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Halfway through the World Championship match in Sofia, Bulgaria, reigning king GM Vishy Anand leads 3.5-2.5 over Bulgarian challenger Veselin Topalov. Game seven begins Monday, 5/3/2010. GM Rogers', reported the following Topalov quote from the scene: "Obviously I am not satisfied with the score in the match so far but I aim to improve my play in the second half and I expect also to improve my results."
See GM Ian Rogers' in-depth report on the first four rounds with coverage and analysis of all the decisive games so far. Also see the Couch Potato's Guide to the World Championship Part I and Part II.

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Ferrell's aggression is less overt than Carrey's so was Genghis Khan's but it's there in that Bullwinkle frame, behind those boyish, faintly blobby features. His supporting role in Old School provided the template for most of his starring vehicles: alpha males with omega self-awareness, softies who take to machismo like a baby to lead paint chips. The anchor-stud with the Johnny Wadd mustache who loses his desk; the NASCAR hotshot who loses his pole position; the ass-chewing soccer coach who loses his son's affection Ferrell the bellowing teddy bear makes a desperate joke of bare-chested manliness, never more so than when he's bare-chested.
Stranger than Fiction plays up the moony softness that Ferrell usually plays against. As Harold Crick, an obsessive-compulsive IRS agent (forgive the redundancy), he is introduced as the kind of benumbed mope who notes day after day the number of steps to the bus stop and follows an exact routine of toothbrush strokes. This we know because a disembodied voice on the soundtrack spells out each of Harold's idiosyncrasies. Then Harold hears it too.
This moment, at which the movie flies off into metafictional fancy, could have been a comic haymaker. It's not director Marc Forster's comedy chops haven't developed much since that sex scene shot through a freakin' birdcage in Monster's Ball but it's enough to send Ferrell's Harold into a panicky tailspin. This becomes a nosedive after he flubs an audit meeting with a rebellious, tattooed baker (Maggie Gyllenhaal). Meanwhile, as Harold rails against the narrator in his head, reclusive author Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) tries to chain-smoke her way out of writer's block as she struggles with her long-delayed novel which points toward the death of a mope named Harold Crick.
Many minds have compared Zach Helm's zigzagging script to the work of Charlie Kaufman, whose name has become shorthand for self-reflexive gamesmanship with screenwriting convention. The difference seems obvious. Kaufman's scripts anchor their craziest conceits in something actual: the real John Malkovich, the real Chuck Barris, even the real Charlie Kaufman not to mention real anguish and alienation. Stranger than Fiction merely layers whimsy upon whimsy. As written, Harold Crick is no more convincing a human being than he is an IRS agent; Kay Eiffel's writing, supposedly good enough to inspire the career-long devotion of a literature professor (Dustin Hoffman), sounds as dully declamatory as movie-trailer narration.
And yet when the actors enter Helm's artificial constructs, some small miracle happens that's not unlike Harold's efforts to escape his creator. I don't believe that of all the songs he could use to woo the baker, the uptight taxman would somehow dust off Wreckless Eric's wonderful 1978 Stiff single "Whole Wide World." But the way Ferrell performs it plunking sweetly on two strings of an electric guitar in a smitten trance rivals John Cusack holding aloft his boombox as a grandly goofy romantic gesture. However absurd it seems for the baker, Ana, to fall for her sad-sack auditor how often you wanna bet that happens? Gyllenhaal redeems the contrivance with dizzy charm and the wide-eyed suggestion of a kind heart. Given the magic timing his oracular lines require, and get, Hoffman's readings might as well be rabbits snatched from an endlessly capacious hat. With the exception of Queen Latifah, stuck with a go-nowhere role as Eiffel's handler, the performances succeed where Harold fails: gaining a life independent of their author.
Forster can be a tiresomely literal director. In the early scenes, he plasters the screen with measurements to show Harold's mental computations, creating an IKEA catalogue of visual clutter. But his eventual muffling of the script's wackiness proves to be a sound choice. If Harold's life is a story, Hoffman's professor wonders, is it a comedy or a tragedy? Forster's direction leaves the question open. As Eiffel's novel nears its preordained ending, good news for the author and bad news for her subject, Stranger than Fiction becomes a fable about a creator's responsibility to his/her creations something to bear in mind every time a film strains for significance with a last-minute eruption of violence. The ending Helm devises a witty deflection of cheap third-act irony shows he has thought about it seriously.


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In 2012, Earth Hour saw:
More than 6,000 people at Orchard Road for the official Lights-Off event;
Over 400 organisations engaging customers and staff in support of the environment;
A "60+ Singapore" human formation made by 1,500 people for Earth Hour;
10,000 challenges logged for the "I Will If You Will" campaign;
One yoga class, conducted by Miranda Kerr, Earth Hour global ambassador and international supermodel, as fulfillment of her "I Will If You Will" (IWIYW) challenge, when 500 fans uploaded their own IWIYW challenges on Earth Hour's YouTube channel.
With the move of the Earth Hour global team to Singapore in July 2012, the world's largest ground-up environmental movement promises to be bigger and better in 2013!
Mark your calendar for Earth Hour 2013 as we gear up for the official Lights-Off event on Saturday, 23 March 2013, 8.30 – 9.30pm! The IWIYW campaign theme will also return in 2013, encouraging the Singapore public to make bigger strides towards environmental protection, by pledging to take action for our planet beyond Earth Hour.
To help you become a stronger and better ambassador for Earth Hour beyond the hour, the all new Earth Hour Action Kit (on http://earthhour.wwf.sg) will provide comprehensive guidelines and useful resources for organisations to create their own celebration and take up IWIYW challenges. Organisations can also begin to pledge their participation in Earth Hour 2013 on http://earthhour.wwf.sg.
Mark your calendar. Own a challenge. Be part of the global movement for the protection of our planet today!
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Four Warning Signs That Weak Manufacturing Numbers From The US, Germany and China Signal A Global Economic Slowdown, Say Analysts
Key economic indicators reveal that a showdown has begun following disappointing numbers about manufacturing activity and industrial production from leading world economies.
Clear declines reported by the U.S., Germany and China within a week of one another signal what analysts call a spring slowdown. But unlike previous years, this slowdown introduces U.S. sequestration and deepening German weakness to the trend, and they could heighten the impact beyond spring.
US Manufacturing Is Not As Strong As Some Say
Markit Economics' early estimate of how the U.S. manufacturing sector will perform during April indicates a sharp change downward from March at 52.0, far below both April's 53.8 forecast and March's 54.9 actual (the 50 level separates growth from contraction). Meanwhile, the U.S. Commerce Department released figures Wednesday on durable goods orders in March, which showed a sharp drop at 5.7 percent under orders in February. Orders for metals, machinery and electrical equipment all fell during an early stage of activity that awaits the unpredictable effect of the sequester.
Germany's Manufacturing Is Underperforming
Markit's early estimates of German manufacturing show that the activity is worsening as its 47.9 index level marks a third consecutive month of slipping further down. A weakening Germany contributed to the entire bloc remaining stagnant in negative territory on Markit's euro zone Flash Manufacturing PMI, at 46.5.
"Previously, we've seen Germany expand while other countries have contracted -- notably Spain, Italy and France," Markit's chief economist, Chris Williamson, said. "Now it seems those contractions are being accompanied by a downturn in the largest economy, Germany, and that will no doubt act as a drag on growth."
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Trade data show that Chinese imports of commodities, industrial metals in particular, have been falling in recent months, David Rees, emerging markets economist with Capital Economics, said. "That is bad news for those emerging markets in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa that predominately export commodities to China."
Yet even countries such as Colombia and Mexico that do very little direct trade with China will still be hit indirectly as concerns about Chinese demand have contributed to a decline in global commodity prices.
HSBC's Flash Manufacturing PMI estimates that China's production and orders will take a significant hit in April, leaving this index barely above just half a percentage point above breakeven at 50.5, considerably below the April forecast of 51.4, which was already below March's 51.7 level.
Meanwhile, BRIC economies are reaching the structural limits of their current economic models, according to Rees. "A slower pace of GDP growth will be the norm over the coming years. In turn, overall emerging market growth will be slower in the future than it has been during the past 10 years."
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Analysts are also watching South Korea, whose economy has been weak for more than a year and whose GDP (currently $1.611 trillion) grew at a pace below trend in each of the past seven quarters, according to Capital Economics' John Higgins. Higgins said recent data suggest that a stronger manufacturing pickup for Korea will be unlikely in the near future. "Although the manufacturing PMIs have improved since the start of the year, data for retail sales, manufacturing output and industrial production have all been very weak," Higgins said.
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Wikis are best used in conjunction with other forms of communication. Wikis aren't discussion groups and Wikis without refactoring degenerate quickly into pure chaos.
A perusal of Ward's Wiki will help:
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IRC -- irc.freenode.net /join #echo and/or #syndication for group chats
Wikis seem to work best when the content goes at the top to be continually tweaked by all, and opinions at the bottom. Opinions are always considered deletable once they have been factored into the content.
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Its becoming harder and harder to get any sort of idea of the progress or where the process is right now on this Wiki. Comments everywhere, no refactoring, or starting other pages instead of refactoring while leaving out opinions. This needs a mailing list for the churn and more editors and less opinions. [RussellBeattie]
I agree with Russell - the Wiki has worked great up to now but it does appear to be being swamped. Too many cooks? Either a mailing list or more of Sam's blog entries to guide discussions sound like a good idea to me. [SimonWillison]
People, if you want more refactoring: do it! That's the wiki way. Don't complain. Don't flame. Edit. (and a tip for following this wiki: use the RSS feed for the recent changes!) [GeorgBauer]
Don't be pedantic. I would be an eager WikiGardener if I could get some sort of anchor on the flow of the Wiki. I've followed the recent changes from day one, but it's hard to find out what to clean up - there's opinions EVERYWHERE. I'm not an expert, I'd like to hear from the head monkies to see what they're thinking a bit more in detail. There's GOT to be reasons behind some of these changes, but I can't find them. Things disappear, changes are unattributed, it's nuts. [RussellBeattie]
For keeping track of significant changes, use the blog, Luke. Nice! -Russ
[JonathanSmith RefactorOk DeleteOk IgnoreFine!] Thanks for the RSS suggestion, Georg! And, even if AaronSw started Echo ProjectNews first, DannyAyers writes a nice ExecutiveSummary.
It would seem that Georg and Russ are responding to the cry for editors and the need for refactoring, and I would agree with Russ that it can be difficult to get a handle on some of the effort so far. Thus, Formerly Echo needs to be appreciated, especially, Russ, since we may not hear from the "head monkies" on this wiki. It would seem that this wiki is a team effort in the same way that Feng-Hsiung Hsu writes about the team that built Deep Blue.
While recognizing the considerable efforts of the many participants on Ward's Wiki, the introduction to the topic of this page misses a key point. When my life is in chaos, I don't like it. And, I certainly don't like it when I am in an organization in chaos. Nonetheless, students of ChaosTheory recognize that a new pattern will develop from the disruption of the previous pattern. At the risk of being pedantic, that is the nature of chaos.
The admonishments that Jonathan put after his name are superfluous. From other wiki experiences, one could assume that all of those things can and probably will happen. That is the nature of wikis.


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Even though the study of transformational change in organizations has become a popular research topic in the fields of management and leadership studies, it appears that only one in three change initiatives has been deemed successful, according to studies and publications by McKinsey & Company.
Social scientists, psychologists and organizational developers have amassed thousands of volumes about change management and the role of leadership in change initiatives; however, these resources have not altered the success ratio in transformational change since statistics started to appear in the 1990s.
In a 2007 article, McKinsey characterize large organizational transformation as having "startlingly high ambitions, the integration of different types of change, and a prolonged effort often lasting many months , in some cases, even years." In another article published two years later, the consulting firm noted that "despite prolific output, the field of change management hasn't led to more successful change programs."
John Kotter and other change luminaries have provided complete methods for managing large change, often claiming that their method would at least raise the probability of success.
In their 2009 McKinsey article The Irrational Side of Change Management, writers Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller discussed four basic conditions for large transformation to take place in an organization:
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- Capability building.
Aiken and Keller's article analyzes the success and failures of transformational initiatives by attempting to dispel traditional conceptualizations about these four conditions.
Bill Torbert and his associates approached the subject of organizational transformation purely from the leadership standpoint irrespective of method and practice. Their premise is based on research they conducted which yielded a seven-stage developmental framework for leaders. Torbert wrote that leaders evolve to one of seven stages of leadership where they will most likely stay for the better portion of their lives with a few continuing to slowly evolve into higher levels. This evolution is guided by the experiences of the individual which start early in life. Leadership development, according to Julian Simcox, commences well before we hold our first job.
Torbert and his associates asserted that only in the last three of the seven stages of leadership development do individuals have enough reflective meaning-making to successfully drive transformational change. These researchers argue that a high level of internal awareness is necessary for a leader to grasp all of the nuances present in large change situations. Torbert defines these later-stage leaders as transformative learners, or those who are in a constant path of self-development. This notion of transformative leaders as being self-transforming is well addressed in the literature of leadership studies; however, Torbert and his associates are more deliberate in their pronouncement and associate certain leadership developmental stages with a capability which presumably could have profound impact in the success of large transformational initiatives.
The subject of transformational change is not new. The results have not improved even with the ever-increasing amount of materials available on the subject. As documented in the 2010 IBM study Capitalizing on Complexity, the priority for most organizational leaders is dealing with complexity driven by the structures of globalization, world economies, shifts in consumer power, environmental concerns and the need for organizations to address the evolving requirements of their social systems. This complexity seems to present even larger challenges to the mostly unsuccessful transformational initiatives.
Torbert's leadership stage development framework appears promising in explaining why only a third of the large change projects succeed. From his research, the author posits that only 15 percent of the leader population has the capability to execute transformational change. Assuming a company of a thousand people with a five-to-one leader-to-follower ratio, only 30 people in that organization would have a developed sense of how to successfully lead a transformational initiative. Given that most organizations and leaders are not familiar with Torbert's work, it stands to reason that their transformational initiatives are not consciously staffed to include one or more of these latter stage leaders. Consequently, transformational projects will have a random chance of success based on their leader membership.
Assuming that the research of Torbert and his associates is correct and that leadership stage development is a key determinant of the success of transformational change in an organization, then conscious assignment of leaders based on their developmental stages is paramount. This is most fundamental relative to transformational leaders, but it also applies to the inclusion of the other stages of leadership development. As an analogy, a championship soccer team has experienced and accomplished players in all of its playing positions. In this type of team, a midfielder is as important as a striker. A soccer coach would not dream of showing up to a game without 11 players with experience and expertise in each position. On the other hand, most change project teams are assembled based on roles, organizational politics and on who is available. To make matters worse, we are clueless on the leaders' developmental stages and on the unintended consequences of their assignment.
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Return To J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World with the Global Fan Event Celebrating FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
Fans Will Be Treated to a Special Preview of New Footage From the Film in IMAX, and Can Be Part of a Live Interactive Q & A With the Stars and Director
As the excitement builds for the November opening of Warner Bros. Pictures' new adventure "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," fans will get to experience some of the film's magic early at the global celebration A RETURN TO J.K. ROWLING'S WIZARDING WORLD. The worldwide fan event will kick off on Thursday, October 13th, at 8:30 p.m. GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT, 12:30 p.m. PDT) and simultaneously in major cities in the U.S. and internationally. The announcement comes on the heels of this morning's debut of the brand new trailer for the film.
Sue Kroll, Warner Bros. Pictures' President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, stated, "The enthusiasm and support of wizarding world fans everywhere has meant so much to us, as well as the filmmakers. We are proud to share some exciting footage from 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' at this global event created just for them, and are especially thrilled that most can experience it in IMAX."
Attendees will first be treated to a never-before-seen reel featuring some of the thrilling moments from the much-anticipated film. Talent from "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" will be joining the celebration, in person, at two IMAX theatres, in London and Los Angeles, to welcome the fans.
• In London: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, and director David Yates will be on hand.
• In Los Angeles: Colin Farrell and Jon Voight will be in attendance.
Fans gathered at those locations, as well as attendees watching from IMAX theatres in New York, Sao Paulo and Mexico City, as well as a non-IMAX theatre in Rome, will be able to submit questions to the stars and director during the Q&A. It will be a rare opportunity to learn more about the story and their thrilling foray into a new era of the wizarding world.
The footage shown, as well as the Q&A, will also be streamed live online on Facebook so eager fans around the world can share in the excitement.
Fans at each location will be presented with a specially designed "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" exclusive t-shirt, commemorating the worldwide event, as well as a collectible mini-poster.
Additional details about locations, times, and tickets to the events can be found at:
Facebook | Twitter: @BeastsMovieUK | Instagram: @fantasticbeastsmovie | Snapchat: Wizarding_World
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling.
Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything") stars in the central role of wizarding world Magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four "Harry Potter" blockbusters.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" also stars Katherine Waterston ("Steve Jobs," "Inherent Vice") as Tina; Tony Award winner Dan Fogler ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") as Jacob; Alison Sudol ("Dig," "Transparent") as Tina's sister, Queenie; Ezra Miller ("Trainwreck") as Credence; two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton ("In America," "Sweet and Lowdown") as Mary Lou; Oscar winner Jon Voight ("Coming Home," TV's "Ray Donovan") as Henry Shaw, Sr.; Ron Perlman (the "Hellboy" films) as Gnarlak; Carmen Ejogo ("Selma") as Seraphina Picquery; Jenn Murray ("Brooklyn") as Chastity; young newcomer Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell ("True Detective") as Percival Graves.
The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into the top-grossing film franchise of all time. Her script was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by her character Newt Scamander.
The film reunited a number of people from the "Harry Potter" features, including producers David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. The executive producers are Tim Lewis, Neil Blair and Rick Senat.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Heyday Films Production, a David Yates Film, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." The film will open worldwide beginning November 18, 2016, in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX, and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
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Daniel Yazbeck stepped to the podium before about 140 investors in a Las Vegas conference room with 15 minutes to persuade them to bankroll a handheld testing device that helps pot users evaluate marijuana. Yazbeck, a lead investor in the product called MyDx, part of La Jolla, Calif.-based CDx Inc., told the group he was seeking $1.25 million in exchange for a 20 percent stake in the analyzer company. He was the first of 12 entrepreneurs invited to pitch at a conference organized by ArcView Group, a San Francisco-based firm of angel investors.
"It's a tool that will not only educate but will also empower people with healthier lives by knowing what's in everything they eat, drink and inhale," Yazbeck, 36, said Thursday before showing a video on the tester, which also will be able to detect pesticides in food and contaminants in water.
The meeting coincides with the start of legal marijuana sales in Colorado, where retail shops opened Jan. 1 to long lines of consumers. Investor interest has surged since voters in Colorado and Washington state became the first to legalize recreational marijuana use in 2012. Stores are expected to open in Washington later this year.
"Welcome to the golden age of cannabis investing," Steve DeAngelo, ArcView's president, said at the start of the meeting.
"There will never, ever be another time when the deals for investors will be as good as they will be over the course of the next couple of years," said DeAngelo, co-founder of Harborside Health Center, a medical-marijuana dispensary in Oakland and San Jose, California. "So be cautious, do your due diligence, be deliberate, be wise. But have your checkbooks ready. The time is now."
Jon Cooper and Dooma Wendschuh, co-founders of Denver-based Ebbu, took to the stage to pitch marijuana products from pre- rolled joints to refills for e-cigarettes, all labeled to show the high they produce, ranging from "chill" and "giggle" to "bliss" and "energy."
"What happens when you walk into a dispensary?" Cooper told the crowd. "You see rows and rows of glass jars and each of them contain a different strain."
"With upwards of 500 different strains, you can see how this is really confusing for the cannabis consumer. How do you find a strain that's right for you?" Cooper said.
"No more half-hour conversations with the budtender," Wendschuh said of their labeling system. "It's simple, and it's going to change the world."
Investors at the meeting included Joby Pritzker, whose family started Hyatt Hotels Corp. and who declined to be interviewed.
Tom Bollich, a founding employee of Zynga Inc., the San Francisco-based maker of "Farmville," said investing in the marijuana business feels similar to the mobile applications industry.
"It's like the Wild, Wild West," said Bollich, chief executive officer of Hydro Innovations, a Boulder, Colo.-based company that makes climate-control systems for marijuana growers.
"Right now, it's a gold rush and we're trying to sell shovels," Bollich said outside the conference room, between brief interviews that resembled speed dating. Investors and entrepreneurs lined up across from each other with a few minutes to talk before moving to the next person.
Twenty states, including California and Massachusetts, allow the medical use of marijuana. While federal law still classifies the drug as an illegal substance, the U.S. Justice Department said in August that it wouldn't challenge the legalization laws in Washington and Colorado, provided the states prevent out-of-state distribution, access to minors and drugged driving, among other things.
President Obama said he didn't think marijuana is "more dangerous than alcohol," in an interview with the New Yorker published Jan. 19. Noting that he smoked the drug during his youth, he also said he views it now as a "bad habit and a vice," and "not something I encourage."
Leaster Gibson, 38, an investor from Springfield, Mo., said he's interested in backing a couple of companies that made pitches, while declining to name them.
"Marijuana is the best growth industry probably in the next five to 10 years," Gibson said in an interview in the conference hall's courtyard, where the smell of marijuana filled the air. "I think there's a tremendous amount of money to be made."
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(AP) -- Russia's top investigative agency filed new charges Thursday against police officers accused of torturing detainees amid growing public outrage over police brutality.
The Investigative Committee said it had charged four officers in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk in the torture death of a detainee. It also leveled new accusations against a police officer in the Volga River city of Kazan who is already in custody on charges of torturing a man to death.
Victims and human rights activists say Russian police routinely use torture to extract false confessions from those they have arbitrarily rounded up. They say police reforms undertaken by President Dmitry Medvedev have failed to stop or even contain police crimes and achieved little beyond changing the force's name.
Kazan resident Sergei Nazarov died earlier this month of injuries suffered when police officers allegedly sodomized him with a champagne bottle. His case has caused outrage across Russia and drawn calls for an urgent overhaul of a force long accused of corruption and brutality.
The four officers charged in Novokuznetsk were accused of causing a detainee's death by asphyxiation by putting a gas mask on him and cutting off the access to air - a torture technique popular among Russian police, according to rights groups.
Police regulations still require officers to report a certain quota of solved crimes, a practice that encourages police to make arbitrary arrests and extract false confessions to make their numbers. Police from across Russia also learned cruel interrogation practices during tours of duty in Chechnya and other restive provinces in Russia's Caucasus, contributing to the culture of brutality.
In the Kazan case, officers rounded up the 52-year-old Nazarov on charges of stealing a cellphone. He died at a local hospital two days later of a ruptured rectum.
His death sparked street protests in Kazan that attracted nationwide attention and led to a federal probe. The investigators arrested five police officers accused of torturing Nazarov, and the entire precinct was disbanded.
Local residents then began lining up to tell federal investigators their stories of torture by police officers.
The Investigative Committee said Thursday that Almaz Vasilov, one of the suspected torturers of Nazarov, has been charged in a separate case when he and other officers tried to force a 20-year-old man to confess in a crime by beating him and then pulling down his pants and trying to sodomize him with a pencil. The committee said the victim managed to avoid the torture by running out into a corridor.
Many others couldn't run away, according to Russian media, which reported the stories of several other victims. In one case, a 22-year-old computer programmer said officers from the same precinct tried to force him to confess to a theft and then sodomized him, first with a pencil, then with a champagne bottle.
"Where is the bottle? You always must have a bottle!" Oskar Krylov recalled a police chief yelling to his subordinates, according to the Gazeta.ru news website.
The Investigative Committee said it had detained that officer and his colleague on charges of torturing Krylov.
The scandal over police torture in Kazan followed other cases of police brutality, some publicized and others previously hushed up or unreported. They include:
- A local journalist in the Siberian city of Tomsk died of injuries in 2010 after a police officer sodomized him with a broomstick.
- A teenager in St. Petersburg was beaten to death in police custody in January.
- In another case in the same region of Siberia as Novokuznetsk, two officers were accused of torturing a detainee to death in a garage and then throwing his body out on a road.
Activists have urged the Kremlin to change regulations that encourage police brutality, oust Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, conduct a thorough cleansing of the police force and set up a separate independent body to would investigate police crimes.
Alexei Navalny, a popular anti-corruption blogger and a key organizer of massive opposition protests in Moscow, said the government should dismiss all Kazan policemen and recruit new ones as a model of how to conduct a future nationwide reform of the police.
"It can't get any worse," he wrote on his blog. "And they need to throw Nurgaliyev out. How long can it go?"


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These are the Google "Summer of Code" projects involving Python that were funded in 2006.
Note: if a project is listed as having two mentors, the first mentor listed is the primary mentor, and the second one is the back-up mentor.
Improving the Python debugger
Student: Matthew J Fleming
Mentor: Rocky Bernstein
Repository: http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/pdb
Many people have voiced their concern that the Python debugger could be improved in a number of ways. This project aims to incorporate these suggestions into an improved version of Pdb. These improvements are to allow,
- debugging from another process
- debugging remotely
- debugging a threaded application
The class that overrides Pdb and provides our enhancements is 'MPdb'.
None of the information below is set in stone and may change based on mine or Rocky's ideas and public feedback as we feel it is better to make some of the decisions (communication mechansim) open to change in the future or at least being able to make a decision later rather than sooner.
The design of these improvements has been of great importance and we have specifically concentrated on allowing future programmers to easily add to our work. For example, up until recently in the Python trunk, to get a Pdb session to send program output to some place other than stdout one had to override all of the methods in Pdb that used a 'print' statement. However, now, the version of Pdb in the trunk allows a programmer to specify both a stdin and a stdout stream. We will follow this example. The advantage of our design is that it is easily extensible and it aims to follow the gdb way to doing things.
Debugging communication techniques and ideas
We have discussed various communication mechanisms including sockets and serial communication. For debugging from another process it became clear (after looking at other debuggers) that most people choose to go with a 'socket-based' approach. The advantages of using this approach is that it is a tried and tested method that many debuggers use. One alternative to the socket approach is to use xmlrpc which allows the passing around of requests in a structured format, which may come in most handy when the debugger server is sending information to a debugger console. For instance, if someone were to write an IDE for MPdb, it would be trivial when using xmlrpc to allow the debugging server class to return a tagged message to the console which would indicate,
- Where in the source we currently were
- The state of some configuration variable on the server side
It became clear that the method of communication that is available to a programmer when debugging an application will change between projects. An embedded devices programmer working with python may not necessarily have access to a network card and thus, no access to network sockets. However, they may have access to a serial port on the embedded device and whilst this project may not provide code to allow communication over a serial line, it should be easy for a programmer to subclass MPdb and write one themselves, without having to undo or 'work around' any of the features or specifications or MPdb.
Base multidimensional array type for Python core
Student: KarolLangner
Mentor: Travis E. Oliphant
Repository: http://svn.scipy.org/svn/PEP/
More information: http://scipy.org/BaseArray
The goal is to prepare a simple, generic multidimensional array interface that can be readily placed in the Python core as a new built-in base type (called, for instance, 'dimarray'), and included in a future Python distribution (possibly 2.6?). This new base type will have the same C-structure as the current array implementation in numpy and will be based on an interface recently formulated by Travis Oliphant within a Python Enhancement Proposal (http://svn.scipy.org/svn/PEP/). After preparing a 'ready to insert' version of the array interface, it will be applied to numpy and several other packages that work with multidimensional data, and possibly modified in order to work out an optimal scope.
Logging Usage in the Standard Library (PEP 337)
Student: Jackilyn Hoxworth
Mentor: James Joseph Jewett
Repository: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/hoxworth-stdlib_logging-soc/
The purpose of this project is to create a standard for using the logging system in the standard library. This will simplify development of daemon applications. This requires slight modifications to a large number of standard modules, which will be made in a back-portable way. After the completion of this project one can use the following filtering scheme: logging.getLogger('py.<module>').setLevel(logging.<LEVEL>).
Decimal module in C.
Student: Mateusz Rukowicz
Mentor: Facundo Batista
Repository: http://svn.python.org/view/sandbox/trunk/decimal-c/
Adding C implementation of decimal module, which eventually would replace current implementation, with no side effects to applications using this module.
Rewrite of the zipfile module.
Student: Nilton Volpato
Mentor: Ilya Etingof
Repository: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ziparchive/ziparchive/trunk
The project is to write a new and updated version of python's zipfile module for dealing with ZIP files with much more features than those currently supported by zipfile module.
These changes are intended to overcome the current limitations of the module, and include, but are not limited to:
- Add support for bzip2 (de)compression
- Add support for removing files stored in zip files
- Add file-like object API to ZIP archive members
- Add support for the traditional PKWARE encryption
Ajax in python based on PyPy's JavaScript backend
Student: Maciej Fijalkowski
Mentor: Eric van Riet Paap
Repository: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/pypy/translator/js/
The main target of the project is to produce a framework which takes advantage of PyPy's JavaScript backend and to make it easy to write an AJAX based framework written entirely in Python.
Complete gencli, the PyPy CLI backend
Student: Antonio Cuni
Mentor: Armin Rigo
Repository: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/pypy/translator/cli/
gencli is the PyPy backend targeting the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) virtual machine, i.e. .NET.
Once gencli will be complete it will be possible to translate the Standard Interpreter in order to produce a .NET executable of the Python interpreter (we could call it PyPy.NET).
The result will be in some way similar to the existing IronPython, with the difference that IronPython is a compiler (though most of the job is done by the runtime environment), while PyPy.NET will be an interpreter.
PyPy Proposal - Write and port modules from CPython with ctypes
Student: Lawrence Oluyede
Mentor: Anders Chrigstroem
http://codespeak.net/svn/user/rhymes/modules/ http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist/pypy/module/
I'd like to make PyPy ready for encrypted communications adding SSL support in the ongoing and in-development socket module. The other modules I'll port are: bz2, fcntl, mmap and time (very fundamental). If there's time I'd like to start working on 'os' and 'select' modules also.
Neural Nets in SciPy
Student: Frederic Mailhot
Mentor: Robert Kern
Repository: http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk/Lib/sandbox/ann/
The goal of this project is to extend SciPy's functionality by adding modules for the design, training and use of a variety of neural network architectures, including standard feedforward and recurrent networks, among others. As a guide I intend to work from the modules in Matlab's Netlab toolkit, as well as from my own experience implementing recurrent networks.
Enhancements to mathtext (part of matplotlib) - a Python package for typesetting
Student: Edin Salković
Mentor: John D Hunter
Repository: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/
- Allow replacing of the existing bakoma truetype fonts with a set of good, comprehensive, unicode math fonts. This will allow pluging in the STIX fonts when (if) they are finaly out. Currently mathtext hardcodes the mapping from TeX symbol name to a (font_file, glyph_index) tuple, which ties mathtext to a given set of fonts (eg, the Bakoma fonts).
- incorporate some of Knuth's layout algorithms into the mathtext layout engine.
- refactor mathtext into a stand-alone module
- add support for kerning - the current bakoma fonts do not have kerning info in them.
- improve the parser to handle more TeX
- add support for fractions (\frac), arrays etc.
Soya3D Collision API : Improving ODE integration in the core
Student: David Pierre-Yves
Mentor: Lamy
Repository: XXX
Soya lacks some very useful tools such as a collision API or a properly integrated physics engine.
I am applying to Summer of Code 2006 in order to fix these deficiencies by improving support for the Open Dynamics Engine, which is barely working and too low-level in the last release of Soya, and provide a similar collision detection system to all objects whether ODE is in use or not.
PySoy & Cal3D exporting/importing tools for Blender
Student: Palle Raabjerg
Mentor: Buddha Michael Dylan Buck
Repository: http://svn.pysoy.org/trunk/blender-soy
Browse Source: http://www.pysoy.org/browser/trunk/blender-soy
Currently, no PySoy importers exist for Blender. This means you cannot import any Soy or Cal3D models into Blender. This can be inconvenient for both the game developer, as he needs to publish the .blend files to allow people to modify models, and for a gamer community surrounding a project, as they can't modify models unless the developer publishes the .blend files. (Note: This might be a perfectly okay and even preferable situation for some proprietary game developers, but PySoy is built on a philosophy of openness and freedom, making this a more important feature.)
The PySoy exporter tools basically consists of the blender2soya and blender2cal3d scripts. blender2soya is currently used for static (non-animated) models, and blender2cal3d is used for exporting animated skeletal models to the Cal3D format, which can also be used with PySoy. These two scripts lack many features, however, and still contain known flaws.
There are talks about a redesign of the format Soya3D uses for models. In this case, I would be involved in this redesign, and the blender2soya script would have to be rewritten.
If I am assigned to this project, I will create PySoy and Cal3D importers for Blender, and I will work on both exporter scripts
Due to an inconviently-timed project fork, this project has been moved to PySoy (was formerly for Soya3D). Beside the name of the project, all aspects remain the same and the code will be available for the Soya3d project and any other project which needs it.
Pygame on ctypes
Student: Alex Holkner
Mentor: Pete Shinners
Repository: http://www.pygame.org/ctypes
My project proposal is to rewrite Pygame to use ctypes. The current implementation is written as a C module that links to SDL. The proposed addition of ctypes to Python 2.5 is a great catalyst for using it to wrap SDL and reimplementing Pygame in pure Python. This would allow developers to extend Pygame with much more ease than is currently possible, and to make use of SDL features not exported by Pygame, and to give PyPy development another library.
SQLAlchemy Schema Migration
Student: Evan Pierce Rosson
Mentor: Jonathan LaCour
Repository: http://trac.erosson.com/migrate
SQLAlchemy is an excellent object-relational database mapper for Python projects. Currently, it does a fine job of creating a database from scratch, but provides no tool to assist the user in modifying an existing database. This project aims to provide such a tool.
Drop-in WSGI support for Commodity Hosting
Student: Jonathan Rosebaugh
Mentor: Benjamin C. Bangert
Tentative Pythonesque Project Name: Holy Grail
I intend to take advantage of existing developments in WSGI such as Paste, flup, and various WSGI-compatible frameworks in order to develop a simple drop-in method for hosting WSGI webapps in commodity hosting.
Project Goals in rough order of priority
WSGI Admin Panel - A self-contained WSGI app which allows the user to attach various WSGI apps to different urls. At its most basic it will be a simple wrapper around paste.urlmap, but it will be able to handle more complex situations, involving such things as paste.cascade, paste.urlparser, various middleware, and other complex situations. When I can use PasteDeploy I will, but there will have to be support for manual importing of apps from modules.
- FastCGI made easy - flup has taken us most of the way, but it needs to be friendlier. Some hosting providers want the FastCGI process to be running on a specified port; some providers want the web server to spawn it. Either option should be easy to do, with robust process management to make sure the FastCGI process stays up.
- Ease of installation for webhosts - Ideally, a commodity webhost should be able to provide this package for their customers; just click a button in the signup and the WSGI admin panel is deployed to the user's account, creating an isolated user environment using workingenv and setuptools.
- Ease of installation by end users - However, until this has widespread support by webhosts, the user needs a quick and simple install process. We'll have a simple installer--command line for those who have shell access, python cgi, and maybe even a php-based installer--that lets the user set up their WSGI package using workingenv and setuptools.
PyDev - Python for Eclipse
Student: Sean Handley
Mentor: Fabio Zadrozny
Repository: http://pydev.cvs.sourceforge.net/pydev/
Project Blog: http://www.planet-soc.com/?q=blog/114
My objectives for PyDev are to implement as many of the most popular requested features as I can, bringing the power of Python development in Eclipse up to the same standards as Java. Specifically, I will be adding new features to the debugger and code editor.
Coder: An extensible web-based programming tutor
Student: Johannes Woolard
Mentor: André Roberge
Repository: http://svn.crunchy.python-hosting.com/branches/jwsoc
I propose a system that serves web-pages locally over the loopback address – this could maybe be extended later to work remotely if "restricted python" is revived.
Tutorials are really the most important part of this application: not only must they be simple to create, they must also be fun for the students. I am proposing a system whereby tutorials are encapsulated in XML and contain not only the raw tutorial (which will be pretty-printed to XHTML using XSLT, which in turn could be personalised with CSS), but also unit tests written in python that must be satisfied for the student to advance to the next stage. I will base my work on Andre Roberge's Crunchy Frog.
Improving Mailman's User Experience
Student: Ethan Fremen
Mentor: Barry Warsaw
Repository: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mailman/branches/soc2006-webui
I propose to port Mailman's web interface to one implemented with Kid in order to improve the UI and enable better handling of i18n.
Memory Optimization in Shed Skin
Student: Zheng Siyao
Mentor: Mark Dufour
Repository: http://shedskin.cvs.sourceforge.net/shedskin/shedskin/memopt/
Shed Skin is an optimizing Python-to-C++ compiler, that accepts pure, but implicitly statically typed Python programs. It already converts many 'smallish' programs, such as a ray tracer, chess player, several sudoku solvers, etc., with an average relative speedup of about 12 over Psyco, and about 45 over CPython. However, Shed Skin is still at an early release, and there are several integration issues that need to be solved. For example, programs can currently only use several supported standard library functions. See http://mark.dufour.googlepages.com for more details.
Shed Skin currently only performs a type inference analysis, prior to generating code. But there are several interesting optimizations that can be performed using the resulting type information. A very promising category is memory optimizations. The student will implement two such techniques. One is to transform as much heap allocation as possible into stack allocation. The other is to transform as much heap allocation as possible into static preallocation (and possibly to share preallocated memory if possible).
The deliverables are stack and static preallocation techniques with performance at least matching that of earlier prototype techniques for the set of benchmarks described in Dufour's thesis, and with superior performance for other/more extreme demonstration programs.
YAML parser and emitter
Student: Kyrylo Simonov
Mentor: Clark C. Evans
Homepage: http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML
Repository: http://svn.pyyaml.org/libyaml/trunk/
Timeline: http://pyyaml.org/timeline
I have developed a pure Python YAML parser, which is, as for now, the only existing YAML parser that fully adheres the current YAML 1.1 specification. I would like to apply to the Google Summer of Code program in order to continue my work on implementing a YAML parser and emitter.
My proposal is to write a C library for processing YAML and Python bindings to it. While existing PyYAML parser is stable and robust, being a pure Python code, it is slow and not suitable for processing large amounts of data. Additionally, having a C library will allow bindings for other languages as well, which will increase compatibility between various implementations and serve the goal of YAML: to be a language-independent format for serializing data.
I also plan to progress on another YAML-related project: Writing a reference YAML parser and emitter, alternative grammar rules for YAML that matches the way the parser works and a set of guidelines for parser writers. The language of implementation of the reference parser should be Python without using its advanced language-specific features. This will ensure that a proficient programmer can write a YAML parser and emitter in her language of choice and will greatly increase the adoption of YAML. I do not expect to complete the reference parser during the period of SoC though.
Web-based administration interface for DrProject
Student: Gregory Lapouchnian
Mentor: Greg Wilson
Trac / Repository: http://pyre.third-bit.com/drproject/drproject-dev/
Currently the administration of a DrProject installation has to be done through a command line script. This works well in certain situations where a professor is able (or willing) to write scripts to make use DrProject's API in order to execute batch operations. However a web-based administration interface would greatly simplify course management by providing a central location for common tasks such as removing a student from a course or moving them from one project to another. A web-based console will also make it possible to present to the instructors some general statistics for the groups and students in their course in a convenient format.
Cheesecake enhancements and its integration with PyPI.
Student: Michał Kwiatkowski
Mentor: Grig Gheorghiu
Repository: http://pycheesecake.org/browser
Project timeline and ideas: Cheesecake - feel free to add your comments about the project there!
Cheesecake is an application designed to evaluate and estimate the overall quality (or so called 'kwalitee') of a given software package written in Python. It emphasizes a need for well-written documentation and unit tests, encouraging good programming practices and penalizing sloppy design and careless distribution. Using Cheesecake to check your code gives you confidence that your software doesn't merely run, but is usable and easy to test and modify as well.
Because Python is very easy to learn and use there exists a vast variety of software written in it, most of which was scattered until PyPI was created. Now, when new packages are being indexed on Cheese Shop every day, an effort can be made to spread the spirit of good software design and code reuse among the Python community. This can be achieved by combining the power of Cheesecake and Cheese Shop. Everytime a new version of a package would be uploaded to Cheese Shop, its cheesecake index will be calculated and published on web. Having a way to measure a quality of a package with accordance to other existing packages will be of invaluable help for all developers. It will promote well built packages and in the long run raise the overall quality of Python software.
Adding Cheesecake functionality to PyPI has been already mentioned by Phillip J. Eby on the catalog-sig mailing list. Together with Cheesecake maintainer Grig Gheorghiu we've discussed modifications needed to be done to Cheesecake code to be reliable enough so it could be incorporated into PyPI service. A working copy of our ideas is accessible on the project wiki. It includes enhancing Cheesecake code scoring techniques to take into account unit tests of a package, running tests in secure environment, extending supported archive formats and fixing all known bugs. Development of Cheesecake will adhere to best practices such as unit testing, continuous integration (via buildbot), pylint verification, etc.
The next part of this project will include collaboration with Richard Jones, PyPI maintainer, and merging Cheesecake into PyPI service. Upon completion all PyPI uploads will be automatically scored by Cheesecake. It will be possible to browse packages archive by cheesecake index, sorting results by installability, documentation and code kwalitee index. Statistics in numeric and graphical form will also be made available. This part of a project will involve writing server-side code, with emphasis on security and robustness.
The remaining time will be spent on resolving all problems that would occur during usage of Cheesecake and PyPI. Along with fixing bugs, I will develop a simple Hello world package that can be taken as an example of good development practices for all Python developers. It should also score 100% in the Cheesecake test of course. It will be what hello is for GNU Project.
PyCells: Port of CLOS Cells extension
Student: Ryan Forsythe
Mentor: James Tauber
Website: http://pycells.pdxcb.net/
Repository: http://pycells.pdxcb.net/svn
Summary: Python port of Kenny Tilton's Cells extension to CLOS
Cells is a framework which, rather than defining a class as a set of methods and attributes, instead defines it as a set of interdependent slots, each of whose values are determined by formulas. It is analogous to a spreadsheet. While it is similar to Python's idea of properties, elements of a class which act like values but which are generated by a method, cells build in an automemoization function so their results are recalculated only when needed. My task for Summer of Code would be to build a package which implemented Cells in Python, built regression testing for the package, and translate CLOS Cell's demo applications into PyCell.
Python interface for writing Mozilla (NPAPI) plugins
Student: Marcin Pertek
Mentor: Mark Hammond
Repository: http://svn.pysoy.org/trunk/pymplug/
Source Browser: http://www.pysoy.org/browser/trunk/pymplug/
Writing plugins with the NPAPI requires using the cumbersome and error-prone C or C++. I propose a thin binding of the interface to Python, by the means of a plugin embedding a Python interpreter and exposing inside it the NPAPI. It does not imply executing Python code from webpages, simply a way to write plugins in Python instead of C.
In addition to ease the creation of plugins, I would make bindings to readily enable the use of wxPython, PyGTK, PyGame and Soya3D. These bindings would enable those libraries to handle the in-browser window and associated events.
Support Vector Machines for SciPy
Student: Albert Strasheim
Mentor: Dave Kammeyer
Repository: http://pycheesecake.org/browser
Integrating libsvm (and possibly other SVM libraries) with SciPy using ctypes and providing various tools for manipulating datasets for use with SVMs.


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Acetaminophen / dichloralphenazone / isometheptene mucate Side Effects
Medically reviewed by Drugs.com. Last updated on Jun 14, 2023.
Applies to acetaminophen / dichloralphenazone / isometheptene mucate: oral capsule.
- This drug has acetaminophen in it. Liver problems have happened with the use of acetaminophen. Sometimes, this has led to a liver transplant or death. Most of the time, liver problems happened in people taking more than 4,000 mg (milligrams) of acetaminophen in a day. People were also often taking more than 1 drug that had acetaminophen.
- Avoid drinking alcohol while taking this drug.
Serious side effects
WARNING/CAUTION: Even though it may be rare, some people may have very bad and sometimes deadly side effects when taking a drug. Tell your doctor or get medical help right away if you have any of the following signs or symptoms that may be related to a very bad side effect:
- Signs of an allergic reaction, like rash; hives; itching; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin with or without fever; wheezing; tightness in the chest or throat; trouble breathing, swallowing, or talking; unusual hoarseness; or swelling of the mouth, face, lips, tongue, or throat.
- Signs of liver problems like dark urine, feeling tired, not hungry, upset stomach or stomach pain, light-colored stools, throwing up, or yellow skin or eyes.
- Not able to pass urine or change in how much urine is passed.
- A very bad skin reaction (Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis) may happen. It can cause very bad health problems that may not go away, and sometimes death. Get medical help right away if you have signs like red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin (with or without fever); red or irritated eyes; or sores in your mouth, throat, nose, or eyes.
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All drugs may cause side effects. However, many people have no side effects or only have minor side effects. Call your doctor or get medical help if any of these side effects or any other side effects bother you or do not go away:
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- Upset stomach.
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Applies to acetaminophen / dichloralphenazone / isometheptene mucate: oral capsule.
Transient dizziness and skin rash can usually be eliminated by reducing the dose of acetaminophen/dichloralphenazone/isometheptene.[Ref]
Hypersensitivity side effects including transient dizziness and skin rash have been reported with the use of acetaminophen/dichloralphenazone/isometheptene. Hypersensitivity reactions, including anaphylaxis and fixed drug eruptions have been reported rarely in association with acetaminophen use.[Ref]
Alcoholic patients may develop hepatotoxicity after even modest doses of acetaminophen. In healthy patients, approximately 15 grams of acetaminophen is necessary to deplete liver glutathione stores by 70% in a 70 kg person. However, hepatotoxicity has been reported following smaller doses. Glutathione concentrations may be repleted by the antidote N-acetylcysteine. One case report has suggested that hypothermia may also be beneficial in decreasing liver damage during overdose.
In a recent retrospective study of 306 patients admitted for acetaminophen overdose, 6.9% had severe liver injury but all recovered. None of the 306 patients died.
One study has suggested that acetaminophen may precipitate acute biliary pain and cholestasis. The mechanism of this effect may be related to inhibition of prostaglandin and alterations in the regulation of the sphincter of Oddi.
Cases of acute pancreatitis have been reported rarely with the use of acetaminophen.[Ref]
Hepatic side effects including severe and sometimes fatal dose dependent hepatitis have been reported with the use of acetaminophen in alcoholic patients. Hepatotoxicity has been increased during fasting.[Ref]
Gastrointestinal side effects have been rare with the use of acetaminophen except in alcoholics and after overdose.[Ref]
Acute tubular necrosis with acetaminophen use usually occurs in conjunction with liver failure, but has been observed as an isolated finding in rare cases. A possible increase in the risk of renal cell carcinoma has been associated with chronic acetaminophen use as well.
A recent case-control study of patients with end-stage renal disease suggested that long term consumption of acetaminophen may significantly increase the risk of end-stage renal disease particularly in patients taking more than two pills per day.[Ref]
Renal side effects including acute tubular necrosis and interstitial nephritis have been rare with the use of acetaminophen. Adverse renal effects have been most often observed after overdose, after chronic abuse (often with multiple analgesics), or in association with acetaminophen-related hepatotoxicity.[Ref]
Hematologic side effects including rare cases of thrombocytopenia associated with acetaminophen have been reported. Methemoglobinemia with resulting cyanosis has also been observed in the setting of acute overdose.[Ref]
Dermatologic side effects including erythematous skin rashes associated with acetaminophen have been reported rarely. Acetaminophen associated bullous erythema and purpura fulminans have also been reported.[Ref]
Respiratory side effects including a case of acetaminophen-induced eosinophilic pneumonia have been reported.[Ref]
Cardiovascular side effects including at least two cases of hypotension have been reported following the administration of acetaminophen.[Ref]
Two cases hypotension have been reported following the administration of acetaminophen. Both patients experienced significant decreases in blood pressure. One of the two patients required pressor agents to maintain adequate mean arterial pressures. Neither episode was associated with symptoms of anaphylaxis. Neither patient was rechallenged after resolution of the initial episode.[Ref]
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – A common type of geographic mapping software offers a new way to study human remains.
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, researchers describe how they used commercially available mapping software to identify features inside a human foot bone – a new way to study human skeletal variation.
David Rose, a Captain in the Ohio State University Police Division and doctoral student in anthropology, began the project to determine whether the patterns of change inside the bones of human remains could reveal how the bones were used during life.
"Our bones adapt to the load that's placed on them. Patterns of tension and compression show up in our internal bone structure, and this software lets us look at those patterns in a new way," Rose said.
Julie Field, study co-author and assistant professor of anthropology at Ohio State, explained that archaeologists frequently use geographic information system (GIS) software to map the location of objects uncovered at an excavation site.
"We try to identify important clusters of objects such as household tools or agricultural tools that would indicate patterns of human activity," Field explained. "Based on certain scientific criteria that you give it, the software gives you a statistical measure of whether the objects you're looking at actually constitute a cluster."
In this case, the researchers used a program called ArcGIS. But similar types of mapping software can analyze any kind of spatial data, such as crime statistics or flood models, Rose added. He usesthe same program to map line-of-site views to develop security plans for events on campus.
This is the first time anyone has used GIS software to map bone microstructure.
Co-author Sam Stout, professor of anthropology at Ohio State and Rose's advisor, explained why the study of internal bone structure is important.
"Dave's work allows us to visualize, analyze, and compare the distribution of microscopic features that reflect the development and maintenance of bones, which we can relate to skeletal health and disease – for example, bone fragility in osteoporosis," Stout said.
Advances that relate to the study of foot bones in particular would be useful in forensics, Rose explained, because of one grisly fact: when unidentified human remains are discovered today, the foot bones are sometimes intact, having been protected by the deceased person's shoes. Any information about the person, such as age, sex, or body size could ultimately aid law enforcement in identifying a body.
For this study, the researchers studied the cross-section of a metatarsal – a long bone in the foot – from a deceased woman who generously gave her body to the Division of Anatomy's Body Donation Program. Using this bone cross-section, they demonstrated how the software could be used to show the loads experienced in the foot during gait.
Rose recorded an extremely high-resolution image of the bone cross-section under a microscope, and used the software to map the location of key structures called osteons.
Osteons are microscopic structures created throughout life to fix small cracks or to maintain mineral levels in our blood. The size and shape of osteons, along with the direction of the collagen fibers from which they are made inside bone, are influenced by the loads we place on our bones during life.
In this case, the donor's metatarsal bone showed the predicted pattern of normal bone remodeling, with concentrations of particular types of osteons along the top and bottom of the bone which could have been formed by forces experienced as she walked – just where researchers would expect to see telltale signs of foot flexure and compression.
This study provides a proof of concept, Rose cautioned, and many more bones would have to be studied before GIS software could provide meaningful insight into bone biology.
"Really, we're just combining very basic principles in GIS and skeletal biology," he said. "But I believe that there is a tremendous opportunity for advancements at the intersection of both disciplines. The real advantage to this method is that it offers a new scale for the study of human variation offering to shed light on how we adapt to our surroundings."
Co-author Amanda Agnew, assistant professor of anatomy, agreed and added that the work "combines bone biology, biomechanics, and biomedical informatics to explore new methods to evaluate old questions."
Timothy Gocha of the Department of Anthropology also contributed to this research.
– Written by Pam Frost Gorder
*Source: The Ohio State University


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Whether or not a hazard emanates from a machine is not a criterion by which application of the Machinery Directive can be defined.
The Machinery Directive must be applied if the machine can be assigned to one of the product categories covered by Article 1 Paragraph 1, is not excluded in Paragraph 2 of this article and does not fall under the scope of another specific directive in accordance with Article 3.
Some EU member states are calling for a "franchise clause", which will exclude non-dangerous products from the scope of the Machinery Directive. However, such a clause was intentionally left out of the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.


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A 5-carat fancy vivid blue diamond named "Ai" — the Chinese word for love — will be flirting with a world record when it hits the auction block at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite event in Hong Kong on October 3.
The auction house is estimating that the richly colored step-cut gem will sell in the range of $12.4 million to $15.2 million, potentially putting the per-carat price at $3 million or more. If The Ai Diamond outperforms Sotheby's estimate, it will be ascending into the rarefied air occupied by two of the most famous blue diamonds of all time.
Back in May of 2017, the "Oppenheimer Blue" — a 14.62-carat fancy vivid blue diamond — fetched an astounding $57.5 million at Christie's Geneva. The Oppenheimer Blue's per-carat price of $3.93 million came up just shy of the record of $4.03 million held by the 12.03-carat Blue Moon of Josephine, another magnificent blue diamond that sold for $48.5 million at Sotheby's Geneva in November of 2015. It was the highest price per carat ever paid for a diamond or gemstone.
"Fancy Vivid" is the ultimate color classification for blue diamonds. Those displaying lower levels of color saturation may be rated "Fancy Intense," "Fancy," "Fancy Light" or "Light," according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Blue diamonds owe their color to the presence of boron in the chemical makeup of the gem.
The Ai Diamond, which earned a VS2 clarity rating from the GIA, is framed by white baguette diamonds and set in 18-karat white gold.
Other top lots at the Sotheby's auction include the following stunners…
• A Spectacular Pair of Fancy Vivid Yellow Diamond and Diamond Pendant Earrings
Estimated to fetch between $4.8 million and $6.1 million, these earrings are designed as double gourds and vines, each suspending four old European brilliant-cut fancy vivid yellow diamonds weighing 51.17 carats in total. The earrings are embellished with pink and yellow diamonds mounted in 18-karat pink and yellow gold.
• An Impressive Ruby and Diamond Ring, Bulgari
Set with an oval Burmese ruby weighing approximately 31.40 carats, this impressive ring by Bulgari is embellished with custom calibré-cut rubies and brilliant-cut diamonds on the shoulders. The setting is fabricated in 20-karat yellow gold. Sotheby's is estimating that the piece will sell in the range of $2 million to $2.5 million.
• A Unique Pair of Sapphire, Pearl and Diamond Pendant Earrings
Drop-shaped Kashmir sapphires weighing 17.70 and 17.47 carats, respectively, dangle from these platinum and 18-karat white gold earrings. The earrings also feature button-shaped pearls and diamond beads, decorated with brilliant-cut diamonds. Estimated selling price: $1.6 million to $2.1 million.
Credits: Images courtesy of Sotheby's.
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President Roosevelt to the German Chancellor Hitler
Washington, September 26, 1938
Your Excellency,
The fabric of peace on the continent of Europe, if not throughout the rest of the world, is in immediate danger. The consequences of its rupture are incalculable. Should hostilities break out the lives of millions of men, women and children in every country involved will most certainly be lost under circumstances of unspeakable horror.
The economic system of every country involved is certain to be shattered. The social structure of every country involved may well be completely wrecked.
The United States has no political entanglements. It is caught in no mesh of hatred. Elements of all Europe have formed its civilization.
The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe.
The traditional policy of the United States has been the furtherance of the settlement of international disputes by pacific means. It is my conviction that all people under the threat of war today pray that peace may be made before, rather than after, war.
It is imperative that peoples everywhere recall that every civilized nation of the world voluntarily assumed the solemn obligations of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 to solve controversies only by pacific methods. In addition, most nations are parties to other binding treaties obligating them to preserve peace. Furthermore, all countries have today available for such peaceful solution of difficulties which may arise, treaties of arbitration and conciliation to which they arc parties.
Whatever may be the differences in the controversies at issue and however difficult of pacific settlement they may be, I am persuaded that there is no problem so difficult or so pressing for solution that it cannot be justly solved by the resort to reason rather than by the resort to force.
During the present crisis the people of the United States and their Government have earnestly hoped that the negotiations for
the adjustment of the controversy which has now arisen in Europe might reach a successful conclusion.
So long as these negotiations continue so long will there remain the hope that reason and the spirit of equity may prevail and that the world may thereby escape the madness of a new resort to war.
On behalf of the 130 millions of people of the United States of America and for the sake of humanity everywhere I most earnestly appeal to you not to break off negotiations looking to a peaceful, fair, and constructive settlement of the questions at issue.
I earnestly repeat that so long as negotiations continue differences may be reconciled. Once they are broken off reason is banished and force asserts itself.
And force produces no solution for the future good of humanity.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: The United States and World War II: Military and Diplomatic Documents, pp. 5-7
Note: The Kellogg-Briand Pact was an agreement to outlaw war signed on August 27, 1928. Sometimes called the Pact of Paris for the city in which it was signed, the pact was one of many international efforts to prevent another World War, but it had little effect in stopping the rising militarism of the 1930s or preventing World War II ( USA- office of the historian)


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Barbara Graves and four other descendants of Monticello gatekeeper Eliza Tolliver Coleman were interviewed together in 1995. All live in the Washington, DC, area and work (or worked) in various departments of the federal government. They shared their memories of Eliza Coleman's daughters Lucy Coleman Barnaby Page and Grace Coleman Harris and recalled summers spent at the Monticello gatehouse. Members of the extended Coleman family lived at Monticello for more than a century—far longer than any of the property's owners.
Thomas Colemanca. 1808–1888
Thomas Coleman1845–post 1910
Lucy Coleman Barnaby1869–1956
Barbara Barnaby Graves
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28 Apr. 1995, Mitchellsville, MD
Interviewees: Anne Slaughter, Ozella Harvey, Barbara Graves, Ereselle Brooke, Maxcine Sterling
Also present: Karen Branson-Butler, Jay Slaughter


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