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In one embodiment, a medical lead comprises a lead body for conducting electrical pulses and a paddle. The paddle includes an intermediate metal layer, at least an insulative polymer backing layer, and an insulative polymer covering layer. The intermediate metal layer comprises a plurality of features defined by gaps in the metal material in the metal layer such that each feature is electrically isolated from each other feature, wherein each feature includes a respective connector element that is electrically coupled to at least one conductor within the lead body, wherein a portion of the insulative polymer covering layer is exposed above each feature to define a respective electrode for the corresponding feature. Also, the paddle possesses shape memory to cause the paddle to assume a substantially planar orientation when the shape memory is in a relaxed state.
1. A medical lead for delivering electrical stimulation to tissue of a patient, the medical lead comprising:
a lead body for conducting electrical pulses through a plurality of conductors;
a paddle for delivering the electrical pulses from the plurality of conductors to tissue of the patient, wherein (i) the paddle comprises a metal layer laminated to at least one insulative layer; (ii) the metal layer comprises a plurality of electrically isolated features defined by gaps in the metal layer; (iii) each feature formed by a continuous planar strip of conductive material extending from a proximal end of the paddle with a portion of the respective continuous planar strip exposed through insulative material of the paddle forming an electrode of the paddle; (iv) the electrodes of the features are organized in a first longitudinal portion and a second longitudinal portion of the metal layer; and (v) the metal layer comprises a plurality of guide structures for distributing force from a distal end of the paddle into a body of the paddle; and
a support structure that is mechanically coupled to the paddle and to the lead body, wherein the support structure comprises a recess for directing folding of the first portion;
wherein the guide structures cause the first longitudinal portion to have a different amount of rigidity than the second longitudinal portion such that contact of a distal end of the paddle with a lumen of an insertion tool causes the first portion to fold over the second portion and causes the first portion to unfold, upon exit from the lumen, in a substantially lateral manner relative to a plane in which the paddle is disposed.
2. The medical lead of
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This application is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/673,001 filed Feb. 9, 2007, now abandoned, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/772,321, filed Feb. 10, 2006, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present application is generally related to a paddle lead that is self-folding for insertion in a patient using an insertion tool or catheter and that returns to an extended state upon exiting the insertion tool or catheter within the epidural space.
Application of electrical fields to spinal nerve roots, spinal cord, and other nerve bundles for the purpose of chronic pain control has been actively practiced for some time. While a precise understanding of the interaction between the applied electrical energy and the nervous tissue is not fully appreciated, it is known that application of an electrical field to spinal nervous tissue (i.e., spinal nerve roots and spinal cord bundles) can effectively mask certain types of pain transmitted from regions of the body associated with the stimulated nerve tissue. Specifically, applying electrical energy to the spinal cord associated with regions of the body afflicted with chronic pain can induce "paresthesia" (a subjective sensation of numbness or tingling) in the afflicted bodily regions. Thereby, paresthesia can effectively mask the transmission of non-acute pain sensations to the brain.
It is known that each exterior region, or each dermatome, of the human body is associated with a particular longitudinal spinal position. Thus, electrical stimulation of nerve tissue must occur at a specific longitudinal location to effectively treat chronic pain. Additionally, it is important to avoid applying electrical stimulation of nerve tissue associated with regions of the body that are unaffected by chronic pain. Positioning of an applied electrical field relative to a physiological midline is also important.
Percutaneous leads and laminotomy leads are the two most common types of lead designs that provide conductors that deliver stimulation pulses from an implantable pulse generator (IPG) to distal electrodes adjacent to the nerve tissue. As shown in
As shown in
In one embodiment, a medical lead comprises a lead body for conducting electrical pulses and a paddle. The paddle includes an intermediate metal layer, at least an insulative polymer backing layer, and an insulative polymer covering layer. The intermediate metal layer comprises a plurality of features defined by gaps in the metal material in the metal layer such that each feature is electrically isolated from each other feature, wherein each feature includes a respective connector element that is electrically coupled to at least one conductor within the lead body, wherein a portion of the insulative polymer covering layer is exposed above each feature to define a respective electrode for the corresponding feature. Also, the paddle possesses shape memory to cause the paddle to assume a substantially planar orientation when the shape memory is in a relaxed state.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly certain features and/or technical advantages in order that the detailed description that follows may be better understood. Additional features and/or advantages will be described hereinafter. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. The novel features, both as to organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages will be better understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying figures. It is to be expressly understood, however, that each of the figures is provided for the purpose of illustration and description only and is not intended as a definition of the limits of the appended claims.
The width of paddle 200 is sufficient to provide suitable spacing between the two sets of electrodes 203 to enable stimulation of the pertinent nerve fibers across the physiological midline of the patient. The design of paddle 200 enables paddle 200 to be substantially maintained at a desired position within the patient's epidural space. Moreover, the design of paddle 200 ensures that electrodes 203-1 through 203-8 will remain in fixed relative positions, e.g., electrodes 203-1 through 203-4 cannot be offset longitudinally from electrodes 203-5 through 203-8.
Paddle 200 includes guide structures 202-1 and 202-2 which are proximate to distal end 201 of the paddle. Guide structures 202-1 and 202-2 cause paddle 200 to fold upon itself when the guide structures 200 contact the lumen of an insertion tool. In some embodiments, the guide structures 202-1 and 202-2 are implemented by scribing longitudinal elements in the conductive material. When paddle 200 contacts the inner surface of the insertion tool, the longitudinal elements distribute force into the body of paddle 200 according to the shape of the respective longitudinal elements. Additionally, guide structures 202-1 and 202-2 are preferably implemented to possess different amounts of rigidity (e.g., due to the shape of the respective guide structures 202, the thickness of their respective longitudinal members, etc.). The difference in the amount of rigidity controls the manner in which paddle 200 folds. As will be discussed in greater detail below, one side of paddle 200 folds over the other side in a substantially lateral manner thereby minimizing the amount of open space within the epidural space required for paddle 200 to unfold.
In the embodiment shown in
In a similar manner, if paddle 200 needs to be removed from the patient, distal end 205 and guide structures 202-2 and 202-3 are provided. Specifically, proximal end 205 can be pulled by lead body 410 into the same or similar tool as used to insert paddle lead 200. When guide structures 202-2 and 202-3 experience force due to contact of paddle 200 with the inner wall of the tool, segment 210 once again folds over segment 220 thereby enabling paddle 200 to be withdrawn from the patient's epidural space through the tool. Accordingly, it is not necessary to perform a partial laminectomy procedure for the insertion or removal of paddle 200.
Numerous variations upon the design shown in
Also, paddle 200 could include more than two segments with all or some of the segments folding when inserted into a suitable tool. Although eight electrodes are shown in
In step 302, a coating of urethane (or a similar polymer) is spin coated on one side of the conductive material for the purpose of achieving a surface with greater adhesive qualities. In step 303, a urethane film (or any other suitable biocompatible polymer) is applied to the same side as the spin coat and is laminated to the conductive material. The urethane film and coating provide an insulative layer to electrically isolate the conductive material. The urethane film preferably has a thickness of preferably 25.4 to 152.4 microns (one to six mils).
In step 304, the paddle form is created by scribing the paddle form in the conductive material using a suitable laser (e.g., a programmable YAG laser system). A separate strip or "feature" of conductive material is defined in a pattern definition for each electrode that extends from a respective connector element 206 (shown collectively as 206-1 through 206-8 in
The pattern definition is preferably provided to a programmable laser system. The programmable laser system then applies pulses of energy according to the defined pattern to ablate the conductive material between each strip of conductive material. The application of laser pulses is controlled to ablate the conductive material at the defined locations without cutting completely through the urethane film behind the ablated conductive material. The lamination between the urethane film and the conductive material holds the separate strips or features of conductive material at the defined locations. Also, upon completion of the application of laser pulses to paddle 200, each strip of conductive material is electrically isolated from every other strip or feature due to the laser scribed separations between them and the insulative characteristic of the urethane film. In an alternative embodiment, photo-etching techniques could be employed to create the paddle form. For example, the paddle form could be created using a photoresist and chemical etching in lieu of laser scribing. In another alternative embodiment, micro-printing is employed to create the paddle form.
In step 305, a spin coat of urethane is applied over the conductive material on the side opposite to the urethane laminate layer. The coating of the urethane material electrically insulates the top of paddle 200. In step 306, electrodes 203 are defined by removing the urethane material of the applied coating at the respective locations thereby exposing the conductive material at those locations. The removal of the urethane material may occur using the programmable laser. Alternatively, a separate CO2 laser could be utilized for exposure of the conductive material and/or masked plasma etching. In step 307, connector elements 206 are exposed on one or both sides of paddle 200.
After the completion of paddle 200 according to the flowchart of
On the distal end of a medical lead, openings in the outer body and in the insulative coating of the conductors are made at suitable locations. Conductive material can be provided within the openings to provide an electrical path from the conductors to the surface of the lead. The exposed connector elements 206 of paddle 200 are preferably coupled to the lead conductors at these locations to create the electrical connection between the conductors of the lead and electrodes 203. Alternatively, a wire connection could be employed between each conductor of the lead and a respective connector element 206. Additional details regarding specific medical leads and lead fabrication methods are available in U.S. Pat. No. 6,216,045 entitled "Implantable lead and method of manufacture," which is incorporated herein by reference. It shall be appreciated that paddle designs according to the present invention can be implemented with any type of suitable medical lead.
One advantage of assembly 400 is the minimization of volume displacement associated with the folding and unfolding of the paddle. Reference is made to
As shown in
The distal end of paddle 200 of lead assembly 400 is inserted within insertion tool 500 as shown in
Although some representative embodiments have been discussed in terms of neurostimulation applications, alternative representative embodiments could be employed for other medical applications. For example, in one alternative embodiment, a paddle structure could be adapted for any suitable type of cardiac stimulation such as defibrillation and pacing. The paddle structure could be inserted through the vascular system of the patient using a suitable catheter and introduced within a suitable cardiac region. The paddle structure then could be adapted to unfold upon exiting the catheter to contact the cardiac tissue to be stimulated. In other alternative embodiments, the paddle could be utilized for cardiac mapping and/or tissue ablation.
Some representative embodiments may provide a number of advantages. Some representative embodiments provide a paddle that can be inserted into and removed from the epidural space of a patient without requiring a partial laminectomy. Furthermore, some representative embodiments provide a method of fabricating a paddle design that is highly repeatable and efficient. The fabrication method further does not necessarily require the use of any overly caustic chemicals.
Although representative embodiments and advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from this disclosure, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized without departing from the scope of the appended claims. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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Velocity distributions. Histograms show changes in the velocity distribution profiles in response to surface coatings for the different extracellular matrices laminin, collagen IV and collagen I (all at 10 ug/ml coating concentration) in comparison to mock-coated plastic for KM101 cells (A) and MG-63 cells (B). Velocity measurements on individual objects were filtered according to criteria for single cells as described (see Methods) and were compiled over an elapsed time from 24 to 48 hours from three experiments. The horizontal axes indicate velocity measurement bins from which the number of objects included within each bin are determined as shown on the vertical axis (faint horizontal lines represent 1000 objects). The different colours within each bar indicate cell track length (from bottom to top: grey indicates tracks of 11 or more segments, violet: 10 segments, light-blue: 9 segments, bright-blue: 8, green: 7, black: 6, yellow: 5, dark-blue: 4, and red: 3 segments).
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Bell Trade Act
The Bell Trade Act of 1946, also known as the Philippine Trade Act, was an act passed by the United States Congress specifying the economic conditions governing the independence of the Philippines from the United States.[1][2] The United States Congress offered $800 million for post World War II rebuilding funds if the Bell Trade Act was ratified by Philippine legislature, which duly approved the measure on July 2, two days before independence from the United States of America.
Authored by Missouri Congressman C. Jasper Bell, the Bell Trade Act linked the Philippine economy to the United States economy in several ways:
- A system of preferential tariffs was established, undermining control over imports and exports by the Philippine government;
- The Philippine currency, the peso, was pegged to the US dollar;
- The Philippine government was obligated not to place restrictions on currency transfers from the Philippines to the United States;
- a "parity" clause granted U.S. citizens and corporations equal access with Philippine citizens to Philippine minerals, forests and other natural resources, despite provisions in the Philippine constitution (1935) to the contrary which the act required to be amended.[3]
Filipino nationalists denounced the Bell Trade Act. Even the reliably pro-American Philippine President Sergio Osmeña called it a "curtailment of Philippine sovereignty, virtual nullification of Philippine independence." In 1955, nine years after passage of the Bell Trade Act, a revised United States–Philippine Trade Agreement (the Laurel–Langley Agreement) was negotiated to replace it.[3] This treaty abolished the United States authority to control the exchange rate of the peso, made parity privileges reciprocal, extended the sugar quota, and extended the time period for the reduction of other quotas and for the progressive application of tariffs on Philippine goods exported to the United States.
See also[edit]
- ^ Schirmer, Daniel B; Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm (1987), The Philippines reader: a history of colonialism, neocolonialism, dictatorship, and resistance, South End Press, p. 88, ISBN 978-0-89608-275-5
- ^ Kerkvliet, Benedict J (2002), The Huk rebellion: a study of peasant revolt in the Philippines (second ed.), Rowman & Littlefield, p. 150, ISBN 978-0-7425-1868-1
- ^ a b Andersen, Regine (2008), Governing agrobiodiversity: plant genetics and developing countries, Ashgate, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-7546-4741-6.
External links[edit]
- "Commonwealth Act No. 733". Chan Robles Law Library. April 30, 1946.
Further reading[edit]
- Dolan, Ronald E, ed. (1991), Philippines: A Country Study, Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress.
- Drona, Bert, ed. (September 28, 2012), BELL TRADE ACT (Philippine Trade Act of 1946) - Independence With Strings, From U.S. Colony to U.S. Neo-Colony.


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- Cartoon Characters: Henery Hawk, Mother, Chicken, Rooster.
- Voice Actors: Kent Rogers, Tedd Pierce, Mel Blanc.
- Directed By Chuck Jones.
- Produced By Leon Schlesinger.
- Music: Carl W. Stalling.
- Originally Released on August 08, 1942. (more dates ...)
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- Running Time: 6:46 minutes.
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1. Heat oil in a pan. Add basil and prawns in it.
2. Let it cook. Add chilies.
3. Add chicken marinated in fish sauce and coconut.
4. Add the mixture of coriander, ginger and lemongrass.
5. Now add capsicum, coconut cream, paprika, little peanut oil.
6. If you wish you can add arrowroot to thicken the curry.
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DUBUQUE, Iowa - A proposal for the city of Dubuque to annex a mental health facility is revealing an officer shortage at the Dubuque police department.
With only 95 officers on the force right now, police officials say the department needs another 14 officers. This comes just at the city could soon become responsible for protecting more people.
Hillcrest Family Services operates a mental health residential care center on Speipple Road.That center was formerly called the Julien Care Facility. Directors there want to install a fire sprinkler system.
But in order to do that they need to connect to the city's water source.
The property is under the County Sheriff's jurisdiction. Dubuque County Sheriff Don Vrotsos says deputies respond to more than 250 calls there each year. A number the city police don't know how they'll keep up with.
Many of the 80 people living at the Hillcrest center are dealing with crisis and mental illness.
The Sheriff says 35 percent of the Office's annual calls for service come from Hillcrest employees.
Hillcrest's John Bellini said, "with the particular mental health needs and the emotional behavior issues that we are dealing with, I believe it's not a high number. "
State law keeps Hillcrest's type of shelter from locking residents inside. So most of the calls for service are to help search for runaways.
Taking over that volume of calls is alarming for Dubuque Police Lt. Scott Baxter. He says the department is already extremely short staffed.
Baxter said, "we had some unexpected resignations over the summer. Coupled with retirements and maternity leave. "
Baxter says the police department is actively hiring, but only a small number of potential officers are able to get into the state's police academy each year.
"every agency across the state is competing for those slots. The larger agencies who don't have their own academies, we are at their mercy as well. "
If the Hillcrest center becomes part of the city, Baxter says police will likely have to cut back on things like special traffic enforcement projects and crime prevention.
Baxter said, "we're not willing to sacrifice that promise to the community, the fact that we are going to be there when they need us. We are going to do that at all costs. It's just far more challenging when we don't have the people we need. "
A state board has already approved the annexation that would make this center part of the city. City leaders say unless someone objects by this Monday, the annexation will go through.
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Lovely PR66 1883 Three Dollar Gold1883 $3 PR66 PCGS. 1883 at the nation's mints was a year chiefly dedicated to the spewing out of millions of unwanted and unneeded Morgan dollars, as mandated by the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. Three types of five cent nickels were produced in considerable quantities, but three cent nickel coinage was negligible. Quarters, half dollars, and gold coins below the half eagle were produced in strictly token amounts, while the double eagle was produced only in proof format, to the extent of 92 pieces. The mintage of three dollar gold pieces, as it did in 1881, again dipped below four digits, this time to the extent of 900 business strikes and 89 proofs. Although some earlier researchers, such as Harry W. Bass, Jr., believed that business strikes were struck from the proof obverse die, Breen's proof Encyclopedia says that a different die was used. However, both proofs and some business strikes are seen with a speck of die rust in the plume above the T in LIBERTY, as on the present coin. According to Q. David Bowers' The United States $3 Gold Pieces the reverse die, however, is definitely different on the proof coins. The wreath tops are unconnected and show an area of proof surface between them, while on business strikes the wreath tips touch. The proofs show the peak of the 1 in the date centered beneath the left tip of the serif of the first L in DOLLARS, while on the business strikes this digit is minutely to the left of that position. The present lovely specimen offers rich yellow-gold centers that meld into amber, copper, and sunset-gold hues at the rims on each side. This is one of four specimens graded PR66 at PCGS, while a single specimen at NGC is graded finer, at PR67 Cameo (11/06).(Registry values: N7079) (NGC ID# 28AS, PCGS# 8047)
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This is a splendidly detailed example, since only the highpoints of the hillside shows less than full definition. The medium brown and golden-brown surfaces are generally smooth, despite a minor lamination on the I in VERMONTENSIUM and some natural obverse rim irregularity. Marks are largely confined to a few faint abrasions near the plow. A significant opportunity for the early American collector, described without reservation as "The Finest Known" in its Eliasberg auction appearance. Listed on page 68 of the 2008 Guide Book. Population: 1 in 62, 1 finer (11/07).
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Among the best parts of the last two baseball seasons in Baltimore has been the absence of griping about Peter Angelos. Since Angelos bought the Orioles in 1993, fans have groused that he's unwilling to spend the cash it takes to compete in the American League East. They've grumbled that Angelos – a famous know-it-all – thinks he knows better than the baseball guys and vetoes all their decisions.
But a couple of seasons above .500 have quelled a lot of the Angelos hatred. And I gotta tellya, while I'm no fan of Peter G. Angelos Attorney at Law, I've enjoyed the respite. But it's bubbling up again. And maybe with good reason.
Last week, the Orioles traded Jim Johnson – who led the big leagues in saves the last two years – to Oakland for Jemile Weeks and someone who's even less well-known than Jemile Weeks.
And then last night, the Birds let left fielder Nate McLouth sign a two-year deal with the Nationals and starter Scott Feldman sign for three years with Houston. Both players were guys GM Dan Duquette claimed he wanted back next year. Neither was offered anything from the Orioles.
So what gives? Should we worry that a couple years of winning has empowered the owner to resume chopping salaries?
Johnson was in line to make about $10 million in 2014. He also looked mucho shaky much of the time last season, despite notching 50 saves. McLouth was a fan favorite and contributed pretty heavily, particularly in 2012. But last year … eh. Feldman joined the team last July in a trade that sent Jake Arrieta and Pedro Strop to the Cubs. He was a decent enough right hander, but had a pretty ordinary second half.
And then, of course, Carlos Beltran signed with the Yankees. Beltran had been the target of some Orioles interest. But then, so had Mark Teixeira.
The grumbling's beginning. Buck Showalter said in today's Baltimore Sun, "There's a lot of offseason left." There's a new one, huh? O's fans have "There's a lot of baseball left" tattooed on their brains. But a lot of offseason? Well, yes. I suppose there is.
It's not time to panic yet. Sure, the Yankees and Boston are making their moves. But the Winter Meetings will fire up soon and there are still some free agents warming on the buffet table.
Don't start the Angelos hate just yet. Keep it nearby, but don't fire it up yet.
No, it's bubbling….this is not the division to nickle and dime, but on the other hand would YOU have given those numbers to Cano, or any of the other players….? Please tell us who you think deserves the moolah….
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fem. proper name, from Greek dorkas "gazelle, deer." Dorcas Society "ladies' meeting to make clothes for the poor" (1832) is from Acts ix:36-41.
a female antelope, or gazelle, a pious Christian widow at Joppa whom Peter restored to life (Acts 9:36-41). She was a Hellenistic Jewess, called Tabitha by the Jews and Dorcas by the Greeks.


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Four x1 PCI-E ports, Integrated VGA, SD Controller, PCI, Consumer IR, BIOS, APU Fan Control, High Definition Audio and Integrated Clock Gen. The thing is, though, this is less than what you would expect your normal motherboard chipset to offer.
That's how the whole APU or Accelerated Processing Unit comes into it all. Stuff like your memory slots, other connectivity, x16 PCI-E; these are all things that we're used to seeing our typical motherboard chipset take care of. Instead, this is taken care of by the APU in this instance. So what's all that mean? Well, let's get into exactly what's going on with the APU over on the next page while taking the time to also cover the models we'll be seeing at launch.
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The Numi extending aluminium safety gate from Lindam features a double-action locking system for added safety and stability. Understated and elegant in appearance, the Numi gate is designed to complement and enhance the aesthetics of today's home, while providing the ultimate technology solution for child safety.

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Add remaining flour in two parts, blending to combine between each, until a dough forms.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoon 2 inches apart on baking sheets (cookies will spread).
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Let cookies rest on baking sheet for a few minutes and transfer to wire cooling rack.
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Slightly less than three-fifths of Occupational Health Nurses in the United States have been in the field for more than 10 years. Pay can fall anywhere from $48K to $83K per year, but median earnings come to around $66K per year. Total incomes of Occupational Health Nurses incorporate potential for, in a few cases, more than $5K from bonuses and close to $2K from profit sharing; these performance components cause packages to range between $48K and $83K. Career length and the particular city each impact pay for this group, with the former having the largest influence. A fair number receive medical and dental insurance and more than half get vision insurance. The majority of workers are highly satisfied with their job. The data for this synopsis comes from respondents who took the PayScale salary survey.
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To become an occupational health nurse, it is first necessary to obtain registered nurse (RN) certification and at least a bachelor's degree in nursing. A master's degree is often a part of occupational health nurse training, and there is further post-education certification available as well. Some employers may require at least two to five years of experience as a registered nurse. Occupational heath nurses must be creative, proactive individuals with the desire to help fellow employees, and they need to have the communications skills necessary to educate employees and provide them with useful information.
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For a while it was a very successful scam - movie material almost - and yacht purchasers in Italy didn't suspect that the yacht they had just bought had already been sold to several other purchasers before. But now yacht dealer Giulio Lolli, ex-President of Rimini Yachts, is in more trouble than he ever bargained for.
Giulio Lolli - is he in prison in Libya or has he escaped on 'his' yacht again?
Using one of the yachts he had sold multiple times as a getaway machine he sailed to Libya, probably thinking they would be too busy with their own issues to worry about a runaway yacht fraudster. But he was wrong. Now, not only is he wanted for mega-fraud in Italy, but he is reputed to be languishing in a Libyan jail, arrested for drug trafficking and alcohol possession on arrival. His future in a Tripoli prison doesn't look good according to reports in the Italian press.
Unlike it would be portrayed in the movie, it didn't all happen last week. According to Pelagos industry news, Lolli, 45, has been on the run since May 2010 following an order from Italian courts for his arrest. He is believed to be the mastermind behind a 'mega-fraud' reportedly worth tens of millions of euros, which saw the same yachts being sold several times over to different clients. Up to 10 other people are implicated in the fraud, including local tax officials.
When Lolli arrived in Libya aboard his yacht, his luck, already under siege, had a further blow. The yacht was searched by Libyan authorities and found to be carrying cocaine and strong alcohol, both forbidden in the country. Upon Lolli's incarceration Libyan authorities informed the ex-president of Rimini Yacht of the international arrest warrant issued for him by Italian magistrates and an extradition procedure was started.
Prior to the outbreak of the recent conflicts in Libya, Lolli declared that he was opposed to his extradition, as he would. Italian diplomats have since left Libya's capital Tripoli for security reasons, making pursuance of the extradition order and contact with Lolli difficult. Internet sources report that in the past month there have been outbreaks of violence and escapes at Al-Jadida jail in Tripoli, where Lolli is known to have been held since mid-January. Did he escape as well? No-one knows.
In addition to the charges he faces in Italy, Lolli also risks a long jail term in Libya not only for the drugs and alcohol found on his yacht, but also for the false documents he presented to Libyan authorities upon his arrival in the country.
Now the yachts which had been sold multiple times have been returned to their first buyer, leaving the intermediary buyers with, well, nothing. The yachts had been impounded in Italy while the investigations took place into the now bankrupt Rimini Yacht company. According to Italian news reports, five yachts have been returned to Fincompany. The yachts are valued in the vicinity of €1-2million.
The yacht used by Lolli to escape to Italy is believed to be still languishing in Libya. It, along with its co-escapee, would seem to have an uncertain future.
But the movie plot is not over yet, as while Lolli could be in jail in Tripoli, he could have escaped and be in Egypt, Tunisia or anywhere in the world. Maybe the yacht is with him. We'll have to wait for the story's ending before Hollywood moves in.
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The lawsuits challenging the contraception benefit in the Affordable Care Act are less about birth control and more about a larger strategy to use the First Amendment to challenge government regulatory power.
The Obama administration announced another change to the religious accommodation to the birth control benefit, and predictably conservatives hate it.
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List of retroactive continuities
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The following are examples of retroactive continuities (or retcons).
- In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi Wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker that Luke's father, Anakin, was betrayed and killed by Darth Vader. In the sequel The Empire Strikes Back, Vader reveals that he is Anakin. This was not in Lucas' original outline, and therefore a retcon: George Lucas decided to merge both characters while writing The Empire Strikes Back, with Obi-Wan later justifying his original description by explaining that he regards Anakin becoming Vader as having 'murdered' Anakin by destroying everything that was good about his former friend and apprentice. Similarly Princess Leia Organa had been previously set as an upper-class romantic interest for the farm boy Luke; Return of the Jedi reveals Leia is his twin sister, which was a separate character that Lucas also decided to accommodate in the ones already established.[1]
- The 1980 film Superman II does not feature the character Jor-El (Marlon Brando) in flashback scenes to Superman: The Movie (1978).
- The 1987 film Evil Dead II retcons its predecessor The Evil Dead (1981). In the original film, Ash Williams goes to an old cabin with his girlfriend Linda, sister Cheryl, and friends Scott and Shelly. The sequel's prologue recaps the previous film's events, but this time Ash only goes to the cabin with Linda. The next film, Army of Darkness, retcons the ending to Evil Dead II, where after time traveling to the Dark Ages, Ash is arrested instead of hailed as a hero.
- During the prologue to the 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) accidentally finds the One Ring while feeling around in a dark cave. The scene was re-shot for the 2012 prequel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, where Bilbo (now portrayed by Martin Freeman) finds the Ring after witnessing it fall from Gollum's pocket.
- Director Joel Schumacher retcons the events, characters, and locations of Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) for his 1995 sequel Batman Forever.
- Given many inconsistencies within the X-Men film series, the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past wound up erasing the events of the previous films, with the exception of its predecessor X-Men: First Class (2011), through a time traveling plot device used to accommodate a more streamlined chronology.[2][3]
- The fifth Terminator film Terminator Genisys has a new timeline that erases the events from the previous four films.
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.
In Stephen King's novel Misery the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, is forced to write a sequel to his book Misery's Child, in which the main character, Misery Chastain, dies. He at first attempts to retcon the events in that book by writing a beginning that changes the ending of the last book, but his captor, Annie Wilkes, regards this as cheating- comparing it to old TV shows where one episode's cliffhanger is resolved with the revelation that a character escaped even though the audience never saw them doing so- and makes him create a sequel that doesn't actively deny what the reader already knows. The second attempt to bring Misery Chastain back to life (which Annie Wilkes likes) is almost an example of a comic book death.
In the Well World series by Jack L. Chalker, the computer Obie had the ability to adjust the equations of the universe and any changes made could be retconned so that all records would adjust so that even very odd things could be made logical. Early in the second book, a woman is changed into a centaur, and the records of her birth as a genetic experiment were automatically created by the Well World to explain the change and keep things balanced.
Though the term "retcon" did not yet exist when George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian regime depicted in that book is involved in a constant, large-scale retconning of past records. For example, when it is suddenly announced that "Oceania was not after all in war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia and Eurasia was an ally" (Part Two, Ch. 9), there is an immediate intensive effort to change "all reports and records, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks and photographs" and make them all record a war with Eastasia rather than one with Eurasia. "Often it was enough to merely substitute one name for another, but any detailed report of events demanded care and imagination. Even the geographical knowledge needed in transferring the war from one part of the world to another was considerable." See historical revisionism (negationism).
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, the action in the final part of the book occurs at Japetus (or Iapetus, a moon of Saturn). For the following novels, the action was changed to Jupiter and Jupiter's moon, Europa in order to resemble the movies 2001 and 2010.
In Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, channellers using Balefire destroy their targets and remove them from the universe from before they were hit by the Balefire - this can cause some actions in the past to be undone - effectively retconning local history.
- In 2004, Coronation Street retconned the Baldwin family after Mike Baldwin's nephew Danny and wife Frankie moved to the area from Essex, with their two sons Jamie and Warren. Mike had been portrayed as an only child prior to this moment, with his father appearing in the program between 1980 and 1982 to confirm the notion.[4]
- The Young and the Restless retconned the background story of its character Cane Ashby several times. After he appeared as son of Jill Abbott, who was switched after his birth, this turned out to be a lie after Maria Arena Bell took over the position as head writer from Lynn Marie Latham. Cane then appeared as someone without a family, who took over the life of Jill's real son in order to have love and stability in his life. Cane's background hit a turn again in 2011, when he turned out to be the son of an Australian mobster, who Cane gave up to the authorities for his crimes.
- Another infamous retcon storyline on The Young and the Restless involves Phillip Chancellor, who returned from the dead in 2009, after dying in a car accident in 1989. In storyline, Phillip apparently faked his death after he couldn't deal with his homosexuality and the ongoing fights in his family.
- First of the Summer Wine, the prequel to the long-running British sitcom Last of the Summer Wine, retconned the character Seymour Utterthwaite as a pre-World War II friend of the other central characters. Seymour had been introduced into later series of Last of the Summer Wine and was previously unknown to the stalwart characters, Compo and Clegg.[5]
- The revived series of British science fiction television program Doctor Who, and its television spin-offs, heavily and playfully uses retroactive continuity plot devices. For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called "retcon"; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as "retconning". The nod to retroactive continuity is a joke meant to be shared between the writers and the viewers as a way of pointing out that anything done throughout the course of the series can easily be undone with a simple plot device; it also points to parent show Doctor Who 's frequent use of the device in its several-decade run. For example, Davies introduced the Time War in the backstory to Doctor Who 's 2005 revival to account for discrepancies between the classic series and the revamp. When Steven Moffat took over in 2010, he introduced cracks in the universe which erase events and individuals from history; using this device, he 'undid' the events of "Journey's End" and "The Next Doctor" so that in the series' narrative, the people of Earth would be (once again) unaware of alien life. Moffat's fifth series finale provided a similar device when the Doctor "rebooted" the universe. In answer to a fan's question, Moffat tweeted: "The whole universe came exactly as it was. Except for any continuity errors I need to explain away."[6] And in the sixth series, Moffat introduces new aliens the Silence, who erase your memory of them the moment you look away. Creative use of the device is mined for new kinds of television suspense. In the episode "Day of the Moon", characters were shown to have had dozens of (unseen) encounters with the creatures in the space of a few seconds in viewer's time. Commenting on this device, writer MaryAnn Johanson writes, "That could be happening throughout this story... indeed, through the entire history of Doctor Who. Moffat has just created a pretty much unassailable narratively sound reason for inserting retcons anywhere throughout the half-century history of the show."[7] A particularly significant change occurred in 2013, which was the 50th anniversary of the series, revealing the existence of an unknown incarnation of the Doctor (played by John Hurt), who regenerated from the Eighth Doctor, but is referred to by fans as 'the War Doctor' as subsequent incarnations do not consider this version of themselves as having been 'the Doctor' due to the brutal actions he committed in this incarnation while fighting in the Time War.
Star Trek in various media[edit]
When Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in 1979, Gene Roddenberry claimed that the radically different appearance of the Klingons in the film was how they were always supposed to have looked, but they did not have the budget for it in the 1960s. In the 1990s, an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine featured three Klingon characters from the original series, made to fit the new look. However, the later episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", used footage from the original series with old-look Klingons; Commander Worf acknowledged their different appearance, saying it was "a long story" and, after receiving incredulous looks, adds with a scowl "we do not speak of it with outsiders."
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Year of Hell", Voyager encounters a Krenim Temporal Weaponship made by the antagonist, Annorax. When the temporal weapon fires on an object, it moves that object outside the space-time continuum, eliminating the object from causality not only in the present and the future, but also the past, changing history to a state where the object never existed. Thus, by firing the weapon, Annorax makes a retcon to the history of the universe. At the end of the two-part episode, the Weaponship itself is destroyed, thus effectively erasing the events of the entire two episodes.
A 2005, two-episode arc of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Affliction"/"Divergence", indicated that the Klingons that appeared in the 1960s episodes were the product of genetic engineering using augmented human genes. This explanation is used in Shane Johnson's 1989 The Worlds of the Federation: "The 'Klingons' encountered along the Federation border with the Empire were a Klingon-human fusion, genetically created to infiltrate the Federation. The interception of the Amar transmission during the V'Ger incident revealed the true nature of the Imperial Klingon race and stunned Federation science. Before that time, no one had suspected the Klingons were capable of such advanced genetic engineering, and a great deal of rethinking was done concerning the level of Klingon technology."[8] John M. Ford, in The Final Reflection, suggests that human-Klingon fusions are similar to the human-Vulcan fusion that resulted in Spock's birth.
Video games[edit]
- The chronology of The Legend of Zelda series was subject to much debate among fans until an official timeline was released on December 21, 2011 within the collector's book, Hyrule Historia, which was at the time exclusive to Japan.[9][10] Hyrule Historia contains a timeline that explains how each game fits within the storyline. This includes introducing a three-way split after Ocarina of Time. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword helps explain the appearance of multiple Zelda, Link and Ganondorf characters across hundreds of years.
- The original Ninja Gaiden trilogy for the NES[11] was followed years later by a new series of sequels produced by Team Ninja beginning with Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox in 2004. However, the second generation of Ninja Gaiden video games, being prequels to original series[12][13][14] has many differences from the NES trilogy. The character design of Ryu Hayabusa in the new games is now based on the Dead or Alive incarnation of the character with long hair and green eyes, the character design of Ryu's father, Ken Hayabusa, has been updated as well, the character now being addressed in the English versions by his original name in the Japanese versions (Jo Hayabusa), and producer Tomonobu Itagaki hints at the possibility that Sonia, a character from the new games, might be Irene Lew from the original series.[15] With the release of Dead or Alive: Dimensions in 2011, it has been revealed that Sonia is indeed Irene Lew.[16][17]
- In the video game Half-Life developed by Valve Software, the protagonist Gordon Freeman runs into an unnamed African-American scientist who tells Gordon to head to the surface and get help, and then unlocks a door and allows him to progress through the game. In the sequel, Half-Life 2, this scientist is retconned as Eli Vance. [18]
Ignored sequels in various media[edit]
- The film Superman Returns loosely continues the storylines of Superman and Superman II, and disregards the events of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.[19]
- The film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is a direct sequel to Halloween and Halloween II, dismissing the events that take place in the sequels Halloween 4, Halloween 5, and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween III was an unrelated story unaffected by the retcon; it was a movie within a movie). The subsequent film Halloween: Resurrection follows the new continuity of Halloween H20, however, it retcons that film's ending in order to do so.[20]
- The film The Exorcist III is a sequel to The Exorcist, and ignores the events of Exorcist II: The Heretic.[21]
- Highlander II: The Quickening is a sequel to the first film, but is willfully ignored by the later films in the series.[22] Similarly, Highlander: Endgame ignores both Highlander II and Highlander III: The Sorcerer, and only follows the TV Series and the first film (albeit retconned to fit the Series' storyline).
- The films Predators and Prometheus both ignore the events of Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs Predator: Requiem.
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released in 1974 with two sequels, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. The fourth film Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation retconned the sequels and was a direct sequel to the original. In 2003, a remake of the original was created entitled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a following prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. The newest seventh film Texas Chainsaw 3D retcons everything after the original and again, is its direct sequel.
- Universal Soldier: Regeneration is a direct sequel to Universal Soldier ignores the events of Universal Soldier: The Return.
- The Legend of Conan will be a direct sequel to Conan the Barbarian ignores the events of Conan the Destroyer and the 2011 reboot.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides subtly 'ignores' all previous films of the original trilogy, serving as a soft-reboot for the franchise that doesn't rely on knowledge of the previous films while still continuing their story.
- The fifth Alien film will be a direct sequel to Alien and Aliens ignores the events of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection.
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- ^ Lauren Shuler Donner on Retconning X-Men: The Last Stand and Making Deadpool
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- ^ "First of the Summer Wine, Uncovered". Retrieved 23 July 2012.
- ^ "Steven Moffat: ...The whole universe...". Steven Moffat on Twitter. Twitter.com. 13 June 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "'Doctor Who' blogging: "Day of the Moon" | MaryAnn Johanson's". Flickfilosopher.com. 2009-04-20. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ Johnson, Shane. The Worlds of the Federation Page 114
- ^ "Official Legend of Zelda Timeline Revealed". December 22, 2011.
- ^ Fred Dutton (3 May 2010). "Zelda Timeline Explained". Official Nintendo Magazine. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ "Shuichi Sakurazaki on IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Mielke, James (2007-11-16). "Previews: Ninja Gaiden 2, "This is a new story starring Ryu Hayabusa. It takes place after Ninja Gaiden 1 for Xbox, and before the timeframe of the old Ninja Gaiden games on the NES."". 1Up. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (2008-05-22). "Ninja Gaiden 2 Interview, "Story chronologically as well, this takes place after the fist Ninja Gaiden for Xbox, then after this, the story for this game from a chronological stand point leads into the old Ninja Gaiden for the NES. I think we have a nice continuity there."". Video Gamer. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Luke, Anderson (2008-05-23). "Ninja Gaiden II: Q&A with Tomonobu Itagaki, "In story chronology as well, this takes place after the first Ninja Gaiden for Xbox and then after the story of this game it leads into the old NES ones, so I think we have a nice continuity there."". Gamespot. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Luke, Anderson (2008-05-23). "Ninja Gaiden II: Q&A with Tomonobu Itagaki, "Maybe some of you will get the reference but Sonia, in NGII, is a CIA agent, and her name in this game is Sonia, but who knows if that is really her true name or not?"". Gamespot. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
- ^ Team Ninja (2011-05-24). "Dead or Alive: Dimensions". Nintendo 3DS (v1.0). Tecmo. Level/area: Chapter 2.
Ryu Hayabusa: Hayate, meet Irene /...
- ^ "Dead or Alive Dimensions Nintendo 3DS Chronicle Mode Chapter 2 Part 3". Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ Valve Software. "Half-Life 2". Level/area: Chapter 5: "Black Mesa East".
Eli Vance: The last time I saw you I sent you up for help after the Resonance Cascade.
- ^ "Superman Returns - Comments from Bryan Singer and Staff:". Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ "Horror Film History — A Decade by Decade Guide to the Horror Movie Genre". Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ "Time Out London - Film - The Exorcist III movie review". Retrieved 2008-01-19.
- ^ Vince Leo. "Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Highlander: The Final Dimension". Retrieved 2008-01-19.