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Qusay Yahya, Yahya (2009) Strategies for enhancing e-learning implementation in UTM. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems.
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Electronic learning has captured the attention of many learners in the world nowadays. It rose as a result of the development of Internet technologies, the World Wide Web. E-learning became pressing need to meet today's learning process requirements. Furthermore; it provides faster learning, reduced costs, and increased access to learning and clear accountability for all participants in the learning process. In order to meet the increasing demands of the new technology requirements, elearning technology was implemented in University Technology Malaysia with the goal of transforming the education system on the recent four years. The aims of this study firstly, to evaluate the effectiveness of E-learning system from lecturer's perspective in UTM during the last four years. However e-learning in UTM must provide more awareness for lecturers in UTM, right at the moment not all the lecturers are not aware enough of using E-learning system, even though they are using traditional teaching methods or some other methods. Secondly; to investigate whether UTM E-learning system applicable to the other utilized e-learning systems in other universities around the world in terms of efficiency and importancy. Results than the analysis carried out and examined, strategies for the use of E-Learning is more impressive has been mapped by using SWOT analysis. Also, this study has outlined some guidelines for Center of Teaching & Learning.
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|Thesis (Sarjana Sains (Teknologi Maklumat - Pengurusan)) - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2009; Supervisor : Dr. Noorminshah A. Iahad
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|electronic learning, education system
|L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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The Supreme Court may have invalided the entire healthcare law by their ruling. Under article 1 Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution: "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as other Bills." But that's not what happened. The House barely passed one…
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Why Anthony Spencer is the most likely free agent to stay with Cowboys
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2012 recap: Spencer entered the season regarded as a good player but one that didn't have a consistent impact. He altered that perception. Spencer enjoyed the best season of his career. He led the team in tackles with 95 despite missing two games. His 11 sacks was a career high and put him only a half-sack behind DeMarcus Ware for the team lead. Spencer also forced two fumbles and was the team's most consistent and productive defensive player from start to finish.
Why he's likely staying: There is no question from a performance standpoint about whether or not Spencer should return. As Stephen Jones has said, the Cowboys aren't in the habit of letting good players go. But there are some serious cap concerns at work that could end Spencer's time in Dallas. The team can't afford to franchise him for a second, consecutive season and won't have the room to sign him to a new deal unless the contracts of Tony Romo, Brandon Carr, Miles Austin and others are re-worked. Here's betting the Cowboys find a way to keep him.


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Dropkick Murphys "The Season's Upon Us"
This song seems a little like the Christmas sequel to Denis Leary's comedy gem "A**hole," a funny slice of a real Boston Irish Christmas.
The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale of New York"
No Christmas is complete without a spin of this uplifting sounding song, with rather depressing lyrics. A classic, but far from traditional.
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AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter For Bifurcation Coronary Lesions (ABC Study) (ABC)
This study has been terminated.
(Difficulties in recruiting patients)
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
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First received: June 4, 2009
Last updated: June 21, 2015
Last verified: June 2015
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Detailed Description:
Assess the impact of lesion preparation using the AngioSculpt balloon in the treatment of bifurcation lesions in native coronary arteries.
|Bifurcation Coronary Disease
|Device: AngioSculpt
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter For Bifurcation Coronary Lesions (ABC Study) Prospective, Multi-center, Non-randomized, Single-arm Registry
Further study details as provided by HaEmek Medical Center, Israel:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Procedural success ≤ 50% diameter stenosis of the main and the side branch at the conclusion of the procedure in the absence of in-hospital MACE [ Time Frame: 9 Months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Rate of side branch stenting [ Time Frame: 9 Months ]
- Angiographic dissection rate and grade [ Time Frame: 9 months ]
- MACE rate at 30 days post-procedure [ Time Frame: 9 months ]
- Cumulative stent thrombosis and TLR rates at 9 months [ Time Frame: 9 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Single Arm - Interventional
Device: AngioSculpt
The AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter is a standard balloon dilatation catheter with a scoring balloon near the distal tip
Detailed Description:
The purpose of the AngioSculpt® Scoring Balloon Catheter For Bifurcation Coronary lesions (ABC registry) is to demonstrate the acute procedural success, device performance and long term outcome associated with use of the AngioSculpt Scoring Balloon Catheter (AngioScore, Inc., Fremont, CA) for lesion preparation in the treatment of bifurcation lesions in native coronary arteries
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with significant (≥ 50% diameter stenosis) native coronary artery disease involving a bifurcation (Medina class (x,x,1)).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Concomitant use of Rotablator, Cutting Balloon, or investigational coronary devices.
- Additional planned coronary interventions for a non-target lesion within 30 days of the study procedure.
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|Khalid Suleiman
|Afula, Israel, 18101
|Oded Izenberg
|Rehovot, Israel
|Alexander Goldberg
|Zefat, Israel
|Ricardo Krakover
|Zrifin, Israel
Sponsors and Collaborators
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
|Principal Investigator:
|Khalid Suleiman, MD
|Heart Institute; Ha'Emek Medical Center
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|Study First Received:
|June 4, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 21, 2015
Keywords provided by HaEmek Medical Center, Israel:
Bifurcation Lesion
Side branch
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Coronary Disease
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
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LONDON (Feb. 15)
The prediction that all Jews in Holland will be deported by the Nazi occupation authorities to Poland is made here today in the "Voice of Netherland," a weekly newspaper published by the Dutch Government-in-Exile.
Estimating that "about 4,000 young Jews have already been worked to death in the mines of Yugoslavia," the paper reports that able-bodied Jews in Holland are being picked up on the streets by the Nazi occupation authorities and deported to concentration camps from where they are sent to dangerous forced labor. The paper also states that the Jewish birthrate in Holland has dropped fifty percent since the Nazi occupation.
Reviewing the anti-Jewish restrictions which the Nazis introduced in Holland, the Dutch publication says that the Jews are literally not allowed to earn a livelihood. If not for the friendly attitude of the Dutch population, starvation and mortality among the Jews would have reached very high proportions, the article points out. It relates how Dutch butchers are supporting Jewish butchers in Amsterdam who have been prohibited from entering slaughter houses and reveals that non-Jewish doctors in Holland are voluntarily passing on to their Jewish colleagues the fees which they receive from Jewish patients and how Dutch lawyers are doing the same with renumeration which they get from Jewish clients.


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DeLay: (Laughs) First of all, that's not high living. That's going to where people are. When you go and you speak to a group, they usually are not meeting in Clute, Texas. Their meetings are in resorts that they have chosennot what I have chosen. My trips are all for legitimate reason and I was very much involved in advancing the conservative agenda overseaswhether it's working against Christian persecution in China or advancing the conservative cause in England with Margaret Thatcher or pushing freedom and democracy in Moscow or getting persecuted Jews out of the Soviet Union, or fighting Communists and socialists in Central America. When you go to those places, you are with the people that you're meeting with. You're staying in the hotels that you meet in. You can't prove to me one thing that I have done for my own personal game. Yes, I play golf. I'm very proud of the fact that I play golf. It's the only thing that I do for myself. And when you go to a country and you're there for seven days and you take an afternoon off to play golf, what does the national media write? All about the golf, not about the meeting that you went to. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. I've never done anything in my political career for my own personal gain. You can look at my bank account and my house to understand that.
Campaign Manager Chris Homan: Ninety percent of his travel during this timeframe that everybody keeps talking about was for raising money for Republican parties, Republican candidates, Republican causes. That's what he was flying around the country for.
DeLay: Oh, the private planes. Yeah.
Homan: Somebody says, "I need you to come do a fundraiser for me," and the last vote was?
DeLay: The other way to say it is: I did the commercial route when I was running in 1994. I think did about 89 districts the whole year. If I'd done it by private plane, I could have tripled the number of districts. And that's why we started using private planes, instead of going commercial and doing one event in one district per day, you can hit three districts in one day. And you can really knock 'em out doing what is important, and that is electing conservatives to Congress.
TIME: The campaign finance group Political Moneyline discovered that you'd used an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco plane to go to your arraignment. I know that's perfectly legal. But some people look at that and say: Tom DeLay just doesn't get it.
DeLay: (Chuckles) Well, that's usually my detractors. There's nothing wrong with it. They had a plane available. My schedule was such that I couldn't do it commerciallythat I had to get up there and then get back and do my job. And that's the only plane that was available at the time.
TIME: Your smiling mug shotwhat made you think of that and what do you think the consequence of that has been?
DeLay: Oh, I don't know. I said a little prayer. First of all, you only get one take. It's a very humiliating thing, to be booked. And I said a little prayer before I actually did the fingerprint thing, and the picture. And my prayer was basically: "Let people see Christ through me. And let me smile." Now, when they took the shot, from my side, I thought it was fakiest smile I'd ever given. But through the camera, it was glowing. I mean, it had the right impact. Poor old left couldn't use it at all. They had all kind of things planned, they'd spent a lot of money. It made me feel kind of good that all those plans went down the toilet.
TIME: So what would you do differently?
DeLay: Nothing.
TIME: My last question is a two-part question: What do you THINK your legacy will be, and what would you LIKE your legacy to be?
DeLay: Well, first of all, I'm incredibly proud of the 22nd District, that is a conservative Republican district that has allowed me to advance the conservative agenda and build the Republican Party. I think that, probably, is the legacy. I'm not dead yet, so the legacy is still in the making. And I'm very proud of what we've been able to accomplish, particularly in the time of the majority. And I'm kind of excited about what the future holds and continuing to work for those issues, that world view and that political party.
TIME: But you'll be known for some things that you don't want to be known for?
DeLay: Only by people that I don't care about. [Laughs]
TIME: So you don't think history will have a mixed
DeLay: I don't care what history writes. What I care about, what's important to me is who I am, what I've done and what I can accomplish in the future. I don't do things, worried about what history might write or what my enemies might write. What I care about it what I believe in and how I conduct myself in fighting for what I believe in.
TIME: Thank you for talking to us.


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This recipe was inspired by the Paleo Parent's recipe for meatloaf cupcakes. It is such a cute idea and the kids love the small size of these mini-meatloaves. They sneak some extra veggies in to the meatloaf and top with a tomato sauce. My kids love sweet potatoes so I decided to mix it up and use a sweet potato "frosting." Cupcakes are so popular right now, and these are cupcakes I'd be ok with my kids eating.
Meatloaf cupcakes also cook much faster than regular meat "loafs" and are easier to pack for lunches or on-the-go. If you aren't in to mini-meatloaf, my sweet potato Shepard's pie is another great option that cooks in a single pan.
Meatloaf Cupcakes
Yield 6 -8
These fun meatloaf cupcakes are topped with a sweet potato frosting for a hearty and delicious meal that kids and adults love.
- 1.5-2 pounds of ground beef (grass-fed if possible)
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup almond flour (or enough to thicken- this will depend partially on the fat content of the meat and the texture of the almond flour)
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 medium onion
- 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 5-6 sweet potatoes
- 1/4 cup butter or coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon sea salt or Himilayan Salt
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
- Finely dice the onion or puree in a blender or food processor.
- In a large bowl, combine the meat, eggs, flour, basil, garlic powder, pureed onion, Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper and mix by hand until incorporated.
- Grease a muffin tin with coconut oil or butter and evenly divide the mixture into the muffin tins to make 2-3 meat "muffins" per person. If you don't have a muffin tin, you can just press the mixture into the bottom of an 8x8 or 9x13 baking dish.
- Put into oven on middle rack, and put a baking sheet with a rim under it, in case the oil from the meat happens to spill over (should only happen with fattier meats if at all)
- For sweet potatoes: if they are small enough, you can put them into the oven at the same time, if not you can peel, cube and boil them until soft.
- When meat is almost done, make sure sweet potatoes are cooked by whichever method you prefer, and drain the water if you boiled them.
- Mix with butter and salt or pepper if desired and mash by hand or with an immersion blender.
- Remove meat "muffins" from the oven when they are cooked through and remove from tin. Top each with a dollop of the mashed sweet potatoes to make it look like a cupcake.
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Spring Wildflowers, a massive basalt outcrop, a scenic gorge on Alameda Creek and plenty of trails through varied terrain await ...
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Spring Wildflowers, a massive basalt outcrop, a scenic gorge on Alameda Creek and plenty of trails through varied terrain await ...
August 18, 2011 by Beth Slatkin
If you want to know the best places to find mountain lion tracks, what type of flower blooms on a rock outcrop during a particular month, and what coyote scat looks like at different times of the year, ask the East Bay Regional Park District's Cat Taylor.
January 01, 2011 by Joan Hamilton
The East Bay Regional Park District is not just the nation's largest and oldest regional park district. It also has what's likely the largest corps of professional naturalists of any local park agency. For generations of kids, that's meant accessible opportunities for hiking, camping, getting dirty, and--most important--discovering the outdoors and getting to know our plant and animal neighbors.
December 30, 2010 by Rick Bacigalupi
Naturalist Katie Colbert introduces us to the amazing tarantulas that wander the interior hills of the Bay Area. These large ...
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Most folks don't think much of snakes unless they trip over them. It turns out that a remarkable diversity of serpents lives nearby, from beautiful red-bellied ring-necked snakes hiding under logs in damp woodlands to three- or four-foot rattlers sunning themselves on rocky slopes in Sunol Regional Wilderness. Able predators, many of our local snakes have evolved fascinating strategies for subduing their prey, whether rodents, amphibians, or even other snakes.
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Ask most people to name the most important species of our grassland habitats, and they'll probably pick coyotes, golden eagles, or even rattlesnakes. But experts say that the strongest contender of all is the animal eaten by all those other ones: the lowly California ground squirrel, a true keystone of local grasslands. Belowground, the squirrels' lengthy burrows harbor insects, snakes, owls, and even frogs and salamanders that couldn't live in such a dry landscape without the squirrels' help. And above-ground, they've evolved some unusual defenses that allow them to thrive, even as they feed so many others.
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On summer weekends, the nearly 4,000 picnic tables of the East Bay Regional Park District are packed with families from many of the Bay Area's diverse communities, returning year after year to their favorite spots, along with great blue herons hunting gophers, crows and ravens pillaging trash cans, and raccoons swiping meat right off the grill. All just part of the curious ecology of our local picnic areas.


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He passed out sometime before 3.30am (AEDT) and awoke to find the man allegedly performing a lewd act on him.
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Collection of photographs related to the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the running out of town of Soapy Smith's gang. Many of the photographs appear to be from Case & Draper. Caption reads: "The tragedy of the death of 'Soapy Smith' and Frank Reid at Skaguay Alaska who fought a duel up there in the latter part of the summer of 1898. Soapy Smith died in one hour and Frank Reid lived for 9 days, Smith was a gambler, saloon keeper and had a bad gang around him. Later 14 of these bad characters were shewn a rope & made to leave the town. Sacks of gold dust had on several occasions disappeared from hotels & other places." Explanation reads: "See under this sheet Explanation of this shooting affair July 8th 1898 according to the numbered small pictures No 1. Public funeral of Frank Reid who died for the honor of our town. No 2. Frank Reid civil engineer & school teacher at Bishop Row (Rowe ?) Hospital Skaguay after he was shot. No 3. Burial of Reid two miles above Skagway. No 4. Soapy Smith Marshall of the day on his fine horse leading big parade on July 4th 1898. Four days prior to his being killed. No 5. Soapy Smith after death -- July 8 - 1898. No 6. Judge Shelbrede of Skaguay. No 7. Examination of Smith in hospital just after being shot Dr. Whiting sitting at left. No 8. Miner called 'Skaguay' with his big poke of gold dust found in woodshed back of Soapy Smiths Saloon. No 9. Extracting bullet from Smiths body. 10. Marshall Shoup. No 11. four of Smiths gang, names given above each. No 12. Rounding up the Soapy Smith gang in front of our store and bunk house. No 13. 10 of Smiths gang of whome [sic] picture was taken there as they stand on the Moore Wharf ready to be sent out of Alaska back to the states where they first came from, one was hoisted few feet with rope by the neck & let down again." Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Collateral Damage
The Lowdown on Diagnostic Imaging
It's been a very slow weekend in terms of injuries, but that doesn't mean we have to slow down here in the Collateral Damage corner of Baseball Prospectus. There are many different diagnostic tests used in sports medicine, and you hear them mentioned all the time in injury reports. X-rays were negative for a fracture, but the CT scan showed a tiny one. An MRI revealed a possible stress fracture, but then a bone scan was ordered. What's this about using ultrasound in sports medicine clinics? Isn't that what they use during pregnancy? We're going to look at those questions and more in a special installment of Collateral Damage.
Digital X-rays are replacing old-fashioned photographic films because of the significant savings over the lifetime of the machine in larger clinics, as well as the decreased time necessary to process the images. In the process of taking an X-ray, radiation is briefly sent from the X-ray machine through the body part, captured, and then processed into an image. Bones and tumors—which are more dense than other soft tissues—will show up as white on the image because they absorb the radiation. A trained operative also discern the amount of joint space available, which can convey an idea of whether advanced arthritis is present.
Radiation is always a concern with X-rays, but background radiation from outer space and radon gas seeping up through the earth is present everywhere. The amount of radiation in X-rays of the extremities is near zero, the equivalent of standing outside for three hours. If you have an X-ray of the spine, there's more radiation involved, equivalent to standing outside for 6 months. Medical professionals try to limit the number of repeat X-rays because of the risk of additional radiation, but at times the imaging it is necessary.
MRIs takes anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes, but they provide detailed information about assorted soft tissues in the body. A computer measures all of the frequencies and provides an array of pictures at a set distance between each picture. Each structure of the body part will yield a certain shade or color, i.e. ligaments are one shade, fluid is another, muscle is another, bones are another, etc.
The contrast between the separate structures in MRIs allows radiologists to identify different injuries. Tears of ligaments or tendons can be detected, as well as injuries to the meniscus. Contusions are easily seen on MRI, regardless of whether they're located in bone or soft tissue. Herniated disks and other cartilage injuries throughout the body can also be revealed clearly.
In some cases, orthopedic injuries aren't easily seen on regular MRI. In these cases, a dye is used to give us more detail and allow a more accurate diagnosis. This dye, often gadolinium, can be injected into the joint (direct) or via the bloodstream (indirect). Several injuries could require dye to provide a more accurate diagnosis, but the ones that invite its use most often are UCL injuries and labrum injuries in the shoulder and hip.
CT scan
The main advantage of using CT scans is their ability to detail bone, soft tissue, and blood vessels all at once and in great detail. CT scans can give detail to the 0.2 mm level, providing the granularity needed to diagnosis some injuries. We have seen CT scans revealing small fractures that didn't show up on X-ray or MRI a few times already this season.
Like most things involving an upside, CT scans do involve a downside. The main downside to a CT scan is the amount of radiation, which is much higher than in a regular X-ray. A CT scan on an extremity, such as an ankle, provides about 20 times as much radiation as an X-ray, but it is still extremely safe and equivalent to roughly 10 days of environmental radiation.
If a CT scan is needed for the spine, though, it produces the equivalent of three years of environment radiation. Responsible doctors and CT technicians will consider the patient's exposure to previous CTs and other radiographic images before performing such a scan. If a repeat CT is needed, often it will be focused to a much smaller area, thus decreasing the overall radiation exposure.
Bone Scan
The tracer then dissipates quickly inside the body, usually within a day. The average bone scan is equivalent to approximately one year of environmental radiation, one of the main reasons that bone scans are often performed only once during the diagnostic and treatment process.
One of the biggest advantages of diagnostic ultrasound is its ability to evaluate tissues dynamically, allowing the technician to see their interaction. Rotator cuff tears can be seen and UCL sprains can be evaluated, revealing how loose the ligament is. With the elbow in motion, any scar tissue can be seen and determined to be a source of pain. Tendons can be evaluated for degeneration resulting from chronic inflammation. Ultrasound has a wide range of uses, but one limiting factor is its inability to penetrate outer layers of bone, which MRI or CT is better suited for.
Diagnostic ultrasound has no known side effects in humans, another advantage that cannot be overlooked.
** Information about radiation levels of the different tests and environmental equivalents were found hereand here.
Flesh Wounds: Even though it's a short list, we still had some injuries over the weekend. Martin Prado is suffering from a staph infection in his right calf. He needed a minor procedure to clean out the area, and a trip to the disabled list was deemed necessary... Freddy Sanchez dislocated his right shoulder after a diving catch on Friday and may end up needing surgery... Evan Meek is going to see Dr. Andrews today because of his recurrent shoulder inflammation... Allen Craig is the latest player to go on the disabled list with a knee contusion... Aaron Harang was placed on the disabled list because of a stress reaction in his right foot... Bartolo Colon went on the DL with a strained left hamstring, and Amaury Sanit joins his teammate on the disabled list with right elbow inflammation... Mike Napoli is on the disabled list and continued the recent trend toward oblique injuries... Cole Kimball will be out for at least two more weeks after being placed on the disabled list with right shoulder inflammation... Alberto Callaspo strained a left hamstring but will be considered day-to-day for now... Kerry Wood has developed a blister on his index finger and may require another trip to the disabled list.
Corey Dawkins is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @CoreyDawkinsBP
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Shawn Doyle
Great stuff.
Jun 13, 2011 08:04 AM
Thanks for a VERY interesting article.
Jun 13, 2011 10:18 AM
MRI is still the gold standard. With ultrasound, you really need someone who is experienced reading these. It's starting to be used more often in sports medicine and something that can easily be done in a doctors office. The machine is pretty small and easily fits on a utilty cart.
Jun 13, 2011 11:11 AM
Pat Folz
I have heard that there is some evidence that CT scans, and particularly multiple CT scans, have been linked to increased cancer risk. Do you know if this is true, and if so, at what point do the benefits outweigh the risks (i.e. when should you actually use one)?
Jun 13, 2011 11:45 AM
With any radiation there is an increased risk and the two references point out the equivalent environmental exposure.
Jun 13, 2011 13:15 PM
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I am a big fan of the Houston Heights. I lived there for the better part of 15 years and spent countless summer days at my grandparents' house just about eight blocks east of there. It has so many things that make it a desirable place to live, from the big old oak trees to the quaint shops to the location so close to town. It's a far different place from when I bought there back in 1996.
At that time, there was still regular gunfire nearby. I saw a car chase right on my block complete with one car blowing out the back window of the other with a shotgun in a drug deal gone bad. About 2 a.m. one New Year's Eve, I heard the familiar sound of a machine gun — yes, fully auto and everything — being fired off just down the street. Of course, my house cost about one-third what it would now — when I sold in 2009, I got substantially more than double what I had paid — and my guess is that the OK Corral-style shootouts are mostly a thing of the past.
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Still, over the years, the growth and the popularity of the charming neighborhood have begun to take their toll. The gentrification has begun in earnest and doesn't appear to have been beaten back in quite the same way it has been in the Montrose. But the Heights has never had the level of commercial and retail development that Westheimer has, so this is happening more to the homes and streets themselves, which is why, if you live there, I think it might be time to consider a move.
5. Crazy Development
Beyond the strip centers that are ever so slowly making their way into the area, the biggest threat is from homebuilders, who have taken — as they do in so many places — to buying up single lots and cramming four town homes onto them just feet apart from one another. Where lovely wood-frame, pier-and-beam bungalows used to stand, there are now brick squares three stories high. Trees are cut down for more land space, and if the developers don't build town homes, they put in homes so skinny you could touch both walls with your arms outstretched, so two could fit in a space designed for one. It's much like what began in West University years ago, but with more reckless abandon.
4. The Death of Front-Porch Living
I'm not just talking about the fact that so many of the aforementioned new home developments have as their front door to the street a garage door instead of an actual front porch. I'm also talking about the slow disappearance of friendly neighbors right on your block. One of the really wonderful features of a porch is how it draws people out into the front yard. Houstonians are naturally friendly, so being there and seeing others lends itself to getting to know one another. As this style of home begins to disappear, so does this type of lifestyle so intrinsic to life in this historic hood.
3. The Events That Overrun the Neighborhood
Years ago, I rented space in an antique shop on 19th Street. At the time, there was very little in the way of marketing being done to interest people in visiting the shops that lined the street. Restaurants came and went — I still miss the fantastic croissant breakfast sandwich I got at Kaldi Cafe before it was shuttered and became Shade — but most of the shops remained relatively the same. Only, very few young people knew they were there. The merchants got together and came up with the idea of a holiday event to coincide with the holiday Home Tour. Soon there were other events, like White Linen Night, which completely inundated the entire area with drunk visitors. It might sound more sophisticated than the Westheimer Arts Festival, but the results have unfortunately become similar, which is why the Arts Fest was kicked out of the Montrose.
2. Chains Slowly Creeping In
For years, Starbucks tried to get a spot near 19th Street but was rebuffed. Now a Starbucks sits conveniently across the street from a giant Walmart and next to Jimmy John's, Chipotle, the Corner Bakery and other chain establishments just across the freeway from Heights Boulevard. Slowly but surely, chain restaurants and stores are replacing independents. Fortunately, there are still some outstanding local eateries and shops around, but the new, widespread development should be a concern to residents.
1. The Cost
Not only does a 1,100-square-foot bungalow cost well into the $300,000 range, but the escalating real estate market is driving the diversity right out of the neighborhood. For years, remodeled homes sat next to small, old rent houses. Now an empty lot costs more than $200K. Just the dirt. I'm glad the housing market has grown so dramatically in Houston. It certainly benefited me. But the explosion in the Heights has gotten out of hand and with all the money in property, it's no wonder developers are moving in and destroying the character of the neighborhood. Frankly, if I owned a house that I bought there even ten years ago, I'd cash out now while the values are this high.
Houston Needs Hockey
Houston Needs an NHL Team: An Open Letter.
Abby Koenig
Dear Whoever Has Enough Money to Buy Hockey Teams:
Two weeks ago my hockey-loving husband and I headed up to the Big D to watch the New York Rangers take on the Dallas Stars. As transplants from New York, we were rooting for the Rangers, and (no surprise) they won. Regardless of victor, the American Airlines Arena was completely packed. As we pushed our way out of the crowd, we both mused to each other over the same question:
Why in the hell doesn't Houston have a national hockey team?
When the Houston Aeros, Houston's AHL team, announced last year that they would not be returning to H-Town in the 2013-2014 season but were picking up and moving to Des Moines, Iowa, as the Iowa Wild, Houston lost the closest thing it had to a hockey pastime. The rumors as to why the Aeros split town have less to do with Houston's interest in the sport and more to do with cashola. Apparently, the Minnesota Wild, the Aeros' affiliate NHL team, couldn't come up with a lease agreement with the Toyota Center — someone wanted more money and someone wanted to pay less; you guess which was which.
If you had never been to an Aeros game, you missed out. It was a good old time. The Toyota Center wasn't packed to the brim, but there was always a good-size crowd of people donning their green Aeros jerseys. The loss wasn't for lack of interest. In the 2011-2012 season, Aeros games were the fifth most attended in the league, and in 2012-2013 they ranked at No. 7. In fact, over the past nine years, the Aeros consistently landed in the top 10 of most attended AHL teams in the league. Houstonians want their hockey.
Undoubtedly, an NHL team, as opposed to an AHL team, would bring in a better audience. And let's throw our hockey pucks down on the table: Houston needs an NHL team. Why? Where should I start?
How about with the little detail that Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country and soon enough will be No. 3. "But Houston is so hot," you say. So what? So's Dallas. Additionally, there is Florida, which has two hockey teams, the Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lighting, and it's not only hotter and smaller in both of those places, but also...it's Florida. California has three hockey teams and one of them is based on a horrible movie starring Emilio Estevez.
How does Texas have only one NHL team, and, furthermore, how is that team in Dallas? Think of the glorious potential of having a Houston/Dallas hockey rivalry. This isn't football, where you pretend to wrestle on the field; hockey has full-on battle royals with blood and guts on ice skates! I guarantee that our hockey team could kick Dallas's hockey team's ass, and we don't even have a team.
Friction with Dallas aside, Houston is a city filled with transplants. I don't need to remind you of the multitude of findings that have come out over the past few years that people cannot stop moving here. Even U-Haul filed a report saying that Houston was the most moved-to city in 2012. With all these different folks, how could there not be a large percentage of hockey fans, who, sadly, don't have a local team to support and give their money to? We have moolah to spend on frivolities; let us spend it on sports. Did you hear me say that, whoever is in charge of getting this done? We want to spend money on sports in Houston.
Speaking of sports, Houston has had some rough times this past year. I don't want to sour anybody's pickle, but we need a team to root for right about now. No offense to the Rockets and the Dynamo; you guys are doing okay; I just don't personally care for either of you.
Here's another thing worth mentioning about the sport: Hockey players are pretty hot. Jeff Carter, Carey Price, Henrik Lundqvist and, let us never forget, Sean Avery, gone but never forgotten, all incredibly good-looking guys who are manly enough to don a pair of ice skates. Houston's sports teams need some eye candy up in this piece.
Additionally, right now hockey's East division has two more teams than the West, so it's a perfect time to get in while the getting is good and even the score. Plus, this week was really cold, so Houston just feels like a hockey kind of town.
And Tyler Myers of the Sabres was born in Houston, so there's that, too.
I am aware there are a lot of logistics to bringing a hockey team over from another city, but we are a huge city, filled with people from all over the country who are missing their hometown teams, with an arena already in place and a desperate need for some hot sports stars (sorry, Case).
Let's do this, Houston!
A hockey fan
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MUMBAI: SABMiller, the world's second-largest brewer after AB InBev, plans to invest 440 crore in its unlisted Indian arm to expand capacity and its portfolio, and revive its fortunes in Asia's third-largest economy where young urban consumers are driving demand.In an extraordinary general meeting in March, SABMiller India decided to allot 78 million shares to its UK-based parent at 56 each, it said in a filing with the Registrar of Companies.
The maker of beer such as Haywards, Miller High Life and Foster's plans to use the funds to increase capacity by over 10,000 litres by 2014, according to the filing submitted two weeks ago.
Confirming the development, a SABMiller India spokesperson said the move reiterates that India continues to be a focus area for the group, which has over the past 12 years invested over $700 million in the country.
"Fresh equity should accelerate the company's ongoing drive to support development of the Indian market on all fronts, build a wider brand portfolio to offer more choice to the consumer, innovate and bring world-class technology and best practices into the country," the spokesperson said.
SABMiller, the second-largest player in India's $2.2-billion (approximately 12,000-crore) beer market, is looking to claw back its market share lost to leader United Breweries and others in the past few years.
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Carlsberg, which entered the country in 2006, now leads local rivals Mohan Meakin, which makes Golden Eagle beer, and Thunderbolt beer brewer Mount Shivalik Industries. All these companies are drawing up aggressive plans to uncork the huge potential in the Indian market where beer consumption is still to catch up. An Indian drinker, for instance, consumes just 1.7 litres of beer a year on an average, compared with more than 37 litres in China and 74 in the US. With pubs becoming commonplace in urban India and social drinking becoming more acceptable, brewers expect the Indian beer market to grow rapidly. Swiss financial services firm UBS estimates the Indian beer market recorded revenue CAGR of 27% between FY02 and FY12 to $2.2 billion.
Another factor that is making SABMiller increase its focus on markets such as India is stagnating global markets. Driven by saturation, health trends and increase in excise duty, beer is forecast to be one of the slowest growing beverage categories globally in volumes during 2013, achieving only a low single-digit increase, according to a report by Rabo Bank.
Major brewers such as Dutch brewer Heineken, Belgium-based AB InBev, Danish firm Carlsberg and Chinese company Tsingtao are now looking at growing profitability by encouraging consumers to trade up to premium beer, craft beer or new categories such as cider. Also, as mature markets decline, brewers are shifting focus to emerging markets such as India to ramp up volume growth. Heineken, the world's third-largest brewer, holds more than 40% share in India's largest brewer, Vijay Mallya's United Breweries.
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I recently had Smart Lipo and during the administration of the tumescent fluid, I began to shake. I was told it was due to the epinephrine but oddly enough, not one person had mentioned this side effect to me even though they all knew I have a history of panic disorder. I was told EVERYONE gets the shakes. I have read many reviews and only one person makes mention of this side effect. Of all the online videos I've seen of Drs performing Smart Lipo, not one patient appears to be in any distress.
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Three-year-old Anja Louise looked ready for dance class as she headed out in Santa Monica, California with her mom Alessandra Ambrosio yesterday wearing her tutu and ballet slippers (August 18).
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Orwellian Language Update
Imperialism and rising inequality call forth language innovations to put a nasty reality in a better light, or at least to take those responsible for the nastiness off-the-hook. One verbal device that helps obscure reality, and the responsibility for mass distress, is the use of the pronoun "we" for those responsible and the phrase "lack of political will" to explain policy failures. Thus, Thomas Frank writes that, "We beheld our powerlessness at the hands of the mighty and we decided that the thing to do was to make Wall Street even stronger. We accepted our powerlessness and then magnified it" ("Easy Chair," Harper's, September 2013). This is sort of self-contradictory, but it implies that ordinary citizens are in some fashion making the relevant decisions ("we decided" to make Wall Street stronger).
But this and other uses of "we" slither over the fact that most of us have not the slightest influence on policy choices—it is the folks who vet and fund potential political candidates and the vetted politicians themselves who comprise the tiny set of deciders. As George W. Bush laughingly said to a dining room full of big donors, "Some people call you the elite. I call you my base," acknowleding that his constituency was not all of us. This split between the relevant "we" and the mass of ordinary citizens explains why polls consistently show "populist" views on the part of the "we" majority that don't affect actual policy.
By the same token, it is not any lack of "political will" on the part of the general citizenry that explains this policy gap, it is the actual realized will on the part of the small power elite at the top who actually do have the political will to feather their own nests with feathers taken from the great mass of losers. Why can't we have a policy of refusing to bail out giant banks that are failing through their own massive business errors? In a September 2, 2010 hearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, titled "Hearing on Too Big to Fail: Expectations and Impact of Extraordinary Government Intervention and the Role of Systemic Risk in the Financial Crisis," Fed Chair Ben Bernanke explained it on the grounds that, "If there's a lack of political will, there's probably no solution that is sustainable" (cited in Donna Borak, "FCIC: Will Dodd-Frank Stop Future Bailouts?," The American Banker, September 3, 2013). And the Washington Post editors explain that we can't have government-provided medical insurance because the Democrats lack the political will: "[T]he liberals have long argued polls show wide support for the public option and even extending Medicare for all Americans and the lack of either proposal in the bill simply shows a lack of political will from Democrats" ("Should liberals be happy with the health-care legislation Congress could pass this weekend?" Washington Post, March 18, 2010).
I've been working this terrain of Orwellian language for many years, and find it interesting to see how much the earlier Orwellian language retains its pertinence even as fresh usage is brought forth to meet contemporary demands. In my first effort along this line, The Great Society Dictionary (with cartoons by Ron Cobb), which dates back to 1968 and the Vietnam War years (my God, how venerable is this author), I included words like:
- Boondoggle: "A small welfare expenditure" (see "Defense Expenditure")
- Credibility: "The public's capacity for absorbing official lies"
- Military-Industrial Complex:"The Pentagon and Its Hundred Neediest Cases"
- Nation-building: "Nation-busting" (see "Save")
- Containment: "The exclusion of lesser powers from areas in which we intend to establish hegemony." (Syn., "Expansion")
- Conservatism: "An ideology whose central tenet is that the Government Is Too Big, except for the police and military establishment"
- Police: "The Fifth Estate and the only one outside of the law"
- There are many others with continuing relevance. I added to them in a 1992 updated book entitled Beyond Hypocrisy, which had a "Doublespeak Dictionary" and many fine cartoons by Matt Wuerker. A few notables are:
- Entitlements: "Claims to government aid by the Special Interests"( see "Special Interests")
- Special Interests: "Workers, women, farmers, the aged and infirm, the unemployed, blacks and other minorities; the general population; unimportant people"
- Pro-life: "Strongly supportive of the rights of the fetus; often associated with a below average concern for post-fetal life"
- Security, price of: "Whatever the arms establishment goes after"
- Stability: "Political and economic conditions that satisfy our interests"
There are other holdovers from earlier killing-machine word usage. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. government made periodic "peace moves" in the form of temporarily suspended bombing attacks, at the same time allegedly inviting the North Vietnamese to come to the bargaining table and "negotiate," but secretly telling them that the terms were still surrender. The moves were getting nowhere, so the government then escalated the war. In recent years, U.S. leaders, now dominating a world without any power to contain them, hardly bother with peace moves; but they still have to deal with a restive domestic public somewhat impatient at the length and cost of multiple wars, so we have periodic "surges" that correspond to the former "escalation," but with a word that provides a more positive aura. In the old days, also, we employed "mercenaries" in vast numbers, but now when we hire even larger numbers we give them a more benign name, "contractors."
U.S. wars are always justified by the virtue of their "missions," which may evolve when one of them turns out to be fraudulent beyond propaganda repair—most notably, the absence of Iraqi "weapons of mass destruction" whose threat had been the nominal rationale for the 2003 U.S.-UK invasion. This mission lapse was quickly repaired by substituting the need to remove a dictator and give the surviving Iraqis (those still alive after our onslaught and the provoked civil war) a democratic order. We had to destroy the country to save it—from dictatorial rule. This was a late improvisation and remarkably selective as the Egyptian and Saudi dictatorships remained close and protected allies, but the ploy was effective in the U.S. propaganda system.
In other apologetic frames that serve the expansion program of the post-Soviet single superpower, we have the increased need for "Humanitarian Intervention" (HI) and the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P), arguably just parts of a "Global War on Terror" GWOT). The first, HI, entails a "muscular" foreign policy that stresses the use of hard rather than soft power as demanded by the needs of that ever more influential old friend the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC). Using the products of the MIC like 500 pound bombs, depleted uranium, and cluster bombs entails a great deal of both collateral and non-collateral damage and is only humanitarian in purported rationale and excuses, not real reasons or effects. HI is a substitute for the much less expensive diplomacy or just minding one's own business. R2P is also a creation of the post-Soviet order and also involves violence as a substitute for diplomacy or plain vanilla non-intervention. As these are violent manifestations of the GWOT, and highly selective in accord with the real aims and political alliances of the U.S. and its close allies, the GWOT is really a Global War OF Terror.
There is of course a "peace process" that has been going on between Israel and the Palestinians under U.S. supervision for decades. But that process has not brought peace and is not intended to do so. If there was a peace settlement that negotiated boundaries for Israel and Palestine, Israel would not be able to seize Palestinian property without crossing an accepted border and engaging in an open war of aggression. This would not do, so we have a "peace process" instead that will go on for some time. And we may be sure that R2P will not be applied in this case to protect the victims.
Among the remarkable features of the emergence of HI and R2P is that these supposedly benevolent rules have paralleled not only the phony "peace process" but also a growth of torture, extraordinary renditions and the seizure and indefinite incarceration of hundreds of individuals stripped of any legal rights by their designation as "enemy combatants." These developments should have raised questions about the humanitarian aims of HI and R2P, given their sponsorship and enforcement by the same parties bringing torture and other ugly practices into wider use, but they didn't do so in the mainstream, reflecting the power of the sponsors of both.
The concept "enemy combatant" is not to be found in international law, but torture is an important constituent of that law. The two are connected as declaring some captive to be an enemy combatant removes them from the protection of international law and makes them more easily subjected to torture, at least to the satisfaction of the torturers and their media. This is a questionable mode of behavior and not very humanitarian, but has been employed by the power that is both the main sponsor and practitioner of HI and R2P.
Torture is not a novel process, but just as it took on a new life in the U.S. sphere of influence in the counter-revolutionary spurt right after World War II (see Amnesty International's 1974 "Report on Torture" and Chomsky and Herman's 1979 Washington Connection), it took on renewed importance after 9/11 and the Bush-Cheney resort to torture as part of the war OF terror, with the open declaration of no moral constraint on methods ("taking off the gloves"). A remarkable debate took place in this country on whether waterboarding and other well-known torture techniques were really torture and whether the United States was bound by long-standing legal limits on these methods. With its slew of right-wing lawyers, the Bush-Cheney government found torture acceptable and used it, both directly and via transfers of prisoners to torturing states ("extraordinary renditions"), two of which were Hosni Mubarak's Egypt and Bashar Al-Assad's Syria. The leading Democrats raised no objections, and President Obama has refused to prosecute these law violations, in violation of his own oath of office.
The U.S. establishment has hated to use the word torture to apply to U.S. actions, with the result that a new torture lexicography emerged to evade it when applied to us. So we have "enhanced interrogation," "coercive interrogation," "harsh interrogation," "interrogation in depth," and "professional interrogation techniques."
We also have some notable word and institutional innovations fitting the age of openly targeted assassinations carried out via drone bombings against "terrorists" and "militant Islamists" across the globe. This country carries out "signature strikes," attacks based on "patterns of activity that are suspicious," with the individuals killed commonly not identified by name. The threshold for killing at a distance was lowered in 2008 from "high value targets" or "personality strikes" to an alleged "reasonable man standard." It was reported in 2012 that the Obama administration was continuing a policy whereby a signature strike "in effect counts all military aged males in a strike zone as combatants" (Micah Zenko. "How does the recent shift in U.S. drone policy impact 'signature strikes'?," Foreign Policy, June 11, 2013; Jo Becker and Scott Shane, "Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will," New York Times, May 30, 2012). The Administration has also developed a "disposition matrix," a death list of targets (human beings, untried in any court) who are candidates for signature strikes, apparently discussed and decided on by the President at "Terror Tuesday" meetings.
There are important institutional and verbal shifts on the home front as well. Perhaps the foremost language innovation on the domestic scene was the "homeland security" coinage, accompanied by the creation of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS), now a major component of the rapidly growing domestic surveillance complex. The DHS is a huge and costly bureaucratic add-on to existing structures allegedly dealing with elements of security, which should have been anathema to conservatives hostile to Big Government. It is also likely that this new add-on and associated funds-flow contributes much more to public fears about security than it serves any real protective function. This DHS needs those fears to justify its large appropriations, as does the MIC.
One of my favorite language shifts over the years has been the move to "corrections facilities" from "jails" and "prisons." What makes this verbal change so noteworthy and Orwellian is that jails and prisons have moved steadily away from any focus on rehabilitation to just getting prisoners out of circulation—that is, away from anything like "corrections." It is reminiscent of the shift from Department of War to Department of Defense back in the late 1940s, coinciding with the shift in that Department's real mission from defense to offense and expansion (i.e., "containment").
There are endless riches in Orwellian usage in this great country, and they expand side-by-side with its regression in humanity and justice and the mainstream media's protection of its outrages. We will have to return to this territory soon again.
Edward S. Herman is an economist, media, critic, and author of numous articles and books, including The Politics of Genocide (with David Petersen).


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You can also call the appointment center to schedule, change or cancel an appointment or ask questions.
Research done at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, along with twelve other sites nationwide, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found back surgery for spinal stenosis and a slipped vertebra proved to have better results than nonsurgical remedies.
The paper is the second in a series detailing the findings of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial, a 7-year, $21 million, study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Beaumont was the only Michigan hospital to participate in the trial.
"The SPORT study is not only unique because of its large size, but because it provides both doctors and patients important information when deciding how to treat back pain," says Harry Herkowitz, M.D., co-author of the article and chief of orthopedic surgery, Beaumont, Royal Oak. "Until this study, there had been only a few very small controlled trials to gauge the effectiveness of back surgeries."
In cases of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis, a condition that affects six times as many women as men, especially prevalent among black women, surgery was twice as effective as nonsurgical approaches in reducing pain and restoring functionality.
Degenerative spondylolisthesis, also known as DS, is the forward slippage of one lumbar vertebra on the one below it. It generally occurs after age 50. Although DS alone generally causes no symptoms, in some cases it can result in spinal stenosis - the narrowing of the spinal canal which causes pressure on the nerves. This results in significant pain in the legs that is worsened by simply taking a walk.
SPORT followed 601 patients diagnosed with DS and symptomatic spinal stenosis. Of those, 372 received surgery within two years and 235 remained nonoperative. Two years after enrollment in the trial, while nonoperative patients reported only modest improvement in their condition, patients who had surgery reported significantly reduced pain and improved functionality. Surgical patients saw relief from symptoms fairly quickly, reporting major improvements as early as 6 weeks after their operation.
Nonoperative treatments included physical therapy, steroid injections, and medicines to relieve pain. Surgery involved relieving pressure on the nerves through removal of bone and soft tissue in a procedure called a decompressive laminectomy.
This publication follows the release of earlier SPORT findings in November, which looked at patients seeking treatment for disk herniation with sciatica. For that condition, the difference between outcomes between the surgical and nonoperative groups was less.
The third major SPORT study, on the effectiveness of surgery vs. nonsurgical options for spinal stenosis without any spondylolisthesis, is expected to be released later this year.
News story ideas for reporters, producers and editors.
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The Food and Drug Administration has proposed a ban on trans fat in foods. It's estimated that the total elimination of trans fats could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 cardiovascular deaths in the U.S. per year. Dietitian Silvia Veri, R.D., with Beaumont's Weight Control Centers, is available to identify high-risk foods and discuss the dangers of trans fats.
Michigan's everchanging weather can play havoc on skin care. The arrival of fall not only means falling temperatures, but increased exposure to wind and rain. Beaumont dermatologists are available to offer seasonal skin care tips.
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Don't look at my SWC size
If you want to use a library in your Flex project, distributed as a SWC file, you should not look at the SWC file size as any indication of how much your compiled application will increase in size. If you want to know how much size overhead the library imposes, look at the compiled release version of your app (Click on Export Release Build button). Even then, it will depend on how much of the library you are using.


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Strategic Milestones Of Romania'S Integration To The European Union Process Efficiency
The strategic milestones of Romania's integration efficiency to the European Union aims at the following more important aspects: developing a national strategy of sustainable development that should have as core the post-accession strategy in agreement with the EU decisions in this field, and the trends at world level; rendering efficient and increasing competitiveness of the public and private sector in Romania; increasing macroeconomic sustainability on long-term, inclusive for the trade balance and for the foreign payments; increasing the efficiency of using domestic and foreign loans and of public investments; using proceeds from privatization for modernizing the infrastructure in Romania; strengthening the management capacity. The European economic model which is based on the principle of "unity in diversity" offers a flexible framework of rendering compatible on short-, medium- and long-term the economic efficiency, justice and equity, promoting poverty alleviation, social cohesion and inclusion, subsidiarity and intergenerational cooperation.
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Issue (Month): 6(511)(supplement) (June)
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i am planning to buy a new Intel SSD right now and found one with discount here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167049
However, in the Details tag of this page, it indicates that the warranty period for it is 1 year, which is different from the policy or support documentation of Intel. Is it just negligence of the website, or is this drive has the discount just because of the shorter warranty period?
Thanks a lot!
$151 and 5 years of guarantee:
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22.1 Movie Contact Sheet
Wouldn't it be amazing if NeoFinder could show you what is actually in a movie file? Yes, NeoFinder generates one thumbnail of each movie file during cataloging, if you want it, but for a long movie, just a single frame is not too much.
Introducing the new NeoFinder Movie Contact Sheet!
Simply select a movie file, and either use the Movie Contact Sheet command in the Special menu of NeoFinder, or the context menu for a file:
Then you
can set up a couple of options, like how many rows and columns you
want in your contact sheet, and what format the resulting picture
file should have.
NeoFinder generates this beautiful contact sheet for you, along
with all the interesting information you
Wait! That is not
This of course also works if you select multiple movie files in NeoFinder! So you can quickly generate a lot of contact sheets at once.
And there is even
The amazing Services integration of NeoFinder give you one more incredible feature. Simply select a movie file directly in the Finder, and in the Services menu, you also have the option to get a NeoFinder Movie Contact sheet for that file!
No need
to catalog anything with NeoFinder first, you can have the contact
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Isn't that amazing?
There is more!
NeoFinder also reads a lot of cool metadata for you: 22.2 Movie Metadata
And it can even catalog RED videos for you: 22.3 NeoFinder and RED video files


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Quebec pilot dies after plane crashes in the Laurentians
LA MINERVE, Que. – A 33-year-old man is dead after his plane went down in a wooded area in the Laurentian mountains north of Montreal.
Quebec provincial police say the man was the only person aboard the Cessna airplane when it crashed on Saturday near the village of
La Minerve.
A witness first alerted authorities shortly before 2 p.m. when he noticed a plane appeared to be having difficulty while still in the
After police were able to locate the downed aircraft, the man was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
An investigation will be conducted into the crash.
© 2014 The Canadian Press


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This is my perfect tea. So many tasters on here are able to say such wonderful, insightful, things about the nuances of unflavoured tea and they always drink their tea straight. I "pollute" my black teas with milk and sugar/honey on a regular basis and I've just had to live with my shame. This tea however, rescued me. I can drink it straight. I can actually enjoy it sans milk or sugar. I like it better with both but I like it without as well. It's not too bitter. I have to stop it at four minutes,45 seconds on the dot or it becomes bitter but at that precise time it is smooth and delicious.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28654195.post349047825207521371..comments2016-01-13T00:31:19.971-08:00Comments on VI Improved Tips :: vimrc dissected: [link] 21 of the Best Free Linux Text EditorsIhar Filipauhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28654195.post-18551791855918912092009-12-30T20:29:44.193-08:002009-12-30T20:29:44.193-08:00That's looks so nice your posting. Everything look...That's looks so nice your posting.
Everything looks good in your posting.
That will be necessary for all. Thanks for your posting.
Bathmatebath mateushttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28654195.post-33519346699366344872008-11-04T02:53:00.000-08:002008-11-04T02:53:00.000-08:00I realized I was not alone in thinking that emacs ... I realized I was not alone in thinking that emacs was a bloated monstrosity, and that pretty much everyone hated emacs.

That's bit harsh.

In my experience most emacs users do not care. They got their .emacs.el from somebody else. They know tiny fraction of its capabilities. But it mostly works.

I have met a guy few weeks ago who uses Emacs for past 6+ years. But since he always used X version, he didn't even knew the shortcut to exit Emacs. And to exit console version of Emacs he was simply reopening terminal.

VIM is editor for people who like to learn from the editor they use. Learn - to be more efficient and more experienced. And you can learn a lot from VIM.

Not so much from VI - and it is important to draw the distinction between the two. VI had set important standard for small yet powerful text editors. VIM is just built on the standard, expanding possibilities further.

Emacs also sets its own standard. Yet, most of its clones remain in the shadow. It is hard - if possible - to expand Emacs functionality. And after fixing biggest usability issues it would stop being Emacs and would become something like WordStar clone.

 At the same time, Vim (and Bram) deserve huge credit for reviving Vi.

Vi isn't dead. Or rather ... it's undead. It's like zombie - haunting commercial UNIX variants. *BSD have it too by default.

On fresh installation of HP-UX and Solaris you end up with 'vi' being only editor on the whole system. Solaris didn't bothered to fix it and vi there bears proud marking that it wasn't updated since 1996. HP-UX before 11.31 was in the same state. vi in 11.31 finally(!!) started supporting keyboard: arrow, page keys.Ihar Filipauhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28654195.post-52944268796467186062008-11-04T02:12:00.000-08:002008-11-04T02:12:00.000-08:00In mid-90's, there was such a hype about Emacs, th...In mid-90's, there was such a hype about Emacs, that I decided to give it a serious try. But I made no progress for weeks. Finally, with the advent of the Internet, I realized I was not alone in thinking that emacs was a bloated monstrosity, and that pretty much everyone hated emacs.

At the same time, Vim (and Bram) deserve huge credit for reviving firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mike Williams' Local Cop News: 11.19.07
Maryland: Police officer shot, suspect is killed in E. Baltimore.
Minnesota: Officer Mark Bedard: Officer, husband, father
California: Deputy shoots self in leg
Kansas: Reporter tries out firearms simulator
New Jersey: City Councilman Peter Cammarano is calling on the Police Department to disband the SWAT team and suspend any of the officers involved in the photographs that have surfaced of team members posing with Hooters waitresses holding guns during a trip to the South in 2005 to deliver relief supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Chicago: Man shot dead by police at traffic stop
California: Officer shoots parolee following pursuit on foot
Scientists: In theory, tasers can't kill people. Others: How do you explain these dead guys?
California: Female officers sue Hayward police for alleged harassment


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Texas Woman Survives CO Poisoning, Husband Dies
December 8, 2004
IRVING, Texas - A woman is recovering from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning after learning that her husband died from exposure to the gas. The couple was discovered by their son in the bedroom of their home.
The son said he was concerned because he hadn't heard from his parents in several days. He is credited with saving his mother's life after calling 911. Officials speculate that an open window near the woman aided in her survival.
The source of the CO is being investigated.
Publication date: 12/13/2004
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The Lincoln-Times News named an all-county basketball team for the men.
Here is the women's team:
Alyssa Lowe, North Lincoln; Candi Taylor, West Lincoln;
Jessie Cline, Lincolnton; Lindsey Smith, North Lincoln; Alyson Kielar, East Lincoln
Honorable mention honors: Kayla Alexander, North Lincoln; Brittany Jones, Lincolnton; Tamika Werts, West Lincoln.
The team was picked by sports editor John Mark Brooks.
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