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"Mid-Pregnancy Cotinine and Risks of Orofacial Clefts and Neural Tube Defects" by Shaw's California group along with colleagues from Norway, The Netherlands, and Texas, and made possible by the California Department of Public Health soon will be published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It is available Nov. 5th online DO...
The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. Its mission is to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit http://www.marchofdimes.com/ or http://www.nacersano.org/.
Lynch, Elizabeth. "Increased Risk Of Birth Defects Linked To Maternal Smoking." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 5 Nov. 2008. Web.
In Texas, we try our damnedest to extend patio season beyond the boundaries of comfort. Even as temperatures start to creep into the triple digits, we are committed to finding a restaurant where we can dine and drink outdoors.
Reservation site OpenTable has capitalized on this seasonal concern by publishing the 2014 edition of the awkwardly phrased 100 Best Outdoor Dining Restaurants in America. Three Dallas-Fort Worth favorites were deemed worthy: Saint Ann Restaurant & Bar in Dallas, Woodshed Smokehouse in Fort Worth and Cafe Malaga in McK...
To determine the winners, OpenTable analyzed more than 5 million reviews of nearly 19,000 restaurants across the country. These establishments offer a mix of incredible views, great cuisine and, above all else, a noteworthy outdoor dining experience.
This time, we have to hand it to the OpenTable users, who got it right on all three counts.
Saint Ann does boast one of the more exceptional al fresco dining experiences in Dallas; in fact, it was a pick on our 2013 list of the best patios in Dallas. It's located in the Harwood District, an almost-private pocket of verdancy with trees and rolling patches of grass you wouldn't expect to find in the inner city....
Tim Love's Woodshed Smokehouse easily represents one of the top patios in Fort Worth; the entire focus here is outdoors. The L-shaped restaurant encloses an expansive good-time patio with picnic tables, community tables, cow statues, games for the kids and a live-music stage. The patio overlooks the Trinity River and i...
Cafe Malaga brings Collin County and vintage flair into the mix. The Spanish-style tapas restaurant inhabits a 130-year-old house off McKinney's downtown square, with a sprawling outdoor courtyard-patio that feels like some rich aunt's backyard. Stone walkways wend their way through clusters of trees. Strings of lights...
Overall, California had the greatest number of winning restaurants on this year's list, followed by Florida, Hawaii and Arizona. Texas had only one other noteworthy patio: Eden East in Austin.
Is Anthony Weiner Behind the Email Crisis?
The Wall Street Journal has up to date reporting on the mysteries surrounding Huma Abedin’s newly-discovered emails. The Journal’s account answers some questions, while raising others.
First, the “device” in question reportedly is a laptop that Huma Abedin considered to be Anthony Weiner’s. This makes sense: people like Abedin and Weiner don’t share laptops, any more than they share cell phones. They each have their own. Thus, when Huma testified under oath that she had turned over to her lawyers, fo...
Time out. Weiner’s laptop contains 650,000 emails? If he sent or received 200 emails a day, 365 days a year–a considerable number!–it would take 3,250 days, or just about nine years, to accumulate 650,000 on the laptop’s hard drive. It is not clear–to me, anyway–what would cause such a large number of emails to reside ...
Metadata found on the laptop used by former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his estranged wife Huma Abedin, a close Clinton aide, suggests there may be thousands of emails sent to or from the private server that Mrs. Clinton used while she was secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.
The metadata would include the sender and recipient, the time and date, and the subject line, but not the content of the email. It makes sense that investigators looking for sexual communications with minors among hundreds of thousands of texts and emails would start by looking at metadata preserved on the laptop’s har...
The FBI has had to await a court order to begin reviewing the emails, because they were uncovered in an unrelated probe of Mr. Weiner.
The Washington Post reports that the FBI has now obtained such a search warrant.
Of course, a warrant wouldn’t be necessary if Weiner gave the agency permission to review his entire hard drive. The New York Post raises the possibility that Weiner may be “cooperating with feds investigating his sexting scandal,” although this speculation is not, apparently, based on much evidence.
Still, the idea is intriguing. Why did Weiner have thousands of his wife’s emails on his laptop, likely without her knowledge? Huma has testified under oath that the only email account she had other than her official State Department and clintonemail.com accounts was on yahoo.com, an account which she described as pers...
Let’s assume that Weiner could access Huma’s yahoo.com account. Yahoo is a web-based email service. Simply logging into her account would not put thousands of emails onto his computer. But if Weiner logged into Huma’s Yahoo account on his own laptop, all he needed to do was select all the items in Huma’s inbox, deleted...
Why would Weiner do that? His career is over, and he is a laughingstock. His wife, on the other hand, is just one degree of separation from great power, perhaps the next president. Do the math. And Weiner has had a lot of time on his hands lately. He may have thought that keeping a trove of communications between his w...
This is all speculation, based on inadequate public information. But the possibility that Anthony Weiner could be the knowing agent of his wife’s and Hillary Clinton’s downfall is intriguing.
Metservice is warning people around the country to bundle up as a sudden cold snap hits NZ.
A wild dose of wintry weather is rocking the country, with 9500 lightning strikes overnight and heavy snowfalls in the South Island.
A brutally cold, southwesterly flow has moved in behind yesterday's front, bringing the threat of more rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and even more snow in the far south as low as 300m today.
Parts of the South Island dropped into the negatives this morning, with Alexandra sitting at a crisp -2.4C just before dawn.
Many of the South Island's alpine passes have seen more snowfall overnight, with the Crown Range Rd receiving a heavy dusting.
There’s ice on the Crown Range and this has been gritted - chains must be carried if you’re heading over the hill. Please keep your speeds down.
Black ice has been reported in the Cardrona Valley and over the Lindis pass. These areas have been gritted but please take care.
The southern skifields are celebrating the early arrival of winter.
Cardrona, Coronet Peak, the Remarkables and Mt Hutt are all reporting decent amounts of snowfall. By 4.30pm yesterday 40cm had already fallen at Cardrona.
Last night's thunderstorms were mostly concentrated around the country's western areas, MetService meteorologist Peter Little said.
A plane landing in Wellington last night was struck by lightning as part of a storm that caused heavy surface flooding in parts of the capital overnight.
Westland copped the most, with 845 strikes, Buller had 432, Taranaki 337, and Wellington, which covers a much smaller land mass, 132.
There were also brief but heavy downpours, which caused flooding in places, strong wind gusts and hail.
Mt Kaukau station in Wellington recorded a wind gust of 130km/h, and another station north of the city recorded a downpour of 20mm rain in an hour. Small hail was also reported in the capital, Little said.
Auckland escaped the worst of the weather, recording 22 thunderstorms in the past 24 hours, mostly in western areas.
Several short bursts of rain in the night caused some pooling around the city.
Little said the front was this morning east of Northland and moving towards the East Cape.
In its wake would be a bitterly cold, unsettled, southwesterly flow.
"We can expect further heavy showers, gusty winds and potentially some hail today. Thunderstorms could also still affect the Auckland region through the day."
Temperatures in the far south have already plummeted, and more snow is falling on the alpine passes overnight.
"There has been some more snow on the Crown Range Rd and near the Homer Tunnel on the Milford Rd."
Milford Rd (SH94) closed overnight because of snow. The road was likely to reopen by 10am today but significant snow was forecast for the area tomorrow, which could mean an all-day closure.
Road snow warnings also remain in place for Lewis Pass (SH7), Arthurs Pass (SH73) and Crown Range Rd.
A succession of large wave🌊packets will approach and impact the west coast of both islands, particularly the North Island, over the coming days.
Road users are being urged to take extreme care due to the icy conditions.
Queenstown Lakes District Council said "Jack Frost has been working his mischief" and there was a high chance of ice across roads in the district.
Black ice had been reported in the Cardrona Valley and over the Lindis Pass and ice on the Crown Range, which had been gritted.
Grit trucks had been busy across the rest of the district and had gritted roads from Arrowtown through to Queenstown, up Fernhill and on Glenorchy Rd.
NZTA has issued a caution notice for black ice on SH8 between Tarras and Omarama.
Alexandra was sitting at a crisp -2.4C at 5.30am under clear skies, and Gore and Invercargill were at 4C with heavy showers and brutal southwesterlies.
Invercargill and Dunedin are in for a day of sleety showers and highs of 7C and 8C respectively. Most of the South Island will spend the day in the low teens.
"The far south can expect more snow today to 300m in Southland, so a pretty cold day," Little said.
The North Island will be a few degrees warmer, but a sharp drop cooler than it has been, with temperatures mostly around the low to mid teens.
Auckland has a high of 17C, Hamilton 15C and Wellington 14C.
MetService meteorologist April Clark said snow showers down to 300m would continue in the far south this morning, but the weather was expected to clear this afternoon.
The showers would ease and the day would become fine with high cloud and strong, cold winds.
''Wind chill will be a factor. It's going to feel pretty blustery and cold.
''This is the first cold outbreak of the season. It's going to bring the lowest snow that we've seen so far.
Tomorrow was expected to bring periods of rain, heavy at times, and possibly more snow down to 500m, especially about coastal Southland, Clark said.
Most of the severe weather watches and warnings have now been lifted, as the front moves away from the country today, Little said.
"The weather is looking still fairly unsettled over the next few days though, with more showers and strong winds in the west, and some of it making it over to eastern areas."
By the weekend however a ridge of high pressure is forecast to build over the country.
Showers, some heavy with possible thunderstorms and hail. Strong southwesterlies. 17C high, 9C overnight.
Auckland Showers, some heavy with possible thunderstorms and hail. Strong southwesterlies. 17C high, 9C overnight.
Hamilton Showers, some heavy with possible thunderstorms and hail. Fresh southwesterlies. 15C high, 5C overnight.
Tauranga Showers, some possibly thundery with hail, becoming less frequent from afternoon. Strong southwest change late morning. 17C high, 6C overnight.
New Plymouth Showers, some heavy with possible thunderstorms and hail, easing late. Westerlies, strong at times. 16C high, 7C overnight.
Napier Mainly fine, but one or two showers from late afternoon as northwesterlies change southwest. 17C high, 4C overnight.
Wellington Mainly fine, but a few showers late afternoon with a southerly change. 14C high, 6C overnight.
Nelson A few morning showers, then fine. Southwesterlies becoming gusty in the afternoon. 13C high, 1C overnight.
Christchurch Mainly fine, but a few showers from afternoon. Southwesterlies. 11C high, -1C overnight.
Dunedin Sleety showers, becoming less frequent in the afternoon then clearing in the evening. Southwesterlies. 8C high, 3C overnight.
When protesters in Belgrade converged on the patriarchal headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Church last April, they were angry about proposed liturgical reforms. The reforms included an instruction to priests to recite aloud some previously silent prayers and to leave the holy doors in the icon screen between the alt...
What brought that Serbian to put Sharpie to cardboard was not a dispute over doctrine, but instead a fear of the invasion of a culture perceived as alien. Upon closer questioning, the protester might have argued, Catholics are heretics! For many Orthodox Christians, however, such a claim is a secondary argument shoring...
It is not clear that many Catholics think this way about Orthodox Christians, however. Catholic attitudes likely reflect the casual assumptions typical of a dominant culture. In its recent document on the nature of the church, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith reasserted Catholic teaching that the Orthodox...
Are Catholics and Orthodox truly that different? For half a century now the two sides have been referring to each other officially as sister churches. A list of theological sticking points looks relatively short, and the Catholic understanding of papal supremacy is generally agreed to be the greatest difficulty. Old di...
Such theological and political problems are the bread and butter of official ecumenical dialogues, but much more rarely discussed are the profound cultural differences of the kind the Serbian protester feared. I do not mean culture in an ethnic sense, but as shorthand to describe a mode of being Christian, and such dif...
Two major cultural differences can be detected in the way Orthodox and Catholics live out their visions of Christianity. The first includes attitudes toward liturgy, an area where differences are surprisingly difficult to define, because they go far beyond ritual variance. A common misunderstanding is that Orthodox val...
One way the cultural difference manifests itself can be found in each traditions views of private prayer and asceticism. One can legitimately make the case that in Roman Catholicism these have undergone a considerable process of privatization. Orthodox churches, on the other hand, have retained a more profound sense th...
Catholics of a conservative bent might take heart from this, thinking that in this respect they can count the Orthodox as allies in the battle against liberalism and secularism, but this is true only up to a point. Many conservative Catholics talk about offering up some ascetical act for victims of abortion or some oth...
Another major difference between these ecclesial cultures can be summed up in the principle of oikonomia, from the Greek word for household rule or management, which is often used in relation to questions of church order and regulations. The concept is not entirely foreign to Catholics, especially those outside the mor...
The Orthodox churches, though, are well aware of the percentage of Catholic applications for annulments granted in Western countries. They are also not blind to the extent to which Catholic teaching on contraception is ignored. If Catholics were to insist that their teaching more faithfully adheres to Christs message, ...
How can a church call on others to reunite with it on the basis of practices and beliefs its own members treat with apparent contempt? The question cuts both ways, because Orthodoxys vaunted freedom and principle of oikonomia depend on the personal holiness of those managing the household of faith. Where sanctity and j...
The notion that personal conversion lies at the heart of the ecumenical enterprise is far from new. In its Decree on Ecumenism, the Second Vatican Council referred to change of heart and holiness of life as spiritual ecumenism, calling it the soul of the whole ecumenical movement. In A Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism, ...
I belong to an Eastern Church united with Rome, and believe that fundamentally the Catholic and Orthodox visions are capable of communion with each other. But as an Eastern Catholic, I can also speak with some authority on the tensions that arise when we try to make that communion a tangible reality. With respect to th...
That protester in Belgrade would have agreed wholeheartedly with the underlying sense that Catholics and Orthodox are different in fundamental ways. It is understandable that ecumenical theologians and ecclesiastical diplomats want to conduct ecumenism on the level of what unites us, but unfortunately our differences r...
I am familiar with monk Maximos and respect his thinking and ideas in other venues, and appreciate his dedication to renewed Orthodox and Catholic communion. I agree wholeheartedly with the general emphasis of his article and wish there was more time and space to spell out some of the truly vital pastoral distinctions....
Ironically enough, the "holy fool" is a part of Russian Orthodox Christianity. However, in Orthodoxy, the "holy fool" does not have a Liturgical function. So I agree with Ms. Lanser that the notion of a Clown Liturgy is, in itself, inappopriate for Christian worship.
Dear Joseph, Thank you for you comment. I did not introduce the Holy Fool immediately because I thought it was important to make my point about the origins, nature and purpose of clowns, without distraction. You are absolutely correct about the role of the Holy Fool in Christian life. The difference, of course, is that...
Since I questioned any inherent link between clowning and reverence, since clowning's origins are based more in fear than in awe and since clowning evolved into a form of satire eventually, I think that I have a responsibility to also make note of the many positive points in Monk Maximos' article. The assertion that a ...
Why would I risk alienating my children by interfering in matters of playing in the middle of the street?
Catholics are often out playing in the middle of the street, according to their own Magisterium. So what? Are disciples of Christ shocked at weeds in the wheat?
As a matter of fact, a devout Orthodox Christian does indeed consult his priest if the matter of artificial oontraception comes us.
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "What Divides Orthodox and Catholics?," in the December 3, 2007 issue.
Hieromonk Maximos Davies is a monk of Holy Resurrection Monastery, an Eastern Catholic community within the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St. George in Canton, Ohio.
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