| 'The Beast' looks to conquer America
If you were to ask an average UFC fan to name the most famous MMA fighter in the world, he or she would likely respond with a name like Chuck Liddell or Randy Couture. Given the UFC's current popularity, those fighters certainly have a case. Ironically, a better answer might be a charismatic, larger-than-life American who has never even had an MMA fight in the United States. His name is "The Beast" Bob Sapp, and he makes his American MMA debut Feb. 23 at a Strikeforce show at the Tacoma Dome. Sapp's story is as unique as his muscular 375-pound physique. Sapp was a heavily recruited high school football prospect out of Colorado. He elected to play on the offensive line at the University of Washington, attracted by its highly regarded medical program. The future "Beast" planned to become a doctor, and Washington's School of Medicine was the top program in the country, according to U.S.
Sir Quett Ketumile Masire
When, in July 1980, he ascended from V-P to presidency, following the death of his predecessor, his leadership kept Botswana on the path of remarkable post-independence economic growth rate of some 10 per cent per annum one of the highest in the world. That was unlike the situation in most of post-colonial Africa where the second generation of leaders drove their countries to ruins, if the founding the fathers had not done that already. Most of Botswanas growth came from diamonds, the nations leading export earner. It is one of the African countries where mineral wealth has not caused more pain than joy. Asked during one of his lectures why Botswana essentially escaped the resource curse that has affected many African countries, Masire had four reasons.
Osler selects Siemens Canada as long-term partner
BRAMPTON, Ont. Siemens is bundling its expertise in the areas of healthcare, building automation, fire and security, and communications in delivering on an unprecedented contract awarded from William Osler Health Centre (WOHC) for the new Brampton Civic Hospital, located in Brampton, Ont. The contract awarded to Siemens will form the cornerstone of the healthcare solutions and clinical patient care services offered by WOHC.
The order includes Siemens Global Solutions, the healthcare consulting arm of the Medical Solutions Group, plus MRI, CT, Angio, MI (Nuclear Medicine), Cathlab, Womens Health, Urology, Radiography, RIS and PACS technologies. Working with WOHC, the Global Solutions group identified the key drivers and criteria that would provide the healthcare facility with a complete technology roadmap.
Agenda Over Women's Health: LAT Continues Abortion Falsehoods
In the article, "Abortions down 25% from peak" (Thu. 1/17/08), the Los Angeles Times continues their practice of propagating abortion falsehoods. But their faulty reporting exceeds simple factual errors. Their falsehoods put women's lives in jeopardy. In a passage on the activities at pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, the author of the article, Stephanie Simon (more on her below), writes, Some of the material given to women at such sessions [at these centers] is false or misleading -- for example, warnings that abortion raises the risk of breast cancer or causes post-traumatic stress disorder. First - The Times and Simon, despite the loads of evidence contradicting them, continue to deny the numerous studies asserting the link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer ("ABC" = "abortion-breast cancer").
New hope for writers
It may hire a publicist, it targets book clubs, interested groups and social networks like MySpace and Facebook. As gambits go, LVF is admirable and quixotic. Its future is anyone's guess. It can survive on peanuts because it's a foundation and employees work for peanuts and their love of books. (How long that will last remains to be seen.) It is not a bank, and it doesn't make grants. LVF kicked up some dust in 2005 when it announced its creation, but it was a mere concept at the time. It has a track record now, and it's encouraging. LVF has helped publish or repackage 11 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in the past 18 months. All have made some money for the Bildner operation, still a speck of a thing with four employees, including himself, split between New York and Boston.
GSK Receives Approval for HYCAMTIN(R) (topotecan) Capsules for the ...
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced today approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for oral HYCAMTIN(R) (topotecan) capsules for the treatment of relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Specifically, HYCAMTIN capsules are indicated for patients who had a complete or partial response to first-line chemotherapy and who are at least 45 days from the end of that treatment. HYCAMTIN capsules are the only oral single-agent chemotherapy approved for the treatment of SCLC after failure of first-line therapy. The product will be available in 2008. "The approval of HYCAMTIN capsules is particularly important for patients with relapsed small cell lung cancer as they now have an effective treatment option that has been shown to provide a survival benefit and can be conveniently taken at home," said Debasish Roychowdhury, M.D., Vice President, Global Clinical Development, Oncology Medicine Development Center, GSK.
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First of all it had to work towards the pacification of the country and the support of the system of military occupation. In effect the Commissariat was the executor of the orders of the occupier..." After the Third Reich passed an order on August 28, 1941, abolishing the Commissariat, a civil government was formed "whose president was a general of the former Yugoslav army Milan Nedic... Nedic created armed units, the so-called Nedic army". Apart from these units, there were also the so-called Voluntary Army of Dimitrij Ljotic and the chetniks of Kosta Pecanac and Draza Mihailovic. In 1976, documents relevant to the years 1941 - 1944 were published in Belgrade in an archival reviews under the title "The collaboration of D. Mihailovic's Chetniks with the enemy forces of occupation".
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