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Fool Me Once (5) just held on for the win over Captive Audience in his NYSS race.

Yonkers Raceway’s Friday night fare featured the $291,475 New York Sire Stakes Armand Palatucci Pace for 3-year-old colts and geldings.

Three divisions- worth $96,025, $97,725 and $97,725, respectively- went at it.

The opening group saw Bet the Moon (Jim Morrill Jr.) last on the lead in a life-best effort. In play from post position No. 4, Bet the Moon led the lads through fractions of :27 1/5, 56 1/5, 1:24 1/5 and 1:52 4/5. Bettor Than You (George Brennan), as the 3-4 favorite, played the role of first-up chaser, only to miss a head. Third went to Scalped (Brian Sears), never a threat to the leading pair.

For second choice Bet the Moon, a son of Bettor’s Delight that is owned by Edwin Gold and trained by Ron Burke, he returned $6.20 for his second (sire stakes) win in six seasonal starts.

The middle event figured to be enticing, and it did not disappoint. Odds-on Fool Me Once (Scott Zeron) left to the lead from post No. 5, putting up intervals of  :27 3/5 and 55 4/5. He then had his own private battle with a first-up Captive Audience (Sears) in and out of a 1:23 4/5 three-quarters.

Neither was giving in, with the former holding off the latter by a nose in 1:51 3/5 (last quarter :27.4). A more than fair effort from two colts, neither of whom who had never been over a half-mile track before. Doctor Butch (Brennan), the Rooney winner, was a best-of-the-rest third, beaten 2 1/2 lengths.

For Fool Me Once, an Art Major colt co-owned by (trainer) Mark Austin and Daniel Smith, he returned $2.40 for his sixth win in eight seasonal starts.

“Anytime you make a first start on a half, you’re always a bit concerned,” Zeron said. “I wanted to leave, but at the same time be cautious. When (Captive Audience) moved alongside down the back, he actually put a head in front, but my colt dug in.

“They’re just two very game horses.”

The third division saw someone have to go and get rewrite history, after Source of Pride (Sears, $2.90) scribbled his name in the track record book as the fastest soph pacing colt ever.

That happened after a 1:50 4/5 Westchester waltz (:26 3/5, :54, 1:21 4/5) from post No. 2 earned him a three-quarter length victory over a closing Olde Time Hockey (Morrill Jr.). Third went to Track Master D (Jason Bartlett).

“He was very impressive,” Sears said. “He did it on his own. He was getting tired late, but I never thought he was going to get beat.”

Ironically, Sears’ name was conjoined to the old record-holder, Pet Rock’s 1:51 effort in last season’s Art Rooney Pace.

For Source of Pride, a son of American Ideal trained by Jimmy Takter for co-owners (breeder) Brittany Farms, Marvin Katz, Al Libfeld and Louie Camara,  he’s now 4-for-9 this season.

The second round of Yonkers’ "Jackpot Next Door" Claiming Series featured seven races (five for lads, two for lasses), identical to a week ago. After 139 claims were entered on 25 different horses in the first round, this week’s tally showed a total of 22 slips filled out on seven different horses.

The five-Friday series offers a $20,000 purse for each prelim race. The finals, worth $76,000 (boys) and $59,900 (girls), and their requisite consolations, are scheduled for July 26th.

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Nutrition, Behavior, and Hyperactivity

A change in eating that is as strong as attention deficit drugs?! Researchers at the University of Southampton studied over 1800 three-year-old children, some with and some without ADHD, some with and some without allergies. After initial behavioral testing, all of the children got one week of a diet without any artificial food colorings and without any chemical preservatives.

The children’s behavior measurably improved during this week. But was this from the extra attention, from eating more fruits and vegetables, or from the absence of the preservatives and artificial colors? To answer this question, the researchers continued the diet, but gave the children disguised capsules containing either a mixture of artificial colorings, or the preservative benzoate, or nothing – each for a week. The results were published in the June 2004 Archives of Diseases in Childhood. The weeks that children got either the hidden colors or the hidden chemicals, their behavior was substantially worse. This held true whether or not they had been diagnosed with hyperactivity, and whether or not they had tested positive for allergies – good news for parents of 3 year olds everywhere!

Removing artificial colors and preservatives from the diet was dramatically effective at reducing hyperactivity – somewhere between the effectiveness of clonidine and Ritalin, two common ADHD drugs. How much better to support children’s mood and behavior with healthy food, than to just turn to drugs! Some children may still need medicine, but with a healthy diet, we may be able to use lower doses. And it seems to me that this diet may be better for all children, whether or not they have behavior problems.

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My son is almost 2.5 and he has always been a poor sleeper. He goes to sleep (for naps and at night) just fine, but he often wakes in the middle of the night and can’t fall back asleep. It often takes him 1-3 hours before he can fall back to sleep. It is not like he wants to get up and play–he will try to fall back asleep, tossing and turning, but it seems to be very difficult for him. I limit his naps to no more than 2 hours and his bed/nap/awake times are very consistent. He has no caffeine in his diet besides the occasional piece of chocolate. I talked to his pediatrician about this problem and she is stumped. The only advice she could give me is to give him Benadryl when he woke up so he could fall back asleep quicker. I’m not comfortable with this idea! We have tried co-sleeping, moving to a big bed, nursing (when he was younger) rocking, ignoring him etc all with no success. I should also add that this is nothing new! The day he came home from the hospital he was awake from 1 a.m.-4 a.m. And it has never gotten better. I can’t help thinking that he has some kind of sleep disorder, but I don’t know where to turn.

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Dr. Greene’s Answer:

Most young kids will return to sleep well if rocked, or cuddled, or fallen asleep with (of course, whether or not you want to do this is another issue).

Sometimes adjustments in bedtime or napping can make a difference.

But when kids don’t sleep well in the most conducive setting, I like to have them seen at a sleep center. Thankfully sleep is beginning to get the attention it deserves, and sleep centers are springing up in many places.

Occasionally sleep specialists recommend medicines after other options have been explored. I am in favor of this (though I am not a fan of the benadryl class, at least as either a medium or long term solution). Sleep is so valuable for health (his and yours) that in some situations the benefits clearly outweigh the costs.

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As the rest of the automotive world follows the downsizing trend with smaller cars, BMW is heading in a different direction with a report claiming the German car maker is set to reveal a new uber luxury flagship at the Beijing motor show later this month.

Less than a week after BMW confirmed it will add a larger X7 to its range of SUVs, authoritative German motoring magazine Auto Motor und Sport claims the company is set to reveal a 9-Series limousine in Beijing as a rival to Mercedes-Benz' imminent S-Class Maybach and Bentley's Flying Spur.

The report indicates the 9-Series is being developed to appeal to the ultra-rich in emerging markets such as China and Russia and will be borrow styling cues from the exquisite Gran Lusso concept it revealed ahead of last year's Concorso D'Elegance Ville d'Este, the glamourous classic car show held on the shore of Lake Como in Italy.

The production version is expected to be a lavishly appointed four-door sedan, but it also opens up the opportunity for BMW to revive its 8-Series nameplate with a coupe version similar to the Gran Lusso.

The report indicates the 9-Series is likely to borrow technology and components from the next-generation Rolls-Royce Phantom that is expected to be revealed in 2016, and that it will be powered by twin-turbo V8 or V12 engines with a plug-in hybrid variant also on the cards.

BMW Australia's corporate communications manager, Lenore Fletcher, confirmed to Drive the idea of a flagship above the brand's existing 7-Series has been heavily debated within the German car maker in recent years, but could not yet confirm it has progressed any further than the Gran Lusso concept.

"There are certain markets around the world where customer demand for these type of vehicles is growing," Ms Fletcher said.

"I know it has been a hot topic of discussion, but don't have any more information at this point in time."


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I am writing you about your commentary on group learning in schools.

I am 23 and graduated from one of the top 5 teaching universities in the country with a 4.0 GPA. After graduating, I never pursued a teaching position mostly because my husband is a real man and supports me being a stay-at-home-mommy. I have YOU to thank for that. (Hugs)

While school days are years ahead for us with our child, schooling has been in the back of my head. With a background in education, I know I would make a great home-school teacher, but I worry: Aren't kids social learners?  Don't they need to learn in groups? During my 4 years of schooling, group learning was pushed, praised, and even required as we entered the field as student teachers.

Educators dress it up, and give it a fancy name like 'collaborative learning' or 'cooperative learning'. Entire courses are dedicated to teaching educators how to group children and 'teach' them. So I’m not surprised 'group' learning is showing up in classrooms more and more.

It’s no secret we have a broken school system; so group learning is a tool that educators use to keep afloat. There are many reasons educators use group learning as a crutch, but one I saw the most was to have the advanced learners peer-tutor the kiddos who had fallen behind: in other words, using children to teach children. Why? Because there is no time to spend one-on-one with each child and give them what they so desperately need.

It’s not even a great idea in theory, but can you imagine how much work actually gets accomplished? Instead of allowing our advanced learners to excel at work on their level, they are stuck being the secondary, un-paid educators in the classroom. Really, it’s very ironic if you ask me - I had to go to college for 4 years to be able to be a teacher, yet we find it adequate to release that responsibility to 8 year olds. I think I want my money back on my degree.  I wanted to bring attention to the fact colleges are teaching and forcing future educators to teach this way. In fact, I was never truly instructed how to properly conduct whole group instruction and I was one of the top students in my class...in one of the top schools in the nation.

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Samsung Stratosphere is Headed to Verizon, Support Page has Already Been Created

Verizon is preparing a phone called the Samsung Stratosphere that could be one of their big 4G LTE releases while we await the arrival of the DROID Bionic.  There aren’t many details to link to the device at this time, but we do know from our sources that the device will be 4G LTE and that it’s looking like Big Red expects it to make a significant splash.  Could it be the Samsung slider that was pictured a few weeks back?  More than likely, but man are we hoping it’s not.  I think it’s fair to say that almost all of us are praying to some higher authority that this device turns out to be the Galaxy S II.  Unfortunately, I have no details to confirm either way.

We should also remind you that Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha made a pretty bold statement last week about his device being the first dual-core 4G LTE phone on the planet.  If the Stratosphere is indeed the Galaxy S II, then chances are we won’t see it in August.

And to give you further proof that this device is indeed on the way, we’ve spotted the support page for it that has been created well ahead of time.

This is the page you are redirected to on Verizon’s support site when you attempt to visit say verizonwireless.com/stratospheresupport.  The page has clearly been created, but is no longer available or hasn’t been populated yet to the public.  The DROID Bionic has a page like this, as does the DROID3, and LG Revolution (until a few minutes ago anyway).  Verizon creates these for all new devices, so when we were redirected to an official Stratosphere support page, we knew that it wasn’t just a code name.

And to see what a page looks like on Verizon’s site when it doesn’t exist at all and there is no redirect, we have attached another picture for you:

Hopefully that made at least a little bit of sense.  What we know for sure, is that a device called the Stratosphere is on the way and that it will more than likely be Verizon’s next 4G LTE device.  We just have to hope that it’s not a rehashed version of the Epic 4G and will instead be a device to consider.

Oh, and not that this really means anything, but Samsung did launch the Galaxy S II into the “stratosphere” back in June.

  • http://twitter.com/BrianB13 BrianB13

    So I guess verizon keeps quiet about any new phones coming out in hopes you buy the less than worthy phones thay currently have available.  Bring on the state-of-the-art 4g LTE phones big red!!

    I think having more slide keyboard options for those of us who don’t love the virtual keypad would be MOST welcome! My fingers are just too large for those tiny virtual keys to get any real traction and until swype becomes standard and perfected, I would appreciate the option.

  • bee

    I believe it is the Galaxy S2 and here is my reasoning:

    1. Samsung releases a Galaxy S2 into the Stratosphere

    2. Samsung sends out a mini telescope stating to “look to the stars”.

    3. finally, the info in this article and I’m sure this is not the last hint we
    will get……

    Samsung and the carriers are really using these sites well. What a great
    advertising ploy and having us (consumers) basically starving for every little
    bit of info they give us.

    Well played Samsung and Carries, NOW RELEASE THE DAMN PHONE already!!!  :)

    One more thing: I do agree, MOTO screwed themselves on dragging their feet on
    releasing the Bionic……too little to late MOTO. Good luck competing with the
    Galaxy S2 and iPuke 5.


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Stop Biting Your Nails!

"I've tried to stop a million times," says Steve of his nail biting habit. His new bride, Lisa, can't take it anymore, and she turns to Dr. Phil for help.

"It's just a nervous habit," says Dr. Phil. "It often starts for one reason and then continues for another. In other words, it may have started at a time in your life when you really were nervous ... so you got rid of the nervous energy by nibbling on something." But then, even when the source of the anxiety has gone away, the nail biting continues out of habit.

Dr. Phil offers Steve two ideas to think about for breaking his oral fixation:

1) Response Prevention.

There are things you can do so you physically can't bite your nails. At least while you're at home, for example, try wearing gloves. "If you eat through the gloves, you need to call me back," jokes Dr. Phil.

2) You don't break habits. You replace one behavior with a new behavior.

If biting your nails is helping you suppress your nerves, try putting something in its place. For example, take a deep breath or try other relaxation exercises, hum, listen to music, or tap your foot.

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Thoracic Disc Herniation

Thoracic disc herniation occurs when a thoracic disc bulges out from between your vertebrae. Thoracic discs are spongy cushions between the vertebrae in your spine. Thoracic discs are located between the base of your neck and your lower back. The herniated disc may press on your nerves or spinal cord.

You have the right to help plan your care. Learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. Discuss treatment options with your caregivers to decide what care you want to receive. You always have the right to refuse treatment.

  • Shots into your spine may bruise your back, cause an infection, or damage your spinal cord. With surgery, you may bleed more than expected or get an infection. Fluid may build up and damage your lungs during surgery. Severe lung damage may be life-threatening. The covering of your spinal cord may be damaged, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) may leak out. Your spinal cord may be injured, and you may not be able to walk. Even with treatment, you may still feel pain.

  • Without treatment, your symptoms may get worse. Your bulging disc may continue to press on your spinal cord or nerves and cause permanent damage. Your back pain may spread to other areas of your body. Your legs may become numb or paralyzed.

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  • NSAIDs decrease swelling and pain.

  • Prescription pain medicine may be given. Do not wait until the pain is severe before you ask for more medicine.

  • Muscle relaxers help decrease pain and muscle spasms.

  • Steroids help decrease inflammation.

  • Chemonucleolysis is an injection of medicine given to shrink your bulging disc.

  • An epidural injection is medicine that numbs the area near the bulging disc and decreases pain.

  • A nerve block is an injection of medicine close to the nerve that is near the bulging disc. This can help decrease pain and inflammation.

  • Physical therapy may be recommended by your caregiver. A physical therapist may teach you exercises and stretches to make your back muscles stronger and decrease your pain.

  • Surgery may be needed to fix your herniated disc if other treatments have failed. Surgery may be done to remove your herniated disc and make your spine stronger. Surgery may also be done to decrease pressure on your nerves and spinal cord.

An MRI or a CT scan may be used to take pictures of your spine. The pictures can show a bulging disc and if the disc is pressing on your nerves and spinal cord. You may be given contrast dye to help the pictures show up better. Tell the caregiver if you have ever had an allergic reaction to contrast dye. Do not enter the MRI room with anything metal. Metal can cause serious injury. Tell the caregiver if you have any metal in or on your body.

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Pronunciation: fill-GRA-stim
Class: Colony-stimulating factor

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- Injection 300 mcg/mL
- Injection 300 mcg per 0.5 mL
- Injection, prefilled SingleJect syringes 300 mcg per 0.5 mL
- Injection, prefilled SingleJect syringes 480 mcg per 0.8 mL

Stimulates neutrophil production within bone marrow.

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C max is 4 to 49 ng/mL (subcutaneous); T max is 2 to 8 h (subcutaneous).

Vd is about 150 mL/kg.

The half-life is about 3.5 h and Cl is 0.5 to 0.7 mL/min/kg.

Indications and Usage

Cancer patients receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy; cancer patients with acute myeloid leukemia receiving induction or consolidation chemotherapy; cancer patients receiving bone marrow transplant; patients with severe chronic neutropenia; peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) collection and therapy in cancer patients.

Unlabeled Uses

Treatment of graft failure after bone marrow transplantation; neutropenia associated with myelodysplastic syndrome; hairy cell leukemia; aplastic anemia; AIDS; zidovudine- and other drug-induced neutropenia.

Hypersensitivity to Escherichia coli –derived proteins, filgrastim, or any component of the product.

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Bone Marrow Transplant

IV/Subcutaneous 10 mcg/kg/day as an IV infusion of 4 or 24 h or as a continuous 24-h subcutaneous infusion. Administer first dose at least 24 h after cytotoxic chemotherapy and at least 24 h after bone marrow infusion.

Dose adjustments

When absolute neutrophil count (ANC) is more than 1,000/mm 3 for 3 consecutive days, reduce dosage to 5 mcg/kg/day. Then if ANC remains more than 1,000/mm 3 for 3 more consecutive days, discontinue therapy. Then if ANC decreases to less than 1,000/mm 3 resume 5 mcg/kg/day; if ANC decreases to less than 1,000/mm 3 at any time during 5 mcg/kg/day administration, increase dosage to 10 mcg/kg/day and follow the above dosage adjustment steps.

Myelosuppressive Chemotherapy

IV/Subcutaneous Administer no earlier than 24 h after cytotoxic chemotherapy. 5 mcg/kg/day as single daily injection by subcutaneous bolus, by short (15 to 30 min) IV infusion, or by continuous subcutaneous or IV infusion daily for up to 2 wk until ANC reaches 10,000/mm 3 ; may increase in increments of 5 mcg/kg for each chemotherapy cycle.

Therapy should be continued following chemotherapy until the postnadir ANC reaches 10,000/mm 3 . Discontinue if the ANC surpasses 10,000/mm 3 .

Severe Chronic Neutropenia
Congenital neutropenia Starting dose

6 mcg/kg subcutaneously twice daily.

Idiopathic or Cyclic Neutropenia Starting dose

5 mcg/kg as a single subcutaneous injection once daily.

Dose adjustments

Chronic daily administration is required to maintain clinical benefit. Do not use ANC as the sole indication of efficacy. Individually adjust the dose based on the patient's clinical course and ANC.

PBPC Collection/Therapy

Subcutaneous 10 mcg/kg/day as bolus subcutaneous injection or continuous infusion; start 4 days before first leukapheresis and continue until last leukapheresis.

General Advice

  • Do not give filgrastim 24 h before or 24 h after cytotoxic chemotherapy.
  • For subcutaneous or IV administration only. Not for intradermal, IM, or intra-arterial administration.
  • May dilute in dextrose 5% injection to concentration between 5 and 15 mcg/mL; protect from absorption to plastic materials by adding albumin (human) to final concentration of 2 mg/mL. Dilution to final concentration of less than 5 mcg/mL is not recommended. Do not dilute filgrastim with saline.
  • Use only 1 dose per vial or prefilled syringe. Do not reenter vials. Discard unused portions; do not save unused portions for later use.
  • Do not administer if particulate matter, cloudiness, or discoloration noted.
  • Prefilled Syringe
  • After administration, activate the UltraSafe needle guard by placing hands behind the needle, grasp the guard with 1 hand and slide the guard forward until needle is completely covered and the guard clicks into place.

Store vials and prefilled syringes in refrigerator (36° to 46°F). Avoid shaking. May allow injection to reach room temperature for a max of 24 h; discard any vial or syringe left at room temperature for more than 24 h.

Drug Interactions

Drugs that may potentiate the release of neutrophils, such as lithium, should be used with caution. Use with caution in conjunction with other drugs known to lower the platelet count.

Precipitate may form if diluted with saline.

Laboratory Test Interactions

None well documented.

Adverse Reactions

Chest pain (5%); hypertension, hypotension (4%); cardiac events (eg, MI, arrhythmias) (3%).

Fatigue (11%); headache (7%); generalized weakness (4%).

Alopecia (18%); petechiae (17%); rash (12%); cutaneous vasculitis; exacerbation of preexisting skin disorders (eg, psoriasis).

Epistaxis (15%); sore throat (4%).

Nausea/vomiting (57%); diarrhea (14%); mucositis (12%); anorexia (9%); stomatitis, constipation (5%); peritonitis (2%).

Hematuria/proteinuria; renal insufficiency.

Increased neutrophil count (100%); decreased platelet counts (97%); mild to moderate anemia (65%); splenomegaly (30%); increased WBC (12%); severe hemorrhage (7%); thrombocytopenia (4%); acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome (postmarketing [2% annually]); capillary leak syndrome.

Lab Tests

Reversible elevations is alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, uric acid (27% to 58%).

Musculoskeletal symptoms (44%); medullary bone pain, mild to moderate bone pain (33%); skeletal pain (22%); arthralgia; osteoporosis.

Dyspnea (9%); cough (6%).

Neutropenic fever (13%); fever (12%); transfusion reactions (10%); pain (2%); injection-site reaction.

Bone marrow transplant

Obtain CBC and platelet count at least 3 times/wk following marrow transplantation.

Myelosuppressive chemotherapy

Obtain CBC, WBC, and platelet count prior to chemotherapy and 2 times/wk during filgrastim therapy.

Severe chronic neutropenia

Obtain CBC with differential and platelet count 2 times/wk during first 4 wk of filgrastim therapy, and during the 2 wk following any dose adjustment; once stable, obtain once monthly for first year then at least quarterly thereafter. Perform bone marrow and cytogenetic evaluations annually in patients with congenital neutropenia.

PBPC collection/therapy

Obtain neutrophil count after 4 days of filgrastim. Consider dose modification if WBC count greater than 100,000/mm 3 .

Category C .

Safety and efficacy in neonates and patients with autoimmune neutropenia of infancy not established.

Following myelosuppressive chemotherapy, no overall differences in safety and efficacy have been observed between subjects 65 yr of age and older compared with younger subjects. For other approved indications, data are insufficient to make a comparison.

Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Has been reported in neutropenic patients with sepsis.

Allergic reactions

Allergic-type reactions on initial or subsequent treatment have been reported rarely; generally, these have been characterized by systemic symptoms involving at least 2 body systems, most often skin (eg, rash), respiratory, and cardiovascular.

Bone marrow transplant

Do not administer filgrastim until at least 24 h after cytotoxic chemotherapy and at least 24 h after bone marrow infusion.

Cardiac events

MI and arrhythmias have been reported. Use with caution in patients with preexisting cardiac conditions.

Chemotherapy and radiation therapy

Do not use filgrastim in the period 24 h before through 24 h after administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy.

May occur.

WBC counts of 100,000/mm 3 have been observed in about 2% of patients treated with filgrastim 5 mcg/kg/day. There are no reports of adverse events associated with this degree of leukocytosis; however, regular CBC monitoring is recommended.

Premature discontinuation

A transient increase in neutrophil counts is typically seen 1 to 2 days after the start of therapy. For a sustained therapeutic response, therapy should be continued after chemotherapy until the postnadir ANC reaches 10,000/mm 3 . Therefore, premature discontinuation of therapy, prior to the time of recovery from the expected neutrophil nadir, generally is not recommended.

Severe chronic neutropenia

Confirm diagnosis before initiating therapy.

Sickle cell disease

Use with caution; may cause sickle cell crisis.

Splenic rupture

Has been reported rarely. Evaluate patients reporting left upper abdominal and/or shoulder tip pain for enlarged spleen or splenic rupture.

Tumor growth

Filgrastim is a growth factor; the possibility that filgrastim can act as a growth factor for any tumor type cannot be excluded.

Patient Information

  • Advise patient or caregiver to read the patient information leaflet before starting therapy and with each refill.
  • Ensure patient or caregiver who is administering filgrastim understands how to store, prepare, and administer the dose, and dispose of used equipment and supplies. The first injection should be performed under the supervision of a qualified health care provider.
  • Advise patient or caregiver to inject filgrastim at the same time each day.
  • Caution patient or caregiver not to shake the vial or prefilled syringe of filgrastim because shaking may damage the filgrastim.
  • Caution patient or caregiver not to use any filgrastim that is foamy, clouding, discolored, or contains particulate matter.
  • Instruct patient to take exactly as prescribed and not to change or stop taking the dose unless advised by health care provider. Caution patient that taking too little filgrastim may not protect against infections, and taking too much may cause too many WBCs to be produced.
  • Remind patient to rotate injection sites and never to inject into tissue that is tender, red, bruised, or hard, or has scars or stretch marks.
  • Advise patient or caregiver that aching in the bones and muscles is the most common side effect, but can usually be relieved by taking non-aspirin pain reliever (eg, acetaminophen). Advise patient or caregiver to notify health care provider if bone or muscle aches are severe or are not relieved by acetaminophen.
  • Instruct patient or caregiver to immediately notify health care provider if any of the following occur: signs or symptoms of infection (eg, fever, chills, rash, sore throat, diarrhea, or redness, swelling, or pain around a cut or open sore), pain in left upper stomach area or left shoulder tip area, rash, unexplained shortness of breath, wheezing, fast pulse, swelling around mouth or eyes.
  • Advise patient or caregiver to notify health care provider if any of the following occur: persistent or recurrent nausea with or without vomiting, persistent or severe injection-site reactions (eg, redness, swelling, bruising, itching), any unexplained symptoms or feelings.
  • Advise patient with sickle cell disease to drink plenty of fluids while using filgrastim and to report any signs of sickle cell crisis to health care provider.

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Hannaford to donate bottle, can deposits to charity

Customers using machines at Greenback Redemption Centers can donate deposits to fund diabetes research

ALBANY, N.Y. — Customers who recycle bottles and cans with deposit values at Greenback Redemption Centers in Hannaford supermarkets in New York state will have the option of donating the money to local charities.

Hannaford announced a partnership with Tomra, the company that developed the "reverse vending machines" for collecting beverage containers at the Greenback centers, to arrange the donations. The first beneficiary will be the Northeastern New York Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which will be the featured community organization through May 31. Donated proceeds from 22 Hannaford stores will go toward Type 1 diabetes research.

"As a supermarket retailer, we are in an ideal position to raise awareness and support for worthy causes in the areas we serve," Hannaford Supermarkets community relations specialist Molly Tarleton said. "Hannaford is happy to partner with Tomra to provide our shoppers with an easy and convenient way to support important organizations in our neighborhoods."

Under the program, each Tomra reverse vending machine will feature a button that the customer can press after recycling deposit-valued bottles and cans to convert the deposit into a donation.

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L'Oréal USA launches connected TV app

OnBeauty app will feature majority of L'Orèal USA's brands

NEW YORK — L'Oréal USA has introduced a new app for owners of a device that allows them to use tablet-like apps on television through an Internet connection.

The cosmetics maker announced the launch of OnBeauty, which it created under a partnership with Roku and Brightline. Roku created the app for users of connected TV, or CTV, and L'Oréal said OnBeauty would be the go-to beauty hub for CTV users. The app will feature a majority of L'Oréal USA's brands.

"We are one of the first few brands in the U.S. — and certainly one of the first beauty brands — to build unique content and an exceptional experience for the CTV audience on this new platform," L'Oréal global CMO leader Marc Speichert said. "2014 will be another big year for us as we continue to focus on new and emerging platforms that are relevant to our audience."

According to eMarketer, 43% of U.S. households have CTV.

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Stick Me Designs adds style to glucose meter bags

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Stick Me Designs, an emerging accessory designer of diabetes glucose carrying cases for women, teens and children, announced the launch of their glucose meter bag collection Friday.

"While the medical supply industry is busy working on adding color, convenience and function to their meters, they've forgotten the most important aspect of their portability—the carrying case,” stated Rickina Velte, founder of Stick Me Designs. “We've taken on the task of infusing design, style and function that adds personality to an everyday necessity for people with diabetes.”

The new diabetes bags offer choices in color, fabrics, design and functionality.

The first collection features four contemporary designs created for the One Touch Ultra glucose meter and other more traditional larger-style testing meters. The bags have elastic placeholders for lancet devices, testing strips and glucose tabs or candy. They also feature interior open and zippered pockets for such everyday essentials as credit cards, identification, money, sanitizing wipes and an outside zipper pocket for other essentials.

Stick Me Designs' introductory collection also features hand-selected faux suedes, designer upholsteries and cotton fabrics in retro and contemporary styles and colors.

Suggested retail prices will range from $32.99 to $45.99, the company reported.

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Postby allnighter » Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:48 pm

Now that the weather is to were I can go and school has given me time the season is almost out(this sunday). I know there are birds in the area that I am hunting, but it is only 40 acres. I think all the birds have vanished except one bird. I have scouted the area and the only bird around is one hen whats up with that? Is she breed and away from the group or what.What do I do hope that a stray tom comes though or that the big group that the owner has seen come back? :help: Or just give up the ghost.
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Postby A-Bomb » Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:54 am

I definitely wouldnt give up cause you cant kill em sitting on the couch. But, by the sounds of it theyre only using the woods periodically if the only bird your seeing consistantly is a single hen. Your probably spot on, she's found a secluded area and is now nesting. If your confident there are no birds utilizing the woods, then i would see about granting access to surrounding properties that are holding turkeys. And if that effort fails, i would still hunt the woods you can access, cause you just never know when a lonely tom might come gobbling.
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It is a good security practice to regularly change your password on a Windows 7 home network. On the flip side removing your password isn’t such a good security practice, but you may find that it is necessary from time to time! Use the steps to change or remove the password to your Windows 7 home network.

Open the Windows Control Panel, and then click User Accounts and Family Safety.

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With the continual flux of technologies and the speed of development, the threat of substitute products taking the place of yours is greater than ever before. Substitute products can be an area of opportunity or an area of threat, depending on when you catch wind of the change. If you’re on top of it, you can produce the new product. If you’re behind the change curve, you may likely see a decline in demand. The probability that customers will move to a new product or service is based on three areas:

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The popularity of satellite radio has exploded over the past several years, with the two main companies — XM Radio and Sirius — grabbing market share as fast as possible. With more and more consumers tuning in to satellites instead of radio tuners, traditional radio stations are finding their listener base declining rapidly. Who knows the ultimate fate of AM and FM, but media companies are scrambling to reposition themselves because a substitute product is whisking its customers away.


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A former Queensbury Upper school student was among 130 NSPCC staff and supporters, to leave a message on a Copper Beech tree, to celebrate the charity’s 130th anniversary.

The NSPCC exhibited a garden, with the tree in the centre, at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.

Actor and long-term supporter of the charity, John Hurt was among those who left messages,

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She works as a Junior Copywriter at the South Bedfordshire branch.

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The garden takes visitors on a journey through the past 130 years, it was designed by RHS Chelsea Gold medal winners, Adam Woolcott and Jonathan Smith of Woolcott & Smith Garden Design.

Mr Smith, said: “Exhibiting at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is a wonderful way of commemorating the NSPCC’s 130th anniversary, and we’re delighted to be part of it.”

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Why there’s no Maslowmobile

Mark Alger details his Hierarchy of Vehicular Needs:

I prize (in this order), comfort, wide field of vision, visibility, crash-survivability, winter traction, and cargo capacity over fuel economy.

Which got me thinking: what criteria drew me to my present set of wheels? Expediency was certainly a factor, since my previous set of wheels had been rendered inoperable and, in the judgment of some auto-insurance type, unfixable, but there were thousands of cars for sale that June day in Oklahoma City, and Carmax would happily have trucked one up from elsewhere had I asked, so there had to be something drawing me to this particular car.

The first order of business was size, and there were two sets of dimensions to consider:

  • Many people seeing me seated assume I’m six-five or six-six, until I stand up and reveal myself to be more of a point guard than a power forward: six feet even, with a 28-inch inseam. So I could give a flip about legroom; I just want to make sure I don’t scrape my scalp against the headliner.
  • The garage at Surlywood was built in 1951 — three years after the rest of the house — and was not ideally suited to the longer, lower, wider stuff that Detroit ground out later in the decade. The previous owner drove a Nissan Maxima, so I would consider no vehicles that substantially exceeded its size.

Beyond that, I was looking for some measure of reliability, since I was buying used, and I didn’t like the machine-gun slits that passed for windows in some recent models. I ignored utterly the crash-test results — having just had a crash, I was in no mood to contemplate the likelihood of another — and I paid only perfunctory attention to fuel economy, inasmuch as all the cars under consideration were what the EPA terms “mid-size,” and that commonality of size suggested to me that gas consumption was likely to be about the same with any of them.

What sealed the deal, though, was a piece of cheap metal: the badge. As I explained at the time:

As a practicing plebe, I’ve always felt that if you want a Camry, you should buy a Camry, and forgo the big L badge. But there’s another side to this story: suppose, just suppose, that the guy who buys the Lexus, knowing he paid the big bucks, actually does a better job of taking care of his pricey little beastie?

And the other side of that coin: the Lexus dealership, by repute anyway, is going to be more anxious to curry the favor (possibly even the favour) of its customers than is your average Toyota store.

Which explains why I have an Infiniti I30, which, were it not for the badge and some glitz and 100 lb of sound insulation and a whole lot of manufacturer obsequiousness, would have been, yes, a Nissan Maxima. It’s something of a tradition around this house.

  1. fillyjonk »

    25 November 2008 · 9:33 am

    My criteria would include, I guess:

    Safety/survivability of crashes
    Ability to actually SEE when I am driving the thing (smallest “blind spots” possible)
    Unlikeliness of breaking down (as much as I love the look of some of the classic British sports cars, I would never actually own one)
    Comfort in driving long distances
    Fuel efficiency
    Ability to carry stuff, whether it’s field equipment or those cute chairs I couldn’t pass up at the antique shop.
    General cuteness would be nice, but it’s way down the list.

    I also note with some surprise that at 5’6″ (or thereabouts; I claim anywhere from 5’6″ to 5’8″), my inseam is an inch longer than yours.

  2. Sarah »

    25 November 2008 · 8:55 pm

    I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to spot a Maslow name-check outside of a social science textbook.

    Well played.

  3. Mark Alger »

    26 November 2008 · 9:14 am

    Another thing that bugs me about the watermelon arguments is the “nobody NEEDS to …[fillintheblank]” In my case that would be “Commute in an SUV.”

    Which is true. But more to the point, I can’t AFFORD to own several specialized vehicles for all my transport tasks, so I engage in a little auto-minimax.

    Or, maybe, maximin, depending on whether you think this is a zero-sum game.

  4. CGHill »

    26 November 2008 · 10:41 am

    Besides, if the Greener Than Thou folks really took their own advice, the original Honda Insight, which you had to abuse seriously to yield less than 50 mpg, would have been the top-selling car in the nation for several years instead of a vague memory.

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Bad news everyone: there is a really large chunk of space rock on a collision course with the Earth. Worse news: if it hits the planet all life will be wiped out. But there’s some good news too: Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) and his NASA buddies have a plan. Now stick with us, because the plan sounds a little silly on paper, but we’re pretty sure it’s going to work. We’re going to send the world’s best hard-bodied, good ole’ boy oil drillers (Steve Buscemi, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Michael Clark Duncan), lead by super bit-chomper Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), to the land on the asteroid in a spaceship, and drill a big hold in it. Then we’re gonna stick an A-Bomb in that hole, and blow the damn thing right in half. Oh, more bad news though: one of the younger drillers, A.J (Ben Affleck), is looking to marry Harry’s daughters, and Harry is so angry about it he might not be able to drill holes right.

Just because I hate Armageddon doesn’t mean I can’t grudgingly respect its asinine excesses. It’s actually kind of quaint to look back on an era when film audiences thought director Michael Bay couldn’t possibly make a sillier movie, and it’s pretty hard to get worked up about the dumbass script, which looking back at some of the original reviews, seemed to be the biggest point of contention with critics. The story so clearly disavows realism from the word ‘go’ I can’t possibly muster that kind of anger anymore (the convenient gravity has become a constant source of giggles). In fact, there’s something to be said for the story structure kind of redefining the modern ensemble disaster movie (even if all the best parts are blatantly stolen from The Right Stuff), and speaking frankly, rednecks need their sci-fi fantasies too. We nerds tend to hog all the good space adventures. Still there’s no defending the film’s technical idiocy, nor should any multi-million dollar asteroid movie ever be this mind-numbingly boring.

The most definitively and consistently terrible element is the editing, which is so ridiculously whiplash it makes most thirty second commercial spots appear restrained in comparison. And it’s not only the matter of the speed of the cutting, the nail-on-a-chalkboard rhythm, which almost never works with the action, music, or Bay’s pointless Dutch angles and panning shots, is twice as egregious. The audience is given almost no time to appreciate the money shots, and the inter-cut, computer generated mass destruction more or less never satisfactorily blends with the ‘dramatic’ dialogue zooms. The script is stupid, yes, but it’s really this patented ‘pan, cut, repeat’ imagery that designates the film as a joke a decade on. Armageddon acts as its own parody, which is a nearly novel achievement in itself. Bay found some steady ground with small parts of Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys II, and the first Transformers, but Armageddon is an experimental mess. There’s also the matter of overall pacing—there’s no reason a movie with this little plot, cut this quickly should be more than two hours long, or feel even longer.

The ensemble cast is too big for the story, or for Bay’s editorial skills, but is the bright spot on this garish anti-masterpiece. The supporting cast is uniformly rather golden, though I’m not sure it’s possible to hate even an off performance from William Fichtner, Steve Buscemi, Jason Isaacs or Keith David. Even better are the ‘blink and you miss ‘em’ cameos, specifically Udo Kier as the NASA psychiatrist. The lead characters are so lightly defined by clichés (the romantic scenes are gruelling), lacking in chemistry, and flatly realized by the actors (Willis should know better, but how Ben Affleck ever grew into a proper actor after this performance is a miracle greater than anything played out in the world-saving story), that it’s a labour to be too excited by the back-up players, but one has a tendency to grasp at sips of water when tossed in such an intellectual desert.

This is a nearly perfect transfer in many respects, but there is no mistaking that Armageddon was shot on film. There is plenty of grain permeating from every frame, and the degree of grain is rarely consistent, though considering the film’s age we’re not talking anything unexpected. Some of the location establishing shots are a little dirty (perhaps they’re stock footage), but artefacts are at a premium, including compression issues, print damage, and edge-enhancement. Details are super-sharp, and consistent considering Bay’s love of pin-point and shallow focus. The contrast is, of course, super high, both in terms of black and white levels, and in terms of saturated colour. The compositions make no sense in terms of realism (if NASA was this dark in real life nothing would ever get done, and half the scientists would die of eye-strain), but they certainly look nice in 1080p, especially those rich, hard blacks. The colours are most impressive in scenes that take place in the green-tinted NASA ‘war room’, and especially during the black and blue light scenes aboard the asteroid. Bay’s compositions may be ugly, but they’re bright, pure, and stylized enough to impress on this transfer.

Lossless DTS-HD Master Audio is clearly the ideal way to watch such a loud and abrasive film, and fans should be very happy with the sonic attack presented on this Blu-ray release. The film shows its age a little bit in terms of sound design and editing (sometimes its muddied), but I have no real complaints concerning this presentation. Standout spots include the forty-minute point ‘Sweet Emotion’ montage, which mixes Aerosmith’s punchy, pop song with the ‘important’ dialogue, small, textural audio, and sweeping jet fighters, and any scene involving the asteroid and its little meteor buddies. The opening crushing of New York is especially zippy, as is the brief smashing of Shanghai (or whatever South Pacific city that is that finds itself so unceremoniously killed). The scenes aboard the asteroid are probably the best in terms of surround design, including skippy little rocks, jet engines, and the asteroids eerie, bassy ‘voice’. Trevor Rabin’s overwrought score (which I may hate more than anything else in the film), is mostly a right/left affair, but also sounds plenty bassy and aggressive.

Fans are going to be bummed with the extras on this Blu-ray release. Despite a Criterion Collection two-disc set to cull from the disc’s producers have only supplied Aerosmith’s ‘I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing’ music video, a teaser, a trailer, and a few Disney release sneak peeks.

Armageddon is still the yard stick for which stupid modern disaster films are measured, but a stupid yard stick is still an achievement, and I admit defeat in the face of the awe of stupidity. I hope I never have to see it again, and I don’t wish the films upon the unsuspecting, but fans should be happy with the sharp, colourful 1080p HD transfer, and the massively noisy DTS-HD Master Audio sound. I believe that lovers and haters can all agree that the lack of extras here is a big disappointment considering the stuff available on the Criterion two-disc DVD release (which is out of print). I don’t think anyone can convince me Disney can’t afford to buy the extras from Criterion, if that’s even the problem.

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Three childhood friends map out a detailed heist of a local gangster named Biggs’ (Bruce Willis) wares. The otherwise clean getaway turns deadly when hothead Vincent (Ryan Phillippe) shots a handler in the head. Later, at the pay off, Vincent betrays the others by shooting them, and taking off with the goods (I wanna say they were diamonds?). But one of the trio, Sonny (Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson), survives the bullet, and seeks revenge on Vincent. Soon enough Biggs’ men (including Randy Couture) come looking for the goods (I’m pretty sure they’re diamonds), and give Sonny an offer he can’t refuse – help them, or die. Fortunately this gels with Sonny’s plans to avenge his fallen friend, and a new plan is hatched.

Set Up
I’ve said it before, but I think this as good a time as any to reinstate my rules of straight to video/limited theatrical release in another country movies. Assuming the viewer has no anecdotal or enough critical recommendation, the following rules should be followed with only occasional expectation. Rule #1: If the film in question covers controversial subject matter, was refused an MPAA rating below NC-17, or is otherwise what would normally be considered an arthouse property the assumed quality cannot be immediately ascertained, and further investigation is required. Rule #2: If the film in question is a majority foreign financed production, especially one in a foreign language, the assumed quality cannot be immediately ascertained, and further investigation is required. Rule #3: If the film in question is a horror film than assumed quality almost always depends on the unique qualities of the film’s pitch, and further investigation may be required. Rule #4: If the film in question stars a recognizable, A-List, or high B-List actor it may be a passion project, quality cannot be immediately ascertained, and further investigation may be required. Rule #5: If the film in question stars more than one recognizable, A-List, or high B-List actor it is almost certainly a lack of sellable quality that kept the studio from releasing the film in theaters, and it should be avoided at all costs. Set Up stars two high B-List/low A-List actors in Ryan Phillippe and Bruce Willis, and was never released in theaters at all as far as I can ascertain.

Stunt coordinator-turned-director Mike Gunther has only made one other film, the MMA themed Beatdown, which I didn’t watched based on my terrible experiences with other movies staring MMA fighters. He’s not a bad action director. His camera moves with a purpose, his angles make sense, and he doesn’t over-cut or arbitrarily shake the camera in an effort to create a sense of confusion. The dumbest thing Gunther does, outside of co-writing such a lousy script with Mike Behrman, is cut himself out of even the slightest hint of an original voice by including outdated, Guy Ritchie style still of some of the characters, with a title. You saw the same thing in the Snatch trailers. This is especially dumb because up until these sudden stills Gunther’s tone is pretty mellow, not frantic enough for the stills to have any graphic impact. Outside of these, and his overuse of arbitrary crash zooms, Gunther tends to show promise as a director, and I certainly won’t be avoiding his future work.

Set Up
…Assuming he’s not also working as writer. Set Up (or Setup, I’ve seen both titles used) is the kind of post-Tarantino dribble I might have expected a decade and a half ago, and is rife with clichés, a listless and thin storyline, and characters that are about as well rounded as a trapezoid. The dialogue consists mostly of racial slurs and curses that are spouted so awkwardly one assumes the actors are offended by their lines. And almost every one of these interactions are so stilted one would assume that the actors were digitally composited into the scene together. The film is quite short, yet scene after scene drags on full of unnecessary exposition and interactions (it was apparently based on a short, which likely holds the lack of narrative elements much better). Gunther and Behrman clearly love the genre, but their love doesn’t extend to original ideas, or a respect for the intricacies telling a story. Now I’m going to add an addendum to my rules right now. Rule #5: If the film in question stars Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson it should be avoided at all costs. The guy is a supernova of anti-talent. The last thing anyone should do is give him narration. Yet amazingly enough he’s possibly the strongest actor in the whole film. Phillippe confuses ‘dark and dramatic’ with aloof, and Willis (who isn’t in the film all that much) looks genuinely embarrassed while reading soliloquies about the extinction of newspapers (it’s topical, you see).

Set Up

Set Up apes the all too common high contrast, desaturated palette look that more or less defines the cop action drama these days. It’s a cheap grab at grit and reality, but it works quite well for this 1080p, 2.40:1 transfer. The amazing 4K HD Red One camera system ensures that the image is clean and sharp, leading me to assume any minor problem is the fault of compression. The ultra simple palette extends to the costumes and vehicles as well. Occasionally warm amber scenes also come into play, usually in the guise of nighttime interiors (Gunther is signifying safety or something), and these feature nice, smooth transitions without losing the belovedly deep blacks. The nearly monochromatic daylight scenes are occasionally pocked with bright red additions, which pop sharply without haloes or bleeding. The problem with the high contrast look is that it takes skin tones, eyes and teeth to an uncomfortable extreme. There is a scene in the back of a black car where Willis looks like a floating head, and Jackson looks like a floating set of teeth. The lack of middle tones creates a bit of a flat look as well. Still, when there is enough light to make out textures and fine details things are given a royal and intricate treatment, relatively free of aliasing effects or blocking. The climax features some minor ghosting elements during Gunther’s overused crash zooms. There are a handful of establishing shots that don’t match the bulk of the film, leading me to believe they were taken from a stock source. These feature a similar colour timing, but the transfers only definitively blocky transitions, and quite a bit of edge-enhancement too.

This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack is very well mixed, and incorporates all the channels with relative efficiency. The stereo and surround channels are put to work in quiet scenes with ambience like music, wind, moving vehicles, and incidental dialogue, all of which appear to come from the correct location. The more actiony scenes are highlighted with directional movement, like speeding cars, blasting gunshots, and abstract sounds that are meant to create the illusion of movement. The Newton Brothers’ synth for strings, super mellow score floats nicely throughout the channels, creating an immersive musical environment, and make good use of the LFE with nice, throbbing bass.

Set Up

The extras begin with a mind-numbingly boring commentary track featuring director/co-writer Mike Gunther, and stunt coordinator Kyle Woods. This track briefly comes to life any time Woods has something to say about a scene (so any stunt heavy scene), but the bulk of this mostly silent track is devoted to brief praise of the on-screen actors, and, sigh, laughing at the jokes. The jokes one of the participants wrote. Woods really isn’t at fault, as he speaks about as much as one would expect the stunt coordinator to talk, but in better cases one would expect Gunther to cover the other bases. The only I learned, besides the fact that the actors are ‘fantastic’ (each and every one of them), is that the script was not finished by the time filming commenced, which answers so many questions. Oh, I also know what locations were used (‘This was actually shot in the Greyhound station, and this is the same house that we saw in that other shot at the beginning of the film’), which is, as I’m sure you assume, endlessly fascinating. No one comes across as mean, or conceited, or even stupid, but no one has anything interesting to say either.

‘Making Set Up’ (9:20, HD) includes interviews with director Gunther, and actors Jackson, and Randy Couture, along with a lot of raw, on-set action, and scenes from the film. Gunther’s summation of the film sadly features more character development than the film. ‘Inside the Gun Locker: The Weapons of Set Up’ (3:40, SD) features the prop master discussing the gun props, which he jokes are mostly used as blunt beating weapons instead of shooting weapons. Extras are completed with further interview footage with Gunther (12:30, HD), Jackson (8:30, HD) and Couture (3:40, HD), a trailer, and trailers for other Lionsgate releases.

Set Up

Set Up is actually better than I’d thought it’d be based on the trailer, stars, and fact that it didn’t get a theatrical release anywhere (so far as I can tell), and it’s still pretty darn bad. Only 50 Cent’s biggest fans need apply, and I’m guessing most of them know to stay away from his film output at this point. The movie was shot using Red One cameras, and is super high contrast, so it looks very good in 1080p, and the DTS-HD soundtrack is plenty effective, but extras are bleak, including a brutal endurance test of a commentary track.

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Paramount // 2006 // 142 Minutes // Rated R
Reviewed by Judge Brett Cullum // February 20th, 2007

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Judge Brett Cullum was confused by the lack of talking elephants in this Oscar contender, until he realized he was thinking of "Babar"...

The Charge

If you want to be understood…listen.

Opening Statement

Babel completes the trilogy of films from director Alejandro González Iñárritu, preceded by Amores perros and 21 Grams. Movie industry types are calling it this year's Crash (the Oscar winning diatribe on racism, not the kinked-out Cronenberg car wreck film). Babel is a mournful journey across cultures, but inside is hope for understanding. It presents a spiritual challenge that the Tower of Babel days are over, and we all have far more in common than we ever thought despite the barrier of language. I wish the hype machine for Oscar 2007 hadn't grabbed a hold of Babel. It's a worthy film for "Best Picture" of 2006, but it's a small personal project that happens to be set on a global scale. It's an exercise in Biblical intimacy, and an intriguing project from a skilled filmmaker. In the end it is far more fascinating on a human level rather than on a worldwide scale. The scenes that work the best are the simple exchanges, even though many will impart the proceedings with political messages.

Facts of the Case

Babel weaves together four stories scattered around the globe, all linked by an accident in Morocco along with the confusion it causes. A goat herder and his sons in Morocco's mountains, a pair of tourists on a winding road, a Mexican nanny with her blonde charges, and a deaf-mute Japanese teenager all are swept into what the media turns into an international incident labeled as an act of terrorism. In a world where we've come to expect political violence, it's surprising to find those who want a simple human touch to make pain subside.

The Evidence

Brad Pitt (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) gave up a starring role in The Departed (a film he helped produce) to head up this international cast. He is a fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu, as was Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), who plays Pitt's wife. Gael Garcia Bernal and Adriana Barraza both appeared in the Mexican filmmaker's Amores perros project, so it is logical they should have roles in this story, which deal with immigration as a Mexican nanny takes a pair of American kids to her son's wedding across the border. Rinko Kikuchi (Arch Angels) auditioned repeatedly over a year to play the deaf-mute Tokyo girl desperate for affection, while newcomer Boubker Ait El Caid got to play Yusef (the Moroccan goat herder's son) simply because the director saw him playing soccer one day. It's an impressive cast no matter how they were assembled, and there is not a weak link in the entire chain of characters, who all must deal with some horrifying melodramatic events. Pitt is aged and uglied considerably for his role; Blanchett writhes in pain for most of the running time; but in the end two other actors steal their thunder. Barraza as the nanny and Kikuchi as the lost Tokyo girl give the two most heartbreaking performances. They, along with the two boys in Morocco, become the heart of Babel, and in turn eclipse the bigger names with honest pain.

Babel has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in 2007—including Best Picture, Director, Editing, Achievement in Music, Supporting Actress for Barraza and Kikuchi, as well as Original Screenplay. Alejandro González Iñárritu took home a directing award at Cannes, and the cast has won numerous ensemble acting awards at various ceremonies. Babel took home a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama at the 2007 Golden Globes (even though Scorsese won the directing prize with The Departed). This review was written shortly before the Oscars, but it is easy to imagine Babel taking home more than one golden man at the Academy Awards for very obvious reasons.

Babel is a well made, thoughtful, politically correct drama, which makes it easy to embrace for the Academy or any other critical awards organization. Alejandro González Iñárritu excels at making "tapestry" movies that deal with pain, as he proved twice before, and it is predictable he took the grand melodrama of Amores perros and married it with the mournful tone of 21 Grams for his third outing. Babel is a natural progression for both the man who made it and the film community. It is a small spiritual independent movie, filled with big name studio actors like Pitt, and a nice global message that can play in any theatre in the world. It is a beautiful piece of art, yet it is one we saw coming miles away. Does that make it less powerful? Absolutely not. The film is a masterpiece of acting, editing, music, and storytelling. Everything blends together very well, and there is a sense of a master craftsmen working on the symphony from every angle. Though Babel never seems to match the delicious puzzle of Amores perros or the sheer pain of 21 Grams, it achieves exactly what it sets out to do with virtuoso ease.

The Rebuttal Witnesses

The only problem with Babel is that it's one of those films Hollywood likes to embrace because it provides a multicultural plea for understanding. It comes about the sentiment honestly, but we've been here before. The impact is lessened by all the attention heaped on the importance of a quiet story that can be taken sensationally. Like the accident central to the main plot, Babel is given far more universal importance by the media and critics who see it as an event. The truth is it is simple human elegance that makes the film come alive, and not the grand world peace epic many have made it out to be. Alejandro González Iñárritu's work remains strong and intimate, but it is odd this is the chapter of the trilogy that has garnered the most attention so far. The common thread of his three films has been the great character work he seems to pull out of his cast, coupled with the beautiful attention to detail he provides in the cinematography and editing. He handles small humans thrust into multiple overlapping big situations with ease.

Like many Academy Award contenders, Babel seems to have been rushed out into the DVD market with a bare bones edition. Though the transfer is rock solid and the theatrical surround sound design remains intact, there's not a single extra save for a spoiler-ridden theatrical trailer. Could a double dip be far behind? Especially if this one takes home any major awards, expect a quickly thrown together Collector's Edition in no time. Serious film buffs who hate double dips may want to give this one a rental until after the Academy Awards roll around. Chances are, even if gets snubbed at the awards show, there's got to be more out there to support this film. As it is, this release of Babel provides you only with a pretty transfer of a good movie with nothing else. And also for some reason we get the annoying return of the "You wouldn't steal a car!" anti-piracy campaign on the release, so keep the volume low when you start this one up.

Closing Statement

Believe the hype, because Babel is easily one of the best films of 2006. The only thing you have to keep in check are your expectations: this a quiet well-told melodrama, and not the second coming of Crash, i.e. a multicultural milestone. Alejandro González Iñárritu and the cast are trying to show a simple connection all humans have, and it's not meant to be a grand treatise on racism or terrorism. Forget the politics and admire the characters. This is a well-made, beautiful film, and it's worth checking out. Be wary of the fact a more loaded collector's edition of the DVD is as inevitable given the well-deserved praise heaped on Babel.

The Verdict

Guilty of being a powerful look at the human condition, Babel is simply the work of a master storyteller doing what he does best.

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Video: 94
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Acting: 95
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Release Year: 2006
MPAA Rating: Rated R
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Presidency building under fire as Bosnia protests continue

Protests have escalated in Bosnia, as demonstrators set fire to the country's presidency building in Sarajevo. Crowds of demonstrators are swelling as the protests continue in other cities.

News agency Reuters said police used water cannon to disperse the protesters, while two cars and a police guard's cabin outside the presidency building had also been set alight. The fire was quickly extinguished. Earlier on Friday, police had fired rubber bullets at protestors who set fire to the building in Sarajevo belonging to the canton government.

In Tuzla, where the protests began on Wednesday, newspaper Dnevni Avaz reported online that a crowd of demonstrators numbering around 6,000 hurled rocks at the seat of the regional authority. Reuters said the building was then set alight. Local media reported another government building, in the central town of Zenica, had also been burned.

Authorities said at least 90 people were injured in the protests - 80 in Sarajevo and 10 in Zenica.

The protests began in Tuzla when workers from several factories took to the streets demanding back pay, and an end to job losses and corruption. When the demonstrations turned violent, around 130 were injured, mainly from tear gas. An industrial city in the country's north, Tuzla has had four privatized formerly state-owned companies collapse, with one in four people in the city unemployed.

Unlikely support from main Serb city

The plight of the protestors struck a chord with a gathering of hundreds of people in the country's main Bosnian Serb city, Banja Luka.

"We gathered to support the protests in Tuzla, where people are fighting for their rights," activist Aleksandar Zolja told the Associated Press news agency.

The country's development has been stymied by its ethnical division, agreed upon after the end of the Bosnian War in 1995. While relatively peaceful since then, Bosnia has found it hard to introduce much-needed reforms.

Widespread privatization after the end of the war produced a handful of wealthy businessmen, but several companies - such as those in Tuzla - were stripped of their assets and filed for bankruptcy.

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East_Petersburg,_PA_Keystone_MarkerWith a population of about 4500, East Petersburg Borough is conveniently located three miles northwest of the city of Lancaster. It sits on the eastern boundary of East Hempfield Township, and the western boundary of Manheim Township, in the Hempfield School District. Most of the new and existing homes are in housing developments, with the exception of the farms and farmettes.

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