I’m a Trojan alum and a huge college football fan. I was sad to see Pete Carroll leave for the NFL but unlike some Trojans (and Vols) I’m happy to see Kiffin return, even without Norm Chow on the staff.
Funny or Die has a half bizarre of a skit Pete Carroll participated in after he decided to leave USC.
Now Pete has always been playful and something of a kidder and the skit is somewhat humorous but I’m not sure I’ll ever understand in full what Pete was thinking when he decided to participate in making it.
The English Surgeon opened at the London Film Festival last year. It follows Henry Marsh, an English neurosurgeon, and his long standing work in the Ukraine. It’s gotten touching reviews and I’d love to see it. Ah to be in San Francisco or New York or Los Angeles. Well it’s saved to my Netflix queue for now. Here’s Geoffrey Smith talking about the film.
A small study in the United Kingdom found that replacing door handles, faucet fixtures and toilet seats with copper replacements could work as an infection control method.
During the ten-week trial on a medical ward, a set of taps, a lavatory seat and a push plate on an entrance door were replaced with copper versions. They were swabbed twice a day for bugs and the results compared with a traditional tap, lavatory seat and push plate elsewhere in the ward.
The copper items had up to 95 per cent fewer bugs on their surface whenever they were tested, a U.S. conference on antibiotics heard yesterday.
You of course want to see an actual effect on nosocomial infection rates, but this is still interesting. And this is always good,
Lab tests show that the metal kills off the deadly MRSA and C difficile superbugs.
The reclusive dictator of North Korea hasn’t been seen in a while. He recently missed a major military parade, which was just another step in many national spying agencies calling into question his health. Now word is spreading that his son has recruited a French neurosurgeon to travel to North Korea.
New doubts over the health of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” have arisen after Kim Jong Il’s eldest son was filmed in Paris apparently soliciting the services of a top brain surgeon.
The footage, shot by the Japanese Fuji Television, has rekindled conjecture that Mr Kim is gravely ill and has possibly had a stroke.
The footage shows a man, identified by North Korea watchers as “undoubtedly” Kim Jong Nam, entering a Parisian clinic for a discussion. Two days later, an unnamed French doctor was filmed arriving at Charles de Gaulle airport in a car owned by the North Korean mission to Unesco. When asked, the doctor did not deny that his destination was Pyongyang.
There are obviously too many reasons why one would need a neurosurgeon to start speculating on Mr. Kim’s health. However, going over the conjecture The Times makes that Mr. Kim may have had a “stroke.”
If Mr. Kim has had a stroke and we’ve reached a stage where surgery may be a necessity then the North Korean dictator is at a dire point. A decompressive craniectomy or digging around to remove an intraparenchymal clot or performing a “strokectomy” to decompress, make it very unlikely the dictator will ever return to rule over North Korea, assuming he is to survive.
It may be quite a while before more substantial word on Mr. Kim’s condition (or even word of his death) out of the most closed society on earth.
