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Date of my bike?
R65247R - same number on fork, which is hand-turned(?) and used to have an Italian headset. Along the way it was adapted to fit standard headset.
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not sure, but best guess is potato.
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Perhaps - I felt like a potato struggling with my first inclusion of images into a post.... Images should be up now....
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sure is a nice bike.
i'm gunna start it off by suggesting 1972 or later. zeus gran sport dropouts is a good starting point.
what were the original components?
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"Original" components when I bought it about 12 years ago were:
o The shimano 600 derailleurs still on it
o Campag DT shifters
o SR Royal crank, but left crank arm was cracked at pedal end
o Weinmann 730 front brake
o Universal super 68 back brake
o Seatpost was about 3 inches long (ok bit longer ) with a cork stuck down the seat post tube and usual tapered top and old no-name but "Made in England" seat clamp
o Brooks saddle
Can't remember what the handlebar and brake levers were - they unfortunately got separated from the bike some time in the last 12 years.
Given that it has been modified from the original Italian headset at some stage of it's life I'm pretty sure that not many (if any) of the components are original - decided to standardise to the EX - which I realise is too young for it - as these were two best conditioned "original" components on it.
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I'd agree with Munga as early 70s.
From what I've read, his work was changing and evolving quickly as he liked to keep up with technology.
Closest date match I could find is below, though there are some very clear differences. Especially the lugwork.
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the 600ex arabesque components are from 78 on to about 84/85.
look on the back for a two-letter date code and google shimano date codes. your frame could be from a year either side, but all that really tells you is the age of the components..
perhaps someone can verify that those dropouts are no earlier than '72.
velobase says so, but that doesn't mean it's 100% correct.
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seems like a few people built the frames sold under this name
might be worth trying to date from the seat tube lugwork
I hope Richard appears soon.
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I didnt think that arabesque had a long cage in the late 70's.
IMHO, there is defintely an age difference from the frame to the shimano 600 gear, perhaps the frame sat for a little while before the goodies where put on.
Love that aqua colour.
When in doubt......mumble.
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I would say that few, if any, of the components are original. The headset was Italian, but the fork has been modified to fit a "standard" headset at some stage. And then just recently to fit a new headset we had to put in a 3mm spacer in which would correspond to the space required for the old centre-pull brakes - which it clearly doesn't have anymore.
I bought the bike in London, and planned to ride it to Paris over about 4 days - unfortunately over an unexpectedly wet summer, so the idea was canned mid-ride. The plan had been to pick up some cheap second-hand bikes in London and ditch them in Paris. Well, somehow I ended up with the Ken Ryall and fell in love with the way it rode so brought it back to Perth. And then, despite the great ride, more modern alternatives saw it get pushed to the back of the shed. I've recently dug it out and done a bit of work on it - such as getting the headset replaced. Then I started wondering about the age and hence the post.
Kermit, I love the aqua colour too! It's bruised and battered, but I'm very reluctant to repaint it.
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Thanks for all the info everyone. I think the critical thing is the Zeus drop-outs. It certainly rules out one theory I had, which was that the serial number somehow indicated the year. I guess the best we can say is early 70s - and it still rides like a dream.
All I need to get my hands on to finish it off is some arabesque levers - but they are selling for crazy prices on fleabay at the moment.
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This is a Ken Ryall bicycle from Ken's shop in West Feltham, Middlesex (West London), just down the road from where I used to work in the Aero/Maritime division of NPL. (Hounslow was the next suburb along and a bit flasher so I would guess that is why he had Hounslow on the badge?) I was a frequent visitor for spare parts and inner tubes in the 70's and early 80's. Originally Ken built his own bikes but later had them built to order by Holdsworth (and some others), either in batch as stock or as one offs. Specials were often done by various builders as demand required or the customer demanded. The stock and a lot of the better models often had the builders number stamped on them, not specific to Ken.
From the frame number and wrap-around stays I would guess this is a good quality 1970's/80's Holdsworth or possibly an Jack Hearne frame but that really is a guess as I have seen early Ken Ryalls with wrap-arounds, just not so 'square'.
The parts are possibly not a good guide but point at late 70's(?)
By 'Italian' headset do you mean the thread/size or the make? The Italian headset size was basically interchangeable with the 'British' size (more or less, more a function of thread profile than size/pitch)
Whatever, a nice bike.
By the by if you ever want to sell it drop me a line , I have a nostalgic ken after one of Ken's frames (pun not intended), even if he didn't use the torch.
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Hi Richard - thanks for that great info!
And you called my bluff on the headset! I'm just repeating what the local frame builder here in Perth told me when he replaced the very worn headset - which wasn't the original headset. He says there is modification of the fork to show that it would have originally had an Italian headset. He pointed out some grooves just near the shoulders of the fork at the bottom of where the headset sits. I don't know any more than that about the Italian side of things.
He was very impressed with the precise fit of the fork in the frame. Said this indicated it had been hand-turned for this particular frame.
Re the ~3mm spacer I mentioned earlier, this was at the top of the headset before the final ring is tightened on. Once again going on frame-maker's info he suggested this was for original centre-pull brakes.
It was originally a 5-speed, but the back-end has been stretched to fit an 8-speed. Apparently it was quite a task as it was very stiff.
There are no attachments for bidon cages.
Very unlikely sell it - but if I change my mind I'll be sure to offer it to you first.
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Ran a quick search of the forum. You're welcome.
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Thanks Dan - looks like I forgot to prefix levers with "brake". Guess that's because I call the other "levers" "shifters" - perhaps this isn't right?
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Would also have helped if I'd looked at the images you posted
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Digging up an old thread, but I have a answer to this so am updating. According to Hilary Stone:
"Your frame was built in 1965 at the F W Holdsworth shop in Putney by Reg Collard and was a 'Shop Special'."
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Nice provenance. But it needs band on cable guides near the BB. Just sayin'
- Kym
Since I keep misplacing my common sense down the shed, I guess I'll have to borrow someone elses off the internet.
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Why add a band-on cable guide, it has braze-on cable stops?
Also do I get a metaphorical Brownie point for suggesting Holdsworth a few posts back
Date of my bike = 1965
Yes Richard definitely get's a Brownie point for the Holdsworth suggestion.
The cable routing was one of the things that made me think it might be older than early 70s, but I'm a complete novice at this game so it was really just a hunch. I'm very happy to know a bit more about this bike. Now I have to decide whether to source more appropriate components for it, or to stick with what's on it. Since the OP it has arabesque brake levers, so apart from the awful wheelset it's pretty complete - just out by about 15 years.
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Lovely bike, but agree with you on the wheels, looks like 27" would be a better fit too.
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I had faith, and you again enhanced your considerable reputation!
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How similar is that headbadge to Gillott's?
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On a bitter cold October night, the Lincoln High School went up against the Foothill High School Mustangs for the 2011 Fighting Zebras homecoming game, Friday. The stands were packed with fans cheering for their team on both sides of the football field waiting in anticipation for an intense game. As the players were warming up and the cheerleaders were getting the crowds pumped, Lincoln varsity assistant coach Chris Bombard said, "They are bigger and more physical than us but we are faster and stronger than them." Bombard's words proved prophetic as Zebras' swiftness was the order of the night. Lincoln rushed for a total of 581 yards; its running backs scored all eight touchdowns. Cameron Tatum was successful on 7-of-8 point-after kicks. Fighting Zebras' head coach Ken Lowe said he did send in a passing play, but quarterback Jake Gomez decided to pull down the ball and rush for yardage. "Our offensive line was clicking; that's probably the best game they've had," said Lowe of his club's running attack. "Defensively that was the best. We flew around the football; it's the best open-field tackling we've had. We switched a few guys around on defense and that helped us out, too." Lowe said their regular quarterback James Hubbard did a great job of playing defense, as well. The defense turned in 93 tackles on the night, and they were distributed among 17 players. The tackling leaders were Tatum, Anthony Landry, and Nick Martinez. Senior linebacker Carlos Castro recovered a Mustangs' fumble – the only turnover in the game. Foothill gained 128 yards rushing, and 169 through the air. Lincoln also recorded six quarterback sacks in the contest. Martinez, Marty Morris, and Jess Pantoja all got to the Foothill signal-caller, and defensive end Anthony Maldonado dropped him for a loss three times. "We all just came together as a team," said Maldonado. "This game, we just kind of picked each other up and said 'let's get it done.' "I got a little rest for my shoulder," Maldonado said as to the break the bye week gave the Zebras, "and I just felt great after that week." On offense, senior running back Isaac Allen ran for five touchdowns, and teammates Jon Soto, Jordan Alberron, and Gomez each rushed for one. Allen had a career night, gaining 252 yards on just 14 carries, for an average of 18 yards per carry. Going into halftime, Allen stated he was more confident at that point than when going into the game. Soto broke free for a 66-yard gain, thanks to a great block from offensive lineman Austin Burke. It was the longest run of the night from the line of scrimmage for either team. The Fighting Zebras travel to Auburn for a game against Placer, 1-0 in the Pioneer Valley League, and 5-1 on the season. "We still know we have a big mountain to climb," said Lowe. "Placer is definitely good. We're going to have to play even better than we did (against Foothill)." By Maddie McCarty Courtesy/Lincoln High Zebra Tales JV _ Lincoln football took home another victory, Friday. The 24-0 scoreboard showed just how hard the boys have been working. Fighting Zebras' Michael Lee intercepted the ball and ran 60 yards for a touchdown. Lee was also chosen as Max Preps Player of the Week. By halftime, Lincoln led 16-0. The downside to the game was a rash of personal fouls that resulted in an official timeout. After the officials talked it over with the coaches, and the coaches with their respective players, both squads cooled off. With 4:40 left in the game, Aaron Soto scored a touchdown. Frankie Welch rushed for the 2-point conversion to end the scoring for the game. By Bree Escobar and Jordan Anderson Courtesy/Lincoln High Zebra Tales Frosh _ The Lincoln freshman had a tough loss against the Mesa Verde Mavericks, 14-8, Oct. 6. Isaiah Garcia scored the Zebras' lone touchdown, and Harrison Stewart ran for the 2-point conversion. That put Lincoln up 8-0. Mesa Verde fought back to score two touchdowns before halftime, and added one 2-point conversion to give them their margin of victory. In the second half, Dan Stimbert reeled off a long run with the help of Andy Boehm. However, the Zebras couldn't find the end zone, and turned the ball over several times passing the ball. Lincoln's Jackson Sterling intercepted a Mavericks' pass and returned it 40 yards. Unfortunately, Sterling fractured his collarbone on the play.


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BRONXVILLE — Therapist Mark Bernardini came to the attention of Bronxville police last year, long before he was accused of sexually abusing two patients.
Two women in his office building walked into police headquarters on March 23, 2012, to report that he had been in the hall crying and yelling obscenities into his cellphone, the police report indicates.
Hed been having emotional outbursts for at least a month, would smoke in the corridors and sometimes sleep in his office, acting in a manner that has been disturbing to other people in the building, the report says.
Since Bernardini was not accused of a crime, no investigation was ordered into his behavior, which flared as he was facing eviction from an office at 65 Pondfield Road.
It wasnt until last week that Bronxville police received a far more disturbing allegation about the 57-year-old. A 12-year-old male patient, immediately after a 45-minute session with Bernardini on July 2 in his new office on Milburn Street, cried to his father that hed been sodomized.
The Yonkers boys parents drove him to the police station. Bernardini, after voluntarily speaking with detectives, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual act, a felony.
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On June 3, he was arrested in North Salem after a 19-year-old female patient accused him of fondling her breasts during a counseling session in his home.
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By law, an individual accused of professional misconduct is afforded due-process rights before the state may take disciplinary action, said state Department of Education spokeswoman Antonia Valentine.
Before his arrest in June, Bernardini had only minor trouble with the law. Yorktown police charged him in August 2010 with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, but he pleaded to a lesser offense and paid a $170 fine. His wife filed for divorce in December 2008. It appears to have been finalized in late 2010 or early 2011, but the records are sealed.
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There is an overwhelming body of evidence to support the existence of higher brain circuitries involved in the sensory detection of airways irritation and the motor control of coughing. The concept that cough is purely a reflex response to airways irritation is now superseded by the recognition that perception of an urge-to-cough and altered behavioral modification of coughing are key elements of cough disorders associated with airways disease. Understanding the pathways by which airway sensory nerves ascend into the brain and the patterns of neural activation associated with airways irritation will undoubtedly provide new insights into disordered coughing. This brief review aims to explore our current understanding of higher order cough networks by summarizing data from recent neuroanatomical and functional studies in animals and humans. We provide evidence for the existence of distinct higher order network components involved in the discrimination of signals arising from the airways and the motor control of coughing. The identification of these network components provides a blueprint for future research and the development of targeted managements for cough and the urge-to-cough.
John Widdicombe remembered
In 2002, while holidaying in London, I (SBM) received a pleasant email invitation to join John and his wife Margaret for dinner in a little Italian restaurant owned by a family member. Over dinner John and I chatted about many things 'respiratory', including the complete absence (at the time) of any neurophysiological insights into the control of cough by supramedullary brain regions. John described his disappointment at several failed experiments with Abe Guz, trying to image brain responses during the urge-to-cough in humans. By the end of that night John had set me a friendly challenge, to move beyond the brainstem and tease apart the complexities of cough control in the higher brain. This short preface is to acknowledge John's support and encouragement for the work that is described below and to pay tribute to his immense contribution to the field. It has been an honor and a privilege for our team to contribute to this John Widdicombe memorial series, in memory of a truly inspirational respiratory physiologist.
Evidence for higher brain involvement in coughing
Over the past decade there has been a significant increase in research into cough neural pathways and this has provided respiratory researchers with new insights into the cough reflex as well as the cognitive and behavioral aspects of respiratory defensive responses mediated by sensory neural activation [reviewed in [1-5]. We have long suspected that higher brain neural pathways are involved in the perception of airway irritation and the behavioral modification of coughing, yet attempts to study this have only recently begun to appear in the scientific literature. However, we are now beginning to appreciate the very important role that higher brain circuits play in both the ongoing control of respiration as well as in manifestations of respiratory pathophysiology, particularly in the generation of symptoms associated with pulmonary diseases. This brief review will summarize studies from our group and others which are beginning to describe the identity and organization of the higher brain sensorimotor circuits that regulate coughing.
Cough is a motor act, and is characterized by reorganization of the central breathing pattern generator to produce the characteristic three phases of a typical cough (inspiration, compression and expiration). It can be evoked reflexively or enlisted voluntarily, indicating that multiple inputs can drive the final motor response [6,7]. Reflex cough is largely dependent upon vagal afferent inputs that are processed at the brainstem level [6,8-10]. Such reflex evoked coughing can be elicited from the airways under general anesthesia or in decerebrate animals suggesting that neural processing above the level of the brainstem is not essential for reflex coughing [6,8]. Thus, it seems likely that reflex cough represents the basic defensive mechanism for clearing the airways of an acute respiratory insult, ensuring that airway patency is maintained. Much of the primary afferent and brainstem processing network involved in reflex cough has been described in detail elsewhere (see references above) and is therefore not the subject of the present review. Voluntary cough and cough suppression, on the other hand, involve higher brain circuitries that are responsible for planning and initiating the motor act and for consciously controlling the final motor output to the muscles of respiration [7,11]. Furthermore, although reflex cough does not require suprapontine involvement, higher level regulatory mechanisms exist that can provide modulatory inputs to the basic brainstem reflex circuit [7].
In addition to higher brain descending pathways that regulate the motor act of coughing, it is now well established that higher order sensory pathways receive inputs from the airways and play an important role in generating cognitive sensory responses to airways irritation [12-14]. The urge-to-cough is a sensory experience that provides an awareness of the presence of an irritation in the upper airways and in turn drives the resultant desire to respond to that stimulus by coughing (to facilitate clearance of the offending irritant). Accordingly, the urge-to-cough can be considered one of several pulmonary sensory mechanisms that allows for the conscious perception of the operating conditions of the respiratory system and for the behavioral regulation of respiration in order to respond to changes in these conditions [2]. In this sense, cough driven by the urge-to-cough is clearly distinct from reflex coughing, in which the conscious behavioral component is minimal or non-existent. Given that it is becoming more widely accepted that chronic cough in disease has a significant behavioral component, it stands to reason that future therapeutic strategies for relieving excessive coughing will be underpinned by an understanding of the neural basis of the urge-to-cough.
Suprapontine cough pathways
Humans (and probably other mammals) can perceive, and to some extent localize, an irritation that is present in their airways. It is this perceptual awareness that results in the unpleasant sensations arising from the airways during irritation or inflammation (for example, the persistent laryngeal itch experienced during an upper respiratory viral infection), and ultimately drives the urge-to-cough [15]. Furthermore, humans upon voluntarily command can evoke or suppress a cough, or can have their coughs subconsciously modified by higher order brain processes involving placebo, anxiety or attentional tasks [7,16-18]. Taken together these observations support the existence of neural circuitry above the level of the reflex processing sites in the brainstem that receive inputs from the airways and provide descending control over, or in parallel to, the medullary cough pattern generator [7]. We have used a combination of functional brain imaging studies in humans and neuroanatomical tract tracing studies in rodents to identity and describe core components of this higher brain circuitry (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Functional brain maps of sensorimotor activations following capsaicin inhalation in humans. (A) Capsaicin inhalation is associated with the activation of a distributed network in the brain [13]. We propose that this network is composed of several sub-circuits (modules) involved in sensory discrimination and motor control (panels B-E). Our published data indicate that discrete regional responses incorporate modules that (B) encode stimulus intensity, (C) identify stimulus location, (D) determine perceptual experiences and (E) can suppress evoked motor responses (see [7,12]). The module specific activations shown in green, pink, blue and yellow on panels B-E are superimposed on the distributed capsaicin inhalation network (shaded orange) as highlighted in panel A. See cited references for full details of experimental design, data analysis and interpretation.
Functional brain imaging experiments of the urge-to-cough in humans
In 2007 our group published the first description of the neural substrates of the urge-to-cough in humans [13] and revealed the complexity of the distributed neural circuitry that detects and responds to airway irritations. In this study we performed functional brain imaging on ten healthy participants during inhalational challenge with a nebulized capsaicin solution, the concentration of which was titrated for each individual to produce a modest urge-to-cough without evoking reflex coughing. The results defined core network components that make up the higher brain sensorimotor control of cough including widespread cortical and subcortical activations that encompass sensory, motor, premotor and limbic structures. In a follow up study [12], we manipulated the intensity of subjects' urge-to-cough using graded capsaicin challenges, the results of which confirmed the basic core network described in our first study but also enabled us to dissect this distributed network into components (modules) that encode sensory, cognitive or motor responses (Figure 1).
The "sensory module" is composed of brain regions that receive (directly or via relay) ascending inputs originating from the airways and encodes either sensory discrimination (stimulus intensity and perception) or spatial discrimination (stimulus localization). Our data suggest that the primary somatosensory cortex and anterior insula play important roles in sensory discrimination whereas the posterior parietal cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex are important for spatial discrimination [12]. These basic patterns of activation are not dissimilar to that described for other sensory modalities of somatic or visceral origin [19,20]. Interestingly, the magnitude of a delivered stimulus may not always be reflected in an individual's perception of the stimulus magnitude. Indeed, other cortical functions including emotion, attentional focus and alertness can influence the perception of stimulus intensity [17,21,22]. By taking advantage of this, we have noted distinctions between those brain regions (e.g., the anterior insula) that faithfully activate in a stimulus-dependent fashion versus other regions (e.g., primary sensory cortex) where the activation correlates with how intense subjects perceive the stimulus to be [10,12]. We interpret this as evidence for distinct components of the sensory discrimination network, one of which decodes stimulus intensity and the other incorporates this information with other competing central processing to generate the magnitude of the perceivable urge-to-cough. Urge-to-cough experimental paradigms, like other examples of experiments employing noxious stimuli, recruit orbitofrontal cortex, cingulate cortex and other limbic regions (the "cognitive module") which are likely involved in shaping an individual's affective responses to airway irritation [23,24]. Less is known about the affective processing associated with airways irritation. Of interest, however is that individuals with respiratory disorders such as asthma or chronic cough have a significantly increased risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders, and it seems likely that this would be reflected in altered activity of the network components comprising this cognitive module [25-28].
Many of the network components identified in our urge-to-cough fMRI studies include regions that are activated in other sensorimotor paradigms, including noxious stimulation of cutaneous tissues and other visceral sensory modalities (studies of pain, dyspnea or esophageal distension, for example) [10,29-32]. This suggests the existence of a core network in the brain that plays a generalized role in interoceptive processing. However, given that each of these sensory stimuli enlist distinct sensations and different behavioral responses, the core network must be either topographically arranged or be supplemented by additional neural components that allow for tissue specific responses. Identifying such functional elements within this network is a significant challenge.
Functional brain imaging experiments of cough motor control in humans
Given that a primary purpose of the urge-to-cough is as a sensory experience to promote behavioral modifications in respiratory control (i.e., to facilitate or suppress coughing), it is therefore of interest to understand the higher brain circuitry responsible for voluntary control of cough. We and others have performed studies of voluntary cough, capsaicin-evoked cough and/ or cough suppression during capsaicin inhalation to define the components of the cough "motor module" [7,11]. Voluntary cough is associated with activity in a number of regions including the sensorimotor cortex, supplementary motor area and cerebellum. A distinction can be made between voluntary cough and reflex cough by the pattern of activation in the posterior insula and posterior cingulate cortices that is characteristic of capsaicin-evoked cough, indicating that the brain activity associated with reflex cough is not simply a function of that produced by voluntary cough and airways irritation [7]. The distinction between reflex and voluntary cough is also apparent at the brainstem level. Thus, whereas reflex cough is associated with medullary activation, there appears to be minimal brainstem involvement associated with voluntary coughing [7]. We have interpreted this finding as evidence that corticospinal pathways may be responsible for voluntary coughing, rather than cortical inputs into the medullary respiratory circuit per se [33]. The suppression of irritant evoked coughing is also associated with a unique pattern of brain activity, including an involvement of the anterior insula, supplementary motor area, motor cingulate cortex and right inferior frontal gyrus [7,12]. Interestingly, the right inferior frontal gyrus, along with the pre-supplementary motor area, prefrontal cortex, subthlamamic nucleus and basal ganglia, comprises an inhibitory network that has been shown to be involved in response inhibition during a variety of motor suppression paradigms [34,35]. Comparable activations are also associated with volitional breath holding, supporting the notion that this circuitry is intimately involved in respiratory and cough suppression [36].
Neuroanatomical organization of ascending airway afferent pathways
The functional brain imaging studies described above provide a 'snapshot' of the brain regions activated by a given respiratory task. However, they do not necessarily detail the pathways via which these regions are interconnected. We have begun to assess the anatomy of the ascending circuitry that arises from the airways and provides input to the cortex using a novel viral neural tracing system. To do this, we have developed recombinant herpes simplex viruses (HSV1) strain H129 that genetically encode for the production of green or red fluorescent proteins in infected cells [37,38]. HSV1 H129 is unique in that it is one of only a few viruses that have the ability to infect neurons and pass between synaptically connected neurons in the anterograde direction [37,39]. This property makes the H129 virus ideal for tracing sensory neural pathways and following their connectivity deep into the brain.
Using recombinant HSV1 H129 in rodents we have shown that tracheal afferent neurons terminate in two brainstem nuclei, the nucleus of the solitary tract and the trigeminal/ paratrigeminal nuclei (Figure 2). Whilst previous studies have documented in some detail tracheal afferent terminations in the nucleus of the solitary tract [9,40], there haven't been any previous reports of tracheal sensory neurons projecting directly to the trigeminal regions of the brainstem. At present it is unclear of the functional significance of vagal afferent innervation of trigeminal neurons nor is it clear whether it is a specific subset of airway afferent nerves that projects to the trigeminal nucleus or if all airway afferents provide collateral terminals to this brainstem region. However our data would suggest that a significant population of trigeminal neurons may relay airway afferent input to thalamic loci, likely via well described trigeminothalamic tracts [37]. Indeed, one population of thalamic relay neurons is located in the ventral posterior nuclei, but not in the visceral sector (the ventral posteriolateral parvicellular thalamus as defined by [41]), suggesting that upper airway ascending pathways more resemble those of cutaneous afferents rather than other vagal afferents. These neurons in turn project onto layer IV and V primary and secondary somatosensory cortices, which again are in distinct loci when compared to the cortical terminations described for other visceral and vagal systems [41,42] (Figure 3). We speculate that trigeminothalamocortical pathways may prove to be an important circuitry encoding perceptual awareness of airway irritation, and hence in the generation of the urge-to-cough. A second group of thalamic relay neurons is located in the dorsomedial thalamus and in turn send projections to limbic regions of the brain including the anterior insula and orbital cortices [37,38]. Recently Davenport and colleagues [43] reported that tracheal occlusion in rats leads to altered gene expression in the medial thalamus and suggested that this was due to inputs from respiratory mechanoreceptors. These data support our assertion that the medial thalamus is also involved in encoding airway sensory input, although it seems likely that this relates to affective processing relating to anxiety, fear and arousal involving the limbic brain as opposed to sensory perception or discrimination per se [37,38,43]. Importantly, these basic anatomic circuits identified in rodents are in close agreement with our functional brain maps generated from fMRI in humans.
Figure 2. Mapping the brainstem terminations of tracheal and laryngeal afferent fibers using neurovirulent viruses. The schematic diagram shows herpes simplex 1 strain H129 tracing of tracheal vagal sensory neurons in rodents involved in sensing airway irritations. Note that afferents terminate in both the nucleus of the solitary tract (nTS) and the paratrigeminal nucleus (Pa5). The photomicrograph above shows an example of nTS and Pa5 terminations traced from the airways using a recombinant HSV1 H129 expressing a red fluorescent protein. See text and references [37,38] for further details.
Figure 3. Putative ascending circuitry for visceral and airway sensations. Previous studies [41] have shown that general visceral afferents project from the nucleus of the solitary tract (nTS) to the visceral sector of the thalamus (the ventral posterior parvocellular nuclei, VPPC) and onto granular and dysgranular insula cortices (GI and DI, respectively). By contrast, we propose that trigeminal (specifically Pa5) neurons receiving inputs from the trachea and larynx project to the ventral posterior thalamic nuclei (VPM/ VPL) and onto primary and secondary sensory cortices (S1 and S2, respectively). This trigeminothalamocortical pathway may be particularly important for encoding sensations arising from the airways. In addition, projections from the mediodorsal thalamus (MD) to the agranular anterior insula and lateral orbital cortices (AI and LO, respectively) likely encode affective responses associated with airways irritation. Omitted for clarity are the pontine relay nuclei which receive inputs from the medulla and project onto the VPPC and MD. See references [37,38] for further details.
Concluding remarks
There is still much to learn about the basic organization of the suprapontine brain circuits that detect and respond to airways irritation. Our understanding of the anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of these circuits is in its infancy. Furthermore, whether patients with a chronic cough disorder display functional changes in these central neural processing sites is not known. We propose that aberrant cough associated with airways disease may indeed be associated with abnormal processing in the brain networks involved in sensory perception of airways irritation and/or motor suppression of cough. If correct, this would provide an alternative therapeutic goal for treating chronic cough. Restoration of normal central processing could allow for cough normalization in disease without disrupting either voluntary or reflexive cough, which are essential for the protection of the airways during occasions of acute insult.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contribution
AM, SY, AW, SP carried out the animal tracing studies while AA and JL carried out the human imaging studies described in the manuscript. SM and MF analysed and interpreted the data. SM drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The data described in this manuscript was funded by grants (1025589, 1042528) to SBM and MF from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
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Knights, Mustangs meet again in the post-season
When Irondale and Mounds View square off in their girls hockey section playoff game on Tuesday, expect the Knights to win a low-scoring game. Or it might be the Mustangs securing the victory in overtime.
The only thing the above predictions are based on is past history. The last four times Irondale and Mounds View met in the playoffs, that's how the games ended.
Since 2008, the District 621 rivals have played each other in the post-season four times with each team winning twice. Irondale's victories were both by the score of 2-1, both came in the section final (2009, 2013) and the game-winning goals in both games were scored late in the third period.
Mounds View picked up its playoff wins over Irondale by identical 4-3 scores and both games went multiple overtimes. In 2008, the Mustangs beat the Knights in double OT and in 2012 the game went into a fourth overtime session.
It's hard to predict how the game will turn out on Tuesday but it's probably a safe bet that it will be a close game. Note that all four of the aforementioned contests were one-goal games. So was the regular-season meeting back in November that Irondale won 3-2. In games dating back to the 2005-06 season, neither team has beaten the other by more than two goals.
The winner of Tuesday's game, which is set for 8 p.m. at Roseville Arena, advances to Friday's section final against either top-seeded Blaine or fourth-seeded Centennial.
Second-seeded Irondale opened the post-season on Saturday with a 4-2 victory over seventh-seeded Spring Lake Park/St. Anthony Village. It was the third meeting of the season between the two North Suburban Conference rivals and the Knights gave up two goals in each of the three match-ups.
Irondale never trailed but was never really able to put the Panthers away, either. Senior Samantha Donovan scored the only goal of the first period and gave Irondale a 2-0 lead with a goal three minutes into the second.
SLP/SAV answered with a goal by Allie Guzy two minutes later but senior Alex Toupal restored the Knights' two-goal cushion with six minutes to play in the period.
The Panthers made it a one-goal game on Maggie Ronning's shorthanded goal with six and a half minutes left in the third period. Toupal then closed out the scoring her second goal of the game at 12:38 of the third.
In addition to her two goals, Donovan also added assists on both of Toupal's two tallies to finish with a four-point game. Hannah Rupp made 17 saves to pick up the victory in net for Irondale.
Mounds View also posted a victory in its quarterfinal but like Irondale was unable to create much separation from its opponent.
The third-seeded Mustangs knocked off sixth-seeded Anoka 3-1 behind a pair of goals from Cristi Oliver. Oliver got her first goal less than two minutes into the second period to put Mounds View up 2-0.
Anoka got its only goal of the game at the 14:27 mark of the second to make it 2-1. Oliver bagged her second goal of the game seven minutes into the third to restore Mounds View's two-goal lead and close out the scoring.
Mounds View got its first goal on a penalty shot by Julia Unterseher after the first period had ended. The penalty shot was awarded when an Anoka skater covered the puck in her own crease. Unterseher got Anoka goalie Molly Scarborough to bite on a forehand fake before backhanding the puck past her.
Joining Oliver in posting a multi-point performance was Sydney Brodt, who recorded a pair of assists.
Despite the score being close, Mounds View had a decided edge in shots on goal. The Mustangs peppered Scarborough with 41 shots while Mounds View netminder Mary Dingman faced only 16.
Blaine advanced to the semifinals by beating ninth-seeded Rogers 7-0 in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Centennial topped fifth-seeded Champlin Park 5-1 in the quarters.
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Oh yeah that whole payroll slashing, fielding a glorified AAA team, really was a "winning" strategy after all.
Oh yeah that whole payroll slashing, fielding a glorified AAA team, really was a "winning" strategy after all.
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I can get why people get upset about the Astros, but I honestly think it's smart business. We baseball fans say all the time that if you are going to tear down and rebuild, don't cut corners. Houston didn't. And now they have a number of prospects in the pipeline with more on the way and the #1 pick in 2014 as well. Now if they continue to act like a small market team who proceeds to trade away any good players in the next few years the minute they have to pay them any money (ie: the Marlins), then yeah, they are shysters and bad for baseball. But I think the Astros are poised to have a lot of talent in the next few years and a lot of payroll flexability in the United States 4th largest city.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
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"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Rachel Phelps is pleased.
In all seriousness the Astros at least have a plan and do appear to be successfully pooling talent at the minor league level. They just need to hope that the prospects come through and they are able to attract complementary free agents. Working in their favor is that they will have money to spend, lots of payroll flexibility, and, unlike the Marlins, have not burned the free agents they have brought in.
The Astros are just storing money up right now and are going to be big players in a year or two. They aren't pulling a Marlins here, they just know where they are in terms of being able to compete. In 3 years if the Astros don't have a $125M payroll, I will be flat out shocked.
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The 1915 A's were profitable too... Whoopeee
The Rally Onion wants 150 fans before Opening Day.
I'd be happy if I were an Astros fan. Like Tom said if you're going to rebuild then really rebuild. Don't almost compete while almost rebuilding. They've made it fairly evident that this is part of the plan. I'd be totally on board.
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Jockey Jacky Martin, who was seeking his eighth All American Futurity win, had a troubled trip on favorite and fastest qualifier JLS Mr Bigtime but made a valiant run to take second. The Bigtime Favorite gelding earned $285,000 for breeder/owner JLS Speed Horse Ranch Inc. and trainer Darrel Soileau. It was another nose back to Bobby Cox's homebred Mr Jess Perry colt Dominyun, who was ridden by Russel Hadley and trained by John Buchanan.
Mr Piloto, a Mr Jess Perry colt who is owned by Jose Trevino's Tremor Enterprises LLC and was ridden by Esgar Ramirez, broke from the outside post in the field of nine depleted by the scratch of Episode Of Fire. The Felipe Quintero-trained Mr Piloto, who showed speed from the start, drifted out toward the fence and just prevailed at the wire. The colt finished the 440-yard race in :21.553 for a 87 speed index against a 5 mph headwind. He entered the race with earnings of $2,240 and left with a bankroll of $1,002,240.
Mr Piloto (then named Maverick Perry) sold for $81,000 at the 2009 Heritage Place Yearling Sale to Ramiro Guajardo Villarreal. In January, Fernando Garcia's Garcia Bloodstock & Racing of Tucson, Arizona, acquired the colt, who began his racing career four months later with trainer Jim Boss. Quintero took over the training duties after Mr Piloto finished off the board in trials to the Grade 1 Ruidoso and Rainbow futurities. Mr Piloto was sold privately to Tremor Enterprises LLC prior to the All American trials and in his first start for Quintero, the gelding won the 15th of 20 All American trials in :21.477 to earn the final qualifying spot.
Quintero took the unusual step of stabling Mr Piloto at Horseman's Park, a training center in nearby Tularosa, in the time between the trials and the final.
"I can't explain it," said the trainer. "It's the best feeling in the world. I just have to thank (jockey) Esgar Ramirez, who did a wonderful job. He got the horse out of the gate the way he should."
At age 27, Quintero is among the youngest trainers to win the prestigious race. The youngest trainer to win the All American is believed to be 26-year-old Jimmie Jones, who saddled Laico Bird to win the 1967 running.
"He broke real good," said Ramirez. "He started lugging out a little bit. I was in front all the way, and I started getting excited because I didn't see anybody besides me. I just kept riding all the way to the wire."
Mr Piloto is the first All American Futurity winner for Mr Jess Perry, who is the sire of 68 stakes winners and the earners of more than $32 million. Mr Jess Perry, a Grade 1 winner and the AQHA Champion 2-Year-Old Colt in 1994, stands at Four Sixes Ranch in Guthrie, Texas. The stallion had three other horses in the race, Dominyun, Miss Racy Jess and JD Baccarat.
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In the $150,000 All American Juvenile Stakes (R) earlier on the card, 13-1 longshot Cold Cash 123 drew away to a two-length victory under jockey Jose Montoya. The Michigan-bred stopped the timer at :21.269 to earn a 94 speed index at 440 yards. Bred and owed by T Bill Stables Inc., the Oak Tree Special gelding won his August 19 trial for the All American Futurity presented by Sentient Jet (G1) but was not quite fast enough to make it into the final. Cold Cash 123, who is conditioned by C. Dwayne "Sleepy" Gilbreath, picked up $42,325 for the win.
Joe M. Flores' The Printing Press, a gelding by Feature Mr Jess, got up to take second at odds of 23-1. Another longshot, Pump It Up Teller, finished third at 23-1 for owners Jeff Jones and Stephen Williams. Rainbow Futurity (G1) winner Hes Too Icy For Me crossed the wire fourth as the 7-10 favorite. AQHA Communications
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When I was a kid, it seemed to me that around November, school became a more fun place to go: there were treats all the time, holiday plays in the auditorium, and a couple of days off to look forward to. And who could forget the Thanksgiving arts and crafts! Every year in elementary school we had to make two things: a pilgrim and a turkey. The pilgrim was easy, we just needed to draw a big hat and a big buckle. The turkey was much more fun to make; we each traced our hands and creatively turned the thumb into the turkey's head and the fingers into the colorful feathers.
Now that my kids are old enough for arts and crafts, I have been teaching them these age old November traditions. In the times of computer graphics and digital cameras, these activities are a bit too "cave-man" for my kids. But once I have their completed projects in my hands (of which I did most of the work) and stick them to the fridge, I am quickly taken back to my own childhood days and can't help but smile.
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I have four children: two are teens and still at home; two are grown and gone. I have numerous pictures of pilgrims, and turkeys made of hand tracings, which no money in the world could buy from me! These artworks are especially precious, now that they are getting older, and moving on to start their own lives.
As a child growing up in the 1950's, I remember that just about everything we made as school was constructed from macaroni and/or rice! Anything saved made from those two materials usually ended up as mouse attractant when placed in our downstairs closet, which then became mouse food.
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Santa Rosa school board member Bill Carle attended the event as a way to honor the sacrifices of military service members like his grandfather, Willard Carle, who fought in World War I. Carle's father was a Korean War veteran.
"There was a big price paid for what we have," said Carle of the nation's fallen soldiers.
Simmons said the bench was a way to memorialize the sacrifice of the 10 most recent casualties. He attended six or seven of their funerals while servings as a member of a veterans honors team.
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"It was just heart-wrenching to attend their funerals and see their families," Simmons recalled. "They lost a big chunk of their heart when they lost their loved one."
Local veterans first received permission from the families to proceed with the memorial Gold Star Bench, so named because the Department of Defense provides Gold Star lapel buttons to the immediate families of fallen service members.
Simmons said he hopes the dedication will be one more way to help raise public awareness of their sacrifices. "There's an old saying, all gave some and some gave all," he said.
Seven of the 10 Gold Star families were able to attend Monday's ceremony.
Jacquie Cruz, Sgt. 1st Class Michael Ottolini's mother, said, "some days it's easy and some days it's not." Ottolini, a 45-year-old Sebastopol resident, was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in November 2004.
He was a member of the Petaluma-based A Company of the California National Guard's 579th Engineer Battalion that was sent to Iraq in 2004.
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The Billy Curry era at Georgia State is over following a disappointing 1-10 season in 2012, and the Trent Miles era is underway. The new coach will guide the Panthers into the Sun Belt Conference as GSU jumps to Division I.
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While he is not a lawyer, his wife, Ruth Reyes, is, but there is no indication that she will step in to represent her husband, according to court documents.
Medina, who is also a former city representative, is one of 11 people indicted by a federal grand jury in September on public-corruption charges. Medina has pleaded not guilty and is out on bond.
A hearing is set for Dec. 16 before U.S. District Court Judge Frank Montalvo.
The apparent desire by Medina to represent himself is disclosed in a motion filed last week by his lawyer, Ray Velarde. On Nov. 29, Velarde filed a motion asking for permission to withdraw as Medina's lawyer.
In the motion, Velarde wrote, "Defendant and counsel are in fundamental and unalterable disagreement over the payment of counsel's legal fees, the conduct of the defense, and the objectives that should be pursued in preparing and presenting the defense of this cause. The disagreement has affected the very basis of the attorney-client relationship and impairs both counsel's ability to exercise his best professional judgment and the Defendant's right to the effective assistance of counsel."
The motion goes on to say, "Defendant has made known to counsel that he wishes to appear pro se."
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Medina could not be reached for comment.
Medina is the president and founder of Pan American Insurance & Investments, which has 14 offices in El Paso County. In July, Medina's company was fined $33,000 by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of faulty I-9 forms. The forms are used by employers to verify a person's right to work in the U.S.
Medina was a city representative from 1997 to 2003. He was a county commissioner in 2006.
In 2009, the City Council gave him the Conquistador Award for the work he did while on the council to ban smoking in restaurants. The Conquistador Award is the city's highest award.
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How the hell did Hartnell know about the 10th planet getting animated away back in 1964...
"One day, I shall come back in animated form. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no remakes, no more than 13 regens, no one older. Just go forward in your briefs and prove to me that have not done a mistaken in mine"
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