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February 19, 2013, - 11:04 pm
Ali Syed: Was it Jihad or Honor Killing? Guess the Religion
As I was driving home tonight from a movie screening, I heard the radio news reports about a gunman on a rampage in the Los Angeles area. The man, Ali Syed, apparently murdered an unrelated woman at his parents' home, a 69-year-old man, and a businessman, and engaged in a number of carjackings and others crimes, as well as wounding 2-3 others. And as soon as I heard the name I wondered what started it all and whether or not religion–he is obviously Muslim (despite the lack of that fact in any of the news stories)–played a part. Could it be jihad or an honor killing (maybe the woman dumped him)? Note that apparently none of his victims is Muslim.
69-Year-Old Melvin Lee Edwards & 26-Year-Old Jeremy Lewis, Victims of Muslim Ali Syed, Below, and his Jihad
Well, if it is related to Islam, we'll never be told that because our politically correct media refuses to do that, now more than ever nearly 12 years after 9/11. We're already being told he's unemployed, as if that has anything to do with it. Under Barack Obama, we now have nearly one in eight Americans unemployed. And most aren't going on rampages and murder sprees. But, then, most aren't brought up in a culture–a religion–where this is okay and even encouraged.
A 20-year-old student is suspected of killing three people [DS: UPDATED to FOUR] and injuring several others in Orange County early Tuesday before turning the gun on himself.
The suspect was identified as 20-year-old Ali Syed of Ladera Ranch. A motive for the shooting spree was not clear. Authorities said Syed had no criminal history. Police originally said he was armed with two long guns, but later said it appeared he only had one weapon, a shotgun.
Police responded to a call of a shooting at a home at Red Leaf Lane in Ladera Ranch around 4:45 a.m. When officers arrived, they found a woman dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Syed lived at the residence with his parents. He allegedly shot and killed the unidentified woman before fleeing in his parents' black SUV. It was not clear what the woman, described only as in her 20s, was doing in the residence. She was not related to Syed, according to the department.
Syed then allegedly participated in three different carjackings and shootings at different locations in Tustin and Santa Ana.
Police said the suspect crashed at Red Hill Avenue and Nisson Road in Tustin sometime before 5:30 a.m. and attempted to carjack a vehicle. During the attempted car theft, the driver was shot in the back of the head as he tried to speed away. The victim survived and was hospitalized.
From there, investigators said Syed went to a gas station and took someone's car.
"Mr. Syed being very polite said, 'I don't want to hurt you. I killed somebody, today's my last day. Give me your keys,'" said Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan.
Aw, sooo "nice" and "polite" that he later murdered an innocent man and shot two other innocents.
Investigators said Syed continued on the 55 Freeway and even stopped to shoot in the direction of at least three other vehicles, causing minor injury to one person.
Police responded to a second call of a fatal carjacking and shooting shortly after. The suspect allegedly killed a victim near the 55 Freeway off-ramp at McFadden Avenue and Village Way in Santa Ana. That victim was identified as 69-year-old Laguna Hills resident Melvin Lee Edwards.
"The suspect was driving a vehicle that he had taken in the Tustin incident," Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said in a 10 a.m. news conference. "Reports are that he got out of the vehicle, confronted our victim who was in his BMW. He orders him out of his vehicle, walks him to the side of the curb and executes our victim."
Syed then drove to the Micro Center parking lot near the 1100 block of East Edinger and Newport Avenue in Tustin. Two additional victims, identified as construction workers, were reportedly shot there. Fullerton resident Jeremy Lewis, 26, was killed. The second construction worker was wounded in the arm.
Syed allegedly took another vehicle from there. Officers located the suspect in the stolen vehicle and followed him to the city of Villa Park.
Syed then fatally shot himself on Wanda Road and Katella Avenue, according to authorities. California Highway Patrol, Orange police and Tustin police officers were on scene as it happened. There was reportedly no confrontation between police and the suspect when he shot himself.
The more people we welcome into this country from cultures where mass killings of innocent people are okay, the more of that we will have.
Say a prayer for the innocent victims of Ali Syed's jihad, Melvin Lee Edwards and Jeremy Lewis (and the unidentified woman and the unidentified motorist he also murdered), and their families, who lost these men for no good reason.
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Read and weep, America
This week's syndicated column:
If Election Day is about picking winners, the morning after is for post-mortems. That's when we slice open the losing campaigns, set aside the hundreds of millions of dollars that gush out and pick apart the cause of death.
Why did the Romney campaign fail? Maybe the country is now GOP-proof. That is, maybe a Constitution-guided, free-market, limited-government candidate no longer can "appeal" to the majority of the electorate. It could be that the death knell rang early this year once 67.3 million of us, or one in five Americans, had come to depend on federal assistance, formerly known as "the dole."
This nearly takes us back to the level we hit in 1994 (23.1 percent), before President Bill Clinton and the GOP-led Congress "ended" welfare as we knew it. After a noticeable decline, the percentage skyrocketed during President Obama's first term. So, too, did the percentage of Americans who pay zero federal taxes, now a shocking 49.5 percent. Right off the bat, half the country listens to Mitt Romney promise to relieve taxpayers of the onerous burdens imposed by the federal government and either fears for its livelihood or hears static.
It was exactly such an economic message that formed not just the core of Romney's campaign, but all of it. On one level, this exclusive focus on economic issues to the point of tunnel vision marked a campaign determined to play it safe. On another level, it was a huge gamble, a roll of the dice on which Romney staked everything.
Why? I think this risky strategy evolved from the defensive crouch the average center-right politician assumes even to enter the intensely hostile environment our mass media have made of the public square. Seeking to avoid media retaliation, Romney advanced a cramped line of attack. For example, we have in Barack Obama a president more demonstrably socialist than any since FDR, but if Mitt Romney were to have mentioned that or called Obama a socialist – with fact-based backup from, say, Stanley Kurtz's scholarly book "Radical-in-Chief" – the media catcalls would have begun.
If he had asked Americans if they applauded their president's ongoing efforts to undermine the First Amendment to appease Islam, the press would have painted him as "Islamophobic," or a "hater."
If he had pointed out the fact that Obama's political mentors include a Communist Party organizer once on an FBI watch list for arrest in the event of war with the USSR; an ex-terrorist leader of the Weather Underground; a former spokesman of the PLO; and an anti-white, anti-American, black separatist minister, it's a sure thing the press would have decried "personal attacks."
If he had questioned whether a man who displays an online image of a birth certificate that's almost certainly a forgery is trustworthy enough to be president, Romney would have been demonized as both a "racist" and a "birther."
Few people can shrug that off. Rather than venture into such dangerous territory, the campaign seems to have ceded character and ideology issues as a matter of self-defense. "Taking the high road," the campaign argued that President Obama was a good man but a bad president. It was as if the election turned on a difference of opinion within the spectrum of political normal rather than a last-ditch chance to stop Obama's collectivist vision of "transformative change" from destroying what's left of the republic.
And so the Romney campaign "stuck to the issues," if only one of them. Afghan security forces continued to kill U.S. soldiers throughout the campaign season, but Romney ignored this manifestation of foreign-policy meltdown. A fallen Navy SEAL Team 6 member's family accused the Obama White House of blowing operational secrecy, thus leading to their son's death, and Romney ignored an Obama scandal symbolic of political exploitation and national security fecklessness.
When asked to comment on a query from five House Republicans on whether hostile actors linked to the Muslim Brotherhood might have compromised our national security decision-making chain, Romney had no comment, either. "I'm not going to tell other people what things to talk about," he replied. "Those are not things that are part of my campaign."
They should have been. But since these same things (and many more) weren't part of the media's own campaign, he could get away with it. But ask yourself: Why? Why weren't Romney's stands on such matters of interest to the media? Because all of them, every one, had the potential to inflict political damage on President Obama. Romney may have kept quiet about them to avoid antagonizing the Obama-loyal media, but in so doing, he rendered himself incapable of inflicting political damage on the president, too.
The most perplexing nonissue of all has to be Benghazi-gate, the 9/11/12 terrorist attack in Libya in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. This real-time White House scandal was unfolding on several levels in the final weeks of the campaign, offering damning insights into Obama's foreign policy, his performance as commander in chief and his bald-faced willingness to lie to the American people. Romney didn't want to talk about it. The media didn't want to talk about it. Obama certainly didn't want to talk about it. "This election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed," Obama said during a Colorado TV interview to the one reporter in the country who has asked the president whether he denied military relief to Americans under fire. And indeed, it didn't.
I wonder if that's one question Mitt Romney now wishes he'd asked the president himself.

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The 'Graceland' actress to star as Medusa, Queen of Attilan!
Serinda Swan ("Ballers," "Graceland") will star as Medusa in the "Marvel's Inhumans" television series, the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family. In this series, Medusa is the Queen of the Inhumans and wife of Black Bolt — his most trusted advisor, a fiercely resilient warrior who has the ability to move and control her hair the way most people use their hands and fingers.
It was previously announced that a version of the first two episodes of the new ABC series will premiere exclusively in IMAX® theatres for a two-week window in September 2017, prior to the 8-episode network run.
"Marvel's Inhumans," were first introduced in Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965. Since that time, they have grown in prominence and become some of the most popular and iconic characters in the Marvel Universe.
"Serinda empowers Medusa's regal glory and still maintains a relatability that synced perfectly with the character," said Jeph Loeb, Head of Marvel Television and Executive Producer. "She is nothing short of wonderful."
Added Executive Producer and showrunner Scott Buck, "Serinda Swan brings a regal elegance, as well as a sense of great inner strength and fierce determination to the role of Medusa. I couldn't be happier to have her as our Queen of Attilan."
Serinda will join recently announced Anson Mount ("Hell on Wheels") who will play Black Bolt, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city and Iwan Rheon ("Game of Thrones," "Misfits" "Vicious") who will portray Maximus, a clever and charming Inhuman that is fiercely devoted to the people of Attilan, especially his brother, Black Bolt –though he harbors an intense desire to wear the crown himself.
"Marvel's Inhumans" is executive produced by Scott Buck ("Dexter," "Marvel's Iron Fist") along with Jeph Loeb ("Marvel's Daredevil," "Marvel's Jessica Jones," "Marvel's Luke Cage") and Jim Chory ("Marvel's Daredevil," "Marvel's Jessica Jones," "Marvel's Luke Cage") with Buck serving as showrunner. Roel Reine ("Admiral," "Black Sails") will direct the first two episodes. The series is co-produced by Marvel Television and ABC Studios.
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'Let's just shut down': an interview with Spokesperson Ray of the...
My message is not just to the men and women in these solitary holes. I myself am in one right now. My message is to the whole 2.5 million victims of mass incarceration and prison slavery. Everyone! All of us around the country, let's just shut down. Wherever you are, just stop working. If you are in solitary confinement, spread the word to those rotating in and out. When they try to lock up those who organize and lead the shutdowns in population, don't even give up.


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LONDON -- A report published by British legislators has accused IAAF President Sebastian Coe of misleading a parliamentary inquiry into doping.
The digital, culture, media and sports committee's report was critical of Coe's responses to questions regarding how much he knew about doping within track and field before the problems were revealed by investigative journalists and whistle-blowers.
The committee suggested that Coe could have acted sooner to clean up the sport while he served as vice president of the international track and field federation until 2015, when he won an election to succeed Lamine Diack as president.
Coe appeared before the committee in December 2015.
In the report published Monday, legislators said Coe "sought to distance himself from any knowledge of the allegations of doping in Russian athletics before the details were exposed in the German documentary" in December 2014.
This is despite allegations that Dave Bedford, a former British distance runner and London Marathon director, telephoned Coe in August 2014 to tell him about Russian marathoner Liliya Shobukhova being extorted out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a positive doping test covered up by IAAF officials so she could compete in the 2012 London Olympics.
Bedford later sent an email to Coe containing attachments that outlined the plot. The existence of this email emerged six months after Coe's appearance before the committee, but he declined a subsequent invitation to return and explain what had occurred.
Instead Coe wrote to legislators to say that Bedford had not discussed the details with him on the phone, and he simply forwarded the email to the IAAF's ethics committee chairman without opening the attachments.
"[Coe's] answers to us about this were misleading," the committee report said. "Lord Coe may not have read the email and attachments sent to him by David Bedford, whose actions we commend, but it stretches credibility to believe that he was not aware, at least in general terms, of the main allegations that the ethics commission had been asked to investigate.
"It is certainly disappointing that Lord Coe did not take the opportunity, given to him by David Bedford, to make sure he was fully informed of the serious issues at stake in the Shobukhova case and their wider implications for the governance of the anti-doping rules at the IAAF."
The committee said these are "matters of the greatest seriousness and affect the reputation of both the IAAF and Lord Coe."
"We wish, in the future, to see rigorous systems in place to deal with such matters and individuals acting with curiosity and concern when presented with compelling, important evidence," the report said.
The legislators did acknowledge "progress that the IAAF is making in establishing more independent processes for the investigation of serious complaints brought by whistleblowers."
"However, the Shobukhova case raises concerns about whether national or international sports federations are capable of investigating themselves when the allegations involve senior figures within the organization itself," the report states. "There is a real danger that internal politics inevitably plays a part in the process."
The IAAF defended its commitment to eradicating doping, saying in a statement that it takes the fight "very seriously," as highlighted by the decision to ban the Russian athletics federation in 2015. The suspension persists despite the International Olympic Committee last week lifting its ban on Russia in the wake of a state-sponsored doping scheme.
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Bullets pop out of the sand in front of me. They're going straight up. For a second I'm confused. I look up, thinking maybe I'm misinterpreting what I'm seeing, that someone is shooting down at me. Then the sand begins to shift and the ground I'm standing on gives way. We fall into a massive buried lobby, the glass from the skylight we were unknowingly standing on falling with us. We land, the three of us, in a firefight.
There is something there in the construct of Spec Ops: The Line's basic elements. Something in the way it hopes to make morality as important as breaking glass and smothering sand, that makes me think this could be a great game. But I'm not completely convinced. Not yet.
I find it off-putting when a game ties itself to a great piece of literature. It's as if combining the two will somehow allow the game to ride the coattails of something meaningful, culturally important, as a sort of shortcut to being perceived as smart. So I'm always wary.
When I first saw Spec Ops: The Line a year and a half ago it was unmistakably Joseph Conrad. This was Heart of Darkness told in a modern setting. Where there was jungle, now there is desert. Where there was the British Empire, there is America. Where there was the heart of darkness, there is Al Wasl.
But then the game disappeared, only to pop back up again last week in New York at a posh hotel in the Meatpacking District. There, in a top floor meeting room, I met with the team behind the game, and then walked to a small theater in the next room and sat and played for about three hours.
Much has changed. The once obvious homage to Heart of Darkness (or Apocalypse Now) has been replaced with something a bit more complex, if not more subtle. The game packs in a lot of distinct elements drawn from other shooters. There is a cover system, squad commands, meaningful, story-changing decisions, an interactive environment of glass and sand. Most interesting, though, is that this is a moral shooter, a game designed not to reward or punish decisions, but to instead push a player to question their own choices and morality as they play.
The game opens in a helicopter, zipping through the buildings of Dubai. They jut out of massive dunes like a weathered rib cage of glass and steel. I'm manning a door gun, shooting down other copters as the wind picks up and the air begins to turn red and bumpy. Then we flash back.
Col. John Konrad, commander of the Damned 33rd, volunteered to help evacuated Dubai when the first sand storms hit. As the storms worsened the Department of Defense ordered him out, but he ignored the orders and organized one last caravan. They were five miles out when a massive storm hit and they disappeared. Six months later, the continuing storms have created a sort of shifting wall of wind and sand that have turned Dubai into an abandoned, buried city devoid of life. But you and two other members of a Delta Recon Team are sent in to investigate a radio signal picked up from inside.
The third-person shooter resumes, opening on an image of a man walking in a sand storm, his form silhouetted against a buffeting red sky. Passing through the circling storms, Capt. Marin Walker, Lt. Alphonso Adams and Sgt. John Lugo pull off sand headgear and walk into the outskirts of the sunken city. In control of Walker, I discover the remains of the caravan, an upside down American flag hanging nearby.
The game quickly drops us into a firefight, exchanging gunfire with a collection of refugees who have mistaken us for members of the 33rd. The controls are a little slippery, sliding around the screen making it hard for me to pinpoint my attacks. Scoping in with a left trigger pull, locks my weapon on the closest target. I'm surprised at how much autoaim is in the game. I also notice that near misses register as hits.
Later, Lulu LaMer, senior producer at 2K Games, tells me that I was playing the game on the easiest setting. As the difficulty increases the autoaim becomes much less pronounced, she tells me. The hit box also shrinks, making it harder to hit your intended targets.
I quickly work through the controls on the Xbox 360. The triggers aim and shoot. The left bumper allows me to toss a grenade, its trajectory marked with a line before I release the bumper. The right bumper issues commands to the squad. The squad command controls are a little light, but enough to make it a bit easier to fight your way through some of the engagements. To issue a command you essentially aim at a target or location and tap the bumper. You can use this to order an advance, an attack on a particular target or even to get one squad mate to heal the other. The face buttons are slightly different from what I'm used to, giving some buttons two uses, one triggered to a tap and the other to a hold. For instance, tapping the B button is a melee attack, holding it in allows you to vault. The bottom, A button, is used to enter cover, to run and sometimes to do context-sensitive actions. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I adjusted over my three-hour play session.
While the squad commands feel a little light, a little tacked on, the game's use of glass and sand is satisfying and seemingly deeply incorporated into the gameplay. Early on in the game I get my first chance to check out this dynamic: pumping bullets into a glass canopy behind several armed men. The glass fractures and then breaks, unleashing a wave of sand that crushes and buries the men. You're never forced to use the sand to take out enemies, but I find that it's often there, in the background, waiting to be used like a context-appropriate exploding barrel.
And the sand isn't just used by you, enemies will use the sifting ground and piled up dunes against you as well. There was a moment, relatively deep into the game, when I was walking with my men across what I thought was solid ground. Suddenly bullets begin zipping straight up out of the sand. It confused me enough that when the ground started giving way I just sort of stood there. We fell, the three of us, with the sand and the shattered glass dome we had been unknowingly standing on. We landed in a lobby, light shining in from the buried glass dome we had been walking on. The refugees who had spotted us and fired into the glass beneath our feet, attacked. It was amazing.
There are times when gunfights are interrupted by the city's regular sandstorms, when the crisp blue sky turns red and soon all you can see are shapes, shadows and the flash from the muzzle of a firing gun. This completely flips the dynamic of the cover-based battles into a run-and-gun, blind firefight.
The game wasn't this 18 months ago when it went through a beta. The team and 2K weren't happy where it was so they stepped back and worked on fleshing out what made this game different.
"From the very, very get go we wanted to make sure the single-player campaign was very sold," Davis said. "We saw where we were compared to other games back then, on delivering on the themes we cared about. We were happy with the demo level, but we had a lot to do."
Since then the team has been working on particle effects, focus testing "the hell out of the game," tweaking the controls. The sand gameplay has been made much more dynamic, Davis tells me. You can use grenades to kick sand into peoples' faces and stun them, for instance. The game has also become visually more impressive.
That Spec Ops is set in Dubai helps.
"Dubai is interesting for a lot of reasons," LaMer said. "It is so extreme as a city. It is ripe for metaphor. There are parallels in the setting to the story in terms of this hubristic idea that you can build a city out of nothing in the middle of the desert and turn it into a worldwide magnet for business, for pleasure travel, all out of bare sand."
Davis calls the city architecture porn.
"This is a crazy, awesome level design location," he said. "We can make you explore unsure ground, walk within unique spaces, in areas filled with sand. And there is a lot of vertical opportunity for gameplay.
Not all of the game's memorable moments are the ones filled with this new interaction with sand. Dubai is a stunning city made more stunning by the fictional apocalyptic sand storms. Spec Ops: The Line is a journey down, working from the upper, outer edges of the buried city, into its own heart of darkness. The story, the excerpted bits I played through, is a compelling modern morality play. One of the things I find most fascinating about it is how the game pushes you to make decisions that feel more organic that what most gamers are used to.
There was a moment in the game when I was asked to decide the fate of two men. I had to kill one to save one. There were no pop-up dialog cues, or button pushes. It was just me, my men and a gun. I had to aim and fire. But instead of targeting one of the two helpless men, I opened fire on the people asking me to make the decision. I broke the rules of the game, and it didn't punish me. It expected that might happen and it reacted and it continued.
I stopped playing for a minute and asked what would have happened had I decided to comply and kill one of the men. It would have reacted differently and still continued. There was not a wrong decision. More importantly though, there was no specific reward or punishment for the choice you make, not built into the game at least. It's a powerful moment.
"The unspoken choice here is 'Are you going to obey the video game?'" said Walt Williams, lead writer for 2K Games. "Are you going to do what you're told to do."
Some players actually turn to the developers and ask what they're supposed to do when they reach that point in the game, Cory Davis, the game's lead designer at Yager Development, told me.
"Our goal is to invite you to have a deeper emotional reaction," he said.
As you command your men you will see them change in the way they interact with you. The deciding moments and what you do with them will shape their opinion of you. It will also, the designers hope, perhaps get you as player to reflect on those decisions as well. The game doesn't reward or punish a player's decisions, instead those rewards or punishments are internalized by the player.
Lead writer Williams says that they've looked at the stories told in other military shooters. They all fall within a certain mold, he says, kindly.
"We don't feel like we're going up against those games," he said. "We were intrigued at the idea of having a player play a war game and feel the emotional resonance of being in combat."
So when playing, the story is meant to deliver two journeys: One the journey of the player-controlled character following in the footsteps of a U.S. Army colonel forced to make desperate decisions to survive. The other is your journey as a person forced to confront their own morality within the safe confines of a video game.
And that's where the game could work best. The gunplay is brisk, the setting is tremendous. I love the sand and glass interaction and like that Spec Ops includes elements from other shooters. But what will separate this game from the others is its focus on the narrative and its desire to turn a military shooter into a metaphoric journey into oneself.
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Djokovic wins longest point ever recorded at Wimbledon
Published 7:55 pm Friday, July 12, 2019
By MATTIAS KAREN Associated Press
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Going by the number of strokes, it was the longest point ever recorded at Wimbledon.
And for Novak Djokovic, it went a long way toward putting him into another final at the All England Club.
After exchanging dozens of strokes during the third set of his semifinal match against Roberto Bautista Agut on Friday, Djokovic finally smacked a backhand down the line with the 45th shot of the rally to save a break point. The defending champion held serve to make it 5-2 and went on to win the match 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
According to official statistics, the 45-stroke rally was the longest at Wimbledon since they started tracking point lengths in 2005. But for Djokovic, the important part was the impact it had on what was a very closely-fought duel up until that stage.
"At one stage of the match, it could have gone (a) different way. Was very close in the third set," said Djokovic, who faces Roger Federer in Sunday's final as he goes for a fifth Wimbledon title. "Couple of very long games when I broke his serve and he had some break points, a very long rally. I managed to make a winner down the line with a backhand. Obviously winning that game was crucial for me. It gave me more confidence and relief so I could swing more freely in the next games."
Aside from the number of strokes, the point itself was perhaps not that memorable. For much of it, both players seemed content with just hitting the ball back over the net and waiting for the other to make a mistake. The last 18 strokes were all crosscourt backhands, with the players remaining in more or less the same position until Djokovic finally switched it up with his shot straight down the line.
That was at 30-40, and Bautista Agut had missed a previous break point as well at 15-40, which he said made him a bit more cautious on his second opportunity.
"I had an easy forehand (on the first break point). I went too much for it," the Spaniard said. "Then the next point I wanted to play — I didn't want to take a risk on the point, to play long, to play a good rally. Was maybe one of the best points of the match."
The previous Wimbledon record was 42 strokes, set in a 2006 match between Jarkko Nieminen and Dmitry Tursunov. The women's record is 39, set in a 2007 match between Nathalie Dechy and Elena Dementieva. Rallies on grass are usually shorter than on clay or hard courts.
Barbora Strycova made a Wimbledon final after all — in women's doubles.
A day after losing to Serena Williams in the singles semifinals, Strycova teamed up with Hsieh Su-wei to beat top-seeded Timea Bagos and Kristina Mladenovic 7-6 (5), 6-4 and reach her first Grand Slam final.
Strycova has 26 doubles titles in her career but lost in the semifinals twice at both the Australian Open and U.S. Open and once at the French Open. Hsieh won the 2013 Wimbledon and 2014 French Open doubles titles.
The third-seeded pair will play No. 4 Yifan Xu and Gabriela Dabrowski, who beat Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Shintaro Mochizuki became the first Japanese player to reach a junior boys' Grand Slam singles final after outlasting fourth-seeded American Martin Damm 6-1, 0-6, 10-8.
The eighth-seeded Mochizuki will play Carlos Gimeno Valero of Spain, who beat Harold Mayot of France 7-6 (5), 6-4. Gimeno Valero will also be playing his first Grand Slam final.
In the junior girls' final, Alexa Noel of the United States will face Daria Snigur of Ukraine.
Noel beat Diane Parry of France 6-2, 6-1, and Snigur defeated Emma Navarro of the United States 6-3, 6-0.
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The irony of all this, of course, is none of these bulldozing power brokers who profess such love for Marina City have lifted a finger to give it landmark protection, allowing the indignities foisted upon this global symbol of the greatness of Chicago to continue unabated. (Disclosure: I am a long-time Marina City resident.)
Making it a bit more complicated is that Marina City is among a number of huge multi-use developments under split ownership. In the case of an extreme example, the John Hancock Center, the office, retail, observation deck and condo portions all have different owners, and last November the rooftop and antenna were sold off to still another entity for $70 million.
The basic split at Marina City came in the 1970's, when the rental building was converted to condominiums The office building, theater, and lower 20 parking floors of the twin towers were spun off to a separate owner who oversaw a downward spiral that soon landed those holdings in housing court as, essentially, an abandoned building. When new ownership revived the commercial part of Marina City, in came Smith and Wollensky and the House of Blues. As the complex's office building was converted to the House of Blues of hotel, the concrete of the structure was lovingly cleaned and restored. It looked beautiful.
(Read: Slumming Up Marina City.)
You'd think that those who actually thought enough of Marina City to buy a condo there would be more protective of the architectural legacy of Goldberg's design. No doubt many are. They just usually don't have the votes. The towers themselves have remained under the control of a condo board kept in office in no small part through the proxy votes of non-resident owners who rent out their units. Their most fervent statement on the building's importance was when they tried to monetize it, through a surreal 2007 campaign engineered by former State Representative and failed judicial candidate Ellis Levin, which tried to shake down photographers with the claim that the condo association, which controlled only the 40 residential floors of the 60-story towers, was mandating that no pictures could be published of Marina City without its written permission. (Read: Stop Taking Pictures of Marina City!)
Now a new controversy has erupted around the rehab of the residential lobbies. According to a report by Steven Dahlman on the indispensable Marina City Online website, 250 owners have signed a petition demanding a special meeting be called. Dahlman quotes Marina Towers Condo Association secretary Ellen Chessick citing "lack of input from owners . . . inappropriate and unsatisfactory design and choice of materials, and loss of the travertine stone that is in the lobbies and on every residential floor." One other resident estimated the value of that stone to be $250,000. MTCA design committee co-chair and interior designer Marc Straits resigned in protest over what was perceived as the lack of professional oversight for the project.
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Actually paying for good design - oh, the horror! If these were the people Bertrand Goldberg had to answer to when he originally designed Marina City, they wouldn't be living in a world-class masterpiece, but an upscale version of Cabrini Green.
Like the owners of the commercial property, the actions of the MTCA board would indicate that they don't place much value in the architectural value of the building they inhabit. Melichar Architects, which Abell lists on his Linkedin page as his current employer, appears to be a firm as yet untouched by the 20th - much less 21st - century, with pictures galore of projects steeped in "Italian Renaissance", "Mediterranean Inspiration", and "Gothic Authenticity." Goldberg's son Geoffrey, also an architect, has never been consulted on the redesign. God forbid, he might actually charge for his services and do a little historic research.
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No one likes spending money, but, on the other hand, no one likes losing it, either. What remains a mystery is why the Marina City condo board continues to insist on damaging the value of their investment through cheap, generic alterations that destroy the integrity of the historic, world-class design that makes Marina City one of Chicago's most distinctive properties. Lobby spaces - especially entrance lobbies - are how private buildings define their public character. To visitors and prospective owners alike, it takes only one quick glance. Does it read engagement or indifference?
If you want an example of how to really maximize property values, you have only to look at Mies van der Rohes 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments. Instead of cutting corners, management there didn't just ask for volunteers. They turned to people who actually have blue chip, internationally recognized credentials in working with world-class buildings: architects Gunny Harboe and Krueck and Sexton. Together they successfully executed a renovation/restoration plan that has not just won awards, but secured 860-880's status as one of Chicago's premiere addresses.


text: Data breaches cost UK businesses more than ever last year, with most of the financial hit resulting from lost business in the aftermath of an incident, a Ponemon Institute survey for Symantec has found.The average cost of a data breach for the 38 large businesses surveyed in 2010 Annual Study: UK Cost of a Data Breach was \u00a31.9 million ($3.1 million), a 13 percent rise from 2009, equivalent to about \u00a371 per lost record. Of this sum, 48 percent can be attributed to 'abnormal customer churn' - customers that go elsewhere after hearing of the problem - while communicating with customers and resetting records is another 23 percent. Non-commercial organisations such as those in the public sector were found to suffer lower customer costs.The most expensive breach uncovered by the survey cost a company \u00a36.2 million to recover from, while the smallest costing \u00a3336,000, with the number of records lost or stolen ranging from 6,900 to 72,000.However representative a snapshot, Symantec and Ponemon describe the breach cost numbers as giving a good idea of what it costs a typical company to deal with large data breaches, defined as between 1,000 and 100,000 records.The report presents the deeper causes of data breaches in a rather convoluted manner (some causes can be related to more than one category), although 'system breaches' (security failures inside a company) are named as the top cause with a frequency of 37 percent of incidents, with third parties and negligence accounting for 34 percent each.Malicious and criminal attacks account for 29 percent, but these are not surprisingly the most expensive to clear up at \u00a380 per record."We continue to see an increase in the costs to businesses suffering a data breach," said Ponemon Institute founder, Dr. Larry Ponemon. "Regulators are cracking down to ensure organisations implement required data security controls or face harsher penalties. Confronted with both malicious and non-malicious threats from inside and outside the organisation, companies must proactively implement policies and technologies to mitigate the risk of costly breaches."


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The bacteria in our intestines outnumber by tenfold the 100 trillion cells that comprise the human body. This gut microbiota has many beneficial functions, including the production of vitamins and hormones, fermentation, regulation of gut development, and shaping intestinal immune responses. They also play a role in pathological conditions such as diabetes and obesity, and influence the immune functions of distal mucosal surfaces such as the lung. Examples include the amelioration of allergen-induced asthma by colonization of the stomach with Helicobacter pylori, and involvement of the gut microbiota in development of immune defenses against influenza virus infection.
When the gut microbiome of mice is altered by treatment with antibiotics, subsequent intranasal infection with influenza A virus leads to reduced antiviral antibody and T-cell responses. The antibiotic treatment does not cause a general immunodeficiency – the mice can respond normally to protein antigens.
The defective immune response to influenza virus in antibiotic treated mice can be rescued by treating the mice with compounds that stimulate the innate immune response – such as lipopolysaccharide, a bacterial product. These compounds rescue the immune defect when administered either intransally or rectally at the time of influenza virus infection. Apparently stimulating the innate immmune response in the gut is sufficient to correct an immune defect in the lung.
How might gut bacteria be important for immune responses to a lung infection? When influenza virus infects the lung, development of immune defenses depend upon a complex of several proteins called the inflammasome. This structure is needed for the production of cytokines that promote adaptive immune defenses: antibodies and T cells. These cytokines are also needed for the activity of dendritic cells, sentinels that sense a virus infection, and travel to the nearby lymph nodes to inform T cells that there is a problem.
Antibiotic treatment of mice impairs the influenza virus-induced production of inflammasome-dependent cytokines. These results are consistent with the finding that antibiotic-treated mice respond normally to infection with herpes simplex virus type 2 and Legionella pneumophila, two pathogens for which the inflammasome is not required for adaptive immune responses. Furthermore, microbe-mediated inflammasome activation is needed for migration of lung dendritic cells to lymph nodes. In antibiotic treated mice, lung dendritic cells fail to migrate to local lymph nodes. Hence T cells are not informed of the infection, leading to poor antibody and cellular responses.
These findings reveal a link between the gut microbial community and inflammasome-dependent activation of cytokines. How gut bacteria effect this process is not understood. One idea is that bacterial products stimulate white blood cells in the intestine to produce compounds that migrate to the lung and activate the inflammasome.
If you are wondering about the practical consequences of these findings, read the last paragraph of the paper:
Because antibiotic use is prevalent in the treatment of respiratory infections, our results imply a possible deleterious effect of such treatment in initiating proper immune responses to influenza virus. Conversely, it will be important to determine whether probiotic therapy can be explored for immune-stimulating effects during the flu season.
Ichinohe T, Pang IK, Kumamoto Y, Peaper DR, Ho JH, Murray TS, & Iwasaki A (2011). Microbiota regulates immune defense against respiratory tract influenza A virus infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (13), 5354-9 PMID: 21402903


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Canso Credit Income Fund announces distribution
16 Sep, 2014, 08:00 ET
TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2014 /CNW/ - Lysander Funds Limited announces that Canso Credit Income Fund (TSX: PBY.UN) will pay a monthly distribution in the amount of $0.04166 per Class A Unit and/or per Class F Unit on or before each of October 15, 2014, November 17, 2014, and December 15, 2014 (the "Payment Dates") to unitholders of record of the Fund at the close of business on September 30, 2014, October 31, 2014, and November 28, 2014, respectively (the "Distribution Record Dates").
This press release contains forward-looking statements. The statements that are concerning the Canso Credit Income Fund's objectives, goals, strategies, intentions, plans, beliefs, expectations and estimates, and the business, operations, financial performance and condition of Canso Credit Income Fund are forward-looking statements. The words "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "intend", "may", "will", "would" and similar expressions and the negative of such expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements are subject to important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. While Lysander considers these risks and uncertainties to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect.
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text: Stephen Decatur High Schools Jr. Red Cross Club has kicked off its annual 1,000 Lights-1,000 Lives Measles Vaccine Campaign for the holidays. Each light on the Christmas Tree symbolizes a life that will be saved in an impoverished country with a simple Measles immunization. One dollar raised for each light on the tree will pay for a vaccination against a disease. Students will sell Measles pins for $1. If you are interested in purchasing a pin, call 443-880-7795. Pictured are club coordinators Patti Miller, Alison Sappington, club advisor Ryan Cowder and students Emma Heim, Kristen Miller, Niki Carpenter, Jenna Kramer, Leslie Hurley, Troy Bennett, Rosa Navarra, Sidney Waters, Brandon Maddy and Brianna Carroll.


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Lesley Paterson's 12 Trail Running Tips
Lesley Paterson made a name for herself in triathlon, but she grew up "fell" running on the undulating terrain of the Scottish moors.
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In addition to being a two-time Xterra off-road triathlon world champion, an elite mountain biker and a top-tier short-distance trail runner, Lesley Paterson is also an endurance coach (she guides clients through her Braveheart Fitness Coaching), actress with 17 films to her credit and scriptwriter who is co-writing a new screenplay for the historic World War I novel "All Quiet on the Western Front." Although she's made a name for herself in triathlon, she grew up "fell" running on the undulating terrain of the Scottish moors. We caught up with Paterson to talk about her trail running prowess and her advice about how to train and race on trails.
Trail Racing 101
When you're racing on trails, there's a real feeling about battling against terrain and the environment, versus battling against each other. So there's a mutual support in that endeavor. It's still a race, and we're all out there trying to do the best we can. But, on trails, I think there's just a sense of being out there in nature—there is a happiness about it. There's a fulfilling feeling about it that's less neurotic than some of the races on roads, where time and pace and all of those details are a big deal. You can't really measure yourself at a certain minute-per-mile pace, and even power meters on a bike are somewhat obsolete when it comes to off-road racing. There's a bit of creativity involved out on the trails and with that comes a very relaxed nature and you really have to go with the flow, even though you still might be running hard.
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Running Fast on Trails
Running fast on trails is completely different than running on roads or any flat surface. When you're training and racing on trails, your movement and your gait are varied all the time. You have to have strong ankles, a strong pivot point, a strong core, and strong hips to be able to navigate rocks and bound off of them and dance around obstacles so you don't get injured, but also not to take too much energy from your body.
Fartlek Training
Fartlek training is really good. I do a workout called "over-unders," where you're running just above your anaerobic threshold and then just below it. You're constantly pushing those boundaries and continually going over the red line and coming back. I also do a lot of strength-based workouts and cross-training in the gym to build functional strength with the muscles you use while you're running on the trails. It's not only the eccentric strength you need for uphill running, but also the decentric muscle movements for running fast downhill and then immediately attacking another hill.
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Hill Repeats
Hill repeats are great drill for building strength and you can do them on road or you can do them off-road. You can do them all different times of the year with a different emphasis. In the offseason, I'll do them with a lower heart-rate and focus on high-knee drive and engage all of those muscles as a strength component rather than a cardio component. I'll also do bounding up a hill, which is almost like a plyometric drill up a very steep hill. They're a controlled effort that really works the calves and feet. During the race season, I'll pick up the pace and do sprints uphills and threshold workouts up hills. Strength is the basis for all of those kinds of workouts, but you can vary the intensity depending on the time of the season.
Tempo Run
Try to find a trail that will mimic your race course and do a long run of about 90 minutes and do a 30-minute tempo effort on that trail after that so you're teaching your body how to deal with the fatigue of being on a trail and still being able to maneuver around that trail. That creates strength if you're doing at the end of a long run.
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I think one of the hardest things in trail races is that you run an uphill and your legs as smashed, but then you hit a downhill hard and your legs are like jelly. Then you do another uphill and you're like, "What the heck?" But you can train to improve on the same kind of terrain. Depending on the course you're running, you should work over a hill and down the other side so you're mirroring what's going to happen in the race. During a race, if you work the uphill, you don't just give up at the end of the hill, you get into a quick stride over the top of the hill and try to maintain your cadence. For example, I'll have my athletes do a 4-minute interval on a hill, where it's 2 minutes up a hill and 2 minutes down the back side of that hill. There are also some great intervals you can do where you run down a hill to start, then up a hill.
Leg Turnover
I do a lot of track work in the weeks before a race to get more leg speed and leg turnover. Sometimes I think when you're on the trails, I think it's easy to lull yourself into a false sense of security as to where your fitness really is or lull yourself into a pace that is less than what you're capable of running. You need quick leg turnover to keep your timing sharp, even if you can't run with that same fast turnover on a trail. There are times you need it, though, and if you don't train for it, you won't have it. So that's why it's still important to run fast on the track and road while you're training for a trail race.
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Tracking Trail Volume
I don't track the miles I run on trails. You can never really get a consistent measure of how far you're running, especially when you compare that to how far you might run on roads. I measure my running by time on my feet, not by pace or even distance. Pace is mostly irrelevant on the trails. I started trail running when I was about 11 years old with my dad over the fells in Scotland. In 2 hours, you might only cover 10 miles, but boy it sure is a hard 2 hours.
Cross-Training for Trail Running
I do a lot of Cross-Fit functional strength work like box jumps, single-leg hops, lunges in all different planes of motion, medicine ball tossing and other exercises that engage all of the muscles in all different ways. When you hit the side of a trail or the side of a rock at a different angle, you're using a whole different set of muscles. So you need to be versatile and efficient to be able to do that and spring off that into your next stride. A lot of single-leg work is really important training for those kind of situations. I call them ice skate hops where you're hoping from side to side. You're teaching your body to propel off the side of the foot. When you're running down a trail, chances are you're going to be picking your line and propelling off one side, then another off rocks, so that can be really handy.
For me, the cross-training involved with triathlon has made me a much stronger runner. I think the endurance aspects of triathlon and the versatility aspects of training for triathlon are amazing. When you're working on a few different sports like you do in triathlon, you're using all planes of motion and building strength in a wide variety of muscle groups. One sport really feeds into the other very, very nicely. The swimming, for example, gives you so much more core strength, and that's the basis for being an efficient runner. The biking gives you leg strength and muscle mass for trail running. Generally, you get much stronger from swimming and biking and that really benefits your running.
Running Form
From a balance point of view, when I run on trails, I tend to use my arms and have my arms out to the side so I can flail them a little bit in a bit of a circular motion. Practice a couple of techniques like that when you're running downhill. Your body position and having enough of a forward lean is important. You don't want to be jamming on the breaks when you're running downhill, because that's really going to damage the muscles and throw you off. If you have too much of a forward lean, that's going to throw you off because you're going to create too much speed.
Falling on Trails
I have almost perfected the Army roll. It's about going with the fall rather than trying to breach it. The first reaction is something like, "Oh my god, I'm going to fall," and then you tense up and stiffen your limbs and ultimately land a lot harder than you need to or potentially even break something. But if you roll with it and go with it, you can kind of get up and keep going and not have too much damage. But that also shows by strong ankles are really important. I sometimes roll over my ankles, but they're strong enough to cope with that and I'm able to keep running and not fall over. The more you practice running downhill sections of a trail, the better you become and less likely you are to fall.
I wear a lot of compression apparel after workout for the rest of the day. I always use Podium Legs at night and, for circulation purposes, I also vary back and forth between ice baths and hot baths and do a lot of stretching as well. And, then, of course, I always address it through proper hydration and fueling, before, during and after a race or workout.


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In 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in London, UK, published Hybrids and Chimeras: A Report on the Findings of the Consultation, which summarized a public debate about research on, and suggested policy for, human animal chimeras. The HFEA formulated the report after conducting a series of surveys and debates from earlier in 2007. The HFEA issued a statement in September 2007, followed by an official report published on 1 October 2007. Their report on human-animal chimeras set a worldwide precedent for discussions of the ethical use of those embryos in labs.
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Tyler Perry is no Douglas Sirk. In his latest melodrama, his uptight exec, San Francisco software company CEO Wesley Deeds, is no Madea, either. Hell, Deeds doesn't even know who he is himself. Astute viewers (what are you doing at this movie?) might figure out the root of his problem, though, and it's not so much his castrating mother (Phylicia Rashad), his ne'er-do-well brother (Brian White), or his bored fiancée (Gabrielle Union). Actually, it could have a bit to do with the last, if the cut to Alcatraz after their night of screwing means anything. "It felt like you were making love to someone else," she says. Someone like the homeless janitor (Thandie Newton — really?) in his office who stirs something deep within him? But when she admonishes the 6-year-old daughter she smuggles into her workplace with "You must not come out of the closet," you wonder if she's addressing the right person.
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Kramer MS, Barr RG, Dagenais S, et al. Pacifier Use, Early Weaning, and Cry/Fuss Behavior: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA. 2001;286(3):322–326. doi:10.1001/jama.286.3.322
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Author Affiliations: Departments of Pediatrics (Drs Kramer and Barr), Epidemiology and Statistics (Dr Kramer), and Psychiatry (Dr Barr), McGill University Faculty of Medicine; and McGill University Health Centre Research Institute (Mss Dagenais, Jones, and Ciofani; Messrs Yang and Jané), Montreal, Quebec.
Context The World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund
strongly discourage use of pacifiers because of their perceived interference
with breastfeeding. Observational studies have reported a strong association
between pacifier use and early weaning, but such studies are unable to determine
whether the association is causal.
Objectives To test whether regular pacifier use is causally related to weaning
by 3 months postpartum and to examine differences in results according to
randomized intervention allocation vs observational use or nonuse of pacifiers.
Design Double-blind, randomized controlled trial conducted from January 1998
to August 1999.
Setting Postpartum unit of a university teaching hospital in Montreal, Quebec.
Participants A total of 281 healthy, breastfeeding women and their healthy, term
singleton infants.
Interventions Participants were randomly allocated to 1 of 2 counseling interventions
provided by a research nurse trained in location counseling. The experimental
intervention (n = 140) differed from the control (n = 141) by recommending
avoidance of pacifier use and suggesting alternative ways to comfort a crying
or fussing infant.
Main Outcome Measures Early weaning, defined as weaning within the first 3 months, compared
between groups; 24-hour infant behavior logs detailing frequency and duration
of crying, fussing, and pacifier use at 4, 6, and 9 weeks.
Results A total of 258 mother-infant pairs (91.8%) completed follow-up. The
experimental intervention increased total avoidance of pacifier use (38.6%
vs 16.0% in the control group), reduced daily use (40.8% vs 55.7%), and decreased
the mean number of pacifier insertions per day (0.8 vs 2.4 at 4 weeks [P<.001]; 0.8 vs 3.0 at 6 weeks [P<.001]; and 1.3 vs 3.0 at 9 weeks [P =
.004]). In the analysis based on randomized intervention allocation, the experimental
intervention had no discernible effect on weaning at 3 months (18.9% vs 18.3%
in the experimental vs control group; relative risk [RR], 1.0; 95% confidence
interval [CI], 0.6-1.7), and no effect was observed on cry/fuss behavior (in
the experimental vs control groups, respectively, total daily duration, 143
vs 151 minutes at 4 weeks [P = .49]; 128 vs 131 minutes
at 6 weeks [P = .81]; and 110 vs 104 minutes at 9
weeks [P = .58]). When randomized allocation was
ignored, however, we observed a strong observational association between exposure
to daily pacifier use and weaning by 3 months (25.0% vs 12.9% of the exposed
vs unexposed groups; RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.1-3.3).
Conclusions We found a strong observational association between pacifier use and
early weaning. No such association was observed, however, when our data were
analyzed by randomized allocation, strongly suggesting that pacifier use is
a marker of breastfeeding difficulties or reduced motivation to breastfeed,
rather than a true cause of early weaning.
Pacifiers have been around for a very long time. Small clay pacifiers
have been found in Cypriot graves dating back to about 1000 BC, and breast-shaped
pottery nipples have been recovered from Roman graves dating from around AD
100.1,2 In the early 1900s, however,
pacifiers began to be condemned by the infant welfare movement. Various reformers
referred to the pacifier as a product of "perverted American ingenuity,"3 an "instrument of torture,"4
and a "curse of babyhood."5 More recently,
clinicians and public health practitioners have raised concerns that the pacifier
causes "nipple confusion" and thereby leads to early weaning.6
In fact, avoidance of pacifiers constitutes step 9 of the World Health Organization/United
Nations Children's Fund Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.7
What is the evidence of actual benefit or harm associated with pacifier
use? Several observational studies published since the Baby-Friendly Hospital
Initiative was developed, including studies from Brazil,8-10
Sweden,11,12 England,13,14 New Zealand,15
and the United States,16 have reported a significant
association between pacifier use and early weaning. The question is whether
such an association is causal, or whether pacifier use is a marker of breastfeeding
difficulties or a mother's reduced motivation to continue breastfeeding. No
physiological evidence has validated the concept of nipple confusion; an infant
can apparently distinguish nutritive from nonnutritive sucking.17-20
It is clear that pacifiers reduce crying in the short term21-25
but no studies have assessed whether the regular use of pacifiers reduces
the overall duration or frequency of crying and fussing. Such studies are
important, because proscription of pacifier use could conceivably increase
infant distress and thereby impair infant-parent relationships.
The major objectives of our study were to assess whether advice to avoid
pacifier use and to use other modes of calming a crying or fussing infant
reduces the risk of early weaning (before age 3 months) and increases the
frequency or duration of crying and fussing. We also wished to assess the
bias that occurs in using an observational vs an experimental design to study
the effect of pacifier use on breastfeeding duration.
We carried out a randomized controlled trial from January 1998 to August
1999 of women giving birth at the Royal Victoria Hospital, a McGill University–affiliated
maternity hospital in Montreal, Quebec. The Royal Victoria Hospital Research
Ethics Board approved the study. Women who intended to breastfeed for at least
3 months and who were delivered of (vaginally or by cesarean) healthy singleton
newborns of at least 37 completed weeks' gestational age and 2500 g birth
weight were eligible for inclusion. They were recruited during their postpartum
stay, with enrollment of at most 1 mother per room to avoid the treatment
contamination that would likely occur if mothers randomized to different interventions
occupied the same hospital room. Women were stratified by parity and, if multiparous,
according to whether they had breastfed previously. Randomization within each
stratum was accomplished using computer-generated random numbers in blocks
of 4. Women consented to randomization to 1 of 2 different breastfeeding promotion
"packages" (see below); the assigned allocation was contained in an opaque
envelope opened by a research nurse after consent was obtained. Based on the
literature available8,9,11,15
at the time we planned this trial, we estimated that a reduction in daily
pacifier use from 60% to 40% would reduce the risk of weaning before age 3
months from 40% to 35%. With an α level of .05 and a β of .10,
approximately 140 infants were required per group.
The basic breastfeeding promotion package included in both interventions
consisted of a 45-minute interview promoting breastfeeding plus an information
sheet, both provided by a nurse with specialized training in lactation counseling.
This interview and information focused on positioning, the importance of frequent
feeding and feeding on demand, the avoidance of formula and other liquids,
the management of sore nipples and breast engorgement, and provided the telephone
numbers of persons and agencies whom the mother could call for answers to
questions, help with difficulties, and general support. In addition, for the
experimental intervention, the mother was asked to avoid pacifiers when the
infant cried or fussed and to first offer the breast instead, and failing
that, to try carrying and rocking the infant. In the control intervention,
all options were discussed for calming the infant, including breastfeeding,
carrying, rocking, and using a pacifier. The experimental vs control intervention
was reinforced by the research nurse by telephone calls at 10 days and 3 weeks
We asked mothers to complete a validated behavior diary26,27
on 3 consecutive days, including 2 weekdays and 1 weekend day, when their
infants were 4, 6, and 9 weeks of age. This diary provides exhaustive and
mutually exclusive indicators of infant behaviors, including the frequency
and duration of all crying and fussing episodes. Periods of unsoothable crying
are recorded separately. An indicator for each pacifier insertion was added
to a previous version of the instrument.28
Study mothers were interviewed at 3 months by a research assistant who was
blinded to the intervention status of the mother. The assistant asked whether
the mother was still breastfeeding. If so, the research assistant also asked
about the frequency of breastfeeding and whether the infant was receiving
other foods in addition to breast milk. If the infant was no longer breastfeeding,
the research assistant asked the age at which the infant was weaned (ie, when
breastfeeding was permanently discontinued) and the reasons for weaning. In
addition, she asked about the average frequency of pacifier use over the infant's
first 3 months of life.
The primary outcome, early weaning (weaning within the first 3 months),
was compared between the 2 randomized intervention groups using the relative
risk (RR) and the 95% confidence interval (CI). We also carried out a multiple
logistic regression analysis to ensure that the crude RR was not confounded
by observed differences in baseline characteristics. Secondary outcomes included
the frequency (number of episodes per day) and total duration (minutes per
day) of crying or fussing and the duration of unsoothable crying (minutes
per day); these outcomes were compared using 2-tailed t tests, with P<.05 indicating statistical
significance. All analyses were based on randomized intervention allocation
in the mothers who completed the study, because no outcomes could be ascertained
in those who were lost to follow-up.
To contrast the results obtained for the primary outcome based on randomized
intervention allocation with those obtained if randomized allocation was ignored,
we also analyzed the data as if we had done an observational study. This analysis
compared the RR and 95% CI in groups who had ever (vs never) been exposed
to a pacifier and in groups who were (vs were not) exposed on a daily basis.
All statistical analyses were carried out using SAS version 6.12 (SAS
Institute, Cary, NC).
Of the 281 mothers randomized, 258 (91.8%; 127 experimental and 131
control) completed the study (Figure 1). Table 1 compares the baseline characteristics
of these 258 mothers. Maternal age and education, infant birth weight, English-language
interview, maternal employment outside the home, parity, and previous breastfeeding
experience were very similar in the 2 groups, although a slightly lower proportion
of experimental mothers were married and a slightly higher proportion smoked
during pregnancy. The only differences in baseline characteristics observed
among the 23 mothers originally randomized who did not complete the study
were a lower proportion who were married (69.6% vs 81.4%), a higher proportion
who smoked (26.1% vs 13.0%), and, paradoxically, a lower proportion who worked
outside the home (43.5% vs 76.0%).
As shown in Table 2, the
intervention succeeded in substantially changing pacifier use; 38.6% of mothers
in the experimental group totally avoided pacifier use, compared with 16.0%
in the control group, for a statistically significant RR of 2.4. Daily use
of pacifiers was substantially reduced in the experimental group (40.8%) vs
the control group (55.7%), for a statistically significant 30% relative reduction.
The diary data indicated a large and highly significant reduction in the mean
number of pacifier insertions per day in the experimental group at 4, 6, and
9 weeks of age.
We first analyzed the results for early weaning based on randomized
allocation. Among the 258 infants whose mothers completed the study, 18.9%
of those in the experimental group were weaned prior to age 3 months vs 18.3%
of those in the control group (RR, 1.0; 95% CI, 0.6-1.7). The results for
exclusive breastfeeding were similar: 63.8% of infants in the experimental
group had discontinued exclusive breastfeeding by age 3 months vs 66.4% of
those in the control group (RR, 1.0; 95% CI, 0.8-1.1). To ensure that these
negative experimental results were not confounded by small baseline differences
in marital status or smoking, we carried out a logistic regression analysis
to control for these differences. The adjusted odds ratio and 95% CI for weaning
by age 3 months (1.0 [0.5-1.9]) was virtually unchanged from the crude odds
ratio (1.0 [0.6-1.9]).
In contrast, the observational analysis of early weaning yielded very
different results. When exposure was based on daily pacifier use, 25.0% of
exposed infants were weaned prior to age 3 months vs 12.9% of unexposed infants
(RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 1.1-3.3). When exposure was based on whether the infants
had ever used a pacifier, the corresponding proportions weaned before age
3 months were 21.3% vs 11.4% (RR, 1.9; 95% CI, 0.9-3.8). Observational associations
with exclusive breastfeeding were weaker but statistically significant. For
exposure based on daily pacifier use, 72.6% of exposed infants vs 58.3% of
unexposed infants had discontinued exclusive breastfeeding before age 3 months
(RR, 1.2; 95% CI, 1.04-1.5). For exposure based on ever using pacifiers, the
corresponding values were 69.1% vs 54.3% (RR, 1.3; 95% CI, 1.01-1.6).
Only 183 (70.9%), 156 (60.5%), and 148 (57.4%) of the mothers returned
the infant behavior diaries at 4, 6, and 9 weeks, respectively, with no differences
between experimental and control groups. Table 3 shows the results (analyzed by randomized intervention allocation)
for cry/fuss behavior, including daily frequency, ie, the number of episodes
of crying (including unsoothable crying) or fussing per day, total daily duration
of all crying and fussing, and total daily duration of unsoothable crying.
Cry/fuss frequency was slightly lower in the experimental group at 4 and 6
weeks, but almost identical in the 2 groups at 9 weeks. The total duration
of crying and fussing was similar in the 2 groups at all 3 ages, as was the
total duration of unsoothable crying.
Because of the substantial nonresponse rate to the diary completion,
we compared baseline characteristics of those who did not complete diaries
in the experimental and control groups at 4, 6, and 9 weeks postpartum. The
results (Table 4) indicate that
nonresponders at all 3 time periods were younger, less educated, and less
likely to be married. As shown in Table
1, however, these characteristics were similar between the experimental
and control groups (which was also true when stratified by diary response
at all 3 time periods), and thus the differences between responders and nonresponders
are highly unlikely to have biased the effects of intervention on cry/fuss
Our experimental intervention succeeded in substantially reducing pacifier
use, yet it had no significant effect on cry/fuss behavior at ages 4, 6, or
9 weeks. Similarly, our intervention had no effect on the risk of weaning
before age 3 months. Despite these negative results, however, pacifier use
was strongly associated with the risk of early weaning in observational analyses,
similar to results reported in previous observational studies.8-16
This combination of findings leads us to conclude that pacifier use is a marker
of breastfeeding difficulties or reduced motivation to breastfeed, rather
than a true cause of early weaning. We reported an identical contrast between
experimental and observational results in an earlier trial of in-hospital
formula supplementation of breastfed infants.29,30
Although we found no evidence that pacifier use is harmful for breastfeeding,
we also detected no beneficial effects on infant crying and fussing. Thus
the nonpacifier soothing methods (breastfeeding, carrying, and rocking) advocated
in our experimental intervention appear adequate. Nonetheless, the absence
of a causal link between pacifier use and early weaning should lead breastfeeding
promotion programs and international agencies to reexamine their staunch opposition
to pacifiers.
Like any study, ours has limitations. A larger sample size would be
required to exclude a small increased risk of early weaning, as shown by the
width of our confidence interval for that outcome. We deliberately chose an
experimental intervention that could be feasibly implemented on a large scale
if it was successful in reducing the risk of early weaning, but our results
cannot be generalized to more potent interventions to avoid pacifier use.
Data on pacifier use were based on maternal self-report, but the recording
of use from the written behavior diaries at 4, 6, and 9 weeks and the telephone
interview at 3 months were consistent in showing large differences between
the 2 intervention groups. Maternal self-report has been the basis of data
on pacifier use in all previous studies; like ours, these studies have resulted
in strong and statistically significant observational associations between
pacifier use and early weaning. Finally, we had an approximately 40% nonresponse
rate to the diary completion, with a potential for selection bias in our analyses
of cry/fuss behavior. The characteristics of responders and nonresponders
were virtually identical in the experimental and control groups, however,
and thus such a bias seems unlikely.
Breastfeeding, pacifier use, and infant cry/fuss behavior are complex
behaviors heavily influenced by cultural, motivational, and psychological
factors that are extremely difficult to measure, and hence to control for,
in an observational study. As we have previously discussed,30
these potent factors are likely to lead to residual confounding and reverse
causality bias in observational studies of the pacifier-weaning association.
Unlike recent results suggesting that observational studies of pharmacological
and surgical treatments can yield valid results,31,32
valid assessment of the effects of behavioral interventions on behavioral
outcomes appears to require the bias reduction provided by randomized trials.


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