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Students learn heart healthy tips | The Southern News

Josh Falcone -?General Assignment Reporter -

Last Wednesday, the SCSU Heart Health Fair called ?The Heart Truth? was held in room 201 of the Michael J. Adanti Student Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The SCSU Health & Wellness Center, the Multicultural Center, the Women?s Center, Men?s Initiative, Human Resources, Chartwell?s and the Drug and Alcohol Resource Center jointly sponsored the event.

The event was held to celebrate American Heart Health Month and the Southern community was invited to stop by and learn more about the prevalence of the various cardiovascular diseases and ways to prevent these conditions.

According to the American Heart Association, heart disease or cardiovascular disease is the term used for several conditions that are related to plaque buildup in the walls of the arteries, and as the plaque builds up and the arteries narrow, this creates a greater risk for a heart attack or a stroke.

The Wellness Center was offering numerous screenings to those in attendance. These screenings included cholesterol, blood pressure, Body Mass Index and body composition. The American Heart Association recommends all people start getting cholesterol screenings at the age of 20, and for people to regularly get their blood pressure checked from an early age. High blood pressure can be hereditary and drinking alcohol, smoking and a poor diet with a high salt intake can exasperate it.

The Heart Health Fair offered a wide range of healthy snacks for those in attendance. The groups offered cucumber water for everyone to drink and the snacks consisted of a selection of fruits and vegetables. In addition, there was a yogurt bar with healthy options for people to put in their yogurt, including chopped fruits and granola.

Jessica Mayne, who was staffing the snack table and was informing those in

Josh Falcone | General Assignment Reporter
The fair featured information about how to keep hearts healthy.

attendance about healthy recipes being offered on the table, said that portion control is something that everyone should take into account when eating, so the serving cups at the event were there to educate people on what is a healthy serving.

?We have these smaller cups,? Mayne said, ?to show portion control, not just because these are samples.?

The Drug and Alcohol Resource Center had a table set up detailing the various effects that alcohol, smoking and drugs have on the human body, especially the heart. The American Heart Association states that consumption of copious amounts of alcohol can raise the level of fats in the blood.

In addition, too much alcohol can lead to a high calorie intake due to the ?munchies,? as well as high blood pressure and heart failure. Binge drinking can cause a stroke, and in some cases cardiac arrhythmia, and even sudden cardiac death. The Drug and Alcohol Resource Center suggested that people drink less frequently because the more regularly someone drinks, the greater the tolerance.

Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States according to the American Heart Association. Smoking raises people?s blood pressure as well as increasing the blood to clot, leading to heart disease. The Drug and Alcohol Resource Center also had information on what dangerous influences drugs such as cocaine have on the heart. A game, pin the heart on cupid while wearing ?beer goggles,? goggles designed to imitate the drunken perspective was also being presented at the Drug and Alcohol Resource Center table.

The SCSU Fitness Center was at the fair offering information on weight management and heart health. Allison Blacker from the Fitness Center said exercise is extremely important on the health of the heart.

?Exercise lowers your risk for heart disease and other cardiovascular health issues,? Blacker said.

The Fitness Center is offering a hands-only CPR lesson on Thursday, Feb. 28th at 6:30 p.m. in the Farnham programming space, Blacker said.

?It will instruct students on hands only CPR,? she said. ?And teach them that you can still perform life saving CPR without mouth to mouth contact.?

Josh Falcone | General Assignment Reporter
Students and faculty gather around the Heart Healthy fair tables.

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Chris Matthews, Who Previously Whined About Too Much 'Hate' in Politics, Compares GOP to Hamas

On Wednesday's?Hardball, Chris Matthews, who previously ranted about too much "hate" in politics, sneeringly compared the House GOP to Hamas. Talking to Jonathan Allen of?Politico, Matthews?snarled at?Barack Obama's congressional opponents: "Who is the President talking to? Is it just a clique of a bunch of right-wingers who don't want to talk to anybody? Are they Hamas?" [See video below. MP3 audio?here.]

It was left to Allen, no conservative, to talk Matthews down: "They are not Hamas." It's clear that the cable anchor doesn't listen to himself when he talks.?On January 21,?he whined about too much partisanship and over-the-top language: "Why can't politics be a matter of belief and honest disagreement, not hatred?" If only the January 21 Matthews could ask the February 20 Matthews this.

However, considering that the anchor has also compared?Republicans to Nazis, he obviously isn't worried about too much hate? at least if it's his.

On Sunday's?Meet the Press, Matthews raailed against House conservatives for making Congress "undemocratic."

A transcript of Wednesday's exchange is below:

02/20/13
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CHRIS MATTHEWS: It is the hard right. Every time the President? You talk to people at the White House. They say, this president, whatever you think of the politics, doesn't know who to talk to on the hill. There is no Boehner, he's just a front man. Eric Cantor has his got wet finger in the air trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing. Who is the President talking to? Is it just a clique of ?a bunch of right-winger who don't want to talk to anybody? Then??Are they Hamas? Who are they out there?
JONATHAN ALLEN:?They are not Hamas.?But, look, there's nobody that speaks with one voice for the House Republicans. When there is a deal cut, it's always Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden.
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MATTHEWS: Do you think the right wing people know when they're sitting in their chairs voting no, no, no, bringing one manufactured crisis to bear after another that they're just happy when they pick up the paper and say public confidence going down. That's good for our party.

-- Scott Whitlock is the senior news analyst for the Media Research Center. Click?here?to follow him on Twitter.

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It Is NOT Enough To Just Be In Love ? Simple Things Matter Blog

Best Friends

In our thousands of interviews with couples who have lived and worked on all of the world?s seven continents, we have heard the popular refrain over and over??I love my partner.?? ?I love my fianc?e.?? ?I love my spouse.?? I love, I love!? ??We admit it ? people who say they are in love, probably are!?? But is love enough to sustain the best relationships?

Is love enough to have a great marriage?? That is the most important question to ask yourself.

Here?s the rub ? being IN love is easy.? It expresses an emotion common to those relationships that have transcended the millennia.? Being in love is central to the best marriages ? to the best relationships between two people.? But being in love is NOT enough!

Here is what we know from our thousands of interviews with those who have had a successful and long-lasting relationship with another human being ? no relationship has ever passed the test of time without friendship.

One of the questions of our interview protocol is this ? ?Who is your best friend??? While we ask this question in every interview, there are two answers that stand out for us as to the importance of friendship in the best relationships.

We got our first most telling response in Rio de Janeiro.? After asking this question of the so-called ?Best Couple in Rio? we got answers that drove home this point to us.?? When we asked the most prominent physician in the magnificent city of Rio who his best friend was, he named TEN people and NONE was his wife of 37 years!

And it gets worse ? when we asked his wife who her best friend was, she gave ten names and, like him, the list of names did not include her husband, the prominent physician she had been married to for the same 37 years!

Here?s another good example of our point.? When we interviewed a couple in Sydney, Australia a few years ago, as usual, we asked the same question ? ?Who is your best friend??

To our surprise, both people in this so-called loving relationship, did not consider each other their best friend.? We probed and we probed, but alas, neither would admit that their spouse was their best friend.

The simple truth of the matter is this ? these two couples professed to ?love? each other, but they did not ?like? each other.? They were clearly not best friends. In fact, when we asked clarifying questions, it became quite clear that neither couple had friendship within their respective relationships.

Make no mistake about it ? loving someone is NOT enough.? If they are not your best friend, your relationship with them will not pass the test of time.? Your relationship with them can never be judged as a great success.

You see, the standard principle in the most successful relationships around the world is this ? your partner IS your best friend!? There is no equivocation when it comes to this point.? Best friends provide each other total trust, loyalty, mutual respect, admiration, encouragement, support, caring, and much more.

If the one you love is not your best friend, your relationship is in serious trouble and, in all likelihood, will not become one of the lifelong love stories we have heard around the world on all seven continents.

So, we will ask you what we have asked every couple we have interviewed across the continents ? is the one you purport to love really your best friend?? If they are not, you are not really in love for a lifetime .

In the best marriages and loving relationships, being best friends trumps everything else.? There are no if?s, and?s, or but?s about it.

Love well!? More importantly, like well!

Creating a successful marriage is not always the easiest thing to do.?Your visiting our Simple Things Matter blog suggests you are highly interested in making your marriage work!?And truthfully, we have learned over 30 years of marriage research that there are proven effective ways to ensure a happy and healthy marriage.?In fact, we took hundreds of tips from the thousands of happy couples we interviewed and put them into our award-winning and bestselling book, Building a Love that Lasts.

**Today, you can see how you stack up to the best marriages around the world.?Take the Marriage Quiz to assess your chances of achieving a successful marriage of your own.

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America?s #1 Love and Marriage Experts

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NYPD, Microsoft create crime-fighting tech system

This Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo shows a detail of a video wall that shows New York city police officers an interactive map of the area, security footage from nearby cameras, locations where high radiation levels are detected and whether any other threats have been made in New York. The Domain Awareness System, known as ?the dashboard,? instantaneously mines data from the NYPD?s vast collection of arrest records, 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras city-wide, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, police officers monitor computer screens showing an interactive map of an area of the city, security footage from nearby cameras, if there are high radiation levels and whether any other threats have been made in New York city. The Domain Awareness System, known as ?the dashboard,? instantaneously mines data from the NYPD?s vast collection of arrest records, 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras city-wide, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

This Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo shows a detail of a video wall showing New York city police officers an interactive map of an area in the city, security footage from nearby cameras, if there are high radiation levels and whether any other threats have been made in New York. The Domain Awareness System, known as ?the dashboard,? instantaneously mines data from the NYPD?s vast collection of arrest records, 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras city-wide, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

This Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo shows a detail of a video wall showing New York city police officers an interactive map of the area, security footage from nearby cameras, if there are high radiation levels and whether any other threats have been made in New York. The Domain Awareness System, known as ?the dashboard,? instantaneously mines data from the NYPD?s vast collection of arrest records, 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras city-wide, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NEW YORK (AP) ? A 911 call comes in about a possible bomb in lower Manhattan and an alert pops up on computer screens at the New York Police Department, instantly showing officers an interactive map of the neighborhood, footage from nearby security cameras, whether there are high radiation levels and whether any other threats have been made against the city.

In a click, police know exactly what they're getting into.

Such a hypothetical scenario may seem like something out of a futuristic crime drama, but the technology is real, developed in a partnership between the nation's largest police department and Microsoft Corp., and the latest version has been quietly in use for about a year.

The project could pay off in more ways than one: The NYPD could make tens of millions of dollars under an unprecedented marketing deal that allows Microsoft to sell the system to other law enforcement agencies and civilian companies around the world. The city will get a 30 percent cut.

The Domain Awareness System, known as the dashboard, gives easy access to the police department's voluminous arrest records, 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras citywide, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors. This is all public data ? not additional surveillance.

Right now, it is used only in NYPD offices, mostly in the counterterrorism unit. Eventually, the system could supply crime-fighting information in real time to officers on laptops in their squad cars and on mobile devices while they walk the beat.

"It works incredibly well," said Jessica Tisch, director of planning and policy for the counterterrorism unit.

For example, officers used the system during a deadly shooting outside the Empire State Building in August. Dozens of 911 calls were coming in, and it initially looked like an attack staged by several gunmen. But officers mapped the information and pulled up cameras within 500 feet of the reported shots to determine there was only one shooter.

Analysts are cautious about the potential profits, saying that largely depends on Microsoft's sales efforts and whether any major competition arises. While there other data-drilling products made by other companies, they say the NYPD's involvement could set the dashboard apart.

"This is the kind of stuff you used to only see in movies," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group, a technology analysis firm. "Getting it to work in a way that police departments can use in real time is huge."

The venture began in 2009 when the NYPD approached Microsoft about building software to help mine data for the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, a network of private and public cameras and other tools monitored by the department's counterterrorism bureau. Development cost the department between $30 million and $40 million, officials said.

"Usually, you purchase software that you try to work with, but we wanted this to be something that really worked well for us, so we set about creating it with them," said Richard Daddario, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for counterterrorism.

Officers were involved throughout the process with the programmers, offering advice on what they need during an emergency.

"It was created by cops for cops," Tisch said. "We thought a lot about what information we want up close and personal, and what needs to be a click away. It's all baked in there."

The system uses hundreds of thousands of pieces of information. Security camera footage can be rewound five minutes so that officers can see suspects who may have fled. Sensors pick up whether a bag has been left sitting for a while. When an emergency call comes in, officers can check prior 911 calls from that address to see what they might be up against.

Prospective clients can customize it to fit their organization.

Dave Mosher, a Microsoft vice president in charge of program management, said the company started to market the system in August and is looking at smaller municipalities, law enforcement agencies and companies that handle major sporting events.

He would not say whether any clients have been lined up and would not give details on the price except to say that it would depend on how much customization must be done.

Shawn McCarthy, an analyst with the research firm IDC, described the partnership ? and outcome ? as unusual in the tech world. "I see huge potential, but so much depends on the price and competition," he said.

No firm timetable has been set on when the dashboard will be rolled out to the entire 34,000-offficer department.

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Associated Press video journalist Bonny Ghosh contributed to this report.

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Signaling pathway linked to fetal alcohol risk: Molecular switch promises new targets for diagnosis and therapy

Feb. 20, 2013 ? Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading preventable cause of developmental disorders in developed countries. And fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a range of alcohol-related birth defects that includes fetal alcohol syndrome, is thought to affect as many as 1 in 100 children born in the United States.

Any amount of alcohol consumed by the mother during pregnancy poses a risk of FASD, a condition that can include the distinct pattern of facial features and growth retardation associated with fetal alcohol syndrome as well as intellectual disabilities, speech and language delays, and poor social skills. But drinking can have radically different outcomes for different women and their babies. While twin studies have suggested a genetic component to susceptibility to FASD, researchers have had little success identifying who is at greatest risk or what genes are at play.

Research from Harvard Medical School and Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System sheds new light on this question, identifying for the first time a signaling pathway that might determine genetic susceptibility for the development of FASD. The study was published online Feb. 19 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Our work points to candidate genes for FASD susceptibility and identifies a path for the rational development of drugs that prevent ethanol neurotoxicity," said Michael Charness, chief of staff at VA Boston Healthcare System and HMS professor of neurology. "And importantly, identifying those mothers whose fetuses are most at risk could help providers better target intensive efforts at reducing drinking during pregnancy."

The discovery also solves a riddle that had intrigued Charness and other researchers for nearly two decades. In 1996, Charness and colleagues discovered that alcohol disrupted the work of a human protein critical to fetal neural development -- a major clue to the biological processes of FASD. The protein, L1, projects through the surface of a cell to help it adhere to its neighbors. When Charness and his team introduced the protein to a culture of mouse fibroblasts cells, L1 increased cell adhesion. Tellingly, the effect was erased in the presence of ethanol (beverage alcohol).

Charness and his team went on to develop multiple cell lines from that first culture, and that's where they encountered the riddle: In some of those lines, alcohol disrupted L1's adhesive effect, while in others it did not.

"How could it be possible that a cell that expresses L1 is completely sensitive to alcohol, and others that express it are completely insensitive?" asked Charness, who is also faculty associate dean for veterans hospital programs at HMS and assistant dean at Boston University School of Medicine.

Clearly, something else was affecting the protein's sensitivity to alcohol -- but what? Studies of twins provided one clue: Identical twins are more likely than fraternal twins to have the same diagnosis, positive or negative, for FASD. "That concordance suggests that there are modifying genes, susceptibility genes, that predispose to this condition," Charness said.

In the current study, Charness' team and collaborators at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill conducted cell culture experiments to identify specific molecular events that contribute to the alcohol sensitivity of L1 adhesion molecules. They focused on what was happening to the L1 molecule inside a cell that could affect an event outside the cell such as disruption by alcohol.

"We found that phosphorylation events that begin inside the cell can render the external portion of the L1 adhesion molecule more vulnerable to inhibition by alcohol," said Xiaowei Dou, HMS instructor in neurology in the Charness Lab and first author on the new study. "Phosphorylation was controlled by the enzyme ERK2, and occurred at a specific location on the internal portion of the L1molecule."

Phosphorylation plays a significant role in a wide range of cellular processes. By adding a phosphate group to a protein or other molecule, phosphorylation turns many protein enzymes on and off, and thereby alters their function and activity.

The researchers also found that variations in ERK2 activity correlated with differences in L1 sensitivity to alcohol that they observed across cell lines and among different strains of mice. "Dou showed that he could take these cells that had been insensitive to alcohol for 13-14 years, and make them sensitive by ramping up the activity of this kinase" Charness said.

These variations suggest that genes for ERK2 and the signaling molecules that regulate ERK2 activity might influence genetic susceptibility to FASD. Moreover, their identification of a specific locus that regulates the alcohol sensitivity of L1 might facilitate the rational design of drugs that block alcohol neurotoxicity.

"The only thing this modification blocked was alcohol's ability to inhibit L1," Charness said. "If you're looking for a drug, ideally you're looking for it to block the effects of the toxin without interfering with the target molecule of the toxin."

The findings will also help guide an international consortium in its search for genes linked to families with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

"Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and developmental disorders in the United States," said Kenneth Warren, acting director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),which supported the study. "These new findings are yet another important contribution from researchers who have been at the forefront of scientific discovery in FASD."

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X. Dou, M. F. Wilkemeyer, C. E. Menkari, S. E. Parnell, K. K. Sulik, M. E. Charness. Mitogen-activated protein kinase modulates ethanol inhibition of cell adhesion mediated by the L1 neural cell adhesion molecule. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221386110

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