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HomeFrom the FrontlinesHospital infant deaths rocket but Bhisho's not listening...
Hospital infant deaths rocket but Bhisho's not listening…
The infant death rate at Dora Nginza Hospital in Zwide, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), has skyrocketed since 2020 as crippling staff and equipment shortages are left unattended and mostly ignored, writes Estelle Ellis in Daily Maverick.
Eastern Cape MEC for Health Nomakhosazana Meth has admitted the dire situation in the hospital's neonatal ward, adding that some babies were dying because they could not be admitted by either the intensive care or high care units.
"The neonatal unit has perennially run at more than 100% bed occupancy, and for the past few months [more than five months] the number of newborns in the unit has consistently been between 100 and 110. These babies have been admitted into a space for 70, which has obviously led to overcrowding and increased risk of infection.
"There have been outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections, which has led to deaths of some newborns. In January and February this year, there was an outbreak of [such an infection] due to overcrowding, which led to the deaths of at least three babies. Others have died because the neonatal ICU and neonatal high care were full and they could not be accommodated."
Meth added that the nursing staff complement is inadequate for the 70 beds, and hopelessly so for the 110 neonates who are usually admitted into the unit.
"Nursing staff needs for the neonatal unit need to be employed in a phased approach within the available budget," she said.
To add to the crisis, the acting superintendent of Eastern CapeHealth Dr Sibongile Zungu was recalled on Monday to the national Department of Health. Another acting superintendent was appointed in her place as the department battles severe financial problems and a critical shortage of medical staff.
Three months after their desperate letter to leaders, pleading for help, was ignored, the staff at Dora Nginza Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit had another three dead babies on their hands. All of them tiny, weighing less than a kilogram.
One was accidentally killed when his mother allegedly put hand sanitiser instead of medicine in his feeding tube. A nurse had asked the mothers to help her as the unit had become dangerously understaffed. The South African Human Rights Commission is investigating this death.
Another died an agonising death when the cotton wool meant to protect his eyes shifted over his nose and throat and smothered him. He had to get UV light treatment for jaundice but the Department of Health had failed to order enough eye protectors in time. Nurses were trying to make a plan to save his life.
The third fell out of a body warmer where nurses were trying to keep him warm and alive because there was no incubator for him. He died of his injuries.
Earlier in the year three more had died of hospital-acquired lung infections because the ward was dangerously overcrowded, with babies having to share an incubator. Fourteen others became very ill. It was the third such outbreak in four years.
The deaths shook the doctors and nurses. Their message in their final missive to "Bhisho", as the headquarters of the Eastern Cape Department of Health is known in the hospital halls, was simple and tragic:
"According to Sections 27 and 28 of the South African Constitution, children have a right to access healthcare and a right to basic healthcare services. At this point we are failing [newborns] at Dora Nginza Hospital. This letter serves as a plea for the urgent and immediate support of the Department of Health in meeting our space, equipment and staffing needs."
The bureaucrats did not bother to reply.
On Monday, Zungu, the acting head of the department who was appointed by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize to head the provincial Covid-19 response when the province's health system was under severe strain during the first wave, was recalled to the national Department of Health. She was acting as superintendent-general after Dr Thobile Mbengashe resigned from his post. Under Mbengashe the health system plunged into one crisis after another, with many, many promises that came to nothing.
Zungu was replaced as acting superintendent by the Deputy Director-General in the Eastern Cape Office of the Premier, Mahlubandile Qwase, a teacher, former MEC for Education and former chair of the provincial health portfolio committee.
Department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said Zungu would still assist for two days a week, "this side".
It has been four years since the neonatal team, hand-selected by the late Prof Lungile Pepeta, the former head of the Department of Paediatrics at Dora Nginza Hospital and subsequently the head of Nelson Mandela Bay's new medical school, managed to reduce the neonatal mortality rate in the metro by 45%. Pepeta, who died last year of Covid-19 complications, called the team "the baby-savers".
The unit where newborns and premature babies are cared for at Dora Nginza Hospital admits more than 5,000 babies a year from Nelson Mandela Bay, large parts of the Karoo, including Cradock and Middelburg, and towns on the western side of the province including Humansdorp, Jeffreys Bay and Kareedouw.
Since officials from the national Department of Health first visited the 70-bed unit in 2017 to raise their grave concerns over high neonatal mortality rates, nothing has been done to address the overcrowding.
According to the Department of Health's own guidelines, there should be between five and eight beds for newborns for every 1,000 live births. For the area served by Dora Nginza Hospital (where around 25,000 live births are recorded) this translates to between 138 to 188 beds.
The recommended patient to nurse ratios, a standard set by the Department of Health, is one nurse to four babies for standard care, 1:2 in high care and 1:1 or 1:2 in the intensive care unit. The only unit where this standard is being upheld is in the adult intensive care unit, where doctors can refuse to admit a patient.
In the first three months of 2021 the premature baby unit was on average 168% full and at one point had reached 182%. This translated on some days to 116 babies in a unit made for 70. This meant one nurse had to look after between 17 and 28 desperately ill babies, and two babies had to share an incubator. During a violent taxi strike in May there were only four nurses available to look after all the babies.
The newborn death rate had already risen sharply from 15.9 per 1,000 live births in the first half of 2020 to 20.8 per 1,000 live births in the latter half of the year.
The unit needs another 13 professional nurses, seven enrolled nurses, 14 nursing assistants and more doctors, about 150 incubators and also general assistants who can clean the wards at night.
In 2010 when the national Parliament discussed the high death rate of babies in the Eastern Cape, the Eastern Cape Department of Health reported on the findings of their task team to the Portfolio Committee on Health:
"The task team looked at neonatal care. They found that many of the hospitals' neonatal units were overcrowded and there were not enough incubators, ventilators and medical equipment. There was poor monitoring of patients, a shortage of staff, inadequate training for nurses and doctors and no Kangaroo Mother Care Programme."
That was 11 years ago.
Then, in 2014, Pepeta pleaded with authorities to supply his unit with equipment worth just R5 million. At the time, the death rate for Nelson Mandela Bay was 27 deaths for every 1,000 live births.
"The Covid-19 pandemic had exposed all the cracks," one doctor said, adding that they are investigating why they had received a vastly increased number of premature babies under 1,000 grams in their care during the pandemic.
After the only neurosurgeon at Livingstone Hospital resigned last year, doctors have struggled to get help for babies born with spina bifida, a neural defect where the spine and spinal column don't form properly, and babies are sent home without receiving the necessary surgery.
While there are tertiary grants available to pay for the employment of a neurosurgeon, a replacement for Dr Thamsanqa Buthelezi, who left after a futile two-year battle to get help in his unit, has not been appointed yet.
Meth said in a written answer to a question in the Eastern Cape legislature that the department was focusing on more "general appointments". "As such, the current recruitment cycle is prioritising appointment of general specialists in selected district hospitals such as Uitenhage Provincial Hospital, to strengthen the referral system," she stated in her response.
Two months ago the top management of the Eastern Cape Department of Health told Mkhize, during a high-level meeting, that they had money for only another three months, as medico-legal claims were depleting their budget. Zungu, who was sent to the province by Mkhize, said the department had to pay more than R1 billion in medico-legal claims in the past year, with another R3 billion in claims against the department "on the books".
Meth said during her budget speech this year that medico-legal claims would bring the department to its knees.
In March, in a written response to questions from Maverick Citizen, Meth said the "head office" in Bhisho had a "big head" and this was an issue she wished to address. In June, in a response in the Eastern Cape legislature, she stated that the salary bill for the non-medical staff in the department was R3.5 billion – more than the department spent on goods and services.
On Monday she said that she had not made "as much progress as I would have liked", to address this issue.
"We had a target for the end of May. I have initiated a rationalisation-of-staff exercise at the head office with the focus on senior management service members with requisite qualifications to fill vacant leadership posts in districts and large hospitals. I have also facilitated the reallocation of some members and we are close to implementing executive recommendations in this regard. This exercise has a potential for the department to fill up to 25% of current vacant leadership posts."
The Democratic Alliance's Jane Cowley said goods and services were "the nuts and bolts of a functional hospital or clinic, and it is impossible for any institution to run effectively without them. The bloated administration, however, still has no concrete, approved staff organogram, and cadre deployment takes precedence.
"The more the administration has grown, the worse the health services have become. Provincial and tertiary hospitals with between 600 and 1,000 beds require goods and services budgets of at least R500 million per annum if they are to function optimally. They have received less than half of this."
Zungu's partial departure from the provincial health department comes amid a chaotic response to the staff shortages in public hospitals.
On 23 May Anele Gonyela from the provincial health department's Human Resources Department signed a letter distributed to senior doctors in the department and the heads of departments.
"Please note that all posts are still deemed unfunded as communicated in the circular sent out in December 2021." The circular also states that "if there are any submissions that are critical to service delivery they need to be sent to the Rationalisation Committee for consideration".
But by 1 June this was replaced by a memo from Zungu stating they would consider filling posts that had been vacant since April. Zungu also said she was reinstating the powers of human resource delegations that were withdrawn in December 2020.
"The executive management team of the department has acknowledged that the existing human resources capacity has gaps due to posts that could not be replaced in the previous financial years, thus threatening effective provision of health services in the province."
Kupelo said he was still waiting "for answers" on the situation at the neonatal unit at Dora Nginza Hospital.
The director-general of the national Department of Health, Dr Sandile Buthelezi, did not respond to a request for comment.
Full Daily Maverick report (Open access)
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Mix water and sugar in a small sauce pan and heat just until the sugar all dissolves. Set this aside to cool a bit and juice the lemons. Add the lemon juice to the simple syrup and stir to combine. To serve, pour warm over a glass FULL of ice. This recipe made enough for 3 adult size servings or 2 adults and 2 boys.
Thx for sharing! We have a crazy plentiful Meyer lemon tree in our backyard and I'm always interested in ways to use them!


Are all harris lanier transcriber equipment accessories interchangeable between models? I have 2 Lanier voicewriters: 150 and 250 and they share the same foot pedal model: LX-055-5. Does this mean that I can use any harris lanier foot pedal and it will function expectantly? If this answer is no, does anybody know of an adaptor that I can purchase that enables me to interchange? Thankyou.
Most likley it is a bad motor or a broken belt. There is a seperate motor or FF and Rewind.. If the motor is bad it is likly that the motor control circuit board is bad also (motor shorts and takes out the board also). If there is no "click" when play is selected it could be the play solenoid is dirty and not engaging. I have repaired thousand of these units through the years and in spite of these issues they were a great sounding unit.
BTW this is true for the VW-210, VW-260, p-139 and simular units.
Pull up Job List, find the dictation and assign it to a specific person. Then you can listen to it. It will beep unless your feet are on the pedals.
I don't think that's possible, the minicassette won't fit between the spool spindles. You may be able to use a minicassette player, and route its output to the full-sized cassette recorder, though, or to a little transmitter that broadcasts to a matching receiver in the full-sized cassette player.
I HAVE THE LANIER VW 110 TRANSCRIBER; I PLUG IT IN AND GET NOTHING. COULD MY POWER CORD BE BAD?
There is a sensor that detects tape movement. Unfortunately they do go bad and will probably need to be replaced.
Have a manual for Lanier Audio Players & Recorders?


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Q: Is it possible to fill polygon with pattern using Fabric.js? I was draw polygon object in canvas of pattern image.
fabric.Image.fromURL("http://netdna.webdesignerdepot.com/uploads/album_artwork/t2-7.jpg", function(img) {

    img.scaleToWidth(100).set({
      originX: 'left',
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    var patternSourceCanvas = new fabric.StaticCanvas();
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    var pattern = new fabric.Pattern({
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          width: img.getWidth() + 0,
          height: img.getHeight() + 0
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      repeat: 'repeat'
    });

    canvas.add(new fabric.Polygon([
      {x: 185, y: 0},
      {x: 250, y: 100},
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        left: 220,
        top: 200,
        angle: -30,
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I found this source here.
http://fabricjs.com/dynamic-patterns/
But i want to fill in polygon object as SVG type file.
Is it possible ???
Thanks...

A: just  replace:
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yourShape in the above code may be svg or any simple shapes or whatever,they will be used as the patterns to fill your polygon.

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What Is The Best Size Of Acoustic Guitar?
Acoustic Blues Guitar - Does Size Matter?
Martin Guitars have of course got a great name for very good reasons - just strum the bass E and a top range model and you'll see why. The sound is rich and the sustain (the length of time the note can be heard before it decays) just goes on and on.
I could never afford very good guitars, being basically a street singer, so I was always intrigued and dreamed of owning a top range Martin guitar. Mind you, I wasn't too fussed, as my playing style is a bit hard and often I use a steel finger to act as natural amplifier - no subtlety there, I'm afraid!
This inevitably causes my strings to buzz and whine with a normal action, so a great guitar would be wasted on me. I also use an amplifier, so the acoustics don't really mean much in those conditions.
Which Size Guitar Is Good For You?
However, when a friend of mine took me to see an acquaintance who owned 5 different very top range models, I was definitely intrigued, so off I went to England. I don't remember the models, but they were various sized bodies and I was a bit afraid of 'dinking' them, as I'm not too careful with my instruments sometimes, each one was minimum $3000!
I tried them all one after the other, and I settled on one that I quite liked. The incredible thing is this - I didn't like most of them! Oh, they looked great and all, but I just wasn't comfortable with them. I think I was just so used to hitting guitar hard that I wasn't playing them in the right way. While it's true that the basses on the dreadnought sizes and the bigger bodied guitars were phenomenal, I always favor smaller bodies for my predominantly ragtime blues picking style.
My first guitar was a small Yamaha and very, very cheap (less than $100), which I used to play on the street and in the metro in London (c1976). It made a lot of noise and it was very well made. In fact, I've owned about 3 Yammies and like them a lot. My brother in law has an expensive model, which he favors over his other guitars.
The biggest problem with the parlor size, or 000 body size, which I prefer to play, is that the sound a bit 'tinny' - one way round this is buy a Martin 000, as the acoustics tend to make up for the small body size and the basses ring out, while the treble strings don't ring too much. Of course, with an amplifier the sound can be balanced quite well. The Martin 000x1 is an interesting guitar because it's not made of wood! Well, not all of it anyway.
The top is spruce, but the neck, sides and back are synthetic (Martin don't say exactly what it is). Now the purest might just turn up his nose at this, but I get many comments about the sound of the guitar I play and people are simply amazed i tell them it's not of wooden construction. I bought mine from Thomman in France and it arrived playable straight out of the box. The technicians set them up before shipping and they do a great job. One thing about this guitar though - due to the synthetic construction and like a plywood top guitar, it won't improve with age.
I have a jumbo sized bodied guitar build by Aria and designed by Johhny Joyce. It just gets better and better, but the neck is a bit thick for fast and comfortable playing. The basses are something else though.
The great thing about the guitar world is that you can't take anything for granted and there are always a few gems waiting to be discovered. For example, some time ago Gretsch produced a novelty guitar for $70 called the Americana. there were 4 in the series and came with pictures of camp fires, cows and flying saucers.
The idea was that these novelty guitar could be hung on the wall and be a taking piece, or maybe taken to the camp fire on vacation, as they were not too expensive. The amazing thing was that these were made of solid wood, featured standard Gretsch construction and had good machine heads. In short, they sound great and have now become collectors pieces - if you can get one!
Another fine instrument in the parlor category comes from Vintage - the VE300 .
This guitar was voted 'best under $1000' and is a very fine instrument for not a lot of money. I played one on the street for several months. The only thing was that when played acoustically, it doesn't have the basses that the Martin 000x1 has, so I replaced it with that.


Re: Dragon Age Toolset Head Morph for PC by whuffie » Fri Nov 26, 2010 1:30 am While I create tutorials for everyone and anyone out there playing Dragon Age Origins, please at least link back to my blog if you're going to take it word per word, use my character …... 21/03/2010 · Ello, this is a tutorial for Dragon Age Origins. This tutorial explains how to change your CURRENT character's face/hair with a different character's face.
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The characters in Dragon Age Origins also have their own personalities which must be managed, and they will judge the player character's choices. The guide to characters gives tips which characters in Dragon Age Origins are the best.


This is the second report about private probation in the US released by Human Rights Watch (HRW); the first can be found here.
HRW makes recommendations for the federal government, state governments, courts, judges, prosecutors, and probation companies in the four states researched in this report to improve the experience of people who are currently under probation supervision.
You can read the full text of this report here.
In Tennessee and Florida, when only partial payments are made or when a probationer is in arrears, courts let probation officers decide how payments are allocated between company fees and court costs.
*See the full text for the complete list of recommendations advanced by Human Rights Watch.


the remainder of the project's development.
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Our production inspection group verifies a product's ability to function properly in your assembly.
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import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper;

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public class TaskReaderDbHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
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    public static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 1;
    public static final String DATABASE_NAME = "Tasks.db";

    private static final String SQL_CREATE_ENTRIES =
            "CREATE TABLE " + TaskEntry.TABLE_NAME + " (" +
                    TaskEntry._ID + " INTEGER PRIMARY KEY," +
                    TaskEntry.COLUMN_TASK_NAME + " TEXT," +
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    public TaskReaderDbHelper(Context context) {
        super(context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);
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The exact point in Weiner when the audience feels like this isn't something that should be observed arrives somewhere about the halfway point of the film.
The film is striking primarily because it provides a human side to Congressman Anthony Weiner during his run for the mayor of New York City in 2013. It essentially humanizes Weiner because of its sense of forced intimacy. Josh Kreigman and Elyse Steinberg portray Weiner as humanized through the way the primaries of the film treat him, and essentially, how he was believed to be at the beginning of the film–a punchline.
The epigraph at the start of the film helps to thicken the tongue-in-cheek nature of the initial pun of the film. And indeed, sexting allegations and Twitter trouble and multiple acts of infidelity certainly are not ways to engender a personality to an audience.
But the tightrope act of the film is that Anthony Weiner is by no means on trial outside of the public consciousness. Kriegman and Steinberg do not at any point demand sympathy for Weiner or his wife Huma Abedin, (who is fascinating), or even for Sydney Leathers.
Instead, the film does one thing and one thing well. It places the camera on its subject during multiple intimate moments and forces us to watch. The film is about Weiner, but it is not about Weiner. It is about betrayal and redemption and the possibility of rebirth. It begins where it ends, as its subject realizes its own circular nature.


LONDON (Reuters) - Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway said the refereeing had left a bitter taste after his promoted side went down 1-0 at home to a Tottenham Hotspur penalty in their opening Premier League match on Sunday.
Holloway claimed Spurs would feel the same sense of injustice when they faced the biggest sides in the league such as champions Manchester United.
He said referee Mark Clattenburg should have awarded Palace a penalty in the action at the Spurs end that directly preceded the spot kick awarded to the visitors when Aaron Lennon's cross hit defender Dean Moxey's arm and went out of play.
Spain striker Roberto Soldado converted the penalty on his English debut.
"It's going to be a long, hard season for me with these people (referees). I had this with (former team) Blackpool. Certain clubs get fouls and others don't," Holloway said.
"I've got to learn what a foul is because I thought (Tottenham's Nacer) Chadli deliberately body-checked (Stephen) Dobbie, smashed him down, and ran off with the ball.
"If the referee didn't see that, the assistant should have. You have to ask if he's good enough if he didn't see that. I don't see how he can miss it," Holloway told reporters.
"A minute and a half later, we're arguing over whether (Moxey's) was deliberate handball.
"I don't understand how it was a penalty, or how Moxey could have got out of the way of it.
"Do I think I would have got that at Tottenham? No I don't. Tottenham will feel decisions like that if they play Man United.
"I just want a bit of fairness. I want a foul like anyone else would have got one. I've got a horrible taste in my mouth after that."


From watching The Wire, I know there's a correct use for the word "evacuate," but I'm really struggling with this. Can someone teach me when I'm supposed to laugh because a newscaster accidentally says that a person is shitting out a building instead of saying that people were forced to leave the building?
People vacate a building when it is evacuated.


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So this week I attended two days of the NCTM 2018 Annual Conference in Washington D.C. I'm so fortunate because my school has a funder, PDT, that fit the bill. This was my first NCTM Conference — and I'm pretty sure that without their generosity there's no way that I would have been able to attend.
While I was overwhelmed with the massive selection of workshops, thousands of people, and the dizzying amount of corporate sponsors, I did my best to stay focused. I narrowed my takeaways to two, one big and one small.
Well first let me just say that, naively, I was surprised by how lackluster some of the sessions were. None that I attended were horrible, but there were several that I was very unhappy about. This was true also for my colleagues that attended. What can I say, I've been spoiled by MfA — where the quality of PD is through the roof. After a while, I just started looking for sessions facilitated by folks that I knew and could bank on, like Sara Vanderwerf. She never ceases to inject me ridiculous levels of inspiration.
Anyways, back the takeaways. This school year, while I've adopted a more problem-based learning approach in my classroom, I've been crying inside at the loss of my standards-based grading structure. By pouring so much energy into reimagining my classroom, I sort of gave up on integrating SBG with PBL.
Well, with that being said, it seemed as if the entire the conference was screaming SBG at me. I attended a session with Dave Martin (he was incredible) on differentiating assessments and SBG and I walked out knowing that I have to find a way. My kids deserve meaningful, accurate assessment. There were several other sessions that also forced me to rekindle the love that I have for standards-based grading. This was the biggest and most impactful takeaway.
On a smaller scale, I went to a session by Chris Shore, the pioneer of Clothesline Math. I have played around with Clothesline Math once before after reading about it online, but this was an opportunity to experience it firsthand. It was awesome! Interestingly, his focus was on functions, yes functions, on the number line. It's such an intuitive tool for building number sense. I'm definitely making plans to bring the open number line to my students before the end of the year. In fact, I hope that it can become a staple.
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Mainstream groups such as the American Heart Association and the American Dietetic Association endorse a unified set of dietary guidelines for people who wish to lose weight—eat a low-fat diet and cut calories.
However, many popular diet books take a very different approach. The Atkins diet, the Zone diet, Protein Power , and numerous other dietary approaches turn thumbs down on low-fat. Instead, these methods recommend cutting down on carbohydrates. According to proponents of these theories, when you reduce the carbohydrates in your diet (and, correspondingly, increase protein and/or fat), you will find it much easier to reduce your calorie intake, and you may even lose weight without cutting calories.
The controversy over these contradictions has been heated. Proponents of the low-fat diet claim that low-carbohydrate diets are ineffective and even dangerous, while low-carb proponents say much the same about the low-fat approach. However, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that neither side has a strong case. Researchers concluded, essentially, that a calorie is a calorie, regardless of whether it comes from a low-carbohydrate or a low-fat diet. 1 They did not find any consistent evidence that the low-carb diet makes it easier to lose weight than the low-fat diet, but neither did they find any consistent evidence for the reverse. Furthermore, the authors of the JAMA review did not find any compelling reason to conclude that low-carb diets are unsafe, although they did point out that the long-term safety of such diets remains unknown.
Subsequent studies confirmed these findings for a variety of low-carb diets. 4-9,11-15,18,20-21,29 In some studies, one particular diet method may do better than others. But, in other studies, a different diet stands out.
The Mediterranean diet, which is relatively high in fiber and monounsaturated fats (eg, olive oil) has also attracted the attention of nutrition researchers. There is good evidence that it is as effective as low-carb diets for weight reduction, and probably more effective than low-fat diets. 30 It also seems to have the added advantage of benefiting diabetic patients more than the other two diets.
Therefore, based on the current state of information, it seems that the most sensible course is as follows: If you need to lose weight, experiment with different diets, and see which one allows you to most easily cut calories (and keep them cut). If the low-carb diet approach works for you, stick with it. However, if it does not help you lose weight, you probably should not continue it indefinitely.
In addition, people who take the blood thinner warfarin (Coumadin) may need to have their blood coagulation tested after beginning a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Two case reports suggest that such diets may decrease the effectiveness of warfarin, requiring a higher dose. 10 Conversely, if you are already on warfarin and a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet and go off the diet, you may need to reduce your warfarin dose.
Bravata DM, Sanders L, Huang J. Efficacy and safety of low-carbohydrate diets: a systematic review. JAMA . 2003;289:1837-1850.
Knight EL, Stampfer MJ, Hankinson SE, et al. The impact of protein intake on renal function decline in women with normal renal function or mild renal insufficiency. Ann Intern Med . 2003;138:460-467.
Williams C. Macronutrients and performance. J Sports Sci . 1995;13:1-10.
Samaha FF, Iqbal N, Seshadri P, et al. A low-carbohydrate as compared with a low-fat diet in severe obesity. N Engl J Med . 2003;348:2074-2081.
Pirozzo S, Summerbell C, Cameron C, et al. Should we recommend low-fat diets for obesity? Obes Rev . 2003;4:83-90.
Foster GD, Wyatt HR, Hill JO, et al. A randomized trial of a low-carbohydrate diet for obesity. N Engl J Med . 2003;348:2082-2090.
Pelkman CL, Fishell VK, Maddox DH, et al. Effects of moderate-fat (from monounsaturated fat) and low-fat weight-loss diets on the serum lipid profile in overweight and obese men and women. Am J Clin Nutr . 2004;79:204-212.
Dansinger ML, Gleason JA, Griffith JL, et al. Comparison of the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and Zone diets for weight loss and heart disease risk reduction: a randomized trial. JAMA . 2005;293:43-53.
Johnston CS, Tjonn SL, Swan PD. High-protein, low-fat diets are effective for weight loss and favorably alter biomarkers in healthy adults. J Nutr . 2004;134:586-591.
Beatty SJ, Mehta BH, Rodis JL. Decreased warfarin effect after initiation of high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets. Ann Pharmacother . 2005;39:744-747.
Petersen M, Taylor MA, Saris WH, et al. Randomized, multi-center trial of two hypo-energetic diets in obese subjects: high- versus low-fat content. Int J Obes (Lond). 2005 Dec 6. [Epub ahead of print].
Howard BV, Manson JE, Stefanick ML, et al. Low-fat dietary pattern and weight change over 7 years: the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial. JAMA. 2006;295:39-49.
Hodgson JM, Burke V, Beilin LJ, et al. Increased protein intake from lean red meat replacing carbohydrate-rich foods lowers blood pressure in hypertensive individuals. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2005;14: Suppl:S64.
Gardner CD, Kiazand A, Alhassan S, et al. Comparison of the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN diets for change in weight and related risk factors among overweight premenopausal women: the A TO Z Weight Loss Study: a randomized trial. JAMA . 2007;297:969-977.
Wal JS, McBurney MI, Moellering N, et al. Moderate-carbohydrate low-fat versus low-carbohydrate high-fat meal replacements for weight loss. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2007;58:321-329.
Johnstone AM, Horgan GW, Murison SD, et al. Effects of a high-protein ketogenic diet on hunger, appetite, and weight loss in obese men feeding ad libitum. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008;87:44-55.
Hession M, Rolland C, Kulkarni U, et al. Systematic review of randomized controlled trials of low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat/low-calorie diets in the management of obesity and its comorbidities. Obes Rev. 2008 Aug 11.


Each year Harker holds its Teacher Institute as the school year wraps up and this year, it will be led by Lisa Diffenderfer, Scott Kley Contini and Diane Main, all of the instructional technology department. The event, June 8 this year, features presentations by Harker teachers on a wide variety of classroom techniques. Last year, more than 175 participants came out for the event held on the upper school campus to learn about technology and different methods to improve classroom curricula. Read all about last year's event!
Watch for updates, and register early to get a spot!


The GEBCO community is pleased to announce that Dr Bruce Goleby (Geoscience Australia) and Mr Chrétien Ngouanet (University of Dschang, Cameroon) are the newly-appointed Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO representatives to the Joint IHO-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee.
Dr Goleby is the Chief Geophysicist and Group Leader in Innovation and Specialist Services at Geoscience Australia's Energy Division. He has been involved in GEBCO's work for a number of years and is currently an interim Co-Chair of the GEBCO Technical Sub-Committee on Ocean Mapping (TSCOM) and a member of the IHO-IOC GEBCO Cook Book Working Group.
Mr Ngouanet is a lecturer in Cartography, Topography and GIS at the University of Dschang, Cameroon and is involved in marine atlas work for the IOC/UNESCO ODINAFRICA Project. We look forward to working with him.
GEBCO is pleased to announce that Captain Patricio Carrasco (Director, Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA)) has been appointed as a new International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO) representative to the Joint IHO-IOC Guiding Committee for GEBCO.


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Today's movie is The Razor's Edge (1984). This movie rates a low 6.6 on iMDB.com  and at rottentomatoes.com only 50 percent on the Tomatometer, but a fair 77 percent audiences' approval. This is fairly accurate.
In other words, this is your standard 1960s hippie drama, moved back in time and adapted from the great novel by Somerset Maugham. If the movie really had a sense of its time (if it seemed to know that it took place in an era when the characters were much more unusual than they would be today), the hero's odyssey would mean more. But the flaw in this movie is that the hero is too passive, too contained, too rich in self-irony, to really sweep us along in his quest.
He didn't completely hate it.
And I must say, I loved it a lot more before I watched the Anne Baxter-Gene Tierney-Tyron Power version.
Bill Murray played naive American seeker Larry Darrell. Bill Murray was covered in Episode 96 – Scrooged (1988).
Brian Doyle-Murray played soldier Piedmont. Brian Doyle-Murray was covered in Episode 96 – Scrooged (1988). Brotherly love is a good thing.
Theresa Russell played the role of the self-destructive Sophie MacDonald. Russell was born in California in 1957. Russell started modeling at age 12, and her first film was The Last Tycoon (1976) which was directed by Elia Kazan. Her co-stars were Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Mitchum.
Russell stood out in The Razor's Edge (1984), but her fame really grew when she starred opposite Debra Winger in the thriller Black Widow (1987). Other movies include Kafka (1991), Being Human (1994), Wild Things (1998), The Believer (2001), Luckytown (2000), Empire Falls (2005), Spider-Man 3 (2007) and Jolene (2008).
Catherine Hicks played the role of spoiled brat Isabel Bradley. Hicks was born in 1951 in New York City. She was raised in Arizona and graduated high school in 1969. She attended Saint Mary's College and then went to Cornell University where she received an acting scholarship. She left Cornell in 1975 and got a job on the soap opera "Ryan's Hope 1976-1978. Hicks acted on Broadway for a time before moving to Hollywood. Her first non-tv movie was in 1982, but the late 1980s were her time to shine. Roles during this period include Garbo Talks (1984), The Razor's Edge (1984) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986). However, her most well-known movie role was as "Dr. Gillian Taylor" who helped Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the Enterprise take a humpbacked whale from the 20th to the 23rd century in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Hicks continued to work in film and on television and had a successful series on television "7th Heaven" 1996-2007.
Denholm Elliott played socialite Elliott Templeton. Denholm was born in England in 1922. He spent almost 40 years working as a character actor in the UK and the USA. His first movie was released in 1949. However, it was much later when I began to notice him. He played a rather odd part as the Abortionist in Alfie (1966). Another odd cast was as Will Scarlett in the adventures of elder Robin Hood in Robin and Marian (1976). He had a part in the post-Nazi thriller The Boys from Brazil (1978) and a member of the British Army in Zulu Dawn (1979) as did most English actors.
Denholm really made his marker when he played the highly competent museum curator Dr. Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) where he showed he was totally inept once he left the walls of the museum. Denholm played a great snobby Elliott Templeton in The Razor's Edge (1984) and performed almost the same role as a butler in the comedy Trading Places (1983). Denholm died in 1992 at the age of 70.
Saeed Jaffrey plays Raaz. Jaffrey was born in Punjab, India in 1929. Saeed attended the University of Allahabad and earned a post-graduate history degree. He worked for All India Radio and ran his own English language theater company. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London finishing in 1956. He moved to the US on a Fulbright scholarship and earned a second post-graduate degree.
He worked on stage in American and Britain before moving into television. He became a well-recognized star in the United Kingdom but continued stage work in the USA. Saeed began his US film career in The Guru (1969) but made higher quality films such as The Man Who Would Be King (1975) where he performed the part of Billy Fish wonderfully, Gandhi (1982), and A Passage to India (1984). Sadly, he passed away in 2015 at the age of 86.
Kunchuck Tharching played the Lama. This was his only movie role.
The movie begins at a 4th of July picnic outside of Chicago. Baseball, swimming, and hot dogs – all is fine in the world. The American Ambulance Service is sending ambulances and crews to work with our future World War I ally's. The local crew are recent college graduates, Gray Maturin (James Keach) and Larry Darrell (Bill Murray). Gray is all business and duty, while Larry is a carefree goof. It does a good job showing Larry's love for Isabel Bradley (Catherine Hicks) and his fondness for married Sophie MacDonald (Theresa Russell). They also show Elliott Templeton's (Denholm Elliott) contempt for his American roots. They make a nice transition for the 4th of July fireworks to the World War I battlefield.
Piedmont (Brian Doyle-Murray) is their boss, and he is jaded by the war and the absurdity of the whole thing. Piedmont teaches Gray and Larry, and another crew from Harvard that brought a white ambulance to the war. The Harvard crew is killed on their first run, and Larry learns to follow Piedmont's rules. Piedmont criticizes everyone that dies so he won't miss them. Larry's only hope is thinking of returning to Isabel.
Near the end of the war, the ambulance crews are in no man's land looking for survivors. They get attacked and cutoff. Piedmont takes a bayonet to the stomach, saving Larry's life. Larry criticizes Piedmont so he won't miss him.
Larry and Gray return home, but Larry can't get on track. Gray goes to work as a stockbroker in his father's office, but Larry turns down the job. Sophie's baby has been born. Isabel has a fight with Larry about turning down the job and not setting the wedding date. Finally, Larry says he needs some time to travel. Elliott thinks it's great as it will break-up the marriage plans between the two. Elliott vows to help Larry in Europe. Larry rejects all of Elliott's efforts and works and lives among the working class.
After six months, Isabel and her mother come to visit Elliott in Paris. Elliott tells Isabel that she will inherit everything he has. Larry shows up, and they are back in love, just like before. But it not long before Larry's bohemian ways and lack of ambition cause a rift with Isabel. Isabel returns to Illinois and quickly marries Gray. Larry moves on and begins working in a coal mine.
One day in the mine, Larry save the life of Mackenzie (Peter Vaughan). Mackenzie takes a liking to Larry. Mackenzie tells Larry about some books and finally tells about India, where many people search for the meaning of life. Mackenzie is nowhere near as interesting as the defrocked priest in the earlier version of this film.
Gary and Isabel are called to the hospital where Sophie has to be told that her husband Bob and her child have been killed in a car accident the family was in. It is a very good scene, and they start doping her up on morphine. Gray and Isabel desert Sophie when she needs them the most.
Larry travels to India and rents a houseboat from Raaz (Saeed Jaffrey). Raaz tells Larry that he is a wealthy man and washes dishes in the river as a religious experience. Raaz agrees to take Larry to a monastery in the high mountains. They travel for several days, higher into the mountains, and Larry suffers from mountain sickness. Finally, they get to the Buddhist monastery and meet the Lama (Kunchuck Tharching). Larry is allowed to stay and continue his learning.
While Larry is away, the stock market crashes, so it has been 10-years since World War I ended. Gray's father becomes part of a gentle rain of stockbrokers that fell to Earth that year (he really shot himself). Isabel and Gray have two daughters. Gray sinks into depression. Elliott is fixed well for money because of his Vatican connections. Sophie is drinking a lot, but she does turn up for the funeral.
Larry returns to Paris, and the effects of The Great Depression are showing. Larry runs into Elliott in the marketplace. Elliott tells about Isabel and Gray and their troubles. Elliott asks Larry to come by sometime.
Larry meets the children and Isabel is still in love with him. She is putting a brave face on their problems. Larry uses self-hypnosis to help Gray get rid of his migraines. With Gray feeling well again, they decide to go out to celebrate. They continue going out, and one night they find Sophie at a dive bar. She is at least a part-time prostitute if not full time. She has a boyfriend /pimp Coco (Serge Feuillard). Larry has strong feelings for Sophie, and he eventually springs her from the bar.
Larry takes Sophie to his flat and slowly gets her off the booze and opium. They have a wonderful romance, and both of them are happy for a time. Larry and Sophie meet Gray, Elliott, and Isabel for lunch. Elliott makes a big deal about some Persovka. All except Sophie drink. She is looking a little rough. Larry and Sophie announce their plan to marry. Isabel blows a gasket.
Isabel says she wants to buy Sophie a dress for the wedding. She gets her to the house and then starts ragging on her about her dead child and how she is no good. When Sophie looks at a picture of her dead family, and she is done in. Isabel intentionally leaves an open bottle of Persovka with Sophie and leaves her alone.
When Sophie doesn't return Larry searches the dive bar and opium dens looking for her. He finally finds her high on opium and hanging with Coco. Sophie is as mean to Larry as she can be. She says Isabel was right about everything. A man attacks Larry from behind. He does okay until the odds turn against him.
The next day, he is laying around, suffering from his beating. Two detectives come in and tell him the Sophie has been murdered by having her throat cut. Larry reflects more on the meaning of life.
Finally, he goes to Elliott's house and finds out from Gray that the old man is dying. Joseph, the Butler (André Maranne) tells Larry that Elliott is heartbroken because he never received an invitation to Princess Novemali's party. Larry picks up an envelope and an old bill and puts it in his pocket.
Larry tells Isabel that Sophie was murdered and he knows that Isabel was behind the drinking. Isabel confesses her love for Larry. They all go in to be with Elliott as he dies. Larry pulls the envelope from his pocket and pretends it is the coveted party invitation. Elliott dictates his reply, curses Novemali, and dies a happy man.
Larry tells Isabel that he owed a debt to Piedmont for his life. He though Sophie was his reward for a good life, but there is no payoff in life. Larry says goodbye to Gray, and Joseph asks him where he is going. Larry says he is going home to America.
World-Famous Short Summary – Veteran goes on extended va-ca.
The first time I saw this movie was in 1984 when it played on HBO. I set my VCR to record and ended up watching the movie as it recorded. Then I watched it again. By this time the Sun was up, I invited my friend over, and we watched it again and skipped class. I was pretty taken with this movie. Unfortunately, Bill Murray's jokes don't hold up as well. A good movie, but stick to the earlier version.
Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, John Byrum (Dir.), Kunchuck Tharching, Saeed Jaffrey, Theresa Russell. Bookmark.


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The Porsche 911 GT2 is a high-performance, track-focused sports car built by the German automobile manufacturer Porsche from 1993 to 2009, and then since 2010 as the GT2 RS. It is based on the 911 Turbo, and uses a similar twin-turbocharged engine, but features numerous upgrades, including engine enhancements, larger brakes, and stiffer suspension calibration. The GT2 is significantly lighter than the Turbo due to its use of rear-wheel-drive instead of all-wheel-drive system and the reduction or removal of interior components. As a result, the GT2 (now GT2 RS) is the most expensive and fastest model among the 911 lineup.

993 generation

The 993 GT2 was initially built in order to meet homologation requirements for GT2 class racing. Because the cars were built to meet the GT2 class regulations, the road cars were named accordingly (but badged as the 911 GT). The 993 GT2 featured widened plastic fenders and a larger rear wing with air scoops in the struts for improved engine cooling. The 993 GT2's original  engine generated a maximum power output of ; in 1998 it was upgraded to . 57 road cars were built (thirteen of which were right-hand drive).

Technical specifications

Configuration: Air-cooled twin-turbocharged 2 valves per cylinder Porsche flat-six engine
Displacement:
Bore × stroke:           ×
Maximum power:   at 6,000 rpm
Specific power:
Maximum torque:        at 3,500 rpm (1998 MY)
Specific torque:
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase:
Front track:
Rear track:
Curb weight:
Power-to-weight ratio:  259.2 W/kg (6.34 lb/hp)
Top Speed:
0–97 km/h (60 mph): 3.9 seconds
0–161 km/h (100 mph): 8.7 seconds
1/4 mile (402 m):  12.1 seconds at

996 generation

In 1999, the 993 was replaced with the new 996 model. The new GT2 took two years to develop and during that time, Porsche decided to abandon the GT2 for motorsports use, instead concentrating on competing in GT3 class racing with the new naturally aspirated 911 GT3.

Developed primarily as a road car in contrast to its predecessor, the new GT2 featured a twin-turbocharged version of the GT3's  flat-six engine. It generated a maximum output of , which was later increased to . Like the 993 GT2, the body of the 996 GT2 differed significantly from those of other 996 variants; major differences included wider fenders, a more aggressively shaped nose, and a large rear wing.

According to road testing performed by Car and Driver magazine, the GT2 suffers from hardly any turbo lag. Despite a 10-millimeter reduction in ride height from the 911 Turbo, the drag coefficient is slightly higher —  vs. the Turbo's 0.33 — due to the fixed rear wing.

Technical specifications

Configuration: Water-cooled twin-turbocharged Porsche flat-six engine
Valvetrain:  DOHC 4 valves per cylinder
Displacement:
Bore × stroke:      ×
Compression ratio: 9.4:1
Maximum power:   at 5,700 rpm
Specific power:
Maximum torque:     at 3,500 rpm
Specific torque:
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase:
Front track:
Rear track:
Curb weight:
Drag coefficient:  0.34
Fuel capacity:
Power-to-weight ratio:  248.3 W/kg (6.63 lb/hp)
Top speed:
0–100 km/h (62 mph):  4.1 seconds–3.9 seconds
0–200 km/h (124 mph):  13.9 seconds–12.2 seconds
1/4 mile (402 m):  12.1 seconds

997 generation

The 996 GT2 was superseded by the 997 GT2 in 2007 after a brief hiatus, with cars arriving at dealerships in November 2007 after an official launch at the 62nd Frankfurt Motor Show.

The GT2's engine was based on the  flat-6 engine as seen on the Turbo, but featured two variable geometry turbochargers. The engine generated a maximum power output of  at 6,500 rpm and  of torque at 2,200 rpm. The GT2 accelerated from 0 to  in 3.6 seconds and on to  in 10.6 seconds, and had a maximum top speed of . This made it the third Porsche production road car to exceed the  barrier, with the exception of the 1998 911 GT1 (of which only 20 units were produced for street use, solely to satisfy ACO homologation requirements for racing).

The American automotive magazine Motor Trend tested a 2008 Porsche 911 GT2 and achieved a  acceleration time of 3.3 seconds, and a quarter mile time of 11.3 seconds at . The GT2 also recorded a braking distance from 60 to 0 mph of , and 1.10g of lateral grip.

The appearance of the 997 GT2 once again differed from its sister car, the 997 Turbo. It had a revised front lip, a newly designed rear wing with two small air inlets on either side, and a revised rear bumper featuring titanium exhaust pipes and shark fin outlets.

German Porsche test driver Walter Röhrl lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife on a public day in 7 minutes, 32 seconds in the 997 GT2.

A total of 194 units were sold in the United States and 19 units in Canada.

Technical specifications
Technical specifications of the standard 997 GT2:

Configuration:  Water-cooled twin-turbocharged Porsche flat-six engine
Displacement:  ; 4 valves per cylinder
Bore × stroke:   ×
Compression ratio:  9.4:1
Maximum power:   at 6,500 rpm
Specific power:
Maximum torque:   at 2,200 rpm (continuing to 4,500 rpm due to VTG effects)
Specific torque:
Front brakes: Ventilated carbon ceramic discs with 6-piston monobloc aluminum fixed calipers & ABS
Rear brakes: Ventilated carbon ceramic discs with 4-piston monobloc aluminum fixed calipers & ABS
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase:
Curb Weight:
Drag coefficient:       0.32
Fuel tank capacity:
Luggage Area Volume:
Power-to-weight ratio:  275.0 W/kg (5.98 lb/hp)
Top Speed:
0–100 km/h (62 mph):  3.9 seconds
0–200 km/h (124 mph): 9.8 seconds

Tests performed by American automobile magazine
0-30 mph (48 km/h):  1.2 seconds
0-60 mph (97 km/h):  3.8 seconds
0-100 mph (161 km/h): 7.4 seconds
0-150 mph (241 km/h): 15.9 seconds
0-186 mph (300 km/h): 34.0 seconds
1/4 mile (402 m):  11.3 seconds at

997 GT2 RS

On May 4, 2010, an RS variant was announced to German dealers in Leipzig. The engine in the GT2 RS generated a maximum power output of  and  of torque. The GT2 RS weighs  less than the GT2, allowing for a top speed of  and a  acceleration time of 3.5 seconds.

According to the then Porsche Motorsports manager Andreas Preuninger, the RS was conceived around 2007 as a skunk-works effort. The 727 code number selected for the project corresponds to one of the Nissan GT-R's lap times around the Nürburgring's Nordschleife. When the dust settled, Porsche claimed that test driver Timo Kluck had supposedly eclipsed that target by an impressive nine seconds.
Porsche produced only 500 units of the 997 GT2 RS globally.

On 13 February 2022, a 2019 Porsche 911 GT2 RS driven by Jeff Morton won the 3 day Targa High Country tarmac rally by 2 minutes, 24 seconds.

991 generation

The 991 GT2 RS was initially unveiled at the Xbox 2017 E3 briefing along with the announcement of the Forza Motorsport 7 video game where it was revealed as the cover car as well as being included as a playable vehicle.

The car was officially launched by Porsche at the 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed along with the introduction of the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series. The 991 GT2 RS is powered by a 3.8 L twin-turbocharged flat-6 engine that has a maximum power output of  at 7,000 rpm and  of torque, making it the most powerful production 911 variant ever built. Unlike the previous GT2 versions, this car is fitted with a 7-speed PDK transmission to handle the excessive torque produced from the engine. Porsche claims that the car will accelerate from  in 2.7 seconds, and has a top speed of .

The car has a roof made of magnesium, front lid, front and rear wings and boot lid made of carbon-fibre, front and rear apron made of lightweight polyurethane, rear and side windows made of polycarbonate and an exhaust system made of titanium. Porsche claims that the car has a wet weight of .

A Weissach package option is available, which reduces weight by , courtesy of the additional use of carbon-fibre and titanium parts. This includes the roof, the anti-roll bars, and the coupling rods on both axles being made out of carbon-fibre, while the roll cage is made from titanium. The package also includes a set of magnesium wheels. The car was available in the United States from early 2018.

A production run of 1,000 units was planned.

The production run of the GT2 RS was to end by February 2019 but four units were lost in transit to Brazil due to the sinking of the ship Grande America on which the cars were on board in March 2019. Porsche decided to restart production to reproduce the lost cars.

In late September 2017, the 911 GT2 RS driven by Porsche test driver Lars Kern set a 6:47.3 minute lap time around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, averaging a speed of . This made it the fastest production car lap time recorded on the track at the time.

In 2018, Warren Luff at the wheel of the GT2 RS (without the Weissach package) set the fastest production lap record at The Bend Motorsport Park with a lap time of 3:24.079 minutes around the 7.77 km GT layout.

On 25 October 2018, a 6:40.33 minute lap time around the Nürburgring Nordschleife was set by Porsche test driver Lars Kern in a 911 GT2 RS MR prepared by Porsche-owned Manthey Racing, surpassing the previous record holder—an unmodified Lamborghini Aventador SVJ—that had deprived the GT2 RS of its record in July 2018.

In 2019 Porsche set further production lap records with the car at various North American circuits: 1:24.88 minutes at Road Atlanta, 2:15.17 minutes at Road America and 1:22.36 minutes at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Technical specifications
Technical specifications of the 2018 991.2 GT2 RS:

Configuration:  Water-cooled twin-turbocharged Porsche flat-six engine
Displacement:  ; 4 valves per cylinder
Bore × stroke:   ×
Compression ratio:  9.0:1
Redline: 7,000 rpm (rev limiter 7,200 rpm)
Maximum power:   at 7,000 rpm
Specific power:  135.5 kW/litre
Maximum torque:   at 2,200-4,500 rpm
Specific torque: 197.4 N·m/litre
Transmission: 7-speed PDK
Front brakes: 410 mm ventilated carbon ceramic discs with 6-piston monobloc aluminum fixed calipers & ABS
Rear brakes: 390 mm ventilated carbon ceramic discs with 4-piston monobloc aluminum fixed calipers & ABS
Wheels and Tyres (front): 9.5J × 20 ET50, 265/35 ZR20
Wheels and Tyres (rear): 12.5J × 21 ET48, 325/30 ZR21
Length:
Width:
Height:
Wheelbase:
Front track:
Rear track:
Curb Weight: 	         (DIN)
Power-to-weight ratio: 350.3 W/kg
Fuel tank capacity:
Luggage Area Volume:
Drag coefficient: 0.35
Top Speed:
0–:  2.7 seconds
0–:  2.8 seconds
0–:  5.8 seconds
0–:  8.3 seconds
0–:  22.1 seconds
: 1.5 seconds
: 5.5 seconds
1/4 mile (402 m): 10.5 seconds
Turning radius: 11.1 metre

GT2 RS Clubsport

Introduced at the 2018 LA Auto Show, the GT2 RS Clubsport is the track-only variant of the GT2 RS. New aerodynamic elements increase downforce of the car while removal of non essential components decrease weight further. Notable exterior changes include a larger motor sport oriented rear wing made from carbon fibre shared with the GT3 R, larger front air intakes with integrated LED day time running lights, carbon fibre roof with an integrated escape hatch in case of a crash, carbon fibre engine cover and bonnet along with a racing fuel cell and a new race exhaust system.

The interior is race oriented and notable changes include an FIA-approved roll cage, a single racing bucket seat and a race steering wheel made from carbon fibre with an integrated colour display shared with the GT3 R. The car weighs a total of   less than the GT2 RS road car.

The engine and transmission remain the same as the GT2 RS while new safety features include a PSM stability management system and an ABS system, both of which are manually controlled by rotary dials present on the centre console. The GT2 RS Clubsport comes with 18-inch centre lock forged alloy wheels wrapped in Michelin racing slicks and are shared with the GT3 R race car. Production of the Clubsport is limited to 200 units.

The SRO Motorsports Group announced that a one make series featuring the GT2 RS Clubsport will be held in July 2019 at the 24 Hours of Spa Weekend. Previously, the Clubsport made its track debut at the Bathurst 12 Hour event held in January.

Motorsports

The Porsche GT2 comes from a long line of 911 Porsche Turbo racing cars in international motorsports. Starting with the 1974 911 Carrera turbo for Group 5 racing, followed by the 934 (a racing version of the 930) for Group 4 racing, then the famous Porsche 935 which dominated Group 5 and IMSA racing through 1984. In 1986 a Porsche 961 (racing version of the 959) would be created with little racing success but a leap forward in technology and development such as AWD, 4 valves per cylinder and water-cooled heads (which first appeared in the 1978 Porsche 935 Moby-Dick, used in the Porsche 956/962 GroupC prototypes and then in the 959/961). In 1993, Porsche had experimented with the extensively modified turbo 964, named the Turbo S LM-GT.  Seeing the car's potential to be fast and reliable, as well as customer demand for a car to replace the 964 Carrera RSRs, Porsche chose to develop the turbocharged 993 for customer use.

The 993 GT2 race car featured a stripped interior, integrated rollcage for safety, minor adjustments to the bodywork and wings in order to decrease weight as well as increase downforce, and wider fenders to handle racing slicks.  The suspension was modified to improve racing performance, while the engine was slightly tweaked for endurance. Twin KKK turbochargers, fitted with required air restrictors, allowed for .

At the same time, Porsche also developed a GT2 Evo, able to race in the GT1 category.  The Evo saw an increase in power to  through the use of larger turbochargers.  Other modifications included a new, higher-mounted rear wing, larger fenders to house the wider tires allowed in the GT1 class, and a decrease in weight to .  The GT2 Evo was short-lived, however, as Porsche decided to replace it with the purpose-built 911 GT1 in 1996.

The GT2 and GT2 Evo were initially campaigned in the BPR Global GT Series as well as several other smaller national series, and earned seven wins in their class out of eleven rounds during their first full BPR season in 1996, as well as a class victory in the 1996 and 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans. In the new FIA GT Championship that year, although Porsche faced factory-backed competition from Chrysler, the 911 GT2s managed to win three races.  By 1998, however, the capabilities of the GT2 were unable to combat the increased number of Chrysler Viper GTS-Rs in the series, earning only a single victory.

By 1999, the GT2s had been largely overpowered by the Vipers, as well as newcomers Lister.  Despite this, a GT2 prepared by Roock Racing managed to win the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Daytona.  An increase in engine displacement to 3.8 liters in 2000 was unable to help Porsche, and support for the project ended.  Porsche chose instead to concentrate on the new N-GT category with the GT3-R that same year.  GT2s continued to be used by private teams until 2004.

With the launch of the 996 generation GT2, several privateers attempted to continue on the motorsports history by building their own racing versions.  Belgian PSI Motorsports' 911 Bi-Turbo and German A-Level Engineering's 911 GT2-R were used with mixed success in national series such as Belcar, but were not competitive in international series.

References

External links

 Porsche Cars North America - Porsche 997 GT2 microsite
 Porsche Cars North America - 1995 Porsche 911 GT2
 Porsche Cars North America - 1995 Porsche 911 GT2 Evo

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UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Saudi Arabia's unyielding opposition to November 24 interim nuclear agreement with Iran has triggered speculation about its own projection of military power in the Middle East.
But this is viewed as a worst case scenario, particularly if the longstanding political and military relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia continues to deteriorate.
The initial hint of Saudi nuclear ambitions surfaced back in 2011 when Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States, warned that nuclear threats from Israel and Iran may force Saudi Arabia to follow suit.
Whether this was a serious or an empty threat will depend in part on the evolving negotiations with Iran to terminate its nuclear weapons capability when the current six-month interim agreement expires.
That agreement was between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, namely the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China, plus Germany (P5+1).
Hillel Schenker, co-editor of the Jerusalem-based Palestine-Israel Journal, who has been tracking nuclear developments in the Middle East, told IPS Saudi criticism is also based on the assumption that the Geneva agreement is a bad deal.
Yet if it proves to be a building block towards an arrangement for preventing Iran from going nuclear militarily, Riyadh won't feel the need to obtain its own nuclear counterweight, he added.
That long-term agreement is expected to be finalised at the end of the current six-month interim agreement.
At the moment, said Kile, it is unclear to what extent Iran is willing to limit or reduce its sensitive nuclear fuel cycle activities in exchange for a lifting of Western sanctions, or whether the U.S. and its European Union (EU) partners will agree to lift sanctions without a near-total dismantlement of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
Assuming that a deal can be reached that will involve significant technical limitations on Iran's nuclear programme, accompanied by enhanced verification by the International Atomic Energy Agency – in particular, Iran's accession to the Additional Protocol – to provide assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran, this should help allay U.S., Israeli, and Arab worries by making it more difficult for Iran to build a nuclear weapon, Kile said.
In doing so, it would actually serve to ease nuclear proliferation incentives and pressures in the Middle East, he said.
Besides Saudi Arabia, there has also been speculation about the nuclear ambitions of another Middle Eastern nation, Egypt, currently in political turmoil.
Schenker told IPS that while the Egyptians may also be unhappy with a possible Iranian-Western rapprochement, and consider themselves in competition with Iran for hegemony in the region, they are currently immersed in their own internal issues.
"If the final agreement is a reasonable one from their point of view, there is no chance that they themselves will decide to go nuclear militarily," he predicted.
However, both deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the successor military regime announced interest in reviving the dormant Egyptian programme to build a nuclear energy power plant, perhaps as a counterpoint to the Iranian nuclear energy programme.
In addition, a solid final deal with the Iranians will only increase Egyptian determination to promote a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, and a desire to place the Israeli nuclear programme on the table as well, he noted.
"It seems to me that the pessimism about last weekend's deal between Iran and the P5+1 states coming from Israel, Saudi Arabia and in some quarters of the U.S. Congress is understandable given that the Iranians have been less-than-fully forthcoming, and in some cases actively deceitful, about their nuclear activities in the past," Kile told IPS.
However, the deal is an important first step toward addressing international concerns about the scope of Iran's nuclear programme and, as such, should be welcomed by even those who are sceptical of Tehran's nuclear intentions, he added.
The agreement reached in Geneva imposes technical constraints and verification requirements that make it virtually impossible for Iran to use its nuclear facilities to make progress toward building a nuclear weapon during this period.
He said it also lengthens the amount of time that Iran would need if it were to later decide to build a weapon.


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Iliana Calabró (Buenos Aires, 1 de junio de 1966) es una actriz, conductora, comediante, vedette, cantante, compositora, y escritora argentina. Es hija del reconocido comediante y actor Juan Carlos Calabró y hermana de la periodista de espectáculos Marina Calabró.

Biografía

Comienzos
Iliana Calabró nació en Buenos Aires el 1 de junio de 1966 en el seno de la familia conformada por Juan Carlos Calabró y Aída Elena Picardi ("Coca"). Empezó a estudiar teatro desde muy pequeña.

Trayectoria en el mundo del espectáculo
Sus primeros papeles los consiguió gracias al apoyo de su padre, quien la hizo debutar en Calabromas. El programa que la dio a conocer a buena parte de la Argentina fue El Contra, que protagonizaban su padre Juan Carlos Calabró y Antonio Carrizo, donde Iliana hacía varios personajes, entre ellos el papel de Renata, la hermana italiana de Juan Carlos Calabró. También participó como elenco en la filmación de trece películas argentinas.

Luego se introdujo en el mundo del teatro de revistas, donde protagonizó varias obras de teatro del mismo género. En 2009 participó nuevamente en Revista Latina, en la ciudad de Carlos Paz. La obra quedó tercera en recaudaciones y fue premiada en los premios Carlos 2009. En 2011 hizo Qué gauchita mi mucama en el Teatro Melos de Villa Carlos Paz.

Su faceta como cantante se hizo visible en el reality show Cantando por un sueño introducido en Argentina como segmento del programa Showmatch conducido por Marcelo Tinelli. Junto a Ricardo Rubio, fueron los ganadores del concurso, logrando así beneficiar al Hospital Municipal Eva Perón de la ciudad de Punta Alta. Este reconocimiento le valió una nominación a los Premios Martín Fierro en la categoría «Revelación», a pesar de contar con casi 20 años de trayectoria, aunque no le fue otorgado el premio. A partir de ahí llegó a grabar un disco titulado Iliana, la morocha argentina, el cual a la semana de haber sido lanzado a la venta se convirtió en disco de oro. Este le sirvió para promocionar los espectáculos a la artista. El debut teatral se hizo antes de que el disco saliera a la venta y ella misma dijo que todo lo que hace se relaciona con el humor.

Participó en el reality show Bailando por un sueño 2007 (también de Showmatch) y fue eliminada de este en la semana de hip-hop y cumbia, al perder la votación contra Celina Rucci. Gracias al repechaje del baile del caño realizado dos días después, su pareja de baile  Maximiliano D'Iorio volvió al concurso, pero acompañado por Claudia Fernández, ya que Calabró no quiso participar. En 2016 participó del programa Bailando 2016, donde obtuvo el noveno puesto tras seis meses de competencia.

Debutó como conductora en el programa Para siempre por Canal 13 en septiembre de 2007. Un año más tarde condujo El show de Iliana, por Magazine. En 2018 fue jurado del programa La Tribuna de Guido, emitido por Canal 13, y además se desempeñó como panelista en Los ángeles de la mañana. En 2019 realizó la co-conducción desde Praga junto a Marley de Por el mundo por Telefe.

Vida personal
En 1991, Iliana se casó con Fabián Rossi, con quien tuvo dos hijos: Nicolás (1994) y Stéfano (1999). La pareja se divorció en 2014, luego de que Rossi se viera involucrado en un escándalo de lavado de dinero.

Al poco tiempo comenzó una relación con el italiano Antonello Grandolfo. Sin embargo, se separó.

Televisión

Cine

Teatro
 2002, La noche de las pistolas frías, Multiteatro junto a Emilio Disi, Tristán, Gisella Barreto, Paula Volpe y Yanina Zilly.
 2004, El Klon recargado... de risa,  Teatro Enrique Carreras. Mar del Plata junto a Tristán, Beatriz Salomón, Carlos García, Natalia Fassi y Pablo Heredia.
 2005, Terminéstor, Teatro Candilejas. Villa Carlos Paz junto a Miguel Ángel Cherutti, Jorge Guinzburg, Jesica Cirio y El "Bicho" Gómez.
 2005 - 2006, Soltero y con dos viudas, Teatro Broadway - Teatro Metropolitan II junto a El Negro Álvarez, Ana Acosta, Evangelina Anderson, Gustavo Conti, Emiliano Rella, María Eugenia Ritó, Chino Volpato y Tamara Paganini.
 2007, La familia con Iliana hace sonar la campana, Teatro La Campana. Mar del Plata junto a Waldo, Sebastián Almada y Ricardo Rubio.
 2007, El ratón Pérez (Teatro El Nacional). junto a Juan Acosta.
 2008, Calabró + Calabró, The Family Show, Teatro Lido. Mar del Plata junto a Juan Carlos Calabró, Geraldine Neumann, Carlos García, Chachi Tedesco, Teto Medina, Ricardo Rubio, Ana Fontán y Marcelo Iripino.
 2008, Le Referí Cornud Teatro Tabaris junto a Turco Naim, Rocío Marengo, Carna, Cinthia Fernández, Gustavo Conti y Mónica Farro.
 2008, Coro Kennedy 25 años Auditorio de Belgrano junto a Coro Kennedy, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Manuela Bravo, La Tota Santillán, Cesar Isella, Divina Gloria, Guillermo Guido, Raúl Porchetto y elenco.
 2009, La Revista Latina Teatro Candilejas. Villa Carlos Paz junto a Jesica Cirio, Hugo Varela, El "Bicho" Gómez, Campi, Florencia Tesouro y María Martha Serra Lima.
 2010, El Pueblo quiere Gozar  Teatro Mar del Plata junto a Miguel Ángel Cherutti, María Martha Serra Lima, Omar Calicchio, Jorge Corona y Delfina Geréz Bosco.
 2011, El gran Burlesque... mucho más que una revista Teatro Corrientes de Mar del Plata junto a Juan Carlos Calabró, María Martha Serra Lima, Hernán Piquin, Fátima Florez, Ana Martínez, Gonzalo Costa, Maximiliano Diorio, Lorena Liggi y elenco.
 2012, Qué gauchita mi mucama, Teatro Melos de Villa Carlos Paz, junto a Florencia de la V, Emilio Disi, Gladys Florimonte y elenco
 2012, Mi hijo, mi mamá y mi cocina Teatro La Casona, unipersonal.
 2014, Mansión Imposible Gira Nacional
 2015, Family Teatro Libertad, Carlos Paz, con Aníbal Pachano.
 2015-2016, Enredados, junto a Florencia de la V, Osvaldo Laport, Sebastián Almada, Fede Bal, Barbie Velez, Laurita Fernández, Ailen Bechara y más tarde Magui Bravi y Belen Etchart.
 2016-2017, Abracadabra, junto con: Freddy Villareal, Pedro Alfonso, Tomás Fonzi, Silvina Luna, Charlotte Caniggia, Bicho Gómez, Florencia Vigna, El Polaco y mar tarde Alejandro Müller y Gustavo Conti.
 2017-2018,  Mi vecina favorita, junto a Magui Bravi, Lizy Tagliani, Sebastián Almada, Macarena Rinaldi, Florencia Prada, Christian Sancho y Diego Pérez.
 2018-2019,  Locos por Luisa, junto a Freddy Villareal, Pedro Alfonso, Tomás Fonzi, Paula Chaves, Diego Ramos y Sofía Jiménez.
 2021, La mentirita, junto a Freddy Villarreal, René Bertrand, Laura Bruni, Rodrigo Noya y Morena Rial.
 2021, Dígalo con mímica, Multiteatro, junto a Andrea Politti, Carlos Belloso y elenco
 2022, Mi mujer se llama Mauricio, Teatro Candilejas 1, junto a Pablo Rago, Gonzalo Urtiberea, Alejandro Müller, Matias Ale, Adriana Brodsky y elenco
 2022, Una noche en el hotel gira nacional, junto a Pedro Alfonso, Pachu Peña, Agustín Sierra, Rodrigo Noya, Rocío Igarzábal y elenco
 2023, Sex, Teatro Melos, junto a Juan Palomino, Andrea Ghidone, Gabo Usandivaras, Barby Silenzi, Nacho Sureda y Flor Marcasoli. Dirección: José María Muscari

Discografía
 2006, Iliana, la morocha argentina.
 2009,  Yo soy Iliana.

Bibliografía
 2007, Iliana te la canta.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 AK.LaVoz (el libro de Calabró: Iliana te la canta).
 cinenacional.com (ficha donde aparece incorrectamente como «Ileana Calabró»).

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