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Sir Ian McKellen's penchant for ripping out pages of the Bibles he finds in hotel rooms has caught on – fans send him sections of text they've removed.
The openly gay "Lord of the Rings" star tears out a section of Leviticus, which condemns homosexuality, whenever he finds the good book in hotel suites – and his small-scale vandalism has inspired others to do the same.
He tells Details magazine, "I'm not proudly defacing the book, but it's a choice between removing that page and throwing away the whole Bible.
"I got delivered a package of 40 of those pages… that had been torn out by a married couple I know. They put them on a bit of string so that I could hang it up in the bathroom."

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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by RollTide, Oct 8, 2012.
Mike Martin is leading our team with 2.0 sacks... #sad
Time to move him back to OLB in a 34
I've actually noticed him in during main rotations with Martin. He's not making a splash tho.
Kearse was a bum during his second stint with the Titans.
I'm actually impressed with him. He tends to get the most penetration out of all our DL.
I like him too.. but a 3rd round rookie DT shouldn't be leading your team in sacks.
Yea, I've been very disappointed with him, and this was a move I actually wanted us to make.
Mike Martin was my favorite pick in the draft.
Get a coach who will switch us to 3-4 and Wimbley can go back to being successful.
And move Martin and casey to 5 techs and draft a NT
I also think Morgan/Klug would be solid at 34 DE
Too bad for them. Cut 'em.
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This talk will briefly review the early evolution of the Universe, from the epoch when ionized hydrogen recombined - and the cosmic background radiation was released - to the epoch when hydrogen reionized. This is a very important period in cosmic history. It was when the first stars formed from the gas generated by the Big Bang. These early stars were formed by processes quite different from that of subsequent star formation, because the cosmic gas from the Big Bang was extremely poor of metals. In addition, the galaxies formed from the first few generations of these early stars had very low masses because, during their formation, the predominance of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium shielded them from energetic ultraviolet radiation that otherwise would have ionized their gas content. Subsequently, ultraviolet emissions from these first stars and galaxies built up a cosmological ultraviolet background radiation that reionized hydrogen. As a result, the shield protecting low mass proto-galaxies from energetic radiation disappeared. Thereafter the formation of these ultra-low mass galaxies was no longer possible and eventually gave to the formation of the type of galaxies that predominate now. The talk will describe theoretical considerations underpinning the model of cosmic evolution during this period and the experimental results that support it.
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There are several "movies" out on Youtube about the Sierra.
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Thanks for posting these. I watched (most) of this one last night. Good cineamatography, and I like the way they put the ranger's comments in. On the other hand, those guys were somewhat goofy, especially the Lyel canyon incident. What were they thinking
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Thanks for posting Russ. Been checking out a few of these videos as well recently. Very entertaining. Not sure if anyone else has tried to document their trips by video (if you have, any pointers?), but I've found it extremely difficult - not only getting the right video, but the time consuming process of editing everything afterwards (esp. with music and graphics). So when I see something put together like this (incidents aside), realize what an effort it must have been to put together (and done pretty darn well I think)
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Exclusive: Ghana line-up World Cup friendly against Montenegro in March
Ghana will play Montenegro in an international friendly in March to boost the Black Stars preparation for the World Cup in Brazil, GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.
The match will be played on 5 March in Podgorica, the Montenegro FA has told Ghana's leading football news outfit, GHANAsoccernet.com.
The game will be played at the City Stadium in Podgorica.
According to the Montenegro FA, the agreement to play the match in the European country was reached on Friday evening as the Black Stars seek to prepare against European sides before the World Cup.
It will be the last friendly match for Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah before he names his squad for the 2014 World Cup.
It will also be the Black Stars first game of the year and the final chance for players to impress the coach before he names his team for the competition in Brazil in June.
The match against Montenegro seems to put to rest the proposed game against Colombia on the same day after the South Americans claimed last week that they will face the Ghanaians on the same day.
Ghana will face European countries Germany and Portugal in Group G at the World Cup with the United States as the last team in the group.
Do you think Montenegro will give the Black Stars the needed tough test before the World Cup? Make your views known in the box below
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kuukuphilly says:January 19, 2014 10:00 ami dont know about this game but lets hope it goes well.was expecting a much stronger nation.
Stranger Danger says:January 19, 2014 04:23 amMaybe he is thinking of using this match to test out some of the players. Im hoping he atleast us Kawarsey in this match, and decide for himself if he is good enough.
spellBOUND says:January 19, 2014 02:32 amhaha, ignorance in its most truest form. everyone here is jumping off buildings. like i said this matchup is not the best, but keep calm, better friendlies will come.
askantwi says:January 19, 2014 02:35 amThe coach and the technical staff know exactly what they are doing. So let's give them the benefit of the doubt.
kwame says:January 19, 2014 02:00 amGhana played lower division to prepare for Egypt. Ghana beat the lower division 7-0. and Egypt, 6-1.God bless Ghana.
Jaja says:January 18, 2014 11:56 pmSorry but I never heard of that country before. This sucks big time.
sharky says:January 18, 2014 11:45 pmWhy such a low profile Friendly considering the teams we've been paired against, when the likes of Ivory coast and nigeria are playing big names!!
samva says:January 18, 2014 11:42 pmwho at all plans these friendlies?what are we going to gain from playing against a team like montenegro.it just doesn't make sense.
spellBOUND says:January 18, 2014 11:05 pmthis is not the worst matchup. bear in mind, montenegro led their group for a majority of the qualifiers. they folder at the end. anyone coming here to complain must not forget that prior to the world cup, each country will play multiple friendlies. so keep calm. i sense a friendly against a south american side before the sundial will happen soon...
Steve says:January 20, 2014 01:23 amThis feels like due to a lack of preparation. they have got whoever they can get. The teams we have in our group mean that our friendlies have to be very good e,g colombia.
afrikaba1 says:January 19, 2014 08:02 pmAnyone who thinks Montenegro is an easy team but we need to play teams like Holland.
papa nkrumah says:January 19, 2014 02:58 pmWell said man. It appears the purpose is not to test our strength but to boost our confidence. That is why a loss will be terrible and not an option. But let's wait for gfa confirmation. We need other strong matches to test our defenders
maka says:January 19, 2014 02:39 pm....one match cannot be used to select players or get the best squad~ we all know those who are good and those who are not...and most importantly, DAUDA should not be in post...simple! we see all our players play day in and day out....no need to shine a torch in the face of someone u know in the day during the night! we know our players already, and some folks should not be either starting or be in the team at all...!! Beats me!
ZG GH4LIFE says:January 19, 2014 02:03 pmYou got to be motherfucking kidding me, this better be a match to boost the players confidence because this is not to test our strength, Oh Ghana


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In a move of immense significance for Europe's cash-strapped telecoms sector, the Italian government is preparing to enable mobile operators to trade in bandwidth,Rik Turner writes.
Communications minister Maurizio Gasparri last week told the parliamentary committee on telecoms and transport that he plans to make it possible for mobile license holders to transfer the right of use frequencies to other companies.
Italy is now set to become the first EU member country to permit such trading after the Union itself adopted legislation that makes provision for such business as from July 2003. On one hand, this move is good news for companies that hold 3G licenses, particularly the new entrant group that includes Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, because it should help them to amortize network build-out costs prior to having a large enough number of subscribers to occupy all its licensed spectrum.
On the other hand, secondary trading in mobile bandwidth will establish a real market value on the commodity. If other European governments follow Italy's example, new entrant license holders that are already under a cloud with the financial market will have to reduce the book value of the licenses on their balance sheets via write-downs. Italy raised only 12.2bn euros ($11bn) with the sale of its four 3G licenses last year, but Germany had earlier raised a massive 50.5bn euros ($45bn), and the UK 38.5bn euros ($35bn), so if either of them allow secondary trading, the ramifications are potentially huge.
The signs are that at least some national administrations are preparing to enable such transactions. In the UK, a spokesperson for the Radio Communications Agency said the government is moving toward permitting secondary trading after an independent review of spectrum management carried out by a leading academic with expertise in the subject had advocated such a measure. He added that the RCA would shortly sponsor a public consultation on the subject.
The most reticent government so far has been Germany's, but with the EU okaying secondary trading and the authorities in other major economies moving to permit it, it can only be a question of time before Bonn follows suit. The implications are great here, not only because the volumes paid were so great, but also because Germany has not one but two new entrants, namely Group 3G comprising Spain's Telefonica SA and Finland's Sonera Oyj and the group that includes MobilCom AG and France Telecom SA.
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One of the takeaways from Wednesday's open practice at Memorial Stadium is that 1) Kyle Boehm is still a quarterback and 2) He has a chance to contribute if he keeps developing at that position.
Boehm, now a fourth-year junior for Cal, has persevered through a coaching change and being lost in the shuffle at quarterback. He got a little playing time in 2013, rushing four times for 13 yards, and could get more time on the field this fall in packages designed for him and his running ability.
Boehm ran a number of goal-line plays on Wednesday and they weren't all runs, either. He had a short touchdown pass to receiver Drake Whitehurst as his highlight.
"He needs to perform well enough for us to come up with a package for him," coach Sonny Dykes said. "He's a pretty physical, downhill runner. We want him to develop more as a quarterback … so every time he goes in the game it's not always a run. It all depends on how much he improves and how comfortable he is running our stuff. If he can do that, we can give him an expanded role."
Sorry 'bout that: In an earlier post on Wednesday mentioning Cal's scarcity of seniors, I failed to mention safety Michael Lowe, a fifth-year senior. He's the top returning tackler from 2013 with 67, to go with five passes defended, two fumbles recovered and one interception.
More important for Lowe, he's on course to graduate after the fall semester with a degree in legal studies. He may never play in the NFL, but who cares? He'll have his degree from Berkeley.
"That's what it was about," Lowe said, "to have that opportunity that most people don't get — and for free, at Berkeley."


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Cagliari-Fiorentina has had its kick-off delayed by at least 30 minutes due to a strike that has blocked the two team buses.
The game was set to start at 14.00 UK time, but has been postponed to 14.30 after neither team could get to the stadium in time.
This is because a group of the Alcoa alluminium factory workers are on strike in the city and blocked the roads as part of their protest.
The Fiorentina team bus was kept behind in the team hotel, while Cagliari's bus also struggled to reach the Stadio Sant'Elia.
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In chapters 17-22, who testifies at the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird?
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The people who testify at Tom Robinson's trial are Sherriff Tate, Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson.
Heck Tate is the first to testify in chapter 17. He describes how he has called in when Mayella was injured, and how she accused Tom of raping her.
"Found her lying on the floor in the middle of the front room, one on the right as you go in. She was pretty well beat up …. I asked her who hurt her and she said it was Tom Robinson-" (ch 17)
Although Heck Tate is a good man and a friend of Atticus, he is doing his job. As the first responder, he needed to tell the jury what he saw. He relays the facts somewhat colorfully, but basically sticks to the facts. He treats both Mr. Gilmer and Atticus civilly.
Next, Bob Ewell is called. He is Mayella's father, and his full name is Robert E. Lee Ewell. Mr. Ewell seems to enjoy the attention, and is rough, coarse, and rude. He is even rude to Mr. Gilmer, who is supposed to be on his side.
"Are you the father of Mayella Ewell?" was the next question. "Well, if I ain't I can't do nothing about it now, her ma's dead," was the answer. (ch 17)
This answer gets the courtroom stirred up and annoys Judge Taylor, who tells him to behave. Mr. Ewell is not very smart, and has a hard time understanding some of the questions.
Next Bob Ewell's daughter Mayella is called. She is the victim. She is young, and very intimidated by the entire process. She thinks Atticus is making fun of her when he tries to be polite. Mr. Gilmer even objects, saying that Atticus is browbeating the witness.
Judge Taylor laughed outright. "Oh sit down, Horace, he's doing nothing of the sort. If anything, the witness's browbeating Atticus." (ch 18)
Scout was feeling sorry for Mayella. Atticus had her carefully describe her life, and Scout realizes she is very lonely. She is beginning to show empathy.
When Tom Robinson takes the stand, he demonstrates that he is crippled. The lack of use of one of his arms is very important to Atticus's case, and he has carefully built up to it by establishing where Mayella's injuries are.
Atticus was trying to show …. that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella.…. If her right eye was blacked and she was beaten mostly on the right side of the face, it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it. (ch 17)
In fact, since Tom Robinson cannot use his left hand because of an accident, he seems to be in the clear. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of saying he feels sorry for Mayella. The jury does not like it when a black man feels sorry for a white woman.
All in all, it is a pretty short trial with not much testimony. Atticus makes a good case, but he can't overcome the racism that pervades Maycomb.


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The Innsbruck Advanced Image Management (AIM) Project : a Comprehensive Archive for Large Volume Medical Data with Tight Integration to the CIS/EPR
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After very complete coverage of radiological image data had been achieved through establishing a hospital wide PACS (see [Ref. 1] and [Ref. 2]), a project for a unique comprehensive innovative archiving and distribution system for various kinds of medical image data and other types of large volume medical datasets (like bio-signals, movies, etc…) was started in the year 2000 - the Advanced Image Management (AIM). The main goal is to establish the multimedia electronic patient record through a tight integration of the AIM with the Clinical Information System based on Cerner Millennium (see [Ref. 3]). Establishing a central highly available, secure (data confidentiality) and highly performing archive with 90TB of RAID disk space for everything online access to image data from a unified viewing software distributed to 2.400 clinical workstations was the objective reached during the 3 year project.
Methods and results
Building on a high performance cluster of Linux based servers with 90TB RAID5 storage, the AIM as a central archive for DICOM and non-DICOM data archived either directly from imaging modalities (AIM as first-line archive) or from departmental imaging archives (AIM as second-line archive) has been established. Through an elaborate scheme of data access privileges, data privacy in a multi institutional setting is maintained. Legacy data (approx. 40TB) from existing PACS systems is migrated to the AIM. Workloads of up to 240GB of new data (corresponding to 320.000 image files) per day have to be coped with - probably the largest installation worldwide. Sophisticated interfacing to departmental PACS's to automatically keep patient and image data in sync when data administration is performed in the first-line archive ("managed data channel") have been developed. Through optimum tuning of server hardware and client server protocol for image data distribution, transfer rates of some 35 CT images per second are reached, allowing to easily handle even multislice CT exams. Data from the somnology labs (bio-signals and videos) is archived via AIM, with some 30GB per day. The archiving and distribution of PDF documents (eg. of ECGs) has been a major success.
In contrast to similar approaches (see [Ref. 4]), we have implemented a multimodality archive also for non-DICOM datasets and a common viewing software which provides one common interface for image data access to all clinical departments, giving great organizational and financial benefits. The image data platform established with AIM will be constantly improved and expanded in the years to come, through the constant addition of new digital imaging systems throughout the hospital. It also serves as the basic infrastructure for a web portal system designed for secure report document and image distribution to external institutions and for data exchange in international scientific collaborations. Plans to utilized the AIM infrastructure as a comprehensive archiving and backup system for the CIS are being discussed and open new perspectives for the positioning of the AIM.
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- Vogl, R. Going all digital in a University Hospital: a unified large scale PACS for multiple departments and hospitals. Medical Imaging 2001: PACS and Integrated Medical Information Systems: Design and Evaluation, Eliot L. Siegel, H. K. Huang, Editors, Proceedings of the SPIE. Vol. 4323 (2001): 7-15
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector O series comes another riveting novel set in the mysterious world of North Korea.
Autumn brings unwelcome news to Inspector O: he has been wrenched from retirement and ordered back to Pyongyang for a final assignment. The two Koreas, he learns, are now cooperating—very quietly—to maintain stability in the North. Stability requires that Inspector O lead an investigation into a crime of passion committed by the young man who has been selected as the best possible leader of a transition government. O is instructed to make sure that the case goes away. Remnants of the old regime, foreign powers, and rival gangs all want a piece of the action, and all make it clear that if O values his life, he will not get in their way. O isn't sure where his loyalties lie, and he doesn't have much time to figure out whether 'tis better to be noble or be dead.
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"Redeemed Backslider Returns to CHURCH."
Church FINALLY fixed his pacing problem with 'the Man with the Baltic Stare'. This novel was a lot better than 'Bamboo and Blood'. It may even be better than his first one (although 'Corpse in the Koryo' gets originality points). Anyway, it redeemed the Inspector O series for me.
Church is as strong a writer as Olen Steinhauer, just working a different geography. All the blurbing, however, about how he is the next le Carré is about 20+ amazing books premature. I don't think ANYONE will be the next le Carré . I'm not even sure if le Carré would be capable now of being the next le Carré .
But, head back to Church (no more le Carré backsliding today). I think this novel was more confident, less messy, and reminded me of why I started reading Church in the first place. I guess I'm going to have to read Johnson's 'Orphan Master's Son' now just to get North Korea out of my blood.
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India's Twins Pose DNA Puzzle; Mystery Of The Indian Village Where 1 In 10 Are Twins
Published: Feb 24, 2004
Scientists from around the world are flocking to a small Indian village to try to find out why an extraordinarily large number of identical twins are being born there. One in 10 births in Mohammad Pur Umri, near Allahabad, involves twins, most of them identical. Looking at the faces of Umri's residents, you can be forgiven for wondering if you have stepped onto the set of a sci-fi film on cloning. Globally, the odds of a woman giving birth to identical twins is one in 300.


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One of the hottest versions of the new Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe is the S63 AMG Coupe, which has been officially unveiled.
Mercedes-Benz has recently pulled the wraps off its latest creation, the new S63 AMG Coupe, which is the more potent version of the newly unveiled S-Class Coupe. The model in question looks rather tamed and it's adopting a slightly more aggressive body, with some muscular side skirts, with larger air vents, with a quad exhaust system and so on. The powerful luxurious two-door coupe is riding on 19-inch AMG forged light alloy wheels, wrapped in 255/45 and 285/40 tires.
The most important part of the newly unveiled Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe is found under its hood, where the 5.5 liter V8 engine is resting. The unit in question is producing a total output of 577 HP (430 kW) and it has a peak torque of 900 Nm (664 lb-ft). This is actually making it 41 HP (30 kW) and 100 Nm (74 lb-ft) of torque more powerful than the current CL63 AMG. When compared to its predecessor, the new S63 AMG Coupe is 65 kg (143 lbs) lighter and it has a 3.41 kg / hp power-to-weight ratio.
Thanks to these figures, the new Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 4.3 seconds and it can reach a limited top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph). In the AWD version (4MATIC), the 0 to 100 km/h sprint is made in 3.9 seconds. The car manufacturer says that the S63 AMG Coupe has the MAGIC BODY CONTROL, the AIRMATIC air suspension, ceramic composite brakes, AMG sport seats, flat bottomed three-spoke steering wheel, Nappa leather upholstery and 20-inch AMG Performance Studio wheels, amongst others.
The Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe will be getting an Edition 1 which will come with features such as the illuminated AMG lettering on the door sill panels, the bespoke floor mats, Night View Assist Plus, Exclusive Nappa leather, AMG sport seats, Swarovski crystals in the LED headlights, high-gloss black wood trim and more. The S63 AMG Coupe will be officially presented to the public during the 2014 New York Auto Show, next month. Orders for the 4MATIC will begin in April and in July the RWD version will go on sale too. Deliveries will start in September.


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- In this article we will examine the effect of different learning algorithms, while training the MLP (Multilayer Perceptron) with the intention of predicting web services response time. Web services do not necessitate a user interface. This may seem contradictory to most people's concept of what an application is. A Web service is better imagined as an application "segment," or better as a program enabler. Performance is an important quality aspect of Web services because of their distributed nature. Predicting the response of web services during their operation is very important.
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Obama Edges Romney in August Campaign Fundraising Efforts
President Barack Obama's campaign raised $114 million in August, more than the $111.6 million collected by challenger Mitt Romney, the rivals said today.
The totals include money raised by their campaigns as well as by joint fundraising efforts with their respective national political parties. It was the first time in four months that Obama's fundraising efforts had surpassed Romney's.
"The key to fighting back against the special interests writing limitless checks to support Mitt Romney is growing our donor base, and we did substantially in the month of August," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement. "Fueled by contributions from more than 1.1 million Americans donating an average of $58 -- more than 317,000 who had never contributed to the campaign before --we raised a total of more than $114 million."
Romney's campaign said that it, along with the Republican National Committee and state party participants in its presidential effort, had about $168.5 million cash on hand. Obama's campaign didn't release a cash-on-hand figure.
"Americans are not better off than they were four years ago and they are looking for a change of leadership," Romney's national finance chairman, Spencer Zwick, said in a statement. "We will continue the hard work of raising the resources so that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can win in November, put in place their plan for a stronger middle class, and finally get the country back on the right track."
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If you treat obstetrical patients, we urge you to take action
to avoid dangerous mix-ups between the pharmacological opposites,
METHERGINE (methylergonovine maleate) and BRETHINE
(terbutaline sulfate).
Since 2000, we've received numerous reports of injuries related
to look-alike packaging of these products, and published two
alerts (April 19, 2000 and April 17, 2003) warning healthcare
providers about the risk of mix-ups. Both agents are frequently
stored and used in labor and delivery settings, but for very
different clinical reasons. Terbutaline is used to treat preterm
labor, and methylergonovine is primarily used after delivery
of the placenta to treat uterine atony, subinvolution, or
hemorrhage. Since methylergonovine has abortifacient properties,
it is contraindicated in pregnancy and would be especially
dangerous to a patient in preterm labor. Both of these products
are packaged as 1 mL ampuls within an amber plastic tub covered
by a foil label with the product name in tiny print, making
them difficult to tell apart (photo appears in the PDF version
of the newsletter). Both ampuls also have similar colored
"rings" around the ampul necks that can be seen
through the amber plastic, which further adds to their similarity.
With so many risk factors, these medications are prone to
being interchanged.
Interchanging these two drugs could result in serious adverse
outcomes for the mother and baby. In one reported case, four
doses of Methergine were administered to a patient in preterm
labor, which was believed to contribute to fetal demise. In
another case reported last week, a 35-year old female was
experiencing significant preterm uterine contractions. Her
physician diagnosed fetal distress and asked a nurse to administer
terbutaline IV push. Instead, the nurse accidentally administered
Methergine. The mother experienced significant contractions
requiring an emergency C-Section. Fortunately, the patient
and newborn were discharged 2 days later unharmed.
Until 2001, Novartis packaged both drugs; then aaiPharma
acquired Brethine from Novartis. To our knowledge, no packaging
changes have occurred since our initial report in 2000, and
neither company has alerted the obstetrical community about
the risk of errors.
Mothers and infants are still at significant risk for harm,
so please keep staff informed about the potential for errors
and store these products separately. Methergine ampuls should
be refrigerated, which will help separate the products. Errors
are still possible, though, so be sure to apply label reminders
to the ampuls to prevent mix-ups.
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Multi-Disciplinary Team Deploying Advanced Forensic, Corporate Intelligence and Data & Analytics Services
KPMG LLP, the U.S. Audit, Tax and Advisory Firm, is helping organizations identify and address potential risks related to the recent release of the so-called "Panama Papers," a file of more than 11 million records relating to information about alleged offshore shell companies reportedly leaked from a Panamanian law firm.
"While much remains uncertain about the Panama Papers leak, organizations should be proactive in understanding and managing all possible related risks," said Teresa A. Pesce, Forensic Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance Network lead and Global head of Anti-Money Laundering for the KPMG network of firms.
KPMG can help organizations to manage their Panama Papers concerns through a multi-disciplinary approach, including:
Added Pesce, "It is critical that organizations have comprehensive and timely information about the Panama Papers lists and the data analysis to efficiently assess any potential exposure. In addition to assessing current risks, future risks need to be mitigated by enhancing Know Your Customer and Enhanced Due Diligence programs and by fortifying information protection policies and procedures."
Panama Papers Background
According to press reports, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) is in the process of publishing over 11 million records from a Panamanian law firm that were leaked from an anonymous source. These records relate to information dating back four decades and involving alleged offshore shell companies.
A lack of transparency in such types of business structures can present risk to financial institutions and other companies who may not fully appreciate with whom they are doing business, or for whom they are processing transactions. Failure to "know your customer" can and has led financial institutions to regulatory scrutiny, enforcement activity and potential fines. Not understanding who the ultimate customer is can lead institutions to process transactions without the ability to understand whether the transactions have a legitimate purpose. Furthermore, institutions may be unwittingly processing transactions in funds ultimately owned by individuals on sanctions lists – those with whom they are prohibited from doing business by law.
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.kpmg.com/us), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International"). KPMG International's member firms have 174,000 professionals, including more than 9,000 partners, in 155 countries.
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Lengthy playoff droughts for the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals/Montreal Expos ended last year, and for the Pittsburgh Pirates and their boisterous, euphoric fans this season. The Kansas City Royals also took a pretty solid run at stopping the game's longest October dry-spell in 2013.
The Toronto Blue Jays? They're firmly locked into second on the list of consecutive futile falls at 20, dating back to their second straight World Series championship in 1993, the only team other than the Royals (1985) yet to play post-season baseball this century.
Living through the frustration of routinely going 162-and-out with the Blue Jays since his rookie season of 2006, Casey Janssen can only look enviously at those still playing, and wonder when, sometimes even whether, he and his team get their shot.
"I believe it can happen, or I wouldn't come in and compete and work hard and try to get as many guys on board as I personally can," says Janssen. "Is it frustrating? Yeah. Does it leave a little bit of doubt, especially with how fully loaded we thought we were? It leaves that (sense of), is it going to happen, do we have the right pieces to make it happen, and if it wasn't this year, what do we need to change.
"I don't know how long I'm going to, one, play this game, and two, be in Toronto. It seems (a playoff berth has) to happen sooner rather than later. You dream as a kid of winning a World Series, and if you don't see some light at the end of the tunnel, sometimes you've got to do what's best for you."
For now Janssen is eager to stay, and without a doubt what's best for the Blue Jays is to exercise their $4-million contract option for him in 2014, something sure to happen unless general manager Alex Anthopoulos takes sudden leave of his senses.
Janssen, 32, posted the best save conversion rate in club history in 2013 by making good on 34 of 36 chances, or 94.4 per cent, slightly better than Tom Henke's 34 of 37 (91.9 per cent) in 1992. The 94.4 mark also led the American League this year, while his 93.3 per cent (56 of 60) conversion rate since replacing Francisco Cordero as closer in May 2012 ranks fourth in the majors over that span.
Beyond the saves, he posted a 2.56 ERA and 0.987 WHIP while also striking out 8.5 batters per nine innings over 56 games, numbers all the more impressive given that he underwent a shoulder surgery last November. That dragged his fastball velocity down an average of 1.6 mph to 90.1, according to FanGraphs, reducing his margin for error and need to execute on nearly every pitch.
Regardless, based on some of the free-agent deals handed to late-inning relievers last off-season—$28 million over two for Rafael Soriano of the Nationals, $22.5 million over three for Brandon League of the Los Angeles Dodgers, $21 million over three for Jonathan Broxton of the Cincinnati Reds—Janssen could probably double his salary and add a year or two on the open market.
Add to the value of his contract his desire to be part of the solution to the Blue Jays' problems, and his option is even more appealing.
"I would love to come back here, I hope they do pick up the option," says Janssen, a Blue Jays fourth-round pick in 2004. "I want to win, there's no other place I'd want to win than here. We were talking about it in the 'pen, just how great the fans were, even with the record the way it was. We talked about if it happens here, how crazy this place would be and how desperate this city is for a winner."
For that to happen, the Blue Jays must bolster the second-worst starting rotation in baseball while addressing their other issues, and one place where they have surplus is in a relief corps that posted the American League's fourth-best ERA at 3.37.
Anthopoulos won't be able to keep all his relievers, with the bullpen right now likely to feature Janssen, Sergio Santos (who, finally healthy, closed the year out with a flourish), all-stars Steve Delabar and Brett Cecil (who both struggled through injury at the end), Dustin McGowan, Neil Wagner and Jeremy Jeffress, all the kind of power arms teams dearly covet.
Beyond them are Luis Perez and Brad Lincoln plus swingmen Esmil Rogers and Todd Redmond, all of whom will be out of options next spring, as will McGowan and Jeffress. The Blue Jays won't be able to option any of them without first passing them through waivers and each is sure to be claimed, meaning Anthopoulos will need to trade away a good chunk of that depth lest he lose it for nothing.
"We got asked about a lot of our guys in July," Anthopoulos said during his season wrap-up conversation. "I don't know how the off-season is going to go, but it would not surprise me if we used some of that depth to help the club in some other areas."
None are likely to return in trade as much as top assets like Janssen, Santos or Delabar might, but the team must be careful about weakening one area to strengthen another. That will be part of the tricky work in store for Anthopoulos as he looks to salvage the great buildup of 2013 into a winner for 2014.
"What leaves you frustrated is it's in there, showing its signs in the 11-game win streak," Janssen says of the year that was. "Then you come back and have a (3-8) stretch and we couldn't continue that momentum we had built. With the other teams we were chasing, they were playing well and it looked like they were built for the long haul. We knew the task was getting greater and greater, and kind of slipping away.
"We really liked our team in spring training and for one reason or another, it just didn't translate on the field for 162 games."
Janssen is among the Blue Jays who did their part to end the playoff drought. Few others did, and the wait for a fall of meaningful baseball in Toronto is now at two decades and counting.


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Pooler chamber to host 'taste of' event
The Taste of Pooler and the Westside will be held Thursday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at Embassy Suites, 145 West Mulberry Blvd., near I-95 exit 104, behind Home Depot.
The cost $10 with children 6 and under free and includes free food samples from: Miss Sophie's/Savannah Bell Catered Affairs, LongHorn SteakHouse, Dickey's Barbecue Pit, Los Bravos Grill & Cantina, Bookafé, DQ Grill & Chill,145 Mulberry, Pie Society, Fatz, Guerrero Mexican Restaurant, Sisters, Snazzy's, Great American Grill, Olive Garden, Kem's Café, and Sweet Nothings Desserts.
A cash bar will be available, and raffle tickets will be on sale for chances to win a 2014 Mazda 3 from Fairway Lincoln Mazda.
To buy tickets, contact email@example.com. For more information, go to www.poolerchamber.com or Facebook Pooler Chamber.
Barter firm, animal hospital co-host event
Revenu of Greater Savannah and Case Veterinary Hospital, along with Photos by Becky, will co-host a networking social Sept. 12 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Case Veterinary Hospital, 111 Eisenhower Drive.
Case will sponsor a silent auction on pet supplies and will donate the proceeds to Pet Peace of Mind through Hospice, a program that allows Hospice to keep patients and their pets together during the time under their care. A 50/50 raffle will benefit Pet Peace of Mind.
For more information, contact: Jacquie Stein or Rosalind Ashe-Gay at 912-233-0808 or Lisa Yackel at 912-352-3081.
Promotional firm launches online store
Savannah-based Coggins Promotional Advertising, Inc. has announced the launch of an online company store for a Denver firm involved in high-end modular home communities.
YES! Communities has more than 100 locations across the United States. The online store will offer YES! Communities branded merchandise, promotional items and print material.
Coggins custom programmed the online store and will provide full management, including merchandise production, order fulfillment and shopping cart management.
For more information, visit www.cogginspromo.com.
Engineering firm makes 'hot' list
Mobile, Ala. - Hargrove Engineers + Constructors, which has an office in Savannah, was recently named ninth in the 2013 Zweig Letter Hot Firm List, which recognizes the 100 fastest-growing architecture, engineering, planning and environmental consulting firms in the United States and Canada.
"Our revenue is up 35 percent over this time last year. We are honored to be included in this list," said Brian Rhoades, Hargrove's vice president for operations.
Hargrove previously ranked 25th in the Zweig Letter Hot Firm List. The ranking is based on a firm's percentage of revenue growth and dollar revenue growth over a three-year period.


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> It is fine to be informal and talk about 'labels' in the primer (or > anywhere else) as long as one is careful to say somewhere that since > two nodes never have the same label, that we can (and do) *formally* > equate labelled nodes with their labels. My understanding was that most of the other editors currently use nodes with labels. I think we can do this in three ways: a) hold Pat to his previous commitment !! b) get everyone to change c) I finesse it in the Abstract Data Model and permit both (isomorphic) views elsewhere I suspect that we do not have time in this round to do any of these, and so suggest that we leave it as it is, and fix it before last call. There is a note in the Concepts highlighting this as an unresolved document issue. I am concerned that the traffic that we have already seen suggests most WG members would like this round of publication to have a level of cross-document editorial consistency (including avoiding duplication, and use of identical terminology) that I think we cannot meet giving the timescale. I believe many of the issues raised can be postponed until Last Call. Personally I think that (c) is the best fix. I would be happy to accept an action at Friday's telecon to attempt (c) next week - if I don't succeed we would have to back-up to not fixing this time round. JeremyReceived on Tuesday, 29 October 2002 03:05:39 UTC
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'I'm Staying at Pompey'
Niko Kranjcar has claimed that he is willing to be patient in order to become a success at Portsmouth. He has struggled to adapt to the speed of the Premiership since moving to Fratton Park in the summer.
There is no doubt about the amount of talent he has and is rated very highly by Harry Redknapp. Reports in the press have linked the Croatian with a move away from Portsmouth this January but that won`t happen, says Kranjcar.
'Clubs have shown interest but I'm happy here. When they decide to sell me, if they ever want to sell me, it's up to them. I'm 22 years old, I have time to be patient. Of course everyone wants to play every game, but I'm pretty satisfied how I'm doing up to now."
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This is going to be a very brief post. But I want to urge Floridians to go cast their ballots today, especially if you live in Florida's 6th, 7th, 18th, and 19th Districts!
Here's a quick run-down of the races:
1) Ron DeSantis for Florida CD 6: Locked in a tight battle for this seat, Ron DeSantis needs every vote he can get. Whoever wins this district will be going to congress next year, and conservatives want Ron DeSantis. A passionate conservative, he fought in the military for his country and came home to write a book on the beliefs of our founding fathers. He understands that bailouts and wasteful spending must come to an end (unlike his opponents who supported and received stimulus dollars). Vote Ron to Congress so we can get our nation back on track. Here's my post from a few weeks ago about Mr. DeSantis: http://www.redstate.com/spoasteph97/2012/08/08/ron-desantis-r-for-florida-congressional-district-6/
2) Congresswoman Sandy Adams for Florida CD 7: The Tea Party needs to win this race. Rep. Adams is a true leader who is locked in a tough battle with the Prince of Pork Rep. John Mica. Mica has been in congress for more than 3 terms and has refused to stop wasting money. Rep. Adams came to congress to stop this kind of mess that John Mica and other RINOs like him created. From asking for earmarks to supporting the bailouts, John Mica has got to be sent home. Vote for Sandy Adams today.
3) Congressman Allen West for Florida CD 18: Allen West hasn't been perfect, but he has been a strong voice for those who love freedom and liberty. He's made mistakes, but on major issues, he stands with conservatives. From fighting corrupt government officials in the Obama Administration to voting for spending cuts, he has been a good voice for freedom-loving Americans. His opponent, Bob Crowder, has already sworn to become a go-along, get along politician by calling out Allen West for his "hot rhetoric". That's what I actually like about Allen West. Send him back to congress by voting for him today.
Here's a post I wrote about him: http://www.redstate.com/spoasteph97/2012/07/09/rep-allen-west-r-democrat-opponent-raises-500000-help-allen-west/
4) Byron Donalds for Florida CD 19: Byron Donalds is a great American. A true conservative, he will fight to make the cuts needed, support balanced budgets, and fight against raising the debt ceiling unnecessarily. Here's the post I wrote about him: http://www.redstate.com/spoasteph97/2012/08/08/byron-donalds-r-for-congressional-district-19/
Vote Byron Donalds for Congress today!
If we want to reform our nation, we must elect principled conservatives who will fight for our beliefs. These four exemplify true conservative values, and I hope if you live in Florida that you will cast your ballots for them today. You have until 7 P.M. Eastern time today.
(Also, a little perspective about the Connecticut, Florida, and Wisconsin races:
Connecticut: Linda McMahon is better than Shays. Shays is a pro-abortion, anti-fiscal responsibility liberal Republican…essentially a RINO. Vote McMahon today.
Florida: I have a difficult time between Connie Mack and Dave Weldon. Should either one win, either one will have my full support. I would go with Rep. Mack just because I know more about his record since Rep. Weldon left a long time ago. Also, Rep. Mack has the backing of Freedomworks and Conservative Senators Paul and Lee.
Wisconsin: Tough one again. I just want somebody who can defeat Tammy Baldwin. Mark Neumann is the most conservative but is he the most electable? Can Wisconsin elect a Ted Cruz kind of guy? If the answer is yes, go ahead. It it's no or maybe, you might want to consider going with Thompson (although I would not be able to support him fully). In the end, I would support Neumann very strongly, Hovde strongly, and Thompson with minimal support just to get rid of Baldwin.)
Those are my views. I'd be glad to here yours. But Florida especially needs to elect the four Conservatives above.


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John Dufresne
John Dufresne is the author of two short story collections, The Way That Water Enters Stone and Johnny Too Bad, and the novels Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, both New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Deep in the Shade of Paradise, and Requiem, Mass. His books on writing, The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This? are used in many university writing programs. He's the editor of the anthology Blue Christmas. His short stories have twice been named Best American Mystery Stories, in 2007 and 2010. His play Trailerville was produced at the Blue Heron Theater in New York in 2005. He's a professor at Florida International University in Miami. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. His new novel is No Regrets, Coyote.
Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoir Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com), and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida and the low-residency MFA program at City University in Hong Kong. For more information about him, please visit: www.sukrungruang.com.
Terri Witek
Terri Witek is the Sullivan Chair of Writing at Stetson University and the author of Exit Island, The Shipwreck Dress, Carnal World , Fools and Crows, Courting Couples (Winner of the 2000 Center for Book Arts Contest) and Robert Lowell and LIFE STUDIES: Revising the Self . Her collaborations with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes have been featured in galleries or site-specific projects in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere. A professor of English at Stetson University, her summer faculty positions have included the West Chester Poetry Conference, the Prague Summer Literary Program and the DisQuiet program in Lisbon, where she runs "The Fernando Pessoa Game."
Audrey Colombe
Audrey Colombe is a fiction writer and faculty member at University of Tampa, where she teaches fiction and American Literature. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review, Puerto del Sol, The Sun, and many other literary magazines. She lives in Tampa and in Tidewater, Oregon.
Fractured narratives can be broken along a number of lines--the standard story elements are game, as are the simple stylistic elements in our literary stories, like the paragraph. For short fiction, metafictional approaches (fiction that comments on fiction) can be fun to manipulate and invite a somewhat subversive approach to the subject, in this case the digital humanities and the trope of the silent author. Short short fiction is a tight puzzle. As long as is cracks open the world--almost like a poem can--it has possibility.
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Thomas E. Barden knows what makes a good story. The University of Toledo English professor specializes in American folklore and oral tradition. His early scholarship includes coediting Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves (Indiana University Press, 1980). He also edited Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War, missives for Newsday by the writer, published earlier this year by University of Virginia Press. One of Barden's six books, Virginia Folk Legends University of Virginia Press, 7991), is in its ninth edition. It won his school's Outstanding Faculty Research Award. Other campus recognition for Barden: the Outstanding Teaching Award and the Edith Rathbun Award for Outreach and Engagement.
Robert A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Dr. Robert A. Taylor is Professor of History and Head of the Humanities and Communication Department here at Florida Tech. He received a Ph.D. in American History from the Florida State University in 1991. The author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of seven books, Taylor's latest publication is "Cat on a Cold Steel Dive Plane" in Naval History (February 2010). He co-edited This War So Horrible: The Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, which was a History Book Club Alternate Selection in 1993. He has been nominated twice for the Lincoln Prize. Taylor's work has appeared in journals like The Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Southern Studies, Florida Historical Quarterly, and Forum: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council. He has been a Florida Tech faculty member since 1997.


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A couple of quotes taken from the introduction in??Hal Foster's 1996 The Return of the Real
"For her playing of the piece conveyed not only specific concerns of minimalist work – the tensions among the spaces we feel, the images we see, and the forms we know – but also general shifts in art over the last three decades – new interventions into space, different constructions of viewing, and expanded definitions of art."
"For even as the avant-garde recedes into the past, it also returns from the future, repositioned by innovative art in the present."


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Due to its impending IPO filing, Facebook has released its first quarter earnings in an updated S-1 filing to the SEC. The social network pulled in $1.06 billion in revenue, up from $731 million year over year. Their income did slide to year over year to $205 million from $233 million.
Monthly users have increased by 32 percent year over year from 682M to 901M, with 526M daily users. 300M photos are uploaded daily.
Facebook also commented on the Instagram deal, revealing that the deal included $300M in cash, and 23 million shares. Facebook stated,
"Following the closing of this acquisition, we plan to maintain Instagram's products as independent mobile applications to enhance our photos product offerings and to enable users to increase their levels of mobile engagement and photo sharing."
The agreement also contains a $200M breakup fee if it fails.
Facebook spoke on the Yahoo patent lawsuit as well, stating that an unfavorable outcome could have a negative effect on business, a customary measure for an SEC filing.
"From time to time, we receive notice letters from patent holders alleging that certain of our products and services infringe their patent rights. Some of these have resulted in litigation against us. For example, on March 12, 2012, Yahoo filed a lawsuit against us in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that alleges that a number of our products infringe the claims of ten of Yahoo's patents that Yahoo claims relate to "advertising," "social networking," "privacy," "customization," and "messaging." Yahoo is seeking unspecified damages, a damage multiplier for alleged willful infringement, and an injunction. We intend to vigorously defend this lawsuit, and on April 3, 2012, we filed our answer with respect to this complaint and asserted counterclaims that Yahoo's products infringe ten of our patents. This litigation is still in its early stages and the final outcome, including our liability, if any, with respect to Yahoo's claims, is uncertain. If an unfavorable outcome were to occur in this litigation, the impact could be material to our business, financial condition, or results of operations."
Facebook is expected to go public on May 17th, according to Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch.


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Hi all, Given that we have a busy agenda on Thursday, we may not have time to discuss issues related to the model. There is some commonality in the definitions of Process Execution [1]. Hence, before putting the following proposal to a formal vote, I would like to get a feel as to whether the proposal would get support, or whether it needs to be amended. PROPOSED: 1. there is a distinction between process execution and process specification/definition 2. process specification/definition is referred to as recipe in the charter and is out of scope for this WG 3. terminology needs to be agreed on [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ConceptProcessExecution Regards, Luc -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: firstname.lastname@example.com United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavmReceived on Tuesday, 7 June 2011 08:30:08 UTC
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Set in the early 1960s, the play follows the experiences of Mary, a 19 year-old girl who becomes pregnant and is entered into a home for unwed mothers by her own mother. There we are introduced to the strict matron and to three other young mothers. The play then follows the tales of their experiences of becoming pregnant, of giving birth, and ultimately being forced to give up the children for immediate adoption.
Sarah McDonald Hughes does a competent job as Mary, but the role itself - that of a seemingly 'good' girl who has made a mistake - seems lacking. In contrast Rachel Austin, as Queenie, a more traditional 'bad girl', has much more to get her teeth into and shines as a result. The other members of the cast support these two main leads well, with Lisa-Marie Hoctor and Kelly Munro-Fawcett providing entertaining performances as the other two girls, Norma and Delores.
The stage at the RNCM is not the best space for this performance - the sound of a band practising above distracts during some key moments - but the director, Jason Hudson, makes good use of the space, enabling us to believe that there are a number of different locations without any need for scene shifting. The use of period music to illustrate both mood and story worked very well, however, adding greatly to the production.
Based on the real stories of the way young, unmarried mothers were treated both in society and by their families at this period, this play is an effective reminder of how far we've come. Although at times a little eager to convey it's message, it sometimes borders on preachy. But this remains a play which cannot fail to touch the heart.
The performances, although lacking in places, serve the piece well, and, if you get the chance, you could do worse than going to see Be My Baby. Just don't expect to be blown away.
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Travel and tourism shouldn't just be limited to swanky hotels and sunny beaches. In order to truly learn about the world around us, it's necessary to visit memorials, cemeteries, and other monuments to some of the saddest, most infuriating moments in history. This list is certainly (and sadly) not exhaustive.
16th Street Baptist Church
Located in the heart of downtown Birmingham, Ala., this church was the site of a racially motivated bombing in 1963 that claimed the lives of four African-American girls aged 11 to 14. Ku Klux Klan member Robert Cambliss was later charged and found guilty of murder, and a 2000 inquiry into the crime led to two more arrests. The church still holds services to this day, and a sculpture park dedicated to the four bombing victims can be found across the street.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Between 1940 and 1945, roughly 1.1 million people lost their lives inside the network of 48 concentration camps in southwestern Poland now collectively known as Auschwitz. Most were gassed or otherwise executed by the Nazis, but many others died from starvation, infectious diseases, and barbaric medical experimentation. Two years after Auschwitz was liberated by Allied troops, the Polish government designated the site as a memorial to the victims of Nazi persecution; also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Auschwitz receives more than 1 million visitors per year.
Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre
When the Rwandan Genocide began in April 1994, 65,000 fleeing Tutsi men, women, and children sought refuge at the Murambi Technical School after local authorities informed them that food and military assistance awaited them there. However, this was nothing more than a monstrous lie. Not long after the refugees arrived at the school, the power was cut and Hutu militiamen massacred as many as 45,000 people who hid in the classrooms; most of those who escaped were later captured and killed in other locations. The school was later renamed the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, and is today one of Rwanda's many monuments to the genocide.
Museum Kura Hulanda
Dubbed one of the best museums in the Caribbean by Lonely Planet, this educational center on the island of Curacao offers one of the most comprehensive looks at the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade. Roughly 11 million men, women, and children were taken by force from Africa and transported to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries; it's estimated that as many as 2.4 million perished during the voyage. Museum Kura Hulanda contains a myriad of artifacts and written accounts about this ugly period of human history.
Srebrenica Genocide Memorial
Later described by UN officials as the worst European atrocity since the genocide committed during WWII, more than 8,000 Bosnians lost their lives in July 1995 at the hands of Bosnian Serb Army; nearly a quarter of the victims have yet to be identified. The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, where 6,066 victims are buried and honored with gravestones, opened in 2003. President Clinton, who was present at the inauguration of the memorial, stated: "I hope and pray that Srebrenica will be for all the world a sober reminder of our common humanity."
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Beginning in 1838, more than 16,000 Cherokee people were relocated from their ancestral homes in the American South to 'Indian Territory' on what is now Oklahoma. Hundred died during the walk, while thousands more died "as a result of relocation", according to the National Park Service. The trail has been preserved in almost its entirety, winding through parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Every year on April 24, thousands of Armenians make a pilgrimage to this memorial site in the capital city of Yerevan to pay respects to victims of the 1915 genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman government. The adjacent Armenian Genocide Museum offers a chilling look at the incident, during which 1.5 million people were killed over a span of several years. Many victims lost their lives in extermination camps, while others were subjected to cruel death marches.
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Formerly a high school and then a prison facility, this museum in the heart of Phnom Penh details the brutal massacre of roughly one-third of Cambodia's population at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid to late 1970s. The cell blocks have been preserved, and many of the cells contain photos of former prisoners; more than 17,000 people were held at Tuol Sleng during Pol Pot's reign. Other areas of the museum contain artifacts about the Khmer Rouge, and a particularly ghastly exhibit features torture instruments used on some of the prisoners.
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
Time ever marches on…
Now that VB 2005 Beta 1 has shipped, the time has come to start doing some "long lead" work on versions beyond the 2005 release. What this means is that while 98% of the team remains focused full-time on finishing the current product, a few people get to start spending some of (though hardly all of) their time thinking about the kinds of big issues that we might want to solve in the next version(s). A good way of thinking about it is that before a version ships we try to lay some of the groundwork for the next release so that when the rest of the team is ready to engage on the next version down the road, we can hit the ground running. (Other teams are also starting to do some of this work, too.)
At the moment, I'm spending my long lead time thinking about two major things. One is: what can we learn from scripting languages? We sort of discussed this back in March, and now I'm returning to the question, both in terms of the question of development environment and in terms of the question of dynamism. (Which is also interesting given that the CLR hired a scripting language implementer specificially to work on making the CLR better for dynamic languages.) The other is: what can we do to improve data access? This is something that other languages are thinking about as well. My interest stems not just from the fact that people find it difficult at times, but from the fact that my first job at Microsoft involved working a lot with SQL and data access (I worked on the query designer in Access) and I'd like to see us improve in that area.
Those are just the two things that I've started with, but there's certainly room for other things as well. What other things would you like to see? I'm not talking about features (you can go submit those requests here and the product teams will see them), I'm talking about big picture areas like the ones I mentioned above. What areas do you think we could do better in? What areas do you think there is untapped potential? Can't promise I'll look at everything, but I'm curious to see what people might be thinking.
(Since we MSFT bloggers often get dinged for talking only about the future and never about the present, I should add the disclaimer that I don't plan on talking too much about this long lead work for the forseeable future. This blog is still going to properly remain focused on VB 2003 and VB 2005, not on random ideas about the future that may or may not ever come to fruition. There's been way too much of that at Microsoft in the past.)
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As I've said before, I host my own website which means that I'm responsible for my own DNS resolution. For a long time, I used the free service provided by Granite Canyon as a secondary DNS server, however that service started becoming more and more unreliable this year and appears to be largely dead. Searching for another source of secondary DNS hosting, I hit upon secondary.org, which seemed like a good place to get some free backup DNS hosting. Big mistake.
Sometime over the weekend, it appears that secondary.org has been taken over by someone who's started redirecting all DNS requests to some random website. Depending on which DNS server your machine chooses when resolving panopticoncentral.net, you'll either get my website or not. Last night I moved all my DNS hosting over to Network Solutions which at some point started offering free DNS hosting to people who register with them (all the better to sell their web and mail hosting). As that change propagates itself throughout the DNS system of the Internet, the connection to this server should become reliable again. I apologize to everyone who's been redirected against their will…
Why no ++ and –, redux
Since we're on the subject of language differences today, it's worth noting that Eric Lippert wrote his own entry on why he thinks VB shouldn't have ++ and —. I'm not sure if he saw my original thoughts on the subject, but it's interesting to see the similiarities and differences in reasoning. Eric also privately asked me about a different reason for not requiring Partial on partial types, but I'm going to cover that later this week – I've blogged enough for today.
Language harmony
In the comments to my previous entry on partial types, mustTryHarder comments:
If C# always uses the partial keyword (and presumably went through the same level of debate) then why did the VB team approach it differently? I assume you guys talk to each other. I can't see how Microsoft can justify a difference. While virtually everyone agrees that separation of designer code is desirable, it would appear that only the VB team feel the Partial keyword is optional. IMHO the VB team would do well to listen to feedback on syntax in order to avoid the same back-tracking in future that happened with areas such as properties which are now once again able to specify different accessibility levels for Get/Set. So far your private debates have got it wrong!
mustTryHarder's comments are contradictory, although there was no way for him to know that ahead of time. You see, the reason why VB didn't support properties with different levels of accessibility in VB 2002 and VB 2003 is because the C# team didn't want to support them. Our original plan was to include them just the way they were in VB6 but the C# design team was very definite that they thought they were a bad idea and that they weren't going to include them in their language. As a result, when the C# compiler came across a property with different levels of accessibility, they would consider the property's accessibility to be the more restrictive of the two. So if we'd gone ahead and implemented the feature anyway, a property with a Public Get and a Private Set would have been considered Private by C#, which would have looked a lot like a bug to most people. So we made the decision to not implement the feature in the interest of playing well on the .NET platform. Fortunately, everyone's come around in VS 2005, so the feature is going to appear in both languages and there aren't going to be any difficulties.
So, ironically, in this case we're getting simulateously criticized for not doing the same thing as C# is doing and for doing the same thing as C# did. Welcome to the world of multi-language programming on the .NET platform, folks. We're not in Kansas anymore.
The truth is, we have a lot of regular contact with the C# team about design decisions and feature choices and, where it makes sense, we try and be harmonious. However, each language's design team has distinct visions for their language and that is inevitably going to cause divergence. For example, I know that more than a few people on the C# team (and more than a few C# users) think that our generics syntax is stupid. I can see where they might be coming from in having that opinion, but I disagree with it… and that's the way it goes. Should VB users not get Edit and Continue because the C# team doesn't think that it's important enough to ship in VS 2005? Should C# users not get iterators because VB doesn't think that it's important enough to ship in VS 2005? Who gets to decide which vision is the "right" one? Who's even to say that there is a single "right" vision for the millions and millions of developers out there in the world?
I should be clear that what I'm not saying is that people shouldn't feel free to complain loudly about things that they don't like about VB. That feedback is invaluable and helps guide the future direction of the language. What I am saying, though, is that one argument that is never going to work with us is "But C# does it differently and you both should do everything the same way!" If there are concrete reasons why you think the C# design is better, then let's hear them and we can have a good discussion about the merits and demerits of the VB approach. Otherwise…
Language wars and Kilkenny cats
I try to stay out of the language wars as much as possible, and I've particularly sat this round out because it was started by a company who's trying to sell something. However, the word that A Word A Day sent out today seemed strangely appropriate. The word was "Kilkenny cats" and you can read more about them here. I particularly liked the limerick:
There wanst was two cats of Kilkenny
Each thought there was one cat too many
So they fought and they fit
And they scratched and they bit
'Til instead of two cats there weren't any.
Why don't partial types require partial on all declarations?
Andy Maggs asks:
Who thought it was cool to be able to create partial classes without indicating on the 'primary' class that it has other parts somewhere else. In C# you must use the partial keyword on all parts, so why not VB?
Since partial type cannot span projects (i.e. a type must be fully described inside of a project), we felt it was sufficient to only have to have at least one of the declarations "opt in" to partialness. Requiring every partial declaration to have to specify that it was partial seemed to be unnecessarily strict. For example, in the designer case such as a WinForm, it is really necessary to put "Partial" on the class declaration when the partial type that the designer spits isn't even shown by default?
And, of course, there's no reason that a developer can't specify "Partial" on all partial declarations if they so choose. You can even modify, say, the WinForms template to add it if you want.
In the end, this is one of those things I was talking about just last week, a real judgement call. There are more than a few people who have taken issue with this particular decision, feeling that the more explicit the better. (There have been even suggestions made to us that partial types should have to explicitly state which source file the other partial types reside.) I can see their point and don't think their arguments are bad, we just don't happen to agree on this…


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IMF urges Russia to tighten fiscal and monetary policy
Moscow: Russia needs to adopt both a tougher budget and tighter monetary policy to guard against the risk of overheating and to bear down on inflation, the International Monetary Fund said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement follows a meeting of the IMF's Executive Board to discuss the results of annual consultations between the Fund and the Russian government.
IMF directors "recommended an ambitious fiscal consolidation path to reduce overheating pressures and vulnerabilities and ensure intergenerational equity," it said.
They also "generally recommended a gradual further tightening of monetary policy to contain underlying pressures and anchor expectations."
The IMF has warned repeatedly in recent months that it fears Russia's economy is in danger of overheating — implying that demand is growing faster than potential output, leading to higher inflation.
In its latest statement, the IMF predicted that Russia's economy would grow by around 4 per cent in both 2012 and 2013, slightly above its assessment of the underlying growth potential.
The IMF said that although inflation has come down in recent months, the fund's measure of core inflation remains high at around 6 per cent.
It forecast that inflation would rebound to 6.5 per cent by the end of the year, compared with 4.3 per cent in June.
The forecast implies that Russia's central bank will miss its 5-6 per cent inflation target for 2012, increasing pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates.
Scope for improvements
The IMF's call for fiscal consolidation also reflects its long-standing concerns about Russia's high non-oil deficit — a measure of the underlying budget stance that excludes oil taxes.
The statement noted that although the non-oil deficit declined to 9.8 percent of GDP in 2011, from 12.7 per cent in 2010, the deficit is set to rise by around 1 per cent of gross domestic product this year.
The IMF commended Russia for adopting a new fiscal rule that will base government expenditures on the long-term average oil price. But it also said that it "saw scope for further improvements to allow for the effective rebuilding of the Reserve Fund."
The Reserve Fund, which is designed to protect the federal budget against a fall in oil prices, is at present worth some $60 billion (3.2 per cent of GDP), down from $143 billion in 2008.
The IMF said that effective fiscal consolidation would also need to be underpinned by structural reforms, including pension reform.
Structural reforms are also needed to improve the country's investment climate and long-term economic growth, the IMF said, recommending that Russia improve the rule of law, reduce corruption, and privatise state-owned companies.
"The challenge in the short term is to manage domestic demand in order to avoid overheating and in the medium term to fully realise Russia's significant growth potential," the IMF said.


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I have the same question for my BDP-S3100. Or will any current Sony Blu-Ray players support profiles?
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At this point, we do not have the information. Just make sure to update the software of the player once a new firmware is available.
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When will the Netflix update be available?
Or is it advised to purchase from a competitor that is more up to date?
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Thanks for the informaiton.
Still does not answer the question. Is this something Sony is working on, attempting in the next serval months or is this something that the last update was 2 year ago not worth the time due to newer models to work on????
Very Frustrated!!! Thought I purchased from a technology drivin company.
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The software was updated during the past two days and my blu-ray player now has profiles on Netflix. Thanks Sony! Problem solved!
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