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Objective: To determine the outcome of scleroderma renal crisis before and after the availability of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.
Design: Evaluation of a large cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis and renal crisis who were followed prospectively.
Setting: University scleroderma center.
Patients: One hundred and eight patients who had scleroderma renal crisis between 1972 and 1987.
Intervention: ACE inhibitors.
Measurements and Main Results: Therapy with ACE inhibitors has dramatically improved the survival of patients with scleroderma 0renal crisis (1-year survival, 15% without and 76% with ACE inhibitors; P < 0.001). However, 24 (44%) of 55 patients with scleroderma renal crisis who were treated with ACE inhibitors died early or required permanent dialysis. Older age, male sex, an initial serum creatinine level of more than 270 µmol/L, inadequately controlled blood pressure, and congestive heart failure were associated with these poor outcomes, but only older age and congestive heart failure were significant in a multivariate logistic regression analysis. Eleven of twenty patients (55%) who survived dialysis more than 3 months and continued to receive therapy with ACE inhibitors were able to discontinue dialysis after 3 to 15 months compared with 0 of 15 dialysis patients who did not receive ACE-inhibitor therapy (P = 0.002).
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Maria McCaffery of RenewableUK presents Green Energy Award to Richard Mardon and Alison Hood of Airvolution Energy
The Ysgellog Farm wind turbines on Anglesey are the most "Outstanding Green Energy Project" in Wales, as Airvolution Energy Ltd receives the top award at the Wales Green Energy Awards.The awards, organised by RenewableUK Cymru, singled out the project because of Airvolution's commitment to retain economic benefits within Anglesey during the construction period and in founding the Ysgellog Community Benefit Fund."Giving priority to the local goods and service providers is really important to us; 71% of our suppliers were Welsh and 35% were from Anglesey, representing a spend of £316,000 on the Island.Winning an award is a great opportunity to showcase what we have achieved on Anglesey," said Richard Mardon, Chief Executive Officer, Airvolution Energy Ltd.The winners were announced at a prestigious awards lunch in St David's Hotel, Cardiff, on Wednesday 9 October. The awards organiser, RenewableUK, is the UK's leading renewable energy trade association, which supports the development of UK wind and marine energy.In addition to successfully generating a significant amount of clean, renewable energy, the wind turbines at Ysgellog Farm are bringing benefits to the local community through the Ysgellog Community Benefit Fund. The two turbines will deliver £465,000 in community funding over the next 25 years. Groups within a 6km radius of the turbines are being encouraged to submit an application for the first round of funding. Submissions close on 28 October 2013."We have won the award in the same week we launched our community consultation for two new wind turbines on neighbouring land at Bodewryd Farm, Rhosgoch. We will continue our commitment to Anglesey by using local suppliers and, if the Ysgellog 2 turbines are approved, we would aim to improve the amount that stays within Anglesey during construction.In addition, there would be £20,000 per year to add to the community fund, worth £500,000 over the lifetime of the project," said Alison Hood, Communications Manager for Airvolution Energy.Further details about Airvolution, Ysgellog Farm and the Ysgellog 2 project can be found at http://www.ysgellog2-wind.co.ukFor more local articles and stories, subscribe to our free Anglesey Newsletter here. It's as easy as 1-2-3!
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David Cronenberg has written a screenplay for a 'Fly' sequel
One of my least favorite moments of the year so far was writing a mediocre review for David Cronenberg's new film "A Dangerous Method." I love Cronenberg's work, and I consider him one of the most interesting and exciting filmmakers working anywhere today. Even when I don't like a film he makes, which is rare, I like the conversation about it, the experience of seeing it, and the knowledge that he's still working.
One of the most remarkable parts of his career is the way he managed to shake the horror genre, something many horror filmmakers are incapable of doing. Studios and audiences love to put filmmakers into easy boxes, and Cronenberg's work was so outrageous that it would have been very easy to imagine him spending his whole life working in horror. Instead, he managed to redefine himself so completely that it's possible that there are film fans who don't even know him as a horror filmmaker.
One of his biggest mainstream moments came in the '80s with his remake of "The Fly." I am still amazed by the film when I revisit it, and I think it's one of the saddest films of his entire career. For years now, Fox has been trying to find a way to kick off a new version of the film. I even had a series of pitch meetings on it with my writing partner at one point, and I heard from Fox how they wanted to return to the original source material and find some new way into it.
Consider me surprised, then, in a good way, by the news that Cronenberg would not only consider a return to the genre but that he's already written a script for what he describes as a sequel, not a remake.
I'm not sure what the status of the film is at Fox, but considering their appetite for sequels and reboots, I can't imagine what the hold-up is. If Cronenberg was willing to write a script, I imagine he must have found something in the material that intrigued him and that was worth digging back into.
I'm curious to see if this one actually ends up happening, and if not, if I'll ever be able to get my grubby little hands on the draft. It sounds fascinating, and we'll definitely keep you posted. If it does get made, then as our own Dan Fienberg commented to me in e-mail, "This will mark the most significant erasure of Eric Stoltz from film history since 'Back to The Future.'"
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Hours after Ottawa GM Bryan Murray held a news conference to announce the team was at a contractual impasse with restricted free agent defenseman Andrej Meszaros, The Hockey News has learned from an NHL source that Meszaros has agreed to the terms of a multi-year offer sheet with an average salary in excess of $5 million per season.
The team that has agreed to terms with the 22-year-old has yet to be confirmed.
When contacted by The Hockey News, Murray denied the report.
"I've heard rumors that that's happening, but there's no confirmation of that at this point," said Murray.
Earlier in the day at the press conference, Murray explained his negotiating position:
"I think Mez is a potentially good young defenseman who had a bit of an off-year this past year, and we've asked their camp to entertain that in what we're trying to do with him," Murray said. "I think we've made more than a fair offer and put ourselves in a position where he could come here and, with some help, we think he can be a top player.
"We need their camp to help us in that area as well. I've tried to get that message across, but to this point, we haven't gotten there."
The Ottawa Sun is reporting Meszaros was looking for a deal in the $4.5 million per year range while Ottawa had countered with an offer of $3.5 million per.
Meszaros has played three NHL seasons, suiting up in all 82 games in each campaign. He has a career 26 goals and 110 points and is a plus-24. In addition, he has played 34 NHL games, collecting two goals and seven points and a plus-1 rating.
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He noted that the law included an unpopular mandate he had resisted as a candidate for president — Obama referred to it as a provision "that people who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility to do so." And taking a potshot at Romney, he noted that "this idea has enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current Republican nominee for president."


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In what has to be on of the great finishes in the 10,000M, a gutsy Ibrahim Jeilan came through with a blistering finish to catch favorite Mo Farah at the finish line. Imani Merga came in 3rd.
Kenenisa should have never started this race. He dropped out at about the 5,000M.
The Kenyans were a non-factor in this race mostly because Zersenay Tadese kept the pace honest. A lot of respect to Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea who always runs an honest race. I always wonder what his results would be if he had a good supporting cast.
Ibrahim Jeilan emergence as well as Imani Merga 3rd place finish coupled with the poor showing by Kenenisa Bekele and Seleshi Sihine will transform the Ethiopian London field. Kenenisa Bekele and Seleshi Sihine had been fixtures at this event. It's most likely that one of them will not be at the 2012 Olympics as there is no room on the roster.
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This was a great race. I agree Zersenay took the Kenyans out but I also think there is more talent here. If Kenenisa were not the defending Champ (extra slot) either Ibrahim or Imane would have been left out and the outcome would have been different.
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The Thanksgiving feast has been cooked and consumed and the leftovers loved. The last of the turkey turned into a vitamin-packed soup for my husband and son who have been down for a couple of days with a cold/flu bug. Hopefully, the few days of rest and the soup, tea, and other liquids they consumed will have my boys up and about and feeling better soon. I think they're running out of movies to fall asleep to!
Now that Thanksgiving is over, it's time to think of Christmas. Thankfully, the biggest chunk of my Christmas shopping is done. I still have a little canning to do and some wine that needs bottling to give as gifts for friends. I have a two-day break in my work schedule this week, so maybe I'll be able to get it done, along with a couple of afghans that I'm crocheting. I recently learned that I can crochet while pedaling my exercise bike. That newly discovered talent will help me get my projects done without skimping on exercise!
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Trinity has a dynamic, growing youth community that meets each Sunday during the school year at 4 p.m. God is at work through these teens and their families all the time. Trinity's ongoing ministry to youth is about developing them further as a community of faith and creating opportunities for them to see their role in God's work in this world. Be sure to seek out Father Andrew Wright, our Associate Rector for Children, Families & Young Adults, when you visit on Sunday. He will be glad to tell you more!
For the youngest children the nursery is available on Sunday mornings from 9 a.m. until after the 11:30 a.m. service. Children 6 weeks to preschool age are welcome in the nursery during worship. During the school year, Children's Church is offered at the 9:15 a.m. service is for kids transitioning out of the nursery and into worship. Children will process out of the sanctuary after the first prayer of the service. Parents are always welcome to come too! The children will return to their parents before communion. Please note that Children's Church is integrated in the 11:30 service. Children stay with adults where they get the opportunity to dance and play musical instruments. Sunday School is held during the school year, and begins at 10:40 a.m. and ends at 11:25 a.m. Please visit our Children's Ministry page for more information.
Each service at Trinity offer a unique worship experience. You'll find the 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. services to be quiet and contemplative, while the 9:15 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. services are enriched with music. Please visit the Worship section of our website to learn more about each one.
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10 seconds is all it takes … to judge a teacher
November 5, 2013 § 2 Comments
I just read of the sad demise of Nalini Ambady, social psychologist at Stanford. Her research on the accuracy of first impressions connected with me (from the moment I first glimpsed it). As the NYTimes reports (Nalini Ambady, Psychologist of Intuition, Is Dead at 54) Dr. Ambady's research on how people make snap judgements tells us just how important first impressions are.
For instance in an study (titled Half a minute: Predicting teacher evaluations from thin slices of nonverbal behavior and physical attractiveness; Ambady & Rosenthal, 1993) they
… had students view soundless 10-second videos of professors teaching. The students were asked to rate each professor, none of whom they knew, for qualities including honesty, likability, competence and professionalism.
When their responses were compared with evaluations from students who had studied with those professors for an entire semester, they correlated to a striking degree… the correlation held even when the videos were trimmed to only two seconds.
This study resonated with my instincts and this is something that I have taken to heart. It is for this reason that I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking of what to do on the very first day of class… That first meeting for me is crucial. Matt and I wrote up our reflections on this (designing the first day)… many years ago. Sadly, for one reason or another, this article never made it to print. For the record here it is: Designing learning from day one: A first day activity to foster design thinking about educational technology
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Hi, Punya.
It is so sad that she died so young!
This is very interesting – I just downloaded your paper. I am wondering how we can streamline this for interview purposes (we interview all our teacher prep candidates before they move on to our second phase).


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There are so many processed food products available today that FoodFacts.com understands how difficult it is for many consumers to avoid them. Sometimes even products we don't think of as processed prove to be when we take a look at their ingredient lists. Junk food can be found in our fast food establishments and our grocery stores and many food retailers in between. The term is no longer appropriate for one or two food categories, but can be applied to many. As the obesity epidemic becomes more of a pressing problem each day, we have been left to wonder if the widespread proliferation of processed foods has actually turned into an addiction for some consumers.
A new study out of Boston Children's Hospital has found that the consumption of highly processed carbohydrates can, in fact, cause excess hunger and stimulate the brain regions that are involved in reward and cravings. It was noted that in addition to reward and craving, this is the region of the brain that is also linked with substance abuse and dependence. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on June 26, 2013, investigates how food intake is regulated by dopamine-containing pleasure centers of the brain.
The research suggests that limiting these "high-glycemic index" foods could help the obese population avoid overeating.
In order to conduct the study, the researchers set out to measure blood glucose levels and hunger as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to observe brain activity during the four hours following a meal. This is the time period that influences eating behavior during the next meal.
Twelve overweight or obese men consumed test meals designed as two different milkshakes with the same calories, taste and sweetness. Essentially both were the same with the only difference being that one included high-glycemic index carbohydrates and the other contained low-glycemic index carbohydrates.
After participants consumed the high-glycemic index milkshake, they experienced an initial surge in blood sugar levels, followed by sharp crash four hours later. This was caused by a decrease in blood glucose that is associated with excessive hunger as well as the intense activation of the brain region involved in addictive behaviors. The idea that high-glycemic index foods are addictive is certainly controversial and further study is necessary in order to arrive at a definitive conclusion.
In the meantime, FoodFacts.com thinks we should all familiarize ourselves with high-glycemic index foods even more thoroughly. Highly processed carbohydrates include white bread (burger buns at fast food restaurants, French toast sticks from a box or fast food, plain bagels), white potatoes and white potato products (including french fries, potato chips, instant mashed potatoes or frozen potatoes), donuts, onion rings, instant oatmeal, boxed macaroni and cheese, soda … the list goes on. When we eat these processed products, our brain tells us to eat more. Whether or not they can be labeled "addictive" remains to be seen, but regardless of the label, consuming processed foods isn't a healthy habit. Our brains seem to get that message loud and clear.


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Discussion in 'Battlestar Galactica & Caprica' started by Agent Richard07, Jun 14, 2008.
Maybe Earth had its own Cylon rebellion.
Yeah, okay. Because the twisted remains of the Brooklyn Bridge look real different from any other suspension bridge in the world. Plus, unlike other bridges it crosses a body of water leading into a large city.
I've entertained a similar thought.
I didn't see it, all i saw was twisted metal, sorry, i looked hard, just couldn't see it
As have I. After all, all this has happened before and will happen again.
Gosh, I hope though that it's some other city than NYC. It's been done to death. Hell, maybe it's San Francisco and that's the Bay Bridge or it's some yet unseen city that we've yet to build. Better yet, maybe it's some city on some Earth that isn't ours.
I hope that RDM and DE break out of the box and make it something other than NYC.
Post-apocalyptic NYC. Been there. Done that.
Absolutely. And it looked nothing like the Brooklyn Bridge.
They'll probably never tell us what city it is or where on "Earth" it's located.
I know, but I was still expecting to see a ruined Stature of Liberty in the final pan!
The inhabitants of New Gargleblast are underground dwellers, so it couldn't be New Gargleblast.
Shades of Terminator and the Matrox
That's Old New Gargleblast - I'm talking about New New Gargleblast.
Oh, fuck. I stopped reading the novels after Captain Portobello got killed off. My bad.
Still, it was cool because as they were flying in/down I kept thinking "This is *IT*! This is REALLY IT!!"
Yes its earth...there was a frackkin CAR frame on the beach, so this tells me 2 things 1. ITS EARTH, OUR EARTH!!! 2. IRAN GETS NUKES
The question, is Earth totally devoid of all life, especially intellegent life? Possibly RDM will throw a plot twist and intruduce a third party.
The death of Captain Portobello explains the lack of a mushroom cloud.
Hey, there were Hummers on Caprica. With license plates.
We've never seen cars before in this series, you must be right!
Which is a real shame because he was such a fun guy.
Hey, if they are going the Planet of the Apes route, I say bring on the mutants!
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While Compressor does a great job of building the necessary assets for Blu-ray encoding and authoring, for a Blu-ray compression there is a neat little catch in there: the Blu-ray standard has H.264 that's an MPEG-4 as a standard, but it also has MPEG-2s. And the real beauty of encoding as an MPEG-2 is you actually will have your compression occur faster. So this movie is really about the idea that I'm going to show you where the Blu-ray pieces are, but then I'm going to turn around and remove the standard Apple Blu-ray and build my own custom MPEG-2 for the Blu-ray.
So now that you know where I'm going, I'm going to pick my Mission Statement Starting Point. You of course can take any single files you want. Coming from Final Cut Pro, you can do that as well. I'm going to drag and drop inside of Compressor. I'm going to start with the Blu-ray starting point. I'm going to roll open Apple. I'm going to role open the Disk Burning. I'm going to take certainly the audio I need. We again are using the same AC3 Files that we would build for a standard-def DVD. There's no difference between the two. It's a separate element from the video, and I'm going to use Apple's H.264 for the encode.
This is what we need to use for the proper format for Blu-ray DVDs, and at this point, I could hit Submit. I'm actually going to build and contrast a little bit with the MPEG-2, and there is no preset for this. So we're going to build that preset ourselves. So we'll actually compress, and we'll get all three pieces, just so we can compare a little bit of the difference, certainly the amount of time it takes to encode. So I'm going to go ahead here and I'm going to pick from this little plus drop down an MPEG-2. We're going to name this setting that we haven't use yet.
I'm going to call this MPEG-2 for BluRay. You'll notice I'm only Encoder tab. The Encoder tab well let me change the Quality, or how compressed our files are. For Blu-ray we have different specifications than for standard def, and you can see up top here it says Stream Usage standard def. When I go and switch this to Blu-ray, all those numbers change. And the real beauty here again is this idea that Blu-ray compression, when done as an MPEG-2, the computer doesn't need to be as powerful. Or, on a more powerful computer, your compression happens faster.
I'm going to let the Apple presets left alone, but you can modify them if you like. Then I'm going to give the description of this as MPEG-2 Blu-ray, and I'm going to put in here 18 megabits per second BBR. In fact, you should put that really in the full name, 18 megabits per second. And I think the only other think I'll tell you is you definitely want to change-- especially with MPEG-2 compression--from doing one analysis on immediately encoding to a two pass, really go in and do a full analysis pass and then come back and do its compression pass.
I'm going to go ahead and hit Save. We now have that. I'm just going to drag that up. We're going to end up getting three files: one audio, two video, one in H.264 format, one in MPEG-2 format. I'm going to go ahead and say Submit. More than anything else, we're interested in how long this takes. So when I hit Submit, we're going to actually roll this open and see what it's working on and how long it takes This is the first time we've really rolled this open on the title; in fact I'm going to tear off this window and just make it a little bit larger, so we can watch this take place. I very well expect the H.264 to take a significantly longer amount of time than the MPEG-2 file.
I want to make sure you're clear: normally you wouldn't build both the H.264 and the MPEG-2; you would build one of the two. I'm trying to show you that the MPEG-2 might be one you'd want to pick for a less lengthy compression time. When I go ahead and I take a look at the final finals, it took only about a minute for it to build the MPEG-2, and it took about two minutes for this file to build the Blu-ray file. This computer is pretty fast, and that really accounts for most of the difference. So if you're building a lot of Blu-ray, you may find a greater compatibility and a faster compression time by using an MPEG-2, rather than using an H.264 file.


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I bought a pair of these to replace the original 10" pneumatic wheels/tires on my hand truck. I collect arcade games and the worst thing is for one of the tires on...Read complete review
I bought a pair of these to replace the original 10" pneumatic wheels/tires on my hand truck. I collect arcade games and the worst thing is for one of the tires on your hand truck to lose air while you have a big tall 350lb arcade machine (or any heavy load) on your hand truck. Laws of physics will cause the load to pitch violently in the direction of the flat tire.Enter these flat-free wheels from Harbor Freight. They are a perfect fit on any hand truck that uses a 10" wheel with a 2.25" offset and 5/8" ID bearings. This means most hand trucks out there.Handling is just like it is with pneumatic tires so you can roll over most terrain with ease. They are extremely smooth on flat surfaces and handle 300lbs each per wheel, just like most standard wheels. They are expensive, costing 3x more than standard tires/wheels but the benefit is never having to worry about a flat tire. If you're a business owner, that means much less down time with your hand trucks. I am not a business owner but when I need my hand truck, I need it to be in working order at short notice, so this justifies the extra cost for me. The benefit of never having to worry about a flat and the fact that these are more uniform (much less wobble/deviation) make these a wise buy if you need to depend on your hand truck.Tip: Bring an old wheel along with you to make sure this is match for size and bearing width/offset/inner diameter.
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IF you use your hand truck (cart, etc..) only once in a while, these wheels are ok, but if you're planning to use them often, choose a different brand/set, OR, plan on replacing the bearings, SOON! I load my hand truck with anywhere from 70 to 300lbs (Half the load capacity of these wheels [as there are 2 of them]!), and in UNDER 8 hours of use (under 5 hours actually loaded) the bearings are completely shot. I just kept waiting for them to grenade and flip my hand truck/load.... For $30 a piece, I expected a little more? I gave it 2 stars because the tire itself seems ok? SMH
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I like the product. The axle configuration is different.
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from Tiverton,RI
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Comments about 10-5/8 in. Flat-free Heavy Duty Tire with Steel Hub:
However, a mod will be made to the axle mounts. Also, the wheel will be mounted backwards because of a clearance problem. I know this fix will work. I've already checked it out.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Bill
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Just bought it to match other side which I paid double 3 years ago from competitor for my two wheeler dolly. Fit perfectly and worked as expected. Finally don't have to air up tubed type I replaced. Definitely a recommended product. Priced fairly.
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Our nursery replaces the regular tires every year, never again!
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Keeps my hand truck going
By F1freek
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Perfect replacement for the pneumatic tire/wheel combo that comes standard on many hand trucks (like mine). No more flats to worry about. HF's price is so much better than any other store for these. Recommended.
The tires fit our two wheel cart nicely and can take a LOAD.
By Janitor George
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The tires were for a cart at our church. The manager said I could fill out a tax exempt sheet and bring it back to get the tax taken off. She was very helpful.
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No more flat tires!
By pistachio_suprise
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Bought these to replace my "always flat", pnuematic tires. They have an offset hub, so a sleeve bushing is needed, to keep the wheel from drifting, away from load center. Better than what they have at the big 3 hardware stores!
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By Pinball Wizard
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Everyone should have 2 of these.
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My handtruck has tubeless tires that go flat after about 6 months. So I bought this Flat Free tire so that when I need the handtruck it will be ready for use.
Good tire but overpriced
By etolentino13
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I had to replace the tires on my dolly and decided on flat free tires. This was a perfect fit but as the title states, they're overpriced. $60 for a pair is too much. But they work well.
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These wheels will crush under weight and then it's next to impossible to roll. These are one of the most expensive items in the store.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Erlotinib Prevention of Oral Cancer (EPOC)
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This study will test the ability of an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor (erlotinib) to reduce the incidence of oral cancer in the high-risk setting of oral leukoplakia with LOH in two cohorts, oral IEN (Intraepithelial neoplasia) patients with LOH in 3p and/or 9p and one other specific chromosomal locus but without cancer or oral IEN patients with LOH in 3p and/or 9p associated with curatively treated oral cancer. Researchers will test this treatment in a randomized clinical trial with 2 treatment arms: Erlotinib 150mg orally each day or placebo.
Primary Aim:
The primary endpoint of the trial will be the oral cancer-free survival in patients receiving erlotinib as compared with the control or placebo group.
Secondary Aims:
- The size, number, and appearance of oral IEN will be assessed and correlated with cancer risk. A > 50% reduction in the bidimensional measurements of IEN lesions is considered a treatment response. Researchers hypothesize that patients with IEN lesions and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of the oral cavity will respond to erlotinib.
- To examine toxicity associated with erlotinib. Researchers hypothesis that patients with oral lesions will tolerate treatment with erlotinib.
- To assess a panel of molecular markers for correlations with oral cancer development in oral IEN patients.
Oral Cancer
Drug: Erlotinib
Drug: Placebo
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Erlotinib Prevention of Oral Cancer (EPOC)
- Oral cancer-free survival [ Time Frame: 3 Months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Cancer-free survival defined as time from randomization to the development of histologically confirmed oral cancer.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2006
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|November 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Erlotinib
Balanced randomization: Erlotinib 150 mg continuous administration for 1 year.
Drug: Erlotinib
150 mg by mouth daily
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Balanced randomization: Placebo continuous administration for 1 year.
Drug: Placebo
Tablet by mouth daily
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female patients with one of the following: (a) loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 3p14 and/or 9p21 in the oral IEN of patients with a history of curatively treated oral cancer or (b) LOH at 3p14 and/or 9p21 plus at one other chromosomal region in the IEN of patients with no oral cancer history.
- Participants must have confirmed diagnosis of oral IEN lesion with LOH. (Note:The initial screening biopsy of oral IEN lesion with LOH must be obtained within 12 months of study enrollment. If initial diagnostic biopsy for LOH is > 3 months prior to study enrollment, investigators may use clinical judgment to order an additional screening biopsy to assess histopathological changes).
- Age >/= 18 years
- ECOG performance status <2
- Participants must have normal organ & marrow function as defined below w/in 30 days of randomization:CBC w/ differential white cell count-acceptable results must include:WBC >3,000ul, hemoglobin>10 g/dl, platelet count > 125,000ul, LFTs-total bilirubin & alkaline phosphatase, AST (SGOT) & ALT (SPGT) all w/in <1.5xULN.Note:At the discretion of the attending physician,participants w/ Gilbert's disease may still be eligible to participate in the event the total bilirubin value is >1.5xULN. Kidney function-serum creatinine< 1.5xULN Chemistry-Sodium & potassium all w/in normal institutional limits.
- The effects of the study agent on the developing human fetus are unknown.For this reason,WOCBP & men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control;abstinence)prior to study entry& for the duration of active treatment.Neg.serum pregnancy test in WOCBP.Childbearing potential will be defined as women who have had menses w/in the past 12 mths,who have not had tubal ligation or bilateral oophorectomy.Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study,she should inform her study physician immediately
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with active cancer or any cancer within the previous two years, excluding oral and non-melanoma skin cancer.
- Patients with acute intercurrent illness or who have had surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy within the preceding 4 weeks unless they have fully recovered.
- Patients with a documented history of coagulopathy and/or those taking warfarin or warfarin-derivative anticoagulants
- Women who are pregnant (confirmed by b-HCG if applicable) or breastfeeding
- Any medical or psychological condition or any reason that, according to the investigator's judgment, makes the patient unsuitable for participation in the study
- Patients who have participated in other experimental therapy studies within 3 months of enrollment to this trial
- Patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease
- Patients with a documented history of interstitial lung disease
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00402779
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University Winship Cancer Institute
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Illinois
|The University of Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
|United States, New York
|Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|United States, Texas
|The Univeristy of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Vassiliki Papadimitrakopoulou, M.D.
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00402779 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 20, 2006
|Last Updated:
|March 14, 2016
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Oral Cancer
Oral IEN Lesion with LOH
Loss of Heterozygosity
Intraepithelial Neoplasia
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mouth Neoplasms
Lip Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Mouth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Lip Diseases
Erlotinib Hydrochloride
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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It was a secret amongst muggles until yesterday, but an important part of the Grammy Awards' ceremony is the sorting of the non-muggle winners into Hogwarts houses. For, as the famous wizard saying goes, "If you never receive your School of Witchcraft & Wizardry acceptance letter, you need either a Grammy or a Strictly Come Dancing Glitter Ball trophy to study as a mature student". Unfortunately, Pharrell went and fucked things up by forgetting to take the sorting hat off his head before stepping out into the public eye, so now we all know. Here's the hat's take on 2014's award winners....
"Popular... Driven... Talented... A desire to create! You are, of course - GRYFFINDOR!"
"There's talent... oh goodness, yes... and a thirst to prove yourself - SLYTHERIN!"
"You win four awards.. You apologise for winning... And people still think you're a bit lame? RAVENCLAW!"
"Well you're a clever one and successful too... What, you once posed as sexy Medusa for a lads' mag? Hello - SLYTHERIN!"
"An icon! A legend! Greatness! Good morals! A family man! You are GRYFFINDOR through and through!"
"Sorry.. This is a bit awkward... I don't really know how to break this to you nicely... Ah, crap! I'm just going for it... HUFFLEPUFF! XOXO BABEZ."
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Farmers are bracing for a cold night this after being hit with another dose of winter weather. Fruit growers say they are losing crops to the cold and temperatures and it's not looking to get any warmer this week.
With temperatures in the upper sixties on Sunday and then 4 inches of snow later that night crops are having a hard time keeping up with the drastic changes. For Bruce Talbott of Talbott farms this is round two of crazy spring weather. He already saw a loss last week with the hard freeze and now his luck looks rotten again. "We do know at this point that we definitely have crop reduction." But for the crops snow isn't always a bad thing.
At this point in the growing season temperatures in the lower twenties aren't good, but the snow can actually help. It acts like a blanket to keep the young buds warmer. The forecast for the this week is temperatures well below normal and another chance of snow. So how will the crops fair tonight? Bruce says that with temps staying cooler today his buds will not re-hydrate, so he think his crops will fair well.
So far this season he's looking at his crop reduction down to about 70–75 percent of normal, which is still better than a total loss. Many fruit growers say tonight will be another sleepless night as they work to keep crops warm.


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No Time for Discrimination
Discrimination against minorities and women — whether in housing, education, or employment — is a complex, long-standing phenomenon with origins that are not clear-cut. For organizational psychologists like Professor Modupe Akinola, understanding the conditions under which discrimination is more likely to occur is an important research priority, and one that can help individuals and firms curb the incidence of bias.
Inspired by the work of Yaacov Trope and Nira Liberman, Akinola, with Katherine Milkman of Wharton and Dolly Chugh of NYU, investigated how temporal distance affects the tendency to discriminate. Trope and Lieberman have shown that decision makers faced with choices in the immediate future focus on the practical details and feasibility of the choice, quickly assessing how, when, and whether something can be done. In contrast, distant future events trigger a more abstract thought process — decision makers think less about the practical aspects of a decision and instead focus on why they might chose a particular course of action.
The researchers hypothesized that more abstract — and subjective and judgmental — thought processes might trigger stereotyping and lead to discrimination in organizational settings. They predicted that when decision makers faced a choice about a distant future event, such as meeting with an individual in one week, the choice would trigger an abstract mode of thinking causing professors to question why the meeting should occur rather than whether the meeting should occur. Thus, a meeting request from a woman or person of color might evoke stereotypes.
Using academia as their laboratory allowed the researchers to focus on a field in which there are many systematic, institutional efforts to increase the representation of minorities and women, and where there is some, if limited, diversity in terms of faculty members.
Additionally, the researchers thought that on a subtle, unconscious level the presence of relatively few minorities and women in academia might give credence to the idea that they don't do well in that environment. "If we just look at the representation of women and minorities in academia, it's pretty clear why some stereotypes about women and minorities might reign," Akinola says.
The academic setting also gave the researchers a large sample size. The researchers contacted 6500 professors from 6300 doctoral programs at the top 260 US universities, noting their race, academic rank, gender, and e-mail address. Each professor received a single e-mail request for a short meeting from a fictitious prospective doctoral student. Some of the requests were for meetings that same day, a Monday, while other requests were for the following Monday. The twenty fictitious prospective students had names that were highly likely to signal a gender and ethnicity, whether Caucasian, Latino, African-American, Indian, or Chinese.
When a student requested a meeting that same day, professors replied to all students at about the same rate and accepted or rejected the requests for same-day meetings at about the same rate, regardless of the race or gender of the student. But when students requested a meeting for the following week, presumed white men were granted meetings with faculty members 26 percent more often than presumed women and minorities. The white male names also received more and faster responses than women and minorities, the researchers found.
Importantly, minority professors who received a request from a student of their own race still displayed the temporal discrimination effect. "Every single minority group studied showed this temporal discrimination trend," Akinola says. "There are some ethnicities that are viewed as model minorities in some ways, but people of all ethnicities still view or respond to minorities differently than white males."
In past studies, it's been unclear in which fields discrimination is more likely to occur. In a related study that analyzed these response rates by field, Akinola and her co-researchers found that in business, education, human services, and health sciences professors were less likely to respond to women and minorities than those in fields such as social sciences and humanities, as were professors in private (compared to public) institutions and in higher paying disciplines.
Taken together, the current studies provide more evidence about who is more likely to discriminate and show that context matters. Any organization that must hire and manage a workforce, Akinola says, needs to understand and be attentive to the subtle influence temporal distance can have on decision making. Especially given that many organizations are trying to increase diversity within their ranks, leaders must consider the role temporal distance might play in, for example, deciding which candidates to interview, making sure to examine their processes to identify aspects that may make it more likely for decision makers to discriminate.
"We are all susceptible to stereotypes entering our calculus," Akinola says. "Sometimes we forget that something as subtle as when someone is asking to meet with you can make a difference. Now that we know this, we can consider how that might influence our responses."
Modupe Akinola is assistant professor of management at Columbia Business School.
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Modupe Akinola is the Sanford C. Bernstein Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Professor Akinola worked in professional services at Bain & Company and Merrill Lynch. Professor Akinola examines how organizational environments- characterized by deadlines, multi-tasking, and other attributes such as having low status- can engender stress, and how this stress...
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BARRE — Vermont State Police say a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men.
A Granite City man is now accused of having sex with the same girl with whom Wendel Excavation owner Bert Wendel is accused of having a sexual relationship.
Jonathan Amell, 20, pleaded not guilty to felonious sexual assault of a victim under 16 years old on Tuesday in Washington County criminal court. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
State police say the girl would sneak out at night and go to Wendel's house in Middlesex. Wendel pleaded not guilty to felonious sexual assault Monday.
According to the state police affidavit for Amell's case, the girl, Amell and Wendel were all at Wendel's house one night in December. State police said the girl told them she and Amell were drinking while Wendel was upstairs. The girl told state police she got "extremely intoxicated" that night, according to the affidavit.
At one point, she and Amell went outside for a cigarette, according to the girl. She said Amell asked her if she wanted to have sex and she said no. The girl said the next thing she remembered was walking out into the woods with Amell and that the two had sex, according to police.
State police said that during questioning, Amell denied being at Wendel's house and that there had been a sexual encounter. Wendel had initially denied having Amell at his home as well but eventually admitted Amell had been there on the night in question, according to police.
Amell's mother, Toni Lawrence, 51, of Barre, also admitted that Amell had been at Wendel's home after initially denying it, according to police.
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It was Friday, Jan. 9, and Kirk Buckman was working the day shift out of Belmont. "I carry a badge," Buckman said. "It's shiny and gold. Pretty neat."
As code enforcement officer for the community development department, Buckman is the tip of the legal spear that Belmont has enacted to break up the Peninsula city's smoke ring.
A controversial ordinance that became law Friday extends the ban on smoking even to residents' apartments and condos.
"I'm more like the stick than the — what was it you called me? — the pointy tip," Buckman said, sitting by the phone as he waited for the first sniff of statutorily sanctionable smoke. "But it's all part of the job. They enact 'em. I'm paid to enforce 'em."
The law is the first of its kind in California, going far beyond the statewide prohibition against lighting up in businesses, restaurants and bars. In Belmont, it is now illegal to smoke inside any multistory, multiunit dwelling. The City Council says enforcement should be "complaint driven," which means neighbors have to rat each other out before officer Buckman can bring evildoers to the nicotine-stained bar of justice.
If "providing education," as Buckman calls it, doesn't work, "we go from there." The fine for each citation is $100. No ifs, ands or butts.
'It's a law?'
"I'm very agitated," said Howard Odessky, who lives in a 16-unit apartment building in the city nestled in the hills just north of Palo Alto, with slightly more than 25,000 residents. He was on his way to buy a pack of smokes at a drugstore on Ralston Avenue on Friday when he was informed that if he attempted to enjoy them at home, he would be in violation of the puffing penal code. "Now it's a law? Today? I've had three cigarettes in my apartment already this morning. No, wait, four!"
Odessky appeared unbowed by the new law. "I'm going to continue to smoke in my house, in Belmont," he said. "Hey, put some towels in your vents. That's not my problem. What are they going to do, knock on somebody's door and say, 'Are you smoking in there?' It's ridiculous. I don't want to be a jerk about the whole thing, but, after all, a man's home is his castle."
If you live in a Belmont apartment complex, maybe not.
"That's a bs argument," says Dave Warden, the former councilman who pushed the ordinance to a 3-2 victory, despite receiving hate mail from smokers all over the world. "You can't walk around naked in your house with the blinds open, or you'll get arrested. You can't shoot a gun in your house, can't do drugs in your house, can't play loud music in your house and bother your neighbors. It's illegal."
And now, so is smoking.
Councilwoman Coralin Feierbach, who introduced the ordinance during her term as mayor in 2007, was tarred and nicotined as "the daughter of Hitler" by one critic, and an online effigy was digitally created of her wearing a Nazi uniform. Feierbach says that before the council cast the decisive vote, someone from the local board of realtors sent out a flyer claiming the police would be positioned on rooftops with telescopes to bring Belmont's citizenry into compliance with the ordinance.
Total ban
Feierbach told the council during one of the early debates about the ordinance that she wanted Belmont to set an example for other cities. And, in fact, during the 14 months that it took for the law to go into effect, cities such as Novato, Calabasas, Loma Linda and Dublin have enacted similar ordinances. But those cities have banned smoking only in a percentage of each apartment building's units — typically about 75 percent — while Belmont is the only city in California to make the ban total.
Warren Lieberman, who voted against the ordinance, wasn't prepared to make the bad habits of apartment dwellers illegal, while it remains perfectly fine to smoke if you own your own single-family house in Belmont.
"I do believe that if people choose to violate the ordinance and smoke in their homes, many will feel somewhat like criminals," Lieberman says. "I think we could have tried to control it without turning people into outlaws."
The ordinance was originally brought before the City Council by Ray Goodrich, an 84-year-old resident of Bonnie Brae Terrace, an assisted-living facility. Goodrich had suffered through years of breathing difficulties brought on by his chain-smoking neighbors, moving from apartment to apartment to escape the fumes that he says seeped through the building's ventilation system.
"We owe a lot to our opposition," Goodrich said Friday. "At a thousand points along the way, we'd have been tickled to death to compromise, and we never got the opportunity. So we just kept pushing."
He organized an elder-posse of about 15 Bonnie Brae residents to join him at the council meetings when the anti-smoking ordinance was discussed. They arrived in wheelchairs and on walkers, but insistently stood up for themselves.
"I was a rabble rouser," says Goodrich, who nevertheless declined to speak at the council meetings. "What the hell, I'm 84. I have trouble maintaining a thought. I start sentences and then I forget where I'm going."
But he never lost track of which way the winds of change were blowing.
"Before, the nonsmoker really didn't have any support or power," Goodrich said Friday, celebrating his legislative triumph alone in his one-room apartment. "But there are a lot of people here today who are breathing a collective sigh of fresh air relief."
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Who are Western Countries in debt to?
QuestionAll the Western World is in dept and all the third world is in debt. So who are they in debt to and what would happen if they decided not to pay?
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Name: Danny, Stanmore
Qualification: Studying A-Level economics
Answer: It's a mixture of debt to other countries, the International Monetary Fund and their own central bank. There is more debt in the world than there is money, as money is created as a by-product of lending, which means the interest itself was never created as money. The countries we owe are mostly Western-Asia, such as China and Japan.


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The Uniquely French Open
The French Open is, well, French. That's self-evident, but also makes it special. As Tom Perrotta pointed out this week, it's the only Grand Slam tournament hosted in a nation where English isn't the primary language. That's one of a few small things that make this tournament a little different from other majors. Here, for visitors arriving for the final weekend of the tournament, are three little ways Roland Garros stands out:
• Not only is French the main language here, it's nearly the only one. Even many ushers and other staffers can't answer questions in English. The scoreboards are in French, so a women's singles match features "simple dames." The umpires call out the score in French, with another twist: The first deuce of a game is announced as 40-all in French ("quarante-à"). Umpires also make announcements to the crowd — admonishing them, for instance, to be quiet during play — in French only, which isn't ideal for non-Francophone compliance. Players, of course, are free to debate with chair umpires in English.
"All spectator announcements, scores, on-court information announcements, etc. are generally made in French," said Emmanuelle Leonetti, spokeswoman for the Fédération Française de Tennis. "Foreign umpires endeavor to make these announcements in French. The players and umpires tend to communicate in English."
English, however, does make some curious appearances. Umpires sometimes say "new balls," "not up" — when a player hits a ball after two bounces — and "Ready, play." Also, after players give on-court interviews in French, someone comes over the public-address system to translate into English — often a voice of someone of the opposite gender, who tends to give a very abridged version.
• Paris and Melbourne are a step ahead of other Grand Slam tournaments in offering one alternative means of transportation to the matches: They both have bike-share stations near the tennis centers. New York's new program doesn't yet extend to Queens, and London's doesn't reach Wimbledon. But bikers who avail themselves of Paris's Vélib' and want extra head protection have to bring their own helmets. That doesn't meld well with Roland Garros rules, which bar helmets from being brought onto the grounds. Spectators can check them in cloakrooms for €2 ($2.65).
Helmets aren't required by law in Paris, and many local cyclists don't use them. The numbers who do are growing, said Albert Asséraf, executive vice-president for strategy, research & marketing of JCDecaux, which runs Vélib'. He added that the bike-share program is popular for French Open fans, with usage of the five stations closest to the Roland Garros venue doubling on a typical weekday during the tournament, and tripling on a typical weekend day. "The best way is public transport or bicycles, because you are sure to be on time and to be not far at all from Roland Garros," Asséraf said.
Why no helmets on the grounds? "It's forbidden for security reasons as it's forbidden to bring them on the court," Leonetti said. "It's also forbidden for comfort reasons to avoid bothering the person on the next seat." Asked what the security concern was, she replied, "The public could throw the helmet on the court and on players."
Other majors are more permissive about helmets. "We do not have an issue with folks attending with their bike helmets," said Chris Widmaier, spokesman for the U.S. Tennis Association, which runs the U.S. Open. Added Erin Carter, spokeswoman for Australian Open organizers Tennis Australia, "Helmets are allowed to be brought onto the grounds."
• France's wines are world-famous, but good luck bringing a bottle in to the grounds. Fans aren't allowed to bring alcohol through security — like the U.S. Open and the Australian Open, but unlike Wimbledon, where alcohol "limited to the equivalent of one bottle of wine or two 500ml cans of beer per person" can be brought through security.
At Wimbledon, alcohol can be brought to seats at show courts, but not in glass bottles. Alcohol purchased at the New York and Melbourne tournaments also can be brought to seats at stadiums, Widmaier and Carter say. But not at Roland Garros, said Leonetti, where alcohol purchased at the tournament must be consumed while sitting down and eating, as per French law governing sports venues.


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(BeWellBuzz) We were surprised by the overwhelming response for our "10 Reasons Why Flu Shots Are More Dangerous Than a Flu" article. Thanks for your comments – we are glad to know that the article was beneficial for most of you.
Some of you expressed your concerns over the authenticity of facts in the article, so we made it a point to cite more research studies conducted over the last one year to prove that flu shots are dangerous:
1) Sanofi Pasteur's Fluzone High-Dose is a new influenza vaccine created in 2010 for people over 65 years of age. Even though the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insists that the vaccine is as safe as any other seasonal vaccine, the fact is that the shot is replete with side effects like pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, headache, muscle aches, fever, and malaise.
All the listed negative symptoms were observed during clinical studies for Fluzone High-Dose.
2) The CDC says that the 2011-2012 flu vaccine may also have the same side effects the 2010-2011 vaccines had. These include soreness, redness, tenderness, or swelling where the shot is administered and nasal congestion after the flu vaccine nasal spray.
3) The 2009 package insert for Novartis' Monovalent Vaccine which was leaked on the internet created a huge uproar. Why? Because, its side effects, as stated on the insert, include: Guillain-Barre Syndrome, anaphylactic shock, vasculitis, and get this- death.
This finding backed two studies conducted in 2007 and 2009, of which the latter found that out of every million people diagnosed with flu, between 40 and 70 developed Guillain-Barre after getting the shot. However, this information didn't stop Government health officials from pushing the vaccine into the market in 2010 and 2011.
4) In December of 2010, however, the flu vaccine formulated specifically for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old was found to be causing a higher than normal incidence of febrile seizures
5) In February 2010, The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 12 countries had recorded a possible link between the development of narcolepsy, a chronic nervous system disorder that makes people uncontrollably fall asleep, and the H1N1 vaccine. Finland, was one of those countries who openly admitted that the swine flu vaccine "conclusively" causes narcolepsy. The Finnish government acknowledged that link and said that would pay for "lifetime medical care" for 79 children who have been irreparably damaged by the swine flu vaccine. Narcolepsy wasn't the only side effect admitted to be caused by swine flu vaccines: 76 of the 79 children also suffered hallucinations and "paralyzing physical collapses".
6) A series of miscarriages were recorded in the US after June 2010 due to the H1N1 vaccination. Hundreds of cases were reported across the country, and most miscarriages took place within days of the vaccination.
7) Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, a world renowned immunogeneticist announced that you have a ten-fold increased chance of Alzheimer's after receiving five flu shots. That'sten times more likelythan no flu shots or one, not ten percent more likely.
8) In 2010 Australia baned flu vaccines in children. Vaccinated children were going into convulsions, began vomiting or exhibiting dangerously high levels of fever.
9) A study published in the Cochrane Systematic Review in 2010 stated that there was no scientific evidence to prove that regular or seasonal flu shots protect people over the age of 65. The study concluded: "Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65 is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years."
10) A study conducted by The Lancet in 2010 brought out some startling revelations about the effectiveness of flu shots. The study involved a control group of 13,095 adults who were not vaccinated. The group was monitored to see if participants had been infected by the influenza virus, but 97% remained unaffected.
Only 2.7% or 357 people in the non-vaccinated group ended up contracting the virus. Of the group of adults who were vaccinated with a trivalent inactivated influenza shot, only 1.2% did not catch the flu. The difference between the two outcomes is that the flu vaccine only prevents the flu in 1.5 out of every 100 adults injected with the flu shot not 60% as you've been told.
Despite such studies and findings, you still have millions of Americans rushing to stand in line for annual flu shots. In 2010, 130.9 million people got the flu shot- an increase of 8 million people from 2009.
There are several natural remedies for the flu that are far more effective and pose no danger whatsoever to our health. We'd do well to educate ourselves about the true motives of Big Pharma and think twice before going out to get a flu shot this season.


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Taking Aim at the Senate Filibuster
If a few of Senate Democrats had their way, Jimmy Stewart's character in the classic film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" would have had a harder time blocking a Senate vote.
In the 1939 movie, a Senate freshman spent all night talking in a classic filibuster, the decades-old right of any lawmaker to block legislation on the Senate floor.
But a group of Democrats believes Republicans have abused the practice. On Wednesday, they began debate on an effort to try to stamp out the filibuster.
Aides to Senate Democratic leaders say the effort won't likely lead to a vote on such a rule change. But it is the first serious debate in years on the nuts-and-bolts of Senate operations.
The rule changes were introduced by Senate Democrats Tom Udall of New Mexico and Jeff Merkley of Oregon – both in their first terms — and veteran Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa.
The plan would allow debate to begin on any measure with a simple 51-vote majority, rather than the 60-vote supermajority the minority party can currently insist upon. It would prevent senators from putting secret "holds" on nominations or legislation, and guarantee the minority party the right to introduce amendments to legislation on the floor of the Senate.
Under the rules, lawmakers who want to prevent a vote on final passage of legislation would be forced to take the floor of the Senate to defend their stance – and would have to remain there as long as the bill was being debated.
Finally, the package would seek to limit the time allotted for debate on the president's nominations.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) took to the floor today to defended Republicans' use of the filibuster. "What I call it is my right to amend, right to debate, right to do my job," Mr. Alexander said.


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