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Sunday, November 11, 2012
'Skyfall' Fashion: The Secrets Behind The Secret Agent's Wardrobe
Costume designer Jany Temime takes MTV News inside Bond's killer closet.
By Amy Wilkinson
Daniel Craig in "Skyfall"
Photo: Sony Pictures
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
A look at drop in bond yields across Europe
Financial market turbulence in the 17-country eurozone has eased dramatically since mid-summer. That is most evident in the interest rate, or yield, on countries' bonds. When bond yields fall, it means investors are more confidence in a country's public finances.
Here's a look at the yields on the benchmark 10-year bonds for key countries in the eurozone.
| Country | 10-year bond yield (July 24, 2012) | 10-year bond yield (Nov.9, 2012) |
| Spain | 7.54 | 5.81 |
| Italy | 6.44 | 4.92 |
| Greece | 25.23 | 15.96 |
| Ireland | 6.19 | 4.78 |
| Portugal | 10.23 | 8.66 |
| France | 2.24 | 2.02 |
| Netherlands | 1.75 | 1.62 |
| Belgium | 2.70 | 2.33 |
Source: FactSet.
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Ovarian cancer patients have lower mortality rates when treated at high-volume hospitals
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? A study by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, recently e-published ahead of print by the Journal of Clinical Oncology, suggests that women who have surgery for ovarian cancer at high-volume hospitals have superior outcomes than similar patients at low-volume hospitals.
The improved survival rate is not dependent on a lower rate of complications following surgery, but on the treatment of the complications. In fact, patients with a complication after surgery at a low-volume hospital are nearly 50 percent more likely to die as a result of the complication than patients seen at high-volume hospitals.
"It is widely documented that surgical volume has an important effect on outcomes following surgery," said lead author Jason D. Wright, MD, the Levine Family Assistant Professor of Women's Health and the Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at CUMC, a gynecologic oncologist at NYP/Columbia, and a member of the HICCC.
"We examined three specific areas: the influence of hospital volume on complications, failure to rescue from complications, and inpatient mortality in ovarian cancer patients who underwent cancer-related surgery," said Dr. Wright. "But the mortality rate did not coincide with the complication rate. For women who experienced a complication at a low-volume hospital, the mortality rate was 8 percent. For women at a high-volume hospital, it was 4.9 percent. After adjusting for variables, we concluded that the failure-to-rescue rate was 48 percent higher at low-volume hospitals than at high-volume hospitals. In short, high-volume hospitals are better able to rescue patients with complications following ovarian cancer surgery."
The researchers used National Inpatient Sample data from 1998 to 2009, specifically, women aged 18 to 90 with ovarian cancer who under oophorectomy (removal of one or both ovaries): a total of more than 36,000 patients treated at 1,166 hospitals. After reviewing the data, the researchers noted several significant trends. For example, the complication rate increased with surgical volume: 20.4 percent for patients at low-volume hospitals, compared with 24.6 percent at high-volume hospitals.
Although the researchers could not account for all possible factors influencing these findings -- the NIS lacks data on physician characteristics and does not have data covering all US hospitals, for example -- their findings have important implications for the care of patients with ovarian cancer.
"Our findings suggest that targeted initiatives to improve the care of patients with complications can improve outcomes," said Dawn L. Hershman, MD, associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at CUMC, an oncologist at NYP/Columbia, co-leader of the Breast Cancer Program at the HICCC, and a co-author of the study. "We also believe in the importance of adhering to quality guidelines and best practices, which may overcome these volume-based disparities.
"And at the most basic level, the findings highlight the importance of preventing complications to begin with. They increase mortality, in the worst-case scenario, but can also cause long-term medical problems, with patients and families facing difficult treatment choices and additional costs," said Dr. Hershman.
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- J. D. Wright, T. J. Herzog, Z. Siddiq, R. Arend, A. I. Neugut, W. M. Burke, S. N. Lewin, C. V. Ananth, D. L. Hershman. Failure to Rescue As a Source of Variation in Hospital Mortality for Ovarian Cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2012; DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2012.43.2906
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LG Optimus L9 (T-Mobile)
T-Mobile is home to some excellent smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy S III?and the Samsung Galaxy Note II, but they'll both cost you upwards of $300. That may not be much over the span of a two-year contract, but it's still a lot to throw down all at once. Then there are free phones, like the T-Mobile myTouch?and myTouch Q, which are perfectly decent starter phones, but are somewhat lacking compared with the competition. Thankfully, T-Mobile is bridging the gap with the $79.99 LG Optimus L9, a solid midrange smartphone that costs less than $100. It has an attractive display, a snappy processor, and good call quality. It's an excellent choice if you want high-end features on a modest budget.
Design, Network, and Call Quality
The Optimus L9 looks attractive, if somewhat generic. It's a black rectangular slab with a rubbery, lightly textured back panel. There's a plastic silver ring around the middle, and a black plastic ring around the display. It measures 5.19 by 2.69 by 0.36 inches (HWD) and weighs just 4.41 ounces. It's large, but easier to handle than the Galaxy S III or the mammoth Galaxy Note II. The width of the phone is very comfortable, but I still can't quite hold it in one hand and swipe the Notifications bar down from the top of the screen. There's a Power button on the upper right corner, a Volume rocker on the left, a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top, and a charging port on the bottom.
The L9 has a 4.5-inch, 960-by-540-pixel IPS LCD display. It's sharp and bright, and text and images look great. The resolution isn't as high as it is on the GSIII, but it also lacks the GSIII's PenTile pixel layout, which can cause images to look fuzzy on that phone. Below the display are capacitive Back and Settings buttons, on either side of the ovular physical Home key. Typing on the onscreen keyboard felt fine.
T-Mobile doesn't have LTE like AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon, but the carrier's HSPA+ 42 network is a still-speedy alternative. Unfortunately, the Optimus L9 hooks into the carrier's HSPA+ 21 network, not 42, so data speeds aren't as fast. Still, I saw average speeds of 6Mbps down and just over 1Mbps up, which should be plenty fast for most users. You can also use the phone as a mobile hotspot with the appropriate plan from T-Mobile, and it connects to 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi on the 2.4GHz band.
The Optimus L9 is a good voice phone. Reception is solid, and calls sound good in the phone's earpiece?voices are a little robotic and there's a slight hiss in the background, but are otherwise clear and easy to hear. The speakerphone sounds somewhat abrasive but it's loud enough to use outdoors. Calls made with the phone are loud and clear, though the noise cancellation caused a faint humming sound in the background. It also supports T-Mobile's UMA-based Wi-Fi calling, which is a great fallback in areas with less-than-optimal T-Mobile coverage and a good way to save some money on your phone plan.
I had no trouble connecting to a?Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset and calls sounded fine through it. But I wasn't able to trigger voice dialing, over Bluetooth or anywhere else for that matter. The phone's 2,150mAh battery was good for a solid 9 hours and 49 minutes of continuous talk time.
Processor and Apps
The phone is powered by a dual-core 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor. That's not a processor we see often, especially now that Texas Instruments is?moving away from smartphones. It's not quite as fast as the dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm chips in many high-end phones, but it beats the pants off of any single-core smartphone out there, of which there are still plenty. Navigating my way around the phone felt smooth, and you've definitely got enough power here to run any of the 600,000+ apps available in the Google Play store.
Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) is the version of the OS on board, along with LG's Optimus UI 3.0 overlay. There's no word on whether the phone will receive an upgrade to Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). Thankfully, the phone is snappy and responsive, and LG's customizations are attractive. You get five customizable home screens to swipe between that come preloaded with apps, folders, and widgets. Unfortunately, bloatware runs rampant. You get nine pieces of bloatware from T-Mobile alone, and you can't delete any of it. You can disable it from showing up in your Apps menu, but that's it.
One cool feature you get is QuickMemo, which is a system-wide note taking service that lets you annotate screenshots with handwritten notes and sketches, which you can then share. You also get SmartShare, which lets you display music, photos, and video on your HDTV or monitor via DLNA. There's also the usual Android bells and whistles, including a fast Web browser, excellent email support, and voice-enabled, turn-by-turn GPS directions via Google Maps.
Multimedia and Conclusions
The Optimus L9 has 1.69GB of free internal storage, along with an empty microSD card slot underneath the battery cover. My 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards worked fine. The phone was able to play all of our audio test files, and sound quality was excellent over both wired 3.5mm headphones as well as?Altec Lansing BackBeat?Bluetooth headphones. All of our test videos played back without a hitch, at resolutions up to 1080p, though audio was out of sync over Bluetooth.
The 5-megapixel camera is surprisingly good. Shutter speeds are fast, at just 0.2 second to capture a photo. Colors and detail look accurate and sharp, though photos can get noisy if you zoom in too far. You get LG's Cheese Shutter, which allows you to snap a photo by saying the word cheese, which is good for when you want to get yourself into the picture. There's also a standard 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for self portraits and video chat.
The LG Optimus L9 isn't the biggest, baddest smartphone out there, but it plays an important role in T-Mobile's lineup. Sure, the Galaxy S III or the Galaxy Note II blow this phone out of the water?with bigger, higher-resolution displays, more powerful processors, and faster HSPA+ 42 data speed?but they also cost more than three times the price. For less than $100, the LG Optimus L9 gets you a great mix of features and performance. T-Mobile offers cheaper phones, like the myTouch series or the Samsung Exhibit II 4G?, but none of them can match the L9 on performance or quality. It still pays to check out what's on sale, but either way, the Optimus L9 is a bargain.
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Former instructors write unexpected family history | Hesston College
Dwight Roth and Sharon Cranford share about their experience writing ?Kinship Concealed: Amish Mennonites/African-American Connections? with a Hesston College African-American History class. Cranford and Roth discovered their common ancestry when both were teaching at Hesston College in 2004.
It is not uncommon for people to discover new relatives at Hesston College. With ties to the Mennonite faith tradition and many of the students, faculty and staff coming from the same faith background, the branches of many family trees run all across campus.
Sharon Cranford, however, did not expect to find any cousins at Hesston College. As an African-American Baptist woman teaching at a college from a predominately white, European church tradition, common blood lines were the last thing she expected to find. But the discovery of just that led her to co-author a book, ?Kinship Concealed: Amish Mennonites/African-American Connections? with her new-found cousin, Mennonite-Episcopalian Dwight Roth.
The book is historical fiction ? documenting the historical multi-racial lineage of Amish brothers Jacob and John Mast who immigrated from Switzerland to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1750 with a fictional story line.
Jacob was the first Amish bishop to be ordained in the United States and had an expansive group of descendants in the Conestoga Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. His brother John left the Amish church and moved south during the time when slavery in America was at its peak. His descendants became Methodists and Baptists and include slave owners and slaves.
?Discovering this family connection and writing the book has expanded my view of family,? said Roth. ?For many people, kinship systems, ancestry and the definition of family may be much broader than we realize.?
Cranford and Roth were both teaching in the social science department at Hesston College in 2004 when they uncovered the connection that went further than common academic pursuits.
Overhearing a conversation Cranford was having with another colleague and mentioning her great grandmother?s maiden name of Mast, Roth interjected that his mother was also a Mast. He went on to explain that Mast is a common Amish Mennonite name and his own grandfather was an Amish Mennonite bishop.
Roth, who taught at Hesston from 1973 to 2010, had an interest in his family?s genealogy and asked a few questions of Cranford to see if they might stem from the same Mast branch. When Cranford answered Roth?s questions correctly, the two made their way to the college library to further explore their unexpected discovery in the C.Z. Mast Geneaology book, which covered the family history from 1750 to 1909. There, their suspicions were confirmed when they found both family lines.
?From the moment I first came to Hesston, I felt comfortable,? said Cranford, who taught at Hesston from 2002 to 2007. ?I was raised with many of the principles and values of this culture, but would have never made the connection. It was wonderful to find out there was a kinship and reason I felt so comfortable. I believe our discovery was meant to be and this story was meant to be told.?
It was several years after their discovery that Cranford and Roth decided their family?s story needed to be told. Both set out on research trips to the areas where their families originated ? Pennsylvania for the northern Amish Masts and east Texas and North Carolina for the southern Masts ? to talk with relatives still living in the area and visit cemeteries and other historical family sites.
The Mast family became multi-racial when John?s grandson Reuben, a slave owner in North Carolina, fathered a child with a slave girl. The child was Cranford?s great great grandfather, Charley Mast, who was ripped away from his mother as a baby and sold to his uncle, Reuben?s brother John.
Throughout the book, Cranford and Roth use imaginative history to look into what their ancestors? lives may have been like ? their struggles, pain, fears and celebrations.
?I have felt my great great great grandmother?s presence ? Charley?s mother ? as I have gone through this whole process,? said Cranford. ?As a slave, not much is known about her, but as a mother myself, I can empathize with what it must have been like to have her child torn away. Writing about it has calmed my spirit. Our ancestors propel us. Because of that compelling spirit, they drive what I say and feel.?
For both authors, writing their ancestors? stories have been a personal experience full of growth and understanding.
?This has been a profoundly spiritual and emotional experience for me, which is why I think it is about something larger than Sharon and I meeting,? said Roth. ?Our ancestors wanted this story to be told.?
Aside from telling an interesting and unexpected story, Cranford and Roth hope their book will encourage others to be open minded to the realities of bloodlines that may exist even in their own families, but in an even broader sense, to realize how connections across races exist.
?I hope our readers will recognize the strange American phenomenon about color and how tied up we are in that,? said Cranford. ?I hope they will take a more internal look at ?self? and who we all are as a people.?
?Stories like this have happened throughout history and continue to occur, but people don?t want to talk about it,? said Roth. ?The complexity of kinship is often the elephant in the room, but we have decided we are going to talk about it.?
?Kinship Concealed? is currently being reviewed by publishers and Cranford and Roth hope that their family?s story will be available to all readers soon.
Source: http://www.hesston.edu/2012/11/former-instructors-write-unexpected-family-history/
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