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The Importance of Fire SafetyMature
Your parents always told you not to play with fire. This is why. For Matt.
The girl panted and whimpered, her nails digging into the soggy clay, propelling her backwards away from the predator like a crab in the sand.
"I'm sorry, I will leave, we were just having a laugh, we weren't going to burn anything down, I swear."
Her pitifuls calls sounded hollow and forgotten in the inky blackness that was the woods. No one heard her, if they did, no one came for her. Her friends lay slumped in a pile in the corner, like forgotten laundry left to ferment until someone forced it into the washing machine. For a moment she forgot about her predicament, the terrifying man in front of her. Instead she focused on her anger. Anger at herself. Anger at her stupid friends.
It hadn't even been her idea. She actually had shot it down the first several times. " My parents would be pissed at me, I would be so grounded," she had whined when they first brought it up.
It was a simple, silly, juvenile plan. Get some matches, and light a few torches, maybe tie some gasoline soaked rags around the tops. Get a few pitch forks. Steal a few shots of Sam's dad's whiskey for liquid courage. Go to the weird shack in the woods, the one that housed the crazy old man. The crazy old man that was currently staring at him with eyes the color of death.
They were just going to scare him, run around, bang on his windows, shout that they were there to burn the witch. Stupid kid shit. Of course Miranda had to take it a whole other level and light some tighty whities on fire. She had found his clothes line. That of course excited Sam and Jason, who started lighting random bits of trash in the clearing. She was sure who did it, or how it even happened, but someone lit an old rocker on fire. As it burned, it knocked back into a window breaking it. The old man came stumbling out, screaming like a mad man and hit her friends until they were unconscious with a bat, leaving her to run and hide.
A growl brought her outside of her head and back into the present. Was there any animal? Did the old man have a dog? The growl sounded again, this time deeper and more intense, almost a snarl.
"Look at me, girl." She looked up. The growl had come from him, the old man. His eyes, though they seemed vacant, were staring straight into her and his dry lips were curled into the cruelest of smirks. She looked, cowering, scooting back, perfecting her crab crawl as he continued to advance on her.
" Please, please let me go. You can have them. It was all their idea. They wanted to scare you. I just came along to make sure it didn't get out of control. I will pay for your window and your clothes. Please, please just let me go."
The old man regarded her with a curious look. " You would leave them here if I let you go?" She nodded her head and tried to appear braver than she felt. She would call the police as soon as she got out of here, her friends would be fine. " Yes Sir." The man cackled, much like the witch they had fancied him earlier. "You harass me and set my things on fire, then call me Sir?"
She sat silently and waited. He was going to let her go. He watched her intently then suddenly turned around and walked across the room, picking something up off the floor. Looking at it intently, he crossed back to her, his dirty flannel shirt flapping in the chilly winter breeze flowing in through the broken window.
" Who is DHK?" DHK? She looked closely and saw what he had. Her father's monogrammed lighter. " That's my dad. David Henry Kellerman. I got that for him for Christmas. He smokes cigars. And pipes sometimes." It was a nice lighter, a wood grain bottom and gunmetal top. She had spent $50 dollars on that stupid lighter.
The old man looked at her, his face turning into a violent snarl. "So you had nothing to do with this, it was all your friends, not you. But you brought your father's lighter?"
He was advancing towards her now, faster. She scuttled back, but was suddenly backed against a wall. He reached out and grabbed her leg, jerked her violently towards him. Flicking the lighter, he watched the flame for a moment, then suddenly lit her pant leg on fire.
"Hey, what the hell! She grabbed at the leg, trying to put it out while he laughed. He grabbed her leg and patted out the fire. Almost gently he removed her sock.
"What- what are you doing?" She stuttered as he flicked the lighter slowly, getting closer and closer to her bare foot.
The old man said nothing, but suddenly the flame touched her big toe. Not long enough to damage, but enough to hurt. She cried out and jerked her leg, but he held fast. " Stay still. Be patient. This is going to take a while." He flicked the lighter again, burning her just a a bit longer and laughed when she howled in pain.
"What is going to take so long?" The girl was screaming out her words, letting them come out in desperate pants.
"Your lesson," the old man replied calmly as he now held the flame continously against her foot, his nose twitching slightly at the smell of charred, burning flesh.
The girl could barely speak, her voice come out in shrieks and wails as her body burned slowly, but painfully. "What lesson?" She wailed, just as her eyes closed.
The old man laughed maniacally and threw Sam's forgotten gasoline torch on top of her as he continued to flick the lighter.
"Apparently your parents never taught you how dangerous it is to play with fire."
Two days Sam, Jason, and Miranda came stumbling out of woods with a new found fear and their friends ashes packed neatly into a box. They had been given very simple instructions.
"Give this to your friend's parents, I'm sure they will want it." The old man laughed as he handed the petrified teens their friend's ashes in a neat wooden box. On top was a Smokey the Bear and on the inside, lying on top of her ashes was the lighter and a pamplet:
"Teaching Kids Fire Safety."


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EUROLIFE Insurance Company of the Bank of Cyprus Group would like to receive applications from experienced applicants for the above position in the Nicosia Region.
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At a gathering program in Gorkha on Saturday, Dahal asserted it was the UCPN (Maoist) and not Baburam Bhattarai which won race in Gorkha. "It was won by the gathering and not the individual. It won't be simple for Bhattarai to win decision again here in Gorkha," Dahal said.
Dahal asserted it was him who designated Bhattarai as politburo individual from the gathering in spite of complaint from other gathering pioneers and even made him the nation's PM. "Be that as it may, he let me down and chose to go separate ways. He picked to search for another family deserting the one which was with him for his life," he said.
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BeschreibungExcerpt from Address of Col. Charles Marshall: Before the Va; Division of the Army of Northern Virginia, at Their Annual Meeting, Held at the Capitol in Richmond, October 29, 1874
Mr. President and Fellow Soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia:
When the Executive Committee honored me with the invitation that brings me before you to-night, I was at a loss to choose from the teeming annals of the Army of Northern Virginia a subject appropriate to the occasion, and one that my information would enable me to present without trespassing too much upon your patience.
The short history of that Army is crowded with events and incidents which will furnish material to the historian, the orator, the poet and the painter as long as heroic courage, uncomplaining endurance, magnanimity in the hour of victory, and fortitude under adverse fortune, continue to command the admiration and attract the sympathy of mankind.
But I do not feel at liberty to choose at will from those incidents, nor can 1 venture to utter the thoughts that start first to my mind as I look upon the faces of old comrades in arms, and upon some young faces that remind me of comrades who have passed away. I dare not trust myself to speak to you of those memories of our army life, dearest to the heart of a soldier, but which make no part of the worlds history of war. Time does not permit me to attempt a description of any of the great battles in which you bore an honorable part, nor would such a description, however accurate, as well illustrate the magnitude of the service performed by the Army of Northern Virginia, or afford as clear a view of the difficulties against which it had to contend, and of the burden imposed upon its courage and endurance, as will be derived from the subject to which I propose to invite your attention, if I can succeed in presenting that subject properly. Indeed, it require no little courage to undertake to fight any of the battles of the war "o'er again."
It has been sixty years since Waterloo, and to this day writers are not agreed as to the facts of that famous battle.
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Untertitel: Before the Va; Division of the Army of Northern Virginia, at Their Annual Meeting, Held at the Capitol in Richmond, October 29, 1874 (Classic Reprint). Paperback. Sprache: Englisch.
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A community gathering Saturday night recognized people of all ages and backgrounds for good deeds done for others in a myriad of areas.
The third annual Community Assets Awards, sponsored by the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board and the Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce recognized 45 individuals, couples and businesses at a soiree hosted by the Best Western Hilltop Hotel.
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The session will be at Time Out Pizza in White Rock. It is scheduled from 6:30-8 p.m.
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The Los Alamos Hilltopper boys and girls swim teams picked up easy wins at Saturday's Los Alamos Quadrangular meet.
The Hilltopper girls were 100 points better than runner-up Taos Saturday, rolling up 504 points. The Hilltopper boys, meanwhile, finished with 524 points, well ahead of the other four teams at the meet combined.
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The winter break usually affords sports teams a little breather in the middle of the season.
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The Hilltoppers struggled to a ninth-place finish Saturday at the Moriarty Pinto Invitational. The Hilltoppers lost all four of their duals contests, one of which, a particularly ugly 60-18 defeat, came at the hands of a team the Hilltoppers perhaps should've hung closer with, the Valley Vikings.
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I know that a PSD file is a must for many buyers because they lack Indesign knowledge. Based on this fact I have created an item that contains an Indesign and Photoshop file for end users. As my item seems to be the only file containing these two options in the DVD packaging category I thought this would be reflected in the item price. I understand that reviewers probably work to a pricing structure but I do feel files with more options should be slightly higher priced than the simple alternatives, what do you think?
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What I feel is the right thing to do for any item is: if an item is provided in multiple formats, the value should be increased if the same amount of effort and energy went into designing the second format. In many cases when items provide multiple formats, very little if any energy was given to creating the second item because its formatting took place with the click of a button.
I can save a .psd as a layered .pdf with the click of a button. It will retain all of its layered information.
However, I may not be able to save an .id file as a .psd file with the click of a button. In this case, creating a .psd file from scratch is necessary. This is where I would think your energy and efforts in creating the.psd file should up the price of your item.
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Charles Liddic said he saw ABC-7's story on the deaths of two family pets last week and wanted people to know that it may not have been an isolated incident.
The Solis family lost two dogs May 31. Tests showed the dogs had antifreeze in their system.
Charles Liddic recounted the beginning of the end for his dogs: Boxers Lulu, 2 and Daisy, 3.
"She got up and she started vomiting," Liddic said, talking about when Lulu started showing signs something was wrong May 29.
"I got up and cleaned it up but it was just continuous, all night long. It just seemed like every five minutes she vomiting."
Both dogs were eventually exhibiting signs of severe illness like bleeding and seizures.
Lulu died first under a vet's care Friday morning. By that time, Daisy was already at the vet's office. The Liddics eventually took Daisy to an animal emergency hospital Friday evening.
"The phone rang ... he said, this is the animal clinic, and I just want to let you know that Daisy has passed. And that was 8 o'clock Saturday morning," Liddic said, his voice cracking. He paused before continuing, his voice shaking, "So I lost two in the 24 hours."
The Liddics consider their pets their children. They plan to put the ashes of Lulu and Daisy on a shelf in their kitchen, which has become a shrine to pets they've lost. Urns for two other dogs already sit on the shelf, along with mementos.
"I call myself the annex of the Humane Society because we have six dogs," Liddic said.
"People always look at you like, what are you doing with six dogs? They act like you're growing a horn out of your head. They were our family. ... I don't know what would make anybody do anything like that," Liddic added, saying he believes the dogs were killed.
Liddic said he had no problems with his next-door neighbor but he had suspicions someone had poisoned the dogs to gain access to his home.
"It's human nature to get suspicious when an animal gets poisoned, to think there was some malicious intent," said veterinarian Dr. Pete Koplos.
"There are some times when it's the truth, when somebody did this. I don't think it happens as often as one might think."
Koplos treated Daisy at the Animal Emergency Care Center. He said it was definitely a toxin that caused her death, but is not sure what that toxin was.
Koplos said some toxins commonly known to cause dogs deaths are rodent killers, poisonous plants like oleanders, or even moldy food. Koplos advised pet owners to keep pets inside a fenced yard.
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#23 Nov 20, 2009
I don't think I asked for your opinion. If I wanted any lip from you, I'd remove it from my zipper.
#24 Nov 20, 2009
Really? Do you have evidence of that, or is this more of a "know you are but what am I" retort?
#25 Nov 20, 2009
Unlike you, I don't have the time, while sitting in mommy's basement eating Cheetos and playing WoW, to go through each of your posts. It is quite evident you are indeed prejudiced and yes, racist. It is racist for you to assume you know what's best for us. You don't speak for me. I have my own voice and a long history of being treated differently because of my race. I chose to succeed. No one speaks for me. It is condescending for you and other libtards to think otherwise.
#26 Nov 20, 2009
I'm not speaking for anyone but myself. I have no idea what you're talking about. So, you just call people "racist" even though you admit that you have no evidence of it?
Unlike you, I don't like to go off half-cocked without knowing what I'm talking about, so I did read back over my posts to the thread.
What do you mean by "it's racist to assume you know what's best for us"? Why would you make comments like that without knowing what you're even referring to?
What, exactly, did I say was "best" for anybody?
#27 Nov 21, 2009
Comprehension not a strong point for you? Semantics...a game libtards love to play. I didn't specify this thread and if you were as half as educated as you thought you were, you'd have known that. Seems to be SOP for libdicks. Good news for you, though. There is a great doctor in Louisville who can surgically peel your lips off of Odumbo's ass.
#28 Nov 21, 2009
I don't know why people bother. PFG and Phoenix get their kicks from arguing. They're not interested in debate and do little more than belittle anyone who doesn't believe the way they do and cry and moan when it happens to them.
#29 Nov 21, 2009
white is right!
#30 Nov 21, 2009
Wow, a whole paragraph with nothing of substance. What do "semantics" have to do with anything?
#31 Jan 12, 2013
Finally somebody said it! Here it comes up again! I feel so much better when it's all just whites. When it's whites, then we all get along good. It's all black people's fault. Everything is.
#32 Jan 12, 2013
Yup... hanging blacks is HILARIOUS to us. We don't give a damn! Dante Newsome is a jigaboo that got what was comin to 'em, just for his skin color. http://www.topix.com/forum/louisville/TJMOGU9... Here's a thread about beating up blacks: http://www.topix.com/forum/louisville/TMEP44Q... Here's us white supremacists making fun of black babies, since of course, black babies are something to be terrified of it too: http://www.topix.com/forum/louisville/TJI765K...
#33 Jan 14, 2013
how is black history month celebrated? its really not...you see a few commercials on tv and thats about it....so shut the hell up with all that damn whining...and i dont blame white people for not getting ahead because im ahead of a whole lot of you muthafu**as....the ignorant ones on this thread probably work at Mcdonalds so go get my fries bitch lmao
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Jeremy Clarkson has been called a number of things but this could be the first time he's been referred to as a "cultural tumour" – called that by comedian Frankie Boyle who is pleading for the Top Gear presenter to be sacked.
Boyle was speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival when he laid into Clarkson, who he said is only tolerated thanks to having friends in high places.
He said that Clarkson "comes from a very bad place and the reason he's tolerated is that he's recognised by people in power … in fact he's a friend of [David] Cameron's," reports The Guardian.
"He's in there like a f***ing growth and he should be removed because he's horrible. Sack him because he's a cultural tumour."
Boyle's comments come after increasing infuriation at language and behaviour displayed by Clarkson that is considered racist, for example his muttering the N-word while reciting a version of children's rhyme "Eeeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe" in an unaired clip of Top Gear that emerged earlier this year.
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YES: "I hate England. I like Scotland because somehow I think they are better than we are. They are more democratic."
2/23 Bob Geldof
NO: "This argument needs to be had among us all, you can't selfishly resolve it amongst yourselves by taking an easy opt-out clause."
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UNDECIDED: "People are trying to make their lives significant," he said. "[They] are engaged in a struggle for self-respect and significance."
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UNDECIDED: "If you vote for continued unification or independence there is no protest vote – that's it. And that could be it for decades, for centuries. There's no going back from it."
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NO: "Unity with maximum self-determination sends a powerful message to a world torn by identity conflicts that it is possible to respect our differences while living and working together. This is the great challenge of our time. The Scots can show us how to meet it."
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NO: "There will be havoc if you vote Yes in September. Havoc in Edinburgh and throughout the land and you will break the hearts of many others too… I know which side I'm on. I'm with JK Rowling. Just say No."
7/23 David Beckham
NO: "We want to let you know how very much we value our relationship and friendship. Of course regardless of your decision that will never change, however, my sincere hope is that you will vote to renew our historic bond which has been such a success over the centuries and the envy of the entire world. What unites us is much greater than what divides us. Let's stay together."
8/23 David Bowie
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NO: "You can be Scottish, you can be British and you can be European. We can have that. "I say have the parliament, have the more power, but be with us. Like David Bowie said, 'Stay with us Scotland' and I'm saying the same – don't go."
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NO: "I started competing for Great Britain when I was 11. A lot of people forget that. I didn't like it when Salmond got the Scottish flag up at Wimbledon"
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14/23 Chris Hoy
NO: "It will weaken the British team obviously if Scotland went separately, and it would be harder for the Scottish athletes, initially, to establish themselves in a new training environment, with new coaches, with a different environment altogether."
15/23 Alan Cumming
YES: "The evidence is clear - in the past 15 years we have become stronger economically, socially, culturally and globally. The world is waiting for us and I know Scotland is ready."
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NO: "Why insist on building a new border between human beings in an ever-shrinking world where we are still struggling to live alongside each other?"
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YES: Independence would "create a new settlement that puts people before profit. Those in England who believe that our own society needs to be rebalanced along similar lines should wake up and join the debate"
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NO: "I'd hate to see the union broken after all these years. It's always been a spiritual home - but as I don't live there I shouldn't comment on independence. If it's good for the Scots I'm happy."
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YES: "As a Scot and as someone with a lifelong love for both Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss"
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21/23 Al Kennedy
NO: "Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat"
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YES: "There is an opportunity for something innovative and visionary. Scotland could have some kind of new, ethical, visionary stance and it could take on some fresh ideas. That could be amazing, really amazing."
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YES: "They must cut ties with the United King-dumb. I love Scotland, and I love the Scottish spirit and they do not need Westminster in the least."
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Clarkson said at the time: "I was mortified by this, horrified, it is a word I loath. And I did everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the programme that was transmitted.
"I'm sitting here begging your forgiveness for the fact my efforts obviously weren't quite good enough."
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Clarkson wasn't the only public figure that Boyle aimed his vitriol at, also attacking media mogul Rupert Murdoch for being "obviously a c*** and f***ing tumour", despite having been previously hired by the tycoon's newspaper, The Sun, to write a column.
He then said that the newspaper was "easier to get jokes into than the BBC", particularly those on thorny subjects like war.
Scot Boyle also criticised the lack of female panellists on TV shows saying "how hard is it?" and claimed that he had tried to get more women on Never Mind the Buzzcocks while guest hosting it, but his suggestion had been dismissed.
Earlier this week the BBC's Director of Television, Danny Cohen, also told an audience at the Edinburgh International Festival that Clarkson "does not see a problem" with his language.
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He had apparently warned the presenter that he was not untouchable as "no one show or person is bigger than the BBC" and that Clarkson had used language that Cohen found "entirely unacceptable".
Clarkson also came under fire in March after he said "there's a slope on it" when describing a bridge in Burma that had an Asian man crossing it at the time, during a Top Gear special.
Broadcaster regulator Ofgem criticised the BBC for allowing the "offensive material" to be aired.
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This application is a Continuation-In-Part (CIP) of U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 11/178,220 filed on Jul. 8, 2005 now abandoned. This application claims the benefit of U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 11/178,220 filed on Jul. 8, 2005, now abandoned, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application 60/586,816 filed on Jul. 9, 2004, which are both hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates generally to surgical procedures and techniques. More particularly, it relates to methodologies and devices useful in repairing cardiac valves such as the mitral valve. This invention can also be used in other applications where percutaneous placement of clips or attachments is necessary, for example, interventions to treat obesity, urinary incontinence, hernia, and anastomosis.
Surgically suturing the flaps of the mitral valve eliminates regurgitation. As discussed by C. Fucci et al. in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Springer-Verlag 1995, good results are obtained using PTFE sutures for joining the prolapsing free edge of one leaflet to the facing edge of the posterior leaflet. This is also discussed in the U.S. Pat. No. 6,629,534, issued to Evalve, Inc., which describes an intricate endovascular surgical technique that enables a minimally invasive way of repairing the mitral valve. More specifically, the Evalve patent teaches an interventional tool that is advanced to the ventricle to be engaged against and modifies the valve leaflets in a manner that reduces leakage through the valve during ventricular systole. As one skilled in the art will appreciate, there is a continuing need in the field of medicine for better endovascular surgical techniques and devices that are more efficient, less invasive, and more effective.
The present invention provides a tissue-stapling device for repairing tissue. The device has two guiding elements, i.e., a first guiding element with a first opening and a second guiding element with a second opening. The second guiding element is sized to be movable through the first opening of the first guiding element.
Two or more self-deployable wings are located on the outside of the second guiding element. The wings have an un-deployed state to move through the first guiding element, and a deployed state for when they are advanced passed the first opening of the first guiding element. In self-deployed state the wings are capable of stabilizing two or more tissue parts with respect to the device.
The device further includes a self-deployable clip with two or more edges capable of penetrating the tissue parts. The self-deployable clip has a un-deployed state for advancing through the second opening and a deployed state for when advanced passed the second opening. The self-deployable clip is sized so that it can be positioned against the tissue parts.
The device further includes a clip penetrating mechanism that is capable of moving through the second opening. The clip penetrating mechanism has a top part with a first state for advancing through the second opening and a second state whereby the top part is bend, unfolded or uncompressed and capable of penetrating the clip through the tissue parts, e.g. by retracting the clip penetrating mechanism and/or action of the top part in its second state.
The objectives and advantages of the present invention will be understood by reading the following detailed description in conjunction with the drawings, in which:
The present invention provides a useful percutaneous surgical method and device for repairing tissue with minimal invasiveness and maximum effectiveness. In general, a catheter is positioned in a manner as to contact two open edges simultaneously. Depending on applications, the edges could be two flaps, leaflets, walls, muscles, skins, or other types of tissues or organic structures. A stabilizing structure holds the tissue to be joined before the joining is delivered. A clip (also referred to as suture material), or the like, is then delivered to take hold of the two open edges together, e.g., grab the flaps and clip them together. Other joining techniques such as delivery of adhesives, two part adhesives, or surface activated structures through nanotechnology can also be delivered and result in attachment.
Preferably, in a vascular application, for example, a guide wire or guiding catheter is first delivered, either from the left atrium down to the left ventricle or from the left ventricle up to the left atrium. It is also possible to access the left atrium or ventricle through the septum by accessing the right atrium or ventricle via the venous side. A catheter or catheter system is then delivered over the guide wire to reach the desired treatment site. Note that a guide wire can be delivered through a guiding catheter or angiography catheter with proper tip design that is, for example, advanced into the left ventricle via aorta, or at the ostium of the right atrium. It is also possible to introduce these catheters or trocars not through the arterial or venous path but through small incision in the chest and directly into the left ventricle.
In some embodiments, according to an aspect of the invention, the following steps are distinguished:
In yet another embodiment of the present invention, a catheter system or trocar is advanced percutaneously into the treatment site and two or more lightweight magnetically charged structures of opposite polarity are delivered across or into the tissue either simultaneously or sequentially. The attraction force between the two magnets will bring the tissues together with minimum effort. In this situation, one can even advantageously eliminate the need for suturing.
As one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate, the drawings and description disclosed herein illustrate technologies related to the invention, show examples of the invention, and provide examples of using the invention. Various changes, substitutions, modifications, and alterations could be made or otherwise implemented without departing from the principles of the present invention. For example, it is possible to have more than one set of wings. The openings of the wings could have various shapes and dimensions to suit the various sizes and configurations of the clip.
These drawings also show a device and method of stabilizing a surface to be clipped/stapled/sutured or otherwise joined percutaneously, allowing a surgeon to perform more accurately. This includes holding a surface across two opposite walls. If desired, one can slide a third catheter over the stabilizing catheter with wings proximal to the valve leaflets to "sandwich" the leaflet during clipping/stapling. The creation of two layers across the clip/staple allows for extra force on the clip to better position or penetrate the tissues. This additional force can be obtained, for example, by delivering a super-elastic open mesh, basket, retractor, or the like over the suture. Pulling from the proximal end on the deployed structure applies additional force on the clip, thereby facilitating its positioning or penetration in the tissues.
It is also possible to add a flexible pull wire through the entire catheter that is attached to the distal end of the mesh, basket, retractor, or the like. By pulling the wire from the proximal end, and with or without twisting the shaft, one can entirely collapse the basket or the mesh over the clip and apply the additional force thereto.
The catheters (i.e. first and second guiding elements) could be made of nylon, polyethylene or other copolymers, braided or not. It could be reinforced with different structures such as coil metal made of nitinol (a shape memory alloy), stainless steel or Elgiloy� (a cobalt-chromium-nickel alloy). The inner shaft of the catheter may contain Teflon� (a non-stick protective coating) or other lubricious materials. Coatings maybe added on outer surface of catheters to allow easy movement. The material of braiding or coil can be nitinol, stainless steel, Elgiloy�, or similar flexible materials. Radiopaque markers rings or band such as platinum, gold, or alloys can be embedded or positioned at different locations of the catheter, for example, at the distal end to allow visibility under x-ray. Markers can be positioned at the proximal end as a landmark to control catheter advancement.
The stabilizing wings could be made of flexible materials such as polymers or metallic alloys. These include polypropylene, nitinol, stainless steel, shape memory materials, including metallic shape memory materials, whether superelastic or heat recoverable.
The clip could be in the form of a simple needle that is sharpened at both ends and is flexible. Alternatively, it may have more of a three dimensional shape such as an open disc with sharp edges curved inward or outward for better penetration. The clip may be folded and delivered through the main delivery system alone or between two supporting members to avoid uncontrolled popping outside the catheter.
In some embodiments the clip has two or more sharp edges, e.g. 4. These edges could be at each corner of a square, or take any position of any shape clip.
The clip can be made of numerous materials metallic, magnetic or non-metallic known to those skilled in the art. For example, super-elastic nitinol in the binary nickel-titanium (Ni—Ti) or Ni—Ti with a third or fourth element added such as V, Mo, Fe, Cr, W, Nb. Other super-elastic alloys include iron based shape memory alloys. The clip maybe made from shape memory polymers such poly-ethylenes. It is also possible to make the clip/staple from a composite material, i.e., a combination of plastics or metallic alloys. It is further possible to make the staple from a combination of monomers and polymers and, after delivery, activate the monomeric section to polymerize, thereby causing diffusion within the structure. This diffusion will create tension or compression in the staple and cause tightening or loosening in the desired section and allow better joining of the tissues. Many activation techniques such as light are available to deliver percutaneously to cause or affect shape changes. The clips could also be of dis-similar or similar magnets across the tissue to hold the tissue open or closed.
In addition, the clip could be coated with lubricious coatings, antithrombogenic coatings such as heparin or active peptide coatings, e.g., P15. It is also possible to cover the metallic staple with other polymers like silicone or polyurethane. These surface modifications may also be obtained through etching, plasma etching or at the molecular level such as nanostructures, nanowires or nanotubes via nanotechnology methods.
Heat recoverable shape memory materials, polymeric or metallic could also be used for the clip or suturing material. In this case, the clip/staple is delivered and it changes shape either by naturally warming up with body temperature or heated via electrical heating or convection heating. The electrical heating maybe achieved through wiring across the catheter using a good conductor, such as gold or gold plated metallic wire. It is also possible to use temporary wide hysteresis shape memory materials such as Ni—Ti—Nb or Ni—Ti—Mo for the clip/staple. In this case, the material is heated to its super-elastic shape without the risk of transitioning to a sifter temperature upon cooling.
Stabilizers could also be balloons made of PE, Cfelx™ or silicone. These designs better control the final shape by the amount of balloon inflation. It is known to those skilled in the art that similar approach can be made through trocars instead of a guiding catheter when performing laparoscopic surgery to treat obesity, for example.
The present invention has now been described in accordance with several exemplary embodiments, which are intended to be illustrative in all aspects, rather than restrictive. Thus, the present invention is capable of many variations in detailed implementation, which may be derived from the description contained herein by a person of ordinary skill in the art. For instance, the stabilizing and clip suturing technique, devices, and materials disclosed herein are not limited to cardiovascular applications and can be utilized in or otherwise implemented for various applications and treatments, for instances, obesity. All such variations are considered to be within the scope and spirit of the present invention as defined by the following claims and their legal equivalents.
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I knew the look on my fathers face, I had seen this look of dissappointment before,mostly when his beloved Red Soxs had lost a game on the television set.As he approached me with my gift,I could see in his eyes that this was much worse.He scooped me up in his arms and we sat down in my grandmothers old rocking chair.He hugged me so tightly that it nearly took my breath away and it happend....my father started to cry.This would be the first and last time I would ever see my father cry.
I did not know yet the circumstances that led to his tears but I too felt compelled to cry along with him.When he finally stopped sobbing atop my now tear dampend hair,he pulled me from his chest and gave me the news that had prompted his despair.
My mother who I had not seen in many years had planned in only two short days to come back for me and my things.She had plans to move us both to a place I had not even heard of.I was eager to go,until my father told me that he would not be leaving with us.I then started to cry again at the thought of leaving my precious father behind.How could this strange woman just come and take me from my family,my home?
You must understand that in these days the family courts had little to do with family matters concerning parental rights.There was an un-written rule that guardianship was automatically granted to the mother.Therefore my father had no say in granting my mother her wish of whisking me off to a diffrent province.
The days that came were dreary around my grandmothers house.It seemed I was given alot more attention from the family members that visited,and there were alot of adult conversations that I could not be part of.
My father reluctently packed my many belongings that I had collected over the years,all of which he had purchased for me,into bags and totes that he then neatly stacked into a pile against the wall.It was like a tower of doom that I wished would fall over and collapse. That all my tiny collectables and plush toys would re-essemble themselves into there proper resting places.
After three days of many tears and breath taking hugs,the day had finally come.I woke to consume my last morning breakfast with the family I had grown to love so deeply.I would no longer here the morning ritual of my grandmothers wedding ring clinking on the side of her glass jar of insulan to prepare it for her daily shot.The offerings of thanks for the meal of oats and orange juice that I had grown to like.My grandmothers final prayer hit me with such sadness that I could not eat my morning meal through the tears that were now dripping from my face into my bowl.
I had not up to this point vocalized my un- willingness to go with the stranger,in fear that it would only upset my father even more.But at this point I felt like it was all I could do to insure that I not be taken away.I cried to the point that no more tears were falling,I couldnt breath no longer and nausea was settling in.
My father to hide the last of his tears went and gathered my things.The only thing left for us was acceptance for what was to come.I went out side and decided to take my new bike for one last ride down the old bumpy drive way before it would be loaded into the trunk of my mothers car.
My mother pulled into the driveway only minutes later.My father carried all of my luggage to the car and hesitantly loaded it into the trunk all the while pleading that she not do this.My mother being the stubborn woman that she is would take no for an answer and demanded that i leave my bike to rest where it was.She told me I would not be able to take my new bike along because there would be no room for it with our many other bags.
So here I stood in our driveway with the shiny toy I had already gotten attached to in just a few short days,and my father who had never left my side in over six years,and this lady was making me leave both of them behind.This memory will forever be burned in my mind.Perhaps the first time of many to come I would feel hatred for this lady that insisted I call her mom.
I begged and pleaded that we make room for last thing of great importantance that my father had given me at that time.I offered up all of my other much smaller things in return that we could just some how manage to sqeeze this bike into the car.My mother now frustrated with my tears,demanded it be left behind and that I say my good byes so we could be on our way.She promised that on return to our new home,she would purchase a new bike for me,and teach me how to ride without the training wheels.So I relucltently returned it to the old shed and offerd my final hugs and kisses to my father.
Looking back now I wish that I had hugged my father a little tighter,kissed him a little harder,for I did not know that this would be the last time I would see him for many years to come.
While driving away my mother had already began to promise me of a good life.One of many toys and new children to play with in a neighbourhood that would take three days of driving to arrive in.
T he ride was long as you could imagine for a six year old very active child.It consisted of only stops for the bathroom and to eat truck stop sandwiches and drinks from pop dispensors.We slept in the car along the way when she was too tired to drive.She insisted that it was an adventure for us both.I was happy to finally be involved in one of her adventures that she had been taken since my birth.
We arrived as she had promised days later.It was nearly midnight when we drove through the city in search of our new home.All the city lights had made my once tired eyes seem to open wider to take it all in.Although the streets were silent,there was an imence energy in the air that i could feel even through the window that my nose was pushed up against.
I couldnt help but feel enthusiastic about being able to explore this large city in the daylight.The unhappiness I felt only a few short days earlier had subsided greatly when we finally came to a stop in front of an old beaten down trailer in the out skirts of town.
It was green in the places where years of rust erosion hadnt yet taken over.It looked as tho someone had attempted to apply paint to make it look more presentable,but only had enough to cover the lower half.The few windows on the trailer were not see through from the outside,and many had been cracked and repaired with cocking of some kind.The door on the front was blowing in the wind and banging against the side of the building making a loud crash as it collided with the tin can house.The yard was full of tall grass that had not been mowed in years and litterd with car parts that you could only see the tops of.
My mother led me up the rotting staircase towards the door.In the air was the smell of urine so strong that it burned my nose.I could not imagine what await me inside this hell hole.Nor could I even begin to understand why my mother had ripped me from my comfortable,well kept house to bring me here.It would not make sense to me until we entered the trailer.Had I relized then that this was the beggining of not an adventure that my mother had promised,but the beggining instead of the downward spiral of my life.This beat up green trailer was to be the scene of the many years of torture that was about to come......


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"I'm not a charity," Lazarus snapped as Gabriel dragged him into a room where a servant had laid out a selection of old clothes that Gabriel no longer wore, or fitted into. The clothes would, however, fit Lazarus for a long time to come. Gabriel regarded the skinny Aryan protesting with a hidden smile, watching as his eyes flickered over the fine clothes almost imperceptibly, attempting to remain defensive.
"No, I know you're not. But I no longer have any need for them. This wasn't my idea anyway," he shrugged slightly, wondering how the boy might react to this, "it was my mother's idea."
"Your mother's idea?!" Lazarus yelped, his eyes widening in horror.
"The servants gossip," he waved a hand dismissively, "she doesn't mind. She's the liberal one of the family. I suppose that must have rubbed off on me somehow," he mused. "But my father doesn't know, you needn't worry." Lazarus simply continued to stare; his expression betrayed the incredulous thoughts spinning through his mind. "Does it really matter? If anything, you might gain more respect for having worked your way out of the village life."
"Or I could lose what little respect I have earned! Paupers aren't supposed to go up in status!"
"Then it makes even more sense to take the clothes, does it not?" Gabriel counted smoothly, gesturing around at the outfits on display. "Go on..." he encouraged the boy to move forwards and take what was being offered. Lazarus was still hesitant, however; his father had always rejected any kind of aid when money was tighter than usual. Along with a short temper and a strange gravitation towards sin, Lazarus had also picked up this refusal of charity or things he had not earned for himself.
He looked around at the rich materials, his eyes narrowed dubiously as though he were expecting them to be whipped from his hands before he had a chance to enjoy even the idea of donning the clothes. They were relatively plain, compared to the kinds of clothes most rich families wore, but they suited their purpose perfectly. Despite their simplicity, they were still the finest thing he had ever been offered.
Gabriel watched him tentatively looking around, finding his amused smile ever harder to contain. The boy looked like a captured animal, nervously venturing out of its cage for the first time, trying to gauge whether it was safe to move freely or not.
"I dunno..." Lazarus mumbled dubiously, silently cursing his slip in register, "I mean: I don't know." He turned and looked back at Gabriel.
"Why? What's wrong?" he watched the rich boy's frown grow slowly, the chocolate eyes shadowed slightly. He shook his head and pushed a smile to his lips; he wouldn't admit it, but the mixture of amusement and light confusion on Gabriel's face was astoundingly attractive. Pushing the thoughts from his head, he replied:
"Nothing really, just..." he trailed off with a shrug, neither answering Gabriel's question, nor satisfying his curiosity. Moving over to one of the outfits laid out for him, he touched the soft fabric uncertainly, looking back around, "you sure about this?" he asked, doing his best to move the subject away from what was wrong with him. Where would I start with what's wrong with me? His internal voice laughed almost hysterically as he considered his answer and how Gabriel would react.
"Of course. You'd look so much more presentable at a concert with some proper clothes, not those... Sunday bests of yours," he did his best to avoid insulting Lazarus, remembering how he had behaved when angered and upset only a few days ago. He watched as Lazarus pretended to pore over the clothes, noticing the hesitations in his movements slowly fading.
Eventually, a few of the outfits were chosen, and Gabriel called a maid to adjust the clothes to fit Lazarus' slender frame. She placed a stool for him to stand on in the middle of the room, a sewing box beside her and asked him if he would kindly change behind the screen. He couldn't help but laugh when she called him sir, laughing harder at her confused expression. Gabriel did his best not to laugh too, but it was so hard to hold back as he watched Lazarus' expression lift for the first time since they had met.
"Sorry," Lazarus coughed, choking back his laughter, "sorry, miss, I'm just not used to being called 'sir'..." she looked at him, her eyes widening as she fought back a smile.
"I'm not used to being called 'miss'. My name's Emily, sir," she bowed her head and ushered him over to the screen where she helped him change.
"Then if I am to call you Emily," he said, pulling his shirt over his head, "you are to call me Lazarus."
"Servants are there to call you 'sir', Lazarus," Gabriel rolled his eyes, "among other things, of course. They are not there to be familiar with."
"Apologies, Master Emerson," Lazarus muttered. Emily smiled, though she made a note to use his name when Gabriel was out of earshot. Once he was changed, he stood on the stool, lifting his arms and moving when he was told to so the clothes could be altered.
"So how old are you, Lazarus?" Gabriel asked after a moment, bored of watching in silence.
"Fourteen. Fifteen in a month or so," he replied, looking up from Emily's head bobbing around by his groin as she pulled a tape measure around his thigh. "You?"
"Seventeen. I will be eighteen in less than two weeks," he smiled. Lazarus nodded to himself; his guess had been right, Gabriel was three years his senior. "I was rather hoping you would play for my birthday party; a private show, if you will."
"So that's what this is all about?" Lazarus laughed slightly. Gabriel's shoulders lifted in a half shrug.
"Partly, I suppose," he nodded, making Lazarus scowl, "but like I said, it was my mother's idea."


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