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Chevy Cruze is rare pleasurable compact car
Compact cars are usually more pragmatic than pleasurable, but the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze Eco is an exception to the rule.
Yes, even on family-car duty for a week, and again for an additional week while my family was on vacation, we were quite comfortable in the Cruze Eco, a high-mileage trim that uses lightweight wheels with low-rolling-resistance tires, different gearing and aerodynamic treatments to achieve higher gas mileage than the other Cruze trims. Its great gas mileage made all of my errand-running a lot less painful when it was time to fill up at the gas pump; this car stayed true to the fuel-economy numbers on the sticker. The trunk handled our stroller and kid gear just as well as it handled our luggage on vacation, and with a spacious cabin (for its class), the three of us were a happy family in the Cruze.
The thing I usually dread most about driving a compact car is the tin-can feeling. However, the Cruze doesn't feel that way at all. I was pleasantly surprised by the smooth ride it delivered, and with my test car's turbocharged 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine, I had plenty of power to accelerate and keep up with traffic on the freeway. I found its handling and responsiveness to be another pleasant surprise. It delivered one of the best driving experiences I've had in this segment.
The more I drove the Cruze, the more I liked it. Smaller families shouldn't let its compact status deter them; it's a great option.
The 2013 Chevrolet Cruze starts at $17,940, including an $810 destination charge. My higher-trim Cruze Eco test car with a six-speed manual transmission and a 7-inch touch-screen with the MyLink multimedia system and a navigation system cost $23,085.
There's plenty to rave about with the 2013 Cruze, but its exterior looks aren't one of them. They're not offensive; the Cruze Eco looks like a typical compact car with styling that's not particularly eye-catching. However, it's a huge improvement over its predecessor, the Chevrolet Cobalt. The Cruze Eco isn't a book to be judged by its cover.
Aside from looks, the Cruze scores points on ease of use when loading and unloading the trunk, and adults and children should enter and exit the car without problems. I was especially pleased that I didn't bump my head on the roofline when leaning in to get my daughter strapped into her child-safety seat.
When my family of three drove a Cruze on vacation as our rental car, we hauled two rolling suitcases, a portable crib, a diaper bag, a stroller and a gaggle of toddler toys for a week. Almost everything fit in the trunk, but our portable crib had to be stowed on the second row's floor until we reached our destination. If we had two children in the car and less stuff, the Cruze could have accommodated us as well. At 15.4 cubic feet, the trunk is large for its class, and I was amazed at all we fit inside it throughout the week. Access is easy; loading it up is painless, and if you need more room, there is a 60/40-split folding backseat.
Possibly one of the most family-friendly features about the Chevy Cruze is its fantastic fuel economy, especially on the Eco trim. During a weekend filled with driving around Los Angeles, I averaged 42 mpg, which my husband and I deemed a hybrid-worthy number.
The Cruze Eco has a 138-horsepower, turbocharged 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine, and with a six-speed manual transmission, it gets an EPA-estimated 28/42 mpg city/highway and uses regular unleaded gas. The Cruze Eco with a six-speed automatic transmission gets 26/39 mpg. A Cruze 1LT with the same turbo four-cylinder and a six-speed manual gets 26/38 mpg.
Family Friendly (Not Really, Fair, Great, Excellent): More Than Fair/Less Than Great
Fun-Factor (None, Some, Good Times, Groove-On): Some
The Cruze's interior made me forget it was a compact car; it had details normally not found in the hard-plastic-lined competitors in its class. Fabric trim on the door panels extends onto the dash, which also has brushed metal-looking finishes. The interior bucks all budget-friendly vehicle stereotypes.
The Cruze is a five-seater, but it only seats four adults comfortably. The backseat easily accommodated my daughter's rear-facing convertible car seat. Of course, the front passenger didn't have a lot of legroom with the car seat behind him. Compare that to when I tested the Toyota Corolla, my adult passenger preferred sitting in the second row behind the driver's seat rather than in the front passenger seat with the safety seat behind her.
Although the interior is somewhat roomy for a compact car, the Cruze's storage is limited. There are two cupholders in the front row with a small center console that housed a USB input, but there are no cubbies or bins under the center stack for quickly stashing sunglasses or loose change. All the doors have bottleholders, which was fortunate because the backseat doesn't have any cupholders on the Eco trim. There's only one seatback pocket, too. It wasn't a problem for my family, but if storage cubbies are your thing, you might find the Cruze lacking.
If tech is a top priority for your family, the Cruze will be exciting. It has a color 7-inch touch-screen and the Chevy MyLink multimedia system, which I found intuitive and easy to use. Bluetooth streaming audio and an available navigation system ($795) kept things from feeling "cheap" inside such a practical car.
Storage Compartments (Puny, Fair, Ample, Galore): Fair
Cargo/Trunk Space (Puny, Fair, Ample, Galore): Ample
The 2013 Chevrolet Cruze received an overall safety rating of five stars of five from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It earned five stars in the frontal and side crash tests and four stars in the rollover test. It's also been named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Cruze received the top score of Good in frontal, side, rear and rollover tests.
The Cruze has standard front-wheel drive, an electronic stability system, traction control, a subscription to OnStar and 10 airbags, including side curtains for both rows and rear side-impact airbags. Antilock brakes with brake assist also are standard, though it should be noted that the Eco trim has front disc and rear drum brakes.
What I really liked most was the optional Enhanced Safety Package ($790) on my test car. It has a blind spot warning system, rear parking sensors and rear cross-traffic alert, which was most handy. One of the strip malls I frequent has a hairy parking situation with lots of traffic behind the parking spots. Backing out into the moving traffic is tricky, especially if there's larger, longer vehicles parked beside you. When I was in the Cruze Eco, I'd back out slightly at first and the backup camera and rear cross-traffic alert would give me a view and visual warnings on each side if there was a car approaching from either direction. It was an invaluable feature to have.
Our daughter's rear-facing convertible fared well in the Cruze. Months later when we drove a Cruze with her in a forward-facing convertible, it fit even better. The front passenger had much more legroom. The two sets of lower Latch anchors are a bit buried under the seat bight, where the back and bottom cushions meet, but I was able to access them without a struggle.
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I myself have heard friends make unsupported claims that working out on an empty stomach is more effective, or that people should wait a certain amount of time after exercising to eat. Because I've been wondering whether it's better to eat before or after I exercise, and more specifically, which foods I should be eating to support a physically active lifestyle, I reached out to our own Dr. Amadeus Mason to get answers to my questions.
My first question for Dr. Mason was: Do you recommend eating before or after a workout? Does your recommendation change whether the workout type is cardio-based or strength training?
Dr. Mason's answer was extremely helpful, "Eating after exercise is pretty much the standard recommendation now. But what you're eating is actually more important than when you eat it. For people who exercise often, high carbohydrates, moderate protein levels and increased fluid intake is important." He noted though, that "carbs are the most important."
After hearing this, I was curious. I typically like to avoid making my diet too heavy in carbohydrates, but I trust Dr. Mason and knew that he would help clarify this concern. So I asked, what is your daily recommendation for carbohydrate intake for people who work out regularly?
Again, Dr. Mason came through with some great answers, "I recommend 6-10 g/kg/day of carbohydrates." Wait, I thought, 'g/kg/day!? What does that even mean!?" G/kg/day is a reference to the grams of carbohydrates a person should intake daily, depending on their weight, in kilograms. I personally don't know my weight in kg and I'm sure I'm not the only one. If you're looking to calculate your personal ideal g/kg/day carbohydrate number, you can convert your body weight into kg here.
Once I understood that concept, Dr. Mason broke down the details on when I should be intaking these carbohydrates. "You should consume 1/5g/kg within 30 minutes of exercising and an additional 1.5g/kg within 2 hours of your workout. You should seek to consume remaining 3-7g/kg over the course of the day."
That's extremely helpful information. To keep your body functioning at peak performance and make your workouts more effective, it's really not so much about whether you eat before or after you workout as it is about what you're eating and how you're breaking it up. One last cool tip from Dr. Mason? "Try high carbohydrate liquids too, such as chocolate milk, which is great for supporting workouts."
Thanks Dr. Mason for helping me answer these questions for both my own workout practices and our readers!
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By Veronica Batton, CFCA writer/editor
What's one thing sponsored friends like to receive more than letters from their sponsors? Photos from their sponsors, of course!
Photos are a great way to show you care. Sponsored friends can look at a photo of their sponsor and know that someone, somewhere, is rooting for them to succeed.
My friend, Thilothammal in Chennai, India, has been asking me for a photo. Instead of sending her a regular photo of my husband and me, I decided to take my craft skills to the next level.
Get ready to love this.
D.I.Y.: Collage photo frame
(Difficulty level: super easy)
Materials needed:
Paper frame (If you can't find a pre-made paper frame, you can use a photo matte board.)
Glue or tape
A collection of photos
A photo of you holding your friend's picture
1. Purchase a paper frame or photo matte board.
2. Begin by collecting several photos of you, family members, scenery from around your home and things you love. (These photos will be placed around the frame.)
3. If your photos are digital and stored on a media device, like an SD card, then you can take your device to your local photo center and have your photos reprinted in wallet size. (Some photo centers have the option to upload and print your photos from Facebook.)
You can also use photos you already have and cut them to fit around the frame.
If you have a color printer, and don't mind using a lot of ink, you can do what I did and print your wallet-size photos at home. I resized my photos to 2 inches by 2 inches, so they fit around the frame. (This step requires a bit of extra effort.)
4. Find your sponsored friend's most recent photo and have someone take your picture holding his/her picture. Print this photo when you print your wallet-size photos.
5. Once you have all of your photos together, begin by gluing or taping them to the outside of the paper frame (see below). Your photos may overlap and some may be larger than others. That's OK! It's not supposed to be completely symmetrical.
6. Tape or glue photos around entire frame.
7. Take photo from step 4 and place inside paper frame.
8. Write your friend a letter. Explain in the letter that you are always here for support and will give encouragement every step of the way. Your friend can look at the collage photo frame you made and know that someone is surrounding him/her with love.
Love this idea? Let me know! I'd love to hear your D.I.Y. experience or if you have other ideas on ways to jazz up your photos.
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- "I am General Tesler, here to tell you that you are now volunteering for the games."
- ―General Tesler
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The Coliseum was a massive, circular arena utilized to hold games such as Disc Wars in Argon City. It was constructed by General Tesler shortly after his takeover of the area.
After the renegade program, Beck, destroyed a statue of Clu himself, General Tesler decided to bring the Games to Argon City. In order to capture the renegade, Tesler gathered "volunteers" to compete in the Coliseum. The General commissioned dozens of Light Railcars to transport the competitors to the Coliseum, but one car -- with Zed and Mara among the "volunteers" -- was sabotaged by Beck in order to free the captured programs.
Later, Beck fell among a number of programs who had been arrested by Tesler's forces for breaking Argon's new curfew and were being sent to the Coliseum to compete in the games. There, he met a program named Cutler who agreed that, in time, programs would rise up against Clu. The two survived both Disc Wars and Light Cycle tournaments, but, at Pavel's suggestion, General Tesler had them duel against each other for freedom. Cutler forfeited so that Beck would be freed and allowed to live. Later, as Cutler was transported from the Coliseum, Beck returned in the guise of the Renegade and rescued him.
On another occasion, Tesler ordered all of Argon's residents to gather in the Coliseum to hear about a reward offered for information leading to the Renegade's capture. This prize, a Light Roadster shown off by three Sirens, remained in the middle of the Coliseum until it was claimed.
Despite the deadly, gory nature of the Games -- one doomed program described the sight of someone derezzing as "disgusting" -- the Coliseum, like the Arena in Tron City, drew huge crowds of spectators to cheer and howl for their fellow programs' demise.


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Sailin' on, sailin' on,
I can hear sweet voices singin, hear sweet music playin',
Sailin' on, sailin' on,
Oh, I wish you were here with me when I'm sailin on.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sailing On
17 comments:
- Anonymous7/29/10, 9:53 AM
Sailin' On by Bad Brains is way better.ReplyDelete
- Stultus Magnus7/29/10, 9:53 AM
Happy to hear that you will be sticking around even though posts won't be all that frequent. My favorite WPA chart this year? This:ReplyDelete
Also liked your screen capture of this peeved fan:
- Stultus Magnus7/29/10, 9:56 AM
"Sail On, Sail On" by NRBQ...ReplyDelete
Good move, fellas. This shouldn't be an obligation. When you write, we'll read.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to the "less is more"
I guess that's okay with me. But because I am only mostly lazy, I will not step back from checking the site a couple times a day, hoping to be pleasantly surprised that there's something new up.ReplyDelete
What Mode said.ReplyDelete
This is a tough loss; as I'd mentioned to Jay a little while back FY became my de facto Yankee blog after RAB. The combination of intelligence, levity and humor readers were treated to day after day at Fack Youk was unsurpassed, and the Yankee blogosphere simply won't be the same.
That being said, I certainly don't blame you for scaling things back. Blogging's supposed to fun; not feel like an obligation. I don't look forward to the day when I inevitably burn out, though hopefully hat won't be for a while.
Still looking forward to whatever you guys do end up posting here.
All of the comments above share parts of my sentiment. When I used to work for Comcast on the overnight shift, I would read LoHud, RAB, RLYW, Banter, WW, NoMaas, Bronx Block/Pending Pinstripes (most of those writers now at TYU) and the official website as well. That dwindled as I had less time to LoHud and RAB. RAB posted a link to here and after seeing it a few times decided to start reading here and I have loved it ever since. Daily I come here and always am satisfied (also started back with Banter too) so on a personal level I will miss the numerous posts but completely understand the demands of maintaining a blog and that you guys have lives and want to enjoy this and not feel chained by it. Hope to see you guys able to come back to it soon.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/29/10, 4:29 PM
Ditto a lot of what's been said. As a Yank in Beantown, Fack Youk is just an awesome place to hang with some like minded, hilarious yet thought filled banter. I'll check in but will miss the daily hard nosed wisdom. Thanks for what's already been done and good luck with what's ahead.ReplyDelete
- TedStriker7/29/10, 5:24 PM
Well said fellas. I'll definitely miss the daily updates, hilarious commentary and stellar tunes that highlight this site each and every day. It's safe to say if all my fellow Yanks fans didn't get to this site the past year, they really missed out.ReplyDelete
I wish you both luck and hope than when I come stop by, the sporadic posts are just as good as the day to day commentary I was used to!
- Jimmy7/29/10, 7:21 PM
Fair winds and following seas. Though only sort of since you aren't completely hanging it up.ReplyDelete
Like every one else, I'll miss the well done daily updates and level-headed analysis. But if it's becoming a chore (or at least feeling like one), then you're definitely making the right move. Best of luck!
I'll miss the day to day stuff, but look forward to future posts.. Keep kicking ass guysReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/30/10, 11:41 AM
Find a college kid who has some time to be a third writer ... then you can have him do game to game shit and you guys do your methodical pieces.ReplyDelete
Joba is gay, have a day!
Robertson should be the Yanks setup man. Check out www.thefantasybaseballguru.com leave comments ask qs and follow me on Twitter at beatboston1995ReplyDelete
- Delta Suite takes my $$$7/30/10, 2:58 PM
DAMN, will miss the best Yankee blog in existence.ReplyDelete
So, one more time cuz I hate the FUCK!!!!.................FACK YOOOOUUUUUKKKK!!!, You Fackin'Fack MOTHER FACKER!!!!!
boston SUX!!!!!!
YES!!!11!! no longer will teh internetz be polluted with the daily ASININE drivel of two stock trading hom0 frat boyz who deliverz neither inteeligence or lulz!!! FUCK OFF YANKEE FAGGOTS!!!ReplyDelete
- Mode7/30/10, 5:45 PM
Hey Jeff, I thought the chemical castration in lieu of jail time ws supposed to help you calm down, No?ReplyDelete
just keep us posted guys, you dudes rule!ReplyDelete


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #50
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear,
Now to his temple draw near,
Join me in glad adoration.
Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth,
Shelters thee under his wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
Hast thou not seen
How thy desires e'er have been
Granted in what he ordaineth?
Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee!
Surely his goodness and mercy here daily attend thee;
Ponder anew
What the Almighty will do,
If with his love he befriend thee!
Praise thou the Lord, who with marvelous wisdom hath made thee,
Decked thee with health, and with loving hand guided and stayed thee.
How oft in grief
Hath not he brought thee relief,
Spreading his wings to o'ershade thee!
Praise to the Lord! O let all that is in me adore him!
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him.
Let the Amen
Sound from his people again;
Gladly for aye we adore him.
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AOpen Aeolus 7800 GTX-DVD256 (GeForce 7800 GTX)
Vincent Chang
Vijay Anand
Thursday, 8th September, 2005
out of 5 stars
AOpen Flies in with the Aeolus
While AOpen may seem like one of your typical Taiwanese manufacturers, which dabbles in everything related to computer hardware, from small form factor computers to notebooks to optical drives, it is actually part of the Acer conglomerate, one of the biggest internationally renowned brand names to emerge from Taiwan. Acer may garner the headlines due to its position as a leading PC manufacturer, but AOpen has built up a decent reputation over the years; the relatively lower profile is a consequence of its business, dealing as it does with less glamorous components like motherboards. With its fingers in almost any hardware segment, it wasn't too long after the launch of the NVIDIA's latest GeForce 7800 GTX card before AOpen introduced its own version, the Aeolus 7800GTX-DVD256.
Named after a minor Greek deity that was the custodian of winds, the Aeolus is powered by the high-end NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip. AOpen has followed the trend and overclocked the Aeolus by a moderate amount, enough to distinguish it from some of the average GeForce 7800 GTX offerings from other vendors. So will the Aeolus soar or burn? Find out after the technical specifications below.
An attractive red and white color scheme for both the card and the box.
AOpen Aeolus 7800 GTX-DVD256 Technical Specifications
Graphics Engine
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX GPU
Stock 2D GPU clock = 275MHz
Stock 3D GPU clock = 450MHz
NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Shading Engine
Vertex Shaders
Support for DX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0
Displacement Mapping
Vertex Frequency Stream Divider (Geometry Instancing)
Infinite length vertex programs (supported in hardware)
Pixel Shaders
Support for DX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0
Full pixel branching support
Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
Infinite length pixel programs (supported in hardware)
Texturing Engine Features
Accelerated textures access
Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
Support for 16-bit and 32-bit floating point formats
Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
DirectX and S3TC texture compression
Full 128-bit FP Precision Graphics Pipeline
Native support for 32 / 64 / 128 bits per pixel rendering modes
64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending
NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology (accelerates shadow computations)
NVIDIA SLI Technology
NVIDIA Intellisample 4.0 Technology
16x Anisotropic Filtering
Adaptive Texture Filtering
Gamma-adjusted Rotated Grid Antialiasing
Transparent multisampling and supersampling modes
Fast antialiasing and compression performance
Loss-less Color, Texture and Z-Data Compression algorithms (in real time)
Fast Z-clear
Support for normal map compression
NVIDIA PureVideo Technology
Dedicated programmable on-chip video processor
MPEG-2 video encode and decode
High Definition MPEG-2 and WMV9 hardware decode acceleration (up to 1080i)
Post Processing Features
Spatial-Temporal De-Interlacing (adaptive)
NTSC 3:2 Pulldown / Bad Edit correction
PAL 2:2 Pulldown correction
High quality 4x5 video scaling and filtering
Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)
Integrated HDTV output (with HDCP support)
Composited Desktop Hardware Engine (for Windows Longhorn)
Advanced Video and Display Functionality
Dual 400MHz RAMDACs that support resolutions of 2048x1536@85Hz
Dual DVO ports for interfacing external TMDS transmitters and external TV/HDTV encoder
nView Multi-display Technology
NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0
Designed for PCI Express x16
Advanced thermal monitoring and thermal management
Graphics Memory
256-bit memory interface
256MB Graphics DDR3 SDRAM (1.6ns)
Default clock rate of 625MHz (effective speed of 1250MHz DDR)
Display Capabilities
Dual 400MHz RAMDACs that support resolutions of 2048x1536@85Hz
Integrated dual TMDS transmitters (DVI 1.0 compliant and HDCP ready)
1x mini-DIN connector (for Video-out)
2x DVI-I connector (for Digital Flat Panel displays, compatible with analog displays with converter)
Drivers & Software
Driver support for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/2000/XP/XP MCE/XP Pro x64, Linux and Macintosh OS (including OS X)
Second Sight
Other Information
PCI Express x16 slot required
Dedicated 6-pin PCIe Molex power connector required (not shared or split)
Power supply rated for 350W or higher recommended by NVIDIA (500W PSU for SLI setup)
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A Philadelphia man is behind bars after he allegedly left his son inside a car while gambling.
On Saturday, police say Danny Ngo, 44, drove to the Parx Casino with his 18-month-old son. Ngo allegedly went inside the casino and left his son inside the car while the temperature outside was nearly 90 degrees.
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Officers with the Bensalem Police and the Parx Casino gathered around the car. Police say Ngo was inside the casino for about 40 minutes before leaving. When he returned to his car, police were there to arrest him, according to investigators.
Ngo is charged with recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of a child. He was sent to the Bucks County prison in lieu of 10 percent of $100,000.


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- Pope Francis, 9/16/13
The Catholic bishops of the United States are pleased to offer once again to the Catholic faithful Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (en Español), our teaching document on the political responsibility of Catholics. This statement represents our guidance for Catholics in the exercise of their rights and duties as participants in our democracy. We urge our pastors, lay and religious faithful, and all people of good will to use this statement to help form their consciences; to teach those entrusted to their care; to contribute to civil and respectful public dialogue; and to shape political choices in the coming election in light of Catholic teaching. The statement lifts up our dual heritage as both faithful Catholics and American citizens with rights and duties as participants in the civil order.
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Friends and family are remembering actor Sherman Hemsley at his funeral service in West Texas by showing video clips of his best known role as George Jefferson on the TV sitcom "The Jeffersons."
About 150 people attended Hemsley's service Wednesday at Cielo Vista Church in El Paso. He died in July but a fight over his estate has delayed his burial.
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Physician-rating websites are biased, study says
Patients posting their opinions about doctors on online ratings websites are much less likely to discuss physicians with low perceived quality and are more prone than offline populations to exaggerate their opinions, according to a paper being presented at a healthcare conference sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
"Patients need high quality information about the most consequential service that they consume: healthcare," said Ritu Agarwal, professor of information systems and director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. "They want and need to be able to make informed choices."
"The Information Value of Online Physician Ratings" is co-authored by Agarwal, Guodong "Gordon" Gao, assistant professor, and PhD candidate Brad Greenwood, both of the Smith School, along with Jeffrey McCullough of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. The researchers will deliver their findings at INFORMS Healthcare 2011 http://meetings2.informs.org/healthcare2011/ on June 20 in Montreal, Quebec. The conference takes place June 20-22 at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. Agarwal is editor-in-chief of the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research.
The authors investigated potential biases among Internet users rating general practitioners on websites such as Angie's List, healthgrades.com, RateMds.com, Vitals.com, and Yelp.com. They looked specifically at the way patients determine which physicians to rate and the intensity of opinions they express.
Citing a 2010 Pew Internet and Life Project survey, the authors write, "Online physician ratings are gaining popularity among patients. The public's demand for this information is striking: 59% of U.S. adults have looked online for health information, and among them 16% have consulted rankings or reviews online of doctors or other providers. Angie's list also found that 76% of its users welcome physician rating information."
Doctors have expressed a contrasting view. The American Medical Association and many physicians have criticized online physician rating services, charging that consumers lack detailed clinical information and that those who input ratings represent a disgruntled minority rather than average patients. They contend that consumer ratings provide negligible or even misleading information.
The authors addressed these concerns in their research.
On the selection of physicians rated, they asked if patients using the online sites review the full range of doctors (including those viewed positively, neutrally, and negatively); if they are biased toward giving negative reviews to doctors (which the authors characterize as "bad mouthing"); or if they are biased toward giving mostly positive reviews (providing what the authors call "sounds of silence" about poor caregivers).
On the selection of opinions to express, the authors investigated if respondents tend toward hyperbole and largely report their most extreme experiences with doctors.
Data for the study was taken from four data sets: online data from RateMDs.com, one of the largest American physician rating services; an offline patient survey conducted by the consumer advocacy group Consumers' Checkbook for the cities of Denver, Memphis, and Kansas City; the U.S. Census 2007 Economic Census, which was a source of information about population and median income in the three cities examined; and state medical board websites.
The authors came to two major conclusions that give credence to concerns about bias among respondents to online physicians rating services.
First, they find that physicians with low ratings in offline surveys are less likely to be rated online, therefore supporting the "Sound of Silence" effect in selecting what physicians to rate.
Second, although authors find a strong correlation between the online ratings and offline population opinion, the association is strongest in the lowest quartile of opinions. These results suggest that online ratings are more informative when identifying low-quality physicians, but not as effective in discerning high quality physicians from median ones. The authors also confirm that patients are most likely to provide ratings for their most flagrant or negative experiences with physicians.
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Things are grim on Sera in Gears of War 3. People—important ones, even—are dying. The Lambent seem to be ready to overrun the entire planet. The whole game's one big emo-pocalypse.
Good thing, Epic laid a bunch of Easter eggs through the best-selling shooter. So far we've seen the Cluckshot, Cole Train on a playground and a reference to Cliff Bleszinski's old-school Jazz Jackrabbit game way back in the multiplayer beta.
The latest hidden gag lets you play a decrepit stand-up arcade machine called Sawed-Off Chicken. It takes a little hunting to find it and a few kicks to get the thing going, but once it starts, you get to control an angry bird wearing a COG helmet and dual-wielding two lethal shotties. Mr. Chicken faces up against a horde of Lambent Polyps, just like Marcus and crew do. With this latest Easter egg, can a Jazz Jackrabbit revival be far behind?
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Below, you'll also find my review of THE FUTURE OF US. You may notice I say nothing about the awesomeness of the authors. I wanted to focus on the book, because that's what reviews do. But let it be known, they are awesome, in that same way that cereal covered donuts are awesome.
by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
Summary: It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet.
Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM.
Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.
Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.
Teenagers from 1996 stumbling across some time warp glitch in a computer to discover their Facebook identities fifteen years later? SOLD. In fact, I liked the premise so much I was a little dubious. So often I get excited about a book only to read it and find myself curling into a fetal position, ripping my hair out in clumps. But, just so you know, one day. That's it. That's what it took me to read this book. I set aside my entire life just to read this. Happily.
Okay, so I love 1996. For obvious reasons. So I won't mention them here. But I will say those reasons make it into the book. You'll see. If you were a teenager in 1996 and on Facebook today, reading THE FUTURE OF US makes you feel like you're a part of a secret club where you know the secret handshake and all the inside jokes. BUT. The cool thing is you don't have to have been a teenager in 1996 to get it. And to love it. You don't have to have been alive, even. If you're a teenager today, you'll read it and probably scoff at the idiocy of us poor schmucks who carted around gigantic Discmans to go jogging, in the same way we old people laugh at those even older people who wore plaid bell bottoms like on purpose. So, there's that aspect of it--laughing at prehistoric times, which always makes for good reading.
But also, and more importantly, there's a story here. A solid, beautiful story. Friendship, love, hopes, dreams, fears--everything all teenagers face whether it's 1996 or 2011. Indeed, everything we face at any age. But as teens, we don't always know that. It's impossible to imagine a life of experience when our experiences have been so limited. So, yeah, we all want to see our futures because there's just no picture our minds can realistically conjure of them yet, not as teens (or maybe ever). But man, how dangerous if it actually happens, right? Have we learned nothing from BACK TO THE FUTURE? Well, yeah, that getting a view of your grown-up self makes for glorious fiction. I still get a huge kick out of stories like THIRTEEN GOING ON THIRTY, BIG and now THE FUTURE OF US. It's an exploration of possibility and consequence. As teenagers, many of us said we had no idea what we wanted out of our lives, but really, come on, we knew. We knew. And we sort of thought we'd get it right? A happy ending. Pshaw! Here's what you learn in THE FUTURE OF US: there's no such thing as a happy ending. Or a sad ending. Err...or an ending. There's just a happy or a sad now, your choice.
What I love most, and what makes this such an original story is that these characters don't actually travel to the future. They merely get to see it, AND see how the things they do (and change) in the present affect those fragile futures of theirs. It's a bit of an eye-opener. Just imagine seeing your future change with every choice you make, small or big--how powerful you might feel, and equally helpless, because not all actions are within our control. THE FUTURE OF US is more than just a cool comedy/fantasy/romance about two teenagers who get to see their futures on Facebook. It's a poignant exploration of identity and longing and a touching look into the lives of two teenagers who circumnavigate extraordinary circumstances to find each other in their ordinary lives.
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The acute drought that has driven an estimated 300,000 Syrian farmers, herders, and their families to abandon home for makeshift urban camps may not be the worst in the region's history; the Fertile Crescent has often experienced cycles of drought.
But now climate change, an exploitation of water resources, and higher food prices brought about by the global financial crisis have all severely sharpened the impact of this dry spell, now in its fourth year. The numbers of Syrians affected – an estimated 1.3 million, 803,000 of whom have entirely lost their livelihoods – point to a serious humanitarian crisis.
With Syria's population expected to triple by 2025, the severity of the drought presents yet another challenge for a leadership isolated internationally and struggling at home to maintain a broken state system while slowly introducing capitalism.
"It's going to underline for the everyday person the vulnerabilities and inadequacies of the Syrian state," says Joshua Landis, codirector of the University of Oklahoma's Center for Middle East Studies.
Mass emigration compounds Iraqi refugee crowding
Shams Asa Mousa is already too familiar with those.
For more generations than she can remember, her family has grown wheat in Syria's Euphrates river valley. But as a result of the drought, they left their home in the eastern part of the country. Now, she and most of her 10 children sit idle in a tent made of wheat sacks outside of the southern city of Deraa near the Jordanian border, swatting flies, hundreds of miles away from their family home.
The mass migration toward Syria's cities, already overwhelmed with Palestinian and Iraqi refugees, is only the most urgent of the drought's consequences, which also include wide-spread malnutrition, increased illness, and school dropout rates, according to a recent United Nations report.
Asa Mousa's family has been living at the camp for three months without running water and only spurts of stolen electricity, subsisting on bread, rice, yoghurt and sugared tea.
She says no tangible help has come except for a government official who offered the family 20 percent of their Deraa income to return home. The family declined the offer.
"We are totally forgotten," says Asa Mousa. "Sometimes we feel like no one knows we are here."
Aid to Syria a hard sell
The Syrian government and aid agencies have had trouble securing international donor funding to assist herders and farmers, due in part to Syria's bad rap in the West as well as its repressive rules on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at home.
Last October, the United Nations appealed to donors for $20 million dollars in drought-relief aid for Syria, but it has only received $4 million to date.
Without the necessary funding, drought problems accumulated, necessitating even more money. Last month, the UN appealed again, this time for $52.9 million, an amount that would only address the needs of 300,000 drought victims, according to the UN plan.
Aid agency representatives attribute the lack of funding to an appeal that came too late, long after the majority of funds had been pledged last year. Syria, too, is a hard sell.
"We don't have typhoons. We don't have earthquakes. Usually, the country is hosting, not suffering from, the crisis" at hand, says Mostafa Shbib of the UN Development Program's Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Landis, however, says that the poor fundraising is a result of the "demonization" of Syria in the West and Syria's reluctance to welcome NGOs.
"When you don't let NGOs have free reign, they don't go back and lobby in Brussels or Washington or Geneva, so there isn't knowledge out there," he says.
Drought aids urgency to improving ties with Turkey
In addition to prompting a reconsideration of the country's agriculture practices, which include a high volume of illegal well-drilling and inefficient irrigation, the drought has highlighted the importance of Syria's growing diplomatic ties upstream with Turkey, says Prof. Landis.
A Sept. 3 meeting in Istanbul between representatives of both countries and Iraq failed to produce any firm details about the water Turkey had promised to release down the Euphrates, along which it has built several dams in the past 20 years.
But with otherwise improving relations there is "a lot of hope that the issue will be hammered out," Prof. Landis says.
"Ultimately, Syria needs Turkey," he said. "The fact is that Turkey is a very important ally. It has weight with Israel, Europe and America."


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As reported over the weekend by Variety magazine, the two stars of hit UK television comedy Little Britain -- Matt Lucas and David Walliams -- just signed a US movie deal and hence currently have two new Little Britain films on the way, in addition to the US version of their popular British TV show which will air on HBO.
Variety magazine confirmed that the witty UK duo are developing a project with US studio DreamWorks in the US. Meanwhile back in England they are working on a second film project with the British studio Working Title (Hot Fuzz, Atonement, etc.).
The US version of their television show for HBO will be a six-part series will that will air this year on the cable network. The scenario is similar to the production deal that HBO had with Sacha Baron Cohen a few years ago when they produced a US version of his then-popular UK TV show Da Ali G Show (featuring his Borat character) that was adjusted slightly with US audiences in mind.
The new US version of Little Britain, which aired on BBC America in its original form, has been described by its producers as "a sketch show set in contemporary America." In an interview with the BBC, Walliams said that the new HBO version of the TV show will include "some existing characters and writing new material for them, as well as introducing new characters and ideas."
Little Britain, which is available at Amoeba Music on DVD in its original UK TV format, has an interesting history. It started out its life not on TV but as a radio program seven years ago. That led to it becoming a stage show and then the characters went mainstream with their popularity on the BBC TV series that followed. That UK show won them eight Royal Television Society awards, three Baftas and an International Emmy for their stable of funny characters, including Lou and Andy (see clip below when the pair go to the swimming pool -- a sketch that is among the show's most popular).


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Originally, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) was used in the inner foil packaging layer. However, the high levels of camphor and menthol –the active ingredients that make Salonpas so effective –were causing the packaging structure to delaminate, and the foil to corrode. Basically, the active ingredients were permeating through the LDPE sealant layer designed to contain them.
The Solution
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical's operation in Vietnam selected Surlyn® ionomer resin to replace the LDPE, due to its exceptional seal integrity. Unlike LDPE, Surlyn® is not impacted by contact with camphor and menthol. It also provides low sealing temperature, better hot tack, and allows for higher line speeds, compared to LDPE.
Key Advantages
The benefits of switching to Surlyn® for Salonpas foil packaging include:
- Improved seal integrity, with excellent adhesion to foil.
- Excellent flex crack resistance, which eliminates foil corrosion problems.
- Increased packaging line speeds.
Foil packaging made with Surlyn® helps maintain the effectiveness of Salonpas medicated patches, used to provide muscle pain relief worldwide.
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Apple's bionic ARM to muscle advanced gaming graphics into iPhonesThe next generation of iPhone appears set to claim exclusive access to advanced graphics core and video decoding technology, thanks to a secret licensing deal between Apple, mobile graphics leader Imagination Technologies, and Samsung, the iPhone's ARM "system on a chip" manufacturer. The result may be an ideal platform for handheld gaming and high definition video playback.
Imagination's New 3D SGX Core
The current iPhone model and most other mobile devices use a version of the PowerVR MBX graphics processor core developed by Imagination. Mobile processor manufacturers such as Intel, Marvell, Samsung, and Texas Instruments have licensed this core and include it on their SoC or "system on a chip" designs, which pack multiple processing cores, memory, and interface components into a single, tightly integrated package.
The PowerVR MBX graphics core used in Apple's iPhone, the Nokia N95, and other popular phones supports the features of OpenGL ES 1.1. Many mobile chip manufactures have a design license to modify and develop their own SoC parts, which include Imagination's MBX graphics core.
Imagination's next generation graphics core, the PowerVR SGX, introduces OpenGL ES 2.0 support, along with a Universal Scalable Shader Engine that provides mobile devices with highly efficient, shader-based 3D graphics. SGX is not only backwards compatible with code developed for MBX, but also actually runs it with better performance and efficiency.
HD Video with the PowerVR VXD Core
Imagination has also developed VXD decoder codec components capable of playing back high definition video from a mobile device either directly or output to an external display.
The VXD core specializes in highly power efficient decoding, making it possible to handle HD video content with comparable power consumption to existing audio playback chips.
Imagination licenses both its VXD codec cores and the new SGX graphics processor core designs to chip manufacturers, but access to the latest generation of its intellectual property has been negotiated in a new way.
Samsung's Manufacturing License for SGX and VXD
In a press release issued earlier today, Imagination announced signed a licence agreement with Samsung "with respect to certain POWERVR SGX graphics and VXD video IP cores."
The release noted that the license "enables Samsung to manufacture semiconductor devices which integrate these IP cores from Imagination." According to a source familiar with the agreement, this deal is unique in that it is only a manfacturing licence, and is the first time Imagination has issued one on such terms.
The source reports that Samsung does not have a license to design chips that include the cores, only to produce them. This is different from previous licensing agreements related to the MBX graphics core, for which Samsung does have a design license.
The Mysterious Licensee
Last July, Imagination announced a deal to license its "next generation graphics and video IP cores to an international electronics systems company under a multi-use licensing agreement." The electronics system company was not named.
The release stated that "the SoCs to be developed under this license agreement will be produced for this new partner by Imaginations existing semiconductor partners and/or new chip manufacturing partners."
The fact that this "electronics system company" was both a "new partner" and not itself a chip manufacturer strongly suggests that the international electronics mystery company was in fact, Apple, Inc., which stands among very few other companies as new to mobile graphics core licensing yet dependent upon third party manufacturers who are already Imagination partners.
Combined with knowledge that Samsung is now licensing the next generation SGX and VXD designs for manufacturing, this indicates that Apple has secured unique Imagination technology for its own exclusive use, and is using Samsung to manufacture the new SoC parts for future models.
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Li Na Posts Australian Open First Round Win
Sixth seed Li Na has begun her quest to finally clinch the Australian Open -- an event where she has flourished but never taken the top spot -- with a 6-1, 6-3 first-round win over Kazakhstan's Sesil Karatantcheva in one hour and 18 minutes.
In the pair's first meeting, the unseeded world No. 113 had four chances to break China's most successful tennis player in the opening set but was unable to convert any.
Li, 30, won 74% of points on her first serve and placed 21 winners to Karantantcheva's six.
The winner of 2011's French Open, who earlier declared the Australian Open was her favorite Grand Slam, has had her most consistent results in Melbourne, reaching the semi-finals in 2010, the final in 2011 and the fourth round last year. In both 2011 and 2012, Li fell to the now-retired Kim Clijsters.
This year, bookmakers believe Li is the fifth-likeliest female to lift the champion's trophy next weekend, behind Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska.
Li faces Belarusian Olga Govortsova in the second round after the 24 year-old, ranked No.58 in the world, took three sets to overcome France's Pauline Parmentier. Li holds a 2-0 head-to-head advantage over Govortsova, though the pair have not played since 2009.
If Li has time on Tuesday, she'll watch compatriot Wu Di play his first round match against Croatia's Ivan Dodig. It's the first time mainland China has been represented by a male in the main draw of a major since Mei Fuchi played Wimbledon in 1959.
"Of course, he will [get a] little bit nervous probably but I would like to say is good experience for him," Li said.
Wu, the world No. 186, earned the Asia-Pacific wildcard into the year's first Grand Slam in a play-off last October after scoring wins against higher-ranked players from Japan and Thailand.
Taipei qualifier Yung-Jan Chang caused an upset against No. 44-ranked Daniela Hantuchova, winning 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 to set up a clash with either 13th seed Ana Ivanovic or Hungary's Melinda Czink.
Chang's compatriot Kai-Chen Chang fell to 8th seed Samantha Stosur 7-6(3), 6-3 despite her winning record against the Australian. Chang, who turned 22 on Sunday, is yet to progress to the second round of a major.
Stosur next faces China's Zheng Jie who took three sets to defeat countrywoman and wildcard Yuxuan Zhang. Zheng and Stosur have split their six previous meetings though the diminutive Chinese world No. 40 won their most recent meeting in Sydney 6-3, 6-7(7), 6-4.
-- Gillian Tan
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