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This week's Inside the Vault is about Gavin Carter, our lead producer on Fallout 3. Gavin is responsible for one of my favorite Elder Scrolls quests – Tribunal's A Star is Born, which involved the player acting in a play. We tried to reprise the concept of the "play" quest for Oblivion, but unfortunately, it ended up on the cutting room floor. Gavin has been involved with Fallout 3's development from the very start, and he will be responsible for getting it to the finish line, as well (No pressure, Gav).
This will be our last Inside the Vault for 2007. I believe these interviews are a great way to learn more about the passionate, fascinating people working here at the studio. I hope you've enjoyed reading about them as much as I have.
What's your job at Bethesda?
I'm the lead producer on Fallout 3. The easiest way to describe it is to think of it as more or less "Head of Communications" for Fallout as far as the development team goes. My job involves working with our department producers and leads to communicate task requirements, schedules, and ongoing status updates to the team, along with making sure everyone has everything they need to do their job efficiently.
What other games have you worked on?
I worked on Morrowind and Tribunal as an intern, then came on full-time shortly after Oblivion got off the ground. I've been working on Fallout 3 since day one of the project, and it became my sole concern pretty much the day Oblivion went gold.
What was the best part about working as a producer? The worst part?
The best part is, more than any other discipline, production lets you see game development from every angle available. On any given day, I might be hounding a programmer to fix a nasty physics bug, going over new creature textures with artists, listening to a brand new track that from our composer, interviewing a potential new hire, discussing some interface element in a meeting with programmers, artists, and designers together, or any of dozens of other things. You can get your hands into a lot of tasty pies.
The worst part is that as producer, it's your job to keep all of those various areas together and working in step with each other. In a loose sense, a producer has the sum responsibility of everyone they manage. So when you're working towards big deadlines, the pressure can start to build exponentially as you try to manage and communicate the hundreds or thousands of data points that are constantly changing under you each and every moment of the day.
How did you get into the industry? Do you have any tips for breaking in?
Back in my high school and college days, I was a good old-fashioned internet fanboy and I worked on fansites for several different games. I was a Daggerfall fan, so when I saw the Morrowind announcement, I started working on a site for it the very same day. Destination: Morrowind became one of the top sites for Morrowind news, and through it and the official forums I got to know some people on the team in an informal manner.
In college, I was looking for work over the summer when I saw Bethesda had posted an ad for a marketing intern. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but it was a foot in the door, so I set about badgering Pete for more information. In fact, I guess I badgered him so much that he talked to Todd about it. Todd was looking for interns to help out with the game itself, so things just kind of came together and I was offered an intern position for the summer, actually working on Morrowind. I guess they liked me, since they asked me back the next summer to work on Tribunal.
As college was coming to an end, I dropped Todd an email, asking if they'd consider bringing me on full-time. His response was "Thanks… But we're full!" Doh! So I spent a few months living with my parents and interviewing for web development gigs. I was probably within days of taking a soul-sucking job as an ASP.NET programmer for some horrible direct marketing firm when I got "The Call" from Todd saying they were looking to add an associate producer. Haven't looked back since.
As for breaking into the industry, there's no silver bullet other than simply to be really good at what you do. Of course, you have to start somewhere. The first step is always be a consummate gamer. Play everything, and know what you like and why. Few things will deflate an interview faster than someone saying that they don't really play games in their spare time. For producers, the best advice is to learn as much about the process of making games as possible. You can't schedule programmers without a basic understanding of coding, and you can't schedule artists without an understanding of Max and Photoshop. Finally, if you're interviewing for a company, please make sure you have at least passing familiarity with the games that they make. I can understand if you don't have intimate knowledge of every detail, but don't sit down and ask "So what kind of game was The Morrowind Scrolls anyway?"
What would you say is your personal favorite game of all time?
Karnov! I poured some serious hours into that fire-breathing Russian. Seriously though, this is a tough question because there are so many games that I enjoyed tremendously over the years. The ones that I remember playing the life out of are games like Final Fantasy 2 and 3 (the American numbers), Cybernator, the Might and Magic Xeen and Heroes games, Master of Orion 2, the first two Quest for Glory games, and Pool of Radiance. The games that influenced how I think about making games run more along the lines of Ultima 4-7, Wing Commander 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate 2, X-Com, Blade Runner, and a couple little-known cultish games called Fallout and Wasteland.
What games are you looking forward to?
There's a whole slate of post-apocalyptic games coming up that I'm looking forward to. Gearbox's Borderlands sounds very ambitious and I like the focus on co-op. I'm excited to see what id does with their game, Rage, as well. The tech looks great, and the words "post-apocalyptic racing game" get my nerd engine firing on all cylinders. Mostly I like surprises – the Katamaris, the Witchers, the Bioshocks. The games that just kind of come from nowhere and catch fire. I am also keeping my fingers crossed for more Peggle. Lots and lots more Peggle, please!
What makes you get out of bed in the morning?
Usually my cat putting her blasted paws in my face. She's got a major sense of entitlement about that whole breakfast thing. Beyond that, I get up every weekday at 6AM and hit the gym. There's little I hate more than getting up earlier than absolutely necessary, especially during the winter. But I find that spending a couple hours there wakes me up, keeps me in shape, and I feel like any day that starts under a couple hundred pounds on a squat rack can only get better from there.
Worst job you've ever had?
Working on a roller coaster at an amusement park was pretty bad. Not just because of standing up all day long in the heat or mandatory public restroom cleaning duty, but mostly just the random awfulness that occurred each and every day. For instance, having a kid projectile vomit all over me, getting supremely cursed out in front of everyone in line by a mother whose child came off the ride crying, and having to ask a gentlemen in line if he might consider, you know, wearing pants. A close second would be doing tech-support for a small-town ISP. Particularly the time when I accidentally deleted some woman's entire email archive, including tens of thousands of dollars in grant applications.
Any other hobbies and interests? What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
Most of my hobbies outside work revolve around being a huge mediaphile. I love consuming books, dvds, TV shows, music, anime (the good ones, at least), and lots of games. I love to travel, especially for treks and camping in exotic places. I did a four-day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru, and I would love to climb Kilimanjaro next. I also want to start playing guitar again. I played for a few years when I was younger, but gradually gave it up. There's a broken but beautiful Ibanez Talman guitar sitting at home, and I've just been too cheap and lazy to get it fixed up. I imagine it silently weeping each time I reach for my Guitar Hero controller.


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Now that the dust has settled a little from the 2013 season and the Saints have made their first offseason moves — terminating the contracts of Will Smith, Jabari Greer and Roman Harper — here are five areas of need with the start of free agency approaching. Teams can begin negotiating with potential free agents on March 8 and the signing period begins March 11:
1. Look for cornerback help
After releasing Greer on Feb. 12, the Saints are seriously thin at this position. They're solid on one side with Keenan Lewis, their top free-agent acquisition in 2013, but former first-round draft pick Patrick Robinson, like Greer, suffered a serious knee injury. Third-year pro Corey White finished the season as the starter, but there isn't much else there — especially if Robinson is slow to return. This has to be the top priority on that side of the ball, either in free agency or the draft.
2. Find another tackle
The Saints like what they have in third-round draft pick Terron Armstead on the left side. He struggled early after being inserted into the lineup in Week 16, but showed that he can be the guy there for a long time. The question is on the right side, where three-year starter Zach Strief is a UFA and could bolt if the right offer comes his way. Still, they could use help as former starter Charles Brown is a UFA and will likely look for a change of scenery and Bryce Harris is the only capable backup.
3. Add some depth at defensive end
With Cameron Jordan making the Pro Bowl this season after piling up 12.5 sacks and Akiem Hicks settling into a starting role in Rob Ryan's 3-4 scheme, the Saints appear set with two young players as the cornerstones of the line. But they don't have a lot of quality depth with the oft-injured Tom Johnson and Tyrunn Walker behind them. Rookie Glenn Foster showed some promise after making the team as an undrafted free agent, but the Saints may be able to find more suitable help in the draft.
4. Find a young receiver to groom for the future
Marques Colston and Lance Moore carry big salary cap numbers and both will be 31 when the regular season starts. The Saints may have already drafted their replacements in Nick Toon and Kenny Stills although Toon didn't contribute much in 2013. Stills was a find in the fifth round and the Saints may get back deep threat Joe Morgan from a knee injury. Even if they really think Toon is going to blossom into a solid receiver, they may be looking for another youngster to groom for when they part with Colston and/or Moore.
5. Find another outside linebacker
With 12 sacks last season, Junior Galette showed that he is the real deal, but Parys Haralson will be an unrestricted free agent and may not return. The wild card is Victor Butler, who missed the entire season with a knee injury that he suffered last June. He's ready to get back on the field and help out, but he could be a free agent after the 2014 season and the Saints don't have a suitable replacement to plug in if he were to get a huge offer from another team after a big season.

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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo women's lacrosse head coach Lesley Graham has announced the trio of Alyssa Viscomi, Joanna Chadwick, and Christina Minneci as captains for the Lions second season.
"We are very excited for this trio to help lead our youthful team into the spring season," said head coach Lesley Graham. "Alyssa, having collegiate sport experience for the last three years, brings confidence and leadership into her role. And the addition of Jojo and Christina to the mix adds youthful excitement and encouragement."
Viscomi enters into her senior year having seen time on the basketball court for Saint Leo before joining the women's lacrosse program for its inaugural season. The St. Cloud, Fla. native concluded her first season on the lacrosse field starting all 14 games for the Lions as a defender as well as tallying six goals and two assists while collecting 27 ground balls and causing five turnovers.
Chadwick takes on the leadership role for the Lions as a sophomore. The local product from Tampa, Fla. played a big part in the Lions' attacking unit, and was a key component in the midfield. Starting in all 14 contests, Chadwick scored 18 goals and tacked on three assists for 21 points, and added 42 ground balls, 20 draw controls, and 15 caused turnovers to her stat sheet.
Fellow sophomore Minneci rounds out the trio. Minneci, who hails from Manalapan, N.J., saw significant time in all 14 games, notching 18 goals and dishing out six assists for 24 points. The attacker also picked up 44 ground balls, good for second best on the team, and grabbed 22 draw controls while causing 14 turnovers.
"All three players are tremendous leaders both on and off the field, and are a great representation of Saint Leo University and our Core Values," Graham continued. "As we continue to develop and advance our program, this group has all of the qualities to lead us in the right direction and take us to the next level."
The Lions' inaugural season concluded with a 5-9 overall record that included plenty of highlights and firsts along the way. With 15 returning players and 15 fresh faces on the roster for 2012-13, Graham will look to the veteran forces and bright new talent to help showcase the team with high hopes for their second campaign.
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Re: Got to meet Derin tonight!
Randi...breakfast sounds delicious. It was the opposite in our house - my husband was Jewish and I am not.
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Randi...breakfast sounds delicious. It was the opposite in our house - my husband was Jewish and I am not.
Now I have to chime in on "different" foods. When they had the olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, they did a spot on the national food. Being a 2nd/3rd generation American I have had a number of the norwegian basics and delicacies. I love fattigman (I probably butchered the spelling). It's a cookie that is deep fried and coated with powdered sugar. Then there's lefse, which is basically a really thin potato pancakish kind of breadlike thing (kind of like a tortilla but tastes way different) made from heavy cream and flour and I don't know what else. You coat it with butter and sugar, then rolled up and it tastes just like butter and sugar.
My favorite of all time, tho, and this wes discussed at length during the games, is the national dish of Norway, called lutefisk. The announcer basically said he didn't know how anyone could even THINK about eating it!! It is codfish soaked in lye (yes, lye! At least that's what I was told) for a month until it is bleached and turns into a gelatinous mess that smells horrible and tastes worse!! My father LOVES it!! But he eats sardines, too... :-D
So I guess I could try haggis! I don't know about the turnips, tho.
Wow!!! All this hostility towards the poor wee turnip..what did they ever do to you all??? They are lovely and very popular here, can be used in soups and as I like to eat them boiled up, then mashed and add a touch of salt and pepper to season, nice! They are a root veg like beetroot and we just cook them liked mashed potatoes.
Finally Kris we have someone who would face up and take on the haggis...then no doubt fall in love with it too! And Lutefisk...ha!! I saw Adam Richman try that on an episode of Man vs Food and he hated it too!!! Cod I love as a fish and it is most popular here in the UK in our fish suppers, that and Haddock. And I couldn't believe it when they said that the Lutefisk was soaked in Lye!!!!! Yuck!! Don't think I'd be brave enough to try that, but like your Dad, I love sardines!!
well sardines are just ok, but Kippers are fabulous!
Indeed Randi, Kippers are superb!!!!
Gavin! I think we found some middle ground around kippers!!
Count me in on the turnips however; I prefer to eat mine raw. In fact I love to chomp on turnips - great crunch, great taste. And, Sardines and Kippers - love it. Just can't quite find the nerve to try the haggis.
Yay!! We have a trio of kipper lovers and a duo of turnip fanatics!
How does everyone cook their kippers? Me I just put them in boiling water to heat them through and serve, sometimes with butter and sometimes on their own. Cooking them like that I find keeps them moist rather than grilling them and mum hates the smell of them if I grill them!
I saw Rick Stein cook them in water once and take some of the kipper liquor, put it in a pot, add some butter, season and had some herbs to make a buttery sauce for the kippers and it looked good! Still meaning to try it though!
Raw turnip Marion, interesting, might have to try that one day. A healthy snack to chomp on through the day!
Be brave with the haggis and you will be rewarded!
My family used to fry kippers with onions! and eat them for breakfast. sorry if I grossed anyone out
Well, since my name was in the post, I guess I'm obligated to write, correct? It was great meeting up with Tiffany, although it was quite funny that we both had to fly to Houston when I was about 20 minutes from her in Huntsville the week before... I'll be in Huntsville next week, so if you're back Tiff, we'll catch up again, maybe Wednesday night for dinner? Sorry I missed Kris by a few days, that would have been cool also. And Gavin, yeah, you can keep the haggis brother... no thanks... And from someone who was not originally Jewish but is now, there's nothing like whitefish salad on a bagel for breakfast with a slice of cheese and a thick chunk of a tomato on top of that... OK, now I'm hungry...
Hey, Derin, we love that you joined the tribe! Teddy was Sicilian so of course he was Catholic but he loved all religions. He sang with me in the Jewish Choir for 15 years. I used to say he sang Hebrew on Friday nights and on Sunday went to St. Stevens to ask forgiveness! I used to love whitefish (not the salad) but never ate it on a bagel. I thought bagels were invented for lox! LOL Gavin loves different foods so if he ever comes over here to visit I am sure we could get him off the Haggis and on to our soul food!
yummmmm white fish salad and whitefish in general. Only fish I eat that looks back at me.
I always get hungry when I read this thread!! And for sure Lainy, if I ever get over your way then we'd be doing some gooood eating!!! Soul food, yep, like the sound of that! I'd bring a haggis over with me, but if I did I guess they wouldn't let me into the country!!
Duh! Just now checking back! When are you leaving Derin? My phone is MIA. LOL
Well Tiff, since I just saw you here in Huntsville while you were having chemo (meeting up 2 times in 3 weeks in 2 different states is pretty cool!!) Letting you know when I leave is redundant!! Keep up the good work, and let us know when you hear something... I should be back in a month or so and we will touch base again!! Great to see you again too!
So much fun seeing you again!!!
I feel like we had a little party at chemo today!!! Haha
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FARMERS have seen an increase in the amount of livestock and machinery stolen from farms in East Lancashire, new figures show.
Insurers attached to the National Farmer's Union say the cost of rural crime in Lancashire rose by 38 per cent last year.
Quad bikes, tools and livestock were the most-targeted items, costing local farmers an estimated £1.8million, up from £1.3million in 2012, said NFU Mutual.
Andrew Rothwell, Clitheroe NFU Mutual group secretary said thieves saw farms as 'easy pickings' compared to urban areas.
He added that many smaller farms struggled to keep assets under watch when only family members worked on the property.
He said: "Rural crime has escalated substantially recently. As urban areas become more and more security-conscious it seems that thieves are looking into the countryside. We have always seen machinery going missing from farms; lately it's increased and there have been a lot of livestock thefts too.
"Farmers are becoming more aware but it can be difficult on small farms like we have in Lancashire. It's hard to keep tabs on livestock in our upland areas. However, we have been working closely with Lancashire Police and there are a number of initiatives farmers can use. We are also seeing more prosecutions taking place."
The figures come just weeks after police conducted extra rural patrols, targeting suspected offenders and visiting farms and rural businesses to offer crime prevention advice as part of Operation Firecrest.
NFU Mutual's annual Rural Crime Survey shows the nationwide cost of rural crime totalled an estimated £44.5m in 2013 — a rise of 5.2 per cent compared to 38 per cent in Lancashire.
Garry Watson, NFU Mutual branch manager, said: "The cost of claims is increasing as a result of more high-value items being stolen. That's why it's important to stay vigilant and fight rural crime. Our experience with people who live and work in rural areas of Lancashire clearly shows that theft is more than just a setback — it can be devastating for businesses and families.
"One of the rural community's best assets is its people, who can work together to safeguard the local neighbourhood. That is why NFU Mutual organises the Country Crime Fighters Awards, a nationwide competition to support and encourage examples of crime prevention taking place in the countryside."
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It's true! A company called Alpi has put the finishing touches on their aptly named Deo Perfume Candy. When you eat one, it leads to rose-scented body secretions. Really. The trick is the addition of geraniol, a naturally occurring compound found in flowers, vanilla and lavender. Once you munch, the geraniol makes it's odorific trip throughout your body. Before long you'll be smelling as fresh as a daisy. At least that's the claim.


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Canon PowerShot SX30 IS
The new Canon PowerShot SX30 IS compact camera climbs straight to the top of the super-zoom ladder with its incredible 35x, 24-840mm optical lens - truly all the focal range that most photographers will ever need or use. In addition to this, the SX30 offers a 14 megapixel image sensor, 2.7 inch vari-angle LCD screen, electronic viewfinder, flash hotshoe, full manual controls and 720p HD movies. Read our in-depth Canon PowerShot SX30 IS review to find out if this new super-zoom really is all the camera you'll ever need.
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The Casio EX-FH25 is a super-zoom camera with a difference - its high-speed capabilities mean that it can take 30 still photos every second and even shoot 1,000fps video footage. The 10 megapixel EX-FH25 has a 20x lens with a focal range of 26-520mm, large 3 inch LCD screen and a wealth of automatic shooting modes to make your life easier. Read our comprehensive Casio EX-FH25 review to find out if this is the right high-zoom camera for you...
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It's super-zoom week here at Photograpy Blog as we review the hotly-anticipated Fujifilm FinePix HS10, a bridge-style compact camera with an amazing 30x zoom lens and a wealth of must-have features. This DSLR wannabe boasts a 24-720mm focal range, 1080p movies, 3 inch tilting LCD, 10fps burst shooting and a 10 megapixel back-illuminated sensor with JPEG and RAW support. Is this the only camera you'll ever need? Read our Fujifilm FinePix HS10 review, complete with over 50 full-size sample images, to find out...
Kodak EasyShare Z981
The Kodak EasyShare Z981 is a new bridge camera with a remarkable 26x image-stabilized optical lens providing a focal range of 26-676mm. Other key features include a 14 megapixel sensor, 3 inch LCD, electronic viewfinder, PASM shooting modes and RAW file support. With an official price of £399.99 / $329.95, read our expert Kodak EasyShare Z981 review to find out if it can challenge the super-zoom leaders.
Nikon Coolpix P500
The Coolpix P500 is Nikon's new super-zoom compact camera for 2011, offering a massive 36x zoom lens with a focal range of 22.5-810mm. The 12 megapixel bridge-style Nikon P500 can capture full 1080p high-definition movies in stereo sound, has a back illuminated CMOS sensor, 3-inch 921K-dot tiltable LCD screen, electronic viewfinder and fast 8fps burst shooting. Priced at £399.99 / $399.99, read our Nikon Coolpix P500 review to find out if it can challenge the likes of the Fujifilm HS10, Canon SX30 IS and Panasonic DMC-FZ100.
Olympus SP-800UZ
Bored of your camera's hum-drum 3x zoom? Feel constricted by a mere 10x lens? Is 20x still not enough for you? Well, Olympus have the answer in the shape of the SP-800UZ, a brand new bridge-style compact camera that boasts a 30x zoom lens with an incredible focal range of 28-840mm. In addition, the 14 megapixel Olympus SP-800UZ also offers a 3 inch, 16:9 ratio LCD screen, 720p movie recording, 2Gb of internal storage and long-awaited support for SD memory cards. Zoltan ArvaToth gets up close and personal in the World's first Olympus SP-800UZ online review.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
The super-zoom compact camera market is a hotly-contested one, with offerings from all the big manufacturers. Panasonic have updated their range for 2010 with the introduction of the DMC-FZ100, an all-singing, all-dancing successor to the popular FZ38 model. Key highlights include a 24x zoom, large free-angle LCD, full HD movies, 11fps burst shooting, fast RAW mode and a 14 megapixel sensor. Read the world's first online Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 Review to find out if it can beat its rivals.
Pentax Optio X90
The Pentax Optio X90 is a brand new super-zoom compact camera featuring a 26x image-stabilized zoom lens with a focal range of 26-676mm. Successor to the X70 model, the X90 has a 12 megapixel sensor, 2.7 inch screen, full range of creative shooting modes and can record 720p HD movies. Retailing for £329.99 / $399.95, does the Pentax Optio X90 offer enough to match its super-zoom rivals? Gavin Stoker finds out in our Pentax Optio X90 review.
Samsung WB5000
The WB5000 / HZ25W is Samsung's first entry into the big boy world of all-in-one super-zoom cameras. Offering a 24x zoom lens with 26mm wide-angle setting, the WB5000 literally has most photographic subjects covered, for both 12 megapixel stills and 720p movies. Throw in a range of hand-holding smart modes for beginners and RAW format and Manual mode for advanced users, and Samsung could be onto a winner at their very first attempt. Read our expert Samsung WB5000 / HZ25W review to find out if Panasonic, Olympus et al have anything to fear...
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 is a super-zoom camera with some rather unique features up its proverbial sleeve. These include a 20x zoom lens and 9 megapixel CMOS sensor, both of which utilise Sony's DSLR technology, 3 inch tiltable LCD screen, and fast 10fps burst shooting mode. Going up against the likes of the Canon Powershot SX20 IS, Panasonic FZ38 and Olympus SP-590UZ, we find out if the £480 / $500 Sony HX1 hits the right spot...


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - Beer consumed in the United States, on average, contains approximately 5% alcohol. For instance, Budweiser ( BUD) contains exactly 5%, while Bud Lite has 4.2%. Boston Beer's ( SAM) offerings range from 4.05% (Sam Adams Lite) to a whopping 17.5% for its Triple Bock. But none of the hundreds of beers currently on the market, in this country, can come anywhere close to competing with a new offering from Scotland's Brewmeister company. It calls its beer 'Armageddon'. It contains an astounding 65% alcohol. That's 130 proof. To give you an idea of just what that means, most popular Scotch whiskeys we drink here are diluted down to somewhere between 40%-46% "bottling strength". Special "cask strength" Scotch whiskeys contain 50%-60% alcohol. Armageddon comes in 330 ml (11.14 fluid ounce) bottles and retails for 40 GBP ($64.39 USD). That's not a misprint. Sixty-five bucks for an 11 ounce bottle of beer. The Brewmeister people say the beer is quite tasty. They describe the brew as tasting "slightly sweet, hoppy, malty and retaining much of the yeast present during fermentation". But, because of the sky-high alcoholic content they recommend that people drink the beer in 35 ml (that's only a drop or two more than one ounce) portions. And they suggest you share the bottle with friends so the contents don't go flat. The Brewmeister Web site claims they'll ship their goods (they make more than just Armageddon) to the United States. But, they're warning the demand has been so great that you'll have to wait at least 2-3 weeks for delivery. --Written by Gary Krakow in New York. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: email@example.com.


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So I started my stone table.. below is the idea I found on this board and another board, it's a great looking table so I am stealing the idea..
Here is my start, doesn't look like a lot, but it's actually half done:
So the left side will be counter space which comes out to 3.5' X 3.5' the right side will house the egg and have a wrap around counter.
I am really excited about the Electric plug I am adding (that's the yellow cable int he middle) conduit will run up and an external outlet box will be mounted flush on the counter.
I have a ton of photos and will post some more as it comes together.


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Some thoughts the morning after:
1) For a preseason game, especially a first preseason game, that was a pretty good pace.
2) Too early to make a complete judgment but I think Frolov could be a really good one. Again, we'll hold off before getting too carried away. But the guy definitely has some hands and some strength, and if the coaching staff thinks he's good defensively, well, what's not to like?
3) If so, presto, you have a first line. But for that first line to be a first line, it needs a first-line center. Again, too early to tell, but Derek Stepan has done nothing to make you think he couldn't be it. We know that, unless Erik Christensen takes a major step upward, he's not it. But he might turn out to be by default. I'm not sure that can work. Christesen's not bad. But he's not a first-line center on a contending team. I don't think so, anyway.
4) If Brian Boyle can really learn to use his size every night, and if his skating really has improved as it appeared to have, then the Rangers might be able to push some teams around in the offensive zone and create energy and momentum.
5) Derek Boogaard may really not have to fight much. I think a lot of people are afraid of him. The Colton Orrs won't be, of course. But a lot of people will. However, unless he's in really bad shape, or unless he was really nervous in his first home game, he's a worse skater than I thought. If that's possible.
6) I liked Ryan McDonagh in spots. But what if he's not ready? What's that third pair going to look like? Semenov was OK. If Garnet Exelby has to make the team and play, it could be a big problem.
7) John Tortorella was in a good mood after the game. I almost asked him about having four forwards on the ice during OT — which he had on the power play just before the Rangers scored the winning goal. That's was the topic over which we had our big TV blowup last season (also against he Devils). He thought it was a stupid idea.
I'm going to be away from the computer most of the day. There will be cuts. I trust you guys will scan the other sites and post them when/if they happen before I get back. Please attribute the source if you borrow them from another site.
Fifteen games until Opening Night.
15: Thurman Munson. Tom Tresh.
15: Bart Starr.
15: Anders Hedberg. Jim Neilson. Mike Hudson (he was suspended late in the '93-94 season and never got back into the lineup; during the playoffs he went into Mike Keenan's office and said, "Coach, you know my suspension's over, right?").


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Collaboration: Core to How We Work
Diversity of ideas, virtual collaboration, communicating across divisions and regions — our people talk about what teamwork means to them.
"In a firm of 30,000 people I am always amazed at how willing my colleagues are to help even if they are on the other side of the world and we have never even met. I can be calling a colleague in London, Hong Kong or Mumbai, and when they answer the phone and I say it's Chris calling from New York, the response is as if we were old friends."
– Christopher, Associate, Investment Management Division
"On any given day, I am working on many different projects across divisions and regions and rely on the collaboration of my peers. Each person comes from a unique background and approaches a situation from a different perspective. As we work towards a common goal, it is this diversity of ideas which brings us to the best solution."
– William, Associate, Internal Audit
"Working with the various research analysts, strategists, and economists is key in what we do as salespeople, as we need to be able to target the right ideas and views to the right clients. At the end of the day, this is a people business, and if you want to do well, you need to know how to work well with your clients externally but also your peers internally."
– Brietta, Associate, Equities
"You often end up looping in various subject matter experts so you have a number of people looking at the same issue from different perspectives. This is particularly true when there are system outages, either internal to GS, or external, for example at exchanges. These problems affect large proportions of the order flow, and we get 'virtual teams' together on conference calls to restore service as quickly as possible."
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How to convert ArrayList to Set in Java with Example
6 comments :
- Anonymous said...
Size of HashSet after Converstion should be 4 if i am not mistaken.please correct me if i am wrong.
- February 10, 2012 at 5:52 AM
- Javin @ hashtable example java said...
@Anonymous you are absolutely correct, Size must be four its a bug if you see carefully I am still printing size of list instead of size of hashset in Java.
companies.size() //size of list.
will correct it. thanks for pointing it out.
- February 11, 2012 at 2:49 AM
- Bharti said...
ArrayList to HashSet conversion is my most preferred method to remove duplicates from collection if Insertion order is not concern, as insertion order gets lost when you copy elements form ArrayList to HashSet. if you still wants to use HashSet to remove duplicates and want to keep the insertion order of List than consider using LinkedHashSet.
- May 23, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
It's 4 if he printing companySet.size(). However, I think there is a typo still printing companies.size() which is 5
- August 22, 2013 at 6:20 PM
- Pawankumar said...
Adding more - Its always a great idea to check the list for null(if list is returned by a method or list items are supplied from another object), else you will encounter NPE while creating the HashSet instance.
- February 20, 2014 at 9:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
how to implement set using list ? Set shouldn't be used.
- December 10, 2015 at 11:43 AM


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MOREHEAD, Ky. - It took Jacksonville University a while to shake its jet lag Saturday, but once it did the Dolphins scored 31 consecutive points to put away Morehead State 38-17 in a Pioneer Football League game here.
The Dolphins (5-1, 3-0) did their yearly Air Raid game where they leave school Saturday morning, play and fly home in the same day, and the early wake-up call apparently brought the slow start before JU took off.
Quarterback Kade Bell ran for one score and threw four touchdown passes, three to tight end Andy Robustelli, to lead the win. Robustelli wound up with four receptions for 46 yards and running back Eric Baker became the team's first 100-yard rusher of the year with 101 yards. Dorian Guy led all receivers with 87 yards on four catches.
Bell, who came into the game having completed 69 percent of his passes the previous two contests, connected on 16 of 22 passes for 238 yards.
"I want to thank the offensive line and the running backs,'' Bell said. "Our running backs don't get enough credit for their pass blocking.''
In addition to Robustelli's catches, wide receiver D'Andre Randle caught a 4-yard touchdown pass from Bell, who was eight of 10 in the first half, with what turned out to be the winning score with 2:54 in the first half and a 21-17 halftime lead.
"Our guys really battled back and I am really proud of them for that,'' coach Kerwin Bell said. "We played a bad first half, about as bad as we could play in the first half. We were real lethargic early, maybe it was the early flight. We didn't get going until the second quarter so I felt good about that.''
The Eagles (1-4, 0-2) scored first with 3:52 to play in the first quarter for a 7-0 lead and following the kickoff, Bell fumbled on the first play from scrimmage and Morehead's Michael Jackson returned it 46 yards on a scoop and score for a 14-0 lead with 3:32 to play in the first.
The Dolphins responded quickly with a 60-yard drive and scored with 27 seconds to play in the opening quarter when Robustelli was on the receiving end of a 10-yard pass from Bell. The seven-play drive took 2:58 off the clock.
Morehead added a 42-yard field goal with 9:20 to play in the half when placekicker Rainer Duzan hit a low ball that skipped off the cross bar and a 17-7 lead.
The Dolphins came back with 6:39 to play when Bell scrambled 12 yards for a score. The extra point by Dylan Lynch made the score 17-14. The drive was six plays, 62 yards.
Defensive lineman Juan Pimienta led the defensive charge with seven tackles, two sacks, two tackles for losses and two fumble recoveries, one that stopped a MSU drive near the end of the first half and the second which led to a JU touchdown in the fourth quarter.
The Dolphins travel to Davidson next week.
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50,000 Miles Later
For the love of Sanrio.
For the love of Sanrio. Make fun of me after Sunday, okay?
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
Lazy idiot
Wow, this was a lot more entertaining when it was happening to Drew.
Tick tock
TT Man
Thunder smash!
Before we pat Drew on the back too much, we should look at his log and make fun of him for loggin his "Walk" last week. Geeez.
Oh, I think the tragedy of actually logging a one-mile walk is punishment enough.
And as I hit "Save", I actually wondered which bastard was going to bring it up. I'm surprised it took four days.
I can't believe nobody mentioned the little run the week before.
Ehh...I don't usually look at your log....most of the time there isn't anything there to look at.
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Gigabyte at the Taipei 101by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2013 10:00 AM EST
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karamazovmm - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkwhats the mobo with some tubes on the pic called gal13? it looks interesting to say the least if they will have a mobo that actually supports custom cooling for the other components on the get to go Reply
Homeles - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkThe one with the tubes going into it is a blown up model of the board next to it. The heatsinks do support water cooling. Reply
Aikouka - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - linkI was rather interested when I read that Gigabyte did that, but I ended up disappointed when I saw the board. At least from what I could gather by zooming in on Newegg, it appears that Gigabyte used barbs and you can't remove them. I've only recently been getting into water cooling, but wouldn't most enthusiasts -- you know, those people that pay $400 for a motherboard -- prefer G1/4 ports so they can add their own fitting that "fits" their size and design preference. Reply
TGressus - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkG1.Sniper5
http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/335/images/overv... Reply
Myrandex - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkThat dual Sandy Bridge-E Motherboard looks sweet! Reply
TomWomack - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkI thought Sandy Bridge-E was normally used to refer to the i7/3820, 3930, 3960 ($570 for six 3.2GHz-turbo-3.8GHz cores); that board is described as Xeon E5 ($1552 for six 2.9GHz-turbo-3.5GHz cores). Reply
IanCutress - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkSandy Bridge-E is the processor family, split into the Core series and the Xeon series. As you would expect, this can only accept Xeons in a 2P configuration. Reply
GotThumbs - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkVery cool that more companies are getting into the very small HTPC market. I have a Zotac ZBOX AD12-U and it does a great job connected to my tv via HDMI. Streams video from my server easily without taxing the cpu. I'm using XBMC/OpenELEC from a thumbdrive for now, but will add an SSD down the road.
Very interesting information.
Thanks Ian
crazedmodder - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkYou did not show them but I hope you guys get the P35K and P34G laptops in for review.
I am curious how good the screens, keyboards, fan noise and battery life are. Supposedly they are both 1080p and the P35K is IPS (P34G I have not seen the screen type mentioned so I assume TN). As long as they do a reasonable job in those areas I have definitely found my new laptop. Reply
jb14 - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkThanks for showing some internal snaps of the brix box. I wonder if you have come across the haswell version of the intel NUC while there? Some of the usual sites have mentioned it comes with up to six USB ports and HD5000 graphics. It would be interesting to compare the brix and new NUC for features, as I can't remember if the Brix had HD5000 graphics or not. Reply
IanCutress - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkThere was a Haswell BRIX there, though it was just a shell / a hint towards a future product. It had the same shell as the Kabini BRIX, but they are still deciding on which processors to use - I was told to expect i3, i5 and i7. Hopefully we will see Crystalwell in there... Reply
kyuu - Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - linkDefinitely interested in one of those Kabini BRIX as an HTPC solution. Hopefully one with the A4-5000 will be nice and cheap. It'd also be great if there was Miracast support. Reply
lemonadesoda - Thursday, June 13, 2013 - linkThe BRIX is confused. It doesnt know what it wants to be: "server department", "thin client", "netbox", or "htpc". Jack of all trades, master of Reply
Cerb - Sunday, June 16, 2013 - linkLots of mobos, great...but where's the B/H/Z87/5M(X)-D3HP? Why do they (though they aren't alone) add an internal USB hub on the big boards with several extra slots, instead of the smaller ones, where those are more precious? MicroATX and MiniITX could get much more use out of that than standard ATX, Reply


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Champions Hockey League
The Champions Hockey League was introduced for the 2008/2009 season with champions and top teams from seven European countries. The ZSC Lions Zurich (Switzerland) won the first edition in an exciting home-and-away final against Metallurg Magnitogorsk (Russia). Click here for the 2008/2009 season. Due to the global financial crisis the competition was not played after that season but has been reintroduced for the 2014/2015 season under a new structure. The Champions Hockey League is operated by a new shareholder company in Zurich owned by the IIHF, six founding domestic leagues (Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland) and 26 founding clubs from those leagues. Additional teams from these countries as well as from France, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Norway and Slovakia participate in the inaugural season that includes 44 teams. The various stakeholders are represented in the CHL Executive Board that includes IIHF Vice President Kalervo Kummola as representative of the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Champions Hockey League uses infrastructural synergies with the International Ice Hockey Federation with its offices located at the headquarters of the IIHF and the use of the IIHF's statistical system Hydra. The commercial partner of the CHL is Infront Sports & Media. For more information and updates please visit www.championshockeyleague.net.


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.Evidence-based practice describes a healthcare system in which evidence from published studies, often mediated by systematic reviews or processed into medical guidelines is incorporated into clinical practice. The flow of information is one way; from research to practice. However many interventions by health systems and treatments by their staff have never been, or cannot easily be, subject to research study. Of the rest, quite a lot is from research that is graded as low quality.[1] All health staff intervene in their patients on the basis of both information from research evidence and from their own experience. The latter is personal, subjective and strongly influenced by stark instances which may not be representative.[2] However when information on these interventions and their outcomes are collected systematically it becomes "practice-based evidence"[3] and can complement that from academic research. To date, such initiatives have been largely confined to primary care[4] and rheumatology.[5] An example of practice-based evidence is found in the evaluation of a simple intervention like a medication. Efficacy is the degree with which it can improve patients in randomised controlled trials– the epitome of evidence-based practice. Effectiveness is the degree with which the same drug improves patients in the uncontrolled hurly-burly of everyday practice; data which are much more difficult to come by. Routine health outcomes measurement has the potential to provide such evidence.
The information required for practice-based evidence is of three sorts: context (e.g. case mix), intervention (treatment) and outcomes (change)[6]. Some mental health services are developing a practice-based evidence culture with the routine measurement of clinical outcomes[7][8] and creating behavioral health outcomes management programs.
Definition of health outcomesEdit
There are many similar, overlapping definitions of health outcomes. They all involve change in health status; some stipulate that the population or group has to be defined (different outcomes are expected for different people & conditions), whilst others specify also that health outcomes are the result of interventions or their lack, rather than simply change over time. A strong example is that of Australia's New South Wales Health Department: health outcome is
"change in the health of an individual, group of people or population which is attributable to an intervention or series of interventions"[9]In its purest form, measurement of health outcomes implies identifying the context (diagnosis, demographics etc.), measuring health status before an intervention is carried out, measuring the intervention, measuring health status again and then plausibly relating the change to the intervention.
History of routine health outcomes measurementEdit
Florence Nightingale Edit
An early example of a routine clinical outcomes system was set up by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War. The outcome under study was death. The context was the season and the cause of death– wounds, infections and any other cause. The interventions were nursing and administrative. She arrived just before the barracks in Scutari were accepting the first soldiers wounded at the battle of Inkerman in November 1854, and mortality was already high. She was appalled at the disorganisation and standards of hygiene and set about cleaning and reorganisation. However, mortality continued to rise. It was only after the sewers were cleared and ventilation improved in March 1856 that mortality fell. On return to the UK she reflected on these data and produced new sorts of chart (she had trained in mathematics rather than "worsted work and practising quadrilles") to show that it was most likely that these excess deaths were caused by living conditions rather than, as she initially believed, poor nutrition. She also showed that soldiers in peacetime also had an excess mortality over other young men, presumably from the same causes. Her reputation was damaged, however, when she and William Farr, Registrar General, collaborated in producing a table which appeared to show a mortality in London hospitals of over 90% compared with less than 13% in Margate. They had made an elementary error in the denominator; the true rate for London hospitals was actually 9% for admitted patients.[10] She was never too keen on hospital mortality figures as outcome measures anyway:
"If the function of a hospital were to kill the sick, statistical comparisons of this nature would be admissible. As, however, its proper function is to restore the sick to health as speedily as possible, the elements which really give information as to whether this is done or not, are those which show the proportion of sick restored to health, and the average time which has been required for this object…"[11]Here she presaged the next key figure in the development of routine outcomes measurement
Ernest Amory Codman Edit
Codman was a Boston orthopaedic surgeon who developed the "end result idea". At its core was
"The common sense notion that every hospital should follow every patient it treats, long enough to determine whether or not the treatment has been successful, and then to inquire 'if not, why not?' with a view of preventing similar failures in the future."[12]He is said to have first articulated this idea to his gynaecologist colleague and Chicagoan Franklin H Martin, who later founded the American College of Surgeons, in a Hansom Cab journey from Frimley Park, Surrey, UK in the summer of 1910. He put this idea into practice in Massachusetts General Hospital.
"Each patient who entered the operating room was provided with a 5-inch by 8-inch card on which the operating surgeon filled out the details of the case before and after surgery. This card was brought up 1 year later, the patient was examined, and the previous years' treatment was then evaluated based on the patient's condition. This system enabled the hospital and the public to evaluate the results of treatments and to provide comparisons among individual surgeons and different hospitals"[13]He was able to demonstrate his own patients' outcomes and those of some of his colleagues but unaccountably this system was not embraced by his colleagues. Frustrated by their resistance, he provoked an uproar at a public meeting and thus fell dramatically from favour in the hospital and at Harvard, where he held a teaching post, and he was only able to fully realize the idea in his own, struggling small private hospital[14] although some colleagues continued with it at the larger hospitals. He died in 1940 disappointed that his dream of publicly available outcomes data was not even on the horizon, but hoped that posterity would vindicate him.
Avedis Donabedian Edit
In a classic 1966 paper, Avedis Donabedian, the renowned public health pioneer, described three distinct aspects of quality in health care: outcome, process and structure (in that order in the original paper).[15] He had misgivings about solely using outcomes as a measure of quality, but concluded that
"Outcomes, by and large, remain the ultimate validation of the effectiveness and quality of medical care."[15]He may have muddied the waters a bit when discussing patient satisfaction with treatment (usually regarded as a measure of process) as an outcome, but more importantly it has become apparent that his three-aspect model has been subverted into what is called the "structure-process-outcomes" model, a directional, putatively causal chain that he never originally described. This subversion has been the justification for repeated attempts to improve process and thus outcomes by reorganizing the structure of health care, wittily described by Oxman et al.[16] Donabedian himself cautioned that outcomes measurement cannot distinguish efficacy from effectiveness: (outcomes may be poor because the right treatment is badly applied or the wrong treatment is carried out well), that outcomes measurement must always take into account context (factors other than the intervention may be very important in determining outcomes, and also that the most important outcomes may be the least easy to measure, so easily-measured but irrelevant outcomes are chosen (e.g. mortality instead of disability).
Mortality as an outcome measureEdit
Perhaps because of instances of scandalously poor care (for example at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995[17]) mortality data have become more and more openly available as a proxy for other health outcomes in hospitals,[18] and even for individual surgeons.[19] However Florence Nightingale's astringent judgement and Donabedian's reservations retain their full force for most health services, where routine non-mortal health outcomes measurement remains the most appropriate method.
Principles of routine health outcomes measurementEdit
- All three dimensions (context, intervention as well as outcomes) must be measured. It is not possible to understand outcomes data without all three of these.
- Different perspectives on outcomes need to be acknowledged. For instance, patients, carers and clinical staff may have different views of what outcomes are important, how you would measure them, and even which were desirable[20]
- Prospective and repeated measurement of health status is superior to retrospective measurement of change such as Clinical Global Impressions[21]. The latter relies on memory and may not be possible if the rater changes.
- The reliability (statistics) and validity (statistics) of any measure of health status must be known so that their impact on the assessment of health outcomes can be taken into account. In mental health services these values may be quite low, especially when carried out routinely by staff rather than by trained researchers, and when using short measures that are feasible in everyday practice.
- Data collected must be fed back to them to maximize data quality, reliability and validity.[22] Feedback should be of content (e.g. relationship of outcomes to context and interventions) and of process (data quality of all three dimensions)
Current status of routine health outcomes measurementEdit
One can find reports of routine health outcomes measurement in many medical specialties and in many countries. However, the vast majority of these reports are by or about enthusiasts who have set up essentially local systems, with little connection with other similar systems elsewhere, even down the street. In order to realise the full benefits of an outcomes measurement system we need large-scale implementation using standardised methods with data from high proportions of suitable healthcare episodes being trapped. In order to analyse change in health status (health outcomes) we also need data on context, as recommended by Donabedian[15] and others, and data on the interventions being used, all in a standardised manner. Such large-scale systems are only at present evident in the field of mental health services, and only well developed in two locations: Ohio[7] and Australia[8],even though in both of these data on context and interventions are much less prominent than data on outcomes. The major challenge for health outcomes measurement is now the development of usable and discriminatory categories of interventions and treatments, especially in the field of mental health.
Benefits of routine health outcomes measurementEdit
Aspirations include the following benefits
- Aggregated data
- Can form the basis of effectiveness data that complement efficacy data. This could show the actual benefits in everyday clinical practice of interventions previously tested by randomised clinical trials, or the benefits of interventions that have not been or cannot be tested in Randomized Controlled Trials and systematic reviews
- Can identify hazardous interventions that are only apparent in large datasets
- Can be used to show differences between clinical services with similar case mix and thus stimulate search for testable hypotheses that might explain these differences and lead to improvements in treatment or management
- Can be used to compare the outcomes of treatment and care from different perspectives– e.g. clinical staff and patient
- Data about individual patients
- Can be used to track changes during treatment over periods of time too long to be amenable to memory by an individual patient or clinician, and especially when more than one clinician or team is involved
- Can, especially when different perspectives are available, be used in discussions between patients, clinicians and carers about progress[23]
- Can be used to speed up and crispen clinical meetings[24]
Risks of routine health outcomes measurementEdit
- If attempts are made to purchase or commission health services using outcomes data, bias may be introduced that will negate the benefits
- Inadequate attention may be paid to the analysis of context data, such as case mix, leading to dubious conclusions
- If data are not fed back to clinicians participating then data quality (and quantity) will fall below the thresholds necessary for reasonable interpretation.
- If only a small proportion of episodes of health care have completed outcomes data, then these data may not be representative of all episodes, although the threshold for this effect will vary from service to service, measure to measure.
- Some risks of bias, widely foretold,[25] are proving to be insubstantial but need guarding against
Practical issues in routine health outcomes measurementEdit
Experience suggests that the following factors are necessary for routine health outcomes measurement
- an electronic patient record system with easy extraction from data warehouse. Entry of outcomes data can then become part of the everyday entry of clinical data. Without this, aggregate data analysis and feedback is very difficult indeed.
- resources and staff time set aside for training and receiving feedback
- resources and personnel to extract, analyse and proactively present outcomes, casemix and, where available, intervention data to clinical teams
- regular reports on data quality as part of a performance management process by senior managers can supplement, but not replace, feedback
Routine health outcomes measurement is in its infancy, but technological advances in clinical information systems mean that it is now feasible. It is still possible that it will be implemented badly (e.g. without feedback) or for the wrong purposes (e.g. purchasing or commissioning services) or both, but as long as these are avoided it promises to be of great benefit to individual patients, clinicians and, ultimately, health care overall. It is strongly supported by patients.[26]
- ↑ Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Vist GE, Falck-Ytter Y, Schünemann HJ (May 2008). What is "quality of evidence" and why is it important to clinicians?. BMJ 336 (7651): 995–8.
- ↑ Malterud K (August 2001). The art and science of clinical knowledge: evidence beyond measures and numbers. Lancet 358 (9279): 397–400.
- ↑ Horn SD, Gassaway J (October 2007). Practice-based evidence study design for comparative effectiveness research. Medical Care 45 (10 Supl 2): S50–7.
- ↑ Ryan JG (1 March 2004). Practice-Based Research Networking for Growing the Evidence to Substantiate Primary Care Medicine. Annals of Family Medicine 2 (2): 180–1.
- ↑ Pincus T, Sokka T (March 2006). Evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. Nature Clinical Practice. Rheumatology 2 (3): 114–5.
- ↑ Pawson R, Tilley N. Realistic Evaluation. London: Sage Publications Ltd; 1997
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Callaly T, Hallebone EL (2001). Introducing the routine use of outcomes measurement to mental health services. Australian Health Review 24 (1): 43–50.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ohio Mental Health Datamart
- ↑ Frommer, Michael; Rubin, George; Lyle, David (1992). The NSW Health Outcomes program. New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 3 (12): 135.
- ↑ Iezzoni LI (15 June 1996). 100 apples divided by 15 red herrings: a cautionary tale from the mid-19th century on comparing hospital mortality rates. Annals of Internal Medicine 124 (12): 1079–85.
- ↑ Nightingale F. Notes on Hospitals. 3rded. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green; 1863
- ↑ Codman EA. The Shoulder. Rupture of the supraspinatus tendon and other lesions in or about the subacromial bursa. Privately published 1934 Reprint 1965 Malabar, Florida: Kreiger;
- ↑ Kaska SC, Weinstein JN (March 1998). Historical perspective. Ernest Amory Codman, 1869-1940. A pioneer of evidence-based medicine: the end result idea. Spine 23 (5): 629–33.
- ↑ Codman EA. A study in hospital efficiency. As demonstrated by the case report of the first five years of a private hospital. Published privately 1817. Reprinted 1996 Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA:
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Donabedian A. Evaluating the quality of medical care. Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly 1966;44:166-206
- ↑ Oxman AD, Sackett DL, Chalmers I, Prescott TE (December 2005). A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 98 (12): 563–8.
- ↑ http://www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/
- ↑ http://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/mortalityintro.asp
- ↑ Bridgewater B (March 2005). Mortality data in adult cardiac surgery for named surgeons: retrospective examination of prospectively collected data on coronary artery surgery and aortic valve replacement. BMJ 330 (7490): 506–10.
- ↑ Long A, Jefferson J. The significance of outcomes within European health sector reforms: towards the development of an outcomes culture. International Journal of Public Administration, 1999;22(3):385-424
- ↑ NIMH Early Clinical Drug Evaluation PRB. Clinical global impressions. In: Guy W, editor. ECDEU Assessment manual for psychopharmacology, revised. US Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service, Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, NIMH Psychopharmacology Research Branch; 1976. p. 217-22
- ↑ De Lusignan S, Stephens PN, Adal N, Majeed A (2002). Does Feedback Improve the Quality of Computerized Medical Records in Primary Care?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 9 (4): 395–401.
- ↑ Stewart M (April 2009). Service user and significant other versions of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales. Australasian Psychiatry 17 (2): 156–63.
- ↑ Stewart M. Making the HoNOS(CA) clinically useful: A strategy for making the HoNOS, HoNOSCA, and HoNOS65+ useful to the clinical team. 2nd Australasian Mental Health Outcomes Conference; 2008
- ↑ Bilsker D, Goldner EM (November 2002). Routine outcome measurement by mental health-care providers: is it worth doing?. Lancet 360 (9346): 1689–90.
- ↑ Black J (February 2009). It's not that bad: the views of consumers and carers about routine outcome measurement in mental health. Australian Health Review 33 (1): 93–9.
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His wife said "I have no words for the joy I feel right now, my family is finally complete."
Another returning soldier said "it's unreal right now, it's the only word I can put out – it's unreal – it feels fantastic to be back home – you don't know what you miss till you're gone."
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So, I'm going to preface this with the following: If you dislike sentimentality or think people shouldn't ever show their feelings, get out. I don't mean to be harsh, but I just anticipatebecause so many people on this site are assholesthat people will try to come in and tell me how much of a ***** I'm being or whatever. I don't care. I wanted to share how I feel about surfing with people who might appreciate it.
I also want to know if anybody else feels the same way and I want to hear your stories, so please post them.
Anyway, surfing for me has really been an important part of my life. Now I'm not saying I live in a hut on the beach and don't work and surf every single day. I'm not saying that. But it's been important for me, and here's why:
Surfing was a family thing for me. My mom and dad both surfed back in the late 60s and early 70s. Since I was born, every moment of free time my family could squander was spent in salt waterfishing, sailing, boating, and surfing. Some of my earliest memories are of my dad anchoring up in a cove on our sailboat and throwing a board overboard for me to paddle around on.
My dad taught me how to surf from the beginning, paddling around coves, pushing me into foam on the inside on a soft-top right up until I was surfing right there with him. I've had amazing experiences with him, like surfing right amongst a giant school of cow rays that surprisingly made an appearance this far north a few summers ago. It's one of the best feelings to pop up on a great wave and realize that your dad's right there next to you and high five him as you trim up right next to him. I've had the time of my life surfing with my dad and I know that I'll carry that with me for life, long after he's gone and I can only hope that one day I'll have a kid to share the same passion with. It's a memory thing for me. Nobody will ever be able to take away those memories of great waves and high fives and hugs and family. I have the waves to thank for that . . .
Being out in the ocean just clears things up for me. I get out there and any heartache or problems just seem to become so much less important. Sometimes I'll just be completely down and wonder if life is even worth living but then I'll get out there and realize how much I love life, and the memories surfing triggers makes me remember how much people love me and it makes it all better.
I know I probably sound like a complete ***** right now, but I don't really care. Surfing's just helped me so much in my life and I don't really think most people who aren't surfers understand it.
Does anybody else here feel the same way I do, or am I alone in feeling this way? I really do want to hear how surfing has impacted other people's lives.
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When I woke up today I had no idea I'd be having deep dish pizza. I'd picked up a couple of BGE ceramic pizza pans (7" dia.) from my BGE dealer at a discount. They were trying to get rid of them to make way for the recently released 14" dia. pans. The 7" pans I bought were as is, with no instructions, packaging etc. I thought I'd be able to find instructions for cooking pizza using this pan easily enough online. I was wrong. I'd failed finding any info about cooking with either the 7" or 14" pan. I figured I might do better once the 14" pans were showing up in the BGE dealers around here. This morning I was on the BGE website and they were featuring a recipe for Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza using the new 14" dia. ceramic pizza pan. It was a joint effort between the folks at BGE and King Arthur Flour. I was psyched because I have never gone wrong with a KAF recipe.
I made several changes. The first was to reduce the quantities 50 percent to accommodate my smaller 7" pan. The second was to replace the sausage with pepperoni (my favorite topping). The third was to use parmesan-regianno cheese instead of the parmesan called for. I am going to show photos for the pizza dough part of the process to show folks how easy it is.
If you are interested in making this recipe yourself here is the recipe:
Onto the pictures:
The dough was fairly simple. It used: All-purpose flour, lukewarm water, instant yeast, yellow cornmeal, table salt, vegetable oil, olive oil, melted butter.
The flour, salt, cornmeal &instant yeast was added to the bowl of the mixer. The dry ingredients were mixed together.
The dry ingredients are combined.
Next the wet ingredients were added: Vegetable oil, olive oil, water & butter and the dough was mixed for about 4 minutes on medium low.
The dough ball was placed in a dough doubling pail and allowed to rise for 1 hour.
After an hour the dough had doubled in volume.
The dough was stretched out and placed in the deep dish pizza pan. I covered the dough with plastic wrap and let it rise for 15 minutes in the pan.
The dough was fit into the bowl and then shaped to fit the pan and the edges were crimped. The dough was covered again and left for 15 minutes.
The pie crust is now on the Egg sitting on the Plate Setter which is installed legs down. The cooking temperature was 425 degrees.
The dough has baked for 10 minutes to firm up the crust and gets pulled off the Egg and the pan is brought back into the Kitchen to receive the toppings.
I used a half sheet pan with a wire cooling grid to serve as a topping station/trivet for the hot dough and pan. The toppings were pepperoni, Italian seasoning spice blend, grated parmesan-reggiano cheese, mozzarella cheese, sugar, minced garlic & canned finely diced tomatoes.
The first step was to combine the ingredients for the sauce: Diced tomatoes, Italian seasoning, sugar & garlic. They were thoroughly mixed and set aside.
Time to build the pizza. The first step is to lay in the mozzarella cheese fanned out along the bottom of the pizza.
The mozzarella cheese was fanned out in two layers total.
The pepperoni came next.
The tomato sauce mixture was placed over the pepperoni.
The grated parmesan-regianno cheese was the final topping for the pizza.
The topped pizza was drizzled with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
The pizza is back on the Egg at 425.
Thepizza was done after 25 minutes. The topping was bubbly and the crust was cooked.
The pizza is cooling for 10 minutes on a trivet . This was some of the longest 10 minutes I have spent.
The 10 minutes are up and it is time to slice into the pie and eat.
I thought this pizza was delicious. I thought the crust was the equal of Pizzeria Uno's crust and the filling was different but equally good compared to what you get at Uno. One of the people who was working on my house showed up for some punch list items had a slice. He siad it was the best pizza he'd ever had and was raving about the crispy crust.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. – In day two of the Sunshine State Conference Tournament, the Saint Leo women's tennis team (14-10) dropped a 5-2, backdraw decision to SSC challenger Florida Tech, Friday afternoon from Sanlando Park.
The Lions will conclude the tournament on Saturday, April 15 when they take on the University of Tampa in the consolation 7th-place match.
Facing a 2-1 deficit out of doubles, the Lions saw only one win in singles as the Panthers collected three wins to solidify the match.
After the first two doubles matches went on the side of the Panthers, the Lions No.3 pair of Jeanette McDonald andAdrianna Daszkiewicz gave Saint Leo forward momentum heading into singles as they dusted the Tech pair of Abbey Keister and Alexis Weining, 8-4.
Daszkiewicz quickly tied the match at two apiece as her 6-3, 6-1 win at No.5 singles gave the Lions a chance at victory.
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By Jeanine Detz — March 2001
When I was 10 years old my parents owned a house in Mystic Island, New Jersey. It was one of those sleepy beach towns where everyone has a dock, a boat, and plenty of Avon Skin-So-Soft to repel the biting flies. To fit in with his neighbors, my dad bought a 23-foot fishing boat, which my family and I went out on every weekend.
Fishing with my dad was always fun: I never had to bait my hook, touch my catch, or witness that catch become dinner. I just sat back, held the rod, and reeled when my dad told me to. (All glory, no guts.) Crewing, however, was a different matter. During the trips to and from the fishing spots, my sister and I would grab the docklines and my mom would throw out the fenders, as my dad scraped the boat's sides against every dock in his path. As the lines on our neighbors' crab traps snapped, profanities would fly out of my dad's mouth.
This was the extent of my angling and boat-handling education until last November when I received a call from Wellcraft. The builder had teamed up with the Sea Island Yacht Club in Sea Island, Georgia, to create the Wellcraft Saltwater Fishing School, and I was invited to test-drive the program.
According to Bob Edwards, director of sportfishing at Sea Island Yacht Club, many would-be anglers spend thousands of dollars on boats and gear only to end up disappointed by a lack of fish or worse, in a situation where they lack crucial knowledge about fishing and boat handling. Enter the Wellcraft Saltwater Fishing School, a three-day course designed for boaters who want to learn or improve fishing and boating skills. While the idea sounded great, the location was not quite what I had imagined for a fishing school: The Cloister is a beautiful 70-year-old resort on Sea Island, Georgia, which has hosted dignitaries and celebrities. It's the kind of place where every dinner is five courses, Godiva chocolates are on your pillow every night, and lobster is plentiful at every meal.
My eight
classmates and I arrived on a Sunday night and, after dinner, retired
to our rooms. Class began at 8 the next morning, as we all filed into
a conference-room-turned-classroom where we would cover about 10 topics,
including weather, navigation, and fish biology. I anxiously flipped through
the five-inch-thick binder filled with maps, articles, and diagrams as
our head teachers, Gordon Rogers and Capt. A.G. "Spud" Woodward,
introduced the staff. The five men--Capt. Toby Mohrman, Mike Kennedy,
Capt. Donnie Revels, Capt. Jeff Glenn, and Sean McCala--were all
tournament fishermen, local guides, or both.
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The repercussion of design decisions are best known during the maintenance phase, a good design allows seamless evolution while maintaining a fragile design is a nightmare.
As I have said previously, sometimes object oriented design interview questions also helps to understand a topic better, but only if you are willing to do some research and not just mugging the answer. Questions like when to use abstract class and interface fall under the same category.
In order to best understand this topic, you need to work out some scenarios, examples etc. It's best to get this kind of knowledge as part of your work but even if you don't get there, you can supplement them by reading some good books like Head First design pattern and doing some object-oriented software design exercises.
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There are many reasons to make your own ketchup. The bottled stuff (even the most top-shelf variety) has an indeterminate amount of sugar and "natural flavorings" — what does "natural" taste like, anyway?
The easiest way to find out is to make your own, out of strictly natural ingredients. You'll be able to tweak the flavors to your preference, pulling back on sweetness, if you prefer, or dialing up the spices. And one thing's for sure: You won't find bourbon in your grocery store squeeze bottle.
Maple-Bourbon Ketchup Recipe
This recipe is extremely adaptable to your taste. However, if you do wish to can it, do not alter the proportions of vinegar to other ingredients. You can alter spices interchangeably.
Yield: About four pints
2 quarts tomato puree
1 cup maple syrup
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 cup bourbon
2 teaspoons black peppercorns
7-8 cardamom pods
1 teaspoon coriander seeds
1/2 cup cider vinegar
2 teaspoons fish sauce
Prepare the jars and lids. Wash all jars and lids thoroughly with soap and water, and rinse well. Fill your canner with enough water to cover the jars by at least 1 inch and bring to a simmer. Using a pair of canning tongs, lower the jars in gently, tilting them to fill with the hot water. In a small saucepan, keep some water warm but not boiling; place the lids in the water. Have an additional kettle of water on to boil.
Make the ketchup. Wrap peppercorns, cardamom and coriander in cheesecloth or place in a tea infuser and add to tomatoes. Bring tomato purée, syrup, bourbon and salt to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 30 minutes, stirring frequently to avoid scorching, until it darkens, thickens and is reduced by about a third. Add vinegar and fish sauce, and stir to combine. Remove the spice sachet, and remove sauce from heat.
Fill and close the jars. Using canning tongs, remove the jars from the canner, carefully pouring the water back into the canner. Set next to the ketchup in the saucepan. Turn the heat under the canner to high. Use a ladle to pour the ketchup into the jars through a canning funnel, leaving 1/2 inch of headspace at the top. Run a clean chopstick around the inside of the jar to dislodge any trapped air. Wipe the rims of the jars with a damp paper towel. Place the lids on, and screw on the rings until just finger-tight.
Seal the jars. Using canning tongs, gently transfer the jars to the canner, taking care to keep them vertical. When all the jars are in the canner, there should be at least 1 inch of water covering them; if you need more, add water from the kettle until the jars are sufficiently covered. Bring the water to a full rolling boil; process for 10 minutes.
Remove and cool. Using canning tongs, gently remove the jars from the canner and transfer them to a kitchen towel or cooling rack, again keeping them vertical. Do not set hot jars directly onto cool counter surfaces. Leave to cool, undisturbed, for at least 12 hours. If any of the jars do not seal when cool, reprocess using the method above, or refrigerate and use immediately.
Label and store. Add a label to the lid or side of your jar, noting the date it was canned. Remove the rings and store jars in a cool, dark place for up to one year. Refrigerate after opening.
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This P3 Highway Capital Preservation-Major Drainage-Program project removed fish passage barriers - the current culverts - replacing them with a single, larger three sided box culvert under US 2 for Skinney Creek, two miles west of Tumwater Canyon in Chelan County.
Why is WSDOT
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The two existing 36" culverts on Skinney Creek that cross under US 2 at MP 88.5 were undersized for the water flows experienced on Skinney Creek and were an ongoing maintenance concern and a barrier to fish passage due to their clogging with stream sediment.The culverts were replaced with a new three sided box culvert that is designed specifically to improve fish passage.To reduce environmental impacts, the new culvert was built downstream from the existing two culverts helping minimize in-water work. Wetlands that were temporarily impacted were revegitated to return them to pre-construction conditions.The new stream channel through the new box culvert was vegitated to minimize erosion and encourage fish passage.
The End Result
This project provides a larger three sided concrete box culvert that is adequate to handle the high seasonal flows of Skinney Creek while encouraging fish passage.
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Construction was started and finished in Sept. 2013.
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Some Secrets of the Qur'an
Obeying the Majority Misleads Man from the Right Path
Assuming that the common conviction of the majority is right often deludes mankind. Indeed, when asked about the underlying reason of a particular act or attitude, many people answer "Because the majority does so." However, God informs us that obeying the majority is misleading:
In another verse, God states that most people will not believe:
In Surat al-Ma'ida, God mentioned the abundance of "evil" and called people of intelligence to avoid it.
Consequently, what the majority does, believes in or advocates can never be a reliable source or reference. People tend to follow the majority under the influence of the "herd instinct". However, believers who act in accordance with this divine secret God gives in the Qur'an do not follow the majority, but only observe God's commands and His religion. Even if they are alone, they never harbour doubts about their beliefs and the path they follow.


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m reading this book and the author does not describe everything, but he gives a link to a blog: (http://adam.gomaa.us/blog/2008/aug/11/t ... y-builtin/). the blog is gone and i cant find it. Does anyone knows where i can find the information of this blog or at least something similar to it? Please, only answer if you read the book
the blog is called the python property built in, by adam gomaa