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Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) opened its first U.S. plant in 1988 in Georgetown, Kentucky. Now Toyota is threatening to move Camry production unless the plant quickly cuts costs. The video made the point that Toyota could build a Camry in Japan, ship it to Kentucky, and sell it for a bigger profit than it could by selling a car built in the state.
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Kingdom Holding's plan to borrow money to fund new investments has stalled because owner Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has been detained in Saudi Arabia's anti-corruption crackdown, according to four banking sources familiar with the matter. Kingdom had approached banks to obtain the loan, but the financing plan has been held up because the lenders are worried about potential repercussions if they lend to the prince's company, the sources said. One of the sources, who was approached for the loan, said it would have been worth roughly 5 billion riyals ($1.3 billion).
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Five Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives took advantage of the stock's biggest rally in nine years to a record high last week to sell a total of $11 million worth of shares, as soon as they were allowed to trade. The stock WMT, +0.01% had shot up 10.9% on Thursday to a record close of $99.62, after the discount retail behemoth reported fiscal third-quarter earnings, revenue and same-store sales that beat expectations. That was the biggest one-day percentage gain since Oct. 28, 2008. The next day, the stock pulled back by 2.2%, trading in an intraday range of $96.58 to $100.13 before closing at $97.47. Some time Friday morning, President and Chief Executive of Walmart International David Cheesewright
The reality is that, outside of the marginal rates that determine how much of your income goes to taxes and the personal exemption you get just for existing, the standard deduction is probably the single part of the tax code that most affects a majority of Americans. A major component of the tax plan that Republicans have proposed — aside from lowering the corporate tax rate — is roughly doubling of the standard deduction. The bill will be much easier to pass if the cost of those tax breaks is partially or wholly offset by other changes that increase federal revenue. Right now you can either itemize deductions — laboriously indicating the amount of money you earned that is exempt from taxation due to a number of carve-outs we'll get to below — or just take the standard deduction, which is a set amount of money that you can choose to deduct, tax-free, from your overall net income rather than do the math.
Tesla (TSLA) is lower on Monday, as analysts parse what its new electric semi truck, unveiled last week, means for the company and the trucking industry. Instinet's Romit Shah reiterated a Buy rating and $500 price target on the stock today, writing that Tesla's truck exceeded his expectations "on basically every metric (range, payload, speed, warranty and styling)" but that his optimism goes beyond that:
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Notable earnings reports expected Tuesday include Campbell's Soup (CPB), Lowe's (LOW), Dollar Tree (DLTR), and salesforce.com (CRM). All will not be quiet in the nation's capital, however, as President Donald Trump is set to pardon his first set of turkeys since taking office at 1 p.m. ET. President Donald Trump will pardon two turkeys on Tuesday at the White House.
Shares of HPE fell more than 6 percent in after-hours trading. Hewlett Packard Enterprises, known for its computer servers, is still adjusting to a new landscape in which corporate customers are placing more of their digital operations in the cloud and moving away from purchasing their own equipment. Whitman, one of the most powerful women in U.S. business and a former candidate for California governor, split Hewlett Packard Co into HPE and PC-and-printer business HP Inc in 2015 as part of a plan to turn around the large corporation.
21st Century Fox Inc. agreed to create a workplace council at its embattled Fox News channel and will receive a $90 million insurance payment as part of a deal settling shareholder litigation over sex-harassment scandals at the network. The conduct of Fox News has become a threat to 21st Century Fox's efforts to acquire full ownership of Sky Plc, one of Europe's biggest pay-TV providers. The deal is the latest step in the company's attempt to address reporting and oversight failures that allowed alleged sexual misconduct by its chief of its news operations, the now-deceased Roger Ailes, and others to continue without the board being aware. Former Fox employees involved in harassment and discrimination lawsuits against the company have been testifying to U.K regulators who are scrutinizing the $15.4 billion offer for British pay-TV company.
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Up next on the dissection list: hearts! Our partnering of e-Biology students with our 4/5th grade class continues with students teaching and learning together. With the guidance of Mr. Proch and Mr. Streyle, KLS students are engaged in hands-on biology lessons and loving it. Watching the h.s. students in action teaching the younger ones is quite remarkable. The collaboration efforts of all involved will surely influence interest in the field of science.
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Concenturio 1.1
Freeware alarmer for WindowsCompany: ASCOMP Software GmbH
Platform: Win2000,Win7 x32,Win7 x64,WinServer,WinVista,WinVista x64,WinXP
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Release Date: 2011-06-17
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Category: Desktop::Clocks & Alarms
Concenturio is a freeware alarmer for Windows which reminds of single or recurrent tasks. The program offers several functions such as showing reminder windows and playing audio files of your own choice. Placed on a clearly designed user interface you can even create tasks for recurrent events. With this you may get reminded daily, on selected week or month days or at a specific date.
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OUR PRIMER on gene technology describes two examples where GM crops will provide direct benefits to consumers. One is the use of gene silencing to modify the oil content of canola. The other involves the precise transfer of genes for disease resistance from wild relatives to crops without bringing along unwanted genetic material.
Do you know what's in your tomatoes now?
Conventionally, tomato has been crossed to a wild relative found in Peru to transfer a number of genes conferring resistance to common diseases of tomato. A concern with this strategy is that the wild relative is poisonous and the crosses to transfer beneficial disease resistance genes also result in the transfer of roughly another 200 genes of unknown function. Gene technology provides the precision to transfer only those genes that are wanted, reducing the risks of unwanted problems.


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Large order for mobile crushers and screens received from Japan
Sandvik Japan has recently delivered the first heavy mobile crushers in over 20 years to one of their best and most loyal customers in Japan - the Tochigi based Showa Corporation. Part of the renowned Fujisaco group, the Showa Corporation has been a Sandvik customer for five years, purchasing a variety of Sandvik drill-rigs, breakers and medium range mobile crushers and screens. Now they are also Sandvik's first customer in Japan for the acclaimed U-440 range of tracked crushers.
Mr. Yamanoi, the owner of the Showa Corporation, is one of the biggest quarry owners in Japan with a total of ten different sites, and employing over 500 people. Although he has been a loyal customer of Sandvik's for the last five years, he has now chosen to work in partnership with Sandvik using the processing power of Sandvik's highly productive U-range of mobile crushers. This range of larger mobile equipment was chosen by Mr. Yamanoi because of its proven high performance, and ability to deliver a consistent high quality end product. As Mr. Yamanoi, and his companies, possess a reputation as being some of the most forward thinking and innovative concerns in Japanese quarrying, the processing power of the Sandvik U-range of tracked crushers have provided the Showa Corporation with the perfect solution for their stringent crushing requirements.
Discussions between the Showa Corporation and Sandvik began in late Autumn 2011 when Hiroshi Kezuka, Sandvik Regional Product Line Manager for mobile crushers and screens, together with Peter Delbrant, Sandvik Product Line Manager for the U-range crushers, met with Mr. Yamanoi. As a result of this meeting Mr. Yamanoi placed an initial order for eight mobile crushing and screening units. The order comprised of two sets of equipment each consisting of an UJ440i jaw and US440i cone crusher complete with hanging screens, plus an UH440i cone and QA450 triple deck screener.
A key piece of equipment to the successful operation of each crushing and screening train is the UJ440i jaw crusher. This state of the art machine maximizes production through its class leading feed opening, which coupled with a hydraulic close side setting enables rapid changes through push button operation, further enhanced by integral intelligent operation. The HD crusher utilized on the UJ440i is capable of handling any type of hard rock, in any climate including the most extreme weather conditions when fitted with an optional engine pre-heater. Quick set-up time combined with site-to-site transportability, are integral design features that ensure the unit is able to rapidly process materials in any location. Both crusher and unit are manufactured to the highest quality, utilizing Sandvik components, meaning that the number of spare and wear parts that need to be stocked is minimized due to the inherent consistency of manufacture. Trouble free and safe operation is ensured due to automatic and continuous monitoring of the production process, by the in-built intelligence control system.
The Sandvik UH440i and US440i tracked cone crushers, making up the other key components of the two production units, are proving to be the perfect choice for the Showa Corporation due to their high flexibility. As fully mobile secondary crushing units they are providing a rapid return on investment through their high productivity and low operational costs. Like the jaw unit fitted to the UJ440i, the cone on both these crushers is able to handle any type of hard rock material, in virtually any climatic conditions, due to its high quality construction using only the highest quality components. This is providing the Showa Corporation with trouble free and optimal production, which is ensured by on board high level Intelligence, thereby enabling minimal set up time through the unit's sequential start with memorized application data. This precision crusher is further equipped with automatic setting regulation, Sandvik ASRi, and in combination with the unique CLP crushing chamber provides excellent versatility.
One of the keys to both Showa's high productivity and efficiency has been the cone unit's automatic setting system, ASRi, which further optimizes cone crusher efficiency, and automatically adapts the crusher to variations in feed conditions. By continuously measuring and compensating for crusher liner wear, ASRi allows for optimal utilization of crusher liners, and schedule liner replacements to coincide with planned maintenance stops. The ASRi also assists in keeping the crusher choke fed in order to maximize rock-on-rock crushing, which helps ensure the highest quality end product.
The Sandvik U-440 tracked crushers are currently used in two crushing trains to specifically produce aggregate for concrete production. The first production unit concentrates on producing a 20-5mm limestone product, whilst the second produces both a 20-5mm and 5-0mm product from a hard sand stone and andesite. Both crushing trains are reportedly operating at high throughput, and producing superb product shape. In addition to this, smaller members of the Sandvik mobile crushing and screening range, in the form of the QJ340 jaw crusher, QA140 screener and QE330 scalper, are used for special size production at various points of the sites, whilst the QJ240 jaw crusher is utilized to crush concrete for recycling and reuse. These latter elements further provide the Showa Corporation with enhanced operational flexibility whenever and wherever it is needed.
As aftermarket care is key to Sandvik's operational ethos, and thus ensuring that the Showa Corporation would be able to get the very best from their investment, four people were invited from the Showa Corporation to come to Europe as guests of Peter Delbrant. Initially they undertook service training in England, and then proceeded to the Svedala factory in Sweden, in order to learn more about the Sandvik heavy range of equipment, as well as to see heavy units operating in the field. So as to capitalize on the successful trip to Europe, Peter Delbrant recently ran a further course in Japan. This has undoubtedly paid off as Mr. Yamanoi has recently placed a third order with Sandvik that not only comprises of two additional QA440 screens and a US440i crusher, but also two members of the "super-heavy" range of mobiles – UJ540 jaw and UH640 cone respectively.
The order from the Showa Corporation is the first step in introducing the Sandvik U-range of larger, heavy duty mobile crushing and screening equipment to Japan, and seeks to build on the excellent work already undertaken in expanding the market for the Q-range of crushing and screening equipment. All units in the Sandvik U and Q ranges of mobile crushers and screens provide customer-focused solutions for large and small operations within the construction and aggregates industries. Although perfectly capable of operating independently, they are also able to work in conjunction with each other, thereby supplying the Showa Corporation with two fully functional screening and crushing trains.
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is recognized worldwide as a public health problem, and its prevalence increases as the population ages. However, the applicability of formulas for estimating the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) based on serum creatinine (SC) levels in elderly Chinese patients with CKD is limited.
Based on values obtained with the technetium-99m diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (99mTc-DTPA) renal dynamic imaging method, 319 elderly Chinese patients with CKD were enrolled in this study. Serum creatinine was determined by the enzymatic method. The GFR was estimated using the Cockroft–Gault (CG) equation, the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations, the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation, the Jelliffe-1973 equation, and the Hull equation.
The median of difference ranged from −0.3–4.3 mL/min/1.73 m2. The interquartile range (IQR) of differences ranged from 13.9–17.6 mL/min/1.73 m2. Accuracy with a deviation less than 15% ranged from 27.6%–32.9%. Accuracy with a deviation less than 30% ranged from 53.6%–57.7%. Accuracy with a deviation less than 50% ranged from 74.9%–81.5%. None of the equations had accuracy up to the 70% level with a deviation less than 30% from the standard glomerular filtration rate (sGFR). Bland–Altman analysis demonstrated that the mean difference ranged from −3.0–2.4 mL/min/1.73 m2. However, the agreement limits of all the equations, except the CG equation, exceeded the prior acceptable tolerances defined as 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. When the overall performance and accuracy were compared in different stages of CKD, GFR estimated using the CG equation showed promising results.
Our study indicated that none of these equations were suitable for estimating GFR in the elderly Chinese population investigated. At present, based on overall performance, as well as performance in different CKD stages, the CG equation may be the most accurate for estimating GFR in elderly Chinese patients with CKD.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide problem that is in need of particular attention. The prevalence of CKD varies with age1 and is markedly high in those of the population greater than 64 years old.2,3 In China, the population of those over 60 years old will increase by 16.55% every year; by 2040 this age group will account for 28% of the entire population, which means that China will be considered an ageing society.4 These findings highlight the clinical and public health importance of CKD. The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is typically considered to be the best way to assess renal function in healthy or diseased states. Direct measurement of GFR by inulin clearance is often impractical. Radioisotopic methods using ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (51Cr EDTA), 125 iodine iothalamate, and so on provide acceptable alternatives to inulin clearance.5 However, these methods are cumbersome, expensive, and are available to only a few hospitals. Many formulae using serum creatinine (SC) have been established to estimate GFR in adults. The National Kidney Foundation has recommended that the Cockroft–Gault (CG) equation and the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equations should be used to estimate GFR in adults.6 However, the SC-based equations were not initially developed for elderly people. Additionally, older individuals have decreased lean body mass and often suffer from chronic diseases associated with decreased muscle mass and SC levels,7 thus, when applied to elderly people, the effectiveness of such equations is doubtful.
As previously described,8 GFR estimation equations showed a great deal of bias in elderly Chinese CKD patients. In this study, we increased the sample size and again evaluated the accuracy of various GFR estimation equations in elderly Chinese patients with CKD, comparing them with radionuclide GFRs in a clinical setting.
The present study was conducted among 319 elderly Chinese CKD patients (121 women; mean ± SD age 70.0 ± 6.8 years; standard GFR (sGFR) measured by 99mTc-DTPA GFR was 39.4 ± 21.8 mL/min per 1.73 m2) from January 2005 through December 2009 at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-sun University, China. The patient exclusion criteria were as previously described.8 None of the subjects were undergoing dialysis during the study period. The CKD patients were assigned to one of five stages based on the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) clinical practice guidelines.9 The causes and stages of CKD, as well as other details, are listed in Table 1. For convenience, stages 1 and 2, and stages 4 and 5 were combined. The study was approved by the institutional review board at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-sun University. All patients provided informed consent before participating in the study.
Glomerular filtration rate, measured by the 99mTc-DTPA renal dynamic imaging method and standardized by body surface area (BSA), was used as the sGFR.10–12 99mTc-DTPA renal dynamic imaging (modified Gate's method) was measured by Millennium TMMPR SPECT using the General Electric Medical System. 99mTc-DTPA renal imaging showed good agreement with plasma clearance of 51Cr EDTA.13 The 99mTc-DTPA renal dynamic imaging method used was as previously described.8 After image acquisition, the patient's weight and height were entered into the eNTEGRA Workstation (General Electric Company, Waukesha, WI), on which all imaging data were recorded. The sGFR was automatically calculated, according to Gate's algorithm.
The results of the CG equation, the Jelliffe-1973 equation, and the Hull equation were standardized for a BSA20 of 1.73 m2.
A single serum determination was performed on the same day prior to measurement of GFR using 99mTc-DTPA renal dynamic imaging. The SC levels, serum albumin, and urea were assayed on a Hitachi 7180 autoanalyzer (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) with reagents from Roche Diagnostics (Mannheim, Germany). Serum creatinine was determined by the enzymatic method. Sex, age, height, and weight were simultaneously recorded.
The sGFR and the estimated GFR (eGFR) were compared using Bland–Altman analysis. The precision was measured as the width between the 95% limits of agreement. A prior acceptable tolerance for the difference between eGFR and sGFR was defined as twice the limit for CKD stages, which is 60 mL/min/1.73 m2.8 The accuracy of GFR estimates was determined as the percentage of results deviating less than 15%, 30%, and 50% from the sGFR. The sensitivity and specificity of all the equations in correctly classified CKD stage 3 (GFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2) were based upon the cut points established by the National Kidney Foundation9 and were calculated and compared according to the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve approach. In the preliminary analysis,8 the Jelliffe-1973 equation performed better than the other equations. Therefore, we chose eGFR measured by the Jelliffe-1973 equation as the reference against which all comparisons between equations were made. Results were considered to be significant at P < 0.05. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 11.0; IBM, Armonk, NY) and Medcalc for Windows (version 184.108.40.206; Medcalc Software, Mariekerke, Belgium).
The medians of difference of the four-variable MDRD equation and the six-variable MDRD equation were less than those of the other equations. The interquartile range (IQR) of difference for the CG equation and the Hull equation were smaller. The accuracies with a deviation less than 15% from the sGFR of the Hull equation and the CG equation were higher. The CG equation and the Jelliffe-1973 equation provided better results than the others in accuracies with deviations less than 30% and 50% from the sGFR. However, none of the equations had accuracies that reached 70% while differing less than 30% from the sGFR. Chronic kidney disease stage misclassifications by the four-variable MDRD equation and the Jelliffe-1973 equation were less than that of the other equations. All of the equations had CKD stage misclassification higher than 42% (Table 2). We used Bland–Altman plot (see Figure 1) analysis to calculate the mean of the difference between eGFR and sGFR and the precision of eGFR. Using this approach, the CKD-EPI equation and the Jelliffe-1973 equation demonstrated less means of the difference than the other equations. The precisions of the GFR estimated by the CG equation and the CKD-EPI equation were better than the other equations. However, the agreement limits of the equations, except for the CG equation, exceeded the prior acceptable tolerances, defined as 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. The ROC curve analysis showed that the maximum diagnostic accuracy of all the equations for the diagnosis of moderate renal failure (GFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2) was not statistically significant (P > 0.05 compared with the Jelliffe-1973 GFR). Detailed performances are listed in Tables 2 and and3,3, and Figure 2.
In CKD stages 1 and 2, the median of the difference of the Jelliffe-1973 equation was smaller. The IQR of difference for the CKD-EPI equation was smaller. The CKD-EPI equation provided better results than the others in accuracies with deviations less than 15%, 30%, and 50% from the sGFR. In CKD stage 3, the median of the difference of the six-variable MDRD equation was smaller. The IQR of difference for the CG equation was smaller. Accuracy with a deviation less than 15% from the sGFR of the Hull equation was higher. The CG equation provided better results than the others in accuracies with deviations less than 30% and 50% from the sGFR. In CKD stages 4 and 5, the median of the difference for the Jelliffe-1973 equation was smaller. The IQRs of difference for the CG equation and the Jelliffe-1973 equation were smaller. The Jelliffe-1973 equation revealed higher accuracies with deviation less than 15%, 30%, and 50% from the sGFR (Table 4).
A report from the Dialysis and Transplantation Registration Group of the Chinese Society of Nephrology revealed that in 1999, the population undergoing maintenance dialysis numbered 41,755.21 Liu and his colleagues found that, in China, about 14.82% of the 13,383 hospitalized patients investigated were diagnosed as having CKD.22 They also found that the prevalence of CKD increases dramatically in older people. Therefore, in the elderly population, the evaluation of renal function is critically important in clinical practice, since it has a great impact on diagnosis and medical treatment requiring adjustment in drug dosages in the elderly. The changes in renal function that accompany aging present a decrease in GFR – more than 1 mL/min/1.73 m2/year in those over the age of 40 years.23 However, this change can vary. Gault and Cockcroft24 found that the variability of creatinine clearance also increased with increasing age. This was accordant with a recent report from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, which demonstrated that variability, such as decrease, increase, or no change, in creatinine clearance emerged in 254 healthy individuals followed up for as long as 23 years.23 This variability causes additional difficulties in the estimation of GFR. The American Diabetes Association recommended estimation of GFR using prediction equations based on SC determinations.25 However, this has still not been validated in elderly populations.
Application of SC-based GFR prediction equations to elderly patients with CKD is limited. Bevc et al26 found that both the MDRD equations and the CKD-EPI equation lacked precision, and the accuracy within 30% of estimated 51Cr EDTA clearance values differs according to the stage of CKD. Burkhardt et al27 demonstrated that the accuracies and precisions of the CG equation and the MDRD equations were low, and that there was an underestimation of actual GFR. A cross-sectional study in a French hospital with mostly Caucasian patients28 also found that the CG equation seemed to be the most accurate and appropriate formula. The present study revealed that none of the equations had acceptable accuracy to exactly predict GFR in an elderly population. A new equation is still needed to provide a more accurate estimation of GFR in elderly patients.
Age and body mass are important sources of bias in the prediction. All the equations in our study are based on the SC value. The generation of creatinine is determined primarily by muscle mass and dietary intake. Muscle mass is considered a constant part of total body weight. However, elderly people often have decreased lean body mass and suffer from many chronic diseases associated with decreased muscle mass and SC levels.7 Additionally, elderly patients are often malnourished and Compan et al found that patients classified as malnourished account for 25% of the hospitalized elderly.29 Older and malnourished patients are particularly at risk of having decreased GFR even with normal SC levels.30,31 All of these factors could influence the accuracy of application of the equations. Recent research finds that applying the CG equation corrected by BSA may be more precise than the MDRD equations in patients with malnutrition or inflammation. In the present study, the CG equation had higher accuracy than the other equations; however, it still did not provide acceptable accuracy.
In these prediction equations, the subjects enrolled did not adequately represent subjects older than 70 years of age. The MDRD equation had not been initially validated in older people, and the mean age was 50.6 ± 12.7 years.16 The CG equation was originally established with 249 patients aged 18 to 92 years. Among the patients, only 59 (23%) were over the age of 70 years and women accounted for only 4% of the patients,14 yet when a study was applied in an elderly population to calculate creatinine clearance, most of the subjects were female. A correction factor of 0.85 was proposed for females, according to data from earlier studies, but in Cockcroft and Gault's own study, data on females were extremely limited, so this figure must be considered pure speculation.32 Special attention must be given to the application of equations extended to populations not represented in the original study.
The large percentage of diabetic patients in the present study is also a source of bias. Related investigations found that many of the diabetic patients had a supernormal GFR before the onset of overt clinical diabetic nephropathy and progressive renal insufficiency.33,34 A surrogate marker based on SC cannot effectively detect emerging hyperfiltration in the early phase of diabetic nephropathies.27 In our study, diabetic patients make up 35.7% of the patients, so the remarkable underestimation of actual GFR by formula estimators is, in part, on account of an undetectable hyperfiltration in patients with diabetes; this is consistent with previous results.35,36 Considering the number of elderly patients with diabetes, it is understandable that our results underestimated the actual GFRs.
The methods used to measure SC were different in each study. In the original MDRD study, SC was measured by the CX3 Beckman method.15,16 In the CKD-EPI equation,17 SC was determined by the enzymatic method. The other equations in our study were published long ago, and the methods used for SC measurement have not been available until now.36 In our study, SC was measured using the enzymatic method, different from that in the MDRD study. Several studies have proven that calibration of SC assays can influence the accuracy of MDRD.37,38 Variability among clinical laboratories in the calibration of SC assays results in bias in the estimation of GFR.
In conclusion, our data indicated that when SC was measured by the enzymatic method, none of the equations considered were suitable for use in the elderly Chinese population invested in our study. Further improved formulae are needed to assess GFR in elderly Chinese CKD patients. At present, based on both overall performance and performance in different CKD stages, the CG equation may be the most accurate for use in elderly Chinese patients with CKD.
Project 81070612 was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This work was also supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No 201104335), the Guangdong Science and Technology Plan (Grant No 2011B031800084), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No 11ykpy38).
We would also like to thank the patients involved in this study for their cooperation.
Authors' contributions
Contributions of each author: XL, CGS, ZJC, and TQL, planning of the project; XL, HT, and ZCY, performed the experimental work; XL, MHC, CW, JXC, and CLC, intellectual analysis of the data; XL, writing of the paper.
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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Maryland State Police have responded to more than 700 accidents since Friday, when the first of two blizzards hit the region, said spokesman Greg Shipley.
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My design wall hasn't changed too much since yesterday. I did get a second applique block almost done (just have to stitch around the brown pieces on this one). I am amazed how the applique makes the beige triangles stand out more. I was nervous about adding the applique to this quilt, but I'm loving the result. And now I'm eyeing the first cream border ...
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Wow that applique really sets things off, what a great addition! Can't wait to see how you quilt Labyrinth, I had such fun quilting mine.ReplyDelete
Your Labyrinth looks lovely. Would love to see up close how you quilt it. Your applique looks awesome on your large quilt too.ReplyDelete
Love the appliques, they really make that empty space look just right.ReplyDelete
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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 3313, MARRIAGE PROTECTION ACT OF 2004 -- (House of Representatives - July 22, 2004)
Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 734 and ask for its immediate consideration.
Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this time.
Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this rule, because this debate must be removed from the courts who are filled with unelected, lifetime judges, and the debate should be moved from those courts back into the court of the people, back into the courthouse square instead of in the courthouse.
Mr. Speaker, Congress has the constitutional right to be involved in this process, and I can tell that the debate has already covered that, so I am going to limit my comments. But the Constitution declares that Congress will be involved in making these sorts of decisions in determining what the Federal courts will and will not hear. It was, in fact, that judicial review process that Judge Marshall made in Marbury v. Madison that began the process of judicial review that is not even called for in the Constitution, and judicial review which has extended the power of the courts beyond, beyond, and beyond where the original Framers of the Constitution intended for the courts to have power and, in doing so, have eroded the power of the legislative branch.
Mr. Speaker, we have encountered in our history a very clear, similar case, exactly paralleling what we are doing today. We had a time in our history when there were definitions that the courts began to give, such as the definition of slavery.
It was the Supreme Court that decided in the Dred Scott decision that the issue of slavery involved the will of the minority and said that the will of the minority could not be subjected to the will of the majority. Of course, the courts at that time did a small sleight of hand because the minority that they were talking about was really the minority slave holders, the owners of slaves, and they overlooked the rights of the minority of the slaves themselves. We fought a Civil War over the Supreme Court's definitions at that point.
Instead of really understanding that the will of the people had spoken and the ensuing constitutional amendments, the courts later, in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, established the Separate but Equal Doctrine that again was offensive to the multitudes of people in this country.
Right now we have a Supreme Court that is willing to declare its will on the people no matter what the people say, and I think that the rule is extremely important here, because it begins to take that right back from the Supreme Court and put the discussion in this body who represents and can be elected and unelected by the people. The Supreme Court cannot be unelected, ever, and it is a very critical element of this argument.
But to those people who say this is an emotional issue, they are exactly correct. Our office spent over 20 hours discussing the issue, and we have people inside our office who were on both sides of the issue. But at the end of the day, nature has described what a marriage is. Law only fundamentally defines what nature has already defined: that a man and a woman come together, they create life, and it is the only life-creating institution and the only life-creating relationship in the world, and then the bonding process of that keeps them together in order to nurture and to grow the children and the offspring.
Mr. Speaker, that is the relationship that people are asking about, and it is a good question. Should gays be allowed to marry? Well, yes, they can, and they should be allowed to marry. But marriage, by definition of nature, is between a man and a woman, and if they are going to marry, they have to marry a man or a woman. The discussion is absolutely centered around this question, and it is not a matter of right and it is not a matter of discrimination.
But what the other side of the aisle wants to do is to redefine marriage for all people. It is the redefinition that is wrong, because there is no civil rights abridgement here. Many black leaders are speaking in favor of this. This is the will of the people saying we must have a discussion among the people as to what is marriage and how it is defined.
For these reasons, I support the rule, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, again, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me this time and support the rule.
The comments about conservative-leaning courts just fly in the face of actual fact. This court in Lawrence v. Texas was not exactly right-leaning, and that is a fairly recent decision. In fact, the case of the Congress over being willing to declare what the courts can and cannot look at is a very recent occurrence, as our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to have forgotten that Mr. Daschle himself wrote into the legislation that the court cannot even oversee the removal of shrubbery and scrub brush from the national forest in South Dakota.
And certainly if the Supreme Court and the courts can be held back from considering anything in the management of those forests, it might just reach the threshold that the American people should have the right to say that the Federal courts would not be the last point of reference there.
I would go back again to my friend's comment that quoting the Dred Scott decision is like quoting from the Ku Klux Klan civil rights manual. I think that the mixing of conversations there was certainly not based on fact. The Dred Scott decision was a decision by not a Republican court to establish slavery as the legitimate form of activity in this country. The Dred Scott decision was the one that authorized and made slavery legal, and it was against the will of the people that that was done. And it is similar to the case now where the courts would operate against the will of the people.
Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me time.
I rise to support the rule and the underlying bill. We have got several comments from our friends on the other side of the aisle that definitely demand a closer look. First, the statement that this side of the aisle is bringing this highly charged issue up right now as an electionary issue. I am sorry, but it was not this side of the body that began to cause people to go down in acts of defiance of the law, began to get licenses and get marriages approved that were currently against the law. It was not this side of the aisle that brought those up. We are simply responding that now that the issue has come up, we need to deal with it.
Also, there was a comment that we are diminishing democracy, and absolutely the opposite thing is occurring. We are empowering the democracy and we are empowering the people. But the other side is working under the very knowledge and the very truth that if they can find one court and four judges they can create law in this country. That is not empowering democracy. This bill and this rule empower democracy.
Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, wrapping up my comments for this part of the debate, I again rise to support the rule and the underlying bill.
This bill does not favor or disfavor any particular result or any group of people. It is motivated by the desire to preserve for the States the authority to decide whether the shield Congress enacted to protect them from having to accept same-sex marriage licenses out of State will hold.
This bill does not eliminate any group from the Constitution, but instead, recognizes the 10th amendment of the Constitution which declares that all rights are reserved for the States except those which are specifically given to the Federal Government.
I would comment that the observations of the last gentleman are completely contrary to the 10th amendment of the Constitution.


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how do i see hard drive usage in a circle graph?
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If you mean how much space is being taken up, go to Computer, right click the disk and select properties.
If you mean Disk usage, type "resource monitor" without quotes into your start menu search, click it, and in the overview tab, find Disk. This is not a circle graph, but I wouldn't know why you would want a circle graph for something like this.
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You can try this free software called WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics.
This wont show you disk usage in circles but in rectangular blocks.
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- Explore the French Quarter: This historic district is home to some of the city's most well-known hot spots and jazz clubs. Barhop your way down Bourbon Street, or stop by Cafe Du Monde for beignets.
- Ride a streetcar: The Canal line stops a few blocks from the hotel; it'll take you to the New Orleans Museum of Art.
- Grab a bite: There are plenty of dining options right at your doorstep—for a taste of creole and Cajun cuisines, try crayfish étouffée or shrimp-and-crab gumbo at Bon Ton Café.
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You don't have to look far to see that when Venus Vapor began marketing their products in early 2013, they wanted to bring back that old school sexiness of cigarette smoking, but in e-cigarette form. Their site says as much, explaining that nobody forgets that "sophisticated image of Audrey Hepburn with a cigarette in Breakfast at Tiffany's or the final scene of Grease when Sandy enters looking incredibly sexy with her cig." They even produced an ecig commercial with a sultry blonde who takes the cigarette out of her man's mouth and snuffs it out, handing him a Venus Vapor e-cigarette to try instead. The message is clear, e-cigarettes are the new, sexier, way to smoke and Venus Vapor is the ultimate in that elegance.
Apparently, Venus Vapor also knows that colors are attractive. Their main electronic cigarette starter kit comes in a bevy of bright color options for customers to choose from. This kit, called the Venus original, comes with 1 clearomizer, two e-cigarette batteries (a 650mAh and a 900mAh version), and both a USB charger and wall adapter. This is their most basic kit, so you can tell by now that they do not carry "cig-a-like" products. Venus Vapor has a product lineup that is filled with mini-tank or clearomizer systems. The next step up will buy you a mini venus kit, which comes with 2 900mAh batteries that are slimmed down when compared to their original kit batteries. These ecig batteries also feature an LCD display.
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Twelve people, including four children, have been found suffocated and stabbed to death in a suspected mass murder in a house in southern Russia, investigators said on Friday.
Investigators made the horrific discovery Friday in a two-storey house in the village of Kushchevskaya in the southern Krasnodar region, the investigative committee of prosecutors said in a statement.
"According to preliminary information, the death of a young child was caused by toxic gas and another was strangled. The deaths of the other 10 were caused by multiple stab wounds," it said.
Traces of fires had been found in the house, it added.
Initial reports had said that all 12 had been killed in a fire in the house but the new statement confirmed that fire was not the immediate cause of death.
The committee said it has opened a murder investigation, describing the crime as being of "particular brutality". Further details on the circumstances were not immediately available.


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Ashley – Impulsive Behaviour w/t – Ashley has ADHD. He can't hold down a job and struggles to contain his behaviour. But there's one thing he is exceptionally good at – he is training to compete at the London 2012 Olympics in judo. Now the Olympics are on the horizon, his behaviour has never been so critical. We follow him as he moves in with his new coach, a tough, no-nonsense ex-Olympian, and there is no escape from the intense daily grind of training.
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Built for action and performance, the Mongoose Legion L80 is a tough freestyle BMX bike ready to take on the park, the pavement, the street, or the track.
The chromoly and high-tensile steel Tri-Moly frame is strong and reliable, and the 9T cassette hub, mid-sealed bearing, three-piece tubular chromoly crank, and KMC Z410 chain provide you with the power and responsiveness you need for that ultimate stunt.
The alloy U-type rear brake stops you smoothly, and the 20" alloy wide wheels are perfectly matched with BMX tyres for a smooth and precise ride. Add in high-tensile steel handlebars with Hive grips and a top-loading stem and a Mongoose Unifier saddle with integrated seat post, and the Legion L80 is stylish, tough, and designed for performance.
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