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Just about the last thing you expect to see when you're out wheeling with your tough new Jeep Wrangler is a tree making a move on your crotch. It's one of those things not normally within the sphere of operation for trail driving. Normal is not what happened to one driver out for a New Years day expedition. This is the kind of thing should get back to Chrysler's engineering department for consideration in the next revision level. Anyway, well let the eyewitness from Postworthy lay out the details for you:
Yesterday our group went wheeling for a New Years day run. Not long into the ride one of the new Jeep Wranglers went past a fallen tree and a branch that was sticking out hooked the Jeep. The end of the tree broke through the wheel well and almost seriously injured the driver. Does this remind anybody else of the movie Final Destination?

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[Gamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S. National Film Registry has played for film culture and history", and Matteo Bittanti, Christopher Grant, Henry Lowood, Steve Meretzky, and Warren Spector revealed the inaugural honorees at GDC 2007. This latest piece follows the carrer of industry icon Sid Meier as he established himself as one of the most important contributors to PC gaming with the iconic turn based strategy epic Civilization.]
By 1990, Sid Meier had cranked out flight simulator games for as long as he knew how, at the request of his boss and partner. But Meier's life, and the world of computer games around him, had changed so much since the two men entered the market in 1982. Meier felt the undeniable urge to broaden his horizons as a designer; it was time to move on to greater things. Despite considerable opposition within the very company he co-founded, Meier broke the status quo and changed the course of computer strategy games forever. As the naysayers sank in his wake, he engineered lasting success and achieved design immortality with an epic game based on nothing less than the history of mankind.
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Few games are as addictively fun and as infinitely re-playable as Civilization, a turn-based historical strategy game where a player single-handedly guides the development of a civilization over the course of millennia, from the stone age to the space age. The game feels uncannily accurate, as if it actually represents the way the world could have unfolded if the course of history were nudged over just a bit. Civilization's designer, Sid Meier, somehow distilled, condensed, and codified the rules of humanity's post-agriculture development into a three-megabyte IBM PC computer game, with shockingly good results. For that achievement, many critics recognize Sid Meier as one of the greatest software designers in history.
Meier's historical classic finds itself in good company among gaming innovators like Tetris, SimCity, and Rogue with the inclusion of random play elements that make each sitting unique. Civilization marks especially high in this regard: between random map generation, multiple ways to win, up to 15 additional computer-controlled civilizations, and seemingly endless combinations of paths to pursue, Civilization's emergent gameplay results in a whole new gaming experience every time. "The fact that there are so many different ways to play, and that they all seem interesting and fun, leads you to want to play again after you finish the game," said Meier in an interview.
Playing Meier's classic again is always tempting, assuming that we've actually eaten since sitting down for the last game, perhaps six or ten hours before. Civilization's addictiveness is legendary. So much so that it even has a name: the "one more turn" phenomenon. While playing Civ, there's always something cooking in the pot, something to look forward to. In your next move, a unit or building could be completed, a new city founded, or an exciting technology developed. "There was never really a good place to stop playing," says Meier. "I've often found myself playing and then realized I'm late for a meeting. So I've been exposed to the phenomenon myself."
How did Meier conceive of and create such a powerful, yet deceptively simple simulation of world events? To understand the full story on this incredible game, we'll first have to take a quick journey back into the early days of computer gaming.
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Sid Meier met Bill Stealey in 1982 while they both worked at General Instrument, a large electronic component manufacturer. Meier, a talented young minicomputer programmer for GI, had recently acquired his first personal computer, an Atari 800, and was already creating primitive games for the machine in BASIC. John Wilbur "Bill" Stealey, a management consultant that held a side career as a fighter pilot with the U.S. Air Force Reserve, had also recently bought an Atari 800 to play Star Raiders.
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The Georgia Tech Invitational is a two-day meet from Friday to Saturday at the George C. Griffin Track and Field Complex. The Aggie Classic will take place on Sunday at North Carolina A&T's Irwin Belk Track.
The weekend meets will be ETSU's last chance at gaining additional entries into the NCAA Regional. The top 48 marks in each event of the region gain eligibility into the field. Currently, Ifrish Alberg (Paramaribo, Suriname) holds a qualifying time of 10.35 in the 100m dash, and freshman Jadon Short (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) has a qualifying 7.41m triple jump.
The Bucs also have several competitors who are close to qualifying marks. Marek Navratil (Olomouc, Czech Republic) ranks in a tie for 52nd in the high jump after his 2.09m performance last weekend, and Jason Johnson (Philadelphia, Pa.) ranks 49th in the triple jump with his 15.09m mark he set at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships.
ETSU's 4x100m relay team consisting of Alberg, Short, Errol Cash (Nassau, Bahamas) and Tim O'Dell (Palm Coast, Fla.) currently ranks 31st in the East Region, and needs to cut their time of 40.41 down to 40.17 to make the top 24 who qualify in the relay. O'Dell is also on the bubble in the 400m, ranking 56th in the region at 47.27. The current qualifying time in the 400m is 47.13.
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There was an enormous Supreme Court decision this week about campaign finance. There was a tragedy this week at Fort Hood. Yet here in New York, many people were talking about Daniel Murphy, the Mets second baseman after his decision to skip a couple of games to be with his wife after the birth of their first child.
According to the Associated Press, Murphy called remaining in Florida an extra day "the right decision to make" after his wife Victoria's cesarean section and said "we felt the best thing for our family was for me to stay."
Thanks to a collective bargaining agreement, Murphy is assured the right to take up to three days off. However, among some baseball fans and many male members of the sports media, one would have thought Murphy robbed a bank. He faced particularly hot criticism from sports broadcasters Mike Francesa and Boomer Esiason.
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The Cubs were given a national stage Sunday night to prove they're a better team than their record suggests.
In another wild affair under sweltering conditions, they came back from an early deficit, blew a one-lead with two outs in the ninth inning and eventually outlasted St. Louis 8-4 on Neifi Perez's grand slam that vanished around the right-field foul pole in the 10th.
"That was the most beautiful disappearing act I've seen in a long time," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said.
The Cubs won their first series in Busch Stadium since Oct. 1-3, 1999, and headed back to Chicago 4 1/2 games out of the National League wild-card lead.
With a game-time temperature of 98 degrees and a chance to gain a game on the wild-card leaders, the Cubs knew the heat was on.
Aramis Ramirez's two-out, two-run homer off Julian Tavarez gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead in the eighth, and when closer Ryan Dempster retired the first two men in the bottom of the ninth, it looked like the game was in the bag.
St. Louis was hitless in 21 at-bats from the second inning until the ninth, when the roof caved in on Dempster for the first time in two months. He walked pinch-hitter Scott Seabol on a 3-2 pitch, then watched pinch-runner Hector Luna steal second.
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Eckstein took second on the throw to the plate, and Abraham Nunez beat out an infield chopper to second, sending Eckstein to third and bringing Albert Pujols to the plate with the game on the line. But Dempster managed to retire him on a groundout, sending the game into extra innings.
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This year, four days are expected to have more than 50,000 people departing from Orlando International, up from two days that surpassed that number last year, said Fennell.
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Tartan, leather, pleated skirts, studs, belts, metal accessories, lace boots, leggings and boots over the knee. Punk style is highly branched, so you can get exactly the items that you favor. Opt for the land dominated by black, if you want a punk-rock look or choose tartan pleated skirts and leggings over knee but if you prefer a punk look with playful accents.
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Leather has always been a preferred material in winter, but only for a few years, in addition to leather jackets have been gaining ground and other clothes. In 2013, look for dresses, skirts and tops leather. If it fits your style, try an all leather outfit, but if such a look is too much for you, one article of leather combines with other materials.
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Increasingly lend menswear collections feminine elements. After the boyfriend's jeans, men's classic shirts, boots or hats, came now turn to enter the masculine coats women's fashion. Wear oversized coats with delicate clothing items. The most popular such coats are classic shades, but if you want a more spectacular look, you can search for a pattern in a strong color that will stand out.
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Elegance Fall 2013 brings '40s feminine pieces, chic, full of refinement. The focus is on highlighting the silhouette, so we find in equestrian fashion and hence in stores, midi skirts wide, arched suits, stylish suits, overcoats accentuate shoulders flared dresses with straps contrasting colors delicate and feminine clothes. Almost every woman is the advantage of such clothes, so it would be a shame not to take advantage of new trends.
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Inspired by the elegant smoking jackets men are one of the most sensual and stylish trends this season. Most designers have opted for a classic look, in shades of black or very dark navy and precious metals. Obviously, these jackets look perfect outfits evening with skirts or trousers, but you can inspire and the proposals of fashion houses and try to combine them with leather pants or other contrasting pieces.
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Up until this year, autumn streets are filled with sad and dark colors in 2013 things changed. This fall is wearing bright colors and some of the most beautiful pieces of clothing in unexpected shades are jackets and coats. Pink, lime, orange faded, blue or purple - these are the most popular colors for warm clothes in 2013, regardless of cut, fabric and style them.


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Hello Priv.ly backers! This is a huge update whose most important announcement is: Privly Chrome is in public Alpha! This means anyone can install the Chrome extension... Read more
Privly Foundation Year in Review
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The Bills have signed rookie wide receiver Terrell Sinkfield, the club said Saturday.
A Northern Iowa product, Sinkfield garnered some publicity in the pre-draft process for swift 40-yard-dashes at the University of Minnesota's Pro Day, including one said to be timed at 4.19 seconds, per Fox Sports North.
Now, Sinkfield (6-0, 200) is trying to find a foothold in the NFL. After going undrafted, he's had short stints with the Dolphins and Packers. He'll work to earn a reserve role with the Bills, and he'll have to maximize the opportunities he gets. Certainly, his speed is an asset — even if the 4.19-second dash is one that may need to be taken with a grain of salt, as MDS suggested a few months back. But forget the stopwatch — Sinkfield will need to play fast if he's to have any chance to make Buffalo's roster.


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After the 2001-02 NHL season, the league was in a position no league ever wants to be in — wondering what it should do to prevent another fan from dying at one of its games.
On March 16, 2002, 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was attending a Blue Jackets home game when Flames defenseman Derek Morris deflected a slap shot from Espen Knutsen. The puck flew into the stands and struck Cecil in the head. Two days later, Cecil died from complications stemming from her injury.
At the owners' meetings after that season, the league instituted a policy — protective netting in front of the crowd behind each goal.
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Bringing the energy safely to the consumer: A basic requirement applicable to all Power Transformers. However, every single one is unique – designed according to individual factors such as voltage, power, climate, system topography, sound level and many more. Siemens is your partner, who picks up these requirements converting them into convincing solutions with maximum quality. Power Transformers that render their service reliably at site. Cost-efficient and safe throughout decades.
The precision of core manufacture is a decisive factor for the later efficiency of the transformer. Siemens Power Transformers are manufactured as coretypes, with the limbs arranged at the same level and interconnected via yokes.
We are using high-grade cold-rolled laminates of transformer steel. Depending on the requirement also lasertreated ones.
When cutting the laminates, we rely on most modern numerical control systems, enabling the so-called step-lap-technique, with the consequence of an especially appropriate flow of characteristic within the core of a Power Transformer.
For high electrical and mechanical stress windings in Power Transformer are made of disc coils; for low voltages the use of layer windings has proven successful.
To adjust the ratio safely and easily to system conditions, Siemens Power Transformers have tapped winding. In this way the ratio of Power Transformer can be changed gradually - either in no-load condition via off-load tap-changers or under load by means of on-load tap-changers.
Another main component besides the core and the winding is the tank of a Power Transformer: It accomodates the active part and the oil filling.
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The business success of the energy intensive industry is heavily reliant on a reliable power supply. Attaining a reliable electric service requires a broad understanding of reactive, ex post interventions, and the development of a portfolio of strategies which embraces proactive, ex ante risk management measures. Strategies to manage uncertainties with negative consequences, i.e. a single point failure such as power transformer outage, typically include avoiding the threat, reducing the negative effect or probability of a threat, transferring all or part of the threat to another party, and other methods of risk management. To be specific, a full risk description comprises a measure of the uncertainty, often but not necessarily in the form of probability, of the events and consequences. The mean time between failures may be one key performance indicator.
As every transformer supplier will always stress the reliability of his products, a careful assessment is necessary. For example, every reputable manufacturer may be asked to report a so-called "Failure Rate" (FRe), respectively a list of the "Mean Time Between Failures" (MTBF) of his units. The calculation of reliability indices is generally given in standards. However, as previously stated, it is important to consider the incorporation of the reliability indices in a congruent risk management framework, and it is important to consider the limitations of risk indices. Furthermore, calculating reliability indices and metrics is most useful when there is a target level of performance to be met. Targets cannot be selected based on a "one-size-fits all" strategy, but should be tailored to specific needs. Finally, the average failure rate of a transformer may change several times over its lifetime. Even slight deviations can make a big difference – maybe not during the first years of service, but in the later lifetime.
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Medium Power Transformers with a power range from 40 to 250 MVA and a voltage of over 72.5 kV are used as network and generator step-up transformers. Medium Power Transformers are also widely used to step up power from on- and offshore-windparks, and may even be installed in offshore-substations.
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text: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 14:56 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote: > > My question is this: how extreme do you go in disabling non-essential > > services on your cluster nodes? Do you turn off *everything* that's not > > absolutely necessary, do you leave somethings running to make > > administration easier? If it were up to me I'd turn *everything* possible off except sshd and ntp. The problem however is the maintenance cost of doing this, it's fine if you've only got one cluster and one app but as soon as you try to support multiple users on multiple distributions the cost of ensuring everything is shut down on all of them skyrockets and it becomes easier which is to stick with the status quo :( > Everything is turned off and, most of the time, a quick glance at > ganglia brings out problems. Simple scripts can be built to perform > cyclic checks on the nodes and would be less disruptive IMHO. > > I'm curious to see how everyone else has their cluster(s) configured. > The only actual research I found on OS interference impacting HPC > computing is titled "A measurement and simulation methodology for > parallel computing performance studies" by Matthew Joseph Sottile. I > would be curious to know if anyone else has dipped into the subject and > come up with conclusive results on the subject. At medium to large scales it becomes hugely important, http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/paperpdfs/pap301.pdf Also look at "whatelse" from http://www.c3.lanl.gov/pal/software.shtml Ashley Pittman.


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Author Notes: This is an easy dish that satisfies my cravings for mac and cheese with very little cheese. In fact, the dish is great made without cheese, so it could also be vegan. The sauce can be made with fresh or frozen broccoli, often I use frozen for convenience. It would also be great with leftover roasted broccoli. The recipe is also very easy to make in a larger/smaller quantity. —chilmarkgal
Serves: 4
pound pasta, whole wheat or regular
large head broccoli, cut into florets, or 1 bag frozen broccoli
large clove garlic, smashed
tablespoon lemon juice
tablespoons olive oil
pinch red chili flakes
cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated
salt and pepper
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- Bring water to boil in large pot. While water is coming up to a boil, steam broccoli until tender in another pot or in microwave. Once water comes up to boil, salt generously and add pasta (note- be sure to reserve 1 to 2 cups of pasta water when draining pasta to add to sauce).
- While the pasta is cooking, add olive oil, garlic, and chili flakes to a skillet and cook over medium-high heat, until oil is hot. Add broccoli and saute until brown in some spots, about 5-10 minutes.
- Spoon contents of skillet into blender, add in lemon juice and some of the reserved pasta water, blend, and continue to add pasta water until sauce is smooth and creamy. The sauce should be well-blended, not chunky. Add parmesan cheese to blender and blend, just to combine. Taste for seasoning, adjust as necessary.
- Toss pasta with sauce until well-coated. At this point you could serve the pasta as is with extra parmesan for sprinkling on top, or you could put the pasta into a baking dish and top with parmesan cheese (or other kind of cheese), and broil for a few minutes to get a brown crust on top.
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text: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Robert G. Brown's all... > Dear Liststers, > > I'd like to request comments on a couple of dual Athlon motherboards. > We are considering both the Tyan Tiger 2466N (760 MPX) and the MSI K7D > Master (MS-6501) (also 760 MPX). Our local vendor "supports" MSI > motherboards (which just means that we deal with them rather than Tyan > in the event of a return, but which makes it reasonable to use the MSI > all things being equal). We are going with 760 MPX to get the 64/66 PCI > slots, of course -- we actually have a small stack of 2460 Tigers which > are not totally painless but which we've more or less tamed. > > Any experiences yet, good or bad, with either motherboard? The vendor > is probably going to loan us an MSI-based dual to test, but there's > nothing like the experience of somebody actually running a cluster if > there is anybody out there already doing so. We have both. Minimal experience yet in comparison, only had the 2466 around for a week or so. Some cards that dont work in 2460 work in the 2466 (such as the addtron GBE cards - just a POS card we tested for the hell of it). 66Mhz bus is sweet and works well. The fact that the thing has an onboard vortex and takes regular DDR ram (ecc in our case) now that ram is pricey again is great. Saved us a bunch per board (~$100). The NIC might not be as great as an intel EEpro but it works great for us (much better than a lowly rtl 8139). On board PXE is da bomb, and of course serial console exists on both boards is nice for saving on videocards (and power since AGP just burns hot). Im extremely happy with both so far (tho the 66Mhz is really the best part of the 2466), but i havent used both for a month intensively yet. > I'd also like comments on RAID alternatives. We have a group who needs > about 500 GB of RAID. We just got a Promise UltraTrak100 TX8 (IDE-SCSI) > RAID chassis that advertised decent itself as OS-independent plug and > play -- attach to SCSI bus and go. The first unit we were shipped > didn't work under any OS. The second we were shipped we got the vendor > (Megahaus) to verify function before shipping and it does "work", but it > returns unbelieveably poor performance at RAID 5 -- a (very) few MB/sec > -- under bonnie. From this we learned (among many things:-) that > vendors often quote performance numbers on a RAID from its RAID 0 > configuration, which would kind of funny if it weren't for the murderous > impulses it creates when you learn that their numbers are some sort of > cruel joke under RAID 5. Raid 5 is costly. As I understand it (not very well) there's 3 writes for RAID 5. Reading can be slow, but not nearly as bad. Obviously you dont want to scratch to raid 5 ;) We've used software raid for as long as its been out for freebsd (longer than linux). In the last years and my partner Dave Gilbert has submitted patches to freebsd for it. We've had great performance out of it, and only headaches with hardware raid (AMI MegaRAID) , as the list was recently talking about. > a) Another IDE-RAID enclosure, perhaps from a better manufacturer. > However, at this point we're more than a bit concerned about the gap > between vendor performance claims and reality. There are vendors that > assert 100 MB/sec read times, but we are concerned that they mean "at > RAID 0" which is useless to us. We need real-world loaded numbers at > RAID 5 (e.g. multiple instances of bonnie). Folks we know locally who > have e.g. zero-d chassis report real world throughput more like 20 > MB/sec RW, but their boxes are a year or two old and may not reflect > current rates. 20 MB/sec is pretty much the LOWEST rate we could > tolerate in this application under multithreaded load, and we'd like > something better. Any enclosure/controllers out there that give good-to > excellent performance that you'd care to recommend? can you avoid raid 5 writing for any part of the job? You can also do raid 10 (1+0) which is often faster (depending on the configuration). With software raid you get to control what you're doing, hardware raid vendors may not give these options. > b) md-raid, either ide or scsi, on a straight linux server. We know > that this works remarkably well. We run md raid in the departmental > server (scsi, with a stack of 36 GB disks in RAID 5) and get excellent > performance -- ~40 MB/sec write throughput and even better for read. > Unfortunately large SCSI disks are still excessively expensive and we > don't have the budget to reach 500 GB with SCSI disks for this cluster. > IDE is cheap and easy, but we would like a bit of assurance that linux > won't have (e.g. DMA) problems when dealing with 6-8 ide controllers on > one bus. Is anyone doing this? Good, bad experiences, hardware > recommendations or gotchas all welcome. Thats why we end up going with scsi. The drive limit on ATA is a bit too restrictive. > c) SCSI RAID. Definitely works, definitely high performance, but also > the most expensive and again, we won't be able to afford to reach our > design spec with the money allocated to this ($5-6K total). > > If we have to fall back to SCSI we will and will live with a smaller > RAID than we had hoped, but we'd very much like to first find out if > IDE-based RAID solutions (RAID 5 on ~500GB total disk) with >20 MB sec > worst case write rates under heavy load exist. Raid 10 an option? Eats more disk but is faster usually. /kc > > TIA, > > rgb > > -- > Robert G. 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Plaquenil® tablets contain 200mg hydroxychloroquine sulfate and are used in the treatment of malaria, discoid and systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Plaquenil® is classified as a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMAD), although the exact mechanism of action is not known.
Fluorescein angiography demonstrating Bull's Eye maculopathy; courtesy of Zeiss Meditec
Retinal toxicity from hydroxychloroquine is quite rare, considering the number of people who use Plaquenil®. For those patients who develop retinal toxicity, permanent vision loss may result, even after stopping the medication. Evidence suggests that retinal toxicity incidence depends on both dosage volume and duration; the majority of reported cases have occurred at dosages greater than 6.5mg per kilogram (of body weight) per day in patients who used Plaquenil® for more than five years1. With more than one million patients using this medication, less than 20 cases have occurred in doses less than 6.5 mg/kg/day, and all have occurred with greater than five years of usage1.
The typical dosage of Plaquenil® is either 200mg or 400mg per day. Two hundred milligrams per day puts anyone under 68 pounds at risk for retinal toxicity, and 400mg per days puts anyone under 135 pounds at risk.2 So, 200mg of Plaquenil per day is a safe dosage for almost all adults, unless they are particularly diminutive or have other risk factors, such as kidney failure or liver disease.2-3
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Even though retinal toxicity from hydroxychloroquine is exceedingly rare, clinicians still routinely screen patients who are on hydroxychloroquine. In 2002, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) established recommendations for monitoring patients who take hydroxychloroquine.1 AAO officials classified hydroxychloroquine patients into a low-risk group (patients who have used less than 6.5mg per kilogram per day for fewer than five years) and a high-risk group (patients who have used larger doses; have taken the medication for longer than five years; have other risk factors, such as a high body fat level, concomitant kidney or liver disease or concomitant retinal disease; or are older than 60 years of age).
For patients in the low-risk category, the AAO recommends that no additional special testing is needed for five years; however, an annual eye examination is recommended for patients in the high-risk category. It should be emphasized that these are the minimal follow up guidelines.
All patients who are starting hydroxychloroquine should have a baseline eye exam within the first year of starting treatment to include dilated fundus exam, testing of central visual field by either an Amsler grid or an automated threshold 10-2 central visual field.1 There has been some debate as to what the best parameters are for performing threshold central visual field testing. Some investigators have advocated using a red stimulus, with the belief that red may be more sensitive to detect early toxicity. The problem with the red stimulus is that there is no normative data base available to compare the patients, and there tends to be an increase in "false positive" responses. For these reasons, many clinicians continue to follow their patients using a white stimulus. Red-green color defects have been described in patients with early hydroxychloroquine toxicity, so color vision testing is also recommended for baseline testing as well as follow up testing.


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Blu-ray special features coming to App StoreThe last to embrace the Blu-ray high definition video format, Universal is poised to become the first to tie home theater with Apple's App Store, bringing companion features to the iPhone and iPod touch.
Home Media Magazine reported Monday that Universal Studios Home Entertainment was prepared to announce the App Store-Blu-ray tie-in, with the first release, the film "Fast & Furious," hitting stores July 28.
"For the first time, iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to control interactive content on their Web-connected Blu-ray Disc players," the magazine writes. "On subsequent Universal Blu-ray Disc releases coming later in the year, consumers will be able to access bonus content found on their Blu-ray Disc releases and download it onto their iPhone or iPod Touch. Theyll also be able to use the devices as a virtual remote to control their Blu-ray Disc features and access additional information while watching the movie."
The "Fast & Furious" App Store release will include a "Virtual Car Garage" that allows viewers to check out the movie's vehicles in 360 degrees, and to look up car specifications.
The studio announced that future releases will also tie in to Facebook and Twitter to update friends on movie-related activites.
By harnessing Blu-ray technology and combining it with Apples highly acclaimed iPod touch and iPhone, we continue to raise the bar in delivering an array of unprecedented, user-friendly home entertainment experiences, said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures Digital Platforms. Bridging these platforms further broadens the scope of the digital landscape by paving the way for innovative new applications and interactive content enhancements that continue to uniquely engage consumers.
The App Store has made the iPhone and iPod touch platform a very successful endeavor for Apple. Just last week, as the App Store crossed its one year anniversary, Apple announced that more than 1.5 billion applications had been downloaded from the service.
There are more than 40 million devices capable of accessing the App Store in consumers' hands. The three iPhone models and the iPod Touch serve customers in 77 different countries.


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Jesus in a Muslim Context
Course Introduction: Start here.
Introduction to Jesus in a Muslim Context
Section 1: Two Styles - Building Bridges or Highlighting the Differences?
Section 1 Summary
Jesus in a Muslim Context - Carl Medearis (11:54)
Being a Good Neighbor - Safi Kaskas (0:45)
A Muslim View of Jesus - Safi Kaskas
Don't Forget About Jesus - Carl Medearis (25:54)
Section 2: The Points of Contention
Section 2 Summary
There are Differences - Carl Medearis (13:13)
Sharing Faith With Muslims - Carl Medearis
Answering Islam from a Christian Apologetic - Carl Medearis (14:23)
Section 3: Jesus as the Bridge
Section 3 Summary
Jesus in the Gospels - Carl Medearis (13:40)
Muslims Are Taking Over the World! - Carl Medearis
A Different Perspective on Being Muslim - Riad Bahsoun (0:33)
Section 4: Clearly Presenting Jesus
Section 4 Summary
Jesus with Filters - Carl Medearis (13:22)
Answering Islam - Carl Medearis (31:03)
Section 5: Paradigms Shifting - Following Jesus
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Are We "Christians" Promoting "Christianity"? - Carl Medearis (13:04)
Answering Basic Questions - Carl Medearis (13:36)
Section 6: Us vs. Them - Who Wins?
Section 6 Summary
Shame and Honor Cultures and the Gospel - Werner Mischke (0:35)
Who's Winning the Conversion Contest? - Carl Medearis (13:44)
Section 7: Stories from the Field
Section 7 Summary
Storytime - Carl Medearis (11:37)
Stories from the Other Side - Samir Kreidie, Safi Kaskas & Abdel Azeem (12:54)
Don't Forget About Jesus - Carl Medearis
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And the Buddha taught two ways to validate truth, i.e. logical inference and factual reasoning. No one can argue with any claim which is backed by these two. Why don't we use them for the measure to end jhana debate? By using it, we can agree with something which is unequivocally definitive that would bring the debate to an end.
- You didn't solve anything by saying so.tiltbillings wrote:And that is your opinion.ignobleone wrote:That is one fundamental. It's related to saddha, to be more precise, confidence in the Dhamma, which means in this case we want to arrive at the certainty of the Teaching. Because you don't want to be "an uninstructed run-of-the-mill person who hasn't arrived at the certainty of the True Dhamma." The best we can get certainty is from the main suttas.
- I can say the exactly same sentence to your previous comment, but it won't do any good.
- Btw what's the matter with opinion? How about if the opinion is backed by logical inference and factual reasoning? I haven't explained the basis of my opinion. I'll write it below.
Isn't it too early to say who's being arrogant and presumptive? I haven't written my explanation. I expected your question (below) because my explanation will also be my answer. We shall see who's been arrogant.tiltbillings wrote:You are being arrogant and presumptive here.Practice and practice, a very common view. Are you sure you don't waste your time by doing the practice? What jhana practice, what kind of teacher - are the questions you need to investigate first. I suppose your teacher was from Theravada tradition. Do you know that Theravada these days can be equalized to commentaries? And commentaries are unreliable.
Tracking back the source of the Teaching from the origin, we have the following order:Why should I take your reading of the suttas as being any more reliable than the commentators or any Theravadin teacher?
As I said to you once before:
1. The Buddha, the origin of the Teaching
2. Direct disciples of the Buddha (Ananda, Sariputa, etc)
3.a) Main Suttas (from the 1st Buddhist council)
b) direct disciples of #2
4.a) generations below #3.b
b) Sutta Commentaries
5. Monks/teachers these days
By using logical inference:
- The closer to the origin, the more reliable. Commentary = sutta commentary, which means it exists after the sutta.
- Regarding your concern on the language problem/barrier (from the link you gave), commentators can also easily mislead because of the language problem. Why should I believe commentators translated/interpreted better? (you get a similar question here)
By using factual reasoning:
- Most of the Pali words already have clear meaning. They're much larger in number compared to the number of ambiguous Pali words. Otherwise, Thanissaro Bhikkhu or Bhikkhu Bodhi couldn't have translated a lot of suttas. Regarding any unclear/ambiguous Pali words, it's a limitation we cannot solve totally unless there's a native Pali speaker who's also fluent in English(or any other modern language) alive and can be asked to be a living dictionary. But there's a possible workaround for the limitation, i.e. like I've said before, by finding consistency of usage in more than one sutta, so that we can deduce the meaning from the context where it's used.
- Jhana bifurcation is an enough fact that commentators didn't translate/interpret quite well, compared with reading from suttas (Pali version or someone's translation).
- In a job interview, interviewer will skip any candidate which only have even one single mistake, because companies want least risk from choosing candidates. In the same way, it's reasonable to disqualify commentary.
Let's see what's the basis of your claims.


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The Lovely Bones is an amazing book.una wrote:I have tried to read The Lovely Bones and couldn't do it. Since I got it from the library, it took me so long to get through each section, let alone the chapter, I turned it back it. It's almost too emotional for me to read, especially during winter when everything is cold and grey...it was just too much for me. Currently I'm in the middle of the Dark-Hunter series by Sherrilyn Keynon and I'm reading an anthology called Fantasy.
If you want something good and a little less emotional, have you tried The Time Traveler's Wife? It's really good.
I liked Eragon for the story and mythology. The writing and flow shows the greenness of the author, but if the story wasn't engaging, I wouldn't have read it. I enjoyed the story, but I will say it has its slow parts. Again, I haven't gotten to Brisinger yet, but I will.
Great Expectations is one of my all time favorite books, up there with Where the Red Fern Grows and Pride and Prejudice. I also enjoyed Great Gasby and Heart of Darkness. All except for P&P were school reading. I find it interesting how some of the required reading is obvious in why it is chosen and required while others I have NO idea why it is. It's even more interesting to see what books are popular and which ones aren't.
It made me seriously cry too!
You should read it though! I know this sounds all deep, but it really made me appreciate life.
Okay, that was cheesy, but it really did!