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^Come to think of it, it's probably better to watch them spaced out like that than all at once. Then it's not quite so obvious how repetitive they are.
Ohh, that '43 serial. (Shakes head) So very, very racist. Don't forget that intro in the beginning talking about how the American government had "wisely" interned innocent Japanese-Americans in concentration camps because you can't trust them funny-lookin' furriners. And J. Carroll Naish giving the "Japanese" prince/doctor (with a first name that isn't even phonetically possible in Japanese) an accent that's more like a cross between a Brooklyn gangster and a Chinese dialect I heard once.
And of course Batman had to be a government agent, since everyone in wartime movies had to be a direct supporter of the war effort, and being an extralegal vigilante would've been too subversive.
The '49 serial is better and less offensive -- I quite like its music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff, which was also used in the
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Ogden man ordered to trial in storage shed murder case
Ogden • Shawn Gerrald Boehme and Elgie Ray Mills Jr. entered an Ogden storage shed together on May 28, according to video surveillance footage.
But only one man left.
"Elgie Mills is never seen leaving the shop alive," Deputy Weber County Attorney Teral Tree said Tuesday afternoon during a preliminary hearing in 2nd District Court.
Police, called the next day, found Mills, 43, shot to death.
Arrested a week later in Layton, Boehme, 45, allegedly admitted to police that he fired a gun three times at Mills.
But when police asked him why he killed the man, Ogden police Detective Arthur Mackley testified that Boehme told them three different stories.
First, he said he thought Mills hit and raped his wife, Mackley testified Tuesday.
Then, he told police that Mills had threatened to overtake the storage shed business that Boehme had been running.
After that, Mackley said, Boehme told them that he felt threatened by Mills.
"He said [Mills] had positioned one of his feet in a stance indicating to him that he was going to be attacked," Mackley testified.
After hearing testimony from Mackley and other law enforcement officials, Judge W. Brent West ruled there was probable cause for Boehme to stand trial on charges.
Boehme then pleaded not guilty to three charges: first-degree felony murder and two counts of second-degree felony possession or use of a firearm by a restricted person charges.
He will appear in court again on Sept. 3 for a scheduling hearing.
Police went to the storage unit near 2900 Pennsylvania Avenue on May 29, after a woman called and said she had found a body in the one of the units.
Inside unit #79, Mills' body was covered by a blanket. He had been shot twice in the chest, and once in the head.
Utah Medical Examiner Joseph White testified Tuesday that the two chest wounds were very close to one another, and that gunpowder stippling showed the shooter was likely just feet away when Mills was shot in the head.
"Even in the best circumstances, any one of the three [wounds] would have caused death," White said.
Inside the storage unit, police found the revolver used to shot Mills and a sawed-off shotgun inside a backpack.
Boehme has a substantial criminal history, mostly drug-related convictions, according to a search of Utah court records. His most recent conviction was in 2009, where he pleaded guilty to driving on a revoked license and having a "speed contest" on a highway, and several drug-related charges were dismissed. He was ordered to complete drug court in that case, according to court records.
Court records indicate that Mills was released from the Davis County jail on April 11, after being convicted of violating a protective order, interfering with an arresting officer and failure to stop at the command of police.
Mills' other recent criminal history revolves primarily around multiple protection order violations over the last six years, according to court records.
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Published: Monday 12th of December 2011
Theatre fans looking to introduce a little history into their tour of London attractions should consider visiting Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare, the site was set up to explore both the Bard's plays and the original Globe.
Attendees can take part in an exhibition and tour of the sites to gain a better understanding of the great man's work and to learn more through performance and education.
Visitors to the site before January 2nd will be able to experience the Frost Fair exhibition, which is based on the events of the same name that sprang up during the 20 times that the Thames froze between 1309 and 1804. A special focus will be given to the stalls and competitions that arose whenever this rare occurrence took place.
Theatre fans may also want to visit the First Actresses exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which explores the female faces of the stage in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain. It features famous paintings of Nell Gwyn, Kitty Clive and Hester Booth.
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Early-Career Psychology
No matter how many years you spend in school, the real lessons begin when you enter the field: That's been the clear take-away from four psychologists the Monitor began following in our January issue. Here's what's new since then.
Rachel Casas, PhD, 32
When Casas began her tenure-track position at California Lutheran University last fall, she felt uneasy lecturing students who were close to her age, if not older. But her confidence is building. "I am surprising myself by how long I can be up there lecturing," she says. "I realized I am the expert."
Casas was also surprised to discover how much she enjoyed teaching a course in cognitive and affective aspects of behavior, even though her background is in cultural neuropsychology. She wove in aspects of her own expertise by challenging students to put everything in a cultural perspective, such as how people in disparate parts of the world perceive visual stimuli differently. In some cultures, for example, people focus on an object, while in others, they pay more attention to the background. "All textbooks are silent on [that issue], but we [explore] it in my class using a whole lot of empirical articles," says Casas.
Casas's relationship with a faculty mentor in the political science department has proved fruitful, too: This summer, the two are collaborating with another colleague in the chemistry department to determine how pesticide exposure affects cognitive skills, such as memory. They are also measuring how much those affected know about the risks of exposure.
When her students return in the fall, Casas plans to make some changes to her syllabi based on student feedback. She will lecture more and post discussion questions online before class, rather than spend most of class time facilitating discussions.
"It was too unstructured before," she says. "Now I know what works and what doesn't."
One other thing that didn't work was her hour-and-a-half commute from Long Beach, Calif., to Ventura. Now she lives just a 12-minute drive from her job. "I love it," she says.
Andrew Heckman, PhD, 30
Since Heckman began his role as a staff psychologist at Boys Town in Omaha, Neb., in October, the pace of his work and life has accelerated. He sees about 25 clients — including children, adolescents and families — each week in the outpatient behavioral center. That's double his initial load.
"I've learned as much in the past seven months as in my whole grad school career," such as how to tailor treatments to patients of different ages and how to set work-life boundaries, he says.
Heckman's relationship with the facility's seven interns has also changed. At first, he participated in their didactic trainings and informally mentored them. Now, he's running some trainings and directly supervising one intern. Heckman even wrote his first letter of recommendation for an intern — a "surreal" moment, he says.
Heckman's personal life is also at a peak: He married his wife, Stacey, a 911 dispatcher-turned-tattoo artist, in May.
Heckman says that at first he took on too much at his job — signing up for community advocacy groups, conference presentations and new committees on top of a full caseload. But he doesn't question his decision to take this job. He's seen "vast improvements" in patients of all ages — from 4-year-olds with bedwetting problems to 19-year-olds working to control their anger.
"The positive impact I've made confirms the choice to come to Boys Town," he says.
Kimberly Smith, PsyD, 33
Smith entered the field of psychology because she hates being bored. Now, as a postdoctoral fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, she is getting what she wished for.
Smith spends about 30 percent of her time on research. This July, she is beginning to recruit participants for her study investigating HIV-medication adherence among underserved populations through a grant to Johns Hopkins University. "I'm excited because what that will do is pave the way to get independent federal funding," says Smith, who had little experience with research before beginning her fellowship. "I'm learning that research puts you out there and gives you the name."
That name helped her get a side job as a consultant to pharmaceutical trial companies, guiding them through tools that measure medication-related psychological changes and interpreting their studies' results.
Most of Smith's time is spent doing clinical work with a team of physicians. She is the only psychologist and only woman. At first, she had to win her colleagues' respect by adding her expertise to patient cases and reminding them that she is a doctor, too.
"The next thing I knew, they wanted to go to lunch with me," says Smith, who is married and has two kids in grade school. "It's a personal mission of mine to always uphold psychology."
Smith is also gaining clout among the three advanced practicum students she mentors. She used to get nervous when two or three would come into her office with a question, she admits. "Now, I'm OK with saying, 'I don't know, let's find out together.'"
Erlanger Turner, PhD, 32
Each week, Turner, a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's Virginia Treatment Center for Children, sees about 15 adolescents and children with behavior problems, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder.
The work is rewarding, he says, but his dealings with insurance companies have been more burdensome than expected. If his services aren't covered by a potential patient's insurance, for example, "it makes a difference not only for us — it's unfortunate for someone's family," he says. "I'm … trying to learn how to manage care and how that affects being able to work with patients."
Turner's time with adolescents, many of whom have suicide ideation, has inspired him to conduct research on personality traits associated with suicide risk. "It's a good opportunity for us to understand the population a little more … [and] to be preventive," he says.
Turner, who is a member of the APA Committee on Early Career Psychologists, is also embracing his role as a leader. In January, he taught a seminar on program evaluation for pre-doctoral interns and a clinical child psychology course for undergraduates in VCU's psychology department. He also supervises several practicum students and interns, one of whom is helping him launch an anger management group therapy program.
"It's great when students present ideas or perspectives that are fresh on a topic," he says.
On top of it all, Turner is gaining experience in the hospital's inpatient unit — something he never expected to do when he was in graduate school.
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Conjoined twins
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Conjoined twins are identical twins[1] joined in utero. A rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southeast Asia, Africa and Brazil.[2] Approximately half are stillborn, and a smaller fraction of pairs born alive have abnormalities incompatible with life. The condition is more frequently found among females, with a ratio of 3:1.[2]
Two contradicting theories exist to explain the origins of conjoined twins. The older theory is fission, in which the fertilized egg splits partially. The second and more generally accepted theory is fusion, in which a fertilized egg completely separates, but stem cells (which search for similar cells) find like-stem cells on the other twin and fuse the twins together. Conjoined twins share a single common chorion, placenta, and amniotic sac, although these characteristics are not exclusive to conjoined twins as there are some monozygotic but non-conjoined twins that also share these structures in utero.[3]
The most famous pair of conjoined twins was Chang and Eng Bunker (Thai: อิน-จัน, In-Chan) (1811–1874), Thai brothers born in Siam, now Thailand. They travelled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and were labeled as the Siamese Twins. Chang and Eng were joined by a band of flesh, cartilage, and their fused livers at the torso. In modern times, they could have been easily separated.[4] Due to the brothers' fame and the rarity of the condition, the term "Siamese twins" came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins.[5]
Types of conjoined twins[edit]
Conjoined twins are typically classified by the point at which their bodies are joined. The most common types of conjoined twins are:
- Thoraco-omphalopagus (28% of cases):[6] Two bodies fused from the upper chest to the lower chest. These twins usually share a heart, and may also share the liver or part of the digestive system.[7]
- Thoracopagus (18.5%):[6] Two bodies fused from the upper thorax to lower belly. The heart is always involved in these cases.[7]
- Omphalopagus (10%):[6] Two bodies fused at the lower abdomen. Unlike thoracopagus, the heart is never involved in these cases; however, the twins often share a liver, digestive system, diaphragm and other organs.[7]
- Parasitic twins (10%):[6] Twins that are asymmetrically conjoined, resulting in one twin that is small, less formed, and dependent on the larger twin for survival.
- Craniopagus (6%):[6] Fused skulls, but separate bodies. These twins can be conjoined at the back of the head, the front of the head, or the side of the head, but not on the face or the base of the skull.[7]
Other less-common types of conjoined twins include:
- Cephalopagus: Two faces on opposite sides of a single, conjoined head; the upper portion of the body is fused while the bottom portions are separate. These twins generally cannot survive due to severe malformations of the brain. Also known as janiceps (after the two-faced god Janus) or syncephalus.[7]
- Syncephalus: One head with a single face but four ears, and two bodies.[7]
- Cephalothoracopagus: Bodies fused in the head and thorax. In this type of twins, there are two faces facing in opposite directions, or sometimes a single face and an enlarged skull.[7][8]
- Xiphopagus: Two bodies fused in the xiphoid cartilage, which is approximately from the navel to the lower breastbone. These twins almost never share any vital organs, with the exception of the liver.[7] A famous example is Chang and Eng Bunker.
- Ischiopagus: Fused lower half of the two bodies, with spines conjoined end-to-end at a 180° angle. These twins have four arms; two, three or four legs; and typically one external set of genitalia and anus.[7]
- Omphalo-Ischiopagus: Fused in a similar fashion as ischiopagus twins, but facing each other with a joined abdomen akin to omphalopagus. These twins have four arms, and two, three, or four legs.[7]
- Parapagus: Fused side-by-side with a shared pelvis. Twins that are dithoracic parapagus are fused at the abdomen and pelvis, but not the thorax. Twins that are diprosopic parapagus have one trunk and two faces. Twins that are dicephalic parapagus are dicephalic, and have two (dibrachius), three (tribrachius), or four (tetrabrachius) arms.[7]
- Craniopagus parasiticus: Like craniopagus, but with a second bodiless head attached to the dominant head.
- Pygopagus (Iliopagus): Two bodies joined at the pelvis.[7]
- Rachipagus: Twins joined along the dorsal aspect (back) of their bodies, with fusion of the vertebral arches and the soft tissue from the head to the buttocks[9]
Surgery to separate conjoined twins may range from very easy to very hard, depending on the point of attachment and the internal parts that are shared. Most cases of separation are extremely risky and life-threatening. In many cases, the surgery results in the death of one or both of the twins, particularly if they are joined at the head or share a vital organ. This makes the ethics of surgical separation, where the twins can survive if not separated, contentious. Alice Dreger of Northwestern University found the quality of life of twins who remain conjoined to be higher than is commonly supposed.[10] Lori and George Schappell and Abby and Brittany Hensel are notable examples.
In 1957, Bertram Katz and his surgical team made international medical history performing the world's first successful separation of conjoined twins sharing a vital organ.[11] Omphalopagus twins John Nelson and James Edward Freeman (Johnny and Jimmy) were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Freeman of Youngstown, Ohio, on April 27, 1956. The boys shared a liver but had separate hearts and were successfully separated at North Side Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio by Bertram Katz. The operation was funded by the Ohio Crippled Children's Service Society.[12]
In 1987, Ben Carson made medical history by being the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins (the Binder twins) conjoined at the back of the head (craniopagus twins). Operations to separate twins joined in this way had always failed, resulting in the death of one or both of the infants. Carson agreed to undertake the operation. The 70-member surgical team, led by Carson, worked for 22 hours. At the end, the twins were successfully separated and can now survive independently.
As Carson said in an interview:
I was talking to a friend of mine, who was a cardiothoracic surgeon, who was the chief of the division, and I said, "You guys operate on the heart in babies, how do you keep them from exsanguinating" and he says, "Well, we put them in hypothermic arrest." I said, "Is there any reason that -- if we were doing a set of Siamese twins that were joined at the head -- that we couldn't put them into hypothermic arrest, at the appropriate time, when we're likely to lose a lot of blood?" and he said, "No." I said, "Wow, this is great." Then I said, "Why am I putting my time into this? I'm not going to see any Siamese twins." So I kind of forgot about it, and lo and behold, two months later, along came these doctors from Germany, presenting this case of Siamese twins. And, I was asked for my opinion, and I then began to explain the techniques that should be used, and how we would incorporate hypothermic arrest, and everybody said "Wow! That sounds like it might work." And, my colleagues and I, a few of us went over to Germany. We looked at the twins. We actually put in scalp expanders, and five months later we brought them over and did the operation, and lo and behold, it worked.[13]
Recent successful separations of conjoined twins include that of the separation of Ganga & Jamuna Shreshta in 2001, who were born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2000. The 197-hour surgery on the pair of craniopagus twins was a landmark one which took place in Singapore; the team was led by neurosurgeons, Chumpon Chan and Keith Goh.[14] The surgery left Ganga with brain damage and Jamuna unable to walk. Seven years later, Ganga Shrestha died at the Model Hospital in Kathmandu in July 2009, at the age of 8, three days after being admitted for treatment of a severe chest infection.[15]
A case of particular interest was that of infants Rose and Grace ("Mary" and "Jodie") Attard, conjoined twins from Malta who were separated in Great Britain by court order Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation) over the religious objections of their parents, Michaelangelo and Rina Attard. The surgery took place in November, 2000, at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester. The operation was controversial because Rose, the weaker twin, would die as a result of the procedure as her heart and lungs were dependent upon Grace's. (The twins were attached at the lower abdomen and spine.) However, if the operation had not taken place, it was certain that both twins would die.[16][17] Grace survived to enjoy a normal childhood.[18]
In 2003 two 36-year-old women from Iran, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head but had separate brains (craniopagus) were surgically separated in Singapore, despite surgeons' warnings that the operation could be fatal to one or both. Their complex case was accepted only because high tech graphical imagery and modelling would allow the medical team to plan the risky surgery. Unfortunately, an undetected major vein hidden from the scans was discovered during the operation.[19] The separation was completed but both women died while still in surgery on July 8, 2003.
Conjoined twins in history[edit]
The Moche culture of ancient Peru depicted conjoined twins in their ceramics dating back to 300 CE.[20] Writing around 415CE, St. Augustine of Hippo in his book City of God refers to a man "double in his upper, but single in his lower half--having two heads, two chests, four hands, but one body and two feet like an ordinary man."[21] The earliest known documented case of conjoined twins dates from the year 942, when a pair of conjoined twin brothers from Armenia were brought to Constantinople for medical evaluation.
In Arabia, the twin brothers Hashim ibn Abd Manaf and 'Abd Shams were born with Hashim's leg attached to his twin brother's head. Legend says that their father, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, separated his conjoined sons with a sword and that some priests believed that the blood that had flowed between them signified wars between their progeny (confrontations did occur between Banu al'Abbas and Banu Ummaya ibn 'Abd Shams in the year 750 AH).[22] The Muslim polymath Abū al-Rayhān al-Bīrūnī described Siamese twins in his book Kitab-al-Saidana.[23]
The English twin sisters Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, who were conjoined at the back (pygopagus), lived from 1100 to 1134 (or 1500 to 1534) and were perhaps the best-known early historical example of conjoined twins. Other early conjoined twins to attain notice were the "Scottish brothers", allegedly of the dicephalus type, essentially two heads sharing the same body (1460–1488, although the dates vary); the pygopagus Helen and Judith of Szőny, Hungary (1701–1723), who enjoyed a brief career in music before being sent to live in a convent; and Rita and Cristina of Parodi of Sardinia, born in 1829. Rita and Cristina were dicephalus tetrabrachius (one body with four arms) twins and although they died at only eight months of age, they gained much attention as a curiosity when their parents exhibited them in Paris.
Several sets of conjoined twins lived during the nineteenth century and made careers for themselves in the performing arts, though none achieved quite the same level of fame and fortune as Chang and Eng. Most notably, Millie and Christine McCoy (or McKoy), pygopagus twins, were born into slavery in North Carolina in 1851. They were sold to a showman, J.P. Smith, at birth, but were soon kidnapped by a rival showman. The kidnapper fled to England but was thwarted because England had already banned slavery. Smith traveled to England to collect the girls and brought with him their mother, Monimia, from whom they had been separated. He and his wife provided the twins with an education and taught them to speak five languages, play music, and sing. For the rest of the century the twins enjoyed a successful career as "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and appeared with the Barnum Circus. In 1912 they died of tuberculosis, 17 hours apart.
Giovanni and Giacomo Tocci, from Locana, Italy, were immortalized in Mark Twain's short story "Those Extraordinary Twins" as fictitious twins Angelo and Luigi. The Toccis, born in 1877, were dicephalus tetrabrachius twins, having one body with two legs, two heads, and four arms. From birth they were forced by their parents to perform and never learned to walk, as each twin controlled one leg (in modern times physical therapy allows twins like the Toccis to learn to walk on their own). They are said to have disliked show business. In 1886, after touring the United States, the twins returned to Europe with their family, where they fell very ill. They are believed to have died around this time, though some sources claim they survived until 1940, living in seclusion in Italy.
List of notable conjoined twins[edit]
Names listed in boldface are of twins who have been separated.
Born 19th century and earlier[edit]
- Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst (born 1100, also known as the Biddenden Maids) from England. They are the earliest set of conjoined twins whose names are known.
- Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo (1617-164-?)
- Helen and Judith of Szony (Hungary, 1701–1723)
- Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), from Thailand (formerly Siam), joined by the areas around their xiphoid cartilages, but over time the join stretched; the expression Siamese twins is derived from their case
- Millie and Christine McCoy (July 11, 1851 - October 8, 1912) were American conjoined twins who went by the stage names "The Two-Headed Nightingale" and "The Eighth Wonder of the World."
- Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci (1875?-1912?)
- Růžena and Josefa Blažkovy (born January 20, 1878 in Skrýchov u Opařan, Austria-Hungary, died March 30, 1922 in the USA [24])
Born 20th century[edit]
- Daisy and Violet Hilton of Brighton, England (1908–1969), actresses, appeared in the movies Freaks and Chained for Life.
- Lucio and Simplicio Godina of Samar, Philippines (1908–1936)
- Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova of Moscow, Russia (1950–2003), rarest form of conjoined twins, one of few cases of dicephalus tetrabrachius tripus (two heads, four arms, three legs).
- Ronnie and Donnie Galyon of Ohio (b. 1951), currently the world's oldest living conjoined twins, Omphalopagus.
- Lori and George Schappell born September 18, 1961 in Reading, Pennsylvania, American entertainers, craniopagus.
- Ladan and Laleh Bijani of Shiraz, Iran (1974–2003); died during separation surgery in Singapore.
- Heather and Holly Bandy of Columbus Ohio born Aug. 29th 1979. Separated at 6 months. Both still living in Columbus, Ohio.
- Viet and Duc Nguyen, born on February 25, 1981 in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam, and separated in 1988 in Ho Chi Minh City. Viet died on October 6, 2007.
- Abigail and Brittany Hensel are dicephalic parapagus twins born March 7, 1990 in Carver County, Minnesota. Both graduated in 2012 from Bethel University, St. Paul, hired as teachers.
- Zita and Gita Rezahanova (born October 19, 1991 in Kyrgyzstan) also had form of dicephalus tetrabrachius tripus. They were successfully separated in 2003 in Moscow, at the current moment they are graduating from high school.
- Ganga and Jamuna Mondal, known professionally as The Spider Girls and The Spider Sisters.
Born 21st century[edit]
- Carmen and Lupita Andrade-Solis, born in Mexico in 2000 with Dicephalus Tetrabrachius Dipus (2 heads, 4 arms and 2 legs). Separation was not possible.
- Carl and Clarence Aguirre, born vertical craniopagus in Manila on 21 April 2002, successfully separated in 2004.[25]
- Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, ischiopagus twins separated in 2006 at age 4.[26]
- Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru, born outside Rome, Italy on January 13, 2004. As Craniopagus twins, the top of Tatiana's head is attached to the back of Anastasias's head.
- Lakshmi Tatma (born 2005) was an ischiopagus conjoined twin born in Araria district in the state of Bihar, India. She had four arms and four legs, resulting from a joining at the pelvis with a headless undeveloped parasitic twin.[27]
- Vani and Veena (Warangal, Telangana state, India) craniopagus twins, attached at the back of the skull.
- Krista and Tatiana Hogan, Canadian twins conjoined at the head. Born October 25, 2006. Share part of their brain and can pass sensory information and thoughts between each other.
- Trishna and Krishna from Bangladesh were born in December, 2006, Craniopagus twins, joined on the tops of their skulls, and sharing a small amount of brain tissue. In 2009, they were separated in Melbourne, Australia.[28]
- Marek and Michal Müller, born in April 2007 in Slovakia. Conjoined by the stomach and chest. In September 2007, they were separated in Bratislava. They both died after surgery. Marek in October and Michal in November 2007.
- Maria and Teresa Tapia, born in the Dominican Republic on April 8, 2010. Conjoined by the liver, pancreas, and a small portion of their small intestine. Separation occurred on November 7, 2011.
- Emma and Taylor Bailey, thoracopagus twins born in Arizona, USA in 2006. Joined at the chest and sharing a 7-chamber heart and liver. Both died during a preparatory heart surgery August 10, 2010 at age 3 in Seattle, USA.
- Rital and Ritaj Gaboura, had been born in Khartoum, Sudan in 2010 before they were separated in London in 2011. They were craniopagus joined by tops of their heads.
- Unnamed boy twins, born in Nakuru, Kenya in May 2013. Sharing most organs, including heart, liver, two legs, 3 visible arms, and one set of sexual organs. Separate heads. Died after 5 days.
- Unnamed boy Dicephalic Parapagus twins, born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India in July 2013 . The boys' heads, nervous systems and backbones are separate. The backbones are joined below the pelvis and they share a rib cage and shoulder girdle. Died after six days.[29]
- Emmett and Owen Ezell, thoracic-omphalopagus twins, were born on July 15, 2013 and successfully separated on August 24, 2013.
- Ousainatou and Hasanatou Jallow, thoracopagus twins born in Serrekunda in Gambia on the 6th of August 2008 to one Ramatoulie Jallow. They lived for eight days.
- Tinashe and Tinotenda Mufuka, omphalopagus twins born in Chiweshe in Zimbabwe in July 2003. Dr. Jacob Langer of SickKids Hospital successfully separated them at about nine months of age.[30]
- Unknown names, joined at chest and abdomen, born in Tsholotsho Zimbabwe in 2009. They died after transfer to Mpilo Central Hospital during the first month of life.[31]
- Kupakwashe and Tapiwanashe Chitiyo, omphalopagus twins born in Murehwa in Zimbabwe in April 2014. They were successfully separated at two months of age by a team led by Dr. Bothwell Mbuwayesango.[32]
- Knatalye and Adeline Mata, born in Texas, United States of America at Texas Children's Hospital in April 2014; they shared the lining of the heart, diaphragm, liver, intestines and pelvis. They successfully separated at the Texas Children's Hospital in a twenty six hour surgery on Feb 17, 2015 [33]
In fiction[edit]
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- Tamil actor Suriya portrays conjoined twins in the 2012 film, Maattrraan.
- Actress Sarah Paulson portrays Bette and Dot Tattler, conjoined twins, in the fourth installment of the American Horror Story anthology series.[citation needed]
- The film Stuck on You depicts Bob and Walt Tenor, conjoined twins portrayed by Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear. 2003.
- CatDog depicts Cat and Dog, a hybrid of a dog and cat who are brothers.
- Dragon Tales, a children's show which depicts Zak and Wheezie, a two-headed dragon that are brother and sister.
- South Park features Nurse Gollum with a fetus on her head.
- The Simpsons features Hugo in Treehouse of Horror VII, who is Bart Simpson's conjoined twin. They were separated at birth by Dr. Hibbert, and Hugo was imprisoned in the Simpsons' attic.
- The Oblongs, depicts Biff Oblong (Randy Sklar) and Chip Oblong (Jason Sklar) – 17-year-old conjoined twins who are attached at the waist and share a middle leg.
- In the episode "Humbug" of The X-Files, Vincent Schiavelli portrayed a circus performer named Lanny, with an underdeveloped conjoined twin named Leonard. The episode also includes a reference to Chang and Eng.
- The Prophet of Yonwood has a reference to the Chang and Eng when the main character, Nickie, finds a picture of them in her great-grandfather's old house in Siam.
- The film Big Fish has a reference to the North Korean twins singers, who were mentioned in one of the stories told by the main character.
- Brothers of the Head by Brian Aldiss has two meanings: The blighted beach area where these conjoined twins, Barry & Tommy Howe, live, and the malformed, rudimentary third head that they have. The two enter the world of rock, sex -and drugs. When the third head wakes up, horror ensues.
- In the anime Naruto, Sakon (左近) and his conjoined twin brother Ukon (右近), are the strongest of the Sound Four and count as one member due to their abilities to merge bodies and kill an opponent at a cellular level. They both serve as antagonists.
- The Broadway musical Side Show depicts the lives of real-life conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, portrayed in the original Broadway production by Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Conjoined Twins Facts". University of Maryland Medical Center. Retrieved 6 Jan 2012.
- ^ a b "Clinics - Importance of angiographic study in preoperative planning of conjoined twins: case report". Scielo.br. 1990-01-06. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ Le, Tao; Bhushan, Vikas; Vasan, Neil (2010). First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2010 20th Anniversary Edition. USA: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-07-163340-6.
- ^ "h2g2 - Twins - A369434". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ "Conjoined Twins". University of Maryland Medical Center. January 8, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e The embryology of conjoined twins, PubMed 2008-06-21
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l [1] Archived February 15, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "www.collphyphil.org". www.collphyphil.org. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ Spencer, R (1995). "Rachipagus conjoined twins: They really do occur!". Teratology 52 (6): 346–56. doi:10.1002/tera.1420520605. PMID 8711621.
- ^ "One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal: Alice Domurat Dreger: 9780674018259: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ "Dr. Bewrtram Katz, 83 - Obituary". 4.vindy.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
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- ^ "Biography and Video Interview of Benjamin Carson at Academy of Achievement". Achievement.org. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
- ^ "In Conversation with Medicine's Miracle Workers -- Dr Chumpon Chan and Dr Keith Goh". Channel News Asia Singapore. April 19, 2001. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ [3] Archived November 5, 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Siamese twin Jodie 'to go home soon'". BBC News. April 23, 2001. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ Appel, Jacob M. Ethics: English high court orders separation of conjoined twins. Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 2000 Fall;28(3):312-3.
- ^ "We don't know how to tell Gracie her sister died so she could live; EXCLUSIVE DILEMMA FACING TWINS' PARENTS DAILY Mirror BEST FOR REAL LIFE. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ "Wired 11.10: Till Death Do Us Part". Wired.com. 2001-04-11. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ Berrin, Katherine & Larco Museum. The Spirit of Ancient Peru:Treasures from the Museo Arqueológico Rafael Larco Herrera. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
- ^ "CHURCH FATHERS: City of God, Book XVI (St. Augustine)". Newadvent.org. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
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- ^ The Life of the Prophet Muhammad: Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya By Ibn Kathir, Trevor Le Gassick, Muneer Fareed, pg. 132
- ^ A. Zahoor (1997), Abu Raihan Muhammad al-Biruni, Hasanuddin University.
- ^ "Sláva i utrpení sester srostlých v pánvi –". Novinky.cz. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ DA Staffenberg and JT Goodrich. Separation of craniopagus conjoined twins: an evolution in thought. Clin Plast Surg. 2005 Jan;32(1):25-34.
- ^ "Herrintwins". Herrintwins. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ "Many-limbed India girl in surgery". BBC News. 2007-11-06.
- ^ "NOVA | Separating Twins". Pbs.org. Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ "Conjoined twins lose battle for survival - The Times of India". The Times Of India.
- ^ Foss, Krista. "Miracle at Sick Kids", UofT Magazine, Toronto, Summer 2005. Retrieved on 20 August 2014.
- ^ Whiz, Lindie. "Pictures: Local surgeons separate Siamese twins", NewZimbabwean, Harare, 21 April 2009. Retrieved on 20 August 2014.
- ^ Nleya, Feluna. "Pictures: Local surgeons separate Siamese twins", NewsDay, Harare, 9 July 2014. Retrieved on 20 August 2014.
- ^ . "Doctors share more good news on separation of conjoined twins", KHOU, United States, 24 February 2015. Retrieved on 24 February 2015.
External links[edit]
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- Types and social history of conjoined twins
- The site of the medical Saudi team responsible for numerous successful separation surgeries
- Eng and Chang - The Original Siamese Twins; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The North Carolina Collection Gallery
- The Human Marvels: A Historical Reference Site run by J. Tithonus Pednaud, Teratological Historian
- Cases of conjoined and incomplete twins
- Clara and Alta Rodriguez, joined at the pelvis and successfully separated in 1974 at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia by surgeons including C. Everett Koop
- National Library of Medicine: Selected Moments in the History of Conjoined Twins
- Emedicine article
- Facts About Multiples: Conjoined Records and stats


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Our test drive of this new car revealed the 2012 Azera is comfortable for long distance cruising and economical for urban transport. Azera is smooth and quiet, it gets excellent fuel economy, and its cabin is nicely furnished with quality materials and controls that are easy to operate.
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The 2012 Azera's styling presents a less flamboyant iteration of the Fluidic Sculpture motif that debuted on the 2010 Sonata. Where the Sonata's arrays of flowing curved lines flowed strongly and consistently from grille to trunk, the Azera presents, shall we say, an interesting blend of subdued echoes of the marque's motif, with a stately front view, a sporty side view and a classy rear view. The lineage is indisputable, but the Azera's visions are unique. Not all car makers can carry this off, but Hyundai manages to do so with panache.
Interior treatment, materials and finishing are top end. It's everything that's needed, with nothing that isn't, and all where it should be. Controls are well marked and easy to operate. Instruments communicate needed information as does the 7-inch, touchscreen navigation system-cum-backup camera display. The interior is roomy, too, and ahead of the competitors in a number of measurements, not the least being all-important front seat head room and leg room.
Ride and handling are well mannered. It's not sporty, but that's not an aspiration of the new Azera. What is, is comfortable long distance cruising and economical urban transport. Automatically adjusting shock absorbers level high-mileage interstates and urban streets. Capping it off, the Azera adds to Hyundai's recent string of strikingly quiet cars, attributable in part to well placed sound deadening but also to sophisticated vibration isolating and motion counterbalancing underhood structures.
There was a time when Hyundai struggled to earn shoppers' consideration. The 2012 Azera confirms that time is long past.
Side view presents a subdued iteration of the styling theme Hyundai labels fluidic sculpture. A sharp crease starts behind the trailing point of the headlight housing and then fades just forward of the B-pillar, the vertical roof support between the front and rear door windows. Another, even sharper crease begins just ahead of and then flows over the top of the rear door handle, kicking up as it rounds the rear fender to flow into a gentle lip topping the trunk lid. A lesser character line runs the full length of the Azera, from the front wheelwell to the leading edge of the taillight. All of this sounds busy, but the differing degrees of severity in the lines blend and complement nicely. The roofline is fast, arcing gracefully from just behind the front wheelwell to just aft of the taillight's leading edge, with a triangular rear quarter window emphasizing the deeply sloped backlight, or rear window. Perfectly circular wheelwells wrap snugly around low profile tires, putting the finishing touches on a fresh, sporty profile.
As for the rear perspective, were it not for the trademark Hyundai flying H perched proudly above the reflector band tying together the high tech LED taillights, one might for a moment, while squinting with one eye, think Aston Martin. The dual exhaust tips integrated into the lower bumper contribute to the illusion. But opening that eye reveals a much taller body than on that megabuck Brit, although in all truth just as pleasing a collection of arches and cut lines.
The standard leather upholstery is supple without being soft. The Technology Package includes a most welcome extendable section on the driver's seat for thigh support, and the front seats have remarkably effective ventilating fans, the combination of which made the long stretches between refueling stops quite bearable.
The instrument cluster glows soft, blue and white lighting that's easy on the eyes. Primary controls for personalized settings and audio and climate systems are conveniently and clearly mounted on the center stack, which flows smoothly up from the center console with its properly positioned shift lever and seat heater buttons.
Dash styling is a bit swoopy but is integrated nicely with the interior door panels, which along with the passenger dash are graced with thin strips of blue ambient lighting when the Technology Package is added. The uplevel sound system delivered wonderfully full and robust sounds; even satellite sports talk radio sounded almost conversational.
Storage is plentiful, with front-door map pockets apportioned, proportioned and molded to hold real maps and water bottles, always capped, of course. Twin cupholders fill the front center console next to the shift lever. The rear seat gets twin cupholders in a fold-down center armrest and magazine pouches on front seat backs contoured to provide added knee room.
Front-seat occupants of the Azera will enjoy more head and leg room than drivers in the Taurus, Avalon, Maxima or LaCrosse, although the Azera's hip room gives up a smidgen to all but the Maxima. Rear-seat passengers won't notice any difference in headroom among these sedans but those in the Azera and Maxima will give up a couple inches in leg room to those in the other cars. Azera families also will have at least two more square-feet of trunk space for luggage and weekend gardening supplies than the Avalon, Maxima and LaCrosse, while the Taurus trunk will hold almost four more foot-square boxes than the Azera's.
If there's any finding fault with the Azera's interior it's with such minor issues as having to use your foot instead of your hand to set the parking brake and what to some might seem an overabundance of steering wheel-mounted buttons. One suggests a policy of insulating the driver, the other of encouraging, almost demanding involvement. Over a half-day/half-night, 600-mile trip, however, such seeming inconsistencies faded to trivialities.
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