a total of $87.7 million worldwide. The film holds a 67% "fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes. In spite of generally favorable reviews, the film lost an estimated $63.1 million.
The film had generally favorable reviews, with the acting being well received by critics in general. Roger Ebert derided the film with two stars in his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, and mentioned, "it lacks much of the flash, fire and humor of Muhammad Ali and is shot more in the tone of a eulogy than a celebration".[3] In Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy wrote, "The director's visual and aural dapplings are strikingly effective at their best, but over the long haul don't represent a satisfactory alternative to in-depth dramatic scenes; one longs, for example, for even one sequence in which Ali and Dundee discuss boxing strategy or assess an opponent", but he did have praise for the performances: "The cast is outstanding, from Smith, who carries the picture with consummate skill, and Voight, who is unrecognizable under all the makeup but nails Cosell's distinctive vocal cadences".[4] USA Today gave the film two and half stars out of four and claimed that, "for many Ali fans, the movie may be good enough, but some perspective is in order. The documentaries a.k.a. Cassius Clay and the Oscar-winning When We Were Kings cover a lot of the same ground and are consistently more engaging".[5]
In The New York Times, Elvis Mitchell proclaimed Ali to be a "breakthrough" film for Mann, that it was his "first movie with feeling" and that "his overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds".[6] J. Hoberman, in his review for the Village Voice, felt that the "first half percolates wonderfully — and the first half hour is even better than that. Mann opens with a thrilling montage that, spinning in and out of a nightclub performance by Sam Cooke, contextualizes the hero in his times", concluded that, "Ali's astonishing personality is skillfully evoked but, in the end, remains a mystery".[7]
|List of awards and nominations
Home release[edit]
After the theatrical version (157 min.) was released on DVD, Mann revisited his film, creating a new cut that ran for 165 minutes. Approximately 20 minutes of theatrical footage was removed, while 30 minutes of previously unseen footage was placed back in by Mann.[citation needed] The film was released on Blu-ray in 2012.
- ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ali.htm
- ^ Barra, Allen (2001-09-09). "THE NEW SEASON/FILM; Michael Mann and Will Smith in the Ring With Ali". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (2001-12-25). "Ali". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ McCarthy, Todd (2001-12-16). "Ali". Variety. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ Clark, Mike (2001-12-31). "Despite hype, Ali isn't the greatest". USA Today. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ Mitchell, Elvis (2001-12-25). "Master of the Boast, King of the Ring, Vision of the Future". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- ^ Hoberman, J (December 26, 2001). "Fight Songmkmmmelkkjar;dfiik. fl;ud;ovids". Village Voice. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
External links[edit]
- Ali at the Internet Movie Database
- Ali at AllMovie
- Ali at Box Office Mojo
- Ali at Rotten Tomatoes
- Excerpts from production notes
- "Michael Mann and Will Smith in the Ring With Ali" New York Times article
- An interview with the film's cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki
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- 2000s drama films
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- Columbia Pictures films
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- Films set in Miami, Florida
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General Motors has been speeding down the track like a train with a purpose. What is GM's purpose? To pay out all of their outstanding loans and invest for a better tomorrow. General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive confirmed today that General Motors has made payment on the $5.4 billion loan (2 billion of the loan was already paid) to the U.S. government, $700M of which was interest. Ouch. This payment was made five years ahead of schedule and illustrates GM's progress since declaring bankruptcy last July. General Motors has also been able to repay loans to the Canadian and Ontario governments totaling $1.1 billion (in addition to the $400 million already paid). How's that for progress?
So, what's next for GM? Whitacre says GM will invest $120 million in the Detroit factory they call "Poletown" and $136 million at the Kansas City plant where the current Malibu and the Buick LaCrosse are produced. Poletown will be the specific factory in which the 2012 Chevy Malibu will be assembled.
GM will also roll the Chevy Volt off the assembly line in October, a whole month before the anticipated date. This may be due to the $336 million put in Poletown to prepare it for the Volt's production.
"We are moving at GM and improving at a rapid pace," Whitacre said. "This is the new pace of GM today." You can say that again.


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It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday!!!! (Yup, I just did that)
I feel motivated to wear heels lately, especially since I've realized that most of my friends are about 4"-11" taller than me (this is not an exaggeration). Today I sported my Pour La Victoire navy suede peep toe booties, with a red open knit sweater from Old Navy, a marigold wife beater from American Apparel, grey knicker shorts from Gap, black tights from Hue, and a purple plaid scarf which was a gift from Lady Soule from India.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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Abaddon are you dumb? I just said I've already taken my test. In fact I took it a week ago and no word so far about it. They don't check to see if you failed or passed at MEPS. They send it to a lab and get the results 2-3 days after and if you failed you get a letter in the mail. So there is no embarrassment at MEPS.
But Gabe thank you. That's how I think it is since I've also read about people passing with little bit of time before, like this guy -- http://www.marijuana.com/threads/meps-ua-test-in-12-days.284059/ -- if you care to read it.


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As part of this initiative, the YODA Project first contracted with two independent research groups that were competitively selected to review and meta-analyze all clinical studies of Medtronic's rhBMP-2. The Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York, United Kingdom, were selected. More information about these outstanding research groups can be found here.
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Knicks Take Shumpert and Center Known Mainly For Wearing Jean Shorts
I'm hearing a lot of criticism of the Knicks' decisions last night and while I think the purchase of the pick used to take Josh Harrellson was curious, I think taking Iman Shumpert was the right move. And since I think they nailed the big one, I'm not going to kill them for taking a guy who is a borderline NBA player with the 45th pick in the draft.
Let's start with Shumpert. Once the Sixers took Vucevic, no center merited the 17th pick. The options for the Knicks were the points, Jackson, Selby, Shumpert and Morris and Chris Singleton, a defensive forward from FSU. I'm not going to quarrel with the personnel people as to who's the best point guard. I am going to quarrel with people who are saying the Knicks should have taken Singleton. Singleton and Shumpert are essentially the same guy at different positions - elite-level defenders who need some polish on offense. Let's not be selfish, folks. For all our talk about defense, it sure seems like people are annoyed that the Knicks took the best perimeter defender in the draft who needs to work on his jumper over more polished offensive players. And as far as not taking Singleton goes, Shumpert plays a position of need - the 1 and the 2 - as opposed to Singleton who plays the 3/4 where we are all set. Oh, and did I mention the 6'5" Shumpert had the highest vert at the combine? I'm hearing the Knicks are planning on playing him with Billups and have him take the tougher defensive matchup and play Chauncey off the ball at times so Shumpert can run the pick and roll. Understand, this was a carefully considered pick of perhaps the best athlete in the draft who addresses a position of need. 100% co-sign.
Then they went out and got Harrellson. It's a pick I think I understand but I don't agree with. Before he became a Knick I knew a couple things about Mr. Harrellson. His jersey was too small, he was a tough, obnoxious, country sumbitch who provided a steady garbageman presence for the uber-talented Kentucky teams of the past few years. He looks so Kentucky that I'm positive his dad played for Kentucky against Texas Western, and not in the cool way like Pat Riley. He's 6'10" and thick. He's also not an NBA-level talent or athlete. So I see it from a "the Knicks need to get tougher" standpoint but I don't see it from a "we need guys who can actually play in the league" standpoint. In some ways he's the anti-Keith Benson - a guy who was still on the board when the Knicks took Harrellson - he's a high-motor tough guy without an NBA body. Not taking Benson is fine. Addressing this need, also fine. But the Knicks could have had Harrellson when the lockout ends so this pick was pretty wasteful.
But that's not what gets me. What gets me is that Josh Selby, a guy with way more upside than he has issues, was sitting there for the taking. Yeah, he's a score first point guard and yeah, the Knicks just took Shumpert who might be a PG as well. But Selby's a guy they considered taking in the first round and he's a major talent. He'd also make a great asset to, you know, include in a deal at the deadline for someone like the best point guard in the NBA. Instead of coming to the Knicks Selby ended up in Memphis, a team that clearly understands stockpiling assets.
The Harrellson decision isn't fatal. The Knicks nailed their first round pick and blew their second one, which is definitely preferred to the reverse. We wanted a Donnie Walsh-run draft and we got it. He's still got some of that old school college-pedigree stuff in him (it worked with Landry, not so much with Rautins.) The chances are neither Selby or Harrellson do much in the league, but that was still a wasted opportunity.
There are still some guys with potential out there - centers Vernon Goodridge of the D-League and Greg Smith of Fresno State come to mind. The Knicks shouldn't stop searching for depth and size.
That could have been better, it could have been worse. I can live with it. I'm a Knick fan. Anything that doesn't actually kill me I can handle.


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It seems singer K Michelle and Mimi Faust, of "Love and Hip Hop Atlanta," are no longer friends, again.
Since the shocking news and leaked images of Mimi's sex tape with boyfriend Nikko Smith, K Michelle has tweeted some very telling messages about the state of their friendship.
If you all remember, K and Mimi got into an altercation last year when K expressed her disapproval of Mimi's boyfriend, Nikko. Like others suggested, K thought Nikko was an opportunist. The disagreement resulted in K and Mimi nearly coming to blows with K hitting Mimi with a bouquet of flowers — something we witnessed in season 2 of the popular hit reality show.


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Pay walls boost Gannett, NY Times
Everything's coming up pay walls in 2013. As of the beginning of the year, about 400 of the almost 1,400 daily newspapers in the country had pay walls. With Lee Newspapers and Landmark Media also planning to roll out pay walls (Lee would add 50 new paywalls), 2013 is poised to be the year of the paywall. And Gannett is becoming somewhat of a poster child for pay walls. The company reported a remarkably good fourth quarter, boosted by success of pay walls at more than 80 of the company's community newspapers. According to the company's earnings report, circulation revenues were up 16.8 percent to $313 million in the fourth quarter. That helped bring the company's publishing division up to $1.04 billion in revenue, up 3.7 percent from the same period last year. Ten months into its digital-only subscriber campaign, Gannett's papers have 46,000 subscribers and CEO Gracia Martore expects to get up to between 250,000 and 300,000 by the end of 2013. As Poynter's Rick Edmonds points out, the report does highlight one big milestone in the digital revolution: "Circulation revenue growth for the quarter more than made up for print advertising losses."
Meanwhile, the New York Times posted so-so earnings for the fouth quarter, but the big bright spot was their paid digital subscriptions. As Nina Mandell reports for Fast Company, paid subscriptions at the Times increased 13 percent in the fourth quarter. Mandell writes, "The news is especially encouraging to media companies wondering if the so-called digital pay wall could be the answer to declining subscriptions and audience share." Poynter's Edmonds reports that two-thirds of the Times' digital subscriber base is made up of "entirely new" customers – the same number that Gannett reported in its subscriber base. Is that proof enough to really turn the tide on pay walls? Maybe, maybe not. Some skeptics are starting to turn the corner (think: The Washington Post and Seattle Times), but there are still some who say pay walls aren't the silver bullet. Guardian CEO Andrew Miller, for instance, tells Nieman Lab: "To have a pay wall and close off consumption of the Guardian at this stage would seem crazy to me." Digital First CEO John Paton tends to agree with the "pay walls aren't the answer" camp. He wrote in a blog post recently, "I think they can be a dangerous management distraction to the real job of adapting a legacy business to the realities of an Internet world." But he's still experimenting with them, launching what the company calls "the Subscription Project."


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MEMPHIS, Aug. 11 (UPI) — A student charged with the murder of a Memphis private school principal told police he didn't like her and had planned the act for months, authorities said.
Eduardo Marmolejo, 17, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Suzette York, his principal at the Memphis Junior Academy, who was stabbed to death Wednesday in a classroom.
"Eduardo Marmolejo admitted that he had stabbed his teacher Suzette York multiple times because he did not like her and she made him angry," an affidavit obtained by the Memphis Commercial Appeal read.
"(He) said that he had been planning to kill Mrs. York since May 2011 when he learned he would be returning to the Memphis Junior Academy. (He) said that he planned to kill Mrs. York (Wednesday) because he knew she would be alone in the classroom with him."
The Seventh-day Adventist-affiliated school in East Memphis started classes Monday.
York was recruited as principal when the position opened up at the school four years ago, based on a former teaching stint at the school where she impressed school officials with her dedication and teaching style, church officials said.
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Counseling to Prevent Tobacco Use and Tobacco-Caused Disease
Recommendation Statement
This statement summarizes the current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on counseling to prevent tobacco use and tobacco-caused disease and the supporting scientific evidence, and updates the 1996 recommendation contained in the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition.
|The information found here is current for children and adolescents. This recommendation has been updated in part for adults and pregnant women. Go to http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspstbac2.htm to view the new recommendation for adults and pregnant women, published in April 2009.
Summary of Recommendations
ContentsClinical Considerations
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Corresponding Author: Alfred O. Berg, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, c/o Project Director, USPSTF, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850.
Clinical Considerations
Brief tobacco cessation counseling interventions, including screening, brief counseling (3 minutes or less), and/or pharmacotherapy, have proven to increase tobacco abstinence rates, although there is a dose-response relationship between quit rates and the intensity of counseling. Effective interventions may be delivered by a variety of primary care clinicians.
The "5-A" behavioral counseling framework provides a useful strategy for engaging patients in smoking cessation discussions:
- Ask about tobacco use.
- Advise to quit through clear personalized messages.
- Assess willingness to quit.
- Assist to quit.
- Arrange followup and support.
Helpful aspects of counseling include providing problem-solving guidance for smokers to develop a plan to quit and to overcome common barriers to quitting and providing social support within and outside of treatment. Common practices that complement this framework include motivational interviewing, the 5 R's used to treat tobacco use (relevance, risks, rewards, roadblocks, repetition), assessing readiness to change, and more intensive counseling and/or referrals for quitters needing extra help.1-3 Telephone "quit lines" have also been found to be an effective adjunct to counseling or medical therapy.4
Clinics that implement screening systems designed to regularly identify and document a patient's tobacco use status increased their rates of clinician intervention, although there is limited evidence for the impact of screening systems on tobacco cessation rates.5
FDA-approved pharmacotherapy that has been identified as safe and effective for treating tobacco dependence includes several forms of nicotine replacement therapy (i.e., nicotine gum, nicotine transdermal patches, nicotine inhaler, and nicotine nasal spray) and sustained-release bupropion. Other medications, including clonidine and nortriptyline, have been found to be efficacious and may be considered.
Augmented pregnancy-tailored counseling (e.g., 5-15 minutes) and self-help materials are recommended for pregnant smokers, as brief interventions are less effective in this population. There is limited evidence to evaluate the safety or efficacy of pharmacotherapy during pregnancy. Tobacco cessation at any point during pregnancy can yield important health benefits for the mother and the baby, but there are limited data about the optimal timing or frequency of counseling interventions during pregnancy.
There is little evidence addressing the effectiveness of screening and counseling children or adolescents to prevent the initiation of tobacco use and to promote its cessation in a primary care setting, but clinicians may use their discretion in conducting tobacco-related discussions with this population, since the majority of adult smokers begin tobacco use as children or adolescents.
Tobacco use, cigarette smoking in particular, is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, resulting in 440,000 deaths annually.6 Smoking has been attributed to over 155,000 deaths annually from neoplasms, 80,000 deaths annually from ischemic heart disease, and over 17,000 deaths annually from cerebrovascular disease. Smoking also affects health outcomes of people other than the smokers, with smoking during pregnancy resulting in the deaths of about 1,000 infants annually. Significant risks associated with smoking during pregnancy include premature births, spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and intrauterine growth retardation. Additionally, environmental tobacco smoke contributes to the deaths of an estimated 38,000 people annually from lung cancer and heart disease.7
There is good quality evidence that smoking cessation lowers the risk for heart disease, stroke, and lung disease.8,9 However, despite smoking's established risks and the health benefits of quitting, 23 percent of adults in the United States continue to smoke10 and more than 2,000 adolescents become regular tobacco users daily.11 Nearly 90 percent of smokers start by age 18, and 25 percent of teen smokers remain addicted as adults.12 Because 70 percent of smokers see a physician each year,5 clinicians have a unique opportunity to intervene.
The USPSTF found good quality evidence examining the efficacy of various levels of intensity of tobacco cessation counseling by clinicians based on a meta-analysis of 43 studies.5 Compared with no intervention, minimal counseling, lasting less than 3 minutes, has been shown to increase overall tobacco abstinence rates. Increasing session length and frequency increased efficacy in a dose-response manner.5 There is limited evidence to determine the optimal duration and periodicity of tobacco counseling interventions.
A meta-analysis of 7 studies found that abstinence rates were higher (16.8 percent vs 6.6 percent) for pregnant smokers receiving pregnancy-tailored counseling and self-help materials compared with pregnant smokers receiving brief counseling or "usual care."5
The USPSTF found limited evidence of the efficacy of counseling children or adolescents in the clinical primary care setting, but found that school- and classroom-based smoking cessation programs may be more effective than no intervention among tobacco users who attend these programs.13 As with tobacco cessation programs for adults in the community setting, programs with a greater number of counseling sessions and increasing intensity of followup had higher quit rates.14
Several FDA-approved pharmacotherapies have been identified as safe and effective in helping adults to quit smoking. Nicotine products, including nicotine gum, transdermal patch, nicotine nasal spray, and nicotine inhaler, have all been studied in comparison with placebo. There are good quality studies to support the abstinence rates among people who use these products compared with those who do not: 18 to 31 percent versus 10 to 17 percent.5 (Although nicotine lozenges are currently available, at the time of this review they were not FDA-approved and therefore not included in this recommendation statement.) There are fair quality studies showing that combining the nicotine patch with either the gum or nasal spray is more efficacious than using a single form of nicotine replacement therapy alone.15,16 Sustained-release bupropion has been shown to be efficacious compared with placebo, with an estimated cessation rate of 23 percent to 38 percent compared with 17 percent.17,18 Other pharmacotherapies, including clonidine and nortriptyline, have been shown to result in higher smoking cessation rates when compared with placebo, although their use may be limited by side effects.5 There is little evidence on the safety and efficacy of tobacco cessation pharmacotherapy for the pregnant woman, the fetus, or the nursing mother and child.19 Therefore, pharmacotherapy for pregnant women may be considered when the likelihood of quitting and its potential benefits outweighs the risks of the therapy and continued smoking. Likewise, there is little evidence on the safety and efficacy of tobacco cessation pharmacotherapy in children or adolescents.
There is good evidence supporting the effectiveness of community and population-based approaches to reducing environmental tobacco smoke (e.g., tobacco price increases, clean indoor air laws, anti-tobacco media campaigns); many of these interventions are especially effective among adolescent populations.4 However, in the clinical setting, limited studies with mixed results address the effect of parental counseling on reducing second-hand smoke exposure of children and reducing parental smoking rates.20-22 Future research is required to define the effectiveness of screening, counseling, and pharmacotherapy for children, adolescents, and their parents in the primary care setting.
Recommendations of Others
The Public Health Service guideline can be accessed at: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/smokesum.htm. Tobacco-related recommendations from the CDC Guide to Community Preventive Services can be accessed at: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco.
Policies of the American Academy of Family Physicians can be accessed at: http://www.aafp.org/x7112.xml. Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics relating to tobacco can be accessed at: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0041.html, http://www.aap.org/policy/re9716.html, and http://www.aap.org/policy/re9801.html. Recommendations of the Canadian Task Force can be accessed at: http://www.ctfphc.org
1. Miller W, Rolnick S. Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior. New York: Guilford, 1991.
2. Anderson JE, Jorenby DE, Scott WJ, Fiore MC. Treating tobacco use and dependence: an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for tobacco cessation. Chest 2002;121(3):932-41.
3. Prochaska JO, Velicer WF. The transtheoretical model of health behavior change. Am J Health Promot 1997;12(1):38-48.
4. CDC. Strategies for reducing exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, tobacco-use cessation, and reducing initiation in communities and health-care systems. A report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. MMWR 2000:49(No. RR-12);1-11.
5. Fiore MC, Bailey WC, Cohen SJ, et al. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. Rockville MD: Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 2000.
6. CDC. Annual smoking-attributable mortality, years of potential life lost, and economic costs-United States, 1995-1999. MMWR 2002;51:300-3.
7. National Cancer Institute. Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke: the Report of the California Environmental Protection Agency. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 10. Bethesda MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1999.
8. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville MD: Department of Health and Human Services, 1990.
9. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition. Washington, DC: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; 1996.
10. CDC. Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Changes in Prevalence of Current and Some Day Smoking-United States, 1996-2001. MMWR 2003;52:303-7.
11. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Office of Applied Studies, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1999-2001.
12. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use among Young People. A report to the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, CDC, NCCDPH, Office on Smoking and Health. 1994.
13. Sussman S, Lichtman K, Ritt A, Pallonen UE. Effects of thirty-four adolescent tobacco use cessation and prevention trials on regular users of tobacco products. Subst Use Misuse 1999;34(11):1469-503.
14. Stanton WR, Smith KM. A critique of evaluated adolescent smoking cessation programs. J Adoles 2002; 25:427-38.
15. Fagerstrom KO. Combined use of nicotine replacement products. Health Values 1994;18(3):15-20.
16. Fagerstrom KO. Effectiveness of nicotine patch and nicotine gum as individual versus combined treatments for tobacco withdrawal symptoms. Psychopharmacology 1993;111:271-7.
17. Hurt RD, Sachs DP, Glover ED, et al. A comparison of sustained-release bupropion and placebo for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med 1997;337(17):1195-202.
18. Jorenby DE, Leischow S, Nides M, et al. A controlled trial of sustained-release bupropion, a nicotine patch, or both for smoking cessation. N Engl J Med 1999;340(9):685-91.
19. Wisborg K, Henriksen TB, Jespersen LB, Secher NJ. Nicotine patches for pregnant smokers: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol 2000;96(6):967-71.
20. Wall MA, Severson HH, Andrews JA, Lichtenstein E, Zoref L. Pediatric office-based smoking intervention: impact on maternal smoking and relapse. Pediatrics 1995;96(4 Pt 1):622-8.
21. Groner JA, Ahijevych K, Grossman LK, Rich LN. The impact of a brief intervention on maternal smoking behavior. Pediatrics 2000;105(1 Pt 3):267-71.
22. Severson HH, Andrews JA, Lichtenstein E, Wall M, Akers L. Reducing maternal smoking and relapse: long-term evaluation of a pediatric intervention. Prev Med 1997;26(1):120-30.
Members of the Task Force
Members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force* are Alfred O. Berg, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, USPSTF (Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA); Janet D. Allan, Ph.D., R.N., C.S., F.A.A.N., Vice-chair, USPSTF (Dean, School of Nursing, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD); Paul Frame, M.D. (Tri-County Family Medicine, Cohocton, NY, and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY); Charles J. Homer, M.D., M.P.H. (Executive Director, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, Boston, MA); Mark S. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H. (Professor of Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ); Jonathan D. Klein, M.D., M.P.H. (Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY); Tracy A. Lieu, M.D., M.P.H. (Associate Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA); C. Tracy Orleans, Ph.D. (Senior Scientist and Senior Program Officer, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ); Jeffrey F. Peipert, M.D., M.P.H. (Director of Research, Women and Infants' Hospital, Providence, RI); Nola J. Pender, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. (Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI); Albert L. Siu, M.D., M.S.P.H. (Professor of Medicine, Chief of Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY); Steven M. Teutsch, M.D., M.P.H. (Senior Director, Outcomes Research and Management, Merck & Company, Inc., West Point, PA); Carolyn Westhoff, M.D., M.Sc. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY); and Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H. (Professor, Department of Family Practice and Department of Preventive and Community Medicine and Director of Research Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, VA).
* Member of the USPSTF at the time this recommendation was finalized. For a list of current Task Force members, go to http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/about.htm.
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This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on counseling to prevent tobacco use and tobacco-caused disease. It updates the 1996 recommendations contained in the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, Second Edition.
The complete information on which this statement is based, including evidence tables and references, is available in the Public Health Service (PHS) "Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence." The USPSTF recommendation and PHS clinical practice guideline on this topic are available through the USPSTF Web site (http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org) and through the National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (http://www.guideline.gov).
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Keeping your eyes focused on the details of 2nd weddings, such as the marriage ceremony motif, location, decorations, and the program, will be helpful for making this a memorable and special event. Handling these particular particulars will ensure special memories that you cherish forever.
In second weddings, many soon to be couples have children from some sort of prior relationship. When this is correct, it is recommended that couples get together with the children alone first to share with them about the wedding, before any other loved ones or friends. In this manner, children won't feel self-conscious if they want to ask questions, since there are no people around. This is the right time for you to consider their input. Usually, second weddings are less problematic when the kids can share their opinions. Once the children find out about the engagement, then you can notify the parents of the groom and bride, siblings, and friends.
Second marriages can be a tricky situation for various reasons. There may be issues with step kids, ex spouses or also some religious stumbling blocks with the marriage taking place. However, when we talk around the etiquette for buying treats as coolest second marriage wedding dresses, it is a fairly straightforward process.
It is the norm for the couple going through an extra marriage not to require, nor to expect, wedding attendees to take gifts. Traditionally people received treats at their first wedding to help them set up a house for their new lifestyle together. It is considered that couples under-going second marriages already have every one of the trappings of modern life and don't require the gifts usually received for a first wedding.
If you have been invited to a second wedding and have received an invite that makes no reference to gifts, then that is excellent. It shows that the happy couple have taken note of etiquette and still have not requested gifts on their invitation. However, it is permissible and not uncommon to give gifts at a second wedding. If you are related to the future couple you should give a gift in any case, if you are not married you may then politely enquire if the groom and bride have a gift registry, so as to make sure should you choose by a gift to get a second marriage, you get them a great gift that they want. If the bride and groom don't have a gift registry build, then I suggest the particular gift of flowers, as I have yet to meet up with a bride who didn't like those!


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Queen's Baton to arrive in city (From thisisoxfordshire)
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Queen's Baton to arrive in city
7:10am Thursday 5th June 2014 in News
THE Queen's Baton will come to Oxford tomorrow at the Cutteslowe Summer Festival.
It will arrive at Sunnymead Park between 3pm and 4pm, and will be carried by Oxford's four batonbearers – Juliet Field, 67, Simon Price, 16, Ian Warland, 50, and Jonny Pemberton, 33.
They were selected by Oxford City Council because of their contributions towards sport in the city.
Mrs Field is a trustee and volunteer at the Cutteslowe Community Association and Cherwell Gymnastics Club.
Mr Price and Mr Pemberton were volunteers for the Ping! Oxford project last year, and Mr Price is also the youth ambassador for the Get Batty project, which encourages young people to take up table tennis. Mr Warland is an official at Oxford City Athletic Club.
The procession will be accompanied by the Larkrise Primary School Samba Band and the festival will have free sport sessions and a zumbathon.
The baton has visited 70 countries ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow from July 23 to August 3.
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16 Aug
Gadgets That Help Your Home Go Green
As Kermit the Frog often says: "It isn't easy being green." But with a little effort and care, there are now a multitude of gadgets in the market today to aid in environmental conservation in the home.
The basic areas of focus should include recycling, composting, water conservation, and gardening. Here's a handful of examples that will get you started.
Re-using existing materials to create your own gadgetry isn't as difficult as one might think. Check out your old computers and use some of those antiquated parts instead of junking them. For example, one can create an eco-friendly lighting solution by reusing old circuit boards and energy-saving light bulbs to create a desktop lap.
The 3.5 inch floppy, once a mainstay of portable data storage, can easily be re-used as a notepad, where the front and back covers are constructed from the disks (circa 1980s), recyclable paper is added as the pad, and a binder clip ties it all together.
Also consider recycling PDAs, MP3 players, and other devices so any money earned from the parts goes to worthy causes, which creates a win-win for your home and the charity. Recycleforbreastcancer.org, for example, will send you prepaid shipping labels, recycle your gadgets, and donate the proceeds to breast cancer charities.
One handy tip for easy composting is to purge your home of plastic bowls and throw all your food scraps into a stainless steel indoor compositor. Compost like a champ by eliminating your vegetable waste, instead of allowing it to be trucked off to the landfill.
Soak finished compost in water to "brew" compost "tea," a nutrient liquid that can be used for foliar feeding or for watering plants in your garden, back yard, or houseplants.
Water conservation
EnergyStar programs sponsored by the EPA have identified high-performance, water-efficient appliances, fixtures, water systems, and accessories that can reduce your water use in the home and conserve the nation's water resources.
The WaterSense label, another EPA-sponsored campaign, alerts consumers that products and programs that carry the label meet water efficiency and performance criteria, and will help save water, money, and energy.
While a rain barrel might seem like an "old school" gadget, it is one of the best inexpensive methods to capture mineral and chlorine-free H2O for watering your gardens and lawns. By harnessing a literal gift from the sky, you'll not only notice a significant dip in water costs, but also a reduction in stormwater runoff, which in turn helps prevent erosion and flooding.
There are dozens more gadgets for each of the topics mentioned here. Avalon Construction Corp lists some additional options in the blog post titled "Modifications To Make Your Home Green." Some common-sense tips include "buying only energy efficient appliances," "purchasing those that don't take a lot of power to run," and "using only energy-efficient lighting."
Matthew Talbot at Avalon says, "When you sit down to make a conservation plan, try to find out where most energy is being used or wasted in your home. Tackle these areas first, figuring out how to optimize your power consumption."


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A new, exclusive version of the Porsche Panamera was announced today. Called the Panamera Platinum, this new version is available as Panamera 4 and Panamera Diesel and features a variety of design cues in platinum silver metallic as well as a revised standard equipment. In platinum silver metallic come the lower half of the side view mirrors, the air-inlet grille lamellas, the air vent grille on the side designed specifically for the turbo model, the trim on the trunk lid and the rear diffuser. The Bi-Xenon main headlights and front parking assist are now standard with the Platinum edition, as are the automatically dimming interior and exterior mirrors and the 19-inch Panamera Turbo alloy wheels.
In the interior, the new black/luxor beige bi-colour combination creates an especially sumptuous interior ambience. A part-leather interior package is standard, with a full leather package being available as an option. Also standard is a number of Platinum Edition badges both inside out and the Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with a high-resolution 7-inch TFT touchscreen. Prices in Germany start from €79,707 for the Panamera, from €82,206 for the Panamera diesel and from €87,323 for the Panamera 4 Platinum Edition. You can find the full press release and photo gallery after the jump.
Source: [Porsche AG]
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Porsche launches a special Gran Turismo series
Stuttgart. Starting at the end of November, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is offering a particularly exclusive and elegant version of the Panamera: the Platinum Edition. The elegant special edition Panamera, available as Panamera 4 and Panamera Diesel, stands out thanks to their subtle, independent design features in platinum silver metallic combined with expanded standard features and exclusive details.
The lower half of the side view mirrors, the air-inlet grille lamellas, the air vent grille on the side designed specifically for the turbo model, the trim on the trunk lid and the rear diffuser are all in platinum silver metallic. The interplay with one of the Edition's five exterior finish colours results in an especially harmonious and elegant appearance. Solid exterior colours are offered in black or white as well as the options of metallic basalt black, metallic carbon grey and metallic mahogany lacquer finishes. The black glossy finish used for the side window strips creates a convincing overall exterior appearance.
Delivering considerable benefits to the customer, many frequently requested extras are now coming as standard equipment with the Panamera Platinum Edition. These include the Bi-Xenon main headlights and front parking assist. The automatically dimming interior and exterior mirrors reduce glare from traffic behind you, and the 19-inch Panamera Turbo alloy wheels with the red, black and gold Porsche crest highlight the sporty elegance of the vehicle.
The new black/luxor beige bi-colour combination also creates an especially sumptuous interior ambience. Exclusively for the Panamera Platinum Edition a part-leather interior package comes as standard, with a full leather package optionally available. Compared to the previous bi-colour detailing, the new bi-colour combination patterns have been revised. Thus, along with the upper part of the dashboard and the door trim, the footwell and the back of the front seats as well as the loadspace cover are in black, while the remainder of the interior is in luxor beige. Other highlights include the standard sport design steering wheel and the distinctive Porsche crest on the front and rear headrests as well as the insignia "Platinum Edition" on the front door trim strips.
In addition, Power Steering Plus as well as front seat heating come as standard. The standard Porsche Communication Management (PCM) with navigation module keeps Platinum Edition drivers on track. With a high-resolution 7-inch TFT touchscreen and eleven loudspeakers with a combined output of 235 watts, the Porsche Communication Management with built-in navigation unit not only gives assistance with dynamic route guidance, but also ensures optimal audio sound in the vehicle.
The price for the Panamera Platinum Edition in Germany is EUR 79,707 including VAT, the diesel version costs EUR 82,206 and the Panamera 4 Platinum Edition retails for EUR 87,323.
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One key aspect to the Intel plan is to keep the AppUp Center as a place where Intel handles all validation of each application, all transactions and billing and responsibility for further developing and maintaining the catalog of apps. The company does not want partners such as Dell to build competing app stores, but instead hopes they will build storefronts to sell apps to preinstall on their netbooks and let Intel continue to run the catalog.
Dell, for example, could preinstall a storefront client on netbooks and would then get a percentage of the revenue of every app sold, said Harbert.
"It's a true app store, not a Web store," said Harbert. "The store lives on the device," he added. Intel splits revenue for every paid app with the developer, with 30 percent of revenue to Intel and the rest to the developer. Companies, such as Dell in the example, that develop storefronts to pre-install on netbooks they sell would get a portion of Intel's 30 percent take, he said.
Harbert was in Beijing in part to implore Chinese developers to start creating apps for the AppUp Center. "We expect netbooks to really take off and start shipping in volume in China in 2011, there's a big opportunity for developers," he said.
An AppUp Center client aimed at China will be out in 2011, he said. Intel recently announced similar beta clients would become available at the end of March for 27 European countries. The U.S. and Canada were first to get the clients.


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The UFC 135 weigh-ins took place at the Wells Fargo Theatre in Denver on Friday afternoon. Let's say things got a little heated… especially between Jon Jones and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
Check out the main card fighters weighing in…
Since when did heated mean, that they starred each other down. Heated is Mike Tyson attacking Lennox Lewis and biting his leg.
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After sat. night Jones will have a new nickname…. GLASS JAW JONES…..
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