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In a contest that got real personal for her opponent John Krasinski, actress Anna Kendrick performs One Direction's hit "Steal My Girl" on Lip Sync Battle.
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In the fall of 2013, APCO Worldside surveyed 70,000 people about the world's biggest brands. They measured their responses in eight different ways—"understanding, approachability, relevance, admiration, curiosity, identification, empowerment, and pride." The number one most loved company out of 600 choices: Disney.
The first 'Into the Woods' trailer was strangely lacking in singing, which was an odd way to sell a movie based on one of the most beloved of all modern musicals. Thankfully, Disney has course corrected with trailer number two, which actually lets us see and hear the ensemble cast performing Stephen Sondhiem's iconic songs. It's an improvement by default.
Yes, the internet just shook with squeals of glee (no pun intended): the 'Pitch Perfect 2' trailer has arrived and, for better or worse, it looks like a whole lot more of the same. For fans, that's perfectly okay! Why fix something that clearly isn't broken? For the people who just couldn't deal with the first entry, this one promises all kinds of new nightmares and/or migraines.
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By Frank Lewis
It may be the best kept secret in Scioto County — the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport at Minford is not just a place for hobbyists to get out and have some fun on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Paul Brogdon, manager of the airport, says it is actually a necessity to the viability of the area.
"It has to do with economic growth," Brogdon said. "Companies that are interested in doing business here can fly in here and they can meet with people; look over buildings, plants, and we handle from small planes up to big jets. I've seen people come from all corners of the country and in some cases, the world. General aviation, particularly business aviation, is where the growth is now."
The airport was dedicated on Oct. 18, 1959, and has seen steady improvement and continued maintenance over the years. Brogdon said some days several flights will leave and/or arrive at the facility, with some days being busier than others.
"We have a lot of local business people who have planes as a business tool," Brogdon said. "Some may have locations in several places, and they can get in their planes and visit two or three locations in a day, fly around and take care of business in their airplane. For guys like these, an airplane is a business tool just like someone here might have a company car that they drive around in locally."
Brogdon said many companies have found that purchasing a jet is an important business investment which pays for itself in utility use and by saving time.
"An airplane is a business tool they use to make money with," Brogdon said. "It's not something that they plan and have fun with. It's a business tool just like the guy who goes out and buys a new tractor because he needs it to do his business."
Brogdon said people who have to travel to major airports such as in Columbus then have to rent a car, drive two hours to the area, look over potential industrial sites, the drive two hours back to Columbus to the airport really find that schedule a waste of valuable business time.
"He's on airport time instead of his," Brogdon said. "He may come down here and meet with someone for two or three hours and may tie himself up for two days doing it. But if the guy has an airplane, he can fly right into this airport and meet with someone an hour or two or three and jump back in his airplane and be back home for supper. That's the value of this airport."
Brogdon said another involvement of the airport at Minford is the current bidding status of the Portsmouth Bypass project.
"I've talked with a couple of engineers who have had questions how the airport is going to interact with this thing," Brogdon said. "We're seeing companies come in to visit sites and to look at property and sit down and have business meetings with regard to the Bypass, because these are multinational super companies and they don't have time to be piddling around. They want to come in here, talk to who they've got to talk to and then they're off somewhere else. They can cover two or three cities easily in one day."
Brogdon said, as far as local airports around the state, the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport at Minford is one of the finest in the state.
Frank Lewis can be reached at 740-353-3101, Ext. 252, or on Twitter @FrankLewispdt.


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Pakistan today said it will start formal comprehensive peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban in a couple of days, and would also release 12-13 "non-combatants" as part of confidence-building measures.
"Formal comprehensive discussion and talks will start from the next meeting. It will happen in a couple of days," Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said addressing a press conference here and stressed that there was no deadlock.
The minister said the country would come to know about the comprehensive agenda of talks after the meeting.
He also said that the government will release 12-13 non-combatants from detention as part of confidence-building measures to prepare for the next round of direct peace talks with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Nisar had on April 5 announced the additional release besides the 19 who had already been let out.
Refusing to use the word "ceasefire", Nisar said "cessation of violence" is in place but added that the government has intelligence reports that some groups within the TTP is not to serious about the talks.
"Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is an umbrella organisation which has about 37-39 groups under it. They would like us to believe that all groups agree with them. We leave it up to them," he said.
Nisar said groups outside the TTP were indulging in violence. He claimed that the peace talks have so far yielded positive results.
"Earlier there were 3-7 attacks on an average every day.
Now there are days without any single attack. After the blast at the fruit market in Islamabad, the Taliban said that attacking innocents is un-Islamic," he said.
Nisar added that people were right when they said that Taliban targeted civilians earlier.
"But now that talks are on, TTP has come on record saying that attacks on civilians are 'haram'. We were ready to fight with them over this very same issue and now they have accepted it. This shows there has been forward movement," he said.
On the issue of detainees, he said the Taliban has sought the release of only non-combatants and not fighters.
"I wonder how can anyone imagine that we would be releasing Taliban fighters. We have released 19 non-combatants from the Mehsud tribe. We would be releasing another 12-13 soon," he said.
The banned militant group has handed over to the government a list of nearly 400 non-combatants it wants released from custody of security forces.
However, it has said that all those released are not on the list handed over to the government.
The government, however, has not agreed to the TTP's demand of declaring a "peace zone" in South Waziristan to facilitate their movement.
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The government has been facing opposition from the army over any move to accept the TTP's demand for the establishment of a peace zone outside North Waziristan on the grounds that doing so would send a wrong signal about the gains made so far in other tribal areas which have been cleared.
The army had earlier resisted its inclusion in the government's negotiating team.
However, at a later stage it agreed to assign a mid-ranking officer, though still not officially part of the negotiating team, for what is being described as "institutional support".
Meanwhile, Nisar also sought to dispel fears that Islamabad was not safe.
"The subzi mandi blast happened on the outskirts of the capital," he said while claiming that Islamabad was safe.
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A patient monitoring system in cooperation with IMDs provides information, direction and counseling to patients. Specifically, a combination of lifestyle parameters, such as, for example, diet, exercise, weight, medication and environmental factors such as, for example, temperature, UV factor, pollen count, humidity, air pollution index, are integrated to provide a seamless, comprehensive, chronic monitoring system and support for patients. The system includes a home monitor, IMD, and a remote expert station in operable data communications therebetween. Personal data such as weight, environmental data, food data from refrigerators and pantry, type of exercise equipment, medication, physiologically significant events, physician treatment plan and the like are integrated with IMD data to provide continuous patient care, counseling, consultation and notification. The remote expert station enables doctors and other health care providers to review, monitor current and long-term trends of the patient's health status and dispense clinical care as needed.
1. A patient therapy and monitoring system comprising:
at least one implanted device in a patient;
a home monitoring system in data communication with said at least one implanted device;
means for providing visual and verbal feedback to the patient integrated with said home monitoring system; and
a remote expert station in a bi-directional data communication with said at least one implanted device and said home monitoring system, wherein said home monitoring system is configured to receive and process multiple inputs, and said multiple inputs include lifestyle information.
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7. A patient therapy and monitoring system comprising:
at least one implanted device in a patient;
a home monitoring system in data communication with said at least one implanted device;
means for providing visual and verbal feedback to the patient integrated with said home monitoring system; and
a remote expert station in a bi-directional data communication with said at least one implanted device and said home monitoring system, wherein said home monitoring system is configured to receive and process multiple inputs and wherein said multiple inputs include food data stored in a storage system in data communications with said home monitoring system.
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10. A patient therapy and monitoring system comprising:
at least one implanted device in a patient;
a home monitoring system in data communication with said at least one implanted device;
means for providing visual and verbal feedback to the patient integrated with said home monitoring system; and
a remote expert station in a bi-directional data communication with said at least one implanted device and said home monitoring system, wherein said home monitoring system is configured to receive and process multiple inputs and wherein said inputs include patient manual entry of information pertaining to the patient's health.
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The following is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/944,720, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,735,479, filed Aug. 31, 2001, and which claims priority filing based upon U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/211,410, filed Jun. 14, 2000.
The present invention generally relates to medical devices and communications systems. Specifically, the invention relates to a method and apparatus that allows a patient to manage and positively affect the onset, time course and severity of various disease conditions. The invention includes an implanted medical device that provides patient data to a home monitoring system, which also has various additional inputs to improve and modify the patient's environment and life style. The patient's implanted device, home monitoring system, and a remote expert station maintain data communication via standard telemetry systems, home network systems such as Bluetooth, HomeRF, or WLAN, and the Internet, worldwide web, intranet, extranet, cellular, or other similar network or communication systems.
Lifestyle and environmental factors are major impactors of disease progression, remission, and even onset. For example in "Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease in Women through Diet and Lifestyle", Stamper, et al, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 343, No 1, Jul. 6, 2000, pg 16–22 found that 82% of coronary artery disease is attributed to a lack of adherence to a low risk lifestyle (such as, diet, moderate exercise and abstinence from smoking). Additionally, in "Environmental and Heritable Factors in the Causation of Cancer—Analyses of Cohorts of Twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland", Lichtenstein, et al, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 343, No 2, Jul. 13, 2000, pg 78–85 found that in a study of twins "inherited genetic factors make a minor contribution to susceptibility to most types of neoplasms" and that "the environment has the principal role in causing sporadic cancer". Lastly, in "Coronary Heart Disease in Women—An Ounce of Prevention", Nabel, New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 343, No 8, Aug. 24, 2000, pg 572–4 found that "lifestyle related risk factors—specifically, smoking, overweight, lack of exercise and poor diet—(increased) the risk of coronary artery disease". Women who had none of the risk factors had an 83% reduction in coronary events than the women with one or more risk factors.
We propose that by providing feedback and consoling to patients with implantable medical devices (IMDs, i.e., PCD, pacemaker, neurostimulator, drug pump, ILR, Chronicle monitor, etc.), we can impact environmental factors, diet, exercise level, medicant intake adherence, etc., and provide a substantial proactive, preventative positive impact on the onset, progression and quality of life of many types of cardiac and heart failure patients. Additionally, non-implanted patients may also greatly benefit from this system because the system is adaptable to be used as a preventative tool for those most susceptible to diseases (through heredity, work environment, etc.) or in the beginning stages of a progressive disease.
The concept of home health care began in the 1850's when traveling health care professionals, usually physicians, provided in-home visits to those who were in need of health care and unable to seek such care outside of the home. From the outset, however, traveling between various patients' homes constituted "downtime" for the health care professional. In the middle of the twentieth century, this type of medical service was transferred from the physician to nurses or other health care workers. During the past decade, providing home health care has become more difficult due to the shortage of health care professionals in general and, in particular, of those who provide home health care. Because of this shortage as well as the increase in medical costs, home health care visits are generally limited to basic needs of the most ill patients and/or medical emergencies.
On the other hand, the number of patients who are home bound has been increasing. Many terminally ill patients, such as heart failure or cancer patients among others, are sent home to live with their families who provide 24-hour in-home care. Other patients with chronic health problems reside in their homes where they receive necessary support and treatment on an "as needed" basis. Through the auspices of hospices or other support groups, nurses or health care workers provide medical care and evaluation on a periodic basis—usually a � hour visit once or twice a week. Although these visits provide the contracted services, nonetheless they suffer from minimal oversight of a physician-ordered treatment and/or preventative plan.
Additionally, with longevity increases of the past several decades, more elderly people are living longer and developing disease states that are initiated or made more pronounced by the environmental conditions as stated in the herein above listed articles. The ill elderly are often given a treatment plan by their physician that can positively impact their longevity and quality of life if followed correctly and religiously. Often a spouse or adult children must monitor, administer and console the patient's adherence to this plan of treatment. This manual, ad hoc process often is time consuming, confusing, prone to errors and not well administered in many cases.
Patients with implantable medical devices (IMDs) also require regular checkups to determine whether their IMDs have been functioning properly. Most patients with IMDs must be monitored bi-annually, at the very least. Such monitoring may occur transtelephonically from the patient's home or via telemetry as has been disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,752,976 issued to Duffin, et al, "World Wide Patient Location and Data Telemetry System for Implantable Medical Devices", incorporated herein by reference in its totality. The '976 patent however does not describe a system that provides automatic feedback to a patient to reinforce positive activities and monitor adherence to a physician ordered treatment regime.
Various solutions to these issues, in addition to the '976 patent, have been suggested in the art. U.S. Pat. No. 5,553,609 issued to Chen, et al, "Intelligent Remote Visual Monitoring System for Home Health Care Service" discloses a computer-based remote visual monitoring system connected transtelephonically to a remote master-monitoring computer. This system is intended for use by a visiting nurse during an in-home patient health care visit. Separate audio and visual equipment facilitates communication between the patient's home and a remote station. The '609 patent, however, does not teach a method for continuous monitoring, treatment adherence and consoling patients with IMDs.
A remote visual monitoring system for home health care is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,553,609 issued to Chen, et al, "Intelligent Remote Visual Monitoring System for Home Health Care Service". The system has several layers, including units in the patient's home, the caregiver's office, and the supervisory control center. Audiovisual equipment in the patient's home and at the caregiver's office provides two-way communications during a home visit. There is also a provision for generating and maintaining the patient's medical records. U.S. Pat. No. 5,872,923 issued to Schwartz, et al, "Collaborative Video Conferencing System" discloses a video conferencing system, wherein multiple parties at different locations can view, and modify, a common image on their computer displays. The invention also provides a video camera at each computer, which takes a video picture of each party. The systems described in the '609 and '923 patents, however, do not provide for continuous monitoring, treatment adherence and consoling patients with IMDs.
What is needed is a system that provides guidance, monitoring, and feedback to a patient to follow a suggested treatment or therapy plan by his/her physician to allow life style changes that will positively affect their disease onset and/or progression and associated medical problems.
The present invention enables the capture of non-technical, health-related, exercise activities, food and medicant intake and environmental information through various automatic computerized means and to be displayed in conjunction with, or overlaid upon, implantable medical device (IMD) derived information. Trends of lifestyle data may be analyzed through a graphically displayed calendar view combined with device information allowing the patient and their physician the ability to monitor adherence to exercise and diet treatment regimes prescribed by the physician. Further, the invention enables cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, cancer, lupus, hypertension, and the like patients to alter their lifestyle in a continuous, chronically supportive manner. This concept would also allow proactive, preventative lifestyle changes to high-risk patients to potentially prevent, reduce and/or delay major medical problems.
The present invention will be described herein in an embodiment that includes a pacemaker. Those of ordinary skill in the art, however, with the benefit of the present disclosure will appreciate that the present invention may be advantageously practiced in connection with numerous other types of IMDs such as defibrillators, cardioverters, neurostimulators, insertable loop recorders (ILR) such as the Medtronic Reveal, heart failure monitors such as the Medtronic Chronicle, and the like. Also depicted in
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As previously noted, stimulation control circuit 32 includes central processing unit 38 which may be an off-the-shelf programmable microprocessor or micro controller, but in the present invention is a custom integrated circuit. Although specific connections between CPU 38 and other components of stimulation control circuit 36 are not shown in
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It is to be understood that the various components of pulse generator 10 depicted in
Stimulating pulse output circuit 36, which functions to generate cardiac stimuli under control of signals issued by CPU 38, may be, for example, of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,476,868 to Thompson, entitled "Body Stimulator Output Circuit", which patent is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. Again, however, it is believed that those of ordinary skill in the art could select from among many various types of prior art pacing output circuits that would be suitable for the purposes of practicing the present invention.
Sense amplifier circuit 34, which is of conventional design, functions to receive electrical cardiac signals from leads 14 and to process such signals to derive event signals reflecting the occurrence of specific cardiac electrical events, including atrial contractions (P-waves) and ventricular contractions (R-waves). Sense amplifier circuit 34 provides these event-indicating signals to CPU 38 for use in controlling the synchronous stimulating operations of pulse generator 10 in accordance with common practice in the art. In addition, these event-indicating signals may be communicated, via uplink transmission 13, to patient monitor device 17 via telemetry coil 45. Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that pacemaker 10 may include numerous other components and subsystems, for example, activity sensors and associated circuitry. The presence or absence of such additional components in pacemaker 10, however, is not believed to be pertinent to the present invention, which relates primarily to the implementation and operation of the patient monitoring and consoling device 17, an associated communication system and a remote observation device 23.
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Communication subsystem 44 in implantable device 10 includes a receiver 102 and a transmitter 104 each coupled to antenna 45 (
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Control circuit 112 is responsive to prioritized sets of operational goals to be accomplished in conjunction with each of a plurality of telemetry transmission types, stored in RAM/ROM 42 (
In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, communication subsystems 44 and patient monitor device 17 (
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the performance goals of the communication system, and the standards or limits imposed upon operational parameters, may themselves be adjusted on a dynamic basis. Then, it would be desirable to increase the minimum transmission range to be maintained by the communication system, so that patient monitor device 17 can establish telemetric communication with the patient's implanted device from a longer-than-normal distance, e.g., from bedside or even across the room.
Typically a telemetry system employing the present invention will include a plurality of performance goals applicable in conjunction with each of a variety of telemetry transmission types. In most cases it is envisioned that the performance goals will include one or more absolute requirements for a transmission to be considered acceptable. For example, in most cases a maximum error rate will be the highest priority performance goal, with acceptable error rates differing based on the telemetry type. For example, in the case of downlink of a command to transmit from patient monitor device 17 to implanted device 10, the acceptable error rate would typically be lower than for an uplink of stored electrogram data from implanted device 10 to patient monitor device 17. Similarly, the performance goal of second priority may differ between two such telemetry transmission types.
The above disclosure assumes that, during initiation of the telemetry link, initial communication between the devices may occur using a telemetry transmission protocol determined to be acceptable for transmission of control signals between the devices, as verified by return transmissions, and that this initial communication will establish the type of telemetry transmission to follow. This protocol may also be used in conjunction with adjustments of the performance parameters, as discussed above. However in many cases, feedback from the receiver to the transmitter is not required to indicate failure of the telemetry protocol in effect to meet the performance parameters. In the case of a transmitted electrogram, implanted device 10 may simply decrease the transmission rate until the minimum transmission rate is reached and thereafter increase power until either a specified maximum power level is reached or until a return transmission from patient monitor device 17 indicates an acceptable error rate.
One class of RF transmission systems for which the present invention is believed to be particularly advantageous is referred to as impulse radio, a technology based upon the pulse position modulation of very low duty-cycle, ultra-wide-bandwidth RF pulses. Impulse radio (IR) pulses are processed with data encoding and pseudo-random noise encoding to smooth the energy in the frequency domain and provide channelization.
The present invention allows the capture of non-technical, health-related information through various computerized means (Web-based Calendar software, hand-held personal digital assistants (such as the Palm Pilot, Visor, cellular phones WAP, access to the Web-site hosting their device information) to be displayed in conjunction with or overlaid upon the uplinked diagnostic information/data from IMD 10. Such data might include an ECG tracing, stored diagnostic data, pH, arrhythmic events, mean heart rate, mean respiration rate, minute ventilation, or current IMD settings from a pacemaker; or, alternatively, chronic pressure or oxygen signal levels from a heart failure monitor such as the Medtronic Chronicle, among others. The heart failure monitor may be as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/809,915 "Heart Failure Quick Look Summary for Patient Management Systems" filed Mar. 16, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The health related information includes exercise data (type, duration, date, time), sleep schedule, special events (celebratory events, stressful events—weddings, babies, birthdays, parties, etc.) and diet information. Food data is automatically linked to calorie, vitamin and mineral data per a physician recommended diet. Physical activity levels are linked with additional device information such as EKG, BPM, and blood pressure from interrogation of the implanted device. Trends of lifestyle data are analyzed through a graphically displayed calendar view combined with device information allowing the patient and their physician a biofeedback loop to indicate what events in the patient's life trigger physiological responses (nausea, dizziness, rapid heart rate, high BP, weight gain or loss, etc.). Positive events and negative events are monitored for impact and possible lifestyle changes. Capture of exact mental and physical environments at the time of device triggered events are stored so that the physician would have complete information to determine lifestyle influences on device activated responses (see
This invention additionally uses the concept of automatic Internet ordering of food items via RF UPC labels (in conjunction with Internet based appliances) to provide visual and or verbal feedback to a patient action (i.e., taking drink/food item from refrigerator or pantry, etc), a patient's environment (i.e., temperature, pollen count, humidity, air pollution index, sun (uv index), a patient's activity level (from interrogation of implanted device (i.e., long term activity, short term activity, time of day, etc)), and the patient's physician treatment plan (i.e., weight loss/maintenance, type of food (i.e., low sodium diet), liquid intake, time of day, medicants, etc). The RF UPC code allows the amount of food, the type of food, and the constituents of food (i.e., sodium, calories, vitamin A and C, total fat content, saturated fat, sugar, protein, dietary fiber, carbohydrates, cholesterol, calcium, iron, serving size, etc.) to be monitored and positive/negative feedback and/or consoling provided. The above information may be used to positively impact the day to day lifestyle and environment of many types of patients with such maladies as CHF, overweight (obesity), cancer, lupus, cardiac disease, emphysema, and the like.
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The preceding specific embodiments are illustrative of the practice of the invention. This invention will allow cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, cancer, lupus, hypertension, and the like patients to alter their lifestyle in a continuous, supportive manner. This concept would also allow proactive, preventative lifestyle changes to high-risk patients to potentially prevent, reduce and/or delay major medical problems. It is to be understood, therefore, that other expedients known to those of skill in the art or disclosed herein may be employed without departing from the invention or the scope of the appended claim. It is therefore to be understood that the invention may be practiced otherwise than is specifically described, without departing from the scope of the present invention. As to every element, it may be replaced by any one of infinite equivalent alternatives, only some of which are disclosed in the specification.
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A new analysis from a team of American researchers has found the volcanic plume that created the Galapagos Islands isn't where models have projected it. The study team said their findings could also explain volcanic activity around the islands.
According to the study, which was published on Sunday the journal Nature Geoscience, the Galapagos plume is at a depth of 155 miles, approximately 100 miles southeast of the westernmost island of the archipelago, where geologists and computer-generated mantle convection models had placed the plume. The study team reached their conclusions using seismic waves penetrating to a depth of nearly 200 miles.
"Ocean islands have always been enigmatic," said study author Dennis J. Geist, a geologist at the University of Idaho. "Why out in the middle of the ocean basins do you get these big volcanoes? The Galapagos, Hawaii, Tahiti, Iceland – all the world's great ocean islands – they're mysterious."
The plume's location according to the new study is closer to Isabella and Floreana islands, where the three most volatile volcanoes in the island chain are located. This new location adds support to the study team's other finding – Earth's interior convection doesn't always follow modeling efforts. The study also raises new queries about how ocean plates at the Earth's surface – referred to as the lithosphere – relate to the hotter, more fluid asthenosphere that rests atop the mantle.
The team's paper describes the Galapagos plume rising up into shallower depths than previously described and streams both northward and perpendicular to plate motion. Mantle plumes, also found at Yellowstone and Hawaii, are generally believed to curve along with plate migration – meaning the Galapagos plume may have decoupled from the plates involved.
"Here's an archipelago of volcanic islands that are broadly active over a large region, and the plume is almost decoupled from the plate motion itself," said study author Douglas R. Toomey, a geology professor at the University of Oregon. "It is going opposite than expected, and we don't know why."
The explanation for this finding may lie in the fluid dynamics of the viscous asthenosphere on which the Earth's plates sit, Toomey said. In the paper's conclusion, the study authors theorized that the plume material is dragged to the mid-ocean ridge by a deep return flow found in the middle of the asthenosphere, instead of along the base of the lithosphere as some modeling projections have shown.
The Galapagos archipelago covers over 3,000 square miles of ocean and sits around 580 miles west of Ecuador, which has dominion over the islands. Volcanic activity on the island chain has been particularly difficult to understand because theories and models have projected newer eruptions moving ahead of the plate, similar to activity seen at the hotspot around Yellowstone.
There are two main plates related to the Galapagos, the Nazca and Cocos plates. The leading edge of the Nazca plate is at the island of Fernandina. The Cocos plate, which used to hold the islands' 620-mile-long hotspot chain, is said to be moving to the northeast.


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Basically everyone who wants to participate is paired up with someone and you exchange a shower gift. It can be for the mom or baby. We can set a limit on the price, I think our max was $10.
My shower partner sent me a travel bag for the hospital with travel size shampoos/soaps/ lotion for me and a pair of booties. I sent her 2 Sesame Street bibs and a cute onesie.
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I'm IN! IF I COULD BE PAIRED WITH ANOTHER CANADIAN MAMA THAT WOULD BE GREAT! :)
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ASlater1987- If my canadian partner doesnt mssg me, we can always be partners! Im a Sask mommy!
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Michael Jackson announced today that he would give this July his last public performances -- whether his last in London, or anywhere, it was hard to tell from his brief, garbled remarks ("This is it... This is the final curtain call"). This is a brave decision because Jackson was recently seen being pushed around in a wheelchair; he was said then to have been suffering from alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, but his appearance today suggests he was recovering from a horrible, disfiguring accident.
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Right… Shouldn't there be some kind of regulation that prevents retailers from selling a game that is—most
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N-faithful, but it's also downright dirty. Sure, if you give GameStop the $60 now and the game is never released, then
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Question on defaults
I captain a 7.5 Combo Mixed team. We just clinched our trip to the district tournament in January.
Anyways, I have an out-of-towner on my team. She was here for one match we won, but has not been able to get back in town to play a match since. We have one match that was previously "colded-out" and we've made up two of the three courts. We were both trying to find players to play that 3rd court. I've spoken with the other captain since then who said she most likely will have to default that court to me. I told her that I would just plug my out-of-towner in so she gets her second match so she can play at districts. She then said that that was not acceptable, that she (the out-of-towner) had to be present for the match to accept the default. I'm getting in contact with one of leagues people at the USTA, but does anybody else have an idea about this?
It doesn't make any sense to me, since this is not a regularly scheduled match. Why would I call this person in to town for a match that is not going to happen? If they can't fill the court, what does it matter who I put in?
Don't make an issue out of it, Jakes.
You know your player can't make it....the opposing captain objects.
Personally, were I the opposing captain, I wouldn't object...especially if I weren't in a position to make the playoffs or otherwise had a skin in the game. But since she does, play it straight up. Tell your out-of-towner, I'm sorry, it just didn't work out this time....and claim your team's spot in the post-season.
Do...The Right Thing.
Would you have liked it if you were forced to default because you had a player out of town that couldn't play? The idea is simple. If they are defaulting because they don't have enough players to play a match, it is up to you to guarantee BY CODE OF ETHICS that you do have 2 players who are ready to go and play the match. It doesn't matter if you actually have to show up or not, the fact that you must have 2 ready players is the written rule to accept a default.
Sucks for her that she can't play at state, maybe she should have shown up for more than just one match if she wanted to go that badly. Also, technically speaking if you don't have 2 players that are ready for the lineup and to accept the default from the other team, you MUST as an ethical captain inform the other of the same issue and the match will be a double-default where each team loses and no one is a winner for that particular match.
Abide by the tennis code of ethics or gtfo.
No difference having this player inserted than any other. I get the Code argument, but its not like you're adding a ringer at the season. She's on the team.
Our local rules do not prohibit what you contemplate but yours might and it's good that you've contacted an LC to find out. I do know a captain who has has done this very thing...but...she did have a full compliment of players who could have shown up for the match if they'd had to actually play it. It just wouldn't have included the "unavailable" player whose name was ultimately entered in the final lineup.
Guess I'll revise my advice just a bit: if you could have fielded that (to-be) defaulted line...then go ahead and enter whoever's name you want to, provided you get confirmation from the league that it's permissible. But if your team also would have had to default, then man-up and take the double-default.
Next time, stay silent on what your lineup could've/should've/would've been...and this issue won't come up.
I don't have a horse in this race, but Swank hit this one out of the park. Great post Swank... THAT is the way to conduct yourself. Good job.
When an opposing captain tells me in advance that she is defaulting a court, I decide which two players should take the default with strategic considerations in mind.
For instance:
I might decide to use those two slots to qualify players for the post-season, as OP hopes to do.
I might decide not to list a player who is nursing and injury and who might later wish to be deleted from the roster. My listing her might mean she could no longer get a refund of her registration fees.
I do not believe the opposing captain has any right whatsoever to decide who you must list for a default. And I am quite confident that players need not show up for a match that has been defaulted in advance. http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showt...ight=grievance
Now, say the situation were a little different. Say opposing captain did not give advance notice of the default and instead handed you a line-up cart with "DF" on it. Your line-up would already have your two players written on it.
At that point, I do not believe you would be allowed to change your line-up and your two players would need to be there to accept the DF. You could always ask the opposing captain to let you change it, but if she objects you are stuck.
Bottom line: I am siding with you, OP, unless your league rules are different from ours.
[edit: I should mention that I think you should not accept opposing captains default if you don't have two available players. In that case, it should be a double-default. But if you have players A and B available, it is OK to take the default and list players C and D as receiving the default, even if C and D were not available.
If that is the case, then that supports Swanks post. Do the right thing, meaning his out-of-towner should not get credit for the match either way. Right? Anything else is manipulating the system... and I've read pages and pages of people complaining about people manipulating the system in different ways (notably self-raters).
The norm is that if a captain defaults a line in advance and gives notice that she doesn't have two players to contest that court, the other captain should honestly state whether she does have two players.
If the non-defaulting captain does have *any* two players available, then she can in good conscience take the default without having her players show up. I believe it is perfectly fine to insert the names of any two eligible players regardless of their ability to play that match.
If the defaulting captain does not trust the non-defaulting captain to tell the truth about whether she has two players available, the defaulting captain should just keep her mouth shut, show up for the match and see if the defaulting captain does indeed have enough players.
The only exception IMO is that it is a snake in the grass move to accept an advance default if you were already planning to default that line.
I just want to thank everybody so far for their opinions. I do appreciate them. Swank...if I were you, I would try to sound a little less like a jerk when preaching.
Here is little bit more back story and an update on how things ended up:
This is the first year we have been able to get an 8.5 Combo Mixed league going in the area. Me and the other captain have been very laid back and trying to do our very best to play every match, make it competitive, and attempt to draw more people in for next year. We have not had any problems, and this issue did not end up being a problem.
We are taking the court as a default win with my out-of-towner listed on the court. The defaulting captain understood my predicament. My out-of-towner had already played a match which made her ineligible to receive a refund. She is closer to where we would be for districts and is really excited about attending. This was not an ultra-competitive, cut throat league. My out-of-towner was just as much a part of this 8.5 experiment as the rest of us and deserves a chance to compete. The reason for me telling the other captain about my plan in the first place was, because of our openness and flexibility over the course of the season.
I understand the ethical arguments (to a point), but I don't see it as severe as some others have made it out to be. The fact is that the defaulting captain came to me first saying she was going to have to default the court, and it is ultimately up to me who I place as the "winners". Since this was a makeup match, I'm not going to have a team show up to the court just to tell them they can go home. It's pointless. Nobody benefits from a default, so why not help out a teammate who wants to play and have fun like the rest of of us? The "code of ethics" were not broken, and if bent, only slightly.
There are a ton of knowledgeable posters on this board. I'm normally only on the college tennis talk forum, but I will definitely start posting on here more. Thanks for your opinions.
Jake, did you in fact have *any* two players who could have contested that line at the designated time and place? I don't mean "standing there waiting to play phantom opponents." I mean, "two eligible players who could driven out there and played the match."
And I hope you do stick around. You presented a problem I've never seen raised here.
I'm hoping to read through the threads and find some interesting situations as well.
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Will I subsist on Chex Mix at this year's Republican National Convention?
With the Republican National Convention delayed until Tuesday thanks to Tropical Storm Isaac, reporters are using the extra time to get acclimated, explore the area, and connect with sources and acquaintances. I, on the other hand, had a more immediate concern: ensuring that I would not have to subsist on granola and Chex Mix for the duration of my stay. To that end, after filing my piece on the chief rabbi of the RNC, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik early this afternoon, I began my hunt for kosher food.
The record shows that kosher fare was provided at both party conventions last election cycle, so it stood to reason that I would find some here in Tampa. And given that a bona fide Orthodox rabbi would be kicking off the ceremonies, I presumed it would not be hard to procure. But after fruitless inquiries to the press desk and the general convention information desk—and having consumed a Hershey bar and bag of potato chips—I began to worry. That's when I asked Twitter.
It did not work. (Unless you count responses from Twitterati like @whatamentsch explaining "You're at the wrong convention if you want Kosher food.") Thankfully, however, Plan B did. As it turns out, Chabad of Tampa Bay runs a local catering service—with delivery!—featuring everything from bagels and lox to pizza to sushi. So dear reader (by which I mean, specifically, my mom), not to worry—you can be assured that I will not go hungry during my stay. Which means you can look forward to coverage of tomorrow's convention kick-off, interviews with young Jewish Republican activists and politicians, and much more in the days to come.
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NEW ORLEANS -- To qualify for a Tulane legislative scholarship, a student must be from Louisiana, have an ACT score of at least 28 and be in the top quarter of his class.
Nowhere does it say a student must be able to throw a 90-mph fastball, hit a 400-foot home run or run down a fly ball on the warning track. But those skills might improve his chances.
Records show that last season, seven members of the Tulane baseball squad had their tuition fully covered by scholarships awarded by Louisiana legislators.
Though the players were all considered walk-ons by the university, they weren't exactly warming the bench in fact, two of them, David Napoli and Brennan Middleton, were drafted by Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in June. Napoli is touted on the Green Wave's website as one of the best left-handed pitchers in school history, while Middleton was a four-year starter as a middle infielder.
Like any Division I school, Tulane is barred from awarding more than the equivalent of 11.7 athletic scholarships to members of its baseball squad, which has a roster of 38 men. So the seven legislative scholarships awarded to baseball players last year could have given Tulane, sometimes a national contender in baseball, a significant advantage over opposing teams. (As it happens, the Green Wave had a disappointing season, finishing just over .500.)
Athletic directors say it's increasingly difficult for expensive private schools such as Tulane to field competitive teams in sports with a limited number of scholarships, like baseball. If the school were found to be using the legislative scholarship program to augment its allotment of athletic scholarships, Tulane could face sanctions from the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Tulane officials say they're in compliance.
Sorting out the truth is difficult because of both the arcane nature of NCAA rules and the murky way in which Tulane legislative scholarships are handed out.
NCAA rules say that the 11.7 baseball scholarships each Division I school awards may be divided among up to 27 kids, with each receiving a partial scholarship. Those scholarships are called 'counters.' When a student-athlete gets another scholarship, such as one awarded by a legislator, a university's athletic director and financial aid director must both sign a form attesting that the scholarship 'was granted without regard in any degree to athletics ability.'
So was athletic ability a factor in any of the legislative awards given to members of the baseball team?
'Absolutely not,' said Yvette Jones, Tulane's executive vice president for external relations. 'The NCAA reviews every student-athlete, all the scholarships. And there are no issues with the legislative scholarship being awarded.'
Jones noted that Tulane had 299 student-athletes last year, and only nine of them were on legislative scholarships. All nine were walk-ons, she said.
Viewed another way, only 3 percent of student-athletes got legislative scholarships, but 18 percent of the baseball team had them. Meanwhile, 77 percent of the legislative scholarships awarded to athletes went to members of the baseball team Tulane's marquee sport, in some fans' eyes.
The high proportion of the legislative scholarships going to ballplayers is accidental, Jones said, adding that the team has only three players on legislative scholarship this year.
'I would say it is a coincidence,' she said. 'I mean, I don't think there's any relationship between them. They're not recruiting student-athletes. They're Tulane students who make a decision to walk on the team.'
In at least some cases, though, the team seems to have been expecting them. Middleton, a shortstop who prepped at Parkview Baptist in Baton Rouge, started almost every game throughout his four-year career. Same with recently graduated outfielder Brandon Boudreaux, whose list of athletic honors at Tulane is extensive.
How such a high percentage of baseball players landed scholarships compared to other Tulane sports programs is unclear.
State Sen. Edwin Murray, D-New Orleans, who gave Napoli a scholarship from 2009 through his graduation this year, said he has essentially jobbed out the process of screening applicants to Tulane.
Murray said he had no idea about Napoli's baseball skills when he first awarded the scholarship. He said he asked Tulane for some names.
The school sent him Napoli an Isidore Newman School product who, four years later, is described on the Green Wave's website as 'one of the best southpaws in Tulane history.'
'What I do is call Tulane and ask them to send a list of students from my district who are qualified to receive the scholarship,' Murray said. 'Then I review the list and figure out who is the most worthwhile person to give it to.'
Like most legislators, Murray tends to award the scholarship for four years, provided the student achieves the required 2.3 grade-point average. When he first bestowed it on Napoli in 2009, Murray said, he doesn't remember how many other names Tulane sent along for him to choose from, although he's sure Napoli's wasn't the only name on the list.
'I heard later that Tulane had this great new pitcher, and his name is Napoli,' Murray said. 'I never got a chance to watch him.'
But major league scouts were paying attention as Napoli, according to the Tulane website, 'put together one of the finest pitching seasons in school history,' holding opposing batters to a .176 average. The Nationals picked Napoli in the eighth round of this year's MLB draft.
State Rep. Joe Lopinto, R-Metairie, who sponsored Middleton for two of the last four years, said he, too, asked Tulane for help in choosing a scholarship recipient. Unlike Murray, however, he specifically asked Tulane to send him the names of qualified baseball players.
The school has obliged.
'I've tried to help out the baseball team, to give them an extra seat at the table,' he said.
'I've always tried to take care of the baseball team. They probably only have 10 scholarships. I'll tell them, 'Send me a name.''
Lopinto said he had no special allegiance to the baseball team: He's not an alumnus, and he said hasn't been to a Tulane baseball game since he was elected to the Legislature six years ago.
'I'm more of a Tulane baseball fan than a Tulane football fan, but I'm not really either,' he said.
Jones acknowledged that some legislators have special requests when it comes to the scholarship program, and that the university tries to accommodate them.
'Well, legislators will sometimes, on the list, ask for, you know, 'I'd like a kid who's in dance.' They have done that,' she said.
When that happens, the school's government affairs office asks the admissions office for names of prospective students, she said. But Jones emphasized that the school does not seek to pad its baseball roster through the legislative scholarship program.
'There is no connection between legislators and any of our athletic programs,' she said.
Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, said the sheer number of baseball players getting legislative scholarships begs for an inquiry.
'If alumni or legislators are using this to give Tulane an additional competitive advantage for their athletic programs, that shows you how these programs really aren't worthy of being maintained,' Goyeneche said.
He said the situation could merit a review by the NCAA.
'If these scholarships are used to supplement the scholarship limits that the NCAA imposes on member institutions, it could potentially be a violation of some sort there,' Goyeneche said.


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BELFAST — The Bruins got some huge cheers from the Odyssey Arena Saturday night, but after the Belfast Giants took a 1-0 lead on them in the second period, the team made it clear they would end their Northern Ireland trip with more than just fanfare.
Tyler Seguin, Zdeno Chara, and Brad Marchand all scored over the space of a minute following the Giants' goal, their lone tally off of Bruins netminder Tuukka Rask. Milan Lucic added one of his own in the third, with Seguin tacking on another on a penalty shot to give the Bruins a 5-1 lead that they would hold for the rest of the game.
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Gear shift leaking oil
Hi everyone,
My bike has started leaking transmission oil from the gearshift mechanism. Seems like a seal has gone inside and it is trickling down the selector lever. It has only just started doing this within the last 1k miles. The bike has about 80k miles on the clock, as far as I know the transmission has never been overhauled.
I am currently on the road and have no wish to even think about taking the tranny apart to replace the seal, or sending it off for this to be done.. I will put up with the leak for now and just keep an eye on the oil level. When I get home will have a look in more detail.
My question is.. Has this happened to anyone before? Is it a signal of worse things to come, or is it just simply a seal that has worn out?
Please tell me it is! :cry
Sorry... Bike is a '79 R100RS (my first airhead :D )
It's real common. The seal can be replaced with the tranny in the bike. A lot of people will advise to rebuild the tranny regardless at 80k. I took one of mine apart at 106k and it didn't need a thing.
We still have another 15 - 20k miles minimum left on the trip. Hopefully it won't get too much worse before I get home and have chance to dig about further. Was planning on giving the bike a complete rebuild when we finish anyway. The PO looked after it to the best of my knowledge and I have always changed gear oil every 9k.. Always comes out as clean as new, so hopefully internally it is all as good as new. Encouraging to hear you had one with over 100k that was fine.
Out of curiosity, what is the process for replacing seal with tranny in bike? Is it as simple as removing gearshift, undoing Allen bolt, prying out seal and inserting a new one?
Any good links or recommended reading much appreciated.
Yep. It's as simple as that. Most of the time this is all it needs and if there are no more serious complaints then you don't need any more serious repairs.
One word of caution. The recess the seal goes into is a lot deeper than it needs to be. The seal can be driven in a lot deeper than it currently is. Make a note of how deep the seal is currently and when you drive the new seal in set it at about the same depth. Not rocket science but I drove mine all the way in before I realized it. Still works tho, you just can't see it. Lube the lip of the new seal with trannie oil when you put the shift lever back on.
This is an easy road repair. Obtain seal. Someone can correct this number if incorrect for your bike, but I think it's 23-12-1-338-740.
Find a tree. Prop bike on right side against tree. Remove shifter lever. Remove old seal with screwdriver. Careful not to mar the bore. Press in new seal, just below flush on the casting. Replace lever. You won't lose much gear oil but you can top that off later.
Good to know. Will pick one up and fit it in.
Yep, can be done on the bike, but rather than pry the seal out with a blade, you may want to get a couple (as in just two) small self tapping screws about #4 or #6 and screw them into the seal then pull it out with pliers or vice grips on the screws.
One method works for some folks, and the other works for some folks.
Mine was leaking but the seal hadn't migrated, but the cause was the nut holding the shift lever came loose. Could check that. Don't reef on it, just make sure it's snug.
Carefully peel the seal out, clean it well. Tap a new one in with a deep socket or something suitable. Tip bike against a wall or something to keep gear oil in transmission from interfering with the new seal between the case and seal. About the easiest seal to change on a bike :D Hope this helps
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Prince has done his share of ludicrous things in his lifetime, and admittedly, the news that he's gearing up to sue his fan sites doesn't even compete with when he changed his name to a symbol or painted his house purple. But it's still pretty crazy: Prince and his lawyers are demanding that his major fan sites remove all photographs, images, lyrics, and album covers, saying the sites are violating copyright law.
On the one hand, I can understand a famous person wanting to protect how his image is used. On the other hand, going after the fans who support him most might not be the best PR strategy. What do you think?
asims 7 years
He's a jack*ss!! Did you see where he was sueing a family b/c his song was playing in the background of their home video of their kids dancing!! source: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3777651&page=3
nicachica 7 years
oh Prince, i love you so much i made you my avatar but i'm going to have to change that now that you're acting like a douche! sigh...what a shame...:(
terrywagner123 7 years
Such a talented performer, but, seems like he's going the way of Michael Jackson, waaay over the top. Does that much talent come with so high aprice tag?
brightfuture 7 years
im here now
femmefatale 7 years
I am on the fence. I remember him being on Arsenio Hall back in the day when he had slave written on his face. He was really serious about them making money of not only the music but his likeness. These are his fans though so ...
bugn 7 years
I am so OVER him! Ugh! He is so full of himself.
motherof3 7 years
I love Prince, so I'm not going to say anything bad about him. Even if he is acting like a diva.
htfontenot0224 7 years
He's a very talented artist, but I think he is being to total DIVA!!!!!
demeter 7 years
What a jerk.
Shopaholichunny 7 years
yeah BOO Prince! That's so wrong!
jennifer76 7 years
That's really crappy. :raspberry: Boo Prince!!
ColleenS 7 years
He needs to get over himself. Who does he think buys his CDs?
alexlove 7 years
I own a fan site and a lot of work goes into it, for NO profit whatsoever! The fact that he is suing his fans for promoting him is infuriating to me. He doesn't deserve to have any fans.
colormesticky 7 years
Ooh, I wonder if he'll see this and sue me for slander. :oy:
colormesticky 7 years
He's so talented, but he thinks he's fucking Caligula. I hate him.
nomerz 7 years
um, probably the most ridiculous think ever. get over yourself, Princess.
CaterpillarGirl 7 years
His Last tour he announced that he would no longer be performing ANY of his older stuff, so anyone going to his tours from now on should know that its all his new material, and no little red corvettes. I still love him thought. When George Harrison died, and they did a tribute concert, He came out on stage and did "while my guitar gently weeps" and blew everyone away....its on you tube
Knight-Who-Says-Ni 7 years
He changed his name so he could get out of his contact and own his own music, which is not so crazy. And hey, purple house for purple rain! But suing your fan sites isn't cool. These are the people who buy those overpriced tickets and merchandise!
marcella 7 years
i love me some prince... raspberry beret, anyone? i don't think he gives a shite. maybe these fan sites are generating revenue on his image. you never know.
Babychloe 7 years
He shut down his offical fan club, which I was a member of. I can't imagine why he wants to go after his fans. We're just out there to support him. He is a musician of great talent, but he has a major ego.
JennaV 7 years
I love me some Prince but he is being a little bitch :oy:
juju4 7 years
I have always thought he was pretty talented, but this seems severe. I guess I would have to see the sites to make a fair judgement, but so far I am leaning with the fans. Think of all the fan sites that are out there...can you imagine if all the musicians and actors that had them turned around and sued?
steen 7 years
Wowwww. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!
ElleJay 7 years
I think prince is a @#$% -- He should be lucky he even HAS fans !!
jenintx 7 years
haha. it's 100 percent no right now. what a douchebag move!