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Blore-Smith is a careful portrait of a thoroughly undeveloped young man who lives only on the outer fringes of life and who desperately wants a taste of what he calls “the real thing.” He is certainly in need of transformation; he suffers from a speech impediment, a tendency to blush, and he is physically ungainly. Having inherited a comfortable income, he has no need to earn a living, and he passes much of the day aimlessly in cinemas and art galleries or reading in his room. When he does decide to act, he does so nervously and impulsively, paying two hundred pounds for a picture which is worth almost nothing. He has very little idea of what he wants to do with his life and finds it all very disappointing. “One doesn’t seem to get any of the things one expected,” he complains on his first meeting with Maltravers.

His initiation into the “real thing,” however, is painful. He gets the sexual experience he desires, but he remembers little about it, and his “involvement” with life acts almost entirely to his disadvantage, since he is a passive and easy victim of his worldly-wise companions. At the end of the novel, he has at least learned what he does not want, although there are no clear indications that he is any nearer to defining what he does want or to finding his way successfully through life. He has traded an unwanted innocence for an equally undesirable awakening into a futile and treacherous world.

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Imagine you get a phone call from a male vendor you've never met who asks you, in quick succession, this series of questions: "How long have you been in business? How many employees do you have? What's your budget for my type of equipment? Whom do you buy from now? Will you be the person making the final decision?"

How would you react? If you're a man, you may think this caller is a no-nonsense guy who's short on personality. If you're a woman, chances are you think he's rude and pushy, and you're unlikely to send business his way.

Let's look at the flip side. Say you're meeting for the first time with a female entrepreneur who asks you these questions: "What difficulties did you encounter getting your business started? What challenges might affect your equipment budget? How do you feel about your present supplier? What would you look for in a firm to replace that supplier?"

If you're a woman, you may find this entrepreneur's questions thought-provoking and engaging. But if you're a man, you're likely to feel you're being unduly probed, asked to reveal feelings and emotions to someone you've just met.

The secret to success in every interaction with prospects is to ask effective questions and listen carefully to the answers. It's vital that you evaluate your communication style and learn to ask questions that help you put prospects at ease and gain information about their needs.

I've mentioned the terms "open ended" and "closed ended" questions in a previous column. Closed-ended questions can be answered with "yes," "no" or a simple fact. All the questions the male vendor asked in my first example were closed-ended questions--good conversation starters. Open-ended questions are "thinking, feeling, finding" questions. They reveal the emotions behind the answers and can give you more information about your prospect's state of mind and actual needs. All the questions the female entrepreneur asked were open ended.

In unfamiliar situations, such as a typical sales transaction, men tend to rely on closed-ended questions while women favor open-ended questions. The key to closing more sales is learning to use both types of questions with ease--even under pressure. By asking open-ended questions and listening to the answers, you'll be able to understand prospects' objections and offer solutions to overcome them.

If you ask only closed-ended questions, such as "Who is your current supplier?" you may never find out that supplier is often late on deliveries and requires orders to be placed 10 days in advance. But if you follow the closed-ended question with the open-ended query "What do like best about your current supplier?" your prosect is likely to volunteer that information. Then you can offer a solution that meets his or her needs, such as guaranteed on-time delivery and only 24 hours notice on all orders.

Closed-ended questions are more than good conversation starters. They're great conversation closers, too. Say you're speaking with a prospect and your goal is to set an appointment. Use a specific closed-ended question, such as, "Is Tuesday at 3:00 good for you?" Continue naming dates and times until you have an agreement. If you've asked great questions, listened carefully to the answers and provided solutions that meet your prospect's needs, you'll succeed time after time.

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Here's an easy exercise to get you thinking about ways to use both open- and closed-ended questions when talking to your prospects.

  • Draw a vertical line down the center of a piece of paper, separating the page into two columns. Put the heading "closed-ended" above the left column and the heading "open-ended" above the right.
  • On the left, list all the "yes or no" or fact-finding questions you could use with prospects. Make this list as comprehensive as possible. Remember, you need information from your prospects in order to determine if they are qualified and to help you overcome objections and close the sale.
  • In the right-hand column, transform each of the closed-ended questions you listed on the left into one or more open-ended questions. For example: (closed-ended) "Have you considered remodeling your bathroom?" (Open-ended) "What sort of changes would you like to see made to the bathroom?" It's simple once you get the hang of it.

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Direct-mail marketing is popular with entrepreneurs nationwide, who rely on it to sell products and generate leads. But with an average 2-percent response rate, the difference between a good package and a great one can mean the difference between spending a fortune and earning one. To increase your response rates, start with a clean, well-qualified list, then use these 11 tips.

1. Use five components: an envelope, a letter, an order form, optional inserts and a return envelope. For a small test, mail 2,500 to 5,000 pieces. Mail to the same list at least three times.

2. "The envelope is your `handshake,' " says Don Dailey, president of Dailey Direct Inc., a Gaithersburg, Maryland, graphic design firm specializing in direct marketing. "A teaser on the envelope is vital."

3. Your letter should explain the benefits of your product or service, followed by the features.

4. Be sure your letter includes a "Johnson box"--the sentence or headline before the salutation that highlights your marketing hook--and a P.S. "The second thing people read in a letter is the P.S.," says Dick Goldsmith, president of the New York City direct-mail production agency The Horah Group. Because your reader will look at the P.S. before the copy of the letter, it should contain some aspect of the offer that makes the recipient want to read on.

5. Make your order form clear, brief and easy to fill out, and include a fax number.

6. Include a toll-free number on every page, because you never know which component your prospect will keep.

7. "Avoid a monochromatic package," warns Dailey. Keep your carrier envelope and letter stock consistent, but for the rest, use different textures, sizes or colors.

8. At the same time, says Dailey, "Don't overdesign. Some of the best packages are simple-looking."

9. "Lack of a single focus is one of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make," says Dailey. If you have a good offer, it should lead the package. If you have a one-of-a-kind product, make that the lead.

10. The more pieces you include, the better, as long as each explains an additional benefit. Include brochures to explain complex services. Use coupons for offers.

11. Testing is vital and should be ongoing. If you're serious about using direct mail to build your business, use it continually.

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Microsoft’s cloud-based platform, Azure, experienced an outage beginning yesterday at approximately 5 p.m. PT that lasted 11 hours. The problem affected customers worldwide and impacted both third-party programs hosted on the platform such as Azure Storage, Virtual Machines, and Visual Studio as well as some of Microsoft’s own products, including the Windows Store and Xbox Live.

In a statement on the Azure blog, corporate vice president Jason Zander apologized for the outage, saying it was due to a performance update to Azure. “The net result was an inability for the front ends to take on further traffic, which in turn caused other services built on top to experience issues,” he wrote.  A root cause analysis (RCA) was also posted on the blog, so customers could see exactly what the issues were and what caused them.

Related: Microsoft Releases Patch to Fix 19-Year-Old Windows Bug

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

While Microsoft’s apology post outlines what went wrong and why it won’t happen again, commenters were outraged. Some criticized the company’s inaccurate status dashboard, which allegedly said the platform was working when it wasn’t. Others said the outage resulted in lost business and damaged reputation.

The incident underscores concerns about cloud services as a whole, as competing products such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have also suffered outages. Last year, AWS suffered outages that took down Vine, Instagram and

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Most people don't realize how they sound to others.

The words you choose could hurt your credibility without you even knowing it.

An obvious one is "like," but there are less obvious words and phrases that might be tripping you up.

We spoke with Carmen Fought, a professor of linguistics at Pitzer College, and Deborah Tannen, author of "Talking From 9 To 5: Women and Men at Work" and a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, to find out which words undermine your credibility, why we use them, and how we can stop.

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Hedges: "Sort of," "kind of," "pretty much," and "maybe"

Tannen says these are the words you use when you don't want to say something outright.

According to Fought, using hedges may make you seem less confident, which can be especially detrimental at work. "We don't want someone working for our company who is so insecure and who won't be able to make decisions because they're paralyzed with self-doubt," she says.

Intensifiers: "Really," "definitely," "absolutely," and "totally"

According to Fought, overusing these can have the opposite effect of intensifying. "It weakens your credibility in some ways because if you have to tell us how really, really, really great this trip was, maybe it wasn't that great," she says.

Tannen says intensifiers can also make a speaker seem overly dramatic. "You run into the risk of seeming to be so over-the-top that you lose credibility for another reason," she says. "You seem to be exaggerating; you seem hysterical."

Fillers: "Like," "um," "er," and "ah"

Fought refers to these words — or sounds — as "discourse markers." "It's a little word that we use to buy time or space, and it's really common," she says.

Tannen says fillers are automatic in our speech and are present in every language. "We all have automatic ticks when we speak," she says. "There's an impulse to put something in that space when you stop [talking]."

Apologizing: "Sorry"

If you're starting a majority of your sentences with "sorry," you may want to put an end to that habit. According to Fought, constantly saying "sorry" can cause employers to question your abilities. "You don't want someone who is so overly apologetic for everything that you feel like they're not going to take ownership of their ideas," she says.

Why we use them

While we might think we're having great, deep conversations, the truth is much of what we say is meaningless. "A large percentage of the words we use don't mean anything," Fought explains. "We spend a lot of time talking in ways that don't really convey content."

According to Tannen, our manner of speaking conveys who we are to others. "In almost all settings, we're not just communicating information, we're communicating impressions of ourselves," she says. "Anything that makes the impression more authoritative is going to work to your advantage."

What's more, the words we use are often based on what the people around us say. "We develop styles that sound to us appropriate," Tannen says. "You want to sound like your friends. You want to sound like people you identify with."

And, perhaps ironically, in an attempt to make our statements sound more authoritative, we might add on these extra words for emphasis. "We want to help our statements," Fought says. "It's like our statements are little messages to the world, and these words like 'literally' or 'really' are little bows that we put on them to dress them up to go out there so that they'll be more successful."

How to stop

Both Fought and Tannen advise listening to yourself and developing an awareness of what you're saying.

"Take some time to listen to your own speech, have friends give you feedback, record yourself doing an interview, and listen back to it and see what you're doing," Fought suggests. "In isolation, none of these things are terrible, but if they're happening too much, it can weaken your credibility."

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One editor at a weekly magazine admits that he skimps on vacation. In more than two decades, he says he has only used all of his annual vacation days twice–the years his child was born and when he was promoting his book.

He is far from the exception. Paid leave, whether in the traditional structure of vacation and sick days or as the more general bank of hours paid time off policy, makes up nearly 7% of total compensation in private industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But employees rarely use all the time allotted. Workers, on average, fail to use nearly five vacation days a year, the U.S. Travel Association found.

As a result of all these unused days off, one study puts the liability taken on by U.S. businesses at $224 billion, due to workers’ rolling over unused paid time off. And that doesn’t take into account the fact that when people don’t take time off to reset, their resulting stress and burnout can be detrimental to both workers and their employers.

“I didn’t realize how extreme it was until I saw the research,” said Cheryl Rosner, CEO of, a hotel bidding and booking site. “It’s an epidemic of overwork. Forty-one percent of Americans don’t take their paid time off. On those days, you’re paying your employer to be at work.”

What could possibly explain not taking advantage of paid time off?

One oft-cited reason is facing too much of a mess upon return to work.

A reporter who divides his time between three publications in the Baton Rouge area said he leaves vacation days on the table quite often. “In the newspaper business, it’s risky,” he said. “You just don’t know how far behind it puts you.”

The editor from the aforementioned weekly magazine added, “I always felt (whether it was true or not) a mild pressure not to skip more than one issue. So you’d have to go away three or four times a year to use it all, which is not so easy. Also, because I have been here forever, I’m up to five weeks’ vacation. We have a pitch meeting every week, probably 50 times a year, and I can’t really see missing 10% of them. It would be a little too visible an absence.”

The amount of unclaimed days may also rise depending on an employee’s seniority.

When Latham Pali, the President at JP Nissen Co. was considering moving the company to paid time off versus the standard sick day/vacation day split, he surveyed employees and noticed a trend: “The higher up the person was in the company, the more time they left on the board. The lower down, the more they took. Now, often, people higher up have more to start with, and I did not look at if from a percentage standpoint, just the trend. What I also saw was that when a company switched from a sick day/vacation day pool to an all paid time off, they generally took more days off over the course of the year.”

But that blurring of lines between vacation and sick days can have drawbacks when there’s a limited number allotted. An administrative worker at a New York City law firm said, “If you’re sick and use all your days on that, you’re pretty much screwed. We also have to use it to do things like doctor appointments. If you have an appointment for an hour or so during the day, you have to use PTO to cover it.”

She also pointed out that workers may be more likely to come in when sick rather than use up their potential vacation days or take unpaid time off. “We had someone die in the office–die IN THE OFFICE–last year. She was pushing herself to come to work because she had no more days and could not afford to take unpaid time off.”

Inflexible scenarios like that can reflect deeper issues in the corporate culture, not just a lack of a progressive paid leave policy.

“If no one’s taking time off, that’s company culture,” Rosner said.

Like a few other tech startups, Stayful has unlimited paid leave. There is no asking for vacation days. Instead, employees use a team calendar. “It’s a culture of accountability…they’re self-monitoring, like adults do,” said Rosner.

Of course, people won’t take advantage of the policy unless the culture really supports it. If the startup has a 24-7, workaholic culture, workers still may not feel comfortable taking vacations, regardless of what the policy says. “It’s super important to model the behavior you want to see, and we want people to get out and take their time off,” Rosner said.

She has worked at startups long enough (including roles at Expedia and that she doesn’t remember a time when she was counting an employee’s vacation days. But she has been in a position where she had to push someone who was burning out to take time off.

In fact, the company provides employees with $200 in hotel credits per year–use it or lose it– as incentive for taking time off. And even when employees can’t afford to travel, she says they should still take some days for a stay-cation–spend time with family and friends, take a hike, walk around the city, go to a spa. That paid time off is necessary to be happy, healthy, and productive.

“We need to help people shift their perspective,” said Rosner. “It’s not a perk.”

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Citation:   Unspun. "Skin: An Experience with Methamphetamine (ID 42729)". Mar 26, 2007.

DOSE:   repeated smoked Methamphetamine (powder / crystals)

I'm writing about my experiences with meth for two reasons, firstly my husband and I were able to remain healthier than most by doing relatively easy things with homeopathic remedies and otc meds that I'd like to relay to others who are using heavily, and secondly, I feel that perhaps if I honestly relate the grotesque and extremely frightening things that happenned to us,I might be able to save those who have just begun 'the long farewell of the hunger strike' some of the pain we have endured.

We first smoked meth on New Year's Eve because we heard it was great for sex. I had to
work the next day and so saved some to smoke before work in the morning. When I got home another g was waiting for me and I smoked every day but ONE until we finally quit six weeks ago, March 20th.

For three weeks we smoked meth with little consequence, then my skin became fragile and in addition to breaking out, started to swell. I was really worried because I was constantly thirsty and drinking water, but I rarely urinated. I was afraid I was fucking up my kidneys and I'd be too sick to keep using, so I started taking one pamprin, (otc, for P.M.S.) every other day, because it contined a diuretic, and alleve, an NSAID, for swelling as needed. That worked for a week or so, then I had to take two pamprin every day, then three... until I realized my skin had become clayey, for lack of a better word, as if there were a layer of playdough beneath it. I'd also noticed a powdery black substance, like dirt, was coating my skin no matter how often I washed it away.

We used a lot of mineral oil for massage during sex, or before sex, or after sex... anyway... and one day I realized this black crap was literally POURING out of my husband's skin, from every pore, and not only his but MINE as well. We guessed that this was some toxin from the speed needing to be eliminated from the body and figured out that it could be massaged out with oil, or was released when we were hot and sweaty. We started using the sauna at our fitness center in the apartment complex where we live to try to rid our bodies of the toxins so we wouldn't have to quit doing meth, but despite how often and long we sat in the steam, we couldn't get rid of the swelling or the black shit in our skin.

Then my kidneys started hurting, and his, two days later. I had lost twenty pounds in two months and my husband had lost thirty, and we'd read somewhere that rapid weight loss can cause kidney failure, or maybe we just thought it made sense that if you lost that much fat it had to leave the body somehow and our kidneys just couldn't handle it. I was so afraid of what I was doing to myself, but I still didn't want to quit and I was too afraid to go to a doctor to find out how badly off I really was. At some point during a sauna I noticed a whitish or greyish substance, similar to vegetable shortening, was coming from my skin in massive amounts, tablespoons of it at a time looking like playdough through a garlic press. I lost eight pounds in an hour in the sauna, of retained fluid and this shortening crap that built up under my skin, which I can only guess was the fat I was burning.

We maintained like this, sitting in the steam three or four times a day for an hour, swelling in between badly enough to cause bruising where the pressure built up. I slept every three or four days for an hour or so and woke feeling rested. I would get weak and shaky and realize I'd eaten nothing in forty eight hours. I had to keep a chart and check off at least one meal a day, plus a multivitamin, plus a protein bar (powerbars, protein plus, peanut butter tastes the best.) My scalp would swell up and I'd run my fingers across it which would release enough fluid to make my hair wet. I kept having this feeling of 'waking up' as if I'd been asleep or unconscious, only I'd be at work, standing up, or driving. [Erowid Note: Driving while intoxicated, tripping, or extremely sleep deprived is dangerous and irresponsible because it endangers other people. Don't do it!] It was like I checked out for a few minutes or seconds and was totally confused upon checking back in about where I was or what I was doing or how long I'd been gone. It was like my brain rebooted and I had to figure out what the fuck was going on really fast because I seemed to be in the middle of helping a customer and he is looking at me stangely, and oh there's a credit card receipt printing out, so I better hand it to him and pretend that I was just waiting for it the whole time and God, I hope I didn't just stop talking in the middle of a sentence, or say something that didn't make any sense, because I've done that before but only when I was at home alone with my husband, shit just say thank you have a nice day...

And we didn't want to quit. So we took our saunas and our vitamins and used preparation H for swelling and hydrocortisone for what we guessed was a heat rash. We took oral steroids, prednisone, which I'd been prescribed for asthmatic bronchitis but never took, to try to reduce the swelling. We masaaged the shortening from each other's skin and forgot to eat and sleep. We fell asleep with burning cigarettes and with the meth pipe in our hands. I spilled boiling meth on my husband and he, who had never been violent before, in five years, hit me for the first time and left bruises on my arm. He hit me again because he couldn't find his keys and left a bruise on my face. He could never find his keys. I started hiding little stashes of shards and forgot where they were, and he hit me when I couldn't find the dope. I was an hour late for work everyday. My husband wrecked the truck three times...

And we didn't want to quit. I forgot to feed my son one day...

And we didn't want to quit. All we ever did anymore was fight and fuck. Thank god my son was in daycare because they fed him twice a day, he spent the rest of the time watching T.V. in the living room while we locked ourselves in the bedroom and he'd have to knock to use the bathroom, which we'd yell at him for doing. I'd send him to school in the same clothes three days in a row. I didn't care anymore. No one made sure my son went to bed and he started acting up at school because he'd been up till two A.M. which we yelled at him for doing.

I fell asleep during sex or worse, fell sideways into a dream state while semi-awake and I'd babble incoherently while we were fucking, but god damn it felt good. Exquisite, I said it felt exquisite. Everything was either the highest of highs or the lowest of lows, no in between existed anymore.

I had delusions. Especially when I was hot. I would take the hottest showers I could stand, for hours, trying to clean the cysts I now had under my scalp full of the gritty black shit, and it was difficult because I couldn't use soap anymore, it got under my skin and burned and bubbled in my eyes nose and throat for hours afterward. I couldn't drink soda either, same reason. I had delusions that my dealer was poisoning our dope because he wanted it all for himself, which in comparison to my other delusions makes sense. I had delusions that the black shit in my skin was some new form of dope only produceable by the human body and my dealer was selling us tainted dope so my body would make it because he was going to come harvest this shit from me and turn me into a slave he would keep locked up and just feed meth to in order to obtain this new drug. I figured my dealer was doing this to lots of people, and that he'd keep me enslaved until I died from the meth. I knew it was killing me, I didn't care...

And we didn't want to quit.

We were banned from the sauna at our apartment complex because no one else could use it. Our sweat smelled so strongly of ammonia it burned the eyes, it was caustic, and it burned our skin too. We had to cope with just taking really hot showers, which didn't work as well.

I fell asleep in the hot shower one night and woke with blood pounding in my ears and too weak to stand up. The fatty shortening crap that built up under my skin seemed to melt enough to be excreted through my pores with a little heat, but with a lot of heat it seemed to melt enough for it to all be released because I was sitting in a pool of it. I gathered the strength to turn on cool water and then realized I'd made a terrible mistake when all of this crap that was still in my body and had collected because of gravity in my pelvic region and belly suddenly congealed. It hurt, it hurt, it hurt... and I really had to pee, but I couldn't because a clot of it had congealed in my urethra. I eventually pushed it out and saw it in the toilet.

Did I promise you grotesque? We aren't through yet. For days afterward this shit came out of my eyes, ears, nose, and throat. It came out of my vagina. It was in my urine and feces. I swallowed it down continually and it made me gag. I spit constantly because it was in my mouth. I wiped it from my eyes and it ran from my nose. I still have no idea what It was, exactly, only a guess that it had something to do with the almost fifty pounds total I'd lost. I know it wasn't a hallucination because I cleaned it out of the tub three weeks ago, and six weeks after quitting, it's still coming out of my skin, less, much less, but still there.

And I still didn't want to quit. I got lucky. My dealer got popped and I crashed before I could hook up through anyone else. I slept for three days straight and then dealt with the worst of the withdrawals with coke, which I would not reccomend because it works about as well as caffeine, which is to say, not very well.

My husband and I haven't done any drugs at all for four weeks, and things are slowly going back to normal. I find that benadryl works well for the withdrawals. I just take as directed for a few days and sleep through it...

My son is happy, he has his mother back, and his daddy plays with him again. I'm happy, because I'm not so afraid anymore, not afraid of my husband, or of dying painfully in the near future. We are happy because we've nearly paid all the bills we neglected and have cable T.V. again. We are happy because we resemble the normal, healthy family we once were.

But I still want it. I can't sleep tonight because I want it. I wrote this in all honesty mostly to help myself, to remind myself why I DON'T want it.

And I still want it...

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USC researchers begin tests on next generation of retinal implant

FDA approves next study to evaluate an artificial retina intended to help subjects blinded by retinitis pigmentosa

University of Southern California

San Francisco, CA, Feb. 15, 2007-Patients who have gone blind are a step closer to perhaps one day regaining some of their sight. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC), Doheny Eye Institute, announced today the next step in their efforts to advance technology that will hopefully help patients with retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration regain some vision using an implanted artificial retina.

The announcement by Mark Humayun, M.D., Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology at the Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC came at a press conference at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in San Francisco.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) to conduct a clinical study of the new device- dubbed the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System.

The implantable technology is a collaborative effort between USC and Second Sight Medical Products, which manufactures the implant. The Argus II is the second generation of an electronic retinal implant designed for the treatment of blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a group of inherited eye diseases that affect the retina. RP causes the degeneration of photoreceptor cells in the retina, which capture and process light helping individuals to see. As these cells degenerate, patients experience progressive vision loss. The Argus device is essentially designed to take the place of the photoreceptors.

"The first phase of our implant work began in 2002," says Humayun. "We have successfully implanted six patients in the trial and we have found that the devices are indeed electrically conducting and can be used by patients to detect light or even to distinguish between objects such as a cup or plate."

While the first generation of implants contained 16 electrodes laid out on an array, the Argus II is designed with 60 electrodes, which is intended to allow for higher resolution images.

The new device is also approximately one quarter the size of the original, reducing surgery and recovery times.

The array is attached to the retina and used in conjunction with an external camera and video processing system to provide a rudimentary form of sight to implanted subjects.

The clinical trial of the first generation of implants continues at the Doheny Eye Institute at USC. All six previously blind patients in the first trial have been able to detect light, identify objects in their environment and even perceive motion after implantation with the first generation device.

The device, ultimately, may be used for the millions of people suffering from age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. In fact, Humayun says, there are 25 million people around the world, including 6 million in the United States alone, who have been blinded, or are severely visually impaired, due to diseases like RP and AMD.

By 2020, that figure is expected to double, creating a virtual vision-loss epidemic.

Both AMD and RP destroy vision by annihilating the retinal cells that allow light to be translated into recognizable images.

"Perhaps what we're most excited about in this next study," says Humayun, "is, similar to the first generation Second Sight device, we will be able to test the new device with patients at their homes, churches, schools and similar locations. The importance of this work is going to be reflected in how well this helps them regain some of their lost vision."

The current study will include patients over 50 years of age who have RP or AMD and who have had previous functional vision.

This study is supported by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, National Eye Institute/NIH, Research to Prevent Blindness, the W.M. Keck Foundation and the Albaugh Family Trust.

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United States has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use, and more

United States has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use

A survey of 17 countries has found that despite its punitive drug policies the United States has the highest levels of illegal cocaine and cannabis use. The study, by Louisa Degenhardt (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and colleagues, is based on the World Health Organization's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and is published in this week's PLoS Medicine.

The authors found that 16.2% of people in the United States had used cocaine in their lifetime, a level much higher than any other country surveyed (the second highest level of cocaine use was in New Zealand, where 4.3% of people reported having used cocaine). Cannabis use was highest in the US (42.4%), followed by New Zealand (41.9%).

In the Americas, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand, alcohol had been used by the vast majority of survey participants, compared to smaller proportions in the Middle East, Africa, and China.

The survey found differences in both legal and illegal drug use among different socioeconomic groups. For example, males were more likely than females to have used all drug types; younger adults were more likely than older adults to have used all drugs examined; and higher income was related to drug use of all kinds. Marital status was found to be related to tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use, but not alcohol use (the never married and previously married having higher odds of lifetime cocaine and cannabis use than the currently married; tobacco use is more likely in people who have been previously married while less likely among the never married).

Drug use "does not appear to be simply related to drug policy," say the authors, "since countries with more stringent policies towards illegal drug use did not have lower levels of such drug use than countries with more liberal policies." In the Netherlands, for example, which has more liberal policies than the US, 1.9% of people reported cocaine use and 19.8% reported cannabis use.

Data on drug use were available from 54,068 survey participants in 17 countries. The 17 countries were determined by the availability of research collaborators and on funding for the survey. Trained lay interviewers carried out face-to-face interviews (except in France where the interviews were done over the telephone) using a standardized, structured diagnostic interview for psychiatric conditions and drug use. Participants were asked if they had ever used alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, or cocaine.

The study's main limitations are that only 17 countries were surveyed, within these countries there were different rates of participation, and it is unclear whether people accurately report their drug use when interviewed. Nevertheless, the findings present comprehensive data on the patterns of drug use from national samples representing all regions of the world.

Citation: Degenhardt L, Chiu W-T, Sampson N, Kessler RC, Anthony JC, et al. (2008) Toward a global view of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and cocaine use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. PLoS Med 5(7): e141. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141.

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Delaying childbirth is associated with impaired contraction of the uterus and rising rates of cesarean section

Impaired contraction of the uterus (womb) may play a part in the association of advancing maternal age with increased cesarean rates according to a study published in PLoS Medicine this week. In a two part study, Professor Gordon Smith and colleagues (Cambridge University, UK) analyzed a large Scottish data base to characterize the association between maternal age and outcome of labor, specifically looking at what proportion of the increase in primary cesarean rates could be attributed to changes in maternal age distribution. They then went on to study samples of myometrium (muscle from the wall of the uterus) taken during routine cesarean sections to determine whether muscle contractility varied with maternal age.

Cesarean sections are associated with higher mortality and morbidity rates compared with vaginal deliveries. Rates of caesarean section have dramatically increased over the last 20-30 years throughout the developed world. This increase is a concern as it may have implications for the mother, baby, healthcare providers, and policy makers. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the UK's cesarean rate was 20% in 2004, Canada's was 22.5% in 2001-2002 and the United States' was 30.2% in 2005 -- all above the WHO's proposed acceptable rate of between 10% and 15% for countries in the developed world. Previous epidemiological studies have reported a trend of increased rates of cesarean sections with maternal age which is consistent in different countries. However, the reason for these increased rates remains unclear. Moreover, it was unclear to what extent, if any, the trend of delaying childbirth had contributed to the increased cesarean rates.

This study was carried out in two parts. First, the researchers analyzed data collected by the Scottish Morbidity Record (SMR2) from 1980 to 2005 -- over 0.5m available records. A linear association between the risk of having a cesarean section and advancing maternal age in first pregnancies was found. They observed striking changes over the period of study. The proportion of women aged 30-34 increased three fold, the proportion aged 35-39 increased seven-fold and the proportion aged 40 or older increased 10-fold. Over the same period, the cesarean rate more than doubled. The researchers estimated that around 38% of the additional procedures would have been avoided if maternal age distribution had remained the same as in 1980. They therefore concluded that a substantial proportion of the increase in cesarean section rates may be due to the trend of delaying first childbirth.

Second, they hypothesized that the increased risk of caesarean section among older women is a result of a biological effect of aging on the ability of the muscle of the uterus to contract. They evaluated this hypothesis by examining biopsies from the uteruses of a separate group of 62 women (of mixed parity) undergoing routine elective cesarean delivery in Cambridge. They found that advancing age was associated with impaired uterine function as evidenced by a reduced degree of spontaneous contraction and the type of spontaneous contraction.

The analysis of Scottish data adds to the evidence that advancing maternal age is associated with higher rates of cesarean sections. Moreover, it indicates that the trend of delaying childbirth has substantially contributed to recent increases in cesarean rates. The researchers' further work at the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge, UK suggests a possible mechanism for this association, i.e., impaired contraction of the uterus. Although further work will be needed in other populations, as the authors comment, "understanding the determinants and management of dysfunctional labor in older women is central to designing strategies for reducing population cesarean delivery rates without adversely affecting maternal and infant outcomes."

Citation: Smith GCS, Cordeaux Y, White IR, Pasupathy D, Missfelder-Lobos H, et al. (2008) The effect of delaying childbirth on primary cesarean section rates. PLoS Med 5(7): e144. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050144.

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University of Cambridge
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United Kingdom
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4 nights accomodation, with 3 days cycling.  Great value hotel, great cycling in Andalucia´s best kept secret.  The Cazorla and Seguras National Park...

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A Cool Sierras cycling break offers great cycling adventures for those seeking something a little different, on-road or off.

Cycling in the Cazorla mountains is a unique and inspiring experience; discovering the most extensive and continuous stretch of ancient forest in Spain. To journey through this land is to travel one of the most peaceful unspoilt mountainous regions in Europe.

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I have a win form app that uses and access database.  The database is currently stored in the directory with the exe.  I want to place it in the users or common application data directory but have not been able to find any examples of how to reference either of these directories in my code.
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I have created a Windows service that interacts with an ORACLE database. For talking with the database I am using the latest version of ODP.NET.
Now, I want to install the service on a client server. However, I do not want to install a full-blown ORACLE client. I only want to copy the necessary files to the server.

Found the following from a thread in the ORACLE forum:

"if you're using ODP.NET 11g and .NET framework 2.0, then try copying these files into your ASP.NET application bin folder

And make sure you're using easy connect naming for your connection string in your web.config file, similar to below sample

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        connectionString="Data Source=//;Password=hr;User ID=HR"

Just replace with your server ip/name and xe with your database service name."

I tried this, but still the service cannot find the dataprovider.
Something tells me that I should have added something to the registry or to the PATH.
Does anyone know what I am missing?
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Not sure what you mean by this.
I forgot to mention that the connectionstring "Data Source=//myip/prd;Password=pwd;User ID=User" is actually working on my development machine. Only difference is that i ran an installation script for ODAC on this machine. I'd rather not do that on the customer server.
Using EZconnect so that I don't need tnsnames.ora.

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Looks like I'm having a breakthrough here!
Added the following to my app.config file:

    <add name="Oracle Data Provider for .NET" invariant="Oracle.DataAccess.Client"
description="Oracle Data Provider for .NET"
type="Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleClientFactory, Oracle.DataAccess,  Version=,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89b483f429c47342" />

I cannot seem to find any documentation on this though.

However now I am facing a different problem (which I'm also facing using Microsoft's Oracle data provider.
Error message:

Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException ORA-12705: Cannot access NLS data files or invalid environment specified    at Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException.HandleErrorHelper(Int32 errCode, OracleConnection conn, IntPtr opsErrCtx, OpoSqlValCtx* pOpoSqlValCtx, Object src, String procedure)
   at Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleException.HandleError(Int32 errCode, OracleConnection conn, IntPtr opsErrCtx, Object src)
   at Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection.Open()

This is happening when accessing the database from the server.
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I have been debugging this issue for some time now, and the only solution (or workaround) I have found, is to delete the NLS entry in the registry.
This is ok on a client machine, but when installing the application on an ORACLE server, this is probably not a very good solution.
Anyone who know a different solution to this problem?
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On the server NLS_LANG parameter is very important and if you use the application there
all components that ensure language transformation should be available. And apparantly this is not the case.
Concentrate on the client site. Oracle also have 'thin client", that is not so big as the normal Oracle client.

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Thanks for you answer!

I have tried using both the ODP.NET client and the Microsoft Oracle client, but with the same result.
The error message regarding the NLS_LANG pops up. Strangely this only happens when running the .NET 2.0 version of the application. I have an older version using .NET 1.1, and that works fine.

One of our clients will have the application running on an ORACLE server, which means it will not work.
This is becoming a big problem, and I have to find a way around it asap.

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Transitioning from Windows 2003 to Windos2008, I ran into a problem. We use Infoblox DNS and when I went to Demote the final 2003 controller it says there are two replics, forestdnszone and Domaindnszone on the controller and ask if I want to delete them. I really want to know if its safe to delete these ?
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When you set up DC based on 2003 and you choose DNS with AD-I (ActiveDirectory Integrated zone) it stores its local DNS database on a domain partition. So, if you are sure that you don't need anymore DC and its DNS zones you can simply removed them during demotion process.

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Any examples or suggestions on how to access/display the client side web cam on a aspx page using and click a button to save the image would be helpful.
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