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As part of product research and development, these biomarkers can be used to identify promising candidates in terms of predicted effectiveness or safety profiles, and these markers may be accepted as surrogate endpoints to allow for more rapid product approvals. In clinical practice, these biomarkers may be developed as diagnostic tests to help: (1) identify patients with a particular disorder or condition (diagnosis), (2) distinguish patients who are likely to benefit from treatment from those who are unlikely to benefit (treatment prediction), (3) identify patients who may be likely to experience serious adverse events (toxicity), (4) monitor therapy on an ongoing basis (safety and effectiveness), and (5) determine dosing.
As diagnostic tools, biomarkers can be developed for clinical use as in vitro tests, imaging procedures, or as other diagnostic modalities. Many novel biomarkers are being developed as "companion diagnostics" tied to specific therapies, with the regulatory clearance or approval of the biomarker combined with the clearance or approval of the therapeutic, and the intended use of the biomarker explained in the labeling for the product. Others are being developed as stand-alone diagnostics not tied to a specific therapeutic product. When developed in combination with the therapeutic, the scientific evidence required to support the approval of the biomarker and the timeline to approval are tied to the requirements and timeline of the therapeutic. However, when the biomarker is developed as a stand-alone diagnostic, the regulatory requirements and timelines are less clear. In addition, whether developed as a companion or as a stand alone, important questions about how these tests will be paid for must be considered. In the sections below, we discuss some of these issues in the context of biomarkers being developed and used as clinical laboratory tests.CURRENT REGULATORY PATHWAYS FOR BIOMARKER CLINICAL LABORATORY TESTS
Diagnostic tests involving the examination of human specimens for providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or the assessment of health are clinical laboratory tests that lawfully may be performed only by certified clinical laboratories (unless they have been cleared for use by patients in their homes). Clinical laboratories must be certified to perform testing under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and are generally required to be licensed by individual states as well. Clinical laboratories certified under CLIA and licensed under state law must meet prescribed standards governing personnel, quality systems, and proficiency and must undergo periodic inspections to assess compliance with these standards. Some laboratories are inspected by private accreditation organizations, such as the College of American Pathologists (CAP) or the Joint Commission, whose standards are more rigorous than those specified by the CLIA program.
Clinical laboratories can follow one or both of two pathways in developing and offering novel biomarker diagnostic tests: (1) the laboratory can develop a test for its own use in testing specimens sent to the laboratory (laboratory-developed tests or LDTs) or (2) the laboratory can perform a test using a test kit cleared or approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Diagnostic tests that are developed as kits by manufacturers and shipped to laboratories for performing tests clearly fit under the definition of a medical device under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). Similarly, reagents, equipment, and supplies used by laboratories to perform diagnostic tests generally fit under the definition of medical devices. As medical devices, these test kits or components are subject to FDA clearance or approval based on an assessment of the novelty and risk involved.
Manufacturers of the lowest-risk test kits or components generally must comply with limited regulatory requirements under the FFDCA, such as registration of the establishment with the FDA, listing of the test kit or component, maintaining complaint records, and reporting adverse events to the FDA. Compliance with the FDA's quality system regulations may be required as well.


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Mash, MASH, or M*A*S*H may refer to:
- M*A*S*H, a media franchise based on the Richard Hooker novel
- MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker, published in 1968
- MASH (film), 1970
- M*A*S*H (TV series), 1972–1983
- M*A*S*H (novels)
- MASH, a working title for the 1953 film Battle Circus (film)
- MASH (game), a childhood fortune-telling game
- Lloyd Mash (born 1981), Australian cricketer
- Deborah Mash, American neurology professor
- MASH-1, a cryptographic hash algorithm
- MASH-2, an upgrade to the above
- MASH (modulator), Multi-stage noise shaping
- Yahoo! Mash, a social networking site
- MASH, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware, criteria for crash testing safety devices for highways
- Mash (restaurant chain), a chain of steakhouses
- Mash, a minor Biblical figure in the book of Genesis
- Mash, an abbreviation for Mashramani, a Guyanese festival
- Mash, an English colloquialism for mashed potatoes
- Mashable, a Scottish-American news website and Internet news blog
- Mash ingredients, ingredients used to produce a mash for the production of alcoholic beverages
- Mash (beer), used to produce beer and whisky
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The Town of Gorham Republican Committee is sponsoring a meet-and-greet event to introduce its candidates for the November election at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Crystal Beach Volunteer Fire Department's firehouse at 4468 Route 364.
The candidates include Fred Lightfoote for supervisor, Darby Perrotte for town clerk, William Glitch and Richard Malcolm for councilmen, Susan Yarger for tax collector and Kelly Ayers for highway superintendent.
There will be refreshments and a drawing.
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Health & Balance
Hormones for Your Head
Balancing What's There
It's not just losses in natural hormones that can create problems. When the balance of your hormones is out of whack, helping restore this balance can go a long way toward restoring mental health.
For example, feelings of depression or anxiety may be one of the first signs that your thyroid (a gland in your neck that produces a hormone crucial for growth, development, and everyday function) is not working properly. An overactive thyroid can lead to anxiety and panic attacks, while an underactive thyroid can make you depressed. In fact, very minor reductions in thyroid hormone that don't have any important effect on your physical health may make you depressed. Taking medication that regulates your thyroid can eliminate these problems.
Hormones can also temporarily fall out of balance during certain points of a woman's menstrual cycle as well as right after having a baby. During both these times, women may suffer from depression and other mental health problems. Antidepressants have proven useful during these temporary bouts of the blues, but upcoming hormone therapies are showing promise and target the problem more directly.
Intriguing Possibilities
Probably what's most exciting is the potential role for hormone therapies in mental conditions not usually associated with hormone imbalances. The fact that hormone therapies work for some of these problems suggests that there is an as-yet-unknown role for hormones in other mental or emotional problems.
For addictions to alcohol, drugs, gambling, or even food, it might be possible to block pleasure hormones that reward these behaviors. This strategy might make it easier for people to quit.
Hormone treatments might also help anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Here, so-called 'stress' hormones are the targets of treatment. These hormones are released when the body is under physical or emotional duress such as as physical illness or a fight with your spouse.
At the ISPNE conference, Michael Kellner, MD, presented results of his research with a hormone called ANP (for atrial natriuretic peptide). ANP is produced naturally by the body during a panic attack.
'It's a strange phenomenon that during a panic attack you do not have any activation of stress hormones,' says Kellner. 'Nobody knows why panic attacks last only a couple of minutes and then subside spontaneously.'


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Plan Offers Hedge on 'Strategic' Default
Today's Journal takes a look at Howard "Howie" Hubler, the former mortgage trader who was blamed for a big Wall Street loss three years ago. Now, he's launched a start-up that is making a new bet on housing.
While his company, Loan Value Group, doesn't own or buy mortgages, the company has come up with a way for banks to guard against the risk that more homeowners will voluntarily walk away from homes that are worth far less than the amount they owe.
As concerns about these so-called "strategic" defaults mount, more mortgage investors and lenders could begin to sign up for the company's product. Called the "Responsible Homeowner Reward," it essentially pays borrowers a small amount of money in exchange for staying current on their loan.
Here's how the program works: when an investor signs up, they decide how to structure and size a "reward" for the borrower. As long as borrowers make their loan payments, their reward will grow up to a certain amount. Usually, the reward, which could average 10% of the loan balance, can only be claimed when the loan is paid off.
While the size of the reward probably won't give borrowers positive equity, it's designed to change their attitude towards paying an underwater loan: it gives them something to lose (besides the underwater house).
Loan Value Group is trying to take aim at one of the biggest unresolved problems in housing: Nearly 23% of all homeowners with a mortgage, or around 11 million borrowers, are underwater. The company is betting that more homeowners in hard-hit markets will begin to reconsider whether it makes sense to pay the mortgage—and that banks are going to take action to guard against that risk.
That worry is becoming more widespread. Earlier this summer, Fannie Mae took steps to warn of stiffer penalties against borrowers who walk away. And the federal government last week rolled out a program designed to help refinance underwater homeowners that are current on their loans into smaller mortgages.
So far, three hedge funds have signed up to use the "Responsible Homeowner Reward" product, and two of those firms have expanded their use of the product beyond their initial round. Loan Value says it has offered nearly $90 million in rewards on loans on behalf of participating mortgage investors.
"The cost of doing it is significantly less than the cost of a few defaults," said one distressed loan investor that began using the product on performing loans earlier this year.
It's still an open question whether Loan Value Group will have the kind of uptake that the company is hoping for. "In our experience, giving people cash incentives to do the right thing doesn't really play out as powerfully as the incentive of a principal adjustment, if they agree to a new payment and make it," says Daniel Alpert, managing director at Westwood Capital, which buys distressed loans.
But Loan Value Group sees an opportunity because many investors are reluctant to take that drastic step and write down loan balances, especially for borrowers that are current on their loans. Principal reduction is expensive and can be tricky to implement.
The program is trying to work around hurdles that have stymied loan modification programs so far. Many investors don't want to write down loan balances if there's a second mortgage on the property, because they believe the second-lien holder should have to take the hit. The reward can help get around that problem.
Moreover, Loan Value Group deals directly with borrowers, who are contacted by company representatives, on behalf of mortgage owners, bypassing the overwhelmed servicers that traditionally handle modifications. Company officials say that means they can apply their product quickly—within 48 hours—rather than the weeks or months that can be involved in finalizing a normal modification.
The program is paid for by whoever owns the loan. Borrowers pay nothing if they're selected to use the program, and participation doesn't affect credit scores. The company's pitch to investors is that they can apply the reward while skirting accounting rules that would normally require a modified mortgage to be written down. Rewards can also be applied on top of loans that have been modified.
The government hasn't had a great track record modifying loans—do private sector solutions like these hold more promise?
Follow Nick on Twitter for more housing and mortgages news: @NickTimiraos


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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basel mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
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The magic words are squeamish ossifrage.
[This sentence is the result when a coded message in Martin Gardner's column about factoring the famous number RSA-129 is decoded.]
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Acouple and their two basset hounds who became lost on Page Mountain outside Cave Junction were rescued Friday night, police said.
The Josephine County Sheriff's Office was notified of the lost couple and their dogs after they did not return from a snowshoeing trip, police said.
A search-and-rescue team deployed with snow vehicles and ATVs and found the couple just after midnight.
The couple was cold and damp, but declined medical assistance.
They were transported to the parking lot of the Page Mountain Sno-park and then given a ride home, police said. The sno-park is located 10 miles east of U.S. Highway 199 on Happy Camp Road in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest.
The couple had intended be out for only a couple of hours, so they had taken only water and a couple of lighters with them. While snowshoeing, they missed a marker and went down an unmarked Forest Service road. They traveled approximately six miles on Forest Service roads in both Oregon and California before the rescue team found them.
The temperature at the time of the search was 20 degrees.
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'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.'I don't much care where - ' said Alice.'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.' - so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.'
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Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Pages: Chapter 6
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Forms of payment
Seattle Central accepts the following forms of payment for tuition and fees:
1/ Credit card online
Students can pay for classes online using a credit card (Visa, MasterCard or Discover), after they have officially registered for classes. To make a payment by credit card online, visit our webpage and follow the instructions. Note that the cost of insurance is included when students pay online.
2/ In person at the Cashier's Office
In person tuition payments can be made at the Seattle Central Cashier's Office, only after being officially registered for classes. The following forms of payment are accepted:
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- Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard or Discover)
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Wire Transfers
Seattle Central accepts tuition and fees deposits by wire transfer only for new students enrolling for their first quarter. As a current student, you should not wire funds directly to Seattle Central. Funds should be sent directly to your personal bank account, and you should pay directly to the college by one of the methods mentioned above.
Seattle Central does not provide invoices for tuition. A statement of tuition and fees due is available online, and is noted on the copy of your printed schedule.
Refund Policies
- Seattle Central Institute of English
Withdrawal from class prior to the first day of class =100% refund
Withdrawal from class within first five calendar days = 80% refund
Withdrawal from class within sixth - fourteenth calendar days = 50% refund
Withdrawal from class after fourteenth calendar day = 0 (no refund)
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Withdrawal from classes due to cancellation by the college = 100% refund
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Withdraw from classes within eighth - twentieth calendar days = 50% refund
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Prague Castle Buildings (Interiors): April-October: Daily 09:00-17:00November-March: Daily 09:00-16:00
Prague Castle Gardens:April & October: Daily 10:00-18:00May & September: Daily 10:00-19:00June-July: Daily 10:00-21:00August: Daily 10:00-20:00
Changing of the Guard:April-October: Hourly, on the hour 07:00-20:00November-March: Hourly, on the hour 07:00-18:00The midday ceremony includes a fanfare & banner exchange.
Prague Castle (Praský hrad) is located in the Castle District (Hradčany), which is above the Lesser Town (Malá Strana).
The Prague Castle complex covers over 7 hectares (18 acres) and is centred around three great courtyards. The dominant building within the complex, and the most recognisable landmark in the city, is St. Vitus Cathedral. To some visitors St. Vitus is Prague Castle, but it is only the start.
Destructive wars and fires (and the subsequent renovations), along with differing political forces, have resulted in an intriguing mix of palaces, churches, great halls, state apartments, a monastery, viewing towers, fortifications, museums, art galleries, and finally Golden Lane.
Visitors can wander around the courtyards of Prague Castle for free, but to enter the historic buildings and to gain a true understanding of the history and significance of it all, we recommend visiting the castle as part of a guided tour. Self-guided tickets can also be purchased.
Alternatively, book a ticket for a classical concert in one of the historic buildings.
How to Visit Prague Castle:
1. Prague Castle Guided Tour:For an in-depth guided tour of the castle, including admission to the major buildings, consider the Prague Castle Tour. Includes pick up from your hotel and transportation up to the castle.
2. Prague Guided Tours:All our Prague Tours include a visit to Prague Castle in their itinerary. This involves a guided walk through the castle complex and entrance to St. Vitus Cathedral.All tours include transport up to the castle.Some tours include pick up from your hotel:Prague Grand City Sightseeing TourPrague Grand City Sightseeing Tour & BoatBest of Prague Walking TourPrague All Inclusive Walking Tour & BoatPrague Intro Sightseeing TourPrague Castle by Night Walking Tour.
3. Self-guided ticket:Purchase a self-guided ticket at Prague Castle on the day of your visit. Arrive early to avoid the queues. Tickets cost 350czk for all areas, 250czk for selected areas.
4. Classical Concerts at Prague Castle:Classical concerts are a popular way to experience the grandeur of Prague Castle. Two historic buildings hold regular concerts:
Lunchtime concerts are held daily at Lobkowicz Palace.Early evening concerts are held several times a week at St. George's Basilica.
For listings and to book tickets for classical concerts at Prague Castle: Prague concerts.
History of Prague Castle:
The first known building was erected on the site of Prague Castle in the 9th century. In the 12th century it was transformed into a Romanesque palace. And in the 14th century, under Charles IV, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style. A further reconstruction of the Royal Palace then took place under the Jagellons at the end of the 15th century.
A major fire in 1541 resulted in more reconstruction work. The Spanish Hall was added during the reign of Rudolf II (1552-1612). And final alterations were made by Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780).
After World War I, renovations to the castle buildings and to the Prague Castle Gardens were undertaken by the architect J. Plecnik.
Present Day at Prague Castle:
Today, Prague Castle is the official residence and office of the President of the Czech Republic. A Changing of the Guard ceremony at the front gates reflects this. It takes place on the hour every hour during the day. The midday ceremony includes a fanfare and banner exchange.


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Ubuntu for Android
Canonical announces Ubuntu for Android.
Canonical has announced Ubuntu for Android, bringing its Ubuntu desktop experience to multicore Android smartphones docked with a keyboard and monitor. According to the announcement, users can have Android and Ubuntu running simultaneously on the same device, with seamless sharing of contacts, messages, and other common services.
All data and services are shared between the Ubuntu and Android environments, so Android applications such as contacts, telephony, and SMS/MMS messaging are accessible from the Ubuntu interface. And, all data on the smartphone can be accessed at any time, whether the device is docked or not. The desktop can also include Windows applications, using thin client and desktop virtualization tools.
According to the announcement, the customized version of Ubuntu drops in cleanly alongside the rest of Android, and the necessary Android modifications are designed for easy integration. Hardware requirements include support for HDMI and USB; standard features in high-end handsets are planned for late 2012.
Mark Shuttleworth says, "Carry just the phone and connect it to any monitor to get a full Ubuntu desktop with all the native apps you want, running on the same device at the same time as Android. Magic. Everything important is shared across the desktop and the phone in real time." For more information, see Mark Shuttleworth's blog or the Ubuntu website.
Issue 190/2016
Buy this issue as a PDF
LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from a "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
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China Food and Beverage Industry Newsletter
- August 2016
- Region: China
- China Market Research
This is an industrial newsletter covering the Food and Beverage market inside China.
These newsletters are monitored and translated by our industrial specialist from various Chinese industrial newspapers and magazines. These industrial newsletters give readers a general view of the development trends of a certain industry. The newsletters, which are being renewed each month, are subscribed on a yearly basis.
Sample of Table of Contents 2012
NZ trade minister heads delegation to China 2012-03-17
China mulls plan to boost wine industry 2012-03-16
China cracking down on illegal food additives 2012-03-16
Dextrin in baby food safe: authority 2012-03-14
Corn and wheat rise on Chinese demand, soybeans fall 2012-03-13
CPI growth in Feb, a 20-month slow 2012-03-12
China should mind grain production 2012-03-10
Coca Cola to lower 4-MI amid cancer concerns 2012-03-09
Food companies show appetite for growth through overseas M&A 2012-03-08
Cloning gives birth to lifetime of success in dairy business 2012-03-08
Bright Food forecasts continued growth 2012-03-07
China joins coffee club 2012-03-07
Wahaha eyes Australian dairy farm investment 2012-03-06
Moutai aims to be world's top liquor 2012-03-06
Milk price hikes leave many feeling sour 2012-03-02
Tetra Pak to increase production capacity 2012-02-28
China to reinforce quality supervision 2012-02-27
Ireland the 'Hong Kong of Europe' 2012-02-21
Ireland relying on agri-food exports 2012-02-17
Chinese enterprises encouraged to invest in US Midwest 2012-02-17
China becomes biggest source of imports for New Zealand 2012-02-16
VC, PE firms show appetite to build up food industry 2012-02-14
China ranks 5th of wine market 2012-02-14
China brewers eye HK Kingway's beer assets 2012-02-13
China to upgrade food safety risk monitoring 2012-02-10
China issues infant formula regulation 2012-02-04
Moutai's status provides a headache 2012-02-04
Chinese wine investors worry as rare vintages drop in value 2012-02-03
Concerns grow over safety of food imports 2012-02-01
Price hikes brewing for Starbucks drinkers 2012-02-01
NZ govt OKs Chinese firm's bid to buy dairy farms 2012-01-27
Emerging markets drive record exports for NZ dairy giant 2012-01-19


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Woodward at Copper Wednesday: Red and Wes Ride the Parks
These guys are two of the youngest bosses on hill. From Woodward at Copper, "Red Gerard and Wes Muresan tear up the parks in this week's Woodward Wednesday! All you Groms (ages 8-12), make sure you sign up for Session #7 this summer. Summer Camp is going to be a blast this year!"Read More


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Nadal a perfect foil for Federer in duel (Houston Chronicle)
No. 1 player's lone nemesis wins 2nd French title
For a moment, the boy in Rafael Nadal blinked. There was a brief quiver, a rare hint of vulnerability.
Well, imagine that. It was the French Open final, and he was trying to close out Roger Federer, who some believe is the best who ever wielded a tennis racket. Later, having survived the shaky interlude and gone on to earn — earn — his second French title, Nadal, too, would humbly pronounce Federer the greatest. But with a caveat.
"Just not here," he added, eliciting a mix of whoops and gasps from the sunburned Roland Garros crowd of more than 15,000.
But "just not here" is exactly right. Fact are facts. Federer may rule most of the planet, from Melbourne to Wimbledon to Flushing Meadow, but even his feet can turn to clay on the terre battu, particularly when he's confronted by the 20-year-old matador from the lovely Spanish island of Majorca, who won his second French Open on Sunday 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Nadal denies Federer glory (Business Day)
RAFAEL Nadal scrambled across the sun-baked clay for three hours in debilitating heat, chasing another French Open title yesterday.
The effort paid off and Nadal won 1-6 6-1 6-4 7-6 (4). He extended his record clay-court winning streak to 60 matches. The 20-year-old Spaniard also prevented the top-ranked Federer from becoming only the third man to hold all four major titles at the same time.
Federer's first loss in eight Grand Slam finals came at the only major he has yet to win and at the hands of nemesis Nadal, who also won when they met at Roland Garros last year in the semifinals. Federer fell to 0-4 against Nadal this year; he is 44-0 against everyone else.
NADAL WINS BUT HAILS FEDERER (sportinglife.com)
Two-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal revealed his admiration for Roger Federer after defeating the world number one in their much-awaited clash in Paris on Sunday.
Nadal, who has now won 60 consecutive victories on clay and still has not lost a single match in two French Opens, also prevented Federer from winning his fourth Grand Slam in a row following titles at Wimbledon, the US Open and Australia.
The 20-year-old Nadal had been claiming since the start of the fortnight that Federer was the favourite to lift the much-coveted trophy but proved himself wrong.
However, the Spaniard insisted Federer was still way ahead of him in terms of level of play and potential. "If I look at the rankings and at the difference of points between us, he is definitely the number one simply because he plays very well overall," said Nadal.
Beaten again at the French Open, Federer looks to rebound on grass (Covers, Canada)
Maybe what Roger Federer needs to beat Rafael Nadal is a change of scenery.
Bring on the grass.
The lawn tennis season begins this week - just the thing to put a little spring back in Federer`s step. He`ll start preparing for Wimbledon by playing in Halle this week after losing to Nadal in the French Open final Sunday.
It was a wrenching loss for the top-ranked Federer, who was bidding for his fourth consecutive Grand Slam championship. Instead, Nadal won his second successive French Open title by beating Federer for the fifth time in a row, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (4).
Nadal extended his record clay-court winning streak to 60 matches.
"He`s tough to beat, but he`s not impossible to beat,"Federer said. "That`s a big difference. Otherwise, we wouldn`t have to play. He can just lift the trophy on the first day."
Federer looks back on agonising loss (Zee News)
World number one Roger Federer has admitted that he let a golden opportunity to complete his grand slam collection slip through his fingers.
The 24-year-old Swiss player came close to claiming the only trophy missing from his cabinet.
Competing in his first final on the red clay of Roland Garros in Paris, the seven-time grand slam winner would have become just the third man to hold all four majors at the same time.
The Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open champion would have been the first to do so since Rod Laver in 1969.
But once again clay ace Rafael Nadal was standing in his way.
i don't like to see Roger Federer loosing but he is just a man. And I realy like him for that. I hope He will not loose confidence in himself and will play well at Wilbledon. Looking farward to that.
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I think you have to keep your eyes and ears shut to all tennis press for a while! As if you werent facing enough pressure already, they hyped up this match out of proportion, quick to anoint you the greatest ever if you won it and even quic
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LOS ANGELES — Alice Munro is the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature. The Canadian author was lauded for being "master of the short story" by Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy.
Munro, 82, is the rare author who has made a career of crafting short fiction instead of novels.


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- Democrats vs. Republicans, 1850s-1890s
- Sectional dispute over slavery led to collapse of Second Party System by 1850s
- Whig Party collapsed, largely replaced in the North by the antislavery Republican Party after 1854
- Democrats became mainly a proslavery regional party based in the South
- Republican Abraham Lincoln's victory in 1860 election led to Civil War
- Republicans mostly dominated national politics in decades after Civil War
The Democratic Party was unable to maintain its alliance of southern and western farmers once slavery became the dominant political issue in America. The party therefore split into two factions: one representing proslavery Democrats in the South and another representing antislavery Democrats in the North. In 1860, the party ran two different candidates for the presidency, each representing a different part of the country. But the Whigs were unable to exploit this division. They, too, found themselves divided over slavery, with northern and southern Whigs increasingly struggling to establish common ground. Furthermore, following the deaths of Clay and Webster, the Whigs suffered from a lack of leadership. The beneficiary of this political void was the new Republican Party, founded in 1854. It ran its first candidate for president in 1856, John C. Fremont, and elected its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.
The Republicans were defined largely by their opposition to slavery, but it would be more accurate to say that they favored "free soil." That is, they were less opposed to slavery on humanitarian or moral grounds than they were anxious to preserve America's western lands for northern-style "free soil" farming—that is, farming in which the work was done by free white settlers rather than by black slaves. Before the Civil War, most Republicans were willing to tolerate slavery in the South, but they were vehemently opposed to the expansion of slavery farther into the West. Once in power, the Republicans did end slavery everywhere in America—but this was more an effect than a cause of the Civil War. Republicans also successfully pursued several measures that promoted western agrarian expansion. For example, the Republican Congress made public lands available to squatters through the Homestead Act, and built the Transcontinental Railroad linking western farmers with markets on the east coast.
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Following a high speed pursuit and foot search on Saturday night Mesa County sheriff's officials arrest a man in connection with an attempted murder. The arrest came as a result of a follow–up investigation into the shooting of James Finnigan which happened last Wednesday near 25 Road in the desert. The pursuit which lasted for only a few minutes began and ended on Orchard Mesa when Mesa County sheriff's deputies contacted 22–year–old Cory Winkel after he left a residence that was under surveillance. According to authorities Winkel fled during the traffic stop then dumped his 1995 green Subaru Legacy near 28 Road and Monroe Court. He was apprehended about an hour later. Winkel was arrested on three outstanding warrants and is facing charges of accessory to attempted murder after the fact and vehicular eluding. The green Subaru was released and the sheriff's office has confirmed the vehicle was not used in Wednesday's shooting. Officials say the car was pulled over because one of the main suspects is believed to have recently been in the vehicle. The suspects in the shooting
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SIKESTON - Severe winds whipped through Southeast Missouri Tuesday afternoon leaving a trail of damage and debris. However, forecasters are predicting more bad weather may be on the way.
Several accidents were reported on Interstate 55 related to the storm.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that around 4:25 p.m. on Interstate 55, five miles north of Miner, a southbound semi driven by Roger D. Pritchett, 50, of Kennett was overturned by strong winds and came to rest in the median.
Pritchett was transported by ambulance to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where he was treated for minor injuries.
Another incident occurred around 4:15 p.m. on Interstate 55, three miles south of Hayti. The northbound tractor trailer driven by Bobby L. Jones, 51, of Greensboro, N.C., overturned due to the high winds.
Jones was transported by ambulance to Pemiscot County Memorial, where he was treated for minor injuries.
Keith Gentry, maintenance superintendent for Missouri Department of Transportation, said he saw three campers and four tractor-trailers sidelined by high winds.
"They'd come out from behind trees or a hill and that wind would catch them off guard and blow them over," he said.
At one time, traffic on northbound I-55 was detoured at exit 80 at Benton in Scott County while southbound I-55 was also detoured at exit 40 at Marston in New Madrid County.
Additional accidents were reported along I-55 near exit 67 at Miner to Interstate 57 that slowed traffic while the area was cleared.
Pea-sized hail and power outages were reported in Jackson and power went out to more than 1,600 homes in Cape Girardeau. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning at 4:13 p.m. after receiving reports of a funnel cloud near Gordonville.
In East Prairie, about three-quarters of the town remained without power as of press time this morning. According to a dispatcher at the police department, the southeast side of town had power restored just after midnight. As a result of the outages, school there was canceled today.
A trailer at Morley was demolished by the winds and power poles just south of Sikeson were broken during the storm.
Between 4 and 8 p.m. Tuesday, temperatures in Southeast Missouri dropped by 38 degrees, according to National Weather Service records. Meteorologists predicted winds gusting up to 70 mph until at least midnight Tuesday and forecast snow and ice Thursday.
''This is going to be a hard, vicious slap in the face from Mother Nature,'' Gino Izzi, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville, Ill., said Tuesday night. ''The temperature drop we saw was really spectacular in a bad way.''
High winds associated with thunderstorms may have killed two people in Indiana, authorities said Tuesday. Snow forced the closure of schools and highways in many areas, and avalanche warnings were issued for some Western regions.
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In less than a month, Brazil will auction a huge offshore oil field that the country's government hopes will allow for a similarly large injection of cash into its sluggish economy.
The Libra prospect is estimated to hold between eight billion and 12 billion barrels of recoverable crude oil, which, if confirmed, would make it the largest deepwater oil field ever discovered. The Brazilian government's oil regulator, the ANP, has estimated that as much as $200 billion will have to be invested to develop Libra over the contract's 35-year period.
Alas for the Brasilia coffers, some of the major global producers are sitting this one out. ExxonMobil, BP and Chevron have demurred, a move that reflects both the changing landscape of the oil business and concerns over Brazil's state-dominated strategy for developing Libra.
New prospects offshore Africa, and onshore North America, offer more attractive returns than a project that, as the Financial Times reports, will only offer break-even on a 10% discounted cash flow basis in 16 years.
Also, the rules for the Libra field call for an upfront fee of $7 billion, a dominant role for Brazil's state-owned oil firm Petrobras and that equipment is bought locally. Potential bidders for Libra may have an eye on what happens to a publicly traded Brazilian oil firm operating in the vicinity of big new Brazilian oil finds.
As a result, the venture is more attractive to big state-oil companies such as China's Cnooc, which are focused on staking claims to barrels of reserves rather than turning big profits.
Thus the list of potential bidders for Libra is dominated by Asian state-run companies, including Cnooc and Sinopec.
For a country that likes to keep a state hand in the oil business, this prospect has the Brazilian authorities shaken. As a consequence, Chinese state-controlled oil companies will be limited to joint bids, The Wall Street Journal's Jeff Fick reports.
Given that Brazilian officials made a point of traveling to China to whip up interest in the Libra auction, this looks like a case of wanting to have their bolo and eat it.
Russia has charged Greenpeace activists with piracy after the recent dramatic stand-off in the Arctic.
Greenpeace is outraged, calls the charges extreme and disproportionate and says this is the gravest assault on its activities since the Rainbow Warrior was scuttled by the French military.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast doubt on claims of piracy, but made it clear that he thought international law was being broken.
The environmentalist group and the Russian energy state appear to be approaching something of a state of war. This week, Greenpeace disrupted a Champions League soccer game in Switzerland by staging a dramatic protest against Gazprom, the sponsor of one of the competing teams and the operator of the Arctic rig.
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After UFC 171 wrapped up Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, fighters and partygoers hit the official UFC 171 Leather & Laces After Party at Altitude (the former Ghostbar spot) at the W Dallas hotel. Pictured: UFC featherweight fighter Chad Mendes (left) and UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman signed the UFC card at the party.
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PORTSMOUTH — A Monro Muffler Brake store is facing $221,100 in fines for "willful, repeat and serious" safety violations, including exposed electrical wires next to a toilet paper dispenser, according to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
OSHA alleges the 1801 Woodbury Ave. business was previously warned about some of the health and safety violations, including damaged ladders on site, unsanitary bathroom conditions, a lack of an eyewash station, and a failure to separate canisters of oxygen from fuel gas canisters.
According to OSHA, new violations found by the federal agency during a Nov. 27 inspection included trip hazards in the auto shop area, obstructed emergency exits, improperly stored oil and gas rags, damaged pressure gas regulators, unlabeled electrical panels, an electric cord in use with a missing ground pin, and inaccessible fire extinguishers.
"Willful and recurring violations suggest a disturbing pattern of noncompliance with safety standards that exist to protect the lives and well-being of a company's employees," said Rosemarie Ohar, OSHA's area director. "Monro Muffler Brake must correct these hazards and take effective steps to address recurring hazards at all its workplaces."
Ohar said the "exposed, energized wires" in a bathroom put workers at risk of electrocution and the company didn't correct the hazard after "knowing of its existence from in-house safety inspections."
The Portsmouth business has 15 business days to comply, to meet with OSHA's area director, or to contest the findings, Ohar said. The manager of the local Monro store referred inquiries to Monro's corporate headquarters in New York, where a spokesman said the company had no comment.
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Mastodon, Meshuggah, Deafheaven + More to Rock Bonnaroo 2014
The Bonnaroo Festival is back for 2014, providing a little something for everyone. And for those who like their rock on the harder side, there will be a few acts providing it for you.
The Bonnaroo Festival is back for 2014, providing a little something for everyone. And for those who like their rock on the harder side, there will be a few acts providing it for you.
The new Mastodon album is on its way! In fact, if the timeline drummer Brann Dailor gave us during this exclusive interview remains correct, Mastodon have officially finished recording their sixth studio album. Along with that bit of news, Dailor went deep into what fans can expect from the highly anticipated full-length and offered a lot more insight on both the band and himself.
On Thanksgiving Day, Mastodon took to their Facebook page to advertise a new t-shirt. The shirt reads 'Happy Thanksgiving' and portrays a pilgrim holding a gun to a Native American woman's head while she holds a cooked turkey on a platter. Although the shirt provides social commentary on the very real massacre of Native Americans surrounding the first celebration of Thanksgiving, Mastodon have come under fire in response to the shirt's release.
When you think Mastodon, R&B legend Stevie Wonder may not be the first performer that you would think of as an inspiration for the band, but drummer Brann Dailor tells Rolling Stone that the icon has been heavy in the band members' minds for some time now.
Nearly two years ago, Mastodon invaded London's O2 Academy to finish off a world tour. The band's sold-out performance lured in a great mass of metal fans, who erupted for the Southern metallers from beginning to end. Thankfully, those unable to attend will be able to experience the show this holiday season, as Mastodon will unveil the audio and video editions of the gig digitally on Dec. 10.
There's been a mysterious and exciting vibe revolving around the new project launched by Soulfly's Max Cavalera, the Dillinger Escape Plan's Greg Puciato, Mastodon's Troy Sanders and former Mars Volta drummer Dave Elitch. The new band has been dubbed Killer Be Killed, and the group have finally released some juicy details on their 2014 debut album.


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NEW DELHI: The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) raised a huge scare on Tuesday about a dozen popular soft drinks, including Coca Cola and Pepsi. At a press conference in the Capital, the CSE claimed that tests have shown these soft drinks to contain traces of four extremely toxic pesticides and insecticides — lindane, DDT, malathion and chlorpyrifos. Earlier, the CSE had exposed the presence of pesticides in popular brands of bottled water.
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Organisers of the flower festival are pictured with the Archbishop. L–r – Billy Markham, the Revd David Mungavin, Flo Fennell, Archbishop Michael Jackson, Peter Butler and Frank Connolly.
Stunning floral arrangements abounded in St Patrick's Church, Greystones, as part of the parish's 150th anniversary celebrations. A flower festival which took place in the church and its grounds culminated in a service of thanksgiving and praise yesterday (Sunday 20 July) to mark 150 years of worship in the parish community.
The service was attended by Archbishop Michael Jackson as well as Fr Liam Belton and Fr Denis Quinn of the Holy Rosary Church in Greystones and members of the CSSM team (who are currently in Greystones for the 118th year bringing Christian celebration to local children). A number of local public representatives and staff from St Patrick's NS and Templecarrig School were also in attendance.
The huge congregation was welcomed by the Rector, the Revd David Mungavin. He praised the hard working organiser of the flower festival, Flo Fennell, and all who helped to put the three–day event together.
Sarah Murphy gave short history of the church and parish which was created following an influx of people to Greystones when the railway line to the town was built in the 1850s and in the summer people arrived to take the sea air.
The church in Delgany struggled to accommodate the increasing numbers and the La Touche family (who also built Christ Church, Delgany) offered to build a new church in Greystones. On 19 July 1864 a service of consecration was held in the church presided over by Archbishop Chenevix Trench for which a special train was laid on from Bray.
In his sermon, Archbishop Jackson observed that the parish had decided to mark the 150th anniversary with style and colour and share the celebration with the community of Greystones.
He said that parish communities carried a tradition of witness and faith and added: "People who form parishes are already in and of the community and are in a position to reach out and to welcome, as you in this community of Greystones have done consistently and continue to do right until today. This festival bears testimony to your willingness and your witness and your welcome."
The Archbishop said that a flower festival often allowed people to see parts of their faith in imaginative ways. "It is the sustained inspiration that has brought us to this happy and colourful day. It is the work and witness of others before us that we mark and celebrate," he said.
During the service the new St Patrick's Church, Greystones, smartphone app was officially unveiled. Church in Your Pocket offers a chance to connect with God each day. Receive daily Bible readings, devotional reflections and prayer guides, as well as a special section with devotionals written just for kids.
Ken Gibson introduced the new app. He said that Church in Your Pocket could be accessed every day for a small verse, reflection or prayer for the day. He pointed out that the parish was celebrating its 150th anniversary because a community of faith grew up and the church was founded. "It's entirely appropriate that we as a community of faith would want to read God's word wherever we are," he stated.
Archbishop Jackson praised the app which he said "does not contradict the tradition; it simply gives it new shape and new voice". He hoped that parishioners commuting in and out of Dublin on the train would use the app and if asked by fellow passengers what they are reading "they might confidently say: 'Well, actually, I am praying'."
The app is available for Android or Apple phones. It can be downloaded at Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barefootinteractive.stpatricksgreystones or Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/church-in-your-pocket/id898234350?ls=1&mt=8
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A unique, entirely graphic mobile phone interface has been created by British designer Tom Hingston. The system was designed for the Æ+Y phone, made by Copenhagen-based company Æsir in collaboration with Yves Behar. The symbols – more than 50 of them – enable the phone's operating system to be universally understood.
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From Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; and Veterans Health Administration and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Disclaimer: All authors have had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. The contributors of this report have disclosed that they have no financial interest, relationship, affiliation, or other association with any organization that might represent a conflict of interest. In addition, this report does not contain any discussion of unlabeled use of commercial products or products for investigational use.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank Inna Gurewitz, MPH, for her assistance in preparing this manuscript.
Grant Support: By the CDC (grants PH00022 and HK00014) and a research contract from the Veterans Administration (contract V249P-0525; Biosurveillance SDR Project 330).
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Corresponding Author: Peter L. Elkin, MD, 212 East 95th Street, Suite 3B, New York, NY 10128.
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Elkin: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Informatics, 212 East 95th Street, Suite 3B, New York, NY 10128.
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Author Contributions: Conception and design: P.L. Elkin, D.L. Wahner-Roedler, K.R. Bailey.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: P.L. Elkin, D.A. Froehling, D.L. Wahner-Roedler, S.H. Brown, K.R. Bailey.
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Critical revision for important intellectual content: P.L. Elkin, D.A. Froehling, K.R. Bailey, S.H. Brown.
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Provision of study materials or patients: D.L. Wahner-Roedler.
Statistical expertise: K.R. Bailey.
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Background: An effective national biosurveillance system expedites outbreak recognition and facilitates response coordination at the federal, state, and local levels. The BioSense system, used at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, incorporates chief complaints but not data from the whole encounter note into its surveillance algorithms.
Objective: To evaluate whether biosurveillance by using data from the whole encounter note is superior to that using data from the chief complaint field alone.
Design: 6-year retrospective case–control cohort study.
Setting: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Participants: 17 243 persons tested for influenza A or B virus between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2006.
Measurements: The accuracy of a model based on signs and symptoms to predict influenza virus infection in patients with upper respiratory tract symptoms, and the ability of a natural language processing technique to identify definitional clinical features from free-text encounter notes.
Results: Surveillance based on the whole encounter note was superior to the chief complaint field alone. For the case definition used by surveillance of the whole encounter note, the normalized partial area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (specificity, 0.1 to 0.4) for surveillance using the whole encounter note was 92.9% versus 70.3% for surveillance with the chief complaint field (difference, 22.6%; P < 0.001). Comparison of the 2 models at the fixed specificity of 0.4 resulted in sensitivities of 89.0% and 74.4%, respectively (P < 0.001). The relative risk for missing a true case of influenza was 2.3 by using the chief complaint field model.
Limitations: Participants were seen at 1 tertiary referral center. The cost of comprehensive biosurveillance monitoring was not studied.
Conclusion: A biosurveillance model for influenza using the whole encounter note is more accurate than a model that uses only the chief complaint field. Because case-defining signs and symptoms of influenza are commonly available in health records, the investigators believe that the national strategy for biosurveillance should be changed to incorporate data from the whole health record.
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We would like to thank Drs. Palmore and Henderson for their thoughtful editorial (1). We agree that the prepared healthcare system includes the ability to quickly analyze clinical data and to respond rapidly to public health emergencies (2). Advances in Health Informatics over the last 20 years have given us tools that, if applied, can help us prepare for and face future healthcare crisis (3) We believe that evaluations of Informatics interventions, like other clinical or public health interventions, should be a prerequisite to changing clinical or public health practice. We agree with Drs. Palmore and Henderson that additional evaluations are necessary and thank them for recognizing our contribution.
Drs. Palmore and Henderson raise the important issue that Healthcare costs are on the rise and we need more affordable care. We could not agree more. Healthcare reform has put into place new payment strategies that realign incentives toward high quality care. These include Accountable Care Organizations where payers and healthcare providers share in the savings that stem from lower cost and higher quality care. Many strategies used to systematize clinical practice while improving the quality and safety of care require clinical data monitoring . As with biosurveillance, relevant clinical data is often in free text. The same technology that allows us to monitor our population for emerging infectious diseases and acts of bioterrorism can support fully automated electronic quality and safety monitoring (collectively referred to as the field of eQuality) (4-6).
Health Informatics systems that can monitor clinical care are an integral and essential part of any plan to provide better healthcare value while improving healthcare quality and safety(7). Standards organizations such as HL7 and IHTSDO have made foundational contributions by developing standards for health record structure and for meaningful representation and exchange of structured data. Health Informatics approaches that allow us to turn the free text health record content into codified knowledge are another important piece of the puzzle that can bring us closer to the goal of automated biosurveillance, quality and safety monitoring. Our study, has contributed to achieving this goal by demonstrating the effective use of EHR data for secondary purposes such as biosurveillance. Although cost issues need to be discussed and an optimal strategy devised, we should not delay in our efforts to deploy and test strategies that have the potential to bring us closer to these important national goals. We encourage others to extend our results toward building a safer and more effective systematized healthcare system for the United States of America.
Peter L. Elkin, MD, MACP, FACMI
Steven H. Brown, MD, MS, FACMI
1. Palmore TN, Henderson DK. Fortune favors a prepared health care system. Ann Intern Med. Jan 3;156(1 Pt 1):54-5.
2. Elkin PL, Froehling DA, Wahner-Roedler DL, Brown SH, Bailey KR. Comparison of natural language processing biosurveillance methods for identifying influenza from encounter notes. Ann Intern Med. Jan 3;156(1 Pt 1):11-8.
3. Elkin PL, Brown SH, Husser CS, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler D, Rosenbloom ST, et al. Evaluation of the content coverage of SNOMED CT: ability of SNOMED clinical terms to represent clinical problem lists. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006 Jun;81(6):741-8.
4. Brown SH, Elkin PL, Rosenbloom ST, Fielstein E, Speroff T. eQuality for all: Extending automated quality measurement of free text clinical narratives. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008:71-5.
5. Brown SH, Speroff T, Fielstein EM, Bauer BA, Wahner-Roedler DL, Greevy R, et al. eQuality: electronic quality assessment from narrative clinical reports. Mayo Clin Proc. 2006 Nov;81(11):1472-81.
6. Murff HJ, FitzHenry F, Matheny ME, Gentry N, Kotter KL, Crimin K, et al. Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing. JAMA. Aug 24;306(8):848-55.
7. Bates DW, Gawande AA. Improving safety with information technology. N Engl J Med. 2003 Jun 19;348(25):2526-34.
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—To determine how patients in different kinds of practices—solo or single specialty (SOLO), multispecialty group (MSG), or health maintenance organizations (HMOs)—and with fee-for-service (FFS) or prepaid physician payment arrangements evaluate their medical care.
—Survey of adult outpatients after office visits, with sample weighted to represent population of patients visiting physicians in each practice type.
—Offices of 367 internists, family practitioners, endocrinologiste, cardiologists, and nurse practitioners, in HMOs (prepaid only), MSGs (prepaid and FFS), and SOLO practices (prepaid and FFS).
—Adults (N=17671) at start of the Medical Outcomes Study.
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—Overall rating of the visit (five choices from excellent to poor). A random half of the sample also rated the provider's technical skills, personal manner, and explanations of care as well as time spent during the visit, the appointment wait, the office wait, the convenience of the office location, and telephone access.
—Fifty-five percent of patients rated their visit overall as excellent, 32% very good, 11% good, and 2% fair or poor. Patients of SOLO practitioners were more likely (64%) to rate their visit excellent than MSG (48%) or HMO (49%) patients (P<.001 ). Patients of SOLO practitioners rated all aspects of care better than HMO patients did, most markedly appointment waits (64% vs 40% excellent; P<.0001) and telephone access (64% vs 33% excellent; P<.0001). Within SOLO and MSG practices, FFS patients rated most specific aspects better than prepaid patients, but these differences were not statistically significant and were inconsistent across cities. Adjusting for patients' demographics, diagnoses and self-rated health did not change results. Physicians with visit ratings in the lowest 20% were nearly four times as likely to be left by patients within 6 months than physicians in the highest 20% (16.7% vs 4.6%; P<.001).
—Of the five practice type and payment method combinations, SOLO FFS patients rated their visits best and HMO patients worst. Whether FFS or prepaid, care was rated better in small than in large practices. Our study shows that a brief visit rating form can be used to compare practice settings and health plans, and that patient ratings predict what proportion of patients, on average, will leave their physicians in the next several months.(JAMA. 1993;270:835-840)
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Leander Paes pairing Amisha Patel in Rajdhani Express
Well, soon to be seen on the silver screen is Leander Paes who's now planning to give acting a try. Yes, he totally swooned the women with his backhand and brilliant smashes on the court and now, he would romance Amisha Patel on screen. The film titled Rajdhani Express that would mark Paes's entry into films is to be directed by Ashok Kohli. Paes was being offered films for the past 15 years but it's only now that he has relented.
Just like his game, Paes obviously wants to give this film his very best shot and therefore has enrolled himself in Anupam Kher's acting academy for a three month long course.
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The reporters and photographers of the Daily Messenger once again won accolades this year in the New York State Associated Press Association's 2012-13 contest.
The annual contest recognizes "excellent writing, presentation, photography and graphics in AP member newspapers." This year, the Daily Messenger received awards in four categories within the below 20,000 circulation class. The awards were:
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- Portraits and personalities, second place: Photographer Jack Haley for Brain Injury
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St Bride's Thanksgiving Service – another milestone in the life of the Journalists' Charity
A tribute to Charles Dickens' invaluable contribution in helping to establish the Newspaper Press Fund was one of the highlights of a thanksgiving service at Bride's Church, Fleet Street, when media executives, editors, reporters and their guests gathered to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Journalists' Charity.
Dickens, a former Parliamentary reporter, was one of the Fund's earliest supporters and the author's love of journalism was captured by the actor Simon Callow.
For the fifth reading at the service, Callow took an extract from Dickens' address to the NPF's second annual festival in May 1865. Dickens was in the chair at the festival dinner, held in the Freemasons' Tavern in Queen Street, just off Fleet Street.
He was "a journalist to his fingertips all his life" and his speech proposing the toast recalled his early days as a parliamentary reporter starting at the age of eighteen. Dickens often "transcribed to the printer direct from my shorthand note" and had written "on the palm of my hand" under the dark light of a lamp while riding in a coach.
Dickens coupled his toast in 1865 with an expression of his "undying interest" in his old pursuit and promised his continued support for the NPF, "a sound, wholesome institution."
The thanksgiving service (20.2.2014) was a key event at the start of the charity's 150th anniversary year and the chairman of the trustees, Laurie Upshon, thanked St Bride's and Nokia, the sponsors of the service, for helping to organise such an appropriate service in "the Cathedral of Fleet Street, the Street of Dreams".
Alex Crawford, the award winning television journalist who works for Sky News, gave the address. She was awarded the OBE in 2012 for her services to broadcast journalism after her widely-praised reporting of the Libyan civil war the year before.
Ms Crawford paid tribute to Adam McKinlay, editor of the Wokingham Times, who hired her at the age of eighteen and whom she later negotiated with as mother of the chapel. She asked the congregation to remember those journalists who had lost their lives in recent conflicts in what after all could be a dangerous profession.
"As a journalist it was probably very early on, working on a student newspaper or a local radio station, that you realised journalism has a loud voice and you realised you can make a difference.
"Postings on social media and Twitter can never replace serious, questioning journalism in the field. The public knows the difference. More than ever before, journalists are being targeted and attacked simply because we make a difference. So let us remember this extended family who are doing this incredible job."
The four readings which preceded Simon Callow's extract from Dickens' speech were also from the works of celebrated journalists of the past – and they were delivered by some equally powerful figures from the media world of today.
Simon Fox, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, began the readings with an extract from Streets Ahead by Keith Waterhouse recounting his experiences on arriving in Fleet Street. Waterhouse recalled how he felt having secured his first job in the "street of ink, the street of adventure; I was over the frontier."
Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, read from the writings of Vincent Mulchrone, "Britain's greatest popular journalist", whose work had stood the test of time as "a poignant reminder of those pre-digital days when Fleet Street was the capital of journalism.
David Dinsmore, editor of The Sun, read from the Greatest Company in the World by William Connor (Cassandra). There were plenty of chuckles as Dinsmore read out some of Connor's pithy descriptions of journalism, being like "high diving minus the water".
Fleet Street was like snakes and ladders with a greasy pole, "a slippery slide with a banana skin that everyone can see; I know, I have done it."
Murdoch MacLennan, chief executive of the Telegraph Media Group, read from W.F. Deedes' reflections on his life as a journalist. Bill Deedes was a journalist's journalist who had been a reporter for seventy five years, which was "exactly half the life of the Journalists' Charity."
Mr MacLennan read from an article which Deedes wrote for the Daily Telegraph on the 70th anniversary of his first day in Fleet Street and the bliss of getting a job in 1931 when there were 2.75million unemployed.
In welcoming the charity's supporters and friends Laurie Upshon paid a special mention to Gail Ellisdon, the great, great granddaughter of Walter Ellisdon, who was one of the charity's founders.
As Mr Upshon explained, many a good idea has been hatched up by journalists in a pub and that was certainly the case with the group of parliamentary reporters who met in 1864 to set up a fund to assist fellow journalists who had fallen on desperate times.
"The work they began has continued, without interruption, for 150 years. The charity has, of course, evolved. We now support journalists working across all media. We run retirement, care and extra-care homes. Perhaps more important, we now give away around £400,000 each year to help those in difficulty. The demands on the charity are greater than ever."
In his welcome, the Venerable David Meara, who conducted the service, said their celebration of this milestone in the life of the renamed Journalists' Charity and an opportunity to give thanks for all its work in providing vital help, support and residential care for all who worked in the profession. Over 2,000 journalists in need had been assisted over the past ten years.
"We celebrate too the profession of journalism and the vital importance of a free press as one of the pillars of a democratic society. We salute those who chronicle the rich pageant of human life in this country and across the world."
David Meara's tribute was a reflection of his unstinting support for journalists in need during his fourteen years in the role of what has become known as the Vicar of Fleet Street. The thanksgiving service was his last on behalf of the charity before his retirement in July. He was appointed Rector of St Bride's in 2000 and is currently Archdeacon of London.
At a reception afterwards in the St Bride's Institute he was presented with a framed limited edition of a painting by Mike Molloy, the former editor-in-chief of the Daily Mirror. It is a view of Fleet Street under a full moon with St Paul's Cathedral in the distance and was reprinted on the charity's Christmas card last year.
The programme for the thanksgiving service was a collector's item: it featured reminders of the NPF's many events over the years. Pride of place went to an invitation from the "stewards and committee" to the 1865 annual festival dinner with "Charles Dickens in the chair".
Another notable reproduction was the programme for the NPF's 60th anniversary dinner in 1923 at which H.R.H. The Prince of Wales was chairman. His photograph was on the front of the programme alongside that of the NPF's patron, His Majesty The King.
There were also two reprints of posters for film premieres held in aid of the NPF: for the royal world premiere of The Pink Panther Strikes Again in the presence of The Prince of Wales, which was held at the Odeon, Leicester Square, in December 1976 and the gala charity premiere of You Only Live Twice at the Odeon. Glasgow, in September 1967. END
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Justices Tell Colleague Not to Publish His Opinion. Unprecedented?
The Law Blog knows we're not supposed to declare something a "first" unless we're absolutely sure. So we won't do that today, because we're not sure. But we would like to put a question to the readership: Has the majority of any court every voted to prohibit a colleague from publishing a dissent?
A loyal reader has alerted us that it happened recently to Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz. Here's the report from Northeast Mississippi's Daily Journal.
"My job as a Supreme Court justice is to write opinions and dissents, when necessary," Diaz (pictured) told the Daily Journal. "I was prevented from doing so by a majority of the court." Diaz speculated that it "may be unprecedented in the history of American jurisprudence." The case at issue was a wrongful death lawsuit filed by an employee of the court against the Mississippi State Veterans Affairs Board.
The DJ's requests for comments were not answered by Supreme Court Chief Justice James Smith, Justice Michael Randolph and Justice James Graves.
Diaz's dissent is now available, thanks to the Folo blog. In the preamble to the order by which Diaz issued his dissent, he writes: "The authority to issue a dissent to an order to dismiss a petition for certiorari is likewise well established. . .A majority vote to censor a justice of the court and prohibit the issuance of a dissenting opinion may be unprecedented in the history of American jurisprudence."
From what we can tell, there's nothing particularly remarkable about Diaz's dissent. He argues simply that the statute of limitations for wrongful death lawsuits should begin on the date of death, not at the time of injury, as the majority of the court holds. "The obvious result is that a wrongful death action may expire before the decedent does," writes Diaz. "This judicially created rule is without foundation, and frankly, absurd."
According to the DJ, Diaz, a former Republican legislator, was appointed to the court in 2000 by Governor Ronnie Musgrove. He won a full eight-year term later that year. He is seeking re-election this fall, but has strong opposition from Pearl River Chancery Judge Randy Pierce, who appears to be backed by big business and medical interests.


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- Hours: Mon–Sat: 9:30am - 5pm
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As you enter the first courtyard you'll see the Guest Pavilion (Mubarak Mahal) which was built in the nineteenth century. The structure now serves as a museum housing a collection of textiles, accessories and musical instruments from the local royalty of the past. The City Palace armoury next door to the museum has one of the most extensive collections of rather vicious weapons on display, among them is an 11-pound (5-kilogram) sword.
If you want to try to catch a glimpse of Jaipur royalty, your best bet is the Peacock Courtyard (Pritam Niwas Chowk). If things look quiet in the towers of the Moon Palace above, you can still enjoy the intricate designs of the four painted doorways.
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I was reading this article (yes, from a left leaning source, but please keep reading). After the debate last night an advisor for Mitt Romney admitted that if Romney is elected and Obamacare is repealed then those with pre existing conditions would likely not be able to purchase insurance.
"With respect to pre-existing conditions, what Governor Romney has said is for those with continuous coverage, he would continue to make sure that they receive their coverage,†said Eric Fehrnstrom, referring to existing laws which require insurance companies to sell coverage to people who already have insurance, or within 90 days of losing their employer coverage.
Pressed by TPM's Evan McMorris-Santoro, Fehrnstrom said those who currently lack coverage because they have pre-existing conditions would need their states to implement their own laws — like Romney's own Massachusetts health care law — that ban insurance company from discriminating against sick people.
"We'd like to see states do what Massachusetts did,†Fehrnstrom said. "In Massachusetts we have a ban on pre-existing conditions.â€
Romney's plan, of course, became the model for Obamacare — a fact Obama happily reminded Romney and debate watchers Wednesday night.
Now, I live in a very deep red state and I think if my state were allowed they wouldn't even allow Medicaid to take place under their watch, so my question is this: Are Romney supporters ok with allowing people in this country not have access to affordable healthcare due to a condition they have? And if you say of course not how do you see Romney's plan working then? Because my state I can say with 98% certainty would not implement something like Mass. did while Romney was govenor. Healthcare is important to me as my family has pre existing conditions and the ACA has made life comfortable again for my family because we don't hit caps now yearly. I know there are some libertarians who are more life is what it is not my problem, but I really want to know those who support Romney and plan on voting for him your view on this quote above. Thanks