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Last Updated: November 15, 2013
Hawaiian Airlines respects the importance of protecting your personal information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand what personally-identifiable information we collect through HawaiianAirlines.com and what we do with that information. Your use of the Hawaiian Airlines site constitutes your express acknowledgment of and agreement to the terms, disclaimers, and conditions of use contained within this site and in this Privacy Policy, which we reserve the right to change at any time at our discretion.
The Information We Collect
Personally-Identifiable Information.
When you book with Hawaiian Airlines, or use HawaiianAirlines.com to make an online travel reservation, you may be asked by Hawaiian Airlines or an agent on behalf of Hawaiian Airlines to provide certain personally-identifiable information such as your name, billing address, email address, telephone numbers, credit card number, billing information, dietary requirements and health information relevant to your travel. We will also collect the names and email addresses of any companions who will be traveling on the reservation that you create. This information is used by Hawaiian Airlines and its vendors for purposes such as processing and confirming your reservation, issue boarding passes and tickets, bill you for the services you purchase, notify you of any flight changes and cancellations, and notify you and your travel companions of opportunities to enroll in our HawaiianMiles program and of discounted air travel offers and other special offers that we think may be of interest. By providing personally-identifiable information to Hawaiian Airlines you consent to the collection of information provided by you or on your behalf, and to the use and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
HawaiianMiles Member Enrollment Information.
When you enroll in our HawaiianMiles program, we collect certain personally-identifiable information such as your name, address, email address, and phone numbers. When you enroll, you will also have an opportunity to sign up for Hawaiian Airlines email updates about special discounted air fares, travel specials, Hawaiian Airlines MasterCard® credit and Bankoh Hawaiian Airlines Visa® check card programs, HawaiianMiles Partner programs, and other communications. The information you provide when you enroll is used for purposes such as establishing your HawaiianMiles account, ensuring that you receive appropriate mileage credit for travel purchases and purchases of qualifying products and services from participating Partners,communicating with you about your account status, and to send you any updates you request and to notify you of special offers and promotions we think may be of interest to you. Children may become members of HawaiianMiles but may not submit personally-identifiable information through this site. Any information regarding HawaiianMiles account members 13 years of age and under must be submitted by their parent or legal guardian.
On occasion, we may provide contact information for our HawaiianMiles members to certain third party mailers and e-mailers we rely on to notify you of special offers and ways to earn travel awards through HawaiianMiles. We select these third parties carefully and require them to establish safeguards to protect the privacy of our customers and the confidentiality of the information we share. If you wish to unsubscribe your email address from the lists that we use to send promotional email offers to HawaiianMiles members, please visit our Unsubscribe page or click the 'Unsubscribe' link at the bottom of each email. Members can also modify email preferences at any time and subscribe to or unsubscribe from any promotional email update services that we offer by logging into 'My Account' and accessing our Email Update/Account Info page. Alternatively, you can also call us toll-free at 877-HA-MILES (426-4537).
HawaiianMiles Airlines Passwords and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs).
When you enroll in HawaiianMiles via the Internet, you will be asked to select a password. You may also be asked to record the answer to a secret security question that can be used to obtain a temporary password in the event that you forget your password in the future. You may also be asked to supply a PIN if you use our telephone Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. Your password and PIN are intended to protect your account information from future unauthorized access. Hawaiian Airlines will not be responsible for any lost, stolen, or otherwise disclosed passwords or PINs. Additionally, Hawaiian Airlines will not replace or reinstate any flight credits or HawaiianMiles, partner miles, or program awards that are generated or redeemed through the unauthorized use of your PIN or password. Accordingly, you should guard your password and PIN carefully and not provide them to anyone.
Travel Companion and Stored Credit Card Information.
If you enroll in HawaiianMiles, you can choose to establish a personal profile that stores information about your travel companions and the credit cards that you use to book your travel arrangements. This is an optional service and is provided for your convenience. You are not required to store any information in your profile about your travel companions or credit cards to become a HawaiianMiles member or to use our website to make online reservations. However, if you choose to store this information in your profile, you generally will be able to complete the online reservation process more quickly. We use the information you store in your personal profile to pre-populate certain data fields in the online forms we use during the reservation process (so as to eliminate the need for you to retype the same information multiple times), to perform a variety of booking functions, and to bill you for the services that you purchase. When you store travel companion information in your profile, you will be asked to enter the first and last names of your travel companions, information about their age and frequent flyer program enrollment status and account numbers. To store credit card information in your profile, we ask for your credit card type, card number, expiration date, billing address(es) and a credit card "nickname" (e.g., "My Platinum MasterCard") that you can use to quickly recognize your account. Credit card information is stored in an encrypted form. (See "Security" below for more details regarding our encryption practices.) You can modify, update or delete stored travel companion or credit card information in your profile at any time by logging into 'My Account' and accessing the Update Travel Companions page and/or Update Payment Info page.
Group Travel Information.
If you use our website to inquire about the availability of special group fares for wedding parties, organizations, event attendees or other special interest groups, we will ask you to provide certain contact information, including your name, address, email address, and phone and fax numbers, as well as certain details about your organization, wedding or other planned event related to your group air travel needs. We may also ask you to describe any special requests or requirements that you or anyone in your group may have in connection with your group travel plans. We will use this information to evaluate your group air travel needs and to contact you with a fare quote and flight availability information.
Travel Agent Registration Information.
If you are a travel agent, you can use our website to register to receive email alerts and other notifications about special fares, commissions and other news. To register for these updates, we will request your ARC/CLIA number and your contact information, including your name, telephone and fax numbers, address, and email address. We will also request information about the nature of your agency, as well as the volume of sales that your agency has generated for Hawaiian Airlines. This information is used to send you the notifications you request and to help us design offers and incentives that are appropriate for you and your agency.
Sweepstakes and Other Promotions.
From time to time, we may offer sweepstakes or other promotions on our website. If you enter a sweepstakes or promotional contest, we'll ask you to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address, and email address). Among other things, we'll need this information to contact you if you win and announce the identities of the winners. We may also use this information for marketing purposes. We may share this information with co-sponsors, shipping or fulfillment companies or other third-party service providers who are responsible for some aspects of administering our promotions, such as conducting drawings and/or delivering prizes to winners. If you don't want us to collect the information requested in the contest or sweepstakes registration form, please do not enter the contest or sweepstakes.
Whether or not you enroll in HawaiianMiles, you may be invited to sign up to receive email updates regarding the availability of discounted fares and special offers from Hawaiian and our Partners. When you register for these email updates, we will collect certain information which may include your email address, zip/postal code and the name of the country where you reside. We may also ask you to select from a menu the types of offers that you wish to receive. We hope that you will find any email updates that you receive to be interesting and valuable. However, it is easy to unsubscribe from any email update service that you request. Each email update you receive will contain instructions on how to unsubscribe from future offers by using a reply email address or hyperlink to an email preferences page on our website. You may change your preferences at any time by visiting our Unsubscribe page. Members can also modify email preferences at any time and subscribe to or unsubscribe from any promotional email update services that we offer by logging in to 'My Account' and accessing our Email Update/Account Info page. Alternatively, you can also call us toll-free at 877-HA-MILES (426-4537).
Information We Collect Using Cookies.
To help us tailor our website to the needs and interests of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a cookie, a very small text file, on our visitors' hard drives. The cookie contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you've visited within our website. We aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other users to track overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our users. When you access your HawaiianMiles account, we also use a session cookie to authenticate your login information. This cookie will remain on your hard drive until you close your browser window or terminate your user session so that you can enjoy the personalized features of our website without having to reenter your password. The "help" function on most web browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely. If you don't accept cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of various personalized features on our site that are available to other visitors.
Information Our Third Party Partners Collect Using Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Hawaiian works with various third party services that use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and analyze information about user activities on our website to help us understand the use and operation of our website, and to serve and personalize some of the advertisements, promotions and other marketing information that you see on the pages of our website and other Hawaiian advertisements. Our third party partners collect and analyze information about users' activities on our site and on other websites.
You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from third party advertising companies who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting their websites at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
We also use these technical tracking methods in e-mails that we send our guests to determine whether our guests have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable. Certain personally-identifiable information is stored for web site visitors and email recipients in order to enhance customer experience on the site and through email, for customer service, to improve the administration of our website, and to provide our visitors with information tailored to their needs. To the extent we collect any personally-identifiable information via these technical methods, we will treat such information strictly in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Browser Level Information.
Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer configuration and browsing activity when you visit our site, including the type of browser software that you use, the operating system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the speed of your Internet connection, the website that referred you to our site and/or the search terms you entered into a search engine to reach our site, and your IP address. (Your IP address is a numerical address that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data - such as the web pages you want to view - can be transmitted to you.) We use IP address information for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Standing alone, your IP address is not personally identifiable. We may combine this with personally-identifiable information we obtain from you directly on the website, on any other of our other websites, or from third parties to enhance our customer service. We use this information to make our website as useful as we can for as many users as possible.
Disclosures of Information
HawaiianMiles Partners.
As noted above, if you are a HawaiianMiles member, we may use a third party e-mailer to notify you of specials and opportunities offered by our Partners to earn miles and awards through the HawaiianMiles program. If you wish to remove your email address from the email lists used by Hawaiian Airlines to send special offers relating to the HawaiianMiles program and our Partners, please visit our Unsubscribe page or click the 'Unsubscribe' link at the bottom of each email. Members can also modify email preferences at any time and subscribe to or unsubscribe from any promotional email update services that we offer by logging into 'My Account' and accessing our 'Email Update/Account Info' page. Alternatively, you can also call us toll-free at 877-HA-MILES (426-4537).
Third-Party Travel Service Providers.
If you use the "concierge" services offered through our website to book or purchase travel, entertainment or dining services, event tickets, accommodations or other services provided by third parties, information about you, including contact and billing information, will be provided to the applicable third-party service providers to ensure the successful fulfillment of your transaction.
Vendors, Contractors and Agents.
Hawaiian Airlines routinely enters into contracts with various vendors, contractors and agents to help us operate our website, process and analyze information on our behalf, conduct other aspects of our business, improve the services that we provide to you, or to offer you convenience services designed to improve your air travel experience with our airline. Some of these vendors, contractors and agents may be given access to personally-identifiable information that we collect from our customers and website visitors to the extent that we deem such access to be necessary or useful for these companies to perform services for Hawaiian Airlines or our customers.
Third Party Marketing Partners. We may disclose your information to our third party marketing partners.
Governmental and Law Enforcement Agencies.
Hawaiian Airlines may disclose any personally-identifiable information it collects (whether online or through offline sources) with or without notice to the affected individuals, if required to do so by law or court order, or if requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority in any country, or if such information is sought pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process.
Disclosures of Anonymous Information.
We may share anonymous, aggregated information about all of our customers and users with third parties.
Other Disclosures of Personally Identifiable Information.
We do not sell or rent customer information to any third parties. However, in certain circumstances, Hawaiian may disclose any personally-identifiable information that we collect to perform charge verifications, to report or collect debts owed, or to protect the rights, security or property of Hawaiian, our customers, or others. In the event that Hawaiian Airlines or substantially all of our assets are acquired by another company, the information that we collect from our customers and website visitors would be included among the transferred assets.
Cross-Border Transfers of Personally-Identifiable Information.
Hawaiian Airlines has widespread International operations. Accordingly, any or all of the disclosures of personally-identifiable information described in the Privacy Policy may involve the transfer of your information across national and international borders to individuals and organizations located outside of the country where your information was collected. For example, we may transfer your information to any Hawaiian Airlines' office worldwide, and to Hawaiian Airlines' vendors, contractors, agents and third-party travel providers overseas.
The personally-identifiable information we gather on our website is stored within HawaiianAirlines.com-controlled databases (or databases operated on our behalf) on servers maintained in protected environments. Passwords and any credit card information you provide to us online are secured for transmission over the Internet using industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption technology. Prior to being stored, passwords are encrypted using a one-way hash algorithm, and credit card numbers are encrypted using the symmetric algorithm Triple Data Encryption Standard (TripleDES). Although these security measures are robust, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.
Updating Personally-Identifiable Information
Hawaiian Airlines endeavors to ensure that personally-identifiable information it holds is accurate and up-to-date. You may seek to update your personally-identifiable information held by Hawaiian Airlines by logging into 'My Account' and accessing our 'Email Update/Account Info' page. Alternatively, you can also call us toll-free at 877-HA-MILES (426-4537).
Access to Personally-Identifiable Information
To make a request to access any personally-identifiable information about you that Hawaiian Airlines holds, you should contact Hawaiian Airlines at PO Box 30008, Honolulu, HI 96820. Hawaiian Airlines may require you to verify your identity and to specify what information you require. Hawaiian Airlines reserves the right to charge a fee to cover the cost of verifying applications and locating, retrieving, reviewing and copying any material requested. There are certain circumstances in which Hawaiian Airlines will refuse a request for access to personally-identifiable information, including if the request would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others. If Hawaiian Airlines refuses your request for access to your personally-identifiable information, Hawaiian Airlines will provide reasons for the refusal. Hawaiian Airlines will also provide reasons for a refusal to correct your personal information.
Our website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content of those sites or for the privacy practices of their owners. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of each site that collects information from you. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Hawaiian Airlines on HawaiianAirlines.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
The Web is an evolving medium. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. If we change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, we'll post the amended statement on this website and will update the effective date of this Privacy Policy to reflect the effective date of the amendment. Any changes will apply to all information collected by Hawaiian Airlines, including previously-collected information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Roy Ashburn's staff said Thursday's announcement would be a game changer.
And true to their promise, in walked former Congressman Bill Thomas into the Bell Tower Club with First District Supervisor Jon McQuiston, flanked by some of the biggest political names in Kern County.
Thomas didn't mince words in coming out with his support of Ashburn to succeed McQuiston as supervisor.
"I think he wants, I think he deserves an opportunity to be the First District Supervisor," Thomas said.
Ashburn said at the end of the press conference that he was humbled to receive the support of Thomas, McQuiston and the other officials who came out on Thursday.
Roy Ashburn's staff said Thursday's announcement would be a game changer. And true to their promise, in walked former Congressman Bill Thomas into the Bell Tower Club with First District Supervisor Jon McQuiston, flanked by some of the biggest political names in Kern County. Thomas didn't mince words in coming out with his support of Ashburn to succeed McQuiston as supervisor. "I think he wants, I think he deserves an opportunity to be the First District Supervisor," Thomas said. Ashburn said at the end of the press conference that he was humbled to receive the support of Thomas, McQuiston and the other officials who came out on Thursday. The endorsement apparently ends a long-standing feud between Ashburn and Thomas that went on for a number of years. Ashburn had served as an aide to Thomas, but later the two had a disagreement and hadn't spoken to each other. The calming of hostilities marks the biggest endorsement Ashburn has received to date as a bipartisan group is beginning to line up behind the former supervisor, assemblyman and state senator. McQuiston — joining Thomas and former county supervisors Barbara Patrick and Steve Perez, Fourth District Supervisor-elect David Couch and former Bakersfield Mayor Mary K. Shell — said Ashburn was the right person at this moment to take over the seat he is retiring from at the end of his term. "He is the right candidate, at the right time, for the right reasons to lead as supervisor seat for Kern County. I would like to invite the public in joining me in supporting Roy Ashburn," McQuiston said. McQuiston called the diversity within the First District a microcosm of the nation as a whole, going from the defense-oriented community in the Indian Wells Valley, the tourism community of the Kern River Valley, the oil production east of Bakersfield and finally the agriculture of the Delano-McFarland region. The endorsements join a long list of public officials who are lining up behind Ashburn. Locally, Ashburn has secured the endorsement of four out of the five council members, including Mayor Ron Carter. Over the hill, he has picked up nods from the mayors of Delano and McFarland as well as council members in both those cities. He has also received the backing of five of the six candidates who previously ran against him in the primary, but didn't receive enough votes to move on in June. Ashburn's opponent in the race, retired Navy captain and former commanding officer of NAWS China Lake Mick Gleason, said he wasn't sure what the endorsement meant for the race, but congratulated Ashburn on receiving his endorsements. "Roy is a career politician," Gleason said. "He has a lot of relationships that he's built over 30 years." Gleason, meanwhile, has secured the backing of the two state officials representing the Indian Wells Valley — Shannon Grove and Jean Fuller — he also has the support of Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Thomas' successor in Washington. Gleason said he is focused on gaining his own backing from people to help him win the election, and is less concerned with Ashburn's ability to garner support from people he's worked with as an elected official. He added he was more focused on Ashburn's backing from various groups including unions. "I'm more concerned with his new relationships than his old ones," Gleason said. Thomas said there were three key reasons why he was backing Ashburn over Gleason. First is Ashburn's knowledge of the complexity and diversity of the First District. "I know, and these folks behind be know, how difficult it is to represent an east-west county in a north-south state," Thomas said. "Just to begin with, a lot of our concerns run counter to what the state, and to some extent the nation, looks for in California. So we have to have people who understand that going into the (supervisors) race." Next was the economy. "We are in a significant and dynamic growth period, much more so than the rest of California. We have been in a sustained growth period for some time," Thomas said. But at the same time, unemployment in Kern County, especially around the agricultural regions is significantly higher that the rest of the state and the country. "I can tell you in my 16 years on the board, because of the economy and the issues with the state, the challenges we're facing are more complex, more numerous and they create a greater potential impact than I can recall from previous years on the board," McQuiston said. "We all know businesses and families are struggling, and we know decisions made on this board and in Sacramento will have direct, consequential impacts on the citizens of Kern County." Finally, Thomas said the election was critical because of how many new supervisors are coming on board this term. He said for the first time in 100 years, there were three new people elected, including two who won their seats in June and avoided a run off. Thomas said he didn't believe leadership should be viewed as the President Theodore Roosevelt model, with the former president charging up San Juan Hill atop a horse with sword drawn in the Spanish-American War. Instead, Thomas said, leadership needs to be seen as someone who "gets it done behind the troops and pushes them up San Juan Hill." Through the press conference, Ashburn's leadership was highlighted by those who spoke, including by Shell who had worked with Ashburn for a long time. Shell in giving her support said from working with Ashburn for 12 years on the county level, she saw someone who cared for the constituents of the district and "put more miles on his car than anybody in Kern County when he was serving." "The people of Kern County and the First District will benefit from Roy being on the board of supervisors," Shell said. Fourth District Supervisor-elect David Couch said he knows Ashburn loves working as supervisor and when someone loves their job, he said, they want to be there and they will be fruitful in it. "He has everything that I believe you look for in a board member and I know he will be a tremendous asset to the First District. He will be a tremendous asset to me and the other members of the board," Couch said. Ashburn concluded the prepared remarks by reasserting his dedication to the people in the county and the First District. "Not only do I know and care deeply for the people of my district in the county, but I will also be aggressive and without hesitation in fighting for the people of Kern County to make sure our voice is heard in Sacramento," Ashburn said.

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Hypotensive anesthesia reduces intraoperative blood loss. Studies have demonstrated a 2-4 fold reduction in intraoperative blood loss if mean arterial pressure (MAP) is reduced to 50 mmHg during surgery. If MAP is maintained at 60 mmHg rather than 50 mmHg, blood loss is about 40% greater. Thus the lower the pressure is reduced, the lower the blood loss. Blood loss during hypotensive anesthesia is related to MAP rather than cardiac output or central venous pressure. Postoperative wound drainage is not increased following hypotensive anesthesia. Consequently, most studies have shown a 50% reduction in in-hospital transfusion using hypotensive anesthesia.
By reducing intraoperative blood loss, surgical exposure is enhanced thereby reducing surgical time. Furthermore, the dry surface facilitates penetration of cement into cancellous bone. In a matched-pair study comparing the radiographic appearance of cemented cups, hypotensive anesthesia was associated with improved cement fixation. For this reason, it is possible that hypotensive anesthesia may influence long term outcome of cemented hip arthroplasty by improving the quality of the cement-bone interface.
Hypotensive anesthesia may have other advantages. Firstly, intraoperative blood loss is reduced, so that less fluid is used making fluid overload unlikely. The reduced blood loss limits dilution and consumption of coagulation factors and subsequent postoperative rebound hypercoagulability. This may lessen the risk of DVT.
Hypotensive anesthesia can be induced using either general or regional anesthesia. With general anesthesia, hypotension is achieved using deep inhalation anesthesia which acts to dilate the arterial system and depress cardiac contractility or with vasodilators. The literature suggests that blood loss is reduced to a similar degree whether hypotension is induced with vasodilators alone or by combination of vasodilatation and cardiac depression. The vasodilators act upon both venous and arterial vessels. One advantage of vasodilation is that it maintains cardiac output better through deep inhalation anesthesia. Whether this has any effect on DVT rates or outcome is unknown.
An array of vasodilators have been used including intravenous infusions of sodium nitroprusside, nitroglycerine or adenosine. Other agents include Apresoline, calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors. Beta blockers maybe used to control heart rate. Labetalol is a useful agent combining beta blockade with arterial dilatation.
Hypotensive Epidural Anesthesia
This technique was developed to combine the virtues of epidural anesthesia (avoidance of airway problem and reduced rate of DVT) with the benefits of induced hypotension. The technique has been described in detail.
Briefly, it entails injecting 20-25 mL local anesthetic at an upper lumber interspace to provide an extensive epidural block. This produces analgesia to T4 or above and a near complete sympathectomy (including the cardiac sympathetics). The sympathectomy results in a reduction in arterial pressure. Concurrently, a low dose epinephrine intravenous infusion is used to stabilize the circulation. The initial dose is 2 µg/min but the dose is adjusted, in combination with intravenous fluid, to allow the MAP to fall to 50 mmHg while maintaining a stable heart rate. If a central venous pressure (CVP) catheter is inserted, fluid management is simplified by infusing fluid to preserve CVP in a normal range (2-5 mmHg).
With this technique, arterial pressure can be reduced whilst maintaining heart rate, CVP, stroke volume and cardiac output in normal range. In addition, if necessary, patients can be kept awake to monitor brain function. This maybe helpful in patients with neurological impairment in order to document preservation of cognitive function intraoperatively.
This technique can be used in the majority of high risk cases: patients with hypertension, advanced age, ischemic heart disease or patients with poor cardiac function. In-hospital mortality using this technique at the Hospital for Special Surgery is 0.1% which demonstrates that it is not associated with adverse outcome. The technique should be used with caution in patients with valvular heart disease, carotid occlusive disease and in patients with advanced renal disease.
Regional Anesthesia
Regional anesthesia is considered the ideal technique for THR as it avoids many of the complex airway problems, reduces blood loss and transfusion requirements and is associated with a lower rate of DVT and pulmonary embolism than general anesthesia. A variety of regional anesthetic techniques can be used.
Spinal anesthesia provides intense rapid onset anesthesia. Bupivacaine provides at least three hours of surgical anesthesia. With larger doses, higher sensory levels can be achieved facilitating induced hypotension. If epinephrine infusions are used during spinal anesthesia, most of the benefits of epidural hypotensive anesthesia can be achieved including a low intraoperative blood loss and DVT rate. Continuous spinal anesthesia is used in some centers but offers little advantage over continuous epidural and may increase the risk of adverse neurological outcome.
Recently, a technique of combined spinal epidural anesthesia has been developed. A small gauge spinal needle is inserted through an epidural needle. The virtues are the rapid onset of spinal anesthesia, decreased risk of local anesthetic toxicity with the flexibility of having an epidural catheter in place.
Either of the three techniques can be used and the advantages of one over another are minor. Epidural catheter techniques offer flexibility to extend or prolong the anesthetic or to provide postoperative analgesia. On the other hand, for straightforward primary THR, spinal anesthesia using small gauge pencil-point needles provides an excellent anesthetic.
Regional anesthesia techniques can be combined with general anesthesia. Following placement of an epidural catheter, patients can be intubated or a laryngeal mask airway inserted. If patients are ventilated, some of the advantages of regional anesthesia over GA are lost. On the other hand, in prolonged procedures such as complex revision surgery, a combined technique makes it easier to manage patients, particularly by eliminating the problem from the dependent shoulder.
Sedation is an important part of management during regional anesthesia. With midazolam, amnesia can be secured. In longer cases, intravenous infusions of propofol, thiopental or midazolam can provide a stable sedated state. Oxygen supplementation should be provided via nasal cannulae or face mask and patients must be monitored with pulse oximetry.
Posted: 6/20/1998
Sharrock NE. Anesthesia. In: Callaghan JJ, Rosenberg AG, Rubash HE, eds. The Adult Hip Philadelphia: Lippincott - Raven Publishers, 1998.


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Cisco Unity Connection Provisioning Interface (CUPI) API -- Voice Names
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About Voice Names
Many objects available via the CUPI interface have a voice name field. There are two ways to access the voice name for these objects:
- For Connection versions 7.x and 8.0.x the voice names are accessed by using the VoiceFileURI. Modifying the voice name as a voice file requires a three step process as detailed below.
- For Connection versions 8.5 and later the voice name access has been simplified so that it can be accessed by using a VoiceNameURI. This new URI is a standard sub-resource of the primary resource URI (see example below). Modifying the voice name by using the new URI reduces the three step process to a single step. The old VoiceFileURI still works in the later versions of Connection, but use of the new URI is easier.
http://<server>/users/<user object id>/voicename)
Listing and Viewing
Voice Name GET for Connection 8.5 and Later
Use the standard VoiceNameURI directly to get the file:
GET http://<connection-server>/vmrest/<resource>/<resource id>/voicename
The response will return the audio/wav data for the voice name.
Voice Name GET for Connection 7.x and 8.0.x
First get the primary resource to find out the voice file URI, then use the VoiceFileURI to get the file:
GET http://<connection-server>/vmrest/voicefiles/<voice file name>
The response will return the audio/wav data for the voice name.
Setting Voice Names
Setting a Voice Name in Connection 8.5 and Later
PUT the audio data directly to the standard resource voice name URI:
PUT /vmrest/<object>/<object id>/voicename content is audio/wav data
The response is a 204 indicating that the content has been accepted and copied into the temporary file.
Setting a Voice Name in Connection 7.x and 8.0.x
To create a voice name for a resource is a three step process.
Step 1: A place-holder for the WAV file must be created with a POST. This is a temporary file place-holder that can be used for up to 30 minutes. If it is not used within 30 minutes (assigned to a resource), the file is assumed to be abandoned and is automatically cleaned.
POST /vmrest/voicefiles
The response code is 201 and the content is the name of the newly created temporary file.
Step 2: Use the temporary file name to PUT the new audio data. The HTTP content type is "audio/wav" and the payload content is the audio data.
PUT /vmrest/voicefiles/<temporary file name>
The response is a 204 indicating that the content has been accepted and copied into the temporary file.
Step 3: Set the voicename field of the target resource to the temporary file name. See the example for a user below:
PUT /vmrest/users/<user object id> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <User> <VoiceName>temporary file name</VoiceName> </User>


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If you've got a bug kid in your family, they will flip for this book. And if you don't, they'll certainly have a new appreciation for them after marveling at Steve Jenkins' latest work, a study of beetles. Like all of his paper craft collage books, Jenkins balances science and art with illustrations that serve as both accurate depictions of the natural world and also gorgeous works of design.
In The Beetle Book, Jenkins covers a little of everything, with just the right amount of natural history tossed in, from basic beetle anatomy to the stages of a typical life cycle. Of course there's the smallest beetle, largest beetle, fastest, the one that boasts the longest antennae of any insect. But also beetles that glow, beetles that mimic a pile of bird droppings, and beetles that shoot boiling hot liquid into the face of their attackers. "Line up every kind of plant and animal on Earth... and one of every four will be a beetle," says Jenkins.
Descriptions are kept brief, and limited to each beetle's most interesting fact. Black silhouettes throughout the book are used to represent the true measurement of each beetle, although many are depicted in actual size. The titan beetle, for instance, takes up a whole page, and according to Jenkins its jaws are strong enough to snap a pencil in half. That interesting tidbit made both my son and I turn to each other with raised eyebrows.
Still, the best thing about beetles is that they're both exotic and familiar. This is the kind of book that inspires hole punching in Mason jar lids, and flipping over rocks in the backyard.
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If you had asked me as a kid what my dream job would have been, getting paid to draw pictures of Star Wars would have been right up there. So yeah, Amy Beth Christenson has quite the day job.
A former senior concept at Lucasarts for over a decade, she now works at Lucasfilm, and since 2000 has helped define the look of things like the Force Unleashed series and the Clone Wars animated TV show.
God, I love these. It's a shame the Force Unleashed games weren't that great as games, because I think in terms of nailing the look of "classic" Star Wars, they do a better job than even the likes of Dark Forces and X-Wing.
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Niagara University is now accepting reservations for this fall's edition of its highly popular Student Chef Series, which showcases the culinary skills of student managers in the university's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
Hosted in conjunction with Niagara University's Office of Continuing Education, the fine dining events are an opportunity for the community to sample a four-course cuisine, planned and prepared entirely by hospitality students.
Seatings for the dinners - two appetizers, an entree, dessert, and beverage, plus coffee or tea - are scheduled for 6, 6:30 and 7 p.m. on the following dates:
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46 Years Ago: The Beatles Didn't Sink Much Effort Into 'Yellow Submarine'
The Beatles' animated film 'Yellow Submarine' is widely heralded as a classic for its mixture of whimsy, subversive humor and psychedelic design. However, the same fate was not bestowed upon its soundtrack, which was released on Jan. 13, 1969, in the U.S. and four days later in the U.K.
A large part of the problem was that the second side of the LP was devoted to long-time producer George Martin's instrumental score. While there was nothing inherently wrong with Martin's compositions, it was just that, like so many film scores, they don't work well without the visuals they were specifically written to accompany.
The first side, meanwhile, contains six Beatles originals that appeared in 'Yellow Submarine.' Two of them -- the title track and 'All You Need Is Love' -- had been previously released (although the latter was not available on a U.K. album). Paul McCartney's 'All Together Now' is a slight children's song that really only works as the movie's closer, when the band appears in non-animated form (a contractual obligation). George Harrison contributed two tracks that were completed almost two years earlier, the dour 'Only a Northern Song' and 'It's All Too Much,' which has its charms, but goes on a bit too long. Only John Lennon's blistering 'Hey Bulldog' adds to their legacy.
When the Beatles catalog was first released on CD in 1987, the reissues stayed true to the original albums and included the soundtrack with Martin's score, which led to a whole new round of complaints. Apple Records rectified this 12 years later in conjunction with a theatrical showing of the film in 1999, putting out what they called the 'Yellow Submarine Songtrack.' The disc removed Martin's instrumentals and replaced them with nine previously released songs that were featured in the movie, like 'Nowhere Man,' 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'When I'm Sixty-Four.'
However, the 2009 Beatles remasters put the instrumentals back onto the soundtrack, and the 'Songtrack' itself was reissued three years later when the movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray.
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$400M Powerball jackpot winner remains mystery in South Carolina
A semi-rural service station was abuzz with activity Thursday, with reporters and onlookers hoping to learn who held the winning $400 million ticket in the latest Powerball drawing.
The ticket was sold Wednesday afternoon at the Murphy USA station, nestled just off I-20 west of Columbia among fast-food restaurants and a red barn where produce and homemade jellies are sold. But those jamming the gathering at the station remained disappointed Thursday -- the winner wasn't there.
Winners in South Carolina do not have to come forward publicly, but Lottery Executive Director Paula Harper Bethea noted that, to claim the winnings, the ticketholder must contact state lottery officials within 180 days.
"We have no idea who holds this ticket," Bethea said. But she advised the winner to sign the back of the ticket, put it in a safe place and consult financial and legal advice.
Bethea said the winner chose a "quick pick" ticket, letting the computer select the numbers, drawn Wednesday night: 7-10-22-32-35, with the Powerball of 19.
The actual value is $399.4 million, with a direct cash option of $233 million. It's the largest Powerball winning ticket sold in South Carolina and the fourth largest in Powerball history. In May, a Florida widow won the biggest Powerball jackpot in history -- a $590 million pot.
Manager Keith Wedmore said ticket traffic the day of the winning sale was fairly constant. Donna Taylor of Columbia, 42, was among those who purchased from the station, but it wasn't her lucky day.
"I didn't win. I'm frustrated," said Taylor, who runs a cleaning service. "I think I'm going to go right in there and buy another ticket today."
Leo Hinnant, 48, of Columbia, leaned on his pickup and laughed at all the fuss.
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Discovering the history around us can often help to shape a peaceful future. Short memories and an inadequate understanding of the past can cause many problems when policy responses fail to promote respectful interactions. Every person we meet has a history and is a history.
You may know about my explorations of the
experiences of people of Italian ancestry in Australia before and
during the Second World War, and especially during the First World War.
Several academic researchers, and quite a few amateur family historians
have also been researching similar topics, from a range of perspectives.
When ethnicity counts
When we know that some of our ancestors have been affected by war, it can affect our view of the world, and help us to have empathy for anyone finding themselves in a war situation in the present.
I have been watching some footage of Italian troops in the First World War, one of whom may even be my husband's grandfather.


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They need to learn the art of panning the fuck out.
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I think I'm ready to learn German now
rofl i was rather laughing than being turned on after they tried to make some "dirty talking" xD "ich lass ihn ganz langsam in meiner muschi verschwinden" xD
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He loves his wife so much he wants to share her with us!
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I dont speak german but im pretty sure of what they were saying. lol.
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her name?
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No seriously whats the music?
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he should have cleaned her up as well
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i dont like it it is boring
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Well, they make cars damn well I think it's safe to say they ride well too. Nice camera work too
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He can creampie inside my pussy mmmMm
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I want her to lick my dick!!!
Seems like she was reassuring him of how he was doing. Pretty sure the dude is the amateur. The girls face tells me the complete opposite.
You nasty girl! you fucked his brains out! lovely to see a girl who just really loves to fuck! would like to borrow ur man sometimes?
i would do his wife butt in hd next time lol ;)
hammer geil^^ die könnt jederzeit bei mir einziehn und dann ramtatamm mindestens 5 mal am Tag*wew*
I would let a cock like this creampie my ass anytime
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Seems like she was reassuring him of how he was doing. Pretty sure the dude is the amateur. The girls face tells me the complete opposite.
wie gerne hätte ich die geile sau auf meinem gesicht und meinem schwanz sitzen...
there was another clip of them somewhere where he does her from behind and them cums on her face, and at one point he sticks a dildo up HIS ass!? Can't seem to find it now, unfortunately, she's amazing!
Does she appear in other films? I do not want to watch the same movie again and again - she is really a beauty and has a very genuine sex approach. I wish I could meet her. Any hints welcome where else I can see her...
Rude language that show no phantasy at all but great interaction and real passion - they really enjoy each other. MORE OF THIS!
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hiel mon fruher, indeed.
she is a good wife
Lovely girl, great to see a genuine homemade film. Techniques can always be improved. Neptune has the right attitude, we're just privileged we've been able to watch an attractive couple having real sex.
LOL @Neptune!!! sharing is tasty!
I would love to see the apprentice star Naomi Lay from the Apprentice sex tape. Could somebody tell me where you can find
Umm she was in another video. One made in an office.
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Its just her saying how long he is and she hopes he likes her big mushy pussy. as for steve. no thats not all they are saying.
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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Two members of the MIT women's openweight crew team were selected to the All-Patriot League squad that was announced by the league today. Senior Jean Sack (Eureka, Calif.) was named to the first team and junior Erin Meyer (Austin, Texas) was selected to the second team. It is the second all-conference award for Meyer and the first for Sack.
Both were part of the MIT Varsity 8 crew that placed third at the recent Patriot League championship, finishing just three seconds behind second place Bucknell and seven and a half behind first place Navy. Sack manned the stroke seat for the Engineers with Meyer sitting right behind her in the No. 7 seat. The crew helped lead MIT to a fourth-place finish in the overall standings.


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As an intern software developer for a retail bank, you have been tasked with developing use cases to support the ATM service.
Prepare a 5-6 page paper in which you:
Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case, complete with typical and alternate courses, that documents the event of a bank customer withdrawing money from an ATM.
Illustrate the use case using Visio or a similar product.
Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account deposit. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.
Describe (in a one to two (1-2) page narrative) a use case dependency for making an account transfer. Illustrate this use case with Visio or a similar product.
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Summarize the various requirements modeling techniques.
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Use contemporary CASE tools in process and data modeling.
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Democratic Rep. Mark Critz's chances of hanging onto his seat representing Southwestern Pennsylvania could hinge on a lawsuit filed by a 93-year-old great grandmother over the state's new voter identification law.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is hearing Viviette Applewhite's appeal today so it can decide whether the recently enacted statute is so burdensome on some citizens that it violates Pennsylvania's constitution.
Like other lawsuits across the country, it pits Republicans concerned about voter fraud against Democrats worried about voter suppression. The outcome could affect turnout on Election Day and spawn legal challenges afterward.
Legal tussles over voter ID laws, purges of voters deemed ineligible, registration tactics and early voting periods in states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas and South Carolina are setting the stage for a potential post-election legal showdown in November.
At least one Senate race and five House races that Roll Call currently rates as a Tossup are in states with ongoing voting lawsuits.
"If anybody thinks that there won't be contests that are close enough that who does and who doesn't have the identification required will have an impact are deluding themselves," said Lawrence Norden at New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice.
"It's rare to have a presidential election come down to 1,000 ballots, but it's not very rare to have a Congressional contest or state legislative race be decided by an extremely small margin," he said.
The Brennan Center is involved in several cases challenging what it characterizes as restrictive voting laws.
There are two schools of thought on voter identification measures, which, like most voting issues, tend to break down along party lines. Republicans are concerned about eliminating fraud and preserving integrity by making sure only valid registered voters cast ballots. Democrats worry that overly strict policing could suppress turnout and want to improve access.
"If I had to boil it down to its essentials, it's access versus integrity, that's what these cases are about," said Dan Tokaji, a law professor at the Ohio State University.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) signed a voter ID law in March 2012 that was designed to prevent fraud. It requires voters to show a photo ID issued by the federal government, the commonwealth, a municipal employer, an institute of higher education or a care facility.
Pennsylvania estimates at least 80,000 voters would have to get a new form of identification before Election Day.
Applewhite sued, arguing that as an elderly citizen who had never had a driver's license, the new law would be a burden on her and several other co-plaintiffs who had trouble obtaining their birth certificates and other required documentation. The League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, the NAACP and the Homeless Advocacy Project signed on to represent the interests of similarly situated individuals.
A court denied the group's request for a preliminary injunction in August, and the outcome of the case will now be decided by the commonwealth's highest court. There are currently three Democrats and three Republicans who will hear the voter ID case. If there's a 3-3 decision, the law would stand.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, the Advancement Project and the law firm Arnold & Porter are handling the group's lawsuit.
Wisconsin officials have asked its highest court to consider a similar measure before the November elections. Two other voter identification cases in Texas and South Carolina were filed under the Voting Rights Act.
"There could be Congressional races or state races where confusion [about proper identification] on Election Day could lead to post-election litigation over the result," University of California Irvine law professor Rick Hasen said.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Jon Husted, both Republicans, filed a brief with a federal appeals court Monday, asking it to reconsider a lower court's recent decision to halt changes to the state's early voting rules.
Obama for America in July sued to block a measure passed by the Republican-
controlled Ohio Legislature that ended early voting for most voters during the three days before Election Day. Local election boards were given the leeway to decide whether military and overseas voters could continue to cast in-person absentee ballots. The campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party said the rules change violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution because it treated groups of voters differently.
Experts say Ohio's early voting case and another in Florida that seems close to being resolved are important because last-minute rules changes can create confusion, including not having the proper ID or having to endure long lines on election day.
"It's a real worry that people who voted early four years ago won't be aware of the fact that the state has restricted early voting this time around," Tokaji said.
In addition to lawsuits brought over voter ID measures and changes to early voting rules, there are challenges to voter purges, technology and provisional ballots winding their way through the courts.
Hasen said if you set aside the larger question of whether these laws and related lawsuits are a good or a bad thing, you're left with the fallout.
"I'm concerned about implementing new rules for the first time on an election day," Hasen said. "You don't write a play and premiere it on Broadway."


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Pink elephants. It's a silly image, but it's one that Professor of History Mark Smith uses effectively to illustrate concepts in the otherwise dense material he translates. Dr. Smith works within a unique field, the history of science. There is a prominent duality in this work, as he translates medieval science into modern terms but also puts the work he translates into historical context. For the majority of his academic career, his research has concerned one single, massive editing project of The Book of Optics, which involved establishing a coherent, critical Latin text from several manuscript copies and translating it to English. The Book of Optics was written in Arabic in the eleventh century and translated to Latin in the very early thirteenth century. This work concerns not only the physical science of optics but also the philosophy behind it, which includes the process that happens when you hear or see the words "pink elephants." Automatically, you call up a picture in your mind of a pink elephant, and that process is a key part of Dr. Smith's work.
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Central Branch, Vancouver Public Library, Computer Training Room, Level 7.
Chinese Genealogy – Ancestry Library Edition Workshop, Saturday, January 28th, 2012, 1pm – 3pm.
What are the discovery tools to your Chinese genealogy research needs? What online resources are available in your library? What is Ancestry Library Edition?
Registration is required. See the Chinese Genealogy Workshop Ancestry Library Edition (.pdf) for more information.
Basic computer knowledge is helpful.
Bring your Vancouver library card and login password.
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Canadian Officials Censoring Scientists Whose Results They Don't Like
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The documents show major media outlets were soon lining up to speak with Miller, but the Privy Council Office said no to the interviews.What I don't understand -- and perhaps some Canadian law experts could jump in and explain -- is how this particular office can prevent Miller from speaking out herself, though that's clearly the implication of the article. The reasoning given by the Privy Council Office and the Fisheries Department doesn't make much sense either:
The Privy Council Office also nixed a Fisheries Department news release about Miller's study, saying the release "was not very good, focused on salmon dying and not on the new science aspect," according to documents obtained by Postmedia News under the Access to Information Act.
Miller is still not allowed to speak publicly about her discovery, and the Privy Council Office and Fisheries Department defend the way she has been silenced.
The Privy Council Office and the Fisheries Department said Miller has not been permitted to discuss her work because of the Cohen Commission, a judicial inquiry created by the prime minister to look into declines of the famed Fraser River sockeye salmon. She is expected to appear before the commission in late August.But how would reporting the actual results of a study relevant to the Commission be a problem? That part isn't clearly explained either, leading to the obvious implication that the government simply doesn't like what's in the report, and would prefer that it not be discussed. Of course, if that was the goal... it seems to have backfired.


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I am having an online discussion with a born-again "follower of Christ" lady who says that the fact that I have so many Christians in my life challenging my atheism means that the Lord is courting me. My response has been that I think it is because I am an outspoken atheist and the issue is very important to me, so I tend to give Christians around me reason to talk to me about it.
What should I say to her about why this issue is so important to me without her twisting it around so that it seems I am just confused and seeking Jesus but don't know it?
BTW, I think she thinks she is helping me to find Jesus, but she's not. I am basically studying her. the problem is that I can see how people can be taken in by her message.
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9.999 out of 10 times, there is absolutely nothing you can say to someone like her that will have any effect at all on how she thinks when it comes to her faith in the Lawd. I am sorry that I cannot be more helpful.
Ok, god is male, he has a penis, and he is courting you. Sounds kind of ewwwwwww to me!
First thing that came to my mind!
Courting - the act, period, or art of seeking the love of someone with intent to marry.
True! In The God Question, a book another Christian gave me, the author indicates the relationship with God should be more intimate and all-encompassing than that between a married couple.
Ewwwww is right!
In a word you should tell her "goodbye". Engaging these people is pointless and dangerous.
If you insist on doing so, however, maybe you could point out that the reason there are so many religious people in your life is that religion has had thousands of years to hunt down and exterminate those who won't believe and to bully those with doubts into submission. Were it not for this horrific, shameful history there would be very few religious people in the world much less in your life.
I think you should tell her that you are curious. Spend some time with her, and start to try to understand what the experience is like from her perspective. Most atheists are terribly out of touch with Christians, and it really effects their ability to understand where to go in terms of bringing up things.
You can even throw in the outspoken atheist bit, as long as you blend it with that you feel it is time to understand Christians better. Don't get all heavy into refuting her religion. Just point out that the bible says things that don't make sense to you and make you think it is man made. Tell her that you just don't think gay relationships are sinful, and or that people shouldn't go to hell. At the same time tell her that you don't see yourself converting, but you do seek to understand. Use simple answers. Stay away from Asherah poles, and all of those things that you think are clinchers for why the bible can't be true. Religious people need to have a bit of doubt for those to take hold. Otherwise they explain them away.
And it isn't because they are being totally irrational. The problem is that religion, like most beliefs is based on inductive reasoning. People who have been religious for a long time have a lot of reasons why they "know" it is true. A few zingers will not really dent that mountain of erroneously acquired reasons for why they can be certain the Bible is the word of God.
Questioning the atonement is always good, but be humble whenever you do challenge religion. Become aware of the good parts about Christianity as a philosophy. Stress some of those so that you aren't simply fighting with her. It helps show where there is common ground. If you question the atonement, take on the very principle upon which it rests. Whether it is just. The simple format is not only does it seem wrong to have someone die in someone else's place, but also that the entire system is based on justice, but using a loophole of the substitutionary atonement is an abuse of justice. If it is that important to enforce that people get sent to hell for all eternity over it, it is very unjust to get out on a technicality. If it is enforced so there are no exceptions, then it really wasn't a big deal in the first place, because an all-knowing God would have realized the technicality was there all along, and the law was never just with a technicality like that in the first place.
I have a degree in biblical studies, have spent years being active in churches, and am an ex-seminary student. I know these people in and out. It does not seem that a lot of atheists really know how to engage them. It is not just their faulty thinking, it is the manner in which atheists challenge the faulty thinking that leads to why a lot of these situations get out of control. If she is convinced that the "Spirit is at work on your heart", then as long as you don't act hostile, and appear open-minded, it might be a good experience.
That is basically the approach I have taken with her. I have actually gotten some useful information from the experience.
And what are the good parts of Christianity as a philosophy that are actually unique to Christianity? None that I know of, so why not point out the fact that it has no unique philosophies and is really all borrowed mythology and/or philosophy?
I don't think it's necessary for Christianity to be unique, in order to be useful. After all, there's very little new under the sun. The "selfish gene" theories of Richard Dawkins are probably a notable exception. What makes Christianity useful, in my opinion, is that at their best, Christians are idealistic, well-meaning, honest (in their way) and at home with deep mystical ideas. They can often be progressive and constructive. All this is collected together in one place, a "one stop shop". That's useful. I don't see many other groups doing that in the West; certainly not Richard Dawkins et al.
For example, I came across this video on YouTube:
John Kelly, you confused my intentions. Asherah poles, the Easter Bunny and fasting for 40 days does not disprove Christianity. Judiao-Christian belief warns against some of these practices, but a Christian doing these things just shows their lack of understanding. I would take what you said a step further from Atheists being out of touch with Christians to include that even Christians are out of touch with their own teachings.
I agree again with you that the concept you presented as atonement is immoral, but unfortunately, that is the popular belief by many Christians even though it is a corrupted one. The biblical principle of atonement is this 'born again' statement that has nothing to do with a physical birth as one dolt presumed earlier, but a change in character. The idea that all transgressions are absolved is not what is inline with what the bible teaches, but something that is fabricated.
It seems that many Christians and Atheists are out of touch with the Christian Principle and a lot of arguments from both sides are based on incorrect notions. With that being said, how do we know what we know (or don't know)? We can't fully so I would suggest a heavy dose of humble pie for both sides. There is a difference between devoting yourself to listening what people say about a subject and devoting yourself to actually learning the subject. The unfortunate part is that the majority of Christians do too much of the prior and considerably nothing on the latter.
This is the reason why I mentioned the Asherah poles and what not. It is one thing to claim that someone doesn't know what they do, but for the other to see the contradiction their principle they ascribe to and their practices. Modern Christianity is not what is in the Christian bible and very few people seem to realize this.
Yeah, when I was a Christian, getting fellow Christians to actually follow the religion was like pulling teeth. You are right that modern Christianity is not what is in the Christian bible. The closest one to the biblical ideology I think is the Eastern and Oriental orthodox, as far as priorities are concerned.
@ John Kelly: I very much agree with this approach.
I often come across Christians (whether in real life or on YouTube) who are people after my own heart, in that they are doing their level best to bring about a better world, with courage, humility and good grace. In this at least, what's not to like? In some ways I've lived a very tough life, and at my advanced age of 44, I've come to see the very real value of a lot of the things that Christianity talks about. Obviously - as an atheist - I don't agree with a lot of it. But that's not so important. I find Richard Dawkins etc., clever though they are, too negative.
My view on "the atonement of Christ" is that Christians have got it slightly wrong. It shouldn't be "Jesus died for our sins", but rather, "Jesus showed that we all have to die for our own sins". I observe that if a sinner submits to "his" proper punishment - Crucified - then he is in a position to learn from his mistakes, to be forgiven by those who matter, including himself, and thereby to turn his badness into goodness and be born again as a better, wiser, more compassionate person - Ressurrection. To me, that's a profoundly valid and optimistic idea. Yes, Jesus really does save, even if you're an atheist.
Simon, I really like your outlook, and it is good to find other atheists out there that don't harbor seething hate against religion. I think it is a more mature outlook to not see religion and non-religion as black and white.
The message of Christ though was the exact opposite of what you are seeing as can be learned from the story. Though the philosophy of self-acceptance is spot on and you can find that very grounded in modern psychology.


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Matthew, my 5-year-old nephew, has an unusual Mariology.
In May I returned from a weeklong pilgrimage to Lourdes, the shrine in southern France where the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. It was my fifth trip as a chaplain with the Order of Malta, and the town was filled with knights and dames from around the world. They had come as companions to the malades, the sick who were seeking physical and spiritual healing.
It was the coldest pilgrimage anyone could remember, or that I care to experience. Almost every day we pilgrims awoke to driving rain and near-freezing temperatures. At times one wondered whether escorting the malades to the Grotto of the Apparitions in a rainstorm would help or hurt their chances of recovery. Nothing is impossible with God, so I came down on the side of "help."
Along with accompanying the malades, I had another mission this year: Find a glow-in-the-dark statue of Mary. Matthew, my nephew, had missioned me by voice mail. In his message, when he spoke of the object of his desire, he talked so rapidly that I had a hard time deciphering his words. "Uncle Jim," he said, "when you go to France don't forget to get me a…glowinthedark Mary!" His older brother, Charles, had such a statue, which Matthew had borrowed for his bedroom.
It wasn't hard to find one. Outside the area surrounding the Grotto of the Apparitions, Lourdes is the capital of kitsch, with shops selling Marian ashtrays, oversized soup spoons with St. Bernadette's image and ballpoint pens in whose liquid-filled barrel Our Lady of Lourdes miraculously descends into the grotto and then ascends again.
The weekend after I returned, I gave Matthew his long-awaited statue. "Oooooh," he said. Then I presented him and his brother with a surprise. Matthew and Charles unwrapped the blue-and-white striped paper to reveal tiny, plaster, glitter-covered statues of Our Lady of Lourdes, colored a lurid pink. "Ooooh, it's so sparkly," said Matthew. "What is it?"
"It's a statue that changes colors with the weather. When it's cold, she turns blue; when it's hot, she turns red." Matthew's eyes widened. "Really?" Yes, I said, recalling that when I was in the Arctic—er, Lourdes—she was cerulean. "Put her in the refrigerator!" he said. When that was nixed, Matthew stood her on the sun porch and waited for the Blessed Mother to blush.
In the kitchen a few minutes later, I heard a high-pitched squeal. "Oh NOOO!" shouted Matthew. "Sparkle Mary broke!" In a clumsy handoff, the statue had fallen from his mother's grasp. "That's okay," his mother said. "Daddy can fix her." Then I heard something you don't hear every day: "Where's Mary's head, Matthew?"
I decided to focus on the originally ordered statue, which was still intact: the plastic, glow-in-the-dark Mary. "Let's put her in my bedroom!" said Matthew. We bounded up to his room to replace his brother's statue with his own, new one. Matthew placed her reverently on his nightstand next to the water bottle. "Why do you like her there, Matthew?" "Oh," he said. "Mary protects me."
I liked that. All who had journeyed to Lourdes this year had hoped, in one way or another, for Mary's protection. Most prayed for physical healing, many for spiritual healing. Some simply hoped to feel closer to God. A few didn't know what they might find. But even in the driving rain, in ridiculously cold weather, they hoped that Our Lady, somehow, would protect them.
Matthew, though, had a different Mariology. "What does Mary protect you from?" I asked.
"Oh, Uncle Jim," he said, as if I were a dense student. "Monsters!"
While Mary herself may help us in our times of woe, a tacky plastic statue will not. I really do not understand why the church fosters this sort of thing. It reeks of idolatry to me and I sincerely believe it is most certainly not something to teach our children!
So happy to read of your continuing pilgrimages to Lourdes! I remember reading of your first encounter with the classic film, Song of Bernadette, and of your first visit to Lourdes, assisting with the Malades in the baths. My first (but hopefully not final) visit to that holy place was in 2006. Yes, there was a great deal of "kitsch" accented with assorted "smaltz," but there were also many beautiful sacramentals and images of Our Lady. My favorite was a statue of Mary, dressed as a French peasant woman, her hair tied up in a kerchief. She was seated on a small wooden bench as she lovingly cradled the Infant in her arms. Superstition?
I teach Theology to high school juniors. This past February 13, I displayed a statue of OL of Lourdes in my classroom with a small dish of water from the spring (we arrived home shortly before all liquids were banned in flight!) After discussing the feastday and St. Bernadette, I invited the students to come forward if they wished, and bless themselves with the water from Lourdes, explaining that this may be the only opportunity they may have to do this. Some were very enthusiastic, and some were passive. Others were outright cynical. However, all reverently dipped their fingers in the holy water and blessed themselves, making the Sign of the Cross. A few months later, one of my less than enthusiastic students came to tell me quite enthusiastically, that her parents had just returned from Lourdes with the Knights of Malta, and had brought back some of the water. Her face was beaming as she was telling her news. I knew that her mother was not well, and was glad she was able to make the trip. Superstition? No, it is called Faith!
Keep up the good work, Father! Hope we are both blessed with many more visits to the place where "Heaven kissed the Earth."
As the author of a children's book on IMAGINARY FRIENDS titled: "A Peacock Ate My Lunch," I think that you need to lighten up a bit! Catholicism is an INCARNATIONAL religion, and what may appear to be mere SUPERSTITION to a sophisticated adult such as yourself, can be very REAL to the average five year old child...just as real as the MONSTERS under his bed that Mary protects him from. For somethuing really different, try reading the stories of the child Jesus from the apochryphal Gospel of Thomas, especially the one where he made clay toy birds fly to amuse his friends.
Why just this very afternoon on the subway here in Hong Kong, I was lucky to watch a wonderful "teachable moment" when a young mom -complete with piercings and tattoos- was reading a storybook to her young son about Jesus' very first MAGIC TRICK: the wedding feast at Cana.
Bless you, Uncle Jim!
One of your BMI committee members at St. Thomas More.
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Now, in later life as I reflect on my childhood, I don't think of my father's piety so much as superstitious as profoundly holy. My father had a sense for the mystery of life, and he deerly loved his children. In some strange way my own sense of the mysterious holiness of life comes from my father. In his later years he was able to visit the grotto at Lourdes, and he went down into the water as one who humbly knows how much he needed the healing that could come from that water.


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