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|30 nov. 1982
|Date de dépôt
|20 nov. 1980
|Date de priorité
|20 nov. 1980
|Numéro de publication
|Gordon A. Gereg
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|Gereg Gordon A
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Surgery, Cannula
Tracheal tubes are PVC tubes used to convey gases to the lungs by way of the mouth, nasal passage, or a surgical incision in the trachea. To allow positive pressures, a sealing cuff is provided at the end positioned in the trachea. This cuff usually takes the form of a thin balloon attached to the outer diameter of the main tube and filled with air to make a seal against the walls of the trachea. A low sealing pressure is desirable to avoid tissue damage making sensitive indicators necessary.
A small hole or lumen is provided in the wall of the main tube and this hole is extended by a small tube so the sealing cuff shares air pressure with the inflation indicating balloon. The inflation indicating balloon is needed since the sealing cuff cannot be seen or touched when it is in place.
When used with anesthesia gases the cuffs on the tracheal tubes often allow gas to pass into them due to the difference in partial pressures of nitrous oxide for example and air. This diffusion in without diffusion out increases the sealing pressure of the cuff which can cause damage to the trachea. A watchful user will check the pressure in the system by feeling or gauging the inflation indicator and let gas out if necessary.
Patients are often fitted with a cuffed tube for extended periods which may be weeks in the case of a tracheostomy tube. With the present invention the problem of many people having to monitor the same patient and not being sure of the cuff pressure is eliminated. Often a clinician will add a little pressure to be sure there is a seal which results in overpressure. Gauges are available to check the exact pressure but they are inconvenient to use and often are inaccurate because their connection tubing has considerable volume and damps or reduces the pressure reading. Also more connections increase the possibility of leaks.
Long term patients have the greatest chance for tracheal damage from overpressurized sealing cuffs. A failure of the cuff seal due to pressure loss could result in a loss of air to the patient.
The present design is intended to give a more positive warning of overpressure. Also it would require resetting which could only be done if the pressure was in the proper range. Earlier designs have a less dramatic change with pressure or work in a higher pressure range.
The lower part of the indicator (below the valve mounting area) would be the same as any of a number of indicators presently used. In fact, if the system was never overpressurized it would be difficult to notice there was an extra feature on the indicator. Commonly used syringe valves such as the Halkey-Roberts 810 ACA could be part of the new design also.
Instead of mounting the syringe valve directly into the balloon of the indicator, a long thin tube or neck would be provided between the balloon and the indicator. The new feature would substantially improve on present inflation indicating devices while adding little or nothing to the cost.
For PVC indicators, the neck would be about 0.008 inch thick and the effective length would be about twice the valve length. The pop-out of the syringe valve would work best if the valve was mounted in a special way so the long tube would easily fold over itself. For more flexible materials such as silicone rubber or urethane the thickness could be less assuming a satisfactory strength was obtained.
Only about 1/8 inch of the valve would be inserted into the partially folded tube and the valve would be sealed to the tube. The valve would then be pushed into the tube as the tube folded back on itself.
After the seal was made the valve could be pushed into the neck of the balloon so the resulting assembly would look quite normal. Under normal use conditions the valve would stay tucked into the neck. If the assembly were to be overpressurized, the neck would blow up slightly making it easy for the valve to pop-out to its extended position in piston fashion. The outer diameter of the valve body in the area above the seal to the balloon neck could be printed with a bright color or a bright piece of tape applied. If the neck was opaque, the bright color would only be visible when the neck was extended which would further call attention to the overpressurized state. The neck section could be made as a separate piece and bonded to both the valve and the balloon.
By adjusting the thickness and hardness of the balloon material in the neck area, the pressure at which the valve would pop-out could be adjusted. The lubricity of the inner surface of the neck also will effect the pop-out pressure. The action making the pop-out feature release is the circumferential expansion of the neck area which makes it easy for the pressure to force the valve outwards even though the pressure involved is only in the range of 25 cm of water. Other indicating devices have less dramatic physical changes for small pressure differential. This feature also allows use of materials that are relatively stiff or thick and have minimal lubricity. An important feature is the fact the pop-out action is sudden rather than gradual.
These and other objects will be apparent from the following specification and drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a complete tube with an inflation indicating balloon.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an inflation indicating balloon with the pop-out extended.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing the neck detail of an inflation indicating balloon.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the neck detail of an inflation indicating balloon showing the seal to a syringe valve.
Referring now to the drawings, in which like reference numerals denote similar elements, a complete tracheal tube 2 is shown in FIG. 1 with a typical inflation indicating balloon 3 which may have the feature of the invention although it would not be apparent because it is not shown activated. The inflation indicating balloon 3 is connected with a small tube 4 to a lumen in the wall of the main tube 5 which causes the interior of the inflation indicating balloon 3 to be connected with the interior of the sealing cuff 6 which covers a notch accessing the lumen in the wall. In this manner any air pressure in the cuff 6 is the same as the pressure in the inflation indicating balloon 3. A tube of the type referred to as an endotracheal tube which inserts through the mouth into the tracheal is shown and discussed as an example although the invention is equally applicable to other types of cuffed tubes such as nasal tubes or tracheostomy tubes. Note that a syringe valve 7 is provided to allow air to be added or taken out using a common medical syringe having a luer tip.
To produce an inflation indicator balloon a plastisol dipping process is commonly used which forms a balloon by dipping a shaped mandril into liquid plastic and heating the plastic to solidify it. The balloon is then cooled and stripped from the mandril. Other means such as slush molding or blow molding could be used. Other liquidified processing such as rubber vulcanizing also might be used.
Given a balloon shape with a sufficiently long neck 8, the preferred method of installing the valve 7 into the neck 8 is by first starting to fold the neck inside itself as shown in FIG. 2. The valve 8 would only be bonded in a thin band near the tip and would be bonded to that part of the neck 8 that was the upper end of the outside of the neck 8 before it was folded in as shown in FIG. 3. By using this bonding arrangement the pop-out feature would be more sensitive to small pressure changes. The device would work nearly as well for thin materials if the top of neck 8 was left unfolded and the valve merely inserted a short way and bonded by a suitable means.
The shape of the inflation indicating balloon 3 could be round, oval or semiflat in cross section and any convenient shape in the plane dimension. The size of the balloon portion, that is the wider section not including neck 8, would have to be suited to adapting the diameter of the valve. It may be desirable to make the neck 8 short so that when the valve 7 were popped in it would actually be inside the balloon portion. This would make the overall length of the inflation indicator shorter and would also position the valve closer to the small tube 4 that is the outlet from the balloon. Having the valve 7 closer to the small tube 4 will make a shut off of air flow less likely if the air is pulled rapidly out of the balloon which could cause the balloon to collapse around the valve 7. Enough neck 8 would be needed to insure expansion could occur to release the valve 7 for the pop-out action.
The entire inflation indicating balloon 3 could be made of an opaque material, or as an alternative, only the neck 8 could be opaque. The reason for making at least the neck opaque is so the valve 7 could have a band 9 of contrasting color applied such as by taping or painting that would not be visible when the valve 7 was tucked in the neck. The band 9 would be only visible when the valve 7 was popped-out and would be an additional means of attracting attention to the overpressure that was in effect. FIG. 4 shows the inflation indicator balloon 3 with the neck 8 extended and valve 7 out to a position where band 9 is showing. It is expected the valve 7 would always move to its fully extended position once it started to move since the force to overcome static friction is more than the force for the dynamic case.
To use the invention a user would be presented the tube 2 having the inflation indicating balloon as in FIG. 1 with the valve 7 tucked in. After the tube 2 was in place in a patient, the cuff 6 would be inflated by putting air in at valve 7 with a syringe. The amount of air pressure in cuff 6 and therefore, the inflation indicating balloon 3, would be less than the amount needed to cause the valve 7 to pop-out if the user was following good medical practice.
During the course of use if nitrous oxide or some other gaseous agent having a partial pressure less than air was being used it would be on only one side of the sealing cuff 6 in the patient's lower airway and lungs. It would be expected that some of the gas would diffuse into the cuff 6 raising the pressure in the cuff 6. When this occurred, the pressure in the inflation indicating balloon 3 would also rise. When the pressure reached a predetermined safe limit, for example 20 cm of water, the neck 8 of the device would grow in diameter until it was larger than the outer diameter of the valve 7 making it very easy for the valve 7 to pop-out to its extended position due to the piston effect of the pressure on the end of the valve 7. A watchful user would notice the overpressurized state and remove some air by withdrawing it through valve 7 with a syringe. The valve 7 and neck 8 could then be returned to an inward position to be available for indication of later overpressurization.
There are other causes of overpressurization such as a change in cuff position. The most likely cause of overpressurization is improper technique of the user.
The pressure at which the pop-out indication would be activated would be predetermined by the thickness, flexibility and lubricity of the neck tube 8 and how tightly the valve body 7 fit into the folded neck tube 8. A tighter fit of the valve 7 to the neck 8 would require more pressure to expand the tube 8 and release the valve 7. In a like manner, less flexibility or less lubricity would also mean a higher pressure was needed to pop-out the valve 7.
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|Classification aux États-Unis
|Classification internationale
|Classification coopérative
|Classification européenne
|11 févr. 1985
Owner name: PRECISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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Everton star hospitalised after 'spiked drink'
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Everton's Dutch midfielder Andy van der Meyde is being treated in hospital after being taken ill in the early hours of Monday.
'His progress is currently being monitored by hospital staff and the club will be making no further comment on the incident until after Merseyside Police has completed its ongoing investigation into the circumstances leading up to Andy's admission into hospital,' Everton said in a brief statement on their Web site.
Sky Sports News reported the 26-year-old had been taken ill after his drink had been spiked while Merseyside Police said they were investigating CCTV footage from bars in Liverpool city centre.
'We were called this morning at 20 to three by a woman, the partner of the man, saying his drink had been spiked,' a police spokeswoman said.
'An ambulance was called and he was taken to Arrowe Park hospital in the Wirral where he is being treated.
'As a result of an examination of CCTV footage, an investigation is underway and inquiries have been made at bars in Liverpool city centre.'

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Büyü bozuldu ve domuz, bir adama dönüştü.-
The spell was broken and the pig turned into a man.
Uzun bir soğuk hava dönemi geçirdik.-
We have had a long spell of cold weather.
Yerlilere uzun süre kurak havayla işkence yapıldı.-
The natives were tormented by a long spell of dry weather.
Onu senin için heceleyerek okuyayım.-
Let me spell it out for you.
Lütfen adını hecele.-
Please spell your name.
Matematiğin ne olduğu ile ilgili yanılgıların olması ismimi nasıl heceleyeceğinizi bilmediğinizden bile daha sıradandır.-
Having misconceptions of what mathematics is is even more ordinary than not knowing how to spell my name.
This spells trouble.
When we get elected, for instance, we get one of these, and we are pretty much told what is in it, and it is our responsibility to read it and understand it, and if we do not, the Ethics Committee, we can call them any time of day and ask them to spell it out for us.
"He'll do," said Bildad, eyeing me, and then went on spelling away at his book in a mumbling tone quite audible.
He cast a spell to cure warts.
under a spell.
O who can tell / The hidden power of herbes, and might of Magicke spell?.
The letters "a", "n" and "d" spell "and".
And one day the ax just fell.
They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.


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Chelsea Clinton Spotted at Vera Wang Boutique and Other Daily Fashion News
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High CPI Shows Inflation Is Back
Inflation is back: Prices increased in April by 0.9%, slightly more than analysts predicted, according to figures issued Friday by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
An increase was expected - analysts surveyed by Bloomberg said the consumer price index would be up 0.6% to 0.7% for the month, due to the Passover holiday. But the 0.9% increase shows that Israel is facing high inflation, as the Bank of Israel had predicted.
However, Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer still isn't expected to raise interest rates at the end of the month. While higher interest tends to suppress inflation, Israel could be facing export shocks due to the financial crisis raging in Europe, and one way to help exporters is by keeping interest rates low.
Prices generally increase in April, as spring begins and the country celebrates Passover. Last month's price increases made up for the negative inflation in the first quarter of the year, which means inflation for the year has been 0% so far.
Pulling the CPI higher were clothing and footwear, which became 11.4% more expensive. Alcohol prices jumped 8.6%, due to new taxation methods. The price of fresh fruit rose 3.4% in April.
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He takes off his pants and sticks all 9inches deep inside my pussy makin me scream he starts goin hard and fast. I resist and scream no he ignores me and goes harder then before I keep screaming stop and no everytime he goes harder in Me.
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Now, i'm not one to complain, i have brown hair, long curly/wavy, a curvy tanned body, round firm ass, though i dont have the biggest boobs in the world. 34 A, i have long legs, i'm 5'5" 126.4lbs. I live in a small suburban area and my life is just great, i have a boyfriend, well fiancee, who's about 4 years older than me and is very handsome, muscular, strong enough to pin my weak body down.
Him and i have been dating for about 2 years or so now, and we're both virgins. All though i know he would like it much better if we didn't wait till we got married. I sometimes find him jacking off to magazines or pictures that i sent him when we first started dating. Which, turns me on of course. And everynight i fantasize about pleasuring him, though he works nights and i work days so there is hardly any time for us to pleasure ourselves. He's pretty big for his age, 9in. He's italian, which makes me one lucky girl!
Anyway we use to exchange our wildest fantasies and all the things we've wanted to do to each other for a long while. We never took action to any; though we have always wanted to. We vowed to wait. And that is what we will do. One night i was lying in bed and he had the night off, so we could spend time together, we were lying in bed watching a movie just cuddling.
I feel a warm hand start moving along my curves, it feels so nice, he notices that i like it. He starts breathing down my neck and i start panting a little, my breathin gets harder, he moves his big hand up my curves and starts caressing my right breast. i give a little moan as he fondles my nipple. i try and ask him to stop, but i couldn't find the words. He has started kissing down my neck, still squeezing my right breast, making me moan and tilt my head back. He bites my neck, he knows i love it when he does that, his other hand starts to move down my body, my pussy is aching for him.
His hand moves down my stomach reaching my hips, i mumble the word stop, but he does not. I say it a little louder, still he keeps going. He starts running his finger across the rim of my panties, turning me on. My panties, now, totally soaked, were starting to be slowly pulled down, i tried to move my hand to push him away but he is stronger than me and resists. I'm still moaning to the feeling of his hand grasping and massaging my breast.
He flips me over, pins me down to the bed using little of his muscle to keep me still. he kisses me aggresively, saying he's not waiting any longer. As he is still biting my neck moving down my body, he starts to suck my left breast. I can't help but to moan to this, it feels amazing. Without hesitation he bites my nipple, sending ripples of pain and pleasure through my body. Causing me to squirm, he gets angry, he uses more strength and pins me down harder, i cant even move.
I try to fight back with the little room i have, he laughs at my weak attempt. He brings his mouth up to my hear and whispers, "You know the more you do that the more i get turned on and the more it's going to be painful for you." i stop. He smiles at me and trusts me enough to let go for a second to undo his pants. Once he's gotten his, now erect, dick out, he pins me down once more. He doesn't hesitate, he pushes all 9in into my tight clit and moans, it is so painful for me, i scream. This just turns him on more.
After 3 minutes of this horrible pain, i start to moan, instead of scream. It sends this amazing feeling through my body; i realize i have just had my first orgasim. He felt it too, he moans as he climaxes too. I started feeling every little inch go in and out forcefully. I scream "no!" and "stop!" over and over but he refuses, he just ignores me and goes harder and faster. I must admit that this did send sensation through my body.
About 45 minutes had passed, he stopped, he gets off me right as another earth-clenching orgasim errupts through my body. He pulls me up and tells me to get on my knees, i do what i'm asked. He doesn't even have to tell me what to do, my mouth was already over his dick, sucking every last bit of that sweet cum i had been desperately wishing to taste for years. He came a whole lot into my mouth, i swallowed it all wanted more. I finish after about 3 more times of this. He is exhausted, as am i.
We had fallen asleep on the bed after about an hour and a half of pure love making, i was strangley smug in the morning, with a big grin stretched across my face, little did i know, we would be doing this quite often.
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An infant and a puppy engage in an instense (and eardrum piercing) discussion in this cute video.
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Earnest portrait amid troubled times
'Mother G' uses gospel to tell story of race, scandal
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In "Mother G," playwright Robert Johnson tells a powerful story of women standing up to a corrupt pastor and the men who initially support him. Though the play could bear some trimming and tightening, the passion and commitment both of the playwright and of his subject come shining through.
That's not surprising, for Johnson based "Mother G" on events in his own mother's life. Set in a black church in Dorchester in 1963, in the midst of the burgeoning civil rights movement, the play vividly captures the mood and issues of its time even as it remains a tightly focused study of personal morality and conflict. And, of course, it can't help resonating with more recent scandals in churches of all stripes.
Mother G, whose given name is Louise, is the spiritual mother of the New Beacon Baptist Church, where attendance and donations have burgeoned under the charismatic new pastor, Rev. James Mercy. But Rev. Mercy, we soon learn, has also seduced the young and innocent lead singer of the choir, Hazel Washington. Now pregnant, the orphaned Hazel turns to Mother G for help, and turmoil ensues.
Johnson structures the play with the church's gospel singers providing transitions between scenes. Sometimes this provides effective emotional support or counterpoint to the action; at other times, particularly as the conflict between Mother G and the pastor intensifies, it slows the story rather than intensifying it. Still, the singing is rousing, inspirational, and strong - and it's a simple and direct way of showing the power of the women in a church that was still mostly run by men.
It also provides a natural way to showcase Hazel's own power, something that would be hard to see without her singing because, when she's not in the choir, she's a shy and reserved young woman. And Marvelyn McFarlane makes the most of these contrasts, unleashing Hazel's pure singing voice and then retreating back into the anxious awkwardness of a lonely young woman in trouble.
As Mother G, meanwhile, Latonya Gregg is a serene mountain of strength. At first reluctant to believe that the pastor she admires could be guilty, she nevertheless listens to Hazel's story with a deep stillness that is a spiritual lesson in itself. And, once convinced, she becomes an unstoppable force.
In this pivotal scene and a few others, unfortunately, Johnson doesn't provide quite enough for the performers to work with: We see Mother G's struggle on Gregg's face, but we don't hear exactly what it is that persuades her Hazel is telling the truth. Later, when some of the male elders of the church come around to Mother G's side, we could also use a bit more articulation of the thinking that made them go against their upbringing and their beliefs about men's and women's respective roles.
By the same token, a character named Al Burgan could use further thought. Like Hazel, he's a young person whom Mother G has taken under her wing; he also serves as a catalyst to action when the women seem more inclined to pray for help than to help themselves. But some of his scenes, particularly when he starts talking about his life on the streets in Cleveland, feel extraneous to the story - and his tenuous attraction to Hazel, while appealing, neither builds to anything nor diminishes in a persuasive way.
Mostly, though, "Mother G" is a moving portrait of a clearly beloved and powerful woman, and of the ways in which she quietly moved a community to do the right thing. It's easy to see why Jacqui Parker, who directs the play with empathy and respect, chose this story to open her Our Place Theatre Project's ninth annual African-American Theatre Festival.
It's a story well worth telling - and hearing. And it's a story that, unfortunately, still needs to be told.
Louise Kennedy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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ukcanuck wrote:wienerdog wrote:Topper wrote: UK...
Why bother? There's no reasoning with a zealot, Tops.
All I know is the Tourette's-like "grab the pitchforks!!" response to you is certainly coming down the pipe - wait for it, wait...
Does Wiener feel better now that he has contributed nothing to the conversation? Have something intelligent to say? say it. Otherwise, condescension is not evidence of IQ...
Lol, I had no idea that resorting to calling your opponent "morally bankrupt" when you are getting destroyed in a debate constituted "something intelligent" "contributed...to the conversation".
I simply called you a zealot, which you are. At the very least, you undeniably argue like one and I defy you refute it.
For the record, sunshine, here's the level of civility you've shown in this discussion in response to everyday forum ribbing:
ukcanuck wrote:wienerdog wrote:ukcanuck wrote:balance all that with a guy who spends a life time of 5 am practices with families who sacrifice money, holidays and hours on the road driving to games all in the effort to make it in the big time, only to be told where to play, how to play, how much you are paid and if you dont like it, fuck you go home? There is no one on this site who would accept such working conditions, and its all OK because they get million dollar paycheques? bullshit
FFS™, I hope you're drunk
Give your Limey head a shake - EVERYONE on this site would accept those working conditions, amigo.
fuck you you would. your not thinking it through, whatever it is you do for a living if your boss told you that he was rolling back your pay, changing your hours of work and transferring you to bumfuck idaho because it suited him better and your only choice was to lump it or completely change careers you would fucking flip and reach for the phone to call your lawyer.
or maybe not, i guess even communist russia had its supporters...
So don't talk to me about condescention. You've been nothing but that in an effort to shriek your point into everyone's face this entire thread.
So, GFY my good sir, and unlike tant, I won't get drawn in by your unreasonable rantings again - even if you offer me a disgustingly sycophantic apology like you did to him.
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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – As speculation mounts on which city Jermaine Jones might next call home, two of his potential midfield colleagues at the Chicago Fire confirmed their excitement at the possible arrival of the in-demand US midfielder.
A team source revealed that a decision on Jones' future, one way or the other, is expected by the end of this week, but with the New England Revolution also in the ring to land the 33-year-old, nobody in Chicago is celebrating his signing just yet.
However, midfielders Matt Watson and recent addition Razvan Cocis are both excited by the potential addition, a player they believe can only strengthen the club's late push to make the playoffs, if head coach Frank Yallop can lure him to Chicago.
"He's a fantastic player and right now we could do with some help," Watson told MLSsoccer.com at Toyota Park on Tuesday. "We need to get some wins, and he's the type of player who gets down and dirty and does a lot of the work that maybe we need in the middle of the field. I don't know him personally, but just from what I've seen in the World Cup he looks like a fantastic player and personally I think he was the best US player in the World Cup. So any help we can get to make this playoff run would be welcome, so I'm excited about that."
Romanian international Cocis, who arrived during the recent transfer window and has played in four games, agreed that Jones' experience and attitude would only improve the team.
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"He's an experienced player, and he's going to be helpful for the team," Cocis said. "He played in the World Cup, so he should bring something different to the team. I think one of the most important things we need to bring here is a more fighting spirit, a don't-give-up mentality. We never give up, but now in this situation we need some support and something to keep us there."
In addition to the possible Jones acquisition, Welsh striker Robert Earnshaw is expected in Chicago on Wednesday, and his presence and attacking prowess will help the Fire in their quest to make a late run for a playoff spot with 11 games to go.
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NEW YORK – Financier and philanthropist George Soros announced Tuesday a grant of $100 million over 10 years to Human Rights Watch, the largest grant he has ever made to a non-governmental organization.
"Human Rights Watch is one of the most effective organizations I support," Soros said.
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Soros, who celebrated his 80th birthday this year, has expressed a desire to give his money away during his lifetime.
"Originally I wanted to distribute all of the money during my lifetime, but I have abandoned that plan," Soros told The New York Times. "My foundation should continue, but I still would like to do a lot of giving during my lifetime, and doing it this way, with such size, is a step in that direction."
The $100 million grant is meant to facilitate internationalization of Human Rights Watch and to increase its physical presence in world capitals.
Currently, the organization has a staff of nearly 300 people and works in almost 90 countries.
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Human Rights Watch has often come under attack from Israel supporters for being anti- Israel or anti-Semitic. The organization itself has, on occasion, acknowledged problems in its reporting.
Human Rights Watch acknowledged in a May 3, 2002 report that there was no evidence of a massacre of Palestinian civilians in Jenin earlier in 2002, contrary to its prior reports, and that Palestinian gunmen had contributed to endangering Palestinian civilians.
In September 2009, the group suspended a senior researcher who frequently criticized Israeli military actions when it became aware that the researcher collected Nazi memorabilia.
"Uber-Leftist philanthropist George Soros is donating $100 million to 'Human Rights Watch' so that they can stop embarrassing themselves trying to raise money in Saudi Arabia and get on with the business of undermining the existence of the Jewish State," read the "Israel Matzav" blog.
Human Rights Watch, the American Thinker blog read, "is a notorious basher of Israel whose reports on Israeli 'oppression' in Gaza have received wide media play.
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Tacos y Mas is one of our go-to spots in the local area when in the mood for a few street tacos.
Food: As Mr. Music once noted, Tacos y Mas sort of fits a middle ground between the hardcore barrio lengua and sesos taqueria and the high end frozen margarita fueled fancy tacos that have penetrated the more affluent areas within the last couple of years. There are no margaritas here and the meats do not feature tongue and brains. After sampling a few of their tacos, I have to say the "senorita" is an absolute must. Wonderful tinga styled chicken that is quite spicy, and doesn't require any sauce. As for the $2 street tacos, definitely try the grilled chicken, steak, carnitas, or al pastor. All the meats are well cooked, loaded to the top, each possessing a great flavor on their own without needing a sauce - and they sprinkle a little onion/cilantro and add a lime wedge to each. But perhaps the real exciting factor is their 5 salsas that are stored in convenient squeeze bottles. The mildest is a Chipotle Mayonnaise sauce, that is delicious and goes best with any of their chicken dishes. The next sauce on the "spice meter" is the Ranchero, which is a noticeable step up on the heat. It's a typical red, but very tasty. The Verde sauce is next, and is arguable as to whether it's hotter than the red. Most likely it has more to do with the peppers in season rather than the recipe. The next two are the real winners of the batch for the RJG: The Bombero which is a mix of all sorts of chile peppers and was Mr. Music's favorite when he was here, and the Roja, a chile de arbol mixture that is my favorite. And they're working on a supposedly hotter green one that will be offered soon (as of June 2015, we're still waiting!). Anyway, I tend to splatter random sauces all over my tacos - and end up eating all of them in equal amounts. Well, maybe an extra squeeze or two for the Roja.... Worth noting that Tacos y Mas does serve breakfast everyday.
Drinks: Since we first published this post in 2012, Tacos y Mas started without alcohol, then did have frozen margaritas for a short while (which were quite good!), before shutting that down again. So it's back to fountain sodas, or if you prefer, real Mexican sugar sodas (in the bottle) that are very sweet and use more natural ingredients. This includes Coca-Cola as well.
Location: Tucked away in a strip center at the SE corner of Keller-Smithfield and Keller Pkwy. This particular location has a bit of history. Well, not their location but the one their predecessor moved into. Snooty Pig inhabited this space for many years, and as one of the only independent breakfast places around, was always too crowded for the relatively small spot. So they moved to the much large space a few doors down that was once inhabited by the very good Mezza Luna, a higher end Italian place that we wrote about a long time ago. Following their demise, a Thai restaurant called West of Asia took over. Quite frankly they were awful and I said as much on Urbanspoon. The owner surprisingly took me to task on the website, to which I responded even more harshly - and I'm sure did him no favors with potential new diners (who likes to see a spiteful owner? Just let the food do the talking!). They went out of business in about 3 months (no surprise to me), but resurfaced again as Chan of Asia (easy to change only one name on the neon sign right?). We didn't bother to go again to see if they magically improved, but of course they went out of business again shortly thereafter. At least now, a legitimately popular restaurant in Snooty Pig has usurped the spot, and will most likely be there for many years to come.
Notes: Tacos y Mas has a history dating back to 1997, and was pretty much a taco truck in a parking lot - that became known in Dallas via word of mouth. Now investors have joined in, and the Dallas Forest Lane location along with this Keller branch are their first forays into the "Mexican Grill" concept. I'm rather certain they plan on expanding from here. I do think they have a good thing going here, and fit a niche between the suburbanite sports-bar-taco-houses like Funky Baja's or Fuzzy's Taco Shop - and more traditional taquerias like Austin Taco House and Jalapeno's. For whatever reason, the Keller location does not show up on the website, and the Facebook page hasn't been updated in close to two years. So I'm not sure if this is a runaway branch, or just an oversight.
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I was staying near Strasbourg back in August, and the people I was staying with obviously had cheese every night. Out came the cheese and biscuits and I could begin to smell this awful stench. I thought someone had let one rip if I'm honest, and didn't consider that it could possibly be cheese.
I grabbed a biscuit and asked about this orange rinded cheese - "It's Munster cheese, very strong, my friend said". So I had some - just a little, as I do like strong cheese (stiltons, etc) - BLIMEY!!! I was blown away when I had this horrible tast stuck at the back of my throat.
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SEDGEFIELD residents have launched a petition demanding all decisions relating to future housing in the town are postponed until the voice of the community is heard.
Sedgefield Residents' Forum is asking Durham County Council to hold off making any judgements on proposed housing developments until the topic is fully explored within the forthcoming Sedgefield Plan.
It follows an application by Story Homes to build 113 new properties on land to the west of Stockton Road and south of Eden Drive.
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The development would comprise a mixture of two, three, four and five bedroom properties, including affordable homes, on the site, which was identified as being suitable for around 450 homes in the council's Pre-submission Draft Local Plan.
Earlier this month, the Sedgefield Plan Steering Group revealed only one percent of those who responded to a recent community survey were in favour of large scale developments.
Sedgefield Residents Forum believes the steering group should be given a chance to carry out further research on where the community would locate new development if they have to go ahead.
Julia Bowles, chairwoman of the forum, said: "We object to the Eden Drive site because it forms a barrier of green space at the entrance to Sedgefield.
"If there has to be new housing in our village, the residents should have a say on where it is. The voice of the community should not be ignored."
When complete, the Sedgefield Plan will be a statutory document that Durham County Council must consider when determining planning applications.
At a recent public meeting about the plan, housing dominated discussions, with many residents enraged by a vision to create up to 2,000 homes.
Story Homes' detailed proposal is linked to a separate outline application by the Durham Diocese Board of Finance for 300 homes on the site.
The wider scheme would retain the view of St Edmund's Church and see the creation of a new link road from the A689/A177 roundabout.
Before submitting the plans, the applicants held a two-day public exhibition and distributed 2,500 leaflets outlining their proposals.
Story Homes describes the development as a "considerate and exciting" scheme that it believes will become a "positive addition to the area."
However, residents say it would spoil the rural character of the town, put pressure on local amenities and cause traffic congestion and parking problems.
The residents' petition is available to sign at Tickety-Boo on Sedgefield High Street.


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Any interest in a complete set of schematics for a SoundTracs Solitaire recording console? It' vintage 1992 or so, and at the time was one of the only large format desks out there that had automation and dynamics on every channel that was priced under 100 grand...
Lots of stuff in there:- Metering, EQs, summing, dynamics and VCA boards etc
Soundtracs are now defunct (well became DigiCo after a buyout), and no longer have any interest in, or support for, old analog consoles. As such I'd consider them "Abandonware", but since I'm new here I'd rather not just post them up without interest and approval.
They came from my owner's manual and I scanned the whole lot into to PDF, edited in acrobat and made them somewhat searchable. There's the regular user instructions included.
Any takers? Is it even ok to post talk such as this?
|28th September 2010, 09:38 PM
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I am interest. Could you send me a PDF?
|7th October 2010, 05:19 AM
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Soundtracs is gone? Too bad. Anyway, I don't see how it could be bad to offer schematics for an 18 year old product for which a defunct company doesn't support anymore...
So do you still have the board? I am guessing, no.
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|3rd November 2010, 03:46 PM
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Hi everybody just to say I tech -support all the old SOUNDTRACS product going right back to 1984 : the home where the Soundtracs roam : a shed in Cornwall. UK . BR Tim : Studio Systems - The home where the Soundtracs roam
|4th December 2010, 07:51 AM
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Sorry, was AFK for "a while" ;-)
I do still have the console.
Here's some pics I took earlier this year when I had just finished restoring it.
Custom Soundtracs Solitaire - a set on Flickr
Blue / White LEDs were done on a whim since I had everything apart while I was sorting out the innards.
|4th December 2010, 02:15 PM
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Soundtracs Solitaire Blue LED :)
that is amazing , it must have taken ages to do that job ??
best tim
PS , we are doing NEW replacement PSUs ( 350 GBP + post) for the Solitaire if its getting a bit Hummy
|21st February 2011, 09:26 PM
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Hi Diginerd / everybody. I saw the pics for your Solitaire, Diginerd - impressive. I now only consider getting a pre-loved desk if I can get the schematics for it first. Like my little DDA Interface which I'm currently servicing and upgrading (new ICs etc). I'd be very interested in your Solitaire schematics, as I'm considering a larger format desk in the future. And like I say: No service manual - no desk!!!
|22nd February 2011, 02:10 PM
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Hi MB , Thats great you like the look of the SOLITAIRE ,, why dont you drop us an email and we can talk ( I always include a manual with the desks ) and tech back up for the time you keep the desk of course , Best Regards email@example.com
|23rd February 2011, 06:10 AM
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Hi Jonesyt. Yes, I followed the link to your website in an earlier post of yours, and had a good look around, before leaving my own post here. Some nice Soundtracs info... I had only recently had my interest sparked up by seeing an ad for a 24 channel Solitaire (I don't really have the space for anything larger - neither do I need all the inputs...) in a Larkings List mailshot. It did wet my appetite a bit! IF I was going to get one in the next couple of years perhaps, a 24 input channel strip version with a few faults would be ideal. Nice and cheap because of the faults, and those faults would soon be dealt with by me!! Call me Mr Frugal, but that's how I prefer to do these things. I can also clear up anything else I don't like about the design, construction and previous repairs it may have suffered from while I'm fixing it. This was certainly the case with the DDA desk, although I guess a bit more will have been put into the Solitaire desks judging by the five figure price tag they garnered when they were first produced.
I may still contact you though, especially if I don't hear from Diginerd. This is another reason I like service manuals - I do like to know what's going on 'under the hood' before I consider the fiscal outlay. Especially concerning semis (ICs, transistors etc). My experience of industry and its electronic products is one of excessive penny pinching, and although I can relate to that ideology from a business point of view, I certainly don't want to be on the receiving end of it! Cheap (and nasty) ICs are a popular corner cut, which is a constant source of irritation for me.
I was able to download the DDA Interface's service manual/ schematics from Midas Klark Teknik's website. MKT took over the defunct DDA brand and have been really good about supplying the tech info for the desks still used out there, as well as taking over the stocks of the spares (especially custom components like rotary pot knobs, which I've already ordered from them). That's why I got one. Are you saying that you have spare parts on site that I could purchase too if I owned a Solitaire?
|23rd February 2011, 10:37 AM
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Interesting stuff , thing is if your looking for a desk thats had a thrashing ( cheap) I would steer well clear of "bargain price " SOLITAIRES and Jades , there is a ton of processing going on "under the hood" and you will be in deep water trying to get those "bells and whistles" singing away , there are very few IC holders and the comp' insertion techniques used make it VERY difficult to get components out , you will need decent electric desolder machine for a start off > If your looking for a trashed analogue "production" desk to "get your teeth into" go for the IN LINE or QUARTZ , MEGAS ,Pc Midi , MRX they are much more "fixer friendly " Best of luck
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Last week two Democrat Senators – Pedro Espada and Hiram Monserrate left their Democratic Caucus to vote for new Senate rules which empower "rank and file" members of the Senate. For that vote, they were promptly called a "thief" and a "thug" by Austin Shafran, who is the official spokesman for New York Democrats in the Senate.
Yesterday, one of them – Sen. Monserrate went back to the Senate Democratic caucus. Apparently a thug last week is a hero this week, so long as a Democrat has that person's vote. I am not here to defend Sen. Monserrate. He faces serious criminal charges, and if found guilty will be expelled from the Senate for his conduct, and go to jail, as he should.
I do, however, defend the very good vote he and 31 others cast for real rules reform. Democrats campaigned last year promising to "clean up" Albany and enact the necessary reforms. Since Sen. Smith and his hand-picked Secretary of the Senate took charge of the Senate however, neither reforms, nor good policies for the Hudson Valley and Catskills have been enacted.
Instead, New Yorkers got a secretive budget process that raised taxes on health insurance, electricity, and small businesses; a new MTA tax which raises property taxes in the Hudson Valley and hurts small business; geographic discrimination where groups north of Westchester County which count on State aid were cut, simply because their local representative was of a different political party; saw middle class property tax rebates eliminated, and were subjected to a string of broken promises on issues such as school property tax reform, health insurance, and job creation would be substantively and publicly addressed.
I can tell you first-hand that standing up to those in charge is not easy. However, the State Legislature – which was supposed to become functional under one party rule, has instead been run worse than ever. The Rules changes enacted last week now give every New Yorker an equal voice in the Senate – which has never happened before in Albany.
Since those new rules were adopted, Republicans have gone to the Senate multiple times to try and conduct business – pass bills and address issues. Other than one Democrat, the remainder of Democrats in the Senate – who are overwhelmingly from New York City, refused to vote on any bills. They are refusing to come to work but, as one Democrat joked earlier in the year, are still collecting thousands of dollars a day just for hanging around Albany.
Democrats like Senator Smith say reform can be accomplished by simply putting a different person on the dais each day. That is not reform, that is just re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. In order to have any type of sincere "power sharing" effort, the following must be addressed:
1. A new Secretary of the Senate. Simply put, the current Secretary of the Senate, Angelo Aponte, is not the right person for the job. We should have a career government administrator in this role who is apolitical. The Secretary of the Senate should be an administrator, not a policy maker.
2. Senate Committees need new Chairs. Whether it is co-chairs or simply new Chair appointments based on skill and background, the current committee Chair selection process is not reasonable. Some Senators openly extorted former Majority Leader Smith, only promising to vote for him if they would receive committee assignments. If that was how Directors were elected to corporations, the extortionists would go to jail, yet in the State Legislature, you actually get rewarded.
3. Staff allocations. When I was in the Senate Republican Majority under Senator Bruno, I fought for equal staff allocations. Senator Smith – the Senate's Democratic leader at the start of 2009, supported that principle in 2007 and 2008. Yet when he became Majority Leader he abandoned that concept and fired staff who have worked for years – decades in instances, for no other reason than their political enrollment. Staff for jobs such as printing, accounting, human resources, postal services, and research should be hired based on their professional qualifications, not political enrollment.
4. Funding for Districts. Under State law, funds were appropriated to various projects last year. Secretary of the Senate Aponte has illegally stopped the processing of those grants. Likewise, despite campaigning as "reformers", Democrats continued the Bruno tradition of allocating grants to Members Districts based on their personal loyalty to the Senate leadership rather than the need of the community.
The votes for Rules reforms by 32 Senators last week was a shock to Albany's power system. Albany needed a shock though. New Yorkers face serious issues: escalating property taxes, crime on the rise in our inner cities, an upstate economy which is chasing New Yorkers out of our State, and a hopelessness that too many New Yorkers feel. The new Senate rules are not a panacea, but for the first time, rank and file members will have a much broader participatory role in our Legislature. Hearing the views of all New Yorkers, rather than just those of a closed, New York City based Democratic caucus can only be considered a good thing, even if it took an odd combination to make it happen.
John Bonacic is a Member of the New York State Senate. He represents all or parts of Delaware, Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. He is the Co-Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Reform. His website is: http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/john-j-bonacic


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The PSX has finally been confirmed for the UK. It's been released in Japan already (where sales have been described as steady to disappointing) but a UK release was never certain until now. The machine Basically combines a DVD-R recorder, a PS2, a Network Adaptor (For online games), a CD player, TV tuner and a Hard Drive Recorder. Sony expect a slow, steady pick up for a premium product like this one in the UK. Hopefully however, Sony will fix some of the shortcomings of the Japanese version for the UK release.
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04-08-2004 #1
PSX finally gets confirmed for UK
04-08-2004 #2
yea, the Japanese one has some functions taken out so it could be out for a Christmas release but there putting them back in in the form of downloadable patches and free cd's
by the time it gets here it should have its full functionality, and thats a lot trust me if you havent seen a long long list of all the functions it has
2 questions though
1 does it have a DVD-R, a DVD+R, a DVD+RW or a DVD-RW
and 2 will both versions of it be released in the uk, for those who dont know there are 2 version of it, the only difference being one has a 250GB HDD and the other has a smaller but still huge HDD
04-12-2004 #3BlakeGuest
Cool, although I dont live in Europe. If one of your little rich friends buy one, be sure to take it and knock them upside the head.
05-17-2004 #4
Before I post, Hi, nice to meet you all I am new to the forums b/c I am trying to get away from the children in the PS Forums.
I am willing to buy the PSX when/if it is released in the U.S.A. if and only if it is compatible with the PS3 as described in an article via the PS3 Portal below;
"There is also the indication that the PSX will be intrinsically linked with PS3 meaning that existing owners of PSX will not be left out. This could possibly mean that the base version of the PS3 would connect to the PSX to form the home server version of the PS3"[/i]
05-17-2004 #5
Yup thats my article and welcome to the Boards. That was basically leaked information by David Reeves the Sony Europe COO. Unfortunately it doesn't make it set in stone. It is definitely possible though so I wouldn't rule it out completely.
Oh noticed you play Socom. You can post your handle here if you want the PS3forums guys to give you a play:
05-18-2004 #6BlakeGuest
Well if it and the PS3 do go hand and hand then I might look back into purchasing the PSX.
05-18-2004 #7Originally Posted by Blake
05-18-2004 #8BlakeGuest
Doh!! You are correct, I forgot this was being considered.
01-23-2006 #9
Mixed opinions from devs on Cell programming
Different developers are expressing opposing opinions on developing for the Cell processor.
Punch Jump is reporting that several developers believe it will be "three to four generations of games before the processor can be taken advantage of."
Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched in October 2005, and so developers will have had much more time to adjust to the new hardware. Sony could face problems trying to catch up if developers are struggling to utilise the Cell processor effectively.
"Instead of one potential problem, now you have seven," said Andy Sites, Sony Online Entertainment producer.
However, Seb Downie, Lead Tester for Guerrilla Games, has said quite the opposite. After many people asked about the differences in developing for PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Downie referred to a fellow developer:
"I was chatting to Michiel and he was telling me how crazy-easy it was compared to the PS2 and how much quicker things have been going for them."
In addition, Sony have put a lot of effort into providing middleware tools to make development easier. It's believed this is part of the reason Sony included the NVIDIA "RSX" graphics card. The Cell is said to be capable of handling graphics as well, but a GPU would be a lot more familiar to developers.
The Cell chip is a state-of-the-art processor built from ground-up by Sony, IBM and Toshiba. It features one main PowerPC core, and eight Synergistic Processing Elements, or mini-cores. The chip will form a major part of the PlayStation 3 hardware, but only seven SPEs will be active, in order to improve chip yield.
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01-24-2006 #10
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Chaos hit classroom E-364 at Creekview High School in Carrollton on Thursday as students, teachers and police acted out a shooting-with-hostages script. Within 24 hours, a real-life tragedy unfolded at a school in Connecticut.
On Friday in Carrollton, officials from the school principal to the police chief assessed lessons learned from the crisis drill, even as they mourned the dead children on the East Coast. Drills such as the one in Carrollton have been introduced at campuses around the nation in the wake of horrific shootings.
Carrollton has stepped up such drills in recent years, moving beyond routine fire alarms. This time, Creekview principal Joe La Puma, the district's security director and a police sergeant came up with a more violent hypothetical. Carrollton police officers took part using props — blue rubber fake guns.
"It is a terrible world out there," La Puma said. "But you have to be prepared."
Carrollton Police Chief Rex Redden added, "We prepare, but we hope we never have to use this training."
Students and parents knew there would be a drill this week at the campus for nearly 2,000 students on Old Denton Road. But they didn't know a simulation of violence and hostage-taking and a school lockdown would be part of the fictional drama — nor did the high school teachers or police officers and firefighters.
In the script, a high school junior role-played that he had been bullied and came back to the high school with a gun and shot two students in the hallway before barricading himself in the classroom. Students who had acting roles in the drill were members of a mock-trial team at the high school. Those students were aware of the seriousness of the drill and their roles, La Puma said.
The hostage-taker gave up after 15 minutes.
"The teachers studied the lockdown procedures not knowing what we would do," La Puma recounted. "There was a heightened sense of alertness.
"We knew it was practice, but your adrenaline gets going and people pretended to be injured."
The school resource officer — a Carrollton police officer — made the fake 911 call to get help and start the drill, Redden said.
"They call us to the scene and they [officers] are divested of defensive weapons and then given rubber guns and told the scenario," the police chief said. "They have no time to think about it ahead of time. They have to react based on training.
"The mission is to find ways to improve security. We hope that we can find weaknesses in the security system so that we can improve them," Redden said.
City Manager Leonard Martin, a former police officer, questioned the rise in the use of high-powered weapons.
"Are we going to have to surround schools with concertina wire and surround them with security? It is too bad that we have to have our police departments dedicating resources to take out active shooters at schools."
A few months ago, West Middle School in DeSoto also did a crisis drill involving a shooting — another indication of how schools are moving beyond metal detectors to mock shooting drills and trauma therapy.
Last May, the Fort Worth school district used a $500,000 grant to conduct a large-scale emergency drill involving Kirkpatrick Middle and Kirkpatrick Elementary schools. But the script there involved hazardous materials and an evacuation.
Friday, the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District sent out a message to families that began, "Our hearts are heavy…"
It provided a resource guide for talking children through trauma after a tragedy at www.loveandlogic.com.
Among the advice: "Listen, listen, listen. There is nothing more powerful than an open ear."
Staff writer Eva-Marie Ayala contributed to this report.


text: Heart FailureLearn about CardioMEMS, a new treatment for heart failure Our Heart Centers Earn Recognition from American Heart Association in Heart Failure Treatment What is heart failure? Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to meet the needs of the body's other organs. The heart keeps pumping, but not as efficiently as a healthy heart. Usually, the heart's diminished capacity to pump reflects a progressive, underlying condition. [ top ] What causes heart failure? Heart failure may result from any or all of the following: Heart valve disease caused by past rheumatic fever or other infections High blood pressure (hypertension) Active infections of the heart valves and/or heart muscle (for example, endocarditis or myocarditis) Previous heart attack(s) (myocardial infarction). Scar tissue from prior damage may interfere with the heart muscle's ability to pump normally. Coronary artery disease. Narrowing of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle. Cardiomyopathy or another primary disease of the heart muscle Congenital heart disease or defects (present at birth) Cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats) Chronic lung disease and pulmonary embolism Certain medications Excessive sodium (salt) intake Anemia and excessive blood loss Complications of diabetes [ top ] What are the symptoms of heart failure? The following are the most common symptoms of heart failure. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include: Shortness of breath during rest, exercise, or while lying flat Weight gain Visible swelling of the legs and ankles (due to a buildup of fluid), and, occasionally, swelling of the abdomen Fatigue and weakness Loss of appetite, nausea, and abdominal pain Persistent cough that can cause blood-tinged sputum The severity of the condition and symptoms depends on how much of the heart's pumping capacity has been compromised. The symptoms of heart failure may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your health care provider for a diagnosis. [ top ] Treatment for heart failure Specific treatment for heart failure will be determined by your health care provider based on: Your age, overall health, and medical history Extent of the disease Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies Expectations for the course of the disease Your opinion or preference The cause of the heart failure will dictate the treatment protocol established. If the heart failure is caused by a valve disorder, then surgery may be performed. If the heart failure is caused by a disease, such as anemia, then the underlying disease will be treated. Although there is no cure for heart failure due to damaged heart muscle, many forms of treatment have been used to treat symptoms very effectively. The goal of treatment is to improve a person's quality of life by making the appropriate lifestyle changes and implementing drug therapy. Treatment of heart failure may include: Controlling risk factors Medication Biventricular pacing/cardiac resynchronization therapy. A new type of pacemaker that paces both pumping chambers of the heart simultaneously to coordinate contractions and to improve the heart's function. Some heart failure patients are candidates for this therapy. Implantable cardioverter defibrillator. A device similar to a pacemaker that senses when the heart is beating too fast and delivers an electrical shock to convert the fast rhythm to a normal rhythm. Heart transplantation Ventricular assist devices (VADs). These are mechanical devices used to take over the pumping function for one or both of the heart's ventricles, or pumping chambers. A VAD may be necessary when heart failure progresses to the point that medications and other treatments are no longer effective. [ top ]


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Having gone down the route of purchasing the branded laptops (hp's, Compaq, iMac) and being bitterly disappointed with them all, we (as a family turned to the lesser brand).
I am currently studying at university and so plucked up the courage to go for the Asus and I am beyond satisfied. It's light, quick, and bright and powerful which for a laptop is surely what you need!!
I am studying journalism and so typing is essential and the keypad is one of the best I have experienced. The buttons have a reassuring feel that they won't break and respond to every push.
The i3 dual core has dealt with everything I have had to throw at it and has kept up with processing whilst having multiple windows and programmes running at the same time with flawless results.
The battery power is superb, only being 3/4 charged it lasted me more than 3 hours of a train journey whilst typing.
At £300 it HAS to be taken a look at and cannot be overshadowed by its small brand. (I've friends who have has Sony vaio's which have broken instantly and respond as much as a deaf person to a starting gun). It even now after extensive use for several months still has that 'fresh out of the box' feel each time I use it. Therefore I would recommend it to anyone looking for a new laptop, especially students as it handles with everything you need, and more!!


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The Made in Italy Business Directory
It is possible to do top-level business, be world leaders in terms of productivity and also operate in tandem with public entities and administrative bodies. The tannery district of Santa Croce sull'Arno, in the province of Pisa, manages to combine all these elements, but above all provides us with a good example of how cooperative governance can really work. Indeed, this province has assumed an operational role in what has become a well-run and extremely profitable business. The real challenge that the tannery sector of Santa Croce sull'Arno has been able to overcome has therefore been that of running an efficient combined public/private manufacturing enterprise. Moreover, the manufacturers have managed to register some important export figures. It is no accident that this industrial district in Tuscany is now regarded as an international example of successful productivity. This of course is all happening at a time when the domestic market is stagnating. However, with regard to business overseas, the tannery sector has reacted very successfully to the grave economic crisis of 2009.
The statistics for 2010 revealed a level of overall growth over the entire sector: the main performance indicators were all on the rise, from the tanning segment at the top of the table to the shoe-making industry at the bottom. The collective data showed a 25.7% rise in exports for the third quarter of last year, the result of positive growth in its main target markets. Apart from the long-industrialized countries such as France ( 41.6%), Spain ( 2.4%), the United States ( 59.2%) and Germany ( 20.6%), the main focus of the operators has been on the emerging markets of Hong Kong ( 23%), China ( 15.5%) and Romania ( 21.6%).
This is about leather, but it is also more than that. Although the traditional occupation of the district is still the business of tanning hides, the operators have found a way to enter some new, interesting niche markets by specializing in other fields. The range of processed goods now involves the production of high quality skins for leather goods, shoes, clothes and furniture, cured with chrome or plant extracts. Graziano Turini, President of the Tuscan district of tannery manufacturers, and also Councillor for Economic Development of the Province of Pisa, had this comment to make: "To a sense of pride and of belonging to their native land, the producers of Santa Croce sull'Arno have added a dynamic thrust towards the export market and internationalization. In our area, we produce the highest quality leather in the world, as well as leather goods and shoes which are the envy of all."
The archetypal success of the internationally-orientated industrial area can be found in its SMEs which manage to maintain the high standards of production destined for the world's most famous fashion labels. The ability of these small businesses to stay in the market can be credited to their "integration", and is due to the involvement of third parties in the business, specialized in various production phases, and to the activities of the satellite industries of tanning and shoe-making. This can be described as the assembly line for a well organized, centrally coordinated system, involving 350 tanning business, including leather-workers, about 250 processing contractors, as well as a large number of footwear manufacturers. The total comes to about 1,400 businesses and over 10,000 workers, without counting the associated satellite industries. Both the public and private sectors are proud of their achievement. As Turini explained: "If you are wearing a pair of shoes, or you have a handbag or other leather item with a designer label, or even one of medium-high quality, the chances are you own a portion of our Tuscan production, which includes our people's dedication to their native land, and to the work they do".


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Durham, NH car crash leaves 74-year-old man dead, injures two 22-year-old men
Police are investigating a two-car crash on Route 4 in Durham, NH that left a 74-year-old man dead and two 22-year-old men seriously injured.
According to Durham authorities, a 22-year-old man driving a 2004 Chrysler was passing the car in front of him when he collided head-on with the 2000 Buick being driven by the 74-year-old man, whose identity and residence is being held pending family notification.
Durham Deputy Police Chief Rene Kelley said the 74-year-old man was dead when officers arrived on scene.
The 22-year-old driver was airlifted to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, while his passenger, another 22-year-old man, was taken by ambulance to the Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire. Kelley said there were no further details on their injuries.
Authorities are investigating whether the 22-year-old was passing legally before he struck the elderly man.


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Let's Not Kid Ourselves...
By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), Publisher
It's safe to say that the vast majority of chiropractors not only teach a wellness lifestyle, but also live it. Most of us look toward more conservative forms of care and tend to shun the use of drugs or surgery in our lives.And while we have been told (and have even told ourselves) that the American public is moving toward a more natural, wellness-oriented lifestyle, the most recent evidence suggests that the trend is confounded on a number of levels.
Yes, it is true that more people are seeking care from so-called "alternative" care providers, which includes doctors of chiropractic. But that doesn't necessarily mean they are forsaking the medical model.
Chiropractic has become the health-conscious entré on the health care buffet that most people only add to their plate when they have back pain. We have failed to convince the public that a wellness lifestyle is the way to health.
Please consider the following from a recent report on how consumers view prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical companies that sell them:1
All of this leads to some obvious conclusions:
What all this should be teaching us is simple: Find out what the public wants/needs, get your message out as much as you can, and watch the response come pouring in.
This works for the drug companies, even though most of the public thinks they are only in it for the money!
Chiropractic has a much better message to tell. We always have. What we haven't had is the willingness to hear what the public needs/wants, and the willingness to tailor our message accordingly. We also haven't been willing to make the investment to get our message out on a consistent basis.
That's why this publication is wholeheartedly supporting the Campaign for Chiropractic: because this is the first real opportunity I am aware of for chiropractic in the United States to have a well-designed, consistent message - a message that will be sensitive to the needs of the consumer while telling our story.
Beginning in the next few issues, we will have a column for the Campaign for Chiropractic starting on page 4. From then on, you will get periodic updates on the progress of the campaign. (An article on the current status of the campaign appeared on the front page of the June 4, 2005 issue. Please read "Campaign for Chiropractic Gaining Momentum.")
You will be given multiple opportunities to participate in your community. We're asking everyone - vendors and DCs - to make a five-year commitment. This is not about running a few ads; this is a marketing and public relations campaign. We don't have billions of dollars, but if thousands of DCs get involved, we will see big results in communities across the United States.
Look for more details in upcoming issues.
DMP Jr.
Click here for more information about Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), Publisher.


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text: A savings bundle of digital scrapbooking alphas by Misty Cato, Alpha Chips, Alpha Tiles and Alphagons are ideal for title work, enhancing your journaling, adding a date to your pages, monograms and more. You'll receive 3 alphabet pack each containing an alpha in 5 different colors; capital letters, numbers 0-9 and a 'blank'. Alphas are provided in two formats; saved together on a sheet and saved individually.


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Few golfers enjoy playing into a headwind, and a tailwind isn't always the blessing it may seem to be. But the crosswind, whether left-to-right or right-to-left, can cause some of golf's biggest headaches.
Advanced shotmakers usually have two options when facing a crosswind: Play the ball to the side of the target from which the wind is blowing (e.g. aim to the right in a right-to-left wind) and let the wind blow it back online, or aim at the target with a shot that curves into the wind (a fade against a right-to-left wind).
Most golfers are better off sticking with their normal, natural shot. For example, let's say you tend to draw the ball. If the wind is blowing right to left, it will push a draw that much father left. You'll need to aim well right of the target to compensate. In a left-to-right wind, play the ball at the target, letting the wind "straighten" its flight.
When facing tough conditions, it's usually best to play the shot you're most comfortable with, rather than attempt to pull off a technique that reduces your chance of making solid contact – the No. 1 key to good results when it's blowing.


text: Cnbc technology Morris Mark has confidence in media companies Morris Mark, president of Mark Asset Management, is telling investors to buy into media companies, specifically China's Tencent. "It's a huge capitalization, it's a huge company. They control the world's second-largest social network, which is WeChat, and they are essentially the game channel for China," Mark said on CNBC's "Squawk Alley." "They get... #companies #viewership #broadband-companies Tweet Source: www.cnbc.com Read More


text: i have a beautiful print that i have wondered about the value of for years. if anyone has a few moments to share their time & knowledge, it would be greatly appriciated!!the print is a copy of a painting, aprox. 8 and a half x 10 and a half. it is signed (i believe)something like pyes .c/19/. this is very important to me to know. anyone who may know anything… please respond. thank you.


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By Michael Flaherty
Oct 6 (Reuters) - A former partner at Pershing Square Capital Management is preparing to launch a new fund, according to a U.S. regulatory filing.
Paul Hilal, who left Pershing Square in January, is launching Mantle Ridge LP, a New York-based investment fund, the filing said.
Hilal was a close lieutenant of Pershing's founder, William Ackman, and was a driving force behind the activist fund's investment in railroad operator Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd . After leading a proxy fight against the company that Pershing Square won, Hilal joined CP's board. He stepped down from that post in January.
Hilal did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Hilal, who roomed with Ackman at Harvard University, was a Pershing Square consultant in 2006 before joining full-time the following year.
When he left the firm, it was widely expected throughout the activist investor community that he would launch his own activist hedge fund.
The regulatory filing does not detail the precise approach he will take with Mantle Ridge.
Mantle Ridge has a staff of four, according to the July 15 filing.
Hedge Fund Intelligence, an industry news publication and data provider, was the first to report the filing.
Reporting by Michael Flaherty in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Steve Orlofsky


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USD/CAD (a 4-hour chart)
Current situation
The pair has been under intense selling pressure since last week. The instrument is in an upward channel and traders pushed the price to its low limit on Wednesday. The USD/CAD found a strong support at 1.3000 where the pair reversed and partly erased its gains. The resistance is at 1.3100, the support comes in at 1.3000.
MACD decreased which indicates the sellers' positions strength. RSI approached the oversold area.
The price broke the 200-EMA and stopped in its region in the 4 hours chart. The instrument is between the 100 and 200 EMAs which act as a resistance and a support. The 50 and 100 EMAs are turning downwards. The 200-EMA is still trending upwards.
Trading recommendations
Shall the pair breaks 1.3000 the downward movement will be continued. Otherwise, we will see a solid growth towards the 1.3100 region where the upper limit of the ascending channel lies.


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I have been buying Olay products for as long as I can remember and have tried pretty much most of their wipes over the years. I am not really loyal to one product but will buy the ones which are on the best offer at the time. I bought this pack of 20 Olay Daily facial express hydrating wipes just £1.50 from Wilko which is over half the recommended retail price. The ingredients include Aloe Vera and cucumber extract which help to sooth and cool your skin.
The pack is oblong in shape and displays the ingredients and directions for use. It has the usual resealable closure tab which you need to make sure is closed firmly after use to keep the moisture in the remaining wipes. These particular wipes are very moist to the touch and even when I get down to the last few they are always still as moist as the first one with no signs of drying out. The wipes are white and are soft to the touch and have a clean fresh fragrance which is quite subtle which I like as I don't like strong smells on my skin. As these are gentle wipes they are suitable for the most sensitive skin. I find that one wipe is sufficient to cleanse my face and neck even if I am wearing a lot of make up including waterproof mascara.
These wipes do a very good job of cleaning my face and I can feel a lovely coolness as soon as they touch my skin which feels refreshed afterwards and very clean. With these wipes you can feel a slight tingly feeling but I think this adds to the clean feeling but some people may not like this. The wipes seem to be quite strong and I would say it would be very hard to rip or tear them and although personally I don't seem to have to rub very hard to remove any type of make up I would think that you could use quite a bit of pressure and they would still stay in one piece.
These wipes are gentle and have never caused me any irritation on my face or around the eye area. They are fragrance free, and alcohol-free and have been dermatologically tested, so should be suitable for a lot of people. I love the clean fresh feeling I get after using these and will definitely buy them again.
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