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Watch as people play the Nintendo 3DS system for the very first time!
Nintendo has a winner.
It's amazing how consistent they are.
i feel sorry for myself....i dont have 20/20 vision...fell off a 2 story house and could never see well through that eye...everything i see is through my right eye...the left, everything is blurry...i can make out shapes and some detail but thats it...man i wish i could enjoy 3D
Nintendo consistent? This is the first nintendo conference I liked and pretty much all nintendo news since N64 days.
Funny I was looking for people playing the 3DS and i get their faces not the actual games lol.
You should get one of these bad boys
not only would it help....but i would look like a total badass as well :D
I just can't compete with a ton of hot chicks + an attached console to its "persona"...
... <3
has anyone seen the 3d effect on this nintendo 3ds. i just havent encountered a single video showing it! can someone post a link or something.
3d doesn't work like that, you won't be able to see the effect through your monitor.
Not properly anyway. I could see it in one of the videos posted by a commenter on n4g. I must say I was not a believer :) now completely sold!
Nintendo was Nintendo this E3, and I loved it. :)
Sources say that the screens used for the 3DS can only really work in small form factors and woundn't really work on large TV's. I wonder if this technology could one day be adapted for 20-26" monitors. THAT Would be something.
I guess so. But you'd have to sit straight in front of it and not at that much of an angle. I guess that isn't much problem with a TV/monitor anyway.
Post sources please.
no, pandamobile, i didn't say click disagree...i said post sources...
yes, as of now it only works with small screens, but I read that the technology for bigger screens like TVs and monitors is on it's way, but don't hold your breath on it because it'll probably come in about 5-7 years.
i feel sorry for the psp, once again beated by an "inferior" hardware
Have you seen the graphics for some of the 3DS games? They're insane; better than PSP's.
PSP is last gen hardware compared to the 3DS, what are you talking about?
its been more than 5 years since its launch. so of course it has been obsolete by newer tech...
If you researched rather than troll, you would know the 3DS is actually more powerful than the PSP.
really because nintendo hasn't released any cpu etc. specs on the 3ds so until then the only way to gauge is by the game graphics and quality and so far its mostly rendered video scenes for the graphics heavy games...you should do some research also before trolling.
Maybe it being 3D has something to do with it? I read comments about needing (approx.) double the processing power for 3D?
As Pope said. PSP is old tech compared to 3DS. The handheld isn't even out yet. That's like trying to compare a 2004 Mustang to a 2011 Mustang. So of course it's gonna be better...or at least it should be. It would be ridiculous IMO, if at this point Nintendo made 3DS with older tech. But I'm pretty sure when Sony reveals the PSP2 it will surpass the DS in terms of hardware and leave it in the same place it left the DS when they were both out.
And why is it inferior? wasn't the 3DS just revealed today for the first time? I don't recall anyone ever calling the 3DS, something that didn't officially exist till today, inferior.
"when Sony reveals the PSP2 it will surpass the DS in terms of hardware and leave it in the same place it left the DS when they were both out."
First place? lol Great point you made there
by your own grammar fail =/
still,3DS is not inferior hardware since its new hardware, and supposedly superior
+ PSP was beaten by the DS so it WAS beaten by inferior hardware
but why do you care? you are 360 owner. Oh i get it....sorry for your loss =(
cool video. Wished I was there to try the 3DS and the new Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Sony hyped 3D gaming, and nintendo benefits all of it. Kind of sad.
o.o if anything Avatar should be credited for this full 3dwave
if Sony wanted to be successful they would sell 3d for cheap.
Nintendo took the fire for touch gaming and motion gaming. it just proves to me that you have to take risks and back something 100% no matter what. just like Nintendo.
but the 3ds was in developement way before avatar :0
they cant really sell it for cheap, like you can't compare to 3DS to a 50 inch 3D TV. They are 2 totally different scale of hardware. 3DS screen is probably one of the prototype from one of the electronic manufacturers lab that actually functional enough and cheap enough to make in small size. The game output at 400X240 (800x240 split in 2 for 3D). Thats a lower resolution than the PSP screen. Which they can probably get around with any smaller artifacts or side effect of the screen. PS3 wise Sony can only go with what is available in the market currently (3D TV + glasses) and use the PS3 to help spreading the tech to get ppl to adopt it.
I am comparing it to the glasses for 3d tvs. these expensive things http://www.google.com/produ...
I still don't have a strong feeling for motion gaming from Sony. it feels like they aren't 100% behind it. Microsoft went all out for its motion system. but Sony doesn't give that vibe. They should be looking for the next best thing like what Nintendo does.
to have a full expirence from sony I need a 3D1080p hd tv $____
a Ps3 $____ Move controller games and nunchuck $____ + the glasses $____ .
they need to find the next new thing currently it looks like Nintendo apple and google are the market leaders in changing the way we do things and changing the rules.
Nintendo have been playing with 3D for years - even before the Virtual Boy. Miyamoto and Iwata collaborated on a game back in the NES days! The GC was also capable of 3D output too, but it was never used.
Nintendo: "NO GLASSES!"
Sony: "Now put on your glasses again..."
Man, on a small screen like that the PS3 could create an organism.
Looks like the 3DS technology is an advanced version of this.
That just uses face tracking and plus if that was 3ds tech the screen would have to be different and its not.
Nintendo is smart for not putting a price tag on it yet.
They're probably still evaluating it, trying to build up hype and demand first and then go with the highest price possible.
sounds about right, like MS with kinect. These days, seems like whoever made the first move = screwed. Look at 3DS, add widescreen, analog stick and home button too for probably some kind of dashboard or xmb user interface to quit game. That means Ken Kutaragi actually design the PSP a bit ahead of its time. Not saying that those are original features, but they are some of the more unique PSP features.
I'm betting $200, or $249. Will pay either, might pay higher.
Ocarina of Time, Paper Mario, Metal Gear 3, Layton, and Star Fox? AMAZING!!
It only does trend setters for the other guys to follow.
Like the PS3 says "It Only Does EVERYTHING"
My favorite's the one where the dude doesn't even look up!
Sooner than expected - good to see! Now implement this on TV's.
This only works if your close to the screen like when your playing a handheld
before this gets applied to big screen TV's....
this 3D glasses thing will pass
the 3D thing though, is here to stay =3
Did an amazing job this year. Not impressive, or awesome, but amazing. By the looks of it, this is the first year I'll by buying more Nintendo games than 360 or ps3 combined. That's really something. What was great about their announcements, was that the games were announced for fall yet many of them weren't even in the radar yet.
they will own if they bring this out before chrismas
Nintendo holds off on hd and dvd player for their home consoles because they say they are not needed...but then they go and put 3d on their handheld. Is the handheld Nintendo's primary hardware...and the home console secondary?
Glasses free 3D is only feasible on handheld at the moment. Nintendo's aim is to make their stuff affordable, so that more people buy it. They've in interested in 3D for 20 years, and been trying things out with it regularly, but the sticking point for them introducing it on a home console is cost to the consumer - expensive TV AND expensive glasses would put the majority of thie user base off purchasing. But on a handheld? That's a different story.
Wait till you get the thing in your hands before you judge.
Just Kidding, but seriously, they can figure out how to do 3d sans glasses for a handheld. but not a television set. Which one is the bigger market anyways?
Sony? Samsung? whats up!?
Hmm, reactions to a Nintendo product... on Nintendo's site... Nope, no favorable editing there. lol I'm not impressed by 3D. That shit is 90's.


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First Impressions: White Coat Ceremony Marks Medical Student Career Milestone
- 10-15-2013
- By Jennifer Nachbur
Looks do matter, at least when it comes to physicians and white coats, says a recent survey of 200 patients at a New York City hospital and reported in a Family Practice News article. A total of 83 percent of the questionnaire respondents attributed their willingness to follow a physician's advice to his/her professional appearance, and of the 51 percent who had an attire preference, 52 percent rated a white coat as most desirable. The 115 members of the University of Vermont College of Medicine's Class of 2017 will now find out how true that is. On Friday, October 18 in UVM's Ira Allen Chapel, these students hit the first big milestone of their medical school career – the White Coat Ceremony.
A rite of passage for first-year medical students, the White Coat Ceremony is an official welcome to the medical profession and is designed to instill the values of professionalism, humanism, and compassionate patient care and connects students to the legacy of thousands of alumni whose contributions to medical science have resulted in advances that have expanded the boundaries of knowledge, alleviated untold suffering, and saved the lives of countless individuals.
The Class of 2017, who began medical school on August 12, 2013, is currently taking the Human Structure and Function course in Level One of the UVM College of Medicine's Vermont Integrated Curriculum. The course focuses on the composition of the human body and how it performs in the healthy state in an integrated study of microscopic and gross anatomy, physiology, basic imaging principles, embryology and clinical skills.
Below are profiles of several Class of 2017 students:
• Jericho, Vt. native Brian Till navigated a political path before choosing to pursue medicine in his home state. After undergraduate internships with Senator Patrick Leahy and the Burlington State's Attorney's office, the Haverford College alumnus researched foreign policy at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. and authored a book of interviews with former heads of state, as well as penned two global health articles for The Atlantic before a volunteer experience in the surgical intensive care unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center changed his career direction.
• Bryce Bludevich was born and raised in Colchester, Vt., where she excelled in sports, served in student government, pursued an interest in Asian cultures and traveled to China. The Smith College alumna continued to play soccer and study China, its culture, language and medicine, then, following graduation, moved in a medical direction, working in a UVM neuroscience laboratory and studying autism at Boston Children's Hospital before securing a spot in the Class of 2017.
• Sarah Waterman Manning, M.P.A., an East Montpelier, Vt. native, and her husband and Jericho, Vt. native Will Manning are the first husband and wife to start medical school together at UVM. Married just three months, both are accomplished runners and have coached area high school cross country and track. Waterman Manning is also the creator of social media site #VTResponse, a post-Irene effort to organize volunteer efforts.
• Homer Chiang grew up in Fremont, Calif., loving to tinker with and repair small machines. The son of electrical engineers, he studied mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Cornell University, eventually moving into the biomedical research realm in graduate school at Penn State and work in the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Boston Children's Hospital. A project developing an artificial cornea at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and witnessing lifelong blind patients see for the first time with this cutting-edge technology redirected his focus and passion to medicine.
• As a youngster, Caleb Seufert, M.S.P.H., ran through the halls of the UVM College of Medicine while his mother juggled medical school and raising two boys. Inspired by her transformative career experience, he finished a post-baccalaureate premedical program after college, received cancer research training at the National Institutes of Health, completed a master's degree in public health, and conducted research in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before returning to his childhood haunt.
• Alissa Correll's family's glassblowing studio in rural Conway, Mass., exposed her to art, basic engineering and machine shop techniques, along with a community of farmers, craftspeople and small businesses. A magna cum laude Mount Holyoke College graduate and biology major who published a 2012 breastfeeding study and completed the required coursework to become a practicing birth doula, Correll is interested in rural medicine experiences with a focus on public and women's health.
UVM's White Coat Ceremony opened with welcomes from Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education William Jeffries, Ph.D., College of Medicine Dean Frederick C. Morin III, M.D., and Fletcher Allen CEO John Brumsted, M.D. Ursula McVeigh, M.D., UVM assistant professor of family medicine, director of the Fletcher Allen Palliative Care Service and the 2013 recipient of UVM's Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, delivered the guest speaker presentation at the ceremony.
A portion of the funding for the white coats was provided by the UVM Medical Alumni Association. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation provided the gift of Humanism in Medicine lapel pins to each medical student participating in the White Coat Ceremony. The Area Health Education Centers and UVM Office of Primary Care provided students with a keepsake copy of The Oath, which was read by medical students and physicians at the close of the ceremony.
Link to a video of the White Coat Ceremony. Photographs will be available on the Medical Photography website.
Background Information on the White Coat Ceremony:
• Physicians dressed in black until the late 19th century, due to the association of black attire as formal. Physicians adopted the white coat as a symbol of purity at the beginning of the 20th century. (Source: Mark Hochberg, M.D., "The Doctor's White Coat--an Historical Perspective," American Medical Association Journal of Ethic's Virtual Mentor website, April 2007)
• According to the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the White Coat Ceremony helps establish a psychological contract for the practice of medicine.
• Initiated on August 20, 1993 at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, this annual ceremony or a similar rite now takes place at about 90 percent of schools of medicine and osteopathy in the United States.


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If you are familiar with the Japanese manga Beelzebub, you probably know that delinquent Tatsumi Oga cannot be separated from Baby Beel by several meters. Doing so results in instant death.
This image, which is making the rounds on Japanese websites and bulletin boards, shows Oga and Baby Beel. It looks like it's from the cover of the comic book Weekly Shonen Jump; however, I'm not 100 percent sure. What I am sure about is if you put your finger over Baby Beel's head, you give Oga a baby dingaling.
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Intercultural Communications
Units: 3
This is a combination course with Global Studies (GLBL 310). It explores the dynamic processes of establishing a relationship between culturally diverse individuals. Respecting divergent cultural patterns is promoted, but not at the expense of neglecting the consideration of salient spiritual, moral, and ethical issues involved in intercultural communication.
Meets the General Studies elective requirement.


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Like it or not this type of stuff does serve as negativity towards the city, the team, and the fans. we are all aware of that. i didnt post this in our forum for negativity, i used it as a way to vent my frustrations about it. i dont care if it was talked about in the MLB forum, i dont go in the MLB forum.
i also like how you just blurt out a random ratio of 9 out of 10 times these people are not fans. what world do you live in? Just 2 years ago a Giants fan was nearly beaten to death in LA. Another fan dragged out of his car in the parking lot. This stuff happens with every fan base all over the world, i am very aware of that, but to make this seem like its just an isolated incident with people who are not fans again is naive.
Any given game in any sport people are completely iconsiderate of anything around them.
anyways if you guys want to lock it go ahead. i just was looking to vent and broach the subject a little due to my own frustration. this stuff doesnt usually bother me because my outlook is that people in general are selfish and rotten. it just kind of bothers me that it makes it even harder for me to go out with my family to a game and enjoy it
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".....honor the game the game honors you..dont know where and when it ends, but tonight I was proud to be together as a team, in a hostile environment, with just us..brothers that play for the name on the front, not the name on the back.
-Hunter Pence 2012 NLDS
Honestly reading your opening post just now, you are filled with the same type of hate you accuse those people who rioted of having. You might just hate your own reflection. Find a cave/Build a bunker, move there alone.
Please . . . I make a clear distinction between a true Giants fan, Baseball fan, the casual observer, and simple trash. I trust that the two former said would not bring such disgrace and shame upon their city nor tarnish the character of true fans.
Their are those, whom will capitalize on any good/bad situation for self gratification. To extinguish any potential engagement of whether these idiots are true fans or not . . . If they are, they are selfish and ignorant people.
Today's event seems to being going well. Hopefully, the City and the Giants' fan
can bask in the glory and excitement of this 2012 season's victory without any attention drawn to acts of lunacy.


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Thats because Geno gave himself an F when asked how he would grade his performance today. He said he wanted everything to be an A+
That is what SportsCenter had on their Screen tag at 6 pm. They then started the piece with the "circus" line. They then showed the footage from the Green Room, when he was waiting to be picked. They then called him a Diva with an attitude. Then Rex stood up for him and said he didn't know what a Diva QB looked like. He said he looked like he had studied and was ready to work hard. As an aside, do you think any other rookie QB's will get this kind of scrutiny?
Unreal, leave the kid alone.
Thats because Geno gave himself an F when asked how he would grade his performance today. He said he wanted everything to be an A+
The report still sucked.
The kid gave himself an F.
Nothing to see here.
From what I read he looked comfortable with the playbook. That is something we havent see from our QB in a long time now. Mainly quick short passes but you dont want to go wild your 1st practice under a new system. I think it was a good answer. He left nothing but obvious praise to be said. Even if you came out thinking it was a sub par performance the answer to the question made you feel better about it IMO. He didnt sugar coat anything he just said it is either an A+ or an F and it wasnt an A+.
mehalfwita did the same thing with Coples... Headline:
Rex Ryan criticizes Quinton Coples' work in the weight room
Reality from Ryan:
Hes been doing great, but any time Ive got a chance to get him, Im going to, said Ryan. I expect so much for him, if he lets up a little bit were going to make sure he knows about it.
I know we need to ignore it, but you talk to someone who just reads the papers and they believe it. ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!
It is unreal. They suddenly don't give a sh*t about a young kid trying to make it in the NFL but seem hell bent to trash him especially since he is a Jet. The picture says it all you would think its Terrell Owens
Like we're the ONLY team with 5 QB's! Where's the "Circus" for PHILLY, with that BUST waiting to happen in Barkley?!
Or Pittsburgh with their 5 QB's.
I really wish I could reach through the TV and strangle these idiots... Or at least correct the douchebags
Gotta love day 1 of Geno.
1. Completed a high percentage of his passes.
2. Is said to have looked good, knew what he was doing, came prepared.
3. On a day Sanchez would have claimed it felt great to be out there, and I made a lot of good throws, but would like to have a few back, but overall it was a great day... Geno gives himself a F. I've seen games where Sanchez has thrown a pick 6, fumbled for a opposing team td, and completed under 50% of his passes, not once has he ever said he was an F or say his play was unacceptable.
4. The media hounds him after practice looking for him to slip, or give them a story, and he was calm, cool, and handled them perfectly... He didn't come across anything like the diva they sooo want him be either.
It's only 1 day in, but I think this is off to a nice start...
Lol, shroy & dreamers the voices of reason ... I'm through the looking glass!


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As long as it doesn't cause Lupus...
Yea, I've heard the damn vampire are tough to stomach in Santa Monica. The last thing they need is Werewolves too.
Before everyone screams bloody murder, the fact remains that you'll still be able to buy the stuff, separately. Percocet, for example, is actually a mix of oxycodone and acetaminophen. You can buy them separately as Oxycontin and Tylenol (or paracetamol in the UK).
It's the combination that causes problems; people wind up overdosing. Overdosing on the oxycodone portion is not all that dangerous (you could swallow 2 dozen of them at once though I would definitely not recommend it) compared to Tylenol, which can damage your liver. Thirty extra-strength tylenols at once can destroy your liver and you'll die within 72 hours. These medications have acetaminophen in them as an an anti-inflammatory to work with the painkiller, but they wind up being the deadlier part of the drug since people take too much. A few people think they can commit suicide by swallowing the whole prescription, but what happens is the codeine-based painkiller part wears off in hours and then the agonizing abdominal pain of liver failure begins until they're dead 3 days later.
You'll still be able to buy the separate ingredients, hydrocodone is Vicodin and Norco, oxycodone is Percocet, etc. There are other formulations; Percodan is nearly the same as Percocet except it uses aspirin in place of acetaminophen (Tylenol)
Before everyone screams bloody murder, the fact remains that you'll still be able to buy the stuff, separately
Thank God! --- R. Limbaugh
Yes, let's protect people from their own stupidity. Next, we can make it illegal to sell desks without permanently attached foam on the corners to protect you in case you trip!
Anyone taking medicine should know they have to check for drug interactions and overdoses. The medical industry has been harping about it for years. If the product they offer is safe when following the directions, then it's not their problem if people do stupid things with it.
Anyone taking medicine should know they have to check for drug interactions and overdoses. The medical industry has been harping about it for years. If the product they offer is safe when following the directions, then it's not their problem if people do stupid things with it.
What I think is funny is that the FDA is spending all this time over something that any half-way intelligent person should already know or at a minimal their doctor should have told them. What about all the drugs that they approve as safe that turn out to kill large numbers of people when they take the proper dose? eh? Maybe the makers of Tylenol are late on their hush money payment???
Avandia - Glaxo SmithKline, Banned 03-2000 for; heart failure, hepatitis, and liver failure
Baycol - Bayer AG, BANNED 08-2001 for fatal rhabdomyolysis
Bextra - Pfizer, BANNED 04-2005 for; heart attack, stroke, skin diseases
Dexatrim - Bayer, BANNED 11-2000 for fatal strokes
Ephedra - Brayton Purcell, BANNED 04-2004 for; high blood pressure, heart rate irregularities, insomnia, nervousness, tremors, seizures, heart attacks, strokes, brain hemorrhages, and death
Fen Phen - Wyeth, BANNED 09-1997 for; heart valve damage, primary pulmonary hypertension
Lotronex - Glaxo SmithKline, BANNED 11-2000 for; ischemic colitis, abdominal pain, severe constipation
Pondimin - Wyeth, BANNED 09-1997 for; heart valve damage, primary pulmonary hypertension
Propulsid - Janssen, BANNED 03-2000 for; torsades de pointes, SIDS
Redux - Wyeth, BANNED 09-1997 for; heart valve damage, primary pulmonary hypertension
Rezulin - Warner-Lambert, BANNED 03-2000 for severe liver toxicity
Vioxx - Merck, BANNED 09-2004 for; heart attack, stroke
This is only the short list... Thank you FDA for protecting us and the children!
Most people have no idea what the maximum safe dosage of acetaminophen is. And even if they do, the point is that it's easy to take your vicodin prescription and then take some Nyquil without realizing that Nyquil has acetaminophen as well. The average person is not a pharmacist, and really shouldn't be expected to be one.
When I had surgery on my hand my doctor's instructions for frequency of use on the vicoden would have put me over the 4000mg limit. The pharmacist told me I needed to make sure I only took 5 a day instead of 6 (or something like that, can't quite remember what the frequency was anymore).
Now imagine my doctor had written the prescription correctly for 5 doses a day. There's no reason for most people to know the maximum daily dose value. It would have been quite easy to take the maximum dosage just on pain pills, then take a few doses per day of some OTC med (maybe something for allergies) that lists acetaminophen in the small print and exceed the max dose by quite a bit. Nyquil Sinus for example has 650mg per dose and allows up to 6 per day. Accidentally exceeding 4000mg would be easy.
What's so wrong with a good, 'ol firearm discharged to the temple?
This is a good point, but in the U.S. at least, vicodin is still a prescription-only drug. It's not like you can just go to the store and buy a bunch of vicodin and extract the "good stuff" out and sell it on the street. If you can get enough vicodin to do that, then you already have a doctor who's willing to bend the rules to get you high, in which case he'd probably prescribe something that didn't have acetaminophen in it in the first place.
One of the reasons that drug companies put acetaminophen in things like hydrocodone and dextropropoxyphene in the first place is because they make it more difficult (ironically) to overdose on or use recreationally.
Of course, instead of the intended effect of less drug abuse, we now have more liver failures, at a higher societal cost. This is the same thinking that has people opposed to clean needles programs - does less clean needles mean people will inject less? No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.
No, actually they will still inject, and they will have a higher chance of contracting Hepatitis or HIV.
Yes, but most anti-drug people are arguing from the basis of a puritan's punitive mythology, in which taking drugs is pleasurable and therefore drug takers "deserve" to be harmed. You can see this in puritans of all stripes: environmental puritans are often opposed to safe and effective means of disposal of nuclear waste because they would make nuclear power safer, which would be unacceptable because humans aren't supposed to have access to clean, cheap power, we're supposed to suffer for any pleasure we get, because we "deserve" to.
I have no idea what "deserve" means, other than, "I don't like what you're doing and want to see you get hurt as a consequence of doing it." It's a primitive, pre-scientific concept based on rudimentary rationalizations around social control behaviours in our primate ancestors, I think.
Don't knock your rudimentary instincts, they got our species to where it is today. While there are plenty of people who think that our species is in a sad shape, myself being one of them, I'm still quite happy with my current state of evolution. I'd love to be more 'enlightened', but I'll take what I've got.
The acetaminophen is added because it increases the effectiveness of the narcotic, so a lower dose of the narcotic is needed for good pain control. Has nothing at all to do with controlling illicit drug use.
But what is fucked is that aspirin has this same effect with the narcotics and is much safer to use, and in fact aspirin + narcotic compounds used to be the common thing back in the day (prior to 1980). The change to acetaminophen compounds had to do with the profit margins of the pharmaceutical companies more than for any other reason. (Aspirin was the first ever drug synthesized in a laboratory and neither it nor any of the process that is used to make it can be patented. Plus the stuff is so easy and cheap to make that there is no way for a large pharmaceutical company to squeeze out smaller competitors. So aspirin is a failure in the American health care industry, despite its therapeutic effectiveness. No profit there.
I think I'll need a citation for this one. I find the logic suspect that a typical recreational drug user would avoid abusing Oxys out of concern for acetaminophen overdose.
The article claims that acetaminophen and oxycodone, et al, are packaged together because they act on different pain receptors. I find this explanation to be far more believable than yours, sorry.
I'd say its highly irresponsible to claim that 24 pills of 5mg Oxycodone will not kill an Opiate-naive individual.
Drinking alcohol with it also will destroy your liver faster than either alone will. An over the counter cough medicine with both acetaminophen and alcohol in it is especially dangerous.
Tylenol has never worked for me, even Tylenol with codeine (percocet?). If I'm prescribed Tylenol with codeine, I have to take an aspirin with it to make it work. Perhaps they'll bring back Darvon (aspirin and codeine).
I don't see (aside from advertising and bribing doctors and hospitals) why acetomenaphine needs to be on the market at all, as there are a plethora of newer, more effective, and safer analgesics these days. Acetominaphine won't relieve swelling at all, while aspirin and other analgesics will.
Of course no drug is completely safe -- my friend Charlie had to be operated on for a perforated intestine that her doctor said was caused by taking too much naproxin. But that's far preferable to a liver transplant.
Acetaminophen has a lot of uses, actually. In recommended doses, it's perfectly safe and doesn't cause any liver damage. It's only when you combine it with other things or OD that it becomes problematic.
Unlike aspirin, acetaminophen is safe for children as it doesn't cause Rhye's syndrome. It's safe for pregnant women. It doesn't irritate stomach lining and so is safe for those with gastric ulcers.
It's method of operation is unlike other drugs (especially opiates) and the combination leads to less amount of
It's the combination that causes problems; people wind up overdosing
I always figured this was intentional, to poison the people who are abusing them. If anything the individual formulations are more likely to be abused, and doctors will be less likely to prescribe them. It's really unfortunate the medical field often considers punishing addicts to be a higher priority than helping those in pain.
In any case, multi-drug formulations are dumb. Even the over the counter cough syrup formulations. The one you most commonly see is dextromethorphan and guaifenesin . The dextromethorphan is intended to suppress coughs, but you shouldn't take it with a "productive cough", that is, one that produces phlegm. Obviously if you're coughing up phlegm you want to get it out of your lungs, so suppressing that cough is a bad idea.
Ok, but then they through guaifenesin into the mix, which is expectorant. An expectorant is a drug that breaks up mucus so it's easier to expel by coughing. In other words, it's designed to make your productive cough more productive. WTF are they doing pairing it with a substance that shouldn't be used with a productive cough?
It's just stupid. I never buy medications with more than one active ingredient, and mix and match as needed. Obviously this is always going to be better than some one size fits all solution simply created so the marketers would have more product lines to market.
The guaifenesin isn't really in there as an expectorant. It's in there because if you chug the whole bottle, the guaifenesin will make you throw up, discouraging you from using the dextromethorphan to get high.
I'd rather take it with with theobromine [wikipedia.org] than dextromethorphan.
The problem is the key ingredient - acetaminophen - can easily damage or destroy a patient's liver if more than 2000 mg are used per day.
Disclaimer: Not a doctor or med student but my three sisters are nurses/researchers.
My older sister warned me when I started college that if I was going to drink I should avoid acetaminophen at all costs. Luckily, I don't get headaches or have had a need for a painkiller in a very long time and I think it's been about six years since I've taken them. If you are a heavy drinker, avoid acetaminophen as your liver's already dealing with the alcohol and crap in the American diet and doesn't appreciate it. My sister told me that people who use acetaminophen during hangovers may be putting themselves at a much higher risk for liver diseases. I'm a little concerned these have been out for this long when there's safer alternatives. I'm sure the companies that stand to profit have tons of tricks up their sleeves yet.
This is true. Any pharmacist will tell you to take Motrin or Advil (Ibuprofen) instead, as it skips the liver and is not nearly as toxic
Maybe your sister should have told you not to drink that much alcohol in first place. Makes a lot of more sense that way.
Not that I recommend anyone do this, but there's evidence [aspetjournals.org] that replacing the reducing equivalents available to your liver with a supplement like SAMe can reduce hepatoxicity of acetaminophen(APAP).
Oh, I should have mentioned this. Aspirin and ibuprofen can damage the stomach lining, and drinking alcohol thins the blood which can increase the risk of stomach bleeding. Best thing to do for a hangover is to drink water and coffee and smoke some pot. If you absolutely must take an analgesic, use ibuprofen it doesn't thin the blood as much as aspirin does.
Which is why my doctor tells me not to take any medication containing acetaminophen other than those prescribed, and the form I have to sign when I pick my prescriptions repeats that warning.
If people want to destroy their liver after being warned, then so be it. I think it is overreacting for the FDA to ban something that has been used successfully for decades when no new side-effects have been discovered. We knew for a long time that acetaminophen is dangerous in large doses, so are a lot of things.
Would it not make more sense to educate the people taking the pills, instead of banning an effective pain reliever? Anyone taking a vicodin and then two Tylenol is either in serious pain that the hydrocodone is not treating, or is unaware of what is in vicodin. A little talk by the pharmacist or doctor can fix both. Lowering the dose of APAP in prescription pills makes sense too, I mean 650mg in Darvocets? Take that 4 times a day and you are already over the daily dose. All of that just to prevent some junkies from getting high?
Not that I will argue too much, since I can't take Aspirin or ibuprofen, it will be much easier to get a script for pure codeine.
Would it not make more sense to educate the people taking the pills, instead of banning an effective pain reliever?
No, because there are too many over the counter medications with acetamenophine in them. If you're takinig vicodin for your injury and cough syrup for your cough and then a shot of Nyquil before bed, you may not know that the cough syrup and Nyquil have tylenol in them.
Better to take the tylenol out of the Vicodin and Nyquil and cough syrup. If theat were the case and you overdosed, then it wou
The problem is with the idiots that take 1000mg and then cant wait for it to work so they take another 2-4 in an hour or so.
The people that are stupid and dont read the bottle that says" DO NOT TAKE MORE THAN XXX in a 24 hour period." It's clear as day on the fricking bottle.
So we ban something because the average person is too stupid to read the bottle?
Can we ban water as well? if you drink 6 gallons in an hour it will kill you!
I think the point is that it is easy to misuse even if you are careful. That's becasue it's in so many products.
However, not letting a doctor prescribe it is just stupid.
"So we ban something because the average person is too stupid to read the bottle?"
Perhaps if ti's the average person, then there is an issue.
Anyways, this is just a ban from putting two specific medication together in the same pill. There reason are good and are not "because the average person is stupid".
Of course, one if the most stupidest things someone can do is post about an article they clearly didn't read. Of course, the most stupiest thing, bar none, is having a land war in Asia.
The FDA made the drug companies put acetaminophen into the narcotic painkillers to keep people from recreationally overdosing on them (same as they "denature" ethyl alcohol that you can buy at the hardware store by poisoning it with methyl alcohol), and then when druggies take large doses anyway and cause liver damage and death, the FDA is *surprised*?
The FDA made the drug companies put acetaminophen into the narcotic painkillers to keep people from recreationally overdosing on them (same as they "denature" ethyl alcohol that you can buy at the hardware store by poisoning it with methyl alcohol)...
This is not true at all. Acetaminophen and narcotics are mixed because the combination is a much more effective pain reliever than either alone.
If this is an issue with miss use, then pulling it from the shelf seems ok; however not letting a doctor prescribe it is just stupid.
What is being proposed is not a wholesale ban on acetaminophen but a ban on *some* drug combinations that include it and a reduction in the maximum OTC dosage. The drug will still be available and you'll still be able to mix drugs yourself to get the old effect.
What is being proposed is not a wholesale ban on acetaminophen but a ban on *some* drug combinations that include it and a reduction in the maximum OTC dosage. The drug will still be available and you'll still be able to mix drugs yourself to get the old effect.
THERE are A LOT of people suffering with extreme pain because they can not get the proper pain medications because the DEA goes after doctors who prescript 'too much of X Y or Z'. If you think it's going to be EASIER to get pure oxytocin after this ban you are out of your mind.
We really need to grow up and get over the whole 'but someone is going to abuse or misuse it" bullshit. LET THEM! when they steal a TV to support their habit then throw their asses in jail. O but wait... if the drugs where available t
... good.
My prescription is 7.5mg hydrocodone, 500mg acetaminophen (standard - though there are a few variations on the amount of hydrocodone). The FDA has enforced that amount of acetaminophen, for two reasons. Hydrocodone is relatively addictive, and acetaminophen often induces a huge amount of nausea. This acts as a deterrent for anyone trying to "get high" off of the hydrocodone. Second, acetaminophen is a pretty decent pain killer, which hey, if you're taking lortab, that is the whole point.
My problem is the raw nausea induced. It's not uncommon for me to need to take one, and then develop a severe stomach, erm, 'problem' to the point where I can't do anything until a couple minutes after I've emptied my stomach into the nearby toilet. That is solely a side effect of the acetaminophen.
The "hey my liver is going to live" is a bonus effect from the removal of acetaminophen as far as I'm concerned.
The problem of course - is what they'd replace the acetaminophen with, should they want to continue shipping lortab (and friends). I somehow doubt it'd be any better in terms of side effects.
But I can hope.
Also, if you take any of these pills and then drive your car into a telephone pole or across the median of a highway you could die. Also, if you don't take any of these pills and then drive your car into a telephone pole or across the median of a highway you could die. I think this is a classic case of "don't do that, stupid"
Hydrocodone has 0 requirements to be "cut" with acetaminophen. Neither does oxycodone. It's just done as a way of limiting a patient's intake of the various painkillers that are mixed with acetaminophen. Look at the dosing for Vicodin for instance (I had neck surgery a while ago for a herniated neck disc & did a bit of research);
- 5mg hydrocodone for 500mg acetaminophen
- 7.5 for 750
Similar ratios with oxycodone.
So you really end up being limited by the amount of (unecessary) acetaminophen which has _
For some fresh drama on an aging "House, MD"
So when will the FDA ban alcohol for destroying people's livers?
The US government tried banning alcohol. It didn't take.
the issue is not education, as everyone getting a medical degree in anesthetics is impractical, nor is it competency and monitoring, as these celebrities are people who certainly could afford that, and still wound up dead. the issue is the fact you are dealing with addictive substances and intolerant thresholds to real damage and death
banning is superior to warning, as simple human nature is incompatible with responsible use of these substances. warning simply doesn't work
Even though I was concerned about taking the maximum daily limit of vicodin and then percocet, my doctors dismissed my concerns as all they really care about is treating my spine/nerve damage. Well now that my pre-surgery tests show that my enzyme levels were high, you would think that my neurologist and neurosurgen would care. Nope.
After switching doctors, my new neurologist has the same careless attitude towards how many percocet that I take daily. My he proscribes up to 6-500 mg per day. According to this recommendation I feel bitter about towards the highly uneducated pimps that call themselves doctors. So not only was my spine surgery not successful I know have to deal with liver damage.
One problem with the substance is that the doses in which it's effective are so close to the doses in which it's toxic, as mentioned.
The other problem is that you can take a fatal overdose, and you'll be fine for three days. Then you die very horribly indeed.
A lot of the time a suicide attempt is the proverbial "cry for help". Someone overdosing on acetaminophen might take their overdose and fall asleep in a tearful puddle, feel emotionally purged and a lot better in the morning. And then discover a few days later that they are the walking dead.
Most other drugs have the virtue of making you feel ill enough to seek (or attract) medical attention. Some of them you can just literally "sleep off", with enough support.
That said, it's an excellent drug. Safe, when taken as prescribed, very few side effects, and effective, as evidenced by the enormous number of combination preparations containing it - it reduces the overall dose of opiates that need to be taken and that's a good thing.
The downside of this profligate mixing with other drugs of course, is that if you're not 100% clued up on which preparations you are taking, you might take an overdose.
I'm an ex-doctor. I had no idea that Vicodin contained it until I read TFS. I've never prescribed the stuff though. If I was living in blissful ignorance every time Greg House popped a little blue pill, imagine what the general level of knowledge is amongst Joe Public.
The tinfoil-hatted part of me thinks that they only mix acetaminophen with opiates to stop junkies abusing them anyway. Who'd be stupid enough to take a fatal overdose of something that doesn't even get you high
my wife sees it all the time - dead livers. The concern isn't for people taking this on prescription. They can get a different preparation if necessary. Good riddance. Better yet, get rid of the whole prescription regime. Many doctors are sick of being the narcotic gate keeper. On one side is the DEA looking to pull your license and prosecute, on the other a patient who may or may no be in pain. It's the doctors responsibility to correctly identify drug seekers. Chronic pain rarely kills. What would you do if your livelihood could be taken away for prescribing narcotics to a patient who you believed to be in pain, but was a very clever junkie? I have a feeling there are a lot of chronic pain sufferers that aren't having their pain managed correctly because their physician fears being accused of over prescribing narcotics. More senseless shit brought to you by the War on Drugs. As the late but not so great Bill Hicks said - it's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
The problem is, the lethal dose is very close to the effective dose. In addition, the effect of an overdose is not getting sick, its death. It is not a drug that should be sold over the counter. It is simply not safe.
To compound that, it is being misused. It is being mixed with opiates to prevent people overdosing for kicks on the opiates, by mixing the opiates with a substance which is lethal if too much is taken. This is a misuse of Acetaminophen, it is not being compounded with the opiates for the therapeutic effect, but for social purposes to do with our attitudes to opiate abuse.
Something similar happened in the UK with cough mixture. Everyone, pharmacists and doctors, knows that the only effective cough suppressant is codeine. However, in the mania about stopping abuse of codeine based cough syrups, it is sold either mixed with other positively harmful ingredients or not at all. In Gee's Linctus, for example, an optium extract is sold mixed with Quill, which is a truly noxious substance and one of the worst things to give to an invalid.
We need to do a few things. One is to focus more on getting the opiates to people who are sick, stop worrying about people who are sick and need them abusing them. They will not. This implies that if people need opiates, prescribe the things to them, not mixed with crap they do not need. The second thing is we do have to have a rational drug policy which prevents the crime and disease associated with opiate abuse - but what we do not need is to screw up sick people's access to drugs they need in the name of doing this. Not that it does it, anyway.
The third is we need to take Acetaminophen off the over the counter list altogether.
If a doctor wishes to prescribe a mixture of opiates and Acetaminophen, that's a professional decision. There is no reason why Acetaminophen despite its dangers should not be available on a prescription basis, it may have unique applications. But there is every reason why a drug with those characteristics, and to which there are perfectly good over the counter alternatives, should not be sold over the counter, let alone mixed in half the over the counter pain relief and cold remedies.
We should not be telling people to read the ingredients and not take two over the counter pain or cold remedies at the same time under danger of dying. That is just a totally ridiculous, even criminal policy. We should be making sure that any painkiller ingredient where taking two medicines with it in at once will kill you, is not freely available over the counter.
I left hospital recently with a huge stock of this crap - opiate pain relief mixed with Acetaminophen, with the recommended daily dose right at the limit of how much Acetaminophen you can safely take. I got myself off the stuff as fast as possible at the price of feeling some pain. It was a choice I should not have had to make.
"The FDA has determined that Tylenol enhancing pain killers are dangerous enough to potentially be pulled from the market. Drugs including Vicodin, Hydrocodone, Lortab, Maxidone, Norco, Zydone, Tylenol with codeine, Percocet, Endocet, and Darvocet"
1. Vicodin is Hydrocodone
2. None of these painkillers require APAP to function, the anti-inflammatory effects of acetaminophen are auxiliary. The primary reason APAP is added to these drugs is to make them difficult to take in doses addicts can appreciate.
3. Acetaminophen is STILL effective at what it does and despite the misuse of it from ignorant users it is less harmful to the lining of the stomach than aspirin, does not increase the risk of people taking lithium or have sodium sensitivity like naproxen, and is not as definitely fatal in case of overdose as ibuprofin.
Acetaminophen is not perfect, but there's no perfect alternative and that is the very reason why we need to sustain as many options as possible for the diversity of medical needs people have.
How about doctor administered only, instead of just COMPLETELY illegal.
If i take about 5000mg of caffeine all at once, wont that damage my liver too, then maybe we should illegalise caffeine too?
If people are stupid with drugs, then that is their fault, in Europe, you have weed which is legal, why are we still in this neo-nazi community where they have to wait to the last possible moment before legalizing something (ie - alcohol) before they realize once legal, then people will be more responsible with dosage, as they will have to become more informed!
Doesn't anyone RTFA? Not even the submitter?
They are talking about removing the acetaminophen from the prescription meds. They are not talking about removing it from the market entirely.
This is to prevent inadvertent overdosing. Take a vicodin and a tylenol and you are double dosing on the acetaminophen. Most people don't know this.
IMHO this makes huge sense. Any time you combine prescription and over-the-counter meds in the same pill, you risk ODing on the o.t.c.
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These days, cooking shows are everywhere. From over-eating food challenge-seekers to grumpy gourmet chefs, it's hard to turn on the TV and not find a cooking show. But Graci in the Kitchen, on online cooking show based in Taipei and hosted by Graci Kim, makes meals not just based on ingredients, but on the mood of the consumer.
Graci in the Kitchen (GITK) started in January 2012 as a food blog. Kim, a Korean-born New Zealander, or "Kowi" as she likes to say, had been living in Wellington for her job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and missed the cooking her family used to do at home.
"Cooking is in our blood, I think," said Kim, whose father owns a Japanese Restaurant in Auckland and has many other culinary-inclined relatives as well. After moving to Taipei on a two year ministry posting for full-time Chinese-language study, Kim decided to move from writing to filming and try her hand at producing her own TV series. With the help of a few good friends, she developed what is now known as GITK.
"It was just a good bunch of friends that were learning just as I was learning, so it was fun but a bit of a stumble as we were going," Kim says.
The first season garnered nearly 800,000 viewers — no small feat for Kim and her crew's first foray into filming.
After nearly a year hiatus, Kim decided that it was time to begin another season of GITK. After enlisting the help of fellow Kiwi, Verity Mackintosh, a TV producer currently based in Beijing, the show saw some major changes. A Singapore-based film crew with over twenty-five years of experience was employed alongside local support staff based in Taipei. The length of each episode was cut from twelve minutes down to five, but the biggest change to the show was the addition of locations.
"I figure I'm in Taipei, so why not show everybody the inspiration that Taipei gives me to do what I do," Kim says.
Filming for season two kicked off in early September at the end of Kim's summer vacation from language study. New episodes follow Kim out of the kitchen as she goes shrimping in Shilin, wanders through Raohe night market and visits a traditional tea house.
For Kim, food is not just about pleasing the palate or filling the stomach.
"I want to inspire people to think about food in a slightly different way. We think about food just as something that feeds our bodies, that tastes good, kind of on a primitive level. I'd like to get people enthusiastic about the fact that food can be a lot more than that, it can be food for the mind," she says.
Along with feeding her viewer's minds, Kim likes to make foods to suit their moods as well. Her mood-based cooking ideas came about from her realization that food is connected to our emotions and memories.
"Some foods make you think of home, others make you think of certain holidays. Food is not just something that nourishes the bod; it nourishes the mind, body and soul," she says.
Kim satisfies all of these elements by using quotes to get her viewers thinking, and then basing the entire meal on a mood. Kim's themes cover everything from feeling ugly to feeling blessed, and there's always a meal to compliment or correct any emotion.
Kim's work as a diplomat has also influenced the direction of GITK.
"It gives me the opportunity to be in new places and meet a variety of new people that I might not otherwise," says Kim, adding, "Right now I'm in Taipei, but this job will always lead me to new locations where I can discover more about new food and places."
In 2014, Kim will head to Beijing to begin a posting at the New Zealand Embassy where she will work to further the economic relationship between New Zealand and China.
Whether you're feeling beautiful, ugly, happy or sad, Graci in the Kitchen has a meal to suit your mood. Season two begins tomorrow and is available for viewing along with season one at www.graciinthekitchen.com and Koldkast TV.


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FAO-Embrapa partnership gets under way
28 August 2013, Rome – A partnership to strengthen the transfer of experiences and technologies from Brazil's top agricultural research agency to developing countries within FAO's South-South Cooperation is underway.
Under an agreement signed between FAO and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Cooperation (EMBRAPA) in February, the latter has assigned expert Pedro Arcuri to FAO headquarters. Arcuri met with FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today to discuss the initiative, which adds to the already significant Brazilian contributions to FAO, IFAD and WFP.
"FAO has clearly defined the focus of its work around five strategic objectives," said Graziano da Silva. "The partnership with EMBRAPA will make an important contribution to this effort, in particular, increasing sustainable production."
Arcuri feels that "EMBRAPA's experience in tropical agriculture can be of great use to other developing countries. FAO, the Brazilian international cooperation bodies and now EMBRAPA are taking the steps to put this experience to practical use."
Graziano and Arcuri discussed potential cooperation between the two organizations in the areas of capacity building in Africa, rapid response mechanisms to requests for assistance and agro-ecological zoning to support crop production. Other areas could include resource and facilities sharing and improvement of international databases.
Arcuri is meeting with senior FAO officials to prepare a plan of action in line with FAO's new strategic objectives.
EMBRAPA is a globally recognized centre of tropical agricultural research that was key in Brazil's successful programme to cut hunger drastically at home by focusing research on crops produced by smallholder farmers that increased local food supplies in different geographic and climatic conditions.
The Brazilian agency has already developed contacts in Africa, attending the High Level Meeting of African and International Leaders in Addis Ababa held from 29 June to 1 July 2013. The meeting, organized by the African Union, FAO and the Lula Institute, discussed a unified approach to ending hunger in Africa.


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WAREHAM — Carol Widner was loading her groceries into her car trunk when she felt something dig into her back. The man said that it was a gun and that she should do what he said.
Widner, a 75-year-old who lives just down the street from the market, told the man she had no money on her and had left her cellphone at home. The man then told Widner to drive him to the bank and withdraw $300, according to police. But Widner said she had no bank card.
When she spotted a police cruiser nearby, the woman, whom neighbors describe as sweet but spunky, saw her chance. Calling for help, she slammed on the brakes and jumped from her car, telling the officer she was being robbed.
"Ms. Widner told me that when she saw my cruiser, she knew she had to stop," the officer wrote in his report, "because she didn't know if she would have another chance."
Widner's account emerged in court records Friday as the suspected robber, Matthew Mullen, was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and carjacking. Authorities allege that Mullen sped off in Widner's car after she escaped, barreling through stop signs at 70 miles per hour with police in pursuit.
Mullen then abandoned the car and jumped into the backseat of another car, even as that driver tried to get away.
Mullen told the driver, Erica Hall, and her husband, Kevin, that he had a gun, and ordered them to drive. With their 1-year-old girl sitting beside Mullen in the back seat, Erica Hall complied.
"The guy ripped open my back door saying he had a gun," said Hall, 25. "In a hostile voice, I said, 'Don't hurt my kid.' I tried to drive so he couldn't get in the car, but he jumped in and slammed the door, yelling he had a gun."
"He screamed 'Drive! Drive!" right next to my daughter, shaking her seat," Kevin Hall, 30, told police.
Police quickly surrounded the car and were able to apprehend Mullen. Neither Widner nor the Hall family were harmed, and police said that Mullen was unarmed, that he had only pretended to have a gun.
When asked by police why he allegedly demanded money from Widner, Mullen responded, "Desperation." He said he was homeless, police said, and had not eaten in two days.
Mullen pleaded not guilty to the charges and was ordered held on $100,000 bail. Prosecutors said he had a minimal criminal record. A probable cause hearing was scheduled for next month.
Mullen's lawyer could not be reached for comment.
Police said that after they arrested Mullen, they took Widner to identify him.
"Without me asking anything, Carol Widner stated: 'That's him. That's definitely him,' " a trooper wrote.
Police said their pursuit was aided by several witnesses, who had seen where Mullen was heading and pointed them in the right direction.
The Hall family later told police they had seen Widner escape, not realizing they would later be involved.
Widner could not be reached for comment. But neighbors said she is a nice woman and said they would visit her as soon as she got home. "Poor Carol," said one woman. "She's probably still terrified."John R. Ellement of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Peter Schworm can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @globepete.


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Full of spunk, Manny likes to stay busy. He has well-rounded interests that include music, cars, toys, clothes, watching cartoons, and playing outside. He also enjoys performing and drawing.
Manny is doing well in his residential program. He is extremely respectful and polite and counts the adults in his life as being very important to him. He attends school at his program and is benefiting from the services provided for him. His favorite subjects include science and geometry.
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Eating the Easter Lamb
Pastor Steve Ellison
Jesus was wildly popular after the miraculous feeding of the crowd which included five thousand men plus women and children. However, that popularity was short-lived because immediately Jesus began to share some hard truth. He connected the John 6 feeding miracle with the Old Testament miraculous feeding of manna in order to proclaim that He is the Bread of Life and that He came down out of heaven. This was a difficult truth for them to understand and believe. Jesus followed that up with an even more mysterious and difficult truth. John 6:53-58 states, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. 54 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. 55 "For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. 56 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. 58 "This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever." (NASU)
Exodus 12 lays out the requirements for eating the Passover/Easter Lamb. This Lamb must be carefully selected. It cannot be just any old lamb. It has to be an unblemished male in the prime of life. Jesus fit those qualifications. Exodus 12:2 says that the lamb is to be selected four days before the Passover. The Triumphal Entry of Christ on Palm Sunday into Jerusalem riding on the donkey fits this description. An obvious fact, which we must not overlook, is that the Lamb had to be killed. The Cross serves as an unforgettable reminder that Christ fits this basic requirement for being the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Exodus 12:8 states that the Passover/Easter Lamb must be eaten with bitter herbs. No lost person can come to Christ without first repenting of sin that is the result of a godly sorrow. No unbeliever can move from unbelief to belief without having first eaten this bitter herb. The bitter remembrance of bondage to sin renders our experience with Christ that much sweeter. Exodus 12:10 states that this Lamb must be completely consumed. I cannot hold with teaching that an unbeliever takes Jesus in stages, first as Savior and later as Lord, etc. Salvation is a Person. The Person of Christ cannot be divided; that is a ludicrous thought. The Lamb must be completely eaten at once. The Lamb of God is Savior, Lord, King, Prophet, Priest, etc. and it is not possible to divide Him. The unbeliever who comes to saving faith in Christ, takes Christ and His Cross, Christ and His Yoke, Christ and His Crown, all at once.
Exodus 12:10 says that the Lamb must be eaten before morning, i.e. before you go to sleep. In the Bible, sleep often serves as a synonym for death. This marvelous offer of salvation by putting your faith in Christ is a wonderful offer indeed. However, it is a limited time offer. It does include an expiration date. Today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow is not the day of salvation. With every rejection or delay, your heart becomes harder and you may not be able to receive. You may die today. Christ may return today. The occurrence of any of these means the offer is no longer valid. One day every person will see Christ face-to-face as Lord, but not everyone will see Him as Savior. Now is the day of decision not then. Procrastination is a decision against Him. …..…..email@example.com


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Care ye not, said Merlin, for he is wholer than ye; for he is but asleep, and will awake within three hours.
"entire body or company; the full amount," late 14c., from whole (adj.).
Old English hal "entire, unhurt, healthy," from Proto-Germanic *khailaz "undamaged" (cf. Old Saxon hel, Old Norse heill, Old Frisian hal, Middle Dutch hiel, Dutch heel, Old High German, German heil "salvation, welfare"), from PIE *koilas (cf. Old Church Slavonic celu "whole, complete;" see health). The spelling with wh- developed early 15c. The sense in whole number is from early 14c. For phrase whole hog, see hog.
whole (hōl)
Not wounded, injured, or impaired; sound or unhurt.
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The Harvard men's basketball team won its third straight Ivy League title this year (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Given the tragic events at Monday's Boston Marathon, we have decided to postpone the 2013 Harvard Men's Basketball Celebration, scheduled for tomorrow (April 17) in downtown Boston. The new details are:
Wednesday, April 24th
6 p.m. Social Hour
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Harvard Club of Boston
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
We hope that you are still able to join us next Wednesday; however, if you are unable to attend on the 24th, please contact the Varsity Club (617-495-3535) for a refund of your registration payment.
Thank you in advance for your understanding, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
You can RSVP for the event here. Dress for the event is business casual.
The Harvard Club of Boston is located at 374 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.
Harvard completed its year with a 20-10 overall record and finished 11-3 in the Ivy League, grabbing its third consecutive conference crown. The Crimson also earned its second straight NCAA tournament berth and won its first postseason game, upsetting No. 3 seed New Mexico, 68-62, March 21.


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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
An April Fool joke?
The story that has me wondering is this - Gulf News' headline sums it up well:
"Metro stations and lines open for corporate branding".
I can't decide whether it's true or a send-up.
On the one hand, which suggests it's true, I posted about it back in February when it was first announced. And yesterday it appeared again in Gulf News.
On the other, which makes it suspect, the story appears today, April 1st, in both Gulf News and EmBiz247 newspapers but I can't find them on their respective websites. That means, of course, that the stories could have been pulled.
If it's a hoax it's elaborate, time-consuming and Very Important People are involved.
What the hard-copy stories are saying is that 23 Metro stations and two lines are being offered for corporate branding, available for a minimum of ten years. There is selection criteria, naturally.
This could add much-needed style, elegance and class to Dubai's overall look you know.
We have plenty of examples in Australia, which could give ideas to corporate sponsors.
In Australia we have 'bigs' - all kinds of businesses, towns even, have built very large fibreglass 'bigs' to promote themselves.
In the banana-growing area of Coffs Harbour, for example, we have...The Big Banana:
It's the main entrance to a banana plantation and is part of the retail section which sells all kinds of stuff with a banana theme.
That could be an idea for Spinney Station perhaps. They meet the criteria laid down for sponsorship.
Then up in Queensland there's...the Big Pineapple:
Same deal - part of the entrance and retail section of a pineapple plantation.
Maybe that could be a thought for Choitram Station. They also meet the criteria.
There are many other role models our local companies could check on for ideas. I particularly like the very stylish and elegant Big Prawn...
The green and red Metro lines are available for naming rights, the story says. That presumably would be a hefty amount, so very large international companies would be the likely sponsors.
We could soon be travelling on the Coco-Cola Line, changing at Choitram Station to get onto the MacDonald Line to travel on to Masafi Water Station.
I can't wait.
13 comments:
- nzm said...
We could soon be travelling on the Coco-Cola Line, changing at Choitram Station to get onto the MacDonald Line to travel on to Masafi Water Station.
Hey - that's not at all different from the street directions that we now have to get around Dubai!
- April 01, 2008 5:26 pm
- Seabee said...
Very true - less confusing too than the 'system' they've been introducing of numbers for everywhere. Like District 123, building 321, street 12a. The same numbers repeated endlessly for each district, so there are hundreds of 12a streets all over the city.
- April 01, 2008 6:14 pm
- i*maginate said...
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I love it when you're sarcastic...am giggling big-time! Absolutely hilarious - but you're going to be giving Masafi, Choitrams, Spinneys and McDonalds ideas...lol
- April 01, 2008 7:00 pm
i dont even want to think about the possible "bigs" in dubai
- April 01, 2008 9:32 pm
- alexander said...
Inspirational. I'd never even thought of Alexander Junction before. Now I shall place my bid.
I wonder if anyone will care what the station's called as they're being pitched up and down and skewed left and right in a carriage that smells of other people's warm puke as they try and stay standing on the great Maglev Rollercoaster?
- April 02, 2008 9:39 am
- Seabee said...
Alexander that amazes me too - the thing goes up and down, twists and turns like a fairground roller-coaster. Some bridges it goes over, others it goes under and even where there's no bridge it changes from ground level to several metres up.
It sure ain't gonna be a fast train to anywhere.
- April 02, 2008 1:15 pm
- nzm said...
Hopefully the track will be able to maintain its shape in the summer heat too. That's a lot of vertically curved track that hopefully won't soften and twist under the heat and the weight of the trains.
- April 02, 2008 7:06 pm
- i*maginate said...
I just realised this the other day...those photo ops of Emirates Towers are going to be ruined with those fat concrete things in front of them.
Does anybody know how ppl from one side of the road can get to the other? Like if you have to get off at Emirates Towers station how do you get to the Crowne Plaza side? I imagine this is all going to be planned for but was curious if anyone actually knows...
- April 03, 2008 12:30 am
Will there be a Heinekin Station or maybe a Johnny Walker Platform? Or possibly a "Jacobs Creek Line"??
- April 03, 2008 9:48 am
Dear I*maginate
Most stations along SZR will have overhead pedestrian crossings travellators to pop over on to the other side
Ex Dubai Metro
- April 03, 2008 1:41 pm
- Seabee said...
email@example.com, no, alcohol is on the banned list for sponsorship, sadly. A 20 metre tall Johnny Walker striding alongside SZR would have been a wonderful addition to Dubai's architectural wonders.
- April 03, 2008 1:52 pm
- i*maginate said...
Anon - thank you for the response. I was wondering, since I haven't seen construction of these footpaths yet and was wondering if they might not be part of the package lol.
I reckon parking lots should be created next to the stations...
next question, how am I meant to get from my place to a metro station hehe. Brave it by foot in 50C?!
seabee I don't see how alcohol can be banned 4 sponsorship, I once saw a banner at Crowne Plaza for a Johnny Walker event...and what does bubble lounge at the World Cup mean? lol...
- April 03, 2008 2:11 pm
- Seabee said...
i* booze ban was one of the things listed in their press release.
Yes, there will apparently be pedestrian bridges at each of the SZR stations...but the only car parks announced are at the ends of the line.
Brilliant! For years all over the world the experience is that if you want people to use the train you have to give them car parking space at the stations. Did our beloved RTA learn from that?
- April 03, 2008 3:43 pm


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Jerian Grant scored 21 points, including a big three-point play in overtime, to lift No. 21 Notre Dame to an 82-78 win over DePaul on Wednesday night, beating the Blue Demons in overtime for the second time in 11 days.
It appeared the Irish (20-5, 8-4 Big East) might cruise to victory until the Blue Demons (10-14, 1-10) used an 11-1 run to not only get back in the game but take the lead and the Irish rallied to force the overtime four days after beating Louisville in five overtimes. Grant, who scored 12 points in the final minute of regulation against Louisville, came up big in overtime this time.
Pat Connaughton hit a 3-pointer to give the Irish a 74-70 lead . After Brandon Young hit a 3-pointer to cut the lead to one-point, Grant got the rebound of a miss by Atkins and scored, then made the free throw and the Irish made their free throws down the stretch to hang on to beat DePaul for the eighth straight time.
Jack Cooley added 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Irish and Eric Atkins had 13 points.
Cleveland Melvin led DePaul with 23 points, Brandon Young added 20 and Donavan Kirk added 16 as DePaul lost its ninth straight.
The Irish needed to overcome 10 turnovers and 39 percent shooting in the second half as they appeared to run out of energy after looking as if they were in control. They weren't helped by a lethargic crowd of 8,554, with less than half of the student section filled. The Blue Demons shot 54 percent in the second half after shooting just 38 percent in the first half. Notre Dame had a 44-25 rebounding advantage.
The 11-1 run by the Blue Demons gave DePaul a 58-57 lead with 8:13 to go a 3-pointer by Jamee Crockett. But Grant tied it on a three-point play and moments later came up with a big rebound and passed outside to Eric Atkins, who hit a 3 to give the Irish a 66-63 lead. A jumper by Melvin cut the lead to one with 1:58 left and the Blue Demons tied the score at 66 on a free throw by Young with 1:20 left.
Grant had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but missed badly.
Notre Dame had been in control much of the time, but looked a bit weary from the game against Louisville. DePaul cut Notre Dame's lead to 24-23 when Edwind McGhee hit a 3 and Notre Dame's Pat Connaughton was called for a foul when the ball was in the air, giving the Blue Demons the ball back. But DePaul couldn't get a shot off before the shot clock expired. Notre Dame took then control by scoring eight straight points in 45 seconds.
It started when Garrick Sherman, who didn't play in four of the six games before scoring 17 points in the five overtimes against Louisville, scored inside on a layup. Six seconds later, Sherman stole the ball from Worrel Clahar and then passed to Eric Atkins for a 3-pointer. Biedscheid then scored on a free throw and Jerian Grant added a long fallaway jumper to make it 32-23. The Irish, who outshot the Blue Demons 55 percent to 38 percent in the first half, led 43-32 at halftime.


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Artist: Carl Cheng
Title: "Everglades Trespass 2000"
Medium: Integrated Art - Installation w/multiple components
Size: 12' x 33' x 58'
Year Installed: 2000
Venue: Southwest Regional Library
Artist Carl Cheng created this artwork to be integrated into the lobby of the Southwest Regional Library. Cheng created his design based on the theme of South Florida environment, particularly focusing on the Everglades. Artistic elements include a terrazzo floor (33 x 58 feet) reflecting the natural landscape - its water, grasses, alligators and a dividing roadway, while two skylight designs (24 x 20 feet and 28 x 8 feet) hovering above the terrazzo carpet, reflecting the brilliant blues and whites of moving clouds and the watery landscape.
"In my initial research time spent in the Everglades, my mind constantly drifted to the presence of prehistoric reptiles and the impact on the landscape of South Florida. Driving along one of the freeways the drainage canals alongside the highway revealed a number of resting alligators and walking out into Everglades National Park I felt a kind of mental relief that something in Nature once again reminds us we don't own the earth. In our time, we, the human beings who live on this earth, are aware that we are the virus that will engulf the planet. The carpet in the lobby and the presence of ceiling skylight imagery allows us to walk across the predicament of our time. Every time we make use of resources of the library we will cross the threshold of being aware of our connection with Nature. One of the interesting aspects of Public Art is the limitations of every project situation. For each project, I try to intensify my focus on these limitations to develop an inspiration for the concept of a project. As most artists know, creative "problem solving" is a continuing process whether one is deciding what color red to use or how to stretch canvas. The Pembroke Pines Library project is on such a fast schedule that for me it is a continuous non-stop performance of creative problem solving. The idea for developing the lobby with a terrazzo carpet and a lighted skylight for the artwork resulted from a natural process of limitations and possibilities."
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Chicago Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman helped pick Team USA. His dad, Scotty, is a Canadian citizen — and he'd have done some things differently for Team. Specifically, he'd have picked Martin St. Louis.
St. Louis, who won the Art Ross last season and has more points than anyone since 2010, wasn't on the final roster, despite the fact that Canada GM Steve Yzerman does the same job with St. Louis' Tampa Bay Lightning.
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Bowman's logic: St. Louis should've joined Steven Stamkos as the fourth pair of teammates in Canada's group of forwards.
On Canada Olympic Team Crosby-Kunitz. Toews-Sharp. Getzlaff-Perry makes sense i would also like to see Stamkos-St.Louis All great combos — scott bowman (@coachwsb) January 9, 2014
All 8 of forwards i mentioned having banner seasons and all 4 of those teams near the top of Standings. Pittsburgh Anaheim Chicago and Tampa — scott bowman (@coachwsb) January 9, 2014
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Tallahassee, FL--Starting today the Florida State baseball team has it's 21st trip to the College World Series under way.
Mike Martin and company heading to Omaha for yet another crack at a championship, which would be the first in the program's history.
Certainly there has to be some pressure on Martin and his guys. The coach has made 14 previous trips to Omaha without a title, and the Seminoles own the record for most trips overall without winning it all at 20.
The good thing heading west for FSU, several players on this year's team were there a couple of years ago, so there is some experience to lead the way.
"Well I'm sure that Ramsey and Devon and Jace will calm everybody down once they get there" says coach Martin "because there's so much going on. There's this event and that event and practice and then a meal, and curfew, and then the next day you're ready to play baseball. So I mean there's everything packed into a couple of days and boom, you're playing baseball."
Florida State opens bracket play Friday night at 8 central against Arizona. The Gators open Saturday night against South Carolina in a rematch of last year's final series.


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James H. Nehring, associate professor in the Graduate School of Education, has been selected as the 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar for Northern Ireland Governance and Public Policy.
Nehring will be in residence at Queens University Belfast for the upcoming fall semester. He will conduct research on schools serving lower-income communities that teach skills above and beyond those measured by standardized, government tests.
"I am honored to be selected for a Fulbright, and I am excited that this important research will be able to move forward as a result," says Nehring.
A wealth of research demonstrates that the pressure of high stakes tests narrows the curriculum. Schools serving low-income families are under the greatest pressure to improve test scores.
"Teaching and learning suffer the most in these schools, however, there are some outlier schools successfully serving lower income communities," says Nehring. "Despite test pressure, these schools teach students a wide range of skills such as creative problem solving, collaboration, leadership, intellectual openness and reflection. How do they do it? How can other schools do likewise? How can we alter policy to promote what they are doing?"
Nehring hopes that his research results will provide practical guidance for school leaders and suggestions for policy makers who want schools to teach beyond the test.
"We chose schools in Northern Ireland, Israel and the United States for our study, in part because all three jurisdictions have high stakes tests and a history of education inequality," he says. "We are concerned that inequality is widening as test pressure rises."
Before coming to UMass Lowell in 2006, Nehring taught in public schools for 25 years. He led the startup of three public high schools designed to foster intellectual, social and emotional growth. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on education.
The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is the United States' flagship program for international exchange of scholars. Fulbright Awards are highly competitive and among the most prestigious scholarship programs worldwide.
The Fulbright Commission selects scholars through a rigorous application and interview process. In making these awards, the commission looks not only for academic excellence but a focused application, a range of extracurricular and community activities, demonstrated ambassadorial skills, a desire to further the Fulbright Program and a plan to give back to the recipient's home country upon returning. Since 1948, 43 Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes and seventy-eight have won Pulitzer prizes.
Says Nehring: "It is truly an honor to be selected as Fulbright Scholar and I am thrilled that I will have the opportunity to continue learning how certain schools serving lower income communities are successful despite test pressures. We have a lot to learn and gain from the results."