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Before joining PBA in the summer of 2005, Dr. Toth was professor of microbiology at Seminole Community College. Dr. Toth has a wide range of professional, business, research and academic experience. She has taught at St. Peters College, Seton Hall University, St. John's University and Bloomfield College. She has been vice president of scientific affairs at Terra Bio Chem Services and The National Disease Research Institute, and before that was scientific affairs director at BioTest Diagnostics and the Pall Corporation.
After obtaining her doctorate from St. Johns, she was a postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University; she then became a research associate at Rockefeller University, where she directed numerous research projects in molecular genetics, culminating in research involving expression of DNA library related to the regulation of gene expression of Kidney Androgen Protein (KAP).
Dr. Toth is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society of Endocrinology. She has presented at numerous conferences and has published a wide variety of articles in referred journals in such diverse areas as microbiology, industrial hygiene, bioremediation, indoor air quality, viral contaminants, plasmid DNA characterization and motivating students in the sciences.
A native of Hungary, Dr. Toth also lived in Vienna, Austria, before coming to the United States. She has done volunteer work for the United Way of America and Project Cuddle, an organization providing services to abandoned infants. She has served as director of grief management for the Notre Dame Mount Carmel Church and is a trained Hospice attendant. Dr. Toth currently is compiling her spiritual beliefs into a motivational book, titled "In Search of the Soul." She has three children.


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Chantelle was having a rough morning. Her hands were so stiff that she could barely
dial the combination on her locker. Then she couldn't move her fingers well enough
to play her clarinet. It seemed that ever since marching band practice had started
in the early summer, her hands and feet felt sore in the mornings. She was also tired
all the time, and no matter how much she rested, she still felt sleepy and achy all
Chantelle told her doctor about her achy hands and feet and how she felt tired
all the time. The doctor sent her for blood tests. A few days later, the doctor called
and told Chantelle's dad that she might have lupus.
Normally, a person's immune system works by producing immunity cells and antibodies,
special substances that fight germs and infections.
But when a person has lupus, the immune system goes into overdrive and can't tell
the difference between some of the body's normal, healthy cells and germs that can
cause infection. So the immune system responds by making autoantibodies
that attack the body's normal cells.
The three types of lupus are:
1. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (pronounced: er-uh-thee-muh-TOE-sus)
Also called SLE, this is the type of lupus that most people mean when they talk
about the disease. It was given its name by a 19th century French doctor who thought
that the facial rash of some people with lupus looked like the bite or scratch of
a wolf ("lupus" is Latin for wolf and "erythematosus" is Latin for red).
SLE is the most serious form of lupus. Like Chantelle, about 15% of the people
who have SLE first start to feel sick when they are teens. SLE can affect the skin,
joints, and tendons. It may also affect organs like the brain, heart, lungs, and kidneys.
2. Cutaneous (or skin) Lupus
This type of lupus is a skin disease that causes a rash on the face, neck, scalp,
and ears. There are two types of cutaneous lupus: discoid lupus erythematosus
(DLE), which can cause scarring; and subacute cutaneous
lupus erythematosus (SCLE), which doesn't cause
Discoid lupus is a much more rare form of lupus than SLE, although about 10% of
people with discoid lupus will develop a mild form of SLE. It doesn't affect other
body organs the way that SLE can.
3. Drug-Induced Lupus
This type of lupus is caused by a reaction to certain kinds of medicines. For example,
some types of anti-seizure medicines and acne medicines can cause this kind of lupus
in teens. Drug-induced lupus is similar to SLE in the ways it affects the body, but
once a person stops taking the medicine, the symptoms usually go away.
No one really knows what causes lupus. Researchers think that some people may be
more likely to get it due to things that are out of their control, like:
Lupus can be hard to diagnose because its symptoms can vary from one person to
the next. The symptoms can also make lupus look like certain other diseases. For example,
like Chantelle, people with lupus may feel weak and fatigued. They may have muscle
aches, loss of appetite, swollen glands, and hair loss. Sometimes they have abdominal
pain, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting.
The doctor may perform certain blood tests when lupus is suspected and will probably
send the person to a rheumatologist (pronounced: roo-muh-TOL-uh-jist).
Rheumatologists are doctors who have special training in diagnosing and treating autoimmune
diseases like lupus.
Because signs and symptoms of SLE can be so varied, a rheumatologist will look
for 11 specific signs:
Someone with four or more of these signs or symptoms is likely
to have SLE. Most patients don't develop all 11 of them.
The type of treatment someone gets often depends on how severe the lupus is and
which body systems are affected. Almost all people with SLE take some kind of medicine
to help control their lupus. Patients whose joints hurt often take acetaminophen (such
as Tylenol) or ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) to help with the pain.
Others take antimalarial drugs (medicines first developed to prevent and treat
malaria, but that have also been found to help treat lupus). Antimalarial drugs often
help treat skin rashes and joint pain.
Some rheumatologists prescribe anti-inflammatory steroids, medicines that help
fight the fatigue and fever that can affect people with SLE. People with lupus that
affects important body organs may be given other immunosuppressive drugs. These drugs
help stop the immune system from producing the autoantibodies that destroy healthy
cells. These drugs are very strong, though, and can have side effects. So they are
used only when it's really necessary.
In addition to taking medicine, a big part of treating lupus may involve lifestyle
changes. Part of managing lupus is controlling the symptoms and preventing flares.
A flare is a period of time when the disease gets worse. During a flare, a person
feels much more tired, sick, feverish, and achy than usual. A flare can also harm
important body organs.
For a lot of people with lupus, paying close attention to certain health habits
can help prevent their symptoms from flaring up. Getting enough rest and avoiding
becoming too busy or overly stressed are helpful. Eating well and exercising regularly
can also help a person avoid a flare.
People with lupus can learn to manage the disease to minimize its impact on their
lives. Some teens work with a health care team, getting help from a rheumatologist,
a nephrologist (a doctor who specializes in kidney problems), a nurse practitioner,
and a social worker. Because lupus can differ from one person to another, the team
will create a special treatment plan based on someone's individual needs.
When it comes to staying healthy, sometimes the things people with lupus don't
do can be just as important as those they do. Rheumatologists recommend that people
with lupus not spend time in the sun unless they wear lots of sunscreen and protective
clothing because ultraviolet rays can bring on a flare.
Smoking, drinking, and drugs are a bad idea for teens with lupus. Alcohol can throw
off the balance of certain medications, a dangerous situation for someone with lupus.
Tattooing and body piercing are also risky because of an increased risk of infection.
Some of the medications doctors prescribe for lupus suppress the immune system and
don't allow the body to fight infections as it usually would.
Doctors also advise that teen girls with lupus stay away from birth control pills
containing the hormone estrogen, particularly pills with high-dose estrogen. Researchers
believe that the extra estrogen in the pills can make symptoms worse. Some females
with lupus can safely take low dose estrogen pills. The doctor can do blood tests
to determine which types are safe for a particular patient.
With the right medicines and by paying attention to their health habits, most teens
with lupus can go to school, enjoy many activities, play sports, and hang out
with their friends.
If you have a friend or classmate who has lupus, ask how you can help and offer
your support. For example, if your friend is sick, keeping him or her up to date on
what's going on in school by bringing notes and homework home is always a big help.


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Method Studios has hired three new animation artists to the creative team.
Erik-Jan de Boer was part of the Oscar-winning effects team for Life Of Pi and joins Method's Vancouver office as animation supervisor.
Joining him in Vancouver is creature supervisor James Jacobs, winner of the 2013 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for character simulation software used in Avatar.
Animation supervisor Keith Roberts will work in Method's Los Angeles office and was a longtime member of the team at Rhythm & Hues.
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The International Helicopter Safety Team (www.IHST.org) has compiled data from its third annual survey of civil helicopter operators located in key regions around the world in order to gain a broader understanding of where safety initiatives are being implemented.Participation in the survey more than doubled compared to previous years.
The International Helicopter Safety Team (www.IHST.org) has gathered accident information from countries across the globe and continues to seeing an encouraging trend of safer civil helicopter operations. Preliminary 2017 data from 49 countries show that most have decreasing totals for both fatal and non-fatal accidents. Looking forward, the teams plan to place a stronger focus on human factors and safety actions based on empirical analysis.
WASHINGTON DC – The European partner of the International Helicopter Safety Team (www.IHST.org) has updated and released a comprehensive 168-page guide for helicopter flight instructors based on extensive feedback from the helicopter training community. The goal of the guide, which was developed in coordination with the Australian Government Civil Aviation Safety Authority, is to provide a primary resource for instructors and a strong foundation for safe helicopter operations.
Members of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) will be providing their safety advice for Heli-Expo participants in Las Vegas at 13 different workshops in a wide variety of topics.
The USHST promotes safety and works to reduce accidents through a government and industry cooperative effort that has resulted in a decrease in U.S. civil helicopter accidents since the organization's inception in 2013. During that same time period, fatal accidents also have decreased.
The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) has completed its comprehensive analysis of the root causes of fatal accidents and has developed 22 measurable safety enhancements aimed at reducing fatalities.


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The Announcement Layer: Beacon Coordination for the Sensornet Stack. Adam Dunkels, Luca Mottola, Nicolas Tsiftes, Fredrik Österlind, Joakim Eriksson, and Niclas Finne. In Proceedings of EWSN 2011.
This paper introduces a new layer in the low-power wireless stack: the announcement layer. The announcement layer coordinates and piggybacks beacon broadcasts to reduce both energy consumption and radio congestion. The code is intended to be included in Contiki after the 2.5 release. The paper also presents the first performance results of the ContikiMAC radio duty cycling mechanism. PowerPoint slides are also available.ContikiRPL and TinyRPL: Happy Together. Jeonggil Ko, Joakim Eriksson, Nicolas Tsiftes, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Andreas Terzis, Adam Dunkels, and David Culler. In Proceedings of the IP+SN 2011 workshop.
This paper looks at low-power IPv6 interoperability from a performance perspective. We run Contiki and TinyOS, both running IPv6 with RPL routing, in the Contiki simulation environment and find that although both systems have a good performance on their own, the performance in a combined network can be surprisingly low.Leveraging IP for Sensor Network Deployment. Simon Duquennoy, Niclas Wirstom, Nicolas Tsiftes, and Adam Dunkels. In Proceedings of the IP+SN 2011 workshop.
This paper studies how the protocols in the low-power IPv6 stack behave during network deployment. In particular, the paper looks at software deployment and demonstrates that a simple mechanism in the ContikiMAC low-power radio mechanism is able to significantly improve throughput with a retained low power consumption.The Politecast Communcation Primtive for Low-Power Wireless. Marcus Lunden and Adam Dunkels. The ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, April 2011.
This paper argues that the traditional broadcast primitive sometimes is overkill in low-power wireless networks and argues that there is a need for a new communication primitive, called politecast. A politecast transmission reaches only those neighbors that explicitly listen for it. Politecast transmissions are intended for periodic, but redundant, beacon transmissions.


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It turns out that how much mortgage debt one should carry -- and by extension, how much house they can afford to buy -- falls into that great gray chasm known as "it depends."
The Internet and folk wisdom abound in "rules of thumb" about determining your housing budget. A casual surfing of financial-advice sites, for example, turns up all manner of estimates of how much house one can afford, ranging from 2.5 to 5 times one's annual salary.
And that, of course, isn't necessarily the same thing as how much debt one should assume, a concern that apparently has its own infinite supply of rules of thumb.
Financial planners say, yes, it can be enlightening to plug your personal figures into the online calculators that ostensibly gauge how much you can afford -- just don't believe everything you read.
For one thing, such calculators vary wildly in the number of factors taken into account to come up with "affordability." Among the literally dozens of such devices that turn up on an Internet search, some omit such pesky line items as the cost of homeowners' association dues, homeowners insurance or even property taxes.
Nonetheless, those rules of thumb persist. Mortgage financier Freddie Mac, for example, suggests that a mortgage payment be no more than 25 percent of your monthly income.
"I wish people were at 25," said Lynette Briggs, a housing counselor for the DuPage Homeownership Center in Wheaton.
She said locally variable factors -- particularly property taxes and homeowners insurance -- can throw such guidelines out the window. "In DuPage County, where the median home price in September was $348,000, [the typical proportions of debt are] in the neighborhood of 30 to 40 percent."
But the interesting thing about rules of thumb is that if you look long enough, you'll find one that fits -- or comes close. For example, the Web site for financial services provider Credit Suisse suggests allotting one-third of one's income to housing. Sherry Smith, a counselor for Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, says her non-profit group suggests a limit of 40 percent.
"We don't use rules of thumb; we use real circumstances for real people," said Shawn Parker, a financial adviser for Ameriprise Financial in Schaumburg. "What might be appropriate for one person, might be a disaster for another."
But you've got to start somewhere. Mortgage lenders for many years have used a couple of benchmarks to determine how much they'll lend, though industry standards have made them anything but hard-and-fast. Those benchmarks are called "front-end ratios" and "back-end ratios."
The former consists of the total housing payment - loan principal, interest, taxes and insurance/homeowners' fees (or PITI) -- divided by gross monthly income. This tells the lender how much of your income you should be able to devote to housing, and the standard has historically been 28 percent.
Back-end ratios carry more weight. In this calculation, the lender combines PITI with monthly debts (such as credit cards, car payments, student loans, etc.) and divides that sum by gross monthly income. The traditional industry standard on this ratio suggests you should be able to put 36 percent of your income toward housing.
Those ratios bring us back, generally, into the 30 to 40 percent rule-of-thumb territory.
But the problem with relying on the ratios is that the lending industry has changed the rules.
No concrete standards
"There are no standards anymore," said Jack M. Guttentag, professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a syndicated column called the Mortgage Professor. "It used to be that 28 and 36 were fairly well enshrined, through the standards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," which set guidelines for mortgages that they will buy from banks and other lenders.
Now, he says, the credit-scoring system known as FICO has changed the picture.
"FICO scores have come to be relied upon much more extensively," he said. "Income ratios have receded in importance."
The maximums today depend on a wide variety of characteristics, he said. "If you have a FICO score of 720 or higher [on an 850-point scale], it's unlikely that you're going to be constrained by one of these ratios."
Briggs said that even with standards tightening since the mortgage industry got into deep trouble over defaults this year, lenders' tolerances are still far broader than they used to be.
"They whittled up to 41 percent if you had no debt," in the acceptable proportion of housing expenditures, Briggs said. "That inched up to 43 percent. Under certain circumstances, they will go to 45 percent.
"If you have excellent credit, they might allow 60," she said.
How much debt a borrower is paying plays a large role, as does the size of a down payment, Briggs said.
Financial counselors say the important thing to keep in mind is that even if a lender says you can get a certain loan, it's not necessarily the thing to do.
"That rule of 28 percent on housing and 36 on debt -- I'd never advise my clients to spend that much on either one," said financial planner Parker. "Those old rules were based on the bank believing that the mortgage payment was the only bill that the homeowner had.
"They knew they stood first in line and they knew that they had leverage," she said. "The didn't put enough consideration to the fact that the homeowner had to eat and put gas in the car."
The counselors say that as long as the consumer has a firm grip on his priorities, being house-heavy may not be a mistake. But getting that grip requires sober scrutiny of one's pennies -- and preferences.
Comprehensive budget needed
This means a detailed household budget analysis, which can be done through a financial counselor or independently. An elaborate do-it-yourself budget worksheet is at freddiemac.com (click on "Calculators and Tools" on the home page, and then "Worksheets").
Financial counselors say that in scrutinizing monthly costs, you have to own up to your $25-week-latte habit, think about how much you spend for haircuts and establish what a CTA fare increase will do to your wallet.
Then, they say, you have to look frankly at which other lifestyle expenditures matter to you and whether home ownership might rule them out.
Conversely, decide whether the house itself -- even if it precludes other spending -- is reward enough.
"Is it more important for you to have the three-bedroom, two-bath house, and maybe you won't go out to dinner anymore or have drapes on the windows?" Briggs asked. "Or maybe you could go, instead, with 1 1/2 baths and no garage."
Such quality-of-life issues -- that is, where you want to put your money -- defy formulas, the counselors say.
"I have some clients who are paying $30,000 a year for a nanny," Parker said. "But then, we also have a couple with no children and their idea of a fun time is sitting in a La-Z-Boy with the clicker. Everybody is different."
Parker's clients, Joan Steltmann-Carbon and her husband, David Carbon, said they had to do some hard number-crunching last year when they decided to move from a condo in Chicago to a single-family home.
Location was an issue: Steltmann-Carbon works in Lake Forest and wanted a relatively short commute, which meant they were house-hunting in some of the area's priciest towns.
They also had to assess how their new mortgage payment would affect saving for their daughter's education and their retirement and for improvements to the new house.
"We had to look at this decision on a tactical basis -- looking at the monthly cash flow and fully understanding not just the cost of the house but also the carrying costs, utilities, upkeep," she said.
After determining what they wanted to spend each month, they made a larger down payment than they had expected to reduce the size of the loan.
"It was substantially larger than we started out with, I'd say by 25 percent," Steltmann-Carbon said.
The couple closed on a house in Deerfield about a year ago.
"I'd rate it a big success," she said. "We're happy with the house we ended up with and the affordability."


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Chris Jordan's "Can's Seurat" (2007) is 60×92″ and it "depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds."
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Click here for more examples of Chris Jordan's amazing photographic artwork chronicling American consumerism. His book Running the Numbers: An American Self-portrait is out in hardcover.
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Mitsubishi just announced a 23″ Full HD 3D monitor with IPS panel and LED backlight that uses passive polarization and passive 3D glasses, just like with the new LG Cinema 3D monitors, expected to be available in Japan starting May 30th. The monitor is with a native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, 3.8ms response time (Gray-to-Gray) and maximum brightness level of 250cd/m2 in 2D mode and 100cd/m2 in 3D, the contrast ratio is 1000:1 standard and up to 5000:1 dynamic. The Mitsubishi RDT233WX-3D monitor comes with two HDMI 1.4 ports, one DVI-D and DSUB 15 VGA connector, there is also a one D5 connector (component input used in Japan for different AV devices). The presence of the D-Terminal or D-tanshi analog video connector on this display probably means that it will be available only in Japan, so don't get your hopes too high in getting the product in Europe or North America yet.
Thanks to the IPS panel used in this 3D display the viewing angles in 2D mode should be up to 178°, however when you put on the passive polarized glassed the vertical angle gets significantly reduced up to about 12° for best results in 3D mode. Due to the use of passive polarization approach in 3D mode you will be getting just half of the horizontal lines (vertical resolution) per eye, meaning 1920×540 pixels per eye, this is something that you should be well aware of as it is not the same as perceiving two full 1920×1080 frames. Also with this display, the maximum refresh rate you can use is 60Hz and not the 120Hz refresh that you can get in 2D mode with 3D LCD monitors using active shutter glasses.
Thanks to the HDMI 1.4 interface you should be able to use the monitor with consumer electronic devices supporting 3D like the PlayStation 3 console, however I'm not too sure how good games will look like on it as the PS3 outputs 720p 3D resolution and that may mean 1280×360 resolution per eye scaled… I still haven't seen PS3 on a Full HD display with passive polarization in 3D. Mitsubishi does not mention anything about bundling of middleware for playing PC games in stereo 3D mode, apparently they target this display mostly for multimedia use. However thanks to the use of passive polarization technology you should not have trouble using the display with the iZ3D Driver or with DDD's TriDef Software as they both support this kind of output for gaming in stereo 3D mode on the PC.


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Denver Fashion Weekend: 303 Magazine shows spring fashion – and body art
At night two of Denver Fashion Weekend on Friday, it was all about painted ladies (and guys!), must-have handbags and cool girl sportswear.
A dress-to-impress crowd gathered at the Exdo Event Center for 303 Magazine's spring edition of Denver Fashion Weekend. Guests sipped cocktails and ogled some Schomp Automotive Mini Coopers as they waited for the show to start. Meanwhile backstage, body art painters, makeup artists and hairstylists from El Salon had been at it for six hours, brushing color and painting elaborate circus-themed designs onto 15 male and female models clad only in thongs, or in one case, a pink triangle bikini.
It was all part of Katelyn Simkins' vision to recreate a vintage British seaside theme that inspired her when she and her husband Ben visited Brighton. "There was a carousel on the beach with painted ponies that was beautiful," said Simkins, a makeup artist and 303 Magazine fashion and beauty editor. She enlisted the help of local makeup artists and body paint specialists, who worked their magic on Donna Baldwin models. Among them was Alan Anderson of Colorado Skin Works, who spent six hours creating his vibrant blue designs. (His other job, BTW? He's a firefighter and paramedic.) Michael Moore had his work cut out for him, using a prostehtic horse's snout to create one of those carousel ponies.
The vibrant show that followed — in color themes of green pink, yellow, purple and blue — had the audience entranced and some of the more uninhibited models later posed for pictures with guests attending the show.
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Biometrics is making great strides. A Hunsville company (Alabama), called Idair, is developing a new security system for access control. This new system is indeed based on fingerprint recognition, but unlike other similar devices, it needs no physical contact with users, as it recognizes the prints even at a distance of twenty feet.
And this brings many advantages, not only because it would avoid damages that can be caused by contact, but it would also avoid losing time to enter the rooms placed under surveillance.
The new technology works much in the same way satellites process the images of the ground, using a lot of edge detection and image sharpening to turn a fingerprint captured at a distance into an increasingly precise usable and identifiable image.
This technology is currently being used only for military purposes, but the company wants to extend its use to civil contexts. The fingerprint recognition system, in fact, is already in beta testing at a large chain of gyms (no more using your roommate's gym ID to get in a free workout ) and the manufacturer is already working to find other possible uses. In the near future you will probably enjoy shopping biometrically, using fingerprints and iris identifiers, no credit card numbers or data contained in magnetic cards to swipe or RFID chip (the latter already considered cutting edge), which might be lost or get damaged with wear.
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Reno 911! stars and non-stop screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant are set to make their co-directorial debut on the horror comedy Hell Baby, and they've found their two leads. Darko Entertainment announced today that Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb (Talladega Nights) have signed on to star in the comedy that centers on a young expectant couple who moves in to New Orleans most haunted fixer-upper and calls upon The Vatican's elite exorcism team to save them from a demonic baby. Lennon and Garant wrote the script, will co-direct, and plan to star as the Vatican's exorcism team.
Lennon and Garant have made a nice living in recent years writing younger-skewing comedies like The Pacifier and the Night at the Museum films (they even wrote a book entitled Writing Movies for Fun and Profit). Hell Baby sounds like it has hints of Rosemary's Baby, and for Corddry's sake as a comedian I hope they've written a more adult comedy. Bibb currently stars on the ABC series GCB and Corddry recently wrapped the zombie adaptation Warm Bodies. Hit the jump to read the press release.
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LOS ANGELES (March 20, 2012) – Darko Entertainment and Principato-Young Entertainment announced today the companies will produce "Hell Baby," which will mark co-screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant's feature film directorial debut. Darko Entertainment will finance the film. Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb have signed on to star. "Hell Baby" will be produced by Darko Entertainment's Sean McKittrick, Jeff Culotta and Ted Hamm; Principato-Young's Peter Principato and Paul Young; and Garant/Lennon Productions. The film is set to start production on location in New Orleans in April.
In the horror comedy "Hell Baby," a young expectant couple moves in to New Orleans most haunted fixer-upper and calls upon The Vatican's elite exorcism team to save them from a demonic baby. Lennon and Garant will portray that team.
The film is an original script from the multi-hyphenates Lennon and Garant, who have written nine feature films together including "Night at the Museum," "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," "Taxi," "Reno 911!: Miami," "Balls of Fury," and "The Pacifier." They are currently writing "Rentaghost" for 20th Century Fox and Ben Stiller.
As an actor, Lennon has appeared in numerous films including "I Love You, Man," "Bad Teacher," and the forthcoming comedy "What To Expect When Your Expecting," which will be released in May.
Garant has directed such features as "Reno 911!: Miami" and "Balls of Fury," which he co-wrote with Lennon. He also directed numerous episodes of the television series, "Reno 911!." Additionally, Garant wrote the feature "Jessabelle," which will begin production next month in Wilmington, North Carolina for Lionsgate Films and will be produced by Blumhouse Productions and Principato-Young Entertainment.
Their television credits include MTV'S "The State," Comedy Central's "Viva Variety," and the long-running and hugely popular "Reno 911!," which spawned a feature film, "Reno: 911!: Miami." Their first book, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, was published last July and was a staple on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List, and will come out in paperback this July (Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster).


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Lawmakers acknowledged, however, that their efforts would likely be undermined if the airplane maker's key machinists union votes down a proposed labor contract due to go to before the membership on Wednesday.
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Boeing and IAM union leaders reached a tentative deal after confidential and exclusive talks that were first reported by Reuters.
The deal calls for lower healthcare benefits and a new retirement plan, and a separate draft agreement with state officials would provide for tax and other incentives.
The vote by 31,000 members is scheduled to go ahead on Wednesday, and there are no scheduled talks with Boeing about a different offer, said Jonathan Battaglia, a union spokesman.
Industry experts say Washington faces competition from states including South Carolina, where Boeing assembles some of its 787 Dreamliners, as well as Texas and Utah.
Japan, whose heavy industry builds wings for the Dreamliner, is seen as a contender to build the wings for the 777X, the longest wings designed for a Boeing jetliner.
The new standoff comes as Boeing prepares to launch the 777X with potentially record orders at the Dubai Airshow. But the discord is not expected to derail those plans, industry sources said.
The head of European airline group IAG said on Friday it was interested in the 777X for Iberia and British Airways.
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The United States federal government was the main governing body of the United States before the Great War.
This article is a summary of the known information concerning the appearance and activity of the United States' federal government in the Fallout world, and, where applicable, elements or divisions of it adapted or continued by the Enclave.
Before the Great WarEdit
Executive branchEdit
The President of the United States was mentioned in the Fallout games as well as some federal departments, such as the:
- Uncertainly named federal department or departments responsible for the United States' national security which may be separate or the same agency:[1]
- War Department – referred to in the Maxson log as present in year 2077,
- Department of Defense – connected with HERMES armor research[2] and mentioned by "Faction Profile – the Brotherhood of Steel",[3] together with the Pentagon. The Defense Department was mentioned as well by West Tek Research Facility mainframe, as present in year 2076. A contractor for the Department of Defense is mentioned in the RobCo sales & service center.[4]
- Department of the Army - authored and distributed the U.S. Covert Operations Manual, and was responsible for the South Boston military checkpoint.[5] After the Great War became the Enclave's main military body.
|The following is based on Van Buren and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
- The Secretary of the Army was mentioned at Tibbets design document as present in 2040.[6] According to Van Buren tech demo plot, the federal government could exercise only limited power over the units of the U.S. Army. According to their names, at least some Armored Infantry Divisions actually belonged to the American commonwealths rather than the federal government, a situation similar to that of the state volunteer regiments raised by the states and placed into federal service during the American Civil War of the nineteenth century.
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- Uncertainly named federal department or departments responsible for energy and power:
- Department of Energy – mentioned in the timeline in the year 2053.[7]
- Department of Water and Power – mentioned in the Vault locations v34.129 holodisk.
- Atomic Energy Commission - extant in the year 2241 on the Enclave Oil Rig.[8]
- Federal department responsible for foreign affairs, probably the Department of State.[9]
- Federal department or departments responsible for the Internal Revenue Service,[10] issuing war bonds and Vault bonds; probably the Department of the Treasury.
- Federal department or departments responsible for supervision of law enforcement agencies: the Federal Bureau of Investigation,[11] the Unamerican Activities Force,[12] BADTFL[13] and the Secret Service.
- Federal departments responsible for sustaining land and wildlife:
- Department of Agriculture:[14] responsible for the United States Forest Service.
- Department of the Interior:[15] responsible for the National Park Service.
- There were also some independent federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency,[16] the United States Space Administration,[17] the Securities and Exchange Comission,[18] and the National Archives.[19]
- Some agencies with uncertain subordination: Federal Fitness Registry, Civil Defense Administration, National Catastrophe Relief Auxiliary.
Legislative branchEdit
Congressional mentions:
- In February 15, 2075, both the House of Representatives and the Senate voted unanimously to impeach the President for jaywalking.[20]
- The complete books of the Library of Congress were packed in the G.E.C.K.
- Senator Calvert of Maryland.[21]
- Senator Sam Blackwell of West Virginia.[22]
- Senator Todd Peterson was mentioned.[23]
- The affairs of the District of Columbia.[24] – District of Columbia Transit Authority.[25]
Judicial branchEdit
Federal Courts were mentioned in the Tibbets Prison design document.
|The following is based on Van Buren and has not been confirmed by canon sources.
There was a covert branch of the legal U.S. government that acted as a shadow government, and intended to launch a coup d'état against the real U.S. government. It was called the Enclave. Its members also acted as lobbyists for major American corporations like Vault-Tec, General Atomics International and RobCo.[26]
|End of information based on Van Buren.
Post-Great War successionEdit
In March 2077, with the United States government prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President of the United States and the government and corporate officials who made up the secret shadow government known as the Enclave retreated to remote locations around the globe and made contingency plans for continuing the war against the Chinese.[27] In the event of a nuclear war, this was intended to ensure the continuity of the U.S. government's leadership and the survival of the Enclave.[28]
- One of the few old world organizations to survive the Great War was the Enclave—before the war, the organization that served as a shadow government within the legal federal government of the United States. Members of the Enclave were military hardliners who both embraced the idea of a nuclear war to rid the world of Communist influence and knew that the common man could not survive it. They believed that as long as the "important people" of the United States survived, they could regroup quickly and wipe out Communism finally, and then build a better world without the threat posed by China or anyone else to the American way of life. The Enclave established itself on an abandoned Poseidon Energy oil-drilling platform off the coast of California that was protected from the nuclear firestorm of 2077.
- In 2241, NORAD was offline;[29] there was the large crater in 2253.[30]
- The constitutional status of the Enclave's President of the United States was questioned by the Brotherhood of Steel. Matthew, their representative in San Francisco, referred to President Dick Richardson as the "so-called Presedent".[31]
- In 2277, there was no U.S. government presence at federal government buildings such as the Pentagon and the Capitol, as the Capital Wasteland had no central political authority or law enforcement mechanism.[32]
- The federal government[33] may not have ever considered the Vaults as American society's best chance for survival in the event of a nuclear war or a viral pandemic. Instead, the government's officials may have considered themselves the best candidates for rebuilding the world and already had their own posteriors covered in the event of a nuclear or biological war by relocating to other remote installations across the nation (and elsewhere) that were not necessarily Vaults. The Enclave certainly did not seem to be devoting much effort to digging up any other Vaults and trying to use the human stock there to rebuild civilization.[34]
Enclave Operations, 2077–2241Edit
Executive branchEdit
According to the Fallout Bible, presidential powers accorded to the leader of the Enclave were as follows:
- Presidential Orders could concern military research and data protection[35] while Presidential Directives could concern the Enclave's armed forces conditioning and testing programs.[36]
- Presidential decisions could concern major scientific projects of the Enclave connected to military actions.[37]
The President also directly controlled the automatic Emergency Defensive Systems on the Enclave's oil-drilling platform.
In the year 2220, Congressman Dick Richardson was elected president for his first term of four years (he would be elected to five), through the aid and political pressure provided by his father, a previous American president under the Enclave. It is not certain that, if Dick Richardson was the president in 2241, he was also the one elected in 2220, over twenty years before. However, it was possible, if under the Enclave a president could be reelected more than once to a new term. This would have been legal if the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution had never been passed in 1951, a real possibility in the divergent Fallout universe.[38]
There was a cabinet mentioned also. It was the address of the Project report from the United States Chemical Corps and the power plant operations report from the Enclave's Atomic Energy Commission. Its seat was the Executive Office on the Enclave's oil rig. The only known cabinet-level executive officer in the Enclave was the Vice-President of the United States, the first person in the presidential line of succession.
There were some executive agencies present after the Great War, like the Secret Service, the Atomic Energy Commission,[39] National Aeronautics and Space Administration (also referred to as the United States Space Agency)[40] and the Environmental Protection Agency.[41] The United States Armed Forces were present and its Enclave Patrols at the Navarro perimeter also acted as a border patrol.
Legislative branchEdit
The Vice President of the United States was present on the Enclave's oil rig[42] (he shall be President of the Senate).[43] According to the Fallout Bible, since August 1, 2215, Congressman Dick Richardson had been rising to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, the first President Richardson.[44]
Judicial branchEdit
No information about this branch of the American federal government under the Enclave has been provided in the games, except for the fact that courts-martial were performed by officers of the Enclave's armed forces (as in the real-world American military).[45]
After the destruction of the Enclave oil rig, 2242–2277Edit
The destruction of the Enclave's oil-drilling platform off the coast of California in 2242, following the Chosen One's assassination of the Enclave's President of the United States, erased all trace of President Dick Richardson from history.[46] However, some broken remnants of the Enclave survived.
Possible candidates for acting commander of the Enclave armed forces following the death of President Richardson and the destruction of the oil rig were Enclave military officers who could have survived the destruction of the oil rig, e.g. those on the Enclave's mainland outposts' senior staff, Enclave Control Company's senior personnel or some Enclave military officers who might have evacuated in Vertibirds from the rig or had been deployed on outside missions.[47] The commander of the remaining Enclave military forces was Augustus Autumn, who had risen to the rank of Colonel by 2277.
A new self-proclaimed President of the United States appeared, John Henry Eden, from the Raven Rock military base on the East Coast in the Capital Wasteland near the ruins of Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that some of the remnants of the Enclave government had survived[48] after the destruction of the Enclave's oil rig in 2242, according to Colonel Autumn, Eden was next in line for leadership. President Eden then ordered Colonel Autumn to relocate the Enclave's military forces from California to the Raven Rock base. Before the destruction of the Enclave oil rig, John Henry Eden had served as an adviser to many of the American presidents of the Enclave. He was probably a remote advisor, in fact, because he was not actually human; rather, he was a pre-War artificial intelligence permanently located in the Raven Rock base within the ZAX supercomputer unit there.[49] It is not certain if Eden was a member of President Richardson's cabinet.[50] According to President Eden's propaganda broadcasts on the Enclave Radio, a new presidential election was promised to the surviving people of the United States, but without going into the details for "reasons of national security." Eden also promised to surrender the office of the Presidency to the winner of this election—without stating the exact time when this would occur, however. According to some speeches made on Enclave Radio there was still some form of Congress in the Enclave as well. The only person aware of President Eden's true identity as an AI was Colonel Autumn.
The real-world constitutional provision that lays out the structure of the executive agencies of the executive branch of the federal government is the United States Constitution, Article Two, Section 2, Clause 1 - the President may require the Opinion of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices. Because of the timeline Divergence that occurred in the 1940s or 1950s, it is sure only that in the Fallout world the United States Constitution's content would be the identical to that in the real-world document up to the Twenty-first Amendment. After that point, there were guaranteed to be substantial differences.
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- The Enclave
- The Last President of the United States
- ↑ In real world War Department was subsumed by Department of the Army in 1945, renamed in 1947 as the Department of Defense
- ↑ Van Buren
- ↑ Fallout 3
- ↑ RobCo sales & service center terminal entries
- ↑ South Boston military checkpoint terminal entries
- ↑ Van Buren
- ↑ Fallout Bible
- ↑ Fallout 2. In real world the United States Atomic Energy Commission was created in 1946 and dissolved in 1975.
- ↑ United Nations membership, relations with Soviet Union, possibly it was Department of State, in real world it was Great Seal of the United States keeper also
- ↑ mentioned by Mr prize-bot
- ↑ mentioned with its refrigerator only at FREEZER.MSG
- ↑ Van Buren.
- ↑ referred in Fallout 3, however National Aeronautics and Space Administration was referred in Fallout 2
- ↑ The Sam Blackwell interview
- ↑ Posters around Zion Canyon
- ↑ According to its real-world status.
- ↑ Fallout Bible, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency was cabinet level administration officer.
- ↑ H&H Tools Factory terminal entries; Alan Dalton's Terminal, E-mail from Jenny DeSoto
- ↑ Fallout 3, in real world: National Archives and Records Administration.
- ↑ this information comes from the Sierra Depot GNN transcript holodisk, which Chris Avellone discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers
- ↑ Calverts
- ↑ The Sam Blackwell interview
- ↑ Van Buren, Maxson bunker design document
- ↑ The District, according to the United States Constitution, is under the jurisdiction of the United States Congress in "all cases whatsoever" (Article I, Section 8, Clause 17)
- ↑ Fallout 3
- ↑ Van Buren
- ↑ Fallout Bible
- ↑ The Constitutional foundation for United States presidential line of succession were Article II, Section 1 and Section 3 of the 20th Amendment (1933), as well as the 25th Amendment (1967), see: wikipedia:United States presidential line of succession
- ↑ Fallout 2
- ↑ Van Buren
- ↑ Brotherhood of Steel originated from deserted US Armed Forces Military Police security squad and their initial order was issued by Cap. Maxson unless otherwise directed, from a proper representative of the War Department; seizing Pentagon building by paladin Owyn Lyons'es detachment in first decades of XXIII century was an irony of fate
- ↑ Fallout 3, Raven Rock base content before Autumn arrival is not certain
- ↑ or whatever branch of federal government was responsible - it was not necessarily the Enclave
- ↑ Fallout Bible; according that - nonetheless, even members of the Enclave probably could not answer the question of who created the Vault experiments and their reasons, as many of the people responsible for the creation of the Vaults died long ago, and many records were lost in the great static of 2077. President Richardson was familiar with the purpose of the Vaults, but he never saw them as more than little test tubes of preserved humans he could mess with.
- ↑ known example - power armor research
- ↑ known example - Horrigan's conditioning, see also: wikipedia:Executive order (United States)
- ↑ known example - decision to go take the Vault 13 inhabitants as test subjects for the Project, which scrambled the Vertibird unit
- ↑ Fallout Bible, it seems the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1951) didn't work (if existed or not repealed) - in real world it also prevents a President from being elected more than twice
- ↑ with unknown exact status, reporting to the cabinet, Department of Water and Power or Department of Energy not mentioned, in real world the same named independent agency existed in 1946-1974 period - see: wikipedia:Atomic Energy Commission
- ↑ mentioned by Vice President Daniel Bird, an idiot talking about Martian canals, however there had been some pre-War space program and the Enclave off-planet evacuation plans concerned with Bloomfield Space Center - Van Buren; there was no significant means and resources to do anything serious connected with space affairs on the oil rig; there was also pre-War United States Space Agency referred in Fallout 3; in real world NASA is independent agency created in 1958
- ↑ EPA branch in California in fact with no human staff nad no Enclave presence - Fallout Bible
- ↑ Fallout 2
- ↑ Article one, Section three, Clause four
- ↑ finally Congressman Richardson was elected president for the first term of five on March 5th 2220
- ↑ Fallout 2
- ↑ according to Fallout 2 ending file for Richardson
- ↑ e.g. elements of verti-assault unit
- ↑ according to Eden
- ↑ according to Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the United States Constitution No person except a natural born Citizen [...] shall be eligible to the Office of President; it seems that part of the US Constitution didn't work, hadn't existed, was repelled or John Henry Eden wasn't legal President of the USA; in that case Enclave remnants were continuation of US Armed Forces only and its leader was nothing more than its acting commander
- ↑ Fallout 3 character - never appeared in Fallout 2; if not a member of cabinet nor Congress he had no presidential succession entitlement according to real world laws


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For today's edition of Former College Hoops Sweathearts: Where Are They Now?, we're checking in with former Gonzaga star and former No. 3 overall pick Adam Morrison.
Morrison signed a deal with a Serbian team, KK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star
BrigadeBelgrade), just a few weeks ago. In a game against FC Bayern Munich this week, the 27-year-old—looking more and more like the body double for Russell Hammond—got into an elbowing match with Bogdan Radosavljevic and eventually got ejected from the game.
The Hoop Doctors claim there are tears as Morrison sits down on the bench. We don't see them, but he did tells us years ago that he'd do it again.
H/T The Hoop Doctors.


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Martinez: Luis Suarez needs help
Everton manager Roberto Martinez has told ESPN that Luis Suarez "needs help" after the Uruguay striker allegedly bit Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini.
Uruguay's 1-0 win over Italy on Monday that booked their place in the round of 16 of the 2014 World Cup was overshadowed by footage of Liverpool's Suarez seemingly biting the shoulder of Chiellini.
FIFA has since confirmed it will investigate the incident that will likely lead to a lengthy ban if found guilty.
- FIFA bans Luis Suarez for four months
- PL chief: Suarez an accident waiting to happen
- No 'bite clause' in Suarez's Barca contract
- Toe Poke: Fan gets dodgy Suarez tattoo
- Thompson: Portrait of a serial winner
- Brewin: No sympathy for Luis Suarez
- Thompson: Uruguay comes to Suarez defence
- Marcotti: Suarez in another bite storm
Speaking after the match, Martinez outlined his concerns about Suarez's behaviour. He said: "There is no doubt that the quality of the talent that he has.
"He can win games single-handed and he's got that focus, that mentality that he can get back from a situation he shouldn't have derived.
"But the behaviour, I just seriously think that he needs help. If you cannot control yourself in those moments, you need some sort of help because that's just unacceptable on a football pitch."
The Spanish coach added: "This is a behaviour that has happened already two times and Luis Suarez, as a wonderful footballer that he is, has been banned twice. It has been such a controversial way of acting on a football pitch that you see it again and everyone feels upset.
"We can't celebrate [the game]. We can't talk about what Uruguay did. We can't talk about why Mario Balotelli didn't come on in the second half.
"It's about how Luis Suarez is allowed to play the game without carrying that responsibility that you have as a player, being a role model to the younger generation. You cannot justify it."
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Depending on which headlines you've seen recently, you may think that some pain relievers are being recalled because they're dangerous and you might be wondering if you need to clean out the medicine cabinet and throw out any number of these products. I'm going to try to explain this highly complex situation, but the bottom line is that when taken as directed, all of the pain relievers currently on the market, be they prescription or over the counter (OTC), are still considered to be safe and effective and you don't need to throw them away (and nothing is being recalled at the moment either).
The bottom line problem, however, is that when it comes to pain relievers many people don't follow directions and wind up taking far more pills than they should. And when those products contain acetaminophen it can lead to toxic levels of that drug, which can and all too often does lead to liver injury and sometimes even to death. An FDA advisory panel met this past week in an attempt to provide recommendations on how to reduce the number of acetaminophen-related toxicities, or side effects. The FDA will be considering the panel's recommendations over the next few months.
But it's not just that people don't follow the directions for these medications, it's that they don't realize how many different pills they're taking at the same time that may each contain acetaminophen. That's because acetaminophen is present in many prescription and OTC products, many of which have brand names that don't even hint at their actual contents. For example, some of the most widely prescribed pain medications are the narcotics Vicodin and Percocet. But you need to understand that each of these products is actually a combination of a narcotic drug (hydrocodone or oxycodone respectively) plus acetaminophen. If you're prescribed Vicodin or Percocet (or other similar combinations), you should not take an OTC acetaminophen product along with it. One of the problems, however, is that the directions for use of the combination narcotic will only tell you how much of that drug to take. It wouldn't necessarily say "this already has acetaminophen in it so don't take this with another acetaminophen product." Moreover, the narcotic might not even say that it contains acetaminophen! It might say that it contains APAP, for example, and you'd need to know that this is just another name for acetaminophen.
In summary so far, if you're taking a prescription narcotic it's critical that you first know whether it also contains acetaminophen and it's critical that you know whether any other medications you're taking with it also contain acetaminophen. Then, armed with this knowledge, you need carefully to follow the directions for the narcotic product on how many to take and how often to take them and, if they do contain acetaminophen, you also must be very careful not to take any OTC product that contains acetaminophen. In this regard, it's imperative that you know that Tylenol is a brand name for acetaminophen and that many other brand name OTC products, such as Excedrin, certain forms of Anacin, and Nyquil, contain or are entirely composed of acetaminophen as well. You simply must carefully read the labels of any and all prescription and non-prescription products you are considering taking. It's equally advisable for you to ask your prescribing physician and/or dispensing pharmacist exactly what's in the medication(s) you've just purchased.
The Risk Acetaminophen Poses to Your Liver
Now we're ready to drill down a bit further into several other potential problem areas. First, since acetaminophen is metabolized in the liver (which is why it can be toxic to that essential organ), anyone with liver disease must be extremely careful about how much, if any, acetaminophen they consume from any source. Your doctor can provide you with information on exactly how much liver disease you might have and whether or not you can tolerate even small doses of acetaminophen. In this regard, it's important to know that cancer that has spread to the liver, depending on the amount, could definitely be a form of liver disease requiring acetaminophen dose reduction or elimination. Moreover, because metastatic cancer is also associated with pain, for which narcotics are often prescribed, it is especially important for these patients (or their caregivers) to fully understand both the nature of any liver impairment and whether any of the medications, again both prescription and OTC, also contain acetaminophen.
Next comes another potential source of liver injury; namely, alcohol consumption. Alcohol can be toxic to the liver, but for most people an occasional drink doesn't cause any problems. The more you drink the harder it is for your liver to keep up and the easier it is for its function to be impaired. This means that if you drink a fair bit of alcohol, everything we've discussed so far is multiplied for you. This in turn means that if your liver is already over-burdened, if not outright impaired, from alcohol, taking any acetaminophen on top of that, either from a combination narcotic or from an OTC product (or both!), is a recipe for trouble (with a capital T that stands for Toxic).
Further, many people have reduced liver function simply as a result of aging. If you're over 65 you should be talking to your doctor at your annual examination about whether your liver is fully up to speed or not. Ask him or her directly about whether or not you should take acetaminophen-containing products (and how much is safe for you).
Narcotics and Acetaminophen: Potential Dangers
There's still more to consider. If you regularly take narcotics for chronic pain, which is an extremely common situation, it's quite likely that over time you will need a stronger and stronger dose just to get the same effect. That's because your body normally builds up a tolerance to narcotics. If you're simply taking a narcotic that's not combined with acetaminophen, then this situation should be okay if you work with your doctor on carefully increasing the dose. But the problem in practice is two-fold. One is that people often increase the narcotic dose on their own without their doctor's knowledge, and the second problem is that most of the prescription narcotics are combinations that also contain acetaminophen. And while you can tolerate the increased narcotic dose as it goes up gradually, it's just not the same for the acetaminophen, which can quickly get into extremely toxic ranges. A perfect example of this situation, albeit fictional, is TV's Dr. Gregory House. If he really were to take as many Vicodin as they show him taking all day long, he'd probably need a liver transplant!
It is for all these reasons that the FDA advisory panel recommended banning narcotic combination products such as Vicodin and Percocet. Some headlines went so far as to describe this as a recall, which is incorrect. Even if the FDA were to halt the sales of such products, it is likely that this would happen either gradually or with a significant lead time given so that people could make other arrangements for pain medication, such as getting a prescription for a narcotic product that does not contain acetaminophen. Along those lines, there actually are few such products today and new ones would have to be approved at the same time that manufacturing of the existing ones is ramped up. In the short run it is likely there will be significantly revised rules on how all acetaminophen-containing products are labeled, both on the OTC packages and on the prescription vials.
Lastly, the panel recommended reductions in the current dosing for acetaminophen. Today, extra-strength OTC acetaminophen products contain 500 milligrams in every pill, capsule, caplet, soft-gel, etc. The recommended dose for this strength is two of these (1,000 milligrams) up to four times a day (total daily dose of 4,000 milligrams). Regular strength acetaminophen is only 325 milligrams per pill. The panel recommended that extra-strength acetaminophen be made available only by prescription so that the strongest recommended OTC dose would be 325 milligrams per pill or 650 milligrams (two pills) taken up to four times a day (total of 2,600 milligrams per day).


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In Diane Keaton's memoir, Then Again, she writes that when she was 19, a Broadway director offered her a part in the Broadway musical Hair — on the condition she lose 10lbs. She developed an eating disorder. "I don't think it was called bulimia then," she tells People. "It was just this trick you could do. It's a horrible problem. Ugly and awful."
This was in the late sixties, but you have to wonder: How many other women were told the same thing? By that director or another? How many Hollywood actresses are still> told to lose weight, today? Keaton went to therapy — the "talking cure," she calls it — but were there others who didn't pull through?
In case you were wondering: She got the part. The photograph below, taken in June of 1968, shows Keaton — on the lower level, in the middle, between two costars — on stage performing "White Boys" in Hair. (Legend has it she refused to take off her clothes at the end of Act I when the cast gets naked, even though actors who performed nude received a $50 bonus.)