It’s a desire I always feel intensely during my first few weeks back in Berkeley after any time in my hometown. I long for the way the world looks from inside a car the way buildings and ugliness seem so much less permanent when you can pass them by in seconds and the feeling of safety that perspective brings. I want to wake up to purring cats, my little sister’s too loud music in the bedroom over and a pantry stocked with more than one kind of cereal..

John McCain reschedules David Letterman visit. Britney Spears’s “Womanizer” video debuts. Ringo Starr says he’s too busy for autographs, vows to throw away fan mail. The scant opportunities to obtain visas on the ground near the Syrian conflict were dramatized by the drowning death last week of 3 year old Aylan Kurdi, who had family in Canada but whose parents had been unable to get family reunification visas that would have given them a legal route out of Turkey. Instead, they tried to reach Greece by boat, with tragic consequences. High Commissioner for Refugees..

We have focused on randomised trials, but PRISMA can also be used as a basis for reporting systematic reviews of other types of research, particularly evaluations of interventions. PRISMA may also be useful for critical appraisal of published systematic reviews. However, the PRISMA checklist is not a quality assessment instrument to gauge the quality of a systematic review.Flow of information through the different phases of a systematic review.From QUOROM to PRISMAThe new PRISMA checklist differs in several respects from the QUOROM checklist, and table 2 lists the substantive specific changes.

Big studio crews roam across the country and return with suburban blandness.The Big Oranging of America the reduction of nearly every setting to undifferentiated Sun Belt sprawl hit a pasteurized peak when Jan De Bont, the director of Speed (and then Twister and Speed 2) erased the graffiti from his real Los Angeles locations in order to make them look more like people’s TV bred dreams. Leaving movies like these prepares you for nothing more than a ramble down to the video arcade or the high tech burrito outlet. If they live in the center city, it’s in neighborhoods devoid of homeless people or racial tensions but full of crises that culminate in men with worried expressions running away from billowing fireballs.

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