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Booklet - 'Australia, Official Handbook', Australian National Publicity Association, 1943 Reg. No: HT 550
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- Booklet titled 'Australia, Official Handbook', published by the, Australian National Publicity Association in 1943. The Australian National Publicity Association was a government organisation formed for the purpose of publicising Australia overseas. That this handbook was published during World War II demonstrates the interest in building Australia as an immigrant destination even before the war had ended and prior to the immigration boom years of the 1950s.
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- Dark blue coloured handbook published in October 1943. Cover depicts logo of Australia. Contents feature articles, black-and-white photographs and coloured maps of Australia.
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Choke Point: India -- A Wilson Center-Circle of Blue Joint Initiative
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On April 2, Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center present the findings of their Choke Point: India initiative, an exploration into the water-energy-food confrontations in the world's second most populous country.
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March 25, 2014 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Increasingly prosperous consumers in China are consuming fewer food grains and demanding more dairy, fruits, vegetables, meat, and seafood. Speakers will discuss the major ecological and supply chain trends in the China's seafood and pork industries.
CEF and the Environmental Film Festival present a screening of the documentary What's For Dinner?
March 19, 2014 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
CEF is proud to host a documentary by the Chinese filmmaker Jian Yi. His film What's for Dinner? provides a unique look into the rapidly growing consumption of meat and other animal products in China.
The Long Road to Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China: Partnerships for Cleaner Energy Innovation
March 12, 2014 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Speakers on this panel will discuss successful and emerging "biz-to-biz" and U.S.-China bilateral partnerships to develop cleaner energy technologies in China.
Moving Beyond Coal: Shifting China onto a Path Toward 100% Renewable Electricity
February 19, 2014 // 9:00am — 11:00am
The panel discussion will delves into the ambitious question of how China can entirely phase out coal from the country's electricity mix.
China's Distant Water Fishing Industry
November 05, 2013 // 9:00am — 11:00am
At this meeting, two experts will explore the drivers and impacts of China's distant fishing fleets and the difficulties in regulating multi-national and multi-species fisheries across large ocean areas.
How Many Light Bulbs Does it Take to Change China? — China's Strategies for Lowering Energy's Environmental Footprint
October 03, 2013 // 11:50am — 2:00pm
Three speakers will go well beyond light bulbs in discussing China's sweeping, comprehensive and aggressive measures to improve air quality by capping coal consumption and better regulating pollution emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Growing Up and Going Out: The Development and Internationalization of Chinese NGOs
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In this talk, Timothy Hildebrandt will discuss his new book -- Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China -- which examines the development of civil society groups in China.
IN BEIJING: Beijing Energy & Environment Roundtable (BEER)
August 07, 2013 // 7:30pm — 8:30pm
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|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
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Butter a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
Preheat oven to 400F (205C).
On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to a 12-inch circle.
Place dough carefully in buttered tart pan.
Trim edges of dough by gently pressing the rolling pin over top of pan.
Prick bottom of pastry shell several times with a fork.
Line pastry shell with aluminum foil and fill foil with uncooked rice.
Bake 20 minutes.
Remove foil and rice.
Brush dough with egg white and bake 5 to 10 minutes longer.
Fill a medium saucepan half full with water.
Bring water to a boil.
Add peaches and cook over high heat 60 seconds.
Place in a bowl of cold water.
Peel and halve peaches.
Dry thoroughly.
Remove pits and cut fruit into slices.
Prepare Apricot Glaze.
Brush pastry shell with hot Apricot Glaze.
Arrange sliced peaches in shell and brush peaches with glaze.
Cool in pan, then remove from pan.
Sweet Pie Pastry: In a medium bowl using a pastry blender or in a food processor fitted with a metal blade, mix flour and butter until crumbly.
Add egg, sugar and wine; mix until dough is completely moistened.
Place dough on a flat surface and work into a ball.
Wrap in waxed paper and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Apricot Glaze: Combine apricot preserves and brandy in a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil over medium heat.
Cook about 5 minutes.
Press mixture through a sieve.
Glaze should not stand too long or it will become too firm.
To bring it back to coating consistency, return it to heat and stir until soft.


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Current UCF or incoming transfer students that have completed with a grade of "C" (2.0) or better or are currently enrolled in ARH2050, ARH2051, ART2201C, ART2203C, ART2300C, ART2301C. If you are a transfer student, please include a copy of your official transfer institution transcript. Students are not allowed to enroll in upper level art and design courses without passing a portfolio review.
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God Created Man for Life, Not Death
Gospel Commentary for the Feast of All Souls' Day
By Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap
ROME, NOV. 5, 2007 (Zenit) - The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed is the occasion for an existential reflection on death.
In Scripture we read this solemn declaration: "For God made not death, neither does he take pleasure in the destruction of the living � for he created man for immortality. God made him an image of his own nature. But death entered the world because of the devil's envy" (Wisdom 1:13-15, 24).
From this we understand why we are so much repulsed by death. It is because death is not "natural" for us. As we experience it in the present order of things it is something extraneous to our nature, fruit of "the devil's envy." Because of this we fight against it with all our might. Our indomitable rejection of death is the best proof that we are not made for it, and that it does not have the last word. The first reading of the Mass reassures us of this: "The souls of the just are in the hands of God, no torment can touch them."
Fear of death is written deeply into every human being. There have been those who have wanted to trace every human activity back to the sexual instinct and explain everything by it, even art and religion. But the fear of death is stronger still than the sexual instinct, and the latter is but a manifestation of the former. All of humanity cries out: "I do not want to die!"
Why, then, should we ask men to think about death if it is already so present to us? The answer is simple: We have chosen not to think about it. We pretend that it does not exist, or that it exists only for others, but not for ourselves.
But the thought of death does not allow itself to be put aside so easily. So, all we can do is repress it or play down its seriousness. Men have never ceased to look for remedies to death. One of these is called offspring: surviving through one's children. Another is fame. In our day a new pseudo-remedy is spreading: the doctrine of reincarnation.
The doctrine of reincarnation is incompatible with the Christian faith, which professes the resurrection of the dead in its place. "It is established that men die only once and after this there is judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). The manner in which reincarnation is taught to us in the West is the fruit of, among other things, a glaring error. Originally, reincarnation did not add to life, but rather added to suffering; it was not cause for consolation, but for fear. Reincarnation was a warning to humanity: "Be careful not to do evil because you will be reborn to expiate it!" It is like telling someone in prison who is about to finish serving his time, that his punishment has been extended and he must start all over.
Christianity has something quite different to offer in regard to the problem of death. It proclaims that "one has died for all," that death has been defeated; it is no longer a precipice over which all must plunge, but rather a bridge to the other shore -- eternity. Nevertheless, reflecting on death is also good for believers. It helps us, above all, to live better.
Are you troubled by problems, difficulties, conflicts? Think about how these things will appear at the moment of death and see how they take on a different meaning. We will not then be resigned and paralyzed. On the contrary, we will do more things and do them better because we are more calm, more detached. Counting our days, the Psalm says, we "arrive at the wisdom of the heart" (Psalm 89:12).
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Father Raniero Cantalamessa is the Pontifical Household preacher. The readings for the feast of All Souls' Day are Wisdom 3:1-9; Revelation 21:1-5, 6-7; Matthew 5:1-12.
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BOSTON -- Marco Belinelli quickly went from goat to hero in the closing seconds of overtime Friday night, giving the Chicago Bulls their second road OT win in a span of three nights. Belinelli, guilty of too much dribbling and a wild shot off the top of the backboard with his team ahead by a point, hit an off-balance 14-footer with 3.1 seconds left to give Chicago a 100-99 victory over the Boston Celtics. "That was a terrible shot for us, so it's good to come back," he said of the mistake, which had to make the game winner that much more special. The Bulls survived a playoff-type game to improve to 12-5 on the road, all without their injured star, Derrick Rose. The game wasn't quite over after the shot, but the Celtics, with no timeouts left, could get only a desperation heave from Courtney Lee at the buzzer and suffered their second straight loss at the end of a season-high five-game homestand. Jimmy Butler scored six of his 13 points in the overtime, and was also part of...
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New York jail probing death of inmate in unusually hot cell
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The death of a mentally ill, homeless man who was being held in a New York City jail cell is under investigation, and there are indications that the cell was overheated, the city's Department of Correction said on Wednesday.
Jerome Murdough, 56, was found dead in his cell at Rikers Island, the city's main jail complex, on February 15, according to Ivan Vogel, the public defender handling his case. Vogel said jail officials told him of Murdough's death three days after it happened.
Two men found guilty in New York kidnap fetish case
(Reuters) – A federal jury in New York found a mechanic and a former high-school librarian guilty on Friday of conspiring to kidnap women to satisfy their sexual fetishes for rape and murder that they had originally nursed online via Internet message boards.
Michael Van Hise, 23, and Christopher Asch, 61, were found guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan of planning to abduct Van Hise's wife, sister-in-law, and nieces in a case that hinged on whether it was possible to define the exact point at which fantasy slips into reality.
NY jury to decide: bizarre sex fantasy or real murder-kidnap plot?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For the two men charged with hatching a kidnap conspiracy on a website catering to violent sexual fetishes, their own Internet musings about abducting and brutalizing women are so outlandish, they only bolster their defense, their lawyers argued in a New York courtroom on Tuesday.
Michael Van Hise, 23, and Christopher Asch, 61, were clearly engaged in sheer fantasies, and even their most graphic online ruminations betray an obvious lack of intent to act them out, the attorneys told jurors in closing arguments at their trial.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, is facing mounting criticism over his plan to spend $500,000, mostly from the sale of church assets, on a extension to a countryside house where he will soon spend his retirement.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – It ended up requiring two bags to carry all the tools he thought they would need to capture, torture, rape and kill the woman they had been watching.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A wire fox terrier named Sky won "best in show" at the 138th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York on Tuesday, besting canines in six other groups at one of the oldest sporting events in the United States.
Betty Regina Leininger of Frisco, Texas, awarded the top prize to Sky at this year's event in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. The win makes it the 14th time the wire fox terrier has won the competition, more than any other breed since the show started awarding the "best in show" prize in 1907.
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Our plane was delayed 7 hours en route to Cincinnati for Christmas. Fortunately, we were able to stay in contact with the airline from home. My daughter Liv and I went for a walk along the berm dividing Brace Cove and Niles Pond while waiting to leave. As we were looking at the sun setting over Niles Pond, we by chance turned towards Brace Cove and were captivated by the vibrant colors reflected in the windows of the home on the point. Magically a Harbor Seal swam onto the scene and scootched up on the rock and he too, caught the last of the sun's fleeting light!
Paint Factory at Sunset
This photo of Ocean Alliance headquarters, the Tarr and Wonson Paint Manufactory was taken by Captain Bob Wallace of the Odyssey the last time he was in town.
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About 3:45 on Friday, a front rolled through the area providing menacing clouds, incredible spots of sunlight and snow showers in the sky that melted before they hit the ground. Just incredible! Glad to live on Cape Ann and be able to see capture a few scenes like these. Click the images for larger view
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A Fan from Main Street Art and Antiques was recruited to be a prop in the Movie Olive Kitteridge, for an undisclosed amount. "Wendy" the Fan was discovered in a beautiful sunset over Main Street, scene.
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Sunsets in Gloucester and Essex.
Sun Sets on a Short Drive Home…
You can question my haphazard route, but it's hard to question the picturesque nature of where we live. Amazing. Home to Manchester from Gloucester, via Magnolia.
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I took this photo a couple of weeks ago but didn't get around to posting it until today.
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Long story short, our trip out to Cincinnati had to be cancelled at the last moment. I have 5 lower level tickets for the Saturday night game against the Rockies. They are 3 rows up on the 3rd base side.
Please send me a PM if you are interested in the tickets. I'm looking to not eat the entire cost I paid for them. I'd overnight/priority ship them to you so you have them before the game.


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Sometimes sacrifices need to be made. Disney seems to want to go full bore on a total revamp of that area, so a 1950's era train will be out of place in 1920's L.A. It's a bummer, but Buena Vista Street looks like it's going to be beautiful, I'm sure when it's over and done with the loss of the trains won't sting as bad.
That train never made any sense. I don't get it. But the construction was flawless. It was well done, yet incoherent in the old DCA.
That train had style and class. It was the best thing in DCA for years!
This has been a Filmways presentation dahling.
Considering Walt's very strong connection to the Santa Fe, it always struck me as odd that a WP train was chosen. It did have a cool name, though, that fit in with the CA theme.
The Santa Fe's F-unit red-and-silver "Warbonnet" scheme is widely considered one of the all-time best diesel paint schemes and would have looked uber-cool.
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I really haven't missed anything that's been changed at DCA so far but I will miss the train. I always thought it was cool. Seems weird that they're getting rid of it because it doesn't fit the theme of the new BVS when there are so many things that don't fit in that park's theme even remotely.
The sarcastic remark would be "there are two Zephyrs in DCA, leave it to Disney to pull out the one that people actually liked."
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I thought that train in DCA was emblematic of all of DCA.
DL RR talks you all the way around the Magic Kingdom with 4 different stops in 4 different lands, not to mention, gives you an over view of much of park, and even takes you for a trip back in time. Whereas . . . .
over in DCA, the Train just sits there, doesn't move anyone anywhere, not even an inch, and doesn't do a darn thing . . . .
I liked the California Zephyr too. It was just about the only classy thing in DCA's original park entry and opening act of the Sunshine Plaza. The rest of that area of DCA was mostly cheap junk, worthy of an outlet mall along a freeway somewhere. But the Zephyr complex was unique and classy and clever. It's just a good thing the replacement for it of Buena Vista Street is 100 times better overall than DCA's original entry and opening act.
In the case of BVS being "set" in the 1930s, I'd be fine with the architecture being primarily from the 30s but with "content" from later decades. Buildings from the 1930s still exist in the modern day... they don't magically turn to dust once the decade changes over to the next. Point being, I would have been fine with BVS consisting of a broader range of years rather than a narrow one, say 1930-1950 instead of just the 30s.
But again, I totally understand their logic and their design choices. I "get" BVS and I love the plan.


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I'd like to have some sort of adjustment layer, as shown in the pic. Don't want to paint on the overlaying layer directly. If i will use second layer in overlay mode too, they become interfere.
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Premiered in Spain more than a year after its premiere in Greece, the film that portrays the life of the Cretan painter, Doménikos Theotókopoulos, known as "El Greco", didn't enjoy very much success in the Iberian Peninsula. El Greco is a homage to the island of Crete where the director, Giannis Smaragdis, passed his youth some 300m away from the painter's house, surrounded by Cretans, a people intransigent and free, great lovers of the pleasures of life just like El Greco. In fact, after seven years of preparations, the film was wrapped up in 2006 and premiered in Greek cinemas on 18th October 2007 with a special screening organized in Athens on 15th October 2007 which was attended, apart from the cast and the director, by Queen Sofia of Spain, the French former minister Jack Lang and the musician Vangelis. With a budget of 8 246 050 dollars, El Greco is the most expansive Greek film of all times.
It was shot in Heraklion, Crete, the island of Rhodes and Athens as well as different places in Spain. The famous Greek composer, Vangelis, provided a new and original score for the film. It is the second time that Smaragdis and Vangelis work together on a film, after their successful collaboration on Kavafis in 1996. It is no coincidence either that, according to Smaragdis, it was Vangelis' idea as well as that of a Cretan businessman who provided the initial funds in order to begin production. The subject wasn't new for the composer either as in 1995 he has dedicated an entire album to El Greco's paintings ("ΦΟΡΟΣ ΤΙΜΙΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΓΚΡΕΚΟ") so as to raise funds for the acquisition of "Saint Peter" by the Alexandros Soutzos Museum in Athens.
The film is the epic tale of Doménikos Theotókopoulos, and intransigent artist and a freedom fighter. Set in the 16th Century, the story follows El Greco's search for freedom and love in the courts of Crete, Venice and Toledo where he finds himself confronted with his arch nemesis, the Inquisition. He never surrenders in his fight against the institutions of the period. This story of El Greco is one of unusual heroism, treason, love and the power of a man and his creative conscience to stand up and overcome barbarity and ignorance.
With El Greco, Smaragdis returns as he did with Kavafis, to the biopic genre. The director declares that this is an epic story of a Greek artist who refused to compromise, a freedom fighter: "it is a luminous journey that tries to transcend the obscurity of its times and reach the world of the divine". He decided to make this film precisely because "this strange and creative individual that is El Greco, in whom lives the biggest soul of the Cretan land" has gained international recognition by "preserving the characteristics of his camp during difficult times and he didn't even give up before his greatest enemy, the Inquisition". According to Smaragdis, El Greco is:
The hero who sucks the substance of life, strange and fascinating, who fought against the darkness and ignorance of his time and won. A positive figure that can become a model for the people of today and tomorrow, and give faith to each and every one of us in order to find our way towards freedom.
The film is a mise-en scène of a biographical novel, thus, from a strictly speaking historical point of view, it is somewhat questionable. As a matter of fact, it gives the impression of being closer to reality than it actually is. There is no profound and real discussion about his art apart from, perhaps, the constant "fight" between light and darkness and the recurrent reference to his ability to transform his models into saints. The film evolves through a more than evident symbolism: the apples with a golden angel that El Greco throws to Jerónima de Las Cuevas remind us again and again of this fight between knowledge and good signifying the light and freedom personified in turn by the Church and the Holy Office. It is said that El Greco has always been a good Christian, faithful to the Catholic Church and an artist at the service of the Counter-Reformation. Actually, his patrons were in their majority cultured ecclesiastics and connected with the official centre of the Spanish Catholicism which was the archdioceses of Toledo. His artistic career coincided with the culminating moment of the reaffirmation against Protestantism and the paintings commissioned by his patrons had the purpose of spreading the Counter-Reformation doctrine, redefined and reinforced by the Council of Trent in 1563.
However, in the film, this true side of the artist does not appear. El Greco appears close to the Church through the Great Inquisitor, Niño de Guevara, who is his great admirer and nemesis. The relationship of proximity and friendship that El Greco has with Niño de Guevara is more than exaggerated and symbolizes therefore the relationship with the Church and consequently with the Inquisition. Through this relationship, the film criticizes the censorship of the latter, blinded by darkness, the defence of the faith and the Catholic faith that drives the church to commit all sorts of barbarities against the people who are persecuted and considered to be heretics. In the above-mentioned relationship between the painter and the Great Inquisitor, we can see as well the admiration of the latter for the Greek artist, which converts the initial admiration into an obsession for the person of the painter, for power, religion and grandeur. In reality, the adhesion of El Greco to the thesis of the Counter-Reformation is highlighted in his thematic repertoire as a great part of his work is dedicated to the representation of saints whose role of intercessors between men and Christ was defended by the Church. Among his works, the value of confession and penitence doubtlessly stand out, with multiple representations of penitent saints or Mary Magdalene (in the film El Greco gives her the face of his lover, Fancesca da Rimi, the daughter of the Venetian Governor in Crete) and the Virgin Mary whose fervour is one of the characteristics of the Spanish Catholicism.
What the film does portray very faithfully is the fact that the bishops are responsible for watching over the adhesion to the orthodoxy and, in fact, the successive archbishops of Toledo imposed reforms through the Council of the archdioceses, an organism with which El Greco was closely related and which approved all the artistic projects that should represent faithfully the catholic theology. In the film, we can say that the director almost makes fun of these rules on the fulfilment of the orthodoxy in the Counter-Reformation art, enumerating a whole series of almost ridiculous non-fulfilments by the artist, going from the size of the angels' wings to the usage of colours that are too violent for the Church such as, for instance, red, that appears many times symbolizing the blood shed by the Church and at the same time stains El Greco's hands as a sign that his life hangs on a thread due to his trial by the Holy Office. The Counter-Reformation fervour can be perceived in this film in the fact that the painter is being reproached the fact that his son doesn't know how to cross himself according to the established norms by the doctrine, which can only indicate that El Greco is still orthodox and not catholic, which makes him a heretic and moves the film even further away from its historical veracity.
On the other hand, many elements of El Greco's life were left aside. For instance, we can enumerate the omission of his stay in Rome before moving to Toledo; his studio in the film appears completely empty, with him as the only painter when in reality his studio was the flourishing heart of artistic production as a large number of paintings were produced by assistants that followed his sketches under his direction. Moreover, it is not mentioned either that, when he died, he left the trade to his son, Jorge Manuel. Nevertheless, the film captures in a fairly correct manner the period but even so, the historical scenery leaves much to be desired as the range of locations is not very wide; the historically relevant places are rare and consequently, Toledo only appears in one of his paintings, which enhances even more the director's homage to his native land. Crete and Venice are more important in this game of historical spaces and the accent is put more precisely on the Venetian domination of the island, personified by the figure of the Governor of Venice in Crete, da Rimi, whose daughter the artist falls in love with. The authenticity of this Venetian family also remains dubious.
We shouldn't forget either that the film is an adaptation of a biographical novel, thus the historical reality of El Greco's life remains somewhat deformed. We cannot say that the appraisal of the film is unfavourable as it gives one the impression of being closer to reality than it really is; consequently it succeeds in making us believe the story it tells although it is historically dubious. It is a failed blockbuster, nonetheless with its great score it achieves to transport us to those remote times, penetrate deep inside the character to his more human and not only artistic side; it is a faithful portrait of the Inquisition that goes hand in hand with an acid critique of the Church; but it is above all and without a doubt the director's homage to Crete, this isle that saw them, painter and director, both be born.
O.T.: El Greco. Productiom: Alexandros Film/La Productora/Nova/Tívoli Filmproductions (co-production) (Greece-Spain 2007). Producers: Elena Smaragdi, Raimon Masllorens, Dénes Szekeres and Georgios Fragkos. Director: Giannis Smaragdis, based on the biographical novel, El Greco: o Zoógrafos tou Theou (El Greco: el Pintor de Dios) de Dimitris Siatopoulos. Photography: Aris Stavrou. Music: Vaggelis Papathanasiou. Artistic direction: Damianos Zafiris in collaboration with Oriol Puig. Choreography: Konstantinos Rigos. Costume design: Lala Huete. Editing: Giannis Tsitsopoulos.
Cast: Nick Ashdon (Doménikos Theotokópoulos, "El Greco"), Juan Diego Botto (Niño de Guevara), Laia Morull (Jerónima de Las Cuevas), Lakis Lazopoulos (Nicolos), Dimitra Matsouka (Francesca Da Rimi), Sotiris Moustakas (Tiziano), Dimitris Kallivokas (Pedro Chacón), Theo Alexander (Manoussos).
Color – 119 min. Premiere in Spain: 21-XI-2008
Note: this review was published in Spanish in Film-Historia Online, Vol. XIX, num 2-3 (2009) and www.cinehistoria.com (April 2012).


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These fins are pretty middle of the road. They do not work well in a ripping current nor can they push heavy loads very easily.
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These fins are pretty middle of the road. They do not work well in a ripping current nor can they push heavy loads very easily.
I used them during my rescue class and was struggling to get my partner to shore. I then borrowed my buddies Dive Rite fins and was amazed at how much easier it became.
I still use the fins for easy vacation dives, because they not so heavy and not terrible. However, for serious diving, I will still with my Jets.
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These are hard to beat for the money...the inserts to accomodate a thinner foot are a great idea, giving a wide range of fits in one pair. These fins acomodate boots comfortably and haves served me well so far...
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got these fins at a very resonable price they are exceptional for the price! a best buy..
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I recently used these fins for snorkeling for a couple weeks in Costa Rica. I used them daily, hitting both high and low tides. They worked great, fit my dive boots, and I had no problems with them. they are lighter than my dive fins and the reduced weight helped in baggage costs.
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I purchased these fins because of the claim of being lightweight. I did not find that to be true. They are not heavy but they are no lighter than my current fins. I did not really use the fins so I cannot make a recomemdation either way about them.
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One buckle would not stay clipped. Problem was the plastic was not fully trimmed from production. 15 minutes with a razor knife fixed enough of the problem to make the fin functional.
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Good theater can make the strange familiar. Great theater usually makes the familiar strange.
And for someone like me who has worked on Michigan Avenue for years, what is more familiar than the city of Chicago? A city one thinks one knows, having lived most of one's life amid its streets, commuted along its sidewalks, cursed its flaws, dodged its terrors, pointed out its gorgeous summer sights to countless out-of-town friends. There's a good chance you feel the same.
Created by a company called One Step at a Time Like This, "en route" is a solo experience. It makes you feel like you're drifting through the city in a separate reality from the unseeing hordes you travel among.
Here is the nitty-gritty: You buy a ticket from the box office of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the presenter. You show up at the Wrigley Building at an agreed-upon time. A nice Australian woman finds you — you don't find this show, it finds you. You are given a digital music player, with 15 tracks. These tracks, played on cue as you go, include music, mostly from Chicago musicians, and text. A nice Australian man tells you how to use the machine and straps it on your arm. You are told to pull out your own cell phone and make sure it is getting text messages. And then, with a text as your send-off, you are sent out to follow a variety of directions through the city, ending at a different and unknown point somewhere else in the city.
These directions arrive in myriad ways: on the sidewalk below you, on little pieces of paper, in a little container that someone has left for you, sent via texts, delivered in person. Many of them seem to have always been there. Often, you feel like you are going somewhere you are not supposed to be going — into space that you thought were private — but you are told to trust yourself. And, as the 100-minute walk wends on, you increasingly find that you do.
On one level, "en route" is a very cool and fun adult treasure hunt through one of America's biggest cities. It has that air of mystery and that pleasure of discovery. But it's a good deal more. Despite the way it might sound (and despite my own preconceptions), this is not some sort of souped-up self-guided tour of the city, created by outsiders who parachuted in. You don't listen to the Blues Brothers or hear about Louis Sullivan. You are asked to explore your own feelings, find your own voice and, frankly, confront the way you can be in a place for maybe a lifetime and see so little. You get the chance to right that. On the walls, in your head, or out loud.
The less you know about where are going and what you will be doing there, the better. So although I really want to spill, I'll do my best to keep the details under wraps.
I will, say, though, that you spend a lot of time in alleys. In my case, I'd walked down most of them before — some hundreds of times. But I'd never really looked at the huge cast of characters — Chicagoans who are not in the show, but are in the show — that lurk within their boundaries and do the most fascinating things there. You find yourself watching them, looking at them, wondering about them and their lives. At other times, you wonder the same of the besuited people rushing around you like fervent Metra-raised rabbits on the streets of the Loop. (I did "en route" during rush hour, which is ideal). And, of course, you look at the space in which we all live. "En route" is not really about the front of Chicago's physical reality but the rear — the backlot, the service entrance, the private spaces that workers of all stripes make, just a few feet from where they toil.
Let me just add this, and then you need to call for tickets: This show is wholly immersive of the psyche. I went stressed out, shoving it between other commitments, and wholly cynical about how a company from Melbourne could possibly teach us anything about life in Chicago. They could. They did. You won't think of anything else during the piece.
"En route" (a London version will be part of the London Olympic arts festival in 2012) is strangely empowering: you feel like you're finally — finally — spending an actual hour or two in the service of something that matters. And it feels remarkably safe. As you progress, you sense a group of guardians keeping you on track, helping you find things. I made a wrong-turn and I was immediately saved. It was most comforting to have guardians in the big, bad city.
And the moment when someone gabbed me by the hand and took off with me through the city, running, was one of those rushes of feeling and experience and self-actualization that usually cost you a great deal of money and involve hot-air balloons or space or something weird and ridiculous.
Not here. 'En Route" is just a trip through Chicago. Like no other.
When: Tuesday through Saturday through Aug. 13, with up to five staggered departures at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Where: Starting point is in the northeast Loop; you'll be contact 24 hours before your tour with more instructions.
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Tickets: $35 at 312-595-5600 (no online sales)
More information: Wear comfortable shoes, you'll walk more than a mile, and events are rain or shine. An MP3 player is provided; bring your own cell phone for text messages or one can be provided. "En route" is intended as a solo experience but if you need to bring a partner, they'll get their own ticket and MP3 player. Best for ages 16+.
Walking this 'route' will change the way you see this city - and yourself
THEATER REVIEW: "en route," presented by Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★★
Audience member Julia Davidson (an employee of Chicago Shakespeare Theater) takes part in "en route" by the Australian theater company One Step at a Time Like This, a show that has audiences take solo walks through the city. (July 14, 2011)


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Sloane Brown, The Baltimore Sun
January 22, 2013
About 200 folks descended on the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Museum for the second annual "Wine In the Winter" event, put together by Emerging Leaders United of the United Way of Central Maryland. ELU is a society of young professionals -- age 40 and younger -- who each give $260 a year to the United Way.
Pictured above, from left, are Jennifer Lockhart, ELU committee member; Laura Gidley, ELU committee member; and Benjamin Jordan, ELU co-chair, who were among those who put the event together.
The get-together provided an opportunity for ELU members to meet and mingle, while sampling various wines and specialties of the Museum's resident restaurant, Waterfront Kitchen.
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Fuel economy mandates are costlier than you think
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama signed into law new fuel economy regulations that raise the corporate average fuel economy to 35.5 mpg by 2016. The current average is 27.5 mpg for cars and 23.1 for light trucks. Federal officials say the new law will increase the cost of a new car by $926 by 2016, a cost consumers will recover in reduced fuel costs.
Before getting into specifics, a little of background.
The 35.5-mpg target was originally set for 2020 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under President George W. Bush. This wasn't an unreasonable deadline; it takes three to five years to re-engineer a car from scratch. So even as consumers are looking at cars for the 2011 model year, product planners have their plans mapped out until at least 2014. Under the original plan, this would give manufacturers ample time to raise the billions of dollars necessary to re-engineer an entire lineup of vehicles.
Now, the deadline was moved up. Quickly. Look for manufacturers to rework their vehicle lineups to meet this goal.
And the government isn't making the process easy.
First, each vehicle size must meet a government-mandated fuel economy standard. Then, each manufacturer will get its own corporate average fuel economy standard calculated by how many cars of each vehicle size are sold. So, the more small cars they sell, the higher their fuel economy standard.
Do automakers know how to extract higher mileage? Sure. But it costs.
The Ford Escape Hybrid with four-wheel drive, base price $31,610, returns 29 mpg; the base nonhybrid four-wheel drive Escape, starting at $22,770, returns 22 mpg. That's a difference of $8,840.
Even if Ford decided to produce only the hybrid model, it wouldn't meet the new mpg target: 32.9. Even the most fuel-efficient Escape, the front-wheel-drive Hybrid, rated at 32 mpg , would miss it.
So, to meet the target, expect Ford to use more exotic materials or technologies to boost fuel economy — which, you guessed it, cost more.
Domestic manufacturers aren't the only ones facing the challenge.
The diminutive 2010 Honda Fit hatchback, when mated to a five-speed automatic transmission, returns its highest mileage of 31 mpg, the EPA says. To meet 2016 targets, the Fit has to get more fit: Its mileage target jumps to 41.1 mpg. Or consider the 2010 Nissan Murano, which returns 20 mpg. In 2016, that will have to be 30.6. Even Toyota will be challenged to have its 2010 Sienna minivan, which yields 19 mpg with front-wheel drive, to return 28.2 in six years.
You may think the answer is to add a diesel engine, right? Well, there are emission requirements, which limit diesel's practicality for car use, though they could see widespread use in full-size trucks.
Instead, look for even the smallest cars to get the sort of technology once reserved for high-end machines. Dual-clutch, six-speed or continuously-variable transmissions, hybrid technology and costly lightweight materials could become much more common.
Yes, the technology increases fuel economy, but it costs more, and so far, consumers are unwilling to belly up to the bar.
Pretty soon, we won't have a choice.
Larry Printz: firstname.lastname@example.com
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HSBC "lift" by Grey London
Agency: Grey London
Rating: 5.0
By Ian Darby, campaignlive.co.uk, Friday, 28 August 2009 10:45AM
The appointment follows a final head-to-head pitch for the business against WPP's Team Vodafone unit.
OMD's appointment comes despite reports that had suggested that WPP was close to landing the account, which covers all global markets where Vodafone is a wholly-owned business, including the UK.
Sources suggest that OMD and WPP executives were informed of the decision this morning. Carat had been knocked out of the pitch at an earlier stage.
The appointment means that OMD UK wins back the £58 million UK Vodafone business just six months after losing it to Carat.
This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk
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A catheter suitable for percutaneous translumenal coronary angioplasty procedures is provided. The catheter includes a balloon member having an interior and exterior surface and having at least one longitudinal portion bonded to a flexible tube. The balloon includes a collapsed condition of a size allowing it to be transported through a body vessel and an expanded condition of a size allowing it to engage a body vessel wall. The balloon in its expanded condition defines longitudinal passageways for perfusing blood past the balloon.
1. A method of performing percutaneous transluminal angioplasty procedures utilizing a dilation catheter wherein said method comprises the steps of: providing a dilation catheter having an elongated flexible tube having a single extensible balloon disposed on said tube at a given location along its length, said single extensible balloon being bonded to the elongated tube at at least two locations to define at least two balloon member portions between at least two elongated longitudinal walls secured to the tubing, said balloon having a collapsed condition of a size allowing said dilation catheter to be transported through a body vessel and having an expanded condition of a size allowing said balloon member portions to engage a body vessel wall; inserting said dilation catheter in its collapsed condition into a body vessel; positioning said balloon adjacent a stenosis or restriction in said body vessel; inflating said balloon to its expanded condition for a predetermined period of time to a sufficient size until each balloon member portion engages said stenosis while simultaneously forming at least two longitudinal passageways defined between walls of the balloon; perfusing blood through the longitudinal passageways; deflating said balloon to its collapsed condition; rotating said balloon about its longitudinal axis; and reinflating said balloon to its expanded condition for a predetermined period of time to a sufficient size until each balloon member portion engages said stenosis to insure that the entire inner circumference of the stenosis has been engaged by at least one of said balloon member portions, while simultaneously perfusing blood through the longitudinal passageways.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said first and second balloon member portions are disposed diametrically opposed across said flexible tubing.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said means for communicating between said balloon and flexible tubing includes at least one pathway between said flexible tubing and said balloon.
4. The method dilation of claim 3 wherein said means for communicating between said balloon and flexible tubing includes a first pathway between said tubing and said first balloon member portion and a second pathway between said tubing and said second balloon member portion.
5. The method dilation catheter of claim 1 wherein said longitudinal passageways are larger in cross-sectional area than said flexible tubing.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein each of said longitudinal portions are bonded to less than one-half of the circumference of said flexible tubing.
The present invention relates generally to dilation catheters suitable for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty procedures (PTCA), and more particularly to dilation catheters for use in PTCA procedures wherein blood is perfused distally of the dilation balloon during the inflation cycle of the balloon.
PTCA procedures generally include inflation of a balloon in an arterial passage in an effort to clear a flow path for blood by dilating the stenosis. Inflation of the balloon and subsequent deflation and removal of the balloon results in treatment of the stenosis to increase the available cross-sectional area for blood to flow through the arterial passage.
In typical PTCA procedures, a guiding catheter is inserted into the cardiovascular system through the Tee-brachial or femoral arteries, generally under local anesthesia, until the distal tip of the catheter is in a coronary artery and generally positioned adjacent a stenosis. An extensible balloon of a dilation catheter is advanced through the guiding catheter alone or over a previously introduced guidewire until the balloon is positioned across the stenosis. The balloon is then inflated to a predetermined size with a fluid, preferably a radiopaque liquid, to radially compress the inside of the artery wall, thereby dilating the lumen of the artery. The balloon is then deflated so that the dilation catheter can be removed, and blood flow resumed through the dilated artery that now has a larger cross-sectional area to permit a greater volume of blood to flow therethrough.
In typical PTCA procedures, when the balloon of a dilation catheter is inflated in a coronary artery, all flow ceases through the coronary artery. If blood flow ceases for too long a period of time, the part of the heart which that coronary artery serves can begin to suffer from lack of blood, or ischemia. If the balloon remains inflated in the artery for prolonged periods of time, the injury caused by the absence of blood flow can be irreversible in some cases. On the other hand, it has been found that the probability of an artery wall or the stenosis maintaining its dilated cross-sectional area after having been subjected to dilation from an extensible balloon is directly related to the length of time that the balloon is inflated while located across the stenosis. However, the aforementioned potential problems associated with blocking blood flow are increased the longer the balloon is inflated in the artery.
Attempts have been made to produce dilation catheters that perfuse blood through a catheter or balloon when the balloon is inflated to avoid ischemia conditions distally of the balloon. For example, Wejay, et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,158,540, disclose a perfusion catheter that perfuses blood during the balloon's inflation cycle to allow for longer inflation periods; however, the catheter is extremely complicated structurally and expensive to manufacture.
It is, therefore, a general object of the present invention, to provide a new and improved perfusion balloon dilation catheter suitable for PTCA procedures.
Another object of the invention is to provide a dilation catheter suitable for PTCA procedures wherein the catheter perfuses blood around the inflated balloon and permits prolonged inflation times for the balloon.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a dilation catheter of a relatively simple structure for use in PTCA procedures where blood is perfused distally of the inflated balloon.
The present invention overcomes the problems associated with the prior art perfusion catheters by providing a perfusion balloon catheter, including a flexible tubular member, and at least one annularly shaped extensible balloon member having an exterior surface and an interior surface. The interior surface of the balloon member is communicatingly connected to the outer surface of the flexible tubular member. Portions of the exterior surface remain adjacent the flexible tube while other portions of the exterior surface are spaced from the flexible tube when the balloon is inflated. Means are provided for inflating the balloon member radially outwardly from the tubular member, such that when the balloon is disposed in an artery, at least one longitudinal pathway is formed between the flexible tubular member, the artery wall and portions of the inflated balloon.
For a complete understanding of the present invention, reference is made to the embodiments illustrated in greater detail in the accompanying drawings and described by way of example. It should be understood that this invention is not limited to the particular embodiments illustrated herein, but is defined by the appended claims.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of a balloon catheter made according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of an alternative embodiment of a distal end portion of a catheter made according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view along the line 3--3 of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a plan view of the distal end portion of the catheter of FIG. 1 made according to the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view along the line 5--5 of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an alternative embodiment of the distal end portion of a catheter made according to the present invention; and
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view along the line 7--7 of FIG. 6.
As illustrated in the drawings, the perfusion balloon catheter, generally designated at 8 in FIG. 1, made according to the present invention comprises an elongated flexible tubular shaft 10 with an inflatable balloon structure located substantially near the distal end of the shaft. Lumen 14 is formed in the shaft 10 and may be of a substantially small diameter similar to that of a standard guidewire preferably having a diameter of between about 0.008 and about 0.020 inch. Lumen 14 is utilized for carrying fluid, such as a radiopaque saline solution or other fluid of a type well known in the art which is communicated through lumen 14 to the balloon area for inflating and deflating the balloon structure. The diameter of lumen 14 is large enough to carry sufficient amounts of fluid for inflating the balloon. Flexible tubing 10 utilized in the present invention is preferably formed of a suitable thermoplastic material, such as polyethylene, polyvinylchloride, and the like, or from stainless steel, or it can be composed of a composite structure. Fluid is communicated to the balloon interior through openings, shown at 20 in FIG. 3, in the shaft 10 between lumen 14 and the balloon interior. It is preferred that the same number of openings 20 be utilized for each balloon so that the diametrically opposed portions of the balloon structure inflate evenly.
The balloon 112 which is depicted in FIGS. 2 and 3 is annularly shaped and has an interior surface 22 and a exterior surface 24. The balloon may be produced from material well known in the art, such as, irradiated polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, polyamide, or other suitable flexible but relatively inelastic material. Balloon 112 is bonded along generally opposing longitudinal portions of its interior surface 22 to the outer diameter of flexible tubing 10 forming a pair of elongated longitudinal walls 23. Portions of the interior surface 22 of balloon 112 are connected to the flexible tubing 10 in such a manner that when viewed in cross section, as in FIG. 3, there appear to be two separate diametrically opposed balloons, in a somewhat mushroom cap shape or circular ring sector shape. It is preferred that portions of the interior surface 22 of balloon 112 connected to the flexible tubing be diametrically opposed.
When inflated, portions of the exterior surface of balloon 112 extend radially outwardly from the flexible tubing over less than a 360� arc but engage a majority of the artery wall or stenosis. This configuration of balloon 112 allows the formation of a pair of longitudinal channels 16 which extend parallel to the flexible tubing on diametrically opposed sides and permit the perfusion of blood past the balloon while the balloon is inflated. Each of the channels 16 are defined by portions of balloon 112, elongated longitudinal wall 23 and the artery wall 18. The cross-sectional size of longitudinal passageways 16 may be varied by limiting or expanding the amount of the balloon's interior surface 22 which is bonded to the flexible tubing 10.
A second embodiment of the invention, shown in FIGS. 1, 4 and 5, includes flexible tubing 10, as described before, and at least two separate selectively inflatable balloons, 30 and 32, each separately bonded to the circumference of the flexible tubing, preferably on diametrically opposed sides. Balloons 30, 32 are preferably cylindrical in shape and are bonded along a longitudinal portion of their outer surface to the flexible tubing. It is preferred that the longitudinal portion of each balloon bonded to flexible tube 10 be bonded to less than one-half of the circumference of flexible tube 10. This is to insure that a longitudinal pathway will be formed when the balloon is inflated in the artery. Each balloon 30 and 32 communicates separately with the flexible tubing 10 through openings 40 and 42 respectively for the introduction of fluid. Balloons 30 and 32 are adapted to be radially expanded by the introduction of fluid into the flexible tubing which passes into the interior of each of the balloons 30 and 32 via openings 40 and 42. The fluid is pumped through lumen 14 by a reversible pump of a type well known in the art which is connected to the proximal end of flexible tubing 10. It should be understood that the present invention may be used on fixed wire, over-the-wire, and monorail type balloon catheters. As shown in FIG. 1, a y-shaped hub 62 of a type well known in the art may be utilized. The hub includes two openings 64, 66 either of which may be connected to a pump mechanism for introducing fluid into the flexible tube 10.
Expansion of each of the balloons 30, 32 when disposed in an artery or other body vessel forms longitudinal passageways 36 having boundaries defined by flexible tubing 10, a portion of each of the balloons 30 and 32, and the artery wall. The size and shape of balloons 30, 32 may be varied to adjust the size and cross-sectional area of the longitudinal passageways 36.
In a third embodiment, illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7, flexible tubing 10 is eccentrically mounted to an annularly shaped balloon 312 along the balloon's inner diameter 44. Flexible tubing 10 includes a lumen 60 which communicates with balloon 312 through opening 50 to introduce fluid to the interior of the balloon to expand the balloon. Expansion of the balloon 312 against the artery walls 18 or stenosis dilates the artery and provides a passageway 46 defined by the inner diameter of the balloon and portions of the flexible tubing through the stenosa while the balloon is inflated. The size of the balloon may be varied, but should have a sufficient outer diameter when inflated to engage the stenosis or artery wall.
In operation, catheter 8 is generally advanced from the femoral artery or the Tee-brachial artery up the aortic root and is positioned in the appropriate coronary artery. Advancement of the catheter through an artery or vessel is preferably performed when the balloon structure is in a collapsed non-inflated condition. The balloon 112, which is disposed at the distal end of the catheter, is positioned across a restriction or stenosis in the artery. Thereafter, balloon 112 is inflated in the artery by pumping fluid through lumen 14 of flexible tubing 10. Inflation of the balloon causes the balloon to radially expand and engage the artery wall or stenosis and dilate the artery wall. Balloon 112 may remain in its expanded condition for a considerably longer time than conventional catheters because the blood is perfused past the balloon through longitudinal passageways 16 without need for a separate mechanism to pump or channel the blood. When utilizing catheter 8 made according to the present invention, particularly the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1-5, it may be desirable to rotate the balloon about its longitudinal axis to insure that the entire inner surface of the artery wall or stenosis is engaged by the inflated balloon. The doctor performing the PTCA procedure would insert the balloon and inflate it as before. This allows the balloon to engage a majority of the inner circumference of the artery wall or stenosis. To ensure that the area of the artery wall not initially engaged by the balloon is dilated (shown as 18 in FIG. 3.) the balloon is deflated and rotated between approximately 30�-90�. Balloon 112 is then reinflated to insure that the portion of the artery wall or stenosis not previously dilated is engaged by the inflated balloon. The balloon may be deflated, rotated, and reinflated as many times as is necessary.
After the perfusion catheter has performed its function of dilating the restricted artery, the balloon may be deflated and the catheter removed. It should be understood that the operation described above is equally applicable to any of the embodiments of the invention, as each allows perfusion of blood during balloon inflation cycles without the need for blood pumping mechanisms.
It will thus be seen that the present invention provides a new and useful perfusion balloon catheter having a number of advantages and characteristics, including those pointed out herein and others which are inherent in the invention. Preferred embodiments of the invention have been described by way of example, and it is anticipated that modifications may be made to the described form without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.
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