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'Tis the season for industry events, fa-la-la…
I'm a few months early for South by Southwest, but before we get to that: WestCiv builds the popular StyleMaster CSS Editor and publishes the House of Style. WestCiv is hosting a series of workshops on CSS layout in Sydney, Australia in a few weeks. The first has sold out, and the second only has a few seats left. Anyone looking to sharpen their CSS skills who will be in the area on December 12th may want to book a seat, like, now. It would seem that the Zen Garden will be a focus; don't let that fool you, I'm not taking a cut for plugging the workshop. WestCiv is a company that really gets it; that's worth supporting.
The beginning of next year is looking mighty interesting. What I can tell you for sure is that somehow, some way, I'll be finding myself in Austin in March for SXSW Interactive.
The Zen Garden has been entered in the Awards as a developer resource, since I can't quite see it taking the 'Humor' or 'Music' prizes. Should I hedge our bets and enter it as an 'Experimental' site as well? Perhaps an 'Art' site? I've heard categorization of the awards has been a problem in the past; trying to lump a large enough site into one category is no easy task.
And if you go to the panel grid, you'll see a ton of panels it will be hard to choose from, and a very impressive roster of panelists running down the right. Somehow, some way, I've managed to work myself onto that list (which will update any time now…), but I think I'll leave precisely what and who I'll be presenting with a surprise for now. It's going to be a good one, provided I'm not completely overwhelmed by the amount of very cool people I'll be meeting for the first time.
More coming as more develops. Three and a half months isn't looking that far off.
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And to think I was trying to decide whether I should definitely go or not… looks like I need to get a little presentation ready for my boss tomorrow to win her over to the idea of my going next March. :D
I was fortunate enough to attend the very first of the Westciv workshops held in Melbourne and it was well worth it. I learnt alot and it could have easily been run over two days. I can highly recommend it for anyone who's got the CSS basics down and who wants to take it further. Apparently John is looking to run similar worskhops in the US or Canada around January next year. So contact Westciv if you're interested. And no I don't work for them either but they really are well worth supporting.
Drop me a line when you come, I'll take you to my favorite BBQ joint.
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Friends of Emily Fedorko find comfort together
Emily Fedorko played a multitude of roles. She was a beloved daughter and sister and a cherished friend. She was a gymnast, a lacrosse player and a cheerleader. She was a charismatic on-stage performer and an excellent student.
It was fitting, then, that she should be remembered in many ways by Greenwich High School students at an intimate gathering Wednesday night at the Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich.
"Emily was a former teammate of mine; we did Greenwich youth cheerleading together," said Audrey Niblo, a rising senior at Greenwich High School. "I figured this would be a good place to process the way I'm feeling."
A week after the death of Emily in a boating accident nearing Greenwich Point, many of her peers said they are still coming to terms with the loss.
She was 16.
"I was so shocked," said rising senior Brooke Klair, a fellow lacrosse player at the high school. "It really got to me."
Church leaders said they wanted to make sure students know that they do not have to grieve alone. They are also very aware that the loss of Emily comes only a year after Bart Palosz, who was also in the class of 2016, took his own life.
"The thinking was that we needed to rally support and pull some people in here and have a night where they can really voice their emotions and process what's going on, on both tragedies," said Charlie Caviola, assistant pastor and youth director at the Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich.
The gathering had an informal and low-key feel. Students and church leaders alike came in casual clothes -- most wore T-shirts and shorts or jeans. And the students chose how they spent their time at the church.
Many expressed themselves in writing, jotting down thoughts while a soft, acoustic soundtrack played from a MacBook. Some retired to another room for individual reflection. Many went to the sanctuary to pray.
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Pertussis Cases in San Diego Double from Last Year
So far this year, 334 cases of whooping cough have been reported locally, up from 165 in 2012
By Monica Garske
Dec 26, 2013
There's been a major increase in the number of cases of whooping cough across San Diego County this year -- up double from last year's count, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA).
So far, 334 local cases of pertussis have been reported, including 12 new cases in local school districts. Compare that to 165 cases reported in San Diego County in 2012.
According to the HHSA, the one dozen new cases of whooping cough involved patients between the ages of six and 16.
This includes: a 12-year-old student at R. Roger Rowe School in the Rancho Santa Fe School District; a 6-year-old student at Cajon Park School in the Santee School District; an 11-year-old who attends Sycamore Canyon Elementary School in the Santee School District; an 11-year-old who attends Heritage Elementary School in the Chula Vista Elementary School District; a 14-year
-old student at Hillsdale Middle School in the Cajon Valley Union School District; and two students – ages 15 and 16 – at La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla.
The HHSA says additional recent cases include a person at Flying Hills Elementary School, two people who attend the San Onofre Child Development Center at Camp Pendleton, a person at Monarch School and a person at Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church Preschool.
All but the latter case involved patients with up-to-date immunizations.
Given the uptick in pertussis cases, county public health officer Wilma Wooten, M.D., M.P.H., says it's important for locals to be up-to-date on their vaccines and booster shot.
"It's likely that activity levels will remain elevated in the region," Wooten said.
In order to combat whooping cough, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says children should get doses of the DtaP vaccine at the ages of two months, four months, six months, 15 to 18 months and four to six years. The CDC also recommends that preteens and adults get a Tdap booster shot.
Individuals without medical insurance can get the shot from a County Public Health Center at no cost.
Health officials say pertussis symptoms include a cough and runny nose for one or two weeks, followed by weeks to months of rapid coughing fits that sometimes end with a whooping sound. A mild fever may also arise.
The disease is treatable with antibiotics.
Now, while cases of pertussis have doubled this year, the HHSA says the current number of cases is much lower than the record-setting number reported in 2010.
That year, a total of 1,179 cases of whooping cough were reported across the county, two of which resulted in infant deaths. In 2011, the number declined substantially, with a total of 400 cases reported in San Diego County.
For more information about whooping cough and local vaccination clinics, visit this website or call the HHSA Immunization Branch at (866) 358-2966.
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Former Congressional Candidate Has Espoused Fringe Views On Evolution, AIDS, Race
[1]It's hard to do justice to the extreme views of the new chairman for Oregon's Republican party. But reports on Art Robinson often didn't even come close, merely mentioning that he is a "skeptic of human-caused global warming," while leaving out the chairman's anti-scientific statements on evolution, AIDS, and nuclear waste.
Robinson is best known for organizing a petition rejecting climate change that claims to have 31,072 American scientist signatories, with "scientist" defined as anyone [2] who claims to have a bachelor's degree in various fields including computer science, statistics, and metallurgy. Robinson, who is a chemist but has not done any scientific research [3] into climate change, has acknowledged [4] that fake names such as the Spice Girl's Geri Halliwell made it onto the list. The petition says little to rebut the consensus [5] of the vast majority of scientists, as it does not state what percentage [6] of people responded to the survey. Robinson told [7] the conspiracy [8] website WND.com in 2002 that ""[t]here is absolutely not a shred of evidence that humans are causing any change in the climate by generating CO2."
The Associated Press characterized all this by simply stating [9] that Robinson is "a chemist and outspoken skeptic of human-caused global warming," echoing The Oregonian [10], Oregon's largest newspaper.
Furthermore, at no point during Robinson's candidacy for GOP chairman did the two largest Oregon papers (The Oregonian [11] and The Eugene Register-Guard)* mention that Robinson has made several other claims that run counter to scientific research:
- Robinson signed [12] an anti-Darwinism statement "skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life," contrary to peer-reviewed studies [13] repeatedly supporting evolution [14].
- Robinson questioned [15] whether HIV was leading to AIDS in the 1990s, reportedly [16] writing that "AIDS may be little more than a general classification of deaths resulting from exposure to homosexual behavior." When MSNBC's Rachel Maddow asked [16] Robinson about these and other statements that he has made, he refused to answer, spinning around in his chair as he vaguely accused her of "lies."
- Robinson reportedly [17] believes in radiation "hormesis [18]," the idea that low-level radiation is good [17] for you, and thus supports [19] disposing of nuclear waste by diluting it and "sprinkl[ing] it over the ocean" or using it to "enhance" drinking water in Oregon. Scientists say that the data on the effects of low-levels of radiation are too weak [20] to base public policy [21] on.
Nor did they mention* the following extreme views and conspiratorial claims from the former Congressional candidate (in fact, The Oregonian published an op-ed [22] suggesting that Robinson has not engaged in "offensive and bizarre comments"):
- Robinson's homeschool curriculum [23] encourages students to read "all 99" G.A. Henty books, which are reportedly [24] notable for their "undisguised racism," with a main character stating in one book that the "intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old." Robinson also encourages [25] parents to teach children from books "written in the 1950's and earlier" to avoid the "overt racism" of "multiculturalism," supporting his stance with anecdote that starts with him being frightened into "survival" mode by a "tough-looking character whose dark skin perfectly matched his leather jacket" -- who turned out to be a professor.
- After his defeat in a Congressional race, Robinson claimed [26] in a column at WND.com, a conspiracy [27] website that he has written [28] for several times, that Oregon State University had "initiated an attack" on his three children (Bethany, Joshua and Matthew) who were graduate students at the university as "political payback." He warned [26] that "[i]f these people succeed, a delighted [Democratic Congressional opponent] Peter DeFazio will be able to brag to the voters that the Robinson children were thrown out of Oregon State University" and held a rally [29] around the issue. OSU responded [30] that the claims were "baseless and without merit." The East Oregonian reported that his daughter Bethany received her master's degree in nuclear engineering in 2011, in a 2013 wedding announcement (via Nexis). OSU told Media Matters that a Joshua Robinson graduated with a PhD in nuclear engineering in 2012, while a Matthew Robinson has been a PhD candidate since 2010. The university added a "caveat" that "there are multiple people in our system with these names, but the dates and the nuclear engineering affiliations make this likely that they are the grads" in question.
- Robinson believes in banning abortion [31] even in cases of rape.
That's not [32] to say that local media have entirely ignored Robinson's extreme statements. In an editorial, The Oregonian wrote [33] that Robinson has "outside-the-mainstream views on global warming and public schools." As Oregonian columnist David Sarasohn noted [34] when Robinson was running for Congress, Robinson has called for banning public education, saying:
Public education (tax-financed socialism) has become the most widespread and devastating form of child abuse and racism in the United States. Moreover, people who have been cut off at the knees by public education are so mentally handicapped that they cannot be responsible custodians of the energy technology base or other advanced accomplishments of our civilization ... . Can this problem be corrected? Yes. Can it be corrected by improving the public schools? No -- only by abolishing them.
The third largest paper in Oregon, The Statesman Journal noted this quote and Robinson's position on nuclear waste in its article [35] on his election.
However, these asides did not put Robinson's positions into context: the Republican party at-large is the problem with Washington, according to centrist experts [36], and is out of the mainstream according to most Americans [37]. The Washington Times captured this extremism well when it touted [38] Robinson as a "unifying" force -- able to bring together the fringes of the Tea Party and Ron Paul acolytes by dismissing any scientific research with government funding -- when he ran for Congress:
Mr. Robinson [39] said he thinks the findings of taxpayer-subsidized experiments too often reflect the prevailing government-liberal-environmental prejudices rather than scientific objectivity.
"I don't believe in doing scientific research with government money," he said.
Contrarian statements like that are music to the ears of many Paulites and tea partyers alike.
Robinson may well be a unifying force, just not on the side The Washington Times is rooting for.
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Topic: MacBook
What's left for the Macintosh in a Post-PC iOS World?
09/28/2013, 05:09 pm
Apple has sold Macintosh computers for just short of 30 years. Over just the last six, its personal computer business has been vastly overshadowed by its sales of Post-PC mobile devices. What future is left for the Mac?
Best Buy recalls 5,100 third-party MacBook batteries for fire risk
06/19/2013, 08:06 pm
Best Buy announced on Wednesday that it is recalling 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries built by third-party manufacturer ATG after a number of users reported their units caught fire.
Gazelle sees 171% spike in MacBook trade-ins ahead of WWDC
06/06/2013, 05:06 pm
With Apple rumored to announce a refreshed MacBook lineup at its Worldwide Developers Conference next week, Gazelle on Thursday said its website has seen a substantial increase in traffic, with MacBook trade-ins jumping 171 percent compared to the period leading up to WWDC 2012.
Upgraded MacBook models expected to highlight WWDC 2013
04/28/2013, 06:04 am
Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities believes Apple will showcase updated MacBook Pro models at its upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference in June, with the most notable upgrade being the move to Intel's next-generation Haswell family of processors.
AI readers now get lowest prices on Apple's iMacs & MacBooks with new coupons
04/26/2013, 11:04 pm
AppleInsider, which has long teamed with Apple Authorized Reseller MacMall to offer the lowest prices anywhere on Apple's MacBook family through the addition of exclusive 3% discount coupons, is pleased to announce that those coupons have now been extended to the iMac family.
Apple extends MacBook bottom case replacement program by two years
04/17/2013, 07:04 pm
Apple last week quietly made a change to its program regarding defective MacBook bottom cases, extending the coverage period from two years after purchase to four years.
MacBook firmware updates address inadvertent battery shutdown issue
01/30/2013, 04:01 pm
Apple on Wednesday rolled out updates across its entire MacBook lineup to fix a problem that would cause the laptops' batteries to fail after a certain number of charge cycles.
Apple resellers instate broad price cuts on MacBooks amid concerns of slowing growth
01/23/2013, 01:01 pm
With whispers of slowing growth in Apple's Mac business gaining traction and overall sentiment surrounding the company at its lowest levels in roughly a decade, several of its largest resellers this week instated unusually steep price cuts on almost all sub-$2000 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs.
Deals: MacMall 3% coupons expire at midnight; Amazon slashes 15" MacBook Pro Retina by $389
11/18/2012, 11:11 am
With just days to go before the start of the official holiday shopping season, we're seeing some Apple authorized resellers jump the gun with early deals. Meanwhile, today marks the last chance to take advantage of AppleInsider's 3% Mac discount codes during the 2012 calendar year.
Apple rolls out bevy of legacy OS X, firmware updates
09/19/2012, 07:09 pm
While the release of Apple's OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion and iOS 6 have taken most of the spotlight on Wednesday, the company released a plethora of updates for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion as well as new firmware and software versions for select products.
NASA's control room flooded with Macs during Mars Curiosity landing
08/06/2012, 11:08 am
Sometimes pictures are worth a thousand words, like those that appeared over NASA's live feed showing a control room riddled with Macs and other Apple products during the historical landing of the Curiosity rover on planet Mars last night.
Inside Apple's rumored 'new MacBook' vs. updated MacBook Pro
06/08/2012, 11:06 am
The rumored introduction of a "new MacBook" series alongside refreshed MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineups next week presents some interesting possibilities for the future of the Mac. AppleInsider takes a closer look at where Apple could be headed next.
Apple still expected to retire 17-inch MacBook Pro in 2012
06/08/2012, 09:06 am
With a new MacBook lineup said to be on the way, Apple is expected to discontinue its 17-inch MacBook Pro this year, and might even ax the Pro lineup entirely in favor of the "new MacBook" in 2013.
Apple to unveil entirely new MacBook series at WWDC, insiders say
06/08/2012, 09:06 am
Apple next week is expected to unveil an entirely new MacBook model positioned between the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, available in sizes of 13 and 15 inches with no disc drive.
GameStop may start selling used Apple MacBooks
05/11/2012, 04:05 pm
U.S. gaming retailer GameStop, which already buys and resells iPhones, iPads and iPods, may soon begin buying and selling Apple's MacBooks, new details suggest.
Apple now offers basic 13-in. $999 MacBook Air to education buyers
02/10/2012, 03:02 pm
Apple has begun selling a less powerful version of its 13.3-inch MacBook Air to educational institutions buying in bulk for $999, filling the void left by the recently discontinued white MacBook.
White MacBook sales come to close as Apple ceases sales to education institutions
02/08/2012, 10:02 pm
Apple has reportedly notified resellers that the white polycarbonate MacBook is now officially classified as "End of Life" and has been discontinued.
Apple notifies faulty MagSafe owners of class-action settlement
11/08/2011, 02:11 pm
Apple has reached a settlement on a class-action lawsuit over T-shaped MagSafe connectors for MacBook and MacBook Pro models that can fray and come apart.
Back-to-school Mac sales outpace PCs even without white MacBook, free iPod touch
09/15/2011, 12:09 pm
Back-to-school Mac sales once again easily outgrew Windows PCs this year, even though Apple did not offer a free iPod touch and discontinued its education-focused white MacBook this summer.
Vulnerability exposes Apple MacBook batteries to 'bricking,' malware
07/23/2011, 01:07 am
One prominent security researcher has discovered a vulnerability in the batteries of Apple's MacBook line of portable computers that could allow hackers to ruin the batteries or install malware on them that could corrupt a Mac.


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If some people had their way, the Raiders would be in the no-huddle offense from start to finish every game. If only it were that easy.
Quarterback Carson Palmer and offensive coordinator Greg Knapp say the no-huddle is effective if used properly. Yet, it's not something that a team can live off all the time.
"If that's all you're going to come into the game with you completely limit yourself, from personnel groups, to formations, to protections, red zone, third down, backed up," Palmer said. "It's not feasible. It's a good change-up. It's a good change of pace thing for us. It gets us out of a rut every once in awhile and it also keeps a defense on their toes and keeps a defense preparing for it. But it's not something that you can just run all the time."
Teams oftentimes will use the no-huddle as a means of preventing the defense from making substitutions. The downside is, the offense can't substitute, either.
If the offense makes substitution(s), the defense is permitted to counter. Therefore, going to the no-huddle makes sense when the Raiders get a defense in a look that favors them based on who they have on the field at the time.
Some people also are delusional thinking that Palmer calls all the plays when he's in the no-huddle. For the record, there are a series of plays available to Palmer during the no-huddle and Knapp has a hand in most everything that takes place.
Here's Knapp's take on the rapport between he and Palmer in terms of the no-huddle.
"There's a good communication going right now," Knapp said. "It's like the third base coach giving the signal, sometimes where he'll wave me off or something like that, and that's OK, because he's running the stuff that we've practiced the most and are the most comfortable with.
"But I want to be there to aid him and see some looks, and give him some suggestions because there's a lot on his plate as it is as a quarterback in the no-huddle. But it's really worked out well as far as the communication process goes to try and identify maybe from my perspective, OK, here comes the blitz from a certain side or a certain coverage, so this would be the best play to put us in."
Knapp agrees with Palmer's assessment about getting too consumed with using the no-huddle.
"It's good right now because, it's like any offense, if you do one thing all the time, in this league, the defensive coordinators and the defensive teams will start preparing for it and have specific things that will defeat that," Knapp said. "But if you have it as a weapon and you can use it at different times of the game, then they've got to prepare not only for no-huddle, but the regular part of the offense and so it's a good change up and it'll catch a defense by surprise better than if you did it all the time."
Knapp is able to communicate with Palmer via the sideline-to-helmet radio system until 15 seconds remain on the play clock. Once the play clock reaches 15, Palmer is on his own.
But Palmer is armed with information from Knapp long before the play starts for the times when he lets the play clock wind down past the communication window.
"We make sure we have certain plays in where we don't go all the way to 5 seconds left," Knapp said. "So, from an operations standpoint, we'll have certain plays in where we call, line up and let's go. And we get it done with 20 seconds left on the clock to keep a defense honest.
"But there's certain go-to plays in the run game and the pass game that, no matter what the defense presents, we have either the protection that can handle it or the run fits will handle it. So, he'll know if he's inside that 15-second zone, I've got to call one of those plays that handle any defensive look that they present."
— Some people are of the belief that coaches can blow up the game plan at halftime and draw up new schemes and plays for the second half.
That's folly when you consider that halftime last for 12 minutes and about a third of that time is spent walking off the field, back onto the field, taking potty breaks, etc.
In reality, coaches have about 8 minutes to make adjustments. To that end, Knapp said, that process begins before the game and runs into the second quarter so that they can get a jump on making the necessary adjustments.
"We'll have maybe a second-half list of ideas, that if we don't use in the first half, we'll make sure to apply in the beginning of the second half, as long as the defensive scheme hasn't changed," Knapp said. "So, it starts before the game starts. We have this list of ideas that we don't plan to use in the first half but might use in the second half.
"Secondly, at halftime the players come off, use the restroom, get a rinse, get rehydrated and after like about 2 or 3 minutes in, we have the offense broken up, the defense broken up, and we say, 'Here's our list of ideas of for runs and passes that we're going to start with.' That starts occurring at the end of the second quarter, where John DeFilippo up in the press box is working with one of our assistants, Nick Holtz, with some ideas that I had and what they may see upstairs to create a second-half list. So, a lot of it's done before we start halftime."
— Knapp has been around a slew of accomplished quarterbacks. He considers Palmer one of the more poised quarterbacks he has coached during his lengthy career.
"Unbelievable," Knapp said of Palmer's ability to handle adversity. "He's been one of the finest guys I've been around. We've had three games this year in the fourth quarter where we've had to work from behind, and he's really kept his cool through all this.
"Not only adversity from a score in the game, but he's had some tough hits that he's taken, and he bounces up, he doesn't say a word about what happened, why are we doing this? He just goes, 'Alright, what was the problem? How do we fix it? OK, let's move on.' He's one of the coolest cats I've ever been around on game day handling adverse situations. … It's a unique quality because it's hard to find that in a quarterback when a lot of stuff is coming at you."
— Sebastian Janikowski calls Arrowhead Stadium one of his favorite venues in which to kick. A check of the numbers reveals just why.
Janikowski has converted 28 of 32 field-goal attempts at Arrowhead Stadium, including a stretch in which he made 18 straight from 2003-10.
The streak ended last season when a Janikowski 59-yarder hit the crossbar. No worry, though. Janikowski atoned for that with a game-winning field goal in overtime.
As free safety Michael Huff said, "When he is kicking at Arrowhead, he doesn't miss."
— Twenty players appeared on the Raiders injury report today. Backup linebacker Travis Goethel is the latest addition as a result of back spasms he suffered after practice Thursday.
Goethel is one of seven players listed as questionable. Eleven others are probable. Cornerback Shawntae Spencer and right offensive tackle Khalif Barnes are out.
Defensive lineman Desmond Bryant, who missed practice Thursday, is listed as questionable.
— As for linebacker Aaron Curry, Allen said he will decide Saturday whether to activate Curry to the 53-man roster.
Curry is making progress each day, Allen said. He participated in his sixth straight practice today without showing any negative effects from the sore knees that forced him to miss some offseason workouts, all of training camp and the first six games this season.
It's unlikely that Curry will be activated for Sunday's game. However, Allen said he anticipates Curry being activated, perhaps in time for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game Nov. 4, if he isn't activated for the Chiefs game.
— Palmer took a beating against the Jaguars last Sunday. He got sacked twice, hit six times and hurried on most passing downs.
Allen said afterward that the offensive line needed some work and that it would be a focus in practice this week. As the team prepared to board the buses, Allen said he is impressed by the work of his offensive line in practice all week.
"There was, obviously, a sense of urgency with the offensive line," Allen said. "They worked hard, as I believe they have all year long. They felt a sense of, 'Hey, we're all proud men out here and we all want to do our job and do our job to the best of our ability, and when we don't play as well as we want to we look forward to the opportunity of getting back out there and proving ourselves again.' That group as a whole is looking forward to the opportunity to get back out there."
Right offensive tackle Jared Veldheer said he and his linemates got the message loud and clear after an off game.
"There's definitely a sense of urgency because we take a great amount of pride in what we do and how we help this team," Veldheer said. "And when we're not doing what we're supposed to do, and I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do, it definitely hurts. We do take it to heart and won't sit around and accept it. With that attitude, we've taken a step this week in saying, that's not going to be who we are, it's not our standard, we're better than this and no more of that."


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Weight loss surgery is also known as bariatric surgery. The term "bariatric" originates from the Greek words baros, meaning weight, and iatros, meaning medical treatment. Although bariatric surgery has been performed for many years, the approaches to this type of treatment have evolved dramatically since the days of the "stomach stapling" operations.
The Bariatric Surgery Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center have been recognized by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as Centers of Excellence for bariatric and weight loss surgery. Both centers hold 1A designation status from the ACS – the highest of five designated levels – for providing complete specialized care for all patients, including those with the most challenging and complex conditions.
At NewYork-Presbyterian, all of the bariatric surgeries we offer can be performed laparoscopically, resulting in less pain, quicker recovery times, fewer post-operative complications (such as hernia and wound infection), and a better cosmetic result than traditional, open approaches.
While the laparoscopic surgical approach is generally preferable, it is important to remember that in some cases the best treatment option for you might be the traditional, open surgery. Our surgeons have extensive experience in both types of bariatric surgery, and will develop a customized treatment plan that is best for you.


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Most people do not like being told what to do. I do not.
But if a job needs to be done and a person does not do it, someone will have to tell him to do it. This might be done in person or even by a note. The longer it takes for the person to get on the job, the more often and urgently he will be told to do it.
If you do not like being told what to do, you have to take the initiative to do what needs to be done before some can ask you to do it. It is not enough to dislike being told what to do. You have to also take the initiative.
Actually, your goal should be to do what needs to be done before anyone even has the idea of asking you to do it.
This applies in the home, school and at work. It also applies in Karate. In Karate too we need to be able to seize the initiative -- to move in a way that disrupts or even preempts an attack.
I have owned my own business for 21 years. When an employee has to be told what to do, that is just average. I have to do work in order to get that employee to work. It is double effort. That person can be replaced. But when an employee is self directed, that is someone special, someone you want to keep on your staff.
If you don't like being told what to do, don't just sit there -- do what needs to be done. Seize the initiative.
If you are not sure what needs to be done, you can always ask. A person who seeks work usually gets the good jobs. A person who just sits there, gets what's left over.
Charles C. Goodin
Being Told What To Do
Most people do not like being told what to do. I do not.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Saturday, September 27, 2008


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Required bad investment: Paying taxes
Herman Cain explains why he'll never shell out a cent more than required by law
The economy is stagnant, job creation is practically nonexistent and the national debt is exploding out of control – so what are we talking about in this presidential campaign? Whether or not Mitt Romney has paid all his taxes. And why are we talking about this?
Oh. Right. Because the last thing President Obama wants to talk about is his record.
Now let's stipulate that everyone should pay their taxes, and let's also stipulate that Mitt Romney certainly has paid his – the shameless smears of Harry Reid and other Obama surrogates notwithstanding.
But there's another aspect of this issue that tends to be overlooked. Why do Democrats (and some Republicans) think the most important thing anyone can do with their money is pay taxes? You hear this during every election cycle – demands that this or that candidate (especially the wealthy ones, if they are Republicans) release all their tax returns, and not only that, but prove that they have not paid too low a rate.
Apparently it's a campaign issue that Gov. Romney may have only paid a 13.9 percent rate on some of his income. That's an odd controversy, because if he paid 13.9 percent, it's because that's the rate he was required by law to pay!
There are reasons we tax investment income at lower rates, and we could spend time here getting into that, but the more important question here is what made so many politicians and members of the media decide that every dollar not paid in taxes is a bad dollar?
People who accumulate a lot of wealth do a lot of things with that wealth. Sometimes they put it at risk to start businesses, or in Mitt Romney's case, to try to rescue businesses that are struggling. Sometimes they invest it in stocks, in mutual funds or in pension funds. If you're drawing a pension right now, you can probably thank a rich person who invested in your pension fund.
Sometimes wealthy people simply buy things. I've always thought it was funny that Keynesians – who are obsessed with trying to spur the economy by increasing consumer demand – get upset when rich people buy luxury items. Remember when Bill Clinton put a "luxury surcharge" on high-priced items? That may have been the dumbest economic policy ever implemented (at least until Obama came along). When someone buys a yacht, some middle-class worker who helps to build those yachts gets a paycheck. So do the people who make the parts that are used to assemble the yacht.
Do you seriously mean to tell me that a wealthy person does more good for the economy, and for others, by sending a check to the government than by purchasing goods and investing in the productive sector?
What this really shows us is the hubris of the political class. When some self-important senator demands to know, from his high and mighty perch in Washington, D.C., whether you or someone else has paid enough in taxes – he is letting you know he believes everything revolves around government. Furthermore, he thinks (as do most of his colleagues, as do most of the media) the citizenry exists to serve the government.
That's why they think the worst possible accusation they can make about you is that you haven't paid enough in taxes.
Listen, take it from a guy who actually ran for president: I've paid all my taxes, but I sure as hell haven't paid one more cent than I was required to, and I never will! Of all the things I can do with my money to make a positive difference for this country, or for the people around me, sending it to these schleps in Washington is definitely at the bottom of the list.


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The Meemic Foundation, a non-profit organization created by Michigan-based Meemic Insurance Company has presented a $2,300 grant to the Children's After School Achievement (CASA) program a Hope College.
The Foundation has been offering financial assistance in the form of grants to schools and educators since 1992. During that time, the Foundation has touched more than 1.5 million students through its financial support of education initiatives.
The Foundation funds innovative programs, events or projects that will significantly enhance students' classroom experiences.
"The goal of Meemic Foundation grants is to provide the resources necessary for teachers to create a dynamic learning environment for students," said Pamela Harlin, Director of The Meemic Foundation. "Exceptional educators are always looking for new and creative ways to inspire their students. We want to make sure that financial concerns don't stand in the way of those ideas."
CASA, a community organization housed at Hope College, provides academic and cultural enrichment for at-risk first-through fifth-grade students. The program, which runs year-round, is intended to improve the student's academic performance by providing the tools they need to succeed in school
During the school year, the students meet after school twice per week in one-on-one sessions with volunteer tutors, most of whom are Hope students.
The academic-year and summer programs serve Holland and West Ottawa students. A total of 145 elementary-age students participated in CASA during the 2001-12 year.
During the summer session, CASA runs five classes, each led by a certified teacher and assistant four mornings a week, providing a mixture of academic work as well as enrichment programs such as participation inn service projects, attending presentations by the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre Children's Performance Troupe and the Herrick District Library Reading Club.
CASA was established in 1987 by Marge Rivera Bermann and Latin Americans United for Progress (LAUP) and originally housed at First United Methodist Church. CASA moved to Hope College in 1989, and has its offices and summer classes in Graves Hall and its school-year activities in classrooms in Lubbers Hall.


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The North Florida Transportation Planning Organization is in the early stages of developing a regional bicycle and pedestrian plan. The organization is asking for help in gathering information reflecting the current levels of bicycling and walking for residents living in Northeast Florida, attitudes about cycling and walking and opinions about barriers that currently exist. Community input is invaluable. Click here to go to the survey. The survey will be open until Jan. 31.
Folio Weekly is also interested in your opinions. Leave your comments below.


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I know we all want big names before we get into army building and everything, but I want this to be something they definitely incorporate in any new entertainment (and accompanying toyline) Skeletor needs cannon fodder. the robots knights as it stands are out of the question, but SKeleton troops aren't.
In fact they could write a great story about Skeletor's ability to control bones of warriors long dead etc. they are taking the time to do bios to possibly unite all canon's so on top of that they need to make it DEEP.


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19th May 2017
Key announcements in the Conservative manifesto for the new economy
Rights and protections in the 'gig' economy
In the manifesto, the Conservatives make it clear that the rise of the gig-economy has not gone unnoticed.
"[gig-economy] brings considerable advantages to millions of people but we should not ignore the challenges this kind of employment creates. These workers are officially classed as self-employed and therefore have fewer pension entitlements, reduced access to benefits, and no qualification for sick pay and holiday pay. Yet the nature of their work is different from the traditional self-employed worker who might be a sole trader, a freelancer or running their own business."
Any new Conservative government will act to make sure that the recommendations contained in the forthcoming Taylor report on protecting workers are implemented.
Digital Charter
The manifesto also promises a digital charter. This Charter, comprising a new set of technology specific laws, will seek to build a new regulatory framework for companies to operate in with the aim of making the UK the best place to start a digital business, and the safest place in the world to be online.
The first portion of this, making the UK the best place to start a digital business, contains a number of proposals around funding and making trade easier. On funding, the Conservatives have pledged to find new ways of incentivising startups to launch, looking specifically at the Enterprise Investment Scheme and the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. They will also write new legislation to help companies grow across the UK by making sure they have access to the right talent, a point diluted by the ever increasing difficulty of getting visas for new staff.
The second aspect of the Digital Charter, making the UK the safest place to be online, it contains proposals on cyber-bullying, protection of children online, and terrorism. Stressing that the party disagrees with those who say "it is not for the government to regulate when it comes to technology and the internet," the Charter proposes to introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law.
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In the world of IT, things can and will go wrong. Failure can come from a number of things such as rushing to get too much done in a single project instead of breaking it down into smaller, more manageable projects. It can come from not allowing enough lead time for developers to do their part on the back-end or even from a consultant or vendor that led you down the wrong path.
Data security issues in the workplace
Whatever the case, failure does happen; it's to be expected and as the saying goes life is "10 percent what happens to you 90 percent how you react to it." Failure doesn't have to be a negative. With the right attitudes and processes in place it can be educational, informative and sometimes transformative.
You know from a logical perspective that you should learn from your mistakes. That is drilled into many of us beginning in childhood. The problem, according to experts, is that in the corporate world, a lot of companies don't handle failure well. They don't have adequate processes in place to examine why something failed, but that is a huge necessary part of the learning process.
"Looking back over the past 15 years of our [IT & Tech] industry I didn't see enough thorough, objective reporting on these kinds of failures to help people like myself in the trenches. I thought it was so important to learn these lessons that I spent two years researching and writing the case studies in my book. I selfishly wanted practical guidelines based on actual industry failures that I could use in my own work," says Victor Lombardi, Rosenfeld Media consultant and author of Why We Fail.
In this world if you can't learn from your mistakes you are doomed to repeat them. In the business world, if you make the same mistakes a few times you could be looking for another career. Steve Jobs had failures in his career before he changed the game as did Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors and PayPal.
What separates bad leaders from good leaders and possibly good leaders from visionary leaders is their ability to gain insight from those failures that will help them succeed the next time around. These tips from experts to help you make the most of bad situation and possibly avoid future IT project failures.
Create a safe-to-fail environment
For large complex companies, learning and evolving can be a slow road. Behaviour has to change at a myriad of levels. In order for IT to keep pace and deliver what the business needs to succeed you've got to empower your team to try new things.
The problem arises when new things don't work out and you or your organization are more focused on placing blame then solving the problems at hand. How willing and enthusiastic will workers be to step out of the normal routine? The answer is, not very, so the question becomes, do you as an IT leader create an environment where people on your team feel comfortable to speak up and voice objections large or small?
"A safe-to-fail environment by design encourages creativity, risk-taking ability and innovation. It allows employees to experiment with new ideas and provides an environment where failure is an acceptable outcome. At NutriSavings and Edenred, we actively promote innovation and help our colleagues take calculated risks to ensure on-going learning," says Niraj Jetly, senior vice president-COO & CIO of NutriSavings LLC.
IT leaders, understandably, don't want to create an environment where there is no accountability for failure. They can be concerned that if they appear too accepting of failure, workers won't necessarily be motivated to perform at their highest standards but rather what they feel they can get away with.
According to Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School Professor and author of the 2011 HBR article, Strategies for Learning from Failure, that isn't the case. According to her research, there are in actuality very few blameworthy acts that are what she calls, "deliberate deviance." The rest fall into more of a grey area where placing blame isn't very easy or useful.
Don't shoot the messenger
"Failures are an inevitable part of business and technology. Empathy is the best way to respond to a failure. Empathy communicates trust and people perform best when they feel trusted. If a person is already low on confidence due to guilt of failure, our focus should be to help the person to come out of that guilt and later on help them reflect back on what could have been done differently," says Jetly.
Avoid the blame game
"The blame game is still such a challenge because it is so deeply ingrained in our psychology and as small children we learn pretty early on if we do something wrong we get blamed. It's an emotionally unpleasant feeling. We don't want to experience it we try to push it away. That childhood feeling follows us through our developing and adult years. We bring it into the workplace and again for reasons that are both emotional and quite logical; connected with promotions and other activities. We don't want to be blamed for things going wrong, according to Edmondson.
Own your mistakes
If it was your fault, don't try to shift blame own up and move forward. "Everyone makes their fair share of mistakes. One of the lessons that I have learnt through experience, is that rather than defending yourself, accept the mistake as soon as it is realized. Early acceptance helps significantly in aligning efforts to quickly take corrective action. In addition this provides much needed peace of mind," says Jetly.
Set up processes where failures are examined and learned from
Finding out why things went wrong is important and, of course, if there were blameworthy mistakes they should be handled, but the real purpose is not to find out who is at fault but instead to get to the heart of the problem, to find a solution, a workaround or a new direction.
"What you learn from [mistakes] is not to make that same mistake again. That is the net sum. This is the most difficult concept to let go of, especially if you are the one with the clipboard and or the one with the hammer," says Roy J West, founder and CEO of The Roy West Companies, an organisation that focuses on talent management and employee/customer engagement.
Jetly likes to perform what is referred to a "sunset review" or "post mortem" report and offers the outline below on how this type of evolution typically goes. The designated meeting chair outlines the objective of the meeting and encourages everyone to share ideas without judging anyone else. Every team member is allocated pre-defined time to answer the following three questions:
What went well on the project?
What did not go well?
What could have been done differently?
Designated scribe takes notes and after everyone has shared their opinion, the meeting is open for discussions and analysis.
"Though this may seem like a stretch at times, these meetings provide valuable insight into how things really went during the course of project and hold a store of valuable lessons for the future," says Jetly.
Lombardi, on the other hand, offers this advice: "There's been a lot of progress in the past few years to combine iterative, testing-oriented methodologies like agile with the metrics-based approaches of online marketing. Formal methods such as lean startup and customer development are essentially a way to reinstate the scientific method back into our work, almost like we're reinstituting the practice of having R&D departments but in a more practical, customer-oriented way that's integrated with our normal project work. Using these methods, my recommendations centre around distinguishing hypotheses from facts and knowing how to prioritize, test, and learn from your hypotheses."
Be an effective communicator and know your workers
Communication skills are one of the most important skills an IT leader can have. Not communicating effectively has been the downfall of many an IT project. "Don Clifton, former chairman of The Gallup Organization and the father of strengths-based thinking, believed that fastest way to destroy someone was to demand or expect something of someone they are not capable of. Failure is predictive when the person(s) being charged with a task/mission does not have the talent to perform to success. It is also predictive when the Coach/Manager/Leader has not provided the desired outcome with great clarity and is not focusing on what the employee does best," says West.
To be an effective leader, you many times have to communicate to people the reasons things are being done to help them understand what's important.
Learn from the competition
Successful leaders help their organisations by looking at the mistakes and failures (as well as successes) of others in their industry. Being able to identify possible issues this way could help your organisation side step a problem that caused other companies to miss the mark.
Incentivise workers
Create a program where IT pros are encouraged to report unforeseen problems and have those who stave off failure are rewarded.
"Don't fall in love with ideas, or personalities or progress for the sake of progress," says Lombardi "When we remember that new, untested ideas are really hypotheses and run experiments to find out if they work or not we're on the path to avoiding failure."


text: « Return to Search Mass. Eye and Ear Beginning New FDA Clinical Trial for Auditory Brainstem Implants for Children June 11, 2013 Contact: Mary Leach 617-573-4170 BOSTON (June 11, 2013) – Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate, is now enrolling a select group of deaf infants and children in a new FDA-regulated clinical trial of an Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI). This study will evaluate how the Nucleus 24 ABI improves the hearing and quality of life of deaf infants and children who do not have neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and are not cochlear implant candidates. Outcomes will include subjective and objective measures of hearing before and after ABI surgery. Food and Drug Administration has issued an Investigational Device Exemption for this new clinical trial. The ABI is the world's first successful prosthetic hearing device to stimulate auditory neurons directly at the human brainstem, bypassing the inner ear and hearing nerve entirely. More than 1,000 children and adults worldwide have received the ABI. This device is currently regulated by the FDA for adults and children 12 and older who are diagnosed with NF2. The multidisciplinary Pediatric ABI team is led by Daniel Lee, MD, director of Mass. Eye and Ear's Pediatric Ear, Hearing and Balance Center (photo left) and the Helene and Grant Wilson ABI Program. "The ABI provides hearing sensations to patients who have deafness from conditions that do not allow for successful cochlear implant surgery. These conditions include severe congenital malformation of the inner ear (no hearing nerve or no cochlea), scarring of both inner ears due to infection/meningitis, otosclerosis, or injury, injury to the hearing nerve or inner ear from a severe skull fracture or auditory neuropathy/dyssynchrony (AN/AD)," Dr. Lee explained. "With the FDA's regulation of our new clinical trial, we have the opportunity to study the hearing benefits of the ABI in deaf infants and children who cannot receive the cochlear implant due to conditions not related to NF2." Dr. Lee and his team are closely collaborating with Professor Vittorio Colletti from Verona, Italy, and Professor Levent Sennaroglu, from Ankara, Turkey, both international experts on pediatric ABI surgery, to ensure that patients who are enrolled in this clinical trial receive the very best possible care at Mass. Eye and Ear. An adult FDA-regulated clinical trial (NCT01736267) at Mass. Eye and Ear was approved in November 2012 and is actively recruiting deaf patients for the ABI who do not have NF2 and are not cochlear implant candidates (or are failed cochlear implant candidates). For more details about this adult ABI study please refer to the Mass. Eye and Ear website or clinicaltrials.gov. Information on the pediatric FDA-regulated clinical trial (NCT01864291) and the study criteria is available on the Mass. Eye and Ear website or clinicaltrials.gov. If you are a patient, parent, referring physician or audiologist who is interested in our pediatric or adult ABI clinical trial, please contact us at 617-573-3130 or email us at: email@example.com. About Massachusetts Eye and Ear Mass. Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck. After uniting with Schepens Eye Research Institute Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston became the world's largest vision and hearing research center, offering hope and healing to patients everywhere through discovery and innovation. Mass. Eye and Ear is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and trains future medical leaders in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, through residency as well as clinical and research fellowships. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1824, Mass. Eye and Ear employs full-time, board-certified physicians who offer high-quality and affordable specialty care that ranges from the routine to the very complex. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Survey" has consistently ranked the Mass. Eye and Ear Departments of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology as top five in the nation.


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• Apple to Spend $356 Million on Security Company AuthenTec – The company makes fingerprint sensors. And Why Apple wanted AuthenTec: Thwart Samsung, Android in BYOD
• Google admits it didn't delete all Wi-Fi data collected by Street View cars – The UK's Information Commissioner is not happy about it.
• Microsoft wins German ban on Motorola Android devices over FAT storage
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• Zuckerberg: It Wouldn't Make Sense For Us To Make A Phone – Mark Zuckerberg brushes aside the notion that Facebook is working on a smartphone.
• Facebook Reports a Loss, but Its Revenue Beats Expectations – And Facebook's stock falls 18 percent Thursday as a result.
• Early 'Jony' iPhone concept shows Sony design influence and The iPad that never was: kickstands, curves, and 'highly confidential' Apple prototypes revealed – Documents related to the Apple vs. Samsung trial reveal early design prototypes for iPhones and iPad. One 2006-era iPhone design was inspired by Sony. Also Documents show Samsung fixated on a 'Beat Apple' strategy, but did it cross the line?
• Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on smartphones and Samsung's Q2 smartphone shipments nearly twice those of Apple, say research firms – Samsung had a great quarter in smartphones, which offset a dip in its RAM chip sales.
• Valve's Newell: Windows 8 "catastrophe" driving Valve to embrace Linux – Steam CEO Gabe Newell, who once worked at Microsoft, says Windows 8 will be a catastrophe that will drive OEMs to abandon the Windows platform. And Valve's Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to "tongue contrrollers"
• Microsoft Admits Risk in Tablet Plans – In a filing with the SEC, Microsoft admits that selling its own Windows 8 tablet in competition with its partners is risky.
• The economics of Google Fiber and what it means for U.S. broadband – Google says its gigabit fiber network will be profitable, and it's getting there by cutting costs in interesting ways. For example, Google will build its own consumer-side hardware, including routers and set-top boxes.
• Google Brings 3D Maps to iOS with 'Google Earth' Update [iOS Blog] – Google beats Apple on its own platform with 3D maps.
• Rise Is Seen in Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Infrastructure – The general heading U.S. cyber security says there has been an increase in attacks on the networks of power grids and water supplies.
• What Does Skype's Architecture Do? – Skype denies press speculation that it has relaxed its privacy policies to allow surveillance of its users.
• Amazon Reports High Sales but Modest Net Income – Its profits are down 96 percent, and the company is forecasting a loss in the current quarter.
• Consumer Reports Joins the Netflix Pile-On – The consumer magazine says the obvious: Netflix doesn't have a lot of the movies people want to watch.


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Facing controversy, GM reveals CEO's total pay
General Motors, the target of sniping over new CEO Mary Barra's pay, disclosed earlier than usual that her compensation this year will be $14.4 million — but just $1.6 million as a direct salary.
GM said that's 58% more than the $9.1 million total compensation in 2012 of her predecessor, Dan Akerson, who retired in January. GM hasn't yet disclosed what Akerson got in 2013, but the Associated Press reported GM said it was about the same as in 2012.
In an unusual move, GM disclosed its CEO's full compensation package before its proxy filing in April because the automaker wanted to "correct misperceptions created by comparisons that used only a portion of Barra's overall compensation."
After becoming the first big car company to put a woman in the corner office, GM chafed at published reports last week and remarks by politicians and commentators that it was underpaying her because of her gender.
Those were based on compensation numbers that failed to note her long-term compensation, because GM had not disclosed that at the time.
CEOs get a large portion of their compensation in awards tied to stock performance, to ensure their interests and stockholders' are the same.
Barra's package is $1.6 million in salary, $2.8 million in short-term incentives and $10 million in long-term compensation.
GM did not say how the non-salary sums will be determined or awarded.
But GM Chairman Tim Solso said in a statement that, "As a new CEO, Mary's total compensation is in line with her peer group and properly weighted so that most is at-risk."
He said, "The company's performance will ultimately determine how much she is paid."
GM had planned to lay out the specifics of Barra's compensation later, because it's not final until approved by stockholders in June.


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The Golden Compass
When The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman was published in 1995, it was the start of His Dark Materials, an ambitious trilogy that offered a startlingly new perspective on childhood, innocence, and sin. On the surface, the series relates the story of two children on a fantastic voyage, encountering an intriguing blend of complicated characters and twisted landscapes as they make their way toward an uncertain goal. Beneath the exterior, however, lie murky questions of morality and existence, changing an enjoyable children's series into a thought-provoking view on maturity.
The diegesis of His Dark Materials is still expanding: at least two more books (Lyra's Oxford and The Book of Dust) concerning the characters and universes of His Dark Materials are slated to be published, and the trilogy has already been adapted into a successful radio drama. A theatrical play is scheduled for the end of 2003, and a set of major motion pictures is in the works.
This site exists as a humble tribute to the series, its offspring, and the influences that shaped it.
Lyra's Oxford
(Unfortunately, the site maintainers are currently curled fetal with work, but you can discuss Lyra's Oxford in the Forum)
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High-risk means that a medicine can cause serious health problems or
accidents. High-risk doesn't always mean "do not use." It can mean "use with
care" when a medicine is more likely to help you than harm you.
If you take a medicine that may make you feel
confused, drowsy, or dizzy, pay attention to how
it affects your balance and how it makes you feel. Take extra care to prevent a
fall. A fall can lead to serious problems that can change your quality of life.
Examples of high-risk medicines include:
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age, your body changes. When you take a medicine, you may get a stronger effect
now than when you were younger. For example, you may get more dizzy or
drowsy. And you may be more likely to have dangerous side effects when you take more than one medicine. For example, taking a pain medicine along with a sleep medicine could cause you to stop breathing.
To help avoid serious side effects, talk to your doctor and pharmacist about your medicines.
Call 911 anytime you think you may need emergency care. For
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Call your doctor now or seek medical
care right away if:
Watch closely for changes in your health, and be sure to
contact your doctor if you have fallen, even if you aren't hurt.
Don't feel embarrassed to let your doctor know that you have fallen. Your
doctor may be able to adjust your medicine or give other advice so you can
prevent more falls.
Other Works ConsultedAmerican Geriatrics Society 2015 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel (2015). American Geriatrics Society 2015 updated Beers Criteria for
potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 63(4): 2227-2246. DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13702. Accessed March 31, 2016.
Hartikainen S, et al. (2007). Medication as a risk factor for falls: Critical systematic review. Journal of Gerontology, 62(10): 1172-1181.
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