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Boots keeps selling quack remedies intended for babies, even after they are banned from US import over fears of broken glass
Man in a coma is "fit for work," loses disability benefits
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OsiriX 5.0.1 - 3D medical image processing software with DICOM/PACS support.. (Free)
Pacifist 3.0.9 - Install individual files from .pkg installers and more.. (Shareware)
Mou 0.7.3 - Markdown editor for Web developers.. (Free)
Red Alarm 1.3 - Alarm clock with an easy interface for creating multiple alarms.. (Commercial)
CalendarMenu 1.5 - Small calendar in your menu bar.. (Commercial)
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Boots keeps selling quack remedies intended for babies, even after they are banned from US import over fears of broken glass

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Boots, which styles itself a "pharmacy-led Health & Beauty retailer" has caught a lot of flack for selling homeopathic "remedies" that contain no active ingredients. One report actually found a Boots pharmacist referring customers who asked a five-year-old child with a three-day bout of diarrhoea to homeopathic sugar pills (advice that could potentially kill the patient by leaving the underlying condition untreated).

Just in case you couldn't imagine Boots being more profit-led (rather than "pharmacy-led") marvel at the fact that the company refuses to withdraw products from Nelsons, a homeopathic manufacturer, even after the US regulator banned Nelsons products over fears that their sugar pills (which include "teething remedies" that are meant for babies) contained fragments of broken glass.

Boots's answer to a concerned customer? "Don't worry, the broken glass isn't in the stuff they sell to us."

How could Boots know that the lax production standards applied only to shipments to the US? The products are made in Wimbledon. Do Nelsons have 'lax Fridays' where they all bunk off to the pub while the US export runs are made?
This response lacks any credibility.
I wrote to Boots when I received this to ask how they can be confident that these problems do not affect the UK. I have received no response.
Of course, we know Boots have a rather cynical attitude to the homeopathic products they sell. When giving evidence to parliament, Paul Bennett, professional standards director and superintendent pharmacist at Boots, admitted they have no evidence these products work, but sold them because they could.
One then might understand they were unconcerned about the homeopathic pills not being manufactured correctly – it does not matter one jot if the sugar pill receives a drop of magic ju-ju juice – it's just water. But why would Boots be unconcerned that their products lack the quality control procedures to prevent glass entering products? To remind you, Boots sell homeopathic babies teething powders – a completely useless product, but may make the baby forget its teething pain if it crunches down on shards of glass.

Boots Unconcerned About Nelsons Production Problems.

Man in a coma is "fit for work," loses disability benefits

Posted: 19 Aug 2012 02:24 AM PDT

A post in a thread on rightsnet.co.uk claims that ATOS (a French private company that administers disability benefits assessments for the UK Department of Work and Pensions) has declared a man in a coma to be fit for work and cut off his benefits. This is part of a the stepped up campaign to stop "benefits cheats" by requiring complex paperwork from claimants. A companion piece on Libcom has comments from others who've been cut off, including a man who's suffered brain injuries that caused him to file his paperwork late.

Client's husband is in hospital in a coma. He was sent ESA501.
Client contacted DWP to explain situation and was asked to obtain letter from hospital confirming he is in a coma. Did so. Was told to send it to ATOS rather than local BDC. Did so. Husband has now received decision letter – yep, as he has failed to return the ESA50 without good cause and is therefore capable of work [he is] no longer entitled to ESA…

Coma patient fit for work

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona a 50,000 Super High Roller Day 1: Smith Leads Final Table

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 11:40 PM PDT

Season 9 of the European Poker Tour continued on Saturday with Day 2 of the 2012 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona a 50,000 Super High Roller .

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OsiriX 5.0.1 - 3D medical image processing software with DICOM/PACS support.. (Free)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:59 PM PDT

OsiriX is an image processing software dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by medical equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...) and confocal microscopy (LSM and BioRAD-PIC format). It can also read many other file formats: TIFF (8,16, 32 bits), JPEG, PDF, AVI, MPEG and Quicktime. It is fully compliant with the DICOM standard for image comunication and image file formats. OsiriX is able to receive images transferred by DICOM communication protocol from any PACS or medical imaging modality (STORE SCP - Service Class Provider, STORE SCU - Service Class User, and Query/Retrieve).

OsiriX has been specifically designed for navigation and visualization of multimodality and multidimensional images: 2D Viewer, 3D Viewer, 4D Viewer (3D series with temporal dimension, for example: Cardiac-CT) and 5D Viewer (3D series with temporal and functional dimensions, for example: Cardiac-PET-CT). The 3D Viewer offers all modern rendering modes: Multiplanar reconstruction (MPR), Surface Rendering, Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP). All these modes support 4D data and are able to produce image fusion between two different series (for example: PET-CT).

Osirix is at the same time a DICOM PACS workstation for medical imaging and an image processing software for medical research (radiology and nuclear imaging), functional imaging, 3D imaging, confocal microscopy and molecular imaging.

Osirix supports a complete plug-ins architecture that allows you to expand the capabilities of OsiriX for your personal needs! This plug-in architecture gives you access to the powerful Cocoa framework with an easy object-oriented and dynamic language: Objective-C.

A Wiki Manual is available.

Features:

DICOM File Support:

Read and display all DICOM Files (mono-frame, multi-frames)
Read and display the new MRI/CT multi-frame format (5200 group)
JPEG Lossy, JPEG Lossless, JPEG2000, RLE
Monochrome1, Monochrome2, RGB, YBR, Planar, Palettes, ...
Support custom (non-square) Pixel Aspect Ratio8, 12, 16, 32 bits
Write 'SC' (Secondary Capture) DICOM Files from any 2D/3D reconstructions
Read and display all DICOM Meta-Data
Read AND Write DICOM CD/DVD (DICOMDIR support)
Export DICOM Files to TIFF, JPEG, Quicktime, RAW, DICOM, PACS

DICOM Network Support:

Store User (STORE-SCU, DICOM Send)
Store Provider (STORE-SCP, DICOM Listener)
C-FIND SCU/SCP, C-MOVE SCU/SCP : Query and Retrieve studies from/to a PACS workstation

Non-DICOM Files Support:

LSM files from Zeiss (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
BioRadPIC files (8, 16, 32 bits) (Confocal Microscopy)
TIFF (8, 12, 16, 32 bits), multi-pages
ANALYZE (8, 12, 16, 32 bits)
PNG, JPEG, PDF (multi-pages), Quicktime, AVI, MPEG, MPEG4

2D Viewer:

Customizable Toolbars
Bicubic Interpolation
Thick Slab for multi-slices CT and MRI (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
ROIs: Polygons, Circles, Pencil, Rectangles, Point, ...
Multi-Buttons and Scroll-wheel mouses supported
Custom CLUT (Color Look-Up Tables)
Custom 3x3 and 5x5 Convolution Filters (Bone filters, ...)
4D Viewer for Cardiac-CT and other temporal series
Image Fusion for PET-CT exams with adjustable blending percentage
Image subtraction for XA
Plugins support for external functions

3D Post-Processing:

MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) with Thick Slab (Mean, MIP, Volume Rendering)
Curved-MPR
MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection)
Volume Rendering
Surface Rendering
Stereo Vision with Red/Blue glasses
Export any 3D images to Quicktime, Quicktime VR, TIFF, JPEG
All 3D viewers support 'Image Fusion' for PET-CT exams and '4D mode' for Cardiac-CT.

Optimization:

Universal application, compiled for Intel and PowerPC processors
Altivec (Velocity Engine) enhanced
G5 alignment (for best performance on G5 processors)
Multi-threaded for multi-processors and dual-core processors support
Asyncronous reading
Based on the Altivec & Multi-Threaded vImage library
OpenGL for 2D Viewer and all 3D Viewers
Graphic board accelerated, with 3D texture mapping support
Optimized version for 3D Volume Rendering boards by TeraRecon : VolumePRO VP1000 series

Expansion & Scientific Research:

OsiriX supports a complete dynamic plugins architecture
Access pixels directly in 32-bits float for B&W images or ARGB values for color images
Create and manage windows
Access the entire Cocoa framework
Create and manage OpenGL views
Faster than IDL, Easier than ImageJ

Based on Open-Source components:

Cocoa (OpenStep, GNUStep, NextStep)
VTK (Visualization Toolkit)
ITK (Insight Toolkit)
PixelMed (David Clunie)
Papyrus 3.0 (Digital Imaging Unit)
DICOM Offis
OpenGL
XML-Expat
LibTIFF
Jasper
LibJPEG

Please, send any comments, bug reports and ideas to improve OsiriX!

Version 5.0.1:

Requires OS X 10.7 or higher
Certified for OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion
Optimized and enhanced for Retina screens
On-Demand image retrieving, compatible with any DICOM nodes (On-Demand Preferences)
Display comparative studies in a separate view, including comparatives studies available on a distant DICOM node
OsiriX is now distributed as a dmg file
New Database API: more robustness and evolutivity
TCP/IP connection: specific timeout, automatically retry 5 times
CD/DVD reading: rely on DICOMDIR for better performance, displayed as independent database
Plugins sandboxing: automatically detect crashing plugins
Auto Query Retrieve : multiple instances, option to lock
Web Portal: faster performances with large database
Apply multiple DICOM fields modifications in a single step (Meta-Data Editor window)
Curved-MPR: Path Assistant available
Curved-MPR: High-Res mode (Lanczos 3D interpolation)
Updated Quicktime functions to AVFoundation & CoreMedia frameworks
Movies files produces for HTML pages (CD Burning, WebPortal) are now MPEG4 HTML5 files
DVD/CD Burning: preparation process is now 100% in a separate background thread
DVD/CD Burning: option to save the content on a USB Key
Add supports for private SOP Class UIDs: Philips, GE, Siemens
Better Bonjour detection
Add up to 4 DICOM fields to populate DB Comments field
Save default order for albums
XML-RPC interface enhancements
New 'Custom Time Interval Panel' for the database
WebPortal: preference to authorize sharing a study by email (temporary user)
New Sync mode: based on image ID ratio, allowing to synchronize time loops with different images count Multiple bugs corrected

OS X 10.7 or later
Minimum 1GB RAM (6GB recommended)

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Pacifist 3.0.9 - Install individual files from .pkg installers and more.. (Shareware)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 08:59 PM PDT

Pacifist is an application for Mac OS X that opens up .pkg installer packages, .dmg disk images, .zip, .tar. tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .pax, and .xar archives and more, and lets you extract or install individual files out of them. This is useful if you need to install just one file out of a package instead of the entire package (for example, if you deleted your Preview application and need to reinstall it, but not the whole operating system), or if you want to inspect a downloaded package to see what it will do before installing it. Pacifist can also load some archive types over HTTP, in case you want to extract just a single file from a large .zip archive without waiting for the entire archive to download. Finally, Pacifist can examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.

Version 3.0.9:

Fixed a crashing bug
Fixed a bug that could cause some items to be installed in the wrong place
Fixed a bug that caused the disclosure triangles not to work in the QuickLook plug-in on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Other minor bug fixes

Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later

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Mou 0.7.3 - Markdown editor for Web developers.. (Free)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:18 PM PDT

Mou is a Markdown editor - with a difference: where most, if not all, currently available Markdown editors are almost all for general writers, Mou is different: It's for Web developers. Syntax highlighting, live preview, sync scroll, fullscreen mode, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, custom themes and CSS, HTML and PDF export, enhanced CJK support. I know, it's exactly the app you want.

Version 0.7.3:

Added a new "Enable Sync Scroll" option in Preferences. Users who don't like Sync Scroll can turn it off by unchecking this option.
You're now able to give it a new filename other than the default Untitled.md when post an Untitled unsaved document on Scriptogr.am.
Fixed the bug that in Vertical Writing mode, resize the window could freeze the app.
Built-in CSS files updated for better table display and PDF export (Credit to @gcollazo and @hzlzh for the updated GitHub2.css). Mou won't overwrite your old CSS automatically (to keep your customized CSS safe). If you want to use the new CSS, you need to delete the old CSS files under ~/Library/Application Support/Mou/CSS/ folder manually, and then relaunch Mou to take effect.
Fixed several bugs reported by @hzlzh. Actually they were already fixed in previous update, just forgot to write it in the release notes.

OS X 10.7 or later

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Red Alarm 1.3 - Alarm clock with an easy interface for creating multiple alarms.. (Commercial)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:25 PM PDT

Red Alarm is a power alarm clock for your Mac. Use the easy interface to create unlimited number of alarms. Quickly and easily create and customize alarms however you like. You can change the background from a choice of eight different colors. Red Alarm also works in the menu bar, which makes it fast to create custom alarms or alarms with 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes in the future. Red Alarm comes with 18 default alarm sounds and iTunes playlist integration.

Features:

iTunes music integration
Menu bar integration for creating and managing alarms
Shuffle music
Fade in
Create custom playlist using iTunes library
Snooze
Set repeat days

Background colors:

Red
Blue
Purple
Pink
Yellow
Green
Orange
Chrome

Default alarm sounds:

Alarm Clock
Beach Waves
Bell
Bird
Cow
Fireplace
Machine Gun
Rooster
Sunny Day
Traffic Jam
Drill
Error
Growl
Howl
Jump
Shotgun
Siren
Whistle

Version 1.3:

Updated for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Corrected app entitlements

Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
64-bit processor

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CalendarMenu 1.5 - Small calendar in your menu bar.. (Commercial)

Posted: 18 Aug 2012 10:31 PM PDT

CalendarMenu is a Mac OS X menu bar application, which provides a small calendar showing all informations you need to keep track of all upcoming appointments, birthdays and pending tasks in the blink of an eye.

Calendar:

shows all iCal calendar events
calendars can be selected individually
highlights birthdays from the iCal birthday calendar
differentiates between normal and all-day events
can indivually hide normal events and/or events spanning multiple days
shows an overview of all events of the selected calendar day
supports US and ISO calendar layout irrespective of the current system locale

Tasks:

shows either all pending and overdue or all completed tasks
allows to quickly mark tasks as completed or pending without leaving CalendarMenu
tasks can be filtered using the current calendar selection
tasks can be sorted either by due date or by priority

Version 1.5: