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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a medical condition affecting 5 to 10 percent of children, and a new study indicates that using ADHD medications sooner can prevent a decline in students' academic performance. According to HealthDay, researchers have found that earlier treatment of ADHD prevents declining academic performance, especially for girls and particularly in math.
Researchers reviewed standardized test scores from 14,000 students, 1,029 of who were prescribed ADHD medications at some point. Those students who received treatment later exhibited a decline in academic performance. Specifically, girls who were given their ADHD meds later are 70 percent more likely to do poorly on math tests where boys are only 40 percent more likely to score lower.
In other words, this study stated that children whose parents wait to have them treated for ADHD may suffer in school, particularly in math. Generally, girls with ADHD have trouble paying attention and boys with ADHD are the hyperactive ones. Both need medication as soon as possible to help them focus and prevent a decline in academic performance.
Essentially this study suggests that waiting to treat your kid for ADHD does nothing but hinder their performance in school — and I think we can all agree, this is never good. Self-esteem and self-confidence is so important for young kids. Growing up, I was a good student, but I was very upset with myself anytime I did poorly on a test or an assignment. Most subjects come very easily to me, but I've always struggled with math. Every time I had a math test,l I studied for hours and was furious with myself if I did not score well. I was very hard on myself, and I didn't have a medical issue that prevented me from doing well at school.
If it will help your kids do well in school and in turn, boost their self-esteem, I'm all for getting them the help they need, when they need it. If you know your child has a problem with ADHD, get it treated. Waiting doesn't help anyone. (On the other hand, I'm also a firm believer that too many parents try to have their children treated for ADHD who do not need it; I always recommend getting at least a second medical opinion before treating children for ADHD.)
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The Florida law against " "Harassment of participant of neighborhood crime watch program." is an interesting twist. As explained by the author of the article. "It makes it a misdemeanor to threaten or intimidate a member of a neighborhood crime watch program "while such member is engaged in. . . an organized neighborhood crime watch program activity." The law says that a neighborhood patrol includes a "crime watch program activity." Of course, Zimmerman was on his neighborhood crime watch patrol when the tragic incident occurred."
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Painter. Mr. Reed studied at Morgan State College, where he received a B.S. in 1958, and later at Yale School of Art, where he received a B.F.A. in 1960 and an M.F.A. in 1962. He attended the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in 1960. His work has been exhibited in America and in Europe and has been included in group exhibits at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Biennial of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. His solo exhibits include the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Bayly Museum in Charlottesville, Virginia; the Washburn Gallery in New York; and the McIntosh Gallery in Atlanta. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Bayly Museum. Mr. Reed has lectured extensively in this country and has taught at Skidmore College and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he was head of the Foundation Studies Division in 1964. He is the author of several intensive studio programs, and is the founder and director of the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France, which is associated with Yale Summer Session. From 1970 to 1974 he directed the art division of the Yale Summer School of Music and Art. He has had several appointments as director of undergraduate studies in art at Yale since 1969 and has also served as director of graduate studies in painting. He has been a Yaddo Fellow and a board member for the McDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. In 1980 he was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2000 he received the national award from the National Council of Art Administrators, and in 2001 he received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 2004 Mr. Reed received the Distinguished Teaching of Art award from the College Art Association, and in 2009 he was elected to the National Academy Fellowship in New York. His work is represented by David Findlay Jr. Fine Art in New York. He was appointed to the faculty in 1969 and is professor of painting/printmaking.
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KOffice 2.1 Release Candidate 1 Released
The KOffice team is happy to announce the first release candidate of KOffice 2.1. As usual, the team has worked diligently and has now been able to remove all the release blocker bugs.
The application that has received the most bugfixes is once again Krita. Also KWord has seen numerous improvements in many places, and the Microsoft Word filter has once again been improved. The same goes for KPresenter and its Powerpoint import filter and KSpread.
One of the applications that we have not talked much about so far is KPlato. KPlato is short for the K Planning Tool, and is an application for project management. It was released as technology preview in 2.0, but in 2.1 we believe it to be usable for smaller projects and for early adopters. We expect that KPlato will bring KOffice to new categories of users who need our unique cross platform project management application.
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Discussion in 'Organic Lawn Care' started by pitbullguy, Apr 27, 2006.
thanks for the links. I've been thinking about what I posted in this tread about a customer not having alot of money to start and spraying synthetic herbicides to get the yard under control. I think I failed to realize that the customer will have to bite the bullet and pay for the proper renovation at some point in time to get desired results
cause depending on the soil to begin with in that yard.
they will probably need aeration/seed and a good top dressing of compost to really start their program right.
cause with out that, there are still seeds dormant on the soil,
and how are you going to increase fertility to grow a dense turf with out the renovation? will spraying syns. and adding organics ferts be enough? there's over seeding and even better slit seeding, but will that be enough to correct things?
I want to give the best advice to the customer to begin with and I really want to stay away from those chemical's in the first place.
I guess I go back to the drawling board and try to work this out.
any suggestion anybody?


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As the days pass and events unfold [in Yemen], Ali Abdullah Saleh and his gang of strongmen continue to create unpleasant surprises for the rest of the government's officials. It has turned out that Saleh and his allies are highly qualified in deception and skilled in hatching plots, not only against their political opponents but against the entire country, including their own party and those who are still loyal to the [ousted] regime. They have abandoned their supporters to implement deceptive conventions which they themselves have signed. They believe they can still pull the wool over the people's eyes, unaware that they have been exposed.
When Saleh signed the Gulf Initiative, he was betting on the three months following the deal, and on early elections. The [figurehead] president was planning to backtrack on his promises, rejecting the items mentioned in the Gulf deal. This did not happen. Saleh also bet on the failure of the power-sharing government led by his longtime deputy, Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, to whom he owes everything that he has achieved up to this day.
As both scenarios have so far failed to materialize and are not likely in the offing, Saleh and his allies are left with only one choice: To use military and security institutions to thwart all efforts towards elections on February 21, with the least possible damage.
In this context, the ousted regime has openly entered into a coalition with terrorist organizations, making way for them to control certain Yemeni cities in an attempt to confuse the acting president and the power-sharing government and shake the stability of the country before election day. Not only does Saleh plan to thwart the Gulf Initiative; he is also trying to stifle the youth revolution and any attempt to establish civil [political] life in Yemen. He is seeking destructive chaos, which he mentioned repeatedly when speaking of the popular revolution and the peaceful movement in the south.
Placing districts under the control of terrorist groups is further proof of the profane coalition between Saleh's regime and terrorists. This alliance was established in the mid-eighties but has remained clandestine [until now].
As long as military and security institutions are left in the hands of Ali Abdullah and his relatives, he is still in control of the power. Thus any move to peacefully transfer power to the government is futile, unless these institutions are also handed over [to the people]. Saleh is well aware that guns are the pillar of authority. Today, he has proven the validity of this argument by accepting to relinquish his powers to the vice-president, and by approving the appointment of one of his opponents to the post of prime minister. Nevertheless, he remains the decision maker, for he still controls the military and security institutions, which he can put to use whenever he wishes.
The security and military institutions must be urgently transferred to the civilian government. They should be operated in compliance with national policy as determined by the acting president and the national reconciliation government, in which Saleh's supporters hold half the seats. [In this case], any suspicious alliances with criminal and terrorist organizations will be prevented.


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Cepheid reported EPS of 3 cents during the third quarter of fiscal 2011, scraping a penny past the Zacks Consensus Estimate and much better than the loss of 2 cents in the year-ago period.
Revenues during the quarter increased 25% to $70.2 million, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $68 million. The upside was driven by a 33% growth at the Clinical segment attributable to strong sales of reagents and systems. Cepheid's higher bottom line owed much to revenue growth.
Among the different segments, the Clinical segment consisting of Clinical Systems (up 20% year over year to $14 million) and Clinical Reagents (up 37% to $45.6 million) contributed about 85% of the total sales during the quarter. Cepheid's Non-Clinical business dropped 24% year over year to $7.7 million. Product sales from North America and the international market recorded a respective year-over-year increase of 9% (to $49.3 million) and 89% (to $18 million).
Gross margin on product sales improved to 56% compared with 50% in the third quarter of 2010. While product sales improved 23%, cost of products sold increased by only 8.7% leading to the margin expansion.
Cepheid has decided to terminate the remainder of its PCR licenses from Roche as it did not consider the concerned patents under the license to be significant. This will result in a one-time charge of approximately $5.4 million to cost of product sales in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Operating expenses amounted to $37.4 million, up 38.6% year over year, driven by higher research and development (38.6% annually to $15.2 million), sales and marketing (29.2% to $12.9 million), and general and administrative expenses (54.4% to $9.3 million). The company reported $2 million as income from operations compared with an operating loss of $0.6 million in the year-ago period.
Cepheid installed 122 GeneXpert systems in the quarter. In addition, the company placed 141 GeneXpert (38 in the second quarter) systems as part of its High Burden Developing Country (HBDC) Program. Including the HBDC systems, a cumulative 2,487 systems have been placed worldwide as of September 30, 2011. At the end of the reported quarter, cash and cash equivalents were $110.8 million, up from $79.5 million at the end of December 2010.
Revises Outlook
Cepheid raised its revenue outlook for 2011. The company expects to report revenues of $269–$272 million (previous guidance of $265–$270 million). However, due to the estimated $5.4 million (8 cents per share) charge related to the termination of PCR licenses from Roche, the EPS guidance now stands at 0−3 cents (prior estimate: 8–11 cents).
The robust performance during the reported quarter was fired by the strong growth of Clinical reagents. With a broad portfolio of tests, the company is one of the leading players in the healthcare associated infection (HAI) market. The stock retains a Zacks #2 Rank (Buy) in the short term.
However, the company is cautious about the general capital spending environment in both the US and Europe. The competitive landscape is tough with the presence of players such as Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LH - Free Report) and Quest Diagnostics (DGX - Free Report) . Longer term, we are Neutral on Cepheid.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tim Lincecum has put together two quality starts and that gives him something to build on.
The former two-time Cy Young Award winner left the game leading after six innings and then watched as the Colorado Rockies scored five runs in the top of the ninth to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-4 on Friday night.
"I'm trying to stay consistent," Lincecum said. "I'm keeping my front shoulder from bailing out and that helps with location. My fastball was a lot better. The two-seamer I was able to locate against right-handers and that opened the plate for me."
Lincecum allowed three hits and two runs, retiring the final 10 batters he faced. Three San Francisco relievers combined to shut out Colorado over the next two innings before closer Sergio Romo (3-2) gave it back in the ninth.
"It was nice to stay consistent throughout," Lincecum said. "I'm just going to try to stay with the same approach."
Lincecum has recorded seven quality starts among his 14 games this season but entered the game with the fifth-highest ERA among qualifying pitchers in the NL. He has allowed three runs or fewer in eight of his last nine outings at home.
"He had real good stuff," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He had good velocity and threw some great secondary pitches. It's a shame we couldn't hold on and give him a win."
The Rockies were listless at the plate for most of the night, trailed 4-2 and had gone five straight innings without a hit before rallying.
The Rockies had to overcome an injury-shortened night by starter Jorge De La Rosa. De La Rosa, who had lost his previous two starts, was forced out of the game after the third inning due to tightness in his lower back.
The Rockies bailed him out with their huge ninth, marking the eighth time this season Colorado has won in its final at-bat.
Up to that point, manager Walt Weiss' team hadn't done much.
Morneau finished with two hits, the only Rockies player with multiple hits.
De La Rosa struggled even before his back acted up. He had to strike out Lincecum to escape a bases-loaded jam in the second, and then gave up a leadoff double to Angel Pagan in the third. After Hunter Pence's RBI single, De La Rosa retired the next two batters but threw one pitch to Michael Morse before summoning team trainers and Weiss to the mound.
Umpires allowed De La Rosa to make a few warm-up pitches before Morse hit a tying single.
Morse also doubled off reliever Tommy Kahnle in the fifth, and Pence doubled and scored on a wild pitch by Chris Martin in the seventh.
The two teams split their first eight games this season and were playing for the first time since being rained out in Colorado on May 22.
NOTES: RHP Christian Bergman (0-1) will make his second start in the majors for Colorado on Saturday. The rookie allowed just two earned runs in his pro debut on June 9. RHP Ryan Vogelsong (4-3) pitches for San Francisco.


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Activists Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove show how prayer and action must go together. Their exposition of key Bible passages provides concrete examples of how a life of prayer fuels social engagement and the work of justice. Phrases like "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" take on new meaning when applied to feeding the hungry or advocating for international debt relief.If you hope to see God change society, you must be an ordinary radical who prays - and then is ready to become the answer to your own prayers.
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Fraley: Ron Washington's loyalty hurt Texas Rangers in 2011 playoffs
Ranger beat writers Evan Grant and Gerry Fraley joined the Musers, Geroge Dunham and Craig Miller, on KTCK 1310 AM for a Rangers round table discussion at the end of the season. Here are some highlights:
On Ron Washington not bringing Neftali Feliz back out to pitch the 10 inning on Game 6:
Fraley: You've got to bring him back out there. I don't care if he's sitting there with a gun to his temple, you send him back out there. That's your job as a manager or a pitching coach – get the guy going again. To me, Wash's biggest failing – and he did a fine job – but he treated the postseason like the regular season, and it's two different animals. In the postseason, you've got to win or lose with your best. You don't win or lose with Scott Feldman, Darren Oliver, and Mark Lowe. You send your best guys out there. That's how [former Yankees manager Joe] Torre did it through the years, stretching [Mariano] Rivera out and stuff like that. And that's where Wash's biggest mistake to me was. The same thing that got him through a 162-game season – loyalty to his guys, staying with his guys – I think hurt him there at the end in the playoffs. You just don't manage the playoffs like the regular season.
On whether Derek Holland has established himself as a No. 2 starter:
Grant: I think you have more optimism about that, but I think you have to do it for more than half a season. I think he took significant steps this year, and maybe in the Rangers' mix, he's a No. 2. But I don't think you'd stack him up as a traditional No. 2 going into the season. He's still got to show you more consistency over a full year.


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Scholars outbid for poet's home
The former home of poet Philip Larkin, in Hull, has been bought by a wealthy businesswoman - because of its pretty garden.
Scholars at nearby Hull University and the local council wanted to buy the property to preserve it as a base for a writer in residence.
But Miriam Porter, who lives in London, said she did not know anything about the house's famous former owner when she snapped up the �165,000 detached home.
She lived in a nearby orphanage and always longed to live in Hull's upmarket Newland Park area.
The poet's personal possessions, which were discovered untouched in the home from the day he died, will be moved to Hull City museum.
Larkin, who worked at the nearby Hull University library, moved to the house in 1974, but complained his writing dried up while he was living there.
One of the few notable poems he wrote during this period - The Mower - described an accident involving his lawnmower and a hedgehog on the lawn.
Ms Porter, 40, said: "It's so beautiful and peaceful and so different to London where I live now.
"The garden needs a lot of work but there's so much scope.
"Newland Park is the Mayfair of Hull where I aspired to live as a child."
When he died in 1985, Larkin left the house to close friend Monica Jones in his will.
A Leicester University lecturer, she moved to Larkin's Hull home when she became ill.
She died in February 2001, having lived the life of a recluse since Larkin's death.
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She had left his possessions - including shaving brushes and shoes - untouched.
Most of his important manuscripts have now been removed and stored at Hull and Oxford universities, but other artefacts will be given to Hull City Museum for a future exhibition.
These range from champagne corks with dates written on them to a model of Hitler, once owned by Larkin's father with whom he had a stormy relationship.
Dr Booth said: "It would have been nice to see the house kept more or less as it was when Larkin lived in it.
"You can see his personality in his house and possessions - his extremes of anti-social behaviour and anger, humour and sentimentality."
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THE TV WATCH; No Accounting for Taste: Jail Brides and Rap Molls
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: August 8, 2006
Women who fall in love with lifers are not really so hard to fathom. Convicts are a little like married men: trapped and grateful for whatever they can get.
''Women Who Love Bad Men,'' tonight's episode in the WE documentary series ''Secret Lives of Women,'' gives a hearing to five women who are involved with men serving long sentences or on death row, including Doreen Lioy, who married the serial killer Richard Ramirez (''The Night Stalker'') and describes her husband as ''sweet and funny.''
Many viewers will find these women bafflingly sad or scary, which is why it is helpful to see the documentary in conjunction with ''Flavor of Love''-- a VH1 version of ''The Bachelor''-- a reality show that began its second season on Sunday night. Twenty women compete to become the girlfriend of an aging rap star, Flavor Flav, a member of the 1980's and 90's group Public Enemy and Chuck D's comic sidekick -- a hip-hop Don Knotts.
''Flavor of Love'' is a sendup of rap glamour and is to dating shows what pro wrestling is to the martial arts. Even so, there is a hint of pathos peeking through the bling, trash talk and sexual pratfalls.
Compared with Flavor's ladies, the women who love bad men seem almost healthy.
It isn't just that the sight of 20 young women competing (and sometimes competing with their fists) for the attention of one spindly, semi-famous man signals a man shortage so severe that it makes sense to look for love in the visitors' room of San Quentin. These contestants are willing to do anything and say anything to be noticed on television, and that includes one woman who supposedly defecates on the floor of Flavor's mansion. (The act is not shown, but the host and his guests stand over the evidence and complain histrionically about the stench.)
Their motives are even murkier than the prison brides'. Reality shows no longer serve as career springboards for aspiring entertainers or promise civilians their chance at momentary fame, yet volunteers keep showing up; a few of the contestants are on the rebound from other shows like the dating series ''The 5th Wheel.''
The women on shows like ''Flavor of Love'' merit their own WE documentary, ''Women Who Serially Debase Themselves on Second-Tier Reality Shows.''
Reality television has granted B-list celebrities a second act, and there is a special niche for fading bad-boy musicians, from ''Being Bobby Brown'' to Gene Simmons, of Kiss, who on Monday had the premiere of his version of ''The Osbournes,'' called ''Gene Simmons Family Jewels'' on A&E.
The first season of ''Flavor of Love'' did quite well for VH1, which explains why that cable channel is taking a second chance on Flav. On his show the women are not identified by name. Instead, Flavor, mugging in his trademark gold teeth, campy Elton John eyewear and clock neckpiece, assigns them nicknames. The young woman who can wiggle her ample rear in double time is named ''Bootz''; the one who gets drunk immediately and stays toasted throughout most of the episode is ''Toastee.''
And all of them behave like dance extras in a rap music video, writhing seductively for and bad-mouthing the competition. When three women start boasting about their qualifications, one of them wins the argument by stating, ''For the record, I have no gag reflex.''
It's all supposed to be in good fun, except that too many of the contestants have the empty eyes and flat affect of abuse victims. ''Flavor of Love'' is a WE documentary tricked up for laughs that ring hollow.
Some viewers watch ''Secret Lives of Women,'' now in its second season, for kicks, but the intent is quite serious, even though the topics are high tabloid. The season premiere was about women who injure themselves, ''Cutters,'' and next week the series looks at women who marry cross-dressers. But the documentaries interview the women at length, without much analysis or interpretation by experts, and some seem quite rational.
Well, perhaps not Ms. Lioy, a freelance magazine editor and college graduate who fell in love with Mr. Ramirez during his trial and married him in a prison ceremony in 1996. ''I was captivated,'' she says.
There is also something unnerving about Tammi Saccoman, who married Erik Menendez, who along with his brother, Lyle, was convicted of killing his parents in 1996. Mr. Menendez is not entitled to conjugal visits, so their marriage has never been consummated, but Mrs. Menendez explains that their phone calls and conversations on visiting day have their own magic. She wrote about their relationship in an autobiography, ''They Said We'd Never Make it -- My Life With Erik Menendez.''
There are all kinds of theories of why some women are drawn to criminals, both the famous ones like Ted Bundy or Scott Peterson and unknown thieves and murderers. There is even a clinical term for women who are sexually drawn to violent men, hybristophilia. But women like Irene Molina, a 24-year-old college student who met her future husband on a prison pen pal site on the Internet, or Susan Musgrave, a Canadian poet who first saw her bank robber husband on a wanted poster, talk about how they fell in love with their husbands' tender sides -- with men who write long, romantic love letters and gaze at their women with an intense devotion that is perhaps not surprising for guys who are locked up and have only male inmates for company.
From their descriptions, prison marriage seems like the maximum-security version of a Harlequin romance: all poetry and distant yearning, and no snoring or dishes left in the sink.
These women's choices may seem silly or repellent, but the WE series gives its subjects an opportunity to speak for themselves, and that is not nearly as silly and repellent as ''Flavor of Love.''
Photos: A man who knows what time it is: the rapper Flavor Flav and the women who'd love to love him. (Photo by VH1); Irene Molina visiting her husband, Dwain Padron, at a prison window. (Photo by WE)(pg. E8)


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Our new meta-analysis of the entire relevant literature shows that e-cigarettes, as used, are associated with less not more quit
Here is the press release UCSF sent out about it:
E-Cigarettes, As Used, Aren't Helping Smokers Quit, Study Shows
New Analysis by UCSF Found "Vapers" Are 28 Percent Less Likely to Stop Smoking
Electronic cigarettes are widely promoted and used to help smokers quit traditional cigarettes, but a new analysis from UC San Francisco found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are actually 28 percent less likely to stop smoking cigarettes.
The study -- a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data -- is the largest to quantify whether e-cigarettes assist smokers in quitting cigarettes.
The findings will be published online January 14, 2016 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
"As currently being used, e-cigarettes are associated with significantly less quitting among smokers," concluded first author Sara Kalkhoran, MD who was a clinical fellow at the UCSF School of Medicine when the research was conducted. She is now at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
"E-cigarettes should not be recommended as effective smoking cessation aids until there is evidence that, as promoted and used, they assist smoking cessation," Kalkhoran wrote.
Electronic cigarettes, known by a variety of names including vapor pens, are battery-powered devices that heat nicotine and flavorings to deliver an aerosol inhaled by the user. While they are promoted as a way to quit traditional cigarettes, they also are promoted as a way to get nicotine in environments where traditional cigarettes are prohibited, even though more than 430 cities and several states ban their use in smoke free sites where conventional cigarettes are also prohibited.
In 2015, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend the devices to help adults quit smoking. No e-cigarette company has submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve e-cigarettes for smoking cession, and the FDA has not taken any action against companies that claim e-cigarettes are effective for quitting smoking.
In their analysis, the UCSF team reviewed 38 studies assessing the association between e-cigarette use and cigarette cessation among adult smokers. They then combined the results of the 20 studies that had control groups of smokers not using e-cigarettes in a meta-analysis that concluded that the odds of quitting smoking were 28 percent lower in smokers who used e-cigarettes compared to those who did not.
There were no language restrictions imposed on the studies, which included both real-world observational as well as clinical studies. The studies included smokers who both were and were not interested in quitting, and included people as young as 15 years old.
The studies included in the analysis controlled for many variables, including demographics, past attempts to quit, and level of nicotine dependence.
"The irony is that quitting smoking is one of the main reasons both adults and kids use e-cigarettes, but the overall effect is less, not more, quitting," said co-author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. "While there is no question that a puff on an e-cigarette is less dangerous than a puff on a conventional cigarette, the most dangerous thing about e-cigarettes is that they keep people smoking conventional cigarettes."
"The fact that they are freely available consumer products could be important," Glantz added.
E-cigarette regulation has the potential to influence marketing and reasons for use, the authors wrote:
"The inclusion of e-cigarettes in smoke-free laws and voluntary smoke-free policies could help decrease use of e-cigarettes as a cigarette substitute, and, perhaps, increase their effectiveness for smoking cessation. The way e-cigarettes are available on the market – for use by anyone and for any purpose – creates a disconnect between the provision of e-cigarettes for cessation as part of a monitored clinical trial and the availability of e-cigarettes for use by the general population."
Kalkhoran's research was supported by the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award T32HP19025. Glantz's work in the project was supported by grant 1P50CA180890 from the National Cancer Institute and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products.
The paper is available on Lancet's website here.
By the way, Clive Bates published a preemptive attack on this paper (before reading it) on his blog. People who carefully read our paper, particularly the sensitivity analysis (Table 2), will see that we anticipated and dealt with his predictable criticisms.
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2016-01-15 13:47.
Re: Specific responses to the "expert" criticism
I was struck by the curious unanimity of the "experts" at Science Media Center. 5 different "experts", all 5 are agreed, all 5 are deeply critical. Not one thinks otherwise. Not one.
The Science Media Center doesn't say how these 5 were chosen. Does not present this as "our experts say" or "experts who are critical say" or "there are experts who say". Does not even mention that there are experts in the world with other views. On the contrary, implies there are none: presents these 5 as the expert opinion, this is what experts say, period.
While this is of course misleading, it's also revealing: it goes to the credibility of the Science Media Center. A look at that:
Jon Krueger
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2016-01-15 00:39.
Clinical trials vs observational data
I note that the 2 clinical trials included in your analysis show increased quite rates with e-cigs.
Could you explain why you believe the observational data is more reliable than the clinical trial data?
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2016-01-15 07:27.
Why not NCBI publisher?
Why was this paper not published through the NCBI? Given the analysis was funded by the US governent, it would be the most logical place to submit it for publication.
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2016-03-24 04:50.
A Complaint Letter to the BBC Over Their "analyses" . . .
This was never responded to:
From: Bareham David (LCHS)Sent: 11 February 2016 16:00To: '[email protected]'Subject: Formal Complaint Regarding "More or Less" Radio 4 Broadcast Regarding Electronic Cigarettes: "On the mixing of apples with oranges".Importance: High
Please may I make a formal complaint regarding the poor quality research and lack of scientific critical appraisal of this "More or Less" Radio 4 Broadcast regarding Electronic Cigarettes:
The presenter, along with a "Reviewer", Wesley Stephenson, provided a "critique" of a recent research paper: "E-cigarettes and smoking cessation in real-world and clinical settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis". There are several issues with their "critique" that reveal poor quality research, and an absence of scientific curiosity and questioning regarding the views of the "experts" used to challenge the validity of the study in question.
1) In the Introductory Section, the Presenter notes the recent licensing of an "electronic cigarette" by the MHRA, suggesting/insinuating that this is evidence that contradicts the findings of Kalkhoran/Glantz paper. However, if the researchers involved had reviewed this issue, they would discover that even "vapers" themselves do not consider this to be an electronic cigarette: it does not heat a liquid; it does not emit "vaper"/aerosol, as per this link http://vaperanks.com/first-e-cigarette-to-be-awarded-medicine-license-in-the-uk-is-not-really-an-e-cigarette/ . This is confirmed in the email, as attached, from Action on Smoking and Health. This was initial evidence that the "researchers" undertaking this program have not produced a well-researched, scientific broadcast of quality, but one of misinformation and sound-biting.
- The subsequent section predominantly utilises multiple verbal quotes from "experts" critiquing the paper. These included opinions from: Professor Linda Bauld, who stated that it is "too early" to undertake a review such as this i.e. a meta-analysis, and that "if you put garbage in you will get garbage out"; Professor Ann McNeill, who argued that the paper is "not scientific"; Professor Peter Hajek (a co-author of the Cochrane Review on Electronic Cigarettes that is cited by Wesley Stephenson in the broadcast), who states that the Kalkhoran/Glantz paper is "grossly misleading"; and Professor Robert West.
Professor West's comments are particularly interesting to focus on initially. He stated that the paper being reviewed inappropriately combined the results of studies of users of electronic cigarettes who were trying to quit tobacco with other, different studies, where the users were not trying to quit. They are fundamentally "heterogeneous", although he does not use the term, and he states, simply, that paper under review is "mixing apples with oranges". In effect, this is the major "confounding variable" and "fundamental flaw" that he focuses on, and it makes the study results invalid.
This is NOT, however, what Professor West stated regarding the aforementioned Cochrane Review (as per the above link): which does exactly the same thing. Specifically, the two Randomised Controlled Trials that the Cochrane Review put through the mathematical analysis of meta-analysis were (and I quote from the Review directly):
"The ASCEND trial (Bullen 2013) randomized 657 smokers (middle- aged, highly dependent, with one-third being of New Zealand Maori origin) who wanted to quit . . .". (my emphasis) and
"the three-arm ECLAT trial (Caponnetto 2013a), 300 smokers (again middle-aged and highly dependent) who were not intending to quit smoking . . ." (my emphasis).
When these clearly heterogeneous studies were "mathematically mixed" by McRobbie et al in the Cochrane Review, Professor West publically, but incongruously, stated:
"This study tells us that even the older style electronic cigarettes improve smokers' chances of stopping by about 50 per cent." (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2877321/E-cigarettes-help-people-quit-smoking-Review-finds-no-adverse-effects-short-medium-term-use.html ).
There is no criticism regarding erroneous methodology, fundamental flaws and confounding variables. It is apparently "OK", according to Professor West, to "lump" heterogeneous data together: if you get a result you that agree with and approve of.
Moreover, there is no mention from Professor West, nor mention from the Presenter of the broadcast, nor Wesley Stephenson, that the Cochrane Review actually states, with regard to the quality of the evidence analysed in it, that:
" . . . the small number of trials, low event rates and wide confidence intervals around the estimates mean that our confidence in the result is rated 'low' by GRADE standards."
Why did Wesley Stephenson not include this key methodological issue in his "broadcast/critique", but simply just cite The Cochrane Review, without reviewing it for issues that, ironically, correspond to exactly those he and Professor West have with the Glantz/Kalkoran? Mr. Stephenson has applied a "Blind Faith" approach to, not only the quality of the Cochrane Review, but to the opinion of "expert" Professor West, who via his incongruous and contradictory viewpoints, puts a self-inflicted hole below the waterline in his "expert" status. Mr. Stephenson erroneously used the Cochrane Review and West's opinion to challenge the validity of the more recent meta-analysis.
Moreover, if Mr. Stephenson had properly researched this issue, he would have discovered that the "objections" regarding the paper were not just partly tackled in the body research, as he points out, but were specifically responded to, "expert by expert", in the time period immediately after publication: http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/our-new-meta-analysis-entire-relevant-literature-shows-e-cigarettes-used-are-associated-less-not-more-quit . This omission in reporting is concerning, and represents poor quality research, or, worse case, bias.
Alternatively, as the Cochrane Review successfully passed through Peer Review, maybe it is in fact appropriate to try to combine this type of heterogeneous data, but try to allow and control for it? Presumably, that is what the authors of both the Cochrane AND Glantz/Kalhkoran Reviews believe they did. Either way, Professor West's comments are clearly contradictory and sophistic in nature: and Mr. Stephenson falls for them, hook, line and sinker. It could bring the Editor at The Lancet some comfort in the recognition that the Cochrane Collaboration apparently also believe it is appropriate to positively Peer Review and publish papers, that attempt to "mix apples with oranges".
Furthermore, if Mr. Stephenson had undertaken more substantive research around the statements made by Professor West and others, he might well have spotted that the publication of the comments were made via the Science Media Centre : at exactly the same time that the paper was published in The Respiratory Lancet. The Science Media Centre has an "interesting" history, as is made explicitly clear here from "Powerbase". The objectivity of this Centre has been clearly called into question, including, ironically, "issues" that it has previously had with the BBC. A key criticism, however, gleaned from this review reads:
"The Science Media Centre (SMC) is... not as independent as it appears. It was set up to provide accurate, independent scientific information for the media but its views are largely in line with government scientific policy." Dr David Miller, Stirling Media Research Institute.
Subsequently, if the comments of the aforementioned "experts" are again reviewed, in the light of this discussion, important questions include:
- If it is "too early" to undertake such a study i.e. a meta-analysis, and utilise data of low quality as both Linda Bauld and even the Cochrane Review acknowledge, why are Linda Bauld et al so comfortable in citing The Cochrane Review/Meta-Analysis elsewhere? Could it again be that she, and significant co-authors, are simply satisfied with the conclusion, and therefore do not challenge the methodology in the same, robust and passionate fashion? Wesley Stephenson does not comment on this, because he has not fully researched the issue: his approach is one of blind faith.
- Professor McNeill, being a co-author with Professor Hajek of Public Health England's Review of Electronic Cigarettes, cites the aforementioned Cochrane Review with glee: however, predictably, with no mention of the "fundamental flaws" that Professor West highlights. If she believes in a scientific debate on electronic cigarettes, and a "dispassionate" approach, as she has voluntarily signed up to: why are she and others so comfortable in citing a blog article, written by a tobacco industry funded "scientist", entitled: "Stanton Glantz is such a liar that even the ACS balks: his latest ecig gateway "study" ? The Glantz/Kalkhoran paper has been published in the context of an on-going, antagonistic "dispute" regarding the evidence, and Wesley Stephenson does not make this clear in his Review, which he should have done, if he had properly researched it.
- Wesley Stephenson, who merely cites the Cochrane Review and does not critique it, in doing so fails to note that Professor Hajek incongruously claims that the Glantz/Kalkhoran paper is "grossly misleading", for using similar methodology that he did.
- Wesley Stephenson has clear issues with the Peer Review process for this paper. He claims that, apparently, one of the Peer Reviewers believed that the study should never have been published. It is imperative to note therefore, considering the co-authors already discussed, that the Public Health England Reviews of both 2014 and 2015 were published: with no Peer Review process e.g. no review by the U.K. Faculty of Public Health. This is revealed here, very recently, in a highly critical appraisal of the PHE Report, by two English Professors of Toxicology. This leaves the validity of their review in extreme jeopardy, as presumably Mr. Stephenson would agree?
One final comment. The write-up on the BBC Radio 4 Webpage regarding this programme is tainted by inappropriate, loaded language. It states:
"Do e-cigarettes make quitting smoking more difficult?
Research last month claimed to show that e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking. The paper got coverage world-wide but it also came in for unusually fierce criticism from academics who spend their lives trying to help people quit. It's been described as 'grossly misleading' and 'not scientific'. We look at what is wrong with the paper and ask if it should have been published in the first place." (my emphasis).
Arguably, this infers that the authors of the paper being reviewed are NOT involved in trying to help people quit tobacco, which is misleading and erroneous. Professor Glantz, for example, has a forty year history of successfully challenging the Tobacco Industry, including legally ground breaking work with the resultant +/- $250 Billion Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, plus input on multiple papers related to tobacco and cessation. The written language utilised is worryingly loaded against the authors. The true nature of why the criticism was so "unusually fierce" was never properly researched and reviewed by Mr Stephenson. This was, therefore, not at all a properly researched, balanced, scientific review of the Glantz/Kalhkoran paper.
I look forward to hearing the BBC's responses to these representations shortly.
Yours sincerely,
David Bareham
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Submitted by Joshua Syna on Thu, 2016-07-14 13:43.
In total agreement
Mr. Bareham, Dr. Glantz et al,
Although my experience is admittedly anecdotal, being in a private practice for the last 24 years focused primarliy on using hypnosis for smoking cessation http://www.houstonhypnosis.com I would have to say what I have found being in the "smoking cessation trenches" since 1993 is that Dr. Glantz's findings are completely spot on and that the e-cigs and the process of "kicking the can down the road" that way only confound a person's attempts to successfully stop smoking. David I also couldn't agree more that Dr. Glantz has been a huge contribution to the field.
It's sad that the response was so fierce but nonetheless the fact remains that the data, methods, and findings speak for themselves.
Joshua E. Syna M.A., L.C.D.C.
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JERUSALEM (TheBlaze/AP) — Hundreds of Christians marked Palm Sunday in the Holy Land, at the Vatican and around the world, the start of the Catholic Holy Week that concludes with Easter.
Crowds of faithful gathered at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection. Many waved palm fronds to symbolize how worshippers greeted Jesus over 2,000 years ago as he triumphantly returned to Jerusalem.
Mostly Palestinian worshippers gathered in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, traditional site of Jesus' birth, clutching olive branches and bouquets as they sung in praise. The Biblical city of Bethlehem is in the West Bank, a territory east of Israel that Palestinians seek for their future state. Israel retains military control there but Palestinians have a measure of self-rule over their own communities, including Bethlehem.
There are some 50,000 Palestinian Christians, a tiny minority among a mostly Muslim society. They must obtain military permission to enter Jerusalem to participate in religious ceremonies.
In a statement sent to reporters, Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said some 60 percent of Christian applicants in Bethlehem and the Palestinian West Bank town of Ramallah had their requests rejected. But military spokesman Guy Inbar said they had issued nearly 20,000 permits so far, and only rejected the applications of 190 Palestinians.
And Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, encouraging people to be humble and young at heart and promising to go to a youth jamboree in Brazil in July, while the faithful enthusiastically waved olive branches and braided palm fronds.
The square overflowed with a crowd estimated by the Vatican at 250,000 people. Pilgrims, tourists and Romans jostled each other in an eager effort glimpse Francis as they joined the new pope at the start of solemn Holy Week ceremonies, which lead up to Easter, Christianity's most important day.
Keeping with his spontaneous style, the first pope from Latin America broke away several times from the text of his prepared homily to encourage the faithful to lead simple lives and resist the temptation to be sad when life's obstacles inevitably come their way.
`'Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope!" Francis told the crowd, in an apparent reference to the economic difficulties people are grappling with as they try to find adequate work amid a poor job market in much of the world.
At the end of the two-hour Mass, Francis took off his red vestments, and wearing his plain white cassock and skull cap, climbed into an open-topped popemobile to circle through the excited crowd. He leaned out to shake hands, kissed and patted the heads of infants passed to him by bodyguards, and often gave children the thumbs-up sign.
His security detail seemed to be reluctantly dealing with this get-close-to-the-people pontiff, scrambling around the vehicle to pick up this child or that one. At one point, the chief bodyguard, Domenico Giani, was sent back to the mother of a child he had greeted to convey a message from the pontiff, and the ever-tense Giani broke into a smile after his mission was accomplished.
Francis even climbed down from the vehicle, kissed a woman in the crowd and chatted briefly with her, and another man in the crowd leaned over a barrier to squeeze the pontiff on a shoulder — an unheard of familiarity in the previous pontificate of the reserved Benedict XVI.
In keeping with his stress on giving examples of humility, Francis kissed the hand of an elderly woman who had outstretched an arm to him.
`'There is no doubt that there will be a new spring for the church, a renewal" with this pope, said Sister Emma, an Argentine nun in the crowd.
Palm Sunday recalls Jesus' entry into Jerusalem but its Gospel also recounts how he was betrayed by one of his apostles and ultimately sentenced to death on a cross. About.com has more:
On Palm Sunday Christians celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, the week before his death and resurrection. For many Christian churches, Palm Sunday, often referred to as "Passion Sunday," marks the beginning of Holy Week, which concludes on Easter Sunday.
The Bible reveals that when Jesus entered Jerusalem, the crowds greeted him by waving palm branches and covering his path with palm branches. Immediately following this great time of celebration in the ministry of Jesus, he begins his journey to the cross.
The biblical account of Palm Sunday can be found in Matthew 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-44; and John 12:12-19.
This year, Francis presided over the Mass at an altar sheltered by a white canopy on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica.
Recalling the triumphant welcome into Jerusalem, Francis said Jesus `'awakened so many hopes in the heart, above all among humble, simple, poor, forgotten people, those who don't matter in the eyes of the world."
Cardinals, many of them among the electors who chose him to be the Roman Catholic church's first Latin American pope, sat on chairs during the ceremony held under hazy skies on a breezy day. He quoted from Benedict when he told the cardinals that while they are `'princes" of the church, their leader is the crucified Christ, a further admonition against attachment to temporal power.
The pope ticked off a litany of evils afflicting the world, including wars, `'economic conflicts that hit the weakest" as well as corruption. In the final stretch of Benedict's papacy, the Vatican was embarrassed by a leak of documents from the papal apartment, indicating corruption, ambition and rivalries among upper ranks of the Holy See's management.
Francis told an off-the-cuff story from his childhood in Argentina. `'My grandmother used to tell us children, `burial shrouds don't have' pockets," the pope said, in a variation of `'you can't take it with you."
Since his election on March 13, Francis has put the downtrodden and poor at the center of his mission as pope, keeping with the priorities of his Jesuit tradition.
In his homily, Francis said Christian joy `'isn't born from possessing a lot of things but from having met" Jesus. That same joy should keep people young, he said.
"Even at 70, 80, the heart doesn't age" if one is inspired by Christian joy, said the 76-year-old pontiff.
The pontiff said he was joyfully looking forward to welcoming young people to Rio de Janiero for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day. So far, that is the first foreign trip on the calendar of Francis' new papacy. `'I'm coming in July," Francis said in remarks after Mass from the esplanade of the basilica.
During Mass, at the point when the Gospel recounts the moment of Jesus' death, many faithful knelt on hard cobblestones paving the square, and Francis knelt on a wooden kneeler.
A few young olive trees were inserted in dirt placed around the central obelisk in the square.
Holy Week will see at least one break from tradition with this new papacy. Instead of washing priests' feet in a basilica in a symbolic gesture of humility on Holy Thursday, Francis will wash the feet of young inmates at a juvenile detention center in Rome. Other appointments in public will include the Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday night. Next Sunday, Francis will celebrate Easter Mass in the square.


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When I got it out of the box it had Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on it with some dell modifications. This was probably the last release with decently working Poulsbo support before the 'intel video depression' began. It was nice. had a neat home interface setup with quick access to the favorite programs. But everything felt quite out of date. On top of that I really wanted to have Mint on there for the woman cuz she likes it better then Ubuntu :O) So I'm gonna get right to it.
There was a number of steps I had to take to get everything running including the fresh install of Mint 7. First of all I skipped the external usb drive when I ordered the Mini so I had to make a Live USB drive. That was actually pretty easy in linux. All I had to do was get Unetbootin. Easy way to do it in Linux is open a terminal and copy and paste the following code(might have to right click and select 'paste')
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Once you have saved that file to your hard drive you have to enable execute permissions using:
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Assuming you already have the Linux Mint 7 iso image downloaded on your computer, and you have already mounted your usb drive, you can start unetbootin by typing the following:
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That should ask for you password and open a dialog. You can see you have a few options for how you want to setup your usb drive. The One I'm using is the second one 'Diskimage' click the button to the right of the text entry box you can browse for your Mint 7 image and click 'open'. Make sure your usb drive's mount dir shows in the 'drive:' box then click ok. within a few minutes you should have a flash drive ready to go. plug that into your Mini, and reboot.
When the computer first boots up you'll have to hit 12, or whatever button gets you to the "boot menu" and select "removable media". After the grub menu you should see a normal boot of Mint 7.
Heres where I won't hold your hand. Installation of Mint 7 is up to you. But I do recommend letting Mint use the whole disk, and automatically partition. If you know what you are doing you should create a swap partition(1.5gb seems sufficient) this I gather helps avoid a problem or two when using hibernate function. Also helps to have /home on a separate partition but its up to you. being tight on resources with this laptop you might prefer to put it all on one partition. Either way. We'll move on when you have a fresh install of Mint 7 all loaded up.
The first thing I like to do after the first boot is open MintUpdate and install all available updates. This Helps us make sure all the latest packages are installed as many new fixes have come available recently.
The webcam, wireless, bluetooth, sound(after turning up all the mixers), all worked fine out of the box. but the screen resolution wasn't quite right. In the webcam video I looked alot wider then usual making me feel fat, and the video seemed alittle sluggish. So I set out to find the problem. Found it. I guess Poulsbo is to blame here. This seems to be the case in Aspire ones, and netbooks too. So there was some extra work to do.
The drivers I needed were definitly not available in the repos we have in Mint so I had to add to the list. So open the sources list using:
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Then we'll add these repositories at the end of the file.
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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mobile/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Now the job of importing the keys. Actually this is Simplified by a bit of code that can be reused for other keys as well (thanks to jack w ). Just copy and paste the following into the terminal:
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for i in `sudo aptitude update 2>&1 | grep NO_PUBKEY | awk '{print $NF;}'`; do sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $i; done
With the keys imported you should see no errors when you run:
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sudo apt-get update
With that out of the way, now all we have to do is install a couple packages for the poulsbo support in xorg, and the psb kernel modules. Accomplish this using:
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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-psb psb-kernel-source
Now without messing around just do reboot right from the terminal:
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sudo shutdown -r now
If an update to a later version crashes the graphics driver, just keep booting to the desktop (select the Run one time session with low graphics option) then run the following commands in the terminal:
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sudo apt-get remove psb-kernel-source
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sudo apt-get install psb-kernel-source
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sudo shutdown -r now
As I understand its not a good idea to use --reinstall option as it may crash your session. so stick to the 'remove' and 'install' method above.
After all that. When you load up the system Everything should work great. Resolution set right. Everything lookin normal. Aside from the 3D effects not enabling the system should be as useable as any other normal linux system. Honestly the Mini's are not built for playing the big games or doing big 3D work. They are mainly good portable internet systems.
If you have done all this and video looks better but still seems sluggish...theres more fixes you can try. Although you should only attempt them if you are comfortable editing system configuration files like xorg.conf, etc. You can find these fixes on the AspireOne - Community Ubuntu Documentation page at
The one that I tried, and seen small improvement from was the fix in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Before you try it make a backup of the file just in case:
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sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
Then open the conf file using:
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sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then find the "Device" section. and add the options so that it looks like this:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "IgnoreACPI"
Option "AccelMethod" "exa"
Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
Option "NoDDC"
Then Log off, and login again. Or reboot if you prefer. See if theres much improvement there. Try the other fixes at your own risk. Hopefully after going through all this you find yourself a useful linux system. Add your personal touches, themes, backgrounds. Make it a mini to remember.
I like to add 'cheese', 'gnome-games', and 'kdegames' packages to complete the feel of things. If yer still not happy....you bought the wrong laptop...get a different one, and remember that lesson if someone you know is thinking about getting one. Honestly the Mini 12 does what we need it to. And is still happily serving us every day. The bluetooth mouse is fun, turn it on and mess with the cursor while someones using the laptop lol. We have the other laptops if we want to game or do video editing n such. So no big deal...Anyways you made it this far. Congratulations. I'm gonna conclude this how-to before I start rambling on. Enjoy your Minty Mini :O)


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Classically trained but raised on classic rock, Sister Dorothy teaches music to children and adults. She has been a performer since childhood but her career took off in the early 1990s. Since starting her own company she has released 7 CDs and over 30 videos. Through Artists in the Schools, Sister Dorothy has taught guitar, recorder and song writing in Domain, Crane River, Poplar River, Cross Lake and across the province. Sister Dorothy embraces the idea of teaching language through music, and has been working with First Nations teachers and language specialists to write songs in Ojibwe. She has produced 2 cd's and videos in Ojibwe and continues to draw upon her musical and production experience to broaden the scope of this work. Sister Dorothy is always in demand and performs at festivals, art galleries, nightclubs and schools from Winnipeg to Jamaica.
The objective of this program is to promote an appreciation of music by sharing the tools and building blocks used to write songs. Designed in part for remote and rural schools who do not have a music program, this residency can be tailored to include guitar, keyboard, flute, recorder, fiddle or songwriting. Any instruments the students or schools have can be used. Sister Dorothy's high-energy pop songs and the students' own cd's will serve as examples, as students learn to identify, notate and produce rhythms, and participate in percussion ensembles. Other topics will include dynamics, style, mood, instrumentation and what makes a good song. Students will be encouraged to write their own songs and apply their new knowledge to other artistic disciplines. Students can show what they have learned at a final concert. Each class may include a short video screening.


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text: Suspended animation makes various appearances in Star Trek. It's a great concept that would solve certain problems in sub-light travel (TOS "Space Seed") or give an individual a one-way trip to the future (TNG "The Neutral Zone", VOY "The 37's"). "Space Seed" portrayed a hibernation process that drastically slowed all bodily functions, while the two later cases were about cryonic freezing that stops everything. The opening scene of Genesis II (1973) is among the coolest things Roddenberry ever did. The hero's body is in a hibernation chamber that got buried in an earthquake and lost for centuries. Then he is found and revived. That really stirs the imagination. In real life, the remains of some dead people are frozen, but as you might surmise from the way I framed this sentence, I don't think they're ever coming back. They don't get frozen soon enough after dying, and there are other obstacles too, as described in the Wikipedia entry for Cryonics. It looks pretty bad. Reversible hibernation, on the other hand, has been limited to cases of very short duration but it seems like the more plausible route. I personally wouldn't volunteer for an experiment, but I can envision progress coming. I think waking up in a future era is a good sci-fi concept, but the reality is too full of unknowns to try it out.


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We're seriously rethinking our hobbies. James "The Bear" McDonald is seen here plowing his way through the entirety of Denny's special "Hobbit" menu, because he's a competitive eater and that's what he does. We, on the other hand, have a drawer full of half-finished socks.
In case you were wondering what happens when you leave the kids alone with Dad, here's a video to answer all your questions. It's a time lapse video of a dad and his kid playing while mom is at work...
This guy's Dad Level = Outer space. With some donated old electronics and a master control board found in a TV station's dumpster, he built his son a spaceship. Then Redditor JeremiahGordon shared his results with the world. We must admit, we're pretty impressed. Take a look!
Send back the presents -- we really don't need them. We only need this video of a baby panda playing with a ball. Sincerely, watch it and tell us if you don't agree...
Professional wrestlers may seem like tough guys, but underneath their shiny spandex outfits and long, flowing hair (clearly a sign of ultimate masculinity), they have hearts of gold. Daniel Bryan, for example, recently met with a seven-year-old boy who has had brain cancer for almost four years, and says he's Bryan's biggest fan. It's okay if you need to go grab some Kleenex before you look at the pictures.
Well, we really hope the Mayans were wrong. We aren't quite ready for the world to end -- we need to know how 'Breaking Bad' ends. Here are some memes to cheer you up and bolster your confidence that we just might see the sun come up on Saturday after all. Enjoy!
Fine. Time magazine was right -- Barack Obama is the Person of the Year. We can't argue with this photo, which was taken back in October.
We're hard pressed to think of a better way to showcase the two main genres of reality television than this side-by-side comparison of the Thompson (of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' fame) and the Kardashian families' Christmas cards.
Here's your daily dose of cute -- Santa pretending to sleep for a picture with a sleeping baby.
It was really only a matter of time before the force of "nature" that is 'Gangnam Style' took a life. That time has come. A 46-year-old man's heart wasn't quite up to the task of horse shuffle dancing that the song requires, and he had a heart attack at his office's holiday party in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
It's nearly Christmas, which means we should probably watch 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' pretty soon. Thanks to this video, we'll be prepared to dance along.
They are seriously making an 'Angry Birds' movie. What will it be about? Who would be in it (aside from obviously Nicki Minaj)? Will it just be Nicki Minaj doing everyone's voices? It raises a lot questions, but none are more depressing than 'if 'Angry Birds,' then _____?' They're turning a phone app into a movie. We predict this is the beginning of a terrible trend. If we're right, here are five more apps you can expect to see on the big screen.
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text: Sorry if this is the wrong (sub) forum, or if this question has been asked before. Basically my problem is that suddenly, when I try to view video streams via www.orb.com using my droid web browser, the video starts playing and the audio is fine but the display is totally corrupted/distorted. Almost like how a monitor looks when the refresh rate is completely wrong. Sometimes it just shows a green rectangle. This was working fine from my droid last week, and it still works totally fine from my coworker's droid. So there is definitely something going on with my phone and not because of orb. Where can I look to clear this problem up? I have even tried hard resetting the phone and it still happens! I'm an android noob so I don't know if it synced some kind of setting to my gmail account and then after hard reset it retrieved the settings again. Because the phone did have some of my old settings (like silent mode etc) after the hard reset + reconnecting to gmail. One more thing, I can view youtube videos from my droid with no problem. Tho it appears the video player is slightly different from the one that gets launched to play the orb.com video stream. What are these different players, do they have their own settings somewhere? Thanks


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Finding the Right School
- Is It Right For You?
- Plan Your Search
- Prerequisites
- How to Evaluate Programs
- Your Pre Health Advisor
How To Evaluate Dental Programs
Once you've made the decision to pursue graduate studies, your next step is choosing the right school. This decision will have a major effect on your daily life for the next several years and can influence your academic and career paths. Choosing the right school for you involves many aspects. Among the many factors to consider, concentrate on the following:
What schools in your field have the best reputations? Will a prestigious school really be the best one for you?
Which schools offer the specific programs in which you're interested? What are the prerequisites?
What's expected of the students in those programs? There are often big differences between programs. Will you be able to keep up?
Location and Size
Are you interested in moving to a new locale? If so, do you prefer a school in a large city or in a rural area—or somewhere in between? Which will serve your needs?
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May 31, 2001
Calvin To Host TMC
The Pathways to Possibilities program at Calvin College will bring the Toronto Mass Choir to Grand Rapids on July 7, 2001 for a rousing concert in the Fine Arts Center.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are available at the Calvin Box Office or by calling 957-6282.
The concert will be part of the STEP Conference at Calvin College, a conference that brings some 150 young people between grades 8 and 11 to campus for a weekend of college immersion, workshops, college prep advice, a keynote speaker (top-ranked U.S. heptathlete Dee Dee Nathan) and more!
Those young people, and the rest of the audience, will see in The Toronto Mass Choir a group that was formed 13 years ago and has been a hit ever since. TMC has recorded several albums and was nominated for a Canadian Juno Award (the equivalent of the American Grammys).
Now 30 members strong, including a five-piece band, the choir consists of people from various local church denominations including Baptist, Church of God, Wesleyan, Missionary, and Pentecostal, with an average age range of 25-30 years.
The choir's songs contain a lyrical theme of praise, hope and encouragement . . . simple yet profound. The vocal delivery is dynamic. The message is clear. The music is compelling. The influences of Jazz, gospel, reggae and Caribbean folk genres are evident.
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What happens when we gather in prayer, song and community to worship? What happens when we intentionally include many traditions, celebrating difference as the strength of our community? We don't totally know but we do know that we will draw closer to God in the process.
Next year, the Ecumenical Ministry Team of the CFJ will launch a weekly ecumenical Protestant Worship service. Join us at the end of this semester to see what that will be like (and get a sense of this project here.)
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Imagine you had a magic portal that would take you back to the middle 80's. You walk through the light and find yourself standing in a record store. Taking a look around, your eyes catch a glimpse at something right in front of you; a selftitled vinyl lp with some obscure band called Evil Army. Despite its' somewhat ugly cover you get a strange feeling looking at it, so without further notice you pick it up and head over to the desk clerk, asking him to play it for you. He puts the vinyl on the player and hands you a pair of headphones. You put them on and anxiously await the first track, not really sure what to expect. And so it begins...
An intro consisting of a march-like drumbeat accompanied by some simple yet catchy guitarplay fills the void. It goes on for almost fourtyfive seconds until the titletrack starts with a bang. Suddenly all hell breaks loose and a completely relentless thrash attack kicks in.
Considering the nature of Evil Army, this could've been a possible scenario, save the part with the time portal. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, when it comes to the term 'oldschool', this band takes the cake. The sound is raw and uncompromising. Next to this, classics like "Kill'em All" or "Bonded by Blood" feel quite well polished and smooth in production. The song structure is also kept simple, short and to the point.
The guitarplay might not take home any awards in the technicality department. However, something it has no shortage of is catchiness. I think it's safe to say that if you don't appreciate the riffs on this record, you shouldn't listen to thrash metal at all. And if you think it ends there, just wait until the leads come into play. I don't recall hearing anything this catchy and energetic since.. well.. ever before. The bass is for most of the time hardly audible at all but I guess that doesn't come as a surprise. It's there though, working mainly as a backbone for the guitars. I'm okay with that.
The drummer makes a good job of what he has to work with. Like I said, the overall structure of this disc is kept simple. This doesn't prevent him from throwing some tasty fills and pattern changes that, while not interfering with the straightforwardness of the guitars, still makes this disc a more varied experience.
What about the vocals then? Well, the vocalist has a very harsh style of singing. His raspy voice is capable of spitting out lyrics in fast and aggressive manner, something that fits the rest of the music like a glove. Of course I've heard way better thrash vocalists, but still, he just seems like the right man for this particular job.
Another thing that goes for the music in general is the speed of which it's played. You won't be hearing a song on here that goes below 'fast' tempowise and quite often the songs are just blistering. Some people might find this intense, but then again, aren't one of the cornerstones of thrash metal the speed? It is for me at least.
There's not much more to say about this offering. If you like your thrash fast and catchy with a punk attitude, hunt down a copy of this disc. You won't be dissapointed. Simply put; this is one damn fine piece of thrash metal!
Highlights: Edge of Destruction/Evil Army, Realm of Death, Sergeant Says Kill, Watch Me Fall


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GPH: MATLAB module to calculate Geweke-Porter-Hudak long memory statistic
GPH (SERIES, INCL, EXCL) returns (1) GPH frequency domain estimator D of (differenced) time series in vector SERIES, (2) the number of observations NOBS used in the frequency domain regression, (3) asymptotic t-ratio TASY and associated level of significance SIGASY (when the known theoretical variance of the residuals (piÊ/6) is imposed on the calculation), and (4) OLS t-ratio TOLS and corresponding significance level SIGOLS (when the standard errors are estimated from standard OLS regression output).
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"The compelling forcing mechanism is that this government is not going to survive its own people if it doesn't take control of the situation in Baghdad," Rice said, adding, "And this unfolds over a period of time, and so there's a quid pro quo here. We are prepared to do the augmentation and surge if they're prepared to live up to their obligations."
Rice said she opposed giving Maliki a hard deadline at this moment, but she emphasized that American patience is limited. "I think in the next few months you are going to know whether or not this is working," she said. "They bring forces in starting February 1st. They bring in another set of forces February 15th. And I think from then on you'll have a good sense of how this is unfolding. So it's not as if there is a date, at six months, we'll know and then we have to do something dramatic. This is going to happen over a period of time. So you've got time to adjust. You've got time to go to them and say, you're not getting it done."
On the eve of a week-long swing through the Middle East and Europe, Rice said that she sees an opening for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that has not existed for years, noting that recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signaled that "they're circling each other. And the question is, is this therefore a time to accelerate work on the roadmap, accelerate it in a way that doesn't just focus on today's issues movement and security, movement and accessas important as those are, but starts to understand what the political horizon might be for this Palestinian state?"
Although many experts believe the odds are overwhelmingly against Rice's efforts to broker a peace agreement and establish an independent Paelstine, given the weakened political positions of both Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud, Abbas, Rice insisted that she was "actually in a better strategic position certainly than... in '01, but maybe ... ever."
Rice said that her journey was meant to listen to regional leaders and get to the question at the heart of the matter: "Can you really start to move in a way that gives you a chance to establish a Palestinian state?" Rice says she hopes to capitalize on the political unpheaval in the Palestinian territories and signs that Hamas' popularity is fading. "In some ways, the pressure on Hamas seems to be coming from inside the territories where the inability to govern because of the international embargo, which by the way when we started down this road people said oh, this will never work, you won't isolate Hamas. Well, in fact, we have isolated Hamas. The international community has isolated Hamas. And now I think the pressure because they can't govern is leading them to seek other possibilities."
During a 30-minute interview, Rice added that:
She would not rule out the possibility that U.S. troops might cross the Iraq border into Iran in pursuit of Iranians suspected of moving weapons to Iraqi militias. But she said she trusts the expertise of Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who believes that the Iranian arms networks can be broken up with intelligence and interdiction inside Iraq.
She recently questioned Chinese officials about their plan to invest $16 million to develop a natural gas field in Iran. "We've made clear the downsides of investing in Iran," she said. While the secretary hasn't asked China point blank to abandon the plan, she has let Chinese officials know that investing in Iran while it is under U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to stop its suspect nuclear activities is "a financial risk and a reputational risk."
North Korea may soon return to multilateral negotiations aimed at dismantling its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic aid. Despite an inconclusive round of talks in December, with China "putting pressure on the North Koreans do to more," Rice said, "it's certainly the best alignment of forces for a possible solution that I've seen in a while."


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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - It was only the second time in the eight Commonwealth Games covered I've uttered the words.
"Which bus to lawn bowling?"
The previous time was in Auckland in 1990.
For the first time, Canada was in a final at bowls.
It was doubles. And George Boxwell and Alf Wallace lost.
But, this time, it was singles.
Allan Bester, a 29-year-old from Hanover, Ont., was in the gold medal game.
The ultimate stage in a multi-sport Games in lawn bowling. There's no lawn bowling at the Olympics.
Canada had never won a Commonwealth Games lawn bowling gold before.
'Canada Wins Bowls Gold' is a headline that has never been written in 20 editions of Commonwealth Games coverage.
"Which bus to lawn bowling?"
Located in Kelvingrove, easily the most picturesque part of Glasgow, the bowls venue itself is easy on the eyes and a nice place to spend an evening.


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