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God Has Created the Beautiful World of Plants
Violets, hyacinths, daisies, roses and other flowers are such sweet-smelling natural wonders. Cherries, peaches, apples, grapes, strawberries, oranges and other fruits offer their wonderful flavors and caches of vitamins. Pines, cypresses, poplars and other trees supply oxygen for living things. These are among the wonderful blessings that God has given to human beings.
Every one of these plants displays the wonders that God has created with His eternal power. They are too beautiful, have systems too complex, and provide advantages too indispensable for them to be in the least attributable to chance. This is as true for a tiny seed as for the tree that will grow from it to a height of several hundred meters.
In the Qur'an (55: 10-13), God speaks to those who claim that these beautiful things are the work of blind, unconscious processes:
He laid out the earth for all living creatures. In it are fruits and date-palms with covered spathes, and grains on leafy stems and fragrant herbs. So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny?
The tiny seeds you see in these pictures contain 60 times more information than in all of the Encyclopedia Britannica. When planted in the ground, the information in the seed will later turn it into a lily or a willow tree, a violet or an oak. From every seed emerges a plant different in taste, smell, color and size than every other. To imagine that such extraordinary information has come into this seed by chance is nonsense.
Together, black soil and a small seed can produce colorful flowers, sweet-smelling aromas and perfumed fruits. That is just one of the creative miracles of Almighty God.
Israeli biophysicist Lee M. Spetner writes:
Plants do not proliferate in a field to the point where they become crowded. They do not engage in a "struggle for existence" where natural selection would preserve the strong and destroy the weak. Plants tend to control their populations by sensing the density of the planting. When the growth is dense, plants produce less seeds; when growth is thin, they produce more seeds.11
The diversity of plants that appeared suddenly in the fossil record put evolutionists in a great difficulty. This problem even left Darwin stunned, and he admitted as much:
Nothing is more extraordinary in the history of the Vegetable Kingdom, as it seems to me, than the apparently very sudden or abrupt development of the higher plants.12
The wide variety of plants in the natural world is only one of the proofs that they are not the work of chance. The flawless systems and extraordinary design of these esthetic, sweet-smelling plants couldn't be formed by the chance agglomeration of atoms. This claim would be as nonsensical as the assertion that clothes in a store could make themselves by the accidental coming together of fabric and thread.
Dr. Eldred Corner of Cambridge University is forced to admit the all-too-clear fact of creation:
... I still think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. If, however, another explanation could be found for this hierarchy of classification, it would be the knell of the theory of evolution. Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have come from the same ancestry, and have we any evidence for this assumption? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that most would break down before an inquisition.13
For millions of years, the countless, varied plants on the Earth have known what they must do and when they must do it, thanks to a program stored in their seeds; and they remember this program and carry it out without error. A peach tree never grows from a cherry pit, nor does a strawberry ever come from the seed from a lemon tree. It is surely impossible for a piece of wood with no brain, eyes or intelligence to put such a perfectly working program into operation by itself. The idea that this system can have been functioning perfectly for millions of years due to the success of chance occurrences is a fantasy that all sensible people will find ridiculous. It is God Who creates plants.
Dr. Lee Spetner writes: How does an acorn know it has to grow into an oak tree and not into a sunflower? . . . The science of biology took a pivotal turn about 40 years ago when biologists began to learn how information plays its role in living organisms.
We have discovered the location of the information in the organism that tells it how to function and how to grow, how to live and how to reproduce. The information is in the seed as well as in the plant; it's in the egg as well as in the chicken. The egg passes the information to the chicken it becomes, and the chicken passes it to the egg it lays, and so on.14
The Prophet, peace be upon him, says: God is beautiful and loves beauty…15
Even a rose, whose smell has not changed for millions of years and whose variously colored smooth petals give it a beautiful esthetic appearance, disproves the evolutionists' claims. For years, trained experts have tried in experiments to duplicate the smell of a rose in the laboratory. But a rose, with more "intelligence" than the experts, has been producing this incomparable scent for millions of years.
A rose's special smell, color, softness and wondrous design show God's incomparable creative artistry.
All the plants have the structure that is most appropriate for each one. For example, the seeds of a coconut palm float in the water—even seawater—for long periods of time; for this reason, their shells are very hard and have a special composition to protect them from the water. Because of this, they can make long journeys over water—downstream, even from island to island.
Over the course of this journey, they need more nourishment to sustain them, and within their shells is stored just the kind of nourishment they require.
Moreover, the coconut does not germinate while in the water; instead, it waits until it reaches the land and germinates at that exactly appropriate time.
Unconscious atoms cannot calculate all this by chance! The evident truth is, an All-knowing and intelligent Creator is behind this design. This is just one of the many examples of God's incomparable creative art.
When various atoms come together within a plant, they form complex molecules that produce their beautiful smells. And for plants all over the world, this process is the same. If there were the slightest variation in these compounds, for instance; if there were a difference in the atomic number of one atom, either the scent would completely change or be destroyed. But the formula never fails; the smell production laboratory in the plant never makes a mistake. Thanks to this ongoing perfection, flowers of the same species everywhere have the identically same smell.
The production of a scent is a very delicate matter, in the course of which molecules are assembled with very complex structures. For example, it requires between three and ten different compounds to produce the scent of a rose. A water lily uses six, and white freesia uses ten; and every plant uses a different chemical formula for its distinctive aroma. Anyone who has received no training in this field would find it difficult, if not impossible to understand these chemical formulas, which plants produce in areas that can be seen only with a microscope. Human experts work for years to produce varied and beautiful scents such as these.
Who gives these plants their awareness, their intelligence, the knowledge that only a chemical engineer could have? These organisms, more successful in producing scents than any laboratory, reveal God's artistry in creation for
As Niles Eldredge, a well-known paleontologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History, writes,
Indeed, the only competing explanation for the order we all see in the biological world is the notion of Special Creation.16
God's Messenger, the Prophet (peace be upon him) says: Use olive oil as a food and ointment for it comes from a blessed tree.17
Bananas contain various carbohydrates and an important quantity of potassium which, when eaten by humans, ensure the development of cells and muscles, adjust the level of water in the body, and keep the heart beating normally. Together with these advantages, God tells in the Qur'an (56:28-33) that bananas are among the fruits of paradise: "Amid thornless lote-trees, and banana-trees [with fruits], one above another. And extended shade, and water flowing constantly, and abundant fruit, neither intercepted nor forbidden." Like all other blessings, the bananas in Paradise will surely be perfect compared with those on Earth. But in this world, God has created something similar to the blessings of Paradise to benefit human beings.
Evolutionists cannot bring about even a single pea! If the most famous scientists in the world—including all those who have ever lived—were to gather together and spend years using the world's newest and most advanced technology, try as they might, never would they be able to produce a single pea. They couldn't originate even one of the single cells that make up a pea. This is one of the most important points that evolutionists ignore: It is God, the Lord of the Worlds, Who has created everything from nothing.
11. Dr. Lee Spetner, Not By Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution, The Judaica Press, NY, 1998, p. 16
12. Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, "From Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, August 6, 1881," p. 248
13. Dr. Eldred Corner, Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961, p. 97
14. Dr. Lee Spetner, Not By Chance, p. 23
15. Sahih Muslim
16. Niles Eldredge, Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 29
17. Shamaa-il Tirmidhi, Islamic Book Service Publications, New Delhi, 2000, p. 158


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Broken Hearts: An infant's struggle to live
The girl's fight of her life began with her first breath
Christina DeShaw and husband Brad Weitl pose at a baby shower in Carroll in late March, the day after they learned that Christina would need to move to Rochester, Minn., for the next month before she gave birth. Doctor's planned to operate on their baby girl's heart shortly after she was born.
Friday, September 7, 2012
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Christina DeShaw rolled past the glass doors with the babies and their bad hearts and their tubes and wires and blinking lights.
Down farther, in the corner room, was the little girl she had waited so long to touch.
Ava Grace.
Christina and her husband Brad had tried for years to get pregnant. Now they have two new babies. A boy and a girl. But the parents' struggle to keep them will go on.
Ava has half of a heart. A surgeon cut open her heart not long after she was born here at Mayo Clinic in May — the first of three surgeries to help her cope with the abnormality. If all goes to plan in the next two years, Ava might live a normal life. But there's still so much to do.
Brad wheeled Christina down the hall. She was still hurting from where the doctors cut open her abdomen to pull out Ava and her brother Aidan. They couldn't let Christina go into labor on her own for fear the stress would be too much for her little girl.
The doctors and nurses had tried to prepare Christina for this moment. Months ago, they showed her a doll with a breathing tube down its throat and a plastic brace on its face and all of those tubes and wires, and Christina cried.
Brad wheeled her close. Christina couldn't breathe.
She saw all of the machines with green screens and the wires and tubes — so many tubes that fell from Ava's tiny body.
How many times have
needles poked her skin? Christina thought as tears streamed her cheeks and Ava lay alone — so small — in the hospital bed. Does she hurt right now?
Christina sobbed. She reached for Ava's foot and vowed to never let go.
A Mercy Medical Center technician in Des Moines squirted cold jelly on Christina's pregnant belly in January and dragged an ultrasound probe back and forth to look inside.
The technician used the machine to measure the twins' bones and organs to be sure they were developing right. Femurs and heads, hearts and others.
Christina and husband Brad Weitl grew up in Carroll — she's a 1994 Carroll High graduate; he's a 1995 Kuemper Catholic alum — but they first met several years after when Christina returned from a Massachusetts college. Brad farmed and worked a construction job in the area and struck up a conversation with Christina at a bar one night, where they both had gone with friends.
After another few chance meetings Christina gave Brad her phone number, and they later married in 2002 at Holy Spirit Church.
They prayed for children but struggled to get pregnant until last year. They feared that each hospital checkup since would bring bad news.
But in this darkened room at the Des Moines hospital, Christina and Brad were nearly halfway there. Their first-time parent fears had mostly faded.
Then something didn't seem right. Christina saw that the technician kept looking at one of the twins' hearts. The room grew quiet and cold. The technician and her student gave each other a few unspoken glances and moved on.
"Is everything OK?"
Signs of trouble
"There's a problem with her heart," a doctor told them a short time later. "It looks like a heart defect."
His words grew cloudy and jumbled, and Christina felt as if she were lifted from the room. Everything seemed so distant. She couldn't understand.
But the images were clear.
Ava and Aidan's hearts were so different. The left side of Ava's heart was ... just ... gone.
Brad grabbed Christina's hand, and they cried and thought about how their lives would change.
Christina tried to go back to work that day, to her manager job at ING Financial Services in downtown Des Moines. She sobbed in her car all the way and pulled into a large parking ramp and sat for 20 minutes. She couldn't go back.
Having faith
Brad and Christina named their unborn babies — and furnished a nursery with "Ava Grace" and "Aidan Paul" in big cursive letters on the
wall — even though they were less than halfway through the pregnancy and their girl could die in the days that followed her birth.
Christina worried that the nursery would be a painful reminder if things went wrong, but they needed faith, they said, to survive this rare disease with its long name:
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
It means the left side of Ava's heart is severely underdeveloped.
Parents-to-be respond to the diagnosis in different ways, said Dr. Ben Eidem, Ava's heart doctor at Mayo.
Some deny. Some are fearful. Some are quiet and pessimistic. But Ava's parents are optimists. They have plans for the little girl they had waited so long to touch.
So Eidem told Christina the first time they talked in a lengthy phone call how they might heal Ava. They planned three surgeries for her first two years of life to make Ava's half of a heart do the work of a whole one.
In those three steps, a surgeon will reroute how her blood flows through the girl's body.
Usually, half the heart pumps to the lungs and the other half to the rest of the body. Ava's blood will go to her body first and make a detour to her lungs on the way back. The single, longer loop only needs half of a heart to work.
Children who survive the procedures can run and play and have friends, Eidem told Christina. They walk to their first day of kindergarten and dance at prom.
They get married and have little girls of their own.
Another wrinkle
Christina and Brad drove every few weeks from Clive to Rochester early this year so the Mayo doctors could look at Ava's heart. They used high-frequency sound waves to see inside her body.
In late March, Eidem spotted another problem. A narrow passage in Ava's heart that connects one half to the other — a tiny, twisted honeycomb that all infants have until a few days after they're born — was smaller than it should be. Subsequent tests showed that it was getting smaller.
It was a dire complication for a baby like Ava, who needs that passage to get oxygen-rich blood from her lungs to her brain and the rest of her body. She might only have a few hours outside of mom's body before she would starve of oxygen.
It cut her chances of survival to less than 50-50 and meant that a surgeon would have to operate soon after birth.
"We've essentially never done that before," Eidem said. The doctors usually postpone the surgery for two or three days to let infant hearts and lungs adjust to life outside of the womb.
Their plans were accelerated. Doctors would remove the twins with a Caesarean section surgery about a month before they were due. The stress of a normal birth would be too great for Ava.
And Christina would need to live in Rochester for the month before the birth so doctors could keep a close watch.
Christina had a week to pack her life into a big sport-utility vehicle.
She said "goodbye" to her big black dog Max and cat Sully in April and moved to a hotel suite across the street from the Rochester hospital.
And on May 8, Christina lay in a Mayo operating room with dozens of doctors and nurses nearby. Some would open her belly, retrieve the tiny twins and sew her back together. Some would tend to Aidan, an infant born one month premature.
The rest would move Ava to another operating room, halt her walnut-sized heart and go to work.
The years of struggle to get pregnant and months of worry about her little girl's heart had led to this moment, when a surgeon opened Christina's belly and Ava Grace cried out for mom.
Someone held up Ava for a moment for Christina to see.
It was just enough time for Christina to say "I love you" and wonder whether she'd ever hear her girl cry again.
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ZTE to Build Tegra 4 Smartphone, Working on i500 Based Design As Wellby Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2013 8:00 PM EST
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jjj - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - link"Separately, ZTE and NVIDIA are also working on another phone that uses NVIDIA's i500 LTE baseband"
The baseband comes with Tegra 4 so they are building 2 Tegra 4 phones then. Reply
Brian Klug - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkYes it does come separately without Tegra 4.
i500 is sold discretely, or inside Tegra 4i. Tegra 4 has no free i500 that comes with it.
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jjj - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkNo you don't get it,they don't sell the i500 without Tegra 4 , i highly doubt they even bothered enabling it to work with anything else. Reply
Rayb - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkWhat part of sold discretely don't you get?
It is a baseband modem that you can tweak with software to support GSM/EDGE/WCDMA/LTE, with or without a T4. Reply
jjj - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkit is sold discretely but not without T4 lol and as proven here most have no idea that's the case Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - linkThat is just not the case at all. You can buy an i500 and attach it to whatever SoC you want over HSIC/USB2.0
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jjj - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linksince we can't edit i got to double post with the proof:
JHH says - " We don't sell the modem separately. It's sold as a kit. It's sold with Tegra 4. "
source here towards the end http://seekingalpha.com/article/1182501-nvidia-cor... Reply
rocketbuddha - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkThere are 2 distinct products referred as "Tegra 4".
The one launched in CES during JAN13 is the result of the "Wayne" project. It has 2 discrete components.
a) The SOC containing 4+1 of the ARM Cortex A15 cores.+ 72 GPU cores
b) A separate baseband discrete chipset icera i500 to pair with the LTE/WCDMA capabilities.
a) and b) would be ideal for the US LTE market and NVIDIA to grow independent of Qualcomm. For tablets it can survive purely with a)
The one lauched a couple of days back is the result of "Grey" project. Here there is single SOC that integrates
4+1 ARM Cortex A9 cores + 60 GPU cores + LTE/WCDMA capable modem.
So what ZTE means is that it will have products that will be made from both Wayne and Grey families. Reply
jjj - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - linkthe quote is "Tegra 4 also enables worldwide 4G LTE voice and data support through an optional chipset, the NVIDIA i500 processor. ZTE and NVIDIA are also planning a new LTE super phone using the i500 LTE chipset for blazing-fast networking. "
So it seems it is not based on Grey but on Tegra 4 . Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, February 21, 2013 - linkHere's a quote as well, from NVIDIA:
"It's a business decision. We can certainly support customers if they just want to use i500 separately."
So you can buy an i500 discretely.
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mayankleoboy1 - Friday, February 22, 2013 - linkThat is just PR. If Nvidia sells the modem separately, who is going to buy the T4i ? Reply


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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) and Illinois Eastern Community College (IECC) system, have signed articulation agreements providing a seamless path for the community college students to transfer their associate's degrees to complete a bachelor's degree at SMWC. The IECC includes Lincoln Trail College, Olney Central College, Wabash Valley College, and Frontier Community College.
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The Division of Biological Physics will award several travel grants of up to $400 per student as the first author of contributed papers (talks or posters) in sessions sponsored by DBIO at the March Meeting.


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MPs call for $1.4b to lift the pay of childcarersStephanie Peatling
Published: January 28 2013 - 3:00AM
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, faces further pressure to take the budget into deficit, with a group of MPs saying a $1.4 billion injection into childcare to improve workers' wages is vastly overdue.
The MPs say the government has required the industry to hire more staff with better qualifications but has failed to help by boosting wages, resulting in a crisis in the industry.
''The workers are leaving in droves,'' West Australian MP Melissa Parke said. ''Childcare workers earn $18 an hour, $10 less an hour than the average wage. A lot of people are saying they can earn more money elsewhere. They are required to have diplomas and do courses and yet they aren't paid properly and are leaving.''
Ms Parke is one of the conveners of an internal Labor Party group formed 18 months ago to push within the Labor caucus for support for better wages for childcare workers.
Ms Parke will meet Ms Gillard, and the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, when Parliament returns next week to ask for the money for pay increases to be included in the budget.
Since Mr Swan announced late last year he would not be delivering a surplus, MPs have become increasingly outspoken about items they want in the budget.
Tasmanian senator Lisa Singh said the wage increase needed to be included in the budget and not left as a possible election sweetener later in the year.
''If you want to raise the standards [of the industry] surely part of that is paying people accordingly,'' Senator Singh said. ''We're not following it through with adequate wages.''
The industry broadly supports the government's push to improve qualifications and introduce higher ratios of staff to children but is struggling.
Sue Lines, the assistant national secretary of United Voice, the child care workers' union, said it was ''stunningly obvious'' that childcare workers needed to be paid more.
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The estranged partner of a Melbourne mother who was murdered last year before and her body was dumped in a creek has been sentenced to 22 years' jail.
Kristy-Lee Hall, 27, was killed by her former partner Adam Emilio Mocenigo during a violent argument at the home they shared in Clauscen Street, Heidelberg Heights on March 26, 2011.
Mocenigo, 35, was the father of Ms Hall's 4-year-old daughter, Chloe.
A jury found him guilty of her murder following an 11-day trial in September in Victoria's Supreme Court, during which the court heard she had fallen out of love with Mocenigo and had been seeing another man for several months.
In sentencing the father of two to a minimum of 18 year' jail on Friday, Justice Lex Lasry said the murder served as a reminder to the community that "fatal violence in the home is not to be regarded as in some way less serious because it occurs against the background of a relationship".
Mocenigo hid Ms Hall's body in a backyard garden shed before dumping her remains at Stoney Creek in the Kinglake National Park two days later.
He returned to the scene a day later to further conceal the body without realising that two swimmers had found her and reported the discovery to police.
Officers were waiting in a nearby car park for homicide detectives to arrive at the scene when Mocenigo returned and further hid her remains with more tree branches.
He lied to Ms Hall's family and police about her whereabouts before later admitting to detectives that he panicked after she died during an argument. He said he had dumped her remains to conceal the crime.
"The exact means by which you caused Ms Hall's death cannot be accurately described but clearly the jury were satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that you did having reviewed all the evidence," he said.
But the judge described as "fanciful" Mocenigo's suggestion that he placed her body in the creek because he wanted her to be found so her family could have a place to grieve.
He noted that the concealment of Ms Hall's body, and particularly its placement face down in a creek in a relatively remote area, "is a significant aggravating circumstance".
The court heard Mocenigo had a history of drug use and depression. He also has 25 prior convictions for offences dating back to 1996, which included assault, damaging property and assault in company.
Justice Lasry said he was not satisfied that Mocenigo had demonstrated remorse.
He said while Ms Hall had led a difficult life and certainly had a problem with drugs, "this was the murder of a young woman and mother that has had devastating consequences for many people involved in her life.
"It has also had a terrible effect on your family. Many people are suffering," he said.
Mocenigo remained impassive in the dock while the judge delivered his sentencing remarks, before he was escorted away by corrections guards having already served 618 days of pre-sentence detention.


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Quote:The karateka has the tools, he doesnt have the experience because his training is flawed. And sure its good to learn to hit before you fight, but how many different ways must you learn to hit befor you can fight? Why not just a handfull? Theres more techniques in your average white belt curriculum than in all of boxing. Therefore, generally speaking, these guys will have fine tuned their tolls quicker and likely, better.To me the real experience isnt in the kata or forms but in the application against resistance. This is when you find what works for you, what you need to improve on, and how to fine tune what you already have a grasp of. A straight and properly executed technique isnt always the best move
Quote:Of course boxing and karate compliment each other. If you're doing more contact stuff early on in karate, obviously that's giong to benefit you.Andy44 asked how would a boxer know these other tools are available. Andy, you're assuming that a boxer is simply a competitive ("sport" -- I hate that word) boxer. It's never good to assume that a boxer doesn't train other things.-John
Quote:Also, from day one they are working on ten techniques, max. That is there complete offensive training. It gives them way more time to specialize and train what they do. The training will come faster to them than a karateka. The average Karateka, learns about three stances, two to three punches, a couple of kicks, and a kata. Then he will study those things for two or three months on the average until he ranks up and learns new material. From the begining a boxers plan is laid out for him. No mysterious kata to try and decipher. When he spars it is intense. It is not stop and go such as one or two step sparring. Or point sparring. And its done in rounds of three to five minutes. This way the stamina is truly affected and strengthens.Also he has coaching between rounds. So does his opponent. This way he automatically knows his faults and can attempt to fix or work around them. This is rarely done in dojos. Mostly they yell to you from the sidelines at best, which is inaffective to say the least. The karateka has the tools, he doesnt have the experience because his training is flawed.
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Study of WA-NG Telescope Prosthesis in Patients With End-stage Age-related Macular Degeneration
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|Age Related Macular Degeneration
|Device: Telescope prosthesis Device: WA-NG Telescope Prothesis
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Pilot Study of WA-NG Telescope Prosthesis in Patients With Central Vision Impairment Associated With End-stage Age-related Macular Degeneration
- Safety [ Time Frame: 12 months ]Positional stability assessed by slit lamp examination and anterior segment OCT
- Safety [ Time Frame: 12 months ]adverse events
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|November 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: WA- NG Telescope Prothesis
Implantable Miniature Telescope for end stage AMD
Device: Telescope prosthesis
Monocular implantation of the telescope prosthesis after cataract extraction
Other Name: IMT-NGDevice: WA-NG Telescope Prothesis
The WA-NG telescope prosthesis (Figure 1) is the next generation telescopic implantable device which, when combined with the optics of the cornea, constitutes a telephoto system for improvement of visual acuity in patients with severe to profound vision impairment due to bilateral, end-stage age-related macular degeneration. The device is implanted in one of the patient's eyes. In this way, the implanted eye provides central vision and the non-implanted eye can continue to provide peripheral vision.
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Patients will be screened for eligibility and informed consent will be obtained from those who meet screening criteria and are interested in participating in the study. Eligible patients will be examined preoperatively to obtain a medical history and to establish a baseline for ocular condition. Baseline measurements will include successful use of an external telescope.
Postoperatively, patients will undergo ophthalmic evaluation at regular intervals as specified in this protocol and will be required to return for 6 to 10 additional visits for vision training with a low vision specialist.
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Bi-lateral, stable, moderate to profound (20/80 to 20/800) central vision impairment due to bilateral scotoma associated with end-stage macular degeneration, defined as retinal finds of bilateral, geographic atrophy or disciform scar with foveal involvment. Phakic in the operative eye. Must achieve a 5 letter improved with external telescope simulator.
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Evidence of active CNV or any ophthalmic pathology that compromises peripheral vision of fellow eye or predisposes eye rubbing. Previous intraocular of corneal surgery of any kind in operative eye. Retinal disease, optic nerve disease, diabetic retinopathy, retinal tears, or any introcular tumor or medical or ophthalmic condition that in the opinion of the investigator renders the subject unsuitable for participation.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01731964
|Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
|Zerifin, Israel, 70300
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|Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
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|VisionCare, Inc.
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|NCT01731964 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 14, 2012
|Last Updated:
|December 10, 2014
Keywords provided by VisionCare, Inc.:
Macular Degeneration
Visual Impairment
Implantable Telescope
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Macular Degeneration
Retinal Degeneration
Retinal Diseases
Eye Diseases
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Time was not on my side this last week. I know you know the feeling — work meetings, cat feedings, domestic chores and professional bores (c'mon, that was pretty good, right?). Point is, when it came to making dinner, it was the last thing I had time to commit to.
While tearing through the aisles of my local supermarket, I noticed one amazing improvement: They had completely remodeled the salad bar! I'm not talking a new variation on ranch dressing or shredded carrots. I'm talking a complete overhaul (much like the ones I see in other bigger cities when I'm traveling with production crews). They had added new, lighter dressings (like the lemon one I used here), more vegetable variety and — best of all — precooked grains. While the pick of this week was wheat berries, they told me they're also cycling in quinoa, farro, bulgur and barley. What a hearty and delicious timesaver!
Pairing a quick-cooking piece of protein like a pork tenderloin with the helping hand of fresh, natural and already prepared ingredients from the salad bar is definitely an ace in the hole I won't soon forget. Just goes to show you that it pays off to explore your local store a bit — they're always adding in something new.
Glazed Pork Loin With "Salad Bar" Salad
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
For the Glazed Pork Loin:
1 tablespoon olive oil or canola oil
2 (1-pound) pork tenderloins, trimmed
Salt and ground black pepper
1 tablespoon Sriracha
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons apricot preserves
For the "Salad Bar" Salad:
2 cups prepared grain, such as farro, wheat berry or quinoa
2 cups greens, roughly chopped as needed, such as spinach, rainbow chard or kale
1/4 cup pitted black olives, roughly chopped
1/4 cup prepared vinaigrette, such as lemon, balsamic or sesame-ginger
Salt and ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Place a large oven-safe skillet over medium-high heat with the oil. Season the pork liberally with salt and pepper, and sear it in the skillet until deep golden brown on all sides, 8 to 10 minutes total.
While the pork is searing, in a small bowl stir together the Sriracha, hoisin and apricot preserves. When the pork is brown on all sides, slather both pieces with the prepared sauce. Transfer the skillet to the hot oven and finish roasting the tenderloins until cooked to your liking, about 12 minutes for medium.
While the pork is in the oven, in a large mixing bowl combine all of the ingredients for the salad. Season as needed with salt and pepper.
To serve, thinly slice the pork and plate it up alongside the salad.
NOTE: Like I said earlier, my local market is cycling out the offerings of its salad bar based on what's seasonal and available. That works perfectly with this quick and hearty salad, which can really be made with any combination of things you like.
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Statement by Ambassador Wittig at the 2011 Annual Session of the UNICEF Executive Board
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Madam President
We express our appreciation for the achievements of the past year. Many important decisions on the future course of UNICEF have been taken.
Germany supports the equity- based approach which UNICEF has adopted under Tony Lake's leadership. This approach provides a more efficient way for UNICEF to contribute to reaching the MDGs. We agree with the Executive Director that a sharper focus on equity is proving essential to delivering results for children.
Germany furthermore is a strong supporter of the human rights based approach UNICEF is following. We commend UNICEF's role in ensuring the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The past year has confronted us with many unpredictable challenges in the form of natural disasters of a new scale. The flooding in Pakistan and the earthquake in Haiti have gravely affected the lives of many children. Events have shown that disaster preparedness is especially important as children are the most vulnerable in such tragic events. We therefore welcome UNICEF's intention to focus on this area in the future.
Germany welcomes UNICEF's endeavours to further increase management efficiency and cost effectiveness, we are content to see that UNICEF is planning further steps in this regard. We also welcome the importance UNICEF is attaching to efforts to improve system-wide coherence with the UN system. We also support UNICEF's intention to proactively increase partnership with non-state actors.
Madam President,
We especially appreciate UNICEF's activities on water and sanitation. Germany, together with Spain, has been a driving force to the international recognition of the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation. The resolution at Human Rights Council 15 can be considered a mayor breakthrough.
Consequently, this May Germany hosted the Joint Monitoring Programme Workshop in cooperation with UNICEF and WHO. This workshop assessed possibilities of implementing the standards set by the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation in regard to the MDGs. Although the world is apparently on track to meet the MDG on drinking water, we are concerned that this seems not to be the case for sanitation. Consequently, Germany supports the Five Year Drive for Sanitation adopted by the UN. Germany also supported the work of the Special Rapporteur Catarina de Albuquerque and has forged a close cooperation with WASH United.
Madam President,
Finally, I would like to address an issue to which Germany attaches special importance: Children and armed conflict.
Germany very much appreciates UNICEF's activities in the field of children and armed conflict, and in particular its eminent role in the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism created by Security Council resolution 1612. This mechanism has undoubtedly contributed to the reintegration of tens of thousands of former child soldiers. I could witness the good work done by UNICEF on the ground myself, when I visited Afghanistan in my capacity as Chair of the Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict two weeks ago.
UNICEF also significantly contributes to the collection of data according to Security Council resolution 1882 and is also actively involved in the set up of the new Monitoring, Analysing and Reporting Mechanism on sexual violence in conflict. according to SR RES 1888 and 1960.
Too many children still suffer from conflicts. The successful reintegration of children affected by armed conflict into their respective communities is one of the key issues to achieve lasting success.
Germany, as Chair of the Security Council Working Group on children and armed conflict intends to further strengthen and develop the instruments available to the Security Council to protect children from the effects of armed conflicts. We are currently working on a draft resolution, to be submitted to the Council under the German Presidency in July. The resolution aims at expanding the listing criteria for the 'list of shame' in the annual report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed conflict to also include attacks on schools and hospitals as another 'trigger'. We hope for the support of all member states of UNICEF in this regard.
In closing, I would like to reassure UNICEF that Germany will remain a most reliable partner for UNICEF.
Thank you.


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Jil Sander Fall 2012
In a collection as elegant, nuanced, and thoughtful as the designer himself, Raf Simons's final show for the house of Jil Sander proved an exquisite coda to his remarkable career here.
In his design trajectory, this inventive Belgian has reimagined menswear, changing the fashionable male paradigm in the process (to embrace a skinny pubescent line and a strong early eighties electro-music aesthetic), then successfully transitioned to womenswear at Jil Sander where, since 2005, he has explored—beautifully, and with ever-increasing assurance—the house codes of subtle understatement and pragmatic minimalism, and layered them with his own interest in midcentury style and contemporary innovation.
Before the show, Simons explained that this collection was all about staying home with your family—and referencing those understated codes of the house. He was thinking about a woman who spends an amorous morning with her partner and then slips on a coat to take the kids to school.
Those luxurious double-face coats with their welted seams, a classic Jil Sander signature, were cut like balmacaans or full-bodied swing coats in fine meltons or even a stiff cotton.
The first girl to appear wrapped about her a version in soft sugar pink wool faced in stone, and subsequent variants were in subtle colors like orchid and rose pinks, mauve, and a vivid poppy red; colors that were reflected in the ravishing floral arrangements that dotted the stage, modernistically encased within Lucite boxes. (These latter-day Dutch still-lives were the work of Simons's friend and fellow Antwerp native, Mark Colle.)
Some of the coats were cut to the ankles, like the most luxurious dressing gowns or the kind of "at home" robes favored by midcentury tastemakers such as Mona Bismarck, Marella Agnelli, and Pauline de Rothschild.
The coats often shrugged open to reveal camisole slipdresses intriguingly pieced from different types of knit—a hand-knit-looking cable for the sleeves, say; the finest underwear jersey for the torso; and a thicker gauge for the gently swinging skirts.
In this collection, Simons has continued his engagement with the style of those iconic "haute couture" ladies and their lifestyles and couturiers that have intrigued him for several seasons. The strapless or off-the-shoulder evening dresses, with their full, swinging skirts of origami complexity, for instance, evoked the midcentury masterworks of Charles James, Christian Dior, and Jacques Fath.
Characteristically, however, Simons had reimagined those armorial originals for the modern woman, with poetic asymmetry to the skirts, and in light or innovative fabrics. These included a soft, mauve-pink charmeuse satin, draped like a pareo over a buff-colored bra top, and a fine vinyl—in platinum that winked beneath a pale stone-colored coat, or in black sliced into black wool in a curving spiral, or draped into a dramatic panache over a strapless wool bodice. Those structured bra or off-the-shoulder tops were also worn with high-waist, wide-leg pants, a look that suggested a modern jumpsuit.
Accessories included an elegant strappy high heel that pieced chic neutral colors with a dash of fluo in a sophisticated patchwork, and a simple rectangular clutch in reflective or crystal-dazzled fabrics.
At the end of this poetic and emotional show—with a sound track that at one moment pointedly broke into Sonic Youth's cover of the Carpenters' song "Superstar" ("Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?")—the audience rose to its feet in a spontaneous ovation—and later flooded the stage to beg Simons to reappear for a further curtain call, which he did, clearly overcome with emotion.
It was a show worthy of the standing ovation it received. Raf Simons may be the designer that the house of Jil Sander let go, but he is clearly also the same designer that any fashion house would be lucky to have at their creative helm.
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TV gardener, presenter and author Alan Titchmarsh is among a host of famous faces who have put pen to paper to take part in this year's National Doodle Day.
His doodle will be auctioned on eBay, along with dozens of celebrity scribbles, from Friday, March 7 – National Doodle Day. The auction will raise money for national charity Epilepsy Action, which is based in Yeadon.
The Ilkley-born celebrity has been joined by household names including journalist Sir Michael Parkinson, actor Bill Nighy, author Jackie Collins and comedian John Bishop in doodling for the annual event, which is supported by Dodo Pad, publishers of the original family 'doodle' diary, aims to get as many people doodling as possible.
The event raises money to help support the 50,000 people across Yorkshire with epilepsy.
More than 1,200 celebrities, including TV cook Mary Berry, actress Joanna Lumley, singer Rita Ora and model Sophie Dahl have taken part in National Doodle Day since it began 11 years ago.
The public can also get in on the act by creating their own masterpiece and donating a pound to Epilepsy Action. There will be prizes for the best doodlers, including arts and crafts vouchers and custom-made 3D doodles.
Philippa Cartwright, fundraising events manager at Epilepsy Action said: "Every year we are overwhelmed with the positive support that we receive from celebrities and members of the public alike.
"The celebrity doodle auction is always a terrific success, raising thousands of pounds in much-needed funds for Epilepsy Action. The highest-grossing doodle ever raised £1,600 alone, so this event really does make a huge difference to people with epilepsy and their families."
Information on the National Doodle Day celebrity auction and competition can be found at nationaldoodleday.org.uk.
The auction will run from Friday, March 7, to Sunday, March 16. The closing date for entries into the National Doodle Day competition is Friday, April 4.
Epilepsy affects around one in every 100 people in the UK alone and 87 people are diagnosed with the condition every day.
Each year Epilepsy Action directly helps around one million people through a range of services, including its Epilepsy Helpline freephone 0808 800 5050, branch network, specialist nurse scheme and award-winning website, epilepsy.org.uk.


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Thank you ralph for helping me as always, wished i was advance like you, i thought on this, and my little brain came up to this:How i wish i would know programming, but i know just some base code. In my mind i would do this:

 this is the button. After i click it, i believe that this code will enter in action, to do this: if(!is_user_logged_in() && $pagenow != 'wp-login.php') { wp_redirect( '/authors', 302 ); }
The problem is that i don't know how to write this and if it's possible to write it side by side on the button. Sorry for being a noob, still got to learn many things.
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Ok, thanks anyway, i posted here because you helped me many times
Problem solved. I did not know that when you are logged in, the register page will show the correct message, i needed to add

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A 26-YEAR-OLD Accrington man claimed he found a bin bag containing cannabis plants while out walking his dog.
Blackburn magistrates heard police later found the plants growing in a wardrobe at Philip Simon Whitehead's home.
Whitehead, of Waterloo Street, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis.
He was remanded on bail for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said police had gone to Whitehead's home on another matter not related to drugs which did not result in any charge.
"During the course of their investigation they discovered a small cannabis set-up in a wardrobe," said Miss Allan.
She said the 10 plants would have an estimated yield of 400 grammes with a street value of £4,000.
Paul Huxley, defending, said Whitehead had been out walking his dog when he came across the bag with a cannabis plant sticking out of the top.
"He took it home and discovered there was more than one plant and set them up in his bedroom," said Mr Huxley.
"He had the plants for about two weeks."


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SO, VICTORIA is the place to be when it comes to electricity market reform.
''Victoria in many respects has led the way,'' was Martin Ferguson's conclusion when he released the long-delayed energy white paper outlining the state and future of the Australian energy industry.
''The willingness of other state governments to take on these hard reforms will be essential,'' the minister said. ''It will take political courage where others have failed.''
Victoria deregulated its retail electricity prices in 2009 and became a beacon for deregulation advocates in Australia and beyond.
The trouble is Victorian electricity consumers are hardly better off than their interstate cousins, copping much of the same 50 per cent rise in power prices over the past four years that has stoked anger from household and business users alike. And the near-term projections are, if anything, worse for Victorians.
The energy white paper relies on the same Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) numbers released this time last year, which forecast retail power prices between 2011-12 and 2013-14.
Victorians can expect retail prices to rise 31.5 per cent over the period, not far short of triple the average projected national rise of 12.1 per cent, AEMC said.
NSW and Queensland - ''gold-plating'' central when it comes to excessive investment in those poles and wires by their state-owned power companies - will see retail price increases of just 7.1 per cent and 8.4 per cent, respectively.
Victoria is clearly leading the way on that one. But just where is something of a guess. The AEMC's footnote to its table of price increases strikes this rather plaintive note: ''In Victoria, the entire retail margin is included in the retail component and should be treated with caution given the absence of access to data.''
That's a polite way of saying, we only know what the companies want to tell us.
And what might be causing such runaway retail price increases? Competition, oddly, appears to be driving costs up rather than down even as wholesale prices slide.
Recent Victorian data suggest the annual churn of customers amounts to 28 per cent, and probably costs the retailers $200 for each client change. Think about that the next time you answer the door to someone hawking (on commission) the benefits of switching.
To be sure, Victoria does have one advantage over the other states that Mr Ferguson was keen to stress - the mandatory rollout of ''smart meters''. The meters provide two-way information that may one day provide the opportunity for consumers to respond to higher prices by reducing their consumption - and get rewarded for it.
More to the point, peak wholesale electricity prices, which apply for just 30 hours per year, account for 30 per cent of wholesale power bought for households and small businesses - a ratio that could sink if users can respond to price changes.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio legislation that would increase penalties for hurting a nurse or other health care worker while they're on the job unanimously cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
In a last-minute amendment, senators added judges, prosecutors and other court personnel to those whom assaults upon would spur tougher punishments. Those changes must be approved now by the House.
Ohio law provides for tougher penalties for assaults on certain workers, such as those working at correctional facilities or performing emergency medical services. The new measure would expand the law to cover assaults on health care professionals, including doctors, nurses, medical assistants and orderlies, as well as the court workers.
The bill makes assault on someone in one of the newly elevated professional classes -- say, an on-duty nurse -- a fifth-degree felony for those with a previous history of similar violence and imposes a fine of up to $5,000. Assault generally is a first-degree misdemeanor in the state.
With final legislative approval, Ohio would become the latest state to add tougher criminal penalties for assaults against health care workers.
Violence against nurses and other health care professionals reportedly has been on the rise in recent years. Mental health experts link the increase partly to cash-strapped states closing hospitals and cutting mental health budgets, sending more drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients to emergency rooms for care.
The American College of Emergency Physicians recommended new safety measures to combat assaults, including tougher penalties.


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The Norelius Community Library is offering a Job Search Workshop in two parts for those 18 years of age and older. The workshop will be held at the library computer lab in cooperation with Iowa Workforce Development, and will be conducted in both English and Spanish.
Part I will be take place Thursday, January 14 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and will cover assessments and applications along with career development.
Part II will be held Thursday, January 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and will include resumes, interviews and follow ups.
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Your body – the inside story
Okay, so more than 35-million people in over 70 cities got to see this amazing exhibition before I did, but it was well worth the wait.
I now know where my pancreas and liver are, and why the hamstring muscle I tore when walking with lions a few weeks ago is still sore (it's a very big muscle). I marvelled at the intricacies of the human brain; goggled at the sheer length of all those intestines and pipes that are squashed into our guts; and resolved to drink more red wine.
Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life is on at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown, Johannesburg, until the end of June, so make sure you don't miss it.
Take the kids, take granny, take anybody who is interested in how the human body works, and prepare to be amazed. It's a humbling experience when you see just how marvellous, resilient and vulnerable our mortal coils really are.
Scientist and physician Dr Gunther von Hagens invented Plastination – a way of preserving real bodies that allows you to see right inside a human body. And don't think there were latter-day body snatchers at work – all the bodies were bequeathed to Body Worlds by donors in the interests of scientific education.
Physician Dr Angelina Whalley created the conceptual plan and design of the exhibition, which is aesthetically pleasing yet doesn't pull punches.
Pick up an audio guide (not for the kids as the commentary tends to become a little technical at times), or just read the well-written signs and fascinating wall plaques.
I marvelled at the intricacies of the human brain; goggled at the sheer length of all those intestines and pipes that are squashed into our guts; and resolved to drink more red wine.
Did you know that a shrew lives life in the fast lane? Its little heart beats 1 000 times a minute, while an elephant's beats only 30 (mind you, shrews only live for two years, while an elephant makes 70). Or were you aware that there are clusters of active, vigorous centenarians in many parts of the world?
The red wine? It's been scientifically proven that moderate amounts of red wine – plus a healthy diet and exercise – contribute to long life.
Now, where's that corkscrew...
PS – if you're a smoker or have one in your family, go and look at a pair of healthy lungs as opposed to those of a 20-a-day smoker. You'll give up smoking on the spot.
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Wayne Swan is on track to lose his seat at the next federal election, a poll indicates.
The ReachTEL telephone poll was commissioned by the union United Voice and surveyed 511 residents in the Treasurer's north Brisbane electorate of Lilley on Thursday.
According to ReachTEL, 45.2 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the Liberal-National Party candidate, Rod McGarvie, while 38 per cent said they would vote for Labor and Mr Swan. Just over 45 per cent of respondents (45.1 per cent) said their opinion of the Treasurer was unfavourable, compared with 34.1 per cent who said they had a favourable view of him.
Almost 20 per cent (19.1 per cent) were neutral and 1.8 per cent had not heard of the federal Treasurer.
In 2010, Mr Swan narrowly scraped home ahead of Mr McGarvie on preferences, weathering a 4.77 per cent swing against him.
The Treasurer was more popular with respondents than the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who was judged unfavourably by 53.2 per cent of respondents and favourably by just 28.7 per cent.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, was slightly more popular than the Prime Minister, with 51.5 per cent saying they had an unfavourable opinion of him compared with 29.2 per cent who said they liked him.
A spokesman for Mr Swan said the Treasurer did not comment on polls.
''He's more concerned about numbers like the $5000 [that] a family in Nundah with a $300,000 mortgage is saving on their mortgage every year thanks to lower interest rates under Labor,'' the spokesman said.
United Voice, which represents childcare workers, said the results proved Labor must adopt policies for working people to win seats such as Lilley.
The union's Queensland secretary, Gary Bullock, called for a cap on childcare fees and an increase in childcare workers' wages to overcome a predicted shortage of workers in Queensland.
Mr McGarvie said people felt betrayed by Labor and Mr Swan on issues such as the federal budget and the carbon tax.
''All of these things have mounted up over time and just paint Wayne Swan as someone that is untrustworthy,'' he said.