Happy Hour Research Articles

Preventing Bio-Bloopers and XFEL Follies: Best Practices from your Friendly Instrument Staff

Serial Femtosecond Crystallography (SFX) at X-ray Free electron Lasers (XFELs) is a relatively new field promising to deliver unparalleled spatial and temporal resolution on biological systems and there dynamics. Over the past decade, though, there have been a handful of results that have truly delivered on these promises. Why? SFX has many paradigm shifting techniques not seen in typical structural biology arenas, such as creating a concentrated slurry of microcrystals rather than a handful of loopable prisms worthy of a catalog photo. Then taking that slurry and high speed jetting them towards the vacuum or helium interation region to destroy less than 1% of your sample and waste the other 99. The literature is full of techniques and methods promising to cure what ails your experiment, yet as an instrument scientist will tell you –and a first author might admit after a few drinks at the conference happy hour—is that there are a lot more failures than the success we published, results may vary. We will walk through a best practices on how to prepare your sample and chose a sample delivery technique that will amerliorate your studies rather than undermine your hardwork and hopefully lead to better experimental planning and execution, inching you closer to that scientific goal and that call from Stockholm. This will be written in a more editorialized fashion and is meant to give the reader an idea of what to try or how they should be thinking. Welcome to SFX, now what?

British Muslim women's experience of the networking practice of happy hours

PurposeNetworking is deemed important for women in careers. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the interaction of a specific networking practice with a religious practice and its implications on British Muslim women (BMw). The practice ‘happy hours’ is closely linked with drinking alcohol (Flores-Pereiraet al., 2008), while alcohol consumption is forbidden in Islam.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research approach was used to interview 37 participants who were in managerial or professional positions.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that the presence of alcohol in work-related socializing is a norm, making the practice of ‘happy hours’ invisible and legitimate (Acker, 2006), thereby contributing inadvertently to reinforcing inequality regimes in organizations. Furthermore, the interaction of contradictory religious beliefs/practices of individual employees and organizational practices presents challenges for Muslim women, who feel they have to participate in happy hours as a networking practice in order to progress in careers. While it involves emotional effort, as they persuade themselves to join in activities where alcohol is being served, it paradoxically results in feelings of exclusion and marginalization within the group, as they do not drink alcohol.Originality/valueThis paper focuses on the micro/individual level of analysis, singling out the Muslim female voice while positioning ‘happy hours’ as a ‘networking practice’. It also contributes to the underexplored area of the role of religion and individual behaviour in organizations (Tracey, 2012).

In Case You Haven't Heard…

Happy hour at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)? You can see a video with National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Director George Koob, Ph.D., of the bar lab, where researchers work on medications to block craving. You can see Koob talk about the work of Lorenzo Leggio, M.D., in the video as well. This is a fascinating report from CNN, a great example of how to cover the research angle on alcohol use disorders for the general public. A patient is included as well; he was sober for five years, relapsed and went to the NIH lab for help. Go to https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/health/alcohol‐related‐deaths‐double/index.html.

The Wife

The Wife Ellen Rhudy (bio) After the wife met her new husband – before she was a wife, or he a husband – Betsina told her to try shaving. It will be worth the time saved, she promised. When you're sleeping all night you won't regret it. The wife nodded and thanked her for the advice, staring at the plush feathers that sprouted from the hollows around Betsina's kneecaps. Black dots marred Betsina's upper lip and cheeks, as insistent as the thick hairs her future husband scraped from his face each morning. After their fifth date, the first time she spent the night, the wife sat on the edge of his bathtub and watched him lather his face. Why do you shave every day? she asked him. Do you ever wonder what you'd look like if you didn't? He found her in the mirror. You haven't seen me try, he said. To grow a beard. He laughed, and then she laughed. When he had dried his face she held it between her hands, looking for the places where no hair grew. On his cheek, here, and a bare sliver on his chin to which she pressed her thumb. I got cut there, he said. When I was a boy. Usually people don't notice. What happened? she asked. An accident while you were playing? I didn't play that much. He returned to the bedroom, to his closet, for a shirt. The wife was disappointed when she heard this. Why had she thought that? Why had she said it? It was difficult to find a husband, and a wrong guess or misplaced joke could shutter the relationship before it began. She watched her husband sit on the bed to pull on his pants, she watched him tuck his pin-striped blue shirt into the waistband. Her purse bulged with gray feathers as she followed him out, and after leaving him she went to the park where she shook them across the lake. He didn't know yet that she would be his wife. There were so many things he would never know. These were the things she thought as she watched herself drift across the water, spinning and dipping but always afloat. ________ I use Nair, Meredith told her. You can't fold yourself into his life so much that you lose sight of your own. Meredith's husband, the wife observed, was Eastern European and could not pronounce her name correctly. He called her Meredit, he always sounded like he was trying to spit when he said her name. Meredit's arms were a rash of red, she was missing half her left eyebrow. [End Page 36] No thank you, the wife said. I appreciate you sharing the idea, but I'll do it the old-fashioned way. The old ways were often but not always the best ways. If she had done things the old way, the wife would never have met her husband. She found him in a bar, alone, at happy hour. Her own parents had met at a lakeside, where her mother sat with one foot anchored in the water. They shared a romantic story which she would never be able to recreate. Six months after their first date, her husband took the wife back to the bar where they had met. They ate grilled cheese sandwiches with thick tomato slices juicing down their wrists. They drank three beers each, the wife trying not to glance too often at her watch. I love you, he told the wife. You know how lucky I am that you even talked to me that night? It was already ten o'clock. Let's go home, she said, and I can make you feel even luckier. Later, his head resting on her chest, the wife felt how she was unspooling just enough each day to draw him in, how if she stopped here – now – she could remain motionless while he swam closer, closer. Until he was too close to ever slip away. She watched headlights splash along the wall until just after midnight, when she eased herself from beneath his arm. She locked herself...

Could chips and nuts be vector of food-borne outbreaks during happy hour?

Abstract Background A Greater tendency to eat meals outside the home has led to an increase in the attendance of restaurants, cafes, and fast food. That is one of the reasons why the global interest in handling food has risen over the years. The aim of this study is to understand the level of microbial contamination in the food that is served along happy hour in cafe. Methods This cross sectional pilot study was performed from April to May 2018 in the city of Siena, central Italy (<60000 citizens). Ten cafes were randomly selected. Samples of peanuts and potatoes were obtained in three different moments, at the beginning (T0), in the middle (T1), at the end (T2) of happy hours events. Collection of the samples was obtained using sterile kit and laboratory analysis was conducted in the University lab. The samples were located on selective medium and the growth of microbial pathogens were checked at 24 and 48 hours. The tested microorganisms were Enterococci, Staphylococci, Coliforms bacteria, Molds, and Yeasts. The statistical analyses were conducted using the Wilcoxon test using Stata 12. Results A significant Yeasts contamination appeared only on chips at T0, while within T0 and T1 we found a significant increase of Enterococci, Staphylococci, and Yeasts (p < 0.05) both in peanuts and chips. Comparing T1 and T2 only Yeasts showed significant growth in potatoes (p = 0.04). Between T0 and T2 we also found the growth of Coliforms bacteria in peanuts (p = 0.03). Conclusions We showed an increase in the microbial load associated with food handling, mostly of Enterococci. Long exposure time increased the likelihood of contamination and the possibility to exceed the dose for the occurrence of good outbreak. It is likely that offering small portions of handling food would reduce the manipulation by participants and the risk of food-borne outbreaks. Key messages Define the most frequent microrganisms could be associated with backed food and evaluate which one of these can exceed the dose for the occurrence of disease in long time. Reflect on the likelihood that the risk of food-borne outbreak caused by manipulation of happy hour participants, may result in an increase in hospital admissions.

Sneaking Out for Happy Hour: Yeast-Based Approaches to Explore and Modulate Immune Response and Immune Evasion.

Many pathogens (virus, bacteria, fungi, or parasites) have developed a wide variety of mechanisms to evade their host immune system. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has successfully been used to decipher some of these immune evasion strategies. This includes the cis-acting mechanism that limits the expression of the oncogenic Epstein–Barr virus (EBV)-encoded EBNA1 and thus of antigenic peptides derived from this essential but highly antigenic viral protein. Studies based on budding yeast have also revealed the molecular bases of epigenetic switching or recombination underlying the silencing of all except one members of extended families of genes that encode closely related and highly antigenic surface proteins. This mechanism is exploited by several parasites (that include pathogens such as Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, Candida, or Pneumocystis) to alternate their surface antigens, thereby evading the immune system. Yeast can itself be a pathogen, and pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans, which is phylogenetically very close to S. cerevisiae, have developed stealthiness strategies that include changes in their cell wall composition, or epitope-masking, to control production or exposure of highly antigenic but essential polysaccharides in their cell wall. Finally, due to the high antigenicity of its cell wall, yeast has been opportunistically exploited to create adjuvants and vectors for vaccination.

EMR Happy Hour: New Approach to Electronic Medical Record Continuous Learning

We developed an innovative approach to peer-to-peer sharing of best practices using the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Why? The challenges of EMR training are twofold: (1) even the most easily adopted EMR innovations and features must be communicated effectively to existing users, and (2) time

Happy hours: could chips and nuts be vector of food-borne outbreaks?

BACKGROUND The global interest in handling food has increased over the years. Greater handling raises the risk of contamination, also in the backed food. The aim of this study is to understand the type and level of microbial contamination in the food that is served along happy hour in the bars/coffee. METHODS This pilot study was performed from April to May 2018 in a city of central Italy ( RESULTS A significant yeasts contamination appeared only on potatoes at T0 (p CONCLUSIONS We showed an increase in the microbial load associated with food handling, mostly of Enterococci. Long time of exposition increased the likelihood of contamination and the possibility to exceed the dose for the occurrence of disease. Offering small portions of handling food would reduce the manipulation by participants and the risk of food-borne outbreaks.

Designing drunkenness: How pubs, bars and nightclubs increase alcohol sales

Using ethnographic data, this paper investigates the techniques used inside pubs, bars and nightclubs to solicit and sustain alcohol consumption among patrons. Focus is on venues with the majority of patrons belonging to the age group of approximately 15–35 years. The paper identifies a number of techniques, both overt and covert, including: alcohol advertising; special offers (e.g. ‘Happy Hours’ and ‘all you can drink’ specials); bartenders’ use of strategic intimacy, flirtation, and encouragements to buy more; speed drinking devices (e.g. shot glasses, ‘beer bongs’ and large pitchers); and architectural features that hamper moderate drinking while accelerating the purchase and intake of alcohol. These techniques were used most extensively in low-priced venues with the youngest patrons (e.g. themed chain pubs) and less so in more expensive venues with more adult patrons (e.g. craft beer bars). The paper argues that youth-oriented drinking venues may be conceived as staged atmospheres of consumption where individuals are seduced and compelled into purchasing alcohol. A team of 12 researchers collected the data through interviews and observations in pubs, bars and nightclubs in four cities across Denmark.

Wine attractions at hotels: study of online reviews

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to delineate the role of wine at hotels from the customer’s perspective by analyzing New York City hotel reviews posted on TripAdvisor.Design/methodology/approachThis study used content analysis to study 26,831 wine-relevant reviews that had been posted on TripAdvisor’s New York City hotels by April 12, 2018. Two trained coders quantified and tallied the presence of themes based on the pre-established coding scheme.FindingsWine was mentioned in the online reviews in expressing positive, negative or neutral hotel experiences. Of the 877,616 New York City hotel reviews, about 3 per cent contained the keyword “wine.” The three most frequently mentioned wine-related positive experiences were free happy hours, a surprise bottle of complimentary wine and the fun of pairing food and wine. The top three wine-related negative experiences were pricey/expensive/overpriced wine, poor wine list and poor quality of wine. The study found that hotel guests liked wine and that it had become a significant aspect of their lodging experience.Originality/valueThis study adds value to the literature of hotel wines by divulging hotel customers’ wine-related experiences through their online comments and by providing a snapshot of hotel guests’ wine-drinking behavior. The findings can provide an insight for hotels to further the use of wine as a means to enhance guest experience and to generate additional revenue.

Wagering Advertisements and Inducements: Exposure and Perceived Influence on Betting Behaviour.

A proliferation of wagering advertising has raised concerns about its effects, especially on vulnerable gamblers. This study examined exposure to wagering advertisements and inducements, and their reported influence on the size, frequency and riskiness of bets placed-amongst regular bettors and by gambler risk group. An Ecological Momentary Assessment design minimised recall bias. After completing a baseline survey, 722 regular bettors completed up to 15 surveys administered on 5 days per week over three non-consecutive weeks. Data were analysed for the 316 race bettors and 279 sports bettors completing at least one survey. The results indicate that regular bettors have almost daily exposure to wagering advertising, including for inducements. The most frequently seen and influential advertisement types were direct messages (emails, texts and/or phone calls from wagering operators, which, in Australia, bettors are automatically opted-into when opening a betting account) and advertisements on betting websites or apps. Participants reported the most influential inducements to be: stake-back offers, multi-bet offers, match your stake or deposit offers, better odds/winnings inducements, happy hours, rewards programs, and cash out early offers. The findings indicate that wagering advertisements, including for inducements, are likely to be having powerful effects on regular bettors. On each day that respondents saw these advertisements (most days for most advertisement types), substantial minorities reported increased size and frequency of betting. Results did not vary by gambler risk group. Understanding which types of wagering advertising are associated with most gambling-related harm can inform advertising regulations, targeted public health interventions, and future research.

The Huntsman

The Huntsman Lisa Taddeo (bio) It was the early aughts, and she was working with a group of married men on Forty-Seventh and Ninth. They were transferring newspaper stories onto the internet. Her coworkers' wives were long-nailed and harmless back in Long Island and New Jersey. These men couldn't wrap their heads around city girls, who didn't crave houses but parties. They wanted for women more now that they were married. Their faces keened with middling greed. In the end they were satisfied with free drinks. The regulars sat on their regular stools. They stared at their well drinks and the bartender's hands in that habit that regulars have of looking at something and nothing and owning the real estate in between. One vaporized accountant was eating chocolate ice cream. It melted in a silver cup while he sipped whisky. He reminded her of Christmases past. There were some underage Australian girls. Some Irishmen who should have beards and some young men who shouldn't. [End Page 629] Her coworkers stood in a loose circle by the dart board. At twenty-four, she was wiser than them, with their mini bagels and their gray pants. They talked about public golf courses and never touched the jukebox. When she got bored, she slipped out for cigarettes. Her friends wanted to know where she went on Thursdays. She could not say, Midtown. She felt it was more restful to hang with encrusted men than with a bottleneck of girls her own age, most with nicer hair and clothes. That it was advantageous, even, to be with these guys. Especially Mac. Mac was the new boss. He was fat and balding. His pate shone like a frog. In Montclair he had a wife and a slow son and a skinny daughter. She spied pictures of them on his credenza. He talked about the girl, about her riding horses. Mentioned hunters and dressage as if they weren't any different. He wore expensive ties and smoked only when she did, to ride the elevator with her and go through the revolving door behind her. The coders feared him. All week they affixed the right tag to a certain story with doggedness. They had done it sloppily for years, but when Mac was hired it became poetry. He made them feel like sons. She sensed his infatuation at the first meeting. It came across the kidney-shaped table. She wore a vintage peasant top and blue jeans. Her shoulders were young and pointed unreliably towards heaven. Mac looked at her and couldn't thereafter look at anything else. Forty minutes or however long it lasted. She accepted the gaze. She didn't put it in her pocket but let it hover in the air around her forehead. She was weekendly in love with someone at the time, some thin boy inside her phone. Being cherished by a kind, fat man in New York, in the middle of all the loathing and long lines, is like Popeyeing spinach. [End Page 630] For several months she received the usual favors. Coming in late without consequence, leaving a meeting early. She took her lunches in the museum, lingering ten, fifteen minutes past the hour. When September came, she enjoyed glasses of crisp white wine at outdoor tables, reading books and magazines. In turn the work she produced was golden. Being teacher's pet will do that. Girls her age had Labor Day plans, Montauk and heartless. She had Mac. She didn't have to do anything to maintain his reverence besides exist. She had to keep being pretty, but even if she had a breakout, or chopped her hair too short, she would still retain the early effulgence. A man must only see a woman as beautiful once. For one minute she must impress him and thereafter, nevermore. ________ Mac's hiring had coincided with nightly happy hours for the group. He always paid for the first few rounds. He used the company card but occasionally slid across his own. The men drank beers; she drank Merlot, at seven dollars a glass, out of plastic goblets. Generally the wine tasted of puke. He...

The Serpent

The Serpent Wayne Karlin (bio) If not for the sign in front of the gravel parking lot, the permanently sputtering and fly-specked neon Budweiser advertisement, and the Happy Hour sign behind the dirt-filmed glass of the window, the Rondezvous Bar and Lounge could be taken for the house of a heartbroken widower who no longer gives a damn: loose boards, green paint peeling off loose boards, a porch shaded by a sagging tin overhang, the roof shingles winged up here and there or missing in patches, with the underlying creosote sheets showing through like wounds. The sign always bothered me when I drove by the place, as if the misspelled French would confirm some redneck stereotype of the county to visitors. I once pulled in, had a beer, and mentioned the mistake in the spelling to the owner, Tom Delaney. Delaney, a three-hundred-pound man with a shaved head, Fu Manchu moustache, prison tattoos, and cigarette burn scars on hairy arms, had lowered his head, looked at me, and growled, "What are you, a Democrat?" He gave me the same look as I came in now. He was wearing a black Harley Davidson t-shirt, sagging black jeans, and scuffed engineer boots. He wiped the bar counter with a rag that looked like it could have been used to wipe grease from his motorcycle, if he had had one. He didn't. Some of the tattoos that had been on his arms were gone also, replaced by the red burn and pucker of laser scars, defoliated patches in the pelt that covered his arms. The tattoos had included the shamrock symbols of the Aryan Brotherhood, but as it turned out, he'd never been in prison or owned a motorcycle. In fact, he drove a Subaru wagon and had bought the bar, apparently fulfilling the shape of some lifelong dream, after he'd sold an arts-and-crafts supply store his family had owned in PG county. When I'd gotten his background information from our sheriff, Russell Hallam, I'd felt disappointed: it turned out that both he and the bar were concepts themselves, like the '50s-style diners I'd see in Bethesda or Tyson's Corners or Annapolis, as if nothing of our time now on earth could be anything but shadows on the cave wall, legitimized only through older models. Delaney's tattoos had gone after some actual Aryan brothers had seen them and given him a choice between erasure and amputation. As far as I knew, though, none of the other clientele saw the bar or Delaney as anything more than they purported to be. I'd never told anyone what Hallam [End Page 78] had told me about Delaney, and as long as the Brotherhood didn't come around, he was a man content in his reinvention, at it for so long that he'd become it. As soon as my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I spotted Joleen Baird, sitting in a booth near the bathroom, a glass and a nearly empty pitcher of draft beer in front of her, her finger pushing thin wakes out of the net of foam on the scarred tabletop. She was the only customer, which, it being ten in the morning, was not surprising, though not always the case. She turned to me, and I saw her in the light of the Coors neon waterfall near the mirror. She looked lacquered. I don't mean drunk. I mean lacquered. As if someone had poured a gallon of lacquer over her head that had dried and encased her in a sheen. Her blonde hair sat like a helmet on her head, and her face—bright-red lipstick, penciled eyebrows, artificial lashes—looked as if a wax death mask had been fastened to it. Like the bar and Delaney, she'd become a painting of herself. Thinking that, I remembered how in middle school I'd tried to earnestly explain to her the correct the spelling of her name—some early marker, I suppose, of my journalistic predisposition. It should be j-o-l-e-n-e, I told her. Later, I found out that the...

Seriously Drunk

The call for contributions to the ‘Under the Influence’ edition of Performance Research (Volume 22, Issue 6, 2017) invited contributors to consider the ways that performance ‘mobilizes intoxication and altered states’ and to consider how narcotics, psychedelics and other stimulants destabilize the norms of theatricality’. Several of the articles in the publication considered alcohol as ‘an inherently performative substance’ (Drobnick 2018: 26), others explored instances of performance being adopted to help tackle substance addiction or provide therapeutic care. This article responds to the idea that alcohol can be regarded as a performative substance and interrogates this proposition in relation to two pieces of performance: Wendy Houstoun’s Happy Hour (1998) and Anders Härm’s Be Drunk, Be Very, Very Drunk (2005). Each production presents alcohol as a substance that would ordinarily be seen to undermine rather than reinforce the gravitas of knowledge shared while ‘under the influence’. Within their performances Härm and Houstoun invoke seriousness as if it would have little relevance to alcohol and being drunk. Härm’s invocation functions as a challenge to the sterility of ideas coming from ‘dead-serious art historians’ and Houstoun’s to the more pessimistic ideas customarily associated with drinking. Härm borrows from Deleuze and Guattari to develop the notion of a ‘real life’ idiot savant using alcohol to make it easier to ask questions about established ways of thinking about and understanding the world. Houstoun rejects the negative associations of the pub being a male-dominated space and rejoices in the freedom alcohol gives her to make new friends, appreciate music and withdraw from the tedium of daily life. Both demonstrate awareness that their association with alcohol might undermine their status in a ‘dead-serious’ context and yet they reject this construction of gravitas and insist that resistant and inventive forms of knowledge can be discovered while under the influence of alcoholic drink. Rather than denigrate the effects of alcohol Härm and Houstoun celebrate the freedom that can be found in drunken conviviality.

Happy hour drink specials in the Alcohol Purchase Task.

There is strong evidence to suggest that happy hour drink specials are associated with undesirable outcomes such as increased amount of drinking, increased likelihood of being highly intoxicated, and increased likelihood of experiencing negative outcomes related to drinking (e.g., getting into fights). Public policy efforts have been made to ban or at least restrict alcohol drink specials. Research in behavioral economics-primarily demand curve analyses-has yielded valuable insights into the role of environmental effects on reinforcer consumption, especially within the context of alcohol reinforcement. The use of the Alcohol Purchase Task (APT), which asks respondents to report how many alcoholic drinks they would be willing to purchase at various prices, has contributed greatly to these efforts. The purpose of the current experiment was to determine whether self-reported consumption of alcohol on an APT changes when participants imagine a hypothetical "happy hour" scenario, akin to drink specials encountered in the real world. Results from the current experiment extend previous literature on APT vignette manipulations and provide implications for efforts to reduce problematic drinking. (PsycINFO Database Record

Transferring and trading on insider information in the United States and Australia: just a case of happy hour drinks?

AbstractThis study examines and compares insider trading laws across Australia and the United States. Motivation is provided by academic studies that provide a global comparison of insider trading without analysis of divergent interpretations and liabilities. For example, sharing confidential information with friends over Friday night drinks may have completely different legal consequences across different countries. The possibility of higher or lower legal sanction offers research opportunities in the areas of government‐supervised firms, tipping to short sellers and insider trading when firms are cross‐listed in countries with different insider trading regimes.

A Social Media-Based Acute Alcohol Consumption Behavior (NekNomination): Case Series in Italian Emergency Departments.

BackgroundNekNomination, also known as NekNominate, Neck and Nominate, or Neck Nomination, is a social network–based drinking game which is thought to have originated in Australia and spread all over the world between 2013 and 2014. Individuals record videos of themselves while rapidly drinking excessive quantities of alcoholic drinks (necking) and then nominate friends to outdo them within 24 hours; the videos are then posted on social media such as Facebook or YouTube. The consequences of this drinking game have been very dangerous; at least 5 people under age 30 years have died after drinking deadly cocktails, and many others have suffered from alcohol intoxication.ObjectiveThe goal of the research is to evaluate data about clinically important acute alcohol intoxication among teenagers and young adults and inform and educate the general public, especially parents, teachers, and health workers, about the spreading craze of dangerous Internet-related behavior among today’s teenagers and young people up to the age of 23 years.MethodsPatients aged 15 to 23 years with acute alcohol intoxication who came to the emergency department (ED) of 2 major hospitals in Italy from January 1, 2011, to June 30, 2014, were included in this study. Data were retrieved from prehospital and intrahospital medical records and included personal information, methods of intoxication, triage color code, date and time of access to the ED, any relevant signs and symptoms, blood alcohol concentration, and diagnosis at discharge.ResultsA total of 450 young patients (male 277/450, 61.5%, female 173/450, 38.5%; age 15 to 16 years 15/450, 3.3%, age 17 to 18 years 184/450, 40.9%, age 19 to 23 years 251/450, 55.8%) were recruited. The causes of intoxication were happy hour, binge drinking, NekNominate, eyeballing, other alcoholic games, or a mix of them. Happy hour was found to be more common among the older patients, whereas NekNominate accounted for almost half of the youngest group of hospitalizations. Eyeballing occurred in 1.6% (7/450) of cases; binge drinking and other alcoholic games caused 23.3% (105/450) and 23.8% (107/450) of hospitalizations, respectively. On admission, 44.2% (199/450) of patients were assigned a red or yellow color code requiring immediate medical attention; about 14% of them required additional medical assistance (after being in the ED) or hospitalization, some in semi-intensive care units.ConclusionsOur study shows that the increased numbers of hospitalizations due to alcohol intoxication in the adolescent age group, as a consequence of NekNominate or other drinking games, is alarming and represents a serious public health issue. The potential markers of improper use of social networks must be clearly identified, including categories at risk of alcohol abuse, in order to develop intervention and prevention strategies in terms of education and awareness, which may help in averting potentially fatal episodes.

Determination of Ascorbic Acid Concentration of Some Commercial Fruits Juices Sold in Ugbokolo Benue State, Nigeria

This research was aimed at investigating the concentration of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) in some commercial fruits juices: ‘5’ Alive, Hollandia yoghurt, Nutri milk, Ribena, Lacasera, Happy hour, Viju milk, Chi exotic and Chi vita sold in Ugbokolo, Benue State, Nigeria by titrimetric method using 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP) as titrant. The ascorbic acid (AA) content in milligram per 100ml of the various juices investigated is in the order: ‘5’ Alive (11.25) > Ribena (5.47) > nutri milk (5.31) > Happy hour (4.38) > Hollandia yoghurt (1.25) > Lacasera (0.47) ≈ Chi exotic (0.47) >Viju milk (0.31) > Chi vita (0.16). It was observed that half a litre of ‘5’ Alive (56.25 mg AA) a day is suitable for adults and pregnant women, a litre each of Ribena (54.70 mg AA) and Nutri milk (53.10 mg AA) per day for adults, while a litre of Happy hour (43.80 mg AA) per day is suitable for adolescents. It can be concluded that commercial fruits juices when taken in large amount will add to the daily human dietary intake of the vitamin.

APA’s Component Meetings: One Resident’s Experience

APA’s Component Meetings: One Resident’s Experience

Big Lie. Little Lie., and: Nowhere: A Study, and: At the Seaside Cemetery in Blue Hill, Maine, and: The Last Happy Hour

Big Lie. Little Lie., and: Nowhere: A Study, and: At the Seaside Cemetery in Blue Hill, Maine, and: The Last Happy Hour Daniel Anderson (bio) Big Lie. Little Lie All summer long, outside Duke’s Pony Keg, at the chili parlor and mall, I listened, half in envy, half in awe, each time a kid came back from Hayseed, Indiana, or the beach, New Hampshire or some faraway lake in Podunk, Arkansas. All hot Ohio summer long at Putt-Putt Kingdom and the zoo, and in the mildewed, humid locker room at our public pool, I heard about farm girls and college girls, the easy, the insatiable, and the fast. All boring, hot Ohio summer long, I never doubted—not once— things I couldn’t contradict myself about redheads and brunettes, or the proven scientific facts about green eyes and hazel eyes, gymnasts and ballerinas. Or what Jack Barton told us once at Dairy Queen. Shit, ladies, listen up!I’ve done it with a housewife. In her car. It was a Cadillac. Goddamn, one of us said. Jack was two years ahead of us in school. Goddamn! Sometimes I can still smell the heavy, sweet, almost vanilla air of fresh-cut Cincinnati grass. I can still see the blue-green evening cast [End Page 55] the moment I, before I even knew I was about to lie, had lied. In West Virginia. At my cousin’s house. This older girl. You wouldn’t know her. I can still hear that ratchet-ratchet song of katydids and the insistent spank and rubber echo of the basketball. Goddamn! Even if they didn’t believe me, they let me live that lie. But it was five years later, actually, in March of 1983. By then two of those friends had moved. By then the third had died. I was skinny and a little shy with lots of feathered, soft brown hair. Rain rattled on the corrugated roof of her stepfather’s cabin in the woods. Candles in old wine jugs. Candles in jelly jars and ashtrays blown from amber glass and green glass. Candles fragrant with cinnamon and pine. The whole room bloomed. A dusty sofa. The shotgun on the wall. Bookcases and a hi-fi stereo. Our faces and our naked bodies bloomed in nervous, pale gold candlelight. Why lie? Whatever happened then was brief. A sudden shudder into bliss. Then gratitude. Then something close to guilt. Sometimes, I can still see her blonde hair rinsing down on me. She wore a slim, delicate chain that fell in silver twists and wrinkles like the rain. Why lie? Whatever happened then was nothing like it should have been. Whatever really is? I haven’t told this to a soul, and even now, in telling you, I’m not sure what I make of it. [End Page 56] But something has troubled me for years. Our whole time in that candle-driven light she had an almost angry look, some inward rage or bothered kind of fire. It flashed across her face. For just a little while that night it darkened Paradise, and glittered in her blue unblinking eyes. [End Page 57] Nowhere: A Study If anywhere is nowhere then this is truly it, a Texaco in Kansas where interstate and county road have crossed. A metal fan blows lukewarm air against the sun-toasted face of Gus whose desk looks out on fields of platinum and tasseled wheat. Out in the garage the grease-gun pops and sighs. A fumbled monkey wrench smacks on the concrete floor. You pissant son-of-a-bitch! And then another falls. Gus rolls his Holstein eyes. The office smells of burned coffee, rubber, and old coins. How long has it been, how many presidents since anything in here was new? The once-white phone on the wall, a Coke machine and water cooler, Gus’s Daily Telegram, everything seems thumbed and blessed with smears of motor-oil blue, that same deep thunder-colored hue gathering over grain crops in the west [End Page 58] where savage lightning maps the charcoal and unstable atmosphere. A man on Gus’s radio says the inner-city poor aren’t...