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Wakeboarding Equipment Market
Wakeboarding Equipment Market Forecast, Trend Analysis & Competition Tracking - Global Market insights 2018 to 2028
Analysis of Wakeboarding Equipment market covering 30 + countries including analysis of US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Nordics, GCC countries, Japan, Korea and many more
Wakeboarding Equipment Market outlook till 2028
The popularity of extreme sports has grown significantly in this decade, which has, in turn, led to the growth of related industries including wakeboard equipment. The growing popularity of wakeboarding has increased the demand for wakeboarding equipment. There has been a sudden spurt in the population of sports enthusiasts globally, which has catalyzed the wakeboarding equipment demand. North America has been the largest wakeboarding equipment market but, in the recent past, there has been an increase in the demand from Asia Pacific and Europe. The wakeboarding equipment revenues have been multiplying at over 10% annually.
Different needs – different wakeboarding equipment
Wakeboarding equipment includes wakeboards, clothing and protective gears. The various types of wakeboards include continuous rocker, hybrid rocker, three-stage rocker and five-stage rocker. On the basis of length, wakeboards are available between 128 cm – 142 cm; however, certain customized ranges also exist. Wakeboards are also designed with a view to cater to different types of riders: beginner, intermediate and advanced riders.
Since wakeboarding is a risky sport, protective gears account for the highest revenue among all wakeboarding equipment. They include life jackets, boots and bindings, and helmets. The low replacement rate of the protective gears has been one of the key restraints for the wakeboarding equipment industry.
Clothing in the wakeboarding equipment includes shorts, swimsuits and vests; among which swimsuits represent the highest sales figures. The innovation in terms of style has led to an elevated demand for wakeboard clothing. The other accessories in the wakeboarding equipment market include bindings, ropes and handles, and packages.
Wakeboarding equipment is separately available for men, women and kids. A large number of wakeboard enthusiasts usually enjoy this with their family members, which necessitates the need for wakeboarding equipment that is suitable for all the members.
Wakeboarding equipment – a market with no demand-supply gap
A lot of water-sport infrastructure transformations have been happening across the globe, which has catalyzed the demand for wakeboarding equipment. Nearly a decade ago, wake parks did not have a defined structure as they were nearly non-existent in terms of specific design. The rise in social media and gaining coverage of water sports on TV channels have improved the wakeboarding equipment sales. The high pace of growth has left less space for the wakeboarding equipment providers to fulfill the demand and supply gap. Most of the wakeboarding equipment that is consumed is manufactured globally. The demand for eco-friendly wakeboarding equipment has been on the rise. The key manufacturers of the wakeboarding equipment have been increasing the availability of the wakeboarding equipment in the countries with high consciousness for eco-friendly products. The anticipated inclusion of wakeboarding in the 2020 Olympics is further expected to drive the demand for the wakeboarding equipment globally.
Distribution challenge for wakeboarding equipment market
The development of sales channels has been a challenge for the wakeboarding equipment manufacturers. The key sales channels for wakeboarding equipment include sports retailers, departmental stores, hypermarkets and supermarkets, and online retail. The density of sports retailers is low in the emerging countries, which is a challenge for the wakeboard manufacturers. The online purchase of wakeboarding equipment is surging due to which the key vendors are focusing on the development of this channel.
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North America adds another 100 thousand wakeboard participants
North America is the largest wakeboarding equipment market globally, and it has added 100 thousand wakeboarding participants between 2017 and 2018. In 2017, there were over three million wakeboarding participants in North America. This has kept the demand for wakeboarding equipment market in the region afloat.
Europe also has a considerable wakeboarding equipment market. The popular wakeboarding holiday locations in Europe include Serbia, Spain and Italy. The surge in the number of water parks, water sports schools and water sports clubs have amplified the demand for wakeboarding equipment in Europe and the Asia Pacific.
Fairly competitive wakeboarding equipment market
The competition is moderate in the wakeboarding equipment market. The key wakeboarding equipment market players are focusing on expanding their operations in the unexplored territories. The key vendors offering wakeboarding equipment include Eyson Lifesaving Equipment, Hyperlite, O'Brien and Ronix. Other key vendors in the wakeboarding equipment market include Airhead, Billabong, Body Glove, Cressi, Dive Rite, Jetpilot, Jobe, Rave Sports, and Slingshot.
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Metabolic Health Has Greater Impact on Diabetes than Simple Overweight/Obesity in Mexican Americans
Purpose. To compare the risk for diabetes in each of 4 categories of metabolic health and BMI. Methods. Participants were drawn from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort, a randomly selected Mexican American cohort in Texas on the US-Mexico border. Subjects were divided into 4 phenotypes according to metabolic health and BMI: metabolically healthy normal weight, metabolically healthy overweight/obese, metabolically unhealthy normal weight, and metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese. Metabolic health was defined as having less than 2 metabolic abnormalities. Overweight/obese status was assessed by BMI higher than 25 kg/m2. Diabetes was defined by the 2010 ADA definition or by being on a diabetic medication. Results. The odds ratio for diabetes risk was 2.25 in the metabolically healthy overweight/obese phenotype (95% CI 1.34, 3.79), 3.78 (1.57, 9.09) in the metabolically unhealthy normal weight phenotype, and 5.39 (3.16, 9.20) in metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese phenotype after adjusting for confounding factors compared with the metabolically healthy normal weight phenotype. Conclusions. Metabolic health had a greater effect on the increased risk for diabetes than overweight/obesity. Greater focus on metabolic health might be a more effective target for prevention and control of diabetes than emphasis on weight loss alone.
1. Introduction
The proportion of overweight/obese adults in the US increased between 1980 and 2013 from 28.8% to 36.9% in men and from 29.8% to 38.0% in women [1]. Overweight/obesity increases the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus [2, 3]. However, being metabolically unhealthy also increases the risk for type 2 diabetes [4–6]. Though these findings suggest that the risk for type 2 diabetes associated with overweight/obesity is influenced by the coexistence of metabolic abnormalities, the independent impact of these two conditions is unclear. Metabolically unhealthy normal weight (MUHNW) subjects are individuals with normal weight but with metabolic abnormalities [7, 8], but the phenotype is ill-defined. Among normal weight individuals aged 20 years or older in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 4.6% of men and 6.2% of women had three or more metabolic abnormalities [9]. Because MUHNW subjects are not overweight or obese, they may not be aware of their risks and may be missed and therefore may not benefit from adequate prevention. Nevertheless, MUHNW carries a significant risk for cardiovascular diseases [10, 11] and mortality [12]. The findings from several studies have shown the increased risk of diabetes in MUHNW individuals [4–6] compared with metabolically healthy normal weight (MHNW) individuals in different ethnicities, but only one study was conducted in Mexican Americans [6].
There is no consensus on the risk presented by the metabolically healthy overweight/obese (MHOW) phenotype [4, 5]. Evidence regarding the risk of diabetes associated with the MHOW phenotype is also uncertain. It has been reported that MHOW individuals may be more likely to develop incident diabetes compared with normal weight individuals [4–6]; however data from Kangbuk Samsung Health Study of more than 6 thousand individuals did not show a significant association with diabetes [5] and data in Mexican Americans is in any event limited [6]. Although metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese (MUHOW) subjects showed a higher risk of diabetes than MHNW phenotype [4–6, 13], only a few studies compared the diabetes risk between MUHOW, MUHNW, MHOW, and MHNW phenotypes [4–6] and only one was conducted in Mexican Americans [6].
Mexican Americans have higher prevalence of diabetes, overweight/obesity, and metabolic disturbances than non-Hispanic Whites [14–16]. The objective of this study was to compare the risk for diabetes among the 4 phenotypes divided by metabolic health and overweight/obesity status in a randomly selected cohort of Mexican American subjects.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Participants
This study was approved by the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects of the UT Health, Houston and the Institutional Review Board of the University of the Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. All study participants gave written informed consent. This cross-sectional analysis used data from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (CCHC), a homogenous community-dwelling Mexican American ongoing cohort study [17, 18]. Study subjects were recruited from randomly selected blocks according to the 2000 Census as described previously [17, 18]. At the baseline survey conducted between 2003 and 2014, 3,257 participants aged 18 years or older were recruited from their households in predominantly Mexican American cities along the Rio Grande border with Mexico. To reduce the effect of type I diabetes on the results, the participants who had diabetes before 18 years were excluded ().
All subjects responded to a detailed baseline survey of demographic characteristics, lifestyle including diet, physical activity, family, and medical history, and other exposures. Participants were asked to fast for at least 10 hours overnight before a clinic visit at the clinical research unit. Anthropometric measurements, including current weight, height, and circumferences of the waist and hip, were also taken [17, 18].
Weight was measured to the nearest tenth of a kilogram and height to the nearest tenth of a centimeter. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height squared in meters (kg/m2). Waist circumference (WC) was measured at the level of the umbilicus and hip circumference (HC) at the level of maximum width of the buttocks with participants in a standing position and breathing normally, to the nearest 0.2 cm. Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) was calculated as WC divided by HC [17]. Body fat percentage was estimated using the resistance values from the Quantum X bioelectric body composition analyzer with the sex-specific equations from Sun et al. [19]. The average of 3 blood pressure (BP) measurements taken 5 minutes apart were used.
All participants completed a detailed baseline survey that collected information on demographic characteristics, lifestyle and dietary histories, medical history, and other exposures. Physical activity was assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) short form [20]; reported minutes of physical activity per week were weighted by a metabolic equivalent (MET, multiples of resting energy expenditure) resulting in a physical activity estimate expressed as MET-minutes per week [20]. Physical activity energy expenditure was estimated using standard metabolic equivalent (MET) values [20].
2.2. Laboratory Measurements
All participants donated a blood sample at baseline. After collection, samples were placed on ice and centrifuged within 30 minutes of collection. Following processing and aliquoting, all samples were stored at −80°C until laboratory analyses were conducted. Laboratory studies performed included fasting lipid panel, hemoglobin (Hb) A1c, fasting plasma glucose, and fasting serum insulin. Homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) was calculated as fasting glucose (mg/dL)/18 × fasting insulin (mU/L)/22.5 [21]. High sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP) levels were measured using Quantikine ELISA kit (R & D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, USA).
2.3. Identification of the Overweight/Obese and Metabolic Health
Participants were categorized as overweight/obese or with normal weight using a BMI cutoff of 25.0 kg/m2 [1] and then were further categorized as metabolically healthy or unhealthy. Metabolic health was defined as having <2 of the following metabolic abnormalities: systolic BP (SBP) ≥ 130 mmHg and/or diastolic BP (DBP) ≥ 85 mmHg or on antihypertensive medication; triglyceride ≥ 150 mg/dL; high-density lipoprotein cholesterol < 40 mg/dL in men or <50 mg/dL in women; or HOMA-IR value > 90th percentile [22, 23]. Waist circumference was not included due to its high correlation with BMI [22]. To avoid bias we did not use blood glucose levels nor diabetes medication in the definition of metabolic health so as to compare the risk for diabetes in 4 phenotypes of metabolic health and BMI.
According to the above criteria, participants were divided into four phenotypes:(1)MHNW: metabolically healthy, normal weight: BMI < 25 kg/m2 and <2 metabolic risk factor;(2)MHOW: metabolically healthy, overweight/obese: BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 and <2 metabolic risk factor;(3)MUHNW: metabolically unhealthy, normal weight: BMI < 25 kg/m2 and ≥2 metabolic risk factor;(4)MUHOW: metabolically unhealthy, overweight/obese: BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 and ≥2 metabolic risk factor.
2.4. Identification of Diabetes
Diabetes was identified by the 2010 definition of diabetes of the American Diabetes Association [24] or the participants reporting being told by a health care provider that they had diabetes or if they were taking hypoglycemic medication.
2.5. Statistical Analysis
Descriptive results and the models reported in this paper were adjusted for the probability of sampling using weights taking into consideration clustering effects arising from the census block and household [17]. Log-transformation was conducted to normalize the distribution of the biomarkers studied as appropriate. Survey-weighted linear regression was used to obtain the -test statistics to compare phenotypes and to be used for multiple pairwise mean comparisons for continuous data. Survey-weighted chi-square test was used to obtain Rao-Scott adjusted chi-square statistic to compare phenotypes for categorical data. Survey-weighted logistic regression modeling was performed to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) for diabetes risk and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs) by the metabolic health and overweight/obese phenotype phenotypes adjusting for other covariates. Initially, a multivariable survey-weighted logistic regression model was created to identify independent factors associated with diabetes, among variables including the overweight/obese phenotypes, age, gender, education, reported minutes of physical activity per week, servings of fruits and vegetables per day, and alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking status. Variables that were not significant and were not confounders were excluded from the final model. The interaction effects between the independent variables were tested. The analysis involved in physical activity and dietary data was conducted in 2,044 participants because the interview was only administered in these subjects.
To compare the risk of diabetes in different metabolic health and overweight/obese phenotypes, we also used a restricted cubic spline logistic regression analysis [25] to evaluate the risk of diabetes with age ( for all participants) stratified by metabolic health and overweight/obese phenotypes. Knots were placed at the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of the distribution of age at enrollment. We excluded participants whose age at enrollment was below 20 or above 70 from the restricted cubic spline model to minimize the influence of outliers.
Sensitivity analyses were performed including fasting glucose > 100 mg/dL or on hypoglycemic medication as a component for the definition of metabolic health (metabolically healthy, 0 metabolic abnormalities; metabolically unhealthy, ≥2 metabolic abnormalities) [22, 23]. Participants were categorized as overweight (25–29.9 kg/m2) or obese (≥30 kg/m2) using BMI cutoffs of 25.0 and 30 kg/m2 [1] and separate analyses by overweight and obesity were also conducted. Statistical analyses were carried out by using SAS version 9.3 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC). All statistical tests were based on two-sided probability.
3. Results
At the time of this study a total of 3,257 individuals were enrolled in the CCHC, 2,893 participants from Brownsville and 242 participants from Harlingen (Lower Rio Grande Valley) and 138 participants from Laredo (Webb County), Texas. Among 3,247 remaining participants after excluding 10 subjects who developed diabetes before 18 years of age (to minimize potential type I diabetes), 475 subjects (14.6%) were classified as MHNW, 1,594 (49.1%) as MHOW, 72 (2.2%) as MUHNW, and 1,106 (34.1%) as MUHOW (Table 1). Mean age of this subset was 46 years; 34% were male. A total of 36.3% ( = 1,178) were classified as metabolically unhealthy. Detailed characteristics by overweight, obesity, and metabolic health were shown in Supplemental Table 1 (see Supplementary Material available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4094876).
Metabolically unhealthy phenotypes showed significantly elevated mean values of total cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipid cholesterol (HDLC), fasting glucose and insulin, HOMA IR, HbA1c, CRP, and blood pressure compared with metabolically healthy phenotypes. They were more likely to be older, cigarette smokers and unemployed, less well educated, and less likely to meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity of more than 600 MET-minutes/week. They had lower household income but more frequent family history of diabetes (all Ps < 0.05). There was no difference in gender between metabolically unhealthy and healthy phenotypes (Table 1).
Overweight/obese phenotypes were also more likely to be older, less well educated, and cigarette smoking, had lower incomes but more frequent family history of diabetes, and showed significantly elevated mean values of total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDLC, fasting glucose and insulin, HOMA IR, HbA1c, CRP, blood pressure, BMI, WC, WHR, and body fat percentage compared with normal weight phenotypes (all Ps < 0.05). There was no difference in gender, employment status, and physical activity between overweight/obese and normal weight phenotypes (Table 1).
Seventy-two participants of the cohort (2.2%) were classified as metabolically unhealthy, normal weight. Compared with other three phenotypes, MUHNW subjects were more likely to be older, unemployed, and cigarette smoking, were least likely to meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity of more than 600 MET-minutes/week, and had least income and worst mean values in total cholesterol, SBP, and HbA1c (all Ps < 0.05) (Table 1).
A total of 878 (27.04%) participants had diabetes (Table 2). Among the four phenotypes the MHNW phenotype had the lowest rates of diabetes (12%) and the MUHOW phenotype had the highest (40.3%) () (Figure 1). Metabolically unhealthy subjects showed significantly higher diabetes prevalence than metabolically healthy subjects (40.3% versus 19.6%; ). Overweight/obese phenotypes showed significantly higher diabetes prevalence than normal weight phenotypes (29.4% versus 15.2%; ).
Overweight/obese individuals showed an OR of having diabetes of 2.06 (95% CI: 1.33–3.21) after adjusting for age and metabolic health. Poor metabolic health was positively related to the increased risk of diabetes (OR = 2.46; 95% CI: 1.88–3.21) after adjusting for age and overweight/obesity, suggesting that being metabolically unhealthy carried a higher risk for diabetes than being overweight/obese (2.46 versus 2.06). The risk of diabetes by categories of BMI and metabolic status is shown in Table 2. In a multivariable adjusted logistic regression model with diabetes as the dependent variable, MHOW subjects showed an OR of having diabetes of 2.25 (95% CI 1.34–3.79), MUNW individuals showed an OR of 3.78 (95% CI 1.57–9.09), and MUHOW subjects showed an OR of 5.39 (95% CI 3.16–9.20) after adjusting for confounding factors with the MHNW phenotype as the reference (Table 2). The biggest effect comes from being metabolically unhealthy and normal weight: the adjusted odds ratio for this group compared to the metabolically healthy and normal weight one is 3.8, while the OR for metabolically unhealthy and normal weight compared to metabolically healthy and normal weight is just over 2 (Table 2). The addition of metabolically unhealthy phenotypes to obesity increases the OR for diabetes to over 5-fold (Table 2). The ORs for the risk of diabetes were greater than 1 for the metabolically unhealthy phenotype and were much higher than the ORs for MHNW and MHOW phenotypes: the difference of ORs between MUHNW and MHNW phenotypes was 278%; and the difference of ORs between MUHOW and MHOW phenotypes was 140%, while the difference of ORs between MHOW and MHNW phenotypes was 125%, and the difference of ORs between MUHNW and MUHOW phenotypes was 43%. These comparisons suggested that the risk of diabetes in metabolically unhealthy phenotype was higher than healthy phenotype in any category of BMI, and the metabolic health is more important than simple overweight/obesity. Restricted to the participants who had available data for family history of diabetes (68%), the ORs in each phenotype were not materially changed. When fasting blood glucose > 100 mg/dL or being on hypoglycemic medication was included as a component for the definition of metabolic health in the sensitivity analysis, the correlation was not significant for the MHOW phenotype, the correlation for the MUHNW phenotype remained similar, and the correlation for the MUHOW phenotype became slightly stronger. The sensitivity analysis results further suggested that the metabolic health is more important than simple overweight/obesity. Supplemental Table 2 further showed the risk of diabetes by overweight, obese, and metabolic status. Similar patterns as in Table 2 indicated that the risk of diabetes in metabolically unhealthy phenotype was higher than healthy phenotype, and the metabolic health is more important than simple overweight or obesity.
Figure 2 visually depicts the shape of the correlation between age and diabetes risk in four phenotypes after adjusting for potential confounding variables in a restricted cubic spline model. Age was positively and approximately linearly associated with the risk for diabetes in each phenotype (all Ps < 0.05). Metabolically unhealthy phenotypes had higher ORs than their corresponding counterparts in any category of BMI, and MUHNW phenotype had the highest ORs in the four phenotypes. MHOW subjects had higher ORs than MHNW subjects, and the latter had the lowest ORs in the four phenotypes.
4. Discussion
In a Mexican American cohort metabolically unhealthy subjects showed significantly increased risk for diabetes compared with metabolically healthy subjects in any category of BMI. Compared with the metabolically healthy normal weight participants (MHNW), the metabolically unhealthy, regardless of their BMI (MUHNW and MUHOW), and the metabolically healthy obese (MHOW) phenotypes had significantly increased risk of diabetes. MUHNW individuals had a fourfold increased risk and MUHOW individuals had a fivefold increased risk for diabetes compared with the MHNW phenotype. Cubic spline interpolation showed that the risk of diabetes with age was higher in metabolically unhealthy phenotype than metabolically healthy phenotype in any category of BMI. The significance of these observations is that poor metabolic health puts the individual at greater risk of diabetes than obesity alone.
A high proportion of the Mexican Americans in our population are metabolically unhealthy (36.3%) but over half (59.9%) if the definition of metabolic health includes a glucose component. Because we wanted to examine the relationship of diabetes, a disease of glucose metabolism, we excluded that from our criteria for metabolic abnormalities, yet metabolic abnormalities remain the major association with diabetes. Others have shown a high prevalence of metabolically unhealthy Mexican Americans (30%) [6]. In general, Mexican Americans also have high prevalence of diabetes, overweight/obesity, and metabolic abnormalities compared to non-Hispanic Whites [14–16]. Using both logistic regression and cubic spline models, being metabolically unhealthy posed a significantly higher risk for diabetes than being overweight. Similar observations have been made in a prospective cohort study in 6,748 Koreans [5], although the results were not all statistically significant among different overweight/obese and metabolic health phenotypes [5]. Furthermore, we found that metabolically unhealthy overweight/obese individuals were more likely to develop incident diabetes compared with their normal weight counterparts which was consistent with other findings [4–6]. An important element here is the identification of those with metabolic risk factors but who are not obese since they are at high risk for diabetes but less likely to be identified early and provided prevention education. These individuals may well be overlooked in screening programs.
It is not surprising that poor metabolic health puts the individual at a higher risk of diabetes than overweight/obesity alone. In our study, metabolically unhealthy phenotype tended to do less exercise and had lower education and less income level but had increased cigarette smoking compared with metabolically healthy phenotypes. In particular, the MUHNW phenotype showed the lowest proportion of subjects who met minimum recommendations for physical activity of ≥600 MET-minutes/week despite their normal weight, although physical activity was not significant in multivariable analysis for the risk of diabetes. Because physical activity was not correlated with diabetes risk () and metabolic health () in logistic regression models and it was not statistically significant in the multivariable adjusted model (), it was not adjusted for in the final model.
Metabolically unhealthy phenotype had higher markers of inflammation which may be the key underlying pathology. Metabolically unhealthy subjects showed significantly higher levels of CRP compared with their metabolically healthy counterparts, consistent with the known role of systemic inflammation in the risk of diabetes. Several conditions that are driven by inflammatory processes are also associated with diabetes, including rheumatoid arthritis, gout, psoriasis, and Crohn's disease, and various anti-inflammatory drugs have been approved or are in late stages of development for the treatment of these conditions [26]. Another important difference between metabolically healthy and unhealthy phenotypes was markedly higher dyslipidemia, measured as hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL-C, fasting glucose, high blood pressure, or insulin resistance observed in the metabolically unhealthy phenotype. These results suggest the importance of lifestyle modification and control of systemic inflammation in maintaining metabolic health and normoglycemia, not the simple reduction in body weight, although physical activity was not significant in multivariable analysis for the risk of diabetes.
Our study found a positive dose-response with approximately linear relationship between age and the risk of diabetes in each phenotype, stratified by overweight/obesity and metabolic health. Metabolically unhealthy phenotypes had higher risk than their corresponding counterparts in any category of BMI, and MUHNW phenotype had the highest ORs in the four phenotypes. To our knowledge, this is the first study to find the risk of diabetes with age higher in metabolically unhealthy phenotypes than in metabolically healthy phenotypes in any category of BMI. The Korean Healthy Twin Study (,687) reported that the risk of diabetes was 4.4-fold higher in MUHNW individuals than in MHNW individuals and 3.3-fold higher in MUHOW subjects than in MHNW subjects [27]. Despite a normal weight identical to the MHNW subjects, MUHNW subjects in our study presented an increased fasting serum insulin and blood glucose, HOMA IR, and HbA1c. This phenomenon may be associated with impaired insulin sensitivity (euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp or oral glucose tolerance test) [11, 28]. Although the mechanism is still not clear, at least we are now aware that the MUHNW individuals are a target population in which to identify and to prevent diabetes [27].
Previous studies have suggested that metabolic healthy overweight/obesity was not a benign condition [4–6]. MHOW individuals may be more likely to have diabetes compared with metabolically healthy normal weight peers [4, 6]. Our study found that MHOW subjects had a significant 2.14-fold elevated risk of diabetes (Table 2) and they were more likely to do this before 50 years of age compared with their MHNW counterparts (Figure 1). However, in our sensitivity analysis including fasting glucose as a component for the definition of metabolic health, the risk of diabetes was not significant for the MHOW phenotype. Clearly, the risk of diabetes in MHOW populations needs to be further investigated.
Although a small proportion of the subjects (2.22%) were classified as metabolically unhealthy normal weight phenotype, their risk for diabetes was higher than MHNW and MHOW (Table 2) and they had the highest ORs for the correlation between age and diabetes risk in the four phenotypes (Figure 2). The proportion might be increased if there is no effort to protect this population, because these subjects are not overweight or obese and they may escape detection and therefore not benefit from adequate treatment or prevention measures. Furthermore, the interventions to boost metabolic health involved changes in lifestyles such as diet, exercise, and behavior (smoking and others) which may not be related to overweight/obesity [29]. Therefore, it is very important to make efforts on improving metabolic health in any categories of BMI. The MUHNW phenotype needs to be included within the scope of prevention and control, but should not be ignored.
There are some methodological limitations in our research. The study was cross-sectional in design; thus, only association but not causal relationship may be inferred. Prospective studies are needed to further investigate whether metabolic health is more important than overweight/obesity alone. Our longitudinal data currently being collected will provide that opportunity. We could not completely rule out the possibility of residual confounding due to unmeasured or inadequately measured covariates such as the missing values with some variables.
This study had several strengths. First, this is a general population-based randomly selected Mexican American cohort, thus avoiding bias inherent in studies drawn from clinic populations or other nonrandomly selected populations with established disease or mixed ethnicity. Second, detailed information on a wide range of factors related to diabetes was available, allowing us to get a relatively comprehensive analysis of the affecting factors. Third, cubic spline interpolation was used to compare the dose-response correlation between age and the diabetes risk in different metabolic health and overweight/obese phenotypes and suggested the importance of metabolic health compared to overweight/obesity for the risk of diabetes associated with age. Finally, published studies generally only compared the disease status between obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) and normal weight phenotypes stratified by the metabolic health status, while the risk of diseases for the phenotype with BMI 25–30 kg/m2 was neglected [6, 30]. However, previous studies [2, 3] and our study found that overweight/obese individuals (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2) were at a higher risk of diabetes compared with normal weight individuals.
In conclusion, in our cohort those who had more than two markers indicating unhealthy metabolism had statistically higher prevalence and odds of having diabetes compared to those with healthy metabolism suggesting a higher risk of diabetes adjusting for age, gender or BMI, and overweight/obese. Therefore, being metabolically unhealthy is likely more important for the risk of diabetes than simply being overweight/obese. Efforts need to be focused on improving metabolic health in all categories of BMI. Early lifestyle intervention in these populations is likely to be more effective than simple weight loss.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Authors' Contribution
The authors' responsibilities were as follows: Joseph B. McCormick and Susan P. Fisher-Hoch designed research; Joseph B. McCormick, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, and Belinda Reninger conducted research; Shenghui Wu analyzed data; Kristina Vatcheva provided statistical support; Shenghui Wu, Joseph B. McCormick, and Susan P. Fisher-Hoch wrote the paper. All authors read and approved the final paper.
The authors thank their cohort team, particularly, Rocio Uribe (Brownsville), Becky Erazo (Laredo), Ariana Garza (Harlingen), and their teams, who recruited and documented the participants. The authors also thank Marcela Morris and other laboratory staff for their contributions and Christina Villarreal for administrative support. The authors thank Valley Baptist Medical Center, Brownsville, Texas, for providing them space for their Center for Clinical and Translational Science Clinical Research Unit. The authors also thank the community of Brownsville, Laredo, and Harlingen and the participants who so willingly participated in this study in their city. This work was supported by MD000170 P20 funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Centers for Translational Science Award 1U54RR023417-01 from the National Center, and the Centers for Disease Control Award RO1 DP000210-01 for Research Resources.
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2000 Damon Faulty Air Brake AlarmI saw several others discussing phantom air brake alarms on this site. We have a 2000 Damon Ultrasport on a freightliner chassis. Air pressure is fine, gauges read 120 psi +. Mechanic has checked all fluid levels, everything is ok. When the coach is in drive, air brake off, the air brake alarm starts beeping 10 seconds after engaging transmission. Does the same in reverse. Same alarm as when coach is in neutral with no brake, air brake alarm warns that the parking brake is not engaged. No alarm when coach is in neutral and air brake is in park position (as expected). I can't find a schematic for the coach to show if there is a low pressure alarm. Looked at the 2 air tanks and even bleed them down to zero, no change. Pressure came back to 120+ psi, brakes work fine, airbags work fine. Just seems there is a faulty low pressure switch connected to the transmission? Appreciate any suggestions or experience other members may have.
2004 Damon Challenger Operator/Owner Manual
sprtsx3 posted a topic in Type A motorhomesWondering where I can find a owner operator manual for a Damon 2004 Challenger. Information of any type would help. The unit has a Workhorse chassis and I think the 8.i CHEVY/GM motor.
Windshield Popping Out Of Rubber Gasket: 2004 Damon
rstrick2 posted a topic in General DiscussionWindshield popping out of rubber Gasket: We bought the 2004 Damon Motorhome new and have had many problems with water leaking around the windshield rubber gasket. in the last year we have had the windshield pop out of the rubber gasket causing large amounts of water to come in during rain storms. We sealed the windshield the best we could to keep out the rain but the glass was coming out further and further. We took it to a dealer and they removed the windshields and cleaned the rubber gasket. after a couple of days use the windshield popped out again on the top. The dealer then decided the coach needed a new rubber gasket. The dealer then went replaced the gasket and re-installed the windshields. After a week of use the top of the glass was popped out of the new rubber gasket. The dealer does not know what to do know. the Damon company now Thor Motor Coach, PO Box 1486 Elkhart, Indiana 46515 should be making a recall to fix this problem. it is happening on many of the older Damon models from 2002 - 2009, I can't get anyone to be concerned about this.
Windshield Wiper Motor Arms 2008 Damon Daybreak
GConner posted a topic in Type A motorhomesI have a 2008 38' Damon Daybreak Class A Coach with the Ford Chassis. The Windshield Wiper Arm assembly, where it attaches to the wiper motor, has broken. Does anyone know where I can get the replacement part?


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Facsimile Pamphlet, 16 pgs. Published by the American Tract Society after the Battle of Bull Run, this tract tells the patriotic story of "Charlie the Drummer Boy". In the poem, Charlie serves bravely on the battlefield and loses an arm. Charlie returns home and comforts his mother with this:
It might have been worse too—the right arm instead.
I'm glad for my country I've suffered and fought;
I'll try to be brave now, and bear as I ought
This little misfortunate that Providence sent
You will not mind, mother, if I am content.


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Tests show UPM's renewable diesel significantly reduces emissions
Finnish wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel has been found to significantly reduce harmful tailpipe emissions. A number of engine and vehicle tests have been carried out across a number of key research institutes such as VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., University of Vaasa in Finland and at FEV, an internationally recognized vehicle engineering company based in Germany.
UPM BioVerno renewable diesel has already been shown to function just like conventional diesel in all diesel engines yet it generates up to 80 percent less greenhouse gas emissions during its lifecycle compared to conventional fossil diesel fuels.
Additional proof of the excellent properties of the Finnish wood-based UPM BioVerno diesel is provided by the latest test results, which show that UPM BioVerno also reduces harmful tailpipe emissions.
These emissions, such as particle mass, hydrocarbon (HC), carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions, were reduced by up to dozens of percent compared to conventional diesel fuel, depending on vehicle technology and blend. All the tests showed similar or improved efficiency of the engine, without compromising the engine power, when UPM BioVerno was introduced to the fuel blend. In addition, it could be shown that by using 100 percent UPM BioVerno diesel, fuel consumption decreased.
FEV Germany carried out a series of tests on UPM BioVerno's effect on engine functionality and emissions with both a diesel blend containing 30 percent UPM BioVerno and 100 percent UPM BioVerno diesel. In addition to measuring engine output and fuel consumption, the tests focused on tailpipe emissions and the performance of UPM BioVerno compared with conventional diesel.
"UPM BioVerno renewable diesel was investigated in a screening campaign at FEV Germany," said Thorsten Schnorbus, manager of passenger car diesel for FEV. "The results showed that even as a 30 percent blending component, the accumulated HC emissions were reduced by more than 50 percent and the CO emissions by more than 40 percent compared to reference fossil diesel. Our tests also showed good results in NOx emissions and efficiency."
UPM BioVerno was also tested in University of Vaasa, Finland, using a heavy-duty engine. These experiments were performed in the Technobothnia Education and Research Centre in Vaasa.
"The engine experiments with a modern Finnish off-road engine showed that the more UPM BioVerno there was in the fuel blend, the lower were the CO and HC emissions of the engine," said Seppo Niemi, professor of energy technology at University of Vaasa. "The lowest CO and HC emissions were recorded when running the engine with 100 percent BioVerno. Neat BioVerno was also very favorable when looking at nanoparticle number emissions at idle. For all studied fuels and fuel blends, the smoke readings were very low."
The high-quality and higher cetane number of UPM BioVerno diesel provide cleaner combustion in the engine resulting significantly lower tailpipe emissions. Clear differences compared to conventional diesel was gained even with a 30 percent diesel blend.
"The low tailpipe emissions make UPM BioVerno diesel an even more sustainable choice for drivers," said Sari Mannonen, director of sales and marketing at UPM Biofuels. "We have developed a novel fuel for consumers using genuinely renewable sources with Finnish expertise and development work. The renewable, high-quality fuels with reduced emissions drive cleaner traffic, now and in the future."


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Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America
Tuesday, Thursday: 2:00-3:30pm
The epithet "Golden Age" is commonly used to describe the art and literature of seventeenth-century Spain. Ironically, the complex paintings of Diego Velázquez, harbingers of Manet's modernity, were produced during the decline of Spain and its Empire in Europe and the Americas. These individual artistic achievements are inextricable from an understanding of a global history and the migration of images. This course will trace the mutual impact of conquest on the visual cultures of Spain and Latin America, examine Spanish art in relation to religious, economic and political change in early modern Europe, and conclude with Goya's contribution to the myth of Spain's isolation from the European Enlightenment.
This course fulfills the following Major requirements: Geographical areas (A) or (C), and Chronological period (II), based on the topic of the final research paper or project.
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Kate Upton, the blonde bombshell from Florida has served us another sumptuous helping of her ravishing body on July's edition of GQ magazine. First, she had the YouTube community reeling with a video of her doing "the Dougie" during an LA Clippers game. Then she became this year's Sports Illustrated cover girl. This got celebrated cameraman, Terry Richardson to have a video shoot of her in the same skimpy, bright red bikini. That video, featuring Upton doing the "Cat Daddy" dance was also posted on YouTube and caused such a furor until it was eventually brought down by the site.
The twenty year old Upton will leave little to the imagination in next month's issue. The cover features an eye-popping blue and red bikini with white stars that has Upton's ample rack splashed out. She also revealed that she had a "wardrobe malfunction" during the shoot. Allegedly, her breasts popped out of her attire when she was getting shots of her spinning in a chair. What makes it even more fascinating is that it was a one-piece swimsuit.
Kate Upton is upstaging the cover girl industry with her bravado in front of cameras. In an upcoming film, "The Three Stooges" by Farrlley Brothers, the blonde bullet appears in what us referred to as a "nun-kini". It has caused a furious response from the Catholic League that term it as offensive.
Upton's other work includes being the main model for Guess, posing for Dooney & Bourke and also appearing in various shoots for Garage. For the July GQ magazine, the photos were once again taken by Terry Richardson. As always, the provocative bikini pictures will not fail to excite. The most memorable photo will be one in which Upton is shown lying on grass, slightly turned upwards, with her hands covering her bare chest. GQ magazine should expect the copies to fly off the shelves from June 26.
Photo credit : Terry Richardson / GQ


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The battery can only be used normally for 1-3 days. We usually recommend using USB.
3 x AAA Batteries (Batteries are not included)
Adaptor Input / Battery Type: 1pc USB power supply cable
Material: Wooden frame with graining coat
Dimension: 60 x 60 x 60 mm (L x W x H)
Quantity: 1 pc
Package Includes:
1 X USB cable
1 X LED wooden clock
1 X User manual
Alarm function.
Powered by USB power supply cable or 3 x AAA batteries.Buttons operation: UP, DOWN and SET
It has LED display of time and temperature alternately.
Up: To change the time in settings mode. in normal mode to change temperature Format
Time display 12-hour or 24-hour mode
This designer LED digital alarm clock is made of imitation wood and its face is enclosed inside the wood.
It also works in voice mode. Make some noise (clap your hands, rap on the table or pat the clock) nearby can wake it up.
Down: Sound Activated switch
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If the power supply is switched on,but it does not work, please press "reset" button


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I have installed OpenSUSE 11.2 on an ECS GF8200A motherboard. The installation went fine; in fact, it was able to connect to the internet to check and download updates during the installation process.
However, since the first reboot after the installation steps were completed, the OpenSUSE system cannot reach anything other than its own IP addresses (localhost on lo, static IP address on eth0, and br0 IP address). This is very strange, especially since the br0 is able to get a DHCP address from the router - but no other machine on my network can ping either the static IP address on eth0 or the DHCP address on br0.
I have search all over the internet for things to check. ifconfig and ethtool do not indicate any problems, they are reporting IP addresses and details on the card fine. I do not have any firewall enabled. The route information returns just what I expect. The lights on the system and on the switch are normal, I've used various cables and ports on the switch to eliminate that as an issue.
I ran a wireshark trace on another system (at IP address 188.8.131.52) that I had the OpenSUSE system (at 192.168.57.25) try to ping. While the ping was returning the "Destination Host Unreachable" message on OpenSUSE, The wireshark trace shows that the system is sending an ARP broadcast looking for who has IP 192.168.57.1, and the 192.168.57.1 system is responding with an ARP message containing its MAC and IP address to the OpenSUSE system. But somehow the OpenSUSE system does not see that.
Running arp -a on the pinged system shows the OpenSUSE system IP and MAC address, but interestingly, arp -a on the OpenSUSE system only shows the following:
192.168.57.100 at <incomplete> on eth0
192.168.57.100 is the default gateway defined on the openSUSE system.
So I see that the OpenSUSE system is able to send information out to the network, and when I run the ping command on it, it is sending ARP broadcasts looking for the IP address, but for some reason is not able to receive the response the target system is returning.
What might be running on the OpenSUSE system to cause this? The tx and rx counts are changing on the ifconfig command output for eth0. I can only think of the firewall, but I disabled it during the install, yast2 confirms it is disabled, and iptables -L doesn't show any rules. I must be missing something obvious, but I have run out of ideas. Any guidance or pointers to info would be appreciated- again I have does tons of Google searches and checked everything I found, but have run out of ideas. Thanks!


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Rule 613 – Witness's Prior Statement
(a) Showing or Disclosing the Statement During Examination. When examining a witness about the witness's prior statement, a party need not show it or disclose its contents to the witness. But the party must, on request, show it or disclose its contents to an adverse party's attorney.
(b) Extrinsic Evidence of a Prior Inconsistent Statement. Extrinsic evidence of a witness's prior inconsistent statement is admissible only if the witness is given an opportunity to explain or deny the statement and an adverse party is given an opportunity to examine the witness about it, or if justice so requires. This subdivision (b) does not apply to an opposing party's statement under Rule 801(d)(2).


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It's good to connect the dots of your life from morning to evening. Take a few minutes at the end of the day and reflect how you think the day went for you. Why was it a good day? Why was it a bad day? If I ask myself some questions, I can usually figure it out.
If I don't, depression does the talking. Not a good thing. Here's my own list for now.
- Who did you spend time with?
- How were your health habits today?
- How often did you find yourself using defeating words?
- If you're a person of faith, did you practice your faith's disciplines?
- Did you do something you really enjoyed? (I beat my husband on "Words with Friends by 100 points and he never loses so I really enjoyed that.)
Sometimes, we meander through our day kind of willy-nilly. We don't deliberately choose anything. We let life just swallow us up. For me, I prefer to go to bed knowing I was a little more intentional about what I did that day. I function better with structure. Most of us do.
Tailor your questions for yourself. The above list is mine for now but it doesn't stay static. I change it up now and then. Like this:
Maybe you could write your questions out and put them on your bed stand. How about on your phone? Maybe they won't even be questions. Maybe a chart or just some bullet points. It's just a way to track your day. It's whatever works best for you.
You might prefer just to take a minute or two and reflect. You might be a "journaler". It's agood thing to examine your life, not morbidly just reflectively so that tomorrow will be better than today.
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
I agree with that. When we're dealing with depression, it becomes even more important to not allow too much unstructured time. If you're struggling, that's when your thoughts can take over and run rampantly through the garden of your mind. You can grow flowers there or weeds. A "weedy" mind is not good for moi 🙂
Anyway, tonight, especially if you experience bouts of depression, look back over your day. Try and figure out why it was good or bad. (Some days, of course, are just neutral. I like those days.:)) If we don't reflect about about some things, we'll never change anything.
God bless and I hope you have a good day.


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If you've found this site, chances are you dig horror. We do, too. There are a lot of horror culture podcasts out there, but let's be honest: most of them are terrible. We're not saying ours won't be, too, but we truly believe that we can deliver the kind of experience that none of the other podcasts are really doing – a comprehensive, immersive show that covers all angles of the horror genre: film, video games, music, conventions, attractions, toys, clothing, etc.
If you're looking for a niche show, this probably won't be the podcast for you. If, however, you're like us and you love practically every angle of horror – from picking up new Halloween decorations in August (and leaving some of them up all year), to watching the same movies over and over again (often categorizing and ranking them), going to conventions and meeting the people behind the films you love, playing horror-themed video games, listening to horror soundtracks/scores, and happily allowing the genre to infiltrate nearly aspect of your life – join us! Each episode will cover a wide range of topics, with plenty of foul-mouthed banter and tangents in between.
We begin recording in September of 2018, so stay tuned!
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How webhosting can protect your domain name from scammers
Check on another site your domain name is no longer available once you buy it
When you set up a website via a webhosting company they should take a number of precautions to ensure your domain (as my friends in Sweden say domänen) name is registered securely and cannot be overtaken by anyone else. A simple way to check if they have registered your domain is to check it for availability on another webhosting site a couple of weeks after you have taken it, and if it comes up still available, something is wrong.
Domain name renewal scams
A scam which occurs from time to time is fraudulent companies contacting businesses telling them they need to re-register their domain name, and charging accordingly. When they company fills in the form and sends the money, they are handing over their payment details and at the same time transferring ownership of their precious domain name to a bunch of criminals, for want of a better word.
Security information from your webhosting provider
Your webhosting company should warn you about identifying these practices and give you information about their methods of contact which will prove it is them writing to you rather than webhosting impersonators. If they don't, feel free to ask questions about domain name security and how you will be contacted for renewal, and whether renewal will happen automatically, which often suits busy companies better.
How scammers work
The problem with domain name scams is the communications look authoritative and are very convincing to the untrained eye. It is really easy for identity thieves to get hold of email and postal addresses, the names of the people who run companies and other useful details which will help them personalize their letter or email to you and make it look completely real.
Don't underestimate the possibility of identity theft
Identity theft is growing on a massive scale due partly to the accessibility of information on the internet; for some reason there are millions of people out there who still don't think it can possibly happen to them, and that includes business owners too, who don't take proper precautions and check out exactly who is demanding money from them. If you run a business and have ever been scammed for an advertisement you never agreed to but ended up paying for, you will know what I mean. Domain name theft is just another aspect of this expanding 'industry'.
Stay private on WHOIS
One of the reasons criminals can find out about your domain names is that they are registered by your webhosting partner on the public database WHOIS. This accounts for the massive amount of spam people receive to their email addresses, too, by the way. So when you are registering your domain name using webhosting, insist your details are kept private on WHOIS as a matter of course. Some webhosting plans allow WHOIs information to be kept private as a feature, while others may charge extra. However your privacy is worth a lot when you consider the protection if affords from scammers in the future.


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The immediate condition and activity conveyed within the pictures made by painters Anita Loomis and Alexandra Rozenman is extrapolation. As the title of their current exhibition, "Untold Stories," directly tells us, the paintings allow and welcome conjecture. The artists have created environments that focus the viewer's attention towards inference, encouraging the seer to intellectually step into and become part of vague spaces and curious scenes — to participate in a surreal guessing game.
For the viewer, the stories within the compositions are open-ended and puzzling, being directed in possibility by the depicted visual objects and glimpses of human form. We approach these compositions by asking what's going on. Some paintings depict relatable imagery such as domestic interiors, landscapes and active scenes, while others are expressive and fantastical with abstracted and speculative shapes and figures.
Conceptually, at first glance, these paintings do not offer anything particularly unusual; although intriguing and visually arresting, they are a continuation of a long and firm tradition of artists creating enigmatic, metaphorical and symbolic imagery open to viewer interpretation. Moreover, in material technique and formal style, they appear as common contemporary artworks.
So, what's the twist with Loomis and Rozenman? Why are they important and worthy of investigation? Their easy, likeable quality is a clever and important trick in the narrative direction in which the viewer begins at one point of meaning and ends up with a new set of questions. What is special and unique about the places depicted is subject awareness and artist intention. In creating their paintings, both artists set the stage intentionally so that the scenes are presented as hushed, placid and mundane; the drama and secrets are unexpected.
Loomis and Rozenman are conscious of their image making. There is sly dark humor, subtle subversive commentary, unfinished activity, riddles, flirty fun and a lot of private emotion. Marie Craig, co-founder of Fountain Street Fine Art, explained in the exhibition statement that "Untold Stories … aims to challenge viewers by presenting scenes and situations that make you look twice."
Viewed from the gallery website prior to its opening, Rozenman's series is described as arriving from a body of work called "Transplanted" which focuses "on humorous narratives of cohabiting, moving with, running to, waiting for … famous artists across history." In these works, the artist places herself, in an understated, almost invisible manner, within the compositions, as subject and metaphor, to show in physical form what it could feel like to be influenced by, live with, and long for the creative ghosts of dead artists. The narratives are highly ambiguous, indirect and a bit confusing. The imagery is self-aware, but the stories are not obvious.
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On this day died the glorious holy father, the ascetic and fighter, Abba Simon of the Pillar. This saint came from the island of Sorya. When his days were three years, his father set him to tend his sheep. And he used to go to church frequently and hear the Holy Scriptures, and the grace of God moved him, and he went to a certain monastery and became a monk, and devoted himself to the ascetic life and fought the spiritual fight for many years. And he used to carry loads of dust and ashes upon his head, and he afflicted his soul with fasting and much prayer, and with prolonged periods of thirst. And then he tied a cord so tightly about his waist that is sank into his body, and very stinking worms used to issue from the wound. And his brother monks were distressed at his filthy smell, and at his dirtiness, and they all gathered together and came to the abbot, and said unto him, "If thou dost not expel this monk Simon from among us, we shall all forsake thee and depart." And the abbot said unto them, "What hath he done?" And they said unto him, "Call him, and see what he hath done"; and the abbot called Saint Abba Simon. And when Simon stood before him the abbot saw blood, mixed with pus, flowing down upon his feet, and it was an exceedingly hard matter for the abbot. And he opened Simon's apparel and saw the rope, which had cut, into his flesh, and the abbot was wroth with him, and said unto him, "Why hast thou dared to do this thing, which thou wishest to do with such toil?" And the abbot had the rope taken off the saint's body. And they continued to treat him in this saving manner for a space of fifty days, until his wound was healed. And the abbot said unto him, "O my son Simon, depart whithersoever thou wishest." And he went forth from them, and departed, and came unto a dry pit, and he dwelt therein with serpents and scorpions. And the abbot saw a vision by night wherein it seemed that one said unto him, "Why dost thou send away My servant Simon? Seek him, and bring him back, for it shall be better for him than for thee in the Day of Judgment"; and the voice rebuked him very severely because of the going forth of Abba Simon from the monastery. And when the morning had come, the abbot told all the brethren what he had seen, and how the voice had rebuked him because of Saint Simon; and the brethren were frightened, and were exceedingly sorry. And the abbot said unto them, "Depart ye and search for him in every place, and come not back to me until ye have found him." And they departed and searched for him in many places, but they found him not. And after this they went to that pit, and they lighted a lamp, and they saw him seated with the serpents and scorpions, without food and without drink; and they let down a rope to him, and they drew him up out of the pit, and they bowed low before him and said unto him, "Forgive us our sin." And Saint Abba Simon said unto them, "Forgive ye me for having caused you all sorrow, for I have transgressed the command of my teacher the abbot." And from the time when he took up his abode in the pit until they took him out he had neither eaten bread nor drunken water; and they took him to the monastery, and he lived there a life of stern self-denial, and he fought many spiritual fights. And when they had set him in the monastery, he craved not for the glory of this fleeting world, and he left the brethren and fled from them, and departed secretly, and came to a certain rock, and stood up before it for sixty days without sleeping. And after this the angel of the Lord came unto him, and comforted him, and made him to know that Gad had called him for the salvation of many souls. And then he stood for fifteen years upon a pillar, the height whereof was thirty cubits, and he performed signs and many wonders, and great healings; and he used to teach all those who came unto him. And his father sought him but found him not, and he died before he could see him. And after many years his mother heard the report of him, and she came to him whilst he was standing on the pillar, and she wept greatly; and then she used to sleep under the pillar of the saint. And the saint asked God to deal graciously with her, and she died whilst she was sleeping, and they buried her under the pillar of the saint. And Satan became envious of the saint; and smote him a severe blow in one foot, and it became diseased, but he stood upon the other foot for many years, until the diseased foot rotted, and worms dropped on the ground from it. And the captain of a gang of thieves came to him and repented under his direction, and he lived a few days [there] and died. And the saint asked our Lord Jesus Christ, and a spring of water sprang up at the foot of the pillar, for the use of those people who used to come to him to drink water for their troubles. And after this he departed to another high pillar and he stood upon it for thirty years. And when he had completed eight and forty years, during which time he lived the ascetic life and fought the spiritual fight, he departed to the God Whom he loved, having converted many infidels and pagans, and brought them into the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he taught many men, and arrayed them in the garb of the monastic life, and they became like angels of God; and he died in peace and inherited the kingdom of heaven. And when the Archbishop of Antioch heard that Saint Abba Simon was dead, he came, bringing with him priests, and deacons, and officers, and they took away the body of Saint Simon with great honor, and brought it to the city of Alexandria, with spiritual songs and psalms. And they laid it in a church there, and many signs, and wonders, and great healings took place through it. Salutation to Simon of the Pillar.
And on this day also died Saint Sophia. This saint was a kinswoman of a race of kings, and she had riches and possessions, and she crossed the Sea of Rome with her three daughters to received the seal of Christ. And the Emperor Andrianus, knowing that she was a Christian, had her and her daughters brought before him, and questioned her about her country and her name; and she said unto him, "The name which comes first with me is that of 'Christian'; as for what my kinsfolk call me, it is 'Sophia,' and I am of a noble family of Italy. And the Lord Jesus Christ hath in His mercy brought me into thy city, that I may offer myself and my daughters as an offering." And she encouraged her daughters, and bade them not to fear the tortures. And after this her three daughters finished their testimony, and she wrapped them in shrouds and buried them outside the city. And she went out to celebrate the commemoration of her three daughters with many other women of the city, and when she arrived at their graves, she bowed down and prayed, saying, "O my perfect daughters who are crowned with crowns incorruptible, may I too receive a crown with you!" And having said thee words she died in peace, and was buried with her daughters. Salutation to Sophia.
Salutation to the translation of the body of Mercurius, the fighter, which was taken to a new grave on the backs of three oxen.
Glory be to God Who is glorified in His Saints. Amen.


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Marks and reviews
The estate
The Chateau Faugeres terroir dates back to the 19th century. In 1987, Pierre-Bernard Guire and his wife inherited the estate and elevated its vineyard, with the help of Michel Rolland, to the highest level of the Saint-Emilion Grand Cru appellation. The estate teams are constantly in search for quality, aiming to express the estate's unique terroir in the glass.
The vineyard
The Chateau Faugeres vineyard covers 37 hectares in the Saint-Emilion appellation. The vineyard is managed with sustainable agriculture.
The vintage
The 2019 vintage marked a milestone at Chateau Faugeres. The remarkable Saint-Emilion terroir, with its ideal south-facing orientation, performed beautifully in 2019. The vineyard's mosaic of terroirs allowed the vines to resist the heatwaves of the summer. The harvest was rather early and spread out, yielding fully ripened fruit bound for a high-quality blend.
The winemaking
Manual harvest from September 18 to October 8. Fermentation from 25 to 30 days.
The aging
12 months of aging. 1/3 in new French oak barrels, 1/3 in barrels of one previous wine, 1/3 in barrels of two previous wines.
The blend
Merlot (70%), cabernet franc (21%), cabernet sauvignon (9%).
The tasting
Tasted as a wine future, the Chateau Faugeres 2019 is a concentrated wine with great harmony. This great Bordeaux wine is balanced and full of freshness.


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First, it was legally-sanctioned racial profiling, with a touch of totalitarian "Show me your papers" thrown in for good measure (SB 1070). Next, we were delivered a new law banning Ethnic Studies programs or any teaching that promotes "ethnic solidarity" (HB 2281). Then, the state's school superintendent announced a policy whereby teachers with "heavy accents" would be prevented from being in classrooms in which instruction was being given in English. Despite all of this, we're continually told by proponents that it's not about race but about upholding the laws and securing our borders. Wrong. Let's be clear and upfront about what's happening here: it's mainly about fear and hatred, and it appears that it's only just begun.
From a peace and conflict studies perspective, these laws promise to deepen divisions, drive a wedge through communities, separate family units, and undermine constructive dialogue. They pit working people against one another, and require neighbors to police one another. In this light, these laws will foster a climate of suspicion and antipathy, in which violence – both rhetorical and physical – can flourish. Indeed, on some level these laws themselves potentially constitute a form of "hate crimes" by persecuting and scapegoating a particular group based on that group's identity, and thus raise the specter of racially motivated violence in our communities. Heartbreakingly, it's more than just a mere specter of violence at this point for Juan Varela's family, as recently reported by the Associated Press:
Tension surrounding the passage of Arizona's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration contributed to the slaying of an Hispanic man, allegedly shot by a white neighbor, a representative of the dead man's family said Friday. Police and the family said the arrested man, 50-year-old Gary Thomas Kelley, allegedly directed racial slurs at 44-year-old Juan Daniel Varela before the May 6 shooting near their homes…. 'When you have talk that becomes aggressive, it escalates the violence,' said Carlos Galindo, a Phoenix radio commentator acting as a spokesman for Varela's relatives at a state Capitol news conference.
A local television report added further details, including a moving call from the family for peace in the face of potential violence likely to surge in the climate created by SB 1070:
The alleged killer was yelling racial slurs seconds before he fired the shots that killed 44-year-old Juan Varela. Varela was a third-generation American, yet his family claims he was called a "wetback" who was going to be sent back to Mexico by the man who murdered him…. Varela's nephew and namesake says he hopes his uncles death will not be in vain. 'That's the reason why we're here today is … to talk about hope and non-violence that we would not turn on one another, that we would not hate one another but that we would turn together with love.' The family feels the hysteria over illegal immigration contributed to Varela's death.
More broadly, and taken to their logical extent, these new laws targeting and profiling certain groups brush against the unconscionable practices of "ethnic cleansing" that have been universally condemned under international law. If it can still be doubted that this is indeed the intent of SB 1070 in particular, the law's sponsor, State Senator Russell Pearce, affirmed the rationale of displacement and forced expulsion in a recent statement defending its passage: "Our law is already working. One can just scan the newspapers and see dozens of headlines like 'Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law: Tough, Controversial New Legislation Scares Many in Underground Workforce Out of State.'"
As in other conflict-ridden spheres where such draconian policies have taken hold – including in South Africa where a young man named Mohandas Gandhi resisted racially-motivated identification laws and restrictions on the mobility of Indians – these practices of displacement and induced fear devolve principally upon racial profiling and ethnic identification. When proponents tell you that it's not about race but about upholding the law, this is reminiscent of arguments put forth in the South in defense of poll taxes and literacy tests that plainly targeted African Americans. Such noxious racism is both legally and morally indefensible, and the demand that people produce their papers in the manner prescribed by SB 1070 smacks of a totalitarianism that has no place in a democracy. Driving the point home, a video primer on how police can determine who may be here illegally (released by SB 1070 architect Kris Kobach of FAIR) includes these nuggets: "Speaks English poorly;" "Appears to be in transit or traveled a significant distance;" "Abruptly exiting from the highway;" "Out of place or unusual in a specific locale;" and "Indications from dress, appearance and demeanor that the person is an 'illegal alien.'" The potential for abuse and discrimination in such frameworks is indeed palpable.
The racialized nature of Arizona's policies becomes immediately apparent when considering the message sent by passing SB 1070 and HB 2281 in succession, and apparently the ruling rightwing regime isn't done yet with their spate of hate bills. In the queue now are additional measures, including one (SB 1097) that would "compel teachers and administrators to determine the legal status of students and their families" and require annual reporting by schools on the "adverse impact of the enrollment of students who cannot prove lawful residence in the United States." (Note that only "adverse" impacts are to be reported, and not any positive impacts of such students.) A Phoenix news station obtained emails sent and received by Pearce, including some that detail his stated intention to circumvent the 14th Amendment by "push[ing] for an Arizona bill that would refuse to accept or issue a birth certificate that recognizes citizenship to those born to illegal aliens, unless one parent is a citizen." In these messages, Pearce validates the use of the pejorative term "anchor babies" – which is unsurprising given that in recent years he "has proposed equally odious legislation, such as only allowing Americans to wed Americans, sanctioning landlords who knowingly rent to illegal aliens, and so forth."
All of this militates strongly against the arguments alleging that the gist of Arizona's intentions are merely about upholding the law, as Sarah Palin argued in a recent visit to the state. If it's about the law and not invidious racism, then we should remedy the situation by providing a clear and workable path to legality for millions of hard-working people who contribute enormously to both our economy and culture. If it's about the law, then the U.S. Constitution must be upheld as well, including the 4th and 14th Amendments, which guarantee freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, due process, and equal protection under the law. We should never put police officers in an impossible situation where they are forced to choose between ethically doing their duty and following the laws of the land. And in fact, many of them have spoken out against SB 1070, and some have even sued to block its implementation.
Political wedge issues such as those raised by what's happening now in Arizona are intended to divide us, but the path to peace will be found by working together to resolve conflicts and address the important issues of the day. We ought to strive to turn this crisis into an opportunity to overcome fear and hatred. Palin did get one thing right in her speech here endorsing SB 1070: "We're all Arizonans now." Obviously, she meant to exclude a number of constituencies from this calculus, but ironically, she stumbled upon a deeper truth in this unfolding jeremiad. Just as the Danish scuttled the Nazis' plans by standing in solidarity with Jews and others being persecuted, so too can people of good conscience everywhere stand with Arizonans as we work to undo the hatred and repression in our midst.
We are quite likely in the throes of a new civil rights movement in America. The forces of hatred and fear have fomented the dilemma for public debate, and in that we may be grateful on some level for the opportunity to openly confront certain values that have been at work more covertly since the advent of laws prohibiting express racism in America. Extremism presents many dangers, and yet also possibilities, as Martin Luther King, Jr. observed in his poignant and still relevant ***Letter from a Birmingham Jail***: "So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice?" In charting our course, we would do well to heed this reminder of the choice placed squarely before us today.
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Inspired by light, exceptional food, wine and luxury – Celebrity Cruises has revealed the first look into the newly named Suite Class restaurant, "Luminae."
Passengers in the brand's Suite Class will be able to eat there, as the venue will start appearing on ships starting in April.
Guests dining at the brand's first suite restaurant will enjoy warm hospitality, Celebrity service, and one-of-a-kind menus that are only available in Luminae.
Celebrity's dedicated team of chefs has created the new elegant menus for the venue's complimentary breakfast, lunch and dinner – each menu item will only be featured once during a two-week cruise.
With handcrafted dishes that are made from scratch, the menus will also feature locally sourced regional and seasonal ingredients inspired by the destinations Celebrity sails to among the world's seven continents.
"Everything about Luminae embodies an inspirational culinary journey for our guests. We want them to savor soulful, technique-driven cuisine, while enjoying warm and personalized service in a relaxed, stylish setting," said John Suley, James Beard-featured Executive Chef, Celebrity Cruises.
"The menus will be exquisite and guests can choose from dishes such as caviar and crème fraîche, a creamy black truffle risotto with fricassee of wild mushrooms and Parmigiano-Reggiano and a côte de bœuf with roasted root vegetables and béarnaise sauce. The handcrafted desserts will provide the sweetest ending, and a favorite of mine is the mascarpone cheesecake and pistachio nougatine with yuzu brown butter and apricot sorbet. Every menu has been precisely designed with our guests' varied palates in mind, and we hope they will love our informal, luxury dining experience."
With special touches like tableside preparation of signature dishes and the daily presentation of a new delectable gourmet chocolates and desserts cart, the menus are complete with pairings made by the restaurant's dedicated head sommelier. The wine list, specially designed for Luminae guests, will feature more than 400 selections, each from the most notable wine-producing countries in the world.