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Over the past few weeks I've taken some heat in the comments section for my writing that weight loss or weight gain involves more than a simple accounting for calories. The entirety of mainstream medicine and nutrition believe that calories are the only thing that counts and that a low-carb diet is nothing more than a clever way to get people to cut calories. Weight loss on low-carb diets, so they say, occurs only because subjects following low-carb diets reduce their caloric intake. A calorie is a calorie is a calorie they say. But is it?
I could argue that this idea isn't necessarily true because of a number of recent studies that have shown that subjects following low-carb diets actually lose more weight than their counterparts on low-fat, high carb diets despite the fact that the low-carbers consumed considerably more calories. But instead of going through these modern day studies, let's go back and look at a couple of earlier famous studies to see what we can learn.
In 1944 Ancel Keys, Ph.D., decided to undertake a long-term study of starvation. It was apparent that WWII was going to be over soon and that much of Europe was starving. Although word of the mass starvation in concentration camps was just starting to filter out into the world, it was well known the Europeans, especially Eastern European, were not getting enough food. Keys wanted to do a study of starvation to see what really happened during the process so that at war's end the victors would have a better idea of how to deal with the starving masses they were sure to encounter.
Key's recruited 36 young male volunteers from the cadre of the conscientious objectors. These were healthy, normal weight men, most of whom were working for the Civilian Public Service (CPS), an entity created to provide jobs of national importance for conscientious objectors. The men responded to brochures and bulletins distributed in the various CPS barracks showing a photo of three French toddlers staring at empty bowls over the question: WILL YOU STARVE SO THAT THEY WILL BE BETTER FED?
The subjects came to the University of Minnesota where they were housed in the cavernous area underneath the football stadium for the course of the study. They were basically kept under lock and key for the study so that Keys and his colleagues could ensure compliance. At the start of the experiment the men were fed sumptuously for the first 12 weeks.
A full-time cook, two assistants and a dietitian monitored the food intake to the smallest fraction.
According to The Great Starvation Experiment**, an excellent book about this famous study, during this lead-in phase the men ate well. A typical days food would include
a typical lunch… [that] consisted of fricasseed lamb with gravy, peas, and a carrot and raisin salad. For dinner…the men ate roast beef with gravy, whipped potatoes, tomato salad, and ice cream for dessert.
Although the three meals per day the men received added up to around 3,200 calories, which they were told approximated the normal American diet, the men said that they had never eaten better in their lives.
On day one of the starvation portion of the study, February 12, 1945, the rations were cut substantially.
The group shifted overnight from the three relatively generous meals of the control period to only two Spartan meals per day, a breakfast at 8:30 AM and supper at 5:00 PM.
The meals were designed to approximate the food available in European famine areas, with a heavy emphasis on potatoes, cabbage, and whole wheat bread. Meat was provided in quantities so small that most men would swear in later years that none was included at all.
One of the three dinners included the following:SUPPER #2
185 grams of bean-and pea soup (made with 5 grams dried peas, 16 grams of dried beans, and 15 grams fresh ham)
255 grams macaroni and cheese (made with 130 grams wet macaroni, 12 grams lard, 108 grams skim milk, 2 grams flour, and 35 grams American cheese)
40 grams rutabagas
100 grams steamed potatoes
100 grams lettuce salad (80 grams lettuce, 10 grams vinegar, 10 grams sugar)The relatively bulky 255 grams of macaroni made that particular meal an anticipated favorite among the volunteers. The wet macaroni served was roughly the amount required to fill a coffee mug about three-quarters full.
Over the twenty-four week starvation part of the study, the subjects not only lost a considerable percentage of their body weights, but suffered a number of problems as well. As the time wore on the men thought ceaselessly about food, they became lethargic, they were cold all the time, they became depressed, they developed bleeding disorders, their ankles became edematous, and some developed more serious psychological disorders.
Below is a photo of one of the young men in this study (the book shows multiple photographs – this one is typical of all the subjects). The first photo was taken a couple of years prior to the start of the study, the second is with about a month shy of the end of the experiment.
This young man suffered such psychological turmoil from the semi-starvation that he chopped off several fingers of his left hand a month or so after the bottom picture was taken.
The men in this study consumed macronutrients in the following amounts daily: protein 100 gm, fat 30 gm, and carbohydrate 225 gm. If you express these intakes as percentages, you come up with 25.5% protein, 17.2% fat and 57.3% carbohydrate.
Average energy intake of the subjects in the experiment: 1570 calories per day.
Now let's look at another experiment conducted about 25 years later.
In the late 1960s John Yudkin's group at the University of London performed a study that is most interesting in view of the Keys' semi-starvation study. (Click here to get the complete pdf of this study)
For about 15 years Dr. Yudkin and his team had been running a weight loss clinic out of the university hospital using a low-carb dietary approach. Despite the patients' doing well on the program, he and his staff had received the same criticisms all of us have who treat obese patients by restricting carbohydrates. In addition, because of his academic standing and long list of scientific publications, Yudkin's peers had given him heat over the fact that his diet didn't provide enough of all the vitamins and minerals required for health. As a consequence, he decided to do a study to see if there was any substance to their fault-finding.
He recruited 11 subjects aged 21-51 years for his study. He and his staff evaluated the regular diets of these 11 subjects over a two week period. The volunteers were then instructed on the basics of low-carb dieting as it was done in the hospital clinic and followed for two weeks on this regimen. The goal of the study was to determine the dietary intake of the essential nutrients in the low-carb diet to see if there were inadequacies.
Here were the low-carb instructions:
The instructions relating to the low carbohydrate diet were identical to those given to patients attending a hospital overweight clinic under our supervision. Essentially, the subjects were asked to take between 10 and 20 oz milk daily (about 300-600 ml), and as much meat, fish, eggs, cheese, butter, margarine, cream and leafy vegetables as they wished. The amount of carbohydrate in other food was listed in "units" with each unit consisting of 5 g carbohydrate; the subjects were told to limit these foods to not more than 10 units (or 50 g) carbohydrate daily.
As the low-carb portion of the study was progressing, Yudkin and his staff evaluated not only the intake of these subjects, but their mental status as well.
In conformity with our experience with this diet during the last 15 years, none of our subjects complained of hunger or any other ill effects; on the other hand, several volunteered statements to the effect that they had increased feeling of well-being and decreased lassitude. The average intake of calories and of protein, fat, and carbohydrate for the 11 subjects…were remarkably similar to those obtained for the six subjects of the previous study. [Yudkin had published a study in The Lancet in 1960 looking at the caloric and macronutrient intake of subjects on low-carb diets.]
Here is the chart from Yudkin's paper showing the caloric and macronutrient changes when the subjects shifted from their regular diet to the low-carbohydrate diet.
The macronutrient consumption was 83 grams of protein, 105 grams of fat and 67 grams of carbohydrate. Putting this into percentages of overall intake, we find that diet was 21.3% protein, 60.6% fat and 17.1% carbohydrate. The energy intake was 1560 calories per day, almost exactly the same as the Keys study described above.
And, remember, these people were given all the food they wanted to eat. They weren't forced to drop their calories to 1560 per day – they did it spontaneously because they had eaten until sated.
Here is the data in tabular form.
As you can see, the big difference is in the carbohydrate intake and fat intake. They are just about the reverse of one another in the two studies.
Both studies provided between 1500 and 1600 kcal per day, but with huge differences in outcome. In the Key's semi-starvation study (high-carb, low-fat) the subjects starved and obsessed on food constantly. In the Yudkin study (low-carb, high-fat), the subjects, who had no restriction on the amount of food they ate, volitionally consumed the same number of calories that the semi-starvation group did, yet reported that they had "an increases feeling of well-being." Instead of lethargy and depression reported by the Keys subjects on their low-fat, high-carb 1570 calories, those on the same number of low-carb, high-fat calories experienced "decreased lassitude."
Both groups of subjects were consuming the same number of calories, but one group starved while the other did just fine. One group had to be locked down to ensure they didn't eat more than their allotted 1570 calories; the other group voluntarily dropped their intake to 1560 calories and felt great. What was the difference? Subjects in both groups ate the same number of calories.
Maybe, just maybe it's not the number of calories that makes the difference, but the composition of the calories instead.
I know that I'm not truly comparing apples to apples with the Keys and the Yudkin studies. But the Yudkin study does confirm Yudkin's 15 years of experience before he wrote his paper and they confirm my 20 plus years of experience taking care of patients on low-carb diets. I've had many, many patients who have stayed on low-carb diets for much, much longer than the men in Keys' experiment stayed on their diets of roughly the same number of calories. Most of the papers in the medical literature on low-carb diets show a spontaneous drop in caloric intake that's about what Yudkin documented when people switch over to low-carb diets. It stands to reason that if someone had replicated Keys' experiment using the same number of calories, but with much more fat and a lot less carbohydrate, that the outcome would have been much different.
Yet the calories would have been the same.
So, I'll say it again. It's not simply a matter of calories, and anyone who says it is should perhaps give the issue a little more thought.
** Gary Taubes' new book Good Calories, Bad Calories devotes a couple of pages to this semi-starvation study as well.


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Monday, January 21
Don't Hate Me Bros, But The Kings Should Stay in Sacramento
I hated the Sacramento Kings.
From the Human Flop Vlad Divac to that rat-faced punk Mike Bibby, I have always loathed that team. And the cowbells? Ugh. They were almost as annoying as soccer fans.
In 2005, there was more than a little schadenfreude being dished out around here when Danny Fortson sat on Brad Miller in the playoffs, literally crushing this pesky little team of overrated divas and allowing us (at least before getting stomped in the next round by eventual champs San Antonio) to bask in the glory of our Cinderella team, the last good team we would see in this town for quite a while.
So you'd think with this sort of deep, borderline psychotic hatred of the Kings, I would be happy to eliminate them from the history books while getting back my beloved Seattle Supersonics. But I'm not.
Because if we gleefully swipe a team from a city that has faithfully supported them (ENOUGH WITH THE COWBELLS! I GET IT ALREADY!), we become (gulp) Oklahoma.
We will have to let go of the glorious torch of righteousness we've been able to wave in the faces of Clay Bennett, David Stern and the rest of the slimy dirtbags who lied, cheated and swindled to get their damn dirty paws on our team. We become part of the same problem that cost us a team in the same place. We become enablers of the NBA's cycle of abuse and extortion.
It's tempting to say our case is different. That at least we're being upfront about wanting to take another city's team, unlike Bubba Bennett, who claimed to be giving us a chance to show we "deserved" a team (!), while purposely tanking the organization, alienating the fanbase and demanding the city pay for the most expensive arena in NBA history. In fact, I'll probably be consoling myself with that exact straw man fallacy if this deal goes through. We're not like OKC! We're not like . . . THEM!
But in the end, the only way we can truly have a clean install of Sonics 2.0 is to start from scratch with an expansion team.
And believe me, I know how unlikely that is. The NBA already has too many teams. The only way we'd ever get an expansion team is if another team folded, and isn't that in essence what would be happening in Sacramento (and in Seattle in 2008, for that matter)? And besides, this is just business, son.
Except it isn't.
We don't watch basketball for the cold numbers of enterprise. We watch it because we fall in love with teams. We follow them like lovestruck teeny-boppers. We are crushed with every loss and walk on clouds when (or "if" in Seattle's case) they win. Sports are about irrational love, not backroom deals and corporate naming rights. When we buy another city's team, we're not just acquiring a franchise, we're taking someone's dream (See: NBA Finals, 2012).
As someone who has felt this pain, I hope the Kings stay in Sacramento. I hope they get the chance we never had. And I hope we get a new, guilt-free Seattle Supersonics someday so we can kick their miserable asses all over again.
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But I hate Bennett/Schultz, not the people of Oklahoma.
So Sacramento can hate the Maloofs without hating us, the people.
If the NBA can only support X teams, where X < Y cities, it's dog eat dog. Some city has to lose out, and it's not the winning city's fault. - 1/21/2013 3:42 PM
I don't disagree.
"But I hate Bennett/Schultz, not the people of Oklahoma.
So Sacramento can hate the Maloofs..."
@Max: Sacramento already hated the Maloofs, but the Maloofs won't be the ones petitioning for relocation on March 1, will they? - 1/21/2013 4:35 PM
I'm beginning to tire of this false dichotomy of: "Hey, the NBA can't expand, so this is the only way we can get a team."
Who says the NBA can't expand? If the NBA is in such rotten shape, why is a multi-billionaire like Steve Ballmer so interested in paying north of $525 million to own a team? If it is so horrible, why has Larry Ellison done everything short of sending in a team of ninjas to get a team for himself? It's all well and good to say the league won't expand because Stern & Co. want to maintain leverage over cities such as Milwaukee or Sacramento or whomever, but none of us know that for a fact. We might THINK we know what the reality is, but unless David Stern comes out and says, "The NBA cannot expand because there are no players left to draft on this entire planet," well, I'll be skeptical.
I could be completely and utterly wrong, but you know what, what I have stated is completely and utterly a guess, which is exactly what everyone else's statements about expansion are: A guess. - 1/21/2013 4:37 PM
- David Galloway said...
You know, Stockton, just down the road from Sacremento filed for bankruptcy last summer. The area just seems kind of depressed. I'm sure fiscal responsibility has become more important than having an NBA franchise.
- Paul said...
I am 100 percent in favor of expansion. I think the only possible snag is there probably needs to be a pair of teams to keep the number even. In that case, where does the second team go? Kansas City? Virginia? Las Vegas? San Diego? (California could have its own division!) Are those cities NBA ready? Or, like Seattle, do they have millionaires sitting around ready to overpay for a stadium/franchise?
- Unknown said...
I think the thing about expansion the NBA worries about is parity. With more teams there could be more losing teams and the competitive balance could suffer. But that is just a guess. Otherwise I wouldn't be against expansion.
- Unknown said...
There is what you want and then there's what happens. 99% of the time the fans deal with the latter. What we can do is honor our brothers and sisters in Sacramento and the love they have for the team coming here. From rocking a cowbell at the tailgate to buying a guy in a Kings Jersey a beer and shooting the shit about the old team. About the old times. As a Sonic fan my nightmare was that we would be forgotten. As a sonic 2.0.fan my goal is to focus on us. On how basketball brings us together. How without us its just 10 guys running ball. How we are the energy that creates the importance. How we will bring back our history but never let anyone forget the purple and black. Cause in the end..we all hate the Lakers.
[Any NBA expansion] needs to be a pair of teams to keep the number even.
Not true. The NBA had an odd number of teams from 1980 until 2004, and during that time expanded on three separate occasions, ignoring the necessity of creating an even number of teams each time. Obviously, an odd number of teams is not a problem.
With more teams there could be more losing teams and the competitive balance could suffer.
Again, not true. This might be possibly true if the league added, say, 4 teams in a single season, but that's not nearly the case here. The NBA hasn't expanded in nearly a decade. Remember: The Heat were an expansion team. The Magic were an expansion team. The Mavericks were an expansion team. The Raptors ... okay, ignore that last one. - 1/22/2013 9:00 AM
- Paul said...
The NBA had an odd number of teams from 1980 until 2004,
That's crazy! I had no idea. Okay, count me all in on the expansion idea. - 1/22/2013 10:47 AM
It's an honest mistake. We just assume it's a problem because everyone says it's a problem. It's like Gore Vidal said: Almost everyone's ideas are Received Opinions. If you boil down the rhetoric, there is no real reason why the NBA cannot expand.
I'm Italian, I wasn't a fan of the Supersonics, but I was really sad when Seattle lost his team. Now that the city is so close to have another team, I wanna say 2 things.
First, I don't think Seattle fans should feel guilty about taking the Kings from Sacramento. This isn't about fans and their "poor" money anymore. Owners want big arenas, with huge expensive boxes, and every possible shop they can put around them. It's not about basketball anymore. It's about rich guys fighting each other.
Second thing, we have to undestand that, after all, even if sport teams wear a uniform with a city name on it, they are not really part of the city. My town in Italy isn't a rich one, plenty of people who has to go elsewhere to find a job. For almost 10 years we had a team in the top Italian soccer league. Everyone in town was proud for that, but really that didn't change anything, it just gave you the feeling of something good associated with the city name. In the meantime, the city was and still is growing poorer than before, than ever.
You don't have to forget one thing: players do their job, they play and win, and for that they get paid. You just enjoy the show and pay a price for that. Players can like the city or not, they can also embrace the comunity and stay in town, maybe forever, but for them, money and business will come first. It's just the way it is.
I'm sorry for Sacramento. Lots of memories of their battles and the fun basketball the team played. But guys, don't forget that even if you put other 10 teams in the league, still there'll be so many big cities without an NBA team. You cannot give everyone a team, and at the same time, everyone has a right to want an NBA team in town. Your loss, my gain: it's the way the world goes, and not just in sports... - 1/22/2013 4:22 PM
Sorry for the Anonymous post, I'm Federico. On second thought, I could've stayed anonymous: I am kind of a loser... :-)
- Johnmichael Monteith said...
The NBA is a business. Businesses find they are not doing well so they sell, or move, or sometimes just cease to exist. Yes, there are emotions behind these companies. Seattle was upset when Boeing moved their corporate headquarters to Chicago - but it happens.
We are potential customers. Yes, we think of ourselves as more than that, as "fans", but in the end we are all just people that could possibly buy products from their business.
Many of us here were customers of the old Sonics franchise. I sat in Key Arena on that final game against the Jazz in the 96 playoffs. I had my "Houston, You've Got A Problem" shirt and spent my free time talking about Big Smooth, The Hawk and the Glove of Grab. Neat. Which means I was a good customer.
Now they are talking about moving a business from California to Seattle and re-naming them the Sonics. There are a couple of rich folks that want us as customers again and want to see their team come back to life. Good for them. That is what business owners do.
The bottom line is that one of our cities is going to be sad that they do not have that basketball shop open in their town. So, I suggest not getting caught up in whether it should or should not happen due to some guilt of upsetting someone. If the Sonics return then support them. If they don't, then we will continue to hope they will someday soon. - 1/31/2013 7:54 PM

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- The focus is entirely on West Eurasians (Caucasoids).
- I have excluded all potential relatives from the source datasets, as well as several populations that tend to create uninformative clusters of their own (e.g., Druze or Ashkenazi Jews); exceptions are populations of great anthropological interest (e.g., Basques).
- I have included all relevant Dodecad Ancestry Project populations with 5+ participants.
- I have developed a new way of "framing" the region of interest by choosing appropriate sets of individuals from outside of it.
- Population sources
- ADMIXTURE proportions for populations
- Fst divergences between components
- Population portraits showing individual level variation
At K=5, a new Mediterranean component emerges. This is highly represented in populations to the North, South, and East of the Mediterranean sea.
At K=7, a Southwest Asian component emerges which is highest in Arabia and East Africa. I could've called this Red Sea, but I've reserved this name for a similar component that emerges at higher K.
At K=8, we observe most of the familiar components from the K=10 analysis of the Dodecad Project. However, the use of the framing populations has meant that these components emerge before either Africans or East Eurasians split.
- It is transitional between predominantly N/C European populations to the north and predominantly W Asian populations to the south
- It is the border of the influence of the S European element, with Georgians possessing some of it, while Lezgins do not.
At K=9, we see the emergence of specific Sardinian and Basque components. Normally this is undesirable, but, I believe this breakup serves to divide the previously inferred South European component meaningfully.
K=10 is particularly exciting because, for the first time, there is clear evidence of structure in the North/Central European component that can now be split, for the first time, into Northwestern and Northeastern ones.
At K=11 the Ethiopian/East African component emerges, absorbing some of the Red Sea and Sub-Saharan components from the previous K=10 run.
Compare with Lezgins (right) where these two components occur in all individuals. Whatever this admixture represents, it must be old enough if it is so uniformly distributed in the population.
Here are the Georgians at K=10. Notice that their NE European component is unevenly distributed, and in every case where it occurs it is accompanied by a thin slice of East Asian. This may well indicate partial Russian or other Eastern European ancestry in these individuals.
Side-by-side comparisons are also quite useful. Consider Armenians vs. Lezgins vs. Iranians at K=7
Notice how Lezgins, who live north of the Caucasus mountains possess some of the N/C European component, which the Armenians, who live to the south of them lack. This should come as no surprise, as the Lezgins inhabit parts of the ancient Sarmatia Asiatica. Compare with Iranians, who are differentiated by their Indo-European Armenian neighbors by the presence of a "S Asian" component, which, in turn, ties them to their Indo-Aryan linguistic relatives.


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Get ready to dance, because it's Mardi Gras — a day to cut loose before Lent begins. In New Orleans, that means a day of parades, costumes and music everywhere you turn.
For the members of Galactic, Mardi Gras actually started on Monday, with an "annual gig that goes until the sun comes up at local club Tipitina's," saxophonist and harmonica player Ben Ellman says. For the long-running New Orleans funk band, it's one of the biggest gigs of the year.
"And then people go out and try to find the [Mardi Gras] Indians, or they'll line up for Zulu, or whatever early thing they want to do," drummer Stanton Moore says in an interview with All Things Considered host Melissa Block. "But some of our older friends have started getting wise, and they'll actually go to sleep early, like 8 or 9, wake up around 4 or 5 a.m., and then come see us bright-eyed and bushy-tailed."
On Galactic's new album, Carnivale Electricos, the band leads listeners through the whole day of Mardi Gras, which starts with "Ha Di Ka." The song features Juan Pardo from the Golden Comanche tribe of New Orleans.
"[Juan Pardo] just represents one of the many tribes of Mardi Gras Indians, and they spend all year making these beautiful, beautiful suits," Ellman says. "They come out a couple times a year and show off and parade through the streets and do their thing."
Moving down the parade route, "Karate" features the KIPP Renaissance High School Marching Band. For Moore, it was the marching bands that got him "interested in playing drums in the first place."
"My mom started bringing me to Mardi Gras parades when I was 8 months old. You know, [there are] pictures of me from that first Mardi Gras in a clown outfit," Moore says, laughing. "As I got a little bit older — 3, 4, 5 — I started to really be impacted by the drums coming down the street at the parades. I took note of the excitement that people would get from the drums coming, and you would hear the drums first when the band was coming down the street. I started hitting on everything I could find in the house. I knew about then that I wanted to hit on stuff for a living."
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Ben Ellman says that seeing those marching bands come down the street feels amazing.
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New Orleans rapper Mystikal makes an appearance in Galactic's "Move Fast," as does producer Mannie Fresh. Moore says you can hear hip-hop just about anywhere during Mardi Gras.
"People will set up their pick-up trucks or even box trucks," Moore says. "They'll put a box truck on the parade route and use that as their party headquarters, and sometimes they have small PAs blaring their music of choice out the back of these box trucks."
"Under the freeway overpass, too, you have DJs set up sound systems and such," Ellman says. "It's a party."
The whole city shuts down for Mardi Gras, and Ellman says it's hard to stay home.
"It's a Tuesday everywhere else, but in New Orleans, it's Mardi Gras," he says. "Everything's closed, the streets are packed, there are different kinds of parties everywhere, so I find it really hard to stay home. I never have."
All great things must end, though, so it's appropriate that Carnivale Electricos closes Mardi Gras with "Ash Wednesday Sunrise."
"You're spent, and you had a great time, but you're also sort of glad it's over because it's so exhausting," Moore says.
"Ash Wednesday is sleep, that's what it is," Ellman says. "Sleep all day."
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Rush-Hour Moscow Train Derailment Kills 21, Injures 136
A subway train derailed Tuesday deep below Moscow's streets, twisting and mangling crowded rail cars at the height of the morning rush hour. At least 21 people were killed, Russian officials said, and 136 more were hospitalized, many with serious injuries.
The Russian capital's airports and transit systems have been a prime target for terrorists over the past two decades, but multiple officials vigorously dismissed terrorism as a possible cause.
The Moscow Metro is world-famous for its palatial interiors with mosaics, chandeliers and marble benches. Park Pobedy, where the derailment occurred, is Moscow's deepest metro station - 84 meters (275 feet) below the surface - which made the rescue particularly difficult. The station serves the vast park where Russia's World War II museum is located.
It was unclear what caused the train to derail. Lines of inquiry included a fault in one of the cars or the sinking of the roadbed, according to Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia's top investigative body. He said other officials who said earlier that a power surge triggered an alarm, causing the train to stop abruptly, were incorrect.
Of the 136 people hospitalized, at least 42 were in grave condition, health officials said. One citizen of China and one citizen of Tajikistan were among those killed, Russian news agencies quoted city officials as saying.
Over 1,100 people were evacuated from the train, which was stuck between two stations, in a rescue operation that lasted at least 12 hours.
By evening, rescuers had recovered all but two of the bodies trapped in the wrecked train cars, said Yury Akimov, deputy chief of Moscow's emergency services. One woman taken from the scene died at a Moscow hospital.
In video released by the Emergency Situations Ministry, several wrecked train cars looked almost coiled, occupying the entire width of the tunnel. Workers were trying to force open the mangled doors of one car to retrieve bodies. Photos posted on social media sites showed passengers walking along the tracks in the dimly lit tunnel.
Russian officials rushed to open an investigation into the accident. President Vladimir Putin, who is traveling in Brazil, demanded a detailed investigation into the "reasons for the event" and asked the country's top investigators to open a criminal case, his spokesman told Russian news agencies.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also told reporters that unnamed officials will not only be fired but also charged with crimes, though he would not say what charges they might face. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev offered his condolences for the victims and their families.
Dozens of injured people were carried out of the station on stretchers. Paramedics carried one woman covered with a blanket to the lawn by the Triumphal Arch, which commemorates Russia's victory over Napoleon, and put her on a helicopter ambulance.
Several survivors sat on the sidewalk near the station's entrance in an apparent state of shock, drinking water supplied by authorities on a hot summer day.
Witnesses told Rossiya 24 television that they felt a sharp impact that knocked them off their feet and hurled them across the train cars.
"Everybody spun to one side," said one witness. "There was a sharp brake, and smoke was in the air. People couldn't leave for a long time. The way was blocked."
While technical glitches are regular occurrences in the Moscow Metro, the subway hasn't seen deadly accidents in decades.
Terrorism is another matter. More than 100 people have been killed in bombings on Moscow's subway trains or near stations since 2000, including two bomb blasts on the same day in 2010 that killed a total of 40 people.


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The next Nexus 7 may increase the resolution of its display to 1080p and maintain the relationship between Asus and Google, according to a report from Digitimes. The follow-up has been rumored for some time, but now Digitimes suggests Google will tweak the device with updates while maintaining the starting $199 price.
Google scarcely promoted the Nexus 7's IPS display, which was an impressive 7-inch 1280×800 and rivaled the screen of the Kindle Fire HD. If Google preserves the aspect ratio of the Nexus 7 in its follow-up, the new display would be 1728×1080; if it conforms to a standard HD display, 1920×1080. Digitimes also suggests Google and Asus may slim down the bezel surrounding the screen, which might allow an aspect ratio change.
Reports on sales of the first Nexus 7 have been rare outside of the ballpark figures from Asus CEO David Cheng suggesting Google had sold about three million units in the four months following its launch. Digitimes indicates Nexus 7 sales have remained steady and that six million units will have shipped by the end of January. Reports on the success of the Nexus 10, or a successor to it, have also been scarce.
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Still struggling to recover from Superstorm Sandy, parts of New Jersey, New York City and surrounding regions are today digging out from a Nor'easter that dropped several inches of snow (more in some places) and caused more power outages.
We're following the news about the impact of the latest storm.
Update at noon, ET. Getting The Power Back On In New Jersey:
"About 40,000 [customers] remain without lights because of hurricane-speed wind gusts, driving rain and heavy, wet snow that descended on the region Wednesday," The Star-Ledger reports. Across the northern part of New Jersey and along the coast, "about 110,000 are awaiting to get their power restored, including 70,000 whose power was knocked out due to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath."
As The New York Times' City Room blog says:
"Wednesday's northeaster might not have brought the flooding that was predicted, but thanks to up to a foot of heavy, wet snow and stiff winds, it still knocked out power to at least 375,000 homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, utility companies said, dealing a setback to the region's slow recovery from Hurricane Sandy.
"But utility companies said that their crews — supplemented by thousands of reinforcements from across the country — were working quickly and had already restored power to many or most of their customers that lost it yesterday."
Our original post, from 7 a.m. ET:
"Nine days after Hurricane Sandy transformed the state, destroying coastal defenses and shattering the power grid," a Nor'easter has "heaped fresh hardship and fear atop lingering misery," New Jersey's Star-Ledger writes.
As promised, The Associated Press says, the storm "brought gusting winds, rain, snow and the threat of flooding ... menaced travelers with icy roads, snarled the Long Island Rail Road and knocked out power to people who had only recently gotten it back."
In short, it added "insult to injury," NPR's Martin Kaste said earlier on Morning Edition.
According to The New York Times:
"The storm, which covered cars and trees in the region in a coat of white, brought down power lines faster than repair crews could keep up, and fierce winds and blowing snow threatened to drive the crews off the job. By about 5 p.m. [Wednesday], the northeaster had knocked out electricity to roughly 13,000 Consolidated Edison customers. All told, about 77,000 Con Edison customers had no power on Wednesday evening, up from about 64,000 earlier in the day, according to the company's Web site.
"The numbers also went up on Long Island. The Long Island Power Authority began the day saying that 184,000 customers still lacked power. By day's end, the total was 199,000.
"About 151,000 Public Service Electric and Gas customers in New Jersey had no power before the new storm arrived. The company said the storm caused an additional 90,000 power failures statewide."
There is, thankfully, good news about what's expected in coming days. Temperatures are expected to rise into the 60s this weekend in the region.
Our colleagues at WNYC continue to track the storm with this radar map.
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There was no shift over the weekend by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum when he was asked about his comment last year that then-presidential candidate John Kennedy's famous 1960 speech about religion and the separation of church and state makes him want to throw up.
The Boston Globe writes that on Sunday:
"Santorum said his disagreement with Kennedy came from the line in Kennedy's speech that read, 'I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.'
" 'I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,' Santorum said ... on ABC's This Week. 'The idea that the church should have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical of the objectives and vision of our country.' "
A transcript of then-Sen. Kennedy's Sept. 12, 1960, address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association is posted here at the website of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. You can also listen to it. Here's an excerpt, starting with Kennedy's explanation for why he felt he needed to address the subject:
"Because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again — not what kind of church I believe in, for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in.
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute --where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
"I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish--where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source — where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
On This Week, Santorum — a former senator from Pennsylvania and a Catholic — made the case Kennedy was arguing that people of faith have no place "in the public square." A reading of Kennedy's address, however, doesn't show the then-senator saying that.
This is another critical week for the race for the GOP presidential nomination, with primaries Tuesday in Arizona and Michigan. This morning, Politico reports that its latest national poll of Republicans shows Santorum and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney virtually tied.
Our friends at It's All Politics are following the 2012 presidential campaign here.
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I recently had a craving for something chewy and chocolaty so what better way to thwart off any hunger pains than with a chocolaty treat. It also gave me the excuse to join in on the fun with Marc from No Recipes and Susan of Sticky Gooey Creamy Chewy for their Dinner & a Movie Event. Each month they will take us on a delicious journey though some of the most gastronomically inspirational films. Each month there will be a new movie to watch which will hopefully inspire you to cook something amazing.
Brownies come in all guises, shapes and sizes...with nuts, without nuts, swirled with cream cheese, sprinkled with chips, spiked with espresso or even better booze, or just plain chocolate in a million variations. And if this doesn't cure your addiction how's about topped with ice cream and a chocolate sauce!!!
But the most important aspect of a brownie, for anyone who loves brownies, is texture. There are three camps: cakey, fudgy and chewy. I thought my feet were firmly planted in the chewy category but I can be easily swayed by a little chocolate. Just don't overcook them and remember to share. Email me for my address...wink...wink...
1) FUDGY- dense, with a moist, intensely chocolaty interior. I think of it as somewhere between a rich truffle torte and a piece of fudge.
2) CHEWY:moist, but not quite as gooey as a fudgy one. The chewiness seems to come from a couple of different factors: more all-purpose flour, and whole eggs.
3) CAKEY: a moist crumb and a slightly fluffy interior. When I mix cakey brownies, I use a bit of cake-baking technique by creaming the butter and sugar first and then whisking the batter to aerate the mixture and get a light crumb like my Mascarpone Brownies.
After testing, tasting, and canvassing friends and colleagues I have officially, and maybe not temporarily, swung over to fudgy camp for these "caramely, salty, chocolaty" treats... Mari Tuttle's Caramel Sea Salt Brownies. I have been happily converted!!!
I'll say right off the bat that I could never claim to be an expert on brownies—there are so many recipes, and everyone has a favorite. But there are definitely guidelines to follow so that you can make the style of brownie that suits your taste, whether it's cakey, fudgy, or chewy.
a) Start your brownies with melted chocolate. Whether you melt it with butter or not, use the gentle heat of a double boiler—there's no remedy for scorched chocolate.
b) All brownie recipes have enough chocolate flavor to satisfy a chocolate yearning, and they all have similar ingredients. Killer brownies don't need expensive chocolate!!! But because of the different proportions of these ingredients and varying amounts of chocolate, butter, sugar, and flour, the texture of each brownie is quite different.
c) In addition to ingredient proportions, baking time greatly affects the consistency of a brownie, so it's important to be attentive. Fudgy brownies baked three minutes too short can be unpleasantly gooey; chewy brownies baked three minutes too long become tough and dry.
d) Brownies will cook more quickly in metal pans than in glass, which is what accounts for the wide time windows in the recipes. If you're using metal, cooking times will be on the short side; with Pyrex, they'll be longer.
e) For all your brownie recipes, and regardless of the pan you're using, start testing for doneness after 20 minutes of baking. First, press your fingers gently into the center of the pan. If the brownie feels like it's just setting, insert a toothpick near the center.
-Brownies are underdone when smudges of wet batter cling to the toothpick.
-Brownies are just right when traces of moistness and fudgy crumbs cling to the toothpick.
-Brownies are overdone when the toothpick comes out perfectly clean.
f) For uniform squares, flip the cooled, whole brownie out of the pan. You'll have a much easier time cutting neat squares, with the option of cutting off the edges if you want to. Lining the pan bottoms with parchment makes it much easier to get the brownie out of the pan. If you don't have any on hand, waxed paper works, too.
g) Although it's awfully tempting to cut into a pan of just-baked brownies be patient. The flavor and texture of each type of brownie will be at their best when completely cool. Well worth waiting for!!!
Mari Tuttle is owner of Mari's New York, a New York based company that specializes in gourmet artisanal brownies. For more information about her company, please visit her site here .
1 stick (4 oz) unsalted butter
4 oz unsweetened chocolate
2 large eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup unbleached flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup caramel sauce, warmed*
1/4 teaspoon sea salt, preferably fleur de sel
Preheat oven to 350º. Grease an 8 x 8 square pan. Line with parchment; grease again.Sift flour; measure; resift with salt. Over double boiler, melt butter. Once melted, add chocolate; stir until melted. Remove from heat.
With hand or stand mixer, whisk eggs, sugar and vanilla extract together until fluffy and light in color; add chocolate mixture; mix until combined; fold in flour. Pour half the batter into pan; smooth top; pour half the caramel sauce over mixture; smooth evenly; pour remaining batter over caramel; smooth top again.
Drizzle remaining caramel sauce over top, in one continuous zig-zag pattern. Turn pan 90 degrees; with toothpick, drag tip through top caramel and batter layer making same zig-zag pattern.
Bake for 20 minutes, turn pan and bake for 15 minutes more.Remove from oven and sprinkle sea salt on top. When cool, cut into squares or bars. Enjoy!
1/2 cup hot water
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pour sugar into heavy skillet and caramelize over low heat; constantly stirring until it has completely melted and is light brown in color. Remove from heat and very slowly stir in hot water. Don't worry if sugar clumps, it will melt again when you reheat the mixture.Return the pan to medium heat; stirring to melt sugar clumps. Mixture will begin to boil. Continue boiling until mixture thickens and the boil isn't as rapid. Remove from heat; add butter, salt and vanilla. Strain if there are remaining sugar clumps.
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Still haven't filed your taxes, eh?
Well, you have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to get it all done — or at least file for an extension that gets you off the hook until Oct. 15. To help all of you procrastinators, here are answers to a few of your questions.
If I'm filing by mail, can I come skidding into the post office at 11:58 p.m. and still make the deadline?
Maybe — depending on where you live. Most post office locations will keep regular hours; some will stay open until 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. to make sure tax returns get postmarked before midnight. And a few — very few — will stay open until midnight to let the extreme procrastinators get a postmark stamped by 11:59 p.m.
To find your local office's regular hours of operation, visit and select "Find Locations." To find offices with extended hours, call 1-800-ASK-USPS (1-800-275-8777).
And the IRS says that to submit a valid filing, your envelope not only has to make the postmark deadline, but it also has to have the correct address and enough postage.
These days, most people file electronically. What's the deadline for that?
The IRS says your tax return must be time stamped by an IRS-authorized electronic-return transmitter by 11:59 p.m. Fortunately, those transmitters take into account your time zone. So taxpayers in Boston have a midnight deadline and so do those in Seattle — even though there is a three-hour difference between the two cities.
I hate doing my taxes. Can I make it more fun by taking my laptop to a coffee shop? The flow of caffeine helps keep my mind sharp.
Security experts say it's a bad idea to transmit important financial information using a public Wi-Fi connection. A public network makes it easier for bad actors to be listening in and intercepting your personal data.
And don't file from your work computer either. You never know — there could be an unscrupulous network administrator who is electronically looking over your shoulder to spot your Social Security number. It's best to do your taxes at home.
And one more thing: Don't have a lot of browser tabs open when you are filling in your tax forms. You don't want to have spyware infecting one window while you are trying to file your information with the IRS in another.
I give up. I really won't have time to get my taxes figured out by 11:59 p.m. Monday. What can I do?
It's easy to file for an extension to give yourself an extra six months. There's no harm in it — roughly 140 million people file tax returns each year, and nearly 11 million will ask for an extension. No biggie.
But here's the important thing to remember: Pushing back the filing deadline doesn't change the pay-your-taxes deadline. You owe your tax payment to the IRS by April 15, and if you don't pony up, you could face interest payments and penalties on what you owe.
If you are like most people and have a tax refund coming to you, then it doesn't hurt to file for an extension. It only delays the arrival of your annual refund check. If you don't mind waiting, then neither does the IRS.
Just fill out Form 4868 and mail it by Monday's deadline. Or file it electronically.
If you owe money to the IRS, then do your best to estimate the amount and send it in. And if you just can't afford to pay your taxes now, you may qualify for a payment plan or other relief. The important thing is to file and let IRS officials know you are trying to deal with your situation, not hiding from the tax man.
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EPISODES INCLUDE: Brotherhood of Man 02-19-52, Killers Live to Die 02-21-52, The Missing Heir 02-26-52, Laurie and the New Recruits 02-28-52, Thunderbird 03-04-52, The Land Otter's Totem 03-06-52, The Burial Totem Case 03-11-52, The Killer Whale 03-13-52, The Sun and Raven 03-18-52, The Prisoner 03-20-52, The Boy from Seattle 03-25-52, The Death Card 03-27-52, Hard Luck 04-01-52, The Ice Trail 04-03-52, Arctic Odyssey 04-08-52, Out of the Past 04-10-52


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Eating fibers and grains is a key element for one's good health – I have no problem there, but know that many people can't stand them, especially kids. And my husband. :S
One alternative is tricking the kids into eating oats by adding them to baked goods - I have already done that with my nieces, without much success.
It's like Brad Pitt's "rich" acting skills - they only become tolerable with these gentlemen I love so much.
So, for those who don't like oats I recommend these cookies. They taste amazing and will be gone in no time – oats and all. :)
Dark chocolate oatmeal cookies
slightly adapted from here
1 ½ cups (210g) all purpose flour
½ cup (45g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup (226g/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup (200g) sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons thin rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips or chunks
Preheat oven to 180ºC/350ºF; line two large baking sheets with baking paper.
Whisk first flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt together in medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy. Add sugar and vanilla; beat until blended. Add flour mixture and beat until moist clumps form. Mix in oats with spatula until evenly distributed (dough will be very firm). Add chocolate chips and white chocolate chips and knead gently to blend.
Using moistened palms or a cookie scoop, shape 1 generous tablespoon dough into ball. Place on prepared sheet; flatten to 5cm (2-inch) round. Repeat with remaining dough, spacing rounds about 5cm (2 in) apart.
Bake cookies until center is slightly firm and top is cracked, about 14 minutes – mine needed 16. Cool on sheets.
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(Think of this as a coffee break from the day's serious stories.)
The standard may have been set back in December when 228 drive-through customers at a Tim Horton's in Winnipeg paid for the order of the folks in the next vehicle.
It was sort of a case of "pay it forward" by paying it backward.
This past Saturday at the Heav'nly Donuts shop in Amesbury, Mass., the number didn't come close to 228. But there was still an impressive string of random acts of kindness. "Fifty-five customers rolled through the drive-thru back-to-back, each one paying for the next order," reports Boston's WBZ-TV. And according to the station:
"Employees were stunned that every customer was so willing and eager to continue the chain, especially when orders ranged anywhere from $5 to $20."
What broke the chain? Wendy Clement, the shop's manager, tells WBZ that the good deeds came to an end only when there were no more cars in line.
We suspect that this will happen again in other places. Feel free to share any similar stories you've heard about in the comments thread.
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2009. Active deformation in old oceanic lithosphere and significance for earthquake hazard: Seismic imaging of the Coral Patch Ridge area and neighboring abyssal plains (SW Iberian Margin). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 14:2206–2231.
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