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India's billion-dollar home is world's most expensive
I have previously mentioned the Hong Kong apartment sold for a record 57 million dollars, but now India's billion-dollar home has taken the lead to be the world's most expensive home ever built.
India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and his family are set to move into a 27-floor home tended by an estimated 600-person staff. As NBC's Ian Williams reports, the mega-mansion is taking heat from many people in India.
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Posted: November 7th, 2010 under News.
Tags: Apartments, Houses, India, Luxury Apartments, Most Expensive Property, Mukesh Ambani, Price Record, Real Estate
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Hong Kong apartment sold for a record 57 million dollars
A Hong Kong property developer claims to have set a world record last week for the sale of a five bedroom luxury apartment, at $57m. The five-bedroom home is believed to be Asia's most expensive property - with each sq foot costing $9,200.
The unidentified new owner from mainland China bought the property in 39 Conduit Road, one of Hong Kong's most exclusive addresses. The apartment, about 6,000 sq feet (557 sq metres), is on the 68th floor of the building and has views over the harbour. The owner has access to facilities including an aroma spa centre, a fitness room and an outdoor yoga gym.
Property prices in Hong Kong have benefited from mainland China's booming market, however it has one of the world's most expensive property markets - with many locals finding it difficult to buy.
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Posted: October 18th, 2009 under News.
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The pitch for the online course sounds like a late-night television ad, or maybe a subway poster: "Learn programming in seven weeks starting Feb. 20. We'll teach you enough about computer science that you can build a Web search engine like Google or Yahoo."
But this course, Building a Search Engine, is taught by two prominent computer scientists, Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford research professor and Google fellow, and David Evans, a professor on leave from the University of Virginia.
The big names have been a big draw. Since Udacity, the for-profit startup running the course, opened registration on Jan. 23, more than 90,000 students have enrolled in the search-engine course and another taught by Mr. Thrun, who led the development of Google's self-driving car.
Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses — known as MOOCs — a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. And in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free).
Consider Stanford's experience: Last fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in an Artificial Intelligence course taught by Mr. Thrun and Peter Norvig, a Google colleague. An additional 200 registered for the course on campus, but a few weeks into the semester, attendance at Stanford dwindled to about 30, as those who had the option of seeing their professors in person decided they preferred the online videos, with their simple views of a hand holding a pen, working through the problems.
Mr. Thrun was enraptured by the scale of the course, and how it spawned its own culture, including a Facebook group, online discussions and an army of volunteer translators who made it available in 44 languages.
"Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again," he said at a digital conference in Germany in January. "I feel like there's a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I've taken the red pill, and I've seen Wonderland."
Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed). And this spring, the university will have 13 courses open to the world, including Anatomy, Cryptography, Game Theory and Natural Language Processing.
"We're considering this still completely experimental, and we're trying to figure out the right way to go down this road," said John Etchemendy, the Stanford provost. "Our business is education, and I'm all in favor of supporting anything that can help educate more people around the world. But there are issues to consider, from copyright questions to what it might mean for our accreditation if we provide some official credential for these courses, branded as Stanford."
Mr. Thrun sent the 23,000 students who completed the Artificial Intelligence course a PDF file (suitable for framing) by e-mail showing their percentile score, but not the Stanford name; 248 students, none from Stanford, earned grades of 100 percent.
For many of the early partisans, the professed goal is more about changing the world than about making money. But Udemy, a startup with backing from the founders of Groupon, is hoping that wide use of its site could ultimately generate profits. And Mr. Thrun's new company, Udacity, which is supported by Charles River Ventures, plans to, essentially, monetize its students' skills — and help them get jobs — by getting their permission to sell leads to recruiters.
"We're going to have detailed records on thousands of students who have learned these skills, many of whom will want to make those skills available to employers," said Mr. Evans, the Virginia professor. "So if a recruiter is looking for the hundred best people in some geographic area that know about machine learning, that's something we could provide, for a fee. I think it's the cusp of a revolution."
On Feb. 13, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has been posting course materials online for 10 years, opened registration for its first MOOC, a circuits and electronics course. The course will serve as the prototype for its MITx project, which will eventually offer a wide range of courses and some sort of credential for those who complete them.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is running an experimental two-semester MOOC, known as Change 11, a free-floating forum that exists more in the online postings and response of the students — only two of whom are getting Georgia Tech credit — than in the formal materials assigned by a rotation of professors. Next year, Richard DeMillo, director of Georgia Tech's Center for 21st Century Universities, hopes to put together a MOOSe, or massive open online seminar, through a network of universities that will offer credit.
Udemy recently announced a new Faculty Project, in which award-winning professors from universities like Dartmouth, the University of Virginia and Northwestern offer free online courses. Its co-founder, Gagen Biyani, said the site has more than 100,000 students enrolled in its courses, including several, outside the Faculty Project, that charge fees.
Experts say several factors have helped propel MOOCs to the center of the education stage, including improved technology and the exploding costs of traditional universities.
"We also now have the example of for-profit colleges that have shown that it's perfectly possible to go to scale online," said Kevin Carey, policy director of Education Sector, an independent policy institute.
Five years ago, George Siemens started a MOOC on what was happening in open education, hoping to do for teaching what M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare had done for content: it attracted 2,300 participants, with a syllabus translated into several languages. Mr. Siemens, a professor at Athabasca University, a publicly-supported online Canadian institution, said it was quickly apparent that the format created distinctive social networks, as students carried on wide-ranging discussions on their own.
"A lot of the relationships formed through that first course are still continuing today," said Mr. Siemens, who is also a facilitator of Georgia Tech's program. "What we found was that in a MOOC, instead of the classroom being the center, it becomes just one node of the network of social interactions."
The current, more technically focused MOOCs are highly automated, with computer-graded assignment and exams. But there is still plenty of room for social interaction. The Stanford MOOCs, for example, included virtual office hours and online discussion forums where students could ask and answer questions — and vote on which were important enough to filter up the professor.
"In a classroom, when you ask a question, one student answers and the others don't get a chance," Mr. Thrun said. "Online, with embedded quizzes, everyone has to try to answer the questions. And if they don't understand, they can go back and listen over and over until they do." Just as a child who falls while learning to ride a bike is not told "You get a D," but is encouraged to keep trying, he said, online classes, where students can work at their own pace, can help students keep practicing until they master the content.
"The goal should be to get everybody to A+ level," he said.
Several students in Mr. Thrun's class last semester, contacted by e-mail, said the MOOC worked for them.
Balakrishnan Srinivasan, 45, a computer engineer in Bangalore, said he frequently replayed the videos, which made him "feel as if I had a personal tutor." He earned a 94.8 in Artificial Intelligence and has signed up for both Udacity courses.
Brian Guan, 44, a Malaysian-born software engineer who lives in Palo Alto, Calif., offered his own utopian vision in an e-mail interview: "I wish that the always-available, always-replayable and free nature of this style of learning can help to elevate education/knowledge for all of human kind."

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Mr. Buchanan wipes the slobber and chicken bits from his face and says, "Well, there's a reason for that but it has nothing to do with my right-wing political inclinations."
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I just witnessed a fascinating twitter exchange that beautifully summarizes the divide I am trying to bridge in my work and career. Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, the head of research at Oxfam GB, after seeing a post on GDP tweeted by Tim Harford (note: not written by Harford), tweeted the following:
To which Harford tweeted back:
This odd standoff between two intelligent, interesting thinkers is easily explained. Bluntly, Harford's point is academic, and from that perspective mostly true. Contemporary academic thinking on development has more or less moved beyond this question. However, to say that it "never has been" an important question ignores the history of development, where there is little question that in the 50s and 60s there was significant conflation of GDP and well-being.
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Material Design and Process Development for Lightweight High Entropy Alloys and Composites
Xuejun Huang, Jiashi Miao, Alan A. Luo
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High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a new class of materials consisting of multiple principal elements, and can offer exceptional physical and mechanical properties. CALculation of PHAse Diagrams (CALPHAD) modeling was used to explore and design lightweight AlCrTiV-based HEAs. The high hardness and high elastic modulus of these lightweight HEAs as well as their compatibility with metals/alloys make them excellent reinforcements in metal matrix composites (MMCs). Al-based MMCs reinforced with AlCrTiV-based HEA particles were prepared using mechanical alloying and powder metallurgy manufacturing techniques. Heat treatments were conducted based on CALPHAD modeling results. Advanced characterization techniques were used to identify phases and validate CALPHAD calculations for AlCrTiV-based HEAs and Al/AlCrTiV MMCs.
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3D Ink-extrusion Additive Manufacturing of CoCrFeNi High-entropy Alloy Micro-lattices
A High-throughput Laser-processing Method to Study Processing-microstructure-mechanical Property Relationship in a High Entropy Alloy
A Low-cost, Low-density Compositionally Complex Alloy with High Corrosion Resistance
A Machine Learning Model for Alloy Design
A Novel Ceramic Derived Processing Route for Multi-principal Element Alloys
Additive Manufacturing of High Entropy and Compositionally Complex Alloys
Alloying Effects on Mechanical Properties of CoCrFeNi-based γ'-Strengthened Multi-principal Element Alloys for Elevated Temperature Applications
An In-situ TEM Observation on the Stability of High Entropy Alloys Under High Temperature Oxidation Environments
Anisotropic Lattice Excitation Induced by Hydrogen in CoCrFeMnNi High-entropy Alloy
Artificial Intelligence for Predicting Phase Stability on High Entropy Alloys
Assessing the Fidelity of Thermodynamic Predictions for CrFeCoNi-based High Entropy Alloys
Atomic-scale Investigation of Deformation Substructures of High Entropy Alloy CoCrFeMnNi Subjected to High Strain Rates
CALPHAD-based Informatics Tools for High-entropy Alloy Design
Combinatorial Thin Film Approach to Develop Refractory BCC HEAs with Improved Ductility
Competition Between L1
and B2/L2
Precipitation in FCC Based Complex Concentrated Alloys: Multi-scale Microstructures and Tuning Mechanical Properties
Compositional Design, Elongation and Dislocation Mobility in HEA Alloys
Corrosion of Single- and Multi-phase High Entropy Alloys
Creep Properties of High Entropy Alloys Having a Single FCC Crystal Structure at Elevated Temperature
Cryogenic-temperature Deformation of Boron-doped High-entropy Alloys: Hardening by Short-range Ordering
Crystal Plasticity in the Role of Performance Evaluation Tool in the Multiscale Design of High Entropy Alloys
Data Analytics and Machine Learning to Accelerate Materials Design and Processing Development of High Entropy Alloys
Deformation Mechanisms of Additively Manufactured FeMnCoCrAl High Entropy Alloy with Interstitial Carbon
Determination of High-throughput Computational Modeling Approaches on Design of Al-Cr-Co-Fe-Ni Quinary High-entropy Alloys (HEAs)
Development and Study of a TiNbMoAlSi Complex Concentrated Alloy with a Body-centered Cubic and Orthorhombic Microstructure
Development of a Thermodynamic and Mobility Database Using CALPHAD for High Entropy Alloys
Development of Sputtered HEA Thin Films and Their Functional Properties
Discovery and Optimization of High Entropy Alloys Using Combinatorial and High-throughput Methods
Effect of Co and Fe on the Phase Stability of CrMnFeCoNi High Entropy Alloys Following Long-duration Exposures at Intermediate Temperatures
Effect of Cr Variation on FCC Phase Fraction in AlCoCrxFeNi(x= 0 - 1) High-entropy Alloys Synthesised through Mechanical Alloying and Spark Plasma Sintering
Effect of Local Chemical Ordering on Mechanical Properties in High Entropy Alloys
Effect of Pre-strain on the Aging Response of Non-equimolar AlCoCrFeNiTi High Entropy Alloy
Effects of Cu Precipitation on Mechanical, Anti-corrosion and Antibacterial Properties in a Medium-entropy Super-austenitic Stainless Steel
Efficient Exploration of the High Entropy Alloy Space
Electrochemical Preparation of Different Classes of High-entropy Materials for Advanced Applications
Elementary Deformation Mechanisms of CoCrFeMnNi under Mild Tribological Load
Emerging Computational Tools for Exploring the Refractory Compositionally Complex Alloys
Enabling FAIR Data Principles for High-throughput Materials Science and Engineering
Engineering Atomic-level Complexity in High Entropy and Complex Concentrated Alloys
Enhanced Mechanical Properties in CrMnFeCoNi High Entropy Alloy by Harmonic Structure Design
Enthalpy-based Design of High Entropy Alloys
Environmental Degradation of Multiple Principle Element Alloys
Examining the Importance of the 'Entropic Effect' on the Mechanical Properties of HEAs
Expanding High-entropy to Ceramics: Identifying High Entropy Oxides with Perovskite, Spinel, or Pyrochlore Structure
Exploration of Compositionally Complex Al-Li-Mg-Zn Alloys, Including Discovery of a Four-component Icosahedral Quasicrystal
Exploration of the Solid–Solution Space in the Co–Cr–Fe–Ni System via Rapid Alloy Selection and Synthesis Methods
Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of CrCoFeNi
Functional Properties of High Entropy Materials with Metallic, Ionic and Covalent Bonding
Grain Boundary Segregation Behavior of Mechanically-alloyed Refractory High Entropy Alloys
Heat Treatment and Property Optimization Study of Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys
High-entropy Functional Materials
High-throughput Aging Investigation of High-entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
High-throughput Experimental Synthesis of Refractory High-entropy Alloys
High Energy Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Diffraction Measurements on Al
CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy during in situ Annealing
High Entropy Alloy Design Using Multiscale Modeling and Machine Learning Based High-throughput Computing
High Entropy Alloys Based on NiCoFeAlxTiy Hardening with Multicomponent Intermetallic Nanoparticles
High Entropy Ceramics as an Emerging Class of Material: Insights from Theory and Computation
High Speed Nanoindentation Property Mapping in Dual Phase Al
FeCrNiMn at Elevated Temperatures
High Temperature Oxidation Behavior of CrMnFeCoNi and CrCoNi in Various Atmospheres
High Temperature Oxidation of High Entropy Nb-Cr-W-Ta-V Alloy
High Temperature Strengthening from High Entropy Precipitates
High Temperature, Low Cost and Light Weight High Entropy Superalloys
Hydrogen Storage Properties of TiVNbCrx Multicomponent Alloys
ICME Design of Corrosion Resistant HEAs for Harsh Environments
Improving Ductility of Dual-phase High-entropy Alloys for High-temperature Structural Applications
Insights into Refractory Multi-principal Component Alloys from Machine-learning Interatomic Potentials
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Design of High Performance Copmlex Concentrated Alloys
Investigating the Mechanical Response of Refractory High-entropy Alloys Using Ion Irradiation and Micromechanical Testing
Investigation on Elastic and Plastic Deformation Behaviors of Refractory High-entropy Alloy at Elevated Temperatures via In-situ Neutron Studies
It Is Not (Only) the Entropy!
Lattice Distortion of High-entropy Alloys
Local Chemical Ordering and the Mechanical Properties of CrCoNi-based High-entropy Alloys
Local Plasticity and Interfacial Effects in Cubic HEA Studied by Correlative Methods
Machine-learning Phase Prediction of High-entropy Alloys
Machine Learning-aided Accelerated Discovery of HEA for Turbomachinery Applications
Material Design and Process Development for Lightweight High Entropy Alloys and Composites
Mechanical Properties and Joining of Additively Manufactured Ti-Nb-Zr-Ta Alloy Parts with HEA Fillers
Mechanical Properties of Single-phase Refractory High Entropy Alloys
Metastable High Entropy Alloys
Microstructural and Mechanical Characterization of a Medium Entropy Alloy Produced Using Selective Laser Melting
Microstructural Characterization and High-temperature Mechanical Behavior of 3D Printed Eutectic High Entropy Alloy (AlCoCrFeNi2.1)
Microstructural Evolution of Refractory Metal Additions to the CrFeCoNi High Entropy Alloys
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of High Entropy Ceramic/High Entropy Alloys Composite High Entropy Material
Microstructure Evolution in CoCrFeMnNi High-entropy Alloy by Localized Shear Deformation
Microstructures and Properties of As-Cast Al
CrFeMnV, Al
CrFeTiV, and Al
CrMnTiV High Entropy Alloys
Modeling and Experimental Validation of Refractory CCA Solidification and Homogenization
Modeling dislocation motion in BCC MPEs
Molecular Dynamic Simulations on the Mechanical Properties of CoCrFeMnNi High Entropy Alloy and the Equimolar Alloys in Its Sub-system
Multi-cell Monte Carlo for Phase Prediction of High Entropy Alloys
Multi-scale Framework for Predicting Mechanical Properties in High Entropy Alloys
Nanomechanical Behavior of Body-centered Cubic VNbTaMoW Alloy
NiTi Based High Entropy Shape Memory Alloys
Novel Equiatomic and Non-equiatomic Refractory High Entropy Alloys Exhibiting Tensile Ductility Even in As-cast State
On the Deformation Mechanisms of a B2 Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloy
On the Mechanism of TRIP Behavior in Co-Cr-Ni Multi-principal Element Alloy
Optimization of MPEA Properties with Sequential Learning
Orientation and Interstitial Content Dependence of Twinning in Medium and High-entropy Alloys in Comparison with Conventional Steel Single Crystals
Origins of High Temperature Strengthening in BCC HEAs
Outstanding Radiation Resistance of Tungsten-based High Entropy Alloys
Oxidation of CrFeCoNiCu Sputtered Thin Films
Oxidation Resistant Refractory High Entropy Alloys for High Temperature Structural Application
Oxidation Resistant Refractory Metal – Simple Metal Complex Concentrated Alloys
P10: FCC to
Ordering Transformation in Equimolar FeCoNiV High Entropy Alloy
P11: Fracture and Fatigue Resistance of High Entropy Alloys
P12: Hydrogen Sorption in MgTiNbCr0.5Mn0.5Ni0.5 High Entropy Alloy Synthesized Using High Energy Ball Milling (HEBM)
P13: Investigation of CoCrCuFeNi Alloys in the Semisolid State
P14: Is the Cantor Alloy (CrMnFeCoNi) the Most Stable Combination within CrMnFeCoNiCu?
P15: Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of a Vacancy Diffusion Driven Ordering in High-entropy Alloys
P17: Microstructural Evolution of TRIPLEX Structure in TiVNbTaW High Entropy Alloy Fabricated by Spark Plasma Sintering
P18: Microstructure and Superconductivity in Equiatomic Hf-Nb-Ta-Ti-V High Entropy Alloy
P19: Microstructure Evolutions of AlCoCrFeNiTi
High-entropy Alloy at Elevated Temperatures
P1: A Design Strategy for Developing Lightweight TWIP High Entropy Alloy
P20: Nanocrystalline, Two Phase High-entropy Alloy: Strengthening by Grain Boundaris Versus Second-phase Particle
P21: Overcoming Mechanostability and Thermal Shielding Trade off via Concatenated Dendritic High Entropy Alloy Foam
P22: Partial Melting and Microstructural Evaluation of CrCuFeMnNi High-entropy Alloys for Semisolid Processing
P23: Physical Properties of Sputtered CrFeCoNiCu Thin Films on Quartz Substrate
P24: Radiation-induced Damage of CrMnFeNi-based High-entropy Alloys
P25: Sintering of HfNbTaTiZr Alloy
P26: Strain Hardening Behavior of Equi-atomic CoCrFeMnNi High-entropy Alloy at Low and Room Temperature
P27: Study of Lattice Distortion Effect on the Mechanical Property of BCC Alloy: From Low-entropy to High-entropy Alloys
P28: Synthesis and Characterization of TixAlSixMoW Light-weight High Entropy Alloys: Mechanical and Electrochemical Studies
P29: Synthesis of Equiatomic CoCrFeMnTi and CoCrFeMnNiTi Based High Entropy Alloys by Powder Metallurgy Route
P2: Cold Working of Al
CoCrFeNi High Entropy Alloy
P30: The Hardness of Al-Cr-Si-Ti Nitride Coatings
P31: Correlated In-situ Study of Surface Oxidation of High Entropy Alloys
P33: Density Functional Theory Lattice Distortion Calculations of High Entropy Metallic and Oxide Alloys
P34: Toughness Enhancing Deformation Mechanisms in the CoCrNi Family of MPEAs
P35: High-cycle Fatigue Properties of Nitrogen-doped CoCrNi Medium Entropy Alloy
P36: Microstructural Evolution of CoCrFeMnNi under Tribological Load with Varying Stress Field
P37: Dislocation Multiplication from a Frank-Read Source in Body-centered Cubic Pure Metals and Multi-principal Element Alloys
P38: Leveraging Schema.org Specifications within Materials Science and Engineering
P39: Atomistic Calculations of the Peierls Stress in NbTiZr Multi-principal Element Alloys
P3: Creep Properties of High Entropy Alloys Having a Single FCC Crystal Structure at Elevated Temperature
P40: Use Case for the High-throughput Experimental Materials Collaboratory: High Entropy Alloys
P4: Development of High Entropy Alloy with Nano-laminated Martensite/Austenite Structure
P5: Dislocation Emission from Grain Boundaries in High Entropy Alloys Through Atomic Simulations
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Chinese Taipei's Tai Tzu Ying was an early casualty at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2014 today as she crashed out to Yao Xue.
Tai, the Women's Singles seventh seed, suffered her third straight first-round loss as the Chinese rode her momentum from winning the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold on Sunday. Yao's attacking play found no reply from the out-of-form Tai who crumbled 21-16 21-19. Yao next faces compatriot Liu Xin who had it easy against fellow qualifier Shruti Mundada of India, 21-12 21-8.
Two of China's Big Three were tested – but survived. All England champion Wang Shixian (featured image) must have been the most relieved of the three as she posted her first success in four matches against India's PV Sindhu. Wang lost the second set but Sindhu was unable to force a tighter contest in the third as the world No. 3 triumphed 21-15 12-21 21-10. Meanwhile, world No. 2 Wang Yihan also fought off a fierce challenge from Thailand's Porntip Buranaprasertsuk, recovering from 15-18 in the second game to win 21-19 22-20.
All the other favoured players, including top seed Li Xuerui (China), India's Saina Nehwal (8), and Korea's Bae Yeon Ju (5) and Sung Ji Hyun (6) progressed into the second round.
It was a good day for hosts India in the Men's Singles. Former top-ten player Kashyap Parupalli struck down sixth seed Wang Zhengming of China for his first win in three encounters, while Malaysia Open GPG runner-up Sourabh Varma staved off big-hitting Russian giant Vladimir Ivanov, also in three games. Fellow Indian and world No. 30, Guru Sai Dutt, outlasted a player ranked five places above him, Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien Chen, 17-21 21-16 21-17, and will next play team-mate Parupalli.
Seventh seed Du Pengyu was taken the distance by the crafty Sai Praneeth (below) of India. Du was adrift early and nearly lost the plot in the closing stages of the decider, but he was able to pocket the last two points in a match that went over an hour: 16-21 21-10 21-19. Fourth seed Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark was also stretched to three games by local, Anand Pawar, but his compatriot Hans Kristian Vittinghus (above) enjoyed a surprisingly one-sided victory over Japanese youngster, Kento Momota, 21-19 21-14.
* Top seeds in Men's Doubles, Hiroyuki Endo and Kenichi Hayakawa, were in for a surprise, finding themselves a game adrift against India's Pranaav Jerry Chopra/Akshay Dewalkar. The Japanese however regrouped and cruised in the next two games, 15-21 21-11 21-13. The only seeds to exit in Men's Doubles were Hoon Thien How/Tan Wee Kiong of Malaysia – the fifth seeds were sent packing, 21-6 21-18, by China's Kang Jun/Liu Cheng.
* Indonesia's Anggia Shitta Awanda/Della Destiara Haris (above) staged the upset of the day in Women's Doubles, with a stunning 21-13 11-21 21-16 rout of fourth seeds Jang Ye Na/Kim So Young. The Koreans stormed level in the second game but Awanda/Haris kept their composure and pocketed seven straight points midway in the third game to effectively seal the contest. Seventh seeds Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth/Rizki Amelia Pradipta of Indonesia were also beaten in three games, by Duanganong Aroonkesorn/Kunchala Voravichitchaikul of Thailand: 14-21 21-16 21-14.
* Malaysia had some good news in the Mixed Doubles as Chan Peng Soon and new partner Lai Pei Jing scored a memorable 21-15 8-21 23-21 outcome over eighth seeds Kenichi Hayakawa/Misaki Matsutomo of Japan. The Malaysians (below), who had to qualify, trailed most of the third game but, from 14-18 down, they clawed home – even withstanding a match point to the Japanese.


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Queen thankful for Diamond Jubilee party
Looking past the scandal which has at times shaken the royal family in 2012, a humble Queen Elizabeth has sent out a global thanks to those who helped celebrate her 60-year reign.
During the monarch's Christmas message, in which she became the first royal to appear in 3D format, the 86-year-old sovereign touched on friendship, sport, duty and religion.
In her address, the Queen recognised the efforts of those serving in the armed forces and emergency services.
Grandson Prince Harry, 28, continues to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan in his role as a British Army apache helicopter co-pilot.
Earlier in the year, the playboy prince attracted unwanted exposure when caught short of clothing on camera during a game of strip billiards in Las Vegas.
Prince William's much-adored bride Catherine also made global headlines as topless photos taken during a holiday in France popped up in tabloids and glossy magazines.
The surrounding hubbub soon came to an end with the announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge, 30, is expecting her first baby.
However, news of the royal pregnancy led to further controversy with the death of a nurse working at a hospital where Catherine was being treated for acute morning sickness.
While there was no mention of her own family in her address, the Queen focused on community spirit and support.
"It's important at this time of year to reach out beyond our familiar relationships to think of those who are on their own," she said.
The Queen sent her thanks to those who helped celebrate her Diamond Jubilee Year.
"It was humbling that so many chose to mark the anniversary of a duty which passed to me 60 years ago. People of all ages took the trouble to take part in various ways and in many nations," she said.
She labelled the London 2012 Games as a "splendid summer of sport", with mention of the dedicated volunteers who contributed to the city's successful role as Olympics host.
"It is my prayer this Christmas Day that his example and teaching will continue to bring people together to give the best of themselves in the service of others," the Queen said of Jesus Christ.
"I wish you all a very happy Christmas."
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Good Friday: Investing Where Hope Seems Dead
One of the most remarkable sentences in all of Scripture comes from the thief who was hanging next to Jesus on the cross. Jesus was just hours from death, and, by all appearances, had failed in his Messianic role.
Just days before, Jesus had entered Jerusalem, hailed as a king with shouts of "Hosanna!" But then, Jesus was betrayed, tried, beaten, and nailed to the cross. In the eyes of the disciples and all of his followers, it was all over.
And then, just before his death, a criminal said to Jesus, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom" (Luke 23:42). At the darkest hour, when others had given up hope, the robber believed Jesus was about to enter his kingdom.
This is the hope that we have as Christians. When darkness surrounds us, and when it seems as though the end has come, God is at work, turning death into life.
For me, the entire ministry of World Vision around the world is based on the idea of investing in seemingly hopeless circumstances.
To the rest of the world, we must seem crazy.
Why bother to feed a child who will die of malaria before his fifth birthday? Why give a loan to a widow in Africa who is dying of AIDS? Why educate a deaf child in a place like Gaza, where the future is bleak? Or why bother to nourish children in the middle of the Congo, where war and violence may take their lives?
I can hear the voices of the skeptics telling all of us at World Vision that we are fools to invest so much in the "losers" in our world.
But what they don't understand is that we serve a God who has always taken up the cause of the widow, the orphan, the alien, and the stranger. Our God is the God of the mustard seed, the lost sheep, and the widow's mite.
Our God is a God who went to the cross and died for the least and the lost.
You see, when we are honest, we realize that you and I are among the "losers" in whom God invests. Later in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul explains, "Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God."
God takes those who are the least and makes them great. He takes those who lack hope and makes them hopeful. He takes death and turns it into life.
There is a boy right now begging on the streets of Phnom Penh whom God created to be a gifted teacher. A malnourished girl in the Sahel whom He created to be a great farmer. A boy now selling drugs in the inner city has the gifts to be a great evangelist. And that girl now trapped in a brothel will someday bring comfort to thousands as a gifted counselor.
That's what the story of Good Friday reminds us. Before the glorious victory of Easter comes the despair of the Crucifixion.
We believe not only in a God who brings hope in hopeless situations. He also asks us to do the same.
As Jesus told his followers, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."
That is what God has done for us, and it is our privilege to do the same for all those whose circumstances may seem hopeless.
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NEW YORK — Much will be at stake when New Yorkers go to the polls tomorrow, but perhaps nothing more so than the basic right to vote.
As of yesterday, less than 72 hours before Election Day, tens of thousands of voters were confusingly assigned new poll sites after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to or damaged the usual spots where they cast their ballots.
Some of those 60 or so unusable sites have also been consolidated into about 26, meaning crowds of voters will likely show up at overtaxed schools or private sites to pick their candidates, which could lead to long waits at the polls.
Some voters will also be making their picks outside in tents, while others may need to be bused from devastated neighborhoods and shelters to make their voices heard.
And for many people who turn out to vote in this critical election — if they are not dealing with flooded or destroyed homes, displacement or other, more important problems caused by the aftermath of the storm — it will be the first time they will use the new electronic voting machines.
If all that wasn't bad enough, the city Board of Elections, which has been known to bungle the administration of the democratic process on more than one occasion during relatively normal circumstances, has been without power at its lower Manhattan headquarters since last week after it was flooded (a satellite office in Staten Island has also been closed for the same reason).
Along with the electricity went the Boards's voter hotline, though people can call 311 to find out their poll sites.
The Board says its staff has been working round-the-clock to relocate polls, process absentee ballots and get the word out about the election. And, from what could be gleaned from interviews with officials and good government groups over the past few days, there was a semblance of coordination among the board, mayor's office, governor's office and federal and state officials to address the problem with voting sites.
But yesterday, after publishing what it said was the final poll list for the election, the Board updated it hours later. "There are some sites now that are viable at this minute that were not," said Board Commissioner Juan Carlos "J.C." Polanco yesterday afternoon. "In an effort to use the poll sites that were already there, we are using the ones that are there and have power and are viable."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking at a news conference yesterday, didn't give the Board his vote of confidence.
"Over the next day, it's going to be critical that the Board of Elections communicate this new information to their poll workers," he said. "Unfortunately, as you know, the Board has had a history of not opening all poll sites on time, and they're going to work hard to make sure that poll workers and voters know where they're supposed to go on Election Day."
He said NYC Service volunteers are helping to notify the estimated 143,000 voters in all five boroughs who were assigned new poll sites.
Valerie Vazquez, a spokeswoman for the Board, said staff was planning to distribute information at shelters about where people can vote, posting signage at old poll sites directing voters to new ones and doing full page ads in citywide and local newspapers about the poll site changes.
New Yorkers can also text "NYCVOTES" (or "DONDE") to 877-877 to receive a message on their phones with their poll site. The technology is being donated to the city by Mobile Commons.
"As New Yorkers, we came together to hold a calm, orderly election following 9/11. We will do it again in the aftermath of Sandy," said Onida Coward Mayers, director of NYC Votes!, the nonpartisan voter engagement campaign of the NYC Campaign Finance Board, in a statement. The campaign announced the text messaging software. "There will certainly be some challenges on Tuesday and it will require some patience, but it is important that all New Yorkers head to the polls to make our voices heard."
Even with these efforts, good government groups are worried that Election Day will be a mess.
Alex Camarda, the director of public policy and advocacy at Citizens Union, the sister organization of Gotham Gazette, said the Board was facing a vastly complicated election.
"I think it's going to be a Herculean task, and that the Board is going to have to bring better than their A game to pull this off without a problem," he said, adding that long lines and voter confusion were likely. "It's incumbent on the city and state to use their resources as well to get the word out so that we don't see fewer people voting as a result."
Turnout is a particular problem in New York City. According to a report by the Campaign Finance Board released in June, only 18 percent of voting age New Yorkers turned out to vote in the 2009 general election for mayor.
Any drop in turnout could have an effect on pivotal races for the U.S. Congress and the state Senate where candidates have suspended their campaigns in recent days to respond to the devastation in their communities on Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn.
Ashton J. Stewart, the executive director of the League of Women Voters of New York City, said people were confused before the storm about where to vote because redistricting had relocated their poll sites.
"We were already up to our necks addressing the normal concerns with the general election," he said, worrying that turnout could be further suppressed because of the problems caused by the storm. "The people that do live in homes and are currently without power, I just don't know, I hope they still go to the polls."


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Birthdays, by my way of thinking, are always cause for celebration. It doesn't require a brass band or a scantily clad someone jumping out of a cake, but marking these significant milestones is a good thing to do.
Certain birthdays tend to carry more weight than others. There is the 16th with its rite of passage and a driver's license, then the 21st and drinking privileges, legally that is. From then on, the zero birthdays have become the excuse for many a party. As the number before the zero gets larger and the chance of making it to the next milestone gets smaller, the cause for celebration only increases. At least that's how I see it.
Others, I know, do not agree. My husband does not like any recognition of his birthday and I'm not sure why. He's the gregarious one in our union, the one who never met a stranger and I can't imagine he'd shy away from being the center of attention.
My mother was another story. She did like being queen for a day but her cake, a particularly delicious orange-chocolate concoction, was never to carry the correct number of candles. She didn't exactly lie about her age, but she certainly was not forthcoming about the year of her birth.
I have particular cause to reflect on the importance of birthdays as my 65th looms in the very near future. Since 1965, when federal legislation authorizing Medicare was signed into law, this particular birthday has taken on new significance for the 8,000 or so Baby Boomers who will be marking this occasion each day for the next 16 years. The Urban Institute has estimated that for those now receiving benefits, Medicare will average a total of $180,000 for a man and $207,000 for a woman over their lifetime. That's no small amount.
Despite changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act and the revisions that almost surely will follow, Medicare is likely to continue to be a significant benefit for seniors.
So why would I not be looking forward to this year's birthday? Truthfully, there are way more reasons besides Medicare benefits to look forward to birthdays. My father always said having a birthday is better than the alternative and, at 90, he still feels that way. He has surprised me. My parents were an unusually devoted couple and when Mother died a year and a half ago, I suspected Daddy would not be far behind. I feared his grief and loneliness would consume him and spell his demise in short order.
But what I've come to realize is that his zest for life has allowed him to get past his sadness -- yes, he misses her terribly -- and move on. He likes to shop for and buy new clothes, browse the aisles at the grocery store and make it to as many baseball games as he can talk younger relatives into accompanying him. He no long has the balance and stamina needed for his life-long pastime, but he eagerly watches golf tournaments on television.
A study conducted at Yale University in 2002 found that people over 50 with a positive outlook on life lived an average of 7.6 years longer that those with negative self-perceptions. Becca Levy, the psychology professor who conducted the study, also found that people under 50 who held negative attitudes toward seniors had a significantly higher rate of developing cardiovascular disease than did their peers who viewed the elderly more positively.
Observing significant holidays and celebrating milestones like birthdays, graduations, baptisms, bar and bat mitzvahs, and all the rest are an important part of celebrating life and of coming to appreciate the passage of time, and the gifts each new chapter holds for all of us.
This is not to ignore that life can be hard, that tragedy can creep in even when least expected. Just tell those who stood waiting to celebrate with their friends and relatives who were completing the Boston Marathon and then saw their joy turn to shock and sadness in a moment. Or the parents who sent their young children off to school one December morning only to learn a short few hours later that they would not be coming home, ever. How they must wish they had just one more birthday to celebrate with their children.
So the next time cake and candles appear in your honor, take it in stride. Read all those posts on your Facebook page and revel in the notoriety. And if the attention makes you feel self-conscious, concentrate your attention on all those who have made your life better. Reach out to parents, siblings, friends and mentors. Birthdays, regardless of the number, might just become tolerable after all.
Kathy Silverberg is the former publisher of the Herald-Tribune's southern editions. Email: email@example.com
Kathy Silverberg: In celebration of birthdays
Birthdays, by my way of thinking, are always cause for celebration. It doesn't require a brass band or a scantily clad someone jumping out of a cake, but marking these significant milestones is a good thing to do.


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Hi Dr. Grumpy! I'm a pharmacist at an academic medical center. Tonight I received a phone call from a surgical resident.
Dr. Surgistud: "My patient is NPO for surgery and is on Synthroid. Is there an IV formulation and what is the conversion?"
Brian, RPh: "Yes, it's 50% of the oral dose."
Dr. Surgistud: "OK, great. And also - the patient is on Advair. I need to change him to Levalbuterol and Atrovent, right?"
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We are having too much fun. We'll be back to regular posting soon, I promise. Merry Christmas, everyone.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
here's your christmas card!
Ben's gonna like that title. haha it's his favorite seinfeld.
We are terrible people this year. All these wonderful people have sent us Christmas cards and now they sit patiently by the mailbox, just waiting for a lovely card from us, as is the tradition. Go back inside, friends. Warm your hands by the fire and know that it's not that we don't love you. We just didn't send out Christmas cards this year. But we still love you. And we really think we'll be sending them again next year, so if you can take a chance on us we'd love to get one again next year even though we don't deserve it.
Merry Christmas to you anyway!
The Tracys
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
all I want for christmas is a pine cone house
Benson: Mommy I think what I really want for Christmas is a pine cone house.
Me: Hmmm ok can we just make it out of this brown blanket?
Benson: No, mommy you need to make it on your sewing machine. And I want a little door, and a hall, and some stairs, and a bed in it. Ok, Mommy? Let's go look for some fabric upstairs.
Me: Ok, but if we don't have the right fabric we'll have to wait until we get to Nana's house to make one.
Benson: Ok, but that's what I want, Mommy, so I need you to make it on your sewing machine. Is that a deal?
Me: Deal.
Just a heads up there, Nana. Here's hoping he gets over the pine cone house obsession reeeeeal quick. I'm still recovering from the Optimus Prime costume.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
family pictures turned ugly
Yesterday we learned a very important lesson for our family: Do not try to take photographs of the family by yourselves. Ugh. It was seriously the most stressful outing and we have nothing to show for it! hahaha At one point I'm shouting at Benson to quit hitting his brother and Banks quit climbing on that and Ben I quit I'm not doing this anymore and I look up to see a bunch of teenagers laughing at me from across the square. sigh. At least maybe it will keep them from wanting kids too early (as is the epidemic these days). None of the pictures turned out well, but a few did have us all looking at the camera at the same time, which is apparently all we could have hoped for. Anyway I figured since I hadn't blogged in a few days I should post something.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Apparently asleep by seven and up at eight are the magic numbers for me.
Have you slept a long slumber recently? You really should try it. It's amaaaaazing for your outlook on life.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
a few more
Just thought that I would share a few more delightful pictures of my beautiful wife for all of her fans to admire!!!
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
2 days smorgasbord
If I were to combine my yesterday and today I would have close to the perfect day:
sigh. perfect.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
best friends
I have found the perfect friend. He is funny, sweet, snuggly, playful, cute cute cute, helpful, totally obedient, and always up for conversation. And you know what else? He's three.
As Benson gets older, although granted only slightly, I am beginning to catch a vision of having another best friend in my household. Ben is a great friend to me already, but he's in for some competition. As we were laying in bed last night, Benson came and hopped in for a bit, just for a little snuggle before going off to his own bed. And while Ben was too tired to talk, Benson and I had a great conversation, even as he was beginning to snore he was still trying to add to the conversation. And another thing that I love about my friend Benson is that he is so quick to forgive me it's like instantaneous. As quickly as he is upset he is saying, "Mommy, I need a hug so we can be friends again." And if he finds me crying he will always come sit on my lap, give me hugs, and wipe my tears. And the most important thing Benson does for me as a friend is that he truly has unconditional love for me, and he never quits showing me that.
This morning I woke bursting with love for the little men in my life. Banks is still a sweet little baby to me, but Benson is becoming less a baby and more my little best friend, and I hope that as he grows, he stays that. All those challenging days of meeting the many needs of a completely needy person are beginning to pay off tenfold. This motherhood thing is awesome.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
red is the color of
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carlsbad caverns/exploring the homeland
Last weekend we took off and went to Carlsbad Caverns down in the southern part of our great state. I didn't really know what to expect, but it was awesome and nothing like the experience with the infamous nutty putty freak out of 6 years ago. And Benson had a great time until his little leggies got tired and I'm pretty sure it gave Banks nightmares because the night after that he fell asleep in bed with Ben and I, only to wake up screaming, and I mean SCREAMING in terror. That was fun. Not really, but the trip was. Whew. The end.
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Ali Nishan, signature name Millzero, has been a familiar face in Maldives' professional photographers community. However, it is mostly his social and professional photography which have firmly stamped the young photographer among his professional peers. His social work has led him to participate and conduct workshops and training programs related to media, especially photography, in metro and rural communities, promoting it as an important tool of communication between isolated island communities. Such a versatile career and expansive life experience have resulted in creativity enriched with a keen insight, curiosity and a passion for his subject, firmly giving him a creative edge over his contemporary colleagues.
Nishan's photojournalism work at Haveeru Daily was the catalyst that launched him on the local and international media scene. Having worked as an environmental researcher at Maldives Environment Research Center, Nishan's photojournalism has reached far corners of the earth through his association with Thomson Reuters, the Associated Press and various UN agencies. His photos are also well-received in artistes' circles as his professional work has included photographing events and celebrities.
Now self-employed as Founder at the Island Cupids, his social responsibilities include being a member of Maldives Photographers Association in addition to also being a member of ATOLHU Platform for Artists, a local initiative. 'Millzero' today is a familiar mark on photography dealing with various walks of life from Maldives – from tourism, health, science, lifestyle, to environment and entertainment. Nishan's signature photos leave a lasting mark on the memory, especially his socially-themed local photos that reflect a highly conscious environmental perception.
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I have been under the completely mistaken assumption that breast cancer survivors can't be blood donors. Somewhere, I heard that if you had been diagnosed with cancer and then also had chemotherapy, you were not eligible to give blood.
I think about giving blood often and urge family members and friends to give. I have often wished that I could contribute to blood banks and drives, but truly believed that having had breast cancer eliminated me. Yesterday I decided I really didn't know for sure and that I should look into it. On its list of eligibility requirements for blood donation, the American Red Cross states that people diagnosed with cancer can donate if the cancer was treated successfully and at least 12 months have passed with no cancer recurrence. This is a change from their previous requirement, which stated that donors must be five years cancer-free. Also, anyone who was diagnosed with a blood cancer (like leukemia or lymphoma) or Hodgkin's disease is not eligible.
I have had one blood transfusion. A few nights after my surgery for DIEP flap breast reconstruction, I awoke in the wee hours of the morning with a terrific headache. Along with the headache, I was hearing voices. Since I was still in the hospital having being monitored after the extensive surgery, I immediately called the nurse. She reassured me I would be okay and tried to make me comfortable. That morning I was informed by the doctor that my blood pressure was low and it indicated I needed a blood transfusion. I had been advised prior to DIEP flap surgery that this could result from the extensive microsurgery and blood loss, so I was not concerned. When I felt transformed and energetic after the transfusion, I was grateful to have had it.
Imagine if my blood type hadn't been available. I think about that now and then when I see ads for blood drives, and I often have wished I could donate blood since I have a common type. But a nurse or doctor at some point told me I was ineligible because of the breast cancer diagnosis, and I have lived with that assumption for several years.
This morning I contacted the Red Cross just to confirm and clarify what I read on their website. They told me that indeed, breast cancer survivors are among those who are eligible to give blood, even if the treatment included chemotherapy. This changes everything.
I am going to look into where I can give in the next month, and I will be donating blood.
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Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), is a disease was first found in cattle. It's related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both disorders are universally fatal brain diseases caused by a prion. This is a protein particle that lacks DNA (nucleic acid). It's believed to be the cause of various infectious diseases of the nervous system. Eating infected cattle products, including beef, can cause a human to develop mad cow disease.
What is mad cow disease?
Mad cow disease is a progressive, fatal neurological disorder of cattle resulting from infection by a prion. It appears to be caused by contaminated feed that contains the prion agent. Most mad cow disease has occurred in cattle in the United Kingdom, a few cases were found in cattle in the United States between 2003 and 2006. Feed regulations were subsequently tightened.
In addition to the cases of mad cow reported in the United Kingdom (78% of all cases were reported there) and the U.S., cases have also been reported in other countries, including France, Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. Public health control measures have been implemented in many of the countries to prevent potentially infected tissues from entering the human food chain. These preventative measures appear to have been effective. For instance, Canada believes its prevention measures will eradicate the disease from its cattle population by 2017.
What is variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare, fatal brain disorder that causes a rapid, progressive dementia (deterioration of mental functions), as well as associated neuromuscular disturbances. The disease, which in some ways resembles mad cow disease, traditionally has affected men and women between the ages of 50 and 75. The variant form, however, affects younger people (the median age of onset is 28) and has atypical clinical features as compared with CJD. About 230 people with vCJD have been identified since 1996. Most are from the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe. It is extremely rare in the United States, with only 4 reported cases since 1996.
What is the current risk of acquiring vCJD from eating beef and beef products produced from cattle in Europe?
Currently this risk appears to be very small, perhaps fewer than one case per 10 billion servings--if the risk exists at all. Travelers to Europe who are concerned about reducing any risk of exposure can avoid beef and beef products altogether, or can select beef or beef products, such as solid pieces of muscle meat, as opposed to ground beef and sausages. The solid pieces of beef have a reduced opportunity for contamination with tissues that may harbor the mad cow agent. Milk and milk products are not believed to transmit the mad cow agent. You cannot acquire vCJD or CJD by direct contact with a person who has the disease. Three cases acquired during transfusion of blood from an infected donor have been reported in the United Kingdom. Most human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not VCJD and is not related to beef consumption but is also likely due to prion proteins. Consult your doctor for more information.


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Linux, on the other hand, has represented an unmatched opportunity to learn and grow because of the intense human interaction of its vibrating communities. For example, as soon as I joined Mandriva's community forum, I was received as a human being, not as a number. The same happened when I posted my first question in Mageia's blog: the prompt reply giving me direction was refreshing. And I cannot describe the feeling I experienced yesterday when I opened my email to find a follow-up message from a Mageia developer taking care of the bug I reported.
There are people behind Linux who get in contact with you in a way that I never saw during my decade as a Windows user. And these people listen to you. What's more, sometimes they RELY ON YOU!
As a tribute to them, I tried to track some of the pictures of the people behind those Penguin OSs that made my work with computers a more enjoyable experience. So, here they are. These are some of the faces behind Linux:
- Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre & child (Thanks for your great distro!)
- The always active Texstar (Billy Reynolds), from PCLinuxOS (noticed the cool Mandriva cap?)
- Eugeni Dodonov, now the face of Mandriva, the distro that made me dump Windows
- Anne Nicolas, former Mandriva representative, now Mageia's face.
- Ozan Çağlayan, (GO, Pardus!)
- Warren Woodford, the famous Mepis Guy. (Kudos to you for Mepis 11)
- Sabayon's Fabio Erculiani. (Grazie!)