Posted on 07/15/2005 10:29:12 AM PDT by joanie-f
OT: Thanks for the DNDN tip last month!
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050721/sfth055.html?.v=17
But, far more important than the profits to be made, is the desperately needed hope that Provenge can bring to those suffering from advanced stage prostate cancer. Provenge already has FDA fast-track approval status, but let’s hope they ramp that approval track up a notch, for what is generally termed ‘humanitarian’ reasons. Right now, it appears that BLA filing could occur late this year or early next, with possible FDA approval by mid-2006.
I was ecstatic to read, in today’s announcement, that the Cox statistical regression analysis (on PSA, number of bone metastases, etc.) for 9902A returned the same results as 9901. And, as if that weren’t sweet enough, the trial segments were balanced in favor of the placebo receivers. If it isn’t already, the Cox analysis should be a weighty factor in approval considerations.
Bottom line: Dendreon now has two phase 3 trials under its belt in which median survival benefits proved to be better than those of Taxotere (the only FDA-approved treatment that extends life in advanced-stage patients).
Not necessarily a cure, but a very significant step toward one, and … most important … new hope for men who, up until now, have had little to cling to. We can, and must, be patient in waiting for significant profits. Patience is not a luxury they can afford.
~ joanie
Thx Joanie.
You have email.
Your emails are bouncing back again. Might a new ISP be in order? ;)
I'd appreciate any comments on today's DNDN action? The USB downgrade doesn't seem to explain the size of the drop. I'm still sure of the company but don't get the ups and downs on little news stories.
TIA.
Overblown; the paranoia hucksters have gotten to you once again ...Excerpted from www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Falls/1984/newfact.htm
NEW FACTS ABOUT EMP
BY R. KENNETH MITCHELL, KA6FRDThe National Communications System (NCS), a governmental entity made up from 22 different Federal agencies, wants ham radio operators and their gear to survive an EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) generated "nuclear event." NCS engineers have simulated the EMP phenomenon in the laboratory and have subjected various pieces of current amateur radio gear to its effect.
The people at NCS came to some rather surprising conclusions.
In their report they say, "It was concluded that modern solid-state amateur radio equipment was more survivable in an EMP transient environment than had been previously anticipated."
Have you ever personally read the report of the 'disruptions' purportedly caused in Hawaii?
Hey when simple nearby lightning bolt can knock out PCsOverblown. (You need to buy an UPS to solve your problem with EMI/brownouts caused by powerline 'sags'.)
Oh my God! It'll be just like Y2K!!!I have a better name for this genre "Fear-O-rama"; the ultimate 21st century bogey man ...
The average faraday cage will not stop an EMP pulse. Just too many leaks.'Faraday cage' - an over-wrought saw; what are your intentions, E-field shielding only?(That's all you'll get with strictly a 'Faraday cage'.)
But I don't think we are slackers in that technology, are we? Isn't H.A.A.R.P. a ...uhh... 'multi-purpose facility'?No. (Not in the same league; the research conducted with the HAARP facility, however, is the ionosphere, the area of the outer atmosphere where EMP is created by the gammma rays emitted from the explosion travelling radically outward ... those gamma rays traveling toward the earth's atmosphere are stopped by collisions with atmospheric molecules at altitudes between 20 and 40 kilometers. These collisions generate Compton recoil electrons which interact with the earth's magnetic field to produce a downward traveling electromagnetic wave, the "EMP" that is.)
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..the types of components used in those years, both military and civilian, were not as suceptable to EMP damage as the discrete electronic compoinents we have come to abjectly rely on today.Today's micro-electronics input/output pins are, however, protected intrinsic ESD circuity; typically fast clamping diodes to ground and the Vcc or Vdd supply rails ... this works surprising well in practice AND is an under-rated factor in most 'predictions' performed by arm-chair EMP analysts ...
The close lightning bolt induces saturation current in the LAN cabling. CAT5 cabling is unshielded. The differential signal elimates noise problems as long as noise signals are within certain specs. A lightning bolt or an EMP far exceeds the few volt limit and saturates the clamping protection diodes on the circuitries input stages. These gates are then permanently shorted.
Device is now useless.
It will be nice when the world can bury or dismantle all of its nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, due to the oversupply of evil people in high places, that time has not come around yet.
oldleft:Re: the effects seen in Hawaii:BTW, your facts about EMP are not true. If they were, our space bursts in the 50's and 60's would have wiped out Hawaii, and instead they just screwed up AM radio for a few minutes.
Euro-American Scum
So, all the sources cited in the compilation are wrong, while you are right? Have I got it? Guess you must have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
"It is worthwhile reviewing the most famous of the EMP effects from U.S. atmospheric testing, namely the simultaneous failure of 30 strings of streetlights in Oahu during the Starfish event....
He notes that the observed damage is consistent with the magnitude and orientation of the EMP fields impinging on the streetlight strings that suffered damage.
More importantly, he notes that the 30 strings of failed streetlights represented only about 1% of the streetlights that existed on Oahu at the time. Thus, the effects were not ubiquitous."
How far out in space were these bursts, and what was the yields of these bursts?
The Bush administration's apparent lack of effort to reverse the Permanent MFN status granted to China in 2000 isn't helping things, either.
like i told him in post #68- i don't know from average, but the two we had really weren't a cage but more like two boxes of sheet copper one inside of the another up on legs... they were on opposite sides of the building and one was to keep the RF isolated Inside and the other to keep it Outside. i don't know what an EMP would do though.
The close lightning bolt induces saturation current in theI have NEVER seen an event on any LAN I was on that I could correlate with nearby lighting discharges; I HAVE witnessed latch state change on equipment from nearby strikes, equipment that was poorly shielded/open owing to the developmental state of said equipment ...I still think you had a 'mains' event that probably 'dropped out' the 'switching' power supply on a node/switch somewhere but you're blaming it on the transport media itself ...
Device is now useless.A 'clue' that you probably had a 'mains' arc across the power supply; not uncommon. (Related failure inducements include a phenom called 'ground bounce')A main's arc is not the same thing as EMP as an arc is actual electron flow whereas EMP is only a field until it induces a current in a conductor.
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