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Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B, Bioterrorism
Latent period of 3 to 12 hours after aerosol exposure is followed by sudden onset of:
Nonproductive cough.
Some patients may develop:
Shortness of breath .
Chest pain.
Patients tend to plateau rapidly to a fairly stable clinical state. Fever may last 2 to 5 days, and cough may persist for up to 4 weeks. Patients may also present with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea if they swallow the toxin. Presumably, higher exposure can lead to septic shock and death.
Diagnosis is clinical. Patients present with a temperature producing respiratory syndrome without X-ray changes. Large numbers of patients presenting in a short period of time with typical symptoms and signs of SEB pulmonary exposure would suggest an intentional attack with this toxin.
There is no specific antidote. Treatment is limited to supportive care. Artificial ventilation might be needed for very severe cases, and attention to fluid management is important.
The only defense is to prevent exposure by wearing a protective mask and clothing. There is currently no human vaccine available to prevent SEB intoxication.
Standard precautions are recommended for healthcare workers. SEB is not dermally active and secondary aerosols are not a hazard from patients. Decontaminate with soap and water. Destroy any food that may have been contaminated.
Staphylococcus aureus produces a number of exotoxins, one of which is Staphylococcal enterotoxin B, or SEB. Such toxins are referred to as exotoxins since they are excreted from the organism, and since they normally exert their effects on the intestines they are called enterotoxins. SEB is one of the pyrogenic toxins that commonly causes food poisoning in humans after the toxin is produced in improperly handled foodstuffs and subsequently ingested. SEB has a very broad spectrum of biological activity. This toxin causes a markedly different clinical syndrome when inhaled than it characteristically produces when ingested. Significant morbidity is produced in individuals who are exposed to SEB by either portal of entry to the body.
SEB is the second most common source of outbreaks of food poisoning. Often these outbreaks occur in a setting such as a church picnic or other community event, due to common source exposure in which contaminated food is consumed. Although an aerosolized SEB toxin weapon would not likely produce significant mortality, it could render 80 percent or more of exposed personnel clinically ill and unable to perform their mission for 1-2 weeks. The demand on the medical and logistical systems could be overwhelming. For these reasons, SEB was one of the 7 biological agents stockpiled by the U.S. during its old bioweapons program, which was terminated in 1969.
Staphylococcal enterotoxins are proteins of 23-29 kd molecular weight (SEB is 28,494). They are extracellular products of coagulase-positive staphylococci. Up to 50% of clinical isolates of S. aureus produce exotoxins. They are produced in culture media and also in foods when there is overgrowth of the staph organisms. Related toxins include toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) and exfoliative toxins. SEB is one of at least 7 antigenically distinct enterotoxins that have been identified. These toxins are moderately stable; SEB is inactivated after a few minutes at 100OC. SEB causes symptoms when inhaled at very low doses in humans: a dose of several logs lower (at least 100 times less) than the lethal dose by the inhaled route would be sufficient to incapacitate 50 percent of those exposed. This toxin could also be used to sabotage food or small volume water supplies.
Staphylococcal enterotoxins belong to a class of potent immune stimulants known as bacterial superantigens. Superantigens bind to monocytes at major histocompatibility complex type 2 receptors rather than the usual antigen binding receptors. This leads to the direct stimulation of large populations of T-helper cells while bypassing the usual antigen processing and presentation. This induces a brisk cascade of pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as tumor necrosis factor, interferon, interleukin-1 and interleukin-2), with recruitment of other immune effector cells, and relatively deficient activation of counter-regulatory negative feedback loops. This results in an intense inflammatory response that injures host tissues. Released cytokines are thought to mediate many of the toxic effects of SEB.
Symptoms of SEB intoxication begin after a latent period of 3-12 hours after inhalation, or 4-10 hours after ingestion. Symptoms include nonspecific flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, headache, myalgias), and specific features dependent on the route of exposure. Oral exposure results in predominantly gastrointestinal symptoms: nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Inhalation exposures produce predominantly respiratory symptoms: nonproductive cough, retrosternal chest pain, and dyspnea. GI symptoms may accompany respiratory exposure due to inadvertent swallowing of the toxin after normal mucocilliary clearance.
Respiratory pathology is due to the activation of pro-inflammatory cytokine cascades in the lungs, leading to pulmonary capillary leak and pulmonary edema. Severe cases may result in acute pulmonary edema and respiratory failure.
The fever may last up to 5 days and range from 103 to 106 degrees F, with variable degrees of chills and prostration. The cough may persist up to four weeks, and patients may not be able to return to duty for two weeks.
Physical examination in patients with SEB intoxication is often unremarkable. Conjunctival injection may be present, and postural hypotension may develop due to fluid losses. Chest examination is unremarkable except in the unusual case where pulmonary edema develops. The chest X-ray is also generally normal, but in severe cases increased interstitial markings, atelectasis, and possibly overt pulmonary edema or an ARDS picture may develop.
Diagnosis of SEB intoxication is based on clinical and epidemiologic features. Because the symptoms of SEB intoxication may be similar to several respiratory pathogens such as influenza, adenovirus, and mycoplasma, the diagnosis may initially be unclear. All of these might present with fever, nonproductive cough, myalgia, and headache. SEB attack would cause cases to present in large numbers over a very short period of time, probably within a single 24-hour period. Naturally occurring pneumonias or influenza would involve patients presenting over a more prolonged interval of time. Naturally occurring staphylococcal food poisoning cases would not present with pulmonary symptoms. SEB intoxication tends to plateau rapidly to a fairly stable clinical state, whereas inhalational anthrax, tularemia pneumonia, or pneumonic plague would all continue to progress if left untreated. Tularemia and plague, as well as Q fever, would be associated with infiltrates on chest radiographs. Other diseases, including Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Chlamydia pneumonia, and CW agent inhalation (mustard, phosgene), should also be considered.
Laboratory confirmation of SEB intoxication includes antigen detection (ELISA, ECL) on environmental and clinical samples, and gene amplification (PCR - to detect Staphylococcal genes) on environmental samples. SEB may not be detectable in the serum by the time symptoms occur; regardless, a serum specimen should be drawn as early as possible after exposure. Data from rabbit studies clearly show that the presence of SEB in the serum is transient; however, it accumulates in the urine and can be detected for several hours post exposure. Therefore, urine samples should also be obtained and tested for SEB. Respiratory secretions and nasal swabs may demonstrate the toxin early (within 24 hours of exposure). Because most patients will develop a significant antibody response to the toxin, acute and convalescent sera should be drawn for retrospective diagnosis. Nonspecific findings include a neutrophilic leukocytosis, an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and chest X-ray abnormalities consistent with pulmonary edema.
Currently, therapy is limited to supportive care. Close attention to oxygenation and hydration is important, and in severe cases with pulmonary edema, ventilation with positive end expiratory pressure, vasopressors and diuretics might be necessary. The value of steroids is unknown. Most patients would be expected to do quite well after the initial acute phase of their illness, but generally would be unfit for duty for one to two weeks. Severe cases risk death from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure.
Although there is currently no human vaccine for immunization against SEB intoxication, several vaccine candidates are in development. Preliminary animal studies have been encouraging. A vaccine candidate is nearing transition to advanced development for safety and immunogenicity testing in man. Experimentally, passive immunotherapy can reduce mortality in animals, but only when given within 4-8 hours after inhaling SEB. Because of the rapidity of SEB's binding with MHC receptors (less than 5 min. in vitro) active immunization is considered the most practical defense. Interestingly, most people have detectable antibody titers to SEB and SEC1, however, immunity acquired through natural exposure to SEB does not provide complete protection from an aerosol challenge (although it may reduce the emetic effect).
Most of this information is courtesy of US Government CDC. In times of an emergency much of this material may not apply when it comes to specialized care and testing. These are guidelines to help you when that care is not available. Some of this information is very technical and difficult to understand, but hopefully someone will be available for help in treatment and understanding.


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"Today's amendment is a positive step toward ensuring the strong viability of the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. While this is an ongoing process, the bill passed tonight is a significant victory in our effort to protect both the planes and personnel of the 107th Airlift Wing," Congresswoman Hochul said.
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Best Glatt Kosher Butcher in the U.S.?
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The best Glatt Kosher butchers I have been to are Tibor's (Cleveland) and Wasserman & Lemberger (Baltimore). My friend from Chicago swears by Romanian. What do the readers think?
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I am backing Romanians on this one. Outstanding Veal Chops.
I would say Park East, although I haven't bought anything from Le Marais' shop, which looks great.
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"Perl's" had a fire over a year ago and has not re-opened on the same scale. They now operate a small, self-service butcher, with a different Hashgacha than everyone else (don't get me started!). I think the best kosher meat in Toronto is from Hartman's and Toronto Kosher is second. In my mind, they are both superior to Perl's and always have been and they are both lovely to deal with when making special orders, etc.
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I believe Gordon and Alperin is Glatt
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Looking back on the summer we spent together, it's easy to see why people thought we were in love. She would stand askew and hook her fingers into my belt loops protectively in crowds. We slept in the same bed while drunk on cheap wine and then woke up and pulled on each other's clothes from where they lay puddled on the floor of my apartment. Former college classmates ran into my friends at parties and asked about my girlfriend, the one they'd seen in so many of my Facebook photos. She called me from a wedding reception once when she was sitting alone and bored, dictated an address and told me to wear a pretty dress.
We met, aloof and arms-crossed, at a house party. Leaning into a sheet strung up with clothespins behind us, thinking it was a wall, she crashed through into a stranger's collapsed laundry baskets, scattering the detergents and softeners. I had just happened to be standing next to her, and I grasped her skinny bare arms and tried to hoist her up, both of us weak with laughter. I swore to her that no one else had noticed, and it was true; other people at the party were just shadows in the blue lights, dancing and drunk and watching their own feet. Lara and I wandered upstairs together and found the kitchen, where we flung open the refrigerator and ate cake by the handful.
You think of the word husband one hundred times a day; say Hello husband in the mornings and again at 4:30; practice the words my husband in conversation with cashiers, fellow elevator-riders, other married people (from whom you vaguely expect a response akin to a secret handshake). But most people are used to being married. So many people wear wedding rings; you check in class when they shuffle their papers into stacks, on the street when they squint at their phones in the sunlight, on the plane when the dark-haired woman next to you sniffs sadly and presses a dusty yellow Kleenex to her eyes through the descent. Don't know what you're looking for. You wonder how it could be possible that so many people are married, seemingly like you, when it took so much of your own life to get to this place, this marriage: two people who promise to stay beside each other and who also believe in keeping promises. You wonder at how life has so much room within it.
When it came time to request my second-semester mentor here at Lesley, there was an unfamiliar name on the faculty list: one William Lychack, a fiction writer who was returning after a hiatus. The first Google result for his name was my fateful first impression, the following excerpt from his 2004 novel The Wasp Eater, published by Houghton Mifflin:
The mother stepped across the room and pushed closed the dresser drawers until they all lay even. The house seemed to hold its breath as she turned with her mouth pinched down and her chin trembling so fast she could not have been controlling it. The boy watched her and felt as if he'd swallowed a bit of metal—a washer or a coin—and someone was bringing it back up along his spine with a magnet.
The level of poetry and palpable detail swimming in these three sentences embodied the writing I strive for in my most optimistic moments. The professional reviews I found agreed with me; Polly Shulman of The New York Times Book Review says "This spare, meticulous novel opens out like a poem, its deceptively casual images bearing an entire universe of weight." Writer Adam Langer ranked this Lychack person, out of all the authors he'd interviewed, as a "Gold Medalist" in the "Genuinely Decent Human Being" category. The William Lychack Wikipedia page said he had worked both as a Mr. Softee Ice Cream Man and a Judo instructor. And he had read his piece "The Ghostwriter" on NPR's This American Life, which, frankly, seemed like overkill. I was still sold.
Earlier this week a newspaper reporter came to write a preview article, and when she asked me what I thought of the play, I said it was strange and beautiful and poetic and poignant, and I meant them all in equal measure. It's about a girl (yes you may have heard the myth, no it isn't required reading) who dies on her wedding day and, after arriving in the Underworld, doesn't remember anything about being alive. She forgets how to use language; when she opens her mouth to speak to the audience, the sound of swarming bees comes out. She can't remember her husband's name, can't describe how it felt to leave her body when she died, and doesn't remember her long-dead father when he arrives, saying her name joyously, which to her sounds like an exotic language, although she can't describe that either. "It's like a fruit!" she says, listening to him talk.
I don't talk a lot about acting and I never have; truthfully, I find that people are only rarely interested in hearing about my theatrical hobby, which is not at all surprising here in ye olde smalle towne Midwest. Sometimes people come to see me because they know me and want to be nice, and I find out in the lobby afterward that it was the first play they'd ever seen. And I can't ever say that I'm surprised. Acting was one of those secret childhood hobbies for me, something I thought I'd made up; then something I quietly honed for ten years in a church-turned-theatre with a capacity of thirty seats, tucked away in a town of a thousand.
Find the two people above in the year 2005—the two blurry people on the left, the ones touching shoulders but not looking at one another. I'm the girl, the one looking nervous. Larry is the boy, looking disaffected. Set your time machines to a painfully bright summer day in mid-July, and find the downtown apartment that he can no longer afford since his ex moved out in the spring. Depending on what time you arrive, you'll either find us in the kitchen—Larry mixing avocados and lemon juice at the counter and me standing in the doorway behind him, completely blotto with nerves—or, later, sitting politely side by side on his couch, watching a rented copy of Pooty Tang, settling into cold green bottles of beer.
I'm freshly twenty-two, moving back into a dorm room three hours north in less than a month. I know from finding his abandoned MySpace profile that he turns thirty-two in a little under one week. He's in a rock band—of course he is—this absurdly charismatic and funny lead who every person in every room in every bar either knows or, like me, wants to know. In my journal at home—"home" being the weird, sprawling 1950s house that I'm living in that summer, rent-free in exchange for keeping it clean and lived-in—I've copied the words he typed to me earlier that day, about the movie, which he thinks will be terrible: Gonna risk it and watch it tonight….you should come over. The next page is wholly taken up with the following quote, inked over at least twenty times by the time I leave my house for his: If you don't go, you don't see.
A few hours after the movie has ended, we'll be easy to locate: still on that couch, music on the stereo, a book about The Beatles that I've pulled from the coffee table still lying open, but now forgotten; the buzzing giddiness of 1:30am, the beer, and our insane crushes on each other all rendering conversation crutches unnecessary.
Find us there on our first night, tipsy and humming with nerves, and tell us that later that week, we'll be decorating his van with crepe paper nicked from a supply cabinet in his closed office, about to buy a bag of root beer barrels to toss out the windows one by one, keeping the brakes lit on downtown streets, a spontaneous two-person parade. Tell us that in two years, when guests step into the living room of our new shared apartment, Larry will go to my closet and find the scarf I just finished knitting to show it off, quote the number of tens of thousands of stitches it took to make. Tell us how Sydney will squeak from the backseat about the "Series Tower" the first time we take him to Chicago; tell us about our family prayers at dinnertime, how we all hold hands; try not to let our laughing drown out your voice. And just when we're winding down and about to kick you out, ask us if we've talked about marriage yet—we will, somewhere around the 2am mark, agree emphatically that neither one of us is interested in it—and tell us that in six years, not only will we both be married, but we will be married to each other.
How does it all work? How you hear and tell a thousand stories, tracing plot lines and wrangling predictions, scoffing at the obvious, while at the same time, your own story is moving swiftly along, skipping ahead of you? And how wonderful is it to arrive in a place where the seeds have finally sprouted and everything is in bloom? To arrive there together, in the same place, at just the right moment? Or, really, to realize that there is no such thing as the "right" moment. That if you ask us these questions in 2005, as we're splayed on the couch with the beer gone warm and the book spine stretching, we won't know what you mean. We'll look a lot like a summer fling, until we are somehow not. We are in different places in our own stories, then, and the years to come will not be easy, but we will keep moving, even when it aches. And then, miraculously—but not magically—on a weekday morning in 2010, just after autumn has officially arrived, we will talk again about getting married, and from my perspective, in the same place as my friend, surrounded by our own shared life and all the music and stories and color in it, it will not be a difficult decision. To keep on walking with him as my family, to see what happens next and next and next.
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A topic that's revisited a lot in Writing School discussions is whether or not we as authors "should" utilize brand names, topical trends, etc. in our writing; in these very internetty times, that usually translates to doodads-cum-entities like Facebook, iPods, Twitter, etc. We run the risk of dating our work when we mention things which will undoubtedly become obsolete in the next couple years, as newer better faster shinier things evolve; think how much you'd LOL if the main character in a novel supposedly set in the present-day updated his or her Friendster profile in the first few pages. Setting a whole novel in the orbit of the internet also puts you in a spot likely to alienate whole demographics of readers—my best friends and I may Gchat all day from our separate cubicles in far-flung office buildings, but my mom still can't seem to figure out how to update her Facebook profile with anything except thumbnail-size photos, for instance, and my grandma actually shed tears of terror when presented with a new computer at Christmas.
At midnight, Eastern Standard Time, I was sitting on the thinly-carpeted floor of the student center, in a small circle of classmates-turned-friends, thoroughly sloshed on red wine, broadcasting my favorite Marilyn Monroe songs from a borrowed iPod speaker and very nearly crying with joy. A custodian was making his way up the stairs toward us with his cart and clutch of keys, likely thinking that four or five hours was actually plenty long for a post-reading reception to stretch on a weekday, despite our cries to the contrary.
I'm twenty-seven today.
I must have been around five years old the first time I thought about the universe. I'd easily swayed my mother into buying a set of Childcraft encyclopedias from the salesman who had shown up at our door (a rare visit for our rural farmhouse). I stayed up late to read about volcanoes and examine the timeline of the world, ponder the extinction of the dinosaurs before falling asleep. Before I had been taught to fear math, I read excerpts from a book where a boy and his watch-dog eat subtraction stew and meet a Dodecahedron; The Phantom Tollbooth was my first favorite book when I read it in full a few years later. I begged Mom to buy tempera paints, the main ingredient in most of the crafts in Make and Do. They sounded exotic, my first non-Crayola medium; Mom had to stop at a special store to buy them.
I guess I have always been afraid of Larry dying.
Of course I fear the death of anyone I love, but the roads of my life converged as such that I met Larry on the first summer after my first big death. Not "my" death, but our death—my family's, our baby's. Before the winter of Macey's death, I had known the sudden deaths of high school classmates in speeding cars and the slow, confusing letting go of some older relatives. I had gone through adolescence, I had trudged my way through the swamp of my first broken heart, but I had never experienced grief. I was twenty when Macey was killed at ten months old and, like an animal knows how to fight or fly, I had never known grief but I knew how to shut down my body, how to mourn for months.
I met Larry the summer that I was still lost.
This evening I finished re-reading The Year of Magical Thinking, the memoir written by Joan Didion in the year following the sudden death of her husband, John Dunne, after a cardiac arrest at the kitchen table. It is a study of her own grieving—and all grief—as she moves her way through it. I first read it when it was released in 2005, during the few regrettable months I worked in a bookstore one town over. The owners were passive-aggressive and were in a Christian rock band, but I got a 20% employee discount, and I bought my first Didion hardback with part of my first paycheck.
It is fitting that Elsinore's upcoming EP would be titled after their latest magnetic single, "Chemicals." After building up a name and following, the Midwestern band spent the last few years trying to shed their stubborn "folk/Americana" label, and The Chemicals EP is their strongest case yet for destroying all labels completely. "Chemicals" itself is either a rock song disguised as a love song, or vice versa. The song sparks with its own colorful energy, featuring an irresistible, soaring hook. It is clean and catchy, but hardly simple—after the bridge, it spirals into more sinister territory, feedback and electric buzzes echoing. So it is difficult enough to categorize the five tracks themselves (and why would you want to?)—they move seamlessly through shades of rock 'n' roll, shoegazey pop, and space rock. But it's not hard to understand how or why Elsinore struggled to lose the folk clothes; their songs are full of heart, both emotionally and—especially on the new EP—literally.


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Writing on the Google Enterprise Blog, Kennith Jackson, deployment manager of Google Apps, announced that NOAA recently deployed Google Apps for Government for its 25,000 employees, contractors and associates. A Commerce Department agency, NOAA issues warnings about inclement weather and climate monitoring, as well as conducts research to enhance the understanding of the environment.
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Necrotic tissue from the left leg is being surgically debrided in a patient with necrotizing fasciitis.
Debridement /dɨˈbriːdmənt/[1] is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue. Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), and by maggot therapy, where certain species of live maggots selectively eat only necrotic tissue.[2]
In oral hygiene and dentistry, debridement refers to the removal of plaque and calculus that have accumulated on the teeth. Debridement in this case may be performed using ultrasonic instruments, which fracture the calculus, thereby facilitating its removal, as well as hand tools, including periodontal scaler and curettes, or through the use of chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide.
In podiatry practitioners such as chiropodists, podiatrists and foot health practitioners remove callus, corns, verrucas etc.
Debridement is an important part of the healing process for burns and other serious wounds; it is also used for treating some kinds of snake and spider bites.
Sometimes the boundaries of the problem tissue may not be clearly defined. For example, when excising a tumor, there may be micrometastases along the edges of the tumor that are too small to be detected, and if not removed, could cause a relapse. In such circumstances, a surgeon may opt to debride a portion of the surrounding healthy tissue — as little as possible — to ensure that the tumor is completely removed.
Types of wound debridement[edit]
Autolytic debridement[edit]
Autolysis uses the body's own enzymes and moisture to re-hydrate, soften and finally liquefy hard eschar and slough. Autolytic debridement is selective; only necrotic tissue is liquefied. It is also virtually painless for the patient. Autolytic debridement can be achieved with the use of occlusive or semi-occlusive dressings which maintain wound fluid in contact with the necrotic tissue. Autolytic debridement can be achieved with hydrocolloids, hydrogels and transparent films. This method works best in stage III or IV wounds with light to moderate exudate.
Enzymatic debridement[edit]
Chemical enzymes are fast acting products that produce slough of necrotic tissue. Some enzymatic debriders are selective, while some are not. This method works best on any wound with a large amount of necrotic debris, or with eschar formation.
Mechanical debridement[edit]
This technique has been used for decades in wound care. Allowing a dressing to proceed from moist to dry, then manually removing the dressing causes a form of non-selective debridement. This method works best on wounds with moderate amounts of necrotic debris (e.g. "dead tissue").
Surgical debridement[edit]
Sharp surgical debridement and laser debridement under anesthesia are the fastest methods of debridement. They are very selective, meaning that the person performing the debridement has complete control over which tissue is removed and which is left behind. Surgical debridement can be performed in the operating room or bedside, depending on the extent of the necrotic material. This method works best on wounds with a large amount of necrotic tissue in conjunction with infected tissue in the wound.
Maggot therapy[edit]
In maggot therapy, a number of small maggots are introduced to a wound in order to consume necrotic tissue, and do so far more precisely than is possible in a normal surgical operation. Larvae of the green bottle fly are used, which primarily feed on the necrotic (dead) tissue of the living host without attacking living tissue. Maggots can debride a wound in a day or two. The maggots derive nutrients through a process known as "extracorporeal digestion" by secreting a broad spectrum of proteolytic enzymes that liquefy necrotic tissue, and absorb the semi-liquid result within a few days. In an optimum wound environment maggots molt twice, increasing in length from 1–2 mm to 8–10 mm, and in girth, within a period of 3–4 days by ingesting necrotic tissue, leaving a clean wound free of necrotic tissue when they are removed. When they stay longer or too many are used, healthy tissue is removed as well.
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Mac supremacists annexe Maidstone
As of Saturday, the good burghers of Maidstone will be able to enjoy the well-stocked premises of what's described as the "biggest flagship store" of Blighty's "largest independently owned Apple Premium Reseller" - the snappily-named "Stormfront" chain whose tentacles already extend to Exeter, Plymouth and Salisbury. Well, we …
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is an old, established venue of all things bloody stupid whitey. I'm sure that the folks in England must have known about these folks. They've been around at least as long as the Web.
The white supremacists over here are going into a screeching frenzy.
I wonder why?
PH, because she may not have a clue (or an inheritance anymore), but even she wouldn't name a store chain "Stormfront."
I don't see much of a point. Nothing from my initial observations looks like it's cheaper than what's on the Apple Store, so yeah, if you want a Mac then you're still going to be ripped off.
that other stormfront...
Anyone looked at that other stormfront site.
I really didn't think people like that existed anymore.
Living in maidstone as I do, I can't help thinking that the other stormfront might have been more popular...
that other stormfront...
If it wasn't so serious you would automatically assume that stormfront.org was a very well put together joke - the forums include:
Science, Technology and Race (29 Viewing)
Privacy, Network Security & Encryption (9 Viewing) (Maybe the BNP should look here)
For Stormfront Ladies Only (12 Viewing)
Poetry (8 Viewing) ??????
Completely bizarre! Has an El reg hack been on to the Mactard Stormfront to let them know yet?
Yeah, I know, you'd have thought Mac fanbois would have died out years ago...
Did they really choose the name?
Or did they simply buy one of those off-the-shelf companies with a name in the format "noun+noun" and couldn't be bothered to change it?
Poor research by them either way...
tiny 'avatar'
So the white power nutters have small 'avatars', that could explain there obvious anger issues.
Loving their use of iStock images.. Sure they could spare a few points to buy the image, no?
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Not only have they picked a terrible name, but I was delighted to see the high-quality reflection effect on the button reading "Buy Now - Pay Later" at their website. Another triumph for Apple-wielding graphic designers!
Wonder what the neonazis think...
about having their brand associated with apple's overpriced, proprietary hardware and software?
/me waits for the epic legal battle.
Buy now pay later icon
That is so bad it's brilliant, the use of the iStock photo is just plain rubbish.
Penguin cos it's f*!king cold outside!!!
@ "Pointless" Vincent
Actually more expensive than the Apple Store, seeing that you can't get the `education' discount. You know, buy any student or uni worker a beer and use their ID to buy the stuff.
Could be deliberate.
You know, white supremacy?
(To those not getting this*, mosey round to your local retailer of nibbled fruit produce and look through the window at the products on show. Note the predominant colour............)
*Yeah, I know, but there's *always* some 'tard with a sense of humour bypass around.
I wonder what stock...
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@dd location-info to stock/photoshop skills
If we're going into details, well: I took my lunchbreak walk (sunny yet fresh, for those who're not the venturing-out kind) at the location indicated by their `googlemaps' locator for the Exeter store.
Saw a few MOT and paint garages in metal sheds from the mid-80s. But they're building a marine supplies unit. Nothing businesspark-like as the photo suggests. And the street has no name on the GMaps... if you GMap for the streetname, a different location altogether appears (but also without a streetname). Hm.
White computers.....
for white people?
get your toys back in the pram, boys
Yet another ho-ho very funny anti-Apple article from Der Register, which - predictably - brings out the usual bilious regurgitations from those old 90s flame-war veterans who shake a cup wanting sympathy/empathy/nods of condescension for...what? Don't know exactly. What I do know is that while they're guffawing at Apple's terrwibly-terrwibly monstrous error of naming its new store Stormfront (which no one knew was particularly associated with Nazism, or anything else for that matter, until Der Register kindly pointed it out), these flame-war vets probably quite like the music of that late-80s cult band, Joy Division, and its 90s-incarnation, New Order. Hmmm...
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While the entire southeast region faced a huge winter storm Tuesday night, the regularly scheduled game between the North Carolina Tar Heels and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will go on as scheduled tonight.
Tonight's @GTMBK game against UNC is still scheduled for 7p. Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. http://t.co/MgoGuxhk87
— Georgia Tech Sports (@GTAthletics) January 29, 2014
Both teams are in town and while the roads are still on lock down in Atlanta, the game is set to go on as planned. Georgia Tech released the following statement explaining why the game hasn't been canceled – yet – or could be later on today.
At this time, Wednesday night's men's basketball contest between Georgia Tech and North Carolina is expected to be played as scheduled.
Due to scheduling complexities, the ACC Game Postponement/Cancellation policy dictates that the only reason a game should be postponed and/or cancelled is if the conditions affect the safety of the teams or game officials involved. Provided the teams and officials are able to make it to the arena safely, the game will be played.
North Carolina left Chapel Hill on Tuesday and arrived in Atlanta yesterday evening, but because of the winter weather got trapped at the airport. According to News & Observer's Luke DeCock, the Tar Heels did get to leave the airport this morning and will be playing tonight.
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Free agency is still more than a month away but that hasn't stopped the rumor mills from getting started. To no one's surprise, Branden Alberts name is already being thrown around. Here's this nugget from Mike Jurecki, the Arizona Cardinals reporter for Fox Sports 910 in Pheonix.
He'll be the #1 targeted in free agent, his asking price will dictate if they draft a LT. MT @JohnnysFootball @TGravey22 Branden Albert?
— Mike Jurecki (@mikejurecki) January 28, 2014
There were reports last offseason the Cardinals attempted to trade for Albert, but were, obviously, unsuccessful. It is unknown whether they'd be willing to trade for Albert again should the Chiefs decide to slap the franchise tag on Albert. The Miami Dolphins also showed heavy interest in Albert.
For the second offseason in a row, Albert is going to be a big name to watch for the Kansas City Chiefs. His situation is still pretty much the same as last year when the Chiefs decided to place the franchise tag on him. However, he'll cost the Chiefs about $2 million more in 2014 should he be franchised, which could cause a problem given the Chiefs are already near the salary cap limit.
Letting Albert walk, franchising him, or franchising him in order to trade him seem to be the three likely outcomes for Albert and the Chiefs. There has been no indication so far that the Chiefs plan on signing Albert to an extension.
Reports before the 2013 NFL Draft indicated the Chiefs were seeking a second round pick but never received an offer higher than a third round selection. If Kansas City does not have any intentions of keeping Albert around then they might as well give him the franchise tag and put him back on the trade market. There are no other pending free agents worth designating the franchise player and it would give the Chiefs another day two pick to work with in the draft. Simply letting him walk when there is an obvious trade market available for him seems unreasonable.


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Slingshot has launched a "Global Mode" option on its accounts – a feature that will allow the ISP's customers to access TV and movie streaming services like Netflix and Hulu in the US that usually geo-block New Zealanders.
The new feature goes live 1pm today.
While tech-savvy internet users know how to beat geo-blocking, Slingshot has legitimised the practice, and made it easy. All you have to do is enable the feature on your account via Slingshot's website. The company promises it will be enabled within 10 minutes of you opting in.
Global mode is free.
Slingshot (CallPlus' residential brand) is marketing Global Mode as a service for foreigners visiting New Zealand.
However, Slingshot general manager Scott Page tells NBR there will be no verification process. The ISP will take it on faith that a person is a temporary visitor to New Zealand or that they are, for example, hosting a non-NZ resident in their home who has a legitimate right to access services in their home country.
Mr Page adds, "We expect all consumers to comply with the terms and conditions of the service providers." Such terms and conditions usually ban proxy servers and other tools for beating geo-blocking.
Last year, when Maxnet spin-off Fyx launched a short-lived global mode, Chapman Tripp gave the service the legal thumbs up in an independent assessment for NBR. But Fyx parent company, Maxnet, was bought by Australia's Vocus shortly after and the new owner shut-off the global mode plans.
Vocus told NBR it did not see legal issues, but did not want the complications that went with the controversial service as it refocused Maxnet on business, wholesale and data centre services.
Asked if Callplus has sought legal advice before launching Global Mode, Mr Page said it had but "we always take legal advice on our product launches so this is not extraordinary".
Slingshot's news is yet another headache for Sky TV, which is already facing headaches from the pending Coliseum Sports Media launch that has seen its shares slump 6%.
Mr Page says Slingshot has around 150,000 customers.
There is clearly interest in the area of geo-block busting. NBR's story Geo-block busting ISP gets thumbs up from Chapman Tripp, on Maxnet's short-lived service, was easily this site's best read article of 2012.
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Nice to see a NZ company offering something that opens up the world to consumers. Living here can sometimes feel like a little bubble when all the players allow global brands to keep us shut out. Seriously, even more than UFB, letting us all see 'out' could help more innovation with a global focus. (Well, maybe not so much US TV shows...)
How many non-residents sign up for a 12-month internet plan?
I think that a lot of New Zealanders have overseas visitors, so a very welcome initiative.
I wonder how long this will last. As mentioned in the article, it's been tried before by Fyx and it crashed and burned very quickly.
I personally believe there was much more to the Fyx Global Mode being shut down, than what Vocus are letting on - ie, Hollywood and US TV studios shutting them out.
I bet it won't last a week before they are forced to take it down, just like Vocus.
I think that it has great potential to be a success. Most internet uses would otherwise watch it illegally online, once it has been aired/released in the US. This allows a great way to keep up with your favourite TV show or recently released movie. After all, majority of people in NZ don't want to wait for TVNZ to air something 6-12 months later, and they don't like the delays in movie releases either.
How much are you betting? This sounds like a positive step in the right direction of kiwis getting real content at the same time as the rest of the world? Good to see some innovation
Slingshot haven't said what is available, but I've tried both Netflix and Hulu Plus (US streaming sites) and they both work great!
What version of Netflix will you get?
Netlfix USA may have have the biggest catalogue, but many of the other countries have newer movies.
Hopefully, they introduce region swtiching for netflix, crackle, etc.
A way for media giants and middle men to clip the ticket on licences sold for millions. Who really came up with this idea?
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All Cincinnati-area lawmakers save one said Monday that they will support a new GOP proposal that ties government funding to a one-year delay in the health care law's individual mandate. The new plan also includes a provision nixing federal subsidies to lawmakers and their staff to purchase insurance on the new health care exchanges.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, noted the Obama administration has already provided a one-year delay from the mandate for businesses. "We believe that everyone should be treated fairly," he said.
Steve Chabot, R-Westwood, said the new GOP is "very reasonable, it's easy to understand and it's right."
Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Columbia Tusculum, said it represents a compromise that he hopes will spur negotiations with the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.
"We've made changes every step of the way," he said. "The Senate has not really come to the table to talk to us."
But Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said he will not support the new deal because it doesn't go far enough in unraveling Obamacare.
"I will not be voting to fund this unworkable, unaffordable law," he said in a statement. "This proposal funds every penny of Obamacare (discretionary and mandatory), and does not contain the religious conscience protections that were in our previous offer to the Senate."
That so-called "conscience clause" would allow employers and insurers to opt out of covering certain preventative services for women, such as birth control, if they object on moral or religious grounds.
No matter how the House vote goes, the proposal is dead in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Democrats were not going to change Obamacare under the threat of a government shutdown.
"They're spinning their wheels," he said. He said Boehner should "approach this in a reasonable manner" and leave discussions about the health care law until after the budget impasse has been resolved.
If as expected, the House approves its new plan tonight, the Senate is likely to send it right back with the health care law add-ons stripped out.
What happens then? What's Boehner's next move?
"I don't know," said Chabot. "We're not on Plan D yet."
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I take self portraits at other peoples houses / apartments / flats
I should really carry around my instant camera for these moments but sometimes you have to improvise.
I like the idea of capturing youself in a moment. In someone elses space.
I suppose this could become a mini collection but instead you can just have this one.
I finally bought an instax
After purchasing a polaroid z2300 and being in two minds about it, then deciding I just loved the asthetic (like most things) and not the practicality or the images it printed off.
The instax is such an ugly camera (personal opinion) but the mini images are wonderous. We can thank James for making me want an instax and for offering to switch cameras with me for his.
I've been taking lots of more documentary day by day images with it and enjoying it so far. Its tough to gauge how the image will line up and look when it prints.
I was going to use text along with my images but it all felt too cliche or in reality far too 'bunny boiler'
Instead I may take phrases or lines out of texts and each image shall be titled using the bullshit I let myself believe.
A new piece.
As we all can guess my art, the art I enjoy doing is always fueled by passive aggressive notions of anger.
This particular piece does not differ.
I have until Friday to have it all finished and handed in and still have two more to complete and then to decided to embroider or light up behind the images.
I am using images I took without the subject knowing. I do this a lot so if you know me or we have spent even a little time together I will have taken a photograph. As much as I enjoy posed images it's the ones I take when you aren't paying attention I have a soft spot for the most.
so I am starting work on a new project. Initially it was going to be photo booth based and it may still be.
But I was also looking to explore selfies specifically nude selfies people take for themselves and for others.
I;m looking to use both these ideas so as ever expect a high nudity content in the images for my final piece which hopefully will be on show at The MAC.
In the meantime enjoy the nudity
Finally feeling inspired to work on a new project!
Hopefully it'll be all done and ready to submit to The MAC in June this year
For my return to performing I've been creating a new costume with pieces remenicent of the original 50s triangle bras.
Here is a mix of power mesh (nude) circular dark gold 10mm crystals and oval light gold 7mm crystals. Set out in a starburst shape.
My work hung at The Open Project final exhbition
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The fall out continues falling from the Dan Warthen ethnic slur dust up. Warthen has apologized for making dumb jokes about Asians, but the matter is not yet ready to be dropped.
The second stage of the dust up is not about Warthen's racial attitudes, but about the media's reporting on the whole affair.
Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the unfunny exchange, between Warthen and Daisuke Matsuzaka's translator Jeff Cutler (who is half-Asian), that started the flap.
Woo's focus is on Warthen's use of the word "Chinaman," a word that was once in common usage but is now regarded as a degrading nickname (as I think most decently-educated people realize).
Warthen suffered the consequences for his insensitivity and said he was sorry.
Now, perhaps fairly, Mets players are wondering why that stuff even needs to get out of the clubhouse in the first place.
Pitcher Jon Niese for one is reportedly bent out of shape about the whole thing. Newsday's Anthony Rieber tweeted:
Jon Niese to a group of reporters: "Stop Tweeting about our clubhouse. That —-'s got to stop."
— Anthony Rieber (@therealarieber) March 13, 2014
A reporter tweeting about a player telling reporters not to tweet. It's a house of mirrors.
But does Niese have a point? Is a stupid joke by a pitching coach even really news? Even if it contains ethnic insensitivity?
Doesn't that kind of stuff go on all the time in clubhouses and locker rooms?
Are reporters going to breathlessly tweet and even write whole articles about it every time someone cracks a bad joke or smacks someone on the butt with a towel?
Locker room culture and the "bullying" that goes on behind the scenes of sports has been in the news a lot lately, and there is a push by the PC police to clean that whole thing up and get everyone on a more sensitive, tolerant path.
I'm all for tolerance, and I do think there's a line that if people cross it, there's legitimate news value. Had Dan Warthen put on a Charlie Chan costume and started speaking fake Chinese in a really comical voice in front of Jeff Cutler, that might be crossing the line.
Warthen's little "Chinaman" joke is silly but I'm not sure it's news. I think sometimes reporters are a little too eager to play the gotcha game. Everything it seems is potential fodder for controversy. And once it gets on social media, it just turns into a whole gigantic thing that no one can control.
Eventually, it just becomes tiring. So yeah, Jon Niese may have a point. Dan Warthen may be a dope, but he's probably only a dope, and it's not news every time a dope says something dopey.
I realize Stu Woo is Asian himself and therefore has a different perspective on the whole thing, but I wonder if any larger educating purpose was served by his piece, or if it was just about playing the gotcha game.
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Dzeko & Torres – 2012 in 10 Minutes : 40 Biggest EDM Anthems of 2012 in 10 Minute MixPosted in Bangin, Mix / Playlist by nick | Tags: 2012, 2012 in 10 Minutes, Dzeko & Torres, EDM, Electro House, electronic dance music, progressive house
2012 has came to an end, and we are still recovering from some incredible NYE shows from all over the country. Dzeko and Torres have done a recap of the year highlighting some of the biggest EDM tracks that they play out live in this "2012 in 10 Minutes Mix". This 10 minute mix spans over 40 incredible tracks that do a great job representing the bigger worldwide EDM scene. This impressive young duo tear through every track mixing with ease. The end result is a polished high speed look at a powerful year in dance music. Turn this up, enjoy!
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My story has changed quite a lot since moving to Boulder, Colorado and starting Thissongissick back in 2010. My name is Nick Guarino and this is Thissongissick.com. We have grown a lot since, but the original goal has stayed the same, making it easier for you to discover sick new music you have never heard before. In high school I would make mix cd's for my friends to show them all the new music I was discovering. Now through Thissongissick, we work with musicians and record labels from all over the world to showcase a variety of freshest electronic, hip-hop, indie, and other fresh genres to a worldwide following that now reaches millions of music lovers over 110+ countries, every single month. Make yourself at home, enjoy countless amazing musicians from a variety of genres and let the sick sounds fill your ears. Enjoy!