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First Looks
The latest entry in the DV-to-DVD product category, Pinnacle Systems' Pinnacle Express ($49.95 direct) is well designed and easy to use. But the program proved unstable in multiple tests on several computers, making it hard to recommend. Express is logically laid out, with icons on the top of the page that guide you through production. Step one is capture, where Express automatically scans your video for scene changes based on time code or content. But unlike Ulead's DVD MovieFactory, Express limits capture duration to about 18 minutes on Microsoft Windows 98 and 2000 PCs, a hassle you can avoid by upgrading to Windows XP and capturing to an NTFS-formatted disc. Step two occurs in the Preview/Edit screen. You start by choosing a menu template, or you can create your own menus, inserting a custom bitmapped background and background music and specifying video layout and text style.
Interview with Mohamed Ali on violence-related mortality among Iraqi ...
Supplement to: Brownstein CA and Brownstein JS. Estimating Excess Mortality in Post-Invasion Iraq. N Engl J Med 2008;358:445-7. Supplement to: Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group. Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006. N Engl J Med 2008;358:484-93. Dr. Mohamed Ali is a statistician in the Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston. Download Interview MP3 (7:04, 3.3 MB) Subscribe to Podcast Listen to Other Interviews .
Physician, heal thyself – please
De facto, conventional medics push us into the arms of the alternative practitioners they like to denounce as "quacks" peddling superstition and snake oil. But when it comes to non- life-threatening medical problems, the anecdotal, experiential health advice I can tap into at my local health food store is generally sounder and more effective than anything my GP is likely to offer. Give me the herbalist or the homeopath over the new breed of GP anyday. .
Commodities and Financials: Opposite Ends
This has led to record valuation spreads between commodities and financials... In fact, the spread in valuations is wider now than at any time in the past 55 years. In our experience, the extreme views driving this spread are a perfect example of momentum "groupthink," which rarely turns out to be correct, and we believe present us with an extraordinary value opportunity in financial stocks. Tags: investing | stocks Tools: Share | Comments (0) .
WorldCom Whistle-blower Cynthia Cooper
We were running so many queries of the accounting system that we were starting to crash it. When did it come together for you?
Eventually we went door-to-door in the accounting department, working our way up the chain of command. When we finally confronted the controller, David Meyers, he confessed. His wife later told The Wall Street Journal that he had decided that if I came to him and confronted him directly he would tell me the truth. He also said he felt better that day than he had in years. How long was it after the MCI merger before people thought, "Uh-oh, this is a mistake"?
I would say that there was a consensus across the company that it was a mistake. First of all, the company had to take on a huge debt load to acquire MCI. And a significant portion of MCI's business came from residential sales.
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