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heart defects are problems with how a baby's heart forms. "Congenital" means
that the heart problem develops before the baby is born or at birth.
congenital heart defects affect how blood flows
through the
heart or through the blood vessels near the heart.
Some defects may cause blood to flow in a pattern that isn't normal. Others
can completely or partially block blood flow.
There are many
different types of congenital heart defects. They can be fairly simple, such as
a hole between the chambers of the heart or a heart valve that has not formed
right. Others are more serious and complex, such as a missing heart valve or
heart chamber.
Some defects are discovered in the fetus (developing baby)
while a woman is pregnant. Others are not found until birth. Still others may
not be discovered until your child gets older or even until he or she is
an adult.
No matter when a heart defect is discovered, having a
child with a heart problem is very stressful. Dealing with the fear and
uncertainty may seem overwhelming, especially when you have a fragile newborn.
It may help you to learn as much as you can about your child's treatment and to
talk to your doctor and other parents who have a child with similar
No one knows exactly what
causes most congenital heart defects. Genes passed down from a parent are a
possible cause. Viral infections also may play a role. For example, if a woman
gets German measles (rubella) while she is pregnant, it may cause problems with
how her baby's heart develops. Women who have
diabetes have a greater chance of having a child with
a congenital heart defect.
Congenital heart defects are more
common in babies who are born with genetic conditions such as
Down syndrome.
Taking some prescription
or other medicines during pregnancy may cause congenital heart defects. Women
who use illegal "street" drugs or who drink alcohol during pregnancy have a
higher risk of having a baby with a congenital heart defect.
Symptoms of congenital
heart defects will depend on what problem your baby has. Babies with congenital
heart defects may have one or more of these symptoms:
In some cases, your child's congenital heart defect may
be so mild that symptoms won't appear until the child is a teenager or young
most cases, congenital heart defects are found at birth or during a baby's
first few months.
You may find that your baby has trouble eating
or isn't gaining weight. Or your doctor may hear abnormal sounds or murmurs in
your baby's heart during a routine checkup. The first sign may be a bluish tint
to the baby's skin.
After a doctor suspects a heart defect, your
baby will probably need several tests, such as blood tests, an
echocardiogram, and possibly a heart catheterization.
The doctor may use the echocardiogram to check blood flow through your baby's
heart and to look at the valves, thickness, and shape of the heart. A heart
catheterization measures blood pressure in the heart and heart arteries and can
show how well the heart is pumping.
Having your child go through
this testing can be very scary. Don't be afraid to ask as many questions as
you need to ask to feel comfortable. Talk to your doctor and the nurses. And talk to the
people who are doing the testing.
Some defects get better on
their own and may not need treatment. Your baby's or child's treatment will
depend on the type of defect.
Medicines may be used to help the
heart work better. Medicines may also treat symptoms until the defect is
Some defects can be fixed by using a thin, flexible tube called a catheter. This procedure
doesn't require opening up the chest. The
doctor threads the catheter through a blood
vessel—typically in the groin—and into the heart. There, he or she uses the catheter to close holes or
open narrowed blood vessels or valves.
If a baby has a large or
complex defect, the baby may need one or more open-heart surgeries. The surgery
may be done right away, done over several steps, or delayed until the baby is
stronger. Sometimes surgery is delayed if the baby is premature or until the
baby is strong enough to handle the surgery. In some cases, the child may need
different types of surgery over time as he or she grows.
In rare
cases, a heart defect may be so serious that a heart transplant is
Frequently Asked Questions
Learning about congenital heart defects:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Living with congenital heart defects:
The exact cause of most
congenital heart defects is not known. But doctors do
know that certain things increase the risk that a baby will have a heart
defect. See What Increases Your Risk.
Congenital heart defects cause a wide range of symptoms. Your baby may have only mild
symptoms and tire easily, for example. He or she may have life-threatening
symptoms, such as
severe difficulty breathing. Or your baby may not have
any symptoms that you notice at birth but may have them later as he or she
Symptoms usually go away after the defect is corrected. A
congenital heart defect that is repaired at the right time is less likely to
permanently affect your child's growth and development.
Common symptoms include:
Symptoms of blood flow problems
Blood flow problems caused by heart defects can mean that
your baby gets less oxygen. This happens mostly in children who have
cyanotic heart defects ("blue babies").
If a baby has trouble getting oxygen or the heart is working extra hard, symptoms include:
Congenital heart defects happen when the heart doesn't form normally as the developing baby (fetus) grows in the uterus. Heart defects may
cause problems with
blood flow through the heart after a baby is born. The problems can affect the
baby's blood and oxygen supply.
There are many types of congenital heart defects. If the defect lowers the amount of oxygen in the body, it is called cyanotic. If the defect doesn't affect oxygen in the body, it is called acyanotic. Some defects require treatment right away. Other defects get better on their own
and don't require treatment.
Congenital heart defects happen in about 8 out of
1,000 babies born in the United States.1 But only about
one-third of these babies have major defects
that need surgery or have defects that may cause death during the first year of
life.1 The number of congenital heart defects among
premature babies is higher—about 2 out of 100 births.2
Congenital heart defects affect a similar number of boys and girls.
But the types of defects that are common in boys and girls tend to differ.2
Not all defects are found when a child is very young. Some defects don't cause symptoms and aren't life-threatening. These defects may not
be found until the teen years or later.
Long-term problems
Although many children and adults
with corrected heart defects lead normal lives, heart defects can be related to
or cause long-term risks that may include:
If you are an adult with a congenital heart defect, see the topic Congenital Heart Defects in Adults.
You may
have to make decisions about:
In most cases, the cause of a
congenital heart defect isn't known. But certain
things increase your baby's chances of having a heart defect. These include:
If you're concerned about having a baby with a congenital heart defect, you can take steps to lower your
risk. For healthy pregnancy choices, see the topic Pregnancy.
Call 911 or other emergency services immediately if your child has
severe difficulty breathing, faints, or has
Call your doctor immediately if your child
with a
congenital heart defect has:
Talk to your doctor if your child with a congenital heart
defect has:
The following health professionals can evaluate
symptoms of a congenital heart defect:
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
Testing a baby for
congenital heart defects can be done while a woman is
pregnant or after a baby's birth. Children and adults who have a heart defect need regular checkups throughout their lives.
A fetal
echocardiogram, which can be done as early as 16 weeks
of pregnancy, is the best test before a baby's birth. The test uses sound waves
to take pictures of the baby's heart. The fetal echocardiogram may be done if:
Many congenital heart defects are found in the first
month after a baby is born. Your doctor may ask about the baby's symptoms, appetite, and other habits. He or she may do other tests to find a heart problem, such as:
More tests may be needed, depending on the symptoms and
type of defect. These may include:
Children, teens, and adults with congenital heart defects need regular checkups. They might have tests to check the health of the heart and to check for complications.
A stress test (exercise electrocardiogram) can be done to check if a child or an adult with a heart defect needs exercise restrictions or to see if exercise performance is changing over time. This test might be done before a child starts school or before a teen or adult starts a new exercise program.
Adults who have congenital heart defects need routine checkups. Be sure you have a primary care physician. You might also need to see your cardiologist regularly, such as once a year.
In families with a history of congenital heart
defects, genetic testing may be done.
A baby may be checked for
congenital heart defects if:
Your child's treatment for a
congenital heart defect will be based on the type of
problem he or she has. Your child's age, size, and general health also are
Treatment helps most children live fairly normal
lives. Your child may need:
Your child will also need regular visits to a pediatric cardiologist.
Caring for a child who has a heart problem can be
You may need to keep track of medicines and make frequent trips to
the doctor. Costs can be high. Try to
find support groups and other parents who can help you with the many emotions
Some children die from severe congenital heart defects or related
complications, such as heart failure. If your baby is born with
a severe heart defect, there's a good chance that he or she
will survive with treatment. But you must also prepare for the possibility that
your child may die. Talk with your doctor about local resources and
organizations that can help you manage your emotional and practical
struggles when faced with this possibility.
Congenital heart defects generally cannot be
If you or your partner has a congenital heart defect and you are planning to have a baby, see the topic Congenital Heart
Defects: Pregnancy.
Women who plan to get pregnant and women who are pregnant can lower their risk of having babies with congenital
heart defects by taking steps to have healthy pregnancies. For healthy pregnancy choices, see the topic Pregnancy.
Congenital heart defects often are repaired with surgery or heart catheterization, but home treatment also plays an important role. Some of the issues you'll face include:
For more information and help, see Congenital Heart Defects: Caring for Your Child.
Adults who have congenital heart defects have other issues, such as pregnancy, birth control, and employment. For help, see Congenital Heart Defects in Adults.
Medicines often are needed to treat
congenital heart defects until the defect can be
repaired or corrected. Some children and adults need to take medicine even after the defect is repaired. Children with certain defects that
cannot be completely corrected may have to take medicines for a long
Treatment with medicines depends on the:
Medicines might be used to treat complications, relieve symptoms, or prevent problems. They might not treat the defect itself.
The following are some of the medicines used for heart defects.
To treat complications and relieve symptoms
To treat a certain defect
To prevent problems
Know how to give medicine safely. Your child's heart medicines are very
strong and can be dangerous if they aren't given correctly. For help, see the topic Congenital Heart Defects: Caring for Your Child.
Surgery is done for more complex defects or when
catheterization cannot correct the defect. Or your child might need a combination of surgery and catheterization to fix a defect. The kind of surgery will depend on what defect the child has.
Some congenital heart defects can be completely repaired
with one surgery. Defects that are more complex often require several surgeries over time.
Prepare yourself for
what to expect at the hospital. It may be shocking to see your newborn or
child hooked up to so many machines and tubes.
If your child is older, you can help your child feel more
comfortable and secure by preparing him or her for what to expect. Your child's doctor or the hospital staff can help you prepare your child. Encourage your child to ask questions. And let him or her talk to the doctors too.
For more tips, see Congenital Heart Defects: Caring for Your Child.
general, the types of surgery are:
In rare cases, a heart transplant may be needed.
The type of surgery depends on the type of defect and the
surgeon's preference.
If a young baby (for example, newborn to age 3 months) has a life-threatening defect, surgery may be needed right away. For some
defects, the best time for surgery is before the child is 2 years old. For
other defects, the best time may be between the ages of 2 and 4.
In some cases,
surgery may be done when a child is older. Surgery may be delayed if the defect
is likely to heal on its own.
Some types of surgery are more invasive and take longer to recover from than others. Even after
surgery, your child may still have symptoms such as weakness and a bluish tint
(cyanosis) to the skin, lips, and nail beds.
After surgery, it's possible for symptoms to return or for complications to develop later. In these cases, more surgeries also may be needed.
Heart catheterization may be used to correct certain
congenital heart defects. Children typically recover
more quickly from a heart catheterization procedure than from a surgery.
With heart catheterization, a
doctor threads a thin, flexible tube called a catheter through a blood
vessel—typically in the groin—and into the heart. This lets the doctor check the heart and treat a defect.
The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) is a nonprofit organization that helps adults with congenital heart defects. Its goal is to improve the health and quality of life for people with congenital heart defects. The ACHA provides electronic and print information for patients and their families. The ACHA promotes an online community and in person events at the local and national level. A directory on the website can help you find a clinic that specializes in care for adults with a congenital heart defect.
Visit the American Heart Association (AHA) website for information on
physical activity, diet, and various heart-related conditions. You can search for information on heart disease and stroke, share information with friends and family, and use tools to help you make heart-healthy goals and plans. Contact the AHA to find your
nearest local or state AHA group. The AHA provides brochures and information
about support groups and community programs, including Mended Hearts, a
nationwide organization whose members visit people with heart problems and
provide information and support.
This website is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It
has a wide range of information about children's health—from allergies and
diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This website
offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing
age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can
sign up to get weekly emails about your area of interest.
The March of Dimes tries to improve the health of babies
by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and early death. March of Dimes
supports research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies'
lives. The organization's website has information on premature birth, birth
defects, birth defects testing, pregnancy, and prenatal care.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) information center offers information and publications about preventing
and treating:
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Dionysus - You are completely wrong. There is nothing about consciousness that is beyond empirical reality. Consciousness is the overall effect of certain forms, of certain casual patterns.
Consciousness "moves" because causes change. Not that it "moves" as such, rather that as it is an overall effect - the effect that is additional to the effects of the parts - it arises only when the causal pattern has the correct form. Consciousness is a coincidental outcome of form, and like all "entities" has no inherent existence as that entity. It does have manifested existence, it is cuasal in itsefl, but it does not have inherent existence.
I'll explain my rationale on this issue in a day or two - in my usual overly detailed and partly incoherent way that no-one seems to understand or find merit in :)


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Dog-friendly Angmering & Garden Or Patio
This delightful period terraced cottage offers tasteful and stylish holiday accomodation. It is located in the middle of a row along a quiet no through lane, just off a conservation area. The charming village of Angmering is less than a 5-minute walk away, where there are shops, pubs, eateries and a library. The…
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CAMPAIGNERS opposing plans to build housing on a field forming part of a 'green lung' in the centre of Malvern have launched a website to attract support.
The site, at hayslanfields.weebly.com, contains a petition which organisers hope as many people as possible will sign.
The petition is calling on Malvern Hills District Council to resist moves to have the land, off Hayslan Road, reclassified from urban green space to land suitable for development.
Earlier this year, development company Barwood unveiled proposals to build up to 150 houses on the field, which was once a playing field but has not been used in that capacity for decades.
The land, which is crossed by two public rights of way is extensively used by local people for dog-walking and informal recreation.
Jeff Williams, chairman of the Pickersleigh Residents Group, said: "Our main concern at the moment is to block the move to have the land reclassified. Local residents tried to get it given official village green status about ten years ago, without success, but it still has the protection of urban green space status."
Steve Ashley, another of the opponents, said: "The website has only been up and running for a couple of days but its already got 124 signatures. We are asking not only local people but people from further afield to sign.
"For people who live in Pickersleigh ward, this land is a great open space, with beautiful views up to the hills.
"And for visitors who walk on the hills, it's part of the green space which is so nice to see in the middle of Malvern's built-up area."
After Barwood unveiled its plans in May, more than 100 angry residents packed a public meeting and spoke out against the scheme.
The land is owned by the private girls' school Malvern St James, which says it intends to use the proceeds for its bursary programme to provide financial assistance for pupils.


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LOS ANGELES -- A transgendered style correspondent who says BET made him tone down his feminine look on the network's pre-awards show last month has filed a lawsuit against the network's parent company for discrimination, wrongful termination and emotional distress.
B. Scott is seeking $2.5 million in damages from BET parent company Viacom after he said he was told to change his outfit at last month's BET Awards to a more conservative suit, tie his long hair back in a ponytail and not wear heels. The fashion personality said that even after he changed, he was replaced by another correspondent.
BET called the incident a "misunderstanding" and said it regretted any "unintentional offence" in a statement last month.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Primadonna — By Diane. M. Byrne — November 2002
Show Girl
|Her name hints at what's to be found inside this dressed-to-the-nines 142-footer: Primadonna is a spectacle of complex design.
Maybe it was the 99-degree heat the day I boarded Primadonna at Christensen's marina in Washington State, but something about this 142-footer kept saying "hot" to me.
There was certainly an abundance of custom glass work in the saloon and, throughout the rest of the yacht, ingeniously intricate inlays of wood, stainless steel, and glass, making for a distinctly personal showpiece for her Las Vegas-based owner. And the sheer number of different marbles used was dizzying. But when I entered the shade of the air-conditioned engine room from the sizzling heat outside, I knew immediately that my initial impression was right: There, complementing the fire-engine-red 4000 Series DDC-MTUs, was gold-tone (yes, gold) diamondplate. I caught myself smiling almost giddily--something I've never done in an engine room before.
Clearly, here was a yacht owned by a man who understood what "custom" construction was all about. It was also clear that he--characterized by the design and construction teams as a man who makes decisions quickly and one who knows exactly what he wants--was passionate about his leisure time. From the unusual placement of a fighting chair on the large open "swim step"--basically an open cockpit--to the concert-quality sound emanating from the speakers flanking the bow sunpad, the focus was on fun.
Let's start with that fighting chair. Simply bolting it to a backing plate in the midst of an enclosed cockpit just wouldn't do onboard Primadonna. Instead, it's practically a throne, poised on a rail-like stainless steel pedestal rising out of the livewell. And no ordinary livewell would do, either; this one is adorned with a billfish logo that's visible even at night, thanks to fiber-optic lighting.
Should an afternoon spent in that fighting chair reap rewards from the sea, the owner and his guests get to enjoy quite an unusual show when the chef prepares the catch inside. Like a curtain rising on a command performance, there's a painting forward in the dining area that rises at the press of a button to reveal a window into the galley. Through it, the owner and guests can take in the beautifully executed country French design of the galley, highlighted by a lovely light-tone marble (intriguingly named Colonial Dream) and a tiled sea scene on the stove's hood. As for the chef, this culinary master gets to "play" with one of the ultimate toys found mostly in high-end hotels and restaurants: an Alto-Shaam smoker for large items like turkey and prime rib.
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This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Hello everyone its been a long time since I have been on this sight and glad to be back reading more information on some off my side effects of this cc . Let me update everyone liver and abdominal scans every 3 months and so far all clear except what they say scar tissue. I succesfully had half my liver,limph nodes,gallbladder and bile ducts removed. Its been about 15 month since my surgery and have bad stomach pains in the evening and have had on and off since then.The only pills I take are pancrelipase but went without for along time.I have changed my diet trying low fat meals often and small meals also.I am still loosing weight and hate that I am so skinny some times the zip ties or what ever they used to hook my asophogus to my liver poke my skin and hurt at least 3 of em.I am usually always tired no energy. ok this is only a introduction wont ramble on any more thanks for reading and talk to you soon Jeff ? 1 day by day Eric Johnson Hello Lisa and Jeff and all the others. Sorry about your headaches Lisa I very seldom get mild ones. I guess I am lucky on that.


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"IF you want to change the way you look and feel, you really can – just go for it."
This is Grace Wiles's message of encouragement to those hoping to get on a more wholesome path as World Health Day gets underway today.
The 21-year-old photography student, from Wroughton, shed four stones over the last 18 months and has now set out to share her journey and weight struggles to inspire others looking to follow in her sprightly footsteps.
Along with Swindon Council's Health Ambassadors, Grace will be on hand at Swindon's Central Library today as part of a special healthy living event to mark the international day of action.
"I have completely transformed my life inside and out – no one can even recognise me," she said.
"It's brilliant and I want to help others do the same, whether it means making large or small changes to feel better about themselves and be healthier."
Grace's self-esteem reached rock bottom after suffering years of bullying about her weight, which peaked at more than 15 stone.
"I shut myself away and practically lived on the sofa watching TV, always wearing a big black hoodie. I felt so down and turned to food, like pizza, chocolate and ice cream, for comfort.
"I was picked on and got all the silly comments like 'she's so fat,' 'she's so ugly.' I hated myself and started self-harming because there didn't seem to be a way out," she said.
"I confided in my mum and we went to the doctor, who got me counselling. That's when the breakthrough came and things started looking up."
After helping her explore various issues, her counsellor introduced her to health ambassador Melanie Bond.
In the first week of her new diet alone Grace lost half a stone by replacing junk food and fizzy drinks with regular healthy meals and snacks. She also started walking the 5km journey to Swindon College, which led on to going jogging.
As the extra pounds continued to fall off, Grace, who now weighs 10st 10lbs, regained her confidence.
The World Health Day free event at Swindon Central Library runs from 10.30am until 2pm. For more information about the Health Ambassadors, visit www.swindon.gov.uk/healthambassadors.


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A "MISSILE attack" has left a woman scared to get on a bus after she was sprayed with broken glass on her way home from work.
Amanda Newham, aged 25, of Seddon Close, Radcliffe, was on a Metrolink replacement bus service on Friday when an object was smashed through a window.
Ms Newham said she feared for her life as was hit by shards of glass as the missile smashed through the window, narrowly missing her head as it flew across the bus.
The attack happened in Queen's Road at its junction with Woodlands Road in Cheetham Hill at around 6.30pm, when there were around 30 people on board.
Ms Newham, a pensions administrator, got on the bus at Piccadilly Gardens and was left shaken after s glass hit her face, scalp and hand.
She said: "In different circumstances I could have been killed, or one of us could have been seriously injured.
"At first I thought a glass bottle had smashed. But everyone on the bus was saying there had been a shot.
People were screaming.
"Glass was all over me and I was crying and in shock.
"If it had been just a few inches lower, it would have hit me or the man sitting next to me."
Ms Newham said a couple with a baby in a pram had been stood where the glass smashed but had got off the bus moments before the attack.
An ambulance was called but Amanda she says that when a police officer phoned to check on its location he was told she was a "low priority"
case and that a wait could be up to three hours.
Ms Newham made her own way to accident and emergency and spent 90 minutes there as doctors removed glass from her scalp with tweezers.
Several days later she discovered a tiny shard lodged in her cheek under her eye.
Ms Newham added: "I was on the side of the road crying, my legs shaking like jelly.
"I thought it was disgusting I was forced to make my own way to A&E because I was considered too low a priority.
"The whole thing has made me really nervous about sitting near windows and I would be scared to get a bus again.
"It has mentally scarred me, it is just lucky the glass didn't.
"I want young people who might do something like this to realise how serious it could be and think twice."
Police confirmed they were called at 6.25pm and said no one had been arrested but that investigations suggested it was a brick which had been thrown.
A spokeswoman for North West Ambulance Service said an initial call from Ms Newham was logged at 6.33pm and a second call from her to cancel the ambulance was recorded at 7.17pm.
She said all 999 calls are categorised based on the caller's information to prioritise patients on the basis of medical need.
North West Ambulance Service aim to answer the most life-threatening incidents within eight minutes, serious calls within 19 minutes and attend to less serious cases in between 20 minutes and four hours.
The spokeswoman said: "There is nothing on our logs to suggest there was a follow up call from a police officer.
"However we would not do a complete check unless a formal complaint had been lodged by the person concerned.
"We fully understand waiting for an ambulance can be distressing and we encourage patients to contact us directly to discuss concerns."
Work on the refurbishment of the Manchester Victoria Metrolink stop meant between Friday (February 21) and Sunday (February 23) services were replaced with buses from Abraham Moss on the Bury line.


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PINAWA -- The little town of Pinawa celebrates its 50th birthday this summer -- an unusual milestone for a place that was actually born in 1903, died in the 1950s, and reincarnated down the road in 1963. But then Pinawa is an unusual little town.
Not many communities of 1,444 boast their own public swimming pool and beachfront, marina, rowing and sailing club, tennis courts, softball pitch and one of the province's top 18-hole golf courses. In the winter, there's hockey, curling, figure skating and more than 40 kilometres of groomed cross-country ski trails winding through the boreal forest, alongside frozen waterways, up and down the Precambrian Shield.
A community this small would consider itself lucky to have its hospital, schools, community centre and shopping mall. Pinawa offers year-round recreation in some of the prettiest real estate in the country.
Pinawa Mayor Blair Skinner said he came for a summer job in 1980, and "I'm still here," calling the move "the best fluke of my life."
Plans for the big 5-0 July 20 got a boost last month when world-renowned Lund Boats announced it would bring its fifth annual Lund Mania fishing tournament to Canada for the first time. So now on top of the day's fireworks, music and parade, there's a whole lot of walleye fishing. Top three fishers win Lund boats, engines and trailers.
Former and current residents alike can hardly wait for the party. (The local news headline? Pinawa lands a big one for its celebrations.)
The town's unusual claim to two birthdays and only one funeral so far is a powerful tale of, well, power.
Pinawa was first built in 1903 as the province's first big power project, the Pinawa Dam, 110 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg at what is now the northwest tip of Whiteshell Provincial Park. But the old Pinawa petered out after a bigger hydro-electric station was built downstream at Seven Sisters. In 1963, when Atomic Energy of Canada Limited came shopping for a nuclear-research facility site, they picked a place less than 10 kilometres from the old dam, designed a perfect little town for its workers, with all the amenities, and called it Pinawa.
Pinawa.2 flourished in the '70s and 80s, with the feds employing some 900 people in its heyday. AECL also built a controversial $40-million underground research laboratory there in 1985 to see whether nuclear waste could be safely stored under the Canadian Shield.
When it decided to decommission the facility in 1995, and then closed the underground lab in 2010, many thought that was the end of Pinawa. Again.
Only this time, the town didn't die.
Four hundred townsfolk still work at AECL, according to Skinner. Apparently, cleaning up a radioactive research facility takes decades (one might not want to rush the job). Some former workers chose to stay and create home-based businesses. And healthy retirees began flocking to Pinawa for its lifestyle -- at least, until U.S. real estate prices took a dive and made hot spots like Arizona and Florida cheaper.
Skinner knows they need to diversify their economy and bring in young families. Pinawa has lost about 50 people since the 2007 census. Its facilities are aging and so is its population.
That's another unusual fact about Pinawa: Its average age is almost 54. Those who move for the lifestyle tend to stick around, said Elaine Greenfield, president of the Whiteshell Cross Country Ski Club. "Lots of people have grown old in town."
The former Realtor has her own reasons for admiring Pinawa. It was designed to desegregate the rich and the poor, with big and little houses built together on its streets. "And all the waterfront is public land," she said. "You can walk, swim, bike along it. That's a very unusual concept."
Pinawa's motto is Live, Work and Play. And play they do.
The average 54-year-old Pinawanian could probably outskate or ski the average 44-year-old Winnipegger. It's an active population, with a particularly enthusiastic old-timers' hockey league. Unusual Pinawa fact No. 5, if you're keeping track: More Pinawa residents (12.7 per cent) walk or cycle to work than the average Manitoban (8.9), according to a StatsCan database compiled by city-data.com.
Even the mayor has taken up cross-country skiing. Kind of.
Asked to open up a new warming hut last year on the 10-kilometre Orange Trail, Skinner had too much pride to allow him to accept a snowmobile ride to the ribbon-cutting. Instead, he dug up some skis of his own and he and his wife practised on the undulating Pinawa golf course trail before making the trek out to the woods. It was a start.
Skinner is still practising and claims to enjoy the sport despite a recent thrill on a hill. "I was going down, and I could see I just wasn't going to make this corner at the end," he confessed. "So I reached out and grabbed onto the softest-looking tree I could find to stop from falling... My son said, 'So, dad, I guess that officially makes you a tree-hugger.' "
A tree-hugging mayor in a town built on radioactive research. Only in Pinawa.
Margo Goodhand is the former editor of the
Winnipeg Free Press. She is working on a history
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In Russia, the first public TV channel for Muslims, named Al-CID, broadcasting twenty-four around the clock has been launched. The aim is to raise awareness and understanding of Islamic teachings and Muslim traditions.
In the beginning of the week, Russia began broadcasting the first public Muslim television channel. The Channel was created at the initiative of the largest Muslim organizations in order to promote the spiritual and moral values of Islam.
Representatives from all major Islamic organizations in Russia including the council of Muftis are among those who have formed to manage the Channel.
The potential audience of Muslim public television in Russia, according to the Channel's chief editor Rustam Arifdzhanov, is over 14 million people.
The channel is broadcasting through the industry's largest satellite network. According to the chief editor, there will be preaching, culinary, historical, and cultural programs about Islam.
Round-the-clock TV exists on private donations and government grants. Broadcasting of "Al-CID" at the moment is in Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, in the six republics of the North Caucasus, and is planned to develop further to Russia's regions and CIS.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to sell, after advertising, to the highest bidder, a tract of land or any part thereof, at not less than the appraised value thereof, known as the Great Falls Subsistence Homestead acquired in 1935 under authority of section 208 of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (48 Stat. 200), for the benefit of certain landless Indians in the vicinity of Great Falls, and which is more particularly described as all of block 11, all of block 12, all of block 14, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of block 15, and lots 1, 2, and 3 of block 22 of the Sun River Park addition to Great Falls, being
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part of section 9, township 20 north, range 3 east, containing forty-two and sixty-two one-hundredths acres, more or less. Conveyance shall be made to the purchaser either by patent in fee or by an appropriate deed executed by the Secretary of the Interior or his authorized representative. The proceeds from the sale of this tract shall be used to acquire land or interests in land in the vicinity of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Montana, which when purchased shall become a part of the reservation.
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Outboards — Suzuki Marine
|2001 Engine Preview
A couple of months ago, we had the good fortune to test drive the company's new 115-hp, fuel-injected, four-stroke DF115, a veritable jewel of an outboard. Admittedly, the test drive took place on a flat-calm lake around Orlando, and the test platform was a comparatively light vessel, a 17-foot aluminum Lund bassboat called Mr. Pike, a name we found rather endearing, by the way. We've honchoed several other four-strokes in this size range around various lakes, ponds, and saltwater bays over the past couple of years, and this in-line, 16-valve, DOHC, sequentially electronic fuel-injected four beats 'em all. Not only is she compact and about 80 pounds lighter than a Honda four-stroke BF115 (according to brochure specs), but also she was fast and smooth coming out of the hole, with plenty of acceleration from cruise speed to top end—almost head-snatching, as a matter of fact. Moreover, Suzuki says the engine meets 2006 EPA emissions standards as well as the 2008 Ultra-Low 3-Star CARB guidelines.
How did Suzuki put together such a compelling little package? For starters, to keep overall size and weight down, engineers used an offset drive shaft with a reduction gear incorporated at the bottom of the power unit to transfer power in two stages from the crankshaft to the prop shaft. The offset moves the center of gravity forward, improving balance and reducing vibration. The reduction gear allows for the use of a smaller cam sprocket as well as a smaller cylinder-head cover.
And then there's the prop thing. Via the two stages just mentioned, the reduction gear also delivers a lower ratio of 2.59:1, staring with a first-stage ratio of 1.25:1, and adding the remainder in the gear case itself. Of course, the big gain with lower gears is the ability to use a prop with more diameter and pitch, a feature that produces the sporty hole shot and the midrange acceleration that so impressed us on the Orlando lake. All this and a new oil-change reminder alert for us forgetful mechanics? Cool!
Suzuki Marine (714) 996-7040. Fax: (714)-996-6005. www.suzuki.com.
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This article originally appeared in the May 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Catching our breath
Planning for Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2014 is actively in the works, and it's exciting to begin to see the campaign begin to take shape. Soon we will be able to share the upcoming campaign theme and hint at what's coming, but it's not quite time to dive in yet. The suspense is complimentary, and your patience is appreciated.
For the moment, I'm blogging to find rest. In my mind's eye I'm picturing the squiggly line that Wikipedia tells me is called a Crotchet rest. An interval of silence in music, it's a functional pause.
As soon as the SAAM 2013 campaign began winding down, our focus moved from actively participating and sharing to capturing and evaluating these activities. With only a year between each April, our planning process moves forward at a constant clip. The conversations about 2014 snuck into meetings as early as January. Ideas sprinkled in feedback, brainstorms, and discussions. It's energy, excitement and, quite honestly, a tinge of overwhelm. As a creative, I teeter between thriving and drowning in the whirlpool of what could be. The ideas are big and the wish lists are long.
Now not everyone spends their calendar year coordinating a new project like the SAAM campaign, but most of us have these projects in our work and life. Maybe you've experienced this energy when kicking-off a new program, or launching a group, coordinating an event, or organizing a happening in some other way or form. Or maybe it's just summer and your to-do list has filled up again, and our excitement is tempered by impeding structural barriers:timelines, deliverables, funding.
In these moments when the pull is strong, it seems like rest is the enemy. Don't you see what I have to do? There are mountains to scale, cures to find and tasks to cross off the list. But don't you worry, we will get there.
In these moments when excitement, possibility, and opportunity begin to weigh down our work, it's time for the functional pause. I remind myself that even the grandest melodies have measures of rest. Rest is where we find our breath. Pause is what creates rhythm. The intentional breaks are also where the essential surfaces, and we remember it's OK to let some ideas and opportunities go as long as the main goal and spirit of our work are in sight.
What does this mean for SAAM 2014? It means that we so excited for the upcoming campaign, and in my humble opinion, it's gonna rock! From a planning perspective it also means acknowledging that excitement and passion have yet to give us wings. This doesn't mean our work can't take flight, but I believe that it happens when it's grounded in our vision, capacity and passion. What do you think?


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What are pet allergies?
A pet allergy is an immune reaction to animal dander (skin flakes), saliva, urine, or feces. (Animal fur or hair itself isn't much of an allergen, but it can trap pollen, dust, mold, and other allergens.) When a child with pet allergies breathes in dander or comes in contact with saliva or droppings, his immune system goes on alert and releases histamine and over 40 other chemicals to fight off the allergen.
Histamine inflames the nose and airways, and the chemicals may cause the following well-known allergy symptoms: runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, and symptoms of asthma, like coughing or wheezing. In fact, most asthma begins in early childhood and can be triggered by animals. If the allergen comes in contact with your toddler's skin, he may get a rash or hives.
Every kind of animal — including dogs, hamsters, guinea pigs, and especially cats — can cause a reaction in a child who is allergic.
How can I tell whether my toddler is allergic to our pet?
Year-round (as opposed to seasonal) symptoms such as itchy, watery eyes, a rash, a runny nose, sneezing, coughing, or wheezing indoors are all signs of an allergy to dust mites, mold, or a pet. The symptoms may even occur when your toddler isn't in close contact with the animal, since the allergen can be found throughout the indoor environment. It will take a little work to find out whether it's your pet or something else that's the problem.
Unfortunately, your toddler may still have a reaction to your pet when he's away from home. "With chronic exposure, symptoms, once triggered, can occur for days after the exposure is removed," says allergist James L. Sublett, vice chairman of the indoor allergens committee of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI). "Even more important, it's likely the allergen will be transported to the new environment on clothing and other items."
Removing your dog or cat from the house for a test period won't tell you much, since there may be enough pet dander in your home to trigger your toddler's allergies even when your pet isn't around. So it might take an extended stay away from home for you to detect that your toddler is better off without your pet.
If you determine that your pet is causing your toddler's symptoms, you'll probably need to find Fido a new home. If you're still not sure, you may want to take your toddler to an allergist to get help with more parts of the puzzle.


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I had just walked into a little ice cream shop in La Villita in San Antonio, Texas, with my mom. We had spent the morning wondering around the Riverwalk, taking a river cruise and exploring San Antonio when we realized we were rather thirsty and could use a little snack to help tide us over until dinner.
I had discovered the deliciousness of Blue Bell ice cream earlier in our trip and was excited to get a scoop of that cold, sweet treat. We ordered our ice cream and sat down.
There was a TV in the corner of the parlor showing CNN. I didn't pay much attention to it. This was my week to avoid all news. I had disabled my AP News, USA Today and New York Times apps. At that time, it was a struggle to go even a day without constant news updates. Mom and I had made a promise to just enjoy our week in sunny Texas with no interference from the outside world. We figured the world would just keep on turning. I guess you could say we were a little naive in our thinking.
It took me only a few minutes to re-establish my connection to my news sources when I realized the breaking news CNN was covering was not a new update from Syria or some other far flung part of the world submerged in war and conflict. It was focused on Boston and the terror which had just rained down on the athletes, spectators and volunteers.
Our initial plan had been to take a few minutes to eat our ice cream and continue on our merry way back into the gorgeous sunshine. Instead we sat there, in the little ice cream shop, with a few others for more than an hour watching the news unfold.
We listened as the stories of heroism and bravery of those who ran toward the chaos to help others became known. It wasn't just emergency personnel; it was volunteers, spectators and other runners trying to help calm those whose limbs were missing and whose bodies were mangled with shrapnel from the two pressure-cooker bombs placed in the stands at the finish line.
In the days following we watched as the authorities searched for answers and hunted down suspects until they caught those responsible in Watertown, Mass., a few days later.
This last week, the stories of those impacted on that fateful day poured in, and we saw their triumphs. Some chose to participate in the marathon or in the other events leading up to the 26.2-mile race. Security was tightened along the course. I'm sure many thought about where they were at the same time last year.
There are moments in our lives which never leave us. Things happen which alter our very existence and how we view the world. For me I will always remember where I was when the towers fell, and I will always remember the shock of the events at the Boston Marathon.
We finished our ice cream, left the cozy little shop and headed back out into the Texas sunshine well aware that hundreds of miles away people were suffering, worried about their loved ones. We made sure to be a little more grateful for our time together that day and every day since.
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NOT even the wintery weather could keep people away from enjoying the wassail in Dunster on Friday (January 17).
Students from Dunster First School kicked off the event with a mini-wassail in the Buttercross Community Orchard.
The children dipped their toast in apple juice before placing it on trees and banging their drums to scare the evil spirits away.
Cider flowed in the evening when the community gathered together to sing, dance and fire shotguns into the trees.
The wassail is a tradition used to scare aware evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in the autumn.
A flaming torch procession around the village provided further fun.
Buttercross Community Orchard chairman Doug Challoner said: "It was a wonderful evening we had over 100 people attend making it the biggest and best year yet.
"Everyone seemed to enjoy it and the highlight for me was the music and entertainment.
"We had song sheets so everyone could join in and it just added to the evening.
"This is the third one we've done and I think it gets better each year so we'll struggle to top it next year."
- Get your copy of this week's West Somerset County Gazette out on Thursday (Janaury 23) for more pictures.


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Robert M. Proctor
15 February 1945 — Tinian, Mariana Islands
Robert M. Proctor (and aircrew)
Born in 1919 at Missouri.
Enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet (ASN: 12031862) on 11 July 1941 at New York City, New York. Completed Primary Flight Training and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant (ASN: O-435704). Underwent B-29 aircraft combat crew training at Fairmont Army Air Field, Nebraska.
On 23 December 1944, 1LT Proctor deployed to the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO) and was assigned to the 20th Air Force, XXI Bomber Command, 313th Bombardment Wing, 504th Bombardment Group (VH), 398th Bomb Squadron; being stationed at North Field, on Tinian in the Mariana Islands.
On 15 February 1945, he flew as the Airplane Command Pilot in the left seat aboard a Boeing B-29 Superfortress ("Coral Queen") serial #42-63499. 504th BG aircraft were also identified by an "E" inside a "Circle" painted on the tail. It was one of 117 aircraft launched in a multi-wing Group formation to bombard the Mitsubishi aircraft engine plant at Nagoya, Japan.
On the return route back to North Field, his aircraft was forced to ditch, resulting in the loss of the aircrew. Last radio contact was at a geographic location of: 23 degrees 00 minutes North latitude, 144 degrees 20 minutes East longitude (approximately 570 miles north of Tinian).
KIA: Thursday, February 15, 1945


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LAKELAND, Fla. - Sophomore goalie Brittany Millsap collected 10 saves on the night but the Lions were unable to bring down the ninth-ranked Florida Southern Moccasins, succumbing to the Mocs 19-5 on Friday evening at Bryant Stadium. The loss drops the Lions record to 8-6 on the season, while the nationally ranked Moccasins advance to 10-3.
Millsap faced a total of 37 shots and 29 shots on frame throughout her 60 minutes between the pipes, setting aside 10 shots, including seven in the first half, to help keep Florida Southern off of the scoreboard. The St. Louis, Mo. native added an interception and three ground balls to her performance to close out the evening.
The Lions were led by Christina Minneci with two goals on the night, while Joanna Chadwick, Alyssa Viscomi, and Paige Leggio each added one. Minneci had a solid game in all areas of the field, adding three caused turnovers, six ground balls, and two draw controls to her goals.
Florida Southern was headed-up by Caitlin Chase in overall points with six, tallying two goals and four assists. Mara Mason led the game in goals with four, and added an assist to her total for five points. A total of 11 Moccasins contributed to the scoring efforts on the night.
Florida Southern ran out to a four goal lead, but not without some fight from the Saint Leo defense. Millsap opened the game making three straight saves to thwart the FSC attack before finally letting a shot slip past her at with 27:26 on the clock. In the first 10 minutes of the game, Millsap registered five saves to help keep Florida Southern at bay.
Leggio halted the Moccasin scoring streak with a goal at the 15:25 mark, but Florida Southern closed out the half scoring three unanswered goals to set the scoreboard at 8-1 at the half.
Florida southern opened the second half with a goal from Mason at the 23:54 mark, but Minneci answered back with her first of the night a little over a minute later to set the score at 9-2 with 22:35 on the clock. The Mocs fired two straight between the pipes, but Chadwick found the back of the net at the 14:04 for a score of 11-3.
Both teams traded blows to bring the score to 12-4 before Florida Southern went on a four goal run to advance their lead to 16-4 with 6:37 remaining in the game. Viscomi converted a free-position shot with 1:41 left to give the Lions their fifth and final goal of the evening.
Despite the sizeable lead, Florida Southern rattled off three goals in the final 15 seconds to close out the night with a final score of 19-5.
Florida Southern led the stat sheet in shots 37-13, ground balls 27-17, and draw controls 15-11. Saint Leo was 14-for-22 on clear attempts, and converted 1-of-2 free-position shots while the Mocs only capitalized on 2-of-7 attempts.
The Lions return to action on Tuesday, April 16, when they head to Winter Park, Fla. to take on Rollins College in South Region action. Game time against the Tars is slated for 7 p.m. at Barker Family Stadium and Cahall Sandspur Field. For more information on the game, visit saintleolions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest news, updates, and information by following the Lions on Twitter, an "Liking" the Green and Gold on Facebook.


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For this project I will be gathering user input from a webpage that I will be creating, the input fields will ask the user for their name and last name and a bit of other info that they will type in. After all is typed in the user will hit a submit button and will send the user input to python. Python will have access to a word file and will create a new file that is an exact copy of the source word file, python will then take the user data and write it into specific areas of the new word document. After this, python will generate a new page with the final product and the user will be able to print it out.
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Coffee is a very important source of income and employment to Colombia's rural population. Half a million rural households in the country are involved in coffee growing, primarily on small scale farms of less than five hectares. Colombia has led the way in developing a Fair Trade coffee sector with a growing number of Fair Trade coffee cooperatives working to improve the livelihoods of their members through improved marketing and pricing of their coffee. Fair Trade USA is the leading third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States and works with farmer cooperatives to provide training and resources to grow their businesses.
The Coffee Price Risk Management course, funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), an agency of the Government of Switzerland, will be held October 3-5 in Manizales. All Fair Trade Certified coffee cooperatives from the North of Colombia participate. This activity is part of the support provided by the World Bank to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the area of agriculture risk management.
"Fair Trade USA believes that partnerships like this one increase the impact and benefits to coffee farmers, their families, and their communities. We are pleased to be cooperating with the World Bank on this initiative," said Paul Rice, President & CEO, Fair Trade USA.
The course aims to help participants better understand and quantify price risk and acquire the knowledge and tools required to better manage the effects of volatile prices. It is designed to inform coffee market participants (fair-trade cooperatives exporting coffee globally) about the risk of unmanaged price exposure and the means for managing it. The training in risk assessment and physical risk management strategies will provide participants with the tools to better manage price risk by improving their understanding of the causes of price risk exposure and how to mitigate such risk.
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Ricoh EncryptEase: CD-R Password Protection Made Easyby Purav Sanghani on 2/7/2006 12:05 AM EST
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MercenaryForHire - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - linkNo crossplatform support, extra driver layers for the optical drives, questionable burning software, and no specified or controllable encryption level. Oh boy, where do I sign up?
I'll stick with RAR+PAR2 thanks. If it's good enough for the warez "industry" it's good enough for me.
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VirtualLarry - Sunday, February 19, 2006 - linkGlad to see I'm not the only one using that solution.. I've had "bad things happen" writing precious data, especially to CD-RWs. PAR2 can be a life-saver.
I want to know something though.. instead of a windows-only solution such as Ricoh's - why not mass produce recordable media with a per-disc mfg-unique serial number, perhaps on a bar code imprinted on the inner ring (like GameCube discs have). That would allow, in conjunction with an additional program and key, per-media unique encryption keys. Treat the barcode data like a salt, or use it much like MS's EFS uses per-file keys, derived from some master passphrase (not stored on the media). Wouldn't that make more sense? And please... on CD-Rs? Prehistoric tech these days, for bulk optical data storage.
NeonAura - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkOn pages one and five, you say "let's" us do something, etc. In English, the apostraphe indicates a contraction. For example, let's means let us. If you mean lets as in to allow, you say "lets" instead of "let's." A good example: This operation lets us enter the main menu. Please do fix. Thanks. Reply
Questar - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkMaybe I'm just stupid, but I found the article very difficult to read. The grammer throughout the article is bad. Reply
kmmatney - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkPlease shut down the Anandtech web site until all grammatical and spelling errors have been fixed. Reply
Phiro - Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - linkSince the speeling and the grammar police are in full force, I will chime in that the article was abit tough to read quickly - the English was abit stilted and the thought processes behind them were a little tough to discern. It also read abit too much like a brochure from Ricoh, and the screenshots were waaay over the top.
Also, why would Anandtech be working with Ricoh to bring us the latest in this type of news?
Isn't that just the weirdest thing to say and/or expect from a website like this? Reply
PuravSanghani - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkThank you for letting us know. "Lets" go ahead and fix the error, shall we? Reply
NeonAura - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkYou'd use "let's" in that situation. Learn your grammar, son! Reply
NeonAura - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkFor info, I know that was a joke :P Reply
JonB - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkThis is aimed at managers and supervisors and directors of companies. They have data that they think should be protected before sending through the mail. Keep in mind, these people are just now getting computers with burners on their desktop or laptop. They only learned how to burn a CD six months ago and they don't care how much a CD costs, just that they can get one from the supply cabinet when needed.
If this is marketed properly in trade journals, they'll sell millions. This is encryption for dummies. Reply
tygrus - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkI can understand that hiding the data in another section of the CD makes it harder to extract, the system should not rely on this. Other tools could be used to copy or extract the raw data. It would have been better to have the software to use the CD to be self-suficient and require no driver to be installed. How long before zombe PC's are decrypting CD's ?
Webmaster: Can you please add the title of the article/thread to the top of the page a link to open the thread in a new window (or inline frame). This would make it easier to reference and quote. Reply
tygrus - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkNo edit ...
spelling corrections ...
zombie Reply
chilled - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkWhy isn't it just possible to have the software write the data that is pre-recorded onto the disc at burn time, instead of in advance?
Wouldn't this mean that any media could be used, instead of paying $5 per CDR....? Reply
artifex - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkHaving a program ridealong on every disc is an unnecessary waste of space, once you've had the opportunity to install the driver once. Basically, this seems like an excuse to take BestCrypt or DriveCrypt type software to a per-disc fee structure. Only the software sounds much more limited. And it certainly locks you into Windows for data retrieval, later.
Oh, and what do you do when you want to back up these encrypted disks? And how come you can't browse the data in these files transparently, but have to copy them to the hard drive? Reply
Calin - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkThis is nothing different than having a file compressed with password. I wonder how well this system survives to a storage error... in a normal CD, only the "scratched" file is lost, in this way it might be the entire session is lost.
Agree with the "per disk" fee, and it is certanly too expensive, as you could buy 10 normal CDs for the price of one of these Reply
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkEncryptEase is a good idea, but at a suggested retail of $6.99 for a 600MB CD-R disk and an actual selling price of more than $5 per CD-R it is probably too expensive to attract many home users. With the really cheap prices of CD-R blanks, CD-RW,DVD and DVD-RW blanks, more than $5 a disk for just 600MB of Data Storage, no matter how secure, seems very expensive for home users.
If Ricoh could do this for DVD and have it work for RW media it might make some cost sense. Reply
PrinceGaz - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - link$5 for one 600MB CD-R that has some burning/encryption software included on the disc, when instead you could buy about 25 normal CD-R discs for the same price. Oh, I can really see these special discs flying off the shelves. Not.
Strange that the price of the discs was not mentioned in the article... Reply
Googer - Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - linkHow is this differant or any better than the securecord offerd by my Plextor Premieum?
http://plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html">http://plextor.com/english/products/Premium.html Reply


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