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From Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Health and Nutrition, Soroka Medical Center, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; and Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Zrifin, Israel.
Note: Drs. Tirosh and Rudich contributed equally to this work.
Acknowledgment: The authors thank the Israel Diabetes Research Group for valuable support and advice, and Dr. M.J. Stamper, Harvard School of Public Health, for valuable discussions during the early stages of this work.
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Ms. Shochat and Drs. Tekes-Manova, Israeli, and Kochba: Medical Corps Headquarters, Israel Defense Forces, Zrifin, Israel.
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Dr. Shai: Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems Evaluation, The S. Daniel Abraham International Center for Health and Nutrition, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
Author Contributions: Conception and design: A. Tirosh, A. Rudich, D. Tekes-Manova, E. Israeli, I. Kochba, I. Shai.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: A. Tirosh, A. Rudich, I. Shai.
Drafting of the article: A. Tirosh, A. Rudich, I. Shai.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: A. Tirosh, A. Rudich, Y. Henkin, I. Shai.
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We analyzed the data of 13 953 untreated, apparently healthy men (26 to 45 years of age) with fasting serum triglyceride levels lower than 3.39 mmol/L (<300 mg/dL). At time 1, age-adjusted LDL cholesterol and fasting plasma glucose levels, BMI, blood pressure, and proportion of current smokers were more likely to increase across quintiles of triglycerides, whereas HDL cholesterol levels and the proportion of men who were physically active and who reported eating breakfast regularly were more likely to decrease (Table 1).
Tertiles were defined as low, the bottom tertile of triglyceride level (median at time 1, 0.68 mmol/L [60 mg/dL]; median at time 2, 0.79 mmol/L [70 mg/dL]), or high, the top tertile of triglyceride level (median at time 1, 2.08 mmol/L [184 mg/dL]; median at time 2, 2.48 mmol/L [220 mg/dL]). *Engagement in physical activity for a minimum of 20 minutes, 3 times per week.
The model was adjusted for age, family history of coronary heart disease (positive, negative, or missing information), interval between time 1 and time 2, time-1 levels of fasting plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, glucose, mean arterial blood pressure, and body mass index (as continuous variables), and for changes between time 1 and time 2 in BMI, physical activity (nonactive/nonactive, nonactive/active, active/nonactive, active/active), smoking status (current/current, current/noncurrent, noncurrent/current, noncurrent/noncurrent), and habit of eating breakfast (no/no, no/yes, yes/no, yes/yes). To convert triglyceride values to mmol/L, multiply by 0.0113. Incidence rates and hazard ratios (with 95% CIs) are given in .
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Tirosh and colleagues have done an excellent observational study on relationship between triglyceride levels and risk of coronary artery disease. (1) There are few points worth mentioning "" the sample of the population are all males and military personnel which is not representative of the population that we see in our daily clinics and wards. It is also important to note that the triglyceride levels are comparatively higher in women and diabetes; both were excluded in this study.
As already well known, that mild to moderate elevation of fasting plasma triglyceride level is common in patients with diabetes. In adult onset type diabetes, the fasting triglyceride values are highly variable but the prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia is markedly increased over that in age matched control population. Basal triglyceride level is regulated by the rate of production of circulating triglycerides and by the efficiency of their removal. In type 2 diabetes, hypertriglyceridemia results from increased plasma concentrations of VLDL, with or without chylomicronemia; deficient lipoprotein lipase activity; increased cholesteryl ester transfer protein activity; and increased flux of free fatty acids to the liver.(1)
Even though the study did not include people with diabetes; patients with high triglycerides may have sub-clinical diabetes (glucose intolerance) to start with and may have developed subsequent diabetes, putting them at risk of coronary artery disease. So I need to know whether the patients who had coronary angiogram proved CAD were investigated for the presence of diabetes or glucose intolerance at all. The increased prevalence of CAD in hypertriglyceridemia group could be because of diabetes itself playing an important role than triglycerides. As an important point life style modification, diet and exercise improves glycemic control thereby reducing the risk of CAD.
1. Tirosh A, Rudich A, Shochat T, Tekes-Manova D, Israeli E, Henkin Y, Kochba I, Shai I . Changes in Triglyceride Levels and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease in Young Men. Ann Intern Med. 2007;147(6): 377-85
2.Pollex RL, Hegele RA. Genetic determinants of the metabolic syndrome. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med 2006;3:482-9.
With such a large and well-characterized study sample, is it possible to determine whether "ethnicity" contributes to either the baseline or second triglyceride level in the MELANY study? Namely, would a post-hoc analysis indicate differences among Eastern European, Central Asian, or North African Jewish subjects? Since familial combined hyperlipidemia is a prevalent, world-wide disease marked by low HDL cholesterol and hypertriglyceridemia, identifying subpopulations (and kindred) in MELANY might help unravel this nefarious disease.
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Changes in Triglyceride Levels and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease in Young Men
The summary below is from the full report titled "Changes in Triglyceride Levels and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease in Young Men." It is in the 18 September 2007 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 147, pages 377-385). The authors are A. Tirosh, A. Rudich, T. Shochat, D. Tekes-Manova, E. Israeli, Y. Henkin, I. Kochba, and I. Shai.
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What's the Final Answer Backstage at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? White Knuckles, Wild Guesses, Technical Glitches—and One Happy Host Named Regis
Welcome to the brave new world of high-stakes, big-money, hive-inducing game shows where not even warm-up talk is cheap—or warm. In this bull-market era, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, a virtual clone of the phenomenally popular show of the same name in Britain, has triggered nothing short of a game-show gold rush into the millennium. When it debuted last August for a two-week run, the show nabbed five spots in the Nielsen Top 10, peaking with a Friends-worthy 22 million viewers for its finale, an unprecedented achievement for a game show. Now in the midst of a two-week November sweeps run—its premiere netted almost 26 million viewers—it is still raking in far more than it is dishing out in cash prizes. With juggernaut ratings, low production costs, ad rates in the $700,000-a-minute zone and not one six-figure fat cat through the first few nights, it is a veritable prime-time money machine.
The biggest winner of all may be Philbin, 68, for pulling off a remarkable moonlighting coup beyond Live! with Regis & Kathie Lee. "I begged my way on," he says. "There was a short list, and I wasn't on it. I called my agent, and we made a full assault on ABC in L.A. It has been a terrific ride. I never had this kind of attention before." Philbin has a five-year deal with Millionaire, and as for that Live! day job: "I'm out in 21 months, August 2001." Final answer out? "I don't know," he says.
Contestants don't get very far with that kind of vagueness. To them, winning a million isn't everything; it's the only thing. But it is much harder than it appears. Mark Megerian, 34, a computer programmer, was at $16,000, looking to lock into a guaranteed $32,000. The Minnesotan was sure Denver was the highest state capital. "It's gotta be Denver, right? Mile High City, c'mon!" he told Philbin. "I thought it was Denver too. I'm sorry, it's Santa Fe," said Philbin, who, due to some technical glitch, then needed three more takes to deliver Megerian's devastating news. Megerian wasn't likely to be spending his measly $1,000 winnings on a trip to New Mexico. "I don't ever want to hear the words 'Santa Fe' again," he says on his way out of the studio.
Washington, D.C., tax lawyer Joel McElvain, 31, figured octo—"eight" in Latin—meant an octave would naturally span eight whole tones. Wrong, it's six, but at least he was locked into the $32,000. "I thought I knew it, so I didn't think I needed to phone a friend," says McElvain, referring to one of the three "lifelines"—calling someone for help, eliminating two of the four multiple-choice answers, polling the audience—a contestant has at his disposal. As McElvain leans against a wall near the stage, contestants stop by to congratulate him. "I wasn't trying to gamble. I thought I had the answers. I'll get over it. My attitude has got to be, I'm $32,000 richer at the end of the day."
So far, Millionaire's heavy hitters are Michael Shutterly, a 46-year-old Richmond lawyer ($500,000) and West Virginia square-dance fiddler Doug Van Gundy, 33 ($250,000). Both are playing it close to the vest financially. Van Gundy, whose annual income is $11,000, has "splurged" on a new computer; Shutterly, who plans to save for his three kids' college educations, just replaced his nine-year-old station wagon with a new Camry.
Millionaire hopefuls call a toll-free number for a three-question quiz. After a random drawing among the winners, a phone play-off determines 10 contestants (and two alternates) for each tape date. For reasons the show's producers don't fully grasp, many more men make the cut than women. On the first two nights, 19 of 20 players were men. As Davies has speculated, "Maybe the skew of the material has been geared to white males. I'm not sure."
The lucky few who are flown to New York for their 15 minutes (and, hopefully, 15 questions), arrive at ABC for a brief lunch in the commissary several hours before taping. Then after a last hug and send-off by their loved ones, contestants are sequestered, jurylike, in a sealed-off room until their turns at the "fast finger" consoles. Spouses, pals and partners chat or sit quietly in a lounge off the commissary, trying to soothe jangled nerves. New Yorker Joel Winkelsas's mom, Helen, traveled 300 miles from Buffalo and waited alone. "I told him to try not to be nervous," she says. "He's jumpy and his face is all flushed." He hoped to win so he could take his three nieces, one of whom is mentally disabled, to Disney World.
Once players are "secured," as supervising producer Ann Miller, who oversees the writing and research staff, puts it, they are also unplugged—turning in all non-numeric pagers, Palm Pilots, beepers and cell phones.
A "corruption" of data would seem hard to swing. Miller works with a team of writers and researchers who plow through books with titles like Outlaws, Mobsters & Crooks and The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft to spit out thousands of questions stored in a database. Only Miller, Davies and the head writer know what's in the 15-question "stacks" for a given show.
And only the studio audience is privy to any of the occasional foul-ups. John Cuthbertson, a 37-year-old physicist turned investment analyst from San Diego, fields his first question: How many days in September? Easy. "Thirty days hath September," he tells Philbin. The host checks his monitor and looks stricken. "Sorry, you're wrong," he says in disbelief. Cut! Suddenly, a team of stagehands converges upon the podium like an Indy 500 pit crew, tilting it, yanking out a dense bouquet of color-coded wires that malfunctioned and resulted in the wrong response. The question is taped again, and Cuthbertson is on his way to an eventual 532,000 payoff. Viewers the following night will never know about the wiring glitch.
Tension and excitement kick in for real when someone reaches the $32,000 guarantee and shoots higher. The audience comes alive, the contestant feels the pressure, and Regis plays his poker-faced, chin-rubbing teases to the hilt. Producer Vincent Rubino, in the wings with his laptop, can beam up to 20 preloaded messages to Philbin's monitor, unseen by viewers. They tell him to draw out the moment, intensify the drama. "The show has brilliant cliff-hanger potential every night," says Rubino.
During the Nov. 7 taping, Cincinnati attorney Jeff Siehl reaches $64,000 and is so rigid with tension that he has to grab onto his console. "I was incredibly nervous," he says later. "I was trying to hold on to keep my hands from shaking. I kept drinking water up there. The stage manager came out during one break and said, 'You need to show more emotion, act a little excited.' I guess I didn't show it, but I was very excited."
Rubino sends Philbin a message: MAKE HIM SWEAT—HOLD THE MOMENT. He does. Siehl, 27, backs off a $125,000 question about the number of arms on a squid and opts to phone a friend. His lifeline's hunch is right ("What immediately comes to mind is 10," says pal Tony Antonoplos back in Cincinnati), but Siehl still pockets $64,000. "It was too much money to take a risk and pretty good for a day's work," he says. "It was definitely the right move," says girlfriend Cartrese Carter. "I didn't want him taking a wild guess." As for the three cars he hoped to buy his siblings: "That was contingent on getting the million," Siehl explains. "But I'll get them nice gifts."
Pretty soon, it seems, someone, somewhere will have to go home rich. FOX has debuted its more convoluted Greed ("a rip-off," sneers Philbin), which offers $2 million, and the crowded game show field will soon include updated classics What's My Line?, Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question, as well as a TV adaptation of the CD-ROM You Don't Know Jack, with Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens as host. And Millionaire's producers understand that to sustain ratings, they'll need to spread even more of that game-show loot. "As the weeks go by," says Philbin, sitting in his dressing room, "if we don't have a big winner, how often can people get excited about $16,000 when they've seen someone win $500,000? It gets monotonous. We want a million-dollar winner as soon as possible." And you can take that to the bank.
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Nice little snippet about the new husks, especially the asari husk.
I think I'm about this close -> <- to taking off a couple of days from work to play ME3 with everything they've been teasing about it.
I'm with you. Yes, I'm a grown man with children and a wife and work and responsibilities. But, damn....what's one day for little old me? I don't think I've ever taken a day off just because of a game release. This might be worth it, especially if there is a midnight launch.


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Art Institute of Chicago director James Cuno has resigned to become the president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He announced the news in an email to staff this morning. (That email is in the jump.)
In Cuno's announcement, he cites the Getty's role in cultural heritage issues as a motivating factor in his decision to take the job. In 2008, Cuno came onto MAN for a Q&A on his most recent book, "Who Owns Antiquity?" Check it out here.
It is with mixed emotions that I write to announce my resignation as President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have accepted the position of President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles.
It has been a privilege working with you these past seven years. I arrived with the opening of Millennium Park and saw the addition of the Modern Wing transform the museum, allowing us to present our collections to their best advantage, provide an inspiring home for our Museum Education programs, and deepen our engagement with the city by connecting directly with the park.
The Art Institute is our nation's greatest civic art museum, a model for how a museum can be central to the life and vitality of a modern metropolis, and, with your continued good work, it will continue to be so far, far into the future.
The J. Paul Getty Trust is a very different kind of institution. It comprises the Getty Museum, including the Villa which is dedicated to the presentation, conservation, and study of antiquities of the Mediterranean basin; the Getty Research Institute, which houses the nation's largest library of art history materials and hosts dozens of scholars and research fellows annually; the Getty Conservation Institute, which promotes and executes the conservation of art historically important sites and structures around the world; and the Getty Foundation, which supports individuals and institutions engaged in art historical scholarship the world over.
As you know, I have grown increasingly interested in the study, preservation, and sharing of international cultural property.
Through all of its activities, the Getty Trust is a world leader in this field. I would never have left the Art Institute for another museum. Only an institution like the Getty Trust could have convinced me to leave.
My last day at the museum will be June 30. Thank you for your friendship and support. I look forward to visiting the museum often and watching it thrive in every way.
Jim Cuno


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The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Lifeby Natalie Angier
Natalie Angier, one of the foremost American science writers, is the author of the masterly book "Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogene (1988)". Now, in "The Beauty of the Beastly", she has reshaped many of her daily and weekly articles into a narrative that vividly conveys the discoveries of contemporary biological science and how biologists made them. She has arranged her topics according to the energy from which they spring - the life forces that inform and energize her (and our) work. To Angier, the movement, the dance, the play of life supplies the heartbeat of knowledge. In seven sections entitled, in order: Loving, Dancing, Slithering, Adapting, Healing, Creating, and Dying; Angier focuses on what science knows about the living world, in her own witty and exalted language.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002by Natalie Angier
This book has a collection from the best and brightest writers on science and nature exploring the topics like Islamic science, disappearing cancers and many such stimulating subjects.
The Best American Science Writing 2009by Natalie Angier
Distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing--Oliver Sacks and Atul Gawande among them--this anthology provides a comprehensive overview of where science has taken us--and where it is headed.
The Canonby Natalie Angier
In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question "What do you wish everyone knew about your field?" The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable. "
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Scienceby Natalie Angier
A joyride through the major scientific disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy. Concentrates on the great issues of our time, from stem cells and bird to evolution and global warming, as an entertaining guide to scientific literacy.
Natural Obsessionsby Natalie Angier
As dramatic as The Double Hex and as absorbing as The Soul of a New Machine, Natural Obsessions explores the advanced reaches of molecular biology, the nature of the human cell, and the genes that control cancer. It unforgettably portrays some of the best young scientists in the world, the rewards and discouragements of scientific research, and the very process of scientific inquiry.
Natural Obsessions: The Search for the Oncogeneby Lewis Thomas Natalie Angier
The discovery of these genes and their role in human malignancy has been one of the most dramatic events in biology in the late twentieth century. In this book, Angier describes scientist Bob Weinberg, his research lab, and the dozens of scientists who work towards understanding the oncogene. She describes the dynamic of the lab and its workers as well as the details of each gene experiment.
Womanby Natalie Angier
A Pulitzer Prize-winner offers a book about femaleness --- in body and mind --- that could prove as important as The Second Sex or Our Bodies, Our Selves and as fresh as Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. With the clarity, insight, and sheer joy of language that has secured her reputation as one of the New York Times's premier stylists, Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body, exploring the essence of what it means to be a woman. Angier's thoughts on everything from organs to orgasm evince her famously playful originality, yet stand their ground in scientific fact. She also dives into hot topics such as menopause and evolutionary psychologists' faddish views of "female nature," creating a sparkling, fresh vision of womanhood.
Woman: An Intimate Geographyby Natalie Angier
With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body. Angier takes readers on a mesmerizing tour of female anatomy and physiology that explores everything from organs to orgasm, and delves into topics such as exercise, menopause, and the mysterious properties of breast milk. A self-proclaimed "scientific fantasia of womanhood." Woman ultimately challenges widely accepted Darwinian-based gender stereotypes. Angier shows how cultural biases have influenced research in evolutionary psychology (the study of the biological bases of behavior) and consequently lead to dubious conclusions about "female nature" such as the idea that women are innately monogamous while men are natural philanderers. But Angier doesn't just point fingers; she offers optimistic alternatives and transcends feminist polemics with an enlightened subversiveness that makes for a joyful, fresh vision of womanhood. Woman is a seminal work that will endure as an essential read for anyone interested in how biology affects who we are as women, as men, and as human beings.
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7 Things We Checked Off Our 'Bucket List' Before Trying to ConceiveDevan McGuinness
I have been writing on Being Pregnant now for almost a year, though for the better part of the year I wrote about my crazy baby fever wanting another child, but my husband was not yet on board. About 7 months ago that changed and we've been actively trying to conceive since (fingers crossed for us this month).
Pregnancy is not an easy process for me — not because of the symptoms (which do suck), but my biggest struggle is staying pregnant. In the seven years we have been trying to become parents or working to grow our family, I have been through 12 miscarriages, with my most recent being only a few months ago.
Our history was a huge area of discussion while deciding if we were going to try to conceive another child, but with plans in place, doctors on board and a good support system we went with following our heart versus letting our fear dictate our family size.
As much as I would love to take credit for infecting him with baby fever with my clever ideas, there was a list of things we put together before we actively started to try. My husband was always open to the idea, but before adding to our chaos with a complicated pregnancy and a noisy and needy newborn, there were some areas of our life we wanted to settle first.
That's what became our TTC bucket list. Click through to see the 7 things we had on our list and crossed off:
Regulate Cycle 1 of 7Before we actively started trying and while we were still thinking about it, we had to see a clear regulated cycle. That way we can plan all the things (you know) accordingly. I needed to make sure I was ovulating and how long my luteal phase was.
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Save a Little More 2 of 7Before we got married we had decided that one of us would be home with the kids until they are in full time school. It's been me for the past 6 years and adding a new babe means another 5 years at home. I have been able to find a job that allows me to work from home and care for our kids and helps us with a better financial cushion.
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Get the Kids Settled In School 3 of 7My kids started school last year and we wanted to make sure they have a good routine with a big change in their life before we added another one.
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Streamline and Organize Housework 4 of 7We have been living in baby chaos for some time. We wanted to calm the house down and reorganize, rearrange and get the housework schedule worked out.
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Move Our Youngest to Her Own Bed 5 of 7Our youngest has always co-slept with us, both in our room, but mostly shared our bed. We wanted to have her moved out and in her own room (on her own time). We wanted her happily transitioned before so she didn't feel like she was being pushed out.
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Get the 'Doctor' OK 6 of 7I have a lot of weird things that happen to me while I am pregnant. I wanted to get a bit healthier, have some issues settled and get the doctor okay beforehand. We also had to make sure we have all the meds in place here at home should we get pregnant.
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Find a Better Work/Home Balance 7 of 7We both work like crazy and have both taken on new roles for work. We wanted to get a better balance before we add more stress and excitement to our life.
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We worked hard on all these points for a while and thankfully they have all come together for us. Some things are still kind of a work in progress (like work/life balance), but for the most part we have settled some of the chaos and the kids are now in a good place to add a new member to our family.
If only it would finally work for us…
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Global Operations Review
publisher: Crave Entertainment
developer: Barking Dog Studios
genre: Action
|ESRB rating: M
release date: Mar 25, 02
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Before we go into any specific details we have to get one issue straightened out immediately. All gamers who wish to get their mitts on Global Ops purely for its single-player features should keep their money and spare themselves the trouble. It is important to emphasize what the developers, Barking Dog Studios (the makers of Counter-Strike Beta 5), intended to achieve with this title. Their goal was to enhance the multiplayer experience with a game that offers a mix of elements from mods like Counter-Strike and Team Fortress. Moreover, the whole thing was seasoned with a character class system (similar to what was seen in TF), which is a really cool innovation for a retail product and is guaranteed to appeal to all players.
Meet the team.
Ralph, get off me, you've been hitting the sauce again, haven't ya?
Global Operations elaborates an aspect of gameplay, which was a rather weak point in CS. I'm referring of course to teamwork. In order to achieve a specific goal, the most significant thing is to act as a team - this is something you and your teammates are going to have to grasp if you wish to enjoy Global Ops the proper way. CS often tends to accent the domination of individual combat, as opposed to effective collaboration with your teammates - although well-organized CS clans would tend to disagree. What makes Global Ops better than CS? Specifically, that can only be the fact that it features characters classes, which allow each player to try out a specific combat skill on the field.
The game features 13 missions all of which are designed in a specific environment, in which you're assigned to accomplish explicit tasks within a certain amount of time. Before each match, you get to select your character from a squad of six well-trained troopers - demolition expert, heavy gunner, commando, recon, medic, and sniper. Every one of these has his purpose in a mission assignment and each is equipped with a range of weapons with which he contributes to the ultimate goal. That can sometimes be assassination, or rescuing hostages.
Other times, you will simply have to protect a certain party or destroy a specified target, etc. Depending on the nature of the mission all players will have to focus on escorting their teammate who's best-suited for carrying out the job. When a bomb needs defusing, it is logical that you and your team make sure that the Demoman gets to the targeted object and deactivate the explosive device. The good thing here is that the player who controls the Demoman won't be treated to an effortless task. The explosive (the ol' C4) must be neutralized by carefully selecting and cutting the right wire - that takes time and precise action. In other words, players have to use extreme caution if they wish to win in such scenarios. The Demoman can also apply his explosives to blast through obstacles on the road and therefore create a shortcut to the objective.
Well, I offered you a slice of action involving the Demoman. However, other characters have a significant role and it will be equally exciting to play with them. I'm sure that many of you will find themselves satisfied in the shoes of the Commando. He is primed to deal with a wide range of weapons; from your assault rifles to heavy machine guns and even an effective grenade launcher (LAW). The main task of this operative is to provide coverage for other weaker units. Oh yeah, and don't think that choosing a commando will ensure you the most frags. It can be quite the contrary, because if you give your teammates proper backup as a Commando then it is likely that players using the Sniper or Heavy Gunner will have a lot frags also. The Sniper requires almost constant cover fire, since he's most often a sitting duck. As you'd expect it, the Sniper uses long-ranged rifles and is good for eliminating targets that are far-off. The Heavy Gunner is most adept with massive shotguns and the infamous grenade launcher. He is slow, but particularly lethal. The Recon turned out to be my favorite. Though he cannot use the AK 74 (*sob*), he carries a very helpful little radar that lets him know where enemy units are located. The Recon can then pass the info along to other players so they know where to expect oncoming opponents. In the end, we come to the Medic, who has the most important role in the whole game and it is thanks to him that Global Ops offers that prolonged gaming experience, which Counter-Strike lacks. After you've been revived by the Medic you can pick up your weapon and continue with the mission. This is why all players should protect this unit at all costs. If you do heal on time, then your character is automatically going to arrive with next chopper or truck. Which you have to admit is a lot better than having to wait for everyone else to be dead so that you can respawn.
All of this tropical heat is making our gunner dizzy.
Err... I didn't do it.
Right, and now a few words about the weapons. What's praiseworthy here is that there's a wide variety of light and heavy weaponry. Next off, when using rifles like the AK 74, players have the option of changing the weapon's fire from full-auto to burst or single fire; something that was sorely missing in Counter-Strike. A good thing is that you can do this at any given moment during the match just by pressing the 'X' key (or whatever key you've mapped). Of course, every weapon when fired in full-auto mode is unlikely to hit a target from afar; and that means you're supposed to use short control bursts. Good job on the recoil there. However, at certain moments I found that hurling grenades is a bit too difficult (and I don't think that's because I'm used to the ones in CS). What happens is, when you throw a grenade it will sometimes land closer than you've anticipated, even if you did hold the mouse button for a required amount of time for it to land far off. This doesn't happen always, but when it does it can determine the course of a match - if you throw a grenade accidentally in the vicinity of your teammates for example... Other weapons, like the MP5KPDW and the infamous P90 have also been optimized well and they can be very efficient if used properly. Oh, and watch out when you use those machine guns with your Heavy Gunner, because you can carve your teammates if you're not careful. Overall, most of the weapons functioned acceptably and they were fun to use.
The graphics are not anything special. The walls, ground, and models are a bit deficient in texture detail, although generally when it comes to visuals, Global Ops has a few advantages over CS. What I liked the most are smooth animations of the character movement and some juicy effects that occur when you use certain weapons like flash and gas grenades. For example when an enemy hurls one of these at you, the screen will go all blurry since your character's vision is obscured from the poisonous gas. Also, using your night vision goggles and thermal vision has a great visual appeal.
Global Operations features some cool and very realistic sound effects. At first, I thought most of them to be unnecessary; until I realized that they contribute a lot to the gameplay value. For instance, if a grenade or a C4 detonates in your vicinity you will temporarily experience a hearing defect, which is manifested through a long buzzing noise, and also everything you hear around you (gunfire, radio communication) will be muffled for a particular amount of time.
All of the aforementioned things make this game one of the most enjoyable multi-player titles I've had the pleasure of participating in. And, if you manage to go through all of the connection demands and find a fully functional server, the game can offer you a thrilling multiplayer experience. Offline LAN matches are fun as well (and just so you know, every player needs a unique CD key to play). Intrigued gamers are going to be disappointed with the game's system requirements. While playing with a standard 56K modem things weren't so peachy, even though the dial-up modem response time was acceptable. Sadly, at times the game does have the tendency to lag. But, if you wish a fulfilling multiplayer match and a server that can withstand up to 16 or 24 players, while giving a satisfying performance (connection wise), then we strongly recommend you do not play without decent Cable and DSL connections. The developers suggest that only a T1 line has the capacity to hold servers for a larger amount of players on it.
Earlier, I thought Counter-Strike could never be beaten. In light of everything that I've experienced in Global Ops I think that in due time it will become one of the most popular online titles out there. Provided of course, people meet the severe connection requirements and that they manage to enter one of the 50 servers currently available. Also, it's like I said at the beginning, if it's fun you're looking for, forget about playing the game's single-player mode. The bots can be dim-witted, which is more than enough to ruin things for ya. They are liable to get themselves stuck in passages and can often loose their way while looking for the target. Furthermore, if you expect cover fire from them you will surely be disappointed (it is likely that they will be eliminated on the spot). So, forget about any miraculous AI, forget about single-player features. Just get together with your buddies and commence action.
Oh and incidentally, the developers have recently released a new patch (1.1) for the game, so you might wanna check out the official site for more info on that.
8.1 Very Good
I'll bet you thought nothing could be better than CS. Right? Well, this game succesfully fuses a wide variety of great weapons with character classes;
Too demanding for average systems and Internet connections. Lousy single-player gameplay, rotten bot AI. LithTech engine has its disadvantages.


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Overall we found this hotel to be exactly as described by other reviewers. It is clean, comfortable and the staff is unfailingly helpful, pleasant and courteous. It is an up and coming area and as such has quite a few new, unoccupied buildings. Side streets are a bit rough but you really don't have to travel them. Luas (tram) stop is 2 minutes away and is a fast way to get into central areas. A few small criticisms - rooms were a bit warm even in October and that glorious, white and fluffy duvet is really superfluous. We stayed Thursday and Friday nights and there was no restaurant menu as such - just paninis etc. However we ate in the Park Inn opposite which was very good and reasonable. When we were leaving on Saturday there appeared to be a full lunch menu on the blackboard in the cafe. A little noise at night but not anywhere near as bad as it would be in more 'central' areas. We opted for the full Irish breakfast and this was very good; waitress service for the fry and a full buffet of bread, cereal, yogurt, fruit etc. Will definitely be back!
Clean, comfortable, quiet...GREAT!
This place is new, clean, comfortable, quiet, and a great location. The staff is very friendly and helpful, although they are ALSO new and there is no experienced concierge, but that will surely improve over time. The rooms are very modern and everything is in great shape. The restaurant food is quite good but you also have a GREAT market right next door. The LUAS (tram system) stops just down the block so it's incredibly convenient to the city centre--we used it all week and even late at night on the weekends and felt completely safe. Two great pubs nearby: the Cobblestone, which you can see from the front of the hotel, with great traditional Irish music, and Ryans of Smithfield, which is a true neighborhood bar where we felt totally comfortable and welcome. We were VERY pleased with this hotel--really, no complaints whatsoever!
I stayed here with my girlfriend in September 06 and found it very good. The hotel is difficult to find if you're in a car because of the one way streets around the area so make sure you've got good directions. The lobby is nice, clean and bright with free newspapers; the bar is very modern but has a nice relaxed atmosphere and serves good food. The rooms are large and clean as was the bathroom. The beds were excellent, really comfortable and we didn't hear much noise outside apart from the odd late night revelers but not worth complaining about. The rates are really good if you book direct, I think we got a room for about €120 which is excellent for the city centre. It's located in Smithfield which is just off the river Liffey and behind the Four Courts in Dublin. Temple Bar is about a 10 minute walk from the hotel. The LUAS (Dublin trams) stops within a few minutes of the hotel which is handy. Well worth a visit is 'Christophe's' cafe which is just across the plaza in front of the hotel - good coffee and breakfast to get you going.
Comfort Inn Smithfield turned out to be great!
We spent five nights at the Comfort Inn Smithfield last month. I was concerned about the safety of the area, but it turned out to be just fine. There's a large esplande in front of the hotel and it always felt very safe to walk there. The food store next to the hotel was really handy for snacks and drinks. The convenience to LUAS is super although we walked most of the time. The staff was friendly and helpful. We had an early morning flight and asked them to give us a wake-up call and to arrange for a taxi. Both requests were taken care of with no problem. We had a corner room on the front of the hotel; although there was some street noise, it wasn't too bad. The Brazen Head pub isn't far from the hotel and worth a visit for its character and history. We took the train to Howth and ate at a restaurant called Deep. It was really good--depart the train station to the left, and once you clear the train station, turn left. Walk down that way a bit and you'll see it on your left. Our only regret was not getting to Howth earlier; it was getting dark by the time we got there so we didn't get to see much of the area. The day trips to Wicklow (Day Tours Unplugged tour) and Newgrange (Over the Top shuttle) were well worth it. Dublin Castle is nice. Book of Kells and the library were interesting, but pricey.
Nice hotel
Like the other reviews said this is a new hotel in an up and coming area but watch out for the side streets.
You can take the Air coach from outside the airport for �12 Euro return ticket, it will drop you off at O'Connell street, walk down O'Connell street till you get to Abbey Street then take the Luas (tram) 3 stops to Smithfield & the hotel is a 2 minute walk.
For return Air coach the stop is across the road from where you get dropped off on O'Connell Street, the coach takes about 35 - 45 mins pending on traffic.
Temple bar is a 10 min walk & Grafton Street 15 min walk.
The hotel was having work done when we were there that started very early & we were not told of this on check in.
If you want to save money and not pay the price of central hotels i would book this hotel.
Enjoyed Comfort Inn
Recently stayed at the Comfot Inn Smithfield for the Ryder Cup during Sept 18-22. I was first given a room on the back side of the hotel which was very noisy due to the construction. I requested another room by the front desk and was given one in the front of the hotel which overlooked the Jameson distillery. The rooms were relatively large, clean, new and comfortable. The front desk was efficient and the coffee shop/restaurant downstairs was good, even though they were expensive. I chose to walk around and next door is a shopping market with a lot of choices for meals. I decided that I would eat there instead. In addition I found an internet location around the corner and used it for communications. The only thing I didn't like about the hotel was that you had to pay for parking which was 10 euro a day with the hotels discount. Otherwise I would probably stay here again.
Great New Hotel
Comfort Inn Smithfield is a great new hotel. The area is up and coming- so some of the side streets are a little iffy but you don't HAVE to go down them. Conveniently located by the LUAS and close to Christchurch/St. Patricks. A short walk to Temple Bar (10 minutes). It is right across the street from the Jameson Distillery.
Our room had a double bed and a twin bed so it is good for a family. It was super clean and still had that new smell.
There was a restaurant/ bar in the lobby. The food was pretty good. Also if you want to save some money there is a Subway sandwich shop across the street and right next door was a supermarket called Fresh that served hot food- and baked goods.
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A great stay.� It is a brand new hotel and every thing and everywhere was clean and shiny.� The reception staff were very friendly and helped us with our car hire.� The bedrooms are big ours had a double and single bed in it, plus they have power showers in the bath rooms.� Definitely will stay again.
Lovely hotel
We were treated as a present our stay in the hotel for a week end break and were not disappointed, we found it to be lovely. It is a brand new hotel in the city centre, we had a nice balcony room over looking the Smithfield Plaza. The rooms are big we had a double and single bedroom and there was a power shower. The staff were very friendly and helpful but we did have problems trying to figure out how to use the tv system. We would recommend for its city center location alone.
Really Is comfortable
I just had a weekend at the Comfort Inn, Smithfield in Dublin. I am originally from Dublin myself but don't live there anymore.
The Hotel is only open a couple of weeks and it is great! On checking-in the staff are realllly pleasant,falling over themselves being polite (really rare in hotels) and it's not false either!
Everything is white & Beige and really crispy clean, the beds are like marshmallows, fluffy cushions and fresh douvets, I have a bad back and this was the essence of comfort for me!
The carpet is spotless, theres a DVD/TV combi in the rooms (so bring DVD). My room didn't have a minibar but I didn't need it.
The bathroom was brilliant! Power Showers-with 2 heads-one for in the bath one for having a shower. There's loads of counter space in the bathroom and a nice big mirror.
Decent utility wardrobe encasing a built-in trouser press and ironing board and tea/coffee tray.
Residents bar downstairs was open 'til 1.30am
The only faults I had with this hotel was that there wasn't a fantastic air supply or air-con, okay Ireland isn't exactly New York or the hottest place but during the summer Dublin is quite 'airless' and smoggy. The second was that there is an apartment plaza next door and my room overlooked the courtyard. It was a Saturday so it sounded like there was a bar or club else someone was having a party because there was really loud music and I could hear people talking over a crowd and people shouting in the courtyard down below-I was in the 4th floor-Now don't get me wrong.... I might have been unfortunate enough to book when there happened to be a big party happening. IT'S DUBLIN CITY THOUGH! We are Irish, we like to party and a really social nation!
Other than that I had a reallllllllly pleasant stay at this place, highly recommended Price isn't bad either for city centre Dublin.
Luas (tram) is only a 2 min walk to the end of the block going right into Abbey St (crossing O'Connell St, 2 stops away.
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Congregants at Llyswen United Methodist Church of Altoona look forward to something special every Sunday morning. Unlike many Methodist churches, they know their service will end with Holy Communion.
The Rev. Charles Baughman, pastor of Llyswen, said they have weekly Holy Communion for theological and traditional reasons.
"John Wesley insisted that the celebration of the Eucharist should be central to every worship service," Baughman said.
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(Mirror photo by Gary M. Baranec) Participating in Holy Communion at Llyswen United Methodist Church are (from left) Shirley and Tom Klevan of Hollidaysburg and Joyce Hess of Altoona with Pastor Charles Baughman offering the bread and Polly Mickel of Altoona, the cup.
Wesley founded Methodism in the 19th century and after a time, many Methodist churches began having Holy Communion less frequently.
For centuries, teaching became more important than the sacraments, he said.
But Llyswen members believe the sermon is second to the sacrament.
"Worship is not listening to a boring preacher," Baughman said. "Worship is coming before God and expressing your love for his grace and the grace of Jesus Christ."
During the liturgical renewal movement of the last century, congregations returned to the worship practices of the early church.
In Llyswen's case, this involved placing Holy Communion at the center of the service after a lot of prayer and study.
"The education started long before we started taking weekly Communion," said Maury Martin of Altoona, who has attended Llyswen her whole life.
In the early 1980s, a core group from the congregation studied Scripture and the origins of Methodism.
In 1983, they agreed to start weekly Communion. They continue to be the only United Methodist Church in the Altoona District that does.
"It is central to our liturgical worship style," Baughman said. "It has become a main part of the church's identity.
"Communion is a sacrament in which the real presence of Christ is experienced in bread and wine," Baughman said.
"The congregation recognizes this mystery of the Eucharist," he said. "They encounter Christ in a unique way, and so it doesn't grow old for us.
"If I could have Sunday dinner every week with my [deceased] mother and father, would it cease to be special?" he said.
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During spring practice, Husky head coach Rick Neuheisel determined the team needed Tuiasosopo to return to the offensive side of the ball.
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Pedestrians and bicyclists visiting Erie's Liberty Park and its amphitheater will have another route to get there -- but not until the end of the summer.
Construction is well underway on a paved walkway along the south side of the Bayfront Parkway.
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A walkway currently runs along the northern edge of the Bayfront Parkway. That path originates at Frontier Park to the west.
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Pomorski has said building a pedestrian bridge over the parkway would be too costly. The Port Authority chose the stoplight system.
Matcon Diamond Inc., of Pittsburgh, is the contractor for the walkway, whose cost is $975,360, according to the Port Authority. The authority is paying for the project from a $5 million state grant it received in 2009 as part of the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative. The grant also funded the Port Authority's $3 million park-and-ride lot, which opened in 2012 near West 12th Street and Lincoln Avenue and the start of the Bayfront Parkway.
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The Port Authority received an additional $200,000 state grant for the switchback path.
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ATLAS OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. Edited by David Eltis, David Richardson. 336 pages. Yale University Press. $50.
It is very difficult to comprehend the cruelty, the magnitude of the deprivation, the crazy justifications and hard-hearted enforcement of what was essentially the largest global, unregulated free market system ever established during the pre-high-tech age: slavery.
The subject is fraught with challenges, not the least of which is conceptual.
A new "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" and companion website, slavevoyages.org, reveal better than ever before the full scope of this international market system.
The trade, which began in 1501 and lasted until 1867, was the cause of the largest forced population displacement on record. More than 12.5 million captive Africans were transported to the New World, and several million more were relocated to other parts of the globe.
Within Africa, entire tribes were decimated, betrayed by African slave traders whose familiarity with local cultures made them ideal business partners of the Europeans. The need was for a work force so Europeans could purchase at affordable prices coffee, tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice and, especially, sugar (and its byproducts, such as molasses and rum), all cultivated in the New World.
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Carolina accounts for just 2 percent of the total slave trade (though its port in Charleston was especially active from 1803 to 1807).
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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was so vast, its effects so devastating, that scholars typically study slavery according to their particular fields: economics, religion, language, agriculture or anthropology. Or they examine it according to geography to discover what exactly happened in Barbados, Brazil, Cuba or South Carolina.
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It began in the 1980s as a CD-ROM project, according to Eltis. Scholars had compiled data from a variety of independent sources and, with support from Cambridge University and the National Endowment for the Humanities, attempted for the first time to assemble it in one place.
"What emerged was the fact that there was a big hole in the South Atlantic," Eltis said.
Plenty of documentation existed concerning the triangular trade between Europe, Africa and the New World north of the equator (Caribbean, North America), but little could be found that described the enormous and long-lasting two-way trade between Africa and Brazil.
The Portuguese tended to outfit slaving expeditions from their colonies in Brazil, using "an out-and-back structure," Eltis said. "As a result of that, the records were not as rich." And what few records could be found were in Portuguese.
To fill the gaps in the historical record, Eltis and his colleagues secured new funding from the U.K., more from the NEH and other sources, and began to expand and transform the CD-ROM project into what became the "Voyages" database.
Recently, the team added the "Contribute" page to facilitate collection of new information from other scholars. "It operates like a journal," Eltis said.
Submissions are vetted and, if approved, incorporated into the data set when updates are scheduled every two years.
The "Atlas" consists of six parts illustrating the nations that transported slaves, the ports that outfitted voyages, the African coastal origins of slaves, the experience of the Middle Passage, the New World destinations for captives and the eventual suppression and abolition of the trade.
Essentially, a series of 189 beautifully rendered, crystal-clear maps, the book is enhanced with contextual information such as ship log entries, diary passages, old documents and illustrations, photographic and cartographic documentation, ship renderings, slave inventories and lists of the dead.
A foreword by David Brion Davis provides a concise, elegant and unsentimental framework in which the reader might conceptualize and interpret the many maps before him. Davis explains convincingly why the term "evil" must be applied to the practice of slavery, and how this vast international free-market system was essentially diminished and eventually stopped by the abolitionist movements in England and the United States.
Perhaps the book does not reveal much new information. Scholars who have studied slavery and the trans-Atlantic trade have had a good grip on the topic for decades. The project's great accomplishment is that it provides the first comprehensive overview of the entire trade from beginning to end along with an interactive, updatable database and website interface. Scholars can submit missing information or correct existing data, and users of the site have the ability to delve deeply into the trove of material and construct data sets.
The comprehensive nature of the project and the thoughtful contributions of its editors and essayists invite us to consider afresh this violent episode in world history and reflect on the consequences of unfettered markets, the human cost of slavery to both captives and captors and the true value of what have become staple crops: cotton, sugar and coffee.
Unfinished business
If the "Atlas" and "Voyages" website enable all of us to better appreciate the full scope of slavery, the comprehensive slavery project offers a unique opportunity to members of the African diaspora, for they are called upon to assist with the next phase. Eltis said. The "African Origins" website initiative is under way.
Like the "Voyages" site, this one is based on documentary evidence -- lists and lists of African names, 70,000 of them, taken from liberated ships during the abolitionist period. These records are digitized and published online, and now Eltis and his colleagues are asking blacks around the world to try to identify the individuals named.
A persistent challenge -- for blacks and for academia -- has been to determine where exactly in Africa members of the diaspora came from. The problem is made all the more difficult because of the great shuffling of Africans during the slave trade. Many captives from one region were taken to another on the continent, and many captives liberated by British ocean patrols after the 1807 abolition of the trade were returned to places far from home. Population displacement is not only a trans-Atlantic problem; all of western Africa was transformed by the practice of slavery.
The goal of "Origins," then, is to trace connections between descendants of captive Africans and their ancestors, zeroing in on specific areas of origin on the African continent.
Now the creators of the "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" want to extend the collaboration far and wide. As they do so, new generations of historians will contribute to this essential effort to centralize information about one of the world's most catastrophic events.
People with African origins will have a chance to reconnect to the continent.
And the rest of us will gain a new appreciation for the global metamorphosis wrought by the violent removal of so many millions -- and the price all of us have paid for it.