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At this point
in our civilization though, a different methodology on how to
project game-to-game consistency and year-end totals in fantasy
football isn't likely to net me a Pulitzer Award or Nobel
Peace Prize.
That said, last year, I finally had enough of the "experts'
way" of projecting year-end fantasy numbers and went about
creating one of my own. Sure, I spent as much time as anyone making
sure I was caught up on the latest developments, but when it came
right down to it, I always thought I would take a look at the
rankings I respected the most and then branch off from that. While
it might work that way for some, it doesn't for me.
Even the most highly paid fantasy football scribes are content
to add or subtract 100-200 yards from a players' total from
the previous year and suggest he is in line for a certain amount
of touchdowns and move on to the next player, with little regard
as to how a player will achieve those numbers or a schedule he
will face. (So, in the end, fantasy owners are left with a set
of rankings and numbers that are derived from a small group of
people who are paid, quite simply, to make sure they don't
deviate too far from the company line, or in this case, from the
line of realism that most owners are willing to accept for the
upcoming season when the harsh reality is that the NFL is not
a realistic league in terms of numbers it produces. What do I
mean by that? Half of the consensus 10-12 players that just about
everyone believes is a first-round pick in any given season will
While the above approach of "towing the company line"
may work for players who are content playing in the most lax of
leagues, a player's projected totals only tell part of the
story. In competitive head-to-head leagues, it is paramount to
gauge a player's consistency, something my colleague, Matt
Waldman, has done a fine job of in his years of work with "The
Crank Score".
I would like, at the very least, to complement his work with
what I think is my own innovative approach.
In fantasy football, just as in life, we seek predictable consistency.
While injuries, age or indifference on either side of the ball
will skew numbers in ways that no one can predict, there are also
many "good bets" that owners should at least be mindful
of when they are deciding on a player's fantasy prospects
for the upcoming season, such as the run-stopping prowess of the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens and Minnesota Vikings. With
that in mind, why would any owner want their RB to face these
teams, especially in the fantasy playoffs? Likewise, the Atlanta
Falcons and Miami Dolphins figure to have poor pass defenses,
at the very least. Why would an owner not want to see those teams
on the schedule multiple times?
I have found in my two years of using this method that it is
only when one considers each player and each game on the schedule
that one can get truly get a feel for just how easy or difficult
it may be. A stretch of four tough matchups to start the season
may weigh on an offense's psyche to the point where they
play well under expectations for the whole season while a slate
of below-average run defenses may give an offense the confidence
necessary to overcome even the stoutest of defenses when they
face one near the end of the season.
Do I have every conceivable fantasy contributor projected? No.
I have used this method on 230 players (not including kickers
or team defenses) and I fully realize that about a handful of
players will emerge from third- or fourth-string status (as Ryan
Grant did last season) to achieve the admiration of fantasy
owners. But if analyzing the schedule and breaking it down player-by-player
helps me find two more players that capable of being starters
in my lineup and helps me avoid busts (like it did with Lee
Evans last season), each of my teams figure to be likely championship
What follows is my best attempt at factoring in as many variables
into the season as I can in a semi-efficient but useful tool on
draft day.
Step 1
Before I do anything, I spend most of the early part of the summer
reviewing changes made to a team's personnel. Did the team
bring in a rookie QB? A new head coach or coordinator? If they
did bring a new coach/coordinator, what side of the ball did he
specialize in? Did the team change their offensive line coach?
What draft picks did the team make and how quickly do I think
they will impact the team? What free agents did the team add/subtract
from the roster?
Those are just a handful of questions I ask myself while taking
the first step in my summer-long journey, which is figuring each
team's yards per carry (YPC) allowed and yards per attempt
(YPA) allowed.
The first question I would expect is: why would anyone care about
YPC and YPA allowed? While many things in fantasy football are
constantly in a state of flux, I have found YPC against for the
running game and YPA against for the passing game to be excellent
predictors of how successful a defense is (or in this case, will
Step 2
After setting up a blank spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, I go
through the painstaking process of entering in each player that
figures to have fantasy relevancy throughout the season. (In other
words, a team's starting QB – and sometimes their
backup, depending on the team – two RBs, three WRs (except
in rare cases at both positions) and at least one TE. I then add
the schedule and my projected YPC and YPA allowed under each opponent
to keep my expectations in check.
While many fantasy owners want to talk about strength of schedule
(in terms of what a defense did against a certain position last
year), most do not take the time to speculate on what they may
do this season. I believe this is one huge benefit to this system.
Since I will be concentrating on the running backs in this article,
I will hone in on a player who is creating a fair amount of buzz
in the fantasy community due to a highly-publicized switch in
offensive coordinators – Frank Gore.
After seeing that
just two defenses were highlighted as "avoid matchups",
an astute reader may notice that the Saints' run defense
is projected to have a lower YPC allowed than either Dallas or
Seattle. What gives? A change I made from my original concept
last season was taking individual matchups into account as opposed
to just looking at the average, factoring in such things as home
vs. road defense (Seattle has a tendency to play incredible defense
at home) and expected play from players that will likely need
to contain Gore (i.e. linebackers). While Jonathan Vilma should
dramatically upgrade New Orleans' LB corps, I believe the
Cowboys' will do a good job stopping the run plus keep Gore
from wrecking too much havoc in the passing game.
Step 3
At this point, this is where the fun and prognosticating can begin.
Most of the numbers to the right of the blue line should
be self-explanatory. They are the yards and TDs expected in a
given game. Certainly, this model can be altered with (or added
on to) for those owners in PPR leagues.
However, here's a legend for the numbers on the left side
of the blue line so you can follow my next level of madness.
(1) Total fantasy points scored,
(2) The projected 15-game totals
expected from the player (as most league titles are decided in
Week 16),
(3) The points scored from yards
and points scored from TDs that lead to the total in (1),
(4) The projected average of points
in Weeks 15-16 (most leagues' playoff weeks).
(Remember, since I only chart through 16 weeks, the numbers on
the left side of the blue line are 15-game totals and assume participation
in every game. Don't worry, this will be a problem I will
address when I wrap up this three-part series.)
Let's consider another example that incorporates more good
and poor matchups.
With good reason, many owners seem to be down on LJ this year.
But take a second to consider who he will be going against this
season. He faces Oakland and Denver twice, Atlanta once and Miami
in what will be Championship Week for most owners. He has a history
of doing well vs. San Diego as well, meaning nearly half of his
matchups could be very solid ones for him. Believe me, I am not
a big fan of his offensive line (and I put as much weight into
that when projecting RBs as I do anything, if not more so), but
Johnson will get the touches and likely the lion's share
of red zone opportunities with Kansas City, even more than Tony
Gonzalez and Dwayne Bowe.
This chart, if mostly accurate, would lend much credence to the
notion that LJ will be like a good #2 fantasy RB in terms of consistency
but a possible low-end #1 RB in terms of overall production. Owning
LJ this season figures to be akin to a rollercoaster ride, but
if his owners can get through the first half in good shape, they
should be in for solid production in the second half. By that
time, I would expect the combination of rookie LT Branden Albert
and LG Brian Waters to be working more cohesively, making LJ a
likely stud in the final weeks of the 2008 season. The biggest
question for most owners will be whether or not he will remain
healthy enough to get to that point. I tend to believe he will,
as his foot injury last season certainly was not caused by his
workload the previous season. That said, I put a fair amount of
stock into the workload
articles that have been published
on this site, as they are not only good reads, but also serve
a cautionary tale about putting too much faith into a player that
has carried too much of the weight in a given season.
Either way, LJ makes for a great case study on why this analysis
is well worth the time put into it. If I am reasonably confident
that he post numbers close to what I have projected here and think
he can make it back to me in the middle of the second round, I
may be more apt to target a player at another position (Randy
Moss?) with my first pick with the idea that the Patriots'
WR will far out-produce just about everyone else's #1 WR
while feeling very confident that LJ will match the production
of a lot of #1 RBs selected in the first round. It is that kind
of "acceptable" tradeoff that separates the also-rans
in fantasy leagues from the championship teams.
Wrapping Up…
In the coming days, I will follow this with the second part of
this three-part series where I discuss quarterbacks, wide receivers
and tight ends. Sure, it would be wonderful if everyone agreed
with my projections (in this article and in the upcoming ones),
it is not necessary and does not take away just how large of a
role matchups should play into the thinking of owners not only
during the season, but also during the drafting process. Securing
a "soft matchup" during the fantasy playoffs should
not be an accident; it should really be something that an owner
seeks to find in the draft.
The third part of this series will tie in all the positions,
the ranking and tiering of the players as well as address the
"participation issue" I mentioned earlier.
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"Sunshine Week is about the public's right to know what its government is doing and why," Mayor Beutler said. "It's your government, and a government by the people and for the people must have the tools and resources to hold accountable the public officials they have entrusted.
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Beutler commended City Ombudsman Lin Quenzer and City Clerk Joan Ross for their efforts to provide access to information and for their personal assistance to help residents resolve issues with City government. He said the City's efforts to be transparent include the Taking Charge public engagement initiative and the Citizen Satisfaction Survey now available online at lincoln.ne.gov. Other ways the City of Lincoln promotes open government include the following:
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Was considering an Avatar (Oddy mkiii? in a box), and was wondering which of these was more effective in the far out noises dept.
I've read the very useful SOS comparison, and the only major plus that I can see the oddy having over the Cat is the ring mod... whereas the Cat has double cross mod and filter mod... (so an oddy might be redundant)
Still the arp seems to have its own unique sound, and I'm wondering what people prefer...
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Singapore's central bank plans to reprimand banks in the city-state as early as Friday following an 11-month review into how benchmark interest rates are set, five people with knowledge of the matter said.
The Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee, which includes the Monetary Authority of Singapore and banks, plans to separately announce changes to the rate-setting process on the same day, two of the people said today, asking not to be identified before the announcements are made.
The island nation's review into possible manipulation of the Singapore interbank offered rate follows a global crackdown on rigging of benchmark borrowing costs by banks and brokers. Barclays Plc, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc were fined $2.5 billion to settle claims with U.S. and U.K financial regulators. A British markets supervisor is considering opening a probe into potential manipulation in currency markets, another person briefed on the matter said today.
Sibor, used to price debt ranging from commercial term- loans to home mortgages, is calculated on behalf of the Association of Banks in Singapore, based on submissions by banks including Standard Chartered Plc, DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Edinburgh-based RBS last year withdrew from the panel.
Lenny Feder, group head of financial markets at London- based Standard Chartered and chairman of the SFEMC, didn't immediately return two calls to his mobile phone. Ong-Ang Ai Boon, director at the Association of Banks, didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment after business hours in Singapore.
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The monetary authority isn't planning to impose criminal sanctions on the banks or any employees, said two of the people. MAS will probably require some of the banks to set aside funds as a deposit with the central bank for a period of time and strengthen their internal controls, two people said.
Singapore expanded its review in September to include non- deliverable forwards, a derivative used by traders to speculate on the movement of currencies that are subject to domestic restrictions. UBS, based in Zurich, and RBS suspended at least three traders in Singapore as part of probes into the manipulation of those rates, two people with knowledge of the matter said in October.
Members of the currency traders' committee met on Jan. 22 to examine a proposal to end Singapore's U.S. dollar-linked Sibor, a person with knowledge of the matter said in February. The central bank will probably announce changes to the benchmark rates and the process for setting them by the end of June, the person said at the time.
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When my maternal grandmother's house was cleared after she died this photograph was found among her papers. There are no names, date or other details recorded on it, not even the name of the photographer. My mum could not remember having seen the photo before but thought that the baby bore some resemblance to my aunt at a similar age and was probably my grandmother.
Due to family circumstances my grandmother, 'Nannie' to me and my sister, had few possessions dating from her childhood or even from the early years of her own children, but somehow this photograph had survived the ups and downs of her eighty-two years.
When I began researching her family, building on records collected by my mum some years earlier, one of the tasks I set myself was to identify the people in this photo and the approximate date it was taken.
Having traced records of my great-grandparents and their family I now believe this photograph was taken before Nannie was born and is of her parents Hector McNeil (1886-1954) and Agnes Gray McNeil née Frickleton (1892-1923) with their three oldest surviving children: Andrew Frickleton McNeil born 1911, James 'Jimmy' McNeil born 1913 and Agnes Gray Frickleton McNeil born 1915.
I suspect the photograph may date from the family's move from the mining village of Standburn near Falkirk in Stirlingshire, where these children were born, to the City of Glasgow where their next child, Hector, was born in 1917, and so was probably taken about 1916.
What I don't know is the identity of the girl standing at the back of the photo. She was obviously considered important enough to be included in a family portrait but somehow she seems a little apart from the rest of the group, not quite one of the family. Although the photo is a little unclear it appears that Hector has his arm slightly in front of her, rather than around her protectively as with his son.
It's rather difficult to judge how old she might be, but certainly quite a few years older than the other children and, I think, probably too old to be Agnes' daughter.
Agnes was the eldest of ten children, eight of whom were girls, and so my guess is that this girl is one of Agnes' little sisters. Agnes might have been glad to have an extra pair of hands to help take care of her growing family and the girls' parents might well have been grateful to have one less mouth to feed.
I've been lucky enough to find out quite a lot about the Frickleton sisters. Firstly through the detailed information on various Freckleton/Frackleton/Frickleton families at www.geocities.com/pookyface that alerted me to the fact that Agnes was the only one of the sisters to remain in Scotland, the rest (and one brother) all emigrated. Then through records of their emigration and later lives available online at www.findmypast.com and www.ancestry.com. And finally through the great kindness of a former client who asked 'if there's ever anything I can look up for you in Canada' (probably not imagining that there was!) and found me several newspaper notices and an extract from a book relating to the two sisters who emigrated to Canada and their families.
I realise I will probably never know for certain who the girl in this photograph is, and, that as far as researching my family history goes, this isn't one of the greatest unanswered questions. But for some reason I'd really like to put a name to this face, so if anyone out there thinks she looks familiar I would love to hear from you!


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
1. Attunements are unnecessary, and should be removed for every instance except Karazhan.
2. Reward bosses should be buried deep in the heart of an instance, not placed near the beginning.
3. Guilds should do raid content in order, and not chase after "easy" bosses.
4. If you have a choice between putting in attempts on a new boss or farming for extra gear, you should put in more attempts on the new boss.
5. Trash should not respawn.
Hopefully that makes things clearer.
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Your assessment of the attunement situation seems to be based less on concrete reality and more on a personal interpretation of how raiding instances are organized.ReplyDelete
Vashj and Kael'thas are the end-bosses of two high end instances. By definition, they are going to be very complex and tough fights, no matter what, especially when you consider how important they are in lore.
However, who had heard of High Warlock Naj'entus before Black Temple? No one. He was made up for that might. And he's the first boss of an instance, not the final one. Of course he's going to be easy when compared to Vashj and Kael.
People have interpreted the natural drop in difficulty after defeating the final boss of a dungeon as a "reward system" designed by Blizzard, when in fact it is nothing of the kind. It's simply how it works. You cannot reasonably assume that a fight right after a boss with a difficulty such as Kael'thas to be equivalent to that. It would be ridiculous and terribly painful for guilds.
Not every fight CAN be as hard as Vashj, Kael, Archimonde, Illidan, etc. For a fight to be so hard, it cannot be common. For there to be hard fight, there must be easy fights. Blizzard simply puts the hard fights deep into the dungeon. It's a natural, logical system, one that makes perfect sense.
Kael'thas continues to give even hardcore guilds in T6 gear headaches. They can say all they want about how nerfed it is, but it's still a pain-in-the-butt fight.
As with mountains, there is an easy downhill slope after the peak. But the downhill slope was not created for those who reached the peak. It's simply the natural path the mountain--and the climber--must take. What goes up must come down.
It's very fallacious to interpret the downhill slide as a reward. Most climbers consider getting to the peak the reward. Going downhill is simply the way to get started on the next peak, and a way of recovering one's energy and spirit.
where is everyone rohan? it seems to me like you and me are the only one posting now adays regularyReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:20 AM, February 14, 2008
On your points, I state the following:ReplyDelete
1: Concur 100% the deaths that players will face when attempting content beyond them will be a harsh reminder of their relative skill.
2. Concur 100%
3. Concur 110%! It is important to hone skills rather than chase after 'easy' loot before youre ready.
4. Concur in part. While I am a proponent of skill>gear, the fact remains that gear does play a part in the equation and sometimes you have to farm a bit to make that happen.
5. Concur 100%. If you kill it once, it should stay dead which will allow for more attempts at the boss.
I would agree that Rohan's proposed changes are "a personal interpretation of how raiding instances are organized".ReplyDelete
On the other hand, the positioning of Vashj and Kael as an attunement barrier, with some easier bosses at the beginning of the next raid, are simply an implementation of the WoW designer team's "personal interpretation of how raiding instances are organized"*.
*One might also replace "personal interpretation" with "business decision". Many people, including myself, interpret the current TBC raid implementation as sets of content with various attunement barriers to extend the life of the content. Later the barriers are taken down (and nerfs given) to allow more access to content as hardcore content is added in a stair-step for an "every raider gets something new" feel to patches.
- Dorgol (Boulderfist US)12:43 PM, February 14, 2008
"You cannot reasonably assume that a fight right after a boss with a difficulty such as Kael'thas to be equivalent to that. It would be ridiculous and terribly painful for guilds."
Actually, it isn't so unreasonable an assumption. Compare the Ragnaros fight to Razorgore followed by Vael. Rag was a joke compared to the organization needed for Razor.
Part of this can be attributed to Blizzard still learning how to implement raiding, but not all of it. There were "loot pinatas" further into BWL as a reward for defeating the harder bosses, and as an opportunity to gear up for the last two fights.
While I understand the attitude behind #4, I don't see that happening. Guilds that have been struggling on Kael'thas for the last month / 6 weeks are going to FLOCK to MH. Anything to break the frustration of wiping over and over again to an extremely difficult encounter.
You say: "keep beating your head against the wall until the wall falls down". They say "we'll go into MH, get a hammer, and then come back and take down that wall".
dorgol, in my view, those guilds think they're getting a sledgehammer, but they're really ending up with a basic claw hammer. It'll help, but really, it's not that much help.ReplyDelete
Mastering strategy, execution, and skill is like activating a jackhammer, and one that will help you out on the rest of the content.


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2012 was a bit of a slower year here in this slice of web. Between losing my #1 taste tester and a having major burnout, it's been a bit of an adjustment to get back into the swing of things. Don't worry. Boyfriend's still around! Well most of him at least--there's about 90 pounds of him missing now. He began the year with the serious commitment to lose weight, and almost a year later, he's lost about a third of himself! With him as inspiration and motivation, I attempted to cut out some of the sweets and junk in my life too, which kept me out of the kitchen, but left me almost 10 pounds lighter than last year. (Well, I was, until I went full-on Cookie Monster on the Christmas cookies..)
The time I was in the kitchen was well spent. I learned to can and make jam, which netted me 2 ribbons at the Ohio State Fair this year-- a 2nd place ribbon for my Honey Chipotle BBQ sauce and a 1st place Blue Ribbon for Cherry Jam! (I also got a 2nd place ribbon for my Chocolate Chip Cookies with Cream Cheese and a 3rd place for my Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies.) I also got to put together a dessert table for a wedding shower and bake for a rehearsal dinner too! When I wasn't learning how to do brand new things, or party baking, I was whipping up some delicious treats to share with you all. As far as I can tell, you guys seemed to enjoy what I shared, because a whole lot more of you showed up this year compared to last year! So without further ado, I present to you--the Top 5 recipes of 2012!
#5 - My personal favorite of the year-- Lemon Pull Apart Bread
#4 - Identity Crisis Cookies
What happens when you combine a peanut butter, oatmeal, and chocolate chip cookie together? You get an amazing hybrid that will keep you grabbing for more.
Sometimes you just need to get back to the basics to get back into the groove of things. It's like hitting the reset button when you start to feel overwhelmed. A very tasty reset button. That I want to keep pressing over and over again.
#2 - Lemon Pound Cake
2012 was the year of simple flavors. Don't get me wrong--I'm all for questionable flavor combos, but classic flavors are classics for a reason. They're tried and true and rarely go out of style. Lemon is one of my top classic flavors!
And the #1 most popular recipe of the year -- Chocolate Salted Caramel Thumbprints
This post has a special place in my heart because these cookies were the very first pictures taken with my brand new camera. Is it weird to have an unhealthy attachment to an inanimate object? Cause I do. I also have an unhealthy attachment to these cookies. Chocolate and caramel are meant for each other.
And I have to give an honorable mention to two posts that weren't from this year, but have been the top 2 most viewed posts of 2012 thanks to a HUGE boost from Pinterest!
Caramel Pretzel Bites and Peppermint Sugar Cookie Bars. These two posts, because of Pinterest, gave my humble little site a nearly 300% increase in visits over last year. So THANK YOU to everyone who shares my posts with your world! It means the world to me. You seriously blow my mind. And a big, humongous thank you to everyone who stopped by this year and to all those who left sweet, wonderful comments here, in my inbox, and on my Facebook page! Here's to an awesome 2013!
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The study is published by a German group called IQWiG, the Foundation for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, a private law foundation with legal capacity. IQWiG's function according to its charter includes:
1. Search for, assessment and presentation of current scientific evidence on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for specific diseases;
2. Preparation of scientific reports and expert opinions on quality and efficiency issues of SHI services, taking age, gender, and personal circumstances into account;
3. Appraisal of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on the epidemiologically most important diseases;
4. Issue of recommendations on disease management programmes;
5. Assessment of the benefits and costs of drugs;
6. Provision of easily understandable information for all citizens on the quality and efficiency of health care services, as well as on the diagnostics and treatment of diseases of high epidemiological relevance.
Its task is to support the Federal Joint Committee in fulfilling its statutory duties in these areas by the submission of recommendations (§139b [4] SGB V)"
Bearing in mind that the German health-care system is mainly funded by the government, they don't look just at the medical aspects but also at efficiency and costs. That is something to keep in mind when considering these reservations about the efficacy of tight control. Costs are very important when you run a government health-care system, but costs should have no bearing on the medical aspects of whether or not tight control of diabetes is good for patients.
The IQWiG news release includes this:
"Indications that patients with type 2 diabetes benefit from intensive blood glucose control were found only for the outcome "non-fatal heart attacks". However, at the same time the data provide indications that severe hypoglycaemic episodes as well as other serious events in part occurred considerably more often in the intensive-therapy group than in the group with less intensive lowering of blood glucose levels.
Overall, the results of the current IQWiG report are consistent with those of reviews and meta-analyses recently conducted and presented by other researchers.
Question as to which treatment strategy is better still remains unanswered
The IQWiG Director Jürgen Windeler comments on the current report: "It is quite astonishing: individual interventions, particularly drugs, have in part been well investigated in studies; however, we know relatively little about the advantages and disadvantages of treatment strategies. If doctors are faced with the question as to what they can specifically offer to their diabetes patients, whether they should lower blood glucose levels as much as possible, and in which patients this a promising (or less promising) approach, they still do not receive satisfactory answers." Even though this is a key question in the care of people with type 2 diabetes, the few studies available do not allow reliable conclusions."
The full IDWiG pdf report is here: Benefit assessment of long-term blood glucose lowering to near normal levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
They've missed the target again. There are many benefits of lowering blood glucose levels in diabetics to near-normal levels. But there are also many dangers in the intensive use of medications and insulin to achieve that goal.
The problem is not the goals but the methods.
Sadly, all they have done is confirm something that has been discussed by type 2 diabetics on diabetes forums ever since ACCORD and ADVANCE (both are included in this meta-study) were published. Those papers did not show that tight control is harmful, instead they showed that intensive use of oral medications and/or insulin to push A1c or FBG down can be hazardous to the health of a diabetic.
The factor missing from all of these studies is use of lifestyle changes, particularly diet and exercise, to achieve near-normal A1c and blood glucose levels. Repeatedly in all these studies the subjects were advised to follow the traditional (since Keyes) extremely low-fat high-carbohydrate diet and to then use medications and insulin to combat the results of that way of eating. I wrote some brief comments on the ACCORD and ADVANCE trials back in 2008 when they came out; nothing has changed since then.
Easily overlooked in the detail of this IQWIG paper is an even sadder acceptance of very poor targets:
"The goal in the test intervention group had to be long-term BG adjustment to near-normal levels (long-term lowering of HbA1c to levels at least lower than 7.5%, or long-term lowering of fasting BG to levels at least lower than 126 mg/dl or 7 mmol/l). Comparator interventions were those with no goal or a less intensive goal of long-term BG adjustment to near-normal levels."
We have already seen ACCORD used by the UK NHS and some other national diabetes authorities to discourage patients from trying for less than 7%; now they will probably use this to raise it to 7.5%.
One of the more enjoyable parts of being an active participant on several diabetes forums is that I get the opportunity to frequently offer congratulations to excited people reporting dramatic improvements in their diabetes indicators such as HbA1c, or significant improvements in the severity of complications. Often those congratulations are for joining the 5% club for achieving an A1c of less than 6%. Invariably those happy people report that their great results are from their efforts in making changes to their menu, usually as a consequence of post-meal testing, or their increases in exercise or both. Very rarely do they mention it was due to increasing meds but even then the diet and exercise usually changed first.
Those people do not seem to be encountering any of the problems warned about in meta-studies like this or ACCORD and ADVANCE.
To repeat myself, they've missed the target again. But I'll keep aiming for 6% or less.
Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia


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How do Rangers' prospects fit Texas' needs?
This series is designed to evaluate the role prospects play in each Major League organization, looking at the short- and long-term needs of each club and illustrating how prospects fit in both scenarios.
Here's my look at the Rangers:
This series is designed to evaluate the role prospects play in each Major League organization, looking at the short- and long-term needs of each club and illustrating how prospects fit in both scenarios.
Here's my look at the Rangers:
Short-term needs
The Rangers have recently given first Major League opportunities to such players as Jurickson Profar, Leonys Martin and Martin Perez, and there are still a number of high-quality prospects waiting for their turn.
Michael Choice could see time at designated hitter and in the outfield this season, and he could surprise. He has power from a stocky, 6-foot, 215-pound frame. Choice has a large lower half, which is a source of much of his strength. Playing for Oakland last season, he made 19 plate appearances, but he hit 30 home runs in 2011 at Class A Advanced Stockton in the A's organization. Choice has since hit 10 at Double-A Midland and 14 at Triple-A Sacramento, and he doesn't strike out as much as most sluggers.
Long-term needs
Rougned Odor may well be one of the reasons the Rangers could afford to trade Ian Kinsler. Along with Profar, Odor offers another solid infield option, though he profiles best as a second baseman. Odor has been in Texas' system for parts of three seasons. He hit .306 in 2013, making steady improvement in challenging classifications each year. Odor's hitting ability comes with enough speed to steal bases. He has some home run power, and he can pop an occasional double. Complementing Odor's good offense is his ability to play very smooth middle-infield defense.
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Luis Sardinas is a high-quality shortstop who, like Odor, comes from Venezuela. Sardinas is 6-foot-1 and only 150 pounds. He has excellent speed, which may be his best tool. Sardinas has a career .292 batting average over four years. This past year, however, he hit .259 at Double-A Frisco. Sardinas has missed time with injuries, but if healthy, the sure-handed youngster is a smooth and polished shortstop with all of the attributes of a top defender.
At 6-foot-5 and 205 pounds, and at the age of 20, Joey Gallo may outgrow third base. The left-handed-hitting Gallo has a strong uppercut swing with home run power. Last season at Class A Hickory, he blasted 19 doubles, five triples and 38 home runs in 446 trips to the plate. Gallo drove in 78 runs while striking out 165 times. He plays acceptable defense, with good arm strength, but he is all about his loud bat. Gallo runs well enough but isn't fast.
First-base candidate Ronald Guzman is a left-handed hitter with a long, lean body at 6-foot-5 and 205 pounds. He has good swing mechanics that result in gap hits. Guzman may not have home run power, but he could hit for average and play an adequate first base. He's a natural hitter.
Selected out of high school in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft, outfielder Nick Williams could become a very special player. He hit .313 in the Arizona Rookie League and then was promoted to Class A Hickory last season. At Hickory, Williams hit .293 with 17 home runs and 60 RBIs in 404 plate appearances. He also stole eight bases. At age 20, the left-handed-hitting Williams has a sweet swing and generates gap power with the barrel of the bat.
My selection as the cream of the Rangers' prospect crop is catcher Jorge Alfaro, who is outstanding on both offense and defense. He is only 20, but his mechanics on both sides of the ball are much more advanced, and he's only going to get stronger and better. Alfaro is an aggressive player, to put it mildly. He may have to tamp down some of the excess in his game, but he's exciting to watch. Defensively, Alfaro calls a good game, takes charge, blocks balls well and looks quite advanced behind the plate. His arm is extremely strong and accurate. I believe Alfaro will punish pitchers with his bat and torment the opposition with his defense as he gains more experience.
Pitcher Alex Gonzalez uses his very effective sinking fastball and effective slider to keep hitters off balance. Included in his 14 starts last season were five at Class A Advanced Myrtle Beach, where he threw 19 innings and had a sparkling 2.84 ERA and 1.26 WHIP. Issuing too many walks was a problem.
Texas selected 6-foot, 178-pound Travis Demeritte in the first round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Demeritte, a right-handed-hitting third baseman/shortstop, is still raw and needs time to cut down on his swing. He's probably best suited at third base. Demeritte does have good speed and shows power potential.
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eodabas needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 31 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We are looking for a complete set of stationary for our IT company including business card, letterhead, folder and envelope.
Set We Want:
Business Card: Horizontal - 8x5cm / 3.1x2.0 inches - 2 sides, Full Color
Letterhead: A4 format size - 29.7x21cm / 11.7x8.3 inches, Full Color
Folder: For Letterhead: 31x22 cm, Full Color
Envelope: For Folder: 33x24 cm, Full Color
Our Logo: You can download our logo:
Here in eps format.
Here in png format.
We will send our logo in any format to the winner designer for final design.
Data for designs:
Kartaca Iletisim Ltd. Sti.
Beytem Plaza Kat 4, Buyukdere Cad. 22,
Sisli, Istanbul Turkey
Tel: +90 212 296 95 94
Fax: +90 212 296 95 94
Business Card:
You must provide these information on front side of the business card.
Hamit Emre SAKA
Junior Developer
Mobile Marketing Team
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- All designs must be in vectoral format. Adobe Illustrator
- Fonts must be Turkish compatible (ğ,ç,ö,ü...) and send together.
- WE WANT MODERN, ENERGIC and CREATIVE DESIGNS. YOU CAN TRY ANYTHING NEW but logo.- We like these ones: - Well done!
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On the PHP::Impact blog, Federico Cargnelutti has another helpful tip to use in Zend Framework applications - encapsulating routes into modules.
You can encapsulate routes into modules by splitting the routes into different files and extending the Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite class. But, what if you want to use the Redirector helper to set a URL based on a registered route?
His method creates the routing instance and overwrites the default getRoute method with a custom one in the extending class.


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Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla has dismissed all speculation linking him with a return to Spain and the La Liga after Atletico Madrid made a cheeky bid for the Spaniard earlier on this summer.
Cazorla, who is yet to return to pre-season training after being involved in the Confederations Cup, has had an impressive debut season in England with The Gunners after they signed him from Spanish outfit Malaga for £16million last summer and his performances have caught the eye of several clubs, including Atletico Madrid.
The La Liga side are in the hunt of strengthening their squad after selling star-asset Radamel Falcao to French side AS Monaco for a whopping £56million and they did initially make an offer of around £18million for Cazorla, but manager Arsene Wenger rejected the offer immediately.
Despite the reports of the offer, the Madrid president revealed that no talks were made between the club and Cazorla, but he didn't deny having interest in the playmaker, but the player himself has made it clear where his future lies.
"Much has been made the subject of Atletico Madrid, but I am very good in London," Cazorla said.
"I have a contract with Arsenal and I start training on Monday
"We'll see when I come back to La Liga - it is very difficult right now."
The cheeky-chappy, who has set alight the Premier League since joining last season, has also revealed how happy he is for countryman David Villa after he completed his move away from FC Barcelona.
"I'm very happy for him because he's had a difficult year at Barcelona with the injury, and now he can enjoy football again," Cazorla said.
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Bruce Creek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 98 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
North Creek Advisors
We are investment advisors to large investors (institutions like pension funds and university endowments), including wealthy individuals. We help our clients invest in hedge funds and manage those investments. Our logo should be conservative, clean, simple, and present an image of stability and safety. We are selling trust and investment expertise. We need to be viewed as conservative, but also distinct and innovative - we are very experience former hedge fund managers, and shouldn't be viewed as old and stodgy wall street types.
Large institutional investors and extremely wealthy individuals that invest in hedge funds (not a dirty word to us!). Our client base includes pension funds, university endowments, etc - which means we deal with people that are responsible for safeguarding other people's money. Hence the importance of conveying trust and stability
We will use this as our corporate logo that will be on our business cards, letterhead, presentations, and web site. We'd like to avoid the typical "symbols" of wall street - no chart-like graphs, building with columns, bulls or bears, etc. Again, something that will highlight financial innovation, but trust.
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What is the difference with the Suzuki Smash 115 Smash 110 Titans? "Titan's new total, both engine and model," said Joko Utomo, GM Sales PT Indomobil Suzuki Wheels-2. In accordance with additional points behind, there is a difference in engine capacity. If Smash 110 cc, 115 cc of the Titan. "Actually, only increased by 3 cc or a 113 cc," added Surya Setiawan, Director of Marketing SIS R-2.
With changes to the engine's performance is slightly better than Titan Smash. In Thailand, this is called the New Smash Titans, while the old version with a machine called Smash Revo 110.
From the dimensions have not changed much. However, a longer wheelbase 15 mm (see table). Nevertheless, according to data from PT SIS, apparently more severe standard Titan 4 kg of Smash. When using the casting wheel disc brakes, the weight increased 2 kg so the total weight of 102 kg.
A glimpse of the lights and the front hood is similar because of the format and placement of the headlights Sein lights on the front hood similar. However, the rear of the Titan round headlights, while Smash sharp angle. Sein position lights are also below. Design front sepatbor also different.
Instrument panel
Titan 3D design consists of two parts, the speedometer and white-month basis, in no trip meters with a black base. Dental indicators, ranging from below, upward.
Exhaust and rear lights
Encrusted chrome exhaust only. Titans plain, without accentuation as Smash. The rear lights, although the same format in the middle of the red and white on the side, there is little difference in the corners of the lamp. Then, stirrup or holding back on Titan painted black.
Additional capacity is done by changing the diameter and the step machine. Titan's engine is more upright position and the valve is longer. It is equipped with a throttle position switch (TPS), which is also used in the Shogun.
Titan Machinery, is a long type of stroke or stride. It can be seen with 51 mm diameter cylinder and measures 55.2 mm or 7.6 mm longer than Smash 110.
The result, engine power increased 0.1 PS, while torque is a significant increase, which is 1.7 Nm. This change was done so that more efficient fuel consumption.


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NBA Live 10 isn't much of a breakthrough in digital basketball, but overall, it is engaging, strategic, fun to play, and very realistic – with the feel of playing in the last year's season. Still a nice game to play!
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With the new Dynamic DNA feature of the game, this makes it a game worth playing, however it cannot quite compete to be the champion among games of the sort.
So what makes it different? If you are a hardcore fan of basketball, the awesome Dynamic DNA will interest you as it makes the game much more realistic, just like how you watched the real game last season. How real? Expect to encounter the injuries, the trades, and every single event that happened on last year's game – in your own living room, or wherever else you want to play. Feel that last 20 seconds of the game, you as Kobe Bryant, facing Vince Carter, passing the ball onto Pau Gasol in a split second, and feeling the thrill upon hearing the buzzer after he was able to dunk the ball.
But don't think of it as just a replay, as you can control how the game ends, with your strategies and wit, thus making your game fun.
If you have been playing previous versions of NBA Live, you'll feel that this game is even more strategic than it has been. With just a push of a button, you can be able to see what your opponent has been doing. And with another button, the optimal play, you can execute your strategy. With another button, you can order teammates what to do, make them roll or step back. Just as simple as that – with of course the realistic feel.
But if you'd ask me, I don't like how some co-players seem to have no interest at all and how they are actually dumb, lazy, and even just do nothing on the paint especially when you don't control them manually. They just stand there. The crowd cheers you up however if you would like to hear comments coming from Marv Albert and Steve Kerr, be prepared to receive repetitive and ordinary comments. Expect also to see a number of glitches on the basketball physics. First, it doesn't act like the real one, and it is difficult to control right through it, even passing it clean onto your defender, and as much as the ball goes off of the players' hands, expect them to look more disinterested – which is not really the real scenario on the game.
Creating Online Leagues with up to 30 members is also a feature of this game where they can compete to start their own franchise. And if you're disappointed in last year's edition's Be a Pro mode, this year's Adidas Live is fun to play as you can feel like playing in real life without fouls. Though it's fun, the downside is that there isn't much of a reward or incentive on this edition.
The presentation is exciting because the crowd cheers appropriately, as well as the bench players, though this part is not quite realistic. Movements appear realistic, with even expressions showing disgust or disagreement. There are some minor awkward glitches in movements though, but generally smooth and worthwhile.
NBA Live 10 isn't much of a breakthrough in digital basketball, but overall, it is engaging, strategic, fun to play, and very realistic – with the feel of playing in the last year's season. Still a nice game to play!
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A Harrisonville woman waived her right to a preliminary hearing in Franklin County on February 9. Twenty-three-yearold Ashley Fix is charged with 33 counts of criminal conspiracy in connection with a series of burglaries of rental storage units at Affordable Storage on Loudon Street, Chambersburg, on January 22. Mandatory arraignment has been set for March 24.
Warfordsburg Man Cited For DUI
A Warfordsburg man was cited with driving under the influence following a nonreportable crash in neighboring Bedford County on January 29. According to state police in Bedford, 53-year-old Bobby Stotler crashed into a 2005 Honda Pilot at the intersection of business Route 30 and Lincoln Highway in West Providence Township at 3:30 p.m. Stotler was taken to UPMC Bedford Memorial following the crash on suspicion of driving under the influence.
Truck Overturns
An eastbound 2006 Ford F- 150 spun into an embankment twice before overturning along Interstate 70 onto its drivers side. Brian O. Waters, 22, of Guyton, Ga., was not injured during the Monday, February 15, crash at 4:41 p.m. He was wearing a seat belt, state police reported.
Social Security Number Used
The Social Security number of a 40-year-old Wells Tannery man was used to gain employment in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, February 16, at 2:23 p.m. The case of identity theft remains open and under investigation by state police officials.
McConnellsburg Man Faced With Harassment Charges
A 24-year-old McConnellsburg man is faced with charges of harassment following an altercation at 210 East Walnut Street, McConnellsburg Borough, on Tuesday, February 16. According to state police, Justin Lee Guyer allegedly argued with and shoved a 54-year-old Mc- Connellsburg man onto a couch at 11 p.m. Charges against Guyer have been filed through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.
Three Springs Man Uninjured
A Three Springs man was uninjured when his northbound vehicle struck an embankment along South Madden Road in Taylor Township last Thursday morning. State police reported that at 2:50 a.m. on February 18, 18-year-old Brett D. Knepper lost control of his 2002 Chevrolet Cavalier, which struck an embankment and flipped onto its roof. Police added the roadway was partially covered with drifting snow at the time of the Taylor Township accident near the intersection of Drifting Lane.
Knepper was wearing a seat belt. He will be charged by state police with driving too fast for roadway conditions.
Two Vehicles Collide
Two vehicles collided along Great Cove Road near the War- fordsburg exit of Interstate 70 on Monday, February 15. State police did not release the names of either driver, but did note the 2010 Prius was travelling too fast for roadway conditions when it ran a stop sign at 3 p.m. and struck the other vehicle. The driver will be charged with driving too fast for roadway conditions.
RV Damaged
A 1978 Dodge Itasca RV was struck multiple times with a BB gun while parked near an alley behind the 600 block of Lincoln Way East between 4 p.m. on February 7 and 3 p.m. on February 18. Damage to the RV belonging to a 42-year-old McConnellsburg man has been estimated at $200. Anyone having additional information regarding this case of mischief is urged to contact Fulton County Crime Solvers at 717- 485-5771 or Trooper Johns at 717- 485-3131.
Man Arrested For Assault
Kevin Lynn Strait of Warfordsburg was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott on charges of simple assault following an alleged physical altercation at 566 Franklin Mills Road on Thursday, February 18. Bail was set at $25,000.
According to state police, the fight between Strait, 36, and a 37-year-old Warfordsburg area woman occurred at 10:05 p.m. Strait reportedly strangled the woman before hitting her in the head and abdomen several times. State police added Strait also kicked the woman in both knees and her left shin. Following the fight, he is accused of grabbing a towel and a lighter and threatening to burn down the Bethel Township residence.
Intoxicated Man Found On Roadway
A Hustontown man is accused of staggering and stumbling across Route 30 while in an intoxicated state on Sunday, February 21, just east of the intersection of Lincoln Way East. State police reported 49-year-old Timothy Mellott was found along the Ayr Township roadway at 2:26 p.m. They reported he was unable to answer basic questions and had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage as well as bloodshot eyes. He currently faces charges of public drunkenness.
Crystal Spring Man Charged With Unlawful Restraint
A Crystal Spring man was lodged in the Franklin County Prison last Friday in lieu of $25,000 after he allegedly unlawfully restrained a woman at a residence located at 14457 Old 126. Herbert Gene Carter, 27, was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Carol Jean Johnson on various charges, including unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, simple assault and harassment.
According to state police, Carter was involved in a domestic dispute at 6 a.m. with a 24- year-old woman, who was allegedly grabbed, shoved and pushed to the ground. The woman was also prevented from leaving the Brush Creek Township residence.
Utility Pole Struck
A utility pole and a set of guide wires for a second utility pole were struck by a 1985 Toyota on Sunday, February 21, along Timber Ridge Road, state police reported. Driver Sterling W. Wills, 18, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., was not injured during the 5:15 p.m. accident just north of Johnsons Mill Road in Thompson Township. He will be charged with driving a vehicle at safe speeds.
DUI Charges To Be Filed
Charges of driving under the influence and related offenses are scheduled to be filed through Magisterial District Judge Devin Horne in connection with a single vehicle accident along Route 30 at the intersection of Patterson Run Road.
State police said the Saturday, February 20, crash occurred when Breezewood resident Daniel M. Barnes, 53, rounded a curve in the Licking Creek Township roadway at a high rate of speed. Barnes' 2002 Pontiac Grand Am spun into a set of guiderails and an embankment.
Barnes was not wearing a seat belt in the 5:35 p.m. accident. He sustained moderate injuries. In addition to charges of drunk driving, he will be charged with driving a vehicle at safe speeds.


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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Spring love....
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- pve design said...
glorious! I would love to visit Brisbane.
Your shop looks amazing.
- November 17, 2011 at 7:56 PM
- Jacqueline @ HOME said...
Oh, your shop looks so beautiful Amanda.....and,the hydrangeas are just as beautiful too. November in the UK has been glorious and, we still have hydrangeas blooming.....unheard of at this time of year. Autumn has lasted a long time ....lets hope that we get a mild winter this year although, I'm not holding my breath !!!! Hope you are well and enjoying a successful time in your shop. XXXX
Love that last image.....the chair is so pretty. XXXX
- November 17, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- Julienne said...
I. am so jealous of your hydrangeas as we can't grow them at all in Western NSW!!!! I rather fancy the chair as well
- November 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM
- Chubby N Chieque said...
Enjoy your Spring/summer time. I am drooling now.
Happy w/end to you and your family.
/chie 4evah
- November 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM
- chateaudelille said...
You've reminded me to get up and water my sad hydrangia. i do love them. Fiona
- November 18, 2011 at 8:56 AM
- Dumbwit Tellher said...
I"m loving the chevron patterned chair next to that gorgeous hydrangea! I'm envious of your Spring weather. I hope the weekend will be a lovely one.
Cheers ! Deb
- November 19, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- Renée Finberg said...
the chair fabric is so yummy!!!
i like the drum tufted dressing stool too.
- November 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Melissah from Scrapbook said...
If it's summer in Brisbane then it feels like winter in Victoria! Love the wallpaper! I just stumbled across your lovely blog through I look forward to popping back for some more heavenly inspiration! Ps I just signed up as your latest follower
- November 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- vicki archer said...
Beautiful combinations... xv
- November 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- the modern sybarite ™ said...
Here in NY it is the beginning of the cold season, so looking at spring-like places and things makes me smile. Keep it up!!!!
- November 22, 2011 at 3:30 AM
- Lake norman realty said...
That is wonderful, I love the colors!
- January 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM
- shiree segerstrom said...
Amanda, you have an unerring eye. Your shop is just lovely and so are all of your posts. Please stop by Joy of Nesting sometime! Cheers! Shiree'
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|Greetings from the kitchen table--my temporary sewing and computer space! We've got some serious down-sizing going on at our house. Soon I'll have a room for sewing.
|Next week I'll be in Alabama to sew with some dear friends and some Gee's Bend quilt makers. I've prepared hand work for the journey.
|I actually have a faint memory of this pillow case and a photo of me sleeping on it!
|Do they call this a "romper?" I must have had a few. There are photos of me in other ones.
|How about that skirt in the back? I wonder if this is where I got my love of red and green plaids.
|I suppose this is a nightgown. Looks like a choking hazard to me.
|Red gingham and rickrack! What could be better?
|Little bitty buttons
|I can't imagine doing all this handwork, and then letting a toddler run around in this!


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BEIRUT — The international envoy working to end Syria's civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the government and the rebels to pursue a political solution could lead to the ''full collapse of the Syrian state'' and threaten the world's security.
Lakhdar Brahimi, who represents the United Nations and the Arab League, said that as many as 100,000 people could be killed in the next year as Syria moves toward ''Somalization'' and rule by warlords.
Brahimi has reported little progress in his mission to push forward a peace plan for Syria first presented in June at an international conference in Geneva. The proposal calls for an open-ended cease-fire and the formation of a transitional government to run the country until new elections can be held and a new constitution drafted.
But so far, neither the regime of President Bashar Assad nor the scores of rebels groups fighting his forces across the country have shown any interest in negotiations.
Activists reported violence around Syria on Sunday.
Rebels in the north clashed with government troops near military bases in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo and seized an oil pumping station in al-Raqqa.
The station receives crude oil from the nearby province of Hassakha and pumps it to one of Syria's two oil refineries in Homs, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In recent months, rebels have captured several oil fields in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq.
The observatory said rebels stormed a government air base in the area of Tel Hassir south of Aleppo, while government fighter jets launched deadly airstrikes near Aleppo, Hama, and in a number of rebellious Damascus suburbs.
Activists also reported two car bombs in the Yarmouk district of Damascus, where most residents are Palestinian refugees.
The rebels' political leadership has called Assad's departure a prerequisite for any political solution, and it is unlikely that the opposition's National Coalition could even stop rebels on the ground from continuing to fight.
Likewise, it is doubtful that top members of Assad's regime will voluntarily give up power.
The Syrian government has remained officially mum on Brahimi's plan, which he has pushed in the past week in meetings with Assad in Damascus, with top Russian officials in Moscow and on Sunday with the head of the Arab League in Cairo.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, said Saturday that Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to persuade him otherwise. Lavrov also said that the Syrian opposition risks sacrificing many more lives if it continues to insist on Assad's leaving office as a precondition for holding talks.
Speaking alongside Nabil Elaraby on Sunday, Brahimi estimated that 100,000 people could be killed if the 21-month conflict continues for another year.
Dire forecast for war-torn nation
''Peace and security in the world will be threatened directly from Syria if there is no solution within the next few months,'' he said. ''The alternatives are a political solution or the full collapse of the Syrian state.''
Since meeting Assad early last week, Brahimi has given no indication how his plan was received. When asked Sunday if there is any willingness among the opposition to enter a political process, Brahimi said, ''No, there isn't. This is the problem.''
Syria's crisis began in March 2011 with political protests against Assad. The conflict has since evolved into a civil war. Antiregime activists say more than 45,000 people have been killed.
The Syria government does not give death tolls for the conflict and says the rebels are terrorists backed by foreign powers who seek to destroy the country.
The Syrian conflict has split world powers, with the United States, Turkey, and many European and Arab states calling for Assad to stand down. Russia, China, and Iran have stood by the regime and criticized calls for Assad's ouster.


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For at least the last five years, electric and hybrid technology has dominated the European auto show circuits.
In 2007, the entire Franfkfurt show was colored "green" with new solutions to lower CO2 emissions and raise fuel economy.
Geneva could be a sign that things are changing.
The gasoline and diesel engines are admittedly downsized, but internal combustion is again the rage.
Everywhere you looked in Geneva, new IC engines were being launched.
The new Peugeot 208 has a new 1.0-liter and 1.2-liter three-cylinder power plant. The new Ford B-Max will be offered with a three-cylinder, 1.0-liter Ecoboost turbo gas engine. And Honda showed a new 1.6-liter diesel in the CRV.
Volvo's CEO Stefan Jacoby talked Tuesday morning about the power of the automaker's forthcoming four-cylinder engines, and maybe a future three-cylinder engine.
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Klaus Draeger, BMW's head of r&d, says car companies are getting more realistic about the outlook of the market by 2020.
"We think 10-to-15 percent of all vehicles by 2020 will be electric," he said, "but that leaves 90 percent that will be a combination of internal-combustion. There's been a little mismatch between the number of articles published on Evs versus conventional."
When asked if BMW will expand its range of forthcoming low-emission models, Draeger said patience is key when it comes to the possible proliferation of EVs.
"Let's see how people buy our (electric) products," he said. " Let's bring the product to market, but keep the company profitable."