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|Written by Patrice Lewis
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A critical but unexamined aspect of successful sales at a craft show is the design and lay out your booth. Don't think all you need to do is set up a couple of tables, put your craft item on top, and then sit back and wait for sales to roll in. Believe me, the design and display of your products can literally make the difference between excellent and abysmal sales.
The basics
Neatness is a huge factor in a customer's perception of your booth. Tables should have skirts hanging to the ground so extra stock or other untidy items can be hidden away, not blatantly left in plain sight. Keep boxes, hand trucks, electric cords, half-eaten sandwiches, and other detritus out of sight. No one likes to browse among slop.
Crowding is another factor. When shelves or tabletops are crammed so full that customers can't take it all in at once, this can intimidate them because often customers don't like to "linger" in a booth unless they see an item they like. However, there is a balance to this— booths that have only a few sample products on display may seem stingy. Keep your displays full but not crammed.
Consider grouping different products so a healthy representation is visible. Perhaps you have widgets on this display, frammerjammits over there, and whatnots on shelves behind you.
Do whatever it takes to make your booth warm and welcoming—not cold and hostile. Look around at other booths and see what appeals to you and what doesn't. Something that turns you off will likely turn off others as well.
Consider cozy or inviting touches. I recall one indoor craft booth in which the seller had brought a small carpet, a floor lamp and a rocking chair for the vendor to sit in, which instantly transformed her booth into an inviting living room. Very clever.
Product displays
But in every case, the key ingredient is visibility. It may seem obvious, but if the customer doesn't see the product, and see it quickly, then it doesn't exist.
Consider the power of a vertical display. Items displayed where the eye can sweep over them at a glance—and see the entire selection—are far more likely to result in higher sales. If you can hang a sampling of your product so they spin and twirl and catch the eye, then do so. Moving parts always get attention.
We have a wholesale customer who was doing his first show selling our tankards. He had lousy sales—so lousy he had no plans to buy any further products from us—until some wise neighboring vendor told him to stop displaying the tankards on a flat tabletop where customers could only see a few pieces at a time. Instead, she told him to display the tankards vertically, and to display everything he had on hand (about 90 pieces).
Our wholesale customer literally sold out of tankards. He called us right after the show and ordered another hundred pieces.
This leads to another important selling concept: Keep your shelves full. It's a strange element of show psychology, but customers who see half-empty shelves are not impressed by how well your product has been selling. Instead, they will glance at your nearly vacant display, and walk on. It doesn't matter how many pieces you still have on display. Half-empty shelves equal "no selection" in the eyes of a potential customer.
Restock immediately. If you sell one piece, replace it with another piece. If you run out of replacement stock, then either reduce the number of shelving or display units, or have something on hand to act as a "filler" for empty displays (silk flowers, driftwood, etc.; anything is better than nothing).
Smart vendors at farmers markets, for instance, will not display their apples in half-empty baskets. Instead, as the apples sell, they'll heap the remaining fruit in smaller and smaller baskets to make the baskets appear full and overflowing. Use this idea in your booth as well.
Bring your product forward
When we first started doing retail shows, we had an enclosed easy-up type booth and we placed our shelving units along the interior sides and rear of the booth, forming a cave. Needless to say, we only attracted spelunkers. Bringing our shelving units out toward the front of the booth cost us space but improved sales.
The bling-bling factor
One of the biggest shows we ever did was one of our biggest financial disasters. It was a huge indoor holiday food and gift festival in a big city with nearly 500 booths. We were used to doing small outdoor shows—big mistake.
All the other vendors had the good sense to doll up their booths with as much glitz and glamour as possible to draw the customers' eyes. We didn't have glittery backdrops or shiny tablecloths or splashy signs or anything except plain wooden shelving units filled with plain wooden tankards. We were lost amid a sea of electronically accented bling-bling. We couldn't compete. People walked past us and never noticed we were there.
So do what you can to draw the eye and appeal to the senses (Most of the time, this does not include playing music. You will only annoy your neighboring vendors.) Suitable signage, attractive tablecloths, appropriate lighting, homey touches, shiny tabletop accents, and dangling displays, etc. are all examples of how you might improve your visibility.
Vendor behavior
Early on in our business, we displayed our tankards on four shelving units arranged in a shallow arc at the back of the booth (the "cave" effect). We then sat on chairs at either end of the arc, happily awaiting customers that seldom came. At last we got it: People were too intimidated to enter the booth with the two of us arranged at the opening, like vultures waiting to pounce.
We removed our chairs to sit behind the shelving units, moved the shelves closer to the front, and never had trouble again with welcoming customers into our booth.
Here's another point that sounds trivial, but like most things at a craft show, it's not: Remove all excess chairs. Seriously.
An empty chair is an invitation for a talkative browser to sit down uninvited and regale you with a 30-minute account of Great-aunt Helga's gallbladder surgery. (I don't know why they think we'd be interested, but it never fails to happen.)
So if you have extra chairs, fold them up and stash them in back until you need them. If your booth partner takes a lunch or bathroom break, fold up his chair and tuck it out of sight until he returns.
Oh, and another problem for some vendors: Shut up. Really.
My husband and I were vending at a craft fair one time when I decided to take a break and walk around to see some of the other displays. I stepped into a booth selling an attractive product…and there I stayed for 45 minutes because the overly friendly vendor talked and talked. He was one of those people who, whenever I glanced at my watch and said I really had to go, just didn't get it. No, he had to tell me every single detail of his job history, his wife's job history, and his year-old daughter's developmental milestones.
Don't do this to a customer, because I can assure you your sales will suffer as a result. Customers are not your best friends who have come to hear your life story. They are there to look over your products. Let them.
Of course, silence can be equally as bad. A friendly "hello" and an offer to answer questions are important too. The secret is to find the balance.
With time, you'll become the sort of successful vendor from whom other craftspeople will seek advice.
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Volvo Ocean Race, Day 4 of Leg 2. Ken Read, Skipper of Puma Ocean Racing powered by Berg reports on the crew's progress:
Jono Swain trimming the front sail during his sunset watch. PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG during leg 2 of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12
Writing to you aboard the racing yacht Puma's Mar Mostro, happy to report that we are still racing! No more reports of cows or golf or ships for a while. As I had sincerely hoped, just a simple report on sailboat racing.
Sorry I haven't been more talkative since the start last Sunday. We have had a bit on, you might say. Incredible coastal racing around headlands and bays fraught with no wind zones. Brutal on skippers and navigators as we essentially don't sleep through those times. The guys on watch at least have scheduled down time, but the fact is they don't sleep much either because of the constant sail changing.
I thought we actually sailed really well those first couple days. We were a bit unlucky right after the start – we got stuck in one of the bays south of Cape Town, and in a complete drift-off watched the fleet sail away. But, no panic. One by one over the next few days we picked everyone off, leading as we approached Port Elizabeth on the southeast corner of the Cape. Then we got stuck on the wrong side of a convergence cloud line at night along with Camper and watched Groupama and Abu Dhabi, who were well behind going into the point, sail right around us. To give you and idea how strange that point in the race was…Sanya was only three miles back the last time we saw them, and when the next three hour sched came, out they were 30 miles behind. Ahhh the joy of sailing.
On to the Aguilus Current. Not so bad really. We were ready for the worst and it really didn't have much in it – maybe 28 knots of wind and a pretty tough head sea. But to be honest, the head sea from the east (and of course we are heading to the east) has been here pretty much since, so I guess the current is leaving us with a little gift that keeps on giving.
Since then it has been a dash to the east. We're trying so hard to actually catch this front line and try to punch through to the northerlies on the other side. We keep running into the line of little pressure. I think the term is self correcting. Have a good three hours and you sail into the lighter wind, which slows you and the rest catch up…and visa versa. It's not very rewarding for all the work. Essentially there is a new starting line out here with the fleet spread about 120 miles north to south along it, and at some point someone is going to say 'go' and we get to punch through and take off. So who is ahead right now? The scheds say the boat furthest north because they are closest to the mark. But, it is a six-boat dead even horse race that will reward the first to punch through – especially once we get to the new high pressure and tack to starboard for days of reaching in the Indian Ocean trade winds. It is a bit of a lottery out here right now. Time for Mar Mostro to get a bit lucky.
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SPENCER BUTCHER: Traditional marriage must be maintained
There is just something to be said for keeping things to yourself. I grew up in a time when you didn't hear much about divorce, and if you did, people were speaking about it in hushed tones as if it was something rare and private. It was!
We never talked about or heard about or saw on television anything related to people living together without being married and there was never a gay couple in any sitcom.
All that has changed with time, but why? I've come to learn that the more people talk about and are exposed to things that were once against the norms, mores and values of society, the more they change and become acceptable and commonplace.
I'm sure that most gay people would prefer not to draw attention to their choice of lifestyle. I'm certain they'd appreciate being left alone to live quiet, peaceful lives with their partners. However, with the LGBT community engaged in activism to change the definition of marriage and the family, it's hard to keep those things quiet and everything is drawn into the spotlight.
As the U.S. Supreme Court reviews the case to preserve traditional marriage in our country this week, I hope the justices can see through all the rhetoric and realize that repealing the Defense of Marriage Act has nothing to do with equality.
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Tampa, Florida - In a Thursday morning press conference, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor said accused cop killer Dontae Morris is a suspect in at least one other murder, and a "person of interest" in two others.
Castor says Morris is a suspect in the May 18 murder of 21-year-old Derek Anderson at the Kenneth Court Apartments. Anderson was shot and killed outside his family's apartment by someone who tried to steal his backpack.
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Earlier in the morning, Tampa Police cordoned off an area near North Boulevard and I-275 searching for the 24-year-old Morris.
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August 17, 2010
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Incumbent candidates outpaced challengers in the initial election results released Tuesday night.
The primary set up a showdown for a 5th Legislative District seat in the state House of Representatives, a competitive congressional race and a chance to elect a judge to the King County District Court bench.
State Rep. Glenn Anderson, a Republican, outpolled Democrats Dean Willard and David Spring. Anderson polled 58 percent, Spring polled 25 percent and Willard polled 16 percent.
Unless Willard pulls ahead as ballots trickle in during the days ahead, the race will be a rematch of the 2008 contest between Anderson and Spring.
The district encompasses most of Issaquah, including downtown and the Issaquah Highlands. The boundaries also include North Bend and Snoqualmie, plus parts of Maple Valley, Sammamish and unincorporated King County.
District voters sent Anderson to Olympia in 2000 and re-elected the Fall City resident in subsequent elections.
State Rep. Judy Clibborn, a Mercer Island Democrat seeking a fifth term, outpaced Stephen Strader, a Bellevue Republican, and independent Orion S. Webster.
Clibborn represents the 41st Legislative District — Talus and other Cougar Mountain communities, plus Mercer Island, Newcastle and parts of Bellevue, Renton and unincorporated King County.
The incumbent led Strader by about 55 percent to about 40 percent to set up the general election contest. Webster, like Strader, a political newcomer, trailed at 5 percent.
Congressman Dave Reichert pulled ahead of a crowded field, including the Democrat, former Microsoft and Drugstore.com executive Suzan DelBene. Reichert, a former King County sheriff, led DelBene by about 47 percent to about 28 percent. Longshot candidates rounded out the field.
Observers expect a close election, as DelBene seeks to become the first Democrat to represent the 8th Congressional District. Though Reichert has come close to defeat in the past, political analysts said he has a stronger hand in November.
The congressional district sprawls across eastern King and Pierce counties from the Snohomish County line up north to the Lewis County line in the south.
Dino Rossi — the former Issaquah representative in the state Senate and the Republican nominee for governor in 2004 and 2008 — trailed U.S. Sen. Patty Murray on election night. Rossi is due to face the Democrat in November in another contest drawing national attention.
Murray amassed 30 percentage points over Rossi in King County — 58 percent to 28 percent. Statewide, Murray led Rossi by about 49 percent to 33 percent in a crowded primary.
Newcastle attorney Donna Tucker and Redmond City Prosecutor Larry Mitchell surged past Mercer Island attorney Ketu Shah in the race for District Court judge.
Tucker pulled in 45 percent and Mitchell garnered about 35 percent. The candidates face off in the November election. Shah trailed at about 20 percent.
The county created the position last year to address a growing caseload.
The bustling court handles traffic infractions, misdemeanor criminal offenses and some civil cases. The district includes Issaquah, Sammamish, Bellevue, Redmond, Woodinville and parts of unincorporated King County.
King County Elections released the initial results just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, the last day to postmark or drop off a primary ballot. Elections Director Sherril Huff had predicted 45 percent turnout in the summer primary.
The results in the initial tally represent 243,775 ballots.
Expect the next round of results at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The elections office plans daily updates until all ballots have been counted.
The results remain unofficial until the county Canvassing Board meets Sept. 1 to certify the election. Final results should be posted to the elections website by noon Sept. 1.
The elections office started to receive marked ballots days after the office mailed blank forms to voters in late July. The agency starts processing ballots upon receipt, but law prohibits elections staffers from tabulating results before 8 p.m. on Election Day. In the run-up to the deadline, staffers opened ballots and reviewed voter signatures in a secure location at the elections office in Tukwila.
If a signature problem arises, staffers contact voters to resolve the issue in order for the ballot to be counted.
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August 18th, 2010 12:57 pm
The results for the 5th ld in last nights voting were particularly discouraging. Unemployed teacher (David Spring) has advanced to the general election ahead of a far more qualified candidate. I have seen Mr. Spring up close on several occasions and feel very strongly that his election would be the equivalent of South Carolina electing Alvin Greene.
Where voters would have had a choice between two responsible business leaders, they now have only a choice between a business leader (Glenn Anderson) and someone running with no money, no visible means of support, and no answers to any important questions. Mr. Spring's only answer to ANY question is to raise punitive taxes against "millionaires" and others he seems to harbor a seething hatred for. Reading his "fair funding" diatribe on his website is a revealing snapshot into the mind of someone unhinged with hatred for others who've enjoyed more success than he has.
This is a man who'll gleefully dance at the idea of bringing a state income tax, and a new state "IRS" type bureaucracy, to Washington State. Glenn Anderson is the ONLY responsible vote left in this race.
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These clouds floating in the sky;
Wherever they want they can fly.
They strew the sky sometimes completely white;
We can't see the sky and the sun which is bright.
But sometimes at some places they leave the sky blue;
For man to read for man as a clue.
They change their size they change their shape;
Unknowingly man stares at them like an ape.
Birds flew past them reading it aloud;
They know what they wanna say those clouds.
When man can't understand what they wanna say;
Towards the earth they make their way.
They fell on earth with different tones;
They fell on tall buildings they fell on ruins.
They make different sounds and they say different words;
Which man can't understand but they know the birds.
The air and the trees understand what they say;
And the wind and the trees together they play.
But the man is unaware of what is happening;
He thinks this end but its the beginning.
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Andy Kopsa is a freelance writer who has written for publications such as The Revealer, Alternet, The American Independent and Westword. Andy focuses her writing on the federal funding of anti-gay, anti-choice organizations around the country since the Bush administration ushered in all-out faith-based initiatives; she hopes to bring to light the lasting impact that these initiatives had on politics, policy and programs alive and kicking today. Andy is a native Iowan currently living in NYC. She blogs at Off The Record.
by Andy Kopsa
March 10, 2012 - 11:30 am
Bradlee Dean and his Junkyard Prophets are back selling their anti-gay, anti-choice right wing Christian revisionist snake oil. This time to Iowa schools.
by Andy Kopsa
March 8, 2012 - 11:22 am
This morning women headed to Montgomery, Alabama to protest the forced ultrasound bill making it's way through the statehouse. Although the bill's sponsor, Senator Clay Scofield is reportedly backing off the bill that would require trans-vaginal ultrasound prior to a legal abortion, a rally against SB12 is on for today.
Alabama Senator Backs Off Forced Trans-Vaginal Ultrasound Bill, But Alabama Women Aren't Backing Down
by Andy Kopsa
March 6, 2012 - 8:26 pm
Unable to say the word "vaginal," one of the authors of the forced trans-vaginal ultrasound bill in Alabama says he will pull it. But the women of Alabama won't stand for replacing it with forced abdominal ultrasounds or any other form of coercion.
by Andy Kopsa
February 27, 2012 - 2:50 pm
Another day, another state-sanctioned rape bill, this time in Alabama where, conveniently, the head of the committee voting for the bill is also president of an ultrasound manufacturing company.
by Andy Kopsa
February 23, 2012 - 2:36 pm
Delegate Englin of Virginia's 45th district updates RH Reality Check regarding the "Personhood" and forced ultrasound bills.
by Andy Kopsa
February 22, 2012 - 1:30 pm
As the realities of Virginia's mandated trans-vaginal ultrasound legislation become clear, members of the far right rape apology squad have gone into action, claiming that coerced ultrasound can not be rape. A rape survivor sees the issue differently.
UPDATE: Virginia Delegate Says Mandatory Ultrasound Bill Will Turn Doctors Into "Criminals" Under the Law
by Andy Kopsa
February 17, 2012 - 5:53 pm
According to Virginia Delegate David Englin doctors will be turned into criminals and women victims of a sex crime under the "object sexual penetration" law if Governor Bob McDonnell signs the state sanctioned rape bill. Mr. Englin plans to bring his case to the floor next week when the house debates the senate version of the bill.
by Andy Kopsa
February 16, 2012 - 5:01 pm
Virginia Governor McDonnell earlier signaled his intent to sign one of the most despicable laws in the country forcing women to undergo an vaginal ultrasound to obtain an abortion, or in other words, a state sanctioned rape bill. But now it seems the Governor is not so eager to go on the record with his previously held position.
by Andy Kopsa
February 15, 2012 - 3:15 pm
Let's start calling these bills what they are: state-sanctioned rape. There is no other way around it.
Why Do Violent Extremists Like Ralph Lang Get More Protection Than Women Trying to Access Abortion Care?
by Andy Kopsa
February 14, 2012 - 8:48 am
In an update to a post from Februaury, Ralph Lang has finally been charged in federal court for plotting to kill Wisconsin abortion care providers. This is good news.


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|Outcomes after esophagectomy: a ten-year prospective cohort.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 12537219 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: The Department of Veterans Affairs National Surgical Quality Improvement Program is a unique resource to prospectively analyze surgical outcomes from a cross-section of surgical services nationally. We used this database to assess risk factors for morbidity and mortality after esophagectomy in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers from 1991 to 2001. METHODS: A total of 1,777 patients underwent an esophagectomy at 109 Veterans Affairs hospitals with complete in-hospital and 30-day outcomes recorded. Bivariate and multivariable analyses were completed. RESULTS: Thirty-day mortality was 9.8% (174/1,777) and the incidence of one or more of 20 predefined complications was 49.5% (880/1,777). The most frequent postoperative complications were pneumonia in 21% (380/1,777), respiratory failure in 16% (288/1,777), and ventilator support more than 48 hours in 22% (387/1,777). Preoperative predictors of mortality based on multivariable analysis included neoadjuvant therapy, blood urea nitrogen level of more than 40 mg/dL, alkaline phosphatase level of more than 125 U/L, diabetes mellitus, alcohol abuse, decreased functional status, ascites, and increasing age. Preoperative factors impacting morbidity were increasing age, dyspnea, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, alkaline phosphatase level of more than 125 U/L, lower serum albumin concentration, increased complexity score, and decreased functional status. Intraoperative risk factors for mortality included the need for transfusion; intraoperative risk factors for morbidity included the need for transfusion and longer operative time. CONCLUSIONS: These data constitute the largest prospective outcomes cohort in the literature and document a near 50% morbidity rate and 10% mortality rate after esophagectomy. Data from this study can be used to better stratify patients before esophagectomy.
|Stephen H Bailey; David A Bull; David H Harpole; Jeffrey J Rentz; Leigh A Neumayer; Theodore N Pappas; Jennifer Daley; William G Henderson; Barbara Krasnicka; Shukri F Khuri
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|Type: Journal Article
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|Title: The Annals of thoracic surgery Volume: 75 ISSN: 0003-4975 ISO Abbreviation: Ann. Thorac. Surg. Publication Date: 2003 Jan
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|Created Date: 2003-01-22 Completed Date: 2003-02-13 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 15030100R Medline TA: Ann Thorac Surg Country: United States
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 217-22; discussion 222 Citation Subset: AIM; IM
|Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
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Age Factors
Alcoholism / complications
Alkaline Phosphatase / blood
Ascites / complications
Blood Urea Nitrogen
Cohort Studies
Diabetes Complications
Dyspnea / complications
Esophagectomy* / mortality
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Pneumonia / etiology
Postoperative Complications
Prospective Studies
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / complications
Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
Risk Factors
Serum Albumin / analysis
Treatment Outcome
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|0/Serum Albumin; EC 184.108.40.206/Alkaline Phosphatase
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Tom & Carol (Carlson) Bracken celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary with a trip to Walt Disney World with their family in January. They were married on June 6th, 1964 at the Bethel Church in Attica.
They have two children; Rodney (Lafayette) & Cathi (Scott, West Lafayette). They also have six grandchildren, Erin, Caroline, Madison, Alexis, Logan and Belle.


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|Figulla ASD occluder versus Amplatzer Septal Occluder: a comparative study on validation of a novel device for percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects.
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|PMID: 19735475 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|OBJECTIVES: Occlutech Figulla ASD Occluder (FSO) is an alternative device to Amplatzer Septal Occluder (ASO) with some structural innovations including increased flexibility, minimizing the amount of material implanted, and absence of the left atrial clamp. We aimed to report our experiences with FSO and compare the outcomes of this novel device versus ASO.
INTERVENTIONS: Between December 2005 and February 2009, 75 patients diagnosed with secundum atrial septal defects underwent transcatheter closure. The FSO device was used in 33 patients, and the ASO was used in 42.
RESULTS: Patient characteristics, stretch size of the defect, device left disc size, procedure, and fluoroscopy time were similar between the groups. However, the difference between device waist size and stretched diameter of the defect was significantly higher, and device delivery sheath was significantly larger in FSO group and device left disc size was significantly lower in the FSO group. In all subjects, the residual shunt was small to trivial during follow-up and the reduction in prevalence of residual shunt with time was similar in both groups (P = 0.68). We found no differences in complication rate between the two devices; however, device embolization to the pulmonary bifurcation in one patient was recorded as major complication in FSO device group.
CONCLUSIONS: Both devices are clinically safe and effective in ASD closure. FSO device has similar outcomes when compared to ASO device. Difficulties in selecting the correct device size in larger defects and larger venous sheath requirement need to be evaluated in further studies.
|Aysenur Pac; Tugcin Bora Polat; Ilker Cetin; Mehmet Burhan Oflaz; Sevket Balli
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|Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Validation Studies Date: 2009-09-03
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|Title: Journal of interventional cardiology Volume: 22 ISSN: 1540-8183 ISO Abbreviation: J Interv Cardiol Publication Date: 2009 Dec
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|Created Date: 2009-12-22 Completed Date: 2011-01-31 Revised Date: -
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8907826 Medline TA: J Interv Cardiol Country: United States
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|From the Clinic of Pediatric Cardiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. firstname.lastname@example.com
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Balloon Dilation / instrumentation*, methods
Child, Preschool
Coronary Angiography
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Equipment Design
Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / therapy*, ultrasonography
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Middle Aged
Septal Occluder Device*
Treatment Outcome
Young Adult
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The Obama administration on Friday renewed calls for Iran to immediately release three American hikers detained for nearly nine months and also appealed to the Iranian government to issue their families visas to visit them.
A day after the families said two of the three are in poor health, the White House and State Department said there was no reason for their continued incarceration. Their comments came after reports from Swiss diplomats who were allowed to visit the trio in Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Thursday.
"We are disturbed by the families' reports of their children's physical and emotional health," said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "These three Americans — innocent tourists in Iraq's Kurdistan region when they were detained on July 31, 2009 — have been unjustly held for almost nine months without formal charges or access to legal representation."
"We ask the Islamic Republic of Iran to release these three Americans and allow them to go home and be reunited with their families," she said.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs expressed deep concern for the hikers and called for their release.
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USA already look like being one of the favourites for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Korea 2007 which begins on 18 August. On Friday evening, coach John Hackworth's men celebrated a confidence-boosting 3-1 win in a friendly over Germany, who are also heading out east next month.
Some 3,500 local fans made the journey to Giessen near Frankfurt
to see former international striker Heiko Herrlich's first
match as coach of the U-17s and to check out the reputedly
prodigious talent of Bayern Munich playmaker Toni Kroos. However,
it was someone from across the Atlantic who stole the show. USA
star striker Alex Nimo gave the home defence the runaround and
played an integral part in his team's well-deserved victory.
The match was over as a contest by half-time. Greg Garza and Ellis McLoughlin scored 240 seconds apart in the 18th and 22nd minutes respectively, before the mercurial Nimo made it three just before the break with an amazing solo effort. In the second half, Herrlich made no fewer than 11 changes, with one of the substitutes - Sascha Bigalke - scoring a consolation goal after 64 minutes.
"Yes, unfortunately we really got off to a bad start, but there's no reason for us to hang our heads," explained Bayern Munich midfielder Mehmet Ekici to FIFA.com after the match. "We're fully focused on the tournament in Korea and we're going to give it 100% out there in every match." Team-mate Kroos was equally upbeat, saying: "I'm convinced that we will soon be looking a totally different outfit - after all, we've only just started our build-up."
USA coach Hackworth was highly satisfied with his boys' performance, whilst nevertheless refusing to get too carried away with the win over Germany. "It was clear for all to see that our team had been training for a couple of weeks longer than the Germans, but overall, I have to say that I saw some excellent football on display today," he said to FIFA.com.
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A Eunice man and an Avoyelles Parish woman are in jail today in Eunice, charged with operating a clandestine drug laboratory.
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From the moment I wake in the morning until the minute I fall asleep at night I'm constantly observing everything! I live outside of Cotonou in Cocotomey with the Soglo Family. Every morning my host mother and I take the same road into town to get to school, and every morning I see something new, but one thing remains the same, I'm usually the ONLY Caucasian in ALL the intersections. I don't mind being the minority, it's an occasion I have never experienced at home and though it feels a little odd, it's a fun change.
The hospitality here is amazing! I have already been invited to come back and visit my family here and I am determined to do just that! I am loving my experience here in Benin and I'm excited to visit Ghana and Togo in the next few weeks. West Africa is amazing and if I had to encourage a cross cultural experience I would most defiantly suggest coming here. This experience will be something I will keep with me for as long as I live. Africa is an amazing and interesting place and I have quickly grown to love and respect everything that I have been exposed to. --Sabrina Tusing
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Medicine's New Toolbox
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Stem Cells 2.0
Scientists have been searching for ways to directly reprogram adult cells for decades. That hunt has been pushed forward by the desire to develop an alternative to human embryonic stem cells, which are fraught with both technical and ethical issues. The cells are usually derived from four- or five-day-old embryos that would otherwise be discarded from in vitro fertilization clinics (although sometimes embryos have been created expressly for research purposes). Using this technique to create a robust cell line is tricky and highly inefficient. Not only are the embryos themselves hard to obtain, but the cells are delicate and difficult to grow.
Another technique, human therapeutic cloning, is even more controversial, and both technically and practically challenging. Scientists transfer the nucleus of an adult cell into the hollowed-out shell of an unfertilized egg cell–which can then develop into an embryo, yielding stem cells that are genetic clones of the adult cells. But the lack of human eggs for research has proved a huge hurdle, and scientists have yet to generate cloned human cell lines.
But three years ago Shinya Yamanaka, of Kyoto University in Japan, figured out how to return adult mouse cells to an embryonic-like state in a process that never involved an actual embryo. He found that using a virus to deliver genes for just four specific proteins to the nucleus of an adult cell could give it the ability to differentiate into a wide variety of cell types, just like the stem cells derived from embryos. Those proteins, typically found in developing embryos, appear to turn other genes on and off in a pattern characteristic of embryonic rather than adult cells. A year after Yamanaka's discovery, his group and two others reported that they could induce human cells to do the same thing.
As a physician and venture capitalist closely following stem-cell research, Beth Seidenberg saw the potential almost immediately. Seidenberg, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, teamed up with another venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, to found iZumi in 2007, funding the company with $20 million. After 20 years in pharmaceutical research, Seidenberg has had a lot of time to think about what the industry is doing right and where it's going wrong. She says, "I became really intrigued by the idea of starting with a patient who had a disease and working backwards, which is exactly the opposite of how we pursue new therapies for treatment of disease today."
To illustrate the role iPS cells could play in drug discovery, John Dimos points to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease he has studied for years. About 2 percent of all cases have a known genetic cause–a mutation in a gene called SOD1. Nearly all the work in animal models has focused on this rare form of the disease, because researchers know how to use the gene to trigger it in mice. With the new technology, however, scientists can use a skin biopsy to generate pluripotent stem cells from any patient with ALS. The genetics and other possible factors underlying the disease are captured in the cells, even if no one knows explicitly what those factors are. The same holds true for Alzheimer's, diabetes, autism, heart disease, and myriad other conditions whose complex origins have proved difficult to identify.
As a postdoc at Harvard, Dimos built a cellular model of ALS, making it possible to study a neurodegenerative disease outside an animal for the first time. He and his colleagues collected skin cells from an 82-year-old woman with ALS, reprogrammed them into iPS cells, and directed the cells to differentiate into motor neurons that were genetically identical to the donor's defective cells. "It was the first paper to show that you can use a stem cell to see disease pathology in a petri dish," says Douglas Melton, codirector of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. "That means you can now study diseases in petri dishes and not in people. That's huge."


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Desperation and fulfillment, anxiety and warmth, pain and contentment — all come together in the darkly splendid "Another Year." British writer-director Mike Leigh ("Vera Drake," "Happy-Go-Lucky") has been a major influence on England's filmmakers with his eye for realism and the small dramas that make up the big drama of life. This time out he's juxtaposed domestic bliss and train-wreck neediness in a film that, while not terribly subtle, still manages to carry dramatic heft.
The domestic bliss would belong to Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen). He's a geological engineer, she's a counselor. They've apparently been married forever, they have a grown son, Joe (Oliver Maltman), and they like working in their vegetable garden.
In one shot we see the couple sipping tea in a small shelter as rain pours down on the garden. They seem absolutely in love, with each other and life.
Tom and Gerri (a joke about cartoon characters is inevitable) also love to cook and have friends over. One such friend is Mary (Lesley Manville), a secretary who works with Gerri.
Mary drinks far too much wine, she babbles on nervously about inconsequential things, and she's obviously painfully lonely. She wants to connect with someone, but she also wants that person to be something special.
She runs into a male counterpart — an overweight, sad sack drunk named Ken (Peter Wight) — at a cookout at Tom and Gerri's, and rejects his clumsy overtures despite (and probably because of) their mutual problems. Instead, she sets her bleary sights on the much younger Joe, who uneasily humors his mother's friend.
Eventually, Joe brings home an ebullient girlfriend, Katie (Karina Fernandez), and Mary's sour world turns even more so.
All of this amounts to nothing much at the same time it reflects on the mundane nature of isolation, aspiration and, yes, love. Leigh has no use for super-hero moments or operatic crescendos; he's far more interested in steering his characters through the barbs and beauties of everyday life.
True, breaking the film into seasons and dawdling in the garden during each of them — how much gardening actually goes on in winter? — is a bit obvious. And most couples will count themselves lucky if they can recognize some of their own relationship in the idyllic bond between Tom and Gerri.
But the strength of that bond, the warm ease of it, is absolutely necessary as a counter-balance to Mary. In the beginning, Manville's grasp on a wine glass can seem too panicked; but as the film goes on, her fluttery-scared mannerisms and sheer terror at the waking day sell themselves completely. Yes, the woman really is that bad off.
Leigh is well-known for depending on improvised dialogue from his acting ensemble, which just makes said ensemble all the more impressive here, from Manville's scattered babbling to Sheen's quiet strength and Broadbent's sunny optimism.
"Another Year" is just that — time passing through lives, relationships shifting, some spirits flailing while others rest happily within one another. It's touching, sad, funny, maddening, embarrassing and mean all at once. Kind of like life.
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REVIEW: Strangers in Death by JD Robb
Dear Ms. Roberts:
I discovered the In Death series almost 20 books in (at the publication of Portrait in Death), so I had the opportunity to read a big chunk of Eve and Roarke's story all at once. I was immediately and completely caught up in the fictional futuristic world, from the tumultuous adventure of Eve and Roarke's courtship and marriage, to Peabody and McNab's touching and funny transformation from antagonists to lovers, to the HoloRoom and AutoChef and hovering cars and every other technological transformation of half a century into the future. It really felt like one integrated story to me, and I couldn't get enough. Now, after a few more years and almost ten more books in the series, I still feel compelled to check in with Eve and Roarke and New York circa 2060. But whether it's the months between books or the circumstances of any long series, my enthusiasm shifts back and forth with each new book. With Strangers in Death, my experience was mixed: I loved reading about the investigation but was not so enraptured by the relationship aspects of the novel.
This time out Eve must solve the murder of Thomas A. Anders, a charming and respected sporting goods magnate found dead in his own bed in what appears to be an erotic asphyxiation gone bad. His wife was out of town at the time, suggesting that Mr. Anders had some secrets and perhaps a bit of the kink, something especially humiliating for his family and in stark opposition to his reputation for honesty, sportsmanship, and fidelity. How does Eve endeavor to solve the murder of a man who seems to have no enemies and whose death isn't one in a string of serial murders?
Like in those wonderful old episodes of Columbo, in Strangers in Death Eve fixes on a suspect quickly, which creates a taut pleasure for the reader who gets to watch her unravel the mystery, thread by thread. Knowing who did it means little if Eve can't prove it, especially when the high profile of a case like this makes it imperative that she tuck in every single loose end. This has probably become my favorite set-up in the series, because I so often guess the killer very early on that there's less enjoyment for me in having Eve catch up than there is in watching her match her instinct with the evidence, hoping that she and I have both guessed right. And Eve's in fine form here, fully confident in her suspicions and wonderfully sharp in both insight and tongue. She's back to threatening the local addicts into keeping her POS cop car safe, smart-mouthing Summerset, bantering with Baxter (aka Detective Pig-Eater) and Morris, and sparring with Peabody:
"This is going to have to come out of my Roarke fund." [paying off a bet to Eve] "You have a fund for Roarke? To donate to him, or to try to buy him?"
"I wish – on the buying part. It'd be a skim for McNab. We have a deal where we both get to pick one person, and if we ever got the chance to . . ." She closed her fist, pumped it while she wiggled her eyebrows. "With said person, the other of us would understand. A one-shot deal. I picked Roarke."
"Well, he's a superior lay, so you'd have that before I peeled the skin off your still quivering body, roasted it on an open fire, and then force-fed it to you."
"Okay then. So . . ." Clearing her throat, Peabody turned the cube on record. "I owe Dallas, Lieutenant Meaniepants Eve, twenty dollars to be paid out of my hard-earned, under-appreciated detectives salary next payday. Peabody, Detective Churchmouse Delia."
This is the Eve I have enjoyed and admired throughout the series – the Eve who is "the top bitch cop in New York City," because she understands the law inside and out and has an amazing insight into people and what they try to hide beneath the surface. And when Eve's in cop mode the novel clips along, the movements logical, the pacing sharp and even. I can never tell how revised the Constitutional protections are in Eve's world, because they don't always conform to current versions of the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments, so there are things during the evidence gathering, interrogation, and charging stages of the investigation that I just choose to ignore. And although I wondered at the wisdom and logic of Eve sharing her suspicions with a couple of characters, overall the investigation was the most consistently compelling aspect of the book for me, reigniting that same excitement I had during my original series glom.
What didn't work so well for me in Strangers in Death were the parts of the story that focused Eve and Roarke's relationship. I realize that because Eve and Roarke have been together a much shorter time than we have been reading the series that there is sometimes a disconnect between the reader's time frame and the characters'. This is, I think, why some readers are tired of Eve's flashbacks and the like. And the good news for those readers is that Eve doesn't have any bad dreams in this book, nor does she get unglued by the sexual elements of the crime. That felts a bit off to me, precisely because she and Roarke have been together for a relatively short time and her emotional trauma has been portrayed as so acute. Also, while one aspect of Eve's emotional insecurity seems to have abated, that urgent intensity between she and Roarke, the undercurrent of desperation between them, continues to be expressed strongly. And those two elements have been powerfully intertwined in the series, so to see them separate was not completely convincing to me.
I also have to admit to some reader's fatigue of my own in regard to that relationship intensity. For example, at one point Roarke comes home to find Eve working, and — again, still — he's bowled over by the depth of his feelings for her:
She'd taken off her jacket, tossed it over a chair, and still wore her weapon harness. Which meant she'd come in the door and straight up. Armed and dangerous, he thought. It was a look, a fact of her, that continually aroused him. And her tireless and unwavering dedication to the dead – to the truth, to what was right – had, and always would, amaze him. . .
She sensed him. He saw the moment she did, that slight change of body language. And when her eyes shifted from her comp screen to his, the cold focus became an easy, even casual warmth.
That, he thought, just that was worth coming home for.
I think that some version of this monologue has occurred at least once in every book, along with all the peaks and valleys of their lovemaking, those consistent – and dramatic – reassurances of the intensity of their physical and emotional bonds and the surprise in both of them that they really did end up happily together. Even the language feels repetitive (i.e. Roarke's lyrically poetic face and Eve's intoxicating whiskey eyes). I was talking to a friend about this, and she suggested that Eve and Roarke have not yet developed a lightness of being with each other, an ability to tease and take each other a little for granted. I think she's right, and I don't mind that in and of itself, but because some aspects of their character development in the relationship seem a bit fast-tracked while others have become somewhat repetitive, I have a hard time tuning into the relationship with the unremitting seriousness that Eve and Roarke still do.
In fact, I was incredibly relieved when they finally had a fight about two-thirds of the way through the book, because even though it was basically the same argument they have over and over (Roarke: "why can't you trust me enough to depend on me?' Eve: "why can't you trust that I can take care of myself?'), it broke some of the melodramatic tension. And while I understand the vagaries of relationship evolution, sometimes it feels more like a heavy authorial hand than a natural unevenness setting the trajectory of Eve and Roarke's relationship. Although I did chuckle with satisfaction over a reference to Magdalena ("Magdabitch" as Eve refers to her) that played nicely into the plot at one point.
Readers sometimes complain that secondary characters have become gratuitously planted in these books, and for the most part I didn't feel that way here. Trina got a reference but no personal appearance. Louise and Charles came on scene in a way that was actually relevant to Eve's investigation, and both Summerset and Mavis were present and accounted for but minimally obnoxious. I do have one quibble, though, which is that I'm starting to miss some of the more futuristic aspects of the series. When was the last time Eve and Roarke took a HoloTrip? Why isn't Eve beating traffic with a patrol car capable of going vertical? I enjoyed those touches, and I think a number of them have fallen away.
When contemplating a grade for this book, I realized how divergent my reactions to the police procedural and relationship aspects of the book were. When Eve was in the groove of working, I was completely engaged in the novel, and when she and Roarke were in relationship mode, I vacillated between boredom and frustration. So in the end I decided to split that difference, awarding the procedural aspects of the book a B+ and the relationship parts a C. I have no idea how that averages out, but in the same way I couldn't reconcile the different aspects of the book, I have no interest in trying to do so with the grades.
~ Janet
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DETROIT _ Not surprisingly, Rangers manager Ron Washington gushed about Nelson Cruz's eighth-inning throw-out of Miguel Cabrera at home, and his 3-run homer in the 11th that put the game away.
"For you (media) guys who haven't seen Nelson every day, he's capable of doing exactly what he's doing," Washington said. "I'm just happy that we as the Texas Rangers are reaping the benefit of it.
"I always say, 'Don't judge Nelson just because he hits balls out of the park, He's a complete player. He takes pride in every part of the game. Tonight it was 'Thank you, Nelson Cruz.' "
Here is Cruz on his one-hop throw to home that catcher Mike Napoli snagged and tagged out Cabrera while being bowled over.
"That situation when I get behind to the ball, thanks God I make a really good throw one-hop," Cruz said. "Throw it to Napoli so this time he can stay with that ball."
This also was the second time this series that Cruz hit an 11th inning homer, accounting for seven RBI on the two blasts.
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HALLE BERRY 's baby dada ex, GABRIEL AUBRY, has numerous voicemails emails, text messages from the Oscar winner which documents her angry and jealous rages .
RadarOnline.com reports that to a source close to the Canadian-born model says he won't be leaking them but will use them in his custody battle with Halle - if warranted.
"I honestly think Gabriel should release some of these messages he has from Halle, and tell his side of the story -- but he won't. He said he's going to save them for family court, which will be a private, press-free environment," the source said
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MOSCOW — NSA leaker Edward Snowden's prospects for political asylum abroad narrowed rapidly Tuesday when he withdrew his request to Russia, and almost half of the 21 countries on his request list have turned him down.
The developments involving Snowden continued globally. The former contractor abandoned his request for asylum in Russia when President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he must stop his anti-American activity.
Russian news agencies quoted Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that Snowden, unhappy with the conditions Russia has set, had taken back his application to Moscow.
"It's true, Snowden did express a request to remain in Russia. But having found out yesterday about Russia's position, voiced by President Putin, about the conditions for theoretically doing so, he rejected his intention and request to stay in Russia," RIA Novosti quoted Peskov as saying.
Putin said Monday that Snowden would have to stop leaking U.S. secrets if he wanted to be granted asylum in Russia, where Snowden has been hiding out for eight days since his arrival from Hong Kong. Putin said that while Moscow "never hands over anybody anywhere," Snowden needed to stop harming Russia's "American partners."
Peskov added Tuesday that "handing over Snowden to a country like the U.S., where the death penalty can be applied, is not possible."
Snowden fled to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong in May with top-secret documents and court orders on government surveillance operations. He signaled his intention to leak more of those documents at a later date.
The U.S. government has revoked his passport and issued an arrest warrant on charges of violating the federal Espionage Act.
From Snowden's initial list of 21 countries, at least 10 have either turned him down flatly or said his request was invalid because he was not physically on their territory.
Snowden broke almost a week of silence on Monday by issuing a statement on the WikiLeaks website that said his "continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will."
That was followed Tuesday by a statement detailing the number of countries, in addition to Russia, to which he had applied for asylum: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Venezuela.
Brazil and India have turned him down. Austria, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain and Switzerland said a request would be invalid because it was not made from their own territory.
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SEATTLE (AP) - Isiah Umipig scored 30 points, hitting on 6 of 11 beyond the arc, to pace Seattle over UC Davis 77-53 Monday night.
Umipig was 50 percent on the floor overall and made 8 of 9 free throws. Seattle (4-3) got 16 points from Shore Adenekan and 10 points from Jack Crook.
Josh Ritchart led UC Davis (3-6) with 14 points and six rebounds, while Corey Hawkins chipped in with 12 points.
Seattle trailed by four after the first 4:33, but scored 13 of the next 17 points, including two 3-pointers by Umipig, to wrest the lead away and they never trailed again, building an 18-point halftime lead at 38-20.
The Aggies went on a 9-2 run in the first 3:36 of the second half, but Umipig buried two more treys to push the lead back to 15 as the Redhawks simply ran away in the second.
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