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This reminds me of a lulzy line in Yellow Eyes, by Tom Kratman: Will we be male or female? asked the AID. We shall be female, came the answer, as are most like us. Russian warships are male but they are mostly gay. Quote:
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I think when you get right down to it there's quite a bit of stuff in Muv Luv which may owe something to the Yukikaze series. |
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Like how modern technothrillers owe to the work by Coonts and Clancy, and how practically every Cold War gone hot scenario borrows from Sir John Hackett's The Third World War and Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond.
Actually, mentioning Yukikaze, it does appear that it was an influence, especially given how geeky Kouki has been with the TSF backstories. |
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Happy Chinese New Year to all! Sasahar17 has completed the next installment of Muv-Luv: Do You Remember Luv!
Do enjoy! And yes, I also BETAed this fic XD Muv-Luv: DYRL - Valkyries. |
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Oh man, John117XCortana... you have no idea. Spoiler for ML:DYRL, Boening F-15E-OT Over Eagle Writeup:
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*Goose is shot by a sniper TSF* Spoiler for Boening F-15E-OT Over Eagle Writeup:
*big grin* Like I said in our emails, really digging the final version, and the recognition that life is full of tradeoffs. Speaking of which... Spoiler for Visiting:
2013-02-12, 10:04 | Link #710 |
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Hmm, I'm surprised that Vincent didn't use something like the Linear Actuators on the Over-Eagle for ease of maintenance. Good god, a Type-00 would be an easier machine to use with that in it.
How did Tatsumi get shot down anyways? I would have thought that the Stealth Systems on the Valkyries would have made them hard to find with radar. And oh, can we expect an Armored Shiranui? |
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All that Dakka comes with a cost unfortunately.
…Like an angry crew chief and store officer who wants to gut the trigger happy pilot who just came back in his Over Eagle like a fish. One is 'pretty angry' because the pilot just ruined the hot rod paint job the tech crew lovingly put on its armor as dented a good part of the well as their custom stenciled 'Delta Force owns your ass' emblem they had on the torso. The other is mouth forming furious because that yahoo of a pilot just fired over 100,000 36mm shells, a few dozen micro missiles, 1000 rounds .50 BMG and guzzled enough fuel to fill a swimming pool in one outing and the budget just got shanked. I always thought Vinnie was too nice of a technician, because back in my NS days, I remember how 'upset' I would get when the operators came to me with something that was perfectly okay a few moments ago.. Quote:
Well, I'm not sure if liner actuators would help much, since the main problem comes from it being the base Strike Eagle pimped out with more stuff to make shootier. It's a resource hog, that's the problem. Still, that's pretty funny: a Type-00 would be harder to build but ironically easier to keep running since it doesn't drink fuel and consume ammo like the Over Eagle. Quote:
Yeah I forgot about those. I'll work the VF Fubiki and the Armored Shiranui in if I can. Armored Shirnui… heh. Japan's answer to the Over Eagle maybe? Quote:
NO! Who did this!? Who dares!? It was just getting g- *Sound of 1200mm Horizon cannon firing, and Sasahar17 disappearing into a red mushroom cloud* Last edited by sasahar17; 2013-02-12 at 10:14. Reason: Reply to Eagle Blue worked in. |
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Wait, Vincent didn't take into account that the Over-Eagles will fight with blades or knives? Quote:
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Still keep in mind that as of -Valkyries- Vinnie is in Dover , home of the Eurofighter, Haggis and jolly good German people. Now to find some of that famed German engineering... |
2013-02-12, 11:41 | Link #714 |
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My God that was a good fanfic.
I love there's a one sided rivalry with Yuuko's Valkyries hating Yui's Valkyries for becoming the new Tier 1 group. Now who will snatch Hibiki before who knows what will ruin it?
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"Spooky-1 here. Target confirmed. FCO, hit 'em with the 105." "Roger pilot, engaging with 105. Firing. *Goose is killed by AC-130U* "Good effect on target. He's gone." |
2013-02-14, 13:10 | Link #716 |
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To the writer Macross X Muv luv cross over
looks it even age's Trade mark english so your the faceless protag in solo unit going into godforsaken hive infiltration .... But you have the power of love supporting you ....and crap load of missiles hope to see Takeru and of A01 in the fanfic |
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I doubt I will be see Takeru in this fic because there is another enigmatic Shirogane and if Takeru shows up then Alt IV shouldn't be having problems at all because it should be producing results but in this fic. Its not progressing at all. I feel it will be like in unlimited specially when Hibiki is telling story about humanity going to space.
They should hijack the space carrier for Alt V and use it to go to space. But really......... I'm having problems with Valkyrie project because it won't show immediate redemption and way to attack the beta unlike unit 00. The project Valkyrie will take time before the counter attack begun. But nonetheless its an awesome fic. Like Yuzuka and Hibiki moments.
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...the BETA have arrived. Anyone up to write a BETA invasion in the real world fic?
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Is the united goes to -- right analysts -- -- -- that relates to the other side of the equation social insurance is a myth.
There are no trust funds there's just confetti paper of two point seven trillion.
That we're gonna have to Levy on taxpayers someday to pay off those so called assets.
Social insurance is a huge myth nobody -- -- -- security -- -- I would radically means tested I would cut it by a couple of hundred billion.
I would reduce the number of people who are affluent and -- you know there's 55 million people getting Social Security or Medicare today.
Reduce that dramatically grandfathered editors are not people know I don't know -- can't because we're broke.
You know art when you hear these AW goes out -- 3040 years is -- security because even -- and it's about taking it away because I'll be that SOB because the everyone who is taking here right now after thirty years didn't pay for what they're getting the payroll tax was never close.
To what would fine on an actuary.
Any added that it takes three years for you to get everything that people every year for many higher especially so what I'm saying is.
If we get rid of social insurance radically means test Medicare and Social Security we cut hundreds of billions.
Then defense it's crazy it's 670 billion go back to what I call the Eisenhower minimum.
400 billion in today's dollars inflated dollars is what Eisenhower said was enough in 1960 when -- -- up begins and we -- these -- Report that as -- the Breda yet so -- Republicans don't wanna touch that Democrats don't wanna touch the entitlement programs and here we've been.
And 10-Q and then you have Obama saying we need a hundred billion -- green energy.
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All of this nutty stuff that's been going on for solar electric cars what what it's not -- -- -- government do.
The government ought to provide minimally for the defense in -- foreign policy that is non interventionist and stays out of the affairs of the cellular carrier.
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What are we doing there after ten years Iraq was a total waste of lives in Frazier.
So the point is the military industrial complex as part of the problem that needs to be shrunk.
And social insurance supported by organized labor and the liberals is the other side -- the spending problem.
In -- to be radically changed in if we don't get at the military industrial complex and social insurance were kidding ourselves.
The budget is just gonna roll on the deficits are going to grow.
Then once I tonight as much of them are at least Soviet countries stands -- -- room -- I don't see any of big guns of them happens.
Well I think that's why I say the budget is a doomsday machine.
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I don't see it -- he easily I see a constant political battle every year there's going to be a debt ceiling prices.
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-- -- -- -- you know you can have a dictatorship.
You basically gonna have to have a bad blow up in the financial markets.
If they don't comment yes I do because when I blame Bernanke more than anybody else for this whole mess providing -- easy money when he says you can borrow money.
For three years to pay the federal deficit at thirty basis points -- surrounding -- to congress that zero.
Why is anybody gonna stand up to social insurance the military industrial complex the -- subsidies which are ridiculous.
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I am glad to see that "lol" and "well" are taking the realities of our nation seriously.
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You know I am glad you are "against" O being relected, but I would encourage you to not be so flip and insulting. Not too many peeps are going to be swayed by your disrespect.
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I have to agree with you 100%. Welfare has become a PERMANENT way of life for too many WV people. Not a temporary assistance but generation after generation of give me. OBamba has these people right where he wants them. WV better wake up and forget partisanship and vote for our country and WV's future!! |
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how could anyone be stupid enough to vote for thomblin after the gross mishandling of emergency management during and after the july storms??? a 10 year old could have done a better job!!!! we were eligable for fema help in the form of food cost replacement, reimbursment for storm supplies, and unemployment benefits(under an emergency fund) for work loss. all gov thomblin had to do was request individual assistance for us. he did..over a month later. he asked for help with road repair 1st and then reimbursment for cities and govt. long after the storm was over, he requested individual help for us...go figure!!! but he DID!!!!! give all food stamp receivers a new set of stamps!!! hoorah for the welfare people, the hell with the working poor!!!!! anyone ever wonder why it took a week to get a bag or ice??????????
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SVA was well represented at the recent New York Comic Con, where the College hosted two booths and many students, alumni, faculty and staff members participated. The event, attended by over 130,000 guests, featured panel discussions and appearances by a range of creative talent. The MFA Visual Narrative Department's booth showcased work by faculty and current students who were available to chat about the program's curriculum and their experience at SVA. The BFA Cartooning and BFA Illustration departments hosted a booth where students sold original comics and spoke to attendees about the college.
"This year's Comic Con was the biggest and best I've ever seen in New York," said Angie Wojak, Director of Career Development. "There was so much great SVA talent on display. Rebecca Sugar (BFA 2009 Animation) spoke about her work as a writer and storyboard artist on the wildly successful Adventure Time and discussed her new series, Steven Universe. Bill Plympton (1969 Cartooning) spoke about his experience funding his latest animation project through Kickstarter. The convention also offered a rich and diverse series of workshops for young professionals including sessions on how to get press coverage for small presses and how to manage one's career as an emerging artist and author in comics."
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Well-known Australian pianist Mr Ian Munro has been named the latest winner of the Jean Bogan Prize for Piano Composition.
The winning composition will be featured at a concert held by the Conservatorium on Friday 20 May at 6pm.
The winning three piece suite entitled Letter to a Friend will be played by a guest performer, Sydney Conservatorium senior lecturer Daniel Herscovitch.
The $8,000 prize has been funded by a generous bequest of $100,000, which was left to the University of Newcastle in 2002 by Mr Laurence Charles Bogan.
Mr Bogan's bequest is an extension of his original donation in 1989, when he created the prize as a memorial to his late wife Jean's love for piano. The prize recognises an original and outstanding solo composition by an Australian composer.
Mr Munro says he is honoured to receive the prize and has dedicated his composition to all of his friends.
"Letter to a Friend is the result of an ongoing interest in the poetry of Judith Wright, whose work captures the beauty and spirit of the Australian country," Mr Munro said.
The inaugural Jean Bogan Youth Prize is also being presented at the concert. This prize aims to encourage piano composers less than 25 years of age.
The Youth Prize, which is worth $1,500, has been awarded to Chris Williams for his composition Two Episodes.
The University of Newcastle's Head of Drama, Fine Art and Music, Professor Richard Vella, said the prizes are a wonderful encouragement for emerging Australian musicians.
As well as the winning compositions, the concert will feature the highly commended piece, Mark Isaac's Miniatures & Variations, which will be performed by Sydney Symphony Orchestra's principal keyboardist, Josephine Allan.
Tickets to the concert can be bought at the door. The concert starts at 6pm with drinks being served in the foyer from 5pm.
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But yeah, hi. Call me Fin. Or Forever, people have begun to call me that. Ever since I started RPing when I was eight I have wanted to find a huge site like this, filled with RPs that are constantly and consistently active...I think I would be feeling euphoria right now if it wasn't late and my brain wasn't running on Redbull. I love reading, I love Pokemon, I love Digimon, I LOVE ASSASSIN'S CREED. Seriously, amazing series. I really enjoy gaming in general, over Cyber Monday I bought Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, and Saints Row 3 for cheap. My steam library is filled with games. I've been stockpiling on singleplayer games lately, because I'm moving and won't have a good internet connection for games like CoD and Halo for a bit.. I think not being able to play Halo will be the hardest hit. I first played Halo 2 when I was... 13, I believe. It was the first multiplayer game I played and I loved it. The first game I played was Spyro, I believe. I remember Jack and Daxter, Ratchet and Klink, and Sly Cooper took up a lot of time when I was younger...oh, and Final Fantasy. Yeeeees, Final Fantasy. You know, I bought Bioshock on Steam lately and I've been meaning to play it but I haven't...my steam library is filled with games waiting to be played. Which is good, I'll fare better when I move this way.
Sorry, I started to babble...anyways, I love writing. And the Walking Dead. I haven't read since Issue 100, I'm still really mad that you know what happened. I liked that guy. I like the show, but I think I like the comic a bit more. Some aspects of the show are better, of course. Oh my gosh, Andrew Lincoln's acting in the episode with that phone after you know what happened was incredible. Like, it was just blatantly amazing acting. I don't like the person that's playing Michonne, she isn't presenting the character very well.
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Becky Richardson and Jeana Futrell of TLC show "Myrtle Manor"
The premiere of the reality TV series "Welcome to Myrtle Manor" airs Sunday night. The show brings together a number of characters with a wide range of personalities like Becky Richardson and Jeana Futrell, who also happen to own the property.
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October means archery deer hunting
I probably look forward to October more than any other month of the year. I enjoy the change of seasons, the fall colors that turn the countryside into a pastel landscape, the cooling temperatures, and most of all – it's the beginning of the annual archery deer season.
The Massachusetts archery deer season opens this Monday morning and I'll be hunting at my favorite spot. There are four of us who hunt this particular property, but only three of us will hunt opening morning. The fourth guy has to work.
Legal light will be 6:26 AM, so the three of us will park at the gate at 5:15 AM. This will mean a longer walk to our stands than if we drove in and used a parking area closer to the woods. But, it adds a significant degree of stealth to the hunt. Being able to get into the woods and make it to your stand without the deer knowing you're there is important. If we drove in and parked at the more convenient location, we would almost certainly be heard and seen by some deer.
We will all be sitting in fixed treestands that have been set up for more than a month. I'll be in my favorite stand. It's a rock-solid fixed stand that's 25 feet up an oak tree in the middle of a veritable rotary of deer trails. The stand is about 150 yards into woods that border agricultural fields. I've taken more deer from this stand than I can remember, including some nice bucks.
An important side note - prior to starting up the tree on the climbing sticks, I will hook my Tree Spider Safety Harness to a Hunter Safety System Lifeline. That's not an ad for those products. I just want to emphasize the need for hunting safely. I have a wife, kids and grandkids. I don't want them to have to deal with a tragedy like the ones I read about over this past week - hunters falling out of treestands to their death. Hopefully, everyone who hunts from a treestand will use a safety harness.
Back to the hunt… At precisely 6:26 AM, I'll stand up, nock an arrow, and attach my release to the string loop on the bowstring. I will then remain standing and be ready to draw for the entire first hour of legal light. Experience has taught me that bucks - particularly BIG bucks - move quickly when going through the woods to their bedding area. If I'm not ready to draw, there's a good chance a buck would get past me before I could even get my release on the string loop.
The forecast is for mostly cloudy skies, warm temperatures and an 18mph SSW wind. Those aren't ideal conditions, but they'll work. The most important consideration is the wind direction, and any westerly wind will work for me.
If I'm lucky, within an hour of sunrise I'll be pulling out my radio and calling my two buddies to let them know I got a nice buck. Monday morning can't come soon enough!
Jim Mathes grew up in northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains, where he fished for trout in rivers and streams, and hunted blacktail deer with his uncle and cousins. For the past 20 years, he has hunted primarily whitetail deer and wild turkeys in southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.


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Remembering the Language of History and Science: When the World Spoke Arabic
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Figure 1: Professor Jim Al-Khalili, British Theoretical Nuclear Physicist, Academic, Author and Broadcaster, browsing through the book 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in our World (FSTC, 2006) (Source).
The programme on Science and Islam is presented by Jim Al-Khalili, a well known scientist himself. It is a one hour program following Rageh Omaar's documentary; it will be repeated same night on 5 January 2009 and after midnight. The show deals more specifically with the Islamic contribution to the progress of science and technology and shows how the Islamic world increased scientific knowledge between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili travels through Syria, Iran, Tunisia and Spain to tell the story of the great leap in scientific knowledge that took place in the Islamic world between the 8th and 14th centuries.
Its legacy is tangible, with terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali all being Arabic in origin and at the very heart of modern science –there would be no modern mathematics or physics without algebra, no computers without algorithms and no chemistry without alkalis.
Figure 2: Poster of the BBC Four series Science and Islam presented by Jim Al-Khalili.
When the Islamic Empire established itself, from the 7th century CE onwards, its rulers made gathering the world's knowledge a top priority. Islamic scholars travelled the known world in search of mathematical, medical, astronomical and philosophical texts.
By the 8th and 9th centuries, the ruling elite of Baghdad organised regular debates between scholars. At these vibrant events, all kinds of ideas, often from other civilisations and cultural traditions, were debated, discussed and even radically improved.
The scientific legacy of this extraordinary time lives on. Terms like algebra, algorithm and alkali, are all Arabic in origin and are at the heart of modern science.
The story thus told pieced together a remarkable story of the often-overlooked achievements of the early medieval Islamic scientists.
Figure 3: Rageh Omaar, British television news presenter and writer, in Granada, Spain (© BBC) (Source).
In this documentary, Rageh Omaar seeks to reconstruct the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning.
Beginning in Spain, where the brilliant Andalusian civilisation flourished, Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to reveal the vibrant civilisation that Muslims brought to the West.
This evocative film brings to life a time when emirs and caliphs dominated Spain and Sicily and Islamic scholarship swept into the major cities of Europe. His journey reveals the debt owed to Islam for its vital contribution to the European Renaissance.
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Twenty-eight alumni from three Department of State high-school exchange programs are eager to return to their home countries to teach English in their communities. These students from 16 countries came to the United States last summer to attend American high schools for an academic year while living with host families from across the United States as part of the American Serbia and Montenegro (A-SMYLE), Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX), and Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) programs. They were selected through a competitive process to participate in a one-week English teacher training workshop held in Washington, D.C., April 14-20. This is the first of three such workshops to be held through 2015.
Through presentations, peer teaching activities, and observation of local English as a second language (ESL) classrooms for youth and adults, participants learned classroom management and leadership skills. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' (ECA) Office of English Language Programs conducted sessions on English-teaching basics, student-centered teaching methods, and integrating technology into the classroom. They also introduced students to resources and materials to use in their teaching, such as the Trace Effects 3D video game and the award winning American English website. Feeds through Facebook, Twitter, and blogging platforms promoted and amplified the workshop. Alumni of the workshop will become part of a corps of "non-professional English language volunteers" that ECA seeks to build, and they will be connected with Regional English Language Officers for advice and mentoring. Workshop alumni will also have the opportunity to work with students in the English Access Microscholarship program, which provides a foundation of English language skills to talented youth from economically disadvantaged sectors.
The students were grateful for the experience to meet and work with peers from so many countries, and the knowledge, skills, and confidence they gained. They were also unanimously surprised at how challenging teaching is and developed a new-found appreciation for their teachers. They all have action plans for when they return home and are committed to bringing back the American volunteer spirit to their countries. Mishal from Pakistan already has students waiting for her in her father's native village, and says she's "inspired to share the treasure of English" and make a difference.


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The 2nd Part of the UNIX-g33ks series.
FreeBSD Essentials (started 09/19/2010)
The series will now focus on FreeBSD specific topics, extending where UNIX essentials left off. The sessions will be broken up as follows:-
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What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Medicines, such as cimetidine (Tagamet), male and female hormones (testosterone, estrogen), sulfasalazine, nitrofurantoin, and some chemotherapy medicines.
- Caffeine, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, and smoking tobacco.
- Herbal medicines, such as St. John's wort and high doses of echinacea.
- A semen sample that gets cold. The sperm motility value will be inaccurately low if the semen sample gets cold.
- Exposure to radiation, some chemicals (such as certain pesticides or spermicides), and prolonged heat exposure.
- An incomplete semen sample. This is more common if a sample is collected by methods other than masturbation.
- Not ejaculating for several days. This may affect the semen volume.
What To Think About
- A semen sample collected at home must be received at the laboratory or clinic within 1 hour. Keep the sample out of direct sunlight and do not allow it to get cold or hot. If it is a cold day, carry the semen sample container against your body to keep it as close to body temperature as possible. Do not refrigerate the semen sample.
- Consistently detecting sperm in the semen of a man who has had a vasectomy means that his surgery was not successful, and another form of birth control should be used to prevent pregnancy. A low number of sperm may be present in a semen sample taken right after a vasectomy. But sperm should not be present in subsequent samples.
- A man whose mother took the medicine diethylstilbestrol (DES) during her pregnancy with him has a greater-than-normal risk of being unable to father a child (infertile).
- Additional tests may include measuring hormone levels, such as testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), or prolactin. For more information, see the topics Testosterone, Luteinizing Hormone, Follicle-Stimulating Hormone, and Prolactin.
- Other fertility testing, including sperm penetration, the presence of antisperm antibodies, or analysis after sexual intercourse (postcoital), may be recommended for infertility problems. For more information, see the topic Infertility Testing.
Related Information
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby?s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
Other Works Consulted
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Fritz MA, Speroff L (2011). Male infertility. In Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, 8th ed., pp. 1249-1292. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby?s Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby.
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I can already feel it coming. A "Spring Bounce". No matter that this bounce -- really more of a pause in the correction -- won't be they type of bounce Realtors point to as typical seasonality. No matter that this bounce won't be based on fundamentals, not even on technicals, but only on hopes. Regardless, the industry message that it's now time to buy will echo through the media and shake the confidence of many who've marginally been waiting out the bubble.
And it should shake the confidence of every one of us. Or at least prod our confidence a little bit. Intelligent people always reserve some room for doubt; recognize that it's always possible that they were wrong. The bubble-sitter who lacks any doubt at all about their choice to sit it out is just as foolish as the blissfully ignorant, debt ridden bubble-buyer.
Economically, this is more an extension of price stickiness driven by market psychology. Sellers are hesitant to sell because they perceive prices are weak now, but they also perceive that prices should stabilize or go up sometime soon. In the Spring, to be precise. This should (and already is to a small degree) stimulate marginal buyers into capitulating. Call it a ratchet on the way down the correction curve.
But, don't be so hard on your fellow bubble-sitters as they inevitably voice doubts. Doubts about how sharp of a correction to expect, how fast prices will come down, how long they will need to wait. Doubts about whether it's all been worth it. These are honest questions many of us will be asking ourselves as the resolve of our convictions are tested, yet again.
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'Annual Accountability Hearing with the General Medical Council (HC 1429)' reports on the annual accountability hearings with the General Medical Council (GMC).
The Health Committee call for doctors to develop a wider responsibility for the overall quality of care delivered to patients as they have an obligation as professionals to report to their professional body any concerns they have about the quality of care being delivered by their colleagues.
The GMC must give a strong lead in this area and ensure that failure to act on this responsibility is regarded as a serious breach of professional obligation.
The Committee stresses that the GMC need to have effective revalidation processes in place so that they can periodically check on how doctors are performing.
Government and the GMC must speed up efforts to resolve the serious problems posed by doctors who qualify elsewhere in Europe, and earn the right to work in the UK without having their language or medical skills tested.
The UK and European law that underpins the workings of the GMC needs a complete overhaul.
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text: AlertHow Does MSF Respond to an Emergency, Logistically Speaking?January 31, 2013This article is part of the Winter 2013 issue of the MSF Alert newsletter. USA 2012 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF A report from the logistics team at MSF-USA. The first thing MSF does is evaluate the medical needs on site. Based on those needs, we formulate our logistical response. MSF has worked hard to create agile and flexible systems that can mobilize people and resources quickly and efficiently. Among our tools are the logistics "kits" we have at our supply centers in Bordeaux, France, and Ostende, Belgium. They're pre-organized according to past experiences and range from office kits, which include items such as paper, pencils, and chairs, to medical supply kits, which include surgical instruments, drugs, etc. We also have water and sanitation kits with latrine platforms, water bladders, and pumps. The kits come in different sizes to correspond to different populations. We have a cholera kit with enough materials to cover a population of 10,000, for example. Multiple kits can be ordered for larger populations or programs. "We send materials by sea, air, or foot, depending on what's being sent and when it needs to get there." A field assessment team recommends which and how many kits to order to the field coordination office and headquarters. In some emergencies, field teams request kits directly from the supply center, but in most cases, the requests are validated by headquarters to help ensure nothing is forgotten. When confirmed, the order is sent to a procurement center. Items that can be purchased locally, like building materials, are procured at the field level. We send materials by sea, air, or foot, depending on what's being sent and when it needs to get there. If it's a three-month emergency vaccination campaign, for example, the first shipment might go by air, followed by a second shipment by sea. Existing programs may order emergency preparedness kits in anticipation of emergency needs. The most sensitive items, such as computers or communication devices, are usually carried by field staff traveling from headquarters. Regional supply centers in places like Kenya and Panama help facilitate transport and warehousing of supplies. They also ensure that drugs are kept at appropriate temperatures. Drugs are mainly procured by European offices to guarantee consistency and quality; the supply centers in France and Belgium are each licensed to procure and distribute pharmaceuticals. More generally, a centralized ordering system helps us guarantee an inventory and helps us respond rapidly because it means staff in different projects use the same materials, rather than constantly having to learn how to use something new. We've made a lot of improvements over the years, but challenges still remain and we'll have to keep evolving our methods. We can't just think that because we've done a good job in the past, we'll continue to do a good job in the future. Related:Tags: How MSF Works, Logistician |


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