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I just picked up new carry blade at a Gun Show in Berea, OH
I was looking at their Q.R.T.
But decided to go with this one.
3/16" 1095 steel w/ pinned cocobolo scales and textured black powder coat. This is a prototype blade and it just grabbed my eye.
It's from a knife maker in the Columbus area, Shadow Tech Knives. Decent prices and good looking products. I am as impressed with their sheaths as I am with their knives. Most of the decent to high quality knives that I have looked at recently either don't come with a sheath at all or they toss a cheap, generic junk scabbard in. These sheaths are simple yet versatile, the same basic design that I make for all of my fixed blades and every knife comes with the sheath.
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I like lane Shyv, not jungle, and was wondering what would be the most beneficial build for me. Any help is appreciated.
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http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/shyvana-taming-the-dragon-jungle-and-lane-guide-144613 Those are both good ways to play her, thumbs it up if you like it. Read it a bit, it might help.
Marius Caesar
Wriggle's Wit's End Sorc Shoes Black Cleaver Abyssal Scepter Sunfire Cape Both resistance reductions AoE out the ass Tanky spanky Absolutely wtf-style build Final Destination.
I am verifying a few test builds. Goal: Core items should not exceed ~4000 gold (20 min in-game marker) Consider: Open with: Boot + 3 pots [ Wit's End -> BF Sword -> Emblem of Valour ]-> Merc Treads -> BT -> Stark's Ferver* / Phage into Mallet* / GA* *depends on the flow of game. [ Wriggle's Lantern* -> Brutalizer -> BF Sword ] -> Ionian Boot / BT -> GA / Phage into Mallet *may choose to substitute Wit's End. Justification build 1: - High ASPD / Damage to capitalize on her passive with lifesteal to sustain during fights. Justification build 2: - Roughly 30 - 38 CDR depending on your runes setup, this puts your Q ~ 3.7 - 4.2 CD and your E ~ 6 CD. - The double proc from constant Q grans lifesteal + chance to slow and more than makes up for the lower ASPD. Lots of guides are suggesting Atmog or Frozen Atma, albeit they are extremely viable to pick up but it renders you ineffective for the first 25 - 30 min of the game while you are trying to rush your warmog + atma. I feel many builds are over emphasizing on her ASPD in hopes to extend the duration of her ultimate / proc passive. E only lasts 4 seconds, 1 AA + Q proc is more than plenty. The CDR will make up for the difference in ASPD. Thoughts / improvements ?
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Build I'm really liking so far: Start: Boots + 3 Pots Core: Boots + Wits + Phage/Sheen (depending on whether you need the tankiness/slow) Then building into: Mercs -> TF -> BT -> PD -> (choice) Choice item should almost always be defensive and should be built when needed. Survivability of the build is reasonable but not amazing, but you will tear the hell out of people.
Seei have been playing her a bit different. 1. always get boots + 3 pots to start. 2. Boots--->berserkers 3. phage 4 Zeal 5. Phage & Zeal ----->Trinity Force for the amazing stats that pretty much benefit her more than any other champion besides maybe wukong. 6. Sunfire cape because i max out my Burnout asap. I love the extra AOE dmg 7. Raguso rage blade At this point in most cases the other team has lost. the last few times i have played this style i single laned and went between 10 and 14 kills with around 3 to 5 deaths and 4 assists. I rock armor penetratio marks, Flat AR seals, Flat MR Glyphs, and i rock Attack speed or Critical strike quints. My masteries i rocked the standard 24/6/0. The reason why i don't get the utilites is cause i play aggresive and i don't really need them. I prefer the hard hitting/ Tanky shyvana. If the game continues on past me aquiring Raguso, i usually pick up a Nashors Tooth, or Black cleaver depending on what the team is like. Try this out. Whatever you do max burnout as quickly as possible. Most champions won't commit to you because your burnout is active. If they are stupid enough to ditch the sunfire cape and pick up thornmail. It will really make them think twice once you drop there armor and than start poiunding them from burnout thornmail and Dragon strike.
start: doran's shield core: boots of speed -> giants belt -> sunfire/abyssal -> abyssal/sunfire -> ionian boots get sunfire first unless your fighting a magic damage heavy lane/team. waiting to get your upgraded boots until later is the better option as W + boots of speed gives you all the movement speed you really need. luxury: hextech gunblade, bloodrazer, wits end, ghostblade, rageblade
sadly tanky dps is the way to build her.
Lady of the Sun
Mercury tread Guinsoo rageblade Hextech Gublade Wit's End Yomuu Ghostblade Sunfire Cap try it. You'de be surprise how well it works with her. Especially rageblad.

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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In an interview Wednesday morning on CNBC, Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ - Get Report) CEO Meg Whitman defended her decision to keep desktop computers as part of HP's long-term growth strategy. She insisted that "desktops are not dead." Quite a claim given that a recent report from Gartner suggested that global desktop shipments have sunk to their lowest level in five years.
I suppose until global desktop shipments reach zero, Whitman is technically correct. But it doesn't appear as if Hewlett-Packard's recent results support her optimism -- at least not where it matters most. This prompted me to call Hewlett-Packard a value trap back in September, in an article that caused quite a bit of controversy over my harsh criticism of management.
Although HP was then coming off what I considered a decent but not great quarter, I still believed there was at least $3 upside to the stock, which was then trading near $22. That said, I had no confidence that current management had what it takes to harvest any meaningful value out of the stock on a long-term basis.
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The Shoemaker And The Elves
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book follows a couple different stories about individuals that eventually interact at different times. You start to learn about all the individuals just before WW1 breaks out. Some of the stories you follow are of miners and some are of princesses so you get different points of view of the war and how it affected all of them. I really like Follett's historical fiction, however this one got a bit to historical and military for me. I was very interested in all the individuals stories but them a lot of the book turned to how the different armies were moving and what they were trying to take over and certain battles that happened. This was all very boring to me, and I probably tuned out a lot of it. The book also didn't quite resolve but I think there are some follow up books. I might try and read those, but if it will be more military information I might just pass. This is the first of the Century trilogy, revolving around the aristocratic Fitzherberts in Wales, who own a coal mine, the Williams family who have a son working in the mine and a maid at the Earl's summer home, an American lawyer from Buffalo, NY, the Peshkov brothers from Russia, and the van Ulrich's from Germany. They are all inter-related throughout the storyline starting in 1911 and continuing through the end of WWI. There is a lot of detail about politics at the time, including labor unions, sufragettes and causes of the war. I used to read Ken Follett years ago and I recall liking him...had high hopes for this. But oh my how horrible, I find it hard to believe how many people just adored it. The writing was abysmal, amateurish and full of exposition...it was like the characters were reading aloud to each other from Wikipedia. Which shows that he is assuming his readers have no historical knowledge, but there are far more skillful ways of slipping information in then with ridiculously unrealistic dialogue. I bogged down in this long before the end, but from reading (the bad) reviews I see that it didn't get any better, probably worse. Five families are brought together through the world-shaking dramas of the first World War, The Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women. Drama and intrigue unfold as "Fall of Giant" moves seamlessly from Washington to St Peterburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always, Ken Follett's richly developed historical background only enhances the fast-moving action and powerful emotion of this absorbing narrative. I liked this book. It was a fun historical read. Okay, so the not so great. It took me until the end to realize he was setting all these characters up together so we could have a sequel. But it really felt forced. Like two characters awkwardly fell in love, there was heavy petting and sex forced into two paragraphs, and then moved onto the history. I love a good romance, but I really wished it had been less forced. Still, the history was good. All in all, 3 stars. Not great. Not terrible.
Trotz peinlicher Sexszenen auf Groschenromanniveau und wie Untertassen dahinfliegender Dialoge: Ken Folletts neuer Roman ist gut recherchiert und freundlich-sozialdemokratisch - einer Verfilmung im Öffentlich-Rechtlichen steht nichts im Weg. Die Aufteilung von erfundenen Schicksalen und weltgeschichtlich verbürgten Ereignissen löst Follett perfekt. Overall, Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly. He puts to good use the professional skills he has honed over the years — giving his characters a conversational style neither pseudo-quaint nor jarringly contemporary. That works well. And for all his belief in the redemptive quality of liberal humanism, he makes sure not to endow his characters with excessively modern sensibilities. As for the occasional cliché — well, unless you're Tolstoy, you're not going to have the time or the ability to be original throughout your 1,000-page blockbuster. Ken Follett is no Tolstoy, but he is a tireless storyteller, and although his tale has flaws, it's grippingly told, and readable to the end. Despite all this, "Fall of Giants" offers pleasures that more than compensate for its lack of literary finesse. Follett may not be Tolstoy, but he knows how to tell a compelling, well-constructed story. Once its basic elements are in place, the narrative acquires a cumulative, deceptively effortless momentum. A lot happens on the first page of Ken Follett's "Fall of Giants." King George V is crowned at Westminster Abbey. A Welsh boy named Billy Williams turns 13 and begins his wretched life as a coal miner. And Mr. Follett, who was once a Welsh boy himself but grew up to become his generation's most vaunted writer of colorless historical epics, kicks off a whopping new trilogy. His apparent ambition: to span the whole 20th century in blandly adequate novels so fat that they're hard to hoist.
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A new Aldi opened in town today so Jack and I went there instead of our normal store. It was packed! But it is much bigger than the other Aldi stores I have been to. They had a lot of different products too. I picked up some of the light and fit Turkey Burgers so that is what we are having tonight with some baked fries and probably peas. I needed something easy because DH just got done with working 4 back to back shifts with only 5 hours off in between the first two and second two. I am just as worn out as him by the end of it!
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We are staying at my parents house so my dad made dinner for us
He made a lemon steamed tarakihi (fish), garden salad, rice and garlic bread. It's was delicious and good for the heart too
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Travel to where the reef meets the rainforest by heading North from Cairns to Cape Tribulation. Take a river cruise to spot crocodiles and enjoy a picnic lunch. We'll visit a Rainforest Habitat Wildlife Sanctuary as well a daintree River Cruise.
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Experience one of Australia's most scenic coastal drives along the Captain Cook Highway. Visit the unique 'Wildlife Habitat' animal sanctuary in Port Douglas. Take a guided sanctuary walk providing you with the opportunity to learn more about the myriad of wildlife, included the endangered cassowary. Enjoy free time meandering through the different exhibits: rainforest, wetlands and grassland, and have your photo taken holding a koala, snake or crocodile (extra cost).
After crossing the Daintree River on cable-driven ferry we arrive at Cape Tribulation we enjoy a fresh and hearty lunch at the Beach House (included). Enjoy the afternoon swimming or simply relaxing on the stunning white sands of Cape Tribulation Beach.
Carrying on our journey this afternoon, keep an eye out for local wildlife on our Guided Rainforest walk. We depart Cape Tribulation and head towards Alexandra Lookout for outstanding views and some memorable photographs. Spot Estuarine Crocodiles and water birds on a 1 hour Daintree River Cruise through the magnificent mangroves. As we cross the river and travel along the rainforest-fringed Cape Tribulation Road through Daintree National Park, your guide will explain the history of the magnificent wilderness region.
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IndexIQ's IQ Global Resources ETF (GRES) Receives 5-Star Overall Morningstar RatingTM
The IndexIQ Global Resources ETF (GRES), the first global resources hedged Exchange-Traded Fund, has received a 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating TM and a 5-Star Three-Year Morningstar Rating TM as of November 30, 2012 out of 22 funds in the Natural Resources category, it was announced today.
Introduced on October 27, 2009, GRES is the broadest commodities and natural resources ETF, including: livestock; precious metals; grains, food and fiber; energy; industrial metals; plus timber, water, and coal. It is based on an index with over five years of live history, designed to reweight its allocations to individual commodity sectors monthly. The fund is diversified both geographically and by sector. We believe GRES offers a unique and market proven methodology and has been among the highest performing ETFs in the commodities and natural resources category during its more than three years of live history, as well as exhibiting among the lowest levels of volatility in its category.
"The last three years have seen tremendous growth in demand for commodities worldwide," said Adam S. Patti, chief executive officer at IndexIQ. "GRES was introduced into this market to help investors achieve broad exposure to this asset class through a single ETF with a globally diversified portfolio of holdings. The fund offers wide ranging commodities exposure in tandem with the benefits of an Exchange-Traded Fund – liquidity, transparency, and low cost when compared to traditional commodities-oriented hedge fund vehicles."
As of September 30, 2012, weightings in the fund included Grains, Food & Fiber (27.3 percent): Timber and Livestock (approximately 22 percent each); Industrial Metals (19.4 percent); Water (9.52 percent); Coal (18.71 percent); Precious Metals (3.43 percent); and Energy (3.08 percent). The fund had an Equity Market Hedge (short) position of -25.77 percent as of that date.
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DRS Technologies Receives $7 Million Contract to Produce Avionics Maintenance Equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- DRS Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: DRS) announced today that it received a $7 million contract from the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), to manufacture Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Support System (RTCSS) subsystems for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force.McDonnell Douglas is the prime contractor responsible for delivering the support systems to the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland.
The subsystem that DRS will produce for the RTCSS consists of a radio frequency (RF)/microwave measurement unit, RF/microwave synthesizer, RF/microwave switch and signal conditioner, power supply and monitor, and a computer subsystem. The manufacturing of this equipment will begin immediately and be executed by the company's DRS Sustainment Systems business unit in St. Louis, Missouri. The final deliveries of the subsystems to McDonnell Douglas and completion of the contract is expected to occur in March 2009.
The contract is the fifth award DRS has received from McDonnell Douglass to manufacture subsystems for their RTCSS. To date, the total value of the five contracts awarded to DRS total approximately $36 million.
The portable and rapidly deployable test station will be used by the Marine Corps to maintain avionics equipment aboard F/A-18 Hornet fighter and attack aircraft, AV-8B V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take-Off or Landing) Harrier attack aircraft, MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, and the EA-6B Prowler electronic warfare aircraft. The test station will be used by the Air Force for their CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
"That the Navy and McDonnell Douglas have again asked the DRS Sustainment Systems business segment to manufacture a product integral to their aircrafts' avionics system, speaks to our performance record and the quality of work completed by our employees," said Thomas G. Cornwell, president of DRS' Sustainment Systems business segment. "Quite simply, this demonstration of returning customer satisfaction is what DRS strives for from each of its customers."
DRS Technologies, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, is a leading supplier of integrated products, services and support to military forces, intelligence agencies and prime contractors worldwide. The company employs approximately 10,000 people. For more information about DRS Technologies, please visit the company's web site at www.drs.com.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
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Directed by | David Fincher |
Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy Frank Marshall Ceán Chaffin |
Screenplay by | Eric Roth |
Story by | Eric Roth Robin Swicord |
Based on | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Starring | Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Taraji P. Henson Julia Ormond Jason Flemyng Elias Koteas Tilda Swinton |
Music by | Alexandre Desplat |
Cinematography | Claudio Miranda |
Edited by | Kirk Baxter Angus Wall |
company |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (United States) Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) |
Release dates
Running time
166 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $150 million[1][2] |
Box office | $333.9 million[3] |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life.
The film was released in North America on December 25, 2008, and on February 6, 2009 in the United Kingdom, to positive reviews. The film went on to receive thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects.
In 2005, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital; she asks her daughter, Caroline, to read aloud from the diary of Benjamin Button. From the reading, we learn that on the evening of November 11, 1918, a boy is born with the appearance and physical maladies of an elderly man. The baby's mother died after giving birth, and the father, Thomas Button, abandons the infant on the porch of a nursing home. Queenie and Mr. "Tizzy" Weathers, workers at the nursing home, find the baby, and Queenie decides to care for him as her own.
Benjamin learns to walk in 1925; he declares it a miracle, after which he uses crutches in place of a wheelchair. On Thanksgiving 1930, Benjamin meets six-year-old Daisy, whose grandmother lives in the nursing home. He and Daisy become good friends. Later, he accepts work on a tugboat captained by Mike Clark. Benjamin also meets Thomas Button, who does not reveal that he is Benjamin's father. In Autumn 1936, Benjamin leaves New Orleans for a long-term work engagement with the tugboat crew; Daisy later is accepted into a dance company in New York City under choreographer George Balanchine.
In 1941, Benjamin is in Murmansk, where he begins having an affair with Elizabeth Abbott, wife of the British Trade Minister. That December, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, thrusting the United States into World War II. Mike volunteers the boat for the U.S. Navy; the crew is assigned to salvage duties. During a patrol, the tugboat finds a sunken U.S. transport and the bodies of many American troops. A German submarine surfaces; Mike steers the tugboat full speed towards it while a German gunner fires on the tugboat, killing most of the crew, including Mike. The tugboat rams the submarine, causing it to explode, sinking both vessels. Benjamin and another crewman are rescued by U.S. Navy ships the next day.
In May 1945, Benjamin returns to New Orleans and reunites with Queenie. A few weeks later, he reunites with Daisy; they go out for dinner. Upon failing to seduce him afterward, she departs. Benjamin later reunites with Thomas Button, who, terminally ill, reveals he is Benjamin's father and wills Benjamin his button company and his estate.
In 1947, Benjamin visits Daisy in New York unannounced but departs upon seeing that she has fallen in love with someone else. In 1954, Daisy's dancing career ends when her leg is crushed in an automobile accident in Paris. When Benjamin visits her, Daisy is amazed by his youthful appearance, but, frustrated by her injuries, she tells him to stay out of her life.
In spring 1962, Daisy returns to New Orleans and reunites with Benjamin. Now of comparable physical age, they fall in love and go sailing together. They return to learn that Queenie has died, then move in together. In 1967, Daisy, who has opened a ballet studio, tells Benjamin that she is pregnant; she gives birth to a girl, Caroline, in the spring of 1968. Believing he can not be a father to his daughter due to his reverse aging, Benjamin sells his belongings, leaves the proceeds to Daisy and Caroline, and departs the next spring; he travels alone during the 1970s.
Benjamin returns to Daisy in 1980. Now married, Daisy introduces him, as a family friend, to her husband and daughter. Daisy admits that he was right to leave; she could not have coped otherwise. She later visits Benjamin at his hotel, where they again share their passion for each other, then part once more.
In 1990, widowed Daisy is contacted by social workers who have found Benjamin—now physically a pre-teen. When she arrives, they explain that he was living in a condemned building and was taken to the hospital in poor physical condition, and that they found her name in his diary. The bewildered social workers also say he is displaying early signs of dementia. Daisy moves into the nursing home in 1997 and cares for Benjamin for the rest of his life. In the spring of 2003, Benjamin dies in Daisy's arms, physically an infant but chronologically 84 years of age. Daisy dies as Hurricane Katrina approaches.
- Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button (adult), Caroline's biological father
- Robert Towers as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
- Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
- Tom Everett as Benjamin Button (apparent adult)
- Spencer Daniels as Benjamin Button (apparent age 12)
- Chandler Canterbury as Benjamin Button (apparent age 8)
- Charles Henry Wyson as Benjamin Button (apparent age 5)
- Cate Blanchett as Daisy Fuller (adult)
- Elle Fanning as Daisy Fuller (age 6)
- Madisen Beaty as Daisy Fuller (age 11)
- Taraji P. Henson as Queenie
- Julia Ormond as Caroline Fuller (adult), Benjamin and Daisy's daughter
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt as Caroline Fuller (age 2)
- Jason Flemyng as Thomas Button, Benjamin's father
- Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Tizzy Weathers
- Jared Harris as Captain Mike Clark
- Faune A. Chambers as Dorothy Baker
- Elias Koteas as Monsieur Gateau, a blind clockmaker in a story Daisy tells Caroline
- Ed Metzger as Theodore Roosevelt
- Phyllis Somerville as Grandma Fuller
- Josh Stewart as Pleasant Curtis
- Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott
- Bianca Chiminello as Daisy's friend
- Rampai Mohadi as Ngunda Oti
- Lance E. Nichols as Preacher
- Edith Ivey as "The woman who taught him to play piano"
Producer Ray Stark bought the film rights to do The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in the mid-1980s, and it was optioned by Universal Pictures. The first choice to direct it was Frank Oz, with Martin Short attached for the title role, but Oz could not work out how to make the story work. The film was optioned in 1991 by Steven Spielberg, with Tom Cruise attached for the lead role, but Spielberg left the project to direct Jurassic Park and Schindler's List. Other directors attached were Patrick Read Johnson and Agnieszka Holland. Stark eventually sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, who took the film to Paramount Pictures, with Universal Pictures still on as a co-production partner. By summer 1994, Maryland Film Office chief Jack Gerbes was approached with the possibility of making the film in Baltimore. In October 1998, screenwriter Robin Swicord wrote for director Ron Howard an adapted screenplay of the short story, a project which would potentially star actor John Travolta.[4] In May 2000, Paramount Pictures hired screenwriter Jim Taylor to adapt a screenplay from the short story. The studio also attached director Spike Jonze to helm the project.[5] Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman had also written a draft of the adapted screenplay at one point.[6] In June 2003, director Gary Ross entered final negotiations to helm the project based on a new draft penned by screenwriter Eric Roth.[7] In May 2004, director David Fincher entered negotiations to replace Ross in directing the film.[8]
In May 2005, actors Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett entered negotiations to star in the film.[9] In September 2006, actors Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng and Taraji P. Henson entered negotiations to be cast into the film.[10] The following October, with production yet to begin, actress Julia Ormond was cast as Daisy's daughter, to whom Blanchett's character tells the story of her love for Benjamin Button.[11] Brad Pitt had collaborated with many of his co-stars in previous films. He co-starred with Ormond in Legends of the Fall, with Flemyng in Snatch, with Harris in Ocean's Twelve, with Blanchett in Babel and with Swinton in Burn After Reading.
For Benjamin Button, New Orleans, Louisiana and the surrounding area was chosen as the filming location for the story to take advantage of the state's production incentives, and shooting was slated to begin in October 2006.[12] Filming of Benjamin Button began on November 6, 2006 in New Orleans. In January 2007, Blanchett joined the shoot.[13] Fincher praised the ease of accessibility to rural and urban sets in New Orleans and said that the recovery from Hurricane Katrina did not serve as an atypical hindrance to production.[14]
In March 2007, production moved to Los Angeles for two more months of filming. Principal photography was targeted to last a total of 150 days. Additional time was needed at visual effects house Digital Domain to make the visual effects for the metamorphosis of Brad Pitt's character to the infant stage.[15] The director used a camera system called Contour, developed by Steve Perlman, to capture facial deformation data from live-action performances.[16]
Several digital environments for the film were created by Matte World Digital, including multiple shots of the interior of the New Orleans train station, to show architectural alterations and deterioration throughout different eras. The train station was built as a 3D model and lighting and aging effects were added, using Next Limit's Maxwell rendering software—an architectural visualization tool.[17] Overall production was finished in September 2007.[18]
The score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by French composer Alexandre Desplat, who recorded his score with an 87-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage.[19]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was originally slated for theatrical release in May 2008,[20] but it was pushed back to November 26, 2008.[21] The release date was moved again to December 25 in the United States, January 16, 2009 in Mexico, February 6 in the United Kingdom, February 13 in Italy[22] and February 27 in South Africa.
Box office performance[edit]
On its opening day, the film opened in the number two position behind Marley & Me, in North America with $11,871,831 in 2,988 theaters with a $3,973 average.[3] However, during its opening weekend, the film dropped to the third position behind Marley & Me and Bedtime Stories with $26,853,816 in 2,988 theaters with an $8,987 average. The film has come to gross $127.5 million domestically and $206.4 million in foreign markets, with a total gross of $333.9 million.[3]
Critical response[edit]
The film has received positive reviews, with Pitt's performance receiving praise. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 72% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 235 reviews.[23] According to Metacritic, the film received an average score of 70 out of 100, based on 37 reviews.[24] Yahoo! Movies reported the film received a B+ average score from critical consensus, based on 12 reviews.[25]
Todd McCarthy of Variety magazine gave the film a positive review, calling it a "richly satisfying serving of deep-dish Hollywood storytelling."[26] Peter Howell of The Toronto Star says: "It's been said that the unexamined life is not worth living. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button suggests an addendum: a life lived backwards can be far more enriching" and describes the film as "a magical and moving account of a man living his life resoundingly in reverse" and "moviemaking at its best."[27] Rod Yates of Empire awarded it five out of a possible five stars.[28] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter felt the film was "superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date." Honeycutt praised Fincher's directing of the film and noted that the "cinematography wonderfully marries a palette of subdued earthern colors with the necessary CGI and other visual effects that place one in a magical past." Honeycutt states the bottom line about Benjamin Button is that it is "an intimate epic about love and loss that is pure cinema."[29]
A. O. Scott of The New York Times states: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, more than two and a half hours long, sighs with longing and simmers with intrigue while investigating the philosophical conundrums and emotional paradoxes of its protagonist's condition in a spirit that owes more to Jorge Luis Borges than to Fitzgerald." Scott praised director David Fincher and writes "Building on the advances of pioneers like Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson and Robert Zemeckis, Mr. Fincher has added a dimension of delicacy and grace to digital filmmaking" and further states: "While it stands on the shoulders of breakthroughs like Minority Report, The Lord of the Rings and Forrest Gump, Benjamin Button may be the most dazzling such hybrid yet, precisely because it is the subtlest." He also stated: "At the same time, like any other love--like any movie--it is shadowed by disappointment and fated to end."[30] On the other hand, Anne Hornaday of The Washington Post states: "There's no denying the sheer ambition and technical prowess of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. What's less clear is whether it entirely earns its own inflated sense of self-importance" and further says, "It plays too safe when it should be letting its freak flag fly."[31] Kimberley Jones of the Austin Chronicle panned the film and states, "Fincher's selling us cheekboned movie stars frolicking in bedsheets and calling it a great love. I didn't buy it for a second."[32]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying that it is "a splendidly made film based on a profoundly mistaken premise." He goes on to elaborate that "the movie's premise devalues any relationship, makes futile any friendship or romance, and spits, not into the face of destiny, but backward into the maw of time."[33] Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian called it "166 minutes of twee tedium", giving it one star out of a possible five.[34]
Cosmo Landesman of the Sunday Times wrote: "The film's premise serves no purpose. It's a gimmick that goes on for nearly three hours," concluding "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an anodyne Hollywood film that offers a safe and sanitised view of life and death. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards," while awarding the film two out of five stars.[35] James Christopher in The Times called it "a tedious marathon of smoke and mirrors. In terms of the basic requirements of three-reel drama the film lacks substance, credibility, a decent script and characters you might actually care for"[36] while Derek Malcolm of London's Evening Standard notes that "never at any point do you feel that there's anything more to it than a very strange story traversed by a film-maker who knows what he is doing but not always why he is doing it."[37]
Home media[edit]
The film was released on DVD on May 5, 2009 by Paramount, and on Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD by The Criterion Collection. The Criterion release includes over three hours of special features, and a documentary about the making of the film.[38]
As of November 1, 2009 the DVD has sold 2,515,722 DVD copies and has generated $41,196,515 in sales revenue.[39]
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Those who preceded Mr. Roth in the attempt include Robin Swicord (Practical Magic), Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Jim Taylor (Sideways).
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Chaffin said Pitt and Blanchett finished their scenes in Mandeville earlier Tuesday morning at the Lewisburg set. Monday, the pair and other cast members filmed scenes outside of Madisonville, she said.
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- ^ Howell, Peter (December 24, 2008). "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Moviemaking at its best". The Toronto Star. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
- ^ Yates, Rod (February 2009). "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Empire (236) (Australia). p. 43.
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Also scoring in double figures for the Nittany Lions (9-7, 1-2 Big Ten) were Tim Frazier and Jermaine Marshall with 15 and 10 points, respectively. Frazier, who shot only 7-of-20 from the floor on the night, accounted for a game-high nine assists which was one shy of the Purdue total. Matt Glover chipped in with 11 rebounds and five assists as PSU snapped a two-game slide.
The Boilermakers (12-4, 2-1) were paced by Robbie Hummel who tallied 14 points, although he made just 1-of-4 shots beyond the arc as the team had a three-game win streak come to an end. D.J. Byrd contributed 12 points off the bench for the visitors.
Penn State's defense collapsed on the Boilermakers in the first half, holding Purdue to a mere six field goals on 24 attempts, making it rather easy for the Lions to post a 32-18 advantage at the break.
In the second half Purdue was limited to just nine conversions from the floor as PSU ran away with the 20-point triumph.
Penn State, which held a 38-26 rebounding advantage, also outscored the visitors in the paint by a 26-8 margin.
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Sticky Situation - How to shoe when nails won't do Stephen E. O'Grady, D.V.M.
The next time your farrier shows up, he might be pulling out a tube of glue instead of a box of nails. No-nail alternatives are not meant to replace conventional horseshoeing, but are a temporary measure that can be used to attach a shoe while treating or trying to resolve an underlying hoof problem.
Equilox, a polymethylmethacrylate composite, was introduced in 1986, having been developed for repair of hoof-wall losses and cracks. This acrylic is both flexible and adhesive.
Your farrier will trim the hoof and prepare it as for a normal shoeing. Any type of aluminum shoe--preferably one with quarter clips--can be used. The shoes are fitted so that they extend slightly beyond the hoof wall from the widest part of the hoof to the heel, thereby providing a "base" for the bead of composite that will be smoothed out onto the hoof wall.
The prepared hoof and aluminum shoe are washed with a solvent, and the composite is mixed, then combined with strands of fiberglass, a combination that makes the Equilox easier to mold and more flexible while adding structural strength to the bond.
The combined composite and fiberglass are rolled into two tubes. One roll is placed on either side of the prepared foot, starting at the quarter and extending to the heel.
The shoe is positioned, and the excess material on the hoof surface is molded to the existing concavity of the sole. This forms a false sole, which provides additional protection. The hoof is covered in plastic and allowed to cure.
To remove the shoe, hoof nippers are placed between the shoe and the hoof. One or two cuts are made through the glue at the heel, and the shoes are peeled forward.
Shoes should be reset in four to six weeks, and they can be glued on again, if necessary, or replaced with traditional horseshoes.
Glue-on shoes are rarely lost, if applied properly.
Stephen O'Grady is a vet and farrier with Northern Virginia Equine Practice, The Plains, Va.
Adhere to farriery principals
Horses with damaged, inconsistent or thin hoof walls can benefit from being shod without nails. Acute or chronic laminitis, extensive hoof wall separations (white line disease), resections or avulsions of the hoof wall, third phalanx fractures and severely damaged heels resulting from the long toe/underrun heel syndrome are all candidates for glue-on shoes.
Glue-on shoeing can be expensive and time-consuming. Success depends on proper hoof wall preparation, shoe fit and composite application. Glue-on shoes are not a replacement of the farriery skills used in resolving difficult cases, nor should the technology be mistaken for the fundamentals of proper horseshoeing.
All the available acrylics need tremendous heat to cure; exercise caution when repeatedly applying these products to a thin or compromised hoof wall. The acrylics' long-term effects on the hoof wall are not known at this time.
© Southern States Cooperative, Inc., Reprinted from Mane Points, with permission of Southern States Cooperative, Inc.


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The audio of Bharathiraja's Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum was launched amidst much fanfare in Madurai
As Bharathiraja started off with his trademark "En Iniya Tamil Makkale…", the venue resounded with cheers and claps. Speaking at the audio launch of his new flick Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum, he said, "I share a special connection with Madurai though I am from Theni. The city's colourful culture and warm people have impacted me in many ways." He went on to attribute his knowledge in art and language to his formative years spent in the temple town.
A pioneer in showcasing the rural milieu in Tamil cinema, Bharathiraja has introduced nearly 44 stars to the industry. On his passion for pastoral subjects, he said, "Cinema took me to Chennai. But, I took cinema to the villages. And that's my achievement. I always wanted to depict the life of a layman."
Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum also being Bharathiraja's 50th creation has aroused high expectations among fans. Apart from the fact that it will be another trademark Bharathiraja film, the director and other crew members remained tight-lipped about the details. Manoj Bharathiraja and Karthika play the lead in the film for which the music is composed by G.V. Prakash Kumar. Apart from Vairamuthu, Gangai Amaran has penned the lyrics. All the six songs sound earthy.
Famous faces from the industry who had worked closely with Bharathiraja lavished praise on the director. K. Bhagyaraj and actor Radhika recalled some lighter moments, while Radha thanked Bharathiraja for choosing her daughter Karthika to play the role of Annakodi. Director Bhagyaraj chose the occasion to announce the title of his upcoming film, Thunai Muthalvar Unopposed.
Another highlight of the event was the presence of the two 'rajas' on the dais — Bharathiraja and Ilaiyaraja. The duo spoke about their successful journey in cinema. Radhika praised Bharathiraja for depicting women as strong characters in his films. Producer Rajkannu said that Pathinaaru Vayathinile was the first Tamil film to have been shot in natural light and settings.
The mega event attracted a multitude of fans apart from Kollywood's glitterati such as actors Satyaraj and Ramesh Kanna and directors Parthiban, Susindhran and Sargunam. Later, the audio of Annakodiyum Kodiveeranum was released by Ilaiyaraja and received by Balu Mahendra.


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In 1996, a revolutionary concept occurred in military medicine. Until then, battlefield prehospital trauma care followed the same guidelines developed for the urban U.S. civilian environment. But following the October 3, 1993, Battle of Mogadishu1, the U.S. Special Operations Command sponsored a study to review how casualty care was conducted. The panel's consensus: Conventional civilian medicine was not appropriate for optimizing casualty care within the tactical environment.
To that end, two military physicians with extensive tactical experience authored a set of guidelines intended to improve casualty care during tactical operations.1,2 These Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines have been consistently reviewed and updated, and are approved by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma for inclusion in their Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support guidelines.3
A decade ago, we were attempting to apply civilian techniques to the combat environment; today, we're examining the opposite: Are there lessons learned from tactical medicine that may improve or facilitate civilian prehospital trauma care? Although tactical medicine generally breaks down care by tactical situation (e.g., care under fire, tactical field care and tactical evacuation), this article will examine the issue by categories of trauma interventions.
Hemorrhage Control
Isolated extremity hemorrhage remains the primary cause of potentially preventable death during combat operations. Casualty care improvements, including better medical devices, guidelines and training down to the individual soldier level, have focused on decreasing this cause of mortality.
Another article within this supplement ("Tourniquet First!" p.24) explores temporary emergency tactical tourniquets in depth. For the purposes of this article, it's simplest to point out that new tourniquets, and new guidelines for early tourniquet use in far-forward casualty care, are saving lives.4 The primary tactical tourniquet recommended by the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) is the Combat
Application Tourniquet (C-A-T), followed by the Special Operations Forces Tactical Tourniquet (SOF-TT). The Delphi Emergency & Medical Tourniquet (EMT) is the primary pneumatic tourniquet used with fixed surgical facilities and unit aid stations.5,6,7
Compression bandages are widely used throughout the military. Several new commercial products represent a significant improvement over older, non-compression style bandages. These newer devices all incorporate a non-adherent bandage in the form of an elastic wrap tail. Sequential wrapping of the elastic tail generates a compressive force that, when combined with gauze packing, creates an extremely efficient and effective pressure bandage. The Emergency Bandage by First Care Products was the first of these modern compression bandages to gain widespread acceptance.
The Emergency Trauma Dressing by North American Rescue (NAR) represents a significant design improvement over older devices.8 This elastic compression wrap is a tighter weave and generates greater compressive force. The wrap's "Quick Grip" feature (Velcro® enclosures equally spaced along the wrap) prevents the entire wrap from unrolling prematurely if the wrap is accidentally dropped during application.
Certain wound locations—such as the proximal extremities, axilla, groin, torso and neck—make it difficult to control hemorrhage with direct pressure and compression dressings; tourniquets are also ineffective in many of these areas. Researchers have developed several new tools and clinical guidelines to address this critical issue. Over the past few years, a number of hemostatic agents, in both bandage and powder form, have been developed that actually arrest life-threatening arterial hemorrhage.9,10,11
The most recent research conducted by both the Army and Navy research centers compared more than 10 types of hemostatic agents for controlling arterial hemorrhage in animal models. One granular product (WoundStat, manufactured by Trauma Cure) was found to have a 100% survival rate for subjects with wounds that would otherwise be fatal. Another product, an improved gauze impregnated with a kaolin substance (Combat Gauze, manufactured by Z-Medica), demonstrated greater than 80% efficacy in independent lab presentations to the research committee. This product is actually a pro-coagulant that promotes blood clotting.
These newer hemostatic agents are proving to be both more effective and less expensive than those previously approved by the TCCC committee. In clinical trials, WoundStat showed the highest clinical efficacy, yet it is a granular-based product, which is problematic to adequately apply during tactical operations. Combat Gauze showed the next highest efficacy. Both were superior to the benchmark HemCon and QuikClot. Celox, a granular chitosan-based agent, also outperformed both HemCon and QuikClot in both USAIR and Naval Research Lab Studies. Note: This data was taken from the "Comparative Testing and Analysis of New Hemostatic Agents in Lethal Injury Models" presentation, which provides pre-published data from the Navy Research Lab and the Army Institute of Surgical Research to the TCCC committee.
However, Celox didn't perform as well as WoundStat or Combat Gauze. It's a lighter weight powder than WoundStat, which makes application to arterial hemorrhage injury difficult.
Based upon the results of these studies and input from combat medics regarding device preferences, the TCCC committee revised its recommendations. The newest guideline change is to utilize Combat Gauze as the primary hemostatic agent, with WoundStat as the backup or when the wound characteristics are more amenable to a granular agent.
Although mortality from isolated hemorrhage is not as high in the civilian community as it is in the combat environment, it does exist. Additionally, reducing the potential morbidity and cost of blood transfusion requirements by arresting hemorrhage early, at little to no risk to the patient or rescuer, is a huge potential benefit.
Many EMS agencies have been using hemostatic agents for some time with excellent results. The newer agents are far superior to the earlier ones and have come down in price. Why wouldn't we want to place an additional tool in the EMT, paramedic and first responder's toolkit that requires little training, is cost effective and has few side effects?
Airway & Breathing
Historically, tension pneumothorax and simple airway obstruction comprise the second and third most common causes of potentially preventable combat deaths. Penetrating trauma still remains the leading mechanism of injury during combat. Because the incidence of cervical spine injuries with isolated penetrating trauma is extremely low, obtaining and maintaining C-spine immobilization is neither practical nor advisable during the majority of tactical operations. Instead, soldiers are taught to place unconscious casualties in the lateral recovery position, thus minimizing the risk of airway occlusion from blood, vomitus or a flaccid tongue. When a casualty is placed in the prone position, the nasal pharyngeal airway represents the best choice for a simple airway adjunct.
When a more definitive method of airway control is required within the tactical environment, especially in the setting of facial trauma, most experts recommend the surgical cricothyrotomy as the procedure of choice. This complex, invasive procedure requires appropriate training under realistic conditions to maximize a rescuer's chance for successful task completion.
Adequate tools are required to facilitate this procedure, one of the most important being a laryngeal hook. Although few surgical instruments are designed specifically for the tactical environment, NAR's Tracheal Hook is one exception.
The Tracheal Hook is designed specifically to facilitate this surgical procedure under less-than-optimal conditions. Once an incision is made, the the small end of the Tracheal Hook is inserted into the cricoid cartilage and lifted up for stabilization and anterior displacement. This better exposes the hole opening for insertion of the tracheal tube.
NAR includes this Tracheal Hook in a complete, compact surgical cricothyroidotomy kit that facilitates rapid completion of this procedure under high-stress circumstances.
Other airway devices for the tactical environment remain controversial. Although retrospective casualty analysis is still being conducted, there has been no data supporting a clear survival benefit for supraglottic devices. Multiple prehospital studies have been conducted on these devices, but those studies did not account for the extent to which casualties are moved within the tactical environment.
Although the Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) has received many favorable reports from both the anesthesia and prehospital literature, military trauma providers are concerned that the devices are too easily dislodged during rigorous extractions and evacuations. The Army evaluated several devices and chose two: the dual-lumen CombiTube and the single-lumen King LT-D. Of these two devices, the King LT-D demonstrated a distinct advantage in terms of rapid, correct insertion over the CombiTube.12 Training novice users to correctly employ the King LT-D was easier, and the skill was retained for a longer period of time than with the CombiTube.13
Penetrating chest injuries represent a complex problem in the tactical environment. Traditional methods of patient assessment, such as visual inspection and auscultation with a stethoscope, are not always possible in a low-light, high-noise combat environment. Although medics are trained to locate and seal open chest wounds, securing an occlusive dressing to a sweaty, bloody, hairy chest to prevent air entry is not an easy task. Surgical tape doesn't always stick, and fashioning bandages under duress is difficult.
As a result, a single adhesive dressing that effectively occludes a chest wall defect is a required item in the medic's kit. The commercially available Asherman Chest Seal has been used by the military, but newer products, such as the Hyfin chest seal, offer more aggressive adhesive that keeps the pliable dressing in place throughout a rigorous evacuation process. Although the Hyfin chest seal does not feature a relief valve, tactical and civilian medics are well trained in recognizing and treating a tension pneumothorax.
Penetrating chest trauma is responsible for the second leading historical cause of potentially preventable combat death: tension pneumothorax.14,15 Combat medics are taught to have a very high suspicion for this problem when managing penetrating trauma, and to treat it with a needle thoracostomy. Although controversy exists regarding the efficacy of this procedure in civilian prehospital literature, combat experience shows it to be a life-saving procedure within the tactical environment.
Realizing that a needle thoracostomy is not a definitive treatment, combat medics are taught to use a 14-gauge by 8-cm (3.25") angiocath device to perform an invasive procedure that converts a life-threatening tension pneumothorax to a survivable simple pneumothorax.
Military rescuers are trained to utilize the 2nd or 3rd intercostal spaces, mid-clavicular line approach as their primary procedure, with adjustment to the anterior axillary line if the primary site is compromised or unsuccessful.
Needle thoracostomy will be successful only if the needle tip penetrates into the air pocket. Note: The 3.25" catheter is recommended because several studies confirm that the average adult chest wall is greater than 5 cm, and if the insertion angle is not perpendicular, that distance may increase by almost a full centimeter.16–18
NAR's Air Release System (ARS) represents a significant advance in human-factors engineering for this simple device. Many systems use the typical angiocaths for this procedure, which have a flash chamber cap attached to the catheter assembly. Although this chamber cap prevents unnecessary blood loss when used to start an IV, it precludes the release of air when used in needle thoracostomy. Therefore, providers often fail to remove the cap on the standard angiocath when performing this procedure under duress.
When they insert an ordinary angiocatheter through the chest wall and fail to appreciate an improvement in the casualty's status, providers assume the procedure wasn't effective and remove the entire catheter assembly without having treated the underlying problem.
The ARS does not incorporate a flash chamber cap; thus, when a rescuer penetrates the chest wall into the pneumothorax pocket, there's no additional step required to relieve the pressure. Air immediately escapes through the device, confirming successful placement.
TCCC guidelines emphasize a hypovolemic resuscitation algorithm. Combat medics are trained to evaluate combat casualties for hypovolemic shock, and initiate IV fluid resuscitation only after obtaining hemorrhage control. They assess the radial pulse character and mental status as clinical markers for IV fluid requirements.
Medical supply resources are extremely limited in the tactical environment, often constrained by what the medics can carry in their aid bags. IV fluids represent the heaviest component of all medical supplies, necessitating a fluid that provides appropriate volume expansion for the longest possible time. The military selected Hextend as the fluid of choice for hypovolemic resuscitation due to hemorrhage.
Medics are trained to secure IV access for combat casualties through the use of a saline lock device. The saline lock procedure is slightly modified from typical clinical applications in that, once secured, it's accessed by a second IV catheter. This provides a measure of security to prevent accidental dislodgement and allows medics to administer IV medications when IV fluid resuscitation is not required.
Securing IV access via a saline lock is a technique used by many civilian prehospital services so they have IV access and don't have to expend medical supplies to run IV fluids at a "TKO" rate.
When IV access is difficult to obtain in the hypovolemic combat casualty, medics use intraosseous (IO) devices to secure parenteral access.Military medics access multiple sites for rapid fluid administration, including the manubrium, tibia, humeral head and clavicle. The devices that have demonstrated superior efficacy in battlefield medicine include the Pyng FAST1 sternal intraosseous device and the VidaCare EZ-IO.19-22 Many civilian EMS agencies and hospital emergency departments have successfully incorporated these devices into their protocols. Note: A pressure infusion device must be used when administering fluids through an IO needle.
Evacuation & Transportation
Traditional manual carries and drags of non-ambulatory casualties depicted in numerous texts simply aren't effective when rescuer and casualty alike are outfitted in full combat gear. Additionally, a tactical unit carrying evacuation platforms/stretchers into live combat can negatively impact maneuverability if the selected platform is too bulky or heavy for a single person to carry effectively.
The Talon II by NAR provides the material solution for this issue. Unlike non-rigid litters, the Talon provides a measure of patient safety by preventing excessive body movement, securing the casualty to the device via the integrated safety straps. In addition, over most terrain, moving a rigid litter requires much less effort than other types of platforms. The litter can then be secured directly to a vehicle or to a traditional movement gurney. Collapsible rigid litters are also easily stored in vehicles and occupy relatively little space.
Until fairly recently, hypothermia was a major source of morbidity among combat casualties. Even though ambient temperatures in combat areas often exceeded 100º F during daytime hours, casualties who had been previously exposed during evaluation and treatment were arriving at Combat Support Hospitals and Forward Surgical Teams profoundly hypothermic.
One retrospective review revealed that 18% of casualties evacuated to one hospital arrived with core temperatures of less than 36ºC.23 This study showed that the presence of hypothermia was an independent predictor of operative management, surgical procedures, Factor VIIa use and mortality, with temperatures of less than 34ºC associated with a near 100% mortality rate.
Acknowledging that active re-warming capability at the point of injury during tactical operations is not logistically feasible, military medical researchers turned their efforts toward hypothermia prevention. Traditional "space blankets" were found not to be effective enough; soldiers needed a small, lightweight product that could be easily carried in a medic's aid bag, preferably without an external power source. The result was a system that incorporates a heat source with an improved insulator.24
NAR's Hypothermia Prevention Management Kit (HPMK) is a vacuum-sealed compact kit that has proven very effective in preventing hypothermia. It was selected as one of the hot products at the 2008 EMS Today Conference.
Educating military rescuers on the importance of hypothermia and employing an effective kit virtually eliminated the incidence of hypothermia-related complications and mortality. The HPMK's compact size and proven performance makes it an ideal candidate for consideration as a contingency item in civilian emergency vehicles and an important asset to have on hand in large quantities for use at MCIs.
Another challenge encountered during tactical operations: adequately medicating casualties in a timely manner. When casualty evacuation delays occur, the timely administration of antibiotics is crucial for the prevention of subsequent wound infections.
One product that addresses both moderate pain control and antibiotic prophylaxis is the Combat Wound Pill Pack, a "homemade" packet that Special Operations Forces use consisting of acetaminophen, meloxicam and a flouroquinolone. The combination of acetaminophen and meloxicam provides analgesia for mild to moderate pain without altering the sensorium, thus allowing the operator to continue participating in the tactical mission.
Military medical providers have also successfully used oral trans-mucosal fentanyl devices for pain management during combat operations. These devices have the advantage of rapid onset of action, significant pain-control properties, not requiring IV/IO access and the ability to be self-administered and titrated.25 Although not required for every trauma patient, such devices certainly bear consideration for use as a viable option in civilian prehospital and emergency department pain-control protocols.
Military medicine has contributed to many advances in prehospital trauma care by applying sound medical principles to account for the challenging tactical environment. These advances were achieved due to the requirement to optimize casualty care while simultaneously minimizing the impact on ongoing combat operations. Although all these applications may not be appropriate for the contemporary civilian environment, we should examine current military tactical medical techniques and procedures for possible crossover benefit to our civilian trauma patients, or as areas that may require further study.
Dr. Jeffrey Cain is an emergency medicine physician practicing in McKinney, Texas. He is a graduate of West Point and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, with service in the 75th Ranger Regiment as an infantry officer and later as a battalion physician. Other active-duty Army assignments included academic director for the Army Combat Medic Course and research physician with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research. He has conducted extensive TCCC training for the Department of Defense and other government organizations, and is currently serving as the vice chairman for the Committee on TCCC. Cain has reported receiving honoraria and/or research support, either directly or indirectly, from the sponsor of this supplement, North American Rescue.


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