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Steve Albini and Amanda Palmer: Piracy Only Helps Musicians
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Okay, here's a bit of a two-fer. With all of the attention that Amanda Palmer has been getting for her massively successful Kickstarter campaign, we had some commenters here questioning whether or not she would freak out if people then shared her music. Thankfully, in her latest update about the project she answers that and many other questions from some folks who are still a little confused about what's going on. But, for this post, let's focus on the simple question of "piracy" — since it's one that comes up often enough around here:
i think music should be shared. all the time. by everybody. i think it's pure insanity to make music filesharing illegal.
and with that said, i have, for years, encouraged my fans to burn, download and share all of my music with each other and with strangers.
and i will never stop doing that. all that sharing eventually comes back to me in all forms of income and goodwill.
This actually reminded me that, a few weeks earlier, famed music producer Steve Albini did an AMA on Reddit, in which he was asked a similar question, to which he responded:
I reject the term "piracy." It's people listening to music and sharing it with other people, and it's good for musicians because it widens the audience for music. The record industry doesn't like trading music because they see it as lost sales, but that's nonsense. Sales have declined because physical discs are no longer the distribution medium for mass-appeal pop music, and expecting people to treat files as physical objects to be inventoried and bought individually is absurd.
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Definitely true. Sharing music has made it so much easier for bands that relied on word-of-mouth to get their name out there if their label can't afford to distribute their album to every HMV/Best Buy in existence like most major label artists can. I stopped buying albums a year or so ago (I don't have much use for "physical music" aside from my vinyl collection since I'm either listening via my iPod or desktop PC), but I do my darndest to support the bands I enjoy by catching them when go on tour and grabbing some merch, or buying something from their webstore if they're a band from overseas that can't afford to tour in North America yet. Big labels aren't even taking that much of a hit from sales, it's just that they're starting to stagnate as less and less people find a need to buy music when it's so much more convenient to just click a mouse a few times and wait 30 minutes or so for your download to finish.
I'd also like to think that big labels are worried that it's now easier to find music that's a lot better than your top usual top 40 fare and they're afraid that people will catch on to their ruse, but that might just be wishful thinking on my part.


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You Can't Draw Away Scarcity
Why on earth does an artist's rendition of some future utopia merit public policy debate?
Recently, an artist drew a pretty picture of what he imagined high-speed rail could look like in a utopian United States. Why is it utopia you ask? Because only in a utopian world without scarcity could the sparsely populated United States sustain high-speed rail. However, in our current world with scarce resources, high-speed rail can only exist in pretty pictures and in thick red ink on government expense sheets. It is simply not a profitable venture, which is why you see private resources staying far away from rail transit. Nevertheless, big government does not shy away from big losses like the private sector. I can see the slogan now, "No loss is too big to scare us away!"
9News came by the Independence Institute offices the other day to get my thoughts on the whole issue. You can watch the video here, or below in the player.
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The more I hear, and see actions, on gun control the more our Constitutional rights are slowly neutered. Sure, you can own guns but you can't get ammunition. I wonder how much of gov't gun control goes back to Athens, TN 1946 and the "Battle of Athens". I've heard the one thing the USSR feared if they ever invade the USA was private gun ownership.
Gun control by the Democrats is not about public safety but rather the ability of the Left to slowly take more and greater control by emotional compromise. Even Joe Biden is in Colorado bullying STATE Democrats to follow the federal party line.
Look at the Constitutional that are being perverted: 1st, 2nd, 10th, 12th. The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th have been promised to enemy combatants yet it is now OK to use drones with Hellfire missiles on US citizens if there is a possibility they may be terrorist leaders – shoot first, ask questions later. Call me a proud "Birther" but where is it that proof is REQUIRED for sentors and POTUS to be on a ballot? Guess you could say I am just as qualified to fly commercial jets never having to produce certification from flight school. Yet, for any job in the USA I need to fill out a validated gov't required I-9 form with acceptable ID. No need to discuss voter ID…
"Immigration reform" is about more voters for the Left.
Nanny state entitlements are designed build a lasting voting base.
Personal freedom comes at the cost of personal accountability and responsibility. Too many people in America, citizens and illegal aliens, are willing to give up freedom for domination by a handful that are nothing special except they crave narcissistic control over others eventually ending in self-destruction of all. I give you Greece and the USSR as prime examples, even ancient Greece bankrupted themselves into collapse.
The Right has encouraged peaceful change back to Constitutional law. It isn't working especially as long as the Left controls public education, and now Obama pushes for gov't education indoctrination to 4 year olds with the same "K-12″ type teachers, re: NEA/unions.
Meanwhile, the Left has gone violent, demanding and throwing tantrums until their will and PC is heeded. Unfortunately, the Left's approach is working just as it did for Lenin and his "useful idiots", and we saw what that revolution to utopia created, as it does each time: Cuba, North Korea, China, 1930s Germany (BTW, "Cabaret" was based on true events in 1930s Germany), etc.
I do fear we have gone over the Left edge and the US Constitution will be regarded as an historical document to be marveled at, not followed, like the Magna Carta. Gun control is a tenant, as is socialized medical care, in the Left's playbook. Logic and reason are no match for emotion and PC which drives the Left's agenda. Add to this the "mainstream media" with their Pravda-style reporting. I fear it is Checkmate.
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A specialist in cardiology, Dr. Mirza received his medical degree from Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He served as an intern at and resident at Rush Presbyterian Saint Luke Roosevelt Medical Center, Grant/Westlake Hospitals, Chicago. After residency training, Dr. Mirza practiced internal medicine, serving as Chief of the Medical Staff and Director of the Intensive Care Unit at Lee County Hospital, Pennington Gap, Va.
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You just need to practice, practice, practice in order to expect the best.
Hello, my name is Monica and I'm a So You Think You Can Dance fan. I might as well admit it; I'm pretty much hooked on all reality TV dance shows. Friday night I was in the audience of the Season 7 So You Think You Can Dance road show with several thousand appreciative teenagers and a few thousand equally loud preteens. Regardless the difference in age (and attire) we were all there for the same reason: To see our favorite dancers do what they do so incredibly well, dance! And dance, they did, with seeming abandon now that the judges weren't around to critique them.
In a perfect blend of talent and training, over and over the dancers flew through the air trusting they'd be caught. One of the numbers involved all the male dancers in black and white and Lauren, this year's winner of America's favorite SYTYCD dancer, in a confection of pink tulle. What got my attention (aside from the costumes) and kept me on the edge of my seat was the coordination of effort the dance required and the trust the dancers, especially Lauren, had to have in each other. At one point I was seriously worried. Lauren was dancing away on a spindly chair atop a long table and, to add a degree of difficulty, was being pushed from one end of the table to the other, spun, lifted and shoved to the other end again not by just one handler but by just about everyone in the ensemble at one point or another. One wrong move and, splat, someone could get hurt. But the routine was flawless.
Wow, I thought, this takes "expecting the best" to an all new high. Why were they able to make those death defying catches look so easy? Well, duh, they trusted one another because they practiced and practiced and practiced until they got each move down perfectly. Their hard work allowed them to expect the best of each other.
In the audience, I too expected the best. I expected the dancers to have mastered the choreography. And I wasn't disappointed. In fact, the dancers took marvelous routines I'd already seen on TV and kicked them up a notch… maybe a dozen notches… maybe two dozen! I was more than delighted (as the people sitting near me no doubt were aware).
As I sat there in my narrow stadium seat, I had a minor epiphany about service delivery and expecting the best. Here's what occurred to me:
- Customer service representatives, technical support reps, field engineers and sales associates who "expect the best" of themselves and their coworkers are in a great position to not just satisfy customers but to surprise and delight them.
- To expect the best, you need to "master the choreography". You need to understand what to do, why to do it, and how to do it perfectly. Then you need to practice doing "your dance" under the guidance and coaching of a "master" until you perfect every more.
- You also need to understand you're not working alone. The goal has to be to synchronize your actions with the work of others in your organization. This requires understanding what other people do and how what you do impacts your coworkers and ultimately your customer. That's called the "ripple effect" and I'll save that topic for another post.
- Finally, customers expect you to "know the choreography" of your job. When you master your job, are in sync with the rest of the organization and understand how you fit into the overall picture, you can kick your service up a notch. You have a chance to surprise, delight, impress and give the customer a superior experience.
So there you have it. I bet you can't wait to see what I'll come up with after watching Dancing With The Stars!


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The bronchial venous system closely communicates with the pulmonary circulation. To assess the changes in the bronchial circulation in chronic pulmonary venous hypertension, fiberoptic bronchoscopy and right heart catheterization were performed in 31 patients with mitral stenosis. Nonpulsatile submucosal vessel dilatation, consistently seen in all patients and called the vessel dilatation score, was assessed visually by three independent bronchoscopists. The vessel dilatation score was correlated more closely with pulmonary artery wedge pressure (r = 0.687) (p less than 0.001) than to mean pulmonary artery pressure (r = 0.531) (p less than 0.01) and right atrial pressure (r = 0.178) (NS). The vessel dilatation score decreased after reduction of the left atrial load by surgery. These results suggest that the dilated vessels observed in patients with mitral stenosis are bronchial veins that are engorged secondary to increased blood flow via bronchopulmonary anastomoses.
S-100 protein immunostaining has been advocated to identify the characteristic Langerhans' cells in the histologic diagnosis of PEG. Reliable demonstration of an increased number of Langerhans' cells is essential in difficult biopsy cases, since occasional Langerhans' cells can be found in other pulmonary lesions. We examined the S-100 protein labeling pattern in three cases of PEG and in a variety of controls. Non-Langerhans' histiocytes were labeled for lysozyme antigen on the same histologic sections using a combined ABC and PAP technique. This verified that the S-100 protein-negative histiocytes were indeed a separate population from the S-100 protein-positive histiocytes and did not represent Langerhans' cells which failed to label with antiserum to S-100 protein. This technique confirms the usefulness of S-100 protein staining in the diagnosis of PEG and offers a means to verify the reliability of the S-100 protein labeling in questionable cases.
Coronary bypass patients less than 40 years of age were identified and compared with a control group previously studied at our hospital. In patients less than 40 years, the average age was 35 years. Men comprised 90.1 percent of group 1, and 83.4 percent of group 2. Operative mortality was 2.89 percent for group 1 and 2.1 percent for group 2. Patients less than 40 years were more likely to have positive family history (46.3 percent vs 21.94 percent), elevated cholesterol levels (25.62 vs 11.36 percent), and be smokers (59.09 vs 39.9 percent). Group 1 patients were less likely to have diabetes (4.54 vs 13.37 percent) or hypertension (18.18 vs 31.43 percent). The percentage of late deaths was much higher for younger patients. Postoperative angina and the need for reoperation was higher in group 1.
The efficacy of a nasopharyngeal tube was evaluated in 44 patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Twenty-four of these patients underwent repeated polysomnographic studies with the nasopharyngeal tube in place. They had a 62.3 percent decrease in apnea index and a 39.2 percent decrease in disordered breathing events/h. The nasopharyngeal tube was successful in 16 of the 24 patients (66.7 percent efficacy), and overall patient tolerance of the tube was 44.2 percent. The nasopharyngeal tube failures had a higher apnea + hypopnea index, lower SaO2 nadir, and a higher PaCO2 than the nasopharyngeal tube successes. They were also heavier than the successful patients. The nasopharyngeal tube is a useful alternative treatment for patients with OSA syndrome and may be used as an immediate therapeutic modality while the patient loses weight or as an alternative for those patients who fail or cannot tolerate nasal continuous positive airway pressure.
Total body oxygen uptake (VO2) increases during the transition from machine-assisted ventilation to spontaneous breathing. Since the volume of oxygen consumed by the respiratory muscles must contribute to the increase in VO2 (delta VO2), we explored whether delta VO2 and/or measurements of respiratory power output (Wresp) provide clinically useful information in the evaluation of disease state and weaning decisions in patients with respiratory failure. We determined the metabolic, ventilatory, and hemodynamic responses of ten patients during weaning from controlled mechanical ventilation, and compared delta VO2 and Wresp of patients without overt heart-lung disease (group 1) to that of patients with significant cardiopulmonary dysfunction and ventilator-dependent respiratory failure (group 2). We reasoned that for delta VO2 to be clinically useful, individual values must either clearly differ between groups, must be higher in patients with heart-lung disease, and/or correlate with weaning outcome and independent measurements of respiratory work. The VO2 increased in nine of ten patients. The differences between the groups in the values of delta VO2 (27 ml/min and 49 ml/min) and respiratory power (9.38 J/min and 11.99 J/min) were not significant. delta VO2 and Wresp were not correlated (r = 0.2), and neither predicted weaning outcome. We conclude that the sensitivity and specificity of delta VO2 and Wresp appear insufficient for evaluation of disease state and weaning decisions in individual patients.
Objective evidence of improvement from participation in an outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program in a community hospital is shown. Selection criteria included a decrease in functional capacity due to pulmonary disease, stability of underlying pulmonary disease, proper motivation, the absence of other significant diseases, and evidence of continued improvement in the course of the program. Objective evidence of improved functional ability, as measured by treadmill exercise testing and improved understanding of their disease, was demonstrated in 86 percent of patients who completed the program. An increased work load was performed at a lower heart rate and respiratory rate. Eleven of 41 patients reached anaerobic threshold at a higher work load. Most importantly, however, was improved quality of life. In follow-up of 101 patients from one to five years later, 31.7 percent remained improved, while 31.7 percent had died, and 36.5 percent were worse from progression of pulmonary or occurrence of other diseases. Outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation can be objectively shown to be an important therapeutic tool in the treatment of patients with pulmonary disease.
Previous reports of pulmonary rehabilitation programs have demonstrated improvement in exercise capacity in subjects with disabling pulmonary disease. However, the cost-effectiveness, benefits to outpatients in a community setting, durability of these improvements, and mechanism of improved exercise capacity remain unclear. Forty-four patients with an average FEV1 of 33 +/- 4 percent of predicted completed a six-week long period of supervised treadmill exercise, as well as a continuing home program. Twenty percent had previously unsuspected cardiac disease discovered through the program, while 36 percent had previously unsuspected exercise desaturation. Cardiopulmonary stress testing before and after the program revealed a 73 +/- 16 percent improvement in aerobic capacity (METs peak [power]) and a 250 +/- 78 percent improvement in endurance (MET-min [work]). No significant change was seen in VE max, HR max, FEV1, or the degree of exercise desaturation. Only a small improvement was noted in VO2 max (15 +/- 8 percent) and O2 pulse (16 +/- 8 percent), suggesting that most of the improvement was due to improved muscle efficiency. Follow-up testing at 12 +/- 3 months in 24 subjects revealed that 89 +/- 7 percent of the peak exercise performance was maintained. The cost of the basic program was +800. The results demonstrated that an outpatient community hospital pulmonary rehabilitation program can accomplish substantial exercise capacity improvement with sustained benefits in a cost-effective manner.
In 100 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we found no significant correlation between simultaneous measurements of right ventricular ejection fraction, using radionuclide ventriculography, and pulmonary arterial pressure. There was, however, a weak but significant correlation between right ventricular ejection fraction and the pulmonary vascular resistance (r = 0.40, p less than 0.005). In 52 of these patients, 37 with pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular end-systolic volume index was 53 +/- 21 ml.m-2 and end-diastolic volume index was 86 +/- 27 ml.m-2, compared with a calculated mean of 33 ml.m-2 and 79 ml.m-2, respectively, for normal subjects. In 24 of these patients where the measurements were made at rest and on exercise, the mean right ventricular end-systolic volume increased from 66 +/- 20 ml.m-2 to 87 +/- 32 ml.m-2, with an increase in right ventricular systolic pressure from 28 +/- 9 mm Hg to 55 +/- 15 mm Hg. Analysis of the slope of the right ventricular end-systolic pressure volume relationship at rest and on exercise suggested relatively normal right ventricular contractility in the majority of patients. Thus, in these patients with stable COPD, despite the presence of pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular contractility remained relatively normal.
Survivors of high-risk surgical operations were previously observed to have significantly higher mean CI, DO2, and VO2 than nonsurvivors. The hypothesis was proposed that increased CI and DO2 are circulatory compensations for increased postoperative metabolism. We tested this hypothesis in two series. In series 1, prospectively allocated by services, mortality and morbidity of the control group were significantly greater than those of the protocol group. In series 2, patients who fulfilled previously defined high-risk criteria were preoperatively randomized to one of three monitoring/treatment groups: CVP-control group, PA-control group and PA-protocol group. Postoperative mortalities in the CVP-control and PA-control groups were not statistically significantly different, but PA-protocol group mortality was significantly reduced compared with its control group. The PA-protocol group had reduced complications, duration of hospitalization, duration in ICU, and mechanical ventilation, and reduced costs when the PA catheter was placed preoperatively and used to augment circulatory responses.
A stratified random sample of a large state (Michigan) was studied by respiratory questionnaire, medical history, and physical examination. Data were obtained on 1,169 white adults. The prevalence of chronic bronchitis and chronic wheezing varied with sex (greater in men) and smoking history (greatest in current smokers). The prevalence of chronic bronchitis varied depending on whether it was (1) defined simply as chronic production of sputum, (2) diagnosed by the examining physician, or (3) previously diagnosed by a physician. Dyspnea was more common in women; in men, it was least common in nonsmokers but was of similar prevalence in ex-smokers and current smokers. Angina was more commonly reported by women, but previously diagnosed heart attack was consistently more common in men. Wheezing was by far the most common physical sign, present in 5.1 percent of the total population and 9.2 percent of male current smokers. Clubbing and rales were each noted in 1.2 percent of the total population. The prevalences of clinical findings in this cross section of a large state should be useful for comparison with other populations.
In a previous study we induced digital vasospasm with cold pressor stimulus, and an acute decrease in the lung diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (Dsb) resulted. We hypothesized its cause to be spasm occurring simultaneously in the pulmonary vasculature and the digital arteries. We measured in this study the Dsb, the diffusing capacity of the pulmonary membrane (Dm), and the volume of blood in the pulmonary capillaries (Vc) after cold-induced digital vasospasm in patients with Raynaud's phenomenon. Control subjects showed no significant decrease in Dsb, Dm, or Vc after cold exposure. Eight of 12 subjects with Raynaud's phenomenon had a significant decrease in Dsb 60 min after testing (25.3 +/- 6.6 vs 19.8 +/- 6.1 ml/min/mm Hg, p less than 0.01). The acute decrease in Dsb was due to a significant decrease in Vc (54 +/- 20 vs 39 +/- 10 ml, p less than 0.05), while Dm was unchanged (52 +/- 17 vs 51 +/- 20 ml/min). Four subjects who had a decrease in Dsb after cold challenge had repeated studies later after pretreatment with sublingual nifedipine. The magnitude of change in Dsb was similar to that observed in the untreated state (23.6 +/- 10.6 vs 20.9 +/- 9.6 ml/min/mm Hg). We conclude that digital vasospasm is accompanied by an acute reduction in Vc in both primary and secondary Raynaud's phenomenon and indicates concurrent vasoconstriction within the pulmonary vaculature.
As the actual mortality and morbidity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) have been unknown heretofore, we undertook a follow-up study of 198 OSAS patients seen at the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic between 1972 and 1980, for whom either tracheostomy (71 patients) or weight loss (127 patients) had been recommended. At five-year follow-up, all of the deaths (14) had occurred among those conservatively treated with weight-loss (a mortality rate of 11 per 100 patients per five years). These patents also had a higher five-year crude vascular mortality rate: 6.3 per 100 patients per five years, with an age-standardized vascular mortality rate of 5.9 per 100 patients per five years (95 percent confidence interval [CI] 2.5-11.6) vs 0 per 100 for the surgically treated population; this despite a lower mean apnea index (43 versus 69) and a lower mean body mass index (31 versus 34 kg/m2) in the conservatively treated group. With the fictional adjunction of one possible death at five-year follow-up in the surgically treated group, the age-adjusted odds of vascular mortality at five years for the conservatively treated group was 4.7. Our data therefore encourage "aggressive" treatment for patients with OSAS.
The present study was undertaken to determine if beta-agonists delivered by nebulizer provide better clinical responses than MDI therapy in status asthmaticus. We divided 28 hospitalized asthmatic patients into three groups. Group 1 received albuterol by MDI with InspirEase. Group 2 received nebulized albuterol. Group 3 received nebulized metaproterenol. Both nebulizer regimens resulted in significant improvements in both FVC and FEV1 by 30 min after initial hospital beta-agonist treatment. No significant improvement was noted in initial spirometry in the MDI with InspirEase group. In spite of the superiority of nebulizer therapy in the initial phase of hospitalization, the daily rates of spirometric improvement and duration of hospitalization were not significantly different among the three groups. Our results indicate that nebulizer therapy provides superior spirometric improvement in the initial phase of status asthmaticus. However, both MDI and nebulizer regimens provided similar rates of spirometric improvement and duration of hospitalization.
Bronchorrhea, defined as watery sputum of 100 ml or more per day, was seen in 18 of 207 patients (8.7 percent) with bronchial asthma during attack. Fifteen bronchorrhea sputum samples were chemically examined using ten parameters: dry weight, albumin, IgA, pH, Na+, Cl-, K+, prostaglandins E and F and histamine, and compared with eight saliva samples and 17 mucoid sputum samples. Bronchorrhea sputum differed from saliva in its chemical parameters. Bronchorrhea sputum exhibited parameter values intermediate between those of saliva and mucoid sputum, except for the two following parameters. The pH of bronchorrhea sputum was significantly lower than that of mucoid sputum and histamine concentration, expressed as weight per dry weight of sample, was significantly higher in bronchorrhea than in mucoid sputum. Administration of corticosteroid or an histamine H1-blocker to five to nine asthmatic patients with associated bronchorrhea sputum during asthmatic attacks, significantly reduced the volume of bronchorrhea sputum, whereas anticholinergics and H2-blocker did not alter the sputum volume.
Using a highly sensitive monoclonal antibody kit for CK-MB, significant release of small amounts of CK-MB isoenzyme after exercise stress test was detected 4 to 6 h after induction of ischemia. This occurred in ten out of 15 patients with ischemic heart disease (66 percent) and in only one of the 18 healthy subjects (5.6 percent) serving as a control group. In five patients with coronary artery disease in whom atrial pacing was performed with simultaneous blood sampling from coronary sinus, a drastic elevation in CK-MB isoenzyme (from 2.04 +/- 2.06 ng/L to 10.88 +/- 6.9 ng/L; p less than 0.001) was detected within 10 to 30 min after induction of acute ischemia. A small but significant increase in total CK also was detected (from 21 +/- 12 IU/L to 52 +/- 14IU/L; p less than 0.01). These preliminary observations have to be further investigated in a larger group of patients before a definitive conclusion can be reached about the clinical significance of CK-MB release during exercise.
The Federal Food and Drug Administration has a system for reporting problems with medical devices that requires manufacturers of medical devices to report medical complications or equipment malfunction that causes, or could cause, death or serious injury. In a two-year period, central venous catheters were associated with 170 complications: tissue perforation, loss of catheter integrity, (including: catheter separation, severance, break, rip, puncture, or leak), and other problems. Causes of the complications were related to device failure (12 percent), health care professionals (55 percent), patients (3 percent), or pathologic or physiologic aspects (3 percent); causes of 28 percent of the complications were indeterminable. Further analysis indicated that complications (especially tissue perforation) were primarily health professional technique-related. There were no reports of complications related to infection. Data support the need for more education in catheter application and the need to modify the system by which these data are reported to more reliably detect infection.
Surgical therapy for massive hemoptysis associated with pulmonary aspergilloma carries a high morbidity and mortality in patients with limited pulmonary reserve. Bronchial artery embolization has proven ineffective in treating and in preventing recurrent episodes of hemoptysis in this group of patients. Over a four-and-one-half year period, we have successfully treated six episodes of acute hemoptysis in four patients using a percutaneously placed catheter and intracavitary instillation of amphotericin B, N-acetylcysteine, and aminocaproic acid. Advantages of this method of treatment for patients with severely compromised pulmonary reserve include: (1) no further loss of lung function; (2) ease and rapidity of catheter insertion; (3) prompt response to treatment; (4) relatively short hospitalization; and (5) ability to repeat the procedure in the same or another cavity if necessary.
Cough capacity was evaluated in 22 patients with muscular dystrophy (MD) using subjective cough assessment, cough flow-volume curves, maximum expiratory pressures (MEP), forced vital capacity (FVC), and peak expiratory flow rates (PEFR). In ten of the 22 patients transients of peak flow were generated during cough flow-volume maneuvers, indicating dynamic compression of the airways, which is considered important in the physiology of an efficient cough. Patients who could not generate peak flow transients had significantly reduced PEFR, FVC, and MEP values. Measurement of MEP was the most sensitive predictor of flow transient production during coughing; all of the patients who exhibited transients had MEP values of above 60 cmH2O, whereas the highest value of MEP recorded in patients without transients was 45 cmH2O. Three of the 12 patients who were unable to generate flow transients were considered to have an adequate cough by subjective assessment. We concluded that the measurement of MEP is extremely useful for assessment of cough strength in patients with MD.
This report describes three cases of massive mobile right heart thrombus and reviews the available literature to better define the pathophysiology, natural history and most appropriate therapy of the syndrome. The clinical presentation of most patients has been severe cardiopulmonary dysfunction and the diagnosis has been made by echocardiographic study. The most likely source of these cardiac thrombi is the large systemic veins. The associated mortality risk is very high. Therapy has, heretofore, been individualized. Embolectomy has been most favored, with a survival rate of 80 percent. The role of thrombolytic therapy remains to be delineated. Therapy should, however, be initiated rapidly because of the precipitous nature of the mortality risk.
Although many of the pulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are well known, endobronchial involvement has not been previously described. We report the clinical, roentgenographic, and bronchoscopic features of three patients with endobronchial tuberculosis and AIDS. All of the patients had nonspecific symptoms of fever and cough; however, none exhibited the classic findings of dyspnea, wheezing, or hemoptysis. Smears of sputum were nondiagnostic. The chest x-ray film revealed mediastinal adenopathy in two patients and a lower lobe consolidation in the third; all had small ipsilateral pleural effusions. Endobronchial lesions were white or pink exophytic masses obstructing the airways, mimicking bronchogenic carcinoma. Areas of "classic" primary tuberculosis were seen in two of the patients. Despite ongoing clinical and roentgenographic deterioration, all patients responded well to antituberculosis medications. Given the frequency of tuberculosis in patients with AIDS and AIDS-related complex, one should maintain a high index of suspicion for involvement of the tracheobronchial tree, so as to avoid a delay in diagnosis and resultant increased morbidity and mortality.
Left ventricular ejection fractions were determined in 38 patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. No significant correlation between the severity of respiratory dysfunction or age and cardiac function was seen. We suggest that the cardiac status of each patient should be evaluated separately from his respiratory status, particularly when long-term assisted ventilation is being considered.
We present a 30-year-old man with pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary angiography showed multiple stenoses in the pulmonary vascular tree. We treated four of these stenoses by balloon angioplasty in three sessions. Pulmonary artery pressure was reduced from 90/25 mm Hg (mean 46) to 78/13 mm Hg (mean 35) with concomitant increase of aortic pressure from 105/60 mm Hg (mean 75) to 134/68 mm Hg (mean 90). Pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy showed increase of perfusion in the treated segments. Two procedures were followed by transient segmental pulmonary edema, but no other complications were noted. We conclude that balloon angioplasty is a promising method of lowering pulmonary artery pressure and improving pulmonary perfusion in suitable cases of pulmonary hypertension secondary to pulmonary embolism.
This study evaluates the ability of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using adsorbed mycobacterial sonicates as antigen to differentiate between patients with tuberculosis (TB) and patients with sarcoidosis. The study group consisted of 11 patients with active sarcoidosis, seven patients with sputum-positive tuberculosis, and seven normal control subjects. Serum specimens were subjected to ELISA. Serum anti-TB IgG optical density measured at 492 nm (mean +/- SD); pulmonary TB, 0.291 +/- 0.040; normal control subjects, 0.092 +/- 0.011; and sarcoidosis, 0.064 +/- 0.033 (TB vs sarcoid, p less than 10(-6)). This ELISA is a valuable test for the differentiation between sarcoidosis and TB.
A prospective, double-blind, randomized study of the role of corticosteroids in the treatment of tuberculous pleurisy was performed in 40 patients. All patients received adequate antituberculosis chemotherapy (isoniazid, 300 mg/day; rifampin, 450 mg/day; ethambutol, 20 mg/kg/day) for more than nine months. They were randomly assigned to take prednisolone 0.75 mg/kg/day orally or placebo for the initial treatment, which was tapered gradually for the next two to three months. Twenty-one were treated with steroids and 19 were given a placebo. The two groups were identical with regard to age, sex, duration from onset of symptoms to diagnosis, and initial amount of pleural effusion. The mean duration from symptoms (fever, chest pain, dyspnea) to relief was 2.4 days in the steroid-treated group, and 9.2 days in the placebo group (p less than 0.05). Complete reabsorption of pleural effusion occurred an average of 54.5 days in the steroid-treated group and 123.2 days in the placebo group (p less than 0.01). The development of residual pleural thickening was not influenced by the administration of corticosteroids. No serious side effects were noted during the treatment in either group. We conclude that the administration of corticosteroids, in conjunction with antituberculosis chemotherapy, will resolve the clinical symptoms more quickly and hasten the absorption of pleural effusion in patients with tuberculous pleurisy.
Resting energy expenditure can be obtained either by indirect calorimetry or from prediction equations. Several prediction equations were compared to the measured value of REE in a group of COPD patients with moderate to severe disease. Then, using the same group of patients, a new equation was derived by regression analysis and was prospectively tested on patients with similar characteristics. Equations derived from normal populations (Harris-Benedict, Wilmore nomogram) were shown to underestimate REE by 300-400 Kcal. Equations that use body weight as the only variable were found to be easier to use and did not appear to sacrifice accuracy. Quebbeman Ausman body weight, Quebbeman Ausman body surface area and a regression equation derived from COPD patients (males, REE = 11.5 x wt [kg] + 952; females, REE = 14.1 x wt [kg] + 515) performed better than other currently used equations. In both stable COPD and COPD with exacerbation, the mean predicted values fell within a standard deviation (+/- 167 Kcal) of measured values.
We observed 276 HIV-infected patients to determine the frequency, degree, and clinical presentation of the lymphocytic alveolitis in different stages of HIV disease, and also to identify the lymphocyte subsets involved. In 154 patients with proved lung infections or tumors (group A), bronchoalveolar lavage fluid showed lymphocytosis in 78 percent of cases. In 122 subjects (31 AIDS and 91 HIV-infected non-AIDS patients) without evidence of lung tumor or infection (group B), lymphocytic alveolitis was seen in 72 percent of cases. In 61 of 88 (69 percent) group B lymphocytic patients, we observed respiratory symptoms or diffuse interstitial opacities; however, we also observed such alveolitis in 27 of 46 (59 percent) group B patients free of respiratory symptoms and abnormality of chest x-ray film. This alveolitis was seen not only in AIDS or ARC patients but also at earlier stages of HIV infection. T-lymphocyte analysis showed a large majority (40 to 93 percent) of CD8 positive lymphocytes in the 37 patients tested. A dual fluorescence analysis revealed, in 18 subjects, that those cells were phenotypically cytotoxic (CD8 + D44 +). These findings suggest that, regardless of HIV-infection stages and of opportunistic lung infections, a CD8-positive T-lymphocyte alveolitis may be present in HIV-infected patients and could be responsible for cough, dyspnea, interstitial pneumonitis, and abnormalities of pulmonary function tests.
The value of ultrasonography and UGAB for diagnosing chest wall tumors was investigated in 21 patients of whom 13 had metastatic and eight benign disease. Chest wall tumor showed a hypoechoic mass with tapered edges. The margin between the tumor and lung was curved and smooth in all cases. Movement of the tumor during breathing was synchronized with that of the chest wall. We believe that the ultrasonography is of value in identifying tumors that are localized to the chest wall by examination of their margin and movement with respiration, in addition to their shape. Using UGAB, we were able to diagnose correctly all eight metastatic tumors and two of four benign tumors. UGAB is a safe and simple procedure for diagnosing chest wall tumors.
In 1985, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was requested by the House and Senate Aging Committees (US Congress) to study implications of life-sustaining technology and the elderly. One concern was mechanical ventilation of patients with critical illness or terminal conditions. Information was requested concerning the factors that influence treatment decisions. This report brings together opinions from medical experts in focus groups about a variety of issues raised by the OTA. The answers to those questions represent the therapeutic dilemma facing the decision-maker dealing with the elderly patient and a condition of prognostic uncertainty. Although a variety of responses is presented, some uniform trends among experts are evident. Considering the current public policy debate concerning catastrophic and long-term care of the elderly, the need is apparent to establish a clearing-house of information providing documentation, education, and networking. A documentation center would serve as a resource for public policy and program planning to serve the population that requires prolonged mechanical ventilation.
A simple technique for drainage for a giant bulla with balloon catheter using chemical irritants and fibrin glue is described. This method allows physical and functional improvement without major surgery in compromised patients with giant bullae.
Carcinogenesis is a well-known complication of radiation exposure. Ionizing radiation also leads to an increased incidence of benign tumors. A 36-year-old woman had a localized fibrous mesothelioma of the pleura and an ipsilateral breast carcinoma 23 years after receiving external radiation therapy for treatment of a chest wall keloid.
A large solitary mesothelioma was found to exhibit malignant features microscopically, but benign characteristics grossly, including a surgically curative resection. The mixed behavior of this tumor supports the evolving understanding of mesotheliomas as progeny of multipotential subserosal cells with capabilities of differentiating into several tissue types with varying degrees of anaplasia.
We investigated the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) and its association with mitral anular calcium (MAC) detected by Doppler echocardiography in 379 unselected elderly patients in a long-term health care facility. HC was present in 17 of 379 patients (4 percent). Of 17 patients with HC, ten (59 percent) had asymmetric septal hypertrophy, and seven (41 percent) had idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis with resting gradients of 20 to 110 mm Hg across the left ventricular outflow tract. The mean age of patients with HC was 85 +/- 7 years compared with 82 +/- 8 years in patients without HC (difference not significant). MAC was present in 13 of 17 patients (76 percent) with HC and in 176 of 362 (49 percent) without HC (p less than 0.025).
While receiving treatment for bladder carcinoma with intravesical BCG, a 78-year-old man developed a clinical illness and roentgenographic manifestation of miliary tuberculosis. The transbronchial lung biopsy demonstrated granulomas with giant cells. Treatment with antituberculosis therapy resulted in complete resolution of the illness. The pathogenesis of this complication was considered to be due to pulmonary infection by BCG from the bladder source and differs from previously reported cases of interstitial pulmonary infiltrates which more likely represent a hypersensitivity reaction to BCG.
A patient with symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome had signs of congestive cardiac failure. A sleep study fulfilled the criteria for sleep apnea. Features of Cheyne-Stokes respiration coexisted. Management of the cardiac failure by weight loss principally due to diuretic use eliminated the symptoms of sleep apnea.
Although Nd:YAG laser photoresection of endobronchial lung tumor can result in significant arterial oxygen desaturation, oxygen supplementation during procedures is often limited due to fear of intrabronchial combustion. We gave intermittent pulse supplemental oxygen to ten patients during 26 laser procedures performed under local anesthesia using SaO2 measured by a pulse oximeter as a guide. In four procedures (15.4 percent), severe oxygen desaturation contraindicated performing or completing laser phototherapy. In the remaining 22 procedures (84.6 percent), laser photoresection was safely and successfully performed without incident. Thus, pulse oximetry is a valuable tool and intermittent oxygen supplementation with pulse oximeter guidance an effective technique for maintaining adequate oxygenation during laser photoresection.
An asymptomatic 22-year-old man was evaluated for a persistent left lower lobe infiltrate. Barium enema and upper gastrointestinal series revealed colon and small bowel freely mobile in the left thorax. CT confirmed absence of the left hemidiaphragm. This is the first reported case of total absence of a hemidiaphragm in an adult, and extends the clinical spectrum of diaphragmatic defects where strangulation of hernia contents may occur , the asymptomatic presentation of complete absence of the hemidiaphragm with the unimpeded movement of abdominal contents suggests that no treatment is necessary.
Although pentamidine isethionate is effective in the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, it frequently causes serious adverse reactions. We report a case of reversible pentamidine-induced cardiotoxicity, characterized electrocardiographically by prolongation of the QT interval, T-wave inversion, and electrical alternans of the U-wave. In addition, the patient had repeated episodes of ventricular tachycardia that culminated in torsades de pointes. Our case re-emphasizes the need for close patient monitoring during pentamidine therapy.
Numerous techniques are currently employed to determine resectability of lung cancer to spare patients an unnecessary thoracotomy. Echocardiography may be used to demonstrate invasion of hilar lesions into the heart. We report a case in which echocardiography demonstrated nonresectability of a lung cancer which was confirmed via a Chamberlain procedure.
A patient with downhill azygos venous flow is reported. This reverse flow was due to an obstruction in the superior vena cava and the azygos entry due to Behçet's disease. Color flow mapping of the azygos vein, using transesophageal real-time two-dimensional Doppler echography, was used for both anatomic and hemodynamic analysis.
We report ultrastructural evidence of epithelial necrosis and alveolar collapse in a patient with usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). These changes were focal and confined to small areas characterized histologically by aggregates of interstitial fibroblasts embedded within a myxoid stroma (fibroblastic foci). Ultrastructurally, the denuded epithelial basal lamina in these areas showed deep infoldings into the interstitium, and the luminal surfaces of the resultant clefts often were re-epithelialized. These findings suggest that the fibroblastic foci commonly seen in UIP represent sites of acute lung injury, and that alveolar collapse following epithelial necrosis is an important mechanism of lung remodeling. In addition to new insights regarding the pathogenesis of fibrosis in UIP, these observations may have important implications for assessing prognosis and selecting treatment strategies.
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Owen Roe O'Neill
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Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill (ca. 1590–1649)
Born at Armagh in Ulster, Owen Roe ("Red Owen") was the son of Art MacBaron O'Neill and the nephew of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (1540-1616). Owen was educated by Franciscan monks but also trained for war from an early age, joining his uncle, father and brothers in the Nine Years War (1594-1603) against the English occupation of Ulster. Around 1605, he joined the Spanish army, enlisting in an Irish regiment raised for the Spanish service that was known as the Earl of Tyrone's and was commanded by Owen's cousin Henry O'Neill. After the "Flight of the Earls" in 1607, when Tyrone and other leading Irish noblemen were forced to flee from Ulster, O'Neill adopted the ideal of recovering Ulster for the native Irish and restoring the Roman Catholic faith to Ireland.
For more than thirty years, O'Neill led a distinguished career in the Spanish army. He served mainly in Flanders where Spain was fighting against the United Provinces of the Netherlands, whose revolt from Spanish rule resulted in the Eighty Years War (1568-1648). O'Neill was promoted to major and effectively commanded Tyrone's regiment after the death of Henry O'Neill in 1610. He was appointed colonel of a newly-raised Irish regiment in 1634 and achieved his most celebrated feat of arms in the Spanish service during Spain's war against France when he defended the frontier town of Arras with 1,500 troops against overwhelming odds during July and August 1640.
Through his contacts in Ireland, O'Neill was drawn into the intrigues that led to the Irish Uprising of October 1641, after which he left the Spanish service and returned to Ulster. O'Neill landed at Castledoe, County Donegal, in July 1642 with a company of veteran Irish soldiers and a supply of arms and ammunition. He was received warmly and acknowledged Lord-General of Confederate forces, but he was disappointed not to be recognised as Earl of Tyrone and chieftain of the O'Neills, the title being disputed by his kinsman, Sir Phelim O'Neill. Owen also came into conflict with the Royalist noblemen in the Assembly of Kilkenny who did not share his ambition to restore Irish sovereignty. Unwilling to trust him as general of all Confederate forces, the Assembly appointed him commander in Ulster, one of four regional commands.
The Ulster army was made up mainly of untrained, badly-disciplined recruits. With fewer than 600 regulars and lacking supplies, weapons and ammunition, O'Neill was unable to contain British forces in Ulster, where relentless raids by Major-General Monro's Covenanters and the Protestant Lagan Army forced many Irish to abandon their farms and adopt a nomadic lifestyle based on the creaght, following the Ulster army with their herds of cattle. O'Neill and the creaghts withdrew from Ulster towards Connacht, but were ambushed and defeated by Sir William Stewart and the Lagan Army at Clones in June 1643. After this setback, O'Neill moved his forces into County Meath to raid for supplies and to threaten Dublin from the north-west. When British forces under Lord Moore tried to drive him back, O'Neill took up a defensive position at Portlester. The British retreated when Lord Moore's head was blown off by a cannon shot aimed, according to legend, by O'Neill himself.
Often frustrated by the tortuous politics of the Confederate Assembly, O'Neill had no respite during the Cessation of Arms negotiated by the King's Lord-Lieutenant the Marquis of Ormond in September 1643 because the Ulster Scots refused to recognise the Cessation and continued to fight. The Assembly agreed to send an army against the Scots but commissioned the Earl of Castlehaven to command it rather than O'Neill. Castlehaven's Ulster campaign of 1644 was completely ineffective. In his frustration, O'Neill considered returning to the Spanish service but took heart from the arrival at Kilkenny of the papal nuncio, Archbishop Rinuccini, in November 1645. Rinuccini brought supplies of weapons and money that enabled O'Neill to pay and fully equip the Ulster army for the first time. Equally importantly, Rinuccini shared O'Neill's vision of driving out the Protestants and restoring the Catholic faith in Ireland.
In the spring of 1646, O'Neill marched against Major-General Robert Monro, commander of Scottish forces in Ulster, who attempted to join forces with a second British force from Coleraine and units of the Lagan Army at Glaslough in County Monaghan in preparation for an invasion of Leinster. O'Neill manoeuvred skillfully to lure Monro into attacking him and won a great victory at the battle of Benburb near Armagh on 5 June 1646.
Benburb was the biggest set-piece battle of the Confederate War and a major setback for the British in Ulster, but, split by internal divisions and engaged in futile negotiations with Ormond, the Confederates failed to follow up the military advantage of O'Neill's victory. Archbishop Rinuccini and the clergy wanted to abandon the negotiations altogether and to unite the Confederacy against the Protestant invaders. In September 1646, O'Neill marched to Kilkenny to support Rinuccini, who then forced the Supreme Council to agree to a Confederate attack on Dublin with the Ulster and Leinster armies. The combined army was the largest ever mustered by the Confederates, but command was given jointly to O'Neill and his rival Thomas Preston, who did not trust one another. Not only was the campaign against Dublin a military failure, it also prompted the Marquis of Ormond to hand the city over to the English Parliament rather than risk it falling to a Catholic army.
During 1647, moderate members of the Supreme Council succeeded in relegating O'Neill to service in Connacht and relied upon Preston to protect Kilkenny with the Leinster army. After Preston was decisively defeated by the Parliamentarians at the battle of Dungan's Hill, O'Neill was recalled to the defence of Leinster. However, the Ulster army had become discontented and mutinous and O'Neill was unable to recover territory lost to the energetic Parliamentarian commander Colonel Michael Jones. In May 1648, the Supreme Council negotiated a truce with Lord Inchiquin that enraged Archbishop Rinuccini to the extent that he threatened supporters of the Inchiquin Truce with excommunication. O'Neill remained loyal to Rinuccini. In June 1648, he declared war on the Supreme Council and marched against Kilkenny. Although he failed to capture the Confederate capital, he spent most of the summer pillaging the surrounding country and manoeuvring against Inchiquin and Confederate forces in Leinster.
The Marquis of Ormond returned to Ireland in September 1648 with the intention of negotiating an alliance between the Royalists and Confederates against the Parliamentarians. When the Second Ormond Peace was signed in January 1649, Archbishop Rinuccini departed from Ireland in despair. O'Neill refused all approaches to join the Royalist-Confederate coalition because Ormond would not commit himself to promising the restoration of Irish lands in Ulster as O'Neill demanded. When coalition forces moved against him during the summer of 1649, O'Neill was obliged to negotiate an unofficial truce with Colonel Monck, during which he agreed to support Parliament's garrison at Dundalk against Lord Inchiquin's forces in exchange for supplies of gunpowder. However, Inchiquin's cavalry siezed the powder convoy in a surprise attack and O'Neill withdrew into western Ulster where he also signed a truce with Sir Charles Coote. O'Neill's withdrawal drove away the Lagan Army and the Ulster Scots who had joined Ormond's coalition and were besieging Coote's garrison at Londonderry.
News of Cromwell's invasion of Ireland and the subsequent storming and massacre of Drogheda finally convinced O'Neill that an alliance with Ormond was his only hope of regaining Ulster. Ormond was desperate to gain the support of O'Neill and the Ulster army and came to terms with him in October 1649, promising on the King's behalf restoration of Irish lands in Ulster and freedom of the Catholic faith. Before they could join forces against the New Model Army, however, O'Neill fell ill. He died on 6 November 1649 at Cloughoughter Castle in County Cavan and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Franciscan priory at Cavan. The old belief that he was poisoned by the English is no longer generally accepted.
- Jerrold I. Casway, Owen Roe O'Neill, Oxford DNB, 2004
- G.A. Hayes-McCoy, Irish Battles, a military history of Ireland (London1968)
- Pádraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War 1641-49 (Cork 2001)
External links:
''Red'' Owen O'Neill's Timeline
Armagh, Armagh, UK
Age 29
November 6, 1649
Age 64
Cavan, County Cavan, Ireland


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Halloween Spooktacular
On Saturday October 27, Halloween Spooktacular is calling all costumes for live entertainment, food and music. A contest will also be held at the event, where the grand prize will be awarded to the most creative costume.
The Halloween Spooktacular will be a fundraiser event to help raise awareness about Rett Syndrome, a disorder that affects the nervous system. Featuring raffles, goodie bags and the authentic bat mobile, the Spooktacular event will take place at 144-03 Neponsit Avenue, from 3 to 5 p.m.


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Claims that late Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard misled investors came as no surprise to those still waiting for money out of his collapsed financial empire.
The allegation was made in a 2011 report by former National Bank chairman Sir John Anderson and insolvency expert Rod Pardington that was released last year and partially censored.
But more detail from the document, which contained the claim against Hubbard, was released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment yesterday.
The report looked into the progress of Allan and wife Jean Hubbard's statutory management, which began in 2010 after an investor complained he/she had not received a prospectus from Aorangi Securities - which was a fund under the Timaru financier's control.
While the Hubbards at the time were trying to get their affairs taken out of statutory management, the report said this should not happen until the pair's assets and liabilities were determined.
When looking at Allan Hubbard's position and the risk of terminating his statutory management, Anderson and Pardington said one of the matters influencing them was "misleading representations to investors".
Neither of the report's authors was available for comment yesterday.
Although Hubbard's poor record-keeping and unsystematic filing has been well-cited, few commentators have alleged misrepresentation to investors. A source from the financial industry said some people preferred to see Hubbard in a positive light because he was dead.
The South Canterbury business identity died after a car crash in September 2011 while facing 50 charges laid by the Serious Fraud Office.
But Timaru investor Melva Gould said yesterday that she was not surprised by the report's claims. "I've known that just about from day one."
Gould said she and husband Peter still had nearly all their savings tied up with Aorangi Securities.
"We're just living hideously. We've got to sell our house. We've been married since 1965 and this was everything we've had," she said.
Another investor, John Rodger, said he was pleased the claims about Hubbard had come out.
Aorangi's 400 investors are facing the prospect of significant losses because Jean Hubbard is disputing the ownership of $60 million of the $96 million which statutory managers believe belong to the fund.
A High Court hearing to determine who owns the assets was due to take place last October but was put off until May.
When asked about the delay Gould said: "We've had an absolute gutsful."
Aorangi investors have to date got back $14.5 million, or 15c in the dollar.
If the $60 million of assets were to be available to Aorangi investors, then returns would be close to 100c in the dollar.
The Hubbard saga: Where to next
At stake: 400 investors in Hubbard fund Aorangi Securities may face big losses depending on the outcome of a High Court wrangle.
The case: Jean Hubbard is disputing the ownership of $60 million of assets with Aorangi Securities' statutory managers.
When: It was originally due to take place in October last year but is now scheduled to happen in May.


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Q&A with Oh Honey- Playing Chastain Park Amphitheatre on 7/18
Oh Honey is a feel-good indie pop duo out of Brooklyn comprised of Danielle Bouchard, who's the harmonious, sunny voice of the group, and Mitchy Collins, who is the backing, upbeat string man. According to their biography, Danielle is best described as "a whimsical forest wanderer" while Mitchy Collins is a "hardened, troubadour songwriter." And after chatting with the duo, I can certainly see Danielle's free-spirited likeness, yet I'm challenged to accept Mitchy as "hardened." This twosome has a combined energy about them that is pure, welcoming and leaves a smile on the face of whomever they encounter.
The band has experienced a lot of momentum in the past year, partially thanks to their song "Be Okay," which has been burning up the charts and featured on television shows. In May, the group did a mini-tour as an opening act for James Blunt. They are currently touring with The Fray and will be playing at Chastain Park Amphitheatre on Friday, July 18th. Atlanta Music Guide recently had the pleasure of sitting down with these two rising stars. Read on to find out more about Oh Honey as they share with AMG about their beginnings, achievements and future.
AMG: How did you all meet? And where did the name "Oh Honey" come from?
Mitchy: Well the name "Oh Honey" came from the Katy Perry episode from How I Met Your Mother. It's the best episode- there is no better…. As for meeting, A buddy of mine latched me on to Danielle and I fell in love with her majestic, angelic voice and her whimsical forest wanderings (chuckles). But like I said, I feel in love with her voice, and then she and I got in the studio and it just fit -basically everything clicked. And the rest is Oh Honey history.
AMG: Okay- this next one is just for you Danielle. Do you play any instruments or are you strictly a singer?
Danielle: I do play guitar. Before I was doing this I was doing the singer/songwriter thing in high school and college, but in the future, I'll just sing.
AMG: Now this is just for you Mitchy. Which came first- the guitar- playing or the singing?
Mitchy: Definitely guitar playing. I actually never thought I could sing- ever. And then I was always the guitar-player, songwriter guy in my past band and stuff. And probably when I was like 20 or 21 or so I just kind of thought 'screw this' and started by myself. I told myself I could sing and I had always been a backup vocalist so I have the idea of it, but I didn't really start singing up until till probably like 4 to 5 years ago- like actually singing. So again guitar came first.
AMG: So I was trying to think of girl/boy duos and I found myself drawing a blank for the most part. Sure, you have Matt & Kim and The White Stripes, but for the most part, y'all are a rare breed. What is it about you two that clicks? What makes you work so well together? What is it that each of you brings to the table?
Mitchy: I mean that we work well songwriting wise. We get along. Plus we met through a really good friend of ours so there's that connection. We have a lot of things in common. You know we hang in the same friend circle and hung around at the same places.
Danielle: I think the main thing that sets us apart is that the songs are really honest and truthful but they all have that optimistic twist. I think that makes the story [of who we are].
AMG: Since we're the Atlanta Music Guide, we like to know what people think of our fair city. Have you two ever been to Atlanta (either for work or for fun) and if so, what's your favorite thing about the city?
Mitchy: Atlanta- I love southern girls. Well I love Little 5 Points, especially Criminal Records, I'm a fan. It's the music town, it's amazing. There is so much life in Atlanta, especially in Little 5 Points.
Danielle: Yeah I went there for my first time in May on our tour with James Blunt. I didn't really get to explore but [they] did bring me over to the Little 5 Points area and it was really cool so we're hoping we'll have some more time [to check out the city] .
AMG: Tell me about the moment when you found out that you would be touring with the Fray.
Mitchy: It was definitely an "oh shit" moment; getting to play some pretty crazy shows and getting to watch them every night, for me. Not to mention, we'll be playing to thousands of people every night but also we get to watch the Fray every night.
Danielle: Yeah there was point and time a few years ago where I was sitting at home listening to the Fray. Finding out [we'd be touring with them] was a pretty big moment. But we've been learning a lot by watching them every night and they are really, really nice guys. They are so helpful, which is really cool.
AMG: "Be Okay" is such a happy, light-hearted tune. Where did the inspiration come from for the song?
Mitchy: Well we were driving and and I was kicking around the idea [of the song] in my head for a while… The name of the song comes from an old saying, "I don't want to spoil the ending for you but everything is going to be okay." Life happens to everybody and we are all going through heartaches, everyone goes through money troubles, everyone has family issues, whether they like to admit it or not. That song is our way of being like hey, you know life happens, but you know there is tomorrow. Its not going to rain forever.
Danielle: I think that there's enough sad songs in the world and I think that happy songs make people feel good, so we were excited to write something that left people feeling optimistic and hopeful.
AMG: So "Be Okay" was featured on an episode of GLEE- that's HUGE! How did it feel to have your music feature on such a popular show?
Danielle: It was awesome, I'm a theater kid and I went to college for theater. And I've seen the show before and Lea Michelle, who's pretty legendary in the theater world, so finding out she will be singing our song on national television was really, really awesome. We had a party and watched it, we popped some champagne! We watched the scene ten times over- it was pretty fun.
Mitchy: It was definitely a defining moment.
Danielle: Very surreal.
AMG: Any shout outs or announcements you'd like to throw in before we wrap things up?
Mitchy: You know, our new EP is out now, With Love, "Be Okay" is on it. Keep an eye out for more and for our full-length album later this year.
Danielle: Oh and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @ohhoneymusic.
Can't get enough of Oh Honey? Check out their video for their hit song "Be Okay."
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The video shows the handset with the words "Not for sale" printed on the bottom, and we get a limited tour of the device and the gesture based UI that BlackBerry 10 is all about. The company recently released the entry-level BlackBerry Q5 which offers a plastic body and a more basic QWERTY than what is on the BlackBerry Q10. But the Aristo resembles a larger BlackBerry Z10, the all-touch device that was the first BlackBerry 10 phone to be released.
Will the BlackBerry Aristo Z30 or A10 help keep BlackBerry alive? The device will have to go up against the Samsung Galaxy Note III, the Apple iPhone 5S, the Sony Xperia Z Ultra and the LG G2 to name a few. It will be tough sledding for the company which has been thinking about going private in order to buy some extra time as it tries to stay afloat.
In this battle to stay alive, the BlackBerry Aristo Z30/A10 plays an important role. Check out the latest video of the device by clicking on the video below. By the way, the device in the video flashed the AT&T logo although we've also seen a model with the Verizon logo as well. And no, you haven't gone deaf. The audio in the video is not English.
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Many of us love our racing games. These can be a lot of fun if you love fast action games involving all kinds of vehicles. Using motion simulators to play these types of games is even more fun. Motion Simulation has created a portable 180 degree spherical projection screen and race seat to help you get a more realistic experience when playing these games. The TL1 simulator uses three projectors and computer to get the job done. With this, you can even feel the bumps in the road.
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The TL1 Motion Simulator has an adjustable chair. It could work for flight games too. It will cost you $18500 though.
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reading reviews to pick a bath light/heater/fan is confusing at best.
for an ~8'x10' bath - i'd like one that is
the problem seems to be that all these units are crap from China. I'm not finding much w/ goggle: "american made bath light/heater/exhaust."
Thanks All
i'm reading consumer reports. in doing so i've a stupid question: can the fan exhaust into the attic?
No, you need to exhaust it thru the roof or outside
What i did was install 2 separate units and 1 switch.
I bought the best fan-light combo i could get - made by Panasonic - and installed it over the shower [it's rated for it through a GFCI] - and exhausted it through the wall.
Then i bought a cheapo broan infrared heater - the 1 bulb version they also make 2 bulbs - and installed it in the area in the bathroom away from the shower since heaters are not approved over tub-shower.
My basement bathroom is small so the 250 watt infrared heats it up nicely. If you have a larger bath then a nice unit again made by Panasonic has the element kind with a fan to circulate the heat but it sucks up alot of energy - might have to use a separate circuit and switch for it unless you buy just the 1 combo with all in - heater-light-exhaust.
Either way the air MUST be exhausted to the OUTSIDE else you'll get mold water problems.
I wouldn't tie 2 bath exhaust fans to the same exit as 1 fan might overpower the other and blow air into the other unit. Drill the hole and separate outside vent it.
THX! Charlie - i think i can access this particular portion of the attic. If so, i'm good until it comes to the electrical wiring.
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Sonics will still be here for 2007-08
Team won't file petition to move
Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, February 22, 2007
Even if a new arena proposal doesn't win the support of Washington state lawmakers, the Sonics will be in the Pacific Northwest for at least one more season.
The Sonics will not file paperwork with the NBA, by a March 1 deadline, to potentially relocate the franchise, team spokesman Tom Savage confirmed Thursday night.
Owner Clay Bennett has said that if state lawmakers do not agree to help fund a $500 million new arena in Renton, he would relocate the team, possibly to Oklahoma City, where he is a prominent businessman. But it won't happen until the 2008-09 season at the earliest.
"They have no intention on filing," Savage said.
Bennett told The Oklahoman newspaper in Oklahoma City earlier Thursday that his focus is on getting a deal done in Washington state.
"We intend to be successful in Washington. I still think we've got a lot of life left in this deal," Bennett told the newspaper.


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|Fratelli Benelli: Antonio ('Tonino'), Francesco, Giovanni, Guiseppe, Filippo, Domenico
|The first Benelli of 1920, a 98cc two-stroke engine mounted at the rear of a bicycle
|Tonino in 1924 on the 175cc two-stroke racer, at Pesaro's Foglia track
|Tonino Benelli on the new 175cc OHC racer, in 1927
|The factory team of double-OHC racers, in 1934
|The last (1934) version of the 'iron' engine, with an oil radiator built into the oil tank
|The '500 Sport' roadster of 1936
But racing beckoned; Benelli could not rest on its laurels forever, and while the production range was consolidated, the race shop designed a completely new 250cc racing engine in 1938, again DOHC, but all-alloy, and with rear suspsension (a swingarm with plunger springboxes, and friction damping). The new engine could be revved to 9000rpm, and proved nearly bomb-proof, even at 110mph. The competition had changed dramatically though, as GP racing gained international sporting significance, and much larger companies were prepared to invest heavily in new technology and very advanced racing machines. In the 250cc field, Benelli's most significant competition came from Moto Guzzi, with their supercharged flat single, and DKW, with their supercharged two-stroke. Even with their blowers, these machines had trouble shaking off the solid and good-handling Benelli, which could be every bit as fast as its rivals, and definitely more reliable.
|The new 250cc racer with swingarm rear suspension and huge brakes
|Ted Mellors at the 1939 Isle of Man Lightweight TT (note bronze-head Velo mk4KTT in the background, in road trim)
|Mellors in '39; wet conditions at the Isle of Man dampened speeds
|The incredibly fast 250cc four-cylinder supercharged Benelli racer of 1940...146mph!
|Dario Ambrosini on the 1950 version of the Benelli 250cc single cylinder racer
|Dario Ambrosini's 1951 250cc machine, now with telescopic front forks and a swingarm rear suspension
|Beauty is as beauty does; the sculptural timing gear case is indeed a thing to behold.
|The 1959 250cc last-series Benelli racer at the Team Obsolete HQ; this machine is now in England - a friend bought it!


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ryobi weed eater
This weekend I tried to start up my Ryobi Weed eater and I couldn't get it to turn over. I went to home depot, and a "specialist" there said that the gas/oil combination will go bad after 90 days and that I need to replace it. He also said that it will cause a goo buildup in the gas lines. This is my landlords equipment, so I'm not sure how old the gas is, but has anyone else had this happen. Any Suggestions??
Did you simply try dumping out the old gas from the trimmer and putting in new gas/oil mix?
sounds like BS to me....I have had the same gas/oil in a certain chain saw for years.........don't use it much, and it fires right up every year.
I would do what the above poster said......then give up on weed eating for the summer.
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A new National Cancer Institute study reported April 23 by Dr. Volker Mai at the Experimental Biology 2002 meeting in New Orleans shows that even moderate caloric restriction reduced by 60 percent the number of precancerous intestinal polyps in mice at high risk of gastrointestinal cancers (mice with the same genetic mutation seen in some humans who develop these cancers). Don't think you can eat less? Then eat better. Animals eating as much as they wanted of a diet high in olive oil, fruits and vegetables also had a third fewer polyps than control mice.
That's good news, says Dr. Mai, since this moderate caloric restriction and/or the use of a diet in which fat came from olive oil are more likely to be followed by humans and have been shown to have broad health benefits even beyond an effect on gastrointestinal cancer risk. The findings are more troubling, he adds, when you think about the continuing trend of high caloric food intake observed in most developed nations. How much is too much? Working with a well-proven mouse model of intestinal cancer, the NCI researchers allowed some mice to eat as much food as they wanted. As mice will, they ate almost all the time, with weight gain to show for it. The researchers measured the mice's food intake and limited similar mice to only 60 percent of the amount. This satisfied all their nutritional requirements and provided a goodly amount of food to eat as well. The result: the number of the precancerous polyps also went down by 60 percent compared to the mice eating as much as they wanted.
Previous mouse studies, like epidemiological studies of humans, have shown that what gets eaten also has an effect on colorectal cancers. So Dr. Mai and his colleagues at NCI compared the number of polyps in mice on a high fat diet, mice on a "healthy" diet with olive oil and fruit and vegetable extract, and mice on the standard laboratory mouse diet. Mice consuming a diet high on fruits and vegetables had 33 percent fewer polyps than the control mice, whereas the mice on the high fat diet had slightly elevated polyp numbers.
The researchers also looked at exercise. A moderate amount of exercise did lower the number of polyps but the difference was not statistically significant. Dr. Mai is a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch of the NCI. He says the research team, headed by Dr. Steve Hursting, is planning to look at different combinations of caloric intake, fat, and exercise in an effort to determine effective intervention combinations that have the potential to be tested in humans.
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