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SHOPPER'S WORLD; In the Footsteps of Fortuny, Rich Venetian Fabrics
By SARAH FERRELL;
Published: July 28, 1991
MARIANO FORTUNY Y MADRAZO lived a few centuries too late to be a true Renaissance man, but that should not be held against him. Born in Spain in 1871, he worked in Venice from 1889 until his death in 1949. Painter, photographer, inventor (he held more than a score of patents), theatrical designer (of lighting, sets and costumes), he is known today chiefly for his wizardry with fabrics. His printed silks, cottons and velvets evoke the Venice of Carpaccio and Tintoretto, while his pleated silks, shaped into the simplest of columnar dresses and tunics (patented under the name Delphos dresses), are what Aphrodite might have thrown on upon rising from the waves.
Fortuny's studio is preserved in the Museo Fortuny, a 15th-century palazzo on Campo San Benedetto. The studio, and the rooms that surround it on the piano nobile of the palace, are filled with a dazzling, even bewildering, collection of objects. There are paintings and murals by Fortuny and his friends (many in a style somewhere between Howard Chandler Christie and Bakst), casts of antique sculptures and copies of old masters, Oriental weapons (including a large bowl full of arrows), a suit of armor and hanging lamps in silken shades painted by the artist himself. Most of all, there are fabrics, draping windows and walls, covering stacks of cushions and screens, curtaining alcoves and crannies. They are Oriental and Occidental, old and new. Nothing in the gorgeous jumble is labeled, and it occasionally requires a sharp eye to distinguish, say, a woven Renaissance brocade from a printed fabric of Fortuny's own manufacture.
Fortuny's fabrics, printed with metallic paints and natural dyes by methods that are closely guarded to this day, were initially made on an upper floor of his palazzo. Later, the workshop was moved to the Venetian island of Giudecca, where it remains active, producing heavy cottons (no more silks or velvets, alas) in a wide range of authentic Fortuny patterns and colors. In the city, the sole outlet for the real thing is an antiques shop on Campo San Maurizio, V. Trois, known to generations of Venetians. The bolts of cotton, arranged by color, are neatly stacked on wooden shelves behind a painted wooden table. The arrangement, reminiscent of an old-fashioned -- but very fancy -- Midwestern dry-goods store, is belied by the richness of the wares. Trois will sell you 1 to 1,000 meters of fabric for about $160 a meter (the width is 1.5 meters and the price is computed at a rate of 1,300 lire to the dollar), regardless of pattern. There are usually more than 70 patterns in stock, and the shop will also take special orders for the 200 or so others shown in the sample book. Delivery usually takes three to four months, but could go to six to eight.
The secret of Fortuny's Delphos pleats is supposed to have died with him, but a few years ago a Venetian architect named Alessandro Alessandro claimed to have rediscovered the method. With a partner, Mr. Alessandro formed Venetia Studium, and began to turn out, for astronomical sums, reproductions of the classic Fortuny dresses. A small store called Delphos, on Calle Largo XXII Marzo, is the outlet for Venetia Studium's newer small accessories line. Venetia Studium buys silk from China, then pleats it and dyes it strange and wonderful solid shades of peach and eggplant and goldenrod and seafoam -- to say nothing of a really assertive scarlet and a romantic, smoky, almost-black gray. Fortuny used iridescent beads of Murano glass to outline the seams of his classic Grecian gowns; Venetia Studium uses the same beads to edge a scarf or a pillow. The scarves come in several sizes (the longest runs to an Isadora Duncan-ish span of close to eight feet) and cost from $90 to $270; pillows are $27 to $62, depending on size. The pleated silk is also folded diaper fashion to make small, fat evening bags; these tie with a drawstring and cost $85. Should you covet a full-scale Delphos dress (there is usually one on display in the shop), the staff will steer you to the Venetia Studium workshop, near the Fenice Theater. The dresses cost from $1,550 to $3,100.
While many other Venetian shops offer Fortuny-style goods of varying quality, one other workshop merits special attention. The establishment run by Arianna da Venezia, on the ground floor of the early 15th-century Palazzo Pesaro Michiel in the Dorsoduro quarter, gives Fortuny's own studio a run for its money when it comes to luxury and fantasy.
Arianna spent 20 years as a picture restorer at the Fortuny Museum, which eventually led to her interest in fabrics. She lives upstairs from the shop (it's her family palazzo, and she estimates her people have been Venetians for about 800 years) and maintains her workshop in a back room. There, with the help of three young women, she dyes and block prints heavy cottons and sensuous velvets in subtle and sumptuous colors. Arianna works with rayon velvet, which holds the impression of the block better than silk velvet does; her favored patterns are the stylized fruits and flowers and other organic forms typical of the Renaissance.


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Breech Mechanisms
Breech mechanisms close the breech end of the gun and are designed to withstand the huge rearward thrust of the propellant gas pressure when the gun fires. They carry the firing mechanism and, in BL guns, provide obturation, or in QF guns, support the cartridge case and allow it to be extracted after firing.
Breech mechanisms can be divided into two types: sliding block (for QF equipments), and breech screw (for QF or BL equipments).
Sliding block mechanism
Breech screw mechanism
Sliding Block Mechanism
Sliding block mechanisms are made up seven main parts:
The breech ring is made up of two slotted jaws between which the block slides. The rings are either 'closed jaw' or 'open jaw' types. Closed jaw breech rings are stronger than open jaw rings but the firing mechanism is easier to access (though less well protected) in the open jaw ring.
The blocks slide either vertically or horizontally in the breech ring under the action of gearing. A horizontal sliding block (used in the M1A1 75-mm howitzer) requires less power to close than a vertical sliding block, and the closing effort remains constant at all angles of elevation - an advantage when using heavy sliding blocks particularly in semi-automatic situations.
Sliding block type breech rings
The vertical sliding block (used in the 105-mm L5 howitzer and the 25-pr) aids in easy loading because the top face of the block can act as a loading tray, and the block cannot foul the trail if the breech is opened at high elevation as the horizontal sliding block can on box type trails or at full traverse with split trails.
The LBM (lever breech mechanism) opens the breech and operates the extractors. Gearing can be hand operated (in which the breech is opened and closed by hand), semi-automatic (in which loading and firing are carried out by hand and all other operations are automatic), or automatic. A breech block buffer system brings the block gradually to rest in the open position. When the block is finally arrested, the extractors are locked back against the block face, and the buffer forces the block up, releasing the heals of the extractors and allowing the next round to be loaded. A mechanical lock stops the block opening when the gun is fired.
Breech Screw Mechanism
Breech screw mechanisms are made up of seven main parts:
It may also carry the obturator.
Welin breech screw.
The breech ring is circular and has a circular opening into which the breech screw fits. The opening may be fitted with a removeable breech bush.
Breech screws have interrupted threads which allow the screw to be locked or unlocked by a partial turn of the screw. Their strength depends on their length, diameter, and the percentage of the surface carrying screw threads, so the greater the percentage bearing surface the shorter the breech screw needs to be and the easier it is to open. Longer screws require axial withdrawal movement on opening. Gearing enables a single motion of the LBM to fully open the breech, by linking the unscrewing, withdrawing and swinging clear movements in one continuous action, and was incorporated into the Asbury mechanism (introduced in 1916).
Stepping the circumference of the screw increases the bearing surface and reduces the turning movement needed. Welin breech screws have interrupted threads on stepped segments, with the threads cut at varying radii to increase the percentage bearing surface. In the figure above, one third of the bearing surface is not threaded, and the screw requires one sixth of a turn to open it. The Welin breech screw can be modified by adjusting the radii to allow it to start to swing clear before the opening rotation is complete.
A carrier is used to support the breech screw when it is clear of the gun, and to allow the breech screw to swing to and from the breech opening.
The Asbury mechanism allows a single motion of the LBM to turn and open the breech screw. It is characterised by five special features:
Generally, screw mechanisms are slower to operate than sliding block mechanisms, are less safe with a tendency for the loader's hand to be caught as the breech is closed, and are more complicated and slower to manufacture. They have the advantages of not requiring cartridge cases, and allowing a lighter breech mechanism because of the more equitable distribution of the rearward thrust on firing. The circular shape does not produce the large bending stresses of the sliding block, and, because the threads on the screw and breech ring can be cut on a lathe, close mating can be achieved so that the escape of combustion products out the breech on firing is reduced.

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Quotable: Michaele Salahi Shares Her Lucky Charms And Salad Diet
"I'm a skinny girl. I always was. I've never had an eating disorder in my life. And it hurts to be called anorexic … I start the day with a hot chocolate and cereal—I love Lucky Charms or Kashi GoLean—then some fruit. I don't really eat a lot in the middle of the day. I have an early dinner, which is always a salad, with plain chicken, grilled or broiled … Honestly, I can't believe those women have so much time to devote to my weight. If they get out there and move, they will look like me and be thin, and it'll all be good."
—Michaele Salahi of the "Real Housewives of DC" defends herself against rumors of anorexia and spills what she eats in a day. Wait, so she consumes about 600 calories every 24 hours? I dunno, that sounds like an eating disorder to me. [Celebitchy]


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NEW YORK (The Deal) -- Digital media company TiVo (TIVO) said Wednesday it had agreed to acquire cloud-based content search company Digitalsmiths for $135 million in cash.
Durham, N.C.-based Digitalsmiths' cloud-based software allows users to search content and generates personalized recommendations on mobile and gaming consoles.
The company does business with seven of the top 10 television service providers in the U.S., including Time Warner Cable (TWC) , Dish Network (DISH) , and DirecTV (DTV) , reaching a total of 64 million U.S. homes. Though only about 10% of those customers use Digitalsmiths' services, the company said it expects the number to rise to about 50% over the next several years.
"Digitalsmiths contributes expertise, data opportunities and approaches that complement and extend TiVo's extensive work in advanced television to customers seeking search, recommendations and portability," said TiVo CEO Tom Rogers in a statement.
TiVo CFO Naveen Chopra added in a phone interview that TiVo has been working to transform itself from a direct consumer company to a software provider to other cable companies. He said TiVo will fund the acquisition with cash from its balance sheet.
Chopra declined to say if Digitalsmiths ran an auction process.
The target, founded in 1998, has venture capital backing from 406 Ventures, Aurora Funds, Chrysalis Ventures, Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Technicolor Holdings.
TiVo was one of the first companies to introduce digital video recorders, or DVRs. The company faces steep competition from cable companies that provide their own DVR service, as well as Apple (AAPL) AppleTV and Google's (GOOG) Chromecast.


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IH Instrumentation
October 2, 2006
Workers once relied on canaries, mice and rats to warn them of toxic gas in the atmosphere. Inefficient and ineffective methods of gas detection are now a thing of the past.
Now workers rely on microprocessors and gas sensors to consistently monitor and react to the dangerous threat of toxic and combustible vapors, as well as ambient oxygen changes.
Following a similar technology explosion as the cell phone industry, portable gas detectors that once weighed a few pounds are now measured in ounces, and the high price that customers once had to pay is now measured in hundreds of dollars instead of thousands. Let's look at some trends occurring in the world of portable gas detection instrumentation.
Getting smallerGas sensor manufacturers have been busy reducing the size of the sensors that fit in portable gas detectors, and the difference is dramatic. Sensors operate on the same detection principles and contain the same internal components as previous sensors, but improvements in plastic design have allowed these new sensors to be decreased by up to 75 percent in size and 95 percent in weight.
Miniaturization and minimization of electronic components has also helped decrease the overall size of the detector. Today's electronic components complete more functions at a higher rate of speed while decreasing to one-third of their previous size. The reduction of electronic components should not be looked at as lowering quality. Gas detection manufacturers understand that their products save lives and they cannot afford to produce products that offer any less than the highest level of quality.
Improvements in the plastics industry have enabled the housing of the gas detector to become smaller, as it now wraps itself around the electronic package like a durable layer of skin. Electronic parts are now molded directly into the plastic, which decreases the amount of space used in the design.
Due to these advancements, the average portable multi-gas detector now weighs approximately six to seven ounces and is roughly the size of a cellular telephone. The biggest benefit of this reduction is that workers can easily do their jobs without having to deal with a bulky, cumbersome detector.
Lower cost of ownershipIn the past, many companies were aware that their personnel should be protected but they could not afford a gas detector for every employee. Today, with inexpensive gas detectors, every person on site should be and can be protected.
Overall cost of ownership has also decreased significantly. As sensor technology has matured, the regularly scheduled calibration of a gas detector has been extended. The need to calibrate weekly or monthly has been eliminated.
Calibration and bump test stations have become a common accessory. Their sole purpose is to automate the bump or calibration tests and to reduce the personnel cost and gas usage cost associated with the maintenance of gas detection.
Better sensorsPhotoionization and infrared technology, which use frequencies of light to detect gas, are no longer used in labs, but are now scaled down and portable.
North American industry has defined the four most common gases (oxygen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide and combustible) that can be encountered in a confined space, but there are many other gases that are just as dangerous and their toxic effects are now becoming more known to the industry.
Carbon dioxide can be found in many confined spaces, breweries, wineries and is becoming widely used in the oil industry to help extract oil from mature fields. Until recently there was no affordable method that could reliably detect it. Carbon dioxide is known to be one of the most common confined space gases, which has led Austria and Germany to make it part of their confined space regulations.
Other dangerous vapors known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) make up many of the dangerous gases that workers can encounter. Some of these common VOCs are industrial cleaners, fuels and pesticides that are found in confined spaces every day. Combustible sensors were once believed to be sufficient to detect these compounds. Unfortunately the combustible sensor is not sensitive enough at low levels to detect the toxicity of these vapors. A photoionization sensor, or PID, in this situation is superior, as it can measure at a low enough level to protect workers from the toxic effects of these compounds. In cases where a combustible sensor can become damaged by compounds in the air, like silicone or lead, the PID sensor will be unaffected.
A few years ago a portable PID or infrared CO2 detector could cost up to $3,000 or $4,000. With advancements in technology, costs have come down and these gas detectors can now be purchased for less than $2,000.
Rugged & water resistantManufacturers now build concussion-proof technology into their electronic devices. Instead of ribbon cables that could break during a fall, components now connect by touch, allowing the product to absorb shock. The latest plastics technology has allowed the standard gas detector to become more robust and withstand shock much better than in the past. Sealing technology has allowed these detectors to become water resistant so that minor immersion or jets of water do not affect the device. The indication of this water resistance is the "IP†(Ingress Protection) rating, which is becoming more common on devices.
Result: safer workplacesThe result of improvements in portable gas detection technology is a safer industrial workplace. Employers can now more easily afford to purchase gas detectors for their entire company, and workers can now be protected by more efficient and smaller gas detectors.
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Rumored that its release date is going to be changed earlier, the Brendan Fraser-starring family fantasy movie has officially been delayed until January 2009.
"Inkheart" won't be released to theaters this year. According to Variety, the release date of the family fantasy movie distributed by New Line Cinema has been pushed back from 2008 to January 2009. It was said that the delaying of the release date was taken partly due to marketing worries.
Prior to the pushing back to 2009, reportedly the studio has considered to release the Brendan Fraser-starring film in the fall, but the idea then was dropped because by then the "Crash" actor has already appeared in two movies in the summer. Fraser's two films, "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D" and "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" will hit theaters on July 11 and August 1 respectively.
Aside from delaying "Inkheart", New Line also pushed back the release of their cop drama "Pride and Glory" starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell from March 14 to 2009 citing that the film's two actors are also having other projects coming up. Norton's "The Incredible Hulk" is scheduled for release on June 13, while Farrell's two films, "Cassandra's Dream" and "In Bruges", hit theaters in respective orders on January 18 and on February 8.
Despite moving the release schedules, New Line still has nine other films to be released this year. Meanwhile, last year, the studio released its recent family fantasy film, "The Golden Compass", only to meet disappointment at the domestic box office since it only earned $67.7 million up to today. Still, the movie starring Nicole Kidman became a hit overseas garnering $245.7 million.
On the related news, Universal Pictures will move up the release of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" starring Jason Segel, Jonah Hill and Kristen Bell from May 30 to April 18 so that it won't have to be up against the 20th Century Fox's "Starship Dave" and New Line's "Sex and the City". Because of the change of the schedule, the release of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy "Baby Mama" has to be moved from April 18 to April 25.


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Baseball statistical junkies know the absurd when they hear it or see it.
It could be a lengthy scoreless innings streak for a starting pitcher. Or consecutive games played without an error by an infielder.
Or pretty much the entire high school career of Sedgwick's Brylie Ware.
Ware, a junior shortstop and pitcher, has hit effectively for the Cardinals ever since he slipped on a varsity uniform 2 1/2 seasons ago. But at the midpoint of the current regular season, Ware, a .613 career hitter, has taken his achievements to greater heights.
Heading into the first of 10 games in a 11-day span Friday at Canton-Galva, Ware is batting .750 (18 for 24) with four home runs and 17 RBIs. Sedgwick, No. 5 in the Class 3A coaches rankings, is 9-1.
"I'm just going up there with the attitude that if he gives me something to hit, I'm trying to hit it hard," Ware said. "Whatever happens after that, happens."
Ware, a 4,000-yard passer with one football season to play at Sedgwick, is flirting with the state's single-season batting average record of .710. Silver Lake's Josh Workman, a former Wichita State and Wingnuts outfielder, set that mark in 2004.
"Brylie does a nice job treating every swing that we give him, whether it's in practice or a game, as if it's important," Sedgwick coach Doug Mabry said. "We're always talking about having a philosophy that whether it's swinging off a tee when you're 6 years old or taking batting practice in high school, you're still working to develop that skill in the present moment."
The right-handed Ware has 87 career hits after going 3 for 4 in a doubleheader sweep last week against Inman. The total includes 50 hits for extra bases, including 14 home runs.
"Generally speaking, Brylie does quite a bit of damage when he does make contact," Mabry said. "He can hit it the other way or he can pull the ball when the pitcher tries to go inside.
"Home run totals, when you're in Kansas and it's windy, can be inflated. But I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an opposing coach who'd say, 'That home run Brylie hit was wind-aided.' "
Ware, who batted .538 as a freshman and .642 last season, dismisses much statistical analysis of his game. After regional losses to Independent each of his first two seasons, his greater concern is advancing through another difficult regional at Marion later this month.
But Ware realizes that when a 3-for-4 day at the plate is simply maintaining a batting average, there's a source of that success.
"It just shows me that when you get in the cage, you need to put in all the effort you can to get better," Ware said.
Heights surrendered its share of the City League lead after East rallied in the bottom of the seventh for a 10-9 victory in the nightcap of Tuesday's doubleheader at McAdams Park. The Falcons (12-2, 10-2 CL) slipped a game behind Bishop Carroll (10-1, 9-1) in the loss column. The Eagles played West in a rescheduled doubleheader Wednesday night.
"We didn't give it away," said Topping, whose team lost for the first time since Carroll edged it 5-4 in the season opener on March 27. "They totally beat us. They earned it."
Heights, No. 2 in 5A behind Carroll, hasn't been disappointed much this season. Despite falling to 3-2 in one-run games, the Falcons also registered their third shutout in the opener against East. Junior Keylan Killgore tossed a five-hitter as Heights won 5-0.
While Killgore and seniors Josh Farrington and Blake Day have handled much of the pitching load, the Falcons entered the week with six players batting above .400. Offensive weapons like leadoff man Caleb Haight, Brett Carroll, Creighton Sanders and Curtis Whitten have helped Heights average 9.6 runs.
The Falcons will need help to regain control of their league fate after Tuesday. But Topping said goals of a third consecutive state appearance and advancing past the 5A quarterfinals continue to be a primary focus heading into May.
"The kids were really down after that loss (Tuesday) night," Topping said. "But we talked to them and told them it's not anything major, nothing catastrophic. We can still recover, and hopefully, they'll come back focused and ready to go."


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Weeks after his mother and girlfriend were arrested in conjunction with his methamphetamine operation, Alliance police took Daniel Lee Brown-Bowman into custody Thursday in the area of U.S. Route 62 and Beeson Street.
Brown-Bowman, 27, of 62 W. Ely St., had been on the run since June 7, after allegedly fleeing the 100 block of West Columbia Street, where his mother drove him to complete a drug transaction. After spotting city police detectives, he allegedly tossed the drugs and eluded immediate apprehension. However, his mother was arrested on charges of felony complicity and drug abuse as well as obstructing official business
After securing a warrant to search Brown-Bowman's residence, police arrested the mother of his child, Olivia Lynn Britton, due to the presence of illegal chemicals and the existence of numerous meth labs, both old and recent, in the couple's bedroom. Both women face up to six years in prison in conjunction with the case.
Over the past several weeks, family and friends pleaded with Brown-Bowman to turn himself in, posting to his Facebook page. However, detectives didn't catch up with him until Thursday night. He drew additional charges as a result of his failure to follow commands to put his hands up.
According to the arrest report, police had to use a Taser on him, as he kept moving his hands to his waistband. Police had prior knowledge he had bought a handgun and allegedly had threatened that he would have to be taken by force.
Ultimately, police charged Brown-Bowman with illegal manufacture of drugs, a first-degree felony; illegal possession of chemicals for manufacturing of drugs, a second-degree felony; trafficking in meth and tampering with evidence, both third-degree felonies; resisting an officer; possessing marijuana; obstructing official business, possessing criminal tools and two counts of possession of meth, all fifth-degree felonies.
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Impact of Intensive Exercise Training on Coronary Collateral Circulation in Patients With Stable CAD
This study has been completed.
University of Leipzig
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Sven Möbius-Winkler, University of Leipzig
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 24, 2010
Last updated: October 25, 2016
Last verified: October 2016
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Exercise training in patients with coronary artery disease is able to correct several risk factors. Furthermore endothelial function can be improved.
There are some hinds for improved collateral circulation after exercise training, nevertheless there is no study showing significant improvement/ increase in coronary collaterals. This might be due to technique of collateral measurement. Therefore we conduct a study were coronary blod flow before and after 4 weeks of exercise training were measured.
|Stable Coronary Artery Disease
|Behavioral: exercise training Behavioral: Intensive exercise training
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Impact of Intensive Exercise Training Compared to Inactive Controls on Coronary Collateral Circulation and Plaque Composition in Patients With Significant Stable Coronary Artery Disease
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MedlinePlus related topics: Coronary Artery Disease Exercise and Physical FitnessU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Sven Möbius-Winkler, University of Leipzig:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- coronary collateral blod flow [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- plaque composition within the coronary artery [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]plaque composition measured by virtual histology intravascular ultrasound
- MACCE [ Time Frame: 4 week, 6 months, 12 months ]major cardiovascular events (death, myocardial infarction, stroke, TIA, coronary revascularisation, hospitalisation)
- atherosclerosis parameter within the laboratory [ Time Frame: 4 weeks, 3, 6, 12 months ]e.g. wie hs-CRP, HDL, LDL, ges. Cholesterin, Triglyceride, Zytokine, Adipokine, Endocannaboide
|Study Start Date:
|March 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: control
standard care of coronary artery diseases incl. recommended home based exercise 3x/week
Active Comparator: Exercise training
exercise training for 4 weeks at 70% of ischemia free individual threshold within a rehabilitation care center
Behavioral: exercise training
exercise training min. 4 times a day for at least 30 min
Active Comparator: intensive exercise training
intensive exercise training incl. interval training
Behavioral: Intensive exercise training
Intensive exercise training for 4 times / day incl. interval training at 95% individual threshold
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- stable CAD
- min.1 coronary artery stenosis >50%
- patient is symptomatic ( CCS 1-3)or has documented myocardial ischemia during stress test
- angina threshold >75 Watt
- informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age <18 oder >75
- akut coronary syndrome within 2 weeks
- significant valve diseases
- reduced patient compliance
- muscular disorder
- bronchial asthma or COLD stadium III and IV
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|Heart Center Leipzig- University Leipzig
|Leipzig, Germany, 04289
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|Sven Möbius-Winkler, MD
|Heart Center Leipzig- University Leipzig
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Möbius-Winkler S, Uhlemann M, Adams V, Sandri M, Erbs S, Lenk K, Mangner N, Mueller U, Adam J, Grunze M, Brunner S, Hilberg T, Mende M, Linke AP, Schuler G. Coronary Collateral Growth Induced by Physical Exercise: Results of the Impact of Intensive Exercise Training on Coronary Collateral Circulation in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease (EXCITE) Trial. Circulation. 2016 Apr 12;133(15):1438-48; discussion 1448. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.016442. Epub 2016 Mar 15.
Uhlemann M, Adams V, Lenk K, Linke A, Erbs S, Adam J, Thiele H, Hilberg T, Gutberlet M, Grunze M, Schuler GC, Möbius-Winkler S. Impact of different exercise training modalities on the coronary collateral circulation and plaque composition in patients with significant coronary artery disease (EXCITE trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2012 Sep 14;13:167. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-167.
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|September 24, 2010
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stable coronary artery disease
significant coronary stenosis
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Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
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EXCLUSIVE: We've seen the last of MTV's animated comedy Good Vibes as the cable network has opted not to pickup a second season of the series created by David Gordon Green. The decision came after weeks of conversations between MTV and Good Vibes producers about ways to keep the show alive. One potential scenario discussed involved pairing the animated comedy with MTV's breakout live-action comedy Awkward for extra sampling. For its freshman run, Good Vibes aired in a block with Beavis And Butt-Head despite being far more female-skewing than the revival of Mike Judge's 1990s animated staple. In the end, despite their faith in the Good Vibes's creative direction and its auspices, MTV brass felt that the series didn't attract a broad enough audience to justify another season. Beavis & Butt-Head and Good Vibes premiered against Game 6 of the World Series in October, drawing 3.3 million and 1.6 million viewers, respectively. It is a bitter-sweet ending for Good Vibes, which still ran a season longer than anyone expected. The project, developed at Warner Bros. TV through Tom Werner's studio-based Good Humor TV production company, was first given a pilot presentation order by Fox in 2008, with Adam Brody, Alan Tudyk, Danny McBride, Debi Mazar, Jake Busey, Josh Gad and Olivia Thirlby as the voice cast. Fox ultimately passed, which should've been the end of the road but Good Vibes producers didn't give up, and in 2010 the animated comedy received a series order at MTV. Even the entire voice cast came back. As for Good Vibes' companion Beavis & Butt-head, conversations about its future are still ongoing.
Animated Comedy 'Good Vibes' Cancelled By MTV After One Season
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PLEASE bring back B&B!
I thought it was back? .-.
Such a shame!, was a good in some ways a lot better than beavis an butthead but i think it would of suited a much younger audience as B&B was from another gen
MTV really messed up not picking this up. One of the funniest shows of 2011. I hope it can maybe find another home (Im looking at you Comedy Central).
i agree
I'm sure the demo downloaded the shit out of it.
That's fine, just don't cancel B&B. The show is right up there with Jon Stewart, Colbert, and South Park as the greatest social satire of our time. It is better, and more relevant today than it was a decade ago. Give it time to catch on to a new generation of viewers.
Great show – Not enough PROMOTION.
I mistakenly watched an episode and wondered why I've never heard of it before. MTV should have promoted the show better.
Such a smart, fun, raunchy, and hilarious show. The Simpsons for a new generation. Great show not many people got to hear about. No promotion, no reruns?
I agree with John the Cable Guy — it was definitely short-sighted of MTV to cut it loose so quickly. It had the viewership, it had the fans, and there's no reason it wouldn't grow after a strong first season. It's a shame.
David Gordon Green is the man! He'll rebound with something even better! MTV's loss. Hope they bring Good Vibe's to Comedy Central!
In fairness, I only saw one episode.
But what I saw was amateur hour terrible in the most uncomfortably pathetic way — even for MTV.
It was a great show super funny! Its getting a second run on the Comedy network in Canada so they should do the same in America and then they should renew it there for 2nd season!
They should bring back The Brothers Grunt. Great show, ahead of it's time.
GET OUT!!! I totally love that show! They need to bring it back and do some decent promotions. Funny as hell and had so many great actors. I am really starting to give up on that channel ;(
wow! this show was really bad. the jokes weren't funny and it just felt like dumb sophomoric humor. I would suggest hiring better writers next time. It seems many animated shows face the same problem. Allen Gregory, Napoleon Dynamite–I would say that Unfiltered will suffer the same fate. It takes experience and a good crew to come up with something like Bob's Burgers which was funny, gained a fanbase and got the ratings. Everyone thinks animation is easy–it's not–I've been in the industry 10 years and have seen many shows come and go for 1 season and many pilots that never even get seen. Even Beavis and Butthead–after 10 years–can still be funny–although the jokes seems the same and one track–but it does have it's fans. At least FOX has greenlit many anim pilots in the last year–but it takes a great crew, showrunner, and writers to pull off a hit.
This is just what MTV does best when it comes to animation. They love to cancel cartoons.
I was so excited when B n B came back to Mtv and good vibes was an added bonus. I looked forward to both on thurs nights..fianally somthing funny to watch unlike all the crappy reality junk Mtv calls shows. Oh n B n B actually had music videos which is somthing I havnt seen on Mtv in forever..
well it's clear now that MTV isn't interested in bringing back the audience that made them famous in the first place. So bring back the 19th season of Jersey Shore guys, I guess once you get rich enough you stop taking any sort of risk whatsoever.
Horrendous show glad it was nixed.
None of my friends heard of this show until I showed them an episode last week now they all watch it. Spread the word of good vibes its to f'n hilarious for it to disappear!
Thats really a shame, mtv is getting worse every year. The only reason i still watch mtv is for teen mom, and jersey shore.
Totally disappointed this show is cancelled………it was super cute…..
I need Good Vibes and Beavis and Butthead to live…
This is a horrible tragedy and a gigantic mistake on MTV's behalf. I really really hope that another network with vision picks this show back up.
Good Vibes is a great show with a unique sense of humor that managed to be funny without relying solely on 'shock value; something that is rare in today's new style of animated comedy shows. I hope that MTV will either reconsider or some other network will pick it up for a second season.
MTV how could you, I love that show. :( :( Bring back Bring back


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Casey urges GOP leaders in Pa. Legislature to sidestep labor union limits bill
Stepping into a heated political battle, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is urging Republican leaders of Pennsylvania's Legislature not to move forward on a bill that would make it harder for labor unions to collect dues and political action contributions through payroll deductions.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the Democratic senator expressed concern that the legislation could be quickly pushed through in an election year with the support of conservative groups and major business associations.
In a letter on Wednesday to state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, and state House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, Casey said the bill could undermine unions' ability to bargain collectively.
"I think we have to be cognizant in states where this kind of threat was underestimated, it didn't turn out very well for workers," Casey said, citing the cases of Michigan and Wisconsin, where GOP-controlled legislatures passed similar right-to-work laws. "The real goal here is political and ideological, to weaken workers' right to fight for better wages and benefits.
"It's an attempt to score a political point, and we need to be ready where we can push back in an instant," he said.
The other U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, Republican Pat Toomey, has not spoken out on the issue.
The identical bills in the Pennsylvania House and Senate would prevent unions from negotiating the automatic deductions into labor contracts, forcing the unions to spend money and time collecting the tens of millions of dollars in contributions from hundreds of thousands of public-sector union members.
The issue has leaked into this year's hotly contested governor's race, with labor unions poised to marshal campaign cash to unseat Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who has pledged to sign the bill if passed.
The GOP leaders of the Pennsylvania Legislature have been publicly noncommittal, likely reflecting division among moderate Republicans. Pileggi has said he will bring it up for a vote if it can pass; Turzai has only indicated that the bill's aims are worthwhile and that supporters make a compelling case.
In recent weeks, the proposed legislation has drawn heavy protests in Harrisburg from labor unions and opposition from state Treasurer Rob McCord, a Democratic candidate for governor.
The issue occurs amid high-profile GOP victories in Northern industrial states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, part of a broader push of right-to-work laws to limit the power of labor unions, which tend to support Democrats overwhelmingly.
Democrats staunchly oppose the measure.


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In case you've been on the moon, Spirit of the Marathon 2 will be showing tomorrow for one night only in theaters across the country.
Here is a link with all the theaters. Or go here for more info and the awesome trailer.
I will be joining about ten other local runners from my local group, after a BWW dinner. I hope it is as good as the first one, which moved me to tears, and really makes you want to run a marathon! Definitely get it from netflix if you haven't seen it.
Anybody else going to see it with other runners? I assume pretty much everyone in the theater will be a runner/marathoner so that will be pretty cool.
Also, it is sponsored by Competitor, and you can use the code SPIRIT to register for any Rock N Roll race in the next 7 days and save $15!
I've got spirit, how 'bout you?


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"Curse of the Golden Flower" will see its theatrical release in North America and Latin America under the distribution of Sony Pictures Classics
Asian films apparently still soar high abroad as another Chinese movie is about to be brought up beyond the continent and this time, it's Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" that earned the honor. Though the release date has not yet been fixed, it is confirmed that Sony Pictures Classics has secured the North American and Latin American rights to this martial-arts romantic drama featuring two of the biggest Asian stars Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li. "We feel 'Curse of the Golden Flower' will be a culmination of Zhang Yimou's great career," so SPC co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard explained on their reason of picking up the movie.
The ninth project Zhang has collaborated with Sony Pictures Classics, "Curse of the Golden Flower" revolves around the love story between a royal prince played by Chow and an imperial bodyguard portrayed by Gong set in medieval time in China.
Chow, a veteran actor in his homeland, has become a familiar face in American region since the success of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) worldwide while Gong was latest seen internationally in acclaimed feature of "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005).


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Barack Obama came to the White House with the ambition to nudge his country to the left – to make the US a bit less like the US and a little more like Europe. He recognised his nation's great strengths, he said, but wanted to address its weaknesses. Inequality was getting out of hand; schools were letting children down, especially those from poor families; the safety net had too many holes, especially the failure to guarantee access to healthcare.
A revision to the social contract was required. But nothing too radical, he implied: it could all be put right without undoing the "American exception".
The electorate liked the sound of that. Mr Obama won a comfortable victory, taking office with sky-high approval ratings and a remarkable sense of possibility. Less than a year on, voters are having second thoughts.
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SOMERSET'S Fleet Air Museum will be showcasing First World War naval records as part of the annual Heritage Open Days this September.
Heritage Open Days is a once-a-year event celebrating the country's inspirational architecture and culture by offering free access to places that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission.
The Fleet Air Arm Museum is making Sunday September 13 a First World War Royal Navy Family History Day, to draw attention to the enlistment papers and service records that are held in archive.
During the afternoon there will be three free tours of the document stores showcasing the records held at the museum.
Spaces are strictly limited for these.
Additionally in the museum on that day (entry fee applies) there will be:
Talks in the morning which include:
• Navigating naval records with sample batches of records and photos from the archive available for viewing.
• The story of the Royal Naval Division – the service records of ratings and officers who served in the RN in the Great War
• Records held at the Fleet Air Arm
• Guest speakers are William Spencer of the National Archives and Kim Sharman, ex Fleet Air Arm Sea Vixen pilot and champion of the Royal Naval Division.
To find out more about the Fleet Air Arm Museum's programme for Heritage Open Days this year or for more information on the other museums visit the news and events page on www.nmrn.org.uk or telephone Fleet Air Arm Museum 01935 840565


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Home Offices As Stylish As You Are
In my house tours, I've seen far too many home offices that lack either function or style. But, the truth is, you can have both. Of course, the first step is organizing your desk. But beyond that, your work space should have a comfortable chair, efficient storage, and style — personal style. After all, it is you who will be working there. Take this home office, for example: the walls, floors, and furniture may be simple and white but the owner infused it with color and personality by adding a couple accent rugs and a nice piece of artwork. There's no reason to have a bland workspace — even if you make a living selling encyclopedias over the telephone. And, it may not even be necessary to have an entire room dedicated as your office: sometimes a box hidden behind a couch or a simple secretary desk is all you need. The key is to think about what works for you, and what will be a catalyst for creativity and efficiency. Check out this slideshow to be inspired and informed.


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There's gluten-free water. And, gluten-free mushrooms and gluten-free rice cereal.
Nutritionists have always known that mushrooms, water, and rice were gluten free, but as gluten-free diets have increased in popularity, some companies have slapped a gluten-free label on just about anything. Thanks to the FDA's new requirements, the label gluten-free will actually mean that foods are gluten-free.
"The term gluten-free, which is used so much, has never had any regulation behind it," says Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services at Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute.
For the three million Americans suffering from celiac disease, the new FDA-requirements for gluten-free labeling come as a welcome relief.
"For people who have celiac and have to be watching, [the FDA ruling] makes it a lot easier," says Leslie Bonci, director of sports nutrition at UPMC Center for Sports Medicine in Pittsburgh.
Related story: Guess what you didn't know about gluten?
People with celiac disease are unable to tolerate gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. This leads to serious gastric distress, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, weight loss, and can lead to permanent damage to the intestine. People with celiac disease must avoid all gluten to live without symptoms.
While most companies did not abuse the gluten-free labels (with one notable case for gluten-free fraud), there was no standard for what it was. It might have meant that a product had no wheat in it, but had barley in it, which also has gluten. It could have meant that the product itself was gluten-free but made in a facility that handled gluten, meaning there was cross-contamination. Now, if companies want to label a product as gluten-free, no gluten, without gluten, or free of gluten, there can only be 20 parts per million units of gluten, assuring it is gluten-free. This labeling excludes meat, poultry, and some egg products as well as alcoholic beverages, meaning that gluten-free beer might not live up to its label. And, restaurants do not have to comply with the gluten-free labeling.
5 things you didn't know about gluten-free diets
"The FDA has been having so much pressure on them for labeling … enough pressure because of a boom in the market," says Kirkpatrick. "I think at the heart of this is probably for the protection of people who have [celiac] disease."
As little as 10 years ago, she says, people with celiac disease had few gluten-free grain options. But as awareness of the disease has increased and gluten-free diets have become more popular, gluten-free products flooded the market. Sales of gluten-free foods will likely reach $15 billion in sales by the end of 2016. People with celiac disease, the 18 million Americans with gluten intolerance, and people who believe that gluten-free is healthier account for the skyrocketing sales.
Going gluten-free? Try these healthy dishes
While there has been an increase of people suffering from gluten intolerance, there's debate in the research community if it even exists. In May, Peter Gibson of Monash University published a paper that questioned non-celiac gluten sensitivity — a disorder that Gibson discovered in a 2011 study. His 2014 study found that people who ate high-gluten, low-gluten, and no-gluten diets experienced stomach distress at the same rates.
"We don't really have very good diagnostic tools to diagnose gluten sensitivity," says Kirkpatrick.
But it seems that gluten-free is here to stay.
Easy vegan, gluten-free cookout recipes
"I don't see it losing its trendiness any time soon," says Kirkpatrick. "It may not even be a trend; it might be something that people are finding to be very important."
Bonci says she sees many patients who believe that gluten causes everything from inflammation to Alzheimer's disease.
"If people feel better when they [are without gluten], it is a reason to continue," she says, adding a warning. "Gluten-free does not increase the nutritional value … a gluten-free cookie doesn't become healthy."


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Sa-Yo-Na-Ra For A Short While
Jason, Peter, and myself head to Japan tomorrow to visit our fine distributor there, do some shop visits, and meet with some Japanese bicycle magazines. I will be a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to riding bikes in another land, eating sushi and sashimi, and sipping on a little saki when opportunity presents! And yes, there will be karaoke! I'm looking forward to that too! A little Springsteen and Mellencamp in the Land of the Rising Sun perhaps?
I am unsure if I will be able to blog while on the trip but I'm hoping that it is possible.
Tuxedo Shopping
One last fun bit before I take off. Last night was tuxedo decision and measurement night. Jordan had been pretty amped up for it.
Gentlemen, watch yourselves now because I believe he is destined to be a bruiser! Hopefully a gentle giant of sorts.
Ladies, he's only 8-1/2 years-old so you probably can't afford to wait that long unfortunately. He apologizes for any hearts he is currently breaking.
So long folks for the time being. Anyonhikaesayoh. Adios. Sayonara. And all that good stuff.
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The battle between the Gulf states and the multi-layered federal fisheries management system has carried into the halls of the U.S. Congress now that Sen. David Vitter and Congressman Bill Cassidy filed companion bills in the 113th Congress.
The two Louisiana Republicans want to limit the power of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to manage red snapper throughout the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of four South Atlantic states. The three agencies are in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
It's called the Offshore Fairness Act of 2013, and Cassidy said the point of the legislation is better fisheries management.
"It's a (red) snapper bill that's clearly important to Louisiana," Cassidy said from his Washington, D.C,. office. "It's where we go to manage fish in the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic. It's about red snapper populations, about how to use the science of this species and who can use that science."
Cassidy and Vitter agree that constituents have pleaded for years that Commerce agencies misuse, and sometimes skew, data to constantly restrict recreational red snapper seasons in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cassidy said he's studied the situation and said he believes the federal agencies are miscounting red snapper stocks.
"(Federal agencies) are restricting our ability to recreationally fish … when we know the fish are there, and if there's no scientific reason, there's no reason to limit the right for recreational fishermen to fish,' Cassidy said,
Cassidy and Vitter point to the economic effects brought on by the increasingly restricted red snapper seasons. The GMFMC has also restricted seasons on recreationally caught amberjack, grouper and gray triggerfish among other species.
The bill also extends state boundary waters out to three marine leagues, or 10.357 miles, for all state activities including mineral rights. The fisheries management boundary extends to the Exclusive Economic Zone, which takes in all federal waters ou200 miles.
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia are identified to be the eight states affected by the Offshore Fairness Act.
In an interview earlier this year, Cassidy said the fisheries issues was the driving force behind offering this legislation, but said the mineral royalties adds another dimension of fairness to the act.
"We in Louisiana wonder why we have three miles (state boundary waters) and Texas has nine miles. Yes, we'd like to have those (mineral) royalties. That's a fairness issue, too, but if we get (state) control of our fisheries, that would be a victory."
Vitter knows it's the fishery issue that will generate support for the act, and the consternation among states along the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico in dealing with federal fisheries management schemes has drawn support from coastal states' delegations.
Vitter termed the federal management of red snapper "abysmal, and the Gulf states should be granted rights to their offshore resources."
Cassidy said current data and collection methods on red snapper is "yesterday's news. Why not have a current law that's more effective.
"This act lays groundwork for a different way to assess fish populations, and sets up a different way to manage those populations."
He admitted the biggest problem will be to convince members of the House and Senate to vote for these new measures.
"The strategy is to convince key members of the (House) Natural Resources Committee of the importance of this bill, then build from there," Cassidy said. "We do not want this to be a partisan issue. We want this to be driven by science. We want good (fish stock) assessments, and that's why the science should be different, and should be used differently."
Both Cassidy and Vitter filed the bill after the GMFMC rejected a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' move for regional management for red snapper and other reef fish species earlier this year, and after the Wildlife and Fisheries Commission's vote to move state fisheries boundary waters out to three marine leagues and establish a recreational red snapper season that went beyond what was planned a 27-day season beginning June 1.
Filing the act came before GMFMC administrator Roy Crabtree cut Louisiana's recreational red snapper season to nine days, while allowing more days for the other four Gulf states for the season in federal waters.
Know your snapper
The U.S. Coast Guard is writing citations in the disputed waters between three miles and 10.357 miles off the Louisiana coast.
The citations are for red snapper only, because that's the species at the heart of the dispute between Louisiana and federal fisheries managers.
The two-red snapper limit and the waters don't apply to other snapper species. Among the species mistaken for red snapper are the blackfin and silk snappers. Although not as prolific along the Louisiana coast, these species are lumped with a dozen other snapper for a 20-per-day limit and have no seasons.


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A fun summer top with simple color work.
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LOGANAIR and franchise partner Flybe have launched a direct service connecting Glasgow with Newquay in Cornwall.
A Loganair Saab 340 aircraft will operate up to five flights per week between the two locations, offering a flight time of about one hour and 40 minutes.
It is hoped that the short flight time will appeal to business travellers and holiday-makers alike, as rail and road journeys can often take between eight and ten hours.
Loganair's chief operating officer, Jonathan Hinkles, said: "We have already taken a significant number of advance bookings since tickets went on sale last September."


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Apple, Samsung both suffer losses in German court
Apple's loss is interesting, since they won an injunction against Motorola with this exact patent in Munich last week. At the time many observers noted that it seemed ludicrous for Apple to have won on the patent, since the Neonode N1m clearly introduced the feature prior to Apple's patent application. Motorola has already announced they will appeal last week's ruling, and it's hard to imagine Apple not appealing today's loss, so the German court system will get a second chance at consistency.
Samsung has announced they will appeal their loss, although Samsung has not had a winning track record so far against Apple. It may seem strange at first blush that Samsung lost when asserting a standards-essential patent, but in this case the patent was on a manner of calculating a result – and as it turns out it was the result itself which is part of the standard, not the way it's calculated. Samsung failed to demonstrate that Apple is utilizing their patented method of calculation, so they were not found to be infringing. Samsung seems less than thrilled about their track record in court so far, and has retained a new legal team in Germany. We will have to see whether it has an impact on their win/loss record as time goes on.
Apple also is asserting a different sort of IP based on their slide-to-unlock patent. Called a Gebrauchsmuster (say that five times fast!), the "German utility model" is like a shorter-term patent (a decade rather than 20 years) that is easier to acquire, but also is looked at with greater skepticism by the courts. In particular, Gebrauchsmuster IP is intended to protect products rather than processes or methods, so it seems likely that this form of German IP won't end up entering our daily vocabulary, but it will be interesting to see if Apple has discovered a new lawsuit avenue.
In the meantime, basically nothing has changed with these two rulings, except perhaps to give Motorola some extra hope that they will be able to successfully appeal their lose at the hands of Apple's slide-to-unlock patent last week.
source: FOSS Patents, DPMA
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1. frydaexiii (Posts: 1475; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
Everytime one of these of these "Apple sues everyone over everything", the more i wonder how did these people manage to get so far in life without getting killed at one point or another?
2. messiah (Posts: 438; Member since: 19 Feb 2010)
someone please cover a story on why the german courts are really the only courts being reported.... why are they the Nexus ( no punn intended) of the phone patent wars?
3. LoneShaolin (Posts: 307; Member since: 14 Jan 2012)
Probably because the court system may be "looser" over there, Or maybe Apple is padding pockets. Or believes that they may lose somewhere else.
4. Scott_H (Posts: 167; Member since: 28 Oct 2011)
The German court system combines three desirable traits:
1) The courts are relatively fast
2) They are quite friendly to those who sue in terms of granting injunctions (and are also relatively tolerant of FRAND lawsuits)
3) Germany is the biggest smartphone market in the EU.
As a result of those three things, Germany offers you fast and fairly friendly courts to try and get results in, and the results matter in a large market. It's the same reason so much patent trolling happens in east Texas in the United States - those courts were less backed up and friendly to plaintiffs, so people keep using it as a basis for their lawsuits.


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This Cee-Lo/Xtina/Adam Levine/Blake Shelton Cover Of "Crazy" Isn't Half Bad
Pop song covers that become group projects have so much potential for failure and douche-itude. (See: Bret Michaels and Miley Cyrus duet, "Every Rose Has Is Thorn.") But this "Crazy" cover by Cee-Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton on NBC's new show, "The Voice," is pretty damn hot. (But I'll admit I'm biased, seeing as I believe Christina can do no wrong.) "Crazy" was Cee-Lo's song originally, in case you didn't know. NBC, put this on iTunes, please? [Pop Culture Brain]


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Did you know?
The ingredients that went into the paint that the San used to create rock art include blood, gall, egg white and ochre.
The Cederberg area of the north-western Cape, about 270 km north of Cape Town, is perfect for hiking, with its vast, tumbled rockscapes, strange formations sculpted by nature, and choice of trails to view the ancient rock art of the San Bushman.
The Sevilla Rock Art Trail, which starts about 36km from Clanwilliam, at Traveller's Rest Guest Farm on the road to Wupperthal, is a four-kilometre ramble along the Brandewyn River that most can manage, and the easiest access to the plentiful Bushman rock art in the Cederberg.
The trip takes two to three hours, and you view nine sites. There is an additional site you can visit, but that will increase the length of your walk to seven kilometres. Buy the necessary permit and trail map/guide booklet at the farm at the start. The Clanwilliam Tourist Bureau also offers booklets.
The Cederberg region has been declared a World Heritage Site, and no one may camp or hike in the area without a permit.
Another interesting place to visit is the University of Cape Town's Living Landscape Craft Centre in Park Street, Clanwilliam. They have books, craft items and a compact disc on rock art. You can also hire a guide here to show you other rock art sites in the area.
The Sevilla rock art site's paintings are estimated to be between 8 000 and 800 years old, and there are around 2 500 paintings in the Cederberg.
Self-catering accommodation is plentiful, such as the authentic but comfortably furnished stone labourers' cottages at Traveller's Rest, on the same farm as the Sevilla Trail.
Temperatures can reach more than 30 deg C November to February, and in winter you should phone ahead as rain and snow can make the roads hazardous.
In spring the vivid banks of wild-flower colour on the Sevilla Rock Art Trail are a wondrous sight.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Traveller's Rest (& Sevilla Rock Art Trail)
Tel: +27 (0) 27 482 1824
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
Easily accessible by road, Travellers Rest is 36km from Clanwilliam, off the N7 highway.
Best time to visit
Summer or spring is ideal, though snow-capped Cederberg is also magnificent.
Get around
Permits for the route are required, and can be purchased from Travellers Rest farm, the start of the trail.
Where to stay
Traveller's Rest has 12 cottages, spread over a huge area in wide open settings. The cottages are simple yet well-equipped.
What to eat
The Khoisan Kitchen restaurant is beautifully situated on the banks of the Brandewyn river, built of local stone like the rest of the buildings on the farm.


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About the Book
This is a book of fifty photographs of the North American West. As the title implies, very often images of the west leads one to wax almost poetic in describing what they have seen. By now visual attraction of the west almost borders on legend.
These are B&W photographs done purposely to get around the problem of color getting in the way of describing the significance of the scene.
Here the B&W photograph is employed as the ultimate abstraction in describing a definitive reality.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
106 Pages
- Publish Date May 08, 2009
About the Creator
I began my odyssey through the zones of focus more than thirty years ago. For most of that time my equipment was medium format camera systems. My work was primarily in B&W, with some forays into color. As digital technology evolved it became apparent that was the way to go. I went kicking and screaming into digital via the image processing route first. Finally the digital camera demonstrated it's capacity to provide a truly fine and viable image. With that the metamorphosis was complete. I deal with a wide range of subject matter in the form of, literally, people, places, and things. This approach has reduced itself to about a dozen portfolios I update on a random basis determined by subject matter of interest at any given time. I like to think that this approach avoids the problem of being 'pigeon-holed' down the path of a single subject matter venue.
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For those who need to seat seven passengers, a new 2010 Kia Rondo offers a tremendous value. While labeled by Kia as a crossover utility vehicle, the Rondo really serves as a smaller, more fuel-efficient alternative to the minivan. Review the specs, features and mpgs of the new 2010 Kia Rondo to determine if this capable cargo hauler is for you.
New 2010 Kia Rondo Styling
When it comes to the Kia Rondo, Kia's philosophy seems to be functionality before form. While this extreme practicality will appeal to plenty of drivers, those who prefer a little flash with their substance may be a little disappointed. While by no means unsightly, the Rondo is a bit on the bland side.
Inside, the Rondo's affinity for practicality continues. A low price is accommodated by a few cheap materials. However, the overall appeal of the vehicle is functional and on par with other vehicles in this price range.
Of course, the big news on the inside is the ability to seat seven passengers. With a smart layout and incredible use of space, Kia manages to give all three rows of seats good headroom and legroom. If you want a vehicle that seats seven for under $18,000, then the only other vehicle that can really deliver is the Mazda MAZDA5.
In terms of features, the Rondo is well-equipped regardless of which trim level you choose. Base models come standard with power windows and locks, tilt steering wheel, satellite radio, CD player, MP3 stereo system and USB input. Curiously, if you want the luxury of air conditioning, then you'll have to upgrade to the EX or LX model.
Cargo room is another advantage of the 2010 Kia Rondo. At its maximum, the vehicle offers a hefty 74.4 cubic feet of cargo space - a figure that many compact SUVs can't even beat. Add in a variety of innovative storage compartments, such as under-floor storage, and you've got yourself one of the most cargo-friendly vehicles on the market.
New 2010 Kia Rondo Performance
The driving dynamics aren't likely to receive many complaints from the typical driver. However, if you're looking for a little driving excitement in your vehicle, then you'd be better served elsewhere. The base engine for the Rondo is a 2.4-liter four-cylinder that musters 175 horsepower. Upper level trims are available with a more capable 2.7-liter V-6 that boosts output to 192 horsepower. For those who plan on having a full car for a majority of the time, the added power offered by the V-6 may be a good idea.
When compared to other seven-passenger vehicles, the Rondo is a great buy for fuel efficiency. Base models earn an estimated 20 mpg in the city and 27 mpg on the highway (22 mpg combined). The V-6 earns 18 mpg in the city and 26 mpg on the highway (21 mpg combined). In comparison, the most fuel-efficient minivan (Chrysler Town & Country) offers 17 mpg in the city and 25 mpg on the highway (20 mpg combined).
New 2010 Kia Rondo Safety
Safety is another big advantage of the Rondo. Standard safety features are extensive, and include six airbags, anti-lock disc brakes, stability control and a tire pressure monitoring system. Individuals living in snowy regions may be turned off by the lack of a four-wheel drive option, however. In crash tests performed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Rondo earned a perfect 5-star rating for frontal crash tests. A four-star rating was awarded for side rear passenger and rollover categories.
New 2010 Kia Rondo Pricing
Starting at $17,495, it's hard to beat the new 2010 Kia Rondo in terms of value. Again, the Mazda MAZDA5 is really the only vehicle that can directly compete with the Rondo. However, compact SUVs that may be worth a look include the Mitsubishi Outlander and Toyota RAV4. If you can afford the additional luxury, the Kia Sedona minivan or Dodge Grand Caravan both provide improved interior room and comfort.


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Kentwan Balmer missed his third consecutive day of practice with the San Francisco 49ers on Wednesday, and now it's no longer OK with coach Mike Singletary and the team.
Singletary gave Balmer a pass Monday and Tuesday to deal with a "personal issue." Wednesday's absence was unexcused.
"I told Kentwan to be here this morning," Singletary said. "He's not here. He is under contract. The fact that he's not here, that speaks to me. What it says, I really don't know. As far as I'm concerned, I don't know what he's doing."
Balmer, San Francisco's first-round draft pick in 2008, is entering the third season of the five-year, $8 million deal he signed as a rookie.
The defensive lineman from North Carolina has been a disappointment so far to the 49ers and was battling just to make the roster this summer. He has yet to start a game or record a sack in his two seasons with the team.
Balmer finished last season on injured reserve after missing San Francisco's final five games with a torn labrum. He declared himself healthy at the start of training camp, but has fallen down the depth chart this summer behind starters Justin Smith and Isaac Sopoaga and veteran backups Ray McDonald and Demetric Evans.
Singletary said the 49ers would "probably have to bring in another player" along their defensive line. The team also is practicing without Aubrayo Franklin, who spearheaded San Francisco's 3-4 defensive scheme last season from his starting nose tackle position.
Franklin had a career season in 2009, and the 49ers designated him as their franchise player in March. Franklin missed all of San Francisco's offseason workouts and has remained absent during training camp as he seeks a new contract. He has yet to sign the team's one-year tender offer of $7.003 million and may not arrive until the end of this month.
Starting right end Justin Smith, the veteran leader of San Francisco's defensive line, said the unit already has adjusted to the absence of both Franklin and Balmer.
"We're moving along," Smith said. "Whatever the situation may be, in football you're used to people going down so it's no big deal. You just roll with what you've got."
Balmer's name has surfaced recently in news reports of an NCAA investigation at North Carolina, which Balmer attended.
The investigation has no impact on Balmer's NFL career, and the 49ers don't believe it has anything to do with Balmer's absence. A 49ers spokesman said the team is now following standard procedure for a player who has left camp, indicating Balmer will be fined for any further absences.
Singletary gave a cryptic response when asked if Balmer was jeopardizing his future with the 49ers.
"I don't want to go there," Singletary said. "I'm done with Kentwan. I'm done. There is not going to be any phone calls (to Balmer). I don't want to say anything further than that. We're doing what we have to do. I don't want to talk anymore about something that's not here."
NOTES: Rookie LB NaVorro Bowman missed practice for the third consecutive day with a shoulder injury. ... LB Travis LaBoy remains out with a concussion suffered early last week. ... Singletary said first-round draft picks Anthony Davis and Mike Iupati, who both were promoted to starting positions on the offensive line, may play more than the other starters in Sunday's exhibition opener at Indianapolis.


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HOSPITAL services at Corbett Outpatient Centre are back to normal after part of the building flooded due to storms.
The hospital centre, on Vicarage Road, Stourbridge, was forced to cancel some of its services yesterday (Tuesday July 23), while the floods, caused by heavy rain were cleaned up.
Affected services included day case theatres, outpatients for medicine, trauma and orthopaedics, surgery and gynaecology, X-rays and respiratory and neurology appointments.
The cafe was also closed.
Patients who were affected had their appointments re-arranged.


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THE trad-jazz sound of New Orleans comes to West Huntspill with Jeremy Huggett and the Dart Valley Stompers at Laburnum House Lodge Hotel, Sloway Lane.
Jeremy Huggett won a prestigious award for his playing and served an 'apprenticeship' as a sideman before forming his first band, the very popular 'Band Of Gold', which appeared on radio and national TV.
The event, hosted by BD Jazz Club, starts at 8pm.
Admission £7.50 – call Diane on 01278-788070 for details.


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Series: Woodfalls Girls
Published by Berkley
Publication Date: October 22nd, 2013
Genres: New Adult
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
Ashton Garrison walked away from her current life to escape the one thing she's unwilling to face. She knows her decision may be selfish, but in the end, leaving will be far less painful for everyone. Now she has one goal: live life to the fullest with no regrets and no attachments. What Ashton doesn't count on is how fate always seems to find a way to screw up any good plan.
Nathan Lockton specializes in locating a mark. He's done it over and over again—no attachments and no emotion necessary. What he thought was a routine lost-and-found job has forced Nathan to deal with something he has always ignored—his feelings. He's never fallen for a target, yet he's never met anyone like Ashton. Now deep in a dilemma, Nathan must decide to follow his heart, or complete the job he was hired to do.
Love can come when you least expect it. The question is: If the odds are stacked against you, how far are you willing to go for the one you love?
"There's a time in everyone's life when I'm sure they wonder if fate is actually some dude watching from beyond, just waiting for the right moment to fuck with us."
Ashton has a list and one of her tasks is to have a one-night stand with a stranger. In the podunk town of Woodfalls, everyone knows everyone. So when Ashton sets her sights on Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome aka Nathan Lockton, all she expects (and hopes for) is a night of passion and no-attachments. But Nathan is not a stranger. In fact, he is sent on a job to discover Ashton and turn her over to his boss. What starts out as a task for both of them to complete, ends up becoming so much more than either of them bargained for.
There are many things I liked about No Attachments.
Ashton is far from seductive and graceful. She is sweet, endearing, and you can't help but want the best for her. Throughout the novel she is constantly getting into situations due to her two left feet. I found myself laughing and feeling so embarrassed for her.
Nathan, well he is certainly a charmer. He is flirtatious but also really sweet, despite the circumstances. I just have a few problems with him.
First, his age. Nathan is 29, but I kept feeling like he was the same age as Ashton. I'm not sure if it was his pet names for her, or his dialogue in general, but I kept forgetting that he was supposed to be older. I would have liked for his character to have been a little more mature.
I also thought the plot twist in No Attachments was pretty interesting as well. What I expected after reading the synopsis, and what I got, were two different things. I had figured out what the "secret" was early on, but it didn't take away my enjoyment for how it turned out.The characters were cute and the storyline dealt with a sensitive subject without the intensity that usually leaves me feeling bummed out.
I liked No Attachments. Some parts were a little predictable, and the dialogue was a little cheesy at times but it didn't ruin my overall experience. I just wished it would have been a little more developed in terms or story and characters.
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Zooey Deschanel Says We're "All Bitches"
"['500 Days Of Summer' was] actually very misunderstood. I can't tell you how many guys, and girls, are like, 'You did him wrong!' What, she's a bitch because she didn't want to date that guy? So? Are we bitches because we have our own opinions? If that makes me a bitch, or that makes women bitches, then maybe we're all bitches."
—Zooey Deschanel comes to the defense of manic pixie dreamgirls everywhere who got a bad reputation from the way her flick "500 Days Of Summer" ended. I definitely don't understand why anyone would believe Summer was a "bitch" just because she fell in love with someone else. Anyway, between this comment to New York magazine and the angry letter Zooey wrote to Vogue magazine as a 17-year-old, I think I've found a new feminist in Hollywood! [New York]Want to contact the writer of this post? {encode="[email protected]" title="Email her"}!
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The first rule of man boobs: Don't talk about the man boobs. Following that: Don't touch the man boobs. And like a lackey on a Nicholas Cage set, do not look the man boobs in the eye. Errr, nipple.
In my decade and a half experience negotiating male bodies, I have seen some things. Male genitalia obviously comes in all shapes, sizes and easterly orientations. Y chromosomes often cause their carrier vessels to have hair in the strangest of places (and shapes).
But what I had never encountered until age 31 was the man boob — until recently. I may be an anomaly. None of my friends were shocked when I told them I chanced upon a man with breasts. There is even a slang for them. The gays apparently call them "moobs." Of course in that community, they are shunned and sentenced to the David Barton Gym for immediate alteration. Doctors, I have been told, refer to it as gynecomastia. It's the abnormal development of larger than normal mammary glands in men resulting in the appearance of breasts. The terms literally comes from the Greek, gyne, meaning woman, and mastos, meaning breasts: men with lady breasts. It often happens when men past 30 let themselves go. Meaning it often happens to men past 30.
My first man boobs came attached with a surreptitious spare tire. I didn't think things were terribly off when he kept his shirt on the first couple of times we rolled about in bed together. He wore a shirt and nothing else. It was like Elliot Spitzer in reverse.
Now, I'm not sizist. I'm cool with a little fat. David Beckham might be delightful to look at in all his man muscle-y glory on a 30-foot billboard, but women have enough insecurities about our own bodies and sex to be faced with perfection when we're trying to have an orgasm.
After several sleepovers, in an attempt to ease any insecurities he might have had about his body, I took the initiative and removed his shirt.
And then there were breasts in my face.
Large, downy, pillowy, slightly-larger-than-my-own-B-cup-but-a-tad-saggier-breasts were in my face. The nipples were puffy with a dome-shaped areola, also slightly larger than my own. In between those blouse brothers was a tiny tuft of hair — the only reminder that this was a boy chest.
My breath caught for a moment in my throat. I had to remind myself to continue doing the things we had been doing the way they had been done. I closed my eyes and turned my gurgle of awe into a "mmmmmm" of delight. I bit my tongue, until it bled a little.
I really wanted to touch one. But how? How do you negotiate a man's breasts? Like any red-blooded heterosexual girl, I'm into boobs. I've never been a fan of vaginas, even my own, but boobs are fun for everyone! My gay best friend will motor-boat me each and every time he has more than three glasses of chardonnay. I touch my friends' breasts with regularity and in public.
But a man with breasts is different. They shouldn't be there. You can't stroke his chest, exactly, because you would have to run your hands up and over those mounds of flesh. To get into it you have to employ the cup and squeeze and without permission that seems quite rude. There can be no southward action of your mouth along his chest lest you end up accidentally suckling. Awkward! So I had no choice but to declare the region between this man's shoulders and waist a dead zone. It was my North Korea. We would not negotiate.
And then I did. It didn't happen during any kind of sexual act, but rather in a kind of post-coital embrace where I was big spoon. Proper hand position for spooning a man in my book has always been one arm near the belly and the other on the chest. To avoid the chesticles I reached higher putting him in a near strangle hold. I became less cautious as I drifted off to sleep and my hands roamed downwards. My somnolent self gently cupped one of his breasts, then the other. It felt nice. So soft and vulnerable. I squeezed. He moved. He cringed and gulped. I got to second base and things got weird. I pulled a cough and roll, dislodging myself entirely from his body without consequence. He did the requisite yawn. He rolled. Big spoon became little spoon. We pretended it never happened.
He was never really comfortable naked around me after that. There was a quiet return to T-shirts. Had things continued beyond our run of a couple months, maybe we would have gotten into running or yoga or kickboxing together. Doctors say that the condition lessens with weight loss.
The man boobs didn't bother me as much as they intrigued me. I don't know if I will encounter another pair again and if I do, I still don't know if I will be ready to negotiate. I will just follow the rules.