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Surgery September class, title,number 09/10Below are recently published patent applications awaiting approval from the USPTO. Recent week's RSS XML file available below.
Listing for abstract view: USPTO application #, Title, Abstract excerpt,Patent Agent. Listing format for list view: USPTO National Class full category number, title of the patent application. 09/30/2010 > patent applications in patent subcategories.
20100249689 - Device and method for restoration of the condition of blood: The present invention relates to a device for extracorporeal removal of harmful agents from blood or blood components, comprising full length heparin immobilized on a solid substrate by covalent end point attachment. The present invention also relates to a method for extracorporeal removal of a harmful agent from mammalian blood... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
20100249691 - Glaucoma shunts with flow management and improved surgical performance: A method of treating glaucoma in an eye by managing fluid flow past an implanted shunt having an elastomeric plate and a non-valved elastomeric drainage tube. The plate is positioned over a sclera of the eye with an outflow end of the elastomeric drainage tube open to an outer face... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics, Inc.
20100249692 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100249690 - Tools and methods for programming an implantable valve: A two-part tool for reading and adjusting an implantable valve, and methods of use. The tool includes a locator-indicator component that, when placed matingly on the patient's skin over the valve, provides magnetic reading of the valve setting. The tool also includes an adjustor component that couples to the locator-indicator... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100249693 - Cassette capture mechanism: The present invention pertains to a cassette capture mechanism for uniting a cassette with a console to prevent jamming or damage to the console and/or cassette. The cassette capture mechanism comprises a cassette receptacle, an axial translation linkage, a first sensor apparatus, and a second sensor apparatus. The cassette receptacle... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics, Inc.
20100249695 - Integral insufflation valve: A trocar assembly that comprises a trocar valve body defining a cavity, the valve body for communicating insufflation fluid therethrough. The assembly also comprises a selectively rotatable valve handle for controlling a flow of said insufflation fluid through the valve body. The rotatable valve handle is elongated and has a... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100249694 - Trocar for a single port surgery: Provided is a trocar for a single port surgery installed on a skin puncture site of a patient to provide a pathway for insertion of a plurality of surgical instruments. The trocar includes an upper part; a plurality of inserting holes configured to be positioned on the upper part, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
20100249696 - Straight cutting tip for a full large bore subcutaneous implantation instrument: A straight cutting tip for a full large bore subcutaneous implantation instrument is provided. An incising shaft body defines an axial bore extending continuously throughout the incising shaft body's length. The axial bore is open on both distal and proximal ends of the incising shaft body and has a non-circular... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property
20100249697 - Disposable injector with dual-piston dual-chamber system: s
20100249698 - Controlled exotherm of cyanoacrylate formulations: The present invention is directed to curable cyanoacrylate-based formulation containing a multi-functional amine initiator. A dual function amine, particularly Quadrol, provides a highly desirable balance of maximum cure temperature and setting time of cure with the same higher viscosity, non-running cyanoacrylate formulation. The present invention is also directed to systems... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100249699 - Device to deliver magnesium in peg formulation: A container supplies a medicinal formulation that includes a hydrophilic polymer and an active agent capable of bonding to the polymer. The container includes a first compartment for storing the polymer and a second compartment fluidly isolated from the first compartment for storing the active agent. A frangible barrier is... Agent: Medtronic Attn: Noreen Johnson -IPLegal Department
20100249701 - Device to be used in healing processes: A device to be used in healing processes includes a flexible double-walled inflatable tube segment which encloses a hollow space.... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.
20100249700 - Surgical instruments for in vivo assembly: A method of assembling a surgical instrument inside a patient and a device likewise configured to be assembled in vivo through a body wall of the patient is provided. In at least one embodiment, the method includes delivering an end effector to a body cavity of the patient, inserting a... Agent: K&l Gates LLP
20100249702 - Porous catheter balloon and method of making same: A porous balloon or other catheter structure is formed by creating specific size pores for delivering an agent to a body lumen. The pores can be created by passing matter or energy through the surface of the catheter structure, as by a laser or a projectile. In the case of... Agent: Fulwider Patton, LLP (abbott)
20100249703 - Sterilizable vacuum handpiece: A sterilizable vacuum handpiece that may include a base unit reversibly coupled to a handle unit, having a central vacuum passage connecting proximal and distal ends. A hand-removable base unit valve may divide a base unit vacuum passage and a hand-removable handle unit valve may separate a handle unit vacuum... Agent: Gallagher & Dawsey Co., L.p.a.
20100249704 - Patency check with pressure monitoring: A patency check protocol (150) for evaluating a patency check injection (156) is disclosed. The protocol (150) incorporates a pressure standard (152) (e.g., a pressure threshold; a target pressure curve). A pressure associated with the patency check injection is monitored (160) and compared against this pressure standard (164). If a... Agent: Mallinckrodt Inc.
20100249705 - One shot injector with dual springs: The present invention relates to a medical delivery device comprising a generally elongated housing, a container containing medicament to be delivered, a drive means capable of acting on said container for expelling said medicament, wherein said drive means comprises at least two force spring means arranged between a fixed part... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC
20100249706 - Novel drive system for use with an insulin delivery device: The invention relates to a mechanical drive system for a medical infusion device. The disclosed drive system employs a flexible tape with recesses or holes that are configured to mate with tabs or protrusions on a gear to advance the rotation of the gear at a rate determined by the... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100249707 - Catheter insertion device: Embodiments of a catheter insertion device are discussed comprising: an approximately hollow cylindrical catheter sleeve, at whose distal end a catheter is attached; a needle sleeve with a hollow needle, which is attached thereto and which, when ready for use, extends through the catheter sleeve and the catheter, and; a... Agent: Klein, O''neill & Singh, LLP
20100249708 - Articulating surgical portal apparatus with spring: A surgical portal apparatus is provided which includes a housing and a portal member. The portal member is connected to the housing which extends therefrom. The portal member has a longitudinal axis which includes a longitudinal passageway for permitting a surgical object to pass therethrough. A seal mount is mounted... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100249710 - Powered variable seal diameter trocar employing a longitudinal displacement mechanism: An apparatus for sealing a passageway through an access assembly includes a variable seal member having an orifice for reception of an instrument therethrough. Each of a pair of compression members has a pressure face for contacting the variable seal member, each pressure face opposing the variable seal member from... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100249709 - Surgical access assembly including shield member: A surgical access assembly includes a housing, an access member, a seal member, and a shield member. The access member extends distally from the housing, and includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal opening for the reception of a surgical instrument. The seal member is positioned within... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100249711 - Surgical access apparatus with seal and closure valve assembly: A surgical access apparatus includes an access housing, an access member extending from the access housing, a seal mount disposed within the access housing and having an object seal for forming a seal about the surgical object and a monolithic closure valve mounted to the housing distal of the seal... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100249712 - Deformable medical implant: The present invention comprises an implantable subcutaneous port for anchoring a transcutaneous treatment component. The implantable subcutaneous port comprises a body portion and one or more frangible lines formed within the body portion. The body portion is adapted for receiving the transcutaneous treatment component beneath the point of entry into... Agent: Kevin Farrell Pierce Atwood
20100249714 - Systems and methods for providing a conventional integrated catheter with universal grip: A universal gripping surface is provided on an intravenous catheter assembly. The universal gripping surface provides a plurality of surfaces whereby a user may grip the catheter assembly in a desired gripping configuration for improved balance and control of the catheter assembly during insertion of the catheter. Additionally, the universal... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & ChiefIPCounsel Becton, Dickinson And Company
20100249713 - Systems and methods for providing a safety integrated catheter with universal grip: A universal gripping surface is provided on an intravenous catheter assembly. The universal gripping surface provides a plurality of surfaces whereby a user may grip the catheter assembly in a desired gripping configuration for improved balance and control of the catheter assembly during insertion of the catheter. Additionally, the universal... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & ChiefIPCounsel Becton, Dickinson And Company
20100249715 - Device for assisting with intravenous administration: A medical tube retaining device has a flexible portion having one or more clips formed thereon for organizing, securing and retaining one or more medical tubes to the flexible portion. An adjustable band is attached to the flexible portion for securing the device to a limb of a patient.... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building
20100249717 - Manual pump for intravenous fluids: A manual intravenous pump includes an input line, a fluid reservoir operatively connected to the input line, and an output line operatively connected to the fluid reservoir. The manual intravenous pump further includes a manually operable actuator, configured to facilitate the flow of fluid from the input line, through the... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk
20100249716 - Single-use ampoule: A single-use, blow-molded container for medical or pharmaceutical media is presented. The container comprises a flexible storage portion connected to one end a dispensing portion and a cap connected to the other end of the dispensing portion, wherein the cap is separated from the dispensing portion to create an outlet... Agent: The H.t. Than Law Group
20100249718 - Self-administration device for liquid medicine: A liquid medicine self-administration device including a flexible reservoir, an operating member, a pushing member to move with respect to the operating member and to induce pressure deformation of the reservoir, and engaging means engages the operating member. With the operating member engaged by the engaging means, the pushing member... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
20100249720 - Integrated device for the storage and delivery of a bone graft or other implantable material to a surgical site: A device for the storage and delivery of a bone graft or other implantable material to a desired surgical site includes a storage portion that extends from a first end to a second end. The first end of the storage portion is adapted to have a bone graft or other... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC
20100249719 - Methods for manually injecting/aspirating fluids through small diameter catheters and needles and manual injection/aspiration systems including small diameter catheters and needles: A system for increasing rates at which fluids may be manually forced through injection/aspiration elements, such as catheters and needles, includes the injection/aspiration elements, as well as a syringe including a pair of crossed handles, one associated with the barrel of the syringe, the other associated with the plunger of... Agent: Traskbritt, P.C.
20100249722 - Administration feeding set: An administration feeding set for use with a flow control apparatus to deliver fluid from at least one fluid source to a patient. The set includes tubing for flow of fluid along a fluid pathway and a mounting member on the tubing adapted to engage the flow control apparatus. The... Agent: Tyco Healthcare - Edward S. Jarmolowicz
20100249721 - Device for delivering a medicament: A device for delivery of medicament, which device comprises an elongated housing; a container (4) mounted within said housing and adapted to contain liquid medicament; a stopper slidably arranged within said container; and actuating means comprising a resilient member (60), a driving means (50) having one end connected to the... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC
20100249723 - Medical connectors and methods of use: Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to a medical connector having a backflow resistance module configured to prevent fluid from being drawn into the connector when a backflow inducing event occurs. In some embodiments, the backflow resistance module can include a variable-volume chamber configured to change in volume in response to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100249724 - Medical valve with distal seal actuator: A medical valve transitions between an open mode that permits fluid flow, and a closed mode that prevents fluid flow. To that end, the valve has a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a post member moveably mounted within the housing and a distal seal member. The post member... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
20100249725 - Medical valve with multiple variable volume regions: A medical valve transitions between an open mode that permits fluid flow, and a closed mode that prevents fluid flow. The valve has a housing, a valve member with a distal seal having a normally closed aperture, a first variable volume region and a second variable volume region longitudinally spaced... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
20100249727 - Convenience iv kits and methods of use: A convenience kit which provides a basic configuration for use in measuring, filling and dispensing medication and flush solutions to IV sets and patient catheters through needleless connectors while improving safety and efficacy by requiring fewer post-sterilization makes and breaks compared to conventional filling and dispensing methods. Further, the kit... Agent: Gale H. Thorne
20100249726 - Trocarless intravenous cannula with a multifilament tip: A trocarless intravenous cannula with a multifilament tip is described. The trocarless intravenous cannula has a tapered, distal multifilament tip that is comprised of a plurality of individual filaments. In one aspect, the distal part of the cannula is fenestrated. The tip and the distal part of the cannula may... Agent: HartIPLaw And Strategies, LLC
20100249728 - Medical container and medical container set: A medical container (1) includes a bag-like container body (10) made up of two flexible sheets (12a, 12b). At least one of a pair of long-side sealed areas (11La, 11Lb) formed by the two sheets being bonded together is provided with a sealed protruding portion (20a, 21a, 20b, 21b) protruding... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.
20100249729 - Methods and systems for accessing the pericardial space: Methods and systems for transvenously accessing the pericardial space via the vascular system and atrial wall, particularly through the superior vena cava and right atrial wall, to deliver treatment in the pericardial space are disclosed. A steerable instrument is advanced transvenously into the right atrium of the heart, and a... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.
20100249730 - Enema device: An enema device for use with a source of enema fluid having an elongated nozzle includes a hollow elongated rigid body having an interior extending between first and second ends and a feed portion formed at the first end defining a feed portion opening. A hollow nozzle receiving portion extends... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC
20100249731 - Method for measuring skin erythema: A method for measuring skin erythema and determining the efficacy of skin care treatment products utilizing digital images.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100249732 - Process and device for application of active substances to a wound surface: For application of active substances to a wound surface a porous padding (12) is provided upon the wound (10), which is sealingly covered over with a foil (14). A fluid active substance is introduced into the padding (12) via a supply line (22) and is then suctioned out of the... Agent: Kinetic Concepts, Inc. C/o Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
20100249733 - Apparatus with actives from tissue: An apparatus for cleansing wounds in which irrigant fluid containing one or more physiologically active components from a means for supplying physiologically active agents from cells or tissue to the wound, e.g. an irrigant reservoir connected to a container that contains a cell or tissue component, in turn connected to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100249734 - Ostomy pouch containing and supporting device and system: The present invention provides a device for containing, positioning, holding, and/or supporting an ostomy pouching system. In particular, the present invention provides a bag comprising one or more shoulder support straps for containing, positioning, holding, and supporting an ostomy pouch over a surgical stoma.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.
20100249736 - Fabric, protective garments made therefrom, and methods of making: Disclosed herein are protective garments comprising an inner surface or portion of an inner surface with both absorbent and stain resistant properties while maintaining the soft feel, breathability and aesthetic properties associated with traditional “non protective” intimate apparel. The fabrics and methods of constructing the garments are also disclosed herein.... Agent: Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
20100249735 - Sanitary enhanced absorption wick device: A separate entity, or wick, that works in conjunction with the user's sanitary pad of choice to help absorb, direct, channel, and contain blood or fluid directly from the vaginal vestibule area onto the sanitary pad. The small wick device fits comfortably and snugly in the vestibule area, and is... Agent: Cecelia Ali
20100249738 - Absorbent article comprising at least one ventilation component: An absorbent article comprises a liquid impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core. The backsheet is not overlaid by the core in at least one margin section. The article also comprises at least one ventilation component constituted by a ventilation material. Each ventilation component is positioned overlaying the backsheet and exclusively... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100249737 - Absorber, sanitary articles using the absorber, and production method thereof: An upper water-absorbing paper layer portion to form an upper surface, a lower water-absorbing paper layer portion to form a lower surface, and a water-absorbing mixture layer portion provided between the upper water-absorbing paper layer portion and the lower water-absorbing paper layer portion are overlapped in layers and integrated to... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen
20100249739 - Absorbent core: An absorbent core for use in an absorbent product, such as a sanitary napkin, a diaper, an incontinence protection or the like. The core after compression has a material density (based on the total content of the core) of at least 200 kg/m3, preferably at least 230 kg/m3, measured at... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100249740 - Shaped sheet and absorbent article using the same: A shaped sheet, comprising: a plurality of protrusions (3) on one surface side of the shaped sheet formed of fibers; and connecting portions (5) for being barriers and connecting the protrusions (3) to one another, wherein the connecting portion (5) has a fiber density higher than a fiber density of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
20100249741 - Non-woven material for use as a body facing sheet in an absorbent article: A nonwoven material including at least two layers integrated into each other, for use as a body facing sheet in an absorbent article. The first layer includes spunlaid filaments and the second layer includes staple fibres. The staple fibres have a thickness ≦1.5 dtex, and the filaments have a thickness... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)
20100249742 - Compartmentalized individual package for absorbent articles: An individually packaged absorbent article including an absorbent article and a package. The package can also have a dispensing compartment substantially enclosing the absorbent article prior to use that can have an opening provided to access the absorbent article. The package can also have a disposal compartment separate from the... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100249743 - Disposable pants-type body fluid absorbent wearing article: In a disposable pants-type wearing article, a body fluid absorbent panel provided in a crotch region extends in a longitudinal direction A and is fixed to a sheet member defining inner surfaces of front and rear waist regions. The body fluid absorbent panel is formed along its opposite side edges... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP
20100249744 - Fastening tape and disposable diaper having the same: A fastening tape comprising a tab part formed at one end of a tape substrate, a fixing part formed at the other end of the tape substrate so as to be attached to a disposable diaper main body, a fastening part formed between the tab part and the fixing part,... Agent: Tomoko Nakajima Cermak Nakajima LLP
20100249745 - Bag connector: The present invention concerns an attachable membrane device for providing a piercable liquid barrier membrane to the surface of a pierceable fluid container, such as an infusion bag. The attachable membrane device have a fastening part comprising a fastening surface adapted to be attached to the surface of the pierceable... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.
20100249746 - Drug delivery system for accelerated subcutaneous absorption: A method for accelerating subcutaneous absorption of a fluid or drug into the systemic circulation of a specific targeted tissue. A first drug operative to produce local capillary vasodilatation and/or increase the rate of bulk flow of solution through the interstitial space is mixed with a fluid. The fluid may... Agent: Kit M. Stetina Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
20100249748 - Needle shield for injections: A needle shield for hiding a needle from a patient during an injection is disclosed. The needle shield comprises an attaching portion for attaching the needle shield to a syringe and an opaque collapsible element extending from the attaching portion, the collapsible element having an orifice extending therethrough and being... Agent: Blank Rome LLP
20100249747 - Transdermal venous access locking solution: Compositions and methods of employing compositions in flushing and coating medical devices are disclosed. The compositions include combinations of a chelating agent, anticoagulant, or antithrombotic agent, with a C4-C9 carboxylate antimicrobial agent, such as octanoic acid. Methods of using these compositions for coating a medical device and for inhibiting catheter... Agent: Richard G. Gervase Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky And Popeo PC
20100249749 - Drug delivery catheter with soluble balloon coating containing releasable microspheres and delivery method: A drug delivery catheter and method for delivering microcapsules or microspheres containing a drug, pharmacological or other bioactive agent includes a balloon catheter having a coating on the balloon of a soluble biocompatible polymer containing a plurality of microcapsules or microspheres containing a drug or other agent. The balloon is... Agent: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.IPLegal Department
20100249750 - Safety neural injection system and related methods: A safety neural injection system includes at least a partially hollow cannula having an inside diameter, an outside diameter, a first length, a side port located coaxially along the hollow cannula for fluid communication between the inside and the outside of the hollow cannula, and an open distal end. The... Agent: Winstead PC
20100249751 - Device for administering a dose of an analgesic liquid to an infant: (c) a removable article for sealing the opening in the nipple-shaped portion and the dose of analgesic liquid, thereby to prevent entry of bacteria into the analgesic liquid and prevent discharge of the analgesic liquid when the dispensing device is not in use.... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
20100249752 - Pressure-controlled balloon catheter: An anal probe for use in connection with anal irrigation is provided. The probe comprises a tip part and shaft part, which may be separate from each other or one integral part. The probe is provided with retention means, which together with the tip part and the shaft part define... Agent: Coloplast A/s Attention: Corporate Patents
20100249753 - Vented syringe system and method for the containment, mixing and ejection of wetted particulate material: A vented syringe system and method for particulate containment, mixing and delivery, the system having a vented syringe containing particulate material structured to enable entrapped gases to escape during the injection of liquid into the particulate material, such that gas is removed from the vented syringe prior to ejection of... Agent: Rogers Towers, P.A.
20100249754 - Guide catheter with removable support: Catheters such as guide catheters can be configured for delivery of devices to vasculature portions such as intracranial spaces while retaining a desired level of flexibility. A catheter having an elongate shaft can include removable support means that can provide column support to the elongate shaft. The elongate shaft can... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC
20100249755 - Surgical hair evacuation device (shed) and method of use: A device and method for the removal and disposal of transected hair from the body of a patient in an operating room or other sterile location. The hand-held device is single-use, latex-free, sterile-packaged, non-conductive, fully disposable and comprises a hollow handle with a projecting wand ending in an enlarged distal... Agent: Mirick, O'connell, Demallie & Lougee, LLP
20100249757 - Method of electrogenically controlling pump molecules: Activation of electrogenic pump molecules can be realized by a dynamic entrainment procedure which includes two steps: synchronization of individual pump molecules to work at the same pumping pace, and gradual modulation of the synchronization frequency. Na/K pump molecules were used as an example in a physiological operating mode by... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa
20100249756 - System and method for monitoring cardiopulmonary fluid transfer rates using an implantable medical device: Techniques are provided for use by a pacemaker or other implantable medical device for detecting and tracking trends in cardiopulmonary fluid transfer rates—such as heart-to-lung fluid perfusion rates and lung-to-lymphatic system fluid excretion rates—and for detecting heart failure, dyspnea or other cardiopulmonary conditions. In one example, the device periodically measures... Agent: Pacesetter, Inc.09/23/2010 > patent applications in patent subcategories.
20100241044 - Hemo(dia) filtration apparatus: An apparatus for hemo(dia)filtration comprises an extracorporeal blood circuit and a supply line of a replacement fluid to the extracorporeal blood circuit. The supply line has a bifurcation which divides a main branch (24) into a pre-dilution branch (25) and a post-dilution branch (26). A pump tube tract (29) is... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP
20100241045 - Renal therapy blood cleansing system with balance chamber and bolus, rinseback or prime volume feature: A renal therapy blood cleaning system includes: a blood filtering device in communication with an extracorporeal circuit; a first pump configured to pump fluid to the blood filtering device; a second pump configured to pump fluid from the blood filtering device; a balance chamber in fluid communication with first and... Agent: K&l Gates LLP
20100241046 - Apparatus, methods and devices for treatment of ocular disorders: Apparatus and methods for relieving and treating glaucoma and other ocular disorders are disclosed. The apparatus includes a thin flexible membrane and preferably a tubular member. In another aspect of the invention, a surgical device for repairing ocular tissue includes a flexible membrane of a polymeric material comprising polyisobutylene. In... Agent: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.
20100241047 - System, methods and apparatus for cerebral protection: A device, system and method for perfusing an oxygenated medium in the cerebral vasculature. In the case of bihemispheric brain perfusion, it includes positioning pressure cuffs on upper extremities; providing a catheter having a multi-region configuration with a balloon; inserting the catheter into a subclavian or femoral vein; advancing the... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc
20100241048 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241049 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241050 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241051 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241052 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241053 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241054 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241055 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100241057 - apparatus for iontophoresis: The present invention relates to an iontophoresis apparatus, and more particularly, to an iontophoresis apparatus detachable from a mask or patch, wherein after skin condition is previously diagnosed before an iontophoresis is performed, the amount of current is adjusted according to the skin condition to absorb effective components contained in... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC
20100241056 - Face mask: A face mask for cleansing of facial skin. The face mask 100 comprises two or more electrodes 22, 23 to which an electric cleansing signal generated by a cleansing signal generator of the face mask is conveyable, the electrodes provided in the face mask 100 being arranged as electrode pairs... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto
20100241059 - Method and portable device for treating skin disorders: A device for treating a skin condition is provided. The device comprises a delivery system for administering a composition to the skin disorder. The delivery system includes an electrode for delivering a composition to the skin of a person and a counter electrode. The device also includes a drainage system... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.
20100241058 - Oct guided tissue ablation: A method and system of ablating tissue under optical coherence tomography guidance including inserting an optical coherence tomography catheter into a patient's vasculature; navigating the catheter to a target site; imaging and mapping target tissue at the target site using the catheter; delivering a light-activated therapeutic agent into the target... Agent: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
20100241060 - Surgical devices and methods: Surgical devices and methods are described. The devices are for implanting fluidic material in a patient's eye and comprise a nozzle and a housing having a slide and a bellows. The bellows is adapted to undergo compression or decompression. The surgical procedures make use of the surgical devices and include... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.
20100241061 - Gas conditioning trocars: A gas conditioning trocar having a chamber for heating and hydrating an unconditioned insufflation gas prior to injecting a conditioned insufflation gas into a body cavity during a medical procedure and a port through which surgical instruments can pass into a body cavity without inhibiting the flow of insufflation gas... Agent: Jacobson & Johnson
20100241062 - Medical fluid pump systems and related components and methods: A medical fluid delivery cassette configured for use with a medical fluid pumping system. The cassette includes a base, a membrane attached to the base, and an adhesive disposed on a portion of the membrane overlying a fluid pump chamber of the cassette. The portion of the membrane overlying the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.
20100241064 - automatic anaesthesia delivery system: This invention relates to an improved automatic anaesthesia delivery system comprising: (a) at least one of a bispectral index monitor and an anaesthesia vital sign monitor interfaced with a computer to receive input from patient; (b) at least one pump for controlling delivery of drug based on the feedback from... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.
20100241063 - Liquid flow sensing system: A liquid flow sensing system comprises a pump system configured to deliver a pre-determined volume V of liquid, and a measuring system comprising a chamber connected to the pump system and to an outlet system, the chamber bounded by an elastic membrane configured to be displaced elastically by an amplitude... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association
20100241065 - Infusion device with base portion and durable portion: A delivery device includes a durable housing portion and a separable disposable portion that selectively engage and disengage from each other. The disposable housing portion secures to the patient and may be disposed of after it has been in use for a prescribed period. Components that normally come into contact... Agent: Medtronic Minimed Inc.
20100241066 - Mechanism for injection device: A pressurised injection device comprises a mechanical loading mechanism comprising a double set of rackets (17,18) and ball bearings/pins running in a curved track (20) which enables a resilient element (7) to be pre-stressed by—twisting the two outer house parts of the device relative to each other back and forth.... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Intellectual Property Department
20100241067 - Syringe, particularly for medical and veterinary use, of the multi-chamber, single-use and preloaded type: The syringe comprises a piston that is inserted in the tubular element and has a containment head that engages jointly, at least in a peripheral portion thereof, an edge of a flared portion formed in an end part of the tubular element. The piston also presents at least one flow... Agent: Modiano & Associati
20100241070 - Balloon catheter for distal protection compatability: A balloon catheter that may include a catheter shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the catheter shaft having a core having an outer surface, the core extending to the distal end of the catheter shaft, the catheter shaft having a tubular member disposed about the core, the... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC
20100241069 - Ostial lesion stent delivery system: A method and apparatus for repairing a vessel at a bifurcation, such as an aorto-ostium, without obstructing blood flow through the bifurcation. Delivery system having an anchor mechanism for positioning an expandable ostial stent within a diseased portion of a bifurcation so that the tubular body of the stent is... Agent: Fulwider Patton, LLP (abbott)
20100241068 - Vascular cannula assembly with an improved structure for confining blood flow: A vascular cannula assembly has a cannula, a tube dilator, a supporting helix and an inflatable cuff. The cannula has a distal end, a proximal end, a passage and a drainage segment. The drainage segment has multiple draining apertures communicating with the passage. A valve mounted on the distal end... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP
20100241071 - Polymeric/inorganic composite materials for use in medical devices: In one aspect, the present invention provides composite coatings for implantable or insertable medical devices. These composite coatings comprise (a) an inorganic portion and (b) a polymeric portion that comprises a poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) block.... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.
20100241072 - Safety needle with lockout mechanism: A safety needle is provided which includes blocking structure to maintain a sharp tip of a needle safely within a housing and prevent re-advancement of a needle from a safety needle housing. The safety needle includes flexible blocking members positioned on an inner needle assembly which are configured to engage... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp
20100241073 - Heat exchanger connector assembly: A connector assembly for a heat exchanger has a fitting and a mount to which the fitting couples. The fitting has an elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion. At the proximal portion there is a crossbar, and at the distal portion there are an inlet and... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo
20100241074 - Fluid delivery device with variable force spring: A compact fluid dispenser for use in controllably dispensing fluid medicaments, such as antibiotics, blood clotting agents, analgesics, and like medicinal agents from collapsible containers at a uniform rate. The dispenser includes a novel stored energy source that is provided in the form of a compressible-expandable member that functions to... Agent: James E. Brunton, Esq.
20100241075 - Devices, systems and methods for medicament delivery: An apparatus includes a housing, a medicament container, an actuator, and a biasing member. The actuator is configured to move the medicament container within the housing when the actuator is moved from a first configuration to a second configuration. The actuator includes a gas container and a puncturer. When the... Agent: Cooley LLP Attn: Patent Group
20100241077 - Cannula assemblies and ambulatory infusion systems with pressure sensors made of stacked coplanar layers: Cannula assemblies with pressure sensors made of stacked coplanar layers and ambulatory infusion systems comprising the same are disclosed. The cannula assemblies include a hub and an infusion cannula. The hub includes a pressure sensor and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the infusion cannula. The pressure sensor is formed... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center
20100241076 - Device and method employing shape memory alloy: A system for the metering and delivery of small discrete volumes of liquid is comprised of a small or minimal number of inexpensive components. One such component is a movable member, such as a miniature precision reciprocating displacement pump head, which is driven by an actuator that comprises a shape... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP (adc)
20100241079 - Access port including centering feature: A surgical access port includes an access member defining a longitudinal axis and having an interior wall defining a longitudinal opening adapted for passage of a surgical object, an object seal disposed in mechanical cooperation with the access member and configured to create a substantially fluid-tight seal around a surgical... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100241080 - Caged floating seal assembly: A seal assembly establishes sealing engagement with a plurality of differently dimensioned instruments passing through a trocar. The seal assembly is a caged seal assembly movably disposed within the trocar and includes at least two seal segments disposable into and out of a sealing orientation relative to the instrument. A... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP
20100241078 - Surgical port seal: A seal device having a substantially conical shape including a slit opening at its tip defined by a pair of planar surfaces, the opening reinforced by gussets on the exterior surface of the seal device and adjacent to the end regions of the slit. The gussets help bias the ends... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100241081 - Acceess port including rotatable seals: A surgical access device includes a housing; an access member extending distally from the housing and being dimensioned for positioning within tissue, and defining a longitudinal axis; and a seal assembly disposed within the housing. The seal assembly includes first and second seal components respectively having first and second seal... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp D/b/a Covidien
20100241082 - Access sealing apparatus and method: A surgical access device includes a seal housing and a roller disposed in the housing and defining a working channel. The roller may be stationary or moveable within the seal housing to form both a zero seal in the absence of an instrument, and an instrument seal in the presence... Agent: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
20100241083 - Hub for tearaway sheath assembly: A tearaway sheath assembly (100) having a splittable sheath tube (102) a splittable hub (110), a splittable valve (150) and a split cap (180). The valve (150) is of the elongated duckbill type and having a slit (158) almost completely across the distal end wall (154) such that two diverging... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Blue Bell
20100241084 - Anchor instrumentation and methods: Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system includes an anchor sleeve and a catheter (or other medical instrument) to advance though a working channel of the anchor sleeve. The anchor sleeve may have a subcutaneous cuff device arranged along an outer surface. In such circumstances, the embedded cuff device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.
20100241085 - Blow-molded syringe for use with injectors: A syringe for use in a pressurized injection of a fluid includes a syringe barrel including a polymeric material having undergone expansion via blow molding. An inner diameter of the syringe barrel can, for example, be sufficiently constant (over at least a portion of the axial length of the syringe)... Agent: Gregory L Bradley Medrad Inc
20100241086 - Flluid deliver system with electrochemical sensing of analyte concentration levels: A system and a method for delivering fluid to and sensing analyte levels in the body of the patient are disclosed. The system includes a dispensing apparatus configured to infuse fluid into the body of the patient and a sensing apparatus configured to be in communication with the dispensing apparatus... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo
20100241087 - Cannula-tip shielding mechanism: A needle tip shielding mechanism is described herein. The shielding mechanism comprises an outer housing, an inner housing, and a needle having a needle feature. Generally, the outer housing comprises at least one adapter-interlock feature. Moreover, the inner housing comprises a needle-feature capture mechanism, such as a washer feature, and... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & ChiefIPCounsel Becton, Dickinson And Company
20100241088 - Hazardous drug handling system, apparatus and method: A system is provided for use and handling a medical liquid (e.g. hazardous drugs) that includes a transfer adapter having a port rotatably interconnectable to a male luer fitting of a needleless syringe or infusion tubing line port, and a patient connector having a port rotatable interconnectable to a female... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP
20100241089 - Skin patch laminate body: A skin patch laminate body includes a skin patch body having a base layer and a first adhesive layer formed on one side of the base layer for adhering directly to a skin, and a heat imparting body having an exothermic agent accommodating layer and a second adhesive layer formed... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.
20100241090 - Apparatus for treating obesity by extracting food: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for treating obesity. A tube is positioned that passes through a patient's abdominal wall into the upper digestive system of the patient. The patient is allowed to carry out his/her everyday affairs including ingesting food. After the patient has ingested... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP
20100241091 - Sputum collecting device: A sputum collecting device includes a bag attached to a cover and disposed in a container for receiving and collecting a sputum and for forming a peripheral space between the container and the bag, the cover includes an inlet for guiding the sputum from a patient into the bag and... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire
20100241092 - Ostomy appliance: An ostomy appliance comprises a pouch having first and second walls, with an inlet aperture in the first wall. A stoma seal is carried by the second wall, and is disposed generally in register with the inlet aperture for sealing against a stoma in use. An outer coupling element is... Agent: Convatec Inc.
20100241093 - Ostomy pouching system: An ostomy pouching system having an ostomy wafer with a sealing ring around an opening therein and an ostomy bag having an opening with a sealing ring around the ostomy bag opening, the ostomy bag sealing ring sealingly connectable to the sealing ring of the ostomy wafer. An insert is... Agent: Vermette & Co.
20100241094 - Smart diaper: The invention is directed to an absorbent article which has an outer cover, an inner absorbent material and a sensing system. The sensing system has a measuring device, a monitoring area and a warning device. The monitoring area has a plurality of conductors which are in electrical engagement with the... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC
20100241096 - Disposable absorbent article having deployable chassis ears: A simple disposable absorbent article including a chassis and an absorbent assembly. The chassis includes laterally opposing side flaps formed by laterally inwardly folded portions of the chassis and deployable chassis ears formed by other laterally inwardly folded portions of the chassis. Each chassis ear is held laterally inwardly folded... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100241095 - Disposable pull-on type diaper: A disposable pull-on type diaper has a separator interposed between an inner surface of an absorbent chassis and the wearer's skin so as to protect the diaper wearer's skin from being soiled with feces. The separator is formed by a piece of sheet extending from a bottom of a crotch... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP
20100241097 - Simple disposable absorbent article: A disposable absorbent article may comprise a front waist region, a back waist region, a crotch region between the waist regions. A web of the article may comprise an interior surface and an exterior surface. The web may be folded at a first fold line and attached to itself forming... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100241098 - Diapering system using re-usable diaper shell with replaceable absorbent insert and method of manufacture of same: A two-piece diaper system having a re-usable shell and a removable and replaceable absorbent pad is provided. The re-usable diapering system consists of a non-absorbent outer liquid impervious shell, as in a standard disposable diaper but without an integral central absorbent layer which is exposed to liquids in the crotch... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station
20100241099 - Absorbent article: A diaper includes an absorbent chassis which, in turn, includes a cover sheet 6 and a liquid-absorbent structure, and a barrier sheet allowing passage of body waste. The barrier sheet 8 is spaced from the liquid-absorbent structure in the thickness direction under an effect of barrier sheet constricting means. The... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP
20100241101 - Method and a blood oxygen tester for detecting the arterial or venous blood: A method and a blood oxygen tester for determining whether a blood sample is arterial or venous blood are disclosed. A blood oxygen tester for determining whether a blood sample is arterial or venous blood comprises a housing and a blood sample receptacle defined by the housing. A blood oxygen... Agent: The Patel Law Firm, P.C.
20100241100 - Real-time multimode neurobiophysiology probe: Apparatus and methods in which very small volumes of material may be extracted, delivered, interrogated or stimulated via optical, electromagnetic or mechanical means, in vivo or in vitro, for site-specific detection, characterization, stimulation, diagnostics or therapy, comprising optical, fluidic, chemical, electromagnetic and biological techniques applied via a microprobe in a... Agent: Nadejda Reingand
20100241103 - Cartridge adapter for use in an infusion system: Infusion systems for pumping fluid into a body of a user, and methods for providing infusion systems, are disclosed. The infusion systems include an infusion pump, wherein the infusion pump comprises an infusion pump housing including a cavity. A fluid storage is removably inserted into the cavity of the infusion... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center
20100241102 - Intravitreal injection devices and methods of injecting a substance into the vitreous chamber of the eye: Intravitreal injection devices include an injection assembly adapted to receive an injector, and an alignment guide adapted to facilitate placement of the injector relative to a patient's eye for injecting an injectant therein. The injection assembly, in response to a user input, is adapted to automatically and sequentially first, translate... Agent: Dascenzo Intellectual Property Law, P.C.
20100241104 - Insertion system and methods for nasogastric tubes: A nasogastric tube insertion system comprises a nasogastric tube, a guide element, and an inserter element. The inserter element has a slim, elongate main body, a handle attached to the body, and an anatomically curved insertion section. The guide element comprises a swallowable weight attached to a cord, string, monofilament... Agent: Carmen Patti Law Group , LLC09/16/2010 > patent applications in patent subcategories.
20100234786 - System and method for detection of disconnection in an extracorporeal blood circuit: The present invention is directed to a dialysis system with a disconnection monitor for determining if a blood line connection to a patient has been disconnected. It includes a blood circuit in fluid communication with a patient and a dialysis circuit, a pressure transducer for generating a signal indicative of... Agent: Patentmetrix
20100234787 - Hemodialysis apparatus: Provided is a hemodialyzer for preventing beforehand any medical accident such as air inclusion or blood loss during a medical treatment by detecting even a minute connection failure, if any. The hemodialyzer includes a hemodialyzer (D), a dialysate supply line (L1), a dialysate discharge line (L2), an artery side blood... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP
20100234788 - System and method for the re-anticoagulation of platelet rich plasma: A method for the re-anticoagulation of platelet rich plasma in a blood apheresis system includes priming the blood apheresis system with anticoagulant, such that a volume of anticoagulant is transferred to a PRP container. The method may then transfer the anticoagulant within the PRP container to a red blood cell... Agent: Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers LLP
20100234791 - Dual drainage pathway shunt device: A shunt is provided for the flow of aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye to Schlemm's canal and to other anatomical spaces of the eye. The shunt comprises at least one lumen and optionally has at least one anchor extending from a proximal portion of the shunt... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100234790 - Ocular implant with therapeutic agents and methods thereof: Implants and methods for treating ocular disorders are provided. One method involves introducing an implant into an anterior chamber of an eye such that at least a distal end of the implant is temporarily in the anterior chamber. The implant is implanted into eye tissue adjacent the anterior chamber. A... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100234789 - Self adjusting venous equalizing graft: A self adjusting venous equalizing graft (SAVE graft) which provides a self regulating stenosis is provided herein. The SAVE graft responds to increases or decreases in blood pressure which allows a higher pressure at the graft's arterial end and a lower pressure at the graft's venous end. This is ideal... Agent: Weide & Miller, Ltd.
20100234793 - Systems, devices and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100234792 - Systems, devices, and methods including infection-fighting and monitoring shunts: Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively controllable shunt configured to, for example, monitor, treat, or prevent an infection.... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene
20100234794 - System and method for reducing surgical site infection: A system and method for performing a surgical procedure that are based on delivering air to a surgical site to prevent contamination of a wound or surgical instrument. A curtain of air above the surgical site prevents pathogens or pathogen laden particulates eminating from sources such as the skin of... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100234795 - System and method for regeneration of a fluid: A method and a system for regenerating a body fluid, such as a peritoneal dialysis fluid. The body fluid is removed into an extracorporeal circuit comprising an electrofilter for removing charged ions from the body fluid, a nanofilter for removing large molecules, such as Dextran 40, and a reverse osmosis... Agent: Capitol City Techlaw, PLLC
20100234797 - Patient hydration system with bolus function: A patient hydration system including an infusion device for administering hydration fluid to a patient, and a hydration fluid measurement device responsive to a source of hydration fluid, a patient urine output measurement device. A controller is responsive to the hydration fluid measurement device and the patient urine output measurement... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska
20100234796 - System and methods for processing analyte sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the analyte sensor data is evaluated over a period of time to determine stability of the sensor. The... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP
20100234798 - Needleless injection structure: A needleless injection structure includes a duct, a stuff base and a casing. The duct has a through channel. The duct has a ring channel and a transverse channel formed on a top thereof. The stuff base is disposed on the top of the duct. The stuff base has an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee
20100234799 - Delivery of multicomponent compositions: The invention relates to devices and kits for the controlled delivery of viscous, multi component compositions.... Agent: Orthovita, Inc
20100234800 - Vessel treatment devices: A catheter system for treating lesions is provided. The system is suitable for treatment of bifurcation lesions, has a low profile and provides substantially predictable translational and rotational positioning. In one embodiment, the system includes a fixed wire balloon catheter and a partially attached guidewire lumen, wherein the guidewire lumen... Agent: C. R. Bard, Inc. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
20100234801 - Resin composition for balloon and balloon made of the same: Disclosed is a resin composition for balloons, which is excellent in gas permeation resistance and hydrolysis resistance (acid resistance), while having an excellent balance among flexibility, mechanical strength and elastic recoverability. Also disclosed is a balloon made of such a resin composition for balloons. Specifically disclosed is a resin composition... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP
20100234802 - Non-compliant medical balloon having an integral non-woven fabric layer: A non-compliant medical balloon may be changed from a deflated state to an inflated state by increasing pressure within the balloon. The non-compliant medical balloon is composed of a matted fabric layer composed of at least two matted fabric fibers forming an angle. The angle remains substantially unchanged when the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p
20100234804 - Indwelling needle with wings: There is provided a winged indwelling needle for reducing the possibility of damaging a blood vessel or the like by a cannula, including a movable unit 1 having the cannula and a hub, a tube 2 connected to the rear portion of the hub, a holder 3, and a fixing... Agent: Kubovcik & Kubovcik
20100234803 - One-time-use automatic safety injector: Disclosed is a one-time use safety injector capable of easily removing a remaining solution in the administration of an injection solution and easily being detached and discarded after use. The automatic safety injector according to the present invention includes a needle flange 31 having a needle 30 mounted in the... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Park & AssociatesIPLaw LLC
20100234805 - Carrier for an infusion system: Infusion systems for holding an infusion pump on the body of a user are provided. According to one embodiment, the infusion system includes: a carrier frame; a guiding member disposed on the carrier frame; and a linear guide on the infusion pump wherein, when the infusion pump is attached to... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center
20100234806 - Port fixation using expandable threads: The present disclosure describes a surgical access apparatus including an access member with a longitudinal opening defining an internal dimension suitable for removable receipt of a surgical instrument. The access member has a thread mounted thereon that is movable between a first condition and a second condition. When the thread... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp
20100234807 - Hemostasis valve: A tearaway sheath assembly (100) having a splittable sheath tube (102) a splittable hub (110), a splittable valve (150) and a split cap (180). The valve (150) is of the elongated duckbill type and having a slit (158) almost completely across the distal end wall (154) such that two diverging... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Blue Bell
20100234808 - Injection port applier with downward force actuation: An injection port applier is configured to engage an injection port that has integral fasteners that are movable from a non-deployed position to a deployed position. The applier comprises a shaft, a port engagement portion, and a handle. The port engagement portion is includes a fastener deployment member that is... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC
20100234809 - Devices and methods for occluding a flexible tube: A device and method to constrict or occlude the lumen of a flexible tube may include an occluder under the influence of an elastic force, such as a spring force, that can compress a portion of the wall of the flexible tube. The occluder can be under the influence of... Agent: Michelle Saquet Temple
20100234810 - Polypropylene resin for syringe, syringe produced from the same as raw material, and prefilled syringe preparation: It is an object of the present invention to provide a polypropylene resin for syringe that can be used as a raw material for syringe that is excellent in sanitary property, heat resistance and transparency and hardly elutes low molecular weight substance and that can prevent formation of foam during... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP
20100234811 - Shieldable needle assembly with biased safety shield: A needle assembly for an injection device comprising a needle cannula which is mounted in a hub connectable to an injection device, and a biasing shield which is telescopically guided relative to the hub between a position in which the needle cannula is covered and a position in which at... Agent: Novo Nordisk, Inc. Intellectual Property Department
20100234812 - Fluid recovery system: With the use of a selectable fluid path assembly, the recovery and cleaning of the liquid path line is possible. Selecting the primary use path permits a syringe assembly to be filled with fluid in a positive pressure supplied fluid system. When the secondary fluid path is selected, the fluid... Agent: Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P.
20100234813 - Minimally invasive mitral valve repair method and apparatus: The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for the stabilization and fastening of two pieces of tissue. A single device may be used to both stabilize and fasten the two pieces of tissue, or a separate stabilizing device may be used in conjunction with a fastening device.... Agent: Debra D. Condino Edwards Lifesciences LLC, Law Dept.
20100234816 - Coated wire guide and method of making same: In at least one embodiment, a method for making a wire guide is provided. The method comprises applying a polymer coating to a proximal section of a FP coated core wire having a FP coating disposed thereon such that the polymer coating overlays at least a portion of the FP... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/chicago/cook
20100234814 - Method and subcutaneous apparatus for facilitating the replacement of an implanted catheter: A medical apparatus and method of use for implanting a catheter in a patient's body which catheter can be easily positioned, repositioned, and replaced. The apparatus includes an elongate sleeve intended to be subcutaneously implanted. The sleeve comprises a wall surrounding an interior elongate passageway which extends from a sleeve... Agent: Arthur Freilich Freilich, Hornbaker & Rosen
20100234815 - Stable melt processable chlorhexidine compositions: In a medical device having an antimicrobial agent, the medical device includes a base material and an amount of chlorhexidine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof disposed in the base material sufficient to reduce microbial growth. The base material is melt processed together with the chlorhexidine to generate the medical... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP
20100234817 - Ocular trocar assembly: The invention provides a trocar assembly for delivering a payload into tissue, such as an eye, comprising a primary housing, a cannula, a payload, an actuator and a trocar.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP
20100234818 - Dressing substrate: A wound shield to manage repetitive access stress may include a conformable substrate to circumscribe a wound. Any suitable dressing may be secured to the conformable substrate providing separation between the wound and the dressing. The wound substrate may provide a site for attachment of adhesive dressings to shield the... Agent: Jones Day
20100234819 - Portable rapidly deployable waste containment device: The present invention relates to a portable waste containment device that is rapidly deployable. The waste containment device allows containment of liquid or semi-liquid waste until permanently disposed. The present invention also provides a portable waste containment system wherein the waste containment device is enclosed within a package for storage... Agent: Kemetta M. Mcgarity Howard C. Mcgarity
20100234820 - Aspiration system and body interface device for removing urine discharged by the human body: A body interface device for a urine aspiration system comprises a skin contact pad with gel adhesive for adhering to the skin, and a flexible cover attached to the pad. The pad includes at least one aperture for admitting urine through the pad into the body interface device. The flexible... Agent: Convatec Inc.
20100234821 - Intestinal irrigation device and method of using the device: An intestinal irrigation device that includes a waste collection bag and a rectal catheter. The rectal catheter has a first end for coupling with the waste collection bag and a free end for insertion into the rectum, while the waste collection bag has a first wall circumferentially united with an... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department
20100234823 - Stretchable composite sheet: A stretchable composite sheet having a number of ridges in a neat and orderly arrangement is disclosed. The stretchable composite sheet is easily produced by the process of the invention. The stretchable composite sheet is a laminate of a stretch sheet 10 and a nonstretch sheet 2. The stretch sheet... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch
20100234822 - Convertible absorbent article: An absorbent article having a waistband which is attached to first and second body portions of the article. The first body portion is attached to the waistband by at least a fastening means wherein the article assumes a pant diaper form. The waistband has a reception surface and a perforation.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100234824 - Bubble trap systems for infusion pump devices: Bubble traps for removing bubbles from a stream of liquid and flexible containers comprising such bubble traps are disclosed. The bubble trap includes a containment chamber fluidly coupled to an outlet conduit. At least one grate is disposed between the containment chamber and the outlet conduit. The at least one... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center
20100234825 - Releasing a material within a medical device via an optical feedthrough: In general, the disclosure is directed toward releasing material within a medical device via an optical feedthrough. A system for releasing material with a medical device comprises a cup that holds a material, wherein the cup includes a discharge port, a seal disc that seals the material within the cup,... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert , P.a
20100234826 - Medicament dispensing devices and methods: A medicament dispensing device including a substantially rigid carpule body which has a dispensing end and an actuation end opposite the dispensing end. The carpule body is substantially tubular and thus defines a carpule bore. The device further includes a plunger operatively disposed within the carpule bore having a plunger... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.
20100234827 - Method of treating heart failure: The present invention includes methods, systems, uses, and means for the delivery of one or more anti-fibrotic agents into the pericardial space for the treatment and prevention of heart failure (HF).... Agent: Mueting, Raasch & Gebhardt, P.A.
20100234828 - Methods and compositions for facilitating arterial access: Provided are methods and compositions for locally increasing arterial diameter and providing local anesthesia in a subject. The methods include applying to a skin site of the subject a topical composition that includes a vasodilation agent and an anesthetic agent in a manner sufficient for locally increasing arterial diameter and... Agent: Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP
20100234829 - Dispenser head for nasal cleansing: An embodiment of the invention is a nasal cleansing top or dispenser head having a curved shape that tapers from at or near a base portion of the head to a tip portion of the head. The dispenser head further includes an opening or outlet disposed on a spout end... Agent: Suzannah K. Sundby Smith, Gambrell & Russel, LLP
20100234830 - Medical device for glucose monitoring or regulation: A medical device comprising a pressure generating means adapted to deliver a liquid, a sensor adapted to measure a flow resistance, and an implantable member comprising an analyte responsive porous membrane which reversibly changes its porosity subject to changes in analyte concentration occurring in the solution surrounding the implantable member.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association09/09/2010 > patent applications in patent subcategories.
20100228175 - System for harvesting and dispensing blood clot: P
20100228177 - Batch filtration system for preparation of sterile fluid for renal replacement therapy: A method and device for blood treatments that use fluids such as dialysate and replacement fluid for renal replacement therapy. In an embodiment, fluid is passed either by pump or passively by gravity feed, through a microporous sterilization filter from a fluid source to a replacement fluid container. The latter... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC
20100228176 - Single-needle dialysis sytem utilizing a peristaltic pump with pumping and occluding rollers: A peristaltic roller pump includes a rotor carrying a pumping roller on one end and an occluding roller on the other end. Occluding roller has a number of protrusions designed to occlude the tubing section that is located under that roller as it moves over it in order to prevent... Agent: Boris Leschinsky
20100228178 - Hemodialysis catheter apparatus: A catheter apparatus is provided for reducing blood clotting in connection with hemodialysis treatment. The catheter apparatus can comprise a first conduit defining an arterial lumen and a second conduit defining a venous lumen. Large staggered apertures can be provided in side walls of the conduits with at least one... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
20100228179 - No clog shunt using a compact fluid drag path: The present invention is an improved shunt system for draining CSF. The system includes a removable sheath for reduction of catheter clogging during shunt insertion, a catheter with relatively large holes, an extracranial filter to allow non-invasive filter replacement, and a wireless flow/pressure meter to monitor and control CSF flow.... Agent: Gearhart Law, LLC
20100228180 - Power source electrode treatment device: The present invention provides a powered treatment device comprising at least one power source for supplying electrical energy to the device, and wherein at least one component of the power source is also configured as a power source treatment device electrode to facilitate electrical contact with a body region. In... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
20100228181 - Use of green light to activate l-amino acid oxidase: The invention also relates to a composition comprising at least one substrate of the enzyme and at least one substrate capable of emitting green light, to a kit comprising a green light device and the composition comprising at least one substrate of the said enzyme and to a cosmetic method... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
20100228182 - Dissection handpiece and method for reducing the appearance of cellulite: A dermatological skin treatment device is provided. The device comprises a handpiece and a cutting tool, wherein the tool is inserted through the conduit and percutaneously inserted into a tissue disposed within a recessed area of the handpiece. The device and method cut the fibrous structures under the skin that... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP
20100228183 - Method and apparatus for the deactivation of bacterial and fungal toxins in wounds, and for the disruption of wound biofilms: An ozone/oxygen treatment system comprising an ozone generator for generating a predetermined ozone/oxygen mixture; and a treatment chamber connected to the ozone generator for receiving and applying the ozone/oxygen mixture to a predetermined portion of a patient's body, the treatment chamber having variable size and shape for enclosing said predetermined... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen
20100228184 - Inflatable device for enteric fistula treatment: Disclosed herein is an implantable fistula closure device. The device may include an expandable longitudinally segmented body including a proximal end and a distal end. The segmented body may further include a plurality of porous bodies and a connecting member operably joining together the plurality of porous bodies. The plurality... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP
20100228185 - Carriers for hemostatic tract treatment: Apparatuses and methods for administering a hemostatic agent to the tissue surrounding an opening in a body lumen are disclosed. The apparatus can include a tissue-contacting region and an optional body lumen-penetrating region. At least one hemostatic agent is included as a component of a coating over and/or a mixture... Agent: Workman Nydegger
20100228186 - Operating a portable medical device: Some embodiments of a portable medical device, such as an infusion pump, can receive an external reference signal (e.g., a radio, cellular and/or satellite signal) to provide an automatic time-setting and maintenance operation. In these circumstances, the medical device can maintain accurate time and date information even in the event... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.
20100228187 - Applicator system having an aerosol tank: a mouthpiece element is provided, which sits on the sprayhead body, whereas the outlet orifice and the mouthpiece element are arranged relative to each other, in order to bring the outlet orifice to the mouth of a user and to actuate the valve by the mouthpiece element.... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.
20100228188 - Device for connecting a suction hose: The device according to the invention for connecting a suction hose has a connecting piece which is designed in such a way that the suction hose can be pushed over a region of the connecting piece in a sealing manner. The device also comprises a sleeve which can be pushed... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
20100228189 - Infusion bag with integrated rinsing system: The invention relates to a medical bag which is intended for the infusion of a medicament by means of gravity. The inventive bag comprises: at least two compartments, namely a first compartment (1) containing a medicament in the form of a solution and a second compartment (2) containing a rinsing... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
20100228190 - Seal structures for wet/dry automatic injectors: An automatic medicament injector has a first compartment for a first medicament component and a second compartment for a second medicament component. The two compartments are separated by a seal structure that converts from a sealing condition to a mixing condition when the device is activated. The seal structure has... Agent: Jones Day
20100228191 - Lockable support assembly and method: Assemblies and methods related to controllably lockable support structures are described. An assembly may comprise an interface defined by two adjacent tubular structures whereby the adjacent structures may be spatially locked and unlocked relative to each other with application of a load. The tubular structures may comprise one or more... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP
20100228192 - device and a system for use in a procedure for improving a sealing function of a sphincter and a method for improving the sealing function of a sphincter: A system (1) and a device (3) is used in a fundoplication procedure in order to avoid over-tightening of the fundus of the stomach when the fundus is being wrapped around the oesophagus (7) adjacent the lower oesophageal sphincter (5). The device (3) comprises a catheter (8) having a primary... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
20100228194 - Appartus and method for penetration with shaft having a sensor for sensing penetration depth: An apparatus having a shaft that can sense the depth of penetration, for penetrating into an object (the substrate). The substrate being penetrated has impedance that varies according to the depth under a surface of the substrate. The shaft has a tip for penetration and has conductive ends near to... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator
20100228193 - Medicine injection apparatuses: Medicine injection apparatuses having multiple chambers. The chambers may be in lateral relationship. A torsional part is adapted to turn and be repositioned angularly relative to a main body to allow different chambers to be used to receive an injection assembly. The medicine injector can be constructed to administer multiple... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.
20100228195 - Needle puncture device for medical equipment: The present invention relates to a needle puncture device (1) for medical equipment, in particular for an injection unit, having a drive element (2) for a needle (4) which can be driven by drive means (6) for a puncture movement. The drive means (6) are designed to transfer movement by... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.
20100228196 - Flexible medicine reservoir with an internal reservoir port: Devices for the automatic release of liquid medicaments are disclosed. In particular, a flexible container for storing a liquid medicament, a port for such a flexible container, and a device for the automated release of a liquid medicament are disclosed. A flexible container for storing a medicament comprises sealed top... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center
20100228197 - Indwelling needle assembly: An indwelling needle assembly has an inner needle having a sharp point at its tip, an inner needle hub fixed to a base section of the inner needle, a hollow outer needle into which the inner needle is inserted, an outer needle hub fixed to a base section of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100228198 - Methods and devices for providing access into a body cavity: Methods and devices are provided for providing surgical access into a body cavity. In one embodiment, a surgical access device is provided that includes a housing coupled to a retractor. The housing can be have one or more movable sealing ports for receiving surgical instruments. Each movable sealing port can... Agent: Ethicon Endo-surgery/nutter, Mcclennen & Fish LLP
20100228199 - Surgical cassette for intraocular pressure control: An improved surgical cassette for controlling intraocular pressure during ophthalmic surgery.... Agent: Alcon
20100228200 - Dosage delivery device: A dosage delivery device, for example a syringe type device, having a housing (2) defining a reservoir (4); a plunger (6) within the reservoir and movable to decrease the volume of the reservoir so as to discharge material in the reservoir via a discharge opening; and an operating mechanism for... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC
20100228201 - Reusable intravenos flow regulator: This invention relates to an intravenous flow regulator that can be reused to address the environmental problem caused by disposable type regulators and to bHng down medical expenses, regardless of the degree of significance. The regulator is characterized by a unit generally consisting of a five-sided body and a regulating... Agent: Chianhua Tan
20100228202 - Catheter and a method for producing a catheter: A method for producing a catheter (100) having a plurality of axially spaced apart electrodes (5) towards a distal end (4) of the catheter (100) comprises forming the electrodes (5) from a single sheet (110) of electrically conductive foil material by forming spaced apart slots (111) in the sheet material... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
20100228203 - Microneedle device and method for producing the same: Microneedle device is provided, which include microneedles that can be easily inserted into skin and dissolve or swell in skin. The microneedle devices comprise a substrate and cone-shaped or pyramid-shaped microneedles for skin insertion set on the substrate. The microneedles for skin insertion contain over 50 weight percent of one... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC
20100228204 - Facial treatment mask comprising an isolation layer: The present invention features a facial mask including a water-insoluble, liquid-retaining layer sized and shaped to lie against and substantially coincident with a face of a human user and having at least one opening formed therethrough. The facial mask also includes an isolation layer substantially overlapping the water-insoluble, liquid-retaining layer.... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson
20100228205 - Devices and methods to apply alternating level of reduced pressure to tissue: Methods and devices for treatment of damaged tissue are disclosed, including treatment of wounds by employing non-electrically powered, reduced pressure therapy devices with a pressure oscillation mechanism. Maintenance and control of the sub atmospheric pressure exerted may be provided by such devices while minimizing discomfort to the user. The devices... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP
20100228207 - Fluid-jet dissection system and method for reducing the appearance of cellulite: A minimally invasive skin treatment system includes a platform having a recessed area on its bottom and one or more injection ports orthogonal to its top, each injection port including a through-hole to the recessed area. The system includes an injection device including a needle slidably disposed in a selective... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP
20100228206 - Wound cover connecting device: A wound cover connecting device for the sealing connection of a drainage tube and a wound cover covering a wound has a base body for the sealing contact on an outside of the cover. According to the invention, the device comprises at least one penetration element for producing a through-passage... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
20100228208 - Breast milk collection and storage device: In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes a breast milk collection and storage device that contours to the natural form of a female human breast and consists of an outer layer, an inner layer and a sterile collection bag. Designed to fit under any standard brassiere, the device provides... Agent: Peter A. Haas, Esquire
20100228209 - Absorbent core: Absorbent core for disposable absorbent articles having better recovery and resiliency.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228211 - Comfortable diaper: An absorbent article, preferably a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, is disclosed that provides an improved immobilization of absorbent polymer material when the article is fully or partially urine loaded. This absorbent core is useful for providing an absorbent article of increased wearing comfort. Specifically disclosed is an... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228210 - Thin and dry diaper: An absorbent article, preferably a disposable absorbent article such as a diaper, is disclosed having an absorbent core which imparts increased wearing comfort to the article and makes it thin and dry. The absorbent core useful for an absorbent article comprises a substrate layer, a discontinuous layer of absorbent material,... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228212 - Outer cover for a disposable absorbent article: An outer cover for a disposable absorbent article including waist regions elastically stretchable in the cross machine direction and activated in the cross machine direction, activated leg cuff regions elastically stretchable in one or more directions other than the cross machine direction, and an inelastic crotch region having a nonwoven... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228213 - Absorbent article comprising hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions: An absorbent article such as a diaper, panty diaper, panty liner, sanitary napkin or incontinence protection, wherein at least one part of this absorbent article has a pattern of at least one hydrophilic and at least one hydrophobic region wherein the at least one hydrophilic region and/or the at least... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100228214 - Polypropylene mixture: The present invention relates to the use of a polypropylene mixture for the production of a spunbonded non-woven fabric having increased elastic property, wherein the polypropylene mixture substantially comprises a first homopolypropylene and a second homopolypropylene, wherein an MFR of the first homopolypropylene is greater than an MFR of the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP
20100228215 - Absorbent articles with sublayer: A diaper or adult incontinence garment including a backsheet and a sublayer. The sublayer may include one or more acquisition layers and one or more regions having a multitude of through or blind holes. The sublayer may isolate feces away from the skin and at the same time provide liquid... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228216 - Reusable diaper compositions: A reusable and absorptive mat for the absorption, dispersion and retention of a liquid is disclosed. The absorptive mat comprises a plurality of non-woven layers, of carded and randomly laid viscose rayon fibres having a cross-section of substantially rigid multi-limbed configuration. The layers are stitchbonded in an as laid state,... Agent: Lang Michener
20100228217 - Male incontinence product: The present invention concerns a male incontinence guard 10. The guard is divided by a transverse dividing line 25 into a front region 18 with a front transverse edge 20 and a rear region 22 with a rear transverse edge 24. The guard 10 tapers towards the rear transverse edge... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100228219 - Absorbent article with leak barriers: An absorbent article having a front region, a back region and a crotch region there between, said article has substantially longitudinally extending leak barriers, each of said leak barriers having a free laterally inward elasticized side and a laterally outward side, the elasticized side of the leak barrier being raised... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100228218 - Absorbent article providing a better fit and more comfort to a wearer: A disposable pull-on garment has a front waist region and a back waist region opposite the front waist region. The disposable pull-on garment also has a chassis and front and back waist members attached to the chassis in the front and back waist regions, respectively. The front waist member has... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100228220 - Liquid drug medical device: The present invention relates to liquid drug medical devices for enabling the administration of liquid drugs, and also a needle shield removal device for safely removing needle shields.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
20100228221 - Devices, systems, and methods for obtaining biopsy tissue samples: Devices, systems, and methods for accessing tissue in a minimally invasive manner and taking a biopsy tissue sample therefrom are disclosed. At least some of the embodiments disclosed herein enable a tissue sample to be taken from the external surface of the heart in a non-invasive manner. In addition, various... Agent: Ice Miller LLP
20100228224 - Surgical fluid management system control and deficit monitoring: Surgical fluid management systems and methods of operating surgical fluid management systems which may provide one or more functions associated with suction, irrigation, distention, deficit monitoring, infusion, fluid warming, and the like. Some example embodiments may include infra-red lamps arranged to heat fluid flowing through a disposable cartridge. Some example... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP
20100228223 - Surgical fluid management system heater assembly and cartridge: Surgical fluid management systems and methods of operating surgical fluid management systems which may provide one or more functions associated with suction, irrigation, distention, deficit monitoring, infusion, fluid warming, and the like. Some example embodiments may include infra-red lamps arranged to heat fluid flowing through a disposable cartridge. Some example... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP
20100228222 - Surgical fluid management system with pressure and/or flow control: Surgical fluid management systems and methods of operating surgical fluid management systems which may provide one or more functions associated with suction, irrigation, distention, deficit monitoring, infusion, fluid warming, and the like. Some example embodiments may include infra-red lamps arranged to heat fluid flowing through a disposable cartridge. Some example... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP
20100228227 - Dual access sinus surgery methods and systems: A method for sinus surgery includes piercing first and second access openings into the anatomy of a human subject to access an inaccessible sinus site for cooperatively manipulating respective first and second surgical instruments inserted through the openings. One instrument, for example an endoscope, can permit viewing of the sinus... Agent: Ip Patent Docketing K&l Gates LLP
20100228226 - Inserter having two springs: The invention relates to an inserter for a medical device e.g. an infusion set or the like for intermittent or continuous administration of a therapeutical substance, such as e.g. insulin. The inserter comprises a needle hub comprising an insertion needle and two elastic elements assuring automatic insertion and automatic retraction... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
20100228225 - Method and system for delivery of neurotoxins: A method and system for delivering a neurotoxin into the body of a subject is disclosed. The method includes sequentially applying one or more arrays of micro needles on a portion of the skin of the subject that requires treatment. The micro needles are pre-coated with the neurotoxin on an... Agent: Bozicevic, Field & Francis LLP
20100228228 - Medical device for dispersing medicaments: For selective treatment of diseased tissue sections or organ parts, the surface of medical devices entering into contact with areas thereof under pressure is coated with lipophilic substantially water-insoluble medicaments binding to various tissue components with good adherence thereto, said medicaments having an effect thereupon a short time after entering... Agent: Millen, White, Zelano & Branigan, P.C.
20100228229 - Guide wire: A guide wire includes a core possessing a distal end part and a proximal end part, a distal covering layer covering the distal end part of the core, and a proximal covering layer covering the proximal end part of the core. The proximal covering layer includes a first layer that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC
20100228230 - Shielded tip catheter: A multilumen catheter assembly including an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end and a first lumen having a sidewall extending between the proximal end and the distal end, a first distal opening disposed at the distal end, and a first guide wire opening disposed proximally of... Agent: Blank Rome LLP
20100228231 - Fluid line connector safety device: The present application describes devices that use various features to prevent the disconnection of connectors used in medical treatments. For example embodiments prevent disconnection of luer connectors that are incompletely mated.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC
20100228232 - Catheter flushing assembly: An assembly for flushing at least the primary flow lines associated with a catheter, such as an intravascular catheter, comprising first and second flush ports connected in fluid communicating relation with a different one of said primary flow lines. A primary flow restrictor assembly includes two safety flow restrictors, disposed... Agent: Malloy & Malloy, P.A.
20100228233 - Medical device for infusion having coiled tubing of adjustable length: The embodiments of the subject invention in general describe an infusion device with adjustable length tubing. More particularly, the subject invention pertains to one or more embodiment(s) of an I.V. set, or similar device, having a coiled tubing. Specifically disclosed is an I.V. set with coiled tubing wherein the coils... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association
20100228234 - Device for actively removing a target cell from blood or lymph of a vertebrate subject: Devices, systems, and methods are described herein for controlling the level of one or more target cell types in the blood fluid and/or lymph fluid of a vertebrate subject. Devices and systems are provided that include a body defining at least one lumen configured for fluid flow; at least one... Agent: The Invention Science Fund Clarence T. Tegreene09/02/2010 > patent applications in patent subcategories.
20100222732 - Anti-clogging ventricular catheter for cerebrospinal fluid drainage: A novel ventricular catheter designed to reduce CSF shunt obstruction is disclosed comprising a tip using a membrane without any opening and capable of filtering the CSF. When the CSF flows through the membrane, neither tissue (choroid plexus, blood cells, tumor cells, suctioned ependymal tissue) nor proteins can break through... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
20100222733 - Glaucoma treatment method: An ocular implant adapted to reside at least partially in a portion of Schlemm's canal of an eye. In some embodiments the implant has a body extending in a curved volume whose longitudinal axis forms an arc of a circle, and a plurality of open areas and strut areas formed... Agent: Shay Glenn LLP
20100222734 - Double-sided patch: The present invention provides a double-sided patch comprising a first side and a second side, wherein each of the first side and the second side of the double-sided patch is configured as a treatment patch. Furthermore, the present invention provides a double-sided patch, wherein each side of the double-sided patch... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
20100222735 - Portable apparatus for peritoneal dialysis therapy: A portable peritoneal dialysis apparatus having (1) a hinged door for enclosing a disposable cassette that seals tightly shut using air pressure; (2) accurate pressure sensing of pressures applied to the patient through an enclosure in the disposable cassette; (3) two pumps that can operate separately or in tandem actuated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.
20100222736 - Endoluminal occlusion-irrigation catheter with aspiration capabilities and methods of use: A catheter system comprising a guidewire, an endovascular catheter, and an aspiration catheter. The guidewire has an expandable occluder mounted on a distal end. The guidewire and the endovascular catheter are insertable into a lumen of the aspiration catheter. The aspiration catheter also includes infusion and aspiration lumen(s) and port(s).... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC
20100222737 - High flow rate infusion unit and heat exchanger: A high flow rate infusion unit includes a heating unit with opposing, electrically-operated heating plates that contact a heat exchanger to heat infusate flowing therethrough. Pressure infusers on the infusion unit are operable to provide infusate at a high flow rate. A flat, elongate heat exchanger has a laminar fluid... Agent: Terrance A. Meador Incaplaw
20100222738 - Devices and systems for selective auto-retroperfusion of the cerebral venous system: Devices and systems for providing retroperfusion and autoretroperfusion therapies to a brain. In certain embodiments, the devices and systems disclosed herein comprise a flow unit configured to adjust the flow rate and pressure of the arterial blood used for perfusion of the venous system. Methods for delivering a bridge retroperfusion... Agent: Ice Miller LLP
20100222739 - Single-use pneumatic safety syringe providing gas-driven needle retraction: A pneumatic retractable syringe has a plunger having an interior retraction lumen. The plunger and syringe barrel have cooperating locking elements so that the plunger is locked after use within the syringe barrel. After injection of medicament is completed, the needle is retracted into the lumen by compressed gas that... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station
20100222740 - Replaceable heating cartridge for use with a warming device for medical treatment: A replaceable heating cartridge for use with a warming device to heat or warm a fluid. The replaceable heating cartridge comprises a heater having first and second sides, a first connecting portion to receive a fluid from an external source, a second connecting portion to supply a heated fluid, a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP
20100222741 - Fluid delivery device with variable force spring: A compact fluid dispenser for use in controllably dispensing fluid medicaments such as antibiotics, blood clotting agents, analgesics, and like medicinal agents from collapsible containers at a uniform rate. The dispenser includes a novel stored energy source that is provided in the form of a compressible-expandable member that functions to... Agent: James E. Brunton, Esq.
20100222742 - Medical delivery device: The present invention relates to an injection device comprising a housing, a container containing medicament to be injected through a needle (34) attachable to said container, drive means (46) operatively acting on said container for injecting said medicament, the drive means comprising a gas spring (50), locking (57) and activating... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC
20100222743 - Microneedle array applicator device and method of array application: An applicator device (20) including a housing (22), an impactor (62) for impacting a microneedle array and accelerating the microneedle array toward the target site, wherein the impactor is capable of moving along an arcuate path to move the microneedle array toward the target site. Also, an applicator device including... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company
20100222744 - Medical instrument: A medical instrument comprises a guide tube (10) that can be inserted into a bodily passage of a patient. An elastically flexible cannula may be displaced within an inner axial guide channel of the guide tube (10), the distal tip (52) of the cannula being able to emerge from a... Agent: The Nath Law Group
20100222746 - Bi-directional cannula feature capture mechanism: A bi-directional cannula feature capture mechanism is described herein. Generally, the capture mechanism comprises an inner housing, an outer housing, and a cannula. The inner housing comprises a proximal and a distal cannula feature mating component. The outer housing is adapted to slidably receive the inner housing in a proximal... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & ChiefIPCounsel Becton, Dickinson And Company
20100222745 - Bi-directionally engageable cannula crimp feature: A cannula, such as an IV catheter introducer needle, that has a bi-directionally engageable crimp feature is described herein. The feature comprises a maximum outer diameter that is greater than an outer diameter of the cannula. Additionally, the feature comprises a proximal side and a distal side. The larger outer... Agent: David W. Highet, Vp & ChiefIPCounsel Becton, Dickinson And Company
20100222747 - Surgical access apparatus: An access apparatus for use during a surgical procedure to provide access to the interior of the body includes an access member defining a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end for being disposed at an exterior side of the body and a distal end for extending into the interior... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp
20100222748 - Medical article anchoring system: An anchoring system provides secure attachment between a portion of a medical article and a body of a patient. The anchoring system comprises a securement device and a first fitting attached to the medical article, the first fitting having a first configuration. Embodiments of the anchoring system also comprise a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100222749 - Needle safety device: The invention relates to a needle safety device for a medical device, the needle safety device comprising: a base portion having a bore extending in an axial direction therethrough for receiving a needle; two opposing jaws extending from the base portion generally in the axial direction and each having a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP
20100222750 - Replenishable drug delivery implant for bone and cartilage: A spinal implant comprising one or more integrated walls spaced apart to define an interior cavity configured to retain bone graft material, and having at least one aperture providing a pathway between the interior cavity and an exterior environment of the implant; wherein at least one of the one or... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP
20100222751 - Transdermal drug delivery patch: A transdermal drug delivery device is shown and described. The device includes an occlusive or non-occlusive backing, an adhesive, at least one drug delivery region, an adhesive, and a release liner. The device has an open configuration and a closed configuration. When the device is in the closed configuration, the... Agent: HansenIPLaw PLLC
20100222752 - Ophthalmic fluid delivery system: An ophthalmic fluid atomizer including a body having a proximal end and a distal end and a container connected to the body, wherein the container contains an ophthalmic fluid disposed therein. The atomizer further including a discharge plate disposed at the distal end and a wick extending from the container... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
20100222753 - Patch with hydrophilic adhesive:
20100222754 - Waste management system: A waste management system includes a waste transport device and a waste collection device. The waste transport device may include a first connector member configured for releasable connection to a second connector member on the waste collection device. The system may also include an insertion device to facilitate insertion of... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.
20100222755 - Multi-layer nonwoven in situ laminates and method of producing the same: Described herein is a meltspun laminate comprising two or more layers of meltspun fabrics, wherein layers that are adjacent to one another are in situ entangled with one another to define an interfacial region of mixed fibers between the layers. Also described herein is a method of making a meltspun... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company
20100222756 - Disposable absorbent article: A disposable absorbent article comprising: an absorbent body including a top sheet, a back sheet and an absorbent core disposed therebetween; and a flap provided along an edge of opposite sides in a width direction of the absorbent core; wherein the flap has a fixing part joined to the top... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
20100222759 - Absorbent article with lotion-containing topsheet: A sanitary napkin comprising a topsheet having a body-facing side and comprising a plurality of discrete tufts of fibrous material. The topsheet has a lotion composition applied to at least a portion of the body-facing side thereof. An absorbent core is in fluid communication with the topsheet, the absorbent core... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100222757 - Hydrophobic surface coated material for use in absorbent articles: An improved barrier member for an absorbent article that includes a nonwoven treated with a hydrophobic surface coating. The hydrophobic surface coating includes a non-aqueous, solventless, multicomponent silicone composition. The hydrophobic surface coating may be substantially free of aminosilicones.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip
20100222758 - Water-absorbent resin, hydropolymer, process for producing them, and uses of them: The present invention provides a production process by which a water-absorbent resin of excellent quality can be obtained at a low cost by reasonable steps in aqueous solution polymerization. The process for producing a water-absorbent resin comprises the step of polymerizing an aqueous solution of water-absorbent resin-forming monomers including acrylic... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.
20100222761 - Biaxially elastic nonwoven laminates having inelastic zones: Disclosed is a method of imparting constraint in a biaxially elastic nonwoven laminate, and the constrained laminate itself, the method comprising providing a biaxially elastic nonwoven laminate comprising at least one meltspun elastic fabric and at least one extensible fabric or film; and fusing at least, or preferably, only a... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company
20100222760 - Training pants with age appropriate graphics: A series of disposable absorbent articles designed to fit wearers at different stages of development including a first absorbent article configured to fit a wearer in a first stage of development and a second absorbent article configured to fit a wearer in a second stage of development different than the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP
20100222762 - Method and apparatus to indicate prior use of a medical item: The present invention monitors an IV bag injection port and informs the user of prior injections. The present invention employs an object and/or a sealed chamber within a transparent IV fluid bag injection port. In the case of the object, notification of prior use is achieved when the object's or... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
20100222763 - Method and apparatus to indicate prior use of a medical item: The present invention monitors an IV bag injection port and informs the user of prior injections. The present invention employs an object and/or a sealed chamber within a transparent IV fluid bag injection port. In the case of the object, notification of prior use is achieved when the object's or... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC
20100222765 - Correction factor testing using frequent blood glucose input: An apparatus comprises receiving a user prompt in a blood glucose (BG) management device to start a determination of an effective correction factor, receiving sampled blood glucose data of a patient obtained during a specified time duration, including a time duration after delivery of an initial insulin correction bolus, determining... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
20100222764 - Intracranial catheter and methods of use: A catheter assembly for intracranial treatment of a subject that includes an outer tube that may be connected to an infusion or osmotic pump and delivered through a bendable catheter to the target brain site of the subject. The assembly facilitates regular accurate placement of drug or compound delivery at... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa
20100222766 - Inventory sparing catheter systems and methods: Some embodiments relate to a catheter system having a changeable or adjustable working length. The catheter system can comprise a proximal end, a distal end, and a first axial lumen configured to receive a guidewire formed through at least a portion of the catheter body. A first opening can be... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
20100222767 - Markers for needles including temporary and pen injector types: A Marker on the dorsal (top) side of a needle allows a visually challenged user to maintain an orientation of the needle from a point within the user's comfortable visual focusing range to a desired injection site... Agent: Pj Gluck, Esq.
20100222768 - Methods for capacitance volume correction in fluid delivery systems: A method of capacitance volume correction in fluid-containing expandable bodies and associated fluid pathways is disclosed for application in fluid delivery systems used to supply fluids to patients during radiographic imaging procedures including angiography. One embodiment is directed to a method of controlling delivery of fluid to a downstream process,... Agent: Gregory L Bradley Medrad Inc
20100222770 - Fluid delivery device with a diffusion membrane for fast response time: A fluid delivery device can be used to deliver fluid within a living body. The fluid delivery device includes an electrochemical pump, a reservoir, a displaceable member, and a diffuse membrane. The electrochemical pump transports water and includes an electrochemical pump product chamber to retain water transported by the electrochemical... Agent: Ceramatec, Inc.
20100222769 - Mems electrochemical bellows actuator: An implantable fluid delivery system may include a fluid reservoir configured to hold a supply of fluid, to dispense that fluid under the control of an actuator, and to be implanted within the body of a living host. An actuator within the fluid reservoir may cause the fluid to be... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLPPrevious industry: Surgery: splint, brace, or bandage
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Blame a combination of factors–bad information, the coddling of domestic industries, the recent economic downturn–for blunting the European Union’s emission trading system.
The European Commission proposed the carbon-trading scheme in late 2001 as a means of getting the European states to meet their commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Barely three years later, European countries had allocated EUAs to more than 11,500 power plants and industrial facilities such as steel mills, oil refineries, and cement works, representing close to half of European carbon emissions. Nearly all the EUAs, which were valid for a trial period running from 2005 to 2007, were handed out free of charge in order to short-circuit complaints from industry interests that the added cost of pollution permits would crimp their global competitiveness.
At first the trading system looked healthy; virtual trading pits such as the London-based European Climate Exchange thrived. Futures contracts on a 2007 EUA climbed steadily from about seven euros in January 2005 to more than 30 euros by April 2006. In 2005 alone, carbon exchanges traded 362 million EUAs with an estimated financial value of 7.2 billion euros, according to Oslo-based market consultancy Point Carbon.
Then, in May 2006, EUAs plummeted in value, to less than 15 euros. After recovering briefly in the summer of 2006, EUA futures settled at close to zero for the remainder of the trial phase. Emissions data released in May 2008 revealed that European states, relying on unreliable emissions estimates and under pressure from various industries, had handed out EUAs for 6,321 million tons of carbon dioxide during the first phase, exceeding total actual emissions during the period by 107 million tons.
Global recession is now undermining the second phase of the trading system, which started last year. The European Union set the cap for the 2008-2012 period at 6.5 percent lower than the cap for the trial period. Trading volumes initially exploded, according to Point Carbon. But the rally proved short-lived. The EUA price slid to an average of just 11 euros in the first quarter of 2009, as manufacturing slowed in the face of the recession.
The faltering trading scheme may be doing real harm. Free permits and weak carbon pricing have rewarded the heaviest carbon polluters while hurting Europe’s consumers. Most EU states gave extra allowances to heavy industries such as cement and steel, because they didn’t want to threaten the manufacturers’ international competitiveness; by the same logic, states gave relatively few allowances to producers of electricity, a commodity that must be generated close to consumers and thus is not forced into global competition.
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From Ice Slides to 400ft Giants, the roller coaster industry has just about always depended on one thing, gravity. Gravity is one of the major factors in the design of a roller coaster. However, gravity is not the only thing that contributes to the design of a coaster.
Many people believe the roller coasters origin started in the 1400s in St. Petersburg, Russia. The early roller coaster did not even roll at all. In fact, it was just an Ice Slide. They where usually nicknamed "Ice Mountains." For at the time they were very tall. They were about 70 feet high with an angle of descent of about 50 degrees. 50 degrees was steeper than most coasters in the 1920s. There was sand at the end of the stretch after the hill to stop the rider. Sometimes it worked sometimes it did not. Some creative designers even made bumps at the end, which were very dangerous. The cars were blocks of ice (sometimes wood, but especially ice) with the top hollowed out and lined with wood and wool for the riders to sit on. There was a short rope that went through a small drilled hole that the rider could hold onto. The rides where so risky that they required skill by the rider. Many people made money by teaching others for a fee. The rides were so popular they were built inside with waxed wooden slopes. Catharine the Great even took part and rode the slides.
During the Napoleonic Wars, French soldiers returned to their homeland (France). There is no doubt they enjoyed the Ice Slides in Russia. Because of the much warmer climate in France, they could not make Ice Slides. They created dry slides with wheeled boards. The tracks dipped up and down on their way to the bottom. These became such great success that in 1817 two roller coaster-like rides were opened, the Les Montagnes Russes at Belleville and the most popular Promanades Aeriennes in Beaujon Gardens, Paris. Riders would start in one of the two central towers and would curve down and up and up the incline. It went as fast as 40 mph. The wheels axles projected into grooves cut into the walls as guide wheels. Therefore it was locked onto track. Attendants would push the cars back up the central towers. M. Lebonjor invented a very early cable system in 1826 that may have laid people off but made a faster and more efficient way to get the riders to the top. Many people debate weather it was France or Russia who is the birthplace of the roller coaster.
Robert Cartmell, who teaches drawing and printmaking at the State University of New York at Albany, is a roller coaster enthusiast, and a member of the National Amusement Device Company says the first switchback railway was built in Russia as early as 1784. The ride was built in the Gardens of Oreinbaum in St. Petersburg. In the wintertime, the Ice slides would operate while in the summer wheeled carriages would run on grooved tracks. This was very much like the first United States switchback railways. The significance of the switchback is that it had to be switched back to another track to get on the track because there was no turn around technology yet. The Russian ice slides most likely went out of style in the 1800s.
In 1827 in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania Joasiah White and Erkine Hazard built a railroad to haul coal from a strip mine up on Summit Hill down the Lehigh Canal in Mauch Chunk, some 18 miles away. The slope from Summit Hill to Mauch Chunk drops 96 feet every mile. The train only needed a little push to get started down the hill. It exceeded 100 miles per hour. The trip down the valley took one half an hour. To return back up the hill, it was pulled by mules, which took up to three hours. By 1844 coal was the main source of power in the United States. A faster and more efficient way was needed for transporting coal on Summit Hill.
Joasiah White built a second lane to create a figure 8 layout. This allowed coal cars to be constantly going up and down the mountainside. Two steam engines, each with 120 horsepower attached by cable two "Barneys" which would attach to the car and pulled the car up the lift. The first Anti-rollback system was built on the Mauch Chunk railway. At Mt. Jefferson, the car would attach to a new track called at gravity rail. It was here that the cars were loaded and coasted back down through a very Scenic 18-mile path to Mauch Chunk near the Delaware Canal.
When the figure 8 was completely done someone had thought of putting people in the cars and pushing them down. It was instant success. It immediately became a very large tourist attraction. In February of 1872 the Hauto Rail Tunnel was completed through the near by North Mountain which brought in National Railways bringing in even more tourist. By 1874 the Mauch Chunk railway was the second biggest tourist attraction in the United States after Niagara Falls. It cost only one dollar for the round trip up Summit Hill, which took only one hour and twenty minutes. It totaled up to around 40 miles. After taking tours of the area at the top, passengers re-boarded the trains for the way down.
The passengers had no idea what they where about to experience. The Valley Gazette in Lansford described it as:
"the car spun along at frightening speed. On a curve a mans straw hat flew into the air like a kite. Women dug their nails into wooden seats to keep them from being whisked out of the car A little boy lost a button on his shirt. His mothers grip on him was like a vice. He wondered why she looked so pale. The ladies were struggling to keep their skirts down over their knees, but the driver showed no mercy. Faster they went until birches, pines, hemlocks, rocks, stumps, earth, and sky all blurred into one. Plunging down the hill they could hardly remain seated. Rounding corners, everyone was flying to the opposite side in a squeezing heap. The elderly man whose straw hat vanished began to wonder why he came. His will wasnt in order and the valley looked like 100 miles straight down. The small boy was beginning to enjoy the ride, but his mother felt she was going to faint."
The Mauch Chunk railway was certainly the first mechanical roller coaster ride in the United States. It still holds the record for the highest altitude (1,260 feet) and the longest length (18 miles). In 1976, The Mauch Chunk Railway was declared a historical monument. Tracks can still be found today from the old railroad. There is a lot of talk about rebuilding and restoring the Mauch Chunk.
La Marcus Adna Thompson was one of the many tourists who rode the Mauch Chunk railway in the 1870s. La Marcus was born on March 8, 1848 in Jersey, Ohio. He had 9 brothers and sisters. He grew up on a farm in the backcountry. He was a lover of mechanical stuff as a child. He often built mechanical tools for his mother & father. Such things as a devised butter churn, mini-sawmill, and an ox-cart. He tried many different jobs throughout his life that he was very good at with his inventive mind, such as building houses. He invented seamless hosiery. He was the founder of the famous Eagle Knitting Company. After 6 years, he had to take a rest from the very busy job.
When he did ride the Mauch Chunk railway, he was under doctors orders not to ride because he was recuperating from nervous exhaustion. On his trip he thought of the gravity ride and its marketing potential. He was not the first person to think of the roller coaster. J.G. Taylor and R. Knudson where the first to think of it, however since La Marcus was the first to get his built he was given credit for the roller coaster. That's how he got the name " Father of the Gravity Ride." Thompson's roller coaster, The switch back railway opened in 1884 at Coney Island. It was an immediate success. It cost 5 cents a ride. It ran at a top speed of six miles per hour and it was fifty feet high and four hundred feet long. The track was very "indualating" or smooth and wave like. When the passengers got to the end of the last dip attendants pushed or carried the trains back to the top. When the train was switched back to the other track, passengers boarded again and took the ride back. People would stand in line for up to 3 hours. The ride profited about $600 dollars a day, which was a lot at the time.
In that very same year Charles Alcoke from Hamilton, Ohio created the first continuous circuit coaster without of the need of a switch back. The coaster was named Serpentine Railway. It too was built at the legendary Coney Island. The trains was very unique because the benches faced sideways for better sight seeing. The layout for this coaster was later named the "out and back." Phillip Hinkle built a coaster in San Francisco, California, which was higher and scarier than any other coasters built at the time. He also added the steam powered chain lift.
Thompson's response was to create his own company which would build many more scenic railways all over the country. Thompson hired John Miller as his Chief-Engineer. John Miller would later dominate the coaster industry.
Lina Beecher created the first elliptical curve or teardrop shaped loop. This reduced the "g-forces" at the bottom of the loop. However it was so ruff it was closed down because some people snapped their necks. Coasters at Coney Island were being built and torn down so much that one Coney Island lover said the coasters were" weeds that popped up as fast as they were torn down."
Coney Island consisted of three parks: Luna Park, Steeplechase Park which consisted of the famous eight lane racing and dueling steeplechase, and the 3rd park was Dreamland. Back in that day, Coney Island was not a family park. It was where were drugs were sold and often gangs hung out there. To try to prevent gangs coming in to Luna and Steeplechase Park made an entrance fee. Coney Island also had a lot of fires. Each time it was re-built, it was re-built less carefully.
Many parks were originated from trolley businesses that needed money due to fewer people using their trolleys because of the automobile industry growing. Such parks as Kennywood in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, and Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Lancashire, England. Many parks that were built in the city had no room for parking or Expansion. Trolley parks were often built in the countryside.
Later came the Stock Market Crash and the World Wars. Most coasters were torn down for the war effort. Before the Great Depression there was thousands of coasters in the United States, however after the number was reduced to a couple hundred. Amusement parks were thought to be old fashion.
On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney opened Disney land. Back in the 20s people went to Amusement parks for scares. Walt Disney changed that. He made a land of nd fun. Walt Disney Land was created as a family place. This park "single handedly" brought back the Amusement Industry to its feet.
John Miller who was born in 1872 started working on amusement type rides as a mechanic and ride operator at the age of 19. Like stated earlier in this report he was appointed by the "Father of all Gravity Coasters" La Marcus Adna Thompson to be his Chief- Engineer for Thompson's company, Thompson Scenic railway. He designed only wooden coasters. He was born and raised in Homewood, Illinois. His original name was Augest Mueller. He probably changed his name for racial reasons for he was German. He created many safety features that we still use today such as the side and under friction wheels. With these, John knew he could make his coasters go faster and have tighter curves, steeper drops, and sharper bends than any of his competition. He also invented the anti-rollback dog that keeps the train form rolling backwards on the lift. This is why on most coasters lift you hear the familiar click, clank, click, clank sound. It is John Millers Anti-rollback system. Since John had rights on these features, no one could use them except for him. Just about all parks had a John Miller designed coaster.
John Miller built coasters such as the Big dippers and the Racers. The Pippin which was in built in 1924 in a ravine and re-modeled and moved to a different location in 1969. In 1969 the Pippin was renamed the Kennywood Thunderbolt. John also built another coaster at Kennywood, the Jack Rabbit in 1920 with an 85 foot double dip drop. Both coasters are still operating today. Four other coasters he designed were the Sky Rocket, Deep Dipper, Thriller and the Cyclone. He later worked for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. Sadly, he died in 1941.
Harry Traver lived from 1877-1961 built the only coaster in history, which had to have a nurse at the exit platform. People often broke ribs, arms, and legs. People even got concussions. This coaster was the legendary Crystal Beach Cyclone at Crystal Beach Ontario, Canada. He first started his career making gentle family rides. He invented such rides as the Tumble Bug and the Circle Swing. Harry Traver was born in Gardner, Illinois. He built the first all steel structured roller coaster in the world. He believe that steel structures were stronger, and he was right, He re-designed the Fredrick Church Toboggan by making the trains heavier, which made a continuous speed of 60 miles per hour pulling 3-g. When the Great Depression hit, he moved his family to England were he built the Grand National racing roller coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Lancashire, England. It was built to resemble the Cyclone Racer which he designed in America.
Frederick Church, who was in partnership with Harry Traver. Frederick built some of the best rides ever, the Cyclones and the Bobs. Not too much is known about Frederick Church because a lot of the history about him was burnt along with many of the Traver files. Church designed the derby-carousel. Only three remain to this date, including the one at Cedar Point. He built well over one hundred coasters in his lifetime. Church worked many years at the entrance to one of his rides, "Race through the Clouds," at Venice Amusement Park in California now known as Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Herb Schmeck was born in 1890 and is given credit for the Philadelphia Toboggan Company's success. He joined the Philadelphia Toboggan Company as a construction engineer directly out of college. The Philadelphia Toboggan Company dominated the coaster industry in the 20s and 30s. He created the first ever coaster at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It even made money through the Great Depression. Throughout his life, he created over 210 coasters as well as numerous fun houses, tunnels of love, water chutes, and cuddle up rides. Herb handed down his studies to John Allen who would bring coasters back in the late 50s.
John Allen brought the second golden of roller coasters up. He became president of the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1954. He helped in the Animation coaster "This is Cinerama" a fake coaster built in 1939. This helped bring roller coasters back for a second golden age. He built many coasters in Ohio such as the Racer at Paramount's Kings Island, Blue Streak at Cedar Point, and Sea Dragon at Wyandot Lake. His coasters were smooth and graceful unlike rides in the 20s. He was born on May 21, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died there in 1976. In his lifetime he had many great achievements such as having the honor in helping dismantle, the legendary Harry Traver designed Crystal Beach Cyclone. Many people say John Allen's coasters are not just coasters. They are works of art. His favorite coaster he ever built was Screamin Eagle built in 1976 at Six Flags Over Mid-America the same year he died. It was 3,872 feet long, 110 feet high, and a top speed of 62 miles per hour.
Curtis Summers and Charlie Dinn worked together for about 5 years. What they designed in those years was amazing. Summers was a structural engineer from Ohio who designed the 330 foot 1/3 scaled version of the Eiffel tower at Paramount's Kings Island. Summers also helped John Allen on the Kings Island racer. Dinn helped in the movement of the Phoenix. Together they built such coasters as Mean Streak, the fourth longest wooden coaster in the world and the longest at Cedar Point. They first met when Dinn approached Summers to redesign the superstructure of the re-located Rocket. This brought on the great partnership. They also designed the Raging Wolf Bobs. The partnership dominated the wooden coaster market in the late 80s. The partnership ended when Summers parted and died a year later but not before he helped with Japans first and only wooden roller coaster.
Ron Toomer joined Arrow in 1965. He does not like to ride roller coasters. However he designed the first roller coaster in the second golden age of roller coasters to go up side down which was Corkscrew at Knott's Berry Farm in 1975. Corkscrew was the first tubular steel looping coaster. He later helped with the design of the first vertical loop roller coaster which was "Revolution" at Six Flags Magic Mountain. He also designed Vortex at Paramount's Kings Island, and Corkscrew, Magnum, Gemini, and Iron Dragon all at Cedar Point. The Loch Ness Monster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Virginia was also designed by him. He designed The Bat, which was dismantled from Paramount's Kings Island. The Bat was the first ever-suspended roller coaster. It was too expensive to maintain because of no banking in the track. No banking caused the shocks to break. There is a story about the Bat that the shocks warn out so fast that they had to be replaced within a week. Many people say it was the best suspended rollercoaster ever.
Anton Schwarzkopf died recently in year 2001. His nickname was "Mr. SuperDooperLooper man." He was one of the greatest if not the greatest making tightly compact coasters. He could make coasters so light that they could be carnival rides and still endure the forces. He made a very tight coaster in a shopping mall called "Mindbender." In Munich he designed, the Olympic Looping that has a two consecutive side by side loops. He also designed Wildcat and Millennium Force at Cedar Point. Anton was the first to make a Shuttle Loop Coaster. It was launched by a weight then through a loop and up an incline. Then you went through the course all over again with a twist, you went backwards! Not too many of these remain today. Paramount's Kings Island had the first one, which was removed in the 80s. | <urn:uuid:ee20211d-6da8-41ad-83d2-91bca1673886> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://inversionforce.tripod.com/Rollercoaster_History.htm | 2014-07-30T00:54:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510268363.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011748-00483-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987914 | 4,023 |
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1) My ancestors made that same trip in the mid 1700s. From what work I've done, it appears that there was a road/trail from Philadelphia to Roanoke. I can't remember the name of it now. By 1800, a map that I saw showed it as a wagon road that turned into a trail about 20 miles before Staunton. It seems to have followed the existing Pennsylvania turnpike and I81.
2) In summary, by the time of the Revolution, the earlier English settlers had occupied and settled lands east of the Appalachian Mountains. Movement across these mountains was prohibited by the British Government, based on a treaty with the Indian tribes, negotiated following the French Indian War,
The treaty promised that settlers would not cross the Appalachians. The purpose was to ensure peace with the Indians. The benefits to the British Government were two-fold: financial benefits from extensive fur trade; and reduced need to maintain a large military presence in the colonies.
The prohibition lasted until the start of the revolution, and the consequent inability of the British to prevent movement of people west. That movement was comprised in large part by new immigrants: Germans and Scots Irish. As the lands east of the Appalachians were used and owned by the earlier English settlers, the new settlers crossed the Laura Mountains in Pennsylvania, and flooded down the Shenandoah Valley. Kept from westward movement by mountains, until much farther south the Cumberland Gap was found, which permitted the settlers to cross into what became Tennessee, and to move north into Kentucky.
The only other access west, to the Kentucky lands, was via the Ohio River, and it was controlled by Indians in Ohio. They raided at will until their defeat at Fallen Timbers in 1796.
3) A lot of these guys went from Pittsburgh down the river. Some had already gone from Pennsylvania to Maryland and then went west from Maryland to Pittsburgh. I've not found any of mine, however, who did this before 1790. It seems they usually got off the boat at Maysville there was a migration to the Ohio River Valley. My family went to Indiana. From there they came back south again into Texas.
4) Not just Germans but many Scotch-Irish took the same migration route, according to the book "The Scotch-Irish, A Social history" by James Leyburn.
The primary reasons seem to be economic, social (especially for Germans) and geographic. By the 1700's, when both German and Scotch-Irish emigration began in large numbers, the major seaports in the northern colonies were in Delaware, Maryland and Philadelphia. The other colonies were either not looking for colonists (North and South Carolina, Georgia) or largely settled by other immigrant groups who didn't want to mix with other influences, Puritans in Pennsylvania and New England, and Dutch in New York.
Just as important, if not more so, was the price of land. The tidewater areas of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the eastern coasts of Pennsylvania and New York were already well established. The price of land was high compared to just a few more miles down the road. And as the immigration progressed, a few miles down the road became a few more miles.
Geographically, as you head west of the tidewater area, the passage becomes bounded by the various mountain ranges in the region, first westward from the sea, then south at the Appalachians through the Valley of Virginia.
Then there were the social ties to others who shared the same language, culture, and religion -- especially for Germans, for whom the language barrier would be more than mere inconvenience.
Still another reason was the progression of colonial governments opening their frontiers to immigrants. Pennsylvania became overburdened with the task of managing claims and began discouraging settlers at about the same time that settlers had reached the Appalachians. At the same time, Virginia saw a strategic advantage in having a settled frontier between the "Indian country" and the more established settlements of eastern Virginia.
My ancestors took the same path. It's believed they arrived in one of the ports of Pennsylvania (probably Philadelphia), but by the late 1730's were settling into Augusta County, Virginia.
5) An oldish book I read about the migration from the Palatinate of Germany in the 1700's indicated that Pennsylvania gave these hale and hardy Germans land at the Western Frontier, in an effort to set up a buffer zone between the Quakers and the Indians. When the Germans discovered they were very welcome in Maryland and Virginia and could settle on land a little closer to civilization, they left Pennsylvania in force.
It was these German families who built all of those marvelous old stone farmhouses and the magnificent barns throughout Pennsylvania, Western Maryland around Frederick County, and in Virginia/West Virginia. Very efficient people.
6) I don't know if this will be of any help, but it's a message I saved from the soc.genealogy. german newsgroup a while back. If nothing else, the author of the article might be able to help you, or the source mentioned may contain something more helpful. Good luck with your research. This is taken from a book about the Pennsylvania Dutch. I thought it might be of general interest...
[Note: The "Dutch" mentioned here are descendants of the Palatinate Germans, and more recent immigrants who spoke German, and who maintained the German culture. They settled a region stretching from just north of Philadelphia, west through Lancaster and York, then arching down through Harper's Ferry, Winchester, down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, through the Piedmont of North Carolina, and down to central Georgia. By 1790 they had established colonies in western Virginia, a region we call Kentucky. References to the Koontz families includes Counts, Kunce, Cuntze, Koonce, Coontz, Kuntz, and Kunz, Cunitz, even Cunys, Coots, and Kutz.]
The Pennsylvania Dutch, by Frederick Klees, The Macmillan Company, 1950.
p. 187. [regarding the Civil War's impact on the communities]
The Valley Dutch in Virginia suffered even more than the Dutch in Pennsylvania. The Shenandoah Valley was Lee's granary and as such was put to waste by Sheridan 'so that crows flying over it ... will have to carry their provender with them,' as it was aptly phrased by General Early. Grain and hay, whether in barn or field, were either destroyed or seized. Cattle, too, were driven away or slaughtered. Barns and mills were burned and some houses, too; and railroad tracks were torn up. But even more deeply resented than the devastation wrought by Sheridan's army were 'the burnings' of General David Hunter, a Virginian fighting for the North. Virginia Military Institute and many houses through the Valley were burned, not from military necessity, but out of hate. It is small wonder that the South retaliated in kind with the burning of Chambersburg.
It was byway of the Valley that the South made its two great invasions of the North, the first stopped at Antietam in 1862, the second at Gettysburg in 1863. No part of the country saw so much fighting as the Shenandoah Valley. The town of Winchester changed hands 72 times during the four years of the war.
[In the early days, the roads were little more than horse trails. In time, they spread out from Philadelphia. It is along these roads that the early settlers migrated to unclaimed lands. The Koontz family traveled right along with the other early settlers.]
[The first main road serving the Dutch settlements was the road from Philadelphia to Reading.]
Even more important was the road to Lancaster, built about 1733. This was the main road to the West even in the days when the West lay just across the Susquehanna. This road was soon extended west from Lancaster, crossing the Susquehanna at Wright's Ferry and connecting Lancaster with York. In those days before the Alleghenies had been penetrated the road struck south to the Shenandoah Valley . Later, when vast numbers of Conestoga wagons traveled this road, it became known as the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road. It was over this road that Daniel Hollenbach made his monthly trip from Winchester to Philadelphia, carrying flour and wheat north and bringing back city merchandise. Before the French and Indian War a road ran west from Frederick, Maryland, to Fort Cumberland on the Potomac, but even then there was no road over the Pennsylvania mountains . At a time when the mountains hampered western expansion the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road led directly to the fertile Valley of Virginia and even to the Carolina Piedmont. During the early years of the Republic it became the highway to Kentucky, for in southern Virginia it joined the Wilderness Road, which Daniel Boone had blazed in 1774-1775. Crossing the mountains at Cumberland Gap, the Wilderness Road led across Kentucky to the falls of the Ohio, where Louisville now stands. In the decades when Braddock's Road across the Alleghenies was growing up in brush and when the Indians on the plains of western New York barred the way across that state, the road down the Shenandoah to Cumberland Gap was the most practicable route to the West. Used at first by pioneers on horseback eager to cross the passes into Kentucky, it was soon crowded with covered wagons, almost by the thousand. Many settlers heading west visited Lancaster, York, or Carlisle first to acquire a Conestoga wagon, a Kentucky rifle or other equipment. From 1775 to 1800 more than three hundred thousand settlers traveled this road to the West. It was the use of this route rather than the one across the Pennsylvania mountains that accounted for the settlement of Kentucky at a time when Ohio was still Indian territory.
The third important road of the Dutch country was the one following the Great Valley. The section from Easton to Reading, laid out in 1755, was but one link in a road that ran through the valley from the Delaware in the north through Pennsylvania and Maryland south to the Shenandoah Valley. The southern part of the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road was really a section of this road. In lower Virginia it met a road from Salem in North Carolina, thus linking the Moravian center of Salem in the South with Lititz and Bethlehem in the North. The Lititz church diary for March 26, 1756 mentions "the North Carolina wagon" that passed through Lititz regularly every few months on its way between North Carolina and Bethlehem: 'We had bread baked from the flour made in the North Carolina mill, brought here by the two returning wagons.' During the Revolution the Pennsylvania section of the road through the Great Valley from Easton to Bethlehem and then through Reading and Harris's Ferry to Carlisle and so on to the South was of great strategic importance. When Philadelphia was in the hands of the British, it was this road that connected New England, New York and New Jersey with the colonies in the South. It was then the most heavily traveled highway in America. Later, during the Civil War, the southern section of this road through the valley was a natural route of invasion of the South by the North and the North by the South. The very excellence of the road, which was covered with crushed limestone when most roads were sloughs of mud, invited the invading armies. In the South one skirmish in the valley followed another. In the North the road led to Antietam and Gettysburg.
West of Carlisle there were for a time only packers' paths through the mountains. At Carlisle, which was the eastern terminus of the packhorse trains, there were sometimes as many as five hundred pack horses assembled at one time, ready to start their trek west with loads of iron, salt, sugar, and other necessities.
The first great road across the Alleghenies was Forbes Road, later known as the Pennsylvania Road. Built in 1758 to enable the British and American forces to capture Fort Duquesne, it ran west from Bedford to the forks of the Ohio. At Bedford it joined a road running east through Chambersburg and Shippensburg to Carlisle. Forbes Road was a military road guarded by forts at strategic points to protect it from the French and Indians.
7) First there are some very good resources for migration trails. One basic one is in the back of the Handybook by Everton. You did not say from where in Pennsylvania, which makes a difference. But many in Pennsylvania used the Old Connecticut Road from Philadelphia over to Pittsburgh, some veering off south and falling into the Pendleton County, VA/West Virginia area. I am not sure what time frame you are referring to either but some of mine apparently took the Great Indian Warpath from Philly, then down along the east side of the Appalachians. This put them in the Hardy County, Augusta Co area for awhile. If you have a map handy: find Philly, run your finger west and rather straight, thru Lancaster and Adams County, then drop a bit south thru Hagerstown, Maryland into Berkeley County, West Virginia, then through Frederick and Shenandoah, Virginia. The path continued south thru Roanoke, but my guess is your ancestors would have turned west by then. The great Indian warpath was later called the Philadelphia Wagon Rd and it intersected with the Great Valley Road. And in Frederick County, Virginia, just next to the West Virginia border the west heading road was called the Old Northwestern Turnpike. That one actually started in Alexandria going west and passing thru Hampshire, Mineral, Preston and ending in Parkersburg at the Ohio River.
8) The Scots-Irish also took more or less the same route--actually down the Shenandoah or Potomac Valleys-- in search of cheap land and an easy (or easi-ER) way across the mountains. It was difficult to go straight across Pennsylvania because there were no roads or rivers to follow. So they followed the rivers wherever they led to--and that was to the southwest. There, it was much easier to get over the mountains to rivers such as the Kanawha and the Sandy that flowed into the Ohio, which led into Western Pennsylvania. Sounds like the long way around to us but remember that they were traveling with wagons and oxen without any roads.
9) The route they took was west from Philadelphia about where U.S. Route 30 runs now and then between York and Cumberland Counties, Pennsylvania. they went south on what is now Route 15.
The reason for moving is because Virginia was offering cheap land for Pennsylvania Germans and others for the purpose of serving as a buffer between the Indians and the more established parts of Virginia. (Sentimental devils weren't they? ;-)
What motivated people to move was cheap land, it was cheap because there was so much of it. Christopher Sower, the Germantown printer, in a letter to friends in Germany said that someone could work in Pennsylvania and in two years earn enough to buy land on the frontier (just where the frontier was depended on the time frame). Land was cheap and so labor was high. Someone would work for a couple of years and then move out to buy his own farm creating a permanent shortage of labor.
10) The "Philadelphia Wagon Road" from Philadelphia went west out of Philadelphia, turned south through the Shenandoah Valley, and southwesterly, joining with the "Great Valley Wagon Road" through southwestern Virginia into the Carolinas and further. It was the primary migration route for Germans and Scots-Irish out of Pennsylvania into Virginia and states south. You can see more information on migration routes in a book titled, The Handy Book For Genealogists published by The Everton Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 368, Logan, UT 84321. (I have no other connection to the book or that company except that I use the heck out of this book, which has information on every county in every state, too. Highly recommended.)
Now, about why they traveled? More/better land; new horizons; death of the patriarch in the family, which often meant that the family farm was inherited by the eldest brother and the rest took their inheritances and went to find their own space; other relatives/former neighbors beckoned others to follow them to a new location; Philadelphia was an English city, and the Germans liked to keep to themselves pretty much, speaking their own language and following their own customs and religion (also the English distrusted the strange "foreigners" and probably made them know they should leave the area). Sometimes the Germans would travel to a place and establish a German village, and it remained that way for two or three generations. Some still have signs of German founders, in churches, building designs, etc.
11) Good question. In the early days the families could not travel to new uncharted areas without doing so as part of a community. They simply would not have succeeded on their own. You will often find the early Germans traveling with the same allied families from settlement to settlement. One factor in their willingness to travel is the fact that were often somewhat nomadic in Germany before coming to America. Often families that we consider to be German were actually Swiss and settled in Germany after the 30 Years War due to overcrowding in Switzerland and the availability of land in Germany after the population in many areas was decimated. So they came to America with a history of willingness to travel. Once here their families grew in size and they needed new farmland and economic opportunities. Sometimes groups of a particular religious following formed new communities where they could worship as they saw fit but by far the most important factor was economics--the need for more land and the chance to succeed. Thus they went where the opportunities were. Many were involved in working in mills, forges, glass making and these occupations depended upon the necessities of raw materials in areas that could support those undertakings. They often created routes that the others would soon follow to these new communities. The wealthy men of the day would go to a new area first, buy land, and then bring the workers into that area in great numbers. You will often find the same families intermarrying in one new settlement after another. THE major migration route for the Germans was from Pennsylvania to Frederick County, Maryland and then on down into the Valley of Virginia (following the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road) and eventually further south or west from there.
Hope this helps some. One important thing to consider when reaching a dead end in studying one of these families is to begin looking at the allied families. Chances are if they moved on so did your people.
12) The Quakers, then the Germans and then the Ulster-Irish (aka Scotch-Irish) settled in Pennsylvania because of the liberal laws on religious freedom.
The Quakers, being the first large group there, settled the areas around Philadelphia and Newcastle, Delaware - those being the principle ports of entry. The Germans, being the second big wave, settled the lands beyond that - around Berks, Lancaster, and York Counties. The Ulster-Irish, then settled (often just squatting without legal right) the lands beyond them which pushed them over the first ridge of hills into the Juniata, and Cumberland and Conococheague valleys. As the hills beyond were much higher, settlement started heading down the great Appalachian ridge and valley system which is a natural highway with no real natural barriers leading into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and eventually the Holston/Tennessee Valleys of Tennessee. As settlement (via immigration and rapidly expanding families) filled these areas, some families spread into the surrounding hills into parallel valleys. In Pendleton County's case, it would be the South Branch of the Potomac River. The main reason that large groups of Germans (and Ulster-Irish) and even mixed groups of Virginians later moved was 1) the rapidly populating land was more and more at a premium and thus causing land prices to increase -- and 2) entrepreneurial land speculators offered very attractive prices to induce large groups to move to these newly-available lands. As the Germans spread throughout York and Adams counties and into Maryland, land became scarce -- especially for the younger sons and daughters who didn't inherit the family farm, of if they shared the farm - after a couple splits, it was becoming too small to be profitable. Thus, when Virginia land speculators like Borden, Berkeley, Joist Hite, and James Patton offered Valley lands families moved en masse. Then after 1755 -- and the havoc-wrecking Indian attacks, settlers moved even farther south to the "safer" lands offered by Lord Granville in North Carolina or by the South Carolina government.
That's over-simplified somewhat but gives a basic overview.
25) Think of it this way. You're from Germany, a farmer (everyone is, you can't go to the A & P) and emigrate to Philadelphia. You hear some Germans went or are going to Virginia. You go to Virginia. Is Virginia like Germany? No. No good farmland unless your growing tobacco or peanuts, ever try to live on tobacco and peanuts? So everyone heads back to Pennsylvania but the frontier is just opening up. The Indians have moved out west. So everyone heads to OHIO. Hey, this is great farmland, nice and level and the weather is just like home, Germany. Land of milk and honey.
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Ireland’s first Center Parcs holiday resort given final approval
Ireland’s first Center Parcs holiday resort has been given final approval by planners.
About 1,000 people, mostly aged 18-24 and local, will be employed at the forest village near Ballymahon, Co Longford when it opens in 2019.
Management said about 750 construction jobs will be created while it is being built.
The plans were sent to An Bord Pleanala after four objections were raised by people living locally to Newcastle Wood.
Martin Dalby, Center Parcs chief executive, said the resort will transform the area of the Midlands in tourism and economic terms.
“Since we announced our desire to bring the Center Parcs experience to Ireland last April, we have been overwhelmed by the positive support we have received at both local and national level and we are looking forward to forging ahead to bring our plans to fruition,” he said.
The 395-acre resort, Longford Forest, will have room for about 2,500 guests in 470 lodges, 30 apartments, treehouses, a spa, restaurants, cafes and a sub-tropical pool area with water rides.
The project involves an investment of about 230 million euro.
Center Parcs operates five short-break destinations in the UK at Whinfell Forest in Cumbria, Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, Elveden Forest in Suffolk, Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire and Longleat Forest in Wiltshire.
It took in two million guests last year.
Center Parcs announced plans for Longford last April.
It has gone through planning approval in the county council and now the appeals board, with some minor restrictions placed on the development.
Management have been asked to draw up a plan to encourage workers to use public transport, cycle, walk and car-pool to work including by offering a bike park and shower facilities for staff.
There is also an onus to recycle waste at the site and to plan for invasive aquatic species and terrestrial species, including fallow deer.
An environmental impact plan including explanations on the felling of trees and management of surface water will also be drafted, but water cannot be diverted from local rivers to top up lakes on the site during dry spells.
Anglers and staff from Inland Fisheries Ireland will also be given access to the Inny and Rath rivers.
An Bord Pleanala said the Longford resort “would not seriously injure the character of the area or the amenities of property in the vicinity, would not have unacceptable impacts on ecology, water quality or the landscape, and would be acceptable in terms of traffic safety and convenience”.
It added: “The proposed development would, therefore, be in accordance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area.”
The lodges will range from two to four bedrooms and include one five-bedroom lodge with access for disabled people and the apartments will be in a three-storey block.
Amenities will include outdoor pools, a sports lake, nature pond and a tranquillity lake, rapids, flumes and water rides, a sports hall, a bowling alley, shops, the aqua sana spa and treatment rooms, a pancake house restaurant and beach kiosk.
A derelict house will also be transformed into a nature centre and the site will have parking for 1,435 cars.
Prices for breaks in the Longford resort have not been advertised, but average costs for a Center Parcs stay run to thousands, with management saying families spend more on activities and food and drink than on their accommodation.
A family of four, with two children under five, can expect to pay from about 1,069 euro (£899) to 1,248 euro (£1,049) for four nights mid-week in a two-bed lodge in any of the UK resorts in July next year – that is before the extras start to double the cost.
Center Parcs offered other pricing variations for Whinfell Forest in Cumbria which said four people could stay in a two bed woodland lodge for a three night weekend break this autumn for 546 euro (£459) or during the October mid-term from 868 euro (£729) or from 415 euro (£349) for a midweek four-night break during 2017.
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The most recent book by Hoover economist Thomas Sowell, The Housing Boom and Bust, arrived today and I’m hoping to read it next week on vacation. The product description:
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I just can’t seem to avoid controversy lately. This time Billy Hoffman decided to take a stab at something I am still befuddled by. He claimed Jeremiah Grossman and I re-presented a paper from 7 years ago. Wow, I think someone must have missed our talk and/or failed to read the paper completely. We only mentioned timing attacks in passing and in totally different contexts. Further, I’ve never once claimed to come up with the concept of timing attacks. In fact, quite the opposite. If he had read my blog carefully he would have seen that I fully admitted I had first read about the concept of it in Hacking Web Applications Exposed 2. Then in Billy’s best showdown lingo I am given the ultimatum to put up or shut up. Eesh.
So just to cover my basis in the off chance someone can figure out a way I have trampled all over the intellectual rights of any of the aforementioned papers, I hereby cite Paul Kocher and Edward Felton for the concept of timing attacks, and Al Gore and ARPAnet for the concept of the Internet and every other concept my attacks have been based on over the years. Rest assured, unlike some people in this industry I never steal research, and if I do so inadvertantly, I own up to it and publically retract. I’ve done so dozens of times on my blog whenever I find out I am in error, whether I find my error on my own or when it is communicated to me, and that’s not about to change. And if I know that I am getting awfully close to copying someone else’s work, I always find a way to make it clear that that is what I’m doing. For the record I have no problem with SPI Dynamics - as I’ve been meeting more and more of them I’m getting to know and like them, Caleb, Michael and Jeff are all great guys. Even though we’ve had our bumps in regards to who originally came up with JS port scanning, which I am well beyond done arguing about, I actually like some of the stuff coming out of that camp. Anyway, this post probably isn’t interesting to anyone - unless you just happen to be trying to publically disparage our work… or something. | <urn:uuid:8ad021e5-80b5-4cd6-b372-f34eb9998c4e> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070810/rsnake-puts-up/ | 2014-10-24T13:26:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119646008.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030046-00179-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974209 | 482 |
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There were 5.4 million phones active on the Nextel network at the end of March. Many Nextel customers are businesses or government agencies who issue the phones to construction crews and other mobile workers. Sprint now faces the challenge of convincing these customers to move to the Sprint network rather than competing carriers. As part of the pitch, Sprint has added phones with a walkie-talkie-like "push-to-talk" feature.
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I took this photo on a recent road trip through Cleveland. I wanted to capture the architectural beauty of this church before nightfall. I didn't notice the name on the street sign, illuminated by the setting sun, until I uploaded the photo later.
How many of us can make full sense of the road our lives have taken? Three years of grad school at one of the world's top universities followed by three years of unemployment and counting....
If you had told us Dave would become a pastor instead of a research chemist, we'd both have laughed our heads off. He hates public speaking. I grew up a PK (preacher's kid), aware that people with their criticism chow down on "Roasted Pastor" every Sunday afternoon.
That's why we were planning to start an "Un-church." Meet in a cafe or bar. Dress down. Eliminate structure. We prayed and dreamed about it for a year, certain God was speaking. All we needed was a place to meet. And a confirmation. We were not going to jump on a church-pioneering bandwagon.
One day last spring the phone rang. There's an empty 1860's church down the road. Would we like to oversee it? Pastor a church plant complete with stained glass windows and a steeple?
We laughed our heads off. Then we said, "Yes."
That's where university roads can lead you. On September 2, Dave and I will begin as the "Pastoring Couple" of Wellsburg Neighborhood Church.
We don't know if Dave will ever darken the doors of a laboratory again. We don't know much of anything. What we do know is that following God's plan is the best way to live. Not always the easiest, often the craziest, but the very best and fullest way to live. We have proven it, time and time again. Now we're buckling our seat belts, ready to begin the Greatest Godventure of our lives so far.
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Now open: Hash
When Heather Haupman took over La Crema Cafeteria, a bare-bones coffee shop on 44th and Zuni, she was convinced the Sunnyside neighborhood needed a more upscale coffee and breakfast joint. So she remodeled the space, gave it a sunnier feel, and created Hash, which, in addition to Novo coffee and a slew of morning meal options, also serves scratch-baked pastries and fresh juices.
Her grand opening this weekend proved her instinct was right: "We had a line out the door," she says. "People were really looking for something like this."
Haupman isn't a stranger to the coffee-shop business. She had a cafe on 32nd and Lowell fourteen years ago. When she closed that down, she went into catering, and her Arvada-based company, Citrus Catering, has cooked for A-listers: Her catering truck is currently serving a movie set in California, and when it returns, she'll be cooking for Sheryl Crow.
She'll continue to run that operation while she builds Hash, where she says she'd like to eventually add a garden and composting, educating the neighborhood on sustainability in the process. She might add lunch at that point, too.
For now, though, she's doing a breakfast menu that includes breakfast tacos, macadamia nut French toast, crepes and four different kinds of hash, as well as a pastry case filled with croissants, eclairs and cinnamon rolls.
Hash is open Tuesday through Sunday from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m.
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New Water Bottles from Japan Change The Way You See Water
Hyotan Kara Mizu is a new brand of Japanese mineral water that sets itself apart from its many competitors through its appealing packaging. The reuseable bottles come in 20 different colorful pattern designs and the curvaceous, organic shape is meant to resemble a gourd.
Mineral water is a popular item in Japan, so the manufacturers of Hyotan Kara Mizu, Kinki Partners, sought another way of distinguishing their product: focus on the outside instead of the inside. "Hyoutan" is Japanese for "gourd", and the smoothly curved bottles of Hyotan Kara Mizu mineral water are shaped like those traditional water gourds of times long past. They even come with a red carrying cord, just like those old-fashioned "canteens"!
Kinki Partners may have a funny (to us) name but they're very serious when it comes to recycling - that's been their main business, in fact. Hyotan Kara Mizu mineral water fits in well with the company's other endeavors as its bottles are meant to be reused and recycled.
Available by the bottle for 500 yen (about $4.25) or in cartons of 20 for a net 350 yen ($3.00) each when purchased direct, Hyotan Kara Mizu mineral water makes a great gift. He case of 20 features unique designs on each and every bottle, some evoking traditional Japanese designs reminiscent of gorgeous kimonos and others displaying a more modern theme with English alphabet letters in a variety of colors. (via Japan Marketing News)
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Just saw this sneak peek of the new line by Heather Ross for Free Spirit!
(The link is to Green Kitchen, but I found out about by browsing flickr. )
I would post pics but I am not sure of flickr etiquette!
Am I really allowed to blog other people's photos?
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(TERRE HAUTE) - Police are investigating a stabbing in Terre Haute early Wednesday morning.
Michael Clouse, of WTHI, reports the incident happened just after 1 a.m. near the intersection of 19th and Locust streets.
Witnesses say a man was stabbed just east of the intersection and stumbled out into the street. They also say a local bar owner and a patron came out and held his head and kept pressure on his wounds until paramedics arrived.
The incident is not believed to be involved with the bar.
Police have not released any names involved in the incident.
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What occurs to me when I study Self-Portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn is this is not only an exquisite oil painting but it's the man himself - notably one of the most famous artists of all time.
Rembrandt is known to have drawn, painted and etched many self-portraits during his lifetime and one can gauge his personal events and moods just by the differences in appearance in these portraits. He painted this self-portrait in 1659 after he had suffered financial failure after many, many years of success. He lost his mega-mansion and other possessions to pay back his creditors. He was in a state of defeat, one can imagine. Yet there is a sense of dignity in his older face and a deliberate portrayal of a learned painter.
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Friday, April 18, 2014, 4 p.m.
No. 15 UC Santa Barbara (10-14, 1-3) vs. No. 9 Northridge (22-7, 3-1)
at Campus Pool
This Weekend in Water Polo
No. 15 UCSB will finish its regular season schedule on Friday, facing off against No. 9 Northridge at home at 4 p.m.
Last Time Out
Coming into this weekend, the Gauchos are 10-14 overall and 1-3 in the Big West Conference. UCSB took on No. 6 UC Irvine and No. 10 Long Beach State last weekend. The Gauchos fell to UC Irvine 6-3 on Saturday and later fell to Long Beach State 9-5 on Sunday.
Sophomore Jessie Porter and sophomore Bryn Hudson are helping the Gauchos maintain their strong offense. Along with the sophomores, junior Lauren Martin has been a major asset to the teams offense, playing one of the hardest positions in the pool at whole set. Many of the freshmen are helping UCSB on both the offensive and defensive end of the pool, including freshman Taylor Shore, freshman Carly Christian, and freshman Jenna Solberg.
What's Up Next
After the conclusion of the regular season, the Gauchos will travel to Long Beach State to participate in the Big West Conference Championships. UCSB is ranked number five heading into the conference championships. The Gauchos are scheduled to play against No. 4 ranked Long Beach State on April 25 at 1:30 p.m. The rest of the Gauchos games will be determined based on their first match of the conference. | <urn:uuid:3260c891-f13e-4f5d-bdfe-4d0e5e5e3d91> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.ucsbgauchos.com/sports/w-wpolo/2013-14/releases/20140418zju2lh | 2016-02-10T10:57:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701159155.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193919-00292-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940312 | 340 |
by Kerri K. Greenidge
A stunning counternarrative of the legendary abolitionist Grimke sisters that finally reclaims the forgotten Black members of their family. Sarah and Angelina Grimke are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Eminent historian Kerri Greenidge turns our attention to the Black sons of their sadistic, slave-owning older brother Henry. Two of these young men became prominent members of the post-Civil-War Black elite, but were never truly accepted by their famous aunts. A landmark biography of the most important multiracial American family of the 19th century.
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Thought it was pretty well done. As a book reader, I was wondering how they were going to fix a few things, but man they did it well.
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Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. Today he is a poet, freelance writer, photographer, and small business owner in Itasca, Illinois.
He's been published in more than 915 small press magazines in 27 countries, and he edits 10 poetry sites.
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New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman has taken a long, well-reported look at what's next for Michael Bloomberg following his tenure as mayor of New York.
Central to whatever lies ahead is the expansion of his media empire, Bloomberg News, and maybe even the acquisition of the Gray, or Pink, Lady:
Years ago, while on a trip to Paris, he asked a friend over breakfast, “Do you think I could buy the New York Times?” When the friend said it wasn’t sold in the hotel, he said, “No, do you think I could buy the Times?”
There’s a part of him that sees the Sulzbergers as just bad businesspeople. In this regard, Bloomberg surely shares a kinship with Murdoch. “Mike hates heirs,” says a friend. “When Arthur did that thing with the moose [brandishing a stuffed moose at a staff town-hall about former editor Howell Raines], Mike said, ‘He has always been such a lightweight.’ That whole incident revealed he’s not up to the job.”
And Bloomberg already has a media business. And though he is adamant that he will not return to run it, it remains a means for him to wield influence. Owning the Times would amplify that considerably.
For now, however, he seems content to compete with the Times. And Bloomberg sources say he may just buy the Financial Times instead, which would be cheaper and a tighter editorial fit with his existing businesses. With its strong international brand, owning the paper would open up access in foreign capitals, something that is appealing to the mayor as he eyes the future. When I ask Winker if owning the FT could help the company, he hints that it could. “Is it a very fine newspaper? Absolutely,” he says. “If there were somehow a possibility on the margin, of course it could only help. I think really that’s how we thought about Businessweek. Did we need to have it? No … is it essential to Bloomberg LP? No. Could these help us? Yeah, it’s possible, sure.” The businesspeople at Bloomberg are more bearish. “There’s no need for us to buy a newspaper,” Bloomberg president and CEO Dan Doctoroff tells me. “And I think if you look at how we’re succeeding and the measure that we care about more than anything else—which is gaining influence—we’re on our way to get where we want.”
Bloomberg News is already far bigger than the New York Times or the Financial Times; Sherman reports nearly 2,400 editorial staffers in 146 bureaus in 72 countries. But the NYT or the FT bring brand recognition -- the "political and cultural identity that comes with a paper like the Times," as Sherman writes. | <urn:uuid:dc7e3e24-4764-4605-af9f-4a94243208ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/06/will-bloomberg-buy-the-new-york-times-125175 | 2017-06-29T02:26:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323842.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629015021-20170629035021-00716.warc.gz | en | 0.974734 | 601 |
Marital bliss was short-lived for Agatha Raisin. Her marriage to James Lacey was a disaster from the beginning, and in the end, he left her-not for another woman, but for God. After having been miraculously cured of a brain tumor, James has decided to join a monastery in France. Agatha can usually depend on her old friend, Sir Charles Fraith, to be there when times are tough, but even Charles has abandoned her, dashing off to Paris to marry a young French tart.
Miserable and alone, Agatha hops on a plane and heads for a remote island in the South Pacific. To Agatha's surprise, she makes friends with her fellow travelers easily, and keeps herself out of mischief, despite the odd feeling she gets from one particularly attractive honeymooning couple. But when she later finds that the pretty bride has drowned under suspicious circumstances, Agatha wishes she had found a way to intervene.
Returning home to the Cotswolds, Agatha is grimly determined to move on with her life and to forget about James and Charles. They have, after all, forgotten about her. And what better way than to throw herself into another murder investigation? A woman, dressed in a wedding gown and still clutching her bouquet, has just been found floating in a river. The police say it's suicide, but Agatha suspects the girl's flashy young fiancé. With the help of her handsome, and single, new neighbor, Agatha sets off to prove the police wrong. | <urn:uuid:9c872348-5804-4562-8a5c-bd5765a433fb> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://granum.bibliocommons.com/item/show/321117040 | 2018-05-27T21:18:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794870470.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180527205925-20180527225925-00632.warc.gz | en | 0.964873 | 314 |
fabulous white Nokia N9, we just received Samsung's freshly minted "chic white" Galaxy Nexus thanks to our friends at Negri Electronics. This handsome phone -- which is spec-wise identical to the HSPA+ version we reviewed last year -- sheds the default gunmetal gray skin for a lovely satin white finish. Further differences include a chrome camera pod (instead of black) and a much smaller dot-pattern on the textured battery cover. The handset, which is running Android 4.0.2, goes by the name "yakjuxw", meaning that unlike its official "yakju" cousin, it won't be getting software updates directly from Google. Still, the bootloader is unlocked, making it relatively painless to switch ROMs. What's most intriguing about this particular unit, however, is that it shipped with a North American charger instead of the expected UK adapter. Is this an unannounced US / Canadian market device? Go ahead and ponder that while you savor a taste of vanilla-flavored Ice Cream Sandwich in our gallery below, then watch our unboxing video after the break. | <urn:uuid:e340b3a5-f85f-4bbd-9384-204c435ea85a> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | https://www.engadget.com/2012/02/13/white-galaxy-nexus-hands-on-a-taste-of-vanilla-flavored-ice-cre/?ncid=rss_semi | 2017-10-18T03:21:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822668.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018013719-20171018033719-00484.warc.gz | en | 0.920054 | 230 |
When seeking out homeowners loans, there are a few things that you need to make sure that you know when you go to get one. The biggest of these tips will be as to how to compare homeowner loans that are offered. Doing a good comparison of these loans will be a very valuable tool in helping you to get the best deal for your efforts. The reason why you will need this type of loan can vary as you may have a unexpected bill that comes long or an unexpected repair you need to make on your home. If the insurance company does not cover this expense, then you will find yourself in a bad way with no way to pay for the repair.
The first thing that you need to make sure that you keep in mind is that you do not need to settle on the first loan that comes along. This loan may sound to good to be true and chances are that it will be. Taking a little time to review the terms of these loans will help you to make sure that you are getting a good deal and that you won't end up regretting the decision to take out a certain loan. Also it is important to know that you may get a cheaper loan rate than you might have in the past. The reason for this is due to the number of people that are in the market at the moment.
There are many different types of these loans and what type of loan that you take out will have a very large impact on the conditions of the loan. It is important that you look at all types of loans and find only the ones that will fit you and your needs. One type of these loans is that of a targeted loan. This is a lot like the ones you would get to buy a vehicle. The only difference is that with a targeted home loan, you will have a little more freedom as to what all you can spend this on. You will still need to make sure that you have a purpose of the loan in mind. Having this information in mind will make your life a lot easier and simpler.
An unsecured personal loan does have a lot more flexibility but also comes with a much higher interest rate than any other type of loan. This type of loan is made only on the promise that you will repay the loan and even then it is up to the bank as to if they will approve the loan or not. Taking this kind of loan out can be a little bit of a risk, as there are advantages as well as disadvantages to this type of loan. It is advised that you weight the good versus the bad with this type of loan.
Credit cards are often times a source of financing for some people, this is a badly advised practice as it can actually lead to more of a financial mess than you began with. Many people take advantage of their credit cards and use them to handle the emergencies that may arise in the course of owning a home. The one thing that you need to make sure that you look at is the amount of interest that will be accumulated through the use of this card as well as the amount of time that you will have to repay the loan back. If you are using the credit card as is, then you need to look at what is the timeline for you to pay it off and is there any type of a grace period for you to take advantage of.
These are a few of the ways that you need to look at when it comes to comparing homeowners loans. Having all the information in front of you from the beginning will help you long down the road. This will put you well in front of the rest of the people that are looking to do the very thing that you are doing with your home loans. There will be a lot of things that you need to make sure you consider before you place your signature on the paper to take out a loan. | <urn:uuid:d8e207a4-9e03-4506-8b51-3ce9b557c08a> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://comparehomeownerloans.blogspot.com/2016/11/ | 2017-07-24T20:28:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424910.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724202315-20170724222315-00704.warc.gz | en | 0.987112 | 767 |
Euro Truck Simulator 2 For macbook simulates a truck driving journey through beautiful European cities, exploring world famous tourist destinations. In addition to the driving task, the game Euro Truck Simulator 2 also sets the player the task of managing freight companies, developing their own transport economy.
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Euro Truck Simulator 2 For macbook is a truck driving simulation game that gives players the opportunity to explore more than 60 cities in Europe on cargo trucks. Players can customize their truck along with management jobs to carry out their business journey. Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sharp, realistic graphics and vivid sounds that appeal to players.
If you love cars but have started to get bored of Paul Walker’s spectacular drifts on the legendary Nissan Skyline GTR R34, Fast and furious phases of Vin Diesel’s 19-year-old Mustang in Fast and Furious or the deafening scream emanating from the F1 reaching top speed when driven by Lewis Hamilton. Or the skillful driving skills of Sebastien Loeb, the Citroen team’s multi-year champion in the WRC.
If you are the ones who play to relieve stress, play to practice watching the car to get used to it, play to drive according to the rules, or even play for the hobby of driving around, Enjoy the beautiful roads.
Well, if you have the same interests as above, then Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2) is the perfect game for you. So in this article, Zuu Gaming will introduce you to the information you should know before buying ETS2.
Note that this game is not for you if you like to race.
The story and gameplay of ETS2
ETS2 really doesn’t have a plot at all. All you have to do is drive, drive, drive your truck, and transport the goods across Europe.Cavity!! What game sounds boring?
ETS2 is only boring if you are adventurous, like high speed, and want to show off your silk steering wheel with artistic drifts. But in return, it is extremely suitable for those of you who need a gentle, honest game (extremely honest because this is a simulation game series). However, because it is a simulation game, it will take you a lot of time to get used to it and control your monster smoothly according to your wishes.
You can try play: American Truck Simulator Full DLC for macOS
Euro Truck Simulator gives you the chance to explore more than 60 cities in Europe on cargo trucks. In Euro Truck Simulator, players will have to form a team of drivers and make business development better every day and the image of European cities will appear beautifully in the game.
The authenticity of the game can be said to be such that no other driving game can match it. For those of you who are playing for the first time, you will definitely be surprised and excited to see the wiper switch with two fast and slow modes or how crazy the car will be when it loses brake pressure. So how many types of trucks are there in ETS2?
Vehicles in ETS2.
ETS2 includes seven major European truck companies. including Volvo, Mercedes, Scania, Renault, IVECO, DAF, and MAN. Every detail from the chassis, gearbox, and sound is simulated by SCS Software with almost 100% accuracy, making the game amazingly realistic.
Each car company will be presented with some of its most typical faces. Let’s take a look at Zuu.
- Volvo: FH16 2009 and FH16 2012
- Mercedes: Actors and Newcomers
- Scania: R 2012, Streamline, R, and WILL
- Renault Magnum and Premium
- IVECO: Stralis and Stralis Hiway
- DAF: XF105 and XF Euro 6
- MAN: TGX
Including DLC: All to date
Version: Steam v126.96.36.199s 64-Bit (16.06.2020)
Cure: Nemirtingas Steam Emu
Minimum configuration: OS version: 10.9+
Processor type(s) & speed: Dual core 2.4 GHz
Minimum RAM: 4 GB
The latest version works on the latest M1, macOS Monterey
Copy to the Application folder to play, if there is an error, right-click and select show packages contents -> contents -> macos run terminal file inside
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If you’re a hog for beautiful architecture and rich history, then you certainly couldn’t possibly consider missing out on the sights and sounds in the United Kingdom. This place, using its beautiful castles and heavenly Cathedrals, is any architecture enthusiast’s dream. Its beautiful green landscapes can be a sight to behold, too. Indeed, you will end up hard-put to find a place more picturesque compared to United Kingdom.
A holiday to a UK should never be complete if you don’t explore London first. There, you will see the world-famous Big Ben, a massive clock that stood the test of your time, and you may also obtain the Westminster Palace, the Westminster Abbey, and St.Paul’s Cathedral – each is great sights to behold. Naturally, let’s take into account about all of London’s restaurants, parks, and shopping centers, and truly, London isn’t an city that you can bypass.
Few structures in your yard are as mysterious because Stonehenge. Built over 5000 years ago, this massive conglomeration of huge stones manufactured to fit together like altars still pose mysterious to everyone people that view it. Up until now, there’s nobody that knows how the Stonehenge was built or what it really was for.
Bath, becasue it is name implies, is renowned for its many hot springs. You will notice here several baths, which are perfect spots to have some much needed relaxation and rest. Here, you will get your share of steam and water within the famous Roman Baths, or even better, the fantastic baths themselves.
4.) Scottish Highlands
There is not any better strategy to commune with nature than to spend several days within the Scottish highlands, there, you can go hiking through the long winding paths or go kayaking through the raging rivers. It has varied plant life and animals that’s the stuff in the great epics regarding the knights of old. You may also visit a few of the big fortresses in the old Scottish warlords, and even, you’ll feel like you’ve stepped into a romance novel. Also, you can go to the Eilean Donan Castle, where parts of the movie, Highlander, were filmed.
Individuals who desire to visit Canterbury are usually going there for the beautiful and historic Cathedrals and churches. There, you’ll find the famous Canterbury Cathedral, hailed by a lot of is the grandest Cathedral within the whole of England. Here, you can also find the oldest church in England, the Church of St. Martin.
The picturesque town of Oxford could be the home in the esteemed Oxford University, just about the most esteemed universities within the whole world. Also, in the town of Oxford, you can go to the Costwolds, an attractive sample in the gentle hills of England’s countryside. You may also see quaint brick houses littering the best place, as well as added effect, you can go horseback-riding through these parts.
In case you are one for visiting old towns which make you feel like you’ve traveled back in its history, then your town of York is where in your case. It’s complete with a huge Cathedral, picturesque houses, as well as a big wall around the city. It’s just about the most well-preserved cities within the whole of United Kingdom.
Britain can be a place filled up with fantasy and romanticism, and if you’re into these kinds of things, you surely can’t miss Wales since it’s the Castle Country. In Wales, you will discover various castles of sizes and types. There’s Beaumaris Castle, Caernarfon Castle, and others, and they’ve towers, parapets, draw-bridges, anything that you’ll find with your old fairytales. It’ll surely certainly be a magical experience.
Winchester is probably the oldest towns in England. Subsequently, it is now just about the most Britain’s best experiences in all of the United Kingdom. It is quite well preserved and really has beautiful architecture, and you should even look for a Cathedral there.
The UK is probably the countries who have produced several very brilliant minds. In Stratford-upon-Avon, you’ll find the graves of Hathaway as catwoman. Naturally, additionally, you will see the legendary Shakespeare’s grave.
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Epoxy coating done right takes a lot of preparation, but there are a lot of benefits. Epoxy flooring is eco friendly and also one of the toughest and most durable surfaces to have on your floor. It’s cheaper than tile and more durable than wood flooring. Epoxy coating is extremely popular for garages and it’s also become a staple for modern designers. It’s important that you have the right materials for your job before you get started, it’s also important to make sure you have the right type of epoxy and that your concrete surface isn’t deteriorated too much so that the epoxy can properly bond and adhere to the concrete. Installing epoxy properly is a difficult project, but it can be accomplished if you are prepared and have the right instructions to follow.
How to choose your epoxy floor colors
You can have multiple different colors in a metallic floor or flakes in a standard flake floor. Typically between 2 and 4 metallic colors or flake colors.
Epoxy floor installation process
Concrete Surface Prep
Prepping the concrete the right way is 80% of the battle when it comes to proper floor installation so you have to have an experienced contractor. If you are looking for a start to finish guide on how to prep a garage floor for epoxy, floor shields has a nice guide. It is imperative to properly prepare the concrete surface. For now, all you need to know is that prep is imperative and if it doesn’t get completed the right way, the epoxy will not bond and you will have an uneven or peeling floor.
Applying The Moisture barrier
Epoxy coatings are not breathable, any dampness that can relocate up and through the surface can make the epoxy fizzle. The epoxy can knock, air pocket or strip. Dampness boundaries come in various plans on the number of pounds of hydrostatic weight they can withstand.
Mixing epoxy Resin
Following the mixture ratios on the box from wherever you purchase the epoxy. There is always a part A and B. Poor the appropriate amounts into a bucket from home depot and then mix them together fast for two to three minutes before applying.
Applying the epoxy
Once you are done mixing, coat the floor using a squeegee similar to what you would use to paint large surfaces. Wearing spiked shoes and roller, back roll the entire surface to ensure even distribution of the epoxy. This is your solid color base coat so it’s not imperative that it is perfectly distributed.
Applying The Final Clear Coat Plus Grit Additive
This is the final step in an epoxy floor and one of the most important. This seals the floor and makes it last and be extremely durable. Apply the clear coat only after the last coat has fully dried.
Epoxy Benefits: Pros
Long lasting, durable, cost effective, Epoxy floors are timeless and beautiful as well as highly customizable. The amount of variations you can do is limitless. From different metallic color pigments to even adding glitter flakes or standard color flakes. These floors can last for a century.
Cons to epoxy Floors
Epoxy floors are are extremely difficult to install and can be tough to replicate. According to The Concrete Guy, an expert epoxy flooring installer located in Eden Prairie Minnesota, epoxy is a great material and has more customization than almost any other type of standard floor.
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Speciality chemicals manufacturer Laxmi Organic Industries' initial public offer was subscribed a whopping 106.79 times on the last day of subscription on Wednesday, largely driven by huge interest from institutional investors.
The public offer garnered bids for 3,47,67,42,330 shares against 3,25,58,138 shares on offer, as per NSE data.
The portion for qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) was subscribed 175.43 times, non institutional investors 217.62 times and retail individual investors (RIIs) 20.06 times.
The initial public offer aggregating up to Rs 600 crore comprised a fresh issue of up to Rs 300 crore and an offer for sale of up to Rs 300 crore.
The price range was fixed at Rs 129-130 per share.
Laxmi Organic Industries had garnered Rs 180 crore from anchor investors on Friday.
Net proceeds from the issue will be utilised for setting up a manufacturing facility for fluorospecialty chemicals, working capital requirements, purchase of plant and machinery and upgrading existing units.
In addition, funds would be used for pre-payment or repayment of all or a portion of certain outstanding, besides general corporate purposes.
The company has a global presence with customers in over 30 countries, including China, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US.
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In the interim I would like to provide my 3 part plan for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Not 3 step, but 3 part - feel free to engage any part of the plan at any time.
Part 1 - Potato Gun.
See ya later tater! Er, zombie.
Part 2 - Baby Gate.
Disclaimer: Didn't say it would keep out everything.
My suggestion here is to set up a compilation of baby gates in all shapes and sizes to ensure a safe perimeter. A zombie or two trying to figure out what model type each baby gate is and how to properly unlock it to get to you, well, would be biting off more than they could chew (see what I did there? huh huh?).
Part 3 - High Ground.
Employing Parts 1 &2: Arming yourself with a spudzooka and arranging your baby gates will then prep you for Part 3 - finding high ground. Ideally a staircase because those combined with baby gates are the worst combo for easy entry.
-There you have it people, don't get stuck ill prepared. I am full of great advice so feel free to steal my ideas. It could save your life. Or, it could make you look like a total weirdo with a collection of potato guns and baby gates. Freak.
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RAMALLAH, April 7 (JMCC) - Israeli soldiers confront Palestinian press at Friday's weekly protest at Nabi Saleh
village, in the Ramallah area, in this video by Tamimi press.
Photographer Ahmad Daghlas is shown after being wounded by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers and received five stitches in his head.
In one part of the video, a soldier tells Palestinians filming to move back. I can't speak Hebrew, says a woman. Speak to me in Arabic.
Another shot shows a soldier tossing a tear gas canister at the photographer taking the video. The cameraman responds, shouting, [Are you] a hero?
The village of Nabi Saleh protests weekly against the 2009 takeover of a local spring by settlers living in nearby Halamish.
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Located in one of the most sought after areas of Mougins in a peaceful environment , this property of approx 3000 sqm almost entirely flat boasts a swimming pool as well as an equiped pool house with summer kitchen of approx 20 sqm and semi professional BBQ. The Modern Provençal style villa of approx 241 sqm offers large volumes and features five bedrooms including one ground floor master bedroom, each of them with en suite showers or baths. Large basement of approx 130 sqm with one bedroom one laundry room, as well as gym and play rooms.Large garage of approx 35 sqm for 2 cars.
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Call Center Solutions Dubai Abu Dhabi UAE
Call Center Solutions help organizations to deliver outstanding customer experience across UAE. We can design your call center with flexibility through their preferred media. Voice Telephony communication plays an active role for most of the companies customer interaction. Our Call Center solutions reduce customer handling time and increase the agent efficiency.With customized reporting and call monitoring capabilities you are always in control of your call center.Most Customer service call centers often involve problem-solving. Our Call Center Solutions lets customers reach you in Confidence.
We provide comprehensive contact center solutions and Call Center Solutions that lets all types of businesses manage any types of client interactions. Our solutions focus on customer contact management.So contact center supervisors can focus on maximizing agent performance and agents can concentrate on providing quality service to your most valuable asset. That is your customers.
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Call center systems are in other terms, standard business phone systems and helpdesk or customer service solutions. Call Center Solution Dubai will offer services with many solutions to make any call center function through an integrated communication system. With many divisions of call center system solutions and industries that can maintain through these systems, they offer smart, yet up to date technology for call center solutions. The entire system includes broad categories of business applications, IT Infrastructure, support services and other solutions, to make for a professional and well-functioning call center.
There is several application include in business, and that may link with call center systems Dubai. Such as ERP, which is enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management(CRM), retail solutions and other various applications, such as from BI analytics to performance management. In a call center systems, multiple elements of the IT Infrastructure also be linked with the Call Center solution. Some of them are wireless, unified communications, messaging systems, virtualization, storage, remote support, information security, maintenance contracts and digital marketing. When it comes to supporting Call Center systems our services will include, annual IT maintenance contracts, remote monitoring support, managed services, extended warranty, and consultancy services.
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The call center solutions that are focal points in any call center includes, but not limited to, inbound call center, outbound call center, blended call center, contact center, web enabled call center, offshore and even virtual. As a solution, inbound call center helps many companies with their incoming calls, with categories such as technical support and customer services. An inbound call center functions as primary answering service for businesses taking their customer calls. Inbound call center organizations will provide a means of customer service and/ or customer support. Inbound call centers can also offer their services as an internal helpdesk or take different types of sales order depending on the businesses products. | <urn:uuid:0c88031c-59df-49dd-966d-287e50b7d61e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.callcentersolution.ae/ | 2017-06-23T17:03:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320077.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623170148-20170623190148-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.923735 | 568 |
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The beautiful Leaf Medallion is perfect for your chandelier or ceiling fan. This medallion is pictured in the Antique White finish.
Our medallions are polyurethane, so very light weight and easy to install. These medallions will not crack or splinter and show exquisite detail.
Each medallion is hand painted per order in the United States and shipped from California.
The Leaf Medallion is available in a selection of finishes:
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It takes approximately 3-4 weeks to produce each order and make ready for shipping. Most items are shipped via USPS first class mail to your destination from California. Please review our policies for custom orders before ordering. You may call us anytime between the hours of 10:00AM and 5:00PM M-Sat toll-free on 888.281.5287, or anytime via email at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:9e43f436-65a3-4929-b4cd-0408141981ca> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://cottagehaveninteriors.com/products/leaf-ceiling-medallion | 2020-02-17T08:03:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875141749.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217055517-20200217085517-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.906024 | 203 |
I have been in lending for more than 30 years, have authored 7 finance related manuals, appeared on dozens of talk shows, written a national column in a mortgage newspaper, and closed millions in loans.
My company, JRid Capital Resources, is fully staffed to handle a broad range of loans. I have a contract attorney and an international accountant on my staff. We thoroughly pre-underwrite every loan prior to accepting that borrower as a client. We are in the business of getting things done, not wasting time on deals which are not capable of being approved as presented. However, our analysis will provide you and your client the necessary feedback to enable you to take the necessary steps in order to gain approval.
Our only goal is to help YOU get deals done. I have the know-how, the correspondent relationships (and they give references), and the staff you can rely on to make you $. When needed, I can call senior underwriters at home for answers...over our years of association, we have become friends. Isn’t that what you are looking for…a source who is the “right” source? For years I looked for someone like me…and now…I’m the guy I was looking for. I’ll gladly be the source YOU are looking for as well.
Contact my Office at 281-599-9954 Edward Tuggle Private Funding Placement Consultant. I may be able to help you with your funding request.
I have recently listed on Real Estate Finance. Looks like a good concept, but also appears to be a lot of flakes that have no idea how to structure deals. Excuse my attitude, but I have seen SO many over the years.
Do you have the ability to fund deals in Canada? I am based near Toronto.
Don Rea, IMBA, AMP
We have a couple of funds we work with who fund both USA and Canada. I am doing an apartment complex in the USA for a Canadian. The same fund will also do Canada. You are welcome to contact me at 719-466-9299 on Monday (I am in the Mountain Time Zone. I have a conference call at noon Mountain. Otherwise, just normal business so feel free to contact me to discuss your needs.
I am looking for $200,000.00 to purchase a turnkey income producing commerical property in Pittsburgh PA. Can you please send me more information to firstname.lastname@example.org. Thank you very much.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience. I am seeking your professional input to fund a real estate project.
Email : email@example.com
I have two connections interested in raw gold
Dan Moody firstname.lastname@example.org
We are a bridging/business consultancy based in the UK and looking for fresh lending sources for our clients.
We need around $200m within the next 6 months for clients contracted projects. Mainly short term funding.
I am seeking a 35MM for a ranch acquisition/development
in addition to further developing Agriculture
We will be adding a healing Center for VETS with PTSD
a Charter School for At Risk Youth and developing additional sources of
revenue that will double as training platforms for both groups
Dan, thank you for the opportunity. Developments of this nature (as I'm sure you already know or are finding out) are extremely difficult to fund in the commercial arena in which I participate. We work with funds throughout the USA. Some of our money comes from Wall Street. The common denominator with all of them is the concern with the amount of $ the borrower has or is willing to put into the project, the ability the project has of repaying the debt, and, the exit strategy. I support your cause but do not believe I have sources who would be interested in a project of this nature.
Wall Street which has become a major part of the problem
has yet to show serious signs of becoming part of the solution
have gone outside the country - America cant find money to
deal with its worst problems.
If I didnt have the brightest minds in these areas I wouldn't dare say
this but one is Advisor to the Sec of Cabinet Veterans Affairs the foremost
MD in the country on PTSD another G3 at the UN on Mass Trauma and
Emotional Healing, another a Chicago Atty with multiple venues for At
Risk Youth another PhD just emerging from 12 years of R & D in Renewable
Energy. Another PhD from John Hopkins. We are measured by our "net worth"
rather than our true value.
Until the paradigm changes we will see further deterioration in the country.
Thanks for taking the time to reply
I have read all the way through this post and I like your responses. Like you I would much rather talk to the person that is making the decision. I am a relatively new investor. I have a SFH in Memphis and a SFH in Phoenix, both are doing well. I am looking for investors that are interested in doing fix and flips in Alaska at this time. I am also looking at the Memphis market as well. There is a big difference in the two but I like the challenge. If you are interested in a conversation give me a call 907-982-7442 or email email@example.com.
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Entering the Awards was a valuable way for us to refocus and re-enthuse about what our business is doing and why.
Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards
So, it's all over for another year!
On Friday 24th October, the Kingsmills Hotel in Inverness proved to be a fantastic venue for the sell-out 10th Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Awards Dinner and Ceremony. Host for the evening - comedian and broadcaster, Fred MacAulay - put his hilarious spin on the evening; the delicious four course dinner was executed perfectly and the musical entertainment courtesy of Glasgow duo, RadioJam, went down a storm.
But the biggest excitement of the night was, of course, the Awards Ceremony when eager finalists found out who had been victorious. Congratulations to everyone - Winners, Highly Commendeds and Finalists alike - on a range of submissions that seriously put the judging panel to the test.
For the full list of results, click here or read the official press release.
The Awards, now in their tenth year, complement the work of the Highlands & Islands Food & Drink Forum by encouraging food and drink businesses to be innovative, forward thinking and collaborative and by celebrating excellence and achievement.
With some of the best natural produce in the world, the Awards showcase the wide range of food and drink products in the region and the equally diverse profile of businesses, from internationally renowned companies to small innovative producers.
We entered a few categories. It was straightforward and a useful exercise in its own right. The fact we won an Award was the icing on the cake!
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|Entries Close||9 May '14|
|Judging||18 Jun '14|
|Shortlist Announced||23 Jun '14|
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I know, I know it’s a shameless plug.
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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion (1908)
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The rites of the Diasia, though ostensibly in honour of Zeus, are found really to be addressed to an underworld snake on whose worship that of Zeus has been superimposed.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion: Introduction
The attention is focussed on the rites of the underlying stratum. In the Anthesteria, ostensibly sacred to Dionysos, the main ritual is found to be that of the placation of ghosts. Ghosts, it is found, were placated in order that they might be kept away; the formulary for these rites is not, as with the Olympians, do ut des , but do ut abeas.
The object of these rites of Aversion, practised in the spring, is found to be strictly practical; it is the promotion of fertility by the purgation of evil influences. The ritual of the Thargelia is even snore primitive and plain-spoken. In this festival of the early summer, ostensibly dedicated to Apollo, the first-fruits of the harvest are gathered in.
The main gist of the festival is purification, necessary as a preliminary to this ingathering. Purification is effected by the ceremonial of the pharmakos. Though the festival in classical days was 'sacred to' Apollo, the pharmakos is nowise a 'human sacrifice' to a god, but a direct means of physical and moral purgation, with a view to the promotion and conservation of fertility.
Thus far it will be seen that the rites of the lower stratum are characterized by a deep and constant sense of evil to be removed and of the need of purification for its removal; that the means of purification adopted are primitive and mainly magical nowise affects this religious content. This practical end of primitive ceremonies, the promotion of fertility by magical rites, comes out still more strongly in the autumn sowing festival of the Thesmophoria.
Here the women attempt, by carrying certain magical sacra , the direct impulsion of nature. In connection with these sacra of the Thesmophoria the subject of 'mysteries' falls to be examined. The gist of all primitive mysteries is found to be the handling or tasting of certain sacra after elaborate purification. The sacra are conceived of as having magical, i. Contact with them is contact with a superhuman potency, which is taboo to the unpurified.
The gist of a mystery is often the removal of a taboo. From the Olympian religion 'mysteries' appear to have been wholly absent.
These beings, it is found, are of the order of sprites, ghosts, and bogeys, rather than of completely articulate gods, their study that of demonology rather than theology. As their ritual has been shown to be mainly that of the Aversion of evil, so they and their shifting attributes are mainly of malevolent character. Man makes his demons in the image of his own savage and irrational passions. Aeschylus attempts, and the normal man fails, to convert his Erinyes into Semnai Theai.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion: Newnham 1903–1906
The god begins to reflect not only human passions but humane relations. The primitive association of women with agriculture is seen to issue in the figures of the Mother and the Maid, and later of the Mother and the Daughter, later still in the numerous female trinities that arose out of this duality. The culminating point of the natural development of an anthropomorphic theology is here reached, and it is seen that the goddesses and the 'hero-gods' of the old order are, in their simple, non-mystic humanity, very near to the Olympians.
At this point comes the great significant moment for Greece, the intrusion of a new and missionary faith, the religion of an immigrant god, Dionysos. In his religion two elements are seen to coexist, the worship of an old god of vegetation on which was grafted the worship of a spirit of intoxication. The new impulse that he brought to Greece was the belief in enthusiasm , the belief that a man through physical intoxication at first, later through spiritual ecstasy, could pass from the human to the divine. This faith might have remained in its primitive savagery, and therefore for Greece ineffective, but for another religious impulse, that known to us under the name of Orpheus.
I have attempted to show that the name Orpheus stands for a real personality. I have hazarded the conjecture that Orpheus came from Crete bringing with him, perhaps ultimately from Egypt, a religion of spiritual asceticism which yet included the ecstasy of the religion of Dionysos. It has been shown that before the coming of the Orphic and Dionysiac religion the mysteries consisted mainly in the handling of certain sacra after elaborate purification.
By handling these sacra man came into contact with some divine potency. To this rudimentary mysticism Orphism added the doctrine of the possibility of complete union with the divine. This union was effected in the primitive Cretan rite of the Omophagia by the physical eating of the god; union with the divine was further symbolically effected by the rite of the Sacred Marriage, and union by adoption by the rite of the Sacred Birth.
The mission of Orphism was to take these primitive rites, originally of the crudest sympathetic magic, and inform them with a deep spiritual mysticism. The rite of the Omophagia found no place at Eleusis, but the other two sacramental rites of union, the Sacred Marriage and the Sacred Birth, formed ultimately its central mysteries.
With the doctrine and ritual of union with the divine there came as a necessary corollary the doctrine that man could attain the divine attribute of immortality. Orphic eschatology is the subject of Chapter XI.
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Its highest spiritual form, the belief that perfect purity issued in divinity and hence in immortality, is found expressed in the Orphic tablets. Its lower expression, the belief in a Hades of eternal punishment as contrasted with the shadowy after-world of Homer, is seen in the vases of Lower Italy and the eschatology denounced by Plato.
Finally in Chapter XII. In the fifth century B. In ritual they worshipped Dionysos, but their theoretical theology recognized. The Eros of the Orphics was a mystery-being, a daimon rather than a theos , a potency wholly alien to the clear-cut humanities of Olympus. With the consideration of Orphism it has become, I hope, abundantly clear why at the outset attention was focussed on the primitive rites of Aversion and Purification rather than on the Service of the Olympians.
The ritual embodied in the formulary do ut des is barren of spiritual content. The ritual embodied in do ut abeas contains at least the recognition of one great mystery of life, the existence of evil.
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The rites of the Olympians were left untouched by the Orphics; the rites of purification and of sympathetic magic lent them just the symbolism they needed. Moreover in theology the crude forms of demons were more pliant material for mysticism than the clear-cut limitations and vivid personality of the Olympians.
Orphism was the last word of Greek religion, and the ritual of Orphism was but the revival of ancient practices with a new significance. The reader will note that in the pages that follow, two authors, Plutarch and Euripides, have been laid under special contribution. Plutarch's gentle conservatism made him cling tenaciously to antique faith.
According to him, one function of religion was to explain and justify established rites, and in the course of his attempted justification he tells us many valuable ritual facts. Euripides, instant in his attack on the Olympian gods, yet treats with respect the two divinities of Orphism, Dionysos and Eros. I have suggested that, born as he was at Phlya, the ancient home of Orphic mysteries, his attitude on this matter may have been influenced by early associations. In any case, a religion whose chief divinities were reverently handled by Euripides cannot be dismissed as a decadent maleficent superstition.
I would ask that the chapters I have written be taken strictly as they are meant, as Prolegomena. I am deeply conscious that in surveying so wide a field I have left much of interest untouched, still more only roughly sketched in. I wished to present my general theory in broad outline for criticism before filling in details, and I hope in the future to achieve a study of Orphism.
If here I have dwelt almost exclusively on its strength and beauty, I am not unaware that it has, like all mystical religions, a weak and ugly side. Don't have an account? This chapter discusses Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion and its reception.
It describes Harrison's relationship with Arthur and May Verrall, and also the London stage production of Murray's translation of Hippolytus , for which Harrison designed images of Artemis and Aphrodite. Two short books are noted: Her struggle with depression, the death of her friend Ellen Darwin, uncertainty about her own future, and health problems are described.
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High tropospheric ozone in Lhasa within the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone in 2013: influence of convective transport and stratospheric intrusions
- 1Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Stratosphere (IEK-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- 2Key Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 3College of Earth Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- 4Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Correspondence: Dan Li (firstname.lastname@example.org) and Jianchun Bian (email@example.com)
Balloon-borne measurements of ozone in Lhasa (29.66∘ N, 91.14∘ E; 3650 m above sea level) in August 2013 are investigated using backward trajectory calculations performed with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS). Measurements show three time periods characterized by high ozone mixing ratios (OMRs) in the troposphere on 8, 11, and 18–20 August 2013 during the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) season. Here, we verified two different sources for the enhanced ozone values in the troposphere. First, transport of polluted air from the boundary layer, and second downward transport from the stratosphere by stratospheric intrusions. Air pollution from South Asia through convective and long-range transport plays a key role in enhancing middle tropospheric OMRs up to 90 % on 8 August and up to 125 % on 11 August 2013 compared to monthly mean ozone of August 2013. Stratospheric air intruded from the northern high-latitudes to the southeastern flank of the ASM anticyclone to the troposphere and is identified as the source of enhanced ozone according to backward trajectory calculation and satellite measurements by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). Air parcels with high ozone moved from the high-latitude lower stratosphere to the middle and upper troposphere. These air parcels are then transported to Lhasa over long distances and enhanced upper and middle tropospheric ozone over Lhasa during 18–20 August 2013. Our findings demonstrate that the strong variability of ozone within the ASM anticyclone in the free troposphere is caused by transport from very different regions of the atmosphere.
In the troposphere, ozone acts as an important greenhouse gas, which has a positive radiative forcing (0.4±0.2 W m−2) through the direct or indirect greenhouse effect for the period 1750–2011. Although relatively short lived, it is therefore very important for the radiation balance of the Earth's atmosphere (Myhre et al., 2013). Enhanced tropospheric ozone has an impact on the radiative forcing of climate (Stevenson et al., 2013). Further small changes of ozone in the upper troposphere have an impact on surface climate (Riese et al., 2012). Thus, tropospheric ozone plays a major role in regional energy balance and in climate change. The variation of the tropospheric ozone mixing ratio (OMR) is associated with (1) downward transport from the stratosphere, or upward transport from the boundary layer; (2) photochemical production induced by solar radiation and other chemical reactions involving lighting-produced nitrogen oxides (NOx) or ozone precursors from biomass burning and anthropogenic pollution. Stratosphere–troposphere exchange is affecting atmospheric tracer concentrations in a significant way via upward transport from the troposphere to the stratosphere and vice versa (Fadnavis et al., 2010, 2018; Gettelman et al., 2011; Holton et al., 1995; Hoor et al., 2010; Pan et al., 2016; Stohl et al., 2003). Ozone precursors originating from biomass burning emissions may cause enhanced ozone in the free troposphere through photochemical production during tropospheric transport (Anderson et al., 2016; Kita et al., 2002). Stratospheric intrusions transport ozone-rich stratospheric air downward into the troposphere (Eisele et al., 1999; Langford et al., 2015; Tao et al., 2018; Vogel et al., 2011; Weigel et al., 2012).
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone is the most intense circulation pattern in the Northern Hemisphere in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) during boreal summer (Mason and Anderson, 1963), which is forced by deep convection over South Asia (Hoskins and Rodwell, 1995). Intense monsoon convection can transport tropospheric tracers (such as hydrogen cyanide, HCN, produced by biomass burning; carbon monoxide, CO; NOx; or aerosols) from the lower troposphere into the UTLS of the ASM anticyclone or its edge (Chen et al., 2012; Fadnavis et al., 2018; Fan et al., 2017b; Li et al., 2017; Tissier and Legras, 2016; Vogel et al., 2015). Because of the strong dynamical confinement of the ASM anticyclone in the UTLS region in summer (Pan et al., 2016; Ploeger et al., 2015; Vogel et al., 2016, 2018), tropospheric trace gases show a local maximum near the tropopause layer within the ASM anticyclone according to satellite measurements (Park et al., 2009; Randel et al., 2010; Vernier et al., 2015; Yan and Bian, 2015; Yu et al., 2017). Tropospheric tracers within the ASM anticyclone are separated from the anticyclone and are then further transported globally. This will affect the trace gas concentration in the UTLS resulting in significant changes in radiative forcing (Garny and Randel, 2016).
The ASM anticyclone is an active region for both troposphere-to-stratosphere and stratosphere-to-troposphere transport (Fan et al., 2017a; Garny and Randel, 2016), particularly the Tibetan Plateau region (Škerlak et al., 2014). In situ balloon measurements in August 2015 in Kunming, China, combined with satellite data and model simulations show that anthropogenic emissions from Asia enter the UTLS and play a significant role in the formation of the tropopause aerosol layer within the ASM anticyclone (Yu et al., 2017). Vogel et al. (2016) show that the northeastern flank of the ASM anticyclone is a region where air masses from the ASM anticyclone are separated from the anticyclone and are subsequently transported into the extratropical lower stratosphere. When air parcels enter into the stratosphere, they have the potential to impact the regional climate in Asia (Gu et al., 2016; Vernier et al., 2015). Ozone concentrations in the planetary boundary layer over the Tibetan Plateau are most likely affected by intense deep stratospheric intrusion (Škerlak et al., 2014). Balloon measurements over the central Himalayas have shown that stratospheric intrusions enhanced ozone concentrations in the middle and upper troposphere (Ojha et al., 2014, 2017). Stratospheric intrusions occur at the northeastern flank of the anticyclone and transport dry ozone-rich air into the troposphere over northern India. Stratospheric intrusions or tropopause folds have in addition the potential to influence surface weather including monsoon deficit rainfall (Fadnavis and Chattopadhyay, 2017). The upper tropospheric subtropical jet stream occurs from eastern Asia to the mid-Pacific with high frequency (Koch et al., 2006). Stratosphere-to-troposphere transport along the subtropical jet stream occurs over the Pacific Ocean. This is an important process for increasing ozone in the middle and upper troposphere in the region of the ASM (Trickl et al., 2011).
In particular, the Tibetan Plateau is a hotspot region for the two-way exchange between the stratosphere and troposphere (Škerlak et al., 2014). However, in situ measurements over this region of chemical compositions in the UTLS are limited (Bian et al., 2012; Li et al., 2017). Because of the sparse in situ observations over the Tibetan Plateau, there is a need for further in situ observations in this region (e.g. balloon or super-pressure balloon measurements) to obtain new insights into transport and exchange processes in this region and for climatological survey. Balloon-borne measurements provided highly accurate water vapour and ozone profiles. Measurements with such balloon payloads have been carried out in Lhasa and Kunming, China (Bian et al., 2012; Li et al., 2017); Nainital, India; and Dhulikhel, Nepal (Brunamonti et al., 2018; Ojha et al., 2014, 2017); as well as in southern India (Vernier et al., 2018). Low ozone values measured in the upper troposphere in Lhasa were presented by Li et al. (2017), and rapid vertical transport associated with typhoon convection led to this phenomenon. The ozone profiles in Li et al. (2017) also show anomalies of high ozone values in the middle and upper troposphere over the Tibetan Plateau; however, they provided only limited explanation of this phenomenon. Here, transport pathways of enhanced ozone values measured in August 2013 over Lhasa are analysed in more detail. It is important to investigate the ozone variation over the Tibetan Plateau, in order to quantify the uncertainty of the radiative forcing from tropospheric ozone in climate models. In this study, we combined in situ measurements with satellite data and trajectory calculations using the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (McKenna et al., 2002; Pommrich et al., 2014) to analyse the origin of high ozone structures found in the middle and upper troposphere in Lhasa over the Tibetan Plateau in August 2013. This paper is organized as follows: Sect. 2 describes the balloon-borne measurements, satellite data, and the CLaMS model. In Sect. 3, we present three case studies with enhanced tropospheric ozone in August 2013. A summary is given in the final section.
2.1 Balloon-borne measurements
The SWOP (Sounding Water vapour, Ozone, and Particle) experiment was conducted in Lhasa (29.66∘ N, 91.14∘ E; 3650 m above sea level, a.s.l.) in 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2018 and Kunming (25.01∘ N, 102.65∘ E; 1889 m a.s.l.) in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2017 by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, during the summer monsoon period. The campaign was designed to collect the first long-term database of ozone, water vapour, and particle backscatter over the Tibetan Plateau from the surface to the lower stratosphere with the aim to investigate and quantify the character of ozone and water vapour transport within the ASM anticyclone. Vertical profiles of ozone and water vapour shown in this study are from the SWOP campaign in August 2013. A total of 24 balloons were launched during nighttime between 22:00 CST (China Standard Time, UTC + 8) and 23:00 CST in Lhasa. The payload consists of an electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde (Komhyr et al., 1995) to measure ozone, a cryogenic frost point hygrometer (CFH) (Vömel et al., 2007, 2016) to measure the frost (dew) point temperature for the temperature below (above) −15 ∘C, and a compact optical backscatter aerosol detector (COBALD, developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) backscatter sonde to detect aerosol or ice cloud backscatter (Brabec et al., 2012). An iMet radiosonde was used to transmit the CFH and COBALD data as well as to measure the ambient temperature, pressure, relative humidity (RH), and wind speed and direction. Further details about the different balloon flights during the SWOP campaign in 2013 are given by Li et al. (2017).
The relative humidity over ice (RHi) from CFH is defined as
where e is the water vapour pressure calculated from the frost point or dew point temperature; and esat is the saturated vapour pressure with respect to liquid water or ice, which is calculated from the ambient temperature using the Hyland–Wexler equation (Hyland and Wexler, 1983) for liquid water and the Goff–Gratch equation (Goff and Gratch, 1946) for ice water. The RHi uncertainty is 5 % in the tropopause layer (Vömel et al., 2016).
where BSRblue and BSRred are backscatter ratios at wavelengths of 455 and 940 nm, respectively. CI is used to separate in-cloud (CI > 7) from clear-sky measurements (CI < 7) (Brunamonti et al., 2018; Vernier et al., 2015).
2.2 Satellite data
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) is a nadir-viewing near-ultraviolet–visible charge-coupled spectrometer aboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Earth observing system Aura satellite (Levelt et al., 2006). In this study we use the TOMS-like total column ozone (TCO) level-3 product (OMTO3e) with horizontal resolution 0.25×0.25. The TOMS version 8 algorithm is used to extract the vertical column ozone data using only two wavelengths (317.5 and 331.2 nm). The strong ozone absorption at 317.5 nm is used to derive total ozone, and the weaker absorption at 331.2 nm is used to estimate the effective surface reflectivity. The relative uncertainty on the OMI-TOMS product is less than 5 %.
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite is on a sun-synchronous polar orbit. The instrument employs a cross-track scanning hyper-spectral infrared spectrometer with 2378 spectral channels (Aumann et al., 2003). It is designed to provide twice-daily global data sets for different constituents and temperature. Here we use the AIRS level-2 ozone and water retrieval product version 6.0 (Olsen, 2017).
CloudSat is designed to probe the vertical structure of clouds and precipitation using a cloud profiling radar (CPR), as a component of the A-Train (Marchand et al., 2008). The CloudSat operational 2B geometric profile (2B-GEOPROF) data product (Version R04) is used with 480 m vertical resolution. The vertical distribution of radar reflectivity is used to mark the cloud layer. The echo mask values are greater than 20 dBZe, indicating a false detection value below 16 %.
Fifty-day backward trajectories are started along the ascent profile of each balloon flight in Lhasa in August 2013. The diabatic trajectories are calculated using the CLaMS trajectory model (Konopka et al., 2004; McKenna et al., 2002; Pommrich et al., 2014). The trajectories of air parcels are calculated using the classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta method with a 1800 s time step. The CLaMS model employs a hybrid pressure–potential-temperature coordinate; detailed information about the design of the vertical coordinate was presented by Konopka et al. (2007). The trajectory has been used to focus on the transport process within or around the ASM anticyclone (Ploeger et al., 2015; Vogel et al., 2015, 2018). Dynamic fields from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) interim reanalysis (ERA-Interim) (Dee et al., 2011) are used to drive the CLaMS model. The input dynamic fields are recorded every 6 h on a horizontal grid with 60 hybrid vertical levels from the surface to 0.1 hPa. The vertical velocity on the hybrid level is calculated using the diabatic heating budget including the cloud radiation, latent heat release, and mixing and diffusion (Ploeger et al., 2010). The trajectory model set-up is the same as in Li et al. (2017).
The ozone profiles over Lhasa show a pronounced daily variation of OMRs between 340 and 420 K from 4 to 27 August 2013 (Fig. 1). The lapse-rate tropopause is calculated from measured temperature profiles using the lapse-rate criteria of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) definition (WMO, 1957). The lapse-rate tropopause in Lhasa ranges from 365 to 410 K in August 2013. Low ozone values were measured in the upper troposphere on 11, 19, and 24 August 2013 (Fig. 1). Li et al. (2017) have combined balloon-borne measurements with the CLaMS trajectory model to highlight the low ozone structures in the upper troposphere over Lhasa. A major reason why ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere remain low is the impact from tropical cyclones, which transport marine boundary layer air with low ozone to the upper troposphere over Lhasa. However, two profiles with extremely high OMRs, up to 180 ppbv, are found in upper troposphere (355–365 K) on 8 August and in the troposphere from 330 to 352 K on 11 August 2013 (Fig. 1). Further, episodes with high OMRs occurred from the middle troposphere to the lower stratosphere during 18–20 August 2013. Whereas Li et al. (2017) discuss low ozone values in August 2013, here we will focus on extremely high ozone values.
3.1 High ozone and long-range transport on 8 August 2013
Figure 2a shows the vertical profiles of temperature, OMR, monthly mean ozone, RH, and OMR relative change. The positive OMR anomalies with a value up to 180 ppbv occur between 355 and 365 K, which is below the lapse-rate tropopause (378 K) on 8 August 2013 (Fig. 2a left). The OMR relative change shown in Fig. 2a (right) shows the percentage deviation of the ozone profile observed on 8 August from the monthly mean ozone profile obtained by averaging 24 profiles over Lhasa in August 2013. The data show ozone anomalies up to 90 % on 8 August compared to monthly mean ozone. The high ozone value is marked by dark shading for the OMR relative changes above 30 %; in the following, we solely focus on these air masses. Unfortunately, RHi from CFH is not available above 335 K. Instead, the relative humidity (RH) from iMet was used, with useful data just below 350 K (above −40 ∘C). Below −40 ∘C, RH will not be used, because of the detection limit of the radiosonde humidity sensor.
The potential vorticity (PV) along the 30-day backward trajectories of air parcels with high ozone concentrations between 355 and 362.3 K was shown in Fig. 2b as a function of time and potential temperature. According to their different pathways, backward trajectories of air parcels could be divided into two clusters. Both of them experienced strong uplift processes with potential temperature increasing from 330 to 360 K on 20 and 29 July. The tracks of 20-day backward trajectories of air parcels around 355–362.3 K isentropes initialized on 8 August 2013 are shown colour-coded by date in Fig. 2c. Air parcels started their ascent near the Himalayas and were uplifted to the 360 K isentrope from 19 to 21 July and then moved horizontally to East Asia following the ASM anticyclone. Finally, the air parcels moved westerly around the anticyclone circulation before they arrived in Lhasa on 8 August 2013. The transport time for the air parcels from the lower troposphere of the Himalayas to the upper troposphere over Lhasa is less than 20 days for the whole pathway.
Figure 2d gives the boundary layer geolocation of air parcels (the same as in Fig. 2b and c), where they experience strong uplift through convection. The uplift rate of the air parcel is defined as . When the uplift rate is greater than 9 K day−1 (an empirical value), the strong uplift process of air parcels will be recognized. The point that air parcels start ascent is marked as the geolocation. We find that most of the air parcels were from the Himalayas, where strong uplift occurred frequently. South Asia, the area adjacent to the Himalayas is usually a strong source region of air pollution, which is caused by natural (e.g. biomass burning) and anthropogenic processes (Cong et al., 2015). In addition, ozone is photochemically enhanced by reactions involving ozone precursors from biomass burning. After reaching the upper troposphere, the polluted air masses that were transported over long distances made the best possible contribution to high tropospheric ozone over Lhasa at nighttime on 8 August 2013.
3.2 High ozone and high water vapour on 11 August 2013
The vertical variability of OMR, monthly mean ozone, temperature, the OMR relative change, RHi, and CI on 11 August 2013 are shown in Fig. 3a. Positive ozone anomalies (Fig. 3a left) and the OMR positive variance with a value up to 125 % (Fig. 3a right) appeared from the surface to the mid-troposphere (330–353 K) on 11 August 2013. The RHi shows a high value (>70 %) between 336 and 350 K. CI from the COBALD shows that a thick cirrus cloud layer occurred below 349 K. The finding of high ozone concentration accompanied by high water vapour values within a thick cloud layer is unusual over the Tibetan Plateau in our measurement.
PV values along the 50-day backward trajectories of air parcels with high ozone concentrations between 340 and 354 K are shown in Fig. 3b. The results show that the PV values are less than 1.5 PVU in the troposphere. Air parcels were uplifted to the upper troposphere through convection, then they are transported over a long distance, and descended before they arrived in Lhasa. Three-dimensional backward trajectories of air parcels within the high ozone structure were shown in Fig. 3c. Particles were first uplifted to the upper troposphere and these were moved around the ASM anticyclone within 4–5 weeks. Air pollution from the South Asia boundary layer has the potential to impact the ozone structure over Lhasa via transportation around the ASM anticyclone within 4–5 weeks.
Figure 3d gives the boundary layer geolocation, where parcels experienced strong uplift. Most of the air parcels are transported from South and Southeast Asia, a region with high air pollution, to Lhasa. Few of the air parcels originated from South China and the Tibetan Plateau. Obviously, the RHi is controlled by local microphysical cloud processes according to the CI (CI > 7, in-cloud measurements). The horizontal scale of the cloud is less than 1×1∘ according to the MODIS satellite (figure not shown). Air pollutants from South Asia or Lhasa may contribute to the positive ozone anomalies over Lhasa through photochemical production; however, due to the detection limit for chemical constituents that produces ozone over the Tibetan Plateau during this period, it is not clear what the reasons for high ozone within cirrus clouds are.
3.3 Stratospheric intrusion on 18–20 August 2013
Figure 4a shows the total column ozone from the OMI satellite along with the geopotential height, PV at 150 hPa, and the sea-level pressure of Typhoon Utor on 16 August 2013. The PV clearly displays a filament structure extending from northeastern Asia to the southeastern edge of the ASM anticyclone on 16 August 2013. TCO displays the same structure as the PV over northeastern Asia, where stratospheric intrusions occur frequently (Li and Bian, 2015; Song et al., 2016). The enhanced TCO values are first of all indicative of an extratropical intrusion. Since the stratosphere contributes most to the column, it is also indicative of an intrusion of stratospheric air. This is further supported by the good correlation of TCO with PV values at 150 hPa. The PV on the 370 K isentropic surface shows the same structure as the PV at the 150 hPa pressure level (Fig. 4b). The stratospheric intrusion with high OMRs is also reflected in low water vapour values observed by AIRS at 83.666 hPa during its ascending track on 16 August 2013 (Fig. 4c and d). The filament structure is subsequently separated from the stratosphere. The remnant of the stratospheric intrusion (Rossby wave breaking filament) moves westward along the easterly wind flow at the southern flank of the ASM anticyclone. During the next few days, this broken filament structure moves westward about 3000 km. It arrives in Lhasa and is captured by the ozonesondes launched on 18 and 19 August 2013 (Fig. 4e–f) and on 20 August 2013 (figure not shown), contributing to the positive ozone value measured in the UTLS region over Lhasa.
Figure 5a shows the vertical variability of ozone, monthly mean ozone, temperature, RHi, CI, and the OMR relative change for 18 August 2013. The positive OMR relative change appears in the troposphere around 350 and 363–373 K, as well as in the lower stratosphere (Fig. 5a right). Two characteristic minima of OMR relative change occur between 352–357 and 375–390 K on 18 August. RHi is negatively correlated with OMR anomalies on these isentropic surfaces. RHi near the tropopause (384 K) is greater than 100 %. Indeed, an ice cloud layer was observed near the tropopause layer according to the CI (CI > 7) from COBALD backscatter measurements. Supersaturation is observed within the ice cloud.
In order to investigate in detail the variance of ozone profiles measured on 18 August 2013, the PV along the 50-day backward trajectories from the CLaMS model is displayed in Fig. 5b. Parcels in the upper troposphere (363–373 K) originate from the dry stratospheric intrusion layer. There is evidence for mixing processes that occurred between air parcels with high PV from the stratosphere and a low PV value from the troposphere, while air parcels in the middle troposphere (around 350 K) with high ozone and low water vapour originate from the thin intrusion layer. Air parcels around 350 K experienced a weak uplift during 13–14 August 2013. Figure 5c shows the tracks of backward trajectories of air parcels on 350–352 and 363–373 K on 18 August, respectively. Only 20-day backward trajectories of air parcels are shown colour-coded by potential temperature here. This is long enough to show the intrusion pathway. The thin intrusion layer with low potential temperature (338 K) moved toward the north around the anticyclone and then showed a strong equatorward movement from 60 to 30∘ N around 60∘ E. The intrusion layer in the upper troposphere experienced a mixing process according to the PV along the trajectories. Air parcels with high PV values from the Northern Hemisphere were mixed with air parcels with low PV from the region at approximately 35∘ N, 60∘ W over the North Atlantic. Although ozone-rich air mixed with ozone-poor air from the equatorial region, the positive ozone anomalies still appeared in the upper troposphere on 18 August 2013. As Riese et al. (2012) show, ozone concentrations are sensitive to mixing strength in the lower stratosphere.
Positive ozone anomalies were also captured on 19 and 20 August 2013. The variability of ozone vertical structure is significant in the middle troposphere on 19 August. Ozone and water vapour show strong anti-correlation below 355 K. The OMR relative change shows a large increase in the tropopause region (368–408 K), up to 90 % (Fig. 6a). The 50-day backward trajectories of air parcels in Fig. 6b indicate a diabatic decent transport process, especially the air cluster in the middle troposphere (between 347 and 355 K). The PV along the trajectories of air parcels between 368 and 380 K displays high PV with values greater than 6 PVU. Figure 6c shows the tracks of backward trajectories of air parcels within high ozone in the middle and upper troposphere on 19 August. The stratospheric intrusion in the middle troposphere has the same transport pathway as on 18 August and also experienced an uplift process around 14 August. Air parcels near the tropopause layer (368–380 K) originated from the Northern Hemisphere with high ozone and high PV. The equatorial regions contribute little to air parcels on 19 August compared to the case on 18 August. That is why the OMR relative change near the tropopause layer on 19 August is higher than the OMR relative change on 18 August.
The ozone vertical structure and RHi also show an anti-correlation in the middle troposphere on 20 August. In the troposphere, the OMR relative change near 355 K is higher than 30 %. The OMR relative change on 20 August shows minor increases in the tropopause region (Fig. 7a) and is also weaker than on 19 August. The height of lapse-rate tropopause on 20 August is lower than on 18 and 19 August. Fig. 7b shows the PV along the backward trajectories of air parcels in the middle troposphere (355 K) on 20 August. The intrusion in the middle troposphere has the same transport pathway as the one on 18 August and also experienced an uplift process around 14 August (Fig. 7c).
In order to explore the intrusion structure in the middle troposphere, the OMR from the AIRS satellite at 346 hPa is shown on 13 August 2013, 08:30 UTC, with PV at 350 hPa from ERA-Interim on 13 August 2013, 06:00 UTC (Figure 8a). Both ozone and PV show that a filament structure extends from the south of Afghanistan via Tian Shan to Russia in the northern extratropics. Meanwhile, the latitude–pressure cross section of the AIRS ozone along 70∘ E displays a tropopause fold. The intense stratospheric intrusion transported air with high ozone from the tropopause layer downward to the surface of the mountain at 40∘ N (Fig. 8b). The structure of the tropopause fold from PV and ozone is a little shifted, because of the time difference between AIRS ascending time (around 08:30 UTC) and ERA-Interim reanalysis data (06:00 UTC).
Figure 9a–c show the cross section of the square of the Brunt–Väisälä frequency (N2) along the average longitude of the bottom air cluster in Fig. 5b on 10 August, 06:00 UTC; on 12 August, 18:00 UTC; and on 13 August, 12:00 UTC, with potential temperature, PV, zonal wind, and the lapse-rate tropopause calculated from the ERA-Interim reanalysis. The radar reflectivities (dBZe) measured by the CloudSat's CPR are shown in Fig. 9d. Air parcels are located in the extratropical lowermost stratosphere (350–380 K) above the lapse-rate tropopause (near 330 K) on 10 August 2013, 06:00 UTC (Fig. 9a). These parcels moved equatorward and arrived at the poleward edge of the westerly wind jet 2 days later, where a tropopause fold occurred (Fig. 9b). Parcels continue to move along the isentropic surfaces and cross the tropopause region from the polar lowermost stratosphere to the upper troposphere in the mid-latitude on 13 August 2013, 12:00 UTC (Fig. 9c). Overall, it takes 2–3 days for air parcels to cross the tropopause. Both the pathway and timescale of transport are consistent with the analysis of other deep stratospheric intrusions that occurred over North America (Kuang et al., 2012; Langford et al., 1996; Lin et al., 2015; Vogel et al., 2011) or Europe (Stohl and Trickl, 1999; Trickl et al., 2010, 2014) associated with the polar jet stream. It is interesting that, in our case, air parcels are affected by strong convection in the troposphere, after they are transported from the stratosphere downward into the upper troposphere. The strong convection lifted air parcels to high altitude, which can be seen from the CloudSat radar reflectivity (Fig. 9d). This uplift process can be seen clearly on 14 August 2013 in Fig. 5b. The extratropical tropopause is located between the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and intersects the isentropic surface, which acts as a dynamic barrier for tracer transport (Gettelman et al., 2011). Ozone in the extratropics exhibits large gradients in the UTLS. There is a net downward transport of ozone from the stratosphere to the troposphere along the isentrope at the poleward edge of the jets (Yang et al., 2016). The tropopause fold transports air parcels quasi-isentropically from the lowermost stratosphere with high ozone mixing ratio to the troposphere within the ASM anticyclone, contributing to high tropospheric ozone over the Tibetan Plateau on 18, 19, and 20 August 2013.
Balloon-borne measurements of ozone and water vapour mixing ratios over Lhasa in August 2013 are investigated using the OMI and AIRS satellite data and backward trajectory calculations using the CLaMS model. We focus on enhanced OMRs observed in the middle and upper troposphere over Lhasa on 8, 11, and 18–20 August 2013.
For 8 and 11 August, trajectory calculations show that the enhanced ozone concentrations may result from air pollution originating from South Asia, which reached the measurement location through convective uplift and quasi-horizontal long-range transport within 20 days. Here we mainly focused on 20-day backward trajectories. To study transport processes in the region of the Asian monsoon, a trajectory length between a few days to a few months is found in the literature (Bergman et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2012; Garny and Randel, 2016; Li et al., 2017; Vernier et al., 2015; Vogel et al., 2014). To study the convective events, a trajectory length of a few days to 20 days is sufficient. Garny and Randel (2016), using isentropic trajectory calculations, also show that air parcels originating at 360 K within the anticyclone were confined within the ASM anticyclone for 10–20 days. Li et al. (2017), using the Lhasa's balloon data in 2013 and the CLaMS trajectory model, have shown that air parcels with low ozone from the marine boundary layer over the western Pacific are the dominant source of low ozone in the tropopause layer in Lhasa resulting from very strong uplift (1–4 days) by typhoons and subsequent horizontal long-range transport (4–10 days) within the ASM anticyclone. Thus, 20-day backward trajectories from the CLaMS model for the middle and upper troposphere within the ASM anticyclone are generally appropriate. However, to analyse aged air masses transported in the region of the ASM anticyclone or originating in the stratosphere, trajectories longer than 20 days are necessary (Bergman et al., 2013; Chen et al., 2012; Garny and Randel, 2016; Vogel et al., 2014). The longer the trajectories run, the larger are the uncertainties due to trajectory dispersion and the lack of mixing processes in the simulations (McKenna et al., 2002). For trajectories from the stratosphere we calculated a set of trajectories close to the location of the measurement (not shown here) and found that all these trajectories show a very similar transport pattern over the last 20 days.
During the ASM period, deep convective clouds occurred over the South Asian subcontinent, the southern Himalayan region, and the Tibetan Plateau that caused lightning activity (Qie et al., 2014). NOx produced by lighting has the potential to impact upper tropospheric ozone via photochemical reactions (Fadnavis et al., 2015; Gottschaldt et al., 2018; Kita et al., 2002; Schumann and Huntrieser, 2007). Uplifted ozone precursors and NOx produced by lighting contribute to photochemical ozone production in the upper troposphere in the ASM anticyclone. An ozone increase by 30 % is found over the monsoon convection region due to NOx enhanced by lightning according to sensitivity simulations with and without lightning (Fadnavis et al., 2015). In our case studies, ozone is increased by 90 %, compared to monthly mean ozone; this value is still higher than the ozone increase due to lightning reported by Fadnavis et al. (2015). Lightning is an additional source of tropospheric ozone, which is not included in the trajectory calculations neglecting chemistry employed here. However, in addition to lightning-produced NOx, ozone precursors likely uplifted by convection are necessary. Therefore, convective uplift is the basic transport mechanism for enhanced ozone in the middle and upper troposphere. Enhanced ozone measured over Lhasa is caused by uplift of ozone-rich air from the lower troposphere or produced by lightning; it is likely caused by a combination of both with a transport time from the planetary boundary layer to Lhasa of 20–30 days.
The ozone enhancement observed during the period 18–20 August 2013 resulted from a tropopause fold and a stratospheric intrusion. The northern side of the Tibetan Plateau is a hotspot region for transport processes from the stratosphere to the troposphere, which are most likely due to tropopause fold events (Sprenger et al., 2003; Škerlak et al., 2014). These findings are corroborated by our case studies. Our results show that the stratospheric air masses characterized by high ozone, which are transported downward, are subsequently transported quasi-horizontally over large spatial scales in the ASM anticyclone. The stratospheric intrusion occurred over the southeastern edge of the ASM anticyclone and transported air equatorward with high ozone and low water vapour. Stratospheric intrusions contribute to high ozone and low water vapour values in the upper troposphere over Lhasa within the ASM anticyclone, thereby highlighting the important role of large-scale atmospheric dynamic transport for the trace gas budget in this region.
Satellite data and the trajectory calculations from the CLaMS model indicate that both the stratospheric intrusions and convective transport of air pollution play a major role in enhancing middle and upper tropospheric ozone over Lhasa, China. The PV values along the backward trajectories for the convective transport and the stratospheric intrusion are different and therefore a good indicator for the transport pathway of air masses. The PV values along the trajectories are less than 2 PVU for the convective transport case and greater than 6 PVU for the stratospheric intrusion when air parcels originated in the extratropical lower stratosphere. The PV values decrease when air parcels cross the lapse-rate tropopause from the lower stratosphere to the troposphere. Tropical cyclones, which can transport marine boundary layer air with low ozone to the upper troposphere, lead to low ozone values in the upper troposphere in Lhasa (Li et al., 2017). The ozone variability in the middle and upper troposphere over Lhasa in 2013 is the result of different advective and convective transport processes transporting air parcels from different regions to Lhasa.
Our studies indicate that ozone variations in the UTLS over Lhasa are associated with a combination of processes, namely the intrusion of ozone-rich stratospheric air, the upward transport of low ozone concentrations in the marine boundary layer by tropical cyclones, and the uplift of polluted air rich in ozone in South Asia. Case studies are a first step to investigate and understand ozone variations within the ASM anticyclone; future work will focus on quantifying the long-term ozone and water variation in the UTLS within the ASM anticyclone, according to the 10-year balloon data from the SWOP campaign. Moreover, the SWOP campaigns will continue to be conducted for the next few years to extend the data set, thus allowing climatological studies to be conducted.
ERA-Interim meteorological reanalysis data are free available from the web page: http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/ (last access: 3 November 2017). The OMI ozone data were downloaded from https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/ (last access: 3 November 2017). The AIRS level-2 data used in this study can be obtained at https://airsl2.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Aqua_AIRS_Level2/ (last access: 24 September 2018). The CloudSat products are provided on http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu (last access: 3 November 2017). The SWOP data of this paper are available upon request to Jianchun Bian (firstname.lastname@example.org). The CLaMS backward trajectories calculations can be requested from Dan Li (email@example.com).
DL wrote the first draft and produced all the figures. BV, RM, GG, and MR provided useful comments and revised the paper. JB and HV provided useful comments. JB, ZB, QL, JZ, and DL made the balloon-borne measurements in Lhasa. HV supported for the measurements.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Ozone and water vapour data are from the SWOP campaign, which is funded by the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (41605025, 41675040, and 91637104).
Our activities contribute to the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7/2007-2013) as part of the StratoClim project (grant agreement no. 603557).
This work was supported by the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program
2017 under grant no. 20171015 and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2015M581153).
Finally, we wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for very constructive suggestions.
The article processing charges for this open-access
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Bryan Police believe they are investigating the death of another woman on Oak Hollow Drive.
According to authorities, the body of 63-year-old Geraldine Lloyd is who they believe was buried in the backyard of 3505 Oak Hollow.
However, autopsy results are still pending from the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office. Bryan Police believe dental records will identify Lloyd, who is listed the widowed owner of the home.
It was Friday night that authorities received an anonymous tip to go to the residence, and eventually uncovered the body after digging through the night.
No missing person report had been filed for Lloyd, that according to BPD.
Authorities are continuing to investigate this latest case, which is the second this month on that street. Back on June 6, Christian Olsen, 20, was arrested and admitted to killing 68-year-old Etta Jean Westbrook at her home at 3404 Oak Hollow.
Olsen is believed to have been living at the 3505 residence, which is directly across the street, at the time. Authorities are looking into any possible connections to the two crimes as part of their investigation. | <urn:uuid:2b7986a8-d4da-47da-9692-cf71c2c8615a> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/8173982.html | 2016-08-24T04:52:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982291015.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195811-00064-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979813 | 227 |
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Google has been going aquisition crazy lately…this new little toy looks pretty neat though.
It was this feeling that led to the idea of Measure Map. Our goal has been to use the power of web analytics to help bloggers feel that same sense of connection with their audience. Today, as the Measure Map team joins Google, our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people can understand and appreciate the effect their blogs – their words and ideas – can have.
Source: Google Blog
Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.
- Easily navigate the numbers that matter
- Track links to see who sends you traffic
- Find out what people do at your site
- Setup is a breeze – it only takes a minute
It’s reported that’s it’s barely of the Alpha stage and it’s still error prone and not so accurate, I’d imagine it would be a nightmare to integrate it with Google Analytics too..perhaps they are just keeping it out of someone elses hands.
There are rumours that their big move into stats is to cut down on Google Adsense/Google Adwords click fraud, which is an issue for both users and companies.
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When you drive up Route 9 from Clifton Park to Saratoga Springs these days, you can’t miss Malta. Impressive new buildings crowd the sides of the highways, a plethora of round-abouts keep your attention focused on your driving. There are huge hotels, shopping areas, office buildings, restaurants, service stations, a Rescue Squad facility and even a medical center that has sprung up in the middle of an open field along the Northway where horses grazed not so many years ago. Seems like everything is new in Malta. Growth and bustle and change.
It was very different 169 years ago.
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Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city’s origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site’s recent transformation—Mecca, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histories that are stitched together by an abundance of organically rooted communities and cultures. It is a place that accommodated not only sacred structures and sites but also huge fluctuations in population during Ramadan (up to 3 million visitors a year travel to Mecca for Eid and Hajj). More recently, these sites and communities have been eradicated and are being replaced by five-star-studded high rise developments, transforming it from an active metropolis to the world’s most exclusive, yet most visited religious tourist destination, reflective of an unprecedented experimentation with architecture and its possible impact on social stratification.
This photographic essay is a celebration of Mecca's real and projected or imaginary states. It provides singular access to this site and its associated social and religious rituals, along with its architectural urban planned and proposed development.
With a text by Catherine David and interviews with Dr. Sami Angawi and Abdul Rahman Hassanein Makhlouf.
"[...] Desert of Pharan: Unofficial Histories Behind the Mass Expansion of Mecca, provides an unvarnished photographic catalog of the city: labor camps for foreign workers; slums where undocumented residents live; aerial views of scores of construction cranes surrounding the Grand Mosque; and luxury hotel rooms where wealthy pilgrims can get a bird’s-eye view of the Kaaba, the cubic structure toward which Muslims pray." The New York Times, December 2016
"Saudi artist Ahmed Mater captures the grittier side of the holy city – the migrant workers, the tireless construction and the eye-opening sprawl." The Guardian, September 2016
Author(s): Ahmed Mater
Edited by Catherine David
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The New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD Television) “International Piano Competition” is one in a series of international cultural and arts events sponsored by NTD Television. The mission of this competition is to promote traditional arts of pure authenticity, pure goodness, and pure beauty, bring back the glory of piano masterpieces from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods.
The competition’s commitment to artistic excellence is a means to allow the 250-year legacy of piano literature to continue to flourish. We believe this repertoire is a treasure of mankind and should be passed onto future generations to come.
The competition was established in 2008 by NTD Television. Asthe largest Chinese media group outside of the mainland, we disseminate traditional culture to audiences around the world through television, newspapers, magazines, websites and social media. Semifinal and Final of the competition will be broadcasted through live stream video on the Internet. The recording of the competition will be edited into a TV special to broadcast on NTD’s TV network.
New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television is world’s first independent, non-profit Chinese-language TV broadcaster.
Founded in New York City in 2001 by Chinese Americans, NTD has since grown to be the largest Chinese TV network in North America, available via satellite, cable, and over-the-air channels. NTD serves more than 100 million people around the world.
NTD News, our flagship program, strives to provide insightful coverage of China with the highest ethical standards, providing a truthful, uncensored alternative to state-run Chinese media in Chinese and a dozen other languages.
NTD has also gained an international reputation for its multi-faceted educational and entertainment programs. We bring together the finest in both Eastern and Western cultures, and has been a leader in promoting traditional arts and culture.
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The No. 2 seed Phoenix Suns will face the No. 3 seed Denver Nuggets in the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs. Although both higher seeds advanced from the first round, it was not easy. Phoenix impressed in Game 6, but LA suffered a huge loss with Anthony Davis’ groin injury. Denver took care of business against Portland, but it came in spite of a ridiculous effort from Damian Lillard.
The Nuggets took two of three from the Suns in their regular season series and all three games came down to the wire. The Suns claimed the first game 106-103 thanks to 20+ points from each of Deandre Ayton, Chris Paul, and Devin Booker. Denver responded with back-to-back wins in one and two overtimes, respectively. Nikola Jokic was the difference-maker in both Denver wins, with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists in a 130-126 overtime win and 29 points, 22 rebounds, and 6 assists in a 120-112 double overtime win.
Here we’ll be tracking everything you need to know for the Suns-Nuggets series, including picks, injuries and the schedule. We’ll provide the full schedule when it’s released.
Game 1: Suns 122, Nuggets 105
Game 2: Suns 123, Nuggets 98
Game 3: Suns 116, Nuggets 102
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NEW DELHI: There may be no Indian hopefuls in this year's Oscar race after AR Rahman's ouster, but India still figures in the competition with 'Kavi', a short film about a young Indian boy trapped by child labour, which has been nominated in the 'Short Film (Live Action)' category.
The 19-minute-long fictional film in Hindi by American debutante director Gregg Helvey is about a boy who wants to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a modern-day slave. Helvey who shot the film on a shoe string budget in and around Wai, near Mumbai, said that the goal of the film was to "motivate action through awareness". "What incredible support for Kavi. 30% of our DVD proceeds are going to anti-slavery orgs. Hope this gets eyes on Human Trafficking," wrote Helvey, a student of the University of South California, on his Twitter account. "My goal is to reach at least 50,000 people with 'Kavi' in the first year. The purpose is to motivate action through awareness," he added in a statement. Last year's Oscars were dominated by the Mumbai-based-potboiler 'Slumdog Millionaire' which won eight Oscars, including two for musician Rahman and one for sound artiste Resul Pokutty. 'Smile Pinki' a documentary by American director Megan Mylan about a young Indian girl stigmatised due to her cleft lip had also won the Academy Award in the 'Best Documentary Short Subject' category. | <urn:uuid:3e686c45-f1e6-4233-8c8d-2c8bd3ee301f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://newdelhifilmsociety.blogspot.com/2010/02/kavi-story-of-indian-slave-boy-makes-it.html | 2017-06-23T03:31:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319992.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623031127-20170623051127-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.976369 | 324 |
The psychological implications of abortion are as disputed as the act of abortion itself. Whether or not Post-Abortion Syndrome is a real or imagined condition, there is no denying the fact that abortion has left countless women with feelings of profound regret.
The term "Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS)" was first used on record in 1981 during a U.S. Senate Subcommittee hearing on abortion and the family.1 Psychologist Vincent Rue testified that, per his observations, the stress of abortion could lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. He suggested PAS be used to describe and classify stress disorders related to abortion. Not surprisingly, the term has been embraced by those who oppose abortion and rejected by those who support abortion. Both have a vested interest in their position, even though the morality of abortion has nothing to do with whether or not it causes psychological anguish to the aborting mother.
In 1988, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was tasked with preparing a report on the effects of abortion on women's health. Koop's biography, on the National Library of Medicine website, describes his efforts this way:
As had become Koop's practice in drafting reports, he personally interviewed experts, activists, and people directly affected on both sides of the abortion controversy. He found that, even more so than in the debate over AIDS, the politics of abortion skewed scientific approaches. Researchers allowed the design of their studies as well as their results to be influenced by their moral and political commitments in regard to abortion. Koop concluded that there was no unbiased, rigorous scientific research on the effects of abortion on women's health that could serve as the basis for a Surgeon General's report on the issue.2
His official statement concluded that "the available scientific evidence about the psychological sequelae of abortion simply cannot support either the preconceived notions of those pro-life or those pro-choice."3 The ambivalence of Dr. Koop's assertion has not kept abortion advocates from unequivocally stating that abortion has no negative effects on a woman's mental health—nor do they give any recognition to his earlier writing on the subject. Dr. Koop states the following in a book he co-wrote on the subject of abortion:
To tell a pregnant woman that a few hours or a day in the hospital or clinic will rid her of all her problems and will send her out the door a free person is to forget the humanness of women who are now mothers. With many of the women who have had abortions, their "motherliness" is very much present even though the child is gone.4
Planned Parenthood's fact sheet, The Emotional Effects of Induced Abortion calls, Post-Abortion Syndrome a "nonexistent phenomenon" manufactured by "anti-family planning activists."5 To justify these remarks, they point out that PAS is not officially recognized by The American Psychological Association or The American Psychiatric Association. What they don't point out is that the American Psychiatric Association is an organization radically committed to abortion rights. The APA officially opposes any measure that might limit or restrict the availability of abortion in any way, calling abortion "a mental health imperative."6 A 2008 press release from then-president, Nada Stotland, includes the following:
...there is no convincing evidence that abortion is a significant cause of psychiatric illness. We must distinguish illnesses from feelings... Negative feelings often stem from the circumstances that led the woman to terminate the pregnancy... or from the circumstances of the abortion itself such as demonstrators at an abortion facility.7
She admits that women often experience negative feelings after an abortion but insists that their grief is not an "illness," and then blames it on other factors (such as "demonstrators" who may have been outside the abortion clinic). This is the same line of reasoning taken up by the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in their 2009 teaching text on abortion. The NAF concedes that "negative reactions (to abortion) can include extreme grief, guilt, shame, anger, regret, (or) increased symptoms of emotional disorders,"8 but argues that these effects must not be confused with "psychiatric illnesses, such as depression."9 They further assert that "after months or years, distinguishing the possible impact of an induced abortion from other life events may be impossible."10 Returning to President Stotland, her press release continues:
Women have abortions because they understand the importance of good mothering; they want to have wanted babies and to be able to give those babies what they need to grow up loved, healthy, and happy.11
Apparently, she is arguing that the reason women kill their children through abortion is because they understand how important it is to be a good mother. They "want to have wanted babies," but since they ended up with "unwanted" babies, they abort them in the service of love, health, and happiness. Does this sound like a neutral medical observer or someone who might be interpreting data to fit an existing ideology? She wraps up her remarks this way:
Decisions about reproductive health should be made between a woman, her family and her doctor. The best way to protect the mental health of women considering abortion is to ensure that they have accurate, unbiased information, receive good medical care, and are given support by family and friends whether they decide to continue or terminate their pregnancies.12
This is verbatim Planned Parenthood speak. Abortion should be left up to a woman, her family, and her doctor—so long as "family" doesn't mean the baby's father or the woman's parents, who have no legal authority to prevent an abortion, and "doctor" does mean the random abortionist who rarely meets the woman until the abortion takes place. "Accurate, unbiased" information should be offered—so long as it paints abortion in the best possible light, assures women that there are no emotional health risks, and says (or shows) nothing of prenatal development. In light of President Nada's glowing endorsement of abortion, is it any wonder the American Psychiatric Association can find "no convincing evidence" linking abortion to a general increase in psychological trauma? Their claims become even more questionable in light of the report that prompted Nada Stotland's press release in the first place. In August of 2008, the American Psychology Association's Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion (TFMHA) published a 107-page report. This is how the report answers the question, "Does abortion cause harm to women’s mental health?":
[This] question is not scientifically testable from an ethical or practical perspective.13
That doesn't sound very conclusive, and the next two questions yield equally noncommittal answers. The questions are "How prevalent are mental health problems among women in the United States who have had an abortion?" and "What is the relative risk of mental health problems associated with abortion compared to its alternatives?" Here is their response:
[These] questions obscure the important point that abortion is not a unitary event, but encompasses a diversity of experiences.14
Right out of the gate, the TFMHA report states there is no way to measure whether abortion harms a woman's mental health, and they follow this up with the assertion that even when post-abortive women exhibit mental health problems, these problems might be tied to other things. How, then, does either organization feel confident in asserting that abortion, in no way, increases a woman's general likelihood of suffering mental trauma? Let's get to the specifics. Perhaps that will help clarify.
The TFMHA report evaluated 50 published papers that appeared in peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2007. These papers "analyzed empirical data of a quantitative nature on psychological experiences associated with induced abortion, compared to an alternative." In other words, the studies compared the mental health of women who have had an abortion with women who haven't. Ten of these papers were based on the secondary analysis of medical record data sets. The one deemed the most "methodologically rigorous" by the TFMHA was a Finnish study (Gissler et al., 2004b). The TFMHA report summarized the findings this way:
Across both the Medi-Cal and Finland record-based studies, a higher rate of violent death (including accidents, homicide, and suicide) was observed among women who had an abortion compared to women who delivered. This correlational finding is consistent with other evidence indicating that risk for violence is higher in the lives of women who have abortions and underscores the importance of controlling for violence exposure in studies of mental health associated with pregnancy outcome.15
In other words, even though women who have had an abortion are unquestionably more likely to commit suicide or die in a violent assault than women who haven't, this might owe to the fact women who have abortions are often subject to greater risks of violence in the first place. Likewise, the NAF asserts that women who have abortions are more likely to experience reproductive health problems down the line, not because of the abortion, but because they are psychologically more predisposed towards other risk behaviors. They write:
Women who terminate a pregnancy differ from those who do not in ways that affect reproductive health. For example, they are more likely to smoke and to be exposed to sexually transmitted infections through a greater number of sexual partners, earlier age at first sex, preexisting pelvic inflammatory disease, and less reliance on condoms for protection from STIs.16
Because of the difficulty in isolating which effects are actually caused by abortion, the TFMHA report rejects the relevancy of this study. The next 15 papers examined were studies built on the analysis of public data sets. According to the report, the most rigorous of these studies (Fergusson et al., 2006) examined a representative sample of young women in Christchurch, NZ. The TFMHA report concludes:
In these analyses, women who had one or more abortions prior to age 21 had a significantly higher number of total psychiatric disorders by age 25 than women who had delivered or had never been pregnant by age 21. This study thus suggests that women who have one or more abortions at a young age (<21) are at greater relative risk for psychiatric disorder compared to women who deliver a child at a young age or women who do not get pregnant at a young age.17
Despite commending the methodology of the study, the TFMHA rejects this conclusion as well, largely because "wantedness" was not a control factor—their assertion being that most women who carry to term, want a baby, whereas most women who abort, don't want a baby. Because of this, they argue, women who give birth to a "wanted" baby will naturally be in a better mental condition than women who abort an "unwanted baby."
The data in nineteen of the studies examined was specifically collected so as to compare women who have aborted with women who haven't. The TFMHA deemed only one of these scientifically sound—a 1995 UK study (Gilchrist et al.). The structure of the study is similar to the 2006 New Zealand study, but concludes that abortion does not increase the risk of psychiatric disorder. The TFMHA argues that the 1995 UK study is more reliable because it sampled more women, did not restrict the sample by age, and factored out "wanted" pregnancies. As such, this 1995 study from the United Kingdom became the linchpin in the overall conclusion of the American Psychological Association report:
Based on our comprehensive review and evaluation of the empirical literature published in peer-reviewed journals since 1989, this Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion concludes that the most methodologically sound research indicates that among women who have a single, legal, first-trimester abortion of an unplanned pregnancy for nontherapeutic reasons, the relative risks of mental health problems are no greater than the risks among women who deliver an unplanned pregnancy. This conclusion is generally consistent with that reached by the first APA task force.18
Ironically, this assertion comes despite a significant concession made just two pages earlier. It reads as follows:
[In order to ascertain the] prevalence of mental health problems among women in the United States who have had an abortion, [adequate research must at minimum include:] (1) a clearly defined, agreed upon, and appropriately measured mental health problem (e.g., a clinically significant disorder, assessed via validated criteria); (2) a sample representative of the population to which one wants to generalize (e.g., women in the United States); and (3) knowledge of the prevalence of the same mental health problem in the general population, equated with the abortion group with respect to potentially confounding factors. None of the studies reviewed met all these criteria and hence provided sound evidence regarding prevalence.19
So where does all this leave us? Right back where C. Everett Koop left us in 1988. No matter what anyone says, there is no way to scientifically prove that abortion does or does not increase the likelihood of mental trauma. There are too many ways to read the data, and too many ways to throw out undesirable results. Nevertheless, the National Abortion Federation continues to maintain that there is "incontrovertible evidence" to prove that abortion does not cause "long-lasting psychological trauma,"20 despite their recognition that "most of that evidence is decades old and doesn't include any long-term follow-up,"21 which would "impose an undue burden" on women who prefer to "put the [abortion] behind them."22
For our part, we are perfectly willing to admit our inability to "prove" that abortion causes emotional trauma, but we can provide hundreds of unsolicited real-life testimonies from women who have had abortions. At the very least, it is safe to say that abortion has not been a positive experience for the vast majority of these women, nor is it hard to speculate why—which may be why the Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that it "seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained… Severe depression and loss of esteem can follow."23 Though the morality of abortion is not affected by the influence it has on mental health, the misery of these women should not be overlooked. Perhaps a simple common-sense question can reveal to us what science cannot. Are women more likely to regret having a child, or more likely to regret having an abortion? Even without a peer-reviewed, medically-published study, the answer is fairly obvious.
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- Vincent Rue, “Abortion and Family Relations,” testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senate, 97th Congress, Washington, DC (1981).
- U.S. National Library of Medicine, The C. Everett Koop Papers, “Reproduction and Family Health,” http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/QQ/p-nid/88 (June 21, 2012).
- C. Everett Koop, M.D., and Francis A. Schaeffer, Whatever Happened to the Human Race? (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1979), 37.
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Fact Sheet, “The Emotional Effects of Induced Abortion,” https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/0c/9a/0c9a91c0-3e94-48d8-b110-374da1275df8/abortion_emotional_effects.pdf, February 20124).
- American Psychiatric Association, APA Official Actions, “Abortion and women’s reproductive rights,” http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Advocacy%20and%20Newsroom/Position%20Statements/ps2009_Abortion.pdf (June 2010).
- Nada Stotland, MD, American Psychiatric Association Press Release, 2008.
- Anne Baker, MA and Terry Beresford, BA, “Informed Consent, Patient Education, and Counseling,” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 59.
- Carol J. Rowland Hogue PhD, et al, “Answering Questions About Long-Term Outcomes” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 257.
- Nada Stotland, MD, American Psychiatric Association Press Release, 2008.
- Brenda Major, PhD, et al, Report of the APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/mental-health-abortion-report.pdf (2008) 87.
- Ibid, 88.
- Carol J. Rowland Hogue PhD, et al, “Answering Questions About Long-Term Outcomes” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 253.
- Brenda Major, PhD, et al, Report of the APA Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion http://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/mental-health-abortion-report.pdf (2008) 88.
- Ibid, 92.
- Ibid, 90.
- Maureen Paul MD, MPH, “Preface,” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), xv.
- Carol J. Rowland Hogue PhD, et al, “Answering Questions About Long-Term Outcomes” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 259.
- Ibid, 257.
- Bonnie Scott Jones, JD, and Jennifer Dalven, JD, “Abortion Law and Policy in the USA,” Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy. Ed. Paul, Lichtenberg, Borgatta, Grimes, Stubblefield and Creinin. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 39.
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this is all the preparation for the arrival of the Dajjal ( antichrist ) beware of him he is FAKE
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Not necessarily to erase religion from the minds of the masses, but to decieve the population into uniting under one religion in which the anti-christ is the object of worship. Remember that the anti-christ is supposed to memick the actions of christ to gain the trust of the masses. He would probably be the nicest guy in the world | <urn:uuid:8ca57f5a-9571-4e06-92f2-7c238cd73224> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread216468/pg15 | 2016-10-28T21:50:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00463-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931777 | 173 |
Gospel Lighthouse revival set
Gospel Lighthouse Worship Center at 4427 Buena Vista Rd. (Route 14) in Plainview has worship services at 10 a.m. on Sundays and 7 p.m. on Thursdays. Isaac Addington is the pastor (758-7401).
08.31.2011A testament to the power of prayer
At the age of 107, Mrs. Ruffin is doing well at Mizpah Nursing Home in Locust Hill. She’s found a remedy for the aches and pains that aging brings—prayer. “When I wake up and feel bad, I start to pray, and that old pain starts easing off and finally it’s gone,” said Mrs. Ruffin, who has leg pains and keeps her legs elevated.
08.24.2011Rescuer in need
You may already know him. If you have been in an auto accident, suffered a stroke or heart attack, you may have been ministered to by this man. He may have been the paramedic who started an IV in your arm on the way to the hospital, gave you life-saving medications for a heart attack, or done CPR.
08.24.2011Mannen to address Unitarians
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UPDATED 22 JANUARY: Hasselblad has confirmed it has appointed a new CEO to replace Dr Larry Hansen, the man who oversaw the launch of the firmu2019s first Lunar compact system camera, developed in a tie-up with Sony.
Hasselblad CEO and chairman Dr Larry Hansen with an early version of the Lunar camera at the Photokina show in Cologne in 2012 [picture credit: C. Cheesman]
Dr Hansen has been replaced by new CEO Ian Rawcliffe who previously served as Hasselblad’s chief operating officer.
A UK spokeswoman told AP that Dr Hansen no longer works for Hasselblad
but refused to comment further on the change of leadership.
The change took effect before Christmas but was not made public by Hasselblad’s UK office.
Dr Hansen was appointed CEO in 2009. His role combined CEO and chairman responsibilities, but there is no word on any new chairman.
He is still listed as CEO on the Hasselblad website.
Meanwhile, the Sweden-based firm today unveiled its first 50MP medium-format camera to feature CMOS technology.
The H5D-50c is due to go on sale in March at a price yet to be announced.
Hasselblad product manager Ove Bengtson said: ‘This pioneering 50 megapixel CMOS sensor-camera is based on our H5D-50 model but will offer a faster capture rate, longer shutter speed capability and much greater ISO performance.’
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Our son Innocent died at the age of 12 weeks, five days in the womb. He was our sixth child and our first miscarriage. I, unconventionally, left a window open into my grief and shared that with my blog readers. All of the posts about my pregnancy with him and then the ensuing miscarriage are collected here.
Died: 12 weeks, 5 days
(unsure of date – commemorating on March 31st,
the feast of St. Innocent)
Born: April 10, 2011
Buried: April 13, 2011
(Update 7/12/2014 – I have added photos at the bottom of the page.)
We’re so thrilled to announce the upcoming addition to our family!
I’m 13+ weeks now and we’re hoping baby comes not too long after the end of September.
Please keep us in your prayers!
I didn’t mention yesterday, but bucking our five-in-a-row trend, we’re going to do our level best to have this one at home with a midwife. I have to say that I’m really looking forward to this! Please pray that I don’t develop any complications that would rule this out as an option.
And thank you everyone for your prayers!
I found out today that I lost the baby about a week ago. They weren’t able to find a heartbeat at my appt on Tuesday, I had an ultrasound yesterday, and they told me today. I haven’t had any physical signs. I’m planning medical rather than surgical management so we will be able to have a funeral. Please keep us in your prayers.
Obviously, we are very upset. I hesitate to say devastated, because that implies that we have no hope. That’s not the case.
Our child will not ever draw breath, but will never suffer either. It occurs to me that at this point, he or she has grown beyond us. We are still here on Earth, suffering, sinning, muddling along, full of anxieties and cares. Our child has seen the face of God. For the last three months I prayed for this child, more intensely in the last few days. I will continue to do so, but now I can also ask for the prayers of my child.
It will be a long, hard road, but we’ll survive in the end, as have multitudes before us. I hope by the time I’m laying flowers on the grave I will have grown enough to sing:
Christ is risen from the dead
trampling down death by death;
and upon those in the tombs
Physical pain is so much easier to bear. I wish I were in some.
There’s nothing to distract me. This may be the first time I’ve been unable to pick up a book.
I’m waiting. Waiting for this body to finish its job. Only God can sustain me.
When I woke up crying in the middle of the night Father comforted me. He gently pointed out that I shouldn’t think about something suddenly happening some days ago; I had been oh so much more sick with this pregnancy than any other; it was different from the beginning. I know that falls in the “meant to be” category of non-comforting things to say, and I suppose it would be coming from anyone else, but not from my husband and best friend.
We’re both trying to resist the intrusive thoughts of “what did I do wrong?”. I’m fighting the thoughts that I’m a failure. There’s definitely a spiritual war afoot.
My eyes ache, my head aches, my heart aches. I finally fed this betraying and betrayed body after 11 last night. I hadn’t eaten anything since Wednesday. After I nearly passed out I confessed to Father that I felt like I couldn’t “reward” a traitorous body by feeding it. I finally ate, telling myself with each bite, “this is for my husband and children.”
Keep praying for us. Even if I don’t answer back, I appreciate every comment and e-mail.
Prayer After a Miscarriage
O Sovereign Master, Lord our God, Who was born of the all-pure Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, and as an infant was laid in a manger: do You Yourself, according to Your great mercy, have regard for this Your servant who has miscarried that which was conceived in her. Heal her suffering, granting to her, O Loving Lord, health and strength of body and soul. Guard her with a shining Angel from every assault of sickness and weakness and all inward torment. You who accept the innocence of infancy in Your Kingdom, comfort the mind of Your servant and bring her peace. Amen.
This is a very cowardly thing, but I’m experiencing anxiety during this time of waiting over what to expect. Most of what I can read about people’s experiences of miscarrying (eventually) involve babies around 6 weeks gestation which is not completely helpful. The doctor was initially pushing for a D&C but I’m not going to do that unless it becomes an emergency. I’ve more or less lost all physical symptoms of pregnancy and am both worrying over how long this will take and what to expect when it finally does.
If you would, if you have any advice to offer (especially if you or someone you know lost a baby at around 12-13 weeks gestation), please e-mail me rather than leaving a comment. I’m not sensitive to graphic details and would prefer a more concrete description over a vague one, but I don’t think it would be appropriate publicly. My e-mail is linked in my profile.
And thank you everyone for your prayers and love.
I’m so lonely this morning. I just couldn’t face anyone yet so I’m home from Liturgy with Pickles. He’s having a fine time watching Bugs Bunny. I forced down some breakfast. Yesterday I worked my way up to two meals. Maybe I can do it again today. I’ve lost five or six pounds.
There’s no guide book on how to do this. I’m not pregnant, but I’m still carrying the baby. I’m no longer nauseated, no longer dizzy, but I still have to get up to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Sometimes I’m fine. Sometimes I can be brave. Sometimes I fall to pieces.
I think the one thing I haven’t asked is “why?” For one thing, I’m not going to know why. Not in this life, anyway. For another, it won’t bring anyone back. I’m not angry at God – I know this is not divine retribution for something or just malice. I know that the only thing I’m surviving on is his grace right now. I’m ashamed to admit though, that the afternoon we found out, after I was alone in the house (Father went to pick up the children), I clutched my belly and shouted, “How could you leave me!?” I felt bad immediately and whispered, “I’m sorry, Mommy didn’t mean it.”
Mommy would have done anything.
|9 weeks 2 days. The only baby picture I have…
I don’t feel up to posting anything very lengthy today. But to answer some inquiring e-mails in one go…
I saw the doctor this morning – was there over 2 hours. One of the hardest things was being surrounded by pregnant patients, baby and belly pictures and having to listen to the patient education channel turned to pregnancy care. Another hard thing was having two staff members (lab tech and the doctor’s nurse) not realize why I was there and I had to tell them.* One result of the lengthy wait was being assaulted by thoughts of “maybe the ultrasound was wrong…” I had to fight back. The Jesus prayer helped.
The doctor (as I was afraid of) assumed we’d be doing a D&C later this week. He was going to examine me, do an ultrasound (routine) and then schedule surgery. I said that I would prefer to do expectant management. He didn’t feel like this was the best idea but was willing to wait, do and ultrasound on Thursday instead and revisit it then. Apparently misoprostol is out of the question at this gestation at this hospital. He said that yes, they can get away with that sort of thing at UAB, but not out in the sticks. Lest I be giving you the wrong impression, he was very nice. I’m just summing up.
The exam showed a completely closed cervix. This was very discouraging because it’s got to start softening at some point before I can miscarry. How likely is it that something will happen before Thursday? (Not very likely) Father’s worried that I’m being strong-armed into a D&C against my wishes. I admit it is hard to have a calm, rational and objective conversation when you’re by yourself and have been subjected to almost two hours of baby, baby, baby, baby. I don’t know how to fix this for Thursday because I can’t imagine I’ll be in much better shape. Especially after seeing the baby on ultrasound. (By the way, I plan to ask for pictures from this ultrasound unless there has been significant physical change from last week. In that case I’ll try to get them from the hospital.) God knows.
If God wants me to birth this baby by myself then he’s fully capable of getting it started before Thursday. I’m going to pray, calm down and wait and see. Father is fully supportive of whatever I want to do, but he wants to make sure I’m ok with it first.
I want to thank everyone for their prayers and love. This has been terribly difficult and is not over yet. I’m eating better and getting some sleep so don’t worry about that. Thankfully I have a hilarious four-year-old who makes me laugh even when I don’t want to. While we were home from church Sunday, I lay in bed for the most part and Pickles played. I was more grateful than suspicious that he was so quiet. He came in very excited and wanted me to come see the crane he had made. (This was not long before everyone got home.) This is what I saw when I walked into his room:
I laughed, took pictures, and left it for Father to take down when he got home. I have no earthly idea how my little engineer managed to do this.
*I don’t know why on earth they don’t tag the charts with something that says “LOSS” so this won’t happen. There’s a special tag we put on the door of fetal demise patients in the hospital just for this reason.
I’ve started some Vitamin C and some black cohosh. I’d have gotten blue cohosh and red raspberry leaf too but they weren’t available. I’ll consider ordering them if this has no effect. I’m keeping a careful record of what I’m taking and when and a fluid record too. I know the possible negative side effects and am being watchful. Anyone who has had any experience with these is free to comment on it.
Father has arranged to be able to go with me on Thursday and this is a great weight off my mind. It will be so helpful to have some support. My thinking right now is to wait, even for a good while, and avoid a D&C. I’m also going to question the misoprostol policy a little further. That isn’t making much sense.
I thank you for your continued prayers.
I can’t get off the roller coaster.
Last evening I got an email from my midwife in which, among other things, she asked if I were having another u/s just to make sure. She said that unfortunately the first one was probably correct, but since the dates were so close (baby measured 12wks 5days – I was 13wks 5days) she wanted to make sure.
Needless to say, I couldn’t take any more herbs after that. Even though there’s not really any chance I was misdiagnosed. Doing something proactive had helped because I am a doer rather than a waiter. It kept me calm and also helped along the acceptance that the baby died. Now, not taking the herbs is reinforcing any random hopes that the baby may not be dead. There isn’t any hope. But intrusive thoughts, the kind you have to fight off, are going to keep coming until the ultrasound on Thursday. In a way, the ultrasound will be a relief because it will lay aside those baseless hopes once and for all. (In another way it will be hell on earth, but that I don’t have to explain…) I keep trying to remind myself that the ultrasound on Thursday has one purpose (for me anyway): to see the baby and get pictures. That’s it.
It’s so ridiculous that I keep wailing in my head that it’s not fair the demons are tormenting me with false hopes! Since when do they have my best interests at heart? Fair? Sigh. Hopefully after Thursday they’ll be easier to ignore. Father reminded me that I’ll certainly still be tormented, but I told him that I’m being tormented by other thoughts anyway, might as well get rid of these at least.
I wish I didn’t have to wait until Thursday…
On the feast of St. Innocent
(March 31st) we found out our baby had departed this earthly life. There is a hole in my heart that in this life will not be filled.
We’re not sure what the actual date of death was, but it must have been about a week before (at 12 weeks). Given the early date, we are unable to find out for sure if the baby was a boy or girl. My feeling was that he was a boy, but of course, this is not certain.
St. Innocent has an alternate feast day of October 6th. Amazingly, this is about the time when we thought our child would most likely be born, since I’ve never yet delivered before the due date (which in this case was September 30th). It is also my birthday. Since Pickles and Father share a birthday, I was surprised and pleased that I and this child might share one too. This was not to be.
Given all of the above, it seems most appropriate to name our child Innocent. If we’re wrong and this is actually Innocence instead of Innocent, then I’ll just explain that Mommy always was a bad speller. In any event, St. Innocent will be his patron.
Here are the pictures of our little Innocent:
It was a joy to see him today. Thanks to friends who kept the children, Father and I were able to be together and share this time with our son. Father noted that he looked so peaceful and the tech noted that he looked like he was sleeping on his little back. I just smiled and called him sweetheart.
Thanks to everyone who prayed that this would be a peaceful experience for us. It was.
[Medically updating, I’m in fine health and we’ve set a date of April 19th (Poor Ribby – her birthday – but we’ll celebrate during Bright Week) for the D&C unless something has intervened before then. I will have recovered enough to attend the services for the rest of Holy Week and Pascha.]
You know, it’s funny. I’m still kind of amazed that my reaction to seeing Innocent on the ultrasound monitor wasn’t hideous grief, but happiness. I just took in his little form, smiling, reveling in my love for him. The only thing I can compare it to is this: I’ve heard/read accounts of women who gave birth to babies with major anomalies like anencephaly. Prior to delivery they had almost all been scared of seeing their children, worried at their reactions to what wouldn’t look so pretty (and which was also either immediately or ultimately fatal). Almost to a woman, they had all instantly loved and delighted in their babies, noting how beautiful they were. Just like this, seeing the all too still shape of my baby on the monitor was something I had worried would hurt me to the core, something that would be terrible and come back to haunt me later. As you read yesterday, I had the total opposite reaction. All I could think was of how beautiful he was, how much I loved him and how grateful I was for the chance to see him and that Father was there holding my hand, seeing him too.
Compared to the perfection of God, we too must look deformed, ugly, dead. But God loves us even more than I love Innocent. Comparing God’s love for us to a parent’s love for their child seems more appropriate to me than ever.
I am so sorry, but I’m going to have to stop blogging for a while. So many of you feel like family to me and it has been such a consolation to have you around during this terrible time. I’ve also been encouraged by the surprising number of people who have gained consolation themselves by reading what I had written.
However, although I am feeling some measure of peace over Innocent’s death, I am still “in the middle” of everything, still carrying his body within mine. Thus I am more vulnerable than usual.
Wednesday I received a very cruel letter, deliberately mean, about my reaction to Innocent’s death. The writer thought it was unacceptable that I had not “gotten over it” yet and thought it was inappropriate for me to be sharing of myself publicly. They even questioned my motives for being pregnant in the first place.
So as to protect myself for a while, I will not be blogging. I am still available by email and would love to hear from any of you. I am not saying goodbye forever, just until I am strong enough to stand up for myself again.
Innocent (and he was indeed a boy) was born into my hands last night about 12:30. I’m recovering well. Thank you for all of your prayers.
|About 4 x 8 inches. Just right.
With the saints give rest, O Christ,
to the soul of Thy servant
where sickness and sorrow are no more,
neither sighing, but life everlasting.
*Thank you, Amanda, for taking the pictures.
Thank you to all the people who have offered prayers and love over the past few weeks. I don’t know what I would have done without it. I’m still taking comfort in reading (and sometimes rereading) e-mails and comments. Sometimes the pain seems unbearable and sometimes I find peace and take comfort in the knowledge that I did everything for Innocent that I could. Now all I can do is pray and ask for his prayers. Surely he would help his mother!
This has been the strangest, hardest and most meaningful Lent I will have ever gotten through. Tomorrow is Lazarus Saturday. I admit, although I know the story, most of the time I just think about how much I wish we were permitted pizza rather than caviar to celebrate the feast. A few days ago I was looking at pictures of Innocent and suddenly the words “four days in the tomb” floated through my head. I stopped. That’s Lazarus, I thought, and realized this Saturday is Lazarus Saturday. (Time hasn’t had much meaning lately so I keep forgetting what day it is.) Then it hit me: counting Wednesday as day one, by this Saturday Innocent will have been four days in the tomb. I have never so closely identified with Martha and Mary until that moment. Like Mary I want to cry, “Lord, if you had been here Innocent had not died.”
There are so many “coincidences” surrounding Innocent’s life and death. We found out he had died on the first feast of St. Innocent. He was due on the second feast of St. Innocent. We buried him on the old-calendar feast of St. Innocent. Like Lazarus, he will have been in the tomb four days tomorrow. I can’t help thinking, where is the Lord? When is my Pascha coming? Will it always be Holy Friday?
Pascha, the Pascha, came almost 2,000 years ago. Lazarus died before Pascha and so was in Hades during those four days. I believe Innocent, on the other hand, was translated from my bodily embrace to that of our Father’s without pause. It is always Pascha in Heaven.
Innocent’s soul is alive. His body will be restored to him in a perfected state on the day of the General Resurrection. “Lazarus, come forth from the tomb,” will be heard again. But then the Vanquisher of death will also cry “Innocent, come forth from the tomb.”
Troparion for Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday
By raising Lazarus from the dead before Thy passion,
Thou didst confirm the universal resurrection, O Christ God.
Like the children with the palms of victory,
We cry out to Thee, O Vanquisher of death,
Hosanna in the highest!
Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” [John 11:25-26]
(from the Gospel for Lazarus Saturday)
This morning was not good. I had a bad night last night. Sleeplessness, a physiological relapse frighteningly reminiscent of the original miscarriage, pain and nightmares. I woke early despite all of this and decided to read until the house woke up. Sadly, the non-fiction book on the nightstand, the only one in the stack I hadn’t finished (I’ve been doing a book a night trying to fall asleep.), was rather depressing.
The last few days I’ve felt fairly “ok” due in large part to realizing the difference between despair and grief. Grief is ok, despair is not. Staying in the here and now and not going off into useless fantasies about “what will never be” or “what might have been” keeps me on the road of grief and out of the pit of despair. The intrusive thoughts that try to start one of those fantasies do not originate in my own head. The raging unseen warfare around here has been vicious. Turning from them immediately is the only way out. They are impossible to fight directly. Recognizing them for what they are, turning from them and refusing to feel guilt for doing so has been fairly successful and has resulted in those few “ok” days.
The Orthodox readers know what happens when the demons realize you’ve figured them out on one front: they switch tactics. Hence, the nightmares and the half-waking anguish in the middle of the night. This morning I descended into despair. How could I fight the war on so many fronts? The actual grief, the depression from the big hormone drop, the huge work of getting a large family through Holy Week, and now night-time battles with invisible foes.
Skip to a little later with Father putting me back to bed to cry it out. I clutched the washcloth (handkerchiefs are almost useless for crying that hard) and stared at the wall. I felt my empty wrist, the constant reminder of the loss of my prayer rope two weeks ago. I had been in such a fog that I had no idea where I might have put it. Its loss had been excruciating but I was holding out on getting a replacement. You do get attached to things like prayer ropes. Looking all over had yielded nothing. The despair was palpable. I wanted to pray, but there was nothing there. All I could get out was help me God. ‘Deliver me from my enemies for they are stronger than I.’ (Ps. 142:6)
Father came in and I said something about the missing rope. He asked if I’d looked by the nightstand. I had, in fact, and had turned up some surprising things, but no prayer rope. Then, it hit me out of nowhere: it’s on the opposite side where all of the sewing and crocheting things are kept. Father moved everything. It wasn’t there. He left the room momentarily. I felt it again. I knew it was there. Then the thought came: it’s in the red bag (a rather large one full of yarn). I sat up, pulled out of it three plastic bags with yarn…
and there it was.
Holding it, I felt immediately that I had not in fact been abandoned by God. That he could help me find a little, insignificant, dime-a-dozen prayer rope, right now, when I needed love and assurance the most, seemed incredible.
I think I will be ok this week.
And upon those in the tombs…
We went out to Innocent’s grave this afternoon. I had an Easter lily I wanted to plant and also I just hadn’t been out there since the burial. Father had assured me as we had driven away that I could go back any time I wanted. It’s just been too soon. But, it being Pascha, we wanted to plant the lily and sing “Christ is Risen”.
It was easier this time. After we planted the lily (and boy, were there some big roots to get through) I watered it and we all sang “Christ is Risen”. I had trouble getting it out the third time. The children went off to look at the other graves. Father and I just stood there for a few minutes. I said how much I missed him. Father reminded me that he was much better now than we were. “Thy resurrection O Christ our Saviour, the angels in heaven sing…” he pointed out. I said I still thought he might like to hear his family sing to him too. Father’s right though. But so am I. (c: I think he would like to hear us singing.
Before we left, I put a flower on his grave that had been on the Lord’s tomb. It was fitting.
I finally finished writing and posting Innocent’s birth stories on “Lost Innocents
“. I posted the general story under “Your Stories
” and the more graphic medical version under “Natural Miscarriage
“. I’m glad I took the time to write them out. I feel like it would be rather distressing at some later date to only have vague memories.
How am I doing?
What can I say? I’m both ok and flattened. I don’t exactly have good days and bad days, I have good hours and bad hours. I’m eating normally now – for the first time – and gained back one pound (not that I needed it but it’s not surprising when you lose a lot very quickly). I’m sleeping mostly without nightmares. I can get through church services without crying. I can go to the store. I’ve developed a thick skin as concerns baby items in the stores; my eye slides over them and I deliberately look away and think of something else. I don’t think I would be able to be in the same room with a young baby however. It hasn’t happened yet, but I don’t think it will be good. I don’t want to look at pictures of newborns with rare exceptions. We were able to restart homeschooling yesterday after I spent several hours on Tuesday catching up with lesson plans.
Working on Lost Innocents has been both difficult and cathartic: difficult when I must read the story of someone else’s miscarriage in the course of researching material for it, cathartic when I think I may be helping someone. I’ve had huge doubts about the wisdom of continuing it. I hate the thought of reinventing the wheel. I’m trying to remember that the whole point was to gather important things together in one safe place that was Orthodox, not evangelical protestant, pagan, secular, new age, etc. It wasn’t going to include poetry or pictures of daisies and sunsets, but give more practical yet comforting help. I hope I’m managing (slowly) to accomplish this.
I’m trying to find my footing mentally. I have to remember to ward off intrusive thoughts – I try to keep my prayer rope with me all the time. The temptation to guilt is sometimes overwhelming. I have to keep reminding myself that Innocent didn’t ‘fall out’, he died – all on his own – and I even kept carrying him for at least three weeks afterward. I find myself berating myself for not having held onto him tight enough so that he ‘fell out’. It’s a constant battle. Prayer, prayer, prayer. At the same time, hearing someone say something like, “It was God’s will,” drives me up a wall. God didn’t make us for death! He made us for life – but all of created existence is fallen now and death and sickness is a part of that. The icon of the resurrection depicting Christ literally yanking Adam and Eve from their tombs while standing on the broken gates of hell is comforting to me.
There is the obvious unspoken thought on a lot of people’s minds: are we going to ‘try again’. Well, either God blesses us with another child or he doesn’t. I’ll be honest and say that I pray he does, but I’m trying to keep that from being the focus of my existence right now. That will horrify a lot of people, but there is one thing I’ve learned during this whole tragedy: I’ve learned not to care what other people think, but only what God wants.
Keep us in your prayers. I appreciate the people who have “checked in” over the past week or two, even in the midst of Holy Week and Pascha. This is a lonely place to be and it’s easy to feel forgotten after the first horrifying days. That, of course, would be my fault and not anyone else’s, but I told myself at some point that I would keep this blog honest while avoiding scandal, and admitting that is the truth.
Holy Father Innocent pray to God for us!
Today is the fortieth day since we found out we lost you. It’s only been thirty days since you were born, but we’ve decided that March 31st, the feast of St. Innocent, will be the day we commemorate you. I can’t believe it’s already been this long.
Papa has your icon on the altar. You may have completed your forty days, but your icon hasn’t! As soon as it’s blessed we will bring it home and hang it in the icon corner with the icons of your brothers and sisters. Right now, your spot looks so empty.
I’m looking for a stone to put on your grave. Jonah made you a beautiful hand-carved cross out of cedar – it’s lovely – but I also want to have something with your name on it. Your name is important. I realized how much it was needed the last time we were at your grave site. We had planted a lily by your grave on Pascha and sang “Christ is risen” to you. I’m sure you were singing with us from Heaven.
I hope I will soon find some form of scrap book that will work for your memory book. I have everything saved. I wanted it to be more than photographs since we don’t have many of those. We do have your ultrasound pictures, even if they were taken after you died. I saved all of the cards and letters. I have the ribbon that was around the flowers I put on your grave the day we buried you. I have a piece of the pale blue fleece in which you were wrapped and some of the same ribbon that tied it. I have the same yarn from which I made your blanket; I’m going to crochet a tiny square to include. I am also going to include the service booklet Papa made for your burial.
I lit a candle for you yesterday by the icon of the Theotokos. It being Mother’s Day, I asked her to take care of you in Heaven since I couldn’t. I was happy to have your brothers and sisters around, but I wished you had been here with us too.
We miss you so much, sweetie. I go back every few days and look at all of your pictures and remember how beautiful you were. We will always pray for you as I hope you pray for us.
with love always,
P. S. We just got back from your grave. We sang the prayers and “Memory Eternal” for you. I was so surprised that the lily we planted (and haven’t watered since Pascha) was still green and flourishing. The blossoms were gone, of course, but the weather has been dry and it is amazing that the lily was in such good shape.
I took some things up to the attic today. Ho hum. Except that when I got up to the top of the ladder there were the three, clear-sided totes full of baby things. I had deliberately put them near the ladder because by the time I needed to get them I wouldn’t be in any shape to climb around in the attic.
I conquered that hill and started doing the stuff I went up there for in the first place. Except that when I was about 20 minutes into it, in the course of moving some things around I knocked the top tote off and it crashed down the ladder (no one was hurt).
When I finished what I was doing, I climbed down the ladder. Baby boy things were scattered from hither to yon. I started picking them up, shaking them off and folding them back into the tote. It was torture. All infant clothes, all for boys. Hats, sweaters, onesies, sleepers, pants, socks, bunny slippers, shirts, nightgowns, booties, bibs…
I carried the tote back up the ladder and rearranged things so the totes weren’t in front. All I could tell myself was,
“Maybe I’ll be going through those things again this time next year.”
This is so comforting on days when I miss Innocent so much it hurts…
For the people of God, there is no such thing as distance, even if they be thousands of miles apart. However far away our fellow human beings may be, we must stand by them . . . . When Christ unites us, distances don’t exist. When I leave this life it will be better. I’ll be closer to you.
– Elder Porphyrios (+1991). From Wounded by Love
(h/t Seeking the Kingdom, entire post here
Today is the midfeast of Pentecost.
Halfway to Pentecost.
There is another halfway…
I would have been 20 weeks pregnant now.
I would have felt him kick.
He could have heard my voice.
I wouldn’t have had to get the non-elastic waisted skirts back out to wear.
I wouldn’t be looking at pregnancy loss sites daily.
I wouldn’t be looking for a stone to put on his grave with his name on it.
I wouldn’t understand the pain so many people have experienced.
I wouldn’t even know if he were a boy or girl.
I would be looking at pictures my husband took of my belly.
Not pictures of myself crouching beside his grave.
“Where your treasure is, there your heart is also.”
Part of my heart is in heaven.
But the rest of me is only
Crosses have been on my mind lately. The new cross I wear, wall crosses, crosses on baby ribbon for baptisms, crosses safety-pinned on baby’s clothes, crosses on graves, invisible crosses that we carry. We are surrounded by crosses and sometimes take them for granted.
Focusing on one specific cross, the cross that we wear, I would ask, why do we wear it? We’re given a cross at baptism and generally wear it for the rest of our lives (replacing as needed when baby yanks it off your neck). Is it a symbol of Christ? A sign to others that we’re Christians? A good-luck charm to keep accidents away? A pretty pendant?
When we were getting ready to bury Innocent, the morning of the burial
I came across a small gold cross with a broken loop at the top. It occurred to me to put it in the casket with him to be buried with. I wavered back and forth – wanting to because he never was baptised and didn’t have a cross but hating that the broken loop reminded me that his body was broken. In the end I didn’t put it in. We buried him and there is a beautiful carved cross marking his grave. That
cross is a symbol of the resurrection. One day Innocent’s body will be resurrected and joined with his soul.
So why didn’t I put the cross in the casket with him? Well, I looked again at why we give crosses at baptisms. These crosses remind us that we will carry the cross of Christ throughout our lives. “As many as have been baptised into Christ, have put on Christ, Alleluia.” We put on Christ when we wear the cross. We remember his suffering, death and resurrection, acknowledging that we too will suffer for and with Christ, will die and be resurrected with him. At baptism we are grafted onto the Church of Christ. We are given the tools to struggle to live an Orthodox life so that eventually we may enter the Kingdom of God.
So what of Innocent? He didn’t have to struggle. He didn’t have to fight the temptations and trials of this world. He received a card, “Go directly to Heaven. Do not pass birth. Do not collect troubles, fears and temptations.” He was born directly into the Heavenly Kingdom – he did not have to ‘put on Christ’, put on armour to fortify him for life in this fallen world. His path was not that of the cross.
This also helps me not to feel irrationally bad that he ‘didn’t get to be baptised’. Being baptised would not have put him into some higher level of Heaven when he died. For those who must live in this world, we need the church and its resources and tools (in the form of communion, confession, etc.) to help us. For those who will not live in this world, this is irrelevant. Their unblemished souls arrive in Heaven, no worse for the (lack of) wear and not stigmatized by the lack of baptism.
If you had a child who died before birth and thus was not baptised, do not despair. Your beautiful child is waiting for you in Heaven. And struggling to live on without them is now another golden cross around your neck. Be worthy of that cross!
This morning I happened to go to a post written by Melissa on her blog The Bufe Family. In the body of the post
she mentioned something remarkable:
“Another blogger, Jack
[go to the link to read more about this wo
rk], who lost his second child in March, also linked up with the project. He did something amazing from this. He read every single entry in that link up (160) and created this beautiful piece of artwork from it…”
I. Am. Floored.
Thank you, Jack, from the bottom of my heart.
(Innocent’s name and my words are outlined in red. Click to enlarge.)
My sweet Innocent,
It’s been four months since they told us you had died. It’s hard to believe you’ve been in Heaven now longer than you were in me. A third of a year. Has it been that long? It feels like yesterday.
I was looking at some photographs this afternoon, a general mish-mash, and there were some photos of your oldest sister on the day she was born. She was a good size, eight pounds, but looked so little. All new babies look so little to me. She had that brand-new look, slightly red. Then I came on a photo I didn’t even remember being taken. It was of Papa and me and your sister, all three together that day. Your sister had her fingers around one of Papa’s fingers. I looked at it and cried because we were so innocent then. We didn’t know what could happen, what would happen. I wish I’d been able to hold you like that, just for a day.
I lit a candle for you today. Actually, a few people lit candles for you today. I’m sure you already know. I asked the Mother of God to hold you for me.
I suppose there will be a time when the 30th of the month doesn’t remind me of your due date, the 31st doesn’t remind me of the day we found out and the 10th doesn’t remind me of the day you were born, but I have a feeling it’s going to be a long time coming. I think about you all the time. You would be seven months along now. So big. How much and how fast babies grow. Except you didn’t. Thank goodness I can remember your soul has no size.
I don’t have any photographs of you out because I’m afraid they will make people uncomfortable. You were really such a beautiful baby but because you were so small it scares some people. I also don’t have one really good picture of you, fully in focus, all of you, etc. I unearthed some good drawing pencils yesterday and resolved to draw a picture of you, using the photos together so I can get all the details. I still can’t believe I saw fingernails and tooth buds! You were so remarkable! Your tiny little ears were delightful.
Mommy loves you very much. One day…
Happy four-month birthday, dear Innocent.
What do you call the day someone is born, if they’ve already died?
I’m voting for birthday.
The day you were born was not the worst day of my life.
There was the happiness of finally getting to meet and hold you.
Photo of me holding my sweet boy on his birthday:
|I love you sweetheart.
Innocent’s Memory Box
|I got an unfinished memory box from Walmart and painted and sanded it.
|Most of it is antique white and I mixed a light blue for accent.
|A little rick-rack around the perimeter…
|I lined it with baby blue fleece and finished it with a little ribbon.
|I crocheted the square out of the same yarn I had made his blanket. The ribbon
and fleece are the same I used for his shroud.
|Inside are the cards we received and the burial service. I have yet to print
out the online notes we received and his birth story.
|There are two small photo albums containing all of his pictures including
his ultrasound pictures. I had the photos processed yesterday.
|Some grass from the field where he is buried.
|A honeysuckle blossom from the bouquet I put on his grave the day he
|The ribbon is from the bouquet. I retrieved it on Pascha when we took an
Easter lily out to plant behind the cross over his grave.
|At the moment it’s on the mantel.
“Nothing loved is ever lost…”
The earth will never be the same again.
Rock, water, tree, iron, share this grief
As distant stars participate in pain.
A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,
A dolphin death, O this particular loss
Is Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried,
If this small one was tossed away as dross,
The very galaxies then would have lied.
How shall we sing our love’s song now
In this strange land where all are born to die?
Each tree and leaf and star show how
The universe is part of this one cry
That every life is noted and is cherished
And nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
–Madeleine L’Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Finishing the Race
About nine months ago I started running a marathon. I’ve run several marathons and never had any problems. There was no indication that there would be any problems this time either. I was looking forward to it because it had been a few years since my last one. I was also planning to enjoy it because it was probably going to be my last one.
A few months into it I fell. I must have hit a loose stone but when I looked back I couldn’t see one. All I knew was that my ankle was sprained. The other runners were passing me by. I knew I had lost the race.
The problem was that this was a one-way marathon. I couldn’t go back to the starting line. I could only go forward, limping and in pain. I still had a little under six months to go.
There were times I sat down by the side of the road, watching a few runners confidently go past. Some of them bore scars from past marathons and gave some kind words of encouragement. Some of them were on their first race and didn’t want to look at me too closely unless they too fell. Eventually I would get up and keep moving toward the finish line.
I wished I didn’t have to finish the race. I wished I could just stop, but that was impossible. The road stretched out in front of me. The months and miles slid past. My ankle would hurt sometimes so badly I had to sit down and rest. Now I only wanted to get to the end.
I can almost see the line now. It’s only a week away. The other runners in front of me won, but I’m realizing there is a certain dignity in reaching the end, even without the prize. My ankle still hurts, but after the race I can rest it and it will get better. There will always be a scar, but the pain won’t be so bad.
This marathon will always exist in time, but there will be a relief in not having to be running it anymore. Only God knows if there are any more marathons in my future. We never know until we hear the starting gun.
Only one more week…
Letter to my son on his due date
My sweet Innocent,
What can I say today? You were officially due today, but your birthday was a long time ago. There was a time, not so very long ago, that I thought this day would be hell. I thought I’d be thinking of all the minute things I would be doing to get ready for your long-awaited appearance. Today hasn’t been like that (so far).
I realized the trap of living in a fantasy world, of always knowing “how far along I would be”, of keeping up with your projected development on charts. The reality was very different. I had to throw away a calendar on which I had marked the dates. You wouldn’t have been a decent 7 1/2 pounds, because that never existed. Your reality was smaller. I had to learn to completely embrace your reality instead of mourning over what wasn’t and what wasn’t to be.
Over the past weekend I came to some peace. I started feeling some gratitude as well as sorrow. I am grateful that God allowed you to be with me for as long as he did. I’m grateful for so many of my prayers being answered. For instance:
I wanted to deliver you at home, in water.
I didn’t want you taken away from me after birth.
I wanted to deliver you on my own, not have a surgeon take you out.
I hoped you would be delivered at night so the other children would be shielded from the worst of it.
I hoped and prayed your body would still be intact.
It was, and you were beautiful.
Yes, there were things I never got to experience with you. I can’t focus on that. The reality is that your body was born April 10th and your soul was born into Heaven sometime during the week before March 31st. You are my perfect child, a pure soul. Continue to pray for us, your parents, and your brothers and sisters. We love you so very much.
Notes from Heaven…
(via my sweet son Ginger, who swore he knew nothing about it…)
We were unable to do a panikhida (memorial service) yesterday because it was simply too busy, but we did one today. The feast of the glorification of St. Innocent was yesterday and it was also in honor of his due date. It was a beautiful day…
The wildflowers provided a beautiful bouquet.
I wanted to save something tangible for today so I’m pressing some of the flowers.
There was a yellow butterfly wandering around in these flowers when we got there, but it left before I could get a photo.
The entrance to the cemetery (only five people are there).
As I was shutting the gate, a bald eagle flew overhead.
need to take a break from blogging for a while. This has been a
terribly hard year, many ups and downs. It’s not going to be good for me
to look at everyone else’s pregnancy and baby news on their blogs
either. This hurt is running too deep for words.
appreciate all of your messages of support. They were and are needed and
I am very grateful. I hope you all understand my need for a time of
silence. This blog will not go away. At some point I’ll compile all of
Andrew’s posts into a page called “Andrew’s Story” to complement the one
about his brother.
Hug your children tonight. Call people you love. Thank God for your blessings.
I hope each and every one of you has a blessed Advent and Christmas.
|Ornaments from my friend Michelle
|Ornaments from my sister Rebecca
Oh, my sweet son. One year ago I was so happy. I had just announced to everyone that you were on the way. We had just cleared the first trimester. I just didn’t know you were already in Heaven at that point.
I miss you so much. You would have been such a big boy now had you lived. I try not to think about that too much.
We are going to have a memorial service at your grave this Saturday on your feastday. I hope the weather is nice. I’m going to have a nice bouquet ready for your cross. We’re going to take things to pull weeds and things to clean it up. Your little brother Andrew’s grave will need attention too.
I hope to see you one day. You and Andrew both, my youngest sons who are suddenly so far ahead of all of us in wisdom. We love you so very much. Please pray for all of us.
One year ago today we heard the fateful words, “I’m sorry, there was
no movement.” For me, the memory of this day holds not much more than
horror, disbelief, pain and grief. It is understandable. I’m looking
forward to Innocent’s first birthday on April 10th because the memory of
that day, while still holding a lot of grief, is nevertheless full of
blessings as well.
We sang the memorial service for
Innocent at his grave today. Jonah, who carved both cross markers for
the boys, returned and carved Innocent’s name on his. At the time he
originally carved it we didn’t realize we’d have another identical
marker next to it and so soon, and that it would be necessary to
differentiate between the two (Andrew’s name was carved on his at the
time it was made). We also planted some more Easter lilies. Happily, the
lily we planted last year behind his grave is already growing and has
multiplied. For many, many years, these lilies will bloom every spring
as a reminder of Christ’s resurrection.
housekeeping was needed. We trimmed the grass, cut a few briers and
removed a large ant colony which had formed completely around the
perimeter of Innocent’s grave stone. I sprinkled cayenne pepper all
around his grave and Andrew’s for good measure. I didn’t take photos of
that because it looks now as if we had used red-orange spray paint. It
will wear. We also washed off the wooden markers and the stones.
miss my little boy so much. I know he is well and happy in Heaven, but I
mourn the fact that I had so little time with him. One day, God
willing, we will meet again.
May the memory of the blessed Infant Innocent be eternal!
My dear Innocent,
Happy birthday! Your birthday into heaven has already happened and I
guess for you this day last year was rather anticlimactic, to say the
least. It was a little different for me, of course.
you departed this life, the only witnesses were the angels. I still
wonder what I was doing at that moment. It’s not profitable to
speculate. It would be nice to think I was thinking about you, but the
truth is I thought of you often. I prayed for you and loved you. You
were always safe and loved.
When we were told you were
already gone, there were witnesses: your father, two grim-faced nurses
and a pregnant doctor. There had already been dozens of witnesses in the
clinic to my pain, because I knew what was coming and couldn’t pretend I
didn’t. You were far from there, not sharing in our pain, which is a
comfort to me. That moment is one I would completely erase from my
memory if I could.
The night you were born, however,
the only witness was your mother. Your brothers and sisters were asleep,
Papa was in the next room listening out in case I needed help, the rest
of the world was unaware. But I was there, the only witness to your
birth. I can understand why someone who has not experienced the birth of
a child already departed would think this is crazy, but the truth that
the moment you first meet your baby is a magical one still holds, even
when the soul is gone. I was so relieved that your body was well
preserved, that you were so beautiful. You would have been beautiful to
me anyway, but at least it didn’t look like you had suffered.
moment when I laid eyes on you, time stood still. It was as if even the
angels held their breaths. I can’t even describe it. When your older
brothers and sisters were born there was always a commotion, always a
flurry of activity. They cried and kicked and I was in a haze of pain.
When you were born there was perfect silence. No movement. No bright
lights, shining instruments, no presence of strangers.
Just you and me and the angels.
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With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, millions of students in the United States are heading back to class at their respective colleges and universities.
And shortly thereafter, the Jewish students will be interrupting their study sessions, keg parties, football games by attending High Holidays services.
In that spirit, here is a list of which schools in North America have the most Jewish students and largest percentage of the student population that is Jewish.
A few takeaways:
- University of Florida, University of Central Florida, and University of Maryland have the highest total number of Jewish students, each topping over 5,000.
- The largest Jewish population at a school west of the Mississippi River is the University of Texas, University of Arizona, and UCLA, each topping over 3,000.
- The Big Ten Conference is the most Jewish athletic conference represented on the top 60 list, with Northwestern, Maryland (in 2014), Rutgers (in 2014), Penn State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio State, Illinois, and Michigan State, each with over 2,500 Jewish students.
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
Engels’ Critique of the “Magnificent City”
With technological innovations rising as quickly as the population, the Industrial Revolution not only symbolizes a period of expansion and advancement, but it also reflects the dramatic changes on the economic and social structure of England. Frederic Engels’ The Conditions of the Working Class of England discusses the binary effects of the Industrial Revolution by examining the progress and setbacks of the new England. Through analyzing the rhetorical elements employed in the writing, Engels suggests that the Industrial Revolution is both a humanitarian disaster as well as a necessary stage in human progress. Through analyzing the imagery, depictions, and descriptions in the comparison of the working area to the wealthy in Manchester, Engels depicts the advantages and disadvantages of the Industrial Revolution and how both contribute to dissonance in the social realm of England. Ultimately, through analyzing the distinctions and separations of geography described by not only the language, but also the structure of the writing, Engels claims that the developments in industry and commerce in the 19th century come with a price of separation: the union of the aristocrats divides the proletariat; the creation of the great towns leads to social inequity.In The Conditions of the Working Class of England, Engels utilizes rhetorical techniques of anaphora and rhetorical questioning to manifest the Industrial Revolution as having opposing effects of a humanitarian disaster and an essential change for England. In the opening paragraph to the chapter entitled The Great Towns, Engels claims that “Here [England] the manners and customs of the good old days have been most effectively destroyed. Here the very name of “Merry England” has long since been forgotten, because the inhabitants of the great manufacturing centers have never even heard from their grandparents what life was like in those days” (1565). By starting these two sequential sentences with the word “here,” there is a greater emphasis on how the changes resulting from the Industrial Revolution is impacting England. The breaking of old tradition strips England from its innate quality, customs, and manners, epitomized by the capitalization of the word Merry as now the name has disappeared. In addition, Engels uses phrases such as “the great manufacturing centers” and “most effectively destroyed,” to show the advantages and essentiality of the industrial developments. The anaphora then establishes a tone of opposition even though the two sentences begin with the same word. When Engels refers to the thousands of men and women coming from different social classes and ranks into one city of London, he questions, “Are they not all human beings with the same innate characteristics and potentialities? Are they not all equally interested in the pursuit of happiness? And do they not all aim at happiness by following similar methods?”(1566). In this knit of questions, Engels intertwines again the use of anaphora with the rhetorical questioning, causing a quickening in the pace of Engels arguments and establishing a tone of frustration. By starting the questions with the phrase “Are they not,” in the form of rhetorical questioning, Engels crescendos the unifying factors of society only to have it come crashing down into the simple statement that “they rush past each other as if they had nothing in common” (1566). Through the rhetorical techniques of anaphora and rhetorical questioning, Engels first affirms the unity of the people brought together as having the same innate characteristics, potentialities, and pursuit of happiness, only to exude a world of discord in the end, thereby showing how the Industrial Revolution can be deemed as a humanitarian disaster as well as a necessary stage in human progress.Because Manchester is deemed the “masterpiece of the Industrial Revolution and at the same time the mainspring of all the workers’ movement,” Engels utilizes clear descriptions with specific word choices and vivid delineations of the “classic home of English industry” to reveal the dissonance in the social realms of England (1567). Emphasizing the overpopulation of people and the limited size of the land, Engels delineates the working class distracts of Manchester as having houses that are “dirty, old, and tumble-down,” following a “policy of cramming as many houses as possible onto such spaces,” so “that today not an inch of space remains between the houses and any further building is now physically impossible” (1568-69). Engels also illustrates the lack of hygiene as “filth and garbage abounded” and dirty water is the only available means of washing. On the other hand, Engels paints a picture of the evolution of the modern system of manufacture with emphasis on the word “replace.” In a pattern of the new replacing the old, the “water and steam power first replaced hand machines;” “the power-loom and the self-acting mule replaced the old hand-loom and spinning wheel” (1567). Therefore, although technological developments have shaped England into an industry of modernity and efficiency in the clear portrayals of replacements, Engels does not allow his readers to stray from the image of degradation into which the working classes sink to. As factories and cities are created, Londoners are forced to be packed into tiny spaces, consequentially leading to the brutal indifference with which they ignore their neighbors and selfishly concentrate upon their private effects” (1566). Therefore, even in Engels’ account of Manchester through imagery is there separation. Manchester is not only the “heart of industry in the United Kingdom,” but it also symbolizes a society of forced class relations (1567). As a result of creating corporate buildings and living spaces, street pavements and bridges, overpopulation and overcrowding of people and material object become a severe consequence.Lastly, by analyzing the clear-cut distinctions and separations in not only the geography of Manchester and the social classes through its language of paradox, but also the structure of the work, Engels shows that there is separation amongst the developments that are thought to unify differences. Juxtaposing the upper class with the proletariat, Engels reveals through the geographical setting, the upper class as living in “luxurious and comfortable dwellings which are linked to the center of Manchester by omnibuses…[and] can travel from their houses to their places of business in the center of the towns by the shortest routes, which run entirely through working-class districts” (1568). Not only is there a lack of convergence between the various social classes, but there is also a clear division of space in the geographical structure of the city. Similarly, playing with the language of paradox, Engel writes “the strongest of all, a tiny group of capitalists, monopolize everything, while the weakest, who are in the vast majority, succumb to the most abject poverty” (1566). How come the majority can overrule and/or overthrow the minority? While Manchester is indeed a “great town,” it is a place where one finds “the most barbarous indifference and selfish egotism “and “the most distressing scenes of misery and poverty” (1566). Not only has the Industrial Revolution led to a geographical construction that ostracizes the slums from the country side, but it has also created a social order in which class warfare is prevalent and inextinguishable. Ultimately, the structure of Engels’ work is unique in how it is laid out. Engels never seems to interlace the rich and the poor together in one paragraph, but rather writes in separated paragraphs descriptions of each class. For example, Engels lays out the structure and details of the wealthy aristocrats residing in the countryside in one paragraph, but introduces the proletariat in a separate paragraph, beginning with “I will now give a description of the working-class districts of Manchester” (1568). The clear separation of form, geography, and class structure shows that even though necessary progress and advancements have been made in a rapidly growing country, social conflicts and divisions have been created, the working-class have suffered tremendously through their toils and hardships. In the end, the comforts and luxuries of industry is solely associated and experienced by the gentry, but these privileges come at the cost of the working-class and an even more divided country.By examining the various rhetorical devices and formal elements utilized in Frederic Engels’s writing, The Conditions of the Working Class of England, one can see the binary effects created by the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution, marked by new developments and advancements in technology and machinery, strengthened the society as a whole in commerce and economics, but ultimately shattered the lives of the working-class. Written in the perspective of a person traveling through the streets of London, one can only see the price paid for the magnificence of the city if he endures a visit to the slums. 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Feb 17, 2012
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He explains that banks are under signifi- cant pressure to meet the more stringent liquidity and funding requirements of Basel 3, a global regulatory standard agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision members, of which South Africa is one.
“As banks become more selective in terms of financing, self-employed investors will need to seek alternative funding sources,” he says.
Further, Palmer points out that, as a result of the mounting pressure, banks are increasing their reliance on noninterest income as a source of earnings, shifting their focus from direct lending to growing trading income over the short term.
This trend is evident in an analysis of South Africa’s major banks conducted by global professional services firm Price- waterhouseCoopers and released in March last year, which revealed that noninterest income for the second quarter of 2010 was up 8.4% on that of the first quarter.
Noninterest income represented about 53.8% of total income across the four major banks, up from 53% in the first quarter of 2010.
Palmer notes that owner-managed companies, largely in the civil engineering and construction sectors, are likely to face challenges when securing funding from commercial banks.
“The engineering sector will battle to get funding from banks this year, because banks also consider the inconsistency of the sector, even if their relationship with the company has been a long one,” he adds.
However, Palmer highlights that, amid the challenging times, there are financing alternatives available to construction companies and engineers. “There are alternative lenders that are willing to provide financing for contracts and projects.
“We were recently approached by an engineering business to fund its potential growth. Given the new orders received by the business, we approved a financing facility within 36 hours,” he points out.
Palmer admits that more work needs to be put into creating awareness about nonbank lenders, so that companies have more options in securing financing for projects, as well as the sustainability of their businesses.
“Although we see the stringent criteria by banks to fund companies as a growth opportunity, we must continue to work hard to achieve the level of awareness that will help companies stay afloat and sustain our economy,” he says.
Further, he points out that there are differences between how commercial banks and alternative lenders assess financing applications.
“We look at a deal differently, [compared with] the bank. We look at future orders.”
Paragon Lending Solutions, which offers funding by securing property as collateral, says construction companies that are likely to experience greater financing challenges are those that do not have any security.
Meanwhile, Palmer stresses that keeping a company’s accounts and order book in order is key to securing funding.
“Bookkeeping is a skill that is sadly overlooked in many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures because business owners try to minimise expenditure on extras,” he says.
However, he emphasises that accurate and up-to-date financial information provides a potential lender with information on the security of a loan and, there- fore, should not be overlooked.
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They shot him nine times in the legs and torso.
Faraj* shows the ugly scars to prove it. A bullet in his knee can't be removed. His crime? He was a teacher in Syria; he spoke out publicly against the regime of Bashar al-Assad when anti-government protests began last year. Thousands have died for less -- on both sides -- in a civil war now reducing large parts of Syria to dust.
Faraj survived his wounds and escaped with his wife and five children to Jordan, where more than 250,000 Syrian refugees crowd towns and dirt-caked tents in desert camps along the border. The family occupies a few dingy rooms in one such town. Wet cardboard hangs from the leaky kitchen ceiling, where the night chill of oncoming winter seeps in. Faraj wants to work, but there are few jobs for Syrians in Jordan's already hard-pressed economy. No education, either -- many Syrian children have been out of school for nearly two years because of the war.
Faraj's 10-year-old daughter Aisha* sits beside him, bright-eyed and eager. She dreams of studying English, but remains at home while her father teaches her as best he can.
"Every day my daughter is crying to go to school, and no one listens to her," Faraj says. "Every day I go to the school near here, but they tell me to go away and they will call."
No call comes. The schools are full -- reflecting how Jordan is straining under the load of refugees fleeing regional conflicts from Iraq to Libya.
But Faraj has new hope. A Sunni Muslim, he was welcomed to the area by Jordanian Christians at a local church. They helped his family find shelter and brought them food, a fan and a refrigerator. And they treated him like a human being -- a friend, even. They also gave him a Bible, which he now reads with growing interest because of what it contains: truth.
"It doesn't lie," he says, with an expression of near-amazement. "And Christian people are honest. They don't lie. This is what interests me."
Could he ever forgive those who tried to kill him? "Yes, I might," he answers. "Because I am reading the Injil [New Testament] every day, and I am seeing many things in it about forgiveness, love and peace. These are things I want to have."
Someone Who Cares
More and more, such epiphanies are occurring among the overwhelmingly Muslim refugees streaming by the hundreds of thousands across Syria's borders into neighboring countries. Several million more have become wanderers in their own country as the war spreads. Terrified, exhausted and angry, they need the most basic necessities. But they also need someone who cares.
Many are mothers with children. Their husbands are fighting back home -- or dead.
"I see precious women who love their children just like I love my children," says Christine Andrews*, a Christian worker in Jordan. "Just think how you would feel if you had to leave your home in the middle of the night because someone was burning it down. You had to run with your children and escape with your life and the clothes on your back. You had to leave everything behind and you don't know what's going to be there when you get back. This is what a lot of these women are looking at. They don't know what their future holds. There's a lot of fear and anger -- and deep sadness. If we can give them Jesus and a relationship with the Lord who holds their future in His hands, that would give them hope."
Munif*, a Jordanian Christian pastor who initiated much of the refugee ministry now flourishing on the border, aims to do just that. As Syrian families began to crowd into his town and the surrounding villages last year looking for basic shelter, he and his congregation refused to look the other way.
They didn't have much to give, but "we couldn't see people in need and not act if we could do anything," he recounts. "This is our message as Christians, not just to stay inside the church, but to go to the people and help them -- and now there's a big chance."
The small-scale ministry began with aid to about 40 Syrian families but has grown into the hundreds as refugees continue to flood the area. Munif and his helpers -- who now include Christian workers and aid groups from Jordan and beyond -- visit families, deliver food and provide other necessities, such as diapers and personal hygiene items. As winter approaches, the need for blankets, carpets, gas heaters and warm clothes grows urgent.
The priority on visiting families where they live, however, serves a greater purpose than just distributing aid supplies. It expresses love.
"We have a lot of volunteers and teams helping these days, especially in the area of visiting people in their houses, sharing life with them, eating with them, drinking tea, listening to them, speaking to them, hugging them," Munif explains. "By this we respect and honor them."
Hospitality means everything in Arab culture, and being visited in their homes, however sparse those homes may be, gives traumatized Syrians "a sense of normalcy," says Josh Andrews*, a Christian worker actively involved in the ministry. "They're happy to make tea."
It also opens unseen doors into hearts and lives.
"We're having the opportunity to share the Gospel clearly, boldly, just about every time we go into a house," reports Jack Logan*, another worker in Jordan. "It's amazing. It takes a while for the veneer to go down ... but when you start to speak about Christ, get into the Word and ask, 'Can I tell you a story?' the answer is almost always an enthusiastic yes."
Josh Andrews adds: "We can't visit every family, but we're taking one day at a time and honoring God in our actions. We're praying this is God's time [for Syrians]. They're open to hear. How do we get God's Word into their heads? That's all we need to do. God does the rest. We're expecting to see people come to Christ, form groups and, when Syrians begin to go back into their country, take this message with them and grow it from the inside."
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At last! Britain is heaving a sigh of relief today after the trauma and political bloodbath which has followed the Brexit referendum. We actually have a prime minister, and she is a woman. Theresa May, the 59-year-old former home secretary, has the long-service reputation of being a solid, discreet, and trustworthy stateswoman. Amongst all the dreaded economic and socially divisive uncertainty surrounding the impending exit from the European Union, this positive can be salvaged: A serious woman is in charge. And, raising a hope that her policies will back the British fashion industry, this is also a woman who seriously likes clothes.
Making her first speech to the nation outside 10 Downing Street this afternoon, Mrs. May stood in her favorite kitten-heel L.K.Bennett leopard-spot shoes, long a signature of hers, and a navy and lime coat by Amanda Wakeley. When she made her pitch to contest the Conservative Party leadership—her best line was “I am Theresa May”—she delivered it wearing a Vivienne Westwood black watch tartan trouser suit, as well cut as her words.
This is some consolation for the loss of Samantha Cameron, who—whether you agreed with her husband David Cameron’s politics or not— has been British fashion’s most staunch ally in 10 Downing Street history. Since her husband was named Prime Minister in 2010 “Sam Cam,” as she came to be known, stepped up to the plate of promoting British fashion as Michelle Obama did for the American industry. That represented a cultural and generational breakthrough in British establishment attitudes toward designer fashion, long regarded as no-go territory for political wives.
She fulfilled her role as an ambassador for the British Fashion Council to the hilt, regularly hosting London Fashion Week receptions at 10 Downing Street for international buyers and press to meet and mingle with designers from the youngest emerging talents to the most established. Looking back, her bright, diplomatic wearing of so many designers’ work—Erdem, Peter Pilotto, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi, Emilia Wickstead, Alessandra Rich, Burberry, Christopher Kane, Nicholas Kirkwood, and Jonathan Saunders amongst them—will be seen as her contribution to an era during which London fashion has climbed to unprecedented success.
Creativity, clothes, and international credibility have all worked together to produce a flourishing generation of designers who add to British employment and exports and pay taxes to support the country’s economy. Many of them, it should be noted, are European nationals, who studied in the U.K. and have stayed as an invaluable asset to businesses in Britain. Samantha Cameron did her bit when those rules were unquestioned. Now the baton passes to Mrs. May to use her much greater power to make sure her country’s fashion future is secure. Perhaps she gets it. After all, when asked on the popular radio show Desert Island Discs what one luxury she’d take with her, our new prime minister chose, “A lifetime subscription to Vogue.” | <urn:uuid:c3694c10-0b71-4ed6-9b71-2af8d4bb3542> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.vogue.com/article/britain-new-prime-minister-theresa-may-fashion | 2020-01-29T22:08:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251802249.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129194333-20200129223333-00120.warc.gz | en | 0.965911 | 631 |
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I'm no fan of revisiting the past, no matter how glorious it might have been, but the amen break has an ineffable quality that'll keep drawing me back to jungle until the day I die. Don't get the idea that "Clarion Call" is some sort of quaint nostalgia jaunt though. Homemade Weapons have loaded eight armour-piercing bullets into the chamber and they ain't prepared to let bygones be bygones. Amen to that.
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The follow up to the 2013 'Kintaro' EP for Samurai, Homemade Weapons returns with another freshly crafted collection of potent rhythms. From the alpha stepping dominance of Clarion Call, to the relentless amen juggernaut that is Mileena (MVP), we get another showcase of the Homemade Weapons stylish versatility and attention to intricate detail. Poised to launch his own 'Weaponry' imprint, the 'Clarion Call' EP arrives as a statement of intent as well as being another 8 tracks of essential crate fillers.
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Information systems (computing networks and databases) that enable essential services (such as energy, transport, banking and healthcare), businesses and the internet to function are increasingly being faced with malicious cyberattacks, which could potentially lead to security incidents and disruption of essential services. The border-less nature of the internet means that an incident within one Member State can rapidly have a knock-on effect throughout Europe. Hence, an EU-wide cybersecurity solution was proposed by the Commission in 2013, as part of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy.
Last week, negotiators of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission reached a consensus on the wording of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive. The Directive will set a common baseline level of mandatory cybersecurity measures and reporting of serious breaches to the national authorities, for essential service providers (i.e. businesses with an important role for society and economy) and providers of key digital services (such as search engines and cloud computing providers). This will improve the resilience of the network and information systems throughout Europe by increasing national cybersecurity capabilities (through adoption of a national NIS strategy), and co-operation on cybersecurity between Member States. A network of Computer Security Incident Response Teams (the CSIRTs Network) will also be established, to promote swift and effective operational co-operation for cybersecurity incidents, and the sharing of information about risks.
Once the NIS Directive comes into force, Member States will have 21 months to implement the Directive into their national laws, and a further six months to identify operators of essential services.
"All operators that are likely to fall within the Directive should already be taking cybersecurity seriously and the Directive shouldn’t be requiring a major upheaval for them. The Directive is the EU's fist hitting the table and saying that it is now serious and companies need to stop merely paying lip service to cybersecurity," commented Simon Shooter, Partner, Bird & Bird LLP.
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ISIS Targets 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Nineveh Walls in Iraq
Adad Gate outside of Nineveh, Iraq.
by Mary Chastain2 Jan 2015183
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) set their eyes on another historical site to demolish as they continue to establish their caliphate across Iraq. Residents near Mosul told Assyrian website Ankawa the militants’ plan to blow up the walls of Nineveh, which date back to almost 700 B.C.
Unnamed sources said the Islamic State leaders told members to set booby traps along the walls. If the Iraqi army attempts to liberate the area, the militants must “complete the bombing of the historic walls.” The walls are attributed to King Sennacherib, who rebuilt the city during his reign beginning in 704 B.C., and consist of a seven and a half mile barrier around the city—presumably to protect it from attack when it served as the capital of ancient Assyria. Nineveh was so important and Sennacherib’s contributions so great that some archaeologists have gone as far as to attribute to him the construction and maintenance of the ancient Hanging Gardens, long believed to be in Babylon.
The Islamic State moved to the Nineveh Plain in early August, “the last stronghold of Assyrians in Iraq.” Over 200,000 Assyrians fled to the Dohuk and Arbel areas.
When militants captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in June, they proceeded to destroy shrines and tombs important to Christians and Muslims because they allegedly “distort Islam” and encourage “worship of others besides God.” They destroyed a shrine to Jonah, the biblical prophet, and Yunus in the Koran. The shrine was built in the eighth century BC. Worshippers believe that the prophet Jonah, most famous for surviving being swallowed by a whale in the Biblical legend, is buried there. Saddam Hussein renovated the shrine, and it remained a popular site for pilgrims.
Jonah and Nineveh are connected in the Book of Jonah in the Hebrew Bible. God tells Jonah to walk to Nineveh to tell the Ninevites about their destruction. The people fasted and repented and God allowed them to live, which upset Jonah. God provided Jonah a plant, but proceeded to destroy the plant. This also upset Jonah, but God turned it into a lesson to help Jonah understand why he saved the Ninevites:
¹ºBut the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. ¹¹And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
The story is so important that the Assyrian Christians started The Fast of Nineveh, later also adopted by other Oriental Orthodox religions. The three-day fast commemorates the three days it took Jonah to travel to Nineveh and the three days he spent in the belly of the whale when he did not go to Nineveh as God asked him. It is also connected to a plague leashed upon northern Iraq in the 9th century. The bishop used the Book of Jonah and “ordered a 3-day fast to ask for God’s forgiveness.” The plague went away after three days.
Islamic State jihadists have targeted a number of ancient structures in the region. The group attempted to destroy the Crooked Minaret, an 840-year old tower, but residents immediately protected it and told the terrorists they would have to kill the people as well.
Turkey fears the terrorist group might destroy the Suleyman Shah tomb in Aleppo, Syria, built in Turkish territory under a treaty with France when the French ruled Syria. Suleyman Shah was the grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. The Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, was founded in 1299. It expanded to southeast Europe, western Asia, Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. It collapsed after World War I and evolved into modern-day Turkey. The government sent security to the tomb in April.
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Grant Schmidt is making Ohio State football history, and he’s not even an official Buckeye yet.
The offensive lineman from Sioux Falls, S.D., became the fifth commitment to the OSU class of 2015 yesterday. He is believed to be the first player from South Dakota to be courted by the Buckeyes. He won’t officially be a member of the team until he signs a national letter of intent in February.
“It’s a huge deal, and I’m real excited about it,” Schmidt said. “It’s going to be a great time out here. I want to make the best of the opportunity.”
Schmidt is 6 feet 6 and 275 pounds and has 4.9-second speed in the 40. He has a four-star rating from Rivals.com.
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Already holding a scholarship offer that Ohio State issued last month, he backed up his rating with his performance at OSU’s one-day camp on Sunday. He said he ran the agility drill in 4.7 seconds and posted a 29-inch vertical jump and a 9-foot-4 broad jump.
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For 15 years Edward and I have been going to a San Francisco lecture series that features writers talking about their life's work. One night we listened as the novelist Charles Frazier described how writing Cold Mountain took him six or seven years, two or three of which he spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains, cataloging Appalachian plants, tracking down headstones on forgotten hillsides, reading the letters and journals of 19th-century farmers. On the way home from the lecture that night, Edward and I agreed that Frazier's gift was not only genius but will. And persistence. And discipline. And hard, hard work. The work, by the way, seems not to have gotten any easier the next time around: Nearly 10 years passed before Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, came out. I liked it even more than Cold Mountain.
Writers like Charles Frazier are moving slowly, even imperceptibly, toward some hard-to-come-by, maybe even impossible, goal that they refuse to forsake. They haven't been on the steep part of the learning curve in years. They're not susceptible to the look at me! lure of having something new to announce. They wouldn't abandon their craft any sooner than they would their children. How rich their satisfaction must be.
After about a thousand cartwheels, Georgia knows something of that satisfaction. And watching her, I finally see that although I've always prided myself on fearlessly jumping into one new project after another, I'm the one who's been doing the same thing over and over: finding a way to be a beginner. I keep starting at zero and making it to six or seven but never going any further, never knowing the gratification of levels eight, nine, and 10, never reaching the place where the cartwheel becomes elegant.
When I think about writing another book ("It couldn't possibly go as well; I've told all the best stories already"), what worries me is that I may have already done my personal best—and that whatever worked about The Middle Place was nothing more than beginner's luck. For the first time, I'm wondering if all the commotion that goes with continually—and "fearlessly"—reinventing myself might just be an elaborate smoke screen, a way to distract myself from my greatest fear: failure. The truth is, I'd like to sit down for however many years it takes and write one clear and beautiful thing, one book worthy of a world that already has too many books in it. The other truth is, I'm just not sure I can.
Georgia is too young to have found her life's work, but when I watch her study the terrain and consider the consequences, it's clear that if she felt as though she had something big to say, she'd write a second book. She'd slip off quietly, and while no one was looking, she'd summon the nerve to lift one foot off the ground and set it down in front of the other.
So here I go, opening the Hello, World file again. One sentence at a time. If I can get myself through this, it will be the most truly daring thing I've ever done. And while I think and stare and occasionally type, Georgia sits at the kitchen table, directing her considerable focus to writing in cursive. The stylish capital G. The Laverne and Shirley L. Over and over again, she writes her name, Georgia Corrigan Lichty, until it perfectly reflects the indomitable, inspiring girl she is.
Kelly Corrigan is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Middle Place (Voice), now available in paperback. She is online at KellyCorrigan.com.
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The other day my yoga teacher was talking about the importance of the ability to embrace uncertainty. She mentioned to me a book by Pema Chodron called Comfortable with Uncertainty. I've not read the book, but if you don't write down your references when you remember them, you forget them (hard to believe, I know!).
Anyway, this is a principle that I think is useful on many levels. (As, indeed, are many ideas--which was almost the subject of this post--if I hadn't written about uncertainty.)
Logically speaking, we are faced with limits to our certainty. The work of David Hume, especially his Treatise of Human Nature, clearly framed the limits of our logical certainty in many different ways. On a very basic level Hume argued "that the supposition, that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is deriv'd entirely from habit, by which we are determin'd to expect for the future the same train of objects, to which we have been accustom'd" (Treatise, Book I, Part III, Section XII, italics are Hume's). Essentially he is saying that there is no logical argument that proves that the future will resemble the past--logical in the sense of a priori logic--something that can be proved from basic premises. Yes, he says, we expect the future to resemble the past, because we have seen patterns repeat in the past, but this expectation is not certain--it is only probable (part III of book I is titled "Of knowledge and probability"). Later in the same section he says "even after the observation of the frequent or constant conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have experience" (the italics, again, are Hume's).
This general logical principle, sometimes called "Hume's Problem," is also called the problem of induction. It is still debated; no response to Hume has swept away his claims. The most notable response was that of Karl Popper in The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Popper's response was to suggest that we cannot prove the truth of a claim through induction, but that we can prove the falsity of a claim, and therefore science can proceed using the hypotheses that have survived the most tests. But this too, one must note, is logically uncertain: we have certainty (perhaps) that we've rejected bad theories, but we have no certainty that the theory we have not yet rejected is actually good.
Well, the litany of sources of uncertainty in logic is long, and I don't want to go into it here. There are similar ideas outside the realm of Western Philosophy: is there not uncertainty in "The Tao that can be told of is not the absolute Tao."?
I think there are benefits in embracing uncertainty. Especially in logical debate: it's an escape hatch--if we know uncertainty exists, we can use that to justify some degree of imperfection in our argument: we simply cannot know everything; we must somewhere start with something unproven.
We embrace the uncertainty. Of course, we also need to act decisively: so we balance the uncertainty somehow. Ultimately we chose what we believe is important and act on that--if we cannot make such a choice then we're paralyzed.
Of course lots of people go through life thinking that they're certain about everything, but it's hard to get away with that as an academic--at least we're taught to question. So for the academic--or for any philosophical, thinking person--we look at the uncertainties that face us and choose among them the ones that seem best.
If we understand that we are choosing from a place of logical uncertainty, we have to embrace our beliefs for another reason. There's a certain freedom to believing in an idea and knowing that you may be wrong--there's a danger, but also a freedom. | <urn:uuid:f2e3c9fe-c488-41d7-b09b-b234dc80dcbb> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://thoughtclearing.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncertainty.html | 2017-12-12T00:42:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948514238.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212002021-20171212022021-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.969303 | 802 |
Biotechnology Consultation Note to the File BNF No. 000110
Return to inventory: Completed Consultations on Foods from Genetically Engineered Plant Varieties
Date: January 14, 2009
Subject: High Oleic 305423 Soybean
Keywords: soybean, Glycine max, high oleic 305423 soybean, TREUSTM, OECD unique identifier DP-3Ø5423-1, omega-6 desaturase, FAD2-1, gm-fad2-1, seed-specific silencing, gm-hra, soybean acetolactate synthase
In a submission dated December 27, 2006, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Pioneer), a DuPont Company, submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a safety and nutritional assessment of the bioengineered high oleic 305423 soybean line containing the transformation event DP-3Ø5423-1. Pioneer provided additional information on August 31, 2007, January 30, February 19, March 18, November 21, December 12, and December 19, 2008. Pioneer concluded that food and feed derived from the 305423 soybean are as safe and nutritious as food and feed derived from conventional soybean varieties currently being marketed.
2. Intended Effect
The intended effect of the modification in 305423 soybean is to produce soybean seeds with increased levels of monounsaturated fatty acid (oleic) and decreased levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (linoleic and linolenic). To accomplish this objective, Pioneer inserted a fragment of the soybean microsomal omega-6 desaturase gene (FAD2-1) into soybean. The fragment of the FAD2-1 gene does not code for a protein. Transcription of the gene fragment under the control of a seed-preferred KTi3 promoter acts to silence the expression of the endogenous soybean omega-6 desaturase, which results in an increased level of oleic acid and decreased levels of linoleic and linolenic acids in the soybean seed. A gene (gm-hra) encoding a modified version of the soybean acetolactate synthase (als gene) that confers tolerance to a sulfonylurea herbicide was used as a selectable marker for the transformation.
3. Genetic Modifications and Characterization
3.1. Parental Variety
The publicly available soybean variety "Jack" was used as the recipient in the DNA transformation to create 305423 soybean.
3.2. Transformation DNA and Method
Pioneer used microprojectile bombardment to co-transform secondary plant cell embryos with two purified linear DNA fragments: a 2924 base pair fragment containing the gm-fad2-1 cassette, and the 4512 base pair fragment containing the gm-hra cassette. The gm-fad2-1 cassette includes the promoter region from the soybean Kunitz trypsin inhibitor gene (KTi3), a fragment of the FAD2-1 gene that corresponds to approximately 40% of the middle portion of the FAD2-1 gene, and the 3' untranslated region of the KTi3 gene (KTi3 terminator).
The gm-hra cassette includes a promoter and an intron from the 5'regulatory region of the S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase (SAMS) gene from soybean, the gm-hra gene that encodes the GM-HRA protein, and the terminator from the endogenous als gene.1
3.3. Characterization, Stability, and Inheritance of the Introduced DNA
In order to characterize the introduced DNA, Pioneer conducted Southern blot and sequencing analyses of the DNA inserted into the 305423 soybean. Pioneer reports that the 305423 soybean contains four genetically linked insertions. The 305423 soybean has multiple intact and partial copies of the gm-fad2-1 cassette that contain, in total, eight copies of the KTi3 promoter, seven copies of the gm-fad2-1 gene fragment, and five copies of the KTi3 terminator. Pioneer states that it appears that multiple copies of the gm-fad2-1 gene fragment are necessary for effective co-suppression of the endogenous gene. One copy of the KTi3 promoter is associated with a small non-functional fragment of plasmid backbone DNA. Pioneer determined that a single intact gm-hra cassette is inserted into the genome of 305423 soybean. Pioneer noted that further analysis of 305423 soybean for plasmid backbone sequence using Southern hybridization showed that 305423 soybean contains neither the hygromycin gene nor the bacterial plasmid origin of replication present on the plasmids from which the gm-fad2-1 cassette and the gm-hra cassette are derived. Pioneer sequenced the inserted DNA and reported that the sequence confirmed the results of the Southern analysis.
Each of the four insertions in 305423 soybean was screened for the presence of open reading frames (ORFs) containing both a start and stop codon that spanned any novel junctions. Pioneer identified two such ORFs. Pioneer reports that neither ORF contains the necessary regulatory elements for transcription. Northern blot analysis detected no transcripts of the ORFs in developing seeds from either 305423 soybean or the control soybean. Pioneer concluded that it is very unlikely that a protein is expressed from either ORF. Pioneer also reports that screening of the ORFs against a database containing known protein toxins2 and to a database of known allergens3 showed no biologically significant identities to known protein toxins or allergens. Based upon their analyses, Pioneer concluded that there are no safety concerns resulting from these ORFs.
Pioneer reports that Southern blot analyses across three generations showed that the inserted DNA in 305423 soybean is stably integrated into the genome. The same event-specific hybridization pattern was observed for all but one plant that apparently lost the gm-hra cassette due to a recombination event. Pioneer investigated the frequency of recombination in 305423 soybean by examination of 1000 additional segregating 305423 soybean plants by PCR-based assays and found no other recombinants.
Pioneer conducted chi square analysis of trait inheritance data. They report that the expected segregation ratios were observed in crosses showing the Mendelian inheritance and stability of the introduced trait. Pioneer reports that when both traits were analyzed in the same plants, data confirmed co-segregation of the gm-fad2-1 gene fragment and the gm-hra gene.
4. Introduced Protein – GM-HRA
4.1. Identity, Function, and Characterization
Pioneer describes the GM-HRA protein as a modified version of the endogenous soybean acetolactate synthase (ALS) enzyme and that this modified ALS enzyme confers tolerance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides. ALS enzymes are widely distributed in nature and have been isolated from bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants. ALS-inhibiting herbicides inhibit plant growth by blocking the action of the ALS enzyme thereby inhibiting branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis. The mature GM-HRA protein differs from the endogenous ALS enzyme at two specific amino acids and is responsible for GM-HRA insensitivity to ALS-inhibiting herbicides. The gm-hra gene was used only as a selectable marker for the transformation.
Pioneer characterized 305423 soybean-produced GM-HRA protein using various methodologies4 and demonstrated its equivalence with Escherichia coli-produced GM-HRA protein. The E. coli-derived GM-HRA protein was used for in vitro and in vivo biochemical and toxicological studies.
The GM-HRA protein levels in 305423 soybean were measured in replicated samples of leaf, root, forage and grain tissues using a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Pioneer reports that the mean GM-HRA protein concentrations in 305423 soybean leaf, root, forage, and grain were 4.0, 0.18, 5.7, and 2.5 nanograms per milligram (ng/mg) tissue dry weight respectively. Pioneer concluded that the above results confirm that the expression of the GM-HRA protein in 305423 soybean is constitutive.
4.2. Assessment of Potential Toxicity and Allergenicity
Pioneer reports the results of a global sequence similarity search of the GM-HRA amino acid sequence against the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Protein dataset. The search was conducted using the BLASTP algorithm.5 GM-HRA showed sequence similarity to other ALS proteins. None of the proteins returned by the search was identified as a toxin. Pioneer concluded that the GM-HRA protein did not share relevant sequence similarities with known protein toxins.
Pioneer conducted an acute oral toxicity study in mice. A single dose of 582 mg per kilogram of body weight (mg/kg bw) of GM-HRA protein was administered by oral gavage to five male and five female mice. No clinical symptoms of toxicity, body weight loss, gross organ lesions or mortality were observed. Pioneer concluded that the result of this study shows that the GM-HRA protein does not cause acute toxicity.
Pioneer reports that while soybean is one of the major food allergens, none of the identified allergens is a member of the ALS family and the ALS protein from soybean has not been characterized as a soy allergen. Pioneer compared the amino acid sequence of the GM-HRA protein to the amino acid sequences of known allergens in the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP, version 6.0) database using the FASTA34 sequence alignment program.6 None of the identified alignments met or exceeded the threshold of greater than or equal to 35% identity over 80 amino acids and no contiguous stretches of 8 or greater amino acids were shared between the GM-HRA protein and the proteins in the allergen database. Additionally, the GM-HRA protein is not glycosylated.
Pioneer also reports that the GM-HRA protein is rapidly (< 30 seconds) hydrolyzed in simulated gastric fluid (SGF) to fragments of < 3 kDa; and when subjected to simulated intestinal fluid (SIF), the GM-HRA protein, including the low weight molecular fragments seen in SGF, is completely and rapidly (< 2 minutes) hydrolyzed.
Pioneer concluded that the GM-HRA protein is unlikely to be a toxin and is not a potential allergen.
5. Evidence for Silencing of FAD2-1 Gene Expression
Pioneer determined that a 597 base pair gm-fad2-1 gene fragment, which is identical to a portion of the coding sequence of the endogenous soybean microsomal omega-6 desaturase gene (FAD2-1), resulted in the down regulation of expression of the endogenous FAD2-1 gene. Pioneer examined the expression of the endogenous FAD2-1 gene in the leaf and developing seed of ten 305423 soybean plants and five control Jack soybean plants. Northern blots indicated that transcripts of the FAD2-1 gene in developing seeds of 305423 soybeans were greatly diminished when compared to the control soybean. This greatly decreased level of transcription confirms that the endogenous FAD2-1 gene is effectively silenced.
6. Food and Feed Uses of Soybean
Pioneer describes historical and current uses of soybean varieties in food and animal feed. The primary use of commodity soybeans is for soybean meal that is consumed by animals. Raw soybeans contain several antinutritional factors (trypsin inhibitors, urease, and hemagglutinins). Heat treatment is the most common processing method used to minimize the activity of such factors. Soybean oil is the major soybean fraction consumed by humans. Soybean oil accounts for 80% of total United States consumption of oils and fats.
Pioneer states that the 305423 soybean variety is intended to be used for the production of high oleic soybean oil. The oil is intended to be a highly stable vegetable oil suitable for frying applications without the need for hydrogenation which produces trans fatty acids and "hydrogenated flavor." Pioneer states that it is aware of no food or feed uses of current soybean varieties for which the 305423 soybean variety would not be equally suitable.
7. Overview of Compositional Analysis
Pioneer assessed the composition of grain and forage from the 305423 soybean and a null segregant (non-transgenic isoline) control. Pioneer states that the null segregant plants are an appropriate control because they are almost genetically identical to the corresponding 305423 soybean plants with the exception that they do not carry the transgenic DNA. Both the transgenic and control soybeans were grown at six field locations in soybean-growing areas of North America using a randomized complete block design with three replicates at each location. Pioneer also analyzed grain and forage from four different commercial soybean varieties.
Pioneer measured 52 components in grain and 5 in forage. Pioneer used the composition data obtained from the commercial varieties to calculate 99% tolerance intervals with 95% confidence for all measured components. To interpret the composition results for 305423 soybeans, Pioneer used the confidence intervals and established a combined literature range using data from published literature and databases on soybean composition.
Pioneer performed statistical analyses of composition data obtained for 305423 soybean and control soybean using mean values calculated from data aggregated from all tests sites. Pioneer used a linear mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA). In order to hold the rate of false positive results to 5% or less, Pioneer employed the false discovery rate (FDR) approach (Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) and Westfall et al. (1999)). Pioneer reported the composition data by providing mean values, ranges, FDR-adjusted P-values, unadjusted P-values, tolerance intervals, and literature ranges, as available. Pioneer discussed analytical results in the context of FDR-adjusted P-values. Unless so indicated, statistical analyses using the unadjusted and adjusted P-values are in agreement. Pioneer used a P-value of 0.05 to denote a statistically significant difference between the control and the 305423 soybean.
Pioneer analyzed grain samples for proximates (protein, fat, and ash), acid detergent fiber (ADF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), fatty acids, amino acids, isoflavones, and antinutrients. Compositional analysis of forage samples included proximates, ADF, and NDF. Table 1 contains the complete list of all measured components.
|Proximates* & Fiber*||Fatty Acids**||Amino Acids||Isoflavones+||Antinutrients|
acid detergent fiber (ADF)
neutral detergent fiber (NDF)
|* Proximates and fiber were measured in both soybean grain and forage. All other components were measured in grain only.
** The levels of eleven additional fatty acids were near or below the lower limit of quantitation.
+ The levels of acetylgenistin, acetyldaidzin, and acetylglycitin were below the limit of quantitation.
7.1 Compositional Analysis of Soybean Grain
Intended Compositional Change – Fatty Acids
Pioneer analyzed the fatty acid composition of the oil extracted from the grain of the 305423 and control soybeans. Pioneer provides the levels of 14 fatty acids (see Table 1) calculated as percentages of the total fatty acids. Pioneer states that the fatty acid analysis confirmed the expected high oleic acid phenotype as shown by a substantial increase in the mean level of oleic acid to 76.5% in 305423 soybean as compared to a mean level of 21% in the control soybean. As expected, the increase in the level of oleic acid was accompanied by a decrease in the level of linoleic acid. The mean level of linoleic acid in the control soybean was 52.5% and that in the 305423 soybean was 3.6%. The level of linolenic acid also decreased since linolenic acid is formed in soybeans directly from linoleic acid. Pioneer also notes that the levels of two minor fatty acids, heptadecanoic and heptadecenoic, increased in the 305423 soybean to 0.8% and 1.2% of the total fatty acids, respectively. Pioneer explains that the increase in the levels of heptadecanoic and heptadecenoic fatty acids is not unexpected because the GM-HRA enzyme most likely results in the increased concentration of 2-ketobutyrate, which is the substrate in the biosynthesis of hepta fatty acids in soybeans. Pioneer also reported changes in the levels of all remaining fatty acids, which are not biologically significant.
Proximates and Amino Acids
Pioneer reports that the mean levels of protein and fiber in grain from the 305423 and control soybean are not statistically significantly different. While the mean level of fat was statistically significantly lower in the 305423 soybean than in the control using the unadjusted P-value, no statistical difference was detected using the FDR-adjusted P-value. The mean level of ash was statistically significantly lower in the 305423 soybean as compared to the control soybean. Mean levels of the proximates and fiber in grain from 305423 and control soybean lines were within the 99% tolerance intervals for the reference varieties and within the combined literature range.
Pioneer reports that there are no statistically significant differences observed in the mean levels of amino acids between 305423 and control soybean grain with the exception of threonine and glutamic acid. The mean levels of these two amino acids were statistically significantly increased in 305423 soybean when the unadjusted P-values were used, but not when the FDR-adjusted P-values were used. All these levels were within the 99% tolerance intervals.
Pioneer analyzed grain from the 305423 and control soybeans for twelve isoflavones, of which nine were quantified (see Table 1). The mean levels for daidzin, malonylgenistin, and malonyldaidzin were statistically significantly increased in the 305423 versus the control soybean. Mean genestin levels were only shown to be statistically significantly increased when the unadjusted P-value was used. Mean values for all the measured isoflavones were within the 99% tolerance intervals.
In both the control and 305423 soybean the mean levels of genistin, glycitin, malonylgenistin, malonylglycitin, and malonyldaidzin were above the combined literature range. Daidzin levels were only above the combined literature range in the 305423 soybean. No literature data were available for the level of glycitein. The values for the other two isoflavones (genistein and daidzein) were within the combined literature range.
Pioneer measured several antinutrients in soybean grain including non-digestible oligosaccharides stachyose and raffinose, lectins, phytic acid, and trypsin inhibitor (see Table 1). No statistically significant differences were observed between the 305423 and control soybean in mean values for raffinose, lectins, and phytic acid. The mean value for trypsin inhibitor was statistically significantly lower for 305423 soybean as compared to the control soybean. The reduction in the mean value of trypsin inhibitor in 305423 soybean was expected as Pioneer reported that the promoter used to drive expression of the FAD2-1 gene, the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor promoter, has been shown to silence the KTi3 gene which encodes the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor. The mean value for stachyose was statistically significantly increased when the unadjusted P-value was used, but not when the FDR-adjusted P-value was used. Mean values for all the measured antinutrients were within the 99% tolerance intervals and within the combined literature ranges.
7.2 Compositional Analysis of Soybean Forage
Pioneer analyzed forage for protein, fat, ash, ADF, and NDF. Pioneer reports that no statistically significant differences were observed between the mean levels of these components in forage from the 305423 and control soybeans with the exception of the level of fat. The mean level of fat was statistically significantly decreased in 305423 using the unadjusted P-value, but not when using the FDR-adjusted P-value. All mean levels were within the 99% tolerance intervals and combined literature ranges, with the exception of NDF. The mean level of NDF in both the control and 305423 soybean was above the combined literature range.
7.3 Endogenous Allergens
Pioneer conducted a study to assess whether the transformation process may have increased the overall allergenicity of 305423 soybean compared to conventional soybean. Using sera from clinically reactive soy allergic patients, Pioneer conducted IgE immunoblot and ELISA studies using protein extracts from 305423 soybean and conventional soybean. Pioneer reports that the SDS-PAGE Coomassie blue-stained protein profiles for 305423 and control soybean extracts appeared to be the same; they are similar in their IgE binding profile, and showed the same IgE binding capacity for 305423 and control soy extracts. Pioneer concluded that the levels of endogenous allergens in and the allergic potential of 305423 soybean are comparable to those in nontransgenic control soybean.
8. Fatty Acids Intake
8.1 Human Diet
Pioneer generated estimates of dietary exposure to various fatty acids from the consumption of soy oil derived from conventional soybeans, as well as 305423 soybeans. Pioneer concluded that the intake of oleic acid would increase, while the intakes of linoleic acid and trans fatty acid would decrease. Pioneer states that based on very conservative intake estimates calculated on the assumption that high oleic soybean oil would replace all soybean oil in commercial applications, the dietary intake of linoleic acid would still fall within the current intake levels. Pioneer also notes that a variety of other oils used by the food industry would provide significant amounts of linoleic acid in the diet. Other noted changes in dietary intakes of fatty acids would result in small increases in the consumption of minor fatty acids, heptadacanoic acid (C17:0), heptadecenoic acid (C17:1), and the (9, 15) isomer of linoleic acid (cis-9, cis-15-octadecadienoic acid).
Pioneer states that the 17-carbon fatty acids, heptadecanoic and heptadecenoic acids, occur at low levels in commonly consumed foods. For example, heptadecanoic acid is commonly found in meat (lamb, beef, pork), butter, and tofu, while heptadecenoic acid is found in foods such as tofu, beef, cheese, and olive oil. Pioneer stated that odd-chain fatty acids such as 17-carbon fatty acids are readily metabolized.
8.2 Animal Diets
When oil is removed from the soybean a defatted meal is generated that is used as a primary protein supplement for animal feed. Pioneer provided examples of swine and poultry diets to demonstrate that the reduced intake of linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid, would not lead to a nutritional deficit for animals consuming feeds containing meal derived from 305423 soybeans. Corn, the major ingredient of animal diets, is the primary source of linoleic acid in such diets. Even though soybean meal derived from 305423 soybeans would have reduced amounts of linoleic acid, the quantity of linoleic acid provided by corn is several-fold above the animals' requirement.
9. Common or Usual Name of the Oil Product
Pioneer concluded that based on the intended increase in the level of oleic acid and decrease in the levels of linoleic and linolenic acids, a new common or usual name is appropriate for the oil from 305423 soybeans to distinguish this oil from the conventional soybean oil as defined in the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC). Pioneer proposed the name "high oleic soybean oil" for the oil that will be produced from 305423 soybeans.
Pioneer has concluded that, with the exception of the intended change in fatty acid composition, the 305423 soybean and the foods and feeds derived from it are not materially different in composition, safety, or any other relevant parameter from soybeans now grown, marketed, and consumed. At this time, based on Pioneer's data and information, the agency considers Pioneer's consultation on the 305423 soybean to be complete.
Mary D. Ditto, Ph.D.
1The gm-hra cassette also contains three Flp recombinase target sequences; however, these sequences were not used in the development of the 305423 soybean. The presence of these sites does not cause recombination. Recombination requires the presence of the specific Flp recombinase enzyme that is not present in plants.
2National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Protein Dataset release 156.0. The NCBI dataset incorporates all non-redundant entries from all GenBank nucleotide translations along with protein sequences from SWISS-PROT, PIR, PRF, and PDB databases.
3Allergen database derived from the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program (FARRP, version 6.0).
4Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), Western blot analysis, glycoprotein staining, mass determination of the tryptic peptides by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS), and N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis.
5The E-score was set at 1.0 to ensure that proteins even with limited similarity would not be overlooked.
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For the night of 29 November 2011
North Korea: The Korean Central News Agency announced on 24 November that it will launched a Chinese-language service on its web site. Chinese language broadcasts will begin on 1 December.
Comment: Since the end of the Korean War, the North's news agency has not carried a Chinese-language broadcast. The North never trusted the Chinese and had not reason to broadcast in Chinese language. The obvious implication of the latest statement is that North Korea expects a significant influx of Chinese tourists and, perhaps, business people, which would justify a Chinese-language broadcast. This is a tectonic and strategic shift.
Many readers might not know that for 40 years North Korea has been proud to be the last Stalinist regime. It always has favored Russia over China. The Korean Peoples' Army is a Soviet-style and equipped army, featuring powerful armor and artillery formations. North Korea never had a Chinese-style people's army.
Kim Il-sung denounced Deng Xiao-ping's adoption of capitalist economic policies and practices in China in the 1980s. A decade later he denounced the replacement of the Soviet Union by a non-communist Russia. Even so, North Korea always has considered Russia to be a counterweight to Chinese influence. That has now appears to have changed.
The Kim family evidently has decided to risk the future of North Korea on an economic and military partnership with China, for the first time since the Korean War, without Soviet mediation.
The new closeness of the Chinese-North Korean relationship coincides with the new US tilt towards Asia, a possible unintended and apparently unanticipated consequence. The good news is that China is not likely to allow North Korea to start a war for control of the Peninsula. The bad news is that China is acting as a guarantor of an independent North Korea.
A divided Korea is a relic of World War II. An incongruity in the long pageant of Asian history and a historic holdover that the Koreans, left alone, were in the process of correcting in 2000, before China started to assert its claim to regional hegemony. Now, the glacial movement towards a unified Korea is even slower, but not stopped because Asians will correct Asian history.
China: Update. China's aircraft carrier left port on Tuesday, 29 November, for its second round of sea trials, which might include test flights by carrier-borne aircraft. "China's aircraft carrier platform, after successfully completing its first sea trial in August, returned to the shipyard as planned for further refitting and testing," the defense ministry said in a statement. "The work has been carried out and it set sail again on November 29 to carry out relevant scientific and research experiment."
"Carrier-borne aircraft will possibly take off and land on the vessel for the first time, as these moves cannot be done in dockside tests," said Yin Zhuo, a retired navy rear admiral and military expert. He said an important component of the trial will be to test the steel cables used to catch the aircraft and decelerate them upon landing.
Comment: The press coverage is great propaganda for China. The ship is small and it is far from ready for naval duty. The Chinese official media emphasis on scientific research suggests this ship is a technology demonstrator to support the next generation of Chinese aircraft carriers, more than an agent of Chinese hegemony in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It also is a symbol of national pride and power for the masses.
Burma: Update. Secretary of State Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Burma this week, marking the first such visit in 50 years. Earlier, President Obama said he was sending Clinton to Burma in response to what he called "flickers of progress" from the new, nominally civilian Burmese government, which took office earlier this year after more than four decades of military rule.
A Burmese presidential aide said that recent developments in diplomatic ties could lead to the end of U.S. sanctions against Burma. The aide also cited exchanges of visits by officials from both countries.
Comment: The Burmese junta now realizes it tilted too far towards China. The termination of a major dam project is the strongest public indicator of a shift in priorities. A major infrastructure project with India also remains incomplete.
The Burmese leadership apparently calculates that acceptance of Indian and Chinese economic development implies political obligation. Thus, the new government looks to the US to complete the triangle in which the US is capable of blunting Chinese and Indian pressure on Burma, but too distant to interfere.
Pakistan-US: Comment: Relations have deteriorated in public. Pakistan will boycott the Bonn conference on Afghanistan. One or more border crossings have been closed, but this incident is much less significant than the US attack against Pakistan that resulted in the killing of bin Laden.
Pakistani sensitivity about the latest attack is a derivative of their failure to protect bin Laden. They look extremely inept in a rough neighborhood. The Indians and Iranians, no doubt, are drawing lessons.
Iran-UK: Dozens of Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on 29 November, throwing documents out windows and taking down the British flag. Riot police clashed with the students.
Comment: The so-called students were protesting Britain's enactment of tighter sanctions. Whatever the students do, they always chant "Death" to the victim or target. That seems quite un-Islamic.
Syria-Russia: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia opposes implementing an arms embargo against Syria. Lavrov said the international community must abandon the politics of ultimatums and try to redirect Syria's situation into a political course, Interfax reported. Lavrov said the Syrian crisis can be solved by using the example of Yemen, RIA Novosti reported.
Comment: On the surface, Lavrov's analogy of Yemen with Syria is naïve and poorly drawn. Yemeni President Saleh's rule is primarily a personal and family issue. Yemen will not experience a fundamental change of politics after Saleh departs.
That is not the case with Syria, should the Alawite regime collapse. Syria would undergo fundamental and revolutionary and violent change.
Morocco: For the record. King Mohammed VI named Abdelilah Benkirane, the head of the Islamist Justice and Development Party, Morocco's new prime minister on 29 November. Benkirane is entrusted with forming a new government.
Comment: The King is true to his word.
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The kitchen is an environment often overlooked, but which in reality welcomes most of the daily activities. Even a runner can create a link with the style of the house; in general, a carpet as wide as possible for complete furnishing is preferable, because the mat under the sink area is an understatement. The ideal length to give personality to the kitchen is that which accompanies the entire operating plan.
To remember: The runner for the kitchen is a decorative element that creates a link with the style of the entire home and that enhances a very popular environment in the home
To avoid: Delicate materials are likely to be damaged in a short time; prefer to wear and wash resistant yarns or opt for synthetic fabrics, resistant to water and oily stains
60 x 90 cm
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The choice of material is important, because this determines the actual practicality of the carpet. The most used are cotton, easy to wash and handle and resistant to wear, and synthetic fibers, from polypropylene to PVC, which do not absorb water and oily stains and are robust.
The back must be non-slip to avoid slipping and minor accidents.
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Written by Nikolina Šajn (3rd edition),
As part of the third ‘Europe on the move’ package of measures, on 27 May 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on type-approval requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers, as regards their general safety and the protection of vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users. The regulation is part of the EU’s efforts to halve the number of fatal and serious injuries in road crashes between 2020 and 2030. It will introduce a number of advanced vehicle safety features that passenger cars, vans, buses and trucks will have to have as standard equipment in order to be sold on the internal market. These include intelligent speed assistance, alcohol interlock installation facilitation, driver drowsiness and attention warning, emergency stop signal, reversing detection and event data recorder. Additional requirements will apply to specific vehicle groups, such as vulnerable road user detection for buses and trucks. The new regulation, adopted by the co-legislators in 2019 and signed on 27 November 2019, will replace three current type-approval regulations as of July 2022: the General Vehicle Safety Regulation, the Pedestrian Protection Regulation and the Hydrogen-powered Motor Vehicles Regulation.
- January 2020: ‘General safety of vehicles and protection of vulnerable road users‘ (3rd edition)
|Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval requirements for motor vehicles and their trailers, and systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles, as regards their general safety and the protection of vehicle occupants and vulnerable road users, amending Regulation (EU) 2018/… and repealing Regulations (EC) No 78/2009, (EC) No 79/2009 and (EC) No 661/2009|
|Committee responsible:||Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)||COM(2018) 286
|Rapporteur:||Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein (EPP, Poland)||2018/0145 (COD)|
|Olga Sehnalová (S&D, Czech Republic)
Daniel Dalton (ECR, United Kingdom)
Dita Charanzová (ALDE, Czech Republic)
Pascal Durand (Greens/EFA, France)
|Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’)|
|Procedure completed.||Regulation (EU) 2019/2144
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Austral Lineas Aereas officially ceased to exist on Tuesday. The Argentine airline, created in the late 1950s, was merged with Aerolineas Argentinas, which took over its assets, including 26 Embraer E190 jets.
Launched in May, in the midst of the pandemic, the process of merging the two airlines was the solution found by the government of President Alberto Fernández to reduce costs and strengthen the “Aerolineas Argentinas” brand.
On Monday, Pablo Ceriani, president of Aerolineas Argentinas, received from Paola Tamburelli, head of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC), the operational certificate that formalizes the merger.
“Today is a historic day for aviation in our country and for Aerolineas Argentinas. We have finalized the merger process with Austral and as of tomorrow our operations will be unified. A decision promoted by President Alberto Fernández that culminates in the deadline we had foreseen,” said Ceriani.
Austral has been operating under the influence of the older sister since 1990 when both were under the control of the Cielos del Sur group and Iberia, but still maintained its own infrastructure, as well as a different union.
During the merger process, Aerolineas entered into an agreement with Austral crew members to join the Argentine airline under the same contract conditions. According to Aerolineas Argentinas, the process “from an operational point of view, means the unification of areas such as maintenance, pilots and crews, eliminating existing duplicate structures. This will allow greater efficiency and a considerable reduction in derived costs”.
The company, however, has not explained whether the merger will cause layoffs by reducing its infrastructure.
Austral emerged in 1957 as Austral CATASACI in order to offer air services in the Patagonia region, in the extreme south of Argentina.
With private management and several investments, including from Pan Am, Austral was the only airline of that period to survive. In 1971, the company adopted the name Austral Líneas Aéreas when it joined Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino (ALA), operating with BAC One-Eleven jets and Japanese NAMC YS-11 turboprops.
However, in 1980, during the military dictatorship, Austral ended up being nationalized. State management lasted until 1987 when the Alfonsín government privatized it, in a bid won by Cielos del Sur.
In 2001, almost bankrupt, Aerolineas and Austral ended up being bought by the Marsans group, but seven years later Cristina Kirchner’s government re-statized them. The smaller company’s fleet was switched from MD-80 jets to Embraer models, the largest order for new aircraft in the country since 1975.
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Rich Robinson will embark on a brief solo acoustic tour next month. The Black Crowes guitarist will be performing in support of his new instrumental EP Dirigible Utopia, which is set for release on December 9 via Circle Sound/The End Records. Tickets for the shows are now on sale.
Rich Robinson Tour Dates
December 7 Minneapolis, MN – Dakota Jazz Club
December 9 Chicago, IL – City Winery
December 11 Jackson, MS – Duling Hall w/ Special Guest Luther Dickinson Of North Mississippi Allstars
December 12 Nashville, TN – City Winery
December 13 Chattanooga, TN – Rhythm & Brews
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What is syphilis?
Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by a germ (bacterium) called Treponema pallidum. Syphilis is one of the less common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK. The number of cases are, however, rising. In the UK, the rates of infection are highest amongst men who have sex with men.
Syphilis is much more common in other countries, especially in developing parts of the world.
How do you get syphilis?
Sexual activity with an infected person
Syphilis is an STI. The infection is passed from person to person through contact with a syphilis sore (ulcer) - described below. So, depending where the ulcer is, the infection can be passed on during vaginal, back passage (anal), or oral sex.
Note: syphilis is not spread by toilet seats, door knobs, bathtubs, shared clothing, etc. You need to have very intimate and direct contact with an infected person.
Syphilis infection in pregnancy
If you have syphilis and become pregnant, you can pass on syphilis to your unborn baby (fetus). It is passed on via the placenta. Infection in the fetus can lead to serious problems in pregnancy (see later) and/or congenital syphilis.
Syphilis is also transmitted in the blood. Syphilis can be transmitted through receiving infected blood products (a blood transfusion). In the UK, all blood products are rigorously screened for infections, including syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, syphilis can be passed from person to person through sharing needles between injecting intravenous drug users (IVDUs).
Classification of syphilis
Syphilis infection is divided up into:
This is generally transmitted through sex with an infected partner. There are several stages:
- Primary syphilis. This is the earliest stage and generally occurs from ten days to three months after infection. It typically causes a painless ulcer on your genitals.
- Secondary syphilis. This is the second stage of syphilis. Many different symptoms can occur (see later) but usually last several weeks. They can, however, come and go for up to two years.
- Latent syphilis. Latent means 'hidden'. This occurs after the symptoms of secondary syphilis have cleared. With latent syphilis you have no symptoms. Latent syphilis can last for many many years. It is divided into two types:
- Early latent syphilis. This lasts for a year or so and you are still infectious - that is, you can pass syphilis on to other people.
- Late latent syphilis. About two years after secondary syphilis has cleared you can become non-infectious and are no longer able to pass syphilis on to others.
- Tertiary syphilis. This is the final stage of syphilis. It can affect many organs of the body, including your brain and heart. It can result in death.
This means syphilis infection that is passed from a pregnant mother to her unborn baby. It is divided into:
- Early congenital syphilis. This is diagnosed in the first two years of life.
- Late congenital syphilis. This is diagnosed after the age of 2 years.
If left untreated, the infection typically follows the pattern of four stages as described above - primary, secondary, latent and final-stage (tertiary) syphilis. Neurosyphilis (symphilis affecting your brain) is considered separately, as it can occur at any stage of syphilis.
Typically, one small ulcer (sore) develops where syphilis germs (bacteria) enter your body. This ulcer is called a chancre. It is commonly on the penis in men, on the vulva or vagina in women, or on the back passage (anus) in either men or women. The ulcer usually appears about 2-3 weeks after having sex with an infected person but it may appear at any time up to three months later.
The ulcer is usually painless and about the size of a small coin. A clear fluid (serum) oozes from the ulcer. This fluid is highly infectious and teeming with germs. The ulcer lasts up to six weeks, then heals - but this does not mean the infection has gone.
When you have a syphilis ulcer, the nearby glands (lymph nodes) in your groin may swell. These feel like small lumps at the top of your legs in the groin crease.
Sometimes the primary stage is non-typical. For example:
- You may have more than one ulcer.
- The ulcer may be painful.
- Pus may come from an ulcer.
- The ulcer may be in your mouth (if you catch the infection during oral sex), or in the rectum (from anal sex).
- The ulcer may be on the cervix in women and is not seen or felt.
- You may have no symptoms, or very mild symptoms that you take little notice of.
People with HIV infection as well as syphilis tend to get multiple, deep, large chancres.
If the primary ulcer is not treated, or not noticed, the germs may spread to many parts of your body. Symptoms of secondary syphilis may then develop. These tend to appear a few weeks after the ulcer has healed but may develop whilst the ulcer is healing. Symptoms of secondary syphilis are numerous and vary from person to person. Some symptoms are nonspecific and are similar to those that can occur with other medical problems.
Symptoms of secondary syphilis may include:
- Rash. This is a common symptom of secondary syphilis. The rash consists of dark patches that appear on your skin, each about the size of a penny. The rash may occur in many areas of the body, or be only in a few areas. However, the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are almost always involved. The rash is not usually itchy or painful.
- Condylomata lata are wart-like growths that may develop around the penis in men, or vagina in women.
- A feeling of 'unwellness' (general malaise) and tiredness (lethargy).
- Mild high temperature (mild fever) and headaches are common.
- Sore throat.
- Joint pains.
- Swollen lymph nodes may develop in various places in your body (such as your groin, armpits or neck).
- Patchy hair loss (alopecia) can occur but is not that common.
- Less commonly, inflammation may develop in other parts of your body such as the liver, eyes, brain, or kidneys.
Without treatment, the rash and other symptoms from secondary syphilis usually go after several weeks. However, they may come and go for up to two years.
After the symptoms of secondary syphilis have cleared, you may not have any symptoms for several years. In this 'hidden' (latent) period you may think that the disease has gone. In some cases, there is no further development. In the first year or so of latent syphilis you can still pass the infection on. After this time, you are no longer infectious to others but you still have syphilis infection. If left untreated, the germs can slowly damage various parts of your body and symptoms of the final (tertiary) stage may eventually appear.
Tertiary syphilis can develop many years after the initial syphilis infection. Some manifestations of the disease can occur up to 50 years later. Many of these complications are potentially very serious and can make you extremely unwell. Some problems are life-threatening and can lead to death if untreated.
Syphilis is not considered to be infectious in its tertiary stage. Tertiary complications are slowly progressive and can affect any organ of your body.
Tertiary syphilis may cause several types of complications:
- Brain (neurological) complications. This is also called neurosyphilis (see next section).
- Cardiovascular complications. These are problems affecting your heart and blood vessels (the cardiovascular system). Most commonly, syphilis affects the main blood vessel leading out of your heart (the aorta). Inflammation here can cause weakening of your aorta, which can stretch, forming an aneurysm. Aneurysms have thin weak walls and can burst (rupture), potentially leading to death. Even if an aneurysm does not rupture, it can seriously affect one of your heart valves (the aortic valve), leading to a heart murmur. In turn, the heart does not pump very well and becomes swollen (distended) with blood. This condition is known as heart failure. See separate leaflets called Heart Failure and The Heart and Blood Vessels for more details.
- Gummatous disease. Gummas are soft growths (tumours) caused by inflammation. They are not cancerous (malignant) tumours but are long-term (chronic) and can affect any part of the body. They can grow on your skeleton and affect your joints; they can also cause large lumps in or under the skin. Gummas can grow on your internal organs (such as your liver) and affect organ function. Quite commonly they appear on your leg, below your knee. Gummas may be single or multiple and can vary in size between one and several centimetres. They can cause bone pain at night and the chronic inflammation can cause a high temperature and a low blood count (anaemia).
This means that the syphilis infection is affecting your central nervous system (CNS). The CNS includes your brain, your spinal cord and their coverings (the meninges).
Neurosyphilis can occur at any stage of syphilis infection. However, commonly it is thought of as a tertiary complication, occurring late on in untreated disease. Neurosyphilis is generally a slow and gradual loss of mental and physical function, with alterations in mood and personality. It is possible to have a more acute illness which is quicker in onset and more severe. On average it occurs between one and ten years after the initial infection.
Neurosyphilis used to be a lot more common in the days before antibiotic treatment was widely available. Probably between 2 and 4 people in every 10 with syphilis infection, developed neurosyphilis. Neurosyphilis is now more common in people who also have HIV infection.
The four main types of neurosyphilis are:
- Asymptomatic neurosyphilis (no symptoms). Before effective antibiotic treatment was available, 3-4 people in every 10 with secondary syphilis had neurosyphilis which did not cause any symptoms.
- Meningovascular syphilis. This involves inflammation of the coverings and small blood vessels in your brain. On average, this complication occurs about seven years after initial syphilis infection. It can cause headaches and dizziness and can result in a stroke. Meningitis - inflammation of the coverings of the brain (the meninges) - can also occur as a more sudden-onset (acute) complication. Total loss of vision (severe sight impairment) and deafness can also occur.
- General paresis. This is also known (historically) as 'general paresis of the insane'. It is a chronic dementia that represents a severe complication of neurosyphilis, usually in its late stages. On average, death follows within only 2-3 years. There is progressive personality change, memory loss and confusion. Sometimes depression or hallucinations occur.
- Tabes dorsalis. This is another, late form of neurosyphilis, more common before antibiotic treatment. The nerves in the spinal cord are damaged, leading to poor balance and co-ordination and problems with walking. Additionally, there is loss of pain and temperature sensation in the feet. As a result, deep foot ulcers can occur.
Syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis
Syphilis infection can be passed from a pregnant mother to her unborn baby (fetus), via the placenta. This can result in serious pregnancy complications such as:
- Miscarriage. This means death of the fetus before 24 weeks of gestation.
- Stillbirth. This means death of the fetus after 24 weeks of gestation.
- Hydrops. This is a condition of severe swelling due to fluid (oedema) in the fetus. It is a serious condition that can result in death of the fetus.
- Polyhydramnios. This is a condition of pregnancy where there is an abnormally large amount of amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus. This can cause serious pregnancy complications such as:
- Placental abruption (where the placenta suddenly detaches from the uterus).
- Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) when there is excessive bleeding at delivery.
- Preterm (premature) labour. This is labour and delivery of the baby before 37 weeks of gestation.
Congenital syphilis is syphilis infection in the baby or the child, transmitted from the mother. It is divided into early and late cases, dependent on when the child shows symptoms of syphilis infection. (See 'Classification of syphilis' section, above.)
Early symptoms and signs of untreated congenital syphilis occur before the age of 2 years. They include:
- Rashes - typically a peeling rash of the palms, the soles and around the mouth and back passage (anus).
- An enlarged liver and/or spleen.
- Abnormal bone X-rays.
- Enlarged glands (lymph nodes).
- Yellowing of the skin or the whites of the eyes (jaundice).
Late congenital syphilis is rare. It can cause symptoms similar to neurosyphilis in an adult. Problems affecting the eyes and joints are seen, as well as deafness, gummas and dental abnormalities.
How is syphilis diagnosed?
Syphilis can be difficult to diagnose just based on symptoms. This is because there are very many different symptoms and often these symptoms can occur with other conditions. This is why syphilis used to be called 'the Great Imitator' because it mimics many other illnesses.
Now, however, there are specific tests for syphilis. So, as long as it is suspected as a possibility, it can be easily diagnosed with a test.
Genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics often perform STI screening. Testing for syphilis is part of this. There are two main types of test:
- A small sample (swab) from the sore can be looked at under the microscope. The typical germs (bacteria) can be seen.
- If the sore (ulcer) has gone, a blood test can detect if you have syphilis. The blood test looks for proteins in your blood, called antibodies. These antibodies are made by your immune system in order to fight infection. The antibody test can be positive or negative. A negative result might mean the test has been carried out too early. It can take a while for the antibodies to be present in the blood. If this is the case, a repeat test will usually be advised after a period of about three months. A positive test will either mean that you have syphilis or have had syphilis in the past.
Additionally, all pregnant women are screened for syphilis. This is part of the routine antenatal blood tests that are usually done between 8 and 16 weeks of pregnancy.
Are any other tests needed?
In primary and secondary syphilis, generally no other tests are required. However, in the final stage (tertiary syphilis), where there are complications affecting other parts of the body, further tests may be required.
Other tests may include a chest X-ray or ultrasound of the heart (echocardiogram, or 'echo') in cardiovascular syphilitic disease. Brain scans (such as computerised tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be needed if there is suspected brain (neurological) involvement.
Because syphilis is caused by a germ (bacterium), it is readily treatable with antibiotics.
- Antibiotic injections are the usual treatment. Benzathine penicillin is the antibiotic usually used. This kills the germs (bacteria) and prevents the disease from progressing any further. The injections are given intramuscularly (IM), usually into the buttock. A single dose can be given for primary and secondary syphilis. Later stages may need a course of three injections, at weekly intervals. Neurosyphilis usually requires more frequent, daily doses for a couple of weeks.
- Other antibiotics are sometimes used if you are allergic to penicillin. Azithromycin is often used in this situation.
Note: it is important to avoid sex until the syphilis sores are completely healed and a test confirms that the syphilis infection has gone.
Remember: it is not just penetration and ejaculation that lead to transmission of syphilis. It is caught by close skin-to-skin (sexual) contact with the oozing fluid (serum) from the ulcer (chancre).
Treatment during the primary or secondary stages of the disease will usually prevent any permanent long-term damage.
Some of the problems associated with the final stage (tertiary syphilis) cannot be completely cured with antibiotics. However, antibiotic treatment may prevent further worsening of your condition. Heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) complications may still become worse, despite treatment.
If you have syphilis, you should usually be investigated, treated and followed up by a GUM clinic. If you have caught syphilis, there is a good chance that you may also have another STI. A GUM clinic will take small samples (swabs) and blood tests to exclude other STIs such as chlamydia, gonorrhoea and HIV. Local and national information is also available on the internet - for example, from the Family Planning Association's 'Find a clinic' service.
The GUM clinic can organise contact tracing. This means informing your previous sexual partners (confidentially and anonymously) that they need testing for STIs, including syphilis. This is especially important if you are unable or unwilling to do this yourself.
It is important to tell your current sexual partner(s) so that they can also be tested and treated if necessary.
Can syphilis be prevented?
If you practise safe sex, and always use a condom, your risk of catching syphilis (and other STIs) is very much reduced. However, condoms do not provide complete protection, as syphilis ulcers can sometimes be on areas not covered by a condom.
If you have had syphilis and had it treated, you can still be re-infected if you have sex with an infected person. (The antibodies in your blood are not sufficient to protect you from another infection if you come into contact with syphilis again.)
What should I do if I think I have syphilis?
If you suspect that you have syphilis, or another STI, see your GP or contact your local GUM clinic.
In the UK you can go to the local GUM clinic without a referral from your GP and many clinics offer a 'walk-in' service. All treatment at a GUM clinic is completely confidential and your GP does not have to be informed, if you do not wish them to be. (However, sometimes this can be very helpful as part of your continuing 'whole body' (holistic) medical care.) You can find out where your nearest GUM clinic is by the following methods:
- Asking your GP practice.
- Contacting your local hospital.
- Checking in the telephone directory.
- Search the Family Planning Association's 'Find a clinic' service.
Further reading and references
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): surveillance, data, screening and management; Public Health England, 2016
Sexually Transmitted Infections in Primary Care; Royal College of General Practitioners and British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (Apr 2013)
National guideline for the management of chancroid; British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (2014)
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In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Kay S. Hymowitz decries the slacker-slob male prototype she claims is increasingly common in society. In the provocatively titled “Where Have The Good Men Gone?”, Hymowitz believes she has identified a cultural trend afflicting today’s young men: they “hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance,” which, she says, does not endear them easily to members of the opposite sex. While few can dispute her statements when applied to popular culture (the seemingly ubiquitous on-screen “man-boy,” to borrow a phrase from a female friend, is typified by Seth Rogan’s character, Ben, in Judd Apatow’s 2007 movie “Knocked Up”), it’s less clear she has anything to say about reality. In fact, these “man-boys,” whose hobbies include playing lots of video games, may have something to teach men and women alike.
Video games have long been associated with male slackerdom. But in an ironic turn, a female game designer is now actively working to disabuse people of the notion that video games are useless diversions. In a 2010 TEDTalk, Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future said she views gaming not as a non-productive activity to be frowned upon, but as a way to save the world. McGonigal points out that an impressive three billion hours are spent playing online games per week. Collectively, she said, people have spent nearly six million years playing World of Warcraft. Funneling this play to the right kind of games, McGonigal argues, can solve global problems like hunger, poverty, and climate change.
On the surface, this idea seems far-fetched at best. How could that possibly work? As a game designer, McGonigal has created several games to benefit society, including World Without Oil, which challenges the gamer to survive an oil shortage, and Evoke, a project done in collaboration with the World Bank Institute to foster social innovation, especially in the Third World. There are also fairly popular games (although not compared to commercial titles) such as FoldIt, which has the slightly less noble aim (depending on your perspective) of predicting protein structure.
McGonigal has also considered why gaming is so attractive to so many. As noted in her TEDTalk, “We feel we are not as good in reality as we are in games. And I don’t mean just ‘good’ as successful, although that’s part of it — we do achieve more in game worlds — but I also mean ‘good’ as in motivated to do something that matters, inspired to collaborate and cooperate. And when we’re in game worlds I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves.” While McGonigal is not drawing gender lines here, this seems like something especially attractive to those very man-boys who, according to Hymowitz, are having difficulties creating an identity in a post-feminist knowledge economy. Sure, guys probably enjoy blowing up a panoply of objects before catapulting themselves across rooftops in the latest Call of Duty incarnation simply because it’s cool. But perhaps it’s also because in the virtual world it’s easier to be ‘better’ men.
In order for McGonigal’s dream of games working to solve problems to materialize, she estimates 21 billion hours would need to be spent gaming, approximately one hour of gaming from half the world’s population a day. It is unclear to me how McGonigal would accomplish this, especially with games that can’t yet compete with World of Warcraft, which has an impressive but still too few 12 million players. I do know that at the very least, a lot more women would need to take up gaming. Of course, I would be remiss to give the impression that women are not also gamers; my twin sister easily adopts the title. But men are the primary users of video games like the ones McGonigal is so excited about — the immersive ones with “epic wins,” like World of Warcraft. In the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2010 Report about media use in kids aged 8 to 18, boys played four times as much as girls on console video games like the Xbox.
And certainly, if gaming is on its way to saving the world, by Hymowitz’s logic, women would quickly flock in support (I suspect Hymowitz would not be surprised in the least that the iconoclastic McGonigal sports two X chromosomes). So perhaps we should all look forward to the day when it’s commonplace for the boyfriend to nag the girlfriend to stop playing a game. That, truly, would be a game changer.
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Before any of you ol’ Salty Crackerjacks go out and buy yourself what’s passing for fireworks these days… you know the ones with the ‘Safe for Infant’ warning where the advertisement printed on the front label is more gauddamned terrifying than the stuff you’re light’n off, Just stop and think before you get all liquored up spending the night light’n the cordite so you can smell the burnt carbon for the next four days!!
When it comes to say’n ‘NO’ to the seatbelts, helmets, knee pads & elbow pads, radial belted condoms & audio activated panty hose that require a password to get into like some kind’a ‘Jerry Rigged’ chastity belt… I’m right there with ya! But you gotta play it safe to a point and stick to the rules because you can’t drink your beer and light fuses at the same time when you’re drunk… I keep fall’n over!! And when you’re light’n stuff off that can send an oil drum so high in the damned air the local airport picks up a blip on the radar scope… or it’s sett’n off the air raid alarms all over town… you might be doing something right… but you’ll probably be gett’n a knock on the door from the local constable… just say’n!!!
So go out there and light up what goes up and blows up and goes boom… And enjoy the weekend! Don’t forget what you’re celebrating either… too gauddamned many kids out there need to be edumacated on what the hell the Fourth of July is really all about!! If more kids these days understood what our Constitutional Freedoms were about and the men and women who fought so damned hard to make this place worth fighting for… we’d probably have some better Politians represent’n us home folks!!!
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Star Trek is boldly going forward
Star Trek fans can breath a sigh of relief and rest well tonight. CBS announced today that Star Trek: Discovery, the sixth live-action tv series in the 51-year-running franchise, has officially been renewed for a second season.
In a post to CBS social media accounts, the announcement was made in a teaser video advertising CBS’ All Access streaming service.
Filming on the first season finished up a few weeks ago in Toronto, Canada.
Of course as has previously been reported, Discovery showrunners have already worked out some of the back story for what will take place during the show’s second season. While another season was not guaranteed for the new Star Trek series, it’s believed that CBS has already made a profit from the show’s first season when it licensed it in 188 countries to Netflix.
That’s no small feat considering the show is reported to be costing the network about $150 million per season, making it one of the most expensive television shows ever produced.
There’s no confirmed information about what’s expected to take place during the second season, but we do know that the crew of the USS Discovery will be dealing with the aftermath of the Klingon War. The war is expected to conclude at the end of the first season, early into 2018. | <urn:uuid:1d4068e9-14bb-4269-aaac-5859f3ca93e9> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://ncc-1031.com/news/cbs-confirms-star-trek-discovery-will-boldly-go-to-2nd-season/ | 2020-04-01T04:23:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505366.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401034127-20200401064127-00378.warc.gz | en | 0.968188 | 277 |
This past weekend was my birthday and I was so happy that the weather was perfect for a walk around town. As the winter days bye bye for now, spring is welcomed with open arms. Here are some of the photos I took.
I took a long walk in an area where not many people go. I headed up to Costa San Giorgio. Where the streets become steep and the views become mesmerizing.
Via de’ Bardi leads up to Costa San Giorgio.
It was one of those days where you could walk comfortably with a light sweater. The sun was warm as it hit my skin. | <urn:uuid:f5b03525-6557-4506-89e1-758036aa3317> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.nileguide.com/destination/blog/florence/2011/03/22/warming-up-slowly-in-florence/ | 2019-06-19T10:46:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627998959.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619103826-20190619125826-00186.warc.gz | en | 0.989139 | 127 |
Seven Davis Jr. has firmly established himself as one of the foremost purveyors of future sounds having released his unique music on forward thinking labels such as Kutmah’s “Izwid”, Funkineven’s Apron Records and Ninja Tune. For “Future Society” Seven has curated a collection of his favourite new, unsung and like-minded forward thinking artists to highlight the talent he has encountered on his travels, (the album features artists from New Zealand, U.S.A., U.K. & Switzerland). Consisting of mostly exclusive unreleased tracks, this collection contains electronic, soul and house tracks with a pioneering spirit. Welcome to the Future Society.
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Above: Havana (Photo: Cuba Travel Services)
By the Cuba Journal staff
They were even ordering office supplies that said Embassy instead of “Interests Section.”
After US President Barack Obama’s surprise announcement that he would seek to normalize relations with Cuba, it seemed that it would only be a short time before the US opened its new embassy in Havana, according to the AP.
But it wasn’t that simple.
A number of issues have held up talks, from the freedom of US diplomats to travel around the island to compensation for expropriated American properties to US fugitives who are in Cuba, according to the Associated Press.
But despite the roadblocks, it’s still a matter of when not if, according to US Senator Jeff Flake, who said the Embassy opening date was “imminent.” | <urn:uuid:3ca06418-1abb-4656-a2a6-0a7d7cf7781e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://cubajournal.co/the-major-issues-holding-up-new-us-cuba-embassies/ | 2020-09-26T01:34:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400232211.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926004805-20200926034805-00616.warc.gz | en | 0.966623 | 177 |
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A veteran Mayo Clinic physician has filed multiple antitrust complaints against his employer since 2015 over its moves to create a healthcare monopoly, and his accusations may refuel concerns about changes at the system’s hospital in Albert Lea, Minnesota.
Matthew Kumar, M.D., who has worked at Mayo Clinic for 25 years, filed four complaints over the past two years, three with the Federal Trade Commission and one with the Department of Justice, according to documents obtained by the (Rochester) Post Bulletin.
He recently informed Freeborn County, Minnesota, District Attorney David Walker about the lawsuits and Walker has forwarded the documents to the state’s attorney general and Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn. In the documents, Kumar noted that monopolies can increase healthcare costs and limit patient choice.
Though Kumar’s first complaint was filed long before Mayo Clinic’s announcement earlier this year that it would transfer inpatient services from its Albert Lea hospital to its Austin, Minnesota, campus, in his letter to Walker, he said the moves were predictable.
"I predicted the current situation that the citizens of Austin and Albert Lea find themselves—reduction or elimination of services, rise in cost of healthcare, loss of choice in treatment options and being forced to seek healthcare far away from home," Kumar wrote, according to the Post Bulletin.
In a statement submitted to FierceHealthcare, the Mayo Clinic said it was “not previously aware” of antitrust complaints that Kumar or anyone else filed against the system.
“We have not been contacted by either agency or any government official about these complaints specifically, or about any antitrust concerns,” it said. “We are confident that we are in full compliance with corporate governance, antitrust statutes, and all other applicable Minnesota law.”
The Mayo Clinic also noted in its statement that Minnesota AG Lori Swanson said in an interview with the Post Bulletin at the end of August that its Albert Lea plans did not violate antitrust laws, and the system pledged to answer further questions if contacted by state or federal agencies. | <urn:uuid:ed3add2a-f6ba-4547-969b-d678582423f9> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/mayo-clinic-doc-accuses-system-antitrust-violations | 2019-09-17T19:14:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573105.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917181046-20190917203046-00017.warc.gz | en | 0.967024 | 425 |
The History of Academic OB/GYN
A few months ago we hit the seven year anniversary of Academic OB/GYN. And today, I found out that we have been nominated in the AAGL Oscars for “Most Innovated Social Media Platform”. This nomination was a pleasant surprise – I completely agree that we should compete for that title, but in truth it always a bit of a shock to find out that people in my field actually have seen what I have been doing here and appreciate it. Most people are afraid of social media, and seven years ago when I started this most people in medicine thought far more of the risks than any kind of benefits. Since that time, things have changed, and many doctors have created robust social media presence. Since I started, the big players have come on the bandwagon. Now we have podcasts from all the major journals, and several website podcasts as well such as medscape and so forth. But I am proud to have been one of the first ,and almost certainly the first to have significant presence in the field of OB/GYN. With that, I thought it would be fun to recall how it started, and how the journey has been for me, and for the brand of Academic OB/GYN.
I started Academic OB/GYN the summer of 2007 at the University of Hawai’i. The impetus to do so actually came from my fandom of a podcast called Diggnation, hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. This was a podcast done by two nerds talking about nerd topics for an hour or so, and also doing a fair bit of drinking. It came to me – wouldn’t it be great to do Diggnation for OB/GYNs? So the next week I lined up some guests, fired up Garage Band, and published the first episode of the podcast. It absolutely took off, and in its heyday we were getting over 500 downloads in the first 48 hours of a new podcast being published, and in some cases topping 5,000 downloads in the first month. In the early years the audio quality was atrocious. Some of the episodes were almost not worth listening to it was so bad. But people liked the content, and they seemed to listen anyway. The audio got better, though never really to a professional level. But the content kept coming, and listeners kept growing. I got lots of mail of appreciation and comments. In 2010 at the University of South Carolina I added Dr Paul Browne as a co-host, and it made the podcast even better. Listenership grew even further. This year we total over 102,000 downloads, over 50% of which listened to the entire podcast. Our most popular episode was an early one with Dr Roger Newman, with over 8,000 downloads, still rising today. Amazingly, new fans still download our old content, and while we haven’t published an episode in three years we still get 20-30 new downloads a day. While total numbers are very little compared to downloads of wider appeal products, for a product that really only appeals to a very narrow slice of the world, the popularity has been staggering.
Academic OB/GYN has also been a blog. Sometimes a very active blog. Sometimes active enough that I have had to shut down comment threads to stop the absolute wars that ensued there. All through it I tried to be the professional physician blogger, responding to comments both throughtful and not, and sometimes even trying to find the 5% reasonable idea within the 100% crazy, and responding to that. That activity has been wonderful, even amongst the flames.
Academic OB/GYN persisted over the years through all the changes in social media. First a blog and podcast, then twitter, then facebook, and in the future into whatever platforms arise. The brand persists through all the platforms, as any social media brand should. We have talked to major experts in our field about their research idea, what its like to be an academic physician, and how we best teach the next generation of physicians. On the blog we have all had great discussions about what we love about being doctors, what we don’t like about being patients, what’s wrong with birth in America, what’s right about birth and America, and even what you should wear to a medical school school interview. I always intended the blog and podcast to appeal to doctors, but over the years the audience has been far wider than that, including docs, residents, midwives, and other interested members of the world. I’ve been honored to be able to provide virtual mentorship to many many medical students and residents who have contacted me along the way, in addition to help all the great residents and students I have had the honor to work with directly. My greatest honor was finding out that medical students sought to interview at programs I was teaching at because they knew me from the blog and podcast. It was always a bit of a letdown for them when they found out in the highly anticipated interview that the pseudo-celebrity Nicholas “Academic OB/GYN” Fogelson was just a lowly assistant professor with a yen for social media.
We have published many surgical videos, some of which have gone on to be very popular. As my professional career has drifted from general obstetrics into minimally invasive surgery and endometriosis, the content has shifted this way as well. To the chagrin of some of my natural birthing followers, I stopped talking so much about that. I still care about it, but its not what I am doing now, so I write less about it. Just recently somebody commented “you used to write about things that were so interesting but not any more…” Sorry. But in reality, if a blog writes the same thing for 10 years, its is less interesting than something that evolves over time.
Perhaps the biggest change in Academic OB/GYN is that the man behind the machine is no longer an academic. In the fall of 2015 I left my most recent post at Emory University to enter private practice in Portland, OR at Pearl Womens’ Center. Its a great practice. We have our own operating rooms and our own staff, and a financial mechanism to capitalize on the skills we have while also providing great subspecialty surgical care at a cost that can beat any hospital. While I loved teaching, it seemed like my academic life had run its course. I know I will never be a person that writes two hundred peer reviewed articles, yet that seemed to be what was required to ascend in academia. At Emory, for the first time, I entered into the leadership of a great department. It was a great honor and I got a lot done. But I also found out that it took a lot of time and involved a lot of meetings with big groups of people, which in the end wasn’t for me. It seemed like the larger the meetings were, the more time it took and the less was actually accomplished. And those meetings were large. I spent a lot of hours away from my wife and young child, and it didn’t look like that would ever change. But that is what is required to be a successful academic. Furthermore, the social media rules of my employer really prevented me from continuing my online presence in the way I had in the past. It wasn’t entirely clear what I could or couldn’t do, but there seemed to be a lot of concern about people having brand outside of the mothership. Everything I did was owned by Emory and had to be run through their people, and by and large their people were more worried about risk than they were about innovation. I had lot of ideas for social media for the department, but there never seemed to be much interest, and whatever interest there was was stymied by traditional media people who had no idea how to use social media effectively, or people that found small technical challenges to be unsurmountable obstacles. This had never been the case at the smaller institutions I had been at, but in truth in the smaller institutions I never asked anyone’s permission to do anything. I just did it, and people liked it. The last straw at Emory was that I used my social media presence to raise money for a patient that really needed help. She had a terrible surgical issue but wasn’t able to be out of work long enough to recover from the major surgery. I knew we could help her, but her near-destitute social situation made it impossible. So I harnessed my social media brand to raise a few thousand dollars for her. It was quite easy, and in 24 hours I had the money we needed. People were happy to give and were inspired by my effort as well. It was probably the greatest thing I ever did as a physician. But at a departmental level it was a big problem. Instead of praise, I was almost fired for it. So many questions were asked. “if you do it for this patient what about other patients?” (since when did spontaneous charitable acts have to be equally distributed across the entire universe?) “you can’t use a patient’s story without her consent” (uh.. I had her consent, so much so she cried when I offered help her) “you are setting a bad example for the residents” (actually I am setting an awesome example for the residents). For all these years of doing Academic OB/GYN I had gotten little back in return for all the effort. But in that moment I realized I had developed a certain power from it, and I did not hesitate to use that power for the benefit of my patient. I broke all kinds of institutional rules, but they were rules intended for entirely different purposes, completely out of context to the actual matter at hand. And sometimes a person just has to break a rule to get something done. So while an entire residency was inspired by a truly great act by one of their attendings, institutional leadership was concerned about a rebel attending that was willing to break rules to help a patient. Perhaps worse, they had great concern that I was fanning the flames of a budding uprising among the residents, as they started to take my side over theirs. In the end, they did what they had to do, but it left me feeling like maybe it wasn’t my place anymore.
The other problem was academic promotion. In Academic OB/GYN I had created tremendous body of work, with hundreds of published elements in text, audio, and video, some of which had thousands of viewers each. I had readers and viewers in over 100 countries. But in the traditional academic sense, I had only a handful of peer reviewed publications and articles. After ten years in academia I had very little to show that would ever get me promoted, even though I feel that in many ways I had made more national and international impact than many of my colleagues. In the end, I don’t think academia really knows how to value something like Academic OB/GYN. It is unquestionably my greatest body of work, but in the world of academic resumes and CVs, its worth exactly nothing. I was told that after ten years my academic career was still just getting started and there wasn’t enough to justify me being promoted. And I looked at what I would have to do to get promoted, and realized that it just wasn’t something that interested me enough to pursue. And so after thinking about this and a lot of other personal reasons, my wife and I decided we would leave and move to Portland, where I grew up and where my extended family resides.
The great thing about me leaving is that now I am again free to do whatever I like with Academic OB/GYN. It was very dormant during my Emory years, but now it is free to grow again, and it will. I have contacted Paul Browne and he is ready to fire up the podcast again, and we will be doing so. At the same time, my new partner Rick Rosenfield and I have started Ask The Pearl, a video podcast about important topics for patients in OB/GYN. Where Academic OB/GYN podcast was clearly directed at doctors and the highly educated public, Ask the Pearl is for all patients to get basic women’s health information in a fun and informative way. We are only a few episodes in but it is growing already!
Thank you all for being fans, readers, and listeners of the blog and podcast. It has been a great 7 years so far, and hopefully the future will be even better.
And if you are going to AAGL this year and have appreciated my work over the last eight years, please go to the Tuesday evening Hologic function and vote for Academic OB/GYN in the AAGL Oscars. Its great to be nominated, but even better to win. | <urn:uuid:e19618fd-34ec-4ad3-b835-e0493f334599> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://academicobgyn.com/2015/11/06/the-history-of-academic-obgyn/ | 2017-03-26T03:32:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189092.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00087-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986221 | 2,647 |
Fried with pork, prawns and squid rings, the yellow noodles and thin bee hoon at Geylang Lor 29 Fried Hokkien Mee are extremely tasty and flavourful. Definitely a hot favourite among locals by judging from the lines forming during peak periods.
Using a classic stock, this Hokkien mee comes nicely moist, rich and robust. Another key ingredient is the Sambal chilli and lime, which makes all the difference. Zesty and not too spicy, it complements the dish perfectly.
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New Delhi, Mar.28 (ANI): Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) investments in India have grown substantially in the last year. The total amount invested in 2015 was 9.2 billion dollars, an increase of almost 10 percent.
The investment in Indian stocks added up to 5.4 billion dollars and was spread across 248 companies.
Similarly, the investments in bonds increased as well and totalled 3.5 billion dollars in 2015. In 2014, the total amount invested in Indian stocks and bonds was 8.4 billion dollars, last year it amplified to 9.2 billion dollars.
The Government Pension Fund Global invests in companies in a wide range of sectors. All investments are vetted by an ethics committee based on guidelines laid out by the Norwegian Parliament. One of the new investments in 2015 was in Coffee Day enterprises, the popular Cafe Coffee Day branches that can be found all over India. The largest investment was in Infosys which increased by 30 million from 2014. Other companies included Axis Bank, Maruti Suzuki and Indian governmental bonds.
GPFG is one of the largest sovereign wealth funds globally, with a market value of 7,100 billion Norwegian kroner at the beginning of 2016 – or some 880 billion US dollars. Its purpose is to safeguard the future of Norway and its inhabitants, and to make sure that the revenues gained from the oil and gas sector will benefit future generations, also.
The GPFG was established in 1990 to manage the vast revenues from the North Sea. Since its USD 7 billion worth in 1996, the fund has grown to become the holder of 1,3 % of all shares globally, and 2,4 % of the shares on the European market. The Government Pension Fund Global aims to make the most of its two distinguishing characteristics, its long-term approach and its considerable size, to generate strong returns and safeguard the interests of future generations. (ANI) | <urn:uuid:14cb1dc0-415e-473d-baba-b0ec3f2cd1a5> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | http://www.canindia.com/continued-growth-for-norwegian-pension-fund-in-india/ | 2018-02-22T20:59:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814290.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222200259-20180222220259-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.954924 | 385 |
Luis Bravo is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania
In 2008, California became the first state to deprive citizens of their rights by rewriting its constitution through the passage of the infamous, Proposition 8. Amongst heavy opposition, this amendment limited the recognition of marriage to unions between a man and a woman, dissolving the previously instituted marriage rights of same-sex couples. Its ratification is largely attributed to The Church of Latter-Day Saints which heavily funded a series of successful media campaigns under the guise of the nonprofit, the National Organization For Marriage. This funding was subsequently utilized to produce propaganda in various formats to sway public opinion. Under federal regulations, however, nonprofit organizations are prohibited from participating in political activities or risk losing their tax-exempt status. Nevertheless, due to the Citizens United decision in conjunction with ambiguous tax codes, these practices are deemed permissible, granting nonprofits an unrestrained ability to affect American politics. In order to have a truly just nation, one that embodies the democratic ideals we strive to uphold, it is essential that we reevaluate existing policies and instate stricter provisions to limit the power of nonprofit interest groups.
As their name implies, nonprofit groups are organizations that redistribute any economic revenue for the sole purpose of aiding the lives of others. The United States’ Internal Revenue Services recognizes the merit of such organizations and awards them a tax-exempt status as outlined in section 501(c) of the IRS tax code. In other words, these groups operate as if they had no income. While there are many types of nonprofits, most fall under the category of 501(c)(3) which are groups with charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes, among others. Meant to be isolated from political issues, donations to these groups qualify as tax deductions in individual income tax reports for the donors. Similarly, most other nonprofits fall under section 501(c)(4), which are groups meant to operate exclusively for the general welfare, but have become increasingly active in political campaigns. Because these groups are allowed minimal political involvement, donors do not qualify for tax deductions, but nonprofits are still not taxed for any of the money they receive. Several nonprofits have circumvented this by creating two distinct groups, one a 501(c)(3) and the other a 501(c)(4). In this way, money can be easily transferred between both organizations, and can be used for political purposes; in addition, donors will always qualify for tax deduction. This loophole is vital because both types of nonprofits are not subject to disclosure laws. While groups in the 501(c)(4) category are allowed greater political freedoms, it is important to recognize that neither group is legally able to support or endorse any partisan candidate or action.
However, that is exactly what has been occurring. Nonprofit groups such as United Against Nuclear Iran are utilizing nontaxable economic resources to advocate partisan legislative action. Much like the National Organization For Marriage, these groups create and distribute propaganda and even call constituents urging them to take a specific course of action. Moreover, these kinds of nonprofits are expected to increase their influence in the 2016 presidential race. Currently, eight Republican candidates have established nonprofits to support their campaigns. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has also expressed interest in raising money through the group, Priorities USA Action. The real danger from nonprofits comes from a lack of transparency. As they are not legally required to comprehensively disclose their funding sources, it is difficult to track donors; even if records are requested, the sources can be completely opaque. In essence, this means that monumentally wealthy individuals and behemoth corporations can indirectly support campaigns or political movements without being exposed (and all while enjoying a hefty tax deduction).
Although in an ideal world the Citizens United decision would be overturned, the current political climate would not allow such a monumental change. Therefore, we must dismantle this judicial error in fragments. Principally, the IRS must develop clear limits on the permissible political activities of nonprofits--the current guidelines are awfully vague. By doing so, the government would be able to hold nonprofits accountable for inappropriate political involvement. Additionally, the IRS must mandate nonprofits, especially those with dubious political affiliations, to provide detailed and periodic expense reports outlining both the sources of their funding and the intended use of those funds. It is time the IRS stops turning a blind eye on these organizations.
The greatest impact of the Citizens United decision was the desertion, without proper justification, of the previously held definition of corruption. Instead, it was replaced by a narrower definition that requires explicitly quid pro quo actions; in other words, there must be a clear evidence of bribery. This definition, however, is not extensive, and allows a range of activities that under other definitions of corruption would be impermissible. Ultimately, we should reinstate the legal definition of corruption that has been used in the past, or better yet, adopt a more comprehensive definition that incorporates issues unique to contemporary society.
In no way am I advocating that individuals, or even corporations, should be prohibited from supporting candidates or legislative action. I do believe, however, that at the very least, individuals should have the ability to know who is behind these massive ad campaigns that most Americans are exposed to. Seemingly innocent nonprofit organizations such as Energy Tomorrow run advertisements that look like they stem from individual interests, and I believe that if more Americans were aware that groups such as the American Petroleum Industry are a major source of their funding, the political opinions of the American people would drastically change. Additionally, if these interest groups under the guise of nonprofits choose to participate in political activities, it is imperative they be taxed accordingly. The sad reality is that money is power. However, taxation allows the economic playing field to be somewhat leveled, if only minimally. While we are a long way from achieving transparency in politics, reducing the political power of nonprofits is integral to the process, and a powerful start.
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The NRL's biosecurity expert says there is no need for a pre-season training bubble before players return to their clubs next week, with the game adopting an "Apollo Standby" model for the 2021 campaign.
Associate professor David Heslop, who sits on the NRL’s Project Apollo committee and has helped steer the game through the pandemic, said he had advised the game's leaders this month that a return to bubble protocols would not be required for 2021 - despite a spike of COVID-19 cases on Sydney's northern beaches.
"We've moved the Apollo protocols into what we call Apollo Standby," he said. "Apollo Standby is designed to retain all of the functions that allow the NRL to respond quickly to an event like what's happening on the northern beaches.
"We've got the protocols that we have, but we can dial them up and down as we need and that's been my advice to the NRL."
The NRL confirmed on Monday that players from the northern beaches had been granted exemptions from lockdown protocols so they could attend training.
NSW Health guidelines state workers who are unable to work from home are able to travel to and from the northern beaches.
"The lockdown orders do permit certain activities to occur, so necessary training activities in preparation for an elite sportsperson, which the NRL players are, are permitted," Heslop said. "But that has to be done acknowledging the risks."
The Sea Eagles have been most affected by the restrictions. A handful of players at other Sydney clubs are based on the northern beaches.
Manly have been told they are allowed to continue training with their full squad given the exemptions for work. Every Sea Eagles player will be required to be screened at training and must document their daily movements. Staff have been asked to work from home where possible.
Heslop said the only reason he would advise the NRL to move back to full Apollo protocols was if there was another wave before the start of the season.
"My view is that the current outbreak looks to be a spike," he said. "There's no requirement to move the entire competition and all clubs back into a strict protocol, that's unnecessary."
Instead, Heslop will advise the NRL to move to a more relaxed Apollo bubble before the season start in March.
"If we've got very little cases going through the community, then a modified version of the protocols, which were toned down, much like the end of the season, is what we will probably look at," he said. "We'll have some of the protocols back but not as strict as what they were last season."
Heslop also believes the NRL will be able to welcome full-capacity crowds for the entire season.
"There's no difference in fundamental terms to what's happening now, compared to the grand final," he said. "So, no, I don't see any barriers to having crowds."
Originally, the NRL hoped its players would be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccination ahead of the season's start. But the game has since been told players will be low on NSW Health's priority list, meaning modified COVID protocols will be needed.
"What we're going to have is gradually lowering the risk in the general population to the NRL and, hopefully, no outbreaks," he said.
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As the transfers from Rutgers continue to gain immediately eligibility (Derrick Randall was granted his tonight), Kerwin Okoro sits with a denied waiver. Rutgers has, as we said, appealed the ruling, and social media has turned against the NCAA.
Gary Parrish, Dick Vitale, Jeff Goodman, Jay Bilas, Andy Katz and many other national media figures have tweeted their support. It even made the Yahoo! front page.
But now its your turn, Rutgers fans. Social Media is a powerful tool. Try to get the #FreeOkoro hashtag trending if you're on Twitter. Its the least we can attempt.
Here's what Katz had to say.
The NCAA has lacked consistency on granting waivers, whether for an ill relative, in the wake of a coaching firing, following an NCAA violation or any other issue. But the national office cannot, rationally, be inconsistent on waivers when it deals with the same case. If a former Rutgers player is eligible immediately at a new school (Mike Poole at Iona and Vincent Garrett at Green Bay) because he fled the reign of former coach Mike Rice, then a new player (Kerwin Okoro or J.J. Moore) should be granted the same treatment and be allowed to play at Rutgers immediately. Okoro's case, involving the loss of his brother and father, has been well documented -- he clearly has a sympathetic reason to be granted a waiver. But there is a fairness issue for Rutgers that should come into play if departed players are getting a better deal. Two more -- Derrick Randall at Pitt and Eli Carter at Florida -- may also get immediate eligibility. The only break the Scarlet Knights got was when Jerome Seagears was not penalized after he came back to Rutgers from Auburn two months after announcing he would transfer. New Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan said Wednesday there is another appeal coming for Okoro, with a different set of eyes and ears to evaluate the grievances. He said he's hopeful there will be a sensible conclusion. | <urn:uuid:d28cf403-dc21-4aa7-adba-4619461de3f3> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.onthebanks.com/2013/8/22/4649394/freeokoro | 2014-08-01T11:50:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510274979.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011754-00142-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973897 | 405 |
Organic foods, including peanut butter, are grown and made without the use of pesticides and other chemicals. If this isn't enough of a pro to convince you to give organic peanut butter a try, many brands of organic peanut butter are also more nutritious than conventional peanut butter because manufacturers pay close attention to the ingredients included in the recipe. The picture isn't all rosy, however, because there are certain drawbacks to consider before choosing which jar of peanut butter you'll put in your grocery cart.
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Organic foods are grown without the use of pesticides. The U.S. Department of Agriculture notes that organic foods are also grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, irradiation, sewage sludge and genetic engineering. This means that the food is better for you because you're not being exposed to chemicals and other substances that can harm your health. It also means that farmers and manufacturers are considering the environmental impact of making the food.
It Might Be More Nutritious
While organic foods contain fewer synthetic chemicals, they aren't always more nutritious, in terms of vitamin and mineral content, than conventionally grown and manufactured foods, according to Jeff Cox, author of "The Organic Food Shopper's Guide." Some organic food manufacturers identify other ways to make certain foods healthier so that the organic product ends up supplying more in the way of vitamins and minerals or less in the way of sugar and salt. Many organic food companies use fewer additives, coloring and preservatives in their foods to further increase the health value, according to Lisa Barnes, author of "Petit Appetit: Eat, Drink, and be Merry."
It Costs More
One primary disadvantage to choosing organic peanut butter is that it tends to cost more than traditional peanut butter. As of 2014, a jar of regular peanut butter might cost $2 or $3, while a jar of organic can cost up to $5 or more, depending on the brand. According to the Rodale Institute, it costs more to grow peanuts organically than conventionally, and that added cost is passed onto the consumer so farmers and manufacturers are able to profit from the product. The cost of going completely organic is daunting to many consumers, who opt instead to pick and choose what foods to buy organic and which to purchase in conventional form.
It Tastes Different
The taste and texture of organic peanut butter can be different than that of traditional peanut butter. This is especially true if the organic peanut butter is also lower in sugar and salt than traditional peanut butter. If you're committed to going organic, it'll take a few tries to get used to the different taste, but over time, you'll adjust and will likely to come to enjoy the peanut butter. In the meantime, combine the organic peanut butter with other ingredients, such as fresh organic fruit or organic jelly, to help your taste buds adjust. Another alternative is to make your own peanut butter, using organic peanuts, of course, so you can control what ingredients you use and, therefore, control the taste. | <urn:uuid:99e5cbf0-920a-40d8-8902-53b4bd319a2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.livestrong.com/article/219371-the-pros-cons-of-organic-peanut-butter/ | 2022-08-18T05:31:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00123.warc.gz | en | 0.956165 | 617 |
The Blacker The Berry (Wild Wild West Book 2) – Kindle edition by Lena Matthews. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The Blacker The Berry By Lena Matthews – FictionDB. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. “The Blacker the Berry” Tamara Holifield could never have guessed one little favor would change her entire world, but it does. When her best friend Charlotte’s .
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ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. Starting up a new venture is going llena take time and focus and the last thing he needs is the distraction of his sexy carpooler. It messes with my ability to suspend my disbelief. Sorry, but nothing los First, what gave this E-book a problem was the format I had to download it in. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
You are picking some some good ones this week! I was routing for this couple. I absolutely adored the story of Charlotte and Ty but I feel in love with the story of Tamara and Russell.
The chemistry was amazing! Loved the strength of Charlottes and Tamara’s friendship.
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Them is fighting words! There were a few moments where I was less than satisfied to references to Tamara’s body as the fat female protagonist and overall descriptions were a little blscker. Mar 05, Ashley rated it it was amazing. Matthews for an awesome read! And to bring a little cheesiness into your life: You see, all-the-authors-that-can’t-produce-a-half-decent-herione-if-their-life-depended-on-it, this is how it’s done!
After all, Tamara did tell Russell that “once you go black, you can’t go back”.
Refresh and try again. I know I did Tamara is a character I connect matthwws cause she doesn’t take any bullshit and she’s comfortable in her own skin.
I have this novel in paperback. Good Stuff This was such a sweet romance just like the kind you used to get in the old black and white movies. May 17, A. Matthews touched on the race issue and in both books the matter was nipped in the bud right away and dealt with quite well I thought… The usual suspect was evident in THE BLACKER THE BERRY in the guise of the woman wronged and the other man, but they all were there to open the eyes of the main players and because of that I didn’t mind them so much… If you have never tried Lena Matthews before — pick up something of hers now, she is an author that will make you laugh out loud.
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Aug 23, ML rated it liked it. Sep 11, BlebeTanja rated it really liked it.
To Russell being his own man and knowing what he wants and willing to take said bull by the horns. Want to Read saving….
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ELT 334 Electronics
3 hours; 3 credits
Physics and characteristics of semiconductor solid state devices. Analysis and application of transistor circuits. Time varying signal behavior of solid device circuits and systems including power applications and frequency response. Introduction to modulation and communications.
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