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Capgras Syndrome in a Patient with Myxedema (Am J Psychiatry. 1981)

Posted in Uncategorized by ce399 on 15/02/2011

Am J Psychiatry. 1981 Nov;138(11):1506-8.

Madakasira S, Hall TB 3rd.

Abstract

The authors describe what may be the first reported case of Capgras syndrome associate with, or precipitated by, myxedema. The patient’s mental status dramatically returned to normal with gradual thyroid replacement. The authors suggest that tests for organicity be done routinely on patients manifesting Capgras features.

PMID: 7294225 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]

 

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LUH (Light Utility Helicopter)

Posted in Uncategorized by ce399 on 08/02/2011

LUH

Eurocopter UH-72A Lakota

After the termination of the Comanche helicopter Program, the US Army launch the Light Utility Helicopter competition, which aims to replace the old UH-1H Hueys and OH-58 Kiowa aircraft still in service on Active and National Guard units with approximately 320 new LUH helicopters to be delivered between 2006-2015 in a $2+ billion budget.

The LUH winner will fill the niche missions in which the US Army’s standard UH-60 Black Hawk’s size, capability, and operating expense may be less than optimal.

The selected aircraft would be a Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS)/ Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Type Standard Certified. The Eurocopter EC145 UH-145 proposal was selected on June 2006 and named as the UH-72A with the first unit delivered to the US Army by December.

During the delivery ceremony of the first airframe, on December 11, 2006 the US Army unveiled the UH-72A’s official name: Lakota, which is a Native American Indian tribe of the Great Sioux Nation. Naming the UH-72A the Lakota continues the service’s tradition of naming its helicopters after Native American tribes.

The first aircraft was delivered on 11 December 2006 in Columbus, Mississippi and delivery of the planned 345 aircraft is expected to continue until 2017.

Contenders:

Bell 210 The Bell 210 is a civil certified version of the U.S. Army UH-1H. Starting with a refurbished UH-1H fuselage, Bell Helicopter adds dynamic components from the Bell 212 (main rotor hub and blades, tail rotor, main and tail rotor support structure, transmission, rotating controls, and tail boom), and an FAA certified Honeywell T-53-517B engine providing a zero-time FAA certified single engine medium utility helicopter.

Bell also proposed its 412EP Twin Huey     [Bell 210]
[Bell 412]

MD Helicopters / Lockheed MD-900 Explorer was a NOTAR class using twin Pratt & Whitney Canada 207E turbine engines, and provides Instrument Flight Rules capability for day, night and night vision goggle operations. With a crashworthy frame, fully articulated main rotor system with bearingless composite flexbeams and rotor hub, energy absorbing crew seating and a crash-resistant fuel system meet LUH requirements. At the time, the US Coast Guard was also testing an armed version called MH-90 Enforcer

AugustaWestland AW139 AugustaWestland teamed L-3 Communications with their US139, a medium sized helicopter capable of carrying 15 passengers that can cruise in excess of 165 knots with a useful load of more than 2720 kgs (6,000 lbs)

EADS North America UH-145 WINNER is a version of the commercial Eurocopter EC145 and a joint venture of EADS North America and Eurocopter, which will handle the helicopter’s production, assembly and delivery; Sikorsky Aircraft, responsible for contractor logistics support (CLS); WestWind Technologies, for systems integration, engineering support and program management expertise; and CAE USA of Tampa, Florida, the supplier of UH-145 cockpit procedures trainers. The industrial activity will be centered at American Eurocopter’s Columbus, Mississippi facility, which is to undergo a major expansion to accommodate the LUH program.

EADS North America delivered the fiftieth UH-72A on 16 December 2008

http://www.helis.com/programs/luh.php

Sirs,

Interesting your product name reminded me of Maggie McOmie’s character LUH (Light Utility Helicopter) 3417, THX 1138 room mate in George Lucas’ film THX1138. The film and its subject matter keep cropping up recently – especially the Navy links. Unfortunately, they don’t do much “planting” of anything (except Luciferian Machine Spirit) in the film as it takes place underground in a climate controlled shopping mall-type environment. Somewhat a variant of Brave New World with omnipresent pharmacological tyranny – though with implied ecological catastrophism thrown in for added effect. In any event, there’s not much detail there other than an overwhelming trance-like oneirism realized as bleached out artifice for entertainment purposes. But probably like you, a certain “yellow canary” dominates the bioeffect as the stench of spiritual death becomes a bit too overwhelming, like the disparate (no basis in comparison – red, blue, green – ground, green for ground) connectivity found in Symbolist poetry.

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The Residents: Icky Flicks (Wake Up and Smell the Spiritual Death!)

Posted in Uncategorized by ce399 on 07/02/2011