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A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. Bridging the gap between the medieval and early modern eras, Teofilo Ruiz focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the complex relationship between power and ceremony, and offering a vibrant portrait of Spain's cultural and political life.
Ruiz covers a range of festival categories: carnival, royal entries, tournaments, calendrical and noncalendrical celebrations, autos de fe, and Corpus Christi processions. He probes the ritual meanings of these events, paying special attention to the use of colors and symbols, and to the power relations articulated through these festive displays. Ruiz argues that the fluid and at times subversive character of medieval festivals gave way to highly formalized and hierarchical events reflecting a broader shift in how power was articulated in late medieval and early modern Spain. Yet Ruiz contends that these festivals, while they sought to buttress authority and instruct different social orders about hierarchies of power, also served as sites of contestation, dialogue, and resistance.
A King Travels sheds new light on Iberian festive traditions and their unique role in the centralizing state in early modern Castile.
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Issue release date: June 2013
|Section title: Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Multimodal Treatment Strategies in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Hepatocellular CarcinomaLurje G. · Lesurtel M. · Clavien P.-A.
Swiss Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Center, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Published online: 6/17/2013
Issue release date: June 2013
Number of Print Pages: 6
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the major health problems worldwide, and continues to grow because of its association with hepatitis B and C viruses. In patients with HCC, liver transplantation (LT) and liver resection are the only two curative treatment options. LT remains the best option since it not only removes the tumor, but also the underlying disease. The prerequisite for long-term success of LT for HCC depends on the tumor load and strict selection criteria with regard to the size and number of existing HCC lesions. The need to obtain the optimal benefit from a limited number of grafts has prompted the implementation of well-defined selection criteria that identify patients with early HCC who may benefit from better long-term outcome after LT. Unfortunately, LT can only be proposed in approximately 30% of patients with HCC due to limitations in donor graft availability. In this particular setting, open and laparoscopic surgical resection represent reasonable treatment modalities in noncirrhotic HCC patients. The decision-making process for liver resection should integrate the tumor stage, quality and function of the underlying liver parenchyma, volume of the future liver remnant, and general condition of the patient. In patients with favorable features (solitary tumor, compensated Child-Pugh A cirrhosis, no portal hypertension), the reported 5-year survival rates range between 50 and 70%. In specific cases, liver resection and LT may be combined in the same patient.
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Number of Figures : 0, Number of Tables : 0, Number of References : 39
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Caramel Pumpkin Oatmeal Bars
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- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons McCormick® Cinnamon, Ground
- 3/4 teaspoon McCormick® Ginger, Ground
- 1/4 teaspoon McCormick® Nutmeg, Ground
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, melted
- 1 cup canned pumpkin (which is about 1/2 of a can)
- 1 teaspoon McCormick® Pure Vanilla Extract
- 7 ounces (1/2 of 14-ounce package) caramels, unwrapped
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Mix flour, oats, sugar, baking soda, salt and spices in large bowl. Add butter; stir until mixture is well blended and forms coarse crumbs. Reserve almost 1/2 (about 2 cups) for the topping. Add pumpkin and vanilla to remaining mixture in bowl; stir until well blended. Press evenly into bottom of greased parchment-lined 13x9-inch baking pan. Set aside.
- 2. Microwave caramels and milk in medium microwavable bowl on HIGH 2 to 3 minutes or until caramels are completely melted, stirring after every minute. Let stand 1 minute. Pour over pumpkin mixture in pan, spreading to within 1/2-inch of edges. Sprinkle with reserved crumb mixture.
- 3. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack. Lift from pan. Cut into bars.
- Note to myself: I cut back on the amount of crumble reserved for topping to 2 c. I microwaved the caramels for 2 min.
- The pumpkin and caramels will make 2 batches of this stuff.
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Conservationists warn great apes face extinction
By David Lewis
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Poaching, logging and disease will
soon wipe out the last of the world's great apes unless new
strategies are devised to save humankind's closest relatives,
conservationists said on Monday.
From Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria in Africa to
the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in Asia, scientists fear
populations of gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans could
disappear within a generation without urgent action.
"As we sit today, it is important to remember we are
talking about the future of a member of our family, not a
strange creature that lives in the jungle," Richard Leakey, a
prominent conservationist from Kenya, told delegates from 23
countries at a conference in the Congolese capital Kinshasa on
saving apes.
"The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is
a shortage of strategy," Leakey said. "Let us devote our minds
– the one thing we have more of than other apes — and let's
secure their future."
Democratic Republic of Congo is home to chimpanzees and
some of the last remaining mountain gorillas, among the world's
most endangered species, who roam the volcanic mountains in
Virunga National Park straddling the border with Rwanda and
The majestic apes were made famous by "Gorillas in the
Mist," the film about researcher Dian Fossey who studied them
in Rwanda in the 1960s and documented her work in a book before
she was hacked to death in Virunga in 1985.
Trade in "bush meat" by poachers who sell the animals for
food, logging and the Ebola virus have also pushed Africa's
western lowland gorilla and central African chimpanzee to the
brink of extinction.
"Those scientists who are authorities have showed that
habitat loss in addition to the trade in bush meat and logging
may cause great apes to disappear within our generation," said
Samy Mankoto, secretary-general of the meeting, organized by
the United Nations Environment Programme and the U.N. cultural
organization UNESCO.
"Although some groups may survive, their long-term
viability will be threatened by their dwindling numbers and
fragmentation of habitat," he said at the five-day meeting's
opening ceremony.
Some 600 delegates will issue a "Declaration on Great Apes"
at the end of the meeting on protection measures. The meeting
is part of the Great Apes Survival Project, a new initiative
designed to boost global cooperation over the animals.
Great apes are man's closest living relatives — sharing
more than 95 percent of their genetic make-up — and have
helped explain how humans evolved alongside millions of other
Despite decades of work by individuals and organizations,
conservationists fear scientists are about to lose a key link
between humans and the natural world.
In a 2002 survey of 24 protected areas in Africa and
Southeast Asia, great ape populations were found to be
declining in 96 percent of the sites.
"It can be asserted that today … every one of the great
ape species is at high risk of extinction, either in the
immediate future or at best within 50 years," the United
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NORD Wins Competition to Design Marine Education Center in Malmö
NORD Architects has released designs for a new Marine Education Centre in Malmö, Sweden. The Copenhagen-based practice, awarded the commission through an invited competition, hopes to "blur the distinction between architecture and landscape" with a facility that helps users gain a "deeper understanding of marine life."
"With the changing climate, rising oceans and increased severity of cloudbursts, there is a need more than ever to understand the profound influence that marine life and the oceans have on our lives", says Johannes Molander Pedersen, partner at NORD Architects.
Warehouse "Magasinet" / Metro Arkitekter
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Design Team: Claes R Janson, Rafael Palomo (responsible architects), Mikael Dankull (engineer), Henrik Troedson, Jens Ekander
Area: 7,500 sqm
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Emporia / Wingårdhs
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Location: Hyllie Boulevard 19, Malmö, Sweden
Architect In Charge: Gert Wingårdh, Johan Eklind, Joakim Lyth
Graphic Design: Jennie Stolpe
Interior Architect: Helena Toresson
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Year: 2011
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Location: Hyllie Torg, Malmö, Sweden
Project Team: Claes R Janson, resp; Ola Arnholm, project architect; Carl Kylberg, Anna-Karin Joelsson, HL; Jörgen Åkerlund
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Project Area: 10,000 sqm
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Malmö Central Station / Metro Arkitekter
Architect: Metro Arkitekter
Location: Malmö Centralstation, Sweden
Project Team: Claes R Janson, head architect; Carl Kylberg, project architect; Josefin Klein, Alexander Simittchiev, Rikard Jansson, Henrik Troedson
Electric: Ramböll Malmö
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Contractor: Jernhusen AB
Building contractor: NCC
Project Area: 10,000 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Rafael Palomo (Metro Architects)
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Location: Malmö, Sweden
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 400 sqm
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Stortorget, Malmö / LAND Arkitektur + Urban Design + Marjamaa
Stortorget is one of the largest squares in Sweden and dates from the 16th century. Today it is an urban space that lost its old significance. LAND Arkitektur, Urban Design, and Marjamaa designed the new square for the city of Malmö. More images and architect's description after the break.
Passive Houses / Kjellgren Kaminsky
In the spring of this year, Malmo will receive a series of passive houses designed by Kjellgren Kaminsky in collaboration with the local builder Hölleviksnäs förvaltning. The winning proposal included 4 apartments where the units could be combined with a small store or office, a public micro park or roof top greenery. "Architecturally we aim to create a small scale and diverse formal language, in harmony with both the surrounding houses and the future tenants," explained the architects.
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Mikael Silvestre is signing with Werder Bremen today.
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An FIR was lodged against RJD MP Prabhunath Singh and his supporters on Thursday under sections of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 for poll-related offence in Bihar's Saran district, official sources said.
Deputy Collector Dharmenda Kumar lodged an FIR at Town police station against Singh, his private secretary Jitendra Singh and unidentified supporters for obstructing government work by breaking a barricade during filing of nomination by the MP from the Maharajganj parliamentary seat on April 15 last, the sources said.
As per the complaint, Singh and his supporters had broken the barricade set up near Town police station chowk and stormed into the district collectorate premises for filing of nomination by the RJD MP against permissible entry of only five persons, they said.
The RJD MP was granted permission to carry out road show upto Town police station chowk from the municipality entry point only before filing of nomination, the sources said, adding Singh's private secretary Jitendra Singh too has been booked on same charges as he had applied for permission for the road show.
Meanwhile, district officials were probing allegations against Singh that he had instigated party workers to cast more than one vote.
Addressing an election meeting at the Zilla School Maidan along with former Chief Minister Rabri Devi after filing of nomination by her from the Saran parliamentary seat on April 12, the RJD MP had allegedly exhorted party workers to press buttons on EVMs more than once and use all means to bring loyal voters to polling stations on election day.
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Southeast Idaho residents ┬ĀStacy Stutts, a freelance film producer formerly with CNN and Al Jazeera, and brothers Jonas and Ivan Marcinko recently attended and filmed a project called Wings of Kilimanjaro. ┬Ā
This took place on Feb. 5 on the African mountain itself.
Stacy, Jonas and Ivan, along with a group of 95 paragliders from 27 different countries and a crew of over 750 guides and porters ,ascended ŌĆśKiliŌĆÖ as the locals sometimes call it, to cover the story.
The Idaho contingent was there to cover the extreme event. The goal was to launch the biggest paragliding event to date.
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Health Care Reform = More Money, Bigger Hospitals, and Less Private Practices
For a while, conservatives have known that Obamacare would be a dose of bad medicine. : However, given the axiom that bog government helps big business, the same could be true with the medical industry. : Tim Carney at The Washington Examiner aptly pointed out today, from Bloomberg, Obamacare favors big hospitals, and smashes small practices.
In his column, Carney: wrote: that "Bloomberg report[ed] today: on how Medicare payment rules have led to hospital consolidation, with small practices selling out to big hospitals." : Additionally, Carney cited the point about consolidation:
Simon Gisby, a principal in the life science and health care practice at Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC in: New York, said the trend fits with changes starting to take place under the 2010 Affordable Care Act designed by the Obama administration to overhaul health care.
This consolidation means higher costs, the article explains. Some academic studies have confirmed that hospital consolidation means higher costs, and: at least one: has pinned some of the blame on Obama's Affordable Care Act:
hospitals are able to extract higher private payments when they hold more market power…. Now provisions of the ACA are encouraging further consolidation of hospitals and physicians, and the final antitrust review regulations from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have eliminated the proposed mandatory review of certain prospective ACOs.
So, at the end of the day, it's business as usual — with a splash of dependency. : Big government helping big business gain more power at the expense of the taxpayers. : Can we all agree that this overhaul of American health care was never meant to curb costs?
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ISLAMABAD: On a day of high drama and deep embarrassment for President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Chief Justice Ifthikar Chaudhary, who was removed from office last week by Gen. Musharraf, was manhandled by police, but given hero's welcome by hundreds of lawyers and Opposition politicians as he arrived at the Supreme Court. He was appearing before a panel considering a presidential reference against him.
The Supreme Judicial Council, as the five-judge panel is called, adjourned the in camera hearing until Friday after Mr. Justice Chaudhary submitted an eight-page, handwritten objection questioning its composition.
Mr. Justice Chaudhary said his removal was unconstitutional. He and his family were being detained with their access to transport, telephones, and television cut off. He also demanded an open hearing.
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According to Bob McKenzie, the deal is worth $16 million over three years. Iginla, who led the Bruins with 30 goals in the regular season and five in the postseason last year, wanted to return to the Bruins, but their lack of cap space made it difficult for the sides to come to term on an agreement.
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DALLAS Jury selection in the intoxication manslaughter case against former Cowboy Dallas Josh Brent began Thursday morning.
Jurors will be selected Friday and the trial will begin Monday.
On December 8, 2012, Brent was leaving a northwest Dallas club with teammate and friend Jerry Brown Jr. when he flipped his 2007 Mercedes near Highway 114. Investigators found Brent hit a curb and the car flipped onto its top.
Brent s blood alcohol content at the time of the crash was .189, more than twice the legal limit of .08. A police report revealed he was driving at least 110 miles-per-hour but could have reached 134 mph.
Brown died at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Witnesses at the time reported Brown being inside the car as the engine caught fire.Brent pulled him from the vehicle, witnesses said.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission launched a probe into the club that served the two Cowboys, Beamers' Private Club. The investigation found sufficient evidence that employees served alcohol to intoxicated customers and encouraged excessive drinking. The TABC held off on punishing the club until after Brent's trial.
It is standard policy for the TABC to investigate if a suspected drunken driver causes a fatal wreck after leaving a bar or club.
Brent's time out on bond has been dotted with controversy. He failed drug tests twice, once on May 24 and another time on June 19. A judge ordered him held without bond after the second time he tested positive for marijuana. He was taken into custody on June 27, although a court order freed him on July 8.
He retired from football about a week later.
Brent has been indicted for both intoxication manslaughter and manslaughter. The second charge allows the jury to convict him in Brown's death even if they find he was not intoxicated.
If convicted, Brent faces 20 years in prison.


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Prolotherapy describes a procedure for healing and strengthening lax ligaments by injecting proliferating agents and/or sclerosing solutions directly into partially torn or stretched ligaments or into a joint or adjacent structure(s) to create scar tissue in an effort to stabilize a joint. The goal of prolotherapy is to promote tissue repair or growth by prompting release of growth factors, such as cytokines, or by increasing the effectiveness of existing circulating growth factors. The mechanism of action is not well understood but may involve local irritation and/or cell lysis.
Prolotherapy may also be referred to as:
Agents used with prolotherapy have included zinc sulfate, psyllium seed oil, dextrose, or dextrose in combination with glycerin, and/or phenol. Proliferatives act to promote tissue repair or growth by prompting release of growth factors, such as cytokines, or increasing the effectiveness of existing circulating growth factors. Polidocanol and sodium morrhuate, vascular sclerosants, have also been used to sclerose areas of high intratendinous blood flow associated with tendinopathies. Prolotherapy typically involves multiple injections per session conducted over a series of treatment sessions.
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Prolotherapy is considered experimental, investigational and unproven for all indications including, but not limited to chronic neck or back pain, tendinopathy of the upper or lower limbs, osteoarthritic pain or other musculoskeletal pain conditions.
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HCPCS code M0076 specifically describes prolotherapy. Some practitioners submit non-specific CPT codes for prolotherapy, such as 20550, 20551, 20552, 20553, and 20999. The specific code for a service should be used when one is available.
Prolotherapy has been investigated as a treatment of various etiologies of musculoskeletal pain, including arthritis, degenerative disc disease, fibromyalgia, tendonitis, and plantar fasciitis. As with any therapy for pain, a placebo effect is anticipated, and thus randomized placebo controlled trials are necessary to investigate the extent of the placebo effect and to determine whether any improvement with prolotherapy exceeds that associated with a placebo.
This policy was originally created in 2010. When this policy was created, there was extensive literature regarding prolotherapy; however, a recent literature search revealed only four randomized placebo-controlled trials. This section of the current policy has been revised, and updated with searches of the MEDLINE database through June 2012. Following is a summary of the key literature to date
Chronic Neck and Back Pain
In 2004, a Cochrane review concluded that prolotherapy injections have not been proven to be more effective than placebo injections. (1) Two 2005 reviews also noted that there was limited high-quality data to support prolotherapy and that the great variation in injection and treatment protocols limited interpretation of the data. (2, 3) An updated 2007 Cochrane review on prolotherapy for chronic low back pain concluded that "When used alone, prolotherapy is not an effective treatment for chronic low-back pain." (4) The authors also concluded that, although confounded by cointerventions and heterogeneity of studies, "When combined with spinal manipulation, exercise, and other interventions, prolotherapy may improve chronic low-back pain and disability." A 2008 systematic review (of the same five studies included in the Cochrane review and by one of the same authors) concluded that despite its use for more than 50 years, there is no evidence of efficacy for prolotherapy injections alone for chronic low back pain. (5) The same evidence was evaluated in a 2009 systematic review conducted for the American Pain Society. (6) The authors of this review concluded that prolotherapy was found to be ineffective when used alone for chronic low back pain.
Three randomized trials were identified that focused on the use of injections of dextrose, glycerin, and phenol as a treatment of low back pain. In 1987, Ongley et al. reported on a trial of 81 patients with low back pain who were randomly assigned to receive spinal manipulation plus prolotherapy compared to a control group that received less forceful spinal manipulation, less local anesthesia, and placebo injections of saline. (7) Although improved responses were reported for the treatment group, it is not possible to isolate the possible contribution of the prolotherapy compared to the impact of the different types of spinal manipulation.
In 1993, Klein and colleagues reported on a trial that randomly assigned 79 patients with low back pain to receive a series of six weekly injections using either saline or a proliferant solution of dextrose, glycerine, and phenol. (8) Thirty of the 39 patients assigned to the proliferant group achieved a 50% or greater diminution in pain compared to 21 of the 40 in the placebo group. While the incremental benefit of the treatment group was statistically significant (p=0.04), blinding of the treatment groups was not maintained, since those assigned to the proliferant group experienced a clinically recognizable local inflammatory response.
In 2004, Yelland and colleagues reported on a randomized, partially blinded, controlled trial on prolotherapy injections, saline injections, and exercises for chronic low back pain in 110 subjects. (9) While decreases in pain and disability were noted in all study groups, there were no significant differences found between treatment groups at 12 and 24 months. Therefore, the effects of prolotherapy did not significantly exceed placebo effects.
Dagenais and colleagues also conducted a survey of practitioners of prolotherapy for back and neck pain. (10) Completed surveys (n=171, 50% response rate) revealed that practitioners had a median of 10 years of experience, with a median 2,000 treatments in 500 patients. About 500 adverse events (25% of treatments) were reported; 69 (14% of patients) required hospitalization. Adverse events included spinal disc injury, hemorrhage, infection, nerve damage, pneumothorax, spinal headache, spinal cord insult, and systemic reactions. The efficacy of prolotherapy for chronic neck and back pain has not been demonstrated; this procedure is considered experimental, investigational and unproven.
In 2000, Reeves and Hassanein reported on two trials that used dextrose for the treatment of osteoarthritis. (11) The first trial randomly assigned 68 patients with 111 osteoarthritic knees to receive either three bimonthly injections of dextrose or placebo. The patients were evaluated with a visual analog scale (VAS) for pain and swelling, frequency of leg buckling, goniometrically measured flexion, and radiographic measures of joint narrowing. As the data are presented, it is clear that there was significant improvement in both the placebo and treatment groups, but it is difficult to determine the comparative magnitude of improvement between the two groups. For example, for the various outcome measures of pain, it appears that there are probably no clinically significant incremental effects of prolotherapy compared to the placebo group. However, for other non-pain outcomes, i.e., swelling; buckling; and flexion range, prolotherapy may be associated with a significant incremental improvement. The various outcome measures were combined and assessed using a Hotelling multivariate analysis. With this statistical measurement, prolotherapy demonstrated a statistically superior overall effect (p=0.015) compared to the control group. It should be recognized that the statistical significance of this measure is most likely due to the improvements in the non-pain symptoms (i.e., swelling, buckling, and flexion range). In summary, it is not known whether the incremental improvement in the non-pain-related outcomes of the prolotherapy group compared to the control group is clinically significant.
In a similarly designed study, the same investigators studied the effectiveness of prolotherapy as a treatment of osteoarthritic thumb and finger joints. (12) A total of 27 patients with 150 osteoarthritic joints were randomly assigned to receive three bimonthly injections of either dextrose or water. Patients were evaluated with both VAS for pain and goniometric assessment of joint movement. Since patients had a variable number of joints injected (ranging from 1 to 22), the VAS score for every symptomatic joint in each patient was added together for a total and divided by the number of symptomatic joints to provide an average joint pain score for each patient. There were improvements in pain scores in both the placebo and treatment groups, but the incremental improvement of the treatment group compared to the placebo group did not reach statistical significance. In terms of flexion, the treatment group reported a statistically significant improvement (p=0.043), while the placebo group reported a greater, statistically significant decrease (p=0.011). Therefore, the statistically significant difference in flexion between the two groups (p=0.003) was primarily related to the decrease in the control group, with a smaller contribution related to the positive response in the treatment group. In summary, the clinical significance of an isolated finding of improved flexion without a corresponding significant improvement in pain is uncertain.
Tendinopathies of the Upper and Lower Limbs
A 2009 systematic review evaluated injection therapies for lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow); two randomized controlled trials and one prospective case series on prolotherapy were included. (13) One of the randomized trials was referenced as a report from a 2006 conference on complementary and alternative medicine; no authors are listed in the reference, and the study does not appear to be available in the peer-reviewed published literature. The second randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial involved 20 patients who had elbow pain for at least six months and failure of conservative therapy (rest, physical therapy, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and two corticosteroid injections) to three treatments (over eight weeks) of prolotherapy or saline injection. (14) There was a significant improvement in pain with prolotherapy injection (from 5.1 to 0.5 on a Likert scale) in comparison with saline injection (4.5 to 3.5). Isometric strength also improved (13 to 31 lb vs. 10 to 11 lb, respectively), but there was no difference in grip strength between the two conditions. The authors indicated that this is the first randomized trial of prolotherapy for tendinopathy and that additional research with a larger study population is needed.
Yelland et al., an author of Cochrane reviews on this topic, reported a multicenter randomized trial of prolotherapy or exercises for Achilles tendonitis in 43 patients. (15) Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of unilateral or bilateral mid-portion Achilles tendinosis with pain between 2 and 7 centimeters proximal to the calcaneal attachment in adults older than 18 years with activity-related pain for at least six weeks. The sample size was limited by the available resources and slow recruitment rate, resulting in 15 participants in the eccentric loading exercise group, 14 in the prolotherapy group, and 14 in the combined treatment group. Randomization was conducted by a central site and resulted in a lower median duration of pain in the combined treatment group (six months) than in the exercise alone (21 months) or prolotherapy alone (24 months) groups. An average of 4.4 injections per treatment was directed at tender points in the subcutaneous tissues adjacent to the affected tendon, with four to 12 weekly treatments until the participants attained pain-free activity or requested to cease treatment. The participants were instructed to perform eccentric loading exercises twice daily in three sets of 15 repetitions with the knee straight and three sets of 15 repetitions with the knee bent for a period of 12 weeks, with the load progressively increased by adding weights to a backpack. Clinical reviews were performed at three, six, and 12 weeks to check technique and progress. Mean increases in the validated Victorian Institute of Sport Assessment – Achilles (VISA-A) score were 23.7 for exercise alone, 27.5 for prolotherapy alone, and 41.1 for the combined treatment. At six weeks and 12 months, these increases were significantly greater for combined treatment (exercise and prolotherapy) than for exercise alone. The predefined minimum clinically important increase of 20 points or more on the VISA-A was obtained by 12 subjects in the combined treatment group and 11 each in the exercise alone and prolotherapy alone groups. This was not significantly different. The percentage of patients achieving full recovery (VISA-A score of 90 or above at 12 months) was 53% for exercise alone, 71% for prolotherapy alone, and 64% for the combined treatment group, but these differences were not significant. Although the authors concluded that prolotherapy may be a cost-effective method to speed recovery in patients with Achilles tendonitis, this study is limited by the combination of a small number of subjects per group, unequal duration of pain in the treatment groups at baseline, and minimal differences in the number of patients showing recovery (11 vs. 12, of 14 or 15, respectively). Additional randomized trials are needed to replicate and extend these findings.
Other Musculoskeletal Pain
Reeves and Hassanein reported on a study of dextrose prolotherapy for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) laxity. (16) Of 16 evaluable patients, statistically significant improvements were found at six, 12, and 36 months in ACL laxity, pain, swelling, and knee range of motion However, this was a small, nonrandomized trial and, as noted above, without placebo control, the extent that improvements with prolotherapy exceed those associated with a placebo cannot be determined.
A 2010 publication by Kim et al. compared intra-articular prolotherapy with intra-articular corticosteroid injection for sacroiliac pain. (17) The randomized double-blind study included 48 patients with sacroiliac joint pain lasting equal to or greater than three months, confirmed by equal to or greater than 50% improvement in response to local anesthetic block The injections were performed on a biweekly schedule (maximum of three injections) under fluoroscopic guidance with confirmation of the intra-articular location with an arthrogram. Pain and disability scores were assessed at baseline, two weeks, and monthly after completion of treatment. At two weeks after treatment, all patients met the primary outcome measure of equal to or greater than 50% reduction in pain scores, and there was no significant difference between the two groups. The numerical rating scale for pain was reduced from 6.3 to 1.4 in the prolotherapy group and from 6.7 to 1.9 in the steroid group. The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) decreased from 33.9 to 11.1 in the prolotherapy group and from 35.7 to 15.5 in the steroid group. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed a significantly greater percentage of patients with sustained relief following prolotherapy. At six months after treatment, 63.6% of patients in the prolotherapy group reported equal to or greater than 50% improvement from baseline in comparison with 27.2% of the steroid group. At 15 months after treatment, 58.7% of patients in the prolotherapy group reported relief equal to or greater than 50% in comparison with 10.2% of the steroid group. Key differences between this and other studies on prolotherapy were the selection of patients using a diagnostic sacroiliac joint block and the use of an arthrogram to confirm the location of the injection. Additional trials are needed to confirm the safety and efficacy of this procedure.
Ongoing Clinical Trials
A search of online site ClinicalTrials.gov in June 2012 identified several ongoing or completed randomized trials or non-randomized studies on prolotherapy:
The literature on prolotherapy consists of small randomized trials on a variety of pain syndromes, with inconsistent results. The body of scientific evidence does not permit conclusions concerning the effect of prolotherapy on health outcomes for chronic neck or back pain, tendinopathies of the upper or lower limbs, osteoarthritic pain, or other musculoskeletal pain conditions. Therefore, prolotherapy is considered experimental, investigational and unproven.
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The presence or absence of procedure, service, supply, device or diagnosis codes in a Medical Policy document has no relevance for determination of benefit coverage for members or reimbursement for providers. Only the written coverage position in a medical policy should be used for such determinations.
Benefit coverage determinations based on written Medical Policy coverage positions must include review of the member's benefit contract or Summary Plan Description (SPD) for defined coverage vs. non-coverage, benefit exclusions, and benefit limitations such as dollar or duration caps.
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A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions
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We extend the pioneering work of J. E. Hirsch, the inventor of the h-index, by proposing a simple and seemingly robust approach for comparing the scientific productivity and visibility of institutions. Our main findings are that i) while the h-index is a sensible criterion for comparing scientists within a given field, it does not directly extend to rank institutions of disparate sizes and journals, ii) however, the h-index, which always increases with paper population, has an universal growth rate for large numbers of papers; iii) thus the h-index of a large population of papers can be decomposed into the product of an impact index and a factor depending on the population size, iv) as a complement to the h-index, this new impact index provides an interesting way to compare the scientific production of institutions (universities, laboratories or journals).
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- 2. Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Materials, Université Paul Verlaine, Ile du Saulcy, BP 80794, 57012, Metz, France


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Neither of the World Wars involved every power on Earth.
But WWII involved
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The point of calling it a World War, and the point of talking about the entire Alpha Quadrant being at stake was to emphasize the
previously unseen scale of the conflicts.
Yeah, and that's what I don't get -- this notion that a Khitomer Accords/Typhon Pact war would somehow be bigger than the Dominion War. That doesn't make any sense. The Dominion alone is 2000 years old and rules over thousands of worlds. It's probably bigger than all the Khitomer allies and Typhon Pact powers combined, not just in size but in the amount of resources and power it was able to bring to bear. Not to mention that post-Borg Invasion, the UFP, Klingons, and Romulans are all diminished in territory, power, and strength compared to where they were during the Dominion War -- and after what the Dominion did to them, the Cardassians are a shadow of what they were.
So any such conflict would be
than the Dominion War by a significant margin -- and it would be a minor kerfuffle compared to the Borg Invasion. Sure, the amount of local territory occupied by the participating nations would be larger, but that's a strange metric for the magnitude of a war, since it doesn't necessarily correspond to the size of the actual fighting, the amount of destruction, the cost in lives. And the physical territory of the participants really wouldn't be
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So I just don't understand this perception that the biggest conflict is in the future. That's selling the Dominion War and the Borg Invasion short. They were supposed to be the biggest cataclysms in Federation history. What's happening now with the Typhon Pact is just the aftermath, the ongoing ripple effect of the Borg Invasion.
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i'm trying to install some super isol on an existing oven that is constantly in use. i tried to glue the board in place, but the underside of the hearth is quite warm/hot and the glue doesn't seem to bond. any suggestions?
i tried with another piece of board and it seems like the glue bonds to the underside of the oven, but not to the super isol itself. it bonds, but not particularly well. would some sort of mortar work?
Hi Peter,
I can picture what you are trying to do. I have never tried to glue the SuperIsol to the bottom of anything, so I don't have any experience with how Skamolexx would bond.
I don't think mortar would do it.
Have you tried bracing the SuperIsol in place with a piece of wood, to give the glue a long time to set and bond? A long time.
Could you possibly leave a brace there permanently?
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Two products might be more efficient. In my masonry business, we use a glue called BondLoc for gluing stone where mortar is not an option. Also, there are several brands of masonry glue used for pavers, as in interlock manufactured "stone" applications. I'd definitely brace the insulation board in place until the glue sets.
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The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed defenseman John-Michael Liles to a four-year contract extension. Financial figures have yet to be disclosed.The 31-year-old was acquired by the Maple Leafs for a 2012 second-round draft pick and has four goals and 17 assists despite missing 15 games due to injury this season.He was set to become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.Liles is currently on injured reserve with concussion-like symptoms.Jonas Gustavsson, Mikhail Grabovski, Joey Crabb and Darryl Boyce are the only unrestricted free agents still needed to be signed by the Maple Leafs heading into the 2012-13 season.
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Iran's state-funded Iranian Student News Agency has put out the first Iranian media report about American Pastor Saeed Abedini's incarceration in Iran.
Though the report, unsurprisingly, contains a number of inaccuracies, it does acknowledge that his arrest was for his faith.
The report, as translated, states:
A person named Saeed Abedini who was sent to start underground house churches inside of Iran was arrested. His wife and kids live in the US and he had also resided in England for many years.
It is clearly an attempt by Iran to paint Pastor Saeed as a foreign plant, "sent" to undermine their culture.
Pastor Saeed, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen, while having previously been involved in starting house churches, was arrested in Iran on a trip to visit his family and continue humanitarian work. He was working with non-religious orphanages in Iran at the time.
The report also incorrectly claims that Pastor Saeed lived in England, which he has never done. In fact, prior to 2005 when Pastor Saeed and his wife, Naghmeh, moved to the U.S., he had never traveled outside of Iran while a leader of house churches in Iran.
This is the same type of misinformation campaign orchestrated against Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani by state-run media in Iran. However, the fact that Iran is acknowledging Pastor Saeed's arrest is related to his faith is an important step in increasing international pressure on the regime to stop persecuting people of faith.
The radical Islamic regime is stepping up its brutal repression of anyone who would dare take a stand for their Christian faith.
With Pastor Saeed, Pastor Youcef, and Youcef's Iranian attorney, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, all imprisoned for their faith and work defending human rights, it could not be more important to keep the intense international pressure on Iran to release these men and all those imprisoned for their faith.
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THIBODAUX, La. -- Sixth graders at St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School in Thibodaux paid tribute to America's servicemen on Veterans Day, specifically saluting 67 veterans in the audience, family members of the students.
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'I reminisced about some of my friends that I've known over my career,' said Lt. Colonel Raymond Dickerson, U.S. Army (Ret.), 'and I also thought that the school is doing an excellent job teaching the kids the purpose, and the special purpose and the meaning of the veterans who served this country.'
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'I was touched, how nice they made, you know the presentation was wonderful,' she said.
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Also, i think it depends on how often you go, if you are lucky enough to afford a couple of trips a year or maybe even once a year then you need to think about it more and go in the holidays.
[quote="Dawn, post: 245176"]if you read my post correctly you would see i only ever taken them out for 5 days, as the rest is in holiday timeOriginally Posted by ukwdwnut, post: 245163
to answer your other dont blame us if your kids fall behind....i think mine are doing really well
lauren has had her own business in the west midlands when she lived up there for four years...now has one here, and after two years only after her accountant said be prepared to lose money first year, break even second year and make a small profit third year well in her 2nd year her turnover is close to 50k which i think for missing 16 days school overall is really good.
michael is at uni and doing very well thank you
didnt hurt them any did it :D
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i also work in a school and it hasnt hurt any of the students education whatsoever
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Because the original poster didn't use an aggressive tone and get all uppity about it. And they used capital letters and full stops.Originally Posted by ukwdwnut, post: 245248
always took my kids out of school on holidays and had school question this but im affraid its all well and good say go in school holidays but when your husband works 18 hour days during summer holidays and easter holidays and other school holidays are busy times when you have your own buisness it isnt always so easy so when it came down to it it was either go away in a quiet time for our buisness or not have a holiday. cowns need milked 365 days a year and crops grow in other times so for us it wasnt even an option.
I have taken my children in term time 2 or 3 times.
I spoke with teachers or head teachers, working around what they were doing at school and went in July when they were winding down for the holidays, apart from WDW when we went in June.
Again, this was checked prior to arranging and the school was absolutely fine about it.
Once my eldest started high school though we stopped and went on less expensive holidays in August, my youngest is going to high school in September so still no more term time holidays for us!
I have taken them out a couple of times in secondary school, once for a close friends bah mitzvah in 2007, 3 days before the end of term in 2009 and a week at the beginning of term next school year, yes I know it's not ideal but I can't get 2 weeks together in the summer hols as there are too many people at work fighting over leave. I really don't think you can say a theme park holiday quantifies as an educational trip, yes there are some things to learn but a weeks worth? . I do really value travel in the upbringing of my children though.
I believe in a parents right to make these decisions for themselves, some children it won't affect, others it could cause problems in their academic work. I don't think I would support having more than 2 weeks off extra a year though unless it was something like spending a month with a hill tribe or something


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