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Finally, some historic attention well-deserved and one that does not include violent school shoot-outs. The Smithsonian museum will be holding a video game exhibit in 2012 to be “the first to examine comprehensively the evolution of

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Your oven is not the same sort of energy hog as your dryer or fridge but it can use more energy than it should. Here are some reasons why your oven may be increasing both your energy use and your electricity bill…

You’re a food checker – and not the kind in the store. Peeking in on baking goods is a great way to allow perfectly good energy to escape. In fact the NRDC notes that opening the oven door to look at cooking food can waste as much as 25% of the heat inside an oven. That’s a lot and it adds up. Don’t peek, instead use the oven light. If you don’t have on, open the door very rarely.

You always preheat and cook until the timer says stop. Unless I’m making baked goods I rarely preheat. Most ovens heat super speed nowadays so preheating is wasted energy in my opinion. I usually put the food in, cook, then turn the oven off about 5-10 minutes early. If you leave the door shut your food will continue to cook.

You’re a clean freak. Cleaning your oven is smart, because clean appliances run better. However, if you’re so clean-minded that you cover your oven racks with foil you’re one, wasting foil and two food doesn’t cook as fast when heat is blocked by foil. Ovens are easy to clean without chemicals even if you skip the foil. Simply sprinkle a little salt on a hot oven spill, let it cool, then wipe it up with a wet cloth.

You cook one little thing. One potato to bake is no reason to turn on an oven. A microwave or toaster oven is a better bet for single items when it comes to energy savings.

Your gaskets are too loose. Gaskets are located between the panels on the oven door (or on the frame). If you can feel heat escaping from the oven door then you need to tighten or replace your gaskets. This is a DIY project BUT make sure you unplug the oven before fixing them.

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There’s lots of buzz going around concerning the news that an AT&T exec has admitted that to deal with the companies own inability to build out a strong cellular network (angering tons of iPhone users), that it’s planning to put in place caps and charge more to high-end users. Of course, this is pure bait and switch. The company sold people on an unlimited data plan, failed to invest in its network, and pushed high bandwidth apps on people. And, of course, it’s worth noting that while they now want to charge high bandwidth users more, they don’t say anything about the low bandwidth users. No one gets a discount. AT&T is making a ton of money off of the iPhone. It could have — and should have — invested more of that into network upgrades. Now it’s blaming its most loyal users — the same ones who it recommended high bandwidth apps to — and expecting that everyone will be happy with that? AT&T may discover that people start looking for other alternatives if they dump the unlimited data offering that they sold people.

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We’ve been anticipating the nook for about a month-and-a-half now, even since Barnes & Noble announced the nook back in October. Seeing a potential, real competitor to the Amazon Kindle sporting both an e-ink screen alongside a capacitive color LCD touchscreen just about made us drool. Oh, and it runs Google Android too, so, there’s that whole thing. Well, we’ve finally got the Barnes & Noble nook into our hands, and we’ve done some testing, some reading, and some playing, all in the spirit of letting you know how the nook stands on its own, and how it compares to the Amazon Kindle. We think we’ve done that, and we invite you to continue reading for the full Gear Live nook review.

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Como andan mis queridos lectores!!! Que me cuentan de sus vidas?? Espero que les sonría en todos sus aspectos. Por lo pronto, mi persona se encuentra renovada, luego de una lluvia que tanto se hizo esperar por estos pagos de este tan recalentado planeta, fue como un regalo de navidad. Hablando de la navidad… se acerca noche buena… y ya se nos va el año, es increíble… para mí que mi reloj utiliza 2 o 3 energizers más cada año… no puede ser que pase tan rápido el tiempo. Pero bueno.. dicen que el tiempo pasa… tanto para bien como para mal, asi que mejor a subirse al tren y recorrer con el tiempo sus incógnitas, misterios y sorpresas que él nos depara y a no quejarse, siempre con la cabeza en alto y una sonrisa en reposo! ja.

Después de esta introducción tan “personal” ja y anti-kinesiológica jaja, voy a proceder a desarrollar lo que nos interesa a todos… temas relacionados a nuestra carrera… en este caso cito al reemplazo de cadera, temática tan común y que no puedo predecir con seguridad, pero casi seguro que el 50 o 60% de los que leen dicha nota, podemos llegar a esta instancia por una u otra etiología, incluyendome a mí en este porcentaje por supuesto.

En las prótesis de cadera podemos diferenciar dos formas, una total y la otra parcial.

• Protesis Total: Consiste en reemplazar las dos partes que conforman la articulación de la cadera. Esto englobaría al acetábulo que corresponde a la parte de la pelvis de la cadera y por otro lado la cabeza del fémur.
• Protesis Parcial: Es cuando sólo se reemplaza una de las partes que conforman la articulación de la cadera, mas precisamente la cabeza del fémur.

Nuestro objetivo de estas prótesis en nuestro paciente va a ser de brindarle estabilidad, que es lo primordial, y tratando por todos los medios posibles sacrificar la menor movilidad posible.

Podemos encontrar 3 tipos de prótesis las cuales son las siguientes:

• Prótesis Total Cementada: Es un material de cemento que tiene dos componentes, uno líquido y otro en polvo, que al juntarse hacen una masa que al endurecerse ancla ambos componentes y los fija al cótilo y al fémur respectivamente. Éste cemento es metilmetacrilato, no es aadhesivo, sino que al rellenar la cavidad fija los componentes prótesicos. Este tipo esta indicado en pacientes que tengas mas de 65 años de edad y con artrosis de cadera con mucho agravamiento doloroso.
• Prótesis no Cementada: Considerando al aflojamiento como principal crítica de las cementadas, se desarrollaron este tipo de prótesis, las cuales tuvieron aceptables resultados en cótilo, ya que la misma, siendo autoroscante o atornillada, tiene menos aflojamiento. Es utilizada en pacientes menores a 65 años, cuando presentan artrosis de cadera , especialmente secundaria a una luxación de cadera, traumatismo o necrosis aséptica de cabeza femoral. Este tipo requiere una destreza por demás excelente del cirujano, al no poder amoldarse tan fácil como el cemento.
• Prótesis Híbridas: Son las que poseen un mix de las dos anteriores, con la copa cotiloidea no cementada y el componente femoral cementado. No tienen mucho seguimiento, pero las expectativas son totalmente alentadoras en cuanto a los resultados posibles o pronósticos realizados.

Que pregunta tan díficil y variable, depende de factores como son la condicion física del paciente, el nivel de actividad, peso, asi como la precisión del implante en la cirugía. Es bueno comprender que las articulaciones prótesicas no son tan fuertes y duraderas como una natural, y no hay ninguna garantía de que la articulación prótesica dure el resto de la vida del paciente.

• Primeras 24 hs: Cuidado de posiciones posturales evitando que el miembro operado caiga por acción de la gravedad en rotación externa, trabajo isométrico de cuadriceps y gluteos, trabajo libre de tobillo y de m.m.i.i no operado. Utilizar elementos complementarios de marcha en caso que necesite.
• Segundo día: Movilización activa resistida de cadera y rodilla en flexo-extensión (no pasar los 80º de flexión de cadera).
• Tercer día: Sentar al paciente al borde de la cama, continuar con movilizaciones de cadera y rodilla agregando abducción de cadera (no pasar los 20º), y según la tolerancia del paciente se lo puede bipedestar.
• Etapa 1: Bipedestar, y cuando tolere mas de 10 minutos esto, comenzar con la marcha asistida por elemento complementario, utilizando marcha de 3 o 4 puntos.
• Etapa 2: Ir aumentando los períodos de marcha más resistencia y destreza a esta actividad. Se continúa con las movilizaciones de cadera y rodilla en todos los planos de movimiento evitando solo la rotacion interna ya que esta favorece las luxaciones.
• Etapa 3: Nuestro paciente a esta altura ya podrça trabajar los abductores en decúbito lateral y los extensores en decúbito prono, no olvidando que los cambios de posición se debe realizar sobre el lado no operado y con la almohada entre las piernas. Si el paciente se siente seguro de su marcha, se entrenará en actividades de elevación y rampa. Se disminuye la asistencia en la misma y pasará a un bastón común y con ejercicios de dificultad progresiva para llevarlos a cabo en casa.

Las indicaciones que tiene que tener en cuenta son las siguientes:

• Evitar sobrepeso o cargas grandes de peso
• Evitar impactar su cadera
• Usar calzado cómodo, bajo y estable
• Evitar caminar grandes trayectos
• No subir escaleras en abuso
• No realizar deportes de mucho contacto físico
• Deportes de bajo impacto como la natación son muy favorables
• No colocarse en cuclillas

Las patologías que pueden llevar a un reemplazo de cadera son las siguientes:

• Artrosis de cadera
• Displasia de cadera
• Artritis de cadera
• Etc.

Para cerrar, dejo un video sobre una cirugía de protesis total de cadera, utilzando una del tipo híbrida… muy buen video.

Sega does not waste any time. Literally a day after announcing (http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/12/08/east-meets-west-yakuza-3-coming-in-2010/) that Yakuza 3 will be headed to the West in March 2010, the publisher has now announced that Yakuza 4 is coming to the

We have to admit, we were initially a little skeptical of TasteTimer, an app that offers “over 300 different timer settings for simple tea, coffee, and food preparation.” We already know how to make coffee and tea (or so we thought…), and most cooking apps fail to impress us. But we gave it a spin and were pleasantly surprised. Click through for our thoughts and a demo video.

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Green city infrastructure strategy is planned for St. Charles, Maryland. The power source will be delivered through a portfolio of clean energy projects. …

… “Building the largest combination of clean energy infrastructure in the United States, including a 640 megawatt natural gas powered power plant, a 75-acre solar farm generating 10 megawatts, geothermal well fields for heating and cooling buildings, and a biomass gasification technology plant potentially incorporating methane from the Charles County landfill to produce additional renewable electricity. ” …

Via State of Maryland: St. Charles, Maryland

I can’t go more than a week without shooting baskets. There is something about the feel of the ball coming off my hand, and the sound of the ball going through the net. It just feels good.

If I’m just standing in the gym, I can shoot pretty well. Playing in a game. Well it’s not quite what it used to be. I used to have a spin move that would work for me no matter who I was playing against or what level they were at. If I could get a pick and the defender went under, I didn’t have to think about it, I could hit the shot. These days, my mind knows what to do, but my body just laughs at me. Put me up against 20 year olds, and I won’t embarrass myself but it’s only because I know how to set a pick and hit an open, a very wide open jumper, and spend the rest of the game getting out of the way.

I love to compete. I always have. Playing basketball was just something I had to do no matter how good I was and its something I will always do, no matter how old I get. It gives me a chance to blow off steam. It gives me a way to refocus.

But no matter how much I love to play the game or how involved and competitive I get during a Mavs game, it’s only a minor release. Real competition comes from the sport of business.

In sports, you know who your opponents are. You know when you are going to play a game. You know pretty much how long the game will last. It’s mentally and physically exhausting if you are at the top of the game, but it still pails at the effort required to be successful in business.

The sport of business isn’t divided into games. It’s not defined by practices. It doesn’t have set rules that everyone plays by.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It’s 7×24×365xforever.

I love the sport of business. I love the competition. I love the fire of it. It’s the feeling of the clock winding down, the ball is in your hands, and if you hit the shot you win…all day, every day.

Relaxing is for the other guy. I may be sitting in front of the TV, but I’m not watching it unless I think there is something I can learn from it. I’m thinking about things I can use in my business and the TV is just there.

I could take the time to read a fiction book, but I don’t. I would rather read websites, newspapers, magazines, looking for ideas and concepts that I can use. I spend time in bookstores because 1 idea from a book or magazine can make me money.

I’m not going to go to dinner with you just to chat. I’m not going to give you a call to see how you are. Unless you want to talk business. Other guys play fantasy sports. I fire the synapses to get an edge.

That’s what success is all about. It’s about the edge.

It’s not who you know. It’s not how much money you have. It’s very simple. It’s whether or not you have the edge and have the guts to use it.

The edge is getting so jazzed about what you do, you just spent 24 hours straight working on a project and you thought it was a couple hours.

The edge is knowing that you have to be the smartest guy in the room when you have your meeting and you are going to put in the effort to learn whatever you need to learn to get there.

The edge is knowing is knowing that when the 4 girlfriends you have had in the last couple years asked you which was more important, them or your business, you gave the right answer.

The edge is knowing that you can fail and learn from it, and just get back up and in the game.

The edge is knowing that people think your crazy, and they are right, but you don’t care what they think.

The edge is knowing how to blow off steam a couple times a week, just so you can refocus on business

The edge is knowing that you are getting to your goals and treating people right along the way because as good as you can be, you are so focused that you need regular people around you to balance you and help you.

The edge is being able to call out someone on a business issue because you know you have done your homework.

The edge is recognizing when you are wrong, and working harder to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The edge is being able to drill down and identify issues and problems and solve them before anyone knows they are there.

The edge is knowing that while everyone else is talking about nonsense like the will to win, and how they know they can be successful, you are preparing yourself to compete so that you will be successful.

That’s what makes business such an amazing sport. Everyone plays it. Everyone talks about how good they are or will be at it. Just a small percentage are.

Every single day someone has an idea. Every day someone talks about some business they want to start. Every day someone is out there starting a business whose entire goal is to beat the hell out of yours. How cool is that.

Every day some stranger from any where in the world that you have never met is trying to come up with a way to put you out of business. To take everything you have worked your ass off for, and take it all away. If you are in a growing industry, there could be hundreds or thousands of strangers trying to figure out ways to put you out of business. How cool is that.

The ultimate competition. Would you like to play a game called Eat Your Lunch. We are going to face off. My ability to execute on an idea vs yours. My ability to subvert your business vs your ability to keep it going. My ability to create ways to remove any reason for your business to exist vs your ability to do the same to me. My ability to know what you are going to do, before you do it. Who gets there first? Best of all, this game doesn’t have a time limit. It’s forever. It never ends. It’s the ultimate competition.

It’s the sport of business. It’s not for everyone, but I love it.

I’m fortunate. I have done well enough financially that I don’t have to play 24×7×365. I can and have cut back to 18×7×365. Family first now.

But in those 18 hours, you can bet I’m competing, and loving it.

But that’s me. You have to figure out what works for you.

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By now, you’ve probably heard that a team from MIT won the DARPA balloon challenge, whereby DARPA put 10 red balloons in the air around the country and wanted to see what people could do to find all 10 balloons. The rules were pretty loose, and the team at MIT took all of nine hours or so to locate all ten balloons, through an interesting “crowdsourcing” method. They basically quickly set themselves up as a clearinghouse of information, and made it easily shareable across different social networking platforms, and employed something of an affiliate program to encourage people to get their friends to sign up with the MIT team as well. If you signed up people who helped find the balloons, you got some of the prize money according to your friend network, and so on down through the social pyramid. The team claims that what was most important was the recursive nature of the pyramid, which gave people incentive to participate, even if they knew they couldn’t find the balloons.

While some other DARPA challenges, like the autonomous vehicle challenge (to get a totally driverless vehicle to drive a few hundred miles with no help), are cool but seem limited in terms of application outside of the core area it was built for, this one actually does seem to hold a lot of useful lessons that can be picked up on right away, and which can be applied across a lot of different business, policy, IT, public good and many other areas. Some of the key elements:

• Recognize that there’s power in numbers: Recognize that for certain projects, you need a lot of different minds (and eyes) working on things, and that certain tasks shouldn’t just be done by “the one best” individual.
• Make it easy for more people to participate: Once you realize that you need a lot of people, you need to make it easy for them to participate.
• Give people multiple reasons to participate: Different people have different motivations. Some people just want to belong to a successful project or a leading team to bask in the glow. Others need additional types of incentive. The MIT team offered up monetary compensation in addition to recognition for participation.
• Give people a reason to get others involved: Sort of a corollary to recognizing the power in numbers, the MIT team worked hard to give people incentive not just to participate and to promote their participation, but also to recruit others to the team as well. This even made it so those who couldn’t help finding the balloons directly could still participate in better finding the people who could find the balloons.
• Align incentives properly: Make sure that everyone is driving towards the same goal, and that the incentives work on top of one another to all push towards that same goal.
• Look beyond your immediate “group”: One of the coolest things I thought about the MIT group was that there was nothing in there that limited it to MIT or the folks at MIT. They immediately recognized that it made the most sense to reach out to folks beyond their immediate circle, which is what helped them get the people they needed involved quickly.

Now, a lot of these may sound obvious, but it’s often important to remind yourself of these basic concepts, and it’s impressive to see how well (and how fast) these worked in the case of the MIT balloon team. I could see these lessons being applied in a lot of other areas as well. There is a separate issue that the team hasn’t discussed yet, but promises to eventually: which is that it also had to deal with a number of bogus entries — including at least some from a competing team trying to throw the MIT team off the scent. Finding out how they got around such problems would also be quite interesting in terms of better managing these sorts of group efforts.

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A little more than a year ago, the Porsche tuning specialist at Ruf unveiled their first electric car, the 911-based eRuf. That first iteration was definitely not ready for production, but the crew at Ruf are not known for taking half measures. A few months after the eRuf was shown to the world, the second iteration with more power and lighter batteries appeared as the Greenster at the Geneva Motor Show. Ruf has said it plans to build that car in limited numbers.

The 911 is pretty small, and as a result, packaging enough batteries to get a useful range is not a trivial matter. The latest eRuf variant is the Stormster, a plug-in electric Cayenne, so finding room for the cells doesn’t figure to be as problematic. The Stormster is uses the same 270 kW Siemens motor that was in the Greenster along with Li-Tec lithium ion batteries. We don’t yet know how many examples they hope to build, where they hope to sell it, or how much it will cost. Critically, we also don’t know how far it will go on a charge. The note we got from Ruf does say it will be available in the standard Cayenne body or the special wide-body that Ruf produces, the “Stormster grün.” Either way, you can check it out in our high-res gallery below and analyze the press release after the jump.

Update: Ruf spokesman Marc Pfeifer let us know that the Stormster will start production late in 2010 and that the range is aproximately 120 miles per charge. Ruf has not set a price for it yet, but don’t count on this to compete with the Nissan Leaf at the low end.

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