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When choosing where to have your LASIK
surgery, it's extremely important that you give yourself the best chance
of having successful, complication-free surgery. The following are
several elements that should be sought to lessen your risk of an
undesirable result.
Experience matters when in comes to
LASIK. Many studies have shown that most complications occur in the
first 1,000 cases a surgeon performs. Why take unnecessary risk with a less experienced surgeon? Let our team of highly skilled LASIK surgeons handle your LASIK needs.
Dr. Walter
has been on faculty since 1996. He received his Medical Degree from Duke University School of Medicine and completed his Residency and Fellowship at Emory University. Dr. Walter has been performing LASIK since 1995 and has being doing LASIK longer
than any other surgeon in North Carolina. He was a co-investigator of
the 1st FDA-guided LASIK study in the United States.
Dr. Giegengack has been on faculty since 2007. He received his Medical Degree from Columbia University and completed his Residency and Fellowship at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health and Science University.
Dr. Patel has been on faculty since 2013. She received her Medical Degree from Georgetown University, completed her Residency at Wake Forest Baptist Health and her Fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University.
Most patients aren't aware that
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Our certified ophthalmic technicians have been
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Be very cautious of this scenario. Ask if
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Some of you may have seen this story in last Friday's Real Estate section of the Times. While the High Line park will begin at Gansevoort and Washington, few people know that the High Line originally went as far south as St. John's Park Terminal, which covered four riverfront blocks between Clarkson and Spring Streets. (It's now a UPS warehouse.) In the 1960's, the High Line below Gansevoort was demolished, with the exception of the little section of rail running through the Westbeth complex, on Washington between Bank and Bethune.
The building was originally Bell Labs, where some of the most advanced precision telecommunications instruments were developed in the first half of the twentieth century. Because trains rumbled directly through the building, its labs were fitted with sophisiticated sound-and-vibration proofing. Since the 1970s, Westbeth has been one of the city's most successful live/work communities for artists.
Since it's not contiguous with the rest of the High Line, this Westbeth portion will not be developed as part of the park, but instead remain closed to the public, (maintaining its wild, abandoned feel.) From the Times:
"25 feet above the sidewalk, the romance survives. The northerly half of the [Westbeth section], covered over by the building, is almost entirely free of plants. But the southerly part is open to the sky, and feels like an Irish heath, the ballast underneath the thin cover of plants yielding slightly underfoot. The rails are gone but rusty spikes, metal objects, a wooden tie and other leftovers attest to a time when rail was king."


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Autism Live is today launching a new online portal, called "Parent 2 Parent," featuring informative two-minute clips to educate parents on all things related to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ranging from "Does my child have autism?" to more targeted issues, such as "How do I prepare for an IEP meeting?"
You have unlimited access to the clips on the Parent 2 Parent YouTube playlist, located at
"This series of videos will provide parents with answers and empower them to get the help their children need as quickly as possible," says Autism Live host Shannon Penrod, who knows firsthand the value of having immediate access to autism resources. Her son was diagnosed with autism in 2006.
"At the time, information on autism was not readily available to me. Other parents still find this to be an issue. Parent 2 Parent is designed to give parents of children with autism spectrum disorder useful tips in an easy-to-understand format, right at their fingertips."
Autism Live is sponsored in part by the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), Inc., one of the world's largest and most effective autism treatment providers offering evidence-based, state-of-the-art services to individuals of all ages. In August 2009, CARD researchers published "Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Records in 38 Cases of Recovery from Autism" in the Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, showing that recovery from autism is possible with early, intensive intervention using applied behavior analysis.
Autism Live is an interactive web show providing support, resources, information, entertainment, and inspiration to parents, teachers, and practitioners working with children on the autism spectrum. For more information about Autism Live, visit http://www.autism-live.com.


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September 21st and 22nd marked the second Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington D.C. GSA Network was proud to be one of the partners invited to the summit held by the US Departments of Education, Justice, and Health & Human Services. The group was a mix of student activists and supportive adults—many of whom came to learn from the experiences of youth and experts, like GSA Network, on how they can make it better for young people. The summit kicked off with a speech from Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius where she confirmed that the "federal response to bullying has never been more coordinated." Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also gave a moving speech declaring, "Enough is enough. It's time to end the bullying epidemic." He added that groups like GSAs "can and do make schools more tolerant places."
The first day included panels and presentations from ABC Family, Cartoon Network, USA Network, Facebook and Seventeen Magazine which focused on cyber bullying and engaging community partners outside the school to combat bullying and harassment. Later, we were joined by actress Katie Leclerc, of 'Switched at Birth', and actor Tyler Blackburn, of 'Pretty Little Liars', and both spoke about the importance of deleting digital drama and reducing online harassment.
Day two began with a speech from US Congresswoman Linda Sánchez, the House of Representatives author of the Safe Schools Improvement Act, which is currently being debated by both houses of Congress. This federal anti-bullying bill specifically includes protections for LGBTQ youth who are targeted at schools. Congresswoman Sánchez called for "actions to create the kind of change we want to see in schools," alluding to important campaigns like the Make It Better Project. After hearing from Congresswoman Sánchez, we then heard from a panel of parents who had lost their children to suicide after enduring bullying. Their heartbreaking stories reminded everyone in the room of the life or death nature of the problem and the importance of reaching out for help if you're feeling lost or hopeless.
The summit drew to a close with remarks from the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Tom Perez. Mr. Perez reminded us that civil rights movements are about persistence and that President of the United States and his agencies are going to "use every tool in their arsenal to fight bullying." He added that the Department of Justice is eager to learn from us on what they can do to end bullying and encouraged anyone with ideas to contact him directly at email@example.com.
Finally, we reviewed the long way we've come in the last year, including launching investigations into school districts who do not adequately handle bullying and harassment of LGBTQ youth and other young people. If you feel your school or school district is ignoring bullying at your school, we encourage you to file a complaint with the Justice Department.
It was a great few days, and speaking as a participant, I want to let the youth activists out there know that the federal government is listening and will not tolerate bullying anymore. They want to learn from you how to make it better!


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Edward "Eddy" Mata has won the Jeffrey S. Abrams National Mediator Contest, sponsored by the University of Houston.
Mata, in his second year of law school, is a member of UC Hastings College of the Law's Negotiation and Mediation Team. The competition is one of 12 the team competes in annually. Approximately 30 students compete at a live competition each year. The Abrams mediation contest was only the second for Mata. He will compete in an international competition in Paris in February 2013.
"Coming into law school, I was not interested in litigation," says Mata, 29, a native of the Dominican Republic. But the Negotiation Team intrigued him. He tried out and made the team, despite not having taken any negotiations courses offered by the college.
A nine-year veteran of the Navy, Mata excelled at negotiation, said Clint Waasted, who coaches the team. "I really enjoy outmaneuvering the other party with my bargaining," Mata said. He could be powerful, dominant, and persuasive. Negotiation, however, was a different animal, and required a different skills set, one that Mata wasn't sure he had, he said.
Like other students on the team, Mata works intensely and often one-on-one with Waasted, general counsel for a local software company who has coached the team for 12 years. The team benefits from individual support, coaching and mentoring from alumni, faculty and practitioners who help students maximize their performance, increase their understanding of legal issues, and develop skills.
Mata began training as a mediator in mid-October, just weeks before the competition. "When we started, he didn't know what mediation was," said Waasted. "But he is an extraordinarily intelligent and articulate person, and I had all the confidence in the world he would be good at being a diplomat. My job was helping him see that in himself."
Being a mediator requires not only understanding a complex legal problem, but understanding the psychological issues the parties bring to the table as well. "The idea is to find out where people would like to go, and where they can go, and then create the environment for that, "Waasted said. The best mediators think many steps ahead, like a chess player, and lead while allowing the parties to come to a solution on their own.
Mata, who has an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering and worked for two years as a data center engineer in Silicon Valley, hopes to put his skills to work within the new corporate structures known as for-benefit corporations, a new corporate firm that allows the tax benefits of a nonprofit within the structure of a more traditional corporation, while still working for both shareholder and community benefit. They became available as a corporate structure in California in January 2012.
Mata's team members, Ari Cover, Nick Campbell, and Kate Keller-Kriozere, each placed within the top 10 at the competition. UC Hastings students have done well at the annual mediation contest, but this is the first year the school has placed first.
"The hard work of the whole team and the enormous dedication of Coach Waasted have once again reminded us of the value of these mediation skills," said Sheila Purcell, director of UC Hastings' Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. "Here, the team and others learn dispute resolution theory as well as practical negotiation and mediation skills. Those who can assist in putting together creative deals, who can help clients work through communication breakdowns, and who seek to advance the good of the whole are often the most successful in the legal profession."


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Rowdy's Dream Blog #198: I am helping my friend to slay a huge dragon.
I am helping my friend to slay a huge dragon. Using trickery, we are able to lop off limbs and large chunks of the beast with each attempt. We are both having a lot of fun. I play a drum accompaniment with large kitchen spoons at each pass. Someone enters the room and asks about the dragon. What is left of the dragon, now just a civilized man in a tuxedo, sits up and says: "Rewind, Riggis!"


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I had the opportunity to attend this years rendition of MicroConf in Las Vegas, NV, run by Rob Walling and Mike Tabor and attended by many great people. All I can say, I will be back next year.
MicroConf is a conference not for startups who took venture funding but rather those of us shoestring it and bootstrapping everything we do.
There is an overwhelming theme I noticed after talking to attendees; virtually everyone is doing some form of freelance consulting and wants to get out of it and move on to a product business. One speaker asked how many were on this path I would say 90% raised their hands. I think that says a lot.
Much of the move to a product based business from consulting almost always raises the question of how to begin the transition and how to replace the lucrative consulting work with paid products. Some demonstrated success with writing ebooks and using that revenue to replace consulting or as a launchpad for their SaaS offering.
Brennan Dunn exemplifies taking this path.
For those who have never written a book it can be hard to imagine you have enough knowledge and experience to produce something of value. Patrick McKenzie was asked about this and his reply was "you know more than you think you know". Solid advice for sure and provides encouragement for developers to consider this avenue of starting the product business.
Rob Walling started the first day with a challenge, where he asked attendees to create 3 actionable items from the event. I think I can boldly share mine:
- Stop consulting and be 100% products by MicroConf 2014
- Create and market and ebook…topic to come.
- Finish and launch SimpleMailr.
As part of these goals I plan to generally improve my business skills in several areas:
- Marketing – this such a broad area but includes driving traffic to my business, by SEO understanding and implementation as well as better use of advertising (Google, Facebook and LinkedIn).
- Copywriting – honing skills of creating eye popping copy to pull people in.
- Design – this has always seemed like a black art to me. I plan to not become a designer but rather be more aware of design and the process to effectively create good design. It's important to have enough skills to communicate the business needs to a qualified designer. It would be helpful to better understand design to take what a designer has to say to then relate to the business.
Notes on the talks
- Jason Cohen's Opening Talk: "Designing the perfect bootstrapped startup"
- Josh Kaufman: "Shut up and take my money" (still needs a lot of editing)
- Joanna Wiebe: "Copywriting that converts"
- Ben Yoskovitz: "Measuring What Matters"
- Guest Speaker – Patrick Thompson: "Bootstraping an App Business"
- Guest Speaker – Sherry Walling: "Don't Burn up in the Launch"
- Guest Speaker – Jody Burgess: "Dude. Marketing is not your thing."
- Guest Speaker – Josh Ledgard: "Getting your first 989 Customers"
- Rob Walling: "How to 10x in 15 months"
- Erica Douglass: "How to Measurably Move the Needle With Your Software Company"
- Dave Collins: "SEO Demystified"
- Hiten Shah: "Killer Content Marketing"
- Mike Taber: "Enterprise Sales Tactics"
- Guest Speaker – Nathan Barry: "Zero to $5,000 / month"
- Guest Speaker – Brennan Dunn: "The Long-Tail Sale"
- Guest Speaker – Brecht Palomo: "How a Non-Technical Founder Built a 6 Figure SaaS App Using Only Free Public Data Sources"
- Guest Speaker – Cameron Keng: "Taxes for SaaS"
- Patrick McKenzie – "Building Things To Help Sell The Things You Build"
Christoph followed up with What You Can Learn From MicroConf 2013 – Even If You Did Not Attend (great use of copy hack from Joanna Wiebe's talk)
Some attendees wrote up their take or takeaways from the conference as well:
- Hiten Shah
- Ben Curtis
- Scott Watermasysk – Lessons from MicroConf 2013
- Scott Watermasysk – MC Lesson 1: Cash Flow and Yearly Billing
- Scott Watermasysk – MC Lesson 2: Always Be Emailing
- Scott Watermasysk – MC Lesson 3: Long Tail Marketing
- Tim Cull
- Robert Graham
I'm sure this list is far from exhaustive, but you get the idea.
The bottom line for me is this was a great conference that I will be back for next year. I walked away from this event with more excitement and to-dos for my business than ever before. If you didn't attend this year, you should next year…*after* I have my ticket in hand.


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The aim is, to avoid loading something from nvram (as stated originally there), because nothing can be read from nvram.
The aim is, to avoid loading something from nvram (as stated originally there), because nothing can be read from nvram.
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Attention: What ever you do, you do it on your own risk
You have to have firmware 1.34 already installed and opened for telnet access. If not, you can find a guide here: Open Stock Firmware LS-XHL
You need to have the optware IPKG system installed on your device. If not, you can find a guide here: Ipkg_on_the_Linkstation_(for_end-users)
For enabling the Microsoft MPPE-Encryption we need a kernel-Module that can be loaded by the stock kernel. For this you need to download the following package:
For Firmwares before 1.34 this also may work, but it's unknown if the needed Kernel-Modules are also available.
What's the aim
The aim is to realize a PPTP VPN-Server, that allows users to dial in, establish a PPTP-Tunnel, and work remotely on the LS (or your network).
What is needed
The good news are: if you have downloaded the package above, and if you are running Firmware 1.34 with the optware IPKG Feed, the basics are there.
The bad news: we need to add a kernel-module, the PPTP-Server (POPTOP) and need to configure the things.
How to install the MPPE Kernel Module
Untar the package "nobody.tgz". You will find a new kernel-file and a module-archive "modules.tar". Forget the kernel-file, as we don't need that. Untar the module-archive "modules.tar".
In there you will find the following path: /drivers/net/ In this path you will find the file: ppp_mppe.ko
You need to copy this file to the modules directory of your Linkstation /lib/modules/%kernel-version%/kernel/drivers/net
Now you need to edit the file /etc/modules.conf and ADD the following:
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate alias net-pf-47 ip_gre
Now we need to update the module-library. Just execute the following command:
depmod -a
OK, now the kernel-module is installed, and MPPE Encryption is available.
How to install the PPTP-Server
We are using the OpenSource project POPTOP as PPTP-Server. This is available in the optware feed, therefore install it with the following command:
ipkg install POPTOP
We need to note, that POPTOP is now installed with the base-dir of /opt (like all the optware-packages)
Now we need to modify the start-script of POPTOP, as there is an issue with calling the daemon. So we need to edit the file: /opt/etc/init.d/S20poptop
Line 11 in the script (starting the daemon) should look like this: /opt/sbin/pptpd -c /opt/etc/pptpd.conf -o /etc/ppp/options.pptpd -p /var/run/pptpd.pid
The aim is, to avoid loading something from nvram (as stated originally there), because nothing can be read from nvram.
Now edit the pptp.conf file in /opt/etc; It should contain at least the following:
############################################################################### # $Id: pptpd.conf 2077 2005-06-10 07:18:16Z jeanfabrice $ # Sample Poptop configuration file /etc/pptpd.conf # Changes are effective when pptpd is restarted. ############################################################################### # TAG: ppp # Path to the pppd program, default '/usr/sbin/pppd' on Linux # ppp /usr/local/sbin/pppd # TAG: option # Specifies the location of the PPP options file. # By default PPP looks in '/etc/ppp/options' # option /etc/ppp/options.pptpd # localip YOUR.IP.ADDRESS.HERE # This is the IP-Address of you linkstation remoteip YOUR.IP.ADDRESS.POLL-Start-POOL-End # The addresses that will be assigned to clients, e.g.: 192.168.0.200-230


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The Court of Oyer and Terminer met on county circuit and was presided over by justices of the Supreme Court. It had jurisdiction (pre-1948) over crimes and offenses of an indictable or presentable nature, and over jail delivery.
See the Bureau of Archives & History Manuscript Collection (referenced below), Boxes 1-20 to 1-24, 1-44, 1-45, 6-1 & 6-2, for early papers of this court.
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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian security official says one of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak's most trusted men has been released from prison pending further investigation into corruption charges.
Safwat el-Sherif, the country's former parliament speaker, has walked out of Torah prison late Thursday, the official says. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
El-Sherif, who served also as information minister for two decades and headed the former ruling National Democratic Party, spent nearly 18 months in prison. He was one of Mubarak's strongmen.
El-Sherif is among a long list of other former Mubarak associates — businessmen, ministers and others — who were tried and face trial over alleged corruption.
Popular complaints of endemic graft in government circles were behind 2011 uprising that toppled Mubarak.


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Sony (NYSE:SNE) has been going hard to make its reign over the battlefield of current-gen consoles known, and it's not stopping. Way back in March, Sony's PlayStation 4 was in crunch time to beat out both Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox One and Nintendo's (NTDOY:PK) Wii U in sales, and it did it with ease. In April, the story was no different, except that the margin it won by was even wider. For the four full weeks of May, the company showed that it wasn't going to give up steam, though there were some surprises in the month.
To put it simply, if current trends continue, Sony has this generation's match-up in the bag. In March, it outsold the Xbox One and Wii U combined, with 655,518 consoles sold to Microsoft's 433,940 and Nintendo's 154,227 — that's over 50 percent more than the Xbox One and 325 percent more than the Wii U. It outsold both combined once more in April, with 579,850 PS4 units sold to Microsoft's 335,101 Xbox Ones and 120,568 Wii U consoles – 73 percent more than the Xbox One this time and over 380 percent more than Wii U.
Though the trend of the PS4 beating its competing consoles has continued through May, it was actually the lowest month of sales of the three mentioned, though Microsoft's weaker sales helped the PS4 outsell both competitors combined one more time. This time, it sold 577,092 consoles to top the Xbox One's 178,481 sales by 223 percent and the Wii U's 276,396 sales by 108 percent, according to sales data from VGChartz.


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Protein is composed of up to thousands of Amino Acid chains used for repairing, growing and maintaining tissues in the body. A vital component for general health and a number of bodily functions, protein is present in muscles, bones, blood and major organs. It has been estimated that protein makes up more than 50 per cent of the body's dry weight. The body is able to compose amino acids; however, there are eight essential amino acids that it cannot produce. These essential acids must be supplied to the body by eating protein rich foods such as poultry, beef, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts and lentils. A lack of protein can potentially lead to the breakdown of muscles, a build up of fluids, and anaemia, which is why many people, particularly athletes, choose to use protein supplements such as protein powder and meal replacement powder1. Protein powder is most commonly used by athletes and people who exercise regularly to increase and maintain muscle mass as well as meet daily protein requirements. Muscles experience minor damage after exercise and the body sends protein to the affected areas to help maintain and build them. Other benefits include appetite control, increased energy levels and a boost to the immune system1. Convenient and usually low in fat, protein supplements are rapidly digested and are typically consumed immediately after exercise or as a meal replacement. Evidence has revealed that consuming protein within 30-60 minutes after exercise will effectively assist in repairing and maintaining muscle tissue2. Depending on individual goals and intakes, protein powder can perform a variety of functions including weight gain, fat burning and muscle repair. Supplements are available in a range of forms with different levels of bioavailability. Bioavailability refers to the amount of protein that directly reaches its site of action. Most forms contain extra vitamins & minerals as well as essential amino acids.
Some common protein supplement blends include whey protein, casein protein, soy protein, egg white protein (or egg albumen), fat loss protein and meal replacement protein. Whey protein is the most popular as it embodies all essential amino acids. Egg albumen, otherwise known as egg white protein, also incorporates the eight essential amino acids and includes the natural vitamins found in eggs. Soy protein is often used by vegetarians as a meat supplement, is low in fat and free of lactose. The amount of protein required daily is dependent on individual circumstances. Protein builds muscle tissue and is therefore required in higher amounts for people who participate in regular strength training, as opposed to people with low levels of physical activity. Daily dosage can also be determined by age, gender, weight, height and the type of exercise performed. It is essential that protein is consumed daily, as the body cannot store it. An average daily intake calculation for adults is 0.8 to 1 gram of protein per kilogram. For example, a 100 kilogram man should consume between 80 and 100 grams per day. The average intake is slightly higher for athletes and strength athletes at between 1.3 grams per kilogram to 2.0 grams per kilogram.
So you don't want the trouble of buying different specific Protein types. But rather would prefer a Protein mix which shall feed you muscles all day and night? Then a Blended Protein may be for you. Some of the most common Protein types utilised to formulate blended proteins are listed below;
Whey Protein Isolate (WPI): Regarded in the Bodybuilding fraternity as the King of all Proteins. WPI has one of the highest Biological Values3, which means it yields more usable grams of Amino Acids than other Protein supplements. It also has short chain peptides which make it available for absorption within fifteen minutes after consumption. This timing is most important as post-training is when your muscles are primed for nutrient and Protein absorption. Whey Isolate contains little to no Fat, Lactose or Cholesterol.
Whey Protein Concentrate (WPC): Of a similar make-up as the Isolate version, it still has a high biological value, it does contain more of the unwanted contents of Whey such as Fat, Lactose or Cholesterol when compared to Whey Isolate (which incidentially makes it slower absorbing than WPI). Put very simply it's still Whey Protein, which overall is regarded as the highest quality protein type for bodybuilding, at the lowest cost.
Casein Protein: A milk protein known for its unique Peptides, excellent Amino Acid profile and slow absorption. Casein like other Protein sources provides a rich Amino Acid supply to the body. Casein is pH sensitive and gels in the acidic environment of the stomach; as such it is an extremely slow digesting Protein source that slowly enters the blood stream. Its main advantage is it shall continue to feed your muscles long after Whey Proteins have dropped off. In studies4 Casein has shown to continue working 7 hours after consumption offering a strong Anti-Catabolic effect which is not as prominent with fast digesting Proteins. It does however have only a minor impact on Protein Synthesis, which is why this protein typically may be combined with a fast acting Whey Protein or utilized as a pre sleep, time release or night time supplement.
Egg Protein: In years gone bodybuilders would consume eggs like they were going out of fashion in order to get protein in their diets. Today however it's been made simple with Egg Protein being produced as supplements. An egg contains about 6 grams of high quality protein, so high that it is used as the standard by which other foods are measured. Eggs also are a rich source of vitamins, including A, E & K, B vitamins, Riboflavin and Folic Acid5. They contain all eight essential amino acids needed for muscle recovery and the building of important minerals. You shall find Egg Protein in some of the blended proteins which are available.
Soy Protein: Soy is a Protein that ranks right up there with the best in the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score. Soy Protein is generally very low in or free of Fat, Cholesterol, and Lactose. It is approved for those who are Lactose Intolerant, and is used as a Meat substitute. An Isolate Soy powder shall possess 90%+ Protein4.
Blended & Whey Protein Powders offer synergistic benefits which compliment each separate protein type. They are excellent value for money and a sure fire way get a full spectrum of quality protein and amino acids which are essential for building muscle.
Whey Protein Blends are commonly presented & sold as Formulated Supplementary Sports Foods in Australia. Protein supplements are not a sole source of nutrition and should be used in conjunction with an appropriate physical training or exercise programme. Not suitable for children under 15 years or pregnant women. Should only be used under medical or dietetic supervision. Always read the label prior to use.
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2. Cribb PJ, Hayes A: Effects of supplement timing and resistance exercise on skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2006, 38:1918-1925.
3 Farnfield MM, Trenerry C, Carey KA, Cameron-Smith D. 'Plasma amino acid response after ingestion of different whey protein fractions.' Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2009 Sep;60(6):476-86.
4. Hoffman, JR and MJ Falvo, 'PROTEIN–WHICH IS BEST?' (2004) 3(3) Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 118
5. Layman et al (2009), Egg Protein as a Source of Power, Strength, and Energy. Nutrition today, 44: 43-48


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For years, many gamers have all agreed to one simple fact: The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64 was one of the greatest games, if not the best, in video game history. Since its release in 1998, many other games have laid claim its title and failed. This time around, however, a game has come along that may finally achieve what so many others could not: "But what game?"
Dudes, Zelda is number one and will never get dethroned. 0.01%?? seriously??
Thing is, there is never only 1 amazing game. There's tons of genres, styles, and preferences. Some would say Final Fantasy VII is the best game ever. Some would say Pokemon is. Others would say that Ocarina of Time, or Uncharted, or Halo, or any other game are the best. Ocarina of Time is an amazing game. But no game can truly be "the best".
OOT is a great game. So was Metal Gear Solid, COD4, RE4,FF78910,Super Mario 3,Uncharted 2,Contra3,Mass Effect 2, Arkham City, Socom, KOTOR and much more... all are great games,
Majoras Mask is better than Ocarina of Time.
Proof provided
No game is "better" than another. It all comes down to preference. Unless the game is crap lol.
to me Majora's Mask is easily one of the most boring and tedious games that I have ever played in my life. No joke, the game's really really really tedious and boring....
and here I thought E.T. on atari was number 1 in the world. Jokes.
Makes sense to me though, Mario Galaxy is a newer game, with better production and a stronger system. Plus its fun.
I understand the nostalgia Zelda brings.. but still, its a little dated
Haha, dated. I'd say it's held up pretty well over the past 14 years.. If you're talking graphics, then yeah. Now, with 14 years of advancements in technology the game doesn't hold up well with modern visuals.
Although: the story, the gameplay, the level design, the open world, the memorability, the characters, the amount of variety, the innovation and so much more would not only hold their own with modern games, but would destroy them.
Srsly, I replayed the game on my n64 this summer and it's crazy how good the game plays after 12 yrs of game innovations. Games like Goldeneye have lost pretty much all enjoyment due to how terrible the controls are compared to games nowadays, while OoT is still flawless in it's control scheme. Graphics are dated of course but it still provides a great atmosphere with the music and art style.
Won't lie though that I prefer it's sequel Majoras Mask cuz IMO it had a darker atmosphere and loved it's music more (Last Day is amazing)
The most memorable thing to me about OOT is the boss fights, but especially the music. Oh God! That damn music! Never leaves my head if I'm ever dumb enough to revisit it.
Bolero of Fire
Saria's Song
Nocturne of Shadow
Oh man....shivers dude.
I unno, I'm a huge OOT supporter...there's a place in my heart reserved for this game for all time
am i the only one whose favorite zelda game is oracle of seasons? ^^
my fave is wind waker, it just grabbed me and pulled me into its world better than Oot.
Wind Waker for me and my personal pick for handheld is Minish Cap. I don't know why I loved that game as much as I did, but it was brilliant.
Loved Wind Waker too. The only problem is the game should have at least the same amount of dungeons as OoT. Ocarina beats it by a little. I would still pick WW over TP any day tho.
No skin off my nose. Both games are amazing experiences. I'm not going to sit here and try to argue which is better. OoT was an amazing experience and Super Mario Galaxy was just as.
Anyways Link is my fav character in smash bros <3
OoT was that perfect storm. good luck dethroning that
Zelda OoT was a really fun game to play, but it will not be named my favorite game of all time. Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland was one of the best experiences of all time for me. Donkey Kong Country, inFAMOUS, Uncharted 2, a lot of Mario games, God of War, Grand Theft Auto. It's really hard choosing an all time favorite!
Sadly, I didn't have the luxury of owning a N64 to play Zelda OoT. It was either a Nintendo 64 or a Playstation and we got the Playstation. I definitely missed out on a great game. But if the nostalgic feelings people have for Zelda OoT are anything like how I feel about Mega man Legends 1/2, then I can see where the majority of Zelda OoT fans are coming from.
When you find a game that makes you feel like you went on a journey, that's a feeling every gamer deserves to have and cherish. It's one of the main reason I prefer games above other entertainment. I'm excited to see what the next game will be that gives us that feeling in the future.
But it never held the throne. Final Fantasy VII came before and is the better game.
Mario Galaxy sure is close to defeating OOT, but it just doesn't have the "legacy" and awe that Zelda left to really dethrone it. Not many games due.
Personally I would say the Witcher 2, Conker's Bad Fur Day, and Counter Strike: Source are games that came to rival Zelda as my best game of all time.
It was dethroned by DarkSouls imo, those that are saying it was dethroned by the linear setpiece driven Indiana Jones wannabe 6 hour game that is Uncharted 2 are incredibly lol worthy, yeah it was pretty but it's like comparing Schindler's List to The A-team.
Saying that, for me Mario 64 was always the better game and Halo CE had a bigger impact on me too.
No such thing as best game ever, only favorite game ever.
Nothing will ever beat ocarina of time! It is a pleasure to eyes, ears and mind like no other!
Gotta love today's jaded youth! Haha
Ocarina is ICONIC! :)
There's many ways to look at it.
From a gameplay, control and game design perspective, the industry has advanced a lot since OOT was released. As a result, there are a lot of games that are actually better than Zelda OOT, not only from other IPs, but also within the Zelda franchise itself. Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword are all better games.
But from a historic perspective (regarding the impact and influence that this game caused in the industry), I can't think of a single modern game that's had the importance that OOT had. Although to be honest, I won't give Ocarina all the credit when it comes to innovation, because I think Super Mario 64 is just as important as OOT was, if not more.
That being said, OOT has aged gracefully. The 3DS version is amazing, and for a 3D game being still great even 14 years after its initial release... that's no small feat.
Still... as much as I do like OOT, there's actually several more recent games that I actually like a lot more. Comparing a 14 year old game with more modern ones isn't exactly fair.
Zelda FTW!! Mario ain't got nothin on him! I say settle this in a game of super smash bross Brawl - best of 3 XD
COD is way better than zelda. zelda is for kids and babies, i mean he has a girls name. proper gamers only play COD....
That's a nice username and avatar you got there
I thought it'd stop people thinking I was being serious.
People on this site apperently don't know what sarcasm is.
Zelda has left us with a great legacy and amazing memories.
We love you Link but it's time to move on.
Ocarina is still the best.
No other game is as good/epic from start to finish in story and execution.
Pft. Mario galaxy isn't even all that good. Sunshine was a better game even.
In that case Mario Galaxy must be pretty average. Sunshine came off to me as a great tech demo in which you can spend ages messing around in the bub world but not a massively great game (the levels themselves are very workmanlike and non-fantastical), compared to Rare's N64 platformers.
Miyamoto concentrated on The Wind Waker and merely 'oversaw' Sunshine. As a result, I see Sunshine as more of a stepping stone on the way to making Galaxy.
Galaxy felt really boring to me. Way too easy, and the gravity switching and what not got old quick.
Although the facts are straight and this is written very well with a level head there are elements of each game that were not compared and it can be considered flawed logic.
Not that this is a point to really but I look at the subject like this. Ocarina of Time is a game that will never be forgotten and quite simply Mario Galaxy will soon be forgotten and replaced with something better.
People generally have biases towards adventure games rather than plaftrom games because the former have pretensions to being more 'meaningful'. If people lead lives that were more meaningful they wouldn't need to play its equivalent in a game and would instead be able to enjoy the underrated aspects of level design, as shown in platform games, rather than dubious plot hooks on self-appointed 'quests'.
OoT is a good game, even a great game, but it is not as many would like to claim 'the best game EVER' or anything remotely close to being the best.
The first Halo and OoT are praised as much as they are for one reason and one reason only: They made people feel justified in having purchased a system.
With the first XBox crushed by the PS2 and the N64 crushed by the PS1, owners of the crushed consoles finally got something they could hold up and say "Playstation doesn't have this!"
That fact alone pushed those games much higher than they deserved to be and when you factor in the "Zelda" factor for OoT, that just compounded it.
So what would you say to those that claim ffVII or MGS is the best game ever?
OoT was the highest rated game for a LONG time and reviewers own all consoles so that argument is invalid. OoT earned the title with a great story, beatiful world, innovative gameplay and so on. There was simply nothing else like it.
However, I agree that N64 owners would bring the game on N64 vs PS wars, but it really wasnt the reason for the games status.
Now I realize I'm late but.
Yes it was. In so far as FF7 goes? Not only is that over rated, it's not even very good. MGS is hailed as a great game, as it should be, but it was not without its flaws and people could recognize them.
By that point MGS was just one of many block buster titles. The PS1 didn't "need" it to feel like it had a reason to be there.
You're also making assumptions about the lack of bias on the part of reviewers who are just as glad as anyone else to see something finally come to a console. A breath of fresh air for them if you would.
OoT is a great game, but it does not deserve this legendary status of unassailable greatness. It has plenty of flaws just like MGS does. If any Zelda game deserves to be that highly rated, its the first one.
IT simply cannot be dethroned because we will never ever go back to the fair reviews of the past. Even if a game today would get 10.0 /100 metascore/whatever. The reality will be its a 8.0.
Todays scores are a joke.
I like Mario Galaxy and its awesome but OOT was the first "perfect" game ever. SO every other perfect game will just be "another one".
OoT Has been number 1 for so long! At this point its basically in a league of its own.
Games aren't really comprable across generations.
If I played this game again 13 years later, it would epic all over again! Hmmmmmmmm....
articles like this always bring out the best comment sections
just title your article
"(insert 90s game here) is overrated. here's why"
and boom. instant flame war
There is no greatest game of all time.. Theres too many that at the time of release were monuments of perfection..
Zelda was good for its time, but kinda gets slaughtered by 99% of big budget games these days.


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The US economy has been slow to recover, and so too has the US motorcycle market. With first-quarter sales down 0.3% this year though, it looked like the US motorcycle market was about to flatline.
Thankfully, that has not been the case in Q2 of 2014, as the Motorcycle Industry Council (MIC) is proud to report that US motorcycle sales are up 4.0% in the second quarter of this year.
Selling 169,111 units in Q2 2014 (6,585 more than in 2013), motorcycles sales in the US so far this year are now up 2.6%, with 263,833 units sold so far in 2014.


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Students traveling to El Salvador on a service-learning trip experienced an outflowing of love from the Salvadoran people whom they met, but they also saw the vestiges of the hate that had plunged the Central American nation into civil war during the 1980s.
In the seventh annual Suffolk University Alternative Winter Break journey to El Salvador, students, faculty and staff followed in the footsteps of the late Congressman Joseph "Joe" Moakley, who had led a U.S. investigation into a military assassination of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Congress became involved because the United States had been funding military training and operations.
The students also worked on a Habitat for Humanity home-building project in the town of La Palma.
Death squads
The trip was preceded by an academic course on the history of El Salvador, where students learned, among other things, how the civil war ignited after the military shot and killed Archbishop Oscar Romero – known as the "bishop of the poor" – as he was celebrating Mass in March 1980.
"The most emotional day for me was when we went to Monsignor Romero's house and to the church where he was murdered," said student Caroline McHeffey.
"We promised to be human, to be brave"
As they sat in the church, each student was asked to offer a word that would describe Romero. "We said words like human' and 'brave,' then we promised to be human, to be brave, like Archbishop Romero," she said.
That day also included a visit to a military museum and to the house where the priests were murdered.
"The museum glorified the military, and some of them were involved in the massacre," said McHeffey. "This was on the second day of the trip, and we didn't know each other yet, but the emotion of the experience brought us together."
The group stayed at Centro Arte para La Paz, an arts education center created by Sister Peggy O'Neill to help communities confront conflict and build a culture of peace.
Enriching the experience
Each evening, the Suffolk group would gather for a reflection on the day's events.
"This group of students was exceptional in the way they worked and lived together and reflected on their experiences together," said Tim Albers, assistant director of service learning and an Alternative Winter Break delegate. "Once again, the preparation each student did before going made the trip's experiences so much more meaningful for them."
Albers noted that the students often heard emotional and potentially disturbing testimony from people who had lived through the civil war
"The evening reflections provide a safe space to talk about what can be really uncomfortable things," said Albers. "We all look at these experiences from our own points of view, but by talking them through, we all come out of it with a richer experience."
"The trip opened up a totally different world to me," said McHeffey. "I didn't expect to fall in love with the culture. Everything is so vibrant and alive, so colorful."
Making connections
"This experience gave me a chance not only to become acquainted with families all over El Salvador, but also to get to know some of the members of my own community at Suffolk as we all worked, played, cried, laughed, and supported each other," said student Jake Houle.
"It's amazing that Suffolk does this, said McHeffey." We saw a part of history involving the United States that students today seldom learn about. It opens your eyes to politics and the role the United States has abroad.
The annual service-learning journey is co-sponsored by the Moakley Institute at Suffolk University and the S.O.U.L.S. Service-Learning Center.


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Ohio woman sentenced to cook Thanksgiving dinner for police
CANTON, Ohio — A judge in Ohio sentenced a careless driver to fix Thanksgiving dinner for three police officers on leave or unable to work.
The sentence was handed down Monday in Canton to 46-year-old Valerie Rodgers of Tuscarawas Township.
She also was placed on probation for one year for knocking over a police officer while he was directing traffic during the Canton Marathon.
The (Canton) Respository reports the driver pleaded guilty last month to felony assault and three misdemeanors.
Her attorney says she was confused by the traffic situation and panicked.
Credit: The Associated Press.


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Wrestlers dominate duals
Swedes defeat Hershey 42-25.
Friday's wrestling dual with Hershey gave Gothenburg grapplers one more chance to perform at home as the season quickly draws to a close.
It also allowed the Swedes to notch one more dual win in their belts.
The Swedes easily defeated Hershey 42-25 giving up two open weights.
"It gives us a chance to be at home and to maximize our matches for the weekend," said coach Eric Manstedt.
Head-to-head single dual meets are rare in today's scheduling, the coach said. Most teams opt for more matches at one outing.
But the meet with Hershey gave the Swedes a look at a new opponent with mostly full weights.
"A dual like this allows you to be pretty focused on the opponent and to easily recognize your strengths and weaknesses," Manstedt said.
There weren't a lot of Swede weaknesses to be seen.
"It was a good way for us to get sharpened up after a week of not-so-good practices," Manstedt said.
One highlight of the meet, the coach said, was seeing senior Kyle Kleinknecht, who isn't a regular varsity wrestler, take his last home match at 140 pounds.
Kleinknecht led opponent Joey Sheets 5-3 heading into the final period. Sheets earned a reversal early to tie the score at 5-5.
With time winding down, Kleinknecht managed a reversal for the 7-5 victory.
"I was so glad to see him have a successful evening," Manstedt said.
The Swedes finished with seven wins in the 10 matches wrestled with Hershey giving up two forfeits.
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There they go again — those 17 federally appointed experts at the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are telling American doctors and patients to stop routinely doing lifesaving tests.
Or at least that's the way some people look at the task force's latest guidelines on prostate cancer screening, which say doctors should stop doing routine PSA tests on men of any age. (The task force earlier recommended an end to testing of men over 75.) You can find the screening guideline in that current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, along with editorials for and against it.
The American Urological Association pronounced itself "outraged" at the task force edict.
"It really is too extreme for them to say that all PSA testing should stop," fumes Dr. William Catalona, a Northwestern University urologist and PSA testing pioneer. "If all PSA screening were to stop, there would be thousands of men who would unnecessarily suffer and die from prostate cancer."
Catalona insists the evidence suggests routine PSA screening prevents as many as 40 percent of prostate cancer deaths by catching the disease when it's early and curable.
No way, says Dr. Michael LeFevre, a task force member who is professor of family practice at the University of Missouri.
"We think the benefit is very small," LeFevre told Shots. "Our range is between zero and one prostate cancer death avoided for every thousand men screened." By comparison, he says, the lifesaving benefit from colorectal cancer screening is two to 10 times higher.
LeFevre doesn't deny PSA screening saves lives. It's just that the benefit is much smaller than screening advocates think, he says. His best case: Widespread PSA testing might avoid between 1,400 and 2,800 prostate cancer deaths among 28,000 US men who now die of the disease. That's 5 to 10 percent.
"I don't want to take lightly any one of those lives," he says. "And if prostate cancer screening was harmless and nobody suffered the consequences on the opposite side, then I'd say, 'Well, why not?' But unfortunately, that's not the case."
Unintended Consequences
The task force says up to 20 percent of men screened every year for 10 years will get a result that sends them to the biopsy suite. When cancer is found, nearly 90 percent will have surgery, radiation or hormone therapy, and up to one-third will end up with urinary incontinence, impotence or bowel problems.
Death from prostate cancer is a worse harm, for sure. But the task force says most of the men treated for cancer found through PSA screening would never have had a problem with the disease if it hadn't been found.
"A goodly proportion of men who have localized prostate cancer actually have a disease that will never kill them if left alone," says Dr. Otis Brawley, the American Cancer Society's chief medical officer. "More than a million men were needlessly cured of their prostate cancer over the last 20 years."
Brawley says this notion — experts call it "overdiagnosis" — is hard for most people to grasp, including cancer doctors (or perhaps especially cancer doctors). "What the Preventive Services Task Force is suggesting is contrary to all our prejudices," he told Shots. "We've all been taught that the way to deal with cancer is to find it early and cut it out."
He especially hopes the new guidelines will put a stop to mass PSA screening by mobile vans at shopping malls and hospital-sponsored "health fairs."
Brawley has been beating that drum since 1997, when an especially candid hospital marketing director bragged to him about the financial advantages of his institution's free PSA screening sessions. He recounts the story in his recently published book, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America.
"The marketing guy was really proud of his prostate-cancer-screening business plan," Brawley told Shots. "If they screened 1,000 men at the mall ... they got 135 guys coming in [to the hospital's clinics] to figure out why they had an abnormal test. And they would end up collecting an average of $3,000 per guy off of that."
From there, many biopsies would reveal prostate cancer, and nearly all of them would have surgery or radiation, he says. The ones who got radiation, the marketer told Brawley, "reimbursed at almost $80,000 a guy."
"I asked him, 'How many lives will you save if you screen a thousand guys?' " Brawley recalls. "And he took his glasses off and looked at me as if I was a fool and said, 'Don't you know, nobody knows if this stuff saves lives? I can't give you an estimate on that.' "
Brawley says some PSA screening fairs are sponsored by the makers of diapers for incontinent adults, apparently because they know many men with abnormal PSAs will eventually suffer treatment-related urinary problems. "I don't know if screening saves lives, but I sure know it sells diapers."
A Matter Of Semantics?
Brawley is himself an expert in prostate cancer treatment. And as opposed as he is to indiscriminate mass screening, he says he's not against PSA testing if doctors and patients go into it with open eyes, after a frank discussion of potential harms and benefits.
But while he thinks the Preventive Services Task Force "got it right," he says it needs to do a better job of explaining itself. As in the mammography screening controversy of 2009, the task force's analytical language leaves it open to the charge that it's unsympathetic to men's prostate cancer fears and diagnostic dilemma — coldhearted even.
"I wish the task force's wording were a little bit more user-friendly," Brawley says.
Instead of saying that doctors should stop doing PSA "routinely," he says, maybe it should have said they shouldn't do them "automatically."
That leaves the door open to a doctor-patient discussion about the pros and cons. And that's exactly what the task force says it wants to do.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish. First this hour, we wade into a debate over medical testing - when it's warranted, and when it's not. Today, a federally sponsored task force said men over the age of 50 should not be routinely offered a test for prostate cancer. That's a test the vast majority now get. The American Urological Association called the new guidelines outrageous and irresponsible. And as NPR's Richard Knox reports, it's not the first time this task force has found itself in the middle of a medical controversy.
RICHARD KNOX, BYLINE: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is a group of 17 people who are experts in analyzing medical evidence. Nearly three years ago, it kicked up a storm when it said women under 50 shouldn't get routine mammograms. The new prostate cancer guidelines, previewed last fall, are more sweeping. They say men of any age should not routinely get a blood test for PSA. An elevated PSA may signal prostate cancer - or not.
DR. MICHAEL LEFEVRE: Unfortunately, it is often sold as a test that can only do benefit and cannot do harm. And that's, simply, not true.
KNOX: Dr. Michael LeFevre says men generally aren't aware that PSA testing has pros and cons. He's a professor of family practice in Missouri, and a task force member.
LEFEVRE: We see community screenings. We see vans going around advertising: Men, come in, and this is your best chance to avoid a prostate cancer death.
KNOX: But the task force says for every 1,000 men who get a PSA screening test, one may avoid death because of it, but dozens more will get treatments for a cancer that would never have killed them. Nationally, LeFevre says PSA screening leads tens of thousands of men to get needless surgery and radiation while preventing perhaps 14- to 2,800 prostate cancer deaths a year.
LEFEVRE: I don't want to take lightly any one of those lives. And if prostate cancer screening was harmless and nobody suffered the consequences on the opposite side, then you'd say well, why not? But that, unfortunately, is not the case.
KNOX: Dr. William Catalona thinks the task force is dead wrong.
DR. WILLIAM CATALONA: I just think that what they have done is outrageous.
KNOX: He's a Chicago urologist who performs a lot of prostate surgery.
CATALONA: If the guidelines were implemented and if all PSA screening were to stop, there would be thousands of men who unnecessarily would suffer and die from prostate cancer.
KNOX: Catalona acknowledges the task force has an important mission: to weed out unnecessary tests, or say when they're doing more harm than good. But he says they shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater. The Preventive Services Task Force has its defenders, too.
DR. OTIS BRAWLEY: I am a prostate cancer doc, and I think they got it right.
KNOX: That's Dr. Otis Brawley. He's chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. Brawley says prostate cancer is an exception to the rule that the best way to deal with cancer is to find it early and cut it out. Many, if not most, doctors believe that, and most prostate cancer patients do too. Many are convinced they owe their lives to a PSA test. But Brawley says a million American men have been treated for prostate cancer needlessly. Some men have localized prostate cancer that would never kill them, he says. Others have prostate cancer that kills them even when it's caught early. And a third group, well...
BRAWLEY: The real question is, is there a third group of men - and that is men who we can find the disease early and cure them, and give them a cure that they actually needed because the disease was a threat to their life. That third group of men, we still don't know if it exists, and that's the root of this whole question about screening.
KNOX: But as in the mammogram controversy, Brawley thinks the task force leaves itself open to the charge that it's too analytical, even coldhearted. He thinks it needs to do a better job of explaining itself.
BRAWLEY: I will admit to you that I wish the task force wording were a little bit more user-friendly.
KNOX: Instead of saying that doctors should stop doing PSA tests routinely, maybe it should have said that they shouldn't do them automatically. That leaves the door open to a doctor-patient discussion about the pros and cons. And that's exactly what the task force says it wants to do.
Richard Knox, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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- PHOTOS: Chris Dorner manhunt in pictures
Several cities and organizations pledged reward money totaling more than $1 million for the arrest and conviction of Dorner when the former cop was on the run.
But because of the wording "arrest and conviction," some of the entities are considering backing out of the money that was promised.
"Because the conditions were not met, there will not be a payment of a reward by the city," Riverside spokeswoman Cindie Perry said.
Dorner was wanted for killing Cal State Fullerton assistant basketball coach Monica Quan and her fiancé Keith Lawrence. Police say Dorner was also behind the shooting deaths of Riverside Police Officer Michael Crain and San Bernardino Detective Jeremiah MacKay.
Dorner was never arrested. He died of a self-inflicted wound in a burning cabin in Angelus Oaks while surrounded by law enforcement on Feb 12.
LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday that he believes the city of Los Angeles will honor the reward.
"There's over 35 entities that were involved collectively in putting the reward together. Many of them have different rules, different abilities to pay and such, so we're working with those entities through robbery-homicide division, through the chief of detectives, in concert with the mayor's office, to make a determination about who is still eligible to pay the reward and who will get it," Beck said.
There have been two claims to the reward money: One is the couple near Big Bear whose car was stolen and were tied up by Dorner. They were able to untie themselves and call police. The second is a man whose pickup truck was taken by Dorner just before he ran into a cabin and was surrounded by police.
The LAPD says to deny someone the reward because Dorner died before he could be put on trial would be disingenuous and would also undermine future attempts by police to gain information by offering a reward.


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How can one check if the uPC1935 oscillates?
Unfortunately, there is no way to check whether or not it oscillates.
If no output waveform is produced, the chances are that the output is shut down because the timer latch circuit operates due to noise, etc.
Therefore, short-circuit the DLY pin to GND to disable the timer latch circuit and check the operation.
Exercise care in short-circuiting the output when conducting an experiment because the output short-circuit protection feature is not activated in this status.
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The Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac has gone live to the general public, ending a short period where it was only available to a select few (including Pocket-lint, of course).
Windows Phone 7 Connector will (if you want it to) automatically sync with your WP7 handset when connected to your Mac. It gives you access to both iTunes and iPhoto, and you can sync things like podcasts that download into iTunes, without having to go in and select which podcast to sync each time.
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In the heart of the city is Rotterdam's oldest structure, St. Lawrence Church -- completed in 1525 and a rare survivor of the 1940 Nazi bombing campaign. The church's nondescript exterior belies its vast, pristine interior, which sports a huge organ. If you enter, be sure to look up to appreciate its roof, one that was clearly made by a city of shipbuilders -- it feels like you're huddled beneath an overturned boat.
Grotekerkplein, the "Great Church Square" in front of St. Lawrence Church, honors Rotterdam native Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) with a 17th-century statue, which also miraculously survived the bombing. A great humanist, Erasmus forged the notion of identifying as European -- seeing oneself as a citizen of the world and not tied to a single nationality. In many ways he's the intellectual forbearer of the European Union . On the pedestal, in Dutch, is an excerpt from one of his most famous remarks: "The entire world is your fatherland."
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We should be afraid of collective stupidity. What I am referring to is millions of people displaying a lack of intelligence, particularly in areas where humans have made intelligence breakthroughs in the past.
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Easy to connect, Easy to use
The PJP is a conference microphone speaker with a built-in high performance echo canceller. When connected to a PC with a USB or audio cable, the PJP enhances your softphone* or Web conferencing system for multiperson response that is as smooth as video ...
Easy to connect, Easy to use
The PJP is a conference microphone speaker with a built-in high performance echo canceller. When connected to a PC with a USB or audio cable, the PJP enhances your softphone* or Web conferencing system for multiperson response that is as smooth as video conferencing.
* Software for making telephone calls over the Internet on a PC.
Smooth duplex performance
Echo can occur in an audio conference system when the microphones pick up the audio reproduced from the speakers. To counter this, the Projectphone incorporates a high-performance adaptive echo canceller that eliminates any of its own sounds that may be picked up. Combining this with a design that minimizes feedback of reproduced sound, it offers smooth full-duplex performance that is easy on both the talkers and listeners.
Adaptive echo canceller for use in any kind of room
The Projectphone's adaptive echo canceller "studies" the operating environment and automatically adjusts the echo-filter factor accordingly. And since it performs well in many different acoustic conditions, you can easily hold conferences in whatever room or space is available.
Even when next to a projector, noise reduction eliminates the sound of the fan
Built-in noise reduction eliminates noise even in rooms with constant sound such as from projectors and air conditioners. Noise is removed from the ambient sound picked up by the microphones. The listener hears only clear voices.
20 kHz wide bandwidth echo canceller
Built-in wide bandwidth echo canceller that also supports HD audio codecs including AAC-LD. Picks up and plays back with no loss in sound quality, providing for smooth conversations.
Tracking mode automatically detects the talker
A microphone beam position detection function automatically tracks in the direction of the talker. Only the unadulterated voice of the talker is picked up. Also, by setting the PJP to pick up in a certain direction, you can ensure that it will not track noise sources such as projectors. Because pickup is directed toward the talker, this mode is useful for multiperson conferences where noise sources are present.
Combines wide pickup range with clear audio
The newly improved microphone tracking function yields both a wide pickup range and clear audio. Expanding the pickup range can mean lower sound quality because ambient noises can be picked up in addition to the talker's voice. But the PJP-50USB greatly reduces these noises by directing the arrayed microphones exclusively toward the talker. This improves the quality of picked up sound, making the talker's voice come through clearly without amplifying ambient noise. It gives you the best of both worlds-broad-ranging pickup and crystal clear audio.
High sensitivity microphones
Eight of the PJP-50USB's high sensitivity microphones achieve equivalent or better audio pickup than twice the number of conventional mics. And with auto gain control, distant or quiet voices are picked up better than ever. At the same time, we also improved horizontal and vertical pickup performance by arranging placement of the arrayed microphones. Projector and ventilation noises are avoided because the pickup is resistant to sounds directed at the ceiling.
Design based on acoustic engineering
The PJP has been structurally designed based on acoustic engineering principles to achieve conferences that are easy on both listeners and talkers. The left-to-right microphone array is optimal for pick up and echo cancelling. The undermounted speakers are acoustically designed so that sound reflected off the tabletop reaches the ears.
PJP-50USB can be daisy-chained up to 4 units via audio cables. Total of 16 speakers and 32 microphones will pick each of the whispers up while playing every murmur back, loud and clear for all. By connecting the Master unit to a PC via USB, and the chained units via audio in/out, VOL and MUTE of all the chained units will be interlocked.
*Power supply necessary for all daisy-chained PJP-50USB units
External Speaker
PJP-50USB can also be connected to external speakers, fulfilling the need of a higher volume while utilizing those powered speakers in your cabinet.
*When external speakers are connected, main unit speakers will be turned off
**Yamaha MSP3 recommended for external speakers
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PJP-50USB can be daisy-chained up to 4 units via audio cables. Total of 16 speakers and 32 microphones will pick each of the whispers up while playing every murmur back, loud and clear for all. By connecting the Master unit to a PC via USB, and the chained units via audio in/out, VOL and MUTE of all the chained units will be interlocked.
*Power supply necessary for all daisy-chained PJP-50USB units.
- Woori Bank
PJPs are used to hold remote meetings at over 130 offices five times per day, and are much more effective than expected.
Adopted Model: PJP-50USB PJP-20UR
- Mitsui Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
Connecting branches nationwide to make lively meetings and education in comfort a reality.
Adopted Model: PJP-50USB PJP-20UR
- The San-in Godo Bank, Ltd
"LiveOn" web conferencing system combined with the PJP Series to enhance in-bank communications and efficiency.
Adopted Model: PJP-50USB PJP-20UR
- Tokamachi City
Web conferencing with the PJPs made meetings more efficient, simultaneously implemented emergency communication network.
Adopted Model: PJP-EC200 PJP-50USB
CAUTIONDo not use AUDIO IN terminal during external speaker mode, as it will cause a malfunction.
|External interfaces
|USB 2.0 Full-Speed, analog audio input/output - 1 each (stereo mini-jacks) AC adapter connector (DC-12 VIN): Accessory AC power adapter
|Maximum power consumption
|9.0 W or less
|Power consumption in idle status
|Radio interference standard
|VCCI-class B
|Operating environment
|Operating temperature: 0-40°C, operating humidity: 20-85% (no condensation)
|1.4 kg (excl. power adapter)
|283 (W) × 52 (H) × 298 (D) mm
|Power supply
|100 to 240 V AC(50/60Hz)
|System environment
|Windows 8.1 (64bit/32bit), Windows 8 (64bit/32bit), Windows 7 (64bit/32bit), Windows Vista SP1 or higher (32bit), Windows XP SP2 or higher (32bit), Windows 2000 SP4
|Firmware revision upgrade (transferred from PC via USB)
|AC adapter, power cable, USB cable (2 m), CD-ROM, owner's manual
|8 microphones, microphone auto tracking function
|4 speakers, mono playback, volume: 85 dB
|Frequency range
|300-20,000 Hz
|Signal processing
|Adaptive echo canceller, noise reduction, microphone array control
[Windows OS Support]
Due to the end of support by Microsoft, we announce to end the support of this product for the following OS.
OS:Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Optional Accessories
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- PJP-50USB Firmware Ver.2.05
- PJP-50USB Driver for NEC softphone client DtermSP30
- PJP-50USB Driver for NEC softphone client SoftClientSP350
- Firmware Update Software (PJP-50USB Writer) ver.1.03 for Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8
- PJP-50USB Quick Start Guide [English / 2.6MB]
- PJP-50USB Caution [English / 25KB]
- PJP-50USB Changes in specifications [English / 201KB]
- PJP-50USB User's Manual [English / 2.5MB]
- PJP-50USB Icon
- PJP-50USB Photo