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Verses 17-28 of Sura 4, "Women," continues with various regulations for marriage and the treatment of women. Verses 17-18 continue the call to repentance in v. 16 by warning that Allah will only accept repentance from those who sinned out of ignorance, and will not look kindly upon deathbed changes of heart. Then v. 19 forbids the inheriting of women against their will, and enjoins men not to treat them harshly in order to get them to forfeit part or all of their dowry – "unless they be guilty of flagrant lewdness." Aisha, Muhammad's favorite wife, recounts according to Mishkat al-Masabih that Muhammad said: "The best of you is he who is best towards his wife, and I am the best towards my wives."
Verses 20-21 continue with these exhortations toward just treatment, telling men that if they have decided to "exchange one wife for another," they must not take back the dowry they have given to the wife who is to be discarded. Verses 22-25 prohibit marriage with various women who are related by blood or marriage.
V. 23 refers to "foster mothers," or more literally "mothers who suckled you," as being among those with whom marriage is forbidden. Men and women who are not related are forbidden by Islamic law to be alone together, but a man and a woman who are forbidden to marry each other – i.e., who are related in some way – can be alone together. Once a woman came to Muhammad and told him that her husband, Abu Hadhaifa, was angry because a freed slave of his, a young man who had reached puberty, "enters our house freely." Muhammad told her: "Suckle him and you would become unlawful for him, and (the rankling) which Abu Hudhaifa feels in his heart will disappear." The woman later reported that it worked: "So I suckled him, and what (was there) in the heart of Abu Hudhaifa disappeared." This directive gained worldwide attention recently when a cleric at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, recommended that this could solve a problem in the workplace: a man could be alone with, and work with, a woman with whom he was not related, if the woman suckled the man and thereby became his foster mother. After the story got out and Al-Azhar was subjected to international ridicule, the lecturer who recommended this was suspended. Left unaddressed, however, was the root of his recommendation in the words of Muhammad himself.
V. 24 forbids Muslims to marry women who are already married, except slave girls: according to Islamic law, once a woman is captured and enslaved, her marriage is immediately annulled (cf. 'Umdat al-Salik o9.13). At one point, according to a hadith reported by Sahih Muslim, "the Companions of Allah's Messenger seemed to refrain from having intercourse with captive women because of their husbands being polytheists." So the Companions "asked the Prophet about this matter, and this Ayah [verse] was revealed…Consequently, we had sexual relations with these women." Ibn Kathir says that this verse also prohibits temporary marriage – marriage with a predetermined expiration date, which Shi'ites believe was never prohibited. Meanwhile, men who don't have the money to marry believing women should marry Muslim slave girls (v. 25).
Verses 29-33 contain general moral exhortations, including a prohibition of suicide (vv. 29-30). Is suicide bombing included in this prohibition? The Muslim leaders who justify it say that it isn't, as the object of the action is not to kill oneself, but to kill infidels, and thus is the killing and being killed that is rewarded with Paradise according to Qur'an 9:111. More on that when we get to that verse. V. 31 tells Muslims to avoid the "major sins." Hafidh Dhahabi lists 70 major sins in his Kitab ul-Kaba'ir, beginning with shirk, or associating partners with Allah (i.e., saying Jesus is God's Son), and including black magic, adultery, desertion on the battlefield, drinking alcohol, lying, stealing, pride, misappropriating the booty, spying on others, harming Muslims and speaking ill of them, disobeying one's husband, and making pictures. Other lists add more. Another book, Al Ashba wa al-Nadha'ir, lists offenses such as eating pork, dancing, castrating one's slave, apostasy, playing chess, masturbation and drug use among the major sins.
Verse 34 tells men to beat their disobedient wives after first warning them and then sending them to sleep in separate beds. This is, of course, an extremely controversial verse, so it is worth noting how several translators render the key word here, وَاضْرِبُوهُنَّ, waidriboohunna.
Pickthall: "and scourge them"
Yusuf Ali: "(And last) beat them (lightly)"
Al-Hilali/Khan: "(and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful)"
Shakir: "and beat them"
Sher Ali: "and chastise them"
Khalifa: "then you may (as a last alternative) beat them"
Arberry: "and beat them"
Rodwell: "and scourge them"
Sale: "and chastise them"
Asad: "then beat them"
Laleh Bakhtiar, in a new translation that has received wide publicity, translates it as "go away from them." In light of this unanimity among the translators, both Muslim and non-Muslim, this seems difficult to sustain – all of these authorities got the passage wrong until Bakhtiar? But her impulse is understandable, as many Muslims today regard this verse with acute embarrassment. Asad adduces numerous traditions in which Muhammad "forbade the beating of any woman," concluding that wife-beating is "barely permissible, and should preferably be avoided."
Unfortunately, however, this is not a unanimous view. Sheikh Syed Mahmud Allusi in his commentary Ruhul Ma'ani gives four reasons that a man may beat his wife: "if she refuses to beautify herself for him," if she refuses sex when he asks for it, if she refuses to pray or perform ritual ablutions, and "if she goes out of the house without a valid excuse." Also, Muhammad's example is normative for Muslims, since he is an "excellent example of conduct" (Qur'an 33:21) – and Aisha reports that Muhammad struck her. Once he went out at night after he thought she was asleep, and she followed him surreptitiously. Muhammad saw her, and, as Aisha recounts: "He struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?"
Wife-beating exists in all cultures, but only in Islam does it enjoy divine sanction. Amnesty International reports that "according to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, over 90% of married women report being kicked, slapped, beaten or sexually abused when husbands were dissatisfied by their cooking or cleaning, or when the women had 'failed' to bear a child or had given birth to a girl instead of a boy."
Aisha herself said it: "I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women."
Next week: What becomes of those whom Allah has cursed.
(Here you can find links to all the earlier "Blogging the Qur'an" segments. Here is a good Arabic/English Qur'an, here are two popular Muslim translations, those of Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, along with a third by M. H. Shakir. Here is another popular translation, that of Muhammad Asad. And here is an omnibus of ten Qur'an translations.)


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Southern California Edison has made a preliminary request to change its operating license for the San Onofre nuclear plant, a move intended to speed the proposed restart of the plant's Unit 2 reactor.
The power company submitted a draft of its request for a license amendment to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Friday.
If approved, the license amendment process could trigger a public hearing long sought by activists who oppose the restart plan. But the activists expressed concern Monday that Edison's request could lead to a public hearing after the fact – that is, after NRC approves the restart plan, perhaps even after the reactor is restarted.
"They're trying to do an end-run around safety, an end-run around public input," said Bill Walker of the environmental group Friends of the Earth.
Edison will discuss the request with the NRC during a public meeting in Maryland on Wednesday.
At issue is a portion of Edison's license-amendment request called a "no significant hazards" analysis. The draft analysis says, in essence, that there are no significant safety risks associated with the restart. If the NRC staff agrees, a license amendment could be granted, and the public hearing held later – even after the restart itself, NRC spokesman Victor Dricks said.
Edison's action is not intended to dodge safety requirements, spokeswoman Jennifer Manfre said.
"We want to follow all safety procedures," Manfre said. "A safety analysis is how you do that."
NRC's decision on whether to restart could come in May, though the license amendment is one of a series of steps that must be followed before the plant can be restarted.
"Even if we grant the license amendment, it doesn't give them the ability to restart the plant," Dricks said.
He said a public meeting is still being planned for sometime in May, in a community near the nuclear plant.
Both of San Onofre's reactors have been offline since January 2012. The Unit 3 reactor was shut down Jan. 31, 2012, after a small leak of radioactive gas from one of thousands of metal tubes inside one of its steam generators. The Unit 2 reactor had been shut down earlier in the month for routine maintenance.
Inspections showed unexpected wear among the thousands of tubes in all four steam generators, two for each reactor. The wear was traced to design flaws in the steam generators.
The massive steam generators had only recently been installed in a $671 million operation between 2009 and early 2011.
Edison has proposed restarting Unit 2, where the wear was less extensive, at 70 percent power. That is expected to curb the vibrations believed to be the cause of the tube wear.
The reactor would be run for five months, then shut down again for evaluation.
The NRC has been reviewing an Edison document called an operational assessment, saying Unit 2 could be run safely at full power for 11 months, despite its intention to run it only for five months.
NRC has said showing the reactor can run at full power is necessary for the operational assessment review, even if Edison's plan is to run it at 70 percent.
Whether a full-power review would be needed under a license amendment is unclear, Dricks said.
In any case, Edison officials say going the license amendment route could mean fewer delays before NRC decides whether to allow the proposed restart.
Edison officials say they hope to restart the reactor in time for summer, when high electricity demand can strain the power grid.
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Hagan hears good things about frosh RBs
Give running backs coach Darian Hagan some credit. He's the only member of the football staff brave enough to take his golf game public in Colorado's annual Count Casotti Classic golf tournament at Pelican Lakes.
Head coach Dan Hawkins was spotted riding a golf cart but, unlike Hagan, didn't post a score for all to see. Hagan's score was better left unposted. (In the interest of full disclosure my triple digit outcomes was also best left left off the board)
I did heard hear, however, that Hawkins was rocking out at the Paul McCartney concert last week.
So l asked Hagan if was aware of any progress reports about the newcomers in Boulder. Coaches aren't permitted to watch the off season workouts but they can hear updates from the strength and conditioning staff.
Apparently two of the new running backs are doing well _ Cordary Allen of Phenix City, Ala, and Trea' Jones of Wake Forest, N.C.
If there's a trend here, maybe freshmen do well out of the humidity for the first time. So much for the altitude worries.
Other than golf coach Roy Edwards and his assistant, Jim Grady, breaking par, the CU department staffer with the best score was athletic director Mike Bohn at 81.
He wasn't even the best in his family. Bohn's son, Brandon, a recent CU-Denver graduate, had one of the better rounds of the day at 75 on the water hazard-filled course in Windsor.
"I got the old man by six," said the younger Bohn.


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Veracruz is a beautiful, long, thin state on the Gulf coast of Mexico where many journalists are terrified not only of the rampant organized crime groups that kill and control, but also of the state government. Fear that state officials will order them murdered for what they investigate or write has forced about a dozen journalists to flee the state, claiming that fear also puts a clamp on coverage for those who remain. Many journalists still working in the state tell CPJ they agree.
What federal officials told CPJ about the keystone evidence in the state's most high-profile journalist murder--that of Regina Martínez Pérez, an esteemed correspondent for the highly respected national magazine Proceso--only adds to the fear. It makes it look as if the state is fabricating a murder case against the wrong people just to clear the books, while the guilty get away. And this is a case where journalists say high-ranking politicians have the most to gain by the reporter's death.
According to the federal officials, the man who the state attorney general said had freely confessed to murdering Martínez claimed in his first appearance before a judge that he had been tortured and his mother threatened with death if he did not confess to the murder. The man, Jorge Hernández Silva, retracted his confession, according to the federal officials. Journalists in Veracruz confirmed the account. The court appearance was on Wednesday.
The state Attorney General's office did not respond to CPJ's requests for comment.
If the confession is gone, then there appears to be little left in a case in which the state has been bitterly and repeatedly accused by local journalists, Proceso magazine, and even federal officials of lying, covering up the truth, and hiding evidence.
When Hernandez' arrest was announced on Tuesday--at a "press conference" where no questions were allowed---the state attorney general relied principally on the confession as the evidence against him. Theft was given as the motive. No mention was made of any match between Hernández, or an alleged accomplice not in custody, with fingerprint, blood, or DNA samples taken from the crime scene. Indeed, federal authorities close to the investigation told CPJ that none of those samples match anyone in the national criminal database. That is something that would seem to rule out both Hernández and his supposed accomplice as suspects, since the state says they have long criminal records.
Regina Martínez stood apart from other journalists in Veracruz. To begin with, unlike all the other eight journalists murdered in the state this year and last, Martínez did not cover the crime beat. She was the state correspondent for Proceso and she covered politics and high-level corruption. She was the queen of that realm, other reporters are eager to say. Veracruz is one of Mexico's largest, most populated states, and by general consensus one of the most politically corrupt. That is a title hard to win. Martínez's beat was a messy one in a dirty state. Just one illustration: the Milenio newspaper published a survey last week of the number of unidentified people buried in common graves by state authorities in the last six years. Veracruz came in first place for the country, with slightly over 5,000 bodies--bodies with no names and no one to claim them. That's a picture of Veracruz. At first, the state refused to release the number of the dead on the grounds that it would violate the right to privacy of the unidentified bodies. That's a picture of the government of Veracruz.
Martínez was killed last April 28, strangled in her bathroom, after investigators said she was surprised by her attacker or attackers. There were a few items stolen, including two cell phones and a flat screen TV. But other valuables were left, making theft a less-than-clear reason.
Immediately, her magazine, Proceso, said it did not trust any state official, including the governor, to run an honest investigation. Under Mexican legal rules, the magazine was allowed to participate fully in the investigation, and assigned a top reporter to join at every turn. Also joining as a full partner was the federal special prosecutor for crimes against journalists. Well, that's what was supposed to happen. Proceso says both it and the special prosecutor were shut out completely of any important developments, were lied to repeatedly, and given false leads.
"What is clear though," Jorge Carrasco, the Proceso reporter assigned to the task, told CPJ today, "is that at no point did the state ever consider Regina's journalistic work as a possible motive for her murder." In other words, if she was killed to stop an investigation of dirty politicians, that wasn't going to be looked at.
The line of investigation that led to the arrest of Hernández, the man in custody, seems to have been done completely in secret by state authorities. Neither Proceso nor the federal government were informed, leading to questions about what the state had to hide.
In the first months after her murder, state officials began leaking to the local press that they had evidence she'd been killed by a lover. That's what they whispered; they never showed any evidence.
Now, the state says the motive is theft.
Carrasco, speaking for the magazine, said, "We don't believe them."


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September 27, 2012 (TSR) – Cellphones in Syria rang, buzzed and chirped Thursday with an ominous text message from the military to members of the armed rebellion: "Game over."
The rebels provided their own response to the regime's warning to surrender and disarm by launching new attacks to drive government troops out of the largest city of Aleppo.
There's no indication that the stalemated civil war has taken a decisive turn in any direction, however, and the bloodshed that has already claimed more than 30,000 lives looks likely to drag on for many more months.
Compounding the grim outlook, sharp disagreements between Syria's foreign friends and foes — on display at the U.N. General Assembly this week — have prevented a diplomatic solution from taking shape.
Syrians with subscriptions to the country's two cellphone service providers said they began receiving the text messages signed by the Syrian Arab Army urging the rebels to surrender their weapons and warning that a countdown to evict any foreign fighters in the country has begun. Those with prepaid phones did not receive a message, according to residents in the capital of Damascus.
The texts appeared to be a kind of psychological warfare against the rebels by the regime of President Bashar Assad. In August, army helicopters dropped leaflets warning rebels in Damascus to disarm and seek amnesty. Government officials were not available for comment.
The messages are highly unlikely to have any effect on fighters intent on toppling Assad, and rebel supporters shrugged off the regime's warning as a sign of desperation.
Ali, a 28-year-old member of the rebels' Free Syrian Army, said he found the message comical.
"I will never hand over my weapon because the game is not over yet," he said, giving only his first name for fear of reprisals. "It won't be over until Assad's death."
The rebels on Thursday stepped up attacks against regime forces in Aleppo, parts of which they seized two months ago, although they have been unable to dislodge pro-Assad troops from the rest of the northern city of 3 million people.
Opposition activists reported heavy clashes in more than a dozen areas. Government forces shelled several districts, said Mohammed Saeed, a local activist, speaking via Skype. Mortar shells, presumably fired by rebels, also struck several government-held neighbourhoods, activists said.
By late Thursday, fighting was still heavy in many areas of the city, said Rami Abdul-Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that compiles reports from Syria. Abdul-Rahman said at least 23 people were killed in several hours of clashes in Aleppo, but that the toll was expected to rise.
The regime said several weeks ago it would retake the city within days, but it has failed to do so, even after sending more ground forces and unleashing near-daily air bombardments and artillery attacks on rebel-held neighbourhoods.
Rebel fighters in Damascus staged a brazen attack Wednesday, setting off twin explosions that engulfed the Syrian army headquarters in flames.
Video on Lebanon's Al Manar TV on Thursday showed that rebels briefly occupied the command centre before being driven out by government forces, demonstrating the scale of the security breach of the heavily guarded capital.
At least 305 people were killed Wednesday, the highest daily toll so far, said the Observatory. On Thursday, there were more than 80 dead across Syria, including the 23 killed in Aleppo, the group said.
The rate of killings has accelerated, with nearly two-thirds of the conflict's deaths reported in the past five months.
The rising casualties are a result of an increasingly violent war of attrition in which neither side is able to score a decisive blow, even though on paper Assad's military seems vastly superior, both in weapons and troop strength.
Military analysts said the army doesn't have enough reliable troops to tightly control all of the country. Thousands of soldiers have defected to the rebels, while the regime cannot count on many of the remaining forces — more than 400,000 if counting reserve soldiers and paramilitary groups — to fight for Assad, they say.
Assad and many in the army command belong to Syria's Alawite minority, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, while a majority of the rebels and of the army conscripts are Sunni Muslims.
This relative shortage of ground troops has enabled the rebels to take over large areas of the countryside in the narrow slice of western Syria where most of the population is concentrated, said Joseph Holliday of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.
"It's a tradeoff the regime has been forced to make in order to maintain its … stranglehold on the largest population centres," Holliday said. "It's been forced to cede the countryside to the rebels."
Holliday estimated the rebels have at least 40,000 fighters, based on a unit-by-unit count conducted through phone interviews in June.
The rebels are believed to have received reinforcements over the summer after capturing several border crossings with Turkey and Iraq.
They also boosted their arsenal of rifles, heavy machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades through smuggling, but mainly by capturing weapons from Syrian troops, said Ausama Monajed, a member of the Syrian National Council, the main opposition group in exile. Monajed said he believes the opposition has anywhere between 20,000 and 40,000 fighters.
The regime's response to the initially largely peaceful uprising in March 2011 has escalated steadily — from shooting at unarmed protesters to sending tanks, shelling neighbourhoods and bombing from the air.
Western diplomats at the U.N.'s annual gathering of top leaders expressed frustration over the impasse — with British Prime Minister David Cameron saying the blood of Syrian children "is a terrible stain" on the deadlocked U.N., where Syria allies Russia and China have blocked harsher anti-Syria sanctions in the Security Council. Russian President Vladimir Putin countered that bloody regime change would only lead to more violence.
"The way things stand, this could go on for a very long time, quite a few months," said Yezid Sayigh, a Beirut-based analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center. "It's not obvious why anything in particular should change dramatically."
Syria's civilians are facing increasingly greater threats.
The U.N. said the number of Syrian refugees could rise to more than 700,000 by the end of the year, from 294,000 who already fled to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq. It said 2,000 to 3,000 refugees are crossing into neighbouring countries each day. The U.N. refugee agency said it needs close to $490 million to help the refugees, or three times what donors gave so far.
Earlier this week, the U.N.'s World Food Program estimated that those who need food aid in Syria, most of them civilians who left their homes to escape the fighting, has grown from six-fold since April, to about 1.5 million.


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Just over seven years after it was built, the wood exterior of Belmont's Wellington Elementary School has changed. When it was built in 2011, Wellington building committee member, Pat Brusch, told the Belmont Citizen-Herald the wood exterior would never need maintenance. But now, to the untrained eye at least, it appears to need work.
However, Brusch says there is no need to worry and the wood itself is actually in good condition.
"It doesn't (need maintenance), and it still doesn't. The stain does not need to be scraped off," Brusch said. "It is peeling, it was supposed to peel."
The outside of Wellington is largely made up of Ipe, or Brazilian walnut, which is an extremely hard type of wood. Brusch and Mark Haley, another former Wellington building committee member, have worked on building committees in Belmont for nearly three decades.
According to Brusch and Haley, the Ipe that covers the exterior of Wellington was originally coated with a topical stain when the school was built. Brusch acknowledges the school does not look nice right now but assures nothing is wrong with the wood.
According to Steve Dorrance, Belmont's director of facilities, Ipe fares best when it is near saltwater, which prevents mold from growing within the fibers of the wood and causing decay. Because of Belmont's inland location, the Ipe siding on the Wellington needed to be coated with a topical stain to protect the wood.
Dorrance, who was not working for the town when the Wellington was built, says the current coating is likely latex-based on the exterior of Wellington, and does not fully absorb into the hard Ipe. Dorrance thinks that an oil-based stain would have lasted longer.
"Oil would have penetrated the wood and formed a tighter molecular bond whereas the latex is sitting on top of the wood and it's flaking off in a lot of places," Dorrance said.
According to Haley, the Ipe exterior of the Wellington has nothing to do structurally with the school, but rather is purely for aesthetic purposes. The outer Ipe shield covering Wellington's core structure is called a rainscreen, protecting the building from the elements.
"The rainscreens are making the building very tight so the energy efficiency goes up," Haley said.
However, Haley concedes the building committee did not think the stain would come off the way that it has.
"We felt it was going to fade, not chip," Haley said. "The Ipe is so hard, the stain does not penetrate."
The Wellington Building Committee's work is done and it has turned over the property to the town. That's where Dorrance comes in.
Dorrance believes the current condition of the building does not pose any immediate structural threat, but if the the stain is peeling is not addressed soon, repair costs in the future could be very high.
"We can't do anything with this until we get the funding," Dorrance said. "There is increasing sensitivity that we probably aren't funding our maintenance budget the way we should fund it."
Dorrance said the facilities department is consulting with an architect to try and come up with a solution to the preserve Wellington's Ipe exterior.
Adrian Thomas is a Boston University journalism student reporting as part of a collaboration between the Belmont Citizen Herald and the Boston University News Service.


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Guide in Niseko
It is the live broadcasting picture from Niseko roadside station "Niseko view plaza"
Home > Places of Interest
Places of Interest
Cherry Trees
Two cherry trees, Mt. Yotei and patchwork fields weave together to create a sight typical of the Niseko landscape. This scene is often found in pamphlets and magazines featuring Niseko.
This spot has been designated a 'place of scenic beauty' by Niseko Town and is a valued part of the local landscape.
*Please make sure you don't walk on the surrounding fields.
Ostrich Farm
Set against the magnificent backdrop of Mt. Yotei is an ostrich farm where visitors can see ostriches running in the fields. While this may seem far removed from the image of the northlands, look at this scene and it will reveal the awesome power of nature.
Special troughs have been put out so that visitors can feed the ostriches.
Arishima Memorial Hall
The museum was opened to commemorate 100 years since the birth of novelist Takeo Arishima. A tower in the grounds looks out over Mt. Yotei and the Niseko-Annupuri mountains. The hall is surrounded by parkland filled with flowers and strategic spots for photographing Mt. Yotei.


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From lobster claws and dog teeth to bee stings and snake fangs, every creature depends on a weapon. But some are armed to extremes that make no practical sense—whether it's bull elks with giant 40-pound antler racks or tiny rhinoceros beetles with horns bigger than their body. What explains giant tusks, horns, and claws that can slow an animal down and even impair health and nutrition?
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July, 2007
Dave Schwartz, New York
The Backpackers Hostel was a good place for a Krakow visit for me - it turned out to be clean and inexpensive, with nice, student-like atmoshpere. It's well located near the Old Jewish district and the WW II Krakow Ghetto locations - I especially liked it's proximity to the original sites of the Schindler's List. Friendly staff (they answered all my questions :-), good breakfasts, availability of tours and sightseeings (good Auschwitz tours).
I strongly recommend this hostel.
August, 2006
Anja & Kurt, Berlin
We had great time in Krakow and this student hotel! We met people from all over the world and made some new friends. The hotel is very close (walking distance!) to great pubs in the old Jewish quarter and the doors are always open.
It is also near the Old Town of Krakow and the Wawel Royal Castle - we walked ca. 15 minutes to the castle by the Vistula river.
You can book tours in the hotel and we were in the Wieliczka Salt Mine with them - it was beautiful place.
The employees are nice and helpful and all speak English and most of them spoke German, too. They serve breakfasts (good and cheap) untill 11 am., so even after late nigt come-back we still managed to have breakfast at the hotel.
We're looking forward to come back to this hostel next year.
September, 2001
Kathrine N. Lorcain, Ireland
From my travels throughout Europe, I can confidently say that the Polish are the most friendly, hospitable and accommodating people in all of Europe. Thanks for everything - your help, the washing, the clean room... You'll definitely see me back here next year!
Simon, Bedfordshire, Great Britain
I have really enjoyed my 5 days in this lovely hostel in such a beautiful country! Thanks to all the staff who have been so helpful and making the stay here more comfortable + enjoyable! I hope to return to Poland again in the future when I can speak more Polish - until then, do zobaczenia!
September, 2006
Had a wonderful stay here at Bursa! The staff here are friendly and helpful, and the rooms are more than comfortable. Definitely recommend the Wieliczka and Auschwitz tours, well worth the money!
Krakow is a beautiful and friendly city, and I hope to return very soon!
August, 2007
J. Fernandes, Portugal
What a great hostel, and what a great place in Krakow! Wonderful service and beautiful women!
Greetings from Portugal!
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Associated with the venerable university of the same name, the Bursa Jagiellonska is normally a student dormitory, but it is open in summer (normally late June through to early October) for travellers. It is Krakow's best student hostel, attracting student and non-student types from Poland and abroad.
The dorm has dozens of single, double and triple rooms; generally two or three rooms share bathroom and kitchen facilities. The whole place is spick-and-span, but nonetheless it is a dormitory. The clean, white linens and bare white walls feel rather institutional, as do the linoleum floors and bare-basic furniture (although it lacks bunk beds, which are otherwise a hostel standard in Krakow). The upside is the free facilities - Internet, laundry and TV room, and the friendly reception. Staff members speak more than a dozen languages between them, and are always ready to strike up a conversation. The amiable atmosphere pervades the hostel, making the Bursa Jagiellonska a great place to meet up with fellow summer travellers.
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Clean and comfortable university student dorm south of the river on the western edge of the Podgórze district. Choice of doubles, triples and quads, with bathroom shared between every two or three rooms. Breakfast available for a few extra zlotys. Discounts for ISIC holders. Tram #10 from the train station to the Smolki stop (...).


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Industry analyst Michael Pachter expects Sony to announce a price-cut for PS3 next week along with the announcement of a new console. According to Pachter, the a price-cut should go into effect on "February 21st," and he expects it to hit somewhere around the $199 mark. He also expects Microsoft to counter the reduction with […]
Tretton says PS3 shortages are "conceivable" thanks to price cut
SCEA boss Jack Tretton has reiterated last week's news regarding sales of PS3 climbing 300 percent thanks to the price cut. But because of the popularity, he thinks there may end up being a shortage for the console. "We are up about 300 percent over where we were pre-price drop," he told Reuters. "We are […]
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SCEE president, Andrew House, has said that Sony would like to knock down the price of PS3 to the same £199 price point PS2 saw during its peak last generation. However, that is providing the decision to lower the cost that much was within the boundaries of "sensible business". "If we could get to a […]
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Tecmo Koei CEO Kenji Matsubara, has said that during meeting with Sony, he requested a price cut for PS3. "Whenever I discuss this with Sony reps I always ask them: 'Please cut the price', but I don't have a clear view on Sony's situation," Matsubara told CVG. "Yes, from a publisher's point of view we […]
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Giorgio Armani Beauté Face Designer - Harvey Nichols Leeds (16 hours / 2 days per week)
Giorgio Armani Beauty offers a luxurious and sophisticated glamour to both make-up and fragrance. We want to empower women and men by offering an experience of simplicity, quality and honesty with our service as well as our make-up, skincare and award winning fragrance. You will be part of an expert team driving brand awareness and sales for this established Italian brand.
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The Dunn City Council serves as the policy-making governing body of the City. The Dunn City Council has seven members, all of whom are elected to four-year terms. Voters throughout the city choose the mayor. Each of the other six council members is a representative and is chosen only by voters within the district. District representatives live in the districts they represent. Dunn is divided into six wards.
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The Apple MacBook Pro 17″ is a beautiful machine full of power, grace and performance. The case itself is made entirely from a beautiful sturdy brushed aluminum alloy that is lightweight and absolutely stunning.
17-inch Configuration:
- 2.8GHz MacBook Pro
- Enclosure Precision aluminum unibody
- Processor 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- L2 cache 6MB shared
- System bus 1066MHz
- Memory 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM; supports up to 8GB
- Hard drive4 500GB Serial ATA; 5400 rpm
- Slot-loading optical drive 8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
- Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics processor; and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3
- Graphics memory 512MB GDDR3
- Video Built-in iSight camera; Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI (requires adapters, sold separately)
- Display 17-inch (diagonal) high-resolution LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1920-by-1200 resolution
- Expansion One FireWire 800 port (up to 800 Mbps), three USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps), ExpressCard/34 slot
- Audio Built-in stereo speakers, built-in omnidirectional microphone, combined optical digital input/analog line in, combined optical digital output/analog line out
- Networking Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet
- Wireless Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IEEE 802.11n specification)2; built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology
- Hardware accessories 85W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, power cord
- Limited warranty
Service Your MacBook Pro comes with 90 days of free telephone support and a one-year limited warranty. Purchase the AppleCare Protection Plan to extend your service and support to three years from your computer's purchase date. Only the AppleCare Protection Plan provides you with direct telephone support from Apple technical experts and the assurance that repairs will be handled by Apple-authorized technicians using genuine Apple parts. For more information, visit Apple support or call 800-823-2775.
Apple and the global environment Learn more about Apple's dedication to reducing the environmental impact of our products and processes. The Apple Product Environmental Specification details the environmental attributes of our products.
Recycling Apple takes a holistic view of materials management and waste minimization. Learn more about how to recycle your Mac.
Time Capsule
Time Capsule is a full-featured AirPort Extreme base station with a built-in hard drive. Back up wirelessly and create a Wi-Fi network with one device.
•1TB or 2TB server-grade hard drive
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•USB port for connecting a USB printer or USB external hard drive
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•Antiglare display
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•Apple Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter
•MagSafe Airline Adapter
•AppleCare Protection Plan
•Final Cut Express
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•Apple LED Cinema Display
•AirPort Extreme Base Station
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•Apple Wireless Keyboard
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3.Memory available to Mac OS X may vary depending on graphics needs. Minimum graphics memory usage is 256MB.
4.1GB=1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.
5.Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 using pre-production 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Pro units with a Better Battery Life setting. Battery life depends on configuration and use. See www.apple.com/batteries for more information. The wireless productivity test measures battery life by wirelessly browsing various websites and editing text in a word processing document with display brightness set to 50%.
Our First Impressions of the Apple MacBook Pro
Opening the white glossy Apple MacBook Pro 17 Inch box was a lot like that feeling you get when you take a cold shower. The ice cold water hits your skin and it takes your breath away. When you touch it… you just aren't prepared for the cold metal feel of it because everyone else makes laptops out of plastic; it takes your breath away. The MacBook Pro takes you by surprise again when you lift it… you're thinking: Metal = Heavy and that just isn't the case. The brushed aluminum look is so appealing and while the whole stainless kitchen is so yesterday, this look on a notebook is ageless and beautiful; a true work of art in every way.
We were a little disappointed by the interior, while it was very nice looking… there weren't as many bells, whistles and lights as we expected from something so dramatic (when the lid is closed). We understand the idea is minimalist but it is a piece of technology and as such there is a nerd factor that needs to be appeased here. While the construction/beauty is there, it is a lot like biting into dry chocolate cake when you open it up. The cake is tasty, but you need milk. There is just… too much "White Space" in the interior and it detracts from the overall look because it becomes almost bland.
We may sound like we are nitpicking but when you start the system up it loads fast, everything is great until you get to the part where the little outer space movie plays. You can't cancel through it (or at least we couldn't find a way to do that) and it isn't particularly amazing in the way of pizazz (the movie, not the system) so it's boring… We don't like that part of it, but it's not the end of the world either.
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The Venturing Leadership Award is presented by councils, areas, regions, and the BSA National Council to Venturers and adults who have made exceptional contributions to Venturing and who exemplify the Venturing Code.
Venturing Leadership Award candidates must be registered and involved in Venturing as a Venturer or an adult for at least one year. They must hold a leadership position or office on the unit, district, council, area, region or national level (as appropriate for the level of award presented). The candidate must show exceptional dedication and give outstanding leadership and service to Venturing and to Venturers on the level appropriate for the award.
Councils may present two awards for youth and two for adults per year for up to 50 crews/ships and one additional youth and adult award per year for each fraction of 25 crews/ships above 50. For example, for 51 registered crews/ships, a total of three youth and three adult awards may be presented; for 78 crews/ships, four youth and four adult awards could be presented. Regions may present 12 youth and 12 adult awards per year. National may present six youth and six adult awards per year.
Venturing youth and adults may be recommended at the council, area, region, or national level by completing the Venturing Leadership Award candidate information form. An additional sheet with 200 words or less explaining why the candidate should receive the award and letters of recommendation (from school, church, clubs, etc.) must be provided with the information form.
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Join us for a special 75th anniversary party with Thomas the Tank Engine on 7 & 8 March
Different to other steam railway experiences - Because it is really a depot and can be described as an outdoor museum. Plenty of old trains and rolling stock to see and you can ride some albeit on a very small demonstration line. But for a different steam experience this is recommended. Maybe best to go on an event day.- Christopher F
Our entrance is through the ticket hall and original steam age subway of Didcot Parkway station.
Please advise GWR ticket barrier staff at the mainline station that you are visiting the Centre and they will allow you access. (You will need to show your Railway Centre tickets when you exit).
with unlimited train rides. Weekends and Wednesdays from April to September
Explore the Centre at your leisure - 29 Feb & March weekends
Control the trains - 1960s style! Most Steam Days and Weekend Exhibition Days.
Join us for a special 75th anniversary party with Thomas the Tank Engine on 7 & 8 March
Explore the Centre at your leisure - Mon, Tues, Thur & Fri April - September
Fri 10 - Mon 13 Apr 2020 - see four pioneering railcars in action side-by-side
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I'd like to find some pictures converted for the STE with display in 4096 colours.
The type of pictures where the 16 colours of the palette entries are redefined once on each scanline
I would like to know the encoding format of these pictures, and know which pictures viewers giving the best stats about these pictures (overall and per scanline) are.
Also if there are some sources (C or ASM) for these pictures viewers, please point me to them.
Same question if there are formats with more than 1 palette redefinition per scanline, if it exists (maybe with some constraints, as I guess there must be a non fixed delay, giving a few pixels of imprecision, when the 2nd set of 16 colours is used on the same scanline).
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Photo Tips: The Rule of Thirds
Add visual interest and take your photos from simple to stunning by using the rule of thirds. This photography principle helps you place your photo subject(s) along lines or intersections created when you divide your picture into thirds vertically and horizontally, as seen below.
Photo by Brittany Beattie. Appeared in the January 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
When you take a picture, visualize this grid through your viewfinder. If you're taking a portrait, place the person's eyes where the top horizontal line intersects one of the two vertical lines. When taking a picture of a couple, have them stand close together by one of the vertical lines. If you're taking a photo of a landscape, place the horizon line on one of the two horizontal lines.
Bonus tip: If your subjects are looking to the right, position them along the left-hand vertical line; if they are looking to the left, place them along the right-hand vertical line. This arrangement will lead the viewer's eye into the photo-as he follows the gaze of the photo subject-rather than out of the photo.
Of course, you can apply this rule to photos you've already taken by using a little creative cropping. Learn how in our "Create Sensational Photos with a Free Rule-of-Thirds Grid Download" article. Or download this free rule-of-thirds grid to digitally crop your photos. Here's how:
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since Demonoid is down, perhaps forever. This really sucks, I had 98 torrents that I seeded on that tracker... a lot of rare indie music from my CD collection. Anyhoo, I need a good tracker....I tried the pirate bay a few weeks ago but was having problems with it....my upping torrent kept switching to dht and their forums said there were some issues currently with the tracker.
Any idea's/suggestions would be great. I know there's threads around that has a list of trackers but a lot of these haven't been updated in months, even years. Don't need a 3 year old obsolete tracker I might try TPB again, hoping they have their issues resolved but i'm still open to suggestions.


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Photographer's Note
The photo
I think that is interesting to post a photo of this almost unknown river as is the country
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At the back of Independence Square , behind Lopez Palace is Paraguay River
Length: 1,629 miles (2,621 km), I took the photo of this old and small militar ship that seems still working, not people, not ships, a quiet place to enjoy the last rays of sun but a dangerous place to stay, or so I was told by three polices that were leaving and refused to give me permision to go down next to the river or try a visit at the ship
Paraguay River
The source and upper course of the Paraguay River are in Brazil, where it demarcates part of the frontier with Paraguay before entering Paraguay itself, which it traverses from north to south. It then forms the frontier between Paraguay and Argentina for the last 150 miles (240 km) of its course before joining the Alto (Upper) Paraná River, the combined river then flowing into Argentina as the lower Paraná River.
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Didi (61569) 2014-02-03 23:45
Ave Maria
Un semi contre jour intéressant, bien sûr en cadrant l'horizon au 1/3 de la hauteur peut donner plus de profondeur au ciel ou à l'avant plan selon tes souhaits
mohammad_H (10178) 2014-02-04 0:41
Coordination of sky and water at colors
Prospects by putting a small boat, in front of a large ship, for large scale
Good work
In the World Cup foot ball, with country you at one group
Have a nice day
Romano46 (18472) 2014-02-04 2:42
Ciao Maria
nelle tuie foto fatte in Paraguay mi ha particolarmente colpito la tonalità del verde spesso presente in esse.
E' una tonalità molto viva e brillante, così come particolare appare anche il colore delle acque dall'aspetto colorato, ma sempre un po' cupo.
E' questa particolare combinazione che, unita alla bellezza della composizione, rende molto piacevole anche questa tua ultima proposta, la quale si fa notare anche per l'eccellente nitidezza.
Ciao e buona giornata
ikeharel (100199) 2014-02-04 8:08
Evidence of abundance of waters, Maria, the river is as wide as more famouse rivers on our planet.
The DOF and clarity are well collected here, and the navy vessel well placed along(did not know Paraguay has a navy, as it doe's not have sea opening's).
Fine shot, buen tardes,
photographer_sg (6059) 2014-02-04 9:45
Hello Maria
The still blue waterfront looks so calm and peaceful that one doesn't like to think of it as dangerous. the included foreground provides nice variety. I liked the inclusion of the sky that fills almost half the frame. thanks for sharing.
best regards
ourania (51103) 2014-02-04 10:43
Hola querida Maria,
an effective simple composition with great depth and sharpness to present a desolate and tranquil place, known by a few. I like the suggestive shady part of the ship that makes it look like a silhouette against the calm colours of the scenery. I also like the vast, smooth and luminous sky and the juxtaposition between the great ship and the little boat. The atmosphere you captured conforms with your note. This seems to be a calm but not a relaxing place:) Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a lovely day,
Silvio1953 (194353) 2014-02-04 12:49
Ciao Maria, lovely view of Paraguay river with nice wqar boat in FG, great clarity, splendid light and wonderful colors, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio
Subhogen (4067) 2014-02-05 1:50
Hello Maria,
Nice view from the side of the river. The navy frigate is standing in stark contrast with the peaceful surroundings captured in this photo. I prefer the tiny little boat in the FG. Love the contrast between sky, the river and the grassy banks. Good shot with excellent clarity, natural colours and light. Thanks for sharing.
Miguel82 (38767) 2014-02-05 5:54
Paraguay doesn't have any access to the sea and must develop fluvial traffic Maria, good report, that big ship is probably a good carrier, excellent hues, neat picture, have a nice day
eldancer1 (36343) 2014-02-05 7:44
Learn something new on TE everyday, thanks. Nice capture with good lighting and nice details. Good pov and wonderful colors. Well done, tfs.
danos (110395) 2014-02-05 8:03
nice the view of this calmly and tranquil environment with the wooden jetty to adds depth and perspective in the scene.
I like the beautful presentation as the light and the colour management of the scene.
Cricri (176) 2014-02-05 10:04
Hola Maria
Tout semble si calme que l'on penserait pas que c'est dangereux, le navire n'est pas beau du tout, mais la présentation me plait bien, la lumière et les couleurs sont au top
williewhistler (16606) 2014-02-05 12:48
Hello Maria,
it does appear to be a much to tranquil setting for a military ship to be present.
The little canoe helps to balance the scene very nicely.
Kind regards Les.
Oceania (5202) 2014-02-06 6:54
Hi Maria,
Your note vividly describes the moment your took this picture. It's a cool picture with a warship in the river. Thanks for sharing.
fabbs99 (17179) 2014-02-06 22:44
Hi Maria,
Nice image of the military ship.Excellent image quality with good colors and sharpness.Very well done. TFS.
abmdsudi (83499) 2014-02-07 7:56
Hi Maria
A simple river view limited in colours but still with some interesting elements bundled in. So peaceful and calm, good exposure too and bits of extra interest in the fg is lovely addition leading to main focal. Excellent effort, TFS
Best regards
adramad (62896) 2014-02-07 8:11
Hola Maria.
Una gran composición, que nos permite ver este grandísimo rio, impresionante anchura y caudal, ciertamente estas imágenes son poco conocidas, al menos para mi, el viejo buque da un bonito complemento.
Buena nota que nos viene muy bien como introducción,
Muy buen colorido, con ese esplendido cielo azul.
Buena gestion tanto de la iluminación, como de la nitidez.
Disfruta de un buen fin de semana.
Saludos muy cordiales.
jmdias (94172) 2014-02-19 16:12
he mirado esto rio en 4 o 5 partes, incluso en assuncion. me gusta la vista con el barco de Guerra, al mirar lo me hace recordar detalles de la Guerra del Paraguay, un tema que siempre me he impresionado.
mcmtanyel (56860) 2014-08-18 18:44
Hello Maria,
A very nice and serene photo from a place hitherto unbeknownst to me. My only comment will be that the military boat is a bit dark, easily fixed by lightening shadows (see WS).
fritzi007 (14698) 2014-12-30 6:11
¿Cómo estás, María?
realmente un muy interesante, foto perfecta, excelente nitidez de la imagen y la información!
Usted y sus seres queridos un buen Año Nuevo 2015 de deseos
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Meanwhile, 3,000 miles away in Sacramento, Gov. Jerry Brown is clearing his desk of the remaining legislation that has helped make California once again a national leader in tackling many of the country's most intractably vexing problems — from immigration reform to reproductive rights. The state's economy is once again the world's eighth largest and moving slowly but steadily out of the Great Recession's shadow. After years of legislative dithering and gridlock, the state's budgets are being passed on time by the Democratic majorities in both the Assembly and Senate. Hard-won increases in the income and sales taxes have helped restore financial stability without impeding the desperately needed employment recovery.
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A strong signal of multiple safety problems with Chantix (varenicline), a drug to help people stop smoking, has been seen in a pilot program to identify new drug risks in adverse drug events reported to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Varenicline is suspected in various adverse drug event reports of causing a wide spectrum of injuries, including serious accidents and falls, potentially lethal cardiac rhythm disturbances, severe skin reactions, acute myocardial infarction, seizures, diabetes, psychosis, aggression and suicide. The cases were analyzed and classified using computerized excerpts of adverse event reports which the FDA publishes for research use.
The FDA approved varenicline in May 2006 after granting it a priority review. Varenicline is a partial agonist of one of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain and nervous system,1 and currently the only marketed and approved drug with this mechanism of action.
In the 4th quarter of 2007 varenicline accounted for 988 serious injuries in the U.S. reported to the FDA, more than any other individual drug in this time period. By comparison the FDA received a median of 5 reports of serious injury for 769 different drugs in the 4th quarter. Only 35 drugs accounted for 100 or more reports. This large volume of reports prompted us to conduct an analysis of all adverse events for varenicline since marketing approval in 2006.
The FDA has recently issued a Public Health Advisory about one of the most marked adverse effects of varenicline, psychiatric symptoms that included "changes in behavior, agitation, suicidal ideation, attempted and completed suicide." 2 However, the FDA alert provided no information about the numbers of reported neuropsychiatric events among treated smokers.
From May 2006 through December 2007, the FDA had received 227 domestic reports of suicidal acts, thoughts or behaviors, 397 cases of possible psychosis and 525 reports of hostility or aggression. These totals included 28 cases of suicide and 41 mentions of homicidal ideation, 60 cases of paranoia and 55 cases of hallucination. The categories were not mutually exclusive.
However, the adverse drug event reports for varenicline describe other kinds of serious harm for which no warnings now exist, either from the FDA or from the manufacturer, Pfizer Inc. The cases (including those with psychiatric effects) were classified using standardized medical queries developed by the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential adverse events in clinical studies and postmarket surveillance. Adverse event reports in themselves do not establish a causal link to the drug, only that an observer suspected a relationship. Depending on the features of the specific event, it could be counted in multiple categories, and classifications are not definitive. Among the most prominent were:
· Accidents and injuries. A total of 173 serious events described accidental injury, including 28 road traffic accidents and 77 falls, some leading to fractures of rib, facial bones, hand, ankle, spine, and lower limbs. In these cases a variety of potential causes were identified, including loss of consciousness, mental confusion, dizziness and muscle spasms.
· Vision disturbance. At least 148 reports contained medical terms indicating vision disturbances, including 68 cases described as blurred vision and 26 terms indicating transient or other forms of blindness. This reported effect could also describe a mechanism that could or did contribute to accidents and injuries.
· Heart rhythm disturbances. The FDA received 224 domestic reports classified as potential cardiac rhythm disturbances. This category, however, was dominated by reports of sudden loss of consciousness, an event that could also have non-cardiac causes. However, this category also included smaller numbers of cardiac arrests and identifiable abnormal cardiac rhythms
· Seizures and abnormal muscle spasms or movements. Serious reported events included 86 cases of convulsions (seizures), 372 reports of a wide variety of movement disorders, including tremors, muscle spasms, twitching, tics, drooling, and motor hyperactivity. The extent to which these problems resolved with a reduced dose or by halting treatment could not be determined from these data.
· Moderate and severe skin reactions. Reported serious events included 338 cases of hives or swelling of the tongue, face, eyes, lips or other areas. In addition, 65 cases were classified as severe and included blisters, exfoliation of the skin and lips, and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome.
· Diabetes. The FDA has received 544 reports suggesting varenicline may be related to a loss of glycemic control. This category included many cases of weight loss or gain that could have alternative causes, but also identified numerous cases of symptoms and laboratory tests consistent with new onset diabetes.
We have immediate safety concerns about the use of varenicline among persons operating aircraft, trains, buses and other vehicles, or in other settings where a lapse in alertness or motor control could lead to massive, serious injury. Other examples include persons operating nuclear power reactors, high-rise construction cranes or life-sustaining medical devices. Based on reports of sudden loss of consciousness, seizures, muscle spasms, vision disturbances, hallucinations, paranoia and psychosis, we believe varenicline may not be safe to use in these settings. The extent to which varenicline has already contributed to accidental death and injury has not yet been investigated because these adverse effects had not been previously reported. The Federal Aviation Administration approved varenicline for use by airline pilots3 before most of these reports were available.
In addition, we recommend that patients and doctors exercise caution in the use of varenicline and consider the use of alternative approaches to smoking cessation.
Finally, we urge the FDA and the manufacturer to provide warnings to doctors and patients for those adverse effects that can be adequately documented through existing data, and to undertake on a priority basis epidemiological studies or other research to assess other potential risks. We promptly notified the FDA of our findings.
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The Long Island Rail Road will launch a survey to see if residents in Elmhurst, Queens, want a long-dormant train station to be reopened, local officials said Friday.
The launch of the passenger survey was announced at a press conference by Reps. Joseph Crowley and Grace Meng, both Democrats of Queens, and Helena Williams, president of LIRR.
The reopening of the station is not imminent, the LIRR said. The Elmhurst stop was closed in 1985 because of low ridership, the railroad said. Friday's announcement was the launch of a survey to test riders' interest in reopening the station, which would serve the railroad's Port Washington branch.