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Teething is a topic of some controversy in medical circles. Essentially, there haven't been a lot of studies that have proven, without a doubt, that teething makes babies fussier, gives them rashes, or makes them have a fever.
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Does My Baby Have a Fever?
A slight increase in your baby's temperature is normal with teething, but be careful, because that increase is a very small one.
The "normal" temperature rise that can occur with teething is only, on average, about 0.2ºF. It's such a small difference that most people would never even notice it, honestly. The highest temperature associated with tooth eruption is about 98.24ºF using an ear thermometer, which is completely within the normal temperature range.
So what does that mean? It means that if your baby has a fever, classified as anything over 100.4ºF taken rectally (rectal temperatures are the most accurate), then you shouldn't assume it's simply because of teething.
How Long Has the Fever Lasted?
The American Academy of Pediatrics actually found that teething-related temperature rises only really happen over the three days that a tooth pops through — the day before, the actual day it pops up, and the day after.
If your baby's temperature stays high more than three days, that's another sign that something else might be going on.
What Color Is My Baby's Snot?
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If your baby's snot is clear, it may be a result of the extra fluids and inflammatory response trigged by teething, or it might be a sign that they have been exposed to a virus, like the common cold.
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If your baby's runny nose gets worse, doesn't improve after 10 days, if the snot is yellow or green, or if they develop any accompanying signs like a cough or fever, it might warrant a trip to the doctor's office.


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At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates right to work using E-Verify. Cummins will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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That could easily sum up the feelings of England supporters inured to years of failure in one-day internationals in India since Duncan Fletcher's side did exceptionally well to draw a series 3-3 here in 2002.
For there had been so much hope after the first match of this series had been won in Rajkot. But then the despair returned with three consecutive losses, rendering Sunday's match in Dharamsala meaningless. At least England do not have an ODI tour here again until 2017.
I did say in these pages at the start of the tour that it would not be a calamity if England were to lose this series. And I still stand by that. It has been an inconvenience of a trip, and that is not a criticism of the itinerary, which has been taxing but ultimately worthwhile, because it has taken matches to outposts that have been heaving with excitement and anticipation.
Rather it has been little use in preparation for the Champions Trophy this summer in England and the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.
England signalled their intentions by resting Jonathan Trott, James Anderson and Graeme Swann. Only Kevin Pietersen will miss the ODI tour to New Zealand. It is clearly considered far more important than the one concluding here on Sunday.
Resting more than two players at any one time is risky in my opinion. Just look what has happened to Australia recently in that respect. They rotated so many players at once that their embattled national selector John Inverarity found himself in a spin, asking reporters, "I presume you mean informed player management?" when the word 'rotation' cropped up.
Goodness me, rest and rotation do work, and they are necessary in today's sadistic schedules, but it is still best not to try to be too clever.
Maybe that was England's problem with the ball in this series. Before Sunday, and the prospect of the fastest pitch in India, their seamers had been thoroughly outbowled by the workaday talents of Shami Ahmed and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. With just enough movement, they had simply adhered to the traditional virtues of line and length. It still works, you know.
In that respect the spray-it-like-a-sprinkler Jade Dernbach was exposed, and it was little surprise when he was omitted from the New Zealand party. So too Tim Bresnan. It was actually a relief to hear that he is injured. Otherwise it would have been far too easy to assume that his international career was over.
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Kieswetter was in the tour party for New Zealand, and has now been dragged unceremoniously from it. It is some ignominy.
And basically it was because he failed in two games. He batted well in Rajkot, but then his failings against spin, especially his failure to manoeuvre the ball for singles, were too much to bear for the selectors.
It always seemed harsh that it was in the rarefied surroundings of international cricket that he was being asked to learn a new role- batting in the middle-order as opposed to the opening slot he usually takes for his county Somerset. But then that can be the case for many middle-order batsmen. The better players will usually bat high up for their counties, and will then have to adapt lower down internationally. The requirements are as different as chalk and cheddar.
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Matt Prior and Tim Ambrose survived while sharing the gloves at Sussex for a while, but eventually Ambrose had to leave. It may or may not have been revealing that when Buttler was asked about the length of his Somerset contract last week, he turned to England's media liaison officer and asked if he needed to answer the question. He was told he did not need to. So he did not.
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Chris Woakes will now receive plentiful opportunities to prove himself in that regard in New Zealand. And I actually worry more about his bowling than his batting. He can bat. With the ball, pace has always been his problem, and striving for that can obviously bring attendant inaccuracy.
So the selection of his 31-year-old Warwickshire team-mate Rikki Clarke in the Lions squad to tour Australia is intriguing. He can bowl quickly, he can catch flies and he can hit the ball a mighty distance. He should really fit the bill, but has his character matured sufficiently?
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Law-abiding people should not have to worry that their neighborhood will be leveled because the house next door or the business down the block is used by cocaine processors. While lawmakers may never be able to remove this threat entirely, they must try to reduce it.
Restrictions on ether have been suggested because they have already proven effective in the major cocaine-producing country, Colombia.
A bill by State Rep. Javier Souto, R-Miami, seems promising because it only deals with ether, not used much anymore as an anesthetic or for industrial purposes. The bill would require anyone making, selling, buying or transporting ether to have a $100-to-$500 license from the state fire marshal. Convicted felons could not get such a license.
That would reduce access to legally obtained ether, a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, such a law would not affect illegally obtained ether, which can be made easily by amateur chemists.
A similar bill, filed by Sen. Carrie Meek, D-Miami, would require the names of anyone making, selling, transporting or buying acetone or ether to be sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, to check for potential drug processors.


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Two Killeigh petrol stations hit in raid spree
AN armed gang committed a spree of robberies at filling stations across Laois-Offaly last week, and in one terrifying incident threatened a station manager and his son who came upon the robbers as they plundered the store.
The quartet of criminals began their litany of break-ins in Abbeyleix in the early hours of Friday, May 20. Garda Superintendent Philip Lyons told the Offaly Express that the men, who wore balaclavas and brandished iron bars as weapons during the spree, were driving a Golf GTi with false number plates and it is believed that they represent a criminal element from outside the region. After Abbeyleix, the gang continued with their tour of larceny and proceeded to a filling station in Rosenallis, where they made off with a small amount of cash, and Killeigh, where two more filling stations were hit and money and cigarettes stolen.
However, it was at the filling station in Ballybrittas where the men were disturbed during their break-in by the store's security alarm. Responding to the alarm, the owner of the filling station, Dick Donoher and his son, Dan discovered the armed men in their store at around 3.30am.
"The alarm went off, we only live a mile down the road and we were there within five minutes," Mr Donoher explained. "We saw one raider hiding behind a tree outside the shop. He ran across and we barely missed him, just clipped him. There was a Golf car parked outside and we turned our car to block it in, but then three lads came out of the shop with iron bars. They told us 'back up, back up' and we had to reverse. They sped away toward Portlaoise and we gave chase, but we lost them on the motorway."
Mr Donoher said that he discovered a bar on the floor of the shop which the men had used to attempt to open the store's safe, but as they were disturbed nothing was ultimately taken. He confirmed that the men spoke with Dublin accents and the incident left both he and his son badly shaken.
"It was very traumatising," he said. "After I went back to bed I couldn't sleep."
The last time the Ballybrittas filling station was targeted by thieves was way back in 1999, when Mr Donoher and his other son, David responded to the alarm to discover the doors of the shop broken into, although the perpetrators had already fled the scene. In a bizarre coincidence, an eye-witness confirmed that the vehicle used on that occasion was also a Golf GTi.
Following last Friday's spree, Superintendent Lyons confirmed that armed Garda checkpoints were put in operation over the weekend and no further break-ins occurred. The Superintendent said that Gardaí are currently studying CCTV footage from the filling stations and the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with any information should contact Portlaoise Garda Station on 05786 21666, or Abbeyleix Garda Station on 05787 31202.


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Event: Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) Webinar
Date:Wed, May 20th 2015, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:Alameda CTC Offices, 1111 Broadway, Suite 800, Oakland, CA 94607 (Downtown Oakland at City Center/12th St. BART)
Alameda CTC hosts the monthly Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) webinars. This event is free and open to all. Bring your lunch if you like.
APBP Webinar Topic - Law Enforcement Strategies to Improve Pedestrian and Cyclist Safety


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IT is unsettling that the best motives do not always age well. At the turn of the century, under the direction of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine was transformed from a dull technical journal into a popular magazine with an explicit policy against publishing racist material. Codified in a 1915 statement of principle, National Geographic promised to print only accurate information ``of a kindly nature ... about any country or people....''
Despite the magazine's commendable goals, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins, authors of ``Reading National Geographic,'' a new analysis of the inner workings and public reception of National Geographic, argue that the magazine has portrayed non-European cultures as exotic, and, until relatively recently, avoided anticolonialist struggles as well as racial conflict in the United States.
Similarly motivated by good intentions, late-19th-century photographers in America set about recording the traditional lifestyles of what they considered a vanishing race. The success of cross-country railroads, the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, and the devastation of the buffalo herds seemed to confirm the eventual end of native American cultures. Against a background of popular newspaper accounts and fiction that depicted American Indians as hostile savages, these photographers viewed themselves as unbiased visual historians embarking on a ``grand endeavor,'' hence the title of this new collection of photographs: ``Grand Endeavors of American Indian Photography.''
Yet despite their ambitions, many of these well-meaning photographers succeeded only in romanticizing the passing of native Americans before the onrush of westward expansion. Brutalities and injustices dissolved before their soft-focus lenses. Stunning close-up portraits of native Americans represented them as noble, passive, and doomed.
Now, 100 years later, many books have set about rethinking the history of cultural confrontation. Of these two recent entries, ``Reading National Geographic'' is the most critical.
Unfortunately, it is also the most muddled. Few would deny that photography, empowered by its resemblance to human sight, has frequently cast many of the world's peoples as losers in the race toward modernism. Sometimes the purpose of these depictions has been racist, economically opportunist, or both. But the fault of National Geographic, outlined by Lutz and Collins, is not so much overt racism or greed as ``humanism.''
In their words, the magazine and its readers have shown deliberate ``preferences ... towards colorful good feelings and peace.'' Worse, one of the chief pleasures of Geographic readers is envisioning a connection between their life and the life of the people portrayed in the photographs.
The harm, of course, is that 40 million readers are lulled into empathy, not roused into action, or at a minimum, critical reflection. National Geographic photographs have erred in broadcasting the message that all's right with the world, but to locate paternalism and cultural supremacy behind every image is equally excessive. Lutz and Collins call for photographs that raise troublesome questions, or cause embarrassment and discomfort. In starchily academic buzzwords, they invalidate their own critique by forgetting what they said about photographs being knit into larger fabrics of understanding. Simply put: To change the world, you have to change patterns of cognition, not just pictures.
Nevertheless, it is essential to situate historical images now deemed derisive and offensive in the complex circumstances of their creation. In assembling photographs of native Americans taken around 1900, Paula Richardson Fleming and Judith Lynn Luskey preface their remarks with a concise history of the sentimental pessimism that surrounded the ``grand endeavor'' to fashion a record of cultures thought to be rapidly disappearing.
Throughout ``Grand Endeavors of American Indian Photography,'' one gains a fresh awareness of the proportions that the photographic enterprise took in these years.
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most controversial, photographer in the collection is Edward S. Curtis. He insisted on having native Americans reenact battles and ceremonies and required that his subject remove any objects or clothing that signaled the presence of Western culture. However amiable his intention, he idealized life on the Western reservations.
MANY of the photographers in ``Grand Endeavors'' were people of good will who refused to commercialize their work. They endured hardships and admonishment to complete their projects. Despite the authors' obvious knowledge and admiration for native Americans, in the end, the photographers' deeds appear more substantial than the fate of the people portrayed in their photographs. By relying so heavily on the notion of the masterwork, Fleming and Luskey negate the significance of historical context.
Both these books go a long way to demonstrate what mid-19th-century photographer Maxime DuCamp discerned. ``The camera does not lie,'' he observed, ``but neither does it tell the whole truth.''


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Careful observations can often be the secret to unlocking good days on the water. And in combining advice, stories, and blank pages for your own journaling, John Nagy's newest book–recently released from Great Lakes Publishing–can help make "steelhead fishing on the Great Lakes tributaries a much more satisfying and fulfilling experience."
Read the press release in the extended entry.
New Book: The "Steelheader's Journal" by John Nagy
The "Steelheader's Journal" (Great Lakes Publishing/2012) is designed to help steelheaders in the "steelhead alley" region of Lake Erie, as well as throughout the Great Lakes, efficiently record information related to his or her tributary steelhead fly fishing trips.
This careful observation of details, as well as experiences, will not only make a better steelheader but also make steelhead fishing on the Great Lakes tributaries a much more satisfying and fulfilling experience.
A two page log/journal entry form (a total of 171 entry forms) allows steelheaders to log detailed information in over 25 categories (including various sub-categories) for each steelhead tributary fished that day. Some of these categories include weather, water temperature and flow, catches, technique, tackle, flies, rigging and access points. The "journal" section on the entry form allows steelheaders to write personal experiences and recollections for the day.
The Steelheader's Journal also has sections on the "do's and don'ts of steelhead fishing, knot diagrams, a gear "pre-trip" checklist and a steelhead "profile", as well as ample room for favorite steelhead contacts and misc. notes.
The "old school" feel of the Steelheader's Journal invites the steelheader to slow down and reflect carefully and thoughtfully on the days fishing. It is leather bound (7×10 inches/192 pages) with low-sheen, natural paper and sepia ink (including a silk ribbon page marker). It is also illustrated nicely by steelheader and artist Les Troyer including two color painting's titled "Steelhead Catch-and-Release" and "In the Right Spot".
The Steelheader's Journal makes a great companion book to John Nagy's popular Steelhead Guide, Fly Fishing Techniques and Strategies for Lake Erie Steelhead (updated and expanded 4th edition). The Steelhead Guide covers in detail how the techniques, equipment, flies, steelhead behavior, stream conditions and weather all combine to produce a successful Lake Erie steelhead trip. It has also proven to be very valuable to steelheaders in the rest of the Great Lakes region as well.
Signed hardcover copies can be obtained directly from Great Lakes Publishing, 606 Crysler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15226 by sending $39.95 plus $5.00 shipping per order (PA residents add 7% or $3.15) or through the web at: www.johnnagysteelheadguide.com
Any questions regarding ordering the Steelheader's Journal (including dealer inquiries) please contact Great Lakes Publishing at (412) 531-5819 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Internet Reading Pros And Cons: How The Internet Is Changing My Reading Habits
I still read a paper newspaper every day. And I still love to settle down in my comfortable chair and read an actual book. In fact, I've always been an avid reader. But I must admit I spend a lot more time reading on the Internet these days. So how is the Internet changing my reading habits?
It was first used by scientists and military personnel as an easy way to share information. As technology changed and internet protocols were developed and adopted for uniformity, everyone was able to take full advantage of the Internet's power.
In my opinion, these are some of the pros and cons of reading on the Internet:
- More information – there is a plethora of information from the common to the obscure. If you can't find it on the Internet, you probably don't need to find it!
- More timely information – I learn about events much quicker, sometimes immediately after they happen.
- Faster reading – the Internet allows me to read faster by the way information is organized.
- Easy to research and find data – it is extremely easy to research & if one search doesn't find what I want, another will – there are also many different search engines that may bring up different results.
- Exposed to a wider variety of topics – I may read something I never even thought of reading about.
- Ability to post comments – if I want to I can voice my opinion about what I'm reading.
- Don't have to purchase so many books anymore….but I still do.
- More content but less quality – most people don't want to read a lot of data so much of the content is more like an outline or is short without a lot of details or extra information.
- Harder to read a computer screen than the printed page – my eyes get more tired watching a computer screen than reading a book.
- Scan pages quickly and not read all the information – I tend to scan more and see if anything catches my eye, if not, I'm out of there; this could be a pro too.
- Sorting out the good info– there is so much garbage on the Internet and it is sometimes hard to tell what is true and what is false.
- All the flashing ads trying to steal your attention – I hate the flashing ads cropping up on all the web pages…very distracting… and now there are talking ones.
- Computer crashes or the browser quits working and you lose the website you were on – this doesn't happen a lot but it can and then it takes time to get back to where you were, if you even remember what site you were on or how you found it.
- Very addicting – I spend way too much time on the computer.
- No computer or Internet access available – this doesn't happen too often but there are places I go where I have no access.
- No electricity – no Internet…unless you have a laptop and a good battery… but when that runs out, you are out of luck.
I am a member of the Baby Boomer generation but I have been exposed to computers since the first computers hit the market. So I appreciate all the Internet does and can do for me. I expect my computer reading to keep on growing. However, I will not give up the luxury of slowly enjoying a good book or reading every story in the newspaper…. unless of course they become extinct. But that would be a crying shame, and I would mourn the loss. And I would hold ever tighter to my own collection of books.
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I read the paper every day on the internet. I travel a lot and it's the only way I can get access on a regular basis.
Reading on a computer screen is a bit of a pain after a while. I am currently waiting for a Kindle to make its way across the Atlantic (should be here by the end of the week I hope) which should be better as the display is not backlit.
Even so, I think I will still need to read my newspaper online - unless I switch from The Scotsman to The New York Times of course.
Yes, this is a familiar dilemma. I own more books than I have room for, but still I have no plans to let any of them go. And I can't take my laptop in the bath the way I can with printed books. However, I was recently given a Kindle as a gift and it's certainly growing on me. The experience of ordering a book and receiving it in less than a minute is very satisfying.
I agree entirely: I'd be devastated if they stopped printing books. After all, there's nothing quite like curling up in a nice arm-chair in front of the wood stove/fireplace with a nice piece of well-written, old-fashioned, soft-cover (or hard-cover, if that's your fancy), printed fiction.
Somehow, sitting in a nice arm-chair in front of the wood stove/fireplace with a laptop (or, for the moderately wealthy, Amazon Kindle) in your lap just isn't quite the same. :(


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Feel like stoking your class envy this morning? The AFL-CIO has a tool for you -- a database of CEO pay. And it's pretty
awesome appalling.
Seriously, the stats the union has compiled here are enough to turn even the most enthusiastic capitalist into a Marx-spouting lefty. (Which, we're sure, is precisely what the AFL-CIO intended.)
For example, here in good ole Missourah, the website reports that the CEOs of our largest corporations earned an average of $3.9 million, even as the state's median wage hovers at a disheartening $30,570. That means the average Missouri worker's salary was less than one percent of his boss's.
We used the database's handy-dandy state-sorting option to compile a list of Missouri's ten best-paid CEOs. If you're into spasms of jealousy, check it out after the jump.
and the highest-paid CEO in Missouri is ....
$24.8 million. Must be nice.
Interestingly enough, of these ten very fat Missouri fat-cats, all but two are from the St. Louis area. (DST Systems is based in Kansas City and Leggett & Platt Inc. is in Carthage.) With fine industry mavens such as these, it's no wonder St. Louis is such a thriving metropolis!
Now, if you'll excuse us, we need to get back to slaving away to earn our daily crust of bread and meager bowl of gruel. Not that we're resentful or anything.


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Sep 24, 2013 — Dr. Stephen Morris, at the University of Utah Burn Center, talks about why burns might be considered the worst injury you could get. He also talks about the brand new burn center at the U of U hospital.
Announcer: Medical news and research from University of Utah physicians and specialists you can use for a happier and healthier life. You're listening to The Scope.
Host: Hot oil, barbeque grills, falling into a campfire; you know I don't think that there's much more that is more terrifying than a severe burn. We are here with Dr. Stephen Morris Medical Director of The University of Utah Burn Center to talk about severe burn cases, why they're so bad, and the recently renovated Burn Center at The University of Utah Hospital. Thank you for taking some time to talk to us today.
Dr. Stephen Morris: Thanks for having me.
Host: For me anyway there's nothing much more terrifying than a thought of a severe burn. From a medical stand point is that the case as well? I mean that's kind of the worst of the worst. How bad is it?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Yeah the pain in and of itself is very terrifying. I think all of us we've had small burns and we know how much they hurt.
Host: Yeah.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And we can imagine if a patient has fallen into hot water, or had severe flame burns, over more than half of their body how much it hurts as well as how badly it affects them.
Host: Yeah, so what are some of the things that a burn will do to the human body that you're worried about if somebody comes in?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Well what we worry about initially is just maintaining the circulation because that's one of the first things to go.
Host: Really?
Dr. Stephen Morris: And the patience will lose fluids in there burns. They will also lose fluids throughout their body and so they become very swollen, and they become severely dehydrated and go into what we call Burn Shock, and so we have to worry about that. Likewise, they can often have severe problems with breathing. They can swell enough to block off their airways, or they can have injury that goes down to their level of lungs so their lungs don't work properly and so they can die from breathing problems as well.
Host: Even if they just burn their legs it can affect the lungs?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Correct.
Host: And your circulation throughout your whole body?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Correct.
Host: What are your other concerns that you have? Are infections a concern?
Dr. Stephen Morris: And that's just what I was going to say, and the next thing...The next thing down the road of course is trying to get the areas where the skin is now destroyed get that covered because you can imagine skin is an important barrier to infection.
Host: Yeah.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And so through their lungs, through their intestinal tract, and through their open wounds of their skin we have great concerns of infection, and that ends up being one of the causes of death in burn patients.
Host: Okay, so then a burn patient comes in you take care of a couple of the first issues, you try to take care of infection, what then? I mean the skin's damaged will it ever grow back?
Dr. Stephen Morris: It depends... If the skin is only partially burned through then of course the underlying areas will regenerate. We call that a partial thickness, or second degree burn.
Host: Okay.
Dr. Stephen Morris: But frankly if it's burned all the way through, no that skin will not grow back.
Host: Yeah.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And that's where surgery is required to remove the dead tissue and to put new skin in the areas where the skin was destroyed.
Host: And where do you get the new skin? Do you have like a skin bank here on site, or...?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Well the skin bank that we use actually had its origins in this hospital, now it has gotten much larger, and is off site, but the problem with bank skin is that it is temporary.
Host: Okay.
Dr. Stephen Morris: No matter where you get the skin, unless you have an identical twin that is, you have to use your own or it will reject. We can't use anti-rejection medicines like heart transplants, and lung transplants, and kidney transplants do because of the infection problems.
Host: Okay.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And so the skin has to come from the very patient who is injured.
Host: So you have to find some good skin and then start the process of doing some transplants?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Correct, these transplants are called skin grafts, and that's exactly what we do a lot of here.
Host: And how long of a process is that for somebody that's burnt maybe on 15%, 20% of their body?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Well there's a generally accepted rule of thumb, maybe it's a little antiquated, but the rule of thumb is this, for every percent of your body surface area that's burned, and if you look at your hand, the palm surface, the fingers, and the palm together that is 1%.
Host: Okay.
Dr. Morris: And so in a full grown adult that's a pretty good sized area, in a little child it would be much smaller.
Host: Yeah.
Dr. Stephen Morris: But we figure that every percent that is burned will require about one day in the hospital.
Host: Okay, wow.
Dr. Stephen Morris: So a 15% burn would be at least a couple of weeks.
Host: Yeah, so tell me a little bit about the renovated burn center. What makes this facility so incredible?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Well it's the people that work here I think that make it incredible, but they need to have a facility where they can actually do their job.
Host: Yeah.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And we've had a burn unit here with 12 beds for the past 30 years, and we've outgrown it. Certainly we're busier than we were back then, but more importantly I think we've learned how to take care of patients even better, and we needed to update the facility so that we could do the best possible job.
Host: What's different from this facility than the old facility and how does that help you treat patients better?
Dr. Stephen Morris: I think it's the space. We were so crowded it was actually fairly cramped. We have expanded to more than twice the area to take care of about the same number of patients and so it makes it much more comfortable for the patient; it makes it much more comfortable for the families, and the friends, of the patient.
Host: Is there anything else like this Burn Center in the Intermountain West?
Dr. Stephen Morris: No we are what's called a Verified Burn Center that we are independently assessed, and reviewed, and there's nothing like this Burn Center between Denver and the coast.
Host: All right.
Dr. Stephen Morris: And from the Canadian Border down to Phoenix, and so it really is the largest area for a single Burn Center to cover in the United States.
Host: Now what does this all mean for patients and/or people that live in the five state area of University of Utah Hospital Burn Center?
Dr. Stephen Morris: Well that means that they can go to bed at night knowing that we're, you know God forbid that they're injured, but were they severely injured, or were they to have a severe problem where they would lose their skin or have bad wounds that there's a facility that is quite close to home that provides world class care.
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You fall into one of two camps when it comes to weather. Either you hang on to the weatherman's every word, or you think he's making it up as he goes along. We fall into the latter camp, weather forecasting feels like a dark art to us, and we're sure that somewhere in the Met Office there's a group of people stand around a cauldron shouting incantations to a broth that contains John Kettley's tears and a fish called Michael.
But however the Met Office generates its forecasts, there's a big audience to hear about the resulting prophecy, and so the BBC has developed a weather app to send information on if it will be raining cats and dogs or snowing frogs. It's free, and you can get it now for the iPhone, or any other iDevice like the iPod Touch.
BBC Weather
- Format
- iOS
- Price
- Free
- Where
- iTunes Store
Of course, this being a weather app for the iPhone, it's got the style of the BBC's best thought-out apps, along with the solid foundation of iOS. From an aesthetic point of view, we really like how it looks. We've used a lot of weather apps and widgets in our time - HTC use makes that a given - and this is easily one of the nicest. It's not the most dynamic though, there's no lightning bolts like you'll see in the new iOS built-in weather app, due when iOS 7 launches in the summer.
The app is able to locate you either via Wi-Fi or 3G if you're on the iPhone. We're using an iPod Touch here, and had no problems getting it to find roughly where we are, although we'd rather it showed us in the next postcode over, because we're snobby about that sort of thing.
Of course, you're free to select pretty much any city on earth to get weather from. There's a simple search tool that lives on the main menu. Once in there, you start typing and the app will whittle down the list until you're looking at the place you want to see weather for.
On the initial screen, you can see a weather icon that represents current conditions, and there's an image in the background that mirrors that with a photograph. Swipe left, and you'll get a breakdown of temperatures and other conditions for the hours remaining in the day. There's an hourly breakdown of temperature, and anything falling from the sky.
At the bottom of the screen, you can advance through the days of the week. It's a total of five days, which should mean it's a bit more accurate than those forecasts for 12 years ahead. Or perhaps it's no more accurate, who knows.
You also get two very useful pieces of information that we don't often see in weather apps. There's information about UV strength and the pollen count. Today, both of those are "medium", and while we're not hayfever sufferers, we all need to watch out for those skin-damaging UV rays.
Dark art or not, the BBC Weather app is certainly one of the best to go for. It might not have the flashiness of some other apps, but it will tell you what you need to know very quickly and with the minimal fuss.


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The flesh profiteth nothing; it is the spirit maketh alive. Lo! I am with you always.New Testament.
It is the fate of every notable man to suffer from misrepresentation. His good and bad qualities are equally exaggerated. Perhaps no absolutely correct biography has ever been or ever can be written. Doubtless Boswell overpraised Johnson and Abbott overpraised Napoleon, but other writers have as much under-rated those great characters. Speaking of Aristotle, Hegel said :
"He penetrated the whole universe of things and brought its scattered wealth to the human mind."
Speaking of the same philosopher, Luther said :
"'He is a histrionic mountebank and juggler of souls, who from behind a Greek mask, bewitches the church. If I did not know he was a man I would think he was a devil."
It is difficult to decide whether a great person suffers most from malicious foes, who see in him only wrong, or from adoring friends who see in him unqualified right. A slander can be refuted or ignored; but when one is given an excellence he knows he does not possess and is assigned a rank he has not attained, he is powerless. It is much easier to avoid becoming an absolute villain than to become a spotless saint. The superlative degree is a form of untruth; and flattery is more to be feared than abuse. Both are a kind of libel ; but the former is so comforting a falsehood that it is difficult for its object not to believe it is truth. Hence the prayer : `Save us from our friends."
Point of view determines many things ; and our own personality insinuates itself into everything we do. If several persons play or sing the same piece of music there will be as many results as there are per-formers. The temperament of each one will reveal itself. Not only so, but every listener will modify the result. We hear what we are fitted to hear. Jesus used to say : "Let him that hath ears hear," doubtless knowing that there were always some present who had no ears fitted to hear what was said. Once, having made a statement of his intention, it is written that a note of approval was heard in the sky. In speaking of the incident afterward, some of those who were present said an angel had spoken to him : others affirmed that it was thunder they had heard. Of music Carlyle said: "It is a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that." With that fine tribute compare the verdict of Samuel John-son: "Music is nothing but the least disagreeable of noises." 0In noting the transit of a star, allowance is always made for a certain amount of error in the observer. This is called "personal equation." But there is personal equation needed outside of astronomy ; and allowance must be made for error in all observations of events. The most candid of witnesses is partly untrustworthy, because he cannot avoid mixing himself with what he has seen or heard.
As it is with events, so it is with great men. What our heroes are, somewhat depends upon what we, ourselves, are. We admire in them what we are, or would love to be. Ideals are a revelation of a man's true character. Our conception of God is a reflection of ourselves.
"First God made man, and straightway man made God.
What wonder if the tang of that same sod
Whereout we issued with a breath should cling
To all we fashion? We can only plod,
Led by a starvling candle, and we sing
Of what we can remember of the road."
The Founder of Christianity has not escaped misunderstanding and misrepresentation. His character has been made to conform to the prevailing characteristics of the people and of the age. Those who loved metaphysical speculation, made him an idea to be de-bated. Those who admired conquest and imperialism, made him a King. Those who resolved religion into form and elaborate ritual, made him a high priest. He was Pope of all the popes. Adapting a famous passage from Max Müller it may be truly said : Like all men, Christ has had his history; the Christ of the twentieth century is not that of the Middle Ages; the Christ of the Middle Ages was not that of the early Councils ; and the Christ of the early Councils was not that of the Gospels.
Our days are trying to go back of all these partial and passing forms to find their original and enduring source. They are passing by the Christ of the creeds, that they may arrive more quickly at the Christ of the spirit.
When a precious metal is assayed its baser ingredients are separated and thrown away. The original mass is thereby made smaller, but that which remains is more valuable. So our rational age is assaying the mass of theology. Its bulk is reduced, but that which is left is more precious. The cutting of a diamond is severe, but it is necessary. Only thus is its concealed lustre revealed. So the task of rationalism is painful, but it is inevitable. When the mass of encumbering dogma is removed, the spiritual beauty of Christ that remains will more than compensate for the labor and pain.
Every historic religion is, in part, a product of reformation. Christianity is an amended Judaism; but Judaism is not, itself, an original religion. It came out of something older than itself. The same is true of Mohammedanism and Buddhism and Confucianism. They are all amendments. Those whose names these religions bear were all men who had become dissatisfied with the old. They thought they saw something better for the world ; and that which, in moments of illumination, they beheld, they tried to realize. That they failed, in part, is common history. A stream, crystal in its purity when it starts from its mountain home, long before it reaches the sea is stained by the soil through which it flows. So when the dream of these Alpine souls descends to the common human plain it loses a part of its purity. Defects of thought and insight, sometimes joined with worldly aims and selfish motives on the part of those who receive it, so mar and change it, that, after a few generations it becomes almost unrecognizable. The simple melody that once had such power to touch the heart and awaken tender memories and longings is hidden beneath brilliant, but perplexing and tiresome variations. Purest air suffers from being breathed but once; and noblest thought degenerates by passing through a single generation of smaller minds. Physical health demands that each breath be drawn directly from the great, uncorrupted atmosphere; and spiritual health demands that all inspiration come to the soul from a pure and original source. Thus it is better to appeal from the partial to the universal in religion ; to minimize the customs and doctrines of Christianity and magnify the spirit of Christ. Beneath all variations made by the performer it is well to listen for the original melody.
At a Friend's meeting, many years ago, there was a controversy concerning the personality and mission of Jesus, some contending for his divinity and sacrificial work, others for his humanity and spiritual example. As the discussion was drawing to its close, with the disputants as far apart as when they began, Elias Hicks rose and calmly said :
"To the Christ who was never crucified, who never died or was buried, and who had no need to rise from the dead, I commend you all."
This sentence is as full of meaning as it is of eloquence. In these days of criticism and skepticism and unsteadiness of conviction, its significance comes with added force. We should all remember that there is a Christ who cannot be helped or hurt by debate ; who cannot be imprisoned either in Joseph's sepulcher or in Nicene Creeds; who is superior to all customs, all times, all changes; and to whom, for guide and inspiration, no soul ever turns in vain.
Some of us can recall a time when the evidences of Christianity were nearly all external. The moral argument was largely absent. Christ's value and standing were proved from his miracles. Becoming a Christian did not consist in being like Christ, but in acknowledging his Deity or his wonder-working power or his atonement.
We now see a great change in this respect. The evidences of Christianity are more internal. They are more moral than physical. Not so much what he did as what he was makes Christ dear to the race. Greater than the few years of his bodily existence are the many centuries of his spiritual influence. There is perhaps as much of an oak tree in the ground as there is in the air. So the world of hidden thought equals the world of visible action. The way to come to Christ is not by studying theology, but by studying his soul. Not by accepting church doctrines, but by becoming imbued with 'his spirit makes a Christian. A Mohammedan saint said: "What is the Kaaba to me? I need God only." So the Christian may say: "What are miracles and doctrines and sacraments to me? I need Christ only,"
Even those who, in theory, retain traditional doctrines, in practice, confess how weakly they are held. More and more they are detaching Jesus from a meta-physical Trinity and are bringing him closer to actual humanity. He is not related so much to the creation of a material universe as to the creation of a moral civilization. The current sermons of the orthodox pulpit contain much less of the Christ of theology than of the Christ of ethics, of philanthropy, and of all forms of goodness. The Christ of miracle is declining, while the Christ of spiritual influence is rising. The cross is still used as a symbol of Christianity, but it is no longer stained with the blood of an atoning sacrifice to appease the wrath of Deity. It is wreathed with the flowers of perpetual human duty and all human ministry. It is more an emblem of life than of death. The blood-stained cross stands only for the event of a day; the flower-decked cross stands for all the centuries. The one represents a defeated body; the other a triumphant soul.
Principles are more important than persons. Every-where, in nature, we find magnetism and gravitation, air and sunshine ; and everywhere, in humanity, we find love and laughter, hope and memory, tears and terror. They are not dependent on particular places or peculiar races. So, although we may sail away until our roof-tree, our church spire, every accustomed headland disappears below the sky-line, as if sinking into a fathomless sea, and we resolutely hold our course toward most distant, unknown shores, yet, wherever we land, we shall find that justice and truth have pre-ceded us. They are no more dependent upon names and places than gravitation is dependent upon one star, or growth upon one tree, or chemistry upon one substance, or beauty upon one rose. The moral law is universal and eternal; events and persons are local and temporary.
Of this law, Jesus of Nazareth is pre-eminent illustration. For centuries, to millions of humankind, his name has been so allied with it that no distinction was made between them. The symbol and the thing symbolized were inseparable. Nevertheless, we must re-member that there was virtue in the world before he came. He is doubtless a cause, but he was first an effect of goodness. Thinking of summer, we recall sunshine, but sunshine creates summer, not summer the sunshine. So thinking of Christ recalls religion, but religion made Christ and not Christ religion: He was a Palestine illustration of a world-wide principle.
For great persons we have nothing but admiration.
Through them truth, goodness, and beauty find an inlet to the world. Of original insight, of high aims, of steadfast purpose, among all confusing noises of earth they detect the voice of heaven ; piercing all swathing veils they have glimpses of something beyond sense and circumstance; among all entangled roads they find the one leading to the excellent. These are they who sing anew the songs for their coming and going nation ; reproduce its forms of beauty ; re-state its laws; reform its religion; and disclose higher ideals to their countrymen. To them we freely give our praise.
Nevertheless, they belong to time and cannot command forever. Moses may fill the horizon of Palestine for ten, and Confucius that of China for twenty-four centuries, but neither ten nor twenty-four centuries are all of time. Paul left the stamp of his mind on the new religion of Palestine,an impression so deep that the rains and frosts of eighteen hundred years have not effaced it. But the end of human history is still far away, and he may become as unreal and spectral as Cadmus or Melchizedek. Time devours all his children. The brightest star will at last burn out and only reflect a borrowed light. So the most lustrous name finally becomes so dim that it can cast no ray across the awful expanse of darkness lying between it and the present affairs of mankind. Although he may be among the greatest that ever lived and by his feats of art or arms filled his age with his fame, what is a person but an agent of something greater than him-self? He is chosen to do a certain thing. But when his life work is accomplished, what is he? He was clay moulded into form to hold a sacred fire. But when his work is done, the flame goes out and the form mingles with its native dust. He is remembered for a time because of the flame that once burned with-in and then he is forgotten.
"Can storied urn, or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?"
But the flame itself? It is self-nourishing, inextinguishable, and lo! it is seen shining as brightly in some other mortal form.
By which is meant that, with the perishable person, there is an imperishable spirit. Life halts ; but its purpose goes onward. Many of the historic and legendary heroes have become pale and shadowy forms and some have long since vanished into indistinguishable mist and gloom. But that which made them heroes shows no sign of disappearing. It is ruddy and strong with immortal youth. Hercules has fallen out of history into mythology, but the strength and bravery, of which he was illustration, in that old fore-world, have not fallen with him. Homer is in the realm of shades, but poetry is still in the land of perpetual brightness. Zeuxis and Apelles now exist only as names, but the beauty they sought to realize is as powerful as ever it was. Jubal and Orpheus are now only used for illustration. They are symbols of ancient music. But there is always music in the world. Its presence is universal and unceasing. The birds in the trees are its agents. So are the winds in the woods ; and the brooks among the hills ; and the waves beating against cliffs or rippling over sedgy sands; and those unwritten harmonies which, in blessed hours, seem to come from afar and sound in the heart like choirs of angels. Our modern composers only retune and retouch a harp that has always been and shall forever be in the world. Should the names of Beethoven and Mozart become as fabulous as Apollo and Arion, other hands will come and sweep its marvelous strings. Far away is Gautama Buddha. In his career fact and fable are so commingled that they cannot be untangled. But the spirit of self-renunciation, which made him willing to be the lowliest and loneliest of mortals that he might find the supreme illumination for himself and his countrymen,this is not far away and can never become fabulous.
The same law applies to Christianity. Names and persons may be spared, if only its divine meaning remains. The reputed followers of Christ have some-times exalted form above spirit. In their zeal to make prominent incidents and anecdotes connected with his brief career they have too much neglected his divine motives and sentiments. Understanding his relation to the Mosaic age, or his genealogy, or his place in a Trinity has been made of far more importance than his inspiration to holy living. Holding an established and conventional theory concerning his personality, or his relation to a covenant of grace, or atonement, or his birth, or his resurrection, has been made a test of worthiness to be called his follower, rather than par-taking of his noble character and, fired by the enthusiasm of a brave example, gladly sacrificing ease for duty and private aims for universal good. When he said: "The flesh profiteth not, it is the spirit that giveth life," it was to prevent such mistakes.
Here may none of us help perpetuate that error. Christianity is not a name, nor a creed, nor a ritualism, nor a ceremony, but a divine Spirit to regenerate and refine and exalt civilization. For its authority and influence it is not dependent upon texts or traditions or majorities. Its power is in itself. Knowing that the early years of Christ are partly veiled from sight, that many reported incidents cannot be read as history and that opinions concerning him have come and gone, we must despair of finding certainty in the great case. It is seen that the Christ of middle-age Catholicism, of sixteenth century Protestantism and of nineteenth century Revivalism is partial and formal. It is therefore the duty of the twentieth century to find a Christ that is universal and spiritual. It need not look for him in Palestine, for he is not there. Nor in church history, for he is not there. Nor in creeds and catechisms, for he is not there. Rather must it look for him in the noble motives and duties of humanity, present and future. Where slaves are freed, where the fallen are lifted, where the sorrowful are comforted, where the weak are protected, where happiness is gained through righteousness,looking there for the Christ no one will be disappointed.
Motive and goal of all high endeavor, mediator between warring factions of mankind, refiner of civilization, and sole creator of a divine Kingdom on earth, this Christ is worthy of great exaltation. Of his final triumph, prophets may confidently utter their predictions. In his praise, inspired bards may chant their noblest strains. To him, for motive and method, re-formers may always repair. Symbol of the moral and spiritual Ideal, to him saints may breathe their prayers and sing their hymns as to a God. Uncreated and immortal, the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, to this Christ we may well commend each other and commend all coming generations of humankind.


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This week I spent a few hours learning about one school's journey to create a supportive system for the academic and social/emotional/behavioral development of their students. The purpose was to understand how their system worked and to problem solve around areas of need. Our work revolves around helping schools implement comprehensive and supportive systems that are tailored to the building's specific needs.
To guide the conversation, we have a principal packet with key forms and information. The important document is our Multi-Tiered System of Support Planning Tool (fondly referred to as the "Plan-O-Rama".
The first section is vital as it is an area where the specific data-based needs of the school are clarified. This, essentially, is the school's own 'story" around discipline and behavior. All of our work together is designed with this in mind; creating calm, predictable and engaging environments is the goal.
Here is what I learned about this school
- They are a large elementary nestled in a large district with a fairly "needy" population of students (compared to other schools in their district)
- They have a dozen newly hired teachers and more seasoned teachers as well. All are bright, innovative and dedicated
- They were able to hire two educators to develop a tier-two plan for supporting the teaching of social/emotional and behavioral skills to students in need. They work directly with just under 100 students. These educators also provide coaching and support to classroom teachers. They support the Success Room.
- Students who do not respond well to tier-two interventions are taken to the next level of support with a highly individualized plan just for them. They have a team that meets regularly to help classroom teachers design these support plans.
- The school has a well-detailed body of expectations that are taught to teachers, students and parents. The entire discipline system is embodied in their expectations. Many pro-active and supportive pieces exist within this framework, pulling from the philosophies of Conscious Discipline and other programs.
- They collect and use data around referrals, analyzing the types of problems the school experiences as well as where problems occur. Interventions are created based on need. The entire staff participates in these problem solving sessions.
- As with most schools, many difficulties happen in the classroom. It is possible that teachers are inconsistent in how they prevent and respond to mild disruptions. Routines may not be established. Teachers may benefit from discussion and learning around classroom organization, routines, expectations and teaching and practicing what they want to see.
The Plan
This is a great school. Much thinking has gone into the culture they have created. There are so many strengths; areas of need appear to be located at the classroom level. While teachers are motivated and engaged, there may be some areas for them to grow.
- a needs assessment will be sent to individual teachers around the systems and organization of their individual classroom environment
- two days of professional learning will be tailored specifically to the self-identified needs of the school
- a plan for "roll-out" and follow-up coaching will be designed with the entire staff
- coaching will be designed with a way to evaluate effectiveness using original goals as the target


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The DOSS Social Heartbeat Committee is responsible for organising and promoting social activities within the department.
The committee kicked off with a Pizza Lunch and Discussion meeting on Friday, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:30pm.
Since then it has organised many events, including the highly successful 40th anniversary celebration on April 28, 2017.
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Universal reveals a 4-film/4K Jurassic Park: 25th Collection, plus Talking Blu on Star Wars: The Last Jedi!
All right, this is just a quick post today with some big release news and updates...
First, Tim's got a stack of Blu-ray titles he's working his way through for review, while I've got reviews of Three Billboards, Dark Crystal, and Murder on the Orient Express in 4K Ultra HD all in the works. So watch for those to start going up tomorrow and Monday. And sometime late next week… Justice League 4K.
Also here at The Bits, today, we've got a new update for you of the Release Dates & Artwork section with lots of fresh Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover art and Amazon pre-order links. Remember, whenever you shop Amazon through our links, it makes a big difference for us here in terms of keeping The Bits going. So thank you for doing so!
Now then... the big news today is more 4K: Universal has just revealed its 4-film/8-disc Jurassic Park: 25th Anniversary Collection for release on 5/22 (SRP $79.88), which will include Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Jurassic Park III, and Jurassic World each on both 4K UHD and Blu-ray. [Read on here...]
Disney & Lucasfilm officially announce Star Wars: The Last Jedi for Blu-ray, DVD & 4K UHD on 3/27
All right, just as we expected, Disney and Lucasfilm have just officially announced director Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi for Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release on 3/27, with the Digital/Movies Anywhere release set for 3/13.
Here's something exciting for 4K fans from the press release: "This release will mark Disney's first title available on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc in both Dolby Vision™ HDR and Dolby Atmos® immersive audio, delivering consumers a transformative viewing experience." [Read on here...]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi should be announced this week, plus new BD/4K reviews & more
All right… today is the President's Day holiday here in the States, but we do have a couple of announcements for you today...
First, if our retail, industry, and studio sources are correct, Disney and Lucasfilm are expected to announce the Blu-ray, DVD, 4K Ultra HD, and Digital release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi this week, possibly as soon as tomorrow. If and when that happens, we'll have all the official details and cover artwork for you ASAP. [Read on here...]
The Disaster Artist, The House That Dripped Blood, Drive-In Delirium: V3, Solo trailer & more
Afternoon, folks. Let's get right to business today...
First up, Tim has posted a review of Ian Curteis' The Projected Man (1966) on Blu-ray Disc from our friends at Scream Factory. Do give it a look.
Also today, our own Michael Coate has just posted a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column celebrating the 50th anniversary of John Boorman's Point Blank with historian Dwayne Epstein. It's a fun interview, so be sure to check it out.
In announcement news today, Lionsgate has set A24's The Florida Project for Blu-ray and DVD release on 2/13, followed by The Disaster Artist on both formats on 3/13. [Read on here…]
Best Buy ads reveal Star Wars: The Last Jedi street date of 3/27, plus Solo & new Lionsgate 4K UHDs
This is just a quick Super Bowl Sunday post here to bring you news that Best Buy is now running ads that reveal the street date for Disney and Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD. The date is 3/27, just as we've said here at The Bits for weeks now. It seems reasonable to assume that the official announcement by the studio is close, so stay tuned.
Thanks to Bits reader Bryan Pistole for the art. Continue on below the break to see it for yourself. [Read on here…]
Darkest Hour announced for 2/27, plus This Is Cinerama: Deluxe Edition, LEGO: The Flash & more
Before we get started today, we've posted the latest update of the Release Dates & Artwork section featuring all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, we appreciate it very much when you use our links to order items from Amazon, so thank you for doing so!
Now then, we've got more release news for you today…
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just announced Joe Wright's Darkest Hour for Blu-ray and DVD release on 2/27, with the Digital release set for 2/6. There is no 4K Ultra HD release currently planned. Extras will include audio commentary by Wright and two featurettes (Into Darkest Hour and Gary Oldman: Becoming Churchill). As some of you know, this film was just nominated for Best Picture in the forthcoming Academy Awards and Oldman was nominated for Best Actor. You can see the cover artwork at left and below. [Read on here…]
X-Files: Season 11, Yor reviewed on BD, Twilight's April slate & Oscar nominations announced
We're starting the day with a new Blu-ray review from our own Tim Salmons, who takes look at Antonio Margheriti's Yor, the Hunter from the Future: 35th Anniversary Edition from Mill Creek Entertainment. The title streeted last Tuesday and is now available. You can read that here.
In release news today, Amazon is now taking pre-orders on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's The X-Files: The Complete Season 11 on Blu-ray and DVD ($29.99 and $19.99). Street date is still TBA.
Our friends over at Twilight Time have announced their April Blu-ray release slate, which is set to include Paul Schrader's Auto Focus (2002), Philip Dunne's Blue Denim (1959), Jacques Demy's Model Shop (1969), and Martin Ritt's No Down Payment (1957). [Read on here…]
Kino sets Topaze & Lion in Winter for BD, plus new Wacky Races, Ichi the Killer & more
We're closing out the week today with another pair of new Blu-ray reviews from Tim, including JD's Revenge from Arrow Video and also Attack Force Z from Umbrella Entertainment. Do give them a look.
In announcement news today, Lionsgate has set Hèctor Hernández Vicens's Day of the Dead: Bloodline for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 2/6.
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has revealed that it will release Topaze (1933) on Blu-ray and DVD on 3/6. Extras will include audio commentary by film historian Kit Ellinger and a trailer. Better still, Kino will release a The Lion in Winter: 50th Anniversary Edition (1968) on Blu-ray and DVD on 3/13, mastered from a 2016 4K restoration, featuring audio commentary by director Anthony Harvey, an interview with sound recordist Simon Kaye, both 5.1 and 2.0 audio, and the trailer. You can see the cover artwork for both below. [Read on here…]
Criterion's April slate, plus Legion, Fear the Walking Dead, Last Jedi artwork & more on HDR & physical media
We've got another Blu-ray review for you today from Tim: A look at Warner Archive's new Blu-ray release of Freebie and the Bean. You can find that here.
We've also updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. You'll find that here.
Meanwhile, the big news today is that Criterion has just announced their April Blu-ray release slate, which is set to include Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth (Cat #917 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates (Cat #918 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 4/17, and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (Cat #920 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Jim Jaramusch's Dead Man (Cat #919 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 4/24. They're also releasing Eclipse Series 46: Ingrid Bergman's Swedish Years on DVD on 4/10, including The Count of the Old Town (1935), Dollar (1938), Intermezzo (1936), Walpurgis Night (1935), A Woman's Face (1938), and June Night (1940). [Read on here…]
Disney & Pixar set Coco for release on BD/4K in Feb, plus Last Jedi art leak & a few words about HDR formats
All right, we're wrapping up the week with a big title announcement and additional release news, some new disc reviews, and a few words about HDR. But first, those reviews...
Tim has just turned in his thoughts on a trio of great new Blu-ray titles, including MVD's The Man from Earth: Special Edition, Warner Archive's The Green Slime, and Synapse's Suspiria: 40th Anniversary Edition Steelbook. All three packages are quite good and well worth a look, so do check them out when you have time.
Now then... let's have that big title news: Disney and Pixar have just announced Coco for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 2/27, with the digital and Movies Anywhere release expected on 2/13. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release will feature HDR10 and Dolby Atmos audio, while the 4K digital release will feature HDR10 or Dolby Vision with Dolby Atmos audio. The Blu-ray will feature English 7.1 DTS-HD MA. [Read on here…]
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An eighth Irish Republican Army guerrilla in Maze prison went on a hunger strike Monday to demand political status, the Northern Ireland Office said. The prisoner, Laurence McKeown, is serving five life sentences for attempted murder of a policeman and causing four explosions.
Four guerrillas have already starved themselves to death in the campaign, and Roman Catholic nationalist sources said another, Joe McDonnell, is confined to bed in the prison hospital after over 50 days of fasting.


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