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Cold War

Please find the similarities: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/03/26/visualizza_new.html_1737522932.html http://acdlabs.typepad.com/freenmrblog/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/7457982/Chelsea-v-Inter-Milan-as-it-happened.html To tell the truth, I will always like Russian people because of Cajkovskij, Botvinnik, Tolstoj, Kramnik, Pu�kin, �ostakovic and I also like the Ucranians Lobanovs'kyj and Prokof'ev, the Latvian Tal', the Azerbaijani Kasparov... I even respect Putin more than Obama (without even mentioning our shameful and unpresentable Mr. B., of course). It is not in my nature to fight. Russians are free to do whatever they like with their own money. Sometime it looks obscene, sometime they find a Samuel Eto'o .

Two Promises

I promised a review on the DOSY Toolbox and the program itself is a promise too. It has only arrived at version 0.8, which is an explicit declaration: it is not completed yet. What could be missing? From my personal point of view, the documentation is largely incomplete. I can easily find out by myself how to perform the basic NMR processing (FT, phase and baseline correction, correction of the frequency scale, and so on), because I have continuously been doing these operations for 25 years with countless different computers. I feel lost when doing the specific DOSY processing. The meaning of the buttons looks clear. I have also read a few papers describing the scopes and the internal details of each method, but I still miss the general picture. The ideal solution for a user like me would be a set of test spectra with detailed step-by-step instructions on how to process them to get the best results and, for the lengthy calculations, the time required. In this way I would have a tool to...