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BRENTWOOD, NEW YORK -- Just going to stay to the facts or try. 8/3/2007. the back light on my laptop kicked the bucket, the laptop isn't even a year old and so knowing it was under warranty I called up to have it fixed. Upon talking with a tech (I am also a tech) I was told that I could purchase an extended warranty and receive my laptop "guaranteed" back to me within 2-3 days. I declined as I could not afford the warranty, and I was told I should be receiving my laptop back in 12 days. OK no problem.
8/16/2007. I had looked up the status of my laptop and noticed that it was expected to be delivered, but on the page it also said "Hewlett-Packard is currently trying to get in touch with you regarding the current status of your order. If we have been unable to reach you, please call us at the customer service phone number listed in the Contact HP section at your earliest convenience. Expected Delivery Date:09/04/2007".
I thought it was odd because I had not received any calls so I called them, after an hour and 26 min. I got a rep on the phone who told me that a part is out of stock and I should be getting my laptop on Aug. 28th, he then informed me that if I want to extend my warranty I could have my laptop back by Tuesday. Again I didn't have the money but wanted to know how purchasing a warranty would make a part appear in their repair center, there was no answer but my case was going to be escalated. OK? I was transferred to another rep who tried to sell it to me. When I again asked how that was going to make the part appear I was placed on hold then dropped.
8/28/2007. When I did not receive my computer, I called again and spoke to a rep named Michael. He guaranteed me that I would be receiving my computer on the fourth and then tried to sell me a warranty, again my case was also escalated.
9/4/2007. No computer... I call again and am told that there is no Michael (of course not) and that my computer was shipped and I even got a tracking number. I hang up. Tracking number was for when I send laptop to them. I call back and was told that I should have received my laptop, but wait, the rep looked again and there is a part that is in backorder and I will receive my laptop when they receive the part. did all laptop production stop in the month of August? Then the rep has the nerve to offer me a chance to purchase an extended warranty and "have my laptop back in less than a week".
I'm very up set with them so I ask for a manager. None available, and I am told I have to speak with an account manager, who is not available but is between the hours of 9 and 5. As of today, 9/7/2002, I have no new info and no contact with HP.
Note this is a long saga with multiple issues involved. A briefer conclusion is at the bottom. I bought a Hewlett Packard HP Pavilion DV2000 Laptop from Costco. When I first had it it functioned well. I was able to easily do a home landscaping/architecture program and surf the internet quickly. At the bottom of the screen however there was a small irregularity to the screen about a millimeter in size. One day I left it upside down on by couch so it wouldn't overheat and when I went to work on it the next day there was a black spot in the LCD screen near the irregularity.
I tried calling Costco but they were closed. I tried squeezing in some of the liquid crystal from the screen into the black spot, and a crack or two radiated out from the irregularity, and then there was very little of the screen that worked anymore. About a ½ cm by 2cm at the top was all you could see. Desperately trying to get a back-up of my program onto another computer, I tried to attach it to another computer and TV screen but I couldn't get it to output to a screen that way either. I think you needed to be able to get into the Control screen to do this, and I couldn't see much of anything so there was no way to do this.
Next day I called Costco Service Number and they quickly got a three way call going with HP/ Hewlett Packard. I described the screen issue to the HP representative and was told that the screen would be replaced free of charge. I also told him that I was worried that I hadn't been able to get anything off my hard drive and that I had some important work on it. He told me that because all they had to do was replace the screen, Nothing would happen to the hard drive.
A box was sent to me the next day to send to them. My computer was supposed to get back to me in 4-5 days according to the HP rep. After a week and a half the computer still hadn't come and I had to go on a trip without it. When I returned it was now 2 weeks, and hadn't come back, so I tried to find out what was going on. They had sent me an email that said that I had to approve a 751$ repair fee for the screen. Even though they had my computer and my phone number they hadn't called me to inform me of this.
I called them back and explained that I had already been told that the screen would be repaired for free. I was told that I would need to discuss this with a Customer Service Representative Case Manager. After 2 days I received a message with the number to call to talk to the case manager, **. When I called she told me that because it was a screen it wasn't covered by their warranty. I explained that they had already told me it would be free which was why I sent it to HP instead of returned it to Costco in the first place. She told me that I had been misinformed.
I was told that I could either pay for the repair or have it shipped back to me. Since this was nearly the same price as the original computer I wasn't going to pay that much to repair it. She told me that I shouldn't have left it upside down and that this wasn't HP's problem. By this time I only had 1-2 days left within the 90 return policy at Costco so I asked if the computer could be sent to me to arrive in time for me to try to return it there.
She said that it's return could not be expedited. And that she expected it would return after that time period. I asked if she could call Costco and explain the delay in my returning it. She told me they probably didn't accept returned computers with broken screens. I asked her to call anyway and told her the store's location where I had bought it. She called them, spoke to the manager, and told me that I should speak to the manager when I tried to return it, but that she suspected they didn't accept returns on broken computers. I asked if HP could do anything about getting the program I needed off my computer and was told that they were not responsible for doing that.
She told me that if I didn't repair it the screen would become more black with time, so that I should expect it to look worse when it came back to me. She asked if there was anything else she could do to help me. I told her that given what she had already told me that there didn't seem to be. While I waited for my 1st computer to return, I was told by a friend that the hard drives are easy to take out of the computers. I decided that I would buy the same computer again so that I could switch the hard drives.
I had thrown away the information on the computer screen repair and ** phone number so while I was at Costco ready to buy my new laptop I called them up to make sure I got the same model number. My prior model number had been DV 2213 CL. Costco now had a DV 2313 CL instead of the prior model. I explained my whole prior computer's issue and how I needed to switch the hard drives over to get my program off the computer.
The HP rep, **, I talked to told me that my old hard drive was incompatible with the new 2313 model. After having to put me on hold to talk to various people he told me that the only computer he could say would be compatible was the model DV 2410, for 850$ (and an additional 350$ for extended warranty and then more for tax ). I asked for them to ship it quickly free of charge because of the prior issues and was told I would have to pay an expensive additional shipping fee so I had it shipped standard.
When it finally arrived I went to switch the hard drives and found that the computer that had just returned from HP no longer had the two screws that hold the hard drive in place. Also there was a notification that HP had performed a Complimentary 22 point inspection of my computer, but I didn't know what that meant. I switched the hard drives but the new computer wouldn't start properly. I called 1(800) HPINVENT to explain the new hard drive issues.
At this point in time I wanted to get the program off my old computer; use the old computer to work connected to my TV (since my conversation with Cathy had left me under the impression that it was likely a waste of time to go back to Costco to return the computer so I tried to find some other use for it); I wanted my two screws back.
I explained the prior problem and why I needed to do this. The HP rep/repair specialist ** was super nice and helpful, but explained that this wasn't something that HP had to help me with. He said that because I had been told it would work by the sales person he would help me out. We spent an hour on the phone trying everything to make it work. He diagnosed the models as incompatible. He talked about something that might be able to be done to get the program off my old hard drive and make the hard drives both work on the new computer. He told me that he would discuss this with his manager and call me back in 30 minutes, and that the manager would call me back in a day or two.
He didn't call me back. I didn't hear from a manager in 2 days. On the 3rd or 4th day I called, concerned because I needed to know if there was a way to make these work so I could get my program off, or what I was supposed to do. I was told that I had to wait for the case manager to call me. I asked if there was a number, or email address, I could call to speak to the case manager, or if they could email me the information, because I was going on a trip where I wouldn't be able to answer my phone. I was told I had to wait for the call from the case manager.
I did receive a review your case manager type of form (I think by email) and HP gave me 10% off another HP product. I noted she had been very "professional" but not actually helped me. I called HP and they let me apply this credit to the computer I had just bought. The trip came, I returned. No messages had been received. It had been 14 days.
Additionally, A new problem had developed with my new laptop. I was getting "unexpected shut downs" on my new computer that started after I tried to use my iPOD Video for some movies. And on my HP pavilion I couldn't download photos to my iPod either. My main problems remained making the old computer work without the screen/ getting the program off the old computer, getting the screws back, and getting one of these computers in for a refund.
I called 1(800) HPINVENT again and explained this issue to a rep **. She told me she would transfer me to her manager, but I was disconnected instead. I went through the same thing again to get a hold of and explain the issue with Rep **, and asked him if there was a number I could call directly so that I didn't have to go through the whole introductory HP answering machine to talk to a manager or to him if I was disconnected/ had issues. I asked him what the direct phone number would be. He told me that if I was disconnected I could call 1(800)474-6836. (AKA 1(800)474-6836.)
When I got a hold of his manager/case manager Susan she was very nice. But told me that there was nothing she could do because another case manager was already assigned to my complaint. I asked her if there was a way to get another case manager since the current one hadn't called me in 2 weeks and because of that I didn't actually want to deal with whoever it was; I wanted someone who would actually call me.
I was told there was not a way to change the case manager, and that I should give her a chance to help me. I was told that if I still wanted to complain I could email corporate from the hp.com website. She told me the case manager's name was ** and her phone number was 1(877)917-4380 x94 x1. At the time I didn't even recognize that this was the same case manager as before.
In the meanwhile it had occurred to me that I might never be able to get a hold of someone at HP who could help me make these things work together, but I could check on the internet how to change over the actual LCD screen in order to try to get the information off my old computer and then the hard drives might not need to match to do what I wanted. The LCD screens on eBay were about 250$. After an easy 10-minute install process I had a new LCD screen in my old computer.
But it wouldn't turn on. It stayed black, even though it worked in another computer. I wondered if HP had somehow turned off my computer's ever being able to use any screen when they had it. Eventually after all these phone calls I was able to speak to **. It was now about 27 days after my Costco return policy had run out. I explained what had been going on.
1.)She told me the fact that the hard drives weren't compatible wasn't HP's problem because I was supposed to have called her back with any problems I had. She said that the two models I had were completely different so even if the hard drives were the same shape they wouldn't work together. When I expressed frustration about having been told that they would work she told me, "well you were misinformed". She told me that it was my fault that things hadn't worked because I had called the 1800HPINVENT phone number instead of her.
I told her that I had been under the impression that she was supposed to be in charge of just the computer screen repair issue. She told me that any problems I had with the prior computer should have been brought to her attention. Since they weren't it was my fault. She said I had never mentioned any desire to get things off my hard drive when talking to her about the screen problems and that I was supposed to have taken the computer back to Costco as soon as I got it. She noted that she "had gone out of her way" to get a hold of ** at Costco and explain everything to her, and how ** had been receptive to helping me.
I told her I still needed to get information off my hard drive and that I had found out that my computer now no longer worked even when an unbroken LCD was placed in it. She told me this was my fault because I hadn't repaired it soon enough and the LCD screen fluid would have leaked into the whole computer by now "corrupting" the system. By now it could include the hard drive too.
She told me that the program on my hard drive had probably been erased when they did their diagnostic testing anyway. I told her I had specifically asked about that and been told that nothing would happen to the hard drive prior to sending it to them. She told me I had been "misinformed".
I was told once again that it is not HP's responsibility to take care of people's files. I asked her why I wouldn't have been told about the LCD screen corrupting the whole computer previously when she had told me about the screen getting blacker. I asked why they wouldn't have given me the option to disconnect the screen to have saved the computer from further damage. She sounded flustered and told me I was supposed to take it back to Costco so it didn't matter.
I told her that two hold the-hard-drive-down screws were missing from when they had my computer and that I would like 2 replacements shipped to me. She said "No we're not doing that". I asked this a different way and got the same response. (HP wouldn't even send me back 2 tiny screws they forgot to put back in my computer!)
Based on what ** was telling me there was only a slim chance that my program/project was on my computer, less alone able to be transferred to a working computer. I asked if she would call Costco back and explain why the delay was so long. She said that she couldn't. That I was too far past my return policy date and that I wouldn't be able to return it at this point. I asked why she couldn't call them anyway and at least explain what had been going on. She said "I can't". I noted that it didn't actually seem impossible to pick up the phone and talk to someone at Costco. Finally she said "I don't feel like it". She noted that she had already gone out of her way for me the first time.
I let her know that I would like to return the new computer then. She told me that I wasn't able to do that because it had been more than 21 days since I purchased it. When asked why they wouldn't extend it since I was waiting to know if the situation could actually be corrected so that things would work for me, and
when I asked why it was my fault for it taking so long for her to actually call me back/ so long for me to actually be able to get a hold of someone.
She noted that this whole situation was my fault because I had called 1800HPINVENT when I was having problems. She told me she had given me her phone number when I had the problem with the screen so that I needed to call her back with problems. I noted that I was under the impression that she was only in charge of the decision about the screen repair refund. With a hostile voice she responded to the effect "It doesn't matter what you thought, you had to call me."
I asked if I could speak to her supervisor at some point and she told me that she was "the end of the line" that there was no one I could complain to, that all complaints would go back to her. She pretty much yelled at me over the phone. It occurred to me that I had already sent in my feedback on her "professionality". This seemed shortsighted suddenly.
We looked into when the computer had arrived at my house and I had actually only had it for 19 or 20 days as it turned out so she said that I actually could return it and gave me the phone number to call. I called the 1(800)892-6608 opt 4 phone number (and yes they tried to get me to buy another HP computer), but they told me that I was past the return policy date and couldn't return it. I explained I had just reviewed this with my case manager and they checked with their manager and said I couldn't return it.
I called ** back and she said that if that was their policy then that was their policy. She noted it wasn't her department it was up to them. I had to ask her to call them and talk to them for me to get it straightened out. She talked to someone and within a minute or two someone from the return department was apologizing for my having been informed that I couldn't return it when I still had time to do so. Finally someone took my information about my return. And then tried to sell me another HP computer. I returned the second computer.
I went to Costco, crying, because ** had convinced me it was a futile effort. I asked for **. I was told that they didn't have anyone named ** at that store in Vancouver Washington, but that there was a ** down in Portland, Oregon Store which was the next closest store. I explained half of what I had been through, they cut me off and gave me a full refund. (And a paper towel with which to dry my tears.) I returned the first computer.
I tried to contact HP corporate like Case Manager ** had told me I could do. So that they would get some feedback to make it so that their customers weren't treated like this. But I couldn't find a place to actually get a hold of anyone in "corporate". I called HPINVENT to ask them to walk me through how to do that. They told me they weren't trained to offer support in that regard. I asked to speak to one of their managers and after being on hold a little more was told that their manager wasn't there currently and told me I could call back.
I did a google search to see if I could get more information about who her supervisor was or what options I had and found another complaint against her on my3cents.com. In that complaint it noted her acting pretty similarly, and that when the person had submitted a complaint through the website it had gone right to her and she had called him back and yelled at him for complaining about her. I tried contacting someone in their PR department by email. But I haven't heard back from them. I noted I was concerned that she might be severely depressed, suicidal, or unstable in some way, that they may want to at least let her manager know problems are going on.
MY CONCLUSIONS: I had multiple problems with HP. I bought their computer because it was cheap and had all sorts of nifty features. It wasn't worth it. I had both hard ware and soft ware problems. But most of all I had a bad customer support experience. I was very lucky to be able to return the two computers at all. And am happy to be rid of them. Some of the people at HP were very nice, about 1/2 of them were difficult to understand because of foreign accents (mostly from India), ** was the best/most helpful, by far. I hope he does well in his life.
HPs customer service should get a new name. Or perhaps ** just needs a new job. On the phone she seems like a very angry unhappy uncompassionate person. She admits at times that doesn't want to help customers and that there is no recourse to take about this fact. You can't trust anything they tell you on the phone. Misinformation is rampant.
There is no good feedback system regarding their case managers. There are actually multiple systems in place to make it so you can't give feedback about case managers, such as notices on the Public Relations site that only media members can call them. If you get a case manager who is unhelpful you are out of luck. Mine, **, wouldn't even send me back my two small screws, let alone help me with bigger issues.
It would probably have cost them about 100$ and 10 minutes of time to fix my 900$ computer, instead I talked to their staff for hours, eventually returned everything to them, told my friends about my hassle, and helped get some people to buy computers other than HP. I never got the program I had worked on for about 40 hours off my first computer, but I'm sure I spent that much time trying to work with HP to fix the problem.
If you have to go through some of the same things I have, I recommend that you look upon the whole frustrating process as an opportunity to practice being a more patient or calm person in the face of adversity. Meanwhile, Costco treated me like a human being. I'm very appreciative to them. If they had treated me like HP did, I would no longer be going to that store.
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA -- I wish I read this before. October 06 I purchased a Pavilion notebook. Eight days later the power switch did not work. It was replaced. Fast forward, June 25th, 07 again the power switch won't work. I call HP and am told that they will fix it and I will have my computer back with 7-10 days. Perfect as we were leaving for vacation and I would have it upon return. I was giving this computer to my daughter to take to abroad to school. This would give me time to transfer my files and hers. First week of July I get a call the computer will be here next week. This happened the next 3 weeks in July.
August 1, I contact HP and tell them I need this fixed my daughter was leaving within 4 weeks. I was assured I would have it back. The part was coming in that was back ordered. August 7th, new update, no computer. Now the part is not arriving until 8/28.
I start emailing the CEO, calling corporate offices I cannot wait any longer. A miracle of miracles I received my notebook yesterday. No power cord with it and a big cut in the top of it and the program's not working. I called fuming and they were sending out a power cord (at the time I had not turned it on and did not know about the other problems). I was told they would send out a cord and could fix the top. I told them I had no more time to send the cord I would worry about the cut in it later.
Today I contact "corp.hq" and am told they would turn it over to a urgent team member. No response called Mr. Rodney ** back 4 times and he finally called back and told me they would repair it, that it wasn't their problem I was on a deadline. I told them I wanted a replacement nothing more than what I had, just a working computer. He told me what he said goes. I could take it or leave it. I asked if after they fixed it was he going to ship it to Italy. Of course not and he hung up.
Called back corp. number Dan this time answered. Sorry of course but what Rodney said was all that could be done. I was the one being difficult not them. Even though they had my computer six weeks, sent it back not working and no explanation why when they make sure it is. No answer as to the damage done to the computer. He hung up. Also I found out when you email Mark Hurd, CEO it goes to these arrogant people. They enjoy letting you know that making them feel like big people.
As of this point I am waiting for someone else to call back and requested a new case manager. So forewarning, if you think you are really emailing the CEO you are emailing these idiots who enjoy letting you know this. I think it makes them feel big.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA -- On 19 May 2006 I purchased a refurbished Compaq/HP nc4010 laptop with a 1 year HP warranty for a cost of $832.03 (copy of sales receipt attached). In December 2006, I discovered that the laptop would not reliably transfer data via its USB port. In the process of trying to rectify this problem, I experienced the following: After hours of numerous sessions on the phone with HP technical support, I returned the machine to HP as authorized for repair (2/19/07). It was later returned to me with the USB problem not fixed.
After additional attempts to correct the problem over the phone with HP technical support, I was authorized to take the computer to a local HP repair station (delivered on 5/6/07). After a week, the repair technician reported that he was not able to fix the problem, and returned it to me with the statement that the machine did not have the specified "first tier" hardware. (This is consistent with my observation that it would not accept the standard chipset software upgrade available on the HP web site for this computer.)
After the first two failures to repair, HP agreed to elevate the case to a "second level" engineer group and promised that if I returned the machine a third time, they would assure that it was fixed. I forwarded the computer to them again on 5/26/07. Again the machine was returned to me not fixed (furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that the repair personnel did not even bother to look at the attached note describing the problem). After the third failure to fix the machine, I wrote a letter (6/13/07) to HP Executive Customer Relations. I received no response to this letter.
Lacking a response above, I sent a certified letter (7/6/07) to you, Mr. **, describing the situation. In response to this letter, an HP representative called to say that the computer was now out of warranty and thus HP had no obligation to repair it (despite the fact that the subject problem had never been fixed)! The HP representative offered to elevate the case to the "second level" engineer (already done in the third return noted above), and promised that the machine would be fixed.
Since I had previously been given such a promise (prior to the third return) that had not been fulfilled, I asked the representative to forward his promise in writing to me. He refused to do so. On further discussion, it became clear that he was not really offering to fix the laptop, but merely to not bill me for further telephone calls with HP technical support. If I did not accept their terms, he said he would "close" my case.
In light of the above events, I must conclude the following: HP is either unwilling or unable to fix the laptop. HP's failure to fix the problem during the three times it was returned for repair appears now, in retrospect, to have been used as a tactic to stall until the warranty period expired. In your failure to fix the problem, you are not honoring your warranty agreement in good faith. You are in default of the warranty agreement.
I expect you to do the following to correct this breach: Return my full purchase price ($832.03) plus $1.00 for damages, or provide me with a replacement nc4010 laptop which functions properly according to its advertised specification, or another machine which meets or exceeds the capability of the nc4010 in all physical and operational aspects. Should you not settle this matter within 14 days from your receipt of this correspondence, I will bring suit to recover my losses on this matter. I can be reached at ** to provide any additional information that you might need in investigating this sorry situation.
I bought an HP Pavilion laptop from Staples in Charles Town, WV in February 2007. I immediately had problems with it (the monitor screen would turn black but you could slightly see your work in the black screen but not enough to be able to work on it) and took it back to Staples before I even had it two weeks. They told me to notify HP so I did. They emailed a BUNCH of technical things to do to the computer which I had no idea how to do because I am not a computer specialist nor repair person so I took it to a local computer repair business with the emails and had them do the repair work. It cost me $75.
It still was having the same problem so I notified HP again who emailed me more things to do so I took it back to the local repair business and had them do it again (and costed me another $154.71!), and it was still doing the same problem! I notified HP who told me then that it would need to be sent in and instructed me to save all my info I wanted saved. I am a teacher and bought the laptop to be able to use at work and at home and I had already converted a bunch of things on it from my desktop that I had gotten rid of once I bought the laptop. I finally got all my info saved and sent it in and it was back almost within a week!
I was ecstatic! But I found it was STILL having the same problems. So I notified HP AGAIN, who told me to save all my info and send it in again. So I did but I had to finish all my things I had going on it for school to do it. Finally, I got it all done and sent it in. It was there a few weeks and I didn't hear anything so I called them. 800-474-6836 and return call to 877-917-4380 extension ** for Case Manager, Kathy **, then option 1 for notebook problems. She was very rude and also told me that my laptop was not even scheduled to be returned after repair until August 17th, 2007.
I will even will be back at work by then and will not have had a chance to do ANY work ahead of time. I told her that this laptop has been in repair for more time than I had been able to use it and because I had already spent $230 on repair at my local computer repair business so I asked for a refund. She told me ABSOLUTELY no and that SHE was my LAST & ONLY point of contact for this complaint and that it was ENTIRELY HER decision and that she was not even thinking of a refund at all.
I complained to HP about how rude she was and about having to do without my laptop for that long and that I will be paying for DSL services for nothing because I won't even have anything to be able to use the DSL! I told HP they could've at least sent a loaner. The email I sent to Corporate just sent my email to the SAME Case Manager and then SHE called me again and was VERY rude again this time in informing me that no matter what phone calls I make or emails I send to Corporate that it will all just come back to her and she WILL be the one to deal with and that if I would like to discuss this information further to call her AGAIN.
I am NOT happy with my HP Customer Service and I am NOT happy with my HP product. I have saved ALL my phone calls and ALL of my emails. I think I might just get rid of it if it ever does get returned to me because it will just be a re-conditioned laptop with all these new and old pieces put together when I get it back. I will be out $1101 for the laptop and $230 for the repairs that did no good plus all the time I could've been getting ready for my job. ALL OF YOU BEWARE OF HP PRODUCTS!
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA -- OK - I thought writing to the company about the problems with my HP dv7-1020us was enough, but after what I discovered tonight, I'm going to get my issues with HP out there: Where do I begin...? Well, first, there was the wireless card failure while I was oversees and in the middle of an online master's degree course. I had to borrow laptops from friends to get my assignments turned in because there was no hardline network available. Then, the battery on this dud stopped taking a charge, tethering me to a wall outlet for any sort of use.
Most recently, the computer stopped booting altogether and would blue screen before it even got into windows. Virus? Corrupt OS? Nope - yet another hardware problem: this time it was bad RAM. What was HP's cure for this bad RAM? They replace it AND wipe the hard drive clean. Anyone who's built their own PC knows that there is absolutely no reason to wipe a hard drive to replace a stick of RAM, and yet there was not a single software issue listed in the repair summary that would warrant deleting all of my files. Yeah, I backed up my files regularly, but couldn't do so before sending it to them because the thing wouldn't boot!
Then came the kicker: last night, after getting the laptop back from HP and seeing that it had been reset to the original factory installation, I decided that there was no way I was going through all of the trouble (spending hours once again gutting this machine of all the trialware/crapware that was put back on it) to get this set up again given its complete unreliability. So, I start to go over it with a fine-tooth comb to make sure everything now works so that I can get it on eBay and be done with it.
During this check-up, yet another problem becomes apparent on a machine fresh from the repair center: the Blu Ray drive now no longer reads Blu Ray discs! Once again, I am on the phone with HP tech support for 2 hours trying every software fix out there to no avail. They are mailing out a replacement drive as of today and refused to expedite the shipping despite sending a previously functioning Blu Ray drive back to me broken. These issues are totally unbelievable for a computer less than a year old. Steer way, WAY clear of HP laptops if you value your time, data, and money. Expect nothing but headaches and don't expect HP to stand behind their product when it fails.
BAY AREA, CALIFORNIA -- I have been having a tough time with the case managers. They never call back even though they promise to call literally in a couple of minutes. It's always us calling them back and even then it has been almost impossible to get to the case manager assigned to our case. 99% of the times some other case manager picks up, tries to reach out to the primary case manager, doesn't get a response, comes back to us and tell us that they can take a message and do absolutely do nothing beyond that.
The case cannot be transferred to any manager other than the one we were assigned to in the beginning. Worst even, we can't even get to talk to higher authorities for escalations. This is the first time I've heard that we do not have any options for escalations. Usually there's always a manager that we can talk to, with their e-mail address made available to us but not in this case. We're pretty much stuck with the case manager we are assigned to!!
Our problem is with a laptop we bought in Dec 2007 from HP's website. That laptop died within 10 days of its purchase so we called HP technical support for assistance. In the meantime we also asked for instructions on returning the laptop for a refund. Technical support asked us to try out various things, none of which were helpful in repairing the laptop and finally directs us to contact HP Shopping for a refund.
When we call HP Shopping we are told that it's beyond 21 days of purchasing the laptop so a refund is not possible and we are asked to contact a case manager. It's been a nightmare since then! The case manager never calls back. We kept calling all the time to ask for updates and even on those rare occasions when we do get connected, we only got curt responses.
All in all, this has been a sordid affair! In fact this is not the only forum where customers are complaining about HP's abysmal service. I just googled up for "HP Case Manager" and couldn't find even a single post which is satisfied with case manager service. Looking at the way the case managers are never available, it just appears that they are experts at being evasive!! I'm just wondering if we actually should consider a class action lawsuit here. Maybe, just maybe we have a strong case if we approached this issue collectively!
UAE -- I am writing this to complain about the poor support services by HP. The following is the content of the email I have sent several times to different departments. There has been no convincing reply /solution to the issue yet. I want you to help me and tell me what to do about it.
"I do not know how many emails I have sent to Hp support in South Africa, and to the customer service in Dubai International Airport since they have already been 50! I am tired of explaining the problem to everyone because nothing is not happening about that! It has been 4 months I am involving with this issue. I bought 2 HP laptops which obviously is not going to happen again throughout my entire life and my friends' too! The units did not work properly from the very first week I purchased them from Dubai International Airport.
Here, in South Africa, the technicians told me they are neither able to repair them, nor to provide us with new ones, so I sent them back to Dubai to replace them with new units, but what they did was to repair them. Please keep in mind that I am not going to use new laptops which have been repaired and have replaced main parts any longer! I am feeling sick about your poor support services for HP.
At the time of purchasing, the salesman told me it has global repair/exchange warranty, but it seems it has been a big lie! I do not stand this anymore. I already was not able to do my job since I had bought it for work. Unless you do not provide me with 2 new units immediately, I am going to act publicly about it and also claim for these 4 months I could not do my job. This is my last warning to you, and I hope you will do something about it before too long.
Purchased the computer in August 2010. By October, it was randomly shutting down when powered by battery. When I plugged it in, it said "plugged in, not charging", then I did a battery check and was told the battery was bad. So I contacted HP and was sent a new battery. Everything was fine for a few weeks, then the same exact problem began occurring again. Called HP again and was told to send in for repair. According to the tracking on their website, they had it all of 12 hours before sending it back to me. This time with a new power cord. Again, all was fine for several weeks before the same thing started again.
Called HP again. Rep told me a new battery would definitely fix the problem. This is when I began asking for a replacement to no avail. Got the new battery, everything was fine for a few weeks until... yep, once again I've got a bum computer. So after calling HP and finally being connected with their escalated customer service program, I asked for and expected a replacement computer. The representative wouldn't budge and insisted I send it in again. So I did. This time, they replaced the motherboard.
All was great till last week (May 3, 2011). Once again, it's shutting down randomly and the battery won't charge. So I called the representative back. Left message, never heard back. I called back today (May 9) and finally got her to call me back but instead of offering to replace the computer, she tells me that I must again send it in for repair. This is the 4th HP in our household and it is the last one I will buy. I am looking to update my son's but I will not consider an HP. After two times having to send it off for repair, I feel I should be offered a replacement computer. They have had enough opportunities to fix this problem. I'm done.
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA -- After about 6 weeks of having my touch screen laptop it started to overheat and shut down by itself. When it was turned back on it gave an error message 900D - that the cooling fan was not working then computer shut back down then turn back on and the computer was went to the windows desktop this time a USB error device was not properly installed but there was not installed into any of the USB ports and now the touch screen was not working. I called HP about the computer and gave me the run around because no one seem to know there policy.
Finally I found out after receiving a case manager that the policy is I have to return the computer within 21 days of purchased to get my money back or to get a new laptop. I was explaining to then that I only had the laptop for a short amount of time that I should not have to sent this computer to be fixed that I should receive a new one they told me no then I asked well then I want my money back once again no. While over the phone with the case manager he was very rude because he did not care that my wife was using this computer for her job he words were well I don't see how that problem will get you computer fixed.
So I contacted the web site to speak to a CEO and I got someone from corporate and once again it was the same thing they were just like the case manager, not caring about their customers. I finally sent in my computer to be fixed and instead of 7 to 10 days like they told me it would take to get fixed it will be more like 15 to 20 before I see my laptop again. Please I am warning you don't ever buy this product, or any product from Hewlett Packard.


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SuperSpeed USB Peripherals | Cypress Semiconductor
SuperSpeed USB Peripherals
With constant innovation and technological advancements, the need for faster data transfer has never been greater. The USB Implementers forum aiming to provide a ubiquitous standard to solve these issues, introduced the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard in November, 2008.
In applications such as image and video transfer, printers and scanners, handheld devices, and storages, where large amounts of data is created/consumed or needs to be processed, data transfer or offloading onto another source (mostly onto a PC because of its superior processing capabilities), needs to happen quickly. USB 3.0 provides 5 Gbps speed to these devices to achieve this feat.
As the industry's leading supplier of USB solutions, Cypress will continue its support for USB 3.0. Cypress's EZ-USB® FX3™ is the world's first general purpose USB 3.0 peripheral controller, aiming to add USB 3.0 functionality to any device.

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Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends
(c. 1750-1752)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 172.8 × 245.1 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint (diagonally) (on brushes) c.r.: G. Amiconi
inscribed in black paint (diagonally) (on pedestal) c.l.: P. Metastasio
inscribed in black paint (diagonally) (on sheet music) l.c.: Teresa Castellini
inscribed in black paint (on sheet music) c.: C. B. F.
inscribed in black and white paint (vertically) (on dog's collar) c.r.: C. B. F.
- Accession Number
- 2226-4
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1950
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
- Gallery location
- Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
- About
This striking portrait presents the renowned Italian castrato Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli (1705–82) in Madrid in the early 1750s, at the culmination of a brilliant career. Farinelli sits at the centre of an intimate circle of friends, including Teresa Castellini, the prima donna of the Madrid opera; the Abate Metastasio, Farinelli's lifelong friend and the librettist for many of his most famous performances; and the artist, who stands behind Farinelli in the act of 'completing the portrait'.
The poem (here set to music) that Farinelli places in Castellini's hand is one of Metastasio's most famous compositions. Amigoni's painted transcription records an otherwise unknown musical setting for it, penned by none other than Farinelli himself. Metastasio's poem describes the sadness of a lover's departure, and Amigoni's inclusion of this text might refer to Castellini's intention at this time to leave Spain. (She and Farinelli were certainly close. She had been his favourite pupil, as well as, so the rumours suggested, the focus of an impossible love on his part.) Yet the poem might be better understood as an expression of the mood of this group as a whole. As itinerant professionals serving the European courts, all four friends would have identified with Metastasio's emphasis on the strains created by the tyranny of departure. By commemorating the group's companionship, even as they consider the inevitability of separation, Amigoni celebrates the capacity of true friendship to withstand all.
Jacopo Amigoni was a Venetian painter who worked throughout Europe during the first half of the eighteenth century. In 1747 he accepted the appointment as court painter to Ferdinand VI of Spain, almost certainly at the suggestion of Farinelli, who had been engaged by the king in 1737.


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SUBMITTED: Friday, November 19, 2010POSTED: Friday, November 19, 2010
You need to understand that software issues like viruses are NOT a warranty issue. ACER was NOT responsible for your negligent use of the computer.
People often think they can get on the internet without any antivirus/security software. This is a BIG mistake, as you found out. You cannot get on the internet for even 1 minute nowadays without UP TO DATE protection.
As far as ACER not refunding your money, they are NOT obligated to! You didn't buy it from ACER, you bought it from the college bookstore, right? You had it only 3 weeks, right? This means you were in your normal 30 day right to return as with most purchases, right? So, WHY did you not return it to the college bookstore for a refund, or for them to send it in for warranty support? That is how it is supposed to work.
I can't believe you are a college student, as your post looks like it was written by a third grader. Maybe that is part of the problem here.
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An update has been released! As usual, servers will need to be restarted.
This update mostly features a bunch of important fixes for various bugs and crashes.
You can check out the full changelog below:
Game Changes
- NEW Added Player.SetLaggedMovementValue( float )
- NEW Added Player.GetLaggedMovementValue()
- NEW Added Entity.AddToMotionController( PhysObj )
- NEW Added Entity.RemoveFromMotionController( PhysObj )
- NEW Added 3 new backgrounds from the last 3 update posts
- FIX Fixed an issue with timer.Create and timer.Adjust
- FIX Fixed a crash issue with npc_turret_floor
- FIX Fixed bullet hit detection issue introduced by previous update
- FIX Fixed a potential physics crash issue
- FIX Fixed a crash problem with all PhysObj functions when called on invalid PhysObj
- FIX Fixed PHX glass panels igniting when shot
- FIX Fixed a PHX material (zc_tube.vmt) having bad symbols
- FIX Fixed models/noesis/donut.mdl erroring to console when spawned
- FIX Fixed a crash problem with NPC player companions
- FIX Fixed func_tank custom ammo types ( Fixes Episode 2 Auto Turret )
- FIX Fixed npc_strider not dealing damage with his fast minigun attack
- FIX Fixed server workshop downloads persisting after disconnecting from a server while downloading server workshop addons and connecting to another
- FIX Fixed Custom Bullet Tracers not applying in some cases
- FIX Fixed collision box for all weapons not being rotated properly
- FIX Fixed Weapons with SF_WEAPON_START_CONSTRAINED spawnflag not being constrained
- FIX Fixed debugoverlay.BoxAngles 6th parameter (color)
- FIX Fixed SWEPs not being fired by some NPCs
- FIX Fixed the "Setting Holdtype to empty string" problem
- FIX Fixed SetPos and SetAngles crashing with math.huge and tonumber("nan")
- UPD Added Warning()s to net.Send & net.SendOmit
- UPD Entity.SetBonePosition's first argument is now not optional
- UPD Last 5 arguments of EmitSentence & EmitSound globals are now optional
- UPD Reverted changes to Entity.SequenceDuration
- UPD Updated language files
- UPD util.TraceLine now hits player hitboxes outside of collision bounds
- UPD NPCs now use the ai_weapon_* counterparts when given HL2 weapons with NPC:Give()
- DEL Removed CNavArea.GetAdjacentAreaAtSide
- UPD Clean up quota before updating/creating an addon
- UPD Don't delete files from quota as soon as finishing updating
GitHub changes
- DEL Removed useless local variable in sv_nextbot
- UPD Nextbot example of how you'd fire OnNPCKilled
- UPD "Unfix" DAdjustableModelPanel
- UPD NPC Weapons: Moved "None" to the top
- UPD Made the default Laser Tracer better
- FIX Fixed a duplicator lag exploit
- FIX Fixed GWEN.CreateTextureBorder drawing small boxes
- FIX Added 3rd argument to ENT:TriggerOutput
- FIX Fixed server crash issue with public chat while dead
- FIX Fixed a Lua error when player dies
- FIX Fixed weapon_zm_rifle's IconLetter
- FIX Fixed Rifle scope, zoom spread, unscope delay
- UPD Player and spectator chat channels
- UPD Disabled weapon picking up with Magneto Stick by default
- UPD Reverted default detective values
- UPD Changed unknown weapon name from "MASSIVE PHASER ARRAY" to "Unknown Weapon Name"
- UPD Send in GivePenalty third arguments


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I have a friend who dislikes animals. I'm not sure why but it could be because he's never had a pet in his life or confronted an animal made of pure LOVE. I enjoy watching his reaction to my dog who completely adores him.
I guess you could compare the situation to disliking children until you have one of your own. Or it could be applied to not wanting a sandwich until you have one in your hands... Om nom nom. I don't know, I'm tired- can't think, and with that I bid you goodnight.
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Sena Suzuki knew few people in Canada and spoke very little English when she moved from Japan six months ago. Now, she's having the time of her life.
The defenceman who competed in the 2014 Sochi Olympics is one of four Japanese women playing in the Canadian Women's Hockey League this season, a five-team league home to many Canadian and American Olympic medalists. Suzuki is so passionate about trying to help Japan reach the Olympic podium that she has moved to Toronto to immerse herself in the North American game.
A large gap in skill has always existed between the North American superpowers and the rest of the world in women's hockey. Finland, Sweden, Russia and Switzerland have typically sat a rung below those two giants, with Japan a little further down still. These Japanese players have come to Canada to skate next to the best.
The women expressed interest in the CWHL, and the league was keen on fresh talent and a way to build the game globally. Suzuki was drafted by the Toronto Furies, along with forward Tomomi Kurata, formerly of Japan's Under-18 program. The Calgary Inferno took two of Suzuki's Olympic teammates – defenders Kanae Aoki and Aina Takeuchi, the latter in her second CWHL season.
Women's hockey has been part of the Winter Olympics for five Games now, and Japan only competed in two of those. They had a host nation spot in the 1998 Nagano Olympics, and got in through the qualifying tournament for Sochi. Japan finished last of the eight teams at the 2014 Olympics.
In the CWHL, the Japanese athletes play with Canadian Olympic gold medalists such as Natalie Spooner, Hayley Wickenheiser and Meaghan Mikkelson. While most of these Japanese players are fast and fit, their strength and physicality are still behind the North Americans.
"I'm enjoying hockey more than ever, and the level is much higher than club hockey in Japan," Suzuki said through a translator. "I learn Spooner's habits, skills and techniques. She teaches me English, and I teach her Japanese. Canadians are very fun and their hockey is so creative. In Japan, the coach tells the player what to do; but here the players discuss with the coach what they think, and they have more leadership. In Japan it's very serious, but Canadians enjoy hockey like a kid while still improving at the same time. The women here are very strong, very physical and very good."
The four Japanese women are the only players from outside North America this season, but in the past, the CWHL has had players from Sweden, Switzerland, China, Austria and the Czech Republic. According to the IIHF, there are 19,287 registered hockey players in Japan, and 2,219 of them are female. Canada has 721,504 registered players, 86,612 of them female. It's not uncommon for a Japanese club team to include female players ranging in age from 12 to 30.
"We were willing to take a chance on these players, because we knew they would work hard and play any role we asked of them," Furies coach Sommer West said.
"Sena has become a top three defenceman for us. She used to run every play just exactly as I diagrammed it, because she's used to a safer, more structured style, but now her offensive side is really emerging. If there's open ice – go. I'd love to see more international players in the CWHL, because the showcase we could provide if we had all the world's best female players could be out of this world."
A handful of other Japanese national team players have taken the leap to play in North America – one at the Ontario Hockey Academy, another at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Goaltender Nana Fujimoto is playing for the New York Riveters from a league that rivals the CWHL – the four-team U.S.-based National Women's Hockey League. It's a new pro outfit that, unlike the CWHL, is paying its players.
Carla MacLeod, a two-time Canadian Olympic defenceman who was Japan's assistant coach at the 2014 Olympics, helped many of the Japanese players make connections abroad.
"I can't tell you how many Japanese news cameras were at their practices after these girls qualified for Sochi – it was a big deal over there at the time," MacLeod said. "The players were disappointed to finish last, but you could tell they got a taste of what they really wanted – to make the podium. A lot of them started asking me what was possible in North America."
The Japanese players don't have jobs in Canada – they're focused on hockey. The CWHL pays their hockey-related expenses and helps them with the logistics of housing and translators, but the players pay their own living expenses and travel to and from Japan.
"My biggest challenge here is speaking English," Takeuchi said in an e-mail interview from Calgary. "I learned English in junior high school and high school, but I didn't have the opportunity to speak English in Japan."
When asked, both the Japanese and Canadian players share stories of their new friendships. The Japanese tell of being invited to Thanksgiving dinners or to watch curling or Toronto Blue Jays games on TV. The Canadians tell of the green tea cookies shared as gifts or the respectful bows offered in conversation.
"I have so much respect for them because of their dedication and everything they gave up back home in Japan to come train here," Mikkelson said by phone from Calgary. "Their discipline is tremendous, and it's been a great experience for us as well as them. It's not just about building our league; it's also about doing whatever we can to help build women's hockey around the world."
Suzuki was selected alongside many of the league's big-name players for the CWHL all-star game on Jan. 23 at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
"My coaches in Japan are happy that I'm playing here; they say it's very good," Suzuki said. "When we come back to Japan, we hope we can help other Japanese players."Report Typo/Error
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Established well over 20 years this Upscale Assisted Living Facility for sale in Northwest Orlando has approximately 20 beds including both private and semi-private and a full staff ready to assist the residents 24/7. Owner is also the landlord and wants good long-term tenant so buyers must have experience...
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Emend Injection Side Effects Center
Medical Editor: John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP
Emend (fosaprepitant dimeglumine injection) is a substance P/neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist that works by blocking one of the body's natural substances (substance P/neurokinin 1) that causes vomiting and is used together with other medications to prevent nausea and vomiting that may be caused by cancer chemotherapy. Emend is given ahead of time and will not treat nausea or vomiting that is already present. Common side effects of Emend include tiredness, hiccups, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation, loss of appetite, increased thirst, hot and dry skin, weakness, dizziness, headache, ringing in your ears, fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms, sleep problems (insomnia), or pain or a hard lump where the medicine was injected.
The dose of Emend for Injection is 150 mg administered intravenously on Day 1 only as an infusion over 20-30 minutes initiated approximately 30 minutes prior to chemotherapy. Emend may interact with diltiazem, tolbutamide, blood thinners, midazolam or similar medicines, antidepressants, antibiotics, antifungals, birth control pills, cancer medicines, HIV medicines, seizure medications, or steroids. Tell your doctor all medications and supplements you use. During pregnancy, Emend should be used only when prescribed. Emend can make birth control pills less effective, resulting in pregnancy. This effect can last for up to 28 days after the last dose of this medication. Consult your doctor about using a non-hormonal back-up form of birth control (i.e., condoms, diaphragm, or spermicides) during treatment and for at least 1 month after treatment ends. It is unknown if this drug passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breastfeeding.
Our Emend (fosaprepitant dimeglumine injection) Side Effects Drug Center provides a comprehensive view of available drug information on the potential side effects when taking this medication.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
What is Patient Information in Detail?
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Emend Injection in Detail - Patient Information: Side Effects
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Tell your caregivers at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
- feeling light-headed, fainting;
- slow heart rate;
- pale skin, easy bruising or bleeding; or
- pain or burning when you urinate.
Less serious side effects may include:
- nausea, vomiting, heartburn, stomach pain;
- diarrhea or constipation;
- loss of appetite;
- hiccups;
- increased thirst or hot, dry skin;
- weakness, dizziness, tired feeling;
- headache;
- ringing in your ears;
- fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms;
- sleep problems (insomnia); or
- pain or a hard lump where the medicine was injected.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Emend Injection Overview - Patient Information: Side Effects
Tiredness and hiccups may occur. If either of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any of the following symptoms of a serious allergic reaction: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
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Clinical Trials Experience
Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in clinical practice.
The overall safety of EMEND for injection was evaluated in approximately 1600 individuals.
Adverse Reactions for the Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting Associated with MEC
In an active-controlled clinical trial in patients receiving MEC, safety was evaluated in 504 patients receiving a single dose of EMEND for injection in combination with ondansetron and dexamethasone (EMEND regimen) compared to 497 patients receiving ondansetron and dexamethasone alone (standard therapy). The most common adverse reactions are listed in Table 4.
Table 4 : Most Common
Adverse Reactions in Patients Receiving MEC*
|EMEND for injection, ondansetron, and dexamethasone†
|Ondansetron and dexamethasone‡
|peripheral neuropathy
|urinary tract infection
|pain in extremity
|*Reported in ≥ 2% of patients treated with the EMEND regimen and at
a greater incidence than standard therapy.
†EMEND regimen
‡Standard therapy
Infusion-site reactions were reported in 2.2% of patients treated with the EMEND regimen compared to 0.6% of patients treated with standard therapy. The infusion-site reactions included: infusion-site pain (1.2%, 0.4%), injection-site irritation (0.2%, 0.0%), vessel puncture-site pain (0.2%, 0.0%), and infusion-site thrombophlebitis (0.6%, 0.0%), reported in the EMEND regimen compared to standard therapy, respectively.
Adverse Reactions for the Prevention of Nausea and Vomiting Associated with HEC
In an active-controlled clinical study in patients receiving HEC, safety was evaluated for 1143 patients receiving a single dose of EMEND for injection compared to 1169 patients receiving the 3-day regimen of oral EMEND (aprepitant) [see Clinical Studies]. The safety profile was generally similar to that seen in the MEC study with fosaprepitant and prior HEC studies with aprepitant. However, infusion-site reactions occurred at a higher incidence in patients in the fosaprepitant group (3.0%) compared to those in the aprepitant group (0.5%). The following additional infusion-site reactions occurred in HEC study and were not reported in the MEC study described above: infusion-site erythema (0.5%, 0.1%), infusion-site pruritus (0.3%, 0.0%), and infusion-site induration (0.2%, 0.1%), reported in the fosaprepitant group compared to the aprepitant group, respectively.
Since fosaprepitant is converted to aprepitant, those adverse reactions associated with aprepitant might also be expected to occur with EMEND for injection. See the full prescribing information for EMEND capsules for complete safety information regarding studies performed with oral aprepitant.
Postmarketing Experience
The following adverse reactions have been identified during post-approval use of EMEND. Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure.
Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders: pruritus, rash, urticaria, Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Immune system disorders: hypersensitivity reactions including anaphylactic reactions [see CONTRAINDICATIONS].
Nervous system disorders: ifosfamide-induced neurotoxicity reported after EMEND and ifosfamide coadministration.
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"Three maternity deaths were reported there this year-one in January and two in July," Dr Bhalla said, adding the hospital had not sent the records pertaining to these deaths to his office. Stating that the hospitals in the district were required to provide details about deaths of patients during treatment to the district health authorities, Dr Bhalla, however, said this was not a raid.
"The district administration was concerned over the development and wanted us to inquire because of which a team was constituted and sent to obtain the records from the hospital," he said. However, they were prevented from entering the hospital by the residents of the area comprising supporters of the hospital owners.
"It is still not known how the information about our visit leaked out, but the way in which the owners and the residents reacted, only shows that they anticipated that the facility would be sealed," Dr Bhalla said.
He added that the deputy commissioner would be approached for help in obtaining the records from the hospital. "Strict action will also be taken against those found guilty of leaking the information about our plan to visit the hospital."


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Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas-Austin, where she is Fellow of the C.B. Smith, Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, Associate Faculty of the Theresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, and Affiliated Faculty of the Center for European Studies and the Bernard and Audrey Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at UT. She was Professor of Geography and Associate Provost at George Mason University, where she was a faculty member for over 20 years prior to arriving at UT Austin. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach was awarded, along with Dr. Tim Beach, the 2010 AAG G.K. Gilbert Outstanding Research Award in Geomorphology, and in 2013 she was recognized with the GMU College of Science Outstanding Publication Award. She specializes in physical geography, hydrology and geomorphology, water chemistry, geoarchaeology, geostatistics, and gender, science and human rights, with field research in Mesoamerica, California, the Mediterranean and Near East, and Iceland. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach's research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, among other sources, publishing more than 50 peer reviewed book chapters and articles. Dr. Luzzadder-Beach is the Founding Director of the Water Quality and Envronmental Hydrology Lab in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota- Minneapolis, and her Bachelor of Arts in Geography from California State University at Chico.
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Guy Winch, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, author, and keynote speaker whose books have been translated into twenty-one languages. His most recent book is Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts (Plume, 2014). The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the Right Way to Get Results, Improve Your Relationships and Enhance Self-Esteem (Walker & Company) was published in January 2011. His TED Talk, Why We All Need to Practice Emotional First Aid, has been viewed over 4 million times and is rated among the top 5 most inspiring talks on TED.com. Dr. Winch also writes the popular Squeaky Wheel Blog on Psychology Today.com
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The Governor of Lusee was a cruel man who ruled his island with an iron fist. The governor would frequently throw innocent men into prison and confiscate his citizens' possessions. When Jack Sparrow arrived on the island, he led the citizens of Lusee to overthrow the governor, which freed them from the governor's wrath.


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That it is my inner sense
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My third eye revealing,
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In times when I have blinded,
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The counterfeiting operation was the biggest of its kind to be investigated by a council trading standards team and was prompted by a pensioner's complaint, Havering Council said.
Gary Bellchambers and six others sold millions of pounds worth of fake golf clubs and other merchandise through the online auction site between June 2003 and March 2008.
All seven will be sentenced today at London's Snaresbrook Crown Court after officers identified more than 96,000 transactions of clubs and other equipment.
Bellchambers, 45, of Rainham, was at the heart of the conspiracy, and pleaded guilty to his role, along with Keith Thomas, 49, from Rainham, and Chris Moughton, 56, from Blackpool, Havering Council said.
Bellchambers also admitted the unauthorised use of trademarks, which related to counterfeit Qantas complimentary lounge cards and Sony memory sticks.
Four others were found guilty in December last year of conspiring together to sell or distribute counterfeit golf clubs, clothing and accessories.
They were: Roy Cottee, 65, and his 43-year-old wife Kay, of Rainham, Essex; Helen Wilson, 28, of Hertford, and Sharron Williams, 48, of West Wickham, Kent.
Most of the fake goods were manufactured at factories in Shenzhen, China and shipped to the various defendants' addresses in the UK.
All the convicted defendants except Wilson travelled to Thailand.
From Thailand, or their homes in the UK, they arranged for the fake goods to be sent to eBay customers in Ireland, Australia, the US, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil and New Zealand.
The downfall of the operation was brought about when pensioner Christine Manz complained to trading standards officers after she had tried to get a refund for two clubs.
The conspirators usually gave unhappy customers refunds to avoid attracting attention from the authorities.
But her letters to Bellchambers, who was in Thailand at the time, went unanswered.
The council then launched an investigation, codenamed Operation Augusta, named after the US golf club which hosts the Masters.
The investigation showed that some fake golf balls sold to customers exploded when struck with a club, and emails from some of the defendants recorded a complaint from a customer who found a tropical spider's nest in the cavity of a club.
Bellchambers and the Cottees sold counterfeit Qantas airport lounge passes which gave entry to business class lounges at airports across the world.
Bellchambers and other convicted defendants sold the counterfeit clubs through a vast number of accounts on eBay.
The number of people involved in the conspiracy grew as the gang leaders recruited individuals who were prepared either to allow their existing eBay accounts to be used or allow their names and addresses to be used upon registration of additional accounts.
The council investigators discovered that considerable sums of money were passing through the bank accounts of Bellchambers.
During a 28-day period in November 2006, £73,000 was transferred between accounts.
Auction site eBay said that the case was supported by its fraud investigation team and reinforced its ongoing commitment to fighting counterfeits.
Mark Lewis, country manager for eBay in the UK, said: "Trust is at the heart of everything we do and so when, on occasion, that trust is abused by the small minority, we work tirelessly to ensure they do not get away with it."
Bill Adams, the council's principal trading standards officer, said: "In my 35 years as an investigator I've never before heard of such a massive counterfeiting operation - it was of a scale that has never been seen before.
"The gang made millions of pounds from their operation, selling to people all over the world.
"This conspiracy was like a huge spider's web which we had to unravel."
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A couple of days ago, I wrote about the fact that new research seemed to demonstrate that adult stem cells when combined with peptides can serve the same function that researchers are hoping that embryonic stem cells may be able to serve. Now, according to Reasons to Believe, a new diabetes treatment has been investigated that appears to provide the same benefit hoped to be derived from stem cell treatment without using stem cells at all.
Scientific advance continues to point to ethically acceptable alternatives to embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). New research, for example, demonstrates that virus-mediated delivery of the gene encoding an enzyme called PC 1/3 improved the glucose-stimulated insulin secretion of pancreatic islet cells. PC 1/3 generates the active form of another hormone called GLP-1. This technical description means that biomedical scientists have focused attention on the therapeutic potential of this hormone because of its ability to promote insulin production (necessary for diabetics). Advances like this obviate the need to pursue ESCR as a treatment for Type I diabetes.
The notice is accompanied by a link to the following article by Rhonda D. Wideman et al., "Improving Function and Survival of Pancreatic Islets by Endogenous Production of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 (GLP-1)," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103 (2006): 13468-73.
Personally, the linked article is beyond my knowledge in this area and I am relying on Reason to Believe's summary. But assuming that their summary is accurate, it is simply another bit of evidence in support of my position from a couple of days ago: embryonic stem cell research is being offered as a false dilemma. There are alternatives to embryonic stem cell research that do not present the same ethical problems that embryonic stem cell research presents. Regardless of your view on the "humaness" of the embryo, we should continue to reject embryonic stem cell research while other alternatives are both presented and apparently closer to actually offering the medical treatments that embryonic stem cell research only dreams of offering at this point in time.


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About 1 in 3 adults in the United States has high blood pressure (HBP). The condition itself usually has no signs or symptoms. You can have it for years without knowing it. During this time, though, HBP can damage your heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and other parts of your body. Encourage your participants to know their blood pressure numbers, even when they're feeling fine, and to pay attention to changes in their blood pressure trends as they get closer to their 7% weight loss goal!
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High blood pressure affects more than 65 million or 1 in 3 American adults. About 28 percent of Americans adults ages 18 and older, or about 59 million people, have prehypertension, a condition that also increases the chance of heart disease and stroke.
High blood pressure can be controlled if you take these steps:
. Maintain a healthy weight
. Be moderately physical active on most days of the week. (Goal of the Diabetes Prevention Program)
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Genre: Horror
Dougray Scott
Jessica De Gouw
Martin McCann
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Release: Apr 22, 2016
IMDb: 4.0
I went into this film expecting a B-movie zombie flick, a flawed gem among flawed gems basically. The reason there are so many b-movie zombie adaptations out there is because there is a market for it.
Zombie films as we know them today have been around for 25 years. Before that there was the occasional zombie movie made. When the 90's hit it was all out zombie-palooza basically kicking butt with Resident Evil all the way through to The Walking Dead on TV!?! Within this red hot mess of zombie mess the market for b- movie zombie films was birthed. B-zombie films like this one worked, and fans like myself decided that we didn't need to have A-list movie stars and intricate and deep plots to be able to enjoy a good zombie horror film.
There is something truly terrifying about being eaten alive by a mob of human beings that has always given me nightmares. I assume that many others feel the same way too. ReZort is definitely a B-zombie movie. Hands down it has all the fixins' that go into the B persona:
- Dystopian future earth where the Z apocalypse has come and gone recently - The last zombies from the plague on earth are kept on an isolated island where they are kept for adrenaline junkies who want to re-live the break-out in a machine gun splatter fest where the Z's are chained together to easily be taken down - You guessed it, someone hacks the islands computers and all the chained up Z's go free creating a real splatter fest - Just like Resident movies, there is a sinister company behind everything with sinister experiments going on - The difference that made this B-zombie flick a step above was that they actually had a few actors that I reckognized to pull a bit of acting off. - The other MAJOR factor that made this B flick a bit better athan the average b-Z flick is that it actually had some kind of a budget! - The director managed to get some government money for this middle eastern made movie I think because they had lots of custom vehicles, boats, buildings and structures from real movie sets...some of these things don't come cheap these days!
Plot: The film tells the history of the virus that kills 1/3rd of the earths population in just a decade. Having won the war, Earth has wiped out the plague and rebuilt. There is one island where some remaining zombies are kept for safari, and that's when the island gets hacked and mayhem ensues. Surprisingly it's not a bad movie. The plot isn't new, nor is it amazing, but it is fun and entertaining for a few hours. I rate it 7/10 on the B-movie scale as a good way to enjoy a late night movie. Don't expect Z-Nation, but rather a fast paced mind numbing show.
On the bad end of things the sound was not great, the actors were crappy minus the few recognizable actors they blew the majority of their money on, and the mass cgi effects were crappy.
Beyond all that enjoy the movie is worth your time IF you enjoy B-movie zombie flicks!