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Hypocalcemia is a total serum calcium concentration < 8.8 mg/dL (< 2.20 mmol/L) in the presence of normal plasma protein concentrations or a serum ionized calcium concentration < 4.7 mg/dL (< 1.17 mmol/L). Causes include hypoparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, and renal disease. Manifestations include paresthesias, tetany, and, when severe, seizures, encephalopathy, and heart failure. Diagnosis involves measurement of serum calcium with adjustment for serum albumin concentration. Treatment is administration of calcium, sometimes with vitamin D.

Hypocalcemia has a number of causes, including

  • Hypoparathyroidism

  • Pseudohypoparathyroidism

  • Vitamin D deficiency and dependency

  • Renal disease

Hypoparathyroidism is characterized by hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia and often causes chronic tetany. Hypoparathyroidism results from deficient parathyroid hormone (PTH), which can occur in autoimmune disorders or after the accidental removal of or damage to several parathyroid glands during thyroidectomy. Transient hypoparathyroidism is common after subtotal thyroidectomy, but permanent hypoparathyroidism occurs after < 3% of such thyroidectomies done by experienced surgeons. Manifestations of hypocalcemia usually begin about 24 to 48 h postoperatively but may occur after months or years. PTH deficiency is more common after radical thyroidectomy for cancer or as the result of surgery on the parathyroid glands (subtotal or total parathyroidectomy). Risk factors for severe hypocalcemia after subtotal parathyroidectomy include

  • Severe preoperative hypercalcemia

  • Removal of a large adenoma

  • Elevated alkaline phosphatase

  • Chronic kidney disease

Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism is an uncommon sporadic or inherited condition in which the parathyroid glands are absent or atrophied. It manifests in childhood. The parathyroid glands are occasionally absent and thymic aplasia and abnormalities of the arteries arising from the brachial arches ( DiGeorge syndrome) are present. Other inherited forms include polyglandular autoimmune failure syndrome, autoimmune hypoparathyroidism associated with mucocutaneous candidiasis, and X-linked recessive idiopathic hypoparathyroidism.

Pseudohypoparathyroidism is an uncommon group of disorders characterized not by hormone deficiency but by target organ resistance to PTH. Complex genetic transmission of these disorders occurs.

Type Ia pseudohypoparathyroidism (Albright hereditary osteodystrophy) is caused by a mutation in the stimulatory Gs-alpha1 protein of the adenylyl cyclase complex ( GNAS1 ). The result is failure of normal renal phosphaturic response or increase in urinary cAMP to PTH. Patients are usually hypocalcemic and hyperphosphatemic. Secondary hyperparathyroidism and hyperparathyroid bone disease can occur. Associated abnormalities include short stature, round facies, intellectual disability with calcification of the basal ganglia, shortened metacarpal and metatarsal bones, mild hypothyroidism, and other subtle endocrine abnormalities. Because only the maternal allele for GNAS1 is expressed in the kidneys, patients whose abnormal gene is paternal, although they have many of the somatic features of the disease, do not have hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, or secondary hyperparathyroidism; this condition is sometimes described as pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.

Type Ib pseudohypoparathyroidism is less well known. Affected patients have hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and secondary hyperparathyroidism but do not have the other associated abnormalities.

Type II pseudohypoparathyroidism is even less common than type I. In affected patients, exogenous PTH raises the urinary cAMP normally but does not raise serum calcium or urinary phosphate. An intracellular resistance to cAMP has been proposed.

Vitamin D deficiency and dependency

Vitamin D deficiency and dependency are discussed in full elsewhere.

Vitamin D is ingested in foods naturally high in vitamin D or fortified with it. It is also formed in the skin in response to sunlight (UV light). Vitamin D deficiency may result from inadequate dietary intake or decreased absorption due to hepatobiliary disease or intestinal malabsorption. It can also result from alterations in vitamin D metabolism as occur with certain drugs (eg, phenytoin, phenobarbital, rifampin) or from decreased formation in the skin due to lack of exposure to sunlight. Aging also decreases skin synthetic capacity.

Decreased skin synthesis is an important cause of acquired vitamin D deficiency among people who spend a great deal of time indoors, who live in high northern or southern latitudes, and who wear clothing that covers them completely or frequently use sunblocking agents. Accordingly, subclinical vitamin D deficiency is fairly common, especially during winter months in temperate climates among the elderly. The institutionalized elderly are at particular risk because of decreased skin synthetic capacity, undernutrition, and lack of sun exposure. In fact, most people with deficiency have both decreased skin synthesis and dietary deficiency. However, most clinicians feel that the significant dangers of skin cancer outweigh the as yet unproven risk of moderately low vitamin D levels so increasing sun exposure or doing without sunblocks is not recommended; vitamin D supplements are readily available for patients with concerns.

Vitamin D–dependency results from the inability to convert vitamin D to its active form or decreased responsiveness of end-organs to adequate levels of active vitamin.

  • Type I vitamin D–dependent rickets (pseudovitamin D–deficiency rickets) is an autosomal recessive disorder involving a mutation in the gene encoding the 1-alpha-hydroxylase enzyme. Normally expressed in the kidney, 1-alpha-hydroxylase is needed to convert inactive vitamin D to the active form calcitriol .

  • In type II vitamin D–dependent rickets, target organs cannot respond to calcitriol . Vitamin D deficiency, hypocalcemia, and severe hypophosphatemia occur. Muscle weakness, pain, and typical bone deformities can occur.

Renal disease

Renal tubular disease, including acquired proximal renal tubular acidosis due to nephrotoxins (eg, heavy metals, cadmium in particular) and distal renal tubular acidosis, can cause severe hypocalcemia due to abnormal renal loss of calcium and decreased renal conversion of vitamin D to active 1,25(OH)2D.

Renal failure can result in diminished formation of 1,25(OH)2D due to

  • Direct renal cell damage

  • Suppression of 1-alpha-hydroxylase (needed for the vitamin D conversion) by hyperphosphatemia

Other causes

Other causes of hypocalcemia include

  • Magnesium depletion (can cause relative PTH deficiency and end-organ resistance to PTH action, usually when serum magnesium concentrations are < 1.0 mg/dL [< 0.5 mmol/L]; magnesium repletion increases PTH concentrations and improves renal calcium conservation)

  • Acute pancreatitis (when lipolytic products released from the inflamed pancreas chelate calcium)

  • Hypoproteinemia (reduces the protein-bound fraction of serum calcium; hypocalcemia due to diminished protein binding is asymptomatic—because ionized calcium is unchanged, this entity has been termed factitious hypocalcemia)

  • Hungry bone syndrome (persistent hypocalcemia and hypophosphatemia occurring after surgical or medical correction of moderate to severe hyperparathyroidism in patients in whom serum calcium concentrations had been supported by high bone turnover induced by greatly elevated PTH—hungry bone syndrome has been described after parathyroidectomy, after renal transplantation, and rarely in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with calcimimetics)

  • Septic shock (due to suppression of PTH release and decreased conversion of 25(OH)D to 1,25(OH)2D)

  • Hyperphosphatemia (causes hypocalcemia by poorly understood mechanisms; patients with renal failure and subsequent phosphate retention are particularly prone)

  • Drugs including anticonvulsants (eg, phenytoin, phenobarbital) and rifampin, which alter vitamin D metabolism, and drugs generally used to treat hypercalcemia

  • Transfusion of > 10 units of citrate-anticoagulated blood and use of radiocontrast agents containing the divalent ion-chelating agent ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA—can decrease the concentration of bioavailable ionized calcium while total serum calcium concentrations remain unchanged)

  • Infusion of gadolinium (may spuriously lower calcium concentration)

Although excessive secretion of calcitonin might be expected to cause hypocalcemia, calcitonin actually has only a minor effect on serum calcium. For example, low serum calcium concentrations rarely occur in patients with large amounts of circulating calcitonin due to medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.

Symptoms and Signs

Hypocalcemia is frequently asymptomatic. The presence of hypoparathyroidism is often suggested by the clinical manifestations of the underlying disorder (eg, short stature, round facies, intellectual disability, basal ganglia calcification in type Ia pseudohypoparathyroidism).

Major clinical manifestations of hypocalcemia are due to disturbances in cellular membrane potential, resulting in neuromuscular irritability.

Neurologic manifestations

Muscle cramps involving the back and legs are common.

Insidious hypocalcemia may cause mild, diffuse encephalopathy and should be suspected in patients with unexplained dementia, depression, or psychosis.

Papilledema occasionally occurs.

Severe hypocalcemia with serum calcium < 7 mg/dL (< 1.75 mmol/L) may cause hyperreflexia, tetany, laryngospasm, or generalized seizures.

Tetany characteristically results from severe hypocalcemia but can result from reduction in the ionized fraction of serum calcium without marked hypocalcemia, as occurs in severe alkalosis. Tetany is characterized by the following:

  • Sensory symptoms consisting of paresthesias of the lips, tongue, fingers, and feet

  • Carpopedal spasm, which may be prolonged and painful

  • Generalized muscle aching

  • Spasm of facial musculature

Tetany may be overt with spontaneous symptoms or latent and requiring provocative tests to elicit. Latent tetany generally occurs at less severely decreased serum calcium concentrations: 7 to 8 mg/dL (1.75 to 2.20 mmol/L).

Chvostek and Trousseau signs are easily elicited at the bedside to identify latent tetany.

Chvostek sign is an involuntary twitching of the facial muscles elicited by a light tapping of the facial nerve just anterior to the exterior auditory meatus. It is present in 10% of healthy people and in most people with acute hypocalcemia but is often absent in chronic hypocalcemia.

Trousseau sign is the precipitation of carpal spasm by reduction of the blood supply to the hand with a tourniquet or BP cuff inflated to 20 mm Hg above systolic BP applied to the forearm for 3 min. Trousseau sign also occurs in alkalosis, hypomagnesemia, hypokalemia, and hyperkalemia and in about 6% of people with no identifiable electrolyte disturbance.

Other manifestations

Many other abnormalities may occur with chronic hypocalcemia, such as dry and scaly skin, brittle nails, and coarse hair. Candida infections occasionally occur in hypocalcemia but most commonly occur in patients with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism. Cataracts occasionally occur with long-standing hypocalcemia and are not reversible by correction of serum calcium.

  • Estimation or measurement of ionized calcium (the physiologically active form of calcium)

  • Sometimes further testing, including measurement of magnesium, PTH, phosphate, alkaline phosphatase, and vitamin D concentrations in blood and cAMP and phosphate concentrations in urine

Hypocalcemia may be suspected in patients with characteristic neurologic manifestations or cardiac arrhythmias but is often found incidentally. Hypocalcemia is diagnosed by a total serum calcium concentration < 8.8 mg/dL (< 2.20 mmol/L). However, because low plasma protein can lower total, but not ionized, serum calcium, ionized calcium should be estimated based on albumin concentration (see Estimation of Ionized Calcium Concentration).

Suspicion of low ionized calcium mandates its direct measurement, despite normal total serum calcium. A serum ionized calcium concentration < 4.7 mg/dL (< 1.17 mmol/L) is low.

Hypocalcemic patients should undergo measurement of renal function (eg, BUN, creatinine), serum phosphate, magnesium, and alkaline phosphatase.

When no etiology (eg, alkalosis, renal failure, drugs, or massive blood transfusion) is obvious, further testing is needed (see Table: Typical Laboratory Test Results in Some Disorders Causing Hypocalcemia). Additional testing begins with serum concentrations of magnesium, phosphate, PTH, alkaline phosphatase, and occasionally vitamin D levels (25(OH)D, and 1,25(OH)2D). Urinary phosphate and cAMP concentrations are measured when pseudohypoparathyroidism is suspected.

PTH concentration should be measured as an assay of the intact molecule. Because hypocalcemia is the major stimulus for PTH secretion, PTH normally should be elevated in response to hypocalcemia. Thus,

  • Low or even low-normal PTH concentrations are inappropriate and suggest hypoparathyroidism.

  • An undetectable PTH concentration suggests idiopathic hypoparathyroidism.

  • A high PTH concentration suggests pseudohypoparathyroidism or an abnormality of vitamin D metabolism.

Hypoparathyroidism is further characterized by high serum phosphate and normal alkaline phosphatase.

In type I pseudohypoparathyroidism, despite the presence of a high concentration of circulating PTH, urinary cAMP and urinary phosphate are absent. Provocative testing by injection of parathyroid extract or recombinant human PTH fails to raise serum or urinary cAMP. Patients with type Ia pseudohypoparathyroidism frequently also have skeletal abnormalities, including short stature and shortened 1st, 4th, and 5th metacarpals. Patients with type Ib disease have renal manifestations without skeletal abnormalities.

In vitamin D deficiency, osteomalacia or rickets may be present, usually with typical skeletal abnormalities on x-ray. Diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency and dependency and measurement of vitamin D concentrations are discussed elsewhere.

Typical Laboratory Test Results in Some Disorders Causing Hypocalcemia

Surgical hypoparathyroidism

Low or low-normal PTH

Normal or high serum PO4

Low urinary PO4

Normal serum alkaline phosphatase

Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism

Undetectable PTH

High serum PO4

Low urinary PO4

Normal serum alkaline phosphatase

Type Ia pseudohypoparathyroidism (Albright hereditary osteodystrophy)

High PTH

High serum PO4

No urinary cAMP or increase in PO4 excretion even after injection of parathyroid extract or PTH

Skeletal and other abnormalities

Type Ib pseudohypoparathyroidism

High PTH

High serum PO4

No urinary cAMP or increase in PO4 excretion even after injection of parathyroid extract or PTH

No skeletal abnormalities

Type II pseudohypoparathyroidism

High PTH

High serum PO4

No urinary cAMP or PO4

Injection of PTH increases urinary cAMP but not urinary PO4

Normal or high vitamin D concentrations

Vitamin D deficiency

High PTH

Low serum PO4

High alkaline phosphatase

Low 25(OH)D*

Type I hereditary vitamin D–dependent rickets

High PTH

Low serum PO4

High alkaline phosphatase

X-ray evidence of rickets

Normal serum 25(OH)D

Low serum 1,25(OH)2D

Type II hereditary vitamin D–dependent rickets

High PTH

Low serum PO4

High alkaline phosphatase

X-ray evidence of rickets

Normal or high serum 25(OH)D

Normal or high 1,25(OH)2D

*Measurement of serum 25(OH)D and 1,25(OH)2D may help distinguish vitamin D deficiency from vitamin D–dependent states.

1,25(OH)2D = 1,25-dihydroxychoecalciferol or calcitriol ; 25(OH)D = inactive vitamin D; PO4= phosphate; PTH = parathyroid hormone.

Severe hypocalcemia can affect the ECG. It typically shows prolongation of the QTc and ST intervals. Changes in repolarization, such as T-wave peaking or inversion, also occur. ECG may show arrhythmia or heart block occasionally in patients with severe hypocalcemia. However, evaluation of isolated hypocalcemia does not mandate ECG testing.

  • IV calcium gluconate for tetany

  • Oral calcium for postoperative hypoparathyroidism

  • Oral calcium and vitamin D for chronic hypocalcemia

For tetany, calcium gluconate 10 mL of 10% solution IV over 10 min is given. Response can be dramatic but may last for only a few hours. Repeated boluses or a continuous infusion with 20 to 30 mL of 10% calcium gluconate in 1 L of 5% D/W over the next 12 to 24 h may be needed. Infusions of calcium are hazardous in patients receiving digoxin and should be given slowly and with continuous ECG monitoring after checking for (and correcting) hypokalemia. When tetany is associated with hypomagnesemia, it may respond transiently to calcium or potassium administration but is permanently relieved only by repletion of magnesium, typically given as a 10% magnesium sulfate solution (1 g/10 mL) IV, followed by oral magnesium salts (eg, magnesium gluconate 500 to 1000 mg po tid).

Pearls & Pitfalls

  • Infusions of calcium are hazardous in patients receiving digoxin and should be given slowly and with continuous ECG monitoring after checking for (and correcting) hypokalemia.

Transient hypoparathyroidism

In transient hypoparathyroidism after thyroidectomy or partial parathyroidectomy, supplemental oral calcium may be sufficient: 1 to 2 g of elemental calcium/day may be given as calcium gluconate (90 mg elemental calcium/1 g) or calcium carbonate (400 mg elemental calcium/1 g).

Hypocalcemia may be particularly severe and prolonged after subtotal parathyroidectomy, particularly in patients with chronic kidney disease or in patients from whom a large tumor was removed. Prolonged parenteral administration of calcium may be necessary postoperatively; supplementation with as much as 1 g/day of elemental calcium (eg, 111 mL of calcium gluconate, which contains 90 mg elemental calcium/10 mL) may be required for 5 to 10 days before oral calcium and vitamin D are sufficient. Elevated serum alkaline phosphatase in such patients may be a sign of rapid uptake of calcium into bone. The need for large amounts of parenteral calcium usually does not fall until the alkaline phosphatase concentration begins to decrease.

Chronic hypocalcemia

In chronic hypocalcemia, oral calcium and occasionally vitamin D supplements are usually sufficient: 1 to 2 g of elemental calcium/day may be given as calcium gluconate or calcium carbonate. In patients without renal failure, vitamin D is given as a standard oral supplement (eg, cholecalciferol 800 IU once/day). Vitamin D therapy is not effective unless adequate dietary or supplemental calcium and phosphate (see Hypophosphatemia : Treatment) are supplied.

For patients with renal failure, calcitriol or another 1,25(OH)2D analog is used because these drugs require no renal metabolic alteration. Patients with hypoparathyroidism have difficulty converting cholecalciferol to its active form and also usually require calcitriol, usually 0.5 to 2 mcg po once/day. Pseudohypoparathyroidism can occasionally be managed with oral calcium supplementation alone. When used, calcitriol requires 1 to 3 mcg/day.

Vitamin D analogs include dihydrotachysterol (usually given orally at 0.8 to 2.4 once/day for a few days, followed by 0.2 to 1.0 mg once/day) and calcidiol (eg, 4000 to 6000 IU po once/wk). Use of vitamin D analogs, particularly the longer-acting calcidiol, can be complicated by vitamin D toxicity, with severe symptomatic hypercalcemia. Serum calcium concentration should be monitored weekly at first and then at 1- to 3-mo intervals after calcium concentrations have stabilized. The maintenance dose of calcitriol or its analog, dihydrotachysterol, usually decreases with time.

Key Points

  • Causes of hypocalcemia include hypoparathyroidism, pseudohypoparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, and renal failure.

  • Mild hypocalcemia may be asymptomatic or cause muscle cramps.

  • Severe hypocalcemia (serum calcium < 7 mg/dL [< 1.75 mmol/L]) may cause hyperreflexia, tetany (paresthesias of the lips, tongue, fingers, and feet, carpopedal and/or facial spasms, muscle aches), or generalized seizures.

  • Diagnose by estimation or measurement of ionized (not total) serum calcium.

  • Typically, measure serum concentrations of magnesium, phosphate, PTH, alkaline phosphatase, and occasionally vitamin D levels.

  • Give IV calcium gluconate to patients with tetany; treat others with oral calcium supplements.

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Staff members in the airport operations center who monitor security screens were likely distracted by other duties, including taking phone calls and dispatching security officers to deal with door alarms or other routine issues, airport spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said. No one can watch the monitors at every moment, she said, revealing for the first time how airport officials might have missed the breach that resulted in the teen taking a death-defying 5-1/2-hour flight in the wheel well to Maui. And the teenager — a Somalia refugee whose father said Wednesday had trouble adapting to American life — was easy to miss, sources said, hiding in the first plane he encountered after hopping the barbed wire-topped fence from a remote corner of the airport grounds under the cover of night.

While Yahya’s escapade, which began either late Saturday or early Sunday, didn’t attract airport security’s attention, it sounded alarms among local politicians worried about security breaches in an era of terrorist threats.

“There’s no fail-safe system, but surely there has to be one that can prevent the intrusion of a teenager with too much testosterone,” said San Jose City Councilman Sam Liccardo, who walked out to the airport’s fence line to see how easy it is to scale. “What’s disconcerting is how long they could stay out there. It may be a lot less about the fence and a lot more about what we’re doing inside the office where we monitor the cameras.”

Just how long Yahya was hiding in the wheel well before the 8 a.m. takeoff is unclear. The Transportation Security Administration told officials at Mineta San Jose International Airport not to reveal the time stamp on surveillance video, Barnes said.

But Yahya was clearly on a mission. When he stepped out of the wheel well in Maui and was picked up by airport security there, he told the airport manager there was trouble at home, and he wanted to get to Somalia to find his mother, whom he hadn’t seen in several years.

“It appeared that there was an argument at home … some disagreement with his dad and his stepmom, so he decided to, you know, leave,” Maui airport Manager Marvin Moniz told ABC News. When Moniz asked the teen how he got to the plane undetected, Yahya said, “Well, I jumped the fence.”

Yahya’s father, Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, said in an interview Wednesday with the Somali service of VOA that he is happy that “Allah has saved” his son, who survived the flight with little oxygen and temperatures dipping as low as minus-85 degrees.

The teen emigrated as a refugee with his father and stepmother about four years ago, sources said, arriving in San Diego before moving to the Bay Area. Yahya, who was learning English, was struggling to keep up in school, his father said. The teen transferred five weeks ago from Oak Grove High School in South San Jose to Santa Clara High.

“He did not receive education when he was in Africa,” Abdi said in the VOA interview. “Since we came here, he had learning challenges at school. He was not good at math and science, and I think he had a lot of education problems bothering him. He was very quiet person. He was always busy with watching the TV and using computer.”

Abdi is a cab driver and routinely takes passengers to and from the San Jose airport.

Abdi did not discuss the boy’s mother or whether there was discord at home. But he said that Yahya was “always talking about going back to Africa, where his grandparents still live. We want to go back, but due to the current living conditions, we can’t go back.”

He said he saw his son Friday afternoon while the family prayed together. They worship at the Muslim Community Association Islamic Center in Santa Clara, which has been buzzing with the news of the stowaway.

One Somali woman there who declined to be identified said the teen was one of “eight or nine” children. Family members continued to hole up in their modest Santa Clara home for a second day on Wednesday, declining to answer the door for news crews from across the country.

However, Mukhtar Guled, the cousin of the boy’s stepmother, told ABC7 News that Yahya had been at odds with his stepmother over household chores.

“He has to watch the house, do the dishes, and even cleaning. He thought he was not supposed to do that. He didn’t want to take it. The other children, willing to take it, but he wasn’t,” Guled said.

He said that the boy recently learned that his stepmother was not his biological parent, which may have fueled feelings of resistance.

—‰’This woman is not my mom and is treating me like this. And don’t do anything about it. I need my mother,’ ” Guled told ABC7.

He said the boy “was running away from pain of some sort,” and added that two days after he’d gone missing, his parents had not reported his disappearance to police.

At the San Jose airport, Barnes said the surveillance video does not capture the teenager scaling the fence, but “we have some video surveillance that shows an unidentified individual on the tarmac, during darkness, in the vicinity of the aircraft.”

The airport has about 2,800 people with badges allowing them access to the airfield, and each one is responsible for challenging anyone they see without a badge, Barnes said.

South Bay’s elected officials say the incident has sounded a wake-up call for airport security nationwide.

The incident “raises serious concerns affecting passenger safety,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin and the only California congressman on the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security. He wrote to the Government Accountability Office on Tuesday to bolster other lawmakers’ earlier request for a new review of airport perimeter security. The GAO’s last such review was in 2009.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, whose district includes the San Jose airport, said she talked with Swalwell Wednesday and her staff has been getting updates from airport officials. Lofgren, D-San Jose, said it’s lucky that the teenager — who wasn’t hurt and meant no harm to others — exposed this security flaw rather than someone more malevolent.

“Nothing is ever perfect, but you can’t have these kinds of breaches and have unsecured access to airplanes,” she said. “We’ve got to make sure that every technology and protocol is in place to prevent that, not just at San Jose but at any airport.”

She’s confident that San Jose airport officials are taking the situation seriously. “They’re aghast at what happened, and in overdrive to make sure nothing like this can ever happen again.”

How Yahya survived the flight in the wheel well — a feat that has a 76 percent death rate, according to Federal Aviation Administration figures — is a source of wonder worldwide. The FAA said in prior cases of survival, people fell into a hibernation-like state. FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said that once Yahya hid in the wheel well, he said he fell asleep, waking up only when it was taking off. He blacked out soon after, Simon said.

Authorities say the teen woke up about an hour after the flight touched down at Kahului Airport and climbed down to the amazement of grounds crews. Surveillance video captured his legs dangling from the wheel well before he emerged.

Abdilahi Abdi told VOA he expects an imminent return of his son to the Bay Area. The teen is at a Honolulu children’s hospital under the care of Child Welfare Services in that state. He has not been charged with any federal crimes, nor is he expected to face charges in Santa Clara County.

Staff writers Eric Kurhi, Mark Gomez, Mike Rosenberg and Becky Bach contributed to this report.

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I’ve been missing from this space for so long now that when I sit down to write, it feels foreign and almost uncomfortable. It feels like I don’t know it any more, this blog that once felt like my best friend. Now, she’s like that friend from college who, as it turns out, I really don’t have much in common with these days, but I know that once, long ago, we had lots of great times together and shared all of our secrets. The conversation is now slow to start and we can’t get past the awkward silences and talking about the weather. I really want to hang out with her again, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to confide in her as openly and trustingly as I used to.

I’ve intended to write so many things over so many of these past two years, but I freaked myself out a bit. I began to think about those of you who may still be reading here (when there is something to read). I know many of you may be strangers, some of you are old friends from food blogging and social media, some of you may be friends or colleagues from my real life (as opposed to this online one), a handful of you are family or friends of the family, and a small number of you (or maybe more?) may be patients or friends of patients. I questioned whether it was good for me to be so honest and open and raw. I began to wonder whether what I share here could hurt me in any way. Or whether it could hurt someone I love.

cooking again

tortellini with italian sausage, fennel, and mushrooms | the merry gourmet

I cooked dinner for my family last night, and it feels like a major accomplishment. Other than holiday cooking and the rare episode of baking with the kids, I’ve spent more time watching my husband cook over these past several months than I’ve actually done myself. I used to call myself a weekend cook, but really, I’m not even that anymore.

I love cooking, but I’ve been in such a rut lately. I have stacks of food magazines overflowing in my living room, mostly just gathering dust and serving as unstable perches for sleeping cats. I’ve always been a devoted reader of Saveur, Food and Wine, and Fine Cooking, but when I cleaned out a stack of magazines to donate to the waiting room at work, I found unread issues from months ago. It’s embarrassing.

But yesterday, I took a copy of Saveur – the May France issue – to my kids’ tennis lessons. We’re heading to London and Paris this summer, so this issue caught my attention more than any others have lately. I split my attention between watching my kids thwack the tennis ball across the court and the glossy pages filled with recipes from Provence, Lyon, and Bordeaux. I bookmarked some pages – one of them highlighting a bakery in the Marais neighborhood we’re renting an apartment in later this summer – and imagined how wonderful it must be to be the food writer writing those essays.

two years ago today

two years ago today | the merry gourmet

Dear Dad,

Writing you a letter this way – by blog post on the internet – may be a bit silly, but you and I have always been the letter writing sort, and writing letters (or blog posts) is so cathartic. I know you can’t read this, but it’s good for me to get the words out. Or maybe you can read this. You’ve always been able to do just about everything you ever wanted to do, and if you wanted to read this, I believe you’ll find a way.

It was two years ago today – the 27th of February, 2014 – that you died. I remember being angry with you that you waited until we had all left the hospice, waited until the early dawn hours when we were all sleeping. I wish you’d waited until we could have kissed your warm cheek one last time. I wish you’d waited until Tina arrived from Chicago. She really wanted to see you one last time.

I often tell myself that you’re watching us from wherever you are right now. I like the idea of that. When I dream, you’re frequently there, and I wonder if this is your way of letting me know you’re okay. Usually in those dreams, I’m trying to go with you somewhere, and I can’t quite get there before waking up. Or, I’m trying to speak to you and can’t get the words out in a way that you can hear them. But always in my dreams, you are able to walk again and you look whole and healthy, with no evidence of the strokes or the dementia that left you debilitated. And always, you smile at me in a way that lights up your entire face.

The kids are playing basketball at the park with Sam as I write this. You’d be proud of how they are turning out. Maddie is nearly as tall as I am. They’re both beautiful, inside and out, and they are bright and curious. You would absolutely love spending time with them. You all would have the most wonderful conversations, and I know they would love to hear your stories about growing up in Louisville. Maddie might drive you crazy when she rolls her eyes at you, but I’d remind you that she’s in 6th grade and that is almost part of the uniform. Oliver really only remembers you being sick and in the wheelchair, but Maddie remembers you as you were, when you were whole, when you were you.


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Minister of Ceremonies?

When was the last time your country's minister of Justice expressed his policies in rap form? Here's the Dutch justice minister's Piet Hein Donner's debut on the mic (mp3). [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Feb 27, 2006 - 19 comments

"Sieg whaaat?"

Everybody knows that gangsta rap promotes sexism, homophobia... and fascism. Take Bushido, for instance - the Berlin rapper of Tunisian descent that all the neo-Nazis love. Confused? (nyt) Well, so are the Germans. And then we're not even talking about Fler, whose "This is black-red-gold, hard and proud!" nationalist lyrics never fail to piss off the German papers (in German), and who likes to pose in his videos with a nice symbolic eagle. (Then again, Helmut Kohl didn't mind.) Still, Fler's flag-waving, eagle-loving rhymes are no match for Bushido's "Salute, stand to attention, I am the leader like 'A'". The A stands for Adolf, you know.
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Aug 10, 2011 5:29 PM ET #201 (permalink)

greed, how do i get a bitch fired who is less qualified, extreamly lazy, and just an all around dumb, skanky ass bitch who no one likes. I need to get out of this part time bull shit. fucking unions

Aug 10, 2011 6:51 PM ET #202 (permalink)

The typical smartass answer would be to sleep with her boss, but this is flawed in todays society and i'm not your typical smartass, so lets just skip that nonsense. If there is truely a NEED to get her fired there are several ways to go about this, but you must be sneaky, dishonest, and unwavering in your means to accomplish it, so first I need you to confirm that there is no other way to deal with the situation. Also... Is she hot? She sounds like a perfect candidate to be my next ex-wife. Throw in a drug addiction and we have a winner! LMAO!!!

Aug 10, 2011 7:05 PM ET #203 (permalink)

cant sleep with her boss, shes a woman who i absoulutly adore. wait maby i could sleep with her boss

I went to school, got my diploma, and am currently getting certified in said area. she failed, but because were in a union she will have that job until she chooses to quit. hot??? picture nancy grace if she were younger and knew how to smile sometimes. as for drug addiction, i work in a pharmacy...ahaha she "could" have one....but i wouldnt make her your ex wife, fairly confident shes had numerous STD's, but maby your into that, or you share some of the same ones

Aug 10, 2011 7:18 PM ET #204 (permalink)

BG, thanks again for the depth! If I can see her tomorrow we'll talk about it...

pyrettagreen, dude! FUCK YOUR BOSS!!! Just make sure no one knows about it except you and her. I mean, NEVER LET ANYONE AT YOUR JOB EVEN SO MUCH AS THINK YOU'RE FUCKING YOUR BOSS!

Aug 10, 2011 7:19 PM ET #205 (permalink)

^but tell US every detail!

Aug 10, 2011 8:11 PM ET #206 (permalink)

no trouble to tell this is predominantly a male forum when a question about getting someone fired, turns into me fucking my boss.....

Aug 11, 2011 2:10 AM ET #207 (permalink)

pyretta, you left it open for discusssion. Fucking your boss solves a lot of problems provided you both are mature about it.

Aug 11, 2011 7:08 AM ET #208 (permalink)

aah nothing wrong with fucking your boss as long you will get a pay raise

Aug 11, 2011 9:25 AM ET #209 (permalink)

Pyretta: I don't care if you fuck your boss or not. My imagine is good enough.

I'd say kill the bitch.

Aug 11, 2011 10:49 AM ET #210 (permalink)

^^^ Is this coworker of yours on a cash register? If so, send an email to the headquarters (use a different email, of course) saying that you are a customer who went through their cash register, and they didn't ring you up or give you a receipt. Don't mention them by name, just give a good general description of them, so it smacks of authenticity.

Aug 11, 2011 10:55 AM ET #211 (permalink)

First let me say that there is no need, nor should there be unions in healthcare. Secondly, I was only joking about the future ex-wife thing. I have a lady that I'm pretty attached to right now and I don't think I'll EVER marry again but if I did entertain the thought my current flame would be the only one I'd even consider. Since this person is union, you're gonna have a REALLY hard time getting her fired. In fact, i'd say it's nearly impossible. She's gonna have to endager someone's life to influence management to consider that route. Since you work in the pharmaseutical industry, I can not in good faith recommend sabotage. BTW, I too work in the industry (seriously) and although there is no union where I'm at currently, my counterparts across the country have to deal with unions on a daily basis and again I confirm my stance. THERE IS NO PLACE FOR UNIONS IN HEALTHCARE!!!

Aug 11, 2011 12:20 PM ET #212 (permalink)

There's no place for unions pretty much anywhere.

Aug 11, 2011 2:26 PM ET #213 (permalink)

Agreed AP1, we have labor laws now which bassically obsoleted the need for unions. However, I do feel very strongly about unions tampering with healthcare because I damn sure hope me or any of my loved ones never need medical services during a labor strike. For FUCK SAKE!

Aug 11, 2011 3:53 PM ET #214 (permalink)

yeah i would never indanger someones life, especailly since this is a very small place and im usually related to all the patients. Today she looked at differnt satin dresses all day 8-4 online while I did med expirations in every department in the hospital, and carried cases of IV bags up and down the stairs, because she said her toe hurt. wtf
she tried to get another girl fired once by saying she stole a vial of demerol, turns out she was the one who "misplaced" it, maby i could do the same or i guess i can always hope for a bus to hit her.

Aug 11, 2011 5:24 PM ET #215 (permalink)

That's crazy enough that it just might work since she was involved in the demerol incident. :D

Aug 11, 2011 7:17 PM ET #216 (permalink)

pyretta, damn dude.

Aug 16, 2011 4:39 PM ET #217 (permalink)

sorry, was that too much?

Aug 16, 2011 9:35 PM ET #218 (permalink)

i would sleep with the boss, BUT in doing so you will be commited to her/him until you leave said job or get married to them. You will kinda be like their own personal jailhouse bitch. Sure you get extra smokes and deserts but if you want some of the over there stuff it could cost u your job..... it happened to a friend of mine :)

The safe play would be to make her slowly go out of her mind till she leaves on her own.

Aug 17, 2011 12:48 PM ET #219 (permalink)

Put a pube on her soda can top. I've heard this technique has been used at the highest levels and as far as I can tell it was effective. :D

Aug 17, 2011 3:37 PM ET #220 (permalink)

^ not even going to ask how that is effective in anyway, but your the doctor so time to start growing pubic hair

Aug 17, 2011 3:40 PM ET #221 (permalink)

BG, thats evil \m/ mind fuckin stuff.

Aug 17, 2011 3:50 PM ET #222 (permalink)

Pyretta: There were 2 possible right answers to my post and yours was one of them. Please disregard my previous advice and call my secretary to make an appointment to see me personally ASAP. Lol.

Aug 17, 2011 7:39 PM ET #223 (permalink)

Anyone remember the Clarence Thomas trials of the early 90's? That was part of it. It all turned out to be bullshit though.

Aug 17, 2011 7:46 PM ET #224 (permalink)

just for the record, im not fucking my boss, not even to see how it feels

Aug 17, 2011 8:14 PM ET #225 (permalink)

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Volkswagen's (VW) <VOWG_p.DE> technical fix for one of the vehicles involved in its "Dieselgate" scandal did not reduce emissions in a test, a European consumer group said on Thursday.

VW has argued the fix for vehicles affected by its emissions test cheating scandal would make them compliant with EU regulations, avoiding the need to compensate owners.

Pressure has built on VW to offer financial compensation to customers in Europe after the carmaker agreed to pay out up to $15.3 billion in the United States to settle claims.

The test of the Audi Q5 by the Italian consumer group Altroconsumo showed harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions 25 percent higher after the removal of illegal defeat device software than before the technical fix, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said.

VW was not immediately available to comment.

"VW's solution to deactivate the defeat device is not reliable," BEUC's head Monique Goyens said in a statement.

"VW must compensate European consumers," she added. "National public authorities must finally take action and put pressure on VW to correct their misbehavior."

While the EU's industry commissioner has urged VW not to treat U.S. and European customers differently, despite differing legal systems, responsibility for policing, penalties and enforcement in the EU lies mainly with national authorities.

Legal wiggle room over whether software used to switch off emissions controls contravene EU law has muddied the waters, with automakers saying they are allowed to protect engines against potential damage.

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Last week, EU Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska took carmakers to task, saying they stretched the legal bounds, for instance with emissions control systems that switch off at below 17 degrees Celsius.

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Q: I heard the American Kennel Club had a contest and the dog picked for the Obamas is a poodle. A poodle? Please. I cannot imagine a French poodle living in the White House. Do you have another suggestion? - CANDY

Q: I heard the American Kennel Club had a contest and the dog picked for the Obamas is a poodle. A poodle? Please. I cannot imagine a French poodle living in the White House. Do you have another suggestion? - CANDY

Q: I really hope Barack Obama adopts a shelter dog. This will mean so much for everyone who volunteers or gives money to rescue animals. A shelter dog that ends up living in the White House will be a great American success story. Please write about this in your column. - BRUCE

Q: I wrote you earlier this year about the name of our Labradoodle puppy. I wanted to call him "Marley" and my husband, a big Barack Obama fan, was set on "Bark Obama." My husband won and our dog has been "Bark Obama" ever since, although we have a ton of nicknames as you predicted. My favorites are "Obo" and "Bam-Bam." We think the Obamas should get a Labradoodle because we love our guy so much and he's been a mutt for Obama from the start. - ANNIE

A: Candy, Bruce, Annie and everyone who wrote "Ask Dog Lady" about the new Obama family dog: Thanks for your opinions. Now, all puppy palaver should cease until there is an actual creature to discuss. Choosing a dog is hugely personal not political - even if the dog's name is Bark Obama. As the First Family-elect embark on their new adventure, they should be left alone about what variety of woofer they introduce to Washington. Sure, Dog Lady could toss in her two cents but there will be plenty of time for backseat yapping when the chosen dog is unleashed on the South Lawn.

Until then, let's understand that pets come into our lives for reasons that transcend pleasing constituents, making statements or settling scores. Malia and Sasha Obama, two kids with a dog dream, have the decisive votes. Already, these children have been swept along on the tide of human history so they should be allowed to pause and smell the kibble breath. That being said, a Doodle dandy, a mutt for the ages, could be fun. And a West Highland terrier, a white hypoallergenic tornado, would keep us all amused for years.

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Q: Do you know if the dog show is coming back to town this year? - BRIAN

A: Brian, yes, yes, the Bay Colony Dog Show is back from Dec. 4 to 7 at the Bayside Expo Center in South Boston. See all the breeds compete for "Best in Show." Wander back stage and talk to the handlers who fuss over the champions. Visit all the booths to bring home a goody for your dog - from toys to treats. Dog Lady has snared some of the best canine accoutrements for darling at the Bay Colony Show.

You can also meet Dog Lady on Saturday, Dec. 6, at noon during the Parade of Rescues when former strays and renegades enjoy a grand promenade in the spotlight. These rescue dogs are a tribute to redemption, resilience and old-fashioned love.

Q: With regard to the neighbor leaving her dog's droppings behind, I have a solution but I know it's not "nice." I would scoop the poop and deposit it on her front stoop. Some people really need something more visual before they get the message. I bet after a couple of times, the message would be received. After all, I would simply be returning something she forgot and left at my house. - MICHELLE

A: Michelle, you have good manners to return what's left behind.

Q: Dryer sheets are laden with cancer-causing chemicals. They should not be used to rub down a wet dog as one of your readers suggested. Sure, the dog will smell nice but the harm to its skin stinks. - LISA

A: Lisa, thank you for sending along the Environmental Protection Agency's list of harmful chemicals packed into dryer sheets. The array of toxins is quite scary and dog owners should not use these sheets as a regular part of a dog's hygiene and care.

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The ACC MOM 2017 will be hosted by Duke University from March 31 - April 2, 2017. See Application information below.

The ACC MOM 2016 was hosted by Syracuse University and was held from April 8-10, 2016.  UM Undergraduate Attendees were: Amelia Bahamonde, Jacob Beck, Sidney Lane, Hannah Lockwood, Layla Nassar and Bai Li Ou.

The ACC MOM 2015 was hosted by North Carolina State University and was held on April 10 - April 12, 2015. UM Undergrad Attendees from left: Sumedh Shah, Kinjal Thakor, Berna Buyukozturk, Dr. Michael Gaines, Sandra Vogt, Emily Brudner, Haley Edwards, Linh Nghiem, Anna Ivanova

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With 30 years of festivals in its past, the Miami International Film Festival will mark the start of its fourth decade with some changes. It's been a gradual growth process to bigger and better things since festival director Jaie Laplante took the helm of the festival in 2011.

"Last year was the 30th year, which was really about looking back at our history," said Laplante following a news conference Tuesday morning on the Miami-Dade College Wolfson Campus that included not only new spotlights on two new countries (Germany and Mexico) but also local filmmakers. "Now we are in our fourth decade, and we can really look forward and create lot of new memories so that in our 40th anniversary we can celebrate things that we're doing now," he continued.

See also: Miami International Film Festival's 2014 Lineup Features Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Jesse Eisenberg

Laplante first took the stage to announce the high-profile gala events, which will include films starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Andy Garcia, Woody Allen and Sofia Vergara as well as a career tribute to John Turturro. Lapalnte then offered a slide show highlighting competition films and the return of recent new categories including the popular Mayhem category, specializing in the Midnight film variety, and Lee Brian Schrager's Culinary Cinema, which pairs food-centric films with specialized dinners at high profile restaurants.

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The highlight came when he invited several local filmmakers to the stage and asked them them to offer a single word describing their feelings about being a part of MIFF 31. True to the revolution of the Miami film scene, they could hardly hold themselves within the restriction. "Super excited" said Ronnie Rivera, director of International Noise Conference 2013. O Cinema's co-founder and director of Cherry Pop: The Story of the World's Fanciest Cat, Kareem Tabsch was even more colorful with: "Fuck yeah."

Though MIFF has gradually come to embrace local film talent, it's never given it such a prominent presentation. Monica Peña's surrealistic documentary Ectotherms will have its world premiere at the festival. She said, "By championing local filmmakers, MIFF situates our work within broader trends in independent film. And the independent film industry seems increasingly intrigued by the distinct point-of-view of Miami's filmmaker-- a Miami Wave, a Miami School, supported locally at every level, from funding to production to exhibition at our city's world-class festival."

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Indeed MIFF is an event global in scope, and this year it will host 92 feature films and 28 short films from 38 countries, participating in competition and out. It will also feature many venues familiar to veteran festival-goers.

The Festival kicks off on Friday, March 7, with its usual gala night at the Olympia Theater at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts featuring the North American premiere of Elsa & Fred directed by Michael Radford. Starring MacLaine and Plummer, it's a remake of a 2008 Spanish-language hit that follows a pair of widowed neighbors and their blossoming relationship. With your heartstrings effectively pulled, the gala party once again unfolds at the Dupont Building, across the street.

The Career Achievement Tribute Award will be presented to Turturro on Sunday, March 9. He will present his latest directorial work, Fading Gigolo, which stars Sharon Stone as well as Allen and Vergara. The Festival's annual Awards Night gala features the World premiere of Rob the Mob directed by Raymond De Felitta and starring Andy Garcia. It all concludes with Awards Night, once again at the Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami on March 15.

In between there are a multitude of film events big and small worth checking out. One includes the much-buzzed Sundance film Web Junkie, one of the films highlighted in this post. One of the greatest working contemporary horror directors, Ti West, will attend the festival to present his latest work, The Sacrament. Cannes-award winner from Mexico, Heli will make it's Miami debut. There's also War Story by Mark Jackson, which stars Catherine Keener and Ben Kingsley. For more star power, there's James Gray's The Immigrant, which features Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Marion Cotillard.

Finally, one personal favorite, Chilean author/director/film critic Alberto Fuguet's enthralling film essay Locations: Looking For Rusty James, which is in the documentary competition. It's reserved but passionate tribute to Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, one of his greatest films lost in the shadows of the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now. Splicing together scenes of the original black and white 1983 film starring Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke with footage shot in the film's Tulsa, Oklahoma setting, Fuguet documents a pilgrimage, eschewing over-analysis for a personal appreciation that any fan who knows film can relate with.

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The R&S CMW500 wideband radio communication tester is a multistandard test platform that developers can use to test user equipment for compliance with all wireless communications standards. Rohde & Schwarz has developed a new and innovative graphical test script development tool for this platform that does not require any programming experience: R&S CMWcards. The R&S CMWcards user interface resembles a card game. Simple rules let users quickly create functional tests or reproduce real network problems.

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Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto sign up for 'Star Trek 4'

Los Angeles: As 'Star Trek 3' began production in Vancouver, Canada, last week, Paramount Pictures, the studio behind the 'Star Trek' franchise, has reportedly signed two lead stars for a potential fourth installment.

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Actors Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who play Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock respectively, have been granted an option for 'Star Trek 4' as the studio renegotiated their deals.

According to sources, the studio "recently completed last-minute re-negotiations with (Pine and Quinto), a move that has added as much as $10 million to $15 million to the budget", reports

Chris Pine, who earned $600,000 in 2009's 'Star Trek', $1.5 million for 'Star Trek Into Darkness' and $3 million for 'Star Trek 3', reportedly scored $6 million for the fourth movie.

Paramount is said to have ultimately made some concessions to the original 'Star Trek' actors including Chris, Zachary, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin and John Cho as the actors are getting more successful and more expensive. The studio originally wanted to give nominal raises to the actors based on their 2007 contract, but their representatives argued that seven years had passed since then.

Under California law, a personal services contract cannot bind someone for more than seven years. That meant the cast's original deals were arguably invalid as of 2014.

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HIL auction: Disappointing return for Sardar Singh as Germans steal the show

German players, led by ace playmaker Moritz Fuerste, stole the show at the second Hockey India League (HIL) auction held on Thursday, even as Indian national team captain Sardar Singh turned out to be damp squib as he bagged just USD 58,000

New Delhi: Indian national team captain Sardar Singh turned out to be damp squib as he bagged just USD 58,000, even as Germany's Moritz Fuerste drew the highest ever bid in the history of Hockey India League auctions after he was bought by Kalinga Lancers for a whopping USD 1,05,000 here today.

The other Germans to have drawn the attention of the teams is striker Florian Fuchs, who was picked up by Dabang Mumbai for USD 96,000 against his base price of USD 20,000 and midfielder Tobias Hauke, who was purchased by Uttar Pradesh Wizards for USD 96,000 against his base price of USD 25,000.

Indian drag flicker Rupinder Pal Singh and striker Dharanvir Singh were more in demand than Sardar as they bagged USD 68,000 and USD 60,000, respectively from Delhi Waveriders and Kalinga Lancers against their base prices of USD 20,000 each.

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After a rather slow start to the auctions that saw only two players from lot one being picked in Vikramjeet Singh (USD 4,500 Ranchi Rays) and Australian Kieron Govers (USD 36,000 Dabang Mumbai), Sardar's name -- the first on lot two -- created a buzz among the franchises with Uttar Pradesh Wizards and Punjab Warriors going head to head for the 29-year-old star midfielder.

With a base price of USD 20,000, Sardar was eventually bought by the Warriors for only USD 58,000, which turned out to be much less than the amount he garnered in the inaugural edition. He was sold for USD 78,000 to Delhi Waveriders in 2012 before the franchise released him this year.

The highlight of the second lot was the 23-year-old FIH Young Player of the Year Fuchs, regarded as one of the sport's most lethal strikers in world hockey. Fuchs was on the radar of every franchise and he quickly went past Sardar's price with UP Wizards, Mumbai and the Lancers bidding vigorously for the young German.

In the end, Mumbai picked him up for a hefty price of USD 96,000. But it was Fuchs' Germany team-mate Fuerste, an Olympic gold medallist, who bagged the highest price as he was purchased for USD 1,05,00 against his base price of USD 30,000.

Initially it was three-way fight among the Delhi Waveriders, UP Wizards and Dabang Mumbai vying for his services, but in the end the Lancers pulled off a late heist with their record bid. During the 2012 auctions, Fuerste was acquired by Ranchi Rhinos for USD 75,000 and went on to captain the team.

Another German player Hauke was also high in demand as the Wizards, the Waveriders and Mumbai bid vigorously for him. Ultimately the Wizards availed his services by shelling out USD 96,000 against his base price of USD 25,000.

Australian midfielder Matthew Swann also demanded a good price as he was sold to Dabang Mumbai for USD 75,000 against his base price of USD 20,000.

It was the turn of goalkeepers in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth lots of the auction and Dutchman Nicolas Jacobi and Devon Manchester of New Zealand picked up the highest price of USD 27,000 each against their base prices of USD 20,000 and USD 15,000, respectively.

While Jacobi was bought by Jaypee Punjab Warriors, Manchester went to the Waveriders. The Waveriders also picked up Harjot Singh as the second goalkeeper for his base price of USD 20,000.

In the 10th and last lot before the lunch break, young Indian striker Mandeep Singh demanded USD 70,000 from the Waveriders in a two-race with Ranchi Rays. His base price was USD 20,000.

When Kalinga Lancers mentor Dillep Tirkey was asked about their decision to shell out such a record price for Fuerste, he said it was a planned move. "In the last two HIL, our performances were not good so came to the auction with a plan this year. We want to make our team stronger. We want to make our team around Fuerste. He is a proven customer for Germany and we thought about it earlier that we will go for him."

On why they didn't bid for Sardar, Tirkey said: "Sardar is the best player of the Indian team but we couldn't fit him in our team."

Dabang Mumbai mentor Viren Rasquinha said it was logical that most of the teams went for German and Australian players because they are world-class.

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