When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11

When American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the north tower on Sept. 11, director Stephen Daldry was nestled in the safety of London, editing his film “The Hours.”His producer, Scott Rudin, got a call relaying the news, and Daldry frantically dialed his soon-to-be wife, New Yorker Lucy Sexton, who was watching the horror unfold from the couple’s 14th St. apartment.“I spent the rest of that day on the phone to my wife, Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale who was on the roof of our building,” Daldry tells the Daily News. “From our roof she had a very clear view of what was going on downtown with the towers.”Returning home a few days later on the first flight he could, the British-born director found his adopted city seemingly “under siege” — the National Guard posted at the end of his street, the posters of the missing, the plume of smoke from downtown.Like all New Yorkers, these images haunt him 10 years later. Daldry, however, is one of the few in a position to make a film capturing the zeitgeist of that time.The result is “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,”Michael kors handbags, cheap Michael kors handbags sale which opened in New York on Christmas and opens across the rest of the country Friday.Based on the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, the movie follows 11-year-old Oskar Schell (newcomer and former young “Jeopardy” champ Thomas Horn), a borderline autistic loner who loses the father he idolizes (Tom Hanks) in the World Trade Center attacks. Trying desperately to find some logic in the senseless, Oskar stumbles on a key that may unlock a final message from his father, and begins a two-year quest that seems to drive him away from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock).“People will have to make up their own minds whether the time is right or whether a story should or shouldn’t be told or what can and cannot be depicted,” Daldry says.

A bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Wednesday approved a settlement between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports that clears the way for the sale of the team

A bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Wednesday approved a settlement between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports that clears the way for the sale of the team.The settlement, reached late Tuesday and quickly approved at a brief court hearing Wednesday morning, ends a contentious legal battle between the ball club and Fox."The agreement with Fox clears the path for the Dodgers to sell the team on schedule and to maximize the value of the debtors' estate," Dodgers attorney Sid Levinson told Judge Kevin Gross.Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online Fox Sports attorney Greg Werkheiser said Fox was glad to have resolved its differences with the Dodgers, and attorneys for Major League Baseball and the Dodgers' committee of unsecured creditors told Gross they support the settlement.Gross quickly signed off on the settlement, saying it was in the best interest of all parties in the Dodgers bankruptcy case.The settlement was reached with the help of a court-appointed mediator after a federal district court judge said last month that Fox likely would win an appeal of a ruling by Gross that authorized the Dodgers to begin a process to market the media rights to future games starting in 2014.Fox Sports Net West, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., 35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online claimed that the media rights marketing plan violated its rights under an existing telecast contract with the Dodgers.Under the settlement, the Dodgers will abide by the terms of the existing contract with Fox. That contract gives Fox an exclusive 45-day period starting in October to try to negotiate a contract extension with the Dodgers. The contract also prohibits the Dodgers from talking to other potential buyers of the media rights before Nov. 30 and gives Fox a limited right of first refusal on competing offers received after that date.Gross had ruled that those "no-shop" provisions were unenforceable in bankruptcy and approved a marketing process that moved up the exclusive negotiating period by about 10 months. That would have forced Fox to try to strike a new deal with the Dodgers this month and made any agreement subject to approval by the successful bidder for the team, a condition Fox said would decrease its leverage in negotiations.

Lindsay Lohan could go from posing as Marilyn Monroe in Playboy to playing Elizabeth Taylor for Lifetime.OUR EDITOR RECOMMENDS

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More than 38 million adults in the U.S. binge drink alcohol about four times a month

More than 38 million adults in the U.S. binge drink alcohol about four times a month, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report finds. The activity is more common among younger people, but older people who binge drink do it more often. The average highest number of drinks consumed at a time is eight.The Vital Signs report released Tuesday defines binge drinking as having four or more drinks (for women) or five or more drinks (for men) on one occasion. Men and women 18 to 34 comprise the group with the most binge drinkers,Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online but those 65 and older do it more frequently, about five to six times a month on average.Researchers also broke down binge drinking by income, finding that the activity is more common among those with a household yearly income of $75,000 or more. But those who make less than $25,000 a year consume the highest number of drinks at a time, about eight to nine on average.Areas in the country where binge drinking is more common include New England, Hawaii, the Midwest, Washington, D.C., and Alaska. The report also found that more than half the alcohol adults drink is consumed while binge drinking. Among young people it's 90%.Toms Shoes Wholesale Men who binge drink consume more drinks than women, and they do it more often: an average nine drinks five times per month, versus 5.9 drinks 3.2 times a month.Surprisingly, the report also noted that most people who binge drink are not alcoholics or dependent on alcohol. But binge drinking does have serious health and social consequences, such as suicide and car wrecks, and it's a risk factor for cardiovascular conditions and sexually transmitted diseases.The figures come from a 2010 survey of about 458,000 adults in the U.S. age 18 and older."We need to work together to implement proven measures to reduce binge drinking at national, state and community levels," said CDC director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden in a news release.

A new study concludes that casual pot smoking does not affect the functioning of your lungs

Add one more data point to the decades-old debate over marijuana legalization: A new study concludes that casual pot smoking - up to one joint per day - does not affect the functioning of your lungs.The study, published in the Jan. Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online 11 edition of Journal of the American Medical Association, also offered up a nugget that likely will surprise many: Evidence points to slight increases in lung airflow rates and increases in lung volume from occasional marijuana use.Air flow is the amount of air someone can blow out of their lungs one second after taking the deepest breath possible. The volume measure is the total amount of air blown out once someone has taken the deepest breath possible.The study of 5115 men and women took place over two decades between March 26, 1985 and August 19, 2006 in 4 American cities: Birmingham, Chicago, Oakland, Calif., and Minneapolis."With marijuana use increasing and large numbers of people who have been and continue to be exposed, knowing whether it causes lasting damage to lung function is important for public-health messaging and medical use of marijuana," according to one of the study's co-authors, Stefan Kertesz. "At levels of marijuana exposure commonly seen in Americans, occasional marijuana use was associated with increases in lung air flow rates and increases in lung capacity."He added that those increases, though not large, nonetheless were statistically significant. "And the data showed that even up to moderate35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online ly high-use levels -- one joint a day for seven years -- there is no evidence of decreased air-flow rates or lung volumes," he said.The study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham was released Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the government's regulation of broadcast indecency

The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold the government's regulation of broadcast indecency, after Tuesday arguments where several justices disputed industry claims that it was too hard to distinguish artistic and cultural works from gratuitous nudity and coarse language.Under the George W. Bush administration, the Federal Communications Commission cracked down on broadcasts it considered indecent, including awards shows where celebrities uttered expletives and the police drama "NYPD Blue," Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale where a seven-second shot depicted a woman's naked posterior.Broadcasters, complaining that the same word could air unsanctioned in "Saving Private Ryan" but expose them to fines if uttered in a documentary about blues musicians, challenged the regulations as a violation of their free-speech rights. A federal appeals court in New York agreed, ruling that the FCC regulations, which apply between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. and are intended to protect children, were so vague as to chill protected speech.The Supreme Court sided with the FCC regulations in 2009 in a 5-4 ruling that addressed procedural issues. Nothing Tuesday suggested any of the five justices in that majority had changed their views. Their questions focused less on the regulations' chilling effect than their potential to create an island of propriety amid a rising sea of indecency on cable television, whose content is not under FCC regulation."The risk of the race to the bottom is real, 2012 cheap Michael kors watches on sale and I think history is showing it," said Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, defending the regulations. He traced the FCC's concerns to "the explosion of the shock jock phenomenon, Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge and the rest of it... which was highly vile and lewd."Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that the indecency rules were "an important symbol for our society, that we aspire to a culture that's not vulgar in a very small segment."Justice Antonin Scalia chimed in. "Sign me up as supporting Justice Kennedy's notion that this has a symbolic value, just as we require a certain modicum of dress for the people that attend this court," he said.Carter Phillips, representing broadcasters including Fox Television Stations, argued that it was unfair to hold broadcast TV to a tougher standard than pay channels, because most Americans receive both through the same cable or satellite box. Fox is a unit of News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal."That cuts both ways," responded Chief Justice John Roberts. "People who want to...expose their children to broadcasts where these words are used, where there is nudity, there are 800 channels where they can go for that. All we are asking for, what the government is asking for, is a few channels where... they are not going to hear the S-word, the F-word. They are not going to see nudity."

When news spread that the spinoff was not happening, but the main senior cast (Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Colfer) would be returning

When news spread that the spinoff was not happening, but the main senior cast (Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Naya Rivera and Colfer) would be returning, some fans were skeptical about season four. But not him."I think people think that I should be disappointed, but I'm actually really excited for what they have in store for next season," Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online he told us. "I can't obviously say right now, but I think it's going to be fun and I think everyone is going to be happy about it."We are going absolutely nuts trying to guess how the seniors will be incorporated next year, but we did offer one theory to Colfer: they will all fail the SATs! We're 19 percent sure that this will happen, too. "We're going to fail our SATs!" he agrees with a laugh. "How come no one has ever taken the SATs on this show? I think that's what's probably going to happen."If Kurt fails, he can stay in high school with his dreamy boyfriend Blaine (Darren Criss). Even though there's a pesky third wheel to worry about right now. "Kurt kind of takes care of Blaine coming up,35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online so I think [fans] will be excited about that. I like the third wheel," Colfer tells us. "They're going to hate me for saying that, but I like the third wheel because you know for an actor it adds a lot of fun. It adds a lot of drama."Maybe we'll get some physical drama? "Wouldn't that be great?!" Colfer gushes. "I'm still campaigning to punch Sebastian (Grant Gustin) in the face."

The exorcism fright film “The Devil Inside” beat industry expectations by a longshot with a $33.7 million debut

The exorcism fright film “The Devil Inside” beat industry expectations by a longshot with a $33.7 million debut, more than twice the amount the most optimistic forecasts predicted it would take in.The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release,Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1. “The Devil Inside,” Paramount Insurge, $33,732,515, 2,285 locations, $14,763 average, $33,732,515, one week.
2. “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” Paramount, $19,868,059, 3,555 locations, $5,589 average, $169,568,971, four weeks.
3. “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” Warner Bros., $13,689,321, 3,603 locations, $3,799 average, $157,049,382, four weeks.
4. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Sony, $11,364,714, 2,914 locations, $3,900 average, $76,900,628, three weeks.
5. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” Fox, $9,496,913, 3,425 locations, $2,773 average, $111,585,367, four weeks.
6. “War Horse,” Disney, $8,679,470, 2,783 locations, $3,119 average, $56,904,682, three weeks.
7. “We Bought a Zoo,” Fox, $8,305,797, 3,170 locations, $2,620 average, $56,399,906, three weeks.
8. “The Adventures of Tintin,” Paramount, $6,727,740, 3,006 locations, $2,238 average, $62,008,015, three weeks.
9. “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Focus, $5,478,521, 809 locations, $6,772 average, $10,129,670, five weeks.
10. “The Darkest Hour,” Summit, $3,124,316, 2,163 locations, $1,444 average, $18,690,605, three weeks.
11. “New Year’s Eve,” Warner Bros., $3,107,343, 1,864 locations, $1,667 average, $51,868,140, five weeks.
12. “The Descendants,” Fox Searchlight, $2,584,137, 737 locations, $3,506 average, $43,960,700, eight weeks.
13. “Hugo,” Paramount, $1,600,751, 843 locations, $1,899 average, $52,630,908, seven weeks.
14. “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1,” Summit, $1,472,095, 1,058 locations, $1,391 average, $278,415,733, eight weeks.
15. “The Muppets,” Disney, $1,358,289, 1,236 locations, $1,099 average, $85,561,195, seven weeks.
16. “Young Adult,” Paramount, $1,281,347, 830 locations, $1,544 average, $14,747,851, five weeks.35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online
17. “The Sitter,” Fox, $1,154,859, 758 locations, $1,524 average, $28,722,994, five weeks.
18. “The Artist,” Weinstein Co., $1,120,111, 172 locations, $6,512 average, $7,097,612, seven weeks.
19. “My Week with Marilyn,” Weinstein Co., $827,327, 584 locations, $1,417 average, $10,458,340, seven weeks.
20. “Puss in Boots,” Paramount, $587,390, 351 locations, $1,673 average, $146,597,215, 11 weeks.

The hole - perhaps grave is a more fitting term - being dug by the Wisconsin men's basketball team continues to deepen

The hole - perhaps grave is a more fitting term - being dug by the Wisconsin men's basketball team continues to deepen.It deepens not by inches or feet but rather by missed shot, after missed shot, after missed shot."It is baffling to think that we could get that many shots in the paint, wide-open jumpers," UW coach Bo Ryan said Sunday after the Badgers struggled through a third consecutive ugly offensive performance,Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale this one resulting in 59-41 loss at Michigan."They're just beating themselves up mentally. We've got to get through this."Let's be blunt. If the Badgers (12-5, 1-3 Big Ten) don't find a means to score consistently, the race for the Big Ten title will go on without them.UW is 1-3 in league play for the first time since the 2000-'01 season. That came under the direction of interim coach Brad Soderberg, who was promoted after Dick Bennett retired.UW shot 34.8% in a 72-65 loss to Iowa on Dec. 31 and 33.3% in a 63-60 overtime loss to Michigan State on Tuesday. The Badgers followed those clunkers by shooting 31.4% against the Wolverines (13-3, 3-1), who entered the day allowing 45.7% shooting in league play."Work harder; forget about," guard Jordan Taylor,Michael kors handbags, cheap Michael kors handbags sale who led UW with 12 points but missed 10 of 15 field-goal attempts, said when asked to describe the remedy for the shooting woes. "We've all made shots before."Right now, they're not falling for any of us. The only thing you can do is get in the gym and try to improve that."The point total for UW was the lowest in a regular-season game under Ryan, who is in his 11th season at UW. The lowest came last season in the Big Ten tournament, a 36-33 loss to Penn State.UW was awful from three-point range in the losses to Iowa and Michigan State, shooting a combined 16% (8 of 50).That wasn't the issue Sunday as UW made 7 of 20 three-pointers (35%) but struggled inside the arc, particularly in the lane.UW hit just 7 of 17 shots (41.2%) in the lane and as a result did little damage at the free-throw line (2 of 5).Forward Jared Berggren made 1 of 6 field-goal attempts, with only one three-point attempt. Forward Ryan Evans made 3 of 9 field-goal attempts.

By registering for Be The Match, a bone marrow donor program could local residents potentially save the life of a stranger

By registering for Be The Match, a bone marrow donor program, not only could local residents potentially save the life of a stranger, but they may find they are able to save the life of a Cranbury mother.Dawn Maisano, of Ryan Road, a longtime Cranbury resident, mother of 13-year-old twin boys, a township employee and committed community member, has been diagnosed with a bone marrow defect that requires a marrow transplant in order to ensure she will live on to raise her family.Through Be The Match, formerly known as the National Marrow Donor Program, Friends at the Cranbury Methodist Church and other Cranbury residents are helping Ms. Maisano find a match to her bone marrow so she can get a transplant.Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online Every day, thousands of children and adults are diagnosed with leukemia or other life-threatening diseases that require a bone marrow transplant as a cure. About 70 percent of such patients do not have a donor in their family, reads a flier for Be The Match circulating through Cranbury. These patients depend on the Be The Match Registry to find a lifesaving donor.”We all have the power to heal, the power to help. Take the first step. Join the registry,” reads the flier.Nine years ago, Ms. Maisano, with the support of her husband, Frank Maisano, began receiving treatments for a bone marrow disorder that has resulted in myelofibrosis, a scarring of the bone marrow. The scarring is preventing her marrow from functioning properly, and an urgent transplant is needed.Those interested in supporting Ms. Maisano can visit the Cranbury Methodist Church, 21 N. Main St., 35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online on Jan. 21 between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. to become part of the Be The Match registry. At the registry, participants will fill out registration paperwork and have a swab placed in their mouth. Their information then is catalogued in the National Marrow Registry to see if they are a match for Ms. Maisano or another person in need.All personal information is kept confidential, and the participants are contacted only if they are a match for a person in need of a transplant. At any time, they can remove their name from the registry and they are always in control of whether they would like to donate.

There are many false positives because of other conditions that can elevate PSA levels

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Nine years after Cher used a swear word during a live awards show

Nine years after Cher used a swear word during a live awards show, the U.S. Supreme Court is finally addressing the constitutional issues behind that question. On Tuesday, the court will consider whether the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to police the U.S. airwaves for dirty words and images violate broadcasters' right to free speech and due process.The court's decision, expected by June, could affect the broadcast-television industry, which has been losing viewers to cable channels, Internet video and other forms of entertainment that by law can't be touched by the FCC's indecency cops.Michael kors outlet, 66% off cheap Michael kors handbags sale If the court sides with broadcasters, it might not just free them from the threat of multimillion-dollar indecency fines, but also lead to some networks experimenting with racier content or language that is commonplace on cable-channel rivals such as AMC or FX, industry officials say.The cases before the high court involve Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and News Corp.'s Fox networks. News Corp. also owns The Wall Street Journal.ABC was hit with a $1.4 million fine after showing the bare bottom of actress Charlotte Ross in a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue." ABC argued that the episode wasn't indecent because Ms. Ross's bottom wasn't a "sexual organ" and there was no frontal nudity.The FCC warned Fox for the Cher incident in December 2002 after she used an expletive during the Billboard Music Awards and for a similar case involving reality-show personality Nicole Richie.Michael kors handbags, cheap Michael kors handbags sale Fox, which wasn't fined, argues that it didn't run afoul of indecency rules because it didn't know the celebrities would swear and hadn't intentionally aired the words. Previously, the FCC had given broadcasters a pass for airing live, unscripted profanities, but that changed in 2003, after U2 singer Bono blurted out the F-word during the Golden Globe awards. Under pressure from watchdog groups, the commission said it would begin fining broadcasters for airing profanities, even those that were aired during live broadcasts.Supreme Court precedents, in particular a ruling in 1978 involving the "Seven Dirty Words" act by comedian George Carlin, allow the FCC to regulate broadcast indecency during the hours between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when children are likely to be in the audience. Broadcasters can receive a fine of as much as $325,000 for each profanity or indecent image aired.Station owners say the FCC's enforcement is so inconsistent it is almost impossible to figure what is permissible and what isn't."It's clarity that we're looking for more than anything else. If you tell us what the rules are, we'll follow the rules," says Dennis Wharton, a spokesman for the National Association of Broadcasters.

More job-seekers are facing an added requirement: no smoking — at work or anytime

More job-seekers are facing an added requirement: no smoking — at work or anytime.As bans on smoking sweep the USA, an increasing number of employers — primarily hospitals — are also imposing bans on smokers. They won't hire applicants whose urine tests positive for nicotine use, whether cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or even patches.Toms Shoes, 35% off cheap Toms, Toms Shoes sale online Such tobacco-free hiring policies, designed to promote health and reduce insurance premiums, took effect this month at the Baylor Health Care System in Texas and will apply at the Hollywood Casino in Toledo, Ohio, when it opens this year."We have to walk the walk if we talk the talk," says Dave Fotsch of Idaho's Central District Health Department, which voted last month to stop hiring smokers.Each year, smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke causes 443,000 premature deaths and costs the nation $193 billion in health bills and lost productivity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says 19.3% of U.S. adults smoked last year, down from 42.4% in 1965."We're trying to promote a complete culture of wellness," says Marcy Marshall of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., 35% off Toms Shoes for cheap online which begins its nicotine-free hiring next month. "We're not denying smokers their right to tobacco products. We're just choosing not to hire them."The policies stir outrage, even in the public health community."These policies represent employment discrimination. It's a very dangerous precedent," says Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health. He says the restrictions punish smokers rather than helping them quit.

The most unwelcome sign of aging

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What does Keith Smart or the next Kings coach most need to do?

Henry Abbott, ESPN.com: When coaching tough characters like Cousins, the tendency is to say, "It's my way or the highway." That approach is guaranteed to fail with some players, including Cousins. The drama level needs to come down, and there must be patience and understanding. If that won't happen, let another team try.J.A. Adande, ESPN.com: The next coach needs to let the players try things their way ... Michael kors outlet so they can learn that their way won't work. If they thought they knew more than a guy who won a championship as a player and went to the Finals as a coach, let them try to prove it. Because the next coach won't be around when they get good anyway, they might as well experiment.Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN.com: Figure out how to move the ball when the roster's best passer is a 6-foot-6 center. Evans has too much strength and ability to subsist off the table scraps he's been settling for in the Kings' offense. Solving that one challenge instantly would make the Kings a more dangerous team.James Ham, Cowbell Kingdom: Whoever takes over this team needs to rule with an iron fist. Westphal's laid-back demeanor didn't work. This team needs to play with more energy and more pride and stop with the isolation basketball.Zach Harper, 2012 cheap Michael kors watches on sale Daily Dime Live: Put in a system to get this team some structure. There is too much freewheeling and rec league basketball on the court most nights. It's fine when everybody is on, but against your tougher opponents in the West, they're dead in the water most nights. This team needs so much structure and discipline.

Boris Diaw rebounded from a dreadful game a night earlier with a season-high 27 points

Boris Diaw rebounded from a dreadful game a night earlier with a season-high 27 points, and the Charlotte Bobcats snapped a four-game losing streak with a 118-110 victory last night over the Knicks in New York.Gerald Henderson added 24 points for the Bobcats, who capped a three-game trip by winning for the first time since their opener. Reserve Byron Mullens scored 16 points and D.J. Augustin finished with 14 points and 10 assists. cheap Toms shoes sale online Charlotte shot 55 percent from the field.The Bobcats ruined the returns of Amare Stoudemire and Iman Shumpert, who helped get the Knicks’ offense back on track but saw that effort wasted when they simply couldn’t guard Charlotte.Stoudemire had 25 points and 12 rebounds after missing two games with a sprained left ankle. Shumpert scored 18 points off the bench after beating a 2-4-week timetable after spraining a right knee ligament in the Christmas opener.Carmelo Anthony led the Knicks with 32 points, but 22 came in the fourth quarter when all he could do was make the score more respectable.Heat 118, Pacers 83 - LeBron James had 33 points and 13 assists, Chris Bosh added 22 points and host Miami routed Indiana even without Dwyane Wade.James also grabbed eight rebounds and the Heat turned up the defensive intensity minus their All-Star guard. Wade sat out with a sore left foot, and his status for tonight’s game at Atlanta is uncertain.The Heat had a scare late in the third quarter when James went down underneath the basket with a left ankle injury. He also is questionable for tonight.“It’s been better, but it feels OK right now,’’ James said. “We’ll see how I feel in the morning.’’James appeared to step on the foot of Indiana’s Paul George while attempting a fast-break layup. After staying on the court for a few seconds James got to his feet, prompting applause from the sellout crowd,Toms for cheap and resumed breaking down the Pacers.Still, the Heat could be without two of their three big stars in Atlanta.“We will have to see,’’ coach Erik Spoelstra said when asked if James would play. “He has sprained that same ankle every year, he says at least one time a year.’’Bulls 99, Pistons 83 - Richard Hamilton scored 14 points in his return to The Palace at Auburn Hills, Mich., as Chicago shut down Detroit.

Bariatric surgery reduces the long-term risk of heart attack and stroke as well as the risk of dying from them

Bariatric surgery reduces the long-term risk of heart attack and stroke as well as the risk of dying from them, a prospective nonrandomized study showed.During a median 14.7 years of follow-up, any bariatric procedure cut risk of a first fatal or nonfatal event by 33% compared with no bariatric surgery for obese individuals after adjusting for other factors (P<0.001), Lars Sj?str?m, MD, PhD, cheap Toms shoes sale online of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues found.Cardiovascular deaths dropped by a relative 53% after bariatric surgery compared with no surgery (P=0.002), the group reported in the Jan. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.These observational results from the Swedish Obese Subjects study are the first to show reduced incidence of cardiovascular deaths and events, the group pointed out, although these results were independent of baseline BMI or amount of weight lost.Such benefits have been expected, but lifestyle and pharmaceutical interventions haven't prevented cardiovascular events in prior studies Toms for cheap even with up to 20 years of follow-up.And although the epidemiologic evidence hasn't suggested any mortality benefit to weight loss overall (perhaps because of confounding from unintentional loss, such as with illness), a prior analysis of their Swedish Obese Subjects study did find a survival advantage to bariatric surgery, Sj?str?m's group noted.However, while the relative benefits of bariatric surgery looked good, the absolute benefits weren't impressive, commented Edward H. Livingston, MD, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and a JAMA contributing editor.

Concerned that physical activity times in schools might be cut back to make room for more academic study to improve test scores

January 3, 2012 — Concerned that physical activity times in schools might be cut back to make room for more academic study to improve test scores, researchers in the Netherlands conducted a systematic review of published studies and found that moderate to vigorous physical activity may actually improve academic performance in children and adolescents.In an article published in the January issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, researchers led by Amika Singh, PhD, from the Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center at EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, write, toms shoes "According to the best-evidence synthesis, we found strong evidence of a significant positive relationship between physical activity and academic performance."After searching 4 databases, the researchers screened 844 potentially related articles and determined that 14 qualified as relevant to their hypothesis. Of those 14 studies, 12 were performed in the United States, 1 was Canadian, and 1 was South African. Sample sizes ranged from 53 to 12,000 individuals aged 6 through 18 years, and follow-up duration ranged from 8 weeks to more than 5 years. The researchers rated only 2 of the 14 studies as having high methodologic quality. One of those studies was observational and the other was interventional."[B]oth high-quality studies supported our hypothesis of physical activity being positively related to academic performance in children," they write.The studies they reviewed measured physical activity based on school athletic participation, toms shoes self-reported physical activity questionnaires, or in the case of intervention studies, increased physical activity in schools during the study period.The studies measured academic achievement by self-reported grades, by cognitive test scores, or by both. The academic areas included reading, math, world studies, and history.The researchers concluded that although few published studies have assessed the link between physical activity and academic performance, enough evidence exists to report that "physical activity is positively related to academic performance in young people." They call for more high-quality studies to explore the mechanisms of such a relationship and to explore more physical activities than just school sports participation.

What do you do after turning yourself into Julia Child

What do you do after turning yourself into Julia Child, a bold, occasionally bossy woman who changed the way people think about food? You turn yourself into Margaret Thatcher, of course, an even bolder and bossier one, who changed the way people think about Britain.This is what Meryl Streep does in "The Iron Lady," which opens next Friday in the Bay Area. In yet another of her miraculous impersonations, which has already been nominated for a Golden Globe award, she seems even more Thatcher-like than Thatcher, so that after the movie if you go back and look at photographs of Thatcher in her prime, you Michael kors outlet can't help feeling that they're a little off. She no longer looks like herself.Sitting over tea with Phyllida Lloyd, the film's director, Streep says that she had been hoping to make a movie about Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and that Lloyd told her sarcastically, "Yeah, that will pack them in." But when offered the role of Thatcher, Streep didn't hesitate."You have to imagine yourself as a 62-year-old actress getting a phone call asking you to play the first female leader in the Western world elected on her own merits and not on the coattails of her husband," she says. "To say, 'No, I'm not interested' would just be ridiculous. There is no other opportunity like it."Streep researched her part carefully enough to learn even what Thatcher carried in her handbag: 3-by-5 cards with adages by Kipling, Shakespeare, Abraham Lincolnand Disraeli. She also realized, she said, that Thatcher, who is now 86 and in ill health, was herself an impersonation of sorts, michael kors
a woman who allowed herself to be made over by Tory strategists and even changed her way of speaking. In the movie Streep effortlessly imitates those burnished, sometimes strident, declamatory tones, the one novelist Angela Carter once said were reminiscent "not of real toffs but of Wodehouse aunts."But "The Iron Lady" is not, everyone involved keeps insisting, a conventional biopic, one that follows the career of some exalted personage step by step and ends with him or her in triumph. It's not even an especially political film. The movie begins in the present, with the Thatcher character old and frail, a little dotty and paranoid, and hallucinating the presence of her dead husband, Denis (Jim Broadbent).