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ABS In-Training Examination (ABSITE)
About the Exam
- The ABS offers annually to general surgery residency programs the In-Training Examination (ABSITE®), a multiple-choice exam designed to measure the progress attained by residents in their knowledge of applied science and management of clinical problems related to surgery.
- The ABSITE is furnished to program directors as an evaluation instrument to assess residents' progress. The results are released only to program directors. It is not available to individuals and is not required as part of the board certification process.
- The ABSITE is administered solely online using each program's own computer facilities. The exam is presented in one five-hour block; examinees may return to past questions during the exam. See also the sample test below.
- The ABSITE is protected by federal copyright and its contents may not be reproduced or disclosed in any manner, as described in the ABS Ethics and Professionalism Policy. In addition, see below for our new policy regarding ABSITE irregularities.
- Next Exam: Jan. 30 - Feb. 3, 2015
Examination Content
- As of 2014, the ABSITE is given as a single examination to all residents. The ABSITE consists of approximately 250 multiple-choice questions; examinees will have five hours to take the exam.
- For further details, see the ABSITE Content Outline (pdf).
- The content of the ABSITE is aligned with the SCORE Curriculum Outline for General Surgery Residency; the topic areas in the ABSITE content outline refer to those categories in the SCORE outline. The SCORE Curriculum Outline for General Surgery Residency is a list of patient care and medical knowledge topics to be covered in a five-year general surgery residency. It is updated annually and is available as a PDF or Excel spreadsheet.
Examination Availability
- The ABS provides the ABSITE to all ACGME-accredited general surgery residency programs, which are responsible for ordering the exam materials for their residents. It is also made available to osteopathic and international programs upon request. The exam may not be purchased individually.
- If you are no longer affiliated with a residency program and wish to take the ABSITE, you must find a program whose director is willing to allow you to take the exam along with the residents of that program. This program will be responsible for payment to the ABS for your participation; the ABS does not accept payment from individuals. Your results will be included in the program's results and will be released only to the program director.
Reporting of Results
- ABSITE results are made available to program directors in early March. The ABS provides program directors with various reports, including an individual score report for each examinee. Examinees are strongly encouraged to keep copies of their score report for their records, as the ABS does not retain this information.
- The ABS will not provide examinees with a score report or "transcript." Individuals who request this information will be directed to contact the residency program.
- If you have questions once you have received your individual score report, your program director can help with the interpretation of the results. The ABS will not discuss exam results with examinees. The ABS also will not regenerate any report as a result of miscoding of information, such as PGY level, program, etc. Any inquiries regarding the ABSITE must come directly from the program.
Exam Irregularities Policy
- The ABS announced in October 2014 a new policy regarding how irregularities in the ABSITE administration will be handled. The following policy will apply when the ABS, at its sole discretion, identifies exam irregularities or other security violations:
- The ABS will notify the program director of the individuals involved and request that he or she investigate the circumstances.
- The ABS will also notify the department chair and designated institutional official (DIO).
- Exam scores will be invalidated for all individuals involved in the irrregularities and will not be reported to the program.
- While the disciplinary consequences of the irregularities will be at the program director's discretion, the ABS will require program directors to provide a written report explaining their findings with regard to the irregularities and their decisions regarding the individuals concerned.
- Following a subsequent offense, the ABS reserves the right to require that all residents in the program take future exams at a Pearson VUE testing center or similar facility at the program's expense.
Online ABSITE - Sample Test
- To familiarize yourself with the computer screens you will see during the ABSITE and the steps necessary to respond to questions and review your answers, an interactive sample test and printed guide are provided below. To access the sample test, you must use either Internet Explorer or Apple Safari. Do not use Firefox.
- The sample test has ten questions and a sample survey. The number of questions remaining will be indicated on the screen. Once the sample test and survey are completed the window will automatically closethis will also occur at the conclusion of the actual examination. The ABS will not review, score or use any information you provide on either the sample test or survey.
- Note: On the day of the exam, examinees will access the ABSITE by launching the secure browser previously downloaded onto the testing computers. At that time examinees will be asked to complete a new examinee profilethis feature is not available with the sample test.
- Option I - Interactive Sample TestThis interactive online tutorial gives examinees the opportunity to learn how to navigate through the testing format. To access the sample test, go to http://absdemo.startpractice.com.
- Option II - Printed GuideIf you prefer, you can learn about what to expect when taking the exam by reviewing this printed guide (pdf).
See also:
- Examination Dates
- Examination Fees
- Guide to ABS Examinations (pdf) - exam development, scoring, how to prepare
For specific inquiries, please send an e-mail to the examination coordinator.
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Pathways to Employment Archive
12/23/2014 - Our Chief Labor Is the Building of Homes
By Richard Cho
As the year draws to a close, I am struck by how far we have come in our effort to end homelessness. 2014 has indeed been a historic year. We have an Administration and White House that is fully committed to ending homelessness among populations, starting with Veterans in 2015, and where this commitment is not just a set of words, but a set of actions and a clear plan with clear measures. Mayors, governors, and county executives are themselves stepping up with commitments, followed by actions. Communities across the country are working hard to achieve their own local goals, bringing partners to the table, setting 100-day targets, creatively leveraging all resources possible, and helping hundreds of people every day to unlock doors to their own homes and to new lives.
12/08/2014 - In Utah, a History of Progress Inspires Greater Action
By Matthew Doherty
Many readers have likely heard about the great progress being made toward ending homelessness in Salt Lake and Utah. Earlier this fall, I had the privilege of joining more than 475 people for the 11th Annual Utah Homeless Summit organized by Utah Department of Workforce Services' Housing and Community Development Division. The Summit also coincided with the release of Utah's 2014 Comprehensive Report on Homelessness prepared by the State Community Services Office. The report describes the remarkable progress Utah has made under its ten-year plan to end both chronic and Veteran homelessness by the end of 2015, documenting that "Chronic homelessness has declined 72 percent since 2005 and chronic homelessness among Veterans has reached an effective zero." Such progress should help convince skeptics that making progress on homelessness can be a reality in communities all across the country. Summit participants spent the day both celebrating Utah's progress and engaging in dialogue to ensure that progress is sustained.
11/19/2014 - That Person on the Street Could Be You
by Paul Gionfriddo
When we see people who are homeless on our streets and in our parks, and take some time to think about them, we might feel pity, sympathy, annoyance, fear, or a host of other emotions.
But we probably never think "that person could be me."
We just assume that people who are homeless have always lived like that. They're homeless, their parents were homeless, maybe even their grandparents were homeless. And we assume that they are homeless by choice.
They are not. They are homeless because we have made them so.
10/31/2014 - Good News from New Orleans: Federal and Community Collaboration Helped Transform This Veteran's Life
By DaVaughn Phillips
Mr. H. seems like a completely different person from the man I met just a few months ago. He is thriving in his own home, with a stable income to maintain his living expenses and support his family. More importantly, he has regained the strength, motivation, and courage he needed to become self-sufficient and to serve as a positive role model for his children. After three years of working in New Orleans to help people achieve permanent housing, it never ceases to amaze me how rewarding it feels to play a role in such a transformation.
10/30/2014 - Partnerships for Opening Doors – Ending Homelessness through Meaningful and Sustainable Employment
"One of the best ways to eliminate homelessness is to get people jobs," said Labor Secretary and Chair of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Thomas Perez at the Partnerships for Opening Doors summit, which took place at the Labor Department's headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 16, 2014.
Co-hosted by the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD), USICH and the Butler Family Fund, the day-long national summit focused on integrating employment and housing strategies to prevent and end homelessness. Leaders from 11 communities representing Workforce Investment Boards, Continuums of Care, state Workforce Development Councils, advocacy and community-based and national nonprofit organizations engaged in intensive discussions to identify key actions for Federal partners to take to improve access to meaningful and sustainable employment, skills training, and supportive training for people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness.
09/30/2014 - Ending Youth Homelessness: A Call to Action Forty Years in the Making
by William H. Bentley and Laura Green Zeilinger
Forty years ago, the U.S. government took the bold step of making the landmark Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, or RHYA, the law of the land. RHYA is the only Federal law that highlights the need for and funds critical services for youth experiencing homelessness. In July 2014, Congress introduced the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act (S.2646), new legislation that, if enacted, would reauthorize and strengthen RHYA. With continued funding for street outreach, basic center and transitional living programs, RYHA provides critical services and support to runaway and homeless youth and plays an important role in the effort end youth homelessness by 2020, a goal set in Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.
09/10/2014 - How Our Shelter Began Focusing on Permanent Housing, And Started Ending Homelessness for Our Clients.
When I joined the staff of Northern Virginia Family Service (NVSF) as the program manager of the SERVE Shelter in February 2010, I had many things to learn about the 60-bed facility for singles and families located in Manassas, Va., approximately 35 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. Though the beds were filled, it was evident that clients were staying for long periods of time, many up to six months or longer.
In 2012, things started to change. Our shelter went through an expansion to 92 beds, and we had the opportunity to become a Housing First Model. (It seemed fitting that a shelter should focus on housing and that its goal should be to reduce the amount of time that an individual or family experienced homelessness. However, some fairly large barriers stood in our way to implementing this model.
07/24/2014 - The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Is Law
by Eric Grumdahl, USICH Policy Director
For many people confronting homelessness, employment can mean the difference between housing and homelessness. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, fosters local innovation and focus on providing employment supports for people experiencing homelessness, by clarifying that the central purpose of the workforce system is to support people with significant barriers to employment. In doing so, WIOA and the President's job-skills agenda will accelerate progress on ending homelessness.
06/30/2014 - Ensuring that Homelessness Never Follows Foster Care
by Eric Grumdahl, USICH Policy Director
Ending youth homelessness means putting a system in place to do so in every community. Here, having a common purpose is a key ingredient. Luckily, at the interface of the child welfare system and the homeless response system, we should agree on a common purpose. The child welfare system wants to see successful transitions to adulthood, which includes all of the outcomes of the framework to end youth homelessness, including stable housing. The homeless response system is certainly eager to close what has been called a pipeline from child welfare to shelter, and to see youth in stable housing instead of outside a shelter door. We should not have to debate our shared purpose.
Where it seems to me that our efforts get stuck is...
06/27/2014 - Baltimore Takes Steps Forward to End Youth Homelessness
"In Baltimore," Adrienne Breidenstine explains, "We have a core group of youth service providers, funders, and government agencies that are committed to The Journey Home, Baltimore's plan to end homelessness, and the vision that homelessness in Baltimore is rare and brief for children and youth experiencing homelessness. Now is the time for us to harness our community's energy and commitment to the cause and translate it into action."
06/23/2014 - Your Input Is Essential to the Ongoing Success of Opening Doors
by Laura Green Zeilinger, USICH Executive Director
Yesterday marked the fourth Anniversary of the launch of Opening Doors, the first-ever Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. In four years, we have changed the trajectory of homelessness in America. In just the first three years of implementation, Opening Doors led to significant reductions in homelessness, including an eight percent reduction in homelessness among families, a 16 percent reduction in chronic homelessness, and a 24 percent reduction in homelessness among Veterans. And we are hopeful that we will be able announce even greater reductions when the 2014 Point-In-Time Count data are available later this year.
The progress we are making across the nation has proven that Opening Doors is the right plan with the right set of strategies. Opening Doors also provides a foundation and scaffolding upon which we can continue to innovate and refine the solutions that will end homelessness in this country.
This year, we're considering amending the plan again to include more of what we've learned from our progress.


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De'Mist'ifying the Open Cloud
Get ready for a special report on cloud computing this March on Kipp. Until then, we hand it over to Red Hat General Manager George De Bono for a fascinating look at the 'open' cloud.
February 20, 2012 2:20 by p.deleon
Openness in software and architectures is a big win for users. This truth is so widely recognized that a lot of vendors seem to favor using "open" as a sort of mantra even though they're often not, well, open except in glancing and incidental ways. This is nowhere truer than with cloud computing.
Having an open architecture and approach when building a cloud matters deeply. Only an open cloud allows customers to manage diverse infrastructures by bringing them together under the same cloud architecture. Instead of creating a new cloud silo or forcing them to (impractically) start their IT over from scratch, an open cloud extends its benefits to their entire IT infrastructure, delivering greater efficiency and agility and putting them in control of their technology roadmap and, ultimately, the future of their IT.
But what does "open" mean in the context of cloud? It certainly doesn't begin and end with the submission of some format to a standards body or with an announcement of partners endorsing some specific technology platform. And open source may be (or in our view, should be) a given. But it's more than that too.
An open cloud has the following characteristics:
•Is open source. This allows adopters to control their particular implementation and doesn't restrict them to the technology and business roadmap of a specific vendor. It lets them build and manage clouds that put them in control of their own destiny and provides them with visibility into the technology on which they're basing their business. It provides them with the flexibility to run the workloads of their choice, including proprietary ones, in their cloud. Open source also lets them collaborate with other communities and companies to help drive innovation in the areas that are important to them.
•Has a viable, independent community. Open source isn't just about the code, its license, and how it can be used and extended. At least as important is the community associated with the code and how it's governed. Realizing the collaborative potential of open source and the innovation it can deliver to everyone means having the structures and organization in place to tap it fully.
•Is based on open standards, or protocols and formats that are moving toward standardization and that are independent of vendor and platform. Standardization in the sense of "official" cloud standards blessed by standards bodies is still in early days. That said, approaches to interoperability that aren't under the control of individual vendors and that aren't tied to specific platforms offer important flexibility. This allows the API specification to evolve beyond implementation constraints and creates the opportunity for communities and organizations to develop variants that meet their individual technical and commercial requirements.
•Intellectual property rights owners offer freedom to use the technology. Recent history has repeatedly shown that there are few guarantees that intellectual property (IP) assets will remain accessible to all from one day to the next. To have confidence that you will continue to enjoy access to IP assets that you depend on under the terms that you depend on, permission needs to be given in ways that make that technology open and accessible to the user. So-called "de facto standards," which are often "standards" only insofar as they are promoted by a large vendor, often fail this test.
• Is deployable on your choice of infrastructure. Hybrid cloud management should provide an additional layer of abstraction above virtualization, physical servers, storage, networking, and public cloud providers. This implies, or indeed requires, that cloud management be independent of virtualization and other foundational technologies. This is a fundamental reason that cloud is different from virtualization management and a fundamental enabler of hybrid clouds that span physical servers, multiple virtualization platforms, and a wide range of public cloud providers including top public clouds.
• Is pluggable and extensible with an open API. This lets users add features, providers, and technologies from a variety of vendors or other sources. Critically, the API itself cannot be under the control of a specific vendor or tied to a specific implementation but must be under the auspices of a third-party organization that allows for contributions and extensions in an open and transparent manner. Deltacloud, an API that abstracts the differences between clouds, provides a good example. It is under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation and is neither a Red Hat-controlled project nor tied to a particular implementation of cloud management.
• Enables portability to other clouds. Implicit in a cloud approach that provides support for heterogeneous infrastructure is that investments made in developing for an open cloud must be portable to other such clouds. Portability takes a variety of forms including programming languages and frameworks, data, and the applications themselves. If you develop an application for one cloud, you shouldn't need to rewrite it in a different language or use different APIs to move it somewhere else. Furthermore, a consistent runtime environment across clouds means that retesting and requalification isn't needed every time you want to redeploy.
An open cloud requires a wide range of attributes to push the needle from wholly closed to truly open. Having a few of these attributes is better than not having any. But only the full gamut lets organizations maximize the benefit they gain from cloud computing.
-George DeBono, General Manager, Middle East & Africa at Red Hat
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July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya's shilling declined, snapping the longest winning streak in three months against the dollar as companies increase demand for the U.S. currency after the shilling rose to the best level in almost three weeks yesterday.
The currency of East Africa's biggest economy weakened for the first day in seven, losing 0.2 percent to 88.50 per dollar by 2:49 p.m. in Nairobi, the capital, from yesterday's close of 88.35.
"Businesses have increase their demand for the dollar with the intention of accumulating due to what they see as good exchange-rate levels for the shilling, a situation that is likely to persist as demand for the greenback remains high," Wilson Mutai, a dealer at Nairobi-based African Banking Corp., said in a phone interview today.
The shilling has strengthened 2 percent since the Central Bank of Kenya raised its overnight lending rate to banks on June 29 in an attempt to rein in inflationary expectations and curb speculative trade in the shilling, which reached the weakest in 17 years on June 22.
It also blocked the use of funds borrowed from the overnight window to trade in the foreign-exchange market. The overnight rate, which is reviewed daily, remained at 8 percent today, according to the Nairobi-based bank's website.
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The Fong Dynasty
June 1999In terms of supplier connections, we value the same service and relationships our customers do. So, if prices are maintained reasonably in line with other vendors, we prefer to stay with the vendor who has demonstrated reliability and loyalty to us.
PI: How has industry consolidation affected Optronics?
Fong: The consolidation of vendors means it's of paramount importance for Optronics to benefit from partnerships with other companies who provide complementary products and services. Working together with press manufacturers, consumable vendors and front-end software developers enables Optronics to be part of a complete workflow, providing customers with a complete solution.
Industry dynamics provide an advantage for Optronics. Many of the plates produced on platesetters are expensive, long-run plates. However, many commercial shops are managing shorter runs that don't require plates which can produce a half million impressions.
Optronics platesetters can be fitted with any of several wavelength choices of thermal and visible light. This allows the customer to select the best plate for his operation, and substitute imaging heads at a later date if circumstances warrant. For example, you can start with visible plates, and switch to thermal next year. You can't do that with other platesetters.
PI: Talk about the activities at Fong Brothers Printing. What are your revenues and to what percentage has Fong Brothers gone digital?
Fong: Last year was one of stellar, record financial performance. Revenues increased nearly 15 percent, and we sustained a healthy bottom line. This is due to our continuing focus on speed and service. Our prepress capabilities have been completely upgraded at our printing facilities in San Francisco, enabling us to run approximately 90 percent of our work digitally. We assembled a complete Web server with asset management to better satisfy our customers. Our digital proofing capabilities were also enhanced, so that our workflow could be accelerated.
Of course, with an investment in Optronics, it's no surprise that we invested in two Aurora platesetters, which serve up plates for our new 40˝ Komori press with auto loader. When you tie that with our Aurora PlateSetter, you have a very powerful on-demand system. We are able to mount plates faster, and the press is quicker to set up: We've accomplished makereadies with as few as 50 sheets. This allows us to print 3,000 to 4,000 sheets cost-effectively. So, we use the Komori for clients who desire print-on-demand color within four hours, or our DocuTtechs for black-and-white work.
In China, we recently opened a new, 55,000-square-foot printing plant. It mirrors the computer-to-press workflow of our plant in San Francisco, with the Aurora platesetters and the Komori press. Its all-digital emphasis is truly revolutionary in China. As a showcase, it supports our distribution efforts, and it has been operating exceptionally well.
PI: You mention distribution. What about your distribution efforts? What's new with your other businesses regarding opening new sales channels and promoting greater revenue streams?
Fong: Several years ago we opened five regional sales offices to represent manufacturers of American-made printing equipment. These offices—in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Southern China—market equipment to printing plants throughout Asia.
Headquartered in Hong Kong, the Fong Brothers Graphics Division is contributing excellent revenues for the company. Optronics is turning around very nicely. The sales and marketing group is forming strong strategic and distribution alliances. We're also working on some intriguing engineering innovations that the industry will see as time progresses.
PI: What are your thoughts regarding the impact the Internet and e-commerce will have on commercial printing?
Fong: I'm a true believer that printers need to embrace e-commerce and the Web to conduct business. It's the way we all are going to manage business in the future. In fact, we organized a Web business five years ago, and formally created a new division for Fong Brothers, our Web Group, a couple of years ago to provide strategic marketing and design based on the Web requirements of our customers.
The way I view it, we need the capabilities to create business opportunities for ourselves and our customers: "Anything.com." Our customers wish to repurpose the images and content they have already generated in print. So why shouldn't we be the ones to help them do it?
Shortly our Web capabilities will be even more apparent in the efforts we're making to service customers' jobs themselves. A customer will be able to obtain a quote through the Web, send files via FTP to Fong Brothers, receive proofs and actually track his job from prepress through postpress. This will significantly assist the customer's access to information, accelerate approvals and ultimately hasten turnaround for our short-run jobs.
PI: How about the impact on the amount of printing you'll see as a printer, relative to the Internet?
Fong: Actually, I think the Web and e-commerce can yield printers more printing, not less. There's a lot of printing demand for niche market segments already. For example, Web requests are driving the catalog business. And look at the effect the success of companies like Amazon.com and Land's End is having on packaging. So, those who embrace the Web will find increased market share. The people who hold the data—digital files, images, etc.—will wield a lot of power.
PI: What are your thoughts on the digital prepress market? What power exists for digital prepress, in regard to equipment investments that result in better prepress productivity, thanks to digital technologies?
Fong: Focusing on a digital prepress procedure is really the only way a company can be successful in our industry. Our company initiated a digital workflow program in 1986. It's the best way to provide service, so often defined as speed, to our customers. The foremost thing we can do is possess the data, which means that asset management is crucial. In fact, we're willing to retain competitors' jobs in our system and allow other printers to pull files for jobs we're not printing. The move to Optronics platesetters and Komori presses was extremely important for us.
Printers will need platesetters to deliver jobs faster and increase production capacity. Turnaround times are being squeezed, and we found that platesetting plays an essential role in expediting work. When we installed our Komori press, we learned something else that was very intriguing. Some of our magazine customers require 20 sets of proofs. Most printers would naturally send the files to a digital proofer. We experimented and discovered that it's less expensive to create plates and print traditional press proofs directly to the Komori press. Assuming you have CMYK in the units, it takes less than an hour to mount plates and print the sheets. And our customers, of course, love receiving a press proof for approval.
PI: How did all of this affect your decision to purchase Optronics?
Fong: Back in 1990, we investigated a number of imagesetters for digital output, using a very large, difficult file. Optronics imagesetters achieved the best results, culminating in the purchase of an Optronics imagesetter for Fong Brothers Printing. When we introduced that printing technology in China, we were given permission to sell Optronics imagesetters and platesetters as well. They performed very well for our customers and were financially successful for us.
When Intergraph announced they wanted to divest of Optronics, we recognized that computer-to-plate technology would continue to grow in importance. I also strongly believe in Fong Brothers' credibility and wanted to secure CTP technology for the Chinese market. It was important to assure our Optronics customers in Asia that they would continue to be serviced well.
But, most significant, we believe that Optronics platesetters—in terms of imaging, ease of use and cost—perform as well as anything in the marketplace. In fact, we allowed a printer in China to conduct a side-by-side comparison with another platesetter. The Optronics Aurora platesetter was selected because of quality, reliability and price. Perhaps it's something we should allow printers to do in the States. It's the next generation of Optronics products we're staking our fortunes on.
As a company, Optronics' management possesses the same innovation and dedication to quality they have always been noted for. We're currently in the process of retooling and rebuilding. Some of these efforts are coming to fruition, and you'll see them shortly.
PI: Where has Fong Brothers found opportunities in printing?
Fong: We find that we're doing a lot more color printing. The Internet has taken away some of our traditional black-and-white documentation business among our Silicon Valley customers, but we've seen many of these jobs converted to full color "instruction sheets."
We're also conducting much more traditional commercial printing: direct mail and marketing collateral. Lately, we've seen more finance and banking business. Our on-demand digital printing capabilities provide us with substantial business, because clients are looking for quick turnarounds. If you treat your customers well and provide exceptional service and speed, you can develop a very strong, loyal customer base from customers seeking digitally printed materials.
PI: What are your thoughts on the paper market? How does Fong Brothers deal with changes in the paper market?
Fong: All printers know that paper prices rise and fall like a roller coaster. In the past, we tried to purchase paper in large quantities and stockpile an inventory. Prices are so volatile and hard to predict that we decided to acquire paper utilizing "just-in-time" techniques. That way, we don't retain a large inventory at any given time. However, paper prices really don't trouble us.
Paper prices are much more important for long-run jobs, such as magazines or newspapers. For commercial printers who focus on shorter-run jobs, it represents only 30 percent of the cost. So, pricing costs don't influence customer loyalty as much as the service we provide for them. And now, we've observed that the industry—even magazines—are negotiating shorter runs. Nowadays, a press run of 10,000 pieces is an attractive job.
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Date(s) And Time(s):
Oct 26 2010 8:00AM - Oct 27 2010 5:00PM
Double Tree Hotel and Executive Meeting Center
8120 Wiesconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
Interest Area(s):
Clinical Research, Outsourcing, Project Management, Public Policy/Law/Corp. Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Research & Development
Join Industry and Regulatory Leaders to Address Multi regional Clinical Trial Opportunities and Risks from a Global Perspective
With a multitude of cultural diff erences, diverse regulatory guidances and processes, and a variety of local medical practices, there is a clear need to develop a road map in order to reach successful completion of a quality clinical trial. This workshop will engage regulators and industry to examine the issues that need to be considered to conduct a successful MRCT that generates data acceptable for regulatory decison making. This is a multidisciplinary conference, as the many considerations and opportunities off ered by MRCTs are of a broad scope and not particular to any single expertise. The conference will provide discussions, experts and case studies addressing ethical, regulatory, operational, statistical, and clinical considerations of MRCTs, including:
• Access to medicines and post-trial care
• Ethical considerations
• Intellectual property protection
• Understanding the role of human factors, risk taking, and cultural differences in successful MRCTs
• Statistical methods to determine the consistency of results across different regions
• Regulatory issues across multiple countries when planning a placebo-controlled trial
Industry MRCT Working Group-Key Issues Team will contribute the following topics to the conference:
1. Identifying regional similarities and diff erences with respect to MRCTs
2. Designing and conducting quality MRCTS
3. Assessing consistency of results across regions
4. Exploring international regulatory obstacles to planning unifi ed MRCTs
5. Addressing international regulatory diff erences when planning unified MRCTs
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I love the M&P. But why in 40. You are one of the FTF folks that talked me out of a 40. "Too snappy" you said.
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Congrats on the buy I expect you will enjoy the pistol, the next M&P I buy will have the thumb safety as I think it's a nice add for a striker fired pistol. I've never shot one in 40 but expect it will preform well. I will say that my FNP-40 has more snap than my M&P 45.
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I have the M&P compact .40 and love it. No mag or thumb safety on mine.
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I tried this product after hearing so many rave reviews about this line. I tried the normal Daily Regenerating Serum even though I wanted the Fragrance Free version (it was more expensive when I bought it). I have used about 3/4 of a bottle now, and I really like it! It moisturizes well and makes my skin glow from within. And I have not broken out from this product yet! Between this serum, my clarisonic, my gentle but effective cleansers, and my new gentle organic toner, my skincare routine has completely changed, and it is very apparent in how great my skin looks.
I usually use this product under another moisturizer, as I don't think the serum alone is moisturizing enough for the winter. I also use this product under my primer and tinted moisturizer/foundation in the morning. It's a nice light added layer, does not irritate my skin, and really seems to be helping my skin look its best in a very long time.
I can't wait to try the fragrance free version! I already love this serum and while the fragrance does not irritate me or my skin, I don't love the fragrance and would probably be happier with no fragrance in the product. It's a little pricey for a drugstore product, but the new Olay Regenerist and Pro-X lines are so great that I don't mind paying a little extra for a great product.
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I bought this product because paula begoun suggested this in her book as a good moisturizer for oily/combo skin. When i applied it, it felt smooth and soaked in nicely. fast forward a few days and two huge zits started developing on the sides of my cheek. then i stopped for a few days and the two zits disappeared. I tried it again and i broke out with yet another two zits on my face. I think it might be the silicone that broke me out since its the first ingredient on the list. But if your not acne prone or sensitive to large amounts of silicone then this would be a pretty nice buys since it has loads of antioxidants.
I bought this becuse I was in need of a moisurizer for my face and what first attracted me to this was I was already using the Regenerist Detoxifying Pore Scrub (different review for that!!) and the second was the fact that it said it left the skin velvet to the touch.
First off, I have very sensitive skin and blemishes galore (even in my mid 30s :((( ) With that being said, this did not clog my pores. My skin felt refreshed and velvet like after application ( I literally use half a pump each morning). I unfortunately have super oily skin (hence the adult acne) so I do have to put on Urban Decay's de-slick formula. All-in-all I love this product. It is very light. This product has not made me break out and I actually though this was better than Philosophy's Hope In A Jar, which I love but I like Olay's better!
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I'm 51, and have been using this product off and on for a few years. I probably shouldn't review because it hasn't been continuous use - but I do like the way my skin soaks it up. I don't know that I've seen all that much difference in how my face looks, but I obviously need this extra moisture even under regular moisturizer. (Of course, I might look way worse without it!) I like the pump bottle packaging, but the last bit is always impossible to get out. I open the bottle up for that.... not wasting it, even at warehouse club prices!
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I'm 39, Asian with some wrinkles on my forehead and around my eyes. I've been using this for the past few weeks and my forehead was breaking out into acne. The silicones block pores. So I would not recommend this to anyone who is prone to acne or with skin that can get oily in places. And I have not seen any noticeable improvement in the wrinkles. I dab it around my eyes to smooth out the wrinkles before I apply concealer and powder foundation. Without it, the powder foundation tends to crease and make the wrinkles more pronounced. So it's helpful underneath makeup.
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20 till that Jehovah give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession, which I have given to you. | 20 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the LORD your God is giving them, across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you." |
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Apple is also seeking to permanently ban US sales of "any of the infringing products or any other product with a feature or features not more than colorably different from any of the infringing feature or features in any of the Infringing Products," Reuters reported. This could include Samsung's brand-new Galaxy S III smartphone.
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The PARTY of the YEAR is at Park Tavern on Friday night. For only $80, you get full open bar, multiple food stations , with a wide variety of food. In addition you will see one of Atlanta's finest party bands HAYWIRE. Park Tavern is generally considered the best party venue in all of Atlanta. WVU has access to the entire facility, both inside and outside. We are hopeful that both the Mountaineer Marching band and the cheerleaders make an appearance, but final details have not been made. Imagine our band playing in Piedmont Park with a view of the city as a background.
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The day of the sixth edition of The Hindu Young World Quiz at Coimbatore dawned bright and cheery. The Coimbatore Institute of Technology auditorium was all quiet and orderly, showing that the students of the city had come well prepared.Even though one found some going through common quiz books and yearbooks, there was no undue feeling of fear or doubt reflected on the young faces. "Confident", "well prepared" could be heard rather than "I am scared" or "I am tense", which augured well for them. The stage was set.There were 241 teams of two members each, with a maximum of three teams from each school. Students from Gobichettipalayam, Palakkad, Erode and Udumalpet too made a beeline for the preliminary round, along with the local students to be a part of the "country's largest high school quiz covering 13 cities".
When the students were settled inside the auditorium, the anchor of SS Music - the official television sponsor - made the students dance a jig to a hip hop music. V.V. Ramanan, the Quizmaster, started off the preliminary round in which students were given 25 questions to answer in writing. Biology, chemistry, general knowledge, history, cricket, politics, cinema... there was a question from every field. The very first question was a teaser. "Coimbatore is called the ------- of the South in reference to the numerous motor parts and engineering goods and industries". The obvious answer that came was "Manchester". But the right answer was "Detroit". Manchester was used only with reference to textiles. There were visual questions too.Six teams were chosen after the preliminary round for the regional final round. They were from SBOA Matric H.S. School, Stanes Anglo-Indian H.S. School, Carmel Garden Matric H.S. School and Lisieux Matric H.S. School from Coimbatore, Stanes All India H.S. School from Coonoor and Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kanjikode, from Palakkad.The final round of the quiz had five rounds. The first "Headline Round" had the Quizmaster showing a visual of the dateline of a newspaper and asking the appropriate headline. The second "Topsy Turvy Round" had the participants on stage giving the questions to the Quizmaster based on some clues. "El Al"... the question was, "what is the name of the Israeli airlines?" The third buzzer round had the jumbled jackpot and spectrum rounds. Students had to unravel proper names and words from the jumbled lot presented to them by the Quizmaster. The jumbled lot of `SO I'M CUTER' was cracked to derive the name `TOM CRUISE'. This was followed by the Spectrum round where students answered a series of seven questions.The fourth "Mera Bharat Mahaan" round contained questions on India. The final round was "End Game". From round one, the SBOA team was in the lead. When the team of Vidyuth Anand and S. Rohit emerged winners, it was no surprise. They were the winners last year too. The second place was bagged by P. Vikas and Sandeep Hari of Kendriya Viyalaya Kanjikode from Palakkad. The third place went to P. Sam Paul and R. Gowtham Ram of Stanes Anglo-Indian H.S. School. G.E. Sridharan, Arjuna awardee, was the chief guest. He gave away the cash prize and a bounty of other gifts to the winners. In addition, there were prizes for the best outstation teams. The first went to Shree Vidyalaya of Gobichettipalayam, and the second went to Kendriya Vidyalaya, Kanjikode. Prizes were given to three best team names. "Quiz Papparazzi" by Stanes Anglo-Indian H.S. School, "Alchemists of Knowledge" by Park Matric H.S. School and "Apna Sapna Quiz Quiz" by Bharatha Matha H.S. School of Palakkad emerged as the three best names.
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All those who participated walked away with a certificate of participation and a bag of goodies.The Quizmaster Mr. Ramanan said, "Coimbatore's torch will be held aloft and carried all the way to Madurai by the SBOA team," which will participate at the national finals to be held on November 14.Eveready is the title sponsor. The associate sponsor is Jamaai Ice Cream. The national sponsors are Encyclopedia Britannica, Reliance Hello, HP Invent - Printers, Garden City College, Reynolds, Vizag Steel, Cycle Brand Agarbathis, Britannia - Tiger Biscuits, Penguin and State Bank of Travancore. The official drink is Maaza and the TV sponsor is SS Music. The event manager for this programme is Quizwalahs.The Regional Prime Sponsor is CRI Pumps and other Regional Sponsors are: ARC Aquapuraa Packaged drinking water, Veega Land, Sri Krishna Sweets, Zimson Watch World, Banaanaa Slice, Ideal Stores, The Bostton, Sports Land, L - Oil - Virgin Coconut Oil, Oak & Cherry and Roshan Bags & Luggages.


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There is a long-standing rule in the Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time that childrens' movies are not up for consideration because, while awful, they are made for children, not for adults, and to watch them or talk about them along the lines that you would use for a movie made for human beings is beside the point. (This doesn't mean that there aren't also GREAT childrens' movies that even adults can enjoy, but the ones that are all butts and poops and fart-pants and crotch-slams do exactly what they are supposed to for the people for whom they are intended to do it, so what's the point?) With that in mind, it almost seems unfair to talk about Garden State because it is also kind of made for children. If I had to guess who the target audience for this movie is I would say they are 15-24-year-old babies who completed one semester of Freshman College (and are VERY impressed with themselves for having done so), believes Deathcab for Cutie "practically invented music," are a pretty big deal on their LiveJournal group blog, have had one serious relationship that ended in the third grade, don't think it's a problem to wear pajamas to work, believe that "sadness" is "sexy," and say things like "everyone says I'm crazy, but I don't know, I'm just me!" when in fact no one says they are crazy because they are the most normal McNormalson on Earth. So, unformed garbage people, basically.
Well, then, garbage babies, let's talk about your movie!
Garden State tells the "story" (not a story) of Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, who also wrote and directed this piece of crap) who is a Hollywood actor returns home to New Jersey for the funeral of his mother. He is depressed or something? All I know is that his face looks like this:
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Zach Braff is getting headaches so he goes to a doctor and meets Natalie Portman in the waiting room who is listening to The Shins on her Zune and blah blah blah they fall in love. I'm not entirely sure how anyone could be attracted to either of them as Natalie Portman is almost painfully annoying and Zach Braff is insufferable, but actually as a couple they both kind of make sense. I hope they get married and move into a house together and lock the door to the house and burn that house to the ground. Also: Zach Braff stops taking his Prozac or something because this movie was made in 2004 and apparently people were still talking about Prozac as some kind of "numbing" problem? Seriously? Now he is in love with Natalie Portman and they travel around New Jersey meeting all kinds of "hilarious" "characters" and having "adventures," all the while talking about life and death and love and feelings in such banal terms that you almost cannot believe it and yet it is really happening. Zach Braff is about to leave to go back to Hollywood and he even gets on the airplane, and Natalie Portman goes to cry in a phone booth (remember phone booths?) but then Zach Braff decides not…to…return to Hollywood and his acting career? But to stay in New Jersey with an annoying epileptic girl who still lives with her mother?
Where to even begin? How about with the cinematography! Yuck. YUCK. Every single shot of the movie is so over-composed. You know they thought "this looks cool and interesting" but it doesn't. On top of that, the cinematography is clearly supposed to be neat to make up for how dull and unimaginative everything else about the movie is, so it's actually failing on two different levels! It is like putting a comedian in a "funny" shirt that isn't actually funny at all and then having him tell terrible jokes.
Speaking of emotional substitutions, there is the issue of the soundtrack. It's a perfectly good soundtrack! But that's the thing: it is JUST a soundtrack. If the overall aesthetic of the movie is a lazy Wes Anderson rip-off (see also Napoleon Dynamite, released the same year) then the soundtrack is pure Cameron Crowe. Here's the thing: just because you use carefully selected songs to evince a particular mood, if everything else going on is absolute garbage then you are being a lazy fucking liar and I hate you. Which is exactly what this movie does, and worst of all it doesn't even have the decency to be subtle about it. That whole "Listen to this Shins song, it will change your life" bullshit is exactly that: bullshit. If your girlfriend in real life gives you a mixtape, that is nice. If you find a mixtape on a make believe trash heap, who cares?!
Because Garden State's characters are all so stock and thin (this one is "sad," this one is "lazy") not to mention poorly acted (although I do like Peter Sarsgaard in general, and also hi, Jim Parsons, you looked much healthier before you were famous, I am sorry you got so sick) and because of the movie's complete lack of emotional depth (see the many faces of Zach Braff, above), and just in case people see through the total scam of its visual choices, the movie attempts to pack itself with "quirky characters and events" because that is…I don't know. Comedy? Indie? Swag? So, a man in knight's armor gets cereal from the fridge (no he doesn't). Too much medicine in the cabinet. Motorcycle with sidecar (sure). Diploma on the ceiling (NOPE). Natalie Portman's foreign exchange student "brother" (eek). Flaming arrows for no fucking reason whatsoever. The screaming thing. That goddamn shirt.
When they go to the quarry (right before the screaming nonsense happens) this GROWN MAN spouts some open mic night philosophy about staring into an abyss or some shit (barf) but before he does that he says "You guys probably think it's pretty weird that my wife and I live in this converted houseboat at the edge of a quarry." Uh, if that houseboat was real it would be on the cover of fucking architecture magazines. If your movie is going to be quirky, shouldn't it at least know what quirky even IS?! The thing about iconic movie images is that they stick with you because they have EMOTIONAL RESONANCE and help to TELL A STORY. This is just scribbling on a pair of high school jeans. The whole thing is so high school a/v club senior project it makes me sick. SICK! Also making me sick:
But the real heart of this movie's awfulness is its blatant, rampant, all-pervasive dishonesty. It is in everything that we have already talked about (cinematography, melodramatic soundtrack, fake quirk) but it's also deeply embedded in the characters and their behavior and the story itself. Like, the first night that Zach Braff is back in town he goes to a party at a mansion owned by a kid he knew in high school who got rich by inventing "silent velcro" (there is a nonsense dishonest detail right there because WHAT?) and is socially incapacitated and so nervous and shy and confused, right? No. He's a HOLLYWOOD ACTOR! He can't handle a stupid house party in his hometown? Give me a break. That isn't that great of an example, I guess, but here's the thing: none of them are good examples because everything in the movie is dumb and boring and cliched and lame and A LIE. The only thing less interesting than a 20-something-year-old who doesn't know what to do with his life (because apparently BEING IN MOVIES ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH?) is a make-believe 20-something-year-old who make-believe doesn't know what to make-believe do with his make-believe life. Meanwhile, everything that comes out of everyone's mouth is just utter shit (with the exception of the part when Peter Sarsgaard tells Zach Braff "don't make fun of me for my hobbies, I don't make fun of you for being an asshole," which is the best part of the whole movie). Let's put it this way: Prozac is NOT what makes Zach Braff's character dull and unbearable to be around. Everyone is so two-dimensional (he can't swim! Powerful stuff*) that their interactions are like two shapes passing each other in Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland. And as someone who actually has experience of a strained relationship with his father what the FUCK is going on here?
I know that lots of people like this movie, and for the most part I have a very live-and-let-watch philosophy towards life. We all like what we like, no big deal! But this movie is kind of a dealbreaker. Sorry! If you like this movie, I'm sure you're probably still a good person (maybe) and not a TOTAL idiot, but I don't think we can be best friends. At the very least, you will be removed from my MySpace Top 8. 4 sure. This movie is so bad. Here is how bad this movie is: Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown maintains its stranglehold as the front-runner for the Worst Movie of All Time, but Garden State jumps into the #2 spot. CONGRATULATIONS, GARDEN STATE! YOU ARE ALMOST THE MOST AWFUL!
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*Even here, his inability to swim has nothing to do with storytelling. Clearly, for whatever (very) stupid reason, Zach Braff got it into his head that it would be funny or clever or SOMETHING to have a bunch of people jump into a pool and only have Zach Braff not jump into the pool. So he doesn't. Because he can't swim. It's completely uninteresting and a waste of time. Just like this movie.
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the ending of this movie is the worst. the whole story is so fucked up and sad and dark, i wanted to leave depressed but it was just like every other romantic comedy.
Speaking of which, I just gotta continue to nominate THIS:
if for nothing else, then for the heated debate it will cause.
Pam, it is common practice in the Garden State to make shirts out of wallpaper, just like in the plantation state it is common practice to line your walls with printed cotton fabric.
French artist Laurent La Gamba was doing "camouflage art" in 2002.
You might recognize the technique picked up by more recent TV commercials for anti-depressants.Is this ZB's inspiration for the goddamn shirt? where DOES he get his ideas?
The mysterious person who could be attracted to Natalie Portman in this movie has left us a clue! Let's see… it says here that he has two thumbs…
You just described me perfectly. However, I feel like I was duped by a very nicely done teaser trailer. The Frou Frou song was just moody yet upbeat enough that it fit my sophomore college personality very well, and it made the cinematography, while pointless in the context of the actual movie, seem worthwhile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la53nY41c9M
So, this preposterous piece of zeitgeist-y nonsense, but not Reality Bites??
It's the same problem! Wake up, sheeple!
I've had, as far as I can remember, two DVD cases stolen from me: Garden State and the Die Hard trilogy. Anybody want to guess which I am way, way, pissed about?
"I thought Donnie Darko was an overdone student thesis film based on a synopsis of a short story Kelly read in the back of Aren't You Clever magazine, but fine, the kids enjoyed it."–Gabe
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It's too bad Eternal Sunshine was also terrible.
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Speaking of insufferable, pseudo-intellectual movies, I hereby nominate Brick, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Netflix must've thought it was pretty goddamn funny to recommend that movie to me. It is up there with Boondock Saints and Wild Wild West, and that is saying something.
Can you nominate a movie you haven't seen all the way through? If so, I nominate "You and Me and Everyone We Know". I've only seen 15 minutes of it, but it is in my top 5 of least favorite movies.
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i'm not sure if someone already suggested this, but can we please induct black swan into the hunt?
The ending is probably the worst part, but it's hard to narrow down one specific example of worst in a whole mess of bad.
But here the case is just the opposite.Greatest movie scenes of all time.
Gabe DID sort of give it the WMOAT treatment: http://videogum.com/40181/the_one_year_anniversary_of_th/everyones-a-critic/
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Today was jam packed with activity here in Las Vegas at the Big Smoke. At nine a.m. the doors opened to our cigar seminars (they sold out around one month ago) and the room was filled with cigar lovers from around the United States and abroad who were eager to hear from their favorite cigarmakers and get Cigar Aficionado's version of cigar school. You'll read all about it next week with our extensive coverage, but here's a quick sample: a tasting of the top three cigars of the year (Casa Magna, Padrón 80 Years and Litto Gomez Diez Chisel), a seminar on how cigars are made from seed to shelf, a seminar on Cuba, one on boutique cigars and another on how organizations such as the CRA, Cigar Association of America and IPCPR are fighting for your right to smoke. And we also had a special video prepared showcasing the best of Cigar Aficionado's Cigar Cinema, our video section.
It was a wonderful day, and I was busy, leading two of the seminars and puffing away on those great cigars. The crowd had a blast. After the seminars concluded, we went to lunch, hosted by the Fuente family. They handed out two cigars, including a 12 year old (!) Fuente Fuente OpusX.
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