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DOHA: Qatar has decided to set up a separate and independent directorate of community policing within its interior ministry, signaling that it will increasingly focus on police-public partnership in preventing and fighting crime.
Hitherto public security departments in the North (Al Shamal), Capital Area (Doha), Al Rayan, Dukhan and the South have special sections devoted to community policing. But there was no central department for community policing within the interior ministry. That has now been set up.
The Prime Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani (pictured) , who also holds the Interior Affairs portfolio, yesterday issued a set of decisions to upgrade the organisational structure of the Ministry of Interior.
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Nationally, results of renal transplantation in children, particularly in small children, are inferior to those obtained in adults.
To determine factors important for success in renal transplantation in children.
Results of 108 consecutive renal transplantations performed in patients aged 7 months to 18 years were reviewed and compared with those reported by the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS), the national registry.
One-, 2-, and 3-year graft survival rates (±SE) were 99%± 1%, 95%±3% and 93%±4%, respectively, for living donor grafts and 97%±3%, 92%±6%, and 92%±6%, respectively, for cadaver grafts. Incidence of acute rejection was half that reported by NAPRTCS. There were no graft losses for technical reasons (19% in NAPRTCS). Twelve percent of patients were younger than 2 years (6% in NAPRTCS); 17% were 2 to 5 years old (16% in NAPRTCS). Most small children received an adult-sized kidney. Ninety-three percent of recipients weighing 15 kg or less received postoperative mechanical ventilation assistance to optimize fluid resuscitation and perfusion of adult-sized kidneys. Structural abnormalities of the urinary tract were present in 53.7% of the patients (48.5% in NAPRTCS; adults, 5.3%). Nephroureterectomy was required in 38 children; in 27 (71%) of them, it was performed at the time of transplant surgery.
Excellent results can be obtained in pediatric renal transplantation by strict adherence to surgical detail, tight immunosuppressive management, aggressive fluid management in the small child, and careful integration of urologic and transplant surgery.Arch Surg. 1997;132:842-849
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By next Saturday, a whole year will have gone by without the country being torn asunder by war. The Ceasefire Agreement, signed last February 22nd provided for the guns to fall silent and, since then, they have remained silent.
There have certainly been continuing minor violations of the ceasefire Agreement, or, 'MoU' as it is popularly known with reference to the memorandum of agreement signed between the Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Both sides have been accused of such violations. Nevertheless, none of this has pushed the general situation in the country towards renewed fighting.
Rather, the continued commitment to the MoU, despite the violations, over the past twelve months, shows the strength of the on-going Sri Lankan peace process. Even the failure of a significant initiative taken under the peace process - the setting up of a sub-committee to implement the de-escalation of military activity - has not resulted in any move toward resumed war.
The LTTE, which has been making several demands pertaining to a military de-escalation, having concluded that it was not getting anywhere in this regard, decided not to participate in this sub-committee.
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In all, Sri Lankans may congratulate themselves on a major achievement: one of the longest periods of relative peace in decades of war.
That this is an achievement of not merely the Government and the LTTE, but of all Sri Lankans, must be acknowledged. After all, both the Government as well as the LTTE are dependent on a popular base for their political actions, even though the Government's popular base may be seen to be obtained in a manner characteristic of formal democracy whereas the LTTE's organisational base may not have such democratic trappings.
What is clear is that all, or most Sri Lankans, of all ethnic hues, have tired of war to a degree that their main political leaderships dare not easily transgress those parameters of a desired peace.
It is only a relative peace, however. That is, there is no actual fighting. But, at the same time, there is no sign of the attainment of a comprehensive political settlement of the conflict by which means any future outbreak of war could be avoided.
Even as Sri Lankans step into a new year sans war, hopes must now leap forward to that greater goal of a permanent peace.
In this too, there is reason for optimism. Both sides have already agreed on the general conceptual terms of a future comprehensive political settlement. 'Federal', a word once bandied about as an epithet by some of those leaders who advocate it, is today fast gaining acceptance as a minimum form of political structure that would satisfy the needs of the peace effort.
What is most needed is a strengthening and deepening of the national political will towards a just and comprehensive settlement.
The people have already clearly decided. The majority of Sri Lankans of all ethnic groups have shown their electoral support for political leaderships that are working towards peace by means of political power-sharing and a re-structuring of the Sri Lankan polity for these purposes. It is the political leaderships that seems to lag behind and it is they who must now take the great leap forward.
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Featured Golf News
South Shore Gems
Plymouth Rock, site of the Pilgrims landing in America, is no longer the prime tourist attraction in the sprawling community of Plymouth, Mass., located approximately 45 minutes south of Boston and 15 minutes north of Cape Cod. Golf has transformed the South Shore region over the past decade into a featured destination, with 11 public courses presenting a variety of challenges.
The Treacherous 476-yard 18th
on the Nicklaus Course at Pinehills
From two championship-caliber layouts at pristine Pinehills Golf Club to the rolling fairways at Waverly Oaks to the aptly named Crosswinds to the captivating Southers Marsh to the demanding Squirrel Run, Plymouth offers something for golfers of every ability and taste.
Two Beauties at Pinehills
The Jones' course at Pinehills, designed by Rees Jones, opened in 2001, followed by a Jack Nicklaus Design layout a year later. While many facilities seek to provide a private-club feel at a public golf course, Pinehills accomplishes that lofty goal.
The drive down the winding entrance road stops in front of an elegant, 12,000-square-foot clubhouse, where employees remove your clubs from the trunk and place them onto a cart that will be waiting for you at the driving range. You're greeted like a well-heeled member, even though Pinehills is a daily-fee layout. Afterward, there's a locker room and showers in which to clean up and change clothes, and a grill room and porch to enjoy a sandwich and beverage.
But while the first-class treatment makes you feel special, it's the golf courses that bring you back. Set among woodlands, kettle ponds and cranberry bogs, both layouts feature steep elevation changes and dramatic scenery. Most holes are framed by pines and completely isolated, providing a serene atmosphere that seems as though no one else is on the premises.
The Jones course has a classic feel, rolling gently through the woods with a series of doglegs, valleys and swales past stately white pines and natural vegetation. It's a bit like going back in time, before architects began tricking up layouts in an effort to be unique. The emphasis here is on intelligent shot-making and fundamentals. Most greens are clearly visible from the tee.
The par-4 sixth hole is a bear from the tips at 459 yards, while the 414-yard eighth twists left and discourages cutting the corner with a series of traps running down the left side of the fairway. The front nine finishes in style with an attention-grabbing par-5 of 574 yards that flows downhill and provides an option of carrying a bunker at the corner to slice off some distance.
The back nine is equally spectacular. The drive on the 382-yard 10th must avoid fairway traps both sides and requires a tricky approach. The 248-yard 14th will test anyone's game. The uphill par-3 starts at an elevated tee and often plays into a swirling wind; a massive greenside bunker catches poorly struck shots. There is a bailout area to the left, and if you muscle it long, a nifty chipping area awaits beyond the green.
Finally, there's the par-5 15th. The tee sits on one of the course's highest points, and as you stand waiting to strike your drive you might feel you've been transplanted to North Carolina. The entire hole is framed by towering pines, which you gaze down upon from above the tree line. It's a gorgeous scene when the colors change in the fall. The hole is no picnic, however, as the drive must carry a waste area to reach the fairway, while also avoiding fairway traps left and right.
The Nicklaus course features a series of testy greens, many bordered by low-cut collection areas that provide the option of pitching or putting in order to rescue par. You'll face a fair share of approach shots over ravines to elevated greens, and if you tackle the championship tees, you'll encounter eight par-4s over 400 yards, a 243-yard par-3, and a 591-yard par-5. The finishing hole is truly championship-caliber. A par-4 of 476 yards, it demands a deft tee shot to a narrow fairway lined along the left by a pond that runs all the way to the green.
For more details or a tee time, visit www.pinehillsgolf.com.
The Demanding 248-yard 17th at Waverly Oaks
Waverly Oaks
Waverly Oaks is located across Route 3 from Pinehills. The club has gone through turbulent times in recent years. It was nearly closed to make way for a film studio and a hotel, but when financing collapsed for the planned "Plymouth Rock Studios," the golf course continued operating. Opened in 1997, Waverly plays 7,100 yards from the tips, although four sets of tees accommodate higher handicaps. There are extraordinary elevation changes throughout; wide, generous fairways; and ballroom-sized greens that are easy to hit but hard to putt.
You won't find many three-hole stretches more demanding than the 15th through the 17th. It begins with a 474-yard par-4, followed by a 636-yard par-5 (although the last 200 yards dip into a steep ravine). Finally, there's the ridiculously difficult 234-yard, uphill par-3. Requiring all carry over a waste area, there's an enormous bunker guarding the front of the green that sits 15 feet below the putting surface.
For more information, visit www.waverlyoaksgolfclub.com.
The 4-Tiered Tee at the 378-yard
Fourth on the Jones Course at Crosswinds GC
It's a short drive from Waverly Oaks to Crosswinds (www.golfcrosswinds.com). Comprised of three distinct nine-hole layouts - the Ouimet, Jones and Zaharias - the course is exposed to high winds that make for treacherous conditions. With tapered fairways, water hazards, precipitous elevation changes and a series of blind shots, this layout is not for the faint of heart.
The final three holes of the Zaharias/Jones course can be a scorecard-destroyer. The steeply downhill, 337-yard par-4 16th demands a precise and intelligent shot off the tee, while water lurks on the 211-yard 17th, and the 560-yard 18th is a superb risk-reward finisher.
Atlantic Country Club
Tucked away in a remote corner of South Plymouth and reached by winding, narrow roads, Atlantic Country Club can truly be labeled a hidden gem. It doesn't receive the accolades of the aforementioned trio, but this Cornish, Silva, Mungeam design is worth the visit. Set on 187 acres of wooded, rolling terrain, it plays 6,728 yards from the championship tees. Every hole features tight, twisting and tilted fairways, followed by approaches to elevated greens that are usually guarded by bunkers.
The landing areas are blind on many drives, and rarely will you see the bottom of a flagstick. Fortunately, the greens are outsized, but accurate placement of tee shots is essential.
Holes to remember include the 428-yard ninth, with its serpentine fairway and heightened, mounded green, and the uphill 339-yard 13th, featuring a tree-lined fairway that leans left. The 373-yard 15th that doglegs left over a pond is also memorable.
Course knowledge is critical due to the succession of blind shots at Atlantic CC (www.atlanticcountryclub.com). Rest assured, you'll never be bored as every hole is unique and secluded.
The Scenic, Cranberry-bog-engirded,
363-yard Fourth at Southers Marsh
Southers Marsh
No course in Plymouth is more distinctive than Southers Marsh (www.southersmarsh.com). Opened in 2001, this executive-style course winds across 32 acres of working cranberry bogs. The 18-hole layout barely measures 4,100 yards from the back tees and plays to a par of 61, but this is not a relaxing walk in the park.
Southers Marsh involves a succession of carries over wetlands, beginning with the difficult 370-yard, par-4 opener. The 190-yard third is entirely over a cranberry bog, while hazards must be carried on four other holes. The prevailing theory is that executive courses are stress-free. Not here.
Squirrel Run
Finally, there's Squirrel Run, a par-57, 18-hole venue that can be played quickly, though not always painlessly. The course opens with a seemingly benign 310-yard par-4, but then you realize that the tee shot is blind, with the woods creeping in along the left side mandating a precise drive. The approach to a postage-stamp, crowned green isn't any easier, with bunkers front and right. Next is a 131-yard par-3 whose narrow green is guarded by a large pond. On the 140-yard third, water enters play along right and before the green.
At 2,809 yards, Squirrel Run has only three par-4s, all on the front nine. The one-shotters range from the 109-yard 11th to the 192-yard 14th, with numerous carries over water to a series of mounded, undulating greens that ask for accurate iron play. Nearly every hole features some sort of obstacle. At tight Squirrel Run, there's little room for error.
For more information, visit www.squirrelrungolf.com.
Rob Duca is an award-winning sports columnist who wrote for the Cape Cod Times for 25 years, covering golf, the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Celtics and the Boston Bruins. He is now managing editor of Golf & Leisure Cape Cod magazine and has written for a variety of other publications, including Sports Illustrated, the Boston Globe, Yankee magazine and Cape Cod Life.
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Los Angeles Times
December 27, 2004
It may generate more buzz than box office receipts, but the holiday release of the film "Hotel Rwanda" — a heartbreaking look at the African nation's 1994 genocide — should be cheered for going against the grain of Christmas feel-good fare.
Critics may fret that its moral punch is undercut by a simplistic, somewhat sanitized view of the political upheaval and bloody killing spree. But had the film dared to graphically convey the depravity of the Hutu slaughter of Tutsis or explored the country's complicated history, it would have been stuck on art house screens at best. Mass culture is obliged to simplify, to designate heroes, who provide the prism through which we can comfortably absorb both the grotesque and the grand.
In this movie, the real-life hero is more Everyman than Superman. Hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina — a Hutu who reluctantly sheltered and then stepped up to save the lives of more than 1,000 Tutsi refugees — makes the same journey of conscience required of viewers, from pragmatic self-interest to selfless moral reckoning. Along the way, he confronts an ugly truth that transcends the unfolding tragedy — the world cares little for the fate of black Africans.
On the screen, the message is delivered by the chief of the United Nations peacekeeping force, who bitterly tells Rusesabagina that foreign soldiers will not be coming to save them because African lives are considered "worthless."
Off the screen, a similarly chilling assessment of international indifference comes from Anthony Lake, who was President Clinton's national security advisor during the crisis. Lake, who previewed the film with the New York Times, told the newspaper that the rampage — 800,000 men, women and children slaughtered in three months — failed to register on the radar screen of U.S. leaders preoccupied with conflicts in Bosnia and Haiti. Sudan is now similarly given short shrift as attention is riveted on Iraq.
But the United States did more than avert its eyes from Rwanda; this country turned its back. Not only did U.S. leaders not intervene, they demanded that the U.N. withdraw its peacekeepers, prohibited the use of the word "genocide" and ignored CIA warnings of the impending disaster.
In hindsight, Lake considers that "shameful." His mind began changing when he visited a Rwandan churchyard months after the killing spree and found it so packed with the bodies of mutilated women and children he "couldn't get out without stepping on them."
Terry George, the movie's director, hopes that "Hotel Rwanda" will provoke a similar public epiphany. A refugee from civil war in Northern Ireland, George fought to keep the project afloat amid skepticism in Hollywood. He kicked in money when financing lagged and took the rare step of challenging its initial R rating, winning a PG-13 without sacrificing anything. That will allow it to be screened for schools and community groups, an important step in lifting its heart-rending message from the back pages of history.


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The genie in the lamp
Could a genie help solve your family history problems?
Although family history is becoming increasingly high-tech, there are those days when we wish we had a genie in a lamp.
After hours of fruitless searching for what seems to be a non-existent direct ancestor - although we know they MUST have existed or we wouldn't be here looking for them - it would be great to just grab that lamp, rub it a few times (depending on the version of the folktale you follow) and ask the emerging genie for help.
Genealogy conferences might feature workshops titled "The care and feeding of your genie," "Getting your genie online," or "Polishing the lamp: Keep your genie happy."
According to folklore, of course, the problem is asking the correct three wishes, and we look forward to experts presenting workshops on techniques for constructing them.
Something else to consider: Would there be a difference between asking a polite question or giving a command to "dig up" the information we need? Does the word "wish" need to be included?
"Could you please find Uncle Melvin's birthdate" might bring a very different result from commanding the genie to "I wish you would bring me Uncle Melvin."
What are the three most urgent questions that your genie could help answer?
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House History: Document yours!
Imagine going down to the cellar of your house and seeing "1423" carved in an original beam.
Our daughter once lived in Zurich, Switzerland. Her fascinating house on a historic street - Rennweg - in the center of town was on all the medieval maps at the city museum.
In the Middle Ages, it was the main street of the city's upper town and ran along the 12th century city wall from a fortified gate to the town hall. During street renovations, a Roman-era well was discovered.
Except for that carved date in an ancient wooden beam, a casual visitor would not have known the nearly 600-year-old building's history. Of course, other clues were the very steep steps, sloping floors and oddly-shaped rooms, but everything else was modern.
Wouldn't you love to know the history of your home? When it was built and by whom? Who lived in it through the years? How they were connected to the community in which they lived?
Unless preserved, this type of information is often lost.
In Ithaca, New York, a group of people have come up with a local project to preserve house history - one which could easily be replicated in places around the world.


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In an assault on workers and their unions in the heart of the once heavily industrialized and unionized Midwest, Indiana's Republican-controlled House passed a right to work for less bill yesterday.
The Senate must take up the issue again before anything can be sent to the governor for his signature because the measure that passed in the Senate last week was a different version of the bill that passed in the House yesterday.
If the bill is eventually signed into law by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels Indiana would become the first right to work for less state in the country's traditional manufacturing belt.
The House approved the law by a 54-44 margin, despite five Republicans having joined Democratic lawmakers to oppose it.
The state Senate voted 28 to 22 in favor of the senate's version of the bill, with nine Republicans joining all 13 Democrats in voting against it.
The vote in the House yesterday came as hundreds of protesters in the Statehouse shouted their disapproval, chanting, "Kill the Bill," and after weeks of protests by Democratic lawmakers themselves who tried numerous ways to stop the bill.
They refused to show up for debate despite the threat of fines that totaled $1,000 a day and introduced dozens of amendments aimed at delaying a vote. They finally agreed to allow a vote yesterday, conceding that they could not keep up their tactics forever since they were clearly outnumbered.
Indiana AFL-CIO President Nancy Guyot said unions are still working on the long shot bid to kill the measure in the Indiana Senate. "We're going to do everything in our power, we're only at the halfway point," Guyot said after the House vote.
Dean Baker, co director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said that the bill, in effect, imposes a tax on any worker who chooses to support a union.
He said that this was the case "because the bill requires that workers who support a union at the workplace must pay for the representation of workers who choose not to pay for the union's representation. This means that non-members not only get the same wages and benefits that the union gets for its members, they also are entitled to the union's protection in the event of disputes with the employer. It requires unions to provide free representation to non-members."
Democrats argued yesterday, in the hours of debate leading up to the vote, that the bill will lead to a downward spiral of wages that will hurt all workers, not just those in unions.
Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, was in tears as he spoke of his father and grandfather, union members who, he said, fought for the principles that workers have a voice.
"Mr. Speaker, I implore you. Please do not do this," he said.
Democratic Rep. Linda Lawson called the GOP measure an attack on union strongholds throughout the state.
"What you are doing is destroying my community," said Lawson, who represents a northwest Indiana district with heavy manufacturers and a BP oil refinery.
"What if I came into your community and said no more cows and no more pigs?" she said, referring to the agriculturally heavy districts represented by many of the Republicans who backed the right to work for less bill.
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, in a statement released right after the vote, promised a voter backlash like those seen in other states.
"I have little doubt in my mind that Gov. Daniels and Indiana's Republicans will see a tremendous backlash from their constituents if right-to work is passed," Hoffa said. "If there is one thing we have seen this past year, its that working men and women will rise up to challenge any legislation that threatens the welfare of their families."
Photo: Charles Cain of Columbus, Ind., holding a sign during a rally in the hallways of the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Jan. 23. Darron Cummings/AP


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As candidate oligonucleotide therapeutics move through the drug-development path past compound synthesis and in vitro testing, there has been an increasing need to understand how such compounds behave in vivo. ADME/pharmacokinetics studies require analysis of the chemical structure and quantity of therapeutic oligonucleotides and their metabolites from the time they are introduced into a subject to the point where they are no longer detected in plasma or tissues. These studies are typically performed using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS).
With small molecule therapeutic analysis, a simple isolation step is usually required to separate the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) from biological matrices such as plasma or urine. This process is more difficult with oligonucleotides, which are present in small amounts in plasma that is full of proteins, salts, lipids, and cell debris.
These matrix contaminants can interfere with the LC/MS analysis that is used to identify and quantitate the therapeutic oligonucleotide and its metabolites. Further complicating the isolation of oligos from plasma and tissue are their chemical properties. Oligonucleotides' polar and polyanionic qualities make it difficult to use standard separation procedures to clean up plasma samples for LC/MS analysis methods.
A method for performing sample preparation using a two-step procedure of liquid–liquid extraction (LLE) and solid-phase extraction (SPE) reported in Analytical Chemistry in 2007 has met with limited success with small studies where the large amount of required manual manipulation is not a factor. However, in clinical or animal studies of a candidate therapeutic oligonucleotide, which can require the analysis of thousands of samples, this sample-prep method is not practical.
To overcome the limitations of two-step isolation, a new methodology was introduced last year for separating oligonucleotides from serum and plasma. This methodology, which has been incorporated in Phenomenex' Clarity OTX oligonucleotide isolation kit, uses a novel solubilization buffer instead of the time-consuming LLE steps from other protocols.
This method also uses a mixed-mode SPE sorbent for specifically capturing oligonucleotides while allowing the elution of proteins and lipids that can interfere with LC/MS analysis. Being an SPE-based protocol, the isolation methodology is rapid and easily performed in less than 15 minutes.
The Clarity OTX method uses buffers that maintain near-neutral pH throughout the process to avoid unwanted modifications of the oligonucleotide (depurination for DNA below pH 5 and 2´ to 3´ isomerization for RNA above pH 8). The clean-up and recovery of this protocol is demonstrated in Figure 1.
In this example, a 27 mer DNA oligonucleotide was spiked into plasma at the 12 µg/mL level and isolated using the Clarity OTX protocol for analysis by HPLC. The upper HPLC chromatogram of Figure 1 is the plasma-extracted oligonucleotide; the lower chromatogram is the same oligonucleotide directly injected onto the HPLC system. Note the minimum number of UV-interfering contaminants in the plasma-extracted sample.
Because most matrix interference peaks elute away from the oligonucleotide, quantitation is unaffected by matrix interference. Recoveries of greater than 95% from the plasma samples demonstrate the utility of this protocol for isolating oligonucleotides from biological samples. While the data is not shown here, the new isolation method produces a linear response curve with sensitivity down to low nanomolar concentrations, depending on the LC/MS system used.
Michael McGinley ([email protected]) is bioseparations product manager, Greg Scott is a research scientist, and Brian Rivera is a bioseparations specialist at Phenomenex.
Michael McGinley ([email protected]) is bioseparations product manager, Greg Scott is a research scientist, and Brian Rivera is a bioseparations specialist at Phenomenex.
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The cutbacks announced by United Airlines in Cleveland should not affect the Cleveland International Film Festival.
"It appears as if United will retain direct flights to most of the major airports that the CIFF annually utilizes for guest filmmaker travel," said Patrick Shepherd, associate director of the festival.
This year's CIFF will run March 19-30 at Tower City Cinemas, and the United cuts are not expected to begin until April, so Shepherd is looking ahead at future festivals.
Among the major airports Shepherd mentioned were those in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, D.C., and several in Florida.
The airline is also a sponsor of the festival.
"United will serve as our official airline of the 38th Cleveland International Film Festival again this year," said Shepherd. "Their generous support will help us bring in over 200 filmmakers to Cleveland this year."


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Acer Aspire M3-581T-32364G34Mnkk
Average of 4 scores (from 6 reviews)
Reviews for the Acer Aspire M3-581T-32364G34Mnkk
Source: Reg Hardware
If you want a laptop that is really slim and light then you'll obviously want to opt for a 13in Ultrabook instead. But if you compare the M3 to most 15.6in laptops then it actually comes out looking pretty good. It's one of the slimmest and lightest 15.6in models currently available, whilst still managing to cram in a DVD drive and decent connectivity options. A higher clock speed would be nice, but the M3 should still cope perfectly well with most routine computing tasks, and the £500 price tag isn't at all bad for a 'semi-ultra' laptop of this size.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/13/2012
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Trusted Reviews
This particular 581T-32364G34Mnkk configuration of the Acer Aspire Timeline U M3 makes it one of the cheapest 'Ultrabooks' available, or from another perspective, one of the lightest and slimmest affordable 15in laptops on the market. If this appeals to you it's well worth considering thanks to decent looks, good build, nice usability and strong battery life. Otherwise you can get similar features and less awkward connection placement for the money elsewhere.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/13/2012
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 70% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Notebooks.com
The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 has the distinction of having the longest laptop name ever and of being the first ultrabook to come to market with discrete graphics. Okay, maybe the name isn't the longest ever, but the discrete graphics thing is no joke.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 04/20/2012
Source: AnandTech
With the Acer Aspire TimelineU M3, we're really talking about and reviewing two different products: the ultrabook itself and the shiny new NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M. There's a certain poetry to the feeling that these two products are both worthy of the same conclusion: excellent on their own, but both need to be able to stretch their legs.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/13/2012
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Rating: Total score: 87% performance: 65% display: 80% mobility: 100% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 90%
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Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/19/2012
Rating: Total score: 85%
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M: Middle class graphics card of the 600M series based on the 28nm GK107 chip (Kepler architecture).
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
2367M: Power efficient ULV processor clocked at 1.4 GHz without Turbo boost. Offers an integrated HD 3000 clocked at slow 350 / 1000 MHz and a DDR3-1333 memory controller.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.3 kg:
Usually subnotebooks, ultrabooks and quite lightweight laptops with 12-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.
Acer: Acer Incorporated is a Taiwanese multinational electronics manufacturer. Its product lineup includes desktops and laptops, as well as personal digital assistants (PDAs), servers and storage, displays, peripherals, and e-business services for business, government, education, and home users. Acer is the third largest computer manufacturer in the world (by sales) after HP and Dell Inc (2007). The company owns the largest franchised computer retail chain in Taipei, Taiwan. Originally named Multitech, it was founded in 1976. Gateway and Packard Bell are economically connected with Acer. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
83%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.


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text: [[[[[I D A E]]]]]]A lot of rumors floating around, about this stock being the one to monetize social networks, Joe Abrams the co-founder of My space and Maynard Webb the former COO of E-bay recently joined the board, these guys don't get involved in small companies. They are launching group gifting on Face book and My space. Don't know whats up, but big news is said to hit soon. Anyone else?No insider sales, tightly held, they have a proprietary billing technology that they developed for theirSNE (social networking enabled) gift card. They just launched this on Face booKcom!!They also have another proprietary application called "Bill My Parents" (pretty clear what it does).They recently emerged from the R&D phase and are beta-testing their platforms.(something like 70% of all these type of companies don't make it out of R&D and into the market)? Interesting?This company looks poised for an acquisition by one of the social networking giants i.e., My Space, Face book, etc.(which recently overtook adult as the most visited web niche on the net! ), add the fact that Joe Abrams (the Co-founder of My space parent company) joined the board and sold his last two companies for over 500 Million each, I heard this could be the next one?A potential gem in this turd of a market.Just My 2 cents for you all<<<<IDAE>>>>


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Skip to comments.Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick calls Christian soldiers "bigots."
Posted on 09/20/2010 10:14:13 AM PDT by markomalley
'Civil rights' destroying our nation one brick at a time.
Homosexual "rights" and religious liberty are NOT compatible, period.
I think the time is coming when, like the Christians of the Roman empire, we should.
Roman soldiers were required to perform worship to the Emperor as proof of loyalty. Hence Christians avoided going into the Roman military.
Similarly too, the Democrats are trying to force Christians to perform worship at the altar of sexual perversion...as proof of our "loyalty."
If Christians are forced out of the military due to our moral stance, let's see how long our Republic will last...
I understand that, technically he was in a hazardous fire zone. I have 58 months of that, but it doesn't mean I was actually in combat. There is a huge difference between the combat seen by Congressman Hunter and the 'combat' seen by Congressman Mark Kirk. Hunter led men on the ground under fire, Kirk happened to be in the area.
"continues to be ignorant about the moral philsophy of most Christians."
Given that he's an affirmative-action general, I doubt that he has the candlepower to understand these arguments. I think he's just parroting arguments that were handed to him.
Probably in a PowerPoint presentation.
One indivudual,whose daughter is a lesbian,said "who's to say the gays are wrong and that we are right?" I said nothing because I didn't want to start any trouble. I was the only person in the class (there were 5 of us)who was against homosexuality. There was a gayer-than-gay student (we were enrolled in a beauty school)who would come in for facials on a regular basis. I don't think he even paid for them! We could only get so many before we had to start paying for them.At any rate he carried a suede purse with those fringes that hang off the side,and he wore make-up. During one of those many facials he'd get he said "I never thought I could enjoy being touched by a woman." Everone else laughed but I rolled my eyes.He even said that he pees sitting down! When I asked why he said "it's the girl in me"Give me a break.
If all Christians were to not enlist or re-enlist, who would fight Obama's war?
I wanted to say that but I held my tongue.I really didn't want to start any trouble and be viewed as a homophobe. That's what one will be called if they disagree with homosexuality.Their view is the only right one.Freedom of speech goes both ways!
So Obama's Brave New Military is willing to permit violent jihadist Islamic supremacists in the ranks in the name of diversity but shows intolerance for Christians who believe homosexuality is still a sin as it has been for thousands of years.
The sex positive agenda as espoused by Reich, Kinsey, SEICUS, Planned Parenthood and others is about ending ALL moral judgements over ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partners. They consider abstinence to be unhealthy as it is a supression of sexual desires. They believe the orgasm to be a birthright to be enjoyed by everyone at every age in any cirmcumstance without judgement.
They also deride Christianity specifically as being "sex negative". So they have established an identity they posit as contrary to another religious view (so what if their religion is atheist secular humanist, it is still a practiced religion to them).
No establishment of THIS religion and supression of all other faiths.
Like never before. It's almost surreal what is happening.
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The very day I bought my Xbox 360 two years ago, I bought Gears of War 2 with it, and that very night, played Gears with some friends on LAN. I fell in love with Horde mode that night and have played it religiously since.
This weekend thanks to a 21x XP event due to the 4th of July weekend I finally earned my level 100 wings and the Veteran Gear achievement. It's about damn time too...
COG FACT: it takes just as much XP in Gears of War 2 to go from lvl 85-100 as it does to go from lvl 1-85. Where I come from, we call that some Bullshit.
I think it's only fair to add that due to several various glitches in Gears of War 2, I was reset at lvl 36, 42, and fifty-something. If I hadn't lost those levels I probably would've finished this achievement a long time ago. However, with a 1-50 complete on every single level, 55,300+ kills, and help from friends, it is done.
COG FACT: I have never played Gears of War 2 with a single person, online, who hadn't lost all of their level progression at least once.
So a quick thanks to all the friends both on and off of 1up that have played Horde with me at one point or another.
BigBenBizzle - 1up
DSO Auryon - 1up
Minky - MMMIIIIINNNNKKKKAAAAAYYYYY!!!!
Kactus Jack
Mighty M0uth
WT Hazard
Lil Notorious
Huxley - 1up
FowlOfDoom - 1up
I think I only lack 3 more achievements now in Gears of War 2... Just not sure I care enough to play enough meatflag games to capture 10, hate that game mode.
Still no word from the movers on whether or not they've found any of our missing stuff. This whole thing has been a pain in the ass, but it should all be over soon-ish.
With that said, the man cave is set up, and I'll probably be posting some pics soon. Shit I have a lot of games... the database shows right around 1200. The NES collection however has just hit 565+. It's getting harder and harder to find games I don't have. What will I do then? Whine a lot probably... My poor instant gratification reflex will atrophy and die.
Wanted to give a special thanks to the 1up staff for making my recent blog about my damaged game a featured blog. It got some good attention and brought in a few PM's, along with some great links to some informative websites. Thanks guys, you really helped me out a lot, and with any luck I can find another copy of that game in as good condition to replace the one I had. (fat chance but... I'll be trying)
It was the culmination of my two biggest hobbies Star Wars and Retro Gaming... it just...
Ok I'm gonna throw a fit that results in the castration of every person that so much as looked at our stuff during the move if I continue down that line of thought. Either way, thanks guys you did me a huge favor and I hope some day I have the chance to repay it.
I won't lie, I'm really pissed about the Star Wars Galaxies shut down news. I've been playing that game since an early beta, with only a few short intermitent breaks. I've made some wonderful friends over the years, and had a lot of fun. I've seen some of the best game development ideas I've ever seen, and witnessed ALL of the worst game development choices in video game history.
With that said, I will miss the game. RIP TewBacco, Shryyyk, Oo'Oroo, Emilyy, Rorrayyk, and Battickuk.
Having played SW:ToR already in alpha, I can't say that it will fill the void Galaxies will leave, but I can say I will be playing one way or the other. (so help me God wookiees better be playable!)


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Long Island's Newsday paper is back in the hands of the Dolan family.
European telecommunications company Altice had bought Newsday's owner, New York-area cable company Cablevision, in June for $17.7 billion. Cablevision was founded by Charles Dolan in 1973, and the Dolan family became a New York sports-and-entertainment power. They control Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks and Rangers and AMC Networks, which airs "The Walking Dead."
Cablevision bought Newsday in 2008, but it came under Altice's control in June.
Now, Patrick Dolan, Charles Dolan's son and brother of former Cablevision CEO James Dolan, leads a group that has bought back 75 percent of...


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Lawsuit: Discrimination a problem for BernCo's female employeesUPDATED 5:21 PM MDT Sep 02, 2014
Women working for Bernalillo County claim the county's male employees are receiving more pay and all the credit in a gender discrimination lawsuit.Video Transcript
PROTECTION, IN RESPONSE TO SEX ABUSE LAWSUITS. WOMEN WORKING FOR BERNALILLO COUNTY CLAIM, IN A GENDER DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT - THAT MEN GET MORE PAY AND ALL THE CREDIT'. FOR THE FIRST TIME TONIGHT, WE HEAR FROM A WOMAN BEHIND THE LAWSUIT. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER REGINA RUIZ JOINS US TO EXPLAIN .... DESPITE LEGAL ACTION, SOME EMPLOYEES DON'T FEEL THINGS ARE IMPROVING. DOUG AND SHELLY, NINE WOMEN FILED THE LAWSUIT YEARS AGO. RIGHT NOW, IT HASN'T BEEN RESOLVED. AND THE WOMEN SAY THE GENDER DISCRIMINATION IS STILL GOING FOR BERNALILLO COUNTY EMPLOYEES. I pretty much grew up here, I used to love this place. AFTER MORE THAN TWO DECADES, PRISCILLA GUTIERREZ RECENTLY RETIRED FROM BERNALILLO COUNTY. BUT, IT'S WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE SHE LEFT THAT STILL STINGS. Regina; So talk about the pain Priscilla. Priscilla: The pain well it hurts me so much because I feel like I gave a good 25 years of my time. GUTIERREZ AND EIGHT OTHER FEMALE BERNALILLO COUNTY EMPLOYEES SAY MEN GOT BETTER PAY, PROMOTIONS AND TREATMENT. Just thinking about how we were treated. How I was treated as a woman. As a professional. Didn't get the respect or the money, equal pay as the men did IT COULD TAKE YEARS FOR THE GENDER DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT TO BE SETTLED. WHILE GUTIERREZ DOESN'T WORK FOR THE COUNTY ANYMORE, SOME OF HER CO-WORKERS STILL DO. Regina: do you feel like anything has changed here, like it made a difference? Priscilla: I don't. The girls that I used to work with, it's gotten worse. EMPLOYMENT ATTORNEY WHITNEY WARNER AGREES. From what I can see there is a huge problem that is still going on. WARNER REPRESENTS THE WOMEN. I think it's outrageous what is going on. NOW RETIRED, GUTIERREZ DECIDED TO SPEAK UP FOR ALL WOMEN WORKING FOR BERNALILLO COUNTY. We want change and we want to be treated fairly and we want to be treated like the men do. Get respect. BERNALILLO COUNTY SAYS SEVERAL WOMEN ARE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS, OF 22 DEPARTMENTS, 10 ARE HEADED BY WOMEN. THE COUNTY SAYS IT TAKES CLAIMS OF DISCRIMINATION VERY SERIOUSLY. BUT, SAYS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF GENDER-BASED DISCRIMINATION ON A CLASS-WIDE BASIS. BACK TO YOU THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE WOMEN SAYS, BEST CASE... IT'S OVER IN 6 MONTHS' WORST CASE - UP TO 10 YEARS. A SANTA FE HOSPITAL SAYS NEGOTIATIONS WITH A LABOR UNION ARE GOING
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A Maecenas for the Internet Age
Denis Dutton showed how intellectual life can be made to flourish on the Web
Denis Dutton was one of the most prominent patrons of the arts of the 21st century. This fact has only become apparent in the past 10 days, as writers and editors have begun to think about his legacy in the wake of his death from prostate cancer at the age of 66.
The unexpected news of Dutton's passing left many of us feeling stunned and guiltily remiss. The shock came in part because Dutton had kept his illness private and had never given any obvious sign of weakening powers. The guilt was due to the realization that his contributions to contemporary intellectual life had never been properly esteemed during his lifetime.
Most readers knew of Denis Dutton—if they knew of him at all—as the creator of a popular website, Arts & Letters Daily. To writers and editors, he was an influential arbiter of culture to whom we appealed to help promote our work. The reality is that he did more for serious cultural criticism than any other figure in the Internet age. Dutton's life was rich and varied—he was, often concurrently, a professor, philosopher, writer, editor and entrepreneur. But it is for his website, launched in 1998, that he will be remembered.
At first glance, Dutton's legacy may seem unassuming. Every day, Arts & Letters Daily (ALD to its fans) offers three or four fresh links to nonfiction writing from English-language periodicals and websites around the world, each introduced by a witty 25-word "teaser." The links themselves—remaining on the site for weeks and thus allowing the reader, cumulatively, to choose among dozens of major pieces of writing with a single visit—appear in three columns, organized under the headings "Articles of Note," "New Books" and "Essays and Opinions."
The teasers are no slapdash summary but constitute Dutton's personal rebuttal to academic obscurantism. They lure readers of diverse temperaments into subjects equally diverse. For example: "Niccolo Machiavelli was an amoebic being: imperialist, proto-libertarian, atheist, neo-pagan, Christian, lover of freedom, tutor to despots, armchair strategist." Or: "A greener world may eliminate some risks we face, but it will create new ones. Electric cars will require lithium. And guess where the world's lithium deposits are?" Often they provide a chuckle on their own: "For fans, Gustav Mahler was more than a composer. He was a seer who foretold Auschwitz, McCarthyism, killing JFK, Vietnam. Yeah, whatever . . ."
The appeal of Arts & Letters Daily is in its reliability and lack of fuss. The site has few ads and no bells or whistles. Bucking the Internet habit of spreading content maddeningly over numerous pages—to inflate "page views" and thus appear more attractive to advertisers—ALD is almost entirely contained on a single scrollable page, modeled, Dutton said, on the 18th-century broadsheet. His aim, first and foremost, was to make the site suitable to its purpose. He tried to instill Arts & Letters Daily with the atmosphere of a Victorian reading room or an athenaeum—a place for reading and thinking, free from distractions.
As the site grew in prestige and reach, Dutton gained leverage with the editors whose content he was posting, allowing him to insist on certain specifications. Discussing a possible link with Richard Starr, the deputy editor of the Weekly Standard, Dutton first waved the carrot: "I can promise you 15,000 readers you would not otherwise have had, plus new subscribers out of that. (Just ask The American Scholar, which has built a shrine to me with burning incense in their D.C. office, because I've given them so much traffic and so many subscribers. Well, they said they were going to.)" Then came the stick: "There's a condition, however. I need a formatted single-page version of the article, just like the New Yorker, Slate, Boston Globe, NYT, etc. etc. offer. We do not inflict on our readers four or five page multi-links for a single article." Mr. Starr notes that the Weekly Standard was happy to rejigger its online set-up to accommodate the request. (At the moment, ALD averages around 3 million visits from more than 350,000 unique visitors each month.)
Clearly Dutton was particular about design and presentation. According to Evan Goldstein, an editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education (which now owns ALD), Dutton tweaked and edited a teaser until the lines broke in exactly the right manner, and he gave attention to the minute details of italic and boldface type onscreen. "All of this, he insisted many times, aided readability and added to the experience of visiting ALD," Mr. Goldstein says.
But Dutton's greatest service to readers was in sorting through the Internet's infinite verbiage. The writer and editor Joseph Epstein likens Dutton's efforts to those of corporate assistants who assiduously cull the daily wires for busy executives. "Under Denis Dutton, Arts & Letters Daily performed a similar function for those of us who are not so important but still haven't time to read the vast amount of printed material released, avalanche fashion, on the world everyday."
If readers benefitted, writers and critics did even more, thanks to Dutton's unparalleled ability to bring small intellectual venues to the attention of wide audiences. Indeed, it is this amplifying effect that makes Arts & Letters Daily so culturally significant. Dutton's judicious deployment of links amounted to a rare and extraordinary form of patronage.
Links are the Internet's currency. Usually they are of a base metal, allowing the like-minded merely to note each other's perspicacity. But ALD's links are gold, attracting tens of thousands of new readers to articles whose readership might otherwise be painfully small. Of course, even big and well-known venues covet an ALD link. But the windfall is almost epochal for little magazines.
Little magazines are vital to intellectual discourse, not least for the new and iconoclastic voices they present, but in most cases they toil in short-lived obscurity. As Frederick Crews noted in 1978: "Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate." Such magazines find their audience by filling a niche, typically one based on political ideology. This can lend them a fatal air of parochialism and group think.
The same is true for various precincts of the Internet, though for slightly different reasons. Here the white noise of blogs and chat forums and automated aggregators is so deafening that new voices can make themselves heard only by sounding dog-whistles to targeted groups. Despite its vastness, much of the Internet is fiercely tribalist, with most links traded jealously among similar folks. Dutton's approach was quite different: eclectic and rigorous, but wide-ranging and broad-minded too, without the rancor of faction or partisanship.
I was lucky enough to learn firsthand the value of Dutton's sensibility. In 2007, two friends and I launched the online journal Open Letters Monthly. We had no connections or financial backing (total outlay: $300)—nothing but a desire to produce sparkling long-form criticism. Dutton linked to our second issue, giving us our first real readership. In a light-handed manner that contrasted with the influence he wielded, he was with us at nearly every step of our growth. He advised us to change the background to make our pieces more readable. One of his links brought in so much traffic that it crashed our server and prompted us to redesign the site. A link from July 2010 sent more than 14,000 visitors to Open Letters and led to one particular article being linked by dozens of other magazines and blogs, adding up to well over 20,000 new unique visitors in that month alone.
For a small magazine, that is an enormous number. The Paris Review, for instance, has roughly 16,000 subscribers. The New Criterion 6,000. Granta and the London Review of Books around 50,000 each. The 108-year-old Times Literary Supplement, the leading periodical of the Anglophone literary world, has only 32,000 subscribers. For all these magazines, ALD was a godsend.
Unestablished intellectual ventures caught Mr. Dutton's eye because his criteria were almost anachronistically elemental: An article or review must be lucid, opinionated and conspicuous for the quality of its argument, the felicity of its prose and the individuality of its thought. Such criteria brought parity between little magazines and their bigger rivals. Brendan O'Neill, the editor of the online journal Spiked, notes: "Denis recognized that brilliant ideas are as likely to be found in small but serious online magazines as they are in longstanding print publications. On Arts & Letters Daily, a magazine that occupies two tiny, newspaper-strewn rooms in London with four full-time staff—like Spiked—became the equal of the New Yorker."
The Dutton imprimatur bestowed immediate relevancy on a journal otherwise buried in the Internet's undergrowth. According to Jason Wilson, the editor of Drexel University's online review the Smart Set, "getting on Denis Dutton's radar was extremely important. Certainly it meant we'd receive lots of traffic. But it was more than that. It meant, for a fledgling journal like ours, that we were being taken seriously. For cultural criticism, it was like a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval or a high rating in Consumer Reports."
Just as it treats with equal seriousness large and small publications, and those in print or online, ALD links to both liberal and conservative articles or to articles with no political coloration at all. Dutton had a penchant for skeptics and debunkers, but even so there was no way to predict what he would link to and so no way for publications to ingratiate themselves with him. Editors were encouraged to publish pieces that they believed in, and readers were encouraged to read with an open mind.
Mr. O'Neill calls the result an "elite meritocracy." Arts & Letters Daily joins old, aristocratic concepts of excellence with the Internet's promise of globalism and connectedness. The critic Adam Kirsch likens being linked by the site to joining a republic of letters: "When you're featured on Arts & Letters, you'll often find references in blogs around the world. The republic of letters is an old-fashioned, 18th-century notion that Denis used a 21st-century technology to create."
"People used to say that the great thing about the Internet was that it had no gatekeepers," Dutton said to Virginia Postrel in 1999. "They were right, of course, except that the worst thing about the Internet is also that it has no gatekeepers." Arts & Letters Daily shows that the Internet need not be a wilderness inhospitable to intellectual endeavors. It can be colonized under a system of Enlightenment values, and people will eagerly participate in the reborn civilization it offers.
Just weeks ago I emailed Dutton with news of another issue of Open Letters. He advised me to be sure to copy such notices to Evan Goldstein and Tran Huu Dung, an economics professor whom Dutton had invited to co-edit the site in 2000. (They are now managing the site and seamlessly continuing its work.) It was impossible to discern from his note that he was in the last stages of cancer. His response was like all the others from him: immediate, gracious and to the point. It ended: "Thank you, DD." The thanks should all go the other way.
—Mr. Sacks writes the fiction chronicle for the Journal.


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To the Editor.—
The article by Schifrin and Dame, "Fetal Heart Rate Patterns—Prediction of Apgar Score" in the March 6th issue deserves praise for their fine attempt to point up the clinical applicability of a rather sophisticated piece of medical equipment. All too often, physicians and hospital are caught up with the glamor of accumulating expensive monitoring devices without fully appreciating what these devices are measuring, whether or not useful data can be obtained from this equipment and whether or not the physician or nurse can appropriately alter the care of their patient in response to this information in order to achieve a better result. I think we must consider our maternity wards more and more in the light of an appropriate intensive care area in order to help in the achievement of the highest quality of life. In my humble opinion, the hallmark of an intensive care area, taking
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Consumer Group to FDA: Take Victoza off the Market
April 20, 2012 -- Public Citizen, the Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group, is petitioning the FDA to immediately remove the type 2 diabetes drug Victoza (liraglutide) from the market. The petition claims that the injectable medication puts patients at risk of thyroid cancer, pancreatitis, serious allergic reactions, and kidney failure.
"More and more people are taking this drug, and more people are experiencing serious health problems as a result," Public Citizen director Sidney Wolfe, MD, said in a statement. "Clearly, the FDA's warning system is not sufficient. The drug should be taken off the market."
Novo Nordisk, the drug's manufacturer, strongly disputes Public Citizen's statement.
Victoza's Safety Profile
The drug's label currently warns patients and doctors that Victoza caused thyroid tumors and cancer in animal studies involving rats and mice. The label then states that it is unknown whether people taking the drug are at similar risk of such tumors and cancer, which can be fatal if not caught and treated early. It advises patients with a family history of such disease to avoid the drug and warns patients to see a doctor if suspicious lumps or other symptoms occur while taking the medication.
Pancreatitis, a severe and sometimes fatal inflammation of the pancreas, is also a possible side effect of Victoza. According to Public Citizen, patients taking Victoza were nearly four times as likely to be diagnosed with acute pancreatitis than patients taking other diabetes drugs. In the 17 months following the drug's 2010 approval, 200 patients reported having acute pancreatitis. Public Citizen believes that the real number of cases may be much higher.
"Because only an estimated 10% of cases are reported, potentially as many as 2,000 patients or more have suffered a painful and serious outcome as a result of taking Victoza," according to the statement from Public Citizen.
Victoza, which patients inject once a day, is one of a class of drugs that works by mimicking the hormone GLP-1. GLP-1 triggers the production of insulin when blood sugar levels rise too high. It is not a "first choice" medication, and doctors are advised to prescribe it only after other medications prove ineffective.
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A Big Bag of 60 Great Open Source Development Tools
If you're looking for good open source developer tools, you literally have thousands to choose from. For this list, we focused on 60 of the best and most well known. Rather than trying to rank them, we've arranged them into categories and listed them in alphabetical order.
That said, we're sure to have left off a few (or perhaps even a few dozen) that deserve to be included. Feel free to add your suggestions in the Comments section below.
One quick note about operating systems: Many of these open source developer tools run on a wide range of OSes. In some cases, they support more than a hundred different platforms.
For the sake of keeping the list short and readable, we noted whether each developer tool supports the big three – Windows, Linux and OS X. If you want to know whether a particular tool will run on Solaris or FreeBSD or another platform, you can click the link to check its Web site.
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24 Aug 2013
I have a 12 team league with $200 budget. It should result in $2400 total allocated to players. Instead, I am getting $2938. In past years I have never gotten exactly $2400 in dollars allocated by Kubiak, but usually it was within $20 or so ($2380-$2420). Can anyone think of a reason for this?. I'll say in advance, I've got a "shallow league. We auction off 10 players per team, and snake draft the rest. Therefore, I eliminate all D and K. The bench is set for 3 players (1 QB, TE and Flex, 2 RB and WR). When I set it for 4 bench and eliminate the flex, I still get $2804 in dollars allocated. I am manually fixing this by decreasing all of the dollar values by 17.5% or so.
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After the long awaited first flight of the fifth test 787-8 aircraft, ZA005, powered with GEnX-1B engines,
the following questions regarding the GEnX-1B and -2B come up :
- What is the current status of the GEnx-1B engine ? What has been changed (modified) since the certification in March 31, 2008 !!!!
- According the latest articles a final upgrade is planned for the -1B, to overcome approx 2% shortfall in TSFC. What will be changed or modified by this upgrade?
- Are both engines on this moment comparable in modification status or is the -2B further modified (improved) ?
- Has the GEnx-2B passed the icing certification testing?
- Is there also a final upgrade for the -2B engine ?
- Will both engines receive certification at the latest possible moment, together with the 788 and the 747-8F, to include the latest modification standard ?