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Police are investigating whether a carbon monoxide leak led to the deaths of two people in West Rogers Park.
Paramedics were first called to the building in the 2500 block of West North Shore Avenue about 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning
They rushed two women to the hospital; one went into cardiac arrest and died.
Rasheeda Akhter, 77, was pronounced dead at 11:14 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Later Sunday afternoon, police came back to the apartment to take another woman to the hospital who was found unresponsive. 18-year-old Zanib Ahmed, died at 9 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
Five children were also hospitalized, but are expected to recover.
Officials found a positive reading for carbon monoxide near a boiler in the building's basement, but they won't officially rule the deaths were caused by accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, but until autopsy results are reported, police said.


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The State of Oklahoma has strong ties to the sport of wrestling and, as a result, to Mixed Martial Arts as well. Fighters like Daniel Cormier, Johny Hendricks, Mark Munoz, and Randy Couture all wrestled at Oklahoma State and many still live in the general area. Not surprisingly, the MMA community stepped up this week in the wake of the tragic events in Oklahoma when a massive tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma killing more than 20 people including nine children.
Cormier went on Twitter to announce he would be helping sell a "Pray for OK" shirt through sponsor Cage Fighter with all proceeds going to victims and would also be making a cash donation himself.
Likewise, UFC welterweight James Head is also endorsing the project and understandably so considering his own attachment to the region. He's also going one step further, donating his next fight purse to the cause.
"More than monetary donations, I plan on getting my hands dirty and helping with cleaning up the mess that the tornado has left behind," said Head in a conversation with Fightline about the situation. "I have had several tornado 'scares' (in the last five years), but this is by far the largest, most destructive tornado that I have ever seen."
"The response (to the cleanup and rebuild) has been amazing – not only have the crews from around the U.S. showed up in full force, but I can't describe the unity of the Oklahomans that have rallied around helping and giving wholeheartedly," he concluded. "I've never been more proud of a group of people in my life; the way that everyone is assembling together to help those affected by the storm is truly inspiring."
Readers interested in offering aid can learn more by checking out the American Red Cross website.

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NORWICH City of Norwich Supervisor Linda E. Natoli expressed her dissatisfaction with the way things are going at the Chenango County Public Safety Facility by casting two opposing votes on resolutions that came before the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
The Ward 4, 5 and 6 representative was the sole county leader to oppose the immediate appropriation of $52,200 for part-time officers, $84,000 for overtime and $50,000 for food expenses at the facility. She joined Supervisor Peter C. Flanagan, D-Preston, in also voting against authorizing the creation of another full-time correctional facility nurse position at the jail.
I just think we need to know more about whats going on up there. I dont think we know enough, she said following the meeting. She did not elaborate.
When he initially requested the appropriations last month, Sheriff Thomas J. Loughren told the Safety & Rules Committee that the majority of the funds were needed to accommodate for a shortage of corrections officers. He said the department has been in a massive training and hiring mode this year. That, coupled with the recent flood emergency, made for a difficult first year at the new facility on Upper Ravine Road in the Town of Norwich, he said.


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Who other than Louis Cartier was capable of granting the wish of famous Brazlilian aviator Santos Dumont, to be able to tell time whole flying? This friendship, formed in 1904, yielded one of the first ever wristwatches. The iconic model is reinterpreted here with a slightly curved case embellished with exposed screws, modest and elegant in equal measures.
In 1904, Louis Cartier granted the wish of famous Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos Dumont: to be able to tell time while flying. Thus, one of the first wristwatches was born. Featuring geometric shapes and exposed screws, the watch quickly became an icon for men and women. The Santos watch rose to the ranks of a classic that would defy the hands of time.
Louis Cartier created the Santos watch in 1904, sealing his friendship with the aviator Alberto Santos Dumont. The famous aviator's wish was granted: he could check the time while flying. The dial's rounded angles and exposed screws made this an iconic timepiece. Cartier marked the centenary of the watch with the introduction of the Santos 100 for men and women.


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News in brief
September 5, 2003
The Humble Ranch
Trail-a-thon is Sept. 13
Hikers and horseback riders (bring your own horses) can spend the day exploring Emerald Mountain while raising funds to help support the operation of the Humble Ranch Education and Therapy Center, a non-profit organization. The ranch is across the Yampa River from the Haymaker Golf Course on County Road 14. This year's goal is to raise $10,000.
The Trail-a-thon includes 12- or four-mile horseback rides, a seven-mile hike up and over Emerald Mountain, a Family Fun walk to the Yampa River, a riding demonstration, a barbecue lunch provided by the Routt County CattleWomen, live music provided by the Humble Pickers, and more.
For more information or to make a cash donation call Cheri or Marian at the Humble Ranch, at 879-3443.
Free GED preparatory course offered at CMC
Recommended Stories For You
A free preparatory course for the graduation-equivalency diploma (GED) exam, focusing on skills improvement in writing, reading and math, is being offered from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays in Willett Hall, Room 300 at Colorado Mountain College. Call 870-4444.
Registration under way for 10-week film course
Registration is under way for "The Language of Film," a 10-week course on film appreciation taught by producer Dori Weiss and director Chris Nyby. Each session will focus on an aspect of filmmaking. Sessions will take place from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept. 17-Nov. 19. Call the Steamboat Springs Arts Council at 879-9008.
Love and Logic parenting classes begin Sept. 23
Colorado Mountain College offers a parent training session on "Becoming a Love and Logic Parent." Classes will run from 6 to 9:45 p.m., Sept. 23-Oct. 14, in Steamboat Springs. Cost is $41 in-district tuition. Call 870-4444.
Kickboxing aerobics
classes offered in Hayden
The Hayden Recreation Department offers a Tae Box class taught by Kim Temple from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesday and Thursday in the Hayden Elementary School cafeteria. Cost is $28 per month. Call 276-3532 to register.
Soup Bowl Supper takes place Tuesday
Tickets are on sale now for the second annual Steamboat Clay Artisans' Soup Bowl Supper, a major fund-raiser for LIFT-UP of Routt County.
The event, to take place Tuesday at the Depot, features locally created ceramic bowls that will be filled with gourmet soup provided by several restaurants. There will be three seatings, at 5, 6:15 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $17 and include the meal and the ceramic soup bowl. A silent auction also will be held. Advance tickets are available at the LIFT-UP Thrift Store, the Depot, The Buzz, and The Potter's Wheel. Call 870-0727.


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In the age of Radio Mirchis and FMs, I still miss the good old All India Radio's Vividh Bharti. Very simple radio station that actually struck an intimate chord with masses ever since it came in existence on October 3, 1957. Its more than 50 years but Vividh Bharti still has many faithfuls and young lovers.
If you are in India, you can surely listen to Vividh Bharti but for those who are living outside India (such as USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand), listening to Air India Vividh Bharti is like a dream. But not any more. You can now listen to AIR Vividh Bharti online and on your mobile devices (Android or iPhone or iPad) for free.
I wrote a review about a site that allows you to listen to Radio Mirchi, Red FM etc online. Well the same site has started streaming Vividh Bharti online for free. Just to make us all feel like home.
All you need is a flash based browser.
How to listen to All India Radio Vividh Bharti Online?
Just visit VoiceVibes.netand select "Vividh Bharati - देश की सुरीली धड़कन - Live". Your Vividh Bharti radio will start playing.
How to listen to All India Radio Vividh Bharti on mobile device?
If your mobile browser support flash, just follow the steps above and visit VoiceVibes.net. You should be able to play Vividh Bharti on your mobile device. Android devices should be able to play vividh bharti online. If you have an iPhone, you can use iCloud Browser App to play Flash videos on your iOS devices
There is only one thing to remember though, the radio stops every one hour. You just have to refresh the page and it should start working for another hour.
Enjoy the favorite All India Radio Radio Vividh Bharti.


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Quadrants and Angles (page 2 of 3)
Sections: Introduction, Worked Examples (and Sign Chart), More Examples
My picture doesn't need to be exact or "to scale". I just need the general idea of what quadrant I'm in and where the angle θ ("theta") is.
Then the Pythagorean Theorem gives me the length r of the hypotenuse:
And that's all I need for finding my ratios! To find my answers, I can just read the number from my picture:
For this exercise, I need to consider the x- and y-values in the various quadrants, in the context of the trig ratios. I don't need to find any actual values; I only need to work with the signs and what I know about the ratios and the quadrants.
The tangent ratio is y/x, so the tangent will be negative when x and y have opposite signs. This occurs in the second quadrant (where x is negative but y is positive) and in the fourth quadrant (where x is positive but y is negative). So the sign on the tangent tells me that the end of the angle is in QII or in QIV.
The sine ratio is y/r,
and the hypotenuse r
is always positive. So the sine will be negative when y
is negative, which happens in the third and fourth quadrants.
So the tangent is negative in QII and QIV, and the sine is negative in QIII and QIV. The overlap between the two solutions is QIV, so:
The terminal side of the angle θ lies somewhere in QIV.
The thought process for the exercise above leads to a rule for remembering the signs on the trig ratios in each of the quadrants. In the first quadrant, all the values (x, y, and r) are positive, so All the trig ratios are positive. In the second quadrant, the x-values are negative, so x/r and y/x are negative; only y/r is positive, so only the Sine is positive in QII. In the third quadrant, each of x and y is negative, so x/r and y/r are negative; only y/x is positive, so only the Tangent is positive in QIII. In the fourth quadrant, the y-values are negative, so y/r and y/x are negative; only x/r is positive, so only the Cosine is positive in QIV.
Some people remember the letters using the word "ACTS", but that's the reverse of normal (anti-clockwise) trigonometric order. Others remember the letters with the word "CAST", which is the normal rotational order but doesn't start in the usual (first-quadrant) starting place. To start in the usual spot and rotate in the usual direction, still others use the mnemonic "All Students Take Calculus" (which is a bit ironic when you're in a trig class). Use whichever method works best for you.
From the sign on the cosine value, I only know that the angle is in QII or QIII. That's why they had to give me that additional specification: so I'd know which of those quadrants I'm in.
The Pythagorean Theorem gives me:
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1.1 The Railway Development Society (RDS)
is an independent national organisation campaigning for more and
better rail services, to enable more people and freight to travel
by rail rather than road. Together with the members of many rail
user groups affiliated to RDS we represent 20,000 rail users.
1.2 RDS is pleased to give evidence to the
Trade and Industry Select Committee on the matter of fuel taxation.
RDS is primarily concerned that if road haulage becomes cheaper
due to lower taxation, the viability of freight by rail will be
undermined. RDS is of the view that motorised road traffic does
not cover the full costs it imposes on society, so any lowering
of fuel taxation per se would not go any way towards addressing
the social issues surrounding fuel taxation.
1.3 RDS is also extremely concerned that
lowering taxation on fossil fuels sends the wrong message. Climate-changing
energy sources should be discouraged by high taxation so that
there are incentives to reduce pollution. A significant proportion
of the money collected should be ploughed back into funding alternatives:
public transport, freight by rail, renewable energy, and lower-emission
1.4 Uniformed public opinion, fuelled by
the media, believes that the cost of road fuel is excessive and
is clamouring for a general reduction. Over and above this, the
road haulage industry is pressing for concessions for themselves
alone. The evidence offered in this document will endeavour to
set out some counter arguments and a possible solution.
2.1 The road lobby often puts forward the
argument that only a fraction of the revenue collected in taxes
by the government is used for road construction. The figures they
are keen to quote are £6 billions spent on roads compared
to £32 billions collected in taxes. However, this is a spurious
argument fuelled by misleading figures.
2.2 Firstly, there is no "ring fencing"
of taxation in this country. The total sum of taxes generated
from all sources, including roads, is available for the government
to use as it sees fit. Certainly, if road taxes fell to the levels
demanded by road interests, other taxes would have to rise to
compensate. This situation can be seen in Europe where some indirect
taxes like that on fuel are lower than the UK, but direct taxes
such as income tax are higher than the UK. The oft quoted figure
of £32 billion also includes VAT. No other industry demands
that its VAT be directly reinvested in itself.
2.3 However, RDS would like to see more
positive moves to use the money generated by fuel tax to fund
rail freight, public transport alternatives and better facilities
for walking and cycling. It is clear that good quality alternatives
must be in place, or on the way toward being in place, before
modal shift will realistically occur.
2.4 Secondly, there is a lot more to the
cost of roads than simply construction and maintenance. Deaths,
injuries, pollution, congestion and land use to name but a few,
all have a price tag. For example, the DETR allows a figure of
£2 million per life saved to justify road improvements. By
using this figure multiplied by the 3,500 fatalities per annum
on our roads we have a cost of £7 billion for direct deaths
2.5 Road haulage shelters behind the gross
figure of road taxation when it deploys its arguments. Most road
taxes are paid by private cars. Most damage to roads is caused
by heavy lorries. The recent go-ahead given to the introduction
of 44-tonne lorries on our roads, other than to and from rail
freight terminals, will compound this problem.
2.6 It is accepted, even by government,
that heavy lorries only pay some 70 per cent of their direct costs.
When indirect costs are added, the figure escalates even further.
The Road Haulage Association accepts that HGVs can cause up to
£28,000 of damage each year but generate just £25,000
in fuel tax and vehicle excise duty (The Independent, 23
September 2000). This figure does not include the costs of congestion,
climate change and accidents. Lorries account for 7 per cent of
road traffic but are responsible for 20 per cent of road casualties
2.7 Far from being overtaxed, it is widely
recognised that roads underpay their cost to society by some £30
billion per annum.
3.1 The Road Haulage Association is promoting
the idea of an "Essential User Rebate" (EUR) to give
a rebate of 30p per litre to "essential users". Not
surprisingly, they have defined essential users as themselves
alone! For example, it would appear that taxis with disabled access
and similar vehicles are not "essential".
3.2 The RHA idea that all road haulage is
"essential" is questioned by this Society. Much road
haulage, especially in the bulk sectors, is in direct competition
with rail, pipelines and coastal shipping. This is a very price
sensitive area and a blanket reduction of 30p per litre as demanded
by the RHA, under threat of further civil disobedience, would
result in massive transfers to road from these other, more environmentally
friendly modes.
4.1 The road industry is fond of making
comparisons with Europe but again does not compare like with like.
4.2 Many European countries have toll motorways.
Those that have free motorways almost always have a vignette system
to make foreign lorries contribute to their upkeep. (A vignette
is a form of licence purchased at the border by non-domestic lorries
permitting use of motorways or toll roads for a given period.
See below.)
4.3 Many European countries have restrictions
on the use of lorries at weekends and bank holidays. Mandatory
lorry routes are also enforced as opposed to the "go anywhere"
policy in the UK.
4.4 Enforcement of regulations is often
more rigorous in Europe. For example, the rate of spot checks
for defects on lorries in Germany is nearly treble that in the
UK. In France, on the spot fines are levied for speeding.
4.5 Support for rail and inland waterway
transport is much more evident across most of Europe. Between
1982 and 1995, Britain spent half the European average (as a proportion
of GDP) on rail infrastructure investment. This enables those
modes to maintain a more healthy market share than Britain. Rail's
share of the UK passenger market in 1997 was less than 5 per cent
compared with nearer 7 per cent in Europe. (Source: EMCT. The
European average is based on comparisons with Germany, France,
Italy and Spain).
4.6 The sum total of these, and other measures,
is that in most European countries it is more expensive to operate
a lorry than in the UK. Several UK operators have attempted to
"flag out" lorries to foreign countries but have discovered
that, when all other costs are taken into account, it is more
expensive to register a lorry on the continent than in this country.
The net result is that very few lorries indeed have been "flagged
out" and most of those have returned to UK registration.
The FTA itself has commented that "flagging out" is
"not a productive avenue to follow".
5.1 As stated earlier, any taxation not
raised from road sources would have to be replaced or public expenditure
in other areas would have to be drastically cut back. Either way,
the average man in the street would still have to pay whether
by increased income tax, VAT, increased prices as company taxation
is passed on to the consumer, or by reduced public services.
5.2 A reduction in road taxation would encourage
more use of roads. Some, like the Freight Transport Association,
may argue that the high duty on fuel has not had an effect on
car use and pollution. It is true that distance travelled per
person by car has not fallen since the fuel duty escalator was
introduced. But even the AA agrees that were it not for this fuel
tax, car use would have grown at an even faster rate. Furthermore,
as a result of the British public's awareness of the need for
fuel efficient cars, to save money on fuel, cars purchased in
this country are on average one third more fuel efficient than
those in the USA. So, if fuel tax is lowered, congestion and pollution
would rise and the demand for more roads would increase. All this
would be covered by a reduced income source.
5.3 Already the wider effects of road traffic
are significant, and if it is to increase dramatically these effects
will also increase. According to the Royal Commission on Environmental
Pollution, in 1994 transport accounted for 24 per cent of UK carbon
dioxide emissions and road traffic accounted for 87 per cent of
transport-based carbon dioxide emissions. The effects of motorised
road traffic on air quality and human health are significant.
The Committee on the Medical Effect of Air Pollutants states that
air pollution causes between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths
each year. Research by the Environmental Transport Association
reveals that the health impacts of traffic pollution cost £11.1
billion each year. Furthermore, carbon dioxide emissions from
vehicles in Europe are set to rise by 30 per cent by 2010 (European
Environment Agency).
5.4 As described earlier under EUR, cheaper
fuel would enable lorries to undercut rail/water/pipeline transport
and undermine attempts to diversify into other modes. Even in
bulk traffics the balance between road and rail is very fine and
the government is already committed to allowing 44 tonne lorries
from 1 February 2001. This in itself is estimated by EWS, the
major rail freight operator, as being capable of abstracting 20
per cent of their business. The last budget saw the abolition
of the fuel escalator and massive cuts in the cost of excise licences
for heavy lorries. These measures have also assisted road haulage
to abstract traffic from rail.
5.5 The DETR has estimated that the removal
of all fuel taxes would reduce end product costs by only 1.25
per cent. Such a course of action would, of course, not only be
a huge loss to public finance, but would also close down all alternative
forms of freight transport in this country, including coastal
shipping, which incidentally carries 20 per cent of the country's
goods compared to 65 per cent by road, leading to widespread congestion
and increased pollution.
6.1 Much of the difference in price between
fuel in the UK and most of Europe can be explained by the increased
value of Sterling in recent years. Calculations can demonstrate
that if the value of Sterling compared to the French Franc was
the same now as it was in 1995 the cost of fuel in both countries
would today be almost the same. The high value of Sterling is
affecting all industry in this country. It would be grossly unfair
if one industry, road haulage, was singled out for preferential
treatment and its costs reduced at the expense of the country
as a whole, while other industries struggle on or go bankrupt.
7.1 Hauliers complain that foreign competitors
are able to enter the UK with a fuel tank of European diesel in
a lorry that is cheaper to tax etc and undercut them. We have
already stated, and the FTA agree, that it is no cheaper to register
a lorry on the continent. Therefore, the issue revolves around
the tank full of cheaper continental diesel.
7.2 About 10 years ago diesel cost more
in France than in the UK. At that time hauliers attempted to take
extra supplies with them from this country. Notwithstanding European
law, the French authorities simply did not allow this to happen.
Lorries were stopped at the ports of entry and made to discharge
excessive fuel. One could say this was a French interpretation
of EU law but it certainly worked. However we would not advocate
such action in the UK.
7.3 Most diesel brought from the continent
is of an inferior quality to UK sourced supplies. The use of ultra
low sulphur diesel is now universal in this country whilst continental
supplies still have a high potential to pollute. Sulphur dioxide
(SO2) emissions are a major contributor to acid rain, and also
contribute to poor air quality in and around urban areas, which
can be harmful to human health (DETR, 2000) It could be argued
that the UK government should restrict such imports on health
grounds, which provide an exemption to EU free trade principles.
Again, we would not advocate such action in the UK.
7.4 The price of fuel in this country is
one part of a national strategy on behalf of successive governments
of different persuasions to tackle the problems of pollution and
congestion. The unwillingness of our European neighbours to face
the issues involved should not be taken as a signal that we should
abandon our efforts. A simple mechanism exists to level the playing
field so that continental lorries cannot unfairly undercut UK
operators. It is a method widely used in Europe and one that UK
operators abroad have to pay. It has been referred to above. It
is the Vignette.
7.5 A vignette has to be purchased at the
border by a foreign lorry entering, for example, Germany. This
authorises the lorry to use German motorways which, unlike those
in France and Italy, are not subject to tolls. This enables the
German government to obtain additional revenue to assist in the
maintenance of those roads from lorries that are cheaply taxed
in countries that obtain the equivalent revenue from toll receipts.
7.6 In order to comply with European law,
a country cannot discriminate between domestic and foreign lorries.
All vehicles, even domestic ones, must purchase a vignette. At
first glance this would appear to defeat the object but quite
simply, the cost of a domestic excise licence is reduced by exactly
the same amount as the cost of a vignette. The cost to a domestic
lorry remains the same but foreign lorries would have to make
a new contribution which will partially level the playing field.
The levelling is only partial because the EU places limits on
the maximum that can be charged for a vignette. Nevertheless,
the contribution is valuable and avoids a blanket reduction in
fuel taxation which would have all the adverse effects mentioned
7.7 In its recent report, "The Road
Haulage Industry" (page xxiii, para 54), the Environmental,
Transport and Regional Affairs Committee recommends the adoption
of a vignette system in the UK as outlined above. The committee
has pointed out that European law restricts the ability of the
UK government to apply realistic charges for a vignette, but nevertheless
they urge the government to push for changes in the relevant European
legislation rather than simply accept the status quo. International
road hauliers based in the UK certainly complain vociferously
about the injustice of having to pay tolls or vignettes in Europe
while foreign lorries enter the UK for free. If nothing else,
a UK vignette would give the appearance that the government is
attempting to "level the playing field".
7.8 In a recent report on European best
practice to the DETR, the Commission for Integrated Transport
states that, as a traffic management tool, Germany is looking
at charging for HGV traffic. As Germany already has a vignette
system in place covering UK lorries, it would be interesting to
see just what form the new charge will take and whether it could
be applicable to foreign lorries entering the UK.
7.9 Before reductions in tax are contemplated,
we recommend that the vignette system be introduced and its effect
assessed, and a study of the new German proposals made with a
view to their application to the UK.
October 2000


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A number of women have already filed a Yaz lawsuit alleging side effects, leading cases to be consolidated in a special federal Multi-District Litigation court.
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) January 17, 2014
The birth control safety advocates at DrugNews.net have added updated information for women who took the contraceptives Yaz or Yasmin. New court records this month show lawsuits alleging side effects from the drug have dropped slightly as thousands have received settlements*.
The DrugNews Center is a free resource for those taking popular prescription drugs, providing the latest safety alerts, recalls, studies and legal news. Patients can avoid potential dangers, see if others are experiencing similar side effects and decide if they need legal advice.
The resource center has added health warnings for Yaz and Yasmin from experts such as the British Medical Journal** and FDA*** that birth control pills containing the hormone drospirenone can increase the risk of blood clots.
A number of women have already filed a Yaz lawsuit alleging side effects, leading cases to be consolidated in a special federal Multi-District Litigation court. (Yasmin and Yaz (Drospirenone) Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2100, Southern District Illinois)).
DrugNews has also added information showing Bayer, the maker of Yaz, has already spent around $1.575 billion to settle approximately 7,660 Yaz lawsuits alleging blood clot injuries like pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (DVT)****.
Now, the resource center has compiled the latest court records this month, which show the number of pending Yaz claims has dropped from 9,826 on December 16th to 9,781 as of January 15th*.
Anyone who suffered a blood clot, DVT, stroke or pulmonary embolism after taking Yaz or Yasmin is urged to contact the DrugNews Center or speak with a lawyer about their options under the current settlement.
Due to the complexity of drug injury cases, DrugNews only recommends lawyers who have already settled Yaz lawsuits.
For more information on the research, side effects and litigation news related to Yaz and other drugs, or to speak with a lawyer, visit http://www.DrugNews.net.
*JPML 1/15/14; jpml.uscourts.gov/sites/jpml/files/Pending_MDL_Dockets_By_District-January-15-2014.pdf
**BMJ, 10/25/11; ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22027398
***FDA, 10/27/11, http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/UCM277384.pdf
****Bayer Stockholder's Newsletter, Explanatory Notes; Legal Risks, 10/31/13; stockholders-newsletter-q3-2013.bayer.com/en/explanatory-notes.aspx


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My Favorites—Index of a Certain Collection
Selections from the MoMAK Collection
HOME > Exhibitions > My Favorites—Index of a Certain Collection: Selections from the MoMAK Collection
Marcel Duchamp (1917/1964) Fountain
assisted readymade (1964 Schwarz edition, ed. 6/8)
coll. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The Annex Museum of the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo became the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 1967, with a collection of just three artworks in tow. This collection has grown to reach approximately 10,000 artworks and other objects as of March 2010. Amongst masterpieces of such fields as painting and crafts, there is an interesting group of works categorized as "Non-Category" (founded in the fiscal year of 1978/79) that cannot be characterized by the traditional categorization by technique or medium. There, art and architecture/design, sculpture and photography/film/video overlap and intersect in a variety of ways. The present exhibition will be centered on selections from these "Non-Category" works, accompanied by artworks and other materials from other categories that directly relate to these works, totaling in approximately 300 exhibits. We hope to introduce the story of this certain collection within the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
An Index of a Certain Classification, or: An Invitation to the Non-Category
Related Events
Lecture Series
Krzysztof Wodiczko (exhibiting artist) March 22 (Mon./holiday), 2010
Doshisha University Imadegawa Campus (all others in MoMAK lecture hall)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (exhibiting artist) March 24 (Wed.), 2010
Miwa Yanagi (exhibiting artist) April 2 (Fri.), 2010
Nobuo Toshioka (donor of the "Toshioka Bill Art Collection") April 3 (Sat.), 2010
Emiko Kasahara (exhibiting artist) May 5 (Wed./holiday), 2010
Additional lectures TBA. Details and lecturer introductions are available here.
- Exhibition dates
- Wednesday, March 24 – Wednesday (holiday), May 5, 2010
- Closed on Mondays Exception: Open on May 3 (Mon./holiday)
- Hours
- Regular hours
- 9:30AM–5:00PM (admission until 4:30PM)
- Evening hours (every Friday)
- 9:30AM–8:00PM (admission until 7:30PM)
- Organizer
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- Admission
- There are no advance tickets for this exhibition.
- April 4 (Sun.): Free admission.
- Publicity materials
- Poster (B2) design proposal
|Day of admission
|Group (20 or more)
|University students
|High school students and younger
Hitoshi Nomura (1970–76) A Special Room for 'HEARING' (detail)
mixed media (audio recordings, documents, photographs); installation
coll. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Wolfgang Tillmans (2000) Kyoto Installation 1988–1999 (detail)
21 color prints, 1 inkjet print; installation
coll. The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Tatsuo Miyajima (1996) Counter Voice with Nachi Falls (detail)
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As the long-wheelbase version of the tenth-gen E-Class started to hit showrooms in China recently, Mercedes-Benz has launched an expensive publicity campaign celebrating what it believes to be a major landmark in the close race with BMW and Audi in the local market. Yet, the festive mood did not seem to last long as the company has to face a major embarrassment generated by an online article that argues convincingly that the E-Class L made by Beijing-Benz is not really top-class and all-new as claimed, but an inferior product: most importantly, the Chinese version is nearly 300kg heavier than the overseas, as the latter employs light-weight materials extensively while the former still sticks to a heavy steel bodyshell basically unchanged from the previous generation; this overweight should cause major concerns over the car's safety and performance.
The accusing article, originally posted on WeChat by a BMW fan club, is titled "How the China-made E-Class L differs from the overseas E-Class: BMW 5 congratulates on the release of the new E-Class". Citing the fuel consumption label from the government, the author points out that the E200L has a curb weight of 1870kg, while in Germany the E200 weighs only 1575kg without passengers or cargo.
Curb weight of E-Class L on fuel economy label
Curb weight of E-Class on Mercedes' German website
The huge difference in weight cannot be explained by the increased wheelbase (of 140mm) alone. It has most to do with materials. On its official website, the German carmaker states with pride that "the engineers [of the 2017 E-Class] opted for a bodyshell with a far higher proportion of aluminum and ultra-high-strength steel components than its predecessor." Evidently that premium feature is not shared with Chinese consumers, who are offered a heavyweight model just like the previous generation (the 2015 E300 L has a curb weight of 1880kg).
By cutting corners Mercedes-Benz intends to make the E-Class L more competitive in pricing against the sector-leader, the BMW 5 L. While it is an understandable move, the company owes Chinese consumers an explanation on how the weight gain affects the car's safety, handling, fuel economy, and performance. If localization means developing products falling short of international standards, we can do without it.


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Nestled in the heart of the Rockies, the White River National Forest is prized for its world-class recreational opportunities and wildlife habitat. Yet the Forest Service is developing a long-term plan for the forest that may open up to a quarter of a million acres of the forest to fracking.
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A common feature that has been added to motor vehicles in the recent past is a dash camera. A dash camera is a recording device, just like a digital camera, the only difference is the intended use of the footage. For other recording devices, the footage is probably used as a store of memories of events. The use of the dash camera's footage is to give evidence in the case of an accident or an incidence. That is it records the proceeding of a journey from the start to the end. Therefore, it holds the footage of any incidence along the journey. When planning to buy a dash camera, it is important to know what to look for. Getting information on the best dashcam reviews can of great help when one is shopping. Likewise, below ultimate guide to purchasing a dashcam.
Purchasing a Dashcam
The storage capacity
Any recording device with a large storage device is preferred to one with little storage capacity. Be sure to ask about the storage capacity of the dash cam. Typically a dash camera is fitted with a micro disc that is used as the storage device. The storage capacity recommended for an ideal dash camera is more than 30GB. Excellent dash camera has a capacity of up to 120GB. Depending on how long you will be traveling and the frequency of the journeys, you may consider an ample storage capacity.
Audio recording capacity
There are instances where the audio of the incidence may be required. Many dash cameras do not have the capacity to record audio proceedings. Others are fitted with the audio recording ability, but it takes up large amounts of storage space. An ideal dash camera records particular types of sounds like gunshots or boom sounds in an accident.
The video quality of a dash camera
Be sure to ask about the image and video of a dash cam recording. The most common dash cam contains video quality of HD780. The best quality in the market is fitted with cameras with a resolution of up to 50magapixel. The camera should also have a wide field of view to capture a range of events. An ideal dash camera should have a 150 degrees field of view. Another aspect of a great camera is the ability to record at night. This aspect is vital considering that most accidents happen at night. Although this aspect of the camera is not common. If you want a camera with the ability to take footages at night, you need to ask for a customized camera.
Other things one should consider is your budget limits. Dash cam comes with different price ranges. Order a dash camera you can afford. Another important aspect of a dash camera is the fitting option. Some dash cameras allow the user to fit them on the dashboard of their vehicles. An ideal place to fit a dash camera is in the windscreen of your vehicle.


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You can buy X10 products from several sources. One source is X10.com. The X10.com Web site smacks of snake-oil salesmen; the home page always has a deal or two that's "good only until midnight" but seems to be there the next day. Despite the high-pressure sales tactics, some of the products X10.com offers can be a genuinely good deal. But you can find X10-compatible products elsewhere as well. You can buy them at RadioShack under the Plug and Power brand; IBM has its Home Director series; and RCA sells several X10-compatible universal remote controls and receivers. Several Web sites sell compatible equipment. The majority of the items are the same products made in the same factory but with different brand names and prices. Here are X10 components you might consider for various stages of home automation:
Getting Started
PC interface (CM-11a)
Remote control
Plug-in lamp and appliance modules
Motion detectors
Getting Serious
Wired-in X10 wall switches and outlets
Signal bridge or repeater
Ultimate Automation
Automated thermostats
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Mercyhurst North East will celebrate the accomplishments of six students slated to graduate from the OASIS program at a commencement ceremony Thursday, June 26, at 6 p.m. in Alex Theatre.
OASIS is a one-year, proficiency-based certificate program for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities who have completed high school. This program enables students to participate in college-level courses related to cooking and baking or hospitality through non-credit certificate programs in culinary arts and hospitality.
Students in the program also attend tutorial sessions that include instruction on job-related skills such as "how to successfully complete an interview" and "expectations of employment." Following the academic portion of the program, OASIS students continue to develop their vocational skills during a 60-hour internship, poising them for meaningful employment in the community upon graduation.
Nearly 100 guests are anticipated to attend the ceremony to honor the six graduating OASIS students: Nicole Burdick, Lindsay Buccigrossi, Michael Pawlowski, Heriberto Aceves, Shiprece Beason and Megan Hullings. The ceremony will also recognize Jennifer Grisnik, Tracey Howland and Allie Joslin; the Mercyhurst student interns who assisted with the program during the last academic year.
"I am so excited to see another talented cohort graduate from the OASIS Program," said Sara Kitchen, program director. "While graduation ceremonies are always bittersweet, I can't wait to hear about all that these students accomplish as they transition into the workforce."
OASIS began in 2008 as a collaboration with Erie Homes for Children and Adults (EHCA). The program was also supported by the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR). OASIS is now an outreach initiative of the Institute for Applied Behavioral Studies at Mercyhurst University.
Applications are currently being taken for this fall's OASIS program. Enrollment is open to students ages 18 and older with documented intellectual or developmental disabilities. For more information, please contact Sara Kitchen at 814-725-6250 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Riata Fellows Program is a core component of the university-wide entrepreneurship initiative, where the entrepreneurial mindset and core entrepreneurship concepts are applied to disciplines across the campus.
Launched in December of 2009, the program offers a unique opportunity for entrepreneurial faculty from any discipline or academic area to be jointly appointed in the School of Entrepreneurship. Fellows are typically appointed for 2-3 years to work on research, curriculum development or outreach initiatives that link their home discipline to entrepreneurship. The fellows come together for a major forum each year to share progress and outcomes from the project on which they are working. They also contribute to ongoing discussions regarding cross-disciplinary applications of entrepreneurship, and the development of OSU as an entrepreneurial university.


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When you find yourself with a light wallet but do not wish to compromise on flavorful whiskey, it can be a daunting task to find a suitable choice without the chance of feeling embarrassed. Affordable whiskey can usually be for those who want to practice making cocktails without breaking the bank, low-income individuals or just another guilty pleasure. Whatever the reason, it is always handy to know a certain brand to find comfort in purchasing when high-end products are out of reach.
Old Grand-dad is a good, affordable bourbon whiskey in the $20 range and is housed at both dive bars and fancy establishments, so you can have a good cheap drink while still looking distinguished. It has notes of spicy rye with a slightly sweet corn finish that makes it perfect for cocktails such as Manhattans or Whiskey Sours. If you have one of the best recliners, this is a perfect whiskey to just sit back and drink in comfort.
For the $10 range, there is Benchmark Old No. 8, which is one of the higher quality bourbons that reside on the bottom shelf. Sit on one of the best couches and enjoy the strong tones of caramelized oats and a subtle vanilla finish, this is also one of the more palatable whiskies in the price range. So remember these options when low on funds and find yourself trying to stretch out the worth of your dollar. These whiskies will also be great quality standards to compare other choices that are comparable in price.


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Campus Accessibility
The Newport Art Museum's three-building campus includes the John N. A. Griswold House, the Cushing Memorial Gallery and the Gilbert S. Kahn Building, which houses our art school, the Coleman Center for Creative Studies. All three buildings are accessible to visitors using wheelchairs, walking aids, children's strollers or service animals. Our south parking lot off Downing Street provides easy access to all Museum buildings and grounds. Ramps on the south side of the Griswold House and the north side of the Cushing Gallery are accessible via the south lot.


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'Stars Dance' Reviews: Critics Love Selena Gomez's 'Brilliant' New Album
Selena is making stars dance and critics cheer. Is there anything she can't do?
Selena Gomez's first official solo album — bye, Scene! — is up for grabs today, giving fans 11 musical reasons to fall in love with the pop princess all over again. But honestly, Selena could release an 84-minute album of dying cat sounds and I'd still eat it up like a bowl of Frosted Flakes; so I decided to go to the critics to find out, objectively, what the word is on the street.
As it turns out, I'm not alone in my appreciation for Stars Dance!
Despite flashes of monotony, Idolator recognizes a handful of "sharp moments" on the album, praising Selena's ability to weave semi-seamlessly between genres:
There are still plenty of sharp moments. The title track is a brilliant swirling nugget and 'B.E.A.T.' is appealingly weird and slight, but 'Come & Get It,' with its hypnotic rhythm and nonsensical hook, begins to feel like the best thing here, and probably is. Mercifully, 'Love Will Remember' in its album version is spared the Justin Bieber voicemail opening that I found so stomach-turning in demo form, which makes the song probably her most heartrending since 'Who Says.'
In an album full of gems, music blog MuuMuse takes particular delight in the title track:
If there's any outstanding highlight of Stars Dance, it's the album's namesake itself. 'Stars Dance' is where the production gets most interesting, coated in dramatic strings, gritty dubstep grinds, electronica blips and yelps in the distance that channel Emile Haynie's work with Lana Del Rey.
Los Angeles Times
Comparing Stars Dance to having a piña colada "chucked at your head," which is apparently a good thing, this Los Angeles Times review aptly notes that it's a solid summer album:
The first sounds one hears on her sassy new album are an oxygen-sucking sub-bass, trap snares and a note to her fellow party nihilists that she only parties this hard on her birthday (and every day is her birthday). It's almost as good as having shorts in every color.
WATCH: Selena Gomez's 'Slow Down' Music Video
What's YOUR take on Stars Dance, HollywoodLifers? Drop your review in a comment below!
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Well, okay, it's slightly more than a line, but still I wish someone had written a blog post like this when I went out looking for a CSV parser for YNAB 3.
Thanks to comments in this blog, I discovered that you can split a CSV line, and correctly account for escaped commas, doublequotes, etc, with the following expression:
For each line of text in your CSV file, just do this:
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var components : Array = line.split(/,(?=(?:[^\"]*\"[^\"]*\")*(?![^\"]*\"))/g);
There are some side effects, like quotes that are used to wrap values are still included in the components, but it was a small price to pay. I think it beats the typical state machine approach. (Well, I say that cause I didn't have to come up with that beast of a Regular Expression).
Now you've got your array of values for your csv line. I'm sure you can take it from here.


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Le Clos des Hogues
Mme PIGNOL Marie-Claire
66 route des Hogues 76400 SAINT-LEONARD / Côte d'Albâtre
Type of facilities : Rentals and gîtes
Type of house : Apartment
Between Etretat and Fécamp, on the Côte d'Albâtre. Renovated outhouse in a 3200 m² garden. Very quiet. 2 Km away from Yport, the beach and shops. Hiking trail.
Duplex (60 m²). On the ground floor : living room with sofa bed, WiFi, TV, furnished kitchen. Upstairs : big bedroom (double bed), bathroom, toilet. Landscaped garden.
Comfort : Internet access, Parking, Patio set
Accommodates up to a maximum of : 5 people
Services : Baby equipment
Methods of payment : Postal or bank cheques, Cash


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Mar 13,2007
Broken water main closes Bend intersection
by Bend Weekly News Sources
Traffic is being rerouted as crews work on broken water main at intersection of Burnside Ave. and Third Street; closures may last six hours
A water main break has occurred at the intersection of Burnside and Third Street in Bend, city officials have announced.
Police personnel are rerouting traffic in the area and Public Works crews are currently on scene, said Andrea McCullough, communications manager for the City of Bend. Crews have managed to shut off about 90 percent of the flow from the broken water main, and water is being pumped from the underpass at the affected intersection.


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Inspiration for our upcoming Photoworkshop in El Salvador
Here is a video about surfing in El Salvador. Let it be inspiration for anyone planning on attending our workshop in December. Don't worry, you won't need a jacket or an umbrella. It's sunny and awesome everyday. This upcoming workshop will teach you how to interact in with other cultures through your photography.
To Wet Your Appetite For The Upcoming Workshop.
Wanted to post this image to get a ideas of what we will encounter at out upcoming workshop. The light in this part of the world is incredible so be ready to shoot in Raw mode with your digital camera or film for those who wish to put film to the test. This is a [...]
Mary Ellen Mark Talks About Iconic Images
Profoto on Set with Iconic Mary Ellen Mark from Profoto USA on Vimeo.
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By Shaminder Dulai Let me preface this post by saying that Louis CK inspired today's musings. Why is that pertinent, it's not really, but I'm not so secretly hoping he'll google himself and end up here and then we'll go down to the Comedy Cellar together and form a two man tribute band which only plays The [...]


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When a young man discovers his dad is marrying a much younger woman, he shows up to the festivities not so much to celebrate as to attempt, as best he can, to wreack havoc with the budding relationship because he still feels his mother got the raw end of the divorce deal. But after meeting the spunky bride-to-be, he starts having mixed feelings about his intentions. But that doesn't mean supporting his pop's amorous venture. He quickly falls for the charming young lady, putting his own relationship in jeopardy.» Come inside and taste best xxx MILF clips!!!! «
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Pixel Escape
A running game that involves drawing. Guide multiple characters through the levels by drawing lines to help them.
Press the spacebar to make the characters jump. Use the mouse to draw a line and guide the pixel men, don't use too much ink!
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You know the type, a guy that seems to be able to do it all; fix anything, create anything, with the only limitations being that of his own imagination. Meet artist Jeff Morris of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, a man with a vast imagination and seemingly no limitations to his creativity. When we arrived at his studio and gallery a few miles north of town we thought we were interviewing Jeff Morris the artist, but what we found in addition to that was also an inventor and explorer; a Renaissance man of sorts.
Jeff Morris has always liked to create things, starting off as a youngster with the basics of a hammer, some wood and some ideas. It seemed like a logical choice then that he go into carpentry after high school, giving him the satisfaction of building functional wood structures and earning a living. And although he enjoyed it, he wasn't able to unleash the creativity that was brewing inside of him, so he decided to transfer his wood construction skills into his artistic side and put the fun back into functional. The result has been not only beautiful and innovative wood pieces, but also Jeff's expansion of creativity into other mediums.
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When we spoke with Jeff about what drives his art he kept coming back to his thirst for learning and discovery. Always experimenting with different techniques and having no shortage of new ideas, his curiosity is endless and is reflected in the variety of media he has his hands in such as concrete, wood, photography, painting and pottery. While he was giving us a tour of his spacious studio and workshop he also pointed out other inventive projects, such as the drum set he made from used propane cylinders; see video HERE, as well as the new musical instrument he made from the inner workings of a piano. If whiskey and slide guitar are more your style then check out the whiskey tumbler and glass slide that Jeff made from a whiskey bottle; see video HERE.
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Jeff admits that his projects are not based on the path of least resistance principle, and he likes it that way. Rather his methods are based more on his quest to satisfy his curiosity and the inherent challenges that come with it. For instance, buying clay for pottery is not too costly, but his discovery of a clay source along the Assiniboine River while he was out kayaking led him to hand dig and haul out a lifetime supply of clay; an enormous physical task. After testing out the initial few hundred pounds of clay with a couple of local potters and then researching the correct combination of additives to make successful pots, he now uses only the Assiniboine clay for all of his pieces.
One of the great messages that we took away from our visit with Jeff was that creating art, or any other project, does not have to involve expensive supplies that can stop you before you begin. If a person has a creative urge just waiting to burst from within them, just a little extra work using re-purposed or scrap items or even paints from a building supply store (Jeff's not-so-secret supply), can get anyone started. In many cases Jeff's creativity and innovation has lent itself to just providing the materials themselves for the project before the work on the artistic piece has even begun. Although the proverb "Necessity is the mother of invention" may apply to finding a solution through lack of financial means, for Jeff it means a necessity for trying new, unconventional, or historical methods that stoke his curiosity and that gives him a satisfaction of having taken the road less traveled to discovery. When asked if there were other mediums that he would to like to explore Jeff mentioned glass blowing but that it is quite a pricey endeavour. We don't doubt that one day, somehow, Jeff will find a way.
Enjoy our interview with Jeff and this glimpse into his artistic life. Feel free to share his story on social media and email, with nice comments submitted below always welcome.


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I'm a finnish accordionist and as some of you might know,the finnish system is like the "opposite of the B-chromatic system" It is only used here in Finland and its advantages are for exmpl. playing chords easily and trioli's. The system looks like this and we finns play this kinda music mostly [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYehlQDemy0[/youtube]
But now I have started playing kolo dances. I love balkan music! Especially serbian!!! But I have noticed that they are quite difficult to play on the finnish button system,and I have started thinking that I should buy a Serbian Six Row Accordion with B-system But there is only one problem: I just purchased a new accordion (a finnish one) and I don't have enough money to buy an expensive serbian accordion. So,can you guys give me some advice,where could i find a serbian 6-row that doesn't cost much?? It doesn't have to be in perfect condition,main thing is that it works and you can play it! If I buy a serbian accordion,I will take a look if I get really interested in learning the b-system,I will buy a brand new instrument! (Guerrini perhaps? ) but it would be nice to buy a cheaper serbian first and see if I really get interested in it. Actually,that's how i started playing accordion. First I bought a very shitty Firotti Eroica. I hated that! but I loved the instrument and then I saved money and bought new one etc etc.
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Did you know that 47% of people over age 85 are affected by Alzheimer's disease? The numbers are high enough that any older person planning for their estate should consider the possibility that they may become intellectually incapacitated at some point.
Of course, a critical step in planning for incapacity is having a durable power of attorney document in place that allows someone to handle your financial affairs if you're no longer able to do so.
It's also critical to have a health care power of attorney or proxy form, so that someone you trust can manage your health care if you're no longer able to provide informed consent. These two forms are essential components of a good estate plan. [Read more…]


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Pill-plus value adds beat brand names in the age of ACOs
The new drug landscape is unimpressive in large part because many older meds have been shown to be just as strong as new entrants.
That's one takeaway of a study, published in Health Affairs. Researchers Mark Olfson and Steven Marcus dug into placebo-controlled trials published by four journals between 1966 and 2010 and found a significant decline in the impact new drugs are having compared to placebos. Although they suggested that the move to larger clinical trials over the 44 year period could dilute the reported results in latter-day trials, larger population sizes are not enough to account for the difference. They note that even looking at the 2001-2010 span, which would compare large trials to large trials, results still showed that drug versus placebo trials showed very little difference in efficacy.
This is not necessarily a revelation, in the sense that fear of the patent cliff was as much about lost exclusivity as well as the concern that there was nothing to fill the hole for the same categories because the medications were so effective. What's new is that the researchers confirm what advertising agencies and ACOs have been telling the pharmaceutical industry for some time: that a brand name is not a benefit. Real-life impact -- as in dollars saved over the long term, tolerability, and, if offered, support for patients and doctors -- does.
In this situation, researchers recommend establishing equivalence in efficacy and putting the effort behind "focusing on differences in cost, safety and tolerability." The add-on to this is the work drug makers have been rolling out, such as patient support programs. Slim biosimilars margins also provide a point of reference: although the US has yet to draw up final guidelines, the marketing needs are not unknown. Sandoz told MM&M in an earlier interview that a painful financial lesson in the biosimilars space was that the sales pitch has to include the overall scope of support if a drug is going to make a dent in the market. The overlap is not hard to find, particularly as Olfson and Marcus note that even generics makers are suffering from a patent cliff of its own, since the market is saturated with effective drugs.


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By Rich Dillen
Walking off the plane from 29 rows back, I witnessed carnage like I have never seen before in all my years of air travel. The other passengers bound for Las Vegas seemed to have little respect for their fellow man, and wrappers, cans, bottles, and crumbs were strewn about the cabin as if a delicatessen fueled hurricane had just blown through. I was getting off the plane with people bound for Vegas dreams who felt like it was not a problem to leave the world they left behind in shambles. Thank God I was going to Interbike to mingle with a slice of humanity that I hoped had little in common with my companions on Flight 2203.
I am an Interbike novice, and this is my first trip to "The Show". The first 24 hours went by in a blur that overwhelmed my useful senses. The magnitude of its size is more than a bit overwhelming. Looking at the map, I thought I would easily see it all in the first six hours. Only one day in, I've seen no more than one third of what is here. It's not like I spent a lot of time looking at every insignificant anodized and glossy detail, talking to exhibitors, or scooping up free stickers. I was doing little more than gawking and talking to friends, old and new.
There's an amazing amount of business going on right in the open, and from what I understand clandestine meetings are going on all the time behind closed doors. Fortunately my agenda was much more simple, and I spend the better part of the day poking and fondling various components and bikes. The free beer starts to flow about two hours before the close of the show, and there seems to be an art to being in the right place at the right time in order to benefit from the graciousness of exhibitors who seem to have their priorities straight. A free Sierra Nevada certainly tastes a hundred times better than an $8 Corona (this is a confirmed fact now).
At the close of the show, the cosmic wave was headed to Cross Vegas. I had been looking forward to the spectacle of 160 pro riders blazing around the grassy course under the lights, and after plunking down $13 for my ticket and a beer, I can say it was sorta worth it. The pro field did not disappoint, and I have to say the crowd was even more entertaining than the riders. Cowbells, dollar bills, mayhem, and peeing in cups. 'Nuff said.
I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, but my first night at Interbike ended around 11 p.m. After being awake for more than twenty-two hours, I felt I should save something for the days ahead. I had a good deed to do in the morning, and there was no way I was going to back out on it with a lame excuse.
Day two up next.
Keep reading
Click here to read Part Two of Dicky's exploits or click here for all our coverage of Interbike 2011.


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, you can make different objects fall and rise in water. You can do this with bubbles of oil too!
Fill a glass half full of water.
Add about a half-inch of oil. The oil will float on top because it is less dense than the water.
Pour in some salt. What do you see?
When you pour in the salt, it brings a bubble of oil down with it. The salt and the oil together are more dense than the water, so they sink. When the salt dissolves in the water, the oil floats back to the top because now it is less dense than the water.
See if you can make cauldron bubbles with different materials. The ZOOMers tried sugar and sand.
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Vittle, age 8 of Sacramento, CA
We added lots of baking products. salt, baking soda, epsom salt, corn meal, corn starch (didnt sink). It was really cool.. especially the salt and sugar
King Vang, age 14 of Milwaukee, WI
The bubbles floated, it was so cool!
King, age 11 of Milwaukee, WI
Bubbles floated up like a lava lamp!
Denise, Colin, and Jeremy of Apex, NC
we used a lot of different things. Glue was pretty cool. Some strings took a while to sink. A piece of bread (tiny chunk) floated for a while, then sank and expanded like a sponge. Then we rolled up a small chunk of bread and watched it sink immediately. Lots of other items were cool- like the pepper someone suggested.
Sarah of Hecker, IL
I added pepper... Had to push on it make it go down, but it was really cool once it did. Since pepper is less dense than the water, once the oil sank with it, it came back up in chunks with the oil.
Alex, age 8 of Helper, UT
Well when I trided it, IT WORK!!!
Jayden, age 8 of Kansas City, MO
The bubbles rose & blew up. We thought we could use it as a lava lamp. It was so cool!
Emily, age 11 of Greenwood, IN
they gave us water sugar oil salt vingar. the salt and the surgar went to the buttom and the vingar went to the top!
Catherine, age 10 of Braintree, MA
i did this befor but you could use food coloring it actioly worked and this 1 of the things I have to do for a summer packet
Hannah, age 11 of Manchester, MA
When I did this experiment, the bubbles looked sooo cool! We thought it could be a lava lamp!
Monica, age 8 of Baltimore, MD
I used sand with one glass of water. Some of the sand sank to the bottom and some stayed at the top. In another glass I used oil. This made bubbles at the top of the glass and they merged together to form one big bubble at the end.
Serena, age 9 of Port Charlotte, FL
Filled glass of water with 1/2" of oil resting on top of the water. And we added salt to the glass. When the salt hit the oil, bubbles formed and fell to the bottom of the glass. After about 12 ceconds the oil separated from the level where the oil was. Also, some of the salt dissolved in the water and the water got cloudy. Nextwe dropped sugar in the water and bubbles fomed, fell to the bottom of the glass and than rose back the oil level. Finally we added sand to the water glass. When the sand was hit the oil stuck to the sand, bubbles formed and the bubbles did not separate from the sand. What we figured out was that the oil sticks to the sand more than it sticks to the salt of sugar.
Ayanna, age 12 of Houston, TX
the sand and the oil. the sand went to the bottom because of density in cold water it went down slow/ but in hot water it went down fast!! and the oil just stayed at the top or on top of the water. sugar and oil. the sugar and oil are just like the sand and oil/the sugar was slower in cold water that hot.
Eva, age 5 of Omaha, NE
when you put soy milk and vinegar with the other ingredients and food coloring it`s awesome.
Tamin, age 10 of New York City, NY
the bubbles looked like the ones in the the lava lamps. also when you put in coloring. It was awesome
Starr, age 9 of Lubbock, TX
well at first we had to wait then, it started to bubble like crazy!!!
Cassidy, age 10 of Wynantskill, NY
it bubbled up when I put salt in the cup of water!
Nusrat, age 10 of New York
there was bubbles all over my bathtub!!!
Anna of IL
When I put salt in it only a few bubbles came up. Then it stopped.
Shelby, age 10 of Perth, WA
It worked great but I found if you put more oil it works better!
Domokito, age 6 of Saint Louis, MO
it fizzed and had reactions. I used baking powder and water.
Tori, age 12 of Suwanee, GA
I had loads of bubbles come up when I poured in the salt.
Vithiya, age 14 of Malaysia
I use some food colouring in it and it was awesome! The teachers were really attracted by this experiment!
Alayzia, age 10 of Mount Vernon, NY
it bubbled everywhere.
Marcus of Lauderdale Lakes, FL
The experiment looked like lava.
Faith of Schweinfurt, Germany
The bubbles went up and down, just lide a lava lamp! It was so cool!
Christa, age 11 of Saint Croix
i used it and it was cool! I added blue color and it looked like a lava lamp.
Savannah, age 11 of Dothan, AL
I saw the bubbles in the experiment and it really works!
Indira, age 14 of Malaysia
it was cool! it make more bubbles. I try it wif food colouring, and my bubbles were colourful!
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i think their trying to emulate Israel,i am shore anyone would try and protect their family from someone who keeps saying they want to attack you because you started building defenses against them,Israel should be made to play the game as well.
Originally posted by Curio
If we had a UN Security Council that actually worked, we might get somewhere. As it is; the US will always veto anything that is aimed at Israel, and Russia will usually come down on the side of Iran. There should not be permanent, veto-wielding, members of the Security Council at all. How is anything supposed to be resolved when the veto-wielders are the big power players? It would be like having a trial where the judge is friends with the accused and the jury are buddies with the defense.
Although I agree with the points in the OP, Iran are not blameless. They clearly know how to work the IAEA and they did lie for nearly 20 years before being busted. I can pretty much guarantee they're not being 100% transparent about their nuclear work. I'm convinced they're trying to emulate North Korea - and who can blame them, really?
So yeah, we're probably on the way to more hostilities in the Middle East - with the UN being played by both sides as usual.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
reply to post by Phedreus
I knew it wouldn't take long.
I'm not the only one who sees it right? I'm not alone in thinking the Israeli government have an entire army of propaganda merchants on the internet?
Originally posted by fraterormus
What many people don't realize is that Israel has a larger nuclear arsenal than the United States, the Russian Commonwealth of States, and China combined!
I vote you no longer get to use stupid language like "WILL SEND OUR CHILDREN" after the fifth anniversary of that not happening. Since I have heard this crap for at LEAST the past 8 years let it go.... let it go..
Originally posted by Sundancer
Israel wants to send your kids off to die in Iran, and YOU are the only one that can stop them.
Sadly it appears that Israel will send our children off to war because the government we sign the pay checks for jump to their every whine er, I mean whim.
Great post, star and flag.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says corporate media has turned into a weapon of subterfuge, with the sole aim of advancing the West's political agenda.
In a Saturday address to the Islamic Radio and TV Union Assembly, Ahmadinejad cited random examples of political bias in US and European media outlets.
As a first example of biased reporting in the West, Ahmadinejad pointed to the scant media coverage of Israel's three-week attack on Gaza, which killed over 1500 Palestinians mostly women and children, earlier in the year.
"Israelis easily used thousands of bombs against the defenseless population of Gaza Strip, who were stripped of medicine and their most essential needs. Now, eight months have passed and we see that the event has been already sunk into oblivion."
Ahmadinejad said criticism of Israel and its actions has become 'off limits' in American and European media.
Then, Ahmadinejad turned to the sheer lack of media attention to the brutal murder of Marwa el-Sherbini, a pregnant Egyptian woman who was stabbed to death in a German courtroom while the whole jury and court officials stood by and watched.
Last but not least, Ahmadinejad pointed to the recent media hype over Iran's second nuclear enrichment plant. "In the past few days, we saw Western media outlets repeating false accusations against Iran's nuclear issue."
"This is how the Western media works. First they
>distort facts and fabricate news. Then they incessantly repeat their false allegations, just to make sure that it is forever etched on the minds of people," he said.
"[US President Barack Obama] made a huge mistake when he accused Iran of secrecy and gave rise to the recent torrent of false reports," said President Ahmadinejad.
Referring to the sudden commotion over the newly-revealed Fordu nuclear facility in southern Tehran, President Ahmadinejad said Iran has always kept the IAEA posted on its enrichment work in line with its policy of transparency.
"Our activities are entirely based on honesty and transparency. There are no secrets between us and the IAEA whatsoever," he noted.
Ahmadinejad warned that the mainstream media in the West has grown to become more dangerous and more threatening than any chemical or nuclear weapons.
"The media campaign has turned into a full-fledged war. I believe the West's abundant arsenals of chemical and nuclear weapons are there to deceive and intimidate," he said.
According to President Ahmadinejad, unbiased media does not exist in the West. "Claims of freedom of press are all lies, each and every one of the western media outlets serve the interests and policies of their states," he said.
"When I was in New York for the General Assembly, I was interviewed by several news networks, all of which asked the exact same set of questions," he said.
"I asked them how can you call yourself an independent media, when all the questions you are asking me have been clearly dictated by your governments. Which one of these questions are posed in the interest of your people?" he noted.
President Ahmadinejad said Iran's mission today is not limited to spreading information. Our main responsibility today is to defend humanity and to create a global culture in support of the oppressed people, he explained.
Originally posted by Phedreus
As far as I am concerned, the US should be standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel and see to it that Israel's borders expand to their original biblical geography.
"The government has no role in these events … Undoubtedly, some foreign governments had a role to play in it … It is all very regrettable … Some European and American politicians took a wrong position and basically helped that happen."
Originally posted by EMPIRE
Some of you need to stop lying and promoting things that aren't true. Ahmadinejad and/or Iran NEVER said or called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
Originally posted by Nichiren
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Could you please tell me what is his attitude/statement regarding the state of Israel? I'm happy to stand corrected and learn.


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We have seen a few watches now featuring Android Wear, and the Moto 360 is widely thought the be the best of the bunch from a variety of reviews. Increasingly I have been tempted to get one when they come to the UK and was lucky enough to have the awesome Darren Griffin from www.macfixer.co.uk offer to loan me his for a while.
So below is a kind of stream of conciousness of my impressions and feelings as I spent a few hours with it:
Looks like a watch type box. Feels hefty but have to remember its has charger inside. Lifeless square of black on opening the box.
How the hell do i turn it on? There are no buttons. Needs to be placed on charger to turn it on. Not cool. On the good side nice satisfying clunk with magnet when its placed on charger. Wondered how I can tell when its ready and charged without constantly checking?- found a useful app called Battery Watch for Android Wear.I should say that apps are installed onto your phone, not the watch itself. Can get confusing when you need to take actions on both devices to get Wear apps set up.
Dissapointing when screen lights up how much smaller than the watch face the screen is. Thick bezzle. If all the watch face were screen that would have been much more impressive.
Next to install Android Wear from Play Store. Easy set up and guides you through changing your notification settings and permissions. Also a good way to go back through how it works later if you forget.
Then it guides you to Android Wear store to check out some other apps you might like. Immediately Maps and Wunderlist both there and I use both. Cool!
The first impression is that there are a lot of watch face apps. A lot. Is there anything else? There is but not exactly easy to find.
Spent some time playing around with voice control. 'Ok Google' and subsequent commands worked well. Sent a quick text very easily using voice alone. Pretty cool.
I dug out a copy of magazine to look for suggested wear apps to use. Trying out an app called Bunting which is free and acts as a Twitter client and should be able to tweet from it. Sadly for me it didn't work. Something to do with 2 step verification. Email sent to developer. There were others such as Talon but at this point wanting to not spend any money on apps. Why isn't Twitter already allowing Wear use? Is it going to be an Apple Watch exclusive?
Had a few emails come in now. Even more electric cacophony. Mac, then phone and final watch all chiming away! There is an option somewhere to set notifications to watch only.
It's not exactly easy to get a snap of the notifications in action. By the time I flick my wrist to turn on display and get the phones camera to autofocus its gone again!
So that's it for now. Time to try living with it on a daily basis and seeing how it fits in.
Any thoughts, questions or things you would like me to check out for you if your interested in an Android Wear watch just let me know via Twitter ( @RichHarkness ).
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The officials were immediately investigated in the wake of the major pollution spill last July when 9,100 cubic meters of acidic waste water spewed from a poorly-built copper mine's sewage tank and polluted a river that runs through the county of Shanghang, east Fujian Province, a spokesman with the Provincial People's Procuratorate said.
Chen Jun'an, former director of Shanghang's environmental protection bureau and his deputy Lan Yong were charged with neglect of duty, corruption, and bribery in April by a local procuratorate. Chen was also accused of stealing and illegally dividing state assets, the spokesman said.
Two officials with the pollution monitoring station in Shanghang were sentenced to 21 to 27 months in prison for neglecting the duty of supervision, the spokesman added. The prosecutors are still preparing the charges for Chen Zhengping, former head of Shanghang's work safety bureau.
Last month, Zijin Mining Group Co., the operator of Zijinshan Copper Mine and its sewage facility, was ordered by a local court to pay 30 million yuan (4.6 million U.S. dollars) in damages. Five of the company's staff were jailed for three to three and a half years.
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Lord Windlesham: In supporting the amendmentsfrom south of the BorderI declare an interest because I am the president of Victim Support.
A great deal has been done recently to enhance the position of the victim in criminal proceedings, but there is ample room for further progress. After several years Victim Support has been successful in persuading the Home Office in England and Wales to agree to the systematic provision in each Crown Court centre of a professionally trained person, supported by volunteers, to assist victims and witnesses and, in fatal cases, the relatives of victims in the courts.
That began as a voluntary initiative, initially funded by a charitable foundation. After lengthy negotiation over a period of years the Home Office agreed to fund the programme. Recently the Home Secretary announced that he would extend it to all 80 Crown Court centres. Therefore, in about 20 or 30 Crown Court centres Victim Support is now running a full-time provision of the type envisaged in Amendment No. 129 moved by the noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie.
I should like to ask the Minister of State what has been done in Scotland.
Lord McCluskey: It will be appreciated that the amendments cannot sensibly all be discussed at the same time. In my opinionand of course Members of the Committee will form their own viewthe amendment with which we are now dealing is quite different in character from the amendments which relate to the treatment of victims at a later stage in the proceedings when they have been identified as victims. Those raise entirely different points and must be dealt with separately.
Amendment No. 14 deals with a situation which arises when an accused person is given bail. The amendment requires the prosecutor to inform the victim or complainer if the accused is granted bail. The point that I made earlier that at that stage one cannot conclude that there is necessarily a victim obtains here. The noble Earl said that if an offence had been committed there must be a victim, but at that stage we do not even know whether an offence has been committed. The first object in a criminal trial is to show that an offence has been committed and then to bring home criminal responsibility to the person in the dock. It is only logical that at that stage one cannot properly talk in legal terms about a victim, although I understand that people who have been the subject of an attack of whatever kind will not engage in such niceties. However, we must do so when dealing with questions of bail. Therefore, we cannot assume at that stage that a person is a victim.
We have to recognise that it would be massively expensive and an administrative nightmare to try to intimate to every person who is a complainer whether bail has been granted. In Scotland we are already conscious that the fiscal service is massively
There is a further point. At the stage when bail is sought, if there is reason to suppose that the person who seeks bail may approach the person who is claiming to be injured, the fiscal can properly ask for a condition to be attached to the bail order preventing such an approach. The court will commonly grant that; it will not commonly be opposed.
Therefore, I suggest that Amendment No. 14 is not sound. I shall address the other matters in due course when we reach them.
Viscount Colville of Culross: Perhaps I may add a word from the English point of view following what the noble Lord, Lord Windlesham, said. English practice is exactly as the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, described. If a bail application is made and it is thought that there is a possibility of the accused person approaching any witnessbecause at that time the victim is only a witnessit can be a condition of bail either that the accused does not contact that witness or, sometimes, does not go within a certain area where the accused might run into that witness.
That condition is then enforced by the police because it would be a breach of bail and consequently an arrestable matter if the person either approaches the victim or goes into that area. Not infrequently such matters come before the Crown Court as the result of an arrest, or a Bench warrant is issued because there is some evidence that the person is breaching the bail condition or is likely to do so. I suggest that it is much better to leave the matter to the judiciary to handle in that way through the police force rather than to impose what would be a difficult administrative, and, I agree with the noble and learned Lord, an expensive burden on someone.
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie: I regret it if the grouping has caused some difficulty. I had some understanding that the grouping had been agreed. Possibly the noble and learned Lord was not aware of that agreement. That being so, it is always open to any noble Lord to deal with a matter when we come to it. Accordingly, in those circumstances, I propose to seek to deal only with those matters spoken to by the noble Earl in moving Amendment No. 14.
The amendment obliges the prosecutor to inform the victim of the granting of bail. I listened with great interest to what the noble and learned Lord said about the conditions that might be attached which would seem to parallel the way in which matters are handled south of the Border. However, this is not just a matter of imposing a condition to keep an accused person away from one against whom it is alleged he committed an offence. It is to oblige the prosecutor to inform the victim of the granting of bail. Perhaps I may say to my noble friend Lord Windlesham that we accept that victims who wish to be informed should be given information about the progress of the case. That might include the circumstances in which bail was granted. However, we object to the straitjacket that the provision
I say to the noble Lord, if he is not already aware, that all Scottish police forces have a policy of providing information to victims. The force guidelines generally give individual officers a discretion as to the level of information to be provided to the victim. Officers make their own assessment of the victim's vulnerability and the severity of the offence. However, the noble Lord may not be aware that the Crown Office has commissioned research into information needs of victims. I can advise the Committee that the results of that research will be available shortly. Preliminary indications are that research has found that a significant number of victims are already given information on bail hearing. I am sure that that will be welcomed.
More generally, the Crown Office is actively considering how best to achieve better communication with victims on all aspects of the criminal process.
The noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, may wish to return to victim impact statements at a later stage. However, the noble Earl made some reference to them, and they are contained within his amendment. I fully accept the principle that the effect of an offence on the victim or victims is a relevant and important consideration in sentencing. It is an important means of determining the gravity of the offence and thus an important means of determining the appropriate sentence. That is why procedures already exist to bring the relevant information to the attention of the court. I should have thought that in most cases where such information is properly to be brought before the courts, in Scotland the procurator fiscal or the advocate depute will have that information available, given our systemnot least of precognoscing witnesses; and almost invariably the victim will be one of those who has been precognosced. However, I may have to discuss later whether it is desirable to provide an impact statement in quite the form the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, suggested.
I hope that Members of the Committee will forgive me for one moment. I seek to extract what I wish to say from those issues on which I thought that the noble and learned Lord, Lord McCluskey, intended to speak.
I believe that the next amendment which was spoken to related to confiscation.
Lord Harris of Greenwich: Perhaps I may be of some help to the noble and learned Lord. We have got ourselves into a slightly confused position. It is no responsibility of the noble and learned Lord. It seems to me that it is better if we deal with Amendment No. 14 first, and the other matters separately. Otherwise we shall get into an intolerably confused series of debates.
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie: I am grateful to the noble Lord for that suggestion. The noble and learned Lord,
Lord McCluskey: Perhaps I may add a word of explanation. Unfortunately, because of my absence, I was entirely unaware of the grouping. Had I been consulted, I should certainly have suggested the removal of Amendment No. 14. from the grouping. I believe that the suggestion of the noble Lord, Lord Harris, is one which has the approval of the Committee.
Lord Windlesham: I do not dissent from that. However, before we leave the issue, perhaps I may repeat the question in case the Minister of State requires notice. It will give him time to consider it before reaching Clause 48. I should like an answer to the question as to whether there are plans in Scotland to provide full time staff to support the victim during court proceedings. That is referred to in paragraph (c) of Amendment No. 129. Is that happening now? If so, in which criminal courts? If it is not, what is planned for the future? I look forward to the answer to those questions at the appropriate time.
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