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Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Continually Redefining Game Art
No longer mere distractions cooked-up by programmers as a form of light relief in the early days of computers, video games have evolved into a variety of forms and have had a wide impact on multiple generations. To some extent, the same can now be said of art that addresses video games, the visual complexity and conceptual richness of which has grown with the medium. An exhibition guest-curated by artists Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum at Arthouse explores "the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games" by surveying both better-known and more emerging practitioners of game-related art, including Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern, and Keita Takahashi. RESET/PLAY is up through November 2nd and is accompanied by a series of public events that includes a night of video game competitions and a performance by New York-based sound artists Loud Objects. - Marisa Olson
Image: Brody Condon, Judgment Modification (After Memling), 2008 (Courtesy of the artist and Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, NY)
Interactive Crowd Sourcing
While the term "crowd sourcing" generally refers to a large group of people (i.e. internet users) contributing to the realization of a project, it might also apply in interesting ways to the newest installation by Jody Zellen. In "The Blackest Spot," at LA's Fringe gallery, she culls footage of crowds and corrals them into content categories which are in turn activated by visitors to the exhibition. While the crowd is usually theorized as a single entity or herd, Zellen's selections exemplify the many different means and reasons for which people choose to assemble in a single spot. When viewers step on censor-marked spots on the floor of the gallery, they trigger audio responses linked to the gatherings, ranging from quietude to cacophony. As a result, Zellen's audience is compelled to consider their own identification with those portrayed in the collected images. - Marisa OlsonImage: Jody Zellen, The Blackest Spot, 2008
Sounding the Alarms
Jane Philbrick's "PULL" installation, at New York's Location One gallery, is definitively interactive. Not only does it require viewer participation to really make the work happen, but it invites reflection on the agency, authority, and influence of the viewer. Flanked by walls of 502 beautifully symmetrical, gridded, illuminated fire alarms, strobes, smoke detectors, siren horns, and control panels, the installation relies on (or questions) the human impulse to pull the trigger. Once a viewer does pull on an alarm handle, loud noises, flashing lights, and loud words bombard the participant's eyes and ears in a simultaneously beautiful and overwhelming cascade. The project is intended to reflect on questions of fear and control, as well as the seductive versus destructive nature of power. Philbrick's collaboration with Honeywell Labs instigates commentary on the ways in which these issues have trickled down into architectural, industrial, and consumer devices, while upping the volume on her ongoing investigations into the subjective dimensions of language and the voice. - Marisa Olson
Image: Jane Philbrick, PULL, 2008
Taking it to the Tavern
Red76 is an artist collective who employ a variety of media, including the internet, video, photography, printed matter, and social interaction. In fact, their use of materials is more a matter of calling up the right tools for the right job, but their projects are always infused with a kind of critical repositioning of default installation techniques and didactics. When exhibiting in a museum, they are likely to eschew wall text in favor of a giant arrow directing your attention to what you are really meant to see. In part, this bravery to bend the rules gets to the heart of their work: a persistent effort to create and critique public spaces. While Portland-based artist Sam Gould founded Red76, its membership constantly rotates, and the group privileges its open source ideals over attributed authorship. In this vein, many of their projects take the shape of "how-to" instructions, such as How to... Protest Song Karaoke, in which participants are encouraged to preface public karaoke performances with comments about the supposedly unknown political content of otherwise sappy mainstream pop hits. News Blackout was a successful example of that celebrated artists' trick known as the one-liner. The piece is a video in which someone strategically blacks out newspaper text with a black marker in order to make a statement about what often gets left out of the news. Their latest project The Battery Republic, which begins this weekend, also positions itself as an intervention. The weeklong series takes the form of a mobile tavern, which will occupy a room at the Park Avenue Armory as part of Creative Time's Democracy In America exhibition, as well as various other locations around the city. The collective will use this politicized space as a site for a variety of activities, ranging from conversations with visitors ...
Kind of Blue
The cyanotype, in some ways, fuses multiple modern impulses towards empirical knowledge. In this once novel medium, originally used to study the footprints of organic specimens and still common in kids' at-home science kits, objects are left on the surface of photosensitive paper to create a sort of blue and white negative of the item. But the image format also links itself to the study of architectural structures at the site of the blueprint and to the avant-garde's embrace of the color blue to study perception and the psychic effects of color. (Think Yves Klein.) So Christian Marclay's marriage of the cyanotype and the increasingly defunct magnetic cassette medium is just as philosophically rich as it is beautiful. And indeed, the artist's prints are extremely beautiful. On view through October 11th at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery is a solo exhibition of the artist's work. One of the pieces included, Allover, looks like an ocean of castaway cassettes and tape ribbons doing a sort of dead man's float, while the title reads as a double entendre--the image is a time-based collage (blurring representational epochs and the time it takes for the picture to seep into the paper) in which the tapes are "all over" the page and the title also signals the fact that the tapes' heyday is "all over." On the contrary, Marclay's heyday is still roaring, as the artist continues to find new ways to intertwine concepts of visual and sonic composition and to turn what might otherwise amount to commodity fetishism into poignant commentary on the evolution of technology and the narrative forms we've generated to record-keep our romance with it. - Marisa Olson
Image: Christian Marclay, Untitled (Madonna, Thy Word and Sonic Youth), 2008
Rhizome Today: A critic, with opinions about postinternet art
My own effort in talking about Postinternet, at least in those early instances, as on the panel, was to (a) expand Rhizome's mission--I was then Editor & Curator--to cover and support a wider variety of practices; and (b) just to describe my own work and how a project like my Monitor Tracings (totally "offline" drawings) could be contextualized as internet art, or art 'after' the internet (i.e. In the style of & made after I log-off.) I think Michael puts it *perfectly* when he says, "we should understand all our gestures, 'online' and 'offline,' as actions in a network that is mediated and administered by computers." Perhaps this is obvious, but I'd say this applies to all of waking life, not just art production+reception.
I've personally moved from discussing Postinternet Art as "art after the internet" toward discussing Postinternet as "the symptoms of network culture." I am less interested in discussing PI Art specifically/exclusively, now that people have brow-beaten and/or branded the term into something far different than what I originally meant, and much more interested in discussing the social affects around the production of postinternet conditions and their manifestations. And, meanwhile, I have said (particularly in the Ullens catalogue & also in an interview in the Art and the Internet book put out by Black Dog) that, to me, Postinternet is just a 'placeholder' term around which to convene in having conversations around the latter symptoms. (I've started working on spelling these out more explicitly in recent & forthcoming writing-- including the keynote lecture I just gave at Pratt's UPLOAD conference, entitled "Postinternet is Dead. Long Live Postinternet.")
Likes/Dislikes around the word, aside, I hope this very long-running conversation around art and the internet can continue to incorporate careful consideration of the affects of network culture, as networks themselves evolve.
Breaking the Ice
Like most of the folks above, I too am a "forever member," from the days of the Rhizome Communications ascii RAW listserv and, later, fancy Dreamweaver/Flash "Splash Pages," to the present. Reena Jana and I were the first two paid writers (poached from Wired!), when Alex Galloway was running "content," which at that time meant programming and editorial--though Rhizome was declaratively non-editorial, so they just commissioned book & exhibition reviews, and some interviews from us that were fed into the RAW stream and included in the Digest as Features. Oy vey, I can still remember the cross-eyed weekly ritual of trying to untangle parallel conversations to reassemble them into a coherent thread for the Digest, when I was editing it--and the race to get it out by noon one day each week!!
I've seen Rhizome go through so many changes, and I've been a part of the back channel conversations on years of them, including huge ones that we decided not to go through with. I have to say that it's always hard to serve a membership-based organization, which is what Rhizome has always thought of itself as. But I can say that every change in content or form has been discussed critically, at length, and typically not without a degree of passion.
I am also biting my tongue because I *really* do not want to put words in any staff member's mouth (past or present), but I can say that I believe everyone who's ever worked there has taken their position as a labor of love, with users/reader/members/community (everyone has their favorite self-identification; semantics trolls please don't hate today!) in mind, and everyone has collaborated with the staff to bring a unique take on how best to serve you in the current creative and technological climate. For instance, I remember that my big objective coming in the door was wanting to change the mission statement to reflect not only net art and not only highly technological art, but also art that "reflects" on technology in a meaningful way. In fact, I think contemplating this change was very much a part of my conceptualizing Postinternet.
There is so much to say here, but I think I'd best sign off. This is not my soap box, and in some way, it feels weird to comment so much. I used to be a Superusing Megaposter, but as soon as I became Editor & Curator, I stepped back to focus on trying to facilitate and amplify other voices, which I do believe every Rhizome Editor has done in their own way.
I'll end with this, then. I'd be surprised if every reader, writer, or editor loved everything that ever appeared (structurally or content-wise) in their newspaper of choice. I'd be surprised if every curator or museumgoer loved every artwork shown (or every exhibition design decision) in their favorite museum. But it's the day we stop reading, stop going to look at art that disappoints me. It's the day Rhizome stops experimenting that scares me. And I wish them well on this new experiment.
Conference Report: NET.ART (SECOND EPOCH)
Thank you for these points of clarification. I actually tried to convey (and forgive me if I failed) that your presentation was unique in identifying multiple generations of networked artists, and I particularly liked the way you talked about artists working before the internet in ways that anticipated network culture.
You also made that great point (via Hal Foster) about the ways in which critics' work is influenced by what is/ was happening at the moment they entered the art world. I admire how you helped pioneer new media criticism and yet have continued to stay on the pulse of new work. This is what I had in mind when recalling your point about your relationship to a previous generation of net-dot-artists, versus the artists of the era Inclusiva was calling the "second epoch." I just really liked the way you fleshed out more than two epochs and I wanted to highlight your catalyzing role in the net-dot-art scene, in particular.
In my own presentation, my intent absolutely was not to dismiss any previous artists, movements, practices, etc. It was simply to flesh-out one niche of new media art practice. In fact, I really liked the pointed questions that the audience asked afterwards, because it helped us have a really meaningful discussion about the problematic relationship of pro surfer work to art historical discourse, and my calls to action revolved around getting those artists to participate in learning about their own pre-histories and writing historiographies that situate their own trajectories on their own terms.
So I don't think we're in disagreement. But I appreciate your call to fine-tune my articulation of these scenarios.
Go Ahead, Touch Her
Go Ahead, Touch Her
I'm sorry that you found my article objectionable. I didn't intend to make the implications you suggest, but I believe your response cuts to the most interesting aspect of Laric's piece, which is the effect of remixing.
For those who care to review the lyrics to this song, they are here:
They include the refrain:
Touch my body
Put me on the floor
Wrestle me around
Play with me some more
Touch my body
Throw me on the bed
So, in fact, I do think that Carey's lyrics (and video) invite sexual fantasy, but my article doesn't say that she is asking to be violated, it says that she's asking to be remixed. Of course, the slippage between the two that you identify is what's so interesting.
In an interview with Laric, he told me that he noticed that the video takes-on an increased sexual tone when all but Carey is masked out. He was interested in how this first-person invitation to "touch my body" could be construed as an invitation to remix the visage of her body (and/or the voice emitted from it), particularly given (a) the implicit link to digital culture embodied by both the lyrics and video, and (b) the fact that the remix is now such an important part of the media ecology of pop culture.
In the last 25+ years of pop music, lining-up celebrity remixes and making singles remix-ready has been an important part of the production cycle, often preceding the release of the original recording. Almost all historical accounts of Madonna's rise to fame cite her relationship with DJs and openness to remixing as a key factor in her success. So while you may see the remix as a violent act, clearly those participating in this industry see it as an imperative.
Discussions of why a remix is or isn't violent are interesting, as they get to questions of the status of the digital reproduction. Are we remixing a person or "just" her image, and what's the difference when thinking about how a person's identity--particularly a famous person's identity--hinges upon their image? Carey's image was already manipulated before it came to us. In the interview with Laric, he pointed to a segment in the original video in which the shape of a cup becomes distorted as a result of distorting the footage to make the singer standing behind the cup appear slimmer. So this is already not her. If you listen closely, I believe there is also a question as to whether all of the voiced parts of the song are her, so the audio issue adds another layer to the phenomenological question of the brute force of the remix.
These issues of the import of the remix, the relationship to broader pop culture (rather than an insular art world), collective authorship, and the nature of Carey's invitation are what I hoped to address in this article.


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McG joins Jennifer Beals, Ilene Chaiken in "Venice" pilot
February 13, 2013 by Desiree Washington
Filed under Entertainment, Film & TV
Filmmaker McG is teaming up with Jennifer Beals and Ilene Chaiken to produce a pilot for new telelvision series "Venice." McG will direct. Beals has signed on as a leading actor and Ilene Chaiken ( "L Word" creator/executive producer) has joined as executive producer/showrunner.
"Venice," written by Byron Balasco, is a soap about class struggles in California's famed Venice neighborhood. It focuses on two rival families and a forbidden and dangerous romance emerging between them as the families battle for control of Venice. Beals plays Lisa Carver, the elegant bohemian matriarch of the Carver family, one of the two feuding clans.
McG, a former music video and record producer, brings his specialized film and television directoral chops to the mix. He rose to prominence with his first film , "Charlie's Angels," which had the highest-grossing opening weekend for a directorial debut at the time. Since then, he has directed other films of cult fame, including "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Terminator Salvation." He has also executive produced wildly popular television series "The O.C.," "Chuck," and "Supernatural."
MG's "Venice" should not be confused with the popular web series "Venice: The Series," co-produced by and starring Crystal Chappell. "Venice: The Series" loosely continues a plot on the daytime soap"Guiding Light," where two female characters became lovers.

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I know this is off-topic, but it's my blog so here it is...everyone...I have a confession to make....I'm a GAMER!!!! Not just pen and paper games...but all games. I own an xbox 360 (currently down with the red ring of death...), a psp, boatloads of games, and yes I do have a subscription to World of Warcraft (though honestly not as addicted to it as I once was).
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Castle Ravenloft Session 1 / Part 2
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after that last encounter with some of the denizens of my castle you must be famished.
My skeptical group walked into a dining room where strahd sat at the head of a table facing him (Honestly didnt understand why the book originally sat it up for him to be RIGHT next to them as they entered the door with his back to them
thats not the Strahd Im roleplaying anyway). I tried to set this
A wonderful week has passed and I dearly hope you all had a great relaxing Memorial Day weekend. For me, I had the chance to pick up the Monster Manual 2 for 4th Edition. Rather than just give a full review...I'll simplify and say it's great...buy it if your a dm and you won't regret it.
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For those of you that haven't been following I've been running Expedition to Ravenloft converted over to 4th Edition. My players and I have been loving every moment of it
So on Saturday WotC sponsored the D&D game day. I went again, after attending the last game day, where I had a pretty good time. So this time I was a little more prepared with what to expect. So, overall the adventure was pretty good and the characters were easier to run, being that they were lower level. They used figs from the new Heroes line of miniatures. The use of old figs being a complaint of mine last time. So that was cool. This time I played an Eladrin Wizard, neither the race or class
With the adventurers ready and decked out in their new gear they traveled to Castle Ravenloft. Up till now the party had a wizard with them, but after he went mad and obsessed with leaving the Dread Realm
they were left one short. Not really a problem these days in Barovia, as it seems that the mists have granted access to many an adventurer that now find themselves trapped and fighting for their lives. One such victim is Lucian, an Elven Avenger, who was lead by his god Correllon to fight a great


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Estrogens and progestins should not be used for the prevention of cardiovascular disease or dementia. (See WARNINGS, Cardiovascular disorders and Dementia.)
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study reported increased risks of myocardial infarction, stroke, invasive breast cancer, pulmonary emboli, and deep vein thrombosis in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 5 years of treatment with oral conjugated estrogens (CE 0.625 mg) combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA 2.5 mg) relative to placebo. (See CLINICAL STUDIES and WARNINGS, Cardiovascular disorders and Malignant neoplasms, Breast cancer.)
The WHI study reported increased risks of stroke and deep vein thrombosis in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 6.8 years of treatment with oral conjugated estrogens (CE 0.625 mg) relative to placebo. (See CLINICAL STUDIES and WARNINGS, Cardiovascular disorders.)
The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a substudy of WHI, reported increased risk of developing probable dementia in postmenopausal women 65 years of age or older during 4 years of treatment with CE 0.625 mg combined with MPA 2.5 mg and during 5.2 years of treatment with CE 0.625 mg alone, relative to placebo. It is unknown whether this finding applies to younger postmenopausal women. (See CLINICAL STUDIES, WARNINGS, Dementia and PRECAUTIONS, Geriatric use.)
Other doses of oral conjugated estrogens with medroxyprogesterone acetate, and other combinations and dosage forms of estrogens and progestins were not studied in the WHI clinical trials and, in the absence of comparable data, these risks should be assumed to be similar. Because of these risks, estrogens with or without progestins should be prescribed at the lowest effective doses and for the shortest duration consistent with treatment goals and risks for the individual woman.
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Climara Pro® (Estradiol/Levonorgestrel Transdermal System) is an adhesive-based matrix transdermal patch designed to release both estradiol and levonorgestrel, a progestational agent, continuously upon application to intact skin. The 22 cm2 Climara Pro system contains 4.4 mg estradiol and 1.39 mg levonorgestrel and provides a nominal delivery rate (mg per day) of 0.045 estradiol and 0.015 levonorgestrel.
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The mainstays for decreasing the risk of postmenopausal osteoporosis are weight bearing exercise, adequate calcium and vitamin D intake, and when indicated, pharmacologic therapy. Postmenopausal women require an average of 1500mg/day of elemental calcium. Therefore, when not contraindicated, calcium supplementation may be helpful for women with suboptimal dietary intake. Vitamin D supplementation of 400-800 IU/day may also be required to ensure adequate daily intake in postmenopausal women.
Risk factors for osteoporosis include low bone mineral density, low estrogen levels, family history of osteoporosis, previous fracture, small frame (low BMI), light skin color, smoking, and alcohol intake. Response to therapy can be predicted by pre-treatment serum estradiol, and can be assessed during treatment by measuring biochemical markers of bone formation/resorption, and/or bone mineral density.
Efficacy of a new 7-day transdermal sequential estradiol/levonorgestrel patch in women. [2002.03.25]OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy and tolerability of a new 7-day transdermal sequential estradiol/levonorgestrel patch (Fem7 Combi; Merck KGaA; Germany), versus placebo, as hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women... CONCLUSIONS: The new 7-day transdermal sequential estradiol/levonorgestrel patch was well tolerated, providing rapid and effective relief of menopausal symptoms. The addition of low-dose levonorgestrel did not influence the beneficial effects of estradiol.
Estradiol and levonorgestrel: effects on bleeding pattern when administered in a sequential combined regimen with a new transdermal patch. [2002.03]OBJECTIVE: A 1-year, randomized, multicenter study was carried out to assess the effects of estradiol/levonorgestrel, delivered transdermally by 7-day patches in a sequential combined regimen, on bleeding pattern and acceptability in postmenopausal women... CONCLUSIONS: Sequential combined transdermal 17 beta-estradiol/levonorgestrel shows very good cycle control that is well accepted by postmenopausal women.
17 beta-estradiol/levonorgestrel transdermal system. [2004]Hormone replacement therapy with continuous 17 beta-estradiol/levonorgestrel (estradiol/levonorgestrel), administered once weekly as a transdermal system, has shown efficacy in the treatment of vasomotor symptoms associated with menopause. Transdermal estradiol/levonorgestrel (4.4/2.74 and 4.5/3.75mg) significantly reduced the mean weekly (primary endpoint) and daily number of hot flashes (flushes) compared with placebo in a 12-week, randomized, double-blind trial in postmenopausal women (both of the dosages used are higher than the approved dosage).
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Death of inmate follows brother's death in Jefferson County jail
The inmate found hanging in a single-person cell of the Sevier County Jail last week was the sister of a man who died in the Jefferson County Jail the previous Saturday.
A jailer found Amy Denise Lowery, 35, of 2559 Roberts Road in Kodak, hanged in her cell Thursday, according to information from the Sevier County Sheriff's Office. Her brother, Kenny Ray Lowery, 37, of 4416 Turnery Way in Kodak, died April 12, while housed at the Jefferson County Jail, Sevier County Sheriff Ron Seals said Monday.
According to reporting from The Jefferson County Standard Banner, Jefferson County Sheriff Bud McCoig said Kenny Lowery Jr. was in a bunk bed in an open cell block when he fell from the top bed. Corrections officers saw the incident and Lowery at first told them he was all right, but he later went into convulsions. He was taken to a local hospital and later died.
While the cause of death could not be confirmed, McCoig has said in recent statements to the media that three inmates died in his jail recently —two from hangings, and one from an apparent heart attack.
Sevier County Sheriff's deputies arrested Amy Lowery Wednesday. She had a warrant for failure to appear in general sessions court, and a warrant for assault sworn out by her alleged victim April 9.
Tiffany Bible said Amy Lowery had been a guest at her home, but attacked her at about 11:30 p.m. April 9.
Lowery was arrested at midnight Wednesday, the same day her brother was to be buried and just hours after his funeral service and visitation.
Seals said Lowery was in a single-person cell in the Sevier County Jail. She had spoken to a chaplain, but had not given any indication she was a risk to injure herself.
"She did not tell him anything about (her intentions)," Seals said.
The cells are checked at least once an hour; Lowery's cell had been checked about 45 minutes before a corrections officer found her in the cell, Seals said.
She had been in the Sevier County Jail 14 times, according to records, and jail officials said she was placed in the single-person cell based on her behavior during prior stays at the jail.
She is survived by five children, a sister, her parents and several nieces and nephews.
District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn confirmed Monday his office was informed of Amy Lowery's death, but said that the notification happened Saturday, the same day The Mountain Press began inquiring about the incident.
As of Monday afternoon, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had not been invited to investigate either of the Lowery deaths, according to spokesperson Josh DeVine.


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It's no secret that we plan to openly weep when the Harry Potter series comes to a close once and for all. As soon as the credits to Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part II start to roll, we will be blubbering messes, we're just that attached to this franchise. But we still have a few more months of anticipation and excitement before our emotions turn, and with that in mind, we're super-psyched to get a look at these Harry Potter stills published in Entertainment Weekly. These new shots show Harry in the interior of Gringotts, a scene with the Death Eaters, and herbology whiz Neville Longbottom going all swordsman on Nagini the Snake's ass. Oh, God. Neville. Just thinking about him gives us chills.
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Food trucks + Obamacare = Death Panel candidate
All those shows sucks. Especially Walking Dead. Just terrible. I have Screwwarner and I couldn't tell you if I have A&E or not.
What really scares me is not what SCOTUS did, but there are people out there that SUPPORT this. Boggles the mind.
Will Obamacare cover people if they get their face eaten off by a bath salt zombie?
So what happens to Holder? Does he get a strongly worded email asking him to turn over the documents again? Or perhaps a time out? I hope it is as least 15 minutes long.
Wave of the future. He is probably not big enough to swing the $1000 per head to avoid carrying the insurance. Sucks. This will be the most serious job killer this country has ever faced. This very well might bring down the US economy. All these supporters just think all business owners are rich and can afford it. Well guess what, in the real world health insurance is very expensive to provide.
They won't respond to this article. I was listening to NPR yesterday and this kid on their was talking about how his insurance cost 25% of his annual take home and was thanking Barky for letting him keep it. Next year, that kid's insurance will cost 50% or more of his take home...IF his employer still even offers it. If I were an employer, I would dumping off that insurance fast since the fine for not having it is what? $1000 head? So $1000 a head fine or whatever more than that for insuring my workers? Choice is clear. Health care just became like auto insurance. I hope you don't have to use it very often. Will they offer SR-22 for health care?
Yeah...The Columbus Crapspatch is not mentioning this at all but now everyone is talking about what this will cost. Maybe they should have thought that BEFORE they sent Barky out there. In case you are wondering, look at the great state of TRASHACHUSETTS where MITT ROMNEY passed it there. They are trying to now introduce cost controls and cannot get them passed.
I cannot find the "I am Barack Obama and I approved this message" anywhere. Ms. Scott will be more screwed if the ACA is enforced. She might be covered, but she couldn't afford the premiums. Most experts are predicting the average premium will go up at least 300% post 2014.
$344? First off, that is worth going to court to get fixed and second, if money is "trash" (i.e. littering with) then how is taken $344 in "trash" an acceptable punishment for littering with money in the first place? The cop was OBVIOUSLY just being an annoying jackboot thug.
Casinos will be real easy to get into at 3 AM since they do not have any kind of liquor license to serve at that hour. Who wants to gamble while sober?
That is a really GOOD idea. In fact, those would have brought in better and HIGHER PAYING jobs instead of the mob ridden casino Cleveland got instead. I am down here in Columbus (I know...it sucks...don't remind me) and they are literally saying the Casino opening here will have "high paying" service jobs. I would rather see abolishing of all income taxes and corporate income taxes and the state giving SBA loans to small businesses to start up in Ohio. Forget luring big mega corps to Ohio. Ohio needs to grow their own mega corps.
Hey Ohio Voters! See those pretty lights with slots attached to take all your money? It won't save the state. You were DUPED because 80% of people who walk this state are IDIOTS. Oh well. Enjoy your new life of prostitution, crime, and a new breed of assorted trash walking the streets of Cleveland.
Who takes these surveys anyway. Ohio sucks.
Change? Let's review...installed corporatist leader, lobbyists for each congressman, council of governors keeping the governors and city mayors in line, the people getting the crap taxed out of them while big business pays no taxes? I am not seeing much change here.
Wanna know how the state could get even MORE money? Abolish the state income tax.
Looks like someone in govmint got their cut to get this overturned. Just another example of lobbyists doing their jobs and getting govt to save big business corporatists.
Let's see...urban walkabilty...getting shot...urban biking....getting shot....CARS ARE AWESOME!
Gov. Kasich. You should run from Mittens like a man runs from Sarah Palin. Run John Run!
Everything you list is why people need to be out of HS by 16 and off to college or vocation school. Sports and music are a bottomless money pit and making kids sit in school for 10+ hours a day will have a totally opposite effect on what you think the outcome is. The other sad excuse I keep reading here is "I want to graduate with my friends". Question. Will your friends help you in your future job or career? I think not. This is America and you're on your own out here.


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So, you're going on vacation – and we're sure it's well-deserved! Once you have your suitcase packed, your itinerary ready, and your cat-sitter hired, you're just about ready for the time of your life. But there's one more oft-overlooked thing you should consider: how to eat healthy on vacation, so you can make sure you'll feel well enough to make the most of your plans!
When on vacation, people tend to eat differently than they usually do at home. Whether you're eating out at restaurants with bigger portions, trying local cuisine with unfamiliar ingredients, or dining at times that aren't in line with your usual daily schedule, vacation-eating can throw your body for a bit of a curve.
Since there's nothing that can ruin plans quite like digestive issues, we want to provide you with some ways in which you can keep your digestion as regular as possible.
Here's someone you probably know: a friend, or a friend of a friend, who has gone on some kind of "detox" plan – maybe a 3-day juice cleanse or a 7-day restricted diet, or even a 1-day detox.
Here's something you definitely know: You should drink water. And eat fiber.
Here's something it might be good to know: While the evidence behind the effectiveness of detox diets is spotty or non-existent, the benefits of good hydration, coupled with a high-fiber diet, are well-established.
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Marjorie M. Manson, 89, of Liberty St., Amsterdam, died in her home early Wednesday morning, March 30, 2011, following an extended illness.
Born April 30, 1921, in Shreveport, LA, she was a daughter of the late Marvin and Beulah May White.
She was a member of United Church of Amsterdam.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, John (Ali) Manson of Gahanna; three daughters, Linda (Ron) Anderson of Springfield, Jan Primack and Karen Demetro, both of Canton; nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John Manson in 2005.
Private graveside services were held April 2 in Ft. Steuben Burial Estates in Wintersville. Sweeney-Dodds Funeral Directors of Amsterdam handled arrangements.
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Brown County residents can safely dispose of old, unused medication today; Abilene residents in mid-October
Residents can get rid of old medication
Brown County residents will have a chance to participate in "Drug Take Back Day" today, while Abilene-area residents will have a chance to participate in a similar event in mid-October.
Today's event, sponsored by the Drug Enforcement Administration and supported by the Brownwood Police Department and the city of Brownwood, is designed to get "expired and unwanted drugs out of our medicine cabinets without polluting our public water supply," according to a media advisory describing the event.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Brown County residents can take their old or unused medications to the parking lots of either Wal-Mart, 401 W. Commerce St., or Brookshire's, 1400 Austin Ave., for a "no questions asked" opportunity to have them properly disposed of, the advisory said.
Prescription and nonprescription medications, pet medications, vitamins and herbal supplements, and all sorts of inhalers are among the items that can be accepted at the event.
Items must be in their original containers. Those bringing items should black out any personal information.
Items that cannot be taken include sharps, syringes, oxygen tanks, pen needles and lancets.
A similar event will be offered in Abilene from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 13. The "Medication Cleanout," presented by Hendrick Health System and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy, provides Taylor County residents the same sort of opportunity to safely and conveniently dispose of medications.
That event will be at the School of Pharmacy, 1718 Pine St.
Greg Young with Hendrick Professional Pharmacy said such medication disposal events such have many benefits.
"It reduces potential drug misuse or accidental overdose," Young said. "It also helps protect the environment. Programs like this incinerate the medication, which is the cleanest way to get rid of it, and they can take pretty much anything — narcotics or whatever you have — and safely destroy it."
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A self attaching injection port has integral moveable fasteners which are moveable from a undeployed state to a deployed state engaging tissue. The fasteners may be disposed radially or tangentially, and rotated to pierce the fascia. The fasteners may be rigid or elastically deformable.
1. An injection port for injecting fluids into a body, said port comprising:
a. a housing for placement beneath the skin of the body, said housing including means for receiving a needle;
b. at least one retention member integrally attached to said housing, said at least one retention member having an undeployed state when disposed in a first position relative to said housing and a deployed state engaging tissue adjacent said housing when disposed in a second position relative to said housing.
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10. The port of 9, wherein said at least one retention member is in its natural non-deformed configuration when disposed at said second position.
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14. An injection port for injecting fluids into a body, said port comprising:
a. a housing for placement beneath the skin of the body, said housing including means for receiving a needle;
b. a plurality of retention members integrally attached to said housing, each said retention member respectively having an undeployed state when disposed in a first position relative to said housing and a deployed state engaging tissue adjacent said housing when disposed in a second position relative to said housing, each said retention member being rotatable about a respective axis to move between said first position and said second position.
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25. An injection port for injecting fluids into a body, said port comprising:
a. a housing for placement beneath the skin of the body, said housing including means for receiving a needle;
b. a plurality of retention members integrally attached to said housing, each said retention member having an undeployed state when disposed in a first position relative to said housing and a deployed state engaging tissue adjacent said housing when disposed in a second position relative to said housing, each said retention member being elastically deformed in said first position.
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30. An injection port for injecting fluids into a body, said port comprising:
a. a housing for placement beneath the skin of the body, said housing including means for receiving a needle, said housing including a lower surface;
b. a retention member integrally attached to said housing, said retention member being rotatably moveable about an axis to a deployed state having a first position proximal said lower surface engaging tissue between said retention member and said lower surface.
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[0001] This application claims the priority of provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/478,763, titled Fluid Injection Port For Adjustable Gastric Band, filed on Jun. 16, 2003, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. This application also incorporates by reference the following co-pending U.S. patent applications filed of even date herewith: application Ser. No. ______ (Subcutaneous Injection Port For Applied Fasteners, investors: Conlon and Hunt); and application Ser. No. ______ (Subcutaneous Self Attaching Injection Port With Integral Fasteners, inventors: Conlon and Kolata).
[0002] The present invention relates in general to surgically implantable fluid injection ports, and is particularly directed to fasteners and methods for fastening subcutaneous peripherally attached ports. The invention will be specifically disclosed in connection with injection ports used with adjustable gastric bands, although the fasteners of the present invention may be used with many different subcutaneously attached devices, including injection ports used for vascular access such as the infusion of medications and blood draws.
[0003] Injection ports are placed beneath the skin of a body for injecting fluids into the body, such as for infusing medication, blood draws, and many other applications, including adjustable gastric bands. Since the early 1980s, adjustable gastric bands have provided an effective alternative to gastric bypass and other irreversible surgical weight loss treatments for the morbidly obese. The gastric band is wrapped around an upper portion of the patient's stomach, forming a stoma that restricts food passing from an upper portion to a lower portion of the stomach. When the stoma is of the appropriate size, food held in the upper portion of the stomach provides a feeling of fullness that discourages overeating. However, initial maladjustment or a change in the stomach over time may lead to a stoma of an inappropriate size, warranting an adjustment of the gastric band. Otherwise, the patient may suffer vomiting attacks and discomfort when the stoma is too small to reasonably pass food. At the other extreme, the stoma may be too large and thus fail to slow food moving from the upper portion of the stomach, defeating the purpose altogether for the gastric hand.
[0004] In addition to a latched position to set the outer diameter of the gastric band, adjustability of gastric bands is generally achieved with an inwardly directed inflatable balloon, similar to a blood pressure cuff, into which fluid, such as saline, is injected through a fluid injection port to achieve a desired diameter. Since adjustable gastric bands may remain in the patient for long periods of time, the fluid injection port is typically installed subcutaneously to avoid infection, for instance in front of the sternum. Adjusting the amount of fluid in the adjustable gastric band is achieved by inserting a Huber needle through the skin into a silicon septum of the injection port. Once the needle is removed, the septum seals against the hole by virtue of compressive load generated by the septum. A flexible conduit communicates between the injection port and the adjustable gastric band.
[0005] The traditional surgical technique for securing a fluid injection port developed for vascular uses has been applying sutures through a series of holes spaced about a peripheral base flange. While generally effective, suturing often proves to be difficult and time consuming, even more so with adjustable gastric band which are intended for the morbidly obese. A significant thickness of fat tissue may underlie the skin, causing difficulties as the surgeon attempts to apply sutures to deeply recessed tissues (e.g., 5-10 cm) to secure the port, often requiring 10-15 minutes to complete. Further, if the injection port is not sutured properly, the port may flip over, making subsequent injections difficult or impossible.
[0006] Recently, a surgical stapler has been described in a German patent application No. 197 51 791.9 to Pier wherein a hat-shaped injection port includes tangentially aligned linear grooves spaced around its perimeter. A pair of holes in each linear groove receives a traditional bent wire staple. A stapler holds the staples in place and has downwardly moving forming member that presses upon the shoulders of each staple. Due to the position of the holes in the linear groove, pointed ends of the staple are deformed inwardly to grip underlying tissue.
[0007] This Pier stapler thus attaches the staples through a deformation that may prove difficult to release should the initial placement be undesirable or removal of the gastric band be appropriate. Further, because the device must permanently deform a multiplicity of stainless steel or titanium staples, a more complicated mechanism is required to provide the surgeon with enough mechanical advantage to form the staples easily. The Pier injection port also requires a custom stapler handle that is not useful for any other purpose, which may be an undesirable expense for surgeons who do not perform numerous placements of the Pier injection port.
[0008] While a custom stapler for an injection port may have advantages over suturing, such as the time required to accomplish the attachment, it is believed that other approaches to attaching an injection port may have additional advantages or features not provided by traditional suturing or a stapler using bent wire staples.
[0009] Consequently, a significant need exists for a fluid injection port suitable for subcutaneous attachment that is quickly attachable yet is secure over a long period of time.
[0010] As described herein, there is provided an injection port for injecting fluids into a body. The port includes a housing for placement beneath the skin of the body and means for receiving a needle. At least one retention member is integrally attached to the housing which is moveable with respect thereto. The retention member has an undeployed state when disposed in a first position relative to the housing and a deployed state engaging tissue adjacent the housing when disposed in a second position relative to the housing.
[0011] The accompanying drawings incorporated in and forming a part of the specification illustrate several aspects of the present invention, and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings:
[0012]FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic drawing showing an injection port constructed in accordance with the present invention, connected to an adjustable gastric band wrapped around an upper part of a stomach.
[0013]FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the injection port shown in FIG. 1.
[0014]FIG. 3 is an enlarged, cross sectional view taken along a vertical plane through line 3-3 in FIG. 2.
[0015]FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the rotatable retention member.
[0016]FIG. 5 is perspective view of an injection port attachment assembly with the injection port of FIG. 1 installed in an applicator.
[0017]FIG. 6 is an exploded view of the injection port attachment assembly of FIG. 5.
[0018]FIG. 7 is a cross sectional view of the base taken along line 7-7 of FIG. 6.
[0019]FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the base of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 5.
[0020]FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the plunger of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 5.
[0021]FIG. 10 is a cross sectional view of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 5, taken at the same location as indicated by line 10-1O of FIG. 9.
[0022]FIG. 11 is a side view of the injection port attachment assembly shown in FIG. 5 prior to implantation.
[0023]FIG. 12 is a side view of the injection port attachment assembly shown in FIG. 5 following implantation prior to release of the injection port from the applicator subassembly.
[0024]FIG. 13 is a cross sectional view of the injection port attachment assembly taken along line 13-13 of FIG. 12.
[0025]FIG. 14 is an enlarged portion of FIG. 13 showing a fragmentary cross sectional view of the resilient retention member and injection port.
[0026]FIG. 15 is an enlarged, fragmentary view showing the position of the actuator ramp and the resilient retention member actuator.
[0027]FIG. 16 is a side view of an alternate embodiment of an injection port attachment assembly according the present invention.
[0028]FIG. 17 is a perspective view of the plunger of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 16.
[0029]FIG. 18 is a fragmentary side view of the attachment end of the injection port attachment assembly shown in FIG. 16.
[0030]FIG. 19 is en end view of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 16.
[0031]FIG. 20 is an enlarged, fragmentary cross sectional view of the attachment end of the applicator subassembly of FIG. 16.
[0032]FIG. 21 is a perspective view of an alternate embodiment of a self attaching injection port in accordance with the present invention and an applicator configured for use therewith.
[0033]FIG. 22 is an enlarged side view of the injection port of FIG. 21 with a portion cut away to show a rotatable retention member.
[0034]FIG. 23 is a fragmentary, cross sectional view of the applicator taken along line 23-23 of FIG. 21.
[0035]FIG. 24 is a side view of the injection port attachment and applicator of FIG. 21 prior to implantation, with a portion cut away to show a rotatable retention member.
[0036]FIG. 25 is a side view similar to FIG. 24, with the applicator slightly rotated showing initiation of implantation.
[0037]FIG. 26 is a side view similar to FIG. 25, with the applicator rotated further showing completion of implantation.
[0038]FIG. 27 is a side view in partial cross section of another embodiment of an injection port with integral moveable retention members.
[0039]FIG. 28 is a cross-section side view of the outer tube of an applier for implanting the injection port shown in FIG. 27.
[0040]FIG. 29 is an end view of the applier of FIG. 28.
[0041]FIG. 30 illustrates the injection port of FIG. 28 loaded in the applier of FIG. 29 immediately prior to implantation.
[0042]FIG. 31 illustrates the withdrawal shows the injection port and applier of FIG. 30 implantation.
[0043]FIG. 32 is a perspective view of another embodiment of an injection port with an integral moveable retention member.
[0044]FIG. 33 is a fragmentary side view of the retention member of the injection port of FIG. 32.
[0045]FIG. 34 is a side view of the injection port of FIG. 32, with the retention member in the deployed position.
[0046] Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiment of the invention, an example of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
[0047] Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherein like numerals indicate the same elements throughout the views, FIG. 1, adjustable gastric band 10 is shown wrapped around an upper portion of stomach 12, kept in place by attaching the two ends together and extending portion 14 of the stomach 12 over adjustable gastric band 10 by suturing portion 14 to the stomach. One end of flexible conduit 16 is in fluid communication with the internal cavity of the balloon (not shown), with the other end being in fluid communication with an internal cavity of injection port 18. At the time adjustable gastric band 10 is implanted around a portion of the stomach, remote injection port 18 is also implanted at a suitable location, usually within the rectus sheaths, for transcutaneous access via a Huber needle.
[0048] Referring also to FIGS. 2 and 3, as is well known, injection port 18 includes housing 20 having annular flange 22 extending outwardly from one end. Nipple 24 is in fluid communication with internal cavity 26 defined by housing 20, to which flexible conduit 16 is attached at some point in the procedure, typically after injection port 18 has been implanted. Fluid is added to or removed from interior cavity 26 by inserting a Huber needle percutaneously into silicone septum 28 of injection port 18. Although septum 26 is made of silicon, the means of the injection port for receiving a needle includes any structure configured to self seal after puncture with a non-coring needle.
[0049] Although a specific configuration for injection port 18 is disclosed herein, there are many suitable configurations which may be used in conjunction with the present invention.
[0050] As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, injection port 18 includes three integral rotatable circumferentially spaced retention members/fasteners 30, each of which is rotatably carried by a respective pin 32. Each fastener 30 is disposed to rotate in a respective radial plane, about a respective tangential axis. Each pin 32 is supported by a respective fastener support 34 which is carried by flange 22. For each fastener support 34, portion 22 a of flange 22 extends generally radially outward, with a pair of spaced apart upright flanges 34 a and 34 b, defining a gap therebetween, extending upwardly relative to top surface 22 b of flange portion 22 a, adjacent either side of slot 36. Recesses 36 a may be formed into the side of housing 20 if necessary to provide clearance for rotation of rotatable retention members 30. Fastener supports 34 may be of unitary construction with flange 22, or may be mounted thereon in any suitable manner.
[0051] Each flange 34 a and 34 b includes a respective mutually aligned hole into which pin 32 is pressed with an interference fit sufficient to retain pin 32 therein. In the depicted embodiment, ribs 38 a and 38 b extend from the facing inner surfaces of flanges 34 a and 34 b, and bear against fasteners 30 to keep them from rotating freely so that fasteners 30 may be kept a non-deployed state until implantation.
[0052] Flange 22 includes two circumferentially spaced recesses 40 (only one of which is visible in FIG. 2). Flange 22 includes a stepped/raised portion 22 c overlying recess 40. It is noted that recess 40 may be formed in flange 22 without including raised portion 22 c.
[0053] The teachings of this invention may be practiced with any suitable configuration of a injection port, such as having a smaller flange or a discontinuous flange. Three fasteners 30 are effective to prevent injection port 18 from flipping over after implantation, such as due to passive or induced movements of the patient. However, the present invention is not limited to the use of three fasteners, and one or more fasteners may be used.
[0054] Referring to FIG. 4, rotatable retention member 30 is formed as a hook, having an arm 30 a extending from base portion 30 b to arcuate portion 30 c. Arcuate portion 30 c terminates in tip 30 d which is sharp enough to penetrate tissue.
[0055]FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate injection port assembly 42 with injection port 18 installed in applicator subassembly 44. Applicator subassembly 44 includes base 46 and plunger 48.
[0056] Referring also to FIGS. 7, 8 and 9, base 46 includes handle portion 50, which can be any suitable configuration, and tubular housing portion 52. End 54 includes recesses 56 dimensioned and shaped to receive fastener supports 34 and portions 22 a. Each recess includes slot portion 56 a which provides clearance for rotatable retention member 30. End 54 also includes recess 58, which provides clearance for nipple 24 when injection port 18 is installed in applicator subassembly 44.
[0057] Base 46 includes two circumferentially spaced resilient retention members 60, each defined by two respective elongated slots 62 a and 62 b. Each pair of slots 62 a and 62 b are circumferentially spaced a distance such that retention members 60 are essentially cantilevered springs which may be deflected outwardly to release injection port 18, as will be described below. Extending from each longitudinal edge of each retention member 60 near end 60 a is a respective retention member actuator 64 a and 64 b. End 60 a includes an inwardly extending lip 60 b. The arcuate width, height and depth of recess 40 are complementary to the corresponding dimensions of lip 60 b, such that lip 60 b engages recess 40 to thereby retain injection port 18 at end 54 of base 42.
[0058] As seen in FIG. 6, plunger 48 includes shaft portion 66 and cylindrical portion 68, both of which are shaped and sized complementary to corresponding portions of base 46 so as to be axially moveably received therein. End 70 of cylindrical portion 68 is configured to complementarily engage flange 22, and includes axial recesses 72 a and 72 b which align with raised portion 22 c. End 70 may alternatively be flat, if the configuration of flange 22 dictates. Cylindrical portion 68 defines cavity 74 which is shaped to receive injection port 18 without interfering with the desired engagement between end 70 and flange 22.
[0059] Cylindrical portion 68 includes pairs of spaced apart, outwardly extending actuators 76 a and 76 b. Actuators 76 a and 76 b are depicted as ramps, having inclined leading surfaces 78 a and 78 b and declined trailing surfaces 80 and 80 b. When plunger 48 is disposed within base 46, each actuator 76 a and 76 b is disposed within a respective slot 62 a and 62 b. As will be described below, as plunger is depressed to advance end 70 toward end 54, actuators 76 a and 76 b engage respective resilient member actuators 64 a and 64 b and urge them outwardly, causing resilient members 60 to move outwardly, and eventually moving lips 60 b out of respective recesses 22 c, releasing injection port 18 from applicator subassembly 44.
[0060]FIG. 10 illustrates applicator subassembly 44 in cross section. Base 46 includes bore 82 into which shaft portion 66 is slidably disposed. Plunger 48 is retained in base 46 by pin 84 which is secured to base 46, and extends into longitudinal slot 86 in shaft portion 66.
[0061] Referring to FIGS. 5 and 11, injection port assembly 42 is illustrated, having injection port 18 installed in applicator subassembly 44. Fasteners 30 are in the retracted position in an undeployed state. End 66 a of shaft 66 extends out of handle portion 50 as shown. To assemble injection port 18 into applicator assembly 44, fastener supports 34 are aligned with openings 56, and snapped into place with lips 60 b engaging recesses 22 c. To keep plunger 48 in place, lock clip 88 engages annular groove 90 in shaft portion 66. To implant injection port 18, clip 88 is removed and shaft portion 66 is advanced through bore 82, contacting fasteners 30 and rotating them into the deployed state at a position piercing and engaging fascia layer 92, as shown in FIG. 12. Further advancement of shaft portion 66 will disengage injection port 18 from applicator subassembly 48, as described below.
[0062]FIG. 13 is a cross sectional view of the injection port attachment assembly taken along line 13-13 of FIG. 12. At this position, end 70 has rotated rotatable retention members/fasteners 30 about 90� from their retracted position in an undeployed state, by initially contacting fasteners 30 at their uppermost point in the retracted position. This creates a moment about pin 32, rotating fasteners 30, and transmitting sufficient force thereto to pierce the fascia layer. Full rotation of fasteners 30 into the deployed state is shown in FIG. 13, although at this position end 70 has not bottomed against the upper surface of flange 22.
[0063] Referring also to FIG. 14, which is an enlarged illustration of a portion of FIG. 13, showing resilient retention member 60 still maintaining lip 60 b in recess 40. Also referring to FIG. 15, at the position illustrated in FIG. 13, ramp actuators 76 a and 76 b are in contact with retention member actuators 62 a and 62 b (62 b and 76 b are not shown in FIG. 15). longitudinal advancement of plunger 66 causes retention member actuators 62 a and 62 b to ride up ramps 78 a and 78 b, urging resilient retention members 60 outwardly. As plunger 66 advances, portions of end 70 engage flange 22, and begin urging injection port 18 axially out. When ramps 78 a and 78 b have moved retention members 60 outwardly enough, lips 60 b move out of recesses 40 and injection port 18 is released. Further travel of plunger 66 pushes flange 22 past end 54 of housing 52. Slot 86 bottoms against pin 84, preventing further travel of plunger 66.
[0064]FIG. 16 is a side view of an alternate embodiment of an injection port attachment assembly according the present invention. Injection port attachment assembly 94 includes handle portion 96 which is rotatable relative to cylindrical portion 98. Handle portion 96 includes grip 100 connected to shaft 102. In addition to the configuration of handle portion, injection port attachment assembly 94 differs from 42 injection port attachment assembly 94 in that it has four equally circumferentially spaced rotatable retention members 104 (see FIG. 18), and in the configuration of the retention member actuators and the actuator ramp.
[0065] Referring to FIG. 17, plunger 106 includes two diametrically opposite resilient retention member actuators 108. Resilient retention members 110 are disposed diametrically opposite each other since there are four rotatable retention members 104. If only three retention members were present, resilient retention members would be disposed as described above. Referring to FIG. 20, resilient retention member 110 includes ramp actuator 112. As plunger 106 is advanced, actuator 108 engages ramp 112, urging resilient retention members 110 outwardly and out of engagement with the injection port.
[0066] It is noted that in the embodiment depicted in FIGS. 16-20, plunger 106 bottoms out, after disengaging resilient retention members, without pushing the injection port out. Either embodiment described so far may he configured to push or not to push the injection port out at the end of the plunger stroke.
[0067] Referring to FIG. 21, there is shown another embodiment of a injection port constructed in accordance with the present invention. In this embodiment, injection port 114 includes a plurality of rotatable retention members/fasteners 116, each disposed to rotate in a tangential plane. Rotatable fasteners 116 are rotatably carried by respective pins 118 which are pressed radially into flange 1 20.
[0068] Referring also to FIG. 22, an additional configuration of rotatable retention members/fasteners 116 a. Fastener 116 a has a generally circular cross section, and includes a generally arcuate portion 122 which extends higher than end 124 a of arm 124 is shown. Operation of fasteners 116 and 116 a is the same.
[0069] As seen in FIGS. 21 and 22, applicator 126 includes shaft 128 and cylindrical end 130. Cavity 132 forms the center of cylindrical end 130, providing clearance for injection port 114. Cylindrical end 130 includes circumferentially spaced openings 132 which are sized and spaced to align with rotatable retention members 116.
[0070] Referring to FIGS. 24, 25 and 26, injection port 114 is implanted by placing it on fascia layer 134 with fasteners 116 in the retracted position in an undeployed state. End 130 a of applicator 126 is placed in contact with flange 120, with openings 132 aligned with fasteners 116. With sufficient axial force, shaft 128 is rotated, urging edges 132 a against fasteners 116, causing them to rotate and pierce fascia layer 134. Edges 132 a include rounded portions where they transition to end 130 a for smooth engagement with fasteners 116. As seen in FIG. 26, injection port 114 is implanted when recesses 132 of applicator 126 have been rotated into the deployed state at the position as shown.
[0071] Referring to FIG. 27, there is shown another embodiment of an injection port with integral, moveable fasteners. Injection port 136 includes eight circumferentially spaced fasteners 138 extending radially outward (four shown in FIG. 27). This embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the use of eight fasteners, and one or more fasteners may be used. Fasteners 138 extend from and are secured to bottom surface 136 a of the distal end of injection port 136 in any suitable manner, such as by one end 138 a being pressed, welded, epoxied, or otherwise secured into a blind hole formed in bottom surface 136 a. Distal end 138 b are sharp for tissue penetration.
[0072] As depicted, in the undeformed deployed state, each fastener 138 is a single coil, forming a hook shape, with distal end 138 b disposed touching or otherwise adjacent the side of housing 140 of injection port 136. It is noted that the relative positions of the side of housing 140 and distal ends 138 b may leave fasteners 138 in a somewhat deformed state with some stress and strain. Fasteners 138, also referred to as radial elements, are flexible, being made of any suitable material. Material having super elastic properties, such as a nickel titanium alloy, for example Nitinol� wire.
[0073] Fasteners 138 may be of any suitable dimensions. In one example, Nitinol� wire having a diameter in the range of 0.020-0.080 mm, coiled to a diameter of about 4-8 mm was used.
[0074] Referring also to FIGS. 28-31, implantation of injection port 136 may be accomplished through use of applier 142. Applier 142 includes plunger 144 axially reciprocable disposed inside of tube 146. End 144 a is shaped complementarily to housing 140 of plunger 144. End 146 a of tube 146 includes a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots 148 located complementarily to the spacing of fasteners 138. Tube 146 may include a slot to accommodate the nipple extending from injection port 136.
[0075] As seen in FIG. 28, injection port 44 is initially disposed inside of tube 146, spaced up from end 146 a a distance sufficient to orient fasteners 138 in an undeployed state at a position such that tips 138 b are respectively disposed in slots 148 without extending outside of the diameter of tube 146. The wall thickness of tube 146 at end 146 a is sufficient to provide adequate length for tips 138 b to remain disposed therein without extending beyond the outer diameter of tube 146. Tube 146 may be uniform along its entire length, or have a thin wall along its length with a thicker wall suction at end 146 a, such as provided by a collar (not illustrated) disposed about end 146 a, to provide the desired radial thickness for slots 148.
[0076] Although FIG. 28 illustrates flexible fasteners 138 as extending straight between slots 148 and bottom surface 136 a, fasteners 138 may assume a curved configuration dictated by their specific physical properties and the distance between slots 148 and bottom surface 136 a. Slots 148 a are configured to keep fasteners 138 in a suitable orientation and configuration to feed through slots 148 as described below. Tube 146 may be made of any suitable material, such as stainless steel or plastic.
[0077] Injection port 136 may be releasably held in the appropriate location within tube 146 in any suitable manner. For example, a pin may extend through a hole in tube 146 to restrain injection port 136 across bottom 1364 a until implantation; an adequate frictional fit between injection port 136 and the inside of tube 146 may be provided, with the tightest fit being at the highest location of injection port 136 within tube 146; end 144 a could be configured to releasably engage injection port 44, with plunger 144 being retained in tube 146.
[0078] It is contemplated, but not required, that applier 142 will be provided to the surgeon with injection port 136 premounted inside of tube 144 as a sterilized assembly. Implantation of self attaching injection port 136 is accomplished by urging end 146 a against fascia layer 150 to depress the tissue surface slightly thereby upraising the tissue so that fasteners 138 may go through it the surgeon then pushers plunger 144 to deploy fasteners 138, and withdraws tube 146. Sharp lips 138 b penetrate through and curl back out of fascia layer 150, and stop against the side of housing 140 to protect tips 138 b. In the deployed state, fasteners 138 are in a "relaxed" configuration, having less deformation, and therefore less stress strain, than in the pre-attachment, deformed state.
[0079] Deformable fasteners 138 may be sized to provide holding strength similar to sutures, with the flexibility of fasteners 138 allowing injection port 136 to be removed without the tissue being ripped. For example, after attachment, injection port may be reposition by grasping injection port 136 and pulling it up, uncurling fasteners 138 in the process. It may then be reinserted into applier 142 and reimplanted. Applier 142 may also be used to remove injection port 136, such as by configuring end 150 a to engage injection port 136 to be withdrawn, as tube 146 is urged against tissue. In such a case, it may be advantageous to provide structure to index plunger 144 relative to injection port 136 and slots 148.
[0080] Although flexible fasteners 138 are illustrated extending from bottom 136 a, this aspect of the present invention may be practiced with fasteners 146 extending in other directions from injection port 136, such as from the side. As will be appreciated, modifications to applicr 142, such as a larger diameter to accommodate the circumferential attachment to injection port 136 for implantation, may be made. It is noted that with flexible fasteners 138 extending from bottom 136 a, tips 138 a are oriented in a downward pointing undeployed state at a position ready to penetrate the tissue from the top, which allows a smaller diameter than would fasteners extending outwardly from the side. A small diameter applier minimizes the size of the incision, and requires less dissection.
[0081] Referring to FIG. 32, another embodiment of an injection port having an integral moveable retention member is illustrated. Injection port 152 includes housing 154 with annular flange 156 extending outwardly from the lower distal end of housing 154. Annular flange 156 includes upper surface 156 a and lower surface 156 b.
[0082] Hinge 158 is carried by annular flange 156, moveably connecting retention member/fastener 160 to flange 156. Hinge 158 may be any structure which allows the necessary relative movement between retention member/fastener 160 and flange 156.
[0083] Referring also to FIG. 33, retention member 160 includes upper surface 160 and lower surface 160 b. Locking member 162 extends upwardly from upper surface 160 a, and includes distal tip 162 a which is configured to pierce tissue. Locking member 162 also includes locking configuration 162 b which is configured to engage annular flange 156 and lock retention member 160 in a deployed state, as described below. As depicted, locking configuration 162 b includes step 162 c and inclined surface/ramp 162 d.
[0084] In the embodiment depicted, flange 156 includes opening 164 which is shaped complementary to locking member 162, configured to receive locking member 162 and engage step 162 c to maintain locking member 162 and retention member/fastener 160 in the deployed state. Locking member 162 has enough flexibility to allow outward movement of locking member 162 as inclined surface 162 d engages and advances along corresponding edge 164 a of opening 164. Once locking member 162 has been inserted far enough into opening 164 for ramp 162 d to disengage with corresponding edge 164 a, step 162 c will clear upper surface 156 a, and the locking member 162 will move inwardly, with step 162 c engaging upper surface 156 a to resist withdrawal of locking member 162 from opening 164.
[0085] Alternatively, opening 164 may open to outer edge 156 c of flange 156, or may even be eliminated, with locking member 162 disposed such that inclined surface 162 d engages and advances along outer edge 156 c.
[0086] Locking member 162 may be made of any suitable material which provides the necessary flexibility, including plastic. Locking member 162 is not limited to the shape shown, and may be of any shape which is functional to retain retention member 162 at the position shown in the deployed state. Locking member 162 and flange 156 may be configured such that distal tip 162 a does not extend above, or as far above, upper surface 154 a. For example, locking member 162 could include a stop surface which engages the annular flange 156 so as to limit the position of distal tip 162 a relative to upper surface 156 a.
[0087] Retention member 160 may also be made of any suitable material, including plastic.
[0088]FIG. 32 illustrates retention member 160, in the undeployed state. Hinge 158 may include a detent to hold retention member 160 in a particular undeployed state position relative to housing 154. To implant injection port 152, retention member 160 is inserted below the fascia tissue, with injection port 152 remaining there above. If necessary, an incision may be made in the tissue sufficient to insert retention member 160. Retention member 160 is moved relative to housing 154 and flange 156 into a deployed state, with distal tip 162 a piercing the tissue and engaging opening 164, as illustrated in FIG. 34.
[0089]FIG. 34 illustrates injection port 152 fastened in place, with tissue 166 disposed between flange 156 and retention member/fastener 160. As can be seen in FIG. 34, hinge 158 is located so as to maintain flange 156 and retention member 160 in a spaced apart relationship, creating a gap therebetween within which tissue 166 may be captured. Alternatively, it may be possible to omit the gap if either flange 156 or retention member 160 is flexible enough to so capture tissue 166 without damage.
[0090] Although retention member/fastener 160 is illustrated as shaped complementary to flange 156, retention member/fastener 160 does not have to have the same shape as flange 156. For example, retention member/fastener 160 could be a strap. Additionally, housing 154 does not have to include flange 156: Flange 156 could be omitted, with hinge 158 being connected directly to an edge of the distal end of housing 154. The axis of rotation of retention member 160 could be oriented vertically with respect to housing 154 and lower surface 156 b of housing 154.
[0091] In summary, numerous benefits have been described which result from employing the concepts of the invention. The foregoing description of one or more embodiments of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Obvious modifications or variations are possible in light of the above teachings. The one or more embodiments were chosen and described in order to best illustrate the principles of the invention and its practical application to thereby enable one of ordinary skill in the art to best utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto.
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FULL FRAME: Connections to a disaster
In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and releasing billons of gallons of crude oil.
Filmmaker Margaret Brown, who is from the Gulf state of Alabama, wanted to tell the story that she said "kind of happened in my back yard."
However, Brown did not want to make a film that pointed the finger exclusively at BP Oil, the company that leased the rig from Transocean, for its shortcuts in safety that led to the explosion.
"I didn't want to tell that story from one side," Brown said during a Q&A session after the screening of her film "The Great Invisible" at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Saturday. The film includes footage of oil executives discussing energy issues over drinks and cigars. What those executives say about Americans and energy is worth hearing "whether they are smoking cigars or not," Brown said.
Asked about the title of the film, Brown said Americans often do not think about how they are connected to oil exploration "when we drive our cars and use plastic bottles."
The film recently won an award for the best documentary feature at the South by Southwest Festival. At Full Frame, it is among 48 films in competition for several awards. Saturday, it played to a packed house at the Carolina Theatre.
Brown tells this story from the viewpoint of people who worked on the rig, and those who are still affected by the explosion's aftermath. She focuses on three cities – Bayou La Batre, Ala., a city heavily dependent on fishing; Morgan City, La., the birthplace of offshore drilling; and Houston, Texas, the center of the oil industry.
Doug Brown, chief engineer at Deepwater, is among the workers who tell their stories. Brown and other workers took pride in their jobs at Deepwater, which was "the newest generation state of the art rig," Brown says. Soon, however, BP took safety shortcuts and laid off employees. Viewers see Brown, years after the accident, in severe depression over feelings of guilt that he "played along" with the company's policies.
Stephen Stone, who operated cranes on the rig, also recalls a culture that put profits first. When he wanted to get some water to prevent dehydration, he was told "not to use safety as a crutch," Stone said. After BP overextended itself building ocean oil rigs, "that's when the caution got smaller and smaller," he said. Eventually, both Brown and Stone testified at congressional hearings about the disaster.
Keith Jones' son Gordon died during the explosion. Jones, a lawyer, although not involved in the litigation against BP, has kept close watch on the proceedings, Margaret Brown said.
"We were proud of him," Keith Jones says of his son in the film. "I bragged about getting Gordon that job, but when that job cost him his life, I had to stop bragging and feel responsible."
The Deepwater disaster hurt many Gulf residents who make their living catching and harvesting seafood, and the filmmakers include their stories.
Roosevelt Harris also figures heavily in their story. Through his church, Harris hands out food and other goods to affected families, and tries to rouse them to visit a lawyer preparing the case against BP.
One should not be paid for everything, Harris tells the filmmakers: "Let some of it be a blessing."
One audience member asked filmmaker Brown if she would screen the film for the N.C. Legislature, which has pushed for drilling off the North Carolina Coast.
"I'd love to," she said.
According to the film, since the Deepwater explosion, Congress has not imposed further safety legislation on the oil and gas industry. When an audience member asked about that, Brown said Congress just cannot get together.
"We have to demand it," she said.


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CAC celebrating 25th anniversary at Raceway ParkWritten by John Dorsey | | email@example.com
The Collingwood Arts Center has been betting on some of our area's most prolific artists for a quarter of a century. Now, it wants Toledoans to join in on the fun with a Sept. 25 celebration fundraiser at Raceway Park. The event will feature live music, painting, art auctions and more by some of the area's most celebrated talents.
The fundraiser is the first major event being helmed by newly appointed Collingwood Arts Center Interim Executive Director Brian Felster and Program Director Ralph Ragsdale. The event began under the direction of previous director, Audrey Johnson.
"We have a lot of work to do, but I think we're headed in a positive direction, and hopefully this type of large event is something that we can make an annual thing," Felster said.
The CAC offers Ohio's only long-term residency program with living space and studios for working artists in a variety in disciplines from around our community and beyond. Noted CAC resident artists have included Eddie Abrams, Ray Patrick, Yusuf Lateef, Jerry Gray, Kerry Krow, Terry A. Burton, Michael Kocinski and a host of others. Rental rates start at $110 a month for residential space. The CAC also functions as a venue for many regionally and nationally known productions such as "Menopause the Musical" and "Shopping."
Tickets for the fundraiser are $40 for singles and $70 per couple. Admission includes a buffet-style dinner, dessert, first two drinks free, $5 betting voucher, official racing program, score card, betting guide and other perks such as an annual CAC membership valued at $25. There will also be a raffle and door prizes as well as a cash bar. The festivities will run from 5 to 10 p.m. The buffet will open at 5:30 p.m. and racing will begin at 6 p.m.
Those who can not attend may also sponsor an artist to attend on their behalf. Tax deductible donations and event volunteers are also welcomed and encouraged.
All proceeds will go directly to the facility's operating costs. The Collingwood Arts Center is a 501(c) 3 Non-profit organization.
Tickets for the fundraiser may be purchased by calling (419) 244-2787 or by visiting the CAC business office weekdays between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Collingwood Arts Center is located at 2413 Collingwood Blvd. Raceway Park is located at 5700 Telegraph Road.
For more information, call (419) 476-7751 or visit www.racewayparktoledo.com.
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Ideas to keep kids active during the summer
Friday, June 1, 2012
By Chris Sokoloski
Summer time is fun time for Georgetown County kids, but that doesn't mean they have to stop learning.
There are a plethora of summer camps, including educational, arts, sports, of just plain fun.
Here are some of the options:
* Camp Brookgreen: Hosted by Janice Mauro for rising eighth- and ninth-graders, June 18-19; Hosted by Diane Turnley for rising sixth- and seventh-graders, July 5-6. $95 members; $115 non-members. For more information call 843-235-6049.
* Waccamaw Aerospace Education: Space Cities, for rising third- and fourth-graders, July 9-12, 8:30 a.m. to noon, $90; Level I, for rising fifth- and sixth-graders or students who have completed Space Cities, July 9-12, 12:30-4:30 p.m., $95; Space Encyclopedia, for rising sixth-graders or students who have completed previous sessions, $65. Waccamaw Elementary School. For more information call 843-237-4233.
* Camp Brookgreen: With an emphasis on animals. For rising second- and third-graders, June 11-15, 18-22 and 25-29; for rising fourth- and fifth-graders, July 9-13 and 16-20; $160 for members; $185 for non-members. For more information call 843-235-6049.
* Hobcaw Barony nature camp: For rising second- through fifth-graders. June 6-8, June 13-15, June 20-22, June 27-29 and July 11-13. $65. Call 843-546-4623 to register.
* Lowcountry Prep School: June 4, Imagi-Nation Art, Board Game Bonaza; June 11, Under the Sea, Ocean Journey, Building/Legos; June 18, Pirates and Princesses, Drama, Mythology; June 25, Nature Around Us, Explore the Outdoors, Wonders of the World; July 2, Red, White and Blue, Creative Writing; July 9, Magic School Bus, Traveling Magic Bus; July 16, Travel; July 23, ABCs and 123s, Library, Community Service; Anmals, Literary, Computers. For rising kindergarteners through fifth-graders. Half-day camps $60/$65; full days camps $110/$130. For more information call 843-237-4147 or go to www.lowcountryprep.org.
* Sizzlin' Science: Mondays through Fridays, June 4-July 27, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Beck Recreation Center. $45. Call 843-545-3333 for more information. Register online at www.georgetowncountysc.org or at a local recreation center.
* Nick at Nite: For rising first- through five-graders. July 25-27, 6-8 p.m., Pawleys Island Community Church. Free. For more information call 843-237-4449 or go to www.picc.ws.
* YMCA: Mondays through Fridays, June 4-Aug. 10, 7:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Waccamaw and Kensington elementary schools. $35 registration fee. Members $80/$75 per week; non-members $100/$95 per week. For more information call 843-545-9622 or go to www.coastalcarolinaymca.org.
* Carvers Bay basketball: For girls and boys ages 5-15. June 4-7, ages 5-8, 9 a.m. to noon, $40; ages 9-15, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., $50. Carvers Bay High School. For more information call 843-558-6920.
* Challenger British soccer: One to six hours per for kids ages 3-18. June 11-15 or July 16-20, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Georgetown County YMCA. $79-$180. For information call 843-545-9622 or go to www.challengersports.com
* Coastal Chevrolet Kickin' Grass Soccer: For ages 4-15. June 18-22 at Beck Recreation Center or June 25-29 Waccamaw Elementary School, 9 a.m. to noon or 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $30 or $40 for half-day; $60 for full day. Call Tom at 843-545-3111 or Matthew at 843-264-5131 for information.
* Georgetown High Youth Football: For ages 8-11 in Georgetown elementary or middle schools. June 18-19, 8-11 a.m., Georgetown High School. Call 843-545-3275 for more information. Register online at www.georgetowncountysc.org or at a local recreation center.
* Lady Warriors softball: For rising fourth- through eighth-graders. Hosted by coach Scott Streiffert. June 4, 9:30 a.m. - noon and 6-8:30 p.m., June 5-7, 6-8:30 p.m. $75. Registration forms available at Waccamaw Intermediate and high schools.
* Warriors baseball: For ages 9-12. Hosted by coach Jeff Gregory. June 4-7, 9 a.m. to noon, Waccamaw High School. $35. Call 843-545-3333 for more information. Register online at www.georgetowncountysc.org or at a local recreation center.
* Warriors basketball: For rising third- through seventh-graders. June 4-7, 9 a.m. to noon, Waccamaw Elementary School. $75. Registration forms available at Waccamaw High and Elementary schools.
* Warriors football: For ages 7-13. Hosted by coach Tyronne Davis. June 11-13, 8:30 a.m. to noon, Waccamaw High School. $10. Call 843-545-3333 for more information. Register online at www.georgetowncountysc.org or at a local recreation center.
* Warriors volleyball: For kids 8-12. Hosted by coach Jill Schoen. June 25-28, 10 a.m. to noon, Waccamaw High School. $25. Call 843-545-3333 for more information. Register online at www.georgetowncountysc.org or at a local recreation center.
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Georgetown County has approximately 150 churches, many of which host summer Bible camps.
Contact your local church for information.
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"I make this for most of the Jewish holidays, but can work for any occasion. Can be frozen and reheated. Tastes even better the second day."
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1 tablespoon
vegetable oil
1 (3 pound)
boneless beef chuck roast
1 (16 ounce) can
tomato sauce
1 (16 ounce) can
cranberry sauce
1 tablespoon
prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon
dry mustard powder
3 tablespoons
apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup
red wine
I made this today using a slow cooker and it was wonderful! I browned the beef first and then followed the recipe except that I added half of a fairly large onion. I deglazed the pan which got the sauce ingredients warm to go into the slow cooker and preserved all the wonderful caramelized beef flavor. Cooked it on low for six hours and served with mashed potatoes and cooked carrots. I didn't thicken the broth but you could if you wanted to. It was a really good dinner and I am looking forward to the leftovers tomorrow! Thanks for a great recipe!
Flavor okay but couldn't really taste the cranberry. Alright but nothing special. Maybe adding an onion would help?
12 Ratings
Too flavorful, moist and tender to be so easy to prepare! And the sauce is incredible. I'm saving some for burgers on the grill. Thank you!
Wonderful! I've been trying to find a pot roast recipe that both my husband and I love and this is it! Not too sweet, not too acidic. I followed the recipe exactly.
I essentially followed janet7th's same method of sear and deglaze. Before adding the sauce to the slow cooker it tasted a bit too 'bottled cocktail saucy', but 5 hours on low allowed the vinegar and horseradish to mellow out and work their mojo on the beef, which was oh-so-tender. I chose to leave the sauce thin, but it could have been easily thickened by simply reducing or whisking in a slurry. Because this recipe is soo easy and delicious, I'll most likely make again, but with the additions of onion (either sliced white or chopped green) and more horseradish toward the end of cooking time (more zing) and maybe even whole berry cranberries (just for interest). Super recipe, Ethical Cook, especially for the upcoming holidays.
I also threw in some leftover seafood cocktail sauce to use it up since it's basically tomato sauce and horseradish.
I love this. It is sooooo tasty!
I had high hopes for this recipe as we love cranberry sauce. I really couldn't taste the cranberry - there was way to much tomato sauce to allow the cranberry and horseradish flavors to shine. There was a ton of sauce / gravy which I ended up tossing out. It needs onion for sure, maybe even dry onion soup mix.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Cranberry Pot Roast by Michelle
Serving Size: 1/8 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 552
Calories from Fat: 326
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