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Hospital Gnome Retiring "Very Happy with Life's Work"
DALLAS, TX – Gergio, the Hospital gnome assigned to Methodist Dallas Medical Center, called it quits on Friday. Over 20 years of disconnecting patient lines, taking the last of the chuck pads, and changing orders in charts – just to name a few of his day to day jobs – has left Gergio 'happy and fulfilled.'
"When I was assigned to Dallas I thought, oh boy how's a Yankee Gnome going to survive in Texas! Turns out hospital-gnomin' is hospital-gnomin' no matter where you go. Poking holes in sterile case carts, switching medication tubes in the tube system, you have to forget where you are and just cause chaos," The ol' hospital gnome said.
Many times health care workers would get in yelling matches blaming each other and Gergio would be peeking through a nearby vent just laughing at the havoc he was causing. "Sure I'll miss this work. I'll probably head down to Belize, get me a beach house and just stick to myself." Gergio never married; he was very committed to his work.
Gergio is famous for turning on patient call lights, code blue buttons, and eating Nurse Susan's sandwich and Activia yogurt that she always labels, which helps Gergio eat the right one. He says he'll eat anyone's food but love's the bread Susan uses, it's gluten free, and he's trying to take gluten out of his diet.
One reporter asked Gergio to elaborate on his famous insulin tubing day. "Well the patient was in DKA day 2 and I disconnected the insulin from the IV. The nurse called the doctor 4 times to switch algorithms, finally when the rate was 142 Units an hour and no change in his blood sugar, the doc came to the bedside. He saw a large puddle in the bed, picked up the floating IV tube and said "Let's hook this up OK?" Oh boy THAT was funny."
Many hospital gnome experts think Gergio can't stay away from his passion. With the new opening in New York City, he would be able to move back home near family.

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It looks awful. 4 years on from Slumdog and the only role Dev Patel can get is playing a 'stereotype' Indian (apart from the awful Airbender film).
Lets not forget he is only 21 (just) and the only roles he gets ARE maaybe steryotyped because of his skin colour afterall who better to play a young Indian man than a young Indian man.Had they had a white man in the role it may have suggested a throwback to the colonial days which may have worked on a different level.but being based on a book maybe not in this case
He would maybe do well to head for the Sates or to ply his trade for a few more years,maybe do some stage and tv. I think its a tad premature for assumptions
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Pakistan has denied all charges of initiating the aggression.
According to various media reports, the photographs of the landmine devices have clear markings that show they were manufactured in ordnance factories in Pakistan.
The mines were reportedly recovered in an area dominated by Indian troops.
Defence ministry sources were quoted by a television channel as saying that Pakistan had refused to accept the file with the photographs and returned it to the Indian officials.
At the meeting, India lodged a strong protest against the repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) and also expressed concern at the barbaric way Pakistani troops treated the bodies of the two Indian soldiers who were killed last week.
But the Pakistani side, the Army said, denied all charges and was "adamant and arrogant" in its attitude. New Delhi has expressed unhappiness over the outcome of the meeting.
India says there have been five ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops since the flag meeting.
Two rounds of firing were reported near the Line of Control (LoC) within an hour on Tuesday evening. The Army said Indian troops did not retaliate.
The Pakistan Army however alleged on Wednesday morning that Indian troops violated the ceasefire on the LoC on Tuesday and "carried out unprovoked firing" in Hotspring and Jandrot sectors killing one of its soldiers at Kundi post.
Pakistan's director general of military operations talked to his Indian counterpart on Wednesday morning and lodged a protested about the alleged incident.
India has denied Pakistan's allegation.
"If a Pakistani soldier has been killed, it may have been in retaliatory firing. We have not crossed the Line of Control," Army chief General Bikram Singh said on Wednesday morning as he visited the family of one of the two jawans who were killed by Pakistani troops.
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So how is AoC now? I ain't played it in a while .... How is it with the new updates? Hows the PvPing now? Also hows the server populations?
EDIT:- Hmm just noticed there a free 14 day Re-Evaluation.
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The new game director has certainly livened things up for higher level content whether its RAID instance or solo dungeons or 6 man dungeons. Game director has hinted at further new lvl 80 instances, and expansion pack to come.
Even though playing as 2 handed Barbarian class..we need some tweaking.
Like any MMO, they stil trying to balance the classes. It never will be fully balanced among the classes.
But, stability has risen, players looking for PuG RAIDS or whatever is easily available since server merges. With recipe drops, the economy is taking shape. I am making a fair amount of gold coins by harvesting/gathering, crafting, looting and selling them.
Gamespot said the subscription for AoC was at 400K. Many people are returning. Then again, some people are leaving.
I for one am still enjoying it and plan to stick aorund for expansion pack...NINJA class is rumoured! W00T!
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Then it occurred to me to try presoaking before development in Diafine. Since Diafine is reused repeatedly it can accumulate a lot of dye. I figured that presoaking might minimize that problem.
The first film I had available was TMY, notorious for retaining a tint after processing. Presoaking in our fairly alkaline tap water (from a rural well) didn't remove a significant amount of dye. It was very slightly tinted, but nothing like the pour-off from Efke R100.
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"It's always been a small program here at the college," Richard said. "But, that shouldn't be taken as a measure of the strength of the Canadian Studies program, because we offer a number of courses. Typically, 600-700 students a year take courses with a Canadian Studies prefix."
The suspension of the Canadian studies major - which Richard said there has been no indication it will be reinstated - will begin this fall with the 2011-12 academic year and is something Richard considers a major loss for the university.
"SUNY Plattsburgh was one of only two institutions of higher education in the United States to offer a major in Canadian Studies," Richard said, adding the other is at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. "So, this is part of our identity here at the college and part of what distinguishes us amongst the SUNY institutions."
Emily O'Hara, a senior at Plattsburgh State majoring in the Canadian studies program, said she considered the dropping of the Canadian studies major "truly unfortunate news."
"The program, which often receives funding from external sources in the form of grants and co-operative partnerships, has established a credible reputation at SUNY Plattsburgh," said O'Hara, who called the program "one of the most comprehensive and multi-disciplinary regional studies programs in the country."
The Canadian Studies program has "ingrained" itself in campus culture, said O'Hara, and its removal from the curriculum will affect more people than only those who are majors or minors in the subject. O'Hara said she's aware of the university's current financial situation and added she is "confident that the school's administrators are making their best professional judgment in their decision-making process." However, O'Hara did add she has concern for other courses being cut.
"I just hope that this decision does not parlay into or form a pattern of cutting additional degree programs in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences," she said.
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Reporting from Las Vegas, N.M.—When you think of Las Vegas, you probably don't think of Las Vegas, N.M. It's the other Las Vegas, and perhaps the wildest Wild West town you've never heard of.
I had never heard of Las Vegas, N.M., when I first encountered it in 1997 — a Western boomtown, frozen in time, with eye-popping architecture and more than 900 buildings on the state and National Register of Historic Places.
But since my last visit, a community of artists (at last count, 168) has taken root in the city and in surrounding San Miguel County, establishing Las Vegas as one point on a vibrant artistic triangle that encompasses nearby Santa Fe and Taos. A new website, http://www.lasvegasnewmexicoarts.com, offers information on local artists and the region's ambitious cultural plans.
Driven by civic pride and the hopes of an improved economy, this Las Vegas also has embarked on an unprecedented effort to reclaim and preserve its architectural heritage. I could hardly walk anywhere in town without encountering a historic building or home, or a local resident who wanted to tell me about one.
Old-fashioned shootouts
Today, a visitor can stroll through a mile-square Arts & Culture District awash in Spanish, Victorian and Territorial architecture. Building styles span the 1840s, when Las Vegas was a busy stop for wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail, its Wild West days — "Doc" Holliday had a saloon here and shootouts occurred regularly — and its boomtown era sparked by the arrival of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway in 1879.
"At one time, there was an expectation that Las Vegas would be the biggest city in the Southwest — then it just stopped, and nothing much has been built since then," said Doyle Daves, a member of the Las Vegas Citizens Committee for Historic Preservation.
Daves is a former dean of science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., and a New Mexico native who settled in Las Vegas after he retired. The city's buildings survived, he said, because drought and the Great Depression choked off plans for large-scale development projects, as did the closing of the railway headquarters in the late 1950s.
The art in Las Vegas is just as varied as the architecture, ranging from traditional carved wooden saints to softly painted retablos (devotional paintings) to native jewelry and eclectic contemporary works.
Jewelry was on my mind when I stopped at Tito's Gallery on historic Bridge Street and ordered two handmade wedding rings from the shop's proprietor, Jose E. Tito Chavez.
Like many craftsmen and artists, Chavez has deep roots in the community. His great-great grandfather, Miguel Romero, was a city founder and helped lead its early development.
Today, Chavez lives in an 1870s adobe house that belonged to his great-grandmother, the same house that famed African American fighter Jack Johnson rented in the summer of 1912 when he came to Las Vegas to defend his heavyweight boxing title against Jim Flynn, whom he easily defeated.
Chavez's shop also is home to works by many of the region's santeros –- native artists who translate their vision of the divine into paintings, intricate carvings and a variety of other mediums. Eyes of the saints stare at you from seemingly every wall.
Peaks here, plains there
Las Vegas is nestled between two vastly different geographic features, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains — the start of the Rockies — on one side and the Great Plains on the other. Nearby are state parks and the 1.6-million acre Santa Fe National Forest, where recreational possibilities include camping and fishing, as well as trails for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. The Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge, home to thousands of birds that winter or rest here, is an ideal venue for birders.
The peaks and plains surrounding Las Vegas, along with the town's picturesque buildings, have provided the setting for scores of movies such as "Easy Rider" (1969), "Red Dawn" (1984) and "No Country for Old Men" (2007). Most recently, parts of "True Grit" were filmed on a ranch outside Las Vegas.
Perhaps the most prominent reminder of movie making in Las Vegas is the mural of an outsized cowgirl on a downtown building with the inscription, "Calumet says Howdy." The mural was painted for "Red Dawn," starring the late Patrick Swayze. Calumet was the name of the fictional Colorado town invaded by the Soviet Union and its Latin America allies before being repelled by local teenagers.
For fans of real-life history, the city museum houses the Rough Rider Memorial Collection, perhaps because nearly a third of the Rough Riders were recruited from New Mexico. Col. Theodore Roosevelt attended the first reunion of the Rough Riders in the summer of 1899, and the veterans continued to meet in Las Vegas until the early 1970s.


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UCSD researchers win, er, prestigious prize
If you have ever wrestled with snarled cables, cords or jewelry, you can thank two UCSD researchers for figuring out the math and physics of why these frustrating knots happen. Dorian Raymer of SIO and Douglas E. Smith from Physics have been awarded the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for their paper, "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string." (PNAS October 16, 2007 vol. 104 no. 42 16432-16437 ). The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded annually to achievements that "make people laugh, then make them think." This year's Medicine prize went to Dan Ariely of Duke University, USA, for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine. The Biology prize was awarded to Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat. See the full list of winners.


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Now that he's without him
what is he working for
He had never truly realized
His dad drove him to want more
With working came acceptance
replaced emotions he concedes
and his father unavailable,
he kept his schedule filled with deeds,
When his father passed away
it broke him to the core
just learning he and his dad
had things in common they stood for
His dad had loved unconditionally,
despite his character flaws
and perhaps was thinking he'd call his son
when the winter thaws
but winters came and went
and neither reached to call
yet they truly loved each other
despite their voices being awol
His imperfect life with his Dad,
is now the oddest gift he treasures
He's vowed to be a father
for his sons to proudly measure
He says "I love you" to his kids,
and has being saying so for many years
then thinks of what he missed
with his Dad,
and it reduces him to tears
Nothing can make that emptiness go
he carries the lesson learned
Knowing now to speak his love out loud
not said to be returned
When a son loses his father
a part of himself fades into the light
as do the words he rarely stated,
like, "Dad, nice to hear from you tonight"
or picking up the phone to say,
"hi dad, did you just hear",
are calls he wished he'd made
while he wipes away a tear,
Now in a prayer he says, "I love you Dad",
to the heavens he kneels and pleads
and wonders if his fathers knows
that his love's so strong, it bleeds
"Dad, in case you didn't know it,
I love you more than I can say
I always tell my kids I love them
I learned that the hard way,
and in my heart,
my father,
you shall always stay".
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PARIS, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Babolat, international specialized tennis brand, presents the prototype of the first interactive racquet, "Babolat Play & Connect," at the French Open. The "Babolat Play & Connect" is a major innovation with nearly infinite potential. Welcome to the tennis of the future!
Babolat presents the prototype of the first interactive racquet with organized demonstrations featuring amateur players and professional players from Team Babolat including Rafael Nadal (SPA) and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) at the French Open. With "Babolat Play & Connect," the specialized racquet sports brand takes tennis into a new era. "It's a major innovation that will create a before and after reference point. 'Babolat Play & Connect' is taking on the challenge of changing the way tennis lovers play and live the game of tennis. This is a connected and communicating racquet that will give players information they can use to improve performance or just have fun sharing with other passionate tennis players," explained Eric Babolat, Chairman and CEO.
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"BABOLAT PLAY & CONNECT" is for all tennis players whether they are beginners, advanced or professional.
Players will be able to use "Babolat Play & Connect" to obtain concrete information about their game. Three major features of "Babolat Play & Connect" include:
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Warning over yellow 'UPS' ecstasy pills
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Bereaved mum calls for drugs to be legalised
Teen taken ill after taking possible 'Mortal Kombat' pill
A 16-year-old boy is said to be in a serious condition in intensive care after taking what may have been a 'Mortal Kombat' ecstasy pill, police said.
Tests are also being carried out on a 17-year-old boy after both teens became ill following a house party in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, yesterday.
The pair were taken Monklands District General Hospital in Airdrie at about 11.30pm having apparently taken illegal drugs.
Police Scotland say they believe the drugs included ecstasy and "possibly" a Mortal Kombat tablet.
Warnings issued about the red pills following the death of 17-year-old Regane MacColl last month have been renewed.
A NHS Lanarkshire spokeswoman said: "Anyone who has taken ecstasy - particularly the one described as 'Mortal Kombat', and who is feeling unwell, or who knows someone who has taken this type of drug in the past few hours, should attend or contact their local hospital for treatment and advice."
Police issue drug death warning posters for festivals
Police Scotland has issued posters warning festival goers of the recent deaths linked to fake ecstasy pills:
The poster warns, "These or other dangerous drugs may be circulating at this festival".
"Be Safe. Don't risk it", it adds.
Fake 'Rolex' drugs suspected links to Belfast deaths
Police in Northern Ireland are working to establish whether fake 'Rolex' ecstasy drugs, thought to be linked to the death of seven young people in Scotland are the same ones suspected to be responsible for a number of sudden deaths in Belfast.
It had been feared that 8 unexplained deaths of people in their 20s and 30s over the past month in Northern Ireland had been caused by the same batch of drugs, however police said no single drug was responsible.
PSNI officers told UTV they were liasing with officers across the UK, and in the republic of Ireland.
T in the Park set for drug 'amnesty bins'
Police in Scotland were keen to send out a warning on ecstasy ahead of this weekend's T in the Park music festival.
Seven deaths have been linked to fake ecstasy pills being circulated across Scotland, with an 18-year-old woman dying after taking the tablets.
Drug "amnesty bins" will be available at the entrance to the campsites in Balado, Perth and Kinross where illegal substances can be disposed of without risk of prosecution, police said.
Chief Inspector George MacDonald said: "We want to encourage people to enjoy themselves but our priority is keeping people safe and we want to make them aware of the direct dangers of becoming involved with drugs."
'Real concern' over fake ecstasy tablets
Police Scotland's Superintendent Grahame Clarke said the fake ecstasy tablets that have been linked to the deaths of seven people are a "real concern" and "could contain a cocktail of toxic ingredients".
Seven deaths linked to fake ecstasy pills
A teenager has died after taking a fake ecstasy tablet - the seventh reported death in Scotland linked to the pills.
The 18-year-old woman died yesterday in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, and three of her friends were admitted to hospital after taking the pills.
The tablets circulating in Scotland contain toxic chemicals with potentially fatal effects, Police Scotland said.
The pills are green and stamped with a crown logo and some have been found to contain a dangerous stimulant Methoxyamphetamine, known as PMA, police said.
They are also warning of a white pill with the Mitsubishi logo imprinted on it, found to contain the chemicals 5IT or AMT, and a yellow tablet with a star logo.
Ecstasy warning after death of 18-year-old
An 18-year-old woman has died and three of her friends taken to hospital in Scotland after taking fake ecstasy tablets.
Police say the green pills, which are stamped with the crown logo, contain toxic chemicals and are linking them to a number of deaths over the last two months.
Three men aged 18, 21 and 25 were taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital.
Superintendent Grahame Clarke warned the public that the pills could contain a "toxic" cocktail of ingredients:
"We have yet to establish if this particular pill is to blame for the death of this young woman, but the fact that she and her friends took pills described as green and with a Rolex stamp on it causes us real concern.
"The exact contents of the pills are unknown but they could contain dangerous chemicals and users need to be aware of the dangers and understand the devastating effect they can have."
Ecstasy 'could have contributed' to teenager's death
A 19-year-old from Salford died on Sunday and police are raising the possibility that ecstasy was a contributing factor.
Further toxicology tests will be carried out to establish the exact cause of death.


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My background is mostly in desktop applications on the Microsoft platform. I've been working a lot with ASP.Net MVC lately and completely skipped over learning webforms. I find I'm having the most trouble (not being a web guy) with writing my views in MVC. How proficient should I be with HTML and javascript to write good views in MVC? Also, is the standard Webforms view engine what I should go with, or would I have an easier time using the Spark view engine, given my background?
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Regarding view engine, if you are working on learning for future use rather then for an immediate project you want to put into production ASAP, I'd suggest taking a look at Microsoft's upcoming view engine Razor.
It is being built for the ASP.Net MVC 3 release taking lessons learned from Spark, NHaml and the default view engine.
From the article:
We had several design goals in mind as we prototyped and evaluated "Razor":
For ASP.Net MVC 3 Preview 1, take a look at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/27/introducing-asp-net-mvc-3-preview-1.aspx
Specifically on the subject of View Engines, if you're looking to introduce code blocks into your views, then Razor would be the neatest way of doing that.
I guess, given your background, the next question would be - "how do I know if I want to introduce code blocks into the view?" - the answer I'm afraid can only come to you with a lot of pain an experience. Many people have written blog posts explaining the dangers of code blocks mixed in with markup that leads to a nightmare commonly referred to as Tag Soup.
All that Razor (and Webforms for that matter) does for you is bring the power of the entire C# or VB.Net languages into the view in a way that prescribes abundant usage. This is what leads to the Tag Soup problem.
But it seems there are still die-hards out there under some kind of illusion that you can actually keep your views clean in the long term by using this method. If you are working on the code alone, and forever, then I'd tend to agree that it is possible, but only then with the mind-numbingly depressing levels of concentration and determination.
If however, you'd like to keep you views for markup with the code abstracted away to where it can be less tempting to put a "quick fix in here" and a "hack in there", then I'd highly recommend that you skip over the code-centric view engines and go with Spark.
In terms of answering your question directly, you can find plenty of tutorials from beginner to advanced. Here are some of the ones I'd recommend in blog and video formats:
Anyway, I hope that gives you enough to make an informed decision.
Best of luck in your dabblings!
Rob G


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Rafi Pitts
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Rafi Pitts (2007)
Mashad, Iran
Rafi Pitts (Persian: رفیع پیتز) (born 1967) is an Iranian film director.
Life and career[edit]
Pitts was born in Mashad, Iran. Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio.[1] He describes himself as having been a 'very bad' child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England (his father is English) in 1981 during the Iran Iraq war. He graduated in 1991 from the Polytechnic of Central London with a BA (Hons) degree in Film and Photography.[2] His first short film, In Exile (1991) was presented the same year at the London International Film Festival. In the 90's Pitts moved to Paris and worked on films by Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Jean-Luc Godard.
Educated in France and England, Rafi Pitts belongs to the new wave of Iranian cinema, which received numerous prestigious prizes in the international festival circuit.
In 1996 he had the opportunity to film in Iran and describes himself as having been the first film director (in exile) to do so since the Revolution in 1979. His first feature Season Five (1997) was the first Franco-Iranian coproduction since the Revolution.[3]
In 2006, he was nominated for Golden Bear award of Berlin Film Festival for his movie, It's Winter. His 2010 film The Hunter was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.[4]
Representative awards and honors[edit]
- Golden Bear, nominated, Berlin Film Festival, 2006.
- Grand Prix, Paris Film Festival, 2001.
- Golden Moon of Valencia, Cinema Jove - Valencia International Film Festival, 2001.
- Golden Wheel, Vesoul Asian Film Festival- France, 2001.
- OCIC Grand Prix, Amiens International Film Festival, 1997.
- Special Jury Prize, Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1997 & 2000.
- 2011 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
- 2010 The Hunter (Shekarchi)
- 2006 It's Winter (Zemestan)
- 2003 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (documentary from the series "Cinema de Notre Temps)
- 2000 Sanam
- 1997 Season Five (Fasl-e-Panjom)
- ^ Q &A with Jason Wood 18.10.2010 (Premiere of The Hunter)
- ^ Artificial Eye Premiere biography release 18.10.2010
- ^ Artificial Eye release 18.10.2010
- ^ "60 Seconds of Solitude in the Year Zero: Film Review". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
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Don't believe it - "The smear machine moves into overdrive"
Don't believe it - "The smear machine moves into overdrive"
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Martin Sixsmith seems a very bitter man who is determined to take out Stephen Byers, having already seen off Jo Moore. Yet most of the Westminster lobby are prepared to give Sixsmith an easy ride, mainly because they, too, want to get Byers. For Sixsmith to get hacks to write that there is a smear machine working against him must have taken some spinning - and make no mistake about it, Sixsmith has been spinning like a top. As the Mirror reported, it was Sixsmith, not No 10, who was behind a plot to oust Jo Moore, and thus it is hardly surprising that Byers wanted him out. It is absurd to set this up as a conflict between the civil service and political special advisers. Yet that is how most of the media want to play it, conveniently forgetting that Sixsmith was appointed by Labour and is not a career civil servant at all. Sixsmith's decision to spill the beans to the Sunday Times was the act not of a loyal civil servant, but of an ex-journalist who knows how to damage the government.
But does any of this matter? The answer is no. The media are obsessed with any story about themselves, and spin-doctors in particular - as I know from personal experience. It is not often that I agree with Alastair Campbell, but he is right when he says that the media prefer to report the process of government rather than what the government is or isn't doing. The fact is, this spin soap opera is not as exciting for the public as it is for those who work in Westminster. What happens to a couple of spinners will not affect many people's lives; what Byers does with the trains will. The most interesting thing about the whole saga is that the Transport Secretary has a much smaller house than his former spin-doctor. It's obvious who has the more lucrative job.


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Hi all, I live in NW Tucson, kind of on the border with OV, and I was hoping there were any moms-to-be (either with or without kids already) in the area to commisserate and get decaf with. I'm the only woman of my social group who is having a baby, and it gets rather lonely when your single/married but uninterested in kids friends start inviting you to things less and less. We have a bb due in June, and I'll be either staying at home or working PT once we've had time to establish a routine.
Any expectant ladies?
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I live in Tucson too but on the east side. I due in July. My friends don't have kids & I get the lonely thing. I will go back to work but it will be different with my friends.
DH & I established 6/2/12
We cannot wait to meet her!
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I am also expecting, in April. I will be a full time stay at home mom.
I have already been looking into activities for me and the little one to get involved in!
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Im due july 27th ! i live in central tucson :) Due to my age .. i no longer relate with my old friends .. so i too am super lonely :(
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Mommython we're in the same birth board (;
Anyone want to set a play date up? I definitely need time out of the house!!
Anyone want to set a play date up? I definitely need time out of the house!!
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May 2, WW7 G. c. KAISER ET AL 3,316,935
FLOW CONTROL CLAMP Filed June 24, 1964 INVENTORS.
mm-1 M- smshwi cm- United States Patent 3,316,935 FLOW CONTROL CLAMP George C. Kaiser, Webster Groves, Mo., Robert I). King,
Indianapolis, Ind., and Henry M. Scislowicz, Lake Blufi, Ill., assignors to Abbott Laboratories, Chicago,
111., a corporation of Illinois Filed June 24, 1964, Ser. No. 377,585 Claims. (Cl. 137-695) This invention relates to a flow control clamp useful in connection with a plurality. of compressible tubes for alternately simultaneously compressing and releasing the Walls thereof to alternatively obstruct and permit fluid flow through said plurality of tubes in a predetermined manner.
In the medical arts, there are numerous instances in which a plurality of tubings are used to supply various parenteral fluids to a patient. conventionally, each of these tubings has independent flow control means for the purpose of adjusting the degree of compression of the tubing to block or permit fluid flow therethrough. An example of an apparatus in which sequential flow through separate fluid conduits from separate sources is utilized is a secondary administration system. It is, obviously, cumbersome and timerconsuming to independently adjust flow through each of a plurality of conduits. Furthermore, the fewer the number of steps in the handling of a set-up of medical equipment, the smaller the opportunity for error in the use thereof by a nurse, and consequently, the smaller the chance of harming or even killing a patient because of misuse of medical equipment.
The instant invention overcomes the aforementioned deficiencies of the prior art by providing a single flow control clamp assembly wherein flow through a plurality of pieces of tubing or conduits can be controlled by a single sliding manipulation of the slide clamp ofthe apparatus. The apparatus comprises such a slide clamp having a plurality of elongated tapered apertures therein, each such aperture adapted to receive a piece of administrationytubing' and in one position to permit flow through such tubing and in a second position to obstruct fiow through the tubing by pinching the tubing. The slide clamp is slidably mounted in a tube holder housing as sembly comprising a body portion having a transverse slit adapted to slidably house the slide clamp, and tube holders extending from and depending from the body of the tube holder assembly to support each piece of administration tubing which passes through a correspond ing clamp aperture in the slide clamp body and to facilitate operation and handling of the slide clamp assembly.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide a unitary slide clamp assembly for simultaneously operating on a plurality of compressible tubes to control flow therethrough.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a slide clamp assembly providing three positions of operation for a plurality of tubes.
Yet another object of this invention is to provide a three-way slide clamp for a plurality of tubes which is simple to operate and economical to manufacture.
A concomitant object of this invention is to provide a novel slide clamp assembly for use in an ascitic fluid infusion set and having a first position wherein fluid flow through two of three tubes is permitted, and flow through the third tube is obstructed, an intermediate position wherein fluid flow through three tubes is permitted, and a third position wherein flow through said third tube is permitted while flow through said other two tubes is obstructed.
Further objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention, reference being bad to the accompanying illustrative drawings -wherein:
FIGURE 1 is a diagrammatic representation of an ascitic fluid administration system including the slide clamp of the instant invention in a position wherein flow through two tubes is permitted and flow through a third tube is obstructed;
IGURE 2 is a diagrammatic representation of the ascitic fluid infusion system of FIGURE 1 wherein the slide clamp assembly is in a position to permit fluid flow through said one tube and obstruct fluid flow through said two tubes; 7
FIGURE 3 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a preferred embodiment of the slide clamp assembly of the instant invention;
FIGURE 4 is a side elevation assembly of FIGURE 3;
FIGURE 5 is a top plan view of the slide clamp assembly of FIGURE 3.
Referring now to FIGURE 3, there is shown a slide clamp assembly generally designated at 10, including a tube holder member or housing 11 and a slide clamp 12. The tube holder member 11 comprises an elongated, substantially rectangular body member 16 having three integral upstanding tube holders \18, 19 and 20, and three integral depending tube holders 21, 22 and 23. Each of the tube holders comprises a tubular member approximately one and one half inches in length and having a circular bore extending therethrough. Each of the tube holders 18, 19 and 20 is in axial vertical alignment with its corresponding tube holders 21, 22 and 23 and the bores of each aligned pair of tube holders are connected by corresponding bores 24 in body member 16. A transverse aperture or slot 17 extends through the center of body member 16 and is adapted to slidably engage rectangular slide clamp member 12.
Side clamp member 12 is constructed of sheet aluminum having three punched-out slots or clamp apertures 13, 14 and 15. As best seen in FIGURE 5, each of the slots 13, 14 and 15 has a broad uniform end portion, respectively labeled 13b, 14b and 1512, the length of which is slightly more than one half of the total length of the slot. Each of the broad slot portions 13b, 14b and 15b extends to a narrow, slightly tapered wedge portion, respectively designated as 130, 14a and 15a. Each of the broad slots sections 13b, 14b and 15b is slightly larger than the outside diameter of the administration tubing in its transverse dimension so as to accommodate a piece of parenteral administration tubing of conventional size in a substantially unstressed condition. Conventional administration tubing as a .170 inch O.D. Each of the wedge-type narrow end slot sections 13a, 14a and 15a is sufliciently narrow to compress a piece of conventional parenteral administration tubing sufliciently to obstruct any fluid flow therethrough. It .170 inch O.D. tubing is used the width of the narrow slot sections should be about .025 inch. Slide apertures 13 and 15 have their wide sections 13/) and 15b at the proximal end of the slide clamp, and slide aperture 14 has its wide end section at the distal end of the slide clamp. The aligned center portions 130, 14c and 15c of the respective clamp apertures are substantially equal in width to the diameter of the tubing, so that when tubing in the respective slots is in the center portion, none of the tubes view of the slide clamp ire significantly compressed by the walls of the clam rpertures.
In use, slide clamp 12 is placed in slot 17 of body nember 16 such that the central longitudinal portions [30, 14c and 150 of the slide apertures arc in alignment with the bores of the corresponding tube holders.
As previously mentioned, slide clamp member 12 is formed of sheet aluminum from which slide apertures 13, 14 and 15 have been stamped out, the slide clamp being sequentially tumbled to smooth out any rough edges of apertures 13, 14 and 15 to prevent accidental severing of administration tubing when the slide clamp is in use. Tube holder member 11 is a unitary molded piece made of high density polyethylene. Other rigid plastics or other materials are also suitable for this purpose. The slide clamp member may be formed of plastic or other metal in lieu of the aluminum suggested.
In setting up the slide clamp for use, the slide clamp is placed in the position shown in FIGURE 5 and a length of administration tubing is threaded through each pair of tube holders.
In the ascitic fluid infusion system illustrated in FIG- URES 1 and 2, lengths of administration tubing 41, 47 and 53 are seen as threaded through the corresponding pairs of tube holders 18 and 21, 19 and 22, and 20 and 23, and the corresponding slide clamp apertures 13, 14 and 15.
The ascitic fluid infusion apparatus comprises 'a conventional parenteral fluid container which contains a 5% solution of dextrose in water. A length of administration tubing 41 communicates the solution container 4% with one branch of a Y-type connector 45, and extends through tube holders 18 and 21 and slide aperture 1.3. The other branch of Y-type connector is attached to a length of administration tubing 47 which passes through tube holders 19 and 22, and slide aperture 14 to connect to one end of a filter chamber 49. The other end of filter chamber 49 is connected by a length of administration tubing to a collapsible plastic parenteral fluid container 51. A length of tubing 53 communicates at one end with the collapsible parenteral fluid container 51, passes through tube holder 20 and 23 and slide aperture 15 and is connected at its distal end to a peritoneal catheter 55. The bottom stem of Y-type connector 45 is attached to one end of a length of administration tubing 43, and the other end of length of administration tubing 43 is attached to the hub of a hypodermic needle (not shown). A screw clamp is mounted on length of tubing 43 to adjust flow through the hypodermic needle into the vein of a patient. mounted on length of tubing 41 is used to adjust flow of the dextrose solution from bottle 40.
In operation, the slide clamp is initially placed in the position shown in FIGURE 1 wherein tube 47 is pinched closed by slide aperture 14 and tubes 41 and 53 are open. First, pinch clamp 42 is opened to allow dextrose solution to flow through tubing 41 into tubing 43, to clear air out of tubes 41 and 43, to prevent air embolism when the hypodermic needle is injected into the vein of a patient. Screw clamp 42 is then closed to stop flow from solution bottle 40 into the slide clamp which is moved to the neutral position shown in FIGURE 5 wherein flow through tubes 41, 47 and 53 is enabled.
The peritoneal catheter is then inserted in the peritoneal cavity and ascitic fliud is withdrawn from the peritoneal cavity, and collects in bag 51, forcing air out of tubing 53, bag 51, tubing 50, 47 and 43. When air is substantially out of the system, the slide clamp is slid to the position shown in FIGURE 2 wherein lengths of tubing 41 and 53 are pinched closed and flow is only permitted through tube 47.
With the hypodermic needle placed in the vein of the patient, ascitic fluid passes from bag 51 through filter 49, wherein it is filtered, and is reinjected into the patients system through the hypodermic needle in the Another screw clamp 42 I vein of the patient. When bag 51 of ascitic fluid is substantially exhausted, the slide clamp is slid back to the position shown in FIGURE 1 and bag 51 is lowered so that ascitic fluid flowing through tube 53 is collected in the bag. Screw clamp 42 is then opened up to permit dextrose solution to flow through length of tubing 43 into the vein of the patient. This procedure is continued for as long as seven days until no more acitic fluid can be drained from the patient.
In the event that filter 49 becomes clogged so that ascitic fluid cannot be reintroduced into the patients system, port 52 enables one end of 'a secondary administration set containing a filter to be connected to the bag 51 of the ascitic fluid. The secondary administration set (not shown) can contain a filter similar to filter 49 and can be connected into the tubing segment 47 below filter 49 by means of a Y-type reseal infusion site 46 or other similar means to enable ascitic fluid to flow from bag 51 into tubing 47, while by-passing filter 49.
Although the invention has been illustrated with respect to an ascitic fluid infusion apparatus requiring three tubes, it is apparent that the principles of the invention can be applied to an infusion system having other numbers of tubes. Furthermore, whereas in the instant case one of the slide apertures, i.e., aperture 15 is oppositely disposed from apertures 13 and 14 and is located between said apertures 14 and 15, the relative directions of the apertures would be dependent upon the particular infusion system for which the slide clamp assembly of this invention is to be used. Moreover, the tube holders need not be discrete members as shown but can comprise apertures in a single block of material.
The size of slot 17 is slightly larger than the thickness of slide clamp 12 so that a sliding fit is obtained, whereby the slide clamp can be maintained in a fixed position but can easily be adjusted. The bores in the tube holders 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 are of slightly larger inside diameter than the diameter of the various lengths of administration tubing whereby the lengths of administration tubing are loosely, adjustably supported by the tube holders, thus facilitating operation of the slide clamp. The slide clamp is operated by placing the fingers about the tube holder and pushing the slide clamp with either the thumb or the middle finger, depending upon the desired direction of the movement of the slide clamp. In the event that the use of tubing lengths of different diameters is desired, the corresponding apertures may be dimensionally varied in accordance with the standards of fit described above.
Others may readily adapt the invention for use under various conditions of service, by employing one or more of the novel features disclosed or equivalent thereof, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, as claimed in the appended claims.
What is claimed:
1. A flow control clamp for use with a parenteral administration system having a plurality of lengths of administration tubing, comprising: a thin, elongated slide clamp defining a plurality of transversely spaced clamp apertures in side-by-side relationship, each such aperture having a wide end portion the width of which is approximately equal to the diameter of said administration tubing and the length of which is slightly greater than one half of the total length of said aperture, so that an intermediate position of the clamp is provided wherein at least two of the lengths of tubing are open, and a narrow end portion the width of which is substantially less than the diameter of said tubing, so that said tubing will be restricted when positioned in said narrow end portion to reduce any fluid flow therethrough, at least one of said apertures being oppositely disposed with respect to the other of said apertures, whereby the wide end portion of one of said apertures is adjacent to the narrow end portion of another of said apertures, and a body member defining a transverse slot of approximately the same width and thickness as said slide clamp and slidably accommodating said slide clamp and defining a plurality of apertures of approximately the same diameter as said tubing and in respective alignment with a corresponding slide clamp aperture.
2. Apparatus as set forth in claim 1 including a pair of oppositely disposed, angularly aligned tube holding members integral with said body member, corresponding to each aperture in said body member and in alignment therewith.
3. A parenteral administration system comprising a plurality of flexible compressible administration conduits, an elongated slide clamp defining a transversely spaced, longitudinally extending clamp aperture corresponding to each conduit, each clamp aperture having a wide end portion of approximately the same Width as the corresponding conduit and an opposite end portion of substantially less width whereby compression of one of said conduits by the corresponding opposite end portion blocks fluid flow therethrough, the length of said wide end portion being slightly greater than one half the length of said aperture so that an intermediate position of the clamp is provided wherein at least two of the lengths of conduit are open, at least one of said apertures being oppositely disposed with respect to the other of said apertures, said apertures being in side-by-side relationship whereby the wide end portion of one of said apertures is adjacent to the opposite end portion of another of said apertures, and a clamp housing having opposite ends and defining a centrally located transversely extending slot slidably accommodating said slide clamp and respective extending passages between said housing ends aligned with each of said clamp apertures and respectively accommodating one of said conduits.
4. A parenteral administration system comprising at least three flexible, compressible administration conduits, an elongated slide clamp defining three transversely spaced longitudinally extending clamp apertures in side-by-side relationship, each clamp aperture having a wide end portion of approximately the same width as said conduits and an opposite end portion of substantially less width than said conduits so that said conduits will be restricted when positioned in said opposite end portion to obstruct any fluid flow therethrough, the length of said wide end portion being slightly greater than one half the length of said aperture, so that an intermediate position of the clamp is provided wherein at least three of the lengths of conduit are open, at least one of said apertures being oppositely disposed with respect to at least two of the others of said apertures, whereby the wide end portion of said at least one aperture is adjacent to the opposite end portion of said at least two of the others of said apertures, and a clamp housing comprising a body section defining a transverse slot slidably accommodating said slide clamp and apertures extending through the housing aligned with each clamp aperture and accommodating one of said administration conduits and a pair of oppositely extending conduit holders integral with said housing and aligned with each housing aperture encompassingly supporting the corresponding administration conduit.
5. Apparatus as set forth in claim 4 wherein said housing is formed of substantially rigid plastic, and said slide clamp is formed of sheet aluminum.
References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 575,696 1/1897 Burns.
720,450 2/ 1903 Luellen et a1.
839,610 12/1906 Lusso 24-222 1,225,710 5/1917 Herschede 24-222 2, 092,400 9/1937 Miller 2517 XR 2,548,993 4/1951 Mierzwa 24-222 2,645,245 7/1953 Maisch 2517 XR 2,889,848 6/1959 Redlner 2517 XR 3,075,551 l/1963 Smith et al l37-609 M. CARY NELSON, Primary Examiner. HENRY T. KLINKSIEK, Assistant Examiner.
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School Overview
|School Membership(s)School Assoc.
|National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA)
|Religious Affiliation
|Roman Catholic
|Grades Offered
|Grades Nursery/Preschool - 8
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|267 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 27%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers
|15 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
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Finances and Admission
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|Total Sports Offered
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Our Lady of Guadalupe School is a ministry of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, located in West Seattle, Washington. Our students belong to an extended community of parents, teachers, staff and parishioners who share Gospel Values and support our students' academic goals. Our Lady of Guadalupe School fosters gospel values, inspires academic excellence, and develops service and leadership. We face this task as a sacramental community united and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic School is guided by a philosophy derived from our Catholic heritage. We acknowledge and support the family as the primary educator of the child. As a contemporary Christian school, we affirm the importance of education for a full life of Christian faith. The goal of our Catholic school education is to foster gospel values in our students, challenge and inspire them to academic excellence, and cultivate their development both in service and in leadership.
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Grammy and Tony award winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik will headline Michelle Clark's Sunset Session Tour 2012 kicking off at Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas on November 9. Sheik will be performing songs from his new album Covers 80s Remixed due on November 6 on his own imprint Sneaky Records/MRI. See full list of dates below.
For this new offering, Sheik created a remixed edition of his 2011 album Covers 80s in which he reinterpreted the stand-alone pop songs from his teen years along with the synth-pop era's classic and obscure songs. The album includes tracks by Dépêche Mode, Thompson Twins, New Order, The Cure, Love and Rockets, The Smiths, Tears for Fears and more. For Covers 80s Remixed, Sheik enlisted Samantha Ronson, El-P, Gabriel & Dresden, Chico Mann, Terry Urban among others to decode these songs again. The album contains guest appearances from Holly Brook aka Skylar Grey and Rachael Yamagata. Sheik will begin a 20 date headline tour across the U.S. starting in November as part of this first annual "Sunset Sessions Tour." Full dates will be announced shortly. Please see track listing below.
Launching his musical career in 1996 with his self-titled debut, Sheik quickly earned a Grammy nomination for "Best Male Vocal" for his hit "Barely Breathing" which spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. He subsequently garnered critical accolades for his unique brand of folk-pop music with 2006's White Limousine and his 2-CD collection of songs titled Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology. Sheik then composed the original score and collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater for 2007's Spring Awakening, which went on to win eight Tony awards. Sheik alone earned two awards for "Best Orchestration" and "Best Original Score" as well as a Grammy award for "Best Musical Show Album." He followed with musical theater production Whisper House, which was directed by Peter Askin (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and written by Kyle Jarrow. Sheik is currently working on stage productions of Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Hans Christian Andersen's The Nightingale.
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"Shout"-Original Recording by Tears for Fears; Remixed by Chi Duly ft. RachaelYamagata
"What Is Love"-Original Recording Howard Jones; Remixed by Gabriel & Dresden
"William It Was Really Nothing"-Original Recording by The Smiths; Remixed by Max Tannone
"Gentleman Take Poloraids"-Original Recording by Japan; Remixed by Ben Casey
"Kyoto Song"-Original Recording by The Cure; Remixed by Samantha Ronson
"Stay"-Original Recording by The Blue Nile; Remixed by Duncan Sheik
"Love Vigilantes"-Original Recording by New Order; Remixed by EL-P
"Life's What You Make It"-Original Recording by Talk Talk; Remixed by Bookworm
"Stripped"-Original Recording by Dépêche Mode; Remixed by Terry Urban
"So Alive"-Original Recording by Love & Rockets; Remixed by Duncan Sheik
"The Ghost in You"-Original Recording by Psychedelic Furs; Remixed by Chico Mann ft. Holly Brook
"Hold Me Now"-Original Recording by Thompson Twins; Remixed by 16 Bit Lolita
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The world's leading economies and their manufacturing sectors face a product-development landscape that is ever more complex and fast-changing. Factors affecting it are geological, geopolitical and at times gee-whiz, as one invention or another upsets the status quo. Within Zurich's data-analysis community, implications of the new dependence on scarce minerals are reminiscent of the supply-demand equations around energy production. Exploring and drilling for oil and gas in a new location is always possible, but not always profitable. And few activities bear a greater need for advanced risk management.
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Looking at Wiki, the next second ship from each builder should be commissioned by the end of 2012 and will the Fort Worth and the Corando.
Though given there are two LCS in service (one of each design) I'm wondering why they've got to second. I can understand with aircraft but ships? It just seems by the time the next two are complete it's 3 years will have passed and then close to another 3 years by the time they enter service.
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