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Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" had a big night Sunday night with two Emmy wins. The occasion was a good reason for one writer to remind folks that Colbert has a treadmill named after him on NASA's International Space Station.
Megan Garber of The Atlantic, whose work we've noted in a blog post earlier this year, wrote about the treadmill Monday after Colbert's Emmy wins for outstanding variety series (ending the streak of 10 consecutive Emmy wins for Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show") and outstanding writing for a variety series.
The story of the Colbert treadmill actually is four years old. In 2009, the comedian launched a campaign to have NASA name its Node 3 module extension to the space station after him, and "Colbert" received about one-fifth of the 1.1 million submissions in NASA's contest. The module eventually was named Tranquility, but NASA came up with a compromise and named its treadmill on the space station the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.).
On Sunday, astronaut Karen Nyberg posted a video on her Twitter account of how astronauts run on the C.O.L.B.E.R.T. in the space station's gym, whose membership rates I'd imagine are, ahem, out of this world. According to the YouTube video description, "Station crew members exercise for at least two hours every day to keep fit and to prevent the loss of muscle mass and bone density that occurs during long-duration spaceflight."
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Trevor Immelman rallied to win the Hotel Fitness Championship on Sunday at Sycamore Hills to lock up a PGA Tour card in the Web.com Tour Finals opener.
Immelman, the South African who won the 2008 Masters, made a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 6-under 66 and a one-stroke victory over Patrick Cantlay.
"There's no doubt this is huge for me," Immelman said. "It's been a long, frustrating road for me. It was so disappointing to lose my card. I'm not going to lie, I've struggled since 2008. I've been wondering if I'd be able to get back to playing the way I know I can play."
Cantlay, three strokes ahead entering the round, had a chance to force a playoff, but missed an 8-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th. He finished with a 72.
"I didn't hit it very well today. I missed a lot of greens and I didn't make any putts," said Cantlay, the Colombia Championship winner who is fighting back problems. "I'm not going to blame my play on my back because I played well all week despite it. Putting doesn't have anything to do with my back."
The top 25 on the Web.com Tour money list last week after the Cox Classic are assured PGA Tour cards for the 2013-14 season, while Nos. 26-75 are fighting with Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour's FedEx Cup standings for 25 additional cards in the four-event Web.com Tour Finals series. With the $180,000 first-place check, Immelman — 143rd in the FedEx Cup standings — is guaranteed to get one of those cards.
"I think my wife and family truly understands how frustrating things were for me," Immelman said. "This is really sweet and I'm going to enjoy it."
Cantlay earned $108,000 to put himself in good position to secure a PGA Tour card. The 21-year-old former UCLA star had a chance to wrap up a card in the Cox Classic, but missed the cut to drop from 25th to 29th on the Web.com Tour money list.
Immelman had a 20-under 268 total. He began the round five strokes behind Cantlay.
"I had a number of 8-under 64 in my mind," Immelman said. "Patrick was playing so well and there was no reason to think he wouldn't continue that today. I figured I'd have to shoot something like 64 to have a shot."
Scott Gardiner and Kevin Kisner tied for third at 18 under. Gardiner had a 68, and Kisner shot 70. They each earned $58,000.


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When Kathy Rhodes was watching the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show from home last year, she had no idea she would be in attendance at the show in 2013.
Not only did Rhodes attend the show in 2013, she was present as owner of an entered dog - her Pyrenean Shepherd, Zhako (pronounced Ja-co).
Zhako won Best of Winners and came home from New York City with a purple ribbon.
His breed is fairly new to the American Kennel Club (AKC), recognized as an AKC breed only since 2009.
Currently, the AKC recognizes 175 dog breeds.
Rhodes says when she was watching the dog show on television last year, she was looking for a dog that would be good at agility and heard the commentators say Pyrenean Shepherds are good agility dogs.
"I wanted to get in shape," she says, and wanted a dog as a fitness buddy.
So Rhodes decided to find a Pyrenean Shepherd of her own, and ended up finding breeder Patricia Princehouse through Internet searches.
Rhodes says Princehouse is the "number one breeder" of Pyrenean Shepherds.
Princehouse is located in Chardon, OH, a city outside of Cleveland and about four hours from Huntington.
Rhodes met with Princehouse last March, about a month after she started her dog search. She met Zhako and decided that he was the dog for her, but Princehouse had other ideas for the pup - and Rhodes.
Rhodes explains that she now owns Zhako through a co-ownership agreement with Princehouse. She says this means for all intents and purposes Zhako is her dog - he lives with her and she cares for him.
But Princehouse is able to ask Rhodes to take him to show, which she did for the first time in October 2012.
Rhodes says her first show was in Aliquippa, PA, a very small town about 20 miles from Pittsburgh.
She says they followed up that first show with two shows in Ohio, one in Tallmadge and another in Delaware.
Then Rhodes and her canine companion traveled to Florida for the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship on Dec. 15 and 16. Zhako took Best of Winners, which qualified him for the Westminster show earlier this February.
Rhodes says that, at the Florida show, she realized that she and Zhako needed training before they went to New York City.
She took Zhako to the Canine Companion training center in rural Huntington, where Rhodes and Zhako trained with Sarah Story, a dog trainer who has been working with Canine Companion since 2003.
Zhako learned how to "stand, stack and pay attention," Rhodes says.
Rhodes also learned that to show a dog, you must "train the owner instead of the dog."
"I'm not great at showing him," she says.
During the first round at Westminster, Zhako was shown by Elizabeth "Lizzy" Edgerton, who she connected with through Princehouse.
"When I look at the photos now I can see that Zhako was pacing when I was showing him ... he was trotting with Lizzy."
But, they are still new to the game.
"I am as much of a novice as he (Zhako) is," Rhodes says.
She says Zhako has caused her to be more active and he is her "companion."
Rhodes and Zhako take a walk once a day during the winter months, unless the weather is severely cold.
She says in the summer months, they would go walking twice a day.
He is "just a normal dog," she says.
"He is into everything," she adds.
"This morning I was in the shower, and when I came out he had shredded the toilet paper all over.
"When I take him to show, people say 'This dog is just spoiled rotten!'"
Pyrenean Shepherds are in the herding class of dog, native to the Pyrenees Mountains in southern France and northern Spain. They worked with Great Pyrenees, who acted as the flock guardian.
Rhodes says Zhako is a rough face "Pyre Shep" - a term Rhodes says is used at shows to shorten the name Pyrenean Shepherd.
She says he needs little grooming, and his body type is described as sinewy.
Rhodes says she doesn't know if she will return to Westminster next year, as it is up to Princehouse to decide when Rhodes shows Zhako.
Rhodes says Zhako is taking her to places she has never been before, and that isn't limited to dog shows.
She says she had never been to New York City before attending Westminster, so she spent time sightseeing when she wasn't busy with her dog show-related responsibilities.
She visited NBC's "Today Show" and met Al Roker, NBC weatherman; strolled through Times Square; enjoyed Broadway production, "Nice Work If You Can Get It," a Tony Award winning musical comedy staring Matthew Broderick; stopped over at Rockefeller Center; and caught of glimpse of the 9/11 Memorial.
There was other excitement as well, as Rhodes and Zhako drove into NYC at 4 a.m. - the morning before Winter Storm Nemo hit the East Coast.
Rhodes says she drove straight from Huntington to New York City to beat the storm, and got there just before the blizzard began.
She says the streets were cleared overnight and the snow was cleaned off the sidewalks the next day. Rhodes says there was so much snow in the city, they were forced to use dump trucks as snow plows and needed to dump the excessive amounts of snow into the Hudson River to dispose of it.
Another natural disaster affected her trip - Hurricane Sandy. Due to damage from the storm, the Statue of Liberty was closed and Rhodes was unable to visit. However, she says she did get to see the statue from afar.
Rhodes also saw the Empire State Building, which was lit with the Westminster colors.
Now that their adventure at Westminster is complete, Rhodes and Zhako will wait for their next call from Princehouse. Until then they will lead their normal lives, at home in Huntington, as dog, and usual dog owner.
And they won't forget to celebrate Zhako's first birthday on Feb. 28.
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The news: Brian Boyle skated during an optional practice, and said he felt better. Brandon Dubinsky did not skate and is on crutches, which doesn't necessarily mean anything in terms of the severity of his injury. Remember that Ryan Callahan was on crutches between games when he was playing with a bruised foot. It can be just to help the healing.
Anyway, the team has no update on either player.
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When it comes to ornaments, I like ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
An Ornament a Day - Day 22
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Well Greta, I've been enjoying all your ornament photos, but still haven't seen any like mine, that I make. So, I believe I shall send you some in 2012 for your collection!ReplyDelete
Barbara - You are too kind! Would love to see the ornaments you make. Quite a few of my ornaments were made by friends.ReplyDelete
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Tens of thousands of people turned out for the funeral today of Pope Shenouda III, the man Egypt's Coptic Christians saw as not just a leader, but a protector and a father who defended his flock in hard times, from the presidency of Anwar Sadat to the fall of Mubarak. Many Christians are devastated that his death on Saturday came at such a difficult time for them.
"In the circumstances we are in now, we needed him more than ever," says Mariem Seif, who stood amid the throngs outside St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo waiting to catch a glimpse of the car that would carry the pope's body away. Ms. Seif begins to weep as she ticks off the recent instances of attacks against Christians – a church bombing over a year ago that killed nearly two dozen people; multiple churches burned over the last year; and in October, an Army attack on a Christian protest that left 27 dead and the Christian community traumatized.
"We were so angry," says Seif. "But he was wise and calm, and calmed us down, to protect us."
Shenouda began his tenure as leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church four decades ago at a time of rising sectarianism that made Egyptian Christians feel under threat. By the time his patriarchy ended this weekend, the Christian community was once again feeling vulnerable.
Like many, Seif is not convinced that the next pope will be able to fill Shenouda's shoes. In a measure of the devotion many Copts felt for Shenouda, tens of thousands of people came to the cathedral Sunday and Monday to catch a last glimpse of his body. They waited for hours, braving deadly stampedes. Three people died and more than 50 were wounded in the crush of the crowd. Today, some of those who could not get inside the cathedral waited outside, following the service via handheld radios pressed to their ears.
Banished by Sadat
When Shenouda became leader of the church in 1971, then-President Anwar Sadat was using Islamic rhetoric and encouraging Islamist groups in an attempt to boost his support. It was a stark change from the secularism of his predecessor, former President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Christians began to feel targeted.
When Shenouda challenged Sadat over this, Sadat banished the pope to a monastery – the same one where the pope will be buried today. Shenouda spent three years there. When he emerged at the invitation of the next president, Hosni Mubarak, he seemed to have found a new way of protecting his flock.
Instead of challenging Mr. Mubarak, he supported him. This gave the pope a position from which to negotiate with government officials on behalf of the church. And he was good at this, says Samia Sidhom, managing editor of the Coptic newspaper Al Watani. He also cultivated good relations with the top Muslim clerics in Egypt.
Rise of sectarianism
Yet toward the end of Mubarak's rule, sectarianism was once again on the rise. As attacks on Christians increased, the pope was placed in a difficult position: He depended on his closeness to Mubarak's regime to win concessions on behalf of Christians, yet the regime was allowing and even perpetrating sectarianism and discrimination, angering Christians.
Copts became torn: they criticized Mubarak's regime for not protecting them, but at the same time they considered him a bulwark against Islamic extremism. The uprising that forced Mubarak from power and ushered in an Islamist majority in parliament was for some, the realization of their worst fears.
On Monday, several salafi members of parliament left the chamber or remained seated while the rest of the members stood for a moment of silence to mourn the pope.
Pope oversaw Coptic expansion in US
Despite the politics he faced in Egypt, most Copts will remember the pope for his legacy within the church. He continued the renaissance of the church begun by his predecessor, Pope Kyrillos VI, who began building up and expanding church institutions. Shenouda continued that work, leading many Christians to become more involved in the church.
He held the conservative line as some petitioned for less church control over personal lives, particularly in the case of divorce. Yet his position of not granting divorces to Christians except in extreme circumstances was in line with what most Copts believed.
The pope did introduce some democratic practices in the church, says Ms. Sidhom. "For instance, he never ordained a priest unless the congregation nominated him," she says. She calls his teaching lenient, calling for understanding and mercy. "He would always tell the priests and say out in public, 'Don't be too hard on the people. You have to understand their needs,' " says Sidhom.
Shenouda also oversaw an explosion of Coptic churches outside Egypt, including in the US.


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At the end of last week, I posted a short story about Angelina Atyam, an incredible woman from Northern Unganda. My Aussie mate Jarrod McKenna had sent me a note about the Kony 2012 campaign, expressing concern about its implied hope in US military force. I was impressed by the campaign's focus and energy, but shared Jarrod's hope for a better way. I posted Angelina's story with prayers that it would inspire those passionate about justice to believe that they could pursue it nonviolently.
This morning, I came into the office to find a flurry of correspondence, including a very pointed–while both honest and respectful–conversation about the cry for justice and the way of Jesus. I'd encourage you to read the comments on the original post. If I could offer one thing in response to this very good conversation, it'd be the chapter "Why We Would Rather Die Than Kill" from my forthcoming book The Awakening of Hope. Unfortunately, it's not out until August. But when I was working on this particular chapter last year, the good people at the Center for Parish Development asked me to speak to their annual convocation. After reading Ephesians with them for two very good days, I shared my own experience of being born again to active nonviolence. For those who are honestly struggling with how to pursue justice in the way of Jesus, I thought I'd share it here…
I am sitting in the lobby of a small hotel in Baghdad, listening to an American grandmother who has spent her last six months in Iraq. She is a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), a literal reserves for foot soldiers in the army of the Lord. Since 1986, CPT has made it their mission to "get in the way" of violence by practicing direct action nonviolence in conflict zones. I grew up singing camp songs about being in "the Lord's army," but never imagined the call of duty would lead me here. I am in a war zone, my head foggy from several nights of interrupted sleep, looking to a wiser soul for direction. Many of CPT's Iraqi friends are suggesting that we leave. Saddam Hussein's regime is crumbling, the city is under siege, and every night brings another series of bombs that shake the earth beneath us. We have been eager to know what we can do, but the locals know too well how little can be done when every night is spent hunkered down with the kids, listening to air raid sirens and waiting to see if the roof comes crashing in on you. Why be here if you don't have to be—if it's not your home, your kids, your city that you're praying will be spared from this madness?
In the distance, somewhere out on the city's edge, we hear bombing begin again. This brings a pause to the morning report, and I look around this circle of twenty peacemakers to gauge the general level of anxiety. An older gentleman across from me, his hands crossed on his lap, has his face turned up to the sky from which the bombs are falling. He begins to sing:
Over my head, I hear music in the air.
Over my head, I hear music in the air.
Over my head, I hear music in the air.
There must be a God somewhere.
I remember a few days ago hearing a reporter ask this man if he was afraid. "Oh, yes, I'm afraid," he said calmly. Then, with a slight smile, he added, "but maybe not for the reason you think. I'm not afraid of dying. My life belongs to God. But I am afraid of the belief that war brings freedom. I am afraid to sit at home while this kind of violence is carried out by my government. I am afraid that what Martin Luther King said is true: our only choice now is between nonviolence and nonexistence."
We decide to stay, at least for the time being, and we survive the bombing. A couple of days later, I go home as siege turns to occupation and terrorist cells spring up with the single mission of driving out US troops by any means necessary. CPT stays to accompany Iraqis through check-points manned by teenagers from the Midwest, to inquire about accusations of abuse at prisons, to train a Muslim Peacemaker Team, to say over and again, "Another way is possible."
The witness of Christian Peacemaking Teams, strange as it may seem, has a long precedent among God's people. When Moses declared to Pharaoh, "Let my people go!" he had no power to liberate the Hebrew children from slavery. But Moses had met the living God in a burning bush and was filled with holy boldness to declare that God could make a way out of no way. In a different context, when Babylon was the world power to deal with, three Israelites refused to bow down to a statue of the king and were thrown into a furnace of fire as punishment. The way the book of Daniel remembers it, they came out of the fire without so much as a hint of smoke on their clothes. Someone said they'd seen a fourth person walking with them in the flames.Stories like this remind God's people that the rulers and authorities of the world as we know it don't have the last word. Kings and Presidents are used to people heeding their commands. If we do not, they have whole armies to encourage compliance. Violence is their trump card. But God's people remember that no king is higher than the King of the Universe and that the Creator of life is stronger than death. If the law of the land contradicts the word of our Lord, we know whose command we must follow.
Jesus inhabits this tradition of divine obedience (and civil disobedience) when he is called before King Herod and Pilate in Jerusalem. From his triumphal entry to his cleansing of the temple to his death as a political criminal, Jesus challenges worldly authority by submitting to his Father. "Not my will, but yours be done," he prays. Standing before earthly authorities, Jesus fulfills a long tradition of divine obedience over and against the powers that be in this world.
But Jesus is also doing a new thing. Through his death and resurrection in the face of the powers that be, Jesus is inaugurating a new era in human history. If he really is the hope of Israel, then Jesus is not only the epitome of its best ideals, not just the incarnation of its deepest logic. Jesus is more than that. If Jesus is Messiah—if Israel's story advances to its conclusion in him—then something genuinely new has been actualized in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. What the church finds "in Christ" is not one more goal to strive for, but a new way of being human. Or, in the memorable summary of John's first epistle: "as he is, so are we in the world."
Though the new era of God's peaceable kingdom was real in the community of the Messiah, the early church knew from experience that the kingdoms of this world were also still present and very real. The advent of Messiah's reign had not immediately ended the kingdoms of this world, though their ultimate defeat was assured at the cross. Christians understood themselves to be living the way of the peaceable kingdom right alongside the violence of an order that was passing away. The challenge was not to overcome the world. Jesus had already done that. The challenge was to faithfully inhabit Jesus' way of engaging the powers. The "new thing" they found in Jesus was a new way of being in the world.
When Christians gained considerable worldly power, first in the Roman Empire and subsequently in other kingdoms and nation-states, Jesus' peculiar way of nonviolent love seemed less realistic and, to a growing number of believers, irresponsible. How can any authority both establish the rule of law and turn the other cheek? What decent person who had the power to stop a Hitler would not kill a tyrant to save a whole people? Still, as necessary as violence seemed to many Christians, the conviction that Jesus inaugurated a new era in human history has always meant that Christians have a problem with war. In order to name when war is unjust, and thus not permissible for any Christian, the church developed criteria for a "just war."
In considerations of the Christian tradition on war and peace, "just war" is often presented as the majority position over and against the minority stance of pacifism or Christian nonviolence. Such a presentation of church history, however, does not recognize the fact that just war teaching always limited violence to adult men in police or military units. This actually excluded the vast majority of Christians from the use of violence, simply by virtue of their being women, children, clergy, monastics, or everyday citizens not engaged in a just war or police action. What is more, it was assumed for most of the church's history that participation in acts of violence—even acts deemed "just"—was a concession to the ways of the world that no doubt led Christians to sin. The church made provision for repentance and reconciliation—not celebration—when soldiers came home from battle. Even when war seems inevitable, our hope is not in military victory but in the reconciliation of all things through Jesus Christ.
When God's people hold onto the hope of reconciliation through the peculiar way of the cross, we interrupt the assumptions of a culture of violence. But the truth is that all of us—not just soldiers and police officers—are well practiced in the use of worldly power. Those of us who come from positions of privilege in society lean on the silent power of money and social norms, trusting in systems of control that have favored people who speak our language or share our skin color. At the same time, people who live with their backs against the wall resort to subversive acts of violence, carving out a space for survival by manipulating the fears those who seem to be "in control." We can see these dynamics at work in local and international political negotiations. And, if we pay attention, we can see the same habits worked out between husbands and wives, parents and children, bosses and co-workers, pastors and congregations. In the world that is passing away, violence rules. But in the new world that has already begun, Jesus shows us a better way.


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I need to confess something: I'm a horse thief. I was ooh-ing and aah-ing at the Flying Dutchman (very impressive) and up top at the Sky Sea settlement I found a skeletal horse outside the pastures, looking lost. So I thought I'd move it back to the pastures but once I was riding it, I felt the need to run away with it, because that's just what you do with horses.
So I (slowly) rode it to the edge of the Sky Sea near the farm at the northern side and with a bit on convincing made the horse jump through the flames and down into the water. I rode along the edges of Mordor, sang a melancholic tune when I found myself in a desert biome and generally made good progress.
I rode along the western side south towards the stretch of the Spawn Kingdom connecting to the Western Hub. I walked this route before and found signs that others have too, so I guess it's a common path. I spent the night in a shelter near the settlement with the underwater area of unclear purpose (see latest Grand Tour update).
On the next day I arrived at the Lava Moat Fortress and from there it was a quick peninsula and island hopping to get to Castle Clavey. The journey onwards was easy then since there big roads to gallop along and I made good progress on the Skyway, through the Western Coves and Carlo's Island on towards Black Forest, where the horse now rests in the stable with a more fleshy companion.
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Crispy Southern Fried Hot WingsAdding to the repertoire of Sticky, Sweet & Spicy Wings, Gooey BBQ Wings, and Hot Buffalo Style Wings, we now have Crispy Southern Fried Hot Wings to add to your party fare! If you don't have a deep fryer, you need one if only for these deep fried wings - though you'll use it for many more things. These fried wings are crunchy and crispy and have a nice spicy kick but believe it or not, despite all the peppers, not over-powering. I think that you will love these!
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Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
Spicy Dipping Sauce
Prepare and refrigerate till needed.
- 1 cup of sour cream
- 2 tablespoons of horseradish
- 4 tablespoons of chili sauce (like Heinz)
- 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
Dry Rub Marinade
Egg wash
- 2 teaspoons of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
- 2 teaspoons of black pepper
- 2 teaspoons of poultry seasoning
- 1 tablespoon Greek seasoning or seasoned salt (like Cavender's or Lawrys)
- 1 tablespoon of crushed red pepper
- 1 teaspoon of lemon pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 4.5 pound package of chicken wings
- 3 cups of self rising flour
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons of hot pepper sauce
- 1 tablespoon of red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
- 1 teaspoon of freshly cracked black pepper
Disjoint the wings and place them into an oblong glass pan. Combine the dry marinade ingredients and sprinkle over the disjointed wings. Toss the wings to coat them well. Cover and refrigerate for one hour.
Preheat the deep fryer to 350 degrees. Put the flour in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the egg wash ingredients. Remove the chicken from the fridge, dip them in the egg wash, dredge them in the flour and set them aside on a plate.
Drop into the 350 degree F hot oil a few pieces at a time and fry until golden brown and floating, about 8 to 10 minutes. Serve plain or with the dipping sauce.
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SARASOTA (Oct. 29, 2012) – With its technologically advanced i-Suites, the largest and most experienced group of multi-specialty robotic surgeons in the region and now the latest generation da Vinci surgical robot slated to arrive today, Sarasota Memorial Hospital is enabling more surgeons to perform more complex procedures on more patients using a minimally invasive approach.
The $2 million da Vinci Si robot – which boasts the latest options and features – is the hospital's third robotic system. It will be installed in one of the health system's new iSuite integrated operating rooms later today, and after appropriate testing, will be put to work in the next two weeks.
Sarasota Memorial was the first to pioneer robotic surgery in southwest Florida, and now has more than 22 robotic surgeons who have performed more than 2,000 procedures in an ever-growing field of specialties– cardiovascular, thoracic, gynecology, urology, oncology and general surgery.
"That's one of the features that makes Sarasota Memorial's robotics program unique – our team's considerable experience, the many subspecialties we offer and the collaboration that ensures our patients receive the best surgical care available," said Lorraine Butler, director of surgery at Sarasota Memorial.
Sarasota Memorial is the only hospital in the region with so many experienced robotic surgeons and now three robotic operating suites to ensure a comprehensive range of minimally invasive surgical options are available to patients when they need them.
Using the da Vinci system, surgeons operate remotely from a computer console a few feet away from the operating table. The robot has four arms that hold a camera and miniaturized surgical instruments that are inserted into a patient's body through keyhole size incisions. The endoscopic tools allow the surgeon to grasp, cut, cauterize, suction and stitch with a range of motion beyond that of the human wrist, while high definition cameras inside the body and outside monitors provide a real time 3D view inside the body 10 times the magnification of the naked eye.
While the da Vinci Si offers the same precision, dexterity and control as the earlier da Vinci S models in use at the hospital, the latest version offers several additional benefits for more complex cases, including:
- Single site instruments – allowing surgeons to perform certain surgeries, including gallbladder surgery and hysterectomies, through a single keyhole size incision rather than three to five small incisions.
- Fluorescent imaging – a special tool that uses near infrared guidance to illuminate healthy tissue and blood vessels with a fluorescent green glow, so surgeons can see in real time where healthy tissue and vessels stop and damaged vessels or cancerous tissues begin.
- 3D Simulator – which allows physicians, nurses, medical students and others to practice or refine their skills by operating the robot in a virtual environment without a real patient.
- Vessel sealer and stapler – a new instrument that surgeons can use to cut and seal tissue simultaneously, reducing operating time.
Since Intuitive Surgical introduced its first da Vinci system in 1999, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has expanded the robot's use from general laparoscopic procedures to heart and valve surgery, thoracic surgery, gynecology and urological procedures, cancer, bariatric and other general surgeries.
For many patients, da Vinci surgery means significantly less pain and scarring, less blood loss, reduced risk of infection, shorter hospital stays, a much quicker recovery and faster return to normal daily activities compared to conventional open surgery. Most patients typically go home the day following the procedure, rather than staying up to a week in the hospital, and return to their normal routines within 1-2 weeks.
With today's arrival, Sarasota Memorial will have invested about $6 million in its robotic surgery systems. Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Inc. has contributed nearly $2 million in grants and donations toward the purchase of the hospital's first two robots, and continues to raise funds to support robotics and other technological advances at the hospital.
By year's end, two more Sarasota Memorial surgeons will have completed their robotic training, and the hospital is considering adding a dual console to the new system. The second console, which costs $500,000, would provide additional training/mentoring opportunities for newly trained robotic surgeons, as well as allow two robotic subspecialists to operate in concert on patients with complex or multiple conditions.
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Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is a regional referral center offering Southwest Florida's greatest breadth and depth of inpatient, outpatient and extended care services, with more than 800,000 patient visits a year. Sarasota Memorial's 806-bed acute care hospital has been recognized repeatedly as one of the nation's largest, safest and best, with superior patient outcomes and a complete continuum of outpatient services– from urgent care clinics and physician groups, laboratory and diagnostic imaging centers, to home health and skilled nursing & rehabilitation. Sarasota Memorial is the only hospital in the Suncoast region (Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties) ever to rank in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals" and HealthGrades "America's 50 Best Hospitals" lists. For more information, visit: www.smh.com
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Katy Perry Reportedly Gave Selena Gomez Justin Bieber Advice
After signing with Katy Perry's management team, it looks like Selena Gomez has been taken under the 'Birthday' singer's wing. If the sources at HollywoodLife are to be believed, Perry has reached out to Gomez to offer her advice about Justin Bieber and her career.
"Katy is honest with Selena and she told her she needs to stick with it this time and really let Justin go," the insider spills. "But she also told her that she'll support her no matter what."
Perry has reportedly been like a "big sister" to Gomez, who no doubt had to deal with seeing the Biebs' recent Instagram snaps with Kylie Jenner, with whom the 'Come & Get It' singer had a falling out due to flirty texts Jenner reportedly sent to Bieber.
"Katy is very zen about it all," the source continued. "She's also invited Selena to come and hang out with her on tour — she's pushing her to get back into making music."
And based on what we've heard on Gomez's Instagram account recently -- aka, her killer cover of Corinne Bailey Rae's 'Like a Star' -- we have to agree with Perry.
"She feels like music saved her after her breakup with Russell [Brand] so she's been encouraging Selena to write about what she's going through," the source tells HollywoodLife.
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Still dig your style, Miracle. Don´t ever stop rocking.
Wow, this is so good!
Cheers dude!
Selling out? ME? Never! (calls police on fan who downloaded my song)
Aw... Rebecca Mayes Muses has been replaced. ='(
I kinda liked her style better, but thats because I'm a girly girl and I liked Jewel when I was younger.
Still enjoyed the song though. Good luck.
That was pretty awesome, man.
I like this for both the artists enthusiasm, but also for him singing a perfect review of the story in Dragon Age 2 :D
Came in with almost zero expectations and let me say they were blown away. I absolutely loved the song. Bravo
Man, I love you.
Thank you for this song, it motivates me to play Dragon Age 2 some more, since Zero Punctuation demotivated me from playing so much.
Wait, so, did you get hired by the Escapist or what? All I know is that with your 6 videos, you have skyrocketed up to the level of awesome that TeamHEADKICK and Tryhardninja used to hoard. Does that make sense? I'm just saying that you're awesome.
Fucking grat's man your own segment that's awesome. Nice job, the Mass Effect song is still my favorite but this was great. Hope to see more soon.
We drew days of the week out of a hat. Wednesday came up. *shrug*
Kidding aside, it was a little more complicated than that. (But not much.)
Rebecca Mayes, eat your Fcking heart out. This is pretty sweet, looking forward to what else you guys'll do!
This was pretty bad ass. Really lookin' forward to more work by them.
Well done, man. Loved your Commander Shepard song on youtube!! Congrats on getting a run on the Escapist! :)
Godamn it! Sorry, error with the Captcha and my dodgy connection have made multiple posts...
I invite any Mods to wipe the superfluous posts if they wish. Honestly.. I'm embarrassed :-/
Congratz man, I've always been hoping you'd do something like this! Nice job, looking forward to the next one!
well i must say.
the game itself on gameplay is good, story other hand isen't, chracraters intresting but at times grim, world alot grimmer. however, after hearing this song you somewhat made the protagonest boss (very cool) and you made the game feel theres a senes of light of what you can do in dragon age 2 more, then what you can't do in reality in the game.
well done and i'm looking forward on what you have for commander shepherd in mass effect and other games.
There is experimenting and then there is just trying to hard. Rebbecca Mayes fits into the latter.
I love you too Milky :D
Going to do more Mass Effect ones for this site too!
Just wanted to comment that this was awesome. Keep doing more!
Dude your name is now totally slanted. That is awesome. And may I say: Fuck machinima! You don't need their recognition anymore, now that you're a bona-fide Escapist Contributor. Congrats man!
Off-Topic: I hope I can contribute a video to the Escapist someday. That would be swell....
That's a fine unqualified opinion you have there, sir.
Y'know, it's fine if you just don't like her music. You don't have to have a holy mandate to say "I like this better." Hell, as I said, I would be inclined to say I like MiracleofSound's songs better too.
Wow... not to be a nay-sayer or anything, but I really preferred the Commander Shepard song.. that was totally awesome.
Very 80's of you, Good Sir. Bravo!
Was pretty good.
not bad, and very catchy
Great work! 30 seconds to long :( But still great! :)
I hope my fellow Escapists don't rage at me for saying this, but...
I think this is 69x better than any of the old RMM songs.
Probably just personal tastes...
Good song. I've listened to it like 10 times during last 24 hours.
Awesome video.. Although through it all I couldn't help thinking this game looks awful on the console compared to the pc..
Power metal would have been 2 octaves higher and 4 timas as fast. This is just good old rock.
Very nice :O
You get your part on the Escapist?!?!?! Well done!
Nice man, really good song! =D
Haha, congratulations Miracle. <3
I just now noticed your new shiny badges and italic'd name. <3
That was a great song, and I haven't even played DA2 or DA1. You're such a rock star ahah. ♥
Thanks Ayl :)
'Tis great news for sure, glad you enjoyed the song.
Gonna hit you all up with something completely different next time ;)
Awesome! I can't wait!
Do you get to choose what you do a song about? :o
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Capturing the energy generated when two people whose lives are so intensely fused and woven are forcibly split, Possession is an emotional nuclear explosion. If all we were given were its operatic and shamanistic performances by leads Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, its impossible-to-describe music by Andrzej Korzynski, and its masterful, hyper-kinetical ballet of camera choreography — all delivered with the force of a long-repressed traumatic memory — then Possession would already be the best film about divorce ever filmed. But when the angels and demons of our inner nature are literally incarnated in phantasmagorical form — the kind requiring the talents of Oscar-winning creature FX master Carlo Rambaldi (who, instead of making a cutey-pie "E.T.", concocts a tentacled Lovecraftian octo-sex-demon) — you have the kind of explosively cathartic and entertaining experience that leads to movie-lover nirvanic bliss. Welcome to Possession, your new favorite movie.
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Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Thunderous, noisy and at the same time flashy, dazzling; explosive. 2. (Medicine) Having an unexpectedly sudden and severe onset (of a disease).
Notes: Today's Good Word comes from a family of émigrés from France: clairvoyant "seeing clearly (what others can't)", prevoyant "foreseeing", larmoyant "crying", buoyant "floating" and, of course, the most famous of them all, flamboyant "brilliant, showy", originally "flaming". The suffix -ant is the French present participle ending, equivalent to the suffix -ing in English. The noun for today's word is foudroyance and the adverb is foudroyantly.
In Play: Foudroyant is flamboyant with equivalent sound effects: "Well, I have absolutely no idea what that halftime extravaganza was all about—but you have to admit it certainly was foudroyant." You can always find foudroyance around July 4th in the States: "The foudroyant fireworks display, accompanied by the 'oohs' and 'ahs' from the crowd, left an indelible impression of this year's Fourth of July celebration on everyone's mind."
Word History: The participle ending on today's Good Word is a dead giveaway of its origin: French foudre "lightning" (as in coup de foudre "bolt of lightning" or "love at first sight") descended naturally from the Latin word for lightning, fulgur. Fulgur is akin to Greek phlox "fire" and a fiery purple or red flower, from phlego "burn". It came to English as blaze and blank, which originally meant "dazzle, shine". The same root is lurking in black, either by one of those quirky antonymous twists of meaning, like cold and scald, or because burning often leaves things black. Either way, we owe a loud word of gratitude to Mark Bailey for suggesting today's dynamite word.


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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) - New York cornerback Prince Amukamara and Dallas starting nose tackle Jay Ratliff will not play when the Giants and Dallas meet on Wednesday night in the kickoff to the NFL season.
The Super Bowl champion Giants also said Tuesday that defensive tackle Marvin Austin and offensive tackle James Brewer would miss the game with back injuries. Amukamara is out with a sprained ankle suffered in a preseason game on Aug. 24. None of the three practiced this week.
Ratliff (ankle) and rookie safety Matt Johnson (hamstring) won't play for Dallas, while Pro Bowl tight end Jason Witten (spleen) and backup safety Danny McCray are doubtful, meaning they only have a 25 percent chance of playing.
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Let $s_0$ and $s_1$ be the holomorphic sections of the tautological bundle $O(1)$ over the complex projective line ${\mathbb{CP}}^1$ which correspond to the functions $1$ and $\frac{x_1}{x_0}$ in the open set $U_0= \{x_0\neq 0\}$. Let $U(z,w)=s_0(z)\overline{s_0(w)} + s_1(z)\overline{s_1(w)}$ be the bilinear form corresponding to a Fubini-Study metric. Normalizing, we obtain a function $\tilde{U}(z,w)=\frac{u(z,w)}{\sqrt{U(z,z)U(w,w)}}$.
The modulus of $\tilde{U}$ has a geometric interpretation. I asked about this in this question. By choosing a suitably normalized metric on ${\mathbb{CP}}^1$, we have the identity $|\tilde{U}(z,w)|^2= cos^2 d(z,w)$.
My question is whether the argument of $\tilde{U}$ has an anologous geometric interpretation in terms of "complex-angular" measure between the points $z$ and $w$?


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Just in time for the first storm of winter, Cheapflights has released a list of tips for saving money on a ski trip.
Just in time for the first storm of winter, Cheapflights has released a list of tips for saving money on a ski trip.
That got me to thinking about my own ski-saving strategies.
The best way for me to save a bundle might be to stay home. I�m not a skier, but every winter I do strap boards to my feet and tumble down a Rocky (but hopefully not �rocky�) Mountain. But I always have fun with my friends who do ski, and who are there to flag down the ski patrol for me should worst come to worst.
I learned the little I know at Beaver Creek, a beautiful Colorado ski resort near Vail, where I return each year, like an ice-coated swallow crashing at Capistrano.
Beaver Creek can be pricey, but there are plenty of ways to save.
One thing I�ve learned to do is to find deals on equipment, the No. 1 tip on the Cheapflights list.
Because I ski so seldom (and so far from home), I rent equipment at our destination � but never on the mountain itself, where the price is always much higher. Instead, I go to a discount outfitter in town where I can rent skis and boots for the duration of my stay for a fraction of the resort prices.
Another Cheapflights tip that I had previously discovered is to buy lift tickets in multiday packages, which usually offer a big savings over the price of a daily ticket.
Buying lift tickets in advance online can also save bucks.
Some resorts offer special �buddy� lift-ticket rates for those who accompany season ticket holders. A couple of friends ski enough that they save money with season tickets; I�ve been able to �buddy� with them a few times through the years.
Here�s a Cheapflights tip that applies to more than ski trips: Look for cheap dining options. My friends and I always enjoy a good � and expensive � meal or two in Vail. But we also cook for ourselves in our condo kitchenette or on the outdoor grill at our complex. We also stock our own bar � from the local discount liquor store, of course.
Other Cheapflight skiing-on-a-budget tips:
� Book during the off-peak season when rates are better and fewer skiers are on the slopes.
� Consider small or undiscovered mountains such as Wolf Creek in Colorado and the resorts of southern New England. (The country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a good �undiscovered� ski destination, Cheapflight reports. I�ll have to take the company�s word for it.)
� Plan ahead when packing and know your airline�s rules for transporting equipment such as skis and boots.
If you have your own equipment, check out luggage shipping services such as Lugless or Luggage Forward, which can get your gear to the mountain conveniently and for not much more than the airlines.
For the complete list of Cheapflights ski savings tips, visit www.cheapflights.com/news/top-7-ways-to-save-on-a-ski-trip.
Steve Stephens is the travel writer. He can be reached at 614-461-5201 or by email.


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Week 7: Toys: What was your favorite childhood toy? Is it still being made in some form today?
This subject has been covered in some previous Memory Monday posts:
Memory Monday: Favorite Toys
Memory Monday: My Playhouse
Memory Monday: Lost Things
But of all these things, what was my favorite toy?
I think the answer can be found in my earliest memory (from "Memory Monday: Running Away"):
"I remember when we lived in our house in Cabazon, California (talk about desolate…) that I crawled out of my crib one day. I must have managed to do it without cracking my skull open. If my memory does not deceive me, the incentive was to get to my fluffy new robe, which was white and had a pocket into which I could slip the first present I ever remember getting – a box of eight Crayola crayons. New, pointy crayons with that new crayon smell."
I think a new box of Crayola crayons probably tops all of the dolls and gadgets. They smell good, they look good, and there is no limit to the possibilities of what you can create with them.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Week 7 of 52: Toys
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I will never forget the delightful smell when you open a brand new box of Crayola crayons! Great post!ReplyDelete
You nailed it! Color crayons are our first foray into that magical world of creativity -- even when we don't even know what that means.ReplyDelete
Dorene - Yes, that smell still transport me back to my childhood!ReplyDelete
Joan - Exactly - there just seemed to be no end of possibilities with crayons!
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and enjoys it more than i ever would (having it sit on a shelf, unseen, and probably dusty.)
For me its a hobby and not art. I think of myself as a model maker and not an artist. Kind of like those guys that worked on the original star wars along time ago but no were as good. To me, it's a way to have a cool figure without waiting for the commerical version. It does however make me feel a little uneasy about people that treat this hobby as a business <cough>mrtanner<cough>. That kind of stuff reminds me of the cheap knockoff pictures you see on street corners being sold out of a van. I think it lowers peoples perception of this hobby.
I second that. Back to ebay customs. Here is one that you don't see everyday. Well maybe you do because the guy made three different versions. War is hell.
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The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council endorsed Councilman David Alvarez for mayor Friday after a lengthy meeting that stretched well into the evening and included a surprise visit from former Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña. Saldaña pulled papers to run in the mayoral race earlier Friday.
Alvarez, a councilman from District 8, is known to be pro-labor union. The San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council represents more than 135 local labor unions and more than 200,000 local working families.
"We are all in," said Labor Council Secretary-Treasurer Richard Barrera. "All in."
Alvarez tweeted his intent to run in the November special election on Thursday morning.
The councilman, who grew up in Barrio Logan, was the first in his family to graduate from high school and college, according to his website. He also graduated with honors from San Diego State University. Alvarez, his wife Xochitl, and their daughter Izel reside in Logan Heights.
The endorsement signals a deep divide between former Labor leader Lorena Gonzalez, currently a state Assemblywoman who is supporting candidate Nathan Fletcher, and the current leadership at the Labor Council.
Fletcher was hoping to gain the advantage of being labor's choice in the Nov. 19 special election with Gonzalez's help. Now, a crowded field of Democrats that includes potential candidates like Saldaña and former city attorney Mike Aguirre could fragment the Democratic voting population and hand the advantage to the only major Republican in the race, Councilman Kevin Faulconer.
The endorsement of the Labor Council and its funding brings an edge to any candidate with sheer numbers.
"The most important asset we bring to any campaign is our people. Our people are going to be out knocking on doors. We're going to have people making phone calls, and people letting their coworkers know that Alvarez is the progressive candidate in this race and the champion for working families that this community needs," Barrera said.
Barrera said support among the trade group for Alvarez was overwhelming.
"[The] vote was a clear and unequivocal show of support from working people for David Alvarez," said Barrera in a statement released Saturday morning. "Our members took a hard look at all of the candidates and decided that David is the best choice to move San Diego forward, past distraction and scandal at City Hall, and get our city refocused on creating good jobs and delivering the vital services residents need."
For his part, Fletcher is backed by of the Municipal Employees Association, the San Diego firefighters union, the lifeguards union and he's expected to pick up the San Diego Police Officers Association endorsement. He also has already raised several hundred thousand dollars in campaign money, and he has the help of one of the region's most notable field operators.
In 2010, under prior leadership with Gonzalez, the Labor Council spent $113,000 trying to defeat Alvarez in his bid for City Council against Felipe Hueso, brother of state Senator Ben Hueso.


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Pilgrims making progress on the pitch: Match Review
Plymouth put their off-the-field problems to one side as Joe Mason scored twice in a stunning 4-2 victory at Sheffield Wednesday.
Bondz N'Gala gave Plymouth a 12th-minute lead, beating Nicky Weaver with a low drive from just outside the area after Kari Arnason's cross was only half cleared.
Wednesday went close to equalising when Gary Teale's strike came back off the crossbar, but Mason increased Plymouth's lead from close range after Carl Fletcher's cross was headed down.
Onismor Bhasera failed to capitalise on a defensive lapse from Reda Johnson as he fired straight at Weaver.
After referee Iain Williamson waved away two penalty appeals from Wednesday, substitute Giles Coke pulled a goal back for the home side, smashing a superb 20-yard effort past Romain Larrieu.
But Mason restored Plymouth's two-goal advantage four minutes later, producing a fine finish from just inside the area for his second of the match.
Yannick Bolasie made it 4-1, lashing a low 30-yard drive past Weaver before Johnson headed a second goal for Wednesday against his former club.
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Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2009) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Senior Vice President Ken Johnson issued the following statement regarding the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report on interactions among pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology company representatives and healthcare professionals:
"America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies along with IOM are committed to ensuring the best possible health outcomes for patients. While PhRMA continues to review the IOM report in its entirety, we believe any conflict of interest policy should start with the premise that academia, physicians and companies share a responsibility to maintain ethical, professional relationships and exchange information for the benefit of patients.
"Additionally, it is important to clarify that America's pharmaceutical research companies spend far more on research and development (R&D) than on marketing. In 2007, pharmaceutical companies invested $63.2 billion on R&D of new medicines, while spending around $11.5 billion on promotional activity directed to physicians, journal advertising and consumer advertising, according to IMS Health. Last year, pharmaceutical companies spent a record $65.2 billion on R&D.
"According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), America's pharmaceutical research companies are 'one of the most research-intensive industries in the United States.' Pharmaceutical firms invest as much as five times more in research and development, relative to their sales, than the average U.S. manufacturing firm, CBO states.
"Providing physicians with timely, accurate information about the medicines they prescribe clearly benefits patients and advances healthcare throughout the United States. Meetings with technically-trained pharmaceutical research company representatives help inform physicians about a wide range of topics related to prescription medicines, such as new treatment options, appropriate dosing, emerging safety developments and potential interactions with other drugs.
"And importantly, pharmaceutical research companies are careful to ensure that their relationships with both healthcare professionals and students are ethical and appropriate.
"The commitment of PhRMA and its member companies to provide accurate, up-to-date information to physicians about medicines is reflected by the recently strengthened PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals.
"The newly revised PhRMA Code, which builds on improvements already made in the previous 2002 version, is part of an ongoing effort to ensure that pharmaceutical marketing practices comply with the highest ethical standards. The voluntary Code reaffirms that interactions between company representatives and healthcare professionals should be focused on informing the healthcare professionals about products, providing scientific and educational information, and supporting medical research and education.
"The Code makes several changes designed to enhance the independence of continuing medical education (CME). Among these new provisions, the PhRMA Code states that funding for CME should support a full range of treatment options and not promote a particular product; companies should separate CME grant-making decision from sales and marketing departments; and companies should follow CME accreditation standards and respect the independent judgment of CME providers.
"What's more, existing federal law is very clear: pharmaceutical research companies must make sure that information they convey to physicians is accurate and consistent with pharmaceutical product labeling approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These activities are monitored by FDA, which turns any evidence of impropriety over to the Department of Justice for investigation.
"In the end, interactions between pharmaceutical sales representatives and healthcare professionals enhance public health and improve patient care. Pharmaceutical research companies take this responsibility seriously and remain committed to ensuring that these interactions follow the highest standards.
Recommendations by IOM and others can also help advance ethical, professional relationships. But it is important to balance the need to manage potential conflicts of interest against the possibility that overly restrictive policies – for example, prohibitions on physicians' use of drug samples or on the availability of industry funding for CME – could have negative consequences for patient care."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
PhRMA Internet Address: www.phrma.org
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The Meat Site – Safer food, less waste, more efficient food production and better use of natural resources are just some of the goals inspiring the work of a new research group at the University of Lincoln in the UK.
The Agri-Food Technology Research Group aims to develop new technological solutions for all stages of food production including cultivation, harvest, processing and packaging.
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When the NFL schedule was announced, the Packers' visit to the Meadowlands to face the Giants on Sunday night in Week 12 looked like one of the biggest matchups of the season.
Nothing's changed after nine weeks of football. The NFL announced Wednesday that the game will remain on NBC on the evening of Nov. 25 and that there will be no flex scheduling changes to the schedule for that week, which includes three games on Thanksgiving.
The Packers and Giants played a regular season thriller in New Jersey last season that ended with a Mason Crosby field goal to keep the Packers undefeated after 12 games. The Giants would get their revenge on the Packers at Lambeau Field in the playoffs. Given the performance of the two teams to this point in the season, there's a good chance that the Week 12 game will help set the playoff picture in the NFC.
There aren't any other games on the schedule that promise the same level of significance, although there are several divisional battles on the slate in Week 12.


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Value Line's Wireless Networking Industry is a collection of companies that facilitate mobile communications and data management. They develop software, manufacture devices and equipment, build infrastructure, and provide services to the fast-expanding wireless sector. Many companies within the Telecommunications Services and Telecommunications Equipment industries develop new wireless solutions and are customers of these businesses. Given the rapid pace of change and intense competition in the industry, it's probably best that only aggressive investors, focused on short-term gains, consider a commitment.
The capital budget plans of telecom service providers and equipment makers is a critical variable that determines the Networking Industry's near-term performance. In a weak macroeconomic environment, these customers will work down existing inventories and be cautious about placing new orders. When commercial and consumer demand for products and services strengthens, especially for high-end offerings, spending on equipment and infrastructure will notably ramp up. Managers must be keen observers of end-market trends.
Wireless solutions are popular, and the sector is in growth mode. Consumers have found mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) desirable for voice communication and data retrieval. Business customers have also adopted such devices, and utilized high-end equipment and infrastructure (amplifiers, antennas, server software) to satisfy their data collection and management requirements. Despite short-term volatility, historically, demand for networking has tracked higher over the long term.
Driving demand for networking devices and equipment are advances in infrastructure. The original, or first-generation (1G), infrastructure that delivered simple voice service was based on analog technology. Second-generation (2G) networks were digital, providing improved service. 3G systems offered more robust voice and data capabilities, including picture, music, video and ring tone downloads.
In the United States, digital technology has progressed from the second-generation solution, TDMA (time division multiple access), to CDMA (code division multiple access) to CDMA2000 to W-CDMA, a third-generation wide-band version of CDMA that is compatible with GSM (global system for mobile communication). Networking companies have had to keep up with this technology progression to stay competitive.
Yet another advanced infrastructure development is under way, that of 4G. LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, is an economical upgrade of 3G technology. Also, a capital-intensive, long-distance, 4G network is under construction. It's called WiMax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access), an enhanced long-distance version of short-haul wireless fidelity (a.k.a., WiFi).
The wireless networking industry is competitive, with many companies selling to a concentrated number of carriers and manufacturers. As a result, large buyers have bargaining power over smaller sellers. Suppliers of equipment and services have to deal with changing technology and accelerated product cycles. Companies that are not up to speed with the latest developments run the risk of losing market share.
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