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Survival flight helicopters fly over Ann Arbor for photo shoot
Ben Freed | AnnArbor.com
The purpose of the exercise was not only to have new pictures of the helicopters for promotional uses, but also to shoot landing exercises to show outside flight crews proper landing procedure at the university's helipads, a health system spokeswoman said.
The new helicopters have a much bigger range than the old ones did, said hospital spokeswoman Kara Gavin.
"So we need to make sure that crews from around the region know what they're doing if they fly in to our hospital." ' A fourth helicopter joined the Survival Flight helicopters to take the pictures, Gavin said.
Gavin said photo shoots with the helicopters are rare, and that this is only the second one she can recall being done. Normally one helicopter is based in Livingston County while the other two stay in Ann Arbor.
She added that having the three in one place on a non-emergency mission would not be a problem if they were needed to airlift a patient.
"We have crews of nurses on two of the helicopters during the shoot so that if there's an emergency they can peel off at a moment's notice," she said.
There is also a new helipad at the new Mott Children's Hospital. The helicopters will be taking demonstration photos of landing procedures at the new pad to send to other area hospitals, Gavin said.
"It's very important that people from other crews know how to locate the pad and land there," Gavin said.
"Pediatric patients will be landing directly there now as well as organs for pediatric transplants."
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Paul Taylor
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 4:04 p.m.
I luvz helicopters. They go fast and make loud swooshing sounds. I seen some that pick up big logs in the forest. They make paper from logs. I lernd that in scool. There. Are y'all satisfied, now? I lowered the level of discourse to that appreciated by the angry readers and the annarbor.com staff. Deletion in 3-2-1...
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 5:13 a.m.
Very cool photo! I saw these four flying over today, and wondered about the fourth "odd duck."
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:35 a.m.
I am reading half of these comments? Someone sure has a lot of friends who are submitting neg votes to everyone. Hate to say it, but I totally agree with some of them. What a waste of money. Ever hear of tandem flying? Go figure. At any rate would have been nice if one of them fell out of formation to remember the ones lost in that last accident. Just a thought UM.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:20 a.m.
Paul Taylor I know you won't read this, because you evidently didn't read the article before you made your comment because if you had read it you would have read that two of the helicopters during the shoot had full crews on board just in case there was an emergency and they were needed. I bet all those on here complaining about the waste of these new helicopters would be complaining if you needed them and they were not around to help you.
Paul Taylor
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 4:11 p.m.
I read your comment. Confirming that I did violates the guidelines, though.
Paul Taylor
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 3:59 p.m.
Well, I guess you were wrong, then!
Wolf's Bane
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 1:05 a.m.
So glad it wasn't at 3am in the morning
Kai Petainen
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 10:52 p.m.
awesome stuff. i'm a fan of the helicopters. good stuff! it's cool that they did the photo op... it's good stuff. perhaps someday I should get a photo of them flying into the sunset... it shouldn't be too hard...?
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 11:35 p.m.
Your photos are great, Kai...I'm surprised you weren't outside snapping pics today! We went outside to watch them; they were flying low and slow.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 10:02 p.m.
We were observing them at the Re-Use center.They were flying slow and easy unlike when the president came to town....like they were on a mission....which I suppose they were.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:35 p.m.
I hope prints become available for purchase. I'd gladly buy one and support Survival Flight.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:15 p.m.
My 92-year-old father was airlifted from his assisted living facility to a hospital 40 miles away after he either fell or suffered a stroke, perhaps both. He then lay in the hospital for several hours of "evaluation" before treatment began. Because of the limited space in the helicopter, my stepmother was unable to accompany him during what turned out to be his last moments of consciousness. This struck my siblings and me as not only a huge waste of money (fortunately insurance covered it) but also deeply saddened us that he did not have his wife along to comfort him, as he could have in an ambulance. There may be situations where these are useful, but I can't see how three are needed at U-M, particularly if they're flying off to Kentucky and the UP to transfer patients. Helicopters are not cost-efficient transportation over such ranges. I understand that most of the time these are not even emergencies, but scheduled transfers of patients in weak condition. I have to think there are a lot of marginal flights billed off to insurance companies to cover the costs of this program.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:33 p.m.
Three are needed because they are on a rotation. One of the three is typically at Bijan Air at Ann Arbor Airport undergoing maitainence and inspections while the other two are on duty.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:02 p.m.
My father was chief test pilot for Igor Sikorsky on the first four helicopters. Sikorsky always hoped that they would be used for saving lives. Ten years after the first fully successful flight, on a Sunday afternoon our family was traveling on Route 25 in Connecticut. The car behind us honked and flashed its lights. My father pulled over onto shoulder, Sikorsky got out of his car, came up to our car, tipped his hat to my mother, then bear hugged my father and with tears in his eyes said "Les, our dreams are realized. They are calling our helicopters 'angels of mercy.'"
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:22 p.m.
I suspect the comments about wasted time and money are in reference to three helicopters being flown at the same time for a demonstration and photo, when one could be used for the demonstration.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:02 p.m.
In response to Nicholas...all the commercials for the New Mott was for marketing as well. Can see where it got the U-M, now, didn't it? In the hole. The saying "build it and they will come"...didn't apply there. Do they really think all these cutbacks are going to resolve their deficit? Very, very, poor planning.
Nicholas Urfe
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:52 p.m.
It was a marketing and PR stunt. This is big big business.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:07 p.m.
Fireman save lives too. Where is the call for more funds for the fire dept?
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 1:07 a.m.
I'm with you on that! Everyone who serves others should be supported! We have one main road and I follow the same prayer ritual as I hear and watch the fire, rescue and police drive by my business on their way to being heroes.....yet again. Our town actually passed two huge milages in the past few years. I guess I live in quite an unusual community...but I do understand why everyone loves it here. Keep making noise, perhaps more people will listen.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:20 p.m.
I complain about that all the time... too bad others dont.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7:49 p.m.
If it wasn't for survival flight helicopters at UMHS, my grandfather would not be alive. He needed to be transported to UMHS from a hospital near Detroit that couldn't provide the care he needed in order to survive. Some of the commenters on here need to think more deeply and back up their assumptions with a cost/benefit analysis before making assumptions and jumping to conclusions.
Jane Heineken
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7:48 p.m.
I caught them dipping downwards in a triangle formation when I was on State St.--they looked like brightly colored tropical fish in an aquarium! It took me a minute to process what I was seeing. Thanks for the explanation.
Nicholas Urfe
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:40 p.m.
How often are the helicopters used for non-emergency flights? Including training, transporting executives, etc.
Nicholas Urfe
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:51 p.m.
Let's hope not, considering those helicopters cost many, many thousands of dollars an hour to operate.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7 p.m.
Probably not as often as the comments posted from your work computer.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:24 p.m.
Obviously these machines are expensive. But a waste of money? Really? Wow.
Thu, Dec 13, 2012 : 3:03 a.m.
jns131, so it is NOT a waste of money then? Glad to see you agree with me.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 3:19 p.m.
hb11? They do practice with their equipment. Just a thought.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 1:27 p.m.
So, I suppose you want the pilots to "wing-it" and not practice at all until needed. I suppose you two geniuses believe your local fire departments shouldn't practice with their equipment either.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:33 a.m.
Wow. The last person who said this? Got a ton of neg votes. I agree with you on this one.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:19 p.m.
Really, you believe that having three Survival Flight Helicopters is unnecessary and a waste of money? I hear it so differentlly. I live under one of the flight paths to the hospital. Nothing else much flies over us. You probably have no real idea of how often we hear those life saving rotors above us. In my community,some of us stop and look up..some even comment on the passover...we may not know where they're going but we do know that lives are at stake. Every time I hear them, I say a prayer for the crew, the medical staff, and the people who are in need of their services. I also say a prayer of thanksgiving that we are so blessed to have these transports so readily available for all of us. I guess I look at what is important and valuable differently than you. To each his own. May the . Sometimes I say these prayers more than once a day and sometimes more than a few times a week.
Eye Believe
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:40 p.m.
Thanks Rosellen - I too say a prayer every time I hear or see them.
Blue Marker
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:17 p.m.
rosellen, After reading about the crash in Illinois and remembering our own lost heroes (my wife has been at UM Hospital forever and knew one of the members that was killed) I also say a little prayer every time I see one in the sky. You have to admire people who put their lives on the line to help others.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:30 p.m.
rosellen......I live near St. Joe's although I hear low flying planes often ( must be a different flight pattern ) I, like you hear and see the copters quite often on their way to St. Joe's.Although I don't pray ( I'm a bad Christian ) I agree with you 100%
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:28 p.m.
nice comments. I also live on the approach/departure path. While the new birds ARE louder than the old ones, I dont mind it bec I know that they are being used for a darn good cause. God forbit anyone of us ever needs to use one...Im glad they're there.
Ben Freed
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:23 p.m.
Thanks for sharing rosellen.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 6:12 p.m.
I saw them. Glad to find out why they were out like that.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 5:24 p.m.
This, from the org telling workers to give up wages &/or tighten up on spending... typically insensitive.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7:30 p.m.
"provide" a great service...
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7:29 p.m.
Yep. I personally know someone JUST hired, making top dollar, won't give away what department. However, where this person previously worked, the mightly dollar was everything and they ran a tight ship. Apparently, not so at the U-M....a little careless with their spending and their time management...which in my opinion got them in the position they are in. People do talk from within about "their own." So, a2cents, are you really surprised? However, the survival flights do serve a great service, I have no problems with that. It's everything else.
Paula Gardner
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 5:12 p.m.
Cool photo, Ben. Thanks for catching it!
Nicholas Urfe
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 4:56 p.m.
What does the University charge a patient for a typical flight?
Eye Believe
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:38 p.m.
Insurance covered most of the flight my daughter was on - we had to pay $1000 out of pocket
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 1:36 a.m.
The average charge for a life flight is between 12 and 25,000 dollars. A basic 15 minute flight will average around 10 to 12,000 dollars.
Elaine F. Owsley
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:39 p.m.
A life saved - Like the last line of the commercial says - "Priceless"!
Ryan Martin
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 7:46 p.m.
$29 or 2 for FIFTY!!
Linda Peck
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 4:49 p.m.
For all of the naysayers commenting here, I would bet that if you were injured on a roadway out of town you would be so appreciative that these pilots and medical people were coming to help you out! I know I am grateful for them and grateful that they know how to do this safely.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:28 p.m.
Yes, but my understanding is that they are rarely used for emergency response. They're typically used to transfer patients from other hospitals. See my comment down below for my own experience when my 92-year-old father was airlifted from his assisted living facility at the time he died. Basically, my siblings and I felt it was a ridiculous thing to do, particularly given that treatment wasn't begun until several hours after he reached the hospital. These do save lives sometimes, but it seems to me they aren't always used judiciously.
George Forbes
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 4:45 p.m.
Sounds like a waste of time and money.
Fred Crothers
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 10:30 p.m.
Just like the "no need" to practice for disasters! Get real!
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 5:53 p.m.
hope you or your family members never need one
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 4:32 p.m.
Three new helicopters all at once? No need to wonder where some of our healthcare or tax dollars are going.
Eye Believe
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:37 p.m.
I think they are worth every penny - my daughter was airlifted from Saline to Mott!
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 : 2:32 a.m.
nobama care pays for these things. Not. UM since it is eating up all the available space inside Ann Arbor.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 9:33 p.m.
I don't know Abe - if they only saved one life over all their years of operation, it seems the money would have saved a lot more lives spent elsewhere. Resources are always limited, and we have to apply them where they do the most good. Just sayin'.
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 8:05 p.m.
Abe Since you are the one in the know. Why not tell us where the funds came from?
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 5:53 p.m.
you get him abe!
Honest Abe
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 5:49 p.m.
@Justcurious- You should really research where the funds came from to pay for these choppers, because you're a tad bit wrong, to say the least. Also, don't forget, these helicopters save lives. If those helicopters saved only 1 life through out the years...it's worth it. There are injuries where time is the essence! Spinal injuries, head trauma, heavy bleeding and such may require more than an ambulance. Especially if the patient is in a rural area. I'm against wasteful and/or excessive spending too, since that is what you were implying, but your comment is offensive, thoughtless and lacks compassion!
Kara Gavin
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 4:04 p.m.
Thanks Ben and everyone who has tweeted about seeing the helicopters in the air! We can reach so many more hospitals with our new aircraft -- as far as Kentucky and nearly all of the U.P. We also will use these photos to spread the word to emergency and ICU staff across the region about the incredible intensive-care-in-the-air service we can now bring to them and their patients. We'll also be sharing some photos with everyone on www.survivalflight.com in coming weeks. Thanks to our partners at Pentastar Aviation and Bijan Air for assistance this morning. Kara Gavin UMHS Public Relations
Ben Freed
Tue, Dec 11, 2012 : 3:57 p.m.
Gavin added that the while the increased range can help hospital fly in patients from surrounding hospitals. The pictures were to assist crews from other hospitals that already had the capability of reaching UMHS with their own flight crews. Ben


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There are some that miss this point entirely (consumption vs. creation.)
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The one thing that seems absent from all the
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I'm aware that some have note taking capabilities which make them potentially
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The Brady High School band will compete against seven other area bands in the annual KNOP-TV "Team Idol" competition which begins next week during the station's 6 and 10 p.m. news broadcasts.
The Eagle band was filmed for the segment Tuesday morning doing a routine to the school fight song.
In addition to the television broadcasts, the segments will be available for viewing on the network's Internet site at www.knopnews2.com where fans are asked to vote for their favorite band.
The top four will advance to the next round of competition.
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1. Re: Tomcat Version with JBoss 4.2.1.GAPeter Johnson Jan 15, 2009 4:43 PM (in response to Ashok Venkat)
2. Re: Tomcat Version with JBoss 4.2.1.GAChad Grube May 19, 2011 7:28 PM (in response to Ashok Venkat)
I need to get over the same security vulnerability (i.e. CVE-2005-2090). We are on JBoss 4.2.2GA which bundles JBossWeb 2.0.1. It appears that this version of JBossWeb has the same issue.
1) Anyone know the earliest version of JBossWeb containing a fix for this vulnerability?
2) Assuming there is a patch release for JBossWeb that addresses this, is it supported and relatively straight forward to upgrade JBossWeb within JBoss?
3) Barring that are there any known workarounds? If we are fronted with Apache Web Server, it seems like there should be an easy way to filter these faulty requests before they get to JBossWeb?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
3. Re: Tomcat Version with JBoss 4.2.1.GAJean-Frederic Clere May 20, 2011 7:51 AM (in response to Chad Grube)
CVE-2005-2090 was fixed in TC6.0.11 and jbossweb is based on 6.0.13+ so it is fixed.
4. Re: Tomcat Version with JBoss 4.2.1.GAChad Grube May 20, 2011 12:42 PM (in response to Jean-Frederic Clere)
Thanks for the prompt response. Do you know what exactly the fix was? My testing seems to show an HTTP Response of 400 ("Bad Request"). Seems reasonable to me.
My client's testing however is indicating that they get a 404 in the case when the resource is not found. Per the web app's configuration the body of the response contains a pretty formatted error page. This also seems reasonable to me but I am afreaid I don't understand the security vulnerability well enough to know if this is still an issue.
I suspect that JBossWeb is checking for the requested resource BEFORE validating the headers and so returns 404 instead of 400. Can you confirm this and do you know if this presents a security risk?
5. Re: Tomcat Version with JBoss 4.2.1.GAJean-Frederic Clere May 23, 2011 7:52 AM (in response to Chad Grube)
The headers are not validated before being used so the behaviour is the excepted one.


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I am Caroline, right now I am living on the mainland in Ventura, CA, but will be moving permanently to No. Shore , Oahu. I can't tell you how excited to find all of you.....my son is at Waseda Univ. right now but will be coming home in July (actually I will be going to japan for 10 days in July to help bring him home). He wants to continue to eat like he has the past year, so I am starting from scratch and will need ALOT of help. This website was truly a God send. I have read so much just this day but I still have a very basic question, that I can't seem to understand:
I seem to be having a difficult time understanding what the correct one is. I have always purchased Calrose extra fancy, but I understand it is not the correct kind for the cooking I am going to be doing. I do have a source to go shopping (huge asian market, mostly Korean) so getting the rice shouldn't be a problem, but I really need to have some guidance. Of course I have other questions, but feel a bit overwhelmed right now..
Mahalo for all your help!
Can't help with the rice, I'm afraid - here in New Zealand it comes in packets helpfully labelled "Sushi Rice". Welcome to Just Bento though, and I'm sure someone else will be able to help. And with the large Japanese population in Hawaii I think you'd just have to go into a shop and ask for it when you get there!
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Luckily, a lot of the recipes on this site are so wonderful that you could probably substitute your favorite rice (or the closest approximation of the proper variety you can find), and the result will still be delicious. I would recommend that you try what you can, using what you have, and save certain recipes (things like sushi, for example) for when you have the right stuff. Good luck!
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Hi HaleiwaGirl! You're moving to a truly beautiful area - I'm quite envious!
You might find this article useful: Looking at rice. For most Japanese recipes you'll be using the kind of rice that looks like the second one pictured. Calrose (which is a Japanese type of rice that is grown in California) fits into that category. If your son has gotten into brown rice, then you will need the kind that is pictured 3rd, which is medium-grain brown rice.
Now there are many many different brands of that kind of rice, both Japanese and non-Japanese, but the important thing is that you get that sort of medium-grain rice. Prices for rice can range from the fairly inexpensive to very expensive; the ones that are actually grown in Japan (and imported to US grocery stores) tend to be the most expensive.
A few of the recipes on Just Bento / Just Hungry call for sweet or mochi or short-grain rice, but in that case I always specify it.
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Pens' Sidney Crosby spared surgery for wrist
It appears Sidney Crosby will avoid going under the knife to repair his ailing wrist after all.
At least for the time being.
Contrary to a report that surfaced in Pittsburgh last week suggesting Crosby might take the surgery route in order to alleviate the injury, Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford released a statement on Tuesday indicating Sid the Kid will rely on physical therapy to heal.
"After seeking additional medical advice, doctors have decided not to perform surgery on Sidney Crosby's wrist. Sid will continue treatments and be evaluated regularly while he prepares for training camp in September," Rutherford said.
Crosby's wonky wrist played a significant role in his muzzled offensive production during the 2014 playoffs, a run in which he scored just once and added eight assists in 13 games. The Penguins were eliminated in seven games in the Eastern Conference semifinals by the New York Rangers after having disposed of the upstart Columbus Blue Jackets in six hard-fought contests during the opening round.
Rutherford offered no assurances that Crosby would be ready for the start of the 2014-15 regular season.
Crosby won the league scoring title in 2013-14 and subsequently was named winner of the Hart Trophy as the NHL's MVP.


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Enrollment Management
Led by the Senior Vice President, the office of Enrollment Management is responsible for ensuring that the campus has appropriate enrollment at all levels.
In order to accomplish this, the office coordinates the recruitment and admission of new students, the retention of existing students, and the development of the new programs necessary to serve the needs of students and meet campus enrollment targets.
Enrollment Management is responsible for improving the campus' graduation rates and other measures of student success.
As a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), the Senior V.P. is also responsible for ensure that ASU is successfully serving the needs of its Hispanic students.
In addition, Enrollment Management oversees the campus' communication efforts including market research, advertising, social networking initiatives, and the campus website and web design.


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Come and join Jane, Matt and the phone bank team as we speak to voters with only a few weeks to go before the general election. Don't worry if you've never phone canvassed before, full training, support and refreshments will be provided.
Keighley evening phone bank
When?April 28, 2015 at 5pm - 8pm
Where?Bob Cryer House
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iCloud and iTunes Match In A Day For Dummies
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Release Date: November 2012
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- Covers the basics of setting up iCloud on your devices and syncing your e-mail, contacts, calendars, notes, to-do lists, reminders, and more
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Rowdy's Dream Blog #301: I'd like the chocolate cake, please.
I am in a cafeteria line at Yellowstone. I see that C is serving. He explains that it was the only summer job he could find. I shake his hand. I order chocolate cake. Fresh pieces churn up from the twisted hot dog rollers.


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Can Dunn get it done again for ChiSox?
Feb. 20, 2013
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Adam Dunn was the American League Comeback Player of the Year last year, and while he appreciated the gesture he thinks his comeback fell short of his standards. And he knows the honor probably said more about how bad he was in 2011 than how good he was last season.
That dreadful year in which he batted .159 with 11 home runs was his motivation for last season. His motivation this year? The Sox' collapse in final two weeks of 2012.
Dunn still hasn't gotten over that the Sox were in first place for 117 games in the American League Central and had a three-game lead on the Detroit Tigers with 15 to play before going on a 2-10 nosedive. The Tiger won the division and went to the World Series.
It would have been the first playoff appearance of Dunn's 12-year career. Crushing blows like that don't heal easily, and Dunn hopes the Sox haven't gotten over it just yet.
"I don't think we have. I hope we haven't," Dunn said. "You work so hard during the offseason, during the season, putting yourself in a great position -- and obviously we had some injuries -- but we just didn't play well when it mattered. That's tough for me and I would assume it's tough for everybody in locker room."
While manager Robin Ventura urged his team to quickly get over the past and move on to the present, Dunn is having a hard time letting it go.
"I'm sure everybody's going to say 'start over with a clean slate' but I don't want to forget about last year," he said.
One of the injuries Dunn speaks of is his own right oblique strain which he hurried back from because the team was in a division race.
"Way too soon. Stupid," Dunn said. "But what are you going to do? I was going to get out there as quick as I could regardless and ended up costing myself more games, and when I came back I stunk. Looking back I would have taken the full week or two weeks off."
Dunn finished with 41 home runs and 96 RBI, more of what the Sox had in mind when they signed him to a four-year, $56 million contract before the 2011 season. Dunn had a horrific season, far and away his worst, with 42 RBIs in 2011. His .204 average and .333 on-base percentage (thanks to 105 walks) in 2012 are 36 and 37 points, respectively, below his career averages. So there is work to be done, improvements to be made. He struck out 222 times, one shy of Mark Reynolds record set in 2009. He might cut down on those if he cuts down on getting into two-strike counts.
"That's going to be an emphasis this spring, trying to be more aggressive, not get myself too deep into counts," Dunn said. "Instead of being so selective early -- especially on the first pitch."
Ventura said he doesn't mind seeing Dunn's walks fall as long as the hits increase.
"That's the way I would like to see the equation," Ventura said. "You want him to be more aggressive. For a guy like him there is something about hitting earlier in the count instead of taking pitches that are close or just off. Athletically, he has the ability to expand the zone a little. We're not talking about expanding the zone and swinging and missing, you're talking about being a little more aggressive, going out of the zone and make contact."
Dunn faced 157 full counts last season and led the majors in pitches per plate appearance with 4.43. On 3-2 counts, he was 12-for-102 (.118) with 65 strikeouts and 55 walks.
Dunn knows how to hit and get on base. He has 406 career homers including 334 since 2004, the second most of any major leaguer since then. His 930 walks are the most of any player since 2004.
Those numbers are well and good, but Dunn says he'd trade them all to play in the postseason. The numbers in his craw are that 2-10 skid, in which he had an RBI in one of those games.
"I want to remember how it felt getting knocked out of first place because I know I didn't like it very much and I don't want it to happen again," Dunn said.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Gone are the days of voting behind a curtain with an old-fashioned lever machine. Almost gone are the days of punch-card ballots and those unforgettable hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads.
The contested 2000 presidential election and Florida's recount fiasco ushered in a new era of voting in many parts of the country, with more than $3 billion sent to the states for new voting machines, upgrades and other voting improvements.
The most common one nowadays is the optical scanner, where voters mark ovals on a paper ballot with their picks and they're read by a machine like those used to score standardized tests. Three out of five counties now have that technology, according to a recent Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project report.
Most of the remaining counties use touch-screen devices much like a bank ATM, where a computer records votes on a memory card.
A few counties in Idaho still have punch cards. And a small number continue to use hand-counted paper ballots, particularly in lightly populated areas such as the tiny New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch, where 10 voters plan to cast their paper ballots just after midnight in Tuesday's election.
Optical scanners are used in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — the most populous county in that critical battleground state. The county, which includes Cleveland, has about 928,000 registered voters. Cuyahoga switched from electronic touch-screen machines after the secretary of state raised questions in 2007 about security flaws with the system.
The director of the elections board, Jane Platten, is confident her system of paper ballots and optical scanners is solid.
"It's accurate and it's robust enough to handle to dynamics of Cuyahoga County," Platten said in an interview. A big upside with the system, she said, is that it creates a paper trail that can be used in case of a recount or challenge to the outcome.
It's not the voting machines that worry her. "What keeps me up at night is what's going to happen that I cannot predict," she said. "Usually it's something environmental and not system-related."
In March 2008, there was a massive ice storm on presidential primary day. In November 2011, one of her poll workers got in a fight with a voter, head-butted the voter and bit his nose. "Those are the things that keep me awake," she said.
In the nation's largest election jurisdiction, Los Angeles County, officials adopted a system that is similar to the old punch-card routine but instead uses a special ink pen to mark the ballots, which are then read with an optical scanner.
Dean Logan, registrar for the county's 4.7 million registered voters, says the system isn't really different as far as what voters see or experience when they cast their ballots.
"The real improvements that have been made in the last 10 to 12 years have more to do with ballot design, use of plain language in instructions, a greater emphasis on voter education and public engagement" on voter rights, Logan said.
And more and more voters are casting their ballots early, either by mail or in person at central voting centers. In Los Angeles County alone, officials issued about 900,000 vote-by-mail ballots for the 2008 election. This time around, Logan says, the county has already issued more than 1.5 million vote-by-mail ballots.
Elections expert Kimball Brace says many changes took place mid-decade, so many of those voting in the 2008 election had the opportunity to get used to new equipment or design changes. He said the hope for Tuesday's contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney is that voters will be familiar with the equipment and the process at their polling places and that election officials are quick to react to any problems.
"Election officials are always cognizant of changes. The issue always becomes how well they manage it," said Brace, president of the Washington-based consulting firm Election Data Services. "Anytime you have something as close as what we have now, any tiny little thing can throw things off."
That could be a storm, a machine that jams, a computer failure or even an angry poll worker.
Election administrators, Brace said, always pray on election eve for landslide margins. At least in the presidential race, he said, that looks unlikely this year "because it's going to be tight."


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INTERFLO 450 ERTMS Level 2 - Botniabanan, Sweden
As part of their commitment to further improve railway services across the country, Botniabanan AB awarded Bombardier a contract in 1997 to provide its INTERFLO 450 ERTMS Level 2 solution for the newly-built high speed railway line. The new line, which runs along the north-east coast of Sweden from Nyland to Gimonäs, is the first line in the Nordic region to be operating with ERTMS/ETCS Level 2 functionality.
The region, which includes a series of significant industrial locations now benefit from efficient freight transport and significant reduction in passenger travel times.
Passengers in the region were accustomed to travelling by bus or private car as rail was simply not an option. The journey between Örnsköldsvik and Umeå (at the Northern end) which could take up to two hours is now possible in just 55 minutes.


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Throwing off the yoke
Where the Ox Does Not Plow: A Mexican American Ballad
Manuel Peña
235 pages, hardcover: $24.95.
University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
An alcoholic father, a patient, long-suffering mother, a history of anxiety and depression, and a blinding desire to escape a troubled childhood. If that sounds like every other memoir you've read in the past decade, you'd be partly right — but you'd also be missing something. Manuel Peña's story may sound familiar, but Peña is not your typical memoir protagonist. To begin with, Peña is Mexican-American.
At a time when we are conditioned to think of Mexican-Americans as immigrants, usually illegal ones, it is instructive to remember that not so long ago our Southwest belonged to Mexico. The border region has been inhabited for many generations by people who are both Mexican and American. In this "auto-ethnography," we learn the broader story of the people who lived on that border and the particular story of one young man who escaped.
Peña's parents were immigrants who followed the cotton harvest, living in shantytowns and often not sending their children to school until December because they were needed to help on the campaña. Peña recalls being ashamed of the tacos he carried to lunch at school, where everyone else ate bologna on Wonder bread.
As his parents crossed literal borders in traveling to the U.S. from Mexico, Peña crosses metaphorical borders. Some are obvious — the border between poverty and wealth, between tacos and sandwiches, between the cotton fields and the place "where the ox does not plow." But many are less obvious. In one scene, Peña stands at a classroom window, looking down at a Chicano rally. A classmate dismisses them as "communists." "What would she think," Peña wonders, "if I told her, 'I know why they're demonstrating. I've slaved in your farmers' orchards and vineyards.' She could never understand. Even I can't understand what's going on anymore."
Peña escaped to a life in academia, but, perhaps ironically, his ethnographic studies brought him back to the fields. His memoir brings us closer to an understanding of those who live and work in the place where the ox does plow.


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Article naming is one of the most important tasks for wiki writers and editors. This article is a complete guideline on choosing appropriate article names, and also presents ArchWiki writers and editors with some issues to consider when naming their articles.
- 1 About article names
- 2 Descriptive names
- 3 Allowing for article enhancement
- 4 Shorten article names
- 5 Multi-language articles
- 6 Notes
About article names
Article names serve two purposes. They are identifiers of the wiki content on the ArchWiki site. Also, they are means by which readers identify the content. Therefore, an article name has to be unique and descriptive.
Sometimes, article names reflect the type of article content, and also offer additional information like language in which the article was written.
Descriptive names
Names should be as specific as possible, and they should reflect the article scope.
Documentation projects are seldom like software/hardware reviews commonly seen in newspapers and news sites. Documentation is usually read when some problem arises, or some other specific need has to be met. Therefore, quick identification of those needs and swift solution is of utmost importance. For improved readability and faster access to information, article names (and, therefore, their titles) should be as descriptive and specific as the article scope permits.
Titles like Boost Pacman may be misleading for most readers. Some of the readers may be looking to boost some aspect of pacman, and that aspect may not necessarily be the aspect described in the article. Therefore, the article name must be as specific as possible without being too long to quickly scan. Such an article may be renamed to read How to improve pacman download speed using wget, snarf, and lftp.
Allowing for article enhancement
Names should be general enough to allow for future enhancement of the article contents.
In order to allow room for future edits and enhancements, an article's name sometimes needs to be less specific. Of course, making article names less specific just for the sake of shortening it is not a good idea. On the other hand, if you think you have covered all the bases, and that no future edits will enhance the article's scope, make your article's name as specific as possible.
Let us go back to the previous example. The new title of the article is Improve pacman download speed using wget, snarf, and lftp. However, some day, new download mangers may emerge that would replace or become an alternative to wget, snarf, and/or lftp. This calls for a more generic title, something like: How to improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers.
Shorten article names
Names should be as short as possible.
Making article names short is important in order to allow quick scanning of article listings. Many people use the browsing technique when reading wikis, so you do not want to waste their time by writing article names that are miles long. Also, shorter names tend to sound more professional.
For this article, we will use this name as an example:
- How to improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
We will cover a few techniques that will help us shorten the name. There are probably many more techniques that do not apply to this particular example, but you will still get insight into the concept of title editing.
Avoid using question form
Instead of saying How to improve, simply say Improve.
Now compare the two:
- How to improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
- Improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
Rewording long parts
The text Improve pacman download speed is rather long. Instead, we will say Speed up pacman download
Now compare:
- Improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
- Speed up pacman download using alternative download managers
Avoid fancy words
Fancy words (like alternative in our example) are not only fancy; they are used less often than ordinary words, and thus tend to be longer. It is well known that words that are used regularly are in most cases shorter, so try to find an ordinary alternative for your words.
Instead of saying alternative, you may say other.
Compare the two versions:
- Speed up pacman download using alternative download managers
- Speed up pacman download using other download managers
Deviating from formal technical expressions
This may be frowned upon by some of the more technically oriented users, but most people would not mind at all. Avoid technical terms if that makes your article names shorter.
Instead of saying download managers, you may say downloaders.
- Speed up pacman download using other download managers
- Speed up pacman download using other downloaders
Review the result
Do not get too excited yet. We still need to review the two titles and see if they still communicate the same meaning.
- How to improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
- Speed up pacman download using other downloaders
Okay, we see the end result is a much shorter article name, but what about its meaning? Well, it certainly seems like we did a good job. But now we have a different problem. pacman is not a downloader; both alternative download managers and other downloaders imply that pacman is a downloader, which is not what we want. We need to change the meaning by saying external downloaders.
- How to improve pacman download speed using alternative download managers
- Speed up pacman download using other downloaders
- Speed up pacman download using external downloaders
Multi-language articles
Non-English names are required to have a language identifier.
To facilitate administration and inter-language linking, non-English articles should use titles of the form Title in English (Language) where "Language" is the localized spelling of said language. A redirect with a localized title can and should be added for convenience. See Help:i18n for details.
For example, if you have an article called pacman, you would call the Japanese translation pacman (日本語), and the Serbian translation pacman (Српски).
This guideline is a working version, but the procedures outlined here may still be changed at any time. You may want to mark this page as watched by clicking on the "Watch this page" link at the bottom of this page, and also visit the "My watchlist" in the navigation panel to see if there were any changes.


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Clark & Williams, Plane Makers
In an Arkansas basement, this somewhat unusual three-man company turns out extraordinary wooden handplanes.
By Christopher Schwarz
Pages: 34-39
From the April 2010 issue #182
Buy this issue now
The married couple wanted a custom gazebo. So Larry Williams, a successful carpenter, fetched his camera and was getting ready to photograph gazebos around town to show his clients. Right outside his door, Williams took a wrong step, slipped on an ice patch and became a fulltime toolmaker.
Williams had broken an arm. To be more precise, he had ruined his arm and needed surgery and bone grafts. With one slip, his carpentry career disappeared.
"No one needs a one-armed carpenter," Williams says. "God I love carpentry. The kind of work I got to do … ." His voice trails off.
Today Williams and his business partners, Bill Clark and Don McConnell, run Clark & Williams planemakers in Eureka Springs, Ark. This three-man business is one of the few in the Western world that makes traditional wooden-bodied planes.
The company uses modern and traditional tools to make planes that represent, in their eyes, the pinnacle of tool development – 18th century British moulding, bench and joinery planes. Planes of this era look simple – some woodworking authors have described tools of this period as "primitive." Yet once you see these planes through the eyes of their makers, later handplanes look and feel awkward.
Online Extras
* Read handplane stories on our Editors' Blog.
* Read our review of William's first DVD.
* Read our review of McConnell's first DVD.
* Visit D.L. Barret & Sons, plane makers.
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Cancer Types – HIV and AIDS-Related Cancer
HIV and AIDS-Related Cancer: Overview
About HIV/AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is transmitted from person to person most commonly in blood and bodily secretions such as semen. A person with HIV is highly vulnerable to life-threatening conditions because HIV severely weakens the body's immune system. When HIV infection causes symptoms and specific disease syndromes, the disease is called AIDS.
People with HIV/AIDS have a high risk of developing certain cancers, such as Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and cervical cancer (see below). For people with HIV, these three cancers are often called "AIDS-defining conditions," meaning that if a person with an HIV infection has one of these cancers it can signify the development of AIDS.
The connection between HIV/AIDS and certain cancers is not completely understood, but the link likely depends on a weakened immune system. Most types of cancer begin when normal cells change and grow uncontrollably, forming a mass called a tumor. A tumor can be cancerous or benign. A cancerous tumor is malignant, meaning it can spread to other parts of the body. A benign tumor means the tumor will not spread. The types of cancer most common for people with HIV/AIDS are described in more detail below.
Kaposi sarcoma
Kaposi sarcoma is a type of skin cancer that has traditionally occurred in older men of Jewish or Mediterranean descent, young men in Africa, or people who have had organ transplantation. Today, Kaposi sarcoma is found most often in homosexual men with HIV/AIDS and is related to an infection with the human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8). Kaposi sarcoma in people with HIV is often called epidemic Kaposi sarcoma.
HIV/AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma causes lesions to arise in more than one area of the body, including the skin, lymph nodes, and organs such as the liver, spleen, lungs, and digestive tract. Learn more about Kaposi sarcoma.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a cancer of the lymphatic system. Lymphoma begins when cells in the lymphatic system change and grow uncontrollably, which may form a tumor. The lymphatic system is made up of thin tubes that branch to all parts of the body. Its job is to fight infection. The lymphatic system carries lymph, a colorless fluid containing white blood cells called lymphocytes. Lymphocytes fight germs in the body. Groups of tiny, bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes are located throughout the body at different sites in the lymphatic system. Lymph nodes are found in clusters in the abdomen, groin, pelvis, underarms, and neck. Other parts of the lymphatic system include the spleen, which makes lymphocytes and filters blood; the thymus, an organ under the breastbone; and the tonsils, located in the throat.
There are many different subtypes of NHL. The most common subtypes of NHL in people with advanced HIV/AIDS are primary central nervous system lymphoma that affects the brain and spinal fluid, primary effusion lymphoma that caused fluid to build up around the lungs or in the abdomen, or intermediate and high-grade lymphoma. More recently, even patients with well-controlled HIV/AIDS can develop NHL. Learn more about non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer starts in a woman's cervix, the lower, narrow part of the uterus. The uterus holds the growing fetus during pregnancy. The cervix connects the lower part of the uterus to the vagina and, with the vagina, forms the birth canal. Cervical cancer is also called cancer of the cervix.
Women with HIV/AIDS have a higher risk of developing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), a precancerous growth of cells in the cervix that is associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. High-grade CIN can turn into invasive cervical cancer. Learn more about cervical cancer.
Other types of cancer
Other, less common types of cancer that may develop in people with HIV/AIDS are Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer called angiosarcoma that begins in the lining of the blood vessels, anal cancer, liver cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, lung cancer, testicular cancer, penile cancer, colorectal cancer, and types of skin cancer including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will halt some government reports including milk production, rice supply and cattle herds because of federal spending cuts known as sequestration.
Reports will no longer be issued on catfish and trout, potato stockpiles, non-citrus fruits, nuts and vegetables, hops stockpiles, mink, Austrian peas and lentils, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service said today in an e-mailed statement. Also eliminated will be seasonal reports on rice stockpiles in June, cattle in July and the monthly tally of domestic milk supply and demand, the agency said.
Eliminating milk reports that have been published monthly since 1964 will make it more difficult for producers and processors to get data on changes in output or consumption that the industry uses to make business decisions, said Bill Brooks, a dairy economist INTL FCStone Inc. in Kansas City, Missouri. Analysts will have a more difficult time estimating prices without the information, he said.
"The monthly milk-production report is a key piece of information that the industry looks at to analyze overall milk supply," Brooks said in a telephone interview.
Mike Miller, who's produced the USDA monthly milk production reports for the past five years, said he's not yet heard whether the cuts will be permanent. The information supplied by industry sources probably won't be as comprehensive or as timely as the government data, he said by telephone.
"You could piece the information together, but you don't have one place to go to say this is the number," Miller said.
Miller said he is still employed by the USDA and has other duties, including the government census of agriculture that's released every five years and is currently being compiled. The milk report that's set to be released March 19 may be the last one published, he said.
"No one I talk to knows" what's going to happen after the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, Miller said. "I'm certainly disappointed, and I hate to see it go away. Hopefully it will be brought back because it's an important report."
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Video courtesy of Bob's Random Thoughts While Running blog who asks "are you the monkey or the dog?"
RunnerGirl is done for the year. My condolences, it sucks to be injured. I'm glad that you're going to keep working out and doing spin class etc. I would SO let myself go if I knew I was done for the year. I'd be eating Baconators and Deep-fried Twinkies like they were going out of style.
Congrats to Amy who won a 15K, or won her division of a 15K or something like that in 1:14:30 which is super duper über fast in my book (a 7:59 pace). Also congrats on being hit on by 4 women at an Indigo Girls concert, you have to read the story.
Just Your Average Joggler has the 9 essential spots where you should apply body glide to prevent chaffing, but be careful if you head over there because there is a picture of some skimpily dressed men (safe for work). And before some of you readers get excited and flock to his site (Yes, I'm talking to you Marcy and Ali) they aren't particularly the kind of men who SHOULD be skimpily dressed.
Miss Petite America ran 18 miles on a treadmill. Just as soon as I get done with this post I'm calling the men in white jackets and they're coming to take her away ho ho hee hee ha haaa!
A lot of people mentioned Half-Fast this past week, including one person who apparently thought of me while she was in the shower. There were far too many to list individually, but know that it is always appreciated. To be honest there's probably not too many to list individually but I'm too lazy to do it this week. What do you people want from me?
Have a good weekend everyone! Happy Running!


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In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated.
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The iPhone integration dreams of many a diabetic are coming true at last!!
Sanofi-Aventis made history today at the annual EASD (European Association for the Study of Diabetes) conference, if you ask me. They have introduced the first-ever medical device that actually physically plugs into the iPhone and iPod Touch! It's a tiny new USB-sized glucose meter they're calling iBGStar. It's coupled with the new iBGStar Diabetes Manager program, a free logging app that users will be able to download from the iTunes store when the new product hits the market around January or February of 2011.
According to the press release, "The ultra-compact iBGStarTM can be plugged into an iPhone® or iPod touch® and displays results on a full-color, touch screen. It can also be used separately for on-the-go testing."
Here's a first look:
iBGStar was developed for Sanofi by my friends at AgaMatrix, who introduced the first BG meter with a cable plug-in to Apple products not long ago.
Note that the iBGStar still requires FDA 510(k) clearance in the US, and has not yet been submitted. The Powers That Be tell me they've worked to pave the way to quick FDA clearance by designing iBGStar "to make it a completely stand-alone meter that works even better when plugged into an iPhone or iPod Touch."
As a stand-alone, the little meter has its own color display screen, its own battery, a 300-test memory, "and is perfectly usable on its own as a very small and discreet meter." In other words, it works very similarly to current glucose meters, except that the iPhone/iTouch "download cable" technology is built into the meter. The magic for users is in the ability to couple your BG meter with your phone, of course. There will even be new iPhone cases designed to encompass the phone + meter duo!
The accompanying D-management app ("iBGStar Diabetes Manager") looks and feels a whole lot like AgaMatrix's current WaveSense app for the iPhone, they tell me. It works pretty much like traditional logging software for PCs — the interaction between the meter and software is the same — "but the level of utility is greater when its attached to an iPhone." (!)
iBGStar will be available for purchase directly from Sanofi. Pricing is still TBD, but is expected to be in the $8o range, according to some industry observers.
The cases will most likely be "promotional incentives" for early purchasers, and will later be sold as retail items through "traditional channels," with pricing comparable to other Apple accessories, I am told.
More, according to the press release: "The specially-designed and simple iBGStar Diabetes Manager App will allow data to be easily managed and communicated to healthcare professionals...
"These products open up new possibilities for patients to record, understand, and act on their diabetes data, as well as for healthcare professionals (HCP's) to further educate their patients about diabetes management. Patients can now enter and review results with color coding, see graphs with results noted for follow up, and utilize email connectivity to simplify communication with HCP's or caregivers."
And I guess it's not just press-release fluff; world-famous endocrinologist and pump expert Dr. Bruce Bode of Atlanta Diabetes Associates provided me with this statement about the iBGStar launch:
"Many diabetes products have become so advanced and complicated that people have a hard time keeping up and making the technology relevant for their lives. But the iBGStar is really something else... I have never seen such an incredible device in my 25 years as an diabetologist."
"The user experience is so rich and just amazingly simple. When you look at the iBGStar, you just know what to do with it — plug it into the iPhone, stick a strip in, and test! Amazing! The potential for this connectivity to the healthcare providers, family members, and smart software systems will change how we manage diabetes in the future. Sanofi-Aventis really knows how to enter this space with style."
— Dr. Bruce Bode, MD,
endocrinologist & expert on insulin delivery and glucose sensing
(I just felt like saying that) I for one am really excited to see the industry knocking down FDA walls to integration of consumer and medical products.
You could say this launch opens up a new chapter in the evolution of smart, connected personal devices: they are no longer useful only for basic communication and "infotainment," but are now turning into mission-critical health devices — with this product being the first major proof-point available.
You could say that. Or you could say that the two Northwestern graduate students who won the 2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge were true visionaries, with their LifeCase/LifeApp system for the iPhone.
At least we know the industry is listening! As per Sanofi's press release: "The iBGStar system has been designed by listening to the needs and desires of people with diabetes." {grin}
And furthermore: "iBGStar is based on the patented Dynamic Electrochemistry® technology ensuring accurate and reliable blood glucose readings and both devices do not require coding. BGStar (iPhone app) has various feedback features including alerts, programmable reminder alarms and positive feedback to indicate what the results mean. A large, backlit display allows results to be quickly and easily viewed, managed and discussed. In addition, the BGStar product range offers users access to a full service telephone hotline and other support services so people with diabetes can feel more confident to take charge of their lives."
Support services = always welcome!
... because fancy gadgets alone are naturally not the only thing we need to 'take charge of our diabetic lives.'
But I'll still be the first in line to try out this cool new "plug-in" meter for the iPhone. One more inventive way to make use of the extremely useful little communication device that's always by my side anyway... and potentially one less piece of medical gear we need to carry and manage separately!


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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's ruling parties pledged Sunday to support a landmark agreement to normalize relations with former province Kosovo that could end years of tensions and put both states on a path to European Union membership.
Kosovo, considered by nationalists to be the medieval cradle of the Serbian state and religion, declared independence in 2008. Belgrade has pledged never to recognize the secession.
The EU brokered the tentative deal in Brussels on Friday in talks with the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo. The agreement would give Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership authority over rebel Kosovo Serbs. In return, the minority Serbs would get wide autonomy within Kosovo.
During an urgent session that started late Sunday, Kosovo's parliament voted in favor of a resolution to support the initial agreement.
The 120-seat legislature voted 89-5 early Monday to back the conclusions in the EU-brokered deal. The tense session was interrupted by hardline opposition members who oppose talks with Serbia.
About 200 protesters gathered outside the assembly to voice their opposition to the agreement because they fear it enables the Serb minority to carve out a portion of Kosovo territory and join Serbia.
Kosovo lawmakers still will have to ratify any final agreement that will contain details about how it is implemented.
Serbia's government and parliament have yet to endorse the deal that came after months of tense negotiations between the two premiers.
Leaders of the two main ruling parties in Serbia said Sunday they will support the tentative agreement at a government session scheduled for Monday. A Serbian parliamentary session to discuss the issue will be held later in the week.
The agreement has triggered outrage among Serb nationalists who have scheduled major street protests. Several hundred far-right protesters marched in Belgrade on Sunday chanting "treason, treason" and demanding the ouster of the government.
Serbian Progressive Party leader and deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he did not rule out that a referendum could be held on the proposed deal, if a national consensus is not reached on how Serbia should deal with Kosovo.
The agreement would allow Serbs to police and manage the north of Kosovo, which is inhabited predominantly by ethnic Serbs, in exchange for nominal recognition of the authority of the Kosovo government. It also calls for the two sides not to obstruct one another as they seek eventual membership in the EU.
Serbia relinquished control of most of Kosovo in 1999 when NATO chased its troops out of the region after a three-month bombing campaign. Ending the partition of Kosovo between the Albanian majority and the Serb-controlled north — about a fifth of the country — is a key condition of Serbia's further progress toward EU membership.
Details about how the deal would be implemented on the ground remain murky especially since Kosovo Serbs have said they will not accept any authority coming from Pristina's ethnic Albanians.
Associated Press Writer Nebi Qena contributed to this report from Pristina, Kosovo.


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Wild ride for St. Charles North in state meet prelims
Welcome to the pool at New Trier High School, swimming fans.
For your own safety, we recommend that you buckle yourself in securely for the boys swimming and diving state meet.
Yes, Friday's preliminaries were turbulent, but ultimately also well worth the trip for area teams and individuals.
"We enjoyed the ride," said St. Charles North coach Rob Rooney. "We had some great swims, some really great moments. And we had some swims we'd like to have back, but that's true to what the state meet usually is. You get ready, you do your best, and if there's disappointment, you've got to put it behind you."
Rooney said his highest point was probably the North Stars' all-senior 200-yard medley relay of Austin Stepella, David Chokran, Nick Kowalewski and Kyle Gannon qualified for today's championship heat, finishing fifth in 1:34.39.
"We came out hot in the medley," he said. "That was great to see."
It also may have affected Gannon's subsequent 200 free effort. With little time between his anchor leg on the relay and the 200, Gannon still delivered a best time of 1:41.07, but it was not quite enough to get him into the championship heat.
But there were plenty of North Stars high points left, including the 500 free.
Senior Spencer Gray sheared off almost seven seconds from his previous best. He ended up with the fastest qualifying time into Saturday's consolation heat.
"It felt pretty good, but when you're swimming it's hard to really tell," said Gray. "Then I saw the time on the clock and ... it just felt pretty awesome."
Gray's training partner, Gannon, produced a lifetime best a few moments later, easily fast enough to get him into the championship heat. His 4:29.33 has him third behind New Trier's Reed Malone (4:21.09) and Lake Forest's Peter Grumhaus (4:26.97).
"I was kind of hoping to be 4:27," said Gannon, "so I'm pretty close. Just have to go after that tomorrow."
The North Stars will get another point-scoring opportunity in the 400 free relay, where Gray, Kowalewski, Stephan Hutchison and Gannon qualified sixth in 3:07.33.
"Those relays were both team records, so that's pretty satisfying," Rooney said.
St. Charles East junior Will Shanel gets another race today, as he finished seventh in the 200 IM in 1:53.27. And the Saints' 200 free relay of Alec Carnell, T.J. Bindseil, Shanel and Taylor Nunnery came in 11th and earned a spot in the consolation heat.
Marmion will be active on Saturday as well.
Senior Jonathan Thielen produced a huge drop in the 100 backstroke, only finish one spot away from reaching the championship heat in 50.46.
But the Cadets' relays were cumulatively fierce and more than offset any individual disappointments.
The medley of Jack Fergus, Robert Ramoska, Josh Kanute and Mike Burke was seventh in 1:34.75. Both freestyle relays -- with Thielen, Fergus, Kanute and Burke on the 200, and Burke, Ramoska, Kanute and Thielen on the 400 -- made the finals.
The Cadets used a 3:07.29 effort from Lane 8 in the 400 relay, winning their heat easily.
"I think it says a lot about a kid like Thielen, to come out of the backstroke and then turn right around and deliver a split like that," said Marmion coach Bill Schalz. "We had plenty of times today where our kids could have stopped fighting, but they never did. I'm really proud of this group of kids."
For any fan of high school swimming, it was a special day as four individual state records fell.
Stanford-bound Mundelein senior Connor Black dazzled with his performances, smashing the 50 free state record formerly held by 2012 Olympian Matt Grevers; Black finished in 19.80.
In the 100 fly, Black finished in 47.20, taking almost a full second off the existing mark and coming within an eyelash of the national record of 47.08.
New Trier senior Reed Malone lowered the 200 free state record previously held by Neuqua Valley's Kevin Overholt to 1:35.60, and Loyola senior Andrew Jovanovic erased another Grevers record, lowering the 100 backstroke mark to 48.21.
The meet resumes with consolation heats and championship finals at 1 p.m. Saturday.
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v. t. - To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. 2
v. t. - To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. 2
v. t. - To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. 2
v. - Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. 2
v. - A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy. 2
v. - Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc. 2
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Tamara de Lempicka was born Maria Gorska to well-to-do parents in turn-of-the-century Poland, but it was not until she fled to Paris with her husband Tadeusz de Lempicka, that the story of Lempicka really begins.
Not only the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, Lempicka was a glamour icon in her own right. Friends with Picasso, Jean Cocteau and Greta Garbo, Lempicka became known for her distinctive painting style, which emulated the sensual side of the French Art Deco movement.
She wrote: "among a hundred paintings, you could recognise mine, my goal was: Do not copy. Create a new style...colours light and bright, return to elegance in my models." Her frenetic social life was riddled with scandalous affairs and her later life saw her relocate to New York, before finally residing in a beautiful house in Mexico. What remains is the legacy of revolutionary woman and a revelation in the art world. These captivating portraits make a stunning addition to any interior space.
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