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The first and only place of its kind in the Himalaya, the Shakti 360 Leti consists of 4 luxury cabins built with age-old techniques and local materials with innovative contemporary design. Spend your time reading, practicing yoga or taking guided walks through the mountains, or just relax and enjoy. Set in a breathtakingly romantic mountain wilderness at 8,000 feet in northern Uttaranchal, the Shakti 360 Leti is a place where you can take time to reflect, and allow the space, peace and astonishing landscape to work its magic on you. The air is clean, pure and soundless, the view over the snow-covered peaks is stunning and the gourmet restaurant serves fresh, delicious meals. Heavenly.
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Taran, the assistant pig-keeper who wants to be a hero, goes questing for knowledge of his parentage, hoping that his journey will ennoble him in the eyes of Eilonwy, the princess with the red-gold hair. Accompanied by several loyal friends, Taran begins his search when three wily enchantresses of the Marshes of Morva send him to consult the Mirror of Llunet for the answers he is seeking, cryptically promising that "the finding takes no more than the looking".
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Nestled on the Oregon coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land's unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he's been left an old friend's entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community's destiny in his hands. Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself getting involved with the town. And with Sarah Dupre, a woman as complicated as she is beautiful.
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One of the best-selling apocalyptic thrillers in Spain available for the first time in English! The city of Malaga is dead, but the promised eternal rest has yet to come to its inhabitants. In the Carranque camp, 30 survivors have built a shelter to keep out the dangers of the world. They fight not only to recover the city, but also the physical and mental degradation of surviving day to day after the pandemic. One of the survivors, Isabel, casts handwritten notes from the penthouse into the dead-filled streets below.
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Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.
From the pages of the September 18, 2006 issue of The New Yorker, a special presentation of David Remnick's "The Wanderer", a lengthy profile of Bill Clinton and his life after the presidency.
To fulfill her destiny as the Wanderer of legend, Ilythra needs to find the last of the Triune Stones. But its music has gone silent, its owner, the dark sorcerer Bredych, nowhere to be seen except in her dreams. Dreams that are getting ever more frequent, and more troubling. Unrest is sweeping the land, and Ilythra's allies are paying the price as Bredych subsumes more and more kingdoms to his will. Armed with only her sword and her friends-stoic elderborn Arien and passionate warrior-prince Ryliann-she sets out to win her people back and train them to fight for themselves.
The source has been destroyed. Food is scarce. Tensions are rising. Then the earthquake strikes. Esther and Caleb hit the road, leading a ragtag caravan. Their destination? A mythical city where they hope to find food and shelter - not to mention a way to make it past age 19. On the way, alliances and romances blossom and fracture as the group faces vicious gangs, violent weather, and more variants. Esther must rally to take charge, accepting the help of a blind wilderness guide, Aras.
Awardwinning author Robert Flynn delivers a witty and thought-provoking novel about a dying Texas town. When the new highway bypasses it, Wanderer Springs is left to wither in the dust. Will Callaghan, back home for a funeral, remembers the town's sometimes funny, sometimes painful past, includingthe time he cost his high school the football championship. Will's remembrances show that the present, however chaotic,is always linked to the past.
The Elven Wanderer is a mysterious man who goes by the name of Tom Fern. He wakes up in a hospital in modern day New York, but he is from a distant world. He baffles those he meets with his strange powers as he attempts to make sense of his new life. Yet Tom Fern does not have the luxury to live as a tourist, as he soon finds that he is being pursued by dangerous and determined enemies - the same ones who laid his home world to ruin. Given the chance, they will do the same to modern day Earth.
Rory has no idea what's going on in the woods behind her house, but it's driving her crazy. On the last day of her senior year she finds herself caught up once again in the curious happenings of the forest and walks away without any of the answers she was hoping to find. To make matters worse, she is sent to visit a sick neighbor and instead finds the hottest guy she's ever seen. When she discovers his brother's incredible secret she falls further into her own chaos and into a fate she never could have imagined.
"Teen age Girl adventure"
The publication of the great Russian writer Nikolai Leskov (1831-1895) became one of the best stories, "The Enchanted Wanderer."
When you've travelled between worlds, there's nowhere left to go but home. Rory has never been so cold in her life. But the biting wind only reminds her of another pain that grows more intense with each passing day. Each night Jaron's beautiful voice sings in her dreams, and each day her footsteps draw her closer to his side. Danger and intrigue at every turn, no distance is too far when you're returning for true love. Rin has spent the last five years searching for Rory across two worlds. Now a series of visions have him convinced he's growing closer to finding her.
Time is running out. Falaste Rione is imprisoned, sentenced to death. And even though the magical balance of the Source is slipping and the fabric of reality itself has begun to tear, Jianna Belandor can think only of freeing the man she loves. But to do so, she must join a revolution she once despised - and risk reunion with a husband she has ample reason to fear. Meanwhile, undead creatures terrorize the land, slaves of the Overmind - a relentless consciousness determined to bring everything that lives under its sway.
A Cyber War rages throughout the galaxy. The Earth-aligned worlds are fighting for survival against the cold, emotionless might of the Cyber Bloc - an alliance of planets whose inhabitants have undergone cybernetic conversion in the name of racial superiority. Award-winning journalist Olivia is reporting from the front-line, when all her assumptions about the Cyber War are shattered, not only by a terrifying encounter with the enemy, but by the arrival of a wise and mysterious traveller. The result is a deadly Cyber-Hunt, in which human and machine creature is tested to the limit.
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So I've always loved the Corsair, and I love Parkzone's Corsair. It looks great, flies great, and is just a solid airframe... But I've never liked Parkzone electronics. They are always overly cheap, with their plastic motors and weak servos that never last the life of a plane without stripping. Plus there is usually little room to speed planes up using any of the stock equipment... So, I just built one from parts!
Parts needed: PKZ4667 Bare Fuselage (painted): Corsair $30.59 @ LHS PKZ4620 Bare Wing (Painted no decals, no servos): Corsair $34.19 @ LHS PKZ4625 Horizontal Tail with Accessories: Corsair $10.44 @ LHS PKZ4626 Cowl: Corsair $5.99 @ LHS PKZ4613 Clear Canopy & Painted Battery Hatch: Corsair $11.39 @ LHS PKZ4603 Decal Sheet: Corsair $4.99 @ LHS PKZ4428 Motor Mount w/Screws: T-28, F4U $3.29 @ LHS If you're a true parkflyer like me, you'll likely just buy the Skid Plates (PKZ4627) that sell for $4.99, and just belly land in the grass. Otherwise you'll need to buy the Landing Gears (PKZ4606) and Tail Gear (PKZ4607) for $6.99 and $3.49, respectively. Total: $105.87 That's it! So for just over $100, you get one of the best foam parkflyers out there as an ARF. Not to mention if you want to really run lean, you could pass on the landing skids in favor of masking tape, make your own motor mount, and even go without the decals if you wanted too, keeping the cost well under $100 dollars. I am simply amazed I don't see more people doing this! So from there, I proceed to install my electronics: MonsterPower 10 1100kv Outrunner $17.90 @ www.hobbypartz.com Power Up 40 Amp ESC $31.95 @ www.headsuprc.com 2200mah 25C EZ FLITE Lipos $19.95 @ www.headsuprc.com 3xTP MG90 Metal Gear Sub Micro Servo $9.50/ea @ www.headsuprc.com Spektrum AR6110e Reciever (NOT A CLONE) $36.99 @ www.bigskyhobby.com APC 11x7E prop $3 @ LHS Grand Total: $241.16 Now if you don't know anything about the electronics I've put into this thing, let me tell you this: It'll blow your socks off. It'll effectively hand launch itself, and go straight up until you can't see it anymore. It'll keep up with a stock Stryker without breaking a sweat. This thing is powerful. In fact, you'll likely have to reinforce the plane to keep from breaking it from too much power. -But the metal gear servos allow you to never worry about loosing control from a stripped servo. All for way less than you can buy the stock RTF Corsair. That's damned sexy folks. |
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Just an update on my Corsair, which I've dubbed "Eleanor"
So I just blew through my 2nd MonsterPower 10 outrunner from hobbypartz.com... Outstanding power, but these motors are crap. Fair warning. I'd recommend the Power Up 480 Plus from HeadsUpRC.com instead, that's whats been on my buddy's Corsair for 6 months now, without any problems. Almost equivalent power to the Power 10 too. I have it on order, actually. |
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Prevalence of bacterial colonization of generator pockets in implantable cardioverter defibrillator patients without signs of infection undergoing generator replacement or lead revision
Aims This study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of bacterial colonization of generator pockets in implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients without signs of infection and to analyse the impact of bacterial colonization on the incidence of device infection during follow-up.
Methods and results In 122 ICD patients undergoing generator replacement or surgical lead revision between January 2006 and July 2008, microbiological cultures of generator pockets and extracted leads were consecutively obtained. Patients with clinical evidence of a device infection were excluded. Positive cultures from the generator pocket and leads were found in 40 (33%) patients. The most common bacteria isolated were coagulase negative staphylococci (68%). During a median follow-up time of 203 days after the revision device infection occurred in three [7.5%, confidence interval (CI) 1.6–20.4%] patients with a positive culture vs. two (2.4%, CI 0.3–8.5%) patients with a negative culture (P = 0.33). Time from revision to infection was 108 ± 73 days in patients with positive culture vs. 60 ± 39 days in patients with negative culture (P = 0.50).
Conclusion A third of ICD patients undergoing generator replacement or lead revision have an asymptomatic bacterial colonization of generator pockets. After revision 7.5% of these patients develop a device infection with the same species of microorganism.
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- Swab culture
The rate of device implantations is increasing with ageing of the general population and the formulation of new indications.1,2 Although conferring obvious benefits, the use of these implantable devices is associated with serious complications, including infections. Reported incidence rates of cardiac device infections range from 0.13% to 19.9% and 0.0% to 3.2% for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), respectively.3–8 Device replacement or repeat interventions are known to be associated with an increased rate of device infection.9 Harcombe et al.10 observed a five-fold increased complication rate in patients undergoing elective generator replacement compared with patients receiving first implantation of a permanent pacemaker. The most common pathogens of pacemaker/ICD infection are skin flora, including Staphylococci and Corynebacteria.11 Although several studies have focused on the mechanism of device infection, there is a considerable uncertainty about the sources of device infection.12,13 One pathophysiological mechanism is contamination of the pocket at the time of device implantation. Repeat interventions may reduce the patient's defence to the bacteria which might become clinically relevant after revision. Therefore, the aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of bacterial colonization of generator pockets in ICD patients without signs of infection and to analyse the impact of bacterial colonization on the incidence of device infection during follow-up.
In 122 ICD patients without signs of infection undergoing generator replacement or surgical lead revision at the Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute of Ludwigshafen, Germany, between January 2006 and July 2008, microbiological cultures of generator pockets and extracted leads were obtained. Patients with clinical evidence of a device infection were excluded. One patient was excluded due to signs of infection at surgery. Informed consent was obtained from all patients before participation in the study. The study was performed in corporation with one surgeon who performed all surgical interventions in the study. His speciality was lead revision. The study population, therefore, represents consecutive patients undergoing ICD replacement or lead revision performed by this surgeon. Surgical interventions performed by other surgeons were not included into the study (n = 102 with generator replacement). Consequently, the number of patients with lead revision included into the study was higher than the number of patients needing only generator replacement.
Microbiological cultures
Collections of the specimens for culture were obtained during revision in the operating room. The incision was started after the patient was prepped and draped for the procedure under sterile conditions. The pocket location of all patients was subpectoral. After opening the pocket, it was inspected for fluid or visual evidence of infection. In case of visual evidence of infection, the patient was excluded from the present study. A swab specimen was obtained from the deep portion of the pocket after the removal of the device from the pocket. Microbiological cultures were taken from the extracted leads as well. Thus, in two-thirds of patients two or more microbiological cultures were obtained. Before closing the pocket, it was routinely soaked with a polyvidon-iod solution (Braunol®). The time between specimen acquisition and processing in the microbiology laboratory ranged from 2 to 6 h. The fibrous capsule of the old pocket was not routinely removed or modified during the procedure.
Blood sampling, antibiotic treatment, and patient follow-up
All patients underwent the following work-up before surgery: complete clinical examination, routine blood sampling including complete blood counts, creatinine and C-reactive protein assays. Imaging studies consisted of chest X-ray and transthoracic echocardiography. All patients received periprocedural antimicrobials. Cefuroxime therapy was started prior to the surgery and was continued for 3 days. Cefuroxime therapy had also been used routinely for the first ICD implantation as single-shot therapy. Patients were discharged routinely from hospital on Day 1 or 2 after surgery following a chest X-ray, inspection of the wound, and a routine ICD control. After discharge, all patients visited the defibrillator outpatient clinic every 3 months as well as in case of any adverse event. Evaluation in ICD clinic consisted of clinical examination of the patient, inspection of the wound, and interrogation of the ICD. The median follow-up was 203 days after the revision.
A device infection was defined as previously described.11 Clinical evidence of device infection included local signs of inflammation at the generator pocket, including erythema, warmth, fluctuance, wound dehiscence, erosion, tenderness, or purulent drainage. Presence of ICD-related endocarditis was clinically confirmed when valvular or lead vegetations were detected by echocardiography, or if the Duke criteria for infective endocarditis were met.14,15 Vegetation was defined as an oscillating intracardiac mass on the electrode leads, cardiac valve leaflets, or endocardial surface in the setting of valve or lead infection confirmed by imaging in more than one echocardiographic plane, and positive blood and/or lead tip cultures.14,16,17
A device infection was microbiologically confirmed based on positive cultures from the generator pocket, lead(s), or blood (in the presence of local inflammatory signs at generator pocket or absence of another source of bacteraemia and resolution of blood stream infections after device explantation). The type of organism and its antibiogram were then compared with the cultures obtained from the previous intervention. A device infection with the same organism was based on the biotype and the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern.
Statistical analysis
Absolute numbers, percentages, means and standard deviation, median and upper/lower quartile were computed as appropriate. The Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used for the comparison of continuous variables in two groups. Categorical variables were compared by using the χ2 or Fisher's exact test, as appropriate. Exact confidence intervals (CI) were calculated according to the Pearson–Clopper formula. All P-values were two-tailed. A P-value less than 0.05 was considered to be statistical significant. The tests were performed using the SAS statistical package, version 8.02 (Cary, NC, USA).
Characteristics of the patients
A total of 122 ICD patients underwent generator replacement or surgical lead revision between January 2006 and July 2008 and were included into the study. The median time from last surgical intervention to the present surgical revision was ∼3 years. The low median time to revision was due to the high number of lead revisions. Two-thirds of the interventions were lead revisions. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study subjects are summarized in Table 1. The median age was 67 years. Seventy-seven percent were male. In all patients, leads were placed transvenously and the pulse generator was placed in the subpectoral area. Half of the patients had a primary prophylactic indication for an ICD. The prevalence of renal impairment was not different between both groups (Table 1). No patient in each group was on dialysis. C-reactive protein was not different between both groups. The median C-reactive protein in both groups was <0.5 mg/dL.
Microbiological cultures
Positive cultures from the generator pocket and leads were found in 40 (33%) patients. The most common bacteria isolated were coagulase negative staphylococci (68%, Table 2). Gram-positive organisms were found in nearly all patients with positive cultures (95%), whereas gram-negative bacteria were cultivated in only one patient. In detail, coagulase negative staphylococci were found in 27 patients, Staphylococcus aureus in one patient, other gram-positive cocci in four patients, gram-positive bacilli in one patient, Propionibacterium acnes in seven patients, Corynebacterium in one patient, Pseudomonas spp. in one patient, and Trichosporon beigelii in one patient. Polymicrobial cultures were present in three patients (Table 2). Seventy-one percent of bacteria were cefuroxime sensitive. In 82 patients, two or more microbiological cultures were obtained. In 59 of these patients none of the samples became positive. In 22 patients, either the pocket culture or the lead culture became positive, whereas only one patient had positive cultures in both the generator pocket and extracted lead but with different bacteria specimen.
Clinical events
Follow-up data were available for all patients. No patient died during the follow-up. During a median follow-up time of 203 days after revision device infection occurred in three (7.5%, CI 1.6–20.4%) patients of the positive culture group vs. two (2.4%, CI 0.3–8.5%) patients of the negative culture group (P = 0.33). Time from revision to infection was 108 ± 73 days in patients with positive culture vs. 60 ± 39 days in patients with negative culture (P = 0.50). In all three patients of the positive culture group, the organism responsible for the device infection was identical to the one obtained during the prior intervention. In one patient no microorganism was identified. Under the suspicion of pulmonary infection, this patient was treated with antibiotics for several weeks before the diagnosis of device infection was made. One patient presented with pocket infection, three patients suffered from lead endocarditis and one patient had lead and tricuspid valve endocarditis. Clinical characteristics and microbiology of these five cases are summarized in Table 3. All patients were subsequently cured with complete removal of the device. None of the remaining patients demonstrated signs of an ongoing or new post-operative infection during the follow-up period.
Major findings
A third of ICD patients without signs of infection undergoing generator replacement or lead revision have positive swab cultures from the generator pockets or extracted leads. After revision, 7.5% of those patients with a positive culture develop a device infection compared with 2.4% of patients with a negative culture (P = 0.19). In all patients of the positive culture group, the organism responsible for the infection is identical to the one obtained from the prior intervention.
Prevalence and relevance of positive swab cultures in asymptomatic patients
Common criticisms of swab techniques include frequent contamination, drying, inadequate specimen quality, and the superiority of other isolation techniques.18–20 Despite its limitations, numerous studies on swab culture have been done on chronic wounds,21–22 diabetic foot infection,23 burns,24,25 and post-operative wound infections.26 The studies have shown good correlation between the isolation of microorganism with swabs and tissue biopsy culture in chronic wounds and in the initial evaluation of limb-threatening infections.21–23 In the present study, a third of ICD patients undergoing generator replacement or lead revision had positive swab cultures from the generator pockets or extracted leads. The high rate of positive swab cultures is in accordance with previous studies which found a similar prevalence of positive cultures in asymptomatic patients.27,28 However, caution must be exercised when interpreting culture results in the absence of clinical signs and symptoms of infection. The cultivation of skin flora like Propionibacterium acnes or Trichosporon beigelii from the pocket swab or extracted leads indicates that contamination should be taken into account when making adjudgement about the swab culture results. Swab specimens were made after removal of the device from the pocket. This order might have increased the proportion of contamination. On the other hand, the cultivation of Staphylococcus epidermidis or S. aureus might be of clinical relevance as S. epidermidis and S. aureus are known to cause device infections which can even become life-threatening.11 This is underlined by the observation that 2 of 19 patients with S. epidermidis and one of one patient with S. aureus in the swab culture developed device infection. In all three patients, the bacteria responsible for the device infection had the identical biotype and same antimicrobial susceptibility pattern as the bacteria which were previously obtained from the patient during the previous revision procedure. Device infection and endocarditis are a severe complication of device therapy associated with a high mortality rate which ranges from 31 to 66% if the infected device is not removed and 18% or less with complete device removal and antimicrobial therapy.14,29,30 Early and adequate antibiotic therapy is essential for the treatment of device infection. Still the cultivation of microorganisms from infected devices and the preparation of an antibiogram need several days. Generally, calculated antibiotic therapy is started and has to be adapted after a few days when the results of the antibiogram are available. Therefore, especially at the beginning of the antibiotic therapy, swab cultures of previous interventions could be useful for starting the right antibiotic therapy.
Increased risk of device infection after elective generator replacement or lead revision
Secondary procedures such as pulse generator replacement are a risk factor for infection.9 The rate of infectious complications in patients who undergo multiple implantations of devices in their lifetime is markedly increased.31,32 In a retrospective analysis, the infection rate in young patients who underwent a median of two pacemaker implantations was 5.5% and consequently five-fold increased compared with de novo implantation.31 Early reinterventions for haematoma or lead dislodgement were the leading risk factor of infection, associated with an adjusted OR of 15.04.31 Harcombe et al.10 showed that the complication rate after elective pacemaker replacement was 6.5% vs. 1.4% after first implantation of a permanent pacemaker and the major complications were caused by erosion and infection. These findings are in accordance with the present study where four of five patients developing clinical infection had two or more prior revisions indicating the importance of re-operations in the risk of infections. The device infection rate was 4% after revision compared with 0.8% after de novo implantation. In contrast to previous reports on device infection,9,10 the number of lead infections was higher than the number of cases with only pocket infection. This result might be due to the high rate of lead revisions—two-thirds of patients underwent lead revision—and the subpectoral implantation site of the device.
Several sources for infection of the pacemaker/ICD pocket and electrode have been postulated. One possible source is contamination of the pocket at the time of device implantation. Bacteria may remain dormant, possibly in the state of equilibrium with the host defence mechanisms until something changes this equilibrium and infection becomes overt.33 The present study shows clearly that bacterial colonization is present in up to a third of ICD patients. Furthermore, 7.5% of these patients develop a device infection with the same species of microorganism which was cultivated from the swab cultures taken during the previous intervention. This observation underlines the hypothesis that primarily asymptomatic bacterial colonization can cause device infection after revision and may explain the increased infection rates after device replacement or lead revision compared with those after de novo implantation. Bacterial contamination is becoming a growing problem of device therapy, as there are more patients with heart failure who get ICD's, especially ICD's with cardiac resynchronization therapy.2 The risk of bacterial contamination may be correlated with the implantation duration and the number of leads, and the risk of infection may be increased in immunocompromized patients with severe heart failure.1,11 Device infection is underestimated in the calculation of device complications that are based on the trials with a follow-up duration shorter than longevity of ICD's. This fact may have an important impact on analysis about ICD cost-effectiveness over patients' lifetime.34 Further, the adverse events of the increasing number of device recalls may be underestimated.32
Strategies to prevent device infection after revision
All patients received periprocedural antibiotic therapy for 3 days with cefuroxime. Guidelines do not differentiate between de novo implantation and revision with regard to the antibiotic therapy, even if it is known that the infection rate is significantly higher in patients undergoing revision.3,31 The prolonged antibiotic therapy of 3 days with cefuroxime did not prevent device infections; even three of four patients had device infection with cefuroxime sensitive microorganisms. These findings suggest that antibiotic therapy may not sufficiently penetrate into generator pockets. Considering the high prevalence of asymptomatic bacterial colonization, further studies are warranted if a routine excision of the old generator pocket or a prolonged and calculated antibiotic therapy in patients who have contamination with S. aureus or S. epidermidis might reduce the infection rate after revision.
Limitations of the study
This study is a clinical, observational study from a single centre and therefore site-specific influences could bias the results. This includes site-specific operating facilities, antibiotic prophylaxis or pocket localization. As all revisions were performed in the operating room, these results may not be extended to revisions that are implanted in the cardiac catheterization laboratory.35
It is unknown how many of the positive cultures represent contamination during surgery. Swab specimens were made after removal of the device from the pocket. This order may increase the proportion of contamination.
Because of the speciality of the surgeon on lead revisions, the number of patients with lead revision included into the study was higher than the number of patients needing only generator replacement. Removing ICD leads sometimes is hard work and time-consuming bearing a considerable risk of contamination and may have increased the incidence of positive swab cultures. However, the incidence of device infection in the 102 patients with generator replacement not included into the study was not different compared with the incidence in the study population (4% in both groups).
A third of ICD patients without signs of infection undergoing generator replacement or lead revision have positive swab cultures from the generator pockets or extracted leads, indicating that asymptomatic bacterial colonization is present in up to a third of patients carrying a device. In 7.5% of these patients bacterial colonization becomes clinically relevant after revision causing device infection. The finding of S. epidermidis or S. aureus in generator pockets of asymptomatic patients is clinically relevant as bacterial colonization with S. epidermidis led in 10% (2 of 19) of patients to device infection and bacterial colonization with S. aureus in 100% (one of one). Prolonged peri-operative antibiotic therapy with cefuroxime does not prevent device infections due to cefuroxime sensitive microorganisms. Therefore, further studies to develop strategies in order to prevent device infections are warranted.
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Hockney's former long-term partner, John Fitzherbert, earlier testified that he and Elliott had smoked cannabis and consumed alcohol at Hockney's house in northeastern England the day before the death.
Elliott died on March 17 after Fitzherbert drove him to a hospital.
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Just got in from a great first flight!
This is a tad nose-heavy, so I'll need to readjust my battery next flight. Evening was almost dead calm. Plane's axial and lateral trim was bang on, just 2-3 notches on the up trim for level flying at 50%. I was surprised how FAST this plane flies, even at 45-50% throttle! 5-1/2 minute flight, with 1st 1.5 minutes closer to 65-70% throttle as I adjusted trim for 50% level out. Came in a bit hot on landing, but flared smooth onto the grassy field. No bounces or nose-ins! I am going to have a hoot with this plane! ***Update: Just finished charging the pack. 1150mAh consumed of the available 2100 (75% level of the 2800mAh in this pack). Since I estimate a 7-7.5 minutes of general cruise based upon my static measurements with this system, the 5.5 is closer to 7 or so at 45-50% throttle. So, I should get around 12.5 min. if cruising, 9-10 with mixed flying, and probably 7-8 min with more aggressive aerobatic flying... Smooth skies all! Enjoy the maiden video - thanks to Rob R. for shooting as best he could with the video - the plane went very fast - and hard to follow... SkyCadet
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10 May 2011
Nuclear power is likely to play a significant role in meeting the UK's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2020, an independent committee has said. Meanwhile, a think-tank claims over-ambitious renewables targets could harm decarbonisation.
Debris litters the fuel pond of Fukushima Daiichi 3, a remote camera inspection has shown. Elsewhere on site work is underway for long-term cooling of damaged reactor cores.
09 May 2011
Safety inspections at South Korea's nuclear power reactors have concluded that they are safe against the largest earthquakes and tsunamis that have struck the country so far. However, a massive investment programme has been announced aimed at reinforcing their defences.
06 May 2011
Chubu Electric Power Company is considering a request from Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan to shut down its Hamaoka nuclear power plant on predictions of a major earthquake.
Operators of Swiss nuclear power plants will have to improve instrumentation as well as earthquake and flooding resistance after a safety review. No shutdown is necessary, said the safety authority, as there is no immediate danger.
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