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"Hailing from Queens NY and known for their crazy stage antics and upbeat insanity, NO REDEEMING SOCIAL VALUE have been a staple of the New York Hardcore scene for many years. They made their vinyl debut in 1992 and have since enjoyed continued success with many CD and Vinyl releases. In their history NRSV have also toured the USA , Canada , Japan , and Europe numerous times. From playing keg parties in Queens to playing a wedding in the Netherlands these guys have done it all. Even bands like hardcore legends Warzone have covered NRSV songs in the past. Maybe you have heard all of the crazy stories such as past members going insane, being banned in Italy , or the infamous Polish boarder crossing. As for the music, No Redeeming Social Value bring the fun back into hardcore. And when we say hardcore we mean straight up old school no frills hardcore! The way it was meant to be! So sit back, grab a can or bottle of your favorite grog, chill out for the moment, and then hardcore your lousy ass off!" [Dead City]
It was the 90's all over again for those that got to the Bad Brains show early enough to catch NRSV (and Killing Time who went on right after them) last night (11/5). Some older videos, and more pictures from the show below…
No Redeeming Social Value – Heavy Metal
No Redeeming Social Value "Britney Spears is a Skinhead"
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19 June 2008
Mid Season Garlic Haircuts
Come June-ish, hardneck garlic shoots up a pencil thick 'stem' with a kind of upside down teardrop shaped pod that goes to a long point. The stem, as it grows, curls around in a couple of loops. If left, this pod at the end gets bigger and little cloves form inside which then drop to the ground and start new garlics. You can propagate garlic this way, but from what I've read, you get a better garlic bulb if you cut the scape off when it curls once or twice since then, the plant's attempt at making seed is thwarted and it'll put all of it's energy into forming a bigger, juicier bulb. Since I use cloves from a bulb to plant garlic the following year I don't need the seed cloves from the top scape and I just cut them off.
Apparently you can steam or stir fry the scapes and eat them too! They're supposed to have a milder garlic flavour. Softnecks do not grow these scapes, and for both types of garlic you can tell when they're ready to pull by looking at how much of the leaves have browned and dried back.
10 June 2008
Onion Disaster, Onion miracle
First off, the Onion Disaster. I have been starting onions every 2 weeks since march, so I have quite alot of onions right now in the garden. They are currently at the 'green onion' stage, so thicker than a pencil and not quite starting to bulb yet. I've been really happy with my onions since it was one of my goals to grow better onions this year. I started them from seed and i didn't thin them out, so they are growing in bunches, on average about 5 onions per bunch.
Now, one of the other new vegetables I chose to grow this year was bush beans. Since I've never grown either before too in depth, I planted the bush beans right beside the big row of transplanted onion starts and went away satisfied at my garden planning. Fast forward two weeks and OOPS! I didn't realize that beans and onions are enemies. From garden experience I know the basics of companion planting such as tomatos/basil/nasturtiums, garlic/roses, borage/strawberry, the three sisters, mint/cabbage and various other successful pairings. I was reading up the other night in one of my big garden books and what a surprise it was when I read that beans and onions don't grow well together. I couldn't really figure out why, nobody had an explanation, just that they wouldn't grow to full yield. I was upset that I had not researched beans enough to know this, but what can you do? At least the onions were green onion sized, it's just that there was so many i had to pull that now I have a huge excess of green onions so I've been forced to give away alot. So even though my planning of a successive harvest of onions is kinda out the window, at least I learned something I'll never forget. Beans hate Onions. :)
Now on to the onion miracle. Last year I bought some organic onion sets from a guy at a Seedy Saturday. I planted them that year, grew a bunch of bunches of onions, cured them, hung them in braids to dry in the basement. They've been there ever since last july/august and I've been eating them steadily. For fun last week I planted a couple in a grand experiment.
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I was SO excited this week when I saw little green sprouts poking up through the soil. I was also very encouraged by the successful impromptu experiment and planted some more! Go onions! Go onion miracles!
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3 June 2008
So much gardening!
Well! It's been REALLY busy this past month. Despite being a pretty cold May, I've been planting like crazy. This year I'm trying some new things. Leeks, raddichio, new types of lettuce, and storage onions are some examples. I've planted about 4 different kinds of lettuce so far including 'great lakes lettuce'(above), 'red coral lettuce', romaine lettuce, good ol' brun d'hiver lettuce and of course we'll be planting some bronze arrowhead later on. The romaine lettuce is my 3rd generation of this type. For two years in a row, I've grown it and saved the seed, then replanted the seed. It's best when picked young. New herbs include Betony, Swiss Mint and Orange mint. Of course I'm growing all the regular tea herbs, chamomille, peppermint, Bergamot, Lemon Mint, Marshmallow, Cilantro, thyme, lemon thyme, Borage, Strawberries, Basil, Dill, Lemon Balm, Lemon Verbena, soapwort etc etc. I love herbs, I think every year I will add many new types of herbs to the garden. Onions are going very well. I hope to store a whole bunch of them and eat them throughout the winter. The garlic just keeps getting BIGGER. I can't wait to pull it up. The hardneck varieties are just starting to get the scape thing that curls.The only issues we've had so far is a late blight problem on the tomatos I started and some of the other plants I had hardening off out in the front of our house. There's been construction on the street for a couple of months now, and it's pretty dusty in the air around our neighbourhood. I'm pretty sure, since late blight is contracted by stuff from the air, that the construction was the cause. They are digging pretty deep and stirring up all sorts of stuff that ends up in the air. To support this, is the plants hardened off out the back of the house, that didn't have any problems. With every problem though, you learn something, and I recovered by growing different tomatos and starting some new beans and stuff.
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Setting new records can be—to use a word that has dominated the GOP presidential race—great. This one? Not so much. The year 2014 had set a new record for the highest average temperatures ever recorded here on planet Earth. Then along came 2015.
But it's not just that we've set a new record two years in a row. Normally, the difference between the average temperature from one year to the next is measured by a couple of hundredths of degrees. Two-hundredths of a degree looks like this:
The average temperature in 2015 was not only the highest on record, but it blew the competition away. How much hotter was 2015 than 2014, the second-hottest year ever? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it was 29-hundredths of a degree hotter, or:
Virtually identical results came in from the other organizations that measure global temperature, including NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency, and the UK's Met Office. You might think that the only question that remains after the publication of this data is: What are we going to do about it?
You'd be wrong.
Republicans and Democrats take, shall we say, different approaches to the matter of climate change.
The Democrats, as evidenced by the discussion in last week's debate, are in agreement. The moderator, NBC Nightly Newsanchor Lester Holt, didn't ask whether climate change was happening, or whether we need to do something about it. He asked the candidates how they would "convince Americans that the problem of climate change is so urgent that they need to change their behavior." The candidates themselves, in other words, did not need convincing. One candidate, Bernie Sanders, got off the line of the night when he all but facepalmed himself on national television:
It is amazing to me...that we have a major party, called the Republican Party that is so owned by the fossil fuel industry and their campaign contributions that they don't even have the courage, the decency to listen to the scientists. It is beyond my comprehension how we can elect a president of the United States, somebody like Trump, who believes that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.


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The three keys at the right side of your keyboard's top row are practically orphans. The Pause key is a relic of the PC's distant past and is rarely used in Windows. But this seemingly abandoned key has a surprisingly convenient secret ability. Hold down the Windows key (typically on the bottom row of the keyboard, this key is marked by the Windows "flag" logo) and press the Pause key. This simple shortcut displays the System Control Panel, which tells you which version of Windows you're using, how much memory is installed on your computer, and more. It also gives you easy access to the Device Manager.
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Just a few of the items, courtesy Brad Oldham and Brandon Oldenburg, available in this year's auction
This reminder: You've got till noon today to bid on those items up for grabs in the auction benefiting North Texas Food Bank. At present, the package consisting of the extremely rare miniature Traveling Man bird and Kristian Donaldson's original comic-book art sits with a high bid of $425. And Danny Hurley's Rockers v Mods one-off coffee-table collection is up to $175. I will update this item at noon with the winning bids.
Update at noon: The auctions are now closed. ymereJ wins the Traveling Man-Kristian Donaldson prize pack with a $450 bid. And Ben D'Avanza wins Danny's book with a bid of $195. Great thanks to all the Friends of Unfair Park who bid on these auctions, benefiting North Texas Food Bank. I will contact the winners immediately.
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The England midfielder, who has been linked with a summer move to Real Madrid, welcomed the arrival of his international team-mate after the former Chelsea star agreed a four-year deal on Monday. And having kept silent on his thoughts on the appointment of Hodgson and his future because of his captaincy duties at the World Cup Gerrard has now spoken out.
"I wanted the chance to meet Roy Hodgson privately and having done so, I'm very impressed with his plans for the future," said Gerrard. "I know Joe well through the England set-up so it will be fantastic to play alongside him in a red shirt for Liverpool."
Gerrard cut a disconsolate figure at times last season as the club limped to seventh place in the Barclays Premier League, their worst finish for a decade.
New Real manager Jose Mourinho, who twice tried to sign Gerrard when he was manager at Chelsea, began the charm offensive early by making public his admiration for the 30-year-old.
Gerrard, having been given the responsibility of the England captaincy after Rio Ferdinand's injury, refused to talk about his views on his future.
The player admitted the intense speculation linking him with a move to Stamford Bridge four years ago had affected his performances at the World Cup in Germany and he was not prepared to battle similar issues in South Africa.
Gerrard and his England team-mates Jamie Carragher and Glen Johnson returned to start pre-season at the club's Melwood training ground on Tuesday and he has spoken about how much he is looking forward to the new season.
"I made it clear that I simply needed to concentrate on the World Cup and then have a decent holiday with my family," Gerrard told the Liverpool Echo.
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January 3, 2017 – The firm today added Pola C. Stein to its staff of full-time associate attorneys. Pola is a 2011 graduate of Cornell Law School. For the past five years she has served as a public defender, most recently in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office. Pola will focus on employment and intellectual property matters. Pola joins another Cornell Law graduate, Manuel Rodriguez, who became of counsel to the firm late last year. Manuel has worked at several large law firms in the Bay Area, and will continue to concentrate his practice on representing technology-based companies as well as individual investors and investment funds on corporate, securities and intellectual property transactions.


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When thinking about your travel trailer bedroom items, especially the bunk bed, there are a number of things to consider. Safety, convenience, and comfort are some of the most important things. Bunk beds come with a number of features, including a ladder to provide access into and out of the upper twin bed. Below are some of the factors and features of ideal Travel Trailer Bunk Bed Ladders.
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Crying and swimming always make me tired; together, these two activities can make for centuries-long slumber. Since the comfort of sleep has been beckoning me too much lately—an Amber Alert for my spirit—the person in charge of me wants to make sure that I really deserve sleep when it finally arrives, and for God's sake it better be a natural sleep too.
Therefore, on the day that I cry on the phone with my sister, perhaps the saddest of sad days so far, I am inclined to listen more carefully later when one of my cats wants to tell on another. What other good are you doing? the person in charge of me asks as I sink into the couch.
I roll my eye and turn my attention to my middle child, Lucy, lying like the Sphinx next to me, ready to indict her little brother, Leo.
"Mother," Lucy meeps to me. She can never say anything without emphasis.
"Yes, my sweetpea," I say back.
"I just wanted you to know that when you were gone to get your pedicure earlier, and when you came back and the cooking string was all over the place, it was…um…Bubba who did that." She pauses. "Not me."
Lucy stretches out and tilts her eyes back at me like she's telling me something I don't know. I resent her in that moment. I deserve the lesson, but somebody has to be the leader around here. I revert back to firm verbal footing while continuing to put the lotion on its skin: "It's not nice to tattle," I say.
I wonder in my brain, far back from the fences of reality, where and when the people of my household starting calling the most recent arrival "Bubba". It's not his given name, and no one heard it from my lips, so I deduce that it must be something organic to do with the pronunciation of "brother", or perhaps—all nature dismissed—because his father calls him that. Or both.
"Well I wasn't trying to tattle so much as I was trying to tell you that in addition to loving you and needing you and wanting you all to myself, I wanted to remind you that playing with string isn't safe for kittens, which I had to learn myself." She stops meeping and conveys the rest with eyes full of soul: I'm sure you remember.
Well, I'd only had one kitty before Lucy, and he didn't like string, so I had incorrectly assumed from that experience that none of my cats would ever like string, and never imagined that I would ever acquire a string addict. It took a few clean-ups in aisle nine for me to figure out that string wasn't just a toy to Lucy; it was an infatuation, to the point that if she could have survived on eating string alone, she would have.
"I remember, sweetie," I say, scratching her chin. She conveys the rest: I just wanted you to know that when I saw what Bubba was doing, I shooed him away and then—though it was very hard—I didn't eat any, either.
She's reminding me of what a good girl she is, when I already know it so much. I have been remiss in acknowledging and rewarding good efforts around this place, including my own.
The person in charge of me gives me permission to cry one more time, but just for five minutes. Then she makes me swim.


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This place is worth visiting in Hamburg. Very good for Trekking and hiking scenes.
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I just finished a walking tour of the Blankenese township with a group of friends and can say it was one of the most enjoyable walking tours I've ever done. It's a beautiful town just outside of Hamburg, with amazing views and gardens. Our guide was very informative and relayed many stories of the area and its history. If you're...
With a view over Elbe, this park is a nice place to spend afternoon. Its deers are so lovely. It is a 15 minutes walk from Hochkamp train station.
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|Mar 2, 2006
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|Kevin Smith, Derek Deville, Korey Kline, Matthew Palmer
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|Kevin Smith, Derek Deville, Korey Kline, Matthew Palmer
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|Patent Citations (61), Non-Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (9), Classifications (15), Legal Events (3)
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a variably flexible insertion device and to a method for variably flexing an insertion device. The insertion device may be used to insert an instrument, in particular a scope, such as an endoscope or a colonoscope, into a patient.
2. Description of the Related Art
Various insertion devices for scopes are known in the art. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,942,613 to Ewers et al. discloses a shape lockable apparatus and method, in which nestable elements of an overtube are linked by elastic tension wires connected to an actuator to selectively stiffen the overtube for advancing an instrument. Similarly, U.S. Pat. No. 5,759,151 to Sturges uses a spine having cylindrical segments interconnected by a flexible cable. The cable is secured to a controller for selectively stiffening and relaxing the spine. The Ewers et al. and Sturges devices are complicated and have only elastic tension wires or a flexible cable to maintain stiffness.
U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,984,203 and 6,800,056 to Tartaglia et al. teach a guide which advances in a distal portion of a steerable endoscope having a segmented body. Related U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,468,203 and 6,610,007 to Belson et al. disclose a steerable endoscope with a body, a steering control for a distal portion of the body which selects a path within the patients body and a motion controller for a proximal end of the body which assumes the selected curve. A fiber optic imaging bundle or a video camera are disposed in the body. The Tartaglia et al. and Belson et al. devices provide no mechanism for variably stiffening the guide.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,337,733 to Bauerfeind et al. relates to a tubular inserting device with variable rigidity, in which a flexible insertion part has outer and inner walls defining an intermediate space therebetween. Application of a vacuum to the intermediate space causes the inner wall to lie against the outer wall to render the insertion part rigid. The Bauerfeind et al. device relies merely upon contact between the outer and inner walls for rigidity, with no additional stiffening aid.
ASGE Abstract 136 submitted in 1983 discloses a soft-plastic, split, stiffening overtube to be placed over a colonoscope at any point during the examination.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a variably flexible insertion device and a method for variably flexing an insertion device, which overcome the hereinafore-mentioned disadvantages of the heretofore-known devices and methods of this general type and in which the device and method are simpler, have more varied uses and are more reliable than the prior art.
With the foregoing and other objects in view there is provided, in accordance with the invention, a variably flexible insertion device. The device comprises a hollow body having a proximal end with an entrance for receiving an instrument, such as a scope, and a distal end with a tip for protrusion of the instrument. A device is provided for transitioning the hollow body between a relatively flexible condition and a relatively stiff condition. Tendons are disposed within the hollow body for maintaining the hollow body in the relatively flexible and relatively stiff conditions.
With the objects of the invention in view, there is also provided a method for variably flexing an insertion device for receiving an instrument. The method comprises providing a hollow body having inner and outer sleeves defining a space therebetween and providing tendons in the space. Suction is applied to create a vacuum in the space for frictionally locking the tendons in place between the inner and outer sleeves in a relatively stiff condition of the hollow body. The vacuum is relieved to release the tendons in a relatively flexible condition of the hollow body.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, the hollow body has an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve defining a space therebetween at least partly surrounding the tendons, and the transitioning device, such as a vacuum port communicating with said space, applies suction to the space for frictionally locking the tendons in place. Vertebrae may be disposed within the hollow body for guiding the tendons.
In accordance with a further feature of the invention, the hollow body has a handle and a flexible section with a given length. The tendons extend substantially entirely over said given length. The tendons float in said handle when said hollow body is in said relatively flexible condition, but are rigidly attached at said distal end. The tendons are not under tension both in said relatively flexible and in the relatively stiff conditions.
In accordance with an added feature of the invention, vertebrae are disposed within said hollow body for guiding said tendons. The vertebrae include a distal-most vertebra at which said tendons are attached.
In accordance with an additional feature of the invention, the hollow body may have a longitudinal slit formed therein for radially loading the hollow body onto the instrument. The slit may be sealed by a closure, such as a slide or press zipper used for plastic storage bags, permitting the device to be resealed after the hollow body has been loaded.
In accordance with yet another feature of the invention, the hollow body has a coil for maintaining a circular cross section. The coil may be a bookbinding-type coil to permit loading of the hollow body on the instrument. Such a bookbinding-type coil is known as a ring wire, double wire, double loop or twin loop binding.
In accordance with yet a further feature of the invention, the hollow body has a handle, a distal end cap to accommodate differently sized instruments, and a flexible portion having a predetermined length in a longitudinal direction between said handle and said distal end cap. The hollow body and said tendons extend entirely along said predetermined length.
In accordance with yet an added feature of the invention, locking pads encircle said tendons in a friction lock area transversely to said longitudinal direction for frictionally locking said tendons in place in addition to said friction locking by said inner and outer sleeves.
In accordance with a concomitant feature of the invention, the handle is an outer handle and the hollow body has an inner handle within said outer handle. The inner handle has channel grooves permitting movement of said tendons. The inner handle has a groove formed therein receiving an O-ring for sealing a space between said outer handle and said inner handle.
Therefore, according to the invention, both a transitioning device using a vacuum to cause contact between the inner and outer sleeves and tendons supporting the stiffening but being free of tension, are combined to enhance the reliability of the device. The capability of loading the hollow body onto the instrument at any time during a procedure also exists by virtue of the slit in the hollow body.
Other features which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set forth in the appended claims.
Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in a variably flexible insertion device and a method for variably flexing an insertion device, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims.
The construction and method of operation of the invention, however, together with additional objects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings.
Referring now to the figures of the drawings in detail and first, particularly, to
As is seen in
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According to another embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in
The operation of the variably flexible insertion device 1 is best understood by making reference to
The tendons or wires 11 are passive elements which are not in tension at any time. The tendons float within the hollow body when it is in the flexible condition, except at the distal end. The tendons are frictionally locked by the inner sleeve 35 and the outer sleeve 6 when the hollow body is in the stiff condition. However, in both the relatively flexible condition and the relatively stiff condition, the tendons have no active control imposed on them and are not pulled or constrained.
When it is desired to resume flexibility of the device 1, the vacuum in the space 34 is replaced by air at ambient or positive pressure. This causes the inner sleeve 35 and the outer sleeve 6 to release the tendons 11 and allows the stiffness or spring constant k of the coil 36 to place the device 1 into its normally flexible condition. If friction locking pads 25 are used, they also relax and expand, which in turn releases the tendons 11.
The device is intended to be used in a manner similar to prior art devices. Therefore, the device will be placed over the endoscope. The endoscope will then be inserted into the rectum. The device will then be pushed in its flexible condition, to follow the curvature of the scope. The device will then be stiffened, allowing the scope to be pushed forward with less pressure exerted on the colon of the patient. This procedure can be repeated until the scope reaches the cecum.
An alternative use of the device is to aid in small bowel endoscopy. The device is placed over the endoscope. The endoscope is inserted into the patient transorally, through the stomach and then partially into the small bowel. The device is then pushed in its flexible condition, to follow the curvature of the scope. The device is then stiffened, allowing the scope to be pushed forward without the scope looping in the stomach.
Another use of the device is for aiding in access to internal body parts, such as the gallbladder, through an opening of an internal body cavity, such as the stomach. The device is placed over the endoscope. The endoscope is inserted into the patient transorally, through the stomach and then up against the internal surface of the stomach. The device is then pushed in its flexible condition, to follow the curvature of the scope. The device is then stiffened, allowing the surgeon to create an opening in the stomach wall without the scope looping in the stomach. Once the opening is created, the device and the scope can be advanced outside the stomach. The device can then be stiffened to create a stable platform to perform surgical procedures outside of the stomach. The device could contain one or more features (i.e. balloons) for sealing the outer periphery of the device to the stomach wall to prevent gastric fluids from exiting the stomach.
According to the other embodiment of the invention, the device is capable of being loaded on the instrument or scope after the scope is inserted into the patient. In this embodiment, the slit down the length of the device allows it to be loaded on the scope so that the scope is inserted radially into the hollow body.
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The London Mayor Ken Livingstone's problematic mission to clear a 500-acre industrial site for the London Olympics in 2012 has received a boost after the largest of the companies situated there agreed to move.
Sortex, a Swiss-owned firm with 200 staff which makes industrial sorting machines, has agreed a compensation package with the London Development Agency, which handles property deals for the Mayor.
Both parties had planned to make the announcement in the new year in a move bound to put pressure on the refuseniks - about 280 businesses - to settle with the LDA.
The LDA will pay for Sortex, twice winner of the UK exporter of the year award, to leave its premises at Lower Lea Valley in Stratford, east London, for a plot at Royal Albert Docks near City airport in the Docklands. The company hopes to complete the move before October 2007.
"The deal was concluded last Thursday," Sortex's managing director Bruno Kilshaw said. "I feel lucky but have sympathy for the other neighbouring businesses who do not have the same profile as us." He said he was not permitted by the LDA to reveal the terms of the deal.
As the largest of the businesses that need to move before the site is cleared forbulldozers in July 2007, Sortex was under the greatest time pressure. Its managers advised a deal was needed in July 2005 to relocate with minimal disruption.
The LDA recently increased its budget for relocating the businesses to about £1bn after complaints their valuations were too low and there was a scarcity of alternative sites nearby.
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The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Veterinary Association Northern Ireland have welcomed the announcement that pre-export testing for brucellosis in Northern Ireland will be made redundant.
Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that can be found in livestock and can cause long-lasting, flu-like symptoms, according to NHS Choices.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill MLA announced on Wednesday 27 January that pre-export testing for brucellosis in Northern Ireland will be done away with from Monday 1 February.
The news comes after the EU declared in October of last year that the country was officially brucellosis-free, meaning that cattle aged 12 months will no longer be required to go through a pre-export brucellosis test.
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The city administration has extended the deadline till October 31 for the private security agencies to obtain licences to operate their firms as per the norm of the Haryana government.
Out of around thousands, only 197 firms have applied for the licences since September 2010, when the state government introduced the Haryana Private Security Agencies Rules to check the mushrooming "fly-by-night" security company operators. Among the applicants, only 28 have got the licence in the state.
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My Grandfather was German, stood about six feet tall and swam every day for decades. He took pride in his discipline. As a young boy I looked at him with awe.
Like many thoughtful loving people in this world he got a sign that his time would come to an end. It was the late 90's and his doctor told him he had cancer. 'Leukemia', he said. We were all devastated.
A slew of advisors and aids jumped on his case. Each took up a roll, from his general practitioner to his specialist, from the doctor at Northwestern to the priest from his local church. His old buddies from the war wrote gathered together and wrote him letters of encouragement.
But when it came to one final type of aid, hospice, he was unable to take the assistance.
Why? To be honest, I don't know. I can only imagine that it would be absolutely heartbreaking to admit that you're going to die. To admit to yourself that you can no longer kiss your wife or snuggle under covers on a cool winter morning, to know that soon you will no longer see the golden sunrise through pine trees or wrap your arms around a grandchild jumping with excitement to see you.
I have spoken with many people about their caregiving process of a loved one who is slipping away. For nearly every single person, hospice was a godsend.
I highly encourage you to consider it. In those final moments Hospice workers will give you the chance to sleep for 20 minutes after you've been up for three days. They will help you to say what you need to say before the end. They will give your loved one medication to ease the pain and tell them the crucial words, 'You matter'.
To give you some background in making your decision about hospice, we will be addressing three questions in this post:
- What is hospice?
- What services does hospice provide?
- How do you sign up for hospice?
I. What is Hospice?
Hospice provides nursing, medical care and emotional support to dying patients and their families. Hospice groups can be found throughout the U.S. (find one near you here).
Hospice care is generally provided in the home of the dying patient (though sometimes it's offered in a nursing home or hospital), and it focuses on making the person comfortable during their final weeks or months. Hospice becomes the hub for all medical activity, working directly with the patient's doctor and hospital to coordinate care. Hospice staff can also prescribe and administer medication.
Hospice acknowledges that providing care can be stressful and exhausting, so another focus is on the family and main caregiver. Social workers, nursing aides, volunteers, and religious leaders sit down with the family and discuss emotional challenges, help with items around the house and lend a hand wherever it is needed.
Anyone who is seriously ill and nearing the end of life is eligible for hospice. There are, however, a few criteria that someone seeking hospice services must meet:
- Be within six months of passing
- Have a primary caregiver in the home
- Be willing to no longer receive curative treatment
- Have a do-not-resuscitate order (for most but not all hospice groups)
Hospice groups take their current workloads into account when considering taking on new patients. Generally, a group that's less overwhelmed will be more relaxed on the above requirements.
If you run into a couple Hospice groups that do not have capacity to take on your loved one keep looking. It is highly likely that you will find one in your area that has availability (particularly if you live in an Urban area with multiple organizations).
Palliative Care v. Hospice
Think of palliative care as a medical method and hospice as a medical organization. Like hospice, palliative care focuses on patients who won't respond to curative treatment and who are generally within six months of death. The theme of palliative care is comfort and dignity in dying. Once a patient (or the family) chooses palliative care as the primary form of medical treatment, a team of doctors, social workers and others put together a plan for care. They prescribe pain mediation, may move the patient home and can arrange for support and caregiving.
Hospice is a group of institutions that practice palliative care. Some palliative care sections of hospitals are run by hospice groups.
Can you have a palliative care team at a hospital and also access hospice services? Yes. You should explore both, because not only is hospice free, but it might offer more services than your loved one will receive at the hospital. Hospice groups may be more able to:
- Send nurses to your home
- Provide support and respite care for family caregivers
- Cover the cost of transfer from a nursing home
- Supply volunteers to help with chores at home
Common Concerns About Hospice
- "Hospice probably isn't available to my loved one." – Hospice is available to anyone within six months of death
- "It's not that bad yet." – Sign up with hospice in advance so that Hospice will have enough time to line up someone for your family.
- "It may be too late!" – Initiating care can take as little as one to two days if the situation is serious.
- "We already have palliative care." – Hospice can offer additional services.
- "Hospice is just for the patient." – One of the goals of hospice is to provide care for the caregiver and family.
- "I'm not sure if it's the best fit." – Hospice care can always be stopped.
II. What Services Does Hospice Provide?
Services offered vary depending on the local hospice group you're dealing with, and our loved one's needs will likely change with time. It's important to understand exactly what type of care is available to you.
There are more than 8,000 hospice organizations in the U.S. While they all have a common base level of service (end-of-life care), offerings beyond that vary greatly from group to group. Some provide services at home or in a hospital setting, but many only provide services at home.
It can be difficult for patients and their families to decide if the home or hospital setting will best suit their needs. Use the below table as a checklist as you talk to different hospice groups.
Illnesses common among Hospice patients
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How Does Hospice Get Paid?
Generally, hospice gets paid in three ways: through Medicare or Medicaid, through private insurance, and through private donations. Many hospice organizations will first turn to Medicare or Medicaid or to your private health insurance policy. For any costs beyond that, hospice turns to private donations. Most importantly, hospice does not require the ill individual or their family to pay any money out of pocket.
Hospice works directly with Medicare or Medicaid and private insurers to collect funds for services. Once your family provides the initial set of information, you won't be involved in the billing process.
III. How Do You Sign Up For Hospice?
Signing up for hospice services usually takes about two weeks. With that said, in a crisis situation hospice can often be in your home and providing nursing services in a matter of one to two days. (Around major holiday weekends, emergency staffing may not be available).
If at all possible, prepare the paperwork (discussed below) and bring hospice into your loved one's home before the services are desperately needed. This can be a challenge, but building in a few extra weeks means you'll be able to take advantage of the full set of services from hospice.
Here are some general guidelines on timing:
- Day 1 – 3: Talking to your loved one
- Day 3 – 8: Researching local hospice groups
- Day 9 – 11: Enrolling in Hospice
- Day 12: Hospice intake interview
- Day 13 – Ongoing: Receiving hospice visits
Days 1-3: Talking to your loved one
Explain the basics of the services that will be provided. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and Hospice Foundation of America are good resources for additional information
This is a difficult conversation. Your ill loved one will need to understand and begin to accept that death is near. It's necessary to get to this point for hospice services to commence. Without this acknowledgement from the ill individual Hospice will not come into the home.
The reason for this is because their medical focus is on providing comfort based and not rehabilitative care. Emotionally they want the ill individual to be in the same place.
Day 3-8: Researching local hospice groups
Step 1: Locate a hospice organization
Check here to find hospice services in your area. Identify three to four hospice groups you'd like to learn more about. Puruse their websites and review the basic set of services offered.
Step 2: Set up an informational call
Once you've identified a few local hospice organizations, set aside time to call them. Most are open Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (24-hour phone support is usually exclusively for current clients).
Ask to speak to a nurse or case manager about the general services provided by the organization. Explain briefly that you have an ill family member and would like to learn a bit more about their program. Allow 20 to 45 minutes for each call.
Step 3: Ask targeted questions
Review "Overview of hospice services" (link to higher in the post) prior to calling, and write out any additional questions you have regarding your particular situation. At bare minimum, you should expect each service listed in the "All hospice organizations" column to be offered. AARP offers a helpful list of questions you might consider asking as you make these calls:
- What services do you provide?
- How soon can services begin?
- What kind of support can the family, and especially the caregiver, expect?
- What will a hospice volunteer do for the patient?
- What role will the general physician play?
- How will hospice keep the patient comfortable and free of pain?
- Does the program provide services 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
- Does it offer inpatient services at a hospital or other facility? If so, where?
- Does it offer services in nursing homes and long-term care facilities?
- Does it offer services in a hospital?
- Is this hospice program Medicare certified and state licensed?
- How will the hospice staff follow the patient's wishes? What happens if they don't?
Step 4: Follow up
As you talk to different hospice organizations, you'll learn more about what's important to you and your family. Circle back to the organizations whose end-of-life care approach and services resonate with you.
Once you feel comfortable with a specific organization and confident in their ability to provide the services you value, it's time to move forward.
Day 9-11: Enrolling in hospice
For your loved one to receive hospice care, you must get authorization from the primary care doctor that death is less than six months away. Either ask the doctor to contact the hospice, or ask the hospice to contact the doctor. It's possible to get authorization in as little as a day, but it could take longer if the doctor is busy caring for other patients.
Day 12: Hospice intake interview
After receiving authorization from the physician, the hospice will send a nurse or a social worker to his or her home to interview your loved one for intake and to offer additional information to you and your family. This is a good opportunity for you to ask questions, asses whether the organization is a good fit and learn more about the logistics of the program. Your loved one's primary caregiver, who will be interacting with the hospice providers regularly, must be present at this meeting. Family members and friends are also welcome to participate.
Information gathering
During the intake interview, the nurse or social worker will ask for your loved one's basic personal information: name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and insurance information, as well as approximate height and weight. Collect this information in advance.
Then they'll share background information about the hospice program. They'll talk about nurses visiting the home, partnership with the primary care physician and assistance with obtaining medical devices, among many other things.
They'll also ask you and your family questions, such as:
- What does comfort mean to you? What are your near-term goals?
- Who is providing caregiving? How often?
- Do you have a DNR (do-not-resuscitate) order in place?
- Are you comfortable with pain medication?
- Does your loved one have any conditions that require a specific type of care?
Assessment of services needed
Hospice also uses this first visit to assess what services will be needed and how often. For example, should nurses come by twice a week or every day? Does the family need help around the house? What type of medical equipment should be brought into the home?
They'll answer these questions by talking to the family and caregivers to get a sense for the current level of care, and by conducting a physical examination of the patient. They're assessing things like vital signs, bowel and bladder status, and skin condition (for example, bed sores).
What should you advocate for?
- Get as many nursing visits a week as you can – Visits from medical professionals provide the ill with comfort and confidence. Lobby hard for daily visits.
- Watch pain medication dosage – Be involved and present when pain medication is administered. It only takes one bad mistake.
- Get support for the family – Caregivers face stress, sleep deprivation and financial difficulty. Support and some breaks are necessary to be an effective caregiver.
- Secure the best possible care for a few months down the road – Understand your loved one's support options in the hospital or nursing home setting.
The hospice nurse will bring all of this information to the staff doctor, who will decide whether to admit your loved one and work with the nurse to set up a care plan.
Day 13 – Ongoing: Receiving hospice visits
Hospice will set up a weekly schedule with you and your family. This will include visits from nurses, doctors and aides. They'll share a phone number where a nurse can be reached 24/7. Remember, you can adjust or even halt hospice services any time you wish.
Hospice provides you and your loved ones with support and care during a difficult time. It may not seem like you need it today, but it's important to get the ball rolling and explore hospice services before they're needed.
In our country, many programs for the elderly are insufficient, low-quality or non-existent. Hospice is one program I've heard positive things about from the vast majority of people I've talked to.
Hospice workers are experienced with the process of dying and know how to guide a family through it. They can provide care, comfort, and relief to the patient as well to family members.
If you need to contact a local Hospice organization click here to find one in your area.
Posted in End Of Life Care
December 11, 2014
By: JP Adams


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Episode 15
838Cast Episode 15: Brown Twistable Colored Pencil
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Connor Gruver joins Paul and Ben to regale in the graphic tale of Paul's 21st birthday celebration. We also play a particularly nasty round of the Backpage Price is Right, along with the themed Ball Gag Karaoke and Craigslist Confessionals. Some food news is shared and much more on this episode of the 838Cast!