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The V50 is, unsurprisingly for a Volvo, an estate, but it's not the huge slab of car you'd usually associate with the Swedish carmaker. It's a smallish, but perfectly formed family car that trades some of its capaciousness for a more practical size, making it more suitable for urbanites. Its shapelier design is also less slabby than the Volvos we've become used to over the years, making it more desirable to younger carbuyers. The R-Design trim level on this car also adds some luxury and sophistication to the car, with extra bodykit, plus a higher-specced cabin and equipment.
Our test car came fitted with Volvo's five-cylinder D5 diesel engine, which produces 177bhp and maximum torque of 258lb-ft at 1,750-3,250rpm. As these figures suggest, this makes the V50 something of a pokey little machine, with plenty of power on tap and lots of pulling power, especially in the middle of the rev range. Even with the rear fully laden, and at motorway cruising speeds, there's plenty in reserve when you need to overtake. Indeed, it's easy to believe the claimed 0-62mph time of eight seconds dead and a top speed of 140mph. The six-speed manual transmission is also very effective, providing clean and precise shifts. The only drawback is that the engine shows its age, thanks to its rather noisy nature. It has that distinctive clatter of the older diesel when starting the car up, especially from cold. This lack of engine refinement is the only blot on its copybook, though and can be partly remedied by the simple act of turning the stereo up.
The V50 is based on the same underpinnings as the Ford Focus and Mazda 3, but sadly its driving dynamics aren't as sharp as either of these two cars, the Focus in particular. It's a perfectly decent car to drive, it's just that a connection to the Focus raises expectations that, ultimately, are unfulfilled. That said, the V50 is a good package of ride and handling with, as you'd expect from a Volvo, the emphasis falling more on the side of ride. The suspension is compliant but still nicely controlled, enabling the car to tackle the whole range of surfaces it's likely to encounter on UK roads. Meanwhile, the steering is fairly precise, direct and well balanced, but it does lack the necessary feedback to create any real involvement with the car and is unable to create the sense of fun found in class-leading cars.
Volvo as a brand historically does well in customer satisfaction surveys such as the JD Power poll. The most recent edition placed the Swedish company in equal ninth alongside BMW, which reflects the premium nature of the company's products. The V50 also did fairly well in the survey, coming in joint 35th place with the Toyota Auris and Skoda Fabia, both products from companies that are in the top five most reliable manufacturers. It was also ranked the fifth best family car, with owners praising the aftersales service of dealers. Our car bore out those results, as it was very well screwed together. The exterior exuded a sense of sturdiness, with consistent panel gaps around the car and R-Design enhancements such as front and rear spoilers, side skirts and a rear roof spoiler. The inside, with its additional R-Design upgrades, also felt very much like a premium car, with leather seats and high-quality materials throughout.
It's a Volvo, which should be enough to satisfy anybody that the V50 will be safe on the road. But if you need more, the structure of the V50 is divided into different zones and different grades of steel were employed in each area. The outer zones deform most, while those closest to the passenger compartment are designed to remain largely intact, protecting the occupants. Then there's SIPS (Side Impact Protection System), two front dual-stage airbags, side airbags and curtain airbags for front and rear passengers, three-point seatbelts for each of the five seats, WHIPS (Whiplash Protection System) that helps prevent neck and back injuries in a rear impact. In terms of electronic safety equipment there's ABS brakes with EBD (Electronic Brake Distribution) and EBA (Emergency Brake Assist, which senses an emergency stop and automatically brings the car to a halt in as short a distance as possible), plus DSTC (Dynamic Stability and Traction Control).
The cabin of the V50 has plenty of space for four adult occupants, or five if the rear three passengers are children. The front two seats are comfortable and have a good range of movement, with the driver in particular able to achieve a driving position that will ensure s/he can end a journey feeling pretty fresh. Despite being a Volvo estate, the V50 doesn't quite have the load-lugging ability one usually associates with the Swedish brand's cars. That said, it should still be enough for most families' purposes, with 417 litres with the seats up and 1,307 litres when the 60/40 rear bench is folded down. There's also plenty of storage space in the cabin and the R-Design trim level also means that there's a full range of equipment. One caveat though: the phone operation requires you to insert your phone Sim card into the console, which can be a bit of a pain.
The more powerful 2.5-litre D5 diesel fitted to our test car isn't the most frugal oilburner around, a fact that isn't helped by the fact that it's now a few years old. An official fuel economy figure of 44.8mpg isn't disastrous, but it's not as impressive as some of the diesels on the market that can now achieve results in the mid-60s. It's a similar story with CO2 emissions: at 166g/km, the D5-powered V50 isn't the greatest friend of the planet and compares unfavourably to the 119g/km of the DRIVe version of the car. The CO2 figure also means that it's not cheap to tax, either, just edging it into the £175-a-year Band H. All the bells and whistles of the R-Design trim in combination with the bigger engine also whack up the insurance costs quite considerably. Other V50s usually fall into Groups 8-10, but this model comes in at Group 15, will increase costs.
Submitted: 13/11/2009 08:32:35
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Do you actively try to get your patients, who are smokers, to stop smoking? Please elaborate.
Do Plastic Surgeons Try to Get Their Patients to Stop Smoking?
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Planning cosmetic surgery is a strong motivator to stop smoking
As a plastic surgeon, I am not an expert on nicotine addiction, which is an extremely difficult conditon to treat.
Many people who smoke (about 65%) are not physically addicted to nicotine, and these patients are often able to stop smoking when they understand that they cannot have the cosmetic surgery they want (typically a face lift or a tummy tuck) unless they do stop smoking. If a person absolutely cannot stop smoking (one of the 35% who is truly addicted), then I refer them to an expert for treatment.
It is gratifying to note that, in my patient population, there are many fewer smokers today than there were ten years ago. Education and social pressure are making an impact.
I have a number of patients who feel that the most important thing I did for them was get them to stop smoking (even though they are happy with their surgical result).
I will not perform conventional facelifts or abdominoplasties on people who smoke - but modified techniques (such as subperiosteal facelift), that do not require skin undermining, may be considered, especially in younger, thin patients with no other risk factors.
Breast reductions and breast lifts have to be individualized. Liposuction only (scarless) breast reduction can be performed safely on smokers. But any breast operation where the blood supply might be at risk should not be done if the patient does not stop smoking.
I tell all patients who smoke that I will not perform...
I tell all patients who smoke that I will not perform their surgery if they don't stop all nicotine exposure for one month before and after surgery.
This is especially important in surgeries where the skin is lifted to tighten it and the blood supply is partially compromised by this. These procedures include facelifts, breast lifts and reductions, and abdominoplasties or tummy tucks.
Nicotine gums, patches, and even secondhand smoke must also be avoided. The nicotine causes the blood vessels to constrict and may result in skin death, terrible healing problems and, eventually, very bad scars.
Some doctors will do a urine nicotine test before surgery to be sure the patient has complied with this recommendation, but I have not done this. However, I have postponed surgery on several patients who admitted that they have not complied with this program and the rescheduling of their surgery has been at extra cost to them.
Many plastic surgeons limit the type of procedure they...
Many plastic surgeons limit the type of procedure they perform on smokers. Tobacco smoke contains more than 3,800 identified substances, of which nicotine and carbon monoxide are two of the most detrimental to wound healing and may cause pulmonary complications. This impaired wound healing may dramatically decrease the final cosmetic out. That is why, most plastic surgeon would recommend to their patients to decrease or quit smiking prior to their procedures.
However many plastic surgeons would opt to perform a less invasive technique on smokers.
I recommend limiting anesthesia for smokers. I always offer no anesthesia for smokers. In some cases I recommend oxygen therapy before the procedure.
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Active measures to help patients quit
Yes. The ways that I, and likely many other plastic surgeons, actively take a role in getting patients to stop smoking is as follows:
1. Setting a quit date 2-3 weeks before the anticipated elective surgery date.
2. My nurse or I keeping in touch with the patient to check on smoking status and success in quitting.
3. Referring the patient to a support group or psychotherapist who may aid in this process, which is often multidisciplinary or involving several providers (even things like hypnotherapy, acupuncture, and Reiki have been known to help some). Not so sure about laser, though, as the jury is still out on that!
4. Collaborating with the patient's primary care provider or internist to arrange for a prescription drug such as Chantix or Zyban to be prescribed and the patient maintained on it well in advance of the surgical procedure and afterwards.
5. Positive feedback from my staff and myself.
6. Raising the possibility of cancelling surgery if the goal of stopping smoking is not reached. This usually serves as one of the biggest motivators given the nature of elective, cosmetic surgery and the patient's emotional investment in going through with a procedure that has likely been contemplated and planned for a long time and intended to improve appearance and sense of self.
Many good studies in the medical literature indicate...
Many good studies in the medical literature indicate that risks of complications after surgery increase in those patients who smoke. In patients undergoing cosmetic surgery, specifically facelifts, the risk of killing the skin which is elevated is signficantly increased in smokers over non smokers.
In my practice, if a patient will not quit smoking for two weeks before surgery and two weeks after surgery, I will not perform a cosmetic procedure on them. With cosmetic surgery, patients are interested in looking and feeling better and smoking brings an unnecessary set of risks into the equation. Instead of looking and feeling better there is a fair chance that the patient may end up with a complicated reconstructive problem.
Of note, patients who are on nicotine-containing smoking cessation programs are also at increased risk of complications. For my patients who are interested in smoking cessation, I will either prescribe medications which do not contain nicotine or put them in touch with support groups and other smoking cessation methods.
In the end, I want my patients to get the best results possible and unfortunately smoking often interferes with those results.
Smoking and surgery
1. There is nicotine in tobacco, but not in marijuana. However, most joints are rolled with marijuana and tobacco combination. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor that decreases blood flow to the tissues. This is the major problems that can cause a very bad outcome in some surgeries. In a breast augmentation, there is not a lot of risk as there are not a lot of incisions which decrease blood flow to the tissues. In a breast lift or tummy tuck, on the other hand, there is much longer and more involved incisions. The decrease in blood flow to the tissues in combination with the decrease in blood flow from the nicotine can cause tissue to die. This can cause part of the breast or nipple, or in the case of a tummy tuck, part of the belly tissue to die, resulting in a very bad outcome. This is especially bad in breast reductions or face lifts. In a rhinoplasty the tip of the nose and the columella, the area between the tip and the lip, is at risk. Your skin and tissue can turn black and fall off if this happens. Marijuana without tobacco does not cause this problem, or marijuana in an edible fashion. Vaporizers do not decrease the amount of nicotine in tobacco, only decrease the smoke. Hookah also does not decrease nicotine.
2. There is carbon monoxide in both tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke. Carbon monoxide decreases the oxygen carrying capacity of hemoglobin in the blood. This is different from the vasoconstrictor effect, but has the same result of having the risk of tissue death in conjunction with surgeries that decrease the blood flow to tissues such as breast lifts and tummy tucks, as opposed to an augmentation alone that does not decrease blood flow to as great of an extent. Again, edible forms of marijuana do not have smoke, and thus carbon monoxide poisoning.
3. Coughing. Both tobacco and marijuana smoke disrupt the lining of the lungs and bronchi and can lead to coughing episodes. Coughing episodes can lead to internal bleeding after surgery that can lead to hematomas and complications, and again a bad outcome. Again, edible forms of marijuana does not have this effect.
4. Anesthesia effects. Marijuana can have drug interactions with certain anesthetic drugs. Thus it is important to tell your anesthesiologist about your marijuana use.
In conclusion, Smoking, whether it be tobacco or marijuana, is detrimental to your surgery outcome. Edible marijuana is much less so, but be honest about your use with your surgeon and anesthesiologist so that you can have the best outcome. In general, you should quite smoking many weeks, ideally 6 weeks before surgery, and not smoke for at least 2 weeks after surgery.
Best wishes,
Pablo Prichard, MD
Yes, I encourage my patients to stop smoking completely....
Yes, I encourage my patients to stop smoking completely. Several studies suggest that the complication rate of smokers compared to non-smokers can be as high as 50%.
I inform patients that they should stop smoking at least 3-4 weeks prior to surgery and continue to not smoke for at least 3-4 weeks post-operatively. Nicotine patches or nicotine gum are not acceptable because the nicotine can cause vasconstriction (choking of the vessels).
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Hello I believe I can help you with your concern
So to answer your question, yes it is possible to be addicted to sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation can initiate a sort of manic state and euphoria, which is why some people enjoy those late shifts like you said you do
But this is also detrimental to you physical and psychological health as well, sleep is a vital brain function that helps us operate at peak efficiency
I know all that.
I know all that. That's why I'm trying this.
Okay that is good that you know that
What specifically do you want to know then?
I was sitting at my post one night and saw something run by at the edge of my vision. It wasn't small like a mouse. This had been happening for several days. Then one night while reading the paper I saw a hand coming towards my left shoulder. I whipped my head around and it was already gone. All the hairs on my body stood on end. It was frightening, and it was thrilling.
And at that time specifically, how long were you without sleep or how long would you say that you have been sleep deprived? Like Several Days, weeks, etc...?
Probably about a week with 4 or 5 hours at the most every night. I consider that a good amount for me.
I love the way it feels when I've had no sleep at all. I feel at peace with the world instead of angry. I become attuned to nature.
Well most likely you are suffering from a hallucination/illusion that is frequently caused by lack of sleep.
I understand that feeling you are having, it called euphoria, or better defined "feeling like you are on top of the world"
So much more interesting than the mundane things I usually deal with.
I have done many drugs. Marijuana, lsd, mescaline, peyote, psylocybin, DMT.
I crave the change more than actually being high. The acceleration of perception from one state to another.
Life is usually boring
My brother has asperger's syndrome. We are not speaking to each other anymore.
So you are definitely addicted to the symptoms associated with sleep deprivation, they provide you with some excitement
I have tried for decades to reach him on a level of emotion that, I suppose, he is incapable.
Yes unfortunately individuals with Asperger's Disorder (and on a side they recently changed the name and are now calling Autism Spectrum Disorder, I do not know why they changed it) do have poor social skills and have a hard time reading emotions and social cues
I wasted so much energy trying to reach him. But he feels that I have ignore him. He doesn't remember so many things that he did to me because it had no emotional content for him.
I am filled with anger for him.
That is tough, I am sorry that happened to your relationship with your brother.
Even with the anger you feel, you still understand that it is his disorder that prevents him from making that connection with you
I am trying to tell myself that. Should have happened sooner. He never had any respect for my
wife whom I have lived with for 43 years.
I am sorry. His brain is just wired differently then yours and mine
Sometimes I fear that I may have a little bit of it myself, but I am more like my father. He had feelings and I miss him every day.
I am sorry, when did your father pass?
He must have had a big impact on your life, probably why you are more like your father as you said earlier. He was your role model
My wife and I went up to Maine after dad died. She suggested that we get an urn to put his ashes in. My brother went ballistic on her.....like she was a whore in the street. I should have beaten the crap out of him right then and there. Jackie and I had been together for 11 years. That's just one reason I hate him.
That must have been a tough situation for you, I am sorry your brother acted like that to your wife. His disorder prevents him from withholding what he is thinking, he is blunt basically and says the first thought that comes in his head
Actually, we had been together 17 years at that time.
Oh yes he is blunt.
So did you still want to talk about your sleep deprivation?
How long can someone go without sleeping at all?
The longest documented time that I have heard of is 11 days
Was that the guy on the radio back in the 50's who ended up a nut case?
Although I think the world record is supposedly 17 or 18 days, but that was not a scientific study
I wonder what that would be like.
Yep I think it was a high school student back in the 60's who has the record for 11 days
Everyone is different on the effects, but most likely he had short term memory issues, hallucinations, tremors, heart palpitations, lack of concentration, and many other symptoms
Doesn't sound like fun. I hope they let me go back to Late Watch with my friends. They are so malevolent and vindictive......and not just with me.
You think they put you off the Late Watch to be vindictive?
Well, the head of security has washed his hands of involvement and he has delegated the responsibilities to a man who has been forced to go to anger management classes twice.
He takes everything personally.
It sounds like that guy definitely has problems with anger to go to those classes more than once. They could have put you off the Late Watch till you get more healthy and you said you were ill, so they could have just been looking out for you to recuperate
Actually, he tried to put me on a shift where I would have been forced to work two 12 hour days, back to back. I fought that. Now he has me working 8.5 hours a day. I don't even have time to see my doctors. My wife wants me to retire.
Wow that double 12 hour shift would have been tough. That is unfortunate that you do not have time to see your doctors. Why dont you retire like your wife wants?
I think I may have to. A big move for me. Especially if I want to stay sober. Mayor Bloomberg wants to push out all us old folks.
Im sorry to hear that, but maybe retirement will be good for you and it is something your wife wants
I actually went to school in NYC at John Jay College of Criminal Justice near Columbus Circle, so I know the city well
One of my favorite supervisors went to John Jay. She's the only thing holding the Late Watch together. She's great.
Thats good to hear, it is a good school that produces a lot of good graduate
Anyway, I should try to get some sleep. Thanks for talking to me. I have to decide whether I want to retire or not.
It is a big decision, discuss it with your wife and weigh the pros and cons. I am sure you will make the right decision
I am glad I can help, if there is anything else you need feel free to contact me at anytime
I hope I provided you with excellent service tonight
By the way, I work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A center of nepotism, cronyism, and outright corruption, and I've seen a lot. Good night.
Good museum, and I do not disagree with your assessment of the place
Good night


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Olesya V. Grishchenko and Jing-zhi Huang
Abstract: ``Inflation-indexed securities would appear to be the most direct source of information about inflation expectations and real interest rates" (Bernanke, 2004). In this paper we study the term structure of real interest rates, expected inflation and inflation risk premia using data on prices of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) over the period 2000-2008. The approach we use to estimate inflation risk premium is arbitrage free, largely model free, and easy to implement. We also make distinction between TIPS yields and real yields and take into account explicitly the three-month indexation lag of TIPS in the analysis. In addition, we propose a new liquidity measure based on TIPS prices. Accounting for it, we find that the inflation risk premium is time-varying: it is negative (positive) in the first (second) half of the sample period. The average 10-year inflation risk premium ranges from -16 to 10 basis points over the full sample depending on the proxy used for expected inflation. More specifically, the estimates of the 10-year inflation risk premium range between 14 and 19 basis points for 2004-2008 period.
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I think this Ricco was the fifth Ricco we had. He was very small and was constantly licking the tip of his tail. So he always had a wet tail. He was wild and almost scary in the house when he started playing. You had to watch out! He bounced off the furniture and the walls and he'd bounce off you too!
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I have read in several alternative medicine books that tumors do not kill people. As long as the tumor does not grow, met. or block the flow of essential fluids, people can live forever with a tumor. As I've said before, my Mom has a 10cm tumor that is not blocking anything at this time. It is wrapped around the portal vein, but not blocking it or causing any symptoms. I guess my question is, what actually causes death in a cancer patient. I know no one is the same, but I don't understand why the Drs. are so grim about mom if the tumor is not actually causing problems that would kill her. I know this is a morbid topic, but I just want the honest truth about her condition. We've heard everything from 3-6 months to years. Do the cancer treatments themselves cause death? Is it liver failure? I just don't understand and I want to. How can someone feel healthy and have no symptoms only to be gone weeks later. It just does not make sense to me.


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Setting the Records Straight
A few weeks ago, Bob Hertzel wrote a thought-provoking column here at Baseball Prospectus that sought to identify baseball records that would never be broken. The thesis seemed to be that many records may feel out of reach, yet those same records were thought to be impossible to break when they were originally achieved. My friends and I participate in the same type of discussion on occasion when we go out to watch games, and it is one of the most interesting topics to bring up in a crowd of baseball nuts. Not only will strong opinions emerge, but there are usually oddball records that surface over which to ponder. For instance, did you know that Ty Cobb has the AL record with nine inside-the-park home runs in the 1909 season? Or that Eddie Murray has the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128? Or how about that Bob Shaw was called for a record five balks on May 4, 1963? With so many stats, records are bountiful, and it is always fun to reflect.
In conversations, Fernando Tatis launching two grand slams in the same inning is usually the one that makes a group reflect in awe at the inherent level of difficulty. Think about it: He not only had to hit two home runs in the same inning, but his team had to be so productive in that frame that they loaded the bases before each of his at-bats. Someone inevitably brings up Cy Young's career wins and losses records. Cal Ripken's consecutive games streak comes up, as does the 56-game hitting streak by Joltin' Joe DiMaggio. One member of the group will reluctantly bring up Barry Bonds, as his single-season mark of 73 dingers is too mind-boggling to ignore, as are his annual OBPs from 2001-04. Usually, however, discussions of this ilk are dominated by players with names that just are not given anymore like Cy, Enos, Arky, Rube, and Whitey.
And for good reason, as players from the early days of baseball have fairly insane stats on their resumes. Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to approach either the 511 wins or 316 losses amassed by Young. Aside from maybe CC Sabathia, nobody is likely to ever approach even 300 wins again, let alone 400, and the large lefty is by no means a lock to reach even 250 wins. Similarly, nobody is ever going to come in the vicinity of the zany complete games streaks or records from the 1950s and earlier, or the innings pitched totals. The list goes on and on with regards to which records, set back in the Deadball Era or soon thereafter, will never be broken.
But does it matter that they will never be broken? Are they really even records? The answer is the ambiguous "yes and no." Yes, technically speaking, Young holds the records for wins, losses, games, complete games, shortest first name (he's tied), but his numbers are not relevant to any period other than his own. The issue isn't that these records will never be broken, but rather that they are discussed as records in modern day conversations. I am not trying to suggest that what happened in the past is irrelevant, but rather that I have a problem with the lack of contextualization surrounding the idea of a baseball record. Realistically, starting 80 games in a league wherein the normal starter makes 68 starts is equivalent to starting 36 games in 2007 when the normal starter appeared 32 times. The difference lies in the context of the times.
When discussing records, I much prefer to steer the conversation toward era-based achievements. Either that or I like to apply filters when discussing records. For instance, I consider Todd Helton to hold the record for most doubles in the wild card era with his 59 in 2000. Does he hold the all-time record in the history of baseball from 1890-2010? No, Earl Webb's 67 in the 1931 season tops everyone, but in the era that Helton played, which undoubtedly held more collective talent than any other era, he achieved something nobody else did. Just like Young won 511 games as the high water mark of his era, Greg Maddux's 355 wins is incredibly impressive relative to his era. The statistics produced by baseball players are dependent upon the times they played, and since these eras can be so incredibly different from a style of play standpoint, it makes no sense to offer straight comparisons.
One issue is that people, by nature, do not like to compartmentalize information when it is not easily separable. It's easy to group pitchers based on start and endpoints that form a decade, or quarter-century, but an era is likely to be considered more arbitrary than not. In some cases it is rather easy: the wild card era is clearly 1995-onward, as it encompasses the span of time in which the wild card playoff berth was in use. But determining all of the other eras and their respective time frames is ultimately left to easily debatable opinions. Because of the inherent subjectivity, it becomes much easier to just discuss the entirety of baseball in conversations surrounding records.
Additionally, by suggesting that a mark constitutes the best in history, its status is instantly elevated. Saying that Helton holds the all-time single-season record for doubles is just plain sexier than saying he has the record in the wild-card era. Applying a filter along those lines brings about negative connotations, as if the accomplishment is cheapened. In reality, comparing a season from Maddux to one from Kid Nichols would be like comparing a movie with a motor mouth like Chris Tucker to a silent film. Such comparisons are irrelevant because the circumstances under which the end results were produced are in no way, shape, or form similar.
I am not trying to sound like a snot-nosed brat who doesn't respect the past, but it is growing tiresome to hear people discuss records that will never be broken by bringing up achievements from eras that have absolutely nothing in common with others. It doesn't cheapen accomplishments at all to apply an era filter. If anything, it should magnify what occurred. Another reason something along the lines of contextualized records may be a tough sell is that the past is treated with such reverence that it is almost blasphemous to suggest that certain records from the past just are not that impressive when compared to others from their era. On top of that, we often don't appreciate current performances until five or 10 years later, at which point the achievements have crystallized and are used to explain why a new current player's numbers are not as great as they look.
All of which brings us to the Hall of Fame, and how several current players are likely to be judged based on outdated standards and milestones, which is the most unfair aspect of this lack of contextualization. I would bet money that nobody wins 300 games again, and maybe only a couple of pitchers reach 250, but somebody like Roy Halladay is going to be judged against these benchmarks. While Halladay is likely to get into Cooperstown, there will inevitably be writers who see his, say, 232 career wins and inaccurately compare the total to others accrued in past eras, neglecting to understand that 232 in this day and age might be equivalent to 330 in the past, especially considering he is about as old-timey of a pitcher as we have seen over the last decade.
All I am asking is that when fans or writers discuss baseball records the appropriate context is used. What happened in Deadball stays in Deadball. Let's stop bringing up obviously unbreakable records in conversations and focus more on records produced in different eras that could be broken. It might feel like the accomplishments have been cheapened, but I would much rather have it thought of that way than to have people bring up 511 wins in future discussions of unbreakable records.
Eric Seidman is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Eric - while I agree with you for the most part, I think that we will see 300 game winners in the near future. Since Early Wynn reached that milestone, people were saying that there would never be another one. Yet there always is. It might not happen to a pitcher who is already established (Sabathia, Halladay et al), but it will happen.
Sep 23, 2010 04:39 AM
One thing i don't see discussed very often is the idea of knowledge accumulation in the game, i.e. people figuring out better ways of playing the game over time and passing on that knowledge to future players, so that the game today is literally different from the olde days apart from the difference in talent.
Sep 23, 2010 05:57 AM
R.A. -- I'll need a little more than your word that it'll happen again ;-). Tell me WHY. What has led you to believe, with the current style of play, that it'll happen? To me, it seems that starting pitchers are going to go for fewer games in the future as a means of saving them. Maybe 26-27 starts becomes the norm and we see 6-man rotations as well. Everything seems to be gravitating away from what made 300+ wins possible.
Sep 23, 2010 05:58 AM
The why is the same "why" that we saw pitchers post-Wynn to make it to 300. Health is a skill and some pitchers will have it. He'll end this season at around 170. Next year, he'll be 34. Is it out of the question that his remains and he stays strong until his age 40 season? 7 more years at a very conservative 15 victories per season would get him to approximately 285. Do you think that at 285, he won't stick around for another 15? If he can average 17 victories per year for seven seasons, he'll be at 299.
Sep 23, 2010 06:32 AM
I'll throw Justin Verlander and Tim Lincecum as two more good candidates with the means and good enough career starts to threaten the 300-win mark.
Sep 25, 2010 06:26 AM
No way! I'd say they are two of the least likely. Too tough to tell given the injury risk with their styles and how, with Verlander, we don't know how he'll be when he can't throw hard. With Lincecum, he'll need a good offense to win games.
Sep 25, 2010 06:51 AM
Verlander is 27 and will have 83/84 wins by year's end. In 5 full seasons. That's four great years, and one poor season. The average is 16.5 wins per. Lets be conservative and say 16 victories per season. If he's 217 wins short now, he will need another 13.5 seasons at 16 wins per to get there. So until he's 40/41. He's past the injury nexus (not a guarantee, but a positive sign). And like a Halladay-type, he sustains his stuff well beyond 100 pitches, and late into the season, every time. He could definitely do it. Lincecum is more of a long shot (team, age, accumulated victories) but not that much of a dark horse really. The Giants offense will improve over time. And who's to say he spends his whole career there anyway.
Sep 25, 2010 08:44 AM
One point not necessarily against Verlander but still up in the air, which I mentioned, is what he'll be like when his stuff inevitably fades. I don't think he'll be throwing 96 mph as a 36+ year old, so it'll depend on how he adjusts, assuming he is still dominant enough to be within reach.
Sep 25, 2010 08:50 AM
To make that assessment, we would have to study fastball aging patterns. Why some pitchers keep it, why others lose it. Once that is determined, we could begin to speculate how likely Verlander is to keep his. For example, it is known (at least Kevin Goldstein asserts it) that many pitchers throw faster in high school than they do as pros. But some maintain their speed of youth. So at what age are most pitchers expected to lose some speed?
Sep 25, 2010 09:17 AM
This is on most PITCHf/x analysts queue for things to research over the next 10 years.
Sep 25, 2010 09:31 AM
Even without the benefit of Pitchf/x, we could play scouts and compare a sub-set of young flame-throwers who lost their speed (and try to figure out why) and one's who did not - compare the difference and see on which side Verlander falls.
Sep 25, 2010 09:43 AM
Unfortunately, we really can't without some type of data. We would need a uniform velocity reference and an unbiased way of selecting the pitchers to study. Just picking four or five guys we remember and cobbling together velocity info we get from TV -- which comes from production assistants in the stands -- isn't terribly reliable.
Sep 25, 2010 09:52 AM
not terribly reliable, but better than nothing. Something off of which a hypothesis can be formed for future testing.
Sep 25, 2010 10:06 AM
It really depends on the analyst. I don't like starting incomplete research. I don't mind developing methodology and storing it on my computer, but I'm probably not going to publish something like what you described until we have reliable data with which I feel comfortable using.
Sep 25, 2010 10:34 AM
This seems like a ridiculous comment. Why couldn't Andy Pettitte (240 wins, age 38) get there? If Mike Mussina hadn't retired--while still being a very capable Major League pitcher--he almost certainly would have reached the milestone. Mussina went to college and pitched his entire career in the 1990s and 2000s. Is it likely for any particular pitcher to reach 300 wins? Absolutely not. But I would say its more than likely that some pitcher will reach 300 wins (not that wins matter, of course); it all comes down to health and a willingness to pitch to age 40.
Sep 23, 2010 07:52 AM
More about Mussina:
Sep 23, 2010 08:03 AM
...your point?
Sep 23, 2010 10:07 AM
Yeah this comment feels so out of place, haha.
Sep 23, 2010 15:36 PM
Just that Mussina meets nearly all the conditions that people cite as evidence that we'll never see a 300 game winner again, and he very, very easily could have stuck around for those final 30 wins. Sorry if I took some time to actually think rather than agreeing with the conventional wisdom on this one.
Sep 24, 2010 10:44 AM
But Mussina didn't get to 300. I fail to see how the fact that he met specific conditions suddenly rejects the null hypothesis. If you're saying that we're bound to see some pitcher stay effective for 18-20 seasons and durable enough to throw 180+ innings then you're probably right, but even that doesn't guarantee 300 wins, as in the case of Mussina. So we'll see.
Sep 24, 2010 16:25 PM
But why is the null hypothesis that no one will ever win 300 games again? Shouldn't baseball history tell us that the null hypothesis must be that someone will win 300 games again, and then we look for evidence to disprove that? In which, case the pieces of evidence most cited are:
Sep 25, 2010 09:09 AM
Oh, it certainly COULD happen. My opinion is that, barring substantial changes it won't. Now there is certainly enough opinion here to help sway me to the dark side, but this all detracts from the main point of my article, which is that comparing someone's win totals today to Cy Young's or to others from his era doesn't make any sense.
Sep 25, 2010 09:17 AM
What about something like hitting .400? It's not a record, but does it make sense to use Ted Williams' 1941 season as a standard, considering the different conditions? Unlike winning 30 games in a season, for example, which is almost literally impossible due to different usage patters for pitchers, in theory, someone could hit .400. But, how realistic is that today? If someone hits, say .380, today, how does that compare to hitting .400 in 1941?
Sep 23, 2010 06:56 AM
The sub-title of the post is "Setting the Records Straight" yet the classic ruse is used throughout in which the author fudges numbers to try to make his point look more valid. The most obvious example of this is in his comparison of Cy Young's era to that of today when he states that "starting 80 games in a league wherein the normal starter makes 68 starts is equivalent to starting 36 games in 2007 when the normal starter appeared 32 times". Maybe I'm missing something, but the record shows that Cy Young never started as many as 50 games in any single season.
Sep 23, 2010 06:57 AM
MWSchneider, I don't know off the top of my head, but I would think that the level of talent required to hit .400 now is much greater than in 1941, and so hitting .390 today would be more impressive than .400 in 1941, but again that's why I'm advocating contextual records. .400+ BA is obviously awesome, but getting to the same mark today isn't the same as it would have been 69 years ago.
Sep 23, 2010 06:59 AM
I checked Ted Williams' 1941 season in which he hit .400 and saw his slash line was .406/.553/.735 (!!!). That got me thinking (since Eric has written numerous columns about slash line peculiarities), has anyone else ever recorded a slash line of .400/.500/.600 (instead of our more normal .300/.400/.500)?
Sep 23, 2010 07:42 AM
"I'll need a little more than your word that it'll happen again"
Sep 23, 2010 07:53 AM
All's I'm saying is it's unlikely aside from a few guys who got their start prior to the shift away from starts and innings, or who are freaks like Halladay. You're right that someone could be great for 18-20 years, or be durable and effective enough on a winning team that 15 wins is normal from age 38-41, but I just don't see it. I really think we're going to see staggered rotations where you have a #1 to #3 starter making 34 each, a #4 making 32, a #5 at 25 and a #6 at 18-20, with others filling in at various spots due to injuries, before we see guys start to make more starts in a season.
Sep 23, 2010 08:27 AM
So if an #1 to #3 is making 34 starts a year, why can't that starter win 300 games? Mike Mussina, in his whole career, made 34 starts just three times, plus 36 starts once. He retired, at at age 39, with 270 wins. Sabathia got his start in 2000, and he has had at least 34 for 4 straight seasons (assuming he gets two more this year). I'm 28 years old today. If, on my 70th birthday, we haven't seen another 300 game winner, I will be absolutely shocked. Here is what I wrote two years ago when the rash of stories proclaiming Randy Johnson the final 300 game winner game out:
Sep 23, 2010 08:54 AM
I think we need to be careful about saying "never" in this context. Who knows what changes the game will undergo that could make these records achievable once again? The season could be extended to include more games. Other changes (e.g. changing mound height, moving outfields walls in or out) could give either hitters or pitchers a greater advantage. Breakthroughs in medical science could enable pitchers to log more innings. Just as people in baseball's early days couldn't forsee the way the game is played now, we can't tell how it will be in a hundred years.
Sep 23, 2010 09:32 AM
What klipzls guy says. If they swith to 4-man rotations with starters going 5-6 innings per start, if medical advances extend careers into the 40s, if knuckleballing comes back into vogue, all ifs just off the top of the head with who knows how many more possible ones. And some of which WILL come true.
Sep 23, 2010 09:55 AM
Alex Reisner
Eric, you're right that contextualizing records often seems to cheapen them. I think people are (rightly) skeptical of arbitrary conditions, as @frugalscott310 points out. For a long time I've thought that we should be paying more attention to z-scores when trying to contextualize records. Standard deviations above the mean is conceptually equivalent to "dominance," which is really what we're talking about when we say "in their era."
Sep 23, 2010 11:44 AM
Z-Scores are a good tool. I actually used them in my book's last chapter to describe how to compare one era to another, so I'm on-board with that. The comparison between Webb and Helton helps illustrate one of my points. In your table Webb is at 3.68, Helton at 3.67, yet Webb set the record for raw totals by hitting 8 more than Helton. So contextualizing everything helps us better understand what has actually happened across the history of the game and might be a better way than applying era filters.
Sep 23, 2010 15:38 PM
You know how 300 wins can be broken? When a gutsy manager and pitcher decide that on a pitcher's "throw day", he'll throw 2 innings of middle relief. Probably vulture 3-4 wins that way.
Sep 23, 2010 13:58 PM
In my lifetime, some "unbreakable" records have been broken. Cobb's sinlge season stolen base record, stood for several decades. It's been broken in my lifetime. Gehrig's consecutive games total was "unbreakable". Now, Ripken has that record. Ruth's season of 60 home runs and 714 career home runs, both, "unbreakable", have been broken. The season record, both with astericks and without, has been broken multiple times.
Sep 23, 2010 19:49 PM
Sam Mauser
If it counts, Ol' Hoss Radbourn won 59 games in 1884. Ain't nobody touching that.
Sep 24, 2010 01:08 AM
Another thing that's so hard to believe about Fernando Tatis's two grand slams in one inning is that they both came off of the same pitcher (Chan Ho Park).
Sep 24, 2010 01:26 AM
Thought provoking article.
Sep 24, 2010 06:50 AM
I'm with Festsgrber, Richie and klipzlskim. Eric's claim that nobody will *ever* approach 300 or 400 wins again cannot be substantiated. Not because of specific arguments about Moose or CC. But because we just don't know about the game 100 or 200 years from now. I think the most likely change will be medically. Maybe it's HGH. Or maybe someone mixes carrot juice with raisins and tofu and finds out that the blend acts like super-HGH and every great pitcher can throw on 2 days rest. There's no reason to believe that the trend to limiting innings will continue. Scott Boras IV could put a Wins clause into every major league contract.
Sep 25, 2010 07:53 AM
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August Alsina made waves this year with his steamy tune, 'I 'Luv This S—.' The New Orleans crooner returns again with the re-release of 'Ghetto' — this time enlisting Yo Gotti for a guest a verse.
On the new version, the Pyrex King surprisingly harmonizes on his verse as he raps about a woman with a "Bugatti" body who is in love with a dope boy.
"Let them know you a project shorty / Peace to the p—-, there's levels to this s— / Them other hoes can't buy that shorty / I'm from the ghetto / Doors on the left say hello / Ass in the pants like jello / Looking real good in them stilettos but still ghetto," he raps.
Meanwhile, Alsina's croons affectionately for a woman who keeps it both metaphorically 'hood in the bedroom and in life.
"Girl, you don't never flex / Long as I f— you good, you ain't worried about what's next / That's why I keep you here / You ain't like them other h-'s / 'Cause you are the f—ing best, just in case you didn't know," he sings.
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A policeman who sent sordid emails to an angling chum who turned out to be a child molester is fighting to save his career at the High Court.
As well as "joking" about rape with sex beast Robert Meade, PC Paul Woollard repeatedly used the police intelligence system to run checks on his friend and "leant him a shoulder to cry on" while he was on bail for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl, the High Court in London was told.
Wiltshire Chief Constable Patrick Geenty is adamant that PC Woollard, 40, must be sacked and is challenging as "bizarre" and "irrational" a decision of the Police App-eals Tribunal (PAT) to order his reinstatement on the force with a final warning.
John Beggs QC, for Mr Geenty, told the court PC Woollard had used his police email address to send Meade a series of explicitly-worded messages including one which read: "Just waitin for the women to come and open up. I might rape her as theres noone else here (sic)."
Meade, who PC Woollard knew through a shared interest in cricket and angling, admitted sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl at Swindon Crown Court in October 2009 and was jailed for a year.
Mr Beggs, in his written submissions to the court, conceded there was no evidence PC Woollard, based in Highworth, outside Swindon, knew about Meade's crime when he sent the "rape joke" email, but said he had "continued to associate" with Meade even after he was charged and on bail.
He had also committed flagrant breaches of the Data Protection Act by repeatedly accessing the 'Niche' police intelligence computer to look up details about Meade, the QC told the court.
Mr Geenty's predecessor as Chief Constable, Brian Moore, ordered PC Wooll-ard's dismissal from the force but, in May last year, he was overruled by the PAT which directed he be reinstated and given a final warning.
Challenging that ruling, Mr Beggs said: "How would a Wiltshire victim of rape react to learning that a sexual offences trained officer 'joked' about raping a woman himself? Would that encourage her to come forward to Wiltshire Police?" He added: "How would a man on the Devizes omnibus view the fact that one of his local officers, on duty, is sending foul emails to an inappropriate associate, joking about pornography? How would a local citizen respond to the knowledge that one of his local officers is lending a shoulder to cry on to a child sex offender on bail?"
Hugh Davies, for PC Woollard, conceded that his misconduct had been serious and that the court would be "wholly unimpressed" by his behaviour. However, he had expressed remorse and the case did not concern his "honesty and integrity".
Mr Justice Wyn Williams has now reserved his judgment until a later date.


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I have in the Basement Steel I-Beam spanning 27'7" ft. It has a post supporter in the middle of the beam. I was wondering what is the load this beam can handle?
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Mariah Carey is taking a seat at the American Idol judges' table! The 42-year-old powerhouse—we'll never forget "Honey" and "Always Be My Baby"—will make her debut when season 12 starts taping this fall, Entertainment Weekly confirmed. So, before you dig up your Mariah Carey Greatest Hits double album (what, not everyone bought that?), check out the singer's amazing transformation, from curly-haired high schooler to record-setting songbird.
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Major damage was caused at a home on the 500 block of John R, said Chief Ron Crowell.
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...Karen E. Richardson is proud to be the president of the Western New York Chapter of the Women's Bar Association for the State of New York and looks forward to this year's installation dinner slated for September.
..."Our fiscal year coincides with that of WBASNY, so I took over from Melissa Nickson on June 1," Richardson explained. "And that gives the new slate of officers a couple of months to prepare for the combined installation dinner and our chapter's 20th anniversary."
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...A graduate of Orchard Park High School, Richardson attended American University and earned her bachelor's degree in international relations in 1990. She landed a job in Washington working for a non-governmental agency, but was disappointed to discover that the politics of securing grant money and maintaining the organization often overshadowed the agency's educational goals.
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Joseph Hallquist '07 knew he was coming to St. Ambrose during his first walk around campus in the winter of 2003.
Although still in elementary school at the time, Shane Hallquist '13 decided he would be coming to SAU while on that very same walk.
Earlier this month, Shane became the fifth child of Daniel and Dona Hallquist of Roselle, Ill., to walk across the stage at St. Ambrose commencement ceremonies.
Joseph was followed to SAU by sisters Coleen '08 and Danielle '09. Brother Jonathan, who participated in commencement ceremonies a year ago but is finishing work toward a degree in sociology, preceded Shane. And the family actually includes another SAU grad. Joseph married the former Stephanie Ebener '05 in 2010.
One of eight close-knit siblings herself, Dona Hallquist said togetherness has been a lifelong habit for her children—who still work, work out, and occasionally step out on a Friday night as a group.
"In a way, it's good and in a way it's bad," Dona said. "You don't really care if you have friends because you have so many brothers and sisters you can be with and do stuff with."
Coleen almost upset the family balance by considering the University of Kentucky as a high school senior. Joseph convinced her to try SAU instead, and that made up Danielle's mind as well.
The lone White Sox fan in a die-hard Cubs clan, Jonathan really was the wunderlusting wildcard, Coleen said. "I'm surprised he came here, instead of Australia or Germany or somewhere out of the ordinary," Coleen said.
Shane's graduation does not end the Hallquists' association with the Quad Cities. Coleen teaches sixth grade at Frank L. Smart Elementary School in Davenport, and Joseph's in-laws live in the area.
Still, Dona Hallquist can't imagine not having a child enrolled at St. Ambrose. "It was just such a good fit for our family, and it was like home," she said. "I never did feel like a number, and I don't think our kids did, either."
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The Middle East is in bloody turmoil. The Russia/Crimea confrontation rages on. The immigration problem continues to fester. What do the Republicans do? They congress over the Affordable Care Act with an ill-timed, ill-conceived lawsuit directed at the president instead of doing the right and proper thing.
The Republican leadership in both houses should act at once and convene a meeting with the president to discuss these vital issues and come up with strategies to deal with them. They are doing the country and their constituents a gross disservice if they fail to do so.
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In wake of Snowden's disclosure, administration must stop obfuscating
The political fallout from Edward Snowden's disclosure of a super-secret, super-massive government spying program continues to widen this week, as leaders on both the right and left expanded their criticism of high-ranking Obama administration officials for misleading Congress about the nature and scope of the National Security Administration's spy program in the months before Snowden blew the whistle.
With new and startling details about the domestic data-warehousing program finding their way into the newspaper every day, Congress and the press are closely reviewing old testimony from senior Obama types to determine whether the statements square with the truth as we have come to know it post-Snowden.
The results of this ex post facto check are unnerving. For years, the Obama administration systematically duped and deceived the public about virtually all aspects of its domestic spy program — in private, in public, under oath.
According to a report in the Washington Post Thursday, "… lawmakers say they feel that many of the administration's public statements — often couched in terms that offered assurances of the government's respect for civil liberties and privacy — seemed designed to mislead Americans and avoid congressional scrutiny."
At issue are at least three pre-Snowden public exchanges and numerous classified briefings to high-ranking congressional officials, in which the administration described domestic spy programs as being narrowly focused, case-by-case inquiries, constrained by well-established privacy side rails that would prevent the kind of wide-ranging fishing expedition we now know the NSA program to be.
To the extent that the nation's intelligence apparatus was trolling for and storing metadata in emails and cell phone records, administration officials repeatedly told Congress pre-Snowden that such trolling was a highly targeted exercise, limited by a latticework of checks and balances.
But now we know these statements from high-level Obama officials to be, at best, elusive in the extreme, and, at worst, perjurious poppycock.
Far from a deliberative, case-by-case, privacy-sensitive process, the program is the equivalent of the mother of all fishing expeditions.
As one digital privacy group put it, "The NSA is intercepting and analyzing millions of ordinary Americans' communications, with the help of the country's largest phone and Internet companies."
Constrained and case-by-case, this program is not. And neither is it constitutional.
The most important question facing policymakers, of course, is what to do about the program.
But an important corollary in this Orwellian saga is what to do about repeated misleading statements by senior administration officials.
How can Congress have a sensible debate about the proper boundaries between security and privacy if policymakers can't ascertain authentic information about relevant programs?
More pointedly, how can our system of separation of powers work if the executive branch of government can deceive Congress on the most critical matters of state without ramification?
In the last two weeks, Republicans and Democrats have started piling onto the administration for its unwillingness to tell the truth.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was tough. "These statements gave the public a false impression of how these authorities were actually being interpreted."
Congressman Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., was harsh. "If the administration has a policy to lie to Congress about classified materials in unclassified hearings, then you have to ask yourself what value the hearings have and whether or not anyone else is doing it."
Congressman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., was spot-on. "The national security state has grown so that any administration is now not upfront with Congress. It's an imbalance that's grown in our government, and one that we have to cleanse."
Our own Sen. Mark Udall has been a fierce critic of the program, too.
But will this tough talk serve any real purpose?
Will these leaders aggressively work to enact bills that limit the scope of the NSA's spy program, or will they merely introduce bills and issue press releases? Will critics of the spy program demand accountability from those in the Obama administration?
Heads should roll in the administration. Sen. Udall and others should demand it.
Josh Penry is a former minority leader of the Colorado Senate. He graduated from Grand Junction High School and Mesa State College.


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- Research governance: where did it come from, what does it mean?Sara Shaw
Open Learning Unit, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Holborn Union Building, Highgate Hill, London N19 5LW, UK
J R Soc Med 98:496-502. 2005....
- Research governance: ethical issuesAnne Slowther
Ethox Centre Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF
J R Soc Med 99:65-72. 2006..Ensuring that the design and conduct of all research is ethically sound is the responsibility of all involved-including researchers, research institutions, ethics review committees and regulatory bodies...
- Research governance: regulating risk and reducing harm?Sara Shaw
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Highgate Hill, London N19 5LW, UK
J R Soc Med 99:14-9. 2006..Researchers can never wholly guarantee safety in any research but participants and researchers must be offered reasonable protection within any study, with appropriate arrangements in place should something go wrong...
- Developing research management and governance capacity in primary care organizations: transferable learning from a qualitative evaluation of UK pilot sitesSara Shaw
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, Medical Sciences Building, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
Fam Pract 21:92-8. 2004..However, it is unclear which models offer the most effective option. In addition, there is confusion over new processes and concern that researchers may be deterred from addressing important questions...
- Evaluation of an interactive educational tool for primary care researchersSara Shaw
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Med Teach 26:483-6. 2004..Respondents emphasized the flexibility and accessibility of the resource, with Internet links encouraging users to branch out. Potential barriers included securing protected learning time and lack of interaction with peers...
- General practices as emergent research organizations: a qualitative study into organizational developmentFraser Macfarlane
School of Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Fam Pract 22:298-304. 2005..There is little previously published research on the process by which GP practices develop as research organizations or on their specific support needs at organizational level...
- Research governance. Checking it outColin Greaves
Surrey University School of Management
Health Serv J 113:33. 2003
- How PR firms use research to sell productsBoynton Petra
- What's in a care pathway? Towards a cultural cartography of the new NHSRuth Pinder
Centre for Study of Health, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH
Sociol Health Illn 27:759-79. 2005..In particular, we suggest that a critical and processual understanding of pathways might contribute to a more informed appreciation of their potential (and their limitations) as mechanisms for healthcare policy implementation...
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Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Raman, PS and Rangaraju, R and Kumar, Mohan S (1987) X-Radiography of composites13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13; 13;. Technical Report. National Aeronautical Laboratory, Bangalore, India.Full text available as:
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X-Radiography with contrast-enhancing organic fluids is a powerful tool for the detection of surface cracks and delaminations in composites. The fluids used for this purpose are tetrabromoethane (TBE) and diiodobatane (DIB). The former is poisonous and mutagenic while the latter damages the composite by decreasing its mechanical13; properties. Hence several alternate fluids have been synthesised and evaluated by us. They were found to have high x-ray opacity and penetrated easily into the microcracks of the sample. They can be used with epoxies, glass, kevlar or carbon fibre reinforced polyesters or phenolics as well as hybrid composites. They do less13; mechanical damage to the composites and are less irritating to the eyes, skin and nose.
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The Mr Start Spring Summer 2014 collection shown alongside that other Mr, Hare, expands the traditional line up of smart suits and shirts taking in more casual items for off-duty days. Particular stand outs were the crisp white cotton pique bomber, short sleeved check shirt, beautifully cut shorts and light macs for layering up. Tuxedos and formal wear still, of course, form a core part of the collection alongside the brand's trademark shirts in linen and chambray. Take a look at our round-up in the gallery.
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