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Sep 29 2008
Assigning the Color Profile
Okay, that is quite possibly the most boring title of any post I've ever written. I should go back up there and add something like "by Ross Perot" and see if that drums up some interest.
Oh? It isn't 1992? Geez, am I behind the times!
Do you ever get frustrated that your photos look DIFFERENT after you upload them to your website or to Flickr than they looked when you edited them in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements? Did they look vibrant and dynamic in Photoshop, only to turn DRAB once uploaded to the web?
Do you get frustrated that your photos look DIFFERENT after you print them out than they looked when you edited them in Photoshop?
I'm going to solve those problems for you.
The secret lies in the "Color Profile"—specifically, these two:
Adobe RGB (1998)
I will not go into a technical analysis of these two profiles, or why they do what they do. I will tell you that if you aren't mindful of what color profile is assigned to your photos, there's a high chance that the color will be inconsistent from Photoshop to print to web. And you'll be disappointed, forlorn, and bald.
Here's the bottom line:
1. If you're going to upload your photos to the web, it's best to edit them in sRGB mode.
2. If you're going to print your photos, it's best to edit them in Adobe RGB mode.
That's all I'm going to SAY. Now I'm just going to SHOW you what I mean.
Here's the straight-out-of-camera shot of Cody I took a couple of weeks ago:
By default, the photo opened up in Photoshop in Adobe RGB mode. Look at the color in this shot.
Now, look at what happens to the photo after I upload it to Flickr:
You'll notice that it totally drowned out the color of the shot, so that what I was seeing in Photoshop was NOT what I wound up seeing on the web. This makes me bald.
But this is not Flickr's fault. This is my fault. I should have edited the photo in sRGB mode if I knew it was going to wind up on the web.
I'm going to go back and change that.
I go back to the original photo in Photoshop, then click Edit>>Assign Profile.
This window pops up, and it shows that the current color profile is Adobe RGB. This would be great if I was going to print the photo, but I'm not. I'm putting it on the interwebnetplace.
So I click on the circle next to "sRGB". That will assure that the color will remain consistent from Photoshop to web.
So check it out:
Here's the photo in sRGB mode after I did a quick edit in Photoshop. Look at the color.
This is the same photo after I uploaded to the web. It looks the same as it looked in Photoshop. That's a good thing.
Now, look at what would have happened if I had edited the photo in Adobe RGB:
Here it is in Photoshop, edited in Adobe RGB mode.
And here it is after being uploaded to the web. See how the colors were dulled? It's because Adobe RGB doesn't "translate" as well across the web as sRGB does, at least in my experience.
Here are the two results side-by-side. Notice the color of the shirt and the chaps:
The one on the left was edited in sRGB mode. The one on the right was edited in Adobe RGB. Both photos looked identical in Photoshop, but once uploaded to the web, the Adobe RGB lost its color.
Keep in mind we aren't examining which level of color saturation you prefer. The point of all of this is consistency—how to get your photos to keep the color after uploading to the web.
Now, for PRINTING, the opposite is true. If you're going to print your photos, it's best to edit in Adobe RGB mode because the colors will stay more consistent from Photoshop to print.
Did this make sense?
I hope so!
It took me over a a year and a half before it dawned on me.
P.S. You can change the color profile either in your camera OR later, in Photoshop. If you find you upload almost all the photos you take, it's probably smart to set your camera always to take photos in sRGB mode. If you print most of your photos, the opposite is true.
P.P.S. And yes, there are many more pieces to the puzzle: calibrating monitors, etc. This is only one factor, but can make quite a difference, particularly the Photoshop-to-Web factor.
P.P.P.S. I'll be quiet now.
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Rachel Mac On Tuesday, September 30 at 5:03 am
DON't you DARE be quiet… unless it's just for a quick minute so you can get to the next chapter of the love saga… other than that… keep it coming—
you're such a big help!
Jan Connair On Tuesday, September 30 at 6:07 am
You know, I probably would have read this post a lot sooner if you'd added that, "by Ross Perot" teaser. But now that I have read it, I have to say thank you for pointing that out. I wonder if this is why the digital scrapbook layouts I make look so great in PSE, then so washed out when I resize them for the web and post them on my blog or in a gallery. I am going to try your tip and see if it makes a difference for me. Before I go completely bald.
Becca H. On Tuesday, September 30 at 6:51 am
Have I told you lately how much I love your blog? I do – it's the bestest! The only one I read daily, in fact. But this post – WOW…thank you! I struggled with this issue last week, and was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what the heck was happening.
kiki On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:12 am
It's official Ree! Thanks in part to your inspiration, I've graduated from a point-n-shoot to a Canon Rebel XTi SLR camera! Excited to learn more about it! I was doing some camera stuff with my son and said "What the heck is aperture" and he was totally impressed that I even knew the word!
Fun photos to come soon! Thanks for the inspiration.
Jill On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:21 am
THANK YOU!! I spent the past couple of days trying to figure this out after printing out my first pic. with my new camera! More info. please—I want to know about calibration–Really!
Caitlin On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:34 am
Pretty cool, but maybe you shouldn't rip your hair out over it…
"This makes me bald."
MidlifeSlices™ On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:45 am
Dang I wish I were young and my brain would still retain like it use too. Instead, it's my body doing all the retaining and I wish it would stop. Please make a photoshop cheat sheet for us brainless ones. Oh, and did I mention that obviously I'm a bit lazy as well? Thanks for sharing this info!
MC On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:58 am
I could kiss you 100 times over. I have always heard about the different color space options, but had never seen the difference/ how to change them.
Dee On Tuesday, September 30 at 9:19 am
How do you remember all that info? Every time I go to take a picture…I freeze…trying to remember if I remembered everything!
kate On Tuesday, September 30 at 9:22 am
Thank you! Although like another reader – after the comments I'm a bit more confused. This is seriously going to be the death of me. Where does calibration fall into all this stuff? And if you put it on the web, or make a DVD for viewing, does that mean you have to edit it differently than if you are going to print it? This stuff is overwhelming. But I so appreciate your help – every bit of info gets me closer to solving the puzzle.
Rosemary On Tuesday, September 30 at 9:30 am
so, could you do a segment on taking fall pictures so that the colors show up the way you see them with your eyes instead of washed out? Not photoshop, but what to do with your camera so they turn out?
Puna On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:24 am
Thanks PW, I was doing it wrong the whole time.
Jen On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:28 am
GAH! I never knew. You're too smart.
Georgie On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:57 am
I really wish i had photoshop so I could play along…I am hopin santa brings it to me for Christmas
Malissa On Tuesday, September 30 at 11:37 am
I am interested in the adjustments that you do to your photos before you post them on the internet. I love that you are able to darken the edges of the photo. I know that you have the big photoshop program but do you know how I can do that in Elements 6? I have tried but do not come out with the same shading. Mine is either black or not at all.
Moving To Mexico On Tuesday, September 30 at 12:20 pm
"this makes me bald"
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH You are SO funny !!! LMBO !! : )
AND my GOODNESSS you are smart ! Thank you again and AGAIN for sharing all of this – just… WOW !! : )
sheila On Tuesday, September 30 at 2:05 pm
kewl~ thanks for the splanation. Now it all makes sense. Now for that camera . . . .
Chronicles of a Country Girl On Tuesday, September 30 at 2:10 pm
You can change them back and forth, right? If I upload and then decide to print it, I can change it back to RGB?
Anonymous On Tuesday, September 30 at 3:34 pm
Sing it, sister!
Amy On Tuesday, September 30 at 5:36 pm
Can I just say I LOVE you! Thank you so much – I was going crazy trying to figure out how to make my photos look the same as they did in Photoshop.
Susan On Tuesday, September 30 at 8:49 pm
That is interesting. I have been wondering why some of my photos that I edited in Photoshop ended up looking duller or different once I posted them on the web. Now I know. Thank you, Ree! You're the best Photoshop Pioneer of all.
Kori On Tuesday, September 30 at 9:07 pm
wow! thats nice to know. My photos always look bad on flickr. lol
karen On Tuesday, September 30 at 10:02 pm
I mentioned this very thing just today to my husband, and how baffled I was about it! Thank you!!!!
Nicholas On Wednesday, October 1 at 8:14 am
Since getting a dSLR…it's our 9 month old daughter. The older 2 aren't still enough!
Ann On Wednesday, October 1 at 8:25 am
I live on a small lake and love to take pictures of the sun coming up over it, or the fog rising from it, or the sky mirrored in it. But then I also love taking photos of my beautiful granddaughters. (I'm not prejudiced, everyone says they are beautiful!)
Gene On Wednesday, October 1 at 8:49 am
Photoshop and Epson what a perfect combination!
Eli On Wednesday, October 1 at 8:55 am
This may have been said already, but in regards to printing, CMYK would be the best color mode to have. RGB is used for screen viewing, since it is made up of light being emitted by the monitor (additive colors). However, CMYK is used with pigment inks (subtractive colors) and is best for printing, typically. The lovely library of Pantone colors are used in CMYK mode, and you are also able to plug in special Spot Colors. And blah blah blah, sorry, I work in a company that does printing and pre-press color correction. I create 3D digital images for web and print use, so we use for RGB and CMYK when necessary.
…blah blah blah…
Eli On Wednesday, October 1 at 8:56 am
But thanks for the sRGB tip! I definitely wasn't aware of that.
Joan On Wednesday, October 1 at 9:02 am
Thanks for the lesson!! It's much clearer now.
john kenny On Wednesday, October 1 at 9:12 am
My favorite subject is landscape, photographed in infrared. Visit my website to see examples: http://www.johnkennyphotography.com
Tracy Burke On Wednesday, October 1 at 9:28 am
My favorite thing to photograph at the moment is my PUPPY! He's an adorable Boston Terrier, impossible to pose, he'd rather just lick the camera.
Angela On Wednesday, October 1 at 9:52 am
My daughter Maranda, she is the star in my sky.
Kristen On Wednesday, October 1 at 10:14 am
I love to take pictures of my food!
Ben On Wednesday, October 1 at 10:39 am
I love to go to the Flea Market and make photos of the interesting little antiques that are hidden away.
kerry On Wednesday, October 1 at 10:46 am
Hey Ree, I wrote about you in an article I did called Document Life http://carrieanddanielle.com/documenting-life-simple-tips-for-taking-better-photographs/
You can take that link or go thru my blog…
holly On Wednesday, October 1 at 10:55 am
my in laws farm
Cyndi On Wednesday, October 1 at 11:34 am
Preschoolers are my favorite, though I have a thing for photographing big skies with clouds too. Unfortunately, we don't have big skies or clouds very often where I live, so I'll stick with the sweet little faces.
Angelique Bookman On Wednesday, October 1 at 11:56 am
I love your questions!
My favorite thing to photograph is my children. They are what inspire me to want to photograph other people! They are what inspired me to expand and take photos professionally! I love my kiddos! They are my charms and inspiration!
Ooo I hope I win! I love epson! One of my first printers was an epson and the thing lived on forever and ever! Now i just have a black and white printer……..to have a color printer would be ROCKIN fun!
Have a great week!
Natalie On Wednesday, October 1 at 12:04 pm
Thank you for this tip! I needed it.
But do I really have to edit them 2 different ways – one for the internets;) and another for printing? That's rotten! And does that mean that all the pictures I've edited for the internet, won't look good in print? Boo. AND! Is this the same with RAW? I'm still working up the nerve to shoot in RAW. I don't know how to pull them off to edit them. I've tried before and now their just sitting, untouched on my computer because I don't know how to get to them. Help, maybe?
Love yer blog!
Jessica T. On Wednesday, October 1 at 12:18 pm
Hands-down — photos of my sister (she is the most patient subject matter — and she doesn't mind when I have to take a million and one shots in order to get what I wanted out of the photo…)
Emily S On Wednesday, October 1 at 12:27 pm
I absolutely love taking pictures of children – such a great range of emotions and just plain fun!!
Maria On Wednesday, October 1 at 12:47 pm
my beautiful roommates!
girlfriday On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:05 pm
My kids, of course! I never get tired of looking at their pics.
Kelli in Tampa On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:05 pm
My baby niece and nephew.
Susan On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:17 pm
My beautiful great-niece Makayla
Regina On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:24 pm
Regina On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:26 pm
That's bad when you don't say anything at all…(see above). I just got my first digital camera for my birthday. Not as fancy as yours, but a fairly nice one. I can't wait to learn more about it, see what you have hear applies too it, and then check out getting Photoshop for myself. Is it expensive?
Meanwhile…….nice printer…..can I have it??? HEHE
Regina On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:27 pm
P.S…..came here from the printer giveaway post…LMAO
Nicole On Wednesday, October 1 at 1:43 pm
oh that's easy. My kids! I have SO many pictures of my kids!!!!
Denise On Wednesday, October 1 at 3:02 pm
My little man, he's 10.
Shirley On Wednesday, October 1 at 3:37 pm
If you look at my blog, you would see that it seems to be cotton fields. But that is just convenient. My favorite subjects are my grandchildren.
Mandy Sessler On Wednesday, October 1 at 4:17 pm
Children!!! They make the best subjects!
Pat On Wednesday, October 1 at 5:52 pm
My favorite photo topic is my wife of course, that and pics of her cooking in the kitchen…making dinner with enough left-overs to show off to my buddies at work the next day. mmmmm.
miamia On Wednesday, October 1 at 6:13 pm
nature and friends
Carlos Marquez On Wednesday, October 1 at 6:18 pm
Thanks for the info. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.
Tina On Wednesday, October 1 at 7:03 pm
Ree you should try Mpix (mpix.com). They ROCK! If I upload tonight I get my prints in two days…and Mpix is located in Kansas and I am in Western Massachusettes!
The prints are awesome, they offer a whole line of other stuff, they are very affordable, their customer service is the best, and did I mention how FAST they are?
peyton On Wednesday, October 1 at 7:55 pm
My daughter!
Avery Jones On Thursday, October 2 at 1:04 am
Gosh darn it and shiver me timbers… I can't wait to take some more photos and photoshop them up. Thank you P Dub.
Alexis On Thursday, October 2 at 8:09 am
thank you so much for the "assigning color lesson"!!!!
I can't tell you how much this bothers me because I love how it looks in PS but when I download it, it looks like shiz! again, I love you……
Elisabeth On Thursday, October 2 at 1:29 pm
My dad and I do a lot of printing for artists (things like paintings, drawings, photos, and stuff) and we are always using different profiles in regards to the paper we use and the scanning equipment and all that. (We have one of those EyeOne Match thingies) When you are making a print of a painting and want to make sure that it comes out looking as close to what that painting was like as possible they are extremely important to use.
Sometimes artists have come in who have already had some kind of scan (digital picture, slide, etc) done of their artwork and are surprised that we have to take the time to adjust colors so that it will print out as closely as possible to their original. It doesn't always mean that they have had a bad scan made, it just means that their profiles and our profiles don't match and we have to adjust stuff to make it look just like how they want it to look.
Now, I get pretty picky about how different places print pictures and what kind of inks they use and what kind of fade can happen just within a few months.
Sarah On Friday, October 3 at 1:10 pm
I have not read all of the comments, so this may have been asked/mentioned…
Isn't it true that Adobe RGB is really only best if you are printing at home. If you are sending to a lab to print, you should do everything in SRGB. That's my understanding. Do I have it wrong?
raeanne On Saturday, October 4 at 8:05 pm
If you're printing on a CMYK printer, use CMYK. Also, you'll want to make sure that your color profiles on your printer are synched & up to date with your color profiles on your photo editor of choice. You'll get that info from your printer manufacturer's website. And you should also really edit your photos on a glossy flat-screen in the dark, if you're serious about maintaining a consistent color profile.
Stacie On Wednesday, November 5 at 7:42 pm
A lot of printing places (WHCC in particular) request that photos be in sRGB.
Becky On Friday, April 3 at 8:41 pm
This is wonderful information!!Wish I could take pictures like the ones that you take, priceless!!!


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I might be in the wrong element here, but - do any of you have an opinion about how these sunglasses would handle the golf course?
These particular lenses would be fine, but you'd be better served going with the frame/lens set they make specifically for golf, which are green/gray and supposed to provide better ball contrast (or something).
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A bit tough to adjust
Looks great, and much lighter than my stock post. Issue was tightening it enough to be secure. I'm not the lightest at 210lbs and the first attempt resulted in the seat angle changing after the first few minor bumps. I Really had to crank down on it to get it to stay put, but now its just fine.
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· United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
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· United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
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· United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973)
Synonym(s): Lee, Bruce_Lee, Lee_Yuen_Kam
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· United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926)
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· leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
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wearing pieces of women who didn't put up a fight.
Ted Bundy seeked sympathy,
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|Chapter 2: Contents of the Gītā Summarized
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 2.62
dhyāyato vishayān pumsah
sańgas teshūpajāyate
sańgāt sañjāyate kāmah
kāmāt krodho 'bhijāyate
dhyāyatah — while contemplating; vishayān — sense objects; pumsah — of a person; sańgah — attachment; teshu — in the sense objects; upajāyate — develops; sańgāt — from attachment; sañjāyate — develops; kāmah — desire; kāmāt — from desire; krodhah — anger; abhijāyate — becomes manifest.
While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.
One who is not Krishna conscious is subjected to material desires while contemplating the objects of the senses. The senses require real engagements, and if they are not engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, they will certainly seek engagement in the service of materialism. In the material world everyone, including Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā — to say nothing of other demigods in the heavenly planets — is subjected to the influence of sense objects, and the only method to get out of this puzzle of material existence is to become Krishna conscious. Lord Śiva was deep in meditation, but when Pārvatī agitated him for sense pleasure, he agreed to the proposal, and as a result Kārtikeya was born. When Haridāsa Thākura was a young devotee of the Lord, he was similarly allured by the incarnation of Māyā-devī, but Haridāsa easily passed the test because of his unalloyed devotion to Lord Krishna. As illustrated in the above-mentioned verse of Śrī Yāmunācārya, a sincere devotee of the Lord shuns all material sense enjoyment due to his higher taste for spiritual enjoyment in the association of the Lord. That is the secret of success. One who is not, therefore, in Krishna consciousness, however powerful he may be in controlling the senses by artificial repression, is sure ultimately to fail, for the slightest thought of sense pleasure will agitate him to gratify his desires.
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Stanford Expert Says Internet's Backbone Can Readily Be Made More Sustainable
Jonathan Koomey, a research fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, spoke with Mark Golden of the Stanford Report on how big data centers can be made more sustainable and the challenges companies face when they attempt to improve their energy management.
Most big data centers, the global backbone of the Internet, could slash their greenhouse gas emissions by 88 percent by switching to efficient, off-the-shelf equipment and improving energy management, according to new research.
The carbon emissions generated by a search on Google or a post on Facebook are related mostly to three things: the computing efficiency of IT (information technology) data center equipment, like servers, storage and network switches; the amount of electricity a data center's building uses for things other than computing, primarily cooling; and how much of the center's electricity comes from renewable or low-carbon sources.
"Of these three, improving the efficiency of the IT devices is overwhelmingly the most important," said Jonathan Koomey, a co-author of the study, "Characteristics of Low-Carbon Data Centers," published online June 25 in Nature Climate Change.
The processors in most server farms perform computations at just 3 percent to 5 percent of their maximum capacity. Server virtualization, consolidation and better software can increase utilization to greater than 30 percent, and in some cases to be as high as 80 percent, said Koomey, a research fellow at Stanford University's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, citing a recent account by Google.
"These companies were hearing a lot of noise from Greenpeace and others. Apple went 100 percent renewable so they didn't have to hear about it, and with their high margins, they could afford to do that," said Koomey. "Electricity is a major cost for these companies, and in many of the countries where they operate, carbon emissions have a cost, or soon will."
"The utilities and IT departments have separate budgets, and neither operates with the goal of saving the company money overall," said Koomey. "The IT people don't care about putting in an efficient server, because they don't pay the electric bill. Once you fix the institutional problems, then the company can move quickly, because the needed equipment is off-the-shelf and the energy management practices are well understood."
This principal-agent problem applies elsewhere in energy, too. "Who designs and builds your cable box? The cable company. Who pays the electric bill? You do," said Koomey. "So, you end up with a cat warmer on your shelf."
Koomey noted that the computing efficiency problem is sometimes exaggerated. Data centers consume about 1.5 percent of the world's electricity and are responsible for about 0.5 percent of carbon emissions. And the Internet overall is reducing greenhouse gas emissions because it distributes goods digitally that once were delivered physically, like books, music, publications and mail.


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I am about to enter into a nursing program and so have been taking an introductory course on it. For this course we had to attend presentations made by senior nursing majors that were essentially designs for research projects based on peer-reviewed articles but not actually carrying the research out in the real world. This is the senior project and it places an emphasis on "evidence-based practice," which has been important in elevating nursing as a profession.
While looking at these presentations, I decided to go over to the one that talked about Therapeutic Touch (TT). I thought at first that it was talking about the effects of a hands on approach to nursing that was examining the effects of touch on patients.
Nope. It was actually about TT as a way to manipulate some sort of energy field that somehow extends beyond the human body yet isn't one of the fundamental physical forces or anything else that is recognized by science. I held my tongue since his evaluator was listening at the time and the presenter noted that the evaluator knew all about it. I was staring at them because it was so odd to see an open display of belief in something with, as far as I know, no evidence to support it (apart from religion).
I remember watching an episode of Penn & Teller Bullshit that dealt with new age medicine and such. In the episode, they have a girl on who has/had the Guiness world record as the youngest person to have research published in a medical journal. At age 9 she showed that 21 practitioners of TT did worse than chance at being able to blindly guess whether her hand was over their right or left hand. They only guessed correctly 4.1/10 times on average. That happened in '98. Yet studies continue to be done on the effects of TT while still making the claim that practitioners can sense a universal human energy field or something and then make a patient better by manipulating it.
This seems like a horribly unscientific thing to do for a profession that is trying to back up its practices with evidence-based research. It's false and gives patients false hope. If the benefit of it is the placebo effect, then it should be taught in such a way that practitioners know this and understand how to use it without teaching a lie to a patient. However, it appears that proponents of it are still making miracle claims.
So I suppose I'm nervous that I'm going to have to fight against bullshit like this while learning and while practicing. I want to be able to call "bullshit" when I see something like this, but I think that it would ruffle to many feathers.
Does anyone here work in nursing (or medicine) and see anything like this? What are your thoughts on TT or other "alternative" or "new age" "medicines"? Have you ever dealt with nurses or doctors who insist on wasting your time with these things?
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Lee, babe... the only person who scares me is Samara, and she's not even real. I think that means I'm invincible.
Oooooooo - did you hear what she called you, Unseen? I've called you a lot of things, but a troll was never one of them - I like trolls, they're warm and cuddly. You, not so much --
Where do you find this stuff??? I need to go where you do.
Strega can find ANYthing on any subject, and trust me, you don't want to go where she goes --
She once found a pic of Sherlock Holmes, using his magnifying glass to examine the word, "Poop," written on a wall - I don't even want to know where she went to find that.
You DO know, I would hope, that "Strega" means "witch" - she's a good friend of mine, but even I know better than to ask too many questions - some things, you just don't want to know --
@Strega - Preen at will --
(Private joke!)
LOL HOLY SHIT! This is outta CONTROL! I was fine to let it drop, cuz it's not like I actually know any of you anyway. Let's bring some perspective into this ish.
First of all, Stephy, if you don't know us, do - it could be fun.
Secondly, Unseen and I go at it like this all the time, this topic and/or your comment has little or nothing to do with it - I could tell you stories, but I'll spare your tender ears.
It's all in fun, nobody gets too serious here. Just relax and enjoy the show - you won't find anything like THIS on CNN!
Oh it's all good lol. And no offense meant by the whole "I don't even know you people" :P. I'm just saying I tend to be on TA for about a week and not come check up again until three months later, so it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Yup. That's pretty much how we say howdy around here!
Welcome to the community!
RE: "it's hard to keep track of everybody" - but just like the Light always resists the Dark Force, the Un-one and I are locked in an eternal struggle - come back in three months, and we'll still be here for your entertainment pleasure, several shows per day, seven days per week. It's what we do.
"several shows per day, seven days per week. It's what we do."
And there's no cover...ya does have to bring your own bottle tho. :D
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"DELL SUCKS. DELL LIES. Put that in your Google and smoke it."
These were the words Jeff Jarvis signed off with in his much-talked about "Dell sucks" post on his blog, BuzzMachine, in 2005. Today, the words coming out of Jarvis' mouth sounds a bit different. "Dell Learns to Listen – The computer maker takes to the blogosphere to repair its tarnished image", he writes in last week's addition of BusinessWeek, continuing: "In the age of customers empowered by blogs and social media, Dell has leapt from worst to first" – signed Jeff Jarvis.
The whole thing started with Jarvis, as he himself puts it, "unwittingly unleashing a blog storm around the computer company". "Terminally frustrated with a lemony laptop and torturous service", Jarvis "vented steam" on his blog under the headline: "Dell sucks." The article, as Jarvis points out, stated a furor in the blogosphere and a storm of complaints towards Dell. Thousands of frustrated consumers eventually commented on and linked to Jarvis' blog, agreeing with his relatively mischievous statement. A few days, weeks or months later – he doesn't say – Jarvis blogged a new post about Dell. This time in the form of an open letter to Michael Dell : "suggesting his company read blogs, write blogs, ask customers for guidance, and "join the conversation your customers are having without you."
It took Dell over a year to understand the significance of the furor Jarvis had created, but in April 2006 they realized something had to be done and created the blog Direct2Dell. According to Michael Dell, Dell had already planned to start a blog-like communication strategy before the Dell Hell started, at least that's what he says in an interview (video) with Jarvis on BusinessWeek. I don't think anyone really believes him, but that doesn't really matter – because what Dell did with the blog was clever:
"[Dell] dispatched technicians to reach out to complaining bloggers and solve their problems, earning pleasantly surprised buzz in return. That July [2006], Dell started its Direct2Dell blog, where it quickly had to deal with a burning-battery issue and where chief blogger Lionel Menchaca gave the company a frank and credible human voice. Last February, Michael Dell launched IdeaStorm.com, asking customers to tell the company what to do. Dell is following their advice, selling Linux computers and reducing the promotional "bloatware" that clogs machines. Today, Dell even enables customers to rate its products on its site," writes Jarvis.
Jarvis further writes:
"The crucial word you hear at Dell [today] is "relationship." Dell blogger Menchaca has led the charge in convincing bloggers that "real people are here to listen," and so he diligently responds and links to critics, and holds up his end of the conversation. "You can't fake it," he says. Dell's team is stanching the flow of bad buzz. By Dell's measure, negative blog posts about it have dropped from 49% to 22%. And the Dell Hell posts on my blog, which used to come up high on a Google search for the company, are now relegated to second-page search-engine Siberia. "That change in perception just doesn't happen with a press release," Menchaca says."
The lesson for Dell, as Jarvis wrote on his blog a few days ago, is:
"Dell realized that engaging in the conversation wasn't just a way to stop blogging customers like me from harming the brand. We, the customers, bring them great value besides our money: We alert them to problem. We will tell them what products we want. We share our knowledge about their products. We help fellow customers solve problems. We will sell their products. But this happens only if you have a decent product and service and only if you listen to us."
This should also be a great lesson for other companies and businesses. The big question is: could Dell have avoided the blog storm had they already had a blog and a proper web-response-strategy in place in 2005? Most likely!
I talked to a Norwegian webstrategist at Tarantell (they are blogging) a few days ago about the incident, he argued that every company should be aware of what's happening in the world of blogs, and that a good developed blog-strategy is a must. Still, he told me, only a marginal part of Norwegian businesses even consider monitoring blogs. Only a very few have developed a business blog. That's not good – So for those of you that want to learn more and dig in to the pros and cons of business blogging (corporate blogging) here's a few links to start with:
Blogging Will Change Your Business
Good luck.
– Espen
UPDATE: Also, check out this podcast: Forward Podcast 33 :: Social Media in Action At Dell, by our friend Paull Young. It is a 40 minute long interview with five members of Dell's social media/digital communications team about their approach to social media.


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On Sunday, May 26, 2013, Latimore was interviewed on Harry's & Diana's The Right Track Soul Show on 94.4 fm, Salford City Radio in the United Kingdom. He talks about the very beginnings of how he got into the music business to how he met Henry Stone in the 1960s, right up to today with his newest release Latimore Remembers Ray Charles featuring the hit single Hit the Road, Jack.
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"The Hits Keep Coming"
Henry Stone has once again been interviewed on a national radio show The Story with Dick Gordon. Talking about the early years of distribution, his relationship with Ray Charles and Latimore's latest release, Latimore Remembers Ray Charles, Henry Stone relates his 60+ years in the music business.
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Last week I got a call from Carol, a producer for "The Story, With Dick Gordon," a really great nationwide public radio show that wanted to interview me for a segment on The Miami Sound.
So today, I drove up to the WLRN studio in Downtown Miami and got on the ISDN line with Dick Gordon in North Carolina for the interview.
Wow, he really did his research. We talked about my early days as a trumpet player in the first integrated army band at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey. We talked about my moving to California after the war, how I worked with a 17 year old Mel Torme at the studio of Ben Pollock, how I ended up with the Bihari Brothers at Modern Records, and my early distribution efforts (nationwide) with the train porters.
We got into my big move to Miami, my first million selling single (The Charms, on DeLuxe), co founding James Brown, discovering Sam & Dave, and of course recording Ray Charles.
We talked about my Tone Distributing, growing with Atlantic, hitting the road with Leonard Chess, and a few big hits I had like "Cleanup Woman," "Funky Nassau," "Rockin' Chair," and of course the first ever worldwide disco hit "Rock Your Baby" with George McCrae.
All in all, it was a great story, and I can't wait to hear it on the radio, playing to over 125 FM stations around the U.S. (and a couple of AM stations too). And I can't wait for you to hear it too. I will make sure and let you know when it's out.
Henry Stone interviewed on the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC 6 radio on December 6, 2008
James Brown talking about Henry Stone on the Larry King Show.
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Interview with Henry Stone, as heard on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat; Executive Producer – Adrienne Kennedy, Written, Voiced and Co-produced by Chris DeAngelis, Producer & Host – Ed Bell.
Celebrity Access Interview
Once again, Henry Stone has been interviewed by a leading media source. "Celebrity Access" is hailed as the ultimate resource for entertainment industry professionals.
By Bob Grossweiner and Jane Cohen
Discomusic Interview
CLICK HERE to read this excellent and very in-depth interview that includes many rare photos.
"DiscoMusic.com is proud to present another one-on-one interview with none other than Henry Stone."
Written By Bernard F. Lopez
Discostyle Interview
"Not your "same 'ol" interview!"
Discostyle.com talks at length with Henry Stone.
Disco Disco Interview
"This is a Tribute to….T.K. Productions"
An excellent interview all about TK history by Discoguy.
DJ's Portal Interview
"interview for the polish leading deejay web site djsportal.com as same as for the books: "DISC JOCKEY" and "SILENT RECORDS" – disco encyclopedia"
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On May 19th at 7:00pm, Henry Stone was honored at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum as part of their Songwriters to Soundmen program.
The People Behind the Hits took place on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. in the Rock Hall's Foster Theater.
Stone was interviewed by the Rock Hall's Vice President of Education and Public Programs, Dr. Lauren Onkey. Questions taken from the audience at the end of the interview.
Read more information on the Rock Hall website.
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Imagine if Teddy Roosevelt had not run himself against his protege William Howard Taft in 1912 but had sponsored another candidate who went on to beat both Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Or alternatively imagine a presidential election in which John McCain and Mitt Romney are battling it out not in the primaries but in the general election.
No analogy is exact but that gives you a bit of the flavor of the Colombian presidential election. The first place finisher, with 29.25 percent, was former Finance Minister Oscar Ivan Zuluaga. In second place was the incumbent president, Juan Manual Santos, with 25.69 percent. Since neither man got more than 50 percent (three other candidates split the rest of the vote), they will have a second-round runoff on June 15.
The numbers do not reveal the extraordinary drama behind the campaign, which was characterized by charges of cheating and skullduggery from both campaigns. Zuluaga came from almost nowhere to run ahead of an incumbent who was widely viewed as a shoo-in for reelection not long ago. This turn of events was due almost entirely to the intervention of former President Alvaro Uribe, who left office in 2010. Santos was his former defense minister and designated successor but, like TR turning on Taft, Uribe grew disenchanted with his protege, in no small part, one suspects, because Uribe misses the limelight.
The ostensible cause of their break were the peace talks that Santos has launched to get FARC, the long-running rebel group which has been battling the state since the mid-1960s, to finally lay down its arms. Uribe views the negotiations, which have been going on in Havana, as a sell-out to the rebels and Zuluaga has echoed his view. Santos, on the other hand, believes that the talks, which have already made progress, have the potential to bring peace.
To an outsider, it is not always easy to tell why Uribe is so worked up over talks being pursued by his former partner in the battle against FARC. The fact that peace is now possible is due in large measure to the policies that Uribe implemented while in office. But if Zuluaga wins it is likely that the peace talks will end, although Zuluaga has left himself an opening to continue negotiations if FARC shows its sincerity by stopping its armed struggle.
Whatever happens, Colombia is likely to remain Washington's closest ally in Latin America. Indeed, while other countries in the region are seeing the emergence of anti-Yanqui leaders inspired by the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Colombia is seeing a run-off between two conservative, hawkish, pro-American candidates. That's good news.


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Arcgis explorer will also let you add geo referenced tiff forest maps. Add the topo map server and you have most everything you need for Internet scouting. Arcgis explorer wil handle all of it way better than google but google has better 3d and renders quicker. Arcgis also uses bing for basemap so the sat images are quite a bit better too.


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Photography by Katrina Tepper
China Beach's Asian cuisine sits well in its seaside setting. Simon Thomsen reports.
In the 23 years since Australia marked its Bicentenary, there's been a vigorous debate about our relationship with Asia.
It's been complex, sometimes vexed and often a blessing, especially when it comes to China's hunger for mineral resources or our own hunger for Asian flavours.
China Beach - the restaurant and not the 1990s US TV show set during the Vietnam War - is very much the child of our mongrel nation. It can't get any more Oi! Oi! Oi! than views through the Norfolk pines to Manly Beach and a slick Iain Halliday - designed interior as white as Shane Warne's teeth.
It's the sort of place where you can (summer) frock up or simply dine on the footpath wearing little more than sand between your toes.
The other oi is Mai Busayarat, the southern-Thai born chef whose snappy flavours won me over at the likes of Jimmy Liks and China Doll. Her menu commutes between the smash hits in China and Thailand, giving them a modern makeover along the way. There's a dash of Indonesia in nasi goreng, $20, and dishes such as the kingfish and ocean trout sashimi with blackened chilli dressing, $20, borrowed from the Woolloomooloo cousin, China Doll. It's a friendly menu as popular and slightly nostalgic as the '70s when kids at the beach thought 2SM's initials stood for Surf Music (and not St Mark's).
She starts with smoked trout miang, $4 each, betel leaves with grilled eggplant dressed chilli nam jim, a mouthful that dates from her Rambutan days and seems de rigueur on any modern Thai menu. This version is more gently sweet than lime-salty-punchy the way I prefer, but it won't scare the horses. A steamer basket of Chinese prawn dumplings, $12, crunchy from water chestnuts and sweet from corn, is tarted up by a plum vinegar dipping sauce, while the real fun is wrapping sweet and crunchy diced pork laced with peanuts and green beans in trimmed iceberg lettuce cups to make sang choy bau, $15. You can happily graze and certainly share with a group.
Service is as bright as the sunshine and the cheerful little wine list offers some post - Christmas reprieves under the $40 mark such as the crisp, minerally Heggies riesling, $9 glass/$38 bottle.
BKH designer Iain Halliday evokes a Chinese-meets-Morocco-via-France teahouse aesthetic with a suggestive red entrance to the kitchen behind the white screens at the rear.
The chairs are French cafe, the floor colourfully tiled. I'm equivocal about all the white, which in Chinese symbolism implies confidence, strength and purity as well as death and mourning. Take away that cultural context though and you have a room as dazzling as the surf opposite. Most of the colour comes from the well-tanned diners. The vibe is relaxed in keeping with Manly's perpetual on-holiday mood.
Crisp-skinned chicken, $29, is a splash of Cantonese joy covered in Chinese spices and sitting in a shallow pool of sweet-and-sharp honey, soy and black vinegar sauce, while stir-fried beef, $29, with asparagus, green beans and spring onions, is every bit as dark and muscular as its black bean sauce suggests. They're dishes that are easy to like without blowing your socks off.
It's food as reliable as a childhood friend, deftly cooked, if occasionally erring, as some Thai cooks do, in favour of sweet over savoury. The crowd pleasers keep coming thanks to steamed fish with garlic and chilli, $30, the flaky fillet fragrant from pickled ginger and lemon grass.
Desserts rely on Thailand's love of a good pud, from sticky rice with Thai custard, $12, to sago pudding with coconut, $8, although the trio of ices, $10, seems more in keeping with the setting, especially when the vivid mango sorbet glows like the sunset.
Come Australia Day, the debate inevitably turns to what it means to belong to this land. The answer comes in many forms, none of them particularly certain. We make what we can of our circumstances and do our best.
China Beach embodies that spirit with its mix of influences made to suit the local conditions. And that's reason enough to celebrate who we are, even if sometimes we're still unsure who that is.
The food: 13/20
The staff: 7/10
The drink: 3/5
The X factor: 3/5
The value: 7/10
Total out of 50 - 33
Address: 43-45 North Steyne, Manly; ph 9976 0050
Food: Modern Asian
Drink: Licensed; mid-priced list suited to Asian food
Hours: Lunch Mon-Sat noon-3pm; dinner Mon-Sat 6-10pm; Sun noon-8.45pm
Chef: Mai Busayarat
Wheelchair access: Limited, one step to loo
Price guide: Entrees $4-$20; Mains $20-$32; Desserts $8-$12
Snapshot: Fun restaurant keeps good times rolling with likeable Thai and Chinese dishes matching the relaxed beachside setting.
Information in this article is correct as of 25 January 2011
Simon Thomsen reviews NSW restaurants for the taste section every Tuesday in The Daily Telegraph.
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An articulate young woman with short dark hair who had joined the Weathermen after getting involved with the antiwar movement at Michigan State University, Latimer wore a tan pantsuit on the day she met with San Francisco detectives in a Financial District hotel room. According to the investigator with knowledge of the case, she had come forward to betray her former comrades in the revolution in order to have a federal hold on her passport lifted so she could travel abroad and was delivered to the SFPD by FBI agents. She was willing to testify in court if granted personal immunity from prosecution.
Listening to Latimer calmly narrate the planning of the Park Station attack, step by step, the local detectives knew they finally had a break. In fact, they believed she could make their whole case. Latimer claimed to have personally cased the station and could describe the package that had held the explosive device before it had gone off. "It was just too detailed," the investigator familiar with the case recalls. "It was A to Z without leaving out L and M. I was convinced."
The day after interviewing Latimer, the investigator says, the detectives hastily convened a conference with San Francisco District Attorney John Jay Ferdon and a federal prosecutor. At that meeting, the police officers and federal prosecutor argued for granting Latimer immunity and proceeding to file charges. (It is unclear which Weather Underground members would have been named as defendants or whether the D.A. and U.S. attorney were aware of Steen's earlier statement to police.)
Ferdon opposed this plan, arguing that Latimer's sudden appearance could be a ploy. Once she was granted immunity, he feared she would simply change her story and confess to planning and executing the bombing alone, clearing herself and her former comrades of criminal liability. He won the argument, and local detectives renewed their efforts to find more evidence or informants to support a prosecution.
Caution in filing charges based solely on Latimer's statements may have been warranted for other reasons. Testimony from criminally implicated informants is notoriously problematic for prosecutors, who must explain to a jury why their witnesses aren't merely lying to avoid more severe punishment. Hence the need, in an ideal world, for more extensive corroboration of what happened the night of the bombing or physical evidence — in the form of fingerprints or ballistics — to back up Steen's and Latimer's stories.
Such evidence has never been uncovered in the McDonnell murder case. After the launch of the Phoenix Task Force, a forensics expert at the California Department of Justice was able to develop a latent fingerprint on a fragment of the Park Station bomb using new scientific techniques, according to an affidavit filed by Engler in another of the task force's cold cases. But the print was still too undefined to be used for identification.
The FBI's witness statements are also less comprehensive than investigators would like. For instance, neither Steen nor Latimer said they had been present for the construction of the bomb (though Reagan said at least one of them reported seeing bombmaking materials, such as detonator cord, at the planning session) and neither had seen who placed the device on the station's window ledge.
And then there is the most vexing obstacle to a successful prosecution of the Weathermen based on former collaborators' confessions — the inconvenient fact that an entirely different set of militant activists has also claimed credit for the bombing.
On August 28, 1971, Anthony Bottom and Albert Washington, cadres of the violent Black Panthers splinter group known as the Black Liberation Army (BLA), pulled up in a car alongside the patrol cruiser of San Francisco Police Sergeant George Kowalski at an intersection and leveled a submachine gun at him. The BLA was suspected or convicted of multiple attacks on police officers in the 1970s, including the 1971 shotgun killing of Sergeant John Young at San Francisco's Ingleside Police Station. On this occasion, however, they were unsuccessful. The gun, loaded with the wrong type of ammunition, jammed. Bottom and Washington were arrested and charged with attempted murder.
Over the next month, Bottom, while in police custody, made an extraordinary series of statements, according to investigators familiar with his case. He reportedly told SFPD homicide inspectors Frank McCoy and Eddy Erdelatz that he had personally planted the bomb that killed McDonnell at Park Station and said he had helped plan the Ingleside attack, which took place while he was in jail. He also claimed involvement in the bombing of St. Brendan's Church in San Francisco during a police funeral in October 1970 and in a plot to plant sticks of dynamite on the roof of a police station.
When he made his far-ranging confession, Bottom was already destined for prison. A revolver found with him at the time of his arrest had been traced to New York City police officer Waverly Jones, who was gunned down with his partner, Joseph Piagentini, by BLA members in a Manhattan housing project that May. Today, Bottom is serving a life sentence for his conviction in their murders at Auburn Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
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Noting that the EU had been accused of being too pro-Israel by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, I recently wrote that
it seems more and more possible that the recent period of relative quiet with respect to Israel might in itself suffice for Hamas to win a hearing in Europe. If money were to begin flowing again into government coffers in Gaza, the "moderates" can argue, it would strengthen their hold on the PA and make it possible, at long last, for the government to meet the Quartet's three demands. Hamas would not even have to say this much, only to make the EU believe that this might happen at some point in the future. The EU's readiness for a diplomatic fire sale is already evident, with France and the UK leading the push to set aside the Quartet's three burdensome preconditions.
Despite shows of unity with their U.S. partners, the Europeans are doing just that, now that the Palestinian "national unity" government is in place. The foreign minister of Norway traveled to Gaza to confer with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, after Norway's government recognized the new executive.
Rumor has it that the next Norwegian diplomatic move was a phone call to the EU's foreign policy czar, Javier Solana, asking EU states to emulate Norway (which is not a member). The EU chose caution instead: it would judge the new government by its deeds, a spokesman said, not only by its words. Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht, visiting Ramallah last Friday, reiterated this message. But he did so at a joint press conference with the new Palestinian foreign minister, Ziad Abu Amr. And Italy's undersecretary for foreign affairs, Vittorio Craxi, called Haniyeh "in his personal capacity," but did not pay an official visit.
Next, it was the turn of Marc Otte, the EU special envoy to the Middle East, who met the new PA finance minister, Salam Fayyad (as did the U.S. consul in Jerusalem). As the International Herald Tribune reports, the Swedish foreign minister is next; the Swiss and Russian ambassadors will also meet Fayyad. Switzerland and France have invited him to visit; the UK announced that it, too, will speak to non-Hamas ministers.
Unlike Norway, the EU still has a few problems talking to the PA while Hamas is part of the government: Hamas, after all, is on the EU terror list. And the Quartet, at least officially, still stands by the Roadmap and the three preconditions that any PA government must meet for the international embargo on aid and dialogue to be ended.
But even Europe's modest overtures are quite astonishing when one considers how Hamas itself views the new "unity" government: as the group's leaders have repeatedly emphasized, "resistance" in all its forms will continue. True to form, Hamas followed words with deeds, and proceeded to claim responsibility for the shooting of an Israeli worker only two days after the government was sworn in.


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Deming – Deming Public Schools has announced new safety measures after suspected undocumented immigrants boarded school buses on at least two occasions.
The Deming Headlight reports (http://bit.ly/v1OUgF) that Deming Public Schools Superintendent Harvielee (HAR'-vy-LEE') Moore presented last week the "District and Border Protocols" to district transportation department drivers.
Under the new rules, drivers will be required to observe the staging areas at the border and help identify students who are allowed to be on school buses.
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A packaging system for an elongate medical device includes a sheet of material which defines a generally planar surface for receiving the elongated medical device thereon. A plurality of butterfly tabs are adhesively attached to the planar surface at selected locations to retain the medical device in position. The butterfly tabs eliminate weaving of catheters onto mounting cards having tabs punched therethrough. The butterfly tabs preferably include at least two adhesive-coated wing portions connected by a linking portion that overlies the medical device and is preferably free of adhesive.
1. A combined elongate medical device and package comprising:
a mounting card defining a generally planar surface;
an elongate medical device overlying a portion of the generally planar surface of the mounting card; and
a plurality of butterfly tabs, each including at least two winged portions having an adhesive coated on at least a portion thereof adhered at selected locations on the generally planar surface of the mounting card and extending over the elongate medical device to retain the medical device in position on the generally planar surface, wherein each butterfly tab includes a linking portion connecting the winged portions, wherein the linking portion is designed to yield to an applied force; and wherein the linking portion possesses a preferential tear line.
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providing a mounting card defining a generally planar surface;
providing an elongated medical device;
positioning the elongate medical device on a portion of the planar surface of the mounting card;
providing a plurality of butterfly tabs, the tabs having a surface including an adhesive coated on at least a portion thereof and a linking portion designed to yield to an applied force; wherein the linking portion possesses a preferential tear line; and
adhering the plurality of butterfly tabs at selected locations on the planar surface of the mounting card such that the butterfly tabs overlay the elongated medical device at the selected locations and retain the elongated medical device in position on the generally planar surface.
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The present invention generally relates to the field of medical device packaging, and more specifically to the field of packaging catheters and other similar medical devices in a manner that maintains the catheter's desired shape, position and sterility within the packaging during sterilization, shipment and storage. The present invention further relates to improved packaging materials and methods for packaging catheters, wherein the improvements allow easy, damage-free removal of the medical devices from their packaging.
Numerous medical procedures require the advancement and positioning of medical devices within body lumens. Intravascular catheters, in particular, are currently utilized in a wide variety of minimally invasive medical procedures. Generally, an intravascular catheter enables a physician to remotely perform a medical procedure by inserting the catheter into the vascular system of the patient at a location that is easily accessible, and thereafter, navigating the catheter to a desirable target site. Using this method, virtually any target site in a patient's vascular system may be remotely accessed, including the coronary, cerebral, and peripheral vasculature.
Typically, the catheter enters the patient's vasculature at a convenient location, such as a blood vessel in the neck or near the groin. Once the distal portion of the catheter has entered the patient's vascular system, the physician may urge the distal tip forward by applying longitudinal forces to the proximal portion of the catheter. For the catheter to effectively communicate these longitudinal forces, it is desirable that the catheter have a high level of pushability and kink resistance.
Frequently the path taken by a catheter through the vascular system is tortuous, requiring the catheter to change direction frequently. In some cases, it may even be necessary for the catheter to double back on itself. In order for the catheter to conform to a patient's tortuous vascular system, it is desirable that the intravascular catheter be very flexible, particularly in the distal portion.
While advancing the catheter through the tortuous path of the patient's vasculature, physicians often apply torsional forces to the proximal portion of the catheter to aid in steering the catheter. To facilitate the steering process, the distal portion of the catheter may include a plurality of bends or curves. Torsional forces applied on the proximal end must translate to the distal end to aid in steering. It is, therefore, desirable that the proximal portion of the intravascular catheter has a relatively high level of torqueability and rigidity to facilitate steering.
The distance between the access site and the target site is often in excess of 100 cm. The inside diameter of the vasculature at the access site is often less than 5 mm. In light of the geometry of the patient's body, it is desirable to combine the features of torqueability, pushability, and flexibility into a catheter that is relatively long and has a relatively small diameter.
The physical attributes that aid a physician in advancing the catheter through the tortuous path of the patient's vasculature also create packaging difficulties for the manufacturer. For a catheter to be used in the manner for which it is manufactured, the shape of the catheter must be maintained in its original form. Therefore, the proximal portion of the catheter body needs to be maintained in a generally straight alignment. The unique distal end formations, on the other hand, must be secured in the shape that the manufacturer originally imparts. As a result, a catheter's packaging is generally long and narrow.
Current packaging techniques for catheters generally include the use of a mounting card. Mounting cards are generally long, stiff cards having a plurality of die-cut tabs that hold the catheter in place. These die-cut tabs are usually created using a manual press that cuts the specific shape of the tab into the mounting card. Once the tabs are cut, the tabs are then raised, allowing the catheter to be woven under the tabs. The tabs are then lowered, allowing the catheter to be held in place by the tab's downward pressure. One in the art generally knows this weaving procedure as "webbing."
Because the press physically cuts into the mounting card when forming the tab, residual foreign material is often released when the tabs are raised for the webbing process. This residual foreign material is commonly known as "angel hair." It is desirable to minimize all foreign material when packaging medical devices. Current packaging standards, however, permit the presence of some foreign material.
Acceptable foreign material is generally smaller than five square millimeters in size and no more than three pieces are permitted per unit packaged. These small pieces of foreign material, however, are known to attach themselves to the packaged catheter. Complications are foreseeable from this contamination of the packaged catheter. For example, while inserting the catheter within a bodily pathway, the foreign material may also be introduced within the body.
Once the catheter is webbed onto the mounting card, the device is secured. The downward force exerted by the tabs prevents lateral and longitudinal movement of the catheter. Although this is quite beneficial in maintaining the catheter's desired shape and position within the packaging, it is less desirable with regards to the removal of the catheter from its packaging.
Physicians have found that catheters fastened by tabs often succumb to physical deformation during the catheter's removal. The tabs are so effective at securing the catheter that, even when the physician carefully removes the catheter, the catheter occasionally deforms. The deformation is particularly prevalent in the highly modified distal end region of the catheter. Because the distal end is generally the most flexible region of the catheter, the distal end may be deformed quite readily. Pulling the device through a tab may easily impart a new structural formation to the catheter that was not desired by the manufacturer. Thus, the manufacturer's precision in manufacturing the distal end region can be easily frustrated by the tabs.
A similar deformation issue associated with the removal of the catheter from tabs is kinking. Because the tabs are formed from the same rigid material as the mounting card, the tabs also possess a significant level of rigidity. This rigidity aids the tabs in securing the catheter under its downward pressure. When a physician, however, pulls on the catheter to free the device from the confines of the tab, a permanent kink or bend may be imparted to the catheter. Release of the catheter from the mounting card is generally achieved by force. Ideally, the tabs will yield to the force exerted upon the catheter and allow the catheter to be removed. In certain circumstances, however, it is the catheter that yields to the rigidity of the tab. The incidence of this occurring is particularly high when a physician pulls upon the catheter perpendicular to the mounting card while it is secured onto the mounting card. When pulled as such, the catheter yields to the tab and bends at a sharp angle near the edge of the tab. Catheters possessing such sharp bends lose much of their pushability strength because of the natural tendency to bend at these weakened points. This compromise in the catheter's configuration renders the catheter useless for its desired intention.
Webbing catheters onto their mounting cards is an arduous process. This process is made more difficult by the size and geometry of most catheters. As a result, automation of the webbing process has proven to be a daunting task.
The webbing process utilizes a flat plate press commonly known as a "webber." The plate of the webber machine is slightly longer than the mounting card (approximately 40 inches long) and approximately six (6) inches deep. The webber is further described as having an upper and lower plate hinged at the back with a handle located in the middle front of the press. From a seated position, the assembler lifts the handle, requiring a lift and push force from the elbow and shoulder. The weight of the upper plate of the press weighs approximately 5 pounds. With an extended arm, however, the force required to lower and raise the plate equates to about 40 pounds. The assembler weaves the catheter onto the mounting card using a slight back and forth motion powered by the shoulder muscles. Currently, upwards of thirty (30) repetitions of arm movements (including raising and lowering the plate, weaving the catheter through the die-cut tabs, inserting and removing the cardboard) are completed every minute, assuming a cycle time of ten (10) seconds. The process thus has the potential for over-exertion and injury.
The present invention provides a packaging design and method of manufacture that maintains a medical device's desired shape, position and sterility within its packaging during sterilization, shipment and storage, while permitting easy removal from the same when desired. This invention is preferably achieved using a series of "butterfly" shaped adhesive tabs.
Butterfly tabs are manufactured independent of the mounting card. Because butterfly tabs are formed independent of the mounting card, contamination of the packaging by foreign material, such as angel hair, is substantially reduced. Butterfly tabs may be die-cut (similar to the tabs on the mounting card), however, since the production of butterfly tabs are a separate phase of the packaging process, the butterfly tabs may undergo a separate inspection for loose foreign material.
In a preferred embodiment, the butterfly tabs are selectively coated over a portion of their surface with an adhesive. Those portions possessing the adhesive readily adhere to a mounting card, or other suitable surface. In one embodiment, the "winged" portions of the butterfly tab possess the adhesive coating. In contrast, the portion of the butterfly tab that links the winged portions generally lacks any adhesive. This "linking" portion of the butterfly tab restrains the medical device by a downward force created by outstretching the butterfly tab over the medical device. Because the linking portion lies over the medical device, the butterfly tab permits release through tearing, breaking or fissure of the linking portion of the butterfly tab.
Tearing of the linking portion may be aided through design. The tearing release of the butterfly tab allows a physician to remove a medical device from its packaging with minimal effort. The sensitivity of the linking portion must therefore be carefully balanced to maintain the medical device's shape and position while permitting easy removal. In certain embodiments, the physician releases the medical device through a slight vertical or horizontal pull on the medical device. Such minimal effort reduces deformations formed by kinking. Because the linking portion is designed to yield to the medical device during release, deformation caused by the rigidity of the tab is eliminated. Similarly, the distal end portion of a catheter is significantly less likely to deform from a readily torn butterfly tab.
In one embodiment, a manufactured preferential tear line is imparted onto the linking portion of the butterfly tab. In additional embodiments, segments of the linking portion are constructed of a relatively thin piece of material, permitting the selected horizontal or vertical force to cause the linking portion to tear.
As described earlier, the butterfly tabs are formed independently of the mounting card. Therefore, in a preferred embodiment, the butterfly tabs may be constructed using off-the-shelf equipment. Such equipment is modifiable to be incorporated into a fully automated packaging system.
A major factor in the failure to fully automate the packaging process to date has been the need for assemblers to weave the medical devices, and more specifically catheters, under the raised tabs of the mounting card. There is thus a need for the present invention which includes the use of a butterfly tab, and the automation potential it affords by eliminating the weaving process.
The following detailed description should be read with reference to the drawings, in which like elements in different drawings are numbered identically. The drawings, which are not necessarily to scale, depict selected embodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Examples of constructions, materials, dimensions, and manufacturing processes are provided for selected elements. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many of the examples provided have suitable alternatives that may be utilized.
Prior art mounting cards are generally made from a solid, bleached sulfate board having a thickness of approximately 0.005 to 0.020 inches. However, the material and construction of the mounting card is not critical to the present invention and may vary widely from embodiments described herein. For example, other suitable materials for a mounting card include high-density polyethylene (HDPE), Mylar, Tyvek, polyethylene, and polyester. Such materials possess sufficient rigidity to withstand significant bending along the length of the mounting card.
Generally, mounting cards are approximately 100 to 125 cm in length. The length of the mounting card varies with the length of the medical device. Accordingly, it is conceivable that mounting cards are desired as small as, for example, 40 cm in length and as long as, for example, 175 cm in length. The width of the mounting card is similarly contingent upon the type of medical device being packaged. Generally, however, the width of the mounting card is approximately 4 to 13 cm.
According to conventional methods, the shaft portion of the catheter is secured to the mounting card using a plurality of die-cut tabs. The die-cut tabs are generally created using a press that cuts the desired shape of the tab into the mounting card. The die-cut tabs can be semicircles having a base and an arc. The die-cutting machine cuts the outline of the arc of the tab through the mounting card. The base is uncut by the machine and acts as a hinge, allowing the arc portion of the tab to be raised vertically from the plane of the mounting card.
Once the tabs are cut, the tabs are then raised allowing an assembler to weave the catheter under the raised tabs. Because the tabs are formed from the rigid mounting card material, the tabs are naturally biased to be in same plane as the mounting card. This creates a significant downward pressure exerted at the base of the die-cut tab when raised. The tabs are then lowered on the catheter shaft, holding the catheter shaft by this natural downward pressure. One in the art generally knows the above-described weaving procedure as "webbing".
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The underside or backside 18 of the winged portions of the butterfly tab 10 is selectively coated with an adhesive 20. The adhesive 20 is generally characterized as one capable of forming a tight bond with common packaging material. As such, the adhesive 20 must be capable of readily bonding with at least one of the following packaging materials: solid bleach sulfate board, high density polyethylene, Mylar, Tyvek, polyethylene, and polyester. The adhesive is additionally characterized as being capable of forming a sufficient bond when exposed to common sterilization processes. The adhesive 20 should, therefore, retain a fixed position when exposed to gas (particularly ethylene oxide), heat, and pressure.
The "linking" portion 16 of the butterfly tab 10 is the portion of the butterfly tab 10 that actually physically restrains movement of the medical device in use. A downward force created by outstretching of the linking portion 16 of the butterfly tab 10 over the medical device restrains movement of the medical device. As such, restraint of the medical device by the butterfly tab 10 is preferably a product of friction. Referring to
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Linking portion 16 preferably lack adhesive material. It is generally believed that the medical device should be free from any contact with adhesive material. Further embodiments utilizing adhesives are conceivable, however. For example, one side of the linking portion 16 may have a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) applied thereto. In this embodiment, the adhesive material is biocompatible or biologically inert. Such an adhesive provides additional restraint to the above-mentioned frictional forces vis-ŕ-vis the adhesive bond between the linking portion and the medical device. The use of PSAs is preferred because these materials are selectively adherent. When desired, the PSA releases its bond, allowing an object to be released. PSAs also generally do not transfer to the object they are adhering (i.e., they can be cleanly removed from an adherent). As such, very little adhesive, if any, will be transmitted to the medical device after release from a PSA-coated linking portion.
The linking portion 16 generally controls the release of the medical device from the restraint by the butterfly tab. Release is generally accomplished through fissure or tearing of the linking portion 16 of the butterfly tab 10. The fissure release of the butterfly tab 10 allows a physician to remove a medical device from its packaging with minimal effort. The physician generally releases the medical device using a slight vertical or horizontal pull on the medical device.
Because the liking portion can be designed to tear at a desired amount of force for a particular device or portion of a device, deformations formed by kinking are greatly reduced. The fissure sensitivity of the linking portion, however, must be carefully balanced to maintain the medical device's shape and position while permitting easy removal. Fissure sensitivity of the linking portion may be balanced and aided through design. Design modifications are focused primarily on the shape, material and fissure aids, specifically tailored for the linking portion.
The shape of the linking portion may be designed to enhance fissure. In
Materials suitable for the linking portion include any paper or film of such thickness capable of yielding to a medical device when a suitable force which does not cause kinking or deformation of the medical device is exerted upon the material. In certain embodiments, it is envisioned that certain segments of the linking portion are constructed of such thin material that the suitable horizontal or vertical force causes the linking portion to fissure. A preferred material permitting fissure in the linking portion is polystyrene.
Alternatively, the material forming the linking portion may be of a greater thickness, but additionally including a preferential tear line imparted thereto to aid in the material's fissure. Although the linking portion will generally tear along the preferential tear line, it need not according to the invention.
In further embodiments, it is envisioned that the preferential tear line 17 may be set off center. These embodiments include imparting a preferential tear line to the linking portion where the winged portion engages the linking portion. Additionally, the preferential tear line may be imparted at any location along the length of the linking portion between the center of the linking portion and the edge of the linking portion where the linking portion engages the winged portion of the butterfly tab. A yet further embodiment includes imparting a plurality of preferential tear lines along the length, the width or both of the linking portion of the butterfly tab.
A physician releases a medical device secured by a thin-width linking portion by applying a gentle vertical or horizontal pull on the medical device. This pull subsequently causes the thin-width linking portion to fissure. Fissure generally occurs where the linking portion attaches to the winged portions of the butterfly tab. The resulting fissure of the thin-width linking portion thereby liberates the medical device from the butterfly tab and the mounting card.
When using materials of greater thickness for the thin-width linking portion of
When a physician gently pulls on the medical device secured by the dual taper linking portion, the natural tendency is for the medical device to move toward the apex of the inverted semi-circle. Thus, if a catheter were positioned slightly off center when secured by the dual taper linking portion, when pulled, the catheter would shift to the center of the dual taper design. In effect, the catheter would follow the arc formed by the dual taper linking portion until reaching the apex, or center, of the inverted semi-circle. The center of the dual taper linking portion is additionally the narrowest section, width-wise, of the linking portion. By design, this section is also the easiest to tear. Therefore, the linking portion design illustrated in
In a further embodiment, the centermost section of the dual taper linking portion may possess a preferential tear line. Preferably, the preferential tear line runs along the width of the narrow section. In alternate embodiments, however, the preferential tear line may run lengthwise within the narrowest section of the dual taper design.
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The linking portion of
In one embodiment, the width at the center of the linking portion is larger than the width of the corresponding struts. Preferably, the center is circular in shape. The larger center section provides greater surface contact between the linking portion of the butterfly tab and the medical device being restrained. Increased surface contact additionally provides greater restraining power by increasing the frictional force between the center section of the linking portion and the medical device. Therefore, since a larger segment of the medical device is in contact with the linking portion, specifically the center, significantly less effort is needed to fissure the butterfly tab.
Preferential line tears may be placed anywhere along the body of the struts, or alternatively, at the center of the linking portion. In one embodiment, the preferential line tears are positioned where the struts join the center section of the butterfly tab. In an alternate embodiment, the preferential line tears may be placed where the struts engage the adhesively bound winged portions of the butterfly tab.
In a further embodiment, more than one linking portion is used to form the butterfly tab. Each individual linking portion connects opposing winged portions. The center of the tab, therefore, contains at least two superposed layers of linking portions.
In preferred embodiments, the butterfly tabs having multiple linking portions herein described are best suited for the proximal portions of a catheter shaft and the hub assembly. It is well within the scope of this embodiment, however, to use the above-described linking portion in connection with the delicate regions of a medical device. In particular, such linking portions are also suitable for the bends and curves of the distal-most regions of a catheter.
A physician releases a medical device secured by the above-described linking portion by applying a vertical or horizontal pull on the medical device. This pull subsequently causes either the struts or the center section to fissure, if not both. Fissure, however, generally occurs where the struts attach to the winged portions of the butterfly tab. The resulting fissure of the struts or center section thereby releases the medical device from the butterfly tab and the mounting card.
Second side region 64 preferably undergoes at least one, and more preferably two taperings to form channel 67. In one embodiment, first tapering 68 immediately extends inwardly from both winged portions 65 and 66. More specifically, first tapering 68 extends inwardly at angle of approximately 40 to 50 degrees in pitch. Second tapering 69 subsequently increases the pitch of first tapering 68 at a distance approximately one quarter through the body of linking portion 62. Second tapering 69 generally extends inwardly at a pitch of approximately 60 degrees. The pitch of second tapering 69, from both ends, terminates at the channel's apex 70 within linking portion 62. In a preferred embodiment, the apex of channel 70 is approximately one half through to just proximate the first side region 63 of linking portion 62. The resulting channel 67 is thereby defined by these series of successive taperings 68 and 69 ending at apex 70.
The shape of this embodiment is designed for aiding in the fissure of linking portion 62. When a physician gently pulls on the medical device secured by two-sided linking portion 60, the natural tendency is for the medical device to move toward and into the center of channel 67. The pitch of first tapering 68 creates an expansive opening into the entrance of channel 67. This expansive opening permits a catheter that is positioned slightly off center under the two-sided linking portion 60, when pulled, to shift to the center of channel 67. From within channel 67, moderate pulling pressure results in the fissuring of the remaining linking portion 62 from the apex of the channel 70 through to first side region 63. In a further embodiment, a preferential tear line may be incorporated within linking portion 62 to aid in fissure. Preferably, the preferential tear line extends from the apex of channel 70 to first side region 63.
Relief slits 71 may be placed parallel to the direction of the secured medical device to add flexibility. As indicated in
As described in detail above, the butterfly tabs are formed independent of the mounting card. Butterfly tabs are generally constructed of a separate paper or film material. Several advantages arise from using an independent source for securing the medical device. First, because the securing means is not an outgrowth of the mounting card, the mounting card is no longer the only product the medical device may be secured upon. For example, the butterfly tabs may secure a medical device to a piece of Mylar or other film material. Thus, the final package may be a bag having no rigid support member. Alternatively, the butterfly labels may be attached to a rigid support member not suitable for forming die-cut tabs.
Second, because the butterfly tabs are formed independent of the mounting card, contamination caused by angel hair can be entirely eliminated. In a preferred embodiment, the butterfly tabs are constructed using off-the-shelf labeling equipment. Such equipment is modifiable to be incorporated into a fully automated packaging system.
Since webbing is a laborious process, automation of the process is desirable. A major factor in the failure to fully automate the packaging process to date has been the need for assemblers to weave the medical devices, and more specifically catheters, under the raised tabs of the mounting card. Automation removes these costs from production.
In a preferred embodiment, an operator would place a catheter onto a mounting card, or the equivalent thereto. A guide mechanism would then position the catheter into the catheter's desired alignment. The labeling portion of the machine would then selectively apply butterfly tabs over, and along the length of, the catheter shaft. The applied butterfly tabs may then be wiped to remove excess adhesive, if deemed necessary. Next, the catheter and the mounting card are then fed into a package-sealing device or placed into a pre-manufactured packaging pouch. In one embodiment, the mounting card and catheter are inserted into a Tyvek bottom, Mylar top, pouch. The package-sealing device seals the mounting card securely within the pouch. Finally, the pouch is labeled, sterilized (if not done prior), and packaged for shipment.
Having thus described the preferred embodiments of the present invention, those of skill in the art will readily appreciate that yet other embodiments may be made and used within the scope of the claims hereto attached.
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I remember a time when Jarrod and I were first living together when we ate sloppy joes a lot! Always the kind out of a can...Manwich! :) Well, I decided to try a Tastefully Simple recipe and make our own Sloppy Joes. I honestly can't remember the last time we had these. This was Gavin's first experience with Sloppy Joes, so it's been a while!
Brown a pound of ground beef with 2 tbsp Onion Onion. Drain as needed. Then stir in 1 tsp mustard (I used spicy mustard since I love it so much during this pregnancy), 3/4 cup ketchup, 1 tbsp brown sugar, and Seasoned Salt to taste. Cover and simmer for about 30 minutes and you're done. They were so delicious on toasted buns!
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Recipe - Sloppy Joes
2 comments:
- Kara said...
We love sloppy joes in our house too! Eva thinks the name is hysterical. Your recipe sounds yummy- I'll have to try adding mustard to ours the next time I make them.
- February 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM
- Tori said...
Very similar to the recipe I make except I usually slice an onion. Will try some onion onion next time. A few suggestions: Zoe loves to eat hers by scooping it with Fritos. I like mine with some butter on the bun and a little bit of cheese :-)
- February 26, 2011 at 7:35 PM
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Thank you JeannieC. You the the nth (where n > 1) person sounding the same words in 'my ears'. I have to keep trust in the Lord about this.
Hi Simon. I just wanted to add my experience should it be of any help to you. I was having trouble with the reading of my Bible and the renewing of my mind until I put all of my trust into the Lord.
[5] Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; [6] In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. [7] Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil. - Pro 3:5-7 NKJV
When I read scripture that I couldn't understand or that caused me confusion or concern, I didn't try to make it make sense by my own understanding. I told God plainly that I didn't understand or was confused about Him and asked Him to help me. It was tough in that I had to let go of my old mind in thinking I was wise in my own eyes. When I read something that seems to be a conflict I no longer struggled or doubted but confessed that God's Word is true and that it was my own mind that was in confusion or conflict and trusted that as He taught me, I would understand. That is exactly what He has done for me. Now, I pray and ask that I will have the ears to hear and for Him to open my eyes and my heart and to fill me with His Spirit and help me to learn and understand. I also ask Him to make my heart clean and to renew a right spirit within me.(Psalms 51:10) and I trust in Him to do so. Putting my trust in the Lord, is when I started noticing the renewing of my mind.
Another thing that helps me in my study is to listen to the Bible Chapter audio as I read along with it. This verse always comes to mind...
[17] So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. - Rom 10:17 NKJV
It really does help me though to hear it as I read along. Hearing it spoken somehow makes it more personal to me. Another benefit, is it helps me out in the Old Testament when dealing with names and pronunciations that trip me up if I'm reading on my own.
God bless you Simon.
God bless everyone here for the support I have received.