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|Glomerular function in neonates.
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|Glomerular filtration rate is low in fetal and neonatal life. It increases after birth and reaches approximately 20 mL/min/1.73 m2 at 1 month of age in term and preterm neonates. Various methods have been used to measure glomerular filtration rate in neonates such as inulin clearance, creatinine clearance, and serum cystatin C. Serum creatinine concentrations are influenced by many factors. It is suggested to use other markers which are stable over time and are not affected by muscle mass or tubular reabsorption and secretion. Cystatin C incorporates these characteristics; however, there are some other limitations in the use of cystatin C as a marker of kidney function in neonates. Additionally, the numbers of studies focused on the use of cystatin C in neonates is limited. There is a need for further studies to determine cystatin C's normal range levels and investigate whether cystatin C can replace other tests such as serum creatinine as marker of kidney function in newborn babies. Assessment of newer kidney function tests is also warranted in newborn infants.
|Rozita Hoseini; Hasan Otukesh; Nahid Rahimzadeh; Sara Hoseini
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Councils widen the tax gap
Council tax bills fall in London
Londoners will see their council tax bills fall in cash terms this year, while the rest of the country are set for below inflation rises.
The average charge for a B and D property is set to be 0.4% lower in the capital, compared to a bump of 0.8% elsewhere in England.
The figures were compiled by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) after surveying local authorities.
Council tax changes start today
The Replacement for Council Tax also comes into effect today. The schemes will provide support to those on low incomes, helping them pay their council tax bills, however central funding for new program has been cut by 10%
Boroughs to hike council tax
Bromley Council is among five boroughs which are reportedly planning to raise council tax next year.
The increases are understood to be just short of the 2% cap which would have required a public vote in the borough.
The other boroughs are Kingston-upon-Thames, Lewisham, Harrow and Croydon.
Essex freezes council tax for the third year
Essex County Council is to freeze its council tax for the third successive year. It means an average Band D property will be paying £1,086.75 per year.
The council also announced it's to spend £180 million on the county's roads over the next four years.
Under today's budget agreement the Council will also:
- Launch a Local Authority Mortgage Scheme to help first-time buyers get onto the property ladder
- Spend £18 million on nearly 1,000 additional school places
- Spent £2 million on providing accommodation for vulnerable people
- Investing £7.7 million in improving broadband capacity
The budget also outlines the authority will make £55 million savings and efficiencies during 2013/2014. It will also ask the Boundary Commission to look at the authority to see if any additional savings can be made by reviewing the size of the council.
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Haringey woman to continue tax fight
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Woman vows to continue council tax battle
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The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, says the London Borough of Haringey acted unlawfully when consulting on a council tax reduction scheme.
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Hart of Dixie
Season two returns with fast-talking New Yorker Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson), whose carefully planned life as a cardio-thoracic surgeon in New York City somehow went awry. Zoe is now officially a general practitioner in tiny BlueBell, Alabama, where the neighbors take care of one another, the mailman knows your name, there's a parade every Tuesday…but the townsfolk still aren't quite sure what to make of Dr. Zoe Hart. Yet she won't let that discourage her from being the best GP in the country.
Last season, arriving in quaint, picturesque Bluebell, Zoe warmed to town golden boy, George Tucker (Scott Porter), and clashed with Dr. Brick Breeland (Tim Matheson). Zoe's presence will continue to cause friction with Brick's daughter Lemon (Jaime King) — the sweet southern belle that struggles to keep things civil with Zoe, especially after George calls off his wedding with Lemon, and all of BlueBell blames Dr. Hart.
Zoe lives in the guesthouse of her best friend and Bluebell's mayor, Lavon Hayes (Cress Williams), her confidant and steadfast supporter. Next door, local bad-boy and mischievous charmer Wade Kinsella (Wilson Bethel) sparks a little fire within Zoe that leads to romance, despite the torch she carries for George.
"Hart of Dixie" is from Bonanza Productions Inc., in association with Fake Empire, Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Leila Gerstein ("Gossip Girl," "Eli Stone"), Josh Schwartz ("Gossip Girl," "Chuck," "The O.C."), Stephanie Savage ("Gossip Girl," "The O.C.") and Len Goldstein.
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Zoe (Rachel Bilson) and Joel (guest star Josh Cooke) finally buy a house, but soon realize neither of them make enough money to fix up the place.
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In a last ditch effort to stop the merger, Lavon (Cress Williams) enlists the entire town's help to try and convince the Lt. Governor (guest star Dondre Whitfield, "Mistresses") that BlueBell should be named a historic town.
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Zoe (Rachel Bilson) and Joel (guest star Josh Cooke) are ready to find a more permanent place to live and find the perfect place is actually owned by a relative of Zoe's biological father's relatives.
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Terry (Goodfield) Rice '71, M.A. '72 writes, "Alain Pinel Realtors keeps me busy up and down the Peninsula and even over to Santa Cruz, selling homes. It's truly amazing and fun. I continue with my love of airplanes by volunteering at the SFO International Airport Museum. This gives me an opportunity to see my Pan American friends and 'talk over the Old Days.' In fact, we had a fun-filled PAA reunion in Monaco a few months ago."
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Dan Pastorini '71 has published a new autobiography, Taking Flak: My Life in the Fast Lane, and was inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame in November. Pastorini quarterbacked the Oilers to the AFC title game twice, was the first player to wear a protective flak jacket and threw the pass that helped lead to the NFL adopting instant replay. His book tells about his colorful career and life, which includes 13 years as an NFL quarterback, professional drag-racing, dabbling in the Hollywood lifestyle, marrying a Playboy model, posing for Playgirl, and for his much-publicized brushes with the law.
Bill Orme '71 is a senior environmental scientist and serves as the chief of the 401 Certification and Wetlands Unit, Division Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board. He is a California Registered Professional Forester, and has enjoyed a 19-year career as a professional forester. He worked for California State Parks in grants and as a Senior Resource Ecologist before joining the State Water Resources Control Board.
Evert Nygren M.S. '71 writes, "My wife and I have moved from Incline Village, Nev., to Ojai, Calif."
Linda A. Mills '71 is now serving on the board of directors for Navient, the nation's leading loan management, servicing, and asset recovery company. Mills is currently corporate vice president of operations for Northrop Grumman, a leading global security provider of advanced solutions for defense, intelligence, civil agency and commercial customers.
Freshman Dorm: Sanfilippo
Anne Middleton '71 writes: "I've lived in La Jolla for nearly 30 years, enjoy working as a fundraiser at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and treasure my free time - spending time with family and friends, traveling frequently, and attending theatrical and sporting events. In the years to come, I look forward to dividing my time between homes in La Jolla and Lake Tahoe - and writing a personal history or two each year. I co-authored my first book, 'Middie's Memoirs,' with my father, Arthur, the book's focus, in 2009."
Charles McDermott '71 just retired after 30 years of college teaching.
Janet Kuhlman '71 retired from teaching in 2005. Widowed in 2006 (David Kuhlman), Janet continues to reside in Huntington Beach, Calif. She has two grandchildren and spends one third of the year at home in Hawaii. She has two grown sons, David and Andrew, both married.
Cathy (Skelly) Kelly '71 is the 8th grade homeroom teacher and vice principal at St. Philip Neri School in Alameda. Patrick Kelly '71 continues to represent the disabled with his law office in San Rafael.
Kevin Kelly '71 writes, "This past summer, I had the opportunity with a collection of other old basketball jocks to play in the FIMBA World Masters Basketball Championships in Prague, Czech Republic. There were 16 teams in the 60+ category from a host of European countries, Brazil and our team from the U.S. As we were awaiting our first game, the German team was playing on the floor. I ran down to the court during a timeout because the two stars on the German team were Bud Ogden '69 and Ralph Ogden '70. I was aware that Ralph lived in Germany after many years of playing for their professional team, but I also knew (from having played against him in some U.S. tournaments) that Bud lived in Gilroy and coached there. I immediately approached him and joked that I was not aware he was German and he told me to spread the word that he lived in Gilroy, Germany. The best part of our encounter was when our team, Columbia Sportsware from Portland, Oregon, ended up lined up against the German team in the finals one week later. While I knew and practiced against both of them my freshman year (when they both were All-Americans), I never really got to play with them due to injuries and lack of talent on my part. Our U.S. team eked out a victory over Germany and the Ogdens in the final—and they were as gracious off the court as they had been good on the court. One of our players tried to recruit Ralph to join us at the World Masters Games later in the year. While he declined, he did demand a rematch—a request we will gladly accept at the next opportunity. Three SCU former ball players on the same court thirty some-odd years later. What a great reunion!!"
Tom Kaminski '71, M.A. '72 has retired as a school principal after 34 years, 16 of them with Los Angeles Unified School District. "My biggest challenge with retirement is when to schedule my lunch between naps," he writes. His wife, Linda (Rawson) Kaminski '72, is superintendent of Azusa Unified School District and makes sure that Tom has something to do between naps. They've been married 42 years with three children and two grandchildren.
Freshman Dorm: Dunne
Tim Johnson '71, '74 M.A. writes: "Karen & I celebrated 40 years (40 mutually agreeable/satisfying 1 year contracts!), with 2 daughters, 6 grandkids (8-13). Live in San Jose/Almaden Valley, while I toil to keep Karen in new shoes. Two knee replacements, almost hairless, carrying a few extra kilos, but still an optimist with a gratitude for my faith, family and friends."
Freshman Dorm: Walsh
Phil Johnson '71 writes: "I've been married for 23 wonderful years to my wife, Vicki, who has amazing patience and fortitude! We are raising 4 great kids, Kelly (Graduated Colorado, Boulder, 2011), Christy (Junior, Georgetown), Dan (Junior, Jesuit HS) and Tori (Freshman, St, Francis, Sacramento). We also helped our niece through high school and college and she just gradusted form Cal, Berkeley! We live up in the Sacramento area and love it! I was in Hi-Tech for 25 years (HP, Andersen Consulting, a few start-ups) and have spend the last 10 years focusing on real estate syndications. As real estate is taking a hiatus, I am looking to go back into Hi-Tech or Foundation/Non-Profit work which we did a lot of in the Sac area."
Susan E. Johnson M.A. '71 was interviewed in May for the Standard-Examiner in an article titled "Futura Leader Inspires Others." Johnson is president and CEO of Futura Industries, an engineering company based in Utah. Her work at the company during the past several years has garnered numerous awards and write-ups in publications, including Forbes.
Susan Johnson M.A. '71, president of Futura Industries Corp., of Clearfield, has been appointed a director of the Salt Lake City branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. A native of El Paso, Texas, Johnson has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from California Polytechnic State University and has done graduate studies at the University of Santa Clara and University of California, Irvine.
Freshman Dorm: Walsh
Mark Ivary '71 writes: "I was married to my late wife for 27 years until her death in 2002. We have 3 kids, Christine, Nicholas, and Adam. I have owned and operated an Ace Hardware store in Stockton, Calif., for the past 31 years, as well as being a general contractor for the past 15 years. So, German major -- hardware store......I spent 3 semesters in Europe with IES if that explains anything."
Eino Huhtala '70 and Marie (Mackey) Huhtala '71 have just moved back to California after many years in northern Virginia. They made the move to be close to their daughter and two grandchildren in the Bay Area. Eino and Marie will make their home in Petaluma, where they'll be pursuing new professional and personal adventures.
Alan Higginson '69, MBA '71 was appointed to the board of directors of Pivot3, Inc., a leading provider of unified storage and compute appliances. Higginson, Chairman, Hubspan and F5 Networks, will provide his extensive technology and leadership experience of high-growth technology companies to the Pivot3 board and its management team.
With more than 20 years of senior executive and CEO experience in technology-related industries, Higginson applies his extensive leadership skills to help young companies grow and develop. His industry experience spans both private and public companies including Atrieva, F5 Networks and Hubspan. Prior to his work with start-up organizations, Higginson spent five years at Sierra On-Line as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
Bob Hale M.S. '71, M.S. '79 writes, "Retired. Living in Carlsbad, Calif. Volunteering at Museum of Making Music. Enjoying life!"
Marc Haberman '71 writes: "Since the mid-60's, the University Golf Club of Santa Clara has hosted monthly golf events at local golf courses. Check out the NCGA associate club at www.universitygolfsc.com for club information and the 2013 schedule. Or call Marc Haberman '71 @ 408-294-3431."
Freshman Dorm: Day Student/Off Campus
Theresa Grieshaber '71 writes: "Masters Degree in Library Science, University of Southern California, 1978. I have lived in Modesto, California for the last twenty years with my husband, Howard. I recently retired from my position as a reference librarian after 16 years at Stanislaus County Public Library. We are the parents of 2 grown daughters."


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Lexus needs to realize that you have two types of customers.
Those that can afford 50-100K auto's and will want the Hybrid Performance. That is a name plate I believe all auto makers should use.
Then you have those that stretch to get into the 30-50K auto's and having a luxury name plate is desired, but they still count their pennies and these people are wanting the Hybrid = MPG. So it makes sense to have a 200h that is all about MPG and then have a 300H Performance that is all about the driving machine.
I hope cadillac will kep this in mind when they bring out the ELR, it would be good to have an ELR base model with good, solid MPG and then move up to a ELR Performance Edition.
Perhaps a 3rd customer, that would spend $50-100k on a high lux, high mpg hybrid. You know, rich eco enthusiasts, like half of hollywood.Tesla Model S is sold out til the end of 2013.
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|Autoantibody titers to oxidized low-density lipoprotein in patients with coronary atherosclerosis.
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|PMID: 8721636 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is considered to be the initial step in the atherosclerotic process. Autoantibodies to oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) have been detected in human serum. We used an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technique to measure autoantibody titers in 63 normal subjects and patients with coronary artery disease. Thirty-five patients underwent coronary angiography for suspected coronary artery disease. Patients were divided into the following categories: group 1, 20 healthy young volunteers; group 2, 8 patients age-matched to the catheterization patients; group 3, 10 patients with normal coronary angiograms; and group 4, 25 patients with angiographic coronary artery disease. Autoantibody titers to ox-LDL were group 1, 0.142 +/- 0.023; group 2, 0.197 +/- 0.039; group 3, 0.183 +/- 0.038; and group 4, 0.340 +/- 0.026. There was no statistical difference among groups 1, 2, and 3, but the difference between these groups and group 4 was highly significant (p < 0.05). This study demonstrates that (1) autoantibodies to ox-LDL can be detected in normal subjects and in patients with abnormal coronary angiograms and (2) significantly higher titers of autoantibodies to ox-LDL were seen in patients with angiographic evidence of coronary artery disease.
|M N Bui; M N Sack; G Moutsatsos; D Y Lu; P Katz; R McCown; J A Breall; C E Rackley
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WISN 12 reporter Hillary Mintz was in Grafton on Friday morning, where winter storm cleanup was in high gear.
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Santa is reading and responding to your letters on Twitter.
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On Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet. It was announced last week that he would send his first message on Dec. 12.
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday he had sent seven tweets. His first said, "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart."
The pope already has a million followers. If you'd like to become one of them you can follow him on Twitter @Pontifex.
Letters to Santa
Those tweets to Santa are rolling in, and Santa is having a great time reading what everyone has on their wish lists.
You can read all about them, and the many bribes of cookies Santa is being offered if you follow Santa on Twitter at twitter.com/letterstosanta.
Here are a few of the wishes Santa is hearing about on Twitter:
? "My 4-year-old would like a red phone that rings just for her. I'd love to find a new flute under the tree."
? "Hi, my name is Dara and I would like an iPod Touch like my brother."
? "A lot of books. Ho ho ho."
? "Dear Santa, can you please send me a cure for Lupus?"
As you can see, there are a variety of requests, and Santa is responding to them all.
Photo apps
Instagram recently has made some changes, adding new editing capabilities and filters. But it also has made it harder to share photos on Twitter, so Twitter has decided to provide its own photo filter and editing tools for its users.
If you already have the Twitter or Instagram apps on iPhones or Android smartphones, all you need to do is update your apps to take advantage of the new built-in toys.
Meeting tonight
Don't forget we are meeting tonight at 7 at T-Bone's Records and Cafe on Hardy Street, where I will share some ideas for using social media for your family holiday celebrations, and other social media things you may want to talk about.
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A GROUP of fun-loving men have embraced their feminine side by donning bras and posing for a charity calendar to show their support for a terminally-ill colleague.
Mrs Baker's Boys is a charity calendar featuring 12 men, who work at the city's EDF Energy centre, which aims to raise money for Comic Relief and back Oxfam's Big Bra Hunt campaign.
But more importantly it also aims to show their support for their colleague Kelly Baker, hence the name Mrs Baker's Boys, who was recently told she was terminally ill after being diagnosed with cancer in her lungs, stomach and brain.
Jonathan Higgins, who came up with the idea of the calendar, said: "Kelly is such an inspiration to everyone in the office. She loved my calendar idea when I told her about it but sadly within days of her feedback she was told that she was terminally ill. As you can imagine we are all devastated but she still has the attitude of 'I will beat it'.
"This has spurred us on all the more to produce the calendar with the same attitude of 'can do, will do', and that is why we are dedicating it to her and her family."
The 12 men featured in the calendar range from 22 years old to around 60 years old and are all posing wearing a bra, whether in a cowboy's outfit, a wetsuit or an apron.
Jonathan said: "Mrs Baker's Boys is not only about raising money for Comic Relief, but to show Mrs Baker and her husband, who also works with us, that their colleagues are supporting them all the way.
"Male colleagues from our office, who are all of various shapes and sizes, were lining up to offer us their services. To add the comedy element to the calendar they all came up with some great ideas for the photographs and are all in attire that reflects their personalities, but with the added twist of the bra and red nose for fun.
"We have also had a plethora of help from photographers, graphic designers and film makers, some from the Plymouth College of Art and Design."
The calendar will go on sale on March 15, Red Nose Day, and will be priced at £10, with at least £8.50 from each sale going to charity.
They will be available to purchase from www.mrsbakersboys.com.
Anyone interested in selling some of the calendars in a local shop, or to purchase a calendar directly, is asked to call Jonathan on 07712 576154.
The Herald has teamed up with Comic Relief and the Devon Community Foundation to dish out £50,000 to deserving causes in Plymouth from the Red Nose Day Community Cash fund. To be in with a chance of scooping your share of the £50,000 fund log on to www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/rednose and apply. Comic Relief and the Devon Community Foundation will give out grants of up to £1,000 to worthy causes.


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My computer runs on Window 7 home premium and I use Cyberlink power 2 go for image and burning. I'm from India and recently we has religious function at home. As this was a personal religious event we took service of professional photographer who shoot the event using his digital camera and converted it to image on his computer.
he burned image on DVDs . I can play DVDs on traditional DVD player. Though the disk is full my computer drive recognize it as blank DVD. There are total 41 DVDs and some of the DVDs are recognized and can be played on computer. My DVD writer (on PC)is in good condition. The DVD which shows blank on my computer is shown full on photographe's computer.Unfortunately he could only told me that he has transfered this event from his camera disk to computer using some new HD technology. According to him some configuration changes required on my computer. His computer also run on window 7. Also same photographer did this same event recording for me three years ago and all these DVDs play well on my computer
I request your advice and support
Many thanks
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It may only be 23 months old but Vista has been widely panned by both businesses and home users. However, it may yet become the world's favourite OS - here's why.
Windows Vista was released only 23 months ago but it's been widely critisced. With home users proclaiming their hate for the operating system (OS) and some businesses quickly uninstalling it, analyst firm Gartner has said the Vista is "collapsing" under its own weight.
Meanwhile, predecessor Windows XP has belatedly become so beloved that it's even garnering calls for 'unretirement'. But all of the griping about Vista and instant nostalgia for XP covers up a dry, statistical reality: XP itself was slow to catch on with users - maybe even slower than Vista has been thus far. For instance, in September 2003, 23 months after its release, XP was running on only 6.6 percent of corporate PCs in the US and Canada, according to data compiled by AssetMetrix, an asset-tracking vendor that was later bought by Microsoft.
In comparison, Forrester Research reported that, as of the end of June - 19 months after Vista's November 2006 debut for business users - the new operating system was running on 8.8 percent of enterprise PCs worldwide. Forrester analyst Thomas Mendel, who authored the report, wasn't impressed
But even Gartner, that prophet of Windows' doom, forecasts that Vista will be more popular at the end of this year than XP was at a similar juncture - with 28 percent of the PC operating system installed base worldwide vs 22 percent for XP at the end of 2003.
"The uptake of XP was slower than people remember today," said Michael Cherry , an analyst at Directions on Microsoft. He noted that many IT managers "labelled XP a consumer-only upgrade" at first.
Users loved Windows 2000, which was less than two years old when XP was released, and for many, XP didn't add enough to make them want to move up. "XP was really viewed as a glorified upgrade, not a new operating system in its own right," recalled Donnie Steward, CIO at ACH Foods, a US-based maker of processed foods.
Then there were all the security issues. XP now is considered highly secure, but that wasn't the case in 2002. That's when LifeTime Products upgraded to the operating system after Microsoft released Service Pack 1, its first major bug-fix update.
"We used to say XP was like Swiss cheese - full of holes everywhere," said John Bowden, CIO at the Clearfield, a US-based maker of recreational equipment.
To try to fix the security problems, Microsoft developed a second service pack, which it pushed customers to adopt. But SP2 was such a major change that it broke applications - lots of them, especially enterprise ones. That caused many companies to block updates to SP2 on their PCs for months until they could prepare for the mammoth upgrade.
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It may only be 23 months old but Vista has been widely panned by both businesses and home users. However, it may yet become the world's favourite OS - here's why.
Some of the reasons cited for Vista's supposed doom are unique to the new operating system. There's the widespread exercising of downgrade rights by users who purchase PCs with Vista but then revert to running XP. Mac OS X has taken some market share away from Windows over the past year. Cloud computing technologies offer new competition. And the scheduled 2010 arrival of Vista's successor, which Microsoft is calling Windows 7, looms on the horizon. Both Steward and Bowden said they will likely skip Vista entirely and wait for Windows 7.
But other strikes against Vista are ones that XP has also faced and overcome, such as a tottering economy (the dotcom bust, in XP's case), the belief that it was a piece of 'bloatware', accusations of price gouging by Microsoft, and apathy or revolt by end users.
For most users, "change is always bad", said Merrie Wales, information systems manager in a human resources department in Glenn County, California, who oversees 250 desktop PCs. She said that only a tiny portion of her users welcomed a move to Vista this spring. But, she noted, a similar sliver of users was happy when the agency finally upgraded to XP in 2006.
And the Vista rollout "has turned out much better than we anticipated", Wales said. "It's not a bad OS. There are big improvements under the hood."
There are other factors that brighten the long-term outlook for Vista. Application virtualisation technology is giving IT administrators new options for deploying software and avoiding compatibility problems. And with Vista, 64-bit computing finally appears to be catching on among more than just technology enthusiasts.
In addition, history tends to repeat itself. XP deployments eventually accelerated, reaching near-ubiquity by the time Vista finally debuted. Similarly, some industry observers expect rollouts of Vista to pick up - even in the shadow of Windows 7 - as a Vista SP2 arrives, companies refresh ageing hardware and the end of mainstream support for XP next April draws closer.
For instance, Gartner expects Vista to be running on 49 percent of all PCs worldwide by the end of next year - surpassing XP's market share, which the consulting firm forecasts at 44 percent.
Moreover, most of the talk among enterprise Vista holdouts is about sticking with XP or waiting for Windows 7 - not switching to Mac OS X or Linux. Cherry said skipping an operating system release may merely be a long-term trend, not an indication "of Vista being a failure." And he noted that until companies jump off the Windows treadmill instead of merely slowing it down, "Microsoft still makes its money".
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In 2008, we began a three-year program in partnership with TransFair USA to work with seven cooperatives in Brazil – representing nearly 3,400 family farmers – to increase their capacity to provide high-quality Fair Trade Certified™ coffee and to convert more than 2,000 to organic practices.
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After eight rounds of competition, Japanese Magic powerhouses Itaru Ishida and Osamu Fujita stand on top with perfect 8-0 records. Fujita is coming off an ironically appropriate second place finish at Pro Tour Amsterdam last week, and is in prime position to make a run at the Top 8 tomorrow. He didn't lose a match playing Goblins, still featuring Goblin Ringleader and Goblin Matron despite the loss of their Recruiter. Blood Frenzy was the tech card for the deck, taking down Psychatogs in combat before they became lethal, or just forcing through the extra damage necessary for a win. Pro Tour veteran Itaru Ishida achieved his undefeated record with a blue-black Reanimate deck that is similar to the version Kai Budde popularized.
Grand Prix Okayama is the first major event to feature the Extended format after the new bannings, and even though some players were complaining that the environment is still too fast, the top of the standings shows that there is still plenty of room for creativity. Jinpei Hassaku, who unleashed Draco-Explosion on the world a while back, ends the day in ninth place with Psychatog. Notorious rogue deck designer Kiyoshi Sasanuma defied convention once again, running a green-white beatdown deck to a twelfth place finish, and old-school hero Satoshi Nakamura broke out Spellweaver Helix to end the day at eleventh place.
Yet, the biggest story coming out of the tournament has to be the emergence of Life as a strong combo deck. It features multiple combinations that can produce an infinite life loop, and wins with Test of Endurance or Serra Avatar; tutor cards provide the consistency that a combo deck needs to be successful. Masami Ibamoto designed this version, and of the four players that ran it, three will play tomorrow- Ibamoto, Ryuichi Arita and Akira Asahara.
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Illuminati & Agenda 666 is a new YouTube project and a playlist with new material that will be added on a regular basis.
When the military get control over a country's food and water supply, it can and will win ANY war, without firing a single shot.
Part 1 is really just made as a kind of online presentation of my self as a person, a small picture of who I am in order for people to understand my background for doing what I do here on YouTube.
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There has been so much going on and nothing even worth posting about! I will not perpetuate negativity and invite more of it into my life by typing about it and sharing it with all of my readers here..
One of the wonderful things that is worth posting about is that it's now Spring! There couldn't been a better time for the Light to return.. and I'm so thankful for the Warmer Weather and the Brighter Evenings..
And since I'm so happy I've decided to have a small Sping Sale in my Etsy Boutique - I'm offering my Green Flower Mini Canvas Tote (full of goodies) at the reduced prince of $8.95.
I've actually been putting some new sets together and creating some more Magical Treasures for my little shop.. hopefully I'll be able to post some new items over the next few days. My littlest one is sick now and so I've been up tending to her all day and during the night (why do these things always get worse at night?). Strangley enough, through all this, I've been more creative than usual.. who knew what sort of strange inspiration my mind needed to create!


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Another Benghazi lie exposed
By quietly awarding medals to two special operations commandos, the Obama administration has further undermined the credibility shredded by its false initial account of the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, al-Qaida terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
The Washington Times reports exclusively that though the administration maintains no special operations forces were in range to be dispatched from outside Libya to aid the Americans under attack, two members of an eight-man special ops unit that was in Tripoli that night volunteered for a hasty rescue flight with private security contractors. They took part in the final Benghazi firefight and have been decorated for bravery.
Sources "directly familiar with the attack" tell The Times that the administration didn't acknowledge these two commandos' heroism publicly because they were in Tripoli on a sensitive anti-terror mission without an agreement in place to authorize their presence there. Then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta mentioned "a Tripoli-based security team" that deployed to Benghazi in congressional testimony, but didn't say why they were in Tripoli or who went with them to Benghazi.
It's all part of the haze of obfuscation and misdirection in which the Obama administration, not wanting to rock its re-election boat, shrouded the truth about Benghazi and its failings there. And the truth about these two commandos makes its lack of readiness to defend U.S. diplomatic personnel there no less appalling.
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You may have recently picked up a brand new smartphone and it says it supports NFC. With the exception of the iPhone, most modern smartphones are compatible with the technology. But you're sitting there wondering what's so great about NFC, or otherwise known as near field communication. Well, for one thing, it allows you to tap and share —something that is featured prominently in their commercials.
NFC even allows you to pay for things with your cell phone, if the merchant's POS system supports it. So far, I've only came across a few stores which support it: CVS & Rite Aid. Hopefully more stores will add NFC support in the future. In addition to this, advertisers may begin exploit NFC for their own advertising purposes. Imagine adding NFC functionality to magazines or certain storefronts so that you can simply tap your phone against the page in order to download their app or receive some promotional music.
However, before any of these fictional ideas become reality, we can take a look at something a little more practical, NFC tags. NFC tags are stickers which contain a small unpowered NFC chip. These tags can be programmed to do what you want it to do: launch a program, change various settings, etc. All you need to do is hold your phone close to it and a small amount of power from the smart phone will activate the NFC tag.
So let's take a look at a couple things you could do with these NFC tags that can make your life a little easier:
You can set up a NFC tag when you get home to do the following things: Turn-on wifi, turn up the ringer volume, turn off mobile data, turn off power saving modes, etc. You could even have a tag next to your bed that sets the alarm for the next day for you.
How about in the car? If you have a Bluetooth enabled car, the NFC tag could be set to do the following: turn bluetooth on, enable GPS navigation, play Spotify/Pandora through Bluetooth audio, etc.
While you're working out? Throw a tag in your gym bag and then when you need it, have it disable all your radios and put on your favorite work out playlist.
Working while on the run? Have a tag that enables Bluetooth tethering or a wifi hotspot and disable all other radios that may disrupt your data connection.
The point here is that there are countless possibilities for using NFC tags. Whatever you want to do, as long as it can be programmed, it can be done! Right now Samsung has their own branded NFC Tags called TecTiles, and a five pack of them costs around $15 or so. An interesting use they have on their website suggests businesses to allow users to check in on Foursquare using the NFC tags. Have you ever had a problem pairing your phone with Bluetooth devices in the past? An embedded NFC tag which autopairs your phone with the device would be simply amazing. No more entering obscure passcodes. Business cards with embedded NFC tags? These already exist! The fact is, NFC implementations we could see industry utilizing are endless.
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Published On: Nov 03 2012 06:37:44 PM EDT Updated On: Nov 04 2012 02:39:53 AM EST
One lane on northbound I-75 between Otter Creek Road and Laplaisance Road is open Saturday night after a deadly semi accident.
Monroe County Sheriff's Office says 62-year-old semi driver Christopher Finney of Sheridan rear ended another semi. That semi then hit another.
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Jensen announced this week its roll out of four more car audio and infotainment receiver series to follow on what the company called the successful launch of the VX6020 during the 2013 holiday season.
A press release from Jensen said the introduction of the 3000, 4000, 5000, and 7000 models will complete the company's scheduled roll out of in-car infotainment receivers for 2014.
Tom Malone, President of Jensen parent company Voxx Electronics, said, "We designed the 2014 Jensen line with faster processers, sharper screens and improved UI, and we did it without breaking the bank for consumers and still giving our retail partners the tools they need for success. For our retail partners, we have delivered a full line of eight models, all designed to hit a certain consumer's sweet spot with both features and MSRP."
The release said the VX7010 and VX7020 are the range-topping models, with smart device app control, built-in Bluetooth connectivity, and TFT touchscreens sized at seven inches (single-DIN models) or 6.2 inches (double-DIN models). The units' app control allows for apps such as Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, and more to be controlled through the touchscreen so long as your device is connected via the USB port on the receiver.Both receivers reportedly are SiriusXM satellite radio-ready and can display channel art for each channel on the service. The release said both have built-in iGo Primo Navigation with NaviExtras Web Support. The VX7010 and VX7020 are priced at an MSRP of $400 each, according to Jensen.
The VX4010 (single-DIN) and VX4020 (double-DIN) strip a few of what the release referred to as "bells and whistles" from the package — mainly navigation, it would appear. They both have rearview camera inputs with "instant on" capability, according to Jensen. They carry a Jensen-recommended retail price of $280 each.
The VX3010 (single-DIN) and VX3020 (double-DIN) further strip down the options, coming only with iPhone/iPod connectivity, Bluetooth with hands-free calling, advanced audio distribution profile (A2DP), and audio-video remote control profile (AVRCP), the latter of which allows Bluetooth devices to control the content playing on the device. The result: They're $50 than the 4000 series, ringing in at $230 each.
Finally, Jensen said there's a mechless unit in store: The DMX5020 has all the features of the 4000 series receivers, but instead of a CD/DVD drive, it gets SD card slots, AUX inputs, and even a dedicated iPod connection point. It, like the 4000 series, carries an MSRP of $280. This is probably the unit I'd go for, if I'm honest. I no longer carry CDs around in my car — and I've never had a reason to carry around DVDs.
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Minutes of Commission meeting held on July 31, 2007.
Present: Mary vandenBerg, Chairperson, Steven Anderstrom, Patricia Caron, Howard Fife, Rolf Hilbig. Absent: James Wettlaufer.
7:00 p.m. Chairperson called the meeting to order.
Minutes of 7-24-2007 need to be amended to include this additional information: Normand Coriveau of addressStreet77 East Brimfield Rd., Pink Sheet No. 2006-1201 to build a new house was signed. All work will be road side of 656 Line.
7:15 p.m. Mary and Dave Cowley who, in April purchased their property at addressStreet6 Stony Hill Rd., spoke of their concerns regarding the excessive amount of trees being removed for a septic leech field adjacent to their property owned by Tom Baltazar. Following discussion, they were advised to speak to Andre Cormier, Jr. of Escape Estates who is constructing storm water management along addressStreetMountain Rd., addressStreetStony Hill Rd. and addressStreetSandy Beach Rd.
7:25 p.m. Eileen Reinhardt of addressStreetForrest Dr. spoke of her concerns regarding the small pond by the little causeway, filling up with weeds, algae and beginning to smell. We recommended that she attend a Lake Oversite Committee meeting which is to be held on Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. to inform them of her concerns.
7:35 p.m. The Public Hearing of a Notice of Intent for Dave and Terry Walker of 85 Sandy Beach Rd., Map R-39-F-1, DEP File #184-0219 and Procedure Sheet No. 2006-1147 to rebuild existing cottage was presented by Mark Farrell of Green Hill Engineering. No abutters came. Vicky McCourt, Architect, along with Dave and Terry Walker were present. Following discussions, the Order of Conditions are to include "replace trees with hardwood trees". All were in favor of closing the Hearing at 8:00 p.m. A $50.00 check paying for the Legal Ad was presented.
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|Thrombolytic therapy in peripheral arterial disease.
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|The two main causes of peripheral arterial occlusion (PAO) are embolism and thrombosis. Surgical treatment of acute limb ischemia, because of related complications, has a 30-day mortality rate of 15% to 25%. Intra-arterial thrombolysis for lower extremity ischemia is a well-accepted and frequently used technique. It may offer definitive treatment without the need for major surgery in a significant series of patients with acute occlusion of a native leg artery or a by-pass graft. Thrombolysis can offer several potential advantages when compared with surgical therapy. Thrombolytic agents include streptokinase (SK), urokinase (UK), pro-UK and recombinant tissue plasminogen activators (rt-PA-Alteplase and r-PA-Reteplase). All these agents induce a systemic fibrinolytic state. Three prospective randomized trials, ROCHESTER, STILE, and TOPAS, which compared thrombolytic therapy with traditional surgical revascularization for lower limb ischemia, have recently been published. They suggest that thrombolysis, as an initial therapy, reduces the risk of subsequent surgery and improves limb salvage for patients with PAO. Using this approach, the underlying lesions can be identified and treated by transluminal balloon angioplasty or stenting, or by elective surgical revascularization. However, severe bleeding is still a non rare complication of intra-arterial thrombolysis and the risk of intracranial hemorrhage is 1-2%.
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AMERICUS, Ga. — The Dougherty County School System's Academy of Medical Arts team members are set to collaborate with Georgia Southwestern University's School of Nursing.
DCSS Medical Arts team members attended the Georgia Southwestern University ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first phase of the Rosalynn Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex last month.
Following the program and ribbon-cutting, team members enjoyed a guided tour of the new simulation hospital and met with the dean of the School of Nursing, Dr. Sandra Daniel, to discuss future plans for medical magnet students.
Through Georgia Southwestern's facility, DSCC medical magnet students will have an opportunity to explore clinical expectations as they prepare for a rapidly changing health care system in a global environment.
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Brocken Money, 1922
As I explained in a previous post (here), Walpurgisnacht is celebrated in Germany on 30 April. On this night witches are thought to fly to the Hexentanzplatz, the witches' dancing place, on a plateau on Brocken Mountain, deep in the Harz Mountains. This is where Goethe set the witches' sabbat in his The Tragedy of Faust (Part 1, 1808). The Witches' chorus at line 3744 sets the scene:
Now to the Brocken the witches hie,
The stubble is yellow, the corn is green;
Thither the gathering legions fly,
And sitting aloft is Sir Urian seen:
O'er stick and o'er stone they go whirling along,
Witches and he-goats, a motley throng,
Alone old Baubo's coming now;
She rides upon a farrow sow.
By the turn of the century a thriving tourist industry had prompted the publication of numerous witch-themed postcards (shown in my previous posts). By the 1920s another tourist gimick was added: Brocken 'money' (Brocken or Thale Notgeld). The following notes, featuring some very cute witches as well as Faust and Mephistopheles, seem to have been designed by F. Juttner in 1922.
For more information on Goethe's The Tragedy of Faust see here; for the full text of the Anna Swanwick translation of The Tragedy of Faust, Part I, see here (Project Gutenberg) or here (Bartleby.com).
[UPDATE: for another post on this subject, see More Brocken Money]
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Global existence and asymptotic behavior of smooth solutions for a bipolar Euler-Poisson system in the quarter plane
Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
Boundary Value Problems 2012, 2012:21 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2012-21Published: 16 February 2012
In the article, a one-dimensional bipolar hydrodynamic model (Euler-Poisson system) in the quarter plane is considered. This system takes the form of Euler-Poisson with electric field and frictional damping added to the momentum equations. The global existence of smooth small solutions for the corresponding initial-boundary value problem is firstly shown. Next, the asymptotic behavior of the solutions towards the nonlinear diffusion waves, which are solutions of the corresponding nonlinear parabolic equation given by the related Darcy's law, is proven. Finally, the optimal convergence rates of the solutions towards the nonlinear diffusion waves are established. The proofs are completed from the energy methods and Fourier analysis. As far as we know, this is the first result about the optimal convergence rates of the solutions of the bipolar Euler-Poisson system with boundary effects towards the nonlinear diffusion waves.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35M20; 35Q35; 76W05.


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|May 9 2009, 11:33 AM
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|May 9 2009, 11:48 AM
Location: Tokyo
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Now after seeing the film twice and thinking things over I'd like to change my vote from Above average to Below average. My first opinion was clouded by my happiness about seeing "the old gang" once more. I SO wanted to like this film and was expecting SO much from it.
I have no problem with the idea of a reboot. I have a problem with godawfully bad storytelling and mindless action for the sake of action.
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|May 9 2009, 11:53 AM
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I'm in two minds about this movie. The movie loving side of me very much enjoyed the film. It had many great and memorable moments.
The Trekkie side of me on the other hand perhaps wanted this movie to be something else than it was. That side of me also saw a lot of flaws.
Trek might for me be this year's Indiana Jones KOTC. I grew to love that movie, but I had to see it a couple of times.
"No bla bla bla!" - Captain James T. Kirk
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|May 9 2009, 11:58 AM
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Perhaps they have had to prioritise in this first film and even the original series took quite a few episodes to fully introduce those elements.
|May 9 2009, 12:02 PM
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Location: Sac, Ca
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I mean, to me nitpicking this movie to death is like watching, say, "A Piece of the Action" and getting so completely hung up on the ridiculousness of the Mob Planet itself that you fail to enjoy all the great humor and character moments and twists and turns in the actual STORY.
Even on TOS, sometimes you just had to roll with it. And this is another one of those times. Do I wish this movie had a stronger underlying plot? Of course. But that doesn't mean we can't overlook those problems and still enjoy the movie.
|May 9 2009, 12:06 PM
Location: London
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|May 9 2009, 12:21 PM
Fleet Captain
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Even though I am the sort of fan who knew that Delta Vega was in the wrong place, it didn't spoil it for me.
What did occur to me in that moment was that there would be fans here complaining about DV being moved, and Archer being alive, and no Commodores, and the reference to a warp "core", and the Enterprise being built in Iowa, and no ship-specific insignia, and some who thought Robau's uniform was too Enterprise like and some who thought it wasn't Cage enough, and hell the Enterprise has grown and warp beaming and beaming from Saturn and what about the Temporal prime directive and surely we've never heard of red matter and
well, generally, The Onion got it spot on, didn't they ?
There is a lesson in this film - it's time to get some swagger back.
After eight years or so, I'm off.
Bye, all.
|May 9 2009, 12:25 PM
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|May 9 2009, 12:33 PM
Location: London, England
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I left the cinema yesterday afternoon not knowing whether or not I liked or truly despised this movie. However, my main feeling as I walked out was that it simply didn't feel like Star Trek, and that worried my greatly. I've been a fan for over 30 years, since early childhood, and to not have the feeling for the first time ever was very disappointing. However, I'll deal with that at the end of my review.
I think the best way to summarise my feelings about the picture would be to list the good and the bad:-
- The special effects were stunning, particularly the opening battle. There can be no question about that.
- I warmed quite quickly to the exterior of the new Enterprise – at least when shown at a distance anyhow.
- I liked some little touches in the movie, such as how the Kelvin's communicators looked like the old TOS ones, Scotty's tribble (complete with the correct trilling), Kirk's apple and Majel's voice on the ship computer.
- As a general action movie there was enough in it to keep the pace chugging along throughout without moments of boredom.
- The main Starfleet uniforms were great. AT a distance they looking just like TOS uniforms. I also got a kick out of the similarities between Pike's admiral's uniform and Kirk's TMP version.
- I liked the Nero character, even if he got little to do. I would have liked to see more of him and learn more.
- I liked the fact that Nero's ship interior was relatively consistent with the look of the Scimitar from Nemesis. It made me believe that the ship originated from the same sort of grudgey, lower class mining background that Shinzon did, thus I could accept that Nero was from the post-Nemesis era.
- Nimoy!! What can you say. I was overjoyed to see him on screen again. Some people posting reviews have suggested that he was out of character in his scenes. I disagree. In fact I felt that this was the closest we had seen to the Spock I remember since Star Trek V. Nimoy seemed to go through a phase of having Spock be extremely grumpy in TUC and Unification and it was refreshing to see a return to the character I properly remember from the golden days of Trek. Hats off to Leonard to still pull it off. He easily acts Quinto off the screen, but then I feel a bit sorry for Quinto having to play alongside the original, unlike his cast mates, especially Leonard as of all the characters I'd say that Spock is probably the one most unique to the original actor. Nimoy just has something about him, and almost alien quality that inhabits the character that, quite simply, only he can do.
- A great score. Top notch, although I would have like to hear the fanfare earlier on, but I understand why it came at the end.
- Khan style eels! Great stuff.
- Not exactly part of "the good" per se, but a lot of people moaned about Spock & Uhura's lovebird act. Have to say I had no problem with it keeping in mind that these are alternate versions of the characters. In fact that only thing I was curious about was how it came to be as otherwise there wasn't much point it in being present.
- Recasting. Now, I promised myself well in advance that I had gotten past the recasting of iconic roles, helped in part by Nimoy's endorsement and, more importantly, the alternate universe which allowed me to treat them as different characters. But despite the throw away line about alternate realities it was clear to me that the movie was trying to remind me on a regular basis that I was supposed to be watching Kirk Spock and McCoy and I was supposed to accept the youngsters, many of whom are younger than me (not that I should let that prejudice me), were the same iconic characters that I had grown up with over 30 years. For me, I just couldn't do it. Maybe I am like Kirk in TUC, I'm struggling to get past my prejudices and move on, but for me the original characters are more than a few episodes and movies, they have been friends to go to when times were bad. Friends who allowed me some escapism. Friends who taught me about morality and difficult questions in life. The people that brought those characters to like are those characters. A character is more than what is written on a script page, it is also part of the living breathing person that plays him or her. For instance, Karl Urban did indeed give one of the best performances in the movie. But I just couldn't believe it was McCoy, all I could believe was that it was a young Starfleet officer doing an impression of McCoy.The same for the others, all good actors, especially the wonderful Simon Pegg, but I just couldn't help wanting to see my beloved personalities of old. I think it will take me a long time to get beyond that, if I ever do.
- The set designs. The Kelvin was ok and I could believe it was pre-TOS. However, I despised other sets, most significantly the Enterprise interiors. Abrams has spoken about his desire to do what Dick Donner did on Superman: The Movie, have the believability factor to what was on screen. Versimilitude Donner called it. Well here Abrams makes a fatal mistake. We aren't just talking about a superhero in a costume, with everything else looking like 20th Century Earth, we are talking about how society will look over 200 years from now. In that respect I cannot accept that the Enterprise needs manual handles to go to warp and an absurd looking engine room that looks like the lower decks of a World War II submarine. Aside from a few trendy touchscreens thrown in, everything else on the Enterprise looked years behind the TOS version, and even looked less advanced than the NX-01, which was are to believe still existed as we know it in this reality. Not convinced in the slightest and Abrams better think carefully about this one for the sequel. It's absurd that will such a budget that couldn't create something truly futuristic looking, especially since they had gone to all that trouble of making the exterior of the ship more advanced than its sixties counterpart.
- Plot explanations. I thanked god I had read Countdown because without that the plot of the movie seemed very silly. A Romulan comes after Spock because his homeworld was blown up and he somehow blames Spock for not sorting it out in time, all of which we find out in a couple minutes. Great. That's it? So basically we are to empathise with Nero and understand his plight? Do me a favour. I couldn't feel for him after such a small and thrown away explanation and saw the character as nothing more than Bana playing a crazy. I would have loved to have seen more. With that the soul was totally ripped out of the movie for me and Nero was just another bad guy of the week. Ironically the one thing I didn't have much of a problem with was Nimoy being on Delta Vega at the right moment. With the other plot holes, this coincidence didn't really matter to me.
- Lens flares and shakey cam. I had read complaints about this but went into the movie open minded. I had no problem with it during the Kelvin scenes, but by the time the movie was half way through it began to annoy me. I'm a greater hater of shakey cam out of the two, and I am terribly frustrated that Hollywood directors think that the audience want to see these tired camera tricks all the time. This moviegoer doesn't and I'm tired of seeing this in every action film I see these days. One of the redeeming features of Indy 4 was that Spielberg shot the movie old style, without shakey cam, and so despite its flaws I find Crystal Skull a lot easier to watch than movies like Iron Man. I like to see what is happening, not get a headache. But then I guess Abrams was just trying to be one of the cool kids.
- Kids in charge of the Enterprise. Talked about many times so I won't go into detail, but from cadet to Captain? And for that matter the whole crew (sans Spock & Scotty) from cadets to senior officers? Utterly, utterly stupid.
- Ben Cross as Sarek. Bloody awful. I wish Mark Lenard was still around.
- Product placement. No, no, no, no. No room for that in Star Trek JJ. What a cheap shot.
Despite the recasting and the items under my "bad" list, none of what I mentioned above was enough to make me hate the movie. I could stomach them and suspend disbelief to allow me to watch the movie as "just another movie" and take enjoyment out of it and be entertained. In that respect is was a rip-roaring space action adventure and I would recommend it to any non-fan who likes action films. I can understand why it has gotten rave reviews from non-fans and newer fans alike. It will generate a good return, new fans and a sequel. Paramount have gotten what they wanted.
However, here lies the real problem I have with the movie, which is a serious complaint directed at the new "supreme court". Abrams and his cohorts, including Nimoy himself, tell us Star Trek is about the characters. A lot of fans have bought into this when seeing the new movie and think that if there is a good arc for Kirk & Spock then that's all that's need. I respectfully disagree with this on every level. Star Trek was never about the characters, it was about the human experience, as told through the characters. This is the fundamental mistake with movie. It's something that people like Ron Moore and, dare I say it, Berman understood about what Roddenberry was trying to do, but Abrams seems clueless in this regard. There was no exploration of humanity in this movie and no hint of a morality play. For this fan, that's just not good enough. I was never a fan of Star Trek because I liked to see ship battles or fancy devices. It was about, for me, the social issues it made me think about. It was the thing about Star Trek that set it apart from things like Star Wars. It had greater depth, more intelligence and more morality than the other things out there. Majel is alleged to have said that Gene would have approved of the new movie, while I hope that he would have I feel that this is doubtful. If you go way back to "The Cage" it is clear what Gene wanted from the show. He wanted to make the audience think. Abrams Trek does not do that. For that reason I felt incredibly let down when I left the cinema. It felt like my intelligent Star Trek had died years earlier and had been replaced by yet another big budget Hollywood action movie for the crowds of lower intelligence out there that has simply had the Star Trek name slapped on it. Well, that's what sells these days so I understand it. But I am just deeply upset that the market has turned this way and ripped the heart, or more importantly, the brain, out of my beloved Star Trek.
You see without the intelligence Star Trek is just like everything else....and nothing else has lasted this long as a result. I don't see why people can't see that. This movie will generate a couple sequels of big action. Paramount will make short term money on its reboot. But it will die out much sooner than the original did, because this nuTrek is far more a product of its time than TOS ever was and simply doesn't have elements to withstand changes attitudes over the years.
Abrams has a chance to recapture this old fan with the inevitable sequel. He just needs to explore the human experience again – and there is no reason why this cannot go hand in hand with a big budget action film. I implore him to do it as then he really will have done justice to the Roddenberry legacy.
|May 9 2009, 01:01 PM
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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Hey, the movie made me think, it made me think of how bad Star Trek has been since 1991. Star Trek in the TNG plus days became self important, irrelevant, and then boring as all hell. Some of the fanbase became that way as well.
Star Trek is fun and exciting again.
"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."-Shania
|May 9 2009, 01:08 PM
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The plot was hackneyed, illogical and really just a retread (to varying degrees) of the last three TNG movies. Yet there was an audacity (they destroyed Vulcan!) and verve to the writing that has been missing from Trek since the days of DS9. And, if the film's makers are honest and faithful to their work, Star Trek will have repercussions that will last well beyond the end credits (and no, I'm not talking about canon).
Characterisations were understandably broad and flimsy, but their portrayals were warmer and much more relatable than Trek characters have been for a very long time. Pine, Quinto, Urban, Saldana and Cho turned in performances that recalled the characters' original actors while offering something new and inviting. Surprisingly, Ryder as Amanda was lovely while Nimoy admirably anchors and gives the film some dramatic heft.
In stark contrast, Cross didn't have the presence necessary as Sarek and disappeared into the background far too easily, while Pegg and Yelchin's performances were little more than Brady Bunch Movie-style caricature.
Sadly, Bana was criminally wasted. Rarely on screen, Nero joins a long list of Trek villains who are little more than plot devices (he was, let's face it, Soren with pointy ears). Bana deserved so much more.
Of course, being Trek there was an unforgivable technobabble cheat that would have made the creators of Voyager proud. Why have his human lover and Vulcan father on Enterprise (following the annihilation of his homeworld and death of his mother no less) when some technobabble hand waving from Scotty can excuse a Spock unravelling under the weight of sorrow and anger from having to acknowledge, account and face any consequences for abandoning Kirk (rather maliciously I might add) on a giant ice cube. It seems the influence of nuBSG was limited to space battles ...
Speaking of which, I really don't understand the point of spending so much money on space battles when they're edited in such a way as to be almost impossible to follow.
Ultimately though, perhaps the best thing about this movie and what saves it from its failings is that it reminded me again of the potential of Trek. Once more, the possibilities are endless, I just hope the filmmakers boldly seek out and explore them.
|May 9 2009, 01:09 PM
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Location: Star's End
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It could use improvement for a possible sequel but still it wasn't a big WTF as I initially thought.
|May 9 2009, 01:12 PM
Location: New Paltz, NY
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|May 9 2009, 01:21 PM
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I really liked this post, it made me smile and i think this person definently knows how to prioritise and adapt and the clean decision is reminiscent of Kirk himself. Even Mr Roddenberry warned us about submerging ourselves into self-imposed dogma and being closed-minded to reimaginings.
|May 9 2009, 01:32 PM
Location: second star to the right...
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Yes, the story was contrived and far-fetched, but it served the purpose of establishing the new continuity. Finally I can actually care and worry about trek characters again. Voyager and Enterprise established the big red reset button so well that you knew in the end it wouldn't matter anyway.
Visually...well, Trek has never looked that good on the silver screen. Beautiful work on ILMs part. The opening shot on the Kelvin is just pure dead brilliant, and no ship or explosion looked fakey to me. Even that big lobster (shrimp creole, anyone ?) looked better than I expected. And seriously, when was the last time we really had a monster of some sort on Star Trek. The Mugatu ? Great one, loved it.
Contradictions in regard to the original series or established canon didn't bother me at all, because the places were the writers bent canon rules a little bit it served a good purpose : To tell an interesting story.
I also really liked the fact that the "general audience", the "casaul moviegoers", really not only liked the film, but really got into it, they were in for the ride. So, to all the hundreds of people involved in bringin Star Trek back again : Mission accomplished !
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Up until the sudden silence in the wake of Joe McGinniss' "The Rogue, Sarah Palin had been recently making charges against the Obama Administration's so-called "crony capitalism." I doubt whether she could define exactly what she meant but cronyism is, according our good friend Wikipedia, " a partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications."
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It's fresh and clear, and on a twin-screen setup in a living space it'll look great. I'm looking forward to ditching the desktop metaphor. Quite frankly, it's a dumping ground for files I'm working on and shortcuts that I never use. Active tiles are a much better use of screen real estate.
I love the new design. Simple, clean and my eyes don't have to look for stupid over detailed icons that start to all look alike. Hopefully the user can change colors and sizes of these blocks for their own taste. I've worked with computers for decades and I know people will do the stupidest things over and over again only because they are used to it. So trying to change people who use technology will cause a negative reaction even when it is better. People become loyal to brands not necessarily to better function.
I'm sorry, but I'm not impressed. Basically this new design is Dumbed Down, Ugly, and Loud. This is not elegant, it's juvenile and sterile.
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The ladies of Ballyshannon Rugby Club were celebrating late on Saturday night after returning home from Enniskillen with the spoils after defeating Cavan in the final.
Playing in difficult conditions under lights, the 'Shannon girls made light of the conditions and although they were holding on a little at the end, they were always in front and the 13-10 winning margin was just about correct.
Tries from Siobhan Coughlan and a spectacular run from Maeve Liston in the second period were enough. But in the end the first score, a penalty by Danika Doherty that scraped the crossbar on the way over was the deciding factor as Cavan twice hit back in the second half with tries.
There was great rejoicing at the end with Alice Bowering's dog joining in the celebrations when captain Michelle was making her victory speech.
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