Hip Hop Sampled Jazz Legend Freddie Hubbard Passes Away

After suffering a heart attack one month ago, famed Jazz horn player Freddie Hubbard passed away just before the new year in Sherman Oaks, California. On December 29, the 70 year-old was surrounded by loved ones at the city's hospital as he passed away.

Hubbard recorded in over four decades, for CTI, Columbia and Atlantic Records. Work from the trumpeter has been sampled by Hip Hop groups including Pete Rock & CL Smooth [click to read], A Tribe Called Quest [click to read], Souls of Mischief and early Blackalicious [click to read] hit "Swan Lake."

A tribute show is said to be planned in New York this February.




Story at Hip Hop DX

Few hospitals meet colon cancer care standard

Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs that their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery.

National guidelines say when colon cancer is removed, doctors should check at least 12 lymph nodes for signs of spread. Checking fewer than 12 isn't considered enough to be sure the cancer is contained.

But a study of nearly 1,300 hospitals found that overall, just 38 percent fully comply with the guideline, Northwestern University researchers report Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

"It's a fairly simple thing we can do to try to improve care for our patients," said lead author Dr. Kyle Bilimoria, of Northwestern and the American College of Surgeons.

Colorectal cancer is the nation's second leading cancer killer, set to claim almost 50,000 lives this year.

Some 148,000 Americans are diagnosed annually. For many, the node check can be crucial. Whether cancer has entered these doorways to the rest of the body is an important factor in long-term survival — and thus helps doctors decide who gets chemotherapy after surgery and who can skip it.

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Vigorous Physical Activity Reduces Obesity Risk in Genetically Predisposed

Individuals who have a genetic mutation associated with high body mass index (BMI) may be able to offset their increased risk for obesity through vigorous physical activity, according to a study in the September 8 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Evadnie Rampersaud, PhD, formerly of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, and currently at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and colleagues analysed DNA samples of 704 healthy Amish adults (average age 43.6 years, 53% male) recruited from 2003 to 2007. Participants also underwent a series of physiological tests, including a 7-day measurement of physical activity using an accelerometer.

A total of 54% of the men and 63.7% of the women were overweight, and 10.1% of the men and 30.5% of the women were obese. In the genetic analysis, 26 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene were associated with BMI.


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Tobacco Company Plans to Cut U.S. Work Force

Reynolds American, the tobacco company, said Tuesday that it would cut about 10 percent of its American work force — about 570 jobs — and make Camel its flagship menthol cigarette brand to better compete in a consolidating market.

The company said Tuesday that it would shift its focus in the premium menthol market to its well-known Camel brand from its Kool line. The menthol market has shown some growth, while smoking in general continues to decline in the United States.

Camel is known mostly as a non-menthol brand. But Reynolds recently released a cigarette called Camel Crush, whose capsule in the filter gives off a burst of menthol flavor when it is broken.

Kool will now focus on markets where it has strength and receive less marketing support, Reynolds said.

The overhaul at Reynolds comes a day after the largest American cigarette maker, the Altria Group, announced plans to buy the No. 1 domestic smokeless tobacco maker, UST Inc., for $10.4 billion.

FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Dangers of Crate Digging

DJs get no respect. Next time you look at the celebrity Serato DJs who hog the spotlight, remember those who put their lives on the line for the sake of spinning vinyl. Graphic designer Stefan Glerum hasn’t forgotten—his recent series of pencil sketches called Crate Digging: Don’t Do It! shows newbies just how tough digging in the crates can be.

See, back in the day, DJs were only as good as the dedication they put forth in searching for vinyl. In Glerum’s work, he gives 13 reasons—physical, mental, financial and social—why the old school hunt can be detrimental to a weekend-warrior DJ’s well-being.



Check out images from Glerum’s illustrated manual [click the link below]

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MC BReed On LIFE SUPPORT Due to KIDNEY FAILURE

This is so sad....

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Flint, Michigan rapper MC Breed is in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital in Atlanta, where he is on life support due to kidney failure, AllHipHop.com has confirmed.



His manager, Darryl Morris, said the rapper, born Eric Breed, was playing a game of pickup basketball yesterday evening (September 5) in Atlanta, when he collapsed and fell unconscious.



“He had to be revived three times,” Morris told AllHipHop.com. “He had to be rushed to the hospital where they diagnosed him and told him his kidney’s have failed.”

When sex becomes an addiction

"Californication" star David Duchovny made headlines for voluntarily entering rehab last week. But it wasn't for drugs or alcohol. It was for another dependency, one that affects millions of Americans but is seldom discussed: sex addiction.
While sex can be healthy for a relationship, some people develop an addiction to porn, affairs, and other behaviors.

While sex can be healthy for a relationship, some people develop an addiction to porn, affairs, and other behaviors.



Sex addiction, also called compulsive sexual behavior, is like a gambling compulsion or alcoholism: It's about devoting your free time to a behavior that you cannot stop, even if you damage relationships or prompt other negative consequences. That could mean extensively using pornography, having affairs, sleeping with prostitutes, and masturbating excessively, to the point where such behaviors get out of control.

If you think it's just about primal desire, think again.

FULL STORY at CNN

Jesse Jackson hospitalized

Rev. Jesse Jackson was being treated Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago after falling ill.

Jackson told the Tribune during a morning telephone interview he had stomach pains, but the pains were subsiding. "I have high regard for these doctors," Jackson said.

Doctors told him he has viral gastroenteritis but are conducting more tests, he said.

A spokeswoman for Jackson could not confirm reports of his condition and said she wasn't sure if and when Jackson would be released.

When reached again by the Tribune in his hospital room later Thursday, Jackson declined comment about his condition.

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No refill please! Drinks can add on the pounds

Nutritionist Joy Bauer reveals the hidden sugar in some popular beverages
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Energy drinks' caffeine in line with coffee

Despite such speedy-sounding names as "Full Throttle," "Amp" and "Rush," energy drinks pack a punch that is generally no stronger than coffee, according to a new report.

A comparison of 12 popular energy drinks, published in the September issue of Consumer Reports, found that the caffeine in 8 ounces of various brands ranged from 50 to145 milligrams (mg), though most were in the 75- to 80-mg range.
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