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DALLAS: Cavs guard Daniel Gibson fired away at the Atlanta Hawks' Dahntay Jones this morning, calling the play in which he injured Kobe Bryant a "dirty play" and inferred that Jones is a dirty player.
"I think that was a dirty play," Gibson said. "He's been known to be a guy to do that."
Gibson has been one of the few outspoken players most of this season about the rule designed to protect shooters. Defenders aren't allowed to step into a shooter's landing space and instead are supposed to give them the opportunity to land safely.
Jones stepped under Bryant while contesting his fadeaway jumper in the final seconds Wednesday night. Bryant landed on Jones' foot and severely sprained his ankle. Bryant thought a foul should've been called and the league agreed, announcing on Thursday a foul should've been called on Jones for preventing Bryant from landing cleanly.
"If you watch the tape, after the shot was taken, he kept walking forward toward him," Gibson said Friday. "He never really turned around to see if the shot went in or anything. He kept walking toward him looking at the ground the whole time."
Gibson admitted this is a sore subject for him because his season was cut short last year when he injured his ankle on a similar play. Gibson landed on the Indiana Pacers' Paul George following a shot and tore a tendon in his foot. He needed surgery to repair the tear and said Friday his foot still isn't right.
But there's more: Jones played with George on the Pacers last season.
"When I saw (Bryant's injury), it (ticked) me off because (Jones) was on the team with Paul George last year," Gibson said. "Rumor has it, he taught (George) a few tricks."
Cavs coach Byron Scott wouldn't comment on the play because he has already said plenty about Jones.
"I'm not goig to comment on Dahntay Jones and some of his antics he does on the basketball court," Scott said Friday. "Me and him got into it a couple of years ago anyway. We'll leave it at that."
When Jones was with the Denver Nuggets in 2009 and Scott was coaching the New Orleans Hornets, he took exception with the way Jones was defending Hornets star Chris Paul in a playoff series.
"I can appreciate anybody that plays hard, but when you get to the point where you're being a little dirty, that's the thing that kind of aggravates me," Scott said four years ago. "When you get to the point where you're being a little dirty then I don't appreciate that – and I don't respect it."
Because of his injury last year, Gibson has been one of the few voices to protest the way defenders step into shooters' landing areas. It was considered a point of emphasis during the preseason and officials were supposed to keep a closer eye on it, but Gibson said he hasn't seen any changes from years past. Now that it has affected one of the game's elite stars, perhaps that will change.
"It's a very dangerous play," Gibson said. "You're vulnerable. There's nothing you can do besides land. When you start worrying about it, that's when you start missing shots and that's what the defender is trying to do – make you think about landing and where you're coming down."


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Water Backing up Though hole in basement
Best way to describe it is a 4in hole that looks like it the main drainage out of the house descovered after we ripped up the foor and found it..it was covered but i broke the cover off since seemed like the seal was broken anyways . When the water from the sink drains great but with heavy rain falls its backin up into my basement were it goes everywhere
Any Ideas or Solutions or just call Rotor Rooter
You need to get the main drain line from your house to the city sewer cleared by a plumber. It'll cost you $75 to $150.
Here's how the drainage piping in a house typically is installed:
There is a big pipe that goes from just below your basement floor to just above your roof shingles called the "vent stack". All the drains in the house empty into the lower part of that stack and all the vent pipes in the house connect to the upper part of that stack below the roof to avoid having more roof penetrations than are necessary.
Once under the basement floor, that vent stack then turns almost horizontal and follows a shallow downward slope to the city sewer under the middle of the street your house is on. Typically, solids from your kitchen sink will accumulate in this near horizontal section closer to your house than to the sewer. Let's call that gradually downward sloping section of drain pipe the "Main Drain Line" from your house.
Buried around the bottom of your basement walls will be a set of drain pipes called the "weeping tiles". These weeping tiles allow excess ground water to drain away from your foundation, thereby eliminating the pressure causing water to flow through your basement walls. The water collected in the weeping tiles will either:
A) Flow to a sump pit in your basement floor, where it's pumped out somewhere by a sump pump, or
B) Flow to a "catch basin" in your basement floor. The catch basin simply looks like a drain hole in the floor. At the bottom of that drain hole will be a p-trap. Water flowing through that p-trap will then flow through a pipe which connects to your main drain line.
Now, what happens if the line from the catch basin connects to the main drain line upstream of where the main drain line is clogged with solids from your kitchen sink?
If there's a heavy rain, then water flows through the weeping tiles to the catch basin, and from there down the drain pipe to the main drain line. And if the main drain line is clogged, the water ends up backing up the catch basin onto your basement floor.
If your main drain line was clear, it wouldn't back up onto your basement floor cuz the main drain line could carry that water away as fast as it seeped into your weeping tiles.
As the main drain line becomes more and more clogged, you'll start to see your catch basin backing up when the clothes washer spins, or when you drain the bath tub, or even when you flush a toilet.
If you ever see toilet paper floating in that hole in your basement floor, that's a sure sign that your main drain line is clogging up.
Two questions.
1-Are you on sewer or do you have a septic tank?
2- When the water backs up, is it sewage or just clean (or muddy) water?
The situation Nestor describes may be possible on an older home, but most homes built in the last 20-30 years don't have the foundation drain connected to the sanitary drainage system. Since the problem only happens when it rains, you really need to identify the pipe in question. Can you post a photo?
Hello, I just read this because I'm having a similar problem. I'm on a septic tank, there is a little crack with a five inch "pothole" about five feet from my sump. A few days ago I noticed water pooled in the hole. I soaked it up, it doesn't smell like sewer water, but has a slight ammonia smell. I'm sure it's not dog pee, though at first I wasn't sure.
I haven't pinpointed why or when the water comes up but I'm pretty sure it's not when it rains.
Could you give me an idea on how I should go about fixing it?
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Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
On-line version ISSN 1518-8345
Rev. Latino-Am. Enfermagem vol.21 no.spe Ribeirão Preto Jan./Feb. 2013
Nursing workload in the emergency department: a methodological proposal
Carga de trabajo de enfermería en sala de emergencias general: enfoque metodológico
Ana Cristina RossettiI; Raquel Rapone GaidzinskiII; Fernanda Maria Togeiro FugulinIII
IMSc, Care Manager, Hospital Moysés Deutsch M'Boi Mirim, Instituto de Responsabilidade Social, Hospital Albert Einstein, Brazil
IIPhD, Full Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
IIIPhD, Associate Professor, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to propose a methodology for identifying the nursing workload in the Emergency Department (ED).
METHODS: this is methodological research, undertaken in a public general hospital in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, in the areas: triage, shock room, emergency room, suturing room, and medication/procedures for adult and pediatric patients rooms, using different strategies and instruments. Due to the characteristics of the data collection, distinct samples were obtained in each of the areas.
RESULTS: The average daily workload, in hours, corresponded to: triage 48; shock room 30.9; emergency 170.6; observation of adult patients 293.6; observation of pediatric patients 108.7; medication/procedures in adult patients 175.5; medication/procedures in pediatric patients 60.4; and suturing 7.9.
CONCLUSION: The instruments used for data collection were shown to be appropriate and made it possible to construct a methodological proposal for identification of workload of nursing professionals in E.D. in a general public hospital.
Descriptors: Workload; Nursing Staff, Hospital; Personnel Management.
OBJETIVO: Este estudio propone una metodología para identificación de la carga de trabajo de enfermería en sala de emergencias (SE).
MÉTODOS: Se trata de un estudio metodológico, realizado en SE del hospital general público en Sao Paulo, en las áreas: salas de detección de riesgo, choque, emergencia, sutura, medicamentos/procedimientos para pacientes adultos y pediátricos y observación pacientes adultos y pediátricos, utilizando diversas estrategias e instrumentos. Como resultado de la característica de la recolecta de datos, diferentes muestras se obtuvieron en cada una de las áreas.
RESULTADOS: La carga promedia de trabajo diario en horas corresponden: detección de riesgo 48; descarga 30,9; emergencia 170,6; observación de pacientes adultos 293,6; observación de pacientes pediátricos 108,7; medicamentos/procedimientos pacientes adultos 175,5; medicamentos/procedimientos pacientes pediátricos 60,4; sutura 7,9.
CONCLUSIÓN: Los instrumentos utilizados para la recolección de datos fueron adecuados y permiten construir una metodología para la identificación de la carga de trabajo del personal de enfermería en el SE del hospital general público.
Descriptores: Carga de Trabajo; Personal de Enfermería en Hospital; Administración de Personal en Hospitales.
In recent years, the growing demand for attendance in emergency departments has contributed decisively to overloading these services, turning them into some of the most problematic areas in the health system(1).
Organized to provide immediate attendance, the Emergency Departments (ED) are often the "gateway" to the health system, receiving definite emergency patients, patients with clinical pictures seen as emergency, patients diverted from primary and specialized care, and social emergencies.
Such demands blend in the ED services, overloading them and, because of the high workload, compromising the quality of the care given to the population(1). This context is worsened, moreover, by organizational problems and by the lack of financial resources for adapting to local needs, whether these are to do with physical structure or human resources.
In this context, the health care professionals who work in these services, in addition to performing their activities in an atmosphere of unpredictability and uncertainty, which requires knowledge, speed of reasoning and promptness in carrying out the process of decision-making, frequently find themselves without sufficient staff to meet the patients' needs(2).
Thus, the characteristics of ED, allied with the insufficient numbers of nursing professionals, create an overload of work and are reported by the nurses as the principal source of stress(3-5).
In addition to compromising the workers' health and quality of life, the lack of nursing personnel directly influences the results of the care given, prolonging the hospitalization time and increasing the costs of the patients' treatment(6).
Various factors contribute to the shortage of nursing professionals for attending the patient in the ED services. Among these, one finds the small amount of information which nursing managers have about systematized criteria for planning and evaluating the quantity and quality of professionals, and the scarcity of parameters which could facilitate the operationalization of the conventional methods of dimensioning of nursing personnel. The adoption of a system for identifying the workload has been indicated as key to planning for the numbers of nursing professionals(7). Therefore, it becomes necessary to investigate the indicators for nursing workload which allow nursing managers to apply methods for dimensioning the nursing professionals in a general ED unit, both to ensure the quality and safety of the care and the professionals, and for the sustainability of the health institution.
In this perspective, this study's objective is to propose a methodology for identifying workload and contributing to the calculation of the nursing professionals' needs in a general ED.
This is methodological research, undertaken in the ED of a municipal secondary care hospital, managed by social organization, located in the municipality of São Paulo.
The study was developed in all the areas of ED: triage (two clinic rooms), shock room (entrance area of emergency for adults and children first attendance, with three beds), emergency room (five beds), observation of adult patients (33 beds), observation of pediatric patients (22 beds), rooms for medication/procedures on adult patients (22 seats) and pediatric patients (16 seats) and the suture room.
The average daily workload was calculated through the product of the average daily demand of patients (n) by the average time of the care spent per patient or per procedure h except for triage, where the references used were: quantity of work posts, in this case the clinics, and these clinics' uptime in 24 hours.
For calculating the workload in each area of the ED, the equations shown in Figure 1 were applied.
The sample was comprised of patients registered in the ED, in the period of 8th June to 15th August 2010.
Due to the dynamics of the ED, and to ensure the reliability of the results, the collection was undertaken by nurses who worked in the hospital and by students from the 4th year of the undergraduate nursing course, trained, who took turns in the collection. The students were accompanied by a nurse from the ED.
In the areas in which the data collection took place in the 24 hours (shock room, suturing room, medication/procedures with adult and pediatric patients rooms). These professionals dedicated themselves exclusively to this activity. In those areas where the collection took place at specified times of day (observations of adult and pediatric patients and emergency room) the collection took place on those days when these professionals were present, being characterized, therefore, as a convenience sample. In this way, the quantity of days observed was different in each of the areas of the ED.
In the shock room, suturing room and medication/procedures with adult and pediatric patients rooms, the starting and finishing times of all the activities/procedures carried out were recorded. In these areas, for calculating the average daily workload, the median in the equation proposed for determining value of h was applied, given that the average was affected by the extreme results and did not represent this variable adequately.
To measure the average time of assistance in the emergency room, the Nursing Activities Score (NAS)(8) was used. This instrument was considered appropriate in the face of the seriousness of the profile of this area's patients, who remain there awaiting transfer to the hospital's ICU or that of another service.
The NAS(8) contains 23 items which cover the nursing activities undertaken with the patients, with weights which represent the percentage of the nursing time dedicated to undertaking the activities, during the 24 hours. The sum of all the weights represents the percentage of the time taken up with the nursing activities for one patient in the day. To transform these weights in minutes, it is considered that 100% refers to 24 hours, or 1440 minutes, thus 1 point (or 1%) represents 14.4 minutes.
The NAS(8) was administered in a prospective way, that is, the patients were evaluated in the 23 items of the instrument, according to the care required for quality assistance. When the patient remained in the area for more than 24 hours, the NAS(8) score collected the night before was validated, by consulting the doctors' or nurses' notes in the patient file, referring to the presence of unforeseen events which occurred, such as: death, transference, resuscitation, and volemic reposition, among others. When necessary, the NAS(8) score was corrected to express the patients' care needs with greater reliability.
The areas of observation for adult and pediatric patients were considered similar to an inpatient unit, considering that the patients remain there for observation of their clinical picture or awaiting transfer to inpatient units. In this way, in the area for observation of adult patients, the average assistance time (h) was obtained through administering the Fugulin Patient Classification System (PCS)(9), used by Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10). In the area where pediatric patients were observed, it was decided to use the Dini PCS(11).
Both the instruments considered the patients' degree of dependency for the following categories of care: intensive care, semi-intensive care, high dependency care, intermediate care and minimal care.
The average time of care needed by the patients, in each category of care, followed that called for in Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10): intensive care, 17.9 hr; semi-intensive care, 9.4 hr; intermediate care, 5.6 hr; and minimal care, 3.8 hr. For the patients classified as high dependency, for which time was not established by Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10), it was decided to use the same hours of nursing care indicated for semi-intensive patients.
All the beds occupied by patients in these areas were evaluated, by administering the above-mentioned instruments, at 8 am.
In addition, in these areas, the quantity of patients (n) was recorded for four times of day: 8 am, 2 pm, 8 pm and 2 am, which correspond to the work shifts: morning (7 am to 1 pm), afternoon (1 pm to 7 pm), night 1 (7 pm to midnight) and night 2 (midnight to 7 am).
Triage was considered a work place which must have one nurse available to gather, evaluate and classify the risk of the patients who arrive in ED. Thus, in this area, the two clinics were taken into account, with uninterrupted functioning (24 hours).
The different areas' workloads, expressed in hours, were converted to average time of assistance per patient and, when possible, transformed into the ratio of quantity of health professionals per patient, by means of the ratio between average time of assistance spent per patient and the effective time of work in 24 hours.
To calculate the productive work time, that is, the time that professionals dedicated during the work day to direct and indirect care, the percentage of 85% of productivity was considered(12). The 15% of the day remaining is necessary for the pauses in which professionals attend to their personal needs.
For this, the following equation was administered:
In which:
r = nurse-patient ratio;
= average time of assistance spent per patient;
ρ = productive time (85%).
To obtain the nurse-patient ratio it is necessary to transform the number obtained (r) into the fraction 1/r.
The result of this ratio represents the number of patients to whom each nursing professional provides care, expressed by 1:n, where 1 represents the nursing professional and n the quantity of patients for this professional.
The data collected was described in absolute and relative frequencies, in the case of the qualitative variables. For the quantitative variables, the description was undertaken by averages and standard deviations and medians, as well as minimum and maximum values.
The research obtained approval from the Research Ethics Committee of the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein (Process CEP/Einstein N° 10/1287 CAAE: 0021.0.028.196-10).
In triage considering two clinics which stayed functioning uninterruptedly, the daily workload was of 48 hours, the result of the product of daily time of functioning (24 hr) multiplied by the daily quantity of clinics (2). Only nurses worked in this area.
In the emergency room, the NAS(8) instrument was administered 426 times, to evaluate the workload generated by the patients attended in this area. The patients' average age was 56.3 years (±18.4), with 14 the minimum age and 94 the maximum. The average daily quantity of patients was 10.4 (±3.1), which represented 207.8% occupation of the area's capacity (five beds).
The emergency room patients had an average total NAS(8) score of 984.7 (±221.9). The average daily score per patient was 68.4 (±15.4). Considering that each point on the NAS(8) is equivalent to 14.4 minutes, the average assistance time, in hours, per patient, was 16.4 (±3.7). This area's average daily workload corresponded to 170.6 hr.
In the observation of adult patients, 2000 classifications were made, according to the Fugulin PCS(9). The patients' average age was 56.1 (±20.1), with a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 103. The average quantity of patients was 51 (±5.3), which is 151% occupation of the area (33 beds).
Regarding the care categories, this area's patients were classified as: minimal care - 1014 (50.7%); intermediate care - 547 (27.4%); high dependency care - 320 (16%); semi-intensive care - 116 (5.8%) and intensive care - 3 (0.2%).
The distribution of the average daily quantity of patients, by care type, in the observation of adult patients, was of 1 patient with intensive care needs; 2.9 patients with semi-intensive care; 8 patients with high dependency care; 13.7 patients with intermediate care and 25.4 patients with minimal care.
The average daily workload was calculated substituting the values of j and j in the equation proposed for this area, shown below.
The average daily workload was 293.6 hr. The average of patients corresponded to 51 and the average time of nursing assistance was 5.7 hr per patient.
In the observation of pediatric patients the average age was 3.1 (±3.7) years, with a minimum of zero (less than one month) and the maximum was 13 years.
The average of patients was 13.7 (±4.2) which represented 62.3% occupation of the area's capacity (22 beds). The most frequent category of care in this area was high dependency, with 299 (66.7%) patients, followed by the categories of care: intermediate 67 (15%), minimal 63 (14.1%) and semi-intensive 19 (4.2%) patients. Patients with intensive care were not recorded in the area during the period studied.
The distribution of the average daily quantity of patients by care type was 1.9 patients with semi-intensive care; 7.5 patients with high dependency care; 2.2 patients with intermediate care; and 2.1 patients with minimal care.
The average daily workload was calculated substituting the values of j and j in the equation proposed for this area, shown below.
The average daily workload was 108.7 hr. The average nursing assistance time per patient was 7.9 hr, considering the average of 13.7 patients.
In the shock room, 410 records were collected from patients. The daily average of patients was 61.7 (±6.8). The analysis of the 410 records showed a median time of attendance by the nursing team of 0.5 hr. The average daily workload corresponded to 30.9 hr.
In the room for medication/procedures with adult patients, 1364 records were analyzed. The average age was 39.2 (±17.2) years.
The average of patients attended by nursing team was 195 (±23.3). The median nursing assistance time per patient corresponded to 0.9 hr. The average daily workload for the nursing team was 175.5 hr. In the room for medication/procedures with pediatric patients, 767 records were analyzed. The average age was 3.9 (±4.1) years. The daily average of patients was 100.7 (±7.4) patients and the median nursing assistance time to the patients was 0.6 hr. The average daily workload for the nursing team was 60.4 hr.
For verifying the average daily workload generated by the patients in the area of the Suture room, 187 records were collected. These patients' average age was 29.2 (±22.3) years. Due to its being an area which attends patients of all ages, the variation was from one year up to 82 years.
The average of patients who entered for nursing procedures corresponded to 26.2 (±3.7) patients. The nursing assistance time had a median of 0.3 hr. Thus, the average daily workload generated by the patients for the nursing team, in this area during the period studied, was 7.9 hr.
Table 1 summarizes the workload results, for the area of the ED.
In this study, the workload in ED was analyzed, taking into account the areas of triage; shock room; emergency room; observation of adult patients; observation of pediatric patients; rooms for medication/procedures with adult and pediatric patients and the Suture room.
In the area for triage, the time work took corresponded to 24 hours, in line with the working hours and the quantity of clinics. This ratio was also referred to in research carried out in the United States(13), which considered a workload of 24 hours for this area, per day, and a nurse-patient ratio of 1 nurse per shift per clinic in the 24 hours.
The analysis of average daily time of work found in the shock room was considered low in relation to the context of the area. This information raised questions about the method used in data collection, which measured the time of nursing attendance without taking into account the quantity of professionals involved, simultaneously, in this attendance.
The majority of the emergency attendances are accomplished by more than one nursing professional; consequently, the workload must be doubled or tripled in the cases where the attendance is provided by two or three professionals. Therefore, one may consider that the average work time in this area is, at least, two times bigger, that is, 1 hr instead of 0.5 hr per patient.
The same occurred in the room for medication/procedures with pediatric patients, where nursing procedures are frequently undertaken by two nursing professionals. However, it is estimated that, in this area, an increase of 1.5 times the average daily workload compared to that found in this study would correspond to 1 hr instead of 0.6 hr per patient.
The average daily work time found in the areas of the room for medication/procedures with adult patients and the Suture room was considered appropriate for the context of those areas.
In the emergency room, the average assistance time, in hours, per patient, per day was 16.4 hr, and the nurse-patient ratio was 1:1.2, a value close to that found in a study undertaken in the United States(13) which obtained 15.8 hr or 1:1.5 nurse-patient. This area's patients have the profile of critically-ill patients, therefore the average assistance time corresponded to the studies which administered the NAS(8) in different intensive care units(14-15), as well as with the time value for intensive care, recommended by the Ministry of Health(16) (15hr) and below the time for intensive care called for in Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10), considered appropriate for the Brazilian context by a study(17) which evaluated the parameters proposed in this Resolution(10).
In the area of observation of adult patients, the majority of patients (50.7%) were classified as minimal care; 27.4% as intermediate care and 16% as high dependency. Similar results were found in a Medical Clinic inpatient unit: minimal care, 45.9%; intermediate care 24.9% and high dependency, 29%(9).
The average time of care per patient found in the observation of adult patients was 5.7 hr (1 nursing professional for 3.5 patients), which corresponds to the time of intermediate care recommended in the Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10). Research carried out in the American context(13) obtained, in the ED studied, an average of 3.1 hr of nursing care per patient (that is, 1:8), a value below that called for in Resolution nº293/04(11) for minimal care patients.
It should be emphasized that in the present research, the work time was identified by means of an instrument for classification of patients which shows the care time required by the patient, different from the study cited(13) which ascertained the work time given by the nursing professionals present on the shift.
The average work time per patient in the observation of pediatric patients was 7.9 hr (1:2.5). This average value is between the times for intermediate care and semi-intensive care established by Resolution COFEN nº 293/04(10).
With the exception of the area of triage, the present research had, as a limitation, the lack of indication of the proportion of the quantity of professionals, per category, necessary in each area of the ED.
The development of this research made it possible to analyze the differences between the areas of an ED and the relevancy of a methodology for identifying the nursing work load for each of these areas.
In the shock room, where the emergency attendances are, usually, carried out by more than one nursing professional, it was observed that the instrument used for data collection was limited to the time of assistance to the patient and did not take into account the quantity of nursing professionals who, simultaneously, provided care to the patient which doubles or triples the care time.
The same occurred in the room for medication/procedures for pediatric patients, where the nursing procedures are usually carried out by two professionals. It is therefore understood that in these areas the workload identified may be affected by the limitation of the method used in collecting data.
It is recommended that research related to this issue should consider the need for more than one professional in patient care.
The use of the nurse-patient ratio to establish the workload may be considered a more comprehensible strategy in communication with management of hospital institutions. It is recommended that the quantity of these ratios be rounded to the nearest whole number, in line with each institution's characteristic.
The choice of differing instruments for identifying nursing workloads in the different areas of ED was necessary due to the peculiarities of each area.
The instruments used were shown to be appropriate for identifying the workload in the emergency room and in the observation of adult and pediatric patients, respectively.
The proposal of a methodology for measuring workload in ED allowed the identification of time indicators for different areas of a general ED and thus contributes to the calculation of the dimensioning of nursing professionals in this type of service.
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Corresponding Author:
Raquel Rapone Gaidzinski
Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Enfermagem
Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 419
Bairro Cerqueira César
CEP: 05403-000, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
E-mail: email@example.com
Received: Aug. 13th 2012
Accepted: Oct. 1st 2012


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v 3.1
Creator name : Estriole
This script used to recreate Suikoden Rune system for RPG maker vx ace. we can attach rune to certain rune slot. then that rune can give the actor skills or passive or stats. this also add 'rune' command in battle which can be used like suikoden rune system.
WARNING!: this script didn't change the MP system to suikoden rune mp system since victor already write one. so use that with this script instead (put this script below it).
Version History
i'm putting older version history in spoiler tab since it already a lot
1) suikoden like equip rune mechanism
2) we can create runes that exclusive to certain actor
3) we can set starting runes for actor/class/subclass
4) we can set sealed rune slot for actor/class/subclass
5) by combining 3) and 4) we got fixed rune in certain slot
6) can make certain rune only able to equip in certain slot (ex: blue gate only at head slot)
7) extendable slots (for one who want to use it other than suikoden rune system)
we can make equipping 'medal', 'artefact', etc whatever you want.
8) custom rune slot for actor/class/subclass
9) manual position set for rune window in battle (for compatibility purpose)
10) can have rune attach / remove cost
Rune equip scene
Rune equip scene using yanfly + moghunter wallpaper
In battle Rune
i'm too lazy to write the skill description so the help window is blank.
and i also didn't change how the skill window works. (for compatibility). so if you want exact view
like suikoden (without mp cost writing, 1 row. just script the window skill yourself)
using yanfly ace battle engine + victor sideview (modded to compatible with yanfly)
How to use
see screenshot how to below in spoiler tag:
for advanced usage such as starting rune, sealed rune slot, fixed rune, set rune ingame, rune only for certain slot, rune forbidden for certain slot, adding more rune slots, custom runeslots for each actor, etc
see the script header. too tired to take screen shot of each of them .
Latest Demo
this demo will always updated.
Credit and Thanks
- Estriole
- Hytporsche for pming me about his turn around way on creating suikoden rune system which inspire me to create this script. i create this script also to support his game too since his game made me want to play suikoden 2 once more .
Author's Notes
Finally this finished. i cleaned all the bug as hard as i could. but if i missed some. bug report is always welcomed.
for now i prioritize bug report above compatibility report.
Edited by estriole, 26 November 2013 - 12:08 AM.


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Now that you've seen some of the best looks on the runway, here's a look at the overall trends. There were some obvious ones like lace and tulle dresses, and then some more subtle detailing such as peplums and modesty. Here's Part I of WeddingWire's Bridal Market Trend Report:
Brides looking for that walking on a cloud feeling will have no shortage of wedding dresses made partly or completely of tulle. From full ball gown skirts to pleated bodices, designers showed wedding dresses in a variety of silhouettes with this soft and delicate fabric.
Wedding Dress by Badgley Mischka
A number of designers showed wedding dresses with a peplum – a ruffle that flares out from the waist. Peplums were very popular in the 1980s in both ready-to-wear and formal wear. There were a number of variations of a peplum including a variety of fabrics, asymmetrical designs and embellishments on them.
Wedding Dress by Amsale
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The royal wedding was cited as inspiration at a number of shows and of the royal inspired gowns they showed a mix of lace, sleeves and high necks. If you look at photos of royal brides — Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Grace Kelly — all of their gowns had long sleeves and a high neckline. Fashion writers are assuming Kate Middleton's wedding dress will follow the lead of previous princess brides.
Wedding Dress by Romona Keveza Legends
{Photo Credit Dan Lecca}
Tiered Skirts
Skirts are no longer straight to the hem. Designers are adding dimension to a skirt's silhouette whether it's ball gown, a-line or fit to flare. Tiered skirts can have 2, 3 or more tiers and were shown with embellishments on the hem of each skirt or with a clean front.
Wedding Dress by Sophia Tolli/Mon Cheri
Lace is probably the most classic of all wedding dress fabrics and very popular with brides looking for that Grace Kelly look — remember Ivanka Trump's Vera Wang wedding gown? She cited Princess Grace as inspiration for her wedding dress. Many designers featured lace gowns or gowns with lace appliques.
Wedding Dress by St. Pucchi
Remember that the wedding dresses shown at Bridal Market in April will start arriving in bridal salons in September/October, however some salons will have special trunk shows over the summer with these dresses. To find out about trunk shows in your area visit designer and bridal salon web sites for a schedule. Or check Wedding Wire's events page for trunk show dates and designer appearances in your area.
**All Images in the Blog Post are Copyrighted and cannot be used without permission**
See More Bridal Gowns in the WeddingWire Photo Gallery!
Anne Chertoff | Wedding Blogger
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The wicked Zé do Caixão, a.k.a. Coffin Joe started terrifying audiences in the 1964 classic At Midnight I Take Your Soul. That film and its sequel, 1967's This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, are masterpieces of the macabre. Now nearly five decades later, the man behind the mayhem, José Mojica Marins (reprising his role as Coffin Joe) is poised to unleash the third chapter in the hunt for the superior woman, Encarnação do Demônio or The Embodiment of Evil for us Yankees.
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Many thanks to Twitch Film for pointing us in the right direction to find the trailer for The Embodiment of Evil here. All I can say is, holy shit!
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|Ding, Jiabo
|Zhizhong, Cui
|Lee, Lucy
Submitted to: Virus Genes
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/5/2007
Publication Date: 12/1/2007
Citation: Ding, J., Zhizhong, C., Lee, L.F. 2007. Marek's disease virus unique genes pp38 and pp24 are essential for transactivating the bi-directional promoters for the 1.8 kb mRNA transcripts. Virus Genes. 35:643-650. Interpretive Summary: Marek's disease (MD), a virus-induced cancer-like disease in chickens, is considered a major disease problem in commercial poultry. Vaccination has dramatically reduced the incidence of the disease, but very little is known about the basic mechanisms involved in the induction of disease. The objective of this research was to molecularly characterize Marek's disease virus (MDV) so that successful programs to control the disease can be developed. We have discovered a unique MDV gene (genetic building blocks) termed RLORF14a encodes pp38, which was shown to be involved in early cytolytic infection in chickens. Deletion of pp38 in pathogenic rMd5 virus resulted in less tumors in inoculated chickens. In this paper, we found pp38 and pp24 together are critical in up-regulating MDV bi-directional promoter for 1.8 kb mRNA. This means both genes can influence l.8 kb mRNA gene family in producing protein product necessary for pathogenesis of MDV. This important information will help scientists in academia to understand the function of these viral genes better. Undoubtedly, it will help industry with a possible vaccine for better control of the disease.
Technical Abstract: The pp38 and pp24 genes of Marek's diseases virus (MDV) share the same promoter, which controls the transcription of pp38 or pp24 and a 1.8-kb mRNA bi-directionally. To understand the trans-activating activity of pp38 and pp24 on the bi-directional promoter, both genes were cloned into pcDNA-3 or pBudCE4.1 vectors either singly or in combination. These plasmids were expressed in transfected chicken embryonic fibroblast (CEF) cells. Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity expressed under the control of the promoter in CEF co-transfected with pP (1.8kb)-CAT and pBud-pp38-pp24 was significantly higher than that following transfection with only pBud-pp38 or pBud-pp24. This indicates the combination of pp24 and pp38 together are essential for the activation of the promoter. In DNA mobility shift assays, the promoter binds to pp38 and pp24 together, but not to pp38 or pp24 alone. By competitive inhibition tests with a set of DNA fragments from the promoter region, the sequence 5'-CTGCTCATTT-3' was identified as the core sequence for binding by pp38-pp24 in up-regulation of the bi-directional promoter activity.


text: The McLaughlin Group Host: John McLaughlin Panel: Patrick Buchanan, MSNBC; Eleanor Clift, Newsweek; Michelle Bernard, MSNBC; Mortimer Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report Taped: Friday, August 5, 2011 Broadcast: Weekend of August 6-7, 2011-----------------------------------------------------------------Copyright (c) 2011 by Federal News Service, Inc., Ste. 500 1000 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. Federal News Service is a private firm not affiliated with the federal government. No portion of this transcript may be copied, sold or retransmitted without the written authority of Federal News Service, Inc. Copyright is not claimed as to any part of the original work prepared by a United States government officer or employee as a part of that person's official duties. For information on subscribing to the FNS Internet Service, please visit http://www.fednews.com or call(202)347-1400 ----------------------------------------------------------------- JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: Issue One: Black Thursday. The bad news: The U.S. stock market plunged 512 points on Thursday. The sell-off was practically worldwide. What's happening in the economy, both in this country and worldwide? Pat. PATRICK BUCHANAN: Several things, John. First is the perception that the United States economy may be headed into a double-dip recession, the largest on earth. Secondly, China, Japan and Europe are not growing the way they should, and they're not going to be able to pick up the slack. Third, and most important, what happened in Europe on Thursday or the day before is the perception that Italy, the third-largest Eurozone economy, and Spain, the fourth-largest, neither of them may be able to pay back their debts. The contagion had spread from the smaller ones, Ireland, Greece and Portugal. And that was a real disaster. But on Friday, there was a move back up when the European Central Bank, as Mort will explain, indicated it may step in big-time. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What about Spain? MR. BUCHANAN: Spain is one of the problem areas, and Italy is a problem area as well. Italy's much further down the road in real trouble, John, because they've got the second-largest debt per capita, I think, of the major economies in Europe and the world. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor. ELEANOR CLIFT: I think this particular contagion started in Europe, and we've just caught some of the European flu. And I think when the job numbers came out Friday morning and they were better than expected as opposed to worse than expected, I think people felt that the 500-point drop didn't necessarily signal that the U.S. economy was heading straight down. But we've still got big problems. And the Congress averted disaster by raising the debt ceiling, but they didn't do a lot to help this economy recover. And it was a pretty sad day when you see the president bullied by a minority of a minority on Capitol Hill to come up with a deal that really doesn't help the economy as it exists today, but focuses entirely on deficit reduction at a time when we shouldn't be doing deficit reduction. And we have a Congress that refuses to do any of the stimulus spending that we need. So it looks like we're in for a real stalemate here. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me pick up some of that. Some good news: The U.S. unemployment for last month, July, was down one tenth of 1 percent -- 9.1 percent in July from 9.2 percent in June. That's unemployment. Also relatively good news on U.S. jobs -- 117,000 jobs created in July. Question: Does this good news on Friday, relatively speaking, offset Thursday's bad news? I ask you. And welcome, by the way. MICHELLE BERNARD: Thank you very much. It offsets it to some degree. But, I mean, if you really take a look at the numbers, I guess one can be excited because the numbers were not -- they were not any lower. But, quite frankly, we really need sustained economic growth in this country. Most people will tell you we need 120,000 jobs per month added to the economy. And so, frankly speaking, it's good news and it's not so great news also. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: OK. Default, no. Double dip, maybe. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: (From videotape.) It shouldn't take the risk of default, the risk of economic catastrophe, to get folks in this town to work together and do their jobs. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: The national nightmare is over. The debt ceiling was raised from $14.3 trillion to $16.7 trillion this week. So U.S. government entitlement checks to American citizens will go out on time -- Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. The president, along with the Congress and the nation, were calmed. PRESIDENT OBAMA: (From videotape.) It was a long and contentious debate. And I want to thank the American people for keeping up the pressure on their elected officials to put politics aside. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Hold on, sir. Politics has not gone away. The law that just passed that raises the debt ceiling also cuts the national debt by bringing into being what has become identified as a kind of supercommittee. That supercommittee is tasked with creating a bill to cut the debt over the next 10 years by $1.5 trillion. Twelve lawmakers, six Republicans and six Democrats, will serve on the panel. A simple majority, seven out of 12, must vote yes on the supercommittee bill so it can reach the full Congress for a final vote. But even if the Congress fails to pass the bill -- get this -- it makes no difference, because an automatic trigger will go into effect. That means if Congress votes no, the national debt will still be reduced through automatic cuts worth $1.2 trillion. Half of those cuts would come from defense, half from domestic programs, including Medicare. Here are the deadlines: August the 16th, Democratic leaders Reid and Pelosi and Republican leaders McConnell and Boehner each choose three members; December 23rd, Congress must hold a final vote on passing the bill. Mort, can you put all that together? MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN: Well, I mean, it all goes to the fact that we have a very weak economy. We have a huge deficit to try and get the economy out of a major recession. We did have a huge deficit. We had the most stimulative fiscal and monetary policy in our history, and yet the economy is still weak. We're still struggling with that. These unemployment numbers that you refer to are not nearly as positive as you would think, because they do basically reflect people withdrawing from the labor force rather than a lot of increases in new jobs. Just to give you an illustration on that -- this is called the labor participation rate -- the number of people looking for a job were the same as it was when Obama passed the original stimulus program. If you extrapolate it to today, the unemployment rate wouldn't be 9.1; it would be 12 percent. It's only because these people have left the labor force. We have got to find some way to get out of this terrible bind with unemployment continuing to grow and without the ability to do anything about it because of the level of our deficits and debts. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me stay with Mort on this for a minute. The supercommittee and that automatic trigger -- MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yeah. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- which is going to automatically -- independently of any vote that takes place, it's going to trigger $1.2 trillion in the reduction of the debt. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yes. And -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: The national debt has not gone away. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: It's now at $14.4 trillion. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: It's a huge debt. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: This is going to automatically trigger the reduction of that. MR. ZUCKERMAN: It doesn't have to. Congress cannot be foreclosed from doing what it wants to by the year 2013. It simply can't do it, OK? So it is likely to start that program, but it's completely -- MR. BUCHANAN: John -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Does the size of the national debt worry you? MR. ZUCKERMAN: Of course. Of course. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Should it worry everybody? MR. ZUCKERMAN: Absolutely. It's going to be unsustainable. What we're going to have is a situation in which so much money is going to go to service the debt -- MS. CLIFT: We -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me ask you this. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Let me just finish. It's going to really be a dead weight on the economy. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me ask you this. For Obama to move in this direction, as he seems to have done, he's pivoted rather remarkably, and some people say ideologically. Do you see this as a new presentation of -- MS. CLIFT: No. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- himself? MS. CLIFT: We need to quit talking about the deficit. The deficit is not the primary concern. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Did you hear what he just said? MS. CLIFT: I did, and I reject it. It is not the primary -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: He's talking about the national debt. The deficit is the current-account deficit for this year. MS. CLIFT: The deficit would be a problem if government borrowing were crowding out private investment. It's not. Our corporations are sitting there with a ton of money. It's a matter of confidence. There is no confidence in our ability to govern. And members of Congress -- what was emblematic of their problem is the FAA stalemate this week. They were ready to go on vacation and -- MR. BUCHANAN: They solved it. MS. CLIFT: Excuse me -- and lose $3 million a day. Finally they were shamed into acting. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You're talking about the federal aviation authority. MS. CLIFT: That's -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: It's not affecting travel. MR. BUCHANAN: Right. John, let's get back to the -- MS. CLIFT: No. But it's -- MR. BUCHANAN: -- supercommittee. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let her finish. MS. CLIFT: If everybody's so worried about the deficit, why would you give up all those funds over some ideological point? MR. BUCHANAN: Let's go back to the supercommittee. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: All right, let's go back to the supercommittee, a big deal. MR. BUCHANAN: All right, here's the thing. The supercommittee will be deadlocked for this reason. If they try to raise taxes, the House will kill it. If they don't put any taxes in it, the Senate will kill it. It will be deadlocked. The $1.2 trillion doomsday machine comes into effect -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Yes. MR. BUCHANAN: -- which means $600 billion out of defense plus the $400 billion already. The Pentagon is in panic, John, because this is going to put Republican fiscal hawks into a huge battle with the security hawks like McCain. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Who's the new head of the Pentagon? MR. BUCHANAN: The new head of the Pentagon is Panetta, Leon Panetta. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What's he saying about this -- MR. BUCHANAN: Look, he -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- the reduction in his budget -- MR. BUCHANAN: He and -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- possible reduction in his budget? MR. BUCHANAN: He and Mullen say we can do $400 billion. Six hundred billion after that is impossible for our national security. MS. CLIFT: Well, that's the hammer -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What is -- wait a minute. MS. CLIFT: That's the hammer that allegedly is going to force these members on the supercommittee -- we don't even know who they are yet. And I think there is a chance they could act responsibly. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Michelle. Let Michelle in. MS. BERNARD: I think the chance of them acting responsibly -- I would love to see them act responsibly. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Who? Who? MS. BERNARD: The members of the supercommittee, the members of Congress in general, the entire administration. One of the fundamental problems with our economic policy today is that we don't have any grownups running Washington. We don't see it in the administration. We don't see it in Congress. I find it highly unlikely that the supercommittee is going to do what they need to do. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think -- now, is Obama in the action here, or is he trying to get re-elected? Of course he's trying to be re-elected, I think, for a second term. MR. BUCHANAN: Mitch McConnell -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think that he is now going to say, "Well, the supercommittee has spoken; this is not my doing," if there's pain out there? MR. BUCHANAN: Right. Here's -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Has he kind of removed himself from the economic issue? MR. BUCHANAN: Yes. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Has he removed himself from -- MR. BUCHANAN: All right, here -- yes. Look, John, I think he has, because this automatic cleaver, when it comes down -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Yes. MR. BUCHANAN: Mitch McConnell has said, "We will not -- Boehner and I will not appoint anybody to the supercommittee who will raise taxes." That almost means you're going to get -- the cleaver's going to hit. But Obama may have to back off, because $600 billion in added cuts in defense will make him look like, if they've got to do it, weak on defense. MR. ZUCKERMAN: The issue -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: He can't stop it, Pat. He cannot stop it. MR. BUCHANAN: They may have to (even ?) stop it -- all of them. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Well, are they going to vote for it? MS. CLIFT: No, no. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: They have been -- it's already built into the -- MR. BUCHANAN: They've got to come up with the cuts. MS. CLIFT: The public wants -- MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yeah, but the problem is going to be very simple, OK? MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What? MR. ZUCKERMAN: You have an unemployment rate that is close to 20 percent. You have housing prices collapsing. You do not -- that is what is going to affect the American public. That's why, when Obama had this surge in popularity after the Osama bin Laden episode, it's all disappeared now. He's got the lowest approval ratings because of the fact there's no sense of leadership. That is what is going to drive the election. And the -- MS. BERNARD: Jobs. And jobs. MR. ZUCKERMAN: I just want to say -- MS. BERNARD: Jobs will drive the election. MR. ZUCKERMAN: The stock market, OK, dropped this morning -- dropped today. The only thing that turned it around was the fact that they worked out a solution to the European debt problem. MR. BUCHANAN: Temporary. MR. ZUCKERMAN: We haven't -- it's temporary. But we haven't worked out the problems here, and it's not going to. MS. CLIFT: You want to lay this all at the foot of Barack Obama. And it seems to me that if you look at the polls after this, Obama does not come out of this unscathed, but, relatively speaking, he looks better compared to the tea party Republicans -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Why -- MS. CLIFT: -- whose brand has -- (Cross talk.) MR. BUCHANAN: They're not going to be on the ballot against him. MS. CLIFT: Oh, they're going to be on the ballot in November of 2012. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Michelle, will you explain to me why the world is going through the same problem, relatively speaking, almost the same problem that the United States is going through, with the possible exception of Latin America? MS. BERNARD: Because people -- number one, people have lived above their means. Number two -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Universally? On the planet? MS. BERNARD: Universally. I think universally -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: On planet earth. MS. BERNARD: -- people have been living beyond their means. We have governments all over the world that have ridiculous entitlement programs that have been unsustainable, and people have been unable to find a way to get their people to where the jobs are. MR. BUCHANAN: You know, John, she's exactly right. And I'll tell you what's going to happen. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What do you mean, entitlements are -- MR. BUCHANAN: She's talking about government debt, personal debt. It's the government debts, John -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You mean the erosion of capitalism, Pat? MR. BUCHANAN: No, what they're saying in Europe, basically, those debts are going to be wiped out by default or devaluation or depreciation of currencies. They're going to be wiped out. They're never going to be paid. MS. CLIFT: Well, Europe is looking to America to lead the recovery, and it's not happening. And I think that brings into question the whole question of whether our government is able to face up to these serious issues. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What's the exit question, Pat? MR. BUCHANAN: The exit question is will -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Will the planet earth survive? MR. BUCHANAN: No, no. Will the supercommittee deadline and will the slicer go into effect? And I think the supercommittee will deadlock. Eleanor. (Laughs. ) MS. CLIFT: And I think that if people like the Gang of Six, who were a bipartisan committee in the Senate, they agreed to cut -- MR. BUCHANAN: They're not allowed to be on it. MS. CLIFT: Well, but people like them. And there are still some grownups on Capitol Hill. And I think it's a real hammer on the Republican side to avoid those defense cuts. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What's the question? MS. CLIFT: I think they're going to come up with a deal. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What's the question? MR. BUCHANAN: Will the supercommittee deadlock? MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Will it deadlock? MS. BERNARD: Deadlock. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Deadlock? MS. BERNARD: I think it's going to deadlock. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: So the trigger will -- MS. BERNARD: I have no confidence. I think the trigger is going to be activated. I have no confidence in them. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Then they can all blame it on the trigger. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Yeah, I don't believe the supercommittee will deadlock. I think they're going to appoint people to avoid a deadlock because they know how much damage it would bring to the Congress. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: There are 12 people on the committee, and the leaders of both chambers select who they are. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: They get one choice each. Is that correct? MR. BUCHANAN: Three each. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Three each. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Three each. Three each? MR. BUCHANAN: Sure. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You mean -- MS. CLIFT: Four leaders, 12 members. MR. BUCHANAN: McConnell three, Boehner three, Pelosi three, Reid three. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: OK. The Senate and the House. MR. BUCHANAN: They get 12 on there, yeah, and they each get six for each party, and each party gets six, John. But the thing is, Mitch McConnell said -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: OK -- MR. BUCHANAN: -- nobody who will raise taxes is going to be appointed. MS. CLIFT: And the country wants a balanced approach, and we'll know who the obstructionists are, and they'll pay the price. MS. BERNARD: Absolutely. I'm with you there. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: I think it's -- MS. BERNARD: I think we know who the obstructionists -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- TBD, to be determined. Issue Two: Mubarak Trial. (Begin videotape.) EGYPTIAN PROSECUTOR: (Through interpreter.) You have heard the charge and accusations pressed against you by the public persecution. What's your statement? FORMER EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK: (Through interpreter.) I deny all these charges and accusations categorically. (End videotaped segment.) MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Hosni Mubarak lived in the presidential palace in Cairo for 30 years. He was Egypt's longest-serving president. But this week the 83-year-old Mubarak was in prison whites on a gurney, speaking from inside a cage. The trial of the former Egyptian president began on Wednesday on the outskirts of Cairo. The charge is murder. Mubarak is accused of ordering the killing of more than 800 protesters. They were among the thousands of protesters who successfully ousted Mubarak from power this past February, six months ago, as part of the Arab spring. If Mubarak is convicted of murder, he could be sentenced to death. The trial is under way and it has led to street fighting between anti-Mubarak protesters and pro-Mubarak supporters, including this young Egyptian. PRO-MUBARAK SUPPORTER: (From videotape.) I love Mubarak. I love my country. I don't take money to sell my country. This is people coming in here to sell my country. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Question: Suppose Mubarak is found guilty of murder. Suppose he is sentenced to death. Will this split Egypt's new democracy into warring factions? I ask you, Mort. MR. ZUCKERMAN: No, I really don't think it will. I mean, I think there is certainly a military faction, and the military is really a key part of that economy and a key part of the political structure. But frankly, they're basically now protecting themselves, and this is part of the process. This would never have happened without the acknowledgement of the military. So I think that there is going to be, in fact, a unification. The vast majority of Egyptians now resent Mubarak, resent his sons, because they accumulated so much money. So this will help the government, in a sense, not hurt. MR. BUCHANAN: It'd be a terrible mistake -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Let me digress to Syria here. It's not a digression. It's directly connected, as with most of my learned questions. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Most of them are. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Now, the question is, what's the connection between this and Syria? Do you think when Assad, Hafez Assad's son -- what's his first name? MR. ZUCKERMAN: Bashar. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Bashar Assad sees Hosni Mubarak caged as a prisoner -- I believe he's caged, not for his own protection, but because he's a prisoner -- MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: He's actually flying in; they flew him in from Sharm El-Sheikh. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Now, when he sees that, do you think Assad is now determined to stop this rebellion, despite the fact that he's doing -- slaying so many people, particularly in Hama? MR. ZUCKERMAN: John, he was determined to do whatever he could to stop the rebellion. He represents the Alawite people. They're 14 percent of the Syrian population. They've controlled the country. They control the country's economy. He will do whatever he can. He's totally ruthless, OK? So this is not something that is unique, I might add, with the Assad family, if you remember. The father was famous for the Hamas (sic/means Hama) rules. He killed, I don't know, 50,000 people at Hamas (sic). He has now killed thousands and thousands of people, and nobody's been able to stop him to date. MS. CLIFT: He doesn't need -- MR. BUCHANAN: John -- MS. CLIFT: He doesn't need emboldening. But if he's looking at this, he doesn't want to end up this way. And I think he thinks the alternative is to put down this rebellion as savagely as possible. MR. BUCHANAN: You know, John, Henry Kissinger once said to be an enemy of the United States in this world is often dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal. And what we're seeing in Mubarak and people all over the Middle East are seeing is this is what happens to people who have been friends to America for 30 years and then America abandons them. They wind up in a cage. And I think that guy Assad is looking at that and saying, "Look, they may take me out on a stretcher, but they're not putting me in a cage." (Cross talk.) MS. CLIFT: It is not America's fault -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Hold on. Let -- MS. CLIFT: -- what happened to Mubarak when his fate was brought upon by himself. MS. BERNARD: Yeah, that's exactly the point that I was going to bring. I mean, whether Mubarak was friends with the United States or not, the bottom line is Egyptians looked at what was happening in Tunisia and they had the same problem. You have hundreds of thousands of young people who are highly educated, who cannot get jobs. They can't take care of their families. They can't feed or clothe their families. And they don't want this for their country any longer. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Look -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Wait a minute. Let me finish. You -- when you were head of the Independent -- MR. BUCHANAN: Women's Forum. MS. BERNARD: Women's Forum. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- Women's Forum, you had some Muslim women, some Islamic women come over here. Correct? MS. BERNARD: We had Islamic women from Iraq come over to the -- well, actually, from all over the Middle East -- come to the United States. We brought 200 Iraqi women -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Did they talk to you at all about conditions over there? Did they give you any insight that you had not had before? MS. BERNARD: Absolutely. You know, we took a group -- I was privileged to take a group of Iraqi women down to the Congress at one point in time. And at that time Darrell Issa, a member of Congress from California, said to this group of Iraqi women, "You know, we're getting ready to go into elections. Many Americans are completely against the Iraqi war. What would you have us tell our constituents?" And I've never forgotten a woman who was dressed in traditional garb, all black from head to toe, and she said, "We would ask the American public why it took you so long to come back and help us." These women were very, very interested in finding about the principles and practice of democracy. Those are people who wanted women's rights, particularly in areas of the country where women did not enjoy rights. In Kurdistan, they do. I'm just telling you, this was my experience. MS. CLIFT: Women had more rights under Saddam Hussein -- MS. BERNARD: Actually, they had rights in spite of Saddam Hussein. It depended on where you were from. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Can you give us any wisdom on women's rights? MR. ZUCKERMAN: Well, yes, of course I can. (Laughter.) MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Have you learned from bitter experience? MR. ZUCKERMAN: I've learned from great experience, not bitter experience, thank you very much. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: What's the point? MR. ZUCKERMAN: No, no. Listen, there is no doubt but those societies were discriminating against women and on many other levels. And these were authoritarian societies. And there has been a revolution about that. MR. BUCHANAN: But you wait -- MR. ZUCKERMAN: And this is certainly true in Egypt. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You've got five seconds. MR. BUCHANAN: You wait until the Muslim Brotherhood is running Egypt to see how well women are treated. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You mean the bad guys. MR. BUCHANAN: Well, the Muslim Brotherhood and the military are going to run this show, not those demonstrators in Tahrir Square. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Issue Three: The Big 5-0. The president celebrated his 50th birthday in his political hometown this week, Chicago. He was officially there for a fundraiser, putatively for the Obama second term political fund. At Chicago's historic Aragon Ballroom, the president addressed a crowd of 2,500 guests, paying up to a cool $35,000 per ticket. His former chief of staff and confidant, now Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, was on the scene. So was Herbie Hancock, the band OK Go, and Jennifer Hudson, who also sang "Happy Birthday" to the honoree. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: President Obama is the third U.S. president in 130 years to turn 50 while in office as president. The other two: Theodore Roosevelt, 1908; Bill Clinton, 1996. This means that Bubba is now 65 and can collect Social Security. As for Mr. Obama's 50 years of age, the president joins 29 U.S. senators and 137 U.S. House members who are already enrolled in the club, the 50-something club. Barack may well be the youngest 50-year-old in the club. He plays a full game of basketball without an oxygen tank in the corner. But turning 50 is still a sobering reminder of life's transience and a midpoint to contemplate one's limited stay on planet earth. The average life span for an American man is 76, by the way; the average woman, 81. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think that President Obama is perhaps availing himself at this particular time to contemplate whether he wants to take four more years out of his life and run for president, with all of that detail, and plus living in the bubble? I mean, there are a lot of negatives to the job of president, and you know them well. I know them well, having, you know, worked in that environment. And there's very limited freedom. And there's a desire to just walk on the street and not be identified. I mean, do you think he's thinking about a second term, or -- MR. BUCHANAN: I think he's thought about it. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- do you think he's made up his mind? MR. BUCHANAN: I think he's thought about it. I think Michelle Obama has thought about it. My guess is she is probably more reluctant than he because she looks like she's taking the pain of this. But he has made his call, and he's going to do it. And I think that decision has been made. But I think all those things did weigh on him. It would not surprise me if it gave him some thought. "Do we really want to do this again?" MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You know, the other thing he's given up is his intellectual life. I was reading, you know, "The Audacity of Hope," re-reading it. And, you know, he's really an idea guy. MR. BUCHANAN: In a way, he's a contemplative type. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Right. MR. BUCHANAN: He's not an action-oriented -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Right. MR. BUCHANAN: -- character in a way. But I think he's given that up and he's got this moment, and I think he's decided. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You don't think it's history that he's thinking of or -- MR. BUCHANAN: It's history -- MS. CLIFT: He hasn't given up his intellectual life. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think he's going to be called? I mean, he's getting all the support he needs within the party. MS. CLIFT: One of the complaints about him is that he's too contemplative and that he's too much of an intellectual. So he hasn't given that up at all. Typically, when you have one of those marker birthdays, you analyze yourself. "Have I lived up to what I expected?" MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Right. MS. CLIFT: "What are my accomplishments?" I imagine he's having some thoughts about that. But I think it's -- has he accomplished what he set out to do? Clearly he's got a lot of work left. And I think he really wants a second term. MS. BERNARD: I think he believes -- I truly think he believes in that statement we heard over and over again during the 2000 (sic) election cycle -- "Change we can believe in." I think this is a president who wants to make the country better and he wants to make the world a better place. And it's been tough. It has been a very tough road for him. But I think he is in it, and I think he's in it to win. He wants a second term. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think he's thinking of history? MS. BERNARD: How could you not? MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MS. BERNARD: Everything that he has accomplished has been history-making. He will go down in history -- I think time will be positive in looking back at his presidency. And I think he's going to think about his dream -- MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Do you think, if he wanted -- MS. BERNARD: -- and all of the young children that are looking to him. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: -- if he wanted the privacy and the relative -- he's never going to be solitary now, because he's been president. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Right. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: You know, the Secret Service are with him if he wants them. MS. BERNARD: Nobody runs for president without knowing that. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Predictions. Pat. MR. BUCHANAN: I think the first Republican to drop out of the race, I think, after the Iowa straw poll will be Newt Gingrich. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Who'll be number two? MR. BUCHANAN: I think number two will be Huntsman, but he's going to stick around. I don't think he's going to do very well in New Hampshire. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Eleanor. MS. CLIFT: OK, I'm going to expand on Pat's prediction. I've got Gingrich on my list, but I'm going to add Rick Santorum, because if he doesn't show in Iowa, which is very favorable to social conservatives, I think he's going to see the handwriting on the wall. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Michelle. MS. BERNARD: I'm going to go with Gingrich and Pawlenty. I think he's going to be -- I think both of them will be out next week. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Mort. MR. ZUCKERMAN: Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner is going to extend his stay in the government because of the financial crisis at home and abroad. MR. MCLAUGHLIN: I predict that the alleged water found on Mars is an optical illusion. Bye-bye. END.


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View From the Saddle: The bicycle and our culture
(Editor's note: Dave Kannas is a regular columnist for the Ballard News-Tribune's sister publication the West Seattle Herald. His article is being reproduced here as it relates to the completion of the Burke Gilman Trail through the industrial area of Ballard.)
The struggle between "civil society" and bicyclists is nothing new. We had our battles before the turn of the 20th Century, when bicycles were relatively new on the scene but rapidly expanding in numbers, especially in France.
"As early as 1869, some of the larger French cities had passed municipal by-laws to control this new public hazard…" (Christopher Thompson, The Tour de France, University of California Press, 2006). Thompson goes on to note that in the city of Sens, bicyclists were required "to attach warning bells to their machines, a lantern when traveling at night, and a sort of license plate with their name and address."
This sounds like something right out of an editorial page. At least The Seattle Times editorial page editor, James Vesely, hasn't referred to the bicycle as "…an instrument of chaos and degeneration…" which was a popular opinion in 19th Century France. I probably shouldn't give him ideas for more anti-bicycle editorials, though.
This conversation in France was taking place just before and at the time that the Tour de France had its start in 1903. France is way out front on the issue of bicycle versus car, bicycle versus tranquil country life and bicycle as instrument of moral degeneracy.
If I recall correctly, when my wife, Delores, and I visited France not too long ago we saw the final result of the debate. There are bicycle paths in evidence throughout the country. Not all of the riders, not even most of the riders, were wearing those flashy clothes that seem to attract the wrath of some drivers here.
Most riders were decked out in dresses, suits and work clothes. A lot of them had the ubiquitous baguette sticking out of the rear pannier. Most were sitting upright on the saddle in a fashion that in no way suggests that they were in training for anything except another long lunch.
But here we are in bike-friendly Seattle, still arguing the merits of extending the Burke-Gilman Trail through the industrial area of Ballard and whether this will damage the fragile psyches of commercial truck drivers or whether widening the same trail through where it winds beside Lake Washington will damage the culturally deprived citizens of these fragile areas.
As the saying goes, "go figure." What it all boils down to is this: nothing changes except the dates and faces. The whine and rant continue even when the City of Seattle has finally "gotten it."
The Ballard commercial truck drivers will not be saddled with the burden of driving alongside a designated bike trail and being distracted by a tight pair of spandex shorts. They will only have to slow behind a bicycle that is now riding on the street.
And those poor, deprived lake-front residents along Lake Washington who are threatened by the very thought of an improved Burke-Gilman Trial can rest easy in the knowledge that their city council is being every bit as obstructive to progress as they possibly can be.
Again, "go figure." You may want to examine the tortured logic that both those who argue against completing the Burke-Gilman through Ballard and those who oppose the widening of the trail along Lake Washington. You will have to conclude, as do I, that these people are grasping at the same straws as those in 19th Century France who ranted about the evil consequences of bicycles and bicycling.
So, it's back to the days of yore. The days when the primary concern was how the bicycle would impact the culture of France in various ways. The military saw the bicycle as a tactical tool to be used to counteract the strength of France's arch enemy, Germany.
The bicycle manufacturers, dealers and sport newspapers saw the bicycle differently, as a source of revenue, source of physical well being, and source of national sport. Races began to take shape throughout the country. Some of them exist to this day: Paris-Brest-Paris, Paris-Roubaix and, of course, the Tour de France are three examples.
We in the United States and, for that matter, the world, are being challenged to rethink how we live, what our hopes for the future are, what we will leave for future generations and many more questions that I'll leave to you to ask. We can get stuck on the small issues like standing in the way of transportation progress, or we can work together as a unified civil society where paying for alternative transportation as a ticket to the future and the privilege of living in a civil society are paramount.
The choice is obvious, in my humble opinion. While contemplating your risk of moral degeneracy, ride safely.
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Kelly Brook: Mammary Moment at the 2014 National Television Awards
She's never been shy about showing off her assets, and last night (January 22) Kelly Brook gave the folks at the 2014 National Television Awards in London, England an eyeful.
The busty 34-year-old model/actress showed up at the event wearing a sheer black Ossie Clark dress and no bra, which turned out to be a niptastic combination.
When the bright camera lights washed over her cleavage-bearing gown, Kelly suffered a wardrobe malfunction, though she didn't seem to mind.
Ms. Brook simply smiled for the shutterbugs and kept right on talking before heading inside the O2 London.


text: Why can every Major Basketball Franchise develop their young talent and the Pistons just choose year after year to stand pat? The last time we took one of our younguns and gave him major minutes was Tayshaun Prince, and this was only by accident by the way. What is the difference between a raw Tayshaun Prince besides playing in KY for 4 years and AJ and JMax. I know Amir Didn't attend college, however, neither did Andrew Bynum who by the way is playing like a beast for the Lakers. These youngsters that inhabit some of the teams that are in our division is gonna take us to school on a nightly basis. Our butts will be handed to us on a silver platter every night. It's early in the season, however, I am beginning to see a dangerous situation arising, which is, the emotion is not there, no passion, the desire is almost non-existant, as Chauncey quoted to the Detroit News, "we are not a good team right now" I almost would like to pull a Miami, find a couple of guys who want a championship really, really bad, then make a trade. I am going to retract my statement about the Pistons being at the top of the pile, I think we will absolutely stink for a while. I so hope that I am wrong. I realize that we are only four games into the season, but look at the rebounding guys, it is absolutely atrocious. All of us here on this forum have somehow bought into this philosophy of thinking that all is well with the players from last year. Dyess is not getting it done, Sheed going scoreless, assists are down, every other major category the stats are down from last year. I can see maybe one or two, but EVERY major category. We need to put the young guys on the floor. Take a step back if necessary. Joe D needs to get to evaluating and stop BSing around. Something just doesn't smell right and I have already looked on the bottom of my shoe, therefore, I didn't step in any mess. The smell must be coming from somewhere else.


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Simple question
Hi All,
This is simple question, but I do not know how to go about searching for it
in this user groups data base. I also could not find a reference to the
solution in the "Mathematica Book". How does one assign the result of
Solve[.] or FindRoot[.] in the form {x1-> 3.14,x2->0.763} to the two
variables y1,y2 respectively?? Thanks for any assistance or specific
references in the M book. George Kamin


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S1 Ep58: Voting laws, abortion, Tourtettes, coal, slavery
Video duration: 53:56Expires: 06/17/16
We look at how several states have been rewriting their voting laws and how it might impact the coming 2012 election. We also examine a new alternative therapy to Tourette's syndrome and how it has already helped one 12-year-old boy battle the disorder. And Jon Meacham discusses the West Virginia coal mining disaster and the need for a national energy plan.