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This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Deke's Techniques! This week I'm going to show you how to create a magically updating pattern inside Illustrator. I know you're thinking "What? Does Illustrator seriously now offer magic?" and the answer is yes. And were going to take this ornament and we're going to shrink it down, modify its colors a little bit, and duplicate it over and over again, as you can see here, but there's only one original in the upper-left corner. We make any modifications to that original object right there and Illustrator, just bang, just like that, like magic.
I tell you, updates the pattern on the fly. Here, let me show you exactly how it works. We're going to start things off with this basic flower ornament. Now everything about this flower lives on the flowers layer. If you twirl open the flowers layer here inside the Layers panel, you'll see that we have a couple of groups that represent the petals, and we've got an object called path, which is the central circle, and the compound path, which is the ring around the circle. And that's it. That's all that's going on here. You can go ahead and twirl close flowers layer and target it by clicking on its circular so-called meatball, and then were going to apply a dynamic effect by going up to the Effect menu, choosing Distort and Transform, and choosing the best dynamic effect there is, I swear to you, Transform.
Very basic, seemingly conventional command that is outrageously capable. I want you to go ahead and increase the copies value to 1, turn on the preview check box, and then click inside the Horizontal option and press Shift+Up Arrow in order to begin moving that object to the right. And you'll eventually want to move this object a total of 88 points. So go ahead and enter a Horizontal value of 88 points, and you'll see a clone of this object appear on the right-hand side.
Now I want you increase the copies value until you fill the entire screen. So notice that I am raising the copies value by clicking inside of it and pressing the up arrow key until I arrive at a total of eight copies, so that we have a row of nine ornaments. Then go ahead and click OK in order to accept that change. Now, if you go to the Appearance panel, you can see that we've got a dynamic Transform effect the we can change anytime we like just by clicking on the word Transform. Then we see the Transform dialog box, complete with the values we just entered right there, waiting for you to change your mind.
All right, so I'm going to cancel out because I'm not going to change my mind. I like what I have. Notice also that we're applying Transform to the entire layer. So if we put any more stuff on this layer, it'll get transformed too. All right, next I'm going to go up to the Effect menu, choose Distort and Transform, and choose the Transform command again. Now, Illustrator is going to produce this message saying, hey, you know this isn't the way you modify your existing transformation; this is going to apply yet another helping of the same effect. Well, that's exactly what I want, so I'll click Apply New Effect in order to bring up the dialog box once again.
I want you to increase that copies value to 1, turn on the Preview checkbox, and now go ahead and click inside the Vertical option and press Shift+Up Arrow in order increase that value and watch a copy of that entire row emerge. I'm going to go ahead and take this value to 88 points as well. So bear in mind that positive Horizontal values move things to the right and positive Vertical values move things down. If you want to move up or to the left, you want to enter a negative value. Now I'm going to increase that copies value by clicking inside of it and pressing the up arrow key.
And all told, I want five copies of this row, so we now have a total of 9x6 of these ornaments, so a total of 54 ornaments in all. I'll go ahead and click OK in order to accept that change. Now this is were you might look at the document and say, well, why would you do this? I mean this is a tile pattern. You could create a tile pattern and then fill any object with that tile pattern that you like. Yes, but what we're seeing right here is much more flexible, because I can change any piece of this original flower and all the duplicates, all 54 of those replicants, will change along with.
And notice they're all linked to the one. If I press Control+Y, or Command+Y on the Mac, in order to switch to the outline mode, all of those objects disappear, because they are being created dynamically on the fly. All right. I'll press Control+Y, Command+Y on the Mac, in order to switch back to the preview mode. I'm going to click off those objects to deselect them, and let's say I decide to change something about this artwork. For example, I'll go ahead and click-- using my Black Arrow tool--I'll go ahead and click on those inner petals, and I'll click on my fill swatch up here in the control panel. And I've already created a swatch in advance.
It's this pale orange. I'll go ahead and click on it to apply it, and notice that every single one of the clones updates on the fly. That is not something you can do with conventional tile patterns inside of Illustrator. It is something you can do with dynamically transformed patterns like I'm showing you here. All right, I'm going to make a couple of other changes. I'm going to click on this ring right there in order to select it, go back up to the control panel, click on that fill swatch, and select burgundy as my color. And anytime along the way, if you're trying to find out exactly what the CMYK values are, you can see them listed here inside the Color panel.
All right, now I'll go and click off once again, click on that central circle to select it, go back up to the fill swatch and change it to pale green. And so in a manner as seconds I'm able to completely transform my entire document. All right, let's say this isn't really what I want, because if I switch back to the Layers panel, you'll see that I've got a layer called text. If I turn it on, it's that You're Invited text that we saw in the previous movies. It doesn't look right against this busy colored background, and so what I need to do is come up with a more muted effect. Fair enough.
I'm going to go and zoom in on my flowers in the upper left-hand corner of the document, and I'll grab my Rectangle tool, which I can get by pressing the M key. And I'll Alt+Drag or Option+Drag from the center outward, like so. And I'll go ahead and press the Shift key as I do, to create an exact square. And I want the square to be about that big, actually, is going to work out just fine. And notice, because I went ahead and drew that square on the flowers layer, it magically replicates all over the document, and that's because that flowers layer is automatically set up to create 53 copies of whatever it is I draw, because once again, we applied those transform effects to the entire layer.
All right, I'm going to go ahead and zoom in once again. I'll go up to the control panel, click on the fill swatch, and select that final swatch that I created in advanced, terra-cotta. And I'll send this rectangle to the back of the stack by right-clicking inside the illustration window, choosing Arrange, and then choosing Send to Back. Or you can press the keyboard shortcut Control+Shift+Left Bracket, Command+Shift+Left Bracket on the Mac. Now I'm going to to apply a dynamic effect to this rectangle, so I'll go up to the Effect menu, choose Distort and Transform, and choose the Roughen command. And the values that I came up with, by the way, were an absolute value--so I'll go ahead and select Absolute there-- an absolute value of 4 points for this size, and if you want to see what you're doing, turn on the preview checkbox.
I'm going to change the detail value to 14 per inch, and I want these to be corner points so that they're nice and jagged. This looks great. Then I'll click OK in order to accept that modification, and notice of course all the other squares change exactly in kind. Then I'll return to my Black Arrow tool and I'll basically select everything that isn't selected on this layer by going out to the Select menu and choosing the Inverse command, or pressing Control+Shift+I, Command+Shift+I on the Mac. Now because my text is turned on, because this layer is active, that goes ahead and selects the text as well.
I'm going to click on the eyeball in order to not only hide the text--we can't see it hide on screen--but that hid the text, and it also deselected it. And now I'm going to change the fill of all these objects by going up to the fill swatch, for the final time in this movie, here in the control panel, and clicking on white. And that goes ahead and makes all of those objects white, as you see them. Now at this point I think I might want to make that square a little bigger, so I'm going to go ahead and marquee around this region in order to select it, because Roughen is another one of these dynamic effects.
The square is still a square, so it's a little hard to locate sometimes. And I'll go and grab the Scale tool here, and I'll drag away from that center point while pressing the Shift key until I get an effect that resembles something like this. It looks good to me. All right, now let's see what we've done. I'll press Control+0, Command+0 on the Mac, in order to zoom out. I'll turn on that text layer so that we can see the text against the new background. I'll press Control+Semicolon, or Command+ Semicolon on the Mac, to hide my guidelines. And that's the final version of the magically updating pattern, thanks in large part to the power of dynamic effects here inside Illustrator.
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C - This is the only spot that you MIGHT lose some ground. O'Neal has the potential, when healthy, to be a Top 3 center. Boozer however will average a double double and some nights put up 18+ rebounds. He will also shoot a high %.
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dirk is good too but two good players for three is always good
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A balloon dilatation catheter is provided with a fluted balloon defining at least three wings. When the balloon collapses, it tends to assume the fluted configuration which defines a lower profile better adapted to pass through narrow channels, such as in endoscopes and guide catheters. The balloon is formed from a polymeric material in a method that involves the steps of tensioning the balloon to cause it to form flutes while maintaining its interior under vacuum and subjecting the balloon, while so held, to heat and, thereafter, cooling the balloon while maintaining it in its tensioned, fluted configuration.
1. A balloon dilatation catheter comprising:
an elongate flexible tubular shaft having proximal and distal ends and at least one lumen extending through the shaft from its proximal to its distal end;
a dilatation balloon mounted on the distal end of the shaft and in communication with the lumen;
the balloon being preformed to have a collapsed configuration defined by at least three longitudinally extending flutes and alternating wings;
a fitting at the proximal end of the shaft for connecting the lumen with an inflation and deflation device;
a stiffening wire extending through the balloon and being rigidly attached to the distal portion of the shaft proximally of the balloon, the distal end of the wire having a catheter tip mounted thereon, the balloon being mounted at its proximal end to the flexible shaft and at its distal end to the catheter tip;
the balloon being mounted on the catheter in a manner that when the balloon is not inflated, the wire will apply continually a longitudinal tension to the balloon, thereby tensioning the balloon in its fluted configuration, the balloon being substantially non-extendible longitudinally when under said tension.
2. A catheter as defined in claim 1 wherein the wire extends through the lumen of the shaft and is attached, at its proximal end, to the fitting.
3. A catheter as defined in claim 1 further comprising a rigid metal ring rigidly attached to the distal end of the catheter shaft, the wire extending through the metal ring and being securely attached thereto.
4. A catheter as defined in claim 1 wherein the balloon, when inflated, has a central cylindrical portion, end cones at each end of the central cylindrical portion and end collars at the end of the end cones.
5. A dilatation catheter as defined in claim 4 wherein when said balloon is deflated it forms said wings in a relatively short radially extending configuration and foldable to a low profile about the stiffening wire.
6. A catheter as defined in claim 5 wherein the balloon is inelastic.
7. A balloon as defined in claim 6 wherein the balloon is formed from polyethylene terephthalate.
This invention relates to balloon catheters used for dilatation procedures.
Balloon dilatation catheters are used for a wide variety of medical procedures, typically to enlarge a body lumen that has become obstructed. For example, balloon dilatation catheters commonly are used in angioplasty procedures to enlarge the lumen of a blood vessel constricted or stenosed by arteriosclerosis. Recent years have seen significant advances in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in which a dilatation catheter having a relatively inelastic polymeric balloon on its distal end is advanced percutaneously into the patient's arterial system and into the coronary artery to be treated. The balloon is inserted into the stenosis and is inflated to effect the dilatation. Such catheters also are used to perform angioplasty procedures on peripheral arteries as well. U.S. Pat. No. 4,195,637 to Gruntzig discloses such angioplasty catheters. Balloon dilatation catheters also are used to dilate other body lumens, such as, for example, in the esophageal tract, blood vessels and the like.
Balloon dilatation catheters often are used in conjunction with another tubular guide member through which the dilatation catheter is inserted and guided to the desired location in the body lumen of the patient. For example, the aforementioned Gruntzig Patent illustrates the use of a guide catheter in connection with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Dilatation balloons used to treat a patient's gastrointestinal tract often are inserted into the patient through an endoscope. Endoscopes vary in length, depending on their intended purpose. For example, a typical multi purpose gastrointestinal endoscope may be of the order of four and one-half to five feet long and may be of the order of one inch diameter. It is formed from a plurality of articulated sections so that it is flexible. Controls, such as pull wires, are provided at the proximal end of the endoscope to control the shape of the distal end to steer and directionally control the endoscope. The endoscope typically has multiple channels for various functions and usually includes optical fiber channels to illuminate and permit visual observation of the patient's gastrointestinal tract. One or more channels, often only a few millimeters in diameter, also are provided through which instruments may be inserted into the patient such as, for example, miniature biopsy forceps, snares, needles, brushes, balloon dilatation catheters and others. An illustrative procedure may involve dilatation of the esophagus in order to enlarge a constriction caused, for example, by a tumor, esophagitis or other condition. In the procedure, the endoscope is passed through the patient's throat and into the esophagus. The progress of the endoscope is monitored visually through the fiber optic and illumination system. When the obstructed portion of the esophagus is reached, a dilatation catheter having a balloon at its distal end is passed through the instrument channel, with the balloon deflated, so that the balloon exits the distal end of the endoscope and passes through the obstruction. Once the balloon is placed within the obstruction, it is inflated to dilate the obstructed portion of the esophagus. The balloon must be deflated to a low profile in order for it to be passed through the instrument channel. Typically, the balloon is deflated by applying negative pressure to the balloon through an inflation/deflation lumen that extends from the proximal end of the catheter to the interior of the balloon.
Among the difficulties with dilatation balloons is the configuration that is assumed by the balloon when it is deflated. Typically, the balloon forms a pair of opposed, radially extending flat wings when it collapses under the influence of negative pressure. In order to insert the balloon into the instrument channel (or guide catheter lumen), the physician typically will manually wrap the wings about the catheter shaft and will insert the balloon catheter into the channel or guide catheter lumen in that configuration. The reduced profile also facilitates insertion of the balloon end of the catheter through the constriction. After the balloon has been inflated to perform the dilatation, it typically is deflated and, when that is done, it tends to assume the two wing configuration. The wings typically extend diametrally a distance substantially larger than the diameter of the channel. If it is desired to leave the endoscope in place and withdraw the dilatation catheter through the channel, that may present problems if the wings fail to wrap about the catheter shaft as the balloon is drawn into the channel. The wings may become caught at the distal end of the channel or otherwise interfere with smooth withdrawal. Withdrawal of the catheter may be necessary when it is desired to change catheters during the procedure, for example, as when the physician decides that further dilatation with a larger diameter balloon is required.
The foregoing problem has not gone unrecognized. Attempts to deal with it are evidenced by patented devices which seek to provide a means to cause the balloon to be wrapped closely about the catheter shaft to form a reduced profile. See, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,292,974 to Fogarty. Although such devices may have had some limited success, there remains a need for a simple effective means to facilitate collapse of a dilatation balloon to a low profile.
In accordance with the invention, a balloon for a dilatation catheter is formed to have a longitudinally fluted configuration when relaxed. When inflated, the flutes expand so that the balloon forms a cylindrical configuration needed for dilatation. When the inflation pressure is removed and the balloon is aspirated, the balloon contracts to its fluted configuration. The flutes, in effect, serve as partial preliminary folds so that when the balloon is withdrawn through the channel, it will continue to fold further along the longitudinal flutes. In accordance with the present invention, the flutes are arranged so that the balloon will fold to define at least three wings.
Another object of the invention relates to the method for forming the fluted balloon. The balloon is formed from a polymeric material, such as polyethylene terephthalate and may be formed in accordance with the method described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,490,421 to Levy. The balloon has a cylindrical main portion with cones on each end and cylindrical mounting collars on the ends of the cones. After the balloon is formed, as in the procedure described in the Levy patent, the balloon then is stretched longitudinally by gripping the mounting collars and pulling them in opposite directions to tension the balloon. Simultaneously with the tensioning, the balloon is evacuated. Such evacuation and tensioning causes the balloon to be stretched to form a plurality of longitudinally extending flutes. While holding the balloon in the fluted configuration, the balloon is heated to between about 180� F. to 220� F. and then is cooled to permit it to retain the fluted shape. The balloon then can be mounted on the catheter and other catheter manufacturing operations can be completed.
It is among the general objects of the invention to provide a new balloon configuration for a dilatation catheter which incorporates an improved means for collapsing the balloon to a low profile.
Another object of the invention is to provide a catheter having such a balloon.
A further object of the invention is to provide a dilatation balloon having a plurality of flutes.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a dilatation balloon and catheter utilizing such balloon in which the catheter collapses in a manner that defines at least three wings.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a method for forming such a fluted balloon.
The foregoing and other objects and advantages of the invention will be appreciated more fully from the following further description thereof, with reference to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is an illustration of a patient having an obstructed esophagus with an endoscope and dilatation catheter placed in readiness to perform a dilatation in the esophagus;
FIG. 2 is an illustration of the manner in which the prior art dilatation balloon collapses to form a pair of diametrally opposed wings;
FIG. 3 is a somewhat diagrammatic sectional illustration of a catheter having a balloon of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is an end view of the distal end of the catheter of the present invention with the balloon inflated;
FIG. 5 is a sectional illustration through the balloon illustrating the manner in which it forms at least three wings when collapsed under negative pressure;
FIG. 6 is a side elevation of the balloon in a collapsed configuration;
FIG. 6A is an end elevation of the balloon as shown in FIG. 6;
FIGS. 7 and 8 are diagrammatic illustrations of the steps involved in making the fluted balloon in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a patient having a stenosis or constriction 10 in the esophagus 12 which is to be treated with a balloon dilatation catheter 14 inserted into the patient s esophagus 12 through an endoscope 16. The endoscope 16 typically includes one or more channels through which instruments, such as a dilatation catheter 14 may be passed. Typically, the endoscope 16 also carries optical fibers and illuminating means by which the interior of the body cavity under investigation may be examined visually.
The dilatation catheter 14 includes an elongate flexible shaft 18 having a dilatation balloon 20 carried at the distal end of the shaft 18. A lumen 22 (FIG. 3) extends through the shaft from the proximal end of the shaft to the dilatation balloon 20 at the distal end and communicates with the interior of the balloon 20. The proximal end of the shaft 18 is provided with a suitable fitting, such as a luer fitting 24 by which an inflation/deflation device, such as a syringe 26 (FIG. 1) may be connected. The tubular catheter shaft 18 may be formed from an appropriate plastic material such as a urethane compound. In the embodiment illustrated, the catheter is in the form of an esophageal balloon dilatation catheter. The dilatation balloon may be formed from a polymeric material such as polyethylene terephthalate and may be formed in a process as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,490,421 to Levy. The balloon 20 includes an elongate cylindrical portion having a pair of tapered conical sections 28 at its opposite ends and proximal and distal collars 30, 32 extending from the ends of the conical sections 28.
In the esophageal catheter illustrated, an elongate wire 34 extends through the lumen 22 of the catheter. The proximal end of the wire 34 is encapsulated within the proximal fitting 24 as indicated somewhat diagrammatically at 36. The wire 34 extends distally beyond the distal end of the catheter shaft 18 and a distal tip 38 is attached to the distal end of the wire 34. The distal tip 38 may be formed from Dow Pellethane 2363-90R0120 polyurethane. The distal tip 38 is relatively soft and flexible. It serves to guide the distal tip of the catheter through the endoscope channel and also provides a soft flexible atraumatic tip when inserted into the patient. The distal collar 32 of the balloon is adhesively attached to the proximal end of the distal tip 38 and the proximal collar 30 of the balloon is adhesively attached to the distal end of the catheter shaft 18 by an appropriate adhesive such as cyanoacrylate. The wire 34 also is brazed to an internal metal ring 40 located at the distal end of the catheter shaft 18. The segment of the wire 34 extending between the metal ring 40 and the distal tip 38 serves to impart a slight longitudinal tension to the balloon when the balloon is deflated, thereby to assure that the balloon will be tensioned in a fluted configuration, described further below. When the balloon is inflated, the balloon may tend to contract which may cause the balloon segment of the wire 34 to bow somewhat.
By way of further example, the balloon of the esophageal catheter illustrated may be between 6 mm to 18 mm or more in diameter when inflated. The cylindrical midportion of the balloon may be of the order of 8 cm long. The end cones 28 may be of the order of 1.5 to 3 cm long. It should be understood, however, that the invention contemplates use in dilatation balloons other than for esophageal use and that the dimensions of such other dilatation balloons may vary from those illustrated and described herein.
FIG. 2 illustrates, digramatically, the cross-sectional configuration assumed by a typical dilatation balloon when suction is applied to the interior of the balloon to cause it to deflate. The balloon forms a pair of diametrally opposed wings 42 as the balloon 20 collapses. When the physician initially loads the endoscope with the dilatation catheter, it is relatively easy for him to manually wrap the wings 42 about the catheter shaft. The wings 42 thus assume a low profile configuration that permits easy insertion of the catheter through the narrow diameter channel in the endoscope. Although such a balloon can be extended from the distal end of the endoscope and can be inflated, some difficulty may be presented should it be desired to retract the balloon catheter through the endoscope channel. In particular, the diametrally opposed wings 42 may not tend to wrap about the catheter as the catheter is withdrawn back into the endoscope. Instead, the wings may catch on the distal opening of the endoscope channel.
In accordance with the present invention, the balloon is formed so that when deflated, it will tend to assume a fluted configuration having three or more wings. When such a balloon is collapsed, each of the wings is relatively short, in its radially extent, and more easily wraps about the catheter as the catheter is withdrawn through the endoscope channel. When inflated, the balloon assumes the cylindrical configuration illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4.
FIG. 5 illustrates, diagrammatically, the cross section of the balloon when relaxed. The balloon tends to assume a configuration of alternating flutes 44 and wings 46. This configuration may be enhanced by incorporating the wire 34 and securing it near the proximal end of the balloon, as by attaching it to a metal band 40 in the illustrative embodiment, and by securing it at its distal end near the distal end of the balloon. The balloon may be mounted on the wire in a somewhat tensioned configuration such that the segment of the wire 34 extending through the balloon will tend to impart a longitudinal tension o the balloon thereby assuring its fluted configuration. When collapsed under the influence of suction applied to the catheter lumen, the balloon will assume a configuration as illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 6A in which the sides of each of the wings collapse against each other. It will be appreciated that the radial extension of each of the wings 46 of the fluted balloon is considerably less than the radial extension of the wings 42 in an unfluted balloon. With the fluted balloon configuration, the short wings are more easily folded as the balloon is drawn into the distal end of the endoscope channel. It should be noted that the flutes extend into the end cones 28 of the balloon as well as along the midportion of the balloon.
It should be noted that in addition to providing three or more flutes and wings, it is desired that the wall thickness of the balloon be relatively thin. By way of example, with the esophageal dilatation catheter described having a balloon diameter of 0.130" to 0.234" and a balloon length of 11 to 12 cm (cylinder length about 8 cm), an appropriate wall thickness of the balloon would be of the order of 0.0009" to about 0.0016", depending on the size of the balloon.
FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate, diagrammatically, the manner and apparatus used to form the fluted balloon. The balloon is initially formed as described in the aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 4,490,421. After the balloon is so formed, it is then mounted in a stretching device. The stretching device includes a stationary tubular member 50 and a movable tubular member 52. The balloon is mounted, by its collars 30, 32 on the tubular supports 50, 52. The collars 30, 32 are clamped securely to the tubes 50, 52 by ring clamps indicated schematically at 54, 56. With the balloon so mounted the balloon is evacuated by connecting one of the tubes, such as tube 52, to a source of suction and at the same time the movable clamp 52 is pulled to apply tension to the balloon. The applied tension causes a plurality of flutes to be formed lengthwise of the balloon and I have found that typically at least three, and usually four or more flutes are formed. With the balloon held in the tensioned configuration and while maintaining the balloon in its fluted configuration, the balloon is heated to about 180� F. to 220� F. After heating, the balloon is permitted to cool, while maintaining tension on the balloon. Once cooled, the balloon may be removed and it will retain its fluted configuration. The balloon then may be removed from the device and can be mounted on the catheter.
From the foregoing, it will be appreciated that the invention provides a balloon having a tendency to collapse in a fluted configuration forming at least three or more flutes. The radial extension of such flutes is relatively small. The flutes extend into the conical areas at the ends of the balloon. The fluted balloon more easily folds as it is withdrawn through a guiding channel, such as an endoscope channel or a guiding catheter.
Thus, it will be appreciated that the invention provides a new and improved fluted balloon configuration for a dilatation catheter by which the balloon more readily may be contracted to a low profile, as well as a method for forming such a fluted balloon.
It should be understood, however, that the foregoing description of the invention is intended merely to be illustrative thereof and that other modifications and embodiments may be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from its spirit. For example, although the invention has been illustrated in connection with an esophageal dilatation catheter, it may be used with other balloon catheters, such as coronary dilatation catheters or peripheral blood vessel dilatation catheters.
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What a lovely photo of your mom! And the Pepper Steak with those crisp-tender veggies makes me want some right now. A perfect dinner to start the new year in a healthy way.ReplyDelete
Your mom looks (and sounds) great! We love our moms! :-) Your recipes always make my mouth water! Yum! I know what is for dinner tonight! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Your mother is lovely! What a good time you must have had.ReplyDelete
The pepper steak looks delicious and pretty healthy too!
You did have a houseful!ReplyDelete
Your mom is beautiful. That's funny that she packed her gloves. I'm afraid I WOULD have taken advantage of. If she's that fanatic about packing her gloves I bet her hands are lovely.
The recipe looks yummy. I love brown rice, but don't make it often enough. Thanks for the reminder.
Your mom's so pretty! You definitely favor each other! How fun to have her with you - appreciate every moment - I lost my mom earlier this year and life is just not the same without her!ReplyDelete
Your pepper steak looks delicious - I love quick and easy but delicious recipes like this one!
never made this before - seems like an easy weeknight meal.ReplyDelete
I tried to open this earlier but had problems. If I had, maybe I wouldn't have wandered around the store a little while ago trying to think of a quick dinner. I would have had pepper steak!ReplyDelete
Your mother is beautiful. Really and truly beautiful. You have some awesome genes in your family. Do you know that?
Your mom is adorable and I see where you get your good genes :) So funny that she packed her rubber gloves! Glad you had such a fun time over the holidays. Your pepper steak looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
Your mom is beautiful! I don't eat meat but love a good stir fry and especially brown rice though no one else in my family appreciates its goodness. :/ Wishing you a wonderful weekend. TammyReplyDelete
Your mom is so lovely! Runs in the family :). Too funny she brought her gloves along! Special you were able to spend the time together at the holidays.ReplyDelete
Your mom looks beautiful. I love mine, too and she is definitely an inspiration. I love this pepper steak. It's nice to see healthy recipes that use lean beef.ReplyDelete
Oh boy do you look like her! She is beautiful and the light just radiates from those beautiful eyes. What a houseful! I bet it is quiet, and took a lot of time to straighten up. We still have a lot of work to do, but it was a wonderful Christmas.ReplyDelete
This looks so healthy and fresh. Your pictures are gorgeous.
How wonderful that you lovely mom joined you for the holidays. My daughter and family live in Chicago and I miss them terribly at holiday time. You had quite a houseful. Lucky you.ReplyDelete
This looks absolutely wonderful!!!ReplyDelete


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EQ2 Crafting, Part I: Generalities
Just about any crafting guide in any game is likely to become longer than the tl;dr crowd can stand, and this one is no exception, even with my skill for brevity and conciseitude (©Stylishcorpse, 2009). I'm therefore going to break this one down into parts, and since I'm adding stuff in as I go along, I'm not sure how many parts it will be. At least two, since I guess a crafting guide really should include information on how to actually craft — especially in EQ2, since it's not a push-button-and-wait kind of crafting.
In this first part, however, I'm going to cover the basics of the crafting professions — what they make and what mostly sells. Harvesting may end up with its own section, and of course the actual "how the hell do I make this?" part will star in its own section too.
Game-specific Jargon & Concepts
One term that's used all the time in EQ2 is "tiers" — it applies to adventuring, to harvesting, and to crafting. Opaque as it may sound when you don't know the term, it's pretty simpe: Tier 1 is levels 1-9, tier 2 is levels 10-19, tier 3 is levels 20-29, and so on up to tier 8 which is levels 70-79. It applies to crafted items, to harvested resources, and to some extent to the mobs inhabiting various zones (and to the zones themselves, for the most part). As with most MMOs, the idea is that characters will outgrow items as they level and will require replacements when they hit the next tier.
The crafting, harvesting and adventuring "tiers" are all related. For instance, to make a level 20 weapon you'll need Tier 3 resources, which are harvested in areas with level 20-29 mobs — also known as T3 zones. (Harvesting level/skill requirements are covered elsewhere.) You'll also have to be at least a Tier 3 weaponsmith, meaning you're level 20+, in order to have access to the recipes. A Tier 3 item can't be made using Tier 2 or Tier 4 resources (barring a few exceptions). Tier 5 is right out.
Common resources are what you'll harvest 99% of the time from a harvesting node. The vast majority of items are made using these common resources. In the last few years the quality of crafted goods has been improved, and common-made items are comparable to most quest rewards or loot drops (WoW's "green" items). Rare resources are, as you might expect, a rare harvest from a common node, though fortunately they're now nowhere near as rare as they once used to be. Rares-made items are more expensive and require special crafting recipes to make; these recipes are learned from "Advanced" crafting books which are for the most part obtained through drop loot from level-appropriate mobs. They're the equivalent of WoW's "blue" items, for the most part. There's a heavy demand for rares-made items in EQ2 nowadays, both because of the increased availability of rares, because of the ageing population of the servers (more twinked alts), and because better money-generation (quest rewards, sales of collectibles, etc) means people have the means to afford at least a few rare items every tier.
Items made with rares usually require a slightly higher level to equip than items made with common resources. Thus, a Tier 3 "Steel longsword" (made with the rare ore resource) can only be equipped at adventuring level 22, whereas the common-made "Carbonite longsword" can be equipped at level 20.
Currently, crafted adventuring gear is used throughout a tier, so at adventuring level 20 you have access to ALL Tier 3 common-made armour, weapons, jewellery and so on that your class can equip. At level 22 you have access to all rares-made goods for that tier. Note that crafting level is not used in determining whether you can equip a piece of adventuring gear — if you're a level 80 crafter and a level 19 adventurer you won't be able to equip that Tier 3 longsword.
Who Makes What?
There are 9 crafting professions in EQ2, separated into three groups each with three specialised professions: Craftsman (carpenter, provisioner, woodworker), Outfitter (armorer, tailor, weaponsmith), and Scholar (alchemist, jeweler, sage). This subdivision is important with respect to skill points, but doesn't really come into play outside the higher-end crafting instances. Nontheless, here's how it works:
Every crafter gets all the basic, level 1-9 artisan (generic crafter) recipes. These cover every profession, so everyone can make level 1-9 armour, weapons, food, combat art upgrades and so on. Artisan recipes nonetheless use specific crafting skills (e.g. artistry (aka cooking), artificing (aka jewellery-making), weaponsmithing and so on), which is used to determine a crafter's base skill at making the item. This modifies the crafting-round results you get and the arts you have available, but we'll cover that next time.
At level 9 you can pick a crafting school specialisation from the three groups mentioned above: Craftsman, Outfitter or Scholar. (This also instantly bumps you to level 10, by the way. And if you don't pick a school at level 9 you'll have to pick one at level 10 or you can't progress.) From levels 10-19, then, your recipes include all the ones common to that group — so a Craftsman will get all 10-19 carpenter, provisioner and woodworker recipes.
At level 19, you pick a final profession specialisation which has to be one of the three in the group you picked at level 9 (or 10). Again, you'll be automagically bumped to 20 — and again, if you don't pick one at 19 you'll have to pick one at 20 or you won't be able to progress. From level 20 onwards, then, the only recipes you'll get are the ones specific to your specialised profession — so a carpenter will get only 20+ carpentry recipes, a provisioner will get provisioning recipes, and so on. You can obtain other recipes through quests and by other means, but those will either be profession-specific OR they'll be artisan-level recipes, meaning anyone can learn and make them. (Note that it is possible to change crafting professions, but you'll lose all levels you've accrued in your current one and will have to start from scratch.)
This isn't as artificial a restriction as it may seem. Crafting is based on an underlying skill point system which is derived from your level: profession skill = crafting level x 5. However, the skills in those professions you left behind, so to speak, will never be as high. For the two crafting groups you opted out of at level 9 or 10, your skill will cap at 49 (not counting item and other mods) — I know, this isn't actually (level 9 x 5) skill points, but let's not quibble. For the two professions in your skill group that aren't the one you specialised in, your skill will cap at 99. This means that if you're an alchemist and you need to craft a weaponsmith-skill item later on (as happens in the crafting instances), your weaponsmithing skill is at 49 regardless of what your actual crafting level is. If that same alchemist needs to make a sage item, their scribing skill would be at 99.
In other words, it's hard to make stuff that isn't your specialisation, assuming you even have access to the recipe.
Okay, But Who Makes What??
Now on to what each profession actually produces:
- Carpenters make furniture and storage boxes. They don't have much of a consumables market, though every new character made *will* need boxes for their bank and possibly their inventory slots (if they're strong enough), as well as for their house vault slot if they have a house (which most people do). Nobody else can make furniture, either, and housing is quite a big thing in EQ2. Still, for the most part I'd make a carpenter out of love and not out of a rabid desire for quick money.
- Provisioners make food and drink — in comparison to the carpenter, they're nothing but consumables. Provisions provide out of combat health (food) and power (drink) regeneration, and player-crafted provisions are much better than stuff you can buy from NPC vendors or the occasional quest rewards. It's the sort of thing you only notice when you run out, but they're quite essential. Also, provisions now provide various different stat bonuses depending on the recipe.
Provisioning is a steady if cut-throat and heavily competitive market. Each tier of recipes includes short-duration and long-duration items, and as you might expect the market for the short-duration stuff is almost nil — why bother even making it if, for almost the same resource/fuel requirement, you can make longer-lasting items? (You might argue that for cooks, shorter-duration stuff ensures more business, but the plain fact is, nobody buys it.) Lower level stuff does sell, but slowly. Since a level 80 (max) drink can be used by a level 1 character, there's almost no point other than the associated cost in buying something lower. Food and drink auto-adjusts to the consumer's level.
- Woodworkers make a variety of wooden weapons (staves, clubs, wands) and all bows and arrows, as well as thrown weapons, smaller wooden shields (priests, scouts), totems (consumables for various uses like faster travel, better health/power regen, water breathing, stealth, etc.) and harvesting tools. Excellent consumables market, though the profit margin on individual items tends to be smallish, so you do better if you sell in bulk. Arrows are an obvious example of this.
- Armorers make metal armour (sorry: armor for you US folks) and fighter-class shields. This includes several types of chain mail (with varying stat bonuses) for the scout classes and a couple of priest classes, as well as a selection of plate mail for fighters and other priest classes. Since armour is replaced every 10 levels, like most other adventuring gear, there's a fairly steady market. There are 7 armor body-slots on a character, not counting the shield which not all classes can equip.
- Tailors make the rest of the armour: leathers and cloth. Again, these come in several different types to suit varying classes, so for instance you'll find a "woven" leather that's heavy on the wisdom bonuses (aimed at priests) and a dextrous leather that is, as you might expect, aimed at scouts and light fighters. Tailors also make backpacks. This is a somewhat smaller market than carpenter boxes (because most people start carrying boxes on their characters as soon as they're strong enough, since boxes are about 3x the size of a similar-tier bag), but it's a market nonetheless.
- Weaponsmiths make … weapons. Pointy stabby things, bashy things, whirly bladey things (ok, that last is a lie). About the same level of demand there as there is for armour and while people only need at most a couple of weapons per tier, there is a huge demand for rare weapons, much more so than for armour (which, at 7 pieces, requires a lot more rares and so is more of an investment).
- Alchemists make potions (cures, heals, buffs), poisons (for certain classes) and all fighter-archetype combat art upgrades. The market for poisons is relatively steady but seems very competitive. The market for combat art upgrades is similar.
- Jewelers make jewellery (sorry, jewelry), offhand items and scout archetype combat art upgrades. Everyone uses jewellery so it's a reasonable market, and the upgrade market is similar to that of alchemists.
- Sages make priest- and mage-archetype spell upgrades, and now they can also make empty books for players to write in. This may seem like a small selection, but considering that they cater to 12 different classes (half the classes in the game), they're usually pretty busy. The upgrades market is similar to that of the other scholar professions.
As a side note, since it's not vital to starting crafters, as mentioned above the overall "crafting" profession that everyone starts out as is known as "Artisan." There are now high-level recipes obtained from chest rewards in the daily crafting instances that are used to make "shard armour," and these are classed as artisan recipes which means anyone can make them. You'll often see people asking for an armorer or a jeweler to make their shardy bits, but this is in fact unnecessary. Basically, in EQ2, if you can learn a recipe, you can make that recipe. How well you can make it is another matter.
Will My Stuff Sell?
Levelling a crafter in EQ2 is similar to other games: you make a ton of items to obtain crafting xp and gain crafting levels. Each level, you buy a new book of recipes with stuff you can make. This means that in many cases the broker (EQ2's non-auctionny auction house) is saturated with stuff, and the competition is pretty heavy. All crafted items have a base value if you were to sell it to an NPC merchant, which is what it costs to make (based on the fuel cost, since fuel is an NPC-bought resource), and you'll often see stuff being brokered under vendor cost. Personally I find this daft, because as a crafter that's like shooting myself in the foot, so I never sell stuff under vendor price on the broker. You could argue it's done for altruistic, buyer-helpful reasons, and maybe very occasionally it is — but most of the time I suspect people just want to shift the stuff they made and undercut the competition. I could go on about rampant undercutting (and its evil twin, rampant gouging), but I won't.
What does sell is anything made with rare resources. Each weapon, piece of armour, jewellery and spell or combat art upgrade has a rare version, and there's rares-made furniture and even boxes and bags. Provisioning is the only profession that doesn't get to make much of anything with rares, which is a shame, but at least they make nothing but consumables so there's almost always a market for provisioner-made goods.
As with many resource-based and mass-production-to-level-based games, however, EQ2 is experiencing the usual trend where resources can cost more than the finished product. This was very evident in SWG back in the holocron-grinding days, but it's present in any MMO that uses similar craft-levelling methods — the one thing people are guaranteed to always need are raw materials. Thus, in many cases (especially at lower and middle levels) it can actually be more profitable to sell resources, and particularly rares, than to make finished products and try to sell those. Irksome as this may be to people wanting to level a crafter without doing their own harvesting, it's a viable revenue stream for those who have raws to sell.
Note — EQ2's broker is more of a storefront than an auction house. Goods go up for a fixed price which doesn't change unless the seller alters it. There is no bidding. Since I'm not a fan of auction houses I think this is a good thing, but it may put people off or seem weird if you're used to WoW-style auctioning. It's still entirely possible to buy low and sell high, and even on my relatively lightly-populated Lucan D'Lere server, broker trade is usually quite brisk (for the right goods).
Does That Mean I Should Be A Harvester Too?
Being the harvesting junkie I am, I can't give an unbiased answer to this. Even without that, though, it's evident that any intensive crafting effort (levelling more than one crafter, for instance, or intending to produce a lot of goods) is going to be more cost-effective if the raw materials aren't bought. You'd have to figure out how valuable your non-harvesting time is compared to the time spent harvesting; note that harvesting takes quite a lot of time if you're doing it in quantity, though it's entirely possible to hop somewhere and grab a few resources. Since these resources are "contested," i.e. available to anyone with the skill to harvest them, what you get depends on how busy your selected harvesting area is. If you can, avoid harvesting at busy times like weekends.
Harvesting itself will be covered in its own section. You'd be surprised how many tips and tricks are involved in harvesting, if you intend to do it seriously or for gain.
Till Next Time
Thanks for reading all the way down here, if you did. To those who don't craft in EQ2 but would like to, I welcome comments or questions and I'll be happy to clarify. To those who already craft in EQ2 (or have done so in the past), I'd definitely like amendments, additions, and other tips, tricks or trade seekrits you can think of.
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A few supplemental notes from the perspective of someone who crafts primarily for the benefit of future adventuring (rather than making money on the broker or just for the sake of crafting):
– Carpentry gets an extra leg up if crafting is a very part-time hobby for your adventurer. You need a crafting level at, above, or even way above your adventuring level if you want to craft all of the stuff you will actually use from other professions. It doesn't matter what level your house furniture is if you like the looks, and everyone can benefit from boxes. (Caveat: Check the broker, it's often flooded with cheap top tier boxes that someone produced while leveling and is now dumping to get rid of them.) Woodworking also gets the nod here because low level utility totems (e.g. water breathing) remain useful at high levels in ways that other consumables (e.g. low level health potions) do not.
– Ysh may disagree with me, but I would not recommend provisioning to anyone for any reason. The markup on cooked food and drink is so low that it's not worth the time it takes to phyiscally make it. During the time you spent cooking, you could have been producing something that you would not have been able to afford on the broker, AND the trade is crippled for leveling with a small number of new recipes per level. (Also, the short duration stuff tends NOT to offer a stat bonus in addition to the regen, which may help to explain why it is less popular.)
– If you're not out to sell stuff, armor and jewelry are much more versatile than weapons. You have eight slots for armor and jewelry and only 1 slot for a weapon (two if you dual wield). It's much easier to buy the one weapon you need than to buy eight pieces of tier armor. Also, tailors serve a slightly smaller number of classes with their armo(u)r, but they make "hex doll" trinkets that EVERY class can use, and, as Ysh noted, bags that are going to be better than nothing.
– EQ2 has 24 classes, each of which gets 2-3 spells per level for 80 levels. There is a non-zero chance that the specific spell you need will not be available on the broker when you want it. If you don't have the option of running crying to Ysh when you can't find a crucial spell upgrade, you might want to make sure that one of the characters on your account can make your spells. The one exception I would make to this recommendation are the melee priests (Wardens, Mystics, and Inquisitors, if using the melee AA specs); for these classes, your main attacks are granted by AA's and automatically scale by level. For these classes, I would go with your armor crafting class.
A beautiful start to the guide, Ysharros. I couldn't have put it better myself, and seeing the correct spellings added icing to the cake (yes, I'm from the UK).
However, I want to refute one of Green Armadillo's comments on provisioning. Though I'm a craftaholic and have after type of crafter (on two accounts, so two of each), my main crafter on my main account is… a provisioner. I worked out a basic system for pricing (a fixed multiple of the cost of fuel and vendor bought ingredients), and have done well. Often I end up lower priced than the other sellers – not because I'm going for the quick sale, or purposefully undercutting, but because I think its a reasonable price for the Tier.
Also, if you check the recipes, the level x0-x4/x5 don't seem to have stats to the food and drink, but the level x5-x9 do, so don't ignore the short duration foods and drinks. The way Domino has allocated the fuel quantities, the prices balance out, and its a viable market.
Of course, like you, I'm a harvester as well. One thing I will agree on is that the raws costs on the broker can kill you as a crafter. In fact, as a provisioner at later tiers, it can actually be crippling if you want to price decently and make a profit.
As offered before, if you ever want to touch base with another EQ2 crafter in your writing this guide, please just drop me an email,
a.k.a. Elkestra
That should of course be 'have every type of crafter'… lol.
sounds neat.. I don't have the time or money to dedicate to EQ2 but it really does sound neat, if I ever get a station pass maybe I'll check it out.
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Boston Children's has launched the world's 1st program dedicated to offering hand transplants to children who qualify.
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Research on spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is moving forward quickly. The search for a treatment or cure has gained momentum among university researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and funding agencies.
Here at Boston Children's Hospital, we are actively involved in several areas of research on SMA:
Researchers have found that in order to better understand SMA and to plan clinical trials, we need to learn more about the progression, or "natural history," of the disease. So members of our Spinal Muscular Atrophy Program at Children's are participating in a long-term natural history study.
This study was conducted through the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network, a collaboration between doctors and families at Boston Children's Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The goal of this group has always been is to offer a medication trial. The results of the 12-month natural history study have been published already and the 12-month to 48-month results will be published in the near future.
When researchers and physicians conduct clinical trials of new drugs and therapies, they need to have standardized systems for measuring the symptoms of children with SMA so they can know whether the new therapy is helping. Unfortunately, the measurement systems, or "outcome measures," that are currently available are not perfect. As a result, the specialists in our Spinal Muscular Atrophy Program at Boston Children's have developed new outcome measures, some of which are now being used by other centers.
Researchers at Boston Children's are working to better understand SMA at the cellular and molecular level. In the laboratory of Boston Children's neurologist Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD, scientists are studying proteins that are associated with the SMA protein, SMN. While most forms of SMA are related to alterations in the SMN protein, these other proteins are thought to play important roles in the disease.
We are starting a phase I drug study with Isis Pharmaceuticals to help test the safety of a new drug that could help people with SMA. This study will look at the safety and tolerability of a new drug that has been shown to increase the production of the survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein. In 95 percent of SMA cases, the SMN1 gene is absent. By inducing a second gene, known as SMN2, to produce more protein, this drug could potentially help reduce the symptoms of SMA and have beneficial therapeutic outcomes .
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Each spring, the Boston Children's Neurology department presents a Boston SMA Day, a one-day conference that brings together researchers and families to share the most up-to-date information on spinal muscular atrophy. Researchers from both Boston Children's and elsewhere in Boston participate, and the event is open to the public.
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You can search for clinical studies at Boston Children's here. To look for clinical trials at other centers, use the links provided on the Patient Resources for families tab.
Participating in our clinical research is completely optional, and our care of your child will never be affected if you decline to enroll her in a study. If you are interested in participating in a study, we will take care to fully explain all elements of the treatment plan prior to the start of the trial, and you may remove your child from the study at any time.
You and your child may want to view Children speak: What it's like to be a medical research subject, a video about children participating in clinical studies at Boston Children's. One of the patients in our Spinal Muscular Atrophy Program is interviewed.
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Sci-Fi for People Who Don't Like Sci-Fi
Recommended by Amy, one of our adult reference librarians.
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To Say Nothing of the Dogby Connie Willis
Its the near future and scientists have discovered the secrets of time travel. Historians, like the main character Ned Henry, have a fabulous opportunity to be jumpers and travel back to any set time. Ned is sent back to find the bishops bird stump from the Victorian era, but another co-jumper has made a cardinal error; she brings back a cat from the past to the present and has subsequently changed history. Ned has to jump back to 1888, not only to search for the hideous piece of art to please his slave driver boss, but to right the wrongs of messing with history. This book was so funny that I actually laughed out loud in several parts. It reads much more like a humorous fiction novel than sci fi.
Keeping It Realby Justina Robson
The year is 2021 and a quantum bomb explosion has changed earth forever, providing humans with the capability to communicate and coexist with elves, demons, fairies and other mythical beings. Special government agent Lila Black, who herself is half human and half machine, has been assigned to protect the wildly famous and rather difficult singer Zal of the famous No-Shows rock and roll band. Lila and Zal, an elf raised by demons, have many wild adventures while trying to thwart other evil creatures and bring him to safety. Elves who are tired of the Tolkien stereotypes, nuclear powered robotic appendages and rock and rollwho knew sci fi could be so much fun?
Enders Gameby Orson Scott Card
Ender is a six-year-old genius who is taken by the government from his family and placed directly into Battle School. Using his brilliance, Ender moves up the ranks, surprising the ever watchful school administrators. Ender thinks that he is fighting the evil alien Buggers on simulated computer games, but the truth is that Ender is the savior of the universe, even if he doesnt realize it. Reading this book was fascinating to me, partly because Card developed his characters so well and made Enders world so plausible, but also because he wrote it in 1985 and had such a brilliant vision of the future.
Old Mans Warby John Scalzi
In the near future, the earth is getting crowded and the possibility of living on other planets is possible. Possible, that is, if you want to share space with the other alien inhabitants who arent as friendly as humans would like them to be. John Perry, feeling old and useless as a 75-year-old widower, joins the army and enters the realm of interstellar life. He receives a new body, a new lease on life, and new friends. He also receives a lesson in the brutalities of military life fighting aliens. This excellent book features well developed characters and fantastic descriptions of a plausible future.
Shards of Honorby Lois McMaster Bujold
This is Lois McMaster Bujolds first book in the Vorkosigan Saga, featuring a solar system of fascinating planets and their inhabitants, and the incorrigible but loveable Miles Vorkosigan. However, before Miles was to exist, his mother, Cordelia Naismith, and his father, Aral Vorkosigan, had to meet while stranded on a newly discovered planet while on separate military missions and fall in love. I liked this series, not only because I felt that the characters were fun, quirky and believable, but I actually understood Bujolds descriptions of interplanetary travel and military warfare.
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Federal funding change hurts local HIV services
Chuck Turner considers himself one of the lucky ones. He was diagnosed as HIV-positive about 16 years ago, but the virus is progressing very slowly.
"I'm one of the few who are not on meds," said Turner, who said he likely became infected during the early 1980s through a blood transfusion. "There are just some of us that it's slow to grow."
Still, Turner, 60, acknowledges that he eventually will need medications. Typical treatment regiments run about $30,000 a year, and many people with HIV/AIDS aren't able to meet the financial demand, he said. Many live on fixed incomes.
Throughout the years, area support service organizations such as Loving Spoonful, a food pantry and home-delivery food service, and the Southwest Texas Interfaith Council, a church-based care team that provides transportation to doctor visits among other services, have been vital resources the local HIV/AIDS community.
But officials with those local organizations say changes to the Ryan White CARE Act, the federal government's largest program specifically for people living with HIV/AIDS, will hurt funding for the services they provide.
HIV/AIDS nonprofits are backed primarily with federal money and a portion of the funds are matched by the state.
Loving Spoonful already has seen a 10 percent funding decrease, and the Interfaith Council will close on June 30 because of changes in the White Act funding.
The White Act was created in 1990 to fund both primary health care and support services for people with HIV/AIDS, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Web site.
Kay Gravey, spokeswoman for the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said a reauthorization of the White Act is pending in Congress. She would not speak to specifics about the act or funding reallocations.
Richard Sledz, executive director of the Coastal Bend AIDS Foundation, said federal funding for the White Act is up slightly - from $2.07 million in 2005 to $2.08 million this year. But he said that most money designated for the act has been reallocated to organizations that provide primary care services, like the foundation.
Primary care services include ambulatory outpatient medical care, prescription medications, substance abuse services, mental health care, case management and dental or oral health care. Sledz said the state health department has added health insurance as a seventh care service for HIV/AIDS patients living in Texas.
"Essentially, what we are having to do is eliminate all support services to meet basic client needs," said Sledz, a former member of the South Texas HIV Planning Assembly, which the state recently disbanded because of budget cuts.
The support services provided by the Southwest Texas Interfaith Council did not fall within the new funding guidelines, said executive director Sandi Santana.
"We were told we would have to change our programs or find another source of funding. We just chose to dissolve the agency," she said.
Santana said she sought out private donations but was unsuccessful in securing the funding needed to keep the Interfaith Council open.
The agency, which has been open 17 years, serves about 76 adult clients and 38 children, Santana said.
"I think there's a lot of people that normally wouldn't have slipped through the cracks if we were not here, and they will definitely slip through the cracks now," she said.
A steady shift toward primary care services will continue to impact Loving Spoonful, which serves 120 clients.
Executive Director James Brown said he is doubtful Loving Spoonful will be able to sustain services through the 2007-2008 funding cycle. He expects almost no funding from the federal government.
"We're not supporting our own people. People that need things from this country," Brown said. "It's a really sad situation."
Dawn Sharipz, director of state HIV services, said some of the help offered by support service organizations now will be assimilated into primary service organizations. Unused funding from the Interfaith Council has been given to the AIDS Foundation. One service provided by the council that will be grouped in with the foundation's services is gas vouchers for clients, he said.
However, the AIDS Foundation expects cuts, too.
Beginning in March 2007, HIV/AIDS services supported by federal funds will be cut by 20 percent across South Texas, Sledz said.
The percentage cut to the AIDS Foundation, which serves about 400 clients in a 12-county area, will adversely impact its ability to meet rural community needs, Sledz said. He said more federal funding from the White Act is going to primary care service organizations in larger metropolitan areas, such as Houston. Those areas, he said, maintain higher concentrations of HIV/AIDS individuals.
Sledz said that for local HIV/AIDS nonprofits to stay open, more community collaboration is needed. One example of this, he said, would be working more closely with area food pantries so nutritional needs of HIV/AIDS individuals can be met.
In Nueces County, there were 476 people living with HIV/AIDS in 2005, according to the most recent data available from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Across the state, more than 56,000 people suffer from HIV/AIDS.
"Everything is going to be cut, and for me, that carries a lot of mental stress," said Turner, a patient advocate with Loving Spoonful who regularly uses the organization's services. "It all boils down to our need to live, to live happily and healthy."
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Alexandra Arambula, Plan II Honors/Biomedical Engineering Senior, Named Outstanding Student by Texas Parents Association
Posted: December 1, 2013
Texas Parents Outstanding Students Alexandra Arambula and Clark Plost enjoy a game-time spotlight with Gage Paine, vice president for Student Affairs, on Nov. 2.
By Joshua Cook, Division of Student Affairs
Published: Dec. , 2013
Among the more than 50,000 students on campus, certain individuals emerge as leaders, making a lasting impression on their peers and the university. This year's Texas Parents Outstanding Student Awards showcase two such students: seniors Alexandra Arambula and Clark Plost.
With their impressive academic records, selfless service, strong leadership and impeccable character, Arambula and Plost personify the university's motto, "What Starts Here Changes the World." They were honored Nov. 1 at the 62nd annual Celebration of Leadership Dinner, hosted by Texas Parents, part of the Division of Student Affairs, and the Office of the President.
Alex Arambula: Researcher and Mentor
Arambula is completing her final year in biomedical engineering and Plan II with a pre-med concentration. Always interested in a medical profession, she became intrigued by research after attending a high school engineering summer camp at UT Austin.
"When I graduated high school, my classmates basically said I should go out and cure cancer," she said in a video shown at the awards ceremony. "Coming into UT I was really excited about that." She joined Professor George Georgiou's lab at UT Austin and has worked with a therapeutic enzyme that can treat some forms of methionine-dependent cancers.
Another of her passions is guiding others. "I was a FIG mentor for three years and I have been a senior preceptor for the PLUS (Peer-Led Undergraduate Studying) Program," she added. "Mentors have been a really important part of my life, so any way that I can give back to others that way is something that I love to do."
Arambula, who maintains a 4.0 grade point average, also worked with a local hospice and Camp Kesem, a camp for children whose parents are affected by cancer. She says those experiences have been pivotal in her life and she ultimately hopes to integrate technical and humanistic medicine in the field of clinical research. "I think combining my passion for research with my passion for relationships as a physician is somewhere that I would like to see myself," she said.
Arambula's also a Normandy Scholar and involved in the Plan II Pre-Medical Society, LeaderShape-Texas, Tau Beta Pi and the Engineering Chamber Orchestra where she plays piano.
Alexandra Arambula and Vice President of Student Affairs, Gage Paine at the awards dinner.


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Adele and Rob Pattinson Get Into a Heated Argument [VIDEO]
Have you Twihards and Adele-loving nerds freaked out yet? These two Brits were at a party together, and even though we'd imagine it to be the most boring party since Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's wedding, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Adele and Rob Pattinson had an argument!
Adele's '21′ Surpasses 9 Million U.S. Sales
Adele Turns Down Glastonbury Headlining Gig, Wins Ivor Novello Awards [VIDEO]
Even Adele gets stage fright. Adele may have walked away with two Ivor Novello Awards yesterday for her songwriting achievements, but she won't be headlining one of England's biggest music festivals because, the organizer says, she finds the idea of performing in front of 80,000 people too "daunting."
Will Adele's '21′ Get a Special Edition Release?
Adele on 'TODAY': 'I Don't Want Anyone Chatting About Me' [VIDEO]
Adele Denies Receiving Birthday Cake From Rihanna
Adele Covers EW's Music Issue
Adele covers the music issue of Entertainment Weekly aka EW, which just landed on stands. There's really no better choice of artist to grace the cover of this themed issue, since Adele is the best-selling and most critically adored artist of the past decade, if not longer. In an age where CD and overall music sales are sagging like a pair of trousers with rocks in them, Adele is selling millions of records.
Adele Will Release New Track in 2012
Adele's Next Single From '21′ Will Be 'Rumor Has It' [VIDEO]
Adele's next single from '21' will be 'Rumor Has It'. Adele's popularity seems to be endless breaking at least 3 Guinness records to date with the album '21'.
Baseball Player Caught Singing Adele During Game
Who Is Singing Adele?
We put some audio on our website and want to know, who do you think is singing Adele's song?