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LAS VEGAS (AP) — As a teenager growing up in Las Vegas, Tanya Angus strutted along fashion runways. She was 5 feet 8 inches tall.
But at the time of her death Monday, the 34-year-old Angus stood 7 feet 2 inches and weighed about 400 pounds. She was a victim of a rare disorder called acromegaly that wouldn't let her stop growing. In children the condition is known as gigantism.
"'Mom, I don't know why I got it,'" Karen Strutynski recalled her daughter saying. "'But I guess God decided that I could handle it.'"
Handle it she did — by appearing on television specials and in the news, and talking about the condition that left her face misshapen and gave her chronic growing pains.
Her condition was the result of the release of too much growth hormone caused by a non-cancerous tumor on her pituitary gland.
The disorder affected just about everything for Angus. She couldn't pull even the largest of shirts over her head, because she couldn't fit through the collar. She needed specially made shoes, and jewelers stretched her rings to size 20.
"There's nothing made for giants," her mother explained.
Some people judged her daughter, Strutynski said, believing she used a wheelchair because she lacked the discipline to keep her weight down. What they didn't know is that she ate one meal a day, and her medications caused her face to swell, her mother said.
"People were very cruel until she went into the media," Strutynski said.
After television appearances, Angus became an advocate for those with the disease, corresponding with people from some 60 countries to help them.
She saw her mission as helping others get diagnosed before it was too late and the disease got out of control, her mother said.
An autopsy is pending, but Strutynski said it appears Angus died after catching a cold and developing a tear in her heart.
Her mother plans to keep up Angus' website and continue corresponding with patients struggling to deal with the disease.
"We can't let it end. It's just too important," Strutynski said, her voice cracking. "We can't just let it die with Tanya."


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He's only 14 months, I can *guarantee* you he will be sleeping through the night before you know it-without you doing anything at all-really!
To give you an idea, here was what my son did:
1 year - nurse to sleep and nurse approx 2 times during the night
18 months - nurse to sleep and approx 1 time during the night, with some nights sleeping through
2 years - nurse to night, yep, and sleeping through most nights
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A Los Angeles high school baseball coach is expected in court later this month after being arrested on suspicion of spousal abuse just hours after his team lost a crucial league game to a rival school.
Brian Felten, the varsity baseball coach at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, was arrested just before 3 a.m. Wednesday at his home in Venice.
Felten, 33, is facing felony abuse charges, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department records.
Felten was released Wednesday about five hours after his arrest after posting $50,000 bail.
Loyola had lost 3-1 to Chaminade College Preparatory School on Tuesday and the Cubs (19-10, 9-3) lost 9-3 in the rematch Thursday at Loyola, with Stewart Cook coaching in Felten's place.
Loyola athletic director Chris O'Donnell was not immediately available for comment.
The reported crime marks a tumultuous period for Felten, who is coaching his final season with the Cubs after being told by administrators in April they will not be renewing his contract. The Los Angeles Times reported last month that the news hit hard for Felten, who has two young children under age 3 and had just bought a new house in December.
During his eight seasons coaching the Cubs, Felten led the team to a Southern Section championship in 2007.
Felten grew up in Mission Hills and was a star player on the Crespi High baseball team before graduating in 1997. He played for four years at Loyola Marymount University.
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'Le grand cahier' wins Karlovy Vary film festival
July 6, 2013
PRAGUE (AP) — Hungarian director Janos Szasz's "Le grand cahier" has won the top prize at the 48th edition of an international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.
The movie, a coproduction of Hungary, Germany, Austria and France, is based on a debut novel by Hungarian author Agota Kristof about 13-year-old twin brothers who have to spend the cruel years at the end of World War II with their grandmother.
It was chosen from 14 contenders for the Crystal Globe by the festival's grand jury led by Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
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The ex-wife of Gary Coleman filed a petition on Thursday in a Utah court to be appointed as the special administrator of the former child actor's estate.
The petition filed in 4th District Court in Provo said even though Coleman and Shannon Price were divorced in 2008, she is still his common law wife and that she should be the one to make funeral arrangements.
VIEW THE PHOTOS: A Look Back: Former Child Star & '80s Icon Gary Coleman
Price referred to Coleman as her husband when she called 911 on May 26, saying the actor had fallen and was bleeding severely from the back of his head.
Coleman died May 28 after suffering a brain hemorrhage and his last-known will names friend and former manager Dion Mial as his estate's executor.
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Coleman said in the 1999 will that he wanted to be remembered in a wake conducted by people who had no financial ties to the star of the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
Coleman met Price in 2005 on the set of the movie "Church Ball." The couple married in 2007 and divorced the next year.
The documents said Price and Coleman lived together at his Santaquin home about 65 miles south of Salt Lake City until his death, maintained joint bank accounts and had sexual relations.
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Coleman was still conscious when he was taken to a hospital in Provo, but slipped into unconsciousness the next day and was placed on life support. It was Price — named in an advanced health care directive — who ordered that he be taken off it.
Coleman starred for eight seasons on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," starting in 1978. The tiny 10-year-old's "Whachu talkin' 'bout?" became a catch phrase in the show about two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white man. He played Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two brothers.
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Topic Overview
Topiramate (Topamax) is a medicine that is usually used to control seizures or relieve chronic pain. This medicine is used to reduce the urge to binge in people who have binge eating disorder. Topiramate also might help a person lose weight.
This medicine lowers some people's appetites. It is not clear how topiramate helps with weight loss, but experts believe that it affects brain chemicals called neurotransmitters.
Common side effects of topiramate include:
- Fatigue.
- A prickling or tingling sensation in the hands and feet.
- Lack of coordination.
- Loss of appetite and weight loss.
- Inability to concentrate or speak clearly.
Topiramate has been linked in some people to a potentially life-threatening condition called metabolic acidosis, which happens when there is too much acid in the blood. Symptoms include fatigue, lack of appetite, and rapid breathing (hyperventilation). If left untreated, metabolic acidosis can lead to death.
In rare cases, topiramate may cause serious side effects, such as:
- Glaucoma, which can lead to blindness.
- An inability to sweat, which can lead to life-threatening fever or heatstroke.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on seizure medicines and the risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these medicines. Instead, people who take seizure medicine should be watched closely for warning signs of suicide. People who take seizure medicine and who are worried about this side effect should talk to a doctor.
What to think about
Women who use topiramate during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
- You should not use this medicine if you are breastfeeding.
- If you are taking this medicine, drink plenty of fluids.
- If you are taking this medicine, call your doctor if you have blurred vision or eye pain.
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Volume Failure on Raid 5 Array - Intel Matrix Storage ConsoleAngryByte Mar 24, 2011 11:10 AM
I was using Intel Matrix Storage Console to manage a RAID 5 volume on my "ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/PCH SATA RAID Controller" (at least that's how it reads in Device Manager), and I was running a RAID 5 volume without issue until I experienced a drive failure a couple weeks ago. All three drives are Seagate, and I warranteed the failed drive. After an extended wait I finally have the refurbished drive back from Seagate. I put the drive back into my machine, wired it up as normal, and now the Intel controller utility (when I first start the machine, following a successful POST) shows 2 member drives, and one non-raid member drive. I entered the utility, and it doesn't give me an option to rebuild the array, only to delete it, which would DELETE the volume AND it's data, which, in my mind, defeats the purpose of RAID 5 altogether.
Now, we come to the point of the issue. The definition in Intel Storage Matrix Console's help for a "failed" array is as follows: "A RAID 5 volume is reported as 'Failed' when more than one member has failed. If this occurs, please follow the procedure shown below. This procedure deletes the failed RAID 5 volume and creates a new RAID 5 volume; it does not recover the failed RAID 5 volume and its data. After the new RAID 5 volume has been created, you must restore the data from backups and install any software that was on the RAID 5 volume."
While I understand the definition, only 1 of my 3 member drives have failed, and honestly, I cannot reasonably afford to lose the data on my array. Intel Storage Matrix Console's help also gives this procedure to recover a degraded array: "In the device pane, right-click on the new non-RAID hard drive and select 'Rebuild to this Hard Drive'." I have no such option. All I have is "Mark as Spare", and "Activate Port LED", since the utility has flagged this as a "FAILED" array.
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Gipsy Smith
Author of "The Lost Christ," "Your Boys," "Revival Sermons," etc.
With a foreward by
Rev. James I. Vance, D.D.
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The chapters which follow in this volume reveal Gipsy Smith. They discover his mind and heart processes in a way that is both accurate and unusual.
It was my good fortune to be on the platform just behind the evangelist while he was delivering the addresses which are the make-up of this book, and not only hear them all, but as Chairman of the Executive Committee conducting the campaign, to have in hand the details connected with their delivery.
They were Gipsy's noonday addresses delivered in Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, on the week-days, Saturdays excepted, from February 12th to March 12th, 1922. The auditorium has a seating capacity of five thousand, but the crowds were so great that the building was not only packed at the noon as well as the night hours, but vast numbers were turned away unable even to get inside the building.
The sensational feature of these addresses, however, apart from the spiritual results of the message, was not in the crowds attracted, but in the wonderful versatility and swift mind and heart reaction of the speaker.
The plan used at the noon hour was this: Each day a local pastor was teamed with the evangelist. The local pastor occupied the first ten minutes, speaking on some passage of his own selection from the Bible.
Gipsy was not only in complete ignorance of what the local pastor was to speak about, but also of his identity until a moment before he arose to speak, when I gave the evangelist the pastor's name, and he was presented by Gipsy to the audience. Thus without any previous special preparation, without any time in which to form an outline or assemble thoughts save the ten minutes of the first speaker's address, in entire ignorance of what the theme was to be, the marvellous addresses in this volume were delivered. And they WERE INVARIABLY ON THE THEME AND THE SCRIPTURE PRESENTED BY THE LOCAL PASTOR.
Gipsy's address followed the first speaker's, not in a general way, not in a few introductory sentences switching into a digression, but closely and logically, so far as the central theme was concerned.
For this reason, these chapters in a striking way reveal the man. He has the resourcefulness of the greatest of preachers. With a mental grasp swift, accurate, and original; with a command of simple words full of colour and action; with a delivery free of all tricks and affectation; with an eloquence sweeping from tears to smiles, mastering the mind, fusing the passions, capturing the will, Gipsy Smith reached in these impromptu addresses at Nashville a height of pulpit power the writer has not known surpassed.
To find satisfying explanation, one needs to go back to Pentecost.
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Galax man wins $200K in lottery scratch-off
A man is $200,000 richer after scratching off the top prize in a Virginia Lottery game.
William Jones, a furniture maker from Galax, won the top prize in the Win it All game. He bought the ticket at the Kangaroo Express at 806 S. Main St. in Galax.
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Our Righteous Advocate
Even now, Jesus is pleading with the Father in our behalf, interceding for us that we might be forgiven, purified, and strengthened for holiness. To be sure, we work out our salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12–13 ...Read More
The Christian's Anointing
Christ is the perfect Prophet, Priest, and King, but in His grace He allows His people to serve in prophetic, priestly, and kingly roles as well. We are not saved to remain sedentary but to proclaim God's Word, devote ...Read More
Securing Our Faith, II
One of the lessons we can learn from those who use passages like 1 Timothy 2:4 and 1 John 2:1–2 to deny particular redemption is the need to study passages in their context. If these texts are ...Read More
Abide in Him
Verse 28 tells us that we will not be ashamed at the second coming if we abide in Christ. While our own efforts are not what get us into the kingdom, they do reflect that we have been born of ...Read More
His Annointing
The apostle Paul tells us that there are many varieties of gifts but one Spirit (1 Cor. 12:4). While the Holy Spirit dwells in all Christians, His various gifts show that He does not manifest Himself the same way ...Read More
From the Beginning
As Christians we must ever be aware of the old, fleshly nature that is always trying to draw us away from life in the Spirit. One of the ways this happens is through doubts about Jesus and the authority of ...Read More
The Liar and Antichrist
One cannot truly acknowledge Jesus as the "Christ" unless this title is defined biblically. In our day, many continue to sing praises to the Christ but deny essential truths about His person and work, including His deity and the necessity ...Read More
You Know the Truth
Today's passage shows us the connection between knowing the truth and being anointed by the Holy Spirit. Anyone who knows, trusts, and practices basic Christian truths belongs to Christ and possesses the Holy Spirit. Like the original audience, the ...Read More
They Went Out From Us
Though verse 19 refers to the false teachers who left John's audience, all those who permanently abandon the biblical Christ exhibit solidarity with false teaching and thus display that they also never had true faith. True believers will not ...Read More
Passing Away
The decay we see around us every day bears witness that this world will not last forever. Indeed, the new age that began with the coming of Christ will one day be consummated in a new heavens and a new ...Read More
The Love of the World
Evangelical Christians are often quick to protest rampant immorality, and rightly so. However, sometimes it is easy for us to become overly eager to possess certain things and make wealth an idol. While we must not consider buying and selling ...Read More
Christian Maturity
The qualities mentioned in today's passage are qualities for which all Christians should strive, and each of them contributes to the believer's assurance. As we engage in the spiritual disciplines of prayer, Bible study, worship, stewardship, service, and ...Read More
Love Your Brothers
When we are honest with ourselves, some Christians are easier to love than others. We all find certain people less offensive than others, and as a result, we will gravitate toward those we consider lovable. But Christ does not call ...Read More
No New Commandment
The emphasis on love in 1 John is the love that we must have for other believers. However, while the needs of John's audience required him to focus on love for other Christians, we would be mistaken if we ...Read More
His Commandments
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There is a strong relationship between the way we have allowed our neighbourhoods, town and cities to be planned, designed and developed over the last five or six decades and the decline in civic engagement that is so obvious in our communities.
A recent survey of Metro Vancouver residents has started to reveal some of those not-so-obvious relationships. The Vancouver Foundation recently published the results of a survey that begins to delve into what prevents people from being more connected in terms of their relationships with their fellow citizens and more engaged in their neighbourhoods and the wider community.
The Vancouver Foundation decided to launch this study because its previous research told it that many community leaders in Metro Vancouver are concerned about a deepening civic malaise that has resulted in more people retreating from community activities and even social interaction of the most basic form. Many rank this corrosion of caring and social isolation as a top community challenge, ahead of issues like poverty, homelessness and the list of other expected social problems.
The researchers who surveyed 3,841 Metro Vancouver residents characterized connections and engagement as two sides of the same coin, arguing that it is only through strong relationships that we can care enough to work together to make our com-munity a better place for everyone. I would go one step further.
We risk finding ourselves in a vicious circle where the centrifugal force of ambivalence spins our neighbour-hoods, towns and cities into a physical state of place lessness, robbing us of places to gather, socially interact and connect, leaving us careless, isolated and detached, with no desire to get involved in trying to make better the physical place that we call home. This study shows this risk is real.
It looked at relationships that people have in their neighbourhoods - the places that are more than just a geo-graphical location, but the centre of family life, personal financial investment and whatever emotional attachment a person has to the place where he or she resides. The data revealed that, despite the long-held view that strong neighbourhood connections are important in city life, neighbourhood relationships in Metro Vancouver are cordial, but not particularly deep. We keep to ourselves, don't often help each other out and are indifferent when it comes to opportunities to strengthen neighbourliness.
Patterns emerged in the data that identified quite clearly that certain groups of people are struggling more than others to feel connected and to be motivated enough to engage. Ironically, the study identified one of those groups by the type of dwelling they live in.
Highrise apartment dwellers clearly struggle more than others with get-ting to know their neighbours. Twice as many apartment dwellers (15 per cent) as those living in townhomes or single detached homes (seven per cent) never chat with their immediate neighbours - the people living in the three or four households closest to them.
An even larger percentage of people living in highrises - 43 per cent of them - don't know at least two of their neighbours' names. Among renters, 39 per cent don't know the names of at least two of their neighbours, com-pared with 18 per cent of homeowners. When researchers probed deeper and asked respondents about the reasons why they might not know some of their neighbours very well, 46 per cent overall blamed it on the fact that they seldom see their neighbours.
This is not surprising. We have allowed the design of our homes and our neighbourhood surroundings to deteriorate when it comes to promoting social interaction and neighbourliness.
Apartment buildings are deliberately designed to promote privacy and security. Key fobs not only control access to highrise towers and the elevators that link these vertical neighbourhoods, but they also limit neighbours in socializing with each other in the building they live when floors are "locked off" to all but those living on them. Lobby areas at the base of highrises are typically small and offer few places to casually gather. Residential corridors are usually dimly lit and narrow, lined with solid doors to individual homes we often refer to by their "unit number".
The ubiquitous garage doors facing streets with non-existent or narrow sidewalks in suburban neighbour-hoods consisting of monotonous rows of single detached homes don't create a more inviting environment for those who hope to encounter their neighbours, let alone desire social frequent social interaction.
The second biggest reason people cited in the survey for not knowing their neighbours can be viewed as indifference - a lack of interest in knowing each other and a desire to keep to ourselves. Again, this isn't a surprising response if you think about that vicious circle fuelled by ambivalence.
If your neighbourhood lacks those physical places that you value for the opportunity they provide to inter-act spontaneously with others and to develop relationships with people who are at first strangers and then your acquaintances, why would you care enough to struggle to reach out and try create those relationships?
What hope should we have that we can get out of this vicious circle that forms that link between cause and effect - placelessness and disengagement? The numbers are some-what alarming. Close to one-third of respondents (29 per cent) agreed that it would be hard to get people in their neighbourhood to work together to solve problems in their neighbour-hood. Less than half (41 per cent) disagreed and said that it would not be hard to get the people in their neighbourhood working together. Not all that promising.
There are other areas of this intriguing study that point to issues around disengagement and a lack of connectedness that clearly find their roots in the way we have planned, designed and built the places where we live, work, play and learn.
I won't go beyond simply mentioning now that they include issues like a tolerance to accommodating in neighbourhoods different groups of people, like the homeless and people with alcohol and drug addictions, or the issue of foreign ownership of real estate - where a slight majority (52 per cent) of respondents believe that there is too much foreign ownership of real estate.
These are issues worth exploring in more detail in future columns, per-haps when the Vancouver Foundation releases more analysis of the data that will correlate answers to questions with people who held certain views on other questions.
Read the study findings as www.vancouverfoundation.ca/connect-engage/2012survey.htm
Bob Ransford is a public affairs consultant with Counterpoint Communications Inc. He is a former real estate developer who specializes in urban land-use issues. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or Twitter @BobRansford


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March 02. 2013 9:43PM
Monarchs continue dominance in St. John's with sixth victory
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Ian Clark's On Hockey: They're small but dangerous
The Manchester Monarchs remain perfect in Newfoundland after a 4-1 win over the St. John's IceCaps Saturday night.
The Monarchs completed a weekend sweep and moved to 6-0 all-time at St. John's, including 4-0 this season. Manchester improved to 26-24-6 and are 4-0-1 in their last five games.
The Monarchs broke a 1-1 tie with three third period goals to claim the win.
Hunter Bishop's first goal as a Monarch gave Manchester a 2-1 lead at 9:35 of the third and proved the be the game-winner. Stefan Legein set Bishop up for the shorthanded tally.
Linden Vey made it 3-1 at 11:04, knocking home a rebound goal off the initial shot from Tyler Toffoli.
The Monarchs held on from there, earning goaltender Martin Jones the win in a game in which Manchester was outshot 38-22.
Defenseman Andrew Bodnarchuk scored a last minute empty net goal to put the game away.
St. John's had tied the game at 1-1 with a goal from Aaron Gagnon at 2:06 of the third period. The goal came just after Manchester missed a two-on-one opportunity on the other end by Toffoli and Vey.
Defenseman Bryan Rodney scored with just 3.1 seconds remaining in the second period to put Manchester on top 1-0.
Toffoli set up the Rodney goal and the veteran defenseman was aware of the dwindling time, snapping off a shot from the right circle to beat Eddie Pasquale top-shelf.
On Friday night, Andy Andreoff lifted Manchester with second- and third-period goals to even the score, and Manchester went on to a 5-4 shootout win over St. John's.
In the shootout, center Jordan Weal and left wing Colton Yellow Horn scored for the Monarchs. Monarchs goaltender Martin Jones denied center Eric O'Dell, center Ben Maxwell, left wing Jason Jaffrey and left wing Carl Klingberg.
The Los Angeles Kings announced Saturday that they have activated former Monarchs defenseman Alec Martinez from injured reserve and Andrew Campbell has been re-assigned to Manchester.
The Monarchs host Bridgeport Wednesday at 7 p.m.


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Still, overall, selling books was a big business. In 1994 Americans bought $19 billion worth of books. Barnes & Noble and the Borders Group had by then captured a quarter of the market, with independent stores struggling to make up just over another fifth and a skein of book clubs, supermarkets and other outlets accounting for the rest. That same year, 513 million individual books were sold, and seventeen bestsellers each sold more than 1 million copies. Bezos knew that two national distributors, Ingram Book Group and Baker & Taylor, had warehouses holding about 400,000 titles and in the late 1980s had begun converting their inventory list from microfiche to a digital format accessible by computer. Bezos also knew that in 1992 the Supreme Court had ruled in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota that retailers were exempt from charging sales tax in states where they didn't have a physical presence. (For years, he would use this advantage to avoid collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in state sales taxes, giving Amazon an enormous edge over retailers of every kind, from bookstores to Best Buy and Home Depot. In recent months, however, Amazon, under mounting pressure, has eased its opposition and reached agreements with twelve states, including California and Texas, to collect sales tax.) "Books are incredibly unusual in one respect," Bezos said, "and that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far." A devotee of the Culture of Metrics, Bezos was undaunted. He was sure that the algorithms of computerized search and access would provide the keys to a consumer kingdom whose riches were as yet undiscovered and barely dreamed of, and so he set out to construct a twenty-first-century ordering mechanism that, at least for the short term, would deliver goods the old-fashioned way: by hand, from warehouses via the Postal Service and commercial shippers.


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· Mt. Sinai Hospital (New York, NY) — $250,000
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Now everyone is blaming everyone else for what is happening in Europe around the "horsemeat scandal". No matter who is to blame, it just shows that horse slaughter is a predatory business, no matter what the regualtions are. ~Declan
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Battle over blame after horse meat found in beef products
updated 5:22 AM EST, Mon February 11, 2013 As posted on CNN
- NEW: Six big French retailers pull lasagne and other products
- Comigel CEO tells a French news agency his company was "fooled"
- Findus Nordic CEO calls Comigel "the villain"
- Horsemeat isn't a health hazard, but could contain a veterinary drug unsafe for humans
(CNN) -- High-stakes lawsuits, overlapping investigations and a bitter battle over blame are spreading across Europe in the wake of a scandal that has rocked the meat industry.
Horse meat was discovered in products that are supposed to be 100% beef, sold in Sweden, the United Kingdom and France.
On Sunday, a major company under scrutiny called one of its suppliers a "villain" responsible for the fraud. The supplier, in turn, insisted it was "fooled" by a subsupplier.
While authorities say there is no immediate cause for health concerns, the discovery was a new shock to an industry already reeling from a bombshell last month when Irish investigators found horse and pig DNA in numerous hamburger products.
The blame chain
Swedish food producer Findus has been a focus of the uproar since it announced Thursday that it had withdrawn its lasagna from stores as a precaution. The products were pulled Monday after French supplier Comigel raised concerns about the type of meat that was used, Findus Sweden said.
Findus said a letter from Comigel dated February 2 informed Findus that the contamination may date back to August 2012.
Findus is only one of several companies that receive products from Comigel. Others include Axfood, Coop and ICA, which have recalled some meat products in Sweden, and Aldi, which has pulled some products from shelves in Britain.
Six big French retailers -- Auchan, Casino, Carrefour, Cora, Picard and Monoprix -- said Sunday that they were recalling lasagne and other products.
Findus Nordic, which oversees Findus throughout the Nordic region, said it has begun legal action against Comigel and its subsuppliers.
"We are only at the beginning of our legal process. Comigel will end up in a lot of legal processes going forward, I imagine," Findus Nordic CEO Jari Latvanen said Sunday in an interview with CNN. "Comigel is the villain."
Comigel has not responded to CNN's requests for comment. The company did not answer its phones when CNN called repeatedly, and did not respond to an e-mail request for comment. Neither did CEO Erick Lehagre.
But Lehagre told French news agency Agence France-Presse on Sunday that his company had been "fooled" by a French supplier. "We were victims," he said, according to AFP.
Comigel apparently took its website down, posting a sign that it is "under construction." Previously, the site described the company as offering a wide array of products through partners, including major European retailers.
Criss-crossing investigations
Probes are under way in France, Sweden, and Britain. The supply chain being studied includes still more countries.
France's consumer affairs minister, Benoit Hamon, ordered an immediate investigation and said results will be available by midweek.
In a statement, Hamon said a provider in Luxembourg and traders in Cyprus and the Netherlands are part of the chain being probed.
The Swedish National Food Agency announced Sunday that it is reporting Findus to police, which is the standard course of action when products have been sold with the wrong labels.
British police are investigating as well.
British officials held an emergency meeting Saturday in London. Participants agreed "meaningful results" must be achieved by Friday, UK Food Standards Agency spokesman Brad Smythe said.
Officials discussed what tests are possible, what laboratory capacity is needed, and what can be done to protect consumer confidence, he said.
The evidence so far suggests "either criminal activity or gross negligence," Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said, adding that "more bad news" could come.
UK food businesses have been ordered to test all processed beef products for authenticity and report back to the authorities by Friday.
"I am determined that we get to the bottom of this and that any wrongdoing discovered is punished," Paterson said in a statement.
Prime Minister David Cameron weighed in Friday on Twitter. "This is completely unacceptable -- this isn't about food safety but about proper food labeling and confidence in retailers," he wrote.
Legal action under way
Latvanen credits his company with uncovering "a serious case of fraud."
"What has happened with Comigel is a crime, a scandal," he said in an interview with CNN.
While Findus has begun legal action in Sweden, Findus France previously said it will file a legal complaint Monday against a Romanian business that is part of the supply chain. It did not name the business publicly.
"There are two victims in this affair: Findus and the consumer," Findus France said in a statement.
The British arm of Findus said it is considering legal action against suppliers as well. Early results of an internal investigation "strongly suggest" the horse meat contamination of a beef lasagna product "was not accidental," the company said.
Tests showed up to 100% horse meat
Aldi said tests on random samples demonstrated that the withdrawn products contained between 30% and 100% horse meat.
"This is completely unacceptable and like other affected companies, we feel angry and let down by our supplier. If the label says beef, our customers expect it to be beef."
Samples of the affected Findus lasagna contained between 60% and 100% horse meat, according to UK and Irish food safety inspectors.
In January, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found that 10 out of 27 hamburger products it analyzed in a study contained horse DNA, while 23 of them -- or 85% -- tested positive for pig DNA.
In nine out of the 10 burger samples, the horse DNA was found at very low levels, the inspectors said. But in one sample from Tesco, Britain's largest retailer, the horse meat accounted for about 29% of the burger.
Tesco apologized and vowed to make sure it never happens again.
Irish officials blamed ingredients from Poland.
Concerns about a veterinary drug
While horse meat is not itself a food safety hazard, food inspectors are concerned it may contain the veterinary drug phenylbutazone, or "bute," commonly used to treat horses.
Meat from animals treated with phenylbutazone may pose a risk to human health and is not allowed to enter the food chain as it may pose a risk to human health.
Findus has been ordered to test the lasagna withdrawn from shelves in the United Kingdom for the drug's presence.
The revelations have revolted many meat eaters in the United Kingdom, where horse meat is generally considered taboo, although it is commonly eaten in neighboring France, as well as countries including China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Italy.
The discovery of pig DNA in beef products is of particular concern to Jews and Muslims, whose dietary laws forbid the consumption of pork products. Jewish dietary laws also ban the eating of horse meat.
The UK Justice Ministry confirmed last week that a number of meat pies and similar items supplied to prisons in England and Wales were labeled and served as halal -- prepared in compliance with Islamic dietary law -- but contained traces of pork DNA, the Food Standards Agency said.
Horse meat is not commonly eaten in the United States, but the country does export it to Canada and Mexico. Congress passed a bill in November 2011 that lifted a 5-year-old ban on the slaughter of horses for meat in the United States.
CNN's Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.


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Researchers have a new understanding of the process cells use to ensure that sperm and eggs begin life with exactly one copy of each chromosome – a process that must be exquisitely regulated to prevent problems such as miscarriages and mental retardation. The new work reveals how gluelike protein complexes release pairs of chromosomes at precisely the moment of meiosis – the specialized cell division process that produces sperm and eggs – enabling them to separate properly.
The researchers, led by Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Angelika Amon, published their findings online May 3, 2006, in the journal Nature. Amon and her colleagues are at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Most cells in the human body – all those other than sperm and eggs – contain 23 pairs of chromosomes. These cells divide through mitosis, a process that creates daughter cells with the same complement of chromosome pairs as the parent. Sperm and egg cells, on the other hand, must contain only half the chromosomes of their parent cells, so that the normal chromosome number will be restored when the sperm and egg unite during fertilization. To achieve this, they are produced through meiosis.
Gluelike protein complexes called cohesins, which hold the members of a chromosome pair together until just the right moment during cell division, are central to both processes. Bound together by cohesins, chromosome pairs must organize themselves in preparation for cell division before they can be released.
According to Amon, a deeper basic knowledge of the mechanism of cohesin loss during meiosis could ultimately improve understanding of the origins of miscarriages and mental retardation due to mis-segregation of chromosomes.
"We first need to understand the key regulatory players and the molecular mechanisms that cause chromosomes to segregate in this very unusual way during meiosis," she said. "Once we have a good enough understanding, then we can ask, for example, what exactly happens to cohesins in older women that make them more likely to give birth to children with an abnormal chromosome number."
According to Amon, knowledge about the mechanism of cohesin function has remained sketchy, even though it plays a central role in meiosis. Researchers knew that an enzyme called separase snips apart cohesins, targeting a specific subunit of the cohesin complex called Rec8. Also, she said, researchers had found that Rec8 cleavage was promoted by phosphorylation -- the addition of chemical phosphate groups -- of Rec8.
Researchers also knew that cohesins release chromosome pairs from one another's embrace quite differently during meiosis and mitosis. In mitosis, cohesins release chromosomes along their entire length simultaneously. However, in the initial stage of meiosis, cohesins first release only the "arms" of chromosomes, still holding the chromosomes together at their central connection point, the centromere. Only in a second stage of meiosis that gives rise to haploid sperm or egg cells do centromeric cohesins become cleaved. This precisely controlled centromeric "stickiness" is essential for the accurate segregation of sister chromatids into separate cells.
"The key question we wanted to explore was how this step-wise loss of cohesins in meiosis was regulated," said Amon. "It could be that the enzyme separase was the key regulatory player, or it could be that it was the phosphorylation of cohesins that was central."
To find out, the researchers experimented with yeast cells, selectively mutating the Rec8 subunit so that it could not be phosphorylated. They then studied how the cell's inability to phosphorylate Rec8 affected meiosis. Those experiments showed that phosphorylation is, indeed, important for governing the step-wise loss of cohesins, said Amon. She also noted that research published in two complementary papers from the laboratories of Kim Nasmyth and Yoshinori, which also appeared in Nature, demonstrated that cohesins can be retained at the centromeres during meiosis by enzymes that remove phosphates from the cohesins, counteracting the effects of phosphorylation.
Amon and her colleagues found that phosphorylation was not the only process essential for cohesion removal. Recombination – an exchange of DNA between chromosomes that promotes genetic diversity – was also needed for the initial removal of cohesin from the chromosome arms, they found.
In meiotic recombination, after each member of a chromosome pair has replicated to produce identical sister chromotids in the initial stage of meiosis, the chromosomes exchange arm segments. Only after this exchange, or recombination, do the cells proceed to the second stage of meiosis -- dividing without chromosome replication to produce haploid sperm or egg cells. Recombination is essential for cohesins to get removed from chromosome arms before they are removed from centromeres, Amon said.
"For a long time, people did not think that recombination played any role in establishing the step-wise cohesin loss pattern," she said. "But our experiments showed that recombination is absolutely essential to remove cohesins from chromosome arms during the initial meiotic stages, and if you don't have recombination that does not happen properly."
Amon also said that the Nature paper represents a significant advance in understanding the enzyme that phosphorylates Rec8, named Polo kinase, because it more accurately identified the specific sites on the Rec8 subunit that Polo phosphorylates. Firm identification of such sites will enable more precise studies of the mechanism of function of Rec8, and will also enable scientists to identify other protein targets of Polo kinase, she said.
Amon emphasized that the discovery of the importance of phosphorylation and recombination is only the beginning of understanding the intricate, critical process of cohesin loss. "There are no doubt other mechanisms at work in cohesin loss, but at this point we don't know what they are," she said. She theorized, however, that regulation of the cohesin-snipping enzyme separase plays a role in regulating step-wise cohesin loss; she and her colleagues are now exploring that possibility.
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