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The Merry Pranksters were a group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964. The group promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called "Furthur" or "Further".[citation needed] During this time they met many of the guiding lights of the mid 60's cultural movement and presaged what is commonly thought of as "hippies" with odd behavior, long hair on men, bizarre clothing, and a renunciation of the normal society, which they dubbed, "The Establishment". Tom Wolfe chronicled their early escapades in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Wolfe also documents a notorious 1966 trip on Further from Mexico through Houston, stopping to visit Kesey's friend, novelist Larry McMurtry. Kesey was in flight from a drug charge at the time. [1] Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia, and Neal Cassady. Stewart Brand, Paul Foster, the Warlocks (now known as the Grateful Dead), Del Close (then a lighting designer for the Grateful Dead), Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, and "Kentucky Fab Five" writers Ed McClanahan and Gurney Norman (who overlapped with Kesey and Babbs as creative writing graduate students at Stanford University) were associated with the group to varying degrees.[citation needed]
These events are also documented by one of the original pranksters, Lee Quarnstrom, in his memoir titled When I Was a Dynamiter.
Origin of Name[edit]
In an interview on BBC World Service in August 2014,[2] Ken Babbs suggested that the name "The Merry Pranksters" was his idea:
Kesey and George Walker and I were out wandering around and the rest of the gang were sitting around a fire in Kesey's house in La Honda, and when we came back it was dark and Mike Hagen called out "Halt! Who goes there?" And just out of the blue I said, "'Tis I, the intrepid traveller, come to lead his merry band of pranksters across the nation, in the reverse order of the pioneers! And our motto will be "the obliteration of the entire nation"…not taken literally of course, we won't blow up their buildings, we'll blow their minds!"
Eastward bus journey[edit]
On June 17, 1964, Kesey and 13 Merry Pranksters boarded "Furthur" at Kesey's ranch in La Honda, California, and set off eastward. Kesey wanted to see what would happen when hallucinogenic-inspired spontaneity confronted what he saw as the banality and conformity of American society. One author ([who?]) has suggested that the bus trip reversed the historic American westward movement of the centuries.[3]
The trip's original purpose was to celebrate the publication of Kesey's novel Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) and to visit the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. The Pranksters were enthusiastic users of marijuana, amphetamines, and LSD, and in the process of their journey they are said to have "turned on" many people by introducing them to these drugs.[4]
The stated destination of the psychedelically painted bus - destination "further" - was the Merry Pranksters' goal: a destination that could only be obtained through the expansion of one's own perceptions of reality. They traveled cross-country giving LSD to anyone who was willing to try it (LSD was legal in the United States until October 1966).[4]
Novelist Robert Stone, who met the bus on its arrival in New York, has written [in his memoir Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007)] that those accompanying Kesey on the trip were Neal Cassady (described by Stone as "the world's greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon"), Ken Babbs ("fresh from the Nam, full of radio nomenclature, and with a command voice that put cops to flight"), Jane Burton ("a pregnant young philosophy professor who declined no challenges"), Page Browning ("a Hell's Angel candidate"), George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt ("dis-MOUNT"), Mike Hagen ("Mal Function"), Ron Bevirt ("Hassler"), Chuck Kesey, Dale Kesey, John Babbs, Steve Lambrecht and Paula Sundstren ("aka Gretchin Fetchin, Slime Queen").[5]
Hells Angels[edit]
Kesey and the Pranksters also had a relationship with the infamous outlaw motorcycle gang the Hells Angels, whom Kesey introduced to LSD. The details of their relationship are documented in Wolfe's above-mentioned book, in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966), and in Allen Ginsberg's poem about the Kesey/Angels relationship, titled "First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels" (December 1965).[6]
Later events[edit]
In 1969, Further and the Pranksters (minus Kesey) made it to the Woodstock rock festival. The same year, they were also present at the Texas Pop Festival at Lewisville, Texas.[7]
A collection by Kesey of short pieces, several about the Merry Pranksters, called Demon Box (1986), was a critical success,[8] although a subsequent novel, Sailor Song (1992),[9] was not, with critics complaining it was too spacey for comprehension.[citation needed] In 1994, Kesey toured with the Pranksters, performing a play he'd written in 1989 about the millennium, influenced by L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz works, called Twister: A Ritual Reality in Three Quarters Plus Overtime if Necessary.
The Merry Pranksters filmed and audiotaped much of what they did during their bus trips. Some of this material has surfaced in documentaries, including the BBC's Dancing In the Street.[10] Some of the Pranksters have released some of the footage on their own, and a version of the film edited by Kesey himself is available through his son Zane's website.[11] On August 14, 1997, Kesey appeared with the Merry Pranksters at a Phish concert during a performance of the song "Colonel Forbin's Ascent" from the album The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (1987). Kesey and the Pranksters also helped stage The Enit Festival held on November 22, 1997, with Jane's Addiction, Funky Tekno Tribe, Goldie, and Res Fest to round out the bill held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
The original Prankster bus now rests at Kesey's farm in Oregon. In November 2005, it was pulled out of the swamp by Zane Kesey and family and a group of the original Merry Pranksters with the intent of restoring it.[12][13] The Smithsonian Institution sought to acquire the bus, which is no longer operable, but Kesey refused. Kesey attempted, unsuccessfully, to prank the venerable Smithsonian by passing off a phony bus.[citation needed]
Kesey died of complications due to liver cancer in November 2001. Ken Babbs attempts to keep the Prankster spirit alive through his Skypilot Club website, which is a spoof of 1950s comic book clubs and which encourages psychedelic ideals and "mind-expanding" experiences, particularly through immersion in the emotion of love.[citation needed]
On December 10, 2003, Ken Babbs hosted a memorial to Kesey with String Cheese Incident and various other old and new Pranksters. It was held at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene Oregon. The proceeds helped to raise money for the Ken Kesey Memorial sculpture designed by Peter Helzer. The bronze sculpture depicted a life-size Kesey reading to three children while seated on a curved granite bench covered with quotes from Kesey's novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964). (Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker supplied the image.) Other benefactors for the project include Bob Weir, Paul Newman (who starred in the 1971 film adaptation of Sometimes a Great Notion) and Michael Douglas (who produced the 1975 film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).
In 2005, Kesey's son Zane asked a friend, Matthew Rick, also known as Shady Backflash, to put on a 40th anniversary of his father's Acid Tests. Matthew got together a small group of promoters, including Rob Robinson from New York, to help him produce the event, which was held in Las Vegas on October 31, 2005. It was known as AT40. Zane has hosted several Acid Test parties since then.
2011 documentary[edit]
Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood directed a documentary film Magic Trip (2011) about the Merry Pranksters, released August 5, 2011.
50th Anniversary Trip[edit]
In April 2014, Zane, along with friend Derek Stevens, announced a Kickstarter to fund a 50th anniversary Furthur Bus Trip, offering donors a chance to ride the famous bus. The fundraiser was successful, and the trip occurred from June through September of 2014.[14] Over 100 participants were invited to ride on legs of the trip as a new batch of Merry Pranksters. The 2014 journey was over 15,000 miles, 53 different events, took place in 29 different states and was 75 days of Merry Prankster mayhem and fun on the road. A group of filmmakers from Canada are producing a documentary about the project slated for release in 2015 under the title "Going Furthur." [15]
- ^ Anderson, Kurt (Host) (August 12, 2011). "Episode #1232: Ken Kesey's Magic Trip and Extreme Tango". Studio 360.
- ^ BBC Radio 4 Witness Programme, first aired 31 August 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0253hsr?ocid=socialflow_twitter
- ^ Cavallo, Dominick (1999). A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 110–11. ISBN 0-312-21930-X.
- ^ a b Studio 360: Episode #1232
- ^ Stone, Robert (2007). Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties. HarperCollins. p. 120.
- ^ Ginsberg, Allen (1988). Collected Poems 1947-1980. Harper Perennial Library Edition. p. 374.
- ^ "Texas Pop Festival". About.com.
- ^ Kesey, Ken (1987 (first published in 1986)). Demon Box. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140085303. Check date values in:
- ^ Kesey, Ken (1993 (first published in 1992)). Sailor Song. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140139976. Check date values in:
- ^ [Twister: A Ritual Reality in Three Quarters Plus Overtime if Necessary "Dancing In the Street"]. IMDb. 1995.
- ^ Kesey, Zane (Producer) (2011). Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place.
- ^ "Ken Kesey's original magic bus being restored". MSNBC. January 20, 2006. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
- ^ Barnard, Jeff (9 January 2006). "Kesey's bus on magic road to resurrection (Associated Press)". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Furthur Bus 50th Anniversary "Trip"". Kickstarter. April 28, 2014.
- ^ http://goingfurthur.com/
External links[edit]
- Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters website - with timeline, posters, recordings & Acid Test essay, maintained by psychedelic researcher Patrick Lundborg
- Psychedelic 60s: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters at University of Virginia library[dead link]


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It was October, the 13th 2001 that the second edition of Mystic Festival took place. Organized by the leading metal label from Poland – Mystic Production – it caught attention of over 2000 metal maniacs not only from Poland but also from Ukraine, Belarussia, Czech Republic and Slovakia; deeply devoted metal fans hungry for emotions, excitement and real metal entertainment. They got what they eagered for – a brutal, aggressive, merciless Horrorshow. Noone had to teach bands such as: DEVILYN, SOURCE OF TIDE, SINISTER, BEHEMOTH, ZYKLON, CHILDREN OF BODOM and MAYHEM how to make the crowd crazy. The DVD / VHS is a documentary of what happened that night. Interviews with all of the eight appearing bands, full live tracks from all the artists plus some exlusive, deleted scenes as a bonus footage.The total running time is over 120 min. CEMETERY OF SCREAM – interview + tracks: 1. The Ray Of Cry2. OvercallDEVILYN – interview + tracks:3. Hatched Out Of…4. The Burial Ground Of The GodsSOURCE OF TIDE – interview + tracks:5. Bravery 2000 / Ruins Of Beauty6. Static Development7. Enslaved By PrinciplesSINISTER – interview + tracks:8. Cross The Styx9. Sadistic Intent10. Aggressive MeasuresBEHEMOTH – interview + tracks:11. Pan Satyros12. Antichristian Phenomenon13. Chant For ESXHATON 2000ZYKLON – interview + tracks:14. Storm Detonation15. Worm World16. Hammer RevelationCHILDREN OF BODOM – interview + tracks:17. Lake Bodom18. Bodom After Midnight19. Deadnight Warrior20. Mask Of SanityMAYHEM – interview + various shots from the stage


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The growing number of working women in the city indicates that men no longer are the only bread-winners in families. However, crimes against women have gone up, especially working women, who feel vulnerable while travelling late in the night. Also chain-snatching incidents have earned the city a bad name. Is the police force doing enough to protect the fairer sex? Speak Up finds out
A decade ago, it was safe to go out at night
I grew up in Pune and as far as security of women in the city is concerned, it is very safe compared to other cities in India. The only concern is the increase in theft and break-ins; therefore it has become unsafe for women to stay home alone, especially in the night.
If you have your own car or two-wheeler then travelling around the city is not a problem for women. Walking on the road in few areas in the city or using public transport has become a little uncomfortable for women. We have to be cautious and alert all the time.
A decade ago, it was safe for women to venture out even after 9 pm. Now I feel a little bit uneasy going out alone. Incidents of chain-snatching in the city have dramatically gone up, wherein women have got injured while trying to resist being robbed. Even general crimes against women have increased but despite all this, the city is still fairly safer for women.
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Compared to other cities especially Delhi, Pune is a much safer place for women. In a city like Delhi, women cannot even imagine venturing out alone after dark, which is not the case in Pune. In fact, many woman over here are coming forward to file police complaints of atrocities against them. Patriarchal violence against women has also taken different forms. The increase in registered cases of crimes against women is no indicator of the fact that the city is unsafe.
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Ten years ago work on the Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road had begun and it is only later this week and just few days before Mumbai goes to vote that the road will be opened for public use.
Work on the Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road, a missing road, had begun in September 2003, but the ground work finally took off in 2007, thereafter, the project has witnessed numerous hurdles, repeated deadline revisions and cost escalation. The initial cost was Rs163.8 crore, which is now Rs504 crore, that is an increase of 350 per cent.
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According to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority's (MMRDA) spokesperson Dilip Kawathkar, "Final touches are being given to the 3.5 km long link road."
"We will soon announce the date of it's opening. But there will not be any fanfare," said UPS Madan, metropolitan commissioner of MMRDA.
The link will be opened only by this weekend, as bitumen work is pending at the Chembur end of the link road. Apart from this, even street lights have not been installed. The plan is to open the road just days before the city goes for vote despite some incomplete works. The Santa Cruz end of the link road starts from Vakola on the Western Express Highway and snakes through Kalina-CST Road-Tilak Nagar-Amar Mahal and finally end on the Eastern Express Highway at Chembur.
Aimed to decongest the existing arterial roads, with its opening the traffic snarls is likely to ease at Amar Mahal, Kurla, Kalanagar, Sion and Dharavi. The travelling time too will reduce from 60 minutes to 20 minutes. It has a double decker flyover.
This is one of the India's most delayed road project. In 2010, World Bank India's then head Roberto Zagha, had said that Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road is the world's most delayed road project funded by them.
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It is not merely long hours of study and in-depth preparation that make a topper in the Civil Services. Top rankers in the 2010 examination say it is a combination of hard work and right guidance, besides other factors, that enabled them to reac" the summit.
Most of the students, including third rank-holder R V Varun Kumar, come from different parts of the State to Chennai and stay for at least two years to prepare for their civil services examinations. They often seek out coaching centres, suitable study material and depend on family and friends to help them crack the test.
S. Divyadharshini, the topper, says that after she failed to clear the exam in her first attempt, she had to depend more on group study with friends under her mentor S. Prabhakaran. She is a product of the Prabha IAS IPS Coaching Academy run by Mr. Prabhakaran.
"Hard work, the right study material and support of family and friends also play a role in our success," says Mr. Varun Kumar.
Fourth-placed Abhiram Shankar, too, attributes his success to his parents' support and the coaching he got at Shankar IAS Academy. K Vijayakarthikeyan, another Chennai candidate who was ranked 22{+n}{+d}, says model tests conducted by coaching centres help in evaluation of the candidates' level of preparation. Despite the UPSC's efforts to reduce the impact of coaching centres on the results, these institutes keep churning out successful candidates. Some of them conduct free coaching.
The All India Civil Services Coaching Centre run by the State government in Chennai has played a key role in creating awareness among the students from the weaker sections of the society. Poor candidates from rural areas are selected through an entrance test by the institute. The government provides them books, food and boarding. Coaching by senior bureaucrats and academicians is being organised for the students by the government at the institute free of cost, said the principal of the All India Civil Services Coaching Centre. "A total of 48 students have emerged successful from the institute," she said.
Manidhanaeyam Free IAS IPS Coaching Centre, which extends free coaching, says 36 of its candidates have been selected for the civil services this year. "The institute shaped me to become a winner," says Varun Kumar.
According to a release from Ganesh's IAS Study Centre, 23 of its students have cleared the exam.
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The ventilation is where the hypervent comes in(or similar product) allowing those air changes to pull the moisture out from under the mattress . However, I think that insulation makes a huge difference too, as in the example of hull temperature, if the insulation keeps the surface temperature 10-15 degrees warmer(and based on my floor vs before insulating the surface, it does) that can certainly help to prevent the condensation forming in the first place.
As a secondary benefit, if it means that the air in the boat stays warmer until it is exhausted from the boat it would mean it holds more moisture.
The hyperdry in lockers at least is less about insulating, it just prevents things from touching the hull and giving that dead air space for mold to form. I've used it in my lazarette and it's making a big difference in how wet things stay(the hatch leaks badly).
I knew about installing "things" under mattress's & cushions just never made that connection to the hull or lockers. It does make sense to use a product that allows air to circulate behind it. An air space in itself is an insulating layer. Not much of one when we look at the R value but many older buildings relied on that air space prior to the development of insulation.
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Barack Obama came to San Francisco with some pretty heavy baggage Nov. 14. His speech at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium was swarmed by a diverse crowd of about 7,000, with most of those we interviewed hungry for an answer to the big question: is Obama the one who can take this troubled country in a new direction?
The Illinois senator had just gotten a bump from a cover story in the Atlantic, "Why Obama Matters," which posits that he is the only candidate capable of moving our country past the divisive culture-war paradigms and into a period when fundamental change is possible.
But time is running out for Obama to take the Democratic presidential nomination from front-runner Hillary Clinton, who has locked up moderates and most women. And some progressives, including labor unions, are behind John Edwards. To win the nomination, Obama must find a way to quickly rally the left including urban voters and the antiwar, social justice, LGBT, and labor movements into an energized voting block.
And that, some progressives say, means he's got to stop playing it safe.
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Days before the speech, former California state senator and 1960s radical Tom Hayden sent Obama a letter taking issue with the latter's comment that Democrats are paralyzed by Vietnam-era fights and in particular, his response, "That's just not my framework."
Hayden argued that Obama was squandering his advantage as the sole credible antiwar candidate by running a safe campaign that equally repudiates both political extremes even though progressives have been far closer to the truth on issues of war, civil rights, economic equity, and the full range of traditional Democratic planks.
Hayden wrote, "The greatest gift you have been given by history is that as the elected tribune of a revived democracy, you could change America's dismal role in the world. Because of what you so eloquently represent, you could convince the world to give America a new hearing, even a new respect. There are no plazas large enough for the crowds that would listen to your every word, wondering if you are the one the whole world is waiting for. They would not wait for long, of course. But they would passionately want to give you the space to reset the American direction."
Many attendees of Obama's SF speech shared similar sentiments. "I'm interested in what he's been saying in his books, but he's become a kind of politician, so I want to hear what he has to say tonight," Jeremy Umland, 33, a third grade teacher from Oakland, said as he was waiting in line. "I think he had a lot of brave ideas in the past, and I'd like to see him get back to that."
Umland, who is white and gay, stood with his partner, Terrence Marks, 34, who is black. The couple are in the process of adopting a child and wanted to hear Obama call for legalizing gay marriage or for a health care plan that doesn't involve insurance companies.
"I'd like to see him address it in a way that doesn't evade this issue," Marks said. "I want to hear him talk not like a politician, but a real person."
Inside, Obama gave voice to many of those same themes.
"Running the same old textbook, by the numbers, Washington campaign just won't do it.... The triangulation and poll-tested positions because we're afraid of what Mitt [Romney] or Rudy [Giuliani] will say about us just won't do it," Obama said, adding, "If we're going to seize the moment, then we can't live in fear of losing."
He said we are in "a defining moment in our history," when Americans need to grapple with war, a planet in peril, economic insecurity, and a political system that seems corrupt and incompetent.


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US Drug Watchdog Now Urges All DePuy Pinnacle Hip All Metal Hip Implant Recipients to Get Blood Tests & They Invite Local AV Rated Law Firms to Join Their Victims Effort
The US Drug Watchdog says, "There are over 130,000 US recipients of the DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant. These all metal hip implants were used between 2002, and 2010, and we are very focused on making certain these DePuy Pinnacle hip implant recipients get blood tests aimed at discovering elevated levels of cobalt, and chromium, and we think the blood tests should happen every six months. We think blood testing is the best way to discover if a all metal hip implant has failed. Because of the size of this group of hip implant recipients we also think we need to build a team of the very best AV rated personal injury, or products liability law firms in every US state, so we can try to help not just the DePuy Pinnacle metal on metal hip implant recipients-but all US recipients of a metal on metal hip implant." According to the New York Times, "Some 500,000 patients have received an all-metal replacement hip, according to one estimate." For more information about the US Drug Watchdog's DePuy Pinnacle Hip Implant Initiative please call the US Drug Watchdog at 866-714-6466, or contact the group via its web site at http://USDrugWatchdog.com
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The US Drug Watchdog says, "We now believe the over 130,000 US citizens who are recipients of the DePuy Pinnacle metal-on-metal hip implant should get blood tests aimed at determining cobalt, and chromium levels every six months. Because we are talking about 130,000+ US citizens, we also think we need to identify AV rated personal injury law firms in each state, that have superior intake, and case management capabilities. The Europeans are suggesting failure rates of metal on metal hip implants, and we want everyone to take this seriously-130,000+ people is enough people to fill the famed Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and Madison Square Gardens in New York to capacity." According to the New York Times on December 27th 2011, "The so-called metal-on-metal hips, in which a device's ball and joint are made of metal, are failing at high rates within a few years instead of lasting 15 years or more, as artificial joints normally do. The wear of metal parts against each other is generating debris that is damaging tissue and, in some cases, crippling patients." For more information recipients of the DePuy Pinnacle metal on metal hip implant are encouraged to contact the US Drug Watchdog. AV rated personal injury law firms, that see the value of an instate approach to helping victims/recipients of a metal on metal hip implant are also encouraged to call the US Drug Watchdog at 866-714-6466. http://USDrugWatchdog.com
Note to all US recipients of a metal on metal hip implant from the US Drug Watchdog: "We now believe the best way for any metal on metal hip implant recipient in the US to determine if their hip implant has failed, or is in the process of failing is to have blood tests twice a year-with a focus on elevated levels of cobalt, and chromium in their blood stream. The primary time frames for metal on metal hip implants in the US are 2002-2010." http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
The US Drug Watchdog says, "The reason we want to build a state by state team of AV rated personal injury, or product liability law firms is simple–many US victims of a defective pharmaceutical product, or medical device might not be willing to call a Texas attorney, because they live in Ohio, or call a California personal injury attorney, if they see a cable TV ad about a defective medical device in Alabama. In many ways the US is like 50 different countries-and it is for this reason we are inviting the very best personal injury law firms, or best products liability law firms in each state to give us a call at 866-714-6466. Because every state is different, our state specific metal on metal hip implant initiatives will all vary-the fact set will be the same, but the atmospherics will be local." http://USDrugWatchdog.Com
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Oilfield Rental Market Analyzed in New MarketsandMarkets Report Now Available at MarketPublishers.com Business Wire LONDON -- April 11, 2013 At present, the worldwide oilfield rental industry is characterized by a high level of fragmentation since most companies are of a small size. Besides, it is highly localized. Weatherford International Ltd is known to be the number one market players, while North America represents the top market. Drilling rental equipment is the largest segment of the overall oilfield rental market, with drill pipes being the most popular product. Chesapeake Oilfield Services, Weatherford International and Precision Drilling Corporation and are among the key global companies. Growing prices for gas and oil as well as the drilling activity increase are set to drive growth of the oilfield rental market in the years to come. As a result, the global market is expected to almost reach USD 47 billion in late 2017, while the North American market is set to the experience the highest revenue growth. New report "Oilfield Rental Market, by Equipment - Drilling (Drillpipe, Drill Collars, Heavy-wate, Subs), Pressure Control & Flow Control (BOPs, Valves, and Manifolds), Fishing, and Others – Global Market Trends & Forecast to 2018" drawn up by MarketsandMarkets offers and insightful discussion of the worldwide oilfield rental market. The report offers detailed overview of the market; uncovers market segmentation, dynamics and competition. Porter's five forces analysis; premium insights; examination of market segments; data on value chain, stake holders and the market size; company profiles and the market forecast can be found in the research study too. Report Details: Title: Oilfield Rental Market, by Equipment - Drilling (Drillpipe, Drill Collars, Heavy-wate, Subs), Pressure Control & Flow Control (BOPs, Valves, and Manifolds), Fishing, and Others – Global Market Trends & Forecast to 2018 Published: April, 2013 Pages: 316 Price: US$ 4,650.00 http://marketpublishers.com/report/life_sciences/healthcare/oilfield-rental-market-by-equipment-drilling-drillpipe-drill-collars-heavy-wate-subs-pressure-control-flow-control-bops-valves-n-manifolds.html More New Reports by MarketsandMarkets Include: *European Nuclear Medicine / Radiopharmaceuticals Market [SPECT/PET Radioisotopes (Technetium, F-18)], [Beta/Alpha Radiation Therapy (I131, Y-90)], [Applications (Cancer/Oncology, Cardiac)] & Stable Isotopes (Deuterium, C-13) - Global Trends & Forecast to 2017] *North America Injectable Drug Delivery Market – by Formulations [Liposomes, Microspheres, & Nanoparticles], Devices [Disposables & Reusable, Fillable & Prefilled, Pen, Needle Free & Auto Injectors] & Therapeutics [Diabetes & Oncology] – Forecasts to 2017 More reports by MarketsandMarkets can be found at http://marketpublishers.com/members/marketsnmarkets/info.html Contact: MarketPublishers, Ltd. Tanya Rezler Tel: +44 208 144 6009 Fax: +44 207 900 3970 email@example.com MarketPublishers.com
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Parshall Highlands project moves forward
Several stumbling blocks to developing the north side of Parshall were cleared as developers Barry Arfa and Bryon Zacher and the Parshall City Council agreed on how permitting the project would proceed.
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Reservation 4-H wins big at State Fair
Seven youth from Twin Buttes, ND had their 4-H projects on display at the 2012 North Dakota State Fair and were awarded ribbons for their achievements, including a Reserve Champion ribbon for a child's traditional dress made by Bailey Morsette.
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Combines are rolling in area fields
Summer time temperatures have helped small grain crops mature and farmers are starting to reap the bounty created by early spring planting.
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MHA Nation announces election dates
The Three Affiliated Tribes has announced that a primary election to select candidates for the Tribal Business Council representatives for New Town/Little Shell Segment, Mandaree Segment and White Shield Segment will be held on September 18.
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Frac sand facility to be built in Makoti
There's a new business coming to the Makoti area.
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Heat, insects affecting crops and pasture
The impact of the region's year without a winter continues to reverberate for area farmers.
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DOT asks for input on long term plans
Every week it seems to take longer and longer to get anywhere.
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Makoti Refinery clears regulatory hurdle
The Clean Fuels Refinery is one step closer to reality after the Environmental Protection Agency gave final approval to the project's water discharge permit.
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ARFA outlines development plans
ARFA Holdings released more information about the company's new development – The Highlands of Parshall – a 300 acre residential and commercial master planned community development. Barry Arfa presented the plan to the Parshall City Council last week.
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Developer outlines big plans for Parshall
His company, Arfa Holdings, presented a plan to develop 300 acres of land north of Seventh Avenue that would include lots for 500 homes, about twice the number that already exist in Parshall. Arfa has been working in Parshall for about the last year.
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You know how teachers are always saying, "I love teaching, the students teach me as much as I teach them."? It's true. Yes, in a high-falutin' idealistic way, but usually in odd and unexpected knowledge. This week, I learned that raping an old person is called "grape" after "grandparent rape". I learned that I could turn off that annoying double click isolate feature in Illustrator. And I learned the worse thing a young man can say to a woman is, "Make me a sandwich." I don't know why. I'd be happy to make someone a sandwich, it doesn't seem that egregious.
The absolute most exciting piece of information was lingscars.com.. Nicole Jacek pointed me to this site ages ago, but I lost it. My students in Type Design 5 found it for me. I'm sure I'm behind the curve on this one. Everyone already probably knows about it, but humor a square designer who spends time looking at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection. Lingscars.com is the most incredible website ever designed. It has everything from singing people, a Darth Vader mask, a walking chicken, and flight attendants doing a safety demo. If that isn't enough, the code is genius.


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Cisco Systems sues rival for infringement of network patents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Network equipment maker Cisco Systems
Inc filed two lawsuits on Friday against Arista
Networks Inc, accusing the smaller rival of copying its
networking technologies.
The lawsuits, filed in a federal court in California, accuse
Arista of infringing on 14 patents on networks and also on
related copyrights, Cisco General Counsel Mark Chandler said in
a blog post.
U.S. court shuts down telemarketer FTC says bilked customers of $120 mln
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – A federal court has
temporarily shut down a U.S. technology telemarketing operation
accused of bilking customers of $120 million, while also
ordering the freezing of assets of telemarketers and their
The Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday that it
successfully asked a federal court in Florida to shut down Boost
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Credit monitoring company One Technologies settles with FTC
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Credit monitoring company One
Technologies LP will refund $22 million to customers to settle
U.S government allegations that its websites inadequately
disclosed its charges for credit scores, the two sides said on
A draft complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
alleged that the Dallas-based privately held company advertised
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U.S. patent office tightens rules for examiners working from home
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – The U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office has tightened supervision of patent examiners who work
full-time from home, an official said on Tuesday, but critics in
Congress questioned whether the office was not going far enough
to curb abuse.
The estimated 5,000 patent examiners who work from home full
time must now be available electronically when they are on duty,
among other changes, Margaret Focarino, commissioner for patents
at the USPTO, said in testimony prepared for a hearing.
Halliburton faces tough sell in taking Baker Hughes deal to regulators
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Halliburton Co will have a tough time convincing U.S. regulators to approve its $35 billion deal to buy smaller rival Baker Hughes Inc but could prevail with the right divestitures, antitrust experts said Monday.
The deal, if approved, would create an oil services behemoth that would overtake current No. 1 Schlumberger NV.
Executives of NSK Ltd, Jtekt Corp indicted for price-fixing: U.S.govt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two executives from Japanese auto parts manufacturers have been indicted as part of the U.S. Justice Department's long-running investigation into price-fixing in the auto parts industry, the government said on Friday.
Hiroya Hirose, who works for NSK Ltd, and Masakazu Iwami of Jtekt Corp were indicted on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky on charges of conspiring to fix the prices of bearings sold to Toyota Motor Corp, the department said.
Exclusive: U.S. FTC asking Apple about health data protection
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking assurances from Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) that it will prevent sensitive health data collected by its upcoming smartwatch and other mobile devices from being used without owners' consent, two sources told Reuters.
The two people, both familiar with the FTC's thinking, said Apple representatives have met on multiple occasions with agency officials in recent months, to stress that it will not sell its users' health data to third-party entities such as marketers or allow third-party developers to do so.
U.S. telecoms to battle Obama Internet plan in courts, Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. telecommunications industry plans to fight tooth and nail against President Barack Obama's call for stricter regulations on Internet service providers, taking its case to regulators, courts and Congress.
Obama on Monday stunned the telecom community by urging the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify ISPs so they could be regulated more like public utilities as a way to preserve "net neutrality."
Republican win in Senate breathes life into patent legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate has brightened prospects for an effort to fight frivolous patent litigation, although the path to success is far from clear, sources close to the lobbying effort said on Wednesday.
The House of Representatives easily passed a bill in December to cut down on abusive litigation brought by patent assertion entities, or "patent trolls": companies that buy or license patents, then aggressively pursue licensing fees or file infringement lawsuits.
Antitrust lawmakers air concerns about AT&T plan to buy DirecTV
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top two lawmakers on the U.S. Senate's antitrust panel have written to regulators expressing concerns about AT&T Inc's plans to buy DirecTV for $48.5 billion, including the impact on three regional sports networks.
Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, wrote last week to Attorney General Eric Holder and to Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to urge that they take several key issues into consideration as they decide if the deal should be allowed.


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"She's never seen a television show in her life," says Cassidy's father, Allen Kanner, who works as a parent and a child psychologist. "It's not a problem: When she's left by herself, she takes out her blocks and starts to create a little fantasy world for herself."
"She has a very active imagination, which I think has a lot to do with not watching television," he says.
According to Dr. Dimitri Christakis, the George Adkins professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute, Cassidy is doing a whole lot more than entertaining herself when she plays with blocks.
"Manipulating play helps language development," says Christakis. "When a child is playing with a truck, they are in fact, saying, 'Truck' internally."
In a term psychologists call "scaffolding," Cassidy might be silently talking to her toys in ways that help her understand language, Christakis says. Anderson says similarly focused, manipulating play helps toddlers develop skills to plan ahead intelligently, for example, to use a flat surface to help build or to put bigger blocks on the bottom.
"Those sorts of connections are happening beneath the surface, even though parents can't see them," says Christakis, who also wrote a book on the subject of household television called "The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids."
At the moment, studies seem to show television at a young age interferes with learning.
"There have been a lot of studies that explored this, and early television is associated with delayed language, delayed cognitive developments, shorter attention span," Christakis says. "What we haven't found yet is the mechanism."
Kanner says he chose a no-television household before Cassidy was born not as an experiment but as life for himself and his children. But for parents who don't want to abandon the television, experts say there's some control measures to take beyond counting hours.
"Try not to commingle play and television," says Schifrin. "Play is skill building -- physical, mental, emotional, behavioral skills. There is very little skill in watching television; we're all very good at that."
And finally, "Don't put a television in the bedroom," Schifrin says. "We're trying to create an amnesty program for bedroom televisions -- we'd like to go into every house and rescue these televisions from the kid's bedrooms."


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Hey! I know my pro is insanely boring. But for my one story I'm working one "Don't Judge a Football by it's Laces"...I have pictures of the characters so you guys can have a better idea of what they look like.
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Methods and apparatuses for restoration of human or animal bone anatomy, which may include introduction, into a bone of an expansible implant capable of expansion in a single determined plane, positioning the expansible implant in the bone in order to correspond the single determined plane with a bone restoration plane and opening out the expansible implant in the bone restoration plane. A first support surface and a second support surface spread tissues within bone. The embodiments of the invention may also include injecting a filling material around the implant.
1. An expansible implant for bone restoration comprising:
a single plane of expansion intrinsic to the implant, wherein the single plane of expansion corresponds to a bone restoration plane;
first and second opposed plates respectively forming first and a second bearing surfaces for the bone, wherein the first and second plates move away from one another according to the single plane of expansion at the time of the expansion of the implant;
first and second implant ends substantially aligned along a longitudinal axis of the implant, wherein the first implant end includes an opening for allowing engagement of the implant with an implant carrier;
at least one pair of first and second supports, wherein each support of a pair of supports includes a first end connected to the first or second plate and a second end connected to the first or second implant ends; and
a first material web provided between each respective support and the corresponding plate the support is connected to, and
a second material web provided between each respective support and the corresponding implant end the support is connected to, wherein
each material web plastically deforms during expansion of the implant to control expansion of the implant, and wherein each material web comprises a reduced thickness portion of a respective support.
2. A method for restoration of human or animal bone anatomy, comprising:
introducing, into a bone, an expansible implant having:
a single plane of expansion;
at least one plate forming a bearing surface for bone, wherein upon expansion of the implant, the plate is directed away from a longitudinal axis of the implant according to the single plane of expansion at the time of the expansion of the implant;
first and second implant ends substantially aligned along the longitudinal axis of the implant, wherein the first implant end includes an opening for allowing engagement of the implant with an implant carrier;
at least one support connected to at least one plate and at least one implant end; and
a zone of material provided between the at least one support and at least one of the at least one plate and the at least one implant end, wherein
the zone of material plastically deforms during expansion of the implant for controlling the expansion of the implant, and wherein the zone of material comprises a reduced thickness portion of a respective support;
positioning the expansible implant in the bone in order to correspond the single plane of expansion with a bone restoration plane, and
expanding the implant in the bone restoration plane.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/951,766 filed on Sep. 29, 2004, which claims priority to French patent application No. 04 06211 filed on Jun. 9, 2004, the entire disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to the field of surgery and medical implants and more particularly to devices and methods for restoring human or animal bone anatomy using medical bone implants.
Various causes can be at the root of bone compression, in particular osteoporosis which causes (for example) natural vertebral compression under the weight of the individual, but also traumas, with the two causes occasionally being combined. Such bone compressions can affect the vertebrae but also concern other bones, such as the radius and the femur, for example.
Several vertebroplasty techniques are known for effecting a vertebral correction i.e., to restore a vertebra to its original shape, or a shape similar to the latter. For example, one technique includes the introduction of an inflatable balloon into a vertebra, then introducing a fluid under pressure into the balloon in order to force the cortical shell of the vertebra, and in particular the lower and upper vertebral plateaus, to correct the shape of the vertebra under the effect of the pressure. This technique is known by as kyphoplasty. Once the osseous cortical shell has been corrected, the balloon is then deflated, and withdrawn from the vertebra in order to be able to inject a cement into the cortical shell which is intended to impart, sufficient mechanical resistance for the correction to have a significant duration in time.
A notable disadvantage of the kyphoplasty method resides in its numerous manipulations, in particular inflation, and in the necessity to withdraw the balloon from the patient's body. Furthermore, the expansion of a balloon is poorly controlled because the balloon's volume is multi-directional, which often causes a large pressure to be placed on the cortical shell in unsuitable directions. Such large pressures risk bursting of the cortical shell, and in particular, the lateral part of the cortical shell connecting the lower and upper plateaus of a vertebra.
Other vertebral implants exist which are intended to fill a cavity in a vertebra. Such implants, however, generally adopt a radial expansion principle obtained by formation of a plurality of points which stand normally to the longitudinal axis of the implant under the effect of contraction of the latter. Such implants impose too high a pressure on individual points which may pierce the material on which the points support. Furthermore, similar to kyphoplasty, very high pressure can cause bursting of the tissues or organ walls, such as the cortical shell, for example. Furthermore, the radial expansion of some implants does not allow a particular expansion direction to be favoured.
Embodiments of the present invention reduce the above noted disadvantages and provide additional advantages over the prior art devices of bone restoration. More particularly, some embodiments of the present invention include methods for restoration of human or animal bone anatomy, and include one or more of the following steps:
The method, according to some embodiments of the invention, allows the creation of a reinforced structure resulting in a solid structure (i.e., the implant incorporated by a hardened filling material thanks to the expansion of the implant). Moreover, the filling material can be injected under relatively low pressure since the implant remains in place which enables the preservation of the dimensions of the corrected bone structure.
It is another feature of an embodiment of the present invention that the expansible implant may be expanded/opened-out in the bone restoration plane to a determined value: between a minimum thickness of the implant before any expansion and a maximum thickness of the implant after maximum expansion. Such a feature allows the expansion value of the implant to be controlled, for example, for a given vertebral correction.
Another advantageous feature of an embodiment of the present invention includes the opening out of the expansible implant by opening out first and second opposite plates, forming (respectively) first and a second support surfaces for the bone. Such a feature allows the pressure which is exerted by the implant on the tissues in contact with the latter to be reduced, by increasing the contact or support surface on the tissues.
The length of the implant may also be sized to be substantially equal to at least one of the first and second support surfaces in the bone. Such a feature allows optimization of a ratio of the support length on the tissues to the length of the implant. For example, the closer this ratio is to one, the more the implant will be usable in places requiring a small length. Moreover, this feature also allows the introduction of a filling material with low injection pressure—in one embodiment, the injection pressure is the lowest possible so as to avoid having the filling material be injected into inappropriate tissues such as blood vessel walls (for example).
In another embodiment of the invention, each of the first and second plates may form partially cylindrical support surfaces, one portion of which may be parallel to a longitudinal axis of the expansible implant.
In another embodiment of the present invention, the opening out of first and second plates includes raising the latter using one or more supports under the plates. Such a feature allows a ratio of the length of the support surfaces to the length of the implant to be increased to be as close to one (1) as possible, as will be explained in more detail further on with the description of an embodiment of the invention. Furthermore, this feature allows thrust forces to be distributed under the plate in order to reduce the cantilever.
A filler cement may be injected in an around the implant, so as to aid in compressive load with the implant in bone restoration. Cements that may be used with the implants according to the disclosed embodiments may include an ionic cement, in particular a phosphocalcic cement, an acrylic cement or a compound of the latter. Accordingly, the combination of the implant and the cement is not unlike a steel reinforced concrete structure in the construction of buildings.
In one embodiment of the present invention, an expansible implant for bone restoration is presented and may include a single plane of expansion intrinsic to the implant, where upon the single plane of expansion corresponds to a bone restoration plane and first and second opposed plates respectively form first and a second bearing surfaces for the bone. The first and second plates are intended to move away one from the other according to the single plane of expansion at the time of the expansion of the implant. The implant may also include first and second supports for each of the first and second bearing surfaces, located under each plate respectively and means for controlling expansion of the implant. The controlling means may include a material web provided between each support and a corresponding plate, having a determined thickness which controls expansion of the implant. Moreover, one or more implants may be used in a single bone to produce a more symmetrical bone restoration (see
Accordingly, additional embodiments of the present invention may also include control means for controlling a determined expansion value, between a minimum thickness of the implant before any expansion of the latter and a maximum thickness of the implant after its maximum expansion.
The implant may also preferably include a means for positioning the expansible implant in bone in order to make the expansion plane of the implant correspond substantially with a bone restoration plane. Such means may include an engagement means allowing angular orientation of the implant about the longitudinal axis, including flat surfaces for attachment with an implant carrier, and threaded engagement.
Another embodiment of the invention is directed to a system for bone restoration and may include at least one expansible implant having a single plane of expansion for corresponding to a bone restoration plane, a first tube for positioning adjacent an exterior surface of a bone for restoration, and a first rod having a threaded end for affixing into a distal end of the interior of the bone, where the first rod being received within the first tube. The system may also include a second tube for receiving the first tube therein and a third tube for receiving the second tube, where the third tube including one or more engagement members for anchoring the third tube on the exterior surface of the bone. The system may further include a drill for establishing an enlarged opening in the side of the bone, where the drill is guided by the first rod and a medical insertion device for inserting an expansible implant into a patient.
Another embodiment of the invention is directed to a medical insertion device for inserting an expansible implant into a patient. The device may include a gripping portion having a central bore, a first tube housed in the central bore, a threaded rod housed in the first tube having a distal end for receiving an implant for insertion into the patient, a handle attached to the gripping portion and/or the implant carrier and a gauge for determining an expansion of the implant.
Still other features, advantages, embodiments and objects of the present invention will become even more clear with reference to the attached drawings, a brief description of which is set out below, and the following detailed description.
The expansible implant 1 represented in
As shown in
As represented in
Each arm 22, 23 may be divided into three successive rigid parts, which may be articulated together in conjunction with the ends 20 and 21 as follows. With respect to the upper arm 22: a first rigid part 28 is connected at one end to end 20 by means of an articulation 29. The other end of rigid part 28 is connected to a first end of a second, adjacent, central rigid part 30 by means of an articulation 31. The second rigid part 30 may be connected at a second end to the third rigid part 32 by means of an articulation 33. The other end of the third rigid part 32 may be connected to end 21 by means of an articulation 34. Preferably, the articulations 29, 31, 33 and 34 may include one degree of freedom in rotation, acting, respectively, about axes which are perpendicular to the expansion plane 2. Preferably, articulations 29, 31, 33 and 34 are formed by a thinning of the wall forming the arm in the relevant articulation zone, as represented in
Each arm 22, 23 opens out such that the central rigid part 30 moves away from the longitudinal axis 10 of the implant pushed by the two adjacent rigid parts 28 and 32, when the ends 20 and 21 of the implant are brought one towards the other. As represented more particularly in
Accordingly, ends of rigid parts 28, 32 of upper arm 22 may be articulated with ends 20 and 21, respectively, via a material web formed on the rigid parts. Other ends of rigid parts 28, 32 may also be articulated with the central rigid part 30 via a material web formed on rigid parts 28, 32. The displacement of the articulations establish a rotation couple on the rigid parts 28 and 32 when a force is applied to bring the ends 20 and 21 together along the longitudinal axis 10 of the implant. This displacement tends to make the rigid part 32 pivot towards the exterior of the implant as a result of moving the central rigid part 30 away from the longitudinal axis 10.
The lower arm 23 may be constructed in a similar manner as the upper arm and is preferably symmetrical to the upper arm 22 with respect to a plane which is perpendicular to the expansion plane 2 passing through the longitudinal axis 10.
Thus, according to some embodiments of the present invention, the articulations betwen the upper 22 and lower 23 arms and corresponding rigid parts are preferably formed by weakened zones produced by grooves 81. The grooves define a thin web of material (i.e., material web) formed from the tubular body, the thickness of which may be determined by the depth of the grooves 81 (as represented in the figures) in order to allow plastic deformation of the material without breaking. Specifically, the rigid parts 28 and 32 of the upper arm 22, and their symmetrical ones on the lower arm 23, can adopt a position, termed extreme expansion, in which the intended rigid parts are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 10 of the implant 1, when the ends 20 and 21 are brought one towards the other such that the latter is opened up until its maximum expansion capacity, resulting in plastic deformation of the corresponding material. The width of the grooves 81 are preferably pre-determined to allow such a clearance of the parts of the upper and lower arms and also to impart a suitable radius of curvature to the webs in order to ensure plastic deformation without rupture of the material.
The first 6 and second 7 opposite plates may be formed in the upper 22 and lower 23 arms. With respect to the upper arm 22, for example, plate 6 may be formed by the central rigid part 30 and by material extensions (rigid parts 28 and 32) extending out both sides thereof. In order to produce the plate 6, rigid parts 28 and 32 are separated from the upper arm 22 using a pair of transverse slots 35 and 36 which extend longitudinally over the length each respective end part (see
Hence, the first 6 and second 7 plates may comprise respectively a first 16, 18 and a second 17, 19 cantilever wing, the respective attachment zones of which are situated at the level of the first 12, 14 and second 13, 15 supports. As represented in
The first 6 and second 7 plates form first 8 and second 9 support surfaces, respectively, each having a length which may be substantially equal to the length of the implant and which may be displaced perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis 10 during expansion. According to one embodiment of the invention, since the implant 1 is formed in a tubular body, the first 6 and second 7 plates form, respectively, curved support surfaces, which are preferably parallel to the longitudinal axis 10.
The means 3 for positioning the expansible implant in a bone which allow the expansion plane 2 to correspond with a bone restoration plane, may include an engagement means which allows for the angular orientation of the implant about longitudinal axis 10. For example, such means may include flat surfaces 37, 38 which are formed on the cylindrical surface with a circular section of end 20, which may allow for rotational engagement of the implant 1.
The means 4 for opening out the expansible implant in a single expansion plane 2, may include rigid parts 28 and 32 of upper arm 22 and the corresponding symmetrical rigid parts on the lower arm 23, allowing opening out of the first 6 and second 7 plates. An implant carrier 71 (see
A control means may be provided by the implant carrier which may include a millimetric control means for bringing ends 20 and 21 together, preferably by means of screw-thread engagement, allowing the expansion to be stopped at any moment as a function of requirements. On the other hand, control means 5 provided by the articulations of the arms 22 and 23, more specifically, by the thickness of the material webs defining each arm which, deforming in the plastic region, allow the expansion to substantially preserve a determined opening-up position of the arms, apart from elastic shrinkage which is negligible in practice.
The expansion of the plates 6 and 7 of the implant, and their stabilisation once opened up, can be achieved through adaptation of plates 6 and 7 to the bone geometry by the plates. Specifically, in some embodiments of the invention, the implant 1 allows a non-parallel displacement of plates 6 and 7 and, at the end of the displacement, allows a definitive position of the plates in a non-parallel state if necessary (e.g., as a function of the bone anatomy). For example, the expansion of plates 6 and 7 may be non-parallel if the lengths of individual support arms are different. For example, if supports 12 and 14 are longer than supports 13 and 15 (see
Similarly, as shown in
The represented implant 101 differs from the implant 1 by the absence of the wing portion on the plates 106 and 107, as represented more particularly in
The articulations of the deformable parallelogram 141 may be produced in the same manner as the other articulations 131, 133, 134 of the arm 122, as represented in
In order to obtain a deformable parallelogram 141, the rigid part 128 of the arm is preferably divided into three longitudinal levers: two lateral levers 142 and a central lever 143, which form two sides of the deformable parallelogram 141. The two remaining sides of the parallelogram may be formed by an extension 144 of the central part of the arm 122, placed in an axis of extension of the central lever 143, and by a double extension 145 of the end 120, extending parallel to the longitudinal axis 110 of the implant and placed in the axis of extension of the two lateral levers 142 (see
It is worth noting that arms 122 and 123 may be symmetrical with respect to a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the plane of expansion 102 passing through the longitudinal axis 110 of the implant 101 in order to obtain, during the expansion of the implant, the displacement of the two plates 106 and 107 in a manner parallel to the longitudinal axis 110.
Bone Restoration Examples
A first example of a method for human bone restoration according to one embodiment of the present invention using an expansible implant will now be described with reference to
An expansible implant, expansible (preferably) in a single, determined, expansion plane 2 (intrinsic to the implant) is introduced into a vertebra 60, the shape of which is to be restored. To effect this operation, a rod/pin 61 (e.g., Kirschner pin type) is placed percutaneously via the posterolateral route so that the threaded end 62 can be affixed (e.g., screwed) into the cortical bone 63 opposite the cortical bone 64 which is traversed by the pin (
The first dilation tube 65 is received by a second dilation tube 66, until the end of the second tube 66 comes into contact (e.g., supported by) the exterior surface of the cortical bone 64 (
The first 65 and second 66 dilation tubes, as shown in
A proximal end of the implant 1 is removably attached to a distal end of a hollow core (preferably) implant carrier 71 which is then introduced into the core of tube 67, as represented in
The implant carrier 71, as shown in
The rod 3316, which is received within the implant carrier, preferably includes external threads corresponding in thread pitch to that of handle 3314. A locking device slides relative to the gripping block and may include a pin 3321 which frictionally interferes with the rod 3316, to lock the rod in place (i.e., no rotational movement).
The threads of the rod are preferably provided at least along a majority of the length rod. According to one embodiment of the invention, the rod, implant carrier, gripping block and handle may be pre-assembled. One would insert the threaded distal end of the rod into an opening in the center of the proximal end of the implant, where it then may be received in the correspondingly threaded portion in the center of the distal end of the implant. The distal end (i.e., the location of the implant) of the assembly of the implant with the implant carrier/handling means may then be inserted into dilation tube 67.
Depending upon the predetermined thread pitch and direction of the thread of the rod 3316, rotation of the handle moves the rod 3316 relative to the implant carrier linearly in a direction. Preferably, the threads are provided on the rod such that clockwise rotation of the handle moves the rod outward away from an area in which the implant is to expand (the implantation area). For example, for an M5 thread, a pitch of 0.8 mm may be used. However, one of skill in the art will appreciate that a thread pitch of between about 0.5 mm and about 1.0 mm (for example) may be used.
Accordingly, in view of the above embodiment, once the implant is positioned within the dilation tube and slid down therein, so that it is placed into the interior of the vertebra 60. The implant is preferably positioned such that the single expansion plane 2 corresponds to the desired bone restoration plane (
The handle 3314 is then rotated to "pull" the rod away from the implantation area. Since the proximal end of the implant is butted up against the implant carrier, and pulling on the rod causes the distal end of the implant to move toward the proximal end (or visa-versa). This results in the ends of the implant drawing towards each other which opens out the implant. More specifically, opposite plates 6 and 7 are opened out, advantageously forming, respectively, a first 8 and a second 9 support surface in the vertebra 60, which surfaces may be continuous over their length which may be substantially equal to the length of the implant 1 (
Accordingly, the expansion of the implant in the vertebra is achieved by support under the plates allowing the thrust force to be distributed over the length of the plates under the latter. Thus a sufficient length of the plates may be provided while limiting an excessive dimensioning of the thickness of the latter in order to resist flexion. It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the implant according to some embodiments of the invention adopt a ratio of a spatial requirement in length (un-expanded) to length of elevated plate which is extremely optimized, allowing a preferable use of the limited intra-osseous spaces with a view to fracture reduction, for example.
The rod 3316 may also include, according to one of the embodiments of the invention, a disengagement means, which may comprise an internal hex on the proximal end 3318 of the rod. This may allow one to disengage the rod from the implant once the implant has been opened out. Alternatively, where the handle is not attached to the gripping block and/or implant carrier, the handle could be counter-rotated (i.e., rotated such that the rod does not move in a direction away from the implant) such that it travels away from the flush portion of the gripping block and implant carrier, such that it engages the proximal end of the rod. Further counter-rotation of the handle (after opening out of the implant) causes the rod to rotate in the same counter-rotation as the handle, thereby causing the rod to disengage from the implant. Depending upon the determined thread pitch, such disengagement can occur in any number of rotations (e.g., less or more than one rotation). See also
Preferably, after the rod has been removed, a filling material 74 is injected around the implant. The filling material may comprise, for example, an ionic cement, in particular, a phosphocalcic cement, an acrylic cement or a compound of the latter, with a view to filling in and around the implant. To accomplish this, a needle of the injector 73 is slid down tube 67 until the end of the needle reaches the distal orifice 39 of the implant 1 (
A second example of a method according to an embodiment of the invention for restoration of human bone anatomy, will now be described with references to
The second example is similar to the first and differs from the latter by the penetration route of the implant into the vertebra 60, which is now accomplished in a transpedicular manner (
It will thus be seen that the invention attains the objects made apparent from the preceding description. Since certain changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings be interpreted as illustrative and not in a literal sense (and thus, not limiting). Practitioners of the art will realize that the method, device and system configurations depicted and described herein are examples of multiple possible system configurations that fall within the scope of the current invention.
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Playing the pro-tribal and pro-poor card in the Maoist-affected tribal heartland of Bastar, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused BJP of having "no heart" for tribals and the downtrodden.
"Congress party works for everyone, for tribals, poor, Dalits and the downtrodden. For us, Hindus and Muslims are equal. We consider everyone equal," he said at a public meeting in Kondagaon district headquarters of Bastar Lok Sabha constituency in Chhattisgarh.
Addressing his party rally at Kondgaon stadium grounds, the same place where BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi had addressed a rally, Rahul Gandhi said Congress always focusedon empowering tribals, the poor and the downtrodden, while the BJP had "no heart" for tribals and the poor.
Describing Chhattisgarh as a rich land of poor people, he said the state is bestowed with natural resources but its benefits do not reach the common man.
"We are not against development and industrialisation but the land goes into the hands of a few select people, while farmers do not get even proper price of development," he said.
Attacking BJP over corruption, he said the party had turned a blind eye towards corruption in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
"They say that they are fighting against corruption.
Don't they see corruption in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh? Their Karnataka chief minister was jailed due to corruption, while in Gujarat, three ministers went to jail," Rahul said.
He said the UPA government's major programmes were based on development of the poor, of which MNREGA is an example under which lakhs of people benefited.
In its manifesto, Congress has promised to make health and education a right of the people, he said.
Taking a dig at BJP's campaign, Rahul Gandhi said that development would take place by working for welfare of tribals, the poor as well as farmers and not by merely releasing "India Shining" and "Gujarat model" "balloons".
The worst Maoist affected Bastar seat is scheduled to go to polls during the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Chhhatisgarh on April 10.
The Congress has fielded the son of former leader of opposition late Mahendra Karma, Deepak Karma from this seat, where sitting MP Dinesh Kashyap is the BJP nominee.
Mahendra Karma was among Congress leaders who were killed in the May 25 Jiram Valley Maoist attack in Bastar last year.


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