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Whether you want it or not, here it is: the last Manti Te'o scouting report/thought piece you will ever need, with special guest appearances by Kevin Minter and the Crimson Tide offense.
Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman
So, what exactly was all that?
Did we ever get the thing with the fake dead girlfriend and the Tuiasosopo guy sorted out? Not quite. Did we figure out that it was never any of our business?
Oh, we are miles past the TE'O LIED TO AMERICA TO TRY TO WIN THE HEISMAN angle, a truther theory that assumed that sportswriters are a) important enough to lie to and b) naïve enough to base "best player" awards on feel-good stories. Actually, that second assumption will not make an ass out of you, only me. The Te'o Truthers have taken their HE TOLD ESPN "X" WHEN HE ALREADY KNEW "Y" conspiracy musings into dark corners of the Internet. They will resurface on the message boards of whatever team drafts Te'o, but they are a webmaster's problem, not a front office problem.
Have we figured out how little teams care about this? Sure, Te'o's story merited a full investigation by every snoop on an NFL payroll who wasn't interviewing the convenience store clerks who sold EZ Widers within a mile of the LSU dormitories. The professionals who run background checks for NFL teams are used to determining if a kid is addicted to powdered rhinoceros horn or if the incident where he smashed a grapefruit into a coed's face was a sign of a deeper-seeded problem. Cyber-romance with a dude pretending to be a long-distance girlfriend, or something like that? Shrug.
Perhaps the Te'o weariness that set in soon after the combine was a recognition, for the first time since the invention of the Internet, that we are not supposed to know every single detail of everything that happened to everyone, ever.
The whole Te'o saga reminded me of my early teaching days, when I might intercept notes passed in class or find a private missive carelessly left on the floor. Savvy teachers will tell you that you never read the note, because it contains nothing you want to know. At best, it is calling you a poopy-head. More likely, it is providing information which will ruin your day by filling your mind with private, often yucky information: what exactly went on at Jordan's Saturday night party while her folks were in Cabo; the precise reasons Cameron broke up with Ashleigh, which involve her cousin and three verbs unfamiliar to you, but if they mean what you think they mean you will never be able to look Cameron or Ashleigh in the eyes again. The note must be immediately torn to shreds and thrown deep into the wastebasket, in front of the class, making it obvious to everyone that you are unaware of its contents. The intimate details of the adolescent personal life are never, ever fit for public consumption. And adolescence lasts through college.
Kids stopped passing notes and started texting, sexting and doing whatever the hell Tuiasosopo liked to do around 2004. That's when we started worrying about cyberbullying and about private correspondence getting leaked, not to 22 kids in algebra class, but to a few million YouTube viewers. The behavior of young people has not changed that much, but their ability to embarrass themselves with it has gone global. We're still learning when to intervene, and how: The dangerous and humiliating must be stopped, the awkward and goofy is best politely ignored. When in doubt, we should strive to react with more maturity than the individuals involved in the red-cup pictures/drunken tweets/fake girlfriend scandal. I think the media flunked that test with Te'o, and that anyone who condemns the kid on the grounds of naiveté needs to take a long look at their Facebook feed from the last 10 days.
The Wince of Tides
If you missed the BCS championship game, have forgotten it or stopped paying attention when things got out of hand early in the second quarter, you do not have to re-watch the whole game to experience the director's cut of "Te'o: The Humbling." The great open-sorcerers of the Internet uploaded a cut-up of every Te'o play onto YouTube. There is even a helpful box around Te'o before each snap, though the box looks like it is trying to slink away from him after a few minutes.
The BCS championship Te'o blooper reel is the stuff doubts are made of. Chance Warmack does things to him that a polar bear does to a harp seal. But it isn't just Warmack, a likely top-20 pick on Thursday. Watch the tape and you will see Anthony Steen steenroll Te'o a few times. Steen will be an NFL prospect next year, but he is not Warmack. Fullback Kelly Johnson bounces Te'o out of a hole on an "Iso" run up the middle. Johnson's a fine blocker, but he's the kind of role player a Heisman candidate/early round pick should win battles against.
As a general rule in the Alabama video, Te'o is blocked. When he is not blocked, he dives at Eddie Lacy's feet or lets Lacy tear through an arm tackle, or gets juked by T.J. Yeldon for variety. Every once in a while, Te'o picks the wrong hole, gets tied up in the "trash" at the line of scrimmage, or gets caught in the no-man's land between plunging into a goal-line pile and covering the tight end, accomplishing neither. It is ugly stuff.
But he was facing an NFL-caliber offensive line in that game. Yes. That's kind of what we expect him to do in 20 weeks or so, right?
He was distracted by the scandal. Possibly, though Chance Warmack's knuckles digging into his sternum probably made it easier to block out his other worries for a while. Also, NFL players tend to be beset by distractions. Everyone on that field was affected by the championship hype, the seven weeks or so since they last played, and so on.
The biggest problem with the BCS game for Te'o, once you compartmentalize the scandal, is that Te'o squandered an opportunity to demonstrate that he can be an in-the-box run masher in the NFL. Teams knew before December that Te'o was not Ray Lewis or Brian Urlacher, the middle linebacker who can have an impact on both first-and-10 and third-and-15. They were looking for a gap stuffer who might leave the field (or play defensive end) on passing downs but can keep the 49ers or Texans from running downhill for four quarters. Te'o might be that player, but he sure did not look like it against the kind of run-oriented team he will be expected to do well against.
Searching for silver lining in that BCS game replay, you may come across a run by Yeldon with 3:19 to play in the third quarter and Alabama leading 35-7. (It is at about 6:25 on that YouTube clip).) Te'o repeatedly nudges teammate Dan Fox to slide to his left; the Tide appear to be about to run to their right (Fox's left), the Irish line has shifted to match their formation and Fox is in the wrong gap. Fox doesn't adjust, Yeldon runs right into the gap Te'o was pointing to, the D-line gets Flukered, Fox gets blocked and Yeldon runs for (let's estimate) another eight trillion yards before Te'o pushes him out of bounds.
That play reminds us that Jan. 7 was a long night for everyone wearing a gold helmet, not just Manti Te'o. It also shows Te'o, the alert captain, recognizing an opponent's tendency and trying to line up his teammates, even though everyone on the left side of the Irish defense appears to be suffering Post Fluker Stress Disorder at that point in the game. Middle linebackers are expected to call signals and make adjustments. Te'o earned high grades in these areas during most of his college career, and it was encouraging to see him flash those skills, even though everything else around him was falling apart at that particular moment in history.
How can he be this "intelligent leader" and still be involved in such a ridiculous scandal? If you saw how your tax accountant acts at a Jimmy Buffet show, you would buy a dozen backup copies of Turbo Tax. Street smarts, book smarts, field smarts, relationship smarts and smart-smarts are not always directly related.
Kevin Minter and the Roll of the Tide
A game as bad as the BCS championship can take on a life of its own. If you never focused on the middle linebacker for a whole football game before, then watched Te'o against Alabama, you might conclude that you were watching not just a bad game, but an unfolding catastrophe.
For the sake of comparison, and to cover a little extra pre-draft ground, let's examine Kevin Minter's performance against the same Alabama offense last year. Here's a cut-up by the same fine folks who assembled the Te'o video.
Minter and Te'o were considered the two best middle linebacker prospects in the nation when the college regular season ended. Now, most scouts and draftniks rank Minter ahead of Te'o, including me. Against Alabama, you can see Minter coping with some of the same problems Te'o faced. There's a lot of WARMACK SMASH PUNY TIGERS plays, plus some runs where Lacy proved too strong or Yeldon too quick for Minter to tackle when he could not get a square lick on them. But there are also flashes of very solid play which are easy to spot on the cut-up:
At 19 seconds, Minter demonstrates good short zone coverage technique and quickness when breaking up a pass to the tight end.
At 43 seconds, Minter fights through a block by Barrett Jones to pursue Lacy and make a tackle. This is not an elite play by any means, but an example of the ordinary "linebacker stuff" Te'o could not handle against Alabama.
At 4:28, Minter sifts through two blocks to make an ankle tackle on Yeldon.
At 4:50, Minter sniffs out a screen to Lacy and would be in good position to stuff the play, but Warmack commits a blatant open-field hold.
At 6:09, Minter adjusts quickly after play-action and goes from run defender to pass rusher, chasing A.J. McCarron and forcing a wild throw.
Just after the McCarron hurry, watch Minter on two straight plays use spin moves to escape Steen, then Warmack. He doesn't make a tackle on either play, but it's an example of how a linebacker can "stay alive" despite getting blocked on the second level by a top-notch guard.
There is also a near interception of a deflected pass and some routine clean-up tackles. Most defensive players are blocked or out of the action on most plays; watching game tape of defensive prospects involves lots and lots of scrutiny of how they engage blockers, "shed" them, how they react to counters-screens-draws-play action and other efforts that do not result in a tackle. The "flash plays" Minter makes against Alabama are what you look for when evaluating a top defensive prospect against championship-caliber competition: Mixed in with all of the nuts and bolts must be some plays where athleticism, alertness, strength or tenacity stand out. Minter is not exceptionally strong, but he had athletic and alert covered against the greatest non-NFL football team on earth. Te'o did not show much of anything.
But Alabama is only one opponent. Te'o faced other offenses and usually looked good. Often he looked great. Before we bury him, we need to remind ourselves why he came to be a subject of discussion in the first place.
When Mighty Te'o Roamed the Nation
Here's one more cut-up to look through: Te'o against Michigan State in September. The Spartans represent decent competition level: they were ranked at this point in the season, and they featured a top running back prospect in Le'Veon Bell. Te'o's looks like a completely different football player in this game than the guy who flailed around against the Tide. A breakdown of the tape highlights:
At 15 seconds, Te'o breaks up a pass: He arrives a second too soon, but there is no penalty because the pass is deflected. Almost immediately, we see a more instinctive player than the guy we saw against Alabama.
At 53 seconds, Te'o fights off a block from Michigan State center Travis Jackson and gets involved in a tackle on Le'Veon Bell. At 1:23, Te'o runs through Jackson's block and tackles Bell. An aggressive play.
At 1:33, Te'o adjusts quickly to a play-action rollout and makes a very solid open field wrap tackle before the first down marker.
At 2:04, Te'o stacks up Jackson near the line of scrimmage and wraps Bell. On the next play, he fends off a block by 285-pound tight end Dion Sims (a late-round NFL prospect) and makes another tackle.
At 2:54, Te'o shoots a gap and stuffs Bell in the backfield. An excellent play. Note on the replay how Te'o strafes between blockers and "breaks down," with his legs and arms spread, before making the tackle on a very tough running back. It's an up-close example of sound tackling fundamentals.
At 3:20, good hustle on a clean-up tackle after a teammate's mistake in the open field. Te'o gets completely juked by receiver Donnie Fowler on the next play; again, this is not a highlight reel, but an example of what a middle linebacker having a very good game looks like.
At 4:20, Te'o shows good zone coverage awareness. He lines up "in space" on the same side of the field as three receivers, lets them run through his zone, recognizes that Sims is running a drag route in his direction, reacts as the ball is thrown, and stops Sims for a minimal gain.
At 4:50, another pass breakup.
The game ends with a weird fumble recovery by Te'o: A Spartans player tosses the ball away while running out of bounds and it lands in Te'o's belly somehow. On the stat sheet, a fumble recovery looks significant, but it's the least interesting thing Te'o does against Michigan State.
Michigan State Te'o is the Te'o teams want: the fundamentally sound tackler, the smart short-zone defender, the guy who takes on blockers and sometimes bursts through the line for a big play. Watch more Te'o cut-ups -- there are tons of them -- and you see Michigan State Te'o far more often than Alabama Te'o. But, in all fairness, Alabama Te'o shows up in some non-Alabama circumstances, and neither Ray Lewis nor Brian Urlacher suddenly appears anywhere.
Want to work in an NFL front office? Get ready to watch dozens of cut-ups like those, except: a) they will be all-22 footage supplied by the colleges, so the players will be blurry blobs, and b) it won't be of a famous guy like Manti Te'o but of someone like Jordan Campbell from New Mexico Highlands. Fun stuff, and it all comes down to subjective interpretation. Counting the number of blocks Te'o sheds per game misses the point when some are Warmack blocks, some are Jackson blocks and some are Random Midshipman blocks. Scouts watch carefully, get their impressions, and recognize that the next scout got different impressions. The cut-ups can help you make yours. Here are mine.
First, Te'o looks like an inside linebacker in a 3-4 defense to me. The 3-4 inside linebacker does not have to worry about covering a lot of ground. His primary responsibilities are handling the inside run gaps, covering short zones in the middle of the field, covering running backs on pass routes now and then, and contributing to blitz packages. Te'o can handle those chores well enough; to rate as an outstanding prospect in this role, he needed to show a more consistent ability to take on top-caliber centers and guards.
Second, Te'o is a low-risk, low-ceiling prospect. The catfish controversy made Te'o look like some kind of boom-or-bust character. That is not the case at all. At worst, he will be a thick inside linebacker who can make adjustments and get the job done between the tackles. At best, however, he's a system guy who racks up 100 tackles in a season but grabs a Gatorade on third-and-long. Te'o lacks the pure speed and quickness to be a factor on passing downs, and he lacks the explosive power to be a superstar run defender, if such a thing as a superstar run defender still exists.
Third, the Vikings' interest in Te'o appears to be real. They have two first-round picks, and grabbing Te'o as the second first-rounder makes sense. Think about it: By the 25th selection, all of the "sure things" are gone, and introducing him as the other first-round pick will take away some of the harsher elements of the spotlight. Leslie Frazier's 4-3 defense is relatively old fashioned, so there is still a role for a run thumper in the middle or on the strong side. The Vikings used a 270-pound moose named Jasper Brinkley as their middle linebacker last year. Brinkley is a decent player; Te'o has the potential to be better.
Finally, we will all forget all of this by January. Te'o will settle in to a role as a rookie. The local beat writers will chart his progress, but the rest of us will move on to bigger stories. He will emerge as a starter, play for a few years, and become just another linebacker. How many linebackers do you think about on a daily basis?
Seven years from now, he will make a tackle in some playoff game, and you will get mixed up when you try to remember what made him so famous. Was he the guy that failed all the marijuana tests? No? Was it a Twitter war with Richard Sherman? No? "Dancing with the Stars"? Hmmm … oh yeah, he had an imaginary girlfriend. It was a practical joke, or a scam, or some bit of privacy made public, or something. What exactly was all that? Why did we think it was our business? And why the hell did we care?


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Pizza Girl: June Bug Season Is Here
Every week, Pizza Girl (Diary of a Pizza Girl) stops by with insights and a behind-the-scenes look into the world of pizza-delivery drivers. Take it away, PG! —The Mgmt.
Spring is in full swing here in Texas; the trees have all exploded with bloom and new leaves, the medians are filled with bluebonnets and other wildflowers, and pollen coats my car as the oak trees make their annual mad dash to create baby oak trees. It is the perfect time to be out and about, taking deliveries and observing the world. It's too warm for a jacket but just cool enough that I'm not sweating.
There is only one thing that I dislike about spring: June bugs.
I am afraid of bugs, which I know isn't advantageous in my line of work, as the porch lights used to mark houses are the very things that draw moths, various flying insects, and June bugs. They're the worst.
I don't know if every part of the country has these particular insects, but they're basically a medium sized ball of beetle that's extremely clumsy and makes a loud Thwap! whenever it runs into anything. Not only do they make that noise, but they tend to stick to clothes, hats, and delivery bags if they do run into them.
Here's my strategy for dealing with the fear:
- Breathe
- Try to stand as far away from the light as possible
- Use my hat like blinders, pretend that they aren't there
- Try not to shake so much that I drop pizzas/pen/receipts, etc
- If one lands on me, freak out on the inside until the customer shuts the door, then freak out on the outside. Try not to let all that to involve screaming
- Wait till I get back to the car to cry (yes, I cry, I'm sure there's some sort of chemical reason that coming down from the adrenaline and panic causes me to cry)
Any advice for surviving June bug season?
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Conn. looks to constitution for tougher lockbox on transit money
At hearing, Lavielle speaks in favor of 'lockbox' amendment
HARTFORD -- Given the $3.6 billion it would take to bring the Metro-North New Haven Line into a state of good repair, Connecticut must change its constitution to prevent transportation funds from being used for other things, state Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, said Wednesday.
"It's not fair to the people who use mass transit, who are asked to pay higher fares and they do not get better service, and in fact get worse service," Lavielle said at a public hearing in Hartford where the Legislature's Transportation Committee pledged to make a bi-partisan push for a constitutional lockbox amendment.
In recent decades the Legislature has diverted hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's Special Transportation Fund to other things, prompting lawmakers to pass a new law in June which puts the fund into a "lockbox" that can't be used for anything but transportation projects. The restriction does not kick in until 2015, however, and another $118 million of transportation money has been budgeted for other uses before then. Twenty-one other states around the country have so-called constitutional lockboxes to protect transportation funds, including New Hampshire, Minnesota and Colorado.
State Rep. Jonathan Steinberg, D-Westport, noted during Lavielle's testimony that it would be hypocritical of legislators who have harshly criticized Metro-North Railroad this year after an ongoing string of disasters including two derailments and service disruptions if they could not act to illustrate a constitutional commitment to safeguard the money.
"If we're going to be hard on the president of Metro-North for their lack of commitment and their culture, how can we not appear hypocritical if we don't change our culture," Steinberg said. --¦I understand we don't do constitutional changes lightly, but we raid the fund fairly lightly."
It was another accident, the Mianus River Bridge collapse, that brought the Special Transportation Fund into existence. The catastrophic failure of the bridge killed three people, closed a section if the interstate for weeks, and brought to light the fact that hundreds of bridges around the state had fallen into disrepair.
"We'll never be able to fix the roads and bridges to the capacity we think they should be. It's just too much money," State Rep. Tony Guerrera, D-Rocky Hill said. "There needs to be a lockbox in place so whether it is us or someone in the future, we prevent the funds from being taken."
A dissenting voice came from State Sen. Carlo Leone, D-Stamford, who was concerned that such a constitutional amendment might lead to others, and that these would undermine the power of the legislature to make decisions according to changing circumstances and priorities.
"I'm all in favor of protecting that funding, but I'm not so much for going to the extent of a constitutional amendment," Leone said. "In a lot of states they decide to put lots of issues to referendum, and ultimately it begins to make it tough to govern."
Another came from Adam Joseph, communications director for the Senate Democrats, who said a constitutional bar would cripple their ability to make spending decisions.
"Constitutional amendments are usually reserved for fundamental rights," Joseph said.
The fact that the existing statutory lockbox passed by a wide margin showed lawmakers' commitment to curbing raids on the funds.
"We're going into the sixth year since the global economic downturn which made it very difficult for states around the country to create balanced budgets," Joseph said. "As we have turned the corner and the economy has begun to show signs of picking up we were very mindful to create the lockbox as a statute."
However, State Rep. David Scribner, R-Danbury, a ranking member of the committee who sponsored the successful lockbox legislation in June 2013, told Lavielle that he expected the amendment to garner similar near-universal support as the legislative effort.
"We are reaching out to the voters and asking them to put their thumb print on it, so it will be harder to ignore," Scribner said. "Opportunities like today help elevate awareness of the public and educate them about the severe situation we are in."
Neither the statutory lockbox nor a constitutional amendment would protect the fund from the indirect transportation costs it covers. Compounding the impact of raids on the available pool of tax revenue once envisioned to be used purely for capital projects has been the use of the Special Transportation Fund to pay salaries and pensions for not only the Department of Transportation, but also the Department of Motor Vehicles, and at one time, the state police.
Representatives of highway users told the Transportation Committee members that it's only fair that the Special Transportation fund be used for transportation projects, given that it is funded in large part by taxes on gasoline and diesel. Even when the price of fuel rose dramatically and the money coming into the fund went up suddenly, funds were still diverted out of it.
"When the price of gasoline and diesel fuel went through the roof around the turn of the century, the gross receipts tax began to spin off enormous increases in unanticipated revenue," said Mike Riley, the president of the Connecticut Motor Transport Association, which represents truckers in the state. "The state, true to its nature used these taxes for everything but transportation purposes."
American Automobile Association of New England spokesperson Fran Mayko said surveys of its members showed that 79 percent of people think gas tax receipts should only be used for transportation projects.
"Our thought is, it is a violation of the public trust," Mayko said. "I understand it is difficult for administrations to balance budgets, but do we have to wait for bridges to collapse or trains to derail to fund projects?"


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Assessing the influence of Environmental and CEO Characteristics for Adoption of Information Technology in Organizations
Keywords: it innovation adoption, meta-analysis, moderating effect.
information system literature has identified several factors that impact the adoption and implementation of it. this study presents a meta-analysis of the findings of past literature on it adoption to verify the significance of competitive pressure, government support, external pressure, ceo attitude, manager's tenure, ceo innovativeness and ceo it knowledge in the adoption of it in organizations. the study found that except for manager's tenure, all attributes had considerable influence on the adoption of it. amongst the factors considered, external pressure or the demands from the trading partners and potential customers were found to be most influential in the adoption process. the study also examined the effect of two moderating conditions for the relationship between the attributes and it adoption.


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DE PERE, Wis. - St. Norbert College football fans might need to start keeping some nitroglycerin tablets handy every Saturday.
One week after topping Ripon College with a touchdown with 12 seconds remaining, the Green Knights needed overtime to top Carroll University 28-21 in overtime in a Midwest Conference game at Kolstad Field at Schneider Stadium.
The Green Knights (3-1, 3-0 MWC) scored on the first play of overtime when James Tringali hit Joe Green for a 25-yard touchdown pass. The Pioneers (3-1, 2-1 MWC) had a second-and-8 at the St. Norbert 12 on their series when a bad handoff resulted in a fumble recovered by St. Norbert's Peter Latham to end the game.
St. Norbert set a school record with its 16th-straight win in the Carroll series, surpassing the 15 straight wins against Lake Forest College from 1987 to 2001.
St. Norbert took a 21-14 lead into the fourth quarter and had a chance to seal the game on Randy Hill's 42-yard field goal attempts, but the try hit the crossbar with 8:26 left to keep it a one-possession game.
Carroll's Justin Butterfield was intercepted by Anthony Parker on the next series, but St. Norbert was forced to punt. The Pioneers' Andrew Fix then returned the punt 48 yards to the St. Norbert 43, and Carroll cashed in on a 16-yard touchdown run with 2:08 remaining.
St. Norbert got off to a good start when the Green Knights started their first possession of overtime at the Carroll 4 following a 48-yard punt return by Green. Austin Williams scored from one yard out for a 7-7 lead.
The Pioneers answered with a six-play drive, all rushing, finished by a 4-yard run by Williams with 9:24 left in the first quarter.
The Green Knights responded again, scoring on a 15-yard touchdown pass from Tringali to Bryon Betts to finish an 11-play drive that saw the Green Knights convert a fourth-and-4 at the Carroll 26.
Carroll scored with 2:54 left before halftime to make it 14-14 when Wililams scored on a 3-yard run to finish a 32-yard drive set up by a St. Norbert fumble in its own end. Neither team would score again until Tringali hit Michael Heim on a 4-yard touchdown with 5 seconds left in the third quarter.
St. Norbert outgained Carroll 304-285 and had the ball for 31:27. Tringali completed 20 of 37 passes for 226 yards and three touchdowns, but was sacked four times for 31 yards in losses. Green caught eight passes for 104 yards and one touchdown.
Williams led Carroll with 23 carries for 101 yards and three touchdowns. Butterfield completed 13 of 27 passes for 110 yards and two interceptions.
St. Norbert 28, Carroll 21 (OT)
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DE PERE, Wis. - St. Norbert College football fans might need to start keeping some nitroglycerin tablets handy every Saturday.


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Kingsman is exhilarating!
What does a spy movie need? Eye-popping gore, ridiculous concepts, shreds of humour and some ballsy action sequences. Add a suit to it, and you have got yourself some classic JB stuff. But it ain't James Bond. Kinda more like Jack Bauer! 😉
Matthew Vaughn hardly disappoints. He is a man of KickAss taste (see what I did there?) He literally survives on theatrics. Take any of Vaughn's work and you know he has this unique way of film-making that sways around with the actors, occasionally jumps at them for emphasis, and stays till the animation hangs around. Also, if Vaughn gets serious behind the camera, you just know how his work becomes grim all of a sudden. First Class reference intended! Fortunately we see everything in this movie.
You have a concept, even though how clichéd it might sound, that breathes on Vaughn's pizzazz, which is seriously taken up with Firth's splendor and well supported by Taron Egerton's audacity. To fill in the voids you have Mark Strong to the rescue, whose facial expressions are enough to tell shit's getting serious. Samuel steps up to fill in the boots of villainy with a lisp. He isn't dangerous exactly but yes he wears a brainiac-head with an idea so hideous that takes care of the world's population per se.
There are some ridiculous and uncanny bits in the movie but they are all passable because of this explosive entertainment package that we are shot in the head with. Also, primarily because it is a comic adaptation so I would suggest just go with it. Sit back and enjoy the theatrics. Get on a joy ride that would take you to the rails of awesomeness with bursting heads, popping eyes, plucked hands, flying prosthetics, split bodies and a cute little pug. Whoa! Quite a descent!
The finest part of the flick: Watch out for that church massacre! Amen to that! 😉


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NDAA seeks to disarm hackers
Lawmakers are poised to greenlight a defense bill that would add millions of dollars to federal cybersecurity programs while requiring contractors to inform the government in the event of a cyberattack.
The conference report on the House and Senate floors Thursday preserves notable increases to Pentagon programs meant to stave off foreign hackers and research new ways to defeat them. But the reconciled 2013 bill also includes new cybersecurity reporting and procurement rules that many in the tech industry are just now reviewing.
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The House and Senate are barreling before Christmas toward passage of the National Defense Authorization Act after lawmakers from both chambers huddled for weeks to reconcile significant differences between their bills.
Many of the disputes have focused on thorny political matters like indefinite detention and not technology policy.
Still, the NDAA had been critical for the tech sector because of the increased role the Pentagon is playing in cyberspace. The 2012 bill reflects that reality as lawmakers preserved funding for the Department of Defense's Cyber Command, for example, while putting aside millions of dollars in new funds for key research and development programs. It's difficult to measure the total Pentagon cyberspending because those dollars are folded into other accounts and IT purchases — and much of it is classified.
Yet the funding only complements a torrent of new programs meant to safeguard Pentagon computers, address potential software vulnerabilities and shield classified federal information from digital spies. Many of the expected congressional mandates, however, aren't necessarily ideas tech companies wholeheartedly support — though defense leaders certainly scaled back their original plans to address industry concerns.
The most controversial of the new initiatives would require defense contractors to report to the government if their systems or networks are subject to cyberintrusions.
The idea owes its origins to the final days of the Senate's debate, when Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) unveiled a robust and broad cyber-reporting amendment that passed with other tweaks. It was a marked contrast to the defense bill that cleared the House, which didn't even touch the issue.
Nevertheless, tech companies quickly expressed deep dissatisfaction with Levin's play. Associations like the Business Software Alliance and TechAmerica soon wrote lawmakers to oppose the proposed Senate mandate. Those groups felt it would prove too costly and cumbersome to the industry.
Many tech associations also favored the existing system — a voluntary reporting program known as the Defense Industrial Base pilot — and feared the Senate's NDAA would steamroll other cybersecurity work already under way at the Pentagon.


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Last night at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan, there was a significant and beautiful Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form. The occasion was to celebrate the Solemnity of the Annunciation. It was significant because of the message it conveyed, and it was beautiful because… well, every Mass is beautiful in its own way, but this one was extra special.
The Mass was celebrated in what is known as "the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite", which is to say according to the Missal used by the entire Church prior to the Second Vatican Council. Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict, has promoted the renewed and wider use of this form of the Mass in his letter Summorum Pontificum.
The principal celebrant was Fr. James Miara, assisted by a number of other priests, as well as a full complement of servers. The devotion and solemn dignity with which the Mass was celebrated was a powerful focus of prayer for all those present. There was a spectacularly beautiful choir and schola who offered the majesty of Gregorian chant and other ancient music, to help us raise our hearts and minds to the worship of our Lord. (If you're interested in seeing pictures of the Mass, check here.)
In many ways the high point of the Mass was that it was presided over by Edward Cardinal Egan, who also preached. In his homily, His Eminence communicated a powerful message, stressing the Christian virtue of humble obedience to the will of God. He explained this in terms of the feast day itself, in the humility of Mary's "yes" to God. He also noted that it was the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul's great encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the Gospel of Life, which calls us to obey the truths of nature and reason in support of "the incomparable worth of the human person", made in the image of God Himself. And he emphasized our duty of humble obedience to the Church in accepting the celebration of the traditional Mass.
To me, the Cardinal's presence at a pro-life Mass in the Extraordinary Form was significant in two other ways. It served as a reminder to us all that the Church's teaching on the dignity of human life is held and professed from the most humble levels of the Church to the highest. This is not a teaching only for popes or bishops, or for activists. To be Catholic is, by definition, to be pro-life. Having a "prince of the Church" at the Mass, together with all of us ordinary Catholics, spoke that truth very clearly.
Also, it was reminder that this Extraordinary Form is an ancient liturgy of the Church, that traces its lineage back to St. Pius V in the sixteenth century, to St. Gregory the Great in the sixth century, and beyond him even to the apostolic age. To have a successor of the apostles, an elector of a pope, preside at such an ancient expression of the rite of our faith, emphasized that the Church's defense of human life extends back to the earliest days, to the apostles and to Our Lord Himself.
The Mass was sponsored by my Knights of Columbus council, Agnus Dei Council (#12361), the special mission of which is to promote devotion to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and to the traditional forms of worship, particularly the traditional Latin Mass. This particular Mass is intended to be an annual event, an expression of a project of the Knights of Columbus to promote the Solemnity of the Annunciation as a day of prayer for the unborn.
We wished particularly to offer the Mass as a commemoration of the Incarnation of Jesus, and thus to recall the time when Our Lord resided in humility and secret in the womb of his mother, Mary. We hope that all Catholics will come to see this Solemnity as a profound pro-life feast day.
By adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and by receiving Him, body, blood, soul and divinity at Mass, we Knights, and we Catholics, join with all the saints in glory and in history, to proclaim, as we do in the Creed, "et incarnatus est" — the Word of God has become man!
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My question pertains to exercise II-16 in Eisenbud and Harris' "The geometry of Schemes". For an algebraically closed field $K$ the question is as follows:
Consider zero-dimensional subschemes $\Gamma \subset \mathbb{A}_K^4$ of degree 21 such that $$V(m^3)\subset\Gamma \subset V(m^4)$$ where $m$ is the maximal ideal of the origin in $\mathbb{A}_K^4$. Show that there is an 84-dimensional family of such subschemes, and conclude that in general one is not a limit of a reduced scheme.
What does it mean for a family of subschemes to have dimension 84? I can only think it means up to isomorphism there are 84 such subschemes, but this doesn't seem to work.


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I have spent my "wine holidays" mostly in Friuli not only because I believe that it is a particularly well suited area for the vine in Italy, but also because I strongly believe in the great human and professional qualities of the people of that region which is duly reflected in a good number of peculiar wine producers who are among the most inspired, rigourous and "pure" that the wine world can offer.
It is difficult to transcribe how I felt the "purity" of these artisan winemakers. Some of the words that I heard most often these days have been "natural" and "simple". These were the most common words these men and women used to describe the wine process they applied from the vineyard through the vinification process to the bottle.
"Natural" meant first of all a process where the nature and its bio-diversity are respected and where the man tries simply (easier to say than to implement...) to let the nature doing its course.
Pronounced by winemakers like (following the strict chronological order of my visits) Nicola Manferrari (Borgo del Tiglio), Enzo Pontoni (Pontoni), Michele Moschioni, Serena Palazzolo (Ronco del Gnemiz) and, not from Friuli but Tuscany, Gianfranco Soldera from Case Basse, these words have a real meaning and their wines are the proof (in many different ways, like the detailed reports of the visits will show) that all these winemakers have been pursuing a personal objective of quality without compromising to the commercial taste.
I come back from these visits with more humility, knowledge and curiosity and especially with a strong commitment to support these winemarkers and build upon the ideas, comments, suggestions that I heard all along these days to continue my research in a wine world that need people like them.


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Working with Spring-Loaded Folders in Mac OS X Lion
A spring-loaded folder pops open in Mac OS X Lion when you drag something onto it without releasing the mouse button. Spring-loaded folders work with all folder or disk icons in all views and in the Sidebar. Here's how the Mac OS X Lion spring-loaded folders work:
Select any icon except a disk icon.
The folder highlights to indicate that it's selected.
Drag the selected icon onto any folder or disk icon, but don't release the mouse button.
In a second or two, the highlighted folder or disk flashes twice and then springs open, right under the cursor.
You can press the spacebar to make the folder open immediately.
After the folder springs open, perform any of these handy operations:
Continue to traverse your folder structure this way. Subfolders continue to pop open until you release the mouse button.
If you release the mouse button, the icon you've been dragging is dropped into the active folder at the time. That window remains open, but all the windows you traversed clean up after themselves by closing automatically, leaving your window clean and uncluttered.
If you want to cancel a spring-loaded folder, drag the cursor away from the folder icon or outside the boundaries of the sprung window. The folder pops shut.
After you get used to spring-loaded folders, you'll wonder how you ever got along without them. They work in all four window views, and they work with icons in the Sidebar or Dock.
You can toggle spring-loaded folders on or off in the Finder's Preferences window. There's also a setting for how long the Finder waits before it springs the folders open.


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Valerio Carrubba is a hyperrealist painter. His images are anatomically accurate, showing his peaceful patients with their internal organs exposed. Shocking, realistic and at the same time extremely surreal, Valerio's paintings are technically beautiful and provocative. Jessica Allan spoke to him about his work.
Your paintings have caused quite a stir in the art world. Were you hoping to achieve this reaction by showing the internal as well as the external, or is there deeper meaning behind your shocking images?
My approach to painting is totally conceptual. My work is to continually develop the realisation of processes from which pictures are derived. Putting the idea of form, subject and content in crisis, they arrive at the loss of the image and its meaning.
In 2003 I started to work on these pictures in which a second pictorial layer recovers and faithfully reproduces the one underneath. The rigorous doubling of each brushstroke takes away any value of the gesture (of the hand and of the brush), as if the painting is in self-denial. The anatomic image is a metaphorical reference to the theoretical structure of the work and ideal instrument of its praxis. The painted subject needs to contain a large number of brushstrokes to repaint afterwards, and these images are perfect for that purpose: they have a melodramatic nature absolutely suitable for the general mood of this work. I am not interested in anatomy itself, it is just a means. I try to emphasise this ambiguity.
What materials do you use and do you have a favourite painting tool or technique that you thinks gets the best result?
I simply use high quality oil paint and a range of synthetic brushes - from the n.10/0 (maybe the thinnest brushes in the world!) to n.20. My paintings are on stainless steel that I prepare by spraying on the surface two layers of a transparent primer for metals and two layers of white acrylic pigment. The borders (5,5 cm in height) have no treatments because I love the contrast between the hyper-detailed picture and the raw aspect of the steel.
I have noticed that your paintings have unusual names. Is there a reason for this or were they named spontaneously?
The titles are palindromes (words, phrases, or sentences that reads the same backward or forward). This aspect is in correlation with the language and the execution mechanics of the paintings. It is also a useful clue to its deciphering-misinterpretation.
What is the significance of the kitchen knife that keeps on appearing in your pictures?
Most of the painting subjects are taken from picture plates on ancient and modern anatomy or surgery atlases. I rearrange them, adding more hands, more knives, more wounds and a background. Because I do not want to illustrate actual medical practice, I usually copy the instruments as they appear on the original plates. I too was surprised on seeing that kitchen knife, but maybe that was the shape of the bistouries (long, narrow surgical knives) in the XVIII century. Anyway, it makes the painting more disturbing, and I think it's a good quality.
What direction do you hope to go in next? Will you be producing more of the same or have you something else in mind?
I have many new ideas in mind. I'm working on a new series of pencil drawings made only of words. I am also designing some posters for a project dedicated to the movies of Guy Debord, but at the same time I'm still working on new paintings - some anatomical and some on "hairdos". The new anatomical ones are inspired by the iconography of Saint Bartholomew and show a figure who melodramatically peels away his own abdominal skin.
See more of Valerio here.
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UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has recruited a renowned climate researcher to be the first holder of the Roger Revelle Chair, a post named after one of the scientists who pioneered the study of global warming.
Shang-Ping Xie has decided to leave the University of Hawaii, where he has served as co-leader of the International Pacific Research Center & Department of Meteorology. He also is the editor of Journal of Climate. He specializes in studying how the atmosphere and ocean interact, and the nature of El Nino.
Xie said in a statement , "I hope to develop new science filling the gap between global-mean temperature rise and regional rainfall change, say in California. Our recent work shows that atmospheric convection change is sensitive to the spatial unevenness in ocean warming
"To the extent that tropical convection drives important changes in climate around the globe, this result puts the ocean and its interaction with the atmosphere on the center stage of regional climate change research. Dynamics of regional climate change is a new line of research. Like any new developing science, there is a lot we need to figure out."
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The next race on the A1 Global calendar is the final race of the A1 NZ calendar Marokopa Munder on 23 Nov in the Marokopa/Waitomo area, which is one of the North Island's best-kept secrets.
The region is packed with adventure potential and is just under a two hours drive from New Plymouth and 90 minutes from Hamilton, which makes it an easy access location from all over the North Island.
As the final race of the season, it promises to be an epic race and an epic finish to the A1 New Zealand Series.
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Being a Healthy Caregiver
As a caregiver, you may find yourself with so many responsibilities that you neglect taking good care of yourself. But the best thing you can do for the person you are caring for is stay physically and emotionally strong. Here's how:
See the doctor
Trying to do everything by yourself will leave you exhausted. Don't do it alone. Seek support from family, friends, your faith community and the Alzheimer's Association.
Find your local chapter.
Be sure to visit your physician regularly (at least annually), and listen to what your body is telling you. Any exhaustion, stress, sleeplessness, or changes in appetite or behavior should be taken seriously. Ignoring these symptoms can cause your physical and mental health to decline.
If you are caring for someone in the late-stages of Alzheimer's, talk to your health care provider about the seasonal flu shot. Being vaccinated protects both you and the person you are caring for.
Learn more:
Caregiver DepressionStress ManagementLate-State Care: Infections
Get moving
No doubt you know that exercise is an important part of staying healthy — it can help relieve stress, prevent disease and make you feel good. But finding the time to exercise is another story.
Use these tips:
- Take friends and family members up on their offers to help.
You can get in a good workout in a short amount of time — even a 30 minute break. Use our Care Team Calendar to help coordinate a schedule where you have breaks to exercise and take care of your health.
- Start small.
While it is recommended that you get 30 minutes of physical activity at least five days a week, even 10 minutes a day can help. Fit in what you can, and work toward a goal.
Use our Care Team Calendar. Our free online calendar helps coordinate friends, family and neighbors that offer to help with caregiving. Learn more.
Exercise at home.
When the person with dementia naps, pull out a yoga mat and stretch, set up a stationary bike, or try exercise tapes.
- Find something you love.
If you enjoy the activity, it will be easier to make it a habit.
There also are many ways you can be active with the person with dementia. Here are a few ideas:
- Take a walk together outside to enjoy the fresh air
- Go to the mall and take a stroll indoors
- Do seated exercises at home
- Dance together to favorite music
- Garden or do other routine activities that you both enjoy
Eat well
Heart-healthy eating patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, are good for overall health and may help protect the brain. A Mediterranean diet includes relatively little red meat and emphasizes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, fish, nuts, olive oil and other healthy fats. Try new recipes and involve the person with dementia.
Need ideas on how to go healthy?
Try these resources:
- Nutrition: Tips for Improving Your Health (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Eat Right Nutrition Tips (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Healthy Breakfast: Quick, Flexible Options to Grab at Home (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Caregiver Stress Check
Alzheimer caregivers frequently report high levels of stress. Take our quiz and get resources to help.
- Manage your level of stress.
Consider how stress affects your body (stomach aches, high blood pressure) — and your emotions (overeating, irritability). Find ways to relax. Learn more.
- Be realistic.
The care you give does make a difference, but many behaviors can't be controlled. Grieve the losses, focus on positive times as they arise, and enjoy good memories.
- Give yourself credit, not guilt.
It's normal to lose patience or feel like your care may fall short sometimes. You're doing the best you can. For support and encouragement, join ALZConnected, our online caregiver community.
- Take a break.
It's normal to need a break from caregiving duties. No one can do it all by themselves. Look into respite care to allow time to take care of yourself.
- Accept changes.
Eventually your loved one will need more intensive kinds of care. Research care options now so you are ready for the changes as they occur.


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Contact Information
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- Mailing List: email@example.com (just an alias right now, no list yet)
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If you want the to get something done (e.g. moving packages to buildroots or into frozen compositions) by the ReleaseEngineering Team, please create a ticket in the issue tracker mentioned above. Please enter your FAS-username or e-mail address in the respective textbox, to make sure the team can contact you.
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Release Team members are approved by FESCo. However, FESCo has delegated this power to the Release Team itself. If you want to join the team, contact the releng team using the contact information above.
What is Fedora Release Engineering?
Who's in Charge
JesseKeating. Leadership is currently appointed by FESCo with input from the current release team.
Things we Do
- Set the schedule for releases including freeze dates, final release, slips, etc.
- Set blocker criteria for the release.
- Decide what packages go onto a spin.
- Create official Fedora Spins.
- Report progress towards release from Feature Freeze on.
- Give reports to FESCo on changes to processes.
- If something is known to be controversial, we let FESCo know before implementing otherwise implementation generally happens concurrently to reporting.
- Set policy on freeze management
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How we do it
See our Standard Operating Procedures for details on how we do the things we do.
Most discussions regarding release engineering will happen either in #fedora-devel or on the fedora-devel-list mailing list. For requests, please consult the contact information above.
Meetings are regularly held every Monday at 1800 UTC. Our meetings are held in #fedora-meeting on the Freenode IRC network. At times we will have meetings more often than the scheduled times, particularly if a release is coming up. Meeting notes will be posted to fedora-devel-list and the wiki below.
Meeting Minutes
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The soliloquies from Hamlet below are extracts from the full modern English Hamlet ebook, along with a modern English translation. Reading through the original Hamlet soliloquy followed by a modern version and should help you to understand what each Hamlet soliloquy is about:
O that this too too solid flesh would melt (Spoken by Hamlet, Act 1 Scene2)
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I (Spoken by Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2)
To be, or not to be (Spoken by Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1)
Oh my offence is rank, it smells to heaven (Spoken by Claudius, Act 3 Scene 3)
Now might I do it pat (Spoken by Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 3)
How all occasions do inform against me (Spoken by Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 4)
More Hamlet soliloquies coming soon!
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Bruce Robinson says:
I enjoyed this simple interpretation. I took a Shakespeare class, though I was chemistry major, I kept feeling that the scholars over analyzed Shakespeare and many other authors. After all, where our language may differ some, we're still connected by the same basic human emotions.Reply
Jarka Királyová says:
You expressed it very clearly and accurately, completely agree, thanks. 👍😊🌺Reply
Finley says:
What about "tis now the very witching time of night"? It's a small soliloquy but still a soliloquy.Reply
Hamlet Summary says:
There is nothing bigger or great than the philosophy presented by Shakespeare through Hamlet. The seven major soliloquies are so sublime and intense that one could immediately relate their life in them. I dare say that there won't be an equal to Shakespeare till the end of the world.Reply
Mery says:
Hello. You have write six soliloquies, but in fact, in Hamlet's there are seven!Reply
vicky rana says:
Yes, there are seven soliloquies in HAMLET.
7th Soliloquy:
"How all occasions do inform against me" (Act Four, Scene Four)
Hamlet talks with the captain sent by Fortinbras and utters this soliloquy. He is informer and say that Forbtinbras can go to the extent of risking his own life and the life of twenty thousand solid iers by invading Poland for the sake of his honour. This information gives jolt to Hamlet's mind. It triggers in Hamlet a reaction and he laments his own inaction. It pains him ti see that he has better cause for action, yet remain inert. Now he takes firm decision that "from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth." By comparison, With Fortinbras who is ready to risk his life for the sake of honour, his own attitude was nothing but self-degrading and inexcusable. So he becomes resolute for revenge. Yhis soliloquy reveals his philosophising nature, his guilt complex and his determenation to take revenge come what may.Reply
Unseeable says:
I need some questions answered 'cause I'm so confused. I'm trying to write stuff on the soliloquy "to be, or not to be" like the significance of it and how it fits into the play and i need some info from a website that i can trust so can you please give me some info?
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daniel says:
how do you know if any of these sayings are even soliloquies? who created them anyway?Reply
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Maquet Medical Systems announces the study results demonstrating significant cost benefits of endoscopic vessel harvesting in high-risk patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedures
Maquet Medical Systems announces today study results showing a significant cost benefit of the endoscopic vessel harvesting (EVH) technique compared to traditional open vessel harvesting (OVH). Data of the study that was conducted at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, UK were presented Tuesday, Oct 14th at the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (EACTS) in Milan, Italy.
In Europe, more than 200,000 patients require a CABG procedure each year. For many of these patients, the saphenous vein from the leg or radial artery from the arm is harvested for use to bypass a blockage in the heart. Endoscopic vessel harvesting has been shown to reduce infections, postoperative pain, recovery time and scarring compared with open vessel harvesting surgery.
In the presentation entitled "Cost-benefit of endoscopic vein harvest in patients at high-risk for wound complications," researchers compared the costs of EVH and OVH for a non-randomized propensity matched study comparing 50 consecutive EVH cases with 50 OVH historical control cases. 100 patients at high-risk for leg wound complication were enrolled in the study. All wounds were assessed during in-hospital stay, in wound clinic and regularly until wounds had healed. The study showed successful clinical results: only 4% experienced leg wound issues with EVH compared to 48% with OVH. EVH patients also saw a one day reduction in hospital stay for an average savings of £856 per patient. Overall, researchers saw a savings of £42,778 across all EVH patients in the sample; after factoring for the cost of the EVH kits.
This study confirms that apart from the well-known and documented patient benefits of faster recovery and significantly less scarring, EVH is also cost-effective in patients at high risk of developing leg wound complications. In addition, a systematic analysis of more than 250,000 patients, in several previous studies, clearly demonstrated the clinical benefits and safety of EVH compared to open techniques as well. The most important clinical benefits are: reduced risk of wound infection, reduced length of hospital stays and increased patient satisfaction; all with equal long-term outcomes compared to open harvesting techniques. This resulted in a Class IIa, Level A recommendation for EVH in the newly published ESC/EACTS Guidelines on Myocardial Revascularization of October 2014.
"It's very promising," says Dr. Heyman Luckraz, who is a member of The College Council of the Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists' of Great Britain and Ireland. "With this guidance, and the data we have collected and generated, we have shown this is a safe thing to use for the patient and it is cost effective in the longer term."
"We are passionate," commented Peter Hinchliffe, President and CEO, MAQUET Cardiac Systems "about our VASOVIEW HEMOPRO product's part in enabling the widespread use of this EVH technique to healthcare providers and, most importantly, to patients worldwide."
VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 is the 11th version of Maquet's endoscopic vessel harvesting system, utilizing an innovative cut-and-seal technology to minimize thermal spread and to achieve optimal conduit quality for CABG surgery patients. The VASOVIEW HEMOPRO 2 system may also be used for harvesting both the saphenous vein and the radial artery.
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2. Ad N et al. Endoscopic versus direct vision for saphenous vein graft harvesting in coronary artery bypass surgery. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino). 2011 Oct;52(5):739–48.
3. Dacey, LJ et al. Long-term outcomes of endoscopic vein harvesting after coronary artery bypass grafting. Circulation. 2011 Jan 18;123(2):147–53.
4. Grant SW et al. What is the impact of endoscopic vein harvesting on clinical outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft surgery? Heart. 2012 Jan;98(1):60–4.
5. Williams JB et al. Association between endoscopic vs open vein-graft harvesting and mortality, wound complications, and cardiovascular events in patients undergoing CABG surgery JAMA. 2012 Aug 1;308(5):475–84.
6. European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehu278.
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Maquet, a trusted partner for hospitals and physicians for more than 175 years, is a global leader in medical systems. The company offers innovative therapy solutions and infrastructure capabilities for high-acuity areas within the hospital — including the operating room (OR), hybrid OR/cath lab, and intensive care unit (ICU) — as well as intra- and inter-hospital patient transport. Additionally, Maquet develops intelligent and sustainable room concepts that exceed the expectations of modern hospitals, working in close cooperation with customers, production engineers and architects to integrate high quality products and services.
Headquartered in Rastatt, Germany, Maquet is the largest subsidiary of the publicly listed Getinge Group AB of Sweden. Maquet generated about 1.55 billion Euros in 2014, representing more than half of the Getinge Group's annual revenue of 2.93 billion Euros. Maquet has 6,550 employees and provides over 40 international sales and service organizations, as well as a network of more than 300 sales partners. Maquet | The Gold Standard.


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MONDAY, Aug. 6, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- "Put your listening ears on!" frustrated parents often say. But some kids aren't deliberately tuning out Mom and Dad -- they really can't hear them.
If you suspect your child has a hearing problem, get it checked out, experts advise.
Even minor hearing loss can affect a child's ability to learn and also lead to other problems.
"A child with just minor hearing loss can be missing 50 percent of the classroom discussion," said Jackie Clark, president of the American Academy of Audiology.
"There are children who have been diagnosed with a learning disability when really what they need are hearing aids," Clark said in an academy news release.
Hearing difficulties can also lead to behavioral problems, lack of focus and even depression.
Most infants have their hearing tested, but can develop hearing loss in subsequent years due to illness, genetic traits, exposure to loud noises or ear infections.
Ear infections are common, affecting five out of six children in their first three years, audiologists say.
The total number of children in the United States with some type of hearing loss is unknown and many cases go undiagnosed. Children with hearing loss often don't realize they have a problem, and parents and teachers may not know the signs, according to the academy.
Possible indications of hearing loss in children include:
"Often parents and teachers overlook the fact that a child's behavior may be a sign of hearing loss," Clark said.
"If parents suspect an issue, they should have their child evaluated by an audiologist. Audiologists have the tools and training to identify hearing loss, degrees of hearing loss, and can recommend solutions," she added.
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In a meeting with the State Journal-Register editorial board, Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, R-Lemont, and House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego, both said they believe the General Assembly will be able to approve a public works construction program that has eluded a compromise for years. At the same time, neither could explain which tax or fee increases Republican lawmakers will support to pay for the program.
Cross complained that Madigan, a Chicago Democrat, has bottled up bills without even giving them a chance for an up-or-down vote in House committees, let alone in the full chamber. Cross said that has happened to a number of Republican initiatives to control state spending and restrict the ability of lawmakers to raise taxes.
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Radogno said similar things happen in the Senate, where Democrats hold a three-fifths super majority of seats. Lawmakers never get to vote on bills to create an open primary or put a recall amendment on the ballot, she said.
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Note: When you're an Amazon princess and you want a day off, what do you wear? Ask artist Hanie Mohd, who turns the workwear of Diana Prince into a outfit fit for an afternoon stroll. – Chris A.
This is great stuff!! Really adore the details of the dress! Not very amazonian, but definitely a 140% princess! Lol! Would love to see this in one of the elseworld tales! :)
That is lovely.
Especially love her facial details. It's almost more Wondergirl than Wonder Woman.
Seriously now: Why couldn't a superheroine skirt be knee length ALine cut with pleats?
It's very attractive, avoids the exposed crotch of the superheroic micromini, and would move like a cape in action.
I love the star pattern on the skirt!
That's adorable!
OK, how many people upon seeing this pic smiled? Raise your hands? Everyone? I thought so. This is so cute and happy .
i absolutely love this
I need this dress for my girlfriend. Somebody please make it real.
I don't see WW wearing this even on her day off. Let's face it, she is more of a tomboy or even *gasp* a feminist. I picture her asking the same questions the female baseball players asked about their skirts in "A League of Their Own" … what works great here is the stars. I love how they transition from being 5 pointed to being realistic, and the de-saturated blue is a good choice. Change that skirt into leggings and you have a nice WW suit. The pseudo anime artwork great and the coloring, too.
thanks for the kind comments, everyone! I really appreciate it :) And while I do agree this isn't very Amazonian, I also think that one doesn't have to hate skirts to be a feminist! I see Wonder Woman as someone who is strong and beautiful and doesn't need to eschew or alienate her femininity. Rather, she'd embrace it whole-heartedly, and kick a few asses along the way while she's at it (in my humble opinion).
@Jay: How is wearing a dress un-feminist? Saying "I don't like this dress" or "I don't think this dress is something Wondy would wear" are fine, but let's not go into "This dress insults women" territory.
I adore this. Can't decide if I like the top of the bodice or the shoes best. Someone needs to make this. I would rock this dress.
This is so beautiful. When will DC make a Wonder Woman comic for everybody (let alone that girls can read). I just want to read a Wonder Woman comic that's fun and beautiful to look at.
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I don't even see how this can be un-amazon. It's really nice and it hits every single button on my "this is wonder woman" meter. The only thing I'd even think of adding would be gold spaghetti straps to prevent "slipping" in an emergency
Great design. However, I see Wonder Girl, more than Wonder Woman. I'd imagine that Diana would want to step away from something that looks just like the outfit she wears 24/7, though.
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Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (OK, we will just call him Dikembe Mutombo for the sake of brevity) is joining the NBA as a global ambassador.
The league announced Mutombo's hiring to the newly created position Tuesday, with commissioner David Stern calling the eight-time All-Star "one of sports' outstanding humanitarians."
He might be a nice guy, but on the court he was just flat out mean -- often standing between a would-be scorer and the basket.
Despite jokes about his age and voice, the 7-foot-2 center made an impact on various franchises including the Hawks, Nuggets, Rockets and Sixers.
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Besides being a four-time defensive player of the year, Mutombo is known for his charitable work. He opened a hospital and research center in his native Democratic Republic of Congo and is the only two-time winner of the league's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, given for "outstanding service and dedication to the community."
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The list for this year's most popular baby names is out and it looks like parents found inspiration from trendy sources that range from technology to "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Holding on to the number one spot for several years now is Sophia and Aiden, which was no surprise to Linda Murray, global editor-in-chief of BabyCenter. What she didn't expect were names from a certain libido-enhancing bestseller.
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Murray's San Francisco-based parenting website released the top names of 450,000 babies born in 2012 to moms who registered with the site.
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