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Athens Regional Medical Center has divested itself of two of the three services its board of trustees had decided to cut earlier this year.
Most of the equipment from the ExerCenter, a fitness facility for older people, has been purchased by Dr. Christopher Doer, owner of the Physicians Back and Neck Clinic. Doer will offer a service similar to the ExerCenter at his Park Avenue office, but will have no affiliation with the hospital.
Two of the four ExerCenter employees now at the hospital will have jobs at Doer's office, according to Sherri Dando, Doer's office manager.
''We had a basement that was not doing anything,'' Dando said Tuesday, explaining the decision to buy the ExerCenter equipment. ''It all fell together.''
The new facility is set to open in early October, Dando added.
Also leaving Athens Regional is the Commencement Center, a treatment facility for drug and alcohol addiction.
The center's current director, Jim Hinzman, will operate a new facility at an off-site location. The center will be moved out of the hospital sometime near Oct. 1, Grant Tribble, vice president of finance for Athens Regional Medical Center, said Tuesday.
Tribble also said the hospital remains in negotiations with an outside party interested in the Koffee Clinic, the hospital's coffee and snack shop. Details should be finalized on or shortly after Oct. 1, Tribble added.
''Now we're just negotiating some of the small things,'' he said.
The Athens Regional Health Services board of trustees voted unanimously last month to cut the three services.
In recommending the cuts to the board, hospital administrators pointed to severe declines in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, a major revenue source for the hospital.
Those declines resulted in the hospital losing millions of dollars in the 2003 fiscal year, Jack Drew, the health system's chief executive officer, told trustees at the time.
The declines also led the hospital to look to outside parties to handle non-core services, Tribble said.
Tribble began contacting outside parties earlier this year, after it became apparent the hospital could no longer offer the services.
The hospital will have no involvement with the Commencement Center or the ExerCenter once they are transferred, according to Tribble.
But Tribble said hospital officials have been assured the new providers will offer a level of care comparable to what is currently being offered. And in the case of the drug and alcohol abuse services, Tribble said, the hospital will have a contract with Hinzman for treatment of Athens Regional patients.
Currently, the exercise center, addiction center and Koffee Clinic employ 50 people.
Tribble said about 20 of those people have been moved to other jobs within the Athens Regional Healthcare System, which operates the hospital and associated enterprises, and the hospital is continuing to look for ways to absorb more of the employees affected by the service cuts.
Some of those people, like the two going to the Physicians Back and Neck Clinic, will likely find jobs with the new providers, Tribble said.
But with the Oct. 1 deadline to divest the services looming, it's likely that some of the affected employees won't have jobs at that time.
''I can't tell you that in a week and a half, it's going to be 15 or it's going to be 10 (people without jobs),'' Tribble said. ''That's the best answer I have right now.''
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, September 24, 2003.
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- With the belief that the PC one day would become a consumer device for enjoying games and multimedia, NVIDIA is founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. At the time, there were more than two dozen graphics chips companies, a number that would soar to 70 three years later. By 2006, NVIDIA was the only independent still operating.
- NVIDIA's reaches its first strategic partnership with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics to manufacture the company's single-chip graphical-user interface accelerator. Diamond Multimedia Systems is selected to install the chips in multimedia accelerator boards.
- Sega, the leader in arcade games, ports Virtua Fighter to be the first 3D game to run on NVIDIA graphics. NVIDIA NV1, the company's first product, is launched. The PCI card was sold as the Diamond Edge 3D, featuring a 2D/3D graphics core based on quadratic texture mapping.
- NVIDIA unveils its first Microsoft DirectX drivers with support for Direct3D, an API used to render 3D graphics where performance is critical.
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- NVIDIA expands the RIVA processor family. RIVA 128ZX offers the industry's fastest 3D processing capability. RIVA TNT is the first multitexturing 3D processor. The Fabless Semiconductor Association votes NVIDIA the Industry's Most Respected Private Fabless Company for the second consecutive year. A multi-year strategic partnership is formed with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which begins to assist in manufacturing NVIDIA products.
- NVIDIA invents the graphics processing unit, putting it on a path to reshape the industry. GeForce 256 is launched as the world's first GPU, a term NVIDIA defines as "a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is capable of processing a minimum of 10 million polygons per second." Modern GPUs process over 2 billion polygons per second. NVIDIA announces its initial public offering at $12 per share. NVIDIA introduces the Quadro GPU for professional graphics. Quadro soon becomes the standard for professionals designing everything from tennis shoes to automobiles.
- Microsoft selects NVIDIA to provide the graphics processors for its first Xbox gaming console. NVIDIA acquires the assets of 3dfx, a pioneer in graphics technology. GeForce2 Go, the world's first notebook GPU, is launched.
- With the nForce platform, NVIDIA enters the integrated graphics market. The company introduces the industry's first programmable GPU, NVIDIA GeForce3, which enables developers to create custom visual effects. Following the events of 9/11, NVIDIA employees forego a holiday party in favor of a community day of service. The event becomes an annual tradition and is later named "Project Inspire". NVIDIA becomes the fastest semiconductor company to reach $1 billion in revenue, and is added to the S&P 500.
- The company ships its 100 millionth processor. Dawn, a hugely popular demo, is unveiled by NVIDIA at the Game Developers Conference. Scene depicts a forest fairy with translucent wings, pointy ears, antennae and a dress made of leaves and blue petals, cavorting on a branch. Fortune magazine names NVIDIA the fastest-growing company in the U.S. 'The Way It's Meant to Be Played' is introduced, in an effort to encourage game-developers to fully exploit the power of the GPU.
- Stanford Business School Alumni Association names NVIDIA as Entrepreneurial Company of the Year, joining such past honorees as eBay, Charles Schwab & Co. and Cisco Systems. A trio of demos — Dusk, Ogre and Time Machine — showcase lifelike, geometric hair, motion blur, time-based shading, advanced skin shading, and other groundbreaking graphics features. The company acquires Media Q, a leader in graphics and multimedia technology for wireless.
- NVIDIA teams up with Blizzard Entertainment on the release of World of Warcraft in 3D graphics. The massively multiplayer online game would go on to become the world's most popular. SLI technology is launched, allowing multiple GPUs to be linked together and dramatically increase the graphics power of a single machine. NVIDIA helps NASA reconstruct the terrain of Mars. Using NVIDIA technology, data transmitted by the Rover is rendered in photorealistic virtual reality, allowing scientists to explore Mars as if they were moving freely on the red planet's surface.
- NVIDIA announces its development of the processor for Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console. ULi Electronics, a Taiwan-based developer of core logic technology, is acquired.
- NVIDIA ships its 500 millionth graphics processor. NVIDIA unveils CUDA, a revolutionary architecture for general purpose GPU computing. CUDA will enable scientists and researchers to harness the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs to tackle their most complex computing challenges. Acquisition of Hybrid Graphics, a developer of embedded 2D and 3D graphics software for handheld devices.
- The company achieves its first quarter with $1 billion in revenue. NVIDIA wins an Emmy award for the impact its innovative graphics processors have had on the entertainment industry. Forbes magazine names NVIDIA "Company of the Year." The article cites NVIDIA's advantage in the graphics market, as well as its incredible growth over the previous year. Launch of the Tesla GPU. The computing power previously available in supercomputers is made widely accessible for researchers in fields such as drug discovery, medical imaging and weather modeling. PortalPlayer, a supplier of semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players, is acquired.
- NVIDIA launches the Tegra mobile processor, which consumes 30-times less power than a typical PC notebook and delivers dazzling performance. Tokyo Tech builds Tsubame, the first Tesla GPU-based supercomputer to land on the list of the world's Top 500 supercomputers. mental images, a leader in visual rendering software, is acquired. Its iray software, coupled with Quadro GPUs, gives creative professionals instant feedback via photorealistic renderings of their designs. AGEIA, a developer of gaming physics technology, is acquired. Its PhysX software is used in games to replicate how physics impacts objects in the physical world. GeForce 9400M GPU is adopted by Apple for its groundbreaking MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air notebooks.
- NVIDIA works with Google to unleash Android on its Tegra processors. NVIDIA and Siemens Healthcare create the world's first 3D ultrasound. Industrial Light and Magic's chief technology officer, Richard Kerris, kicks off the inaugural GPU Technology Conference, which gathers the brightest minds in high performance computing. NVIDIA uses the event to introduce its next generation CUDA GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi." 3D Vision, the world's first high-definition 3D stereo solution for the home, is launched at CES.
- NVIDIA Tesla GPUs power world's fastest supercomputer, China's Tianhe-1A. NVIDIA GPUs power all "Best Visual Effects" Academy Award nominees, including Avatar and Star Trek. Introduction of Optimus technology, a breakthrough for notebook PCs that automatically manages the GPU to balance battery life and performance. Audi selects NVIDIA GPUs to power the navigation and entertainment systems in all its vehicles worldwide.
- NVIDIA launches Tegra 2, the world's first dual-core mobile processor, which the first Android tablets are built on. NVIDIA acquires Icera, enabling it to offer both application and baseband processors, the two most important in mobile computing. A six-year cross-licensing agreement with Intel wins NVIDIA $1.5 billion in licensing fees. Quadro GPUs again power all Academy Award nominees for "Best Visual Effects," including Inception and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. "Project Denver," a custom CPU based on the ultra-efficient ARM architecture, is unveiled at CES. NVIDIA ships its 1 billionth graphics processor.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory rolls out Titan, world's top supercomputer, powered by Kepler-based NVIDIA Tesla GPUs. Powerful Tegra 3-based tablets and smartphones are launched. Newsweek names NVIDIA sixth-greenest company in America. First virtualized GPU unveiled, as GRID brings graphics to the cloud. NVIDIA once again powers every Oscar-nominated film for best visual effects, including the winner Hugo. Kepler-based GeForce GTX 600 series introduced, offering world's fastest gaming performance.
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A good review as always Cliff. I was wondering if you had any plans to review the Samsung WB500 in the next couple of months? I ask as I'm currently set to buy the Cannon Powershot SX110 for my honeymoon around the Med but the Samsung may be a contender if it gets a 'recommended' from you.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Garden treats
While debating just how much outside work I wanted to do on Monday (turns out - very little! Brrr), I found a couple of surprises. First off this very early iris. I don't remember when or from whom I got it (senior moment). I only know that it is short, has 'real' iris foliage (not like Dutch or Japanese), and blooms in mid-April. I had no idea that it was this advanced by Sunday night and it obviously did not enjoy the 27F. The petals are sort of translucent, a sure sign of freeze. Poor thing. Hopefully the nights won't be as killer the rest of this week and I'll keep an eye out for the others.
I think I posted earlier that I bought 2 rhododendrons to put under the white-blooming crabapple tree. This 'Vulcan' sports deep red blooms and will make a nice change from the rest of my rhodys (lavender).
Obviously these new plants are more advanced than mine. Even so I did not expect them to start blooming in this cold weather (or hot, depending on the day - sheesh!). Still, it's a nice pop of color and (at least this year) I'll be able to see the red under the white crab.
Another garden treat (for which I don't have any pics) was a fun visit from fellow Ohio garden blogger, Jeph. You can check out his gung-ho gardening adventures HERE. Also, he and friend Mary have started a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) co-op this season and you can watch how all that shakes out HERE.
We toured the gardens, exchanged plants (toms, veggies & herbs), shared tips and ideas and thoroughly enjoyed the visit. All too soon he had to leave. Having taken the day off work his own beds beckoned while I was compelled to get out of the wind, so headed down to the basement to start some trays of annuals. After all - it's only 4 weeks till plant out. Woohoo.
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Kris - thanks again for having me over - I had a blast seeing all your beautiful beds and garden work. You forgot to mention the crabapple butter I'm nervous about (but looking forward to) trying - not a comment about your cooking, but about crabapples, which I've never had.ReplyDelete
I wish you had some way to get an aerial photo of your gardens to show the big picture. Walking around your yard, and following the subtle paths from one section to the next, was impressive to see now - and I can only image how cool it would be to view it from a bird's-eye view, once a month, as it changes with the seasons!
Thanks for all the growies!
Thanks for your kind words, Jeff. First off, it's crabapple jelly - tastes mostly like apple jelly so grab some toast and have at it! LOLReplyDelete
I tried to do a birds eye view, but by April the trees near the house block the whole view. We'll just have to be content with some good angle shots.
It was great visiting with you! You gave me some really good tips and am looking forward to trying some of them. :-D
I have dutch tulips up but I haven't looked to see if there are any buds. That jelly would be delicious.ReplyDelete
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It sounds like you had a great time. I like his idea about shots from above. Do you have some second story windows you could take some photos out of?
I hope our weather warms up. I'm in zone 5, too. We've had a couple 80s, a few 70s, and now we're back with highs in the 60s, and lows in the 40s.
That iris sure is pretty. I have some dark purple ones open.
Hi Larry - IMHO the jelly is wicked good! ;-DReplyDelete
Hi Sue - like I told Jeph - I tried to do a birds eye view, but by April the trees near the house block the whole view. We'll just have to be content with some good angle shots.
I'm actually glad that the weather is becoming more seasonal (cool/wet). This early warmth has triggered too much growth I think and may be harmed with upcoming frosts and freezes. Ah well, Spring is always 'iffy', no? LOL
Don't say "upcoming frosts and freezes" - let's pretend those are all done... ;-)ReplyDelete
Jeph, okay, mums the word....;-DReplyDelete
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My caliper brackets are designed for I think full and mid size GM. The center to center dimension for the mounting bolts is 7". I'm looking for chrome plated calipers. Does anyone know if anyone sells them?
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TMF Interview With N2K CEO Larry Rosen
With Yi-Hsin Chang (TMF Puck)
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Aug. 5, 1998
Joining us this week is Larry Rosen, chairman and CEO of online music retailer N2K Inc. (Nasdaq: NTKI). Through its flagship MusicBoulevard.com website, the New York City-based company offers more than 200,000 music titles for sale to cyber-listeners. Today N2K announced a promotional and marketing alliance with Visa USA, which will become the preferred means of payment for Music Boulevard.
TMF: Thank you for joining us, Mr. Rosen.
Rosen: Happy to be here.
TMF: Could you tell us a little bit about the Visa agreement and what it means for N2K as well as the importance of the company's other corporate strategic alliances?
Rosen: Visa is a partner that we've been working with, and we've been working with a number of different companies over a long period of time here. With Visa, what we're looking at is their preferred card that we use as a promotion on Music Boulevard, although obviously we take cards from American Express, Mastercard, and so on. It's a long-range promotional plan that we have together with Visa, and we're just in the process of instituting that right now.
TMF: We're sure you're tired of hearing N2K being compared to the likes of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), which sells books and music over the Internet. However, we have to ask: What sets your company apart from other cyber-retailers? And why is N2K a better investment for potential shareholders?
Rosen: Number one, our background is from the music industry. We look at ourselves as, I guess, the "category killer" in music. We're not selling books, we're not selling washing machines, we're not selling other types of products. We're just focusing in the music area. By being experienced in the music business for many, many years, we understand how you get the artist's music to the customer -- basically, how do you make the connection between the artist's music and the music fan? That's what we really concentrate on, so there are multiple ways that's being accomplished. That's really the mission of our company, and we think we do that better than anybody else since we know the category so well.
TMF: In the first quarter, you reported that 10% of your revenues came from ad sales and about 90% came from music-related sales. Do you see those revenue streams staying constant, or are they going to change a little bit?
Rosen: I see the revenue streams staying pretty much constant. The majority of the revenues obviously are coming from music, and we're looking from various areas of dealing with music. A lot of the advertising that takes place on our site are promotions that we're doing with record companies directly. A big factor since the growth of Music Boulevard has been so dramatic is the fact that in PC Meter's most recent numbers we're the top online music retailer, and for 1997 the fastest-growing music retailer on the Internet.
A lot of customers are obviously coming through our distribution partners into Music Boulevard. So the fact that we have distribution through AOL worldwide on an exclusive basis and Excite, Infoseek, Netscape, Disney, Ticketmaster, and recently with CBS Cable and their properties -- TNN, CMT -- ABC Television, and ABC Radio, it's driving a lot of music fans directly into Music Boulevard, which gives us the ability to work very closely with major record companies, artists, and promoters to help promote their products and get them to the customer in the most efficient method.
TMF: What are you doing to maintain that lead or to grow your market share in the online music business?
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Those who comment on the Muslim world and Islamo-fascism are likely to receive death threats. What is to be done about that ? Rebecca West, someone whose courage matched her intellect, showed the way. Years ago, when the PLO under Arafat was casting its first shadows over the Middle East, she went to Jerusalem. There she met lots of people. One of them was evidently a secret PLO agent. Her next stop was Beirut. The telephone rang in her hotel there – the famous and now burnt-out Saint Georges – and a voice told her that she had been fraternising with the Israelis, and they'd come to kill her. She replied that she'd had a long and wonderful life, had written the books she'd wanted to write, and had nothing more to look forward to. She told me how she had explained to the PLO chap which room she was in, and how she would leave the door open for him. She had called him "dear boy" and added that he had to be sure to bring his gun and take off the safety catch, and aim straight.
This morning, I heard that some al-Qaeda thug is offering $100,000 to anyone who can kill Lars Vilks – he is Swedish and last month drew and published in his local newspaper an unflattering cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. He had already received a number of threats, The Times reported, but none so explicit as this call to murder him. "I suppose that this makes my art project a bit more serious," he went on, "It is also good to know how much one is worth." Whereupon I remembered Dame Rebecca and the marvellous sarcasm she had put into telling about how she'd seen off her would-be gunman. And by the way, she knew Sweden, and liked the fierce dramatist August Strindberg, and I bet she'd have approved of Lars Vilks too.


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I'm open to suggestions for an IWB holster. Comfort is paramount, anyone out there with the Kahr have a preference?:confused:
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I'm open to suggestions for an IWB holster. Comfort is paramount, anyone out there with the Kahr have a preference?:confused:
Look at the Crossbreed Supertuck or the Comp-tac Mtac. Both are super comfortable!!!
I went ahead and ordered the MTAC Minotuaur rig because of comfort (as recommended by you guys), and a neat thing I didn't know about.....I can buy separate kydex shells for it for each of my guns!
I think that is a great option! Thanks everyone!:danceban:
I am very pleased with the comfort of my new MTAC. the interchangeable holster feature was one thing that I liked too but after messing around with moving the clips and such for fit, I think I will just order another whole holster.Quote:
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comfort is one reason I bought a little peashooter (Kahr P9) in the first place. I am thinking one of these MTAC's might allow me to carry my DE in comfort. at their price point, I can have two and still not be out much more than a Sparks or Brommeland. didn't have to wait till next year either...
I alternate my Kahr P9 between the MTAC and the Bearclaw Hidden Asset. Both are comfortable and conceal well.
For me, the MTAC with a PM9 is not comfortable. I like the High Noon Split Decision better for my size (31" waist, 5'8"). Seems like the MTAC is way bigger than it needs to be for the PM9, but is probably necessary for a bigger gun.
Good choice with the MTac, I'm very happy with mine, when packing my Glocks.
Just jump in and buy the entire rig for your M&P. I went back and bought leather for my G-21 and after that I purchased the complete holster for my Sig 245, and one for my 1911, and one for my Kahr P-40.
I carry my P9 in a Sparks Executives Companion when I go IWB. I like the extra leather that forms to the body, and prevents the muzzle end from digging in.
I admit that I prefer OWB, and like Sparks I-BAK. It is made so that the muzzle clears the holster at about the top of the belt level. I don't find it harder to conceal under a shirt tail worn outside the pants. I don't care for high ride holsters, but many do.
I have a Kahr CW9 and carry it in a High Noon Split Decision Holster.
I've been carrying for about two months now with no problem.
I like the Split Decision holster because it is a tuckable IWB holster and I have to dress in slacks and dress shirts with no jacket to cover anything.


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The city of Sterling Heights, Michigan just passed an ordinance banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. One local resident, who said he represented a group called the Vanguard of Christ the King, delivered this almost delightfully idiotic rant to the city council against the ordinance.
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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.
- A Masked Avenger
Whelp, I'm convinced.
"If someone drove up to a gas station, and put a gas pump in the radiator, everyone of you would say there was something wrong with him. The gas pump does not belong in the radiator!"
"Or if someone is in the lunchroom, and put a banana in his ear–instead of his mouth!–every one of you would say there was something wrong with him!"
- A Masked Avenger
Unfortunately at the end the speaker undermines his own credibility, after an otherwise masterful showing, by admitting that his fondest wish was to "lick the hide off of" the mayor. Perhaps if he felt free to lick the man of his choosing, he wouldn't be sublimating with all this anti-gay aggression.
- matty1
I love a good coffee and would never normally advocate against it but this guy really, really needs to switch to decaff.
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Perhaps if he felt free to lick the man of his choosing, he wouldn't be sublimating with all this anti-gay aggression. – A Masked Avenger@2
Yup, predictable as the tides, out comes the old "all-homophobes-are-closeted-gays" homophobic crap.
- plainenglish
It is obvious to any honest person. Mister Mayor, you can't stand the truth! By golly, that is some right good TV show, that one. Thank our dear stripey stars that is isn't real. What a world that would be…. What? It is real?
Oh shit.
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Before watching. Get some rubber boots and sturdy shovel.
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To be perfectly honest. I feel sorry for the guy. To get so riled up about where other people put their bananas… In a world that is rapidly becoming more accepting, he must feel utterly powerless to do anything but rage about it. Poor guy.
- A Masked Avenger
Yup, predictable as the tides, out comes the old "all-homophobes-are-closeted-gays" homophobic crap.
I mocked his threat to "lick the hide off of you." Sue me. Also, fuck off. Any implication that homophobes ACTUALLY are closeted gays is purely your own invention.
- throwaway, never proofreads, every post a gamble
"All men are created equal… except when they're not part of the same human nature." Who the fuck is he to determine that homosexuality isn't human nature? There isn't even a black and white spectrum of attraction like these people fancifully imagine.
And it never crosses his mind that lesbians are sticking ungodly things precisely where a penis should have been there all the way to climax for the purpose of procreation whilst only in the missionary position with the lights off and no talking… So much for his radiator analogy.
- Trebuchet
I refuse to click. It's too early in the morning.
- http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/User:Modusoperandi Modusoperandi
"Thank you for your comments. You, sir, are why we can't have nice things."
- throwaway, never proofreads, every post a gamble
A Masked Avenger:
I mocked his threat to "lick the hide off of you." Sue me. Also, fuck off. Any implication that homophobes ACTUALLY are closeted gays is purely your own invention.
It did read like the standard stereotypical closeted homophobe trope. No implication required. You're saying he wants to lick a man but can't so he becomes hyper-defensive about it and goes on an anti-gay rant. You can't get any closer to the definition of the trope than that.
- Sastra
Hey, anti-gay bigot even slips in something against atheists:
…the idea that all men are created equal means equal in the sense and only in the sense that they share the same human nature and all the rights inherent to that nature – such as the right to life – and all the obligations inherent to that nature – such as the obligation of all men to recognize and acknowledge God as their creator and Supreme Being TO WHOM ALL MEN INCLUDING ATHEISTS ARE SUBJECT.
Yeah. Prove it. First demonstrate that God exists and then justify where the obligation to give a crap what God thinks comes from (and you can't just say "God" because that's the issue under dispute.)
If God tells you to put a banana in your ear, do you refuse because that's not what the ear was made for? Maybe this guy would be pacified if gay people all start claiming that God came into their hearts and told them to be gay. And He's the boss.
- A Masked Avenger
It did read like the standard stereotypical closeted homophobe trope. No implication required. You're saying he wants to lick a man but can't so he becomes hyper-defensive about it and goes on an anti-gay rant. You can't get any closer to the definition of the trope than that.
Granted. I apologize without reservation for saying something that contributes to the problem of homophobia by gay-baiting that homophobe. I realize that having "good intentions" doesn't mitigate that I was not helping.
- http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/User:Modusoperandi Modusoperandi
There's no need to apologize. He's clearly a closeted, suppressed hobosexual. There's a reason he goes on and on about "those people" "riding the rails" and "making soup from boot leather". Why, I bet he's got a bindle hidden in his attic and everything!
- A Masked Avenger
I want a bindle. In the past I've carried my lunch to work in a furoshiki, but I felt terribly un-American, and you've shown me the light.
- Doc Bill
The gas pump does not belong in the radiator!
Wow, you just can't argue against logic like that. I think he'd make a good veep for Huckabee.
- Moon Jaguar
This sad little man believes he's representing the creator of the universe as the Vanguard of Christ the King.
I can't imagine a deity wanting or needing a wild-eyed yahoo with veins popping from his head, seething with hatred and shaking his fist, to defend him.
- stewartt1982
I want a bindle. In the past I've carried my lunch to work in a furoshiki, but I felt terribly un-American, and you've shown me the light.
While the "I'm too busy doing science to shave"-beard that I'm currently sporting is rather hobo-chic, I would rather use the furoshiki. The contrast between tomorrows cute bento box and my shabbiness will be jarring.
- leskimopie
- marcus
@14 I thought it was funny. Not gay-baiting but laughing at the unintended double-entendre and all the fury behind it. But then I have a weird sense of humor.
- lldayo
What a perfect time for a water balloon volley from the back of the audience.
- garnetstar
This fool has missed the boat: same-sex marriage has been declared a constitutional right in Michigan. Although that's under appeal (or something, there are so many that I've forgotten), that's where it currently is.
No, I take that back: this guy probably knows that, but has filtered out any reality that may threaten his delusion.
- gingerbaker
"Yup, predictable as the tides, out comes the old "all-homophobes-are-closeted-gays" homophobic crap."
And here comes the old "all tropes are false" crap.
The reason homophobes are closeted gays trope became a trope is because so many of the outspoken homophobes who really were closeted gays were unmasked. And the hypothesis that the trope makes psychological sense is supposedly valid.
But who knows?
- ragarth
If sticking gas pumps in radiators played Yellow Submarine by the Beatles then I'd imagine a lot of people would be doing that too.
- dogfightwithdogma
A more powerful example of hatred and bigotry wrapped in religion's clothing and denying that it is hatred and bigotry I can honestly say I have not seen. A more persuasive example of why anti-discrimination laws are necessary I can honestly say I have not seen.
- hunter
OK — he's stupid and boring. I got that in the first 90 seconds.
Does anyone else think he comes across like he'd been drinking? A lot?
- oranje
Nice to have such a long video to see what the past looks like.
- Crimson Clupeidae
So, when can we expect this fine upstanding citizen to get the nod from the GOP to run for whatever vacancy they have available? He's a shoe-in!
- tiko
That guy in the second row pretty much sums up what I think of this bigot.
- congenital cynic
I figure that this man's rant handily demonstrates Hitchins' statement that "religion poisons everything". Sure has poisoned this old codger. I haven't heard a hateful, vicious, illogical rant of this kind in a very long time. But even as I squished the banana into my ear, I could feel the Christian Love ® emanating from the man.
On a more serious note, he left me wondering about something. He said that a penis was for reproduction. This confused me. I always thought it was mostly for fun, for giving pleasure to the owner and the partner, for use in the bonding process with one's mate, and getting those oxytocin rushes that enhance the whole bonding thing, and only rarely for producing an additional offspring. I mean really, after we have had all of the children we want (n, where n = 0, 1, 2, …) are we supposed to just sublimate the libido to rant at council meetings about Jesus? That would suck. My wife was so fertile I'd have had all of our kids in about a dozen shags, and that would have sucked a lot.
And speaking of sucking, given that he said a penis didn't belong in a mouth, I'm guessing he has never been on the receiving end of fellatio. When I was a university student I worked on a bridge construction crew one summer, and our crew boss was an older gentlemen. He was a really nice man, but he couldn't get his mind around the idea that oral sex was anything but dirty. I felt sorry for him. Married more than 30 years, and not one blow job. Not one sniff or taste of his wife's vulva. I guess sexual repression is just part of their whole shtick. I guess when you are constantly repressing one of the most powerful human drives, you stand a pretty good chance of becoming an angry grouch.
- Chuck
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear him. I have a banana in my ear.
- Nick Gotts
The reason homophobes are closeted gays trope became a trope is because so many of the outspoken homophobes who really were closeted gays were unmasked. – gingerbaker
Oh really? What percentage of prominent homophobes have been so unmasked? Because we wouldn't want to rely on anecdotes rather than high quality data, would we? Especially when there's an obvious reason any story about a well-known homophobe discovered to be "having his luggage lifted" by another man will be extensively reported – hypocrisy is always a good story.
And the hypothesis that the trope makes psychological sense is supposedly valid.
Evidence? I'm aware of one study from 1996, with a relatively small sample (64 subjects in all), that claimed expressed homophobia among men correlated with a physical reaction to male homosexual erotica. This one study has been cited hundreds of times, but AFAIK, never replicated. And here is something written by the author of the study, Henry E. Adams:
Another explanation of these data is found in Barlow, Sakheim, and Beck's ( 1983) theory of the role of anxiety and attention in sexual responding. It is possible that viewing homosexual stimuli causes negative emotions such as anxiety in homophobic men but not in nonhomophobic men. Because anxiety has been shown to enhance arousal and erection, this theory would predict increases in erection in homophobic men. Furthermore, it would indicate that a response to homosexual stimuli is a function of the threat condition rather than sexual arousal per se. Whereas difficulties of objectively evaluating psychoanalytic hypotheses are well-documented, these approaches would predict that sexual arousal is an intrinsic response to homosexual stimuli, whereas Barlow's (1986 ) theory would predict that sexual arousal to homosexual stimuli by homophobic individuals is a function of anxiety. These competing po[si]tions can and should be evaluated by future research.
Now given the very limited evidence that there is any general link between homophobia and repressed homosexuality, why is the trope trotted out practically every time Ed produces an egregious example of homophobic bigotry? The effect is homophobic, but the motivation is a puzzle.
- Michael Heath
YouTube's closed captions were pretty funny. "Supreme being" was transferred into "soup cream". I'll have some of the latter please.
- sabrekgb
"Men, being both male and female, are not equal in gender."
Deep, man…deep.
- had3
Why does he care if someone sticks a banana in their own ear? As a banana salesman, I would encourage the maximum placement of bananas. Why does he hate capitalism? He hates 'merica!
- matty1
@33 As someone guilty in the past, though I am trying not to repeat I think the motivation is simple. Hypocrisy is funny and we prefer to see our opponents as funny than take them seriously.
- escuerd
I have no idea what he has against bananas in the ear. Perhaps if this song would help him understand it better:
- escuerd
Ugh. Well I was trying to link to the time 3m26s in that video. I really need to start remembering that any Youtube link I post will just embed. Sorry about that.
- Nick Gotts
Well it occurred to me that attributing hypocrisy to homophobes (whether its considered merely funny, or contemptible, or both) could be the answer, but don't you need at least some evidence that the specific target is a hypocrite? We live in a homophobic society – especially those of us brought up in fundamentalist communities – so you don't need to posit any causal factor for homophobia other than people's tendency to believe what they are told, and to find disgusting what they are told, as children, is disgusting. This ought to be obvious to most people making such comments here. You don't see the equivalent with regard to bigots fulminating about atheists, for example – at least, not with anything close to the same near-inevitability every time the subject comes up.
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Sticking bananas in radiators is a very bad idea.
Once the banana is heated sufficiently it will swell and burst out of its skin, filling your radiator with a nasty mash that could seriously inhibit the radiators designed functionality.
Sticking a penis in an orifice other than a vagina (excluding the pickle slicer*) otoh will generally not lead to serious damage to either the penis of the orifice–absent stupidity or violence**.
I would not say that the ranter is a homosexualhomophobe; I would say that he has a completely fucked-up take on human sexuality.
* A joke that goes back to the dawn of industrialization of the pickling business.
** I have not put a banana in anyone's radiator or vice versa.
- http://email@example.com democommie
For the edification of my fellow commenters who might like to explore the culinary possibilities of their Chrysler product:
Not suitable for soufflé's, meringues or yeast raised baked goods.
- dingojack
Demo – is it suitable for salt bread?
- Rev. BigDumbChimp
We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we… oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…
- ildi
What percentage of prominent homophobes have been so unmasked?
80 percent. Bananas were designed BY GOD to perfectly fit a man's hand. QED


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by Gail MacDonald
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A phenomenal book; one I will likely read over and over. Excellent bibliography as well, including many books I will be looking for in future months.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0842314245, Paperback)Learn biblically-based principles for ministering to people and living a ministry life from a seasoned ministry wife, Mrs. Gordon (Gail) MacDonald. There is something here to fit just about everyone s ministry world" the excitement, the struggles, the blessings, and the consequences. This work is thoroughly revised and updated from the author s best-selling 1981 book of the same title, and is now available in paperback. The book is designed for casual reading, but it also includes discussion questions for study group or classroom use.
Gail MacDonald loves the ministry. Over a period of four decades, she has been involved with four congregations and one parachurch organization with her husband, Pastor Gordon MacDonald.
Throughout the book you will take a tour through these years of shared ministry. Like Paul the apostle who gave and received much from the churches, Gordon and Gail look gratefully at the journey they have shared with these distinctive groups of people.
It is Gail's prayer that readers will see their own uniqueness in God's design, never trying to be anyone but themselves" the people God intended them to be. When you are finished reading, she hopes that you have heard one unmistakable message" that a life of ministry in the church is still a high call, a high privilege.
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CRAFT SHOW: The Elderton Volunteer Fire Department will be having a craft show with a soup and sandwich dinner from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the fire hall in Elderton.
Craft vendors will have handmade goods, such as crocheted kitchen items, jewelry, woodcrafts, handmade soaps and lotions, scarves, florals and much more for last-minute shopping. The kitchen will be serving hot homemade soups and a variety of sandwiches. Proceeds benefit the fire department funds to purchase equipment. Admission and parking are free.
POLKA JAM: A Christmas Polka Jam will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Guy's Tavern, Westmoreland Avenue, Avonmore. There will be music, food and raffles. Proceeds benefit the Avonmore Senior Center. Call (724) 697-5130.
MEETING: The Happy Homemakers will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Benjamin's restaurant for the group's annual Christmas party. Remember to bring paper products for the Alice Paul House.
Also bring three $1 gifts for bingo and one $3 grab bag gift.
SENIOR CITIZENS' LUNCHEON: The annual senior citizens' luncheon for Ligonier Valley School District residents will be held Dec. 17 at noon at Ligonier Valley High School. The program will begin in the auditorium with a brief preview of this year's choral concert.
Lunch will be served in the cafeteria at approximately 12:30 p.m.
Beginning today, reservations may be made by calling the high school at (724) 238-9531 anytime between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Seating is limited. Reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis.


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For Sue Ujcic, a journey that began in suburban New Jersey where her
grandmother, a first-generation Croatian immigrant, taught her to tend soil and save seeds, led her to Independence Valley (about 20 miles from Olympia, Washington), where with co-owner Anna Salafsky, she would build one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs in the state -- and probably the country -- at Helsing Junction Farm. The road was not without its bumps – back in the 1980's, tremendous growth in the organic sector initially treated HJF well, but when Big Ag dipped a Big Toe in to test the waters, it literally flooded the fledgling market, leaving small-scale wholesalers like Sue to scramble to stay afloat.
Spring may be a farmer's busiest season, but Sue graciously joined me on Skype last week to tell her story in her own words. Below, a taste of our talk. Click on the audio player under Sue's portrait to listen to the entire interview, or download it free from iTunes, or download a transcript (PDF).
Q: Could you tell our listeners about the CSA model and how you learned about it and when and why you switched to it?
We started doing the Community Supported Agricultural model back in the late '80s. We actually were doing a lot of wholesaling in farmers markets. And our wholesale markets basically were not secure, and the pricing was not secure. Back when we started in the '80s there weren't very many organic farms actually wholesaling around the country. We were one of a few and we actually started a big wholesale cooperative. But then, as organic food became more popular, a lot of the big growers in Southern California just started putting in test plots of things and then the prices started to really get impacted for us. And since we have such a small margin and we were a small farm, we were pretty much priced out of that. We had some really bad years, two years in a row, and then we almost lost the farm. But then we saw an article about Community Supported Agriculture in Japan actually, which is where it originated. Some farmers in Japan started just, in their own village, the villagers were like: "Let's just pay you to grow our food." They didn't want to have to travel or make the food travel. So that's originally where it started.
And then the first one in the United States was, I believe in Massachusetts. We read about that and we decided to launch it the next year, and it was great. It actually saved us from losing our farm. Mainly Community Supported Agriculture enables a farmer to create a secure income for themselves. Members prepay for their food and so we are pretty much clear on how much money we're going to make, so we can base the entire year's production on the amount of members we get. So we could just fill everything in in that way. So it's really great for a farm, and then, of course, for the CSA member, the Community Supported Agriculture member, they get a great deal, we give a really fair price and then we also give discounts by giving extra produce.
So we've been doing this, it will be our 19th season this year, we're having our 20th anniversary next year, and we have members that have been in it from the beginning, and now have their children joining as adults. It's really great and we have about a 60 percent rectitude rate and people are really committed to us. And within this bad economy the last few years, we really haven't had a dip. Generally speaking, most people, if they are committed to eating this kind of food and this way, they are committed. So we have not had a dip. And actually, we do a little wholesaling on the side and that will actually...it was really impacted in terms of volume and price. So we are really lucky to have the CSA. It's just been a great farming career, just because it's so community oriented. So for us, we feel really supported by our members.
Q: Women make up the largest group of newcomers to agriculture and tend to be more likely to start up small scale and sustainable operations, how have you seen the field change for women over time?
When I started farming there were very few women and the only—and it was interesting, because when we started out whole, wholesale co-operative that was in the late '80s we had women brokers, which was highly unusual. I mean, they were some of the only women brokers actually in the produce industry. So that was really the beginning of sort of the breakthrough. And it only makes sense, in my mind, that women would take on sustainable agriculture just because generally speaking, you know, somewhat more nurturing and then possibly even maybe able to multitask a little better than men.
And I don't want to sound like I'm sexist about that, I think that women have proven and shown that that can be the case and doing something like a small sustainable diversified vegetable garden, there are a lot of details to manage, no matter what scale you are on.
I started farming because I didn't want to put my children in daycare. I decided I wanted to work at home, and that's really what motivated me ultimately to start farming, I had a young son and I didn't want to be driving him to a daycare and dropping him off, I wanted him to be around even if I was working. So that worked out really well. But yes, it has changed dramatically and it's very encouraging, and the more conferences I go to, the more I see, not only women, but men under the age of 30 at these conferences and that's very hopeful for us older farmers.
Q: I know that you value your workers greatly and that they bring a lot of agricultural knowledge to the job, can you talk about your labor force?
A: Yes, we have an amazing crew of people working here, and most of them have been here at least 10 years. Every year we hire a few new people, but generally speaking, we have a solid crew that's been here for years and so our goal is to keep them here. And so we do that by just giving them raises, paying them more and giving them as many benefits as the farm could possible give them. And they are right, some of the finest farmers I know, and it's insulting when I hear ICE or Immigration, or our whole culture call farm workers someone who would be an unskilled laborer; it's absolutely insulting. We grow 100 varieties of vegetables here. They have to know exactly what they look like when they come up, all the spacing that they need, all the care for all those different plants, the watering, all of it. There's just so much to know, over the course of years, they have just fallen into their roles and everybody works really well together and everyone is fairly autonomous and everyone feels really invested.
And then because we are limited in terms of what we can pay – we're at the top of the pay scale for any kind of agriculture anywhere in the United States – so in order to keep them here and entice them to keep working and invest themselves in our farm, we've actually let them start their own businesses via the farm. So we have their own CSA, many of them are originally from Mexico and are Latino so they have their own Latino-based cuisine CSA now. And then they also deliver to some local Mexican restaurants and stuff. So it's given them an opportunity to make a little bit more money, and also grow things that they like to grow that people in the United States don't really like to eat. And they seem to like that. And we have every intention of trying to help them grow their business. I think it's only natural for them to eventually take over at some point; that would be our hope, that they could succeed us somehow.


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Our current bottom floor has ceramic tiling. I prefer laminate flooring, however I heard it's really expensive to remove ceramic tiling. Is it possible to lay the laminate flooring on top of the ceramic tiling? we would leave a pathway of ceramic tiling at the door entrances and would also keep the kitchen and bathroom ceramic, but would lay laminate flooring in the living room and dining areas.
Laminate adds another 3/8-1/2" to the floor and can be a toe bumber for some. other than that, you can install laminate over most anything. Removing tile is not easy, but the finished result is usually much nicer.
Curious - did you try this? If so let us know if it worked. I am thinking of doing the same thing. Thanks!
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Do employers have to pay for disability insurance?
In the US, California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island impose mandatory state disability insurance programs for employees. The purpose of the programs is to provide some protection against wage loss caused by short-term non-work-related disabilities. The insurance premium is submitted to the insurer by the employer but paid either jointly by the employer and the employee, or entirely by the employer, depending on the employer's good will. There are some limits to what the employee may be required to contribute by the employer. This insurance is in addition to two well-known government disability programs: Worker's Compensation and Social Security. Employees' contributions are federal tax-deductible.
Simple answer: No. Group Disability Insurance is not like Group Health Insurance -- and all the ERISA regulations that control how this employee benefit works. With Group Disability Insurance, an employer can "carve out" a select group of employees -- meaning the employer can create a "plan for just one employee (himself!)".
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Can an employer pay for health insurance for one employee and not another?
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What is the term for the amount you or your employer pay in exchange for insurance coverage?
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Analyzing Composition and Lubrication Properties of Synovial Fluid (SFCL)
This study has been completed.
Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
National Science Concil
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To analyze the relationship between composition of synovial fluid and its lubrication properties
|Knee Osteoarthritis HA Injection One Injection Per Week for Five Week Synovial Fluid Composition Synovial Fluid Lubrication
|Other: Synovial fluid composition and lubrication analysis
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Boundary Lubrication of Synovial Fluid Molecules and Its Effect on the Surrounding Cells and Tissues
Further study details as provided by Far Eastern Memorial Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Synovial fluid HA and albumin concentration; synovial fluid lubrication [ Time Frame: 1 wk, 2 wk, 3 wk, 4 wk, 5 wk ]
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synovial fluid from knee joint
|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
HA injection
Patients with osteoarthritis of knee. They are going to received HA injection 1 vial per week for 5 weeks.
Other: Synovial fluid composition and lubrication analysis
Before HA injection, synovial fluid must be drawn to increase treatment effectiveness. The drawn synovial fluid was then analyzed in the lab. There was no influence for patients enrolled because the drawn synovial fluid would usually be discarded.
Detailed Description:
Patients suffering from serious arthritis may receive the artificial joint replacement surgery. Comparing to the articulation of articular cartilage, the artificial joint undergo a boundary lubrication in which a thin layer of synovial fluid molecules is formed between the artificial joint materials. Therefore a larger wear rate is observed in the artificial joint system. Researchers have devoted themselves to modifying the artificial joint materials in order to reduce the wear phenomena. We first propose that modification the lubrication by adding effective lubricating molecules may help to reduce the wear of artificial joint. However, there still lacks fundamentally understanding of the artificial joint lubrication mechanism under synovial fluid. Hence, we plan to investigate the boundary lubrication mechanism of synovial molecules, such as albumin, globulin, hyaluronic acid, and lipid in the first year. We would like to obtain the adsorption behaviors of the single molecules as well as multiple molecules on the surfaces of artificial joint materials by experiments. Molecular dynamics simulation will also be performed to gain the knowledge of adsorption energy and possible conformation change of the molecules. In the second year, the tribological heat and mechanical effects on the synovial molecules will be studied. The analysis platform will be established to perform the composition and properties measurement of the synovial molecules. In the third year, we will further discuss the effect of the synovial molecules transformation on the surrounding cells and tissues. Their influences on the tribological and biochemical behaviors will be investigated.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
Patients who are going to receive HA injection of one or two knees
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are going to receive HA injection of one or two knees
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients whose quantity of synovial fluid is not enough to be drawn
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00912106
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00912106
|Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
|Pan-Ciao, Taipei, Taiwan, 22050
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Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
National Science Concil
|Study Director:
|Chih-Hung Chang, Ph. D
|Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Chih-Hung Chang, Division of Orthopedics, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00912106 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 2, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 2, 2009
Keywords provided by Far Eastern Memorial Hospital:
synovial fluid
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Osteoarthritis, Knee
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017


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I've had a look through the forums but can't find any info for my query. I'm about to buy a 1.1.3 OTB iPhone and activate it through iTunes - using the method mentioned on the forum to get it activated w/o contract.
Has anyone used this method to activate their iphone then unlock it with a SIM proxy? If so, does it work? I've heard SIM proxies don't work on 113 but is that just for jailbroken phones? If you have an officially activated (not jailbroken) iphone can you upgrade the firmware (say to 1.1.4 when it comes out) without having to wait for a jailbreak method - and will the unlock still work? Would I still need to get it jailbroken in order to use a GSM carrier in another country (I'm in Australia)? And finally would I need to still jailbreak in order to Australianise the number format or is there an official iphone app for that? My theory is that an officially activated iphone would remain unlocked with a SIM proxy even if you upgrade the firmware through itunes without waiting for a jailbreak. Any info or advice would be appreciated.


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Remediating vernacular creativity : photography and cultural citizenship in the Flickr photosharing network
Burgess, Jean E. (2009) Remediating vernacular creativity : photography and cultural citizenship in the Flickr photosharing network. In Edensor, Tim, Leslie, Deborah, Millington, Steve, & Rantisi, Norma (Eds.) Spaces of Vernacular Creativity : Rethinking the Cultural Economy. Routledge, London ; New York, pp. 116-126.
Read through a focus on the remediation of personal photography in the Flickr photosharing website, in this essay I treat vernacular creativity as a field of cultural practice; one that that does not operate inside the institutions or cultural value systems of high culture or the commercial popular media, and yet draws on and is periodically appropriated by these other systems in dynamic and productive ways. Because of its porosity to commercial culture and art practice, this conceptual model of 'vernacular creativity' implies a historicised account of 'ordinary' or everyday creative practice that accounts for both continuity and change and avoids creating a nostalgic desire for the recuperation of an authentic folk culture. Moving beyond individual creative practice, the essay concludes by considering the unintended consequences of vernacular creativity practiced in online social networks: in particular, the idea of cultural citizenship.
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|Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100)
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > CULTURAL STUDIES (200200)
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Disruptive innovation: Opening the door to new business opportunities (PARC Forum)
Thursday, August 18, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Everyone tells us that they want to invent the "next iPhone" (or insert your industry's "next killer app" instead).
But disruptive innovation is hard, especially when confronted with too many choices. Where do you go? Which doors do you open? How do you enter?
Most companies have incremental and next-generation innovation down. It's this type of non-core, "next big thing" innovation that eludes many and presents the most challenges -- even though this type of innovation is a necessity for any business that wants to access new markets, create a new line of revenue, or re-invent themselves in anticipation of future directions.
In this PARC Forum talk, PARC VP of Global Business Development Tamara St. Claire will share strategies, lessons learned, and case studies in moving from idea to execution.
When & Where
PARC (George E. Pake Auditorium)
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto,
Thursday, August 18, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
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PARC, a Xerox company, is in the Business of Breakthroughs®. Practicing open innovation, we provide custom R&D services, technology, expertise, best practices, and IP to global Fortune 500 companies, startups, and government agency partners. We create new business options, accelerate time to market, augment internal capabilities, and reduce risk for our clients.


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The Obama government has decided enough is enough. Instead of fighting to end corruption in Afghanistan, the United States will now accept the reality we are fighting to protect the wealth and interests of a group of men whose only goal is making money. Under a new anti-corruption strategy, the US will not aggressively pursue top Afghan officials who rob the nation blind due to what is termed: "limited judicial capacity." In plain English that means President Karzai will not allow any interference in daily corruption. After years of pleading with Karzai to crack down on corruption, it has become clear any action against those robbing the government would entail hitting too close to those who support Karzai. This refusal to place on trial senior Afghan officials means corruption will continue, people will continual backing the Taliban since it is the only honest group in the country. In one recent case, Karzai intervened in a case in which a top aide was arrested for corruption. All charges were dropped and the man resumed his position in government.
The bottom line is continued corruption will result in continued growth in power of the Taliban. We can pay the price now of fighting to end corruption, or we can pay the price later of a corrupt government which prevents destroying militant groups. We went through this dilemma in China during 1940s and in Vietnam during the 1960s. In both cases, insurgents triumphed over government forces.


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text: HOUSTON, Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) today reported seven oil and gas discoveries that highlight the geologic and geographic diversity across the company's 9.7 million gross acres in Egypt's Western Desert. One discovery – the Riviera SW-1X on the southern flank of the Abu Gharadig Basin – test-flowed 5,800 barrels of oil and 2.8 million cubic feet (MMcf) of gas per day from a Lower Bahariya sand with 24 feet of net pay. Another – the Narmer-1X – is a stratigraphic trap that is separated from the Neilos oil field located five miles to the east. "These seven discoveries are located in four different geologic basins and six different concessions," said Thomas M. Maher, Egypt Region vice president and general manager. "The Faghur Basin yielded four of the discoveries with one each in the Shushan, Matruh and Abu Gharadig basins. All seven discoveries have been tested and Riviera SW-1X is already producing. Our exploration and development program in Egypt continues apace, with an average of 27 drilling rigs operating during the second quarter. " Please click on this link to see a locator map of Apache's latest discoveries in Egypt: http://www.apachecorp.com/MediaLibrary/thumbnail.aspx?MaxSize=1024&ImagePath=/Resources/Upload/MediaItems/Apache_Egypt_Map_20130801.jpg The Riviera SW-1X, located in the WD 30 Development Lease acquired in 2010, is 1.3 miles south of the Riviera field, which also produces from the Upper Bahariya and Abu Roash formations. The discovery extends the known southern limit of the play in the Abu Gharadig Basin. The well is currently online and producing at restricted rates of 2,000 barrels of oil per day while gas rates continue to be monitored. Drilling and completion costs for the well were $5 million. Apache has a 100 percent contractor interest in the WD 30 Development Lease. The Narmer-1X and the Neilos field are elements of an emerging Paleozoic play pioneered in the Western Desert by Apache. The Narmer-1X, located in the Faghur Basin and the Khalda Offset Concession, encountered 85 feet of net pay in Paleozoic-aged sandstone and test-flowed approximately 1,200 barrels of oil and 400 thousand cubic feet (Mcf) of gas per day with a trace of water. Although appraisal wells will be required to accurately map this new field, the stratigraphic trap is estimated to exceed 1,000 acres with analogous prospects mapped nearby. With its proximity to existing infrastructure, the well is expected to be put on production quickly following development lease approval. Drilling costs for the well were $3.1 million, with completion pending. Apache has a 100 percent contractor interest in the Khalda Offset Concession. The Jade N-2X, located 1.5 miles to the northeast of the Jade field in the western Matruh Basin within the Matruh Development Lease, encountered 35 feet of net pay in the Cretaceous-aged Alam El Buieb 3G sandstone. The zone was perforated and tested over a 74-foot interval, producing up to 146 barrels of condensate and 11.2 MMcf of gas per day at original reservoir pressure. Apache has a 100 percent contractor interest in the Matruh Concession. Drilling and completion costs for the well were $2.6 million. The WKAL-T-1X, located 3.5 miles due south of the nearest production in the Tell field within the West Kalabsha Concession in the Faghur Basin, logged a total of 32 feet of net pay in the Safa formation. The well was tested in one of three zones of Upper Safa sandstone that flowed 2,900 barrels of oil and 2.8 MMcf of gas per day. Drilling and completion costs for the well were $5 million. Also in the West Kalabsha Concession, the WKAL-N-3X appraisal well successfully extended the WKAL-N field to the west. The well flowed on test at a rate of approximately 3,500 barrels of oil and 3.2 MMcf of gas per day from the Safa Formation.


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Feb 01, 2011
Companies with an integrated company-wide business management system (or enterprise resource planning [ERP] system) are likely to have more and more accurate information readily accessible. Companies that have already implemented well-managed processes to deal with inventory, receivables, payables, and managing the supply chain are more likely to be in a relatively strong cash position. Those manufacturers can invest to differentiate themselves from their competition.
What investments are needed? An enterprise system that can fully address volatility, help speed new offerings to market, and support collaborative decision-making. These are the new challenges that discrete manufacturers must address.
This paper examines some of the requirements for collaboration in the context of those three major strategic initiatives:
� Customer focus, to thoroughly understand the needs and execute to deliver products and services that will keep customers happy.
� Innovation to differentiate what the company offers and fend off competitors, even in fast-changing market conditions.
� Supply chain excellence to reliably deliver perfect orders in a timely fashion at a reasonable cost leveraging the best trading partners around the world.


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tech companies
In the early 1990s, Xerox wasn't just a company. "To Xerox" was a verb, reflecting the company's singular focus on producing copying machines. But faced with competition from digital imaging, Xerox has had to change their focus; they're now in the business of client services. One reason they were able to weather that transition, says Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, is the diversity of their ranks. Continue reading
Eight prominent American tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter, sent an open letter to President Obama and Congress expressing concern about the way the U.S. government collects personal data online. Judy Woodruff talks to Brad Smith of Microsoft about their call to limit the scope of government spying. Continue reading


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Fraternal Tokens
Beginning in the mid-19th century, fraternal orders such as the Masons, Odd Fellows, Eagles, and Elks issued tokens that could be presented as proof of membership in the order (these are known as mark pennies), as souvenirs, and for gambling. Masonic pennies often feature a chapter's name on the token, although some pennies bought as stock items from wholesalers do not. One sub-group within fraternal tokens are those made for the Ku Klux Klan, which often feature cryptic acronyms (MIAFA stands for My Interests Are For America) rather than the letters KKK since the organization was so reviled.
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Legendary Coins and Currency
This online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is a great way to get an overview… [read review or visit site]
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We have now been open at our new temporary location for a little over one month, and the Reading Room has had a number of visitors from around the country and around the world. As a new member of the reference staff I am excited to have the opportunity to learn about the Phillips Library collections both through our researchers and the other staff members. After much discussion with the reference staff it was decided that an exhibit would be a nice addition to our new space.
The Cookbooks Exhibit displays some of the most interesting and attractive cookbooks in the Phillips Library, a collection which holds well over 200 books of recipes, techniques, and advice on food preparation from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Though this is only a small exhibit (comprising a total of twenty-one books from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s), it took a great deal of consideration. I began cultivating books for inclusion by going through PHILCAT, the Phillips Library catalog, using a variety of search terms, Cookery, Cooking, and Cooking – American, which lead me to hundreds of results.
The majority of the Phillips Library cookbooks are found in the Cookery Collection. This collection consists of over 80 boxes containing anywhere from one to ten cookbooks. Knowing that one of the purposes of my exhibition was to bring some color to our temporary home, I looked in each box attempting to pull as many visually attractive cookbook covers as I could find. I ended up with an exhibit of twenty-one books, which tell the story of America's culinary history from the 1820s to the 1940s.
While many of the cookbooks were chosen based on cover art, there are also examples of some of the most famous authors and works in the long history of cookbook publishing. Lydia Maria Child, author of The American Frugal Housewife, was the most noted cookbook author of her generation; her works were reprinted dozens of times. This medium served as a catapult to propel women from the traditionally subservient private sphere into the male-dominated public world of publishing and thus societal influence. Jan Longone, Curator of American Culinary History at the University of Michigan writes in her book, Feeding America,
Not only were they recognized culinary authorities, but they were also reformers active in all the major social and cultural events of their day: abolition, child welfare, women's rights, education, suffrage, social welfare, prison reform, poverty, alleviation, immigration, consumer issues, nutrition, medical reforms, labor issues, and contemporary religious and moral questions. They shared a major concern for the role of women, for their duties and responsibilities, as well as their rights, and for ways that their workload could be lightened and 'improved.' They were writers, poets, philosophers, educators, editors and business women.
This influence can be seen through the work of Esther C. Mack whose cookbook, What Salem Dames Cooked, can be seen in the exhibit. This work was published as an effort to raise funds for the Esther C. Mack Industrial School, whose goal was to train women for employment as seamstresses or dressmakers. More on the Mack Industrial School can be found here.
Women were not the only authors of cookbooks, however. In my search I also discovered The Gentleman's Companion by Charles Henry Baker, published in 1946. This work comprises two volumes entitled Being an Exotic Cookery Book, or, Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon and Being an Exotic Drinking Book, or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask. Just as women were pushing the envelope of acceptable public sphere behavior through cookbooks, so were men interested in demonstrating their worth in the private sphere.
The industry of cookbook publishing has evolved and expanded in the years since Lydia Maria Child and her contemporaries, but their efforts have continued to pave the way for women looking to contribute to national discussions about gender for generations. Though I may have chosen this particular selection of books for their face-value, like their authors, you can't judge a (cook)book by its cover.
For those who are unable to visit the Phillips Library to view the exhibit, please visit the University of Michigan's Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project which has digitized a collection of seventy-six influential cookbooks.
When you make apple pies, stew your apples very little indeed; just strike them through, to make them tender. Some people do not stew them at all, but cut them up in very thin slices, and lay them in the crust. Pies made in this way may retain more of the spirit of the apple; but I do not think the seasoning mixes in as well. Put in sugar to your taste; it is impossible to make a precise rule, because apples vary so much in acidity. A very little salt, and a small piece of butter in each pie, makes them richer. Cloves and cinnamon are both suitable spice. Lemon-brandy and rose-water are both excellent. A wine-glass full of each is sufficient for three or four pies. If your apples lack spirit, grate in a whole lemon.