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- "Yeah, Zabini, because you're so talented...at posing..."
- —Ginny Weasley[src]
Blaise Zabini was a student in Harry Potter's school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He was sorted into Slytherin house[1] and seems to have been friendly with the fellow Slytherins, Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson.
Education at HogwartsEdit
Early yearsEdit
Blaise Zabini is the son of a famously beautiful witch who had been widowed seven times over by 1996. Each husband's death both occurred under suspicious circumstances and left the already wealthy Ms. Zabini and her son richer. It is unknown if Blaise's biological father was one of the seven late husbands. Blaise may be a pure-blood wizard;as he dislikes "blood traitors" and people who associate with Muggle-borns. He is stuck-up and does not befriend Muggles.
In 1991, Blaise started his education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by being sorted into the House of Slytherin. Due to Blaise's reserved nature, he kept to himself most of the time and didn't really make friends with other Slytherins, nor other students in his year—though this may have been because he was prejudiced against Muggle-borns and "blood traitors." To a small extent, Blaise seemed to get along with Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson—he was able to sit with them on the train journey to Hogwarts—but other than that, he wasn't mentioned as hanging around with the group. In his second year at Hogwarts, Blaise may have joined the duelling club as a precaution, to learn defence against any possible danger that the Chamber of Secrets presented. In his fourth year, Hogwarts held the Triwizard Tournament and Blaise attended the Yule Ball, just like any other student fourth year and above. Because he was fussy and aloof with girls, he may have attended the ball solo. At the end of his fourth year, Cedric Diggory was killed and it was announced that Lord Voldemort had returned to power.
Sixth yearEdit
- Pansy Parkinson: "Even you think she's good looking, don't you, Blaise, and we all know how hard you are to please!"
- Blaise Zabini: "I wouldn't touch a filthy blood traitor like her whatever she looked like."
- — Pansy Parkinson and Blaise Zabini discussing Ginny Weasley[src]
Blaise was one of the students who received an invitation from Professor Horace Slughorn to join him for lunch on the Hogwarts Express journey. Slughorn was sizing up the student body for potential new members of his famous Slug Club which he started when he last taught at Hogwarts. During the meeting Blaise seemed quiet as usual and did not join in the discussions, he did however give a little cough of "amused scepticism" when Slughorn told the group that he thought Harry Potter had powers beyond the ordinary. This caused him to provoke Ginny Weasley to snap at him, and Slughorn jokingly warned Blaise not to fire Ginny up again, remembering how well she could cast a Bat-Bogey Hex. When questioned on his family, Blaise talked about his mother and the line of husbands she had who had all left her pots of galleons in their wills after they died, all of which were suspicious deaths.
After the lunch meeting ended, Blaise retired to his compartment on the Hogwarts Express in which Draco Malfoy was lying down with his head on Pansy Parkinson's lap while she stroked his hair. Harry Potter followed Blaise back to this compartment under his Invisibility cloak in an attempt to hear Draco's conversation and give him some perspective as to what Draco had been planning over the summer. Once they arrived at Hogwarts, Blaise apparently passed the litmus test that Slughorn had set, as he continued to receive invitations to Slughorn's parties after the school year began. He did not seem to have a high opinion of his fellow members, if his comments to Draco Malfoy on the train were any indication, but in spite of that, he continued to accept the invitations.
Seventh yearEdit
Blaise attended his seventh year at Hogwarts. Because he was a pure-blood Slytherin, his time there was more pleasant than most people's.
When evacuation started moments before the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998, Blaise presumably left with the other Slytherins through the Room of Requirement.
Physical appearanceEdit
Blaise was a tall boy, with high cheekbones, dark skin, and long, brown slanting eyes. Blaise was slightly vain in his appearance and associates, and was very solitary.[2].
Personality and traitsEdit
Blaise seemed to be an arrogant person, who looked down on nearly everyone and everything, though he rarely expressed his disdainful opinions in a confrontational manner. He reacted with scornful amusement when Professor Slughorn praised Harry Potter's talents, and with contempt when Slughorn suggested that he should not anger Ginny Weasley, who insulted Blaise's vanity[2]. He also insulted most of his fellow Slug Club members and the parties themselves to Draco Malfoy, though he continued to attend the meetings and also did not seem to respect Draco very much. Pansy Parkinson claimed that Blaise was very difficult to please romantically; when she accused him of finding Ginny attractive, Blaise said he would never touch "a filthy blood traitor like her", which Pansy found very funny and which indicated that Blaise was prejudiced against Muggles, Muggle-borns, and those who are accepting of them.[3] However, he also doesn't seem to hold a high opinion of followers of Voldemort, either; in the same conversation he taunted Draco on his father being outed as a Death Eater. It seemed he was so arrogant, that he was more or less indifferent and dismissive of everyone, regardless of status.
- Blaise is a French name derived from the Latin blaesus, "lisping".[4] In mythology Blaise was the tutor and, later, biographer, of Merlin - which makes this an appropriate name for a wizard. Another famous bearer was Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher. Also, Blaise Castle is an eighteenth-century mansion house and estate in Bristol, England called "the finest place in England" in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
- The surname Zabini is Italian, suggesting that Blaise is of part Italian descent. It bears similarity to the name of a custard-like Italian dessert, Zabaione.
Behind the scenesEdit
- For many years Blaise's gender and nature were hotly debated in fan forums, and both male and female versions of the character were heavily featured in fanfiction. This was mostly due to the indeterminate nature of Blaise's character in canon and lack of further explanation on J. K. Rowling's part until it was revealed in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that he was male.[5].
- Based on the attitude Blaise expressed towards "blood traitors" and his association with elitist Draco Malfoy, the Zabini family likely claims to be pure-blood.
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Blaise plays as a Chaser on the Slytherin Quidditch team.
- Blaise Zabini is portrayed by Louis Cordice in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He appears in several scenes, and has one line in the film.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Blaise is present in the fight in the Room of Requirement, in exchange of Vincent Crabbe, whose actor was sentenced to 120 hours of community service. What happened to Goyle in the book happened to Zabini in the movie and what happened to Goyle in the movie happened to Crabbe in the book.
- Blaise was NOT among the Slytherin's to join Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts, as he is seen walking outside with all the students when Voldemort and the Death Eaters arriving at the castle with "dead" Harry.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)[6]
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1[7]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- Harry Potter and Me (Mentioned only)
- Pottermore (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Half-Blood Prince, Ch. 7
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- ↑ Behind the Name: Blaise
- ↑ J.K. Rowling's Official Site: News
- ↑ Despite this character not actually being identified in the film, they were sorted in 1991 and therefore were present in the films adaptation of the sorting amongst the crowd of first years, as they had to be sorted and even though they weren't mentioned they'd still be one of the students in that crowd.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2857909/


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Christopher Acosta and Francisco "Frankie" Rodriguez didn't know why another car was tailing them and flashing its headlights as they drove along Interstate 37 near downtown last December.
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S.1467 - FISA Court Reform Act of 2013113th Congress (2013-2014)
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FISA Court Reform Act of 2013 - Establishes as an independent establishment in the executive branch an Office of the Special Advocate to protect individual rights by advocating in cases before courts established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) in support of legal interpretations that minimize the scope of surveillance and the extent of data collection and retention.
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I really love the sample of Hourglass mascara I got with a Zuneta package. I don't normally buy higher end mascaras because of having to bin them after a few months, but I'm seriously tempted. I find it coats well, is lengthening and slightly thickening, holds the curl well and does not go flaky. I'm guessing you've probably had a sample too though.ReplyDelete
I also really like the new Estee Lauder one (yes, another free sample. I think it's called 'Sumptuous Lifting' or something like that.
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I have tried the Armani eyes to kill mascara and really loved it but it went really clumpy after a month, I wonder if I got a old one, how long have you had yours for ? Thanks for stopping by :)
Hi Glamoured,
I'm sure I did get a sample, but can't remember what I thought of it (that shows how many I have been through). If you do get the Hourglass one let me know if you still rate it. I've never tried an EL one, I'll have a look for that, I'm sure if there is a GWP on that will seal the deal :)
Oh, sorry to hear that. I have had mine for over 5 months now (I know about the 3-month rule, but I don't use mascara every single day and it just seems such a waste...) and it's only just starting to show slight dryness. Oh well, good luck in your quest!ReplyDelete
BTW I really like your blog, your taste in MU and your reviews. So, thanks for having me... :-)
my fav is still YSL ;) always go back to it after trying other brands.ReplyDelete
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Maybe I got a Dud one. Thanks, glad to have you, I sometimes wonder if the brands I like aren't that popular so nice to find people who have the same taste :)
Hi NottyEvil,
I think I may try their newer one at some point, Singulier as that seems quite popular.
Hi Replica: I use Fiberwig. It works great on me. Living in Asia with very humid temperature, Fiberwig doesn't smear at all.ReplyDelete
Hi Lovermini,ReplyDelete
I've not heard of that brand, not sure if you can get it here in the UK, I'll do a search for it, thanks for the suggestion, it sounds good :)


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Without trying to create a complete dictionary of shot blasting terms (and they do exist!), here's a quick A-to-Z of shot blasting and surface preparation machine terms.
It's important to understand that the names of machines usually describe how the component passes through the machine, but sometimes the name describes the component to be treated, the chamber in which the component is treated, or the application/form of treatment, and added to that you need to determine how you want the components to flow through your production process.
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A batch or group of components enter the blast chamber together, are processed together, and exit the chamber together through the same chamber opening.
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The movement of components through the blast chamber and to the next process is continuous, normally without stopping.
Example: CT Continuous Tumblast Machine
Inline, or In-line
The movement of components through the blast chamber and to the next process is achieved in one continuous line, however the line may pause to allow the components in the blast chamber to be blasted in one concentrated area.
Example: DHB-C Pass-Through Monorail Machine
|The components move into the blast chamber, are stationary, then move to the next process (are stationary again), etc..
Closed Loop
|The components are fed through the blast chamber on a circular (closed loop) transportation device. They therefore have to be loaded and unloaded from the transportation device. Example: DHB-C Pass-Through Monorail Machine In certain cases, blast wheels may be installed only on one side of the blast cabin which lowers maintenance and energy expenses.
Through-feed, or Pass Through
|Components enter the blast chamber via one opening, and exit from another. The components are transported at a constant (yet variable) speed.
Example: Roller conveyor machines
Rotary through-feed
|As above, but the components are rotated while passing through the machine. Example: RDS Spring Peening systems
Closed Circuit
|This is slightly different, as Closed Circuit describes the movement of the abrasive. Closed circuit machines are compact and manoeuvrable – portable air blast machines - and move to the component to be blasted. Example: Closed circuit blast machine
Component Movement Names
Hanger type, or Overhead rail
|Components are suspended on a hanger or tree hanging from a rail. The tree is then transported into the blast chamber, where it is blasted often while rotating (and sometimes also oscillating). Once blasted, the hanger is transported back out of the chamber – usually from the same entrance. It is common to have a track or rail in a Y formation, allowing two hangers, so that a new batch of parts can be loaded, while one batch is being processed. (Wheelblast machine.)
Monorail, or Pass-through monorail
|As above, but this time the rail is continuous, or circular (closed loop), and passes completely through the blast chamber.
Frame machine
|Components are fixed or hung in a frame, the frame moves into the blast chamber and airblast robots blast the components. The frames can be stationary while in the blast chamber, indexing or continuously moving. The Frames pass through the chamber.
Spinner hanger
|The hanger – or tree – is fixed inside the blast chamber. The blast chamber usually has two compartments, so that parts can be unloaded and loaded in one compartment while the hanger in the other compartment is being blasted. The hanger spins to achieve complete coverage.
Roller conveyor
|Components – usually long and low parts such as plate steel and H bars – are rolled on bars, on a conveyor line through the blast chamber. The components are transported at a constant (yet variable) speed. Blast wheels are positioned above, and sometimes below the conveyor, to blast the parts.
Work car, or Bogie table
|The Work car – essentially a table on wheels moving along a track – is used to transport heavy components and fabrications, such as bridge girders and large weldments or castings, into the blast chamber. Work cars can pass through the chamber, or enter and exit from the same door. They can also rotate if required
|Components are tipped into a tumbling barrel-type drum. They gently roll over each other, are blasted, and are tipped out again via the same opening. The drum can be made of a wear-resistant rubber or steel conveyor.
Example: MB blast machine
Polygon-drum systems
|Polygon drum systems are polygon-shaped troughs which rock back and forth to gently tumble the parts while blasting. Example: DTC blast machine
Horizontal belt
|Components are conveyed (linear transportation) at a constant speed (variable) along a belt through the blast chamber. Belts can be made of hard wearing rubber, or steel mesh/manganese mesh.
Inclined belt
|Here, components are fed through the machine on a belt, but made to "stand up" on an incline to pass through the blast chamber. Designed for high production rates of flat rotational parts to expose all surfaces evenly to the blast stream.
Table machine
|Components are placed on a table in a blast chamber. The table may swing out of the chamber to make loading and unloading of parts easier. Parts may be sat directly on to the table, or placed onto holders on the table. Air and Wheelblast versions are available.
Satellite table
|A satellite table machine is effectively a table in a blast chamber, that has been separated into a number of compartments. This allows treated parts to be unloaded, while another batch is being processed in another chamber. The different compartments will allow for different processes to take place.
Airblast and wheelblast versions are available, and parts may be mounted on holders and rotated
Rotary chamber
|The Rotary Chamber is similar to a Satellite Table, however, the table is replaced with holders that rotate the parts.
Example: Carousel Rotary Chamber machine
Robot gripper
|A robot arm holds the workpiece and introduces it through a rubber membrane seal into the blast chamber and is tightly docked to it by a sealing plate. The membrane seal protects the robot while allowing mobility and flexibility. The programmable robot moves three-dimensionally within the chamber to guide the workpiece in the blast stream.
Robot manipulator
|Parts are loaded by a robot into the blast machine and are held there by a manipulator. This manipulator rotates the parts in two axes under the blast stream based on a specific movement program designated for each individual part.
Example: MAC Robot Manipulator System
|Parts are loaded into the blast chamber by robots or a mechanical device. In the blast chamber the components are held by manipulator arms which move the component in the blast stream, ensuring complete coverage while emptying bores of any abrasive.
Chamber Descriptions
Manual or Hand cabinet
|Airblast application – a component is loaded in a cabinet, via a side door, where it is blasted by hand. Gloves are in-built into the machine, the operator inserts his hands into the gloves, picks up a hose/nozzle, and manually blasts the part
Barrel blast machine
|Parts are transported into a room, where an operator in a full suit and helmet, will manually blast the components – although automated versions are also available.
Example: Blastroom
Component Descriptions
Concrete block machine
|A Horizontal blast machine (wheelblast) to give a high quality finish to concrete blocks and paving slabs. Linear transportation, at variable constant speed. Example: Concrete Block machine
Pipe machine
|Pipes are transported through the machine on a skew roll conveyor to turn the pipe while the blast stream removes mill scale and rust. Example: Pipe machine
Stress peening system
|For shot peening springs. A predefined load is applied to each spring during peening on a satellite table machine. Example: SRS Stress peening machine
Strip descaling
|Narrow, medium and wide steel strip is fed through a machine horizontally as part of an integrated processing line. Example: Strip descaling machine
Wire bar and billet descaling
|Single or multiple strands of wires and bars are fed through the machine, which can be standalone, or integrated into a drawing line. Example: Wire, Bar and Billet Descaling
Preservation line
|A preservation line is a roller conveyor machine which transports sheet steel through many processes including preheating, shot blast cleaning, priming and drying. Example: Preservation Line
Internal cleaning
|The airblast advanced internal cleaning machine is a pass through, horizontal machine. A roller conveyor transports the component – cylinder heads, motor blocks, crank cases etc. – into the blast chamber, where a pivoting device lifts the component towards the nozzles. Pivoting nozzles may also simultaneously blast the underside apertures and bores. Example: Advanced Internal Cleaning machine (AIC)
Gear peening cells
|Airblast, satellite table machines with specific tooling to hold and rotate parts, With complex parts recognition technology for precise, process reliable, repeatable shot peening results. Example CFX 600


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When Congress passed the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000,[1] it approved a new program of federal aid to states to help them clear their backlogs of DNA samples. The law also approved the collection, analysis and indexing of DNA samples from people convicted of federal crimes.[2]
Today, all 50 states have passed their own statutes that require certain offenders to provide a DNA sample for inclusion in CODIS, the federal Combined DNA Index System database, and state databases after conviction. Indeed, many states, beginning with Colorado in 1988, had statutes mandating DNA collection from various offenders post-conviction that preceded the federal government's move. Often these laws began with a focus on sex offenders (and today, all states collect DNA from sex offenders), although Virginia made its legal debut in this arena with a law mandating collection from all convicted felons.
Congress set up CODIS in 1994 through the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.[3] The Federal Bureau of Investigation runs CODIS, which combines DNA databases from the local, state and national levels. CODIS acts as a central repository for DNA data and allows laboratories across the country to compare DNA profiles. Qualifying offenses for compulsory DNA collection from convicted offenders vary by state (that is, offenses for which a convicted offender must supply a biological sample). Only three states — Idaho, Nebraska and New Hampshire — do not provide for collection in all felony convictions. Most states also require collection following conviction for some misdemeanors.
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This article appeared in NIJ Journal Issue 264, November 2009, as a sidebar to the article Debating DNA Collection by Sarah B. Berson.
[note 1] DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-546, § 3, 114 Stat. 2726 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. § 14135a).
[note 2] H.R. Rep. No. 106-900, pt. 1, at 8 (2000), quoted in Haines, P., "Embracing the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005," Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law 629 (5) (2006): 631.
[note 3] Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, Pub. L. No. 103-322, § 210304, 108 Stat. 1796 (codified as amended at 42 U.S.C. § 14132 (2000 & Supp. IV 2004)).


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"So they were very popular with our readership." Above: Information Unlimited founder Bob Iannini holds a handheld electromagnetic handgun. The gun — gamers may know it better as a Gauss gun — generates its power from eight off-the-shelf AA batteries. After the capacitor charges, the washer-like projectile launches from the coil gun at blink-and-you'll-miss-it speeds with a soft sound that can only be described as a mix of a champagne cork popping and someone pressing down on an industrial stapler. "Now if that hit you, it would hurt," Iannini says, after firing a ring into his office wall, leaving a dent in the sheetrock. "That would hurt, and if it hit you in the head it would draw blood, and if it hit you in the right spot it might kill you."Iannini's home doubles as the business office, and his two-story garage and barn act as Information Unlimited's workshop and R&D lab, respectively. From the outside the landscape is so serene it could be a Norman Rockwell painting. Then you enter the R&D lab, where a pair of 6.5-foot-tall Tesla coils are capable of pumping out thousands of volts of lethal electricity.One of Information Unlimited's several rail-gun-like weapons, the electromagnetic cannon is designed to fire a cone-shaped projectile. The flip of a switch starts storing energy in the cannon's capacitors. Once the capacitors are sufficiently juiced, another button blasts the power through the coil and into the projectile. The current causes the projectile to create a magnetic field of its own, which opposes the coil's magnetic field. That's when an electromagnetic property known as the "Lorentz force" kicks in: The coil and the projectile repel one another, and the cone blasts off into the sky. Here John Wilford (left) and Jonathan Shaw armed the cannon.The electromagnetic cannon is repositioned to fire horizontally at a target. In front is the weapon's utilitarian control box.The sheer oomph generated by the Lorentz force can still be dangerous in the wrong hands. The projectile can be seen still in flight after penetrating a sheet of half-inch drywall.While the force of the electromagnetic cannon is impressive, accuracy remains a problem. You wouldn't want to use it to shoot an apple off someone's head.Information Unlimited's John Wilford peers through the hole left by the cone-shaped projectile.Another shot with the cannon manages to take part of the bulls-eye with it.Bob Iannini, left, talks with his brother-in-law, Clayton Ashely, as Ashely winds a coil to create a transformer. Iannini's staff of around 10 also includes his son, who Iannini says will one day inherit the business.All photos: Grant Morris/Wired


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For those unfamiliar, this black box warning, added to the drug's package insert by the FDA in March of this year, tells doctors who use this drug:
- Effectiveness of Plavix depends on activation to an active metabolite by the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system, principally CYP2C19.
- Poor metabolizers treated with Plavix at recommended doses exhibit higher cardiovascular event rates following acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) than patients with normal CYP2C19 function.
- Tests are available to identify a patient's CYP2C19 genotype and can be used as an aid in determining therapeutic strategy (and to)
- Consider alternative treatment or treatment strategies in patients identified as CYP2C19 poor metabolizers.
- That black box was warning based on a single non-published crossover trial on 40 subjects:
A crossover study in 40 healthy subjects, 10 each in the four CYP2C19 metabolizer groups, evaluated pharmacokinetic and antiplatelet responses using 300 mg followed by 75 mg per day and 600 mg followed by 150 mg per day, each for a total of 5 days. Decreased active metabolite exposure and diminished inhibition of platelet aggregation were observed in the poor metabolizers as compared to the other groups. When poor metabolizers received the 600 mg/150 mg regimen, active metabolite exposure and antiplatelet response were greater than with the 300 mg/75 mg regimen. An appropriate dose regimen for this patient population has not been established in clinical outcome trials.
- Presence of a gene does not mean it is expressed clinically.
- There are no data to demonstrate that outcomes have been effected by the use of genetic testing in a large cohort of patients, only a retrospective analysis of outcomes reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
We know that there is a political push by President Obama and his NIH director, Francis Collins, MD, PhD (a geneticist) to use "personalized medicine" (read: genetic tests) as a way to come up with recommendations for medical care:
"As we learn more about individual's risk – from family history to DNA testing to understanding of environmental exposures – we ought to be able to come up with recommendations that are more personalized. I think people are ready for that. I think they're hungry for that. I think they are more likely to be responsive to that, but we have a long ways to go in terms of preparing people for that kind of individualized approach to medicine."Ironically, Dr. Collins admitted:
Today, "you can get fancy DNA tests for hundreds of dollars," Collins told The Endocrine Society meeting - but your better bet for now may be a simple family tree of health, checking what ailments Mom, Dad and Grandpa had to predict your own future. "That's a free genetic test of great power."So we should ask ourselves why a 40-patient crossover trial and retrospective analysis of outcomes qualifies as top-notch research on which to base a black box drug warning that also supplies no dosing recommendations to doctors if such a test is positive.
It wouldn't be the money generated by genetic testing for companies (see here and here) and hospitals who stand to make a pretty penny on them, would it?
Addendum 18 Jun 2010: They just won't quit, and admit:
"The challenge is to deliver the benefits of this work to patients. As the leaders of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we have a shared vision of personalized medicine and the scientific and regulatory structure needed to support its growth. Together, we have been focusing on the best ways to develop new therapies and optimize prescribing by steering patients to the right drug at the right dose at the right time."Look for more black boxes applied to more drugs with no understanding of the legal ramifications of their use. Is this the caliber of scientific rigor we are to expect from our government's reform agendas?
Addendum 29 Jun 2010 @ 14:38PM: TheHeart.org reports on the ACC and AHA's recommendations regarding the black box warning.


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Morenci voters won't need to make any choices in the city election in November, but there will be a change in position and one new person serving.
Five candidates filed to fill five positions for city offices. The filing deadline was May 12.
Incumbent council member Keith Pennington filed to serve as mayor and will face no challenger. Mayor Doug Erskin chose not to seek a second term.
Two other incumbents, Tracy Schell and Greg Braun, filed to run for four-year terms on city council. Incumbent Jason Cook filed to fill the remaining two years of a four-year term to which he was appointed last year.
That leaves Pennington's council seat vacant, and Joseph Varga filed to fill that four-year term.


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HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit?
Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.'s and finance ministers. Perhaps forgivably so: our ability to generate more output with fewer people has lifted our lives out of drudgery and delivered us a cornucopia of material wealth.
But the relentless drive for productivity may also have some natural limits. Ever-increasing productivity means that if our economies don't continue to expand, we risk putting people out of work. If more is possible each passing year with each working hour, then either output has to increase or else there is less work to go around. Like it or not, we find ourselves hooked on growth.
What, then, should happen when, for one reason or another, growth just isn't to be had anymore? Maybe it's a financial crisis. Or rising prices for resources like oil. Or the need to rein in growth for the damage it's inflicting on the planet: climate change, deforestation, the loss of biodiversity. Maybe it's any of the reasons growth can no longer be safely and easily assumed in any of today's economies. The result is the same. Increasing productivity threatens full employment.
One solution would be to accept the productivity increases, shorten the workweek and share the available work. Such proposals — familiar since the 1930s — are now enjoying something of a revival in the face of continuing recession. The New Economics Foundation, a British think tank, proposes a 21-hour workweek. It may not be the workaholic's choice. But it's certainly a strategy worth thinking about.
But there's another strategy for keeping people in work when demand stagnates. Perhaps in the long run it's an easier and a more compelling solution: to loosen our grip on the relentless pursuit of productivity. By easing up on the gas pedal of efficiency and creating jobs in what are traditionally seen as "low productivity" sectors, we have within our grasp the means to maintain or increase employment, even when the economy stagnates.
At first, this may sound crazy; we've become so conditioned by the language of efficiency. But there are sectors of the economy where chasing productivity growth doesn't make sense at all. Certain kinds of tasks rely inherently on the allocation of people's time and attention. The caring professions are a good example: medicine, social work, education. Expanding our economies in these directions has all sorts of advantages.
In the first place, the time spent by these professions directly improves the quality of our lives. Making them more and more efficient is not, after a certain point, actually desirable. What sense does it make to ask our teachers to teach ever bigger classes? Our doctors to treat more and more patients per hour? The Royal College of Nursing in Britain warned recently that front-line staff members in the National Health Service are now being "stretched to breaking point," in the wake of staffing cuts, while a study earlier this year in the Journal of Professional Nursing revealed a worrying decline in empathy among student nurses coping with time targets and efficiency pressures. Instead of imposing meaningless productivity targets, we should be aiming to enhance and protect not only the value of the care but also the experience of the caregiver.
The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar "commodity." It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through trade. It isn't delivered by machines. Its quality rests entirely on the attention paid by one person to another. Even to speak of reducing the time involved is to misunderstand its value.
Care is not the only profession deserving renewed attention as a source of economic employment. Craft is another. It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible. The same is true of the cultural sector: it is the time spent practicing, rehearsing and performing that gives music, for instance, its enduring appeal. What — aside from meaningless noise — would be gained by asking the New York Philharmonic to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony faster and faster each year?
The endemic modern tendency to streamline or phase out such professions highlights the lunacy at the heart of the growth-obsessed, resource-intensive consumer economy. Low productivity is seen as a disease. A whole set of activities that could provide meaningful work and contribute valuable services to the community are denigrated because they involve employing people to work with devotion, patience and attention.
But people often achieve a greater sense of well-being and fulfillment, both as producers and consumers of such activities, than they ever do in the time-poor, materialistic supermarket economy in which most of our lives are spent. And here perhaps is the most remarkable thing of all: since these activities are built around the value of human services rather than the relentless outpouring of material stuff, they offer a half-decent chance of making the economy more environmentally sustainable.
Of course, a transition to a low-productivity economy won't happen by wishful thinking. It demands careful attention to incentive structures — lower taxes on labor and higher taxes on resource consumption and pollution, for example. It calls for more than just lip service to concepts of patient-centered care and student-centered learning. It requires the dismantling of perverse productivity targets and a serious investment in skills and training. In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.


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For some reason, between the girls and me, what started out as just a simple paper chain to count down the days until the baby's birthday has...um, snowballed?
We make paper chains every day now.
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We all saw the original Wizard of Oz movie when they went to see the powerful Oz and were totally in awe until the dog, Toto, pulled the curtain back to show that it was just some goober running a sound board.
That curtain needs to be pulled back on indexed annuities as well because "the show" is getting to be a little overwhelming on the lunch seminar circuit and with the increasingly aggressive online annuity promoters.
First of all, let me explain the details of an indexed annuity (also called an equity-indexed annuity, fixed-index annuity, hybrid annuity). An indexed annuity is a fixed annuity with a call option on an index, usually the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The vast majority of the call options are one year in length, but can be as long as five years. The S&P 500 index represents over 90% of the index option choices even though other index selections (Dow, Nasdaq, etc.) can be found in some product offerings. These call options allow you limited participation in the upside of the index (not including dividends).
When indexed annuities were developed a couple of decades ago, they were designed to compete with CD returns, not market returns. They were never put on the planet to be a pure growth product, even though they are sold that way by agents and the online annuity spammers. Realistic and historical (yes agents, these are also called facts) return expectations for indexed annuities should be around 3% to 5% annually. Those annual gains, if any, are locked in at the contract anniversary date, and then a new index option starts.
Please understand that indexed annuities are complex products, and the majority of agents are unable (or unwilling) to properly explain them and usually just focus on a few sizzle points. Below I have listed some of the positive and negatives of indexed annuities and where they might work within your portfolio.
· Used with Income Riders for target date income planning
This is how I use indexed annuities for my clients. I also attach contractual death benefits or confinement care benefits when that is the ultimate goal.
· Downside protection
Because your potential gains are attached to a call option, if the markets go down and the call option expires worthless at your contract anniversary date, then you will not lose any money. Agents use the phrase "Zero is your hero." That's a pretty goofy way to put it.
· Gains locked in
This is a very good feature of indexed annuities. If you have gains from your index option, that gain is locked in permanently, never to go below that amount. Just remember that your upside potential is very limited, regardless of what your agent tells you.
· Possibility to capture market dips
As an example, if the S&P 500 index goes from 1,300 to 900 in one year, your index option for that year would not credit any gains, but you would start the next index option year at 900 on the S&P 500.
· Higher actuarial payout for income
Most indexed annuities, when used for lifetime income purposes with attached income riders, have a higher actuarial percentage payout than similarly structured variable annuities.
· Limited upside
For example, if the cap on the upside is 4% and the S&P 500 returns 15% during your one-year option, then you will receive 4%.
· No dividends
We all know that a large majority of the returns of the S&P 500 are dividend based. Indexed annuity options returns do not include those dividends.
· Complicated call options
With index option verbiage like "spread", "cap", "point to point", "monthly sum", most agents aren't capable of showing you how the math calculations work on these option choices.
· Slave to the anniversary date
With the majority of index annuities, your gains are locked in at the contract anniversary date. I don't think I need to explain how limiting that "one day a year" strategy can be when it comes to market returns.
· Riders are not yield
Agents love to blur the lines between income riders and real return. Don't be fooled into believeing that Jimmy Carter interest rates are back.
· Long term surrender charges
Most indexed annuities sold have 10-year products with 10 years of surrender charges, or more. There are index annuities as short as four years, but you can probably guess why agents will never show you that short of a term.
· First year teaser rates
A lot of times, annuity companies might offer a high "cap" the first year to get you locked into the product, then stick it to you once you are there.
· Upfront bonuses
Buying an annuity for the upfront bonus is like buying a car for the stereo. Common sense will tell you that if you get a bonus, then the carrier is taking something away somewhere else in the contract.
Where They Fit
I typically recommend indexed annuities with attached income riders and only use that combination for target date income planning. I currently do not recommend indexed annuities as a growth strategy because I think that there are better non-annuity choices for that part of your portfolio.
If you take away one thing about indexed annuities it should be this: The upside to an indexed annuity is that there is no downside. The downside to an indexed annuity is that there is very limited upside.
That is the reality (good and bad) of indexed annuities.


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In a Wednesday Salon column which should be saved onto the hard drives of everyone in the pro-life movement as a reminder of the fundamental evil of their opposition, Mary Elizabeth Williams stated why, to her, it doesn't matter that abortion involves the taking of a human life: "I believe that life starts at conception. And it's never stopped me from being pro-choice."
The establishment press has consistently refused to apply the "pro-life" label to a movement which has always been not only about ending abortion, but about respecting and protecting human life from conception to natural death. I believe that refusal has occurred because many reporters share Ms. Williams's brutal, strongly held but rarely expressed beliefs articulated after the jump. The Salon staff writer proves that her side richly deserves to be called "anti-life" -- because that's what they are (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word "life." Life! Who wants to argue with that? Who wants be on the side of … not-life? That's why the language of those who support abortion has for so long been carefully couched in other terms. While opponents of abortion eagerly describe themselves as "pro-life," the rest of us have had to scramble around with not nearly as big-ticket words like "choice" and "reproductive freedom."
... we give far too much semantic power to those who'd try to control it. And we play into the sneaky, dirty tricks of the anti-choice lobby when we on the pro-choice side squirm so uncomfortably at the ways in which they've repeatedly appropriated the concept of "life."
Here's the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That's a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She's the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
... If by some random fluke I learned today I was pregnant, you bet your ass I'd have an abortion. I'd have the World's Greatest Abortion.
... I would put the life of a mother over the life of a fetus every single time — even if I still need to acknowledge my conviction that the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing.
Williams should have substituted "convenience" for "life" in the writer's final paragraph, because, in the context of what she wrote earlier, that's what she obviously meant.
Leading religious blogger The Anchoress had some choice words for Ms. Williams (italics are in original):
In the less enlightened, less compassionate days ... a "non-autonomous entity" would be called a helpless and innocent person, one who deserved protection from efficient sorts who would, by negating their humanity, do them harm. Here, Williams is making precisely the utilitarian argument made by every totalitarian ideology that ever slaughtered people by the millions, because they were the wrong sorts of people, or were useless eaters, or they could not contribute to the advancement of society, or their quality of life just seemed too dubious to those who did not know and love them. Immediately after expressing concern that "liberals" might look like monsters, she utters the monster's line: you have no rights except those I give you.
...A point of order, please: One may certainly sacrifice one's own life for another. That is what makes it a sacrifice. Sacrificing "another's" life is not a sacrifice, ...
... It's just an expedient, and wasteful killing.
In fact, the notion that someone else's life is "worth sacrificing" for the furtherance of one's own situation — the mindset that can advance that thinking — is precisely one that deserves the name "diabolical."
While Ms. Williams frets over how the pro-life movement has "appropriated" the word "life," her essay proves that they have really acquired sole ownership. A press corps interested in accurately communicating the truth would -- and should -- recognize that reality.
PS. Eric Tucker at the Associated Press wrote the following about Friday's March for Life: "Police do not provide crowd estimates, but organizers said hundreds of thousands may have turned out at Friday's rally in Washington." Given the source, one can safely delete the word "may."
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Pink won't be raising her glass anytime soon. Well, at least not for the next six or so months.
The fun-loving singer-songwriter, who is a little over three months pregnant with her first child, recently dished on her pregnancy with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush — including those famous pre-baby cravings and mood swings.
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"I've always had a really, really close relationship with all kinds of food, so I'm good there," Pink told Billy of her must-have foods, in an interview for The Billy Bush Show on Tuesday. "Sour Patch Kids, or Sour Skittles, sour anything.
"Maybe that's a testament to myself," she joked.
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While she may not have fallen victim to the common cravings, the "Stupid Girls" singer admits that her temper has become a tad bit touchy due to her changing hormones.
"I got into a fight at Bed Bath and Beyond," Pink told Billy. "I have the rage!
"There was this man, and he was very rude. Something about Bed Bath and Beyond brings out the worst in people," she joked. "This man wanted a parking spot and he honked at me and he was literally an inch from my ear drum… I [went over to his car] and he acted like he couldn't see me, and then he acted like he couldn't speak any English."
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"Did he realize – did you see, 'He knows that I am the Pinkster?'" Billy asked.
"I think he realized I was going to kill him!" Pink laughed. "And the poor bag boy [who] was helping me with my stuff wanted to be invisible."
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As for whether her maternal mood swings are heating things up in her relationship with her husband, motocross racer Carey Hart, the chart-topping star said it depends on the day.
"My wife's been pregnant three times [and] each baby is different. Sometimes she's extra frisky, sometimes she's like, 'Get the heck outta my life, go away from me!' Where are you?" Billy asked.
"I don't really know where I'm at," Pink told Billy. "It changes hourly."
"Oh dear… So [Carey's] got a whole can of crazy on his hands?" Billy asked.
"Oh yeah, a can and a half!" Pink answered.
The 31-year-old mother-to-be, who recently released a compilation album on November 15 ("Greatest Hits… So Far!!!"), and is fresh off her energetic performance at the 2010 American Music Awards, told Billy that her next endeavor will soon be enjoying some hard-earned downtime.
"I'm going to shoot a video in a week or two, and then I'm honestly going to take my first break since before I signer my record deal!" she told Billy.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Pink confirmed her pregnancy on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" on November 15.
"I'm eating for two these days," Pink told Ellen at the time, providing her first confirmation that she is pregnant.
The singer went on to explain why she was hesitant to confirm her pregnancy news, despite the speculation in the media.
Just like many women, including pop star Mariah Carey (who also recently announced that she's pregnant), Pink revealed that, at one point, she tragically suffered a miscarriage.
"I didn't want to talk about it because I was just really nervous and I have had a miscarriage before," she told Ellen.
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text: jeff Posted February 14, 2005 By Elisabeth J. BeardsleyThe Courier-JournalFRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's master bourbon distillers told lawmakers yesterday that Gov. Ernie Fletcher's plan to extend the 6 percent sales tax to alcoholic beverages would take customers and jobs away from one of the signature industries.But legislative leaders from both parties joined Fletcher in saying they favor some level of increased taxation on alcoholic beverages sold at package stores.Officials from Maker's Mark Distillery, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey and Brown-Forman Corp., which makes Woodford Reserve and Jack Daniel's, appealed to House budget writers to protect a native product.The distillers said Kentucky already imposes an excise tax of $1.92 per gallon on spirits makers and a 9 percent tax on wholesalers' gross receipts. Adding a 6 percent tax on retail sales would drive Kentucky's bourbon taxes to the highest in the nation, they said.Maker's Mark President and CEO Bill Samuels Jr., who's planning a $35 million expansion to his Marion County facilities, said he worries that a Kentucky alcohol tax increase would encourage other states."It sends the worst signal in the world to the rest of the country," Samuels said. "It really makes us vulnerable to an increased activity at all the other state levels, which shakes the confidence of investors and eventually that backs down to lost jobs, lost interest in investment in the industry."The Kentucky Malt Beverage Council also opposed the Fletcher proposal, with several border retailers arguing that higher prices would cost them business from out-of-state customers.Under current law, customers do not pay a sales tax on alcohol sold at package stores, but they do pay a sales tax on alcoholic beverages at restaurants.Fletcher says it's fair to tax all alcohol the same. His proposal is projected to raise an extra $40.5 million in its first year, according to budget director Brad Cowgill's office. It's part of a multi-pronged tax reform plan that would raise and cut a host of other taxes.Cowgill acknowledged that customers would pay more for alcohol under Fletcher's proposal, but said the cost would still be less than surrounding states.The tax increase would not apply to or affect worldwide sales, he said."All we're trying to do is to achieve a fair balance," he said.House Budget Committee Chairman Harry Moberly said political considerations would require some sort of alcohol tax increase to garner support for a cigarette tax increase. "I'd be surprised if there was enough votes to pass the alcohol tax at 6 percent," Moberly, D-Richmond, said. "I would think there'd be more votes to do something less."Senate President David Williams said he had "no problem" with the alcohol tax."I don't think it will impact sales at all," Williams, R-Burkesville, said. "I believe that if anyone buys enough beer or liquor that a 6 percent sales tax would impact their lifestyle, that they need to consider how much beer or liquor they're drinking." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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