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Effective knowledge management is considered to play an increasingly important role in creating competitive advantage. Knowledge is becoming a driving force for organisational change and wealth creation. As a result, organisations are at varying stages of planning and implementing knowledge‑based strategies in efforts to improve their competitiveness, productivity, organisational effectiveness and customer service. However, KM initiatives are both expensive and risky propositions. Financial resources put a ceiling on what can be expended on knowledge activities. There is a huge demand for skilled managers in the global economy, including India. This necessitates a re‑look at knowledge management initiatives in business schools, which can be considered to be knowledge intensive organisations. This paper is a result of an exploratory study that tries to explain the factors influencing the success of knowledge management initiatives in a business school to distinguish itself in the academic market place. A generalised model has been constructed highlighting possible antecedents and consequences of a business school in its quest for becoming a learning organisation. This model is then applied in a reputed business school in India as a test case.
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The southern shoreline of the Sea of Marmara is sparsely populated west of Erdek, while polluted dormitory communities for İstanbul sprawl to the east. Many of these were devastated by the earthquake of August, 1999, which killed an estimated 30,000 people – victims of rogue builders who ignored building regulations yet miraculously managed to pass official inspections.
Fortunately, İznik, historically the most interesting town, suffered little damage. To the south, Bursa, once one of Turkey's most attractive cities, has succumbed to rapid growth since the 1980s, bringing greater wealth but destroying much of its colourful provincial atmosphere.
The best way to explore the region is to use the fast car and foot-passenger ferries to Yalova, Mudanya and Bandırma from İstanbul's Yenikapı terminal; book ahead in summer. Using buses to İznik and Bursa, or your own vehicle, you could see all the sights in three to four days. Buses, which follow a congested five-hour route along the gulf shore via İzmit, are not recommended.
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|Sep 5th, 2011 06:07 PM
|All Hail Duke
|the burned head looks quite a bit like Freddy's skinned face from Nightmare 1
|Nov 16th, 2010 06:05 PM
|hot Kukuro
|the cheap shit I've seen this year is the coolest shit... glittering black, white, or red decorative skulls, fake black roses, spiderweb candle holders, cute lil' spider or pumpkin light strings... just a plethora of awesomeness for decorating your apartment - and most of it was at the dollar store.
|Nov 6th, 2010 02:58 PM
|I saw a gummy head! It was big as hell and at Wal-Mart.
|Nov 4th, 2010 11:52 PM
|hate to ask....but is this still a thing?
|Oct 23rd, 2010 01:15 PM
Good stuff so far!
For the record, it's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Last time somebody called him "Puffed", he destroyed several city blocks in New York.
|Oct 23rd, 2010 09:33 AM
|Ex Leper
|The Stay Puffed is one of the best toys I have so far since I re-started my toy collection It's suppose to be a bank but I think it's too cool for that purpose.
|Oct 22nd, 2010 10:41 PM
wow thats awesome!
...I meant the stay puffed marshmallow man. the grim paper weight's kind of cool too.
|Oct 22nd, 2010 06:39 PM
|Ex Leper
|This is the best I could do.
|Oct 20th, 2010 02:17 AM
|I dunno from the back he looked like harry potter.
|Oct 19th, 2010 10:29 PM
|I like the candle and the cave the most. That's totally Dracula by the way.
|Oct 19th, 2010 09:06 PM
So it turns out I'm allergic to epoxy paint and have been out of commission for about a week now.
But since I've already bought the Halloween stuff I'll go ahead and post it.
This thing is actually a candle but I can't imagine ever melting down this kind of detail.
A fairly nice and brightly colored haunted house. When you push the lantern the eyes flash and a voice says "Come in... if you dare!".
I normally wouldn't buy something this sparkly, but that has to be the happiest Jack-O-Lantern I've ever seen. The light actually flickers too. Definitely worth the 2 bucks.
I have no idea what this is, aside from the Mummy with a mummified baseball bat. It was just sitting on the store shelf exactly like that, no package, no sticker.
The clerk just threw up her hands and sold it to me for a dollar.
This pushed me over the $10 dollar limit, but for $4 I think it was worth it. My best guess is it's supposed to be a haunted cave of some sort.
Skulls, a mummy, spiders, ghosts, treasure, this thing has got them all. But it's the inside that got me to buy it.
A scary old woman! Or maybe it's supposed to be Dracula? I don't know, but I had to own it.
It's a little hard to tell but the whole thing lights up real nice too.
The back of it is even done nicely as well. With the cave moss and the old lady/Dracula sticking out the back.
Not a bad collection of stuff for $14, eh? It was a ton of fun digging through the discount bin and searching the dark corners for the cheapest stuff I could find.
Pleasant dreams people.
|Oct 14th, 2010 03:08 PM
|The Doctor
|Oct 14th, 2010 01:58 PM
|I dig the skull on a pillow.
|Oct 13th, 2010 08:52 PM
|The Doctor
Here are a few of my many purchases this evening.
What's for dinner?
Mmmm frozen brains....
And for Dessert?
That's right a Box of Boogers, the meal is completed with hot sauce, not spooky but I love hot sauce on everything.
I also thought this was kinda neat and cheap, skull on a pillow
Cheers all!
|Oct 12th, 2010 07:11 PM
|I already owned the gloves. got them a few years back. they're kind of skeletonish, but the color seems to match the mask perfectly.
|Oct 12th, 2010 06:17 PM
My grandparents have the Jack-O-Lantern Glow Lite, and I think it's equally as cool as the skull one. I'll have to go out tonight and see what cheap halloweeny stuff I can find.
Blood Panther: Did the gloves come with the mask, or did you already have them?
|Oct 10th, 2010 02:03 AM
|I dig the smoking jacket Blood-Panther.
|Oct 9th, 2010 09:21 PM
Blinky light actually looks kind of like Death's Head Terror. They may be long-lost cousins.
And as for the glow soap, I actually have glowing soap. A friend of mine bought me some glow in the dark bubble bath from a 'fun' party a year or so ago, and it actually works, although it looks much cooler in blacklight.
|Oct 9th, 2010 06:04 PM
I was going to ask the same thing, Leader.
Also, the best thing ever would to go out trick-or-treating with the dragon head and claws, dressed in a Snuggie.
|Oct 9th, 2010 11:26 AM
|The Leader
|Blood Panther, is dragon face your fursona?
|Oct 9th, 2010 08:37 AM
|Blood - Love how you managed to make the dragon mask look like "Why are you in my house? Go away before I eat you."
|Oct 9th, 2010 06:12 AM
|Those look like some mighty fine purchases, Rog.
|Oct 8th, 2010 07:17 PM
|You can get one of the Jack-o-lantern "glow lites" on ebay pretty damn cheap!
|Oct 8th, 2010 04:56 PM
Oh man, this is great. Just earlier this week I was at a little community silent auction, and they had a Halloween "mystery bag" (it was one of those garbage bags to see with a jack o lantern face on them.) 12.50 was the current bid, but damnit I wanted the mystery bag! I kept on bidding and by the end of the day I was the bags proud owner (as well as 16bucks poorer) the contents of the bag however more than made up for it.
I've seen these go for a buck in dollar stores, but i still like this little guy. He gives off sort of a "frozen in carbonite" vibe, and thats good enough for me.
Again seen these in dollar stores. At this point I as feeling ripped off, but candy is candy, and I dig the packaging.
Now this was worth every penny I paid. This mask is big, beautiful, and doesnt have that overpowered plastic smell, so many other masks have.
And here we get a little sneak peek into dragon face's private life. Nothing he likes more than sitting down and watching horror movies with a big bucket of eyeballs.
|Oct 8th, 2010 01:01 PM
|I'll see what I can dig up. One of my local super markets really gets into the season.
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This story appears in the November 2001 issue of Entrepreneurs Start-Ups magazine. Subscribe »
I'm ever amazed by the undignified mien of many sales reps. Out of the hundreds I've met over the years, only about 10 percent have projected an image that inspired buying confidence. Salespeople have shown up late or not at all, looking like they'd slept in their cars or wearing suits even moths would reject. Sales pros in the 10 percent club have been men and women, youngish and more mature, but they've had much in common: All were well-dressed and well-groomed, and had a relaxed and courteous communication style. I trust these people with my clients' money, the biggest compliment I can bestow.
Your sales reps are hired to fly the flag of your brand and champion your business. Their image is your image, and if they blunder, your company suffers. "If a salesperson is poorly groomed or their clothes aren't pressed, the product is cheapened, and the sale is in jeopardy," warns J. Kevin Hand, president and CEO of Hand & Associates, an image enhancement company in Los Angeles. Hand says executives view a positive image as essential for success. "It's the packaging that makes the ultimate difference," he says.
With that in mind, you must consider all that goes into the image of your salespeople-from tattoos and piercings to suits and hairstyles. While you may not personally feel any disdain for nose rings, it's a sure bet many of your clients do. And what about suits? Many executives now spend their careers clad in Dockers instead of Brooks Brothers, so how should your sales force dress? While a suit may no longer be required, it's still better to be overdressed than underdressed-reps can always take jackets off if they find themselves in casual land.
As you lead the charge in dressing up, though, keep in mind the corporate culture of your prospects. "It's not too different from trying to understand tribal customs-you have to know something about the group you're going to spend time with before you get there," advises Patrick Lennahan, director of the career center at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Be extra cautious when your sales reps encounter what Lennahan calls a "cross-cultural" experience-like when artsy-hippie dude meets corporate muckety-muck. In this instance, it's wise to emulate the look of your client. "A person who wears a pinstripe suit in the wrong place can be just as suspect as the person who wears jeans in another setting," says Lennahan.
If you have any doubt image can make or break your sales efforts, consider some persuasive statistics from a survey published in March 2001 Sales & Marketing Management magazine: Of 651 executives polled, more than 94 percent said a sloppily dressed sales rep had a tougher time making a sale, and 80 percent would avoid hiring any sales rep who was a sloppy dresser.
In the image game, don't underestimate your role. As the boss, the sales force looks at your words and actions as indicators for the proper behavior. "If the top dogs in a company are slobs, then the support staff will be, too," says Don Farrell, 44-year-old founder of Signature Inc., a sales and service training company in Dublin, Ohio. According to Farrell, companies take on the personality of their leaders, so entrepreneurs must be sure to lead by example.
Kimberly L. McCall is president of McCall Media & Marketing (www.marketingangel.com), a business communications company in Freeport, Maine.
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The Spring IB workshops at Rice are designed for new and experienced IB teachers at the PYP, MYP, DP and the CP levels who are interested in learning about the IB program and strategies and techniques for effectively teaching IB curriculum. Workshops are led by experienced IB workshop leaders who have a strong background in teaching and an interest in developing the IB teacher community through rigorous professional development.
Workshops will be Thursday to Saturday on the Rice University campus. Classes on the first two days will be held from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and classes on the last day will be held from 9 a.m.-noon. Prior to registering, please review the IB Workshops and Resources catalog to determine which category best meets your needs. Additionally, certain information provided during registration will be sent to the IB Organization.
Continuing Education Credits: Participants will receive up to 15 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits or 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). Attendance is taken each morning and afternoon. The hours on your certificate will reflect your actual hours of attendance. Participants are responsible for signing the attendance sheet each day. SBEC Continuing Professional Education Provider Number 500571.
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The Dynamics Of Cardiovascular System Parts Synchronization In Patients With Coronary Artery Disease Under Impact Of Methoprolol Intake
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Phase locking of 0.1 Hz oscillations in heart rhythm and filling the vessels of microcirculation is a characteristic of autonomic control responsible for synchronization of cardiovascular system parts such as heart and vessels of microcirculation.
Purpose: To study the impact of methoprolol tartrate ("Metocard", Polpharma) intake on the dynamic of cardiovascular system parts synchronization in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) who have had myocardial infarction (MI).
Methods: 43 patients (24 men and 19 women) aged 63±8 who had MI 6 month ago were involved in the study. Synchronous 10 minutes record of electrocardiogram (ECG) and pulsogram during orthostatic test was performed. The first (initial) record was carried out in 6 month after MI, the second one – after 3 month of methoprolol intake (200 mg per day). The total duration of all lengths of 0,1 Hz rhythms phase locking in RR-chain and in pulsogram was estimated. This index expressed in percents from total record duration was called summary percent of synchronization (Sps, %).
Results: All of probationers were divided into two groups according to orthostatic Sps dynamic. 21 probationers who have shown the positive Sps dynamic under methoprolol intake were related to the group A, 16 probationers who have shown the negative Sps dynamic under methoprolol intake were related to the group B (see Table 1 [Tab. 1]; Me (25%; 75%)).
Conclusion: Methoprolol intake were associated with the negative orthostatic Sps dynamic in 37,2% of probationers. We considered this phenomenon showing the worsening of adaptative reserve of cardiovascular system parts autonomic control. It is necessary to assess individual dynamic of adaptative reserve of autonomic control under methoprolol intake in CAD patients who have had MI.
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Those hoping for another Brad Pitt/David Fincher collaboration in the near future have reason to keep their fingers crossed. Fincher has been developing a big-budget remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at Disney for quite some time, and last month we reported that the Mouse House was set to take a close look at the project for greenlight consideration while Fincher was courting Pitt for a lead role. Now Pitt himself has spoken up about the prospect, and he sounds enthusiastic about teaming up with his Fight Club director for a fourth time. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.
Speaking with MTV, Pitt was asked if he would be joining Fincher's 20,000 Leagues redo:
"I'd love to I mean, he's my man. He's got a great take on it. That's just gonna be about schedule and time allocation, but he's my man."
It's no secret that Pitt and Fincher are close friends, and I'm fascinated by the prospect of Fincher taking on a large-scale adventure project. The director previously stated that the film would be shot in 3D and would probably 70% comprised of CG, and the role that Fincher has earmarked for Pitt is apparently that of Ned Land who was played by Kirk Douglas in the 1954 adaptation. Seven scribe Andrew Kevin Walker penned the most recent draft of the script, so should scheduling work out with Pitt this would make for a fun reunion of sorts from the team behind the serial killer classic.
Pitt is finishing up reshoots on World War Z at the moment but currently isn't firmly attached to anything for his next project. I imagine the scheduling also depends on what Angelina Jolie has coming up, but I sincerely hope things come together for this one.
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service that we each had to accept in order to use Second Life. Below is the main culprit which the Devil himself would be jealous of when making a deal for your soul. I mean wow that is thorough.
|"I love you giant bomb.. never betray me" "Yeah.. well.. about that.."
So there is really no doubt that Linden Lab could screw over content creators should they wish to. The wording is quite alarming to put it mildly. And though I honestly believe they have no intention to, I have still signed petitions to roll back the TOS. You see at this point it all comes down to our faith in the morality of the large business entity named Linden Labs. Oh about three years ago or so I knew a variety of Linden lab employees and sometimes bumped into them in world as well. Some were cool and some were incredibly nerdy but all exuded a genuine passion for our virtual world. But those days are long over and now, to me, they have become faceless as I don't think I even know a single Linden today. So once you become faceless you can't ask us to just trust you anymore. I could upload my greatest and most precious work tonight and by tomorrow morning Linden Lab could be selling it not only in Second Life but also over any online market where people buy 3D content. I don't believe they would do that as the worldwide content creators community would go a bit nutty and Second Life would likely not get another content creator who respected themself to log in. Their reputation would be destroyed and Second Life would grow tired and die. I am sure they already know this. They must.
So is it blowing over? Well in the petition I signed it seems Madpea might leave as a result of these new terms. One of my patrons has decided to go over to Kitely and offered me land there to move. A friend of mine says Tuna Oddfellow, the man who has run the Oddball for several years, is leaving on principle. You know a few years back IBM was deep into Second Life with hundreds of regions. They didn't much like the TOS of the time and then struck some kind of deal to have a hidden IBM group of regions which was kind of apart from the rest of the grid. But can you imagine IBM creating new technologies or concepts in the virtual space only to have them appropriated by another company? By willingly signing something allowing this? They would never do that and that's why they are essentially gone or inactive.
Personally I think they have no intention of doing the worst case scenarios. So for example game quality models are extremely efficient and well crafted. I don't mean this in a bad way but the majority of Second Life mesh content is done by amateurs who are not concerned with game quality modelling. The fear of Linden Labs selling our content outside of SL is unlikely because game makers would never purchase the models we make as they likely would not be efficient enough for game use. So then who would they potentially sell it to? It would have to be sold to second life residents which would cause an immediate exodus of content creators, or they could be used for Linden Labs new products (games) outside SL.. namely their own games.. but then same problem. I mean you wouldn't make a game using a mishmash of models culled from Second Life.. they would just make their own efficient models. That conspiracy theory was one suggested to me and it just doesn't really make sense. Far more work to do that then just hire people to make game models that work immediately and designed specifically for the games. I can't see them alienating their own community this way as they rely on the content creators.
So why then?
There are lawsuits and then there are monster lawsuits. I expect the lawyers for Linden Labs are trying to create an impenetrable form of protectionism for their products. Somebody brings in Disney content? content from the new Grand Theft Auto? There is no trial or delay.. they delete the account and remove the content immediately and there is no messing around with appeals and so on. With the population of millions in Second Life imagine how many Abuse reports are being written right now as we sit here that they have to read and deal with? How many want a rollback for their land or claim someone stole their idea? That is just one scenario that popped in my head but just imagine how many others there can be which could require time and resources to deal with.
Today I read about an elderly lady who rented her home to a man for a few months while she was on vacation. He proceeded to declare her home an embassy for something or other. That obviously wouldn't work now would it? Well he lived there for two years before they finally could evict him. I mean how is that even possible? It is stupid. But then that is the legal system. A vast meandering bowl of spagetti. Linden Labs need not be hamstrung by any such irrational silliness such as that, the potential for misuse is still alarming of course, but I am hopeful that the new TOS is more related to legal protectionism than something so short sighted as stealing our content. I should mention though that I am hopelessly naive on occasion.
The only other thing I can think of is if they were planning on closing down second life and selling it. I imagine, theoretically, they could sell it for more if they owned the entire thing from code to content. A new owner would have the freedom to make drastic changes if they had to, but perhaps without that new TOS they could be wary of being handcuffed. I don't really know though, just trying to imagine reasons for it. For example perhaps the marketing department says they are having a hard time promoting second life because in any image they take they might have to get permission from hundreds of content creators to use that simple picture. From the tree maker, the numerous clothing designers, the eyes and hair and so on. Maybe some of these content creators have left sl and they wait endlessly to get permission. If they own everything then they can market their product without any delays in getting permissions.


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Danny Boyle announced last night he was 'enthusiastic' about the honour of marking Mrs Thatcher's passing in Horseguards Parade. And Mrs Thatcher would approve of some of his cost-saving measures . 'Remember the bit in the Olympic show where we celebrated the NHS with nurses jumping on beds?' Boyle grins. 'Well, we'll use the same beds but they'll slowly diminish in number, and so will the doctors and nurses. The number of patients will increase, and form an orderly queue for the remaining beds. Mr Richard Branson will be on hand to privatise many of these.'
To mark Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 28 covertly gay Conservative MP's will be doorstepped and 'outed' on big screens provided by SKY TV in a special edition of Surprise Surprise, hosted by Cilla Black, a lifelong Thatcher fan.
'My favourite bit will be when our huge multicultural cast is forced to separate into black and white sections as a tribute to Mrs T's steadfast support for South African apartheid. Then the black half will try and re-merge with the white half but some whimsical dancing Immigration Officers won't let them in,' said Boyle.
Eyes will be on the skies to watch giant inflatables of some of Thatcher's heroes. P W Botha, Rupert Murdoch and Augusto Pinochet will grin down on the crowds. The Queen will be lowered to the event in a Westland Helicopter, piloted by Michael Heseltine. Once Her Majesty is safe on the ground, the helicopter will explode above the Thames, heralding the sinking of the Belgrano scene. Mr Heseltine will fall into Horseguards and be killed, impaled on the Mace of the House of Commons. A dead sheep will also fall from the sky and land on Geoffrey Howe, to no visible effect.
Boyle admitted there will be other scenes depicting violence. The Battle of Orgreave will be enthusiastically re-enacted around towns and cities in the north. But officials insisted no horses will be hurt in the Miners' Strike or Poll Tax riots sequences. The latter will be recreated by the British Olympic dressage squad in police uniform, the rioters and miners played by members of the paralympic team.
Boyle is confident he can rise to the occasion and distil the essence of the Thatcher effect, especially when it comes to financial de-regulation. 'It'll start, like her reign did, with a really big bang, and end with a whimper. The bang will come from an Irish pyrotechnic outfit who contacted us saying they're keen to do the work. The whimper will come from a carefully choreographed line of disgraced bankers returning their knighthoods to the Queen.'


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(Almost) Everything You Know About Saturated Fat Is Wrong
(Almost) Everything You Know About Saturated Fat Is Wrong
Milk, avocados, burgers—put them back on the table. We've been told saturated fat is dangerous, but the newest research says that's not so
by Peter Jaret
Nutrition advice has performed some spectacular flip-flops over the years. Eggs were banished from the breakfast table, then later welcomed back. Margarine was deemed healthier than butter—until researchers determined that the trans fats used to make the first generation of margarines were much harder on the heart than butter.
Yet one dietary guideline has stood fast for half a century: Saturated fat, found chiefly in meat and high-fat dairy products such as cheese, is bad—because it leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes. Now that certainty isn't just wobbling; it's toppling. According to recent research, saturated fat may not be a villain after all. In fact, some foods high in saturated fat may lower your risk of stroke and type 2 diabetes. And steering clear of foods just because they contain saturated fat, and eating other foods just because they are low in saturated fat, may be the unhealthiest choice of all.
One of the most prominent proponents of rewriting the book on saturated fat is cardiologist Dariush Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of more than 100 scientific papers on nutrition and health. We asked him to explain why the conventional wisdom on saturated fat is misleading—and how eating it, in moderation, can sometimes be the healthiest move you could make.
Q: Saturated fat has been dietary public health enemy number one for decades. Why do you think telling people to avoid it is bad advice?
A: The recommendation to cut back on saturated fat was based on concerns that it raises the risk of heart disease. But we've learned that its effects are more complex than we first thought.
We've known since the 1960s that saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol, the "bad" cholesterol. But LDL is just one biomarker for risk. We now know that there are other cholesterol-containing particles, called HDL, that are related to a lower risk of heart disease. We also know that high levels of triglycerides in the blood, along with other factors, predict heart disease risk. Saturated fat does raise LDL cholesterol. But compared to carbohydrates, it also raises HDL cholesterol and lowers triglycerides. If we looked just at LDL, we would predict that saturated fat raises heart disease risk. If we looked at the effect of saturated fat on HDL and triglycerides, we would suppose that saturated fat lowers that risk. If we looked at the combination, we would predict that saturated fat is relatively neutral for heart disease risk compared to carbohydrates.
Q: So is saturated fat good or bad?
A: To answer that, we need to study how eating saturated fat relates to actual diseases, not simply to biomarkers such as blood cholesterol that only suggest the possibility of artery damage. Three groups of researchers have recently weighed data from all available large long-term studies that have tracked saturated-fat intake and heart attacks or strokes. All three found no association between saturated fat and heart attacks or strokes. People who consumed the highest levels of saturated fat had about the same rates of heart disease as people who consumed the least.
Q: Those are amazing results, given decades of advice to cut back on saturated fat. How do you explain them?
A: When you ask whether saturated fat is good or bad, the question should be, "Compared to what?" Compared to polyunsaturated fat from vegetable oils, saturated fat is clearly more harmful to the heart. But compared to trans fat, saturated fat is healthier. Compared to carbohydrates, a category that includes starches and grains as well as sugary foods, saturated fat is probably neutral. But compared to refined carbohydrates—the kind found in white breads, most breakfast cereals and snack foods and sweets, for -instance—many foods with saturated fat appear to be a better choice. They also seem less likely than refined carbohydrates to raise heart disease risk.
First published in the October 2012 issue
How does it all add up? In the context of the average American diet, which is mostly poor-quality carbohydrates such as starches and sugars, the amount of saturated fat eaten doesn't significantly increase or decrease health risk. This is likely why it's not related to risk of heart attacks when we look at large population studies.
Q: What has been the effect of the move to cut down on saturated fat in the United States?
A: In the last few decades, total-fat and saturated-fat consumption has gone down, but consumption of refined carbohydrates has soared. Low-fat versions of packaged foods, loaded with refined carbohydrates, sugars and salt, now flood the market. When people replace saturated fat with refined carbohydrates, they are unlikely to improve their health and may worsen it. That's because these kinds of carbohydrates are more likely than saturated fat to raise the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Q: So has the recommendation to reduce saturated fat done more harm than good?
A: The emphasis on saturated fat misleads people into thinking that foods low in saturated fat are healthier when they're not. For example, low-saturated-fat processed meats are not healthy choices. And the desire to reduce saturated fat sometimes steers people away from foods that contain that fat but are actually healthy.
Q: What's an example of a healthy food that contains saturated fat?
A: The average avocado contains about 4.5 grams of total fat, including about half a gram of saturated fat. This small amount has been enough for many people to suggest that you should avoid avocados. But this fruit also contains four grams of unsaturated fats, similar to those found in olive oil, as well as phytochemicals that are healthy.
Dairy is another example of how a focus on saturated fat can lead people astray. We've tended to treat all foods that contain saturated fat the same—unprocessed red meat, processed meat, cheese, yogurt and milk. But each of those foods contains a variety of components, some good and some not so good. Given equivalent serving sizes, processed meat is associated with far higher risks of type 2 diabetes and heart disease than unprocessed meat, even though their saturated-fat content is about the same. Many low-saturated-fat processed deli meats, which are currently marketed as healthy choices, could be much worse for your health than unprocessed red meats that contain more saturated fat. Similarly, even though dairy foods are the top source of saturated fat in the U.S., people who eat the most dairy do not have a higher risk of heart attacks and actually may have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes and stroke.
Q: Do researchers know if full-fat milk is healthier than reduced fat?
A: We don't have firm evidence. Very few long-term studies have compared the health effects of full-fat dairy versus reduced-fat dairy. Even fewer have compared the health effects of different types of dairy, such as butter, milk, cheese and yogurt. The few that have been done have shown mixed results. Some suggest that reduced-fat dairy is better for heart disease or type 2 diabetes risk. Others suggest that whether you consume full-fat or -reduced-fat dairy, the risks are the same. Still others suggest that full fat may be better, because there may be specific fatty acids in dairy fat, or compounds that go along with the fat, that protect against disease. I don't think we have enough evidence to alter the existing dietary guidelines that recommend low-fat dairy. But we also don't have clear evidence that low-fat dairy is a better choice than whole-fat dairy.
Q: Studies have shown that some meats increase heart disease risk. Is saturated fat the culprit?
A: Saturated fat may not be the main problem. For instance, red meat also contains other potentially harmful nutrients, such as a certain type of iron that may raise the risk of type 2 diabetes. Processed meats have sodium, which increases blood pressure and risk of stroke. Low-fat hot dogs and processed deli turkey have less saturated fat than a steak, for example, but also contain, on average, up to four times as much sodium per gram. Research from our group and others shows that processed meats, such as bacon, bologna, deli meats and sausages, pose a risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes that's two or three times as high as the risk posed by unprocessed meat, even when the -saturated-fat content is the same.
So saturated fat alone is not a useful metric for making a healthy choice. Consider a typical deli sandwich made with low-fat processed meat. It may contain little or no saturated fat. But processed meat is typically very high in sodium. Processed cheese is also high in salt. It's even worse if the meat and cheese are served on refined white bread, loaded with refined carbohydrates. In terms of health risks, that sandwich is a cardiovascular bomb. You'd be better off eating a home-cooked steak. Of course, the best choices would still be conventionally healthy options such as fish, nuts, vegetables, fruits and whole grains.
Q: What about the epidemic of overweight and obesity? Are fatty foods more likely to make people fat?
A: That's what we once thought. We also thought that high-fat diets raised the risk of heart disease. But evidence has proved that the proportion of total fat in a person's diet has no effect on heart disease. Growing evidence indicates that this is also true for obesity. Dietary fat doesn't make people fat. When we studied how specific foods related to weight gain over time, the main culprits were starches, such as potatoes, refined carbohydrates and sugars—in other words, poor-quality carbohydrates.
Q: Is saturated fat more dangerous for some people than others?
A: For someone who is young, lean and active and whose only risk factor is elevated LDL, reducing saturated fat might be helpful as long as it's replaced with polyunsaturated fats, such as vegetable oils. But more and more Americans are overweight and sedentary. They typically have low HDL, insulin resistance and elevated triglycerides, a combination of risk factors called metabolic syndrome. Refined carbohydrates are a bigger risk for them than saturated fat, especially from dairy foods, which may actually improve metabolic syndrome. For people with metabolic syndrome, a focus on reducing consumption of potatoes, sugars, white bread and other refined carbs is most important, together with increasing consumption of healthy foods such as fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, vegetable oils and moderate amounts of dairy.
Q: If we toss out the focus on saturated fat, what should the message be?
A: I want to be clear. I'm not saying that saturated fat is good for you. I'm saying that our historical emphasis on cutting back on saturated fat has led to some bad choices. We should focus our recommendations on foods, not single nutrients like saturated fat. Last year Simon Capewell, DSc, a professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Liverpool, and I drew up a list of dietary priorities that could reduce heart disease deaths by half in the U.S. and around the world. Limiting saturated fat doesn't make the cut, because we don't think that on its own it offers much benefit. We estimate that getting Americans to add two servings of nuts a week to their diets would reduce cardiovascular mortality by 11 percent. Replacing refined grains and starches with a serving of whole grains every day would decrease heart-related deaths by an additional 10 percent. Adding an extra serving of fruits and vegetables a day would reduce heart disease mortality by 15 percent more. Those simple changes would make a far bigger dent in heart disease than anything we could expect from reducing saturated fat.
Source: http://www.more.com/health/healthy-eating/saturated-fat-good


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By Annie Reuter
For all those fans who wanted to get their hands on Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons's mash-up of "M.A.A.D. City" and "Radioactive," which they performed on last night's (Jan. 26) GRAMMYs, you're in luck. Their collaboration is now available on iTunes, but you might be surprised by how little Kendrick has to say this time around.
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Taking the drudgery out of cross-platform UI development
Gene works at TimeSys where he focuses on embedded Linux. He can be contacted at gene.sallyverizon.net. Maciej also works at TimeSys where he focuses on embedded Linux and Java. He can be contacted at maciej.halasztimesys.com.
One of the tremendous engineering feats behind Eclipse is that users don't know they're working with a multiplatform application. The user interface elements (drop-downs, option buttons, hierarchical views, and such) look and operate like other applications on the platform, even though the Eclipse platform is built on the same source code base. This article looks into the technology driving the Eclipse user experience and how you can use it to create your own cross-platform applications.
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) serves as the graphical underpinning for the Eclipse framework, powering a sophisticated IDE. However, the SWT framework isn't only for Eclipse. You can use it by itself or in conjunction with the Rich Client Platform (RCP) when creating multiplatform applications. In this article, I examine the SWT and RCP, and show how to use them to deliver cross-platform applications.
Not Swing
Java graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have long been dominated by Sun's Abstract Widget Toolkit (AWT) and Swing windowing component packages. These two kits are widely used to create Java-compliant graphical components. Both AWT and Swing present a highly abstracted API that shields users from the underlying windowing system. While this thick layer lets AWT and Swing behave more like Java than SWT does, users pay in the form of a suboptimal experience. Neither AWT nor Swing applications look and behave like native applications and they typically result in slower performance as well.
SWT is a thin layer on top of the underlying graphics tool kit, providing just enough abstraction to make the API uniform across platforms. It does not attempt to change the default look or behavior of the windowing system. The result is a high-performance application that looks no different than any other native application. (For details on the SWT design philosophy and how the software is both portable and native, see "SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit" by Steve Northover; http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html.)
On top of SWT is the JFace toolkit. SWT handles primitives such as text boxes, sliders, and option buttons, while JFace presents higher level controls such as dialogs, panels, and layouts. JFace relies entirely on SWT to render the controls it presents. In turn, the Eclipse core relies mostly on the JFace class libraries (using SWT when necessary) to interact with the user. Figure 1 illustrates how these software packages come together.
Minimal SWT Application
Listing One is all the code you need for a minimal SWT application that presents users with a single dialog application. This code instantiates Display and Shell objects. The Display class is the primary interface between you and the underlying windowing system; it handles the synchronization between the threads of the application and the thread handling in the UI. In some windowing systems (particularly Windows), UI objects have thread affinity, meaning you can't manipulate an object outside of the thread that created the object. The shell is the window managed by the display.
Listing One creates an instance of the dialog displayed to users and opens it in an application modal state, so the application blocks on the open() of the dialog. When users close the dialog, control returns to the calling method and the application quits. This works fine for a single dialog application, but gets complex for applications that have menus, toolbars, and the like. In addition, the code to get this running from the command line is more complex; see Listing Two.
The complicated shell script is necessary so that Eclipse has the right graphics libraries in the class path for SWT and has the path to the location of the native files. While this code could be hidden from users in batch files or shell scripts, it still imposes a maintenance burden because it needs to be different for every platform on which the application runs.
The Rich Client Platform
Because Eclipse is designed to handle the drudgery just described and provide the infrastructure for managing modular development, why not just remove all of the plug-ins and use what's left as the starting point for application development? This is the role of the Rich Client Platform (RCP), introduced with Eclipse 3.0.
The RCP provides the facilities for SWT/JFace and plug-in handling. RCP eliminates all of the housekeeping in the previous example by loading the correct classes for the windowing system, as well as loading plug-ins and waiting for user input.
RCP-based applications are written as Eclipse plug-ins. As such, they start as Eclipse plug-in projects so you can use the wizards that are part of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) to kick-start RCP development (http://www.eclipse.org/pde/index.html).
For the purposes of this article, I use RCP to write a "Hello World" application in which the code puts the text in the title bar of a dialog box (the complete source code is available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 5). Using the Plug-in Project Wizard, I supply a name and ID for the project; for this example, I use org.eclipse.ui.rcp.testapp for the name with an ID of HelloWorld. On the Plug-in Code Generator wizard page, select the Create a Blank Plug-in Project option button, as none of the code generation wizards suit our needs. (Don't select the Hello World code generation wizard on this panel!)
When the wizard finishes, you have the start of a project where you can begin to add code. Listing Three shows some of the code necessary to launch the dialog. The application relies on Eclipse's org.eclipse.core.runtime package. Once the class has been defined, you can concentrate on making the class display a window with a Hello World title bar.
The starting point of the test application starts (as Java developers would expect) in a run method of the main class. You must ensure that the entire lifecycle of the application starts and ends within this run() method's boundaries.
The class that controls the GUI appearance is the WorkbenchAdvisor, which drives the look-and-feel of the interface. I extend this abstract class in the application and define the application-specific look-and-feel by defining new views, menus, and so on, or by simply defining the initial configuration of the GUI window.
Most of the methods defined for the WorkbenchAdvisor class (preWindowOpen(), openIntro(), and postOpenWindow(), for instance) take the IWorkbenchWindowConfigurator interface as a parameter. Through the configurator interface, you can define properties of the window such as the initial size or the title-bar string (see Listing Four). A full list of parameters that can be manipulated are described in the javadoc for the classes.
The getInitialWindowPerspective() method must be overridden to point to at least one perspective that can be serving as the default for the application. The HelloWorldWorkbenchAdvisor class is where you define windows and menus and the actions behind them. For this application, I create several menus that are similar to what users see in a typical application; see Listing Five. The newly created menu functions (createFileMenu()) first define the string appearing on each menu entry and subsequently define all available entries.
Listing Six presents an implementation of a default perspective. User-defined perspectives implement the IPerspectiveFactory interface. Each perspective manages the views and editors that the application presents at start-up. For the Hello World application to create its own perspective, you need to override the createInitialLayout() method, which is responsible for the addition and layout of views. At this point, all coding for the application is done; see Figure 2.
Since development is now occurring on top of the Eclipse core platform, you can benefit from other plug-ins, further reducing development efforts. When using third-party plug-ins, it's important to understand their prerequisites so that they can be distributed with the application. If you decide to use third-party plug-ins, open the plug-in's manifest for a list of dependencies and dependencies of the dependencies (and so on) until all are known.
Launching Hello World
To launch an RCP application, pass these parameters to the Java VM:
- Classpath to the RCP jar file.
- Class with the entry point.
- The name of the class containing the application the RCP runs.
And Hello World is off and running; see Figure 3. (For Linux, use this command line, java -cp startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main -application org.eclipse.ui.rcp.testapp.HelloWorld.)
Packaging and Deployment
The easiest way to create a deployment image of the application is to create a "feature" for referencing your plug-in and its components in the Eclipse RCP. The feature works like a manifest for the application, listing the required plug-ins.
While you could spelunk around to discover the plug-ins necessary for the RCP, the easiest way is to download a feature in Eclipse that contains references to the plug-ins used by the RCP. The project is located on the Eclipse CVS server (http://www.eclipse.org/tools/index.html), which you can access by opening a CVS connection to :pserver:anonymousdev.eclipse.org:/home/eclipse. Once you've connected, check out the org.eclipse.rcpHelper project in the pde-build-home/articles/export rcp apps/feature folder.
After adding the org.eclipse.rcpHelper application to your workspace, open feature.xml for your application, go to the Advanced tab, and add the org.eclipse.rcpHelper feature to the list of included features. Now your application will pull in the necessary components when building the feature. Next, you'll need to tell the feature about where to find the startup.jar file by adding the following to your feature's build.properties files:
root = absolute:file:
<eclipse installation directory>/startup.jar
Finally, you'll need to add Listing Seven so the builder for the feature knows how to build the config.ini file for the application. Once this is done, you can use the Export|Deployable features to create a zip or jar file with your application.
There are a number of ways to write and deploy SWT applications. In this article, I present two methods for creating SWT-based applicationsone using the bare-bones SWT classes and another with Eclipse 3.0's Rich Client Platform. With the introduction of the RCP, leveraging Eclipse's plug-in architecture has never been easier. The next time your requirements specify a cross-platform UI, RCP can go a long way toward creating a professional user experience, while letting you take advantage of the plug-in development model offered by Eclipse.
public class CUserInterface { private Display m_display; public void go(String[] args) { m_display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(m_display); CAppDialog targetDialog = new CAppDialog(shell, null); // hopefully this will have a dispatch loop built in! targetDialog.setBlockOnOpen(true); targetDialog.open(); m_display.dispose(); } public static void main(String[] args) { CUserInterface userInterface = new CUserInterface(); userInterface.go(args); } }Back to article
Listing Two
ECLIPSE=/opt/eclipse/plugins ECLIPSE_OS=linux ECLIPSE_ARCH=x86 SWT=${ECLIPSE}/org.eclipse.swt.${ECLIPSE_WS} _2.1.1/os/${ECLIPSE_OS}/${ECLIPSE_ARCH} JDTCORE=${ECLIPSE}/org.eclipse.jdt.core_2.1.1/jdtcore.jar WORKBENCH=${ECLIPSE}/org.eclipse.ui_2.1.1/workbench.jar SWT2=${ECLIPSE}/org.eclipse.swt.${ECLIPSE_WS} _2.1.1/ws/${ECLIPSE_WS}/swt.jar LIBPATH=${ECLIPSE}/org.eclipse.swt.${ECLIPSE_WS} _2.1.1/os/${ECLIPSE_OS}/${ECLIPSE_ARCH} CLASSPATH=userinterface.jar;${SWT};${JDTCORE};${WORKBENCH};${SWT2} ENTRYPOINT=CUserInterface java -cp ${CLASSPATH} -Djava.library.path=${LIBPATH} ${ENTRYPOINT}Back to article
Listing Three
public class HelloWorldApplication implements IPlatformRunnable { public Object run(Object args) { Display helloDisplay = PlatformUI.createDisplay(); WorkbenchAdvisor helloWorkbenchAdvisor = new HelloWorldWorkbenchAdvisor(); try { int returnCode = PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(helloDisplay, helloWorkbenchAdvisor); ... } } finally { display.dispose(); } } }Back to article
Listing Four
public class HelloWorldWorkbenchAdvisor extends WorkbenchAdvisor { public String getInitialWindowPerspectiveId() { return "org.eclipse.ui.rcp.testapp.HelloWorldPerspective"; } public void preWindowOpen(IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer configurer) { super.preWindowOpen(configurer); configurer.setInitialSize(new Point(500, 300)); configurer.setTitle("Hello World"); } }Back to article
Listing Five
private void fillMenuBar(IWorkbenchWindow window, IActionConfigurer configurer) { IMenuManager helpMenuBar = configurer.getmenuManager(); helpMenuBar.add(createFileMenu(window)); helpMenuBar.add(createViewMenu(window)); // add more menus here, if necessary }Back to article
Listing Six
public class HelloWorldPerspective implements IPerspectiveFactory { public HelloWorldPerspective() { } public void createInitialLayout(IPagelayout layout) { layout.setEditorAreaVisible(true); // creation of view class left as exercise for the reader layout.addView(...); layout....; } }Back to article
Listing Seven
osgi.bundles = org.eclipse.core.runtime.start, org.eclipse.core.expressions, org.eclipse.help, \ org.eclipse.jface, org.eclipse.osgi.services, org.eclipse.osgi, org.eclipse.swt, org.eclipse.swt.gtk, \ org.eclipse.swt.carbon, org.eclipse.swt.gtk64, org.eclipse.swt.motif, org.eclipse.swt.photon,\ org.eclipse.swt.win32, org.eclipse.ui.workbench, org.eclipse.ui, org.eclipse.ui.rcp.testapp.HelloWorld eclipse.application = org.eclipse.ui.rcp.testapp.HelloWorldBack to article