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This medication is used short-term to treat symptoms of anxiety and nervousness. It acts on certain centers of the brain to help calm your nervous system.
How to use Meproban-400 Tablet
Take this medication by mouth with or without food, usually 2 to 4 times daily or as directed by your doctor.
Dosage is based on your age, medical condition, and response to treatment. Adults should not take more than 2400 milligrams in a 24-hour period.
Do not increase your dose or take this medication more often than prescribed. Your condition will not improve any faster, and the risk of serious side effects may be increased.
If this medication has been used regularly for a long time or in high doses, withdrawal symptoms (such as vomiting, shakiness, confusion, and rarely seizures) may occur if you suddenly stop using this medication. To prevent withdrawal reactions, your doctor may reduce your dose gradually. Consult your doctor or pharmacist for more details, and report any withdrawal reactions right away.
When this medication is used for a long time, it may not work as well. Your doctor may need to increase your dose or change your medication. Talk with your doctor if this medication stops working well.
Though it helps many people, this medication may sometimes cause addiction. This risk may be higher if you have a substance use disorder (such as overuse of or addiction to drugs/alcohol). Take this medication exactly as prescribed to lower the risk of addiction. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more details.
Tell your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Side Effects
Drowsiness, dizziness, headache, excitement, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: numbness/tingling/swelling of arms/legs.
Tell your doctor right away if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: fast/irregular heartbeat, fainting, signs of infection (such as fever, persistent sore throat), easy bruising/bleeding, signs of kidney problems (such as change in the amount of urine), unusual tiredness.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
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Before taking meprobamate, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or to carisoprodol, mebutamate, tybamate, or carbromal; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: a certain liver/blood disorder (porphyria), kidney disease, liver disease, brain disorders (such as seizures, brain damage), personal or family history of a substance use disorder (such as overuse of or addiction to drugs/alcohol).
This drug may make you dizzy or drowsy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do any activity that requires alertness until you are sure you can perform such activities safely. Avoid alcoholic beverages.
Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially drowsiness and addiction. Drowsiness can increase the risk of falling.
This medication is not recommended for use during the first 3 months of pregnancy due to the potential for harm to an unborn baby. During the last 6 months of pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
This medication passes into breast milk and may have undesirable effects on a nursing infant. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
The effects of some drugs can change if you take other drugs or herbal products at the same time. This can increase your risk for serious side effects or may cause your medications not to work correctly. These drug interactions are possible, but do not always occur. Your doctor or pharmacist can often prevent or manage interactions by changing how you use your medications or by close monitoring.
To help your doctor and pharmacist give you the best care, be sure to tell your doctor and pharmacist about all the products you use (including prescription drugs, nonprescription drugs, and herbal products) before starting treatment with this product. While using this product, do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any other medicines you are using without your doctor's approval.
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking other products that cause drowsiness, including alcohol, marijuana, antihistamines (such as cetirizine, diphenhydramine), drugs for sleep or anxiety (such as alprazolam, diazepam, zolpidem), muscle relaxants (such as carisoprodol), and narcotic pain relievers (such as codeine).
Check the labels on all your medicines (such as allergy or cough-and-cold products) because they may contain ingredients that cause drowsiness. Ask your pharmacist about using those products safely.
This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use. Share this list with your doctor and pharmacist to lessen your risk for serious medication problems.
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center. Symptoms of overdose may include: clumsiness, slurred speech, severe dizziness/drowsiness, or slow/shallow breathing.
Do not share this medication with others. It is against the law.
Keep all medical appointments. Your doctor will periodically monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
Missed Dose
If you are taking this on a regular schedule and you miss a dose, take it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. See packaging or consult your pharmacist for the exact temperature range. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medicines away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company for more details about how to safely discard your product.Information last revised July 2017. Copyright(c) 2017 First Databank, Inc.


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It was another boring Sunday yesterday, so when I heard that the new Darkmoon Faire had hit the public test realms, I scampered over and updated. Let me tell you – when Blizzard announced that they were revamping what was a fairly pitiful, forgotten "world event" that people only went to turn in decks and occasionally get their fortune read, perhaps engage in some world PVP, I was over the moon. I love fairs in real life, and the chance to port that feeling into World of Warcraft excites me.
This time around, the fair isn't plopped next to Elwynn Forest, Shattrath or Thunder Bluff, but on an island shrouded in dark smoke far away. However, Darkmoon Faire NPCs make it very easy to get there. They will teleport you from capital cities to that month's fair portal (not 100% sure about this), located in one of the spots where the actual fair had been before. The portal then takes you to the Darkmoon Isle.
When I got there, I was not prepared for all the sights and sounds! There were NPCs scurrying all over, players trying games and lots of debris and supplies piled everywhere. It definitely felt like I was at a real fairgrounds.
The fair has a lot of games of chance that act as dailies. Games tickets are purchased from NPCs at the start of the fair and don't have a limit. The dailies have a certain objective to complete. However, given how they are structured (using a special vehicle UI, have timers), they often require multiple tries to complete the quest. This means that buying multiple tickets is a must. I went through at least 8 tickets just trying to get the Whack-A-Gnoll game right. (Go for the Hogger gnolls, they count for more!) Completing the quest objective or game mechanic in a exemplary way is how you get the individual game achievements. For example, if you got dropped into the target for the Cannon Shooting, you got an achievement. It was fun trying to do the games as fast and perfectly as possible, even though a lot of them required multiple tickets to learn. None of them felt like a slog though – even with the vehicle UI. This is no Jousting v.2! And like any carnival game, there was a certain element of "being rigged."
One of the interesting mechanics that Blizzard decided to drop into the games portion of the fair was this "GET OUT" zone around the large space each game had. It meant that if you felt like running across the game area for any of the games (save for the Shoot-Out game), you would get teleported out and stunned momentarily, much like when you entered the various Shattrath faction areas when you weren't supposed to be there. It kept most of the game fields clear so you could see what you were tossing rings at, whacking, etc. The only place that didn't have it's own dedicated area and anti-grief field was the Shoot-Out game. It was three small targets in a typical vendor tent and had no way of keeping all the idiots on the PTR back from standing on the tent or inside the tent on their giant mounts. The point of the game is to shoot whatever target is being highlighted and to win, you had to basically shoot blind. I made a suggestion to the PTR forums that they give this game its own space and bubble; there's no reason that people should not have fun playing it because people just want to make stuff hard to see.
The games themselves include: a whack-a-gnoll game, human cannonball, shooting gallery, tonk challenge, and ring toss on a turtle.
Quests and the Darkmoon Faire Guide
Along with the gaming dailies, there's also profession quests and quests that allow you to gain items from PVE or PVP content. The quests that you get are determined by what professions you have – I had quests for cooking, first aid, archeology, herbalism and alchemy. Some of the quests require you to go fetch items from inns or general crafting vendors back in the capital cities, but with city portals on the fair's docks, it is a quick snap to go and come back. And the quests are fun! I was running around, picking flowers, bandaging up injured carnies, and mixing up fizzy drinks. (Why can't we include brewing with alchemy, please?!)
As you can see, it awards you five skill points, a token (for using at the games), and a prize ticket – the prize tickets are obtained from the quests and games and can be put towards many of the vanity items that are sold at the fair.
The other quest is called Test Your Strength and charges you, Darkmoon Faire Guide in hand, to kill 250 mobs or players that give you experience, reputation or honor.
But what is the Faire Guide for? Apparently the guide is an item you keep in your bags (obtained from the Darkmoon Faire Information NPC at the fairgrounds), and helps you "discover" artifacts when you are out questing, doing raids/dungeons, or PVPing. Anyone of any level can use it as well. The actual blog post about it on WoW's front page explained it better:
The Darkmoon Faire Field Guide
It's your passport to riches, my friend. Y'see, we need a few things — just some junk, nothing valuable to a big hero like you. We call 'em Darkmoon Artifacts, and there's all different kinds to be found all over Azeroth. The Darkmoon Field Guide helps you discover artifacts while you're explorin' dungeons, slayin' monsters, and fightin' in Battlegrounds. Without a guide, you'd never notice 'em, and it'll help keep you focused on the stuff we want. Whether you just reached level 10, or you've crushed the biggest baddies in the land, we need somethin' from nearly everybody. You won't have to go too far out of your way to get 'em and each month you'll get a new opportunity to seek out an Artifact for us. What do you get out of the deal? Don't you worry, you'll get your cut. When you bring a Darkmoon Artifact back to us, you'll get valuable experience (it builds character, you know!), earn a better reputation, and possibly earn precious Darkmoon Faire Prize Tickets too!
The field guide will help you unlock several artifact-based achievements by discovering all nine artifacts, so make sure to carry with you at all times.
Vanity Items – Mounts, Pets, Heirlooms and Much More
The prize tickets I mentioned before are the main currency for the rewards you get at the faire – and there are quite a lot. I found 3-4 vendors just selling cute things that would be of interest to anyone. One contained mostly pets that you can purchase at the fair (along with another balloon vendor), and one contained mounts, including the datamined Dancing Bear.
There were also two armor vendors; one sold the heirlooms that are still purchasable with both Argent Tourney tokens as well as Justice Points, and another sold the Dungeon Tier 1 set revival gear that people can use to skin their regular armor with via transmogging. I of course had to try the Magister armor on my goblin:
Don't I look cute? It is funny but I had most of that set and trashed it once I got Tier 1 and 2. Mostly because I thought it looked very ugly and garish. Funny how nostalgia changes things! It looks right now that an upper bound of the tickets you can get in a full week of Darkmoon Faire dailies and quests is 175, meaning that you can purchase 2 pets, or one mount, or an assortment of your chosen dungeon set or heirlooms once a month.
Peppered in-between the quests and various vendors are a few things that make the faire feel more than just a hub for dailies. It feels very alive and swims with things for you to see or do to your heart's content.
- Level 90 Elite Tauren Chieftain concert that plays on a special stage at the top of the hour.
- Krolin the Dancing Bear
- Deathmatch Arena – while the island is a sanctuary by design, there is a giant Gadgetzan-style arena cage where participants can jump in and bloody eachother.
- Sayge's Fortunes – gives you a buff!
- Food Cafes
- Pony and Ram Rides
- Petting Zoo
- Pavilions – under construction currently but should contain something later on.
- Sandbox – pick one of your favorite tiger designs and get to riding!
- Fire-eaters, Torch Tossers and Fireworks – lots of pyrotechnics on display here.
"Come, my sweetling, come taste my delicious waresssssss….yesssss…."
I gulped and turned. Stinking of who-knows-what, I was face-to-face with a haggard gash of a smile containing moss-green teeth.
Beware Rona Greenteeth's wares if you run into her. Sure, she may offer the most savory Troll tartare in all of Azeroth, but caution to those unaware adventurers who don't know where the meat is coming from…
Jokes aside, I feel that Blizzard's world event team has really been knocking it out of the park lately. Between the revamped Hallow's End event and now what promises to be a bigger and better Darkmoon Faire, we are in for a real treat when 4.3 actually drops in a couple weeks. Prepare to put on your best dresses and plate and stomp down to the fairgrounds for an immersive, expansion and entertaining monthly event that has all sorts of achievements, prizes and acclaim for those who wish to seek it!
For full guides and videos on this event, check out WoWhead News, as well as Mat McCurley's video guide over at WoW Insider.
For an intriguing look at Darkmoon's creepy past, check out Mia's Azeroth.

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Cade Kreuter Interview: Padres Prospect Returns To The MLB Reports!
Monday December 3rd, 2012
Jonathan Hacohen ( Lead Baseball Columnist): Follow @jhacohen
Last February we introduced you to Cade Kreuter. As part of the interview, we learned all about the "Crocodile Hunter." A third generation baseball prospect and a member of the Miami Hurricanes, Cade was getting ready to make his own mark on the game.
Now a member of the San Diego Padres organization, Cade has a bright road ahead. We talked about many facets of his career. From joining the Padres, to playing multiple positions, his offseason in the Dominican and much more. Being around the game his whole life, Cade knows what he needs to do to succeed. 2013 will be his first full season in professional baseball. At 21 years of age, he has his whole career ahead of him. We will be certainly be watching his progress with great anticipation!
Today on MLB reports, we bring you our interview with Padres' prospect and 3rd generation player, Cade Kreuter:
MLBR: Congrats on joining the Padres! What was the process like joining them?
CK: Well, as you may know, I missed my entire junior season at The U this past year due to a broken left foot caused by a foul ball I hit off of it in practice the day before our season opener. I was misdiagnosed with a deep bone bruise for the first month of my injury so that was a setback right there for me. I went understandably undrafted after my junior season, after really only playing almost 1 full season out of 3 years in college. But, I felt it was still time for me to move up and play pro ball. I knew another season at The U was not what was best for me. I was contacted by the Padres and they asked me if I was interested in doing a workout and possibly signing as a free agent. I jumped at the opportunity and made the most of it. Later that week I signed and headed to Peoria, Az for the rookie ball season!
MLBR: I see that you are listed as a first baseman. Who chose the position- you or the team? Where do the Padres see you playing long-term?
CK: I signed as a utility player and when I showed up to rookie ball, first base was best for me to play at the time. I still practiced at third base and in the outfield every day. Played Most of my games at first and a couple at third. I believe the Padres do see me as a strong defensive utility player and that I could make a career out of that. But I make the plays at first and that is a big plus especially when you throw my size in to play. So I do also think first base is a high possibility in the long run. But who knows?
MLBR: How many teams showed interest in you? Was it an easy decision to sign with San Diego?
CK: It was just the Padres. It was soon after the draft they contacted me and the rest was a wrap!
MLBR: Tell us about your full season in pro ball. Was it different from what you expected?
CK: It was everything I had dreamed of and been waiting for my entire life! Great coaching, talented players, and finally no school! Just baseball!
MLBR: What were the biggest things you learned this year?
CK: Hitting wise re-learned just some simple things that are really overlooked when you get to the college level. Like using your legs or staying inside the ball and creating proper backspin, learning how to pull the ball the correct way. Another thing is not just knowing the situational side of the game but actually understanding why we do certain things, instead of just doing it because your coach told you to.
MLBR: What are some of your goals going into 2013?
CK: Signing as a free agent is not the easy route. So I need to work extra hard and open some eyes when I get my opportunity to make a team when the season starts instead of staying in extended the entire time. That is my goal for 2013.
MLBR: Tell us about your offseason plans. What is your winter going to be like?
CK: Well I arrived earlier in the fall in the Dominican Republic to get extra work down here at the Padres complex, a beautiful complex in paradise. I am here until early December, so this is the most important thing this offseason is working hard out here in the Dominican instructional league. Other than that, the basic stuff, lifting, running, hitting And throwing.
MLBR: Do you know at this point where you are likely going to start the year next season?
CK: I have not been told anything about that. So I'm going into spring training with a positive mindset and good work ethic.
MLBR: Did you keep in touch much with your dad when you played this season? What is the best advice he gave you?
CK: Yes I talked to both my dad and mom and also my brother every day. They would just tell me to play hard and do the best I can when I got in there. The staff with the Padres is so great that my parents don't ever have to give much advice.
MLBR: Best friends you made in rookie ball?
CK: I made an entire new team of best friends out there in Arizona. But my closest buddies there are Drew Harrelson, Walker Lockett, Christian Miller, Jalen Goree, Corey Bostjancic… I could name them all honesty. We had such a good time there and we all became very close.
MLBR: Any pranks pulled on you after you joined the team?
CK: Nothing that serious. We all would joke around with each other but no serious pranks were ever pulled.
MLBR: Final Question: What do you need to do in order to make it to San Diego one day?
CK: I believe that my hitting will be the key to the big leagues. Put together good power numbers and move up in the organization. I need to continue to stay strong on defense and always improve on that. But really I think it is how I mature mentally as a player and at the plate, and never become uncoachable.
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HYANNIS — It may seem odd for two city teams to head to the Cape for their playoff games, but there seems to be no place as hospitable as Hyannis for the Boston University women's hockey team.
Second-seeded BU won its third consecutive Hockey East title with a 3-2 victory over top-seeded and fourth-ranked Boston College Sunday before 680 at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center, though perhaps the prize clutched closest by unranked BU was the automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament that comes with the title.
It is the fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance for the Terriers (24-12-1), who will play at top-seeded Minnesota in the quarterfinals next Saturday. BC (27-6-3), which received an at-large bid, will travel to third-seeded Clarkson.
"We've had three championships in a row in this rink and this rink's been great to us,'' said BU coach Brian Durocher.
BU is the third team in tournament history to win three straight, along with Providence (2003-2005) and UNH (2006-2009).
It was BC that dictated the early pace, taking a 2-1 lead in the first period. After a scoreless second, BU was staring down a one-goal deficit and a cold trip back to Boston.
The Terriers pressed, sweeping into BC's zone again and again. The payoff came when captain Louise Warren connected on a one-timer from Kaleigh Fratkin on the power play at 2:50 and freshman Maddie Elia got the winner on a wraparound goal at 8:12.
BU goalie Kerrin Sperry made 40 saves, including 18 in the third period when BC pushed hard to tie the game, and was named tournament MVP for the second straight year. Sperry, a senior, set the tournament record for career saves with 316, a record that had been held by Genevieve Lacasse of Providence.
"We all know this building definitely has character,'' said Sperry. "It's a bit smaller than the rinks we usually play in, but you know what, it's done great things for us. We're happy to be here, especially when we have a trophy on the ice with us."
BC got the jump on BU in the first, scoring quickly and then outshooting the Terriers, 19-7. At 1:15, Kaliya Johnson shot from the right point and Dana Trivigno tipped it past Sperry for her 11th goal of the season.
BU tied the game with a power-play score at 8:04 as Rebecca Russo carried the puck into the zone, launching a wrist shot from the edge of the left circle that beat BC netminder Corinne Boyles.
BU took only two penalties in the first, but took them at the same time, giving BC two minutes of 5-on-3 advantage. The Eagles couldn't make much of the extraordinary opportunity.
"We've practiced it plenty of times, we didn't execute quite as well as we wanted to,'' said BC coach Katie King Crowley. "I wish we would have a few more scoring opportunities."
BU's successful kill gave the team a boost. "That was definitely so stressful,'' said Warren, "but my D that I was out there with, we played really well together and we read each other and we played it like we should have, kept it tight, kept it simple, and killed it off just one second at a time. It was definitely a turning point for us."
Johnson set up another goal for BC in the last minute of the period, rushing down the right wing and taking a shot from the circle, but Taylor Wasylk was in front to knock in the rebound at 19:31.
"In the dressing room, no one was down,'' said Warren. "It was almost like we were more excited after the first period just to get back and show everyone what we could do, and it worked for us."
In the second and third, BU got in the way of everything BC tried to do.
"Today some of the hockey gods were on our side,'' said Durocher. "They had it in the first period. One of the problems we have is we can't play run and gun hockey with them; what we have to do is shorten the rink up.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Spike Albrecht shined while Trey Burke sat.
After all that, Michigan and Louisville were still pretty much even. Then the Wolverines couldn't stop Louisville in the second half.
With Burke on the bench in early foul trouble, the seldom-used Albrecht scored 17 points in the first half, and the Wolverines led by 12 in Monday night's national title game. But that lead was only one at halftime, and the Cardinals went on to win 82-76.
Albrecht and Burke both played plenty in the second half, but Michigan couldn't prevent Louisville from converting around the basket. Albrecht went scoreless after halftime, leaving Burke - the national player of the year - to try to rally Michigan. He did his best, finishing with 24 points, but it wasn't enough.
In the end, it was the defense that let Michigan down. The Wolverines shot 52 percent from the field and 8 of 18 from 3-point range, but when they fell behind late, they weren't able to string together enough stops for a rally.
Michigan had been vulnerable for much of the season at the defensive end, and Louisville had enough talent and muscle to take advantage. The Cardinals finished with 15 offensive rebounds, and each one seemed more devastating to the Wolverines.
So it was another runner-up finish for Michigan - with the Fab Five in the building, no less.
Albrecht had the time of his life early. With Burke on the bench in foul trouble, the 5-foot-11 backup point guard made all four of his 3-pointers in the first half. Michigan had a 38-37 lead at halftime, thanks to Albrecht's 17 points.
Not bad for a freshman who was averaging 1.8 points per game and whose main job was to relieve some of the ball-handling pressure from Burke.
Albrecht had made all five of his 3-point attempts in the NCAA tournament coming into Monday night's game, and he was 4 for 4 from beyond the arc at the break.
After his second 3-pointer gave Michigan a 17-11 lead, Albrecht was hooting and hollering a bit when he came back downcourt.
Burke picked up his second foul with 11:09 left in the first half and played only 6 minutes before the break.
But Albrecht gave his team a lift. At one point, he went to the floor for a loose ball and somehow threw it some 20 feet ahead to a teammate. The transition chance led to a 3-pointer by Nik Stauskas.
When Albrecht drew a foul with 8:13 to go in the half, Burke was clapping on the bench with a bemused smile on his face, as if he couldn't believe this performance, either.
When Louisville called a timeout to regroup, Burke ran quickly over to his backup and gave Albrecht a chest bump while the Wolverines returned to their bench.
Albrecht's previous season high was seven points. His season high for minutes was 15 - until he played 16 in the first half Monday.
But once Louisville found a comfort zone offensively, the Wolverines needed more. Burke drove relentlessly to the basket late, hitting the floor hard on a couple of occasions, but unlike in the regional semifinals against Kansas, Michigan couldn't overcome a late deficit.


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The 9/11 terrorist attacks 10 years ago this week sent shockwaves not just around the planet, but into space as well.
The only American not on Earth on that day in 2001, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, had a unique vantage point on the attacks. From the International Space Station, Culbertson snapped a photo of smoke streaming from the World Trade Center wreckage that day after two hijacked planes crashed into the Manhattan towers.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
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"I didn't know exactly what was happening, but I knew it was really bad because there was a big cloud of debris covering Manhattan," Culbertson said in a new video released by NASA for the 10th anniversary of the attacks. "That's when it really became painful because it was like seeing a wound in the side of your country, of your family, your friends."
Overwhelming isolation
Culbertson, a retired U.S. Navy captain, was commanding the orbiting laboratory's Expedition 3 mission and was living on the outpost with Russian cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Turin at the time.
"My crewmates have been great," Culbertson wrote in a letter published the day after the attacks. "They know it's been a tough day for me and the folks on the ground, and they've tried to be as even keeled and helpful as possible. Michael even fixed me my favorite Borscht soup for dinner," he added, referring to Turin.
Ultimately, though, the NASA astronaut couldn't help but be affected by his position as the only American in space.
"The most overwhelming feeling being where I am is one of isolation," Culbertson wrote. "The feeling that I should be there with all of you, dealing with this, helping in some way, is overwhelming."
Culbertson was told of the event, which killed about 3,000 people, when NASA flight surgeons radioed the station.
"I had just finished a number of tasks this morning, the most time-consuming being the physical exams of all crew members," Culbertson recalled. "In a private conversation following that, the flight surgeon told me they were having a very bad day on the ground. I had no idea."
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Culbertson described being "flabbergasted, then horrified" by the news. He noticed the space station was just about to pass over New England, and rushed to try to see.
"I zipped around the station until I found a window that would give me a view of NYC and grabbed the nearest camera," Culbertson wrote. "The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city. After reading one of the news articles we just received, I believe we were looking at NY around the time of, or shortly after, the collapse of the second tower. How horrible."
Mourning a friend
Culbertson said he understood early on that the attacks would change history.
"I know that we are on the threshold (or beyond) of a terrible shift in the history of the world," he wrote. "Many things will never be the same again after September 11, 2001. Not just for the thousands and thousands of people directly affected by these horrendous acts of terrorism, but probably for all of us. We will find ourselves feeling differently about dozens of things, including probably space exploration, unfortunately."
The astronaut learned that day that his friend and U.S. Naval Academy classmate Charles "Chic" Burlingame was the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon.
"What a terrible loss, but I'm sure Chic was fighting bravely to the end," Culbertson wrote. "And tears don't flow the same in space."
Despite the emotional difficulty, Culbertson served out the rest of his mission successfully. After spending 129 days in space, he landed on Dec. 17, 2001, aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.
Culbertson is now retired from NASA and serves as senior vice president for human spaceflight programs at the commercial spaceflight company Orbital Sciences.
In the new video, Culbertson said he hopes the country won't forget the attacks, or the lessons they taught.
"I think it's important for people to continue to learn the lessons from this and make sure that we are in fact making ourselves a better country as a result of it, not regressing or turning inward, or changing ourselves into a society that we won't be proud to pass on to our grandchildren and great-grandchildren," Culbertson said.
Honoring the victims
In September 2001, the International Space Station was still young; its first module was launched in 1998. The outpost is now about the size of a football field and has been home to a continuous human presence for more than 10 years.
In the years since the attacks, NASA has honored the victims in various ways.
In December 2001, the agency launched 6,000 U.S. flags aboard the space shuttle Endeavour for the families of Sept. 11 victims in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. That mission also flew flags recovered from the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Pennsylvania sites of the attacks.
In January 2010, NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, a native New Yorker, dedicated an American flag flown on the space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009 to the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum under construction at the ground zero site.
Even the two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, currently on the Red Planet, each carry a piece of the American flag cut from debris at the World Trade Center. The flags are on dust covers built by New York City robotics firm Honeybee Robotics.
You can follow Space.com senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow Space.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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PortobeloLaid-back, sleepy, languorous…the adjectives used to describe Portobelo, a Caribbean fishing village on the north coast of Panama, would lead one to believe that not much happens here. But this is a land of steamy forests, impressive colonial fortifications, and once Spain's most significant port in Central America. A great spot for an off-the-beaten path hotel Portobelo—tucked between a rich forest and the clear blue waters—could perhaps better be described as a place for reflection. There are a number of major dive sites in the nearby waters, providing the perfect escape from the tourist crowds. Portobelo is also a place filled with the descendants of African slaves, which is why it truly comes alive each October for the Festival de Cristo Negro (Black Christ Festival), one of Panama's most spiritual celebrations, and one that fills up more than one Portobelo hotel. Below find a list of our selection of boutique and luxury properties in Portobelo.
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Last week, we left our courageous cranium in the grips of the Evil Dr. Irving Expector Ant and his band of Belliger Ants. Will our hero escape? Or will the city of Metropolis be overrun with outrageous outlaws most...malignANT? Let's find out, as we continue with...
Dr. Expector Ant: "Silence! I kill you!!"
Ant minion #3: "Um. So...is now a good time to ask for a promotion?"
Ant minion #1: "Hey, where'd Spiderman Head go?"
Meanwhile, our bravely balancing brain bowl bounced his way to freedom!
With the persistent pest population handled, Spiderman Head heads home for some much-needed family time:
"Uncle Sherb?
"Da-aad! I think we brought the football in instead of Uncle Sherb again."
"Don't worry, son, we'll get him out of the yard in the morning."
Little did Spiderman Head know that his brother Sherb was NOT in the yard, but rather in the grips of the maniacal madman, Monochromatic Max!
Will our noteworthy noggin' notice his brother's absence in time?!? Or will Uncle Sherb be doomed to a colorless demise?
Tune in next week for the thrilling continuation of...
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From economic growth to sea-level rise, Vital Signs 2011 documents the trends that are shaping our future in concise analysis and clear tables and graphs.
This eighteenth volume of the Worldwatch Institute series makes it clear that the Great Recession affects many of the world's leading economic, social, and environmental trends—but that the impact can be very different by country. This volume reveals, for example:
- Gross world product increased by just 0.3 percent in 2009, a substantial slowdown from the 2000–08 average yearly increase of 6.6 percent. But China's economy grew by 9.1 percent, and India's by 7.4 percent.
- From 1993 to 2009, sea level rose 3.0 millimeters per year as warming melted polar and glacial ices—a much faster annual rate than the 1.7 millimeter annual average for the preceding 118 years.
- Solar photovoltaic capacity increased by 20 percent in 2009, and solar thermal electric power plant capacity increased by 26 percent.
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- Natural gas consumption dropped by 2.1 percent, the largest recorded one-year decline.
- The planet's biodiversity continued to suffer, with the addition of 365 species to the "threatened" category of the Red List maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a 2.1 percent increase.
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Bethesda's Todd Howard can be heard in lots of places these days. He was recently interviewed by Kotaku Talk Radio as well as NPR.
On Kotaku, he said that even though ZeniMax acquired id Software and its id Tech 5 engine, they are going to stick with their version of the GameBryo engine for their next big game they're making since they finished Fallout 3, updated and retooled to some extent. The thing they intend to improve the most in the engine is their animation system and graphics in general.
Asked about Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas, Howard did not give any details (we'll have to wait for next month's OXM for that), but he said:
Howard also said that while Bethesda Softworks as such might publish some third-party projects for the Wii, there are no plans for any of the Bethesda Game Studios franchises (Elder Scrolls, Fallout) to appear on Nintendo's platform. However, they have been talking about bringing their games to the Mac, especially now that they have id, who have always been supporting Macs, on board.
You can listen to the whole podcast here.
On NPR, Howard talks about working in the gaming industry in general:
It's a reality for many people in the video game industry, including Todd Howard. At midday on a recent Friday, he was playing Fallout 3 in his office. When Howard, 39, first started at Bethesda Softworks in Rockville, Md., 15 years ago, his parents told him to have a backup plan.He didn't need one."


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North Korea today signaled its determination to go through with a third nuclear test in the face of warnings from friends and foes alike.
Today on the 80th anniversary of the founding of the North Korean armed forces, Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho said North Korea now had mobile weapons that were strong enough to strike targets in the US.
That boast appeared to refer to North Korea's development of long-range missiles that should theoretically be able to deliver a nuclear warhead as far as the US West Coast. Mr. Ri indicated the North's intention to miniaturize nuclear devices in order to fit them on the missile by claiming that the North could deal a devastating defeat in "a single blow."
The North Korean rhetorical blast, as reported by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency, is the latest in a flood of invective, most of it directed against South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak and his government. The rhetoric leaves little doubt for most analysts that North Korea sees the test as needed to compensate for the humiliation suffered on April 13 when its vaunted long-range rocket broke up and plunged into the Yellow Sea 90 seconds after it was launched.
North Korea also has more practical military and political reasons for wanting to conduct the test in defiance of diplomatic efforts to persuade its new leader, Kim Jong-un, to call off the project.
"There's a military imperative," says Mark Fitzpatrick, a former US State Department official now with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Mr. Fitzpatrick says the North's first two underground nuclear tests, in October 2006 and again in May 2009, "did not go very well."
Although North Korea did manage to explode nuclear devices on both occasions, they were so small as to have been viewed by scientists elsewhere as a possible failure.
What North Korea wants
North Korea's top priority now is to be able to miniaturize a warhead in order to send it to a target on a missile rather than drop it as a bomb from a plane. "They want to get something small enough to fit on a Rodong," says Mr. Fitzpatrick, at a conference here staged by the Asan Institute, a local think tank financed by the Hyundai business empire.
Yet another issue is the need to convince the North Korean people that Kim Jong-un is a strong leader, capable of controlling a military establishment with 1.2 million troops while solidifying his power over the country.
"Having failed on the missile, they've got to do something that goes boom," says Fitzpatrick.
The decibel level of the North Korean rhetoric is beginning to raise alarm here among analysts who fear the North may challenge South Korea with incidents to which the South will have to respond militarily.
President Lee has vowed that South Korean forces will strike back militarily if the North stages an attack similar to the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea in November 2010 in which two marines and two civilians were killed. That attack came 10 months after the sinking in nearby waters of a South Korean navy ship in which 46 sailors were killed.
Motivating factors for a third nuclear test, says Kim Tae-woo, president of the Korea Institute for National Unification, are North Korea's desire to demonstrate its place as a full-fledged nuclear power as well as the need to intimidate both the US and South Korea.
A demonstration of North Korea's nuclear prowess, according to North Korean logic, would result eventually in the US agreeing to negotiations that might again result in promises of food aid.
After this month's missile test, President Obama suspended plans to ship 240,000 tons of food to North Korea, but Kim Tae-Woo believes that the US might still be inclined to return to negotiations after the next presidential election.
Intimidation of South Korea also appears as key to North Korea's strategy. North Korea wants to prove, "We are dominating North-South Korean relations," says Kim Tae-woo.
That strategy assumes special importance considering that South Koreans in December elect a successor to President Lee, barred by the South's constitution from seeking a second five-year term. The conservative Park Geun-hye, daughter of South Korea's long-ruling Park Chung-hee, assassinated in 1979, is likely to be the conservative candidate but faces a tough fight from whoever wins the nomination of the opposition Democratic United Party.
China 'on the hot seat'
The question many observers ask is whether China, as the source of most of North Korea's fuel and much of its food, can play a role in dissuading North Korea from investing so heavily in missiles and nuclear devices.
"The Chinese are on the hot seat," says Christopher Hill, former US envoy in negotiations with North Korea, now at the University of Denver.
Mr. Hill sees little real difference between policies under Kim Jong-un and those led by his father, Kim Jong-il, who died in December. "The idea that Kim Jong-un is going to back out of this system is a little far-fetched," he says. "You have a military-first system where the military calls the shots."
If only "the US and China would work together and resolve this problem," Hill says, "it would have an enormous impact on Sino-US relations."
In the meantime, analysts try not to be overly alarmed by North Korean rhetoric. "As long as it's just words, everything's fine," says Scott Snyder of the Council on Foreign Relations. "We will be concerned if it escalates into actions."


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It's almost the end of this session of Congress, so we're looking back to see who were the most liberal members.
The DW-NOMINATE score was developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal as a way to determine where legislators voted in relation to each other.
By looking at how each legislator voted on every roll call vote compared to the member's peers, DW-NOMINATE is able to show how liberal or conservative a Congressman or Senator is.
Over the course of a session, they develop a score based on how they vote compared to their peers. By looking at hundreds of roll call votes and comparing them mathematically, the DW-NOMINATE process is able to figure out where each member sits politically compared to other members.
The closer to -1 a member's score is, the more liberal they are. The closer to 1 a member's score is, the more conservative they are. At zero, a member is considered very, very centrist.
On this list, the closer the score is to -1, the more liberal the member is.
Knowing this, Poole is able to rank them in order of partisan tilt based only on how they voted in a single session.


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Ugandan choir to sing at Ingram Baptist
Ingram Baptist Church in Baldwyn will host Ugandan Thunder, a kids choir from Uganda on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.
The choir is made up of 22 children - 15 girls and 7 boys between the ages 10 and 13 - from the Royal School and Orphanage in Uganda.
This is the seventh year the group has toured the United States.
Volunteer chaplains honored by NMMC
North Mississippi Medical Center's Pastoral Care Department honored its 17 volunteer chaplains at a luncheon on Oct. 25.
These volunteers help attend to the spiritual needs of NMMC's patients and their families, especially those struggling or the effects of illness.
Because of their contribution, NMMC's Pastoral Care Department achieved more than 24,600 patient visits in the past year.
Those honored include June Geddie, Bettye Clifton, Michael Goins, Kathy Smith, James Richardson, James Hilderbrand, Mike Talbert, Bobby Brock,Ken Pickens, Dick Stevens, Tim Childs, Terry Rhodes, Billy Langley, Marquette Rogers, Chris Sadler, Joe Smith, Kevin Lindley, and David Smith.
Mass. Supreme Court to hear Pledge case
Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a non-religious family that's challenging the mandatory daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in their children's classrooms.
The family, who are secular humanists, claim that the phrase "under God" in the pledge is a violation of the state's constitutional ban on religious discrimination.
In June, a lower court ruled against the family, saying the required recitation of the pledge was not discriminatory because it did not uphold one religion over another.
The family appealed, and will now gain a hearing from the state's highest court.
Lucas to donate money made from Disney
In a stunning report, iconic director George Lucas will donate most of the $4 billion he recently acquired in the high profile transaction in which Disney paid as the purchased price for his Lucasfilm company, which includes Star Wars according to "The Hollywood Reporter."
Lucas plans to give a significant portion of the proceeds to a foundation that will primarily focus on educational issues.
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Fencing Events in the Summer Olympics
Although it might not be quite as exciting as the to-the-death duels you see in swashbuckling movies, Olympic fencing is quite an intense and dramatic sport in its own right. The basic goal of fencing is to score the most hits (or touches) on your opponent with your weapon.
A single competition, or bout, is conducted in three 3-minute sessions. The first person to score 15 hits (or the person who has the most hits at the end of the bout, whichever comes first) wins.
"Touché!" is a phrase people sometimes use to mean, "You make an excellent point; I'll give you credit for that." This common exclamation comes from the sport of fencing. Literally, it means "touched" in French — as in "Touched by the other fencer. Point scored!"
The roots of Olympic fencing are based, of course, in real-life military combat with swords and knives, the weapons of the day. While modern warfare has mostly moved beyond hand-held weapons, the popularity of fencing as a sport endures. In fact, fencing is one of only four sports to be a part of every modern Olympic Games since they debuted in Athens, Greece, in 1896.
Modern Olympic fencing competition is a cross-breed of techniques developed all over the world but mostly from Spain, Italy, and France. The sport landed on French for its terminology when a French fencer named Henri de Saint-Didier published an instructional book about fencing, and the descriptive (French) terms he used stuck.
Olympic fencing weapons and scoring
Hits are recorded electronically and verified by referees. What counts as a hit or touch depends on the kind of weapon you're using — each weapon targets a different area of the body, and only certain parts of each weapon can be used to score a touch. While they might seem similar, the strategies and the scoring are quite different. There are three types of fencing weapons:
The foil is the lightest fencing weapon, primarily used to thrust at the target. The target for a foil is the torso (front and back). Only a touch in the target area with the tip of the foil scores a point — you cannot score by touching with the side of the blade. If a touch is made, the clock stops and the fencers reset, even if the touch was not counted. If two fencers touch each other at the same time, a point is only awarded to the fencer who was on the attack.
The sabre is the modern-day cavalry sword. It is heavier than the foil, and you can score points by touching the opponent with either the tip or the side edges of the weapon. A sabre hit only counts if it is above the waist. The referee determines who scores in the event of simultaneous hits. The clock does not stop when an off-target touch is made.
The epée is the heaviest of the three fencing weapons. Like the foil, a touch only counts if it is made with the tip of epée; however, both fencers can score from touches made at the same time. An epée hit counts anywhere on the body.
Olympic fencing events
Fencing competition is conducted on a platform called a piste. The surface is 14 m long and 1.5 meters to 2 meters wide. Ten Olympic fencing events (6 individual and 4 team events) are presented in the Summer Olympics. About 8 or 9 teams may compete in each event, depending on how the qualifying teams are distributed.
Men's Olympic fencing events include
Individual épée
Individual foil
Individual sabre
Team foil
Team sabre
Women's Olympic fencing events began with the women's foil in 1924. Other women's events did not become an official part of the Olympic Games until much later: épée in 1996 and sabre in 2004. Women's Olympic fencing events include
Individual épée
Individual foil
Individual sabre
Team foil
Team épée
Only once has a single athlete won a gold medal with all three weapons in the same Olympic Games. This feat was accomplished by Italian fencer Nedo Nadi in the 1920 Games.
Team events involve teams of three competing against their opponents over a series of nine 3-minute bouts; the goal is scoring 45 hits to win the match. In the event of a tie, the competitors fight for another minute; the first to score the next hit wins.
For more information on Olympic fencing, visit the website of the sport's governing body, International Fencing Federation (FIE).


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Titulo: God Of War
Plataforma: PS2
Genero: Action
In GOD OF WAR, the dark brutal world of Greek mythology comes to life before your eyes. As you take the role of a vicious warrior, a story unfolds with various plot twists and multiple endings that take the player through explosive aggressive gameplay fused with traps, stunts and story driven puzzles. Featuring over an hour of in-game cut scenes and a deep combat system built around unique double chain blade weapons, G?D OF WAR will take the player through various environments that will have them fighting fierce enemies, swinging on ropes, scaling mountain cliffs, swimming through rivers and sliding down zip lines resulting in a one-of-a-kind action-packed Greek mythology adventure.


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Tax Holiday Ends, Consumers Scrimp
Higher Payroll Taxes Are Putting a Chill on Spending, According to Some Businesses, Though Retail Sales Are Mixed
Most Americans who draw a paycheck saw their tax bill go up last month when a payroll-tax holiday expired. The question is whether that is prompting consumers to curb spending, just as the economy is struggling to gain traction.
Some early signs suggest they are tapping the brakes. Surveys show the majority of Americans who are aware of the tax increase say they plan to cut spending, and consumer confidence has wavered. Companies like Target Corp. and women's clothier Cato Corp. say the tax increase has crimped sales....


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If there was an argument for letting lenders and mortgage servicers operate free of consumer-minded oversight, it is blown away by news of illegal foreclosures against 700 active-duty military personnel.
In 2009 and 2010, while service men and women were putting their lives on the line for their country, their country was looking the other way as banks and mortgage servicers stole their homes.
The outrageous foreclosures went ahead even though these members of the military were current on their mortgage payments, according to a New York Times report.
Moreover, active military personnel are protected by the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, which requires a bank to get a court order before it can take a service member's home. This is far more protection than the law accords to the millions of civilians who lost their homes in the mortgage meltdown thanks to deceptive lending practices and, sometimes, fraudulent foreclosures by a barely regulated industry.
The pre-2008 heyday of lender abuse pushed the nation into the worst recession since the Great Depression. Congress reacted with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. But even though that law passed in 2010, the financial industry is still trying to undo it.
The industry's latest action is against Senate confirmation of Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created by Dodd-Frank to stand between consumers and deceptive lenders.
Less than 2 years old, the bureau has already issued rules requiring banks to verify that borrowers actually have the means to pay back their loans, ensuring that both borrower and lender survive the deal. It has reined in exotic mortgages with ballooning interest rates, which threw countless families into financial turmoil. And it has begun to regulate nonbank entities such as credit card companies, payday lenders, and credit reporting agencies.
Such efforts will be hampered if the agency is deprived of leadership. So the financial industry, having lost the war on Dodd-Frank, is trying to stop Cordray's confirmation, which was set for a hearing today.
The Senate should make this the last stand of those in the financial industry who couldn't care less about America's economy or its citizens. It should confirm Cordray and let his agency get on with the work of sticking up for consumers.


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Shane Bissett of the Royal Mint talks to Declan Cosgrove of Gold Made Simple about what makes The Royal Mint unique in the bullion market, and what constitutes The Royal Mint's 2013 bullion offering.
The Royal Mint has strengthened its offering to the global bullion market with an enhanced range of gold and silver coins, building on 1100 years of heritage. An improved specification Britannia now accompanies the world-famous Sovereign, all backed by the support of dedicated Account Management.


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How to Give Your Iguana a Bath
Iguanas don't clean or groom themselves. Iguanas in the wild brush against rough bark and plunge into water to remove dirt and parasites. Because a captive iguana probably doesn't have bark to rub against or a body of water to dive into, it's up to you to keep him clean but "bathing" your iguana doesn't mean using soap on him or in the water. Keep your iguana clean by following these steps:
Run the water until it's chest deep (the iguana's, not yours!) at the deep end where the drain is.
This depth makes the water about iguana-hip deep at the shallow end. If your iguana isn't used to bathing, put less water in the tub.
Let him soak to his heart's content.
If you leave your iguana in the tub long enough for the water to start cooling off (a good bath temperature for iguanas is 85–90 degrees Fahrenheit [29–32 degrees Celsius]), run more warm water into the tub, draining off a little of the cool water.
The noise of running water can be quite loud in a tub/shower enclosure. If your iguana gets stressed by this noise, fill a pitcher with warm water at the sink and pour it gently into the tub.
When he's done soaking, blot him off to remove the drips and send him on his way.
Thoroughly clean and disinfect the tub.
If any individuals in your household are at high risk for contracting bacterial infections, have your iguana use a different bathroom than the at-risk family members use. Even if you take precautions to thoroughly clean and disinfect the tub, walls, and floor, accidents and distractions can and do happen.
Daily baths are good for iguanas because they soak, which is good for their skin and because of the higher humidity, they're inhaling air that has more moisture in it. Another benefit is that many iguanas drink deeply when their bodies are in water. But perhaps the most popular reason iguana keepers bathe their iguanas daily is that most iguanas poop when they're in water. Keeping the enclosure clean is very easy because it's a lot easier to drain the bathtub, thoroughly rinse off the iguana, wash the bathtub out, and then disinfect it before the next use by human or iguana.


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Adios, Mighty Dirt Dog
|Photo credit: Boston Globe.
Youk is gone.
The great era of the Red Sox in the aughts will be remembered for the idiots and the dirt dogs, and chief among them is Kevin Youkilis. The hardest working man in baseball and perhaps the most unlikely star (Michael Lewis called him "Euclis, the Greek God of Walks" in Moneyball), he didn't look like a ball player and he had the weirdest stance in baseball. But for those reasons, he was always one of the most beloved members of the Red Sox. Youk was having a rough year and he's had injury trouble lately, so there were business reasons to make the trade to Chicago. Still, I can't imagine there's anyone in Red Sox Nation who doesn't feel that the earth has just shifted under our feet. I mean, Brandon Roy and now Youkilis? Change sucks.


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Jessica Alba Tells Us Which Toxic Chemicals YOU Should Avoid
Jessica Alba has been busy having babies for the last few years, and being pregnant got her thinking about issues far more important than getting her pre-baby body back.
When the actress -- who gave birth to her second daughter, Haven, over the summer -- was pregnant with her first daughter, 3-year-old Honor, she started doing a lot of research about how to create a safer environment for her baby. And she didn't like what she learned.
"I was shocked," the 30-year-old mom tells HealthySELF. "There are so many toxic chemicals -- not just obvious ones like bleach -- in crib mattresses and baby shampoo that are known and proven to be harmful to be people's health."
Frustrated, Jessica contemplated her next move. "There's gotta be a better way than to shop around the problem," she decided. So she joined the "mom-led" Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families, a group that's petitioning Congress to pass the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 -- which would make sure that companies test chemicals before using them in consumer products.
"There are 80,000 chemicals in consumer products -- chemicals that frankly haven't been tested," Jessica says. In fact, now that she's "educated" herself, the actress has even changed her beauty routine.
"My daughter, she's big on nail polish (she's 3 and a half). We use non-toxic nail polish. I try to use as much non-toxic makeup as possible, certainly on my lips because I kiss my kids," she says. In her home, she also avoids "anything made with petroleum or formaldehyde, or anything derivative of petroleum-based products."
Philip Landrigan, M.D., director of the Children's Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City -- who has consulted Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families as well as Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), sponsor of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 -- says Jessica is on the right path toward minimizing her family's exposure to toxic chemicals.
"In the past 50 years in this country, there has been an absolute explosion of new synthetic chemicals. Many have brought benefits to all, but we've done a terrible job of testing these chemicals to determine whether they're toxic," he says.
The Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 would update a piece of legislation that has not been updated since 1976 -- one that was supposed to mandate testing of chemicals but which Landrigan refers to as a "dismal failure."
"They've banned a total of five chemicals out of 80,000," he says.
According to CDC surveys of blood and urine samples, there are more than 200 synthetic chemicals in virtually every American, Landgiran says. And most of these chemicals did not exist in 1960.
So which chemicals should YOU avoid, whether you're of child-bearing age, pregnant or already a mom? Here's the scoop from Landrigan.
Brominated flame retardants (PBDEs)
Regarding crib mattresses, Landrigan says Jessica is really referring to brominated flame retardants (PBDEs). These are synthetic chemicals added to mattresses, furniture, carpets and computers to reduce flammability. The problem is, they are very toxic, especially to the infant brain. You can buy mattresses without PBDEs, but they are generally more expensive, Landrigan says.
When it comes to baby shampoo, Landgrian says Jessica is avoiding endocrine disrupters called phthalates, which are found in many cosmetics. Phthalates have been found to cause disordered behavior among babies exposed in the womb, and to affect the development of baby boys' genitals, Landrigan says.
Petroleum or anything derivative of petroleum-based products
As for petroleum, Landrigan said Jessica is basically minimizing the use of plastics in her life, as most plastics are based on petroleum. Some plastics contain phthalates, which leach out and get into food, Landrigan says (which is why you should never microwave plastic!).
Using chlorine bleach, cleaning sprays and disinfectants more than once a week is linked to asthma, says the author of a 2010 Spanish review of studies (as reported in the August 2011 issue of SELF).
Formaldehyde is a toxic chemical used as a cleaner as well as in new plywood and wallboards, Landrigan says. Like bleach, it's a respiratory irritant and it's also carcinogenic.
Landrigan says pregnant women should avoid pesticides, which are toxic to brain development. "The easiest way is to switch the diet to organic-grown food as much as possible," he says.
Mercury also hurts infant brain development, according to Landrigan, and the main source is certain types of fish, like shark and swordfish. Other types of fish, like salmon, sole and flounder, are low in mercury.
Bisphenol A (BPA)
BPA, the synthetic estrogen linked to cancer and abnormal brain development, is found in plastic baby bottles (a lot of baby bottles are now BPA-free, thanks to the mom-led consumer movement). To avoid BPA, steer clear of plastics that have #3 and #7 on them and beware of canned foods. BPA is not very harmful to adults but it can be toxic to early development, Landrigan says.
The best time to make these changes? Before you even think about trying to have a baby.
"Clear out your body before you even start the process," Landrigan says. Click here to join Jessica's movement.
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After Ask to Buy is turned on, and you ask the organizer of your family group to approve a purchase in the iTunes Store, you might see "Unable to Ask Permission. You can't ask permission, because you have signed in with iCloud and iTunes accounts that are not associated with each other."
When you see this message, check which Apple ID you're signed in with, check your Family Sharing settings, and make sure that you're on a supported device.
Check the Apple ID that you're using in the iTunes Store
Make sure that you're signed in to the iTunes Store using the same Apple ID that you selected for sharing content with your family. Learn how to use your own Apple ID for Family Sharing.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Go to Settings > [your name] > Family Sharing and tap your name. On iOS 10.2 or earlier, go to Settings > iCloud > Family and tap your name.
- Make a note of the Apple ID that you're using.
- Go back to Settings.
- Tap [your name] > iTunes & App Store. On iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap iTunes & App Store.
- Make sure that you're using the same Apple ID.
On your Mac
- Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences.
- Click iCloud > Manage Family > [your name].
- Make a note of the Apple ID that you're using for family purchases.
- Open iTunes. From the menu bar at the top of your computer screen, choose Account.
- Make sure that you're using the same Apple ID.
On your Apple TV
- From the Home Screen, go to Settings > Accounts > iCloud.
- Choose your name. Make a note of the Apple ID.
- Click the menu button on the Apple TV remote to return to the Accounts screen.
- Choose iTunes and App Store.
- Make sure that you're using the same Apple ID.
Review your Family Sharing settings
Make sure that you use the same Apple ID everywhere that you sign in, including Family Sharing. You can go to your Settings or System Preferences and see if you're signed in with the correct account.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Go to Settings.
- Tap [your name] > Family Sharing. If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap iCloud > Family.
- Tap your name.
On your Mac
- Go to Apple menu > System Preferences.
- Click iCloud, click Manage Family.
- Click your name.
Make sure that you're using a supported device
You need iOS 8 or later on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, and OS X Yosemite or later on your Mac to set up or join a Family Sharing group. When you try to make a purchase on an unsupported device, you'll still be asked to request permission. However, you won't get a notification when the family organizer approves or declines the request. If the family organizer makes the purchase and your content doesn't download automatically, you can tap the price again to download the item.
Learn more
You can't buy iTunes Match, iTunes Gifts, or Donations if Ask To Buy is turned on for your account.
Family Sharing requires a personal Apple ID signed in to iCloud and iTunes. If your family has purchase sharing turned on, music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. Not all content is eligible to be shared. Content can be hidden by family members and won't be available for download. If Ask to Buy is turned on for your Apple ID, but you're downloading content from a family member's past purchases, you won't see an Ask to Buy prompt. Also, if you redeem a product code, you won't see Ask to Buy prompts.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly all obstetrician-gynecologists in the U.S. have patients who want abortions, but only a small percentage of the doctors provide them, suggests a new study that finds access to abortion remains limited, especially in certain areas of the country.
In a survey of 1,144 ob-gyns, researchers found that while 97 percent said they'd had patients who sought abortions, only 14 percent ever provided them. Doctors refusing to perform the procedure were especially concentrated in rural areas, the South and Midwest.
The 14 percent figure is lower than was found in a 2008 survey, where 22 percent of ob-gyns said they performed abortions. However, that study focused on younger doctors who had all been certified after a 1996 rule that made abortion training a required part of ob-gyn residency programs.
Since the current study included doctors up to age 65, that could be the reason for the lower number performing abortions, said lead researcher Dr. Debra B. Stulberg of the University of Chicago.
But the bottom line is the same, she told Reuters Health: Only a small percentage of ob-gyns offer abortion services, despite a high demand for them.
"Almost every ob-gyn encounters patients who want abortion services," Stulberg said. "But we really are at times making it tough for women to access what is a legal service."
In some cases, ob-gyns may have personal objections, the study suggests. Of doctors who did not perform abortions, 52 percent said their religion was very important to them; that compared with 26 percent of those who did perform abortions.
And Catholic and Protestant doctors were less likely to provide the service than Jewish or non-religious doctors were.
But, according to Stulberg, the issue is not that large numbers of doctors "don't believe in abortion."
In some cases, she noted, the hospitals or group practices where ob-gyns work prohibit abortion services — often because they don't want to become involved in controversy, especially in smaller communities.
In this study, a full 88 percent of ob-gyns who offered abortion services were from urban centers.
Similarly, doctors in the northeastern and western U.S. were more likely to provide abortions than those from the South or Midwest.
It's not clear how many ob-gyns might be influenced by fear of anti-abortion violence.
In recent years, U.S. clinics have been bombed, set on fire, threatened with anthrax and acid, and physicians have been stalked and patients harassed. In 2009, a Wichita, Kansas, abortion provider, Dr. George Tiller, was fatally shot by an anti-abortion activist.
Stulberg said that many doctors may believe it's simply best to disassociate themselves from abortion services, depending on how controversial the issue is in their community.
For women — especially those in rural areas, the South or Midwest — that means that finding an abortion provider can be a "struggle," Stulberg said.
She did note, however, that younger doctors in this survey — those aged 35 or younger — were more likely to provide abortions than their older counterparts were.
That is in line with the 2008 study, Stulberg said. And although the number of U.S. abortion providers has been on the decline for the past three decades, the increase among younger doctors suggest that could be changing.
"There are signs that the trend could be slowing down or reversing," Stulberg said.
A recent study found that the abortion rate among U.S. women increased slightly, by 1 percent, between 2005 and 2008 — to just under 20 abortions for every 1,000 women aged 15 to 44.
The broader issue, according to Stulberg, is that there are still too many unintended pregnancies. "We are not doing a good enough job of preventing them," she said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/qor2Rs Obstetrics & Gynecology, September 2011.