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If your laptop computer could talk, what would it say to someone who stole it?
What about "Help! Help! You're not my mother." Or, "Take your hands off me, you miserable loser."
Since Front Door Software Inc. launched the verbal alarm with a software upgrade on Thursday, Feb. 26, the story about the talking laptop software has been published around the world.
A woman in her 80s who has lived in Evergreen for several decades lost more than $16,000 in a telephone scam involving a caller who said he was her son and had been arrested for drunken driving.
She called the Canyon Courier because she hopes to stop others from being victimized, but she asked that her name not be used.
A 47-year-old Wheat Ridge man died in a fall in the 1000 block of Lookout Mountain Road about 4:15 p.m. Monday.
The man was on an outing with friends when he stepped over a guardrail to take a picture, lost his footing and fell about 60 feet, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
Foothills Fire & Rescue retrieved the body. The identity of the victim was not released.
Wouldn't it be more fun to have a car without having the responsibilities that come with it?
That's the premise of Occasional Car, an Evergreen company that is launching a car-sharing service for people who are hankering for an environmentally sensitive alternative to a personal car or a second car.
Still in its budding stage, the business is expected to go live in a couple of weeks.
Ceramic eggs — decorated by everyone from Evergreen artists to children — will be displayed at Evergreen National Bank during April as part of the Downtown Business Association's second annual egg decorating contest.
The contest helps the community on many levels, according to Lisa Wood, owner of Go Paint and a member of the Evergreen Downtown Business Association.
Usually, receiving a gift doesn't generate controversy. Well then, why is the stimulus package Congress approved not receiving overwhelming support from all of us citizens? Perhaps it's because we can't understand or support the way the politicians came up with it.
By Hannah Hayes
What do you call 50,000 troops that will be left behind when the U.S. withdraws from Iraq? Re-missioned. How can you re-mission troops when they never had their original mission disclosed?
But we're jumping ahead on Iraq (while we're falling behind at home). The reality today is that lives keep being lost, dollars continue to be spent, and troops still redeploy. It ain't over, folks.
I am just back from a brief trip to Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge. Three friends and I drove down together and a fifth drove over from Arizona to join us, so we made five musketeers. We took one day to drive down and one to drive back with a few stops along the way and had two full days on the refuge. Bosque del Apache is one of the gems of the National Wildlife Refuges. It is managed largely for the sand hill cranes and snow geese which winter there in great numbers but it is also very people friendly.
The month of February was devoted to awareness of size and growth of the human population. Did you miss it? Creators of Global Population Speak Out (gpso.wordpress.com) wanted you to catch some of the qualified scientists that spoke publicly on reducing the 218,000-person net gain the planet experiences each day. Bringing new voices into the discussion of population issues is hoped to break down the taboo that exists on this topic.
The fire district board voted March 10 to downgrade a vacant, part-time/permanent, administrative assistant position to a part-time, maximum six-month position at an annual pay rate of $25,000.
The move echoes the board's decision last year to downgrade the human resources position from full-time to part-time, conditional only for six months, meaning the 30-hour job could be either extended or terminated at the end of the period.
The action came in a regular meeting of the Evergreen Fire Protection District board on March 10.
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By Staff Sgt. Alicia K. BorlikAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 24, 1999 This story is part of a series of articles on the military's effort to provide quality, affordable child care. For the most current information, visit the web site special "Formula and Fatigues, Diapers and Duty" at http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/childcare/.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Barbara Smejkal once described herself as "not knowing what to look for in a child care center." Now she's an outspoken member of the parent advisory board at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and educates other parents about military centers.
"My child is here [child development center] 10 hours a day," said Smejkal, an information manager at Andrews. "She's here more awake than in my own house, and I would like to have some sort of influence on how things go for her."
Smejkal is not only an active board member, she also spends at least 15 minutes in the morning and afternoon talking with her daughter's caregivers. She even makes time to visit the center at least once a week during lunch to read or play with her daughter and other children.
But Smejkal is not typical of most parents. It's easy to get caught up in the "hi and bye" routine of popping in to drop off and pick up your child, she admitted. But, she said, it's well worth the extra time spent getting to know your child's care provider.
"Communication [between parents and caregivers] is so very important," said Sandy Holcomb, care provider at Andrews.
"We want to make sure parents know everything their children have done during the day," Andrews caregiver Francis Ward added. "Parents can give us feedback and let us know what their kids are doing at home so we can incorporate that in the classroom. It's very important for the parent to be involved."
The caregivers will be the first to say they understand parents' busy schedules, especially the morning and afternoon rush. They also know parents may not be able to spend a lot of time visiting, but there are other ways to get involved.
"We are trying to get parents more involved through the parent advisory board," said Linda Tully, child development center director at Anacostia Naval Air Station, D.C. "We're looking into some ways of bringing parents in. Maybe some can get extra time at lunch to come in and spend time with their child." There's nothing that helps a child's self esteem like Mommy and Daddy coming in and reading something to the children, she said.
"We need you. Your kids need you" is the motto of the Andrews Parent Advisory Board, Smejkal said, but it could be the motto for any military center.
Parent advisory boards are becoming regular fixtures at most military child development centers. While initially parents may see the monthly meetings as gripe sessions, they'll quickly learn there's a higher agenda and benefit in attending.
The boards are a great way to form partnerships between parents and center staff as well as being a forum for parents to share concerns with those who can make changes, Tully said.
Parents, caregivers and the center director attend most meetings. They normally last an hour or less and, like most meetings, cover old and new issues. The Andrews board encourages parents to voice their concerns prior to the meeting so staff can have time to get the answer and other information to them.
Parents can voice concerns to the board three ways. A "concern box" is checked before meetings so board members can talk to the director and get answers. There's a bulletin board where parents can write and post questions they want answered at the meeting. The third way is to just bring them up in the meeting, Smejkal said. Meeting minutes are published and distributed to all parents.
Parents don't need to wait until a board meeting to voice concerns, though. "I encourage people to bring issues to me ASAP instead of waiting for a board meeting," Tully said. And they do. She said parents often drop in to talk to her about concerns, problems and policies.
"We ask parents, please don't leave here if you have a concern. Stop by, let us know. If you're angry, let us know," she said. "Sometimes there's something we need to change. Sometimes we maybe didn't communicate as well as we could. That's very important to keep communication open."
Parent advisory boards are more than liaisons between parents and center staff. Many times, they are directly involved in fixing problems. Parental concerns range from fees to menus to parking to even sand.
Sand is a popular playground surface, Tully said, because it's soft for kids who may fall and it's relatively inexpensive. For curious parents who have to clean the children and their clothes, though, "sometimes why we do something needs to be explained," she said.
Sometimes explaining the whys is enough, but other times only change will do, she explained. The Anacostia center's board members are instrumental in getting things done, she said. For instance, they gathered menu ideas from a Navy nutritionist in response to parents' questions, Tully said.
Smejkal joined the Andrews parent board shortly after her daughter, Summer, started in the center's toddler program. She found it the perfect avenue to give input and also learn how the center worked. "I know more now, so when I hear people talking about military child development centers, I'm able to give an educated answer as to why it is that way," she explained.
"We're doing good things. We don't just come in and gripe for an hour and a half," Smejkal said. "We try to accomplish things."
The Andrews board recently responded to parents' concerns about the center's lunch menus. Now, the menu for the day is posted on the center's main bulletin board and, according to Smejkal, parents are happier with it. "The board also raises money for things like T- shirts for kids to wear on field trips and honoring a caregiver of the quarter," she added.
One topic the Andrews board continually works on is boosting parental involvement. "We want to get parents more involved -- get more parents in here having lunch with their children, volunteering time, all kinds of things. I foresee that happening in the next few months, Smejkal said.
The close communications between parents and staff distinguish the Andrews and Anacostia centers as high-quality programs, according to standards set by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The association administers the nation's best-known accreditation program for early childhood schools and child care centers.
That the Andrews and Anacostia centers are accredited is not unique -- about 89 percent of all DoD child development centers have earned accreditation. DoD aims for all to be fully accredited by 2000.

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It's sure lucky for us all that President Obama received a "mandate" from the public on Nov. 6. Two stories in the Nov. 14 Columbian to reinforce that "mandate" hit home. U.S. deficit was $120 billion in October, setting us on the path for a fifth straight $1 trillion-plus annual deficit. Then to top that was the resignation and scandal involving the head of the CIA, Gen. David Petraeus. Seems curious on the general's resignation timing … less than a week after the election. But, I'm sure the administration didn't know anything about this before the election? Of course, the media probably knew about this pending resignation before the election but couldn't/wouldn't say anything until their guy was elected.
Sure glad those nasty old Republicans didn't win.
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Obama approval rating hits all-time low, according to poll
A new poll shows that President Barack Obama's approval rating has plummeted to a new low as talks to raise the debt ceiling stalled and the president stayed out of the public eye after a Monday night speech through early Friday.
The president's average approval rating on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 40 percent in Gallup's daily tracking poll released on Friday. His approval rating averaged 46 percent in June, and was at about the same level for most of July.Continue Reading
Obama's rating had last gone as low as 40 percent in Gallup's daily poll, but not since April.
Among Democrats, his approval rating was 72 percent, while with independents, it was at 34 percent and with Republicans, it was 13 percent. During the past three weeks, Obama averaged a 79 percent approval rating with Democrats, 41 percent with independents and 12 percent among Republicans.
The poll was conducted July 26-28 and surveyed 1,463 adults. The error margin is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Best Beer St. Louis 2004 - Stag
The centennial of the St. Louis World's Fair gives us a once-every-hundred-years opportunity to reclaim Stag beer as our own. A little history: Before 1907, Stag was called Kaiser beer, named for the Wilhelm family of German emperors. But when Kaiser II fell out of favor during World War I, the Griesedieck Western Brewery (the lager's Belleville-based brewer) sponsored a naming contest. Some guy named George Wuller came up with "Stag" -- presumably in a fit of lucid ingenuity the morning after his bachelor party. For his trouble, Wuller received $25 in gold and, interrupted only by Prohibition, Stag proceeded to blaze a torrid trail of local inebriation that saw it outsell Budweiser and Falstaff. But Stag ceased being concocted in Belleville in the late 1980s; it's now brewed on contract in Fort Worth, Texas, by the Miller Brewing Company. Yet its timeless golden-hued cans and St. Louis-friendly blue-collar flavor live on. So on this, the centennial, we offer a nostalgic salute to Stag, pride of the St. Louis region.


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I love the Christmas season. That's right, I said "Christmas," not "holiday," that generic all-inclusive euphemism to make sure we don't insult anyone by rubbing religion in their face. Well, with nearly 80% of Americans counting themselves as Christian, why hide our beliefs and celebrations? One of the things I so enjoyed about my friendship […] [Read More]
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It's that time of year again. Time to stop and really think and acknowledge what we are thankful for. Rightfully so, when asked, most people have a version of something about being with family. I am so looking forward to having my family together this week! Though I speak with her often, I only see […] [Read More]
Traveling sucks because of terrorists
Especially airplane travel. It's bad enough that airlines have had to implement cost-cutting measures to stay afloat (baggage fees, fewer flights, less services), but the security procedures we must endure make me groan. But not out loud. Don't dare try to joke or complain. And the mere mention of certain words like "bomb," "explosives" or […] [Read More]
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Thing is, they are not evil. They believe they are fighting evil. They think we are evil. But we don't think we are.
The planet is heavily populated. People start getting in each others' way. Fights break out. Part of the fight is the one for the high moral ground to gain supporters (or at least not be hindered). It really is that simple.
What if we didn't have extremists? Is it possible not to have extremists, or for the most extreme fringes of society to be at least tolerably extreme? (say, they just blow up letterboxes instead).
Is extremism and fascism a natural tendency of humans? It appears to be like a psychological sickness that breaks out in populations every now and then - Pol Pot, Stalin, the 3rd Reich, Cultural Revolution, Taliban ... a societal illness that grows out of a despairing population.
Just goes to show how important it is to keep up good morale in the face of all these difficulties.
People who preach evil or do evil, are evil. We become what we preach and do.
I guess some of it depends on how you define evil, while knowing that we all have evil tendencies within us. Publicly calling for the beheading of those who criticize you is definitely evil, and suggests a person may be, or is becoming, predominantly evil. I have no reservations judging others by my moral code, which values democracy, tolerance, democracy, productivity, progress and free expression. I don't want to change people or convince them of the "superiority" of my values; my values work fine enough for me and others who share them in a liberal First-World democracy, so we must resist at all costs changing them. If someone disagree with that, they need to return to whence they came because, as you say, the world is becoming crowded.
You raise a valid point: The people in this photo think I am evil. Because I support the rights of women to get an education and live without the threat of being forced into marriage at age 8, or having acid thrown in their faces, or being set afire in an honor killing. Because I think homosexuals shouldn't be stoned to death. Because I think thieves should not have their hands and feet chopped off. Because I think artists should be free to create art and music that challenges the status quo. Because I think the people should select their leaders. Because I think no one should be forced to pray to any god if they choose not to. Because I believe in basic human rights. If that makes me "evil," then m eand everyone else in a liberal first-world democracy really is "evil." Grea, are you "evil" too? If so, then these people want to behead you. Or, that's what they say and maybe they're just kidding around and don't really mean what they say.
The planet is heavily populated. I am mystified, then, why people leave a familiar community and then come to a new nation and immediately want to take it backwards 1,000 years. Such people should be gently escorted back to their native lands, where they are free to repress.
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An interesting new study says that not all health problems linked to premature births may be the result of a too early delivery. Only some of the physical and mental health problems previously connected with preterm birth are actually caused by it, the study says, other health issues may simply be inherited.
Researchers analyzed the medical records of 3.3 million children born in Sweden between 1973 and 2008, and confirmed the strong link between preterm birth (generally classified as before 37 weeks' gestation) and the risk of infant and young adult death, autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
However, the study authors also concluded that many other problems that have been linked with preterm birth -- such as severe mental illness, learning problems, suicide and poverty -- may instead be more closely related to other factors that people share with other family members.
"The study confirms the degree to which preterm birth is a major public health concern and strongly supports the need for social services that reduce the incidence of preterm birth," study lead author Brian D'Onofrio, an associate professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, said in a university news release.
"Yet, the findings also suggest the need to extend services to all siblings in families with an offspring born preterm. In terms of policy, it means that the entire family, including all of the siblings, is at risk," he added.
Previous studies have compared preterm infants to non-related full-term infants. This study however, compared preterm infants with full-term siblings and cousins, an approach that shed new light on the issue.
"Our study is part of a growing interest in research and public health initiatives focusing on very early risk," he added. "When you look at early risk factors, they don't just predict one type of problem; they frequently predict lots of problems with long-term implications."
The study was published in the September issue of the journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Nearly half a million babies in the U.S. are born premature each year.
There are a number of risk factors associated with spontaneous preterm birth but more than half of preterm births happen in pregnancies where there are no identifiable risk factors. While there is no way to predict if you will have a preterm birth, there are some common risk factors that can increase the likelihood of a preterm birth. They include:
- You have had a previous preterm delivery
- You're pregnant with twins or other multiples
- You are younger than 17 and older than 35
- You were underweight before your pregnancy and have not gained enough weight during pregnancy
- You are African American
- You've had vaginal bleeding in the first or second trimester. Vaginal bleeding in more than one trimester means the risk is even higher.
- You've had moderate to severe anemia early in your pregnancy
- You smoke, abuse alcohol or use drugs, especially cocaine, during pregnancy
- You've had little to no prenatal care
- You are pregnant with a single baby that is the result of fertility treatments.
Spontaneous births can also be caused by medical conditions such as infection, having a problem with the placenta, structural abnormalities of the uterus or cervix or having abdominal surgery while pregnant to name a few.
The best thing that a mother-to-be can do for herself and her unborn baby is to start prenatal care as soon as she discovers she is pregnant. There are no guarantees that you will have a full term delivery with no complications, but you can increase the odds to your favor by getting good prenatal care, sticking to a healthy diet, exercising and keeping your body free of drugs, alcohol and cigarette smoke.
Make it a point to learn about yours and your spouse's medical family history. There may be clues that your OB/GYN should be aware of as he or she provides your prenatal care.
Sources: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/09/25/preemies-woes-sometimes-due-to-heredity-study-says


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Letter to the Editor: 'Leaders' not interested in helping public
CORPUS CHRISTI - If I hear the word "leader" in the same sentence with the names of the locally elected and appointed government, i.e. mayor, City Council, city staff, CCISD trustees, superintendent, and county officials, I'm going to petition Merriam-Webster to strike ANY definitions pertaining to public service.
All are gathered around the punchbowl, peeling-off the rubber bands around the taxpayers' bankroll. While the public's compliance-shock-collar is on HIGH VOLTAGE.
Common sense advocates that these folks should be known as followers. I would say statesman, but I think statesmanlike would be a step in the right direction.
Indeed, all of us can come up with an appropriate title at this point in time.
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La propuesta de Fundesa para rescatar a Guatemala
Nov 21, 2014
This article discusses Fundesa's proposal to adopt strategies in Guatemala, modeled after those implemented in New York under Mayor Giuliani, to reduce crime and violence. A reference is made to the Wilson Center and a conference paper for the Latin American Program. This article is in Spanish.
Duncan Wood and Alejandro Hope on Mexico's drug cartels and ongoing violence
Nov 07, 2014
Director Duncan Wood and Alejandro Hope discuss the ongoing violence and what Mexico is doing to combat the cartels on CCTV America's The Heat.
Fleeing Central America's Killing Streets
Sep 09, 2014
This article about violence and organized crime in Central America, and its effect on migration, quotes Latin American Program Director Cynthia J. Arnson.
Bad as Baghdadi? Pakistan's Most Dangerous Man
Sep 08, 2014
"If there is one militant organization capable of approaching the sheer savagery of Islamic State—and of approaching the extent to which social media is used to showcase such savagery—it is the Pakistani Taliban," writes Michael Kugelman.
El país que entregó las cárceles a sus pandilleros
Sep 05, 2014
The Latin American Program's report "Drug Trafficking Organizations in Central America: Transportistas, Mexican Cartels and Maras", written by former Latin AMerican Program Fellow Steven Dudley, is cited in this article on gangs in El Salvador. This article is in Spanish.
Journalism and Security in Mexico
Sep 03, 2014
Since 2008, journalists' rights to write and express their opinions had been seriously limited in Mexico. Mexico is now one of the world's most dangerous and complicated places to practice journalism. Read the latest article by Diana Negroponte, a member of the Mexico Institute's Advisory Board.
Drug Trafficking - How Drugs Get Here
Sep 02, 2014
The Latin American Program's 2012 publication "Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime in the Americas: Major Trends in the Twenty-First Century" was referenced in this article about drug trafficking to the United States.
New Americas Quarterly Released: Higher Education and Competitiveness
Jul 29, 2014
Program Director Cynthia Arnson has an article on Colombia in this edition of the journal "Americas Quarterly."
Cynthia J. Arnson Testifies Before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Jul 17, 2014
Cynthia J. Arnson, Director of the Latin American Program, joined a panel of experts in testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to discuss the crisis in Central America and what's driving the exodus of unaccompanied minors.
Eric Olson Testified Before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Jul 15, 2014
Eric L. Olson, Associate Director of the Latin American Program, joined a panel of experts in testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs on examining and addressing the root causes behind the rise in apprehensions at the southern border


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Updated: 11/14/2012 3:51 PM KSTP.com By: Scott Theisen
A full house packed the Hennepin County Government Center Tuesday night for the first of three public hearings on the Southwest Light Rail Line.
Business owners expressed concerns about the impact that construction and added traffic will have on business.
The 15-mile line would run from downtown Minneapolis to Eden Prairie with stops in uptown, St. Louis Park, Hopkins, and Minnetonka before ending along highway 212 in Eden Prairie.
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Finally, it's what you've all been waiting for: the walkthrough and solutions to this year's puzzle! When you're ready to see how it's done, click on the jump to view the walkthrough.
Congratulations to the top 10 teams in this year's contest! All 10 completed the first five rounds of this challenging puzzle. A special congratulations goes to the top three teams, who completed all seven rounds.
The first place team, Dofir, walked away with an iPod touch. Tom Pohl and Team Blue, who tied for second, earned a ION Mini Block Rocker and a portable touchpad, respectively. An Amazon Fire Tv, the prize for the first person or team to complete the bonus round, is still waiting for someone to claim it!
The puzzle was meant to get more difficult as it progressed, but several other factors affected the average duration of each round of the puzzle. We calculated the time to complete round one based on the time the contest started: Thursday, August 7 at noon–but clearly not everyone got started that early. The other averages are based on the time since that team completed the previous round.
The times were also affected by the decreasing number of competitors that completed each successive round. By round 5, for example, only a modest 12 teams were still playing, and they had the experience to complete the round relatively quickly. 264 teams registered to play, and 63 completed the first round while at DEFCON.
Stuck on a round of the puzzle? We can help you out. Here is the list of hints we released at DEFCON.
Round 1: All your base 64 are belong to us.
Round 2: Encode-ception.
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Round 4: @ is a common symbol used with device names.
Round 5: Satellite connect-the-dots.
Round 6: The image from round 3 is more than meets the Eye. (There is a hint in round 1.)
Good luck!
We are pleased to be giving an Amazon Fire TV to the first team to complete the bonus round of this year's Network Forensics Puzzle Contest. You don't need to complete all the other rounds to be in the running, just the eighth bonus round.
Our contest phone will be deactivated soon, so please submit your answers to myself at asawyer[at]lmgsecurity[dot]com or my colleague Bryan at bschmidt[at]lmgsecurity[dot]com. Good luck, and we look forward to seeing your solutions!
DEFCON 22 is coming up in just a few short weeks, and we'll be hosting our fifth annual Network Forensics Puzzle Contest featuring Edward Snowden, obscure sporting events, and various North Korean officials. We look forward to seeing you there!
As you prepare for this highly competitive contest, make sure you check out this excellent walkthrough of last year's puzzle by second-place finisher Tom Pohl.
See you at DEFCON 22!
Over 250 teams entered the Network Forensics Puzzle Contest at DEFCON 21. Congratulations to this year's Winning Team: "Red Team"! We hope you enjoyed competing, and we look forward to seeing you again next year.
Top Three Finalists at DEFCON 21:
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The contest decryption keys, answers, and a walk-through of the solutions will be posted the week of 9/22/13. Thank you for playing!
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Network Forensics Puzzle Contest #10 posed a serious challenge, requiring contestants to demonstrate advanced reasoning and meticulous attention to detail, even when reading the scenario. Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry for Puzzle #10, and a special congratulations to the relatively small number of folks who submitted correct answers.
The winner of this contest is…Steve B. ! Steve was both the first person to solve the contest AND the person to have the most eloquent solution. He'll be receiving a prize for being first and the Blackhat Black Card! We'll be posting a walkthrough and answers in the coming weeks. Steve wrote a great write-up [available here].
Honorable Mentions:
- Jatiki
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We received several requests from DEFCON attendees asking us to post the decryption keys and answers for the DEFCON 2012 contest. The decryption keys and answers are posted below. We will post the list of winners, and a walk-through of the solutions soon. Thank you for playing!
Decryption Keys
Contest Container: W3lc0m3toNFPC2012@defcon
Round2: Aw3s0m3s4uc3@
Round3: DFC=w00t!
Round4: 4r3g3ttingh4rd
Round5: tHiswi11b3fun#
Round6: Th3R4c3is0n$
Answers to DEFCON 2012 Contest Questions
Round 1 Answer: 99901
Round 2 Answer: Golden Alley
Round 3 Answer: ICdarkwater
Round 4 Answer: 15684-b5.12
Round 5 Answer: 2300
Round 6 Answer: Dogfort
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Join Eric Fulton on Thursday, June 14 at 1:00 PM ET for the BlackHat Webcast, "Network Forensics: Uncovering Secrets of Mobile Applications". You might even learn something for contest 10…which will be presented live later today on PaulDotCom!
On the Internet, every action leaves a mark—in routers, firewalls, web proxies, and within network traffic itself. When a hacker breaks into a bank, or an insider smuggles secrets to a competitor, evidence of the crime is always left behind. But what about mobile devices? What seemingly innocuous information are they sharing with, and without, your knowledge?
In this webcast, watch as Eric Fulton analyzes mobile network traffic and discover some interesting details about your favorite applications. You will see him locate GPS co-ordinates, identify installed mobile applications, and more.
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It has been a busy year, and once again we find ourselves nearing Defcon where we run the wildly popular Network Forensics Puzzle Contest. We have some good things in store for the coming months and would like to share.
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ATHENS, Ga. --- Fourth-ranked Florida held off No. 28 Georgia 5-4 Friday to take game one of an SEC series in front of a crowd of 2,432 at Foley Field.
Florida (27-8, 10-3 SEC) got on the board first when Nolan Fontana scored from third on a one-out Preston Tucker single in the top of the first inning. Fontana had doubled with the help of a bad hop then advanced to third thanks to a passed ball.
Georgia (18-17, 8-5 SEC) knotted the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the first. Junior Zach Cone drove in Conor Welton on a one-out sacrifice fly to center field.
Georgia starter Alex Wood and Florida's Hudson Randall tossed three scoreless innings until the Gators broke through in the top of the fifth with two runs and did the same in the sixth to build a 5-1 advantage. Austin Maddox (3-for-4, 2 RBI) delivered a bases-loaded single into center field, scoring Josh Adams and Preston Tucker to give the Gators a four-run cushion.
In the seventh, Georgia gained some ground, putting two runners across the plate to make it 5-3 and chase Randall. Brett DeLoach scored off of a Brandon Stephens (1-for-3, 1 RBI) blooper into right field, and Jonathan Hester reached home on Peter Verdin one-out pop fly to left that was dropped by Daniel Pigott. Hester had gotten aboard on a walk, only the second base on balls of the season for Randall, who left the game in the hands of Florida reliever Nick Maronde. Randall had not walked a batter in his last 36 innings. Randall picked up the win, finishing the game with three runs on six hits, one walk, and one strikeout to improve to 6-1.
Earl Daniels took over the mound for Wood, to start what would be a scoreless eighth. In seven innings, Wood, who got the loss to fall to 4-4, allowed five runs on 12 hits, recording five strikeouts and a walk. Daniels pitched 1.1 scoreless innings to give him a stretch of 5.1 scoreless innings pitched over his last three appearances.
Georgia was able to cut it to 5-4 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth off Maddox. Curt Powell smacked a one-out double and with two outs, he scored on a base hit by Verdin. Then, Florida looked to Steven Rodriguez who struck out Levi Hyams to record his second save of the year.
"We were right there," said Georgia coach David Perno. "We just needed a couple more hits. We've just got to keep putting ourselves in good positions, and some of these will go our way. I wanted us to play good baseball, and I thought we did tonight. We gave up a few to many two-strike hits and Florida scored when they had their chances. I am encouraged with what our bullpen did tonight and Alex gave us another good start and hung in there."
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For any of us who are children of the 80s, it was sobering and saddening to learn of Whitney Houston's passing on Saturday afternoon.
Though the cause of death is not known yet, it is well documented that Ms. Houston struggled with substance abuse on and off since the mid-late 90s…and was spotted displaying erratic behavior in the hours prior to her passing.
The economics of substance abuse is pretty cut and dry. Most of us don't allow ourselves to become addicts because – either consciously or subconsciously – we know that the costs associated with substance abuse (e.g. monetary, physical health, emotional health, external trauma exerted upon loved ones) far exceed the benefits.
Unfortunately, those individuals that develop an addiction – no matter how irrational it may appear to the rest of us – believe the personal benefits derived from drug usage exceed these costs.
Of course, Ms. Houston's demise comes just weeks after Texas Rangers All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton fell off the wagon for the 2nd time since returning to Major League Baseball after fighting his own substance abuse issues that drove him away from the game.
Days after Mr. Hamilton's relapse, the Rangers hired Shayne Kelley to essentially play watchdog to ensure that Mr. Hamilton will stay clean going forward.
Perhaps, Mr. Kelley, you should have Mr. Hamilton sit down and read all about the rise and fall of Ms. Houston. Have him YouTube some of her best performances when she was at the height of her career, and then look-up photos and videos of her during her troubled times.
Because this will remind Mr. Hamilton that nothing is forever and that substance abuse destroys.
It will remind Mr. Hamilton that his 2010 MVP award and back-to-back appearances in the World Series won't save him from weak moments in the future that could – in the extreme – cause irreporable harm to himself and others.
Perhaps Ms. Houston's tragedy can serve as the ultimate teaching point to Mr. Hamilton, who has already likely jeopardized his chance for a long-term contract with the Rangers after his current deal expires at the end of the 2011 season.
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Despite the common apprehensions regarding the aging population, this work aims to argue, on both deontological and utilitarian moral grounds, that any increase in general life-expectancy will be beneficial for the Middle East, countering the common fears associated with this increase. A set of ethical arguments concerning increasing longevity is presented, from both the deontological and utilitarian perspective. A wide selection of economic, psychological, demographic and epidemiological literature and databases is analyzed to determine common correlates of extended longevity. On the deontological grounds, the value of extended longevity is derived from the value of life preservation, regardless of its term. On the utilitarian grounds, the value of extended longevity is demonstrated by its correlation with further human values, such as education level and intellectual activity, economic prosperity, equality, solidarity and peacefulness. With the common apprehensions of stagnation and scarcity due to life extension found wanting, the pursuit of longevity by the population can be seen as a cross-cultural and cross-generational good. Though the current study mainly refers to sources and data relevant to the Middle East, a similar pro-longevity argument can be also made for other cultural contexts. In view of its numerous benefits, normatively, the goal of longevity should be set clearly and openly by the society, and actively pursued, or at least discussed, in academia, the political system and broader public.
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It is published in hardcover under the title of The Oxford Companion to Food and won the James Beard Food lit award.
This book may be old news to a lot of the chowhound membership but for those of you who haven't - I heartily reccomend it.
Within this encyclopedia of all things culinary is a treasure trove of knowledge pertaining to the discipline we all love.
I am particularly fond of the sweeping country entries as well as the generous space given to food history.
This is the paperback edition and is at a much more reasonabler $30 for a student's budget.
It definitly proves itself as a trustworthy resource when chowhound cannot provide you answers and it also gives you a leg up when the terminology sometimes used on this website (i.e. what the heck is balut? ;]) becomes complicated or confusing.
I find it hard to rip myself away from it --suddenly realizing its 1 am and I better hit the sac.
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I like the idea of a sturdier hardcover (and I don't mind the higher price) but I wonder if the American edition has different entries or some such?
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I happened to see the hardcover edition at CostCo in the BayArea this weekend. I think the price was $24.99. Also there are piles of the new "Joy" for $16.99
The second edition just came out last month in hardcover.
Costco price isn't much higher than the Penguin paperback of the first edition.


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Ray Wise was born in 1947 in Akron, Ohio. Wise, of Romanian descent, who had a religious family, graduated from Garfield High School and later attended Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
With a career in television and film that spans four decades, some of Wise's first roles were in daytime TV, where he played Jamie Rawlins on "Love of Life" and Hal Rummley on "Days Of Our Lives." He went on to have notable roles on "Dallas," "The Colbys," "Knots Landing," and "Twin Peaks." More recent roles include those on "24," "Reaper," "Mad Men," "How I Met Your Mother," and of course, "The Young and the Restless," which he joined in 2014.
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Negative - Coleraine, Victoria, 1890 Reg. No: MM 003382
- Description Of Content:
- The wedding party and guests at the wedding of Janet and Angus McLeod. They are all in carriages outside the National Hotel.
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- Copied from Coleraine Historical Society, 1986
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- The Biggest Family Album of Australia, Museum Victoria
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|banks, celebrations, horsedrawn vehicles, horses, shops, weddings, coleraine, mount egerton
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|Images & Image Making Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection, Transport Collection, The Biggest Family Album in Australia Collection
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|bridal parties
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|McLeod, Janet; McLeod, Angus
|Organisations Depicted:
|National Hotel
|Negative: Black & White; 35 mm
|Place & Date Depicted:
|Coleraine, Victoria, Australia, 1890
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The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on Suse Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform.
The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual words that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground.
Greg Combet, Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science, said the new facility introduces a "far more realistic and immersive experience for pilots and operators".
"By recreating real-life situations in a virtual environment, this facility allows air combat operations to be rehearsed and evaluated at a significantly reduced cost and without putting ADF personnel in harm's way," Combet said in a statement.
According to a Defence spokesman, the simulator boots in about 30 seconds and uses a cluster of 4-core Opteron 2218 servers, with nVidia Quadro FX 5600G graphics cards. The avionics and aerodynamics simulations run on a number of 8-core Opteron systems.
All the nodes run Suse Linux. Unlike traditional Linux clusters, which focus on throughput, these systems are tuned for real-time performance - using features of the kernel such as memory locking, real-time scheduling and low-delay communication.
The visuals software was written in OpenGL using commercial and open-source scene graph engines and making "heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs" for creating effects such as clouds, smoke and vegetation.
The spokesman said the simulator recreates realistic and accurate aerodynamics and avionics models. The simulation engine is also configurable, which allows the evaluation of "novel systems and concepts", he said.
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An implantable prosthetic device having a biocompatible elastomeric shell and a polyphasic filler material consisting of gas-filled chambers or beads bathed in a biocompatible fluid. In a preferred embodiment the solid and gaseous phases of the filler comprise interconnecting flexible chains of small gas-filled beads. The gas-filled beads may be continuously extruded in a chain with a fiber of extrudate connecting the beads. In one embodiment, the extruded chains of beads are formed into a mass having the desired shape of the prostheses where they may be further crosslinked, then placed within an outer shell. The void space between the beads is filled with a biocompatible fluid such as saline. The polyphasic filler preferably has a density which is less than or equal to the density of the surrounding tissue thereby reducing microtrauma to the capsule associated tissue and the incidence and/or severity of capsular contracture. The prosthesis does not collapse, wrinkle or otherwise become deformed during use; even in the case of rupture. In another embodiment, gas-filled beads are injected endoscopically into a previously placed, fluid-filled implant to displace the liquid filler and alter the density of the filler. The effective density of the polyphasic filler can be adjusted by varying the ratio of the volume of encapsulated gas to the weight of the encapsulating solid phase.
1. A prosthesis for implantation beneath the skin of a patient thereafter to be surrounded by tissue, said prosthesis comprising:
(a) an elastomeric outer shell; and
(b) a filler enclosed by said elastomeric outer shell and wherein said filler further comprises, in combination, a fluid and a string comprising a plurality of interconnected beads, each bead of said plurality of interconnected beads comprising a gas filled chamber and wherein each said bead is free of gaseous communication with any other said bead.
2. The prosthesis of claim 1 wherein said filler has a density which is less than or equal to the density of said tissue.
This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/998,530 filed Dec. 29,1992 now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to fluid-filled prosthetic implants and more particularly to filling materials for medical implants.
2. Prior Art
Medical grade Silastic® brand of silicone elastomer has a long established record of safety and bio-compatibility with clinical data extending back nearly 35 years. Numerous implantable medical products, including implantable post-cataract eye lenses, heart valves, and other devices are made from this material. Over the past 30 years the outer shells of fluid or foam-filled implantable breast prostheses have been made from silicone elastomer and such prostheses are widely used for breast reconstruction following surgical mastectomy and augmentation of hypo-plastic breast tissue.
Extensive clinical data supporting the safety of silicone elastomer for implantation has been established. Recently, it has been suggested that implanted prosthetic devices comprising an elastomeric shell enclosing a silicone gel may lead to clinical problems, most of which are putatively related to the migration of the liquid silicone gel filler through the shell into the surrounding tissue. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently restricted the use of such silicone gel-filled implants to reconstructive applications and limited silicone gel augmentations to patients subject to FDA supervision. The reason for the recent action of part of the FDA has been the uncertainty surrounding the safety of gel-filled silicone implants for breast augmentation and reconstruction. Many patients have received such implants over the past 30 years and are now experiencing anxiety regarding the safety of their existing prosthesis. Furthermore, since silicone gel is radiopaque, it may interfere with x-ray detection of tumors.
New non-gel-filled versions of such prostheses, usually saline filled, are currently available and have been for some time. Saline has the advantage of being more radiolucent than silicone gel. Some of these prostheses employ an impermeable barrier for a shell material or to underlie the shell to minimize the migration of filling fluid from the prosthesis. Shells are now also commonly textured to facilitate the ingrowth of tissue and to reduce capsular contracture and anchor the prosthesis. Existing saline-filled prostheses, although meeting FDA safety and efficacy requirements, suffer from the difficulty that many of them rupture after implantation causing difficulty for the patient as the prosthesis collapses. In addition, while texturing the outer surface of the shell to reduce capsular contracture appears to be at least partially effective, many patients still experience such contracture following implantation. Further, since water and saline are denser than breast tissues, that is, they have a specific gravity greater than breast tissue, the weight of the filler displaces surrounding tissue and stretches the elastomeric shell causing cosmetically unacceptable wrinkling. Such surface wrinkling is believed to contribute to device failure by shell rupture and subsequent collapse. Over-inflation reduces this effect but contributes to spheralization and unnatural shape and feel.
Capsular contracture has received a great deal of attention in recent years. A capsule enclosing a foreign object implanted beneath the skin is a normal response. The capsule partitions the implanted object from the body. The formation of the capsule is, in itself, not usually a problem cosmetically. In many cases, however, for reasons that are still obscure, the capsule contracts, pulling itself into a hard spherical body which compresses the implanted prosthesis. Such spherical contracture is disfiguring and the capsule must be either ruptured or removed. The problem is discussed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,963,150 to Brauman and 4,889,744 to Quaid. It is generally believed that texturing the outer surface of a implantable prosthesis to permit tissue ingrowth disorients the collagen fibrils in the capsule thereby reducing capsular contracture. While it appears that an open-cell or textured surface reduces the incidence of capsule contracture, the mechanism for such a reduction is not known. It is desirable to provide an implantable fluid-filled prosthesis which does not utilize radiopaque silicone-gel yet retains its form and natural, tissue-like feel. It is also desirable that the prosthesis have viscoelastic properties that are similar to surrounding tissue and further reduce capsule contracture by reducing torque and mechanical forces at the prosthesis-tissue boundary.
It is an object of this invention to provide a fluid-filled medical implant that has a density less than or equal to breast tissue.
It is another object of this invention to provide polyphasic filler material for a medical implant having solid and gaseous phases which do not migrate in the case of rupture.
It is another object of this invention to provide a prosthesis for implantation which can be at least partially filled with relatively inelastic bio-compatible liquids, such as normal saline, dextran or hyaluronic acid and retain its shape.
It is another object of the invention to provide a fluid-filled prosthesis that will retain its structural shape, even in the event of a rupture of the outer shell.
It is yet another object of this invention to provide a means for regulating the density of the prosthesis while retaining the natural characteristics that are desirable of such prosthesis.
It is still another object of this invention to provide diphasic filler material that may be introduced transdermally into a previously implanted fluid-filled prosthesis to displace a portion of the fluid contained therein and reduce the effective density thereof.
Given the existing regulatory climate and uncertainty surrounding the safety of silicone gel-filled prostheses, such a prosthesis will obviate the current problems noted with silicone gel-filled implants and may also significantly reduce capsular contracture problems that have afflicted many prostheses for a number of years. Considering the number of patients presently having implants that are deemed unsafe by the FDA, it is critical that a fluid-filled prosthesis be provided which solves the problems identified above and does not require use of the silicone gel.
FIG. 1 is a cutaway section of a preferred embodiment of a fluid-filled prosthesis employing strings of interconnected beads or chambers to partially fill the interior of the prosthesis.
FIG. 2 is a cutaway longitudinal sectional view of a segment of the string of interconnected beads (gas-filled chambers) used as a filler in FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic drawing of an extrusion apparatus for extruding the solid/gas phases of the prosthesis filler according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a cutaway longitudinal section of a segment of a chain of cylindrical gas-filled chambers.
FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of a breast implant having remotely accessible dual channels in fluid communication with the interior chamber of the implant.
FIG. 6 is a sectional view of a filler injector.
FIG. 7 is a schematic representation showing the use of dual channels to inject the two phase (diphasic) component of a filler into a prosthesis while displacing a portion of the fluid component from within the implant.
Before describing the various embodiments of the polyphasic filler material suitable for implantable prosthetic devices it will be helpful to digress for a moment and consider the viscoelastic coupling between an implanted breast prosthesis and the surrounding tissue as a possible factor in promoting capsular contracture. Although viscoelastic coupling may not be the primary factor in encapsulation, it may be an important factor in capsule contracture and the concurrent stiffening of the surrounding tissue. If a prosthesis has a different density and elastic behavior than the surrounding tissue, significant torsion and micro injury occurs at the interface between the surrounding tissue and the implanted prosthesis when the patient is in motion. A human body is more-or less constantly in motion, either by walking or other activity. During this activity, the momentum of the implanted prosthesis will cause displacement within its allotted space. Since the viscoelastic behavior as well as the density of the prosthesis is different than that of the surrounding fatty tissue, torsional and frictional effects occur; especially at the interface. These kinds of movements of the prosthesis (which can weigh anywhere from 200 to 800 grams and will experience translational excursions whether or not it is anchored and held rigidly to the chest wall) produces micro trauma resulting in minimal bleeding as well as tearing of small ingrowing blood vessels, at the capsule/tissue interface. This repetitive trauma at the capsule/tissue interface elicits a repetitive healing process. The repetitive healing of the torn tissue is accompanied by the migration of cells attempting to stabilize this prosthesis as well as heal the injury. This continued injury and healing process leads to contracture and hardening of the device, a common problem that afflicts as much as 5 to 40 percent of the patients receiving implanted breast prostheses. Encapsulation remains a natural process but often creates an undesirable result in breast implant surgery using currently available implants.
With the foregoing in mind, it is desirable that the implanted prosthesis have a density less than or closely approximating the density of the surrounding tissue so that the prosthesis and the surrounding tissue move together as a unit with minimum relative motion therebetween which can lead to tearing and micro-injury. Prior art silicone gel and saline-filled prostheses have a density greater than or equal to 1 g/cm3, whereas the fatty tissue in the breast has a density in the order of 0.92 g/cm3. If the repetitive trauma-healing-trauma scenario considered above is an important element contributing to spherical contracture of the capsule a density reduction of the prosthesis may significantly reduce the encapsulation and subsequent contracture.
A preferred embodiment of the fluid-filled prosthesis of the present invention is shown in FIG. 1. The prosthesis 10 utilizes the existing technology of forming a shell 11 of silicone elastomer usually by dip-casting an elastomeric dispersion on a shaped mandril (not shown). According to current practice the shell is cured, peeled off the mandril and filled with a sponge or sealed with a patch and filled with a fluid according to methods well known in the art. The present invention teaches the incorporation of a polyphasic filler 12 comprising an interconnected assembly of gas-filled chambers or beads 13, into a biocompatible elastomeric shell 11. The diphasic portion; that is, the gas-filled beads, may be introduced within the shell 11 either prior to filling the shell with fluid or after the shell has been fluid-filled. As will be discussed later, the diphasic portion may also be introduced into a fluid-filled prosthesis to displace a portion of the fluid even following implantation. This is useful for reducing the density of a previously implanted prosthesis in situ.
As used herein, the term "beads" or "bead" refers to a gas-filled chamber, the walls of which may be elongate, spherical, cylindrical or any shape that is convenient to manufacture. In a preferred embodiment the two phase (biphasic) component of the triphasic filler 12 is a string of extruded gas-filled elastomeric beads 13 with extrudate 14 therebetween forming a flexible connection wherein each bead is free of gaseous communication with any other bead. The elastomer is preferably cured silicone rubber, but any biocompatible elastomer which is impervious to the liquid phase may be used. The exact size of the extruded beads or the tubing from which they are formed may be empirically determined by considering the overall desired density reduction of the prosthesis as well as the esthetics or the final "feel" of the prosthesis. The important factor is that the density of the prostheses, as a whole, be comparable to or less than the density of the surrounding tissue. It is also preferred that, within the limitations imposed by the discrete structure of the diphasic portion of the filler, the density of the prothesis be substantially homogeneous throughout its volume. Preferably, the chains of gas-filled beads are interlinked to prevent the gas-filled beads or chambers from shifting or concentrating in a particular volume within the prosthesis. The range of the outer diameter of the beads is preferably less than 5 mm and more that 1/5th of a millimeter. The thickness of the wall of the bead may be arrived at empirically.
Turning now to FIG. 4 a segment of the diphasic portion of the filler comprising a chain of interconnected gas filled chambers is shown. The segment 40 has two distinct repeating elements: a cylindrical gas-filled element having an inner radius r and a length D1 ; and a silicone element connecting the gas-filled elements having a length D2. Each element has a different density. For the convenience we can set the wall thickness T of the gas-filled element equal to one-half the diameter of the silicone element. Considering the two elements as a unit, the length of the unit is
Lu =D1 +D2 (1)
It can be shown that if DE is the effective density of a unit and Dsil =the density of the silicone portions of a unit (≈1, 2), then ##EQU1##
The density Dsil of Silastic® brand of silicone is Dsil =1.2 and the density of tissue is Dtis ≈0.93. As seen from equation (2) the density Ds of a unit of filler can be varied by either changing the ratio of r1 to T or the length of the elements D1 and D2. If we arbitrarily set the length of the gas-filled segment D1 =2D2, then ##EQU2##
Therefore, the ratio of the radius of the gas-filled chamber r to the wall thickness T can be adjusted to effect the necessary density reduction in the 2-phase component of the filler. As will be discussed later, if the 2-phase component of the filler is extruded, this can be accomplished by adjusting the position and diameter of the mandril and the size of the die nozzle in the extruder head accordingly.
Silicone rubber is a preferred extrudable material for forming the chambers or beads. The central lumen of the extruded tubing which is constricted into beads during extrusion is preferably filled with nitrogen. As the tubing is being extruded it is compressed at intervals by constricting the size of the opening in the die nozzle to form essentially a string of gas-filled beads. The beads 13, which may resemble a string of sausages, have nitrogen gas 21 permanently trapped within the inner lumen. The string of gas-filled beads generally indicated at numeral 20 in FIG. 2 can conveniently be extruded in an apparatus as shown in FIG. 3. An extruder head 30 receives an elastomeric extrudate 31 from an extrudate reservoir (not shown). The extrudate 31 is forced through a die nozzle opening 32 to emerge from the extruder head 30 as a tube 20. If a mandril 33 is moved so that its tip partially blocks the die nozzle opening 32, the extrudate 31 is forced around the tip of the mandril 33 forming a gas-filled inner lumen 21 in the extruded tube 20. If the tip of the mandril 33 is then withdrawn (moved in the direction of arrow B) the lumen 21 will close. Thus, shuttling the tip of the mandril 33 in and out of the die nozzle opening 32 during extrusion will form gas filled pockets in the tubing. The gas is injected by suitable means through a bore 38 within the mandril. The injected gas is entrapped in the extrudate when the tip of the mandril is within the die nozzle opening. If slides 36 are moved in such as way as to partially close the die nozzle opening 32 as the mandril 33 is being withdrawn, the tubing "pinches" or is reduced in outer diameter as it exits the head. If the mandril 33 and the die nozzle opening slides 36 are adjusted to move synchronously, a chain of interconnected beads as shown in FIG. 2 will be extruded. As this tubing is extruded and formed into the biphasic portion of the prosthesis filler, the chain may be directed onto a moving platform (not shown). The motion of the platform may be adjusted to facilitate the contouring of the accumulating pile of interlinked gas-filled beads with entrapped nitrogen gas. The pile may be conical in shape, having the appearance of a rope being unwound as it falls onto the ground, or it may be compressed or molded to conform to a particular desirable shape then vulcanized. Overall, the form of the biphasic portion of the prosthesis filler is an interlinked mass of beads with trapped gas within the beads. As stated above, raw unvulcanized silicone elastomer is the extrudable material of choice for forming the beads. The chain of sausage-like beads may be readily interlinked after forming by vulcanizing the formed biphasic portion of the filler at elevated temperature. The walls of adjacent beads will stick together. Alternatively, the chain of beads can be partially coated with a silicone dispersion that vulcanizes at room temperature and loosely compressed into the shell. The dispersion will cure leaving a biphasic filler that will be elastically cohesive while, at the same time, compressible. Where deformation is desirable, outer wall adhesions need not be formed and the biphasic filler will exhibit a degree of deformation "flow".
After forming the extruded chain into the desired shape which will depend on the design of the prosthesis the chains are interlinked. This interlinking mass of small beads with entrapped nitrogen is then placed within an elastomeric shell that has been previously formed by dip casting on a mandril. The whole cavity of the shell may then be filled with normal saline, dextran or other bio-compatible liquids. It is possible that hyaluronic acid or hydrogels may provide additional antifriction effects that will give the fluid filled prosthesis a more desirable feel. The outer surface of the shell may also be textured to permit tissue ingrowth to promote stabilization of the device and diffusion of the viscoelastic interface discussed in the previous section. The nitrogen gas trapped within Silastic® tubing produces significant density reduction of the prosthesis, the interlinked tubing adds significantly to the structural integrity of the implant, and the gas phase within the tubing offers a slight compressibility to the device further ameliorating the contractile forces occurring during capsule formation. All these advantages can be obtained at the time of device manufacture.
The novel diphasic component of the filler described herein may be injected into an endoscopically implanted prosthesis as shown in FIGS. 5-7. Following endoscopic surgical insertion (not shown) of a collapsible shell 51, the shell is filled with saline through a fill port on the surface of the shell in the manner well known in the art. After filling with saline, the diphasic component of the filler (not shown in FIG. 5) can be serially introduced via a secondary lumen 53 into the prosthesis by means of an injector 60 shown in FIG. 6. The injection of the diphasic component will specifically displace a measured volume of saline, provide a desired density and weight reduction and add to structural integrity of the device. FIG. 7 shows a schematic representation of a suitable System for such endoscopic (minimal incision) insertion of filler.
The above-described embodiment of an implantable prosthesis made in accordance with the present invention offers numerous advantages. The filler provides a controllable density reduction to closely match the density of surrounding tissue by use of a combination of extruded elastomer, entrapped nitrogen and a fluid filler such as saline in the remaining space. Because of the interlinking internal structure, the filler will retain its shape, even in the event of shell rupture without causing a collapse of the whole prosthesis. In the event of shell rupture the prosthesis will retain approximately 80% of its size and shape. There are no elements of unknown toxicity that may bleed into surrounding tissue and cause clinical problems. The beads need not be interlinked because in the event of rupture the relatively large beads would be retained by the capsule surrounding the prosthesis and, being too large for ingestion and active transport by macrophages, effectively trapped within the capsular boundary. The only material that would bleed or otherwise leave the prosthesis in case of a rupture is the liquid phase such as normal saline which is readily absorbed by tissue and excreted. Another advantage of this design is significant density reduction and improved viscoelastic coupling between the surrounding tissue and the device. Since the device contains a filler material having a density that is less than or equal to the density of the surrounding tissue, it causes less injury at the prosthesis/tissue interface when in motion. An additional factor to consider is that because of the presence of the gas phase within the prosthesis itself the prosthesis may be compressed. Even if early capsule formation does occur during the early post surgical period, the device would be able to allow for some compressibility and thereby yield give way to the initial biological contracture. This in itself may offer some advantages on the final deformation effects that occur with current non-compressible implants.
In conclusion, this invention describes both the design and the manufacturing process for a bio-compatible breast implant device utilizing currently established, medically safe materials, achieving structural integrity, density reduction and compressibility. Through these factors, this device achieves significant improvement over the existing technology. Other embodiments include sticky or self-adhering closed-cell biocompatible particles as the solid/gaseous phase is that its density may be adjusted to accommodate a variety of liquid fillers to produce a triphasic filling material and gaining significant advantages in function and patient safety over current existing designs. As stated earlier, the gas-filled chambers or beads used in the filler need not be interconnected if they are dimensioned to prevent ingestion by macrophage in the case of rupture of the prosthesis shell. The gas-filled chambers or beads, whether free or interconnected, may be coated with a lubricious material such as a hydrogel to provide a more natural feel to such a prosthesis. It should be understood that the incorporation of gas-filled chambers within a fluid-filled medical implant is a means for reducing the density of the prosthesis filler to more closely approximate that of the surrounding soft tissue. The reduction in density reduces the relative motion and microtrauma between the prosthesis and the surrounding capsule-associated tissue and/or between the capsule-associated tissue and surrounding soft tissue. While gas-filled beads are presented as a means for reducing the density of a fluid-filled medical implant, any fluid-filled implant having a density less than or equal to the density of the surrounding soft tissue will reduce the incidence of motion-induced interfacial microtrauma and subsequent capsular contracture.
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