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The best places to eat and drink in Barcelona, reviewed anonymously
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5 romantic restaurants
El Pla
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
Just passing by El Pla you'll see that it's a romantic spot by definition. It's set amid the dark and humid narrow streets of the Barri Gòtic, so when you get there you're well prepared for a place with intimate lighting. Well-managed, the restaurant has got an informal but elegant decor, and
- Bellafila, 5, Born-Ribera, 08002
Fragments Cafè
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
This is one of the few Barcelona Noucentisme (early-20th-century Catalan movement that started as a reaction against Modernisme) buildings where you're welcome all day. Fragments Cafè owes its good taste, perfectionism, and knowledge to Ricardo Feriche and Juliet Pomés, who spend
- Pl. de la Concòrdia, 12, Les Corts, 08014
Indochine Ly Leap
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
A frenzy of Asia-inspired tapas, in which Ly Leap shows off his expertise with spices, citrus and aromatic herbs. This place is crazy: a thousand square metres of jungle, where the tables are tiny islands suspended above water, with fish and everything.
- Muntaner, 82, Eixample Esquerre, 08011
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 3/4
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When we think of why Bohèmic has become a top restaurant, it's got to be because of their intention to revive the bistro of yesteryear and bring back dishes that seemed destined to fall by the culinary wayside. There's an art nouveau air about the place, dishes are presented in
- Manso, 42, Eixample Esquerre, 08015
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Kenia Nakamura and Anna Peray go hand in hand in this welcoming space where kaiseki rules. This Japanese cooking concept varies throughout the year depending on the season and you'll find the essence of the product on every plate. The pair have developed a harmonious menu, one that is
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RadeonHD should die ...
Phoronix: Radeon vs. RadeonHD Fighting Continues
If you thought disputes among X.Org developers were going to stop in regards to there being two leading ATI drivers (xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd) after RadeonHD switched to using AtomBIOS, guess again. Daniel Stone committed a change to the X Server this morning that drops the RadeonHD driver as an X.Org module. Of course, this led to Luc Verhaegen (one of the RadeonHD developers at Novell) bringing this up on the X.Org mailing list...
RadeonHD should die ...
I can't for the life of me see why RadeonHD isn't being dropped and it's features merged with radeon.
Judging from that exchange it appears that the HD devs are quite opinionated in regards to the way their drivers are designed, dunno if that their high opinion is warranted or not. Anyone care to provide an unbiased opinion?
even better: drop and get rid of ati and radeonhd. develop a fist class gallium3d-driver, test and optimize it and make it an alternative the to proprietary fglrx. but it's keeping a dream
anything but this :/
that starting flamerwar _really_ sucks. it's bound to hit linuxhater soon ;-)
Benchmark the suckers! Fastest one on a given card gets that PCI-ID.
Heh, I love it when politics gets involved with development. With internal squabbling and backstabbing being done like this I can really see yet another fork of X in the future. Unfortunately this is the exact type of behavior that feeds the advocates of closed source development.
Uhm, radeon vs radeonhd doesn't have anything to do with Gallium3D. They both use the same mesa 3D driver, and the only real difference is modesetting code. That said, the duplication of effort going on here isn't really great.
I have xorgs, xservers and mesas built from Debian experimental with latest radeon and radeonhd driver and still radeonhd can't cope with EXA... it makes the computer very slow and fan spins like crazy. I was disappointed.
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Isn't this meaningless ?
I mean soon we will see KMS for radeon cards. With modesseting in the kernel both radeon and radeonhd will be not needed.... or correct me if I'm wrong ? isn't all that's going to be left in the Xorg just the mesa (which both drivers share)?


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The INP was restructured in 2000 in an effort to transform it from a military to a civilian force. This has led to improved working practices and cultures, and greater emphasis on the role of community policing in effective crime prevention. Further phases of reform are ongoing until 2025 and will see the INP established as a centre of policing excellence.
The INP is made up of more than 400,000 police officers and civilian employees, deployed to the 32 regional police forces of the 17,000 islands which make up Indonesia. Currently, there are more than 13,000 police women, many in key strategic managerial positions.
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- Formed Police Unit in Sudan;
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- African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur;
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- Bureau of International Missions.
Because the DIR has a key role to play not only in assisting the INP to fight international and transnational crime but also in drafting legislation on extradition and mutual legal assistance, it enjoys excellent working relationships with all governmental and law enforcement institutions.
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- UN peacekeeping operations;
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Providing protection and legal assistance for Indonesian citizens abroad.
Operation targeting chemical smuggling in Asia nets hijacked ship
INTERPOL training in Indonesia supports police in investigating migrant smuggling
Protecting forests focus of INTERPOL training course
INTERPOL wildlife operation results mark Global Tiger Day
INTERPOL leads crackdown on illegal wildlife markets in Asia
INTERPOL hunt for international fugitives leads to numerous arrests across South America
INTERPOL applauds Southeast Asia Operation Storm II's success in disrupting trade of counterfeit medical products
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The alias used by Atlanta Falcons below-average "quarterback" Michael Vick. This alias was used because Vick contracted herpes and did not want it to become public when he went for treatment. The story became known because the should be criminal spread the disease to another woman. Keep in mind Vick was aware that he was carrying herpes.
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Direct that attitude towards NVidia instead, they are the ones who are not providing drivers, nor the information necessary for supporting the hardware through open source drivers, despite actually being the ones who get money for this _hardware_.
Also there is NOTHING preventing them from implementing the necessary functionality for optimus right in their own proprietary driver, which is what they've been doing all along for all the other functionality marked as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Bottom line is that they are not really interested in supporting optimus for Linux, as they are not really interested in the Linux end user desktop. If they were we'd already have the driver, which is the case with the other proprietary drivers they already supply for their corporate Linux customers (the ones they actually give a shit about).
This is nothing but NVidia again 'testing the waters' and perhaps trying to cause some controversy because they are a bit pissed due to the 'Fuck you NVidia!' statement from Linus which went viral. It's not as if they really expected a positive reaction, several copyright holders in the targeted areas already expressed their objections before as this is the second time around.
I'm so glad NVidia's discrete gpu's are a dying breed on the desktop, this goes beyond Linux since there are other operating systems out there which I find very interesting and they don't have a prayer of ever being deemed worthy of NVidia's proprietary efforts. Proprietary drivers are nothing but a goddamn pain in the ass which prevent you from using the hardware you've bought in the settings you so choose.
Thankfully due to the kernel devs hard stance and the great work of developers doing reverse engineering the proprietary drivers are near obsolete on Linux, meaning that we have a ton of hardware which runs straight-out-of-the box not only on x86 but on lots of other architectures that NVidia themselves would never see fit to support.


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Sunday, July 3, 2011
What is Oiling Out?
Yes, Mark, you got it. "Oiling out" means rubbing a little linseed oil or clear painting medium over a dry surface of paint that you worked on earlier. You can apply the oil with a clean, lint-free rag, or scrub it on with a large bristle brush and remove most of it with a rag.
That oil layer resaturates the colors and makes the paint surface more receptive to the new layer of wet paint, so that it will look like it was all done at the same time. Without oiling out, the new paint application goes on too dry and scrubby. You don't need much oil to get the job done--just a hint of oil.
An oil painting manual from 1845 by J.S. Templeton defined oiling out like this: "The surface of colours in drying, frequently assumes a state that renders it difficult to lay fresh colours thereon properly. To correct this, previous to commencing work, the picture must have a little oil, (either Linseed or Nut) sparingly applied to it with a brush and then perfectly removed by wiping it with a soft silk rag, this will be effectual."
My wife tells me it's like putting on makeup. Hydrating the skin with a little moisturizer makes it more receptive to make-up. Not that she paints her face very often!
Templeton quote
More information from Virgil Elliott
Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present
Gamblin Refined Linseed Oil
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter
13 comments:
- Marianne said...
Thanks I am relative new at painting with oil, and I have been wondering what this oiling out means! Your blog is a great help!
- July 3, 2011 at 5:43 AM
- MrCachet said...
Color & Light arrived today. I skimmed, then realized that if I'm going to get what I want out of this book I'm going to have to forget the skimming and read it the way you put it together. THANK YOU!
- July 3, 2011 at 6:14 AM
- James Gurney said...
Marianne, you're welcome!
Mr Cachet, I tried to organize the book so that it builds concept by concept, but skimming is cool, too.
One of my favorite Amazon reviews says: "The way it's written, you could read it like a regular how-to book, or stick it in the john and it will be the best bathroom book you've ever read." - July 3, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- elgin said...
It is my understanding that oiling out should be done some months prior to varnishing so that the varnish will give a uniform surface appearance.
- July 3, 2011 at 12:22 PM
- Blackbird_9 said...
for those who are new to this idea I would suggest trying it on a study piece first. The first time I did this I did not heed my instructor's warning and used too much. There was much delicate wiping and cussing, and wiping and cussing. It's a great little method, but takes just as much care and thought as the rest of what you do.
- July 3, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Roberto said...
Hey Jimmy G-
This is a little off topic, well actually a lot off topic, but I thought you would enjoy this.
It's an on-line art gallery called 'Art of Science,' set up by a few of the Brainiacs over at Caltech. Each thumbnail links to a different science project, with info and contacts about the authors/artists. The archive links to past years' exhibitions/projects.
Have fun -RQ - July 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM
- knoxblox said...
I did my first oiling out the other day.
In addition to making the paint surface more receptive, it helps to restore the look of certain colors that have "sunk in" as they dry.
I'm partial to the colors viridian and French ultramarine, which sink in more than I'd prefer. Oiling out makes them look as fresh as the day they were applied.
I read an interview once with the artist Malcolm T. Leipke, and he says he does this every day, as he tends to be working on 30 different paintings at any given time. - July 3, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Shoki said...
It's like when you're painting in the zone, man.
People will walk past and comment "Duuuuude, you're totally oiling out!"
James' explanation is pretty good too. - July 4, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Richard said...
Moisturizer for faces does not add water to the skin,a fairly common misconception added and abetted by advertizing. Moisturizer covers the skin with a film of oil that prevents further water from evaporating from it.
It may be also true of oiling out. It may not add oil but merely put a thin film of oil on drier paint.
Richard - July 5, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Tom Hart said...
Oiling out is one of my favorite oil painting techniques. I frequenly take many days to finish a painting, for no other reason than that my painting sessions are usually sporadic and interrupted by long stretches of what's incorrecty referred to as my "real job".
Oiling out is a quick and effective way to accomplish all that's mentioned here. On top of that it seems to sometimes serve to slightly blend and unify - in a helpful way - areas that are nearly, but not completely dry. I can't prove that last point, and it may be an optical illusion caused by the uniform "shine" (for want of a better term) that is caused. But I always feel that the painting is helped by the process. - July 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM
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- Lenora said...
I'm interested in trying the "Oiling Out" technique. My question is: if I'm painting on a large canvas and may not apply paint to the whole surface in one session, do I apply the oiling out technique to just the active painting area or to the whole canvas surface. If I did apply oil to the whole surface, wouldn't areas unpainted that day build up too much oil over time as I repeated the technique. Thanks Lenora
- September 7, 2011 at 11:16 PM
- James Gurney said...
Lenora: Just the area you plan to work on. The oil should be very thin. The finish varnish should even out the final patina.
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In this full length audio and 11 minute video clip he discusses the campaign, the mistakes that were made, why Oracle Team USA ultimately prevailed and what it is like having Jimmy Spithill for a neighbour in Auckland's Herne Bay. ...[more] America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ pleased to have Aussies on board By Warren Douglas, 6:34 PM Wed 2 Oct 2013 Emirates Team New Zealand today welcomed the return of Australia to the America's Cup. The Golden Gate Yacht club announced that it had accepted a challenge for the 35th America's Cup from Queensland's Hamilton Island Yacht Club. Includes 30 minute interview with Emirates Team NZ's Dean Barker. Emirates Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker said it was great to have Australia back in the Cup. ...[more] America's Cup: Hamilton Island Yacht Club Challenger of Record By Hamilton Island Yacht Club, 8:45 AM Tue 1 Oct 2013 Just five days after the 30th anniversary of Australia winning the America's Cup in 1983, Hamilton Island Yacht Club has been confirmed as the Challenger of Record for the 35th America's Cup. ...[more] America's Cup: Dean Barker's Blog - It's over By Dean Barker, San Francisco, USA , 6:48 AM Sun 29 Sep 2013 Writing on his blog at Kiwi Yachting Consultants' website Emirates Team NZ skipper Dean Barker gives his view on the 34th America's Cup: This is not the entry I was ever hoping to have to write. But here we are the day after and it hurts. Yesterday's loss in the deciding race was a bitter pill to swallow. But the writing was on the wall the day before when Oracle sailed around us on the upwind leg ...[more] America's Cup - Oracle Team USA defends barely By Gary Jobson, 12:55 PM Sat 28 Sep 2013 Today's victory by Team Oracle USA concluded an America's Cup that will add quite a unique chapter to the long history of this regatta. ...[more] Gladwell's Line: Kiwis bloodied but should be unbowed By Richard Gladwell, 12:12 PM Sat 28 Sep 2013 Oracle Team USA did what most believed impossible – coming back from 8-1 down to winning 9-8 in a series that stretched to become the longest running series in Cup history. This was also the second occasion on which the second Defender to win in a winner take all Match. Australia II won the third, tied encounter, and changed the face of the America's Cup forever. ...[more] America's Cup: September 27, 2013 Edition - Bloodied but unbowed By ., 10:40 AM Sat 28 Sep 2013 . ...[more] America's Cup: Monsta's view of the key moments of the 34th Match By Mark O'Brien, San Francisco, USA , 9:20 PM Fri 27 Sep 2013 New Zealand based caricaturist, Mark O'Brien, has become a feature of the America's Cup since 2000. He's in San Francisco for the 34th America's Cup - here's his gallery of the regatta so far. ...[more] America's Cup quest ends for Emirates Team New Zealand By Lou Newlands, 2:04 AM Fri 27 Sep 2013 Nestlé Nespresso S.A. is a proud sponsor of Emirates Team New Zealand and still stands proud of all the New Zealand team has achieved despite their defeat in the 34th America's Cup Final yesterday (Wednesday, 25th September) on the waters of San Francisco Bay. ...[more] America's Cup: Speculation on Oracle Team USA's foiling system By Richard Gladwell, 9:10 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 The following notes are circulating in Auckland media circles, as an explanation for Oracle Team USA's improved foiling performance, as time progressed in the 34th America's Cup. This afternoon, an Oracle spokesman said that the team used the same set of foils through the regatta and that the 'special foil adjuster system, was there before the regatta started'. ...[more] America's Cup: Images from the Final Day on San Francisco Bay By Tracy St John, 8:45 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 Tracy St John provided this gallery of images from the Final Day of the 34th America's Cup on San Francisco Bay. ...[more] America's Cup: Images from San Francisco Bay - Final Race By Kurt Molnar, San Francisco, USA , 8:33 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 Photographer Kurt Molnar was out on San Francisco Bay today and provided this gallery of images from the Final Day of the 34th America's Cup. ...[more] America's Cup: Am-Cam Video of Race 19 By John Navas, San Francisco, USA , 7:24 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 Videographer and sailing analyst, John Navas, caught the final race of the 2013 America's Cup from his usual vantage point on the sea wall just along from the Golden Gate Yacht Club, off Marina Green. ...[more] America's Cup: After the Media Conference - Jimmy Spithill - Video By John Navas, 7:05 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 Videographer John Navas caught the after match Media Conference, following the main Media Conference after the presentation of the America's Cup to Oracle Team USA. 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Ray Davies, Dean Barker, Grant Dalton and Matteo Di Nora the team principal. Tom Slingsby,Jimmy Spithill, Larry Ellison, Ben Ainslie ...[more] AC34: Spithill and Oracle Team USA pull off the impossible! By ., Seattle , 12:31 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 You simply can't script a better drama: The protagonist (in this hemisphere at least) wrecks his boat less than a year ago, rebuilds both vessel and team only to find themselves in a DEEP scoreboard deficient (match-point, to be exact), only to rally with an unprecedented eight-bullet winning streak to successfully defend the oldest trophy in international sports. Yeah, right! ...[more] America's Cup: Emirates Team NZ Update - It's over By Warren Douglas, 12:26 PM Thu 26 Sep 2013 The America's Cup will stay in San Francisco. Oracle won the final race today. Emirates Team New Zealand started well and led around the first two marks. Oracle found more speed on the beat, took the lead and held on to the finish. ...[more]
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Author Affiliations: Divisions of Pharmacoepidemiology (Drs Solomon, Rassen, Glynn, and Schneeweiss and Mss Levin and Lee) and Rheumatology (Dr Solomon and Ms Garneau), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Background Severe nonmalignant pain affects a large proportion of adults. Optimal treatment is not clear, and opioids are an important option for analgesia. However, there is relatively little information about the comparative safety of opioids. Therefore, we sought to compare the safety of opioids commonly used for nonmalignant pain.
Methods We devised a propensity-matched cohort analysis that used health care utilization data collected from January 1, 1996, through December 31, 2005. Study participants were Medicare beneficiaries from 2 US states who were new initiators of opioid therapy for nonmalignant pain, including codeine phosphate, hydrocodone bitartrate, oxycodone hydrochloride, propoxyphene hydrochloride, and tramadol hydrochloride; none had a cancer diagnosis, and none were using hospice or nursing home care. Our main outcome measures were incidence rates and rate ratios (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for cardiovascular events, fractures, gastrointestinal events, and several composite end points.
Results We matched 6275 subjects in each of the 5 opioid groups. The groups were well matched on baseline characteristics. The risk of cardiovascular events was similar across opioid groups 30 days after the start of opioid therapy, but it was elevated for codeine (RR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.27-2.06) after 180 days. Compared with hydrocodone, after 30 days of opioid exposure the risk of fracture was significantly reduced for tramadol (RR, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.16-0.28) and propoxyphene (0.54; 0.44-0.66) users. The risk of gastrointestinal safety events did not differ across opioid groups. All-cause mortality was elevated after 30 days for oxycodone (RR, 2.43; 95% CI, 1.47-4.00) and codeine (2.05; 1.22-3.45) users compared with hydrocodone users.
Conclusions The rates of safety events among older adults using opioids for nonmalignant pain vary significantly by agent. Causal inference requires experimental designs, but these results should prompt caution and further study.
Over the past decade, clinicians have received mixed messages about opioids. On the one hand, the World Health Organization suggested that too little attention was being paid to pain, with excessively restrictive opioid prescribing for nonmalignant pain1; on the other hand, the US Food and Drug Administration issued warnings about the dangers of opioids and required manufacturers to document safety through new Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies.2 Despite this confusion, there has been a 50% to 100% increase in the use of opioids in recent years.3,4
Although much attention has been paid to the comparative safety of various selective and nonselective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), relatively little attention has been paid to the comparative safety of opioids. The metabolism and pharmacological properties vary between opioids,5 and previous studies note differences in opioids' relative sedating and constipating effects.6- 9 However, almost no information exists about the comparative safety of opioids regarding serious adverse events, such as fractures, cardiovascular events, hospitalizations for gastrointestinal toxic effects, or mortality. This vacuum of information presents a major problem for patients and providers, who have been warned about the toxicity of NSAIDs. Moreover, expert groups' recommendations include opioid therapy for nonmalignant pain among patients with risk factors for NSAID toxic effects.10,11
Because almost all trials of analgesics are short-term with relatively few patients, the comparative safety of opioid therapy is unlikely to ever be subjected to a randomized controlled trial. With this in mind, we designed an observational study comparing the safety of opioid therapy for nonmalignant pain in older adults. The safety events that were examined included several specific events, such as fracture, cardiovascular events, and gastrointestinal bleeding or bowel obstruction. As well, we examined several composite safety events, including toxic effects leading to hospitalization or death and all-cause mortality.
The cohort consisted of Medicare beneficiaries from 2 US states who qualified for pharmaceutical assistance programs for low-income older adults between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2005. These state-run programs provide medication insurance coverage for all drugs without restriction. From the eligible pool of subjects, we selected adults who had filled at least 1 prescription for an opioid. To restrict use to nonmalignant indications, persons with a diagnosis of cancer in the 365 days before the prescription date were excluded. We required subjects to demonstrate consistent health care system use in the preceding 365 days, as noted by a health care or pharmacy claim in each of the four 3-month periods before the start of an opioid. To maximize comparability of study subjects, we further excluded individuals who had filled a prescription in the preceding 365 days for an NSAID (selective or nonselective) or an opioid. Finally, subjects with any evidence of hospice or nursing home care in the preceding 365 days were excluded (Figure 1).
Assembly of the study cohort. Coxib indicates selective cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitor; NSAID, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
We matched subjects prescribed the 5 most common opioids used for nonmalignant pain—hydrocodone bitartrate, codeine phosphate, oxycodone hydrochloride, propoxyphene hydrochloride, and tramadol hydrochloride—using a propensity score constructed from the subjects' baseline covariates.12 A propensity score estimates the probability of receiving 1 treatment exposure vs a reference exposure; matching on a propensity score balances the treated and reference subjects with respect to the score's components. Four separate propensity scores were estimated using multivariate logistic regression models. Each opioid group was compared with the referent exposure, hydrocodone. Matching was accomplished using a "greedy" matching routine13 by finding a subject starting therapy with a different opioid who had a propensity score identical to the fifth decimal place; if no match was found, we then searched the fourth, third, second, and first decimal places. If no match was found, the exposed subject was dropped from the analysis. Because the four 2-way propensity score models shared a common reference group, we created exposure cohorts comparable across baseline covariates by restricting to matched pairs in which the subject in the hydrocodone group was successfully matched to all the other 4 opioid arms.
The propensity scores were based on variables that can be measured in claims data (demographics, diagnoses, surgical procedures, and pharmacy dispensings) and may predict any of the clinically significant safety events we studied (Table 1 provides a list of covariates included in the propensity score, and eTable 1 gives their diagnosis codes). Variables were determined from data for the 365 days before the start of analgesic exposure—the index date. The calendar year of the index date was also included in the propensity score.
A study protocol was developed before the analyses were performed. The study was approved by the Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board.
Several adverse events were of particular interest to us, including fracture, cardiovascular events, and gastrointestinal bleeding or bowel obstruction. We also attempted to capture the composite safety of these drugs by assessing the data for any adverse event leading to hospitalization, any adverse event leading to death, and all-cause mortality. For the composite safety events, other common drug-associated adverse events were also included, such as kidney insufficiency,14 hepatotoxic effects, or falls. Thus, subjects were considered to have experienced a composite safety event if they had an individual safety event leading to hospitalization or death or if they died.
Each of these outcomes was defined on the basis of health care utilization data, using diagnosis and procedure codes (eTable 1 provides a list of all codes used and supporting studies). Our definition of fractures included hip, pelvis, wrist, and humerus fractures15 but not spine fractures because new vertebral compression fractures cannot be reliably identified in claims data.16 Cardiovascular events included myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, revascularization, and out-of-hospital cardiac death.17- 20 Out-of-hospital cardiac death was based on an algorithm we developed that uses health care utilization data in which a death is noted in a subject with known cardiovascular disease but no previous cancer or human immunodeficiency virus infection. Gastrointestinal outcomes included upper and lower gastrointestinal tract bleeding and bowel obstruction.21
Data on the opioid exposures, as well as other medications, came from pharmacy dispensing data. The pharmacy data include drug name, daily dosage, and days of supply. The primary analyses considered subjects as being opioid-exposed from the day after the first dispensing through 7 days after the last available dose. This definition of exposure is often described as "treated." If a second type of opioid was received, that subject was censored at the date the second opioid was dispensed. In secondary analyses, this period after the last available dose was varied from 7 to 3 days. Other censoring events included end of eligibility, death, switching to another opioid, or the event of interest. Subjects were not censored at the first of any event to allow for competing risks to be fully captured in a given end point analysis.
We compared the baseline characteristics of the propensity score–matched cohorts. Incidence rates with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for all safety events for each of the 5 opioid cohorts. The primary analysis estimated the relative risk for each serious safety event, as well as the composite safety measures, by calculating the incidence rate ratio (RR), ending follow-up after 30 and 180 days of opioid exposure.
Secondary analyses were performed to examine whether the primary findings were robust. First, a dosage analysis was performed that categorized the starting dosage of each opioid as low, medium, high, or very high (eTable 2 provides dosage categories). Second, analyses were performed that allowed for as much follow-up time as was available (vs ending follow-up 30 or 180 days after initiation of opioid therapy). Third, we conducted analyses that considered subjects as treated even after no further drug was available, truncating at 30 or 180 days after initiation of therapy. This conservative type of analysis mirrors an intention-to-treat analysis in which the influence of biases occurring after the initiation of drug therapy is limited. Fourth, we varied the allowable gap after an opioid prescription ends until censoring from 7 days (primary analysis) to 3 days. Fifth, we began follow-up with the second opioid prescription. All the aforementioned secondary analyses calculated incidence rate ratios as an estimate of the RR. Finally, because many opioid preparations include acetaminophen, this was added as a covariate when it was part of the initial prescription, and relative risks were calculated in Cox proportional hazards regression models.
The study cohort was assembled from a very large pool of Medicare beneficiaries who also had drug benefits and had evidence of opioid use during the study period, 1995 to 2005 (n = 541 867). After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 143 482 (26.5%) potentially eligible subjects were available for matching (Figure 1). We were able to match 6275 subjects in each of the 5 opioid groups, resulting in inclusion of 5.8% of the potentially eligible subjects.
After matching, the baseline characteristics for the matched cohorts were well balanced across opioid exposures (Table 1). The groups had a mean age of 79 years; 80.9% were women and 91.0% were white. The mean number of comorbid conditions was 1.7. The mean number of acute care hospital days was slightly higher for oxycodone users than for users of the other opioids, and fewer oxycodone users were women.
Although the median supply of opioids was for between 2 and 6 weeks, some subjects received opioids for many months (eTable 3). The incidence rates for all 6 of the safety events were high after 30 days of opioid use (Table 2). Hydrocodone was used as the reference exposure, and RRs were calculated across all 6 safety events after 30 and 180 days of opioid exposure (Table 2 and Table 3). The risk of cardiovascular events was similar across opioid groups in the 30-day analysis. However, by 180 days, it was elevated for codeine (RR, 1.62; 95% CI, 1.27-2.06). During the first 30 days of opioid treatment, the risk of fracture was significantly reduced for tramadol users (RR, 0.21; 95% CI, 0.16-0.28) and propoxyphene users (0.54; 0.44-0.66). The risk of gastrointestinal safety events did not differ across opioid groups at either time point. All-cause mortality was elevated after only 30 days for oxycodone users (RR, 2.43; 95% CI, 1.47-4.00) and codeine users (2.05; 1.22-3.45).
In secondary analyses, we found results consistent with the main findings (Figure 2). There was no clear gradient of risk across dosages except for the fracture end point, for which the high-dosage relative risks regressed toward the null. An alternative dosage analysis categorized dosages according to equi-analgesic levels and found similar results (data not shown). Further secondary analyses tested whether the results were sensitive to different assumptions regarding the exposure period. eFigure 1 displays results for the 6 safety events across different assumptions and finds small differences in relative risk. One notable exception is that, when follow-up began with the second prescription, the results for fractures all regressed to the null (eFigure 1). Varying the period after the last available opioid dose before censoring from 7 to 3 days made no important difference in our results (eTable 4). A further secondary analysis included acetaminophen as an indicator term in Cox proportional hazards regression models and found no substantial change in the relative risks from the original analyses while observing subjects for as long as their opioid treatment continued (eTable 5).
Effect of opioid dosage on the hazard ratios (HRs) (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) in Cox proportional hazards regression models with truncation after 30 days. See eTable 2 for dosage categories. A, Composite cardiovascular outcome. B, Composite fracture outcome. C, Composite gastrointestinal outcome. D, Adverse events leading to hospitalization. E, Adverse events leading to death. F, All-cause mortality. Hydrocodone bitartrate is the reference exposure for all analyses.
Many older adults received prescriptions for opioid analgesics for nonmalignant pain, but little is known about their relative safety. We compared the safety of opioid analgesics for nonmalignant pain among older adults, using data from large health care–utilization databases. We found that the relative risks varied by opioid and by adverse event and even varied by treatment duration. Notable relative risks included an elevated risk of cardiovascular events for codeine users after 180 days, a reduced risk of fracture for tramadol and propoxyphene users after 30 and 180 days, and an increased risk in all-cause mortality after only 30 days for oxycodone and codeine users. This study's findings do not agree with a commonly held belief that all opioids are associated with similar risk.
The results of this study need to be considered in light of the limitations of our methods. First, we analyzed typical practice data from a nonrandomized setting. Thus, these results may be biased by residual confounding, in which factors influence the prescription of a given opioid and the safety events in question. This potential confounding bias limits the causal inference and renders this a study of associations. Although this is a serious limitation of our method, we doubt that the comparative safety of multiple opioids will ever be adequately tested in a randomized controlled trial. We matched subjects in each of the 5 opioid groups using a propensity score that takes into account many of the measured confounders available in the study database. The list of variables included in the propensity score is based on our desire to create a common propensity score across outcomes. As Table 1 demonstrates, after matching, the measured characteristics of subjects were similar across the 5 groups. Differences persisted in some variables, especially those that occurred with low frequency. Second, the study database was limited because it consisted of health care and pharmacy utilization data without information about cause of death from death certificates, pain levels, functional status, aspirin or tobacco use, or over-the-counter medication use. This may have led to some misclassification of exposures and outcomes. Because opioids are dispensed only with a prescription, exposure misclassification should be minimal. As far as outcomes, the vast majority of the disease definitions have been found to be accurately coded in this type of data. Moreover, we anticipate that misclassification of outcomes would be random. Third, we studied a group of older low-income adults; thus, the generalizability of our results need to be proved in other cohorts. Finally, we observed a limited number of events in several outcome-exposure relationships. Thus, our ability to prove the safety of a given opioid for a specific outcome is limited; this is clear from the width of the 95% CIs for some of the relative risks provided in Tables 2 and 3.
Our study exhibits a number of important strengths. The use of the propensity score–matched cohorts provides for well-balanced study cohorts, facilitating the calculation of incidence rates and risk differences. The risk differences can be used to calculate numbers needed to treat, a useful metric for clinicians considering how to apply epidemiologic results to practice. As well, the matched cohort design allows one to examine the comparative effectiveness of multiple exposures across many outcomes. Such a "matrix design" might be considered for further comparative effectiveness studies. In addition, we pursued several types of secondary analyses that yielded small but predictable differences. While the use of multiple analytic strategies may seem to be a weakness, each analysis asks the same question but in slightly different terms. When there is consistency in the findings, the results should be considered more robust.
Several of our findings require discussion. We found an increased risk of cardiovascular events among codeine and propoxyphene users compared with hydrocodone users. We are not aware that differences in cardiovascular risk have been reported among opioids. However, at least 1 study observed an increased risk of cardiovascular death among subjects with unstable angina who received morphine.22 Our group previously observed an increased risk of cardiovascular events in opioid users compared with nonselective NSAID users.23 This finding may be confounded, but Table 1 does not suggest this possibility.
The reduced risk of fracture among tramadol users compared with hydrocodone users is also a novel finding. Previous studies have shown an increased risk of fracture among opioid users compared with nonusers.24- 26 One study compared codeine users with propoxyphene users and found no difference in risk.24 Opioids may cause fractures through at least 2 mechanisms—an increased risk of falls27 and an effect of opioids on bone metabolism through androgens.28 It is possible that either or both mechanisms may underpin the reduced risk of fractures we observed among tramadol users, perhaps the increased risk of falls being important in the 30-day analysis and the effects on bone metabolism influencing the longer-term analyses. Finally, the increased all-cause mortality we observed for codeine and oxycodone users may relate to cardiovascular events or other unmeasured confounders. We did find that relative risk decreased in the high-dosage categories, suggesting that the risk of opioid use may equalize when used at such dosages. This result also requires confirmation in other data sets.
In summary, we explored possible differences in risk between opioids commonly used for nonmalignant pain and found that the risk varied by agent across many of the adverse events examined. The risks were not explained by the dosage being prescribed and did not vary across a range of sensitivity analyses. The risks were substantial and translated into numbers needed to treat that would be considered clinically significant. Our findings regarding cardiovascular risk were surprising and require validation in other data sets.
Correspondence: Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, PBB-B3, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: October 5, 2010.
Author Contributions: Dr Solomon had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Solomon, Rassen, and Schneeweiss. Acquisition of data: Solomon and Levin. Analysis and interpretation of data: Solomon, Rassen, Glynn, Garneau, Levin, Lee, and Schneeweiss. Drafting of the manuscript: Solomon and Garneau. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Solomon, Rassen, Glynn, Levin, Lee, and Schneeweiss. Statistical analysis: Solomon, Rassen, Glynn, and Schneeweiss. Obtained funding: Solomon. Administrative, technical, and material support: Lee and Schneeweiss. Study supervision: Solomon.
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Who cares?
RadeonHD has been dead for a while.
Phoronix: SUSE Loses Another Former RadeonHD Developer
Matthias Hopf, a SUSE developer working on the X11 stack for the past seven years and one of the original xf86-video-radeonhd driver developers, has left the company...
Who cares?
RadeonHD has been dead for a while.
I had no idea SUSE had PhDs working on open source projects. That in itself is news:
i care to!... the radeonHD was really cool,,, and they only lag on support!
Bridgman was one of the man how kill the radeonHD
because he prefer more in-house developing means today more amd dudes do the ground work and the documentation and spec follow.
back in the radeonHD time the Spec was first and after that they write the driver clean room.
clean room mean the "Bridgman" version isn't clean room the Bridgman way is to have full access to the catalyst source code and internal secret documentation.
one of bridgman's job is to make sure secret stuff be secret in the future.
mean bridgmans job is to make sure the firmware stay closed and the UVD crypto internals stay closed and the ATOM-Bios stay closed!
because an FIREGL card compared to an normal cheap card is only 2 thinks: different driver OpenGL-optimations AND AtomBIOS settings.
the RadeonHD hurt this unwriten LAW because they don't use the ATOM-BIOS means in the RADEON-HD world every cheap radeon card is a FIREGL card!
in an real free world there are no "fireGL" or "Quadro" and no AtomBIOS and no FIRMWARE and no secret UVD crypto unit to force the DRM.
Bridgman is the Economic Hitman manager to make sure no unwriten rule "FireGL"-"Atom-Bios"-"UVD-DRM"-"Firmware" are ever be hurt.
the open-source driver is fine if they don't touch this rules.
So after RadeonHD went defunct, did they ever use their expertise and contribute to the radeon driver? If not, why not?Matthias Hopf will be at XDC2011 Chicago in just over one week. Along with Hopf there will be his former colleagues Egbert Eich and Luc Verhaegen of the defunct RadeonHD project for the X.Org Developers' Conference.
Yeah, I became same opinion after he started taking arguments to prevent acceleration the driver development instead of being initiative.
The positive thing is that he makes sure the driver is legally clean, the negative is that the driver is doomed to be second class for ever. It won´t match fglrx, not in a year, not in 10 years, never.
Once any serious improvements in opensource driver happen, they will ported to fglrx. But fgrlx critical optimisations will never be present in opensource.
Do you think opensource driver lack of speed is due to resorting to atombios? I hate the whole thing about firegl, the approach is completey rubbish. Why not associate the price exlusively with priority support? Why not be able to register the card and recieve priority support from AMD instead of selling hardware? Why not charge for something REAL instead behaving like microsoft?
Neither is "clean room" implementation because either those writing the spec or those writing the code are under contract with AMD and bound by all their agreements. A real clean room implementation would take two groups, BOTH outside AMD. One group would have to reverse engineer the hardware and write a thorough specification free of any copyrighted material, the other group must be "untainted" and implement that specification. If you depend on Bridgman in any way, then it's not clean room.


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Just a correction. Brazos platform is Family 14h
Phoronix: AMD Sends Family 12, Torpedo Code To Coreboot
AMD's in the middle of honoring their commitment to support Coreboot under all future CPUs. AMD has just added support to Coreboot for their Family 12 CPUs with SB900 (Hudson-2) chipset. They've also added AMD Torpedo motherboard support, which is their reference platform for AMD Family 12 CPUs with the SB900 chipset...
Just a correction. Brazos platform is Family 14h
so no zacate? i don't personally care since i don't own one
I really want to know WHICH oem wants to use coreboot. There must be tools to extract payloads from existing images, so if the final result has for example uefi support then this payload may be interesting for other users too. Currently there is only a website about coreboot+uefi but the download for it is missing... uefi is something that would be very interesting for me, especially for virtual hardware - as i only have got one snb board with native uefi support. virtualbox has got uefi support too, but it is extremely slow when i want to boot Linux with it. Especially a 64 bit grub efi bootloader is shown as fast as it would do with a very slow modem connection...