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2:45 p.m, Old Main 132, Students from "Gender, Race and Sexuality in Popular Culture," (women and gender studies), "Feminist Remixes: Engaging with Popular Culture through a Feminist Lens"
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An agreement signed in California by Cisco and Russian officials puts Russia on course to develop its own Silicon Valley in Skolkovo, near Moscow, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
"Simply put, we're all in," Cisco Chief Executive Officer John Chambers told Medvedev regarding what is intended to be a "wide-ranging series of collaborative initiatives."
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also was on hand when Cisco demonstrated its video conferencing, business social networking and sports casting technology for the Russian leader.
Cisco will initially pump in $100 million in venture money in Russia. Other facets will include establishing an innovation and venture center in Skolkovo, where Cisco also will put a second global headquarters for its Emerging Technology Group.
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Medvedev was to tour Apple, Google and Twitter, and speak at Stanford University later in the day.
Medvedev has made high-tech development and research top priorities of his economic agenda and is using his five-day U.S. trip to learn more about the sector, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.
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Russia is building a high-tech research hub in Skolkovo, a Moscow suburb, dubbed Russia's Silicon Valley, RIA Novosti said.
Medvedev said it would benefit Russia and the United States to cooperate in the high-tech arena and that he supports creating a Russian-U.S. working group for that purpose.
"We know you are very interested not only in developing and diversifying the economy but also you are very interested in nuclear disarmament," Schwarzenegger told Medvedev. "I want to tell you how much I appreciate that."
Schwarzenegger and Medvedev also toasted an international partnership to help California's state parks Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Medvedev witnessed Schwarzenegger signing a memorandum of understanding with Russia's Renova Group of Companies that will help preserve California's Fort Ross State Historic Park, a Russian-American settlement dating from the 1800s.
"Russian private investment will help the state," Schwarzenegger said. "It's a great collaboration."
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racer1 wrote:LMAO at your seperate thread for this. I post on lots of forums where mention of the haters isnt needed, as believe it or not there are some forums where honest opinions are posted that arent trashing anything and everything she does. However there are some on here that post such rediculous opinions that carry NO facts that is infact hatred or just jealousy over anything Danica does. She could win a race and there would be nasty hatefull comments posted and as Dave Despain said awhile back to haters making fun of her getting wrecked by Villenue at Road Amercia, he said "thats just pure hatred" for posters making nasty comments as good as she was running before she was wrecked--take a lesson from that..
Facts--She has tons of real fans but they dont use the social media crap as there is too many freaks and haters that post hate to get a response and her real fans and Danica herself blocks those out and ignores them. I dont use Social media either like Twitter, facebook or any of that crap since ive saw and heard of the hate and bullying where young kids have committed suicide over the hatred aimed at them and thats just terrible and criminal in my opinion, and why someday iam sure our "freedom of speach" WILL be re-examined.
Far as this site, if you dont like my responses them dont read them or tell others to grow up with their responses and recognise the good instead of always looking for ways to critisize and then maybe you will see different responses from me. However the comments made in the other thread about "why he likes danica" are general facts of Danicas life and the haters that do love to come out of the woodwork when anything she does is put in the media. The good thing is the haters are a clear minority of all her fans and they stay away from nasty sites or forums as they have said on decent sites. Danica has tons of people in her camp and they have people who monitor the media for anything that a lawsuit or threat of one can stop as some news people have been dealt with in that way, but forums that arent moderated lets the haters have at it--so i respond to that, as does some of her other fans on other sites.
Bottom line is its easy to see the hatefull posts unless you are ones that are constantly looking to post hate, then you call it an opinion--NOT hardly. Ive commented on lots of topics/threads here without any mention of hate, and Ive simply read and havent commented on many other comments about danica etc as no need to, but guess you only see what you want to see as well, so what does that say about you??
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racer1 wrote:GEE--now my feelings are hurt--LMAO. Get a clue--first off Iam not here to be liked and dont care what you or the others think as by comments I see, most of you know nothing anyway so take your lame immature remarks and tell someone who cares. When posters here start posting mature honest opinions that arent so negative all the time, then you wont see mine--simple as that.
BTW--far as me being a troll--you clearly have no clue what a troll is and as for me fading--LMAO


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OBJECTIVE: To estimate nationally representative incidence rates of maternal morbidities and to examine if the incidence of maternal morbidity increased during a 4-year study period.
METHODS: We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of women delivering in hospitals in Ireland between 2005 and 2008 using nationally representative hospital discharge data from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data set. Using singleton deliveries, we categorized International Classification of Diseases 10, Australian Modification diagnostic codes into 38 clinically relevant maternal morbidity groups and assessed the incidence of morbidities potentially affecting labor, delivery, and the puerperium. Significant trends in morbidity over the course of the study period were determined using Cochran-Armitage tests.
RESULTS: Exclusive of cesarean delivery, approximately one in six women (17.2%) had a maternal morbidity diagnosed during Hospitalization. When cesarean delivery was included as an additional indicator of morbidity, more than one third (35.6%) had a maternal morbidity diagnosed. The percentage of women with either hemorrhage and genital tract trauma (6.5%) or pregnancy-induced conditions (6.4%) diagnosed were similar. Overall, 4.5% of women had nonacute or chronic conditions diagnosed, 1.6% had infections diagnosed, and 0.6% had acute medical conditions diagnosed. Between 2005 and 2008, rates significantly (P<.001) increased for postpartum hemorrhage, pelvic and perineal trauma, and gestational diabetes.
CONCLUSION: Maternal morbidities in Ireland are common and changing, underscoring the benefits of continuous comprehensive examination of maternity care services for all women during childbirth to address treatment of morbidities and to potentially prevent new morbidities.
Over the past 20 years, the incidence of certain morbidities reported in women during hospitalization for childbirth has increased, particularly for postpartum hemorrhage, hypertension, and gestational diabetes.1 There also have been documented changes in rates of rarer events, such as uterine rupture2 and blood transfusion.3 Because it is likely that these trends in North America are not attributable solely to changes in diagnostic reporting practice, they raise important questions concerning the patterns of maternal morbidities on an international scale.
The phrase maternal morbidity may imply moderate to severe conditions that potentially result in obstetric complications and is recognized as a useful indicator of maternal well-being and quality of obstetric care.4–8 Yet maternal morbidities encountered differ geographically as well as over time because of advances in treatment, health care delivery factors, changes in the childbearing population, and the nature of the morbidity itself. Understanding the incidence and change of maternal morbidities on a national scale is essential for health policy design, clinical recommendations, and targeted interventions.
Each year, approximately 70,000 women give birth in Ireland. Although Irish hospital-based studies of severe maternal morbidity have been conducted,9,10 these studies were neither nationally representative nor did they capture the breadth of clinically important obstetric and nonobstetric complications that may have an effect on pregnancy, delivery, and the puerperium. Advances in methods using hospital discharge data to identify population-based maternal morbidity rates have been made in other European countries, such as Norway,11 Finland,12 Denmark,13 and Scotland.14 We complement this research using hospital discharge data from 2005 through 2008 to conduct a nationally representative analysis of maternal morbidity in Ireland. Specifically, we investigated the incidence of maternal morbidities during childbirth while hospitalized and morbidity trends during the study period.
We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of women delivering in hospitals in Ireland using the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data set, which is the only national source of hospital discharge data from all public hospitals. Anonymized Hospital In-patient Enquiry data are maintained by the Economic and Social Research Institute; further details on data collection have been described elsewhere.15 In brief, for each hospital admission, Hospital In-Patient Enquiry contains information on patient demographics, hospitalization characteristics, and up to 20 diagnoses or procedures or both, coded according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM).16 All hospitals submitting information to the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry database use identical software, standardized for the entry of Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data, and clinical coders nationally undergo a centralized training program in the entry of morbidity data under supervision of the Economic and Social Research Institute. Furthermore, more than 140 validation checks are routinely performed on Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data, and 18 chart-based audits have been conducted since 2001. Independent reviews of the clinical coder training program and audit procedures have identified Hospital In-Patient Enquiry as an accurate and reliable data collection system.17,18
We included all singleton childbirth hospitalizations from 19 public maternity hospitals between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2008 (N=253,792) because this time period reflected the most recently available data comprising a large number of births and permitted analysis of uncommon morbidities. Singleton childbirth hospitalizations were identified if the hospital record contained a diagnostic code for a single live birth (Z37.0) or a single stillbirth (Z37.1). Because pregnancy outcomes of interest were live and stillborn fetuses, we excluded records associated with spontaneous abortions and abdominal, tubal, and hydatidiform mole pregnancies (n=27). Given these criteria, our analysis included 252,276 live birth and 1,489 stillbirth deliveries. The study was exempt from Institutional Research Board review because data analyzed were de-identified, unlinked, and available for public access.
We modeled our definition of maternal morbidity after two studies from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which categorized diagnostic codes into clinically relevant maternal morbidity groups.1,5 In parallel with the CDC studies, we defined maternal morbidity as moderate to severe conditions recorded during delivery hospitalization that may have adversely affected maternal physical or mental health. We included conditions that were specific to pregnancy (eg, gestational diabetes) and conditions that may have exacerbated pregnancy (eg, cystic fibrosis).
Because the two previous CDC studies1,5 were based on the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) and because the ICD-10-AM is more detailed than the ICD-9-CM, morbidity categorizations could not be directly translated. Therefore, we identified equivalent diagnoses using mapping tables available from the Australian National Centre for Classification in Health.19 For diagnoses without a direct match, we considered all potentially relevant ICD-10-AM codes within the pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium (O00–O99) chapter as well as all other remaining chapters. Three clinicians, including two obstetricians (R.A.G., J.J.M.) and one nurse-midwife (M.T.L.R.), independently reviewed ICD-10-AM diagnoses, and conditions were included on consensus of the three reviewers. We grouped ICD-10-AM codes that met our definition of maternal morbidity into 38 major clinical categories. Similar to Berg et al,1 we added cesarean delivery, considered a major surgical procedure, as a maternal morbidity category for our analysis.
Other variables of interest included marital status, which was classified as single, married, or other. Medical card status identified whether a patient was in possession of a general medical card, which entitles low-income individuals to select free health care services.
The rates of maternal morbidities over the course of the 4-year period were defined as the number of women who met at least one criterion of the morbidity category per 100 deliveries (shown as a percentage). Overall morbidity rates were calculated both exclusive and inclusive of cesarean delivery. Morbidities that affected at least 1.0% of total deliveries also were examined by live birth and stillbirth, and significant differences by birth outcome were assessed using χ2 tests. Temporal trends for overall morbidities as well as for the most common morbidities (1.0% or more of total deliveries) were explored. To determine significant trends, crude incidence rates were derived per 1,000 singleton deliveries and a Cochran-Armitage test was performed. Analyses were conducted using SAS 9.2.
There were several differences in the distribution of patient characteristics relative to maternal morbidity diagnosis (Table 1). Compared with women without a morbidity diagnosed, women with a morbidity diagnosed were more likely to remain hospitalized for at least 5 days, to be admitted to the intensive care unit, to have a cesarean delivery, and to have a stillborn fetus.
Rates for the 38 maternal morbidity categories undergoing review and the ICD-10-AM codes used to derive each category are shown in Table 2. Exclusive of cesarean delivery, approximately one in six women (17.2%) had a maternal morbidity diagnosed during delivery in the hospital. When cesarean delivery was included as an additional indicator, more than one third (35.6%) had a maternal morbidity diagnosed. The percentage of women with either hemorrhage and genital tract trauma (6.5%) or pregnancy-induced conditions (6.4%) diagnosed were similar. Overall, 4.5% of women had nonacute or chronic conditions diagnosed, 1.6% had infections diagnosed, and 0.6% had acute medical conditions diagnosed. Between 2005 and 2008, the five most common maternal morbidities were cesarean delivery (24.5%), gestational hypertensive disorders (5.0%), postpartum hemorrhage (2.9%), pelvic and perineal trauma (2.3%), and anemia (2.0%).
The singleton stillbirth rate among women delivering in hospitals was 5.9 per 1,000 singleton deliveries (data not shown). Patterns in several of the most common conditions (those affecting 1% or more of total deliveries) varied according to birth outcome (Table 3). Notable differences of live birth compared with stillbirth, respectively, were found among cesarean delivery (24.6% compared with 6.9%), pelvic and perineal trauma (2.3% compared with 0.6%), and antepartum hemorrhage (1.2% compared with 7.4%). Women with live births experienced a lower total morbidity, excluding cesarean delivery, of 17.0% compared with 24.2% among women with stillbirths. However, the pattern reversed when total morbidity including cesarean delivery was considered. The incidence of total morbidity including cesarean delivery was highest among women with live births relative to stillbirths (35.5% compared with 28.1%, respectively).
Between 2005 and 2008, the rate of cesarean delivery among all singleton deliveries remained at approximately 25% (data not shown). Although no significant trends were found over the 4-year study period for antepartum hemorrhage, gestational hypertensive disorders, or anemia, rates did significantly increase for postpartum hemorrhage, pelvic and perineal trauma, and gestational diabetes (P<.001; Fig. 1). Moreover, the overall rate of maternal morbidity excluding cesarean delivery per 1,000 singleton deliveries increased significantly from 171.5 cases in 2005 to 178.9 cases in 2008 (P<.001; data not shown). Similarly, the rate of maternal morbidity including cesarean delivery per 1,000 singleton deliveries increased from 353.3 cases in 2005 to 362.9 cases in 2008 (P<.001; data not shown).
In our analysis of Ireland's nationally representative cohort of women giving birth in hospitals, we identified the incidence of maternal morbidity and change over time during a 4-year period. We offer three key findings. First, maternal morbidity affected a large proportion of women, with nearly one in six women experiencing a potentially detrimental complication during delivery. This rate increased to more than one in three deliveries when cesarean delivery was included as an additional measure of morbidity. Second, the presence and pattern of maternal morbidity distinctly varied for women with live births compared with stillbirths. Third, among all deliveries, the incidence of postpartum hemorrhage, pelvic and perineal trauma, and gestational diabetes increased from 2005 to 2008.
Our study examines population-based incidence rates of maternal morbidity over time Ireland and contributes to a growing body of literature that has utilized hospital discharge data to better-understand patterns in maternal morbidities.1,3,12,20–22 Specifically, our work is congruent with and builds on the research of Lynch et al,9 who analyzed audit data to investigate severe maternal morbidity from 1999 to 2003, and Murphy et al,10 who analyzed severe maternal morbidity cases from three large Dublin tertiary hospitals. Both studies found that obstetric hemorrhage was a major maternal morbidity.
We found that the differences in maternal morbidity patterns between women with live and those with stillbirths reinforced the credibility of the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data set because, as expected, antepartum hemorrhage and placental abruption (data not shown) were notably higher among stillbirth compared with live birth deliveries. Furthermore, documenting maternal morbidities by birth outcome complemented recent work published by the CDC.5 We found, for example, that the rate of gestational hypertensive disorders was almost identical between stillbirth and live birth deliveries in Ireland (5.3% compared with 5.0%, respectively), although rates of hypertensive disorders were slightly lower for stillbirth deliveries compared with live birth deliveries in the United States (9.9% compared with 12.0%, respectively).
Increases in the rates of postpartum hemorrhage and gestational diabetes observed in this study were consistent with international systematic reviews from other high-income countries,23,24 and specifically with findings presented by Berg et al.1 Many factors may have contributed to these increases; given the association between both conditions and obesity,25 these trends may reflect the increasing prevalence of obesity among Irish women, which was recently estimated at 23%.26 Among all deliveries, the rate of pelvic and perineal trauma increased, which is counterintuitive given the high rate of cesarean delivery. This finding is in contrast to the findings of Berg et al,1 who reported a decrease in perineal trauma in the United States. The increase in pelvic and perineal trauma may be attributable to increasing rates of operative vaginal vacuum-assisted delivery in Ireland from 12.5% in 2005 to 13.7% in 2008. In addition, the lower rates for stillbirth deliveries may reflect a higher incidence of small-for-gestational-age newborns among this cohort and, hence, less perineal sequelae.
However, trends must be interpreted with caution because of the relatively short time span of the study period. Trends potentially may be an artifact of improved diagnostic reporting. In 2007, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists issued clear guidelines for identifying pelvic and perineal trauma27; in 2006, Bose et al28 highlighted significant underestimation of postpartum blood loss by clinicians. Although both publications consequently affected clinical audit of these conditions Ireland, the extent to which they have influenced reporting on hospital discharge records has not been determined. Thus, to substantiate or refute trends suggested in this study, additional longitudinal analysis is warranted, specifically focusing on postpartum hemorrhage, gestational diabetes, and pelvic and perineal trauma.
Our study focused on the mapping of maternal morbidity outcomes between the ICD-9-CM and the ICD-10-AM and on the modification of previously established morbidity categories based on ICD-9-CM codes. Numerous diagnoses in the ICD-10-AM are more specific than its predecessor; conditions, such as morbidly adherent placenta, are uniquely identified in the ICD-10-AM. Therefore, we were able to discern with a greater degree of precision which morbidities should be included or excluded from our definition of maternal morbidity. Given that diagnostic categories between the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-AM were extensively reviewed, this preliminary work can facilitate future studies transitioning between ICD systems. Our work has relevance for at least 17 countries currently licensed to use the ICD-10-AM version29 and also may benefit countries, such as the United States, that will be adopting the ICD-10-CM in October 2013.30
Using hospital discharge data to identify maternal morbidity has potential limitations. Sensitivity studies of pregnancy-related hospital discharge records have shown that certain morbidities are prone to underestimation, particularly nonobstetric or chronic conditions, and these underestimations may be more frequent among deliveries with less complications.31,32 While independent reviews of the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data set have found that its coding entries are highly accurate17,18 and our overall rates of postpartum and antepartum hemorrhage and uterine rupture were similar to those reported in a U.S. study using hospital discharge data,1 there is an inherent need to conduct validation studies to identify potential reporting bias. Although underreporting of maternal morbidity in hospital-discharge data can be decreased by linking hospital-discharge and birth certificate data,32–34 Ireland's data-protection legislation currently prohibits these types of linkages. Because we were unable to link data sets, we lacked data on parity and neonatal birth weight, which precluded examination of these factors. However, presently there is no alternative national data source to Hospital In-Patient Enquiry routinely collecting information on maternal morbidities in Ireland. Given that 99% of births in Ireland are hospital-based,10 and that Hospital In-Patient Enquiry data are recorded for 98% of all hospitalized births, our findings represent nearly all women giving birth in Ireland.
Under Irish governance (Health Act, No. 1/1970, Irish Statute Book), all pregnant women in Ireland are entitled to free peripartum care, 6 months of maternity leave, and additional leave to attend obstetric appointments and antenatal classes. However, despite these progressive measures, the 2006 publication of the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry35 identified shortcomings in Irish obstetric care and subsequently recommended the establishment of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre (http://www.ucc.ie/en/npec/) to conduct national-level research on the health of mothers and newborns. Thus, in an effort to meet the recommendation set forth by the Lourdes Hospital Inquiry, we have found that the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry database has the potential to serve as a national monitoring system of maternal health during childbirth hospitalization because of its representativeness of the childbearing population and its extensive quality-control protocols. Nonetheless, to improve the utility of the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry database for epidemiologic research and to identify potential reporting bias, hospital discharge records should be linked with birth certificate information when data linkage restrictions are overturned, which is currently anticipated to occur in 2011. However, continued retrospective analysis of hospital discharge data would complement the Severe Maternal Morbidity Surveillance System, which is a prospective monitoring system expected to commence Ireland in June 2011 under the auspices of National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre. Future cross-referencing of these two data sources would facilitate quality assessment of both data collection systems.
In conclusion, our study, undertaken in Ireland, provides national-level information on maternal morbidity, thus providing clinicians, public health officials, and policy makers with data to describe and understand the spectrum of clinically important maternal morbidities encountered by the Irish childbearing population during labor, delivery, and the puerperium. We have found that maternal morbidities in Ireland are common and changing, underscoring the benefits of continuous comprehensive examination of maternity care services for all women during childbirth to address treatment of morbidities and potentially prevent new morbidities.
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Gordonstoun's, whose alumni include the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles, was reduced from £148,086 to £29,618, a taxpayer funded subsidy of £118, 468. Wester Hailes state school, where over 40% of pupils are are eligible for free school-meals, paid its tax liability of £261,873 in full... How can this be right or fair?
Pensions and savings are increasingly central to Scotland's independence debate. Today you will hear more about them at the SNP's conference. The Scottish Government's much trailed pensions paper was eagerly anticipated. Finally answers to the difficult questions would be forthcoming, we were told. A blueprint for unwinding Scotland from a UK pensions system built up over generations was expected. It didn't happen.
The Business, Innovation and Skills committee plan to quiz the secretary of state on the privatisation this autumn. I hope that by then the Scottish Government might have at least hinted at what would happen to postal services in an independent Scotland. With less than 18 months until the referendum, it's another uncertainty that the people of Scotland deserve to have clarified.
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It's no easy task to replace a player that produced the way Carlos Beltran did for the Mets in 2011.
Beltran rediscovered the fountain of youth and was in the midst of a career year, perhaps his finest since 2008, when the Mets traded him to the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.
The right fielder led the Mets in home runs with 15, as well as in the RBI department with 66.
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The Best Home Runs (So Far) of 2012
Chicks aren't the only ones who dig the long ball. In honor of the Home Run Derby, we recap the best dingers so far of 2012.
Carlos Beltran (St. Louis Cardinals) - 464 feet
It's been quite the comeback season for Carlos Beltran, who has always had one of the sweetest switch-hitter strokes in the game. The 35-year-old veteran is sitting pretty with 20 home runs, and will join Kemp on the NL crew at the Home Run Derby. Beltran has clearly found the fountain youth in St. Louis, and is on pace for his highest homer total since 2006. Watch as he sends an Ian Kennedy offering soaring 464 feet to deep right field.


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This is my sister Alexis' recipe. The most delicious enchiladas you'll ever have. The sour cream sauce really makes this meal. Original recipe calls for 1 4 oz. can of diced jalepenos in meat mixture but DH does not like it spicy so I omit.
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The Economics of Global Warming
Institute for International Economics, 1992 - Business & Economics - 399 pages
This study examines the costs and benefits of an aggressive programme of global action to limit greenhouse warming. An initial chapter summarizes the scientific issues from the standpoint of an economist. The analysis places heavy emphasis on efforts over a long run of 200 to 300 years, with much greater warming and damages than associated with the conventional benchmark (a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere).
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Exploring "new cross cultural currents in music's textural path," this group of "ethno primitive percussionists" create atmospheric sound environments comprised of an eclectic synthesis of tongue drums, marimbas, body percussion and other world instruments.
"Intricate droning soundscapes [are] achieved by ... Robert Hampson and ... Charles Webster ... The slow keyboards wash over delicate pulsing drum loops and by the time the bass kicks in you can almost imagine a sea of hands held high in dance anthem fervour."
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A long day of rain Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway postponed the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 to Monday. Although there was no rain today, the moisture left over still played a role with the race starting under caution for the opening 10 laps to help dry out any remaining damp spots on the 1.5-mile oval. NASCAR also scheduled a competition caution so teams could check tire wear with the track having been washed clean of any tire rubber build up over the weekend.
When the 500 miles had been completed it was Kyle Busch leading Joe Gibbs Racing with a third-place finish, while Matt Kenseth took the checkered flag in seventh and Denny Hamlin earned a 13th-place finish.
Busch qualified his No. 18 Interstate Batteries Toyota in 29th position and was able to race his way into the top 20 prior to a competition caution on lap 48. He would restart 17th on lap 54 and used an aggressive restart to move into the top 15 and then entered the top ten for the first time just a dozen laps later. By lap 90 Busch had moved his No. 18 Camry into the seventh position. He was able to continue his climb forward and was in the top five and running third when he made a green flag pit stop on lap 141. Once the field cycled through he would find himself in the lead on lap 144. He would hold the lead for 10 laps before giving way to the 24 car and then continued to run second through the halfway point of the race. Busch would line up third for a restart on lap 184. He would run fourth on the ensuing green flag run and lined up third for another restart following a round of pit stops on lap 227. Busch would settle back into the fourth position once again until the next caution came out with 80 laps to go. He would line up fifth for the restart with 74 laps remaining. Busch was unable to gain any ground and once the field cycled through following a round of green flag pit stops he was running fourth with 30 to go. He would manage to gain one more spot to run third when a caution came out just prior to the white flag. Crew chief Dave Rogers would make the call for four fresh tires and the Interstate Batteries Camry would come off pit road fifth for a green-white-checker finish after two teams made a call to take just two tires. A pit road speeding penalty on the 2 car would allow Busch to gain an additional spot prior to the restart and he lined up on the outside of the second row in fourth. He would use an aggressive move to the bottom of the track on the final lap to earn a strong third-place finish.
Kenseth started his No. 20 Dollar General Toyota in 26th and battled an ill-handling racecar through the early portion of the race gaining a couple of spots to run 24th when a competition caution came out following lap 48. He would restart 22nd on lap 54. Unfortunately his No. 20 Camry proved difficult to turn in the corners and he would drop back several positions following the restart before settling in to run 23rd. Things would improve for Kenseth who was able to climb inside the top 20 and ran 15th at lap 125. He continued to patiently make his way forward and was running 10th at the halfway mark. Kenseth would restart 10th on lap 184. He would struggle a bit on the restarts especially when lined up on the outside, but was able to regain the positions lost over the course of the green flag run. He would bring the Dollar General Toyota back down pit road under caution on lap 214 in 11th and was able to gain one spot to restart 10th again on lap 227. Kenseth would hold onto that spot through the next run and then lined up ninth for a restart with 74 to go. Kenseth wasn't able to gain any ground and was running seventh following a round of green flag pit stops that cycled through with 30 laps remaining. Kenseth was in the eighth position when a caution came out just prior to the leader taking the white flag. He would come down pit road for four tires and lined up eighth for the final restart. Kenseth was able to gain one spot on the final two-lap run and finished seventh.
Hamlin started his No. 11 FedEx Office/March of Dimes Toyota from the sixth position and was running eighth when a competition caution came out following lap 48. He would restart seventh on lap 54 and moved into the top five on lap 74. He was running fourth on lap 90. Hamlin, who drove a special March of Dimes paint scheme, continued his march to the front and was in second at lap 100 and then took his first lead of the day on lap 123. He would make a green flag pit stop from the lead on lap 141 but was ruled to be too fast exiting pit road and had to serve a pass-through penalty. That put Hamlin back in 16th following the penalty. He was able to climb his way back inside the top 15 to run 13th at the halfway mark. The FedEx crew would gain Hamlin several spots on pit road while under caution allowing him to restart ninth on lap 184. Hamlin would remain ninth through the ensuing green flag run, but his crew did it again while under caution on pit road and the No. 11 car gained three spots and restarted sixth on lap 227. He would fall back one spot on the next run, but once again his team delivered and allowed him to line up sixth yet again for another restart on lap 260. Hamlin was unable to gain any ground and once the field cycled through following a final round of green flag pit stops he was running 10th with 30 to go. A caution just before the leader took the white flag sent the lead lap cars back down pit road for tires and with some teams making the call for just two tires, Hamlin lined up 12th for the restart. The outside lane proved problematic for restarts much of the afternoon and Hamlin was unable to gain any spots over the final two lap run. He would go on to finish 13th.
Joey Logano won the race followed by Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Brian Vickers, and Kyle Larson rounded out the top five. There were seven cautions for a total of 49 laps and 18 lead changes among nine different drivers. The race was extended six laps for a green-white-checkered finish.


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New products like antibacterial soap and hand sanitizers clamor for our attention, but plain old soap and water is still a good way to clean your hands, reports the January 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.
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Act Your Age, the fourth album by Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band (not counting its soundtrack for the film Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas), is of a piece with the group's first three releases, another relentlessly eclectic collection that is, at least for most of the first half of its running time, less interested in developing the modern possibilities of the big band than in merging the big-band sound to other styles. Goodwin has always brought in seemingly unlikely guest stars to create pop and rock hybrids, whether it was Johnny Mathis singing "Let the Good Times Roll" (on 2003's XXL) or David Sanborn leading the group on "Play That Funky Music" (on 2006's The Phat Pack). He has been rewarded with unusually strong sales for jazz, in the range of 14-20,000 copies per release.
And he's up to the same sort of thing here, for example bringing in Patti Austin to sing Earth, Wind & Fire's "September," with Lee Ritenour adding rockish electric guitar solos. Other guests include Chick Corea (revisiting "Señor Mouse") and electric bassist Nathan East (thumb-popping his way through "Act Your Age"). Ritenour returns along with Dave Grusin on piano for "Punta Del Soul," which a casual listener, happening into the room, could easily mistake for Steely Dan. All of that may give traditionalists pause, but they are likely to reserve special ire for the version of "Yesterdays" that employs "Art Tatum" on piano. Not only has Tatum been gone these 50-plus years, of course, but the piano track is actually a Diskclavier recreation, not a recording of Tatum himself.
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SANTA FE SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 12 – In Consumer Reports' December 2007 article "Air Purifiers Filtering the Claims," the popular product review magazine admits that the air purifier they recommended as #1 for 15 years produces ozone and may be potentially harmful. According to IQAir North America, the magazine's continued lack of in-depth comparison is still causing them to recommend inferior and potentially unhealthy products while failing to acknowledge IQAir's vastly superior HealthPro Plus room air purifier.
"Consumer Reports air purifier review completely fails consumers," says Frank Hammes, President of IQAir. "It took Consumer Reports 15 years to come to the simple realization that an air purifier should not produce a lung irritant. It could take them another 15 years to realize their entire rating process is fundamentally flawed. Readers believe the magazine is conducting a thorough and in-depth review of air purifiers, but the truth is that their testing is so superficial it causes Consumer Reports to make the wrong recommendations."
IQAir met with Consumer Reports in January 2006 to discuss a number of ways the magazine needed to improve their testing process.
"They incorporated just one of our suggested changes into their review process – rating air purifiers by whether or not they produce ozone," says Hammes. "This one change caused Consumer Reports to drop the air purifier they had recommended as number one for 15 years down to 28th place. If they would incorporate all of the necessary changes to their review process you would see every one of their top recommended products drop down in rating."
Asthma advocate Lisa Whiting believes Consumer Reports endangered her son's life.
"Following Consumer Reports recommendations could have killed my son," says Whiting. "When Brant was eight – he went into full respiratory arrest because of his asthma. I bought several air purifiers because they received top recommendations from Consumer Reports – and not one of them helped. Finally, I tossed out the magazine and did my own research. I found out Consumer Reports is not just misinformed – their advice can actually be dangerous. "
Whiting credits doing her own research to helping her find an air purifier that helped her son.
"I bought IQAir's HealthPro Plus," says Whiting. "In one school year my son had missed 67 days or partial days of school because of his asthma, but the year after we got the HealthPro Plus he missed zero days of school. If I had kept listening to Consumer Reports I would have kept buying bad air cleaners and avoided the good one."
IQAir designed the HealthPro Plus with a vision of creating the world's most advanced ultra-high efficiency air purifier, one that could be used in both medical environments as well as homes. The HealthPro Plus has received numerous top reviews from allergy and asthma groups and consumer product testing organizations worldwide, including Stiftung Warentest, the prestigious German government funded product review organization. It is used by hospitals in more than 100 countries to help protect patients and caregivers from the cross contamination of diseases such as SARS, MRSA, tuberculosis and Avian flu.
IQAir has recommended several evaluation criteria that Consumer Reports needs to incorporate into their air purifier testing:
- Permanent Particle Removal: Many of Consumer Reports top recommended products use ionization. The ionization process adds an electrical charge to particles that makes them adhere to surfaces. Consumer Reports tells people ionized particles are trapped inside the machine, but in reality ionized particles are systematically emitted into the air and deposit on floors, walls, and other surfaces. Charged particles deposited on room surfaces can soil walls and furniture, but a more serious concern voiced by medical professionals is that ionization can increase the particle deposition into lung tissue and increase contact allergies. Charged particles can also retrain into the environment when the device is turned on/off or when the electrical charge dissipates. IQAir's HealthPro Plus does not use ionization. It uses pure mechanical filtration that permanently traps particles in its HyperHEPA filter and never re-releases them.
- Long-Term Efficiency: A crucial requirement of air purifiers purchased for health or medical use is that they keep working. Unfortunately, Consumer Reports only tests room air cleaners for their first 30 minutes of use. Ionizers, electrostatic precipitators, and air cleaners that use synthetic HEPA can rapidly lose their initial efficiency with use. Long-term testing of these devices would reveal that their initial performance can rapidly deteriorate. Consumer Reports ranks these technologies highly because of their high initial airflow, but they fail to recognize that many of these devices can lose as much as 50% of their initial function in just a few weeks. The HealthPro Plus uses the highest grade true HEPA filtration that never loses efficiency.
- Ultra-fine Particle Filtration: Consumer Reports only tests air purifiers for their filtration for particles down to 0.1 microns in size, but 80% of all airborne particles are smaller than 0.1 microns. Numerous scientific studies have shown that ultra-fine particles are the most harmful to our health. This is the particle size range that can enter the human blood stream and significantly increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Many room air purifiers have poor efficiency at filtering these ultra-fine particles. The HealthPro Plus was chosen by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority as the only room air purifier suitable to be used in the fight against SARS because it is the only room air purifier tested and certified to filter down to 0.003 microns with a guaranteed minimum efficiency of over 99.5%.
- Gas and Chemical Filtration: Many of Consumer Reports top recommended air purifiers are advertised as effective at removing household "odors" – but in truth most of these products contain no effective gas or chemical filtration technology. Odor removal is one of the top reasons many consumers purchase air purifiers, and it is very important to people with asthma and other respiratory conditions. Stiftung Warentest went on record to state that a good air purifier must contain gas and chemical filtration. Consumer Reports failure to rate this important quality keeps consumers from being able to identify the products they actually want and need. Consumers may be shocked to learn that Consumer Reports actually downgrades an air purifier's rating for including effective gas/chemical filtration because this technology lowers airflow. The HealthPro Plus contains the most effective gas and chemical filtration ever available in a residential air purifier.
"We believe Consumer Reports genuinely wants to bring consumers the best product evaluations possible," says Hammes. "But the magazine needs to recognize that air purifiers are primarily purchased by people with allergies, asthma, and other respiratory conditions. Consumer Reports should test air purifiers as medical devices – not toasters. They must make these necessary changes to their review process so they can help guide consumers to the best air purifiers. If they don't make significant changes – they need to stop testing air purifiers altogether because their current review process is actually guiding consumers to make bad decisions."
IQAir North America, Inc. is a member of the Swiss based IQAir Group that develops and manufactures innovative air quality products for indoor environments. IQAir products are used worldwide by hospitals and other critical environments. IQAir also manufactures home air cleaners for allergy and asthma sufferers and individuals with chemical sensitivities. IQAir is the American Lung Association's exclusive educational partner from the portable air purifier industry. For more information visit www.iqair.com.


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