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Driving, Jumping and Halter ~ Classic Champagne Stallion for your consideration
Stand out Champagne dilute driving
36.75" permanent carded ~ Classic (black Based)
Well into his performance show career, two show outings ~ 2 reserve champions halter over, first outing ~ adult jumper over - 1st , he is broke to drive have not shown driving, have no show cart, exceptional driving attitude, picking up his 3 his gaits when asked, never run off stops when asked , backs beautiful, working on his standing when in center ring.
Could be an excellent ADC competitor .........
I will have additional videos of both his jumping and driving in several days, check our website for additional photos and information ~ Stallion page and Photo Album links.
Three Arrows is striving to Preserve, Promote and Produce refined Homozygous Champagne dilutes with correct type and conformation, quality minded individuals that will succeed in any area, from the show ring to within a family unit, for future of the champagne gene pool.
We are a small farm nestled in the hills of West Virginia's Northern Panhandle; the late 1990's brought change with a decision that would forever change our lives, the program and foundation we had built on, our purchase of the first miniature horse.
Our transition on the farm was a long process knowing the champagne dilute was the choice of our new foundation to build upon.
While placing this champagne program on to its foundation we spent many hours and years researching, traveling and seeking champagne miniatures scattered all over the country.
We have finally placed a select small band of champagne mares together, AMHR/AMHA/ICHR registered, to place refinement into our lineage we added one ASPC/AMHR mare with more shetland lineage to come.
We also included a few select champagne stallions lineage of the foundation miniature infusing the lineage of the new.


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Friday, May 25, 2012
WestportNow has won eight citations, including three first place prizes, in the 2011 Society of Professional Journalists Connecticut Chapter Excellence in Journalism competition. The awards were announced tonight at the group's annual banquet in North Haven.
First place winners included James Lomusico, associate editor, for his coverage of Tropical Storm Irene last summer, Douglas Healey, contributing photographer, for his photo of a father consoling a Staples football player ("Comforting Words from Dad"), and a contributing photographer for a photo ("Captured") of a murder suspect captured in Playhouse Square.
Lomuscio also won a third place prize for his story "Friends: 'Kuti' Loved Family, America and Life," about the reaction to the murder last December of a Westport jeweler.
Dave Matlow, associate editor, shared a third place prize with contributing photographer Helen Klisser During for their photos of the Saugatuck Congregational Church fire. Matlow also won a third place award for his picture of a woman rescued from a car involved in an accident ("Woman Unhurt in Hillspoint Road Rescue.")
Contributing photographer Lynn U. Miller won a second place award for a photo of a Dachshund named Lizzie walking on rocks at Compo Beach ("A Bit of a Stretch") and a third place award for a 9/11 memorial photo ("I Wish I Remembered the First Time You Held Me.")
The only other Westport winner was Paul Schott of the Westport News who won a first place prize for "Hope for the future nurtured at Westport, Fairfield homeless shelters," and a second place prize for "Non-complying swing set not child's play for Westport zoning officials." Click here for the complete list of winners.
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Houston Saengerbund Records, 1874-2013 | University of Houston Libraries
This collection contains event programs, letters, songbooks, newsletters, ledgers, treasury reports, legal case files, and many other materials relating to the activities and administration of the Houston Saengerbund from the years 1874 to 2013. The collection is divided into eight series: Events, Administrative Records, Board of Directors and Committees, Correspondence, Financial Records, Legal Documents, Songbooks, and Publications. Many of the records from the 1950s and earlier are in German, and a scattering of later records as well. Folders within each series or subseries are arranged as close to chronologically as possible.
Related Materials: Houston Saengerbund Records digital collection (http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/saeng)
[Schauenburgs allgemeines deutsches Kommersbuch] (http://library.uh.edu/record=b7454194~S11)
Sammlung von Volksgesängen für den gemischten Chor (http://library.uh.edu/record=b7454196~S11)
Roots in the Rhineland : America's German heritage in three hundred years of immigration, 1683-1983 (http://library.uh.edu/record=b7452974~S11)


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Hello, a few weeks ago my Satellite s55-a5295 suddenly stopped charging at all and simply said "plugged in, not charging", then died shortly after. I feared that the motherboard could be the problem so I took it to a local computer repair shop and after waiting almost three weeks for them to even look at mine they opened it up and couldn't find any problem with the motherboard or anything other than the fact that the charger I was using had lower amperage than the original charger that came with the laptop which broke. I've bought the proper charger but that still hasn't fixed the problem. Any ideas on what it could be?
Try the Troubleshooting Assistant or the suggestions in this article.
What can I do if my Windows 8 laptop won't start?
I have bought a new charger and that is working, I checked the charging port and that is working up to the motehrboard. I tried the trobleshooting guide up to the point it wanted me to buy a new charger. I have disconnected the battery and held the on button with it disconnected. I have reconnected the battery and pluged in the charger. The charging light on the front of the laptop does not come on and the laptop will not start. Is there something else I can try. Do you have the specs for voltage going ot the battery to make sure that it is correct? Thank you.
Peter...I hope you are still a moderator...you may be my last hope to help me - Toshiba do the right thing.
I too have a C55 Satelitte laptop...acutally I purchased it for my 10 year old son. It is one month out of warranty. Last night for the first time, I used his toshiba laptop because I left mine at work. I notice his laptop had this same issue. I spent an hour reading on your forum and trying all the suggestions including the elaborate unplug, remove drivers etc in a particular order and it did not resolve the issue. Obviously this is a defect in this model. My son does not know enough about laptops to even recognize that it is an issue. I have had toshiba laptops for over a decade. I have never had this kind of an issue so I wouldnt even know to look if it was an issue initially.
It wasnt until last night when I had to use his laptop that I identified this as an issue. No problem, I thought, I'll call tech support and they will do the right thing. No go. I escalated 3 levels and they held their line saying that batteries are consumable and only rated for one year. I have a seven year old toshiba that I use at work that doesnt hold a charge that long but still works!!! This does not work at all - 0%...obviously a defect that unfortuantely my son doesnt have the skill set to have recognized.
Please Peter, if you are there...can you please see what you can do to have a new battery sent. They are 100.00 which is insulting to pay since it is clearly a defect for this model. Tech support even said as much.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have purchased Toshiba laptops for my workplace for over a decade. I am shocked that they are unwilling to do the right thing.
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|Jun 5, 2000
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|Feb 10, 1998
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|William R. Dubrul, Richard E. Fulton, Robert M. Curtis
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|Artemis Medical, Inc.
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|Patent Citations (49), Referenced by (41), Classifications (24), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims the benefit of the following provisional patent applications: Provisional Application No. 60/137,775 filed Jun. 4, 1999 and entitled TISSUE REMOVAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE; Provisional Application No. 60/146,892 filed Aug. 2, 1999 entitled DISEASE PREVENTING SHEATH APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE; Provisional Application No. 60/200,546 filed Apr. 27, 2000 and entitled DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR USE; Provisional Application No. 60/154,394 filed Sep. 17, 1999 and entitled ONCOLOGICAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR USE. This application is also a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/336,360 filed Jun. 18, 1999 entitled BIOPSY LOCALIZATION METHOD AND DEVICE; U.S. Pat. No. 6,270,464 which application claims priority from the following provisional applications:
Application No. 60/090,243, filed Jun. 22, 1998;
Application No. 60/092,734, filed Jul. 14, 1998;
Application No. 60/114,863, filed Jan. 6, 1999; and
Application No. 60/117,421, filed Jan. 25, 1999.
This application is also a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/248,088 filed Feb. 9, 1999, U.S. Pat. No. 6,221,006 which application claims benefit of the following provisional applications:
Application No. 60/074,199 filed Feb. 10, 1998; and
Application No. 60/105,284 filed Oct. 22, 1998.
The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas predicts that cancer will become the leading cause of death in the United States by the year 2002. Cancer presently results in over one thousand five hundred deaths every day in the United States (550,000 deaths every year). Therapy modalities for cancer are plentiful and continued to be researched with vigor. Still, the preferred treatment continues to be physical removal of the cancer. When applicable, surgical removal is preferred (breast, colon, brain, lung, kidney, etc.). Open, excisional, surgical removal is often extremely invasive so that efforts to remove cancerous tissue in less invasive ways continue, but have not yet been perfected.
The only cure for cancer continues to be the early diagnosis and subsequent early treatment. As cancer therapies continue at earlier stages of diagnosis, the cancerous tissue being operated on is also smaller. Early removal of the smaller cancers demand new techniques for removal and obliteration of these less invasive cancers.
There are a variety of techniques that attempt to accomplish less invasive cancer therapy, but so far without sufficiently improved results. For example, the ABBI system from U.S. Surgical Corporation and the Site Select system from Imagine Corporation, attempt to accomplish less invasive cancer therapy. However, conventional techniques require more than Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) techniques in that they require a large core (that is more than about 15 mm diameter) incision. Additionally, the Mammotome system from Johnson and Johnson and MIBB system from U.S. Surgical Corporation also require large core (over about 4 mm diameter) access to accomplish biopsy.
A recent convention held by the American Society of Surgical Oncologists on Mar. 13, 2000 reported that conventional stereotactic core biopsy (SCB) procedures fall short in providing definitive answers to detail precise surgical regimens after this SCB type vacuum assisted biopsy, especially with ductile carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Apparently these percutaneous systems damage "normal" tissue cells so that it is difficult to determine if the cells are "normal damaged" cells or early pre-cancerous (e.g. Atypical Ductal Hyerplasi (ADH)) cells.
A study presented by Dr. Ollila et al. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, demonstrated that histology and pathology is compromised using these conventional techniques because of the damage done to the removed tissue specimens. Hence, for many reasons, including the fact that DCIS is becoming more detectable and hence more prevalent in breast cancer diagnosis in the U.S., there is a growing need to improve upon conventional vacuum assisted core biopsy systems.
Broadly, the present invention is directed to procedures, including biopsy and tumorectomy methods, and associated apparatus which provide for less invasive techniques while also providing for enhanced tissue specimens being retrieved.
A first aspect of the invention is directed to a tissue removal method in which a tissue separation device is positioned at a target site within a patient. A tissue sample is separated by the movement of tissue separation element through the tissue at the target site. A factor relating to the restriction of the passage of the tissue separation element through the tissue is monitored so that energy supplied to the tissue separation element can be adjusted. The procedure may be carried out percutaneously. The method may include radially expanding one or more heated, wire-type tissue separation elements and then rotating the support shaft. The factor being monitored may include, for example, strain on the tissue separation element, the rotational force supplied to the device, the pressure exerted against the tissue by the tissue separation element, etc. Monitoring may also be done manually with tactile feedback to the user.
A related aspect of the invention is directed to a tissue removal assembly in which an elongate tissue separation device comprises a tissue separation element mounted to a support. The tissue separation element is movable from a retracted state to an extended state. A tissue separation element driver is operably coupled to the tissue separation element to permit the tissue separation element to separate a target tissue mass from a patient. The tissue separation element driver comprises an energy source coupled to the tissue separation device. A sensor is operably coupled to at least one of the tissue separation device and the tissue separation element driver and senses resistance to the separation of the target tissue mass from the patient. A feedback device operably couples the sensor and the tissue separation element driver so that the amount of energy supplied can be adjusted based on the resistance to the passage of the tissue separation element through the patient's tissue.
Certain advantages accrue through the use of the above-described tissue removal method and assembly. An appropriate amount of energy can be supplied to the tissue separation element so that when, for example, the tissue separation element is a wire which extends radially outwardly to form an arch passing through the target tissue, the wire can be heated so to cauterize the tissue it passes through as it moves from the radically retracted state to the radically extended state; this helps to prevent spreading of viable cancer tissue into non-cancerous tissue regions. Heating or otherwise energizing the tissue separation element with RF energy, vibrational or other mechanical energy, etc., may also reduce the force required to move the tissue separation element through tissue mass, especially when passing through dense or fibrotic tissue or a variation in densities. Once the tissue separation element has been fully extended, it may or may not need to be heated or otherwise energized to pass through non-diseased tissue surrounding the suspect tissue mass. Therefore, undesirable damage to healthy tissue may be minimized and the spread of cancerous tissue to non-cancerous tissue may be effectively eliminated.
A further aspect of the invention is directed to a method for helping to prevent seeding of a tissue tract including positioning a protective device along the tissue tract and then moving tissue from the target site, through an opening in the protective device and into an inner region of the protective device. The tissue is then moved along the tissue tract and out of the patient while keeping the tissue within the device. The protective device may be maintained substantially in place along the tissue tract as the tissue is moved out of the patient.
Another aspect of the invention is directed to percutaneous tissue mass retrieval assembly comprising a shaft, a radially expandable blocking element at the distal end of the shaft, a suspect tissue mass enveloping device movable from an enlarged, tissue mass-surrounding state to a contracted, tissue mass-constricting state so to enable the tissue mass to be removed from a target site with a reduced lateral size.
A still further aspect of the invention is directed to a method for maintaining access to a void within a patient by placing an access sleeve along a tissue tract connecting an access site in the patient's skin and a void in the patient. This method may take place, for example, following the removal of a biopsy specimen, the removal creating the void. The method may also take place following removal of an entire suspect tissue mass as well. This method ensures convenient and accurate re-access to the void when, for example, an additional tissue sample is needed, therapeutic drugs are to be delivered to the void, a prosthesis is to be implanted, etc.
An additional aspect of the invention is directed to a method for removal of target material from a target site and includes percutaneously placing an expandable blocking element at a first position distal of the target material, expanding the expandable blocking element, percutaneously placing a removing element at a second position, at least substantially surrounding the target material with the blocking element and the removing element, and then removing the blocking element, the removing element and the target material therewith from the patient along a tissue tract connecting the target site with an access site in the patient's skin. The expandable blocking element may be a radially expandable, tubular mesh material. The removing element may include a tubular mesh element having a radially expandable, open distal end. One or both of the removing element and blocking element may be at least partially radially collapsed prior to removing the blocking element, removing element and target material therewith from the patient. This method helps to ensure target material is properly captured and permits it to be removed percutaneously; the removal may be preceded by radially collapsing the blocking and/or removing elements to help reduce the size of the device passing through the access site in the patient's skin.
A still further aspect of the invention relates to a target material removing device including a shaft, first and second axially spaced-apart, radially expandable elements carried by a distal portion of the shaft. The expandable elements are remotely selectively movable between radially retracted and radially expanded states so that the expandable elements can be used to bracket target material to permit the target material to be removed from the patient along with the device. This device permits a surgeon to easily and accurately locate the target material, which is often very difficult to visually differentiate from surrounding tissue, by locating the expandable elements. The radially expandable elements are preferably sufficiently hard so as to be detectable by palpation.
A still another aspect to the invention is directed to a method for locating a target mass within a patient comprising extending the distal end of a shaft to a position distal of a target mass, positioning first and second radially expanding bracketing elements at positions distal of and proximal of the target mass, moving the bracketing elements from radially retracted states to radially expanded states thereby bracketing the target mass, and locating a target mass using the bracketing elements. The bracketing elements, when radially expanded, may define a bracketed region therebetween sized to completely contain the target mass. The target mass may be located by palpation of the bracketing elements or with the aid of a surgical incision at least partially exposing at least one of the bracketing elements.
An additional aspect to the invention is directed to a method for maintaining percutaneous access to an excisional site comprising positioning first and second locational elements within a patient at a target site, the locational elements carried by elongate elements extending from the locational elements along a tissue tract and out through an access site in the patient's skin. The first elongate element and first locational element therewith are then removed from the patient and the target site is accessed using the second elongate element and second locational element therewith. The second or both the first and second locational elements may be radially expandable locational elements. This aspect of the invention provides the surgeon the ability to accurately locate the target site. It also permits one of the locational elements to be removed and one to be left at the target site.
A still additional aspect of the invention is directed to a percutaneous access assembly including first and second separately movable locational devices, each device including a shaft and a radially expandable element mounted to the shaft. The radially expandable elements are locatable adjacent to one another.
Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description in which the preferred embodiments and methods have been set forth in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIGS. 1A-1C illustrate the use of a tissue removal assembly made according to the invention;
FIG. 2 shows the use of a sleeve which helps prevent seeding of a tissue tract and provides access to a void within the patient;
FIGS. 3A-3H illustrate a further aspect of the invention by which percutaneous removal of target tissue from a target site within the patient is accomplished using a radially expandable/collapsible tubular shaft;
FIGS. 4A-4D show a method for percutaneously removing an entire tissue mass from a target site;
FIGS. 5A-5D illustrate a target tissue removing device including a pair of tissue engaging devices which bracket the target tissue; and
FIGS. 6A-6C show the use of a pair of locational elements, one of which is left in place after target tissue is removed to provide guidance for re-access to the target site.
FIGS. 1A-1C illustrate the use of a tissue removal assembly 2. Tissue removal assembly 2 includes a support shaft 4 passing through an introducer sheath 5 extending from a handle 6. The distal portion 8 of shaft 4 has a pair of tissue separation wires 10 mounted thereto. Wires 10 are movable from a retracted state of FIG. 1A to a fully extended state of FIG. 1C by moving a slide 12 mounted to handle 6 as indicated in FIGS. 1A-1C. Wires 10 are typically made of tungsten or stainless steel and may have a round, rectangular or other cross-sectional shape depending upon the type of tissue and other matter expected to be encountered. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/248,088 and Provisional Applications 60/154,394 (filed Sep. 17, 1999 and entitled Oncological Apparatus and Method for Use) and No. 60/200,546 describe various tissue separation elements. Wires 10 are coupled to an energy source 14 to supply wires 10 with appropriate energy to aid the cutting or other separating actions of the wires, including electrical, RF, vibrational, electromagnetic, etc. Together, handle 6 and energy source 14 constitute a wire tissue separation element driver 16 because both act to help move wires 10 through tissue 18 beneath a skin surface 20 of the patient.
Appropriate sensors 22 are mounted to one or more of wires 10 and shaft 4. Sensors 22 may include strain gauge sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, etc. Sensors 22 are coupled to a feedback device 24 through sheath 5; feedback device 24 is connected to energy source 14 to ensure that energy source 14 provides an appropriate level of energy to wires 10.
Assembly 2 is used to percutaneously access a target site 26 through an access site 28 in skin surface 20 while in the retracted state. The tip 30 of shaft 4 is positioned distally of the target tissue mass 32. In some situations it may be desirable to pass tip 30 directly through target tissue mass 32 while in other situations it may be desirable to have shaft 4 pass to one side of target tissue mass 32. Once properly positioned, which is preferably accomplished with the aid of remote visualization techniques, such as x-rays, ultrasound, etc., slide 12 is moved in a distal direction causing wires 10 to arc outwardly from the retracted state of FIG. 1A, through the intermediate extended state of FIG. 1B and to the fully extended state of FIG. 1C. Wires 10 are preferably energized, typically by heating using resistance or RF heating techniques, as wires 10 pass through tissue 18. This is very important when wires 10 pass through target tissue mass 32 and the target tissue mass contains, or possibly contains, cancerous or other diseased tissue. By appropriately energizing wires 10, the tissue wires 10 pass through is, for example, cauterized so that no viable diseased tissue is pulled along with the radially outwardly expanding wires; this helps to keep the healthy tissue surrounding target tissue mass 32 free from viable diseased tissue. In addition to heating the tissue, tissue removal assembly 2 may be provided with vibrational, reciprocating or other mechanical energy to help passage of wires 10 through tissue 18.
Once fully expanded, tissue removal assembly 2 is rotated, typically by the user manually grasping and rotating handle 6. If the desired, a motorized or other non-manual rotation of assembly 2 could be provided for. Sensors 22 provide appropriate information to feedback device 24 so to ensure a proper amount of energy is supplied to wires 10 to, among other things, ensure proper cauterization of the tissue as wires 10 are moved readily outwardly while not overly damaging the tissue. Once in the fully extended state of FIG. 1C, the amount of energy supplied to wires 10 may not need to be as great as when, for example, wires 10 pass through only healthy tissue. Therefore, if wires 10 cease to be driven and thus stop moving through the tissue, feedback can result in a halt in the supply of energy to wires 10.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 1A-1C two wires 10 are used. This causes target tissue mass 32 to be cut away from the surrounding tissue in two contiguous tissue masses. If desired, only a single wire 10 or more than two wires 10 could be used. Using the method described with respect to FIGS. 1A-1C, the entire target tissue mass 32 may be removed in a simultaneous manner. This aspect of the invention will be described in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 4A-4D. All or part of the procedure, such as expanding, cutting, rotating, energizing, etc., could be automated.
Additional aspects of the invention will be described below with reference to additional figures, with like structure referred to with like reference numerals.
FIG. 2 illustrates two additional aspects of the invention. A sleeve 36 is used to help prevent seeding of a tissue tract 38 extending between access site 28 and target site 26. Protective sleeve 36 is positioned along tissue tract 38 and has a distal opening 40, preferably positioned adjacent to or within target site 26, and an open interior 42. Target tissue 44 is moved from target site 26 through opening 40 and into open interior 42. FIG. 2 illustrates this having been accomplished using a tissue engagement device 45 having a radially expandable mesh device 46 at the distal end of a shaft 48. Mesh device 46 is of a type which can be movable from a generally cylindrical orientation, not shown, to the radially extended configuration shown in FIG. 2 by pushing the distal ends of the cylindrical mesh material towards one another. Examples of this type of mesh structure can be found in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/376,678 filed Aug. 18, 1999, entitled Target Tissue Localization Device and Method and in Provisional Application No. 60/200,546. Other methods and devices for moving target tissue 44 from target site 26 into interior 42 can also be used. Target tissue 44 can then be removed from the patient by either leaving protective sleeve 36 in place and sliding the target tissue out through the opened proximal end 50 of sleeve 36 or by removing the entire structure, that is protective sleeve 36, mesh device 46, shaft 48 and target tissue 44 therewith, from tissue track 38 of the patient.
A further aspect of the invention can also be discussed with reference to FIG. 2. In this aspect of the invention, access to a void 52 within a patient can be maintained by placing sleeve 36 along tissue tract 38 and leaving it in place. This method may be accomplished after removal of, for example, a biopsy specimen or an entire suspect tissue mass. This provides convenient and accurate re-access to void 52. Such re-access may be used, for example, when additional tissue samples are needed, therapeutic drugs need to be delivered to void 52, a prosthesis is to be implanted into void 52, or for other reasons.
FIGS. 3A-3H illustrate another aspect of the invention by which percutaneous removal of target tissue 44 from target site 26 is accomplished. A hollow, radially expandable/collapsible tubular shaft 54 is passed along tissue tract 38 when in a radially collapsed condition as shown in FIG. 3A. FIG. 3B illustrates the introduction of a tubular enlarger 56 including a conical tip 58 mounted to the distal end of a shaft 60 and a stabilizing sleeve 62 extending proximally from conical tip 58. As illustrated in FIGS. 3B and 3C, pushing enlarger 56 through shaft 54 causes the shaft to radially enlarge along its length; stabilizing sleeve 62 resists the tendency of shaft 54 to radially collapse. Once sleeve 62 is properly positioned within shaft 54, shaft 60 and tip 58 therewith are removed from within sleeve 62 as shown in FIG. 3D. Also, FIG. 3D illustrates the positioning of a tissue engagement device 45 to help draw a sample of target tissue 44 into the interior 64 of sleeve 62 as suggested in FIGS. 3D and 3E.
At this point a sample of the target tissue 44 may be removed from the patient by simultaneously removing shaft 54 in its enlarge diameter form, sleeve 62 and device 45 as a unit. Alternatively, stabilizing sleeve 62 may be removed as device 45 pulls tissue 44 into shaft 54 while shaft 54 remains in place. This suggested in FIGS. 3E and 3F and permits shaft 54 to return towards its initial, radially contracted condition thus causing the tissue sample housed therein to be radially compressed. The collected target tissue 44 remains within shaft 54 when sleeve 62 is removed from shaft 54 and mesh device 46 is collapsed (see FIG. 3F). Shaft 54 then naturally assumes a smaller diameter condition as shown in FIGS. 3F and 3G which permits shaft 54 and the target tissue therein to be removed through access site 28 as shown in FIGS. 3G and 3H. In this way the size of access site 28 may be smaller than the original size of target tissue 44. Device 45 may remain within shaft 54 during this removal from the patient, or device 45 may, as suggested in FIGS. 3G and 3H, be removed from shaft 54 along with sleeve 62.
The entire shaft 54 was enlarged in the embodiment of FIGS. 3A-3H. If desired, only the part of shaft 54 within the patient may need to be expanded. This would reduce the maximum size which access site 28 is forced to assume, even if only temporarily. The following U.S. Patents show radially-expanding dilators: U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,183,464; 5,431,676; 5,454,790.
FIGS. 4A-4D illustrate a method for percutaneously removing an entire tissue mass containing target tissue 44. A tissue removal assembly 66 includes a sheath 68 extending from a proximal end adapter 70 and passes through an access site 28 and along tissue tract 38. Sheath 68 houses a tissue engagement device 45, shown in FIG. 4A, after having passed by or through target tissue 44 and manipulated to cause mesh device 46 to assume a radially expanded condition. Next, a tubular mesh device 72 is used to surround target tissue 44. Device 72 is of the type in which a tubular mesh material having an open distal end expands radially outwardly as it is compressed axially. That is, the resistance to the axial movement mesh device 72 causes it to contract axially and expand radially to assume the generally funnel-shaped configuration of FIG. 4B. As shown in FIG. 4B, mesh device 46 acts as a blocking element and mesh device 72 acts as a removing element. Together devices 46, 72 at least substantially surround, and preferably fully surround or envelope, target tissue 44.
The entire suspect tissue mass, that is the mass including target tissue 44 and an amount of surrounding tissue, can be removed through access site 28. To help prevent trauma to access site 28 during such removal, mesh device 46 and tubular mesh device 72 are caused to contract radially, thus compressing target tissue 44 into a smaller diameter mass for ease of removal from the patient. This is suggested in FIGS. 4C and 4D. The construction and use of structure similar to device 72 is described in patent application Ser. No. 09/248,008 and Provisional Application No. 60/200,546. Note that the structure shown in FIGS. 1A-1C could be used to severe target tissue 44 so that the entire suspect tissue mass, that is including target tissue 44, may be simultaneously removed as two contiguous pieces from the patient along the tissue tract. It is expected that the entire suspect tissue mass could be severed into at most four contiguous pieces and still be simultaneously removed in a useful condition for further testing and/or evaluation. One such structure could use the cutting device of FIGS. 1A-1C plus a mesh material similar to tubular mesh device 72 which could be guided by expanded wires 10 to surround the suspect tissue mass. As seen by comparing FIGS. 4B and 4C, the largest lateral dimension of the access opening 28 is smaller than the largest lateral dimension of a suspect tissue mass prior to removal; radially or laterally squeezing the suspect tissue mass permits removal of the tissue mass with minimal trauma to the patient. The suspect tissue mass may be monitored for disease prior to, during and/or after removal from the patient.
FIGS. 5A-5D illustrate a target material removing device 78 including a sheath 80 within which a pair of tissue engaging devices 45 slidable pass. FIG. 5A illustrates device 78 passing through access site 28, along tissue tract 38 and to target tissue 44 at target site 26. The first and second mesh devices 46A, 46B are placed at distal and proximal locations relative to target tissue 44. Once in position, mesh devices 46 are expanded as shown in FIGS. 5B and 5C so to bracket target tissue 44. Mesh devices 46A, 46B in their expanded conditions are sized so to define a bracketed region 82 therebetween. Bracketed region 82 is preferably sized to completely contain the tissue mass including target tissue 44. When so bracketed, the health professional can locate target tissue 44 by virtue of the expanded mesh devices 46. In one embodiment mesh devices 46A, 46B are harder than the surrounding tissue so that target tissue 44 within bracketed region 82 may be found by palpation. In addition, expanded meshed devices 46A, 46B guide a surgeon in locating and excising the entire target mass using surgical techniques. The using of bracketing guides 46A, 46B is important because target tissue 44 is often difficult to differentiate from surrounding tissue both in appearance and in feel. After the surgeon has accessed target tissue 44, guided by bracketing mesh devices 46, the entire suspect tissue mass 84 can be removed as a single mass as suggested in FIG. 5D. It is expected that the device of FIGS. 5A-5D may be useful in both percutaneous and open incisional situations.
FIG. 6A-6C show the use of essentially the same type of structure as in FIGS. 5A-5D but for a different purpose. In this case devices 45 are used as locational elements. In the preferred embodiment both of the locational elements have radially expandable elements, such as mesh devices 46, both of which are positioned distally of target tissue 44. After removal of target tissue 44, which may occur along with proximal device 45B, device 45A remains in place adjacent to the excisional site or void 52 created by the removal of target tissue 44. This may be used to help maintain void 52 open to aid re-access to the site. Maintaining void 52 open also permits insertion of a space-saving device or structure into void 52. Instead of using two radially expandable elements as portions of the locational devices, locational device 45A could be simply, for example, a catheter shaft in which with the distal end would remain at the distal end of excisional site 52.
Modification and variation can be made to the disclosed embodiments without departing from the subject of the invention as defined in the following claims. For example, collapsing mesh device 46 could be replaced by, for example, an expandable balloon or an expandable malecot.
Any and all patents, patents applications and printed publications referred to above are hereby incorporated by reference.
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Dream meaning Sleeping In a DreamTYPES OF SLEEPING DREAMERS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION:
The symbol that is to be elaborate here is sleeping. If you saw in your dream that you are sleeping that means that you are careless for the situation you are facing or it is better to say that you are ignoring the conditions and circumstances around you.
Sleeping also gives the clue of peace of mind. It shows that the person loves peace around him. It shows the prosper behavior of man.
If you saw that you are sleeping with stranger in your dream that symbolize you are avoiding the situations around you. You show the careless attitude toward the things that are happening. And it also may be happen that you are denying accepting your weaknesses or your negativity or hidden truth that never knows. In fact you dont want to see the negative aspect of yourself.
Sleeping may also symbolize with death, and it means that there is something new to be happened, the renewal or refreshing of some task. It may leads to the fact that you need to innovate something from the very beginning.
If someone else is sleeping in your dream means that you are not alert and not informed of the things that are happening around you. And this also shows the unconscious mind of yours own and you reflect in your own dream.
Besides sleeping there are some symbols for sleeping bad, sleeping beauty and sleeping pills nut that have different meanings. The interpretation of sleeping and all these are not same.
To feel sleepy in dreams means that by your careless attitude you may letting the opportunity that are passing besides you. You have to pay extra ordinary attention around your surroundings to take a better action. It is also suggested that perhaps you have lack of knowledge and experience of any specific issues.
So it is said very clearly that over and all sleeping symbolize careless attitude of ones man. It reflects the ignorance behavior, avoiding attitude.
Dreaming is not the controllable action, you are not able to dreamed according to your desire but this is only when you saw dreams with closed eye, the dream with open eye just need hard working and loyalty.
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There is this girl which I have been asking for friendship, but she is not giving full attention on my request, last night I dreamed that she slept on my lap. I carried her on my lap while sleeping. What does that mean, please I need answer
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john doe 2016-02-10 04:19:47
i had a dream that i was a young child and i was in a room surrounded by other young kids,and they were all covered in blood and cuts,and thier skin on thier face and upper chest was rubbed raw ,and outsixe the room thier was men chopping the legs off of large black bulls with big thick white horns,and putting one bull ontop of another ,the top cow was upside down and was slamming its head aginst the bottom cow ,and the men would cut deep cuts into the cows and make them bleed,then cutting the children open and violently rubbing ther face and chest onto the bulls.my body was stinging and my hair was gone,then i was let out of the room and people were chasing me trying to kill me.then i forced myself to wake up out of shock and fear
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robbie 2015-10-13 15:16:24
what does it mean if you dream and see you name in gold all over the place?
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Taylor 2015-11-28 07:16:45
You are watching yoo much Harry Potter. You are not voldemort
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alka 2015-10-01 03:37:02
before some month's my aunty died and after her death I saw her always in my dream and she said ,.she is not died she come back in her life ... and in my dream I talk to her very closely ..
I don't know why she come in my dream
really I m not think about her ...
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Tanya Pera 2015-08-16 09:32:37
I dream I spoke in my dream. I told a man in my dream I want to sleep with you. Will I was walking and he was walking next to me on my left hand side. What that mean.
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mr t 2015-05-26 19:51:05
I had a dream that i was looking at my body from above and that there were little white cretures kinda like kids but anyway they were playing around my body
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Andrea 2015-05-05 19:57:19
I basically had a dream where i would see someone doze off and then when they awoke they weren't themselves. Also later on some people would keep poking me very hard at my belly. and also when the people that fell asleep and lost control they were very aggressive.
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Abby 2015-04-04 15:53:25
I dreamt that I went to my friends party which was on Tuesday, and every time I went to their party I slept and it was in the room, in the movie theater, anywhere!
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keith 2015-03-28 20:12:42
I dreamed I saw someone sleeping with there mouth wide open and a man looked at him and stuck his whole head in his mouth. Then I saw Jamie Foxx looking at them like that was disgusting and I started to laugh. I wonder what kind of dream was that.
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Melissa 2015-03-17 20:25:42
I had a dream last night about that I was feeling sleepy on like those church seats and this guy that I know was sleeping beside me.and I move but then he got close to me and sleeping beside me. There's was a couple women had makeup up and those 1860s dress and they were ready to perform a play.
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kenny 2015-03-08 10:38:36
I was dreaming in my dream in an old house. To be Woking up by a ghost stirring me in the face. I then woke up to fill a presence in my room. Also remember big storms with darkgreen tinge
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kendal 2015-05-18 20:33:47
A while ago I remember I had a dream inside a dream and I was in a very unfamiliar house and I felt great tension and when I woke up I was in my room and I though I was awake....I was talking to my brother and he tried to stab me and before he did I woke up for real...........I had one more recently kind of like that too where it was almost like if I wanted to get out of the second dream I had to solve a riddle from this old lady....she had a big red door and it stuck out from the rest although I cant think of what the riddle was or my answer to it.....it sucks
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holly 2014-11-20 17:01:11
I had a dream that my roommmate and i shared a room and he asked me to share a bed and we slept together (just sleep not s*x) I felt very comfortable and relaxed. It was difficult to get into our room because the stairs only went half way down.
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ligia 2014-10-20 05:16:15
I am a counselor for addiction and I saw myself in my office with a patient and I was having a hard time keeping my eyes open because I felt my eyes closing wanting to sleep. Then I saw myself at the office of my supervisor addressed the fact that the patient has reported that I was sleeping instead of giving him his therapy session time and my boss asked me if in fact it was true that I was sleeping in front of the patient in the office and I denied it. In the dream my boss, was in my side and question the credibility of the report from the client since it was hard for her to belief that.
I wake up normal, and I just remember remembering the dream and thinking I better go to bed early so I can be rested and alert as a way to prevent this dream from happening.
Could you please help me finding meaning to it?
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Jeffrey 2014-07-21 19:15:40
I dreamt of a business I guess for meditation were a woman and here assistant guided me through different meditations for relaxation my wife was there and I thought at first I was interviewing for a job she asked me 'do you know what we do here? I responded to what I assumed was a job question. But then her and her younger assistant guided me through meditative excersises and with the assistant lying next to me she began running a finger along the side of my head which put me to sleep in the dream. I began to come to and realized I was waking from sleep then the guide began raising a thin sheet of golden material that enveloped the room with its golden hue. I felt my body waking and thought No! I don't want to wake up I knew I was dreaming but the women had brought such peace and calm over me I do not want to awake from the dream my final glimpse was my wife lounged upon a couch across the room waking up herself with feathers and a necklace like headress adorning her forgheAd. I slept as though cradled in the warmth of heaven and I know I had never seen either of those woman before. I am both sad I woke up yet calm and content with having been there even if only in a dream...
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Sleepingpsy 2014-07-10 08:49:17
Okay this is gonna sound really weird but I just woke up I was having a strange dream that you were sleep kind of intense nightmare you got up in your sleep left got into a car went somewhere and then your mother and grandmother showed up and they were freaking out and then I woke up I don't know what this means I don't know if you believe in these types of things I'm looking into it to see what it means this is something to do with the friend of mine no idea what it means
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After seeing the "big" version of the show in Las Vegas, it was great to see a smaller, more intimate version here in Boston. Was obvious that a good portion of the audience was repeat visitors, knowing exactly what to do and when. Very much worth a fun-filled evening.
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I use Shoes From Grandpa in our Mem Fox author study. I also use it as an example of a cumulative tale. My students like reading the cumulative text.
Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.
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Encourage the students to read along with the story.
Why did Jessie want someone to buy her jeans at the end of the story? The students could rewrite and illustrate the story from their own experiences with presents from family.
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Mem Fox website - www.memfox.net
Mem tells the story behind Shoes From Grandpa - http://www.memfox.net/shoes-from-grandpa.html
The House That Jack Built www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/mothergoose/rhymes/thisisthehousethatjackbuilt.html
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For nearly two years, James and Estefania Cunha-Free used their smartphones to set up their DVR to record sports. James is a die-hard fan of the Tennessee Volunteers and the Atlanta Braves. Estefania, who hails from Portugal, is a soccer fan. And the Frees didn't want to miss games.
Smartphones and homes What apps can control now
1. Burglar alarm: Major providers offer multidevice systems you can monitor from afar.
2. Generator: Let's you know whether the generator is working and emails you if it's not.
3. Thermostat: Senses patterns in human presence and controls equipment.
4. Lighting: Let's you control lights via an app, including setting up vacation schedules.
5. Smoke, carbon monoxide detectors: Can notify you of an alarm.
6. Refrigerator: Alerts you if the power is out and even if the door is ajar.
7. Range: Let's you preheat the oven, set the timer and check cooking status without being in the room.
8. door locks: Let's you remotely lock or unlock doors, and change who is authorized to enter your home or office.
9. Water alarm or shutoff: Sends a text in the event of a water leak; shutoffs can can minimize flooding.
10. Washer and dryer: Let's you start cycles and monitor progress. Provides an alert if the dryer duct is clogged.
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They didn't really think about using their phones to control systems in their house until Feb. 27.
That's when a man with a drug problem, who was later apprehended, used a sledgehammer to break down the front door of their Mount Pleasant home and went through every room stealing electronics.
The Frees, who have two daughters, ages 12 and 6, were shaken by the incident. They decided to get a burglar alarm system, which they like largely because they can control it from their smartphones and know which family member enters the house and when.
"It's so easy," says James. "We're connected by WiFi but you can arm or disarm it anywhere. You can get messages anytime the alarm is deactivated."
Since then, the Frees, who are also avid bird watchers, have set up a Dropcam video camera trained on the birdfeeders in their backyard, which they can watch from anywhere on their cell phones. The app for the Dropcam even stores a history of when the camera caught movement.
James, a program analyst at NOAA, says he looks the footage not only to see bird visitors but to verify if precipitation that radar indicates is actually happening on the ground.
Estefania, a school teacher, has watched while basking in the sun on the Isle of Palms beach this summer. They anticipate checking in on their feeders while visiting Portugal later this year.
Not just the young
In a recent article, Consumer Reports noted that 20 percent of its subscribers use their phone or tablet to control some part of their home and that nearly 70 percent of those who don't expressed an interest in doing so in the future.
Mike Eykyn, a partner at Coastal Burglar Alarm, says the use of smartphones and apps has changed dramatically since his company starting offering the service about seven years ago.
"Back then, it was mostly to the 'geek' customers that wanted cutting-edge technology," says Eykyn. "Today we are finding 95 percent of our new installations are using this technology. Our customer base dates back to 1959 and every day existing customers are upgrading to this technology as well."
Eykyn says use of the technology is not limited to younger, more tech-savvy people.
"There is no generation gap," says Eykyn."We are finding consumers want to control their lighting, A/C units, door locks, cameras, water shut off, garage doors and alarm systems.
"Moms can immediately receive email or text messages when children get home from school each day as well as actually see the child walking in the front door. Sons and daughters who are caretakers can receive emails and text messages of daily activity and actually see live video of their parent who might be living alone," he says.
"Consumers can remotely let service personnel into their homes. Vacation homeowners can raise or lower the temperature in their home prior to arriving. Managing a home is a lot easier; air conditioning units in beach rentals can be turned down remotely after the person has checked out."
Eykyn says one increasingly popular feature is the ability to shut off the water remotely in the event of a leak, such as from a hot water heater or hoses on a washing machine.
Alarm system boom
Needless to say, the alarm industry is among the benefactors of the technology and Eykyn says the industry has embraced it as a "stepping stone for the future."
"The manufacturers of all types of appliances and consumer goods know they must design new products with this technology," says Eykyn, noting that Coastal Burglar Alarm recently wired a house for automated refrigerators and stoves.
"People not only want to control the devices but ... this technology allows the device to report service issues back to the consumer wherever they are through their smartphone."
Fred Fabian and Ed Dopson of eLifespaces agree, noting that "everyone's got their own app."
The cost for most apps range from free to $15.
"They are for the most part product specific. You've got something for your alarm, something for your cameras, something for your Nest (digital thermostat)," says Fabian.
Dopson adds, "If you have an iPhone or an Android, you're controlling something. It might be your remote app for your Apple TV.
It works better than the remote control than Apple gives you.
Anybody who has an iPhone or Android is controlling something somewhere.
Fabian says today everyone should be using a smartphone to control their thermostat.
"That will save you more money, bar none, than anything else you can do," he says.
Privacy, other concerns
But even as professional technophiles who have a James Bond-like office on upper Meeting Street, Fabian and Dopson have some concerns about where the technology is headed, primarily protecting privacy.
They pointed to a common TV ad showing a break-in and the alarm monitor watching it.
"Guess what?" says Fabian. "They can see you when there isn't a burglar there, too. ... It's OK if I have a camera that is private to me and there are plenty of protocols on the network that lock it down so that others can't get in, but what you've done (with some alarm systems) is let someone else in. If you have, you don't have any privacy.
"If I can underline the No. 1 issue, it's privacy. That's the discussion that we as a society need to have."
And, he says, it goes beyond strangers having video access in your home.
High-tech conspiracies?
The latest warning sign, says Fabian, is Google's purchase of Nest, the maker of digital thermostats controlled by smartphones and tablets, for $3.2 billion this year.
Then last month, Nest Labs' purchase of DropCam for $555 million in cash.
In an interview with The New York Times, Nest co-founder Matt Rogers emphasized that "Dropcam data will not be shared with Google or any third party." Instead, the plan is for Nest and Dropcam to work together to reinvent products that will help shape the future of the home, he said.
Google bought Nest and then turned around and sold to the utility companies the right to turn their thermostats on and off when they are trying to manage power on the grid, without your consent.
Fabian admits, however, to "subscribing a little bit to the great conspiracy theory." Nest has deals with energy companies that are using subscriber information to monitor peak demands. He worries that the utilities will use the access to control in-home thermostats without a homeowner's consent.
"That bothers us a lot," says Fabian. "This is my house, my thermostat. ... I don't give you the right to do that."
He compares the agreements that consumers sign for the technology to the fine print on a credit card application, which allows companies to "change the rules anytime they want without your permission."
"We've been in it too long and seen too many creepy things from others. Google is a fine, very reputable company, but what concerns us is the privacy issue."
Reach David Quick at 937-5516.
Ed Dopson (left) and Fred Fabian of eLifespaces, located on upper Meeting Street, have made a profession out of customizing electronics in the home and office. But they also warn consumers to safeguard their privacy.×
Smartphones have the ability to control an array of home features, from opening and closing draperies and arming burglar alarms to even shutting off water.×
This is the smartphone view of the Frees bird feeders that they can see anywhere from the office, the beach or even while on vacation in Portugal.×
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Wayne State University has eliminated 200 positions, spokesman Matt Lockwood confirmed Friday.
Of those positions, 80 were currently filled. The exact number of layoffs will be known once union bumping processes are complete.
All the positions are administrative staff, except one clinical faculty position, Lockwood said.
WSU President Alan Gilmour sent an e-mail to all university employees late Thursday afternoon, notifying them of the moves.
"This note is to inform you that today we began a reduction in force and have notified most of the affected employees," he wrote. "This difficult decision was necessitated by a $32-million reduction in our (fiscal year) 2012 state funding, the largest cut in our history.
"In response to this reduction, we analyzed every school, college and division over the past several months to identify potential cost cuts and efficiencies. Our Board of Governors also voted to raise our undergraduate tuition by 6.9%, and our graduate tuition by 7.1%. Even with these efforts, a reduction in force is necessary to balance the budget and maintain the quality of our teaching and research. We are not planning additional personnel reductions beyond this reduction in force at this time."
WSU dodged a further state aid cut earlier in the day Thursday, when state budget director John Nixon ruled that an increase in summer tuition did not push the undergraduate tuition increase over a cap in the state budget.
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Sanitation, quarantine and the watchfulness of the public health service have so relieved the modern world from fear of major epidemics or concern about them that we have forgotten what they did through the long centuries to war-cursed humanity. In this small volume is compressed the story of the invincible microbe, which even now competes with high explo sives in the war-stricken Orient for its victims.
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Dr. Ni He is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and associate vice provost for graduate education at Northeastern University. He taught at the University of Texas-San Antonio (1998-2003) prior to joining Northeastern University. He received his law degree (LL.B.) from Xiamen University (PR China) in 1988 and his PhD in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Omaha (USA) in 1997. Dr. He's primary teaching and research interests include comparative criminology/criminal justice, policing and quantitative methodology. He has participated in several international and national research projects as a research analyst. He directed (with Dr. Ineke Haen Marshall) the U.S. portion of the 30-nation International Self-report Delinquency Study (ISRD-2, 2006-2008), funded by the National Institute of Justice. He is currently working (with Drs. Jack McDevitt and Lanying Li) on a joint international research grant (with Xiamen University, PR China), awarded by the MacArthur Foundation (2009-2011), to study legal representation in lower level Chinese criminal courts. He was an invited discussant for the "Seminar on Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure Reforms in China" (Oct. 5-7, 2008) and a guest lecturer for the "Criminal Justice and Empirical Theory: An Applied Workshop for Junior Scholars from China" (May 3-11), both hosted by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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