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well, IMHO (and i am just a nobody net.user) henry spencer is to
sci.* as kibo is to alt.* and rec.*....
....but i could be wrong...(did anybody mention the illuminati)
kitten
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This was all badly reported in the news. There is no evidence that
signs of life found in old rock predate putative planet-sterilizing
events. Rather, the argument was that if life arose shortly the last
sterilizing event, then it must be easily formed. The *inference*
was that life originated before and was destroyed, but there was
no evidence of that.
However, even this argument is flawed. It could well be that origin of
life requires specific conditions (say, a certain composition of the
atmosphere) that do not last for long. So, perhaps life formed
early only because it would have had no other chance to do so,
not because it was likely that life would originate under those
conditions.
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I don't know the first thing about yeast infections but I am a scientist.
No scientist would take your statement --- "no convincing empirical evidence
to support the existence of systemic yeast syndrome" --- to tell you
anything except an absence of data on the question. Noring has pointed out
the catch-22 that if the "crazy" theory were true, you probably couldn't
find any direct evidence of it --- that you couldn't observe those yeastie
beasties with present methods even if they were there. Noring and the
fellow from Oklahoma (sorry, forgot your name) have also suggested one set
of anecdotal evidence in favor based on their personal experiences ---
namely, that when people with certain conditions are given anti-fungals,
many of them appear to get better.
So, if you have any evidence *against* the hypothesis --- for example,
controlled double-blind studies showing that the anti-fungals don't do any
better than sugar water --- then let's hear it. If you don't, then what we
have is anecdotal and uncontrolled evidence on one side, and abject
disbelief on the other. In which case, please, there is no point in yelling
back and forth at each other any longer since neither side has any
convincing evidence either positive or negative.
And I understand that your abject disbelief is based on the existence of
people who may get famous or make money applying the diagnosis to everything
in sight, making wild claims with no evidence, and always refusing to do
controlled studies. But that has absolutely no bearing on the apparently
sincere experiences of the people on the net observing anti-fungals working
on themselves and other people in certain specific cases. There are also
quacks who sell oral superoxide dismutase, in spite of the fact that it's
completely broken down in the guts, but this doesn't change the genuine
scientific knowledge about the role of superoxide dismutase in fighting
oxidative damage. Same thing. Just cause there are candida quacks, that
doesn't establish evidence against the candida hypothesis. If there's some
other reason (besides the quacks), if only anecdotal, to think it could be
true, then that is what has to be considered, that is what the net people
have been talking about.
But again, there is no point in arguing about it. There is anecdotal
evidence, and there is no convincing evidence, and there are also some
candida quacks out there, I hope everyone can agree on all of that. Thus,
it appears to me the main question now is whether the proponents can
marshall enough anecdotal evidence in a convincing and documented enough
manner to make a good case for carrying out a good controlled double-blind
study of antifungals (or else, forget convincing anybody else to carry out
the test, just carry it out themselves!) --- and also, whether they can
adequately define the patient population or symptoms on which such a study
should be carried out to provide a fair test of the hypothesis.
Ken
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brings up the issue of how the escrow agent will be paid, and the fact
that the government had financial leverage if they don't cooperate.
It's an important issue, especially if one of the escrow agents
decides they'd rather stop offering the service.
I assume that if the escrow agent isn't the government,
then the contract for providing escrow service would include some
termination clause like returning the keys.
But who's the user paying the fees here, and what's the service?
If the user is the government, then the funding's not separate from the government.
If the user is the buyer, what's the service?
Keeping the key for me? No thanks - I don't need, and won't buy their service!
Not telling everybody my key? Sounds like blackmail!
If the user is the manufacturer, does the user have a choice about buying?
The alternative is to just generate the key and not escrow it, which is fine -
I'd certainly pay more for this kind of key than an escrowed key!
Face it, the escrow provider is providing a service the users don't want.
The only people who want it are the government, not the users.
What you're really talking about is either the government paying for
the service, up front or per-year, either from general taxes,
or from a special direct tax on wiretap chips, or on an indirect tax
(forcing the manufacturer to pay the fee to the escrow agent.)
I hope the escrow people have no way of finding out your name from
your serial number, especially if the escrow is a government agency.
Here in New Jersey, we have lots of people willing to provide that
sort of services for user fees. There are people willing to keep your
store from burning down for a small monthly fee, though sometimes people
refuse to pay and discover that the service really was effective.
If you go to a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, there are people who
will watch your car in the parking lot for a small user fee.
Something could scratch the paint, after all.
And what a shame if your Clipper key got out!
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I heard somewhere (can't name the source) that TEMPEST does not necessarily
pick-up just CRTs, but it can pick up emissions from almost any chip. If
that is true, the kind monitor would not make any difference becuase everything
on the screen can be picked-up from the video controller. Can anybody verify
or refute this?
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Could someone give me some information on the cause, pathophysiology and
clinical manifestations and treatment of this type of cancer.
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I don't think a reboost exercise is analogous to a shuttle landing/launch
in terms of stresses/misalignments/etc. I would think of the reboost as
a gentile push, where a landing, then launch as two JOLTS which would
put more mechanical stress on the instruments. Additionally, there might
be a concern about landing loads to the shuttle in the event of a laden
landing. Finally, probably some thought went into possible contamination
problems if the instruments came back to earth.
Of course, the cost of two shuttle launches _is_ a good reason to avoid
something that might be done in one shuttle launch. Here's hoping
Cepi's gang gets the job done right the first time.
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I can't answer all our questions in detail, but I can take a stab at
them.
The form the operations that compute R1, R2, and R3 is, of course, the
famous ``triple encryption'' suggested for use with DES. It's much
stronger than a single encryption, and has an effective key length of
160 bits. For reasons that were discussed when DES was first
standardized, a simple double encryption would not have the same
strength. Triple encryption has been used by IBM since more or less
the beginning to encrypt other keys. It's recommended for anything of
very high value. And I think we can agree that the R_i and S_i fit
that description.
Why n_1, n_2, and n_3? Well, you need different plaintext values. I
have no idea if they'll be disclosed or not. At a guess, they're
constructed so that they differ in as many bit positions as possible.
A goo cryptosystem will scramble things a lot with even a 1-bit change
-- but the values of N in a series will have fairly similar bit
patterns, and there might, conceivably, be a weakness. So the n_i
values are -- and I'm guessing -- chosen to increase the Hamming
distance.
In any event, I'm quite convinced that one cannot go back to the S_i
from the U_i, let alone U. (Observe: if the NSA has U, they don't
need to find S_i. But even if they do, they can't get U_1 and U_2. In
theory, they should never even see those values, even with a warrant.)
The real question, I think, is why use this scheme at all, as opposed
to a hardware random number generator. My answer is that this is
*much* more verifiable. Look -- suppose that NSA, NIST, the ACLU, the
EFF, and the NRA combined to build a *really* good random number
generator, and that it passed every test you could think of. When you
come back next week to program some more chips, does it still work that
well? Have any components changed in value? Have the components been
changed out from under you? Does it still work well the in the
presence of a focused microwave beam that tends to bias it towards
selecting 1 bits? Yes, you can run detailed statistical tests on it
again, but that's hard.
Consider, on the other hand, a software solution. You bring your own
floppies with you, you can run cryptographic checksums, etc. It's a
lot easier to verify that the software is unchanged, in other words.
(Yes, I can think of ways to cheat software, too. I think that they're
a lot harder.)
There are three issues with Clipper. The first is whether or not the
architecture of the whole scheme is capable of working. My answer,
with one significant exception, is yes. I really do think that NSA and
NIST have designed this scheme about as well as can be, assuming that
their real objectives are as stated: to permit wiretapping, under
certain carefully-controlled circumstances, with a minimum risk of
abuse. (The exception is that U exists outside of the chip, on a
programming diskette. That's seriously wrong. U_1 and U_2 should be
loaded onto the chip separately.) To those who disagree (and I don't
claim my answer is obvious, though I found my own reasoning
sufficiently persuasive that I was forced to rewrite the Conclusions
section of my technical analysis paper -- I had originally blasted the
scheme), I issue this invitation: assume that you were charged with
implementing such a system, with complete regard for civil rights and
due process. What would you do differently? In answering this
question, please accept NSA's fundamental assumptions: that both
strong cryptography against outsiders, and the ability to wiretap
*some* domestic users, is necessary. (If you feel it necessary to
challenge those assumptions, do it in the context of the last issue I
present below. Right here, I'm discussing *just* the technical
aspects. And no, I don't by any means claim that just because
something can be done, it should be.)
The second issue is whether or not this whole architecture is actually
going to be used. Just because Clipper chips are made this way doesn't
mean that that's the only way they'll be made. Maybe the NSA will
substitute its own chips between the programming facility and the
shipping dock. And they'll generate bogus warrant requests, so that
the escrow agents don't wonder why they've never called. (``Sorry,
guys; all them terrorists and drug dealers and pedophiles seem to have
bought triple-DES phones instead. Who'd 'a' thunk it?'') I have no
answer to this question, and at the moment, I don't see a way of
answering it. Those concerns are part of my reasoning in my answer
to the final question, below.
The third, and most serious issue, is whether or not Clipper is a good
idea even if carried out strictly according to the letter of the law.
I think that the answer is no, but it's not a no-brainer. I'm a civil
libertarian, not a libertarian, for reasons that I explained at great
length on the net in the Elder Days, and that I don't have the energy
to repeat now. But that means that I'm willing to accept that some
laws are necessary, so long as they respect the essential rights of
individuals. The government already has the ability and -- in our
system -- the right to issue search warrants, and while that power has
certainly been abused, it's also been used quite properly and fairly in
other cases. Is key escrow sufficiently different? I think so -- but
again, it's not an easy question for me. (It is easy for libertarians
to answer, of course, since Clipper is completely alien to much of the
rest of their (oft-admirable) philosophy. And it's also easy for those
who give their unreserved trust to government, a group I'm much more
distant from.)
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Static test firings are now scheduled for this Saturday.....after many
schedule changes.....
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This is true, but it's not quite the whole story. There were
actually some people who were more careful in their methodology
who also replicated the 'phantom leaf effect.'
One of the most influential critics of Kirlian Electrophotography
is a Theosophist (and threfore presumably willing to entertain the
hypothesis of scientific evidence for a human aura, electromagnetic
or otherwise), professor of electrical engineering at London's
City University, and a past president of the Society for Psychic Research
named A. J. Ellison.
After years of studying the method and the claims, Ellison
came to the conclusion that the photographic images are what we
calls 'Lichtenberg Figures,' an effect of intermittent ionization of
the air around the object. It's a bit more complicated than
'not wiping off the plates,' but it comes down to the same thing
in the end, Kirlian electrophotography has much more limited
value (if any) than was previously widely thought. Electrical and
magnetic fields generated by the body are much too small to be
of much use diagnostically without very elaborate equipment and
usually also tracer chemicals.
kind regards,
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Would someone please send me a list of the historic space flights? I
am not looking for a list of all flights, just the ones in which something
monumental happened. Or better yet, is there an ftp site with the list of all
shuttle flights?
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Unlike the CIA, the NSA has no prohibition against domestic spying. Read
Bamford's THE PUZZLE PALACE.
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Before they do some real damage?? You haven't been paying attention, it
seems. The so-called War on Drugs has already done major damage to
the US Constitution.
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I never advocated "hiding in the sand." I'm advocating a peaceful
solution while a peaceful solution is possible. Unless you want blood on
your hands.
Read the above.
I type corrected. (:-)
English revolution-> what revolution? They never had one.
India-> If they could get around their religion restrictions
Mexico-> Point Taken, I forgot about this one.
France-> Napoleon Bonepart would have something to say about this.
Holland-> I didn't know they had one, won't comment because I don't know
enough.
Actually, I consider the issue on topic. When you start gambling with
fire crackers, sooner or later, somebody is going to lose a hand.
Fine. Exercise the right to free speech. That's great! But don't resort
to armed violence until there's no other possibility.
No. I believe there are bad cops, and good cops. There are bad people,
and good people. (And all that grey inbetween.)
I have had the pleasure of knowing a police officer who did his best to
uphold the laws he swore to defend. I have also seen what happens when
police power is abused.
Don't generalize in either direction. It just causes problems.
Me either. Nice can of worms, ain't it?
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Much of Cook's later exploration was privately funded, by Joseph Banks
among others (eg in Resolution & the earlier Endeavour). Colnett's voyage
to the Galapagos was substantially privately funded by the owners of
British whaling vessels. Chancellor and Willoughby were privately funded
by London merchant companies in their voyages to Muscovy. The list is
almost endless. Those doing the funding were about eighty percent
motivated by potential profit, ten percent by potential glory and ten
percent by the desire to advance the sum of human knowledge.
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The following article by columnist Mike Royko is his humorous commentary
on some of the public's perception of doctors and their salaries.
I hope some of you will find it as amusing as I did.
____________________________________________________________________________
[Reprinted w/o permission]
"There's no cure for stupidity of poll on doctors' salaries"
By Mike Royko
Tribune Media Services
On a stupidity scale, a recent poll about doctors' earnings
is right up there. It almost scored a perfect brain-dead 10.
It was commissioned by some whiny consumers group called
Families USA.
The poll tells us that the majority of Americans believe
that doctors make too much money.
The pollsters also asked what a fair income would be for
physicians. Those polled said, oh, about $80,000 a year would be
OK.
How generous. How sporting. How stupid.
Why is this poll stupid? Because it is based on resentment
and envy, two emotions that ran hot during the political campaign
and are still simmering.
You could conduct the same kind of poll about any group that
earns $100,000-plus and get the same results. Since the majority
of Americans don't make those bucks, they assume that those who
do are stealing it from them.
Maybe the Berlin Wall came down, but don't kid yourself.
Karl Marx lives.
It's also stupid because it didn't ask key questions, such
as: Do you know how much education and training it takes to
become a physician?
If those polled said no, they didn't know, then they should
have been disqualified. If they gave the wrong answers, they
should have been dropped. What good are their views on how much
a doctor should earn if they don't know what it takes to become a
doctor?
Or maybe a question should have been phrased this way: "How
much should a person earn if he or she must (a) get excellent
grades and a fine educational foundation in high school in order
to (b) be accepted by a good college and spend four years taking
courses heavy in math, physics, chemistry, and other lab work and
maintain a 3.5 average or better, and (c) spend four more years
of grinding study in medical school, with the third and fourth
years in clinical training, working 80 to 100 hours a week, and
(d) spend another year as a low-pay, hard-work intern, and (e)
put in another three to 10 years of post-graduate training,
depending on your specialty and (f) maybe wind up $100,000 in
debt after medical school and (g) then work an average of 60
hours a week, with many family doctors putting in 70 hours or
more until they retire or fall over?"
As you have probably guessed by now, I have considerably
more respect for doctors than does the law firm of Clinton and
Clinton, and all the lawyers and insurance executives they have
called together to remake America's health care.
Based on what doctors contribute to society, they are far
more useful than the power-happy, ego-tripping, program-spewing,
social tinkerers who will probably give us a medical plan that is
to health what Clinton's first budget is to frugality.
But propaganda works. And, as the stupid poll indicates,
many Americans wrongly believe that profiteering doctors are the
major cause of high medical costs.
Of course doctors are well-compensated. They should be.
Americans now live longer than ever. But who is responsible for
our longevity--lawyers, Congress, or the guy flipping burgers in
a McDonald's?
And the doctors prolong our lives despite our having become
a nation of self-indulgent, lard-butted, TV-gaping couch
cabbages.
Ah, that is not something you heard President Clinton or
Super Spouse talk about during the campaign or since. But
instead of trying to turn the medical profession into a villain,
"Let us talk about medical care and one of the biggest
problems we have. That problem is you, my fellow American. Yes,
you, eating too much and eating the wrong foods; many of you
guzzling too much hooch; still puffing away at $2.50 a pack;
getting your daily exercise by lumbering from the fridge to the
microwave to the couch; doing dope and bringing crack babies into
the world; filling the big city emergency rooms with gunshot
victims; engaging in unsafe sex and catching a deadly disease
while blaming the world for not finding an instant cure.
"You and your habits, not the doctors, are the single
biggest health problem in this country. If anything, it is
amazing that the docs keep you alive as long as they do.
"In fact, I don't understand how they can stand looking at
your blubbery bods all day.
"So as your president, I call upon you to stop whining and
start living cleanly. Now I must go get myself a triple cheesy-
greasy with double fries. Do as I say, not as I do."
But for those who truly believe that doctors are overpaid,
there is another solution: Don't use them.
That's right. You don't feel well? Then try one of those
spine poppers, needle twirlers, or have Rev. Bubba lay his hands
upon your head and declare you fit.
Or there is the do-it-yourself approach. You have chest
pains? Then sit in front of a mirror, make a slit here, a slit
there, and pop in a couple of valves.
You're going to have a kid? Why throw your money at that
overpaid sawbones so he can buy a better car and a bigger house
than you will ever have (while paying more in taxes and
malpractice insurance than you will ever earn)?
Just have the kid the old-fashioned way. Squat and do it.
And if it survives, you can go to the library and find a book on
how to give it its shots.
By the way, has anyone ever done a poll on how much
pollsters should earn?
Royko is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Tribune Media
Services.
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - MMWR
[23 April 1993] Rates of Cesarean Delivery ........................... 1
Malaria Among U.S. Embassy Personnel ................................. 5
FDA Approval of Hib Vaccine for Children/Infants ..................... 8
2. Dental News
Workshop Explores Oral Manifestations of HIV Infection ............... 11
3. Food & Drug Administration News
FDA Approves Depo Provera, injectable contraceptive .................. 14
New Rules Speed Approval of Drugs for Life-Threatening Illnesses ..... 16
4. Articles
Research Promises Preventing/Slowing Blindness from Retinal Disease .. 18
Affluent Diet Increases Risk Of Heart Disease ........................ 20
5. General Announcments
Publications for Health Professionals from National Cancer Institute . 23
Publications for Patients Available from National Cancer Institute ... 30
6. AIDS News Summaries
AIDS Daily Summary for April 19 to April 23, 1993 .................... 38
7. AIDS Statistics
Worldwide AIDS Statistics ............................................ 48
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Rates of Cesarean Delivery -- United States, 1991
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SOURCE: MMWR 42(15) DATE: Apr 23, 1993
Cesarean deliveries have accounted for nearly 1 million of the
approximately 4 million annual deliveries in the United States since 1986
(Table 1). The cesarean rate in the United States is the third highest among
21 reporting countries, exceeded only by Brazil and Puerto Rico (1). This
report presents data on cesarean deliveries from CDC's National Hospital
Discharge Survey (NHDS) for 1991 and compares these data with previous years.
Data on discharges from short-stay, nonfederal hospitals have been
collected annually since 1965 in the NHDS, conducted by CDC's National Center
for Health Statistics. For 1991, medical and demographic information were
abstracted from a sample of 274,000 inpatients discharged from 484
participating hospitals. The 1991 cesareans and vaginal births after a prior
cesarean (VBAC) presented in this report are based on weighted national
estimates from the NHDS sample of approximately 31,000 (11%) women discharged
after delivery. The estimated numbers of live births by type of delivery were
calculated by applying cesarean rates from the NHDS to live births from
national vital registration data. Therefore, estimates of the number of
cesareans in this report will not agree with previously published data based
solely on the NHDS (2). Stated differences in this analysis are significant at
the 95% confidence level, based on the two-tailed t-test with a critical value
of 1.96.
In 1991, there were 23.5 cesareans per 100 deliveries, the same rate as
in 1990 and similar to rates during 1986-1989 (Table 1). The primary cesarean
rate (i.e., number of first cesareans per 100 deliveries to women who had no
previous cesareans) for 1986-1991 also was stable, ranging from 16.8 to 17.5.
In 1991, the cesarean rate in the South was 27.6, significantly (p<0.05)
higher than the rates for the West (19.8), Midwest (21.8), and Northeast
(22.6). Rates were higher for mothers aged greater than or equal to 30 years
than for younger women; in proprietary hospitals than in nonprofit or
government hospitals; in hospitals with fewer than 300 beds than in larger
hospitals; and for deliveries for which Blue Cross/Blue Shield * and other
private insurance is the expected source of payment than for other sources of
payment (Table 2). The same pattern characterized primary cesarean deliveries.
Since the early 1970s, the number and percentage of births to older women
increased; however, if the age distribution of mothers in 1991 had remained
the same as in 1986, the overall cesarean rate in 1991 would have been 23.3,
essentially the same as the 23.5 observed.
Based on the NHDS, of the approximately 4,111,000 live births in 1991, an
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estimated 966,000 (23.5%) were by cesarean delivery. Of these, an estimated
338,000 (35.0%) births were repeat cesareans, and 628,000 (65.0%) were primary
cesareans. Since 1986, approximately 600,000 primary cesareans have been
performed annually. In 1986, 8.5% of women who had a previous cesarean
delivered vaginally, compared with 24.2% in 1991. Of all cesareans in 1991,
35.0% were associated with a previous cesarean, 30.4% with dystocia (i.e.,
failure of labor to progress), 11.7% with breech presentation, 9.2% with fetal
distress, and 13.7% with all other specified complications.
The average hospital stay for all deliveries in 1991 was 2.8 days. In
comparison, the hospital stay for a primary cesarean delivery was 4.5 days,
and for a repeat cesarean, 4.2 days -- nearly twice the duration for VBAC
deliveries (2.2 days) or for vaginal deliveries that were not VBACs (2.3
days). In 1986, the average hospital stay for all deliveries was 3.2 days, for
primary cesareans 5.2 days, for repeat cesareans 4.7 days, and for VBAC and
non-VBAC vaginal deliveries 2.7 and 2.6 days, respectively.
Reported by: Office of Vital and Health Statistics Systems, National Center
for Health Statistics, CDC.
Editorial Note: The cesarean rate in the United States steadily increased from
1965 through 1986; however, the findings in this report indicate that rates
have been stable since 1986 (3). Because there is little evidence that
maternal and child health status has improved during this time and because
cesareans are associated with an increased risk for complications of
childbirth, a national health objective for the year 2000 (4) is to reduce the
overall cesarean rate to 15 or fewer per 100 deliveries and the primary
cesarean rate to 12 or fewer per 100 deliveries (objective 14.8).
Postpartum complications -- including urinary tract and wound infections
-- may account in part for the longer hospital stays for cesarean deliveries
than for vaginal births (5). Moreover, the prolonged hospital stays for
cesarean deliveries substantially increase health-care costs. For example, in
1991, the average costs for cesarean and vaginal deliveries were $7826 and
$4720, respectively. The additional cost for each cesarean delivery includes
$611 for physician fees and $2495 for hospital charges (6). If the cesarean
rate in 1991 had been 15 (the year 2000 objective) instead of 23.5, the number
of cesarean births would have decreased by 349,000 (617,000 versus 966,000),
resulting in a savings of more than $1 billion in physician fees and hospital
charges.
Despite the steady increase in VBAC rates since 1986, several factors may
impede progress toward the year 2000 national health objectives for cesarean
delivery. For example, VBAC rates substantially reflect the number of women
offered trial of labor, which has been increasingly encouraged since 1982 (7).
Of women who are offered a trial of labor, 50%-70% could deliver vaginally (7)
--a level already achieved by many hospitals (8). Trial of labor was routinely
offered in 46% of hospitals surveyed in 1984 (the most recent year for which
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national data are available) (9) when the VBAC rate (according to NHDS data)
was 5.7%. The year 2000 objective specifies a VBAC rate of 35%, based on all
women who had a prior cesarean, regardless of whether a trial of labor was
attempted. To reach the overall cesarean rate goal, however, increases in the
VBAC rate will need to be combined with a substantial reduction in the primary
rate.
One hospital succeeded in reducing the rate of cesarean delivery by
applying objective criteria for the four most common indications for cesarean
delivery, by requiring a second opinion, and by instituting a peer-review
process (10). Other recommendations for decreasing cesarean delivery rates
include eliminating incentives for physicians and hospitals by equalizing
reimbursement for vaginal and cesarean deliveries; public dissemination of
physician- and hospital-specific cesarean delivery rates to increase public
awareness of differences in practices; and addressing malpractice concerns,
which may be an important factor in maintaining the high rates of cesarean
delivery (4).
References
1. Notzon FC. International differences in the use of obstetric interventions.
JAMA 1990; 263:3286-91.
2. Graves EJ, NCHS. 1991 Summary: National Hospital Discharge Survey.
Hyattsville, Maryland: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public
Health Service, CDC, 1993. (Advance data no. 227).
3. Taffel SM, Placek PJ, Kosary CL. U.S. cesarean section rates, 1990: an
update. Birth 1992;19:21-2.
4. Public Health Service. Healthy people 2000: national health promotion and
disease prevention objectives -- full report, with commentary. Washington, DC:
US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1991; DHHS
publication no. (PHS)91-50212.
5. Danforth DN. Cesarean section. JAMA 1985;253:811-8.
6. Hospital Insurance Association of America. Table 4.15: cost of maternity
care, physicians' fees, and hospital charges, by census region, based on
Consumer Price Index (1991). In: 1992 Source book of health insurance data.
Washington, DC: Hospital Insurance Association of America, 1992.
7. Committee on Obstetrics. ACOG committee opinion no. 64: guidelines for
vaginal delivery after a previous cesarean birth. Washington, DC: American
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1988.
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8. Rosen MG, Dickinson JC. Vaginal birth after cesarean: a meta-analysis of
indicators for success. Obstet Gynecol 1990;76:865-9.
9. Shiono PH, Fielden JG, McNellis D, Rhoads GG, Pearse WH. Recent trends in
cesarean birth and trial of labor rates in the United States. JAMA
1987;257:494-7.
10. Myers SA, Gleicher N. A successful program to lower cesarean-section
rates. N Engl J Med 1988;319:1511-6.
* Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and
does not imply endorsement by the Public Health Service or the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
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Malaria Among U.S. Embassy Personnel -- Kampala, Uganda, 1992
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SOURCE: MMWR 42(15) DATE: Apr 23, 1993
The treatment and prevention of malaria in Africa has become a
challenging and complex problem because of increasing drug resistance.
Although the risk of acquiring malaria for U.S. citizens and their dependents
stationed overseas generally has been low, this risk varies substantially and
unpredictably. During May 1992, the Office of Medical Services, Department of
State (OMS/DOS), and CDC were notified of an increased number of malaria cases
among official U.S. personnel stationed in Kampala, Uganda. A review of the
health records from the Embassy Health Unit (EHU) in Kampala indicated that 27
cases of malaria were diagnosed in official personnel from March through June
1992 compared with two cases during the same period in 1991. EHU, OMS/DOS, and
CDC conducted an investigation to confirm all reported malaria cases and
identify potential risk factors for malaria among U.S. Embassy personnel. This
report summarizes the results of the investigation.
Malaria blood smears from 25 of the 27 reported case-patients were
available for review by OMS/DOS and CDC. A case of malaria was confirmed if
the slide was positive for Plasmodium sp. Of the 25 persons, 17 were slide-
confirmed as having malaria.
A questionnaire was distributed to all persons served by the EHU to
obtain information about residence, activities, use of malaria
chemoprophylaxis, and use of personal protection measures (i.e., using bednets
and insect repellents, having window and door screens, and wearing long
sleeves and pants in the evening). Of the 157 persons eligible for the survey,
128 (82%) responded.
Risk for malaria was not associated with sex or location of residence in
Kampala. Although the risk for malaria was higher among children aged less
than or equal to 15 years (6/32 19%) than among persons greater than 15
years (11/94 12%), this difference was not significant (relative risk
RR=1.6; 95% confidence interval CI=0.6-4.0). Eighty-two percent of the
cases occurred among persons who had been living in Kampala for 1-5 years,
compared with those living there less than 1 year. Travel outside of the
Kampala area to more rural settings was not associated with increased risk for
malaria.
Four malaria chemoprophylaxis regimens were used by persons who
participated in the survey: mefloquine, chloroquine and proguanil, chloroquine
alone, and proguanil alone. In addition, 23 (18%) persons who responded were
not using any malaria chemoprophylaxis. The risk for malaria was significantly
lower among persons using either mefloquine or chloroquine and proguanil (8/88
9%) than among persons using the other regimens or no prophylaxis (9/37
24%) (RR=0.4; 95% CI=0.2-0.9). Twelve persons not using prophylaxis reported
side effects or fear of possible side effects as a reason.
The risk for malaria was lower among persons who reported using bednets
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all or most of the time (2/27 7%) than among persons who sometimes or rarely
used bednets (15/99 15%) (RR=0.5; 95% CI=0.1-2.0). The risk for malaria was
also lower among persons who consistently used insect repellent in the evening
(0/16), compared with those who rarely used repellent (17/110 15%) (RR=0;
upper 95% confidence limit=1.2). Risk for malaria was not associated with
failure to have window or door screens or wear long sleeves or pants in the
evening.
As a result of this investigation, EHU staff reviewed with all personnel
the need to use and comply with the recommended malaria chemoprophylaxis
regimens. EHU staff also emphasized the need to use personal protection
measures and made plans to obtain insecticide-impregnated bednets and to
provide window and door screens for all personnel.
Reported by: U.S. Embassy Health Unit, Kampala, Uganda; Office of Medical
Svcs, Dept of State, Washington, D.C. Malaria Br, Div of Parasitic Diseases,
National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
Editorial Note: In Uganda, the increase in malaria among U.S. personnel was
attributed to poor adherence to both recommended malaria chemoprophylaxis
regimens and use of personal protection measures during a period of increased
malaria transmission and intensified chloroquine resistance in sub-Saharan
Africa. The findings in this report underscore the need to provide initial and
continued counseling regarding malaria prevention for persons living abroad in
malaria-endemic areas -- preventive measures that are also important for
short-term travelers to such areas.
Mefloquine is an effective prophylaxis regimen in Africa and in most
other areas with chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum; however, in some areas
(e.g., Thailand), resistance to mefloquine may limit its effectiveness. In
Africa, the efficacy of mefloquine, compared with chloroquine alone, in
preventing infection with P. falciparum is 92% (1 ). Mefloquine is safe and
well tolerated when given at 250 mg per week over a 2-year period. The risk
for serious adverse reactions possibly associated with mefloquine prophylaxis
(e.g., psychosis and convulsions) is low (i.e., 1.3-1.9 episodes per 100,000
users 2), while the risk for less severe adverse reactions (e.g., dizziness,
gastrointestinal complaints, and sleep disturbances) is similar to that for
other antimalarial chemoprophylactics (1).
Doxycycline has similar prophylactic efficacy to mefloquine, but the need
for daily dosing may reduce compliance with and effectiveness of this regimen
(3,4). Chloroquine alone is not effective as prophylaxis in areas of intense
chloroquine resistance (e.g., Southeast Asia and Africa). In Africa, for
persons who cannot take mefloquine or doxycycline, chloroquine and proguanil
is an alternative, although less effective, regimen. Chloroquine should be
used for malaria prevention in areas only where chloroquine-resistant P.
falciparum has not been reported.
Country-specific recommendations for preventing malaria and information
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on the dosage and precautions for malaria chemoprophylaxis regimens are
available from Health Information for International Travel, 1992 (i.e.,
"yellow book") (5) or 24 hours a day by telephone or fax, (404) 332-4555.
References
1. Lobel HO, Miani M, Eng T, et al. Long-term malaria prophylaxis with weekly
mefloquine in Peace Corps volunteers: an effective and well tolerated regimen.
Lancet 1993;341:848-51.
2. World Health Organization. Review of central nervous system adverse events
related to the antimalarial drug, mefloquine (1985-1990). Geneva: World Health
Organization, 1991; publication no. WHO/MAL/91.1063.
3. Pang L, Limsomwong N, Singharaj P. Prophylactic treatment of vivax and
falciparum malaria with low-dose doxycycline. J Infect Dis 1988;158:1124-7.
4. Pang L, Limsomwong N, Boudreau EF, Singharaj P. Doxycycline prophylaxis for
falciparum malaria. Lancet 1987;1:1161-4.
5. CDC. Health information for international travel, 1992. Atlanta: US
Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1992:98; DHHS
publication no. (CDC)92-8280.
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FDA Approval of Use of a New Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine and a
Combined Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis and Haemophilus b Conjugate
Vaccine for Infants and Children
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SOURCE: MMWR 42(15) DATE: Apr 23, 1993
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccines have been
recommended for use in infants since 1990, and their routine use in infant
vaccination has contributed to the substantial decline in the incidence of Hib
disease in the United States (1-3). Vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, and
pertussis during infancy and childhood have been administered routinely in the
United States since the late 1940s and has been associated with a greater than
90% reduction in morbidity and mortality associated with infection by these
organisms. Because of the increasing number of vaccines now routinely
recommended for infants, a high priority is the development of combined
vaccines that allow simultaneous administration with fewer separate
injections.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently licensed two new products
for vaccinating children against these diseases: 1) the Haemophilus b
conjugate vaccine (tetanus toxoid conjugate, ActHIB Trademark), * for
vaccination against Hib disease only and 2) a combined diphtheria and tetanus
toxoids and whole-cell pertussis vaccine (DTP) and Hib conjugate vaccine
(TETRAMUNE Trademark), a combination of vaccines formulated for use in
vaccinating children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and Hib disease.
ActHIB Trademark
On March 30, 1993, the FDA approved a new Haemophilus b conjugate
vaccine, polyribosylribitol phosphate-tetanus toxoid conjugate (PRP-T),
manufactured by Pasteur Merieux Serum et Vaccins and distributed as ActHIB
Trademark by Connaught Laboratories, Inc. (Swiftwater, Pennsylvania). This
vaccine has been licensed for use in infants in a three-dose primary
vaccination series administered at ages 2, 4, and 6 months. Previously
unvaccinated infants 7-11 months of age should receive two doses 2 months
apart. Previously unvaccinated children 12-14 months of age should receive one
dose. A booster dose administered at 15 months of age is recommended for all
children. Previously unvaccinated children 15-59 months of age should receive
a single dose and do not require a booster. More than 90% of infants receiving
a primary vaccination series of ActHIB Trademark (consecutive doses at 2, 4,
and 6 months of age) develop a geometric mean titer of anti-Haemophilus b
polysaccharide antibody greater than 1 ug/mL (4). This response is similar to
that of infants who receive recommended series of previously licensed
Haemophilus b conjugate vaccines for which efficacy has been demonstrated in
prospective trials. Two U.S. efficacy trials of PRP-T were terminated early
because of the concomitant licensure of other Haemophilus b conjugate vaccines
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for use in infants (4). In these studies, no cases of invasive Hib disease
were detected in approximately 6000 infants vaccinated with PRP-T. These and
other studies suggest that the efficacy of PRP-T vaccine will be similar to
that of the other licensed Hib vaccines. TETRAMUNE Trademark
On March 30, 1993, the FDA approved a combined diphtheria and tetanus
toxoids and whole-cell pertussis vaccine (DTP) and Haemophilus b conjugate
vaccine. TETRAMUNE Trademark, available from Lederle-Praxis Biologicals (Pearl
River, New York), combines two previously licensed products, DTP (TRIIMMUNOL
Registered, manufactured by Lederle Laboratories Pearl River, New York) and
Haemophilus b conjugate vaccine (HibTITER Registered, manufactured by Praxis
Biologics, Inc. Rochester, New York).
This vaccine has been licensed for use in children aged 2 months-5 years
for protection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and Hib disease when
indications for vaccination with DTP vaccine and Haemophilus b conjugate
vaccine coincide. Based on demonstration of co mparable or higher antibody
responses to each of the components of the two vaccines, TETRAMUNE Trademark
is expected to provide protection against Hib, as well as diphtheria, tetanus,
and pertussis, equivalent to that of already licensed formulations of other
DTP and Haemophilus b vaccines.
The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that
all infants receive a primary series of one of the licensed Haemophilus b
conjugate vaccines beginning at 2 months of age and a booster dose at age 12-
15 months (5). The ACIP also recommends that all infants receive a four-dose
primary series of diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccine at 2,
4, 6, and 15-18 months of age, and a booster dose at 4-6 years (6-8). A
complete statement regarding recommendations for use of ActHIB Trademark and
TETRAMUNE Trademark is being developed.
Reported by: Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration. Div of Immunization,
National Center for Prevention Svcs; Meningitis and Special Pathogens Br, Div
of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases,
CDC.
References
1. Adams WG, Deaver KA, Cochi SL, et al. Decline of childhood Haemophilus
influenzae type b (Hib) disease in the Hib vaccine era. JAMA 1993;269:221-6.
2. Broadhurst LE, Erickson RL, Kelley PW. Decrease in invasive Haemophilus
influenzae disease in U.S. Army children, 1984 through 1991. JAMA
1993;269:227-31.
3. Murphy TV, White KE, Pastor P, et al. Declining incidence of Haemophilus
influenzae type b disease since introduction of vaccination. JAMA
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1993;269:246-8.
4. Fritzell B, Plotkin S. Efficacy and safety of a Haemophilus influenzae type
b capsular polysaccharide-tetanus protein conjugate vaccine. J Pediatr
1992;121:355-62.
5. ACIP. Haemophilus b conjugate vaccines for prevention of Haemophilus
influenzae type b disease among infants and children two months of age and
older: recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee
(ACIP). MMWR 1991;40(no. RR-1).
6. ACIP. Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis -- recommendations for vaccine use
and other preventive measures: recommendations of the Immunization Practices
Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR 1991;40(no. RR-10).
7. ACIP. Pertussis vaccination: acellular pertussis vaccine for reinforcing
and booster use -- supplementary ACIP statement: recommendations of the
Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR 1992;41(no. RR-1).
8. ACIP. Pertussis vaccination: acellular pertussis vaccine for the fourth and
fifth doses of the DTP series -- update to supplementary ACIP statement:
recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR
1992;41(no. RR-15).
* Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and
does not imply endorsement by the Public Health Service or the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
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Dental News
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International Workshop Explores Oral Manifestations of
HIV Infection
NIDR Research Digest
written by Jody Dove
March 1993
National Institute of Dental Research
At the Second International Workshop on the Oral Manifestations of HIV
Infection, held January 31-February 3 in San Francisco, participants explored
issues related to the epidemiology, basic molecular virology, mucosal
immunology, and oral clinical presentations of HIV infection.
The workshop was organized by Dr. John Greenspan and Dr. Deborah
Greenspan of the Department of Stomatology, School of Dentistry, University of
California, San Francisco. An international steering committee and scientific
program committee provided guidance.
The conference drew more than 260 scientists from 39 countries, including
Asia, Africa, Europe, Central America, South America, as well as the United
States and Canada. Support tor the workshop was provided by the National
Institute of Dental Research, the National Cancer Institute, the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH Office of AIDS Research,
and the Procter and Gamble Company.
Among the topics discussed were: the epidemiology of HIV lesions; ethics,
professional responsibility, and public policy; occupational issues; provision
of oral care to the HIV-positive population; salivary HIV transmission and
mucosal immunity; opportunistic infections; pediatric HIV infection; and
women's issues.
Recommendations
Recommendations emerged from the workshop to define the association
between the appearance of oral lesions and rate of progression of HIV, to
establish a universal terminology for HIV-associated oral lesions, to look for
more effective treatments for oral manifestations, to expand molecular biology
studies to understand the relationship between HIV infection and common oral
lesions, and to study the effects of HIV therapy on oral lesions.
Epidemiology
Since the First International Workshop on Oral Manifestations of HIV
Infection was convened five years ago, the epidemiology of HIV infection has
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radically changed. In 1988, HIV infection was detected and reported largely
in homosexual and bisexual males, intravenous drug users, and hemophiliacs.
Today, more HIV infection is seen in heterosexual males and females and in
children and adolescents.
While the predominant impact of HIV infection has been felt in Africa, a
major increase in infection rate is being seen in Southeast Asia as well.
Five hundred thousand cases have been reported to date in this region and more
are appearing all the time.
Researchers are continuing to document the epidemiology of oral lesions
such as hairy leukoplakia and candidiasis. They also are beginning to explore
the relationships between specific oral lesions and HIV disease progression
and prognosis.
Social/political Issues
Discussion on the social and political implications of HIV infection
focused on changing the public's attitude that AIDS is retribution for
indiscriminate sexual behavior and drug use. Speakers also addressed health
care delivery for HIV-infected patients, and the need to educate the public
about what AIDS is, and how it is acquired.
Saliva and Salivary Glands
Conference speakers described transmission issues and the HIV-inhibitory
activity of saliva, the strength of which varies among the different salivary
secretions. Whole saliva has a greater inhibitory effect than submandibular
secretions, which in turn have a greater inhibitory effect than parotid
secretions. Research has shown that at least two mechanisms are responsible
for salivary inhibitory activity. They attributed the HIV-inhibitory effect
of saliva to the 1) aggregation/agglutination of HIV by saliva, which may both
promote clearance of virus and prevent it reaching a target cell, and 2)
direct effects on the virus or target cells.
Other topics discussed were the manifestation of salivary gland disease
in HIV-infected persons and current research on oral mucosal immunity.
Pediatric Issues
Pediatric AIDS recently has emerged as an area of intense interest. With
early and accurate diagnosis and proper treatment, the life expectancy of HIV-
infected children has tripled. The prevention of transmission of HIV from
mother to child may be possible in many cases, particularly if the mother's
sero-status is known prior to giving birth.
Periodontal and Gingival Tissue Disease
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Oral health researchers continue to explore periodontal diseases and
gingivitis found in individuals with HIV infection. Recommendations made at
the workshop include the standardization of terminology, refinement of
diagnostic markers, standardization of study design, and proper consideration
of confounding variables resulting from periodontal therapy.
Occupational and Treatment Issues
Occupational issues surrounding the treatment of HIV-infected individuals
and treatment rendered by HIV-infected health care professionals still command
considerable attention. Factors under consideration include the cost/benefit
of HIV testing, patient-to-health care provider transmission of HIV infection
and the reverse, and the use of mainstream versus dedicated facilities for the
treatment of HIV-infected patients.
Conference participants anticipate that a third International Workshop on
the Oral Manifestations of HIV Infection will be held in five years or less.
Proceedings from the second workshop will be published by the Quintessence
Company in late 1993.
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The proposal could be modified so that if they get a court order to tap you
and don't charge you with a crime within, say, 90 days, they have to buy you
a new phone.
If they do charge you, and you are found innocent, they have to buy you a
new phone.
:-)
David
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Last year, I was totally surprised when my annual physical disclosed an
inguinal hernia. I couldn't remember doing anything that would have
caused it. That is, I hadn't been lifting more than other people do,
and in fact probably somewhat less. Eventually the thing became more
painful and I had the repair operation.
This year I developed a pain on the other side. This turned out to be
another inguinal hernia. So I go back to the hospital Monday for
another fun 8-) operation.
I don't know of anything I'm doing to cause this to happen. I'm 38
years old and I don't think I'm old enough for things to start falling
apart like this. The surgeon who is doing the operation seems to
suspect a congenital weakness, but if so, why did it suddenly appear
when I was 37 and not really as active as I was when I was younger?
Does anyone know how to prevent a hernia, other than not lifting
anything? It's rare that I lift more than my 16-month-old or a sack
full of groceries, and you may have noticed that your typical grocery
sack is fairly small these days. Is there some sort of exercise that
will reduce the risk?
Of course, my wife thinks it's from sitting for long periods of time at
the computer, reading news...
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She's published two books about her manic-depressive illness:
_Call Me Anna: the Autobiography of Patty Duke_, Patty Duke and
Kenneth Turan, Bantam Books 1987
and
_A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness_, Patty
Duke and Gloria Hochman, Bantam Books 1992
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Come on, this is sci.space. An orbital billboard won't
do any permanent damage; in a few years it will reenter
and probably hit Los Angles anyway :-)
The boost to space commerce orbital advertising might
provide might speed the day it is possible for those with a
yen for dark skies to get some really dark skies beyond
the dust producing the zodiacal light.
Now, if they wanted to paint the CocaCola symbol on the
moon in lampblack, that would give me pause. It would
be very difficult to reverse such a widespread application
of pigments.
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Given that what i described for the HST seemed to be the SMT, and given
the mass amrgins on the discovery mission is tight enough that spacewalking
has to be carefully constrained..... No EDO pallets, no spare Suits,
no extra MMU's.
WHy not do this?
Quick Test Goldins philosophjy of faster cheaper, better.
Build a real fast Space TUg, to handle the re-boost of the HST using
clean Cryo fuels, and get it ready before the HST mission.
If NASA could build Mercury in 13 months, they should be able to make
an SMT in 9.
How much would it need?
Guidance package. Use a Voyager spare.
Thruster gear, Use H2O2, or LOX/LH.
Bus Use a Commsat.
Grapple fixture. Use a stripped down Canadarm.
Comms package. SPare X-band omni gear.
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Er, people are going to make personal attacks on Prof. Denning whether she
posts here or not. That much should be obvious from looking at the traffic
over the last few weeks. Therefore I conclude that the existence of personal
attacks is irrelevant to any decision concerning whether to post.
I suspect that Prof. Denning is actually using the attacks as an excuse for
not posting, and that the real reason for the silence is that Clipper is not
the sort of proposal any self-respecting cryptographer can support via
reasoned argument.
mathew
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As I recall from my bout with kidney stones, there isn't any
medication that can do anything about them except relieve the pain.
Either they pass, or they have to be broken up with sound, or they have
to be extracted surgically.
When I was in, the X-ray tech happened to mention that she'd had kidney
stones and children, and the childbirth hurt less.
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This is ridiculous, and your doctor sounds like a nut, if what is
reported here is what the doctor actually said. If your wife's
pancreas stops producing insulin and therefore becomes diabetic, she'll
need insulin replacement. That doesn't mean she's "dependent" on
insulin, anymore than she was beforehand--if her body doesn't make
enough, she'll have to get it elsewhere. Oral thyroid replacement
hormone therapy is the cornerstone of treatment for hypothyroidism, and
it's really the only effective therapy available anyway. Plus, it's
cheap. Taking thyroid hormone when it isn't needed does cause your
thyroid gland to reduce its own production of the hormone, but that's a
_feature_, not a _bug_, and it's irrelevant in any case in the face of
hypothyroidism, because her problem that her gland isn't producing
enough. There isn't a clinical phenomenon of "thyroid insufficiency"
caused by a sudden discontinuation of exogenous thyroid hormone
analogous to adrenal insufficiency caused by the sudden cessation of
prolonged administration of corticosteroids, so there should be no
worry about inappropriately "suppressing" the thyroid gland.
Homeopathy is nonsense. Tell her to stop wasting her money, health and time,
and get her to a legitimate doctor who will be in a position to make
a proper diagnosis and recommend the right therapy.
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That's assuming it could get built by them.
Of course, it would probably sport Cruise missile Racks,
Sidewinder Missile tubes, Bomb Points, extra drop tanks,
a Full ECM suite, Terrain following radar and stealth
materials.
IT might not fly, but a technology demonstrator does
not require actual flight.
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I think you're both right. Teflon was actually discovered by accident
before WWII. From what I've heard, they had some chemical (I assume it
was tetrafluoroethylene) in a tank and but the valve got gummed up.
Cutting it open revealed that it had polymerized.
The material was useful for seals, but it had a major problem for, say
the linings of vessels: it wouldn't stick to metal. What the space
program did was to find a way to get it to stick. Thus we had no-stick
frypans on the market in the late '60s.
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Scientific American had a nice short article on the history of the
hypodermic about 10 or 15 years ago. Prior to liquid injectables,
there were paddle-like needles used to implant a tiny pill under the
skin.
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A circut court judge in Illinois once said "When dealing with a government
that seeks continually new and more creative ways to spy on its' citizenry,
one cannot discourage the move to empower the common citizen with the means
to parry this attack on personal privacy."
(Unfortunately the comment was with regard to the banning of radar
detectors....)
The point remains. More and more I see the government slowly washing
away privacy. Even unwittingly. Do you think I will ever live in a
soceity that issues smart cards to citizens at birth? Do you think I
will live in a soceity that insists I register my crypto keys so they
can keep track of what I'm saying? Even if there is no evidence of my
guilt? Do you think I will ever live in a soceity that seeks to meddle
in the affairs of its' citizenry without recourse of any kind? I'm tired
of it. There is (IMHO) no compromise with an administration that seeks
to implement these proposals under the guise of enhancing privacy.
More than the proposals themselves, I read the language of the press
releases, the obvious deception involved in presenting these pieces to
the public, and I am sickened. I am revolted. I am repulsed.
90%, perhaps even 95% of this country could care less about the
clipper chip, the wiretap bill, the smart card, because they are so
entrapped in the rhetoric of the Clinton Administration.
This saddens and frightens me.
I am a conserveative believe it or not. A law and order conserveative.
But the move to a centralized authoratarian regime really scares me,
mostly because I know you cant go far wrong underestimating the
intelligence of the American people. Tell them it's going to keep
them safe from drug dealers and terrorists, and they will let you
put cameras in their home.
Even in the wake of Waco, you find those who support the increasingly
totalatarian moves.
To be quite honest, the way things are going, I'd call it self defense.
And I dont want mine growning up in the eyes of a security camera
24 hours a day.
uni
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My comment was off the top of my head; I wasn't aware that it had
already been thought of. Guess it's true that there's nothing new under
the sun (or in this case, the flying billboards.)
--
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Indeed, the sky doesn't look much like a black body if you look carefully
enough; in particular, its temperature at radio frequencies is quite a
bit higher than you would see from a black body. Morgan&Gordon's fat
"Communications Satellite Handbook" has a graph of sky temperature vs.
wavelength, in fact, for communications design.
However, in terms of energy content, the RF frequencies are negligible.
For thermal purposes, at very large distances from the Sun the sky
looks like a black body at 3.5K (Allen, "Astrophysical Quantities").
I haven't found a number for non-large distances, since solar radiation
tends to be something you can't just ignore :-), but M&G says "about 4K"
in a brief discussion of why solar radiation dominates the problem.
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Doug Holland claims Tom Clancy has provided the recipe for nuclear bombs.
Clancy himself says he has omitted certain crucial steps. Further, how do we
know Clancy knows, rather than repeating what he's read or been told in the
unclassified domain?
On the other hand, when John Aristotle Phillips was a junior at Princeton
trying to keep from flunking physics by doing a terrific term paper,
his atom bomb design was good enough that it got classified.
A few of the steps were derived from social engineering
(e.g. the name of the explosive), but it was fundamentally sound (and DID get an A.)
The Pakistan embassy also called him up trying to get a copy;
at the time they were lobbying the US government to get some nuclear
reactors for "purely non-military" electrical power generation.
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I'm wondering if "vandalize" is the proper word to use in this situation. My
dictionary defines "vandalism" as "the willful or malicious destructuion of
public or private property, especially of anything beautiful or artisitc." I
would agree the sky is beautiful, but not that it is public or private property.
I personally prefer natural skies, far from city lights and sans aircraft.
However, there is also something to be said for being able to look up into the
sky and see a satellite. Many people get a real kick out of it, especially if
they haven't seen one before.
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Does anyone have information about the struggles that Patti
Duke went through in her personal life with severe mood swings.
Did she have some form of chemical imbalance that triggered
these problems? I recall that she wrote a book about her troubles.
Does someone have the title of that book?
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I think to some extent this is a case of stooping to their level. You assume
that the general public "can't handle the truth" and then, based on this
assumption, go for the fluff arguments. Then someone, who can understand a
good argument, comes along and asks "why don't you just develop the spinoffs?"
or "why can't we just get our spinoffs from some other program, like the
military?" There are some good arguments for space development without relying
on its side effects. I'm not ignoring the value of spinoffs. I simply think
that the general public deserves more credit than you give them.
And if you're going to use spinoffs you better make darn sure you are right.
Teflon has been around since before NASA. As I understand it, Velcro was
conceptualized by a french doctor who went walking in the woods and took the
trouble to wonder how burrs stick to your clothes. Certainly velcro was
available on hiking equipment by the early to mid sixties. I would need to
see some good evidence before I believe that either of these would not be here
today without NASA.
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I believe it's legal to send DES code or equipment from the US to Canada
with no export license. I think this is the only place you can do this - all
other countries require a license.
As an aside, I've always thought it should be legal to send DES software
anywhere, if you follow these rules:
1. Encrypt your DES software with DES.
2. Send the encrypted software to the recipient.
3. Send the key to the recipient.
The only way the person on the other end can use your DES software is if
he/she already *has* DES available - otherwise, they can't decrypt your
program, and it is useless. If you've guaranteed they already have DES,
have you really violated any law by sending it to them in the form of
your program?? I'm sure it's still illegal, but it seems like a good idea...
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=|>
=|> >I think that's the correct spelling..
=|> > I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow
=|> >do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking
=|> >that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for
=|> >sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly
=|> >appreciated.
=|>
=|> Krillean photography involves taking pictures of minute decapods resident in
=|> the seas surrounding the antarctic. Or pictures taken by them, perhaps.
=|>
=|> Bill from oz
=|>
=
=
=Bill,
=No flame intended but you're way, way off base. In simple terms Kirilian
=photography registers the electromagnetical fields around objects, in simple,
=it takes pictures of your aura.
Greg: Flame definitely intended here. Bill was making fun of the misspelling.
Go look up the word "krill." Also, the correct spelling is Kirlian. It
involves taking photographs of corona discharges created by attaching the
subject to a high-voltage source, not of some "aura." It works equally well
with inanimate objects.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: [email protected] | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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Nonsense! I've taught fifth, sixth, seventh . There are a few early puberty
types in fifth and it has nothing to do with early sexual experience.
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Fine then. Cut them off with pen and paper, and not the sword.
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I'm interested in this from the other angle: what antihistamine can I
take at bedtime for relief of allergies, with the assurance that its
sedative effect will have completely worn off by the next morning, but
preferably with the anti-allergy effect lasting longer?
I'm thinking mainly of OTC products. Which has the least duration of
sedative action: Benadryl, Chlor-Trimeton, or what?
Note that I'm asking about duration, not intensity.
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Hopefully, he doesnt take it personal...
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Is it realistic for the government to try to keep the details
of the encrytion algorithm secret if it intends to use evidence from
wiretaps in court? Won't defense attorneys attempt to obtain the
details of the method if the prosecution attempts to present evidence
from wiretaps in court? Is it certain that such attempts will fail?
James B. Shearer
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KW> If you don't like additives, then for godsake,
KW> get off the net and learn to cook from scratch. Sheesh.
Mary Allison exclaims:
MA> EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
MA> Why can't people learn to cook from scratch *ON* the net.
MA> I've gotten LOTS of recipes off the net that don't use additives.
Because one simply _can't_ cook on the net, nor can one cook while ON the
net. Cooking is best done IN a kitchen, ON a stove. (Gotcha! *grin*)
(I said this out of general frustration at people (not anyone in particular)
who seem to expect packaged food to conform to their tastes. In other
words, if packaged foods are not to your liking, prepare foods that are.)
MA> If you LIKE additives then get off the net and go to your local
MA> supermarket, buy lots of packaged foods, and YOU get OFF THE NET!!
I don't have strong feelings about additives, as long as I can't taste 'em.
(As for the rest of your reply to me, I am sorry it it seemed as if i was
picking on you. I wasn't trying to do so. Please accept my apologies.)
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I have that book, and the way I read it is, one side of the
conversation MUST be from outside the United States.
Of coures, that ASS U MEs that the NSA plays by the rules...
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Will someone please post the David Sternlight FAQ to alt.privacy.clipper before
someone unfamiliar with him takes him seriously and starts yet another
flame fest?
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[...]
[...]
I believe you are mistaken. I don't believe the AG publishes the
number of state wiretaps.
- Carl
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I know this is kinda off the subject of sci.space, but not really, I want to
answer this for their, as well as everyone else's information. What these
people are proposing, by and large already exists and can be purchased today.
It is called labview by National Instruments. IT is a wonderful object
oriented graphical programming language. IT has been implemented on
both Mac's PC's and VME unix boxes. IT is fare superior to any programming
approach that I have ever seen and allowed us to decrease the software
development time for our shuttle payloads by 90 percent. This program is
not dependendant on specific hardware and already has exensive analysis
capability.
Why re-invent the wheel on a platform that may not exist? It is a great
idea but look out there at what is available today. The Hydrogen leak on
the Shuttle was found using this software. All SSME control and simulation
studies, along with the real testing at MSFC is handled with LabVIEW. There
are tons of applications, with the ability to create "virtual" instruments
that can accomplish any specific custom task the maker desires. With the
addition of IEEE-488 support, the computer becomes a virtual control station,
allowing the graphic representation of remote instrumentation. With serial
I/O support that instrument can be anywhere. The ground control software
for the main control of SEDSAT 1 will utilize this approach.
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Some of the MD's in this newsgroup have been riding my butt pretty good
(maybe in some cases with good reason). In this post on depression, I'm
laying it all out. I'll continue to post here because I think that I have
some knowledge that could be useful. Once you have read this post, you
should know where I'm coming from when I post again in the future.
Lida,
I can emphasize with your situation. Both my wife and I suffered from
bouts of depression. Her's was brought on by breast cancer and mine was a
rebound stress reaction to her modified radical mastectomy and
chemotherapy. Lida, I used my knowledge of nutrition to get her through
her six months of chemotherapy(with the approval of her oncologist). When
severe depression set in a few months after the chemo stopped, I tried to
use supplements to bring her out of it. I had "cured" her PMS using
supplements and I really thought that I knew enough about the role of diet
in depression to take care of her depression as well. It didn't work and
she was put on Prozac by her oncologist. Two Winters ago(three years after
by wife's breast cancer) I got hit with severe depression(pretty typical and
one reason why many marriages break up after breast cancer or another
stressor). I tried to take care of it for several months with
supplementation. Didn't work. My internist ended up putting me on Prozac.
I was going to give you a list of several studies that have been done using
B6, niacin, folate and B12 to "cure" depression. I'm not going to do that
because all you would be doing is flying blind like I was.
Lida, I do believe that depression can have a dietary component. But the
problem is that you need to know exactly what the problem is and then use
an approach which will "fix" the problem. For chemotherapy, I knew exactly
what drugs were going to be used and exactly what nutrients would be
affected. Same thing for PMS. I was flying blind for both of these
stressors but the literature that I used to devise a treatment program was
pretty good. Depression is just too complicated. What you really need is
a nutritional scan. This is not a diet analysis but an analysis of your
bodies nutrient reserves. For every vitamin and mineral(except vitamin C),
you have a reserve. The RDA is not designed to give you enough of any
nutrient to keep these reserves full, it is only designed to keep them from
being emptied which would cause clinical pathology. Stress will increase
your need for many vitamins and minerals. This is when your reserves become
very important.
Lida, without your permission, I'm going to use your post as a conduit to
try to explain to the readers in this group and Sci. Med. where I'm coming
from. I have taught a course on human nutrition in one of the Osteopathic
Medical schools for ten years now. I've written my own textbook because
none was available. What I teach is not a rehash of biochemistry. I
preach nutrient reserves(yes my lectures in this course are referred to by
my students as sermons). Here is what I cover:
Indroduction and Carbohydrates Lipids
Proteins I Proteins II
Energy Balance Evaluation of Nutritional
Status I, A Clinical
Perspective
Evaluation of Nutritional Status II, Evaluation of Nutritional
A Biochemical Perspective Status III, Homework
Assignment Using the
Nutritionist IV Diet and
Fitness Analysis Software
program
Weight Control Food Fads and Facts
Age-Related Change in Nutrient Requirements Food Additives,
Contaminants and Cancer
Drug-Nutrient Interactions Mineral and Water Balance
Sodium, Potassium and Chloride Calcium, Magnesium and
Phosphorus
Iron Zinc and Copper
Iodine and Fluoride Other Trace Minerals
Vitamin A Vitamin E
Vitamins D and K Vitamin C
Thiamin and Niacin Riboflavin and Pyridoxine
Pantothenic and Folic acids Biotin and B12
Other Nutrient Factors Enteral Nutrition
Parenteral Nutrition
Every three years I spend my entire Summer reviewing the Medical literature
to find material that I can use in my nutrition textbook. I last did this
in the Summer of 1991. I read everything that I can find and then sit down
and rewrite my lecture handouts which are bound in three separate books
that have 217, 237 and 122 pages. Opposite each page of written text(which
I write myself) I've pulled figures, tables and graphs from various
copyrighted sources. Since this material is only being used for
educational purposes, I can get around the copyright laws (so far). I can not
send this material out to newsgroup readers(as I've been asked to do).
I am now in the process of trying to get a grant to setup a nutrition
assessment lab. This is the last peice of the nutrition puzzle that I need
to make my education program complete. This lab will let me measure the
nutrient reserve for almost all the vitamins and minerals that are known to
be required in humans. The Mayo clinic already uses a similiar lab to
design supplement programs for their cancer patients. Cancer Treatment
Centers of America, which is a private for-profit organization with
hospitals in Illinois and Oklahoma(Tulsa) also operates a
nutritional assessment clinical lab. I also believe that the Pritikin
Clinic in California has a similiar lab setup.
For physicians reading this post, I would suggest that you get the new
Clinical Nutrition Textbook that has just been published(Feb) by Mosby. I
have been using Alpers Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics(a Little Brown
series book) as a supplemental text for my course but Alpers is geared more
to residency training. Two M.D's have written this new Clinical Nutrition
textbook and it is geared more towards medical student education and it
does a good job of covering the lab tests that can be run to assess a
patient's nutritional status. Let me quote a few sentences from the
Preface of this new text:
"So-called nutrition specialists were in reality gastroenterologists,
hematologists, or pediatricians who just happened to profess some knowledge
of nutrition as it related to their field of practice."
"Unfortunately, about two thirds of the medical schools in the United
States require no formal instruction in nutrition."
"But times and medical practice have changed. More than half of the
leading causes of death in this country are nutrition related."
"... this monograph should accomplish the following two objectives: (1) it
should complement your medical training by emphasizing the relevance of
nutrition to your medical practice; and (2) it should heighten your
awareness of nutrition as a medical speciality that is vitally important
for both disease prevention and the treatment of diseases of essentially
every organ system."
Roland L. Weinsier, MD, DrPH
Lida, my advise to you is that you tell your family members to try to find
a physician who has an understanding of the role that vitamins and minerals
(yes even magnesium may play a role in depression) play in depression and
who could get a nutritional profile run. Menopause is often a time when
women suffer depression. There are a lot of hormonal changes that are
occuring but they are not the same ones that occur during PMS. A
nutritionist may also be able to help. Not too long ago a poster mentioned
that his nutritionist had diagnosed a selenium deficiency based on a red
cell glutathionine peroxidase test(the specific test for the selenium
reserve). Most clinical labs will not run this test and I advised him to
try to make sure that the lab that did the test was certified. There are
also a lot of hair and nail analysis labs setup to do trace mineral
analysis but these labs are not regulated. Checks of these labs using
certified standards, and also those doing water lead analysis, showed some
pretty shoddy testing was going on. If you or anyone else finds someone
who will run these speciality nutrition tests, make sure that they are
using a lab that has been certified under CLIA(the Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Act).
A diet analysis may be helpful since many nutrient reserves have been shown
to correlate fairly well with the dietary intake as monitored by food logging
and software analysis(Nutritionist IV and other software programs). But
there are still about half of the nutrients required by humans that do not
show a very good correlation between apparent dietary intake and reserve status.
Until we have more nutritional assessment clinical labs in operation in the
U.S. and physicians who have been trained how to use the nutritional
profile that these labs provide to devise a treatment approach that uses
diet changes and supplementation, anti-depressants will probably continue
to be the best approach to depression.
Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
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nnget 93122.1300541
And where do you advise people to turn for cancer information?
Most
It seems to me you've offered a circular refutation of Moss's organization. Who
has shown the information in the latest book of PAC to be questionable? Could
it be those 'regulatory' agencies and medical industries which Moss is showing
to be operating with *major* vested interests. Whether one believes that these
vested interests are real or not, or whether or not they actually shape medical
research is a seperate argument. If one sees a possibility, however, that these
interests exist, then the 'fact' that some of the information put out by PAC
has been refuted by the medical industry doesn't hold much weight.
As for the ineffectiveness of antineoplasteons, the fact that the NIH didn't
find them effective doesn't make much sense here. Of course they didn't! I
tend to have more faith in the word of the patients who are now alive after
being told years ago that they would be dead of cancer soon. They are fighting
like hell to keep that clinic open, and they credit his treatment with their
survival. Anyone who looks at the NIH's record for investigation of 'alterna-
tive' cancer therapies will easily see that they have a strange knack for find-
ing relatively cheap and nontoxic therapies dangerous or useless.
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The Attorney General publishes the number of court-ordered taps each year.
It isn't enough (around a thousand) for the average non-crook, non-spy to
worry about. In fact, considering any reasonable guess about the number of
big-time crooks and spies around, it may not be enough even for most crooks
and spies to worry about.
There's no reason to believe that it will go up with Clipper, since the
number of taps now includes many targets too stupid to use encryption (based
on the playbacks we've heard in court cases).
David
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The points raised about checking what is actually -in- the chip, as
opposed to what is allegedly programmed therein, raise yet another trust
issue. Even if we assume that these "trusted agents" are really entering
a wide range of S1 and S2 seeds (rather than using the same one all the
time to reduce the key search space to 30 bits), I assume they are not
doing so by picking up an iron filing and poking it into the circuitry
at carefully selected points to encode data. They would presumably be
punching numbers into a computer, which for all they know could program
the chips in a manner completely independent of the S1 and S2 values they
are feeding into the system.
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I'm replying to someone who asked for information on space camp.
I have a brochure that has all different schedules. What age, what
level and what program do you want to know the schedule of? Most of the
missions are 5 to 8 days long. The address for Huntsville is:
Alabama Space Science
Exhibit Commission
U.S. Space and Rocket Center
One Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35807
- Jennifer
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However valuable, this discussion does NOT belong on comp.org.acm or on
comp.org.ieee. Please edit your followups to include only the appropriate
newsgroups.
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And most definitely read it in conjunction with Heinlein's _Starship
Trooper_. The two books are radically different viewpoints of the
same basic premises. I've even heard tell of English classes built
around this.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Some countries have laws about importing crypto gear--I believe the U.S.
does. Without a license the above scheme won't work (at least not legally)
in such countries, including at least France and the U.S.
David
BZZT!
Wrong. The US does NOT have crypto import laws.
-derek
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I can't speak to sheer mass, but part of the problem is that HST
wasn't built to ever be brought back down. It's not built for those
kinds of 'jolt' forces and there is no support cradle for it (which is
additional weight that would be required.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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:
: Hello,
: Just one quick question:
: My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors
: have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in
: Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in
: the United States particulary famous for this kind of surgery,
: kind of like Houston has a reputation for excellent doctors
: in eye surgery. Any additional info or pointers will be
: appreciated a whole lot!...
There is one hospital that is here in New York City that is famous for its
orthopedists, namely the Hospital for Special Surgery. They are located on
the upper east side of manhattan. If you want their address and phone let
me know, i'll get them, i dont know them off hand.
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[...]
If they're planning on patenting an algorithm, then I hope they go out of
business as quickly as possible. And you can tell them I said that.
I'm sure many other readers of these newsgroups will agree, too.
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This is not an unusual practice if the doctor is also a
member of a nudist colony.
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I don't know about you, but I have nearly forgotten how to generate paper
mail.
If I had e-mail to Congress, I would have written many letters by now.
I haven't written one yet, as it turns out. Writing on paper is such
a complicated job, for those of us hooked on our way-cool Internet.
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THE diarrhea problem? WHAT diarrhea problem? First, candidal overgrowth is
not a frequent problem during antibiotic therapy, and not all cases of
antibiotic-related diarrhea have anything to do with candida. But a case
of vaginal candidiasis or oral thrush after antibiotic therapy isn't going
to surprise anyone either. That's not what people are disagreeing with.
Oh, really? Where'd you come up with this? You know, it's really
appalling to see you try to comment authoritatively on clinical matters
in a bizarre synthesis from reading reports in the literature.
Bobbing for citations in the research literature isn't medicine.
I hope you're not giving the wrong idea to your medical students.
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Ron Miller is a space artist with a long and distinguished career.
I've admired both his paintings (remember the USPS Solar System
Exploration Stamps last year?) and his writings on the history of
spaceflight. For several years he's been working on a *big* project
which is almost ready to hit the streets. A brochure from his
publisher has landed in my mailbox, and I thought it was cool enough
to type in part of it (it's rather long). Especially given the Net's
strong interest in vaporware spacecraft...
==================================
The Dream Machines:
An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science, and Literature
By Ron Miller
with Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke
Krieger Publishing Company
Melbourne, Florida, USA
Orig. Ed. 1993
Pre-publication $84.50
ISBN 0-89464-039-9
This text is a history of the spaceship as both a cultural and a
technological phenomenon. The idea of a vehicle for traversing the
space betwen worlds did not spring full-blown into existence in the
tlatter half of theis century. The need preceded the ability ot make
such a device by several hundred years. As soon as it was realized
that there were other worlds than this one, human beings wanted to
reach them.
Tracing the history of the many imaginative, and often prescient,
attempts to solve this problem also reflects the history of
technology, science, astronomy, and engineering. Once space travel
became feasible, there were many more spacecraft concepts developed
than ever got off the drawing board-- or off the ground, for that
matter. These also are described in theis book, for the same reason
as the pre-space-age and pre-flight ideas are: they are all accurate
reflections of their particular era's dreams, abilities, and
knowledge. Virtually every spaceship concept invented since 1500, as
well as selected events important in developing the idea of
extraterrestrial travel, is listed chronologically. The chronological
entries allow comparisons between actual astronautical events and
speculative ventures. They also allow comparisons between
simultaneous events taking place in different countries. They reveal
connections, influences, and evolutions hitherto unsuspected. Every
entry is accompanied by at least one illustration. Nearly every
spacecraft concept is illustrated with a schematic drawing. This
allows accurate comparisons to be made between designss, to visualize
differences, similarities, and influences.
This text will be of interest to students of astronautical history,
and also to model builders who would be interested in the schematic
diagrams. Science fiction fans as well as aviation history buffs and
historians of science will also find this book to be fascinating. The
unique collection of illustrations makes it a visually attractive and
very interesting history of the spaceship.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Includes scale drawings of several hundred spacecraft, both real and
fictional
Contains scores of illustrations: artwork, drawings, and photos
contemporary with the subject. This includes extremely rare
illustrations from scarce books and novels, exclusive photos and
drawings fromSoviet spacecraft; rare stills from both famous and
obscure science fiction films, and unpublished photographs from NASA
archives
An index, bibliography, and appendices are included.
CONTENTS
Part I The Archaeology of the Spaceship (360 B.C. to 1783 A.D.)
Part II The invention of the Spaceship (1784-1899)
Part III The Experimenters (1900-1938)
Part IV The World War (1939-1945)
Part V The Golden Age of the Spaceship (1946-1960)
Part VI The Dawn of the Space Age (1961 to the present)
ABOUT RON MILLER
[The brochure has a page of stuff here; I'll try to hit the high
spots.]
Former art director for Albert Einstein Planetarium at Smithsonian's
National Air and Space Museum
Member of International Association for Astronomical Arts, member of
International Astronautical Association, Fellow of the British
Interplanetary Society, consulting editor for *Air & Space
Smithsonian* magazine
Author, co-author, editor, or sole illustrator on many books since
1979, including *Space Art*, *Cycles of Fire*, *The Grand Tour*, and
many others, as well as many articles and papers
Book jackets and interior art for over a dozen publishers
Contributor to IBM traveling exhibition and book *Blueprint for Space*
Production illustrator for movies *Dune* and *Total Recall*
Designer of ten-stamp set of commemorative space postage stamps for
U.S. Postal Service in 1991 (Solar System Exploration)
ORDERING INFORMATION
Pre-publication price $84.50 before 1 May 1993
Afterwards, price will be $112.50
Krieger Publishing Company
PO Box 9542
Melbourne, FL 32902-9542
USA
Direct order line (407)727-7270
Fax (407)951-3671
Add $5.00 for shipping by UPS within USA for first book, $1.50 for each
additional book.
For foreign orders, add $6.00 for first book, $2.00 for each
additional. Additional charges for airmail shipments.
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From article <[email protected]>, by [email protected]:
[...]
[...]
Are you sure that the field is in the area you found the antenna
farm? The tomb ("Ymvos") of Marathon which Herodotus specifies as near
the fighting area is in an area open to the public.
You must be referring to the U.S. army base of "Nea Makri". It was
built by the U.S. in the same manner as bases all over the world
(W. Germany, Spain, Philippines, Turkey etc.) were built. I think
it was a telecommunications hub. Over the recent years U.S. forces
have withdrawn from the base and removed all military equipment. The
area is currently under the control of the Greek Navy until the all
interested parties (local goverment, central goverment, political parties
agree on what should be done with the land (park, recreation area,
real-estate.)
(This has nothing to do with cryptography, security and the EFF; I have
redirected followups to soc.culture.greek)
Diomidis
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Is English (American, Canadian, etc.) common law recognized as
legally binding under international law? After all, we're talking about
something that by its very nature isn't limited to the territory of one
nation.
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I got this recipe from a watier on the greek island of samos.
They use it as a spread for bread there butit is excellent on
gyro's as well. By the way, the actual name is tzatziki.
Here is the recipe:
yoghurt, chopped garlic, peeled chopped cucumber, salt, white
pepper, a little olive oil and a little vinegar.
I would love to hear of any other good greek recipes out there.
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How fast do the fastest modems go?
V.FAST is targeted for about 28kbps; 14.4kbps is ~$500, and 19.2 may
be here soon too. (Remember to ignore compression figures which make
your modem go faster on compressible data, because voice gets
compressed better than that, and encryption makes further compression impossible.)
How far can voice be compressed?
The STU-III phones on the market from AT&T, Motorola, and (I forget who else),
give you a choice of 9600, 4800, and 2400 baud. The 9600 and 4800 are CELP,
and I think the 2400 is some earlier military vocoder stuff.
9600 is decent, 2400 is pretty artificial, anything less is Speak&Spell.
16000 can produce quite adequate sound. There's also some 8 kbps CELP around.
DSPs have made it possible to do all this in real time for cheap.
Old-hand government crypto have trouble adjusting to systems faster
than 9600 baud, because if the voice on the other end sounds good,
you assume the crypto hasn't been turned on yet :-)
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Supernovae put out 10^53 or 10^54 (i forget which, but it's only an
order of magnitude...). Not in gamma rays, though. You'd hafta get
all of that into gammas if they were at 9 Mpc, but if a decent fraction
of the SN output was in gammas it could reasonably be extragalactic
(but closer than 9 Mpc). I dunno SN theory so well, but I can't think
of how to get many gammas out. Maybe I should look it up.
Big radio galaxies can put out 10^46 erg/s *continually*. That's just
in the radio... there are a lot of gammas around them, too, but "bursts"?
Nah.
Neither of these should be taken as explanations... just trying to show
that those energies *are* produced by things we know about.
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[story deleted]
Let me give you another story that actually happened to ME. We sell
communications boards that use a 68000. They used to be high tech. Our
agent in the UK sold a system to a company in CH which packaged it in a
product for CZ (London-Bern-Prague). I telexed the Brits and told them
the Swiss need to pass export paperwork through the US as, at the time,
you needed an export lisence for these systems.
Now I knew the NSA was watching this traffic (just like they are watching
THIS traffic.)
And what do you know... two weeks later an agent of the US government shows
up in my office to remind me if we or our agents sold systems into the Evil
Empire, we had better make sure the export lisences were handled properly.
He was part of a FIVE man office in COLUMBUS OHIO!! who did this stuff
based on sources he could not reveal. (I assume most of the time these
guys sat around the office with their thumbs up their ass as there isn't
that much stuff coming out of Columbus :)
Wow, the electric utility in Prague sure is a big worry for these folks :)
The point is, we have created a giant bureaucracy (NSA) with a budget
bigger than the CIA's who, like all bureaucracies, fill their time looking
for things to do. The Evil Empire is gone. The NSA is not. They will do
something to fill their time and justify their budgets. (I just wish they
too would sit around with their thumbs up their ass... but that is too
much to hope for... they will spy on us and do things like skipjack and
subvert people like Dorothy Denning.) Sigh...
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Gee, I'd FORGOTTEN about THIS NUT.
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I was wondering if anyone knew of where I could find source
code for a program to solve a substitution cipher?
Thanks!
Kevin
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This does not propose a _mechanism_ for GRBs in the Oort (and, no,
anti-matter annihilation does not fit the spectra at least as far
as I understand annihilation spectra...). Big difference.
That's ignoring the question of how you fit a distribution
to the Oort distribution when the Oort distribution is not well
known - in particular comet aphelia (which are not well known)
are not a good measure of the Oort cloud distribution...
Merging neutron stars is at least a mechanism with about the right
energy, except it doesn't explain why there is no apparent correlation
with galaxies or galaxy structure, there is no mechanism for getting
all the energy out in gamma rays (with any significant amount of
baryons around there will be a lot of pair production, which makes a
plasma, which thermalizes the energy), it has trouble generating
enough energy to explain the most powerful bursts (10^52-53 ergs), it
happens too fast compared to the burst duration, and it is hard to
make tight-binaries of neutron stars.
Another cosmological mechinism is the catalytic conversion of a
neutron star to a strange star or the merger of two strange stars, but
that uses pretty far-out physics.
My point is that we don't have a good mechanism at any distance, so
GRB's are likely to be happening by an unknown mechanism, so we can't
rule out the Oort cloud. What would be the spectrum of an event which
converts a comet to strange matter? The spectra for primordial black
holes eating comets and antimatter comets colliding with matter comets
aren't quite right, but perhaps there is an unusual mechanism which
modifies the spectrum. The energy matches very well for both of these
mechanisms. According to Trevor Weeks, if the "Tunguska Meteorite"
was a mini-black hole collision with the earth, then there are likely
to be enough mini-black holes around that the rate for BH-comet
collisions matches the GRB rate well.
The fact that we don't know the distribution of comets in the Oort
cloud isn't a reason to rule them out; it makes it harder to rule them
out. The point of the cited paper was that if we assume they got the
right distribution for the Oort cloud, it is hard but not impossible
to match that up with the distribution of GRB's. If they got the
wrong distribution for the Oort cloud, they can't constrain any Oort-
cloud GRB's at all.
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>> conference calls?
>It's not Clipper, it's any encryption system. I've seen a number of
>designs; they generally involve a multi-line cleartext bridge.
A 'multi-line cleartext bridge?"
^^^^^^^^^
And just were would you put that bridge? If it isn't at one of
the receiptants location, forget encryption at all. You have blown any
security you thought you might have had.
Most of the people using encrypted conference bridges these days are
military (or equivalent, like CIA and other embassy personnel),
so putting bridges on the recipient's location is normal -
it's in a vault on a military base or Ft. Meade, and the
secure phones are in sound-proof rooms with big locks on the doors
because they're talking about Classified Stuff (or Golf with Other Generals.)
That paradigm will change as we start using encrypted phones in our
offices or homes to carry on normal conversations about dinner plans
and stock purchases and meeting schedules and technical info
and the good batch of illegal frop that we got last weekend from Bob;
most people don't use sound-proof vaults, and may use bridges in their
PBX or from the local phone company (3-way calls) or Long Distance
or value-added phone company (e.g. Alliance conference bridges).
If Clipjack is mainly used for the radio portion of cellular phones,
the conferencing aspects don't change. But there may be a market niche for
trusted conference-bridge providers, though I suppose the inquisitors
would try to get a blanket wiretap authorization for many bridges,
just in case a Bad Guy might use the service.
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No, the thing is designed to be retrievable, in a pinch. Indeed, this
dictated a rather odd design for the solar arrays, since they had to be
retractable as well as extendable, and may thus have indirectly contributed
to the array-flapping problems.
The retrieval problems are exactly as stated: it would be costly, would
involve extensive downtime (and the worry of someone finding a reason not
to re-launch it), and would unnecessarily expose the telescope to a lot
of mechanical stresses and possibilities for contamination.
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Where are your references? I have been unable to find studies that state
that chromium "cures diabetese". It can reduce the amount of insulin you
have to take. "High blood pressure" - I have never heard of this claim
before. "... anabolic steroids" - I have also never heard of this claim
before. Sounds like you are making things up and stretching the truth
for God knows what reason. Did somebody piss you off at one time?
I agree with you that chromium picolinate by itself isn't likely
to make a fat person thin. But it can be the decisive component
of an overall strategy for long-term weight control and make an
important contribution to good health. It is important to
exercise (11, 12) and also avoid fat calories (9, 10).
Chromium picolinate has shown to reduce fat and increase
lean muscle (1, 2, 3). I will not bore you with the
statistics. You wouldn't believe these anyway.
Chromium Picolinate is an exceptionally bioactive source of
the essential mineral chromium. Chromium plays a vital role
in "sensitizing" the body's tissues to the hormone insulin.
Weight gain in the form of fat tends to impair sensitivity
to insulin and thus, in turn, makes it harder to lose
weight (4).
Insulin directly stimulates protein synthesis and retards
protein breakdown in muscles (5, 6). This "protein sparing"
effect of insulin tends to decline during low calorie diets
as insulin levels decline, which results in loss of muscle
and organ tissue. By "sensitizing" muscle to insulin,
chromium picolinate helps to preserve muscle in dieters
so that they "burn" more fat and less muscle. Preservation
of lean body mass has an important long-term positive
effect on metabolic rate, helping dieters keep off the
fat they've lost.
Chromium picolinate promotes efficient metabolism by aiding
the thermogenic (heat producing) effects of insulin.
Insulin levels serve as a rough index of the availability
of food calories, so it's not at all surprising that insulin
stimulates metabolism (4, 7, 8). Note that I did not say
that chromium picolinate increases metabolism.
In summary, you need to change your life style in order to
loose weight and stay healthy:
A. Reduce dietary fat consumption to no more than 20% of calories.
- Eating fat makes you fat.
B. Increase dietary fiber
- low in calories; high in nutrients.
C. Get regular aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week
- burn calories.
D. Take chromium picolinate daily
- lose fat; keep muscle
References:
1. Kaats GR, Fisher JA, Blum K. Abstract, American Aging
Association, 21st Annual Meeting, Denver, October 1991.
2. Evans, GW. Int J Biosoc Med Res 1989; 11: 163-180.
3. Page TG, Ward TL, Southern LL. J Animal Sci 69, Suppl 1:
Abstract 403, 1991.
4. Felig P. Clin Physiol 1984; 4: 267-273.
5. Kimball SR, Jefferson LS. Diabetes Metab Rev 4: 773, 1988.
6. Fukugawa NK, Minaher KL, Rowe JW. et al. J Clin Invest 76:
2306, 1985.
7. Fehlmann M, Freychet P. Biol Chem 256: 7449, 1981
8. Pittman CS, Suda AK, Chambers JB, Jr., Ray GY. Metabolism
28: 333, 1979.
9. Danforth E, Jr. Am J Clin Nutr 41: 1132, 1985.
10. McCarty MF. Med Hypoth 20: 183, 1986.
11. Bielinski R, Schutz Y, Jequier E. Am J Clin Nutr 42:69, 1985.
12. Young JC, Treadway JL, Balon TW, Garvas HP, Ruderman NB.
Metabolism 35: 1048, 1986.
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I don't think mr. Clinton can even understand the technical details of
the clipper encryption scheme. So, his "assurances" are of no value at
al, if he gives them he just says what a panel of experts(?) told him.
If I lived in the USA, I would hope those experts were not paid by the
<fill here you favorite 3-letter combination>.
"The doctrine of plausible deniability". No-one is going to tell him
it has a back door. The NSA will assume he has the sense to work it out
for himself or they wouldn't be pushing it. Clinton might even *believe*
the NSA when they tell him, for the record, it doesn't have a back door.
And no FOIA request in the world will ever find it. These guys don't
play by that set of rules. They have their own rule book, and no, you're
not allowed to see that either.
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-| I am taking a course entitled "Exploring Science Using Internet".
-| For our final project, we are to find a compendium of Internet resources
-| dealing with a science-related topic. I chose Astronomy. Anyway, I was
-| wondering if anyone out there knew of any interesting resources on Internet
-| that provide information on Astronomy, space, NASA, or anything like that.
-|
-| THANKS!
-|
-| KEITH MALINOWSKI
-| [email protected]
-| P.O. Box 2472
-| Stockton State College
-| Pomona, New Jersey 08240
Try doing a keyword search under Gopher using Veronica or accessing a
World Wide Web server. Also finger [email protected] for a list
of Internet resources which includes 2-3 sites with Space-specific
information. I am sure Ron Baalke will have told you about what is
available at JPL etc..
best regards
Ata <(|)>.
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If the BT phone system is anything to go by...me thinks this should be
approached with great caution.
Mark
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Why bother with a new newsgroup? If you want to discuss the subject,
*start discussing it*. If there is enough traffic to annoy the rest of
us, we will let you know... and *then* it will be time for a new newsgroup.
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Do you know of the world-wide-web? This is a global hypertext (well,
hypermedia) network running on the internet. One of the nice things
about it is that is understands and incorporates virtually all of the
other systems being used, like WAIS, Gopher, FTP, Archie, etc. It
is usually quite easy to add existing resources to the web.
If you'd like to explore, I'd suggest getting the XMosaic program,
written at the NCSA. It's an X-windows web browser, and is pretty
slick. It can understand and cope with more than text: gif, jpeg, mpeg,
audio, etc. There are other browsers, including a text-mode browser
for people stuck on a text terminal, but I'm most familliar with mosaic.
Under the page "The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue"
(this is available under the Documents menu in mosaic, or by any
browser via the URL
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html )
there is a subject "Space Science." Currently this points to a
page under construction, with only the NASA JPL FTP archive. I've
volunteered to take over this page, and in fact I have a replacement
with all sorts of information pointers (mostly gleaned from the
sci.space FAQ). As soon as the overworked "Subject Catalogue"
maintainer switches the "Space Science" pointer, it'll be visible.
I'll post a short note when this happens.
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e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] | work: +41 22 767 31 80
r-mail: CERN/PPE, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland | home: +33 50 20 82 99
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Mr. Sternlight, your naivete and historical ignorance is appalling.
[ History lesson detailing 1968-74 deleted. ]
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I just joined this group recently and really do not know much about
cryptography, but a couple things came to mind while reading through
the posts.
1. Is the Clipper chip going to be exported? If not, how will
people communicate with other countries? Will they have to do
that in un-crypt-mode. Will other encryption techniques be
legal (assuming the government cracks down on using others) when
going overseas, but not within the states?
2. I've read about authentication systems that use an electronic
security card that looks like a calculator to create an encrypted
PIN based on the time/date. The host system has the algorithm
built into it as well so that it can authenticate a user.
Is there some form of encryption technology that would create
keys that are only valid at a certain instant in time? The
systems would then allow a "window" of time around this instant
where the key would work.
I realize that this technique would increase the amount of information
needing to be stored because you would need entire algorithms rather
than just keys. But for smaller scale things it might work.
Could some similar method be used to make the two 80-bit keys that
are issued to police/FBI/etc to tap a phone only usable for one-week
(for instance). If further surveilance was needed, they would have
to go back to the escrow service to get another key. This would
make it useless for local police to database keys they have used.
I assume this is not possible because the receiving phone would need
to be able to decypher the message. But any thoughts on the subject?
Thanks,
Tauren Mills
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[email protected] (Sean Dean) writes...
[other 2 posts deleted]
Does anyone have Rush Limbaugh's e-mail address? Is there anyone out there
on Compuserve who might be able to look it up or otherwise find it?
Maybe it would be impossible, but I thought I should at least ask...
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Doesn't matter if we assume they are obeying the law, since they won't have
had a court order to tap calls prior to the date of the court order, and
thus won't have them available.
If they aren't obeying the law, we are in an entirely different discussion,
in which this is the least of one's worries.
David
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Did your ENT also tell you that this procedure may remove warts from the soles
of your feet and improve your sex life?
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First off, use some decent terms if ya don't mind. This is sci.med, not
alt.sex.
Secondly, how absolutely bogus to assume that "American's are just too hung
up on the penis....blah,blah". I think most American's don't care about
anything so comlicated as that. They just think it "looks nicer". Ask
a few of them and see what response you get. Others still opt for
circumcision due to religious traditions and beliefs. Some think it is
easier to clean. Still others do it because "Daddy was".
Dont' be so naive as to think American's are afraid of sexuality.
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David, this study looks like a good one. Gordon Rubenfeld did a Medline
search and also sent me the same reference through e-mail. Since
commercial yogurt does not always have a good Lactobacillus a. or
bulgaricus culture, a negative finding would not have been too informative.
This is often the reason why Lactobacillus acidophilus tablets are
recommended rather than yogurt.
I guess the next question is why would this introduction of "good" bacteria
back into the gut decrease the incidence of vaginal candida blooms if the
anus was not serving as a candida reservoir(a fact that Gordon R. vehementy
denys)? I see two possible theories. One, the L. acidophilus, which is a
facultatively anaerobic bacterium, could make it through the gut and
colonize the rectal area to overgrow the candida. This would not explain
the reoccurance of candida blooms in the vagina after the yogurt ingestion
was stopped though. The other is that the additional bacteria in the
intestinal tract remove most of the glucose from the feces and candida
looses it's major food source.
Getting Lactobacillus acidophilus to colonize the vaginal tract(where it is
normally found) would have a much better effect on the recurrance of vaginal
yeast blooms though. An acetic acid, Lactobacillus acidophilus douche has
been used to get this effect but I've not seen any such treatment reported in
the medical literature. This would be an example of physicians conducting
their own clinical trials to try to come up with treatments that help their
patients. When this is done in private practice, the results are rarely, if
ever published. It was the hallmark of medicine until the modern age
emerged with clinical trials. It really raises a big question. Does the
medical profession cast out the adventerous few who try new treatments to
help patients or does it look the other way.
This particular issue is really a very simple one since no real dangerous
therapy is involved(even the anti-fungals are not all that dangerous). But
there are some areas(like EDTA chelation therapy), where the fire is pretty
hot and somebody could get burned. It's really tough. Do I follow only
well established protocols and then give up if they don't work that well or
do it try something that looks like it will work but hasn't been proven to
work yet?
My stand is to consider other treatment possibilities, especially if they
involve little or no risk to the patient. Getting good bacteria back into
the gut after antibiotic treatment is one treatment possibility. The other
is getting L. acidophilus into the vaginal tract of a woman who is having a
problem with recurring yeast infections.
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You've asked a toughie of a question. There are many different drugs which
are used for chemotherapy.
The overall purpose of chemotherapy (don't worry about the spelling. Some of
these crazy medical words are impossible to spell! :-) is to either destroy
cancer cells or to keep them from growing. Different drugs have different
effects on cancer cells, and therefore, it is not uncommon to use more than
one drug at a time.
Some chemotherapeutic drugs are effective anytime during the growth cycle
of a cell. Others work only at specific times during the cell cycle.
The first phase of the cell cycle is G1; it is when the protein synthesis
and RNA systhesis occurs. In the second phase, S, synthesis of DNA occurs.
The third phase is G2; The DNA splits and RNA and protein are synthesized
aagain. In the fourth phase, M (or Mitosis), the cell may divide.
There are drugs which are effective in each phase. Some stop DNA synthesis.
Others stop the cell from dividing. Others wreck protein synthesis.
At any rate, the end result that is being sought is for the cancer cells
to stop growing.
If what you are seeking is "practical" advice, I apologize for rambling
on the techno stuff. Some side effects are pretty common. Chemo. drugs
are rather nasty. It can cause a person to lose their appetite and to
experience nausea and vomiting. Things to help this include eating small
frequent meals. It is also suggested that if nausea/vomiting (hereafter
known as n/v) occurs that the person notify the doctor; there are medicines
tthat help nausea. Diarrhea can be an effect. Antidiarrheal medications
can be given, and good skincare and fluid intake are important.
Probably the one of biggest concsern is hair loss. This does not always
happen. It depends on what drugs are being given, and on the person
themself. Different people taking the same drug can and do have different
side effects. I have seen some literature which states that wearing a snug
headband and/or wearing an ice cap can help reduce hair loss, presumably
by reducing blood flow to the scalp. If anyone has seen research on this
too, I would love to see it, and possibly some bib data.
I highly recommend making contact with the American Cancer Society.
They have a vast selection of literature and information. In addition,
if your friend has had a mastectomy, I highly recommend "Reach for Recovery".
It is a support group comprised entirely of women who have lost a breast
because of cancer. They can offer some excellent support and suggestions.
If you have further questions, please send me E-mail. I hav some good
access to information, and I enjoy trying to help other people.
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Are you in contact with her, is that what she said, or what you THINK
her reason is?
Also, could it be possible that she is not replying because she has
no reply that wouldn't confirm the worst suspicions? If the suspicions
are way out of pocket, one would think the person would be in there
saying so, and indicating WHY they are out of pocket. Hiding behind
a veil of secrecy is not reassuring.
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Putting aside our substantial differences, I'd like to ask the knowledgeable
ones to give feedback on this. Let me explain.
One of my family members last week was discovered to have a brain tumor after
having some difficulties with walking and writing (she is 64 years old).
Otherwise, she is in fine health. The discovery was made via CAT scans.
She then had MRI scans done, where small cancerous areas were discovered
in her lungs. Biopsies showed it to be adenocarcinoma. One spot is
in the lungs, and another in the pneumothorax. The oncologists believe
the cancer started in the lungs and caused the brain tumor (she smoked
until four years ago).
Anyway, I'd like feedback as to what adenocarcinoma is, how it is different
from other cancers, how she will be treated (luckily the tumor is right
below the skull and can be easily removed), and statistically what are
the chances for full remission/recovery?
Thanks.
Jon Noring
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>tell RSA or any other non-DOD entity anything that its eavesdropping
>reveals.
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Am looking for network access to recent research into treatments for
precocious puberty. If you know of specifics, would appreciate email.
I have plenty of general textbook type references. Have a niece whose
daughter is afflicted. The mother is an RN and has done a rather
exhaustive search of printed material.
Pls Email suggestions to
[email protected]
Thanx.
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Lamar's Token Perpetual Student | proper place for a developing
(409)745-(vox)3899;(rec)1581;dat(2507) | industrial civilization?
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For a very long time I've had a problem with feeling really awful
when I try to get up in the morning. My sleep latency at night is also
pretty long, ranging from 30 min to an hour. I get about 7 hours of
bedtime (maybe 6 of actual sleep) a night and more on the weekends. I
will spend two or three hours laying in bed after this if I can, because
I feel so tired when I wake up, even more tired than I was when I
went to bed, which is usually too tired to work.
Anyway, I recently had a really bad flu, so I called a friend to
get me some cough syrup with both an expectorant and a nasal decongestant;
but he got Vicks formula 44M which has everything but an expectorant. So
I used that anyway, and the three nights I used it, I fell asleep rapidly
and felt that I got really good quality sleep -- that is, I actually
felt refreshed the next morning.
So, I am now trying to look into, both in the literature and
experimentally, the use of antihistamines as sleep aids, since I am
presuming that it was the antihistamine that caused the effect. The
antihistamine in Vicks formula 44 is Chloriphenamine maleate, so I bought
some generic tablets of that, and tried one last night and didn't
notice any improvement. I might try one with a little alcohol (about
1 beer) to see if it is a synergism effect. Also, library research
seems to show that Benadryl is the antihistamine with the strongest
sedative effect of what is availible OTC. So I might also buy a generic
form of that and try that; the PDR seems to suggest that 50 mg is a good
dosage level to try.
For other medical information, I have allergies but rarely have
an allergic reaction living in New Mexico. I also have chronically dry
eyes, which get horrible if I try to use most underarm deoderants. I did
guess that my problem might be caused by hypoglycemia, so I made some
changes in my diet consistent with that, and it didn't help, so I
went back to a normal diet (Pretty diverse, also taking vitamin supplements)
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Any opinions on Burzynski's antineoplastons or information about the current
status of his research would be appreciated.
Burzynski's work is not too promising. None of his A-1 through A-5
antineoplastons have been shown to have antineoplastic effects against
experimental cancer. The NCI conducted tests of A-2 and A-5 against
leukemia in mice, with the result that doses high enough to produce
toxic effects in the mice were not effective in inhibiting the growth
of the tumor or killing it. (These were in 1983 and 1985)
Burzynski claims that A-10 is the active factor common to all of A-1
and A-5 (something which he has not shown, A-10 has only been
extracted from A-2. He also hasn't shown that A-1 through A-5 are actually
distinct substances). The NCI conducted a series of tests using A-10
against a standard panel of tumors that included different cell lines
from tumors in the following classes: leukemia, non-small-cell and
small-cell lung cancer, colon cancer, cancer of the central nervous
system, melanoma, ovarian cancer and renal cancer. A-10 exhibited
neither growth inhibition nor cytotoxicity at the dose levels tested.
It is necessary to process A-10 since it is not soluble (Burzynski's
theory requires soluble agents), but this basically hydrolizes it to
PAG (which he calls AS 2.5). PAG is not an information carrying
peptide, something which Byrzynski claims is necessary for
antineoplastic activity. AS 2.1 (also derived from A-10) is a 4:1
mixture of PA and PAG. PA (also not a peptide) can be purchased at a
chemical supply houses for about $0.09 a gram. A-10 is chemically
extremely similar to glutithamide and thalidomide, both of which are
habit forming and can cause peripheral neuropathy. The nasty effects
of thalidomide are widely known. In spite of this similarity, A-10
does not appear to have been tested for it's potential to induce
teratogenicity or peripheral neuropathy.
Many of Burzynski's statements about the origin of his theory, early
research, past and present support by others for his work have been
shown to be untrue.
sdb
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>but whether I would.
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Sorry. My friend's address who wants the faq and info is
[email protected]
Sorry about that folks.
Jody
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Class o' '94
E-Mail: [email protected]
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Fantasy, Music, Colors, and Animals will lead this society out of oppression.
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Speaking from experience, one doesn't need drugs to become disoriented
during hospital stays. I was in hosp for 5 days in late Jan; what with
general noise at all hours of night, staff coming every time I turned over,
or whatever, to check me out, I didn't get much sustained sleep at night.
Spent days groggy & dozing, and all it was from my perspective was that I
was TIRED!
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