My post earlier this week on transition issues really hit a nerve.We received a few comments and a slew of emails on the topic. Most were from parents or their representatives. Although there was one example of a very good transition program, it was run by volunteers and maybe a non-profit. The sentiment of parents and their advocates was not very happy, and the intensity of the sentiment seeme
Kline & Hudson's Nerve Injuries: Operative Results for Major Nerve Injuries, Entrapments & Tumors 2nd edition by Daniel H. Kim, Rajiv Midha, Judith Ann Murovic, Robert J. Spinner & Robert Teil features the clinical experience of seasoned experts coupled with fresh perspectives from five new authors, providing you with well-rounded, up-to-date coverage on treating all aspects of nerve i
Barney Frank (D-MA), is disappointed in President-Elect Obama’s “lack of assertiveness” in dealing with the current economic crisis as well as his intention to be “post-partisan”. In a recent AP article, Frank, along with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cohort Chris Dodd (D-CT), whine that Obama has done little to address the current financial crisis. This crisis, a result of the boondoggle o
Balance between cardiac output and sympathetic nerve activity in resting humans: role in arterial pressure regulationN. Charkoudian, M. J. Joyner, C. P. Johnson, J. H. Eisenach, N. M. Dietz and B. G.Wallin Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Anaesthesiology and General Clinical Research Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA, and Institute of Cli
The Chancellor's refusal to panic has won him respect, but his biggest test still lies ahead
So the government has ripped up the new Labour rule-book with a return to redistributive taxation, nationalisation and work-creation schemes. The same spinners who once laid burnt offerings at the feet of the gods of the free market now sing the praises of state intervention.
In this world turned upside d
Parkinson's disease is a disorder that affects nerve cells, that controls muscle movement.Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive disorder of the nervous system.Causes:The disease is caused by the death of cells in one of the movement control centers of the brain.Genetic Factors play a role in some cases.Environmental Factors such as rural living,well water,herbicide use and exposure to
"Our opponent though is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin said of Obama, also calling him an embarrassment.These comments were made today at a republican rally in Englewood, Colorado. With polls showing McCain trailing Obama in many battleground states, including several w
(HealthDay News) -- Adult stem cells that may prove valuable in efforts to develop nonsurgical treatments for spinal cord injuries have been identified by researchers in the United States and Sweden.They say it may be possible to develop drugs that boost the ability of these stem cells to repair damaged nerve cells.An adult's spinal cord contains only a small number of stem cells, which proliferat
US planned nerve gas attack on Australian troops
5:00AM Monday July 07, 2008
By Greg Ansley
Former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt
CANBERRA - The United States planned to gas Australian troops in experiments with two of the most lethal nerve gases ever devised, newly declassified files have revealed.
Previously top secret documents have shown that even as the world [...]
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Last week, as we kicked off our new How to Quit Smoking section on Health.com, I asked this question: Is It OK to Harass the Smokers We Love? The response was overwhelming—from...
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Atlas of Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Anatomy for Orthopaedic Anesthesia with DVD by Andre P. Boezaart thoroughly review the anatomy points you need to know to effectively execute these techniques, and demonstrate all 16 essential nerve blocks as performed by specialists in orthopaedic anesthesiology. Abundant full-color photographs of the sequence of each block combined with full-color drawings an
Atlas of Ultrasound and Nerve Stimulation: Guided Regional Anesthesia by Ban C.H. Tsui illustrates how to use ultrasound technology and nerve stimulation techniques to achieve consistently good results. Throughout the book, ultrasound images are correlated with MRI images to enhance anatomic identification. In addition, peripheral nerve block techniques for upper and lower extremities and the trun
Nel 2003 tutti i medici odontoiatri italiani (iscritti all’università tra il 1980 e 85 ed abilitati non oltre il 31.12.1991) hanno dovuto sostenere una abilitazione universitaria postuma per continuare ad esercitare la professione. Al di la della scandalosa violazione di tutti i diritti acquisiti in 12-15 anni di attività professionale (ma di questo ne abbiamo già parlato), c’è da dire che
How dare she does something like this to her mommy.How dare she grows up so fast that her mommy doesn't even have a chance to say goodbye to those disappearing baby days.Where does she get the nerve to she say to me "Mom, I'm not a baby anymore" all while barely grasping the rail of the escalator up to the bus terminal. How dare she make that announcement without my prior knowledge.How dare she a
This Saturday, parades honoring the American Flag will be held in some places that still hold a shred of patriotism. Interestingly enough, June 14th is also Army Day, or the Birth of the U.S. Army. ...
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Carl Icahn demands Yahoo sell for $49.5 billion.
Intel Anti-Trust woes spread as FTC takes a look. S. Korea already on the case. This was bound to happen eventually.
FCC free wireless Internet plan doomed to fail? I wonder.
Creeping featurism to hit Gmail? Perhaps.
My airplane anecdote tells of [...]
I don't exactly know what happened to this old guy but he has a huge hole in his head. Warning: this video can be considered a little disturbing.Watch videovia
My mole hill turned into a mountain last week.
"Don't sweat the small stuff darling" I heard too many times.
"Let it all go" I heard at least a dozen times.
"Relax" was a common response to my...
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I love the little guy. I really do. But Michael has a way of riding my nerve the way no other child of mine can. He's skilled at it. I believe it is his daily objective. If, at the end of every day, the single checklist item of "Surf Daddy's Last Nerve" can be scratched off, he can go to bed content.Today's little delight came just before he sat down to eat lunch.Michael's Mommy had just offered m
So, I see a neurologist every six months because I have mild retardation (see juvenile myoclonus ()) and in-between recent visits I developed some numbness (left pinky and ring finger) and...
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Everything that makes us up from a conscious standpoint is embroidered in the three dimensional network of our brain.
Our hopes and dreams, our personality, our memories, our secrets, our strengths and weaknesses and our perceptions of the world are located, as if on a map, within this web of neurological tissue. We know this is true because once the brain is damaged, injured, or diseased, the state of affairs of mind and of body is altered. Experiments have been performed on human beings, whereby through electrical stimulation of certain parts of the brain, sensory experiences have been simulated as if they were real (Restak, 1979). Truly, the brain is the most important organ of the human body.
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It is thought that intestinal inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease are exacerbated by depression. New data from a study by Stephen Collins and colleagues at McMaster University Medical Center, Canada, have characterized a mechanism by which experimental conditions that induced depressive-like behaviors in mice increased susceptibility to intestinal inflammation. Specifically, in two models of depression, increased susceptibility to intestinal inflammation involved decreased signaling along the vagus nerve and required inflammatory cells known as macrophages to be present in the intestine. Further, the tricyclic antidepressant desmethylimipramine restored vagal function and reduced intestinal inflammation, leading the authors to suggest that their data provide good rat
A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. David Nisbet from Monash University's Department of Materials Engineering has used existing polymer-based biodegradable fibres, 100 times smaller than a human hair, and re-engineered them to create a unique 3-D scaffold that could potentially allow stem cells to repair damaged nerves in the human body more quickly and effectively.Source: ScienceDaily, Feb. 2008
A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. David Nisbet from Monash University's Department of Materials Engineering has used existing polymer-based biodegradable fibres, 100 times smaller than a human hair, and re-engineered them to create a unique 3-D scaffold that could potentially allow stem cells to repair damaged nerves in the human body more quickly and effectively.Source: ScienceDaily, Feb. 2008
Offspinner Mirza Jamil snapped up two wickets in the final over to bowl Pakistan to a dramatic two-run victory over West Indies in the knock-out final of the CLICO International Under-15 Championship at Warner Park.
Not good to tick your base off, Michelle! I hate to say it, but I do agree with her. I think this crap here, is totally wrong. My feelings about the Roman Catholic Church aside, (I'm Fundamental Baptist) I think the Church needs to be about the business of the Church and should keep it's nose out of the affairs of the Government. Like the Pope speaking at the United Nations, what the hell is up with that? Isn't there a thing called the Separation of Church and State? Was not that a major and flagrant violation of the 501c3 Statue in this country? Of course, we all know that the Catholic Church gets a free pass, which is pretty funny considering, we fought like hell to get away from it's iron first rule, when we fled to this country and away from Great Britain. Of course, hea
Psychol Med. 2008 May;38:651-661 Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: efficacy and safety in a European study Schlaepfer TE, Frick C, Zobel A, Maier W, Heuser I, Bajbouj M, O'Keane V, Corcoran C, Adolfsson R, Trimble M, Rau H, Hoff HJ, Padberg F, Müller-Siecheneder F, Audenaert K, Van den Abbeele D, Matthews K, Christmas D, Stanga Z, Hasdemir M. Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany; Departments of Psychiatry and Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Psychiatrische Klinik der FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Background: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy is associated with a decrease in seizure frequency in partial-onset seizure patients. Initial tria
Go to the Powerline blog and you will see a little banner proclaiming that they are proud friends of Israel. At least one of the writers on that blog (Paul Mirengoff) is jewish, as are plenty of your neo-conservative bloggers. If you want to look to the more mainstream media, you have people of the Jewish faith like Bill Krisol (of the Weekly standard and NY Times) and sydicated columist Jonah Goldberg. On in the political world, you have Senators like Joe Lieberman, Norm Coleman, and Arlen Specter.
But mostly, you think of Jewish politicians as being liberal. Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Rush Feingold and socialist Bernie Sanders come to mind. Yet there is an increasing amount of Jewish people who are at the very least becoming more and more conservative on the foreign poli
I had to revisit this video because…FLAV got some hot ass nerve telling this girl her breath stank when I’m sure he’s smell like a blend of smoked sausages and cornwheat. Boy Bye! They can get together and have a halitosis convention
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Flav Got Some Nerve
Do you know your cranial nerves and how to assess them? Do you remember that silly rhyme to help you remember them? Don't worry it doesn't have to drive you crazy trying to remember, I have a couple right here to jog your memory. photo by Aron Balough stockxchng.com
Gabrielle Carteris is probably best known for her roll as Andrea on Beverly Hills 90210. But now she is coming out with a secret she has had for the last two years!
Gabrielle is showing a home video her husband made after Carteris suffered nerve damage while shooting a made-for-TV thriller in Vancouver in 2006. On [...]
Anyone who has ever seen Star Trek should be familiar with the famous Vulcan nerve pinch, which mr Spock and his Vulcan compatriots use to render their enemies instantly unconscious simply by squeezing the nerves in the correct place. I have always loved Star Trek and as a child the Vulcan nerver pinch was always one of those things that I really wished that I could do.Of course the actual nerve pinch, as it is shown in Star Trek, is a piece of fiction. But yet it is also true that the idea for it was not simply plucked out of nowhere, but was based on something real. It's pretty safe to assume that the idea for the Vulcan nerver pinch was based on the Chinese art of manipulating pressure points. The same principles that are used for healing in accupuncture and accupressure massage are
Blogitive has released a new product in closed beta exclusively for Blogitive members that everyone will be excited about. It's called Link Nerve and it makes getting paid through your blog even easier. Link Nerve allows prospective clients to search the pages of your blog that are already indexed in search engines. When the prospect finds a term within your post that interests them, they can make an offer to you through Link Nerve to have that term linked to their website. Unlike Blogitive, you will not be required to write new posts or create new pages, only to link terms within your existing posts/pages and get paid per link. It is ContentLink on steroids. No more extra posting. Just make your existint post pay for your hard work.Offers are sent to you via email or can be viewed on th
This is so cool, it’s almost scary. Ambient Corp. has developed and recently unveiled a neckband which translates thoughts about speech into computer-generated speech itself. It was demonstrated at a recent conference hosted by Texas Instruments, a manufacturer of microchips and the optical semiconductors used in DLP technology.
The neckband detects nerve signals that indicate what you’re thinking about saying. These signals are relayed wirelessly to a computer that recognizes and translates them into words or phrases. The neckband, called the Audeo, doesn’t actually read you mind, however.
When facing the diagnosis of prostate cancer, for most patients, the overwhelming focus is on eradicating the disease. However once the cancer has been successfully treated, the side-effects of treatment can have a major impact on quality of life.
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The past six months or so have been especially hard on the constitutions of all classes of investors. With the subprime mortgage mess in the US wreaking havoc on the global markets investors have watched the value of their portfolios dip 10-20%. It has been scientifically demonstrated that the human response to loss is twice as high as that of gain, so it biologically natural for us to have an emotional reaction to what is happening in the markets.Emotion is the nemesis of the long-term investor. Remember that. It can prompt us to make irrational short-term decisions based on fear that can do terrible damage to our long-term savings goals. As hard as it will be, you must detach yourself from what is happening in the markets. You can't control it, and if you try you will do more harm than g
By Carlos B. CamachoA neuron is one of the billions of specialized cells which make up the nervous system. A neuron sends and receives electrical signals through its protoplasmatic processes, or limbs, that spring out from the cell body. The short, tree-like limb that branches out is called dendrite and receives electrical impulses from other neurons. The long, rod-like limb which sends signals from the cell body to other nerve cells in the system is called axon. An axon can measure up to four feet in length and branches out in a root-like pattern at the end. This ramification at the end of an axon is called teledendron, which can make contact with one or several dendrites of different neurons.The point of contact, or link, is really a gap between the end of an axon and a dendrite branche
Did you know that back problems are now an epidemic? Do you know it's also the #2 reason for US hospital visits? It's also a majo cause for depression. Now you can have a healthy back, and live a full life, without putting yourself at risk with treatments. sounds to good to believe, but it's completely true ... thanks to Rezilient. What is rezilient you ask?Rezilant is A Natural Safe Remedy made from O-mega 3 fatty acids that are usually found in fish oils. Which has been reported by the journal of surgical neurology to have promising affects through a study. Here's a list olf some of the study results:60% of patients noted an overall improvement in their pain and said their overall pain had improved.60% of patients specifically reported less joint pain.80% of patients stated that they were satisfied with their improvement.88% of patients said they would keep taking fish oil supplementsif that doesn't convince you to try rezilient how about the fact the rezilient has been proven t
The press release for Raw Nerve below.OPEN CHANNEL is pleased to announce that entries for Raw Nerve 2008 are now open!Raw Nerve 2008 will give up to five new filmmakers, who have never previously produced or directed a film with full or part financing from a government film financing agency, the chance to move from no-budget filmmaking to a more professional approach with the help of a small budget, and equipment, technical support, advice and guidance from the Australian Film Commission and OPEN CHANNEL.OPEN CHANNEL is looking for projects that exhibit a strong authorial vision, a compelling story, and fresh, interesting characters. Directors, or director / producer teams with vision and ambition are invited to participate in Raw Nerve 2008. Aspiring filmmakers with very little, or no experience, are also welcome to apply.The deadline for entries is Monday 19 November. The finalists, selected by a Panel of representatives from OPEN CHANNEL and the AFC, will be announced on 17 Decembe
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Nursing Reference: Nerve Impulse Slide Transcript
Slide 1: NERVE IMPULSE/ACTION POTENTIAL
Slide 2: • Neurons are specifically designed to conduct nerve impulses • Nerve impulses are only conducted when the neuron has recovered from conducting its last nerve impulse – Must also be sufficiently stimulated to conduct a new one
Slide 3: Three states of a neuron •
The common fibular nerve supplies the anterior and lateral compartments of the leg. This means that any damage to this nerve will cause a loss of action, namely: dorsiflexion of foot at ankle joint, inversion and eversion of the foot. Inversion is also provided by the tibialis posterior muscle, so it may not affected as much. This leads to foot drop. The common fibular nerve also provides cutaneous sensation to the lateral side of the leg and dorsum of the foot via the superficial fibular nerve. This sensation may also be lost.
Please pray that my left hand (pinky and ring finger) will start to have feeling again. I have been having numbness for about a month now and have an appointment with a neurologist in less than 2 weeks. I am hoping for a miracle.
- Sherry from PA
Because diabetes is such a powerful and dangerous illness, there are many symptoms that stem from this terrible disease. One such example is nerve disease, which is the result of having high blood glucose levels for 10 years or more. Once nerve disease is rooted from diabetes, this is called diabetic neuropathy.
In order to diagnose a nerve disorder, a person's nerve conduction velocity (NCV for short) is severely slowed down. Nerve conduction velocity is simply the speed at which nervous impulses travel down a nerve fiber. Unfortunately a person may not show any symptoms for a long time to come even though their body is experiencing slow NCV. Therefore, getting tested to find out the speed of their NCV is a way to diagnose neuropathy in diabetics who are not yet showing symptoms of nerve damage. Medications can then be supplied to the patient and in many cases their nerve symptoms will improve.
WARNING: Diabetic neuropathy is most prevalent in men and women over the age of 4
In the two years I've been doing Atheist Revolution, I've had a few days where I've had daily hits above the 2,000 mark. Since my average daily hits tends to be about half this number, reaching 2,000 is certainly cause for celebration. Most of the time, it has been rather easy to trace these traffic peaks to a mention on Pharyngula. But now I have a new milestone to announce. On Oct. 4, I hit 4,482 page loads and 3,797 unique visitors. Hot damn! Little did I realize that even this new record would fall within 24 hours. On Friday, I hit 5,233 page loads and 4,237 unique visitors. A new record for Atheist Revolution.The traffic spike came in response to my recent post, An Ode to Tony. In fact, this post is easily the most popular one I've ever done. It looks like I hit a nerve with this one.Not surprisingly, a mention from PZ Myers at Pharyngula was a critical force driving the Thursday traffic surge. And yet, Thursday's numbers set a new record for traffic to this blog, exceeding
Bernie Goldberg is a frustrated man and his new book speaks to, and for, the millions of Americans who feel the same as him about the current state of politics in this country. On the one hand, Goldberg sees a political party that has allowed itself to be dominated by some of the most hate-filled crazies imaginable. On the other, he sees a party that has lost the courage to stand up for its
The research group of Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz at the Institute of Stem Cell Research of the GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health, and the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, has achieved an additional step for the potential replacement of damaged brain cells after injury or disease: functional nerve cells can be generated from astroglia, a type of supportive cells in the brain by means of special regulator proteins.The majority of cells in the human brain are not nerve cells but star-shaped glia cells, the so called "astroglia". "Glia means "glue", explains Götz. "As befits their name, until now these cells have been regarded merely as a kind of "putty" keeping the nerve cells together.A couple of years ago, the research group had been already able to prove that these glia cells function as stem cells during development. This means that they are able to differentiate into functional nerve cells. However, this ability gets lost in later phases of development, so
How Celiac disease and gluten ingestion results in neurological injury is not well understood. It is however now well recognized that celiac disease and gluten are related to a variety of brain and peripheral nerve problems. According to a new study, nerve cell death, known in medicine by the term apoptosis, occurs in celiac disease not just from the presence antibodies against nerve cells in the blood of people with celiac disease with neurologic problems but from other factors in the blood, especially gliadin and tissue transglutaminase antibodies, and in people without obvious neurological problems. The presence of antibodies to gliadin and tissue transglutaminase in the blood are associated with nerve cell death in the absence of anti-nerve antibodies. The complicated nature of the process that gluten ingestion and celiac disease results in neurological damage can be appreciated by the reading the study by Cervio et al. from the University of Bologna, Italy, published in the July 2
The simplest remedy is to lie on your side, opposite of the pain. This may help relieve the pressure on the nerve. Avoid heavy lifting and minimize standing for long periods of time. If you experience pressure while standing, try elevating one foot and resting it on something. Swimming may also ease discomfort. You may experience relief by applying heat or cold to the troubled area. Your health care provider may recommend acetaminophen to relieve the pain.It is important to contact your health care provider if the pain becomes constant, or increases in severity or frequency. Source : AmericanPregnancy.org
Canadian William Shatner has signed on as the host of Shatner's Raw Nerve, a new celebrity interview series for the Biography Channel. He will bolding go where no man has gone before! This half-hour show will focus on Shatner interviewing politicians and actors unearthing some the darkest secrets known to man! The 13 episode series is slated to premiere sometime next year.
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One year ago, Indonesia's cultural heart, the ancient Javanese city of Yogyakarta, was rocked to its core - quite literally.Shortly before sunrise on May 27, 2006, a magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck the city and Klaten district in nearby Central Java province, killing more than 5,800 people and leaving the region in ruins. "I just ran out of the house after the quake hit and immediately saw so many houses heavily damaged or collapsed," said Imam Purwadi, 53, one of the lucky survivors."This was the most powerful earthquake in my life." The temblor destroyed or severely damaged more than 350,000 homes and displaced 1.5 million people.Those figures would be astonishing except for the fact that the earthquake was anything but an isolated event for the country.Since Boxing Day 2004, Indonesia has experienced no less than eight major disasters that read off like a laundry list of horror: the Asian tsunami of December 26, 2004; a magnitude-8.7 earthquake on Nais Island in March 2005; the Yog
At least 10 dead, at least 150 injured as police open fire on protesters in India.
Alaska giving away 1.3 acre lots of land - they start taking applications Monday!
Gorillas gave humans crabs. Ew.
Woman starts non-profit drug company, One World Health.
Bad dad stabs baby
Student loan providers robbing students through kickback schemes?
There's some freaky ass people in North Carolina
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It's been pretty quiet around here for a minute. Well, more like a month than a minute, but you know what I mean, dawg! Lol.
Anyway, this blog was almost kaput until very recently. About three weeks ago, I felt that it may be in my best interest to only blog on Heavy Mentalist. Merge these two blogs, basically, in order to spend more time on finishing my book.
But then, I decided that I didn't
Prometheus 6 fills us in on why White People Should Panic
P6 again on Osama's obsession with Whitney Houston according to writer Kola Boof
Get ready for the World Series of Strip Poker!
Knock the Hustle author Hadji Williams weighs in on the Personal Responsibility Hustle
Cat Gets Gold Grilllast nerve links, whitney houston, cats, osama bin laden, kola boof
Prometheus 6 fills us in on why White People Should Panic
P6 again on Osama's obsession with Whitney Houston according to writer Kola Boof
Get ready for the World Series of Strip Poker!
Knock the Hustle author Hadji Williams weighs in on the Personal Responsibility Hustle
Cat Gets Gold Grilllast nerve links, whitney houston, cats, osama bin laden, kola boof
Uhuru Guru, The editor of Why South Africa Sucks, is pretty pissed off at me and has had no trouble in letting me know:So, little Nic the piepiejoller wet behind the ears wanker decides to get all self-righteous about my blog. Listen up, little pip squeak - you know diddly squat, OK? I'm not even going to dignify your hysterical little rant beyond these few words. You're a deluded little puss and your thinking is aeons behind mine. Perhaps one day you will catch up, I just hope its not after some simian ape has stretched your sphincter, shot you in the head or raped your mother. As for the rest of your poorly written, grammatically incorrect little screed, I can only say "a hearty FUCK YOU" to you. You're a snivelling little brat, be off already, little boy!Wow that's aggressive. Let's hope there is some semblance of an argument from the guru type guy in the near future that can help his cause because this little post has done nothing for him.Read my response to this
