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From start-ups to established companies, almost everyone in the life sciences and diagnostics industries is playing with digital health in one form or another. But how do you ensure this investment translates into commercial success for your company?
Cole-Parmer's new Masterflex® Ismatec® Reglo Digital Pump series, is not so much an evolution, but a revolution of the popular peristaltic pump range.
IDEX Health & Science has launched the Tridex™ Protein Analyzer, which Planet Innovation helped develop, to measure protein titer directly from a bioreactor in real time.
Planet Innovation is partnering with Melbourne-based start-up Scinogy to manufacture a revolutionary new cell processing system that is being commercialized by global biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The AusBiotech National Conference, held in sunny Brisbane, brought together national and international leaders from across the life sciences industry. I took the opportunity to pop into a number of sessions on the growing AI and digital health sectors.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck Serono has signed an exclusive deal securing global marketing and commercialization rights to Genea Biomedx's range of IVF products including Gavi and Geri, which were designed by Genea with development partner, Planet Innovation.
Tomas Stojanov has been an integral part of an extremely successful network of invitro-fertilisation (IVF) clinics in his role as the CEO of fertility group Genea, but his personal dream is to do more. He wanted to change the world of IVF to benefit his company, his industry and most importantly his patients.
Despite 30 years of IVF practice the process of freezing human embryos, known as vitrification, has remained extremely manual and susceptible to errors and inconsistencies by embryologists. In 2009, Genea Biomedx teamed up with Planet Innovation to solve this challenge by automating IVF vitrification and finally making the process consistent and standardised for labs around the world.
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Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the Economics Department was established in 2015 with the purpose to provide advice and counsel to the department on how it may better serve its students, the University a, d the economics profession.
The Advisory Board functions to:
- Provide advice to the Department Chair in defining the vision that leads to the betterment of the Economics Department and its students.
- Provide a network of experienced professionals with whom the department may collaborate.
- Act as a sounding board for new initiatives and alternative strategies.
- Serve as liaison between the academic leadership of the economics department and professionals in economics careers.
- Strengthen the ties between the department and the business community, government agencies, and other potential employers of the graduates as well as providers of internship opportunities.
Serving Members
Mr. Keith Becker
Dr. Gordon Brady, Ph.D.
Mr. David Brown, Esq.
Mr. Kevin Davis
Dr. Christian Gregory, Ph.D.
Ms. Amelia Hopkins
Mr. David Jolley, Chairman
Dr. Brant Morefield, Ph.D.
Dr. Matthew Trombley, Ph.D.

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During Scott Hanselman's podcast we briefly discussed managed code performance. Here are a few of my thoughts about writing high performance code. In the spirit of a cheesy business book (or motivational speaker), I will give away my main points in the form of controversial-sounding statements before proceeding to flog them to death:
- Don't trust anyone.
- Managed is better.
Some background: before I came to Microsoft I built solvers for both discrete and continuous optimization problems, primarily in C/C++, with a bit of Fortran thrown in. Back in 2002 when I was on the Project Server team we were faced with the decision of whether to rebuild our scheduling engine in C++ or C#. For the past year or so I have worked on the Solver Foundation team, which is pure C#. We build solvers that solve a range of large-scale optimization problems, and they are "industrial grade": tens or hundreds of thousands of constraints are not uncommon.
Don't trust anyone. Rico Mariani says the first rule of performance is to measure. Listen to Rico. There are many reasons for this. The first is that nobody has ever written code that is doing exactly what you are trying to do. Otherwise (being a smart programmer) you should just call their code or (being a smart business person) you should just buy their code, try to do it better, or do something different entirely (perhaps mixed martial arts). So you should seek to understand how the code behaves, otherwise you will never find out – until it is too late.
The second is that you know your scenarios and priorities better than others do. You should already have an idea of how fast the code is supposed to be. Now sometimes the requirement truly is "make it as fast as possible". For numerical libraries this is often the case because many problems can be made to be arbitrarily complicated. For example, if you are modeling fluid dynamics you could use tighter meshes and get more accurate results. In most other cases (perhaps in a user interface) you have a hard number you need to hit. Of course, there are some simple guidelines that may apply in most situations. If you never go to the database, your server app will be fast. If you never allocate memory, your numeric code will fly. True or false? Well…measure.
The third is that even if someone else has measured code that seems to be similar to yours, their results may be misleading. For example, you depend on different collection classes, or you are running on a different processor. Or your input data is different in some subtle way. To take a very simple example, suppose you want to sort lists of 1 million integers, and somebody says, "hey, I measured different sorting algorithms on arrays of 1 million integers and quicksort is best." And they hand over the code and all of their results. Well, what do those arrays look like? Because if the data is mostly sorted then something like insertion sort may work better.
If you follow this advice you may end up with more questions: doesn't this take a lot of time and effort? How do I know when to stop measuring, or stop optimizing my code? If you start profiling at the very start of development, and build some simple skills, it's not too bad (and you learn a lot). If, for example, you are considering whether to use managed or unmanaged code for a project, prototype a couple of key sections in C++ and C# and measure. I did this on the Project Server team and that was the best way to settle the argument. These things often get way too philosophical – just try it and see. I did standard critical path scheduling in both C# and C++ and found that the C# version was only 10-15% slower. We went with C# and in the course of development we were able to find algorithmic improvements that resulted in a faster implementation that the original C++ codebase. Get good at writing simple programs that answer one specific performance question. For example: should I use a list or an array? How should I read this data set? Be a scientist and seek to answer specific questions by controlling the conditions and varying only one thing at a time. And pick the right thing based on your knowledge of the customer scenario.
Managed or unmanaged? My blunt opinion is: unless your computation is dominated by BLAS-style computations you are better off using C# because of productivity, stability, and maintainability concerns.
Here are a couple of "pros" for C#:
- There are clear performance differences, but in many cases when you look at the overall system performance they can be washed away due to other factors: I/O, a webservice call, DB access, etc.
- Many programmers (myself included) are much more productive writing C# code. This gives me more time to investigate possible algorithmic improvements, write good unit tests, etc. There are opportunity costs!
- I think it is easier to make use of multiple cores. For example, the parallel extensions available for .Net 3.5 (and built into 4.0) are very easy to use.
There are also some clear downsides:
- It is easy to get lazy, or to unintentionally use constructs that are not efficient. People start using List<> and Dictionary<> when a good ol' array will do. It's also easy to miss unnecessary memory allocations, because everything is garbage collected. So you need to be vigilant about profiling the code.
- There is a lot of unnecessary array bounds checking that slows things down. In particular, with LAPACK-style routines with tight, nested loops.
- As far as I know, the managed code compilers do not make use of SSE2 instructions.
Others have different opinions and I'm not saying they're wrong – so long as they have measured. Otherwise they are bullshitting you.


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Monday essay: brave new world
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Time's been on my mind this week, and not just because I'm off to England for some family fun, and trying to pull a few ends together before I go. So I've gathered here the posts containing my most popular time tips so far.
I was also struck by this wise advice (my apologies to the originator, but I can't remember where I saw it):
Time isn't something you find, it's something you make.
How many of us say things like "if I can find the time" or "when I find time"? The reality is, we don't just find spare hours lying around, or gift-wrapped and sitting on our front doorstep. If we truly want do something, we must make the effort to make the time.
As I've pondered that insight, I looked back at some of my previous time tips. Here are the most popular ones, in case you'd like to revisit them too:
- What I learned from my 3-month Facebook vacation. Hint: I didn't miss much.
- Email is someone else's opinion of how you should spend your time. Don't get sucked into what they think you should be doing.
- Time management secrets of serene women (article for House of Fifty magazine). Please don't try to do it all!
- Why our lives need plenty of white space, both physical and in our calendars.
- Serenity tip: schedule your leisure time and be intentional about it.
Bonus tip: Plan your week! This makes a huge difference. Find out more.
In the past I've used a custom-made Agendio planner to schedule my time. It enabled me to put action items on the same page as my appointments, which made me significantly more realistic about how much I can get done. This planner is a bit of an investment, but I loved mine.
If you have other favourite resources or time tips, I'd love for you to share them below.
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Club Milestones
Our Dragonboat Club has done some amazing things over the last 10 years and we'd like to show you a few.
Valley Dragonboat Club Presidents Report
30 April 2019
Firstly, thank you to the Management Committee and Club Members for your support and effort throughout the season. It was a great season with many accomplishments.
Some of the highlights from the 2018/19 season:
- The club successfully expanded to four teams: Silver Dragons, Hutt Valley Heat Green Machine and 4th BwithU. The Silver Dragons and the Heat grabbed Silver medals at the Wellington Festival.
- The club competed at Nationals on Lake Karapiro for the first time with a standard boat mixed team and a small boat women's team. The experience gave everyone involved lessons on what it takes to be competitive at a National level.
- The Silver Dragons put together a small boat crew with a couple of extras and competed in Shanghai. It was a great experience and lots of fun. The racing was fun as well, although a bit wayward at times. Also managed to come home with 14 Carbon Fibre paddles direct from the Chinese Factory.
Management Committee Retirees:
- Thank you to Jacob for his dedication and continuing commitment to Dragon Boating in Wellington, also without him VDC would not exist.
- Thank you to JP for his Fundraising efforts over the past 9 years, $61k raised at average of $6.8k per year, a valuable contribution. Some memorable events demolishing buildings, cleaning up after the sevens, thank God they left town.
- Thank you to Kristin for stepping in for the past two years and helping keep the monies flowing, I guarantee the new treasurer will do away with cheques.
Circa late November 2018 after the taster session with the VDC
Friends: How did you find the dragon boating?
Me: The paddling technique for the dragon boating was weird (i dare say it's quite akin to digging) but will most likely join the club – it felt good on the few occasions I did (ie dug) it right.
Said taster session lasted an hour and the few occasions I was somewhat in sync lasted about three full strokes each but no more, the rest of the time I was having a fencing competition with the paddler in front of me and the one behind. Good thing I was given a wooden paddle; otherwise, I do not think it would have made it through that sesh in one piece.
Circa mid January 2019 – start of the season
Eight weeks, eight sessions, one Fun Day, one Festival Day and that's the season over. Sure I can handle this. Plus, my position in the boat is right at the very back so no need to worry about exiting on time and going too far back. Those assumptions were clearly very, very flawed but they were nipped in the bud when soon after the first few sessions I was presented with video footage of my paddling, the thought of which still makes me go crimson in the face. But it was so very helpful too! It was shocking to see how wrong I was doing everything and that is everything. Anyhow, Dave, our coach, gave me a lot of feedback and did not seem to be worried that I would eventually get there.
Trip to the 2018 China International Festival
In September 2018 our "oldies" team were invited to race in the Shanghai International Dragon Boat Tournament. The races were held in Zhujiajiao Water Town, with a history of more than 1,700 years, it is also known as Shanghai's Venice and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Although the team had visited the town in the days leading up to the event, racing through there was a challenge as it was difficult to concentrate on paddling whilst ever more interesting sights appeared as the team progressed up and down the Dianpu River.
A few of our friends in the Taranaki Dragon Boat Club and Centreport teams joined the Silver Dragons to make sure we had a full boat. Knowing that they'd be up against much younger crews, Silver Dragons trained hard and were determined not to come last. They did achieve that goal in both the 500m and 3k races. In the 3k race, they managed to beat the young whippersnappers from Malaysia by just 1sec!
Most of the team had never been to China before and spent a few days exploring Shanghai after the racing and then dispersed to visit a variety of places such as Great Wall, Yangzhou (where our carbon fibre paddles are made), Terracotta Warriors in Xian, and Yellow Mountain.
Trip to the 2017 Bali International Festival
In 2017 the Hutt Valley Heat women and 4 Silver Dragon men competed in the very first Bali International Dragonboat Festival. In the women's divisions HVH bought back bronze and the mixed team (The VCD Taniwhas) came 6th.
First Gold medal for the club
In 2016, the club's Women's team, the Hutt Valley Heat took home the gold medal at the Wellington International Dragonboat Festival. Even in the challenging weather conditions, they did us proud as this was our First gold medal!
Wellington Festival Results in 2015
A Great Day at the 2015 Wellington Festival. All four VDC teams performed well in the 2015 Wellington Dragonboat Festival with all qualifying for the Grand Finals in their Division. Hutt Valley Heat finishing 5th in the women's division, Thunderstruck and Green Machine coming 3rd and 4th respectively in the mixed open grade, and Silver Dragons 3rd in the masters. The Wellington Festival is NZ's largest Dragonboat Festival with the best venue, most participants, and most spectators.
First Overseas Festival
2013 was the first time a VDC team competed overseas, bringing home two trophies from the Darling Harbour Dragonboat Festival in Sydney.
First Silver
In 2011 the VDC teams won silver medals in the Grand Dragons (mixed 50+) and Premier divisions (women).
First Bronze
In 2012 the club entered a Mixed team in the Premier (Sports) Division and VDC teams won two bronze medals and a 4th place.
The club was registered as an incorporated society with the Ministry of Economic Development in August 2009 but teams were first formed for the 2011 season.


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Sedation dentists have information available about a variety of drugs known as local anesthetics, which are the safest and most effective drugs in all of medicine. Local anesthetics are a resource used in anxiety-free dentistry for the prevention and management of dental anxiety resulting from dental and surgical procedures, not to put the patient to sleep.
Local anesthetics, commonly called Novocain by patients (Novocain is no longer used, having been replaced by newer, safer, and more effective drugs), are drugs which, when injected near a nerve, prevent stimulation from reaching the brain where it would be interpreted by a person as pain. Sedation dentists interested in practicing anxiety-free dentistry know these also work very well as temporary relief of a tooth ache.
The injectable local anesthetics, used today by sedation dentists provide complete relief about 100% of the time. The duration of the numbness varies from drug to drug -- some providing short durations, while others remain effective for up to 12 hours. A doctor will select a drug for a patient that is appropriate for the type of dental care procedure they are having done.
In order to be effective during dental treatment, local anesthetics usually need to be injected. For many people, this is the most uncomfortable part of the entire dental appointment.
Local anesthetics can be administered quite comfortably. Sedation dentists and dental hygienists take pride in their ability to administer local anesthesia easily and comfortably.
The following are some of the procedures sedation dentists practicing anxiety-free dentistry might use to make this procedure more comfortable:
If an individual is fearful of receiving a local anesthetic injection, they should tell the assistant or the sedation dentist BEFORE the procedure starts. The use of conscious sedation such as laughing gas, as part of anxiety-free dentistry, can work wonders to make this procedure more comfortable for the patient.
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I was conducting a Concealed Carry Handgun class on 1 May 2010. There was a student training with a Ruger LCR that she stated had less than 100 rounds previously fired through it. She was using CCI Blazer 158 grain TMJ +P ammunition, and had fired approximately 25 rounds so far in the course without any cause for concern.I'd go along with the timing issue but that makes it a non-"kaboom". The bullet merely struck and destroyed a portion of the handgun "structure". You can see in the photo that the barrel didn't "explode" but the left side of the "sleeve" was struck off. I think it is a critical issue particularly with .357 Magnum LCRs but given the many thousands of guns out there it doesn't seem a likely occurrence. I know some shooters who cycle the gun as fast as they can whenever they shoot and they haven't replicated this event.
The student was in the middle of firing a two round engagement drill under my supervision; she fired one round then informed me that she thought her trigger was "stuck". I took the firearm from her, assuming that she had possibly taken the cylinder out of battery, and attempted to put the cylinder back into battery. Upon looking, I noticed that part of the frame subassembly (the barrel sheath portion) was blown off, and the barrel split. I checked to see if the cylinder was stable, and the cylinder turned slightly in my hand before apparently being bound by the split barrel. I was able to clear the weapon, at which point we removed it from the firing line and inspected shooters for injuries. As there were no injuries resulting from this failure, we examined the firearm and replaced it on the firing line with one of my revolvers a S&W J Frame that performed flawlessly), so she could continue training.
In my opinion, this was most likely not a shooter or ammunition-induced failure. I checked the owner's manual to ensure that this firearm was rated for +P ammunition, which it is. The cylinder and topstrap show no visible damage; neither does the right side of the firearm.
It appears that the chamber was not properly aligned with the bore when the round fired, and that the bullet struck the forcing cone out of alignment. The bullet most likely took the path of least resistance, leading to the catastrophic failure of the barrel and frame subassembly.
I have spoken with the VP of Ruger, as well as sending a letter to him concerning this failure; he seemed to be very interested and understanding of our concerns.
The consensus is that what happened was that a squib (or two) was fired followed by a full-power load which bulged the barrel (as happens in such circumstances). In this instance a bulged barrel "bursts" the outer sleeve. It was not a timing issue.
I don't think this particular effect would have happened with a revolver of more traditional construction. In that instance the barrel bulges but there is nothing of different ductility to fracture off the outside of the barrel assembly.


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Freedom From, Freedom ForBy Jane Patterson
The enormous, irregular standing-stone that is Freethinkers' Rock rises at the edge of Turkey Bottom Creek on ranch land in the Texas Hill Country currently being developed by the YMCA into a place for children and adults to be immersed in the natural world.
My friend Jill took a group of us to explore the land, leading us by the deer tracks that crisscross the property, along creek beds, through meadows, sometimes in the shadow of limestone cliffs. "There's something special I want to show you, " she said. "It's called the Freethinkers' Rock."
The Freethinkers (Freidenker), who are still a source of argument and consternation, were a group of German intellectuals who immigrated to the area of Texas around Comfort, Sisterdale, and Boerne mainly between 1845 and 1860, fleeing what they considered both religious and political oppression in Germany. They sought to create a community grounded in their commitments to free inquiry, equal classical education for girls and boys, and labor with their hands. Suspicious of religious authority of any kind, they would be surprised to find themselves the subjects of this blog.
The Freethinkers' Rock was a geographical landmark used as a gathering place when the Freethinkers realized that their opposition to the Civil War, and particularly their opposition to the Confederacy and slavery, meant that they must flee to Mexico. Thirty-six of them were massacred by Confederate soldiers in 1862, some as they crossed the Nueces, some as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande.
Their costly commitment to freedom shows the dynamic relationship between freedom from and freedom for.
While much of the literature on the Freethinkers emphasizes their commitment to freedom from (from established religion, from conventional ideas about education, private property, and manual labor), their willingness to die for their convictions about slavery shows that at the center of their philosophy was a set of deep commitments to intellectual rigor, human dignity, and solidarity. Freedom from was only the entranceway to freedom for. They gave their lives together as a witness to their respect for the dignity of not just their own, but every human life.
Freedom is at the center of almost every conversation or argument in American public thought: freedom to buy guns, freedom to watch whatever we want to on the internet, freedom to consume as much oil or food or goods as we can afford, and even beyond what we can afford. But there is little distinction between being free from governmental interference in our desires and being free for something larger than ourselves.
What we are discovering is something that Christian tradition has known all the way back to our origins in Judaism: that there is a tyranny of the self and its desires that can be as destructive as tyranny imposed from the outside. And the tyranny of the self is more insidious, because it masquerades as freedom. In my classes in New Testament, I have to teach people that the first-century conception of the human person was not as an individual, but as a person embedded in community, a person developed through a web of relationships with God and neighbor. The stark individuality that we experience as accepted fact was viewed as a fallacy by Jesus (Luke 12:13-21).
Similarly, the Ignatian tradition of spirituality emphasizes the importance of spiritual freedom from attachments (to opinions, fears, resentments, anxieties) in order to be free for engagement in God's generous will for us and for all. The daily practice of the Ignatian Examen offers a chance to look back over each day, looking for the moments when we were spiritually free (for the purposes of God) or unfree (fettered to personal habits and desires).
How about you?
What do you seek to be free from, so that you can be free for something of surpassing value?
In what community of people do you feel most free to seek the things that are of enduring value?
Jane Patterson is Assistant Professor of New Testament and serves as Director of Community Care. She joined the full-time faculty in 2013 after teaching part-time and serving as Interim Director of Theological Field Education 2003-2005. She is the author of Keeping the Feast: Metaphors of Sacrifice in 1 Corinthians and Philippians (SBL Press, 2015). In biblical studies her academic interests include the intersection of literary, political, and theological study of the scriptures. She also teaches in the area of Christian formation, where her work focuses on vocation and Christian practice. She serves as Co-Director of St.Benedict's Workshop, a ministry devoted to helping laity live their faith in daily life, and serves the Diocese of West Texas as Missioner for Adult Formation and as a member of the diocesan Examining Chaplains. She is active as a preacher, teacher, and parishioner at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio.
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See if you can handle 3 minuets of my mundane commute. You most of my drives are like this. No music, not many words. But the words... NSFW.
I bought this dash cam during one of the Kinja deals, $40 I think. Then a $50 Samsung 128G micro SD card for it. Since the equinox doesn't shut the power outlets off when Car is off, it runs and records all the time.
I directly uploaded from the Roav app to YouTube. This is the 1080 quality.
I bought one for my wife's van too, but it probably has mostly singing and today's hits radio.


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Insight into post-Communist Russia
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, by Bill Browder
This book was hard to put down, for sure. Bill Browder gives fascinating insight into the crime & injustice of post-Communist Russia and is a hero for becoming a human rights activist. Below are just a few quotes from the book that give insight to the state of Russia after the fall of Communism. I hope these pique your interest, as I highly recommend this book!
Seventy years of communism had destroyed the work ethic of an entire nation. Millions of Russians had been sent to the gulags for showing the slightest hint of personal initiative. The Soviets severely penalized independent thinkers, so the natural self-preservation reaction was to do as little as possible and hope that nobody would notice you. This had been fed into the psyches of ordinary Russians from the moment they were on their mothers' breasts.
Instead of 150 million Russians sharing the spoils of mass privatization, Russia wound up with twenty-two oligarchs owning 39 percent of the economy and everyone else living in poverty.
…by the year 2000 the richest person had become 250,000 times richer than the poorest person. This wealth disparity was created in such a short period of time that it poisoned the psychology of the nation. People were so angry that they were ready to spill their guts to anyone who wanted to talk about it.
Going after information in Russia was like hurtling down the rabbit hole. Ask a question, get a riddle. Track a lead, hit a wall. Nothing was self-evident or clear. After seventy years of KGB-instilled paranoia, Russians were careful to guard their information. Even inquiring after a person's health could feel like asking someone to reveal a state secret, and I knew that asking about the condition of a company would prove exponentially more difficult.
Also, I love details on spy techniques. Browder describes meeting an informant while wired. When listening to the playback, "we heard a burst of white noise that drowned out everything." They estimate they were in the presence of some kind of high-pitched jamming equipment. Truth is stranger than fiction.
His final thought on the dangers of becoming a human rights activist, and therefore an enemy of Putin:
But what I've discovered about fear is that no matter how scared I am at any particular moment, the feeling doesn't last. After a time it subsides. As anyone who lives in a war zone or who has a dangerous job will tell you, your body doesn't have the capacity to feel fear for an extended period. The more incidents you encounter, the more inured you become to them.


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I learned today why my wife's hummus is so much creamier than hummus from the store. She called me into the kitchen to give her a hand removing the outside of the chick peas. I didn't know chick peas had an 'outside.' While it looks incredibly tedious, they separate quite easily and help make the hummus very creamy. This particular red pepper and sun-dried tomato hummus was no exception. So, if you ever try to make your own, make sure and take a few extra minutes to make it much more delicious!
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The Genesis G80 has a larger, more powerful base engine than the Acura RLX. The base G80 3.8 trim is equipped with a 3.8-liter V6 engine that generates 311 horsepower and 293 lb.-ft. of torque. The Acura RLX is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 engine that generates 310 horsepower and 272 lb.-ft. of torque. The G80's extra torque sends more power to the wheels than the RLX. The G80 has two more engines on offer, each one more powerful than the RLX's single gasoline engine. The G80's 3.3-liter V6 engine develops 365 hp and 376 lb.-ft. of torque, while 5.0-liter V8 engine blasts out 420 hp and 383 lb.-ft.
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I have a plan. I am going to go to every single Vietnamese restaurant in Marrickville and try out the Pho. Whether or not that actually happens is another matter entirely.
Anyway, Tra Mi is first on the list, as it was second closest to my house. Why I didn't choose the first closest, I don't know.
The décor is simple and reminiscent of many restaurants in Southeast Asia that I've been to. I usually take it as a sign that the food they make is good, but humble, and not every fucker has heard of it yet.
We were immediately served complementary tea, which is a standard service in most Vietnamese restaurants. Truth be told, if I don't get tea, I feel my meal is somewhat incomplete.
After I excitedly (well, with as much energy as I could muster with the dreaded 'flu) ordered my Pho, I ordered the Fresh Lemonade, which I fondly remember from my trips to Southeast Asia as being extremely refreshing in the oppressive humidity.
Sadly, it was WAY too sweet. I'm used to it being lemon juice and water on ice, with sugar on the side for you to mix in yourself. Maybe it's been Aussiefied, I dunno.
One of my dining companions ordered an Iced Coffee, traditionally made with condensed milk. My dining companion slammed it down fast and told me delightfully that it was 'strong'. I take it the drink exceeded expectations. Possibly because of the awesome straw.
We ordered an entrée off the Specials menu, Lucky Money Bags ($9).
I assume they were lucky because they were had seafood in them. They were essentially one king prawn surrounded by vermicelli noodles and carrot. My dining companions loved them, but they didn't really do it for me.
We were supplied with a plate of the usually condiments – Vietnamese mint, bean sprouts and wedges of lemon. Must to our dismay, however, there was no chopped fresh chilli.
Having said that, I was impressed by the number of condiments provided on the table – fish sauce, chilli, soy, etc.. There were plenty of chilli products for us to partake in, but, without the chopped fresh chilli plunked right into the soup, it's just not the same.
My disappointment was short-lived, however, because then… The Pho came (Rare Beef Pho, $9).
It was like shovelling liquid gold into my stuffed up head. Admittedly, the pleasure I took from doing so in my weakened state my have influenced my opinion, but I firmly believe this Pho was well executed – perfectly seasoned soup, razor-thin beef, HEE-YUGE bowl of perfectly cooked noodles and as well presented as a soup can be.
My other half chose the Special Noodle Soup (Pho Bac Diet, $10) and was very pleased with the balls of mystery meat that looked like Chum. No, that's cool, I don't need to taste it. It's all yours.
Our dining companion chose the Vermicelli Noodles with Spring Rolls, BBQ Pork and Salad (Bun Cha Gio Thit Nuong, $12), which I didn't get to taste, but seemed to go down a treat. The serving size was also massive, and, despite how tasty the meal was, it couldn't be finished.
All in all, I was quite impressed by the quality of the food, service and value for money. We ended up getting a few dollars knocked off the bill – I dunno if they just liked us or figured one of us was going to blog the experience because we kept taking photos. Everyone's a fucking food blogger these days, aren't they?
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In recommending measures to manage the contamination of heparin-containing medicines, regulators in the European Union have decided that Sanofi-Aventis' anticoagulant blockbuster Lovenox should stay on the market.
The European Medicines Agency has finished a review of the risks associated with the use of heparin medicinal products contaminated with oversulphated chondroitin sulphate (OSCS) since the first reports of tainted heparin products came through from the USA in March. As part of this, the agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has been looking at Lovenox (enoxaparin), a low molecular weight heparin which is Sanofi's top-selling drug, with sales in the first quarter of 717 million euros (+21.5%).
Some low levels of impurity have been found in some batches of Lovenox, but the CHMP says that "a total removal of contaminated enoxaparin from the market in countries where it is used would lead to a shortage of supply and patients would not be able to continue their treatment". High levels of contamination with OSCS have been found in standard heparin from China, notably Baxter and Rotexmedica's products which were linked with serious side effects and over 80 deaths, but no similar adverse events have been observed with Lovenox.
The CHMP concluded that doctors can continue to use enoxaparin with low levels of OSCS "to treat patients temporarily until the situation is resolved". However, physicians have been told that intravenous or intra-arterial administration of the drug should be avoided and patients should be monitored closely for signs of allergic reactions. Also, pregnant women should not be given contaminated enoxaparin.
The news from the EMEA meant that Sanofi ended the week on a positive note, coming days after UK regulators revealed data which suggested that the anti-obesity treatment Acomplia (rimonabant) was linked to five deaths. That followed the European Commission's decision to open formal proceedings against the French-based firm, claiming it obstructed inspectors who carried out dawn raids at its premises, and those of many other drugmakers, in January.
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We all have bad habits, those little things that we do on a regular basis, even though we know deep down that we shouldn't be doing them. What we may not realize, however, is that some of these habits could be holding us back professionally. They might stifle our chances of reaching our goals, and many of them limit our productivity. If you're ready to make a change for the better in your professional life, consider these ten successful habits.
Don't follow, leadSuccess isn't about following the crowd. It's about anticipating where the crowd will go and getting there first. The only way you can put yourself in the best possible position to be successful is by taking charge. Following may be comfortable, but leading will help you reach your goals.
Surround yourself with positive peopleEntrepreneur and motivational speaker Jim Rohn is often quoted as saying "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." Look around! Who are you spending time with? Make sure to limit your contact with the toxic people in your life, and surround yourself with positive and successful individuals.
Don't multitaskThe myth of multitasking has been debunked in recent years. Instead of helping you get more done, trying to do too many things at once essentially decreases your productivity, increases the risk of error and contributes to the loss of time. It is recommend to focus your energy on only one specific task that needs to be accomplished without any interruptions.
Continue learningYou may have an MBA from a top tier school, but that doesn't mean that you know everything. The most successful entrepreneurs know that as soon as you stop learning, you get replaced by people who are willing to learn and expand.
Get outside of your comfort zoneNot challenging yourself may guarantee that you'll never fail, but it also guarantees that you'll never grow. Instead, get outside of your comfort zone by taking risks, trying new things, expanding your horizons, feeling challenged and following your dreams.
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