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Clinging to a 3-2 lead against the Indians, Santos gave up a leadoff double to Lonnie Chisenhall and struck out Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher -- on six pitches. Santos then went to 3-2 counts before walking Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana to load the bases before getting Brantley on a one-hop smash that Encarnacion knocked down before touching the bag. "Trust me, Id love to get a 1-2-3 with fewer pitches," Santos said. "But its a long year and Im trying to learn as much as I can." Santos insisted he didnt carry Thursdays performance to the mound. "I didnt think about that once," he said. "The second we left Minnesota, all that stuff was left there. New day. New stadium. New team. New opportunity. Thats all I was looking for." The Blue Jays trailed 2-1 in the seventh before Munenori Kawasaki hit an RBI single off reliever Marc Rzepczynski (0-1), and Encarnacion delivered against Cody Allen. Steve Delabar (1-0), also involved in the eighth-inning debacle at Minnesota, got the win in relief of starter Drew Hutchison. Following the game, Kawasaki was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo to make room for shortstop Jose Reyes, who has been out since opening day with a strained hamstring. Carlos Santana hit a two-run homer for the Indians, who have dropped six of eight. Cabrera got his first three hits off Indians starter Justin Masterson, improving to 15 for 27 against the right-hander. Down 2-1, the Blue Jays scored twice in the seventh to take the lead and chase Masterson. Ryan Goins walked with one out and manager Terry Francona pulled Masterson, who allowed six hits, struck out nine and remained without a decision in four starts. Cabrera followed with a single off Rzepczynski, and Kawasaki tied it with his single. Allen came on to face Jose Bautista, and catcher Yan Gomes throwing error to first moved up the runners. Bautista was then walked intentionally and Encarnacion hammered his single to centre, putting the Blue Jays ahead 3-2. Gomes and Swisher had put on a play to try to pick off Kawasaki, but the throw skipped into right field. "Its a hard one to swallow," Gomes said. "Probably right there it cost us the game." Santana busted out of a long slump with his homer in the sixth off Hutchison to give the Indians a 2-1 lead. Santana was in a 1-for-30 slide before he connected off Hutchison, who took a shutout into the sixth with nine strikeouts. Santana had been hitless in his previous 11 at-bats. Hutchison cruised into the fifth before the Indians finally got to the right-hander. Jason Kipnis beat out an infield single and Santana drove a 3-2 pitch to right for his first homer since Sept. 28. Toronto pushed across a run in the fourth off Masterson, who had escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third. 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Stocks opened sharply lower as Asian factories slowed and European output fell, but most of the losses disappeared after a report showed U.S. manufacturing activity expanded last month at its fastest clip in 20 months.
U.S. consumer confidence also rose in February as Americans turned more optimistic about the job market.
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text: New Findings Lead to Revised Therapeutic Regimen to Slow RP Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations In June 1993, we reported in the Archives of Ophthalmology that vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day helped to preserve retinal function while vitamin E 400 IU/day appeared to hasten the loss of retinal function among patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This led to the recommendation that most adults with the typical forms of RP should take vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day and avoid high dose vitamin E supplements such as the 400 IU/day used in this study. This recommendation remains the same today. In September 2004, the Archives of Ophthalmology has just published two reports that summarize the results of 8 years of work to evaluate the effects of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) for adults with typical RP also receiving vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day. The results are complex. The first new report on all participants taken together showed that DHA supplementation by capsules (600 mg twice each day) did not, on average, slow the course of RP over a four-year interval. Therefore, we cannot make any general recommendation for DHA supplementation by capsules for patients already taking vitamin A palmitate. The second new report describes the results in subgroups of the participants. Here we observed that DHA supplementation did provide a benefit. However, the benefit was limited to the subgroup of patients starting vitamin A palmitate for the first time. In a comparison among randomized patients in this subgroup, DHA supplementation by capsules slowed the course of RP for two years. In addition, a dietary benefit of omega-3 rich food became evident as stated in the second report. We observed that patients taking vitamin A palmitate (but not on DHA capsules) with a higher omega-3 rich diet intake (i.e., equivalent to eating 1-2 three-ounce servings per week of omega-3 rich fish, such as salmon, tuna, mackerel, herring, or sardines, which contain among other constituents considerable DHA) had, on average, a 40 - 50% slower annual rate of loss of visual field than patients with a lower omega-3 rich diet intake. The results in the second report lead us to offer the following general recommendations: (1) For adults with typical RP already on vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day, we advise that they continue vitamin A palmitate and eat 1-2 three-ounce servings per week of omega-3 rich fish. Including this amount of fish in the diet is consistent with current American Heart Association recommendations. About three months after starting omega-3 rich fish, we advise a measurement of fasting red blood cell (RBC) DHA through their physician to confirm that the RBC DHA level is at least 4% of total RBC fatty acids, as we reported that such patients have, on average, a slower rate of decline of visual field than patients with lower levels. If the RBC DHA level is not at least 4%, we advise patients to consult with their physician on how best to reach this level through food. If the level is 4% or greater, this test could be repeated annually thereafter. (2) For adults with typical RP who plan to start vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day for the first time, the results support the following. If fasting serum vitamin A and liver function profile are normal, we advise that they take this dose of vitamin A palmitate and also supplement with DHA capsules 600 mg twice each day (i.e., three 200 mg capsules in both the AM and PM with meals) for two years. After two years patients should discontinue DHA supplementation by capsules because no evidence was found for continued benefit and because a slight tendency toward adversity on ocular function was observed over the longer term among patients concurrently on vitamin A palmitate. After stopping DHA capsules after two years, patients should continue vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day and also eat 1-2 three-ounce servings of omega-3 rich fish each week. Then, about three months after starting omega-3 rich fish, we advise measurement of fasting RBC DHA as described above. It should be noted that combining an omega-3 rich fish diet with DHA capsules did not provide any additional benefit. The study results reported in the second paper show that the potential benefit of combining vitamin A palmitate with dietary intake of 1-2 servings of omega-3 rich fish per week is substantial: the rate of decline of loss of visual field sensitivity was reduced by 40 - 50% per year. Therefore, combining vitamin A palmitate with this diet regimen could achieve a gain of almost two decades of visual preservation. For example, we have estimated that an average patient age 37 with typical RP already on vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU/day who maintains an omega-3 fatty acid food intake of at least 0.2 grams per day (i.e., equivalent to eating 1-2 three ounce servings of omega-3 rich fish per week) would be expected to lose virtually all central visual field sensitivity by age 78, whereas an average patient who eats less than 0.2 grams per day would be expected to lose all central visual field sensitivity by age 59. It should be noted that beta-carotene is not vitamin A. It is the precursor of vitamin A, but it is not predictably converted into vitamin A. Therefore beta-carotene is not a suitable substitute for vitamin A palmitate in the context of this treatment regimen. Although no toxic side effects have been observed among adults with RP in good general health on vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU per day (Sibulesky et al., Safety of Less Than 25,000 IU Vitamin A Daily in Adults with Retinitis Pigmentosa, Am J Clin Nutr 69:656-663 1999), we continue to advise that patients obtain a fasting serum vitamin A and liver function profile annually and continue vitamin A palmitate only if these tests are normal. We have observed no toxic side effects among adults with RP in good general health on DHA supplementation by capsules. The results apply to most adult patients with typical RP including those with partial hearing loss. The results do not apply to patients with RP and profound congenital deafness, RP as part of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome, or atypical or rare forms of RP as such patients were not included in this study. Women with RP who are pregnant or planning to be pregnant should not take the combination of vitamin A palmitate and DHA by capsules because high vitamin A intake has been associated with an increased risk of birth defects. We did not study patients under age 18 or patients with best-corrected visual acuity of less than 20/100 in both eyes; therefore, we cannot make any formal recommendation for such patients. Our conclusions are based on group averages and, therefore, we cannot provide assurance that this regimen will benefit a specific patient or that it is appropriate for any particular patient. Sources of vitamin A palmitate 15,000 IU as well as DHA in 200 mg gelcaps and the procedure for obtaining a RBC DHA level are attached. Please share this information with your ophthalmologist and family physician to determine if this regimen is appropriate for you. This treatment regimen should be done only under medical supervision. 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Headline from our new NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: A marginal -- but not substantial -- improvement for Romney since last week's debate… In Ohio, Obama leads among those who have already voted by 2-to-1 margin… Tonight's main event: Biden vs. Ryan… And College Man: Obama hits his fifth-straight college campus when he visits the University of Miami (FL) at 3:25 pm ET, while Romney campaigns in North Carolina at 6:00 pm ET.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd previews Thursday's high-stakes vice presidential debate.
DANVILLE, Ky. -- So how much did the political environment change after last week's presidential debate as we head into tonight's VP showdown here in Kentucky? According to our new NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of three of the most important battleground states, it changed at the margins -- but not substantially. A week ago, right before the debate, our NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Florida had President Obama with a one-point lead among likely voters, 47%-46%; now it is still one point, 48%-47%. In Ohio, Obama was ahead by eight points; now it is by six, 51%-45%. And in Virginia, Obama had a two-point edge last week, 48%-46%; now it is Romney by one, 48%-47%. So our poll shows some improvement for the GOP presidential nominee, but we seem to be back to where we were before the conventions: It's a very close race with Obama still enjoying a structural edge in the battleground states. And why was there only a little change in these surveys -- conducted Oct. 7-9 -- since last week's debate? These numbers probably tell the story: More than 90% of the likely voters in these three states say they made up their minds BEFORE the debate. Here is a question to be asked: Is Romney over-performing in national polls and under-performing in the battlegrounds? Sure seems like it.
Slideshow: Biden on the campaign trail
Slideshow: Ryan on the campaign trail
*** Other examples: Here are more examples of marginal change since the first debate, per our NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: Obama's favorable ratings remain above 50% in all three states among likely voters (51% in Ohio and Virginia and 52% in Florida), and his overall job-approval numbers among registered voters are near 50% (48% in Florida and Virginia and 47% in Ohio). Meanwhile, Romney saw his fav/unfav rating tick up in Florida and Virginia (to 49%-44%), but it still remains under water in Ohio (44%-50%). And brand-new New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac polls also show a marginal improvement for Romney. In Colorado, it's Romney 48% Obama 47% vs. Obama 48% Romney 47% from a month ago. But in Virginia, they have Obama ahead, 51-46% vs. what they had before, Obama 50% Romney 46%. And in Wisconsin, it's Obama 50% Romney 47% vs. Obama 51% Romney 45%. Bottom line: There has been some battleground-state improvement for Romney, but not a significant amount. Essentially, we're back to where things were before the conventions -- which is a close race that slightly favors the president.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney takes a picture for well-wishers after an unscheduled stop at a Chipotle restaurant in Denver, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012.
*** A deep dive into Ohio: Our new NBC/WSJ/Marist poll also provides two explanations why Obama maintains his lead in the Buckeye State. One is early voting. According to the survey, nearly 1 in 5 respondents have already voted in Ohio, and Obama is winning them by a 63%-37% margin; among those who plan to vote on Election Day, Romney is leading, 52%-42%. What also helps to explain the president's advantage is party ID. Last week, it was D+5 among likely voters; this week it's D+11. But here is something else to chew on: 46% of likely voters in the survey describe themselves as conservative (when it was 35% in 2008, per the exit poll). So while the poll's party ID in Ohio was more Democratic than last week, it was also much more conservative. Meantime, the NBC/WSJ/Marist poll of Virginia was more Republican.
*** Biden vs. Ryan: Today's main event, of course, is the Joe Biden-vs.-Paul Ryan debate here in Danville, KY. According to Pew, 40% expect Ryan to perform better in the debate, while 34% expect Biden to do better. Ryan also enjoys a stronger fav/unfav rating (44%-40%) than Biden does (39%-51%) in the survey. Our most recent national NBC/WSJ poll shows similar fav/unfav numbers: 37%-33% for Ryan and 37%-38% for Biden. As we wrote yesterday, Biden has more pressure on him going into the debate, but Ryan has the higher expectations, especially among base conservatives. And a question: Just how many will tune in to the debate? We're putting the over-under at 40 million. Remember, there are two MLB playoff games tonight, as well as Steelers-Titans NFL football game.
Slideshow: On the Trail
*** The skinny on tonight's debate: Both Biden and Ryan will be seated. And moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC will ask questions built around nine topics (at 10 minutes per topic), and the questions will alternate between domestic and foreign policy. And that means Libya will come up. Here's how Bloomberg describes yesterday's congressional hearing on the topic: "Requests for additional security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, before the Sept. 11 attack were rejected by the State Department because of a desire to convey 'normalization,' the Republican chairman of a House panel [Darrell Issa] said." Yesterday was not a good day for the Obama administration, nor the Clinton State Department. We still don't know the basic answer to this question: Why, five days after the attack, did Susan Rice get briefed incorrectly? Obviously, some critics of the administration want to be believe the worst -- that it was on purpose. But do we really think the administration thought that story would hold? More troubling, it seems, was the intelligence failure, both on the front end (no warning) and on the backend (too long to figure out what happened). And it appears a lot of good old fashioned CYA – a legacy the intelligence community has been trying to shake for a decade.
*** College man: Before tonight's debate, President Obama holds a rally at the University of Miami (FL) at 3:25 pm ET. By our count, this is the president's FIFTH-straight event at a college campus in the past week -- the others were at the University of Wisconsin (WI), George Mason University (VA), Cleveland State (OH), and Ohio State (OH). Meanwhile, Romney campaigns in Asheville, NC at 6:00 pm ET.
*** The Senate numbers: Lastly, here are the Senate numbers from our new NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: In Florida, it's Bill Nelson 52%, Connie Mack 39%; in Ohio, it's Sherrod Brown 52%, Josh Mandel 41%; and in Virginia, it's Tim Kaine 47%, George Allen 46%.
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Every parent of an overweight child knows how difficult that particular heartbreaking question is to handle.
Such ridicule is becoming far more commonplace these days.
It's not surprising when one considers that according to the 1999 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 13 percent of children ages 6-11 years and 14 percent of adolescents ages 12-19 years are overweight. This represents a discouraging 2-3% increase over estimates from 1988-1994.
Yet when we compare our present data with 1963-1970 estimates, we face the shock of a roughly 300% increase in overweight children and adolescents over the last 40 years. These findings clearly herald the dramatic rise in the incidence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other serious weight-related health problems that affect the 54.9% of overweight American adults.
The cutoff criteria for being considered overweight has been established by a leading panel of experts at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Children who exceed the 95% percentile on the Body Mass Index (BMI) for Age growth charts are considered overweight. BMI is expressed as weight/height2 (kg/m2).
Despite the fact that it's easy to identify overweight kids even without mathematical computations, we don't seem to be doing much about the problem. That's precisely why I chose to focus on this issue.
There's no better time than this summer to help make a difference in your child's life. Consider these two scenarios:
School's out. Tommy, an 8 year-old, is delighted with a 3 month break from classes. Let's follow him through a typical summer day.
After sleeping in 'til 11:00, he gets out of bed and meanders into the kitchen. Mom and dad have already left for work. Breakfast is whatever's easy. Today some left-over pizza from last night, washed down with some soda pop will do.
Next, it's to the couch for the latest in cartoons and children's daytime television. Forget lunch, Tommy ate a late breakfast. It's 1:00 when the decision is made to venture outdoors. After walking half a block, he meets some friends who decide to "hang out" and play video games. They're obviously not into sports. By 3:00, the kids are hungry, so they grab a quick snackæ Twinkies, and an ice cream bar at a local convenience store.
Low on energy, it's back home for more afternoon TV along with chips, dip and a nap. His older brother returns home around 5:00 with a fast-food snack for him. Mom and dad arrive by 6:00, yet the family doesn't eat together anymore - they can't imagine why their children aren't hungry around dinner time.
Tommy retires to an evening on the couch with dad. After 8 total hours of television, and enough junk food to fill the commercials, it's time to turn in. You wouldn't be surprised to learn that this 8 year-old is 30 pounds overweight and exhausted most of the time.
Now let's consider the second scenario.
Jane is an 8 year-old who is also overweight. Yet she's especially excited about her vacation from school. She calls this her "Summer of Change."
This year, Jane isn't allowed to sleep in. Both of her parents work. They awaken her at 7:30 each day. Upon entering the kitchen, she immediately notices a well-balanced family breakfast - fruit, cereal, juice and skim milk. Mom and dad are concerned about their health and are watching their weight as well. Before leaving for work, mom reviews Jane's schedule for the day and reminds her to take the healthy lunch and snacks she just packed.
After breakfast, Jane gets dressed and proceeds to her chores around the house. By 8:30, Mrs. Smith (a member of the summer car pool) honks her horn and Jane is off to a church camp where the next few hours are spent hiking though the woods. By 10:30, it's snack time and Jane reaches into her bag for an apple and some bottled water. The remainder of the morning is spent reviewing and discussing the plants collected on the hike.
Her packed lunch includes a nutritious selection of vegetables, grains and fruit. After enjoying a short rest period, Jane's spends the next few hours playing softball. During a quick break, she enjoys a granola bar. Then it's off to swimming with her friends. Arriving home by 4:30, she's immediately greeted by mom who takes her to a local wellness center where a follow-up has been scheduled with a nutritionist. Jane weighs in and her body fat percentage is calculated. Smiles fill the room as she's congratulated with a loss of 6 pounds and a 3% reduction of body fat.
Dinner is spent with mom, dad and her sister. Great news from the nutritionist calls for a celebration - a low fat delicious dessert mother prepared for the occasion. The evening is spent mowing the lawn with dad, followed by watching her favorite television show. By 10:00, it's lights out as she looks forward to another great day. It's hard to stop thinking about what her schoolmates and teachers will say when they see the "New Jane" in the Fall.
The stark contrasts between these two scenarios are intended to illustrate a number of insights which have the potential to change your child's life this summer:
The bottom line is simple. While you might be saying to yourself that the second scenario is unrealistic in our highly pressured fast-paced society, you can take some simple steps to help change your child's life now. Realize the stakes are high - health, happiness and self-esteem are on the line. Know you can start today. Imagine the difference this summer can make - Mind Over Matter!


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Crew's success drives Garza in first 'W'
MILWAUKEE -- Matt Garza insisted Friday that his first win in a Brewers uniform was no more satisfying because it came at the expense of the team that traded him away last season.
A former Cubs teammate smiled when he heard that.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Matt Garza insisted Friday that his first win in a Brewers uniform was no more satisfying because it came at the expense of the team that traded him away last season.
A former Cubs teammate smiled when he heard that.View Full Game Coverage
"You can tell he was different tonight," Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez said. "Any time you go against a former team, you put a little extra on it. We all know he was. There's nothing wrong with that."
Garza worked seven quality innings for a 5-2 win over the Cubs at Miller Park, helped by 12 hits from an offense that is waking up at home. Lyle Overbay delivered his first Brewers home run since 2005, Carlos Gomez scored twice and five different players, including Ramirez, drove in a run apiece.
"It's a lot of fun when you win," said Garza, comparing his current experience to his 2 1/2 seasons with the Cubs. "When you go through three years of constantly hoping, you kind of run out of hope. Come to a team like this, where every day we're going out to win -- not hoping to win -- it's a lot different. A lot different emotion, a lot better emotion. It's confidence.
"That's what we're playing with a lot of right now. It's just great to be here right now, and I'm happy where I'm at, and I love going out there and giving my team a shot to win every five days."
The 17-6 Brewers still own baseball's best record, and with the calendar moving to May next week, it's getting a little late to be characterizing what is happening in Milwaukee as a fast start.
"The first week, 10 days of the season you can say 'fast start,'" said Brewers closer Francisco Rodriguez, who struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth for his 10th save in as many chances. "But we're almost at the end of the month. That tells you something."
Ramirez agreed.
"We can be better offensively, but we have real good pitching," Ramirez said. "That's why we are where we are right now."
That pitching culminated on Friday with Rodriguez, who tied Robb Nen for 18th all-time with 314 career saves, and tied a franchise record set by Francisco Cordero in 2007 with his 10th save in the first month of a season. Rodriguez has yet to allow a run in 13 appearances in '14.
Working backward, there was left-hander Zach Duke, who struck out the side in the eighth inning for his eighth consecutive scoreless appearance, helping to drive the Brewers' bullpen ERA down to 2.35.
Before that was Garza, who held his former teammates to two runs on four hits over seven innings, with a walk and seven strikeouts. It was the Brewers' 18th quality start in 23 games this season, and lowered Milwaukee starters' ERA to 2.57.
All told, the Brewers' team ERA is 2.50.
"I don't know exactly what are numbers are out there, but I think it's pretty impressive," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "They're good. They're confident right now. They can do this. Whether the entire bullpen can maintain these numbers through an entire season, I don't know. But they're good."
Garza's outing was his best since his Brewers debut on April 2, when he and Atlanta's Aaron Harang worked dueling no-hitters for seven innings. Garza lost that battle, 1-0, then saw the Brewers shut out again in his other Miller Park start, this time 4-0 against Lance Lynn and the Cardinals. In those two home games, the Brewers were held to five hits.
Friday's run support was overdue.
After Garza set down three Cubs hitters in order in the top of the first inning, Gomez singled against Cubs starter Carlos Villanueva, stole second base and scored when second baseman Scooter Gennett hit a ball that somehow eluded Chicago left fielder Junior Lake for an RBI double. Gennett promptly scored when Ryan Braun ripped a single to Lake in left.
"It was good to finally score some runs for [Garza]," Gennett said. "Especially when a guy battles like that for seven strong innings, you want to throw up some runs for him. The thing about him is he's a competitor. He's not scared of anybody."
Milwaukee added single runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings against Villanueva, who was charged with five runs on 11 hits in five innings of work. He's allowed 22 earned runs and 40 hits in 19 innings this season.
Villanueva pitched for the Brewers for parts of five seasons from 2006-10, but dismissed the notion that his former team has a book on him.
"It's just a matter of making pitches," Villanueva said. "We know Garza, we had him. Everybody knows what everybody else features. There's video, and you have to take advantage of what you know. I've faced the Brewers a bunch of times and have done well against them. Sometimes it works to your advantage. There are some things that could've gone either way. They just went the other way on me."
Overbay's home run leading off the fourth inning was his first in a Brewers uniform since Sept. 20, 2005, against the Cubs, during his first stint in Milwaukee. Nomar Garciaparra was in the starting lineup that night for the Cubs, and Brady Clark and Carlos Lee for the Brewers.
Jonathan Lucroy drove in the Brewers' other run, with all five coming before the end of the fifth inning.
For the first time, Garza was able to savor a personal victory. But again, it meant nothing more that it came against the Cubs.
"I've been on five different teams, man," he said. "If I had to get up for everybody, I'd be tired by midseason. It was just another ballgame, just another club I've got to give my team a chance to win [against]."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy.


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New postPosted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:23 pm Post subject: PVC Tutorial Using Paint Sho Pro Reply with quote
I recently made and uploaded a collection of textures to my DevianArt for use here on IMVU for fellow devs. It prompted questions "How do you create your textures? Can you tell me?"
Trying to explain how I go about it is just to difficult for some people to grasp so instead here is a step by step tutorial on how I create my PVC textures. While other PVC tutorials focus on clothing textures this tutorial focuses more on textures that can be used for walls, floors, ceilings, and furniture items.
I use Paint Shop Pro 8 but any graphics program that has a brush and gaussian blur feature can be used and you should be able to easily adapt this tutorial to fit your program. (Yes it's an old version and I've had it and used it for about 10 years .. old habits die hard -chuckles-)
This tutorial is written in very simple terms in a step by step format more for those who still haven't yet used the program regardless of version. I realize with newer versions your workspace and tools menus even in other programs may look different. If the images are a little blurry just click the image to load the full size image in a new browser window
For those with PSP you can download the brushes I created to make these textures from my DevianArt Gallery HERE there are 8 brushes in total including the line brush used for the image in this tutorial.
The circle brushes used were just standard brushes included in the programs brush palette. To install just unzip the brush files to your brushes folder within the PSP program folders. They can be located in two specific areas on your computer. For this tutorial the best place for easy install is to go to the main program folders usually located - Local Disk C:/Program Files/. Since the original creators of PSP, Jasc Software were bought out by Corel after this version release you'll have to check what path is used. For my version of PSP the path is
Local Disk C:/Program Files/ Jasc Software Inc/ Paint Shop Pro 8/Brushes
Getting Started
Open PSP - for those of you new to it or have never seen it here is the program as it first opens.
Click to see image!
Open a new file and choose measurement in pixels and set measurements
Image Dimensions:
width -200
height -200
Units - Pixels
Image Characteristics set to Raster Background
Color Depth - 16 Million Colors (24 bit)
Make sure you have a check in the box Transparent
Click to see image!
Click Ok to continue. You now have a new document open
From the very top program menu select View and make sure you select to view rulers. These will be very helpful when trying to place each of the elements you are going to be adding for centering and even placement of additional elements as the tutorial progresses through the steps.
Click to see image!
Select the Flood Fill tool from the left tools menu(the Bucket)
From the materials menu on the right select the top foreground color buy clicking in the square and choose Black from the color palette that opens up and click Ok then click anywhere in your document to fill it with the color.
Click to see image
Now we have our background to work with and it's time to start adding the elements. Starting with a center circle or orb if you will. From the left tools menu select the paint brush tool.
Click to see image!
From the presets menu above the window click the window for the displayed brush to open the brush selection window and select the largest circle brush.
Now adjust your settings on the brush to these:
Size 100, Hardness 100, Step 10, Density 100, Thickness 100, Rotation 0, Opacity 75, & Blend Mode - Normal
Select the color you want to use. In this tutorial I chose a dark red from the selection palette rather then a custom color.
Click to see second image!
Now you want to place your brush over the rough center of the base and check that the cross hairs of the rulers are over the horizontal and vertical marks of 100 and click to place a circle at the center of your base background.
To get the look we want for this center circle we want to blur it. From the upper menu select Adjust / Blur/ Gaussian blur and set the blur to 15.00
Click Ok to continue. We now have our base image and now will add the line elements
Click to see image!
With my created brushes installed this will be much easier for the PSP users that can install and make use of them. Once again go to the presets menu just above the workspace and click in the brush to open brush selection. Scroll to locate brush WD-PVC-Line-04. click it to select it and click Ok to continue.
No need to adjust color we will continue with the deep red. Once again using the rulers along the edges to guide placement move your brush so the cross hairs are at the 100 mark on the top ruler and 10 on the left vertical ruler.
Because opacity is set lower it takes a few mouse clicks to achieve the look I have in these images. I clicked 8 times for each line I added. This may be a longer way around acheiving the result but it's just how I work. The one real nice feature about PSP is it's ability to make use of unlimited undo if you make a mistake or want to go back and redo. Repeat for the lower edge line.
Your image should now look similar to this
Now rather then adjust another brush just rotate the image 90 degrees to repeat the above step for the next 3 sides of your image. To do this go to the top menu and select Image - Rotate - Rotate clockwise 90 degrees.
Click to see image!
Now just repeat the above process to place two more lines to your image and it should resemble this
Now we'll add corner accent dots to the image. Go once more to your brush selection as before by clicking the brush image to open the brush selector and choose the small circle brush. This is a standard program brush.
Adjust your brush settings to these:
size 5, hardness 25, steps 1, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 75, blend mode normal
Place your dot in the corner of the image using the ruler guides of 10 on both the horizontal and vertical
for these corner dots I just clicked 3 times to set the color intensity.
Now just rotate your image as before to set the other 3 corner dots and you should now have an end image that looks similar to this
You can if you like leave the image as is and save it at this point and use it. Or you can continue and enhance it a little further with another blur effect.
From the program menu choose Adjust - blur - Gaussian Blur and set the blur setting to 1.00
The last and final steps are to add a light highlight to your lines around the edges.
Once more select the previous line brush by clicking the brush image to open brush selection and select the line brush WD-PVC-Line-04 and click Ok to continue.
Adjust the brush settings to these:
size 100, hardness 100, steps 5, density 100, thickness 100, rotation 0, opacity 100, blend mode normal
Select your highlight color from the materials menu on the right as you did with the red this time selecting white as your color.
Click to see image!
Again using the rulers place the horizontal top at 100 and the vertical left at 10 to center this over the top line of your image and click twice to apply the highlight to the line. Do the same for the bottom line and the rotate the image and repeat so the highlight is applied to all four lines.
TA DAAAA your image is complete and it should resemble this
Click to see image!
Now just save your image and you're done. Because of the files size limit in Create Mode it is best to save your images as JPG files for smaller files sizes. On some images however to preserve clarity you can use PNG format but remember this format has a larger file size and with additional PNG format images used will soon eat up the total file size of your product and you may receive an error message from the Creator that your product is larger then the limit permitted.
The possibilities of what can be accomplished are limited only by your imagination and possible available brushes.
I hope this tutorial is helpful to those who wish to create their own textures. For those using Gimp or Photoshop this tutorial should be able to be used provided you have access to a line brush similar to the one in the brush image above or a line brush to achieve the desired look. I do know both programs have the Gaussian blur feature and use the same settings for the blur effect.
For those who have questions please feel free to pop into any of my rooms and ask and I'll be happy to help with what I can. I am not one much for frequenting the forums and when I do it's at odd hours so it may take a while to get a response here on the forums my rooms are best to reach me or just comment or send a message on DevianArt.
Note -Added April 23/2012
For those with Gimp, Photoshop or other graphics programs able to open PNG files and with a brush export feature along with the other features needed to get the same results I have I have uploaded a file of 13 PNG images to my DevianArt page so you all can make your own brushes to try this tutorial.[/b]
Saving Custom Brushes Using Gimp
I found these instructions for those who would like to make use of my brushes and follow this tutorial using Gimp. Download my PNG images from my DeviantArt page and then.
1. Open a PNG file.
2. Go to Select > All, then copy (Ctrl-C).
3. Go to Edit > Paste as > New Brush.
4. Enter a brush name and file name, then press OK.
5. The new brush will be immediately available for use with the paint brush tool.
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While much has been learned about neuroprotection—the mechanisms and strategies by which the brain responds to neuronal injury or the early stages of a disease—still more about these abilities remains unknown. Researchers are now pursuing several lines of investigation to understand the nature of neurons' ability to protect themselves and to recruit this capacity in disease prevention and therapy. The protective influences they are studying range from common molecules in the brain to lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise.
Ever since Italian neuroscientist Rita Levi-Montalcini's 1952 discovery of nerve growth factor, a molecule that promotes the survival and differentiation of neurons, scientists and drug companies have sought to find and use molecules and chemicals that work similarly to protect the central nervous system. Twenty years ago, investigations on neuronal damage in stroke and spinal cord injury led to studies of growth factors and other ways to protect and repair nerve cells from both kinds of injuries. To date, however, the FDA has approved only two neuroprotective agents: riluzole for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and memantine for moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease.
Research in 2009 helped to explain some of the mechanisms of neuroprotection, as well as ways to foster greater protection of brain cells and thereby help control the aging process. In particular, scientists this year studied the protective qualities of a family of enzymes called sirtuins, sex hormones such as estrogen, and vitamin D.
Researchers have found that the brain produces certain chemicals to help protect neurons, including several that encourage neuronal growth and allow some parts of the brain to take over the function, to some extent, of areas damaged by illness or injury. Scientists first identified heat shock proteins, a class of proteins that become especially active when cells are exposed to elevated temperatures and stress, in the 1970s. They have been reported to increase cell survival in response to a wide range of cellular stressors. One of these proteins, heat shock protein-70 (HSP-70), is reported to protect against oxidative stress, an oxygen imbalance that leads to the formation of highly reactive molecules called free radicals.1 Oxidative damage from free radicals has been implicated in a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's.
Scientists discovered brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or BDNF, in the 1980s. BDNF is a member of the neutrophin family of proteins and acts on certain neurons in the brain and spinal cord, helping to maintain the health of existing neurons and encouraging the growth and differentiation of new neurons and synapses after injury. BDNF is particularly active in the hippocampus, cortex and basal forebrain, areas vital to learning and memory, where neurons regularly make new connections, and, in the case of the hippocampus, new neurons are born throughout life. Studies have linked reduced levels of BDNF to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, suggesting that, in adequate amounts, this natural protein may prevent the cell death caused by those underlying diseases.2
Now scientists are adding more chemicals to their neuroprotection list, including a family of enzymes called sirtuins, which are considered universal regulators of aging in virtually all living organisms, from fruit flies and worms to humans.
Sirtuins have numerous health benefits, including providing protection against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and ALS, and increasing the number and function of mitochondria (a cell's energy factory), the dysfunction of which is associated with progressive neuronal degeneration. Caloric restriction activates sirtuin proteins. Resveratrol, an antibiotic produced naturally by some plants when under attack by pathogens such as bacteria or fungi, is a potent activator of SIRT1, one of the seven sirtuin proteins, which also aids in cell survival and neuroprotection.
Christoph Westphal, senior vice president of Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company focused on the research and development of small molecule drugs that target enzymes called sirtuins, and David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School, are researching the health benefits of sirtuins, which affect the genes involved in aging. (Copyright Sirtris, a GSK company, and David Shopper Photography)
In 2006 David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School published two papers showing that resveratrol, which is found in the skin of red grapes and is a major constituent of red wine, could reduce the impact of a high-fat diet, increase stamina and extend the life span of mice. A follow-up study published in Nature by Sinclair's colleagues at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals demonstrated that novel drug compounds, based on SIRT1, offer a promising new approach to treating agerelated diseases.3
"The new drug candidates represent a significant milestone because they are the first molecules that have been designed to act on genes that control the aging process. For this reason, we feel they have considerable potential to treat diseases of aging," said Christoph Westphal, who led the research team.
Drinking red wine is considered unlikely to provide the desired neuroprotective effects. In a 2009 paper in Expert Opinion in Therapeutic Patents, however, Francisco Alcain and José Villalba of the University of Cordoba, Spain, pointed out that new SIRT1 activators are up to one thousand times more effective than the resveratrol found in grapes and wine.4 High doses of natural resveratrol might not be sufficient to produce a neuroprotective effect, they said, arguing that scientists need to develop new synthetic sirtuin activators.
Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIND) reported in the July 2007 issue of Science that blocking the activity of another sirtuin protein, SIRT2, may be an effective therapy in Parkinson's disease.5 The scientists, led by Aleksey Kazantsev, director of MIND's drug discovery laboratory, found that blocking SIRT2 activity could protect neurons damaged by the toxic effects of alpha-synuclein, a protein that accumulates in the brains of Parkinson's patients (see chapter 3, "Parkinson's Disease").
Some scientists believe that alpha-synuclein folds abnormally in dopamine-producing neurons in Parkinson's patients, forming toxicinclusion bodies, clumps of the protein that lodge inside and kill or impair these cells. In 2006, the MIND investigators studied a laboratory chemical called B2 that reduces toxicity in cellular disease models, and found that inhibition of SIRT2 reduced the toxicity of alpha-synuclein. On the basis of the B2 structure, Kazantsev and his team developed a SIRT2 inhibitor, called AGK2, that is ten times as potent as B2. The findings, said Kazantsev, will allow scientists to pursue innovative new drugs to treat and perhaps even cure Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
A particularly lively area of neuroprotection research in recent years has been the exploration of evidence that vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D) may have significant neuroprotective features. Vitamin D is found in very few foods. Most people get their intake through sunlight or food supplements, and thus many of the studies have focused on the consequences, particularly in aging, for people with too little of the "sunshine vitamin."
Low levels of vitamin D are linked to a range of health issues, including weak bones and muscles, certain cancers, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. Less well known are findings relating insufficient vitamin D to mental illnesses, such as depression and seasonal affective disorder. Studies have also discovered that vitamin D plays a role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's by promoting the production of neurotrophic factors, as well as in cognitive impairment and memory loss.
In 2001 scientists from Taiwan and the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that vitamin D3, one of the two major active forms of vitamin D, can restore muscle activity in rats induced with Parkinson's disease. Their study, published in Brain Research, showed that treating the rats with D3 improved muscle movement and reduced the dopamine neuronal toxicity caused by the compound given to induce Parkinson's.6 The researchers think that the reversal of a toxic mechanism that injures cells via free radicals and reactive oxygen may take place when the D3 is administered.
Studies in 2009 sought to clarify such indications of vitamin D's neuroprotective role. In a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, William B. Grant of the Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center in San Francisco presented an analysis of several large studies showing that vitamin D can help reduce dementia.7
The development of dementia, a long-term decline in cognitive function progressively worsening beyond what is normal in aging, involves several mechanisms, including oxidative stress, inflammation and reduced neurogenesis in the adult brain. Epidemiological evidence suggests that vitamin D reduces the risk of several diseases that are risks for or can precede dementia. "It appears that vitamin D metabolites, especially the active form of vitamin D3, can counter many of the mechanisms linked to risk of dementia," said Grant.
Another study found that vitamin D may offer some protection against the neurodegeneration seen in Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The researchers reported in the Journal of Geriatric Psychology and Neurology that as vitamin D levels decreased in study participants, all over age sixty-five, levels of cognitive impairment rose. Individuals with the lowest levels of vitamin D were more than twice as likely to be cognitively impaired.8 The association between vitamin D and cognitive impairment was stronger in men. "The cause of dementia is not [simply the lack of] vitamin D," said David Llewellyn of Cambridge University, the lead author of the study. "It's a very complicated disease. But while further research is needed, vitamin D supplementation is cheap, safe, and convenient and may therefore play an important role in prevention."
Adding to this research are findings correlating vitamin D and cognition in middle-aged and older men.9 Scientists at the University of Manchester compared the cognitive performance of more than 3,100 men, ages forty to seventy-nine, at eight European Male Aging Study test centers in Europe. The men with higher levels of vitamin D consistently performed better on simple tests that measure attention and speed of information processing.
In older persons, cognitive impairment decreases as the level of vitamin D in the blood increases. (Courtesy of David Llewellyn)
"The positive effects vitamin D appears to have on the brain need to be explored further, but certainly raise questions about its potential benefits for minimizing age-related declines in cognitive performance," said lead author David Lee.
Sex hormones—androgens (male) and estrogens (female)—affect the growth and function of the reproductive organs, development of sex characteristics, and behavioral patterns. Studies of estrogen during the past twenty years have brought to light a remarkable number of ways in which these hormones do far more than serve reproduction. Scientists have come to recognize that estrogen is an important neurotrophic and neuroprotective factor and have implicated it incognition, synaptic plasticity, memory and neurogenesis.
As we age, levels of sex hormones in the blood and brain begin to decline. Many of estrogen's neuroprotective actions are relevant to Alzheimer's disease prevention, including reducing beta-amyloid accumulation, a critical factor in Alzheimer's progression, and reduced plasticity in neuronal dendritic spines, which serve as storage sites for synaptic strength. Studies suggest that reduced estrogen levels in women and age-related testosterone loss in men can contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease.
In the late 1990s German scientist Christian Behl discovered that estrogen can also act as an antioxidant. His research demonstrated that in high levels estrogen reduces the neuron-killing effects of free radicals by making free radicals less toxic to neurons.10 Later, Bruce McEwen of Rockefeller University showed that estrogen has the potential to improve mental function by enhancing neuronal survival in the hippocampus, where, his team discovered in rats, estrogen helps to build and maintain new synapses.11
In 2008 Colin Saldanha of Lehigh University discovered that in the brains of birds and mammals that have sustained brain injuries, testosterone is converted into estrogen, a process that can decrease neuronal degeneration and may enhance the recovery of neurons. In the July 2009 issue of Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Saldanha and his colleagues reported that the expression of aromatase, an enzyme responsible for a key step in the synthesis of estrogen from testosterone, can raise estrogen levels enough to interfere with apoptosis, or programmed cell death, and ultimately lessen the extent of damage from brain injuries.12 This activity appears to protect neurons by slowing down the degeneration of the damaged cells and increasing the speed with which they are repaired.
Recent data suggest that the elevation of estrogen levels by aromatase selectively activates certain signaling pathways such as the blocker of programmed cell death, Akt. "While a direct link between aromatase and Akt signaling remains to be established, this interaction presents a promising explanation of the neuroprotective effects of brain aromatase," Saldahna and his colleagues wrote.
One of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's occurs in greater numbers and may progress more quickly in men than women, suggesting that estrogens may confer some resistance to the development and progression of the disease, according to researchers at Laval University Medical Center in Quebec.13 In the lab, the scientists studied the use of various sex hormones, including estradiol, progesterone and androgens, in a mouse model of Parkinson's. They found that only estradiol had a neuroprotective effect on the animals' dopamine.
Christian Pike's research indicated that estrogens and androgens may play a role in preventing Alzheimer's disease. (Courtesy of Christian Pike / University of Southern California)
Pike's team concluded that androgens protect the brain against Alzheimer's by promoting the survival of neurons in the hippocampus and cortical regions. They also found that androgens limit the accumulation of beta-amyloid and protect the brain against the formation of tau protein, abnormal amounts of which are found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
The authors noted that current treatment research focuses on the development of compounds called SERMS (selective estrogen receptor modulators) and SARMS (selective androgen receptor modulators) to treat Alzheimer's. In low concentrations, SERMS have been shown to protect cultured neurons from beta-amyloid toxicity. Androgen-based therapy with SARMS is also drawing considerable interest in the scientific community.
In addition to these mechanisms of neuroprotection, simple lifestyle choices—such as eating healthy foods, maintaining a healthy weight and engaging in physical and mental exercise—have also been shown to reduce susceptibility to some brain diseases.
The risk for Parkinson's disease is moderately lower in people who are physically active, according to a Harvard University study from January 2008, which followed more than 143,000 participants for ten years.15 Similarly, researchers from the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle reported a 40 percent lower incidence of Alzheimer's among study participants who performed light or moderate exercises, such as walking, dancing, jogging, or swimming, more than three times per week compared with those who did these exercises less frequently.16 The researchers, who followed 1,740 participants and measured their exercise frequency, cognitive function and potential risk factors for dementia, said exercise helps foster healthier blood vessels and better blood flow, which may ward off disease.
In addition, moderation in drinking, abstaining from smoking and maintaining a healthy weight may all help protect neurons as well, albeit through mechanisms that are not yet clear to researchers. At a presentation at the 2008 conference of the American Academy of Neurology, scientists from Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami reported that Alzheimer's patients who drank more than two beers per day when young went on to develop the disease nearly five years earlier than those with lighter drinking habits. They also found that patients who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day developed Alzheimer's almost two years earlier than those who smoked less or not all. Another study determined that people with high cholesterol, obesity, or beer bellies in their forties were more likely to develop Alzheimer's later in life.
Scientists also know that an intellectually and socially active brain is more resistant to disease. In an animal study, University of Chicago researchers discovered that when neurons are active and firing, nearby microglial cells release low levels of tumor necrosis factoralpha (TNF-alpha).17 When released in large amounts, TNF-alpha can kill neurons. The Chicago scientists found, however, that at concentrations well below these lethal levels, TNF-alpha can actually protect neurons from toxic or injury-related damage. TNF-alpha, they said, causes neurons to increase their production of as yet unidentified growth factors that repair DNA and defend against injury.
Although hundreds of molecules—from free radical scavengers and apoptosis inhibitors to neurotrophic factors—have been investigated for their neuroprotective properties, there has been little success in moving these potential treatments from the laboratory to human trials, for a number of reasons. Animal models do not often accurately simulate diseases in humans. The pathophysiology of diseases in humans differs from that in animals. And most laboratory animals have smaller brains than humans.
Despite these challenges, scientists continue to focus their work on advancing neuroprotection as a desired therapy for neurodegenerative diseases and brain injuries. Building on studies from the past two decades, findings from the 2009 research on sirtuins, sex hormones and vitamin D have taken them a step closer to that reality.
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Changes in the health-care industry are forcing practitioners and EMS operators to fight for every cent of reimbursement. Here are some tips for doing it better.
"Show me the money!"
It is the cry, shouted or not, of anyone running a business for profit or pleasure. Any of us who has ever had to chase people for money owed by them knows how hard it can be to get compliance with that cry.
Some of us learn from painful experience that you really have to work hard at it. Some never learn that lesson. That last group, according to most operators of helicopter emergency medical services, includes most of the medical outfits with which they work.
"One thing hospital's do a really bad job of is accounts receivable and billing," said the head of one major air medical service company in the United States.
The inability to collect payment for services rendered is a major impediment that keeps helicopter-supported medical services from staying in the black, according to that executive and other helicopter professionals and medical billing specialists.
Other faults include a failure to accurately assess what contributions a helicopter can make to a medical provider's business and which aircraft is best suited to deliver those contributions. Yet another, these executives said, is a failure to maintain a sufficiently long-term vision of business goals to appreciate that the benefits of advanced-technology applications may outweigh their costs.
But all agreed the problems begin with billing.
It is a curious fact. Experts and lay people have complained for years that health-care costs in the United States are out of control. Health management organizations secured their firm grip on this nation's $900-billion health-care industry by vowing to bring those costs under control. They have pursued that goal by imposing stringent restrictions on health-care providers, both in terms of the work for which they can charge and the amounts they can expect to be reimbursed for that work. That, in turn, has forced hospitals to close or trim staffs and take other measures to cut costs.
Yet a common complaint is that health-care providers routinely collectively let millions of dollars of claims for reimbursement of their costs go unrecovered from insurers and patients. Given the cost of acquiring, outfitting and staffing an EMS helicopter, that practice can be lethal.
If a hospital is in a more traditional partnership with a helicopter operator to conduct an air medical service, it likely is paying a flat fee for that arrangement plus a rate per flight hour for missions flown. If it fails to follow the reimbursement process through to completion, the hospital will find itself subsidizing tens of thousands of flight hours, if not more.
If the air medical service provider operates independently of any health-care institution, it faces the same burden-pursue reimbursements thoroughly or fly on a charity basis.
The health-care reimbursement process is daunting, according to Maryjo Mayberry, a medical billing specialist in Fairfax, Virginia. Separate sets of detailed and complex codes for diagnoses, procedures and supplies must be and mastered by the administrative personnel that support health-care providers. Insurers all use the codes as wickets through which paperwork must clear before they'll even consider a claim for reimbursement.
That paperwork must be impeccable. If incorrect codes are used, or if they are not supported with documents showing that the associated work was done or supplies were used, you'll see no money.
"If a claim is incomplete or incorrect, an insurer will send it right back," Mayberry said. "That's the step at which most money is lost."
That is because, while insurers all have provisions for appealing their rejection or denial of a claim, many claimants either don't appeal or don't do so in time. The deadline for appealing claims varies by insurer. Some allow 30 or 45 days. The U.S. government is most lenient, permitting appeals of Medicaid claims up to 18 months. Mayberry is dogged in following up on rejections and denials.
"If a claim is bounced back, I get a follow-up letter out right away providing the necessary documentation or detailing point by point why the denial is wrong."
A new hurdle in processing claims comes in the form of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. That law imposed very strict controls on the release and use of an individual's medical information. For the purposes of getting paid for your services, Mayberry explained, that means you must document that you have a patient's permission to submit the claim and have advised the patient of the law's provisions, and that the patient has agreed to an exchange of his medical information. Without those three things documented, a claim will be rejected. (The law goes well beyond that, imposing stiff penalties for any violation of a patient's privacy, with broad definitions of what constitutes privacy and its violation. One health-care provider recently was charged with a violation after generally discussing a patient at a party. The provider did not name the patient or describe the patient in detail, according to an account of the incident. But another party-goer who was a friend of the patient connected the two and told the patient, who filed a complaint.)
The inability of health-care institutions to collect on claims has led some EMS providers to take the matter into their own hands. Shreveport, Louisiana-based Metro Aviation several years ago set up a collection service to handle claims for health-care providers. "In every case," Mike Stanberry, Metro Aviation president said, the service "dramatically increased revenue and cut receivables time."
Hardware also can be an impediment to keeping revenues ahead of expenses, especially if it is selected poorly, Stanberry said. Metro Aviation operates 15 air medical services for health institutions and maintains and equips EMS aircraft for other operators.
Hospitals need to have a clear idea of the role an aircraft will play in their EMS operation and how much utility they are likely to get from the aircraft, Stanberry said. Metro Aviation worked on gaining single-pilot IFR certification of the EC145 for Florida's Lee County Emergency Medical Service. Lee County is Eurocopter's first customer in North America for the medium twin.
The price and performance of an EMS helicopter must match an operator's intended use, Stanberry said, or his service is doomed. An aircraft that costs $5 million or so can not be sustained in an EMS program that expects to fly it only 40 or so hours a month. Such a utilization rate argues for a less expensive aircraft. Other questions that must be answered include how much territory will the aircraft cover and what is an acceptable maintenance budget.
"What speed do I really need?" Stanberry went on. "What airframe is most dependable?" Answer such questions "and you start to narrow the selection of the right aircraft."
An essential element of that process, he and others said, is realizing that the air medical service will be a long-term endeavor.
"You've got to have someone say, 'We're going to be in this business for 5-10 years," Stanberry said. That puts capital costs in a different perspective, one of being recouped through a market-building process instead of one ending in a few quarters.
That same approach helps bolster a decision to invest in technology upgrades of EMS aircraft. EMS operations typically are thrifty, but such investments can have tangible benefits that justify their upfront expense.
"You've got to get over the capital costs," Stanberry said.
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania-based STAT MedEvac took that approach in the late 1990s when it began pursuing development of GPS-based point-in-space approaches. Others had worked with consultants and the FAA on the concept before the aviation agency would sign off on the use of such approaches. By pressing on, STAT MedEvac gained the ability to fly an instrument-like approach to a non-instrumented heliport or designated landing zone. That enabled it to respond to remote areas and in foul weather, when others could not.
The GPS point-in-space allows properly equipped helicopters to fly guided approaches into sites other than traditional aeronautical facilities, such as a baseball field in a remote community. That site then can be used as a pre-planned rendezvous for transferring a critical patient from a ground ambulance for a faster trip by air to a trauma center.
STAT MedEvac's efforts in this regard got a boost late last year with funding from the FAA, which set aside $1 million for the development of 30 more GPS point-in-space approaches in STAT MedEvac´s coverage area. Establishing all of those approaches would more than double the point-in-space approaches in the company's arsenal. It has 29 in use.
Other EMS operators and hospitals are investing in the safety and operational benefits of night-vision goggles. These include Air Methods and its AirMed partner in Utah, the Enloe Medical Center in California and Mercy Air in Redding, California.
Others are investing in different means of enhancing helicopter crews' vision and increasing their safety and operational efficiency. Erlanger Health Systems in Chattanooga, Tennessee has opted for Max-Viz's EVS-1000 enhanced vision system on its Bell 412 Life Force helicopters. That system "gives us a clear picture of the terrain throughout our operating area, from the mountains to the valleys," said Steve Straughen, director of Erlanger's Life Force operation.
The uncooled, long-wave infrared sensor scans runways, terrain, and any potential obstacles and shows that data on a display is mounted at eye level above the main instrument panel on a flip-down hinged bracket. It can be viewed by either crew member.


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Google challenges Russia YouTube video ban
Google has filed an appeal with a Russian court challenging the country's inclusion of a YouTube video on an official blacklist.
The clip shows a woman using make-up and a razor blade to make it appear that she has cut one of her wrists.
A Russian watchdog banned it on the grounds it provided information about how to commit suicide.
Google indicated it wished to use the example as a test case to help clarify the blacklist's rules.
Moscow introduced an amendment to its Information Act in November allowing sites to be taken offline in order to protect children.
Had Google not taken down the offending clip in Russia it could have faced local internet service providers (ISPs) blocking the whole of its YouTube site.
The video remains accessible in other countries.
Entertainment defence
The clip was originally uploaded on 18 January 2012 by Russia-based user SNEG0VA. It had been viewed fewer than 7,500 times when the blacklist came into effect. News of its deletion was revealed by the Russian newspaper Vedomosti.
"We will, at times, restrict content on country-specific domains where a nation's laws require it or if content is found to violate our community guidelines," said a YouTube spokeswoman.
"In this case, we have appealed the decision of Russian Consumer Watchdog because we do not believe that the goal of the law was to limit access to videos that are clearly intended to entertain viewers."
Roscomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Communications) - the agency in charge of running the blacklist - confirmed that the clip had been flagged by a second watchdog Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service for Control in the Sphere of Protection Consumers' Rights and Well-Being of Humans) .
Russia's rules state that material can be banned for including any one of three kinds of forbidden material.
Rospotrebnadzor makes rulings about suicide and drugs while Roscomnadzor decides whether items featuring items relating to child sex abuse should be banned.
"The company [Google] fulfilled all requirements of the law (delete the video) and now it is necessary to wait for judgement results," Roscomnadzor spokesman V Pikov told the BBC.
The clip is not the only one Google has blocked on YouTube in Russia, but a spokeswoman for the US firm was unable to say how many videos it had hidden.
Censorship fears
The creation of the Russian blacklist has caused controversy.
Human rights groups have said it might increase censorship since sites can be forced offline without a trial.
The list is meant to be updated daily, and users can check if a site is banned via an online search tool.
The Russian version of Wikipedia, search engine Yandex and social network Vkontakte all protested against its creation warning that it posed a risk of "extra-judicial censorship".
Activists have subsequently raised concerns that LJRossia - a blogging platform "created to support freedom of speech" - was recently added following allegations that two posts on it had contained "child pornography elements".
Other sites associated with the net's subculture, including a Russian version of discussion and image post website 4chan, have also been targeted.
The Russian government has stressed that the aim of the law is not to enforce censorship, but rather to protect children.


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|20th December 2013, 05:30 PM
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I'm posting again since no one replied about the question above. I got the "answers" in PC though, and feel like I know what I want to do about it so no problem there.
Maybe this thread feels a bit distant since I'm asking for feedback on things, and most of you haven't even tested the hack yet. I guess?
Well anyways, I have started working on the hack again. I finished beta 4.0 this summer and was on a 5-month break or so from this - I even thought of canceling the project to start working on a team-project with a friend of mine while at it, but scrapped the idea.
Today, I uploaded a video of the hack to youtube that shows a specific part from beta 4.0, and how I had implemented it badly there, and what kind of improvements I came up with. I'll be doing a few similar changes elswhere for beta 4.1 - an improved version of beta 4.0 that won't contain any more gameplay than 4.0 did (at least, that's the plan for now).
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dark energy beta 5? when it will be released?
when is dark energy v5 release? i want 2 play it
|30th May 2014, 12:25 PM
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It's going to take a long time until I can release beta 5...
I haven't really worked on the hack since I released beta 4 last summer - been doing other things and I haven't really had much spare time to hack.
So can't say a thing about that really. Hopefully I'll get this "thing" running this summer, I should have plenty of time to hack in July and if I get onto it, it's pretty easy to "stay at it" as well.
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I am currently playing through and must say this is by far the best pokemon game I've ever played. That being said. After my first full play through I will be composing a FULL bug report as related to meboy 2.2. Along with tips and and solutions on how to fix them. Being retired from game design I don't give out freebies, but like I said, best pokemon game ever. Ill keep track on updates as you post them. Use google to keep track of updates as I post them (may or may not be related to music). But first bit of bug report, professor oak is one of the most-known researchers, not researches lol. K, signing out for now, I have chansey, abra, and ghastly waiting to be caught.
P.S. Lvl. 37 steelix? Really?!?!? Still had nothin on ivysaurs sleep powder ^_^
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So I have been fixing a couple of things and implementing some things better (such as being able to input the 20-digit code in the research center automatically after you have done it before) along with making prof. Oak not to be a research anymore, hahha.
|6th July 2014, 02:57 PM
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Guess not many around here have even tried this hack yet, but now it's a good time to do so. That's because beta 4.1, and improved version of the beta 4.0 from the previous summer is now up.
I was out of the hacking scene for quite a long while so I haven't gotten that much done and I had even planned this release to be up by the end of 2013. It didn't come then but now it's done though
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I cant find oak where is he?!?!?!
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Hi everyone,
I've played Pokemon Dark Energy Beta 4 for a while now and I did all the side-quests. It is a great game!
i'm wondering, where can I find Beta 4.1?
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