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Tuesday 9 September 2008

Evident� Microwave Ablation System Offers Surgical Oncologists And Interventional Radiologists Fast, Efficient Tool To Ablate Soft Tissue

�Covidien (NYSE: COV, BSX: COV), a world leader in advanced energy-based surgical systems, today announced the global release of the Evident� microwave ablation organisation. Physicians now have a powerful new tool with industry-leading engineering to ablate soft tissue.

The Evident� microwave ablation system received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in soft tissue, and is now the first microwave ablation system available globally.

The Evident� microwave ablation system is intended for coagulation of soft tissue during transdermic, laparoscopic and open surgical procedures. Microwave energy emanates from the feed point of the radiating section of the antenna, causation coagulation of the tissue. The system then creates heat by generating rubbing through the vibration of water molecules. With microwave ablation, in that respect is no current flow through the patient, eliminating the motivation for grounding pads.

"We are extremely excited to offer the Evident� microwave ablation organization to physicians throughout the world," said Christopher Carlton, Vice President and General Manager, Interventional Oncology, Covidien. "As the only company to offer both microwave and radiofrequency ablation systems, we check the Evident� system as a significant new tool in a doctor's arsenal, which can positively lend to better patient outcomes."

With today's launch, physicians will today have approach to a unique system for tissue paper ablation. Microwave technology has shown bright results in ablating soft tissue in patients world Health Organization are non candidates for surgical resection and have few leftover treatment options.

"Microwave engineering has allowed me to treat patients with bigger ablations and more promptly compared to radiofrequency," aforementioned Anton Bilchik, M.D., Medical Director of the California Oncology Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. "This system provides physicians with efficient and fast ablation."

This major technological advance allows surgical oncologists, interventional radiologists, hepatobiliary surgeons and other medical specialists to perform percutaneous, laparoscopic or open operative soft tissue ablation, and in less time than other forms of excision - the Evident� microwave ablation system can take 10 minutes or less. The speed and efficiency of the Evident� microwave ablation system may miserly less time in the operating or radiology suite and less time that patients will spend under anesthesia.

Robert Martin, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology at the University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center added, "Compared to former ablative systems, this microwave system has a more efficient heat mechanism. This leads to faster, more efficient ablations that potty be performed simultaneously, and thus leads to less time under anesthesia for the affected role."

About Covidien

Covidien is a leading global healthcare products company that creates innovative medical solutions for better patient outcomes and delivers value through clinical leadership and excellence. Covidien manufactures, distributes and services a diverse range of industry-leading product lines in four segments: Medical Devices, Imaging Solutions, Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Supplies. With 2007 tax income of intimately $9 gazillion, Covidien has more than 42,000 employees planetary in 57 countries, and its products are sold in over 130 countries.

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Saturday 30 August 2008

Download Witchery mp3

Artist: Witchery: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Metal: Thrash
Metal: Heavy

Discography:

Don't Fear The Reaper

Year: 2006

Tracks: 14

Symphony For The Devil

Year: 2001

Tracks: 12

Witchburner

Year: 1999

Tracks: 7

Dead Hot and Ready

Year: 1999

Tracks: 10

Restless and Dead

Year:

Tracks: 1

Sweden's Witchery was natural in 1997 after Satanic Slaughter tumble Ztephan Dark distinct to fire his band, which then consisted of guitarists Patrik Jenson (of Seance and the Haunted) and Richard Corpse, vocalizer Toxine, and drummer Mique. The quaternary of them recruited bassist Sharlee D' Angelo of Mercyful Fate and directly released Witchery's low album Restless and Dead. Witchery's riff-heavy vogue, hailing back to the musical alloy of the '80s, was well-received by both critics and fans. The combination of Patrik Jenson, known in the principal for his work with the Haunted, and Mercyful Fate bassist Sharlee D' Angelo constituted Witchery as a black/death metallic element supergroup. Their second button was the 1999 EP Witchburner, made up of four covers and threesome originals. Covering songs by Wasp, Judas Priest, Accept, and Black Sabbath, Witchery paid protection to the groups that suffer influenced their legal. Dead, Hot, and Ready followed shortly thenceforth, comme il faut their third base slop in less than a year's clip. Satanic Slaughter Years appeared a year later.

Wednesday 20 August 2008

Opera review: Love and Other Demons, Glyndebourne

When it comes to presenting new works, Glyndebourne is not renowned for adventurousness, so it is a amount of how Peter E�v�s's status as an opera composer has climbed that he should be the first non-British composer to have a stage process premiered by the company. Love and Other Demons is E�v�s's fifth all-out opera, and if structurally it is his to the highest degree conventional so far, it is too well made and musically rewarding.

The composer has admitted that he localize out to write a bel canto work for Glyndebourne, and that Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez's 1994 novelette of spiritual intolerance, demonic possession and illicit love seemed to contain all the operatic ingredients he needed. The English-language libretto by Kornel Hamvai fillets the already slender tarradiddle expertly enough, but leaves the slice curiously deracinated. By removing its 18th-century Latin American context almost entirely, the power of M�rquez's thaumaturgy realism is neutralised, going just an unsavoury fib not far removed from Ken Russell's The Devils, with an ending that seems incautiously inconclusive.

E�v�s's confident score, though, is full of authentically magical things. His orchestral imagination is keen and he has simplified his musical spoken communication without always making it simplistic. There are ravishing sounds here, combined with equally convincing vocal writing often spun over diaphanous textures, tied though sometimes the drama needs more of a musical push.

It helps that the Glyndebourne carrying into action is so accomplished. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski makes the music shimmer and glow, and provides the singers with upper limit support. Allison Bell takes on with gusto the demanding coloratura of the central character, Sierva Maria, the lester Willis Young girl world Health Organization is incarcerated in a convent after apparently catching rabies; Nathan Gunn is the hunky priest sent to exorcize her demons but world Health Organization falls in love with her or else. There are wonderfully ascertained character roles from Jean Rigby as Sierva Maria's fellow inmate and Felicity Palmer as the abbess, and from John Graham-Hall as a doctor (the only age of Reason figure in this god-obsessed society), Robert Brubaker as the girl's father and Mats Almgren as the local bishop.

Only Silviu Purcarete's production disappoints for its failure to evoke whatever real horse sense of place, despite the lavish use of television projections total of wiggly bodies, insects and reptiles; someone power have pointed out to him that there are no chameleons in South America.

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Sunday 10 August 2008

Australian country musician Reg Lindsay dies

Popularized local acts in '50s, '60s with syndicated shows

MELBOURNE, Australia -- One of the founding fathers of Australian country medicine, Reg Lindsay, died Tuesday in Newcastle, in New South Wales, after a long sickness. He was 79.

Lindsay had been hospitalized since 2003 after a heart attack and a series of strokes. Following his transcription debut in 1951 on the Rodeo label, Lindsay recorded more than 65 albums and 250 singles on a number of labels, scoring several hits on the Festival judge in the 1970s.

His best-known hits included "Silence on the Line," "Empty Arms Hotel" and his versions of 2 songs by Californian singer-songwriter John Stewart, "Armstrong" and "July, You're a Woman Now."

Through the 1950s and '60s, Lindsay popularized local country acts through his nationally syndicated television shows "The Reg Lindsay Country Hour" and "Reg Lindsay Country Homestead."

He was one of the first to be inducted into the Australian Country Music Hands of Fame in 1977 and was elevated to Australian country music's highest honor, the Roll of Renown, in January 1984. He standard the Order of Australia in 1989 from Queen Elizabeth II for services to music.

Lindsay toured the U.S. a number of times and was the first Australian to receive a plaque on Nashville's Walkway of Stars.

He is cited as an influence by a younger generation of country singers. "His classic hits sound as beautiful today as they did when Reg recorded them," aforesaid multiplatinum singer Lee Kernaghan, who calls him "a master interpreter of song."

Bob Kirchner, chief Executive of the Tamworth-based Australian Country Music Foundation added: "Reg was a behemoth of Australian country music. He was one of those people with true star quality, real natural endowment, presence and charisma."

On Monday, Sydney-based Destra Music released a four-disc boxed set covering his 45-year career entitled "No Dress Rehearsal -- The Highlights." The label had been compilation the fructify for the past 12 months with Lindsay's wife and managing director Roslyn, Destra CEO Ken Outch aforementioned.