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To facilitate certain surgical procedures, a flexible endoscope may more readily be passed through body vessels and tubular organs, especially when those organs assume a tortuous path. However, a difficulty arises in steering a flexible endoscope through internal body orifices. In accordance with the present invention, a rigid introducer is used in combination with the flexible endoscope to facilitate targeting of such an orifice and once the distal end of the introducer is made to enter the orifice, the flexible endoscope can be advanced through the introducer and there beyond to the point in the body where an item of interest is to be viewed.
1. An endoscope assembly comprising, in combination:
(a) a substantially rigid tubular introducer of a predetermined length and having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen extending therebetween, said introducer having an outside diameter of a size allowing it to pass through a tubular body vessel, said introducer including a hub member having a longitudinal bore aligned with said lumen;
(b) an endoscope comprising an elongated flexible plastic tubular member of a length greater than said predetermined length of said introducer, an outer dimension less than the cross-sectional dimension of said lumen in said tubular introducer such that at least a portion of said endoscope can be made to slide longitudinally through said introducer, said flexible tubular member having a proximal end, a distal end and at least one lumen extending at least a portion of the length of said flexible tubular member, said tubular member containing a first optical channel for transmitting light from a source near said proximal end thereof to said distal end, and a second optical channel for transmitting an image from said distal end toward said proximal end of said flexible tubular member and a working channel, said endoscope further including a hub member affixed to said proximal end of said flexible plastic tubular member with said hub member including
(i) a longitudinal bore aligned with said working channel,
(ii) means for optically coupling said source to said first optical channel, and
(iii) means for optically coupling viewing means to said second optical channel.
2. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 and further including a port on said hub member on said proximal end of said rigid introducer.
3. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 and further including a tubular sleeve rotatably affixed to said rigid introducer adjacent to and distal of said hub member on said introducer.
4. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 wherein said rigid tubular introducer comprises plural segments of decreasing outside dimension, with the distalmost segment being of a lesser dimension than a more proximal segment.
5. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 and further including a flush/aspirate port formed in said hub affixed to said proximal end of said flexible tubular member and in fluid communication with said working channel.
6. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 further comprising clamping means in said bore of said hub member on said introducer which engages said flexible tubular member when said endoscope is inserted into said lumen of said rigid introducer to inhibit longitudinal displacement of said flexible tubular member relative to said rigid introducer.
7. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 wherein said flexible plastic tubular member includes plural lumens and said first and second optical channels reside in separate ones of said plural lumens.
8. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 wherein said substantially rigid introducer has a curved distal end portion when unconstrained.
9. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 wherein said hub on said flexible tubular member includes clamping means operatively disposed within said longitudinal bore.
10. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 wherein said flexible plastic tubular member includes a plurality of lumens for accommodating said first and second optical channels and said working channel.
11. The endoscope assembly as in claim 1 and further including a manually actuatable clamping means operatively disposed in said bore of said hub member of said introducer.
I. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to medical apparatus for diagnosing and treating abnormalities in internal body organs, and more particularly to a flexible endoscope used in combination with a rigid introducer for more readily gaining access to the site within the body to be viewed and treated.
II. Discussion of the Prior Art
Many forms of endoscopes are known in the art. They generally comprise an elongated multi-lumen tube having a proximal end and a distal end. Included among the plural lumens is one containing an optical fiber or bundle of such fibers for transmitting light from a light source coupled to the proximal end of the tube to the distal tip for illuminating the vessel or organ cavity to be examined. Another lumen is typically used to contain a further optical fiber for transmitting the illuminated image to an eye piece or other viewing device coupled to the proximal end of the endoscope. An endoscope will further typically include a lumen comprising the working channel through which flushing liquid may be injected and aspirated and that working channel may also provide a pathway through which other instruments may be passed through the body to the location where the treatment is to be effected.
The tube comprising the endoscope may be rigid as in U.S. Pat. No. 4,986,258 to Cho et al. assigned to the Candela Laser Corporation of Wayland, Massachusetts, or, alternatively, may comprise a flexible tube as in the Foerster et al. U.S. Pat. No. 4,905,667. Rigid endoscopes are appropriate only when the passageway through the body is straight or linear while flexible endoscopes can be used in traversing a more tortuous path. There are medical procedures, however, where a rigid endoscope has advantages as regards certain aspects thereof while the flexible properties of a flexible endoscope may also prove advantageous for other phases of that procedure.
For example, when conducting an examination or treatment in the kidneys, an endoscope must be routed through the urethra, across the bladder, into the ostia of one or the other of the two ureters, through the selected ureter into the right or left kidney. Typically, the endoscope may be used to view kidney stones and then an appropriate instrument may be routed through the working channel of the endoscope to fragment or capture a stone to be removed. While a flexible endoscope may be readily passed through the urethra, it proves difficult to thread the flexible tube across the expanse of the bladder and then manipulate the flexible end into the desired ureter ostium. In this phase of the procedure, a rigid endoscope proves more workable because it can span the bladder without sagging. Thus, the device as described in the above-referenced Cho et al. Patent allows a physician to more readily position the distal or viewing end of the endoscope into a ureter. However, because of the curvature of the ureter proximate the pubic arch, it is most difficult to advance a rigid catheter beyond that point and into the kidney. In fact, because of the limitations placed upon the wall thickness of the rigid catheter by the dimensions of the tubular body passages to be traversed (the urethra and ureter) and the sizes of the lumens required in the endoscope for illumination, imaging and working, it has happened that rigid endoscopes have actually fractured when an attempt is made to traverse the curved portion of the ureter with that rigid instrument.
It can be appreciated, then, that neither a rigid nor a flexible endoscope is suitable for all phases of certain endoscopic procedures.
It is accordingly a principal object of the present invention to provide a combination of instruments which may be utilized in such procedures to achieve the respective benefits of both rigid and flexible endoscopes.
Another object of the invention is to provide the combination of a rigid tubular introducer and a flexible endoscope where the introducer has a central lumen of a size permitting the flexible endoscope to be passed therealong.
Still another object of the invention is to provide the combination of a rigid tubular introducer and a flexible endoscope where the flexible endoscope is of a length exceeding that of the introducer and of an outside diameter permitting it to be readily advanced through and beyond the distal end of the introducer.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an elongated, rigid, tubular introducer whose outside diameter may be stepped or continuously tapered but having an internal lumen of a uniform diameter extending from the proximal end to the distal end of that introducer. A Tuohy-Borst-type hub is preferably affixed to the proximal end of the introducer. The overall length of the introducer will vary depending upon the surgical procedure to be effected.
The flexible endoscope comprises an elongated flexible plastic tube, preferably formed from polyurethane, polyethylene or another suitable plastic and effectively partitioned into two or more lumens. One lumen of a bilumen tube is for accommodating optical fiber(s) or light pipe for transmitting light from the proximal end and a second lumen carries another light pipe or optical fiber(s) for transmitting the image being viewed from the distal end of the endoscope back to an eye piece or other viewing device coupled to the proximal end thereof. The endoscope will also include at least one additional lumen serving as the working channel. In a trilumen version, the light fiber(s) and the image fiber(s) may reside in separate lumens.
The outside dimension of the tube comprising the flexible endoscope is less than the internal diameter of the lumen in the rigid introducer, allowing the flexible endoscope to be fed through the Tuohy-Borst-type clamp and down the central lumen of the rigid introducer. The overall length of the flexible endoscope is greater than the length of the introducer such that if the flexible endoscope is fed down through the introducer, its flexible distal of the introducer.
When carrying out a urological procedure, then, the rigid introducer may first be inserted through the urethra and across the expanse of the bladder. By appropriately manipulating the proximal end, its distal end is inserted through an ostium and a short distal portion thereof is made to enter the desired one of the ureters. Now, the flexible endoscope may readily be advanced beyond the distal end of the introducer until the flexible distal portion thereof traverses the curved portion of the ureter and is made to enter the kidney. Once so positioned, the Tuohy-Borst-type clamp on the introducer can be tightened so as to grip the flexible endoscope and inhibit unintentional displacement of the flexible endoscope during subsequent procedures.
It is also a feature of the present invention that the flexible tubular portion of the endoscope be separable from the proximal hub structure containing the optics. In this fashion, the endoscope may be fabricated at such a low cost that it can be disposed of after a single use while the more expensive optical structures are retained.
Further details, objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment in which like numerals in the several views refer to corresponding parts.
FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the insertion guide sheath or introducer;
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the flexible endoscopy catheter;
FIG. 3a is a distal end view of the flexible endoscope of FIG. 2 where a trilumen tube is employed;
FIG. 3b is a distal end view of the flexible endoscope of FIG. 2 when a bilumen tube is employed;
FIG. 4 is a view showing the assembly of the introducer of FIG. 1 with the catheter of FIG. 2 installed therein; and
FIG. 5 shows an alternative embodiment of the invention having a sheath or introducer with a curved tip and containing the endoscopic catheter of FIG. 2.
Referring first to FIG. 1, there is a shown a partially sectioned, side elevation view of the insertion guide sheath used with the flexible endoscope in accordance with the present invention. The insertion guide sheath is indicated generally by numeral 10 and comprises an elongated, single-lumen tube 12 which is preferably formed from stainless steel or a suitable medical grade plastic such as a polycarbonate or a polyester and the plastic may be reinforced with a suitable fiber material if necessary to provide strength While the lumen 14 may be of uniform size throughout the length of the tube 12, the outer dimension thereof may be stepped or tapered such that the distal portion 16 is of a lesser outside diameter than the more proximal segment or portion 18. While the outside diameters of the portion 16 and 18 as well as the internal diameter of the lumen 14 may vary depending upon the end use of the instrument, the wall thickness of the segment 18 may be in the range of from 0.050 inch down to 0.030 inch, while the wall thickness in the segment 16 may vary between 0.019inch and 0.005 inch. In terms of overall length, the segment 18 may be about 9.5 inches and that of segment 16, approximately 3.0 inches where the instrument is to be used in urology.
Affixed to the proximal end of the tubular member 12 is a molded plastic hub indicated generally by numeral 20. Extending the full length of the hub 20 is a longitudinal bore 22 through which a flexible endoscope may be introduced, all as described in considerably greater detail hereinbelow. The bore 22 is in general alignment with the lumen 14 of the rigid tubular member 12. Extending at a predetermined angle to the length dimension of the hub 20 and integrally formed with the hub is a tubular stem 24. The lumen of the stem 24 intersects with the longitudinal bore 22 and allows a flushing liquid to be injected into that bore and down the lumen 14 of the tubular segment 12. A triangular gusset 26 is integrally molded between the stem 24 and the remainder of the hub 20 to provide mechanical support and rigidity to the stem 24.
Surrounding the distal portion 28 of the stem 20 is a rotatable swivel 30. When the swivel 30 is gripped between the surgeon's thumb and forefinger, the hub member 20 can be rotated which, as will be more fully explained, allows limited steering of the flexible endoscope when it is passed through the introducer of FIG. 1 with a distal end portion thereof extending beyond the digital end of the introducer 10.
Also rotatably affixed to the proximal end of the molded plastic hub 20 is a Tuohy-Borst type clamp 32 which, when released, allows longitudinal translation of an endoscope or other instrument relative to the introducer sheath 10. However, when the Tuohy-Borst type clamp 32 is engaged, it firmly clamps the endoscope or other instrument inserted through the hub 20 and down the rigid tubular member 12.
Referring next to FIG. 2, there is illustrated a side elevation view of the flexible endoscopy catheter constructed in accordance with the present invention for use with the rigid tubular introducer of FIG. 11. The flexible endoscopy catheter is indicated generally by numeral 34 and comprises an elongated flexible multi-lumen tube 36 having a proximal end 38 and a distal end 40. The tube is preferably an extruded thermoplastic, such as polyurethane or polyvinylchloride.
As shown in FIG. 3a, the tubular member 36 includes a working channel or lumen 42, an illumination channel or lumen 44 and an image channel or lumen 46. The working channel 42 is shown as being generally semicircular in shape and is opened from its proximal end to its distal end for accommodating the passage of working tools (not shown) therethrough. The illumination channel 44 includes an optical fiber or bundle of such fibers for transmitting light from the proximal end 38 of the tube to and beyond the distal end 40. The image channel 46 also includes a fiber-optic medium having a lens on its distal end which is used to transmit an image illuminated by the light emanating from the bundle 44 back through the tubular member 36 to the proximal end thereof. FIG. 3b illustrates that the tube 36 may be a bilumen configuration with the light fiber and image fiber occupying the same lumen 47. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the tube 36 may have a single lumen containing the optical fibers for both the illumination and the image and an additional coaxially disposed tube as the working channel or as an irrigation/aspiration vehicle.
The outside diameter of the flexible endoscope tube 36 may range in size from 0.118 inch (9 Fr.) to a diameter of 0.039 inch (3 Fr.). The working lumens may then be approximately 0.086 inch (6.6 Fr.) to 0.020 inch (11/2 Fr.), respectively. The tubular member 36 may typically be in the range of from 20 inches 35 inches long.
Affixed to the proximal end 38 of the tubular member 36 is a molded plastic hub 48 having two optical ports 50 and 52, a fluid port 54 and an instrument port 56. A short length of optical fiber contained within an opaque sheath 58 allows the hub 48 to be joined to a light source via a coupler 60. Within the hub 48, the optical fiber 58 optically joins with the optical fiber or bundle within the lumen 44 of the flexible tube 36. In a similar fashion, the image optical fiber or bundle in the lumen 46 of the tube 36 is optically coupled to a similar fiber-optic light conductor 62 terminating in a connector 64 for facilitating the coupling of the endoscope to a lens system or other form of optical display whereby the image viewed by the distal end 40 of the endoscope can be observed.
A plastic tube 66 having a luer fitting 68 attached to the free end thereof couples to the fluid port 54 on the hub 48. This tube is in fluid communication with the working lumen 42 of the flexible endoscope tube 36 allowing a syringe filled with saline to be used to force the saline through the working channel of the endoscope to flush the site being observed. The luer fitting 68 may also be coupled to a suction source whereby body fluids and any flush liquid can be aspirated from the site in the body being observed.
Extending longitudinally through the hub 48 is a bore 70 which is generally aligned with the working channel 42 in the flexible tubular endoscope 36. As such, working instruments, such as a laser fiber, an electrosurgical instrument, or other surgical device may be passed through a Tuohy-Borst type clamp 72 and through the bore 70 and the working lumen 42. By rotating the clamp member 72, the instrument employed can be locked in place against longitudinal displacement.
With reference to FIG. 4, in carrying out a surgical procedure such as removal of kidney stones, the flexible endoscope device of FIG. 2 is inserted through the bore 22 in the molded plastic hub 20 to the point where the distal end 40 of the endoscope tube 36 is generally flush with the distal end of the rigid tubular sheath 12. When so inserted, the Tuohy-Borst clamp 32 is tightened down relative to the exterior of the flexible endoscope 36 preventing inadvertent displacement thereof within the introducer sheath. The rigid tubular sheath 12 containing the flexible endoscope tube 36 may then be passed through the urethra and across the bladder with the distal end of the segment 16 being steered so as to enter the ostia of the ureter leading to the kidney where the stone is to be removed. In locating the ostia, the physician may observe the image of the bladder wall which is illuminated by light from the source (not shown) leading to the connector 60. Once the small diameter segment 16 of the rigid tubular introducer 10 is inserted through the ostia and partially into the ureter but short of the pubic arch, the Tuohy-Borst clamp 32 can be released and the endoscope 34 can be advanced in the distal direction such that the flexible tubular body 36 may readily navigate the arch in the ureter to enter the kidney. All the while the endoscope is being positioned, the surgeon is able to view the image picked up by the fiber-optic media in the lumen 46, either through an eye piece or by way of a video camera and display terminal which is joined to the connector 64.
When the distal end 40 of the endoscope is positioned adjacent the stone to be removed, the surgeon may now insert a laser fiber through the Tuohy-Borst clamp 72 on the hub 48 and it will be passed through the working channel 42 (FIG. 3) and appropriately positioned such that when the laser energy is applied, the stone can be fragmented to a size permitting the pieces to be drawn back through the working lumen 42 of the endoscope with the aid of a suction source connected to the luer fitting 68 or by removing the laser fiber from the working channel of the endoscope and replacing it with a suitable instrument for grasping a stone fragment and then retracting that instrument back through the working channel and out the end of the hub 48.
While the use of the rigid introducer and the flexible endoscope has been described in connection with the performance of a urinary procedure, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention may find wider application where a rigid introducer allows better control over the positioning of the distal end of an endoscope. For example, the present invention may also be readily used in performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedures.
The entire assembly shown in FIG. 4 of the drawings can be fabricated at sufficiently low cost so that it can be treated as a disposable, i.e., a single-use instrument. Because the light source joined to the coupler 60 and the viewing device coupled to the connector 64 for displaying the image can readily be uncoupled from the instrument, the higher cost instrumentation can be reused with a new assembly such as is shown in FIG. 4. This, of course, obviates the need for any resterilization following its use.
Referring to FIG. 5, an arrangement is illustrated which allows a flexible endoscope to be more readily routed to a desired surgical site. For example, when performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, an incision must be made in the cystic duct. The common bile duct and the cystic duct must both be inspected for stones prior to completion of the procedure. By utilizing a curved sheath or introducer and a trocar, it becomes possible to pass the curved tip of the introducer and seat it into the cystic duct through the incision. Once the curved introducing sheath is seated in the cystic duct, a flexible endoscope, such as that shown in FIG. 2, may be passed through the curved sheath and advanced into the cystic duct and up to the common bile duct. Then, any stones that may be found may be disintegrated by passing a laser fiber through the working channel of the endoscope and energizing the laser to deliver sufficient energy to the stone to cause it to break up. The stone may also be removed using other techniques or devices passed through the endoscope of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 5, there is shown an assembly including a generally rigid trocar 74 having a sharpened distal end 76 to facilitate its penetrating the abdominal wall of a patient. The trocar 74 has an internal lumen extending the length thereof and affixed to its proximal end 78 is a molded plastic hub member 80 which may be generally identical to the hub member used with the rigid introducer sheath 10 of FIG. 1. As such, it includes a swivel 82, a luer fitting 84 which is connected to a stem 86 containing a hollow bore which is in fluid communication with the lumen of the trocar 74. Affixed to the proximal end of the hub 80 is a Tuohy-Borst type clamp 88. Extending through the hollow bore of the hub 80 and through the lumen of the trocar 74 is a generally rigid introducer sheath 90 similar to what is shown in the embodiment of FIG. 1 but which includes a pre-formed arcuate distal tip portion 92 integrally formed with a straight tubular segment 94. The tubular sheath introducer 90 is preferably formed from a suitable metal, such as stainless steel, and is of sufficient flexibility proximate its distal end portion 92 to be able to pass through the trocar 74, but because of its memory property, when unconfined by the trocar 74, it assumes the deflected arcuate shape illustrated.
Affixed to the proximal end of the tube 94 is a molded plastic hub 96 having an internal longitudinal bore aligned with the lumen of the tube 94 and a Tuohy-Borst clamping member 98 surrounding that opening. A flush port 100 has a segment of tubing 102 connected thereto, the tube 102 leading to a luer connector 104 through which a flushing liquid can be introduced or aspiration accomplished when a suction source is coupled to it.
The lumen of the tubular segment 94 and the integrally formed arcuate portion 92 is dimensioned to accommodate the passage of the flexible endoscope tube 36 therethrough.
Because of the ability of the distal end portion 92 of the introducer sheath 90 to deflect when extended beyond the distal end 76 of the trocar 74, the curved end portion 92 of the sheath can more easily be made to seat into the cystic duct through an incision made therein. Once the deflecting sheath is so seated, the flexible endoscope tube 36 may be passed through the deflecting sheath with its bent distal tip portion, through the cystic duct, to the common bile duct and down to the sphincter. Any stones that may be located using the endoscope may be broken up by passing a lasing fiber (not shown) through the working channel of the endoscope, all as previously described.
Those skilled in the art can appreciate that the sheath 90 with its deflecting end portion and the endoscope may be assembled outside the body as a set. The distal tip of the endoscope would be placed flush with the distal tip of the curved sheath. The procedure then would continue with advancing this assembly, as a set, through the trocar 74 to the cystic duct incision. This allows viewing in the abdomen while trying to find the incision made in the cystic duct so that the sheath may be seated therein.
This invention has been described herein in considerable detail in order to comply with the Patent Statutes and to provide those skilled in the art with the information needed to apply the novel principles and to construct and use such specialized components as are required. However, it is to be understood that the invention can be carried out by specifically different equipment and devices, and that various modifications, both as to the equipment details and operating procedures, can be accomplished without departing from the scope of the invention itself.
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Chapter 1: Were It Began
I woke up to the bright sun hitting my face, having forgotten to pull the curtains down last night. A smile was plastered on my face, the day had finally came.
On cue my mother opened my bedroom door with a tray full of food. The wonderful scents hit my nose making me sit up. A smile was on her face "My little one your awake today's the day" she beamed.
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Setting the tray down on the desk she sat on the edge of the bed. "You've finally become a women my little rose has finally grown up" she said her eyes becoming watery.
Getting up to stand in front of her I wipped the tears for the side of her face. Wrapping my arms around her I hugged her tightly. "Mother don't cry it is a happy day. Father is coming so don't be sad" I said pulling away to look at her.
She gave me a small smile "I know it's just your growing up so fast". Standing she looked me over before walking to pull a box from under my bed. A white box with a big red rose laid with a envelope attached to it.
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It was a round red sticker with the symbol of a rose. A smile crept onto my face I was his little girl there only child. He had called me his little rose since I could remember.
When I asked him why he called me that he simply told me. "Your my delicate little rose, you've grown from a small bud into a beautiful flower. Your fiesty attitude reminds me of the thorns on a rose." he would say proudly looking at.
Opening the envelope I pulled out a folded letter.
The day has arrived you've reached the age of 16 your now a women. You truly have grown up I remember when you were just a baby. I'm sure that you will look as beautiful as ever.
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I am using the Citrix Receiver in Windows 8, and on Windows XP on another PC. I often log into work from home and am unable to span the session to dual monitors like one can easily do when using "mstsc" (Remote Desktop) by using "mstsc /span". Can this be achieved with either setting options on the server (Citrix server) or on the machines the client (Citrix Receiver) is installed on? I don't have access to the server, but if there is a way, I can put in an employee request for this.
I figured this out. If you installed the Citrix Receiver, and have the browser plugin, you will need to disable that plugin so that a *.ica file does not launch automatically with the ICA Client when it finishes downloading.
Edit the file in a text editor and change the TWIMode=Off, to TWIMode=On. This will allow the window to span to both monitors. The monitors need to be the same size, and the resolution also needs to be the same on both monitors. Save the file. Then run the file (note: for the first time). The file becomes obsolete the second time you run it because the authentication token expires on the server.
Google Chrome Menu > click "Settings" > click "show advanced settings" blue hyperlink > click "Content Settings" button > click "Disable individual plug-ins" blue hyperlink > then toggle "Enable" / "Disable" blue hyperlinks for the Citrix ICA Client plugin (name might be different depending on version)
Once connected to remote desktop, drag Citrix window across both monitors. Press the maximize button, the client will maximize to both screens and be presented as a dual-monitor setup.
On a MAC, it's easy as dragging the corner of the desktop window across monitors. For Windows, is much more cumbersome. On the Citrix Receiver icon at the top left corner of the Desktop window, click on resize session, select Full Screen for Desktop Size. To get out of Full Screen mode do a SHIFT+F2 If anybody know a better way, please post Thanks


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After crossing the finish line, after one streak had ended and another one had been extended, Pat Day fired his left fist into the air. He spread his fingers as wide as he could.Five.
Five fingers, one for each victory in the Preakness.
Yesterday's victory aboard 8-1 Louis Quatorze was Day's third in a row. And that ended another streak -- six straight wins in Triple Crown races by trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
In this, there is great irony. Lukas bumped Day off one of his Preakness horses, Prince of Thieves. That left the Hall of Fame jockey with no date for the Preakness -- until Louis Quatorze's trainer called.
And history was set to be made.
As that story unfolded on the track, others equally tantalizing surely developed throughout the Pimlico grounds. On a day that began drearily but turned sunny and hot by afternoon, 85,122 fans crammed the historic racetrack.
They saw -- well, some of them saw -- Louis Quatorze pull off one of the great reversals of form in Triple Crown history. After finishing 16th in the Kentucky Derby, with no evident excuse, he ran away with the Preakness, leading every step of the way.
No winner of the Preakness ever had finished worse in the Kentucky Derby.
And Louis Quatorze's winning time of 1 minute, 53 2/5 seconds in the 1 3/16-mile race tied the Preakness record, set in 1985 by Tank's Prospect.
Trained by Nick Zito, who never had won a Preakness in five tries, Louis Quatorze crossed the finish line 3 1/4 lengths ahead of Skip Away. An additional three lengths back in third was Editor's Note.
The betting favorite, Cavonnier, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, finished fourth.
Louis Quatorze paid $19 to win.
After the race, Day expressed no bitterness against Lukas -- the trainer for whom he rode 1994 Preakness winner Tabasco Cat and 1995 Preakness winner Timber Country.
Yesterday, with Louis Quatorze, Day became the first jockey to win three Preaknesses in a row.
Asked whether losing the mount on Prince of Thieves, who finished seventh, fired his desire to win the Preakness, Day said: "If you can't get motivated to participate in a Triple Crown race, you'd better find another occupation."
He said he was disappointed to lose the mount, but not bitter.
"He's a sportsman," Day said of Lukas. "You can't blame the man for doing that. . . . I'm sorry that his streak ended. But I'm happy my streak continues."
Lukas defended the decision, as he had in recent days. He said replacing Day with Jerry Bailey was not a knock on Day, but "a coaching change."
Bailey is perhaps the hottest jockey in the country. But yesterday, he rode a sour horse.
High five for Day
Jockey earns fifth Preakness win, third in a row, bringing Louis Quatorze wire-to-wire; Race record of 1: 53 2/5 is tied; Lukas' Triple Crown streak is ended at six by jockey he pulled off Prince of Thieves
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WNYC: 87 Years and the Romance of Radio
Friday, July 08, 2011
When WNYC began broadcasting 87 years ago, radio was still very much a toddler exploring the new terrain and occasionally falling down and getting bruised. There was also a certain mystique and mystery.
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Edward Tatnall Canby: Reviewer, Critic, Audiophile, Conductor, Teacher & Host
Friday, June 17, 2011
WNYC music critic, reviewer, audiophile and host Edward Tatnall Canby (1912-1998) began his nearly 25-year stint at WNYC in 1947. His show, The New Recordings, was described that first year as "a program of wide-ranging comment on music in general and the new records in particular." It was based on his weekly column in The Saturday Review. The name of the program was changed and is probably best recalled as Recordings, E.T.C.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Robert Sonkin and Charles Todd were working at the City College Department of Public Speaking when they decided to spend their summer vacations in 1940 and '41 at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) camps of central California. With the help of Alan Lomax, their project was underwritten by the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Carrying a "portable" 50-pound Presto disc cutter, they recorded cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance calls, camp council meetings, storytelling sessions and the personal experiences of the Dust Bowl refugees who lived in the camps. Drawing from more than 200 field recordings, the folklorists produced the above documentary for WNYC in 1942, one of three in a broadcast series called Songs of the Okies.
David Randolph: The Father of Weekly Thematic Music Programming
Friday, June 03, 2011
On July 2, 1946, David Randolph began a series of weekly broadcasts on WNYC called Music for the Connoisseur, later known as The David Randolph Concert.*
On his fourth broadcast, he surveyed the subject of humor in music. With that, David pioneered the thematic radio broadcast devoted to a single musical subject with commentary. Above, you can listen to the full broadcast of "Composers' Senses of Humor," David's 375th show that aired in June, 1954.
The programs were later syndicated nationally on the 72-station network of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). The broadcasts garnered four Ohio State University Awards as "the best programs of music and commentary in the nation," and aired for 33 years. They also resulted in invitations from 23 publishers to write a book, and This Is Music: A Guide to the Pleasures of Listening was published by McGraw-Hill in 1964. It was described by the New York Times as "one of the best of the year."
Opera Soprano Frieda Hempel Sings on WNYC Because She Loves New York!
Friday, May 27, 2011
A 1926 Edition of Soundcheck: The Flanagan Brothers
Friday, May 06, 2011
The Flanagan Brothers were the most popular group of Irish entertainers in New York City between the early 1920's and the late 1930's. Joe, Mike and Louis (who is not pictured here and played harp guitar) were born in Waterford City, Ireland in the 1890's and emigrated to the United States with their parents at the turn of the century. They settled in Albany, New York. The brothers, all self-taught, played at concerts, dances, bars, clubs, and on WNYC. They recorded 160 songs for several labels and their discs sold well across the U.S, Britain and Ireland. Many have since been reissued in anthology collections. Here is an original version of the Kerry Mills Barndance courtesy of the Irish Traditional Music Archive.
WNYC Broadcasts Tribute to Nikola Tesla
Friday, April 29, 2011
Nikola Tesla, the father of alternating current and one of the greatest inventors of all time, died on January 7, 1943 at the New Yorker Hotel. Three days later, WNYC broadcast this memorial to him. The Croatian-born violinist Zlatko Baloković performed Ave Maria live in the studio, as well as a piece known to be a favorite of Tesla's, identified as Therefore Beyond the Hills is My Village, My Native Land. Mayor F. H. La Guardia read a moving tribute to Tesla written by Slovenian-American author Louis Adamic. Announcer Joe Fishler concluded the program this way:
From the Archives
Sunday, April 17, 2011
It's often a challenge when dealing with archive materials for web presentations.
You have audio and no photo or vice versa. Additionally, materials we now recognize as being innovative and landmark productions may have been overlooked in their day, leaving little public record of their activities.
Artist and architect A.G. Lorimer Captures WNYC's Old Transmitter Site From Two Perspectives.
Friday, April 15, 2011
In 1937, WNYC opened a new transmitter site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Flanked by two 304-foot towers, the site featured massive, illuminated WNYC call letters and a north symbol so that planes flying overhead on a clear night could easily get their bearings. WNYC-AM left the site in 1990, and the towers came down about 10 years later. The 10 Kent Street site is now a project of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which is in the process of creating WNYC Transmitter Park.
The Federal WPA Music Project is a Major Presence at WNYC
Friday, April 08, 2011
Isaac Brimberg: The Broadcast Pioneer Who Made It All Work
Friday, March 25, 2011
WNYC WWII broadcasts at the National Library of Norway
Friday, March 18, 2011
Communist Propaganda or Capitalist Commercial? A 1930s WNYC Broadcast is Mired in Controversy.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Moscow's Park of Culture and Rest was one of the topics in a controversial series of travelogues aired by WNYC in late 1937 and early 1938. Critics of the station charged the broadcasts were Soviet propaganda meant to gloss over the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin.
WNYC Covers Howard Hughes After He Circles the Globe in Record Time!
Friday, March 04, 2011
The New York Public Radio Archives Loses An Old Friend
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Hom Hong Wei (1915-2011) at his WNYC engineering shop workbench in the early 1940s.
WNYC's First Music Director is a Pioneer in the Broadcast of Classical Music
Friday, February 18, 2011
WNYC's first Music Supervisor (Music Director) Herman Neuman was a an accomplished conductor and composer and oversaw the department from its beginning in 1924 to 1967. He continued to do his regular "world" music program (classical), Hands Across the Sea into the 1970s.
The Father of FM Broadcasting is Heard Over WNYC 63 Years Ago Today!
Friday, February 11, 2011
In a rare appearance behind the microphone, Major Edwin H. Armstrong, the inventor of frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting, addressed the WNYC audience 63 years ago today. The occasion was the launch of WNYC's new FM transmitter.
WNYC Broadcasts D-Day Rally
Friday, February 04, 2011
Belgian-born soprano Lily Djanel sings the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" to a crowd of 50,000 on June 6, 1944. The D-Day rally broadcast by WNYC was presided over by Mayor La Guardia.


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Even if true, no human is going to sit there and recall from memory the trillion moves needed to prove it.
I certainly hope chess will not be "solved". It to me sounds something like "can women ever be understood?" (apologies to female readers), but I feel like when I'm playing a game - a really good game - the end result is less important than the journey and the true enjoyment comes from each player in a give-and-tke situation and that's true whether the ratings involved are
2400> or 1200<.
I can't help but to think this is the beginning of the end of traditional chess. The computer scientist who solved the Kings Gambit has said that he is going to solve other openings as well. While no player will be able to commit to memory every possible line of play for an OTB game, once the "solutions" are posted online - as the computer scientist said he is going to do - CC play is going to be ruined because people will just consult the file for each move.
Looks like it is time to abandon traditional chess for Chess960. Somewhere Fischer is smiling.
Don't worry, there's probably more chess left than oil!
Have we even reached "peak chess" yet?
Chessbase just admitted it was an April fool
thanks there is still chess 960 if we arrive at that moment in time where traditional chess is already database., where it will become obsolete.
I still stand by my opinion.
Fortunately, I don't remember what it was.
In the distant future, the computer capacity may exist to reduce all possible chess positions to a Nalimov table base analogue.
But our brains will never be able to retain all that data for OTB play.
Thank the Lord! I could kiss you for posting this link! I believed the article and was really depressed yesterday because I thought my favorite game of all time was on the verge of being ruined!
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my nephew dont play good chess but he plays playstation .there is so called emulator which is like a database for chess and can research for his moves just by cellphone.ive tried playing with my nephew but i won butmy winning didnt reflect much of it because he was not accomodated of something he forget to avail of the emulator .am not familiar with cellphone as it is very little for me to read and to punch so i hate cellphone but with database already existing i dont wonder why they find best moves if they know of it.,but i dont think they will have a respect for winning in their own way because it is another form of cheating.
Using an emulator is cheating in tournament play. In any case how can anyone progress his own chess game unless they use their own mellon? Losing is one of the best way to progress, not computers guidance and a fake high rating.
yes i have plenty of losses to a lower rated players than me,i have been playing chess according to my wits and knowledge and experience from continous playing .it doesnt matter anymore to me as i am already old,i just dont understand why they should have high respect for themselves inspite of consultation to database and still happy about winning.
you'd be surprised how many people enjoy deceiving themselves
ive been reading about psychology books for every other day,i found out lion stands for self interest, the greediest part of nature which we we call the lions share in idioms where everything falls for the lions mind.
i am reading psychology books every other day,people are like lions in constant search for prey .no matter what it is for self preservation or lions share in idioms what is obtainable is obtainable,lions are the most expess formin animals same also with nature of mankind., form of the greediest form of animals and also to mankind.which to ethics is the end does not justify the means and vice versa.
Wouldn't solve something from a "computer programming" perspective be having a lookup table that has "best move" responses from any theoretically possible position on the board?
If by "theoretically possible position" you mean position that reachable from the starting formation, then yes. This is different than every possible allotment of pieces on the board. e.g. it's theoretically possible (in one sense) to have pawns on both players' back rows, and (in another sense) it is also theoretically impossible. e.g. it's theoretically possible to have a board with a white pawn in every square in one sense, but in another sense it's not.
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D.J. Covington recorded his third double-double of the season and Virginia Military Institute dominated Virginia-Lynchburg 102-61 Monday in a nonconference game. Covington made 10 of 11 shots en route to 26 points and pulled down 10 boards. Stan Okoye added 17 points and nine rebounds for the Keydets, who built a 56-39 rebounding advantage. Phillip Anglade broke open a 4-all tie with a jumper and a three-point play on consecutive possessions and VMI (4-5) used a 21-2 run to take a 25-6 lead with 10:33 left in the first half. Virginia-Lynchburg (5-9) never got any closer than 18 as the Keydets took a 52-23 lead into intermission and pushed their lead to as much as 34, 84-50, in the second half. The Keydets forced a season high 31 turnovers on the strength of 20 steals. VMI scored 31 points off those errors and 50 points in the paint.
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Yesterday, I posted some somber news regarding Michael Sauer not even in the conversation for the Rangers this season. Now, Jeff Klein at the New York Times has this from Sauer's agent Ben Hankinson... "I wish I could give you some kind of timetable on when or if he can come back, but I can't. Unfortunately it's still day to day, week to week, month to month. Michael's condition is still very much an up-and-down thing. We're hoping for the best, but we just don't know right now." ...ugh, that does not sound very encouraging at all. Remember kids, make sure you have your chin strap on when you get on the ice. I don't think it's too far fetched to say that if Sauer just snapped his on, the Rangers might have been playing for the Stanley Cup last Spring. Remember to follow me on Twitter & Facebook or e-mail me at email@example.com.
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Goaltender Jonathan Quick never complained while he carried the Kings on his back and became the most valuable player of their Stanley Cup championship run, but he paid a steep price for toting that heavy burden. A herniated disc that doctors didn't immediately diagnose began pinching his sciatic nerve in March, while the team was making its playoff push, but Quick played through it stoically and superbly. Game after game he kept the low-scoring Kings competitive, boosting them into the final playoff spot in the West and then repelling shot after shot as they rampaged through the playoffs and to a six-game victory over the New Jersey Devils in the Cup final. Never did he hint at the ache that accompanied him almost everywhere. "If you'd sit on a plane, get in a car, driving to the rink, driving home, sitting down for dinner, whatever," he said of when he felt discomfort. "But when I was playing, that's when I'd get the least amount of pain. It was manageable on the ice." Rehabil...
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It's an honor to be introducing my friend and colleague Royal Skousen tonight.
And I really mean that. I'm not just being polite, or ceremonial.
It's an honor because, as interesting and valuable as the previous two lectures in this series have been, this one strikes me as the most significant of the three. The central task of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project has always been, to the extent possible, to restore the original English text of the Book of Mormon by scholarly means.
It's an honor because I regard this Project as one of the most impressive scholarly efforts in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—one that isn't likely ever to be displaced from that position.
Professor Skousen has been the editor—the leader—of the Project since its inception in 1988. Which is to say that he has devoted a quarter of a century to the effort.
In terms of sheer sustained dedication, the Project is in a class by itself.
In 2001, thirteen years into his work, he began to publish the results of his research in multiple massive volumes brought out by the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, or FARMS.
In 2009, Yale University Press published his edition of The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text—a wonderful contribution that I would love to see in the home of every English-reading Latter-day Saint.
And the work continues.
I hope that I'm not violating a confidence in passing on a comment that Professor Skousen made to me not long ago: Everything he's studied, every interest he's had, all of his training and background, he says, equipped him to carry out this project.
And his background and areas of expertise are impressive. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1972. He's taught there; at the University of California at San Diego; at the University of Texas at Austin; and, as a Fulbright lecturer, at the University of Tampere in Finland. In 2001, he was a fellow of the Max Planck Institute in the Netherlands. He's pursued his interests in linguistic theory and quantum computing with very fruitful results, including the volumes Analogical Modeling of Language (1989), Analogy and Structure (1992), and Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-Based Approach to Language (2002). Perhaps most important of all, he married Sirkku, who has been his indispensable support, assistant, and advisor throughout the history of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project.
There are numerous other assets that he's brought to the Project—attributes that, in my judgment, have been essential to its remarkable success.
I believe that they can most usefully be summed up as constituting a remarkable—even fierce—intellectual integrity.
His work is meticulous. Precise. He's the consummate scholarly craftsman. He won't fudge, won't distort to satisfy anybody or to advance an agenda. He won't tolerate sloppiness, and, obviously, will not rush to quick publication. He gives intense and painstaking care to even the physical appearance, external and internal, of the Project's publications—and he's had vital support in this from the inimitable and irreplaceable Jonathan Saltzman.
Reflecting this fierce intellectual integrity has been his adamantine insistence on the independence of the Project. Although he's a deeply believing Latter-day Saint, he has maintained, successfully and from its very start, that the Project must be run according to the most rigorous academic principles—without distorting allegiance to any particular party, sect, or ideology; that it be independent even of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Only thus can it have the credibility that it must have, if it's ultimately to be worthy of "the keystone of our religion."
In this respect, I confess that Professor Skousen reminds me just a bit of Juanita Brooks, a faithful believer whose life-long research into the Mountain Meadows Massacre irritated and alienated many of her fellow members of the Church, including some of her leaders, but whose value not only to historical scholarship but to the Kingdom has now, I think, long since been generally recognized. "Nothing but the truth," she famously said, "is good enough for the church to which I belong."
An anecdote: Dr. Skousen has been a legendarily tough negotiator on behalf of the Project, even with leaders of the University and the Church. At one point, during the entirely separate talks that brought FARMS into the University, I announced to then-President Merrill J. Bateman that we'd decided to appoint Royal Skousen as our representative in those negotiations from that point on. For a moment, he seemed speechless with shock. Then, when he realized that I was joking, he laughed loudly. He too had, plainly, come to respect Professor Skousen's tenacity and principle.
The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project has already made an enormous contribution, and the gift keeps on giving.
Without it, we would still be at the mercy of critics shouting about the number of changes made to the Book of Mormon text after its first printing—they've considerably underestimated that number, by the way—and claiming both that our failure to acknowledge those changes demonstrates a cover-up and that the sheer fact of the changes proves Joseph Smith a false prophet. We now know far more than they ever bothered to learn about the nature of those changes, and we know that the changes are anything but faith-destroying:
Professor Skousen has been able to demonstrate the impressively "systematic" nature of the Original Text, as he terms it, which subsequent emendations and "corrections" have tended to obscure.
Without Dr. Skousen's work, we would not have his powerful argument for the nature of the translation, which he believes to have been read off, word for word, to Joseph's scribes.
We wouldn't be aware of the presence of seemingly archaic language in the original text—not Joseph Smith's early nineteenth century American dialect and, shockingly, not even the language of the King James Version, but terms and expressions from a generation or two earlier. If Professor Skousen's perceptions are accurate, this will be surprising to believers but, I think, utterly confounding to skeptics who insist that the Book of Mormon can be exhaustively explained on the basis of Joseph's own natural "information horizon."
Without Dr. Skousen's labors, we would be unaware of some of the most persuasive Hebraisms in the text—the if/and conditional sentences in Helaman and Moroni, which seem to me exceedingly difficult to explain on a naturalistic model of the book's origins.
We wouldn't know of the 256 places where changes could justifiably be made to the text that, while leaving the doctrines intact, would affect meaning and translation.
We wouldn't have the powerful evidence that his work has supplied, demonstrating that Joseph really was encountering the text for the first time, just as the Church has always taught, and that the Original Manuscript really was orally dictated.
Above and beyond its intrinsic scholarly merits—the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project is a work of pure, disinterested scholarship of the highest order—Royal Skousen's twenty-five years of intensive labor have, in the Book of Mormon's own language, made weak things become strong unto us.
This is my favorite kind of apologetics: It not only takes a weapon away from our critics but transforms it into a weapon to be wielded effectively in defense of the Kingdom.
I repeat: It's a great personal honor to me to have this opportunity to introduce Professor Royal Skousen.


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Louise M. Wasson
True diversity
A while ago there was a story about the first NAS-Kingsville VT-21 squadron commander who was Hispanic "(Historic day for squadron," June 11). It was showing the diversity of our Navy to promote a Hispanic to that level.
I think that it is great that this happened.
But I believe true diversity is when we promote someone and do not pay any attention to their ethnicity. And only pay attention to how well they perform their task set before them.
J. Edward Hamilton
In response to Mr. Patterson's "Making excuses" on June 18, his position is that liberals blame Bush for everything (PBOB — "Put Blame On Bush") and that "folks who lack leadership place the blame on others for their own lack of experience and foresight," suggesting President Obama goes on too many vacations and plays golf rather that solving our country's current problems, and that President Obama does not listen to those "willing to help."
I had to listen for eight years how Clinton was the reason we were: attacked on 9/11 (2006 — Condoleezza Rice blames 9/11 on Clinton), had a weak military (2008 — Giuliani blames President Clinton for cuts in the military), had high gas prices (2006 — Bill Frist blames Clinton for veto regarding Arctic refuge drilling), and took the fall for the 2009 recession (2009 — Michael Steele claims that "Bush inherited a recession"). And the oil spill disaster last year? Yep, Clinton's fault (2010 — Dick Morris blames Bill Clinton for BP oil disaster). I guess Mr. Patterson was right about placing blame if you lack leadership. How about this acronym: "PSA — Politically Selective Amnesia."
This notion that the GOP the past three years has visited the White House with hats in hand to help solve the nations' problems is another example of "PSA." The "Party of No" label was well-deserved by the GOP for two years. Now, the Republicans are the "Party of Killing Welfare". Not exactly a step up, folks.
A recent WSJ/NBC poll indicated that more people blame Bush for the economic situation than President Obama.
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A few weeks ago my colon ruptured. My wife, Sonja, rushed me to the hospital in Aransas Pass. The doctor said, "I was the sickest man he's ever seen alive." I get that a lot, but in a joking way. This was no joke. I was within 30 minutes of dying. Here's the blessing. During surgery they also found a cancerous tumor that had perforated the colon wall. I may have died later this year from colon cancer if it hadn't ruptured. They saved my life. Care Regional Medical Center has been under new management for quite some time. The new owners are incredible people. Their medical care staff, from the doctors and nurses, all the other caregivers to the volunteers, are second to none. We are very blessed to have this facility on our side of the bay. I speak from personal experience. I am extremely grateful and thank them all. I would not be here if it were not for them and Sonja's life would have been shattered. Thanks again, from both of us. Y'all rock!
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1933 Goudey Sports Kings Babe Ruth #2 PSA NM-MT 8. The title of this Goudey issue sums it up nicely as Ruth is certainly considered to be the king of baseball. The "Sultan of Swat" was at the height of his popularity when the issue was released in 1933 and this beauty doesn't seem to have aged very much since. The great Bambino stands head and shoulders over his contemporary Titans of sport, like Ty Cobb, Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Eddie Shore, etc. This beautiful example was blessed with being well centered, vibrant colors and precise registration. The left and right borders appear even. If we have to criticize, all we can find is some slight wear at the corner tips but even the print ghosting on the reverse associated with this issue is at a minimum. Currently, there are twenty-one recorded at the PSA NM-MT 8 level and one can only guess how many are resubmissions. Only a hard to believe trio have been graded higher.
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