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Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the movie stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo,Zachary Isaiah Williams Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow.
A number of popular hip hop and R&B musicians make cameos in the movie, including Jerkins, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch of The Lox, Tweet, and Ginuwine.
Canadian R&B artist Shawn Desman was also featured.
R&B and hip-hop singer Aaliyah, a close friend of Missy Elliott, was originally cast as the star of the movie before her death.
The Secret World of Alex Mack was an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up.
Repeats of the series aired in 2003 on The N, but it was soon replaced there.
The show is currently not on the air in the U.S.
The Atlantic Theater Company runs an off-Broadway theater in a converted church in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American primetime television drama series that aired from October 4, 1990, to May 17, 2000 on FOX in the United States and subsequently on various networks around the world.
The show followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and then-fictitious California University.
The show was created by Darren Star and produced by Aaron Spelling and Spelling Television.
The "90210" in the title refers to one of the suburb's postal ZIP codes.
The original premise of the show was based around the adjustment and culture shock that twins Brandon (played by Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty) had after they and their parents, Jim and Cindy moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Beverly Hills.
The show addressed several topical issues, including: date rape, alcoholism, domestic violence, gay rights, drug abuse, teenage suicide, AIDS, and teenage pregnancy.
The show gained popularity during the summer of 1991, when FOX aired a special "summer season" of the show while most other series were in reruns.
The series became one of FOX's top shows when it began its next season that fall.
Viewership increased dramatically and the cast members, particularly Jason Priestley and Luke Perry, became teen idols, while the series would make actresses Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling household names.
2000 American television series endings
Beverly Hills, California in fiction
The Teen Choice Awards is an awards show presented annually by FOX.
The program honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, and television, as voted on by teens aged 12–19.
The program usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers.
The winners are awarded with lifesize surfboards, to fit the summertime theme.
The ceremony has also created spin-off teen awards on YouTube.
Starting in 1999, the Teen Choice Awards were presented weeks prior to the televised event up through 2005.
Since 2006, the program has been televised live.
Entertainment awards
French Canadian (Canadien or Canadien français in French) refers to a nation or ethnic group that comes from Canada in the period of French colonization in the 1600s.
They are the main French-speaking population of Canada.
It may also refer to people of French descent living in Canada, or native speakers of French in Canada.
Multicultural Canada website includes seven full-text searchable French Canadian newspapers from Ontario and Quebec
Ethnic groups in Canada
Mexican Americans are  US citizens  of Mexican ancestry.
They account for 9% of the country's population: about 28.3 million Americans listed their Original Native ancestry as Mexican as of 2006.
They form the largest Original Native group in the United States and contain the largest group of .
Mexican Americans trace their ancestry to the modern day country of Mexico or the Southwestern United States.
Most Mexican Americans live in the four states that border Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
The areas in and around Los Angeles is home to over six million Mexican Americans.
There are also a number of large Mexican American communities in other areas of the Western and Southwestern United States.
Though Chicago is not in the Western or Southwestern United States, it has 1.4 million Mexican Americans, more Mexican Americans than any city except Los Angeles.
The metro areas of Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix each have more than one million Mexicans.
There are a growing number of Mexican Americans in the Midwest and South.
Most Mexican Americans have been referred to as "mestizos", by the generational cast system  imposed by Europeans by which people of Original Native ancestry are more  one ethnicity.
Most of their heritage is the indigenous, Original Native people  of Mexico, but it often contains other groups, Central, South America Original Native.
Some have a mixture of the casts such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Irish and Native American tribes from the U.S. such as Apache.
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives – In the Chicano/Latino Collections  - University of California Santa Barbara
California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives – Digital Chicano Art  - University of California Santa Barbara
Calisphere > California Cultures > Hispanic Americans - University of California System
ImaginArte – Interpreting and Re-imaging Chican@Art - University of California Santa Barbara
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (book)
Mexican-American.org – Network of the Mexican American Community
Mexican Americans MSN Encarta (Archived 2009-11-01)
Think Mexican – News, Culture, and Information on the Mexican Community
The Saturn Award is an award presented every year by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in movie, television, and home video.
The prestigious Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed, who felt that movies within those genres were never given the appreciation they deserved.
The physical award is a representation of the planet Saturn, surrounded with a ring of film.
The award was initially, and is still sometimes loosely referred to as a Golden Scroll.
Similar to other awards, like the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys, the Saturn Awards are voted on by members of the presenting Academy.
There are also special awards for lifetime achievement in the field.
Del Rio is a border city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, United States.
It is near the Laughlin Air Force Base.
The tonsils are areas of lymphoid tissue on either side of the throat.
An infection of the tonsils is called tonsillitis or tonsilitis.
Most commonly, the term "tonsils" refers to the palatine tonsils that can be seen in the back of the throat.
Like other organs of the lymphatic system, the tonsils act as part of the immune system to help protect against infection.
In particular, they are believed to be involved in helping fight off pharyngeal and upper respiratory tract infections.
J. C. Penney Company, Inc (most commonly known today by the name JCPenney or simply Penneys) is a mid-range chain of American department stores based in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas.
The company operates 1,067 stores in 49 of the 50 U.S. states (except Hawaii) and Puerto Rico, and the largest general merchandise catalog business in the United States.
In addition to sale of conventional merchandise, JCPenney stores are often home to several leased departments such as Optical, Portrait Studios, Jewelry & Watch repair, etc.
Flipper (1995), is an American television series, also known as The New Adventures of Flipper.
It is a remake of the 1964 Flipper television series.
The first two seasons appeared first in syndication; seasons 3 and 4 appeared on the PAX network.
The 1995 version brought back Bud Ricks as a scientist doing marine research in Florida.
The dolphin Flipper was one with whom Dr. Ricks was working.
Jessica Alba was in the show.
Orient is a term meaning "the east".
It is from the Latin word oriens.
Ancient Rome sometimes used it to mean the area east of Rome.
Later the dividing line moved farther east, to the Adriatic or the Aegean or the Indus River.
This term is in contrast to the "Occident", which is a term meaning "the west".
A console role-playing game is a video game genre that resembles traditional role-playing games.
Many console role-playing games use common features like turn-based battles, random battles, stats, and leveling up.
Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer.
Born in Culver City, California, she is the youngest member of the Barrymore family.
Lionel Barrymore was her great-uncle and John Barrymore was her grandfather.
Barrymore made a breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
She starred with Adam Sandler in The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates and Blended.
She starred in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet.
Barrymore is bisexual.
She had a relationship with Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green and Will Kopelman.
Before their divorce, Barrymore has two daughters.
Barrymore family
Brooklyn South is a short-lived American television police drama.
It aired from 1997 to 1998 on CBS for only one season.
It was cancelled due to poor ratings.
One of the producers of the series was Steven Bochco, creator of many well-known police dramas such as Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue.
Brooklyn South was also created and produced by David Milch.
The series tried to create a setting of a gritty, realistic police station similar to that of NYPD Blue, but differed by focusing on the uniformed police officers rather than the detectives.
The pilot of Brooklyn South was noted as the first TV-MA rated episode on broadcast television.
Never Been Kissed is a 1999 American comedy movie directed by Raja Gosnell.
It follows a journalist pretending to be high school student.
It stars Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, Leelee Sobieski, John C. Reilly, Jessica Alba, Marley Shelton and Garry Marshall.
It marked the first movie produced by Flower Films and James Franco's film debut.
1999 romance movies
1990s high school movies
1990s teen comedy movies
Movies directed by Raja Gosnell
Proms in movies
Idle Hands is a 1999 American comedy-horror movie starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, and Jessica Alba with Elden Henson and Vivica A. Fox.
It follows the life of a teen whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm.
The film was delayed in its release because of the Columbine massacre.
1999 horror movies
1990s black comedy movies
Supernatural horror movies
1990s teen horror movies
American teen horror movies
Body horror movies
Impact of the Columbine High School massacre
Panic attacks are sudden periods of very bad anxiety.
Along with feeling very scared, people with panic attacks usually have physical symptoms.
These symptoms are not dangerous.
However, they can make a person feel terrible for a short time.
Having a panic attack is often terrifying and very upsetting.
Many people who have a panic attack for the first time call the emergency services because they think they are having a heart attack or a nervous breakdown.
Though panic attacks make people feel terrible, they are not dangerous.
Usually, the worst symptoms are over in ten minutes or less.
However, some panic attacks can be as short as one to five minutes.
Panic attacks can happen in people with all kinds of mental illnesses.
They can also happen in people who do not have mental illness, but have just had something very bad happen to them.
A panic attack is sometimes confused with anxiety.
Anxiety is progressive, when we think of negative thoughts, the anxiety becomes worse when we do not try to relax and it reaches to a point when we're out of control.
A panic attack is not progressive, when we think of negative thoughts, a panic attack goes straight to us feeling out of control and people would often think they're having a heart attack because an anxious heart feels very similar to a heart attack.
A panic attack is far worse than an anxiety attack, though both attacks require the person to learn how to calm down or get professional help if it becomes a problem in their daily lives.
"An abrupt [sudden] surge of intense [very strong] fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes...  [During that] time four or more of the following symptoms occur.
The abrupt surge can occur from a calm state or an anxious state."
Palpitations (a pounding heart) or fast heart rate
Trembling or shaking
Feeling unable to breathe
Feeling of choking
Chest pain or discomfort
Nausea or other gastrointestinal problems
Feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint
Feeling hot, or feeling chills
Paresthesias (numbness or tingling feelings)
Derealization (feelings of not being real) or depersonalization (feeling detached from oneself)
Fear of losing control or going crazy
Fear of dying
The physiology behind panic attacks
Panic attacks happen when the body's natural fight or flight response gets overprotective.
Usually, the fight or flight response kicks in when a person is in danger.
It tells the sympathetic nervous system to make many changes in the body.
These changes will help the person fight or run away from the danger.
The person will get scared.
This makes them want to get away from the danger they are in.
The heart will beat stronger and faster.
This will get as much blood and oxygen to the body as possible.
Chemical messengers like epinephrine (adrenaline) will be sent out through the body, to give the body extra energy to fight or run away.
The body will stop digestion in the digestive tract.
The body does this because it wants to spend all its energy on fighting or running away.
It does not want to waste energy on things like digestion which will not help the person escape danger.
When a person is truly in danger, these changes in the body can help the person survive.
The changes in the body make it easier for the person to fight or run away from the danger.
However, when a person is having a panic attack, their body is reacting as if they are in danger, when they are really not.
Their fight or flight system kicks in and causes changes to the body.
But because the person does not need these changes to help them survive, the changes cause symptoms.
The person will feel very scared, even though they are not actually in danger.
The person may notice that their heart is pounding (because it is beating stronger) or beating quickly.
The person may notice side effects from the epinephrine that is being sent out through their body.
Those side effects can include sweating, chest pain, and feeling even more anxious.
Because digestion has suddenly stopped, the person may have nausea, diarrhea, or other gastrointestinal problems.
Every symptom of a panic attack is caused by the fight or flight reaction.
This is why panic attacks are not dangerous.
The fight or flight system is meant to save a person's life if they are in danger.
It is a natural self-defense system in the human body.
When a panic attack happens, this life-saving fight or flight system is simply kicking in when it is not needed.
What Is Panic Disorder?
What are Panic Attacks?
from AnxietyBC.com (Simple English)
Panic Attacks: The Hallmark of Panic Disorder by the American Psychological Association
Panic disorder from PubMed Health
Telepathy  is the hypothesis that some people can communicate to others by thought, instead of through the known senses.
The term was coined by classics scholar and psychologist Frederic William Henry Myers in 1882.
Sigmund Freud did experiments with his daughter Anna where he attempted to communicate with her telepathically.
In 1930 Upton Sinclair wrote a book about his experiments with his wife in telepathic communication entitled Mental Radio.
Eysenck's opinion
Scientific reception
A panel commissioned by the United States National Research Council to study paranormal claims concluded that "despite a 130-year record of scientiﬁc research on such matters, our committee could ﬁnd no scientiﬁc justiﬁcation for the existence of phenomena such as extrasensory perception, mental telepathy or 'mind over matter' exercises... Evaluation of a large body of the best available evidence simply does not support the contention that these phenomena exist."
The scientific community considers parapsychology a pseudoscience.
There is no known mechanism for telepathy.
Philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge has written that telepathy would contradict laws of science and the claim that "signals can be transmitted across space without fading with distance is inconsistent with physics".
A megabit is a unit of information or computer storage that means one million bits, or one thousand kilobits.
It is abbreviated Mbit or Mb.
Susan Storm Richards (also known as Invisible Girl and later, Invisible Woman) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby.
The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961.
Like the other founding members of the Fantastic Four, Sue received her powers after being exposed to a cosmic storm.
Her primary power deals with light waves, allowing her to render herself and others invisible.
However, she can also project powerful fields of invisible energy which she uses for a variety of offensive and defensive effects.
Sue plays a central role in the lives of her brother, her husband, her children (Franklin Richards and Val Richards), and her friend, Ben Grimm.
She has been adapted into motion puctures and is played by Rebecca Stabb, Jessica Alba and Kate Mara.
Fictional characters introduced in 1961
Marvel Comics characters
Shigesato Itoi ( Itoi Shigesato, born November 10, 1948 in Gumna) is a famous Japanese copywriter, essayist, and game designer.
In his video game career, his most well-known works have been games in the EarthBound series.
The Eye is a 2008 movie starring Jessica Alba.
It is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong-Thai-Singaporean movie of the same name.
The movie was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for "violence/terror and disturbing content."
It was directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud.
It is the story of a young blind girl who has her sight restored.
She is able to see dead people, and sets out to find the history of her new eyes.
is a Japanese video game company.
It used to be called Ape, Inc. It's most well known for the Pokémon video game series, trading cards, and toys, as well as the EarthBound series while they were Ape, Inc.
The Academy has over 6,000 motion picture professionals as members.
While the most of its members are in the United States, membership is open to filmmakers around the world.
As of 2004, it had members from 36 countries.
It is known around the world for its yearly Academy Awards, known to most people as the "Oscars."
The Love Guru is an 2008 American romantic sports comedy movie set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It was directed by Marco Schnabel and starring Mike Myers.
Romany Malco, Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake co-star.
In addition to starring in the movie, Myers wrote The Love Guru with Graham Gordy and produced it with Gary Barber.
The movie was released by Paramount Pictures on June 20, 2008 and was rated PG-13.
Mike Myers as Guru Maurice Pitka
Jessica Alba as Jane Bullard
Romany Malco as Darren Roanoke
Meagan Good as Prudence Roanoke
Verne Troyer as Coach Punch Cherkov
Justin Timberlake as Jacques "Le Coq" Grandé
Telma Hopkins as Lillian Roanoke
Manu Narayan as Rajneesh - Pitka's assistant
John Oliver as Dick Pants
Ben Kingsley as Guru Tugginmypudha
Stephen Colbert as Jay Kell
Jim Gaffigan as Trent Lueders
Rob Huebel as Bar Patron / Cameo
Omid Djalili as Guru Satchabigknoba
People who appeared as themselves
Morgan Freeman (voice)
Judi Dench (referenced by commentator Jay Kell (Stephen Colbert))
The Love Guru Official Movie Website
Guru Pitka's Book Club  "The Love Guru - The Official Book Club"
2008 comedy movies
2008 romance movies
Screenplays by Mike Myers
Movies produced by Mike Myers
GQ (originally Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a monthly men's magazine focusing upon fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, physical fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books.
It is generally thought of as being more sophisticated than magazines, such as Maxim or FHM.
Gentlemen's Quarterly was launched in 1931 in the United States as Apparel Arts, a men's fashion magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers and retail sellers.
The Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB) is an online database of information about cartoons, animated movies, and animated television shows.
The Big Cartoon DataBase
1996 establishments
InStyle is a monthly women’s magazine, published by Time Inc., which is about the private side of public faces.
It has a circulation of about 1.7 million.
The MTV Movie Awards is a movie awards show presented annually on MTV (Music Television).
It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances.
The nominees are decided by a special panel at Tenth Planet Productions, the production company headed by Joel Gallen, who also created the MTV Movie Awards.
Winners are decided by the general public.
Presently voting is done through MTV's official website through a special Movie Awards link.
Awake is a 2007 American crime thriller movie.
It was written and directed by Joby Harold.
It stars Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Lena Olin, and Terrence Howard.
The movie was rated R by the MPAA for language, an intense disturbing situation, and brief drug use.
2007 crime movies
2007 thriller movies
American psychological movies
The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of requiem shark, and is the only member of the genus Galeocerdo.
This is one of the largest known species of shark.
It reaches lengths of up to 5.5 metres (18 feet), and weighs over 900 kg (2000 pounds).
The tiger shark is found throughout the world's coastal temperate and tropical waters, with the exception of the Mediterranean Sea, and have been known to swim to depths of up to 350 metres (1150 feet).
Tiger sharks feed mainly on bony fish, rays, squid, crustaceans, seals, and dolphins.
The tiger shark is the only species in its family which is ovoviviparous, giving birth to 10-82 pups at a time.
The tiger shark gets its name from the black spots and stripes which run the length of the body, like a tiger.
The front of the body is quite sturdy, but becomes more slim at the back.
It has a large, strong head with big eyes and a very blunt snout.
The first dorsal fin is quite wide, and is located at the back of the pectoral fins.
The much smaller second dorsal fin is located at the front of the anal fin which is strongly recurved.
There is a ridge along the back between the dorsal fins.
The jaws of the tiger shark have large, sharp teeth which helps the shark to cut through the flesh and bones of their prey.
Each tooth is jagged around the edges.
The upper and lower teeth are similar in shape, and the teeth at the front are larger than the back teeth.
The dorsal surface of the tiger shark is bluish-green to dark grey or black, and the belly is yellowish-white to pure white in colour.
The black spots and stripes of the tiger shark are more visible on young ones, and they fade as the shark matures.
The tiger shark is one of the largest known sharks, commonly reaching a length of 3.25-4.25 metres (11-14 feet), and weighing around 385-635 kg (850-1400 pounds).
New born tiger sharks range in lengths between 51 to 76 cm (2 to 2.5 feet).
Males reach maturity at 2.3-3 metres (8-10 feet), while females become mature at 2.5-3.3 metres (8-11 feet).
The largest specimens are believed to reach lengths of up to 5.5 metres (18 feet), and weigh over 900 kg (2000 pounds).
The tiger shark is found throughout the world's coastal temperate and tropical waters, with the exception of the Mediterranean Sea.
In the western Atlantic, it is found from Massachusetts to Uruguay, and in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean Sea.
In the eastern Atlantic, it is found in Iceland and possibly the U.K (due to the warm Gulf Stream), Morocco, Canary Islands, and from Senegal to Ivory Coast.
In the Indian Ocean, it is found in Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, Vietnam, and from the Red Sea to South Africa.
In the western Pacific, it is found in southern China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Palau, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, and Tahiti.
In the eastern Pacific, it is found in Hawaii, Galapagos, and from southern California to Peru.
The tiger shark is found in many different kinds of marine habitats, but it usually prefers murky waters in coastal areas.
It is also commonly found in estuaries and harbours.
Shallow areas around large island chains and oceanic islands, including lagoons, are also part of the tiger shark's natural environment.
The tiger shark is found near the surface to depths of up to 350 metres (1150 feet).
The tiger shark is nocturnal.
During the day they are mostly inactive, and they hunt during the night.
They are solitary, and may attack any shark or human that comes near them.
The Tiger shark can be very aggressive, and along with the great white and the bull shark, it is one of the most dangerous sharks for humans.
Tiger sharks have a wide variety of prey.
They feed on rays, bony fish, dolphins, carrion, sea birds, sea turtles, sea snakes, crustaceans, seals, squid, and small sharks of other species.
Some Tiger sharks have been found with ship garbage, and car license plates in their stomachs.
Adult tiger sharks have also been known to prey on young tiger sharks.
One large female caught off the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea had two empty cans, a plastic bottle, two burlap sacks, a squid, and a 20 cm long fish in its stomach.
Also, many tiger sharks caught in harbours have been found with garbage in their stomachs.
For the tiger shark, maturity depends on size and not on age.
Males reach maturity at 2.3-3 metres (8-10 feet), while females become mature at 2.5-3.3 metres (8-11 feet).t Tiger sharks are ovoviviparous, and females only mate once every 3 years.
The time of which the mating season occurs depends on the location.
In the Northern Hemisphere the mating season lasts from March until May, and in the southern hemisphere the mating season lasts from November until January.
The gestation period lasts up to 16 months, and females can give birth to 10-82 pups at a time.
The average lifespan in the wild for a tiger shark is 12 years.
The tiger shark is second on the list of number of recorded attacks on humans, with the great white shark being first.
Fortunately though, attacks are rare.
In  Hawaii, although tiger sharks were responsible for several deaths in the 1990s, there is an average of one shark attack per year.
Due to being fished commercially and recreationally, in some parts of its range, the tiger shark's population has decreased.
Like many shark species, the fins of the tiger shark are highly prized in Asia for making shark-fin soup.
Also, its meat is eaten by people, its skin is used to make leather, and its liver is taken as a source of Vitamin A. Fortunately, this species is quite fast growing and produces large numbers of young, so the tiger shark faces no real threat.
Also, in areas where the numbers of adults have been reduced due to fishing, young tiger sharks have been found to be more common, as predation from the adults is lessened.
Nevertheless, as the demand for shark fins continues to grow, there is concern that it could have a serious impact on this species in the future.
The tiger shark is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and movie director.
He best known for his film noir-style comic book stories including Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300.
Because of his interest in comics, Miller moved to New York as a young adult to work as a comic book artist.
Miller released his first graphic novel, Ronin, in 1983.
Miller later wrote other graphic novels including the Dark Knight Returns and 300.
Miller moved to Los Angeles and worked in Hollywood during the 1980s and 1990s, writing the scripts for Robocop II and III.
Not happy with the films, Miller stopped working in TV and movies until 2005, when Miller worked with director Robert Rodgriguez on the film, Sin City.
Writers from Vermont
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20 1968) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician perhaps best known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio movies with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards.
He shoots and produces many of his movies in Texas and Mexico.
Musicians from San Antonio, Texas
Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr. (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor.
He is best known for his role as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on the television series NCIS.
After being in over 300 episodes he is leaving NCIS at the end of the 2016 season.
He also plays Dr. Jason Bull in the CBS drama series Bull.
Official Michael Weatherly website
Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele (τηλε) = far and graphein (γραφειν) = write) is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters.
A telegraph sends electric pulses in a special code, composed from short and large marks.
Usually, amateur radio operators use Morse code.
Some of the first telegraphs were made in the late 1700s, but these were hard to use because they had too many wires.
Samuel Morse made a telegraph using only one wire.
In 1844, he built a telegraph line from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., and soon, there were telegraphs all over the United States.
This made it easier for people to talk to people far away and made it easier for people to move out West.
A transatlantic telegraph cable and other developments linked the world by the end of the century.
Radio telegraphy became widespread in the early 20th century, especially on ships.
People would send messages called telegrams to other people.
They would give the message to a telegraph operator, who would send the message using Morse code.
The operator on the other end would write down the message and give it to the person receiving the message.
After the 1930s, it became cheaper to make long-distance telephone calls than to send telegrams, so fewer telegrams were sent.
Western Union, an American company that was created for telegrams, sent its last one in 2006.
Telegraphs now
Telegraphs have become rare.
This is because of newer technology that people can use to communicate, such as the telephone and the Internet.
However, morse code is still popular among amateur radio enthusiasts.
Postal history
Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder is a general term for medical problems that can hurt the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lungs.
The study of these problems is called rheumatology.
Bursitis/ Tendinitis, Shoulder pain, wrist, biceps, leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles
Capsulitis
Psoriatic arthritis
Rheumatic heart disease (a long-term complication of Rheumatic fever)
Temporal arteritis and Polymyalgia rheumatica
Tenosynovitis.
Many traditional herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism".
Modern medicine, both conventional and complementary, shows that the different rheumatic disorders have different causes (and several of them have more than one) and need different kinds of treatment.
American College of Rheumatology
EULAR - The European League Against Rheumatism
BBC "Your Health" website on Arthritis and Rheumatism
e-medicine article on Non-Articular Rheumatism
Gout is a very painful medical condition.
It is a red, tender, hot, swollen joint.
The attacks happen most often in the joint at the base of the big toe.
It is caused by crystals getting deposited from the blood.
This happens when the level of uric acid in the blood is too high.
The crystals then stay in joints, tendons, and surrounding tissues.
Inflammatory arthritis happens in about 50% of all cases of gout.
The disease may also appear as kidney disease due to urate crystals.
People with gout often have more than one attack of gout.
Doctors decide a patient has gout if they find crystals in the joint fluid.
Treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs, steroids, or colchicine improves symptoms.
Once an attack goes away, the patient can change his or her lifestyle to reduce levels of uric acid.
People who have gout attacks often may take allopurinol or probenecid to prevent symptoms later.
Gout has become more common.
It affects approximately one to two percent of people in the West during their lifetimes.
Risk factors have been increasing and may be causing the increase in gout.
Metabolic syndrome, longer life expectancy, and changes in diet are the most common risk factors.
Gout was historically known as “the disease of kings” or “the disease of rich men".
Gout can present in a number of ways, although the most common is a recurrent attack of intense inflammatory arthritis (a red, tender, hot, swollen joint).
Joint pain usually begins over 2–4 hours and during the night.
Symptoms occur at night because of the lower body temperature at this time.
High levels of uric acid in the blood over a long period of time (hyperuricemia) may cause other symptoms such as hard, painless deposits of uric acid crystals known as tophi.
Extensive tophi may lead to chronic arthritis due to bone erosion.
High levels of uric acid in the blood may also cause crystals to form in the kidneys.
This causes stone formation followed by  urate nephropathy.
A very high, abnormal level of uric acid in the blood (hyperuricemia) is the basic cause of gout.
Diet and a person's genes are two of several possible causes of the high levels.
Levels can also become high if the body cannot excrete enough urate, the salts of uric acid.
The kinds and amounts of foods people eat cause about 12% of gout.
Drinking alcohol or fructose-sweetened drinks, and eating meat and seafood can cause this disease.
Injuries and surgery may also start an attack of gout.
Recent studies showed that some beliefs about connections between diet and gout were not true.
Eating purine-rich vegetables (e.g., beans, peas, lentils, and spinach) large amounts of protein do not contribute to developing gout.
Coffee, vitamin C, and dairy products, as well as physical fitness appear to decrease the risk.
These things reduce insulin resistance and may reduce cases of gout.
Inherited causes
Inherited factors are about 60% responsible for the variability in uric acid level.
Two genes called SLC2A9 and ABCG2 are commonly associated with gout.
Variations in these genes can almost double the risk of developing this disease.
Gout often happens with other medical problems.
Metabolic syndrome happens along with nearly 75% of all cases of gout.
Gout often makes these other problems worse or harder to treat: polycythemia, lead poisoning, renal failure, hemolytic anemia, psoriasis, and solid organ transplants.
Males have three times the chance of getting gout when the body mass index is greater than or equal to 35.
Frequent lead exposure and lead-contaminated alcohol are risk factors for gout because lead harms the kidney function.
Gout is a disorder of purine metabolism, and occurs when its final metabolite, uric acid, crystallizes in the form of monosodium urate.
The blood deposits the crystals in joints, on tendons, and in the surrounding tissues.
These crystals then trigger a localimmune system inflammatory reaction.
Uricase is required to breakdown uric acid.
An evolutionary loss of uricase in humans and higher primates has made this condition so common.
The triggers  that cause uric acid to build up in the blood are not well understood.
While it may crystallize at normal levels, it is more likely to do so as uric acid levels increase.
Other factors believed to be important in triggering an acute episode of arthritis include cool temperatures, rapid changes in uric acid levels, acidosis, articular hydration, and extracellular matrixproteins, such as proteoglycans, collagens, and chondroitin sulfate.
The increased critilization at low temperatures partly explains why the joints in the feet are most commonly affected.
Rapid changes in uric acid may occur due to a number of factors, including trauma, surgery, chemotherapy, diuretics, and stopping or starting the medication allopurinol.
Gout may be diagnosed and treated without further investigations in someone with hyperuricemia and the classic podagra.
If there is any doubt about the diagnosis, synovial fluid analysis should be done.
X-rays are useful for identifying chronic gout only.
X-rays are not useful for treating acute gout attacks.
A definitive diagnosis of gout is based upon the identification of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in joint fluid or a tophus.
All synovial fluid samples obtained from undiagnosed, inflamed joints should be examined for these crystals.
Under polarized light microscopy, the crystals have a needle-like shape and strong negative birefringence.
This test is difficult to perform, and often requires a trained technician.
The fluid must also be examined relatively quickly after aspiration, as temperature and pH affect their solubility.
Blood tests
Hyperuricemia is a classic feature of gout.
Gout occurs nearly half of the time without hyperuricemia and most people with raised uric acid levels never develop gout.
The usefulness of measuring uric acid levels is limited.
Hyperuricemia is defined as a plasma urate level greater than 420 μmol/L (7.0 mg/dL) in males and 360 μmol/L (6.0 mg/dL) in females.
Other blood tests commonly performed are white blood cell count, electrolytes, renal function, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate(ESR).
Both the white blood cells and ESR may be elevated due to gout in the absence of infection.
A white blood cell count as high as 40.0×109/L (40,000/mm3) has been documented in people with gout.
The most important diagnosis to rule out in gout is septic arthritis (an infection in the joint).
This should be considered in those with signs of infection or those who do not improve with treatment.
A joint fluid Gram stainand culture may be performed to support the diagnosis.
Other conditions which present similarly include pseudogout and rheumatoid arthritis.
Gouty tophi, especially when not in a joint, can be mistaken for basal cell carcinoma, or other cancers.
Both lifestyle changes and medications can decrease uric acid levels.
Dietary and lifestyle choices that are effective include reducing intake of food such as meat and seafood, eating adequate vitamin C, limiting alcohol and fructose consumption, and avoiding obesity.
A low-calorie diet in obese men decreased uric acid levels by 100 µmol/L (1.7 mg/dL) on average.
Vitamin C intake of 1,500 mg per day decreases the risk of gout by 45%.
Coffee, but not tea, consumption is associated with a lower risk of gout.
Gout may be secondary to sleep apnea through the release of purines from oxygen-starved cells.
Treatment of sleep apnea can lessen the occurrence of gout attacks.
The first goal of treating gout is to reduce the symptoms of an acute attack.
Repeated attacks can be prevented by using different drugs that reduce the uric acid levels in the blood.
Ice applied for 20 to 30 minutes several times a day decreases pain.
Options for immediate treatment include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), colchicine and steroids.
Options for prevention include allopurinol, febuxostat and probenecid.
Lowering uric acid levels can cure the disease.
Treatment of comorbidities is also important.
NSAIDs
NSAIDs are the most common treatment for gout.
No specific type of NSAID is significantly more or less effective than any other.
Improvement may be seen within 4 hours.
Treatment is recommended for 1–2 weeks.
NSAIDs are not recommended for people with certain other health problems such as bleeding from the stomach, esophagus or intestines, renal failure, or heart failure.
While indomethacin has historically been the most commonly used NSAID, ibuprofen may be preferred due to its lack of side effects.
A proton pump inhibitor may be given to people at risk of experiencing gastric side effects.
Colchicine is an alternative treatment for people that are unable to tolerate NSAIDs.
Its side effects, primarily gastrointestinal upset limit its use.
The occurrence of gastrointestinal upset depends on the dose.
The risk of experiencing this side effect can be reduced by using smaller, yet still effective doses.
Colchicine may interact with other commonly prescribed drugs such as atorvastatin and erythromycin.
Glucocorticoids (otherwise known as steroids) have been found to be as effective as NSAIDs for treating gout.
Glucocorticoids may be used if it is not possible to use NSAIDs.
Using glucocorticoids also lead to improvement when it is injected into the joint.
A joint infection must be excluded if the condition worsens.
Pegloticase
Pegloticase (Krystexxa) was approved in the USA to treat gout in 2010.
It will be a treatment option for the 3% of people who are intolerant to other medications.
Pegloticase is administered as an intravenous infusion every two weeks and has been found to reduce uric acid levels in this population.
A number of medications are useful for preventing further episodes of gout, including xanthine oxidase inhibitor (including allopurinol and febuxostat), and uricosurics (including probenecid and sulfinpyrazone).
They are not usually given until one to two weeks after an acute attack has resolved due to concerns that it may worsen  attack symptoms.
These medications are often used in combination with either an NSAID or colchicine for the first 3–6 months.
This treatment is not recommended until a person has suffered two gout attacks, unless destructive joint changes, tophi, or urate nephropathy exist.
This type of treatment is delayed until this point because is not cost effective to offer this treatment sooner.
Urate-lowering measures should be increased until serum uric acid levels are below 300–360 µmol/L (5.0-6.0 mg/dL).
This treatment should be continued forever.
These medications should be continued even if the person experiences a gout attack while on the medication.
Uricosuric drugs are preferred for treating gout if there is not enough uric acid in the urine defined by a 24-hour collection of urine with less than 800 mg of uric acid.
Uricosuric drugs are not recommended if the person has a history of renal stones.
A 24-hour urine excretion of more than 800 mg indicates overproduction and xanthine oxidase inhibitors are the preferred drugs for providing treatment.
Note that probenecid appears to be less effective than allopurinol.
Xanthine oxidase inhibitors (including allopurinol and febuxostat) block uric acid production.
Long term therapy is safe and well tolerated, and can be used in people with reduced renal function or urate stones.
Allopurinol has caused hypersensitivity in a small number of individuals.
In such cases, the alternative drug febuxostat has been recommended.
Without treatment, an acute attack of gout will usually resolve in 5 to 7 days.
60% of people will have a second attack within one year.
Those with gout are at increased risk of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome, and renal and cardiovascular disease and at increased risk of death.
This may be partly due to its association with insulin resistance and obesity, but some of the increased risk appears to be simply due to having gout.
Without treatment, acute gout attacks may develop into chronic gout with destruction of joint surfaces, joint deformity, and painless tophi.
These tophi occur in 30% of those who are untreated for five years, often in the outer part of the ear, over the outer part of the elbow, or on the Achilles tendons.
With aggressive treatment, they may dissolve.
Kidney stones also frequently complicate gout, affecting between 10 and 40% of people.
Kidney stones occur due to low urine pH promoting the crystallization of uric acid.
Other forms of chronic renal dysfunction may occur.
Gout affects around 1–2% of the Western population at some point in their lives and it is becoming more common.
Rates of gout have approximately doubled between 1990 and 2010.
This rise is believed to be due to increasing life expectancy, changes in diet, and an increase in diseases associated with gout, such as metabolic syndrome and high blood pressure.
A number of factors have been found to influence rates of gout, including age, race, and the season of the year.
In men over the age of 30 and women over the age of 50, prevalence is 2%.
In the United States, gout is twice as likely to occur in African American males as it is in European Americans.
Rates are high among the peoples of the Pacific Islands and the Māori of New Zealand, but rare in Australian aborigines, despite a higher average concentration of serum uric acid in the aboriginal group.
Gout has become common in China, Polynesia, and urban sub-Saharan Africa.
Some studies have found that gout attacks occur more frequently in the spring.
This has been attributed to seasonal changes in diet, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and temperature.
The word gout was initially used by Randolphus of Bocking, around 1200 a.d.
It is derived from the Latin word gutta, meaning "a drop" (of liquid).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".
People have been aware of gout since ancient times.
Historically, it has been referred to as "the king of diseases and the disease of kings" or "the disease of rich men".
The first documentation of the disease is from Egypt in 2,600 b.c.
in a description of arthritis of the largest toe.
The Greek physician Hippocrates around 400 b.c.
commented on it in his Aphorisms and noted its absence in eunuchs (men who have had there testicles removed at a young age) and women before menopause.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (30 a.d.)
described the linkage with alcohol, later onset in women, and associated kidney problems:
Again thick urine, the sediment from which is white, indicates that pain and disease are to be apprehended in the region of joints or viscera... Joint troubles in the hands and feet are very frequent and persistent, such as occur in cases of podagra and cheiragra.
These seldom attack eunuchs or boys before coition with a woman, or women except those in whom the menses have become suppressed... some have obtained lifelong security by refraining from wine, mead and venery.
Gouty patients are, generally, either old men, or men who have so worn themselves out in youth as to have brought on a premature old age - of such dissolute habits none being more common than the premature and excessive indulgence in venery, and the like exhausting passions.
The victim goes to bed and sleeps in good health.
About two o'clock in the morning he is awakened by a severe pain in the great toe; more rarely in the heel, ankle or instep.
The pain is like that of a dislocation, and yet parts feel as if cold water were poured over them.
Then follows chills and shivers, and a little fever... The night is passed in torture, sleeplessness, turning the part affected, and perpetual change of posture; the tossing about of body being as incessant as the pain of the tortured joint, and being worse as the fit comes on.
The Dutch scientist, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, first described the microscopic appearance of urate crystals in 1679.
In 1848, English physician Alfred Baring Garrod realized that this excess uric acid in the blood was the cause of gout.
In other animals
Gout is rare in most other animals due to their ability to produce uricase, which breaks down uric acid.
Humans and other great apes don't have this ability, which makes gout common.
The Tyrannosaurus rex specimen known as "Sue", however, is believed to have suffered from gout.
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A number of new medications are under study for treating gout, including anakinra, canakinumab, and rilonacept.
A man made uricase enzyme (rasburicase) is also available.
Its use is limited because it triggers an autoimmune response.
Versions of this medication that are less prone to cause allergies are in development.
Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that are now called acute or chronic nephritis.