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smithsonianmag
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© Madeleine Montgomery. All rights reserved.
This photo contrasts the movement of the clouds with the steadiness of the rock. This conflict draws the viewer in and keeps the composition visually interesting.
Date Uploaded: Sept. 27, 2015, 1:06 a.m.
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2019-04-26T10:41:43Z
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/mobile/move-1/?ordering=-uploaded_at&filters=
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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This is more than a word that is heard daily in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
It is in every breath that is inhaled and exhaled, it is a determination and the practice of staying put for Palestinians.
It is the non-violent struggle to remain on their land, the connection to their history, the hope for their future. It is the perseverance that keeps Palestinians strong in the face of adversity.
It is the deep certainty in the minds of Palestinians, who struggle daily to keep their homes, their livelihood and their families safe, that one day they will see justice.
Images for the exhibition were taken by volunteers on the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel during their three month posting from February – May, 2012.
Sumud is, from behind bars, to name your first daughter, Amal (hope) and then, from exile, your second daughter, Amaal (hopes).
Sumud is to teach your children to swim in the local swimming pool; to be ready one day to embrace the blueness of the sea that you, yourself, have never seen.
Sumud is to re-build your house for the third time after the army demolished it – again – and then to have a fierce argument with your partner over the best place to plant the rose trees so that they can withstand the next demolition.
Sumud, is to slip out of the house at dawn, to cross the check-point, then to return quietly home just before midnight so you don’t disturb the dreams of your child.
Sumud, is to conspire, or to day dream, on how to break the rule of law of the Israeli iron cage just to kiss the girl across the road.
Sumud, is a doubly rebellious child born at a checkpoint on the way to hospital against the wishes of the mother and the orders of the soldiers.
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2019-04-23T01:56:07Z
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https://hebronleichhardt.wordpress.com/events/past-events/festival-2012/join-us-for-our-photography-exhibition-steadfastness/
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Arts
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Kids
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uiowa
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Xu Liu, a biochemistry PhD student mentored by Dr. Ernesto Fuentes, successfully defended his thesis on December 1, 2014, entitled “Specificity, Structure, Dynamics and Inhibition of the Tiam PDZ Domain/Ligand Complexes”. Xu is currently a post-doctoral research scholar in Dr. Ernesto Fuentes Laboratory. Later this year, he will begin a post-doctoral position in the Laboratory of Georges Mer at the Mayo Clinic.
Casey Andrews, a biochemistry PhD student mentored by Dr. Adrian Elcock successfully defended his thesis on December 2, 2014, entitled “Coarse Grained Potential Functions for Proteins Derived from All-Atom Explicit-Solvent Molecular Dynamics Simulations”. Casey currently holds a post-doctoral research scholar position in the lab of Dr. Adrian Elcock. Casey will also be teaching under Dr. Adam Moser at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
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2019-04-20T13:03:35Z
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http://medcom.uiowa.edu/biochem/2015/01/
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Arts
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Science
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mediabistro
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As the Email Marketing Specialist, you will assist with the execution and analysis of email marketing campaigns for the Marketing and Admissions teams. You will utilize our marketing automation platform (Marketo) to launch and analyze email campaigns on a daily basis, as well as develop long-term messaging strategy including various nurture and engagement campaigns. You must thrive in a fast-paced business environment and have the ability to adapt to changing priorities and strict deadlines.
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2019-04-23T22:09:12Z
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https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/description/390967/email-marketing-specialist/
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Arts
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Business
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wordpress
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Boo. Hiss. There is a lot of complaining about spammers, but now they have crossed the line.
Cote clued me in to co.mments two years ago. In my book, this site was the hands-down sleeper hit of the Web 2.0 world. It provided a personalized and surgical way to slice through web conversations. My co.mments feed in Bloglines was the first feed I checked – every day, no exceptions.
What a drag – is there anything to replace this? I will seriously miss this service. Thanks for the ride, Assaf.
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2019-04-22T13:15:57Z
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https://scottmark.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/in-mourning-comments-shutting-down-due-to-spammers/
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Arts
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Reference
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nytimes
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Shawn Thew/European Pressphoto AgencyRobert S. Mueller III, who became the F.B.I. director just a week before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, will complete his 10-year term on Sept. 4.
President Obama is asking Congress to pass legislation that would extend the 10-year term of Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by two years, the White House said in a statement Thursday. Mr. Mueller’s tenure is scheduled to end on Sept. 4.
Mr. Mueller, who took office a week before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has overseen the transformation of the F.B.I. from an agency dedicated to criminal investigations to one that is a major player in the nation’s global antiterrorism effort.
While it is unclear how Congress will respond, Mr. Mueller enjoys widespread bipartisan support on Capitol Hill — appointed by President George W. Bush, Mr. Mueller won unanimous confirmation from the Senate in 2001 and was appointed to previous jobs by President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, and President Bill Clinton, a Democrat — and Mr. Obama’s request is likely to get deference.
The announcement comes after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. began conducting a high-level search for a replacement. F.B.I. directors are limited by law to a single 10-year term, and Mr. Mueller has been traveling globally on what has been characterized as his farewell tour.
While a two-year extension would keep Mr. Mueller in place past the 2012 election, White House press secretary Jay Carney said considerations of presidential politics were not a factor in setting two years as the length of the extension. He cited instead the difficulty of the director’s job, and the fact that Mr. Mueller had held it for nearly 10 years in particularly stressful times.
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2019-04-18T18:43:40Z
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https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/obama-seeks-extension-of-muellers-term-as-fbi-director/
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Arts
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Business
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wordpress
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Cricket is a national passion, the one thing that unifies Pakistanis both at home and across the world. We truly do bleed green around the time of the World Cup. What better time than to launch the cricket chapter of the Serena Hotels Sports Diplomacy Initiative? Life is always bustling at Serena Hotels, but these past few weeks have been especially exciting. This is of course because of the Cricket World Cup 2015. The Opening ceremonies were held this past weekend in Melbourne and Christchurch. Here at home, we’ve embraced green for our boys playing in Australia. Ideally, we’d be cheering them along from front row seats in the stadium but we’re making do by cheering them from here as well!
On 7th & 8th February, we held our first annual Cricket Tournament. Embassies participating in the tournament included the Indian High Commission, a combined team of Australian & British High Commissions (Excellencies Peter Heyward and Philip Barton were part of the team), the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and a combined team of Sri Lankan & Bangladesh High Commissions. Excellencies Janan Mosazai, Jayalath Weerakody and Suhrab Hossein were present to support their players. Other strong teams included a team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Pakistan Air Force. The Afghans won the two day tournament, with a beaming High Commissioner H.E Janan Mosazai accepting the trophy on behalf of his team.
It became apparent that the hunger for a good game of cricket was not satiated however, when the morning of the 13th rolled around. Befittingly, Serena Hotels, The Australian High Commission and the Pakistan Cricket Board teamed up on the day to bring the great cricketing nations together to play an Exhibition Match on the heels of the opening of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.
The Exhibition Match took place at Marghzar Cricket Ground between 10am and 4pm, with two teams – PCB XI and Diplomatic XI – playing a T20 Match. Cricketing icons such as Mr, Intikhab Alam (Pakistan and Surrey), former cricketing Captain of the Pakistan Cricket team and coach of the Pakistan team when it won the T-20 World Cup, played in the match, along with cricketing veterans such as Mohsin Kamal. The Australian High Commissioner H.E Peter Heyward, British High Commissioner H.E Philip Barton and Ambassador of the European Union Delegation H.E Lars-Gunnar Wigemark also took part in the match.
The sunny morning began with the Diplomatic team winning the toss and choosing to field first. The PCB team finished the 20 over innings with a total score of 179. The Diplomats valiantly gave chose to the score and eventually managed to finish with a total of 119. The match was won by PCB XI by 60 runs.
What’s left then? An exciting six weeks of cricket. We have many more events planned. The restaurants are live screening all the matches and our staff is decked out in green. There’s even a gorgeous lobby display out there with a clubhouse selling — get this! — cricket equipment from the famed Malik Bats.
This entry was posted on February 17, 2015 by Serena Hotels in Uncategorized.
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2019-04-19T01:24:19Z
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https://serenahotels.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/cricket-fever-catches-on/
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menshealth
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You’ve probably heard us espousing the fat-burning benefits of cold exposure. As well as avoiding an energy bill that sends shivers down your spine, dialing down the thermometer stimulates the production of metabolically active ‘brown fat’ cells, which burn more calories than their average white fat colleagues.
If the prospect of enduring the colder months unable to take your coat off indoors leaves you cool (and Scrooges aside, it should) there's some new research worth mulling over: the antioxidant resveratrol could deliver the same brown fat-boosting benefits – in a far more comfortable fashion. In a study by Washington State University, mice fed on resveratrol-rich fruit extracts saw metabolic changes that helped them gain 40% less weight than a control group. But while a punnet of blueberries is all well and virtuous, we think a steaming mug of mulled wine is a more warming way to administer your dosage.
Skip the sugar, and simmer it with orange and cranberries (another source of resveratrol), along with spices such as cinnamon and cloves, which are proven to level-off your blood sugar after a stodgy meal, you're less likely to launch into the mince pies ahead of schedule. A leaner physique is for life. But that's not to say you can't have one by Christmas.
Ursolic acid, a compound in apple skin, turns white fat cells into blubber-burning brown, as well as supporting muscle growth and reducing fat storage in the liver. It’s an easy way to target weight gain at the core.
Bag a window seat at work. Exposure to short-wave morning light supports the production of ‘sleep hormone’ melatonin later in the day, which in turn stimulates ‘beige fat’, a close cousin of brown. And far less boring than it sounds.
Not ready to commit to a life without central heating? Place a cold press across your shoulders – where much of the body’s brown fat is concentrated – for an hour. Or just lose a layer for your next parkrun, if you don’t fancy wearing frozen peas as shoulder pads.
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2019-04-26T16:27:13Z
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https://www.menshealth.com/uk/weight-loss/a757182/the-hot-new-way-to-warm-up-your-metabolism/
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Recreation
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imslp
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Braunschweig: Collection Litolff, No.1965, n.d..
This item is from the Collezione "Daini Bixio". Cover page missing.
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2019-04-24T17:59:14Z
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https://imslp.org/wiki/3_Duos_concertants,_Op.114_(F%C3%BCrstenau,_Anton_Bernhard)
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Arts
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fordham
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I like this course for students, does anything exist like this for faculty?
As part of Instructional Technology Academic Computing (ITAC), our mission is to assist Fordham faculty in integrating innovative technology in both their teaching and research/scholarship.
Kristen Treglia, Senior Instructional Technologist at Fordham University.To report broken links or request additional information contact Kristen: treglia@fordham.edu.
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2019-04-23T23:06:24Z
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http://facultytech.it.fordham.edu/index.php/online-learning-resource/copyright/
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Arts
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Computers
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nme
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Disclosure have shared the full version of their BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix.
The mix was originally broadcast on the station back in August (2013), but Guy and Howard Lawrence have now shared the full, unedited version without voiceovers or idents on SoundCloud. Listen to it below.
Earlier today, the duo responded to Azealia Banks‘ claim that she dropped a collaboration they worked on together from her debut album because they were “rude”.
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2019-04-21T00:23:53Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/disclosure-72-1247233
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Arts
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festivalnet
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Festivals in Coopersville, MI. Family & Kids Festivals, Craft Shows, Festivals.
A Festival organized by Coopersville Car Show / Summerfest.
This Michigan Festival will have Fine Art, Fine Craft, Crafts, Flea Market, Commercial/Retail, Homegrown Products and Antique/Collectibles exhibitors, and 10 food booths. This event will also include: car cruise, family friendly entertainment tent, kids fest with rides, games and a movie.
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2019-04-26T07:40:42Z
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https://festivalnet.com/state/michigan/Coopersville_MI.html
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Arts
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Arts
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cornell
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(513) 777-0880Capital University Law SchoolAshland University and Ohio State University - ColumbusOhio and KentuckyOhio State Bar, U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky...Bankruptcy Secrets-Live!
The LII Lawyer Directory contains lawyers who have claimed their profiles and are actively seeking clients. Find more Loveland, Ohio Lawyers in the Justia Legal Services and Lawyers Directory which includes profiles of more than one million lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, in addition to profiles of legal aid, pro bono and legal service organizations.
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2019-04-23T10:14:15Z
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https://lawyers.law.cornell.edu/lawyers/ohio/loveland
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Business
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apple
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The whole city is your playground! Forget everything you know about driving and free yourself from the shackles of traffic rules! From urban roads busy with traffic ascend high onto rooftops. Take sharp turns, avoiding dangers and trying to reach your goal in the shortest time. Jump from building to building, laughing about other drivers who still think their car belongs on the ground. Find new and creative ways of using your vehicle. After all is done, remember to park it with style!
You will test the limits of 10 different vehicles. Select a pickup, a minivan, a taxi, a garbage truck or even a bus. Each one will behave a bit differently, forcing you to adjust your driving habbits as you play.
Other drivers may be oblivious to some of your exploits, but they’re still there. While on the ground you will have to avoid traffic, watching carefully not to crash.
The game’s urban environment is yours to explore. Every detail is here to enhance your driving experience and present you with new, surprising challenges.
It’s a good game but there need to be some bug fixes, so far I have found 2.
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2019-04-22T23:20:21Z
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/city-driver-roof-parking-challenge/id1222874910?mt=8
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Arts
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Games
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scu
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"Interactive effects of multiple stressors revealed by sequencing total" by Simone C. Birrer, Katherine A. Dafforn et al.
Birrer, SC, Dafforn, KA, Simpson, SL, Kelaher, BP, Potts, J, Scanes, P & Johnston, EL 2018, 'Interactive effects of multiple stressors revealed by sequencing total (DNA) and active (RNA) components of experimental sediment microbial communities', The Science of the Total Environment, vol. 637-638, pp. 1383-1394.
Coastal waterways are increasingly exposed to multiple stressors, e.g. contaminants that can be delivered via pulse or press exposures. Therefore, it is crucial that ecological impacts can be differentiated among stressors to manage ecosystem threats. We investigated microbial community development in sediments exposed to press and pulse stressors. Press exposures were created with in situ mesocosm sediments containing a range of 'metal' concentrations (sediment contaminated with multiple metal(loid)s) and organic enrichment (fertiliser), while the pulse exposure was simulated by a single dose of organic fertiliser. All treatments and exposure concentrations were crossed in a fully factorial field experiment. We used amplicon sequencing to compare the sensitivity of the 1) total (DNA) and active (RNA) component of 2) bacterial (16S rRNA) and eukaryotic (18S rRNA) communities to contaminant exposures. Overall microbial community change was greater when exposed to press than pulse stressors, with the bacterial community responding more strongly than the eukaryotes. The total bacterial community represents a more time-integrated measure of change and proved to be more sensitive to multiple stressors than the active community. Metals and organic enrichment treatments interacted such that the effect of metals was weaker when the sediment was organically enriched. Taxa-level analyses revealed that press enrichment resulted in potential functional changes, mainly involving nitrogen cycling. Furthermore, enrichment generally reduced the abundance of active eukaryotes in the sediment. As well as demonstrating interactive impacts of metals and organic enrichment, this study highlights the sensitivity of next-generation sequencing for ecosystem biomonitoring of interacting stressors and identifies opportunities for more targeted application.
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2019-04-21T12:55:01Z
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https://epubs.scu.edu.au/esm_pubs/3523/
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nzherald
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The community is being urged to come out and lend a hand to clean up 90 Mile Beach.
The organisers of the Great Ahipara/90 Mile Clean-up 2018 on Saturday week (November 10) are hoping for a strong response from the community.
"There are no organisations that will do this for us. It is not the responsibility of the FNDC or the Regional Council. No council or governmental organisation will clean the flotsam and waste off the beach for us," CBEC EcoSolutions environmental educator Jo Shanks said.
"The waste being left behind on the beach, or floating in on the tide, is building up, a mix of recyclables and plastics that never goes away. Plastic in the water kills sea life, and can make fish too toxic to eat."
Shane Clarkson had been the driving force behind last year's first, successful clean-up, when truckloads of waste were removed, including one load for recycling.
"This year we want to really knock it out of the park — or off the beach," Jo said.
EcoSolutions, Far North REAP, Kaitaia Timebank, Sweetwater Farms and the Ahipara Coastal Patrol were adding their energy this time, and would hopefully be supported by the wider community.
As well as picking up rubbish from "our longest, most beautiful beach," as much as possible of the disintegrating plastic matting that was installed 20 years ago, and was now making its way into the water as micro plastics, would be removed.
"Please let us know if you are going to come down the beach (from Hukatere or Waipapakauri Ramp) so we can sort out recycle/rubbish bags and a clean-up kit for your team," she added.
"Fulton Hogan has contributed $500 worth of petrol vouchers, so let us know if you will be joining us with your trucks and trailers.
"Repco, Carters, Hunting and Fishing and Placemakers have already donated some spot prizes, but more, and goodies for volunteers, are welcome. Groups, schools and organisations are also getting involved, but many hands will make light work.
REAP and Liquor King will provide refreshments for the volunteers, and Snagman and Whanau Meats are contributing sausages. Fingers crossed someone will be contributing bread and butter.
"Please show kaitiaki for Northland. Come along to Foreshore Rd at 8am for the karakia, 8.30am out to the beach till 11.30am. Let's see what we can do in a couple of hours, but remember, any day you visit the beach, be a tidy kaitiaki kiwi and keep our beach clean."
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2019-04-22T15:05:50Z
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=12152593
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Recreation
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studydrums
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Musical Time: "Finite to Infinity" ~ Synopsis . . .
Learn to easily jam and play music comfortably within any odd or even time signature. This is what they didn't teach you in music-theory classes. Discover more than 18 quintillion unique and different (modern music) song-beat structures. This knowledge will change the face of modern music styles.
Discover the (lost) 500 year-old enigmatic secrets concealed within the current time-signature system. This material has rarely (if ever) been taught in music theory classes, yet it is simple enough for grade-school students. Seven short and easy-to-follow lessons will lead you quickly and easily towards (musical-time) guru status. You will learn to visually imagine and see (read, write or feel) the existence of . . . MORE . . . than 18.4 quintillion new and different song-beat structures. Most have never been used.
Do not think that you already know these secrets. The odds are 18-quintillion-to-1 that you do not. We'll be examining time-signatures from an entirely new perspective. The DRUMMER'S perspective! If you are (at least) as intelligent as the drummer, you'll carry this knowledge with you and use it the rest of your life and career. You'll easily see (read, write and feel) the BIG PICTURE of all the potential rhythms within the musical universe.
The beat pattern of a song is the song's backbone. It is very often the 'hook' that sells the song. Until now, almost all the popular music from the 1920's until the present time (even jazz) has been monotonously constructed around just 5 or 6 primary song-beat structures and a few (about 80) of their possible 18.4 quintillion variation possibilities. What isn't commonly known is that up to the current time, we (the music community) have only utilized very small fractions of those song-beat variations or rhythmic-permutation potentials.
Every drummer on the planet should study this book. It is also easy enough for any musician to comprehend, thus allowing new surges of creativity for song-writers, composers, pianists, guitarists and bass players as well.
As we see the bird's-eye view of musical time and rhythm from this completely different perspective, nothing is left to the imagination, to doubt or to question. The new and different song-beat structures will embed themselves into any analytical mind. You'll be able to think a few seconds, then feel, play, jam, create or compose within any odd or even time-signature structure from 1/1 to 64/64 and beyond.
With the help of any drum machine, the song-writer or composer will be able to set-up and play most of these potentially new and different song-beat structures, then build entirely new and unique songs around them. Any of them! (More than 18-quintillion.) Are you currently aware of those (specific), 18,446,744,073,709,552,000 (18.4 quintillion) song-beat rhythmic structures?
NOTE: Some of our current drum-machines may not be designed to play certain segments of these beat-patterns, because the machine programmers may not be fully aware of this knowledge. In other words, the knowledge contained within this e-book may also improve the future quality of ALL drum-machines, as the inherent math and its rhythmic potentials become more widely known.
Knowledge is power! This easy to acquire knowledge will most likely launch completely new and different eras of uniquely original musical styles. Those who gain this knowledge, within barely and hour of this totally engrossing study, will automatically see (and feel) how to use it. Those with the creative song-writing and composing talents will most likely become the future innovators of new styles and potential eras of new music genre's.
For Example: 8th-note 4/4 is the most common song-beat structure in pop-music history. Hundreds of millions of popular songs have been based on that structure. It is a little known fact that 8th 4/4 (the primary rock beat) contains a whopping 4.3 billion potential beat variations or permutations. Collectively, all the songs and all the greatest of the great drummers are using only around 80 of those possibilities over and over. Most artists do not realize they have 4.3 billion other potential beat variations (rhythmic permutations) from which they could choose. This knowledge has not been available until now.
This e-book will become the very best investment you'll ever make towards your future musical career.
To discover how you may acquire this awesome book free and become a full-fledged member of this family of drumming enthusiasts, click this link. I want you to help make this web site as important to yourself as it is to many, many (less fortunates) around the World.
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2019-04-25T23:59:35Z
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http://studydrums.com/smaswdad.html
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Arts
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reuters
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Europe Day Ahead: More euro zone weakness?
April 9 - France and Italy release industrial output figures, just a day after data showed German imports and exports slumped unexpectedly in February. Plus the WTO unveils the latest global trade forecasts.
Watch -- for potentially more signs of weakness from the yards on Wednesday France and Italy by police industrial output figures just a day off today to show German imports. And exports slumped unexpectedly in February the news also comes as France's trade deficit worsened. Assignment France's economy is not out of the woods yet says I was -- That has not been sufficient programs to really read story on the competitiveness of friendship I'm companies in the results on the numbers that we see. And so I think I'm still very likely that we see the French economy. Contract thing this year of in the debt markets Italy's treasury social system builds on Wednesday appetite expected to be strong. As Italian debt shown resilience in the face of the Cypriot crisis in Berlin Germany sells through your bonds the San expected to bring in around five billion euros. In Geneva the World Trade Organization chief Pascal allow me unveils the organization's latest full cost for global trade next yet. When those are happy at least TDs leading indicators for glimpse into where the world's main developed economies might be headed. Prosper Oden decides on writes the Central Bank seen keeping rates. At a record low of three and a quarter percent but its next move will be quite some time in the second half of 2014. Analysts polled by voices. That's Soledad the -- thank. -- problems is wrong.
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2019-04-25T20:18:15Z
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https://uk.reuters.com/video/2013/04/09/europe-day-ahead-more-euro-zone-weakness?videoId=242139343&videoChannel=75
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Arts
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News
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lafayette
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How do professors teach college students to write? Or for that matter to form a mindset of intellectual curiosity?
For Suzanne Westfall, professor of theater, clear thinking leads to clear writing. She has taught a first-year writing-intensive course since its inception in 1989.
In her First-Year Seminar (FYS) “Theater and Visual Culture,” students are developing tools to analyze the thousands of images that surround them each day. For class this morning, students have read Patrice Pavis’ essay “Semiotics in Theatre” and are discussing the science of spectacle.
“If the text is the plot, what other languages are seen in performance?” Westfall asks.
Students begin to talk about the body, voice, set design, blocking, theater space, lighting, sound, smell, costumes … all aspects that make a printed text come to life and a performance take on meaning.
When asked how theater is different from church or sports, students slowly begin to see the intersections and similarities. But disagreements rise up too.
What’s occurring in this FYS strikes at the heart of the program’s goal: intellectual inquiry through intensive focus and discussion on a topic. Those wide-ranging topics include mushrooms, Appalachia, love, baseball, cookbooks, bread, warfare, plastic, coffee, happiness, democracy, social justice, and dogs.
Bianca Falbo, associate professor of English, teaches an FYS on dogs and directs the FYS program. Most colleges require a first-year composition class, but how it is executed can vary.
Lafayette’s FYS is a small-size, discussion-based, big-question kind of writing class.
While the topic sounds cute and cuddly, the course asks a bigger question: What is the domestic dog? It then digs deeper as readings over the course of the semester engage the question from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
There are ethical questions about human and animal relationships since the dog seems to have earned a different status from that of other animals. But the class talks about the ethics of eating animals, experimenting on them, and breeding them.
Her class will have faculty guests who talk about oxytocin research—roles dogs play in releasing the “love” hormone in our bodies (and their own). Another guest will talk about the biological evolution of dogs. A dog trainer who specializes in the sport of Canine Nose Work joins the class as well to talk about how dogs perceive the world through their noses.
Another critical component of FYS is library research. Lijuan Xu, associate director of research and instructional services, is paired with 11 sections of FYS. Other librarian staff on that team take on 38 more sections.
Through FYS, students are introduced to library resources and services and how to conduct college-level research. Each FYS has a designated librarian who conducts at least two library sessions.
Librarians collaborate with FYS instructors to tailor each session to students’ needs. During these sessions, librarians discuss with students the research support available at the library, how to search database efficiently and effectively, evaluate information critically, and integrate and present information.
Another critical component is writing assistance. The College Writing Program, coordinated by Christian Tatu and directed by Tim Laquintano, employs writing associates (WAs) to support all 49 sections of FYS (as well as other courses). Four times a semester a WA sits down with students from each FYS class. It might be a group meeting where the WA facilitates peer editing, or it might be a one-on-one where a student pitches an essay approach or gets help with a specific concern.
Tatu, who has taught an FYS on “Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse,” understands the challenges students face and can better prepare WAs for what’s coming. In some cases WAs are familiar with the courses or the professor, but the real strength of WAs lies not in their familiarity with the subject matter, but their ability to coach students who are drafting and revising.
As an experiment this year, Erica D’Agostino, dean of advising, Julie Mule, associate director of residence life, and Grace Reynolds, director of residence life, worked with Falbo and Rob Root, professor of mathematics, to pilot a housing component so students in their FYS classes share residential space. The hope was to activate collaboration outside the classroom.
Another recent addition was to assign each FYS class a PARDner—a student who helps first-years in their transition, development, and success. PARDners work with first-years from the start of New Student Orientation through the end of their first year.
But it starts in the classroom, and Patricia Donahue has been there from the start. In 1986, she, Westfall, and English Professor Debbie Byrd pioneered a general education program called the Freshman Common Experience—a two-semester course built around cities and civilizations.
The success of FYS later led to the creation of a required sophomore course on values and science and technology (VAST). The sophomore class was phased out with the advent of the current curriculum, but FYS remained and continues to serve as an introduction for students to academic discourse.
Donahue, a professor of English, has taught a variety of topics in her FYS … paradigms, evil, and, currently, revenge. Her students grapple with theory, philosophy, and ancient and modern texts.
For her the excitement of FYS is teaching topics outside areas of faculty expertise and engaging students who are eager to learn.
Leah Wasacz ’16 still remembers her experience in associate professor Chris Phillips‘ FYS, “Stories from the Archive.” The class dove into special collections at the library. Wasacz was fascinated by the journals of Professor James Henry Coffin, a notable meteorologist at that time, whose seminal text, Winds of Northern Hemisphere, was internationally recognized. Wasacz read the journals researching the divide between Coffin’s religious and scientific thoughts.
“The class helped confirm that English was a field of study I wanted to pursue, and Professor Phillips was an instrumental figure in that class and my education,” says Wasacz. “It was one of the best seminars I had at the College as classmates became friends and discussion was lively and inquisitive.” The impact goes further in that Wasacz was a WA for three years and now is a full-time reading and writing tutor at a community college.
What? Not a Big Essay?
While students dive into research, the traditional capstone research paper is not typical. The genres of writing are different, not just words on paper. Students create digital projects that work with the eye and ear, that blend text and performance. Some assignments are delivered as podcasts, infographics, blog posts, and research posters.
“We want FYS assignments to provide opportunities for first-year students to explore a range of genres so that they begin to see how writing changes depending on the rhetorical situation,” says Falbo.
Still, students follow time-tested processes of brainstorming, drafting, and revising. Some take field trips and journal or blog about those experiences. Still others create a portfolio of work.
Falbo had students launching into an informal writing assignment. In front of the classroom was a table of objects: a pink-camouflage stuffed animal dog, an empty bag of Taste of the Wild dog food, a choke collar, a bottle of dog vitamins, a framed picture of dogs from dog daycare, a box of Milk-Bone dog biscuits, a tin of dog breath mints, and more.
Students imagined they were sociologists studying human-dog relationships. They came from a dog-less culture where there were animals but no pets. As Falbo handed students random objects, they had to review the artifact and discern what it said about human-and-dog relationships.
Students with a shopping catalog saw monogrammed dog beds and gravy in corked wine bottles. Other pondered a “Dogs for Romney” button. Others contemplated a leash.
The dog-loving students had to de-familiarize themselves with items that might seem commonplace and recognize how dogs are anthropomorphized.
The conclusion in this room might be similar to the one in Westfall’s.
It’s only when we stand back that we can begin to see things in new ways, to contemplate how something is constructed and if that construction, when isolated into parts, makes sense. For first-year students, that meta-cognition helps begin to turn thinking into writing.
Read profiles of individual First-Year Seminars.
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https://news.lafayette.edu/2018/12/05/creativing-active-learning-environments/
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Brief survey of the German drama. Study of several representative modern plays. Emphasis on pronunciation and dramatic expression. Students will write and produce an original German play.
This course is designed for students who have lived or spent a semester or more studying abroad. It will enable students to reflect on how their immersion in a foreign culture has affected their values and vocation. By combining practical experiences with scholarly and artistic works, students will a) reflect on the role of culture, b) think about the articulation and application of values in the public sphere, c) explore the relation among politics, economics, culture, and society, and d) develop their own ethical perspectives as "global citizens." There will be a heavy emphasis on writing, group work, and oral presentations.
Students who develop an interest in a specialized area of the discipline for which course offerings are limited may follow a prescribed reading list under the direction of a faculty member with expertise in that area.
This course explores the life and works of Richard Wagner. Special focus will be on the literary sources he used as well as on the political, social, and cultural influences on his operas. Some time will be spent on the reactions to his musical works and his writings. Musical performances by students are not a part of this course. Students will be required to view recorded operas outside of class. The operas will be in German with English subtitles.
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2019-04-21T04:40:21Z
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https://www.luther.edu/stedso01/courses/
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Tides change as the relative position of the moon and sun changes. The amplitude, or range, between any two successive high tides (and low tides) gradually increases from some minimum height to a maximum value and then decreases back to a minimum.
Periods of maximum amplitude are referred to as spring tides; times of minimum amplitude are neap tides. This envelope of spring to neap occurs twice over a period of approximately 29 days.
Spring tides occur when the sun and moon are in alignment. This happens at either a new moon, when the sun and moon are on the same side of the earth, or at full moon, when they are on opposite sides of the earth. Neap tides occur at the intermediate points, the moon's first and third quarters.
Two tides are generally experienced per lunar day because tides represent a response to the increased gravitational attraction from (primarily) the moon on one side of the earth, balanced by a centrifugal force on the opposite side of the earth. These forces create a "bulge" or outward deflection in the water surface on the two opposing sides of the earth.
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2019-04-26T02:20:51Z
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https://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Missions/Coasts/Tales-of-the-Coast/Coastal-Dynamics/Tides/Tidal-Variability/
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Amateur Photographer magazine reports and campaigns on photographer’s rights. We have been invited a number of times to the Home Office to advice on photographers concerns.
If you have being stopped whilst taking photos, or want to share the images you were taking when stopped, send us your story. We are dedicated to defending photographers rights, reporting and campaigning against injustices and areas of concern.
Did Prince George photographer do anything wrong?
Police are embroiled in a dispute with a photographer who sought compensation after being stopped while taking pictures in a public place last year.
A photographer claims a police officer used offensive remarks and twice stopped him taking pictures of people queuing outside the London Palladium.
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2019-04-20T20:29:55Z
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https://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/tag/photographers-rights
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fodors
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smart card - any US issuers?
We are walking the Cotswold's. What's your favorite part of the trail?
Hotel for one night near RER B?
Trip Report: The dream trip is done and I am sad so I will relive London and Italy with my trip report.
Hotels in Lyon France..any reason to stay one night?
Trying to book a hotel in Budapest. What is a pension???
Feel funny asking this, but as a Jew, do you feel "funny" visiting Germany?
County Donegal - what is the best location to spend 12 days?
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2019-04-21T23:08:32Z
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https://www.fodors.com/community/europe/page5914/
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FENTON, Mo. – A newborn baby entered the world much faster than his parents were expecting. Instead of a hospital, Bergandi and Zach Mcelwain delivered their child at a Missouri fire station.
The baby was the couple’s third child, so they thought they knew what to expect.
Bergandi said during her first two pregnancies, she was in labor between eight and 12 hours, so she assumed she had some time, according to KTVI. About an hour after her contractions started, Bergandi and Zach started driving to the hospital.
Right when they were about to get onto the highway, Bergandi said her water broke and she knew the baby wasn’t far behind.
Zach could see the baby’s head, knew they weren’t going to make it to the hospital and sped to a fire station about a mile away.
Zach banged on the fire station doors. With the help of firefighters and paramedics, Zach helped to deliver his son.
“We think he’s going to be fast and furious, and I already have a couple of those at home, so I was planning on this to be my calm and collected and sobering child but I have a feeling he might not be that,” Bergandi said.
The couple is very thankful for the firefighters and paramedics that helped deliver their baby.
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2019-04-22T22:03:02Z
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https://kfor.com/2017/11/29/woman-gives-birth-in-parking-lot-of-missouri-fire-station/
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There has been some grumbling about all of the rain in Zürich lately — but none of it has been coming from me. Reading, writing, running — I’d rather do all of my favourite things in the rain. For the first two activities, rain provides that lovely “I should be inside doing this” feeling. For the third, it relieves the concerns about heat stroke and dehydration and sunburn that I consider to be major annoyances relating to running in the summer months.
Since I wrote about this last month, I’ve nearly doubled my mileage, and my pace has improved somewhat, although I have to qualify this by telling you that these numbers are something of a lie — they don’t include my walk breaks, which may be more frequent than I’d care to admit. You don’t get to press “stop” on the timer during a race, so I shouldn’t really be doing it in training, either…but the numbers become too depressing otherwise.
I’m now just past the half-marathon distance in my training, and I’m still surprised by how difficult it is. I’d assumed that doing this for the second time would be easier, but I forgot about a little thing called motivation. For the first-time marathoner, the motivation to accomplish the goal is huge — you want to prove that you can do what you set out to do. In this second round, I’m finding that my attitude is “yeah, I know I can do it…but am I crazy to want to?” I think a lot of repeat marathoners use time goals for motivation, but since it’s been a struggle for me to get back in shape, I don’t see how I’ll even manage to run as fast as I did last time. As of now, I will be running the race the same way I did in 2010 — no time goal; the only object to get myself past the finish line.
I’ve also been toying with the idea of using my run to raise a bit of money for a worthy cause, but I think I’ll hold off on committing to this until I see more proof that my legs are really capable of carrying me over this distance.
Sorry for the somewhat pessimistic update, but this is the way it feels at this point. We’ll see how things look in another month. I think recording this might serve as a useful reminder to my future self that if I can get my fitness back, I should not allow it to melt away again. Yep, it can melt like fondue cheese, or like that delicious melted chocolate I saw last week at the factory… Wait — Switzerland, surely you’re not trying to sabotage me?!
Running is such a joy, and running in warm Summer rain is a particular favourite of mine. You have been brilliant to get back to this level of fitness: I always get hooked on stats on times and drive myself too far(I don’t run nearly as far as you, it must be said): it’s nice to just have a finish-line goal…..
Thanks, Kate. I am at least grateful that I have the time to do all of this running — it’s a not insignificant commitment of hours, especially when you’re moving at my speed!
I have to agree…a second marathon is a lot harder than the first (for me it was harder both mentally and physically). But it also gives you more of a sense of legitimacy that you can do it again and it’s not just a one-off thing. Plus running can be such a big component of being healthy overall that I just kept trying to convince myself that at least it gives me a goal to work towards. Treat yourself to some new running gear every once in a while (or even a running magazine) to try and stay motivated! Keep us posted on your progress!
Thanks for the encouragement, Kim! I do really need a goal to strive for, otherwise my running becomes pretty aimless (read: infrequent and slow). I hope 3 months is enough to get me in shape for this. I will continue to update!
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2019-04-25T23:40:21Z
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https://milchtoast.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/t-minus-3-months/
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There are 19 reviews of Jimmy Choo Man.
Jimmy Choo Man (2014) is the debut entry into men's fragrance from the high-end shoe maker, and although it might feel common now that many other fragrances have come out in it's wake emulating what it had to offer, the fresh, clean, sweet, and bold scent of Jimmy Choo Man actually presaged many of the fruity amber-woods scents which now proliferate shopping malls. Anne Flipo was brought on board, and having done Invictus (2013) for Paco Rabanne the year before, plus having done some extensive work for both L'Artisan Parfumeur and Yves Saint Laurent (particularly in the L'Homme line), she seemed like a perfect fit. Indeed, what Anne concocted would be the next stepping stone towards the loud synthetic amber bomb new-age powerhouses we suffer today, but thankfully she didn't imbue this scent with quite the same volume. Now, I like do like some fruity fresh stuff from this genre, like Versace Pour Homme Dylan Blue (2016), they're usually the exception to the rule, and not an embodiment of the rule itself. Jimmy Choo Man created a style that has now been mimicked a half-dozen times or more since it's release, and the only bit of sympathy I can have for it is that most of its plagiarists have overshadowed it in popularity, but pity points can only go so far. In a nutshell, this is the "Ur Sweet Woody-Amber", as Bleu de Chanel (2010) pioneered the use of synthetic amber and synthetic woods together under a pyramid of cool, peppery notes, but it wasn't necessarily going for sweet, and more of a bridge between aquatics and where we ended up in the 2010's.
Jimmy Choo Man really feels like it builds upon Paco Rabanne Invictus, but not by adding to the formula and making a more sophisticated experience, but by swapping out some top notes and riding on the same base, taking the same basic scent in a slightly different direciton. The scent opens with a surprising return of the late 80's/early 90's synthetic staple known as calone; that damnable melon-like shimmery note that ended up in everything "fresh" made from the end of the former decade to damn near the end of the latter, but here calone is molded into a richer fruity cocktail with a pineapple note, lemon, and a round lavender. Off the top, this 90's to 2010's bridge is made in my mind, but I don't know how many younger men who've had no experience with a bottle of Aramis New West (1988) or Calvin Klein Escape for Men (1993) will make that connection. It's pleasant enough and not very loud, but the opening soon gives way to a chemical bath of pink pepper, patchouli, and Iso E Super, which helps make the fruity notes shine even harder. base notes are rather droll, with white patchouli (whatever that is), a synth suede note, ambroxan, norlimbanol, and musk. The slightly whimsical fruity opening and aromachemical heart is an interesting melding of decades, but the base follows the same riff every major designer has tried since Bleu de Chanel first defined this direction. Wear time is decent at about 7 hours, but sillage is only moderate for something that by rights should be louder by its very nature.
Because of Jimmy Choo Man, the world received such fruit-topped amberwoods wonders as Versace Pour Homme Dylan Blue (which I like), Jean Paul Gaultier Le Mâle Eau Fraiche (2016), Emporio Armani Stronger WIth You (2017), Y for Men by Yves Saint Laurent (2017), Acqua di Giò Absolu (2018), and countless others I'm probably leaving out. I don't hate this, but I've smelled this or it's children so many times that I have a hard time investing in it emotionally, and Jimmy Choo Man just sort of comes across as "the way guys smell" now, and that generic association isn't a good thing. Dylan Blue had this neat soapy factor which tied it in slightly to the fougères of old, which complimented its modern fruitiness, which is probably why I liked it, but Jimmy Choo Man just serves up the same dish without anything besides throwback calone in it's top. I like calone when in a relevant composition, but like in so many also-ran scents of the 90's which are utterly forgettable, tossing calone into a modern composition just to get that "melon smell" when it doesn't really relate much to the rest of the scent just makes it seem like an awkward try-hard attempt to stand out. I'll let you all be the judge of that for yourselves, but for me, I can't really feel anything other than indifferent about Jimmy Choo Man, but I give it credit where credit is due for starting a trend. Neutral rating for me, this is a fruity freshie for guys who don't really like wearing fragrance but feel they have to in certain contexts. Blah.
FIrst time today with a full wearing and I just wanna say this is a terrific smelling fragrance! I see where people are saying that there is a slight nod to BdC. I sort of get that in the very first few minutes of the opening....but honestly, it’s fleeting and not really all that close to my nose.
What I do get in the dry down though is something that reminds me of a more mature version of A&F First Instinct believe it or not. Kind of this semi-sweet fruity/airy/spicy/suede thing going on. Very nice!!!
People complain about longevity, but I used 3 sprays(on clothes, in full disclosure)applied 7hrs ago and I still smell it just fine. I would even say the first 3-4hrs it was projecting nicely. Sure, it’s nothing super unique...but at $26 for a 100ml, it’s a great smelling and good performing frag IMO. Very pleased with this blind buy!
Jimmy Choo Man is, to me , a nice every day cologne. I just got it today as a box set with the deodorant and after shave for $24. I pick up the pink pepper and fruity notes with the first 30 minutes and it dries down with more of a woodsy scent but very light. I wish i was smelling more suede, as i feel it would make this scent more...sophisticated i guess. It almost reminds me of Gucci Guilty once it dries down.
Jimmy Choo Man is light and sweet, not something you would expect from most men's fragrances, which makes it somewhat unique and refreshing.
I don't mind it at all as a spring/summer go-to.
Opens very bright and fruity..must be the melon and pineapple..slowly becomes a bit floral and synthetic with a slight hint of leather ..I find it very feminine and kinda reminds me of a lot of generic female fragrances. I do like this scent tho and it's at a great price point at the time of writing, I think it will garner lots of compliments due to its universally pleasing smell but it's not interesting or unique in anyway.
Not bad, generic starts off smelling like every other Citrus Fougare with spices added. It does grow on me over time. I like the dry-down more than the opening.
Jimmy Choo Man Eau de Toilette 3.3 oz.
There are no member images of Jimmy Choo Man yet. Why not be the first?
Jimmy Choo Man Ice. If you love Dior Homme Cologne!
Is Jimmy Choo man worth it ?
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2019-04-25T08:49:50Z
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http://www.basenotes.net/ID26143292.html
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Who is Scott Free? According to White Pages, there are 605 Scott Free's in America. Can you narrow it down a bit?
People have been assigning wrong origins or spellings to the age-old idiom for years, according to the 2008 book “Common Errors in English Usage” by Paul Brians, a retired English professor at Washington State University. People might think the term has something to do with Scottish people (or an unfortunate “Scott”) or that it is “scotch-free,” somehow related to whisky. Others, Brians noted, have erroneously believed “scot-free” alludes to Dred Scott, the slave who sued for his freedom only to lose in an 1857 Supreme Court case.
But really, scot-free traces its roots back to a medieval tax called a “scot” that arose in the 14th century, according to Merriam-Webster. The Vikings could also be to blame for the origin of the phrase: “Scot” is derived from the Old Norse words “skot” and also “shot” — yes, like shooting a gun or taking your shot. The Gaelic Etymology of Languages of Western Europe, an 1877 dictionary, explains that shot and scot meant the same thing at that time, as in a “contribution that ... is ‘shot’ into the general fund.” Back in those days, if you skirted around the tax, you weren’t Al Capone. You were scot-free.
Butterfield noted on his personal linguistics blog that Shakespeare was among the scribes to use “shot-free,” as he did in “Henry IV.” “Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear the shot here,” the character Sir John Falstaff says in Act 5.
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2019-04-24T16:54:35Z
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/04/who-is-scott-free-search-meaning-after-trumps-misuse-medieval-idiom/?utm_term=.b4028e19e996
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For six weeks after, he had to wear thick pads in his underwear to prevent free-flowing urine from staining his clothes and embarrassing him in public. Bell said he’s sexually active and otherwise healthy, but erectile dysfunction is now a reality.
In another, he wrote about being grateful six months after surgery for a PSA score close to “double zeroes,” the desired goal. But he grieved the loss of sexual prowess and referred to one of the possible treatments, a penile injection, that has worked for a friend.
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2019-04-23T18:58:00Z
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https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/health-family/karen-garloch/article23500192.html
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WASHINGTON (January 25, 2016) -- The newest civilian aide to the secretary of the Army (CASA) was invested during a ceremony conducted earlier this month at the Pentagon. Mario Diaz was selected by former Secretary of the Army Eric K. Fanning to represent Arizona (North).
"I'm honored to represent the Secretary of the Army and the women and men who sacrifice much to keep our country safe," Diaz said. "I'll be active in telling the Army story to communities across Arizona with pride."
Diaz earned a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University and a master's of Public Administration from Arizona State University. Diaz is active in his community and is associated with many memberships and affiliations to include the governing board member of the Scottsdale Soccer Club which is Arizona's largest soccer club, is a governing board member of Tesseract Private School and governing board member for the Arizona Family Health Partnership.
Arizonans recognize Diaz for his frequent appearances as a television and radio commentator on Arizona public policy issues in Spanish and English. Currently he is the President of Mario E. Diaz and Associates, a government and public relations firm located in Phoenix, Arizona.
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2019-04-25T04:10:56Z
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https://www.army.mil/article/181261/diaz_invested_as_new_civilian_aide_to_the_secretary_of_the_army
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ART: So how is Newt doing' tonight?
You gotta see this pic.
THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS GONNA HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH THIS….
“Mr. Romney says the errors are minor, but then again he also claims earning $374,000 in speaking fees isn’t much money,” said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan. “In reality, filing an inaccurate disclosure form can be a criminal offense. As a result, the Office of Government Ethics should forward the matter on to the Department of Justice to determine whether Mr. Romney deliberately withheld information.”The 2010 tax return Mr. Romney released earlier this week includes numerous assets not included on the PFD he filed with the OGE in August 2011. First reported in the Los Angeles Times, the tax return shows the Ann D. Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a UBS bank account in Switzerland that was not included on the PFD. Similarly, the trust also reported income from shares in offshore companies including Barracuda Investments Ltd. in Ireland, Castle Garden Funding in the Cayman Islands and Sankaty High Yield Assets Investors Ltd. in Bermuda, none of which was included on the PFD. CREW also found the PFD failed to include any assets in the Ann and Mitt Romney 1995 Family Trust and that both that trust and the Ann D. Romney Blind Trust held assets in the Goldman Sachs US$ Liquid Reserves Fund, which was not disclosed on the PFD.
South Carolina is again considering a bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to limit access to the ballot box. A nearly identical version of an ALEC voting bill is moving through the state Senate and comes on the heels of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) blocking South Carolina's ALEC-inspired voter ID law as discriminatory against people of color.
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Walker was nowhere to be found.
January 21 marked the second anniversary of Citizens United v. F.E.C., where a narrow majority of the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the Constitution prevents Congress from limiting the amount of money that can be spent influencing our elections. The Center for Media and Democracy is working with a constellation of groups in support of amending the Constitution to reverse the decision and address the distortion of the democratic process.
Take Action: Tell President Obama to Break up Bank of America!
Something reeks at Bank of America. This behemoth bank has assets equivalent to 15% of our entire economy. So why are its shares trading in the $5 range? Because BofA is a zombie bank. And now this zombie is trying to move $22 trillion in dangerous derivatives from one division into its FDIC-insured division. Tell President Obama, no more bailouts! Break up Bank of America before it breaks us.
Lori Compas is the Fort Atkinson woman who almost single-handedly led the grassroots petition drive to recall 17-year incumbent and Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.
It has been a tough holiday season for Scott Walker. The state lost 14,600 jobs in November and a new government report indicates that Wisconsin leads the nation in killing public sector jobs. A November poll has support for the recall of the governor at 58 percent, up from 47 percent in the spring, and next week Wisconsin residents are preparing to file over 500,000 recall petitions to trigger a gubernatorial recall. Is it any wonder that Wisconsin's governor decided to fly to Texas to find a friendlier crowd?
With its stock scraping bottom at just over $6.00 a share, its image reeling from a failed attempt to to stick its customers with a $5.00 per month debit card fee, and accusations of thousands of fraudulent foreclosures, Bank of America is undertaking another effort to improve its image. Heading up the makeover attempt is Anne M. Finucane, BofA's Global Strategy and Marketing Officer.
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Powers that be apparently trying to kill this movies chances.
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2019-04-20T20:44:25Z
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https://freeflightnewmedia.typepad.com/free_flight_new_media/2012/01/index.html
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Well I’m at day 22 (I think) of the 30-day sleep study. It’s been interesting for me to monitor my sleep and I do hope I get to see a week’s worth of data from the fit-bit equivalent thingy I’m wearing, as the study coordinator mentioned this should be possible. At the moment I’m monitoring how I THINK I slept each night and also how I feel each morning and evening. What I’m intrigued to know is if I did sleep how I think I slept. For instance on some days I feel in my ‘sleep diary’ and say I woke up seven times in the night and was awake for around half an hour in total – but what does the fit-bit thing say? Does it agree? Did I fool it into thinking I was awake for hours by tossing and turning in my sleep, or did I fool it into thinking I was asleep and didn’t wake up at all because while trying to sleep I lay still? Or is it way too clever to be fooled by such things. I have no idea but I hope I get a chance to find out!
Having said that, seems to me I must be getting plenty of REM sleep because that’s when you dream, and boy do I dream! Salvador Dali would have loved my dreams – completely bizarre and surreal. But then again, you only remember your dreams if you wake up during REM sleep and ideally you DON’T wake up during REM sleep, so the fact that I remember a lot of my completely wacko dreams does indicate that I am not getting good sleep.
Even so, my sleep is muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch better since we installed the Phillips Hue system where we can alter the colour temperature of the bulb and dim the light gradually over time. I blogged about that a while ago here. This certainly helps to make me sleepy and I fall asleep fast – within ten minutes instead of within an hour or two!
So interesting. And your sleep habits are similar to mine. I get a couple hours at a time. I do confirm with my real fitbit thing and it can be enlightening and sometimes discouraging.
Hmm, I hadn’t thought about it being discouraging but yeah, I can see how it could be! We’d be superheros if we got enough sleep I reckon!
It is interesting to compare my Fitbit record with how I felt I slept. It does think I’m asleep sometimes when I’m just in bed watching TV. But, like you, I don’t think I’ll ever get seven hours sleep straight through (without drugs). Please do report back when you get the results! Wishing you some really good zzzzzz’s.
Thanks Carla …sending good zzzzzz wishes to you too. I will (try to remember to) report back if/when I get some sleep data.
I love my CPAP machine. My doctor says hey you can let this go. I say no way, it helps me get to sleep and I feel so much better I never want to go back.
I may have to start making up reasons to keep it now.
Glad it’s helping so much! I don’t think I’ve got sleep apnea but I’ve always been a poor sleeper, even pre RA!
Sleep affects my joints tremendously. I had to give up a job because of it. To actually know how good your sleep is would be valuable info. Keep us posted on your results!
Sorry to hear that Cathy, but I agree, it has quite an effect on my joints too, and vice versa. Sometimes hard to know if bad joints stop me sleeping or bad sleep makes the joints bad!
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2019-04-26T01:51:11Z
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https://pollyannapenguin.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/sleep-and-sleep-study-update/
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"I am sorry to read about Rands passing. I served on the..."
Celebration of life services for Rand Edward Rogers, 67, of Lovington, N.M., will be held Friday, March 29, 2019 at 10 a.m. at Kirby-Smith-Rogers Funeral Home Chapel in Lovington with Don Ritchey officiating.
Burial will follow at Lovington Cemetery.
Rand was born March 21, 1952, in Durango, Colo., to Alfred and Betty Rogers and passed away March 24, 2019 in Odessa, Texas.
Rand grew up in Lovington, graduating from Lovington High in 1970. During those years, he worked with his dad at the funeral home and did the running of the ambulance and also worked at Turners Dept Store, where Rand made a lifelong friendship with Robert Floyd.
Rand had the distinction of being the first OMI in Lea County. He also earned the rank of Eagle Scout during those years.
He attended Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M., receiving his B.A. in Business Administration and Finance. During his college years he worked for his uncle, Billy Rogers, at a funeral home in Las Vegas and enjoyed time with cousins and family.
In 1977, he came home to Lovington to help with the family business here. He met his future wife, Carol Toon, when he came home and they were married in 1981.
From this marriage, two handsome sons were born: Jake and Luke. Rand's boys were the highlight of and loves of his life and he enjoyed supervising them every week to clean the garage and mow grass.
He started his insurance career with Farm Bureau Insurance and finished his career with Letcher Golden & Associates. He was raised in the Presbyterian Church and later attended the Third and Central Church of Christ and was very active in the Kairos Community and prison ministry.
Rand was a domino player and an avid New England Patriots fan, driving or cruising to nowhere in particular and a super cook, especially barbecue or "chilling & grilling" with his boys.
He loved people, was inspirational and never met a stranger. He loved being with his grandkids!
Rand will be remembered for his infectious smile, his listening ear, his kind spirit and generosity of giving to others.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Al and Betty Rogers.
Surviving him are his two sons, Jake (spouse Jenna) Rogers of Whitehouse, Texas and Luke (Lucas) Rogers of Las Placitas, N.M.; one brother, Rick Rogers of Lovington; one sister, René (Steve) Abshier of Hobbs, N.M.; one uncle: Billy (Brenda) Rogers of Las Vegas; the mother of his children, Carol Schenck of Lovington and numerous cousins and a host of friends.
Visitation was set for Thursday, March 28 at the funeral home.
Condolences may be sent to www.kirbysmithrogers.com.
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2019-04-19T02:18:18Z
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https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lasvegasoptic/obituary.aspx?n=rand-e-rogers&pid=192010967&fhid=27114
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Since switching over to the new website layout, December 2009 has become our most visited month EVER (with two days to go!). Unfortunately I can't compare this to all time numbers (since the tracking system is different) but it's probably our high over the last few years (I think around 2004-2005 was our high all time).
So far we have 24,679 unique visitors this month... one year ago, December saw a measly 8,146 uique visitors.
There has been a steep increase in viewers/readers since October of this year (I'm not sure why, since we haven't been overly active writing, but people are coming).
Our Alexa ranking is aweful, which still surprizes me (my blog is ranked a lot higher but I know that this website gets three times the traffic).
Strangly together we totaled just one post, but October 2009 was our highest traffic month on Smthop.com in the past year, 22068 lucky souls visited our site.
Traffic numbers from earlier than this are a bit dubious, though I believe it was 2003 (maybe 2004) when Smthop.com was doing really well and easily eclipsed these numbers.
Looks like good eatin', pard Steel.
Plus, you now are in the X Box game fold, and can ramp up from there. I've always been a fan of retro games, Duke Nukem, Jumpman Jr. and Shadow Warrior being my favorites.
It must be very, very gratifying for you to go full circle video game wise, from playing them as a poverty-stricken youth with incurable hydro-encephalitis to producing them. Congrats!
(you owe me 5 bucks+. so send me a free copy. Thanks!
Do you have an Xbox??? If you've got an Xbox and Xbox Live service (I think you just need the silver membership), I can get you a free copy of the game. Let me know.
It's good to have a game out there, something people are buying and playing and for the most part enjoying (except for one guy who straight up said he hates these types of games yet went forward to review my game). Over 5,000 people so far have played my game and several dozen have bought it... not sure to be happy or humbled by that.
We're currently looking for regional exclusive distributor for our heat forged iron products.
I suppose... there are still plenty of countries we haven't started wars with, dozens of important American issues that need to be ignored, and way too many cival liberties that must be removed.
Complain all you want about lack of really change by Obama, but realize that much of what he is tasked with doing is cleaning up the messes of the past 8 years, a financial collapse caused by Wallstreet / banks, and a healthcare issue that has been left unresolved for well over a decade.
Could the Moon be Square?
Do Racing Stripes Make Cars Go Too Fast?
Dude, you're getting a Gateway!
Let's Shoot All The Annoying People Into Space!
Racing is fun, if you're good at racing.
Smooth Operator celebrates one years!
Smooth Operator Celebrates Three Years of Awesomeness!
Smooth Operator celebrates two years of awesomeness!
Smooth Operator Writes 21st Editorial!
Weeble wobbles, and falls down.
Who Won Pitfall! Creator David Crane?
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2019-04-25T10:35:25Z
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http://smthop.com/profile.aspx?userid=15
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Eugenie Bouchard serves in her first round match at the 2015 Australian Open.
When a (then) 19-year-old Eugenie Bouchard arrived at the 2014 Australian Open, she seemed primed to turn potential into reality. The Montreal native had gone through her first full season on the WTA tour, and even made a final in the small Osaka event. That first appearance in a tour final was part of a very respectable 13-5 run after the US Open that enabled Bouchard to finish the year ranked No. 32, and made it possible for her to be seeded at last year’s Australian.
However inevitable Bouchard’s rise may have seemed, few expected to see her name come out of the quarter of the draw that included Serena Williams. Bouchard was afforded the good fortune of facing women ranked 487, 100, 68 and 120 on her way to the quarterfinals. But from that point on, there was nowhere to hide. Genie faced a resurgent Ana Ivanovic, the former Australian Open finalist who had just vanquished Serena Williams. Bouchard showed impressive grit on the big stage, and overcame Ivanovic to reach her first ever Slam semifinal. As a side note, she was doing this in her first try at the Australian Open playing at the senior level.
That Australian Open run ended at the hands of eventual champion Li Na, but set the tone for a pretty spectacular year for Bouchard. She became the youngest woman in the top 10, won her first WTA title, reached the French Open semifinals and even appeared in her first Major final at Wimbledon. In the end, no other female tennis player won more matches at the four biggest tournaments the sport has to offer than Bouchard (no, not even Serena Williams). A Slam final and two semis are not only fantastic results for a given season – they’re great career results for most tennis pros. And those kind of performances don’t happen by accident.
2014 also showed evidence that there’s room for improvement: Bouchard lost in her first match at ten of the 23 events she entered last year, and ended the year by losing all three matches she played in her debut at the WTA Finals, the prestigious year-end event that hosts the top eight women tennis players in the world. Not only did Bouchard lose those three matches against the cream of the crop, she failed to win even four measly games in any of the six sets she played.
Perhaps as a consequence of this last impression, there are quite a bit of questions surrounding Bouchard at the beginning of this year’s campaign. Can she finish in the Top 10 again? Will she improve on last year and actually win a Slam? Was it all a flash in the pan? Predicting how young athletes will perform is always a foolhardy task, but a detailed look into Bouchard’s game should help us get some answers.
At first glance, there’s nothing particularly spectacular about the way Bouchard plays tennis. There’s no huge serve, no jaw-dropping power off either her forehand or backhand. She’s not the greatest defender out there, nor the greatest returner. In fact, if you look at this statistical summary of the 2014 season prepared by the WTA, you won’t find Bouchard’s name in it. Not once, even though the document lists the top 10 females in 10 different statistical categories. So how does Bouchard go from World No. 32 at the end of 2013 to her current rank of No. 7 (she was even as high as No. 5 at one point) without excelling at anything in an obvious way?
The answer is actually quite simple: Bouchard thrives thanks to a strict adherence to a coherent tactical approach.
Genie Bouchard is a baseline fundamentalist. At first this doesn’t seem all that surprising or revolutionary – contemporary tennis is pretty much a baseliner’s game. But Genie is absolutely fixated on straddling that baseline, no matter the cost. And once there, she is perpetually proactive about moving forward like a piranha smelling blood to attack any short balls. There’s also little doubt in her mind about where her shots are supposed to go: Genie always looks to get her opponents on the run by hitting the ball into the open spaces of the court. Since it’s difficult to attack from defensive positions, Genie is likely to get shorter and shorter balls from her opponents, and she’s particularly good at putting those away. Bouchard lets her opponents know that no short ball will be forgiven, and that their only hope is to hit great shots on the run if they’re going to escape.
The brilliance of this approach is that it not only recognizes a few of Bouchard’s weaknesses, but also takes advantage of her strengths. For example, let’s talk about Genie’s ability to defend, which is a clear limitation. Why does she struggle with that aspect of the game? Bouchard is not a bad mover by any stretch, but she’s also far from being explosive in the way Serena Williams or Angelique Kerber cover the court. And, like the rest of the WTA, she doesn’t come close to Agnieszka Radwanska’s almost supernatural ability to anticipate where her opponent’s shots will go. Another issue that hinders Bouchard’s game is her lack of easy power with her forehand and her backhand. Not having those easy swings makes it very difficult for her to generate consistent depth and pace when hitting the ball from defensive positions.
Hence, given that it’s not in Bouchard’s best interest to spend time merely retrieving balls and hoping for an error, the scheme turns a weakness into a strength simply by emphasizing Bouchard’s court position. We know the Canadian can’t blast away from a foot or two behind the baseline. But if she is hitting the ball from the baseline itself, or even a step inside it, her shots will tend to land in better positions across the net. The positive effect of this scheme is amplified by Bouchard’s natural ability to take the ball early. This rare skill means that a player will hit the ball when it’s bouncing up towards her instead of waiting for it to finish its upward trajectory. The instant benefit is that it takes away reaction time from an opponent, given that the ball is coming back to their side of the court earlier than expected. Thus, with an emphasis on court position, her impeccable timing and an unwavering will to move forward to finish points, Bouchard effectively disguises her lack of power, and at the same time, limits the amount of time she will have to spend defending. Brilliant!
Of course, this tactical scheme has its obvious frailties, which are exposed from time to time. For example, when Bouchard faces opponents with more firepower, she finds it difficult to get herself back to the baseline after being pushed away by a deep shot. It’s hard for her to turn defense into offense, so if a more powerful opponent is dialed in, like Petra Kvitova was in the Wimbledon final, Bouchard will find it hard to have a say in the outcome of a match. Bouchard’s success comes from taking advantage of short balls in order to generate even shorter ones, but if her opponent is playing at a high level, placing shots close to Bouchard’s baseline, there won’t be many opportunities for Genie to execute her constant pressure scheme.
The biggest downside to Bouchard’s way of approaching the game is that it doesn’t work if her focus wavers even in the slightest. If she becomes passive and stays behind the baseline, she’ll get blown off the court. If she’s not getting enough depth on her shots, she’ll get blown off the court. And if she’s erratic, well, the outcome in that case is obvious. Bouchard’s margin for error is slim – she doesn’t have the big serve to get her out of trouble, and she can’t really summon a string of huge forehands or backhands to subdue her opponents. Genie has to be “on” for every point, every game, every set, every match. That kind of commitment is exhausting, and it tends to wear out when the results don’t go favorably.
In this light, you might think that it will be extremely difficult for Bouchard to keep her place in the Top 10. But I would argue that her commitment to coherently aggressive tennis will likely keep her in that select group for a very long time. There’s always room at the top for players who actively try to win, rather than merely hope to win, with every shot they hit. Plus, the level of aggressive tennis that can get Genie in trouble is not easy to execute for long stretches.
There’s also the blatant hunger for more and more success. Bouchard has never given the impression of someone who’s just happy to be there, content with what she’s already achieved. She’s carried herself as someone who belongs to the biggest stages of the sport, as her results at the four big ones in 2014 can attest.
Should Bouchard make good on her friendly draw and reach the quarters, she could potentially meet her childhood idol Maria Sharapova for the fourth time (Bouchard is 0-3 in these meetings). It would present yet another opportunity for the Canadian to improve on her mediocre record against Top 10 opponents (currently at 8 wins versus 16 defeats). Not only that, but a win against Sharapova would be the first for Bouchard (in eight tries) against the power trio within the WTA elite: Serena Williams, Sharapova and Petra Kvitova.
There could be no better way for the young Canadian to validate her tennis than with a win against any of these big-hitting women. And it’s quite likely she’ll have a few chances to do so not only this season, but in the coming years, too.
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2019-04-24T08:30:47Z
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-sports/eugenie-bouchards-great-expectations-174522/
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The Niagara Falls Historic Preservation Commission is comprised of residents of Niagara Falls with backgrounds and interests related to the preservation of our historical assets and promoting their importance throughout the region. Our mission is to protect, promote, and preserve our city's historical resources for the future enjoyment of upcoming generations. On this site you will find information about landmarks currently in the City of Niagara Falls, information about getting your property registered, and resources detailing everything you need to know about owning a historically significant building.
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2019-04-24T16:15:55Z
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https://nfhpc.weebly.com/
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A couple in Kansas is suing a tech company for dumping 600 million IP addresses in their front yard. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be tech-savvy to read this article, much less to understand why they were so aggravated. I would have sued a lot sooner and for a lot more.
How does a parrot flummox three cats? He meows at them. Kittens meow to their mothers, but once they become adults, cats meow only to humans. No wonder these kitties are confused!
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2019-04-24T22:12:33Z
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https://timeforthorns.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/
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Taking advantage of depreciation and amortization provisions is a great way to make your business more profitable.
Writing off equipment like this printer can be a big part of making your business profitable. Image: HP.
As tough as individual tax returns are, they can be a lot simpler than what you'll face if you run a business. Yet business owners have a big advantage in that they can write off many of their expenses. By using IRS Form 4562, you can make sure you pay as little in tax as possible by deducting the cost of the business assets you buy, either immediately or over time. Let's take a closer look at Form 4562 and how you can take advantage of favorable tax rules to pay less tax on your business income.
The concept behind Form 4562 involves figuring out a fair deduction for the property you buy for your business. With many business expenses, the money you pay goes toward goods or services that you use fairly quickly, and so the tax laws let you write off the entire cost as a current deduction. But for certain types of property that have a longer lifespan, the IRS requires that you deduct a fraction of your total cost each year, spreading out the deductible amounts over the course of your use of the business asset.
Digging into the details, there's a long list of rules governing different types of property. For instance, computers are generally treated as depreciable with a five-year recovery period. Office furniture and equipment uses a seven-year recovery period, while improvements to land typically have to be taken using a 15-year recovery period. In general, though, the rules line up the expected usable life of an asset with depreciation of that asset.
In the simplest cases, depreciation involves simply taking a portion of your cost each year as a deductible expense. So if you spend $5,000 on a business asset with a five-year recovery period, a simple straight-line depreciation approach would involve taking $1,000 in deductions each year for five years until you've written off the full cost of the asset.
The problem with depreciation is that simple rules don't generally apply. Multiple conventions for depreciation exist, and there are circumstances under which you can depreciate an asset more quickly than the straight-line method would allow. That's where Form 4562 is especially useful, as it allows you to figure out which methods apply to a particular situation and then track them over multiple years.
The most useful rule that Form 4562 includes is the ability to elect to take a full deduction for the cost of a business asset in a single year. This election is also known as the Section 179 deduction, and it allows businesses to write off up to $500,000 of qualifying property immediately. Only certain types of property qualify, including machinery and equipment, appliances and other property contained in buildings, off-the-shelf computer software, and even certain types of real property such as restaurant or retail-improvement property. If you qualify, though, you get a full tax break for what you spend on the property, even if you keep using it for many years into the future. Raw land, however, doesn't qualify, nor does some property that you lease to a third party.
Beyond the Section 179 deduction, other provisions allow for what's known as accelerated depreciation. Under those rules, you can sometimes use a faster recovery period than a certain class of property would generally provide for, letting you front-end more of your deductible expenses into the years immediately after making a purchase.
There are couple things that business owners should realize about Form 4562 and depreciation rules generally. First, you typically can't deduct any more than the total amount that you spent on an asset, regardless of the timing of when you actually take those deductions. So depreciation rules govern when you take a deduction rather than how much that deduction will be in total over the life span of the asset. Also, if you get a benefit under the depreciation rules, those benefits will get recaptured if you sell the asset before the end of its useful life. Essentially, the IRS wants to make sure you don't get an unfair advantage, and so it forces you to pay back the benefits you got earlier on through favorable depreciation laws.
Running a business can be challenging, but being able to write off expenses is a useful tool to reduce your tax bill. IRS Form 4562 is essential in helping you cut your taxes and keeping your business as profitable as possible.
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2019-04-22T00:23:57Z
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https://www.fool.com/taxes/2015/06/03/how-irs-form-4562-can-save-your-business-thousands.aspx
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Is Trump’s Tax Plan Crafted For His Personal Benefit?
Donald Trump has announced the brief outlines of his tax plan, which he plans to push through Congress and sign into law by December. But the plan appears crafted to benefit him and his wealthy buddies. On today’s show we’ll speak with Morris Pearl, chair of the group Patriotic Millionaires, about the tax plan. Then, the national retailer Target recently announced a wage increase for its workers, to go up to $15 an hour by the year 2020. We’ll speak with a leader from Fight for 15 about what the wage rise means. Finally author Tamara Draut will discuss the success of the Fight for 15 campaign and her new book Sleeping Giant, How the New Working Class Will Transform America. Hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar.
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2019-04-19T15:20:43Z
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https://kpfa.org/episode/trumps-tax-plan-crafted-personal-benefit/
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usask
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Description: BC Studies, No. 109, Spring, 1996, pp. 63-79.
Discussion of the incident in 1884 when a lynch mob of approximately 100 Americans crossed the border and hanged the fourteen-year-old boy who they accused of killing a shopkeeper named James Bell.
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2019-04-25T09:01:02Z
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https://iportal.usask.ca/index.php?id=30023&t=rate&toprate=&tophits=&having=3092927
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The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 that caught fire in London this summer will soon fly back to Addis Ababa, a flight both companies surely hope will take them closer to the end of 2013, an “annus horribilis” if there ever was one.
Boeing’s not talking but Tweolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian’s chief executive officer said that repairs to the plane’s aft fuselage and tail section are nearing completion. This comes less than six months after the July 12th event in which a blaze above the ceiling of the back passenger section burned through to the exterior of the plane. At the time, ET-AOP was parked away from the gate at Heathrow Airport, awaiting its 9:00 pm flight back to Addis. No one was on board when smoke was seen emerging from the top of the airplane.
“Why not?” he asked when I expressed my astonishment at how quickly ET-AOP might return to service.
There’s a difference in the amount and nature of the damage on these two planes. The A380 that was Qantas Flight 32 had ruptured engines, holes in the wings and fuselage and ripped wiring from the pieces of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine that spewed out, up, down and sideways.
The fire on Ethiopian’s Queen of Sheba was confined to the aft fuselage and tail sections. Still, as Dominick Gates reported in the Seattle Times, the composite structure presented a number of issues. Boeing considered several options before it decided to patch the plane with a full rear fuselage produced by the 787 factory in Charleston, South Carolina.
That all sounds like a lot of work, which is one reason I had to place my hand on my chin and put my jaw back in place during my conversation with Gebremariam, which included my asking him if his confidence in the plane had been shaken. It’s not the first time I’ve asked him that question and once again he waved off concern by saying the Dreamliner is a good plane.
In exchange for being first in line for installation of the super-duper battery fire containment box for its Dreamliners, it happily became the first airline to resume flying the planes on – you guessed it – the Addis to London route. Ten weeks later, ET-AOP developed a smoking hole and there in London she remains today.
While all this is going on in London, over in Warsaw, LOT Polish is also feeling cheerier about Boeing. According to Polish columnist Danuta Walewska who writes for the publication, Rzeczpospolita, LOT has come to terms with Boeing over the money LOT lost when it had to cancel flights during the 787’s grounding. The country’s minister of privatization, Wlodzimierz Karpinski told Danuta that “we are very satisfied and our demands and expectations were fulfilled” by whatever the two entities came up with behind closed doors after months of very public complaining by the Polish government, which owns the airline.
Karpinski said the details will not be made public and the settlement is not being called “compensation”, though there’s a reported $33 million in credits on LOT’s side of the ledger in the accounting books at Boeing. It is “proof of partnership” and a “responsible attitude by Boeing,” the minister said.
Of the Queen of Sheba, Boeing spokesman Doug Alder will confirm nothing. But if Boeing can get Ethiopian’s Dreamliner out of England and back in the air before 2013 is over, it might be seen as a harbinger that the Dreamliner’s own annus horribilis might be coming to a close.
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2019-04-23T11:20:58Z
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https://blog.seattlepi.com/flyinglessons/2013/12/12/boeing-can-hope-ethiopian-flight-will-end-its-annus-horribilis/
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Multilotto Bonus Code site (https://multilottobonuscode.com) and it’s referred customers to Multilotto.com are for SALE!
Traffic statistics: 1500 – 2200 unique visitors per. month.
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2019-04-21T12:32:08Z
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https://multilotto.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/multilotto-bonus-code-website-for-sale/
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In a recent blog post, Richard Zorza shares some thoughts on improving services for self-represented litigants in the United States. Zorza, coordinator of the national Self Represented Litigation Network (SRLN), believes that the legal system must set real goals for addressing the issue. He cites Volvo's ambitious goal of reaching a zero injury and fatality rate for their new cars by 2020. The attainability of the goal is not the point; instead, creating a system of thinking that is centered upon an aspirational goal is the way to ultimately work in direction of meaningful change. According to Zorza, the legal system needs similar focus.
So the obvious question is this: What similar realistic, but challenging goals could we set for access to justice—goals that would require long term strategic thinking, and that recognize that system problems require systemic solutions.
No unintentional defaults in our court.
Plain-English and easy-to-use free online form systems.
Judges who are fully trained in handling cases involving self-represented litigants.
An Access to Justice Commission or equivalent in every state.
Accessible and functioning referral system for unbundling cases.
Self-help services in all courts.
Zorza believes that using these goals and monitoring progress forward is a step toward realizing an even greater goal for our legal system: no cases wrongly decided because of lack of access to assistance during the process.
IAALS Advisory Board Member Judge Kevin Burke recently highlighted Zorza's thoughts, calling him “one of the legal system's most profound thinkers about how we can provide better services to self-represented litigants.” IAALS is a member of the SRLN's Research Working Group.
Hunter Metcalf is a second-year law student at the University of Colorado Law School and contributes to IAALS Online. Please direct inquiries about this post to iaals@du.edu.
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2019-04-24T18:17:24Z
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https://iaals.du.edu/blog/setting-goals-improve-access-justice-self-represented-litigants
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A billion-dollar hydroelectric dam development in Indonesia that threatens the habitat of the world’s rarest great ape has sparked fresh concerns about the effects of China’s globe-spanning infrastructure drive.
The US$1.6 billion project, which is expected to be operational by 2022, is to cut through the heart of the critically endangered animal’s habitat, which is also home to agile gibbons, siamangs and Sumatran tigers.
The development is one of dozens being pushed by the Indonesian government to improve electricity supply throughout the sprawling archipelago, parts of which are regularly plagued by blackouts.
However, the Chinese-backed project has sparked fierce resistance from conservationists, who said the potential environmental risk has already seen the World Bank Group shy away from involvement.
However, its Chinese backers appear undeterred, something critics said underscores the troubling environmental impact of Beijing’s trademark Belt and Road Initiative, which seeks to link Asia, Europe and Africa with a network of ports, highways and railways.
However, in 1997 biological anthropologist Erik Meijaard observed an isolated population of the great apes in Batang Toru, south of the known habitat for Sumatran orangutans, and scientists began to investigate if it was a unique species.
The 510-megawatt dam, which is to supply peak-load electricity to North Sumatra Province, would flood part of the ape’s habitat and include a network of roads and high-voltage transmission lines.
Critics have said it will fragment the three existing populations, who are living in a tract of forest less than one-fifth the size of the greater Jakarta region, and lead to inbreeding.
“Roads bring in hunters [and] settlers — it’s the start, generally, of things falling apart,” he said.
However, the plight of the ape seems to have been given little attention in the environmental impact assessment by PT North Sumatra Hydro Energy, according to conservationists and scientists who have seen the document.
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2019-04-22T10:40:36Z
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/10/22/2003702830
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It is estimated that each gray squirrel buries at least 1,000 nuts every fall, possibly as many as 10,000 nuts in one season. The squirrels can bury the nuts several inches deep. They locate their stash of nuts by smell, and are able to find nuts hidden under a foot or more of snow. Because they sometimes forget where they have put them, it is believed that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels.
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2019-04-24T20:13:01Z
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https://mindbogglingfacts.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/840/
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atlantafilmfestival
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Julien Mauranne (Director/DP). After an MA in New Technology, Julien started working for Grey Advertising, and then decided to make documentary films. He now collaborates with many production companies and press agencies like BROTHERFILMS, TOGETHER MEDIA, MAGNETO PRESS, CAPA, BELLOTA FILMS etc. He also directs his own films with LIONFISH FILMS.
Victor Guillon (Writer/Location-Scouter/Sound-Engineer). Born in 1986 in Paris, Victor Guillon has been teaching philosophy since 2010 and works concurrently on creative documentaries projects. Since 2007 his passion for Amazonian cultures brings him regularly to the heart of the Great Forest. In 2011 he directed his first short documentary on Colombian Shamanism: CURANDEROS, presented in various festivals. In 2013 he did a report on the encounter between Pierre Rabhi, famous French environmentalist, and Benki Piyako, Amazonian leader: BEIJA-FLORES, The humming-bird effect. A trip to Congo in 2014 allowed him to learn sound-engineering, and he completed a radio report on work in quarries: LES MAINS NUES ("BARE-HANDED"), for Arte Radio. Armed with these first experiences, he has been working since 2015 on the making of ONIBO, a feature film on the situation of the Shipibo people, in the Peruvian Amazon.
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The track comes from the band’s very first concept album titled Feathers & Flesh, which dropped in May via Entertainment One (eOne) in North. Because the band believed the story too extensive for any booklet, they made a fully illustrated 60 page, 109 verse poem hardcover book.
The new release is the followup to 2014’s Hail The Apocalypse, which cracked the Billboard Top 200 for the first time in the band's career.
Avatar are back in the U.S. in continued support of their new album. The band just wrapped a handful of arena dates with Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat and Killswitch Engage. They will continue performing headline and festival dates such Aftershock this October. Check out a full list of dates below.
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Support policies for the various technologies that make up the .NET platform.
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ASP.NET is a web development framework for .NET and includes components that ship in .NET Framework, .NET Core, and as external packages.
Xamarin offers a set of tools and technologies for creating native iOS, Android and Windows applications.
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On a hot July day in 2009, SWET’s Summer Party featured a kaiseki lunch at the Kantokutei restaurant in Tokyo’s Koishikawa Kōrakuen garden and a talk by Sumiko Enbutsu. Author of Discover Shitamachi: A Walking Guide to the Other Tokyo (1984), Water Walks in the Suburbs of Tokyo (2000), A Flower Lover’s Guide to Tokyo (Kodansha International, 2007), and other walking guides to Tokyo and surrounding areas, Enbutsu spoke about the making of her books and some of the activities and research projects in which she has been involved.
The following is a condensed and edited transcript of her talk.
Koishikawa Korakuen, a precious gem of Tokyo and one of the oldest existing daimyo gardens in the city, is a fitting place to gather and talk about Japanese culture. The daimyo, who were expected to reside alternately in Edo and the domains to which they had been assigned, were granted large tracts of land for their residences. Many of these estates included extensive stroll gardens that were landscaped to please the owner-lords and their guests, and their guests were all educated in classical, Confucian-based learning. Some of the gardens’ features were designed to provide something like a “virtual excursion” to famous sights elsewhere in Japan. There would be miniature scenes of Mount Fuji or Lake Biwa, for example, or the hillsides at Arashiyama in Kyoto. Well-known scenes and motifs inspired by Chinese literature and thought were important as well. At Koishikawa Kōrakuen, we see an example right behind the Kantokutei pavilion—a miniature of the straight dike that runs through West Lake (Xi Hu) in Hangzhou, southern China. A little beyond is a small arched stone bridge that was designed by a Chinese scholar whose patron was the owner-lord of the garden.
In the course of the changes after the Tokugawa shogunate came to an end and a new government came to power under Emperor Meiji in 1868, the daimyo lords returned their large landholdings to the emperor (in other words, to the government). The Meiji government conveniently used these spacious parcels of land for various industrialization and modernization projects. Koishikawa Kōrakuen garden was once part of the large estate of the lord of the Mito domain in this area. The residential section of the original estate on the east side was completely demolished to become the site of the Tokyo Hohei Kōsho, a munitions plant for the imperial army of Japan. The garden, too, would have been destroyed if it had not been for the intervention of the then minister of the army, Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922). Yamagata was a great lover of traditional gardens, and he ordered that this garden be preserved and carefully maintained. That was in 1870, only two years after the Meiji Restoration. On the eastern edge of the garden there is a stone monument commemorating the site of the munitions factory. A short distance away, in the corner of the pine grove beyond the large pond, is a relic of a bullet-making machine.
The munitions factory was severely damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, and the site was sold to the private sector. In the 1930s, when a developer set out to build Japan’s first baseball stadium there, it could not remove the factory’s all-too-sturdy underground foundations, which went five meters into the ground. Only in the late 1990s, when the site was redeveloped for the new Tokyo Dome Hotel designed by Tange Kenzō, were the cemented bricks of that early foundation finally removed. A block of the excavated foundation is on display behind the big hotel.
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The Koishikawa Korakuen garden provides excellent examples of some of the points I wanted to raise in my book A Flower Lover’s Guide to Tokyo. Various features around the garden evoke images from classical poetry or literature that have become well-known motifs in works of art and craft, for example in chiyogami woodblock-printed paper. One of these features is a wooden bridge made up of planks set at angles in eight sections that was installed in the seventeenth century. The design of this yatsuhashi (lit., eight bridges), usually translated “zigzag bridge,” was inspired by a tenth-century waka in The Tales of Ise.
The five lines of the verse begin with the syllables of the five-syllable name of the purple iris, kakitsubata. This technique, called oriku, is often used as a kind of intellectual game among poets. There is a three-syllable oriku for haiku, and a five-syllable oriku for waka. Praised for its clever improvisation this poem helped establish the association of irises with the zigzag plank bridge, as well as the name of the place where the poem was composed: Yatsuhashi, in what is now Aichi prefecture.
Zigzag bridges with iris shown in a chiyogami print owned by Kikujudō Isetatsu.
The chiyogami printed from blocks in the collection owned by the Isetatsu paper shop in Yanaka is titled “Yatsuhashi,” and we can see other examples of this motif on lacquerware and textiles. There are also two famous painted screens inspired by the kakitsubata iris—one in the collection of the Nezu Museum in Tokyo, and the other at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, both created by Edo-period artist Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). The latter juxtaposes irises against a zigzag bridge, and when you visit ornamental iris gardens today, you will often see such a zigzag boardwalk. It is amazing how far-reaching the influence of this one poem has been, penetrating widely into Japanese culture, adorning even children’s playthings—which is what people have long considered chiyogami to be.
The hero in The Tales of Ise is modeled after the historic poet Ariwara no Narihira. Another of his poems, composed in admiration of the crimson red maple leaves scattered over the Tatsuta River in Nara, immortalized the association of maple with the Tatsuta River, and influenced paintings and decorative motifs in subsequent centuries. We see the maple leaf motif applied to textiles and pottery. A bowl by potter Ogata Kenzan (1663–1773), younger brother of Korin, is titled “Tatsuta-gawa”; a chiyogami in the Isetatsu collection has the same title. The maple’s association with the Tatsuta River was later extended to the Ōi River that flows through the beautiful Arashiyama area of Kyoto. A scene reminiscent of these images is what we see in the western section of the Kōrakuen garden.
Wisteria with pine boughs as shown in a chiyogami print owned by Kikujudō Isetatsu.
I knew about Isetatsu and its products better than many other people, and I began to learn more about the rich literary associations hidden in chiyogami designs. About six or seven years ago, when I was looking for some nice visuals for my next guidebook about flower walks, which I initially planned to publish on my own, I couldn’t afford photographs taken by the requisite professional. I had been searching in libraries, university archives, and park management offices for drawings or botanical sketches when I realized that some chiyogami feature flowers with literary associations. I went to Isetatsu and began going through their old collections of woodblock samples. I ended up finding excellent examples, some of which we eventually used for the chapter-title spreads in A Flower Lover’s Guide. The chiyogami here, though different from the one we used in the book, reflects the Heian love of wisteria, a flower that aristocrats felt was best admired when its blooms cascade from the boughs of a pine tree. Sei Shonagon, author of Makura no sōshi (The Pillow Book), praises the beauty of long clusters of wisteria hanging from pine branches. In The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki describes a romantic evening scene in which the hero stops his carriage to take in the view of wisteria flowers gently swinging from a pine tree in the moonlight.
Among the treasures that belonged to the Reizei, a family that has preserved Japan’s ancient literary traditions to this day, is a pair of painted screens with 12 scenes altogether for the 12 months of the year. Each scene, or panel, depicts a representative literary association for that month. The scene for April features men in a shinden-zukuri-style residence enjoying the blooming wisteria. The wisteria flowers are hanging from an ancient pine tree. The wisteria chiyogami echoes this Heian taste. Tachibina, the old-style hina dolls, are also customarily attired in costumes featuring pine-and-wisteria patterns.
“Hyakkaen,” a chiyogami print owned by Kikujudō Isetatsu, showing women enjoying seasonal flowers.
At Isetatsu, I found not only fine designs of cherry blossoms, plum blossoms, bush clover, chrysanthemum, and pine, but also a lovely piece entitled “Hyakkaen,” which shows 13 of the 15 classes of flowers I had in mind for the book. The groups of women shown on outings to see the seasonal flowers are reminiscent of similar renditions in the Edo meisho zue (Famous Sights of Edo)—here we see women sallying forth to see the azaleas in Okubo, or to see the cherry blossoms on the banks of the Sumida river.
The people at Isetatsu were always friendly, and I had had no problem getting permission to use their chiyogami in my articles in the Japan Times column “Flower Walks.” Originally meant for children and women, chiyogami were once part of popular culture. Available at very low cost, the paper was used to cover boxes, toys, and whatnot to beautify articles of daily use. Until a decade or two ago, these traditional woodblock-printed papers were regarded as cheap goods, and no one fussed about the proprietary rights to the designs. Today, however, there is much ado over these rights. Isetatsu later hesitated to give permission for me to use some of their pieces when I eventually got the cooperation of Kodansha International to publish A Flower Lover’s Guide to Tokyo. Kodansha’s editors and designers liked the idea of using chiyogami prints along with photographs.
In the late 1970s, I was a member of an international women’s group called the Tokyo Theatre for Children. Many friends I got to know through this group complained about how confusing the city of Tokyo was. One day, a friend asked, “What is shitamachi?” She had heard Edward Seidensticker talk about the eastern part of Tokyo, which is rich in history (he was then preparing his book High City, Low City). I couldn’t answer right away, so I just took some friends to Yanaka. I showed them the crowded housing, with rows of nagaya along narrow lanes lined with potted flowers, and so forth. That is my image of shitamachi. I still don’t have a good English term for nagaya, those old-style wooden houses with several dwellings under one roof.
It was a quiet weekday, and in those days, people had an image of Yanaka as a gloomy, damp graveyard—nothing exciting at all. My friends looked puzzled and a bit disappointed, asking, “This is shitamachi?” I realized that this area needed a lot of explanation—such as the traditions of kabuki and ukiyo-e, which were developed by and for people who lived modest lives in places like Yanaka. I needed to tell them about people like the shokunin—craftsmen—who had their workshops in their nagaya homes, competing with other artisans to hone their skills but bound together by a strong sense of community.
Another friend also told me of her difficulties trying to get to know Tokyo. She would go out by herself, quickly get lost, go home, and try again. After many trials, when she was finally confident that she could get around alone, she said that she felt as though she had conquered something. But by then, it was time for her to leave Japan, as her husband’s assignment was over. I was very sorry to hear this. I tried walking around, pretending to myself that I could not read or speak Japanese. Assuming that I was unable to read signs or ask anyone for directions, I could understand my friend’s feeling of being enclosed by high walls.
Other friends wanted to know about the wooden sticks standing in the backs of gravestones in temple cemeteries. They were puzzled about the way jizō images were always alone or in groups of six: Why half a dozen for jizō statues, but not for the sets of cups and bowls we want to buy? I tried to provide honest answers as best I could, and made copies of my writings and maps so that friends could use them. They liked my explanations and maps—with the copies they could give friends walking tours, too, and feel like expert guides. Many of them urged me to compile my notes in the form of a book and publish it. This led to my first publishing venture: getting Discover Shitamachi: A Walking Guide to the Other Tokyo (Shitamachi Times, Inc., 1986) into print.
When preparing this and my subsequent books, I always tried to combine four elements—a good walk, good stories, good visuals, and good recommendations for tea or lunch en route. It is not easy to satisfy all four elements; I may compromise on the visuals or the restaurants, and sometimes the story might be so-so, but I always insist on good walks.
To make sure that anyone with a reasonable sense of direction can get to the destination, I put a lot of time and thought into selecting the destination, walking the route, and making sure that the landmarks are easy for non-Japanese to identify. I have my manuscript tested in the field at least twice, and by a different person each time. Maps are important, too. They should be clear and should mesh with the text. I adopted these basic guidelines for writing my book from the beginning.
I was totally ignorant of the market for my little book, and I couldn’t find a publisher. In the 1970s, walking wasn’t “in” yet, and no one thought shitamachi deserved a whole book in English. Some editors criticized the elaborate walking directions in my manuscript, and some didn’t like the hodgepodge of miscellaneous information. They told me that information on history, restaurants, museums, festivals, and handicrafts should be categorized—“Don’t jumble them up!” they said—but that made me think that book editors are not walkers. A good walk is inherently a jumble!
I was determined to do my book the way my friends liked it. Eventually, I joined forces with a down-to-earth Japanese tabloid publisher that specialized in shitamachi but had no experience with books in English. Both the publisher and I put money into this project. I was in charge of producing the book, and the publisher handled the marketing. The publisher also found a photographer and illustrator for me, and I found a printer experienced in handling English. Many friends helped me with editing and proofing galleys. I did the page layouts myself. I had no idea how tough it was going to be!
When Discover Shitamachi came out, my publisher did a good job advertising the book in the four major newspapers in Tokyo. The first printing of 3,000 copies sold out in a month to Japanese readers. With the proceeds, we went on to the second printing, which took two years to sell. Sales slowed to a trickle, but I was getting positive signs that the book was attracting foreign readers. So I proposed a third printing. My publisher was reluctant, but agreed on the condition that I put up the money. It was a tough project indeed, and I finally decided I had had enough of it and would go on to other things. Altogether we sold 9,000 copies and the book is now circulating in the second-hand book market.
Tired from publishing the Discover Shitamachi, I decided that I would rather just enjoy walks with friends, and we began exploring Chichibu—the festivals and pilgrimages to temples. Chichibu is a wonderful destination for hikers and festivalgoers. It is also a paradise for naturalists and anthropologists.
Judy Forrest, one of my regular fellow walkers, told me one day about a new book by Haru Reischauer, Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage (Harvard University Press, 1986). Mrs. Reischauer wrote about her grandfathers in the Meiji era. Her grandfather on her mother’s side was a silk merchant; on her father’s side, her grandfather was a samurai who served as finance minister and then prime minister when the national government was trying to establish itself in the 1880s. But there is another side to the story, I told Judy, the side of the people outside of the centers of power. That was also the time of the rebellion launched in 1884 by silk farmers in Chichibu in protest of the land tax and deflationary policies. Judy was immediately curious about the uprising, and we promptly put together a group for a weekend walking adventure to recall that history.
We started at Kibune-jinja, a small Shinto shrine in the northwestern corner of Chichibu, where the Meiji-era farmers had gathered for a rally and then marched on foot to attack administrative offices in the district center, now the city of Chichibu. The photographer for Discover Shitamachi came with us. It happened to be a festival day at the shrine, so villagers were performing the kagura. They were excited to have us there, as we were their only audience. From the shrine, we followed the route the protesting farmers had taken, walking along rice paddies ready for harvest and wading across the shallows of a river. Along the way, I explained the economic and social background of the incident. Al Seligman, a retired American diplomat in our group, remembered a parallel in American history.
In the 1790s, America was experiencing the birth pains of a new nation. To pay back the debts incurred by the revolution and war, the government levied an excise tax on all distilled spirits. Small producers in western Pennsylvania resisted the new tax, which was only payable in cash, and started the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. The rebellion was put down after George Washington called in the militia, and according to Seligman, the rebel leader fled to New Orleans. The Chichibu rebellion of Japan, likewise, was put down by the new government army, but one of the leaders narrowly escaped its grasp and fled to Hokkaido, where he lived out his days. We were all fascinated by this similarity between two historic incidents a century apart and on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. History repeats itself, indeed.
This excursion prompted me to consider my second book, Chichibu: Japan’s Hidden Treasure—it seemed to me that this rural area deserved more international recognition. I took up the challenge, knowing that it was going to be tough. My Chichibu friends were excited and promised their wholehearted cooperation—a photographer made his beautiful photographs available for free, and an artist offered charming woodblock prints. An American friend introduced me to a publisher in Tokyo. The publisher was more interested in doing a different version of my shitamachi guide, but agreed to do the Chichibu book first, on the condition that someone would underwrite half of the first edition.
It happened that the mayor of Chichibu was planning an international children’s festival using the windfall money given out to all municipalities by Prime Minister Takeshita Noboru (furusato sōsei ichiokuen jigyō) in 1988. I thought Chichibu guide in English would be a perfect tool to promote his plan. I visited the mayor and key members of the city assembly to solicit their support. In return, Judy and I helped organize the first and biggest international event in the area in 1990, naming it “Children’s Kingdom in Chichibu.” The festival was a huge success, and the book was published. It is a walking guide, so as always, I walked all over the area to confirm details and had my manuscript tested in the field many times.
I was very happy that I could publish these two books in a style I believed in. The best rewards for me are my readers’ favorable comments—to hear people say that they enjoyed walking Tokyo’s back streets or exploring the countryside after reading these guides.
But the market is cruel to this type of book, which is basically for local use only. So when my fellow volunteers in the Sumida River Environmental Group asked me to do a book in English, I had to discourage them. When they wanted to do a book as part of the tenth anniversary program for the group, I warned them repeatedly that it wouldn’t be a good idea, but was persuaded to say yes, after all, and we did eventually publish The Sumida Crisscross. The Sumida Crisscross has a rather original format—a large, foldout map with walking instructions that come out at the side, with explanations given on the pages that follow. The maps are real works of art, provided by a member of our group, Muramatsu Akira—who is a professional map artist. We were very proud of this book, but we couldn’t place it in bookstores. So we sold it mainly by word of mouth, mostly among Japanese. Ten years or so passed, and this also has gradually become known among non-Japanese on the secondhand book market.
During the extensive research I did for The Sumida Crisscross, I learned about the ambitious river-engineering projects undertaken by the generations of Tokugawa shoguns, started even before Tokugawa Ieyasu became the shogun. The city of Edo could not have grown successfully without reorganizing almost all of the rivers in the entire Kanto region and building canal networks to supply drinking water to the one million citizens of the city.
What I learned inspired me to do Water Walks in the Suburbs of Tokyo. For the maximum convenience of walkers, I designed this book as a collection of annotated maps. The maps are foldouts; they can also be detached and put in a plastic case, rolled up, and put in your pocket or in your bag.
For Water Walks, I was lucky to have Edo meisho zue as a source of illustrations. Edo meisho zue is a guidebook published in the nineteenth century featuring several hundred sketches of places and people in Edo. I could use as many of these as I wanted. Water Walks was self-published because I knew that no regular publisher would be interested, given the book’s unusual format.
My old friend Mimi LeBourgeois worked closely with me on the Water Walks project. We took it to a small printing shop in Yanaka to be produced cheaply, and paid the cost ourselves. This book is still available at two stores in Tokyo—Good Day Books in Ebisu, and Blue and White in Azabu Juban (run by Amy Katoh). It has been a slow but sturdy seller, and is recommended on various websites. Unfortunately, I don’t think The Sumida Crisscross is available anywhere.
There have been many spin-offs from my books; Discover Shitamachi changed my life. I got to know many people, both residents of Japan and frequent visitors, as friends. I also got to know the Japanese women’s group based in the Yanaka area that publishes the quarterly magazine called Yanesen. The activities of this group were recently reported on at some length in an NHK television program. Yanesen is a quarterly in Japanese inaugurated in 1984. They did three issues in English, but it was difficult to sustain because they didn’t sell very well.
Yanesen has continued for 25 years now, and it has contributed greatly to revitalizing a formerly somewhat forgotten, sleepy area of old Tokyo. The name of the magazine is taken from the first part of the names of the Yanaka, Nezu, and Sendagi neighborhoods. It has often reported on situations in which excessive development adversely affects people’s lives, and the magazine’s office became a center for volunteer groups interested in environmental and architectural preservation issues. The women’s group started their magazine in October of the same year my Discover Shitamachi came out (April), and we immediately became good friends and did a lot of things together.
One of the big projects we worked on together was the “Save Shinobazu Pond” campaign. In 1989, we were shocked to learn about a horrible plan to dig up the lotus pond in Ueno just down the hill from Ueno Park and put a huge car park underneath it. After reading the scoop on this plan by a journalist for one of Japan’s national newspapers, we launched a movement to stop it. We worked very hard collecting signatures, both from Japanese and non-Japanese, for a petition to submit to the Tokyo metropolitan assembly. We organized many events, such as a symposium to review the proposed project from many perspectives, focusing on the history, city planning, geology, and economic assessment aspects of the public project. We invited speakers whose expertise lay in these areas.
One of the benefits cited by proponents of the project was supposedly to enhance the international image of Ueno. So I invited Mr. Jonathan Holliman, one of the founders of Friends of the Earth who was working with the United Nations Development Programme in Aoyama at the time, to serve as keynote speaker. To help people understand the issue, I rapidly translated the summaries of the Japanese speakers’ talks and made a little booklet. Holliman and my ex-pat friends all spoke eloquently, declaring an unequivocal “no” to the vaunted “international enhancement” notion of the project, and it was all recorded on television. The symposium received air time on NHK TV and in the major newspapers, greatly strengthening our voice against the project.
We hung on with the opposition movement for ten years, pushing the proponents over and over to cancel or relocate the project. Finally, when the Taito municipal assembly adopted a plan to build a much smaller car park 200 meters away from the pond, we found it difficult to keep resisting as we were exhausted by then. The new car park was completed in April this year, underneath the Ginza subway line, but is little used. Its extremely difficult construction, owing to owing to still-flowing underground streams, resulted in skyrocketing costs. Some of our members residing in Taito Ward have filed procedures for an official audit report. So far, no harmful influence on Shinobazu Pond has been noticed.
Another big project that I have been involved in is the preservation of the Yasuda House in Sendagi. This is a beautiful 90-year-old wooden house, formerly the residence of a member of the Yasuda zaibatsu, which escaped destruction in both the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the bombing of Tokyo in 1944–1945.
Fourteen years ago, when the owner of the house, Yasuda Kusuo (1903–1995), died, the house was threatened by a huge inheritance tax. Those of us connected with Yanesen magazine helped Mrs. Yasuda save the house by arranging for her to donate it to the Japan National Trust. We continue to be involved in the maintenance of the house, which is open to the public twice a week. Volunteers guide visitors on house tours, and it is a splendid example of traditional Japanese architecture, so I encourage you to visit. We also organize various events to raise funds for the house, to be used for maintenance and further restoration.
The Yasuda House work got me started on another intriguing project when I saw the beautiful dolls that were made for display in its large tokonoma and that had been donated to the Japan National Trust, along with the house. The dolls are on display every year in March and May. Fine antique dolls are rare collector’s items that open a window on one of Japan’s proud traditions of craftsmanship.
My fascination with Eitokusai III, whose given name is Yamakawa Yasujirô, deepened when I learned that he had traveled to the United States 100 years ago and lived in Philadelphia for 20 years! Just imagine! A real Edokko, born and raised in Nihonbashi, going off to the wilds of America in 1907, despite all the difficulties that travel must have involved in those days. Nothing seemed to be known about him and records were virtually non-existent, but I started looking for clues with just a wisp of an idea six years ago, and I have been rewarded by a long chain of serendipitous discoveries.
I learned that Yamakawa had lived and worked in Philadelphia between 1907 and 1927. He had traveled first to St. Louis to assist with the Japan Tea Industry Cooperatives exhibit at the World’s Fair there in 1904, and then made a second trip to Philadelphia, where he worked for the Commercial Museum. When he returned to Tokyo in 1927, he slipped back into traditional doll-making, seemed to have no trouble at all meeting the exacting demands of his connoisseur customers, and left a legacy of splendid dolls. The Commercial Museum in Philadelphia has been largely forgotten, but I did discover that some human figures by Yamakawa made there have been preserved.
What was he doing in Philadelphia? He was making life-size, lifelike models of all types of people worldwide, for displays in the museum. Old photos show examples such as a figure of a Mandarin scholar seated at a desk writing with a brush and a Belgian woman separating seeds from the stems of flax. He made them using the traditional techniques of Japanese doll-making he had mastered back in Tokyo. He made the head and hands, and the bodies were basically sticks of wood padded with cotton or straw that were dressed in real costumes from the museum’s collection.
Scenes illustrating Japanese tea-making processes made by Yamakawa Yasujirō for the Commercial Museum in Philadelphia.
Photographs courtesy of the Temple University Anthropology Laboratory.
The museum he worked for was the brainchild of a Pennsylvania University professor, Dr. William P. Wilson. It was a time when the United States did not yet have a department of commerce. The manufacturing industry was growing at a rapid pace, and businesses were eager to sell their excess production abroad. The Commercial Museum was conceived as a place that would help manufacturers understand other countries and learn how to export their goods overseas. Wilson’s idea was to collect, from the numerous international expositions that were being held at the turn of the century, samples of raw materials, artifacts, and crafts that were put on display. The expositions lasted only three to six months, and when they were over, most of the things displayed were thrown away. Dr Wilson thought that if he could acquire them and put them on permanent display in a museum, they would help people learn about products and commodities from all over the world. For success in foreign markets, Americans needed to learn about the world beyond their horizons, and Japanese craftsman Yamakawa contributed to a museum that was indeed a success for many years.
After Wilson died in 1927, the fortunes of the museum changed considerably, and the collection languished; the large models had little chance of surviving. Declared defunct in 1994, the museum and its history came to an end. What remained of the huge collection was dispersed in 2004 to other city museums and educational institutions. By sheer luck and coincidence, I found three of a set of four scenes Yamakawa had made to show the process of making and shipping tea in Japan. They were contained in cardboard boxes labeled “China” among the piles of things in a warehouse! My research on Yamakawa Yasujiro has continued, and quite recently (early 2010), after much detective work, I have found photographs of the doll maker in later life and additional information about him.
Lastly, I would like to address a question that has come up frequently in the course of my work. Japan does have a National Trust, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, but it is managed by an independent foundation. The National Trust movement started in England over a hundred years ago, and they have many properties—over 200 historic buildings and 150 gardens—all popular destinations for tourists. The Japan National Trust, by contrast, was established in 1968, so last year, it celebrated its fortieth year. It has not been as active as the British, or for that matter American, National Trust movements.
The Trust has been involved in some research and in archeological excavations, but it has only four properties at present. Two are open to the public—one is the Yasuda House, and the other is the Komai House in Kyoto, in the Kita-Shirakawa area. Two others are thatched-roof buildings in Shirakawa-go, the World Heritage site in Gifu prefecture, but they are not open throughout the year. Outside the National Trust, a good number of such historic properties are now maintained by municipalities—some by the metropolitan government and others by ward offices, using public funds. But Japan National Trust properties must depend on revenues from showing or using the properties, and donations.
The Japan National Trust used to depend on corporate donors, and this was all right when the economy was good. But in this recession, companies are withdrawing their support or cutting back funding, so the Trust’s financial situation is very precarious. Individuals can join, and such memberships are a great help. The rooms of the Yasuda House in Sendagi can be rented, so organizations like SWET may wish to consider using them for group functions. The house is open to the public on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and can be opened to groups for a house tour or an event by reservation.
Originally published in the SWET Newsletter, No. 124, pp. 20-38.
Ed. note: This book was published in 1990 by Tuttle. Tuttle published a “revised edition” in 1999, but it was seriously flawed, with many mistakes and Enbutsu’s own revisions not included. Readers are encouraged to look for the original 1990 edition.
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“Marlboro students are passionate learners with insurmountable curiosity, always excited to see how deep the academic rabbit hole can go,” said one student surveyed for the 2018 Fiske Guide to Colleges, now available from booksellers. Each year the Fiske Guide offers profiles of more than 300 of the “best and most interesting” colleges in the country, and once again Marlboro College is among them.
Fiske claims to be the best-selling college guide on the market and the one that high school counselors recommend most often to students and parents. Their thorough profile of Marlboro College highlights its trailblazing history as an innovator in liberal arts education, the Plan of Concentration, shared governance model, study abroad opportunities, and the “incredibly dynamic” Outdoor Program. Although there are some inaccuracies and outdated inclusions, the profile overall reflects Marlboro’s unique position in the landscape of higher education.
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2019-04-22T01:19:20Z
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https://www.marlboro.edu/news/story/5394/Marlboro%20College%20Featured%20in%20Fiske%20Guide
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The Big Fight: Ortiz vs. Sonnen is happening Saturday January 21st at the Forum in Inglewood. For tickets and more information visit Ticketmaster.com.
This segment aired on the KTLA 5 Morning News on January 17th, 2017.
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2019-04-25T19:49:59Z
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https://ktla.com/2017/01/17/tito-ortiz-talks-retirement-and-final-fight/?shared=email&msg=fail
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aul Rudolph, Final rendering of the interior of the HUB including people mover, c. 1967-1972. Color slide. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The legacy of Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) is a mixed one. Universally considered one of the most important and original American architects, his signature “brutalist” buildings, which were controversial from the start, are in large part neglected and under threat of demolition. In truth his built works, while dynamic in broad outline, often fatally lack the sensibility of detail that would allow them to rise to the level of his magnificent drawings. In a small, focused show at Cooper Union under auspices of The Drawing Center, we can revisit Rudolph’s talent in his greatest set of rendered dreams, a 1967-72 study funded by the Ford Foundation for a Y-shaped Lower Manhattan infrastructural expressway. It would have trenched between two bridges and a tunnel while knitting housing, parking, and other civic functions above in richly organic clusters of hanging gardens of concrete.
One gasps at the proposal’s sacrificial swath through Soho, Chinatown and the Lower East Side (at the time, the word would have been “renewal”), but the brilliant intensity of Rudolph’s vision, at least as drawings, may be sufficiently redeeming. No originals are on view in this orphaned exhibition, alas, and the full-size reproductions are far from the best attainable. Works in color are misguidedly displayed in freestanding glass sandwiches, apparently to provide translucent backlighting. The Drawing Center has much to answer for; it presumably would not provide its own premises, and the Library of Congress, which holds Rudolph’s archives, would not lend to Cooper’s non-standard gallery. However, the curators, Ed Rawlings and Jim Walrod, have produced a smart, thoughtful booklet and supervised a comprehensive model (inferred from stills from a lost promotional film as well as the drawings) that rewards a visit.
From the standpoint of big thinking versus small, there is much to talk about here. Isn’t Rudolph’s top-down planning, however open-ended and humane, inescapably Moloch? With its priority to traffic flow and parking, isn’t it anti-urban? Still, compared to Robert Moses’ earlier proposals for a LoMEx, Rudolph’s is the rare, nuanced vision; what if New York had embraced it to secure a more ambitious architectural future? Consider today’s Delancey St. corridor, which the plan would have utterly transformed. Rudolph would design away automobile snarl and the blight of cheap flimflam, but what happens to the fertile democracy of the grid, what Rem Koolhaas has called “Manhattanism?” Would the plan have thrown the baby out with the bathwater?
These are vital questions now as then, but it is worth putting them aside to appreciate the power of Rudolph’s graphic approach. In a text for a book of his drawings, he admitted that his famous corduroyed concrete was an attempt to reproduce materially the rhythmic parallel textures of his renderings; that he didn’t use brick because he disliked drawing it; and that he could fool himself with his own dramatic manipulations of scale. He was well aware that building must take precedence over drawing, so his frankness is admirable: his renderings might be too good. In the purely theoretical LoMEx studies, no such compunctions restrain Rudolph’s graphic electricity. Closer in spirit to the pop fantasias of Archigram or the gorgeous mega-Babels of Paolo Soleri than to conventional architectural renderings, Rudolph’s elaborate diagonal rhythms and emphatic textures project a mind-blowing alternate cityscape.
Paul Rudolph, Perspective rendering of vertical housing elements at the approach to the Williamsburg Bridge, 1970. Courtesy of the Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The exhibition contains many fascinating sketches that demonstrate the fecundity of Rudolph’s ideas about interlocking, stepped spaces, but it’s his finished perspective renderings (delegated to some extent and intended for reproduction, but smaller and crisper than here) that command attention. The style was an early invention from which he barely wavered. It borrows from the suavity of engraving in its highly deliberate accumulations of straight black lines to convey light and shade – the quality of line never getting vague to evoke atmosphere, just more exacting in its proportion. Receding surfaces in shadow are scored with sure crosshatches that moiré against converging perspective rays, while black sectioned solids project plushly forward. The complexity of Rudolph’s interiors has sometimes been called Piranesian (praise to some ears, though not necessarily meant as such), but the great printmaker’s indefatigably assertive linear rhythm seems to have impressed itself on Rudolph as much as hanging catwalks and monumental staircases to nowhere.
Two drawings in particular from the LoMEx project transcend their intended purpose, and can be said to have entered the collective reservoir of unforgettable images. One is a perspective of the approach to the Williamsburg Bridge banked by zigzagging housing towers. Done in red graphite substantially freehand, it is meticulously worked up but lighter in touch than usual. The other is a rock-solid section through A-frame structures over the expressway trench. Zones of color pop the drafted black linework forward, and Rudolph exploits the forcing, multiple horizons common to baroque theater and Yellow Submarine to bury the eye in the receding streetscape – naked manipulations that betray the architect’s visionary temperament.
The most inventive contemporary architects seem all in agreement that the organic principle, lost in modernism, can be restored to buildings by the abhorrence of repetition, by continuous shift and surprise. Rudolph’s Bauhaus training came direct from Gropius, however, and held whimsicality to a stricter standard. His work at its best, built and unbuilt, reminds us that deep architectural thrill depends on theme and variation. In talented hands, modular composition and sculptural logic need not be static. They can be musical.
If there are lessons for today’s urban planners and architects in Rudolph’s work, artists should pay heed as well. The history of painting and drawing is full of envy for the illusionism of architectural drafting, which is ever magnetic. On top of that, a certain architectural fetishism is by now overly familiar in contemporary art, for example in the work of Guillermo Kuitca or Julie Mehretu. So, what happens if we take architects’ renderings on equal terms? A properly done show of Rudolph’s drawings would be a good place to start. The issue in play, I would suggest, is that architecture is about solving problems, while art is about asking questions. The practices are oppositely charged. But in certain microcosmic, visionary, solipsistic moments, architectural drawings may arrogate the prerogative of art. When that happens, their clear, purposeful execution is a force to be reckoned with.
missed the rudolph drawing show, it must have been great. but on the basis of 4 years spent in a rudolph bldg, i would offer alternate views of his architecture. in creating problems rather than solving them for his buildings’ users, rudolph may be more of an artist as you define one. while his large spaces are flaccid like much brutalism to follow, rudolph’s satisfactions are in the compressed detours around the blind ends he throws up everywhere.
in my narrow experience, the strength of rudolph’s architecture lies in the same intimate detail as the drawings. and while he’ll never match kahn for sense of scale or materials, when rudolph hammers ribbed concrete, that’s pretty nice line in itself.
Great drawings. So glad he did not build them.
David – Fascinating take on the role of visionary architect’s drawings.
Ditto to all of the above, esp Daniel’s opening. I spent years sorting through my mixed feelings about the A&A, then visited a beautiful private house in Mamaroneck and was won over. As for art and architecture being “oppositely charged,” I think you’ve just explained almost too much about my marriage, David!
As for “opposititely charged” — a quck compression of what should be a long discussion, but for the record, I am the hopelessly confused product of just such a union.
Thank you for the thoughtful review of our Paul Rudolph exhibition. I wanted to say that I was interested in these drawings for the same reason that you are – the point at which architecture intersects art and also the role drawing plays in representing large scale spatial thinking. You suggest that The Drawing Center has to answer for not showing the original drawings and for our choice of works.
When I went to the Library of Congress two and half years ago to research the LOMEX drawings this material had been not be cataloged or for that matter conserved. Once that process began it became apparent that the drawings could not be shown in our Drawing Room space (where we had originally conceived of hosting show – since it was not up to the standards of the Library of Congress for loans). The decision to do the show at Cooper Union was initiated through a conversation with Dean Vidler and Steven Hillyer and I for one was excited about placing this show in an educational context. Since Rudolph has been such a maligned figure in the architecture world I thought it might be useful to have this show in one of the premiere architecture schools in the country to allow students to have a chance to evaluate the LOMEX proposal as one of the largest inter modal urban planning project ever dreamed of (which admittedly is fraught with many problems and contradictions) As well, this collaboration allowed the Cooper students to rebuild the LOMEX model, which became a very important part of the show. I hope at least that gives some rationale for why the show ended up a Cooper Union. In regards to our choices of drawings and the way we displayed them – I can only defend our decisions based on what we wanted to try and get across to the specialized audience at Cooper and introduce the project to the general public.
That said, I am most proud of the dialog around this exhibition. For many this is the first time they have seen the project and there were many intelligent pieces written about this show that really dig into the relationship of architecture to urban planning, discuss new ways to frame city planning beyond the dialectic of the Moses and Jacobs positions and also some re-evaluation of Rudolph’s legacy.
I absolutely love The Drawing Center (and once had the privelege of showing there). It’s the extraordinarily high standards set by that amazing institution that make the display of the Rudolph reproductions difficult to swallow. I wonder if the Library of Congress would loan to the main space, which exhibits museum level shows regularly, as opposed to the Drawing Room space? Assuming the answer is yes, I do hope the wide interest in the Rudolph show will lead to a show of his drawings there in the future.
Great drawings. So glad he did not build them. David – Fascinating take on the role of visionary architect’s drawings.
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2019-04-25T22:32:38Z
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New for 2018, SXSW is excited to introduce the first ever SouthBites Market, running March 14-17 during the 6th annual SouthBites Trailer Park.
We created the SouthBites Market as a place where SXSW attendees can experience food and consumer goods within the SouthBites Trailer Park. Apply to be a part of this new and exciting addition to the trailer park and position your company to attract new customers from all over the world.
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The SouthBites Market highlights the finest local and national food products as well as other popular consumer goods that are emerging on the market. This is a great opportunity for aspiring businesses, restaurants, brands, and entrepreneurs to broaden their audience. Thousands of SXSW attendees roam SouthBites every year looking to discover new companies and foods. Tap into this diverse crowd to help make your business the next big hit!
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2019-04-20T11:02:07Z
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Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library: LR 170: Engine 6 loading logs. Cummer Lumber Co., Cadillac.
LR 170: Engine 6 loading logs. Cummer Lumber Co., Cadillac.
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2019-04-22T12:52:49Z
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs5576/HS5576?lasttype=allmedia;lastview=thumbnail;resnum=9982;size=20;sort=m_flm;start=9981;subview=detail;view=entry
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soundtrackcollector
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There are 18 labels for this title.
There are 18 compilation albums for this title.
Theme from the film "The Ipcress File"
Radio station copy. White Label.
2 DVD+CD. 3 Disc set.
from "From Russia With Love"
"J. Barry / L. Bricusse"
"J. Barry / D. Black"
"J. Barry / A. Newley / L. Bricusse - sung by Shirley Bassey"
"J. Barry / D. Black - sung by Shirley Bassey"
"L. Bart - sung by Matt Monro"
"J. Barry / R. Turner / D. Black"
"J.Barry / D. Black - sung by Matt Monro"
2 LPs. Roland Shaw and his orchestra.
Promotional free CD with magazine Total Film.
Played by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nic Raine, and featuring the Crouch End Festival Chorus.
Subtitled "A collection of music & dialogue from his best loved films".
Michael Caine's tracks are snippets of dialogue taken from various films.
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无结缝合线固定器安装系统，其用于紧固医学装置例如心脏植入物。 Knotless suture anchor installation system for securing medical devices such as heart implant. 无结缝合线固定器可以被弹性偏压以便夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 Knotless suture anchor may be resiliently biased to clamp the suture passing through thereof. 系统包括固定器部署工具，其带有近侧手柄和固定器夹头附连至其的远侧轴。 The system includes a deployment tool holder, which is secured with a proximal handle and a distal collet attached to the shaft thereto. 多个一次性夹头顺序地附连至部署工具的末端并且用于每次一个固定器紧固医学植入物。 A plurality of disposable cartridge are sequentially attached to the end of the deployment tool and a holder for securing each medical implant. 部署工具也可以切割被固定的缝合线。 Deployment tools can also be fixed cutting sutures.
本发明一般地涉及用于在所使用的缝合线上安装无结缝合线固定器的系统—— 例如一一以紧固医学植入物而无需缝合线结。 The present invention generally relates to a mounting system for knotless suture anchor of the suture used - for example, eleven in medical implant without tightening the suture knot.
心脏瓣膜疾病是普遍情况，其中心脏瓣膜的一个或多个未能正常地起作用。 Heart valve disease is a common situation, in which one or more of the heart valves fail to function properly. 可以使用多种外科技术以修复病变或受损的瓣膜，其包括紧固心脏植入物至病变瓣环。 A variety of surgical techniques may be used to repair diseased or damaged valve, comprising a fastening diseased heart implant to the annulus. 心脏植入物包括人工心脏瓣膜和瓣膜成形环。 A cardiac implant comprises an artificial heart valves and annuloplasty rings. 在瓣膜置换手术中，切除受损的小叶并且对瓣环造型以接收置换瓣膜。 In a valve replacement operation, the damaged leaflets and removal of the annulus shape to receive a replacement valve. 大约一半的患者接收由刚性的、合成材料组成的机械心脏瓣膜，并且其余的患者接收人造生物心脏瓣膜置换，其利用用于柔性流体闭合小叶的生物衍生组织。 About half of the patients receiving mechanical heart valves from a rigid, synthetic material, and the remaining patients receiving bioprosthetic heart valve replacement, which is closed using a flexible fluid-derived biological tissue leaflets. 用于治疗有缺陷的瓣膜的另一个不太剧烈的方法是通过修复或重建，其通常用在最小钙化的瓣膜上。 A less drastic method for treating defective valves is through repair or reconstruction, which is typically used on the smallest valve calcification. 一种已经显示在治疗闭锁不全中有效的修复技术是瓣膜成形术，其中通过将人工瓣膜成形术修复节片或环附连至瓣环，整形变形的瓣环。 One kind has been shown effective in treating incompetence is annuloplasty repair technique, by which artificial annuloplasty repair segments or rings attached to the annulus, the plastic deformation of the annulus.
在通常的心脏植入物操作中，切入主动脉，并且，在瓣膜置换手术中，去除有缺陷的瓣膜，留出期望的安置点，其可以包括纤维组织层或环状组织。 In a normal heart implant operation, cut into the aorta, and, in a valve replacement operation, a defective valve is removed, leaving the desired placement site, which may comprise a layer of fibrous tissue or cyclic tissues. 己知的心脏植入技术单独地包括穿过纤维组织或在瓣环内的期望的安置点预安装缝合线以形成一排缝合线。 Heart implantation technique known individually through the fiber comprises a point disposed within a desired tissue or pre-installed in the annulus to form a row of suture suture. 缝合线的自由端被悬在胸腔外并且被间隔开，有时围绕缝合线组织件分布。 The free end of the suture is suspended outside the thorax and are spaced apart, sometimes distributed around the suture member tissue. 然后缝合线的自由端单独地穿过瓣膜成形环或人工心脏瓣膜的缝合线可透过的缝纫边。 Then the free end of the suture through the sewing individually annuloplasty ring or suture a prosthetic heart valve permeable side. 一旦所有缝合线己经穿过缝纫边(通常12至18根缝合线），所有缝合线被向上拉紧并且假体向下滑动或“空降”直到其位于邻近目标瓣环。 Once all sutures through the sewing has sides (typically 12-18 sutures), all the sutures are tensioned upward and downward sliding of the prosthesis or "airborne" until it is positioned adjacent the target annulus. 然后通过在缝纫边的近侧传统地打结锚定缝合线将心脏植入物紧固在适当位置。 Then through the proximal side of the sewing in the conventional knotted suture anchor heart implant secured in place. 在每根缝合线上通常存在7-10个结，其通过使用推结器装置每次推进一个结至期望的位置前进。 Typically present in 7-10 knots of each suture, each time advancing it proceeds through a junction to a desired position using the knot pusher device. 此操作是明显地耗费时间的。 This operation is clearly time-consuming.
在开心脏操作期间，患者在心肺旁路上，其减小了患者的氧气水平并且产生非生理性的血液流动动力。 during an open heart operation, patients in cardiopulmonary bypass path, which reduces the oxygen level of the patient and the blood flow power generating unphysiological. 患者在心肺旁路上越长，对于包括持久性健康损害的并发症的风险越高。 The longer a patient in cardiopulmonary bypass road, the higher for complications include persistent damage to health risks. 用于固定心脏植入物的现有的技术延长了旁路的持续时间并且由于心肺旁路增加了健康风险。 Existing technologies for cardiac implants fixed to extend the duration of cardiopulmonary bypass because the bypass and increased health risks. 而且，由固定产生的紧固力显著变化，因为甚至对于经验丰富的医学专家难以持续地维持恰在打结之前的缝合线的预拉伸。 Further, a significant change in the fastening force generated by the fixed, since even for experienced medical professionals difficult continuously maintained just prior to the pre-stretching the knotted suture.
存在对于减小紧固医学植入物在适当位置所需时间的装置和方法的需要。 There is a need for a method and apparatus to reduce the time required for fastening medical implant in place. 另外地，存在更容易将心脏植入物紧固一一特别地紧固在适当位置一一的需要。 Additionally, the presence of heart implant easier to fasten need-especially fastened in place one by one. 目前，临床医生必须在心脏附近的有限空间中工作以系上缝合线中的结。 Currently, the clinician must work in a limited space near the heart to the tied suture knot. 甚至对于巨大灵巧性和耐心的临床医生，这也是繁琐过程。 Even for clinicians great dexterity and patience, which is cumbersome process.
本申请公开了安装系统，其用于使用无结缝合线固定器将瓣膜成形环或人工心脏瓣膜紧固至心脏瓣环。 The present application discloses a mounting system for use knotless suture retainer or the annuloplasty ring is fastened to the prosthetic heart valve annulus of the heart. 无结缝合线固定器令人满意地被弹性偏压以便自启动并且夹紧在穿过其的瓣环锚定缝合线上。 Knotless suture anchor is resiliently biased to satisfactorily from the start and clamping the suture therethrough annulus anchor. 系统包括固定器部署工具，其带有近侧手柄和固定器夹头附连至其的远侧轴。 The system includes a deployment tool holder, which is secured with a proximal handle and a distal collet attached to the shaft thereto. 多个一次性夹头顺序地附连至部署工具的末端并且用于一次一个固定器紧固医学植入物。 A plurality of disposable cartridge are sequentially attached to the end of the deployment tool and a fixture for securing a medical implant. 部署工具也可以切割固定的缝合线。 Deployment tools can cut a suture secured.
本申请的优选的实施方式包括用于无结紧固缝合线的系统，其包括可再使用的部署工具，其具有在远侧尖端终止的远侧轴，工具包括在远侧轴内可移动的发射器和多个预组装的、一次性固定器夹头和缝合线圈套器组件。 Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure includes a knotless embodiment suture tightening system, which comprises a reusable deployment tool having a distal shaft distal tip terminates, within the distal shaft tool comprises a movable transmitter and a plurality of pre-assembled, disposable cartridge holder assembly and suture snare. 每个组件具有夹头，该夹头具有在其远端内接收单个缝合线固定器的腔，夹头腔的近端尺寸为啮合部署工具轴的远侧尖端。 Each assembly has a chuck, the chuck having a cavity to receive a single suture anchor in its distal end, a proximal end of the cavity size of the collet to engage the distal tip of the deployment tool shaft. 缝合线固定器包括夹紧结构，其可被弯曲至缝合线可以穿过其的打开状态并且偏压向闭合位置， 其夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 Suture holder comprises a clamp structure which can be bent to a suture may pass through its open state and biased to a closed position, in which the clamping through suture therethrough. 夹头具有至少一个维持缝合线固定器在其打开状态的止动件。 A collet having at least maintain the suture anchor in its open stopper. 组件进一步包括具有细长柔性圈套器部分的缝合线圈套器，其尺寸为径向向内穿过啮合的夹头和工具轴中的对准的孔并且在远端穿过其打开状态的缝合线固定器。 Having a suture assembly further comprises an elongated flexible snare portion of the snare, a size of inwardly radially through the aligned holes of the collet and the tool engagement shaft therethrough and an opened state at the distal end of the suture Holder. 圈套器部分适于捕获并牵拉缝合线在近端穿过缝合线固定器并穿出夹头和工具轴中的对准的孔。 Snare portion adapted to capture and pulling the suture through the proximal end of the suture anchor and out through aperture aligned collet and the tool shaft. 当夹头与部署工具啮合时，发射器的移动接触并且将缝合线固定器从其打开状态转变至其闭合状态以夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 When the deployment tool engaged with the cartridge, the moving contact and the emitter of the suture anchor transition from its open state to its closed position to clamp the suture through thereof.
本文公开的用于无结紧固缝合线的另一个系统包括部署工具，其带有在其上具有锁定结构的在远侧尖端终止的远侧轴，工具包括在工具轴内可移动的发射器，并且工具轴具有邻近远侧尖端的侧孔。 The herein disclosed for securing knotless suture deployment tool further comprises a system, which has a distal shaft having a locking structure in which the distal tip of the termination tool comprises a movable shaft within the tool transmitter, and the tool shaft has a distal tip adjacent the side hole. 系统包括具有夹紧结构的缝合线固定器，该夹紧结构可以被弯曲至缝合线可以穿过其的打开状态，并且其被偏压向夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上的闭合位置。 The system includes a suture anchor having a clamping structure, the clamp structure may be bent to a suture may pass through its open state, and it is biased in a closed position to clamp through which the suture. 固定器夹头具有腔，其在远端接收缝合线固定器，并且具有维持缝合线固定器在其打开状态的至少一个止动件。 Collet fixture having a cavity, which receives the distal end of the suture in the retainer and having at least one stop member to maintain the suture anchor in the opened state thereof. 夹头的近端具有配接结构，其用于啮合部署工具轴的远侧尖端的锁定结构，并且夹头也具有进出孔，当二者啮合时其与工具轴的侧孔对准。 The proximal end of the collet having a mating structure for engaging the distal tip of the deployment tool shaft locking structure, and also having a cartridge access hole, when engaged with both side tool shaft aligned apertures. 最后，缝合线圈套器包括细长柔性圈套器部分，该细长柔性圈套器部分的尺寸为穿过夹头的进出孔，穿过工具轴的侧孔，并且在其打开状态在远端穿过缝合线固定器。 Finally, the suture snare portion includes an elongated flexible snare, the snare size of the flexible elongated portion of the collet through the access aperture, through the side hole of the tool shaft, at the distal end thereof and through open state the suture anchor. 发射器的移动接触并将缝合线固定器从其打开状态转变为其闭合状态以夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 The moving contact and the suture anchor transmitter transitions from its open state to its closed position to clamp the suture through thereof.
在上述的任意一个系统中，部署工具优选地具有带有触发器的近侧手柄，并且通过启动触发器，发射器在工具轴内是纵向可移动的。 In any of the above-described system, the deployment tool preferably has a handle with a proximal trigger, and by actuating the trigger, the transmitter in the tool shaft is longitudinally movable. 发射器可进一步包括锋利的边缘，使得其移动也可切断延伸穿过缝合线固定器并且穿出在夹头和工具轴中的对准的孔的缝合线。 The transmitter may further include a sharpened edge, so that it can be moved off the suture extends through the suture anchor and aligned holes in the piercing tool and collet shaft. 优选地，缝合线固定器包括盘形主体，并且夹紧结构包括用狭缝从主体分离并且被弹性偏压向闭合状态的至少一个接片，其中接片与主体对准，并且夹头包括至少一个止动件，其在它的打开状态维持缝合线固定器使接片弯曲而从与主体对准远离。 Preferably, the suture anchor comprises a plate-shaped body, and the clamping structure comprises at least one tab with a slit separating body and is elastically biased to the closed position, wherein the tab is aligned with the body, and the clip head includes at least one stop member, which allows to maintain the suture fixing tab bent away from the alignment of the body in its open state.
期望地，缝合线圈套器包括柔性环形式的连接至细长柔性圈套器部分的近侧手柄，和用于接收并保持柔性环打开的具有外围凹槽的把手/键，并且其中把手/键可拆卸地附连至夹头的远端。 Desirably, the suture snare comprising a flexible elongated form of a ring connected to the flexible proximal portion of the snare handle, and for receiving and retaining the flexible loop handle open / key has a peripheral groove, and wherein the handle / key removably attached to the distal end of the cartridge.
在优选的实施方式中，夹头是基本上管状的并且近端包括在圆形闭锁中终止的L-形狭槽，该圆形闭锁接收从部署工具轴向外延伸的锁定销，通过轴向推进并且然后在其上旋转以使锁定销置于圆形闭锁中，夹头啮合部署工具轴的远侧尖端。 In a preferred embodiment, the collet is substantially tubular and comprises L- shaped slot proximal end terminating at a circular locking, the circular locking received from the deployment tool outer axially extending locking pin, and by axially advancing thereon is then rotated so that the locking pin is placed in the circular locking collet engaging the distal tip of the deployment tool shaft. 部署工具轴的远侧尖端可具有带有轴向延伸部分和圆周部分的L-形狭槽，并且其中当啮合夹头至工具轴时，轴向延伸部分与定位在夹头上的对准的孔的第一个对准，以避免结合在圈套器部分上，并且圆周部分在定位在工具轴上的对准的孔的第二个中终止，第一和第二个对准的孔仅仅当夹头和工具轴完全啮合时对准。 The distal tip of the shaft deployment tool may have an axially extending portion and L- shaped slot having a circumferential portion, and wherein when the engaging shaft to the tool collet, axially extending portion of the clip is positioned in the alignment of the head a first alignment holes, to prevent binding on the snare portion and the peripheral portion terminates in a second positioning tool axis aligned holes in the first and second aligned holes only when aligned and fully engaged the collet tool shaft. LOOU」根据一个万面，用于无结紧固植入物的方法首先包括在解剖位置预安装多个缝合线并且将缝合线穿过植入物的缝合线可透过部分的步骤。 The method LOOU "In accordance with one hand, the knotless for securing the implant comprises a first plurality of pre-installed sutures in the anatomical position and the suture through the suture implant step permeable portion. 将固定器夹头和缝合线圈套器组件附连至部署工具的轴的远侧尖端。 The distal tip of the anchor and suture snare collet assembly attached to the deployment tool shaft. 夹头具有腔，其在其远端内接收单个缝合线固定器，和至少一个止动件，该至少一个止动件维持缝合线固定器的夹紧结构在弹性偏压向闭合状态的打开状态。 Chuck having a cavity, which receives a single suture anchor in its distal end, and at least one stopper member, the stopper member with the at least one suture anchor clamp structure of the open state to the closed state resiliently biased . 缝合线圈套器包括细长柔性圈套器部分，其尺寸为径向向内穿过附连的夹头和工具轴中的对准的孔并且在其打开状态在远端穿过缝合线固定器。 The suture comprises an elongated flexible snare snare portion sized to radially inwardly through aligned holes in the shaft and attached collet tool in its open state and through the distal end of the suture anchor. 方法包括用圈套器部分圈套预安装的缝合线中的一个，用部署工具沿着缝合线推进夹头至植入物，直到缝合线固定器邻近缝合线可透过的部分，启动在工具轴内的发射器以接触并将缝合线固定器从其打开状态转变为其中夹紧结构夹紧在缝合线上的其闭合状态，并且切断缝合线。 The method comprises a suture snare portion of the snare in a pre-installed, with the deployment tool chuck advancing along the suture to the implant, until the suture anchor adjacent the suture-permeable portion, start the tool shaft to contact the emitter and the suture anchor transition from its open state in which the clamp structure is clamped in its closed state suture, and the suture is severed.
f •切断第二缝合线。 f • second suture cutting.
植入物期望地选自瓣膜成形环和心脏瓣膜。 The implant desirably selected annuloplasty ring and heart valves. 缝合线固定器优选地每个包括盘形主体、和包括至少一个接片的夹紧结构，该至少一个接片用狭缝从主体分离并且弹性偏压朝向其中接片与主体对准的闭合状态，和至少一个止动件，其维持缝合线固定器在弯曲接片从与主体对准远离的其打开状态。 The suture anchor preferably each comprises a disc-shaped body, and the clamping structure comprises at least one tab, the at least one tab tab toward the body wherein the body is aligned with the slit and separated from the closed state resiliently biased and at least one stop, which maintains the suture anchor from the opened state thereof is aligned with the body remote from the bent tab. 而且，部署工具可具有近侧手柄，其带有用于启动发射器的触发器，并且发射器进一步包括锋利的边缘，使得其移动也切断延伸穿过缝合线固定器并且穿出在夹头和工具轴中的对准的孔的缝合线。 Further, a proximal deployment tool may have a handle with a trigger for activating the transmitter, and the transmitter further comprises a sharp edge, so that it moves also extends through the cutting and piercing the suture anchor and the tool in the collet suture holes aligned shafts.
在以下的描述和权利要求中阐明了本发明的性质和优势的进一步理解，特别地当与附图结合考虑时，其中相同部分具有相同参考数字。 clarified further understanding of the nature and advantages of the present invention in the following description and claims, particularly when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein the same parts have the same reference numerals.
图19是图16A-16D的示例性的一次性固定器夹头的透视剖面图；以及图2〇是固定器夹头和其中持有的缝合线固定器的分解透视图。 FIG. 19 is a perspective cross-sectional view of an exemplary disposable cartridge holder of FIG. 16A-16D; and FIG 2〇 is an exploded perspective view of a fixed collet and wherein the suture holding fixture .
本申请提供改进的系统，该系统用于使用无结缝合线固定器紧固心脏植入物至心脏瓣环。 The present application provides an improved system for using a knotless suture anchor heart implant fastened to the heart annulus. 近端和远端分别意指朝向和远离执行植入的外科医生的相反方向。 Mean respectively opposite proximal and distal directions toward and away from the surgeon performing the implantation. 如本文所使用的术语心脏植入物主要意指人工心脏瓣膜和瓣膜成形环或节片。 As used herein, the term heart implant and a prosthetic heart valve intended primarily annuloplasty rings or segments. 然而，本文所述的缝合线固定系统可以用于附连其他的假体例如支架、移植物、支架-移植物、流体递送容器、电刺激器、或类似物。 However, the suture securing system described herein may be used to attach other prostheses such as stents, grafts, stent - graft, fluid delivery container, an electrical stimulator, or the like. 而且，心脏植入物期望地被紧固在目标心脏瓣环处，但是缝合线固定系统也可以用于附连植入物至其他的解剖学结构例如血管、器官(例如，肠、心脏、皮肤、肝、肾、胃） 或其他的位置，其中缝合线通常用于附连植入物。 Also, desirably cardiac implant is secured in the target heart valve annulus, the suture system can also be secured for attachment of the implant to the other anatomical structures such as blood vessels, organs (e.g., intestine, heart, skin , liver, kidney, stomach), or other location, wherein the suture is typically attached to the implant. 的确，本缝合线固定系统可用于将组织结构紧固在一起，例如用于血管穿刺的闭合或其他损伤闭合。 Indeed, the present system may be used for securing a suture fastening together tissue structures, for example for closing a blood vessel puncture or other damage to the closure.
本文公开并且在附图中显示了无结缝合线固定器的几个示例性的实施方式。 disclosed herein and shows knotless suture anchor of several exemplary embodiments in the accompanying drawings. 这些实施方式不应当以任何方式被解释为限制性的。 These embodiments should not be construed in any way as limiting. 相反，本公开涉及本文所述的缝合线固定系统的所有新颖并且非显而易见的特征和方面，单独以及相互以多种组合和子组合，无论使用何种类型的缝合线固定器。 All novel and non-obvious features and aspects contrary, the present disclosure relates to a suture fixation systems described herein, and each separate sub-combinations and in various combinations, regardless of what type of suture anchor. 缝合线固定器可以紧固单个缝合线或同时紧固至两个或更多个缝合线。 The suture anchor may be secured while securing a single suture or to two or more sutures.
通过首先将缝合线的自由端穿过固定器中的开口，公开的缝合线固定器都啮合缝合线。 First, by the free end of the suture through the opening in the anchor, the suture anchor disclosed are engaged suture. 例如，图3和4中显示的实施方式要求缝合线的端穿过缝合线固定器中闭合的开口。 For example, the embodiment of FIGS. 3 and 4 show the end of the suture in claim suture anchor through an opening in the closure. 一个或多个偏压的接片保持打开并且然后允许弯曲靠近以夹紧在缝合线上。 One or more biasing tabs remains open and then close to allow the curved suture clamping. 通过狭缝，接片与固定器的主体分离，并且主体是基本上盘形的、平面或非平面。 , Separated by the slit tab holder body, and the body is substantially disk-shaped, planar or non-planar. 多个接片和其他的这种弹性偏压结构被包含性地命名为“夹紧结构”。 A plurality of tabs, and other such resilient biasing structure is inclusively designated as "clamp structure." 虽然缝合线固定器的偏压(弹性偏压)类型是优选的，但是本文描述的某些方面对于可塑性变形的闭合件可以是有用的。 While the suture anchor bias (resilient biasing) type are preferred, but for some aspects described herein plastically deformable closure may be useful. 例如，在Sauer的US5,520,702中公开的固定器包括卷曲以便在缝合线周围变形并且夹紧在缝合线上的管状体，并且这种变形的固定器进行某些改进可以在本文所述的系统中使用，例如提供变形的锤。 For example, disclosed in US5,520,702 Sauer of the holder comprises a crimped around the suture so as to deform the tubular body and clamped suture, and retainer of this deformation may be some modifications of the system described herein used, for example to provide deformation hammer.
一旦无结缝合线固定器放置在缝合线上并且释放，固定器可以防止缝合线在缝合线的一个或两个纵向方向上轴向滑动穿过装置。 Once the knotless suture anchor and the suture is placed is released, the suture anchor can be prevented in one or both of the suture to slide through the axial longitudinal direction of the device. 在一些实施方式中，装置可以被偏压以允许缝合线在一个纵向方向滑动穿过装置，但是防止缝合线在相反的方向滑动，形成单向缝合线锁定或棘轮机构。 In some embodiments, the device may be biased to allow the suture to slide through in a longitudinal direction of the device, but prevents the suture in the opposite direction of the slide, form a unidirectional suture locking or ratchet mechanism. 在其他的实施方式中，装置可以防止缝合线在两个纵向方向滑动，形成更限制性的双向缝合线锁定。 In other embodiments, the device can be prevented in the two suture longitudinal direction of the slide, a bidirectional suture forming the more restrictive locking.
通过使用公开的无结缝合线固定器而不是在缝合线中打结，缝合线可以在更少的时间内紧固并且更不困难(特别是在难以达到的位置）。 By using the disclosed knotless suture anchor not knotted suture, the suture may be secured within less time and less difficult (especially in difficult locations). 此外，一些无结缝合线固定器可以允许更精确地控制留在缝合线中的间隙的量，与结相比，装置可以更不可能变松散，并且在它们初始部署之后装置的一些实施方式可以容易地去除或调节。 In addition, some knotless suture anchor may allow for the amount of suture remaining in the gap more precisely controlled, compared with the junction, the device can be less likely to loosen, and in some embodiments, after their initial deployment device may easily removed or adjusted. 而且，无结缝合线固定器可以是小的、耐用的、生物相容并且价格低廉。 Further, knotless suture retainer may be a small, durable, biocompatible and low prices.
图1显示瓣膜成形环2的形式的示例性的人工装置，使用缝合线6其被紧固至天然二尖瓣的瓣膜4的瓣环。 Figure 1 shows an exemplary annuloplasty ring in the form of an artificial device 2, using 6 which is fastened to a natural mitral valve annulus 4 of the suture. 使用常规的结8将缝合线6的端紧固在一起。 8 using a conventional junction end of the suture 6 is fastened together. 图2显示了使用示例性的无结缝合线固定器10代替结将相同的瓣膜成形环2紧固至二尖瓣的瓣环。 Figure 2 shows an exemplary use knotless suture anchor 10 in place of the same junction annuloplasty ring 2 secured to the mitral annulus. 虽然在其他的实施中可以用不同数量的装置，但在此实施例中使用了个装置10。 Although a different number of devices may be used in the other embodiments, but the use of a device 10 in this embodiment. 在此实施例中，代替标准结，每个装置10将两个缝合线6紧固在一起，两个缝合线6基本上相同并且延伸穿过瓣膜成形环2。 In this embodiment, in place of the standard junction, each of the devices 10 are fastened together the two suture 6, two substantially identical to the suture 6 and extends through the annuloplasty ring 2. 在其他实施例中，在其中缝合线穿过瓣膜成形环2的位置，单独的装置10可以紧固至每个缝合线6。 In other embodiments, in which the position of the suture through the annuloplasty ring 2, a separate device 10 may be secured to each of the suture 6. 以任意一种方式，装置10防止缝合线e朝向瓣膜成形环2滑动穿过装置，保持缝合线拉紧并且保持环2紧靠二尖瓣的瓣膜组织4紧固。 In any way, to prevent the suture apparatus 10 e toward the annuloplasty ring 2 slides through the device, and holding the suture taut against the retaining ring 2 is fastened the mitral valve tissue 4. 在一些实施方式中，例如图2中显示的装置10,装置也允许缝合线6在初始部署之后进一步收紧以减小缝合线中任何多余的间隙。 In some embodiments, such as the device 10 shown in FIG. 2, the device also allows for further tightening of the suture 6 in order to reduce any excess suture gap after initial deployment. 虽然图2的实例中显示了示例性的无结缝合线固定器10,但本文公开的任何实施方式可以用于其他实施的相同或相似的目的。 Although shown exemplary knotless suture anchor 10 in the example of Figure 2, but any of the embodiments disclosed herein may be used for the same or similar purpose other embodiment.
虽然图2显示了被装置10紧固的瓣膜成形环，但装置1〇以及本文公开的无结缝合线固定器的其他的实施方式可以用于紧固其他的人工装置至体内的组织。 Although Figure 2 shows the apparatus annuloplasty ring 10 is fastened, but other embodiments and apparatus 1〇 knotless suture anchor disclosed herein may be used for fastening other artificial means into the body tissue . 其他的人工装置包括，例如，人工心脏瓣膜、支架、移植物和使用缝合线常规地紧固至组织的各种其他的人工植入物。 Include other artificial means, e.g., artificial heart valves, stents, grafts and suture are conventionally used to fasten a variety of other artificial tissue implant.
图3A和3B显示闭合的、未偏压的缝合线固定器3〇的实施方式。 Figures 3A and 3B show a closed, unbiased suture anchor of 3〇 embodiment. 缝合线固定器30包括基本上平的盘形体，其具有环形外部边缘32和从外部边缘32向内延伸的作为夹紧结构的两个接片34、36。 The suture anchor 30 includes a substantially planar disc shaped body having an annular outer edge 32 and two clamping structure from the outer edge 32 of the inwardly extending tabs 34, 36 as. 每个接片34、36成形为基本上半圆形。 Each tab 34, 36 is substantially semicircular shaped. 在它们的边上接片34、36被弯曲的狭槽38、40与外体分离并且被直的狭缝42彼此分离，直的狭缝42基本上使缝合线固定器30分为两部分。 At their sides 34, 36 is bent tab slot 38 and is separated from the outer body 42 separated from each other straight slits, the slits 42 are substantially straight so that the suture anchor 30 into two parts. 弯曲的狭槽38、40和中间狭缝42彼此连接但是不与外部边缘32相交，因而形成“闭合的”基本上H形的开口，从缝合线固定器的一面延伸至另一面。 Curved slots 38, 40 and the intermediate slits 42 are connected to each other but do not intersect the outer edge 32, thus forming a "closed" substantially H-shaped opening extending from one side of the suture anchor to the other side. 在闭合状态，接片34、36 与盘形体对准。 In the closed state, tabs 34 and 36 aligned with the disc shaped body. 如图3B显示，一个或多个缝合线43可以从顶部或者从底部插入到狭缝42,在插入的方向使接片34、36二者偏转。 FIG 3B shows, the one or more sutures 43 may be inserted from the top or from the bottom of the slit 42, so that the two tabs 34 deflected in the direction of insertion. 一旦如图3B中所示地插入缝合线43,将缝合线固定器30 偏压朝向其松弛的、平面构造，并且允许缝合线伴有小阻力轴向向上移动但是防止缝合线轴向向下移动。 Shown in Figure 3B, once inserted into the suture 43, the suture anchor 30 biased toward its relaxed, planar configuration, and to allow the suture to move axially upward with little resistance but prevents downward axial movement of the suture . 在一些实施方式中，接片34、36的夹持边缘可以是锋利的（见图3A)，其可以在缝合线上提供更好的夹紧，并且在其他的实施方式中接片的夹持边缘可以是圆形的（见图3B)，其可以减小损坏和/或切割缝合线的可能性。 In some embodiments, the gripping tab 34, 36 may be a sharp edge (see FIG. 3A), which may provide a better grip on the suture, and the other tab in the embodiment described clamping edge may be rounded (see FIG. 3B), which can reduce damage and / or the possibility of cutting the suture. 在缝合线固定器30的一些实施（未显示）中，两个接片34、36可以在相反的方向弹性形变，一个接片向上弯曲出平面并且另一个接片向下弯曲出平面。 In some embodiments of the suture anchor 30 (not shown), two tabs 34, 36 can be elastically deformed in the opposite direction, a tab bent upwardly out of the plane and the other tab is bent downwardly out of the plane. 这可以锁定缝合线在任意方向滑动穿过缝合线固定器3〇。 This can lock the suture to slide through the suture anchor 3〇 in any direction. 例如，图3B 中显示的两个缝合线43可以对应于图2中显示的缝合线6的自由端。 For example, FIG. 3B two free ends of the suture 43 shown in FIG 2 may correspond to show suture 6.
图3C显示了缝合线固定器44,其是缝合线固定器30的一种变型，其中接片34、36的夹持表面包括缺口或凹口区域45，其有助于将缝合线包含在狭缝42内并且防止它们滑动到弯曲的狭缝38、40中。 Figure 3C shows the suture anchor 44, a suture anchor, which is a variant 30, wherein the gripping surface 34 of the tab includes a notch or recess area 45, which contributes to the suture It contained within the slit 42 and prevents them from sliding into the curved slits 38, 40.
图3D显示了缝合线固定器46的仍然进一步的变型，其具有平的基本上盘形体，该盘形体具有环形外部边缘32'和从其向内延伸的作为夹紧结构的两个接片34'、36'。 Figure 3D shows the suture anchor 46 is still further variant, which has a substantially flat plate shaped body, the disc shaped body having an annular outer edges 32 'and two clamping structure extending inwardly therefrom as tabs 34 ', 36'. 如图3A中，每个接片34'、36'成形为基本上半圆形。 As shown in FIG. 3A, each tab 34 ', 36' is substantially semicircular shaped. 在它们的边上接片34'、36'被弯曲的狭槽38，、40'与外体分离并且被具有直的中央部分的狭缝42'彼此分离。 At their edge webs 34 ', 36' are curved slots 38, 40 'and the outer body and being separated from the central portion having a straight slit 42' from each other. 再一次，弯曲的狭槽38 '、40 '和中间狭缝42 '彼此连接但不与主体32 '的外部边缘相交，因而形成了从缝合线固定器的一面延伸至另一面的“闭合的”基本上H形的开口。 Once again, the curved slots 38 ', 40' and the intermediate slits 42 'are connected to each other but not with the main body 32' intersects the outer edge, thereby forming a side extension of the suture anchor to the other side from the "closed" a substantially H-shaped opening. 在闭合状态，接片34'、36'与盘形体对准。 In the closed state, tabs 34 ', 36' are aligned with the disc shaped body. 一个或多个缝合线可以从上部或者从下部插入到狭缝42中，使接片34、36二者在插入的方向偏转，如图3B所显示。 One or more sutures may be inserted from above or from below into the slot 42, so that the two tabs 34, 36 in the insertion direction of deflection, as shown in FIG. 3B displayed. 一旦将缝合线43插入到狭缝42中，缝合线固定器祕变得偏压并且允许缝合线伴有小阻力轴向向上移动但是防止缝合线轴向向下移动。 Once the suture 43 is inserted into the slit 42, the suture anchor secret becomes biased and allows the suture to move axially upward with little resistance but prevents axially downward movement of the suture. 如以上所提及， 接片34、36的夹持边缘可以是锋利的以更好地夹紧在缝合线上，或者是圆形的以减小损坏和/切割缝合线的可能性。 As mentioned above, the clamping tabs 34, 36 may be a sharp edge to better grip the suture, or rounded to reduce the likelihood of damage to the suture and / cutting.
为了帮助保持缝合线在狭缝42'的中央部分，狭缝在任意一侧包括螺旋部分心。 In order to help keep the suture in the central portion of the slit 42 ', the slit portion includes a spiral core on either side. 虽然一个可能比另一个更大，接片34'、36'是相同的，或者是彼此的镜像。 While one may be larger than the other, the tabs 34 ', 36' are the same, or mirror images of each other. 在每个弯曲的狭槽38，、40，终端的小的圆形扩大部48促进接片34，、36，的弯曲并且用作压力释放器以减小在那些点破裂的机会。 Facilitate bending lug 34, 36, in a small circular enlarged portion 48 of each of the curved slots 38, 40, and serves as a terminal of pressure release to decrease the chance of rupture at those points. 在外部边缘32'相对的边上垂直于狭缝42'的直的部分提供两个半圆形切口49。 Straight portion at the outer edge 32 'opposite vertical sides of the slit 42' provided two semi-circular cut 49. 切口48提供用于缝合线固定器46的定位零件，其与在可以持有并串联部署多个缝合线固定器的工具(未显示)上的零件配合。 Providing the notch 48 for positioning of the suture anchor part 46, and which can hold the tool in a plurality of suture anchor deployment in series (not shown) on the mating part.
图4A-4D显示了闭合的、偏压的缝合线固定器50的实施方式。 Figures 4A-4D show a closed, the bias of the suture anchor 50 of the embodiment. 缝合线固定器50包括环形外体52和两个啮合接片54、56以及从外体52向内延伸的两个侧接片58、60。 The suture anchor 50 comprises an outer annular body 52 and two engaging tabs 54, 56 and two side 52 extending inwardly from the outer webs 58,60. 接片54、56 和/或接片58、60也可以从外体52向上延伸出平面外。 Tabs 54, 56 and / or tabs 58, 60 may also extend upwardly from the outer member 52 out of the plane. 啮合接片54、56可以包括凹入的啮合表面62以保持缝合线64在它们之间居中。 Engaging tabs 54, 56 may comprise a concave engagement surface 62 to hold the suture 64 centered between them. 侧接片58、60可以防止缝合线64横向滑动出啮合接片54、56之间。 Side flaps 58, 60 can be prevented from laterally sliding out of the suture 64 between the engagement tab 54. 偏压啮合接片54、56以允许缝合线64以小阻力向上滑动穿过缝合线固定器50但是防止缝合线向下滑动穿过缝合线固定器。 Biasing the engaging tabs 54, 56 to allow suture 64 to slide upwardly through a small resistance of the suture anchor 50 downward but prevents the suture to slide through the suture anchor.
一些缝合线固定器可以是相对薄的盘形元件但是具有基本上弯曲的而不是平面的形状。 Some suture anchor may be a relatively thin disc-shaped elements but has a curved shape instead of a substantially planar. 图5-8中显示的实施方式是具有弯曲形状的缝合线固定器的实施例。 Embodiment shown in Figures 5-8 is an embodiment having a curved shape of the suture anchor. 在这些实施方式中，缝合线固定器可以具有基本上凸状的上主表面和基本上凹状的下主表面。 In these embodiments, the suture anchor may have a substantially convex upper main surface and a substantially concave lower main surface. 上和下主表面彼此基本平行，缝合线固定器在两个主表面之间具有基本恒定的厚度。 Upper and lower major surface substantially parallel to each other, a suture anchor having a substantially constant thickness between the two major surfaces. 在一些实施方式中，上和下主表面在一个方向弯曲并且在垂直方向不弯曲（类似圆柱体的侧壁），使得表面具有弯曲部中心轴。 In some embodiments, the upper and lower main surface and is not bent is bent in a direction (similar to the cylinder side wall) in the vertical direction, so that a curved surface portion having a central axis. 在一些实施方式中，主表面二者具有共同的弯曲部中心轴。 In some embodiments, both the primary curved surface portions having a common center axis. 在其他的实施方式中，主表面以其他的方式弯曲，例如具有同心的球面主表面，其共享共同的弯曲中心。 In other embodiments, the other main surface is curved, for example with concentric to the spherical surface, which share a common center of curvature. 通过提供带有弯曲的结构的缝合线固定器，可以偏压固定器以提供更大的阻力至朝向凹的方向移动的缝合线同时更容易允许缝合线朝向凸的方向移动。 By providing a suture anchor having a curved configuration, the holder may be biased to provide a greater resistance to movement in the direction toward the concave suture while allowing easier convex toward the direction of movement of the suture.
在一些实施方式中，这些弯曲的缝合线固定器由管的侧壁形成。 In some embodiments, these curved suture anchor is formed by a side wall of the tube. 管的外径可以限定缝合线固定器的凸状主表面的曲率而管的内径可以限定装置的凹主表面的曲率。 Convex curvature of the inner diameter surface of the outer diameter of the main tube may define a suture anchor of the tube and concave curvature of the main surface of the device can be defined. 弯曲的缝合线固定器的平均厚度等于装置从其切割的管的壁厚度。 The average thickness of the curved suture anchor means is equal to the wall thickness of the tube is cut therefrom. 在其他的实施方式中，缝合线固定器由非圆柱形管的侧壁形成，或者从其他具有弯曲的壁的三维物体例如空心球体、球状体、椭圆体等的壁形成，或者其他具有曲率的三维物体形成。 In other embodiments, the suture anchor is formed of a non-cylindrical side walls of the tube or wall of the hollow sphere, spheroid, ellipsoid and the like having a three-dimensional object is formed from the other curved walls, for example, having a curvature or other three-dimensional object is formed.
图5显示了弯曲的缝合线固定器100的示例性的实施方式。 FIG. 5 shows an exemplary embodiment of the curved suture anchor 100. 缝合线固定器100包括环形外体1〇2和被“C”形的狭缝106与外体分离的内体或接片104。 The suture anchor 100 includes an outer annular body and separated 1〇2 "C" shaped slits 106 and the outer body or the inner tab 104. 图5中显示了缝合线固定器100的凸状的上主表面。 FIG. 5 shows the main surface of the convex suture anchor 100. 接片104具有椭圆形并且在缝合线固定器的弯曲方向从与外体的连接部延伸。 Tab 104 has an oval extending from the connecting portion and the outer body in the direction of bending of the suture anchor. 从缝合线固定器100的凹的下侧穿过狭缝106可以插入一个或多个缝合线，弓丨起接片104向上偏转。 Through the slits from the lower side of the recess 100 of the suture anchor 106 may be inserted into one or more sutures, from bow Shu tabs 104 deflect upwardly. 随着通过狭缝106插入缝合线，偏压的接片104紧压缝合线并且防止它们朝向凹的方向通过狭缝滑回。 As the suture 106 is inserted through the slit, the tab 104 is pressed against the bias of the suture toward the concave and prevents them from sliding back through the slit direction. 因而，缝合线固定器100附连至缝合线，固定器的凹侧面向缝合线的自由端从其延伸的人工装置或组织。 Thus, the suture anchor 100 attached to sutures, artificial tissue device or concave side of the fixture extending therefrom to a free end of the suture.
图6显示了弯曲的缝合线固定器110的可选的实施方式，其与固定器100类似但具有更大的曲率。 FIG. 6 shows an optional curved suture anchor 110 according to the embodiment, which is similar to the fixture 100, but has a larger curvature. 缝合线固定器110包括环形外体112、内部接片114和“C”形的狭缝116。 The suture anchor 110 includes an annular outer body 112, inner tab 114 and "C" shaped slot 116. 缝合线固定器110相对于固定器100增加的曲率对于朝向凹的方向滑动通过狭缝116的缝合线导致增加的偏压和增大的阻力。 The suture anchor 110 with respect to the holder 100 increased to a direction toward the concave curvature of the suture to slide through the slot 116 results in an increased bias and increased resistance. 实施方式100和110代表两种不同曲率的实例，同时其他的实施方式可以具有任何其他度数的期望的曲率。 Examples 100 and 110 represent two different curvatures embodiments, while other embodiments may have any other desired degree of curvature. 类似地，弯曲的缝合线固定器的厚^可以改变并且通常选择以为固定器提供期望的硬度。 Similarly, the curved suture anchor ^ thickness may vary and is typically selected that provide a desired hardness fixture.
图7显示了弯曲的缝合线紧固缝合线固定器120的实施方式，其包括环形外体122 和两个相对的接片124、126,类似于图3A-：3C中显示的平面形式。 FIG. 7 shows an embodiment of curved suture securing a suture anchor 120, and 122 which comprise two opposing tabs 124, 126 of the annular outer body, similar to Figure 3A-: a flat display in 3C form. 外体122具有基本上圆形的形状并且接片124、I26的每个具有基本上半圆形的形状。 122 each having a substantially semicircular shape having a substantially circular shape and the tab 124, I26 of the outer body. 接片124、126被两个弓形狭槽128 与外体分罔并且接片彼此被连接两个弓形狭槽128的直的狭缝129分离。 Tab 124, 126 is divided indiscriminately two arcuate slots 128 and the outer body and two tabs are connected to one another arcuate slot 128 of linear slits 129 separating. 一个或多个缝合线可以从下部凸侧插入到狭缝129,使接片d 126二者在插入方向向上偏转。 One or more sutures may be inserted into the slits from the lower side of the projection 129, so that the tabs 126 deflect upwardly both d in the insertion direction. 随着缝合线插入，偏压的接片允许缝合线在凸的方向上以小阻力向上移动但是防止缝合线在凹的方向向下移动。 With the suture inserted, the biasing tabs allows the suture in the convex direction little resistance but prevents upward movement of the suture in the direction of downward movement of the recess.
图8显示弯曲的缝合线紧固缝合线固定器13〇的另一个实施方式，其包括环形外体I32和两个相对的接片134、136。 Figure 8 shows a curved suture anchor suture securing another embodiment 13〇, comprising an outer annular body I32 and two opposing tabs 134, 136. 外体132具有基本上圆形的形状并且接片丨3^26的每个从外体的相对知向内延伸。 The outer body 132 has a substantially circular shape and each tab extending Shu 3 ^ 26 inwardly from opposite outer body known. 接片134、1：36被两个弓形狭槽I38与外体分离并且接片被连接两个弓形狭槽138的狭缝139彼此分离。 Tab 134,1: 36 I38 is separated and two outer arcuate slot and the tab member 138 to be separated from each other a slit 139 connecting two arcuate slots. 狭缝13g优选地具有用于放置缝合线的直的中间部分和在直的部分的任意端的成角度的或L-形端部分，其帮助保留缝合线在狭缝139的直的部分中并且防止缝合线迁移到弓形的狭槽138。 13g slit preferably has a straight middle portion and for placing suture arbitrary straight angled end portion or L- shaped end portion which helps retain the suture in the straight portion of the slits 139 and prevent migrate to the suture slot 138 arcuate. 因而两个接片134、136是不同的，较大的左接片134在狭缝139的L-形端部分处在两侧围绕右接片136延伸。 Thus two tabs 134, 136 are different, the larger tab 134 which extends to the left and right around the tab 136 at the end portion of the L- shaped slot 139. 一个或多个缝合线可以从下面的凸侧插入到狭缝139，使接片1：34、1：36在插入方向向上偏转。 One or more sutures may be inserted from the convex side of the slit 139 below the tab 1: 34, 1: 36 deflected upward in the insertion direction. 随着缝合线插入，偏压的接片允许缝合线以小阻力在凸的方向向上移动但是防止缝合线在凹的方向向下移动。 With the suture inserted, the biasing tabs allows little resistance to movement of the suture in the direction of the convex upward but prevents downward movement of the suture in the direction of the recess.
本文公开的缝合线固定器可以由合适的、生物相容的材料形成，包括，例如，镍一钛或其他的形状记忆合金、不锈钢、钛、其他金属、多种塑料以及其他的生物相容的材料。 disclosed herein may be a suture anchor suitable, biocompatible material formed from, including, for example, a nickel-titanium or other shape memory alloy, stainless steel, titanium, other metals, plastics and various other biological compatible material. 图解的缝合线固定器大部分是平的或弯曲的盘形体，其轴向相对薄，并且可在高度上高达大约l-2mm。 Most suture anchor illustrated is a flat or curved disc shaped body axially relatively thin, and may be up to about l-2mm in height. 缝合线固定器的直径可以在2-4mm之间，但是仅需要足够大以不能够穿透心脏植入物的缝合线可透过的缝纫边，例如人工心脏瓣膜或瓣膜成形环的缝纫环。 The diameter of the suture anchor may be between 2-4mm, but need only be large enough to not be able to penetrate the heart implant sewing suture permeable side, for example, the prosthetic heart valve annuloplasty sewing ring or rings. 换句话说，缝合线固定器足够宽以避免当其中捕获的缝合线在张力下放置时从心脏植入物的缝纫边拉出。 In other words, the suture anchor is wide enough to avoid trapped therein when the suture is placed under tension is pulled out from the side of the sewing heart implant. [0071 ]编织的缝合线用于附连人工心脏瓣膜至瓣环，这相对于用在其他外科环境的单丝聚丙烯缝合线(例如，聚丙烯纺织纤维(Prolene))。 The braided suture for attachment to the prosthetic heart valve annulus, which is used in relation to other surgical environments monofilament polypropylene suture (e.g., prolene (Prolene)). 在美国，缝合线直径表示为从1〇至1下降并且然后又从1-0至12-0下降的标度。 In the United States, the suture diameter is decreased from 1〇 expressed and then lowered to 1 and from 1-0 to 12-0 scale. 9号缝合线直径在〇.0012111(0.03111111)，而最小的12-〇号直径比人头发更小。 9 〇.0012111 suture diameter (0.03111111), while the smallest diameter is smaller square No. 12- than human hair. 虽然缝合线尺寸依赖于外科医生的偏爱，通常使用丨—0或2—〇的编织缝合线。 Although the size of the suture is dependent on the surgeon's preference, typically using Shu braided suture is -0 or 2- billion. 在一个实施方式中，如果使用更大的缝合线，缝合线固定器的直径高达4mm，同时如果使用较小的缝合线例如2-0，直径可以小至2mm。 In one embodiment, if a larger sutures, the suture anchor's diameter of up to 4mm, and if the use of smaller sutures example 2-0, the diameter may be as small 2mm.
本文描述的无结缝合线固定器包括夹紧在缝合线上的自启动或弹性装载的装置。 means knotless suture anchor described herein includes a suture clamping or spring loaded self-starting. 将一个或多个缝合线穿过缝合线固定器并且然后将其从打开转变为闭合状态引起零件向内陷落并且夹紧在缝合线(一个或多个)上。 One or more suture through the suture anchor and then collapse inwardly and causes part clamped suture (s) from the open into the closed state. 在移除夹紧元件向内移动的障碍后这种转变期望地发生，虽然其他弹性装载的构造是可能。 This transition occurs after the obstacle is desirably moved inwardly to remove the clamping element, although other configurations are possible spring loaded. 这种自启动缝合线固定器比可塑性变形的固定器优选，可塑性变形的固定器必须使用镊子或其他这种压缩工具卷曲在缝合线上。 Such a suture anchor from the starting ratio of plastically deformable retainer preferably, plastically deformable holder must use forceps or other such coiled compression tool on the suture. 另一方面，为了增加安全性，本文公开的缝合线固定器的补充部分(未显示)可以是可变形的以便用户可以将其夹紧在缝合线-混合固定器上。 On the other hand, in order to increase security complementary part, disclosed herein, the suture anchor (not shown) may be deformable so that the user can be clamped suture - a hybrid holder. 为了定义术语的目的，术语“自启动”缝合线固定器意指弹性偏压型的装置，其不需要夹紧，但是另一方面，其不排除可夹紧的部分。 For definition of terms, the term "self-boot" means a portion of the suture anchor-type resilient biasing means which does not require a clamping, but on the other hand, it does not exclude clampable. “自启动”缝合线固定器不是完全自主的，因为在部署之前存在触发器，例如元件的移除或温度的改变，但是该术语排除了需要使用补充工具例如锤和砧系统进行机械夹紧的装置。 "From the start" of the suture anchor is not completely independent because of the flip-flop before deployment, for example, removing or changing the temperature of the element, but eliminates the need to use the term complementary mechanical tools such as a hammer and an anvil clamping system device.
可选的自启动固定器可以由温度激活的记忆材料制成，虽然这种装置的控制和时间安排增加了复杂性，但当暴露于选择的温度范围时其偏压固定器至闭合的构造。 Optionally made starting from the fixture may be activated by the temperature-memory material, although this time and the control device arrangement adds complexity, but when exposed to a selected temperature range which is biased into a closed holder construction. 随着温度激活的记忆材料在其奥氏体状态，固定器接片以其最大范围延伸到内腔，以便固定器处于“闭合”构造，其中接片阻挡穿过内腔的缝合线的任意长度移动。 As the temperature activated memory material is in its austenitic state, the holder tabs extend any length to its maximum range of the lumen, so that the holder in a "closed" configuration, wherein the blocking tab suture through the lumen mobile. 可以设定当缝合线固定器基本上无压力并且在人体温度时奥氏体状态发生，以便当在患者体内部署时它将保持偏压向其闭合构造。 It may be set when the suture anchor is substantially no pressure and an austenitic state occurs at body temperature, so that when deployed in the patient will remain biased to its closed configuration.
图9显示示例性的固定器部署工具200,用于安装本申请中公开的缝合线固定器， 其具有近侧手柄202和从其延伸的细长远侧轴204。 FIG. 9 shows an exemplary deployment tool holder 200, for mounting the present application discloses a suture anchor having a proximal handle 202 and an elongated distal shaft 204 extending therefrom. 手柄包括触发器致动器206,虽然其他的致动器是考虑的。 The handle includes a trigger actuator 206, although other actuators are considered. 部署工具200的总长度，以及至少轴204的长度，应当足以从手术部位的外面延伸至主动脉瓣环，例如在大约10-16英寸之间。 The total length of the deployment tool 200, and a shaft length of at least 204, should be sufficient to extend from outside the surgical site to the aortic annulus, such as between about 10-16 inches. 部署工具200意欲在外科手术期间重复使用，并且优选地由能够在后来的操作中灭菌的材料制成。 Deployment tool 200 is intended to be reused during a surgical procedure, and can be preferably made of sterilized materials in the subsequent operation. 例如，外轴204由不锈钢管制成， 并且可以在多种长度上可用，以在心脏瓣膜修复或置换期间促进多种外科技术，或者用于植入其他的医学装置。 For example, the outer shaft 204 stainless steel tubing, and may be used in a variety of lengths to facilitate a variety of surgical techniques during heart valve repair or replacement, or other medical devices for implantation. 轴204的示例性0D是大约3.2_ (1/8英寸）。 Exemplary shaft 0D 204 is about 3.2_ (1/8 inch).
图10中显示的缝合线圈套器224的可选的实施方式包括连接至球形的近侧手柄228的远端线环226。 The suture snare shown in Figure 10 an alternative embodiment 224 includes a proximal handle connected to a distal end of the spherical ring 226 in line 228. 线环226初始地沿着放置把手/键229中的外围凹槽，便于运送、存储和处理目的并且防止环的扭结。 Wire loop 226 is initially placed along the peripheral groove of the handle / key 229, ease of transport, storage and processing purposes and prevent kinking ring. 可以使用缝合线圈套器214、224的任意一个并且提供用于抓紧一个或多个缝合线并且牵拉它们穿过固定器夹头212中的通道的装置。 Snare sutures may be used any of 214, 224 and provides a means for grasping one or more suture and pulling them through the passage means of the collet holder 212. 超出各自的手柄牵拉接片218或手柄228的柔性带222或线环226的长度足够穿过固定器夹头212并且延伸超过足够的距离以能够抓紧缝合线;该长度例如在大约2-8英寸之间。 Beyond the respective handle 218 or handle pull tab 228 of the flexible belt 222 or the length of the wire loop 226 is sufficiently through the stationary collet 212 and extending over a sufficient distance to be able to grasp a suture; in the example, a length of about 2-8 between inch.
图11A是图9的部署工具200的纵向剖视图，显示了内部零部件，而图1 IB-11D是图解其中主要移动部件的详细视图。 FIG. 11A is a longitudinal sectional view of the deployment tool 200 of FIG. 9, showing the internal parts, and Fig. 1 IB-11D which is a diagrammatic detailed view of the main movable member. 更具体地，手柄202通常包括一对限定其中空腔的模制半部分，触发器致动器206在其中往复运动。 More specifically, the handle 202 generally comprises a pair of mold halves defining a cavity wherein the trigger actuator 206 reciprocates therein. 如图11中所指示，向内推动致动器206使杠杆臂230围绕枢轴点232旋转。 Indicated in Figure 11, actuator 206 is pushed inwardly of the lever arm 230 about pivot point 232 to rotate. 杠杆臂230的上端通过在推杆234上的链锁起作用，推杆234适于在中空的工具轴204内往复运动。 The upper end of the lever arm 230 on the push rod 234 by a chain lock function, the push rod 234 is adapted to reciprocate within the hollow shaft 204 of the tool. 从而，触发器致动器206的压制引起推杆234的远端放置，同时触发器致动器的弹簧复位(未显示)在近端缩回推杆。 Thus, pressing the trigger actuator 206 causes the distal end of the push rod 234 is placed, while the spring return trigger actuator (not shown) at the proximal end of the pusher is retracted.
参考图11C和11D，推杆234的远端固定至固定器发射器236的近端，固定器发射器236的主体部分紧密配合在工具轴204的腔内。 with reference to FIGS. 11C and 11D, the distal end of the push rod 234 is fixed to the proximal end 236 of the stationary transmitter, a close fit in the cavity 204 of the body portion of the tool shaft holder 236 of the transmitter. 发射器236也具有从远端突出的成对的分叉指238。 The transmitter 236 also has a pair of protruding from the distal end 238 of the bifurcated finger. 应当指出，定位在发射器206的主体和远端指238之间的远端肩240具有相对地尖锐的转角，其目的将在以下描述。 It should be noted, is positioned at the distal end of the body and the distal end of the transmitter 206 between the fingers 238 opposite the shoulder 240 has a sharp corner, and an object will be described below.
如图11D和11E中可见，工具轴204的远侧尖端216也具有向外突出的锁定销242和基本上与销相对的侧孔244的特征，用于与固定器夹头和缝合线圈套器组件21〇配接。 FIG. 11D and 11E can be seen, the tool shaft distal tip 216 204 also has outwardly projecting locking pin 242 and the side hole feature substantially opposite to the pin 244 for the fixture and stapling cartridge wire snare assembly 21〇 mating. 侧孔244通过具有圆周部分248a和轴向部分248b的L-形狭槽246向远侧尖端216开口。 Side holes 244,246,216 tip distally through an opening having a peripheral portion 248a and an axial portion of the L- shaped slot 248b of. 如以下参考将固定器夹头212与工具轴204偶联描述的，在轴与夹头对准后L-形狭槽246能够牵拉穿过缝合线圈套器214。 As collet 212 is fixed with reference to the tool coupling shaft 204 described in the chuck is aligned with the axis of L- shaped slot 246 can be pulled through the suture snare 214.
图12A是示例性的一次性固定器夹头212的透视图，显示了在其远端持有的示例性的缝合线固定器25〇。 FIG 12A is an exemplary perspective view of a disposable cartridge holder 212, showing its distal end held in an exemplary suture anchor 25〇. 夹头212具有带有开放的近端口254的基本上管状体252,该开放的近端口254带有在其一侧开口的轴向狭槽256。 With an open collet 212 has a substantially tubular body 254 near port 252, the proximal port 254 open at one side thereof with an opening 256 of the axial slot. 狭槽256具有喇叭形开口端并且沿着夹头体252 的长度与圆周狭槽25S大约中路相交。 The slots having flared open ends 256 and 252 thereof 25S intersect approximately middle circumferential length of the slot along the collet. 狭槽258在圆形闭锁260处终止。 The slot 258 terminates in a circular latch 260. 如将显示的，轴向狭槽256、圆周狭槽258和闭锁26〇的组合形成啮合工具轴204的远侧尖端216的卡扣式闭锁。 As will be shown, the axial slot 256, and a combination of circumferential slots 258 formed 26〇 latch engagement means 204 of the shaft distal tip 216 snap locking. 应当指出，在部署工具轴204上提供的啮合夹头212上配接结构的图解的锁定结构仅仅是示例性的，并且其他的这种构造是考虑的。 It should be noted that the illustrated mating engaging structures on the chuck 212 provided on the deployment tool shaft locking structure 204 is merely exemplary, and that other configurations are contemplated. 例如，夹头212可包括线，其在工具轴204上啮合相似的线，或者连接可以是在轴204上的弹性装载的轴承，其卡扣式安装入夹头212上的槽。 For example, the cartridge may include a line 212, which engages a similar thread on the tool shaft 204, or the connection may be an elastic load on the shaft bearings 204, which snap into the mounting groove on the collet 212.
参考图12B和12C的剖视图，主体252限定内腔262，除了在其远端附近基本上环形向内定向的凸缘264之外对于它的大部分长度内腔262具有连续的直径。 Referring sectional view of FIG. 12B and 12C, the body 252 defines a lumen 262, in addition to a substantially annular inwardly directed flange near its distal end 264 for most of its length a continuous lumen 262 having diameter. 凸缘264围绕腔262 的圆周延伸并且具有一对止动件266,其在远端方向在相对侧突出并且与腔262向内间隔。 Flange 264 extending about the circumference of the cavity 262 and has a pair of stopper 266, which protrudes in the distal direction on the opposite side of the cavity 262 and spaced inwardly. 止动件266持有打开的两个偏压的接片268,其在缝合线固定器250上用于穿过缝合线圈套器，以及最终穿过缝合线。 Two stopper 266 holds the bias tab opening 268 for passing through the suture snare, and finally through the suture to the suture anchor 250. 图12D中孤立地显示了具有止动件266的凸缘264,并且该凸缘264 基本上包括带有正方形横截面的环形的元件。 FIG. 12D shows the isolation of the flange 264 has a stopper 266 and the flange 264 comprises a substantially annular member having a square cross-section. 一次性固定器夹头212优选地包括在凸缘264 上模制的热塑性材料，其优选地是金属例如不锈钢，或者更优选地钴铬合金。 Disposable cartridge holder 212 preferably includes a flange 264 molded thermoplastic material, which is preferably a metal such as stainless steel, or more preferably a cobalt chromium alloy. 不锈钢凸缘264和它的止动件266非常难于维持缝合线固定器250在打开配置而不变形，而夹头212作为整体是相对便宜的物品。 Stainless steel flange 264 and a stopper 266 which is very difficult to maintain the suture retainer 250 in the open configuration without deformation, and the cartridge 212 as a whole is relatively inexpensive items. 在任意一个操作中，可以以最小的花费使用和丢弃十个或更多个夹头212和固定器250。 In any operation, the minimum cost may be used and discarded ten or more chucks 212 and retainer 250. 至少对于一个操作，优选地重复使用部署工具200,并且然后可能消毒以供后续使用。 For at least one operation, preferably is repeated using a deployment tool 200, and then may be sterilized for subsequent use.
固定器250可以是上述的任意一个，例如那些在图3A-3D中显示的，其具有至少一个并且优选地两个偏压的接片34、36,接片被狭缝与基本上盘形体分离。 The holder 250 may be any one of the above-described, such as those shown in FIGS. 3A-3D, which has at least one and preferably two biasing tabs 34 and 36, and the slit tabs are substantially pan-shaped body separation. 虽然未显示，本领域技术人员将理解分离组件夹具(未显示)可能需要偏压接片268打开并且装载固定器250 到如图12A-12C中所示由凸出物266保持打开的位置。 Although not shown, those skilled in the art will appreciate that separate assembly jig (not shown) may require bias contact 268 is opened and loaded to a fixture 250 as shown in FIG. 12A-12C 266 remains open position by the projections. 固定器250通常由高柔性不锈钢或超弹体体例如镍钛诺形成。 Typically the fixture 250 such as nitinol or stainless steel formed from a highly flexible elastomer ultra thereof.
夹头体252也包括进出孔270,其通常相对闭锁260定位。 The cartridge body 252 also includes access aperture 270, the latch 260 is positioned generally opposite. 如图12C中可见，缝合线圈套器214的柔性带222穿入进出孔270,穿过工具轴204的远侧尖端216 (未显示），并且远端穿过环形凸缘264中的中央开口和在打开的缝合线固定器接片268之间穿过。 Seen in FIG. 12C, the suture snare 222 penetrates the flexible band 214 access hole 270, through the tool shaft distal tip 216 204 (not shown), and the distal end 264 through the central opening of the annular flange and in the open suture retainer tabs 268 pass between. 多种部署零部件之间的配合的完整解释在以下将清晰。 A complete explanation of the fit between the parts in a variety of deployment will be clear.
图13A是恰在与部署工具轴204的远侧尖端216啮合之前一次性固定器夹头212的俯视平面图。 FIG. 13A is just a disposable cartridge holder 212 is a top plan view prior to deployment tool with the distal tip 216 of the shaft 204 is engaged 为了结合这两个零部件，夹头212被移动至右侧以便在轴204上的锁定销242进入在夹头上的轴向狭槽256。 In order to combine these two parts, the collet 212 is moved to the right to lock the pin 204 on the shaft 242 into the axial slot in the clamp head 256. 远侧尖端216在夹头212的腔262内紧密适配，并且最后销242到达狭槽256的末端。 The distal tip 216 fits closely within the cavity 262 of the collet 212, and finally reaches the end of the pin 242 in the slot 256. 读者将注意到在轴204上的L-形狭槽246的轴向部分248b与夹头212上的进出孔270对准，并且因而行进通过斜向延伸穿过夹头远端的缝合线圈套器214的柔性带222的节段。 The reader will note on a shaft 204 axial portion of the L- shaped slot 246 in the access hole 248b and 212 are aligned collet 270, and thus travels through the collet extends obliquely through the distal end of the suture snare the flexible band 214 of the segment 222.
图13B显示固定器夹头在顺时针方向相对于轴204旋转或扭曲，使得销242沿着圆周狭槽258行进，直到其到达闭锁260。 FIG. 13B shows the fastener in the clockwise direction with respect to the chuck shaft 204 is rotated or twisted so that the pin 242 258 travels along a circumferential slot until it reaches the latch 260. 在优选的实施方式中，销242比狭槽258稍微宽，以便其“卡接”置于闭锁260内，作为完全啮合的触觉和听觉指示器。 In a preferred embodiment, the pin 242 is slightly wider than the slot 258, so that "snap" latch 260 disposed within as a tactile and audible indicator fully engaged. 将理解的是，随着夹头和轴相对地旋转，轴204上的L-形狭槽246的圆周部分248容纳柔性带222。 It will be appreciated that as the collet and the shaft rotate relative to the circumferential portion of the L- shaped slot 246 in the shaft 204 receiving 248 the flexible belt 222. 即，柔性带222以及夹头212上的进出孔270最后以与轴204上的侧孔244对准结束(见图11C和11E)。 That is, the flexible belt 222 and out of holes on the chuck 212 270 244 aligning with the last hole in the side end of the shaft 204 (see FIG. 11C and 11E).
图13A和13B显示了穿过啮合零部件放置缝合线圈套器214的柔性带222。 FIGS. 13A and 13B show the suture is placed through the meshing parts of the snare of flexible band 222,214. 更具体地，带222径向向内延伸穿过夹头体252中的进出孔270，穿过轴204中的孔244 (见图11C)，并且然后轴向穿过打开的固定器250。 More specifically, the band 222 extends radially inwardly through the access aperture 252 in the cartridge 270 through a hole 244 in the shaft 204 (see FIG. 11C), and then axially through the opening 250 of the holder. 这也在图14A中图解。 This is also illustrated in FIG. 14A. 因为在轴204和夹头212二者中形成的L-形狭槽，一旦两个零部件结合在一起，缝合线圈套器214准备使用。 Because L- shaped slot formed in both the shaft 204 and the chuck 212, once the two parts together, the suture snare 214 is ready for use. 即，夹头212和缝合线圈套器214的组件是预组装的并且与许多其他的组件组合包装（g卩6件的包装）以与递送工具200的一个使用。 That is, the collet assembly 212 and suture snare 214 is pre-assembled and in combination with many other packaging components (g Packaging Jie 6) with the use of a delivery tool 200. 如以上所解释的，通过简单地将每个夹头组件组合至工具轴204，递送系统准备安装缝合线固定器250。 As explained above, by simply combining the components of each chuck to the tool axis 204, the delivery system ready to install a suture anchor 250.
图14A-14D是穿过与部署工具200的末端啮合的一次性固定器夹头212的纵向剖视图并且图解了部署缝合线固定器2即的步骤。 FIGS. 14A-14D are longitudinal cross-sectional view through a disposable cartridge holder engaging tip 212 of tool 200 and illustrates the deployment of the suture anchor deployment i.e. step 2. 以上所述的组件首先在图14A中显示，其是恰在引入工具200至用于部署固定器250的植入点之前的构造。 The above-described assembly is first shown in FIG. 14A, which is just before deploying the implant structure fixed point 250 to be used in the tool 200 is introduced. 部署顺序也可以参考图15A-15B理解，其将被并行地描述。 Order may be deployed with reference to FIG 15A-15B appreciated, which will be described in parallel.
图15A图解了在使用无结缝合线固定器250附连外科假体心脏瓣膜HV至主动脉瓣环的步骤期间打开的上行主动脉。 FIG 15A illustrates the use of the knotless suture anchor surgical attachment 250 attached to the prosthetic heart valve HV ascending aorta during the step of opening the aortic annulus. 心脏瓣膜HV是具有由后连合支撑的柔性小叶L的类型，该后连合在瓣膜的流出方向延伸。 HV is heart valve leaflets after the L type having a flexible commissure supports, the commissure to extend in the outflow direction after the valve. 后连合形成内部支撑架(未显示）的一部分，该内部支撑架通常被织物覆盖。 Forming an internal portion of the commissure support frame (not shown), the inner support frame is typically covering fabric. 围绕支撑架的流入端紧固，周边缝纫环SR提供用于多个预安装在主动脉瓣环上的锚定的缝合线S的锚定区。 The support frame is fastened around the inflow end, the peripheral sewing ring SR provided for anchoring suture anchoring region a plurality of pre-installed on the aortic annulus S.
外科医生围绕主动脉瓣环在均匀间隔的位置预附连锚定的缝合线S。 surgeon to position around the aortic annulus evenly spaced pre-attached suture anchor S. 锚定缝合线S 通常从流出或上行主动脉侧至流入或心室侧穿过瓣环成环两次。 S suture anchor typically to flow from the ascending aorta or the outflow side or the ventricular side of the annulus to form a ring through twice. 当然，依赖于外科医生的偏好可以使用其他的固定方法或小拭子。 Of course, depending on surgeon preference may use other methods of fixing or pledget. 一旦每个锚定的缝合线S紧固至瓣环，其在手术位点外以成对的自由长度近端延伸。 Once each anchoring suture S is fastened to the annulus, which extends to the proximal end of the free length of the outer pair of surgical site. 心脏瓣膜HV通常安装在瓣膜支架和递送手柄（未显示） 上，并且外科医生将该对锚定的缝合线S穿过围绕缝纫环SR均匀间隔的位置，其对应于它们的围绕瓣环的位置。 HV heart valves are generally mounted on the valve support and delivery handle (not shown), and the surgeon to anchor the suture S through the sewing ring SR surrounds evenly spaced, which corresponds to their position around the annulus . 然后外科医生沿着锚定的缝合线S的排列推进瓣膜HV到主动脉瓣环内的位置。 The surgeon then arranged along a suture anchor propulsion valve HV S to a location within the aortic annulus. 图15A中为了清楚，一些锚定的缝合线S未在心脏瓣膜HV的前面周围显示。 FIG. 15A for clarity, some of the anchoring suture S does not appear around the front of the heart valve HV.
随后，外科医生在缝纫环SR的近端侧或流出侧在每对锚定的缝合线S上安装缝合线固定器250。 Subsequently, the surgeon suture anchor 250 mounted on each pair of anchoring suture S side or the outlet side at the proximal sewing ring SR. 这使用固定器部署工具200与缝合线圈套器214结合完成。 This use of the fixture 200 and the deployment tool 214 in conjunction with the suture snare is completed. 首先，例如，外科医生使用镊子用圈套器214的圈套器端220捕获两个自由长度的一对锚定的缝合线S。 First, for example, the surgeon uses forceps end snare snare 214 captures one pair of two suture anchor free length 220 S. 如图14B 中的箭头所指示，随后，外科医生牵拉缝合线圈套器214近端地通过并且与部署工具200脱离。 Arrow indicated in FIG. 14B, then, the surgeon pulls the suture through the proximal end of the snare 214 and 200 from the deployment tool. 这牵拉锚定缝合线S穿过缝合线固定器250,穿过夹头212和部署工具2〇0的内部通道，并且穿出侧孔244。 This pulls the suture anchor suture S through the anchor 250, the collet 212 and the deployment tool through the internal passage of 2〇0, and out through the side hole 244.
然后外科医生维持在穿过侧孔244的锚定的缝合线S上的拉力，并且远端地推进部署工具200的轴204直到其接触瓣膜缝纫环SR。 then the surgeon to maintain tension on the side of the hole passing through the suture anchor of S 244, the propeller shaft and the distal end 200 of the deployment tool 204 until it contacts the valve sewing ring SR. 如将参考图14C和图14D解释的，然后使用在部署工具200上的触发器致动器206 (图9)部署缝合线固定器250，以便其向下夹紧在锚定的缝合线S上。 As will be explained with reference to FIG 14C and FIG 14D, and then using the deployment tool 200 triggers on the actuator 206 (FIG. 9) to deploy the suture anchor 250, so that clamping down on the anchor suture S . 然后部署工具200可以缩回并且使用与部署工具结合的剪刀或切割器刚好在缝合线固定器250上切断锚定的缝合线S。 Deployment tool 200 then may be retracted and deployment tools used in conjunction with scissors or a cutter just cut anchoring suture to the suture anchor 250 S. 图15B显示大部分的固定器250已经围绕缝纫环SR安装以紧固心脏瓣膜HV至主动脉瓣环。 FIG 15B shows most of the fixture 250 is installed to secure the heart valve HV to the aortic annulus sewing ring surrounds SR.
在近端方向牵拉缝合线S穿过固定器250、夹头212和部署工具200之后，外科医生触发致动器206，其远端地移动推杆234。 After the suture is pulled in a proximal direction S through the fixing device 250, the collet 212 and the deployment tool 200, the surgeon trigger actuator 206 which moves the push rod 234 distally. 如图14C中可见，发射器236远端处的分叉指238最后接触向内弯曲的接片268并且将缝合线固定器250推出夹头212。 Seen in FIG. 14C, the distal end of the bifurcation 236 at transmitter 238 refers to the last contact with inwardly bent tabs 268 and 250 of suture anchor 212 Release collet. 指部238相对于发射器236的主体具有减小的直径以便适合穿过环形凸缘264的中央开口。 Refers to a body portion 238 with respect to the transmitter 236 has a reduced diameter so as to fit through the central opening 264 of the annular flange. 而且，指部238的分叉的性质为缝合线S提供了通道并且防止指部与缝合线结合，例如紧靠固定器25。 Furthermore, it refers to the property of the diverging portion 238 provides a passage and prevent suture binding finger portion of the suture S, for example, against the holder 25. 固定器250 一被推离止动件266,偏压的接片268就朝向它们的自然、松弛的形状弹回(在图解的实施方式中其在固定器的其余部分的平面上），向下夹紧在缝合线S上。 A fixture 250 is pushed away from the stopper 266, the bias on the tab 268 toward their natural, relaxed shape spring back (in the embodiment illustrated in the plane in which the rest of the fixture), downwardly grip on the suture S. 假定外科医生已经紧靠心脏瓣膜缝纫环SR放置夹头212的远端，固定器250提供锚定以在那点保持缝纫环紧靠瓣环。 Assumed surgeon has a distal end abutting the heart valve sewing ring SR is placed collet 212, the holder 250 provides an anchor point to maintain it against the annulus sewing ring. 现在参考图14D，致动器206的进一步部署和推杆M4的远端移位切断缝合线S。 Referring now to FIG. 14D, and further deployment of the distal end of the push rod actuator 206 M4 displacement cutting the suture S. 具体地，在发射器236上的尖角240行进越过部署工具轴2〇4中的侧孔244的远边。 Specifically, in the transmitter 236 over the sharp corners of the side hole 240 travels 2〇4 shaft deployment tool 244 in the distal side. 侧孔244也可具有尖角，并且在这两个尖角之间的相互作用产生足以切断缝合线S的剪切作用。 Side hole 244 may also have sharp corners, and the interaction between the two cutting corners sufficient shearing action of the suture S. 当然， 此步骤可以省去以有利于在移动工具2〇〇之后简单地切割靠近固定器250的缝合线S。 Of course, this step may be omitted in favor of simply after moving the cutting tool 2〇〇 near the suture anchor 250 S.
心脏瓣膜HV表示许多类型的心脏瓣膜，除了以上提及的其他的外科植入物，还包括如显示的带有柔性小叶的那些和带有刚性的金属小叶的机械瓣膜。 Many types of heart valve HV represented heart valves, in addition to other surgical implant mentioned above, and further include those with rigid metal mechanical valve leaflets with flexible leaflets as shown. 进一步地，柔性小叶心脏瓣膜HV显示带有从瓣膜的流出侧部署的缝合线固定器250,其通常表示瓣膜用于在主动脉瓣环的植入，其中流出相对于常规的心脏瓣膜递送也是近侧。 Further, a flexible leaflet heart valve for implantation valve HV displayed aortic annulus, wherein the effluent relative to conventional heart valve with the delivery-side deployment of the suture anchor 250 of the outflow valve, which is usually expressed in nearly side. 然而，应当理解，缝合线固定器250可以在心脏瓣膜HV内倒转以便它们从流入侧部署，例如在二尖瓣的瓣膜置换手术中。 However, it should be understood that the suture anchor 250 may be reversed so that they are deployed from the inflow side, for example, in mitral valve replacement surgery within the heart valve HV.
图16A-16D图解了在装载夹头至部署工具的远侧尖端并且准备缝合线圈套器以备使用期间带有可选的缝合线圈套器300的示例性的一次性固定器夹头212。 FIGS. 16A-16D illustrate the loading cartridge to the distal tip of the deployment tool and ready to prepare the suture snare during use with optional suture snare exemplary disposable cartridge holder 300 212. 与上述相同的部件将给予相同的标号。 The same components as described above will be given the same reference numerals. 具体地，部署工具具有细长工具轴204,其在夹头212附连至的远侧尖端216终止。 In particular, the deployment tool having an elongated tool shaft 204, which terminates in a tip 216 attached to the cartridge 212 distally.
在此实施方式中，在与锁定销242相同的工具轴204侧提供标记线302并且该标记线从远侧尖端216在近端方向短距离延伸。 In this embodiment, the locking pin at the same side of the tool axis 204 marker lines 302 and 242 provide the marking line 216 extending a short distance in the proximal direction from the distal tip. 此标记线302促进在夹头212上的轴向狭槽256与锁定销242对准。 This marking line 302 on the collet 212 to promote the axial slots 256 are aligned with the locking pin 242. 图16A显示了夹头212和缝合线圈套器300的组件朝向工具轴204的相对移位。 Figure 16A shows the collet 212 and suture snare tool assembly 300 toward the shaft 204 relative displacement. 最后，如以上关于图13A所述，锁定销242到达轴向狭槽256的末端。 Finally, as described above with respect to Figure 13A, the lock pin 242 reaches the end 256 of the axial slot.
图16B显示了缝合线圈套器300的放置把手/键304相对于工具轴204的90°顺时针旋转。 Figure 16B shows the suture snare is placed a handle 300/304 are rotated by 90 ° clockwise relative to the shaft 204 of the tool. 这也相对于轴204旋转了固定器夹头212。 This rotation of the shaft 204 with respect to the cartridge holder 212. 如以上关于图13B所解释的，锁定销242沿着在夹头212上的圆周狭槽258上行进，直到其到达并且卡到闭锁260上(最好参见图12A)。 As explained above with respect to FIG. 13B, the locking pin 242 travels along a circumferential slot 212 on the collet 258 until it reaches the latch 260 and to the card (best seen in FIG. 12A). 完全啮合的另外的指示是夹头212上的第二标记线305与轴204上的标记线302对准。 Further indication is fully engaged on the second marking line is aligned with the collet 212 305 marking line on shaft 204 302 同时，当夹头和轴相对地旋转时，轴204上的L-形狭槽246的圆周部分248a (见图11E)容纳两股柔性圈套器线306。 Meanwhile, when the collet and the shaft rotate relative to the circumferential portion of the L- shaped slot 246 of the shaft 204 248a (see FIG. 11E) receiving two strands of the flexible snare line 306.
圈套器300包括键304、线306、和球状物形式的近侧手柄308。 Snare 300 includes a key 304, line 306, and the ball 308 forms a proximal handle. 柔性线3〇6从近侧手柄308延伸并且围绕放置把手/键304成环，优选地保留在其中的外部凹槽3〇9中。 3〇6 flexible wire extending from the proximal handle 308 and placed around the handle / ring key 304, preferably retained in an outer groove in which 3〇9. 由线3〇6 形成的环围绕放置把手/键304中的凹槽309,用于运输、储存和处理目的并且防止环扭曲或混乱。 Formed by a ring surrounding the line 3〇6 placed grip recess 309 / to 304 for transport, storage and processing purposes and to prevent twisting rings or confusion.
如在图16C中可见，随后，使用者牵拉放置把手/键304轴向远离固定器夹头212以在其间产生一些间隔。 As can be seen in FIG. 16C, and then, placing the user pulls the handle / key 304 axially away from the cartridge holder 212 to produce some interval therebetween. 两股柔性线306因而暴露。 Two strands of flexible wire 306 and thus exposed. 如图16D可见，在此点，可以通过在其近侧末端向下推，从柔性线306的环中去除放置把手/键304。 Seen in FIG. 16D, at this point, can be pushed down at its proximal end, the handle is placed removal / key ring 304 from a flexible wire 306. 缝合线固定器递送系统现己准备好使用。 The suture anchor delivery system has now ready for use.
图17A-17F显不了在瓣膜成形环--例如在图1中显不的瓣膜成形环2 的近立而一侧安装缝合线固定器250期间，操作部署工具200和固定器夹头212的连续步骤。 FIGS. 17A-17F in the annuloplasty ring not significant - for example during the forming ring 250 and the near side of the mounting stand 2 is a suture anchor, and the operational deployment tool 200 in collet retainer valve of FIG. 1 are not significant 212 successive steps. 图17A显示了技术人员将一股或多股缝合线310穿过柔性线306的环。 FIG. 17A shows the art will be one or more strands of suture 310 through the ring 306 of a flexible wire. 在图解的实施方式中，有两股代表预安装的缝合线的缝合线310,其己经穿过天然心脏瓣环，并且然后穿过瓣膜成形环2 的外围缝合边。 In the illustrated embodiment, there are two strands of suture represent pre-installed sutures 310, which has passed through the native heart valve annulus and then through the suture annuloplasty ring 2 the peripheral side. 最小5cm的缝合线310穿过圈套器环306以确保当拉过夹头212时它们保持被捕获。 5cm minimum suture 310 passes through snare loop 306 to ensure that when they are pulled through the collet 212 remains trapped.
图17B图解了使用者牵拉近侧手柄308,其又牵拉柔性线环3〇6通过固定器夹头212,并且也用其牵拉两股缝合线310。 FIG. 17B illustrates a user pulls the handle 308 proximally, which in turn pull the flexible wire loops 3〇6 chuck 212 by the fixing device, and also with its two strands of suture 310 is pulled. 然后使用者用他或她的一只手抓紧缝合线310,如图17C中所见，以使张紧的缝合线通过环2至瓣环。 The user then grasp with his or her hand a suture 310, as seen in FIG. 17C, such that by tensioning the suture ring to the annulus 2.
如图17D可见，使用者推进在其上具有夹头212的轴204的远侧尖端沿缝合线310向下至瓣膜成形环2上的目标位置。 seen in FIG. 17D, the user advancing the distal tip 212 along the suture cartridge having thereon the shaft 204 down to 310 annuloplasty ring on the 2 position of a target. 仅显示了瓣膜成形环2的一部分，其指示几个缝合线固定器250已经被安装。 2 shows only a portion of the annuloplasty ring, indicating that some of suture anchor 250 has been installed.
最后，如在图17E可见，使用者例如通过如以上所解释的牵拉触发器致动器206启动递送工具以部署缝合线固定器250并且同时切割缝合线310。 Finally, as seen in FIG. 17E, for example, a user activated by actuator 206 as explained above pulling trigger delivery tool for deploying the suture anchor 250 and suture 310 cutting simultaneously. 图17F是安装的缝合线固定器250的放大图，其显示了剩余的短长度的缝合线310。 FIG. 17F is an enlarged view of the suture anchor 250 is mounted, which indicates that the remaining length of suture 310 is short. 在此阶段，将从轴204去除固定器夹头212以为另一个在其中装载有缝合线固定器的夹头让路。 At this stage, the shaft 204 is removed from the cartridge holder 212 loaded therein that another suture anchor chuck way. t〇1〇5]图18A-18C显示了从部署工具轴204远端尖端解开使用的固定器夹头212的需要步骤。 t〇1〇5] FIGS. 18A-18C show the distal tip of the unwound from the deployment tool shaft 204 using the collet fixture of step 212 requires. 解开是与啮合相反的，并且包括将夹头212逆时针旋转90°，然后轴向牵拉其离开所述轴204。 Engagement is opposite to unlock, and includes a rotating collet 90 ° 212 counterclockwise, then pulling it axially away from the shaft 204. 然后，部署工具200准备好与另一个固定器夹头结合。 Then, ready for deployment tool 200 in conjunction with the other holder chuck. 用工具轴204使一次性的固定器夹头212与缝合线圈套器300啮合、施加缝合线固定器250至目标位置并且从工具轴204移除用过的夹头212可在很短的时间内完成。 Tool shaft 204 using the disposable cartridge holder 212 and the snare engaging a suture 300, suture anchor 250 is applied to a target position and remove the spent cartridge 204 from the tool axis 212 can be within a very short period of time carry out. 周期可能少于1分钟。 Cycle may be less than 1 minute. 这显著地短于给每一个缝合线打结花费的时间，特别是在其中植入物周围的空间是有限的微孔手术中。 This significantly shorter than the time for each to take a suture knot, in particular in which the space around the implant surgery is limited microporous.
图19是图16A-16D中的一次性固定器夹头212和典型的缝合线圈套器300组件的透视剖面图。 FIG. 19 is a perspective cross-sectional view of a disposable fastener cartridge of FIG. 16A-16D and 212 in typical suture snare assembly 300. 以上已经描述了固定器夹头212,在此将不解释，除了注意图20是夹头和缝合线固定器250的分解透视图。 Has been described above the cartridge holder 212, will not be explained here, except to note that FIG. 20 is an exploded perspective view of the suture cartridge and retainer 250.
如上所解释的，缝合线圈套器300包括放置把手/按键304,其通过柔性线306连接至近端手柄308。 As explained above, the suture snare 300 includes a handle disposed / keypad 304, which is connected via a flexible line 306 to the proximal end of the handle 308. 放置把手/按键304和近端手柄308期望地由相对柔软的聚合物例如弹性体制成。 Placing the handle / buttons 304 and a proximal handle 308 is desirably made of, for example, a relatively soft elastomer polymer. 键304的近端包括扩大的环状套管320,其具有大小大约与固定器夹头212的外径相同的内径。 Key 304 includes an enlarged proximal end of the annular sleeve 320, which has a size of approximately 212 of the cartridge holder with the same outer diameter inner diameter. 因而可以将环状套管320推到夹头212的远端尖端并且将通过紧密的过盈配合保持在其上。 Thus the annular sleeve 320 may be pushed to the distal tip of the collet 212 and held thereon by the tight interference fit. 如上所解释的，柔性线306向内穿过对准的孔270、244,在夹头212的远端穿出缝合线固定器250,在套管3加和夹头之间向后穿过，然后进入键周围的外围凹槽309。 As explained above, flexible wire 306 inwardly through aligned holes 270,244, piercing the suture anchor 250 at the distal end of the cartridge 212, between the sleeve 3 and added back through the collet, then into a peripheral groove 309 around the key. 在优选的实施方式中，柔性线306由退火的不锈钢制成，其具有大约〇.〇〇7英寸的直径，并且当以这种方式行进时具有充分的灵活性以经受弯折。 In a preferred embodiment, the flexible line 306 is made of annealed stainless steel, having a diameter of about 〇.〇〇7 inches, and having sufficient flexibility to withstand bending when traveling in this way.
虽然已经以其优选的实施方式描述了本发明，但是应当理解的是已经使用的词语是描述性的而不是限制性的。 While there has been described in its preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is to be understood that have been used are words of description rather than limiting. 因此，可以在所附的权利要求之内做出改变而不脱离本发明的真实范围。 Thus, changes may be made within the appended claims without departing from the true scope of the present invention.
1. 用于无结紧固缝合线的系统，其包括： ^ 可再使用的部署工具，其具有在远侧尖端终止的远侧轴，所述部署工具包括在所述远侧轴内可移动的发射器;和多个预组装的一次性固定器夹头和缝合线圈套器组件，每个包括： 夹头，其具有腔，所述腔在该腔的远端内接收单个缝合线固定器，夹头腔的近端的尺寸为啮合所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述远侧尖端， 所述缝合线固定器，其具有夹紧结构，其能够被弯曲至打开状态，缝合线能够通过该打开状态穿过夹紧结构，所述夹紧结构被偏压向夹紧在穿过夹紧结构的缝合线上的闭合位置，所述夹头具有维持所述缝合线固定器在其打开状态的至少一个止动件，和缝合线圈套器，其具有细长柔性圈套器部分，尺寸为径向向内穿过啮合的夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴的对准的孔并且远端穿过在其打开状态的所述缝合 1. A knotless suture fastening system, comprising: a reusable deployment ^ tool having a distal shaft distal tip terminates, the deployment tool comprises a movable within said distal shaft emitter; and a plurality of preassembled disposable cartridge holder and suture snare assembly, each comprising: a chuck having a cavity to receive a single suture anchor in the distal end of the lumen the distal, proximal end of the collet to engage the cavity size of the deployment tool shaft distal tip of the suture holder having a clamping structure which can be bent to the open state, the suture can be with this open state through the clamp structure, the clamp structure is clamped in the closed position of the suture through the clamp structure to bias the collet having maintaining the suture anchor in its open state of at least one stop member, and suture snare, the snare having an elongate flexible portion, radially inwardly dimension through the aligned apertures of the cartridge and distal shaft deployment tool engagement and the distal end of the suture passes through its open state, 固定器，所述细长柔性圈套器部分适于捕获并牵拉缝合线近端穿过所述缝合线固定器并且穿出所述夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴中的所述对准的孔， 其中当所述夹头与所述部署工具啮合时，所述发射器的移动接触所述缝合线固定器并将所述缝合线固定器从其打开状态转变至其闭合状态以夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 Holder, the elongate flexible part adapted to capture a snare and pull the suture through the proximal end of said suture to said anchor and said cartridge and said piercing distal shaft deployment tool in aligned holes, wherein when said collet engages with the deployment tool, the moving contact of the transmitter the suture anchor and the suture anchor transition from its open state to its closed state clip immediately passing through the suture therethrough.
2. 权利要求1所述的系统，其中所述部署工具具有带有触发器的近侧手柄，并且在启动所述触发器后所述发射器在所述部署工具的远侧轴内是纵向可移动的。 The system according to claim 1, wherein the deployment tool having a proximal handle with a trigger and trigger the start of the rear transmitter is longitudinally within the distal shaft deployment tool movement.
3. 权利要求1所述的系统，其中所述发射器进一步包括锋利的边缘以便其移动也切断缝合线，该缝合线延伸穿过所述缝合线固定器并且穿出所述夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴中的所述对准的孔。 The system according to claim 1, wherein said transmitter further comprises a sharpened edge for cutting the suture can move, the suture extends through the suture anchor and out through said collet and said the distal shaft aperture aligned with the deployment tool.
4. 权利要求1所述的系统，其中所述缝合线固定器包括盘形主体，并且所述夹紧结构包括至少一个接片，所述至少一个接片用狭缝与所述主体分离并且被弹性偏压向其中所述至少一个接片与所述主体对准的所述闭合状态，并且维持所述缝合线固定器在打开状态的所述至少一个止动件使所述至少一个接片弯曲而从与所述主体对准远离。 The system according to claim 1, wherein said suture anchor comprises a plate-shaped body, and said clamping structure comprises at least one tab, the at least one tab separated from the main body and the slit is wherein said resilient bias to the at least one tab is aligned with the body of the closed state, and to maintain the suture anchor in the open state of the at least one stop member of said at least one lug bent away from alignment with the body.
5. 权利要求1所述的系统，其中所述缝合线圈套器包括柔性环形式的近侧手柄和把手/ 键，近侧手柄连接至所述细长柔性圈套器部分，把手/键具有用于接收并保持打开所述柔性环的外围凹槽，并且其中所述把手/键可拆卸地附连至所述夹头的远端。 The system according to claim 1, wherein the snare includes a flexible suture loop forms a proximal handle and a handle / key, a proximal handle connected to the elongated portion of the flexible snare handle / key having a a peripheral groove to receive and hold open the flexible ring, and wherein the handle / key removably attached to a distal end of said cartridge.
6. 权利要求1所述的系统，其中所述夹头是基本上管状的并且所述近端包括终止在圆形闭锁中的L-形狭槽，圆形闭锁接收从所述部署工具的远侧轴向外延伸的锁定销，通过轴向推进并且然后在所述部署工具的远侧轴上旋转以在所述圆形闭锁中放置所述锁定销，所述夹头啮合所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述远侧尖端。 And the proximal end 6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the collet is substantially tubular comprising terminating in a circular locking the L- shaped slot, away from the circular locking received deployment tool axially extending outer side of the locking pin, and then advanced axially by the pin to deploy the distal shaft is rotated to place the tool in the circular locking latch, the collet engaging the tool deployment the distal tip of the distal shaft.
7. 权利要求6所述的系统，其中所述部署工具的远侧轴的远侧尖端具有带有轴向延伸部分和圆周部分的L-形狭槽，并且其中所述轴向延伸部分与定位在所述夹头上的进出孔对准，以避免当啮合所述夹头至所述部署工具的远侧轴时结合在所述细长柔性圈套器部分上，并且所述圆周部分在定位在所述部署工具的远侧轴上的侧孔中终止，所述进出孔和所述侧孔仅仅当所述夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴完全啮合时对准。 The system according to claim 6, wherein the distal tip of the deployment tool shaft having a distal portion with an axially extending slot-shaped and L- circumferential portion, and wherein said axially extending portion and positioned in the head access opening aligned with said clip, to avoid when bonded to said elongated flexible snare engaging portion of said cartridge when said shaft distal to the deployment tool, and the peripheral portion of the positioning deployment of the side hole tool shaft terminates distally, out of the hole and the side hole is aligned only when said collet is fully engaged and the distal shaft deployment tool.
8. 用于无结紧固缝合线的系统，其包括： 部署工具，其具有终止于远侧尖端的远侧轴，所述远侧尖端具有在其上的锁定结构，所述部署工具包括在所述部署工具的远侧轴内可移动的发射器，并且所述部署工具的远侧轴具有邻近所述远侧尖端的侧孔； 缝合线固定器，其具有夹紧结构，该夹紧结构能够弯曲至缝合线能够穿过该夹紧结构的打开状态，所述夹紧结构被偏压向夹紧在穿过夹紧结构的缝合线上的闭合位置； 固定器夹头，其具有在远端接收所述缝合线固定器的腔并且具有维持所述缝合线固定器在其打开状态的至少一个止动件，所述夹头的近端具有配接结构，其用于啮合所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述远侧尖端的所述锁定结构，所述夹头也包括进出孔，当所述进出孔和所述侧孔啮合时所述进出孔与所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述侧孔对准;和缝合线圈 8. A knotless suture fastening system, comprising: a deployment tool having a distal tip terminates in a distal shaft, the distal tip having a lock structure on the deployment tool comprising the transmitter deployment movable within the distal axis of the tool, and the distal shaft deployment tool having a tip adjacent a distal side hole; suture holder having a clamp structure, the clamp structure can be bent to a suture can be passed through the opening state of the clamp structure, the clamp structure is clamped in the closed position of the suture through the clamp structure to bias; cartridge holder, which has a distal said terminal receiving chamber and a suture anchor having a suture retainer maintaining the at least one stop member to its open state, the proximal end of the collet has a mating structure for engaging said deployment tool said distal shaft distal tip locking structure, said cartridge including access aperture, said access aperture when the aperture and the side of the access aperture and engages the distal shaft deployment tool aligning the side hole; and seaming loops 套器，其具有细长柔性圈套器部分，其尺寸为穿过所述夹头的所述进出孔、穿过所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述侧孔并且远端穿过在其打开状态的所述缝合线固定器， 其中所述发射器的移动接触所述缝合线固定器并将所述缝合线固定器从其打开状态转变为其闭合状态以夹紧在穿过其的缝合线上。 Sleeve, a flexible snare having an elongated portion sized to pass through the access aperture of said cartridge, said distal side hole passing through the shaft deployment tool and the distal end thereof through the opening state of the suture anchor, wherein movement of said emitter contact the suture anchor and the suture anchor transition from its open state to its closed position to clamp the suture through its on.
9. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述部署工具具有带有触发器的近侧手柄，并且在启动所述触发器后，所述发射器在所述部署工具的远侧轴内是纵向可移动的。 9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the deployment tool having a proximal handle with a trigger, and after activation of the trigger, said transmitter within said distal shaft deployment tool is a longitudinal Movable.
10. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述发射器进一步包括锋利的边缘以便其移动也切断缝合线，该缝合线延伸穿过所述缝合线固定器并且穿出所述夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴中对准的孔。 10. The system as claimed in claim 8, wherein said transmitter further comprises a sharpened edge for cutting the suture can move, the suture extends through the suture anchor and out through said collet and said the distal deployment tool shaft aligned holes.
11. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述缝合线固定器包括盘形主体，并且所述夹紧结构包括至少一个接片，所述至少一个接片通过狭缝与所述主体分离并且弹性偏压向其中所述至少一个接片与所述主体对准的所述闭合状态，并且维持所述缝合线固定器在其打开状态的所述至少一个止动件使所述至少一个接片弯曲而从与所述主体对准远离。 11. The system according to claim 8, wherein said suture anchor comprises a plate-shaped body, and said clamping structure comprises at least one tab, the tab is separated by at least one slit and the elastic body wherein said bias voltage to said at least one lug aligned with the body in the closed state, and to maintain the suture anchor in its open state at least one stop member of said at least one lug bent away from alignment with the body.
12. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述缝合线圈套器包括柔性环形式的连接至所述细长柔性圈套器部分的近侧手柄和具有用于接收并保持打开所述柔性环的外围凹槽的把手/ 键，并且其中所述把手/键可拆卸地附连至所述夹头的远端。 12. The system according to claim 8, wherein said suture snare comprising a flexible ring form a proximal handle connected to the elongated flexible snare portion and having a peripheral opening for receiving and retaining said flexible ring handle recess / key, and wherein the handle / key removably attached to the distal end of the cartridge.
13. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述夹头包括金属插入物，其形成维持所述缝合线固定器在其打开状态的所述至少一个止动件，该金属插入物嵌入在具有腔的基本上管状的聚合体内，所述至少一个止动件在所述腔内。 13. The system according to claim 8, wherein said cartridge comprises a metal insert formed to maintain the suture anchor at least one stop member in said open state thereof, which is embedded a metal insert having a cavity polymerization substantially tubular body, said at least one detent member within the cavity.
14. 权利要求8所述的系统，其中所述夹头是基本上管状并且所述近端包括终止在圆形闭锁内的L-形狭槽，该圆形闭锁接收从所述部署工具的远侧轴向外延伸的锁定销，通过轴向推进并且然后在所述部署工具的远侧轴的远侧尖端上旋转以在所述圆形闭锁内放置所述锁定销，所述夹头啮合所述部署工具的远侧轴的所述远侧尖端。 The system of claim 8 circular locking received from said remote deployment tool of claim 14, wherein the collet is substantially tubular and comprises said proximal end terminates in a circular locking L- shaped slot, the outer side of the locking pin extending axially through axially advanced and then rotated in the distal tip of the distal shaft deployment tool to place within the circular locking said locking pin, the collet engaging the said distal shaft deployment tool of the distal tip.
15. 权利要求14所述的系统，其中所述部署工具的远侧轴的远侧尖端具有带有轴向延伸部分和圆周部分的L-形狭槽，并且其中所述轴向延伸部分与定位在所述夹头上的进出孔对准，以避免当啮合所述夹头至所述部署工具的远侧轴时结合在所述细长柔性圈套器部分上，并且所述圆周部分终止在定位于所述部署工具的远侧轴上的侧孔中，所述进出孔和所述侧孔仅仅当所述夹头和所述部署工具的远侧轴完全啮合时对准。 15. The system according to claim 14, wherein the distal tip of the deployment tool shaft having a distal portion with an axially extending slot-shaped and L- circumferential portion, and wherein said axially extending portion and positioned access aperture in said alignment chuck, in order to avoid engaging the collet when bonded to the flexible elongated portion of the snare when deployed distal to the axis of the tool, and terminates at the peripheral portion positioned deployment of the distal side hole in said tool axis, said access aperture and said side hole is aligned only when said collet is fully engaged and the distal shaft deployment tool.
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My work has entered a new phase as 160 kilos of papers and books I have been concerned with over 40 years have left UK to reach a secure launching pad in the Bridge School in Bratislava, Slovakia, which is where the PILGRIMS-BRIDGE ARCHIVE is being set up by Klaudia Bednarova.
Klaudia Bednarova is determined to see that the modular part of this mass of Pilgrims documentation will not just weigh down shelves in Bratislava, on the banks of the Danube, but will achieve world availability in its corner of the Internet.
We already have an Italian graduate student sifting through the articles, letters, books, and unpublished manuscripts in preparation for writing her M.A. dissertation on forty years of Pilgrims work on the methodology. You could object that this lady will actually be working on the papers of one old geezer but said person has only written 5 books out of 2O on his own. All the rest have been collaborations with Pilgrims associated teachers and trainers. In two cases the writing team was a foursome. Mostly, though, we wrote in pairs.
However much searching work we may have done in FL teaching methodology over 40 years. the Pilgrims-Bridge folk are a small part of the push towards student centred teaching and we hope the Bratislava Archive will begin to attract powerful contributions from a wide spectrum of groups and individuals from EFL but also from teachers of French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese etc. Think of the really original work done by Steiner teachers (Waldorf Schools) in FL teaching around the world.
Let me round off by saying that my thrill does not lie mainly in the feeling of saving valuable ideas for posterity but rather in the future over the next 25 years coming up with things I would never have dreamt of.
Pilgrims’ ethos is ‘Pilgrims does not teach a method, but teaches people. The learner is at the centre of the learning process. Not the lesson plan, not the course book or a prescribed method, but the individual’. Bearing that in mind, as I have only participated and taught teachers’ courses where the methodology was the focus, I arrived in Canterbury last July wondering what it would be like.
Right from the start I knew it would be a unique experience. All the teachers were welcomed at their accommodation and walked through the lovely woods at the University of Kent to the Rutherford College Hall, where we met all the staff, including our trainers. After a warm welcome and introduction to the courses, each group of teachers had the chance to meet who they would work with during the following two weeks.
Instead of going directly to our classrooms, the groups then walked around the university campus together with their tutors to familiarise themselves with the premises. It was also a great opportunity to get to know each other a bit more in a non-traditional way.
The course I chose to attend was ‘British Life, Language and Culture’. The course description only hints at its context. According to the summary, ‘the course offers an opportunity for data and information collection on British culture and an update on current English usage’. However, it was so much more than that. Our trainer, Sally Edge is a lively trainer who did everything to bring to the class a true experience of what it means to be born, raised and live in the UK. In addition, during every afternoon there was a guest speaker from different sectors of social like, including secondary school teenagers, a policeman, a school teacher, a former mayor, a social worker, among others. It was a course we could not have experienced in any other place. However, the highlight of the course was the multicultural exchange that happened in the class. While studying British life, language and culture, the participants (teachers from Spain, Slovakia, Germany, Estonia and Brazil) contributed in a lively manner, comparing and contrasting life and culture in those countries, and sharing their experiences of what it is like to teach English in their contexts. It was a truly globalised multicultural experience with the teachers being the centre of the learning process.
I also had the great opportunity of being in Hania Kryszewska’s course ‘Teaching Advanced Students’ and Stefania Ballotto’s ‘Creative Methodology’. In the Teaching Advanced Students course I saw enthusiastic teachers working together to have the best of what the course could provide while Hania brought into the class a myriad of reference books and a list of resources made using the teachers’ actual needs, as a supplement to the course content itself. It looked as if the course was being woven with every teacher’s contribution: different threads combined together to create a perfect harmony. In the Creative Methodology course, I saw teachers sharing their classroom practices and learning from each other while Stefy taught them that everyone can be creative as long as it is combined with discipline and creative energy but also lots of fun. These are skills Stefy showed herself and injected into the course.
If you think however that coming to Pilgrims is just being committed to humanistic principles and approaches while being in the classroom, you are wrong. Pilgrims is more than that. Each day after the course ended, there were a wide range of activities, workshops and practices: Understanding Art; Memory, Learning and Teaching; Creative Writing; The Meaning of Tea; Mindfulness, Creativity and Humour Strategies; Doodling; Games; Latin Dances; Yoga; A Walk in the Woods; Walking Tours / Boat Tours; and all the cultural activities the amazing medieval city of Canterbury can offer.
Is that all? Not quite yet. Pilgrims is much more than that. If a good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning, a good teacher training course can operate miracles in teachers’ lives, inspiring them to find the strength within themselves to constantly look for professional development and collaboration with like-minded teachers, having in mind that the most important asset we have in class is the people. Undoubtedly the methodology matters, but without the humanistic side, we may not go anywhere.
The people were the most important part of the courses at Pilgrims and we definitely felt we were at the centre of this learning process. We did reward ourselves!
From 22nd to 24th June 2018 there was held the 27th BETA-IATEFL Annual International Conference Promoting 21st century ELT: language, life skills and digital literacies in Burgas, Bulgaria at Burgas Free University.
This current international forum at which participants from Bulgaria and the whole world share their experience in foreign language teaching and learning is of an immense significance for the professional development and qualification of English language teachers.
With the new development of technologies and their impact on all areas of public life, the topic related to digital literacy is becoming increasingly topical. Thus, during the conference emphasis was laid upon the digital skills because they help people to easily adapt towards the non-stable labour markets and fast-changing societies.
Plenary speakers at the conference in Burgas were Hanna Kryszewska – a Pilgrims teacher trainer, HLT Editor-in-Chief and senior lecturer at the University of Gdansk, Poland who dedicated her presentation to the 21st Century Skills in ELT and Marjorie Rosenberg – research assistant and lecturer at the University of Graz, Austria who talked about Getting unstuck – stretching out of our comfort zones.
It was with great enthusiasm that the Rector of Burgas Free University Prof. Hristozova hosted the event. Deputy Mayor of Burgas Municipality – Ms. Ananieva and the Director of Regional Educational Authorities – Ms. Ilieva cordially welcomed the participants at this year’s conference.
Representatives of TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece, ELTAM Macedonia, ELTA Serbia and ATECR (Association of Teachers of English in the Czech Republic) attended the annual conference this year. There were also participants from USA, UK, Greece, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
On the first day of the conference, talks were devoted to how tests should be made to work and look better, how to develop speaking skills at university as well as effective ELT for teens & young adults. The first forum introduced the topic of ways to develop learning and teaching skills. Teaching creative reading and writing activities and collocations, constructions and foreign language teaching were the main focus of discussion. The day wrapped up with a debate on language coaching programs as a tool for improving L2 proficiency and competence and activities for very young learners. The final event was a warm reception and raffle where awards were given to the winners of the 10th lesson plan competition and certificates of article publications for Humanising Language Teaching web magazine were presented.
Over the course of the second day, original ways to practice vocabulary and creating infomercials for developing 21st century skills were presented. Furthermore, using meta-language in a novel and modern fashion, thinking critically about critical thinking and translation issues were under scrutiny.
Noteworthy is the fact that the afternoon was devoted to language studies and English language teaching. The focal point was teaching negative prefixes through cognitive linguistics, promoting 21st century ELT in the Medical University and spoken communication skills in English, using picture books in secondary EFL classroom, teaching through technology and developing intercultural communicative competence. Another high point of the day was the forum on current issues in foreign language teaching and learning where problem-based learning in FLT and electronic aids in and outside class were reviewed in detail.
Moreover, teaching & learning 21st century skills through ELT was not overlooked either. In the meantime, the etymology of idioms and their teaching and the transformative pedagogy for ESOL in a super diverse Europe were also scrutinized.
On the last day topics such as teaching business basics through Suggestopedia, sustainable professional development through coaching and the benefits for teachers and learners as well as the importance of going digital but staying human were also addressed.
By and large, it has been a great honour and pleasure to welcome all participants to the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The gorgeous surrounding lakes, mild weather, natural attractions and the spirit of unanimity and cooperation has served as a further motivation in the quest for excellence in language teaching and learning.
To conclude, the 27th BETA-IATEFL Annual International Conference brought together a variety of language professionals from different backgrounds and countries around the world. The three days of fruitful debate and exchange of experience have contributed to a delightful, stimulating and enlightening event that will undoubtedly serve as a motivation for the continuing professional development.
We hope you have all had a fantastic summer whether that was spending time with family and friends, exploring new projects, or continuing with your regular workload.
As you know, the Image Conference in Athens is fast-approaching in October. We are very happy to have so many of our VAC members speaking and attending. To find out more about their talks and to see the provisional programme, you can look here.
And if you haven’t managed to sign up yet, it’s not too late! We’d love to have you join us on 6-7 October. You can find registration information here.
The Visual Arts Circle will once again be collaborating with the IATEFL Global Issues Special Interest Group and there will be a strand of talks related to the refugee crisis. Thanks to Sylvia Karastathi for all of the work she is putting into organizing this very special event.
The hashtag for the conference is #ELTimageg18.
If you’re unable to attend the Image Conference or would like to add another related conference to your autumn agenda, the ELT Council is collaborating with VAC again. The VACLE Conference (Visual Arts Creation in Language Education) will take place in Malta, 23-24 November. A call for papers has started already and the deadline is 21 September. Speakers will be notified by 5 October. For more information, please see the Call for Papers.
A reminder that our online events coordinator, Rob Howard, would still like to hear from you. If you are interested in speaking for ten minutes about your current project that involves images and language teaching, please email Rob (rob-howard@outlook.com) to get your name on the list!
We welcome all of our members to contribute, so if you have an idea for a project or want to write a short article, please let us know and we’ll post it on the website. We would like very much to hear from some of our members who are involved in film, sound engineering, video creation and other aspects of production and how they apply to language teaching. Please email Anna Whitcher (anna_sf@sbcglobal.net) if you are interested in writing an article about one of these areas. You can find all recent articles on our website.
If you are looking for someone with specific skills related to images, consider reaching out to VAC members and post your job in our newsletter. We would like the Visual Arts Circle to be a place where people can not only share ideas but also job opportunities as this enables our members to truly collaborate and achieve even bigger things.
Thank you for your continued support and participation. We look forward to being in touch with all of you again about the Image Conference.
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2019-04-26T01:51:04Z
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https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct18/pilgrims-news
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Integrated microfluidic systems coupled with electrophoretic separations have broad application in biologic and chemical analysis. Interfaces for the connection of various functional parts play a major role in the performance of a system. Here, we developed a rapid prototyping method to fabricate monolithic poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) interfaces for flow-gated injection, online reagent mixing, and tube-to-tube connection in an integrated capillary electrophoresis (CE) system. The basic idea was based on the properties of PDMS: elasticity, transparency, and suitability for prototyping. The molds for these interfaces were prepared by using commercially available stainless steel wires and nylon lines or silica capillaries. A steel wire was inserted through the diameter of a nylon line and a cross format was obtained as the mold for PDMS casting of flow gates and 4-way mixers. These interfaces accommodated tubing connection through PDMS elasticity and provided easy visual trouble shooting. The flow gate used smaller channel diameters, thus reducing flow rate by 25-fold for effective gating compared with mechanically machined counterparts. Both PDMS mixers and the tube-to-tube connectors could minimize the sample dead volume by using an appropriate capillary configuration. As a whole, the prototyped PDMS interfaces are reusable, inexpensive, convenient for connection, and robust when integrated with the CE detection system. Therefore, these interfaces could see potential applications in CE and CE-coupled systems.
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2019-04-21T18:57:23Z
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https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/7092
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Previous PostThese gardening books might be for you!Next PostThe weight and the wait.
Thanks Ailsaf for informative post! Our dog Tipper bolted from the hatchback of our car in Hampton Park when he spotted a squirrel and met his demise on Island Park Drive (we had installed the pet barrier as instructed). We have since moved to rural Ontario and are now wary of the dangers of blacklegged ticks which has prevented us from adopting another dog.
My other passion in the city was making a tall perennial garden on the whole of our corner Hintonburg lot. Out in the Tay Valley we are on the Canadian Shield and this is a kind of gardening I am unfamiliar with.
Jeanette, I’m so very sorry to hear about the loss of your precious Tipper. It is a terrible tragedy to lose a dog in this way and my heart goes out to you. I don’t blame you being concerned about the tick population in Ontario right now; our vet has convinced us to use a product to keep Scout safe, but I’m still anxious about it.
Your garden in Hintonburg sounds glorious! Yes, gardening on actual soil is much easier than on the rock of the Canadian Shield lol! It sounds like you’re somewhere near Perth? If so, I hope you’ve visited Kiwi Gardens as it is the premier nursery in that area (and beyond!). They would have a lot of advice and plant recommendations for you.
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2019-04-21T12:27:46Z
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https://hortus2.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/preventing-your-new-dog-from-going-awol/
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The Inclusive Arts Week (1 - 8 December) is a week-long campaign to highlight accessiibility and inclusion in the art through forums, workshops, presentations, and art performances presented at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in partnership with community organisations.
The launch event will feature a live VR drawing performance by SARAH POLLARD. Sarah will don a virtual reality headset, drawing in an virtual environment with the canvas projected for the audience. Following each set, guests will be able to immerse themslves in the virtual environment as well.
Sarah Pollard is an emerging West Australian artist whose practice sees her exploring digital comic style animation and drawing. Sarah joined DADAA in 2016 where she developed her comic book characters ‘George and Travis’. In 2017 Sarah joined the Mixed Reality project where she will continue to develop digital work from her home in Southern Cross.
OLIVIA COLJA is a Western Australian artist and community advocate. Her recent oil paintings and glass sculptures are inspired by the vibrant and lively landscape of Ninagloo Reef, Exmouth WA.
DADAA is a not-for-profit community arts and cultural development (CACD) organisation, focusing on creating significant positive social change and opportunities for people with a disability or a mental illness.
The Inclusive Arts Week is made possible through collaborations with DADAA, Auslan Stage Left, Perth Festival, Alzheimer's WA and the Arts and Cultural Access Consortium.
lwag@uwa.edu.au or (+61 8) 6488 3707. LWAG is accesible via wheelchair. Find out more.
The University of Western Australia's Inclusive Arts Week highlights accessibility and inclusion in art galleries and museums, forging connections and fostering communication with the wider West Australian community through forums, workshops, presentations, art instllations and art performances presented at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
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http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/events/inclusive-arts-week/launch
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MIAMI, Fl. — A Miami teenager has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after flipping off a judge during her court hearing.
Penelope Soto, 18, was in court for a bail hearing on a drug possession charge.
Soto repeatedly laughed at the judge during the hearing, clearing irritating him.
He was initially going to hold her on $5,000 bail, but then raised it to $10,000.
Soto then flipped him off and blurted an expletive as she walked away.
In return, the judge then ordered her held in contempt of court and sentenced her to 30 days in jail.
As a high school teacher, I've been treated to this kind of disrespect daily. I'm happy to see the judge throw the book at her – it's been a long time coming. This disrespect comes from the home, is supported by the schools (remember the false "self-esteem" nonsense inculcated by the school system) and has become the norm. This is what you get when you spare the rod and spoil the child.
i agree with you here. Kids. name it teenagers or younger. still under the word "Kid" under my book, always show an attiude issue to adults. Like they think they are princess or someone special and can do whatever they want to annoy the teacher. a judge. a police officer. or a parent. You cant sit there and blame the parents. But thats what some people are doing. but teens with this attiude problem think they are better and they find out they are not. At least her parents arnt there to try to clean her mess up cuz it is her that needs to shape up.
Stupid Liberal loser. Bring her to California where the court system welcomes this trash and rewards them with free medical, board, and everything else they need. It California thanks to the bleeding heart Liberals, crime does pay.
This is what happens when you're raised by wolves!
I love it, screw her. See looks like a rich spoiled brat. Maybe 30 days in a hot smelly jail cell with other smelly inmates will be good for her.
this was FANTASTIC… she got exactly what she deserved. This child probably never heard the word "No" and looks as spoiled and arrogant as they come. Now that you're over 18 you're gonna find out right quick where you rank in this world… and for the next 30 days, you are at the bottom of the food chain, so get your chapstick out, you're mouth is gonna be busy. You should have kept it shut.
Wake up and smell the coffee . . . .
She is probably still scratching her head,……….Contempt of Court,…What does this mean,…. huh.
I wonder how many friends she'll meet in jail that will make her worse. Good thing her parents aren't responsible anymore for her..
We need a lot more judges like that. We shouldn't take crap off of little brats who think that their s**t don't stink. Good job, judge.
I weep for the future..you are so right about the way parenting has gone. I blame many of the child psychologists as well as the government. They tell parents what they can or should do as for discipline or not do.
One thing I hear a lot is SOME of these so-called child experts (many with no children of their own just some form of training/education in child development) saying things like, "Oh, you would not want to hurt your child's feelings. Making them cry and not giving them what they want when they want is deprivation and can harm their self-image…blah blah "
This is the kind of person you become when you grow up without proper parental discipline. This girl should enroll in the military after being released if her parents do not know how to be parents.
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2019-04-24T06:44:30Z
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https://ktla.com/2013/02/06/teen-jailed-after-flipping-off-judge/
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Full Text BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC PRESENTS in Spring Concert The A Cappella, Concert and Chapel Choirs EUELL PORTER, Conductor CHOIR Lodovico Viadana oh, and Him, ike. above., oh., Sing, the. and Him, Him, ye. ye. a new and Him, in hanmony Him. Lord, To Thee We Turn Orlando di Lasso Hear, 0 Lord, Hear My Prayer Orlando di Lasso Psalm 67 John Ness Beck Tenebrae Factae Sunt G. P. da made About the. a loud God, Thou me? Thy hand!) I my And an he.ajd He gave up the. Psalm 100 Sven Lekberg Psalm 84: Cantique de Jean Racine Gabriel Jerry conductor Clap Your Hands R. Vaughn (Brass Ensemble from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia) A CHOIR and Rejoice Brent Pierce Ecce Vidimus Eum G. P. da Palestrina we Him not having He. and He on account by we OUA He. and OUA. He Ehre sei dir, Christe Heinrich Schiitz be. the Thou in woe on the bitteA and the in HeZp to Heav'nly Charles conductor (over) WACO HALL S:15 P.M.
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2019-04-23T14:31:41Z
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http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fa-somprog/id/11642/
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Brazil auctioned concessions for four airports in smaller state capitals on Thursday, raising R$3.72bn and kicking off an ambitious privatisation programme aimed at reviving economic growth.
Germany’s Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide won the concessions for airports in the southern city of Porto Alegre and the northeastern city of Fortaleza while France’s Vinci Airports won Salvador, also in the northeast, and Zurich International Airport the southern city of Florianópolis.
The European operators paid a combined 23 per cent premium over the expected total of R$3.01bn in minimum licence fees for the airports, a result the government hailed as a sign of confidence in Brazil.
“This demonstrates that the government has done a good job and [shows] the interest of foreign investors in Brazilian assets,” said the minister of transport, ports and civil aviation Maurício Quintella.
The government of President Michel Temer is keen to speed up an economic recovery in Brazil, which has been suffering its worst recession in more than a century, by spurring private investment.
The government has a host of ports, toll roads and energy assets that it is also seeking to offering to private sector investors in the coming months.
Thursday’s auctions were the first sales of airports since 2012-2013, when the country handed out concessions for the major airports of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília ahead of the 2014 World Cup soccer final and the 2016 Olympics.
The winners of Thursday’s auctions would invest a total of R$6.6bn in the facilities, the government said.
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2019-04-21T06:07:15Z
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https://www.ft.com/content/4deb3541-d455-3a39-a51f-ebd94095aa98
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Thanks to a successful ballot initiative last month, Washington state residents can legally smoke marijuana in the privacy of their living rooms as of Thursday.
When that gets old, bar owner Frank Schnarr suggests, area stoners have another option: grab a booth at Frankie's Sports Bar & Grill in Olympia and toke up there.
Schnarr, 62, says he is not acting out of a love of cannabis - he says he hasn't smoked the stuff since he was a soldier stationed in Southeast Asia in the 1970s. Rather, he's looking for new sources of income.
"I stay up at night," he said. "I'm about to lose my business. So I've got to figure out some way to get people in here."
Schnarr, who waged an ultimately successful battle with local and state officials over Washington's 2006 smoking ban, appears to be the first restaurant or bar owner in the state to test the recently expanded limits on recreational marijuana use.
So, is he breaking the law?
Federal, state and local officials appear unsure. Or if they are, they're not saying.
"Marijuana remains illegal under federal law," said Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle. "I can't tell you whether what he's doing is legal or not."
Says Tom Morrill, Olympia's city attorney: "We're looking into it. There are a lot of changes in state law right now. That's all I can say."
Mikhail Carpenter, spokesman for the state's Liquor Control Board, newly empowered to make rules for and oversee the state's planned regime for the cultivation, processing and sale of marijuana, is similarly noncommittal.
"The board is weighing its options with regard to Frankie's," he said. "It's not perfectly crystal clear as to who this falls to."
Carpenter said he knows of no other bar or restaurant in the state that allows marijuana smoking.
The legal gray area that Schnarr is exploiting exists in part thanks to his earlier fight over the smoking ban.
In order to flout it, Schnarr renamed his establishment's smoking-friendly second floor as "Friends of Frankie's," a private room limited to those who pay a $10 annual membership fee.
A full range of alcoholic beverages are for sale and the room is staffed by comely bartenders and cocktail waitresses. They are volunteers entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses and childcare but otherwise making their living off tips.
"Frank's ahead of the curve on (allowing marijuana use)," says Shawn Newman, Schnarr's attorney. "A lot of other taverns, bars and restaurants would like to do this, but they didn't have enough chutzpah to fight the smoking ban so they're locked into non-smoking operations."
Schnarr says "Friends of Frankie's" has over 10,000 members, with upwards of 40 joining in the two days since he announced that marijuana would be welcome.
To help appeal to his new target market, Schnarr has introduced a $4.20 appetizer menu - included are breaded shrimp, breaded cheese sticks and breaded mushrooms - and he is toying with the possibility of opening a medical marijuana dispensary on a nearby property.
But he isn't looking to attract Olympia's sizable transient crowd, or stoned college students.
"I'll have security in here, and if I see a bunch of guys just trying to get ripped, they're gone," he said.
Early last Friday evening, a few dozen customers played pool, drank beer, smoked cigarettes and loosened up for an impending shuffleboard tournament.
Only a small group at the back of the bar appeared to be smoking pot, a glass jar of the stuff sitting on the table between them.
Chris Sapp, 28, a long-haired diesel mechanic and longtime Frankie's member, said being able to smoke pot at the bar makes him feel like he's in Amsterdam.
"If I wasn't a friend of Frankie's already I'd be one now because you can come here and smoke and feel free," he said after taking a pull from a small pipe. "That's how it should be. We shouldn't have to hide weed."
Across the room, another patron commended Schnarr for welcoming pot use but begged off giving his name. As a volunteer firefighter, he said, he wasn't supposed to be in contact with marijuana smoke.
"I cannot be in this room," he lamented. "It's not like I'm sitting here smoking a joint or anything. My problem is that I'd love to, but I can't.
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2019-04-21T19:20:56Z
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https://www.cnbc.com/id/100297219
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There is a great little area at State Street and Figueroa in Santa Barbara called La Arcada. It is a little walkway lined with shops and restaurants and a number of Galleries. One of which, incidentally, has a display of my photography right now.
After the rain subsided a bit last week I spent some time at La Arcada trying to get some shots of the Christmas decorations before they take them down.
When I was getting this image ready for the site, I noticed the roman numerals on the face of the clock, particularly the four. The interesting thing is that it is made up of four roman numeral ones IIII, rather than IV. This stood out to me because I remember learning roman numerals from my Mom and Dad. They had a rug inside of our front door when I was a kid that had a clock face on it with the number four made up of four 'I's. I vividly remember my dad pointing it out to me and saying that it was not the proper way to write four in roman numerals. Unfortunately, at the time, we did not have access to something quite as cool as the Internet to learn why some clocks were made that way.
A popular notion is that the visual balance of the clocks were thrown off by the fact that the VIII on the left was so much larger than the IV on the right. So it was a visual decision to use the IIII. Sounds reasonable but there are good references to extremely old clocks that were not symmetrical in other ways but still used this style of markings.
One theory was attributed to a number of different monarchs. It goes something along the lines of a clock maker made a clock for (pick your favorite monarch). When presenting the clock the monarch stated that the numeral IV should actually be IIII. And, who wants to argue with the guy who has all the guillotines. Unfortunately, this one sounds more like a legend started by someone who did not know the real answer. Further discrediting this theory is the fact that the earlier clocks and sun dials are even less likely to have the numeral IV.
Monarch theory and quite a few others.
A much more plausible reason stated hinges on the fact that in the Roman language, Jupiter (as in "king of the gods" Jupiter) was spelled IVPITER since there was no J or U. Not sure the deity of deities would take kindly to having his name abbreviated on the face of all of their clocks, the clock makers erred on the side of not offending him.
Another interesting thought is the fact that using IIII made it easier for metal smiths to cast the numbers because you then had a balanced number of 'I's 'V's and 'X's (twenty, four and four respectively). So you could cast four identical sets of XVIIIII and have one set of numerals for a clock face.
In the end though, it seems that the contractions for fours and nines may not have been used in a consistent way at all. It may have just been common practice for the Romans to use IIII in place of IV. IV could have been a Latin practice much later. The oldest known surviving clock-face along with documents from the same age seem to use IIII regularly. As do the numbers on the surviving doors of the Roman Colosseum.
Again, if you have any interesting thoughts I would love to hear from you.
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2019-04-19T14:23:04Z
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https://www.billsphotooftheday.com/field/
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The work described here was largely performed at a medium-sized European steel mill, with an unusually diverse product portfolio, and hence a difficult scheduling problem to solve. The decision support system developed as a result has been successfully used, with minor modifications, at many steel mills worldwide. The work was carried out while the author was employed at A.I. Systems, Belgium, a software house building software for planning and scheduling decision support.
A steel hot rolling mill transforms steel slabs into steel coils. First, slabs must be moved from a storage area to the furnace area using manual or semi-automatic cranes. After heating, the slabs are subjected to very high pressures in a series of rolls to produce a steel coil of a few millimetres thickness. The rolls which are in contact with the hot steel band quickly become worn, so coils are milled in programmes of a few hours. Between programmes some or all rolls must be replaced. Several different types of programmes may be chosen, where the programme type chosen determines the types of coil which may be rolled in the programme and the preparation which must be carried out prior to executing the programme. The correct choice of programme type is an important planning decision. A rolling schedule is a sequence of 100 to 300 coils to be milled in a programme lasting several hours, which satisfies complex technical, commercial and logistical constraints. Producing such a rolling schedule is a difficult task, which is carried out by a small group of experienced schedulers. A schematic diagram of the production processes surrounding steel hot rolling is given in Figure 11.1.
Fig. 11.1Schematic of the hot rolling mill production processes.
Publication information: Book title: Human Performance in Planning and Scheduling. Contributors: Bart MacCarthy - Editor, John Wilson - Editor. Publisher: Taylor & Francis. Place of publication: London. Publication year: 2001. Page number: 217.
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2019-04-22T13:02:05Z
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https://www.questia.com/read/109241095/human-performance-in-planning-and-scheduling
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ITI Life Sciences is a private organisation based in Dundee, Scotland, which was set up in 2003 through Scottish Enterprise (SE), the publicly funded Scottish regional development agency. ITI Life Sciences has grown from a start up phase into a more mature phase of growth, yet the organization has been grappling with a range of corporate issues.
It has long been held that in general, entrepreneurial firms display more innovative, risk taking and proactive behaviour than other firms thanks in part to the strategic perspective shared in the organisation. It is therefore timely to look at ITI Life Sciences through the lens of corporate entrepreneurship and through the use of some models and key concepts, help identify critical CE focussed issues for ITI Life Sciences going forward. Through a customised Entrepreneurial Health Audit of the whole organisation and application of the Herman thinking styles concepts linked to the creative problem solving model, a range of issues relating to CE at ITI Life sciences were highlighted.
The Entrepreneurial Health Audit results reflect the multidimensional complexity of CE in an organisation. ITI Life Sciences appeared to display a weak level of entrepreneurial intensity which had been the result of a lack of management support for CE, incentivisation around innovation and a general company mindset which has shifted from originally being considered very entrepreneurial to becoming much more conservative and innovation/risk averse. However, the analysis revealed a considerable level of CE potential which if addressed, may lead the organisation to develop a higher level of entrepreneurial intensity.
The Hermann thinking styles analysis provided insight into the thinking styles of each functional team at ITI Life Sciences and highlighted some differences between two key teams in particular which have had communication and collaborative difficulties in the past. An appreciation of these differences should lead to a more harmonious working relationship going forward which could bolster entrepreneurial intensity.
The high level of CE potential is reinforced by the comparing the main ITI operating process with the creative problem solving model. Through this, the different stages of the creative problem solving model are represented in the ITI process map with strong affinity, not just for the processes, but for the different mindsets and abilities required at each stage.
This study has shown that by following a frame work such as the Entrepreneurial Health Audit combined with the Hermann thinking styles concepts and a creative problem solving model, it is possible to gather a considerable amount of information on an organisation and relate this information to CE. This information has catalysed the creation of a strategy for addressing CE at ITI Life Sciences which may result in developing the CE potential in the organisation.
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2019-04-24T13:03:32Z
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20811/
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The purpose of this study was to determine if patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders and comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at higher risk for suicidality than patients without comorbid PTSD. Participants were 165 male veterans with primary diagnoses of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Those with comorbid PTSD reported higher rates of suicidal ideation and suicidal behaviors compared to those without comorbid PTSD. These findings suggest that patients with comorbid PTSD are at higher risk for suicidality. Enhanced screening and targeted interventions may be warranted to address comorbid PTSD and increased suicide risk in this population.
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2019-04-21T13:02:53Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub696197
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America scratches its head and wonders why jobs are leaving despite the highest government spending in world history. We wonder why so many people need food stamps and unemployment checks despite more money being thrown at these programs than ever before.
Why what used to be the world's greatest economic power now is its greatest debtor and on the decline. We wonder why companies now prefer to do business elsewhere as industry after industry flees off shore. Why can't we make a good car anymore or get out of our own way when it comes to running a fiscally prudent government and query just how the freest country in the world became one of its most controlling. We have troops all over the globe yet let millions stream across our borders unfettered. We give billions to countries all over the world and billions more to banks, domestic and foreign yet let our elderly starve, our homeless wander and our needy go untended.
Our greased gears of government are now mired in deadlock and squabble over billions to the banking system while our citizens go hungry.
The top earners of America get ever richer while middle America can barely make ends meet not to mention that over 50 % of Americans are so poor they can't afford to pay income tax. One in four Americans get some sort of assistance from the government and two dollars of every ten earned in America comes from the same source.
What happened to our once great country?
I have had so many people say to me that the government is broke. Who can argue with that? But the question no one is asking is “What Happened?”. Has anyone given that any thought? It didn’t happen overnight. It’s taken close to 100 years to get to the point we are at. We can blame it on entitlement programs, but the only people we can blame for those are ourselves, because we enabled the politicians that enacted them. We can blame it on corrupt politicians, but we created them too. When they do something stupid we encourage them. Look at Anthony Weiner – literally a pervert, but his constituents see nothing wrong with what he did. Look at Marion Barry, mayor of DC – caught in a sting soliciting prostitutes, smoking crack cocaine, and still his constituents re-elected him. And who can forget Charlie Rangle? Re-elected. The list is endless. What are we to assume other than first we create corruption and then we reward it? But that’s just part of the problem. As American citizens we fell into apathy, we stopped paying any attention. Those we elected saw no need to follow the instruction manual for running this country – namely the Constitution. The further we have gotten away from being a moral country, and the further we have gotten from the Constitution, the greater our problems have become. Those who preached “free love” and “if it feels good, do it” in the 60’s are now running the asylum. It’s going to take a long time to fix what is wrong with our country, but if it doesn’t start with you, it will never happen. Find your moral compass. Use your faith in God if you are a believer. If not, you will have to find some other meaningful standard to live by. Start paying attention to the issues. If you don’t, who will? Find an issue that is important to you, and actually call your Representatives to tell them how you feel about that issue (they will be glad to hear from someone besides me, for a change). Stop excusing bad behavior in yourselves, your Representatives, and your country. Get a pocket Constitution, and read it. It’s a pretty amazing document. We have to get our country back on track. When you point your finger at someone else, there are three more fingers pointing back at you.
Randi Briggs is a resident of Nevada County and a patriot.
Englebright Lake is nestled in the steep Yuba River canyon of the Sierra Nevada Foothills between Grass Valley and Marysville off State Route 20. This location offers a unique boat-in camping experience, several species of sport fish, abundant wildlife, and year round water-based recreational activities for enthusiasts and families alike. Englebright Lake is rich in history. Authorized by Congress for the storage of hydraulic gold mining debris, Englebright Dam was completed in 1941 by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is a concrete arch structure 260 ft high and 1,142 ft long. It was constructed in the steep Yuba River gorge known as the Narrows. In later years, two power plants were added below the dam for the generation of hydroelectric power. Today Englebright Lake is used primarily for recreation and hydropower. Its 45,000 acre feet of stored water-right capacity allows cold water releases each year to benefit fish downstream. Water is also diverted for regional domestic and agricultural uses. Hydroelectric generation from water stored behind Englebright provides the annual energy needs for 50,000 homes. (Sources: Wikipedia, Army Corps of Engineers).
A recreational bonanza for the park visitor, the 815 acre lake with its nine mile length and 24 miles of shoreline is popular for a variety of boating activities. The steep and rocky shoreline dotted with sandy beaches and coves of oak and pine is a boat camper’s dream location. Water skiers enjoy the placid waters of the lower half of the lake while fishermen are successful in the narrow coves of the upper half of the lake which is closed to skiers. Houseboat adventures and boat rentals are provided at the nearby Skipper’s Cove Marina. Barbecues and picnicking are popular in the large day use area located next to the dam. Beautiful views, barbecue grills, tables and benches make this a favorite family spot. For information on boat-in campsites view the Englebright Lake website, write to US Army Corps of Engineers, P O Box 6, Smartville, CA 95977 or phone the park office at 530-432-6427. (Sources: Army Corps of Engineers, aboutnevadacounty.com, Nevada County Commerce).
“I don’t think words can do justice to what Englebright means to me…it is something so beautiful that it stops you in your tracks and helps put life’s most important things in perspective. It recharges your soul. It is so much more than just a debris dam.” Sue Borden, Englebright Meadows property owner.
History usually repeats itself, and it is amazing how what we were concerned with in the past we are still concerned with today. But, in the last couple of years a new phrase (we have never heard before) has surfaced: “The new normal”.
Talking about a problem such as taxes, regulations, reform, etc. is all we will do; actually doing something about it is no longer reality.
Lying is becoming more acceptable, the political arena will lead the way.
Smooth roads will soon be a thing of the past.
There will soon be no more live people on the other end of the phone; frustration will send you in a different direction.
You are still in debt, now with no way to pay.
Prices for everything will continue to rise, wages will stagnate.
Houses cost less but there is no way to buy one for many.
Backyard gardens (out of necessity) are coming back.
NO will be said more instead of YES.
Fewer employees now to do the job of many.
We will no longer log or thin the forest, fire will do that for us, fire does not kill animals or destroy habitat. Forest fires do not require an EIR.
Voting on new taxes will be impossible; fees for service will be the new thing.
Smoke and mirrors is now part of our State budget process, and is acceptable.
The middle class is going out of business, elitism is coming into vogue.
Democrats see today as just a bump in the road, everything will be back to normal soon, we just need a little more of your money to keep the gears turning.
I was once assigned to Beale AFB for a few hours in 1975, as an electronic warfare planner in the 9th Reconnaissance Wing. After spending 14 months in Thailand, I was looking forward to ending my 20-year career in the Air Force at Beale AFB, which is right in my Nevada County backyard. When I got on a contract 737 in Thailand, I was assigned to Beale AFB. When I got off a DC-8 at Travis AFB, 23 hours later, I had been reassigned to Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska. I was never allowed to sign in at Beale AFB.
Ellen and our three oldest daughters, were living in a rental house near Nevada Union High School, and they thought a Beale assignment was great news. They would not have to move again. I could live in Nevada County and commute to Beale AFB using the back gate off Smartville Road. But, it was not to be.
As a retired Air Force Lt Col Electronics Warfare Officer, who worked very closely with Air Force intelligence agencies in previous assignments, I have always had a strong interest in Beale, as they hosted a prime USAF intelligence collection asset, the SR-71. Beale is home base to the U-2 Dragon Lady, RQ-4 Global Hawk, and now the MC-12W Liberty, which is also an intelligence collection platform.
The MC-12W Liberty is a multi-mission aircraft. That is what the M stands for under the military aircraft designation system. Most reconnaissance aircraft have an R designation such as a C-12 version operated by the Army, called the RC-12N Guardrail Common Sensor Program. The RC-12H is a battlefield signals intelligence collection system. The MC-12W has a much different mission.
USAF is buying 7 MC-12W Beechcraft King Air 350S to train crews at Beale AFB for their overseas missions. They are buying 27 Extended Range Special-Mission Beechcraft King Air 350ER modified for deployment in theater.
The USAF is integrating the Gorgon Stare video capture technology into the MC-12W. Gorgon Stare looks over broad areas such as small towns, and is designed to detect motion. It has a playback capability that allows the aircrew to observe a roadside bomb explosion and then replay the video to see what led to that explosion. They can also send the data via satellite to processing centers for distribution to field units. The aircraft will also be equipped with a laser designation system that can pinpoint a real time target for combat aircraft. Roadside bomb planters will rue the day they are observed by a Liberty aircraft.
In a recent article I wrote about managed care in America, I mentioned that I am a doctor who felt compelled to leave my medical practice a few years ago. After nearly two decades of practicing general surgery in Sacramento, I made the decision to quit medicine, not because I was tired of the work, or even because I wanted to spend my hard-earned money on retirement vacations. In truth, I stopped working as a physician because my career as I knew it had turned into a series of unfavorable decisions. These decisions, however, were not the unfavorable ones I had knowingly signed up for when I originally became a doctor--how to break the bad news to somebody who had cancer, or how to know when to stop resuscitating after a heart refused to resume its beating. These were scenarios I hated but accepted as part of my job.
Unfortunately, the new and unfamiliar daily choices I began making later on in my career, dealt mostly with the question of whether or not to consistently abandon my ETHICAL principles as a doctor.
Let me explain. When I first became a physician, I signed up for a job that demanded not just scientific expertise, or an ability to go days without sleep, but also a critical sense of personal morality. The Hippocratic Oath I swore to, alongside the 31 other new doctors in my graduating medical class, asked each and every one of us to profess: “I will repel any medicine, operation, or advice which is injurious or deleterious to my patients.” After around 30 years of watching healthcare grow and change in America, the moral principles in this oath have remained the same. But the social context surrounding this oath has mutated into something almost unrecognizable. In my wildest dreams, I never would have guessed ETHICS would be the reason I’d eventually stop practicing medicine.
There are many causes for this drastic change in the quality of our healthcare system; a few decades ago, things were quite different than they are now. Folks who are old enough to remember the 60s, 70s, and the early 80s will doubtfully recall any prescription drug ads on TV, the radio, or in print for things like anxiety, sleep problems, birth control, joint pain, high blood pressure, or erectile dysfunction. I’m also willing to bet that people probably don’t remember their health insurance company being such a fundamental part of their overall care. And it’s probably also safe to assume that most people don’t remember ever worrying about a preexisting condition affecting their future medical coverage.
That’s because America didn’t ALLOW these things to occur in the past.
“Brave New World” and “1984” have arrived with a vengeance.
What exactly is UN Agenda 21? It is a purposely complicated, diabolical plan of action to impose a one-world government through the United Nations, and it necessarily shreds our Constitution in the process. Words are turned inside out to disguise their true intent. For example, “social justice” means socialism/redistribute the wealth; “sustainable” means government approved; “consensus” means stifled dissent; and “the common good” means individuals have no rights.
August 1, 1819 – American author Herman Melville was born in New York City.
August 1, 1914 – World War I erupts in Europe.
August 3, 1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain on the first of four voyages of discovery to the Americas.
August 5, 1861 – President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act, thereby imposing the first Federal income tax, a 3% tax on annual incomes over $800.
August 5, 1914 – The first electric traffic signal was installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 5, 1981 – President Ronald Reagan began firing 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers.
August 6, 1945 – The Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, eventually resulting in the surrender of the Japanese and the end of World War II.
August 7, 1782 – General George Washington created the “Badge for Military Merit,” later to become known as the “Order of the Purple Heart,” the oldest American military decoration for military merit.
August 8, 1974 – President Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
August 9, 1945 – The U.S. dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan, at Nagasaki, resulting in Japan’s unconditional surrender, ending World War II.
August 10, 1776 – News reached London that the Americans had drafted the Declaration of Independence.
August 10, 1861 – Missouri Confederates defeated Union forces at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek during the Civil War.
August 11, 1973 – The movie American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, opened in theatres, launching Lucas’s exceptional Hollywood career.
August 12, 1898 – Armistice was signed between Spain and the U.S. ending the Spanish-American War.
August 13, 1981 – President Ronald Reagan signed the Economic Recovery Tax Act, a historic package of tax and budget reductions that set the tone for his administration’s overall economic policy.
August 14, 1935 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.
August 14, 1945 – V-J Day, Victory over Japan Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies marking the end of World War II.
August 15, 1914 – The American-built Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was inaugurated with the passage of the U.S. cargo and passenger steamship SS Ancon.
Statement of Opposition to S. 365 "Budget Control Act of 2011"
The "Budget Control Act of 2011" increases the debt limit by between $2.1 and $2.4 trillion, the biggest explosion of debt in American history. It allows the government to avoid spending reductions for the next two years while squandering our last best hope of averting a sovereign debt crisis.
4. The spending caps are easily circumvented by declaring appropriations to be an emergency, a response to a "major disaster," or necessary for the "Global War on Terror."
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2019-04-18T17:21:56Z
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https://cabproreport.typepad.com/weblog/2011/08/index.html
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"Solar panel peak power tracking system." by Aaron Michael Sikora, Christopher M. Dohan et al.
Solar panel peak power tracking system.
The design of a Maximum Peak Power Tracking (MPPT) controller for a solar photovoltaic battery charging system is proposed utilizing a boost-converter topology. Solar panel voltage and current are continuously monitored by a closed-loop microprocessor based control system, and the duty cycle of the boost converter continuously adjusted to extract maximum power. System testing confirms peak power tracking under changing lighting conditions. Under specific conditions, efficiencies in excess of 90% are shown to be possible.
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2019-04-22T09:01:18Z
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https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/5136/
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Steven W. Newberry Elected to Board of Directors of Broadcast Music, Inc.
NEW YORK, October 17, 2012 – Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the leading global music rights organization, elected Steven W. Newberry to its Board of Directors at the Company’s annual shareholder meeting, held October 16 in Nashville, TN. Mr. Newberry is the President and CEO of Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation, a 22-station radio broadcast group with facilities throughout Kentucky.
Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), a global leader in music rights management, is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 550,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music and more than 7.5 million musical works. BMI has represented the most popular and beloved music from around the world for more than 70 years. The Company provides licenses for businesses that perform music, and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to the musical creators and copyright owners it represents. Find out more athttp://www.bmi.com”> www.bmi.com, follow @BMI on Twitter and stay connected through Facebook.
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2019-04-21T14:22:40Z
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https://www.bmi.com/press/entry/558753
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Fletcher Allen Health Care was rocked by financial scandal less than a decade ago, and as it emerged from that cloud Dr. Melinda Estes was named CEO. After eight years, she steps down this month and we look back on how FAHC has changed during her tenure.
Vermont Law School has lifted its ban on military recruiters on campus. The move comes in anticipation of the official repeal of the military’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy in the fall.
Senator Patrick Leahy says he’s very disappointed that Senate Republicans have blocked a vote on whether gay people can serve openly in the military.
The Supreme Court has turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.
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2019-04-20T22:35:37Z
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https://vprarchive.vpr.net/tag/dont-ask-dont-tell/
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B - View from N.-E. corner forming with A [print 31] a complete panoramic view from N.-E. [Victoria Dock construction, Bombay].
bl.uk > Online Gallery Home > Online exhibitions > Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections > B - View from N.-E. corner forming with A [print 31] a complete panoramic view from N.-E. [Victoria Dock construction, Bombay].
The idea for the construction of a wet docks for the use of shipping in Bombay harbour was first suggested by M. Malet when member of Council in 1855. In 1866, Russell Aitken, Executive Engineer to the Municipality prepared the foundation of a Harbour and Dock Trust which could raise money for the construction of wet docks on the Elphinstone and Mody Bay reclamations as private companies had gone into a recession. In 1875, the first stone was laid in the hope that the new dock would create a prosperous revolution in the trade of Bombay. In April 1879, the Prince's Dock was thrown open by the Governor of Bombay, Sir Richard Temple. In 1884, it was decided to extend the dock and construction then began on the Victoria Dock.
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2019-04-18T17:37:02Z
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http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/b/019pho000000173u00032000.html
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If you are currently employed at Wake Forest University please view and apply for open positions by accessing the Internal Career Portal via desktop computer or the Careers worklet in the Workday mobile app.
Each year, incoming students make an important decision. They select Wake Forest as a University that will shape them, and that they will shape in return. As you seek an exciting new career opportunity, you encounter a similar choice. You evaluate destinations that will foster growth, while offering opportunities to make a profound difference. You seek a collegial family that is unified by common values and distinguished by diverse perspectives.
I am glad you are considering Wake Forest, where you will find professional development offerings, rewarding benefit programs, and inspiring colleagues. Opportunities abound, through the spirit of Pro Humanitate, to impact lives in the classroom, throughout the community, and across the globe.
I encourage you to explore information about our vibrant culture and storied past. Thank you for your interest in applying your talents toward a mutually bright future.
Wellbeing is about much more than physical health. Here, it’s an eight-dimensional balancing act that – when maintained properly – leaves us best able to cope with adversity, build rewarding relationships and live with a sense of purpose.
Join a group of faculty committed to a teacher-scholar-service model of providing a unique and student-focused liberal arts education. Wake Forest is a private, top 30 institution, and named “most beautiful” campus in North Carolina.
Wake Forest is committed to the ongoing development of our faculty and staff by providing comprehensive and collaborative resources that help individuals grow and bring the best of who they are to every situation.
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2019-04-21T04:32:52Z
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https://hr.wfu.edu/careers/
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Archives|DAUGHERTY BARRED FROM BARING 'TRUTH'; Tries to Tell of Washington When "Some Were Hellbound and Others Spellbound." TESTIFIES FOR COL. FELDER Ex-Attorney General Is Not Permitted to Go Beyond Issues in Means-Felder Trial.
DAUGHERTY BARRED FROM BARING 'TRUTH'; Tries to Tell of Washington When "Some Were Hellbound and Others Spellbound." TESTIFIES FOR COL. FELDER Ex-Attorney General Is Not Permitted to Go Beyond Issues in Means-Felder Trial.
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2019-04-20T06:29:28Z
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https://www.nytimes.com/1925/01/28/archives/daugherty-barred-from-baring-truth-tries-to-tell-of-washington-when.html
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About meAs an only child I was never encouraged to read. My parents were Dutch and couldn't read English when they first came to Canada. In school I wasn't considered a good reader. I had a hard time understanding what I read. It was a real challange. I hated reading.
It was when I was about 12 years old when my school mates would talk about books they have read. I begged for my mother to buy me a book. My parents would tell me that they had reading material around the house if I wanted to read, like the local newspaper, TV Guide, dictionary, Bible and asked if I finish reading my school text book.
I didn't want to read to learn I wanted to enjoy reading as I saw kids around me enjoying it. I wanted to find out what I was missing. Finally, after many discussions about wanting to read a book that was bought in a bookstore my mother went with me to choose help me choose a book.
I will always remember my first book. It was a Nancy Drew book and called The Secret of the Old Clock. It was number one in the series and I was under the impression that I had to start with the first one. That made complete sense to me.
I remember feeling so grown up and happy sitting in my room all alone and reading my first book. I was a slow reader, but that didn't matter to me. Being a slow reader I was able to absorb every word and did. With my dictionary by my side, I looked up new words that I came across.
When finishing my first book I felt proud and I had a book that I could now talk about.
Not long after that, you would not find me without a book in my hands. I couldn't get enough. It took me places that I never dreamed of going. Gave me feelings I didn't know I had. Made me understand that I wasn't really alone in this big world.
In 1999, I suffered with chronic fatigue. I couldn't do anything without feeling exhausted. Performing every day tasks was a real effort. Things like scratching an itch, blinking an eye, coughing, eating, thinking and breathing took effort, but the worse part of this was that I couldn't understand anything that I read. I felt a big part of me died. The chronic fatigue was horrible but not being able to read a few words at a time made it so much worse.
My doctor assured me that I will certainly read again, but probably not as well and it would take some time. I wasn't going to let the love of my life die. Books were so much a part of me. I couldn't let it slip away without trying to keep it alive.
My youngest son understood how upset I was. He helped me first by buying my search word puzzles and then started me slowly reading Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
It would take me hours to read and understand one story. So many times I would have to reread a sentence over and over again, but I felt I was on the right track. Sometimes taking days to read a story that was only a few pages long. Reading drained me but it was something I had to do.
Periodically, I would grab a novel and attempt read it. Sometimes not even three pages into it I had to give up. I just didn't understand. I would miss words or invent words that weren't there. It was so very frustrating. But I wasn't going to give up.
One bright sunny afternoon, while lying in bed, not feeling my best, I asked my boyfriend at the time to grab me a book out of a box he picked up at a yard sale half a year ago. I wanted to read something as I had now finished kinda sorta reading my Chicken Soup for the Soul book.
He handed me a book. I looked at it as he left the room. Why would he pick this one out of maybe 25 books? It wasn't the thinnest one in the pile. It was from an author I never even heard of. He could have given me one that he at least thought I would enjoy. Oh well, I was too sick to argue.
I picked it up after a big sigh. I was so sure that after a few pages I would toss it to the side and maybe, just maybe, try again later that day, if I was feeling up to it.
Well, I read and read and read and then after some more reading I read some more. I couldn't put it down. Being so tired for so long and not being able to keep my eyes open for more then half an hour I was so thrilled and happy that I was actually reading and staying awake.
I finished that book in 3 days. There were tears in my eyes. I could read again. I did it. I was saved.
Months later, I went to the authors web site and told him my story. I believe this author saved a big part of my life. He gave me the boost that I so needed. That author was Phillip Margolin and the book was Gone, But Not Forgotten.
I will never be able to express my feeling of how I felt when I closed that book and had actually finished it. I will never be able to thank this author in the way that he deserves.
About my libraryHere I have my very own library. I always wanted my own library and now I have it. Since I found this site I haven't been able to stay away from it.
I have read a lot in my years. I am very, very bad at remembering the titles of the books I have read or the authors. What I can say is that I thoroughly enjoyed 99% of them. I feel strongly when I say that every book bad or good, I have learned something from that book.
I rarely buy new books unless they are on sale. Holding a book that someone else has read has meaning to me. I never ever crease a book and treat it with special care, but at the same time, I enjoy buying a used book where the pages are folded at the corners and creased. It builds characture. It gives the book it's own personality.
My "bestest" friend, has been sharing her books with me. Everyone that she has given to me so far have been very enjoyable. I enjoy talking to her about the book afterwards and can't wait for her to share the next one with me.
My husband, who is a retired teacher, picks out books he knows I would enjoy. The very first one, he picked out for me was one of his called [Old Man and the Sea].
Since then he has introduced me to some good classics.
My youngest son picks also likes to pick out books for me. His choices are always the big, thick ones. Gotta love him.
My oldest son, who is an avid reader, has been sharing books for a long time with me. For years now he has been begging me to read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. He is also in the process of writing his first novel. He has had some of his work in magazines and short story books. He really has a gift.
All the books that are listed here on LT I have read or on my wish list. My TBR list is growing every day.
In 2007, I started to write down and rate all the books I read. My husband and I would talk about the books I have read and forgot that I had read them. I wasn't about to let that happen again so I started my list.
Then I found a wonderful place called Librarything and started listing my books again. I must admit that being on LT has put more smiles on my face than my own list did. Glad I found this place. Will always be a part of it.
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2019-04-19T00:55:58Z
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http://www.librarything.com/profile/callmejacx
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Here are some tips for choosing a reputable auto body shop in Reno, NV 89557.
How much is Reno 89557 Auto Body Repair?
Now I can not really answer this question. Because all Reno, NV 89557 shops and centers are different. However, there is this cool tool which can give you a pretty good average. You can go ahead and select which kind of damage happened to your car or truck and go in knowing what you will be paying. Again this is by no means an actual quote. But just a number that you can have in the back of your head so you are not heading in blind.
The post Find Auto Body Shop Near Reno, Nevada 89557 appeared first on Best Auto Body Repair Shops.
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2019-04-22T08:01:46Z
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http://bestautobodyrepairshops.weebly.com/blog/find-auto-body-shop-near-reno-nevada-89557
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The Laboratory School Unit provides an environment in which research and developmental activities can be conducted to support the University teacher education programs and the research goals of the institution. The diversity of Laboratory School activities and the representative profile of its students are conducive to a wide range of educationally significant research and developmental projects. Teachers, parents, and students are accustomed to and supportive of research activities.
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2019-04-23T17:27:35Z
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https://sites.google.com/metcalf.illinoisstate.edu/isulabschoolresearch/home
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The Senate Appropriations Committees has included language in the FY 07 Interior Appropriations Bill to exempt some logging projects on the National Forests from the normal citizen comment and appeal requirements. Section 426 of the Senate Interior Appropriations bill provides that projects "categorically excluded" by the Forest Service do not need to be subjected to public notice, comment and appeal. In recent years, the agency has greatly expanded the size of logging projects that can be "categorically excluded."
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2019-04-23T04:16:02Z
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https://grist.org/article/more-house-shenanigans/
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wordpress
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Central Kentucky has lots of real estate agents and I realize that as a buyer or seller you have many options from which to choose! My goal is to set apart my services in a way that is both professional and personally suited for each client with whom I work.
I specialize only in residential real estate and offer a high-quality and interactive experience that keeps you informed about the market and your transaction. Home buying or selling is a step by step process that deserves personal attention. Every transaction is unique and different and I am with you, my client, through every step of the process working hard to help you achieve your real estate goals.
Whether you are buying a first home, relocating to Central Kentucky or just wanting to change your current housing situation, I am here to help and have the resources you need.
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2019-04-19T02:43:08Z
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https://gwenmathews.wordpress.com/about/
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dugpa
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New ebook by Frank Herbert--I'm waiting to find out if it is also in book form. It's already at Amazon.
According to the asshat Kevin J. Anderson, it will be available in print form in a couple of weeks, though I've yet to see any confirmation of this at Amazon. As much as I'd love to read a never-before-published work by Frank Herbert, for me it's been tainted slightly by the involvement of the afore-mentioned asshat. He recently tweetted on twitter that he watched a DVD while keying in corrections for the novel, claiming he was 'doing double-duty.' God, how I loathe and despise Kevin J. Anderson.
Just Agent, Audrey. Special Agent.
I don't like Kevin J. Anderson, either. But we don't allow obscene name-calling in here, so I edited your post.
Apologies Annie - I guess I won't be making too many comments about KJA in that case, as you'd likely have a full-time job on your hands editing them! It looks like I won't be getting the paperback copy of this, unfortunately, as it's only available through KJA's Wordfire Press - at $15, no less. If it was through a specialist small publisher like PS Publishing or Nightshade, even Wildside at a push, then I'd probably be tempted sooner or later - but I'm not giving KJA a penny, or a cent!
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2019-04-25T02:43:40Z
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http://www.dugpa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2043
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On Sunday, March 22, two meteor showers will grace the dark evening sky – the Camelopardalids and March Geminids. Would you like to learn more about what makes them special and why? Then let’s head out into the dark… We’ll start first with the Camelopardalids. These have no definite peak, and a screaming fall rate … Continue reading "Meteor Shower Alert on March 22! Camelopardalids and March Geminids Arrive…"
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2019-04-18T19:11:05Z
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https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.universetoday.com%2F27610%2Fmeteor-shower-alert-on-march-22-camelopardalids-and-march-geminids-arrive%2F&title=Meteor+Shower+Alert+on+March+22%21+Camelopardalids+and+March+Geminids+Arrive.
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When I was in high school, there was no basketball team I loved more than the Chicago Bulls—and no basketball player that impressed me more than Dennis Rodman.
Watching him tear teams apart alongside Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen was like watching an artist paint a masterpiece in real-time. He was truly a gifted basketball player, a rebounder and defensive superstar with talents that secured him a spot in the NBA Hall of Fame back in 2012.
Now to be clear, I didn’t love Rodman’s dark side and clearly he wasn’t my role model. I was never a fan of the blazing tattoos or his crazy off-the-court antics, but his drive and determination were undeniable. You had to respect Rodman the athlete.
But I think today is the day when I tell my parents to throw out the old Dennis Rodman posters in their basement.
President Trump should use his famous Twitter account to ask Rodman why he is travelling to a country that calls for the nuclear annihilation of South Korea, Japan and America daily. If North Korea and Rodman want attention, the president should give it to them—and shame them both.
Rodman’s latest reality show stunt—his fourth visit to North Korea—will only help legitimize a regime that is the modern day equivalent of Nazi Germany.
Just the most cursory of reviews of the so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea makes it clear that Kim Jong Un is using “the worm” to drag his country back into the spotlight. However, a butcher such as Kim needs no such help, his family’s record of running North Korea as nothing more than a giant prison camp with 25 million people in chains is quite enough.
If Dennis Rodman wants to shine a spotlight on the “hermit kingdom”, he should be aware of the facts—facts that make it clear he is visiting nothing more than the vilest place on planet Earth.
For example, North Korea, according to multiple reports, has up to 200,000 people in prison camps where people die of overwork, starvation and the most awful diseases possible.
Additionally, Pyongyang performs forced abortions in the most horrific ways in such camps, as well as testing chemical weapons on its own people there, per defector accounts.
Try to escape and you might be tied to the back of a truck and dragged to your death or brought to the community square to be publicly executed. Indeed, the scale of the prison camp system in North Korea is hard to comprehend. There is one prison camp that is three times the size of Washington, D.C.
From there it gets even worse. Millions of North Koreans go hungry every day as Kim Jong Un builds a nuclear weapons program—some reports say he can build a new nuke every six to seven weeks—that is aimed at someday having the capability to hit the U.S. homeland with a nuclear weapon.
There are many present-day accounts of homeless children begging in the streets—abandon by their parents in many cases because they simply can’t bear the burden of feeding or clothing them—forced to scour the trash for food.
Now, to be fair, North Korea has an economy the size of Laos and is tiny compared to rich South Korea—thanks to failed economic policies that have destroyed any chance of a better future. But this has not stopped the Kim regime from fielding an army of over 1.2 million men under arms, and seven million in reserve. Pyongyang has also 1,000 missiles at the ready to start a war at a moment notice, capable of hitting large sections of Asia with chemical, biological and even nuclear payloads.
Thankfully the Trump administration has decided to do the opposite of what many U.S. presidents simply would not—take on this rougest of rogue regimes head on.
President Trump should use the Rodman visit to his advantage. He should call publicly on Dennis Rodman to ask the North Korean regime to take him to the camps where Kim’s people suffer and what amounts to countless crime against humanity.
Dennis Rodman’s playing days are over, but he is playing no one by this publicity stunt and is making a tragic mistake going anywhere near North Korea—yet again.
He is at best an attention seeker, willing to do anything to make a buck, no matter who by default he hurts.
At worst, he is indirectly helping give attention to a regime that should only be known for its sins—and as the worst human rights abuser on the planet today.
Shame on you, Dennis. Shame on you.
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2019-04-21T15:04:03Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-should-use-dennis-rodmans-north-korea-visit-to-his-advantage-heres-how
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This chapter provides a discussion of Richard Branson's initiative of 'The Elders', and assesses its effectiveness in the context of celebrity activism and celebrity diplomacy. While the self-conscious exploitation of celebrity status in this initiative has the potential to make a positive impact on both the levels of fund raising and of awareness in a Western context, the 'traditional' role of celebrity in this process is at the same time fraught with profound contradictions. This chapter explores the role of 'celebrity diplomacy' in the Elders' attempts to effect change and engage with politics and poverty at a global level. The central question is whether their celebrity status, as well as the celebrity status of their founders, will limit them to awareness raising alone, or whether they can effect meaningful change and a shift in the way diplomacy operates on a global level. This paper will argue that while 'celebrity' has the potential to create awareness, raise much-needed funds, and drive 'political action', this potential is at the same time firmly wedded to contemporary politics of entertainment and media consumption, thus potentially limiting its ability to effect structural change.
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2019-04-24T08:22:40Z
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https://eprints.usq.edu.au/19320/
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state
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The Commission projects listed on this page are those that have been enacted by the Legislature, but the reports accessible below may differ from the actual statute since changes may have been made to the text during the Legislative process. Please consult the New Jersey statutes in order to determine the law of the State. A list of Commission projects resulting in Final Reports that have not yet been enacted may be found on the Final Reports and Recommendations page.
Collaborative Law - New Jersey Family Collaborative Law Act - recommended enactment of new statutory language designed to creates a consistent framework for the use of the collaborative process in family law matters that is intended to provide important consumer protections and an enforceable privilege between parties and non-attorney collaborative professionals during the negotiation process (terms: family law, collaborative law). WORD || PDF L. 2014, c.
(Uniform) Foreign-Money Claims Act WORD || PDF L.1993, c.317 N.J.S. 2A:49A-1 et seq.
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2019-04-24T17:47:18Z
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http://www.lawrev.state.nj.us/enacted.html
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Writing this in theintroduction gave me the impression that this novel is based on true story at least, I didn’t know whether Youssef Zidan was dead or alive. Later on, I read in different articles that depicted the arguments between the writer and the Coptic church that the word “novel” on the cover of the book gave him the right to do whatever he liked in the content. I agree and disagree at the same time. You can be as creative as you want while writing fiction, but at the same time, writing fiction based on historical events while putting your fictitious assumptions / impressions, this is a dangerous thing.
Despite the importance of history, people generally are not interested in reading it unless it is in the form of a story. A clear example is the story of واإسلاماه written by Aly Ahmed Bakathir علي أحمد بكثير, everyone remembers the story of the famous mamluks with the جهااااااد…. سلاااااامة… And while writing a novel such as “Azazil”, with that much sensitivity, further discretion must be put into consideration.
The story is about the diaries of an Egyptian Monk living in the 5th century, he travelled from upper Egypt, to Alexandria to Jerusalem and then to Antioch. He was witnessing great events and had very troubled thoughts about it.
The novels tackles major historical figures, such as Nestorius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria ,,, among others.
Hypatia was a 5th century Greek scholar from Alexandria, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Coptic Christian mob who blamed her for religious turmoil. She has been hailed as a “valiant defender of science against religion”, and some suggest that her murder marked the end of the Hellenistic Age. In interviews with the writer, he mentioned that her death represented the death of reason in the region, and that it took centuries for another enlightened mind to flourish. It’s obvious that he truly admired Hypatia, in the novel, the monk named himself “Hypa”, taking the first part of her name.
As for the conflict between Nestorius and Cyril of Alexandria ( who is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, he is also called “Pillar of Faith” and “Seal of all the Fathers”), it is mainly about the nature of the Virgin Mary. Nestorius objected to the popular practice of calling the Virgin Mary the “Mother of God” theotokos; he instead preached that “Mother of Christ” Christotokos would be more fitting. He was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and he was then dethroned. Alongside the Christological debate, other factors were to come into play in the controversy that would ensue, including a political struggle between the supporters of the See of Alexandria and the See of Antioch, the influence of the Emperor over the See of Constantinople, and the patriarchal primacy of the Pope.
But you didn’t finally said is it worth be reading , does it have any historical value or just a fiction novel?
Cause you made me curios about this novel especially if it was taken from ancient papers.
it is worth reading definitely.
some people compare it with the da vince code in using historical, religious events in a fiction. The writer responded that his work is more concerned with the philosophy of religion while Dan Brown was more interested in producing a thriller suitable for the taste of holywood.
It also tackles the beginings of christianity in Egypt, a period not tackled much in our history books.
A great novel .. it is a must have .. as you said “It also tackles the beginnings of Christianity in Egypt, a period not tackled much in our history books.” and that’s the most interesting thing about this novel.
and it’s not true that it cant be compared with Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code as they are discussing the same concept which is Jesus Christ was just a human being . The only difference i think is that the second one took the history of the Roman Catholic Church as a reference and the first was based on the mysterious history of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
the beauty of the book that it is applicable to all times and to all religions. it respects the mind and the freedom of thinking.
I just finished the book and must say it is a wonderful one. I think it accuses the religious authorities in general although concentrating on the christianisim.
As I start reading a second book for Youssef Zidan, I tried to find something about him and luckily I came across your amazing blog. I must say, I was more impressed with your blog than my first reaction to his books, due to the skilled effort you have put into your work. And now I would like to know who you are. The section (about me) doesn’t tell me much.
I read the book and enjoyed it as a brilliant literary piece of work.
It’s a lot more improvement over his first effort ظل الأفعى.
There is a lot of historic details woven through as a literary story.
I don’t agree however that it is comparable to ‘the Da Vinci Code’. If anything Youssef Zidan’s first book ظل الأفعي is the one with this similarity. As both talk about تقديس الأنثي which is the underlying theme of the Da Vinci Code.
As a side point, I could not get myself to agree with the actions and character of ‘Hypa’ the priest throughout the book. But that’s just me.
It is the best Arabic book I have read in years. Not only due to its creative bliss but also to its philosophical and theological questioning. I loved it. Is it translated into English yet?
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2019-04-24T00:20:22Z
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https://nousha.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/azazil-youssef-zidan/
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Ashraf Ghani is a President for Afghanistan with 16 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Interview as an Associate Professor for the Anthropology of the Johns Hopkins University. The year with the most videos was 2015 with three videos. Most appearances with Ashton B. Carter (2). Most common tags: Afghanistan, Persian Gulf War, Middle East.
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2019-04-25T06:27:17Z
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https://www.c-span.org/person/?ashrafghani
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Arts
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ksu
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Click on a link to search by the criterion listed. The link connects to the abstract. From there you may connect to the poster or PPT slides.
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2019-04-26T00:17:07Z
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https://web.phys.ksu.edu/present.html
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Arts
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weebly
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Project M is a community-made modification of the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Nintendo Wii. It is designed to make the gameplay similar to the game Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo GameCube. The speed of Project M increases the gameplay speed to resemble Brawl and brings back many of the mechanics introduced in Melee.
Why did you choose Project M?
We chose Project M because of the increase of characters from Melee, but the mod allows us to experience the similar Melee feeling that the other generations of games fail to provide.
You can find our various networking sites by clicking on the About tab. To contact us personally, please refer to the Contact tab.
First, you'll need a Nintendo Wii, a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and an SD card or flash drive. Then, head to the official Project M page. In the downloads tab of the official site, there is a set of instructions to follow. Follow those and you'e clear to go. Feel free to contact us if you need issues and can't find them on Google/YouTube.
What happens if I don't know how to play?
The gameplay and style is similar to that of all of the Super Smash Bros. games out there. If you have not played any of them, come to a club meeting and ask some of the players there to teach you. We will be glad to help you out and learn! You can also look up YouTube videos and such to learn as well!
There are many ways to get better. You can look up videos or techniques, but one of the best ways to play is just to play someone in general. Come out to the club meetings and ask for help! Our officers and members have a lot of experience and can teach you to become a better smash player!
I don't have a Wii or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Can I still play?
Yes, you can. All you really need is a controller. We have a few full set ups available for people to play on.
There is no fee to join the club! We are a club that just wants to get together and play project M all day every day. There is a fee for tournaments, though. The fee for the tournaments will be shown when we announce them, so stay tuned!
Where can I keep myself updated?
You can come to the website or check our various social medias found in the About tab in the navigation bar at the top of the page! Make sure to follow our Twitch for gameplay videos on our members and find out what we do!
We will post the time and location of our tournament as soon as we decide it! Keep updated on our Facebook and websites for upcoming tournaments!
I really want to help/support the club! How can I do so?
You can help by just coming to our club meetings and playing project M with us! You can also help us promote our websites and socials medias to all your friends who might be interested! We also have a donate button in the navigation tab. All money is used towards buying more set ups or equipment. Thank you for your support!
I have more questions that are not listed on your FAQ. How can I get them answered?
Go to the contact tab in the navigation bar and click on it. It will show you all of the officers' email!! Don't be afraid and send us an email about an questions you may have! We will try to answer them as fast as possible! You can also always come to a club meeting and ask us in person! For a shorter, faster response, you can also type your question into our Chat Box in the "Chat" tab.
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2019-04-19T12:59:17Z
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http://pmcucd.weebly.com/faq.html
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Recreation
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And the moon is gone .
There’ more to be done.
Wonderful, ones work is never done.
Amen, always something new to put to print. Writing is a constant, either in my head or in print.
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2019-04-21T06:38:10Z
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https://deadpoetssocielty.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/more-to-be-done/
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unh
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Not all demographic groups are at equal risk of drug, alcohol, and suicide mortality. The highest rates are among young and middle-aged non-Hispanic white males,4 especially those in nonmetropolitan areas. All three types of mortality increased among white males and females from 2000 to 2014, but drug-induced causes produced the largest mortality increases (Figure 1). White males have the highest combined mortality rate for the three causes, but the combined rate for white females increased the most (by 123 percent). Hispanic females also experienced increases in all three causes of death, but their rates remained far lower than those for both white males and females. Drug and alcohol mortality actually declined among Hispanic males, though Hispanic males continue to have higher alcohol-induced mortality rates than white males. Hispanics are more likely than whites to abstain from drinking alcohol, but Hispanics who do drink consume alcohol in larger quantities and drink more often than whites.5 Although black male drug and alcohol mortality rates exceeded those of white males in the early 2000s, by the end of the decade the rates for black males had declined and were lower than those for white males. Rates for black females are low and relatively stable.
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2019-04-20T22:42:22Z
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https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/drugs-alcohol-suicide
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Who Pays the Most, and Least, in Silicon Valley?
Amazon says the average hourly wage in its US distribution centers is more than $15 an hour.
How much do workers at tech firms make?
The answer varies a lot, depending on the employer. The median employee at Amazon made $28,446 last year, according to new disclosures required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. At Facebook, the median employee made $240,430, more than eight times as much.
There are reasons for the big disparity, of course: Facebook’s 25,000 employees include many software engineers, which it must recruit in the expensive and competitive San Francisco Bay Area. Most of Amazon’s 566,000 employees work in its distribution centers, including many overseas; in the US, Amazon says the average hourly wage in its distribution centers is more than $15 an hour, which translates to slightly more than $30,000 a year, before overtime.
Other disparities reflect differences in companies’ businesses, and business models. As a car maker, Tesla says 26 percent of its employees are production workers and 18 percent are outside the US. The company reported median employee pay of $54,816. Tesla says its employees also have benefited from increases in the company’s share price. IBM, which has aggressively moved jobs overseas in recent years, reported median pay of $54,491. The New York Times reported in September that IBM now has more employees in India than in the US. An IBM spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
The median pay figures underscore that intense competition for tech talent in the Bay Area. Nationally, the average pay for software developers and programmers is $102,470, according to the US Labor Department. Bay Area tech firms are paying considerably more: The median pay at Workday, which makes software that helps businesses manage finances and people, is $178,903, according to its proxy statement. At Salesforce, another business-software maker, it’s $155,284; and at payments processor Square, it’s $152,265.
Companies are disclosing the median pay of employees for the first time this year under a new SEC rule intended to shine a light on the high pay of CEOs. The rule took effect for fiscal years ending December 31, 2017, or later, so companies on different fiscal calendars, including Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle, won’t report their median-pay figures until later this year.
Companies have to report the ratio of the pay of their CEOs to the median pay of their employees. The Wall Street Journal reported that Marathon Petroleum CEO Gary Heminger was paid $19.7 million last year, or 935 times the $21,034 salary of the company’s median worker.
The ratios are less meaningful for big tech companies because many of their CEOs are founders who own large chunks of the company and receive only nominal compensation. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey received no compensation, according to the company’s proxy statement. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google parent Alphabet’s Larry Page each were paid $1. Zuckerberg’s reported compensation also included $8.8 million for company-provided security services and travel on company planes. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was paid a salary of $81,840, as he has been annually since 1998; his compensation included $1.6 million for security services paid by the company.
Elon Musk's $0 salary encapsulates the legend of Tesla.
How Jeff Bezos spends his cash.
Raising wages to help workers could actually help robots replace them.
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2019-04-22T08:38:04Z
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https://www.wired.com/story/who-pays-the-most-and-least-in-silicon-valley/
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Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) announces the release of the nSMOL (nano-surface and molecular orientation limited proteolysis) Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit. Applicable to a variety of pharmaceutical antibodies, this proprietary technique enables selective proteolysis of the Fab region of monoclonal antibodies to dramatically improve the productivity and robustness of LCMS mAB bioanalysis.
The nSMOL Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit is a ready-to-use reagent kit for collecting monoclonal antibodies from blood or other biological samples using immunoglobulin collection resin, and then performing selective proteolysis of the Fab region of these antibodies via trypsin-immobilized nanoparticles. Variable region-derived peptides produced by limited proteolysis can then be quantified via MRM measurements utilizing Shimadzu’s high-performance LCMS-8050/8060 triple quadrupole liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer.
The simplified workflow eliminates the steps of denaturing, reduction, and alkyation normally associated with protein digestion, resulting in more efficient sample preparation and analysis.
With the nSMOL Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit, the region of the antibodies subject to analysis (Fab region) is selectively fragmented. This results in a sample preparation protocol that dramatically suppresses background noise and ion suppression, which leads to improved response and quantitative repeatability. In addition, the selective collection of Fab peptides limits contamination from excessive peptides or trypsin.
The release of the nSMOL Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit reflects Shimadzu’s focus on consumables and continues its commitment to accelerate laboratory workflows.
For more information about Shimadzu’s nSMOL Antibody Bio-Analysis Kit, click here.
About Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI) is the American subsidiary of Shimadzu Corp., headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1875, Shimadzu is a $3 billion multinational corporation with three major divisions: Medical Diagnostics, Aerospace/Industrial and Analytical Instruments. In the United States, SSI has a network of more than 50 locations providing local and regional sales, service and technical support. Visit http://www.ssi.shimadzu.com for more information.
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2019-04-24T23:27:43Z
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/08/prweb14578698.htm
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spiked-online
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Lana Del Rey: pretender to the pop throne?
The main problem with Lana Del Rey is that her music’s just a bit crap.
You know pop music is in a strange place when someone as mediocre as Lana Del Rey becomes genuinely divisive. Since emerging in 2011, fully formed with a DIY-style video for her Baroque-pop smash ‘Video Games’, she’s been treasured and then trashed. Born To Die, her debut album as Del Rey, sold seven million copies. Her rise to fame was flawless, in spite of constant probing about her authenticity, her penchant for being choked in her music videos and the strength of her voice.
In 2010, she released one bland album under her own name, Lizzie Grant, before she wiped the slate clean, deleted her old material from iTunes and relaunched herself as a ‘gangsta Nancy Sinatra’ – a heartland bad girl in Daisy Duke shorts with a taste for bourbon and older men. Her music was cinematic, melancholic yet pretty catchy, propelled by 808 drumbeats and glossed with vintage Bond theme strings. She appeared a new cross-over force in pop: glamorous, artsy and ‘real’.
But when music hacks sniffed out her previous material, found out she was the daughter of a dot-com New York millionaire, clearly had major label backing, and, with one crushing Saturday Night Live performance, realised she was seemingly incapable of carrying a tune outside of the recording booth, they smelt a rat.
Del Rey went from blogosphere darling to heretic in a matter of weeks, her rise recast as a rouse to lure hapless musos into liking another manufactured pop princess. But does any of that really matter? From Motown to Madonna, some of the best pop music has been made by committee. And some of the greatest pop icons have built their legends on complete lies. Bob Dylan used to claim he ran away from the circus – he, in fact, dropped out of college. No one believed for a second that Michael Jackson really was ‘bad’. Whether or not Del Rey really did ride around in the back of an Al Camino with drug dealers is beside the point.
In truth, her only crime was not living up to the hype. She presented herself as the next consummate pop star; the next MJ, Madge, Kate Bush or Prince – someone who could mix style with substance, be pleasing, and yet challenging, on the ear. As her new album, Ultraviolence, proves, she’s easily one of the most distinct voices in chart pop today, but one that still, like that teeth-grinding SNL debut, falls flat.
Like Born To Die, Ultraviolence sees Lana rinse her own well-worn lyrical clichés to the point of self-parody. The opener, Cruel World, gives you all you need to know about this album, or any Lana Del Rey song for that matter. There’s a party going on. She’s slipped into her ‘little red party dress’. Her boyfriend’s a wrong ‘un, but she’s even worse. There’s booze, there’s even some heroin(!), and a lot of other suitably damaged women cavorting about. The end. After nearly seven minutes.
Del Rey persists to trot out the same 2D character for another 10 tracks. The title cut is the most overdone, painting a picture of woman so lost in a tempestuous relationship that violence has become a display of affection: ‘He hit me and it felt like a kiss’, she breathily sings over the ghostly chorus. Some have taken issue with Del Rey’s ‘message’, the fact that she doesn’t think feminism is an ‘interesting concept’ and revels in a vision of womanhood helplessly beholden to male passions. But it’s all too cartoonish, too synthetically ‘deep’ to be convincing – let alone troubling.
Dan Auerbach, one half of US garage duo The Black Keys, produced most of the album. He drops the lush arrangements and the hip-hop rhythms for reverb-soaked guitars, swelling organ and muffled drums. It’s an elegant, hypnotic mix, but it becomes about as potent as a double-dose of Nytol when combined with Del Rey’s repetitive lyrical sketches and purring, breathy vocals, so washed out in reverb they slowly mush into the instrumentation. As the album plods on, you find yourself longing for a good, sharp kick drum to force you out of the candy-coated haze of it all.
There are points where it all comes together. The brooding verse of ‘West Coast’ plods to a stop before it explodes into the chorus, by means of a twanging quotation of the riff from Blondie’s ‘Atomic’. Lana’s layered vocals soar alongside surging tremolo chords. But the best is saved till last, with a cover of ‘The Other Woman’. Penned by Jessie May Robinson and performed by one of Del Rey’s heroes, Nina Simone, it’s a devastating ode to the glamour and heartbreak of an affair, offering a melancholic yet humane look at a complex situation that Del Rey is elsewhere unable to achieve.
It’s hardly surprising that Ultraviolence is another trying dirge. Even in her blog-darling days, Del Rey was all melodrama and no heart, a Kerouac muse, as interpreted by a 14-year-old. But one has to wonder if it’s all her fault. Her music’s beset by some of the trends that have sucked a lot of the fun out of pop music. Nowadays, with binge-drinking and mental-health panics going hand in hand, and the increasing portrayal of young love as something potentially dangerous, youthful hedonism has become something troublesome, wont to leave a trail of heartbreak and destruction. Lana’s shallow ‘we’re all a bit damaged and crazy’ shtick is sadly all too familiar. Perhaps, in the end, she’s more a pop star for this age than we’d like to think.
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2019-04-20T10:28:28Z
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https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/06/19/lana-del-rey-pretender-to-the-pop-throne/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.200904 |
louisiana
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The Homecoming 2018 theme, “Back in the Mix, Back on the Bricks,” refers to alumni – often from other cities or states – who return to campus and search for bricks on the Walk of Honor, said Homecoming 2018 chair Summer Hvasta, ’07, ’11.
The Walk of Honor features names of graduates inscribed on bricks on campus walkways. Bricks are arranged alphabetically and by year of graduation. The walk begins near Martin Hall, continues into the Quadrangle, and along Hebrard Boulevard and Boucher and McKinley streets.
To date, bricks for graduates through December 2015 have been placed along the Walk of Honor.
“The idea is to encourage alums to find their brick. They find it fun, and many snap pictures to post on social media,” Hvasta said.
Homecoming Week will get a running start with the Ragin’ Road Race at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7. The 5K follows a route through and near campus. It begins and ends near the UL Lafayette Alumni Center, 600 E. St. Mary Blvd.
Overall first- and second-place male and female finishers will be recognized. So will male and female competitors who place first and second in a range of age groups. Spirit will count as much as speed for the runner wearing the most creative Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns- or Homecoming-themed costume.
Following the race, runners can enjoy red beans and rice during an after-party at the Alumni Center. The event is open to the public.
On Monday, fare such as po-boys, chicken wings, and desserts will be sold during the Allons Manger Food Truck Roundup. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Alumni Center. Vendors are C’est Bon Manger, KOK Wings, Mad LuAnns and Rice Kings. Southern Chics Boutique with sell clothes and accessories.
That night, a Campus Scavenger Hunt will be held from 7-9 p.m. Students will meet in the Atchafalaya Ballrooom in the Student Union, then trek across campus to locate spots that won’t be revealed until just before the competition starts.
On Tuesday, Oct. 9, the two-day “Paint the Town Red” contest will begin. Judges will visit businesses and schools to select winners in categories, such as exterior and interior decorations and skits. Judges will visit schools starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday and businesses starting at 9 a.m. the next day.
The “Cajuns Got Talent” contest will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Cajundome Convention Center.
“Students can showcase any talent they possess, such as singing, dancing, comedy or performing magic tricks,” said Karli Sherman, University Program Council assistant director.
On Wednesday, Oct. 10, Wear Red, Get Fed will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Boucher Street. Attendees who wear Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns gear will be able to eat free pulled pork sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, salad, brownies and soft drinks while the lunches last.
The Cajuns Can Care Food Drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday on Boucher Street. Canned goods that are dropped off will be donated to local food pantries.
The Yell Like Hell Pep Rally will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, on the Student Union porch and in the courtyard. The Homecoming Week tradition will feature music by the Pride of Acadiana Marching Band, and a DJ. Members of the football team and head coach Billy Napier, the Homecoming Court, cheerleaders, and the Ragin’ Jazz dance team will attend.
On Friday, Oct. 12, activities include a tennis tournament from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Red Lerille’s Health and Racquet Club. The Bill Bass Open Golf Tournament will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Les Vieux Chenes Golf Course.
The National Panhellinic Greek Expo will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Cajundome Convention Center. Fraternity and sorority members will perform during the step show.
Homecoming Day begins with an open house from 9-11:30 a.m. at the Alumni Center. Attendees can connect with fellow alumni, enjoy a breakfast buffet and beverages, and watch the Homecoming Parade from the center’s front lawn.
The parade will begin at 10 a.m. at Blackham Coliseum. A float carrying the queen, the king and their courts will stop in front of the Alumni Center for a toast by University President Dr. Joseph Savoie.
A Zydeco Brunch will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cypress Lake Dining Hall in the Student Union. Diners can purchase tickets for an all-you-can-eat buffet.
The menu includes duck and andouille gumbo, crab cakes, boudin potato skins, French toast, Cajun-smothered seven steak, alligator sausage hash, scrambled eggs, jalapeno smoked cheddar grits, sweet potato cane syrupy cathead biscuits, crawfish étouffée, barbecue shrimp, tarte a la bouilli (sweet dough pies) with salted caramel, and beignets.
Tailgating will start at 1 p.m. outside Cajun Field at the Alumni tent at the soccer and track and field parking lot on Reinhardt Drive. Cracklings and jambalaya will be served.
Beginning at 1 p.m., students can enjoy food, soft drinks and listen to music played by a DJ during tailgating at Bourgeois Park.
The game day Cajun Walk will begin at 1:45 p.m. on Reinhardt Drive.
The Pride of Acadiana Marching Band’s pregame performance will be at 3:50 p.m. at Cajun Field.
That night, the Christiana Smith African-American Alumni Chapter will celebrate its annual “Sweet Sounds of Sharing.” Proceeds from the reception will benefit the Christiana Smith endowed scholarship fund. The event will be held at 8 p.m. at the Cajundome Convention Center, Mardi Gras Ballroom.
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2019-04-20T23:04:25Z
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https://www.louisiana.edu/news-events/news/20181004/homecoming-week-2018-features-slew-entertainment-and-activities
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Arts
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Recreation
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news-press
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Lee County deputies were on scene 7-Eleven located at 21850 South Tamiami Trail investigating a suspicious package.
An alert over a suspicious package at the front of a combined 7-Eleven store and Mobil gas station at 21850 South Tamiami Trail that brought a bomb squad and emergency units to the site ended shortly before 6 p.m. Friday when crime scene tape was removed and emergency workers left the scene.
Details about the package were not immediately available but the Lee County Sheriff's Office said the area was deemed safe.
Lee County deputies, firefighters, and other emergency units had been assisting in investigating the package along with the Southwest Florida Regional bomb squad. A bomb squad robot was used to examine the item.
More: Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers: Who threatened Riverdale High School with a bomb?
The mobile robot unit allows emergency workers a way to get close, said Tiffany Wood, a public information specialist with the sheriff's office.
She was unsure if the package would be exploded.
Workers and customers at the Chick-fil-A just south of the convenience store were evacuated after the package was discovered shortly before 3:30 p.m.
Owner Chris Kirby said those in the store were asked to leave quickly.
"Basically they were told to turn off whatever equipment they could and get out," he said.
Kirby and his workers were allowed back in their store shortly after 5:30 p.m.
A crowd started forming just outside police tape as customers expecting to fuel up, buy incidentals or dinner were stopped.
"We didn't know anything," said Debbie Nagle of Estero.
"We just stopped to get a pack of cigarettes," her husband, Bobbie, said. "And we walked into a bomb scare."
"How exciting," his wife added.
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2019-04-25T16:33:31Z
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https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/23/authorities-investigating-suspicious-package-7-eleven-bonita-springs/368678002/
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Arts
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Shopping
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nme
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The psychedelic masters headlined Glastonbury's Park stage on Friday night.
The Oklahoma band took to the stage at 10:45pm for a 90-minute headline set on The Park, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
The band played a 90 minute set, up against Pyramid headliners Radiohead.
Frontman Wayne Coyne arrived on stage by riding a unicorn. Of course he did.
Wayne Coyne rode his way across the crowd in a giant orb while covering David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'.
Wayne was in full rock star mode - and was spotted watching Kris Kristofferson the earlier in the day.
Wayne made some friends for life during the show.
Ticker tape rained down onto the crowd as the Oklahoma band played their trademark psych rock tunes.
Wayne looked dapper in a sweet suit.
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2019-04-25T06:51:39Z
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https://www.nme.com/blogs/festivals-blog/flaming-lips-epic-glastonbury-set-pictures-2092971
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.229223 |
dtu
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The focus is on development and application of machine learning techniques for spectrally efficient optical communication systems. We employ methods from machine learning to identify and learn the impairments from the observed data and built subsequent probabilistic models. This knowledge is used to either perform impairment compensation or to quantify the amount of distortion coming from components and specific subsystems. Finally, the probabilistic model are used for synthetic impairment generation which may be very useful for performance analysis and prediction in optical networks.
The DSP for coherent optical communication technology, developed by our group, is open-souce now. The details can be found and downloaded here.
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2019-04-25T06:45:37Z
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http://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/english/Research/Communication-technologies/HighSpeed/Research/DSP
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Arts
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Science
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archives
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Independent, nonprofit certifying organization of professional archivists.
Links to organizations, associations and groups related to or of interest to the archival profession. Page maintained by the Society of American Archivists.
International organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.
Not-for-profit professional association and authority on managing records and information – paper and electronic.
Non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials.
Listing of regional, state and local archival organizations in the United States. Information available in an alphabetical list or by region.
Promotes the preservation and use of archives around the world. The ICA Directory is available here.
FIAF is a collaborative association of the worlds leading film archives whose purpose is to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures.
A volunteer, regional consortium of archivists who live and work in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in the District of Columbia.
Professional association dedicated to supporting government archivists and records managers.
Links to all programs affiliated with NAGARA.
North Americas oldest and largest national archival professional association.
Mission is "To provide leadership for the development, promotion and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship."
Promotes excellence in research, teaching, and service, and provides an understanding of the values and ethos of library and information science.
Professional association of academic librarians. ACRL is a division of the American Library Association.
Nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries at comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the U.S. and Canada.
An organization founded in 1948 to recognize and encourage scholastic achievement among library and information studies students.
Independent, nonprofit organization which works to maintain and improve access to information.
Division of the Library of Congress whose mission is to foster excellence in federal library and information services through interagency cooperation.
International body representing the interests of library and information services and their users.
Promotes, develops, and aids in the implementation of library and information technology. LITA is a division of the American Library Association.
Lyrasis is a library network created by the merger of PALINET and SOLINET. It allows member libraries to collaboratively solve problems and create new products and services.
Establishes and upholds professional standards, promotes research and publications, provides educational opportunities, and fosters the exchange of knowledge among conservators, allied professionals, and the public.
Full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.
Provides information about the programs and services in preservation available through the libraries of Harvard University and Harvard College.
Mission is to assure long-term, uninterrupted access to the intellectual content of the Librarys collections, either in original or reformatted form. Provides conservation, binding and repair, reformatting, materials testing, and staff and user education.
Nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save Americas film heritage; supports activities nationwide that preserve American films and improve film access for study, education, and exhibition.
Mission is to improve the conservation efforts of libraries, archives, historical organizations, museums, and other repositories.
Oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines.
A voluntary standards development organization, a source for technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services.
Non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes.
Identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information.
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2019-04-22T02:55:07Z
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https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/archives-organizations.html
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.17704 |
fanpop
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Walt Disney Book afbeeldingen - The Little Mermaid: Golden Sound Story. Walt Disney Book afbeeldingen of Princess Ariel, Prince Eric, Scuttle, Sebastian and Ursula from the Walt Disney Book "The Little Mermaid: Golden Sound Story" (1991). HD Wallpaper and background images in the Walt Disney Characters club tagged: walt disney characters walt disney book images the little mermaid: golden sound story princess ariel prince eric scuttle sebastian ursula.
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2019-04-20T14:45:24Z
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http://nl.fanpop.com/clubs/walt-disney-characters/images/39372979/title/walt-disney-book-images-little-mermaid-golden-sound-story-photo
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.825844 |
liberty
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Over the last three years, Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine has been hosting the Helping Hands Gala to assist with fundraising events that carry out their mission of providing medical care to local areas and across the globe.
The black-tie event is hosted by LUCOM’s Office of Clinical Collaboration and Education. Head Coordinator Sydney Coffey leads a committee that comes up with the decor ideas, the meals being served and the keynote speakers who present their stories and experiences at the event.
This year, the event will be Feb. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Montview Student Union Alumni ballroom.
In contrast to previous years, the keynote speakers are two alumni doctors of LUCOM. Alex and Shannon Hamilton, D.O., will be sharing their experiences from their international rotation in the Togolese Republic of West Africa. While there, they both got to use their medical skills in an international hospital called Karolyn Kempton Hospital.
Throughout their presentation, they will be highlighting parts of their experience, along with sharing stories from fellow classmates on their international rotation.
“This night is spent emphasizing everything the Lord has done in this office and what he has done with all the outreach events,” Coffey said.
The focus and theme for the gala is “Light of the World.” This will be seen in how they highlight work that has been done through medical outreach this past year and their ongoing desire to continue the same work throughout the nations and local areas.
“We have had different speakers who have not been connected to Liberty, so this year I think it will be impactful to have recent graduates who have tangible evidence of what the Lord has done and highlight the drive that we strive to instill in our students,” Coffey said.
Apart from the two keynote speakers, three awards will be given out to individuals and organizations that the OCCE would like to recognize for making an impact through medical missions nationally and internationally.
Proceeds made from the event will go directly into the OCCE’s operational and outreach budget, which will be used to sponsor trips around the world and events held in the local areas.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting LUCOM’s website at www.liberty.edu/LUCOM and clicking on “medical outreach” under the “resources” tab.
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2019-04-26T16:41:05Z
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https://www.liberty.edu/champion/2019/01/two-alumni-doctors-to-speak-at-liberty-university-college-of-osteopathic-medicine-annual-gala-february-16/
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Arts
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Health
| 0.327717 |
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