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The maps we use are Tracks for Africa
The maps are continually being updated and we had the newest version which shows a track skirting the dead end.
Nardus had also been able to confirm that someone had driven that route 2 months ago. We agree that if we can see any tracks left by a vehicle we will follow this route.
The 'not recommended' and 'dangerous road' warnings of course makes it irresistable.
We are delighted to find a borehole and our water problems are solved for another day.
We are heading for the Kunene and there it is. That green strip. The mountains behind is in Namibia.
When we get close to the river we find a police post and a settlement. We have been told many stories of corrupt police. That you have to report to the police in every town. That they ask for copies of all passports and other papers. People even take documents with with lists of the travellers and their passport no's, explaining the purpose of their trip in portuguese etc.
As we stop in front of the police post, Hennie's approach is to make the universal down-the-hatch sign and shout "CERVEJA" at the approaching policeman. Less than a minute later and we are downing beers under a tree with the police.
Before long we are joined by more policemen including the commanding officer or 'Sergeante Primero'. More people join and things get festive. We learn that the settlement is called Monte Negro.
This could well become the favourite pic that I have of my bike.
Nardus takes on one of the policemen in an arm wrestling competition. For the first time since I've known him he loses. I don't think the policeman was even aware that Nardus was hanging on his arm, he was just posing for the camera.
We are later shown the gym that produces such unbridled power.
We have such a good time that we decide to stay over with the good people of Monte Negro. They are delighted and shows us a prime spot under a tree on the beach. We only did 60 km for the day but wtf, you gotta go with what feels good.
As soon as we get to the river we go for a swim.
The Kunene has crocodiles. Plenty crocodiles.
Have a look at the thorns packed on the bank in the foreground. That is to discourage crocs from using this beach as a hang out. As soon as the locals see that we are going to swim regardless of their warnings, they join us. Their instructions appear to be: swim close to the bank and swim as noisily as possible. The water is just fantastic.
For most of the day my bike has been acting up. Now this is an issue for me. I have never done a trip such as this, where the bike's reliability is paramount, with any bike but BMWs. This would be my first on the 640. I have built my confidence in the bike by logging 11 000 problem free kms on it on other trips where recovery was not an issue. In fact, beforehand I was more concerned about Hennie's Dakar which is 'well used' to put it mildly. His response was that he was still going to tow a KTM in Angola.
Now my bike is bogging and stalling all over and blowing big black clouds of smoke. Bastard. So as soon as we are cooled down I start stripping the bike. The smell of the smoke tells me it is not rings but more likely just a too rich mixture. It turns out to be exactly right. The choke cable enters the carb in a metal bend which had pulled out of it's housing and is keeping the choke open.
It's always a good feeling to fix an ailing bike on the fly. Happy happy.
I also put some efffort into resurrecting my faith in my bike and we are partners again.
The good people of Monte Negro even do room service and we get some refreshments. We are also offered a goat, but myself, Hennie and Nardus have some residual issues with goat meat from a previous trip.
We are joined by the community and this unplanned stop in Monte Negro turns into the highlight of the trip.
Because Monte Negro lies at the end of a dead end 4x4 track, visitors must be scarce and the locals are even more interested in us than we are in them. We spend the afternoon having the best time with them.
This will probably be Hennie's favourite pic of his bike.
Michnus turns out to be extraordinarily popular. The women can't keep their eyes of him.
Lovely family portrait. The little one has Michnus's mouth, don't you think?
The men don't do the fat and ochre thing that the women do. Also where everything the women wear is hand made, the men accessorise with western clothes. Still very decorative.
Mike, Sergeante Primero.
Simone; Nardus and I joined him and friends that night in his hut for a party. They very kindly played us the only tape they had with Western music. The radio runs off batteries that are charged by a solar panel. We actually found the Herero songs quite a bit better than 'our' tape.
You just cannot take a bad picture of this girl.
Have a close look at the hand made decoration/jewellery. Carved lead and a variety of other utility parts. The shell is a prized possession. It has to be fetched from the ocean which means crossing the Namib desert. Later on we will cross it and you will see that it is a big deal.
Any idea how heavy that neck ornament is?
Later the afternoon the goats come down to drink and is chased away with rocks. On enquiry it appears that they cannot drink here because of the crocodile threat! But swimming is OK?
The beers do their job and I take a local for a spin up the riverbed and almost have my nipples torn off.
Surprisingly, when we return there are no more takers.
My good friend Casul on the right. Must be a monkey in the tree.
Yep, it is.
Here's something that intrigues me. Speaking for myself, I would have thought that after decades of war one would sort of have had enough. Yet, everywhere we saw camouflage and military apparel being used as fashion items. I think about that often still.
The locals assure us there is fish. Hennie conclusively proves them wrong.
And to end a perfect day, a perfect sunset on the river.
Oh yes, check out our fridge.
Monte Negro blew our minds. Fantastically friendly people, we made many friends. What makes it so exceptional is that we had no way to communicate as we did not understand a word of Portuguese (except 'cerveja') or Herero. They did not understand a word of English or Afrikaans. Yet we spent hours and hours being thoroughly entertained. This trend was to repeat itself every where we stopped.
Monte Negro will always be special to me though.
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Angola, it's not like they said
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Next time when you are in Beijing, Guolizhang Restaurant is another interesting chinese delicacies for you to try. But it's better for you to check out some of the introductions below. Cause I think not all of us would like to try it after found out what their delicacies are about.
The Guolizhang Restaurant in Beijing. There are four franchises in the city alone, and the chain is expanding. There's one in Atlanta, Georgia, in the Chinatown.
The Guolizhang menu is a broad introduction to the medical benefits of eating animal penises and testicles. The restaurant offers more than 30 types of animal penises served in a Chinese hotpot style which can cost from 500 yuan up to 90,000 yuan. And for very special guests there's a list of others. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the penis of certain animals is full of nutrients which give men energy. And because it contains gelatine albumen, it is said to have excellent cosmetic effects for women, especially beneficial for the skin.
OX penises help manliness. They're cut along the side and shaped into little stars.
The Yak penis is served with a dragon. One Yak penis costs $33.50.
'Henry's Whip' is the house speciality at Beijing's Guolizhang restaurant. It's a sheep's penis on a stick covered in mayonnaise, sweet cheese, served on a bed of lettuce.
A platter of OX and Dog penises. The consistency and taste remind one of overly bitter rings of calamari, apparently. This dish costs $23.50.
The penises are often dipped in soy or hot sauce. For women, eating penises is supposed to be good for the skin.
Donkey penis served on a bed of lettuce. One donkey penis costs $23.50.
At the Guolizhang restaurant, customers can even order deer and sheep fetuses. For Chinese guests, eating the sexual organs is not a test of courage, but rather a treatment for the libido.
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I usually prefer just to read everyones blogs as i enjoy reading everyones difference of opinion from the love hate of Cena or The Rock beating Punk TWICE!
I do not watch as much as i did and thats because i have lost interest as of late. So i thought with the Twice in a life time match at wrestlemania What would everyone choose as there dream top 5 matches that would sell out a wrestlemania
Ok guys, so here is my second blog since coming back! This is actually a joint blog, with another guy who is just getting into blogging, Dennis! So the idea with this is merely that we discuss different topics.
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There are only 2 matches that are 100% certain for Wresltemania so far: Swagger/Del Rio and Rock/Cena 2.
The Swagger/Del Rio match has got a bit of momentum, but the general feeling around here seems to be that the main event sucks, and It will be boring.
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IT IS dawn on a crisp Friday morning in February 2010. On the sidewalk of a suburban street in Santa Rosa, California, a line of hooded young men shuffles towards a low-built blue building. A soup kitchen, you might think, or a drug rehabilitation centre.
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WASHINGTON—Medicare is proposing to ease federal fire safety regulations after finding the extra structural requirements would impose large costs on already fire-safe dialysis facilities.
There have been no recorded patient injuries or deaths due to fires in the 40-year history of the Medicare ESRD program, according to CMS. In fact, The Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked ESRD facilities the lowest (0.1 percent) in fire incidence among all healthcare facilities.
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In 2009, CMS updated the ESRD Conditions for Coverage (CfC) to include Federal Life Safety Code (LSC) provisions, which called for additional structural requirements in dialysis facilities. These included chapters 20 and 21 of the National Fire Protection Agency's (NFPA) 101 LSC, 2000 Edition.
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In researching the issue, CMS found that the federal LSC provisions also duplicated many of the existing local and state fire safety codes covering dialysis clinics. In addition, the government originally estimated the additional requirements would cost dialysis facilities approximately $1,960. However, after receiving feedback from dialysis clinic owners, CMS learned the actual costs far exceeded the original number.
In June, owners of 3,756 of 5,600 existing certified dialysis facilities responded to the CMS request for cost projections on four specific requirements: smoke compartment barriers, occupancy separations, hazardous area separations, and upgraded fire alarms. The responders represented approximately 70 percent of existing dialysis facilities, including hospital-owned facilities and those owned by small, medium, and large dialysis organizations.
The data collected showed that approximately 50 percent (an estimated 2, 800) of the existing ESRD facilities would require renovations or upgrading of at least one of the four elements. CMS pointed out that the primary reason for the 50-percent compliance was the pervasive inconsistency in knowledge, interpretation, and application of the regulations.
There was a high variability in the cost estimates submitted, ranging from a low of $23,500 to a high of $222,000 for an existing facility which needed to renovate, construct and upgrade all four components. The average per facility cost estimates submitted for the additional structural requirements are as follows:
- Smoke compartments:$32,544
- Occupancy separation:$28,139
- Hazardous areas separation: $16,976
The total average cost for a facility to meet all three would be $77,659. Although there is a wide array of facility characteristics, such as age and size, CMS estimated if 50 percent or 2,800 facilities required only renovation for hazardous area separation, the savings would be $47.5 million. If 2,800 facilities required renovation for all three structural requirements, the total savings from the burden reduction at the average estimate for all three would be $217 million.
"These amounts represent a significant financial burden on facilities, with little or no improvement in patient safety from fire for a majority of them," CMS wrote. "Expenditures of this magnitude would likely divert resources away from areas which do affect dialysis patient safety, such as infection control and prevention."
Therefore, CMS has concluded that the fire safety regulation adds costs "out of proportion to any added protection that they may afford in dialysis facilities which are not at higher risk of fire penetration from adjacent industrial 'high hazard' occupancies and where swift, unencumbered evacuation to the outside is available."
As a result, "…we propose revising §494.60(e)(1) to restrict mandatory compliance with the NFPA 101 LSC to those ESRD facilities located adjacent to 'high hazardous' occupancies and those facilities whose patient treatment areas are not located at grade level with direct access to the outside."
The change was part of a larger proposed rule, which aims to reform certain regulations that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified as unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome on healthcare providers and beneficiaries.
However, CMS did say these additional structural requirements could improve patients' fire safety in "specific dialysis facilities that pose a higher risk for life safety from fire by their proximity to a potential fire source or their barriers to prompt evacuation from fire." These higher risk locations are those dialysis facilities that are adjacent to occupancies that contain "industrial high hazard contents" and those facilities that do not have a readily available exit to the outside for swift, unencumbered evacuation.
CMS is also proposing which ESRD facilities must use sprinkler-equipped buildings: those housed in multi-story buildings of lesser fire protected construction types (Types II(000), III(200), or V(000), as defined in NFPA 101), which were constructed after Jan. 1, 2008; and those housed in high rise buildings over 75 feet in height. Dialysis facilities participating in Medicare as of Oct. 14, 2008, may continue to use non-sprinklered buildings if such buildings were constructed before Jan. 1, 2008, and state law so permits.
Dialysis clinics would still be required to comply with state and local fire codes. The ESRD CfCs also address other topics related to fire and building safety that will remain in place under the proposed revision. These existing CfC requirements include specific rules on how to handle chemicals related to the dialysis process, as well as general requirements for appropriate training in emergency preparedness for the staff and patients, including provisions for instructions on disconnecting from the dialysis machine during an emergency and instructions on emergency evacuation.


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Metro is not an MVNO and the vast majority of traffic is handled by their network.
I did not say that Metro is an mvno.
What I pointed out, if you read my post is, if too many subscribers bleed away to companies such as Metro and the mnvos, the costs will go up for the Metro's and the mnvos.
Metro depends on roaming agreements outside the greater metropolitian areas.
Great for people who don't travel, but if you do, and the roaming agreement prices go up because of lost revenue, then Metro and the mvnos will suffer and their costs will go up.
It's really a simple concept. If you bleed too many cust off of the Big 3, they will have to raise roaming agreement prices and network access by mvnos to replace the revenue in order to maintain the infrastructure.
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Games began late yesterday afternoon and continue through Saturday morning. Casper, Douglas and Riverton will compete along with Sheridan, who brings a 14-year-old team that won state last year as 13 year olds.
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University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Pipe major Douglas McArthur, 47, who is also a fire chief, was also placed on the sex offenders register after the attack in August 2013.
His victim, who was 16 at the time, described McArthur's sentence as "inadequate". She added: "McArthur should have been jailed for what he did to me."
McArthur carried out the assault after giving the teenager a lift to the ferry terminal at Millport on the Isle of Bute, Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard.
He resigned from the band and is under investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, where he is a Watch Commander in charge of Millport's volunteer brigade.


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On Aug, 24, 2011, the earthquake that jolted the East Coast from Georgia to Quebec rattled through the bricks, plaster and paint of one of Baltimore's architectural jewels, the Basilica of the Assumption, sending nearly 1,000 linear feet of cracks through its ceilings and walls.
On Sunday, as Christians worldwide commemorate the resurrection of Christ on Easter, the 207-year-old cathedral, too, will enjoy a rebirth.
Construction workers have put the finishing touches on a seven-month, $3 million restoration job, and Sunday morning's Mass will mark the formal reopening.
"Isn't it beautiful? Easter is a celebration of the Resurrection and new life, and the basilica is getting a new life of its own," said Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano, the cathedral's rector. "The reopening is an invitation to the wider community to come on back in."
For the first time since last August, the building is free of the scaffolding that surrounded its walls on the outside and blocked all views of its ceiling art within. Gone, too, are paint cans, dropcloths and the intermittent whine of workers' machinery.
"It has certainly had a different look and feel," said Dave Janesh of Howard County. A visitor who attended weekly Mass in the adapted space through the course of the restoration, he got an early look at the repaired cathedral on Holy Thursday.
The cathedral — the first built in the United States — has a rich history that mirrors Baltimore's central role in laying the foundation of American Catholicism.
Designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, with input from a friend of his named Thomas Jefferson, the basilica came to life between 1806 and 1821.
Archbishop John Carroll laid the building's cornerstone. It would be added to the National Register of Historic Places (1969) and named a National Historic Landmark (1972). It remains co-cathedral of the Baltimore Holy See.
But as its 200th birthday approached, it was in need of a makeover. From April 2004 through November 2006, the archdiocese oversaw a $34 million restoration that included major infrastructure improvements, a new roof and a white marble floor to match the original design.
The new and improved basilica, Valenzano says, had an almost unshakable feel as it proceeded to host Masses, weddings and baptisms — not to mention more than 100,000 visitors a year.
Then the earthquake hit.
"You expect an old building to require ongoing maintenance, but an earthquake is just not on your radar screen," Valenzano said of the 5.8-magnitude quake that had its epicenter near Richmond, Va.
Those who were there say the whole building shook. Valenzano, who was driving on Interstate 95 at the time, arrived a bit later and entered the building to see something bizarre: "The pews were covered in plaster dust. It looked as though it had snowed."
When the monsignor looked up, he saw what appeared to be hairline cracks in the ceilings, the highest of which rises 80 feet above the cathedral floor. For a more detailed analysis, the archdiocese brought in engineering teams from Lewis Contractors, the Owings Mills firm that had done the previous restoration.
Some of the cracks, it turned out, were nearly half an inch wide and dozens of feet long. The biggest started at the base of the main dome and climbed 40 feet in a "Y" pattern.
Once Jeff Childs, the project manager for Lewis, and his team got up into the church's labyrinth of attics, they realized that this crack and others had penetrated the two to five feet of solid brick with which Latrobe had encased the domes, and had reached the open air outside.
"We faced some very unique problems," Childs said this week as workers hauled away some final pieces of debris. "We had to develop some unique solutions."
After months of structural analysis and budgetary planning, the company set to work Aug. 1.
The first problem, Childs says, was establishing access. His crews tailored a massive scaffolding system to the space.


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Below are a list of Ancient History modules available for selection by continuing undergraduate students who are pursuing a programme that allows for the selection of Free Standing Modules. (Please note that when you click on the module link, the full module description will open in a new window).
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- Animation Studio: 20th Century Fox Animation, Bento Box Entertainment
- Distributed by: Fox Television Network
- Cartoon Characters: Bob, Tina, Gene, Linda, Louise, Miss Jacobson, Mr. Frond, Teddy, Andy, Ollie, Tammy, Zeke.
- Voice Actors: H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Melissa Bardin Galsky.
- Directed By Jennifer Coyle.
- Produced By Kimberly Smith, Tobias Conan Trost, Loren Bouchard, Jim Dauterive.
- Written By Holly Schlesinger.
- Music: John Dylan Keith, Loren Bouchard.
- First Aired on May 13, 2012.
- Originally Aired on FOX TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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A Tale in the Desert 4 End-GameJuly 12th, 2010 by Crusader
The fourth telling of A Tale in the Desert, a community-oriented MMORPG set in ancient Egypt, is coming to a close as described in this press release (thanks Blue):
A Tale in the Desert 4 is swiftly coming to a close and eGenesis has announced the end-game activities. Players will vote on which of the two brothers who have been dividing Egypt all tale are to be Pharaoh. In doing so, players will also be choosing whether to have new tests or new technologies coded in A Tale in the Desert 5.
The sons of Pharaoh, who passed away after A Tale in the Desert 3, have been pulling the players in opposite directions since A Tale in the Desert 4 began. Sami believes in living the good life and in leisure, while Wahim thinks hard work and challenges are the way to find meaning. Finally the players will get a say as they choose between Sami and Wahim. The winner of a server-wide election will become the Pharaoh of Egypt as it moves into A Tale in the Desert 5.


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The rover is around half way on its journey to an area known as Glenelg, where researchers expect to find a combination of three different types of geological terrain. Mars science Laboratory project scientist John Grotzinger said it has covered a total distance of 950 feet since landing on the red planet six weeks ago, and 100 ft of this distance was covered just last night.
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Matthias PintscherMatthias Pintscher (b. 29 January 1971, Marl) is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting. Pintscher began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in 1988 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold; in 1990 he met Hans Werner Henze and in 1991 and 1992 he was invited to Henze's summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. Later, he studied with Manfred Trojahn.
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CDC investigates Western US hepatitis A outbreak
DENVER -- State and federal health officials are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday approximately 30 cases have been reported.
CDC says the cases are ``potentially associated'' with Townsend Farms Organic Antioxidant Blend frozen berries purchased from Costco.
In total, seven cases have been confirmed in Arizona. Five of those were in Maricopa County.
"At this time, early in the investigation, it appears that there is a low risk in contracting hepatitis A from these berries, however, out of an abundance of caution, it is best to just throw away these berries if they are in your freezer," said Dr. Bob England, director of Maricopa County Department of Public Health in a release. "If you have already received a hepatitis A vaccine or if you have had hepatitis A in the past, you should have protection from the illness."
Townsend Farms of Fairview, Ore., referred calls to attorney Bill Garr. He didn't immediately return a message.
A Costco spokesman in Issaquah, Wash., says the company has removed the product from stores and is contacting its members.
CDC, the federal Food and Drug Administration and state health departments are investigating.
CDC says hepatitis A is a liver disease ranging from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a severe one lasting several months.


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Methotrexate (rINN) abbreviated MTX and formerly known as amethopterin, is an antimetabolite and antifolate drug used in treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. It acts by inhibiting the metabolism of folic acid. Methotrexate replaced the more powerful and toxic antifolate aminopterin, and the two should not be confused with each other.
Although not indicated for this use, methotrexate is also sometimes used (generally in combination with misoprostol) to terminate early pregnancies, particularly ectopic pregnancies. In the case of early missed miscarriage (particularly a blighted ovum), in which fetal demise has occurred but the body has not expelled the fetus, methotrexate may be used to help the body begin the miscarriage process.
It is also sometimes used to treat a rare condition called Behçet's disease where it is taken weekly, along with folic acid daily. In the case of immune disorders, such as Behcet's disease and rheumatoid disorders, the clinical goal of the low dose methotrexate regimen is to inhibit AICAR transformylase, which leads to increased AICA ribose (AICAR transformylase's substrate). The AICA ribose inhibits adenosine deaminase, resulting in a build-up of extracellular adenosine. Extracellular adenosine inhibits the expression of IL-2 receptors on circulating T-lymphocytes, causing a suppression of the immune system, and thus ameliorating the effects of the immune disorder.
Methotrexate is metabolized by intestinal bacteria to the inactive metabolite 4-amino-4-deoxy-N-methylpteroic acid (DAMPA) and accounts for less than 5% loss of the oral dose.
Factors that decrease absorption include food, oral non-absorbable antibiotics (e.g. vancomycin, neomycin, and bacitracin), and more rapid transit through the Gastrointestinal (GI) tract such as diarrhea, while slower transit time in the GI tract from constipation will increase absorption.
Possible side effects can include anemia, neutropenia, increased risk of bruising, nausea and vomiting, dermatitis and diarrhea. A small percentage of patients develop hepatitis, and there is an increased risk of pulmonary fibrosis.
The higher doses of methotrexate often used in cancer chemotherapy can cause toxic effects to the rapidly-dividing cells of bone marrow and gastrointestinal mucosa. The resulting myelosuppression and mucositis are often prevented (termed Leucovorin "rescue"- as this is the folic acid based drug used)
Methotrexate is a highly teratogenic drug and categorized in Pregnancy Category X by the FDA. Women must not take the drug during pregnancy, if there is a risk of becoming pregnant, or if they are breastfeeding. Men who are trying to get their partner pregnant must also not take the drug. To engage in any of these activities (after discontinuing the drug), women must wait until the end of a full ovulation cycle and men must wait three months.
There is a risk of a severe adverse reaction if penicillin is prescribed alongside methotrexate.
Interestingly, there have also been some reports of central nervous system reactions to methotrexate especially when given via the intrathecal route which include myelopathies and leucoencephalopathies.
Methotrexate acts specifically during DNA and RNA synthesis, and thus it is cytotoxic during the S-phase of the cell cycle. Logically, it therefore has a greater toxic effect on rapidly dividing cells (such as malignant and myeloid cells, and GI & oral mucosa), which replicate their DNA more frequently, and thus inhibits the growth and proliferation of these non-cancerous cells as well causing side effects listed above.
Lower doses of methotrexate have been shown to be very effective for the management of rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and psoriasis. In these cases inhibition of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is not thought to be the main mechanism, but rather the inhibition of enzymes involved in purine metabolism, leading to accumulation of adenosine, or the inhibition of T cell activation and suppression of intercellular adhesion molecule expression by T cells.


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Heineken Cup: Biarritz blitz Connacht in mudbath
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Biarritz ground out a 17-0 victory over Connacht in desperate conditions to get their Heineken Cup campaign back on track.
In driving rain that saturated large parts of the pitch, the Irish side were expecting a backlash from the French giants, who sacked coaches Jack Isaac and Serge Milhas after their shock 22-14 defeat in Galway.
And so it proved as their forwards rumbled into the Connacht 22, winning two early penalties before Dimitri Yachvili struck a third-minute kick through the uprights.
As the rain continued, Connacht dug their heels in and defended manfully with young full-back Robbie Henshaw secure under the high ball and the mud-covered pack competing in stout fashion.
Dan Parks looked to give the visitors some momentum behind the scrum but the French side dominated territorial advantage and broke through on the half hour, Damien Traille's half break making the initial incision and Jean-Pascal Barraque passing precisely for the supporting Iain Balshaw to splash over in the corner.
Yachvili added the extras to take the hosts through to half-time with a 10-0 cushion, but a sin-binning for Biarritz hooker Benoit August, who got involved in some 'afters' with Johnny O'Connor, presented Connacht with an opportunity to launch themselves forward after the break.
However, Parks sent a subsequent penalty from a difficult position wide and some handling errors robbed the Irish of precious momentum in an evenly-fought third quarter.
Danie Poolman was stretchered off after taking a knee to the head and although Biarritz lost Thibault Dubarry to the sin bin they remained on the front foot.
And with the clock counting down, they pressed from a Fabien Barcella surge into the westerners' 22 and a five-metre scrum. Connacht held out until Traille opened the way for Seremaia Burotu to power past Paul O'Donohoe's last-ditch tackle in the left corner.
Yachvili converted to complete the scoring as his side moved back into second place in Pool Three behind runaway leaders Harlequins.
Heineken Cup Round 4
Mitchell: What we deserved
John Mitchell admitted Sale had not been good enough after they slumped to a 62-0 Heineken Cup defeat at Toulon.
McCall: A coming of age for us
Saracens boss Mark McCall paid tribute to his side after they claimed a crucial 19-13 Heineken Cup victory over Munster.
Gutsy win puts Sarries on top
Saracens moved to the top of Heineken Cup Pool 1 after battling to a 19-13 victory over Munster at Vicarage Road.
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- Win keeps Saints alive
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- Clermont claim Leinster scalp
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Supplemental Instruction is a learning enhancement program that targets traditionally difficult courses and provides regularly scheduled, out-of-class, peer-facilitated review sessions. Students have the opportunity to attend these sessions to discuss and process course information. In SI, our focus isn't high-risk students, but high-risk classes. For this reason, SI is open to all students who want to increase their understanding of course material and improve their grades. SI improves academic performance (students' grades) by increasing critical thinking, reduces drop/withdrawal rates, and increases graduation rates.
What's in it for you?
If you attend regularly, chances are you'll earn a better grade, increase your understanding of course content, and develop more effective ways of studying - which will carry over to other classes!
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Ask your instructor if your class has an SI group. If so, they will refer you to the SI leader for group study sessions times. If not, the instructor may appoint an SI leader to begin a group for that course.
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FAB FIVE for the Weekend
By Jackie Burrell
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 6:01 am in Family Entertainment.
1. Civic Arts Education's newest musical, "Alice in Wonderland," puts children into the roles of not just Alice and the White Rabbit, but the Tweedles, the Queen of Hearts, Cheshire Cat and all 50 or so other characters. Two shows, July 2 at Walnut Creek's Shadelands Auditorium. ($10-$12)
2. Walnut Creek's Bedford Gallery is hosting a radical skateboard art exhibit this summer. Explore skate art from decks and wheels to sculpture July 5-Sept. 13 at "Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art." ($3-$5, kids under 12 are free)
3. If you're a movie buff, then you'll also want to check out the AMC Summer Movie Camp, featuring family flicks on Wednesday mornings for just a dollar. Catch "Tale of Despereaux" on July 8, "Horton Hears a Who" on the 15th, and more movies every Wednesday morning through the summer.
4. Board the U.S.S. Hornet this Saturday for an all-day patriotic fest, including live music on the flight deck, interactive games, a bounce house for kids, and in the evening, panoramic views of Bay Area fireworks. ($10-$25, kids five and under are free)
5. And, of course, there's fireworks, pancake breakfasts and Fourth of July festivals throughout the Bay Area this Saturday.
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Editorial: "Solving the eternal mystery that is time"
IMAGINE standing outside the universe. Not just outside space, but outside time too. From this spectacular vantage point, you gaze down upon the universe. At one end you see its beginning: the big bang. At the other, you see... whatever it is that happens there. Somewhere in the middle is you, a minuscule worm: at one end a baby, the other end a corpse. From this impossible perspective, time does not flow, and there is no "now". Time is static. Immutable. Frozen.
Fantastical as it seems, for most physicists today the universe is just like that. We might think of time flowing from a real past into a not-yet-real future, but our current theories of space and time teach us that past, present and future are all equally real – and fundamentally indistinguishable. Any sense that our "now" is somehow special, ...
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campaignlive.co.uk, Thursday, 26 July 2012 08:00AM
8 August 2008: Almost every single Olympic Games since the 80s had featured at least one piece of outrageous guerrilla marketing, with Nike emerging as the master - its ambush of the official Games sponsor Reebok at Atlanta in 1996 became a textbook case study. At the 2008 Olympics, however, the Beijing organising committee shows how the backing of a police state can put a dampener on even the most spirited ambushers.
18 June 2010: When the Dutch brewer Bavaria pulls a stunt during the Holland-Denmark game in the 2010 World Cup, involving a group of women turning up to the game clad in orange, Fifa comes down like a ton of bricks. It takes legal action against Bavaria and two women involved.
30 Sept 2010: Paddy Power takes the art form into new and surreal territory when it sets up a Hollywood-style sign spelling out "Paddy Power" on a hill overlooking the Celtic Manor golf course, the Ryder Cup venue. Sir Terry Matthews, the Celtic Manor owner, describes the company, which is not an official sponsor of the event, as "scum", and Monmouthshire County Council successfully seeks an injunction to remove the letters.
19 June 2012: Now, the Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner is fined £80,000 and banned for one international match by Uefa when he drops his shorts to reveal the Paddy Power legend after scoring a goal against Portugal in Euro 2012. The company announces it will pay the fine on Bendtner's behalf and argues that it probably represents good value for the publicity the stunt has gained - after all, it's seen by a global audience of more than 100 million.
17 July 2012: In what they dub a "Brandalism" campaign, a group of graffiti artists paste up provocative executions on poster sites - mostly parodies of well-known ads highlighting social issues such as, er, you know, the banking crisis and the environment.
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November 2012: Cashmans, the bookmaker, ambushes Paddy Power's status as the official sponsor of the Cork National horse-racing event. The company not only employs a sandwich-board man to parade in front of the entrance, but it is also suspected in an incident in which a Paddy Power poster featuring its chief executive, Patrick Kennedy, is discovered to have been defaced overnight by the addition of a moustache.
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Video Review: Nokia N95 US
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'Survivor: Cagayan' finale: Tony Vlachos or Yung 'Woo' Hwang, who won?Add to Favorites | Survivor
Time to crown someone the Sole "Survivor" for Season 28. Who is the winner, Tony Vlachos, Kass McQuillen, Woo Hwang or Spencer Bledsoe? Let's find out.
After 39 days and one of the most unpredictable seasons in member, Tony Vlachos was named the winner of the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor with almost a unanimous vote. It was not a surprise at all once the Final 2 were established.
But how did we get here? Highlights include:
So, did the right player win?
After 39 days and one of the most unpredictable seasons in member, Tony Vlachos was named the winner of the million dollars and the title of Sole Survivor with almost a unanimous vote. It was not a surprise at all once the Final 2 were established.
But how did we get here? Highlights include:
- Jeff Probst welcomed us to the live finale at the top of the two hours with some very poofy hair. Seriously what is going on with that?
- Everyone is just as surprised as we were that Tony voted out Trish, but as Trish talked about with Zap2it last week, people saw her as being in a great position and she was probably a huge threat to win.
- Kass seems to think that everyone thinks her "strategy" makes her "a b****" because she's a woman, where if she were a man, she'd be seen as a good strategist. I categorically disagree with that and I would be the first person to call out if I thought Kass was being regarded as crazy just because she's female. But no, Kass is crazy. Her game play has been incredibly erratic (and not often that smart) and it has nothing to do with being male or female.
- The first Immunity Challenge is awesome, it's standing on a pole in the ocean, raising up water in a bucket to get your key and then doing a puzzle back on shore. It looks like Spencer should have it in the bag but he can't solve the puzzle, so Kass (who was SO far out of it) comes from behind to win Immunity. Wow.
- Interestingly, Spencer is convinced that this season it's a Final 2 instead of a Final 3, which is intriguing, and he tells Tony that if Kass or Woo wins final Immunity, they won't take him to the finals, whereas if Spencer is there, he'll get voted out instead of Tony. He makes a good point and Tony rightly considers it. It's Spencer's only play at this point because Kass and Woo definitely want him gone.
- The Final 4 Tribal Council is full of talk of strategy and Spencer gives it his all, promising to take Tony to the end (which I think he's sincere about because Spencer loves this game and if he wins, he wants to beat the best). But in the end, it's not enough and Spencer is voted out.
- It's a bummer, I was really rooting for him. I also think Tony made a huge mistake here, but I turn out to be wrong. Incredibly, Woo takes Tony to the finals with him. Wow. At this point, I feel like that should get Tony a million dollars in maybe a unanimous vote.
- Woo's big argument at the final Tribal Council is that he didn't have the advantage of any hidden Idols, which is true, but also -- Tony found those fair and square. That's a strategy, which is what Spencer points out at Tribal. Spencer fights hard for Tony to win, which makes sense because Spencer is such a fan and fans like to see the best player win.
- It's no surprise Tony gets almost all the votes, good for him. I didn't always love him, but he played his butt off.
So, did the right player win?
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APP OF THE DAY - Wolfram Alpha (iPhone)
When Wolfram Alpha launched back in May 2009, it promised to deliver accurate answers to users' questions; an approach different to that of Google's search engine, as results from queries in this form can often be a little on the random side.
And Wolfram Alpha, for the most part, has delivered on this promise, as it is an excellent resource for all sorts of tricky questions.
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The app has been around since October 2009, and along with numerous updates the biggest thing to change is the price - as it cost a whopping $49 on launch day. The most recent update was in August 2010, which brought improvements such as support for iOS 4 multitasking and image quality optimisation.
The app itself is still excellent, although massively cheaper at £1.19.
In use and the app will ask to use your location to aid with particular queries. whereon you'll be faced with a search bar and num-pad; then it's just a case of asking whatever you like.
You still have to be careful with spelling (you have to be able to), but the results received on our play were accurate and well presented. In our quick test we searched for local weather, we were presented with huge amounts of info; including temperature, forecast, cloud cover and history for the month since 1975 - all very comprehensive.
There's a getting started page and various categories available in order to help with how to ask specific questions; categories include physics, maths, astronomy, engineering, life sciences as well as pretty much any discipline you can think of.
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Jay Shells takes rap lyrics back to its roots – quite literally
It's widely known that New York City is the birthplace of hip-hop, but how much has been done to honour its rich history? From the likes of Big L, Jay-Z and the Wu-Tang Clan, Jay Shells has taken it upon himself to pay homage to these artists in a guerrilla style project, creating a series of signs displaying rap lyrics that specifically reference a street corner. Jay then proceeds to attach the official-looking signs to their correlating sign post.
Pretty freaky too that the street corner, 139 and Lenox Ave, Big L raps about being dangerous, is actually where he was shot four years later. Who knew? Well we do now, thanks to Jay.


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Why Google's Panda Update is Different to All That Have Gone Before
Ever since people realized that there was valuable traffic to be sourced from search engines, a perpetual game of cat and mouse had ensued between webmasters/SEOs and search engines (namely Google). The Big G makes tweaks to clean up its results pages and establish better quality metrics, and SEOs then find ways to game those metrics and tap into the sweet traffic nectar that Google provides.
For a long while this relationship was very much tit for tat. Google would spot a problem (or loophole) in its SERPS, make a change to rectify that problem, and then SEO's would spend some time figuring out the change and develop a work-around. Here are a couple of examples:
Vince update...
In a nutshell the Google Vince update was aimed at giving greater value to big "brands" that Google felt it could trust not to spam users and would offer high quality content. As a result of this update a large number of sites in competitive verticals lost out as they didn't seem to attract "brand" signals and so were overtaken by bigger names. It took a little while for SEO's to figure out what Google's brand signals were, but it eventually transpired that things such as brand citations, brand anchor text links and brand searches all played their part in the new algo tweak. The best SEOs were able to engender these signals and began improving their rankings.
Mayday update...
Google's Mayday update aimed at improving the quality of long tail search results and making it harder for it to be gamed by website owners and marketers. Large volumes of traffic fell away for many websites as their large volumes of content failed to bring the long tail rankings it once did. However, after a bit of trial and error SEO's realized that if they enhanced their internal linking structure, updated their low-level pages with fresh content and diverted more of their efforts to building external deep links to those pages, much of their lost traffic could return.
There are of course hundreds of changes to Google's algorithm every year, but most of them are unnoticeable. The big changes that did have a more overt impact only happened one at a time, which crucially limited the variables and gave SEO's lots of time to react. That was until...
Google Panda update...
Fed up of releasing large updates only for them to be gamed but a few months later, Google decided to change tact. The Panda update was like nothing they had ever done before and it had two big differences that were crucial to its success.
1.) It was a multi-faceted, multi-variable update.
This update did not just look at one element of SEO, it looked at many. It addressed linking, onsite optimization, user metrics, search data, content, social signals, and probably a few more. Additionally, it did not just look at one factor of each element, but instead analyzed each part individually and then as whole to determine if a site should be "trusted" or whether it adds "worth" to users. Here are some of the factors that could influence whether or not you got a Panda slap, which I've gathered from many blogs and forums over the past months:
- Having a large amount of duplicate content, either internally or cross-site
- Having thin content on multiple pages
- Having little or no unique content in terms of topics covered
- Having duplicate content under multiple "tags" within a blog
- Excessive Adsense or banner advertising on multiple pages
- Excessive on-page keyword targeting
- Overly aggressive link building
- Over-targeting of keyword anchor text
- Large percentage of back link profile from low quality sites
- High bounce rates for site
- Low average time on page/site
- Low SERPS click through rates
- Low level of brand/domain name searches taking place
- Low activity in social sharing networks (Facebook 'likes', Twitter 'tweets')
Some of these may be more accurate than others, but what is clear is just how many issues people believe influenced the Panda update. By vastly increasingly the variables that went into the algo change it is exceptionally more difficult to identify which one or more of these caused your site to drop, and trial and error testing now takes a great deal more time and effort. But Google didn't stop there, oh no, they decided that even if you could go through and try changing one thing at a time, they would add another spanner in the works with the next important update attribute -
2.) The algorithms need to be re-run before any changes you make take effect.
A recent conversation between Tom Critchlow and Matt Cutts on Twitter went like this:
Now, like most SEOs I don't believe everything Mr Cutts says, but this would certainly account for why we haven't seen many sites recover from the Panda update after making extensive onsite changes, and it would be a master stroke from Google you have to admit.
Let's say for example that you suspect you got a Panda slap for having too much advertising above the fold compared to the amount of unique content. You decide to reduce your banner slots right down or remove them altogether, and then you wait. With previous updates you probably only had to wait for your pages to get re-crawled and you'd find out if your change worked soon after. If it didn't you could move on any try something else. With Panda however you could make a change and have to wait 6 months (or more) before you found out what impact it had due to the algo not running in real-time. Imagine if you had 10 variables to test, that could take you 5+ years!
When pushed for advice on how to overcome the update, Google has basically just pointed back to its long-standing guidelines surrounding quality content. Many SEO's and webmasters have therefore had no choice but to make all the changes Google has long been asking for, in the hope that once the algorithms are re-run the Panda will have mercy on them.
Duncan is an experienced Internet marketer and blogger who runs his own extreme sports website selling everything from surfboards to Quiksilver luggage. He also writes for this London loft conversions company
9 Responses to "Why Google's Panda Update is Different to All That Have Gone Before"
Great post. I appreciate the list of variables that may be at play for a site. I don't think I've seen it labeled so well in other posts about the Panda update. Definitely didn't think that they are delaying their update of the algorithms. VERY interesting information to know!! Thanks for the post!
Good layout of what it appears they are looking for..
But if the data is only renewed every few months does that mean that I may as well go and start a new site up?
Now I (think I) know what Google want (for now) and I know which keywords make money (from the pre Panda slaughterfest) I can go buy a domain and just start again with some niches.
Why work on fixing old sites when you can go and build new sites and find out if they work quicker than waiting for the old sites to be dealt with.
It may just be my back pain pills kicking in, but doesn't that kind of defeat the whole idea of improving the search results?
[…] the site. When someone asked how long before traffic came back after one totally re-tooled a site, Matt Cutts said the Panda algorithms have to be re-run. If I'm interpreting that correctly, it means that the […]
An insightful report. I have two websites that were hit by the Panda update and quite a few that I built that weren't. In some cases I can see what I did wrong but in others I genuinely can't. Could this be collateral damage?
This is probably the most detailed assessment of Panda I've seen. "Creating good content" only goes so far in explaining how to fix a huge drop. "Having duplicate content under multiple 'tags' within a blog" is something very concrete that can be fixed by most bloggers, although it could be time-consuming if you've been a frequent poster for many years. But who knew this would be coming a few years ago? Moving forward, most of these are easy things to change, especially for new sites. But when you have sites that are a few years old, domain age can give you a boost in ranking so it's probably worth it to keep them and make changes. Social activity is weighted heavily these days and while also time consuming, it's fairly simple to implement. Look for a huge increase in the number of Twitter accounts and Facebook Fan pages. Awesome info!
[…] old tactics because simply have seen it work in the past. But as Duncan Heath points out in "Why Google's Panda Update is Different to All That Have Gone Before," your SEO mindset must evolve as fast as the major algorithm changes, or else you'll […]
I have read the public affirmation from Google which states that that Panda 2 revise will be in power soon, that'll as well influence different than English languages and will go worldwide. Since March, I gained extra top 10 Google search positions, as top positions become better and do not contain numerous web directories, auto-blogs and duplicate content. I think thats why, all around webmaster's and search engine optimization user discussion forums it was labeled "farmer update".
Nice post. I've never heard anybody use the phrase "sweet traffic nectar" before, but I guess that's about right lol..
It's nice to see that you list off site factors in your post. So many people are under the impression that Panda only affects site content. I got hit by the Oct. update. And I am certain it was all about backlinks.
The good news was that it didn't take too much work to bring them back.


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Insurance adjuster just left....says my 08 KLR is a total loss. My state doesn't allow me to buy back the bike unless it is more than 8 yrs old and so its bye bye even as a parts bike. I am having trouble with the insurance company of the guy who struck me. A "witness" alleges I was going fast prior to the accident and even though he was cited for failure to yield and I was not cited in any way and had the right of way, it begins this game of " modified comparative negligence" where they try to assign a percentage of blame to me in order to reduce that percentage of damages paid out. If anyone saw the scene, they would laugh at how anyone could have seen it that way or how other witnesses didn't corroborate that story and I was making a freak left hand turn which leads 100 feet to my doorstep. I think some people seriously have a problem/bias with motorcycles from the get go. That is why my insurance company is involved now. Anyways, the adjuster did take down a list of accessories and gear that was damaged along with the bike. I asked him personally what his experience has been when it comes to a fair amount for pain and suffering and he said 3X the medical bills (with xray and cat scan included). I suppose now its a wait and see, going to give it until after xmas and see if they come back with an offer thats fair. I do have an attorney friend who has called me an offered free advice and to take it on if necessary.
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'The Vampire Diaries' new promo: Stefan's got a plan to save Elena and kill Katherine at the same timeAdd to Favorites | The Vampire Diaries
Thanks to Caroline and Stefan's sleuthing on "The Vampire Diaries," they now know that they've been dealing with Katherine this whole time, not Elena. And that's not a good sign for dear old Kat, because Stefan's got a plan to save Elena and kill Katherine at the same time.
Remember that Traveler knife that Kat used to kill her daughter Nadia's boyfriend who was inhabiting Matt? That's going to come back into play, because all our Mystic Falls bunch has to do is stick Kat with the pointy end of that magical knife, and boom: Kat's dead for good, and Elena has control over her own body again. Smart, and sounds easy enough, right?
Seeing as how this is "the elusive Katherine Pierce" we're talking about, we doubt it's going to be smooth sailing trying to kill her. Especially since Nadia tips her off that her secret is out, so she's going to be on her guard, and will do anything to save her own life. But what about saving Nadia's life? She was bit by Tyler in the last episode, and she's not looking so good in the new promo The CW just released for the next new episode, "Gone Girl."
Is Katherine going to lose everything -- her daughter, her shot at love with Stefan and her life? Watch the new promo below:
"The Vampire Diaries" airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.


text: Major league draft facts and figuresBy Kirk Kenney 6:31 p.m.June 8, 2009⎙ Print💬 Comments -Reddit✉-CommentsEach team will have at least one representative at the draft. Among them will be Hall of Famers Al Kaline for Detroit, Bill Mazeroski for Pittsburgh and Billy Williams for the Cubs. The representatives this year for the Padres are Woody Williams and Jimmy Jones, who was the franchise's first-round pick in 1982.Twenty-one Hall of Famers have come through the draft. Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench, the Reds' second-round pick in 1965, was the first to make it in 1989. Seven of the 21 were first-round picks – Reggie Jackson, Robin Yount, Carlton Fisk, Dave Winfield, Kirby Puckett, Paul Molitor and Jim Rice. Ryne Sandberg, taken in the 20th round by Philadelphia in 1978, was the lowest drafted player to make it. There are currently 12 players in the majors who were selected with the first overall pick – Tampa Bay's David Price (Rays, 2007); Arizona's Justin Upton (Diamondbacks, 2005); Minnesota's Delmon Young (Rays, 2003); Minnesota's Joe Mauer (Twins, 2001); Padres' Adrian Gonzalez (Marlins, 2000); Texas' Josh Hamilton (Rays, 1999); Tampa Bay's Pat Burrell (Phillies, 1998); Texas' Kris Benson (Pirates, 1996); Houston's Darin Erstad (Angels, 1995); the Yankees'Alex Rodriguez (Mariners, 1993); Atlanta's Chipper Jones (Braves, 1990); Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. (Mariners, 1987).According to MLB data, there were 616 players (out of 750) on Opening Day rosters who came through the draft. Of those, 218 (35.6 percent) were still members of the club that selected them. That does not include six players who are back with their original clubs after playing elsewhere. Of those 616 players, 142 were first-round picks. Only 25 of them were players selected after the 30th round. The lowest pick was Tampa Bay's Gabe Kapler, a 57th-round selection by Detroit in 1995.BY THE NUMBERS55,846: Players drafted since 1965.18,712: Right-handed pitchers drafted, or 33.5 percent of all players drafted. Second-most is outfielders (10,160).1,504: Players drafted last season. Of those, 968 (64.36 percent) signed. Eight-two percent of college players signed, but only 17 percent of high school players signed. A draft-record 70 percent signed in 1985.Page:12


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By John Reynolds, marketingmagazine.co.uk, Tuesday, 05 February 2013 08:00AM
The year-long global advertising campaign breaks on 14 February and will feature the endline 'Break up with lingering food'.
It forms a part of Wrigley's wider 'Eat drink chew' marketing strategy, which was first rolled out in 2011 to promote the health benefits of Extra, the bestselling sugar-free chewing-gum brand in the UK.
Pamela Bower-Nye, Wrigley's UK and Ireland marketing director, said Banderas was the 'perfect ambassador' to encourage consumers to incorporate Extra into their everyday oral care routine.
Banderas, who has starred in films such as Shrek and Desperado, has previously appeared in marketing for Marks & Spencer. The 2007 TV ad, which also featured long-time M&S ambassador Twiggy, was shot in the style of classic Hollywood film trailers.
According to Nielsen figures, UK sales of Extra rose 11.6% in 2012 to £172m. Its nearest competitor, sister brand Airwaves, recorded a 4.3% rise in sales last year to £34.1m.
Former Britvic international marketing director Bower-Nye joined Wrigley in Novem-ber, taking responsibility for its gum and confectionery portfolio.
She replaced Daniela Cam-pari, who left the company to return to the US.
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WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo declared he is happy with the significant progress made by Rwanda in the health system, especially at community level.
This statement was made during his visit to Kanombe military hospital to see firsthand the use of the Prepex device used for male circumcision.
The device, the experimental use of which in Rwanda started two years ago, has proved to be easier to use and takes less time compared to surgical circumcision. "In our research, the advantages of the device proved to be many," remarked Lt. Col. Dr. Jean Paul Bitega, who headed the team conducting the research. "It requires no injection, no suture, no sterile environment and even nurses can use it after training."
There are five times less side-effects from the device than surgical circumcision and the healing period is of three weeks. Alexis Mugabe, who had received the treatment, said the procedure was quick and painless. "It took about two minutes and I felt no pain at all," he said, adding that he was confident he would go back to work the following day without problem.
Mugabe, who is one of the 2,304 males in all circumcised so far using the Prepex device, declared that he had put off circumcision as he was not looking forward to the surgery. "But when I heard of this new method, I came to do it and I'm glad for once the ring is removed in 7 days, it will take only 3 weeks to heal completely," he said.
As Sambo pointed out, the recommendation that circumcision be part of the HIV prevention program was made in 2007, and a tool that is likely to improve the way circumcisions are performed is welcome. "This device seems to be promising, especially for sub Saharan Africa which is the most affected by HIV/AIDS," he said pointing out that the region has 23 million people with HIV and a very high prevalence as there are 2 million new infections per year.
"What was needed is a devise that is easy to use and requires no anesthesia," said Dr. Emil Asamoah-Odei, the HIV/AIDs regional adviser for Africa. "With qualified doctors and surgeons scarce, the fact that the device can be used by nurses would be a plus."
Rwanda used the device on 10,000 people in February of this year as part of ongoing research to establish the safety of the device ,and follow up by the WHO is still ongoing.
"Its safety needs to be ensured before we can say that it is safe to replicate the method in other countries of the continent," explained Asamoah-Odei adding that a meeting to decide this will take place after results are available from other studies on the device that are currently taking place in Zimbabwe.
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Megyn Kelly tells kids 'Santa is white': Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert fire backAdd to Favorites | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Oh, Megyn Kelly. The Fox News anchor struck a nerve when she claimed on "The Kelly File" that not only is Santa Claus real, but he's also white. As a version of real-life Greek bishop Saint Nicholas (who -- as anyone who knows their history knows -- was not as white in the 14th century as this panel claims), Kelly wants to make sure the kids at home know that there's no fact behind -- or need for there to be -- a black, transgender or anything but white Santa.
"Wanted to get that straight," Kelly states in a comment that was addressed to the children watching.
Needless to say, Comedy Central's two talk show hosts weren't too impressed by Kelly's portrayal of Santa Claus. Jon Stewart used his "The Daily Show" platform to express incredulity at the Fox News anchor's assertions.
"Who are you actually talking to?" he asks. "Children who are sophisticated enough to be watching a news channel at 10 o'clock at night, yet innocent enough to still believe Santa Claus is real, yet racist enough to be freaked out if he isn't white? ... Yes, West Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
Kelly called out the African American author of the initial Slate article by saying that "just because [Santa being white] makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change." Stewart's hilarious response was simple: "Actually, I think that's the official slogan of oppression."
Stewart's take down of the Fox News segment continues to mock the fact that Kelly and her crew don't understand the definition of "white" when it comes to the "facts" about Santa. Jessica Williams' take on the whole situation is especially amazing.
Later in the evening, Stephen Colbert took his own crack at Kelly on "The Colbert Report."
"Santa can't just change colors. It's not like he's magic or anything," Colbert rationalizes. "Besides, a black Santa is a terrible idea. If a homeowner in Florida sees a black man coming down their chimney, he is going to get shot. 'Officer, I was just defending my milk and cookies.'"
Colbert also takes the conversation to Jesus' alleged whiteness. "It makes sense that Santa is a white guy. After all, his job is to bring us presents on Jesus' birthday, and everyone knows Jesus' color," Colbert says. "Just look at any photo of Jesus. He was just your average, Aramaic speaking, first century, Middle Eastern white guy."
What is your stance on Kelly's "Santa is white" assertion?