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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- It doesn't take much for an already finicky group of investors to hop off a tech company's bandwagon, especially when that company is entrenched behind a market leader that can presumably do no wrong. This seems to be what has happened to NetApp (NTAP), whose stock has been down as much as 5% since the company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings.
While I won't deny that NetApp's fight for market share against rival EMC (EMC) in the enterprise storage space has been a struggle, it's not as if NetApp hasn't been making meaningful dents. EMC remains the undisputed leader, yes. But in the process, not only has NetApp steadily built its storage/cloud capabilities, but the company has also bloodied the noses of less formidable storage rivals like IBM (IBM), Dell (DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) - all of which have essentially fallen off the grid in realm of Big Data.
To that end, I believe that the Street has exaggerated NetApp's first-quarter numbers, which I will admit weren't stellar. But nevertheless, NetApp's 5% year-over-year increase in revenue is nothing to shake a stick at. Let's not forget that the enterprise spending recovery on which several prominent analysts have mortgaged their reputations, has yet to materialize. The earnings reports and weak guidance that we've seen so far from the likes of Brocade (BRCD) and Cisco (CSCO) suggest that companies are still (to some degree) starving themselves. But they can only do so for so long.
So I refuse to buy the argument that's now being sold by some analysts that NetApp is now a company on the decline. This is even though NetApp posted not only a 4% increase in product revenue, but a 9% increase in the company's branded business - its largest increase in almost two years. And even though management did offer somewhat downbeat guidance, I was encouraged by the fact that management said that the company should post similar branded revenue growth in the second quarter.The branded business, which consists of NetApp's industry-leading ONTAP storage operating system, is one area where the Street continues to discount NetApp's growth potential. And given NetApp's ability to deliver solid enterprise solutions, which is reflected in the company's 9% growth this quarter, I don't believe that aside from EMC, there is another company that is better positioned to capitalize on the expected surge in Big Data spending over the next two years.
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Woodhaven resident Florence Seiken celebrated her 100th birthday on Sept. 18.
The life-long New Yorker was born the year before World War I began and currently still lives on her own in Woodhaven. She was married to her husband Abe for 71 years until he passed away in 2005. She has one daughter, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Seiken, who is widely known at the Middle Village Adult Center, received accolades from a number of area officials, including Rabbi Richard Levy, executive director of the Middle Village Adult Center, left, and state Sen. Joe Addabbo Jr., who presented Seiken with a New York State Senate citation celebrating her milestone.


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There was a very kind article about me and my medical practice. It also touched upon the charity I have worked with for the past 7 years.
Please ignore the picture. Pleeeeeaaase ignore the picture…
I hope everyone is having a grand holiday season.
I am working on a blog on WEIGHT LOSS – this always seems to be on the minds of people around this time of year, but it is requiring more research than I anticipated!
Good Health!
Dr Mike
I entered a short story in the ISFIC (Illinois Science Fiction in Chicago) Science Fiction writing contest and it won 2nd place! A little bit like kissing your sister, but it's better than not winning 2nd place, eh? They just called to be sure I will be at the event where they will be handing out the prizes.
If you haven't gotten the opportunity to read the story, it's very short:
Dr, Mike
Did you ever wonder what goes through the mind of your physician when you see him/her? I mean, they are people too! They have all the foibles and pet peeves of "regular people", they just happen to have a very in-depth education about a very big topic! Being smart does not make them perfect. Far from it. Doctors get frustrated by patients as often as you probably get frustrated with your doctor.
The following is a list of things that doctors wish patients knew. It is not a wicked diatribe against patients. Far from it. The vast majority of patients are lovely people. I am actually blessed with a patient population that I feel must be the envy of doctors everywhere. They are bright, inquisitive and well-informed. They take part in their own healthcare, and put effort into their well-being. My "problem patients" are such a small minority that I have no reason to complain. I'm a truly blessed and lucky physician in this context.
So what do doctors wish patients knew? I'm glad I asked!! Read more…
I was honored to be asked back to the Contempo television show for a third time. This time, to speak about Preventive Care. You know, all those pesky screening tests we need to be doing to prevent illness! I had actually blogged about it (here: http://seussmd.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/preventive-care-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-a-pound-of-cure/) so it was a great opportunity to let people know what they should get done, when and how much it would help them! Roberta Markbreit was the interviewer, and she was lovely as always! She also had some questions about health care systems in other countries, so we talked about that a little bit too!
So, when is it showing? I'm glad I asked!! Read more…
"All rules have exceptions, but don't make your rules by the exceptions"
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Vaccine Update Part 3 – The study connecting autism to the MMR vaccine was intentional fraud.
Yes folks, you heard it here.
The original article in the medical journal Lancet has been exposed as an intentional fraud. The lead investigator was paid nearly 1 million dollars to "find" a connection between autism and the MMR vaccine, so that lawsuits could be brought to bear on the drug companies. Read more…
A quick blog, because I'm practically beaming…
In my blog on Influenza (http://seussmd.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/influenza-the-flu/), I made some final "non-scientific" remarks, mentioning that I thought it was possible that the influenza vaccine might grant cross-protection with other strains of the flu virus. As it turns out, I was right! It's always fun to be right, especially when people's health is concerned!
Here is a link to the article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110110/hl_nm/us_flu_vaccine), showing that some people who were infected with the H1N1 Swine flu now have "Super Antibodies" to many forms of influenza, including all of the forms from the last decade and the Super Flu Epidemic of the 1918 Flu and even one form of the H5N1 Avian flu!
This has led scientists to start working on a "Super Flu Vaccine" that might grant protection from all possible strains of the flu!
So, what is the take home message? I'm glad I asked!
Get your Flu Shots. They might just be the secret weapon against the big super flu epidemic of the future!
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Vancouver Stealth defenseman Tim Henderson will begin active duty with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan at the end of August. (Photo: Richard Olson)
Vancouver Stealth defenseman Tim Henderson will serve his country before he has a chance to suit up for the 2014 National Lacrosse League season. The shutdown defender and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point will be deployed to Afghanistan for active duty with the U.S. Army at the end of the month.
Stealth head coach Chris Hall said Henderson's presence will be missed by the team both on and off the turf.
"I think that's a big hole for us that were going to need to fill," Hall said. "Tim's an incredible athlete and an incredible person. What he brought to the team were considerable in the impact for us."
The opportunity to serve in the military will become a reality for Henderson in a couple weeks and it's something he's been waiting a long time for.
"I don't want to be in the Army and not go overseas," Henderson said. "That's really where you're doing your job. When you're state-side, you're just training so it's like we all want to go overseas and get in the fight."
Henderson's training will be put to good use when he begins his service as he already knows what he will be doing.
"My specialty is field artillery," he added. "I'd be the one calling in artillery fire, which is basically big cannons."
Henderson will most likely miss the entire NLL season with the Stealth but it doesn't seem to faze the 6-foot-3, 220-pound defensemen. If given the opportunity to return and make a contribution to the team, Henderson is willing to do whatever it takes.
"I loved playing with the team and I'd love to have any role," he said. "If they wanted me to show up and get water for the guys, I'd just like to be there."
For now, serving in the U.S. military is Henderson's focus. But some aspects of his lacrosse career should translate into his Army life.
"Lacrosse is a team sport and really, at the end of the day, you get into the Army and it's a team sport," he said.
The Stealth will begin the NLL season without Henderson as he will be well on his way to Afghanistan with no official return date. Don't miss out on the chance to get Stealth season tickets with the NLL's return to Vancouver in 2014. For more information, please visit stealthlax.com.
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I needed (OK, wanted) a new dress for my first Spokane Symphony concert yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see that Lolo Boutique was having a big sale.
They're making room for the spring collections, so many, many clothes, accessories and home decor items are 20 percent to 50 percent off. Not just the stuff nobody wants. (Really, is there anything at Lolo you wouldn't want?) Good stuff, good prices.
Check it out at 319 W. Second Ave., on downtown Spokane's south side (I believe some people are starting to call this the SoDo area, but I'm not sure it has completely caught on yet).
P.S. The concert was wonderful. Pianist Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's "From the Top" program, was the guest performer. I'm a fan of his interpretations of Radiohead, Nick Drake and Elliot Smith. The next Spokane Symphony concert—an event for families that highlights 19th century music that traveled west with homesteaders of various ethnic groups—is Saturday. Attending local events like this is a great way to feel connected to the Inland Northwest community.
kleja on January 18 at 3:44 p.m.
which dress did you get? I love Lolo.
meganc on January 19 at 7:32 a.m.
I'm terrible. I went in looking for something a little crazy and I left with a little black dress—like every other dress in my closet. But it's very pretty. Somehow a second black dress and a white ruffled shirt (I looooove ruffles) made their way into my shopping bag, too. The prices were too good to resist!


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Here is the main site for Bella Band with a handy little sizing chart, good luck!
I have Tummy Tubes from Mimi Maternity. They are one size fits all (like the Motherhood bands). I was a size 0/2 pre-pregnancy and mine fits fine. The elastic stretches really well. It is snug without being uncomfortable.
For the Bella Bands, I would definitely go for the smaller of the two sizes.
I normally am around a size 8 but pre DS was a 6. I don't know the actual bella band size I have, but I definitely ordered bigger (and it definitely wasn't a 1). I actually bought mine when I was 7-8 months pg and HUGE. I needed it to hold my pants up- plus my shirts all felt short so it was more comfortble.
now that I'm pg with #2, I fold the bella band in half to hold up pants that are too big or too small. (inside my pants, then bend the top half over the outside of the waistband.)
if you order a band that is too small it has a tendency to bunch up. you also won't get much use out of it.
You should see if there's a maternity/baby boutique in your area that sells them. That's what I did and they have samples out to try on.
Also, I wear size 2, and got the size 1 bella band. I don't know if I have as much room to grow as I thought. I might go for the size 2 bella band if I were you. (I could see getting a size 2 later in my pregnancy)


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Today in the Sky schedule update
Hello Sky readers! I'll be on vacation starting this afternoon through Monday, Jan. 10. During that time, the Today in the Sky blog will run in abbreviated format. And, as usual, my USA TODAY colleague Roger Yu will step in to help keep the blog going. Today in the Sky will return to its normal schedule when I return in January. See you then, and -- in the meantime -- my best wishes to all for a Happy New Year!


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Maintenance Pros, Listen Up!
PRB feels your pain. LBWA changes focus to help
By Randy Gaddo
This column, LBWA–Leadership By Wandering Around–is focused on gathering input from PRB readers in the maintenance field, those battling in the trenches to find ways to do more with less. How are you doing something successfully that might help others? Or, what problems are you facing that we can pose to your counterparts? Each month, we will feature one or more departments somewhere in the world with problems, ideas, and solutions common to the field. Do you have ideas? Contact the editor or me to be part of the solution.
PRB recognizes that maintenance is one of the primary, and arguably, one of the most important tasks that parks and rec professionals perform. In fact, it is so important we want to focus the LBWA column on it and even reinforce the name of the column to prove it!
Let me explain why this new focus is important.
Generally speaking, parks and recreation departments are responsible for large amounts of infrastructure ranging from buildings to ball fields, ice rinks to basketball courts, indoor facilities to outdoor ones, walking trails to rubberized tracks, golf courses to amphitheaters, ad infinitum. These represent millions of dollars of investments by cities, counties, and other public or private organizations.
And somebody has to take care of that infrastructure.
Each one of these facilities requires unique maintenance practices that change and intensify as each year passes, due to age. It's up to the maintenance staff to know each and every aspect of the facilities. The staff must also know how to maintain the equipment needed to maintain the facilities. The staff must anticipate what will break before it happens in order to avoid service interruptions.
Maintenance is a constant task–and often a thankless one. Most people don't know what it takes to care for these facilities–what might seem like a one-hour job might actually take several hours or days due to unforeseen circumstances.
Most people just want the lights to turn on when they hit the switch, the heating and air conditioning to work, the water to be the right temperature, the toilets to flush, the fields to be mowed, and so on.
Starting in late 2007, economic woes hit the country and are still intensifying today. Private recreation providers have been hit equally hard.
As local governments and other organizations look for ways to stretch dollars, parks and recreation is one of the first places they look, and it is often the maintenance function that is hit first and hardest.
The term "deferred maintenance" has become an all-too-familiar term over the past few years. In some extreme cases, entire recreation departments have been disbanded or facilities have been closed. This only extends the maintenance issues. Nothing generates maintenance needs more than a long-term, closed facility or neglect due to insufficient staffing.
In many cases, maintenance-related services are being "outsourced" to private contractors, a practice that can be a double-edged sword. There are examples of successful outsourcing and equally as many failures.
In most cases, an odd phenomenon occurs: though the budgets decline, staffing declines, and resources disappear, expectations remain at the same level. In other words, citizens still expect the lights to come on, the toilets to flush, the fields to be ready, and the grass to be mowed. They pay their taxes or membership fees, and they expect reasonable services.
For the parks and rec maintenance staff, the task is formidable. Do more with less; devise ways to sustain facilities with the same or reduced budget and staffing. I include the private "outsource" contractors in this number because, once contracted, they become part of the team as well.
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Marque Jones
- Assistant Coach - Receivers, Men's Football
Marque Jones has been an integral part of Wilmington College football for more than three decades.
Jones stresses all phases of the wide receiver position, and the results speak for themselves. Four Wilmington College receivers — most recently Jon Cain — have received All-American honors under Jones' tutelage.
"Marque does a great job with our receivers. He pays attention to every little detail. When you watch him work with our receivers, it doesn't surprise you how good our passing game has been over the years," head coach Ken Minor said.
A native of Miami, Fla., Jones was a two-year starter at Curley High School, graduating in 1969.
During his collegiate career with the Quakers, Jones was a four-year letter winner (1973-76) at wide receiver. He caught 39 career passes for 620 yards, averaging 15.8 yards per reception. His most productive season was 1975, when he hauled in 21 receptions for 310 yards.
Jones graduated from Wilmington in 1977 with a business administration degree and attended University of Cincinnati on a graduate honor scholarship. In 1979, he received a master's in marketing from UC.
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Refiners around the world are continually seeking ways to maximize margin on gasoline production. Optimization of various unit operations and gasoline blending using online blending packages are commonly employed. However, an area of opportunity that is less commonly exploited is the optimization of gasoline run-down headers. The economic benefits of gasoline run-down header optimization are enormous, but there are many challenges.
Run-down header blending operation optimization is challenging since many process units feed into the run-down header. Multiple control rooms, process operators and control systems are involved. This poses a significant challenge for a single application to optimize the entire system in real-time. Secondly, many of the process streams entering the run-down headers have multiple dispositions. Thirdly, the gasoline blending operation is highly non-linear. Lastly an on-line stream property measurement system that is sufficiently fast for on-line control and is able to provide a reliable property measurement over the entire blending range of components is a challenge.
Suncor Energy at Edmonton Refinery has been active in real-time optimization of the refinery operation for the last several years. While a majority of process units are being optimized using Advanced Process Control (APC), gasoline blending operation was, till recently, optimized using offline LP tools.
The gasoline blending operation at Suncor comprises Final Gasoline Blending operation and Gasoline Run-down Headers operation. An innovative project to optimize the gasoline blending operation in the run-down header in real-time was recently completed and is the subject of this paper.
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PCT recent and future developments
Assembly of the PCT Union
The Assembly of the PCT Union (PCT Assembly) was held in Geneva from 23 September to 30 October 2014, as part of the meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO. The PCT Assembly:
- Adopted an understanding on a new procedure for the future appointment of International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authorities (see PCT/A/46/4)
- Appointed the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore as International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authority (see PCT/A/46/5)
- Adopted all proposed amendments to the PCT Regulations, including a set of new criteria for fee reductions for qualifying applicants (see PCT/A/46/3)
- United States (57,239)
- Japan (43,918)
- China (21,516)
- Germany (17,927)
- Republic of Korea (12,386)
- designed to provide a basic introduction to important aspects and issues in the international phase and national phase of PCT processing;
- closely follows material covered during basic PCT training seminars and will be particularly useful for those who have not attended such seminars in person, for small and medium-sized enterprises, and for PCT users and potential users in developing and least-developed countries.
- how collaboration between examiners could be implemented in an operational environment; and
- the benefits and disadvantages of the collaborative approach in terms of quality and efficiency.
- 106 individual PCT-PPH pathways are now in place enabling applicants to request a fast track examination procedure.
- 50 per cent of overall PPH is PCT-PPH.
See also user experience, Carl Oppedahl [YouTube].
- The PCT Working Group took place from 10 to 13 June 2014. The Summary prepared by the Chair of the Meeting and the Report are now available, as is a short article in the PCT Newsletter, June 2014.
- The Summary prepared by the Chair of the Meeting of International Authorities under the PCT, that took place from February 11 to 13, 2014 (Tel Aviv, Israel), is now available.
- PATENTSCOPE offers free access to over 37 million patent documents in addition to over 2.5 million PCT applications.
- Contains the national patent data collections of 38 national or regional patent offices.
- PATENTSCOPE features a number of powerful tools, including cross-lingual search and machine translation.
- Information on national phase processing of PCT applications is now available for 48 Offices.
- SIS addresses PCT applicants' concerns about new prior art being found once they have already incurred significant costs and entered the national phase; and
- provides extra information in cases where the applicant believes that the commercial value of an invention warrants the additional expense in the international phase.
All documents for this session of the PCT Assembly are now available and the Report shall be available shortly.
ePCT-Filing update
The following Offices now accept international applications filed using the ePCT-Filing function in the ePCT Portal:
The Intellectual Property Office of Singapore and the National Institute of Industrial Property (Chile) will accept ePCT-Filings as of 1 January 2015.
ePCT has the best-in-class validation features – all data checks are made against the International Bureau's database at the time of preparation of the application. To access the ePCT system or read more about the new features for applicants and patent Offices .
PCT Filings in 2013
In 2013, PCT filings amounted to 205,300 increasing by 5.1%. The United States saw double digit growth and together with China accounted for 56% and 29% of the total PCT growth, respectively. China surpassed Germany to become the third largest user of the system, with Japan as the second-highest user. The United States remains the most-active user of the system. The top 5 countries of origin for the year were:
See infographic , press release, The PCT Yearly Review , videos: press conference [YouTube], highlights [YouTube].
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In reply to industry's request for a single search report and written opinion presenting the views of the examiners of multiple patent offices, the EPO, KIPO and USPTO have completed a second pilot project that examined:
See also the report on the second pilot in document PCT/MIA/20/4 and the views of the EPO participants in document PCT/WG/5/9 as well as updates in PCT/WG/6/22 and PCT/WG/7/20 .
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Unhealthy Snacks Tied to Colon Cancer for Those at High Risk
MONDAY, Dec. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Eating unhealthy snack foods may increase the risk of colorectal cancer in people with a genetic susceptibility to certain types of cancer, according to a new study.
The study included 486 people with Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition caused by mutations in genes that help repair DNA within cells. People with the condition have a high risk of developing colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer and other cancers at an early age.
Previous research has shown that consuming alcohol and red and processed meats can increase the risk of cancer in people with Lynch syndrome. Smoking and obesity are other possible risk factors.
The participants in this study provided information about their eating habits and were followed for an average of 20 months. During that time, colorectal polyps (precancerous growths) were detected in 58 of the patients, according to the study published Dec. 17 in the journal Cancer.
"We saw that Lynch syndrome patients who had an eating pattern with higher intakes of snack foods -- like fast-food snacks, chips or fried snacks -- were twice as likely to develop these polyps as Lynch syndrome patients having a pattern with lower intakes of snack foods," study author Akke Botma, of the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, said in a journal news release.
The results suggest that eating habits may influence the development of colorectal polyps in people with Lynch syndrome.
"Unfortunately, this does not mean that eating a diet low in snack foods will prevent any polyps from developing, but it might mean that those Lynch syndrome patients who eat a lot of snack foods might have more polyps than if they ate less snack foods," Botma said.
While the study found an association between eating certain snack foods and the development of polyps in people with Lynch syndrome, it did not establish a cause-and-effect relationship.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's Genetics Home Reference has more about Lynch syndrome.
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Scientists have figured out how to make biofuels with everything from algae to bacteria poop, and now they are turning to grass. A new European research project called GrassMargins seeks to discover a new perennial grass that can grow year round for use as biofuel. If successful, the project could offer a renewable source of energy that grows virtually everywhere, which would increase the availability of clean fuels while lowering their price. But first, they have to figure out which grass grows best.
The project's main goal is to pick out a grass crop that can grow across large swaths of marginal lands that aren't suitable for growing food crops. The research is a massive collaboration between organizations and universities such as Teagasc, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and The University of Sheffield to list a few. The European Union invested its own interest in the project as Ireland has to contend with waterlogged soil prone to flooding, northern Europe has cold temperatures, and southern Europe has salt tolerance issues.
One of the standout candidates the researchers picked is Miscanthus from southeast Asia. As a perennial grass, it requires no nitrogen or herbicide, and it grows fast as a non-invasive species, so it's unlikely to grow on top of any domestic plants. Miscanthus produces 15 to 25 tons per hectare from very fertile lands, although the researchers expect yields from marginal lands to be lower. The scientists are also looking at other local grasses including fescue, orchard grass, and canary reed grass.
These grasses could potentially be added as feedstock for anaerobic digesters to produce liquid fuel. Alternately, farmers could use baled grass in a combustion facility to produce energy or heat.
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dadunn December 23, 2013 at 4:16 pm
when a crop becomes big, and take over the land it then kills off all other forms of ecosystem within the soil and those that the land used to support, like palm oil plantations the soil becomes baron and has little benefit to man except for the crop grown , this will gradually yield less each year and will slowly have a reduce capacity to filter water, claen the air and sequestrate carbon, a mixed crop must be grown to avoid this.
Tiger-Pi December 19, 2013 at 6:28 am
We had horses, bullocks and mules , fed with grass, before the advent of fossil fuel vehicles. So we are going back to the past to feed our vehicles with good old grass. So why not just bring back our old friends, the horses, mules,donkeys, bullocks,camels, sheep and huskies?
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Black Wings
March 2002
Released: 2001, No Fashion Records
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviewer: Mosquito
Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed Iron Maiden with Rob Halford? Well wonder no more because the answer is here and the answer is Wolf. Formed in Sweden in 1995 by two friends, they started playing 70's influenced metal and recorded a demo. Luckily for them, No Fashion Records got ahold of it and signed them.
The band entered the Abyss Studio (Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy's Studio) and recorded their debut album which was simply titled, WOLF. The album received good reviews in various metal magazines. Then in 2001 they recorded BLACK WINGS.
This album is a real change from the normal material coming out of Sweden these days and is quite refreshing. I made the comment earlier about it being Maiden and Halford. Well, I think their singer, Niklas Olsson sounds very much like Halford (so much that it's scary at times!) They also play very Maiden'ish riffs. To some people this might be unoriginal, but I personally think you should't break a good formula. These guys have talent and perform pure ear-blasting metal! I recommend this disc to anyone who likes Maiden, Priest, or just great classic Metal. Current pick's on the disc are "Genocide", "Venom", and "I Am The Devil."
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Black Wings
March 2002
Released: 2002, No Fashion Records
Rating: 3.0/5
Reviewer: Arto Lehtinen
For the first time when becoming aware of the existence of this Swedish retro heavy combo was when I happened to down the Swedish tv on and this Wolf's video "Into the Moonlight" (which has been on the metal-rules.com video rotation by the way) was being shown on some hilarious music show. Anyway the Swedish traditional retro heavy metallers have put a new album called Black Wings consisting all in all of eight tracks of their own and a cover version of the old Mercyful Fate classic " A Dangerous Meeting". The album basically stands for the typical Swedish way of picking up the real Iron Maiden oriented riffs and modernize them more or less in order to use for the band's own purposes and musical inspirations. As a matter of fact I even tried to identify which Maiden tune has been plagezied for tracks of Wolf on Black Wings, cos references are so obvious. Despite the Maiden influences and references are so obvious, the band definitely appeals to the die-hard heavy metal freaks as tracks work so goddamn well and the vocalist's excellent voice guarantees a real timetravel back to the glorious years of Heavy Metal of the 80's.
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HHS Will Allow Some to Skip Insurance for 2014 without Penalty
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made some key rule changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) late last week. People whose insurance plans were cancelled for 2014 because the plans did not meet the requirements for plans under the ACA — such as covering essential benefits including some preventive care with no copays — will be permitted to buy a "catastrophic" plan which has only minimal coverage or opt for no insurance for the coming year, but pay no penalty. HHS has set up a hotline, 1-866-837-0677, for people whose policies were canceled so they can get advice on coverage for 2014. Read more on the Affordable Care Act.
NIH Study: Drop in Prescription Drug Abuse, Rise in Marijuana Use Among High School Seniors
The percentage of high-schoolers who think using marijuana regularly poses a major risk to health has fallen dramatically in the past 10 years, according to this year's Monitoring the Future survey, which measures drug use and attitudes among the nation's eighth-, 10th-, and 12th-graders. Actual rates of marijuana use have also increased among high school seniors, with 6.5 saying they smoke marijuana daily, up from 6 percent in 2003 and 2.4 percent in 1993.
"This is not just an issue of increased daily use," said NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, MD. "It is important to remember that over the past two decades, levels of THC — the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana — have gone up a great deal, from 3.75 percent in 1995 to an average of 15 percent in today's marijuana cigarettes. Daily use today can have stronger effects on a developing teen brain than it did 10 or 20 years ago."
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- For the first time, the percentage of students in all three grades combined who say they smoked cigarettes in the past month is below 10 percent (9.6 percent) compared to 16.7 percent 10 years ago and 24.7 percent in 1993.
- Continued abuse of Adderall, commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with 7.4 percent of seniors reporting taking it for non-medical reasons in the past year.
- Five percent of seniors report abuse of cough products containing dextromethorphan, down from 6.9 percent in 2006, the first year it was measured by the survey.
- For cocaine and heroin, while there was no significant change from the 2012 rates, there continues to be a gradual decline in use, with both drugs at historic lows in all three grades.
- Use of alcohol by teens continues a steady decline. For 12th-graders, alcohol use peaked in 1997, with more than half (52.7 percent) reporting drinking alcohol in the past month. Only 39.2 percent of seniors reported past month use this year.
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Currently, most U.S. insurers cover the surgery based on both findings of an eye exam and vision complaints by patients. However, the researchers say that cognitive deficits, age, insurance coverage, income, or simple procrastination, may keep older people from telling their doctor about their vision problems.
The researchers developed a model to simulate a common vehicle collision for people 60 to 89 and implemented control conditions of earlier and later cataract surgery and found that the change to earlier surgeries would increase cataract surgery expenditure for people ages 65 and older by eight percent and for people ages 60-64 by about 47 percent. However, those expenses would be offset by reductions in medical and emergency services costs following car accidents. The study was published in Accident Analysis and Prevention. Read more on aging.


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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
A check is needed within the government, always there alongside the military. The US must have a real foreign service and a real diplomatic service. A Kitchen Cabinet, together with predominantly amateur, untrained ambassadors, is a recipe for blundering and inconsistency and is a danger to the world. A State Department that offers a career and the opportunity of a decisive influence on policy is necessary so that young men of ability can be recruited from the universities. The State Department has become a shadow. A real State Department, properly manned, would be in a position to counterbalance the military effectively and would make it possible to reduce the CIA to a reasonable size.
There are obviously more fundamental needs, though an Englishman is not well qualified to speak about them. The American involvement in the war in Indochina was prolonged after 1968 principally for electoral reasons: it seemed politically disastrous to withdraw. Democracy, pressed so far, can destroy the human race for the sake of someone not losing an election. Respect for human rights and for liberal values ought always to prevail over the claims of democracy; at the very least, the international decencies need professional guardians, however recruited.
I have of course been assuming that there will be no change in the social composition of the ruling groups in the US. Within this framework, I think the strengthening of the State Department is the best that can be done immediately: the universities should be called in to help. I know that Americans distrust elites in political matters and that I am being undemocratic. But the Pentagon Papers showed a frightening illiteracy, and both the lives of Cambodian villagers and Angkor Wat were put at risk, or worse, partly because of this illiteracy: one cause of the unnecessary war, among others.
John K. Fairbank
Many "lessons" are being drawn from Vietnam, most of them profoundly culture-bound. Ignorant of Buddhism, rice culture, peasant life, and Vietnamese history and values generally, we sent our men and machines to Saigon. Now we are out, and still ignorant, even of the depth of our ignorance.
Ignorance of local languages, traditions, loyalties, and reactions leaves the cultural stranger prey to his own preconceptions, hopes, and fears, ready to be cozened by the local English-speakers and manipulated for their private ends. It puts him out of touch with reality. "The enemy is hurting," it used to be said in Washington, "and so he will negotiate." But Hanoi never seemed to get the message. Lesson one: do not intervene when culture-blind.
Our successful interventions have been within our own Atlantic culture area—notably World War I and World War II in Europe, "just" wars to defend "democracy" and "freedom." Our interventions in China against Japan, later in Korea, and finally in Vietnam took us into strange territory, the age-old Chinese culture area of East Asia. Lacking common roots, we imposed on East Asian situations the stereotypes we brought from home, supporting "Free China" against Japan's invasion and subsequently looking for "democratic" leaders in our sense of elected representatives of the people. But Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee, Ngo Dinh Diem invariably disappointed us by proving less Jeffersonian than out-of-date Confucian and, even less forgivably, losing power.
After a century of contact with Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese we had many common bonds from trade, missionary work, medicine, education, student exchanges, diplomacy, and tourism back and forth between our countries. But with Vietnam no such background had accumulated. It was for us part of France, not open to American contact or enterprise. Until 1945 even the people there were known to us not as Vietnamese but as Annamites, from the old Chinese name, Annam, "the pacified south." The root cause of our Vietnam failure was thus the profound American cultural ignorance of Vietnamese history, values, problems, and motives when we originally went to the aid of the French in Vietnam after World War II. The worst evil of such ignorance was that it left Vietnam faceless and speechless, an almost meaningless object to be manipulated by us for our power-politics purposes.
Thus cultural ignorance leads on to imperialistic exploitation, not for gain but for seemingly worthy aims of international security. This amounts to disregarding the interests of the local people as they see them in their cultural terms and imposing upon their situation our view of the world as seen in our cultural terms. To call this arrogant is of course an understatement. Arrogant or not, it is a recipe for disaster. Lesson two: Our values are not those of everyone. In a multi-cultural world we must pursue more vigorously the understanding of other cultures. We may even get a cultural perspective on ourselves.
Another lesson of Vietnam is to revise the history of the "loss of China," which was in fact not a loss but a lucky escape. When General Marshall returned from his unsuccessful mediation of 1946 and became secretary of state in 1947, he was able to forestall our intervening in the Chinese civil war in what might have become a super-Vietnam, in spades, doubled and vulnerable. Granted that we "lost" China in our national sentiments where "China" had been peculiarly enshrined, the main fact after 1949 was that we had escaped from fighting the Chinese communist-led revolution, that amalgam of nationalistic sentiment and communist doctrine that has since remade China. The lesson of our "loss" of China was simple: do not intervene against patriotic revolutions, no matter what they call themselves.
The lesson derived by the American political leadership came from closer to home—namely, that a "loss" of a foreign country could be disastrous for the party in power. This dubious proposition, which overlooked most of the facts in the situation, was accepted as a lesson of history and served as a motivation for our Vietnam intervention. Seldom has history been worse understood. Even after the Chinese fought us to a standstill in Korea despite their inferior firepower, we persisted in regarding our exit from China as having been a loss rather than a boon.
From this record one obvious conclusion is that we should try to avoid engraving a "lesson of Vietnam" on our minds, since the last time around is seldom similar to the next crisis. It is one thing to avoid intervening in civil war in the vast areas of the agrarian-bureaucratic societies of mainland East Asia. It may be quite another thing to maintain security arrangements among the islands and peninsulas of the trading world in the western Pacific. Power politics will not go away. The lessons of history are never simple. Whoever thinks he sees one should probably keep on with his reading.
Noam Chomsky
The US government was defeated in Indochina, but only bruised at home. No outside power will compel us to face the record honestly or to offer reparations. On the contrary, efforts will be devoted to obscuring the history of the war and the domestic resistance to it. There are some simple facts that we should try to save as the custodians of history set to work.
In its essence, the Indochina war was a war waged by the US and such local forces as it could organize against the rural population of South Vietnam. Regarding the Geneva Accords of 1954 as a "disaster," Washington at once undertook a program of subversion throughout the region to undermine the political arrangements. A murderous repression in South Vietnam led to the renewal of resistance. Kennedy involved US forces in counterinsurgency, bombing, and "population control." By 1964 it was obvious that there was no political base for US intervention. In January 1965, General Khanh was moving toward an alliance with anti-American Buddhists and had entered into negotiations with the NLF. He was removed as the systematic bombardment of South Vietnam began, at triple the level of the more publicized bombing of the North. The full-scale US invasion followed, with consequences that are well known. The civilian societies of Laos and then Cambodia were savagely attacked in a war that was at first "secret" thanks to the self-censorship of the press.
In January 1973 Nixon and Kissinger were compelled to accept the peace proposals they had sought to modify after the November 1972 elections. As in 1954, the acceptance was purely formal. The Paris Agreements recognized two equivalent parties in South Vietnam, the PRG and the GVN, and established a basis for political reconciliation. The US was enjoined not to impose any political tendency or personality on South Vietnam. But Nixon and Kissinger announced at once that in defiance of the scrap of paper signed in Paris, they would recognize the GVN as the sole legitimate government, its constitutional structure—which outlawed the other party—intact and unchanged.
In violation of the agreements, Thieu intensified political repression and launched a series of military actions. By mid-1974, US officials were optimistically reporting the success achieved by the Thieu regime, with its vast advantage in firepower, in conquering PRG territory where, they alleged, a North Vietnamese buildup was underway. As before, the whole rotten structure collapsed from within as soon as the "enemy" was so ungracious as to respond, and this time Washington itself had collapsed to the point where it could no longer send in bombers.
The American war was criminal in two major respects. Like the Dominican intervention and the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, it was a case of aggression, conscious and premeditated. In 1954, the National Security Council stated that the US reserved the right to use force "to defeat local Communist subversion or rebellion not constituting armed attack," i.e., in violation of "the supreme law of the land." The US acted on this doctrine. Furthermore, the conduct of the war was an indescribable atrocity. The US goal was to eradicate the revolutionary nationalist forces which, US officials estimated, enjoyed the support of half the population. The method, inevitably, was to destroy the rural society. While the war of annihilation partially succeeded in this aim, the US was never able to create a workable system out of the wreckage.
Opposition to the war at home made full-scale mobilization impossible and placed some constraints on the brutality of the war planners. By 1971, two-thirds of the US population opposed the war as immoral and called for the withdrawal of American troops. But the articulate intelligentsia generally opposed the war, if at all, on "pragmatic"—i.e., entirely unprincipled—grounds. Some objected to its horror; more objected to the failure of American arms and the incredible cost. Few were willing to question the fundamental principle that the US has the right to resort to force to manage international affairs. Throughout this period, there was a negative correlation between educational level and opposition to the war, specifically, principled opposition. (The correlation was obscured by the fact that the more articulate and visible elements in the peace movement were drawn disproportionately from privileged social groups.)
The gulf that opened between much of the population and the nation's ideologists must be closed if US might is to be readily available for global management. Therefore, a propaganda battle is already being waged to ensure that all questions of principle are excluded from debate ("avoid recriminations"). Furthermore, the historical record must be revised, and it will be necessary to pretend that "responsible" political groups acting "within the system" sought to end the war, but were blocked in their efforts by the peace movement. People cannot be permitted to remember that the effective direct action of spontaneous movements—both in the United States and among the conscripted army in the field—that were out of the control of their "natural leaders" in fact played the primary role in constraining the war makers.
The US government was unable to subdue the forces of revolutionary nationalism in Indochina, but the American people are a less resilient enemy. If the apologists for state violence succeed in reversing their ideological defeats of the past years, the stage will be set for a renewal of armed intervention in the case of "local subversion or rebellion" that threatens to extricate some region from the US-dominated global system. A prestigious study group twenty years ago identified the primary threat of "communism" as the economic transformation of the communist powers "in ways which reduce their willingness and ability to complement the industrial economies of the West." The American effort to contain this threat in Indochina was blunted, but the struggle will doubtless continue elsewhere. Its issue will be affected, if not determined, by the outcome of the ideological conflict over "the lessons of Vietnam."
J. M. Cameron
Outside the United States there is some gloomy joy over the way in which the Vietnam war ended. David's slaying of Goliath is always a good story and a heart-warming spectacle. Those of us who know and like the United States and its people are sad and anxious.
My mind goes back over the whole period, from the decision, under Eisenhower, to take no notice of the Geneva agreements, through the earliest military intervention under JFK, through the terrible Johnson years, and then the long and bloody, and futile, effort of the Nixon regime to get the soldiers out of Vietnam without loss of face. Only for a brief moment, during the candidacy of Eugene McCarthy, did it seem likely that, outside the antiwar circles, people in general might come to believe that the question was one of morality and not of military and political calculation.
My memories are a confusion, though some things stick out. There are the words of Cardinal Spellman on Christmas Eve 1966 in Vietnam: "Anything less than victory is inconceivable." These words were spoken in a sermon at Mass, for Catholics the great sign of God's love for the entire human family. When Spellman got to Manila on December 28, he was asked if his remark had been intended to deny the possibility of a negotiated peace (something Vatican diplomacy was then trying to bring about). His reply was memorable: "Total victory means peace."
Well, many days and many lives, many maimings and many betrayals later, a kind of peace has come. The B-52s from Thailand will fly no longer and Thailand will soon rid itself of their obscene presence. The Claymore mine—a flying bolt from this could kill a man more than a hundred yards from the explosion—invented by the Americans and copied by the Viet Cong, will explode no more. The poisoned fields and woods will begin to regenerate themselves year by year. All this will happen under the hard rule of the communists and the NLF. The bitterness secreted in the years of war with the French and the Americans and their Vietnamese allies will continue to prompt acts of terror and counterterror.
I remember the time when, to innocents such as myself, it looked just possible that Eugene McCarthy would be the Democrats' antiwar candidate. Instead we had the intervention of Bobby Kennedy, seeking to reap where McCarthy had plowed and sown, then his assassination; and then Humphrey's steering his way between the Scylla of Yes and the Charybdis of No.
To my mind the lesson of the war is not that it turned out to be a mistake, an error, the mistake and the error being shown by the failure of American arms. It was a vicious and immoral war in which the means employed bore no proportion to the (variously and often incoherently stated) objectives of the war. It is often said by the apologists of the Pentagon that the war was fought with restraint. Of course, it was. North Vietnam wasn't bombed back into the Stone Age in Curtis Le May fashion. But the reasoning behind the talk of restraint is curious. If a superpower does not use nuclear bombs or if it doesn't use conventional weapons to bring about the total destruction of civilian lives and property it is said to be exercising restraint. The corruption of the mind and heart represented by such an argument is the worst consequence of the war for the United States. The McCarthy candidacy, the burning of draft cards, all the campaigns of the peace movement, the Calley trial, these and many other happenings will have been fruitful if the shocking nature of this argument is perceived. (Compare: we only abort, sterilize, and so on in the cases of one out of every four teen-age mothers on welfare. What restraint!)
War is a moral question and the lesson of history is that governments can't be trusted to think of it in such terms. Stephen Decatur's often misquoted maxim is interesting. "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." If this is turned into the doctrine that loyalty to the duly constituted government of one's country is the supreme moral imperative, the consequences are—as we have seen—very evil. "Putting Vietnam behind us" is not a wise prescription so long as there are influential men who continue to congratulate themselves on their high-minded "restraint" in the period of maximum American intervention in Indochina.
Geoffrey Barraclough
The decision to liquidate the entanglement in Vietnam may have marked, in President Ford's words, the end of one chapter. It also marked the beginning of another. What matters now is not the antecedents but the sequel. As a historian, Kissinger is well aware of the old adage: reculer pour mieux sauter, and there is a good deal of evidence that what we are witnessing is not a revulsion against imperialism but a reappraisal of America's imperial mission in terms better suited to the present constellation of world forces.
Nearly thirty years ago, enunciating the misguided policies which led with ironic logic to the sorry outcome in Vietnam, George Kennan spoke of "the adroit and vigilant application of counter-force at a series of constantly shifting geographical and political points." Can it be that all that has happened is that the geographical and political focus, which appeared in 1954 to have shifted to Southeast Asia, has shifted away again? If one main reason, back in 1969, for the initial decision to run down American commitments in Vietnam was the realization that the United States was overextended, and that the entanglement in Southeast Asia was impairing its ability to defend its interests elsewhere, can it be that what we are witnessing now is a redeployment of forces enabling the United States to intervene more effectively in areas—say the Middle East—where it has more vital interests to defend?
I raise these questions not to answer them, but because of the danger of mistaking a change of direction for a fundamental break with the past. A corporation with an unprofitable subsidiary may wind it up and put it in liquidation, but it does not go out of business; it concentrates on its profitable operations. All we know at present is that, as late as April 12, when he was well aware of the imminent outcome of the fighting for Saigon, Kissinger spoke of his determination "to conduct a strong foreign policy" and "re-establish American leadership." This does not sound like the leopard changing its spots.
In terms of power politics (which are the only politics Kissinger understands) the decision to get out of Vietnam was a wise one—provided always it does not mean getting in somewhere else. That is to say, there was never a serious American interest involved, and it is likely, now that the whole entanglement is over, that Indochina, far from entering an anti-American communist camp, will land safely in a neutralist stance, which may not do the United States any good (once again, in terms of crude power politics) but certainly will do it no harm.
The trouble is that imperialism is a many-headed monster, and if one head is chopped off, as Thieu's has been, another is apt to sprout. If the Vietnam commitment has been wound up, it is not because the nature of imperialism has changed, but because the world we live in is different from the world of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Power may be transient, but its nature remains the same though, like the chameleon, it may change its color. That is why, though withdrawal from Vietnam may end one imperialist chapter, it may just as easily mark the beginning of another.
Many years ago Dean Acheson got himself into bad odor when he said that "Britain has lost an empire, but not yet found a role." At the risk of incurring similar bad odor, I would say that Acheson's dictum applies no less forcefully to the United States today. The liquidation of the Vietnam adventure provides an opportunity for reappraisal of the United States' role in the world; but there is little evidence, so far, that the opportunity has been taken, and a lot of evidence that it is being botched. If the object is still, in Kissinger's words, "to re-establish American leadership" in the world, the lesson of Vietnam has not been learned; for the one thing that is certain is that the world repudiates American leadership—or that of any other country, including Soviet Russia.
No one threatens a United States which looks after its own concerns; but a United States which throws its weight around and tries to make the world an "American world" is in for trouble, as Vietnam should have shown. Happily, if Ford and Kissinger do not realize this, the American people—far more concerned with the depression and unemployment, which were the price of Vietnam, than with the display of American power—seem to do so; and that at least provides a hope for the future.


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- Remove any masking tape before paint has a chance to dry. This will reduce the chances of lifting the fresh paint film with the tape. If paint has dried, score lightly along the edge of the tape with a utility knife or razor blade before removing.
- Allow paint to dry thoroughly before scraping off glass with a razor or scraper.
- Fold the edges of drop cloths and plastic sheets toward the middle to avoid smearing small spills or drips on surrounding surfaces.
- Clean tools such as edger's, scrapers, and paint trays immediately after completing the paint job to prevent the paint drying permanently on your tools, and wipe dry to prevent rust. Use warm, soapy water to remove latex paint. Use mineral spirits or paint thinner to remove oil paint.
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Topical Gene Therapy May Accelerate Healing of Diabetic Wounds
In a new test of gene therapy, physicians at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have applied a toothpaste-like gel to chronic foot wounds in three patients with diabetes, in an effort to accelerate healing.
The opaque white substance contains an inactivated cold virus designed to flood the sore with a gene responsible for making platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), a compound the body normally produces to help heal wounds and repair skin.
Although there are a plethora of different agents currently used to treat diabetic foot ulcers, these applications treat wounds in a very general manner.
"There is nothing that really targets the wound as we're trying to do with the gene therapy involving platelet-derived growth factor," said the study's principal investigator David Hoyt, M.D., UCSD vice chairman of the Department of Surgery and chief of trauma, burn and critical care. "This more specific treatment, targeting mechanisms on the molecular level, is particularly exciting."
So far, three patients have undergone the procedure as part of the clinical trial at UCSD that is sponsored by San Diego-based Selective Genetics Inc. Under the direction of Hoyt and Gerit Mulder, Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM), MS, director of UCSD's Wound Treatment and Research Center in the Department of Surgery, the study will determine the therapy's safety and ideal dose. Up to 18 people who have diabetes-related foot ulcers will participate in the clinical trial, which is believed to be the first of its kind for people with diabetes.
"Ideally, wound repair cells will utilize the gene that helps repair damaged tissue," Hoyt said. "We will assess the effects of the treatment on wound healing and monitor how long the virus remains active in the wound."
"Diabetics may be deficient in some of the growth factors needed for wounds to heal," Mulder added. "Furthermore, the environment in a non-healing wound may be hostile to growth factors and other products which have been topically applied. Delivering the gene sequence to help a cell produce the needed growth factors may offer a means to overcome barriers encountered with previous treatments."
Another potential advantage is that prolonged generation of the growth factor may eliminate daily or twice-daily applications, as occurs with currently available treatments.
In the UCSD study, physicians began by applying a single mid- to lower-level dose of the gene therapy gel to the wounds of three patients. If no adverse effects are observed, an additional 15 patients will be enrolled and will receive higher doses of the gene therapy gel. Study participants will be examined at regular intervals throughout the year following treatment.
The clinical trial utilizes Selective Genetics' Gene-Activated Matrix (GAM) technology, that was conceived at the University of Michigan and licensed to the company. Scientists at Selective Genetics, Inc. have conducted successful animal studies in mice and rabbits that paved the way for the current study.
UCSD physicians said the adenovirus used in the clinical trial is a low-level dose compared with the amount used in other gene therapy trials, such as those testing treatments for the lung disease cystic fibrosis. The gel is placed on the surface of the wound and is not widely dispersed through the bloodstream or adjacent tissues so that the effect is expected to be primarily a local one in the wound bed. Study participants will be closely monitored for fevers, rash, abnormal liver function and other symptoms.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a cream that contains a recombinant version of the growth factor for use on foot ulcers in patients with diabetes.
"Data from animal experiments suggest that the new approach, which produces the growth factor in the wound itself for about a week after the viral vector is added, may actually be more effective than applying the pre-formed growth factor to the wound," Hoyt said. "It also could prove to be less expensive, because it would be easier to produce in mass quantities than existing medicines and possibly could be given less frequently."
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Each year, doctors treat nearly 3 million skin ulcers that stubbornly refuse to heal, even months after the initial injury. About 600,000 patients with skin ulcers have been estimated at any one time; thousands of these individuals may eventually lose a foot or limb to amputation. Anything from ill-fitting shoes to stepping on something sharp can create a small wound that, in these patients, may rapidly progress to a large open wound and subsequent amputation. The majority of amputations and hospitalizations for amputations in the U.S. are on diabetics who have developed infected wounds on their feet. Treating these foot ulcers costs an estimated $1.3 billion a year. With diabetes being the fastest growing disease in the U.S., the number of diabetics and subsequently, diabetic ulcers, is increasing each year.
"Diabetic patients often lose sensation in their feet, making it harder for them to know when they have an open wound or an infection," Mulder said. "Other problems associated with diabetes may complicate or slow down the wound repair process. When the wound becomes infected or involves the bone, amputation is frequently the result."
Keeping excessive pressure off the foot, appropriate footwear, and frequent foot examinations may help prevent the development of wounds. However, once the wound occurs, getting the wound closed as quickly as possible decreases the likelihood of an infection or limb threatening condition from arising. Bacteria, repeated injury and other factors may prevent a wound treatment from effectively working.
"Overcoming some of the barriers to wound healing but creating an optimal wound environment and making the cells do what you want them to do could have a very positive impact on getting the wound to close and help prevent amputation," Mulder said.
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"Then hate is easy, and love is not only difficult but impossible. Man has been distorted. Man cannot be reduced to slavery if he is not distorted first. The politician and the priest have been in a deep conspiracy down the ages. They have been reducing humanity to a crowd of slaves. They are destroying every possibility of rebellion in man – and love IS rebellion, because love listens only to the heart and does not care a bit about anything else.
"Love is dangerous because it makes you an individual, and the state and the church, they don't want individuals, not at all. They don't want human beings – they want sheep. They want people who only look like human beings, but whose souls have been crushed so utterly, damaged so deeply, that it seems almost irreparable.
"And the best way to destroy man is to destroy his spontaneity of love. If man has love, there can't be nations; nations exist on hate. The Indians hate the Pakistanis, and the Pakistanis hate the Indians – only then can these two countries exist. If love appears, boundaries will disappear. If love appears, then who will be a Christian and then who will be a Jew? If love appears, religions will disappear.
"If love appears, who is going to go to the temple? For what? It is because love is missing that you are searching for God. God is nothing but a substitute for your missing love. Because you are not blissful, because you are not peaceful, because you are not ecstatic, hence you are searching for God – otherwise, who bothers? Who cares? If your life is a dance, God has been attained already. The loving heart is full of God. There is no need for any search, there is no need for any prayer, there is no need to go to any temple, to any priest.
"Hence, the priest and the politician, these two are the enemies of humanity. And they are in a conspiracy, because the politician wants to rule your body and the priest wants to rule your soul. And the secret is the same: destroy love. Then a man is nothing but a hollowness, an emptiness, a meaningless existence."
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Dead Space never felt like it was lacking a multiplayer mode. Isaac's lonely, stomping travels aboard the USG Ishimura were perfectly suited to a solo experience. Even a co-op mode would have felt jarring - the game's strongest asset was its doom-laden atmosphere of desolation, and replacing that with the simple intensity of Resi 5 would have been completely off-brand.
So the first thought when you hear of Dead Space 2's four-player co-op mode is: "how will that work?" The second is: "hang on, four players facing an onslaught of mutated corpses? That's Left 4 Dead, isn't it?" And the third, and hopefully final, thought is: "perhaps I should just stop sitting here thinking, and just read the rest of this article that someone went to the trouble of writing".
Visceral Games has wisely chosen against the poor fit of a deathmatch mode. Instead, four Isaac-alike engineers will choose from five maps with a specific objective to pursue. Objectives that'll be hindered by a constant assault from player-controlled necromorphs.
So yes, it is a bit like L4D - you're not fighting to win, but to survive - however, a lot of effort has gone into preserving Dead Space's tone.
The Titan Mines map sees you assembling and detonating a bomb, and blasting your way out of the area. The Escape map has you priming and using the Escape pods. As an engineer, you'll have Isaac's stasis abilities, and there's still a focus on tactical dismemberment to fend off the 'morphs.
Unlike the humans, there's a choice of necromorph breeds. You can play as the Lurker - a wall-climbing mutant that means engineers will have to be aware of all the hiding places. The Lurker can lob missiles from any angle, making him well suited to players with a strong sense of direction - people who'd be comfortable in one of MC Escher's impossible reality drawings.
Meanwhile, The Pack is most like Left 4 Dead's Hunter - pouncing and pinning his quarry. Instead of requiring a team-mate to help you up, though, you can fight him off yourself if you are able to mash buttons faster than your posthumous opponent. The Spitter is the long-range acid-hocker who is able to charge his attack - the necromorph equivalent of a hacking up some phlegm. There is another class, The Puker, but he's still under wraps at the moment. The clue's in the name, though.
An unexpected and unnecessary bonus (we're already sold on Dead Space 2), the multiplayer is tense, entertaining and in keeping with the Dead Space feel. It's an excellent bolt from the blue.
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