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• Three Carrots: Sue Oosthuizen Reviews Trespass, The Writing Circle and The Griqua’s Apprentice

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: a triple carrot feast for three BOOK SA members Cross the searing emotional wrench of Pauline Smith with Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, and you’re more or less in the 1950s Cape Town that writer and medical doctor - Garisch, has created for the middle-aged Phyllis. Her life ruined by a family ...
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• Indiana Home Health Agency Settles False Claims Allegations for Nearly $2M

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  Omni Home Care, a home healthcare agency based in Evansville, Ind., and its parent corporation, Omni Home Health, have agreed to pay the federal government $1.97 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act between 2006 and 2008, by failing to obtain certain required physician approvals before ...
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• Interview with John van de Ruit on Spud - The Movie

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 123
  Following the news that the budget for Spud - The Movie is close to meeting its R40 million target, and that filming is set to get underway in the new year, IOL journalist Billy Suter sat down with John van de Ruit to probe the author’s opinions on the movie-making process so far: It’s exciting stuff for ...
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• Peter Sullivan Reviews Alf Kumalo: Through My Lens by Alf Kumalo

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: carrot Newspaper photographers can be scruffy fellows. Ken Oosterbroek wore his baseball cap backwards, they generally revel in flak jackets filled with lenses and Red Bull, neatness seemed wimpish to the Bang-Bang Club of war snappers. But Alf Kumalo - note the lack of an h - is different. Always dapper, ...
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• Cataract Outsourcing’s Noteworthy Products for 2009

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  It is always so interesting to focus on new products each month for our posts.  We as bloggers get the unique opportunity to research products that have very widespread application in the medical arena.  Below is a short list of the noteworthy products of 2009.   I hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed ...
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• Update: Filming on Spud the Movie to Start in 2010

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 123
  Good news for all those who are interested in Spud - the Movie: the film adaptation of John van de Ruit ’s Spud is 90 percent financed and filming is set to begin next in KwaZulu Natal next year, according to IOL Tonight: With about 90 percent of the R41-million budget now raised for the planned film ...
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• 10 Observations About Anesthesiologists From Incoming ASA President Dr. Alexander A. Hannenberg

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  Alexander A. Hannenberg, MD, whom became president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists during its annual meeting in October, discusses 10 facts that every surgeon or hospital executive should know about anesthesiologists. 1. We are very attuned to OR efficiency. Anesthesiologists are looking at the entire ...
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• Clint Eastwood’s Invictus: Carrots 6, Sticks 0

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: carrots for Clint Eastwood’s film adaptation of John Carlin’s Invictus . One reviewer, Kevin McCallum - who co-wrote the Penguin Book of South African Sports Trivia - is more begrudging than the rest (as might be expected of a man who knows offhand that “the Springboks never played at King’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Caroline Hurry Reviews The Essential Guide to South African Wines by Elmari Swart and Izak Smit

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: carrot The maps to the wineries in the latest edition of The Essential Guide to South African Wines are so accurate as to provide GPS co-ordinates. The Essential Guide To South African Wines: Terroir & Travel (R195) is the second edition of the illustrated guide to South Africa’s premium wines. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Invictus Competition: Win a Clint Eastwood Boxset

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 123
  To celebrate the film release of Invictus - it’s in theatres today! - Penguin Books is giving away a fantastic Clint Eastwood boxset. Ten lucky winners stand a chance of winning the set, which comprises the Eastwood-directed classics Mystic River , Unforgiven and Gran Torino . To enter, email your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Moeletsi Mbeki on Corruption and BEE

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 115
  Moeletsi Mbeki is not known for holding back - he frequently criticised government while his brother, Thabo Mbeki, was president - and not much has changed. In Architects of Poverty , Mbeki fares out against corruption, with BEE as his target. According to Mbeki, BBE has had a hand in increasing corruption within ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spud Around The World Update

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 123
  The Spud Around the World Competition has just gotten bigger and you could now win a day on the Spud movie set! Get your camera and get clicking. Oh and don’t forget to include Spud - Learning to Fly in your snap! Have you entered our Spud Around the World competition? If not, grab that camera because the ...
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• MacuCLEAR, Mystic completes Phase Ib study enrollment

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  MC-1101, a new compound under investigation for the treatment and prevention of the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), developers MacuCLEAR (Plano, Texas) and Mystic Pharmaceuticals said in a news release. The preliminary results indicated that MacuCLEAR’s MC-1101 drug is safe and well ...
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• Bionic Lenses Arent Just for Cataracts Anymore [Medicine]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 891
  As someone whos been nearsighted since I was a kid, Im loving the new developments in intraocular lenses. Theres a new procedure gaining popularity that could give me super vision, without the irreversibility of LASIK. IOLs have been around since the late ‘40s, but recent developments have made them pretty ...
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• Bionic Lenses Aren’t Just for Cataracts Anymore [Medicine]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 462
    As someone who’s been nearsighted since I was a kid, I’m loving the new developments in intraocular lenses. There’s a new procedure gaining popularity that could give me super vision, without the irreversibility of LASIK Continued here: Bionic Lenses Aren’t Just for Cataracts Anymore [Medicine]
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• James Mitchell Reviews Heart of Africa by Sihle Khumalo

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: carrot A long, appreciative look at Sihle Khumalo ’s latest: What does the heart of Africa mean to an African? The author of Dark Continent My Black Arse gets down and dirty (well, he sticks to public transport, so what do you expect?) in his quest to find the source of the Nile (which of several?), ...
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• Phil Murray Reviews On the Back Roads by Dana Snyman

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: carrot This book rekindles that recurring idea: to give up the madness and the rat race, rummage for the old, “worn Shell road map”, fill ‘er up and just drive. Dana Snyman seems to be really living his life, travelling the small, unknown roads through South Africa, and telling the stories of simple, ...
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• Protein blocking may prevent blinding disease

  
  Cataract Outsourcing — Authority: 140
  Blocking a protein that battles infection may help thwart a common cause of vision loss in chronic diseases such as diabetes, Medical College of Georgia (Augusta) researchers say. The protein, interleukin-6, prompts inflammation—a healthy and sometimes lifesaving defense against invaders such as bacteria and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Smit vs Joost: the Captain in the Cauldron Cracks the Man in the Mirror

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 485
  Alert! According to a recent report, in the battle of the brawny rugby books, John Smit’s biography Captain in the Cauldron is edging Joost van der Westhuizen’s memoir-with-extras, Man in the Mirror . For the record, in the scrum that is BOOK SA’s BOOK Finder search engine , Joost’s tome is outpacing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Brian Hough Reviews Talking Balls: A Collection of Light-Hearted Writings About Sport

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 135
  Verdict: stick It would appear that the book’s content has been restricted to (this) Bishop and close mates, with the addition of a few high-profile writers. In this respect the authors/editors may well have dropped the ball. You will find anecdotal material - some current, some from the archives - about Gary ...
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