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In 1985 the tagline "Gevalia. När du får oväntat besök" (When you get unexpected visitors) took the market research truth Gevalia found to a brand new world where submarines surfaced in floors, bath tubs inhabited by nude women fell through apartment ceilings, and giant boats made port on tiny islands like the very first poster depicted. That image was made extra surreal when a real ship stranded on an island in Bråviken, only a spit away from someones summer house just a few weeks later.
The tagline is back after an eight year hiatus - the Gevalia campaign so familiar to Swedes - and this is the first time in eight years that we see another "Oväntat besök". Shot by Axel Laubscher , produced by Social Club and created by Ogilvy Stockholm, (media agency Starcom webagency Gimlet) - this ad is being aired exclusivly Aftonbladet.se today - and of course, on Adland.
The Gevalia campaign "När du får oväntat besök" evolved from posters and cinema ads in 1995 to ad installations - or what we now might call Ambient/Guerrilla advertising - where buses crashed into night clubs, and subway cars erupted from the underground onto Stureplan in the center of Stockholm (which we previously spoke to Miami advertising about)
There were also several new TVC«s - and in 1999 The Gevalia oväntat besök campaign was named "Århundradets bästa reklamkampanj" (This centuries best campaign). How do you follow that?
"There«s really high expectations and we've made use of our skills/resources in the international networks to ensure that the film becomes a success. Gevalia«s campaign is a unique one and the development is being followed with great interest by Krafts european leaders" says Katia Melazzi, Director, Marketing Nordic & Southern Europe
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Super adgrunts, see also, the making of the Gevalia scuba diver film.
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While I like the cinematography, there are some nice shots in here, I'm quite baffled by some of the really obvious bits such as showing the diver at the start revealing the end, and "it's raining men" played when he ends up in the pool. That added together makes the old urban legend lose its charm. I'm sure they were trying to enhance the story but after Magnolia, you should leave the fire divers alone.
Is that a typical way pools are filled in Sweden?
I didn't think so. ;)
One other thing that bugged me a little is that neither scuba man or homeowner seem all that surprised about the event. I think it could have been played up a little bit more.


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CHICAGO — Big Ten coaches and athletics directors have all the necessary information about a potential nine-game football schedule. It's now up to the league to make them like it.
"We've got to be able to put that together in a way that satisfies all 12 athletic directors- if they can get seven home games," Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said Tuesday. "I think in principle they are open to it. I think we can work with it, but we're the ones that have to come up with it and give it to them in a timely way and then have them bless it."
Both coaches and officials heard presentations for and against a potential nine-game football schedule, up from the current model of eight conference games. The earliest the plan would be adopted is for the 2017 season because some schools have four non-conference games scheduled in future seasons, Delany admitted.
The Big Ten's television contract with ABC/ESPN expires after the 2016 season, so a nine-game schedule adopted for 2017 would coincide with a new TV deal.
Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta is optimistic that the Big Ten will adopt the nine-game slate.
"The assumption is it will happen at some point," Barta said. "I think when you throw in the fact that we have a championship for the first time we're trying to figure out how that factors in. Still talking about it.
"The point that I've felt that our conference has been at is it's likely to happen. I feel like that's still where it is."
Among the lingering questions include overall revenue and unbalanced scheduling.
"We'd still want to have seven (home) games," Wisconsin Athletics Director Barry Alvarez said. "That's the tricky part of scheduling. That's part of our budget to have seven home games.
"One of the cons would be certain schools are playing five conference games on the road. You're probably going to lose one team, to a bowl, possibly. We've had two teams in the BCS games, let's say in a 10-year span, does that affect you? Those are things you can't answer but those are question marks."
If the league adds a ninth game, it would force six schools to play five Big Ten road games each year.
"I don't know if I would call it a stumbling block, but it adds to the discussion," Barta said.
Alvarez said the positives of a nine-game schedule include playing non-divisional, non-protected opponents six times over a 10-year span. Right now the projection is four games over 10 years for games such as Iowa-Wisconsin or Iowa-Ohio State.
Revenue distribution or league-wide sharing has not become a sticking point, Barta said. Big Ten schools give 35 percent of home-game revenue from league games with a $1 million cap and a $300,000 floor.
"I think to the credit of our conference it has not been a bigger stadium versus smaller stadium discussion," Barta said. "It's been what is best for the Big Ten Conference. Certainly there's pros and cons in the revenue-share question, but I think at the end of the day what's going to make the Big Ten Conference the strongest from a football perspective."
The football coaches have less embrace for a nine-game schedule. Northwestern Coach Pat Fitzgerald said he prefers the current eight-game schedule, while Michigan State Coach Mark Dantonio said a nine-game slate would affect future non-conference schedules. Michigan State annually plays Notre Dame and has future non-conference games schedule against high-profile teams Boise State and Alabama."To go on the road five times and play four at home in the Big Ten, you're going to have to be a little better than you would if you were playing five at home and four away," Dantonio said. "You also have to take the approach you're going to be a road warrior."
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CLEVELAND — Social media was set ablaze Sunday with reports about the Cavaliers' pursuit of unrestricted free agent LeBron James.
A small plane in the fleet owned by Rock Financial LLC — a company controlled by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert — traveled from Pontiac, Mich., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., late in the afternoon.
It is the same jet that transported Gilbert and the franchise's other power brokers to New Jersey on June 30, where they offered All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving a five-year, $90 million contract that he accepted the next day.
ESPN analyst Chris Broussard, who reported that James would leave Cleveland to sign with the Miami Heat a full 17 hours before "The Decision" aired four years ago, said he now considers the Cavaliers "the front-runner" in the battle to land him.
Earlier in the holiday weekend, James returned from an overseas family vacation to his winter home in Miami. "The Chosen One" still maintains his primary residence in Bath Township, just outside of Akron.
The four-time NBA MVP and agent Rich Paul are meeting with the finalists for his services, according to Yahoo. James and all other free agents are permitted to sign contracts Thursday. The Associated Press reported James will meet with Heat president Pat Riley this week.
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A registered sex offender has been arrested at the local McDonald's on attempted 2nd degree murder and weapons charges after a Nov. 13 shooting in South Chiefland.
Willie Tyron Davis, 29, sits in Levy County Detention Center under a $1.75 million bond. He is charged after his Dec. 28 arrest with being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon or ammunition, specifically a "shortened shotgun" that he is accused of using to shoot a Chiefland man in the buttocks.
Chiefland Police Department Chief Robert Douglas teared up Monday evening as he publicly announced his resignation from the job he has held for 11 years to take a job as chief deputy in the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
Douglas, who came to work in Chiefland after losing a bid for Marion County Sheriff said he is looking forward to working with incoming Sheriff Billy Woods.
Douglas' last day on the job is Dec. 13.
A tip that a body might be found on a homesite near the Bronson Speedway has brought out Levy County Sheriff's deputies, the 8th Circuit Medical Examiner's Office, specially trained K-9 cadaver dogs and a team from the A.C. Pound Human Identification Lab worked through Wednesday night and Thursday to find and unearth the remains and investigate the suspicious death.
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It's almost a whodunit as Levy County Sheriff's investigators try to piece together a shooting that wounded two men outside Bubba's Place in Fanning Springs at abut 2:10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, but it has been complicated as eyewitnesses were inebriated at the time.
Sheriff's Sgt. Carl Rogers and Deputy Chase Gregory were on duty in the area when they heard a gunshot coming from the direction of Bubba's Place.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office says it has solved a string of burglaries in the Chiefland and Fanning Springs areas with the arrest of an Old Town man.
Norman "Ashley" Burnett, 39, is in the Levy County Detention Facility with a $150,000 bond, according to a Sheriff's Office press release.
Burnett first became a person of interest when the Juice Box, in Fanning Springs, was burglarized on Oct. 4. The owner reported approximately $900 worth of merchandise had been stolen when the burglar broke through a window.
A Dixie County deputy on patrol on Northeast 349 Highway around 2 p.m. on Oct. 3 noticed a car with two people inside pass another vehicle on the grass shoulder of the road while traveling north.
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• Oct. 10, Amber Lynn Allard, 34, Bronson, FTA. Bond $500.
• Oct. 13, Joseph A. Anderson, 33, Newberry, VOP.
• Oct. 11, Dillon Arnold Bird, 24, Williston, interference with custody of minor or incompetent person
• Oct. 14, Raymond Allen David Brown, 19, High Springs, out of county warrant.
An elderly Chiefland resident who helped a couple he believed were having car trouble was repaid for his kindness with a burglary that included taking his firearms, according to the Levy County Sheriff's Office press release.
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The Levy County Sheriff's Office announced on Tuesday evening that Daniel Delaney, 44, of Chiefland on charges of dealing in stolen property and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Delaney became a suspect following the Wednesday, Oct. 14, arrests of Gary Vanwinkle and Samantha Corbin.
Six Fanning Springs juveniles were arrested on Tuesday, Sept. 27, by LCSO Patrol Deputies after responding to a burglary scene at 7991 N.W. 168 Lane in Fanning Springs. LCSO Deputies C. Gregory and A. Hiers met with the victim who reported approximately $2,200 of electronics, silver coins and other valuables stolen from her home between Sept. 23-26. The victim immediately cast her suspicions on some neighborhood juveniles and provided deputies with some proof supporting her suspicion.
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Well once again, I disagree.
The real question is if the rookie TE's can match Clarks numbers but lets be honest that shouldn't be too hard considering his numbers the past two years.
Really think you'll be able to talk sense into him? he is probably still arguing that the world is flat and it's Irsay's fault.
Oh man, Blu, are you setting yourself up for one helluva crow-eating contest this winter.
What helped Peyton's Colts tremendously was the fact that we got Edge the season after Manning's rookie year. He was an instant stud. See, a lot of the players who will help Luck over his career aren't even on the roster right now. If we don't win a lot of games then that at least means we will have a high draft pick. Plus we have a ton of cap space next season.
revisionist history is grand. all it comes down to is he doesn't like Irsay getting rid of Manning and the boys so he's going to spin everything like the Colts are doomed and every decision is a bad one. If Colts picked RG3, then he'd probably be singing praises about how great Luck is and how we should have picked him.


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Michael Bissell, MD, PhD, MPH
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Performance of different natriuretic peptide
Of all investigated neurohormones and natriuretic peptides, Btype natriuretic
peptide and N-terminal proBNP are the best markers for ruling out left
ventricular dysfunction. Some studies have also proposed N-terminal pro-A-type
natriuretic peptide (NT-proANP) as a useful marker for diagnosing left
ventricular dysfunction (LVD). A consistent finding among all reports
is the excellent negative predictive value of B-type natriuretic peptide
(BNP). Furthermore, BNP has a good negative likelihood ratio for diagnosing
LVD compared with standard clinical indices, such as clinical history,
electrocardiogram, and chest x-ray. These clinical results led to the
development of numerous commercial assays to determine different natriuretic
peptide hormones. However, different epitopes and fragments of the same
analyte are detected by different assays, and cross-reactivities of antibodies
with prohormone fragments may vary. Because natriuretic peptide assays
are not standardized, one must use caution when interpreting clinical
study results when using different assays. The authors conducted a study
to investigate which of the natriuretic peptides—BNP, N-terminal proBNP
(NT-proBNP), or NT-proANP—performs best in diagnosing mild forms of LVD.
They also investigated the impact of using different assays on the diagnostic
performance of these natriuretic peptides. The authors measured BNP (Triage
BNP), NT-proBNP (Biomedica), and NT-proANP (Biomedica) in 130 consecutive
patients (age range, 28 to 38 years) who had clinically suspected mild
LVD. In patients with sufficient sample volume, the authors measured BNP
and NT-proBNP using additional assays (Shionoria and Roche, respectively).
The authors found that BNP and NT-proBNP were the best markers for identifying
patients with mild systolic LVD, with mean (95 percent confidence interval)
areas under the curves (AUC) of 0.78 (0.63–0.89) and 0.75 (0.58–0.87),
respectively. However, the diagnostic performance of NT-proANP [AUC, 0.64
(0.48–0.77)] was significantly worse than that of BNP (P=0.014).
Both BNP assays (Triage and Shionoria) and both NT-pro- BNP assays (Biomedica
and Roche) performed equally well for diagnosing systolic LVD, despite
the poor agreement between NT-pro- BNP assays. In patients with isolated
diastolic LVD, the diagnostic performance of the Triage BNP [AUC, 0.70
(0.56–0.81)] was significantly better (P=0.006) than that of
Biomedica NT-proBNP [0.49 (0.34–0.65)]. Furthermore, the performance of
the Biomedica NT-proBNP assay was significantly worse (P=0.03)
than that of the Roche NT-proBNP assay for diagnosing isolated diastolic
LVD. The authors concluded that the performance of BNP for the diagnosis
of systolic or diastolic LVD is not affected by the assay used, whereas
the performance of NT-proBNP for the diagnosis of isolated diastolic LVD
is assay dependent.
Hammerer-Lercher A, Ludwig W, Falkensammer G, et al. Natriuretic peptides
as markers of mild forms of left ventricular dysfunction: effects of assays
on diagnostic performance of markers. Clin
Chem. 2004;50:1174–1183.
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for plaque rupture or only a high
atherosclerotic burden. It is well
recognized that myocardial damage
promotes the synthesis of CRP,
and the level of CRP has been reported
to be associated with poor
prognosis after acute myocardial
infarction (AMI). However, CRP is
primarily synthesized and secreted
rapidly in the liver six hours after an
acute inflammatory stimulus. Thus,
serum levels of CRP within six
hours after the onset of AMI are
suggested to offer valuable information
about cell biology activity
on ruptured plaque without being
influenced by the effects of myocardial
necrosis after AMI. The authors
conducted a study in which
they enrolled patients with AMI
who were undergoing primary percutaneous
coronary intervention
within six hours of the onset of
symptoms in order to evaluate
whether serum high-sensitivity CRP
(hs-CRP) levels are elevated prior to
cardiomyocyte damage following
AMI. CRP was prospectively measured
by hs-CRP in 157 consecutive
patients (106 patients within six
hours and 51 patients at six hours or
more but less than 12 hours after the
onset of AMI), with ST-segment elevation
AMI undergoing primary
percutaneous coronary intervention.
Serum levels of hs-CRP were
also measured in 30 patients with
stable angina who were undergoing
elective percutaneous coronary intervention
and in 30 healthy control
subjects. The serum level of hs-CRP
was significantly higher in patients
with onset of AMI at less than six
hours than in patients with angina
pectoris (2.7±2.3 mg/L versus
1.4±0.7 mg/L, P<0.0001 [mean ±
SD]) and in healthy subjects (2.7±2.3
mg/L versus 1.0±0.6 mg/L,
P<0.0001). There were no significant
differences in serum levels of
hs-CRP in patients with onset of AMI at three hours or less than in
those patients with onset of AMI
after three hours but before six
hours (2.7±2.5 mg/L versus 2.7±2.2
mg/L, P=0.87). However, the serum
level of hs-CRP was significantly
higher in patients with onset of AMI
at six hours or more than in patients
with onset before six hours
(14.1±16.5 mg/L versus 2.7±2.3
mg/L, P<0.0001). The authors concluded
that serum levels of hs-CRP
were significantly higher in patients
with onset of AMI before six hours
than in healthy subjects and patients
with angina pectoris undergoing
percutaneous coronary intervention.
The inflammatory
process has been proven to be one
of the mechanisms causing plaque
rupture. Elevated serum hs-CRP
levels in patients with AMI at less
than six hours may portend vulnerable
plaque rupture.
Yip HK, Wu CJ, Chang HW, et al. Levels and values of serum high-sensitivity
C-reactive protein within 6 hours after the onset of acute myocardial
infarction. Chest.
Reprints: Dr. Morgan Fu, Division of Cardiology, Dept. of Internal Medicine,
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 123, Ta Pei Rd., Niao Sung Hsiang,
Kaohsiung Hsien, 83301, Taiwan, ROC; firstname.lastname@example.com
Acquired activated protein C resistance
Anti-phospholipid antibodies
are a heterogeneous group of autoantibodies
that includes anti-cardiolipin/
beta-2 glycoprotein I (anti-
CL/β2-GPI) antibodies, anti-phosphatidylserine/
prothrombin (anti-
PS/PT) antibodies, and lupus
anticoagulant. These antibodies are
frequently found in the plasma of
patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE) and are reported
to be associated with clinical events
such as arterial or venous thrombosis,
or both, thrombocytopenia,
and obstetric complications.
Thromboembolic events are reported
to occur in approximately 30
percent of SLE patients with antiphospholipid
(aPL) antibodies. Venous
thromboembolic events, such
as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary
embolism, are common
manifestations in SLE patients. Although
the association between aPL antibodies and venous thromboembolism
in patients with SLE
has been established, the precise
mechanism responsible for venous
thromboembolism in these patients
remains unclear. Several clinical
studies have established that the
prevalence of venous thromboembolism
is associated with congenital
or acquired abnormalities of the
protein C pathway. The authors of
this study examined the concentration
of anti-CL/β2-GPI antibody
concentrations, anti-PS/PT antibody
concentrations, and lupus anticoagulant
activity in 87 patients
with SLE—21 with venous thromboembolism
and 66 without thrombosis.
Both anti-CL/β2-GPI and
anti-PS/PT antibodies strongly correlated
with lupus anticoagulant
activity. Multivariate logistic analysis
confirmed that anti-CL/β2-GPI
and anti-PS/PT antibodies were
significant independent risk factors
for venous thromboembolism
(odds ratios, 4.98 and 7.54, respectively;
95 percent confidence intervals,
1.51 to 16.4 and 2.30 to 24.7, respectively).
The authors, therefore,
studied the in vitro effects of IgG
fractions containing anti-CL/β2-
GPI or anti-PS/PT antibodies on
the anticoagulant activity of activated
protein C (APC) and found
that purified IgG containing anti-
CL/β2-GPI or anti-PS/PT antibodies
significantly hampered the
anticoagulant activity of APC.
They also studied the ability of
IgG fractions to impede the anticoagulant
activity of APC before
and after complete removal of
anti-CL/β2-GPI or anti-PS/PT antibodies
by adsorption. The authors
concluded that anti-CL/β2-
GPI and anti-PS/PT antibodies
independently cause APC resistance,
which may contribute to the
risk of venous thromboembolism
in patients with SLE.
Nojima J, Kuratsune H, Suehisa E, et al. Acquired activated protein C
resistance associated with IgG antibodies against β2-glycoprotein
I and prothrombin as strong risk factor for venous thromboembolism. Clin
Chem. 2005;51:545–552.
Reprints: Junzo Nojima, Laboratory for Clinical Investigation, Osaka
University Hospital, 2-15 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; firstname.lastname@example.com
Visual assessment of red cell unit hemolysis
Red blood cell units are visually
inspected for hemolysis before they
are released from blood collection
facilities and again before transfusion.
Although thresholds defining
excessive hemolysis exist in Europe,
and in the United States for product
licensure (0.8 percent and one
percent, respectively), there are no
U.S. standards applying to blood for
transfusion. Laboratories use free
plasma or serum hemoglobin (Hb)
methods to assess hemolysis in patients.
Spectrophotometric methods,
such as the tetramethylbenzidine
(TMB) chemical method, have been
the traditional gold standard for
measuring free Hb. However, these
tests are not well suited to a blood
manufacturing setting because they
are complex and labor intensive, require
equipment not routinely available
in a blood center, have standardization
problems, and sometimes
require use of carcinogenic
chemicals. In the absence of standards
defining excessive hemolysis
in blood components, and with the
absence of reliable, convenient tests
to detect and quantify hemolysis,
blood bankers have relied primarily
on subjective visual inspection to determine
a unit's suitability for transfusion.
However, user-friendly methods
to quantitate hemolysis in blood
components are now available. They
provide a means to develop objective
standards for hemolysis in blood
components for transfusion. The authors
conducted a study in which
they collected packed RBCs (10
CPDA-1, 10 Adsol). Half of each unit
was leukoreduced. Plasma Hb was
measured and compared in segments
and units using the HemoCue plasma/
low Hb photometer system, a
TMB chemical method, and a free
Hb visual comparator. The authors
found that visual assessment tended
to overestimate hemolysis. Chemical
methods were comparable (r2=0.894;
HemoCue=0.043 + [0.770] × TMB; n=400; range, 0.01–0.05 g/dL), although
the mean plasma Hb (g/dL)
for the HemoCue method was higher
than that of the TMB method (0.12
versus 0.10 g/dL, respectively;
P<0.001). No units would have been
discarded based on a hemolysis level
of at least 0.6 g/dL (approximately
one percent) if measured by a
chemical method. However, 50 percent
of CPDA-1 and 10 percent of
Adsol units would have been discarded
if only visual criteria were
used. Leukoreduction did not increase
plasma Hb levels. Discrepancies
in plasma Hb levels were noted
between units and their corresponding
segments. The authors concluded
that visual assessment of hemolysis
can result in unnecessary
waste of blood components. Hemo-
Cue offers an alternative, objective
method to assess plasma Hb in the
setting of blood collection and processing
facilities for routine quality
control and process validation. Furthermore,
it may aid in developing
objective criteria for excessive hemolysis
in blood components.
Janatpour KA, Paglieroni TG, Crocker VL, et al. Visual assessment of
hemolysis in red blood cell units and segments can be deceptive. Transfusion.
Reprints: Dr. Kim Janatpour, University of California Davis Medical Center,
Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 4400 V Street, Sacramento,
CA 95817; email@example.com
POCT hemoglobin for field use in the Third World
The Malawi government's Ministry
of Health and Population has
developed an essential health package,
which aims to provide better
access to quality services for common
conditions that disproportionately
affect the poor. To complement
the essential health package,
the ministry is developing a model
package of essential laboratory services
to improve the cost-effectiveness
of district hospital laboratories.
The government is piloting the
model in select typical district hospitals
in Malawi before releasing it nationally. Hemoglobin measurement
is a key component of this
service, so it is necessary to identify
a method that is practical, accurate,
and economically viable for
use at the district level. In subSaharan
Africa, hemoglobin estimations
are used in district hospitals
for individual patient management,
to guide transfusion practice, and in
the management of antiretroviral
therapy. Surveys of hemoglobin
concentrations are also used as tools
to provide public health data, such
as nutritional status, and to monitor malaria interventions. Despite the
wide range of manual methods
available for measuring hemoglobin
in developing countries, no single
technique has emerged as the most
appropriate for this setting. To support
its essential health package,
the Ministry of Health and Population
needed to identify a method
for measuring hemoglobin that was
simple, accurate, fast, and inexpensive
and that required minimal
training and supervision and could
be used in district hospital laboratories.
Therefore, the authors assessed
the effectiveness, including
technical, economic, and managerial
aspects, of different manual techniques for measuring hemoglobin
in routine practice in a typical district
hospital in Malawi against criteria
predetermined by local health
professionals. To the authors'
knowledge, this is the first time that
such a detailed effectiveness study,
involving all the processes required
to determine the suitability of a test,
has been undertaken in a district
hospital in a developing country.
The project received ethical approval
from the Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine, in the United
Kingdom, and Malawi's Ministry
of Health and Population. Local
health professionals determined criteria
on accuracy, clinical usefulness, user friendliness, speed, training
time, and economic costs and
used them to compare six different
manual hemoglobin methods.
These methods were introduced sequentially
in a district hospital in
Malawi alongside the reference
method. The authors determined
that HemoCue was the optimal
method based on most of the outcome
measures, but it was also the
most expensive ($0.75 per test in
U.S. dollars). The DHT meter and
Jenway colorimeter were the second
choices because they were less
expensive ($0.20 to $0.35 per test),
but they were not as accurate or
user-friendly as the HemoCue.
Medina Lara A, Mundy C, Kandulu J, et al. Evaluation and costs of different
haemoglobin methods for use in district hospitals in Malawi. J
Clin Pathol. 2005;58:56–60.
Reprints: Dr. A. Medina Lara, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, United Kingdom; firstname.lastname@example.com
Direct identification of gram-positive cocci in blood cultures
A rapid and accurate method for
directly identifying pathogens from
positive blood culture broth, combined
with automated, continuously
monitored blood culture systems,
may greatly reduce the overall time
from specimen collection to final
identification. However, relatively
few methods for directly identifying
bacteria from blood culture broth
have been described. Standard assays
comprising the immunological,
tube coagulase, and stable endonuclease
methods routinely used for
identifying Staphylococcus aureus
after subculture have been applied directly
to positive blood culture bottles,
but variable sensitivities and specificities
have been reported. The use of
PCR to directly identify Streptococcus
pneumoniae from blood has also been
described, but overall, its use for this
purpose has been rather limited owing
to the amplification inhibitors in
blood. The extreme sensitivity of the
method may also be a problem. However,
rapid identification of S. aureus
from blood culture using the
LightCycler system has already been
reported, and the use of real-time
fluorescence PCR for rapid identification
of bacteria from blood culture
may increase in the future. Fluorescent
in situ hybridization, as well as
the hybridization protection assay,
have also proved to be reasonable
methods for directly identifying microorganisms
from blood. The commercially
available DNA probe kit
AccuProbe (Gen-Probe, San Diego),
which uses hybridization protection
assay technology, can directly identify
the most common gram-positive bacteria
in blood cultures. The authors reported
on their six-year routine clinical
laboratory experience using AccuProbe
for direct identification of S. aureus, S. pneumoniae, enterococci,
and group Aand B streptococci
from positive blood culture bottles.
With the enterococcal and group
Aand B streptococcal probes, the diagnostic
performance of the test was
excellent at a cutoff value of 50,000 relative
light units (RLU), as recommended
by the manufacturer. However,
with the S. aureus probe, the
specificity was very high (99.8 percent),
but the sensitivity was low
(72.4 percent). To improve the clinical
usability of the direct AccuProbe identification,
optimal cutoff values for
the individual AccuProbe tests were
defined using receiver-operating
characteristic analysis. Consequently,
cutoff values for S. aureus and S. pneumoniae tests were adjusted to
30,000 RLU for enterococci and 55,000
RLU for group Aand B streptococci.
With these adjustments, the performance
of the AccuProbe tests, especially
that for S. aureus, was significantly
Lindholm L, Sarkkinen H. Direct identification of gram-positive cocci
from routine blood cultures by using AccuProbe tests. J
Clin Microbiol.
Reprints: Laura Lindholm, Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, Dept. of Clinical
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Emmett's brother-in-law Ben Beecham comes for a visit and Emmett is having a bit of a hard time with it all. Ben has the gift of the gab and had a very successful career as an insurance salesman. He keeps telling Emmett that he should give up the fix-it shop and try his hand at insurance. Emmett's wife urges him on so he reluctantly put up a closed sign on the shop and tries his hand at selling. He's not very good at it and he's not very happy doing it. When he disappears for a whole day, his wife Martha gets worried however and asks Andy for help locating him.
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In 1936 a small group of enterprising traders within the Boston securities community banded together to form an organization which is known today as the Boston Securities Traders Association. Their intent was to create a single organization which would provide a forum for regular communication within the trading community to improve the ethics, business standards and working environment for members. On January 29th of that year, at the Boston Stock Exchange, a constitution and by-laws were adopted and the Association's first officers were elected. Today, the association continues to thrive. With approximately one hundred members at inception, the BSTA membership presently totals nearly seven hundred strong and grows yearly. Currently the BSTA is the largest member affiliates of the Security Traders Association (STA), an international organization representing over 5,000 traders throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe.Apply to Join the BSTA
The mission of the BSTA Education Committee is to provide timely and informative programs for our members. Through individual speakers and panel discussions, we hope to provide valuable content on the issues that continuously shape our industry.
The mission of the BSTA Event Committee is to create opportunities for our members to participate in social networking, educational endeavors, membership awareness and charitable work – all primary pursuits of our organization.
The mission of the BSTA Membership Awareness Committee is to engage membership participation so that the BSTA can continue its profound impact within the trading community. The Membership Committee is also tasked with finding new members within the ever changing trading landscape.
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The BSTA Sponsorship Committee seeks to develop strong partnerships with the firms within our Boston trading community. The BSTA is able to provide many assets to our membership through the generosity of our sponsors. This committee ensures that our partners are getting the most of for their sponsorship dollars.
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Dave Hagen - President
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Patrick Fagan - Recording Secretary
Erin Sheehan - Membership Chairman
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Cape Town - The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation has voiced its support for Israeli Apartheid Week, saying the successful boycotting of apartheid South Africa was indispensable in bringing about its downfall.
"People who are denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their fellow human beings," Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said on Sunday night.
"Those who turn a blind eye to injustice perpetuate injustice. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
"I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing in the Holy Land that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under apartheid.
"I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government.
"We could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through… non-violent means, such as boycotts and disinvestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the apartheid regime."
Tutu said similar injustices were driving the disinvestment movement trying to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and the prejudicial treatment of the Palestinians by the Israeli government.
"I associate myself with the objectives of the 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week.
"It doesn't matter where we worship or live. Jew, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, atheist, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Gaza - we are members of one family, the human family, God's family."
Israeli Apartheid Week is an international series of events aimed at raising awareness of Israel's policies and gaining support for the disinvestment and sanctions campaign.
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CaPe Town - Political pressure is mounting on the government to make public the report of a Public Works task team that found R206 million had been spent on President Jacob Zuma's private home at Nkandla.
DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said Zuma should "come clean" on whether he saw a letter addressed to him in November 2010 by then-minister of public works Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, whom he later sacked.
Initially published by City Press and the Mail & Guardian, and now in the public domain, the letter, addressed to Zuma, is a progress report on work at Nkandla and lists improvements that were being made. These included the supply of water, electricity and a sewerage treatment plant; a helipad, clinic, tuckshop, guard room, cattle culvert, bullet-proof and high-impact windows, a tunnel and "safe haven" as well as inner and outer security fencing.
Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi – along with Justice Minister Jeff Radebe and State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele – have insisted that Zuma was not aware of the cost of the exercise, which is likely to rise.
The letter to Zuma does not reflect the cost of the items, but merely states that the funds for security and related matters would come from Public Works, while "direct contracts" would be for Zuma's personal account.
Mazibuko said she would submit a series of parliamentary questions to Zuma to try to establish "the true extent of his involvement".
"This correspondence directed to Mr Zuma clearly contradicts the (Nxesi's) concerted campaign to prove that the now-secret Nkandlagate report 'vindicates' him of all wrongdoing. Instead of answering key questions about President Zuma's involvement, it targets low-ranking officials in the department.
"It is a slap in the face of accountability and transparency."
Mazibuko said South Africans deserved "to know the truth".
"When public money is abused for the unnecessary benefit of a sitting president, it has the potential severely to undermine trust in public institutions in general and in the government in particular.
"Our constitution sets out clearly the ethics and principles upon which our democratic South Africa is founded," she said.
"It is about time Mr Zuma took these seriously and did what is right: come clean on Nkandla now."
On Sunday, Nxesi cited security issues as the reason for withholding the report.
He said the report would be handed to law enforcement agencies for investigation and possible criminal charges against officials whose flouting of procedures gave rise to the many irregularities uncovered by the probe. The investigation also found R48m of the R206m bill had been spent in consultancy fees.
The IFP and Freedom Front Plus have added their voices to calls by the DA, Cope and the African Christian Democratic Party for the report to be tabled in Parliament, where the public spending watchdog, the standing committee on public accounts, is delving into the matter.
IFP MP Petros Sithole said not enough information had been provided at the briefing.
"The minister's vague and superfluous rendition of the report… failed to provide exact details about the renovation of (Zuma's) home," he said.
Parliament needed to be provided with a "detailed account of each and every single cent spent in this waste of taxpayers' money".
"Withholding this report from the public shows that there are more secrets behind this issue, which the minister is not willing (for the public to see)," Sithole said yesterday.
Pieter Groenewald, the FF Plus spokesman on public works, said: "The comprehensive report must be made public and (Nxesi) cannot hide behind security."
Groenewald said the government should also say what the annual costs were to run Nkandla.
Auditor-General Terence Nombembe is already investigating the Nkandla spending, as is Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, whose report is expected to be ready in March.
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Winston-Salem, NC - After sitting out one game with a strained groin C.J. Harris rediscovered his shooting touch in the final 1:05 to bury two clutch three pointers, overcoming a one-point deficit and a tie to propel Wake Forest (10-5, 1-0 ACC) past Virginia Tech (11-4, 0-1 ACC) 58-55, matching last season's conference win-total.
The Hokies limited the junior guard from Winston-Salem to 1-6 shooting before he stole the show to finish with 13 points.
"I was going to attack and make a play," Harris said. "I practice that every day in practice, so that was a routine shot. We can say we're in first place in the ACC right now. We just want to keep it rolling."
Rebounding has been the Demon Deacons Achilles heel the entire season. It reared its ugly face in Monday's disappointing 56-52 home loss to Wofford, as the Deacs surrendered nine offensive boards to the Terriers. Wake underwent a complete metamorphosis in the last five days to outrebound the Hokies 42-31, as Travis McKie tied his career-high with 15 boards and Nikita Mescheriakov added 10.
"We have done every rebound drill imaginable known to mankind over the last several days, and we've done that all year long," Wake Forest head coach Jeff Bzdelik said.
Wake could not have dreamed for a better start to the game. Mescheriakov nailed a three-pointer with 16:38 to give the Demon Deacons an early 10-2 lead, forcing Virginia Tech to burn an early timeout. He added a free-throw five minutes later to give the Deacs a 21-8 advantage, their largest of the game.
"I was extremely disappointed in our basketball team, right from the start of the game to be quite honest," Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg said. "Our attention to detail was not what it needs to be coming into a league game. Right from the first play of the game, we actually executed a play going in the wrong direction - Mescheriakov catches a 'catch-and-shoot' and we don't make him put the ball on the floor."
The Hokies fought back from a 32-24 halftime deficit to tie the game three times, and take their only lead of the game at 53-52 when Jarell Eddie knocked down a three-pointer.
Wake never failed to counter Va. Tech's runs. The Hokies started the second half with a 14-6 spurt to tie the game at 38-38 with 12:31 left in the game, but the Deacs answered with a 7-0 surge. Greenberg's bunch challenged again with a 12-5 run capped by Erick Green's dunk to knot it up at 50-50 with 2:34 remaining in the contest, before Harris retaliated with his long-range game-winning dagger with 18 seconds.
"C.J. Harris did a wonderful job as our leader to make big shots, and that's what has to happen," Bzdelik said. "He is just a quiet, very effective player who everybody looks up to."


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So I need to make a Minnie Mouse Hat similar to this, http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1184809 any suggestions on how to achieve this without making the hat a cake??
I'd do the dome base of the hat in rkt and the ears from gumpaste/fondant blend shaped over a styrofoam ball. This is a cute little cake, think I'll try it for my niece's bday.
Thanks! But what is rkt??
Rice Krispie treats yum! I've found rkt are great to add to any cake so many people are on gluten free diets.
I made mine out of the rice krispie treats too, then covered it in fondant. I even made the ears out of the rkt. I put three toothpicks in the bottom of the ears so I could push it into the top. Moisten the bottom of the ear to act as glue. That also helps keep them in place.
You could use gumpaste. I made a hat shape one by forming the gumpaste around a the inverted bottom small greased bowl
Boy do I feel silly!!! Lol!!! Thanks! RKT (Look how cool I am now that I actually know what that stands for ) would work great! That way it's completely edible!
Any tips on how to make the fondant smooth when putting it over rkt???


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I never considered a breast augmentation until this past year. I had always been a full C, which was much bigger than my petite friends. Although my breasts were a bigger cup size, I always felt they were disproportionate to my larger hips. After loosing some weight and going to a small C, I went to see a doctor about a lift. After consulting with a few doctors, they all recommended a breast augmentation OVER the muscle. I was worried, because I had read (and all of my small friends) had them under the muscle, but finally decided to trust the doctor.
What an AMAZING result! I couldn't be happier. The surgery barely hurt, and after 6 weeks, I started dating someone new who didn't even realize my breasts were not my own. I definitely think this had much to do with my choice to use Silicone over Saline. Also, I chose a doctor in a smaller town outside of mine because he was recommended to me, he was less expensive, and seemed less like a salesman. I definitely would recommend this experience!


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Hi people
I have a Geforce 7300 Le video card with memory i think 512 mb , in Windows xp it read the memory size correctly , on win 7 i got all confused as it reads only 256
I copied info from nvidia control panel
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz (2194 MHz)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce 7300 LE
Driver version: 191.07
Core clock: 450 MHz
Memory clock: 648 MHz (1296 MHz data rate)
Memory interface: 64-bit
Total available graphics memory: 1023 MB
Dedicated video memory: 256 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 767 MB
Video BIOS version: 126.96.36.199.32
Bus: PCI Express x16
Now how come the total memory is 1023 and 256 is only dedicated , i searched bios for any editable options for Video card but found nothing.
How can I edit dedicated video memory, as it affects Games performances Huge GTAiv is running so slooooooowly with screen glitches.
Thanks in advance.
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Win 7 Ultimate x64
makamiko, welcome to the forums.
How can I edit dedicated video memory
As for what most of those numbers you posted mean this should help explain it,
Video Memory Virtualization - A Brief Guide
GTAiv is running so slooooooowly with screen glitches.
Grand Theft Auto IV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
your 7300 LE doesn't make the grade as far as the minimum requirements go. Unfortunately for the most part if you want to game you're going to need a new video card.
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Gallacher on Cite Neutrality
The law should be freely accessible to all, but in many ways it is not. Ian Gallacher's Cite Unseen is a brilliant piece that works to solve this problem on two levels: 1) it offers keen insights about the legal profession, and 2) exposes an easily avoidable injustice perpetuated by the legal system's inertia and neglect. It turns out that 1) explains a lot about 2), as I'll try to show below.
1) I believe Richard Posner has called the Bluebook a "hypertrophy of ritual"–an elaborate manual of propitiation as involved (and useless) as the pyramid tomb of a Pharaoh. Given the near-universal availability of hyperlinking and searchable texts, why does anyone still bother with figuring out whether a committee report needs to be in small caps or italics? Gallacher suggests that the answer may by psychological:
Law school is place of almost existential doubt, a world in which the Socratic teaching method replaces knowledge with questions and understanding with incomprehension. For many law students, The Bluebook is a binary state refuge in the dismal swamp of hypothetical ambiguity that can be law school classes, replacing . . . blurred doctrine with a sharp focus, and principles with rules.
An almost Linnaean taxonomy (reflecting Langdell's geological approach to precedents) vests law with the trappings of science. Just as a posh Etonian can spot a Cockney pretender on the basis of any one of thousands of well-trained social gestures, the elect can instantly identify the work of an outsider who writes "F. 3d" instead of "F.3d".
Many of us are annoyed by this aesthetic tic masquerading as scientific precision. But where's the injustice?
2) Here Gallacher offers a tour de force telling of a story that has only been fragmentarily recognized before: how lawyers' inertia and West's extraordinary lobbying skills have blocked the adoption of a neutral citation system in the U.S. A truly neutral citation system would permit authors to refer to freely accessible versions of cases. Current practices demand cites to West's proprietary reporters–and West has vigorously fought to control the reproduction of the page numbers within those reporters by anyone it has not licensed. Since the case law is mixed, Gallacher correctly observes that any good samaritan trying to reproduce the page numbers would face a "possible legal battle with West."
Neutral citation practices would provide a way out of this dilemma; for example, judges could number the cases of their circuit (the third case of this year would be 2007.3), and the paragraphs within each case. However, this elementary step has gotten remarkably little traction:
[I]n 1994, the Technology Resource Committee of the Wisconsin State Bar proposed a neutral citation format that would allow the "courts, not private publishers, determine the citation" and would mean that "[t]he state, and not private publishers, will 'own' the final text of the case law. It will encourage publishers to compete by the value that they add to opinions such as headnotes or search tools, rather than by preferred access to the text of case law."
Two heavyweights entered the neutral citation format debate in the mid-1990s; the American Association of Law Librarians ("AALL") in 1995 and the American Bar Association ("ABA") in 1996. Yet even though both organizations endorsed the need for neutral citations, there has been little movement towards acceptance of a neutral citation format.
What happened? Here the story takes a sad but predictable turn, as a crabbed resistance to change gets dressed up traditionalist aesthetics. One judge harrumphed that paragraph numbering "belongs to the civil law tradition and to decisions of the Federal Communications Commission, not to the common law." Never too quick to challenge privilege, Judge Posner has said the innovation would "disfigure and bureaucratize the opinion-writing process."
Like law review editors who cling to Bluebook "tradition" in the face of new technology that renders it obsolete, judges in a maze of confining precedent espy a rare chance to assert their autonomy by refusing case and paragraph numbering. This kind of traditionalism reminds me of the family that, from time immemorial, cut its Christmas ham in half and threw out the bottom half before cooking it…only to find out from their matriarch that the "tradition" originated because her stove of 70 years ago was too short to hold a full ham.
Fortunately, programs like AltLaw are beginning to challenge the proprietary status quo. As Gallacher observes, many laws require the federal judiciary to publish opinions online. We can only hope that all Circuits eventually join the Sixth in its commitment to providing a "court-generated, vendor neutral, reference number" for all cases–and the paragraphs within them. And imagine how scientific we'd look if we referred to an authority as, say, 2.2007.3.56 (for the 56th paragraph in the 3rd case of the year 2007 heard by the 2nd circuit).
PS: For real entertainment, read West's litany of reasons given in opposition to neutral citation, on p. 32 ff. Here are my favorites:
[West's report to the AALL asked] "[w]hat are the potential costs of numbering paragraphs in judicial opinions?" and observe[s] that it might be costly to hire clerks to number the paragraphs in judicial opinions, and note that "there exists the very real possibility that unintentional changes will be made to the substance of the opinions themselves."
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Next Act Theatre presents: Three Views of the Same Object by Henry Murray
Three Views of the Same Object by Henry Murray
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Jim Pickering as Poppy 1
John Kishline as Poppy 2
Laurie Birmingham as Jesse 1
Susan Sweeney as Jesse 2
Flora Coker as Jesse 3
Jenny Wanasek as Mrs. Widkin
Poppy and Jesse made a pact some years back, before retirement, before ill health. But conditions have changed and the full weight of their agreement is now upon them. If one dies, will the other willingly follow? Will husband and wife leave their lives behind while they still have the choice? With humor, imagination and tenderness, playwright Murray ingeniously weaves together three versions of this story. Three possibilities of living, of loving, of leaving - one powerful play about the preciousness and fragility of life.


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CLEVELAND - What a night for Norris Cole in his Cleveland homecoming.
The second-year guard out of Cleveland State scored 16 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, and dished out 9 assists in the Heat's 96-95 win.
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Cole stripped the ball and ran out of the clock for the Heat.
Miami had just 9 players available on Monday night.
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December 26, 2012, 4 years ago
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Two-dimensional planar LiNbO3 (LN) crystal architectures are patterned on the surface of Li2O-Nb2O5-B2O3-SiO2 glass by continuous wave ytterbium YVO4 fiber laser (wavelength: 1080 nm) irradiations, in which lasers are scanned continuously with narrow steps (pitches: 0.3 and 0.5 μm) and thus with overlaps of laser irradiated parts. For the planar LN crystals (area: 50 μm × 100 μm) patterned by laser scanning with a power of 0.9 W and a speed of 7 μm/s, it is demonstrated from polarized micro-Raman scattering spectra and azimuthal dependence of second harmonic intensities that the c-axis orientation of LN crystals is established along the laser scanning direction. The present study proposes that the laser irradiation technique gives us uniform LN crystal films on the glass surface.
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"Zero Dark Thirty" made the most of its expansion this weekend, running up a very strong $45,834 per-screen average from 60 locations in 11 cities.
Kathryn Bigelow's tale of the hunt for Osama bin Laden brought in $2.75 million, after expanding from five locations in two markets this weekend in the wake of several nominations from the Producers Guild and Writers Guild. Its overall total after three weeks is $4.4 million. Sony plans to go wide next week, after Thursday's Oscar nominations.
Also read: 'Texas Chainsaw' Rips Through 'Django,' 'Hobbit,' 'Les Miz' at Box Office
The Weinstein Company's "Silver Linings Playbook," which also earned nominations from the PGA and WGA, appeared to have received a boost, too. It dropped just 11 percent – the best of any film in wide release – and brought in $3.6 million from 745 screens, a $4,847 per theater. It has now brought in $34.6 million over its eight weeks.
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Adam Scott has shot down a putter rule change suggestion by Tiger Woods and told golf's governing bodies to focus on more pressing issues as the Australian leapt to the defence of controversial long putters.
Once seen as a desperate attempt by struggling golfers to change their fortunes on the greens, long putters have seen a dramatic rise in popularity in professional golf.
American Webb Simpson used one to win the US Open this year to follow compatriot Keegan Bradley's success at the US PGA Championship.
South African Ernie Els made it a trio of long putter major champions with victory at this year's British Open with The United States Golf Association (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient (R&A), the game's two governing bodies, since discussing the status of 'anchored putters' with a ban being considered.
World number six Scott, speaking before this week's $6 million Singapore Open, said he had spoken to European Tour Chief Executive George O'Grady about the issue last week, adding that a ban on the long putter he has used since 2011 would be unfair.
"It is very hard to find a good reason to do that (ban it) at this stage so my conversation was to find out where things sit because it is very hard to get information," Scott said.
"My opinion would be I don't think it is in the best interests of the game to ban the long putter I think there are some more important issues that probably should have time spent on them than putting."


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Oliver Jowett wrote: > > Dave Cramer wrote: > Though, I would suggest that if you really only care about the first 50 > results, then put a LIMIT 50 in your query! The query planner may come > up with a better plan if you do that, too .. > > If you want to "stream" the whole resultset, then fetchsize is certainly > the way to do it. > Yeah, I was actually settling on "LIMIT 50" before coming across setFetchSize(). However, the support for LIMIT varies from one DBMS to another. To keep the code as portable as possible, I decided to go with setFetchSize(). ----- -- Kent Tong Wicket tutorials freely available at http://www.agileskills2.org/EWDW Axis2 tutorials freely available at http://www.agileskills2.org/DWSAA -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/experience-sharing%3A-select-query-returns-more-records-than-necessary-tp21556532p21564410.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - jdbc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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