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The whole thread for me has been about offense.
Defense, that's for another 8 page thread.
The whole thread for me has been about offense.
Defense, that's for another 8 page thread.
Raptors win 38 games next year. Actually the raptors 2009 version is way more talented then the 2010 raptors version. This years raps team has talent that compliments each other as last years team was unbalanced. Should this team over achieve we could see a 8 seed.
Oh no, we were making progress here for a second Franthetank. We're officially off the rails again. hahaha
Attention deficit disorder in the house lol
As for whether they will be a better defensive team, I have no idea. Bosh is a pretty good defender so the fact that Bosh is not on the team won't have a positive affect on the defense. If Bargnani is still on the team, they certainly won't be a good defensive team, but they certainly seem to be trying to shore up the defense, so it's a good bet it will be better. They got rid of Turkoglu and attempted to trade Calderon, and drafted two bigs who have the potential to be excellent defenders.
As Apollo said, though, this whole thread is about offense, not defense. Defensively, Bargnani is poor. If you're going to try and argue in Bargnani's favour, it's best not to bring up defense.
"The deal, which is scheduled to be finalized on Tuesday, will pay Barnes nearly $10 million over the next two seasons, according to sources close to the process."
Damn, 5 million per season .WOW, Is he worth that kind of money ? He was making 1.8 last year !
If you don't mind me asking, did you used to work for Enron?
I think he's continuing you thought path. Maybe Theo Ratliff is the key?
I'd rather not give up Belinelli, too, but to get the deal that you believe would make the Raptors winners, I think I'd do it.
How come these threads always degenerate into Bosh vs. Bargs? The initial premise was that DeRozen may be a guy that can help take the pressure of Bargs by scoring or something to that effect. I don't think I've read one comment on that subject in the last 3-4 pages.
DeRozen> Bosh and Bargs
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
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Stuffed Endives make for delicious canapés at any get-together. This how-to will cover shrimp, goat cheese, and beef carpaccio endives.
- This recipe serves ~6 people.
- 2 endives
- black pepper
- Salt
For Shrimp Canapés
- 4 cooked shrimp (or prawns)
- 1 ½ tbsp lime juice
- 1 tbsp honey
- 4 orange segments
- coriander leaves
For Goat Cheese Canapés
- 2⁄3 oz goat cheese
- 4 toasted walnuts
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
For Beef Carpaccio Canapés
- 4 thin slices beef carpaccio
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp capers
- 1 tbsp shaved Parmesan
1Separate the endive leaves. Cut the bottom off of the endive and peel away each leaf separately. After removing a few, you will find that they don't come off easily, so keep chopping the end to make them come off alone.
2Repeat the same thing with the other endive. Select the nicest and largest leaves ready to make the canapés.
Shrimp Canapés
1Place the shrimp in a bowl and add the honey and some lime juice.
2Season with a good sprinkling of salt and pepper, then use the spoon to mix the ingredients together.
3Now take four of the endive leaves and put a segment of orange in each.
4Place a shrimp on top of each one and finally garnish each with a coriander leaf.
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Blane Klemek column: Minnesota wolf population thrives
I once followed a set of wolf tracks on a sandbar along the Good News River in southwestern Alaska. I wondered if the wolf was on the hunt or if it was a lone male searching for a territory or a mate, or was simply trying to avoid detection by the resident pack. Its great stride suggested all of the above.
At one point I knelt down to take a closer look at the animal's paw print in the sand. It was enormous, to say the least. My hand fit neatly inside the pad of the track. "Here," I thought, "is where the wolf has lived for thousands of years."
The wolf lives in Minnesota, too. In fact, wolves once roamed all over the world. In North America, the wolf is only plentiful in Canada and Alaska, but a healthy and thriving population lives and hunts in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Wolves can also be found in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park.
As many of you know by now, federal protection as a result of the 1973 Endangered Species Act was removed once again from wolves in Minnesota. From an estimated population of about 750 wolves inhabiting northern Minnesota during the 1950s to about 3,000 wolves today, Minnesota's wolf population has certainly recovered. No other place south of the Canadian border has more wolves than Minnesota.
The eastern gray wolf, or timber wolf as the animal is also called, is a striking animal that ranges in color from all black to all white, yet with most exhibiting grayish coloration. A male gray wolf can reach a weight of 120 pounds. Long-legged, males can stand nearly three feet tall at the shoulder and attain lengths close to seven feet from the tip of their nose to the tip of their tail.
Highly intelligent pack animals, wolves are well known for living out their lives together in groups of anywhere from a few individuals to as many as 30. Each pack establishes well-marked territories that are obvious to adjacent wolf packs. The markings, which are not evident to most people, include visual signs like scat, as well as scent markings that involve urinating on noticeable objects such as trees, stumps and rocks.
The size of a pack's territory is highly variable. In fact, territories for individual wolf packs in Alaska and Canada can be as large as 300 to 1,000 square miles. Most packs in northern Minnesota, where some 3,000 wolves are thought to exist, usually have much smaller territories of no more than 150 square miles in size.
Not long ago, in January and February, sometimes as late as March, mating took place among dominant male and female wolves of each of the respective packs throughout Minnesota. Pups, born about two months later and typically inside burrows dug by the mated pairs, usually number around four to six per litter.
The pups, like all members of the canid family, including domestic dogs, are born helpless, with their eyes and ears closed. The youngsters remain inside the den for up to eight weeks, nursing first, and then gradually feeding on prey brought to them -- either in regurgitated form or whole.
Wolf pups behave like all pups, again, domestic dogs included. As their rapidly growing bodies develop, the energetic pups frolic and roughhouse with one another continuously. And, as is often related by wildlife research biologists, the sole reason for all this play has more to do with "preparing" them for real-life dramas that will inevitably prevail once they reach adulthood. Those dramas, of course, are when the innocence of youth is replaced by the struggle of everyday survival and finding food.
At around six months of age, wolf pups begin to join their pack on the necessary hunts that take place when the need to eat arises. These hunts commonly begin with much anticipation, excitement and howling. Howling, so important in wolf society, serves to "rally the troops" and to warn other nearby packs to stay clear of their territory. Even smaller pups, too young to assist with the actual hunt, join in with the howling.
Prey, which can be rabbits and hares, beaver and even mice and voles, are most often larger animals such as moose, deer, elk and bison. In Minnesota, the number one prey species for gray wolves is the white-tailed deer.
Once the pack is on the hunt, the wolves try to remain downwind of their prey, especially when hunting the wary white-tailed deer. Deer possess as keen of a sense of smell as wolves, if not keener. But the wolf's advantage is an unmatched cunning and stamina. Where a deer can outrun a wolf, no deer can outdistance one. Wolves are known to lope for hours and miles at a time, seemingly never tiring, as they follow in pursuit of their prey.
I believe we should consider ourselves lucky to be living in a place where a thriving population of wolves still roam, howl and hunt deer in the deep woods. Their presence not only serves as proof that suitable and spacious wild places teeming with abundant game continue to persist, but also provides us an opportunity to observe their natural role in a healthy and functioning ecosystem as we get out and enjoy the great outdoors.
BLANE KLEMEK is a Minnesota DNR wildlife manager. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Want to add colour and interest to your every day winter play? Playing with coloured ice cubes in the snow provides lots of pretend play opportunity for toddlers and preschoolers. Just freeze a few trays of coloured ice cubes, and the next day your kids can enjoy a morning of colourful outdoor ice play in your backyard.
Then the temps turned really mild, and the only precipitation that we got for a couple of weeks came in the form of rain, so it was a while before we got to use our colourful cubes. We finally got a decent amount of snow a few days ago, and we made the most of it because it wasn't expected to last for long.
We spent one morning tobogganing on our neighbour's hill,
and the next morning (we'd received another couple of inches overnight), I set some of the coloured ice cubes outside with some spoons and containers, and sent the Hooligans out to investigate.
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. It's just a little strange to have to find all this out on your own.
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Its ironic that when you need to do something totally on your own in a game, its strange!!!
What the heck do they want anyway? Something similar to Oblivion perhaps? That game really doesn't allow to use one's brains at all. I'm not saying that g3 is rocket sience or anything but atleast there are no annoying popup messages popping up all the time and telling you what to do…
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By: Kate Krassowski, Regular Contributor
"It's your life, don't let anyone make you feel guilty for living it your way. (Including you.)" –Shay Ma Sawyer
This week I went to Target to buy contact solution and ended up spending over $100 on things to decorate my bedroom. That seems to be the norm when going to Target, but what really bothered me, was that I spent the whole ride home justifying my purchases. "Okay so you spent $100, but you didn't buy that coffee table you wanted so it's okay, you actually saved money." Or "you worked those extra hours so you really didn't spend that much." My excitement to decorate my room was crushed during the 15-minute ride home because of my need to have a reason for my purchases.
A friend used to tell me that if it wouldn't matter that I bought something in three years, I should get it because I would enjoy it now. She couldn't be more right! I got an alert on my Time Hop app that three years ago my status was, "trying to justify a really big Vera Bradley purchase." Well guess what, I don't even know what I bought from Vera, but I'm sure I was happy at the time, and it didn't cause me to go bankrupt.
I feel like this is a common issue among women. We feel the need to have a reason for every thing. It might not even be a purchase. It could be simply not wanting to go out on a Friday night and just spending it relaxing. Or it could be choosing not to go on a date with a certain person. For some reason "because I wanted to (or didn't want to)" isn't a good enough answer. Men do a lot of things simply because they want to. Why did you jump off the roof into the pool? Why did you spend a thousand dollars on a suspension to lower your car? "Because I wanted to" is the common answer and the topic is dropped after that. For them, they satisfy their own needs and wants without guilt. However a lot of the time we tend to feel guilty for it.
I say we stop feeling guilty for doing something that makes us happy or for buying something we want. I work hard for my money and can spend it how I choose, and I shouldn't feel bad for saying that. I don't have an answer as to why we feel the need to have a reason for what we want to do, but I do know that I'm tired of it. This is a good example of a time in our life where it's okay to be a little selfish. And it's okay to say what we want. Be strong and don't feel guilty. Don't feel the need to justify your reasoning to yourself or to anyone else. Set yourself free from reason, and the strength you find in that freedom will be priceless.
Let's Chat!
How do you relate to this topic? Do you find yourself justifying or explaining your choices?
- Try silencing that inner critic when it comes to justifying a choice. If you really know, deep, deep down that it's not a healthy choice, acknowledge it, forgive yourself, and promise to choose better. But it not, stop yourself from explaining your motives and instead replace it with "It's o.k. that I _______." and leave it at that!
About Kate
She moved to Los Angeles from Cleveland, OH after graduating with a B.A in Film Production from BGSU. She is passionate about speaking out against how women are viewed in the media and being part of changing it.
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versão impressa ISSN 1806-3713versão On-line ISSN 1806-3756
J. bras. pneumol. v.33 n.3 São Paulo maio/jun. 2007
Smoking cessation program as a tool for the early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease*
Ilda de GodoyI; Suzana Erico TanniII; Liana Sousa CoelhoII; Rosana dos Santos e Silva MartinIII; Luciana Cristina ParentiIV; Luiz Mauro AndradeV; Irma GodoyVI
Assistant Professor in the Community Preventive Nursing Division of the Nursing
Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista
State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
IIPulmonologist in the Clinical Medicine Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
IIINurse in the Community Preventive Nursing Division of the Nursing Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
IVNurse in the Smoking Cessation Program of the Pulmonology Division of the Clinical Medicine Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
VSocial Worker in the Smoking Cessation Program of the Pulmonology Division of the Clinical Medicine Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
VITenured professor in the Pulmonology Division of the Clinical Medicine Department of the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine, Botucatu (SP) Brazil
OBJECTIVE: The
impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is underestimated as
a result of underdiagnosis and undertreatment. The objective of this study was
to determine whether using spirometry to evaluate smokers enrolled in smoking
cessation programs facilitates early diagnosis of COPD.
METHODS: The medical records of 158 smokers enrolled in the smoking cessation program at the Botucatu School of Medicine (Botucatu, Brazil) between January of 2003 and November of 2005 were evaluated retrospectively. All were over 40 years old (mean age: 55 ± 8.5 years), and 99 (62.6%) were female. We analyzed the clinical data, the previous medical diagnosis, and the spirometry results.
RESULTS: The diagnostic criteria for COPD were met by 57 (36.1%) of the 158 individuals evaluated, and 14 individuals (8.9%) were considered to be at risk for the development of the disease. Of those 57 individuals meeting the criteria for a diagnosis of COPD, 39 (68.4%) were receiving their first diagnosis of COPD, whereas 18 (31.6%) were receiving confirmation of a prior diagnosis. Of the 18 individuals previously diagnosed, 10 (56%) presented the mild/moderate form of the disease, and 8 (44%) presented the severe form. Of the 39 newly diagnosed individuals, 38 (97.4%) presented the mild/moderate for of the disease, and only 1 (2.6%) had severe COPD. Seven patients previously diagnosed with COPD presented pulmonary function test results inconsistent with the diagnostic criteria.
CONCLUSION: Using spirometry in the initial evaluation of smokers enrolling in smoking cessation program might be a useful tool for early diagnosis of COPD.
Keywords: Smoking cessation; Spirometry; Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined as a preventable and treatable clinical entity characterized by chronic, not fully reversible, airflow obstruction.(1,2) Airflow obstruction is usually progressive and has been associated with abnormal pulmonary inflammatory response to inhalation of noxious particles or toxic gases, smoking being the principal etiologic factor.(2) Although it affects the lungs, COPD also has significant systemic effects.(1,2)
Nationally and internationally, COPD is recognized as a significant public health problem.(1,2) A recent study, carried out in the metropolitan area of the city of São Paulo, indicated that 15.8% of individuals aged 40 or older presented the disease.(3) The incidence is higher in males than in females and increases considerably with age.(1) In Brazil, according to data from the Unified Health Care System Department of Information and Information Science,(4) COPD ranks fifth among the leading causes of death, and the number of deaths caused by this condition has been increasing over the past 20 years in both genders.(1) In 2003, it was the fifth leading cause of hospitalization of individuals over 40 years of age treated in the public health sector.(1) The economic impact of COPD is relevant due to the high costs of prolonged hospitalization.(5)
The diagnosis of COPD is usually delayed since the disease progresses slowly and the patients can be asymptomatic or present onlydiscrete manifestations of the disease even when the expiratory flow values are considerably decreased.(1,6) Another cause of delayed diagnosis is the failure to recognize airflow obstruction on the part of untrained professionals.
Pronounced rates of undiagnosed airflow obstruction in patients who are not properly treated reinforce the need for measures that make the early and correct diagnosis of COPD possible.(7,8) Most patients with undiagnosed COPD present mild or moderate disease; however, the prevalence of symptoms is higher even in individuals with the mild form of the disease when compared with that of the patients without airflow obstruction. In addition, the effects of the disease on the overall health status and functional capacity of the patients increase according to the degree of airflow obstruction.(7) Within this context, spirometry and follow-up evaluation of patients exposed to risk factors of the disease, especially smokers, have proven to be efficacious measures.(6,7)
Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether using spirometry to evaluate smokers enrolled in smoking cessation programs facilitates early diagnosis of COPD.
We evaluated 158 smokers, aged >40 years, of both genders, who participated in the Paulista State University at Botucatu School of Medicine smoking cessation program between January of 2003 and November of 2005. In order to be included in the program, patients reported their smoking and clinical history, which included a specific survey on the presence of respiratory symptoms and previous diagnosis of COPD and other tobacco-related diseases.
All patients were submitted to anthropometric evaluation (measurement of weight and height) as well as to prebronchodilator and postbronchodilator spirometry. Forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were measured using a computer-assisted system of pulmonary function (Med-Graph 1070; Medical Graphics Corporation, St. Paul, MN, USA), in accordance with American Thoracic Society criteria.(9) Values of FEV1 were expressed in liters (L), as percentages of FVC, and as percentages of reference values.(10)
A diagnosis of COPD was given to smokers who presented FEV1/FVC < 70% in postbronchodilator spirometry. The severity of the disease was classified in accordance with the criteria of the II Brazilian Consensus on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.(1) Smokers with respiratory symptoms and FEV1/FVC ³ 70% were considered at risk for developing this disease according to the classification proposed by the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society.(2) Smokers diagnosed with asthma or presenting a >15% increase in postbronchodilator FEV1 were excluded from the study.
This research project was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee of the Botucatu School of Medicine, and all patients gave written informed consent.
The mean age of the smokers was 55 ± 8.5 years, and 62.7% were females. Table 1 shows the classification of the smokers according to postbronchodilator spirometry results and the presence or absence of respiratory symptoms. Among the 158 participants in the program, 57 (36.1%) met the diagnostic criteria for COPD, and 14 (8.9%) were considered at risk for developing the disease. Of the 57 smokers diagnosed with COPD, only 18 (31.6%) had been previously diagnosed with the disease. However, in 7 (28%), a previous diagnosis of COPD was not confirmed by spirometry. There were 13 individuals (8.2%) who presented 75% > FEV1/FVC > 70%. However, none of these individuals reported respiratory symptoms.
Table 2 presents the general characteristics of the groups with and without COPD. Females predominated in both groups of smokers, those with COPD (59% female) and those without (64% female). The mean age was higher in the group of smokers with COPD. Body mass index (BMI), age at smoking onset, and tobacco intake were similar between the two groups. As expected, smokers with COPD presented lower FEV1 and FEV1/FVC values.
Figure 1 shows the percentage of patients diagnosed with COPD according to the severity of the disease. Of the 18 patients in whom a previous diagnosis of COPD had been confirmed by spirometry, 10 (56%) presented the mild or moderate form of the disease, and 8 (44%) presented the severe form. Of the 39 patients newly diagnosed with COPD, 38 (97.4%) presented the mild or moderate form of the disease, and only 1 (2.6%) presented the severe form.
The objective of this study was to determine whether using spirometry to evaluate smokers enrolled in smoking cessation programs facilitates early diagnosis of COPD. The principal finding was that the initial evaluation with spirometry allowed a diagnosis of COPD to be made in 39 patients not previously diagnosed with the disease. Those 39 patients correspond to 25% of the smokers evaluated. In addition, the diagnosis of COPD was confirmed in 18 of the 25 patients who had previously been diagnosed with COPD. Therefore, 57 (36.1%) of the smokers met the diagnostic criteria for COPD, and 14 (8.9%) were at risk for developing this disease. Moreover, 13 (8.2%) of the smokers presented 75% > FEV1/FVC > 70% values; however, they did not present respiratory symptoms. In summary, we found that only 18 (31.6%) of the smokers diagnosed with COPD at the outset of the program had been previously diagnosed with the disease, whereas 84 (53%) had either presented lower pulmonary values, were at risk for developing this disease, or had been diagnosed with COPD. The criterion used in the previous diagnosis of COPD was the same as that of the Proyecto Latinoamericano de Investigación en Obstrucción Pulmonar (PLATINO, Latin American Project for the Investigation of Pulmonary Obstruction): postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio < 70%.(2,3) The PLATINO project showed unadjusted prevalence rates ranging from 7 to 19.7% in five metropolitan areas in Latin America.(11) In the metropolitan area of São Paulo, the total COPD prevalence was 15.8%. When only the smokers were evaluated, the unadjusted rate was 21.9%. The prevalence of COPD among the smokers evaluated in our study (36.1%) is more than twice as high as that found in other studies of individuals over 30 years of age in the data analysis of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III),(12) as well as being higher than that observed in smokers in the PLATINO study in the metropolitan area of São Paulo by 60%.(3)
The comparison of the prevalence of the different levels of severity of COPD found in the present study and in the PLATINO project (stage 0: 8.3 vs. 25.3%; stage I: 12.6 vs. 10.1%; stage II: 17 vs. 4.6%; and stage III: 5.6 vs. 0.9%) showed that a higher proportion of the smokers evaluated in the present study presented the more severe forms than does the general population over 40 years of age evaluated in the city of São Paulo.(11) Of the patients in whom the diagnosis was confirmed during the evaluation performed in the present study, 97.4% presented mild or moderate COPD, and 2.6% presented severe COPD. However, of the patients in whom the diagnosis had previously been confirmed, 56% presented mild or moderate COPD, and 44% presented severe COPD. In a spirometric study of the general population,(3) the milder forms of COPD were found to be more prevalent than were the more advanced forms of the disease. In our study, the same was found to be true when we compared the patients with and without a previous diagnosis of COPD at enrollment in the smoking cessation program.
Various studies have indicated that a great number of cases of airflow obstruction go undiagnosed.(7,8,13,14) Data from the NHANES III show that airway obstruction goes undiagnosed in 12% of the American population over 45 years of age, which is a higher value than that of the previous diagnoses of COPD (3.1%) and asthma (2.7%).(7) In the same population, it was found that 71.7% of those presenting mild obstruction and 46.2% of those presenting severe obstruction (FEV1 < 50%) had not been diagnosed with airway obstruction.(5) The failure to diagnose COPD was also reported in a study of COPD prevalence carried out in Spain.(8) In that study, 78.2% of the cases detected had not been previously diagnosed. In addition, only 19.3% were currently being treated. One of the explanations for this fact is that the drop in respiratory function in patients with COPD is gradual over life, and, due to the adaptation of the patient to this slow increase of airflow obstruction or to the fact that physicians give little value to the symptoms and risk factors of the disease, the diagnosis is delayed.
However, in 28% of the smokers previously diagnosed with COPD, the results of the spirometry test did not confirm the diagnosis. Spirometry with volume-time expiratory curve is essential when there is clinical suspicion of COPD. This test should be performed before and after the administration of the bronchodilator, during the stable phase of the disease, since it is fundamental for the early and accurate diagnosis of airflow obstruction.(1,2) A diagnosis of COPD is defined by a postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio < 70%.(1,2) The postbronchodilator FEV1, expressed as the percentage of predicted, provides an estimate of the severity of the airflow limitation and allows the staging of the disease.(1,2)
The underdiagnosis and consequent lack of treatment of COPD could play an important role in the increased morbidity and mortality resulting from the disease. Accurate diagnosis in the initial phases of the disease would allow intervention to reduce risk factors, particularly smoking, thereby avoiding further deterioration of pulmonary function. In addition, it would have a positive effect on the economic aspect of managing the disease.(5) Late diagnosis, after patients have begun to present a pattern of severe airflow obstruction, presenting more accentuated respiratory symptoms and frequent exacerbations, results in greater health care expenditures and has considerable repercussions for the health status and functional capacity of patients with this disease.(7)
In conclusion, our results show that an evaluation that includes spirometric tests in smokers who enrol in smoking cessation programs can be a useful tool for increasing the number of individuals diagnosed with, or identified as being at risk for developing, COPD. Therefore, implementing effective measures for the treatment and control of the disease could reduce the impact of the advanced stage of the disease.
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2. Celli BR, MacNee W; ATS/ERS Task Force. Standards for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with COPD: a summary of the ATS/ERS position paper. Eur Respir J 2004;23(6):932-46. [ Links ]
3. Menezes AMB, Jardim JR, Pérez-Padilla R, Camelier A, Rosa F, Nascimento O, et al. Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and associated factors: the PLATINO study in São Paulo, Brazil. Cad. Saúde Pública 2005;21:1565-1573. [ Links ]
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6. Clotet J, Gómez-Arbonés X, Ciria C, Albalad JM. [Spirometry is a good method for detecting and monitoring chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in high-risk smokers in primary health care]. Arch Bronconeumol. 2004;40(4):155-9. Review in Spanish. [ Links ]
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Submitted: 12 July 2006. Accepted, after review, 21 September 2006.
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Starlin Castro's three errors in the second inning didn't even quite cost the Cubs the game.
It was that fourth one, by pitcher Matt Garza, that was really costly. His errant throw opened the door for the Rockies to score the go-ahead run and Colorado beat Chicago 5-3 on a misty and windy Monday night at Wrigley Field.
"We lost tonight because we couldn't throw the ball to first base," said Garza. "If I throw the ball to first base, it's still a 3-3 ballgame and we're still playing."
Dexter Fowler hit a triple, walk and scored a run for Colorado. Huston Street pitched the ninth for his eighth save in eight chances.
Rockies starter Esmil Rogers (3-1) gave up eight hits and four walks, but just three runs in 5 1-3 innings. Matt Lindstrom and Rafael Betancourt combined for 2 2-3 innings of scoreless relief.
"Our bullpen once again stepped up big time," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said.
Only one of the five runs scored against Garza (0-3) were earned. He gave up three hits and a walk in six innings.
Troy Tulowitzki hit a grounder to Castro leading off the second, reaching base when he bobbled the ball while trying to transfer it to his throwing hand.
Todd Helton struck out and Seth Smith singled before Jose Lopez's grounder popped out of Castro's glove, letting Tulowitzki score.
Now with Smith on second and Lopez on first, Chris Iannetta hit a grounder that Castro fielded cleanly.
His throw, though, sailed past Barney at second base and into the Cubs' bullpen along the right field line.
Smith and Lopez came all the way home to tie the game at 3.
"After I caught the ball it was kind of wet and I tried to hurry," Castro said through an interpreter. "It was just one of those things."
When Castro finally fielded a grounder and threw out Rogers at first, he got a sarcastic cheer. Fowler struck out to end the inning.
"If you're in a hurry with a wet pig, you're in trouble," Cubs manager Mike Quade said.
One more mistake let the Rockies take the lead.
In the fifth inning, with men on first and second, Jonathan Herrera laid down a bunt. Garza's throw to Barney at first was wide and up the right-field line, allowing Rogers to score. Fowler reached third and later came home on Carlos Gonzalez's groundout.
"Obviously the conditions were pretty tough to play in tonight," Tracy said. "We handled the ball with the conditions of the field. I don't think you can ask a group of players to handle the ball any better with the field conditions, as wet as it was."
Castro was the first Cubs player to have three errors in an inning since Jaime Navarro did it on Aug. 18, 1996 against Houston.
The major league record for errors in an inning by a shortstop is four. It's happened three though not since Lennie Merullo did it Sept. 13, 1942. He later played on the last Cubs team to make the World Series, in 1945.
According to STATS, LLC, the last player to make three errors in an inning was 3B Andy Marte of Cleveland on June 10 last year. The last SS to do it was Aaron Miles of St. Louis, on July 7, 2007.


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Indices – The March S&P 500 emini ES contract is up at 1517.00 even and is up 4 ticks.
In Asia the Nikkei closed down 118 points and the Aussie fell by 2 points but the rest of Asia closed higher. As of this writing all of Europe is trading mixed as the German DAX is up but the rest of Europe is lower.
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Yesterday we said our bias was towards the long side because both the USD and Bonds were trading lower and Gold did not commit to any one direction. Additionally the indices were pointed higher as well as crude. Here's a short 2 minute video on why our bias was higher:
As readers are probably aware I don't trade equities. While we're on this discussion, let's define what is meant by a good earnings report. A company must exceed their prior quarter's earnings per share and must provide excellent forward guidance. Any falloff between earning per share or forward guidance will not bode well for the company's shares. This is one of the reasons I don't trade equities but prefer futures. There is no earnings reports with futures and we don't have to be concerned about lawsuits, scandals, malfeasance, etc.
Anytime the market isn't correlated it's giving you a clue that something isn't right and you should proceed with caution.. Today market correlation is calling for a lower open but our bias is towards the long side. Could this change? Of course. In a volatile market anything can happen. We'll have to monitor and see. For awhile now we've promised a video on how a trader can use Market Correlation in tandem with their daily trading. A good friend of Market Tea Leaves: Carl Weiss of Sceeto and I produced a video on December 22nd that shows this. Here it is:
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The purge of Zanu PF members suspected to be loyal to ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru is set to cascade to lower structures of the party through a planned restructuring exercise.
Environment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is also the newly appointed secretary for commissariat in the Zanu PF, on Monday said the current party structures, used during the just-ended congress, were "rotten" and needed to be dismantled through a restructuring exercise once it is approved by the politburo and the central committee.
"We cannot have this rotten structure," he said in an interview on the sidelines of a Zinwa luncheon for outgoing chief executive officer Albert Muyambo.
"We will first wait for the politburo and the central committee to meet and give direction on how to tackle the issue, but as you know we have, almost in all provinces, acting chairpersons, definitely we will have to fill those positions and this will be done through election in accordance with the constitution and regulations of the party."
Prior to the congress held in Harare, party chairpersons aligned to Mujuru were firmly in control of structures. It took the entrance of First Lady, Grace Mugabe, into mainstream politics to change the status quo. The First Lady accused the chairpersons of working hand-in-glove with Mujuru to fan factionalism and plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe.
Eight provincial chairpersons and a number of their executives were booted out of office.
"We will definitely work on the (restructuring) exercise when the party gives direction because we cannot have acting chairpersons installed just like that. There will be elections to choose the substantive people for the positions," he said.
Mujuru was pushed out of the party's central committee and subsequently lost on the politburo slot, leading to her being dismissed as the party's vice president for 10 years.
She was later to be fired from the state office, resulting in her becoming the first vice-president since independence to get the boot.
Mujuru was dismissed from government along with eight cabinet ministers, who include former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, among other top party officials accused of working with her to remove President Mugabe from office.
Although she has strenuously denied the allegations of plotting to assassinate President Mugabe, it did not stop the veteran politician to fire her and her cabal whom he said were also working with the opposition MDC and western countries in their regime change agenda.
Already the provincial structures in Manicaland have resolved to suspend for five years all those booted out through votes of no confidence, but Kasukuwere said the process to do so must be done after approval by the central committee and the politburo.


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- Betty said...
Oh Trish that was so sweet..and so sad. I will pray w/ you for your grandmother. This brought tears to my eyes. Please also pray for my Daddy. I have shared with him some throughout the years, but not as boldly as I desire. May Father give her ears to hear and a heart that trusts the Savior!!!
- February 9, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Christina said...
I will pray for your grandmother Theresa. So glad you've had a nice time in California!
- February 10, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Fish with Trish said...
Thanks for your prayers Betty and Christina, for my Memo. It really means a lot. I shared with her yesterday and she was coherent enough to listen--which I am thankful for. I pray that your (Betty) dad will come to know the Lord. Thank you ladies for reading my blog!
- February 10, 2008 at 8:51 PM
- Jessie said...
It's so weird that we live in the same country and the restaurants are SOO DIFFERENT! I commented last time about the Waffle House (which I love when I go down south).
We have like... McDonald's, Subway, Burger King, etc. Haha, who doesn't have those?
Anyway, I will pray for your grandma.
- February 11, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- Kurt said...
YUMMO! In-n-Out is the best! I wish they had one here in NY!
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When my house sells, I just MIGHT get my first full auto. I can compare "regular firearms" by looking around for the best deal. How do determine the "value" or what i should pay for a full auto. I am looking for a 1928 auto ordinance or west hurley (don't know the difference yet). I have seen them for 7,000 all the way up to 18,000. I am going to shoot this so it is not going to have be an immaculate specimin, hell I don't even care if the numbers match........Another option would be an American 180.....more economical to shoot.
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It's a shame all of my guns sank with my boat last week...
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A reasonable question but might I suggest you look at true Colt M16 if your price range is as described...not converted, drop in auto sear, linkage, etc. guns described as M16's but only govt. M16's....their prices are going up rapidly...so shot the snot out of it and make some money...you can always look at www.gunbroker.com to get an idea of what asking prices are actually selling for...do a google search and you will also come across GunsAmerica Gun Classifieds as well...M16 will be found in the 14-15000 dollar range and I know of at least one person who has 30 of the waiting for them to hit 30000.00 before he will sell any of them...Some might think he is goofy but I remember when these were 2-3000.00 and I thought they were overpriced thennnnnnn.....dummy me
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I'm not too well versed on the differences and specifics of Thompsons (I know the basics), but if you can find ANY transferable Thompson under $11k, you better grab it fast. My guess is that the ones you're seeing for $7k are pre-samples - only available to dealers. Currently the going rate for an Auto-Ordnance or WH (the two least expensive types) start at about $11k-12+k. For a Savage, Bridgeport, or Colt you're looking at the $18k-30k+ range.
M16's are currently sitting at about $9.5k-11k for a non-Colt conversion. True factory Colt M16's (A1's, A2's, etc.) start at about $12k-14k and go up from there. Lightning links can be had for about $7500, while RDIAS's seem to be fetching $10.5k-11.5k. Don't expect this to last, however. Lakeside Machine is set to release their beltfed .22 upper for the M16 late this year which will almost undoubtedly push M16 prices higher, while stalling AM180 prices, if not hurting them a little.
I just sold my American 180 for this very reason. They're great fun, but the Lakeside unit will only be about $1800. Add a transferable M16 for about $10k and you've got significantly more versatility than an AM180 for only a couple thousand dollars more. And don't make the mistake everyone does of thinking an AM180 is cheap to shoot because its only 22. They burn through 22 ammo at a rate of about 27-30rds/sec. It adds up fast...very fast. I usually bought 22 ammo by the case (5000rds) which ran about $120. Each case would last me two outings with the AM180. Firing at about 28rds/sec from a 275rd drum, you can burn through more than a half a brick of 22 ammo in about 10 seconds of trigger time.
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wonderful imagination! the colors are awesome!
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Love the emotion to it. The effect in it and everything are breath taking. love it and faves. 5/5 without a doubt.
I love how you did the lighthouse and the guy hanging from it, and the purple on black looks fantastic. :) 5 ♥s and added to my Purple collection
awesome title . very expresive draw too :)
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When her daughter was going into the fifth grade two years ago, Jodie Howerton reviewed the HIV/AIDS educational materials that would be used in her child's class - and was appalled by what she saw.
The opening clip of a video, circa early 1990s, featured this headline: "Thousands die of AIDS."
In it, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was dressed as a growling, red monster and there was a cameo appearance by the Grim Reaper.
The outdated images and statistics about AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and the virus that causes it, were particularly troublesome to the Woodinville, Wash., mother of three, who had adopted a son born with HIV and who worried the video would perpetuate existing stereotypes.
Treatment for HIV/AIDS has advanced light-years in the three decades since the first U.S. cases were reported. Now, with proper medications, those infected can live long and relatively healthy lives.
"There was not a word about being born with the virus," Howerton said of the video, which the district has since stopped using. "It was a scary, fear-based video that would teach people how to be afraid of my son."
Howerton scoured the Internet for current and age-appropriate videos to replace the district's last-century set. Finding none, the communications specialist set about to make some.
As part of a campaign she's calling Redefine Positive, Howerton sat down a year ago with school officials and other parents and advocates to discuss a series of documentary-style educational videos that could be used not just at her children's school, but in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the state.
Production work on the first two videos is to begin in November.
"Not many kids are being born in the U.S. with this disease, but a number of kids who are HIV-positive are being adopted," she said. "These kids, like my son, are going to sit down in classrooms where inaccurate, outdated information is being presented."
Howerton says she worries that without the latest and most accurate information, children like her son would be discriminated against and ostracized.
"It's time to educate all our kids in a way that reduces the devastating stigma still associated with HIV."
Washington is one of 33 states along with the District of Columbia that mandate schools teach children about HIV/AIDS. The state Legislature passed the law at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1988, requiring that education on the "life-threatening dangers of the disease, its spread and prevention begin in the fifth grade."
Parents are allowed to review the teaching materials.
Sandra Tracy, health and nursing supervisor for the Northshore schools, said the district was aware that the fifth-grade video wasn't perfect and for years had been searching for a more recent one - without luck.
After Howerton raised concerns, the district replaced the fifth-grade video with the one used for sixth-graders - a perhaps less engaging one that features adults talking to children about AIDS.
Twenty years ago, Tracy said, more parents would come to the school to view the HIV/AIDS material because the disease was still new and parents were concerned about what schools would be telling their children.
These days, not so much.
Howerton first met her son, Mduduzi (they call him Duzi), six years ago on a humanitarian trip to South Africa where he was living in a group home.
Self-employed, Howerton has spent hours over the past year working on promotion and fundraising for her video campaign. There's no money in it for her.
She estimates it will cost $125,000 to produce all four videos. She's using the crowdfunding platform
The videos will feature people from all walks of life living with the disease and will carry current statistics and information about prevention, transmission and compassion.
"The idea is to remove the stigma," Howerton said. "You don't want to get this, but you don't have to be afraid of people who have it."
To draw attention to the effort, the Howertons posted online a promotional video that features them as a family - Duzi, now 8, and his siblings jumping on a trampoline, playing with the family dog, being children.
Howerton said the family agonized over revealing Duzi's HIV status in such a public way and that she's been criticized by other parents for the decision to do so.
"Our decision was about guaranteeing he gets to live in the light - no matter what," she said. "If this was leukemia or some other disease, there wouldn't be a question about whether to share it."
She acknowledges that her son, as he gets older, might be mad at his parents for disclosing his condition. "But we believe we are preparing him to be unashamed forever."


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Study to Evaluate Long-Term Safety, Tolerability, and Satisfaction With Prucalopride in Chronic Constipation
This study has been completed.
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Objectives: To evaluate the clinical long-term safety and the tolerability, patient satisfaction, pharmacokinetics and use of pattern of prucalopride given in doses up to 4 mg per day to patients with chronic constipation (CC).
|Chronic Constipation
|Drug: Prucalopride
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Study to Evaluate the Long-Term Tolerability, Safety, Patient Satisfaction, Pharmacokinetics, and Use Patterns of Oral Prucalopride Tablets in Patients With Chronic Constipation
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MedlinePlus related topics: ConstipationU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety: adverse events, lab tests, vital signs, ECGs [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Efficacy: PAC-QOL self-administered questionnaire, Patient's pattern of use of prucalopride [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
- Pharmacokinetics: Prucalopride plasmaconcentrations [ Time Frame: 24 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 1998
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2000 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:
Drug: Prucalopride
1 mg tablets, free dosing regiment with max. of 4 tablets o.d., treatment duration: up to 24 months
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- Male and non-pregnant, non breast-feeding female outpatients at least 18 years of age.
- Patient completed the entire treatment period of one of the following studies: PRU-USA-3, PRU-USA-11, PRU-USA-13, PRU-USA-21, PRU-USA-25, PRU-USA-27 or PRU-USA-28, or Patient participated in the re-treatment study PRU-USA-28 and did not qualify for Treatment period II after both washout periods.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient with impaired renal function
- Patient with clinically significant abnormalities of haematology, urinalysis, or blood chemistry.
- Female of childbearing potential without adequate contraceptive protection during the study.
- Patient who used an investigation drug other than prucalopride in the 30 days preceding the study.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00987844
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|Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905
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Camilleri M, Van Outryve MJ, Beyens G, Kerstens R, Robinson P, Vandeplassche L. Clinical trial: the efficacy of open-label prucalopride treatment in patients with chronic constipation - follow-up of patients from the pivotal studies. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2010 Nov;32(9):1113-23. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04455.x. Epub 2010 Sep 16.
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|Renate Specht Gryp, Movetis
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|September 24, 2009
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Area Amateur Baseball: Lake City rolls against Austin
Lake City defeated the Austin BlueSox Friday 7-0 in Lake City.
Zach Wolfe went 1-for-4 with three RBI while Brett Gwaltney finished 1-for-3 with an RBI and a run and Matt Miller drove in a run and went 1-for-4. Chris Sill was 2-for-4 with a run.
Eric Sandstrom pitched an eight-hit shutout. Sandstrom did not allow a walk and struck out nine.
The Serpents took a 3-0 lead after the first inning, added a run in the third and tacked on three more in the fourth.
Cannon Falls 8, Miesville 4
Aaron Stein threw eight effective innings for Cannon Falls Friday in an 8-4 victory over Miesville in Miesville.
Stein gave up four runs on nine hits, walked three and struck out five in the victory.
Brandon Voth led the Bears with a 3-for-4 performance and two RBI. Zeke Williams, Luke Winchell, Rich Burr and Stein added RBI base hits. Burr and Winchell went 2-for-4.
Miesville 3, Lake City 2
Miesville held off Lake City 3-2 Sunday in Lake City.
Erik Olson scattered nine hits in a complete-game performance. Olson allowed two unearned runs, did not allow a walk and struck out 10.
Matt Van Der Bosch and Matt Hanse drove in a run each for the Mudhens. Van Der Bosch went 1-for-1 with two walks and a run. David Olson, Andrew Werner and Chris Couillard all had hits for Miesville.
The Serpents held a 1-0 lead after the first inning but the Mudhens got single runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to build a 3-1 lead. Lake City rallied for a run in the eighth for the 3-2 final.
The Serpents outhit the Mudhens 9-4 and got two-hit games from Matt Miller, Chris Sill and Derek Sogla. Jordan Rishavy had the lone RBI for Lake City.
Brandon Gosse went seven innings for the Serpents and allowed two earned runs on four hits, walked six and struck out two.


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E Cape councillor shot dead
Johannesburg - Nelson Mandela Metro ward councillor Buyisile Mkavu was shot dead in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, on Saturday night, police said on Sunday.
Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Basil Seekoei said someone approached his vehicle from the passenger side and fired a shot through an open window at Mkavu's upper body.
Mkavu died at the scene of the shooting on Mlawu Street, Angola section just after 21:00.
Crime scene experts were helping detectives on the scene and so far a motive for the shooting is not known.
No arrests have been made.
According to previous reports on the HeraldLive and DispatchLive, Mkavu had been head of the human settlements committee and during protests in demand of land, he had been threatened with death, been stoned, and had his car rocked by a group of protesters.
He also led a task team to intervene in violence in Motherwell, according to a previous statement by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.


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Is DEVIL DINOSAUR in HULK AGENTS of S.M.A.S.H. TV?
When the silver-level Free Comic Book Day 2013 comics were announced yesterday, many may have glanced over the cover to Marvel's silver issue, Hulk: Agents of S.M.A.S.H. But the cover seems to reveal something new about the show in the form of a surprise cast member: Devil Dinosaur. Devil Dinosaur, who recently appeared in a story in Avenging Spider-Man, is from a parallel Earth where Dinosaurs and missing-link style primates live in harmony. He is usually seen alongside one of these primates named Moon-Boy. A being of rage (not to mention large and red), Devil Dinosaur would certainly fit in alongside announced members Hulk, She-Hulk, Skaar, Red Hulk, and A-Bomb. We asked Marvel if the cover of this comic could be construed as an announcement that the big red dinosaur would be in the animated series, and they had this to say: "We can't say anything right now—but you'll get the answer when the series premieres in 2013!" Not a yes, not a no, but it would seem pretty strange for a book, given out for free, apparently solely in support of a new animated series, to include a character on the cover who doesn't appear on the show, wouldn't it?
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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. A Rambus DRAM Implementers Forum, announced Tuesday (Aug. 31) here at the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF), will consider ways to trim costs associated with the Rambus memory architecture, including taking a common approach to reducing the number of memory banks in the current Direct RDRAM design.
Intel and Rambus Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) have worked on a one-to-one basis with a growing number of RDRAM suppliers, but the implementers forum is intended to come up with commonly accepted ways to reduce costs.
Packaging, test, and die size reduction issues will be among the issues taken up by the group. A less well-known cost adder is the number of memory banks, which currently stands at two sets of 16 dependent banks on each RDRAM device.
Peter MacWilliams, an Intel fellow, said the implementers forum may come up with one or more commonly accepted RDRAM designs with fewer memory banks, which would then be supported by iterations of the Intel chip sets. One suggestion has been to reduce the number of memory banks per chip to a single set of 16 dependent banks, another calls for four independent banks.
The final decision on memory banks "is up to each vendor, and over time Intel would build chip sets that would support different approaches. One of the key things we want to accomplish with this implementers forum is to have the memory vendors have discussions among themselves about how to optimize better for costs, and not just with Intel."
Three years ago, Rambus engineers thought that a higher number of banks would allow the Rambus technology to offer on-chip concurrency, fetching bits from multiple banks at the same time. The goal was to reduce first-access latency, an issue that dogged RDRAM's performance in the early going.
Geoff Tate, the president of Rambus, said that over the past few years, the RDRAM vendors and Rambus have come to realize that having so many on-chip memory banks made it more difficult to efficiently lay out the redundancy bits needed to keep yields at respectable levels. Adding redundancy bits for each bank added to the die size, increasing costs. Cutting redundancy bits can also raise costs by reducing yields.
"If we know then what we know now about the die size impact, we would have decided on fewer banks. But the issue is not just reducing the number of banks, it is making sure there is compatibility among the various DRAM vendors," Tate said.
The implementers forum includes Hyundai Electronics, Micron Technology, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Infineon Technologies, Toshiba, as well as Intel and Rambus. System vendors, such as Dell Computer, also may provide input.
Tate said he expects the issue of the number of memory banks to be decided in the next few months. As vendors create new mask sets for shrink versions of the various 128-Mbit RDRAM implementations, the reduced-bank design also would be implemented.
Full speed goal tough
The RDRAM technology offers 1.6-GB/s memory bandwidth, but cost issues and difficulties with the Camino chipset have caused delays. A Samsung Electronics manager said Samsung is hoping to reduce the premium to 25 percent over SDRAMs by the end of next year.
An NEC manager said NEC is starting its commercial ramp now, but yields on the full-speed 800-Mbits-per-second-per pin RDRAMs are only in the 30 percent range now. NEC will use a 0.20-micron process for its 128-Mbit density RDRAMs, but to improve the full-speed RDRAM yields to a more respectable rate, NEC may need to apply a 0.18-micron process.
While the DRAM vendors strive to reduce costs, the personal computer makers are working to sort out remaining issues with motherboard production, such as the placement of capacitors on the board. Those must be sorted out by October, when Intel expects major OEMs to begin commercial introduction of performance desktops based on Rambus DRAMs.
Tate said the RDRAM vendors and Rambus are coming up with various circuit tweaks that will increase the percentage of full-speed RDRAMs. And as testers become more sophisticated, fewer RDRAMs will fall into the 600 and 700 MHz speed bins, he said.
Also, RDRAM vendors will naturally move to 0.18-micron processes to increase the number of raw die per wafer. The combination of tighter process rules, and circuit improvements, will allow Rambus to approach its goal of 100 percent 800-Mbit production.
Jay Bell, senior fellow at Dell Computer (Austin) said Dell is "generally ready" to introduce a line of RDRAM desktops this fall, estimating that "$1500 is not an unreasonable goal" for unit pricing.
"Dell mainly ships to the corporate market, and the IT managers are looking to Rambus-based systems for highly networked corporate environments based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. One situation where Rambus brings advantages is with the telemirror function, where an IT manager can dedicate bandwidth to backing up system settings and data. By bringing that across the network while the user is working with the system, there is less system performance degradation," Bell said.
Bell said he has benchmarked SDRAM and Rambus systems running Microsoft's Office 2000 suite. When an imaginary IT manager takes control of a portion of the system using a Laplink utility, the SDRAM-based system suffered an 85 percent system degradation, while the RDRAM-based system had a 67 percent degradation.
As IT managers turn to multiple bus masters on networked systems, the ability to access multiple channels of memory will prove an asset in the corporate environment, he said.
Also, as Internet communications increase, "sharing packets and accelerating transactions are areas when the Rambus technology excels," Bell added.
Will those kinds of performance improvements entice companies to buy Rambus-based systems? Pat Gelsinger, Intel vice president for desktop platforms, said "we are trying to deliver technology that will give them some headroom for the next few years."


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Hi. I recently bought a JVC HM-DH40000U DVHS deck, assuming that it could output old vhs throught it's firewire/iLink output to my PC, on windows 7. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem do be the case at all. The only thing I could manage to do was playing a vhs a few second, then it stops by itself (on the Cyberling Power director capture & editing software). I tryed on adobe premiere pro, but it doesn't detect the device at all. So I'm left with no options at all.
Any ideas ? Aside of doing analog capture with s-video+rca cables and passing them through mini-dv camera so I can use the firewire port to output (without problems) ? I use sometimes a capture card, but the image quality is much better through a mini-dv+firewire combinason.
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Yes I have an idea. By any chance is this "PC" of yours actually a laptop? And are you using some kind of USB based firewire card? Because if that is what you are doing, having it not work is exactly what you should expect. The only way you can ever get firewire capture working on a PC is that you have to have a true firewire card and not some USB add on, which means you need either an older laptop where it was actually built into the motherboard or you need a PC tower where you can add a firewire card to the motherboard if the motherboard doesn't come with a firewire connector.
As Jman98 says, but if you do have the right equipment, I would say drop capture tools offered by editors and just use the free WinDV for DV video transfer.
Let great editors be great editors. They shouldn't be video acquisition (ex:capturing) or even video delivery apps (ex:encoding), which are stand-alone sciences on their own and serve only as an afterthought token feature on most editors.
WinDV is focused on DV transfer and nothing else, which makes it good at it.I hate VHS. I always did.
It appears that deck will output a 720p HDV signal via firewire. Make sure your project is set for that. WinDV won't work, it's SD only. Try capturing with HDVsplit or Adobe Premiere Pro.
Ok, I just tryed HDVSplit and premiere pro in HDV mode. On HDVSplit, it captures only 3 seconds of video (even if I try to capture longer than that). On premiere pro, even if I hit the record button and that it previews the image, that's all it does without capturing at all.
Also, i have this error message on HDVSplit: "ERROR: HDVSPlit can't find MPEG1 audio decoder. Try to install and configure ffdshow.
Audio is turned off".
You could try installing ffdshow, as it says, but if it stops after three seconds it could be something else as well. Make sure your audio bitrate is set properly and that you allow HDVSplit or Premiere to ignore timecode breaks.
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