Gonzalez is still fuming from the disrespect shown him by The Puerto Rican earlier this year at a fight card in Nicaragua. “He was talking a lot of smack when he was in my country. He said he had never even heard of me; I should have slapped him right then.” Gonzalez says.
The Nicaraguan is currently in training for his fourth defense in Mexico July 17th but the only thing on his mind seems to be inflicting a beating on the Puerto Rican. “I will fight him anywhere anytime at any weight.” He says. “Too consistently he tries to ignore me, I can only think he’s afraid of me.”
Gonzalez has always had to go into his opponent’s backyard for all of his major fights and taking on Calderon in Puerto Rico seems to bother him little. “I’m quite happy to go to Puerto Rico; it will be so much more satisfying to bust him up in front of his own people.”
With both fighters unbeaten and both the highest rated in the ring pound for pound rankings, it would seem the marquee matchup that Calderon has been looking for although his handlers seem to want no part of the Nicaraguan wrecking machine. “When I leave boxing I want to be known as a fighter who always fought the best.” Gonzalez says, “It seems Calderon doesn’t care about his legacy.”
CHEMICAL ATTACK UNLIKELY, BUT DOCTORS NEED TO BE PREPARED.(CNY)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) April 21, 2003 Byline: AMBER SMITH HEALTH NOTES ***** CORRECTION: April 23, 2003 Dr. Jim Sexton is the pulmonary critical care specialist from SUNY Upstate Medical University who is speaking this weekend at the Northeast Pulmonary Teaching Conference. He was misidentified in Monday’s CNY section of The Post-Standard as Joe.
***** Dr. Joe Sexton, a pulmonary critical care specialist at Upstate Medical University, is giving an overview of chemical warfare at the Northeast Pulmonary Teaching Conference in Syracuse this weekend.
He’s not scared.
He doesn’t think it’s likely that Americans will face chemical attack.
Still, he sees benefit in being familiar with the potential.
Toxic chemicals fall into four categories: nerve agents such as sarin, blistering agents such as mustard gas, lung-damaging agents such as chlorine and blood agents such as cyanide.
“Their toxicity depends on concentration, method of delivery and time of exposure,” says Sexton, in addition to the characteristics of the various agents.
“Cyanides tend to work very quickly. Mustards take a longer time to work.” Sexton will address medical professionals from throughout the country at the conference, sponsored by the American Lung Association of Central New York and the American College of Chest Physicians.
He doesn’t expect to spend a lot of time talking about terrorist attacks, though he admits lessons can be learned from previous incidents. Terrorists released sarin in the Tokyo subway in 1995. From that incident, says Sexton, “The biggest lesson was how many people would show up in your ER.” He recalls that 11 or 12 people died in the attack. Roughly 1,500 were at least partially exposed to the gas. Almost 6,000 fled to emergency rooms. They panicked. They were not exposed. Nevertheless, says Sexton, “They have to be dealt with.” To use chemical weapons, terrorists have to be smart and patient. Sexton maintains they’re more likely to use conventional weapons, simply because that provides an easier method of killing. in our site ammonia and bleach
So if you ask him what chemical is most likely to be used in an attack, he’ll defer. And then he’ll tell you how the German army used chlorine gas in World War I, the first industrial use of chemical weapons.
If you were to go on a cleaning binge and mix together ammonia and bleach – (don’t do this, by the way) – you would create your own chlorine gas.
“You can actually get pretty sick,” Sexton says. “I’ve seen that happen a couple of times.” That sort of chemical exposure, he says, is a far more likely scenario. web site ammonia and bleach
Middle management A study of 423 overweight men and women published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month found dieters who followed Weight Watchers lost more weight than those who tried to lose on their own.
Weight Watchers participants maintained an average weight loss of 6 pounds, compared with independent dieters who, on average, returned to their starting weight at the end of two years. What’s more, the Weight Watchers members who attended at least 78 percent of their weekly group meetings achieved better results, with a median weight loss of 10 pounds.
How does Weight Watcher’s work?
People pay $10 to $12 to attend weekly group meetings that last about an hour and include a private weigh-in.
Foods are assigned a “point” value, based on calories, fat and fiber content. Participants can eat whatever they want, as long as they stay within their point range. Participants can earn points through exercise, which they can use to eat more food or save for additional weight loss.
Learn more about Weight Watchers at www.weightwatchers.com .
Clubfoot connection For most of his career, Dr. David Hootnick has tried to prove something doesn’t exist.
He’s a Syracuse orthopedic surgeon with a research interest in orthopedic birth defects, including clubfoot, which affects one in 1,000 babies. That’s when the foot and ankle are twisted out of position. The bones of the leg or foot or the muscles of the calf are underdeveloped. Hootnick maintains that along with the bony defects are arterial defects.
A colleague in the late 1970s told him about a Spanish research paper published in the late 1960s. Two doctors in Mexico City wrote about a boy whose leg died after surgery to correct clubfoot. Hootnick examined the paper. “I came to the conclusion that the artery was missing.” He’s seen that children with shortened limbs are missing arteries in their affected legs, so it made sense to him that victims of clubfoot may be similarly affected.
Doctors in Brazil read about some of Hootnick’s work and started research of their own. They did arteriograms, injecting dye into the vessels of more than 30 children with clubfoot, and found they were all missing arteries.
Hootnick traveled to Sao Paulo and wrote a review paper about the research. Researchers from all over the world disputed him. They used Doppler sonography on children with clubfoot and said they found no proof that the arteries were missing.
Arteriograms are more precise than sonograms, but they can be toxic to the children, potentially damaging the growth of their arteries and limbs. So that Brazilian study is not likely to be repeated, Hootnick says.
Meanwhile, he explains, pulsed color-flow Doppler sonography became available, providing a more detailed image of the vascular anatomy.
With a grant from the Children’s Miracle Network, Hootnick used the new Doppler in a five-year study of Central New York children with clubfoot. He was able to focus on specific depths, determining the size of any vessel and the direction of its blood flow, things that were not possible to detect using traditional sonography. His findings – “the worse the deformity, the more frequently the artery is missing” – were published in the January issue of Pediatric Orthopedics.
Doctors treat clubfoot through immobilization, physical therapy and surgery. Hootnick says surgeons need to be aware of arterial abnormalities because of complications that can arise if blood flow to the foot is compromised.
“Whatever causes the arteries to be missing is also causing the bony deformities,” he says. “Whether it’s the arteries going on to cause the bony deformities, or if they’re both going on at the same time, I can’t tell you for sure,” he says, “but they seem to go together.” The practical conclusion of Hootnick’s work? Maybe less surgery to correct clubfoot.
