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Research that has the potential to provide novel solutions to important problems such as treating Alzheimer's disease or producing new refrigerants kinder to the ozone layer has earned Tennessee Tech University chemical engineering associate professor Donald P. Visco Jr. the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers.
Visco received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C., last week. He was one of only 57 recipients honored for displaying exceptional potential for leadership early in their scientific careers.
Eight federal departments and agencies annually nominate engineers and scientists at the start of their careers whose work shows the greatest promise to benefit the nominating agency's mission. The Department of Energy nominated Visco after awarding him the Early Career Scientist and Engineering Award through the National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs.
"We are very proud of Dr. Visco's accomplishments," said TTU College of Engineering Dean Glen Johnson. "He now joins Dr. John Zhu as the second of our faculty to win a national-level career award from a major government agency. Dr. Visco is the first of our faculty members in memory to win a technical award from the Office of the President."
Visco's award-winning work developed during recent summer collaborative efforts at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. The value of his work can best be understood by first looking at the challenge scientists face when searching for compounds with particular properties. To develop a new drug or create new lubricants, solvents or refrigerants, scientists need to be able to conduct accurate, timely and cost-effective searches of all the possible chemical compounds that could be used. But the chemical universe offers an unwieldy dataset, estimated at about 10 to the 60th power.
"You could never start with such a hopelessly large number, so techniques are needed to form a drastically smaller and focused subset of potential solutions," says Visco.
Take the recent news that the drugs Vioxx and Celebrex, commonly prescribed for arthritis patients, have been linked to heart problems. New drugs could be designed with similar properties that don't have that undesirable side effect. But scientists face searching through millions and millions of compounds to find one that can be used to design a similar drug. That's where Visco's development and testing of a new technique can make all the difference.
What Visco designed, in conjunction with collaborators at Sandia National Laboratories, was the introduction of a molecular descriptor, called "Signature," which quantifies and describes a molecule's structure.
"Signature is simply a way to encode and describe the local environment of an atom in a molecule so that we can understand its structure," he says.
The field in which Visco is working, QSAR, or quantitative structure-activity relationships, has long sought a way to glean information about the structure of compounds and use that information to make predictions about other compounds. Early results using Signature show that scientists can now take a small set with known properties and generate a much larger database of compounds that have optimal properties for the problem at hand.
"The technique of Signature is independent of the problem waiting to be solved," said Visco. "Involving students at Tennessee Tech, we're trying it in a wide variety of areas."
At least five projects involving students under Visco's advisement are currently using Signature to solve problems. One student is seeking to design a new refrigerant to replace ozone depleting ones. Another student is working to create a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Other projects include research into the Vioxx and Celebrex alternative and a new add mixture for concrete.
"Working at Sandia has been an amazing and energizing opportunity," says Visco. "Collaborative efforts such as this promote the university and open doors for our students."
Each Presidential Award winner received a citation, plaque and a commitment for continued funding of their work from their agency for five years. Visco's award amounts to $250,000 over the five-year period. The Center for the Management, Utilization and Protection of Water Resources is providing additional support for Visco's work through a graduate student and funding for software not covered by the award.
"Don Visco is well deserving of this recognition by the president of the United States and the Department of Energy," said Dennis George, TTU's director of the Center for Water Resources. "His work with molecular Signatures allows him to find new compounds matching certain desired properties and is an extremely exciting area of research. It can be applied in both industry and the environment."This honor not only reflects well on Don but also on the university as a whole as it continues to invest and engage in high-quality research," George said.

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Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense office, announced 30 employers as finalists for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award today.
The Freedom Award is the department's highest recognition given to employers for exceptional support of employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve. A review board comprised of military and civilian leaders selected the top 30 employers from a pool of 2,899 nominations submitted earlier this year by National Guard and Reserve service members.
Freedom Award finalists distinguish themselves by implementing formal policies and informal initiatives that go above and beyond in assisting and encouraging National Guard and Reserve service. The 2013 finalists offered such gestures of support as creating veteran mentoring programs for service members transitioning to civilian life, offering flexible scheduling to allow guardsmen and reservists to attend to military tasks during business hours, and hosting an internal website accessible to deployed employees and their families so they could more easily keep in touch and see messages of support from their co-workers.
"The 2013 Freedom Award finalists demonstrate the type of outstanding support our National Guard and Reserve Service members count on when answering the nation's call to serve," said ESGR National Chair James G. Rebholz. "These employers recognize the valuable role they play in the lives of our Citizen Warriors; and in supporting these men and women, the finalists have made a critical contribution to our national security. On behalf of ESGR and the DoD, I want to thank each of the 2013 finalists for their extraordinary support."
A national selection board of senior defense department officials, business leaders and prior awardees will select 15 Freedom Award recipients, which will be announced early this summer. The 2013 recipients will be honored at the 18th annual Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 26, 2013. Past recipients of the Freedom Award have met privately with the president and vice president, the secretary of defense, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The finalists for the 2013 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award are:
Albuquerque Fire Department, City of Albuquerque
Albuquerque, N.M.
ASAS/Tysol, Inc.
Woodbury, Minn.
Bank of America
Charlotte, N.C.
C.W. Driver
Pasadena, Calif.
Cardinal Health
Dublin, Ohio
Centerline Mechanical LLC
Cave Creek, Ariz.
Charles Crafts, Attorney At Law
Boise, Idaho
City of Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
City of Prescott
Prescott, Ariz.
City of Shawnee
Shawnee, Kan.
Colorado Springs Utilities
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Compuware Corp.
Detroit, Mich.
Cranston Public Schools
Cranston, R.I.
DaVita, Inc
Denver, Colo.
Eastman Chemical
Kingsport, Tenn.
Express Scripts
St. Louis, Mo.
Family Allergy & Asthma
Louisville, Ky.
Hubcap Express
Fort Wayne, Ind.
JG Management Systems, Inc
Grand Junction, Colo.
Los Angeles Fire Department
Los Angeles, Calif.
Pape-Dawson Engineers
San Antonio, Texas
Prairie Grove Consolidated School District 46
Crystal Lake, Ill.
Richland County Sheriff's Department
Columbia, S.C.
Safeway, Inc
Pleasanton, Calif.
Steel Plate Fabricators
Knoxville, Tenn.
U.S. Bank
Minneapolis, Minn.
U.S. Marshals Service, Eastern District of Louisiana
New Orleans, La.
Waste Management
Houston, Texas
Zions Bank
Salt Lake City, Utah
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The Freedom Award was instituted in 1996 to recognize exceptional support from the employer community. In the years since, 175 employers have been honored with the award. ESGR develops and maintains employer support for Guard and Reserve service. ESGR advocates relevant initiatives, recognizes outstanding support, increases awareness of applicable laws, and resolves conflict between service members and employers. Paramount to ESGR's mission is encouraging employment of Guardsmen and Reservists who bring integrity, global perspective and proven leadership to the civilian workforce.
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What is your take on extraterrestrial intelligences, have you seen "UFO"s , or even been in one if you lucky and caught by a surprise ? Have you met any people from other planets ? Or simply if you have not, what are your thoughts about the topic, and would you like to have an experience ?
Do you believe in the existence extraterrestrials ? (Belief is based on faith or trust without looking at the evidence, data, mathematical models, that is because your friend saw something, and you trust your friend, without research, that is belief)
Do you understand the existence of extraterrestrials ?
(Understanding is based on collecting data , evidence, mathematical models such as drake equation, astrobiology research etc and deriving a conclusion)
Do you know the existence of extraterrestrials ?
(That is when you have had your own personal experience, scrutinized it to be legitimate experience, as well as comparing your experience with other's evidence data and so on)
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Back in the 80s, I made the mistake make the suggestion that E.T.s might include "life, not as we know it" ... to a molecular biologist from Caltech's JPL. He was quick to point out that chemistry is very well understood, and that CHON (Carbon-Hydrogen-Oxygen-Nitrogen) chemistry p0ssesses the necessary properties to form the complex multi-valent and relatively unstable compounds that act as building blocks for all life.-- amino acids.
These four elements (especially carbon) are so essential to living organisms, that the entire branch of chemistry concerning carbon based molecules is called organic chemistry.Since carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are very common elements in the universe, as determined by spectroscopic analysis, it is a fairly safe bet that planets with the right characteristics will have some degree of organic life.
It's a COOK BOOK!
A lot of thee more prominent UFOlogists are people who have developed a fairly harmless second career/second income in the particular faction of the lecture circuit supported by cranks, crazies, and conspiracy believers. The UFO community is very allied with the conspiracy community because they always have to explain why mainstream science ignores them. The answer is almost always: government cover up.
This is why UFO discussions tend to be about government cover ups instead of actual proof.
The thing is, it's hard to believe that scientists not working for the government are so easily restrained by the government. It also stretches credulity to the limit to think that all of the proof (as opposed to the evidence) is in government hands. The government may be big and powerful, but it isn't omnipotent.
This not the only thing governments want to shove up their asses, and send the Naval Space Agency around Uranus hehe. What I find disturbing is that the civilian astronauts and cosmonauts risk their lives with rocket engines, where there is better technology. You know whats happened with Snowden, the NSA and so on, was that not once a conspiracy theory until it blew out in the open, now the media is playing spot the Snowden , its funny.
Its a mad world...
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While it's possible that civilizations may exist on other planets, here's one fact people tend to forget: When.
Thinking beings could have existed millions of years ago and became extinct. And we would never know about them. We may go extinct eventually and millions of years later some other group come into existence. The problem is not just the vast distances but the vast time.
Would I love it if Vulcans landed in my (very small) back yard? You bet!
But it's unlikely to happen. Unfortunately.
Actually, given the vast distances, it's highly that one of two things have happened in the millions of years it may have taken for us to become cognizant of them: 1) their civilization may have died out or 2) they may even have evolved into a totally different species.
Okay, first let me say that I've been an avid reader of sci-fi since I was old enough to hold a paperback back in the 60's. I've been a fan of sci-fi movies all my adult life. As a kid,I wanted so bad for a alien spacecraft to land in my backyard I spent nights under the stars waiting for it. I've read Erich von Daniken! I even have a good friend who presently works for MUFON as an investigator.
However, I think 'believeing' in, or thinking that aliens are here, or are close, or have visited, or are in contact with us, or have left messages for us; all of the different things an alien fan will talk about is just like the religion I think is nonsense; it's all a bunch of man-made stuff that's fun to talk about, but not worth putting stock in.
I don't doubt there is other life elsewhere in the Universe, but I doubt that of those life-forms that are capable of space flight have the same obsession with finding us as we do with finding them. I think we may be just looking for 'something else' because we're bored with what we have.
You know, Danielle, if at some time in our future, time travel is discovered, then people from our future might act very like the ones you say are aliens... It would be far more reasonable for them to act in secrecy and not want to be 'discovered' in case they changed history - aliens have no obvious need for secrecy.
Isaac Asimov wrote a book about it - a novel, I'm afraid, not a science paper. Still, if you are open to secret alien visitations, time travel shouldn't be too much of a quantum leap, so to speak.
I personally feel that to achieve faster than light speed space travel is most likely to happen on this planet than time traveling, because moving through space is what we do every day even with our own legs. To actually shift through time, what are the implications ? But on personal note and opinion, i have found the people's minds very grounded to this planet, in the perception that its the center of attention in the galaxy, universe and beyond, that all the action happens here on this little rock going around its star, that when it it comes to explaining the lights in the sky, that are seen to not be known terrestrial origin, they get seen as supernatural like demons and angels in the minds of the religious, and time travelers in the minds of the atheist...
But your argument has a point of possibility.


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NOTRE DAME — In a newly renovated gym and after a dedication ceremony recognizing the new digs, the Notre Dame Titans got all they needed from their starting five to tame the visiting Whiteoak Wildcats on opening night.
The Titans (1-0) got a combined 63 points, 32 rebounds and 11 assists from their starters helping them defeat the Wildcats (0-1), 67-52.
Notre Dame got a team-high from Michael Mader, who scored 19 points. He also added nine rebounds and three assists. The man in the middle, Daniel Ogg finished with a double-double with 12 points and a game-high 14 rebounds.
The Titans wasted no time from tip as Kevin Lewis and J.P. Kayser both made two 3-pointers in the quarter. The two sharp shooters helped Notre Dame to build an 18-9 lead after the first quarter and shot 46 percent.
The hot shooting from beyond the arc continued for the Titans. After a made lay up from Lewis, Kayser made another 3-pointer from the corner giving Notre Dame a 23-13 advantage.
Lewis, who finished with 13 points and five steals, stole the ball away on the next possession, giving the Titans a 25-13 lead.
Notre Dame continued to pull away from the Wildcats as they held them to 22 percent shooting in the second quarter and forced eight turnovers.
Leading 29-16 halfway through the second quarter, the Titans' Lewis hit another 3-pointer to give them a 32-16 lead.
Notre Dame ended the quarter on a 13-2 run, extending their lead to 42-18 after Mader hit back-to-back layups to close out the quarter. It was their largest lead of the game as Mader finished with eight points in the second quarter.
Trailing by 24 points, the Wildcats were on the prowl for a comeback. Shooting only 22 percent in the second quarter, Whiteoak came out of the locker room with the look of another team.
The Wildcats made six of their first seven shots, including four straight by Doc Seip. Seip, who finished with 17 points and eight rebounds off the bench, scored 10 in the quarter.
Whiteoak started the quarter on a 6-0 run, pulling them within 17. The Wildcats weren't finished, shooting an impressive 72 percent for the quarter as they cut the lead to as low as 15.
However, the starting five for the Titans were too much as Ogg and Mader controlled the paint and boards trading buckets with Whiteoak.
Leading 60-38 early in the fourth quarter, the Wildcats went on a 12-4 run over a four minute span which cut the lead to 64-50 with 3:31 remaining. It was the closest they had been since early in the second quarter.
Notre Dame countered though, holding them to only one field goal for the remainder of the game as the Titans defended their brand new floor and came out with the win.
Scoring Summary
Whiteoak 9 9 18 16 - 52
Notre Dame 18 24 11 14 - 67
Whiteoak— Williams 2-1-5, Carraher 1-4-6, Taggert 7-5-20, Seip 8-1-17, Emery 1-1-3
3-point— Taggert (1)
Totals— 18-12-52
Notre Dame— Lewis 5-0-13, Haney 1-0-2, Kayser 6-1-17, Mader 6-7-19, Ogg 6-0-12
3-point— Lewis (3), Kayser (4)
Totals— 24-8-67


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Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras, Spanish República de Honduras , country of Central America situated between Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south and east. The Caribbean Sea washes its northern coast, the Pacific Ocean its narrow coast to the south. Its area includes the offshore Caribbean department of the Bay Islands. The capital is Tegucigalpa (with Comayagüela), but—unlike most other Central American countries—another city, San Pedro Sula, is equally important industrially and commercially, although it has only half the population of the capital.
The bulk of the population of Honduras lives a generally isolated existence in the mountainous interior, a fact that may help to explain the rather insular policy of the country in relation to Latin and Central American affairs. Honduras, like its neighbours in the region, is a developing nation whose citizens are presented with innumerable economic and social challenges, a situation that is complicated by rough topography and the occasional violence of tropical weather patterns, including the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
The land
More than three-fourths of the land area of Honduras is mountainous, lowlands being found only along the coasts and in the several river valleys that penetrate toward the interior. The interior takes the form of a dissected upland with numerous small peaks. The main surface features have a general east-west orientation. There is a narrow plain of alluvium bordering the Gulf of Fonseca in the south. The southwestern mountains, the Volcanic Highlands, consist of alternating layers of rock composed of dark, volcanic detritus and lava flows, both of middle to early Cenozoic age (i.e., about 2.6 to 65 million years old). The northern mountains in other regions are more ancient, with granite and crystalline rocks predominating.
Four geographic regions may be discerned:
- The eastern Caribbean lowlands (including the northern part of the Mosquito [Miskito] Coast, called La Mosquitia) and mountain slopes embrace about one-fifth of the total land area of Honduras. Hot and humid, this area is densely forested in the interior highlands, and lumbering is an important economic activity. Subsistence agriculture and fishing are the main support of the scattered population.
- The northern coastal and alluvial plains and coastal sierras make up about one-eighth of the land area and contain about one-fourth of the population. This is an economically important region, the clayey and sandy loam soils producing rich crops of bananas, rice, cassava (manioc, or yuca), oil palm, corn (maize), citrus fruits, and beans. Cattle, poultry, and pigs are raised. The nation's railroads are confined to this northern area, which has four of the five important ports of entry.
- The central highlands take up two-thirds of the national territory and contain the vast majority of the population. The mountains are rugged, rising in the west to 9,347 feet (2,849 metres) at Mount Las Minas, the highest point in the country. The numerous flat-floored valleys lie between 2,000 and 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 metres) in elevation. The generally fertile soils, derived from lava and volcanic ash, produce coffee, tobacco, wheat, corn, sorghum, beans, fruits, and vegetables and support cattle, poultry, and pigs.
- The Pacific lowlands, centred on the Gulf of Fonseca, and the adjacent lower mountain slopes are only a small part of the land area and contain an equally small part of the population. The fertile soils, composed of alluvium or volcanic detritus, produce sesame seed, cotton, and some corn and sorghum. Cattle are raised on the lowland pastures, and coffee is grown on the nearby uplands.
The climate is generally hot, with high humidity in the tropical coastal lowlands becoming modified by elevation toward the interior. Lowlands below 1,500 feet (460 metres) have mean annual temperatures between 79 and 82 °F (26 and 28 °C). The north coast is occasionally affected from October to April by cool northern winds of continental origin. Mountain basins and valleys, from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 metres), have mean annual temperatures of 66 and 73 °F (19 and 23 °C). At Tegucigalpa, located on hilly terrain at an elevation of 3,200 feet (975 metres), the rainy season starts in May and continues until mid-November, with temperatures sometimes reaching 90 °F (32 °C) in May and dropping to 50 °F (10 °C) in December, the coolest month. Around 7,000 feet (2,100 metres) mean annual temperatures are about 58 °F (14 °C). In the northern and eastern coastal and alluvial plains and on adjacent mountains, mean annual precipitation ranges from 70 to 110 inches (1,800 to 2,800 mm) or more, with a less rainy season from March to June; these areas occasionally have summer hurricanes that are accompanied by heavy rains. Pacific plains and mountain slopes get 60 to 80 inches (1,500 to 2,000 mm) of rain annually but from December to April receive little or no rain. Interior sheltered mountain basins and valleys receive 40 to 70 inches (1,000 to 1,800 mm) annually.
Plant and animal life
In eastern Honduras the coastal and lagoon swamps have mangrove and palm forests, and west of these are low, rainy, sandy plains with pine (Pinus caribaea) savanna, extending inland for 40 miles (65 km) or more. West of the pine savanna, in low valleys and on lower mountains, which are rainy all year, and on the low, rainy northern mountains are broad belts of dense evergreen broad-leaved forests with many species of large trees, including mahogany, lignum vitae, Spanish cedar, balsa, rosewood, ceiba, sapodilla, and castilloa rubber. The high, rainy mountain slopes of highland Honduras support excellent oak-pine forests. Open, dry, deciduous woodlands and temperate grasslands are spread throughout the interior highland basins and valleys. The Pacific plains and adjacent mountain slopes have deciduous tropical forests and savannas. Mangroves occupy the low coastal swamps.
Insects, birds, and reptiles are the most conspicuous animal forms. There are many species of butterflies, moths, beetles, bees, wasps, spiders, ants, flies, and mosquitoes, many of them beautifully coloured. Waterfowl in large numbers inhabit the coastal areas. Crocodiles, snakes, lizards (giant iguana and others), and turtles are found in the tropical forest areas. The fauna also includes deer, peccaries, tapir, pumas, jaguars, and ocelots. Fish and mollusks are abundant in lagoons and coastal waters. Deforestation of some interior regions since the Spanish conquest has led to serious soil erosion, and, since the mid-20th century, pesticides used by banana producers have caused environmental damage along coastal regions.
To safeguard native flora and fauna, numerous national parks, protected forests, and biological reserves were established in the late 1980s and '90s, including Mount Bonito National Park (1987), which covers 434 square miles (1,125 square kilometres), and the protected forests Cuero y Salado (1987) and Isopo Point (1992). Extending more than 60 square miles (155 square km) near the Guatemalan border is Mount Azul de Copán National Park (1987), an area of rainforest that surrounds the famous Mayan ruins of Copán. La Tigra National Park was established in 1980 and covers 92 square miles (238 square km) of cloud forest near Tegucigalpa.
1An interim regime supported by the military held power from June 28, 2009, to Jan. 27, 2010, when a democratically elected president was installed.
|Official name
|República de Honduras (Republic of Honduras)
|Form of government
|multiparty republic1 with one legislative house (National Congress [128])
|Head of state and government
|President: Juan Orlando Hernández
|Official language
|Official religion
|Monetary unit
|lempira (L)
|(2014 est.) 8,261,000
|Total area (sq mi)
|Total area (sq km)
|Urban-rural population
|Urban: (2012) 52.2%
Rural: (2012) 47.8%
|Life expectancy at birth
|Male: (2012) 69 years
Female: (2012) 72.5 years
|Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
|Male: (2010) 84.8%
Female: (2010) 84.7%
|GNI per capita (U.S.$)
|(2013) 2,180


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When it comes to the topic of nudity, people in the US tend to take a pretty conservative stance. There is, however, a benefit to raising tots who are comfortable in the buff. By teaching them that nudity is OK — even beautiful — you help your kids build a positive body image. Now you don't need to move to a nudist colony to achieve this goal. Rather, embrace these simple and socially acceptable ways to help your children feel comfortable in their own skin.
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I am trying to raise modest kids. Girl(s if i have more later) and boys. You don't have to show off skin to have a healthy body image. i think those who feel they need to are showing they are not healthy in mind about their bodies. Bodies are a gift and a beautiful thing. no matter how big You are that body is Your gift from God.(yes we need to care for how we treat it and feed it but it in every state is a gift) And their body shouldn't be hidden from view because everyone has a body but not every part of out bodies should be seen. they are beautiful but not all beauty is for everyone to see. .
.. And i think teaching kids that helps them have safe body boundaries that are easy to talk about and have a clear term for what is good for them and others around them. Being modest is not just about You and keeping Your distance from others but putting up a screen (of clothing) between You and some one els's eyes so they don't have to stumble because we respect each other's bodies and minds.
That does not means i keep a baby in full cloths when eating at home. But when we are at someone else's home or restaurants i do hate seeing bear chested girls and boys. they are not my babies i shouldn't have to see them naked. Now my daughter is 4 and i am starting to teach her to keep her shirt on when eating tomato soup(be for she always was told to take it off like her brothers) but now as they are learning about their bodies more now and they are growing in respect and able to care for their bodies more now they need to know how to be modest even when messy haha I will state it again. =) Our Bodies are beautiful but not all beauty is for all to see.


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Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks - overview
The manuscripts
- Leonardo's surviving manuscripts consist of some 7,000 pages of notes and drawings, bound and unbound: about half of what is believed to have existed at the time of his death; they are the most important sources for understanding Leonardo's work as a natural philosopher, engineer, and (in addition to his finished paintings), an artist.
- They are written primarily in Italian, unusual for learned European writings of the time which were usually in Latin; they are in Leonardo's characteristic mirror script, written from right to left, so that they can be read when held in front of a mirror.
- Leonardo's prolific manuscript legacy documents scientific and technological practice before the scientific revolution; comparatively few manuscripts by his contemporaries have survived.
- Part of Codex Arundel, and the whole of Codex Leicester, were composed around 1508-1510; they were begun in Leonardo's native Tuscany and probably returned with him to Milan in late 1508.
Why is putting these two notebooks together significant?
Bringing these two notebooks is signficant for three reasons:
- It is the first time they have been displayed together in their entirety since Leonardo composed them - possibly ever!
- They are his two manuscripts that deal primarily with scientific topics, and show Leonardo in the persona of what we would today call a scientist.
- They raise intriguing questions about the provenance and composition of the manuscripts.
- Most of Leonardo's manuscripts were gathered together by Leonardo at the time of his death and kept by his pupil and heir Francesco Melzi, but were subsequently dispersed, traded and inherited by artists and collectors and their heirs.
- Since the 16th century, Codex Leicester has been retained by a series of private collectors: for 263 years (1717-1980) belonging to the estate of the Earl of Leicester, Thomas Coke, and his heirs, after whom the Codex was then and (following a brief period known as 'Codex Hammer' when in the collection of industrialist Armand Hammer, 1980-1994) is now named.
- Codex Arundel was in the collection of notable art collector Thomas Howard, the Second Earl of Arundel on his death in 1646 and donated by his grandson to the Royal Society (c.1667) then transferred to the British Museum library (now the British Library) in 1831 with other Arundel MSS. It has therefore been retained by scientific and public institutions for the best part of 300 years.
What do scholars hope to learn as a result?
- Online comparison of the digitised manuscripts will make it easier for scholars to identify and compare passages in the two codices.
- This in turn provides clues to the composition and original order of the manuscripts.
- The two codices provide an overview of Leonardo's scientific thought around 1508-1510, and, in the case of Codex Arundel, of the evolution of his thought over time (c.1478-1518).
- There would be great benefit in digitising and bringing all of Leonardo's manuscripts together online.
What benefits to researchers and archives does the digitisation of the notebooks offer?
- The digitising of the codices offers unprecedented access to the manuscripts, which have hitherto been available for specialised research in leading international libraries and private collections, and occasionally exhibited.
- Digitisation offers the possibility of the reconstruction in the order he composed them, and the reordering of the manuscripts for the purpose of study (for example by subject or place).
- Digitisation of the codices offers benefits for the preservation of the original manuscripts by reducing the need for handling the original manuscripts.
- Now that both original codices are unbound, digitisation allows us to create an image of the bound order in which the manuscripts were preserved from the 16th to 20th centuries, thus providing an important historical record of how the manuscripts were kept for much of the past 500 years.
What insight into the mind of Leonardo can we gain as a result?
- Leonardo worked on loose sheets of paper (usually consisting of 4 pages, 2 on each side) and generally kept his thoughts on each topic confined to one sheet.
- Passages he copies elsewhere in his notebooks are crossed out, suggesting a relationship between the ordering of his thoughts and the ordering of his papers.
- His intention to order and publish his manuscripts was never fulfilled, as his ideas proliferated and developed over time.
- The manuscripts show a wide-ranging curiosity and Leonardo's sustained application to scientific and technical problems (as well as artistic and moral ones) on most conceivable subjects.
- Leonardo returned to many of the same ideas and problems repeatedly throughout his work.
- About one third of the Codex Leicester relates to water and its movement, and there are several passages relating to water in the Codex Arundel (f. 149r), associated with canalisation projects in Tuscany and France (f. 269r). Leonardo's observations led him to elucidate how currents flow: 'By so much as you will increase the river in breadth, by so much will you diminish the speed of its course.'
- In some cases linked to his studies of water was Leonardo's discussion of the changing character of the earth including phenomena such as erosion (Codex Leicester, 5v, 32r, 31v) the global circulation of water (Codex Arundel 210r, 236v) and wind (Codex Leicester 30v, Codex Arundel 113v).
- Among the most famous studies in the Codex Leicester are those exploring the geometry and astronomy of the sun, the moon and the earth (ff. 1-2, 35 and 36) paralelling those in the Codex Arundel (e.g. f. 104r). This was a key topic in medieval cosmology, and Leonardo, while retaining the Ptolemaic system, developed a geometrical argument for the reflection of light from water on the surface of the moon to illuminate the earth. This implied that the moon, like the earth is possessed of gravity, keeping the four Aristotelean elements, earth, water, air, and fire, in place in order of density.
- As Leonardo studied the geometry of light on a cosmological scale, he also considers optical questions of human proportions. In the Codex Arundel (e.g. ff. 87v-88r), Leonardo considers Alzahen's problem (after the Islamic philosopher of the 10th century, Ibn al-Haitham Alzahen) concerning where an object at a given location is seen in a curved mirror. He also suggests an experiment to coat a mirror with tempera paint removed in thin lines to see the separated rays reflected. Leonardo was interested in the utility of concave mirrors for concentrating light rays on a single point to create heat and fire, recalling Archimedes who used a burning mirror to destroy enemy ships to defend Syracuse. After 1513 in the service of Giuliano de Medici, commander of the papal forces, Leonardo experimented with burning mirrors. Elsewhere he considers the optical properties of the eye (Codex Arundel f. 115v).
Is there anything in the notebooks that can be linked to modern scientific ideas or developments?
Leonardo initially held the traditional view of the continuous circulation of water on the earth. In La composizione del mondo (1282), Ristoro d'Arezzo, following Pliny the Elder who argued that the highest seas were higher than the highest mountains (f. 3r), envisaged a siphonic process in which water from the sea was drawn to the highest mountains, released in springs and flowed downstream to form rivers thence back into the sea. However, in the course of composing the Codex Leicester, Leonardo changed his thoughts on this subject to conclude that precipitation, the evaporation of water to form clouds and rain explained the gathering of water above the earth, and that the force of water in turn formed the mountains and valleys through erosion.
The debate in Leonardo's manuscripts about the global circulation of water was key to another point upon which Leonardo distinguished himself from medieval scholars who supported the notion of the Biblical deluge as the origin of fossils found atop mountains.
Leonardo found fossils to be buried in ordered layers and explained the process of sedimentation that led to their formation (Codex Leicester, f. 8v), designing experiments in glass tanks to demonstrate this process (f. 9v). Yet conventional wisdom on the origin of fossils and the history of the earth was dominant until the work of Charles Lyell (Principles of Geology) in the 19th century.
While Leonardo's idea that the moon is covered with water was wrong, he correctly explained the secondary light of the new moon, lumen cinereum as light reflected from the seas of the earth. (Codex Leicester, f. 7r)
In the Codex Arundel (ff. 67r-66v), Leonardo shows with clarity how the principles of a balance work as codified by Jordanus de Nemore in the 13th century. Equilibrium can be found when the result of multiplying the length of the arms by the weight is the same on both sides. Leonardo further stressed that the weight of the arms also needs to be taken into account. He applied this principle to the case of uneven balances with one short arm and one long arm, useful in weighing heavy objects and thus suitable for engineering projects (f. 66r).
Elswhere in the Codex Arundel (ff. 40v, 41r), Leonardo also identified friction as proportional to the force and therefore weight of the objects in contact, a principle formulated by Guillame Amontons in 1699.
Another example of Leonardo's grasp of mechanics is his discussion of stationary waves on f. 23r of the Codex Leicester, in which he explains 'waves do not penetrate one another, but leap back from the percussed place, and every reflex motion flies away at equal angles from the percussion place'. Christian Huygens reformulated the same principle in 1673, when it became more widely known and established.
Leonardo was not only an inspired engineer, he also delved more deeply into the philosophical basis of things. Although Albert Einstein condemned what Leonardo wrote on the concept of nothingness (Codex Arundel f. 131v) as 'absolute nonsense', Einstein conceded that Leonardo nonetheless conceived of space and time as 'reciprocally independent.continuous entities of point-like nature (deprived of extension) in constant contact' and perceived the non-extended character of time present as a problem.
Some more of Leonardo's more interesting insights and designs
- Leonardo discusses the problem of submarine warfare (Codex Leicester, f. 22) and draws a design for an underwater breathing device (Codex Arundel, f. 25v)
- In the later part of his life, while in the service of the King of France (Francis I), Leonardo worked on plans for a new château at Romorantin (f. 264r, 270v).
- Leonardo addressed the problem of perpetual motion (e.g. Codex Arundel, f. 44v), eventually concluding that this was not possible.
- Two pages of about 1506-1508 in the Codex Arundel (ff. 224r and 231v) pertain to a mobile stage set that Leonardo was designing for the staging of Poliziano's Orpheus.
Are there any modern scientists or inventors particularly inspired by Leonardo?
Leonardo's design for a bridge over the Bosphorus proposed in a letter to the Turkish Sultan preserved in another manuscript (not shown on TTP) was built by the artist Vebjorn Sand at Aas (20 miles south of Oslo, Norway).


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The Beacon was owned/managed by the Kridel family who also operated the Palace, Orange and the Pix Newsreel, Orange as well as the Troy Hills Drive-In. It had an enormous wrap-around marquee and as I remember was one of the most spotlessly clean theaters I have ever seen.
The Beacon was a subsequent run theater with conventional orchestra seating, and a "smoking loge" which was really a fairly large stadium arrangement rather than a balcony. It was sister theater to the Palace in Orange, and sadly demolished to make way for the interstate freeway project (which, in my opinion, also demolished many beautiful neighborhoods). It served its final six months as a soft-core porn house.
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Listed as open in the 1951 FDY.
There is a 1934 city directory on ancestry.com listed as Newark but covers The Oranges also. P 284 covers Main St in East Orange starting from the Newark Line and 129 Main St near Grove St is listed as "The Strand" Theater. So that would mean the theater wasn't always The Beacon. I lived a few blocks from there in the 1950's and am hoping to get more info and hopefully photos from a Kridel descendant we've located.
1964 photo of The Beacon from the Berg Collection courtesy of the Newark Public Library: http://stocktonschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/south-side-of-main-st-between-steuben.html
There was also a movie theater called The Regent at 88 Main St, East Orange from 1915 to 1925 (The Strand, later called The Beacon, opened in 1925). Here is a photo and info about The Regent: http://stocktonschool.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-regent-movie-theater.html
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A 1928 publication called The Film Daily is online at http://www.archive.org/stream/filmdaily4344newy/filmdaily4344newy_djvu.txt. In that document it lists changes of theater ownership and closings. At April 6, 1928 it writes under closings "East Orange —Brighton; Lyceum and Oxford." So it looks like a theater named the "Brighton" closed and it also looks like the "Oxford" (which may have been in the Lyceum of the Masonic Temple) also closed.
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Alzheimer's affects not only people's relationships, but their day-to-day lives. This is why the Alzheimer's Association will hold one of its annual Walk to End Alzheimer's events on Saturday at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center at 9 a.m.
Supporters can come out and walk about 2 miles around the track, and enjoy a cookout and music afterward.
Registration is free. People can register at 8:30 a.m. at the event.
The association and sponsors will be present to show their support and handout information. The main sponsors for the walk are United Hospice of Aiken, Agape Senior, Regency Hospice, Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services, Pepper Hill Skilled Nursing and Rehab Center, ResCare Home Care, Right at Home, Shadow Oaks Assisted Living, Tri-County Home, Health and Hospice, and HarborChase of Aiken.
Around 70 Pepper Hill patients suffer from different stages of Alzheimer's disease, said Cathy Walker, admissions coordinator.
"We are pretty involved with the Alzheimer's Association every year," she said. "Families don't always know what resources are available. We try to help (the association) as much as possible."
Leslie Addison, an Aurora Pavilion geriatrics and child and adolescence therapist, rallied a team from Aiken Regional Medical Centers.
"I got involved because I see a lot of patients with different stages of Alzheimer's," she said. "Now my grandfather has it, so it's close to my heart because of that now, too."
People can donate to the walk online at www.alz.org/walk, at the event or by visiting its West Columbia location or mailing donations to 3223 Sunset Blvd., Suite 100, West Columbia, SC 29169.
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How two English pundits have enjoyed remarkable success betting on golf
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The way golf betting works is relatively simple. Every week, bookies assign and publish each player's odds to win that week's tournament. So, if the bookies say that Tiger Woods is 10/1 to win The Players Championship, that means a bettor will make $10 for every $1 they bet on Tiger to win. Bettors can solely bet on those odds for any given player to win, but they also have the option to make an each way bet. It varies slightly between bookmakers, but an each way bet is essentially just a wager on a player to finish anywhere in the top five. The odds for an each way bet are 25 percent of the player's odds to win. So, if Woods is 10/1 to win the Players, betting $1 "each way" on Tiger means that he is 2.5/1 to finish in the top five.
October 2013
Tom Watson stood over a putt he needed to make to complete one of the greatest triumphs in golf history. It was 8 feet, and he read it about an inch outside the hole. When the ball slipped by the cup a few moments later, the heart of the collective golf world broke -- 2009 was now to be remembered as the year a 59-year-old Tom Watson almost won the British Open. Aside from Mike Grenham. He recalls it fondly as the year of Stewart Cink. "I backed him that year, what a fantastic memory," Grenham said of the man who walked away with the claret jug that day. "I might be the only person who likes that Open finish." At 100/1 odds, Cink in the 2009 Open might have been Mike Grenham's favorite bet ever. Either that, or the one the year prior -- when he tipped Trevor Immelman to win the Masters at 350/1. Betting on golf is more difficult than on any other sport. Instead of two teams facing off, it's hundreds of different players each week of varying forms, competing on different courses around the world.�For that reason it's perhaps most analogous to venture capitalism -- even the best finish with a low hit percentage. It's classic high risk, high reward, and whoever separates the sound from the noise best wins. And together, Mike Grenham and his partner Dave Kelner and have proved remarkably effective at it. As members of the broadcast division for William Hill, the United Kingdom's largest bookmaker which generated more than $2 billion in revenue in 2012, the pair crunch every number they can find and out pop a few names. If the odds are good enough, Grenham and Kelner will tip them on their weekly golf betting podcast, the "William Hill Golf betting" podcast, which broadcasts to about 9,000 listeners every Tuesday. Most pundits could probably build a resume on Grenham's 2013 alone. He tipped runners-up in all four majors -- Angel Cabrera at the Masters at 125/1, Phil Mickelson at the U.S. Open at 16/1, Henrik Stenson at the British at 40/1, and Jim Furyk, at 70/1 odds at the PGA. He picked Matt Kuchar the week he won at the Memorial, Gary Woodland the week he won at the Reno-Tahoe, picked Keegan Bradley the week he shot 60 and tipped Furyk one other time -- the week he shot 59 at the BMW Championship. He also got pretty unlucky, all things considered. He picked Hunter Mahan at the British Open, where Mahan three-putted his 72nd hole to slip one shot outside of the payout zone. He tipped him again the next week at the Canadian Open, when he withdrew as the 36-hole leader to attend the birth of his child. But that goes with the territory, Grenham said. "You have to be prepared and stay patient with your losing runs, because everyone has losing runs," Grenham said. "In golf there are so many runners, you have to play the long game. I love the fact that if you pick a golf winner, you'll get a good price and get your rewards." Dave Kelner's 2013 wasn't quite as good -- by his standards, that is although it's hard to imagine anyone else complaining. He picked Tiger Woods to win the Cadillac Championship, and correctly tabbed Henrik Stenson and Kevin Streelman to place at the Players Championship at 66/1 and 90/1 odds, respectively. How does that all equate? Since the Wells Fargo Championship, the average odds of Grenham's picks are about 60/1 to win. If you were to take that bet 100 times, putting $1 down each time, bookies say you should win about twice and pocket about $93. But, if you were to bet 100 times on a golfer with 60/1 odds that Grenham said to pick in 2013, you would have won closer to five times, and profited more than $170. Do that same equation with Kelner's picks (which average at about 58/1), and bet on them to place, and his picks would have paid out almost double what the bookies expected to happen. Not bad, but it was nothing like Kelner's 2011. That year he picked long shot Kevin Chappell at 750/1 to finish in the top five of the U.S. Open, which he did (T-3). At the British Open a month later, he tipped Darren Clarke at 200/1 to win his first major victory at Royal St. Georges. His reasoning? "He'd won the Iberdrola Open under tough, windy conditions in Mallorca earlier in the season," Kelner said. "I thought the price was big." Dave Kelner and Mike Grenham haven't always been betting on golf. Kelner is the younger of the two. He's been at William Hill for nine years and betting on golf for five of those. The early days were spent mostly on horse racing and soccer, but as his duties expanded, golf played an increasing role, helping elevate the podcast from nothing along the way.
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Gothic style with all the medieval and vintage influences has left its mark even on brides and weddings in general. Imagine yourself in that picture, dressing up for your gothic wedding and getting prepare for the most special moment of your life. But hurry up and get ready, because your loved one is waiting for you in that dark castle on the top of the hill!


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Well, Now My Confidence Is Really Shot
Margo Howard reflects on her dealings with two celebrated womanizers
In the New York Times recently there was a review of Alexandra Styron's memoir about life as a Styron. That would be with Father Bill, Mother Rose, and three other sibs. The reviewer said the book was terrific, and mentioned in passing that Ms. Styron dealt openly with the many affairs of her father, the famous author. Well, that threw me for a loop, and I will tell you why – but I need to offer some background first.
In … oh, hell, 1960, when I was 20, I was an intern for Hubert Humphrey in his Washington Senate office. He was then running for the Democratic Presidential nomination, as was JFK. Not far from his office was the Senators' elevator, exclusively for the use of, well, Senators. Of course that's the elevator I would pop into every now and again. Twice when I was in that elevator, so was JFK. And you know what? He never looked at me … twice, as the saying goes. I did not have hurt feelings about this until it became public knowledge that he was a real ladies' man. So then I got to thinking: What's wrong with me? I wasn't bad looking, and got quite a bit of male attention.
Kind friends who knew I had hurt feelings about this episode – or rather, absence of episode — tried to buck me up by saying, "Well, he didn't 'do young.'" That calmed me down until I read about Mimi … the 19-year-old White House intern he had shipped to Europe so he could have the pleasure of her company there while on Presidential business. That did it. I'd had a lot of compliments during those young years, but I had to face facts: if I didn't catch the eye of a famous womanizer, there was no escaping the feeling of being a total flop.
But back to Bill Styron. We met in Chicago during the famous Conspiracy Seven trial, which conveniently took place when my starter husband and I were finis. I had a brand new press pass, a famous journalist beau who was covering the trial for the New York Times (the late J. Anthony Lukas), and a friendship with one of the noisier defendants, Abbie Hoffman. (We'd both gone to Brandeis). Styron was there, as a journalist, as was Jason Epstein, the famous book editor. This is not to anyone's credit, but that trial became everyone's social life. The news people hung out together, along with Bill Kunsler, the lead lawyer, Tom Hayden, Abbie, Lenny Weinglass.
In that setting, Styron and I were good pals. We were to cement the friendship later on when Esquire ran the first chapter of "Sophie's Choice." For whatever reason, it wasn't well-received — but I thought it was wonderful, and wrote him a note saying I loved it. That apparently meant something to him, most likely because the negative feedback surprised him. And a few years after that he paid me a lovely compliment. I was visiting a girlfriend at Martha's Vineyard who was in a famous tennis game: it was my hostess, Kay Graham, Rose Styron, and a woman whose name I forget. At their game, my chum invited Rose and Bill to the little dinner she was having for me. Rose said she'd love to, but Bill was under his black cloud and wasn't going anywhere. Later in the day, Rose called my hostess to say that she'd told Bill of the dinner and my being in town, and he said, "We're going." It was a wonderful dinner party and his depression lifted, at least for the evening.
So … although I had heard here and there that Bill stepped out, I had no idea his extra-curricular activities were what the book reviewer implied, and once again I had to think: What was wrong with me?! And that, dear reader, is the story of how my confidence has been – once again – shot to hell.


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A medical device delivery system and method of manufacture that includes an outer catheter, a first inner catheter insertable through the outer catheter, and a second inner catheter insertable through the first inner catheter and adapted to receive a guidewire extending there through. The first inner catheter includes a braided reinforcement layer and is adapted to receive an elongated medical device extending there through.
1. A medical device delivery system, comprising:
an outer catheter;
a first inner catheter insertable through the outer catheter, the first inner catheter adapted to receive an elongated medical device extending therethrough;
a braided reinforcement layer positioned within the first inner catheter that includes a plurality of wires, wherein a first wire of the plurality of wires is braided in tow with a second wire of the plurality of wires in a first braiding direction, and a third wire of the plurality of wires is braided in tow with a fourth wire of the plurality of wires in a second braiding direction, the braided reinforcement layer having a length extending over the length of the first inner catheter; and
a second inner catheter insertable through the first inner catheter and adapted to receive a guidewire extending therethrough.
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forming an outer catheter;
forming a first inner catheter insertable through the outer catheter and adapted to receive an elongated medical device extending therethrough wherein forming the first inner catheter includes forming a braided reinforcement layer including a first wire braided in tow with a second wire in a first braiding direction and a third wire braided in tow with a fourth wire in a second braiding direction; and
forming a second inner catheter insertable through the first inner catheter adapted to receive a guidewire extending therethrough.
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The invention relates generally to implantable medical devices and, in particular, to a transvenous delivery system for elongated medical devices.
Transvenous endocardial leads may be placed inside a chamber of a patient's heart by passing the lead through a venous entry site, such as the subclavian vein or the cephalic vein, or a tributary thereof, along a venous pathway into the superior vena cava and into the right cardiac chambers. Cardiac vein leads may be advanced further, from the right atrium through the coronary sinus ostium into the coronary sinus and ultimately into one of the various cardiac veins for stimulation and/or sensing of the left heart chambers.
Cardiac lead placement is important in achieving accurate sensing of cardiac signals and proper cardiac stimulation pulse delivery for providing optimal therapeutic benefit from cardiac stimulation therapies such as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Cardiac vein leads generally need to be small in diameter to allow advancement through the cardiac veins and highly flexible in order to withstand flexing motion caused by the beating heart without fracturing. The small diameter and flexibility of the lead, however, makes advancement of the lead along a tortuous venous pathway challenging. Cardiac vein leads are generally implanted with the aid of a relatively stiff guide catheter and/or guidewire or stylet. Considerable skill and time are required to achieve proper placement of a transvenous lead along a cardiac vein site.
A subselection catheter is a catheter that is relatively smaller in diameter and more flexible than the guide catheter and is used for selecting a cardiac vein branch in which the lead will ultimately be implanted. The guide catheter is typically advanced to the os of the coronary sinus. The subselection catheter is advanced through the guide catheter into the coronary sinus and further into a selected cardiac vein branch with the use of a guidewire. When the targeted implant site is reached, the subselection catheter is removed, and the cardiac vein lead is advanced over the guidewire to the targeted implant site. The guidewire, being very flexible and having a small diameter, sometimes prolapses out of the selected vein branch, back into a larger vessel before the lead is successfully positioned at the targeted implant site. The guidewire then needs to be repositioned, with the use of the subselection catheter. Such occurrences increase the time and difficulty of the implant procedure. Improved transvenous lead delivery systems are needed for facilitating implantation of cardiac leads, particularly for implantation in cardiac vein locations.
In the following description, references are made to illustrative embodiments for carrying out the invention. It is understood that other embodiments may be utilized without departing from the scope of the invention. For purposes of clarity, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings to identify similar elements. Unless otherwise noted, drawing elements are not drawn to scale.
In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a medical device delivery system used for implanting transvenous cardiac leads in the cardiac venous system, referred to generally as "cardiac vein leads." However, it is recognized that a medical device delivery system provided in accordance with the present invention may be used to deliver other transvenous medical devices, including, for example, fluid delivery devices, diagnostic devices, or sensors.
In forming first inner catheter 14 with a lumen large enough to pass an elongated medical device, first inner catheter 14 has a lumen too large too closely track a guidewire. As such, second inner catheter 16 is provided to closely track guidewire 18 and provide support to first inner catheter 14 during advancement and rotation.
Second inner catheter 16 is adapted for receiving a guidewire 18 extending there through. Second inner catheter 16 is provided as a flexible, relatively thin-walled sheath for easily tracking guidewire 18. Second inner catheter 16 is arranged telescopically with first inner catheter 14 and outer catheter 12. Second inner catheter 16 is maneuvered in a telescopic manner with first inner catheter 14 until first inner catheter 14 is positioned at a targeted implant or therapy delivery site. For example, during a cardiac vein lead implant procedure, outer catheter 12 is advanced to the os of the coronary sinus. The first and second inner catheters 14 and 16 are advanced into the coronary sinus and, with the use of guidewire 18, advanced in a telescoping manner to sub-select a desired cardiac vein branch. In an alternative embodiment, second inner catheter 16 may be provided as a solid member for supporting first inner catheter 14 and advance in a telescoping manner with first inner catheter 14 to subselect a desired cardiac vein.
Second inner catheter 14 may be provided with a variable durometer having a relatively stiff portion extending from the proximal end, a soft distal portion, and a radio-opaque distal tip. Second inner catheter 14 is typically provided without a reinforcing layer.
The inner diameter and outer diameter design requirements imposed on first inner catheter 14 for serving as both a sub-selection catheter and a medical device delivery catheter require first inner catheter 14 to be provided with a relatively thin wall. A thin wall also allows first inner catheter 14 to possess lateral or bending flexibility needed to follow a tortuous venous pathway to a targeted cardiac vein branch.
However, first inner catheter 14 is required to possess adequate torsional rigidity to transfer rotational motion between the proximal catheter end and the distal catheter end being advanced to an implant site. First inner catheter 14 includes a reinforcing layer 24, on or in the first inner catheter wall 25, in order to provide an outer diameter small enough to pass through cardiac vein branches, an inner diameter large enough to allow passage of an elongated medical device, and adequate torsional rigidity to allow rotation of the distal catheter end 22 in response to rotation of the proximal catheter end.
In the example shown eight pairs of wires 31 a through 31 h are braided in the first braiding direction 38 with eight pairs of wires 33 a through 33 h braided in the second braiding direction to provide a braided reinforcing layer 24 a composed of thirty two wires. Any number of pairs of wires may be braided to from braided reinforcement layer 24 using a braiding machine, such as those commercially available from Steeger, Germany; Wardwel, Mass., or other commercial suppliers. Furthermore, it is recognized that three or more wires may be braided in tow in triplets, quadruplets, etc. By providing multiple wires braided in the "in-tow" manner as shown, the torsional rigidy of first inner catheter 14 is improved, allowing first inner catheter 14 to be manufactured with a thin wall, maneuverable through small cardiac veins and allowing passage of an elongated medical device through first inner catheter 14.
Wires 30 a, 32 a, 34 a, and 36 a are typically formed from stainless steel, a shape memory alloy such as NitinolÛ, a polymeric fiber such as polyethylene napthalate, or other material that can be formed into a small cross-sectional wire having sufficient tensile strength to undergo the braiding process. The wires 30 a, 32 a, 34 a, and 36 a may be provided with a generally round or flat cross-sectional geometry. First inner catheter 14 is provided as a slittable catheter for removing catheter 14 over an implanted medical device. By forming reinforcing layer 24 using a braided polymer wire such as polyethylene napthalate, forces required to slit the catheter body are reduced, making it easier to remove catheter 14 from the implanted medical device without dislodging the medical device from the implant site.
Braided reinforcing layer 24 is formed over the outer surface of the inner tubular member 40. The braid density or "pic count" may be constant or variable and will be selected to provide the desired lateral flexibility, torsional rigidity, kink resistance, and pushability needed for a particular application. The pic count will typically range from 20 to 150 pics/inch and will usually fall in the range of approximately 45-60 pics/inch. An outer tubular member 42 is formed over braided reinforcing layer 24. Outer tubular member 42 is typically formed of a soft thermoplastic material such as a polyamide polyether block polymer, polyurethanes, silicone rubbers, nylons, polyethylenes, or fluoronated hydrocarbon polymers.
First inner catheter 14 may be provided having variable mechanical properties along the length of the catheter shaft 44. For example, catheter shaft 44 may be provided with three distinct regions as generally disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,676,659 (McGurk), hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. A first region extending from the proximal end of first inner catheter 14 includes outer tubular member 42, reinforcing layer 24 and inner tubular member 40. A second region extends from the termination of reinforcing layer 24 and includes inner and outer tubular members 40 and 42. The second region serves as a transition region between the first region and a third region including only outer tubular member 42. Outer tubular member 42 is formed to provide a continuous inner diameter with the inner tubular member 40 to thereby provide a constant diameter medical device delivery lumen. First inner catheter 14 may be provided with a distal end formed of a radio-opaque material.
The reinforcing layer formed along proximal region 52 is provided with a low pic count, which results in a relatively more axial orientation of the wires forming the reinforcing layer giving proximal region 52 enhanced pushability. The pic count is gradually transitioned from a lower pic count to a higher pic count along transition region 54. Distal region 56 is provided with a higher pic count than proximal region 52, giving distal region 56 enhanced flexibility. It is recognized that multiple regions may be formed having varying pic counts to provide shaft 44 with desired variation in mechanical properties.
In some embodiments, first inner catheter 14 may additionally include a second pre-shaped portion 50 along first inner catheter shaft 44, proximal to the distal pre-shaped portion 48. Proximal pre-shaped portion 50 may be provided as a generally "C-shaped" curve or other pre-shaped bend, curve, or angle. Proximal pre-shaped portion 50 is formed for providing cardiac vein wall support when tracking into a cardiac vein branch.
Thus, a medical device delivery system has been presented in the foregoing description with reference to specific embodiments. It is appreciated that various modifications to the referenced embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
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Science Olympiad Competition
Science Olympiad Delegate Registration Form
Teachers, print this form, fill it out, and mail it to Tina Gilliland.
To provide delegates a fun, hands-on Olympiad style activity and give recognition to students and schools that excel.
One team of two students from each school, referred to as "Olympiad delegates."
The Science Olympiad Competition for 2014 will be Code Busters. The official Code Busters rules can be downloaded from the Science Olympiad website.
- Top two teams will receive certificates.
- First place team will receive plaques.