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Howard "Howdy"
Groskloss at Amherst
in 1930.
Howdy hits 100
Amherst is saddened to report that Howard "Howdy" Groskloss passed away on July 15, 2006. Howdy is survived by his wife Mary, and stepchildren Linda, Janet, Marie and Joanna.
Driving across Florida in search of the world's oldest Pirate, one can imagine any number of stories.
At best, meaning at its most interesting, maybe it's the story of a guy who played baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 1930s and now has the whole thing entangled in a brain that just turned 100 years old. Maybe he's living on a bobbing pontoon in the Atlantic, with an eye patch, a parrot on his shoulder (also wearing an eye patch), and a reflexive proclivity for the all-time No. 1 Pirate cliché: "Aarrrgh."
Short of that, would this particular Amherst College grad even remember being a professional contemporary of Babe Ruth, playing for the Pirates of Pie Traynor and the Waner brothers? At 100, God bless him, would he remember Monday, this being Tuesday?
As it happens, if there's a better baseball story out there right now, a perfectly interesting story of a near-perfectly spent life, it's nowhere on the worn landscape
of public discourse as much as it is in
this beautifully appointed home on John's Island, part of Vero Beach.
It is here that Howard Groskloss '30 remembers things vividly, mostly because there is so, so much that is simply unforgettable.
"I remember there were a lot of women standing around after the games," he said joyously. "You couldn't get through all the women."
From across the room, Mary, his wife of 30 years, smiled at her 100-year-old husband. Perhaps she's heard that observation before.
"There was a very pretty nurse here the other day," said Mary, herself still lovely at 79. "Howard didn't want her to leave. He's doing very well."
That he is, and it's only been that way now for about 100 years.
The son of a Pittsburgh opera singer who envisioned for him the future of a violin prodigy, Groskloss came to his first crossroads when it became clear that he loved sports as much as music. His mother, who feared he'd ruin his fingers playing baseball, advised him to pick one or the other and not look back.
"My father was a great, great fan of the game," he said. "I grew up watching it with him. He'd take me to see the Pirates. He knew I could get around pretty well, and he was a friend of Barney Dreyfuss, so I guess he got Mr. Dreyfuss to take a look at me."
Dreyfuss had been the Pirates' owner for more than a generation when Howard Groskloss came into view, but he thought so much of the kid's aptitude that, fearing injury, he offered to pay him not to play football at Amherst, where Groskloss planned to begin his studies in the fall of 1926. It was his first stop in a lifetime of groundbreaking medical and academic achievement.
Groskloss declined that cash, which was a fine thing for Amherst's athletic interests over the next four years.
Mary got up and went to a shelf, from which she pulled down the large silver trophy Amherst calls its Mossman Cup, given annually to the college's top student athlete. This particular chunk of hardware was presented to Groskloss in 1930 by former president Calvin Coolidge (even then, he was a former president), another Amherst alum (Class of 1895) of some note.
At Amherst, Howard Groskloss played baseball (shortstop), football (tailback), basketball (point guard) and tennis; he also was a member of the swim team, and he ran track. In his seconds of spare time, he studied medicine and waited tables at a local boarding house. Decades later, he took up golf and started winning tournaments all over South Florida and the Bahamas.
His first big break, however, came from Dreyfuss, who gave him a $10,000 bonus when he signed to play for the Pirates.
"It wasn't publicized, I think, because it was at the start of the Depression," Groskloss said, "but that was a big, big bonus. I gave it to my mother to pay off the house."
So it was on June 23, 1930, the month after Amherst's commencement and Groskloss' acceptance into Yale Medical School, that "Howdy" Groskloss made his major league debut at second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was an era when few players dodged nicknames. Among his Pirate teammates were Joseph "Arky" Vaughan, who got that name for being from Arkansas, Harold "Pie" Traynor, Paul "Big Poison" Waner and his brother Lloyd "Little Poison." (No word on a brother named "Moderate Toxicity.") Pitcher Henry William Meine was called either Heinie Meine or The Count of Luxembourg. (Don't ask.)
In that climate, Groskloss was relatively fortunate to get away with "Howdy." He's most commonly called Dr. Groskloss.
"He's one of the most remarkable men I've ever met," said longtime friend Dick Durrell, whose own athletic feats helped launch a career with Time, Inc. as the founder of People magazine. "He's just a pleasure to be around. His mind is so keen that you can talk about just about anything with him. I retired to Vero Beach years ago, and there used to be these Bach concerts at a local church every month. We'd go all the time. He knew a lot about music. We'd go to see the Dodgers in spring training, and he'd watch the infielders' footwork and tell me about that. He's fascinating."
Dr. Groskloss wound up playing parts of three seasons in the major leagues, most notably in 1931, when he appeared in 53 games and hit .280 with seven doubles and two triples.
"I remember Traynor and the Waners; they were great guys and good friends," he said. "But the Pirates knew I was more serious about school. They knew they weren't going to keep me.'
Groskloss stayed with the team long enough to meet some monumental figures, including Branch Rickey, who liked to chat with him because he was so smart. Rickey told Groskloss in 1932 that he hoped the game's future would include black players.
"He told me was hopeful of getting Negro players into the game," Groskloss said. "He was very sure about it. He was a very religious man. That was 15 years before Jackie Robinson."
That same year, the Pirates changed managers, and the new boss, George Gibson, was less than enchanted that Groskloss, his utility infielder, spent so much time with his nose in a medical text. Late that summer, Howdy left the Pirates for good. It was not a terribly significant loss for the game, perhaps, but it was a veritable boon to medicine.
Groskloss studied at Yale and then at Penn, and eventually taught at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic. He was an important figure at the University of Miami, whose medical school grew from the brainstorming of consulting physicians that included Howard Groskloss. He declined a Rhodes Scholarship because he thought it would only delay his life's work. He was chief medical officer and flight surgeon on the carrier USS Makassar in the Pacific theater during World War II, and went on to teach obstetrics, gynecology and endocrinology for more than 50 years. He is credited with helping to introduce ultra-sound technology to various medical disciplines.
On the day I talked with him, he was hurrying to see the dentist.
"He's physically stronger than I am," said Mary. "Maybe he'll play ball again."
If he didn't seem to have broken every finger on both hands, even that wouldn't surprise anyone. Howdy's mother was right. He was going to ruin his fingers playing that dumb game.
"Gloves weren't much when I played," he explained. "You broke one [finger], you just snapped it back into place and kept on playing."
I wonder if that particular treatment appeared in any of the medical texts of the day.
Groskloss doesn't watch a lot of baseball on television these days.
"Not religiously," is how he puts it.
I don't ask if he can pull in the Pirates games on satellite. That would presume he'd want them.
He spends his days with Mary, and the occasional visitor like Durrell. He eats Mary's cooking and makes note of a pretty nurse here and again. If there's an Amherst reunion or even semi-official function though, he's there.
With Dr. Groskloss, the obligatory journalist's question for 100-year-olds gets fielded flawlessly, and with style.
"Doctor, how did you get to be 100?"
"Well, I wasn't much for the vices," he said. "I didn't drink much. Of course, I could have had plenty of vices."
Come to think of it, baseball was probably as close as he came.
— By Gene Collier
Gene Collier is a sports columnist with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.


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Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 has been one of the more talked about game titles since it was announced at Nintendo's press conference on Wednesday.
The game is getting plenty of press both because it is a new game when talking about the 3DS and also because it is an old reliable game that older gamers remember from the SNES playing days.
While there hasn't been a whole lot of information about the game released yet, there are a couple of videos that have recently been released that show off what the game looks like.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 gameplay videos aren't your usual gameplay videos. Most games will find a way to release the videos as if you are actually inside the game.
The video we have below is actually a more hands on look at the game because it truly shows what you will see when you have the Nintendo 3DS in your hand along with the game.
This game is essentially the same one that was on the SNES but there are a few tweaks here and there. The most obvious tweak is that Link can actually change the way he moves by becoming a 2D drawing.
By doing this he can get around walls, doors and windows easier. This little tweak, while leaving the rest of the game play quite similar, people can get the best of both worlds.
There are also a few different changes to the map and a couple of new dungeons so that people who end up actually playing both games will notice that there are some real differences.
Check out the video for Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 2 below and tell us whether this looks like a game you would go out and get.

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There are very few apartments like this. Glow, elegance, style and space. Building of great historical value in the center of Mataro with emblematic facade. It is located a few meters from City Hall. Formerly a luxury home, later was used as a large hall for celebrations of important events.
Modernism lovers will find a lounge decorated with paintings, handicrafts magnificent moldings and hydraulic floors made in Italy. Large hall with allegorical paintings of scenes from the Vintage and hunting, the famous painter Alfredo Opisso.
The house has many possibilities to create a generous home or merge as a business. Its size allows several professional activities.
Currently the property needs a complete reform. The conditions of the lease are flexible and adapt to the need of the person concerned.
The current distribution is five bedrooms, large hall, kitchen with storage area, two bathrooms, laundry area outside on the patio.
Barcelona Coast is the part of Barcelona located in front of the sea, 160 km of coastline, 111 beaches and 16 marinas. It is a long narrow strip of land between the sea and the mountains, with more than 2,500 hours of sunshine per year and a very mild climate in any season. Its proximity to the city of Barcelona helps enjoy daily from all that its urban center provides: 48.000 shops, cosmopolitan and multicultural environment, exceptional and creative cuisine in restaurants and gourmet shops, a variety of cultural and leisure activities, healthcare infrastructure, recognized international schools, important business activities, good connection by road and public transport. There is so much to see and discover every day in a cozy environment and high public security.
The entire area offers many ideal spots to set a primary residence or enjoy short breaks in any season, with a wide range of properties of all types in nice and private residential areas, 12 golf courses, 66 tennis clubs and malls with the best commercial brands.
The part north of the city known as the Costa Barcelona-Maresme and the one called Costa Barcelona-Sitges / Garraf which is in the south. In any case, the Costa Barcelona is a great option that guarantees a high quality of life and allows being qualified as the "best place to live.
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Take your pup out for some school time fun and show your school pride!
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This fun football is great to throw with your pal and show your school spirit. The Florida Gators Plush Football Dog Toy has the school emblem on ball, inside is a fun squeaker. Tug rope going through the toy adds excitement and weight to get thrown farther.
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Leo says the football is fun to play with. It is sooo soft.:) I am training him to catch it. He has had way more complete catches than incomplete ones. This footballer luvs the fact that it has his favorite team's logo and a squeaker in the middle.


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As for Twinkies, the demise of the Hostess products probably has more to do with healthier eating habits today than because of a strike against the company by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (a mouthful in itself), which is getting the blame. We haven't had a Twinkie in our house for years. Still, just as we keep an empty box of Marshall Field's chocolate mints in the cupboard, a Twinkie or two would be something to treasure if only to show the grandchildren what truly unhealthy (but terribly tasty) treats we used to eat. When the news broke, we dashed over to the Hostess outlet store in Dublin, only to find it closed already. The shelves still marked with Hostess brand price tags at Safeway and Target were also bare. Trying online, we found the demand for Twinkies was especially brisk with, at one time, more than 17,000 active listings for Twinkies and prices varying widely. In the end, we took a pass, leaving the Hostess treats to the memory books.
Not so for Newsweek, though. Although my subscription lapsed long ago as the weekly magazine lost its zest for timely global news reports, I wanted a copy for old time's sake to keep on the shelf along with old copies of publications such as the Christian Science Monitor that also have gone all-digital. There's a difference between keeping newspapers and magazines compared to storing them "in the clouds." It's hard to spread a digital publication out on the kitchen counter and leaf through the pages, ads and all. Of course, we all read off our Smartphone, iPad and laptop screens now, including the daily online reports by the Pleasanton Weekly and its sister publications covering Dublin, San Ramon and Danville. It's just that for a career newspaperman like me, there's still the leisurely pace a reader finds in the feel and content of a magazine like Newsweek.
Both Hostess and Newsweek leave a lot of history -- and employees -- as they go. Roughly 18,500 workers will be out of work when Texas-based Hostess Brands finally shuts down. Investors may buy some of the assets in the coming bankruptcy sale, but Twinkies, Sno Balls and Ding Dongs are might be gone. Other iconic brands, such as Wonder Bread and Dolly Madison, may find new bakers to use the popular brand names, but the workforce at Hostess' wholesale bakeries and its retail outlets are already mostly gone. As one blogger put it, the baker's union, in refusing to end its strike and accept lower wages and benefits, "gave 18,000 people an opportunity to find another job" in a still troubled economy.
Far fewer employees are affected by Newsweek's decision to end its print edition on Dec. 31. The magazine has lost circulation and reduced staff since restructuring under the ownership of the Washington Post in 2008. It lost $11 million in the first quarter of 2010, alone. Most newspapers and magazines today, including this one, are moving forward with online editions that have broad appeal to the new digital generation. In Newsweek's case, however, the decision is more of a last gasp, a sad ending for a once-great national magazine.


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Hilary Duff Might Be A Scientologist
Above is Hilary Duff letting Danny Masterson's sister Alanna grab her boob ("Ew, no! That's where the alien ghosts live!" – John Travolta, somewhere.) while sporting a temporary moon tattoo on her arm that, according to Radar, apparently means something in Scientology, but somehow not my guess of Tom Cruise's penis loves the moon's man-butt. Or TCLTMMB which doesn't really roll off the tongue like TCLTC, so forget I said that. Anyway, Hilary Duff has commented on the tattoo, but I don't know if I'd call this a denial:
My favorite moon is out tonight which is what arm tattoo actually stands for in case anyone was confused …
In fairness, here's a recent photo of Hilary Duff having a vagina, yet not being locked in the engine room of a slave ship which goes against almost everything Scientology stands for. Then again, we are talking about a powerful religion with the psychic ability to control the minds of others, so who's to say anything we're seeing at any moment is real? *jabs Photo Boy with a stick* Ha! You call that blood, space wizards? Nice try.
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Index notches up another record
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The market continues its ascent, with takeovers adding to the bullish mood.
THE sharemarket has soared further into record territory on takeover news and continued strength in the big mining and energy stocks.
The S&P/ASX 200 Index gained 37.7 points to close at its high for the day of 4499.3, breaking the previous end-of-day record set last Tuesday.
The market was buoyed by logistics company Toll Holdings' $4.6 billion unsolicited takeover offer for transport group Patrick and news of plans to merge chemist and drug maker Sigma with Arrow Pharmaceuticals.
ABN Amro Morgans senior equities adviser Geoff Voller said the market had been ignited by the "hype" over the takeovers, solid commodity prices and an expected record result tomorrow from BHP Billiton.
"It always takes a bit of corporate activity to get people feeling the market's got some upside," he said. "There is also hype with BHP coming up and there have been some very good results."
Toll shares rocketed $1.09 to $14.67 and Patrick soared 93¢ to $7.38.
However, shares in Virgin Blue plunged 12.5¢ to $1.60, with Patrick's holding in the airline to fall as low as 10 per cent under Toll's merger plan. Qantas firmed 5¢ to $3.39.
Sigma shares closed $2.02 higher at $11.37 but Arrow fell 21¢ to $2.55.
BHP Billiton shares jumped 54¢ to $21.22 and rival Rio Tinto put on 90¢ to $53.10.
Energy stocks made strong gains after US crude oil futures surged above $US65 a barrel, with Woodside Petroleum rising 96¢ to $33.11 and Santos up 19¢ at $11.19.
Life insurance and wealth management company AXA moved up 20¢ to $4.80 after handing down a better than expected $246 million half-year net profit.
The big banks were mixed. NAB gave up 9¢ to $31.31 and ANZ was off 15¢ at $22.14 but Commonwealth moved 14¢ ahead to $37.28 and Westpac edged up 4¢ to $20.03.
Supermarket chain Woolworths posted a $790.5 million annual net profit, driven by strong food and liquor sales and cost-cutting, but its shares lost 2¢ to $16.67. Rival Coles Myer rose 6¢ to $9.64.
Telstra fell 4¢ to $4.73 and Optus owner SingTel edged 1¢ higher to $2.12.
In the media sector, News Corp's non-voting shares fell 23¢ to $22.05, with the voting scrip losing 24¢ to $23.09, but Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd closed 8¢ higher at $15.53.
Newcrest moved 13¢ ahead to $17.33 after the gold miner reported an 11 per cent rise in net profit to $136.1 million. Newmont gained 3¢ to $5.31 and Lihir rose 2¢ to $1.405. The spot price of gold eased $US1.78 to $US437.35 an ounce.
The top traded stock by volume was Multiemedia, with 130.78 million shares changing hands. The stock gained 0.4¢ to 2.6¢.
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  <TITLE>Generic resources not working in 2.3.6 ?</TITLE>   Previously we were running 2.1.x on our cluster and our moms were configured with the following generic resource:

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SUNDAY mornings are usually very quiet on Muston Street in the heart of Mosman.
But 33-year-old William Rutter left a trail of destruction down the jacaranda-lined street after he allegedly seriously assaulted four police officers, smashed a window, kicked in a door, bashed his girlfriend and rattled the well-to-do neighbourhood in a domestic violence incident committed on the official day to prevent violence against women.
Eight police officers, many of whom had diverted from a White Ribbon Day function, had to subdue Mr Rutter on Sunday morning when he allegedly turned on them after violently assaulting his girlfriend, Eryn Briton, a Taronga Zoo worker.
Mr Rutter allegedly shattered Ms Briton's elbow and tried to kick in the door to her apartment when she locked him out.
She made a frantic call to her mother, Gail, to rescue her but when she arrived neighbours heard Ms Briton, 31, screaming out the third-floor window for her mother to run away because Mr Rutter was running downstairs.
Police officers attended to find Mr Rutter out the front of the three-storey apartment block and Ms Briton throwing his belongings out the window.
He had smashed in the glass front door to the block and allegedly bit, punched and spat at officers when they tried to apprehend him, a spokesman said.
Police allege he broke a female leading senior constable's arm and possibly dislocated a female constable's knee. A male probationary constable is having blood tests after Mr Rutter bit his hand and a male constable suffered bruises and grazes.
Mr Rutter suffered some cuts but was well enough to appear in Central Local Court on Monday where he was refused bail on nine charges relating to assault and malicious damage.
''The police officers definitely came off second best,'' said a police spokesman. ''Considering it was White Ribbon Day, it was just horrific.'' The officers used capsicum spray to subdue Mr Rutter before arresting him.
Ms Briton took her pet bird and fled on Sunday night. One neighbour, who said the pair seemed a happy, polite couple, said Ms Briton was crying hysterically.


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Ryan Kelly is not only a gifted fly fishing guide, but apparently a closet writer. Love the stuff he has been cranking out lately. The Green is obviously providing all kinds of inspiration for him this spring.
Under bright blue skies,
waiting for a trout to rise,
my fly sits high,
like a bug soon to die,
I see a flash,
there is a splash....
Whoa! I've used so much dry fly floatant this week that I think waxing poetic might become permanent. Actually, it has been in me for a long time as that was an excerpt from a poem I wrote in high school (not too hard to guess where my day dreams were taking me). I was reminded of youth by the adrenaline filled hooks sets, which were followed by child-like giggling by the guests in my boat. My teenage day dreams are currently reality as the famed BWO hatch continues abundantly each afternoon. These size 16 dark olive sailboats cruise the waters hoping their wings will dry before they are enveloped by the soft vortex of a rising trout. On sunny, windy days, the wings dry fast and off they go. On cloudy days, particularly when there is high humidity, their wings take longer to dry and thus taking more time to get off the water. This is why the hatch appears to be bigger during overcast skies. Of course, some never make it to the surface as they are snatched up by a trout creating a splashy rise. A dry fly/emerger tandem rig is a great solution for such an occasion.


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Amaya Agrees to Acquire Rational Group, Owner of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker for $4.9 BillionJune 13, 2014 - 2:37am
Acquisition Creates World's Largest Publicly-Traded Online Gaming Company
(MONTREAL, CANADA & ONCHAN, ISLE OF MAN – June 12, 2014) – Amaya Gaming Group Inc. (TSX: AYA) ("Amaya" or the "Corporation") and privately held Oldford Group Limited ("Oldford Group"), the parent company of Rational Group Ltd. ("Rational Group"), the world's largest poker business and owner and operator of the PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker brands, announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") for the Corporation to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Oldford Group in an all-cash transaction for an aggregate purchase price of $4.9 billion (the "Purchase Price"), including certain deferred payments and subject to certain other customary adjustments (the "Transaction"). All $ figures are in US dollars unless noted otherwise.
The Transaction will result in Amaya becoming the world's largest publicly-traded online gaming company. The online poker platforms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are collectively the world's most popular and profitable online poker brands with more than 85 million registered players on desktop and mobile devices.
For calendar year 2013, pro forma combined revenue, EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA of Amaya and Oldford Group were $1.3 billion, $474.8 million and $473.8 million, respectively. For 2014, the Corporation is projecting pro forma adjusted EBITDA, assuming the Transaction had been completed as of January 1, 2014, of between $600 and $640 million.
The Transaction combines complementary businesses with minimal overlap: Isle of Man-headquartered Rational Group's B2C poker business including PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, live poker tours and events, and online and TV poker programming; and Montreal-headquartered Amaya's B2B interactive and physical casino and lottery gaming solutions.
Under the terms of the Transaction, Oldford Group shareholders led by Mark Scheinberg, founder and Chief Executive Officer, will dispose of their shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amaya. Mr. Scheinberg and other principals of OIdford Group will resign from all positions with Oldford Group and its subsidiaries on completion of the Transaction.
Rational Group's executive management team will be retained and online poker services provided by PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker will be unaffected by the Transaction, with players continuing to enjoy uninterrupted access to their gaming experience.
The boards of directors of both Amaya and Oldford Group unanimously approved the Agreement.
The Transaction will be financed through a combination of cash on hand, new debt, a private placement of subscription receipts, a private placement of common shares and a private placement of non-voting convertible preferred shares.
Affiliates of GSO Capital Partners LP ("GSO"), the credit division of The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), have agreed to participate in the debt financing, to subscribe for $600 million in convertible preferred shares, and to purchase $55 million of common shares of the Corporation with each common share priced at C$20 upon closing of the Transaction.
An investment manager (the "Investment Manager"), on behalf of its clients, has agreed to participate in the debt financing, to subscribe for approximately $270 million in convertible preferred shares, and to purchase approximately $55 million of subscription receipts.
No change related to this Transaction is contemplated for Amaya's Board of Directors.
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Poker News Brief: PPA Announces "Fight Back" CampaignApril 16, 2014 - 11:28am
by Haley Hintze
The Poker Players Alliance has announced a grass-roots campaign designed to put poker players directly in touch with federal legislators to protest anti-online-gambling bills under consideration in Congress. Called "Fight Back," the new effort targets twin measures introduced by US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and US Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), that are backed and drafted by the Sheldon Adelson-CEO'd Las Vegas Sands Corp. While the twin bills have signed up about 20 co-sponsors, several legal and political groups have protested the bills, often as a violation of states' rights regarding gambling. Among the groups opposing the Graham and Chaffetz measures are Democratic Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) and the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL). More at: http://theppa.org/fight-the-ban/
Poker News Brief: More Full Tilt Refunds IssuedApril 15, 2014 - 11:43am
by Haley Hintze
The Department of Justice-appointed administrator for the Full Tilt Poker remissions process, Garden City Group, released a second wave of refunds in early April. Almost $6 million in online-poker balances was sent to about 2,800 players whose banking information could not be verified in time for inclusion in the larger first wave of payments earlier this year. All told, GCG has issued about $81 million in FTP payment to date, with two large categories still under review – online affiliates and former players who enjoyed some form of sponsorship relationship with the site. The funds for the ongoing refunds came from the 2012 PokerStars settlement with the DOJ, which acquired Full Tilt's remaining assets in exchange for the remission funding.
Poker News Brief: New York State Online Poker Bill IntroducedApril 8, 2014 - 10:28am
by Haley Hintze
New York State Senator John Bonacic (R-42) has introduced a measure seeking to authorize intrastate online poker. The new proposal isn't the first time online poker has been considered in Albany, after being considered in conjunction with a controversial casino-expansion effort that finally passed in 2013. Bonacic's new bill would define poker as a game of skill and would create as many as ten online poker licenses, and would open the door to player-pooling compacts with other states also offering regulated internet poker, including neighbor states New Jersey and Delaware. The original draft language of Bonacic's bill does include bad-actor language designed to block any online sites that serviced New York residents following the passage of the 2006 UIGEA.
Poker News Brief: Illinois Legislators to Reconsider iPokerApril 7, 2014 - 10:39am
by Haley Hintze
State regulated online poker will again be on the agenda of topics as Illinois legislators return to the topic of expanded gambling within the state. Several different forms of expanded gambling have been proposed for the revenue-strapped state, including a proposed downtown-Chicago casino, the large, new Rivers Casino near O'Hare, the online sale of lottery tickets… and, of course, state-regulated internet poker. Illinois State Senate President John Cullerton has indicated only tepid support, stating that the controversial downtown-Chicago casino question must be answered before plans for Illinois online poker can move forward.
Rift in California Tribal Negotiations over Possible PokerStars Software DealApril 3, 2014 - 11:14am
by Haley Hintze
Negotiations between competing California tribal-casino factions over differences in language in rival Cali intrastate online poker bills have fallen apart over allegations that PokerStars may be negotiating to at least one tribe and two major independent cardrooms. A 12-tribe group led by the state's Pechanga and Agua Caliente bands issued a public statement against PokerStars and its parent Rational Group, demanding that a "bad actor" provision, designed to block PokerStars, be included in any California i-poker legislation. The rival Morongo tribal nation and the Commerce and Hawaiian Gardens card rooms have been named in media reports as negotiating with Stars for software services. PokerStars paid more than $500 million to resolve its federal "Black Friday" case but admitted no legal wrongdoing, and would currently be subject to approval by California gaming regulators rather than being blocked by a Cali i-poker bad-actor provision.
Poker News Briefs: Twin Online Gambling Ban Proposals IntroducedMarch 31, 2014 - 12:57pm
by Haley Hintze
Twin Congressional measures seeking to reinvigorate the 1961 Wire Act and thereby make illegal most forms of Internet gambling, including poker, have been introduced in Congress. The bills, submitted by US Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and US Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), originated with the deep backing of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which operates the Venetian and Palazzo in Las Vegas. The preliminary forms of both bills were written by a federal lobbyist funded by Adelson, who hopes to curtail Internet-based competition to his existing land-based casinos. Both new Congressional measures, denoted as S. 2159 and H.R. 4301, respectively, have been sent to Congressional committees.
Poker News Briefs: California Online Poker Bills Introduced and MoreMarch 12, 2014 - 11:45am
by Haley Hintze
Competing California Online Poker Bills Introduced – Two California intrastate online-poker measures were introduced in late February in the state's legislature ahead of a deadline for 2013-14 consideration. Both bills are supported by competing tribal-casino factions. One of the two is the reintroduction of an earlier bill (now known as SB 1366) by State Sen. Lou Correa, with the backing of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. A newer and competing bill, AB 2291, offered by State Rep. Reggie Jones-Sawyer, is backed by the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and other tribes. One possibly controversial element of the Jones-Sawyer bill is language that would make the playing of online poker on unlicensed sites a misdemeanor. Both bills were submitted as urgency measures, meaning two-thirds approval is required.
Poker News Briefs: First Wave of Full Tilt Refunds Reaches PlayersMarch 10, 2014 - 11:34am
by Haley Hintze
Full Tilt Remissions Administrator Wires $76M in Refunds – DOJ-authorized claims administrator Garden City Group has delivered the first wave of Full Tilt Poker refund payments to US players whose bankrolls on the online site have been in limbo since April, 2011. On February 28th, GCG sent a total of about $76 million to more than 27,500 former FTP players. The mass refunds represent the first of several payment waves to be issued by GCG over the coming months, and represent those players who accepted the balances shown in Full Tilt's system without protest. Players with disputed balances and players who enjoyed either affiliate or rakeback relationships with the site, which was at one time the second-largest US-facing online poker offering, are subject to lengthier, individual review.


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Endovascular Leg Therapies Information Additional Links
Host: So give me some of the benefits of the endovascular less invasive approach
Doctor: Well first of all, the word explains it. It is less invasive, meaning through a small perforation in your groin. Not bigger than two to three milliliters in diameter. You can basically utilize any tool to either open a vessel or excise the plaque, the atheroma from inside the vessel and clean it up or optimize the results through metal cages called stents or even cleaning up cloths. So there's everything we can potentially do to fix the stream of blood, we can usually do it from percutaneous. So as you make a smaller incision in the skin, then your infection is less, your infection rate after the surgery is less. So you minimize the infection complication rate. Number two, the complications related to general anesthesia in big long surgeries is minimized because also your operate times usually are little bit shorter when you do this and people can be wide awake and with only small local anesthetic in the skin level so they don't have any pain when we puncture it. So there is a fairly good advantage of this and another thing is that people can basically walk out of the procedure in hour or two later after it. They can stand up, if you use specific closure devices, and they can even walk home if that's maybe the case.
Host: Versus an open traditional surgery, what's recovery time there typically?
Doctor: So usually people stay in the hospital, different lengths depending on what surgery is. It can be up to from one day, sometimes they might have to be in the hospital for five to seven days recovering from a big surgery. So the bedding is very, is a wide array of surgery so it is hard to pinpoint one day, but I can tell you certainly the recovery period is usually slower and to get back to their functional state it takes more time.
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Host: So diabetes is a strong risk factor for PAD. Is there anything that a diabetic can do to try to control that or ameliorate that?
Doctor: Absolutely, diabetes I would say in our communities, especially in southern part of the U.S. where we have a very big Hispanic community understanding that the prevalence in Hispanic of diabetes is fairly high. About 60 years of age you'll get up to 30 percent of people having diabetes and being that, of course it's crucial that you have some control over that diabetes. The way to prevent complications that come from long term diabetes is sugar control. So if you can get your blood sugars under control with adequate therapy and on top of that you modulate your life style, remaining you get out of that couch, you do some exercise, you drop that cigarette, you stop smoking, all of those things will impact and minimize the complications long term. So if you can minimize your neuropathy which certainly comes from long period of badly control sugar levels in your blood then certainly you'll prevent the issues that might come from neuropathy like we were talking about.
It seems kind of a double bind like you talk before about the golfer that could not continue because of the pain and so their tendency would be to rest or to avoid activity, but it's activity you need.
Absolutely, and some of these people don't even need an intervention, surgically speaking. Some people just need some advice. There are a great amount of people that if you just exercise them in inadequate fashion, you explain to them how they have to walk, what they have to do with a treadmill in a daily basis, most of their symptoms can go away. So it is very important to pick them up early enough in the game and advise them so they can prevent a future operation.
Host: So as a patient, if you suspect that you have pain in the legs what kind of specialist should you look for to be recommended for the next step?
Doctor: So there's many specialist right know who deal with PAD, vascular surgeons, cardiologist, and even interventional radiologist, now they deal with PAD. But I absolutely think that you have to try to reach your PCP first. He is the person that could order the initial batch of quote on quote vascular labs that are a way of us, as physicians, identifying with objective data if a patient has or doesn't have PAD. Now, it is very important and that's where it gets a little bit tricky that the PCP is where were of some of the secrets involved in identifying this disease. Because well it's not a secret that most people with PAD are either going to be ex-smokers or active smokers, they are going to be people of a certain age, the older population, we are going to have people with hypertension and diabetes. So as you go to this small subgroup of people that have all of these other things going on, what we call comorbidities the you tend to blame other things like for example your lower back pain, or you might say you had some knee surgery and your knee hurts and it might be that you are actually having pain when you are walking from inclusive disease, which means you are not getting enough oxygen and we have that in a fair amount of people that for months, and months, have or tried to find medical attention and they always for some reason focus on some muscular issue or some joint issue and at the end, the patient was having peripheral artery disease. People will say I'll start walking, without any problem whatsoever and at some certain distance, 50, 100 feet, their thighs or their back parts of their legs will start cramping up in pain, which basically prompts them to stop because they can't move a step forward. With a little bit of rest, couple minutes go by the pain subsides and then they can actually go on and walk again. So when somebody has this recurrent intermittent period of pain that comes basically from some exertion or some exercise and they have to stop because the pain is unbearable, but immediately as they rest the pain goes away that's when you have to think I might have PAD, I need to find somebody that can work it up for me.
Host: We've seen and heard a lot of the advantages of endovascular and less invasive approaches compared to the open and traditional ways. Are there any disadvantages, is there any downsize?
Doctor: Absolutely, nothing is perfect. As operators we have to have that and we have to have the knowledge to say when something might not be appropriate. We've seen that the more extensive, defuse complex disease tends to have, in the short term poor patency rates what we call. How long does the procedure actually stay open and so that is something that we are certainty looking forward to optimizing as newer devices and medications and drugs allows us to maintain a procedure open for a longer amount of times. Now in the other hand you do have to know also that vessels are transparent under the ex-ray machine. You can't see them like you see a bone. So in other to see the inside the vessels you use a special fluid called contrast and that helps us identify where the disease is. Now the problem with contrast is that it is nephrotoxic meaning it is bad for your kidneys. And so people who have issues with their kidneys, especially people that have some kidney baseline problem then there will be a subset of people that are at a higher risk of having renal complications from a procedure.
Host: What if somebody is in dialysis?
Doctor: That's a great question. There are many of our patients out there that actually informed themselves and come basically in tears saying the problem is that i'm in dialysis, I understand I can't get any contrast and actually that is to some extent not true because if somebody is already in a renal substitution system meaning they have hemodialysis over a catheter over their neck or their shoulders or they have peritoneal dialysis meaning they have a catheter in their belly that basically substitutes their renal function and the majority of people that are already in dialysis have no problem because they quote on quote have no kidneys we have to protect. It's actually the subgroup of people that are close to getting to dialysis that if you expose them to contrast you'll certainly are going to push them over the limit. So that's the subgroup of people.
Host: And one of the big risk factors for PAD is age. Is there any absolute barrier of age in which a patient should no seek some sort of PAD surgical intervention?
Doctor: Not at all. It's all about if the preoperative risk of the patient undergoing x procedure is adequate or the risk benefit balance is adequate for the patient. Age is no way a restriction.
Host: So what do you see as the future for treatment of PAD and related diseases?
Doctor: It is very exciting. Every few months we learn of a new technology that inside the box or outside the box change the way of thinking and I think that the most immediate future is the application of drugs or immunosuppressant slash chemotherapy drugs to the therapy of PAD. Pretty much the drugs you use to treat cancer are applied to the stents and balloons that we use to open arteries and the idea is this drugs are immunosuppressant meaning that it diminishes the ability of your body to react to something and to diminish inflammation. So now in days when we apply a stent in the most part of the stent is not covered with any medication. Is a dead structure, so to speak. To apply chemotherapy drugs in the inside and outside of the stent so that will actually bathe the inside of the artery and prevent the inflammation from happening. There's this small catheter that infiltrate steroids, pretty much as you develop pain in the bottom of your foot and a doctor gives you a steroid shot to diminish inflammation. Is the same, we can go inside the vessel and inject this steroid into the wall of the artery to diminish inflammation that is not is not hard core science proven but its promising based on the evidence little evidence or enough evidence that we have, that they do work. This work has been applied to the coronary arteries in your heart whe they put stent in your heart and now it's a rule that those stents have those drugs. That technology ahs been applied in the legs in the last few years and the initial results were not promising, but now there is better platform for delivery of the drugs so the drugs will stay in the artery and not go somewhere else that are making us hopeful that these technology is going to change dramatically the ability of the stent and our intervention to remain open for a long time. Right now I can tell you 99 out of 100 arteries we can open, but it doesn't mean that artery will remain open ten years from now. That artery will be open one or two, and sometimes your heartbeat will result. But the key is to prolonged the longevity of out procedures and I think the answer in my opinion anyway recites from the application of drugs and delivery to arteries.
Host: Looking ahead what is the future of the techniques and procedures?
Doctor: Most of the money that is being directed to biomedical research has to do with two main areas and potential three. The first of which is genetic analysis as our ability to identify patients with a certain gene, the degree of expression of that gene become even more important. Once were are able to identify who's at risk from a genetic standpoint and subsequently identify those patients not just possessing the gene because that would be many many more patients that actually have a problem from it . The degree from expression can be block by certain medications and although many of those are present in the laboratory right now and were testing them in animal models, they are not available yet but they are coming soon. So soon we will hopefully be able to have a pill that will not just suppresses inflammation, but suppresses many of the proteins that are involved in the initial plaque formation so identification is certainly and it also provides a treatment option for patients in a medical standpoint. So ultimately way down the road we will not be doing any surgical procedure or minimally invasive procedures in any one. We will be able to identify people at a young age, treat them medically and then they never progress to actually having any of the conditions we described. From a technical standpoint, in the more immediate future, the size of the catheters, wires, stents, and delivery systems that we put into someone are becoming smaller and smaller and smaller and although size is not everything its certainly very important because most of the complications we see have to do with bleeding from the vessel to where we puncture so smaller catheters and sheets and delivery systems become very important in lessen the incidents of those most common complications. A third thing that should be mentioned is a lot of research is being spend or a lot of research is been looking recently in bile absorbable materials meaning in regards to medical implantation of device. Currently most of the things that we place in the patient s are metallic or not absorbable, drug coding have improved the results we these metallic implantable devices. but ultimately most of us in the profession feel that bio absorbable matrices and bio absorbable wire forms or structural support systems combine with medicines that impregnated into them and allow a person's native artery to remodel in a way that is not normal but near normal, thereby affecting actual plaque regression along with proper opening an inclusion we feel it represents the most encouraging or the most exciting development next.
Host: Is PAD similar or the same disease as cardiovascular disease?
Doctor: It's the exact similar process that results in both. Meaning that patients that who have cardiovascular disease or arterial inclusion in the coronary arteries very frequently have them in the periphery, in the neck, in the legs, in the abdomen, and to our organs. So they are very commonly associated. Many patients that is evaluated and found to have any one of these diseases and spectrum should be fully evaluated for inclusions in other areas.
Host: If a patient would have had both cardiovascular disease and PAD, which one would typically show up first.
Doctor: Very typically we find, even a small wound or small lesion or a blister on the foot is often is the first manifestation of these diffuse process in many patients. Certainty in the diabetic population this is particularly confounding because they will often have no signs or symptoms of cardiac disease what so ever and yet have very profound arterial exclusive processes that affect both their legs and their heart any one of each can go unrecognized, so certainly the lower extremities of the more common location in the initial presentation, the relationship is not absolute, however. So it certainly indicates a spectrum of disease but they are related intimately.
Host: So what type of people get PAD, what kind of risk factors do they present with?
Doctor: Unfortunately aging, nobody escapes aging and aging happens to be one of the most contributors to plaque built up. Your arteries as we age become harder and more prone to develop Atherosclerosis or plaque buildup. Now that does not mean we all have to follow that path, there's some issues that we can control and some of them we can't control. Something that we can control that is very important is tobacco. Tobacco usage is a huge huge risk factor for Atherosclerosis. I can tell you that somebody comes to my practice being a nonsmoker, I immediately think of something else that is affecting that patient for the symptoms and not PAD such as strong relationship. Diabetes is rapid in Arizona where we practice and everywhere in the world really. So diabetes is actually an important risk factor. Age, tobacco, diabetes, high cholesterol, high lipids in your blood, exposures you to having these kind of problems and other rare genetic disorder will also expose you to that problems. Obesity, high blood pressure, renal diseases , are less important contributor, but nevertheless are contributors to this problem.
Host: So once the patient has been diagnosed with PAD what are the treatment options?
Doctor: There is really a wide array and I don't think that you can say one single thing is a treatment for it and I believe as physicians dealing with this we have to be tailors. Tailor the therapy to the patients' needs and it is great to be unbiased when I say that because as a surgeon I feel very comfortable saying, you need an extremely complex big operation or you need an extremely simple non-invasive technique to deal with this. Or you don't need anything we are going to do a great exercise program, you need to stop smoking, you need to get out of your couch, and you are going to start doing some exercise. So there is very different stages now, is there an ideal. Well I think for the supsent that needed therapy, I would definitely encourage minimally invasive therapy cause as time progresses we are reaching results fairly equal to surgery depending on specific and that you can have a great deal of discussion about, but certainly from getting to A to Z, now in days in treating these patients there is pretty much the same results if you do endovascular therapy as if you do open surgery. and understanding as we have spoken about today, these are a subgroup of people that are fairly sick and so subjecting them to a big vascular open surgery, sometimes is not the smartest thing. So if you can get away with an endovascular minimally invasive technique to repairing this it's usually the better option
Host: We're also here besides PAD, PVD or peripheral vascular disease. Are there similarities, differences, how to we distinguish those?
Doctor: There are subtle differences, but for arterial disease is a fixture of arteries alone where peripheral vascular disease is any vessel. So other vessels, in arteries include veins and lymphatic vessels. So PVD or peripheral vascular disease is a wider term that that encompasses peripheral disease as important part, but it is not the only one.
Host: What about recovery time for the more invasive and less invasive procedures. How do they relate?
Doctor: Recovery time is very widely and is typically determined by patients' overall health conditions mostly, but I can tell you that most of the patients that undergo arteriography and some sort of minimally invasive vascular reconstruction is discharged home the same day. 20 years ago, tissue loss or ulceration or gangrene was a mandatory inpatient hospital stay. Patients stayed for weeks and today we send them home as outpatients. And that is the most frequently case. The larger surgical procedures the hospital stay has been shorten also however. And medical care overall has improved to the extent that really frequently patients will go home on the second day, sometimes even the first day after a large surgical bypass.
Host: One of the risk factors we address briefly with smoking, exactly how does that contribute to the constriction of the blood vessels?
Doctor: Smoking does a number of things. It doesn't just cause constriction. That's part of what nicotine and binding to the nociceptors in the body does cause. And what you are referring to is vassal spasm, constriction of the very small blood vessels in the arterial system. Smoking, getting back to inflammation becomes extremely egregious in regards to the fact that it failed to initiate a diffuse body inflammatory process. So the body perceives it as an injury, that injury instigates the inflammatory cascade and that inflammatory cascade results in the development and progression of a atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries or plaque buildup. So the vassal spasm is only part of that. The permanent damage that is caused to the arteries has to do with the oxydated process also and the way the body heals naturally to the response to injury and inflammation. So truly again getting back to the root of what we feel atherosclerosis is derived from is inflammation and smoking is one of those agents that we've known along with dietary issues to cause plaque buildup.
Host: What's the success rate today with the options they have? I know that is a hard one to answer?
Doctor: It depends on the location of the inclusion. So the results are very widely, but we do have a large body literature now that guides what we recommend patients. And to specifically say that in the upper part of the leg, or in the pelvis patency rates or success rates using stents are in the range of 85 percent in 5 years. In the thigh similar results have been recently reported, 80 to 85 percent one year patency rates with long segment inclusions in the upper thigh. Its when you get below the knee is where we find the most difficultly. And this is where treatment is tailor to a specific patient's anatomy and where the unclusions are. Currently we can treat all the way down to the foot and we treat what they call foot disease using techniques and catheters and micro wires that are able to treat and reopen one millimeter and two milliliters blood blood vessels, so there been fairly profound advances in the past few years that have been expanded the armourterian of our tools to treat these patients.
Host: There appears to be more and more evidence that cardiovascular disease is caused in general by inflammation and yet and diet is a big risk factors that we've talked about. So why do we focus so much on low fat diets as opposed to anti-inflammatory diets?
Doctor: That's a big topic and that has been dramatically changed in the last few years as you said by research. I happen to have a strong bias towards plant based diets meaning being a vegan myself. Not a lifelong vegan but a recently transformed vegan and based on the evidence the research was made by very respectable people that is now available to the general public now in books and dvds that you can purchase in any website store that indicate that animal protein as well as some enzymes found in milk and dairy products are absolutely detrimental to your blood vessels. Iron stores and iron deposit are huge inflammatory factors that you actually put in your mouth that damage your arteries. Why we focus on one or the other, I think that food is comfort. Food is comfort just like smoking and that is a very difficult part to attack. Believe I'll be the happiest even if I lose my business to propose a plant based diet for everybody. I actually have some patients in my practice who I have argued against an intervention when they requested so when they are three or four hundred pounds of weight. They have to go and lose that weight because it doesn't matter what I do to those legs the stress of that weight on the leg is there and that doesn't change. So I agree with you, why so much focus on low fat diet well animal protein is more detrimental than fat in my opinion anyway and according to the recent research. So I think Americans in general and people in world general they have to rethink the role of diets.
Host: You alluded to animal protein as potential cause that we have been eating animal protein forever thousands of years, and yet the incidents has only risen in recent years dramatically. wondering if the process protein we get today might be what is causing it. Any research on that topic?
Doctor: Absolutely, modern research let me give you my personal thoughts because people find vegan or vegetarian people as strange and unreasonable. And let me tell you why I have this personal conflict with these people who are carnivores who tell me that humans are hunters by nature. That basically we used to hunt elk and to support your family, but this is not certainly what you do in 2013. I mean you go to the supermarket where every piece of meat you get is seasoned and is exposed to pesticides and chemicals. So if you tell me that you live in an island, remote away from civilization and you actually piece fish for your diet and your families diet then go for it. I have no problem with that. But once you processes all the chemicals and unnatural synthetic additions to your food that's where the problem comes. And so I believe that is the different between true carnivore diet, a true carnivore human being and the human beings we are now. We follow specs from McDonalds and that's is certainly not what should be done.
Host: To the most extreme of patients may be facing an amputation and in the minimal they are looking at a non-invasive procedure, what is the indicator that says sorry you have to have the amputation?
Doctor: If I would have to choose one topic that is the most difficult topic I faced daily in my career is that question you just asked me. When is an amputation indicated, I think any vascular partition find that question very intriguing and difficult to answer and let me tell you why. There is literally 70 to 80 different therapies that I can offer somebody to do to try to save their legs. And you can persuade and continue to try to save a leg until you eventually run out of options that the patient is tired of undergoing so many surgeries that an amputation is required. There are a lot of patient, physician communication in that you have to know an end point. There's an endpoint where keep attempting salvage becomes nonsense and you have jump to an amputation. That being said that is rare. Now in days with technology in 2013 were have several options to treat somebodies diseases before getting to amputation. Let me give you an example of an amputation. It would be somebody that comes in what we call wet gangrene. Gangrene in basically dead tissues when the tissues of your foot die and that processes above the ankle and the whole foot is basically gangrene, there is no way to save that foot because it is such a massive amount of destruction that an amputation is indicated. Any disease below the ankle especially the forefoot I think we have techniques in this day of age where it allows us to save most of the feet if not all. But, once again, deciding when to amputate is actually is much more important difficult done than performing the operation itself for us.
Dr. John Pacanowski, Dr. Luis Leon, and Dr. Miguel Montero-Baker utilize medical illustrations in The Latest Procedure: Endovascular Leg Therapies to show anatomy and surgical entry approaches. Those images, along with their explanations for each, are provided here as an additional resource. The caption information is from the television program.
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Jim Cissell explains different procedures that are now available to treat PAD with the assistance of an animated video.
Animated Video courtesy of Edwards Lifesciences
A wondrous network of arteries carries oxygen rich blood from the heart to all areas of the human body.
When disease strikes within these arteries they begin accumulating plaque or atherosclerosis. These areas usually continue to narrow until they obstruct normal blood flow starving the downstream tissue of vital oxygen.
PAD is any arterial disease that lies outside the heart. Common locations for PAD are the corroded arteries in the neck, arteries within the abdomen, and arteries that supply blood to the legs. It is in this area that many people experience their first symptoms of arterial disease like pain, fatigue and ulcers.
Most physicians use a contralateral retrograde approach where wires and catheters are pushed up into the aorta and back down the femoral artery on the other side. This is typically the easiest approach and provides the best option for management of the access site.
A second approach is called an antegrade approach where the femoral artery is accessed and the wires and catheters are pushed directly down into the leg. This approach can be cumbersome and more difficult to close postoperatively in certain cases.
A new approach is now being used called Pedal Access, which tries to enter directly through the foot just below the blocked anatomy.
A balloon is maneuvered into an occlusion or an obstruction in order to modulate the inside of that artery by trying to stretch it open again.
If plaque is present instead of removing it we are going to open it up by inflating the balloon, which fractures the plaques slightly.
The balloon comes in different sizes, lengths and widths.
This tool is an atherectomy device that cuts into the plaque and debulks it. Physicians use debulking to shave the plague, attempt to grab pieces of the plaque, and then remove it from the body in order to create a better hole. There is adequate data out there that the results tend to be very good when you do an atherectomy.
Stents are metal scaffolds that are placed inside arteries in order to allow them to open.
Stents are made very flexible in order to be placed in different parts of the body. For example, you know that your leg is going to be flexing and so it allows the movement of the stent to basically conform to the artery.
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Jeffs just announced that marriages of his followers have all been voided, and that's stirring up emotions.
Jeffs has recently banned many of the things his followers enjoy: bicycles, ATVs, trampolines, and even children's toys. But one edict reaches into the bedroom.
Joni Holm, who has many FLDS relatives, said Jeffs has voided all existing FLDS marriages.
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I'm not trying to figure out what to do with a particular item in order to recycle it, instead I'm trying to figure out how to use recycled materials to replace craft supplies I would otherwise have to order new.
I've been working on some projects utilizing cover buttons. They're so easy to use, I can't resist them (if you haven't used them and want to know how, I believe I saw a video tutorial for how to work with them on the Craftster home page).
I've used them to make bobby pins (I've included an image of finished bobby pins using them below), and I'm also working on making magnets, push pins, and ponytail holders with them.
I'm using designs I created digitally and had printed on organic cotton by spoonflower.com. I feel okay about using new organic cotton fabric (it's printed with eco-friendly inks), but not so good about the cover buttons.
I've considered cutting out round backs of recycled fabric, and sewing the front design and back together and stuffing it with recycled materials (I've used plastic bags as green stuffing alternative in other projects), which I think would work, though it would require a lot more work and result in a soft, sort of squishy finished piece.
I'm wondering about cutting out hard plastic forms from old shampoo bottles, etc. and wrapping the fabric around that instead of a cover button, but I can't figure out how to secure and finish the bottom.
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Digging into Dixie? Alas, sometimes forgotten records have been lost or destroyed over the years. Because of the
Civil War and the South's fondness for wooden courthouses, you'll find
many "burned counties" where records have gone up in smoke. (Record
keeping itself also suffered during the Civil War, with manpower in
short supply and much of the actual fighting taking place in the South.)
census records also have gaps. Among the missing and destroyed census
records are: most of 1820 Alabama; 1790, 1800, 1810 and parts of 1820
Georgia; 1790 and 1800 Kentucky; some counties in 1790, 1810 and 1820
North Carolina; 1790, 1800 and parts of 1810 and 1820 Tennessee; 1790,
1800 and parts of 1810 Virginia. The good news is that you can find
state, county and even colonial censuses, as well as tax lists and
other substitutes. See the state-by-state resource guides in the
Toolkit on page 45 to get started with these. Also keep in mind that
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|Late rally dooms Wildcats
|By TREY HILL | News-Telegram Correspondent
Nov. 11, 2006 - ROYSE CITY - The Rains Wildcats' hopes of a district championship came to an end Friday night with a 38-28 loss to the Royse City Bulldogs in front of a packed Bulldog Stadium.
The Wildcats had a 28-24 lead and were poised to extend the lead with possession of the football inside the Royse City 10-yard line. The momentum shifted when a goal line stand forced the Wildcats to give up the football on downs at the 7-yard line.
Royse City, with the aid of a pair of personal foul penalties against Rains, drove the length of the field and took a 31-28 lead on a 2-yard touchdown run by quarterback Bert Boudreaux with 1:46 remaining in the game.
The Wildcats attempt to answer the score was intercepted by Royse City's Tim Obermier and returned to the Rains 26-yard line. Two plays later, Garrett Ellington put the game out of reach with a 23-yard touchdown run. Kollin Padon added the point after kick making the final score 38-22.
The Wildcats got off to a shaky start Friday night. Rains was pinned deep in its own territory when Ellington booted a 63-yard punt down to the Rains 1-yard line. Four plays later Rains stepped out of the back of the end zone for a safety making the score 2-0.
Royse City took the ensuing kick off and returned it to the Rains 10-yard line. Two plays later Richard Morrison scored on a 15-yard touchdown run. Morrison then completed a pass to Boudreaux for the 2-point conversion and a 10-0 lead.
Royse City extended the lead on its next possession when Boudreaux scored on a 9-yard touchdown run making the score 17-0 with 33 seconds remaining in the opening quarter.
The Rains offense got on track in the start of the second quarter. The Wildcats used 13 plays to drive 80 yards for their first score. Aaron Potts capped the drive with a 16-yard touchdown run which made the score 17-7.
Following the touchdown, the defense came to life and held Royse City to 4 yards of offense on their next two possessions.
During that time Rains seized control of the game with a 49-yard touchdown run by Potts and a 3-yard touchdown run by Mandel Christian for a 21-17 lead with 30 seconds remaining in the first half.
Royse City retook the lead on the first possession of the second half on a 19-yard run by Ellington. Padon's point-after kick made the score 24-21 with 8:50 left in the third quarter.
Rains answered the score late in the third quarter when Potts found Taylor Marshall open for a 37-yard touchdown pass. Derek Hurst kicked his fourth point-after kick of the night for a 28-24 lead with 1:36 remaining in the third quarter.
The Wildcats opened the fourth quarter by recovering a fumble at the Royse City 44-yard line. Rains began consuming the clock as they drove down to the Royse City 13-yard line. But in three plays the Cats only progressed 6 yards and faced a fourth-and-4 at the 7-yard line.
The drive ended when Potts' pass to Marshall fell incomplete in the end zone.
From there Royse City took 12 plays to drive 93 yards for the go-ahead score.
Fortunately for Rains, the loss doesn't affect them in the postseason. They were already the district's top seed in Division II. The Wildcats will try to bounce back from the loss as they begin the post season by taking on Pilot Point on Friday night in Greenville.
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If your family is always telling you that you are talking too loudly, then this is a very good indication that you actually are indeed talking too loud.
The fact that your nose is often blocked is an indication that you may have a sinus infection due to bacteria or even due to allergy.
When you have such an infection or blockage, you can also have a hearing problem, or pain behind the eyed, even sore teeth.
The next step is to simply go to your family physician and ask him or her to examine you for sinus or ear infection.
You can probably clear this up with a course of antibiotics.
Hopefully there has been no damage to your ears. If there was you would probably have pain as well.
Your GP will look into your nose and ears and will probably be able to see what is going on and if it is simple will give you either an antibiotic or a decongestant (or both). If it is more complicated he will refer you to a specialist.
You do not realise how loud you are. Since you have trouble hearing yourself (much of the sound travels through your sinus to your ears) you compensate by speaking louder so that it sounds "normal" to you, but in actuality you are speaking louder.
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Cowling Parish Council approved a request for more funding to provide commemorative First World War plaques for the village.
Councillor Joan Tindale said £200 had been allocated to purchase plaques and associated materials to commemorate 100 years since the start of the conflict.
She added the request for additional funding will ensure money is available to pay for the artwork and materials required to list the names of villagers who served in the war.
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There are two basic schemes for connecting a load or generator in a three-phase circuit. The Y or "wye" connection joins neutrals of each phase at a common junction. The or "delta" connection is a triangle whose vertices form the buses, and there is no neutral bus. Examples of each connection scheme are shown in Figure 1.
In the three phase circuit arrangements displayed in Figure 1, each leg is shown with an impedance. If the impedances are identical on each phase, then the load is said to be balanced. A three-phase source is balanced when each leg produces equal magnitude voltage, with phase difference between any two phases, as shown in Figure 2.
By convention, the three phases are designated a, b, and c. If a phase is chosen as reference, then the balanced line-to-neutral voltages in a wye-connected generator will be
This phase sequence is called abc or positive sequence, in which leads by , and leads by , as shown in Figure 3 on the left. An alternative arrangement is acb, or negative sequence, shown in Figure 3 on the right.
The delta-connected generator does not have line-to-neutral voltages, of course. The voltages between phases, or line-to-line voltages, form a closed path around buses a, b, and c, and normally sum to zero, in the case of a balanced system. In a wye-connected generator, line-to-line voltages can be calculated from line-to-neutral voltages. The line-to-line voltages are greater in magnitude by a factor of , and they lead the line-to-neutral voltages by :
This is illustrated in Figure 4, a phasor diagram of positive-sequence voltages for a balanced wye-connected generator.
Example Problem B3.3.1
Find the positive sequence line-to-line voltages in the balanced wye-connected generator if the line-to-neutral voltages have a magnitude of 12kV, and phase a is the reference.
Line currents in a three-phase system can be calculated from phase voltages and impedances. For a balanced system with a wye-connected load, the line current equations can be written as
Figure 5 illustrates the line currents in a balanced wye-connected load. is the impedance per phase between the source and the neutral.
Load currents in a balanced delta-connected system are calculated using this equation:
Line currents always sum to zero in a delta-connected system because there is no neutral wire. Figure 6 illustrates the currents in a delta-connected load.
Example Problem B3.3.2
Given a wye-connected load of impedance and balanced positive sequence source with , find the load currents.
A capacitor is considered a generator of positive reactive power, and its function in the power system is to supply reactive power needed by inductive loads. It is desirable to operate with loads that are not highly inductive. By compensating such loads with a shunt capacitor, the source current and apparent power decrease, resulting in more efficient operation and better voltage regulation. Also, reduced current permits the use of smaller conductors, so a significant savings in equipment and wiring costs may be realized by keeping power factor close to unity. The practice of improving a lagging power factor by installing capacitors in parallel with an inductive load is called power factor correction.
Example Problem B3.3.3
Draw the power triangle for a single-phase source which delivers 80 kW to a load at 0.7 pf lagging. If the source voltage is 480 V, calculate the current required by this load.
Size the shunt capacitor required to reduce the power factor in Example Problem 3 to 0.9 lagging.
This impedance contains resistive and inductive elements:
After power factor correction, load impedance will be
Note that a change in load impedance from to is accomplished by adding a capacitive reactance of . The corresponding capacitance is
Now, examine the power triangle after power factor correction.
The result is significantly lower reactive power requirement, with a reduction in load current.


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Thursday, April 09, 2009
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at the Seder last night, but, being a good goyische guest, I kept my smarty-pants moyl shut when someone talked about the inspiring "true" story about the quilts that mapped the way to the North for enslaved African Americans before the Civil War. It's a nice idea but, "Escaping tonight? Oh, let me sew you a map!" Please.
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Steve Martin's 'Paul Revere' picks away at history
More than 30 years ago, Steve Martin immortalized King Tut in song. Now he has paid lyrical homage to another historical figure, Paul Revere. The only difference between the tunes? "One is accurate," Martin, 65, says. (You mean King Tut wasn't born in Arizona before moving to Babylonia?)
The actor/comedian/writer/musician will be performing the just-released Me and Paul Revere with bluegrass band the Steep Canyon Rangers on PBS' annual A Capitol Fourth special (Monday, 8 p.m. ET).
Told from the point of view of the patriot's literal sidekick — his horse, Brown Beauty — it's the "REAL story of Paul Revere!" as Martin tweeted Wednesday — vs., say, comments about ringing bells and firing warning shots uttered a few weeks ago by a certain potential presidential contender.
Martin, however, is generous when it comes to parsing Sarah Palin's remarks. "On one hand, it's actually quite accurate," says Martin, who based the facts in his song on Paul Revere's Ride, the 1994 book by Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer, which he read several years ago. (Indeed, during the height of the Palin hubbub, Martin tweeted something relatively sympathetic to some of what Palin argued, that the Boston silversmith warned the British: "Paul Revere did not warn that 'the British are coming,' because all the citizens WERE British. There was no America yet.")
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Still, he's staying away from any partisan nitpicking. "My song is a historical song, not a political song," he says. That said, if it inspires people to delve deeper into the country's revolutionary past, he's thrilled. The true story is "actually just as interesting as the mythological history of Paul Revere's ride."
Martin is now on tour with the Rangers, promoting his bluegrass album Rare Bird Alert. He wrote the songs, sings on some of them — as do the Dixie Chicks and Paul McCartney ("an unlikely get, as you can imagine") — and plays his trademark banjo. The "extremely" well-received Me and Paul Revere closes each show. It's Martin's first tour in a long while.
"I didn't even know if I could play the banjo for two hours," he says. Back in the day, touring was about performing solid comedy for 1½ hours. "But now I have sort of comedy leading into a song and it's a really fun form, three minutes of comedy and then a song for three minutes. It breaks things up." And with the Rangers jamming along, he's not alone up there.
Likewise, he has company for his PBS gig, including Jordin Sparks and Glee's Matthew Morrison. Though he's not an avid watcher of Glee—his wife, writer Anne Stringfield, is — "I'd be on it in two seconds," he says. "I know it's a fabulous show."
Martin is, however, an avid user of that other pop phenomenon: Twitter. Since joining last September, he has amassed 1.3 million followers and thrown out more than 2,300 tweets.
"I'm just doing it free-form and making it up as I go along," Martin says. "It actually is fun for me. It's funny to be walking down the hallway and have a tweet appear in your mind … and not knowing really where it comes from. That unpredictability to myself might mean it's unpredictable to the audience in the same way."