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Our article provides the first description of national antibiotic prescribing trends for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women.1 We found that the first-line recommended antibiotic, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, declined in use over the past decade while less-recommended and more expensive agents, fluoroquinolones and nitrofurantoin, increased dramatically in use during the same period. As suggested by Dr Ghosh, a variety of physician, patient, and health care system–level factors may explain these prescribing patterns. We uncovered differences in antibiotic prescribing between various specialists, suggesting that subspecialty culture plays a role. Similar differences among specialists have been observed previously.2 Further exploration of the reasons for these specialty differences, both qualitative and quantitative, may be a critical next step in understanding antibiotic prescribing patterns. One unique physician-level rationale for prescribing a second- or third-line choice may be a concern for emerging antimicrobial resistance, an issue that exists outside the traditional patient-physician relationship. Ideally, antibiotic recommendations for a community should be based on objective uropathogen resistance trends. Unfortunately, public reports of uropathogen resistance do not appear to be readily available to the clinician, and, when published, are specific to a particular region.3
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Although the final dates of next season's Grand Prix series aren't expected to be finalized until later this summer, USA Swimming would like to come back to Canham Natatorium in the spring of 2012 -- possibly late April -- if dates can be worked out with the University of Michigan, said Bailey Weathers, executive head coach of Club Wolverine.
The U.S. Olympic trials for the London Summer Games are June 25-July 2, 2012, in Omaha, Neb.
The three-day Namesnik Grand Prix, named in honor of Eric Namesnik, the two-time Olympic silver medalist and Michigan graduate who died in a car accident 2006, concluded Sunday night.
Returning to Canham for the first time in four years, the event attracted capacity crowds of just under 1,000 fans for the finals the first two nights. More than 50 people who were waiting in line for tickets Saturday were turned away, Weathers said.
Former U-M men's swimming head coach Bob Bowman, who coaches Phelps, said he was impressed with the organization of the meet.
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I experienced some of the same problem with the same logs, I don't believe the problem is keeping tension consistent, as my tension is always consistent and the logs "puckered" the rest of the piece. After knitting, I believe the pieces are just not well suited to be placed together.
DrLiv and Ezwriter, "puckering" in these stranded logs is caused by carrying the yarn too tightly across the back, so it really is a tension problem for both you ladies. Of course, you don't want your back loops to be too loose, but they do have to be loose enough to not pull across the back. When I first started stranding I had the same problem, it's not unique to you. Actually every time I start a new stranded project I have to remind myself "looser, looser!" or I still have it. It's tricky, you want to maintain the tension in the actual stitches but let it go loose when carrying the yarn across the back, but with practice you'll get it right. And when you do get it right these logs will sit next to the others in perfect harmony. You could use a larger needle size on these logs until you eliminate the puckering.
As soon as colour is carried, it will become tighter, please note as I mention in the video, everyone does this until become more comfortable. You can use a larger needles, maybe up one size. If you are using wool, than yes! try to block it a bit.
I think one of the worst culprits for tension issues is the first log--which doesn't even have carried stitches or floats. You almost need to make the twisted stitches extra-loose because twisting them tightens them so that they pucker not just log 1, but the beginning square they're attached to. (Regular cable knitting does the exact same thing.) Once log 1 pulls in tight, it's hard to get logs 3 and 5 back to the proper width, no matter how loose you keep your floats.
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The turbulence at Charleston International Airport have forced organizers of a monthly small business luncheon had to find a pinch hitter for their event this week.
The scheduled keynote speaker for the Aug. 1 "Small Business Lunch at Halls" had been Charleston County Airports Director Sue Stevens. Understandably, she won't be taking the podium Thursday at the upper King Street steak house. Last week, she disclosed her intention to resign by Sept. 30 for reasons that airport officials said included verbal abuse and disrespect from at least two members of the board she reports to.
Stevens is to go on paid leave effective today, and she has hired a lawyer who is considering litigation.
Meanwhile, luncheon organizers Friday said they are substituting Stevens with Charleston RiverDogs co-owner and marketing guru Mike Veeck. His topic: "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"
The board that runs the airport are probably asking themselves that very question. It meets tomorrow to discuss her departure and to start the search for a replacement. One potential candidate that Charleston County Aviation Authority Chairman Andy Savage suggested last week is state Sen. Paul Campbell, the former top executive at the Alcoa Mount Holly smelter near Goose Creek.
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The new Miss South Carolina, Brooke Mosteller, is from the town, and now, Noah Leask took the nod as the first runner-up in this year's National Small Business Person of the Year. A service-disabled Navy veteran, Leask is president of Mount Pleasant-based cyber operations firm ISHPI.
He and his wife, Lisa, a fellow Navy veteran, started ISHPI out of their home in September 2006. Today, the firm has 140 employees and facilities in Virginia, the District of Columbia and San Antonio, in addition to its East Cooper international headquarters.
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Leask continues to support veteran entrepreneurs through the ISHPI Warrior Program. Its additional community outreach efforts include programs in support of the disabled, Native American youth and the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
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Katamari Damacy
Ever wondered how a game about a giant rolling ball gets made?
When a game comes out of nowhere like this, it's interesting to find out what the genesis for the project was -- how do you come up with something like that? Keita Takahashi, Katamari's director, says, "I would love to be able to tell you an interesting story; however, no such story exists. Nowadays I don't play or watch video games very much. Perhaps that's why all games are starting to look the same to me. I wonder why all these games have become so similar and so complicated. Games are supposed to be fun and exciting; however current popular games don't look fun to me at all.
"For me, stories and CG are not that important. Videogames should provide the type of experiences, feelings, and fun that only videogames can deliver. So with this kind of thought in mind, one day the idea for Katamari Damacy just popped up. Just like that -- popped up! I don't suppose there is any logic or reason behind this idea."
Though Takahashi can't say where the idea did come from, he is sure that it wasn't consciously designed as a throwback to earlier times. "When designing Katamari Damacy, I wanted to avoid using many of the established videogame tenets, and instead try to evolve or surpass them," he says. "However, many people have mentioned that Katamari Damacy reminds them of games from the old days. I am not really sure if I that pleases me or not. I do not necessarily believe that old games are better. Video games are still a relatively new medium, and I believe it is our job to provide new kinds of fun and enjoyment."
New kinds of enjoyment are nice in principle, but as many a startup developer can attest, they can be financially risky. Nevertheless, Takahashi claims that Namco was highly supportive...once they decided to make it at all. "This is the first game that I have directed. Of course, I have been involved with several projects up until now, but Katamari Damacy was the first title that I was completely involved with from start to finish. I tried hard to create something new, and I was prepared to stake my professional reputation on it.
"This project was finally given the green light only after many internal discussions. 'Should we make it? Should we move forward with it?' Expectations for Katamari Damacy remained a big question at first, which really turned out to be a blessing, as we were able to develop the game without many restrictions."
When Takahashi says "we," he's not just talking about his own team at Namco. Somewhat unusually, Katamari Damacy was developed in conjunction with university students in game design. "Namco and Digital Hollywood (a CG school) collaborated on this project. A prototype of Katamari was made as an exercise for that project. All the game design, programming and art direction was handled by Namco. The students made all the in-game objects that the player can roll-up. The purpose of this project was for the students to learn the overall flow of the game creation process."
Every object that the students made could be picked up by the ever-expanding ball that you roll, but every object also screams out in terror when it gets caught up. Yu Miyake, the game's sound director and man in charge of the scream \recording process, revealed that "Most of the screams were done by Namco staff. Although I told them the images of voices I wanted, they ad-libbed a lot during recording. As you can imagine, we were all cracking up in the studio! I did most of the really crazy voices, mainly because nobody else was brave enough to do them in the way I wanted them to be done. The animal effects were created by applying various effects to the voices of our Namco staff."
The game's squarish, blocky graphical style, according to Takahashi, came from "the graphic processing process." He continues: "The huge number of objects that must be displayed and rolled up directly affects gameplay, so we needed a way to display as many objects as possible. Another big reason is that I am bored with the photo-realistic graphics you see in current games.
"Regarding the game size, it probably depends on who plays. I don't play many video games, so I don't believe in having to invest a lot of time in a game in order to be able to enjoy it. I wanted people to be able to enjoy playing even if only for a short time. Perhaps the overall size of Katamari Damacy is small compared with other games, but for me this is the ideal size. Many people have been kind enough to say that they really love this game. I really wanted to make a game so 'out there' and stylish that people would say, 'Is this really a Namco game?'"
Was it failure of nerve? Were we afraid what we would find out? Or did it just slip our minds? Whatever the case, there were some things we didn't ask the creators, but are kind of morbidly curious to know anyway. Things like, "How does the 10-cm Prince push a 30-meter ball around?" Or, "Did the inevitable happen to all those poor schoolchildren as their collective mass become a flaming ball in space?" And especially, "What's with the King of the Cosmos' huge package?"
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Ka ta ma ri YEYPosted: Jul 08, 2005 12:00AM PST by wowmygoodness
I'm so excited for this. :) Nothing more to say really. WOOO
hey outlierPosted: Jul 07, 2005 12:00AM PST by meatwad_gir17
how the hell could you not think that this game is fun?! no one can explain why its fun, it just is.
more of labor?Posted: Jul 07, 2005 12:00AM PST by outlier
I bought the original version of Katamari Damacy 'cause everyone was raving about it. I played up to Make Star #7 stage and I felt like it was more of labor (garbage colleting) than a fun. Can anyone tell me how the game progress after that and why the game is so much fun? (I don't have much time to play games these days and it would be nice if i can focus on play good games only).
lol this is funny cause..Posted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by RoylAsult
this is funny ause i have never heard of the first game untill my friend out of no where said he was geting this game..when he said the title..i had to idea wtf he was talking about....i still havnt sen him play it or played the game myself yet but according tohim its a good game so w/e ill go with it ill chech it out.
Kah tah mah ree Dah mah shePosted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by revanblack
I can't wait. That's it. I can't wait. I beat katamari Damacy in one day... ten straight hours... couldn't put the damn controller down. Thank you Namco.
happy dayPosted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by fillerbunny9
I am so glad payday is this friday. ordering this and Oz soon as I get paid. happy happy import times! :)
<3Posted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by ErinGrapejuice
I absolutly loved the first Katamari Damachii. I really can't wait for this one! I have it preordered and mostly paid off. iI wish Namco were doing a nice promotion offer, like a Prince plushie! That would be awesome!
addicting...Posted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by TMR_Net_Shark
I love that game, even though it's sooo simple of gameplay...
Yay...Posted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by littlebadwolf
Unfortunately, us fat Americans are gonna have to wait until October to enjoy the fantasticness. I still haven't quite finished the first one yet, anyway.
"Sweet!", thats all I can sayPosted: Jul 06, 2005 12:00AM PST by SharpTongue
Many gamers already know about the sequel to one of the strangest and funniest game for the PS2. I'm absolutely thrilled that the second one will becoming stateside. Also, a franchise like this will make game publishers realize the mistakes they've been making by not publish titles like this in the US.
Ever since I saw this on G4.....Posted: Sep 18, 2004 12:00AM PST by Squadus2
on the show cinematech I have been following this game forever. This game looks great, away from the ordinary, and funny. Funny is really important cause if a game is funny than I will most likely buy it. Hey I don't have Ratchet & Clank 1 and 2 and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for no reason. I hope this game has mainstream success. And becomes as big as Grand Theft Auto. Hell, this may be the next GTA! I wish Namco all the luck i can give out in one day.
Creativity Owns SimilarityPosted: Sep 18, 2004 12:00AM PST by SoleSolution
"For me, stories and CG are not that important. Videogames should provide the type of experiences, feelings, and fun that only videogames can deliver." -Keita Takahashi That has to be the most true statement in a while. And all form a guy that stated, "Nowadays I don't play or watch video games very much." Honestly, i'm itching for something a little quirky to play instead of the basic shooters that are coming out now, the mundane RPGs, the irritating sequels, and the racing games that have to steal ideas from other games just to sell. Katamari Damacy has to be one of those rare games that developers dared try out, such as BG&E. Ill definately be getting this one to try and relive some of the moments that even got me into gaming in the first place. Then again, the game is from the land of the rising sun, and we all know theres plenty of quirky games to play over there. It's time to get the freelance game developer in the picture here in the US. Bottom line is: Get the game fool.
Hope for the gaming future...Posted: Sep 17, 2004 12:00AM PST by LiquidZero
I am glad that this game has been well received, and a little background is a good thing. I look at Katamari Damacy and see quite a fresh idea. Unfortunately, the game market is becoming flooded with sequels, and few new ideas are coming. I really hope this game does very well.
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Hi all,
I am just a beginner in C and the most terrible chapter is understanding Data Types. The discussion is all blunder to me. One thing I don't understand, why this constant is so used in int variables:
when an x is coming in the way, but integers are numeral values in maths. Also do tell me if its a constant or a variable name. I am bitterly confused.
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Dear Muneeb,
Numbers can be represent in many ways like:
The number you mentioned is in the Hexadecimal form and if the mentioned number is withing the range of the integer data type then it can be used as int.Better you clear your concepts in data representation systems this will help you a lot.
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But the number you are talking about can only be tested for its range using some for loop. I have the LPE Programming in C textbook (Stephen G. Kochan) but I haven't the slightest clue on the use of this int.
As far as I remember, hexadecimal is like this in HTML: #FF00FF. What type of hexadecimal is it?
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Either way I would of held onto the Wii, as I agree its a lot easier using that for my GCN games. The fact that the games do look better / less HDTV lag by using the Wii U is swaying my decision if I want to transfer the files over or not. The 16:9 automatic stretch factor doesn't bother me, as the annoying black side bars are the greater evil, personally.
Even though I consider the Wii U to be a superior option for playing Wii titles, I'm still going to hang onto my Wii, and I'm not going to use the transfer function. I hadn't over-invested in either Virtual console games, or save data for my original Wii. I'm fine with starting fresh for most Wii games on my Wii U.
I also still feel that the original Wii is one of the best methods for playing GameCube games. This is partially due to the Wii's superior 480p support, and the broad availability of component cables for the Wii. The only component cables for the GameCube were first-party, and are extremely rare. (and only work for earlier versions of the console)
I've mentioned before that I'm a collector, though. So it's not really surprising that I would hang onto old hardware.
I won't be getting a Wii U anytime soon though (too much Wii backlog as it is), so this is all just future thinking.


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A Flagler County man who shot and killed his neighbor during an argument over a barking dog will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Paul Miller, 66, was found guilty in the death of Dana Mulhall, 53. Miller was sentenced Tuesday.
Investigators said Miller shot Mulhall five times last March, including several times in the back.
The two were arguing over Miller's barking dog. He claimed he thought Mulhall was armed, so he shot him.


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Well, Who Dat Nation, we have reached the end of the Aaron Kromer era and have managed to come out the other side with no major injuries and a 2-4 record.
The New Orleans Saints are finally on a winning streak, and in comes Joe Vitt to keep the ship going in that direction and help us become only the second team (the other being the 1992 San Diego Chargers) to make the playoffs after starting a season off with four losses.
Here I will grade each positional unit based on their performance so far. Let's see how good this team has been, and what it could mean going forward.


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RUSSIAN troops are preparing for a possible invasion of Georgia to close down bases used by Chechen guerrillas, but many doubt Russia's ramshackle armed forces, already bogged down in Chechnya, are capable of launching a new war.
Two years after the crisis in the military was highlighted by the loss of the Kursk submarine, blown apart by its own faulty torpedoes, promised military reforms have stalled.
The navy has its hands full plugging leaks in the reactors of dozens of its rusting nuclear submarines. The once-feared Red Army has proved incapable of subduing Chechen guerrillas, with conditions so grim that many battalions must grow their own food to stay alive.
The Kursk sinking in August 2000 led Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, to demand changes, appointing his friend Sergei Ivanov, head of the secret service as defence minister. His job was to slash army numbers from 1.2 million to 800,000. But more than a year later, the reforms have failed.
"He [Ivanov] has not been successful, everyone agrees," the Moscow defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer told The Scotsman. "When he came in, he found the army had not 1.2 million troops but 1.35 million. He's trying to cut it to 1.2 million now."
Russia cannot afford such numbers: its defence budget is the same as that of Switzerland.
The result is inevitable. Many conscripts go unpaid and unfed. Weapons no longer work, planes cannot fly for lack of parts and fuel.
"In Russia and other former Soviet Republics, helicopters and planes crash regularly," said Alexander Golts, a defence analyst at Moscow's Russia Journal.
The rot has reached right to the top, infecting even the army's lite corps. The annual Paratroopers Day celebrations this month ended in disaster, with one man killed in chaotic simulated battles in St Petersburg when a rocket went off-target into the crowd, and dozens of drunken paratroopers brawling with spectators.
In Moscow on the same day, 200 former paratroopers, also drunk, rampaged through markets, knifing traders they believed to be Chechen.
While NATO has spent a decade changing its Cold War tactics, Russia remains wedded to Soviet-era strategy. "Still it's the same Soviet force, but very badly degraded," Felgenhauer said. "There are constant reports of shooting inside units, soldiers killing officers ."
Worst of all is the strain imposed by the Chechen war, now grinding towards its third anniversary . More than 20 Russians have been killed in fighting this week.
Rather than address these problems, the hawks in the Kremlin seem determined to go on the offensive. Angry that Chechen units can rest and rearm in Georgia, Moscow is considering launching a full-scale invasion. Felgenhauer feels this would stretch a crisis-torn force too far. "They could invade," he said. " But there would be trouble."


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The Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted its 2013 tax rate at its regular meeting Monday evening.
The board approved a rate of $.109 per $100 of taxable value for debt service and $1.08 per $100 of taxable value for maintenance and operations, amounting to a total adopted tax rate of $1.189.
The adopted rate represents a 2-cent increase for the debt service and about a 4-percent increase above the effective rate of $1.14669 per $100 of taxable value.
In other business, the board:
■ Approved a $91,041.60 bid for a web-based language learning assessment program from Avant Assessment, to be used at high school campuses
■ Approved the purchase of property at 1207 North Grant Street near Palo Duro High School for $40,244
■ And approved the $3,500 purchase of two lots on N.E. 24th Avenue near property recently purchased for the future Travis Middle School sixth-grade campus


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IACP Foundation: Third Annual Foundation Fundraiser Reaches New Summit
Russell B. Laine, Chief of Police, Algonquin, Illinois Police Department; Immediate Past President, IACP; Chair, IACP Foundation
lmost 350 guests joined the Foundation and IACP leadership at the Foundation's Third Annual Fundraising Gala, which was held on Saturday, October 3, in Denver, Colorado.
For the third time in as many years, gala dinner proceeds broke the $100,000 mark, topping off at almost $120,000 raised for the programs and services of the Foundation—a milestone amount and the highest ever raised at a Foundation event.
"Without a doubt, this was the most spectacular evening we have ever hosted," said outgoing foundation chair Major General Joseph C. Carter. "The message we heard tonight was loud and clear: that the IACP membership and our partner organizations truly recognize the value of moving leaders forward!"
General Carter's reference to the Foundation's tagline had developed as a theme during the evening as guest speaker Erik Weihenmayer took the stage for his keynote address. Erik, a blind adventurer and the only blind climber to ever reach the peak of Mt. Everest, spoke to the audience about the challenges he has had to overcome in his life to keep moving forward.
Erik moved the crowd from laughter to tears, not only recounting his struggle with adversity, but also emphasizing how qualities like persistence, courage, and team building are critical in achieving both personal and organizational success.
Following Erik's inspirational presentation, the Foundation honored its first "Person of the Year" by recognizing Mr. George Heinrichs, president and cofounder of Intrado Inc. for his tremendous personal support of law enforcement. Mr. Heinrichs, a former Boulder County, Colorado, sheriff, led a two-year effort to create and fund the Public Safety Leadership Institute, a dynamic and rigorous year-long course that combines best practices of leadership, communication, and collaboration of the public safety community.
In addition to the gala dinner, the Foundation also raised funds through a series of silent auctions, earning almost $10,000 from the purchase of auction memorabilia as well as a special, commemorative firearm donated by Sig Sauer.
The board and staff of the IACP Foundation sincerely thank every individual and organization that participated in the gala dinner event, with special thanks to the following major sponsors:
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXVI, no. 12, December 2009. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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Housing authority can be sued for shooting of tenant, rules Tennessee Supreme Court
A public housing authority can be sued for negligence by the family of a tenant who was shot and killed by another tenant, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a summary judgment. The plaintiffs' father lived in an apartment complex owned by the Memphis Housing Authority. He was shot and killed when a tenant with a history of violent attacks on other tenants fired a rifle at private security guards.
The plaintiffs sued for wrongful death, alleging that the housing authority was negligent in failing to provide adequate security. In particular, the plaintiffs alleged that the housing authority was negligent in failing to screen out a tenant with a history of violence and in failing to ensure that he did not possess a firearm.
The housing authority argued that it had no duty to protect tenants from the criminal acts of other tenants.
But the court disagreed, explaining that a "landlord and tenant qualify as having a special relationship. Further, violence in a housing project is, generally speaking, foreseeable. ... In consequence, precautions are warranted. ...
"The question, of course, is whether [the housing authority], with some general knowledge of criminal activity within its housing complexes and a particular knowledge of [the other tenant's] altercation with another tenant four years earlier, could have reasonably foreseen the probability of a violent act. We think so. Indeed, the risk of violent attack at a housing project is nothing new. The potential for violence in the [apartment complex] was, therefore, generally foreseeable by the landlord. "
Tennessee Supreme Court. Giggers v. Memphis Housing Authority, No. W2006-00304-SC-R11-CV. Feb. 3, 2009. Lawyers USA Nos. 993-443 (majority) and 993-444 (concurrence/dissent).
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Solutions for Chapter 15
Both of these factors increase the total consumption of natural resources. Hence, they tend to increase environmental impacts (in the absence of technological change or other offsetting factors). They can be neglected, however, for time periods that are relatively short, or for cases where future emission levels (or other relevant factors) are already specified.


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Looking very sunny together – she's barefoot, and he's wearing sandals – LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian have posted a photo of their vow-renewal ceremony last Friday on her Twitter page.
"Thought I'd share a few smiles and a special moment," says her message accompanying the couple's picture in the church to mark their one-year anniversary.
Rimes, 29, and Cibrian, 38, wed in private on April 22 last year. Last week, they celebrated with a romantic lunch in California. The country singer also Tweeted about their happiness.
"Renewed our vows today....it's incredible to thank each other for the past year as husband and wife," Rimes wrote. "Here's to another great year!"
LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian Are All Smiles As They Retie the Knot
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Apparently, Demi Moore is the only thing people will be seeing on Ashton Kutcher's arm these days. In the actor's new film, "Guess Who," Sony Pictures spent some $100,000 to digitally remove a red string kabbalah bracelet from his wrist, according to a recent article by MSNBC.com's Jeanette Walls.
While Sony execs declined to comment on the matter, Walls quoted an anonymous source who said that test audiences who watched the film "were really annoyed" by the bracelet.
The movie, which debuted at No. 1 in its opening weekend, is an adaptation of the classic, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" in which a Caucasian girl brings her African American boyfriend home to meet her parents. This time around, they've reversed the roles. Kutcher plays the Caucasian boyfriend meeting his African American girlfriend's parents (played by Bernie Mac and Judith Scott) for the first time.
On a related note, Kutcher also told the Web site Zap2It.com that he originally conceived of his character as being Jewish, too.
"I decided that I wanted to play my character Jewish, to have another difference because Bernie is Christian in the movie and I decided that I wanted to play my character Jewish just to have another difference," Kutcher told Zap2it.com.
But like the red string, other small references to his Jewishness, like his character saying "Shabbat Shalom," were cut from the film before its release.
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text: EconStor Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49979 2016-09-27T22:34:56Z Social market economy: Towards a comprehensive composite index http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125070 Title: Social market economy: Towards a comprehensive composite index Authors: Helfer, Helena Abstract: Institutions that potentially have a positive impact on economic performance rarely exist outside of a system of institutions; rather they are embedded in the economic order of a country. It is thus imperative to investigate bundles of performance-enhancing institutions, particularly those bundles that form the basis for economic orders. This paper is based on bundles of institutions that have empirically proven to be prosperity enhancing. It proposes a measurement of this bundle of institutions in the form of a composite index, which is based on 12 different data series. Index data is available for 163 countries between 2005 and 2010 and it allows for comparative analyses using the overall index as well as its three sub-indices, measuring political, economic and societal institutional quality. The index is a step towards a more systematic international comparison of institutional settings. In future research, it can contribute to identifying prosperity enhancing bundles of institutions through regression analysis. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Überschätzen sich Schüler? http://hdl.handle.net/10419/115359 Title: Überschätzen sich Schüler? Authors: Schleithoff, Fabian Abstract: Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert Selbstüberschätzungseffekte im deutschen Schulwesen. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine Umfrage unter Oberstufenschülern eines Gymnasiums in Nordrhein-Westfalen durchgeführt. Die Schüler wurden u. a. nach ihrem aktuellen Notenschnitt und der angestrebten Abiturnote befragt. Es zeigt sich, dass die angestrebten Abiturnoten der Schüler signifikant besser als die erreichten Noten verschiedener Referenzgruppen sind. Schüler überschätzen demnach ihre eigene schulische Leistungsfähigkeit. Dieser Effekt kann dazu führen, dass Schüler Studiengänge anstreben, die sie mit ihrem tatsächlich erreichten Abiturschnitt nicht aufnehmen können. Um Schüler möglichst schnell an den für sie geeigneten Berufsweg heranzuführen, kommt der Berufswahlvorbereitung am Gymnasium ein hoher Stellenwert zu. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Autocracy and the public: Mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships http://hdl.handle.net/10419/120896 Title: Autocracy and the public: Mass revolts, winning coalitions, and policy control in dictatorships Authors: Apolte, Thomas Abstract: Threats of mass revolts could effectively constrain a dictator's public policy if it were not for the collective-action problem. Mass revolts nevertheless happen, but they follow a stochastic pattern. We describe this pattern in a threshold model of collective action and integrate it into an agency model which demonstrates how mass revolts can impact on a winning coalition's incentives to keep backing an incumbent dictator. Having observed public policy and found a sufficiently high posterior probability of the dictator to be of a "bad" character, the winning coalition's members may exploit an incidentally happening mass revolt for escaping a loyalty trap that had otherwise prevented them from switching to disloyalty. While this explains why mass revolts sometimes happen to oust a dictator, the arising policy constraints in dictatorships may nevertheless be weak in practice. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Abused rebels and winning coalitions: Regime change under the pressure of rebellions http://hdl.handle.net/10419/107670 Title: Abused rebels and winning coalitions: Regime change under the pressure of rebellions Authors: Apolte, Thomas Abstract: We hypothesize that, in certain regime types, winning coalitions have an incentive for helping a deprived population solving the collective action problem that may otherwise restrain them in revolting against an incumbent. Recent selectorate literature holds that members of a winning coalition may find themselves in a loyalty trap after having realized a bad character of an incumbent. According to our hypothesis, the winning coalition's members can find a way out of the loyalty trap by influencing expectations within the population in a way as to spark a public rebellion. A thus induced rebellion raises the chance of each of the winning coalition's members for preserving their position in a newly formed winning coalition following a regime change. Hence, the very regime structure that makes a loyalty trap more probably is identical to a regime structure under which we should expect a higher vulnerability to public rebellions. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Today's guest post is by Allen Mireles.
Our digital world is constantly evolving in response to user demand.
New tools and systems are being created and introduced almost daily.
And, almost as quickly as something is put into use, someone figures out how to get around it.
Gaming the system, no matter what the system, is rampant.
An estimated 282 million Americans are using the web in 2012.
Ninety-one percent of the adults online today use social media regularly.
Seventy percent of the adults who use social networks shop online.
And most of them are talking about what they are buying, thinking of buying or have already bought.
Some of them post reviews online. A positive online review can be worth its weight in gold. Leading businesses and marketers to try to figure how to encourage customers to post positive reviews.
Some businesses have offered compensation for good reviews. Some just ask their customers to comment online about their experiences.
This is Where it Gets Interesting
Online user reviews sites are plagued by false reviews. Gartner has predicted that by 2014, 10-15 percent of online reviews will be fake – bought and paid for by businesses hoping to influence prospective customers.
"Marketing, customer service, and IT social media managers looking to use reviews, fans and 'likes' to improve their brand's reputation on social media must beware of the potential negative consequences on corporate reputation and profitability," says Ed Thompson, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.
Clearly We Have a Problem
Yet, what exactly constitutes a fake review? Aside from the obvious, someone posting a review or comment about something they have not experienced, is a review posted by someone who has been given access to a computer while inside the business considered a fake? Is a review posted by someone who has been given a discount for future purchases considered false? Is asking your customers to post online reviews wrong?
Yelp has just announced its Consumer Alerts initiative, an effort to stem the rising tide of fake online reviews. Yelp uses an automated review filter to identify false reviews and has already called out nine businesses for "shady practices;" i.e. paying for reviews. Yelp has posted its new Consumer Alert warning, edged in bright red, over each of these business profiles.
The text on the alert reads: "We caught someone red-handed trying to buy reviews for this business. We weren't fooled, but wanted you to know because buying reviews not only hurts consumers, but honest businesses who play by the rules. Check out the evidence here."
The Consumer Alerts will stay posted on business profiles for 90 days. Ninety days of being labeled a business that engages in "shady practices." Ninety days of prospective customers seeing the Consumer Alert before any of the reviews. Ninety long days.
Yelp states that its "…automated review filter is working around the clock to flag these types of biased reviews…" Yelp is to be commended for stepping up to govern the quality of the content posted on its site. But what if a company's reviews get flagged in the automated review filter but are genuine? What if the business has just asked their customer base to comment?
Automated Systems Can Make Mistakes
For a business, the risk of being misidentified as complicit in paying for fake reviews is very real, making engineered "positive word-of-mouth campaigns" potentially dangerous or problematic. Marketing, customer service, and social media managers need to be wary of offering any form of compensation for positive reviews, and be ready to manage negative consequences should they be identified as having tried to game the system.
What Does this Mean Going Forward?
To begin with, each online network has its own terms of service. This includes the user review sites such as Yelp. Read the terms of service. Understand what is allowed and what is not. Be cautious in offering compensation for positive reviews and mentions.
Beyond that, use common sense.
- Listen to what your customers and prospects are saying about your brand
- Answer (promptly) in an official capacity
- Show them that you are willing to engage in conversation online
- Create a plan of action in case – just in case – something goes wrong
If you embrace both positive and negative mentions, and aren't afraid to use negative reviews as an opportunity to demonstrate your company's responsiveness, chances are that you will recover from bad reviews.
What might be be more difficult to recover from though is 90 long days being stamped a shady player, or worse, a cheater.
Allen Mireles is vice president at Arment Dietrich and is based outside of Toledo. She has diverse expertise in healthcare IT, manufacturing, and education. You can follow her on Twitter at allenmireles, add her to your circles on G+, link to her on LinkedIn, or friend her on Facebook.
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18 Comments on "Yelp Consumer Alerts Filters False Reviews"
Yelp frustrates me to no end. I'll be curious to see how this works, because their regular filter is already a mess. I have a client that has a LOT of good reviews that have been filtered out because supposedly they got too many good reviews in a short period of time. They never paid for them or even asked for them, but they go filtered out. If they can't get their regular algorithm right, I'll be surprised if they get this right.
@KenMueller Interesting to hear that Yelp is filtering out "too many good reviews"
@joshchandler They have about 30+reviews that have been filtered out. My client ended up on the phone with Yelp and got the runaround. Eventually got the sales pitch about paying them some amount of money to work with them to make it better. She gave up.
@KenMueller I seem to remember reading an article somewhere that said Yelp's sales team were very persistent at upselling!
The one flaw of UGC is the inability to filter out content. We create the content and the online recommendation service publishes the reviews and ideas we have.
This could be a really important step for Yelp as many in the industry are talking up the idea of services such as Yelp becoming a more direct search engine to use then Google.
@cksyme Interesting to hear you think they have their own agenda.
@joshchandler I guess it's not specific to them. What I meant was everyone's bottom line is money, so they design their site the way it works for them. Their own agenda doesn't mean anything dark or political, just that they're not some altruistic site where people go to get great unbiased information. All reviews are biased. When they make the subjective decision as to what is bogus, that is an agenda in my book.
Great article as usual. 🙂
@RTRViews Thanks Rick. What's your take this. Do you see the gray area and the potential problems? I'm fascinated and concerned…
@allenmireles I have a friend there if you'd like to talk with her I can introduce you.
@RTRViews that would be awesome Rick, thanks
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@KenMueller @joshchandler I have heard this complaint from other companies too.
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interesting article. I would love to read the book "Start with Why", by Simon
Sinek. I think he has taken a great topic to deal with. http://www.antwerprailschool.org


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I guess if that is how things turn out then I know I can eat/exercise right all I want but nothing changes something that developed before I was born. There are some drugs associated with various uterine defects, but my mother confirmed she did not take any during her pregnancy.
Doc wasn't overly concerned, but the more research I do the more mixed information I get.


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Ingenuity Systems and Affymetrix will be co-promoting Ingenuity® iReport™ with Affymetrix' expression microarray products to help eliminate a bottleneck for researchers working with human, mouse, and rat applications. The technologies will couple a statistical analysis and biological interpretation workflow with a platform for gene expression studies.
Affymetrix' expression microarrays, according to the firm, are the standard methodology used for many research and discovery applications. Affymetrix belives that, when combined with Ingenuity iReport, an interactive web-based report that can leverage the Ingenuity Knowledge Base of biological and chemical findings from the peer reviewed literature and databases, their expression microarrays will deliver researchers a "sample to insight" continuous workflow allowing for rapid, confident interpretation of results without the need for bioinformatics experience or support.
"By leveraging Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix gene expression arrays for our study on a mouse model of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we accelerated our data interpretation several-fold compared to using other analysis tools," said Adrian Grimes, Ph.D., from the department of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin. "Their rapid and effectively blind analysis provided an unbiased validation of our data. Additionally, iReport allowed us to identify and explore genes of interest found with Affymetrix gene chips, yet not identified by other analysis tools."
Several other companies have worked out similar deals with Ingenuity. In January of this year, TATAA Biocenter, a European provider of genomic services using quantitative real-time polymerase PCR (qPCR), annouced that it would complement its offerings in high-throughput gene expression profiling with Ingenuity iReport, thus enabling TATAA Biocenter's labs to provide contract research for a range of real-time qPCR services including primer and probe design, validation, kit and instrument evaluation, and biological and statistical analysis to academic, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies worldwide.
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Preston Premium Wines, Washington State's premier family owned and operated winery, located in the fertile irrigated farmlands of Washington State's Southern Columbia Basin, is one of the most promising winegrowing endeavors of the world. Eastern Washingon, climatically similar to Northern Europe, is fast gaining recognition as a major production area for wine grapes of exceptional varietal character and balance.
Bill and Joann Preston were among the enthusiastic pioneers who early-on recognized the potential of Vintis vinifera in this unexploited area. The Preston family established their 50-acre vineyard in 1972-73, planting several varieties of native European grapevines at their Pasco site (heat summation Region II). This was increased to 171 acres in 1979. The facility is now run by their son and daughter Brent Preston and Cathy Preston-Mouncer.
The Preston family, in fulfillment of a long-time goal, broke ground for their winery building in the spring of 1976. The first crush, approzimately 190 tons, got underway in late September of that same year. The white wines were allowed limited skin contact and then cold fermented in jacketed stainless steel tanks to maximize fruitiness and varietal character. The red wines were fermented in open stainless steel tanks and allowed to "dry out" on the skins to maximize color and flavor extraction. Controlled fermentation with pure yeast strains is an important element of Preston's winemaking style.
Barrel aging in Limousin, Alliers and Nevers (French) oak, adds a desirable degree of fullness and complexity to Preston's dry wines, while the semi-dry wines are aged and finished in stainless steel cooperage. Careful grape culture with a critical eye on crop levels and control of pests and diseases brings truly outstanding fruit in the Columbia Basin. Preston Wines have been rated among the finest in the world.
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Does drinking urine treat internal bleeding?
i saw it in a movie once.
Drinking urine is considered a traditional instrument to cure certain diseases. It is practiced widely adjectives over the world and is also part of traditional Chinese and African drug. Nevertheless, this is certainly not for everybody and sure not for every condition. Internal injuries always call for to be treated by a doctor
that's sick yuck
whats wrong with you! sorry i don't know ask your doctor
It might.
What you see contained by movies is nothing more than malarkey. Do you believe everything you see within the movies. Things that happen within the movies in masses cases are far fetch and absurd.
Stop believing everything you see within movies.
No - do not believe everything you see in a movie (or read on the internet) lol
i dont know. but if near is any short supply you can always hail as on me
Have you been watching movies on National Geographic and be they animals?
You are so disgusting. Go to hell you sick F**K!
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May b its true...
i think you should try it for a few weeks and achieve back to us and make clear to us how it went
strange motion for desired purpose!
I am a holistic healer and I once treated dragonflayme71 with urine. It didn't cure his internal bleeding and it made him remarkably mean. You come across like a nice infantile man, please do not drink urine you could end up approaching dragonflayme71.


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Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:
No opera could be more romantic in spirit than Jules Massenet's Werther (1892), based on the enormously popular novel by the Shakespeare of Germany, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). Goethe practically created the movement called Romanticism in literature.
There have been several operatic treatments of Goethe's book, but none so successful as Massenet's in capturing the haunting sadness of the original. The story is at heart autobiographical, although of course Goethe never did commit suicide like his character, the young poet, Werther.
Massenet's opera begins and ends with a Christmas carol, ironically and innocently sung by children. Its most poignant scenes are set at Christmas Eve. The first time I broadcast Werther was at Christmas of 1988. This Sunday will be the fourth time I have aired one or another recording of it.
Covent Garden mounted a production of Werther in 2011, starring tenor Rolando Villazon in the title role. Werther's beloved Charlotte was soprano Sophie Koch. This UK production pulled together an international cast of singers. Antonio Pappano directed the orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recorded live in performance in London, Werther was issued on two CD's in 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon.


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container classes or arrays what is best
Re: container classes
Depends on your requirement.
In C++ there are different type of container. All can be resize with any amount of size at run time. It 's mainly come to solve Bussiness so that take less man power.
By array also you can do same objective but every time you have to code for that. More man power.
If you are talking in average , then container will be good for industries But If you are really good programmer then Array always be best because you can design your own require class. So offcourse it will be more efficient.
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