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Cardiac Denervation Surgery for Prevention of Ventricular Tachycardia (PREVENT VT)
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The purpose of this research study is to examine the effect of cardiac denervation surgery, otherwise known as bilateral cervico-thoracic sympathectomy, on life threatening abnormal heart rhythms called ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
Subjects will be asked to participate in this research trial if they have had recurrent ventricular tachycardia (at least one ICD shock for ventricular tachycardia) and have undergone at least one catheter ablation procedure or have ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation that is not ablatable. The goal of this study is to determine whether bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy can prevent these abnormal heart rhythms from occurring and therefore, prevent, ICD shocks, which are not only painful, but have been shown to reduce quality of life and/or lead to depression, particularly in the period immediately after the shock.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Sudden Cardiac Death Ventricular Tachycardia Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiomyopathy |
Procedure: Bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy Drug: ICD, medical therapy, and catheter ablation of VT only |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Prevention |
Official Title: | Prophylactic Bilateral Cervicothoracic Sympathectomy for Prevention of Ventricular Tachycardia |
- Survival free from any appropriate ICD shock 72 hours after sympathectomy procedure. [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Freedom from any appropriate ICD therapy. [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Freedom from Composite of Death and ICD shocks [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Freedom from VT ablation procedure [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Freedom from Death [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Frequency of ICD therapies [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Trend in ICD shocks [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 216 |
Study Start Date: | July 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2017 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | July 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Sympathectomy + medical therapy + ICD
Bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy will be performed in patients randomized to the Active Therapy Arm/ Any clinically approved endoscopic method of sympathectomy with removal of the lower half of the bilateral cervical stellate ganglia and T2-T4 ganglia is acceptable. All patients meeting the inclusion criteria of this study will have undergone or will undergo an ICD placement based on ACC/AHA criteria. All participants will have had at least one ICD shock despite having a catheter ablation of VT performed prior to enrollment. If patient has a recurrent ICD shock while enrolled in the study, repeat VT ablation procedure, as indicated, can be performed. Follow-up Visits
Procedure: Bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy
Bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy which involves endoscopic removal of the lower one third to one half of the stellate ganglia together with the thoracic ganglia of T2 - T4 provides adequate cardiac denervation with no or minimal Horner's syndrome in long QT syndrome and recurrent angina. Though this procedure has been traditionally performed under general anesthesia most commonly using a supraclavicular approach, endoscopic techniques are now available, reducing both the duration and invasiveness of the procedure and hospitalization. Video-assisted thoracoscopic sympathectomy provides a minimally invasive endoscopic approach to this procedure that is safe and effective. Furthermore, the procedure can be completed in less than 45 minutes per side.
Placebo Comparator: Standard medical therapy, ICD
Patients assigned to this arm will not undergo denervation therapy (sympathectomy). All patients meeting the inclusion criteria of this study and randomized to the placebo arm will have undergone or will undergo an ICD based on ACC/AHA criteria. If patient has a recurrent ICD shock while enrolled, a repeat VT ablation procedure as clinically indicated, can be performed.
Follow-up Visits
Drug: ICD, medical therapy, and catheter ablation of VT only
Patients assigned to this arm will receive ACC/AHA guideline recommended therapies for heart failure only and will undergo/will have already undergone ICD placement as indicated for their heart failure. Furthermore, they will be considered for catheter ablation of their arrhythmia and will undergo catheter ablation of their ventricular arrhythmias prior to randomization.
Detailed Description:
The purpose of this research study is to examine the effect of a procedure called bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy which involves removal of part of the cervical stellate ganglia and thoracic ganglia of level 2 to 4. These ganglia house the left and right sided nerves that feed the heart and have been implicated in the occurrence of fast abnormal rhythms that cause defibrillator shocks and sudden death. Stimulation of these nerves has been shown to increase the incidence of sudden death and fast abnormal heart rhythms that lead to internal defibrillator shocks called ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation. Removal of the ganglia of these nerves in animal and human studies has been shown to decrease the incidence of life threatening abnormal rhythms and sudden death. The purpose of this study is to examine whether this procedure along with an internal defibrillator and current maximum medical therapy can reduce the incidence of these life threatening abnormal rhythms as compared to an internal defibrillator and medical therapy alone.
We are inviting patients to participate in this clinical trial who have undergone at least one catheter ablation procedure for ventricular tachycardia but have continued to experience recurrent arrhythmias or who have a type of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation that can not be treated with catheter ablation procedures. You maybe randomized to receive the procedure and an internal defibrillator (if you don't have one already) plus maximum medical therapy to receive the defibrillator and medical therapy and catheter ablation. The procedure involves removal of part of the bilateral ganglia of the nerves that feed the heart. This procedure takes less than 45 minutes on each side and can be performed endoscopically.
We are asking 226 individuals (approximate age range 18-80 years) who continue to experience ICD shocks despite at least one catheter ablation procedure to participate in this research trial but only half these individual will be randomized under the bilateral cervicothoracic sympathectomy.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 80 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Any cardiomyopathy and at least one ICD shock after at least 1 VT ablation procedure or ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation that is not ablatable.
If ischemic, MI occurred more than one month before enrollment. ICD implantation with at least 1 ICD shock. Age greater than 18 years old.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active ongoing cardiac ischemia as assessed by EKG, cardiac enzymes, symptoms, coronary angiography with evidence of significant epicardial coronary stenosis (>70%), stress testing showing evidence of ischemia.
Revascularization in the past 90 days.
- Incessant ventricular tachycardia
- Contraindication to sympathectomy.
- Any medical or non-medical condition likely to prevent completion of trial.
- Slow VT, rate < 120 bpm.
- History of LVAD or BIVAD.
- Pregnancy
- Inability to give consent.
Contact: Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD | 310-206-2235 | email@example.com |
Contact: Marmar Vaseghi, MD | 310-206-2235 | email@example.com |
United States, California | |
UCLA | Not yet recruiting |
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90065 | |
Contact: Michelle Betwarda, M.S. 310-206-2235 firstname.lastname@example.com | |
Contact: Marmar Vaseghi, MD 310-206-2235 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD | |
Sub-Investigator: Marmar Vaseghi, MD |
Principal Investigator: | Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD | University of California Los Angeles Cardiac Arrhythmia Center |
Principal Investigator: | Marmar Vaseghi, MD MS | University of California, Los Angeles |
Responsible Party: | Marmar Vaseghi, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01013714 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | UCLA09-07-100-01 |
Study First Received: | November 13, 2009 |
Last Updated: | January 3, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by University of California, Los Angeles:
Sudden cardiac death Ventricular tachycardia Ventricular fibrillation |
Cardiomyopathy Internal cardiac defibrillator shocks Internal cardiac defibrillator therapies |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tachycardia, Ventricular Death Tachycardia Ventricular Fibrillation Death, Sudden, Cardiac Cardiomyopathies |
Pathologic Processes Arrhythmias, Cardiac Heart Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Arrest Death, Sudden |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on December 09, 2013


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The university press and the library face economic pressures that neither can address alone. So long as journal prices escalate more rapidly than library collection budgets, libraries will continue to reduce serial subscriptions to balance the collections budget. These reductions will adversely affect the revenues to university presses. Pressure from science, technology, medicine, and business faculties to retain high-cost, high-use journals will crowd out less-used scholarly journals, many of which are published by university presses. Because libraries must continue to provide access to and preserve print inventories, housing them in large physical plants that must be maintained, they will be unable to implement large-scale, costreducing changes in operations to free up resources for investments in technology. The trends noted in University Libraries and Scholarly Communication and in Hawkins's paper will result in a catastrophic decline in the system of scholarly communication unless there is a fundamental shift in the way in which its processes, products, and costs are analyzed. Each of the two partners, the library and the press, serves as an inadequate unit of analysis for the system of scholarly communication as a whole.
Sandra Braman's description of the three stages in the conceptualization of the information society provides a useful context in which to view today's problems of
press and library within the system of scholarly communication.[21] In her conceptualization, the first stage of the information economy is recognized by the increasing importance of information sector industries. In the second stage, certain forms of information never before recognized as commodities, become so recognized. In this stage, political controversy about information's value as a public good versus its market value as a commodity is highlighted. The rising commercialization of scholarly publishing and the declining ability of libraries to provide access to scholarly information may be interpreted as a second-stage information society phenomenon.
Braman postulates that the third stage of the information society produces a more sophisticated understanding of the flow of information: the flow may replace the market as the primary feature of the information economy. This stage represents a paradigm shift in which the information economy operates in a qualitatively different manner than in the two previous stages. According to Braman: "key insights of this perspective include identification of a new unit of analysis, the project, involving multiple interdependent organizations, as more useful than either the industry or the firm for analytical purposes"(p. 112). She further describes the third-stage conceptualization of the information economy as including a production chain, or "harmonized production flows," including information creation, processing, storage, transportation, distribution, destruction, seeking, and use, in short, all the stages of the system of scholarly communication from author to user, including the library. In the third stage, networked information economy, economic viability stems not from maximizing profit or economic stability within each component of the system, but rather through building long-term relationships and a stable system or flow of information.
Michael Hammer makes a similar point with respect to industrial or business reengineering but applicable to the operations of libraries and presses as well.[22] He notes that automation and other reengineering efforts frequently have not yielded the improvements that companies desire. He believes that heavy investments in information technology deliver disappointing results because the technology is used primarily to speed up traditional business processes, along with their inefficiencies, rather than to transform them. "Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over. We should ... use the power of modern information technology to radically redesign our business processes in order to achieve dramatic improvements in their performance" (p. 104).
Both Braman and Hammer emphasize the disquieting qualities that characterize this kind of paradigm shift implied by the third stage of the information economy and by radical reengineering. According to Hammer,
Reengineering cannot be planned meticulously and accomplished in small and cautious steps. It's an all-or-nothing proposition with an uncertain result.... At the heart of reengineering is the notion of discontinuous thinking-of recognizing and
breaking away from the outdated rules and fundamental assumptions that underlie operations. Unless we change these rules, we are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We cannot achieve breakthroughs in performance by cutting fat or automating existing processes. Rather, we must challenge old assumptions and shed the old rules that made the business under perform in the first place ... Reengineering requires looking at the fundamental processes of the business from a cross-functional perspective.
Manuel Castells takes a different approach, suggesting that technology-driven productivity increases in the informational economy have not thus far been evident. His thesis is that technology-driven productivity increases were steady in the industrial sector between 1950 and 1973, but since 1973 productivity, particularly in the service sector, has stagnated despite the intensive investment in technology. He suggests three factors that appear to be relevant to the library and press sector as well as to the service sectors of the economy in general. These factors include the following.
1. Diffusion: before technological innovation can improve productivity markedly, it must have permeated the whole economy, including business, culture, and institutions.
2. Measuring productivity: Service industries traditionally find it difficult to calculate productivity statistically; thus the lack of observable productivity enhancements may in part be a symptom of the absence of relevant measures.
3. The changing informational economy: Productivity cannot easily be measured because of the broad scope of its transformation under the impact of information technology and related organizational change.
If Castells, Braman, and Hammer are correct, then libraries and presses, alone or together, cannot implement technological solutions that can transform the processes, productivity, and economics of scholarly publishing.
The Mellon projects have been useful in introducing two players in the information flow to the problems of the other, and in forging collaborative relationships to aid in sustaining the system of scholarly communication. These cooperative projects between university libraries and presses have helped participants begin to understand the system of scholarly publishing as an information flow rather than as separate operational processes. But their effectiveness is limited because, outside the parameters of the projects, the partners must still maintain their separate identities and economic bases.
A fuller exploration of the potential of transforming the flow of scholarly information would incorporate a more integrated approach, including the creators of the information, the university administration, and the information consumers as well as the publisher and the library. In this approach, costs and subsidies of the entire process of scholarly communication could be better understood and resources made more flexibly available to support it. For example, it might be possible to view operational and capital savings to libraries resulting from a transition
to electronic publication as resources ultimately available to sustain the publication chain, or consumers could be asked to pay some or all of the costs of creating, storing, archiving, and delivering scholarly information. A critical flaw in the current system is the existence of a part of the gift economy, in the form of the library, within a monetary economy for commercial publishers. Because the consumers of the information within the university do not pay for it, they and the campus administration see the library as a "problem" when it cannot provide the information needed within the budget allotted.
A key problem in securing the future of scholarly communication is that both presses and libraries are undercapitalized. Although libraries incur huge capital costs over time in both inventory and facilities, they are not free individually nor as parts of the system of scholarly communication to reallocate present or future capital expenditures to investments in new modes of publication. However, such reallocation, if it occurs at all, will take place very slowly because the transition to digital publication will also be slow. It is possible that a more rapid transition to electronic publishing would reduce libraries' recurring operations costs, thereby enabling them to invest greater resources in information itself. But a more rapid transition is feasible for presses only if there is a rise in demand for digital publications from libraries and from end users or a substantial increase in subsidies from their parent universities. Presses can offer electronic publications, but they cannot change the demand patterns of their customers-libraries-nor the usage patterns of the end consumers in order to hasten a transition from print to electronic dissemination. As long as a substantial portion of their market demands print (or fails to purchase electronic product), presses will be forced to incur the resulting expenses, which, in being passed on to libraries as costs that inflate more rapidly than budgets, will reduce the purchases of scholarly publications.
Ironically, in the present environment, universities tend to take budgetary actions that worsen the economics of scholarly communication as experienced by both libraries and presses. University administrators increasingly interpret any subsidy of university presses as a failure of the press itself as a business; as university subsidies are withdrawn, presses must increase prices, which reduces demand and exacerbates the worsening fiscal situation for the presses. But in the networked economy where everyone can be an author and publisher, the value added by presses (for example, gatekeeping, editorial enhancement, distribution) may be more important than ever in helping consumers select relevant, high-quality information. At the same time, university administrators see the library as a black hole whose costs steadily rise faster than general inflation.[23] Since library materials budgets grow more slowly than inflation in the costs of scholarly publications, the inevitable result is reduced purchasing of scholarly publications of all types, but particularly of university press materials, which in general are of lesser commercial value in the commodity market. Unless the system as a whole changes, both university presses and university libraries will continue to decline, but at accelerated rates.
Although it is not possible to envision with certainty exactly how a successful transition from the present system to a more sustainable system might occur, one plausible scenario would be for universities themselves to invest capital resources more heavily in university-based information flows and new forms of scholarly publication as well as place increased market pressures on the commercial sector. If universities were to make strategic capital and staffing investments in university presses during the short term, the presses could be more likely to make a successful and rapid transition to electronic publication. At the same time, intensive university efforts (i.e., investments) to recover scientific, technical, medical, and business publishing from the private sector could be made to reduce the crowding out of university press publications by for-profit publishers. These efforts to recover scholarly publishing could be accompanied by libraries' placing strong market pressures on commercial publishers through cancellation of journals whose prices rise faster than the average rates for scholarly journals in general. The investments in these two areas: converting publication processes to electronic form and returning commercial scholarly publishing to the university could be recovered over time through reductions in capital investments in library buildings. Ultimately, the university itself would encompass most of the information flow in scholarly communication through its networked capability. That information having commodity value outside the academy could be sold in the marketplace and the revenues used as a subsidy to the system itself.
Another way of accomplishing a harmonization of the scholarly information economy was suggested by Hawkins:[24] the independent nonprofit corporation model in which universities and colleges would invest together in a new organization that would serve as a broker, negotiator, service provider, and focus for philanthropy. It would leverage individual resources by creating a common investment pool.
However the solution to the problem of the economic crisis in scholarly communication is approached, there must be a fundamental change in how the process as a whole is conceived and how intellectual property rights of both authors and universities are managed. Such a change cannot be made unilaterally by university libraries and presses but will require the strategic involvement and commitment of university administrators and faculty within the university and among universities. Patricia Battin, envisioning an integrated scholarly information flow, said almost ten years ago:
Commitment to new cooperative interinstitutional mechanisms for sharing infrastructure costs-such as networks, print collections, and database development and access-in the recognition that continuing to view information technologies and services as a bargaining chip in the competition for students and faculty is, in the end, a counterproductive strategy for higher education. If the scholarly world is to maintain control of and access to its knowledge, both new and old, new cooperative ventures must be organized for the management of knowledge itself, rather than the ownership of formats.[25]


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Higher elevations of Sri Lanka.
Formerly the Polypedates eques group, and forming the sister taxon of Polypedates according to the original publication. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, confirmed the phylogenetic placement of this taxon in their study of Genbank sequences, but employed an antiquated taxonomy that obscures this result.
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Manhunt lands on PSN next week, The Warriors coming soon
Rockstar has announced that Manhunt will arrive on PSN next week as part of the PS2 Classics collection. Released 10 years ago, the game will land on the PS Store May 14 in North America and May 15 in Europe. It will run you $9.99/€9.99/£7.99. It will soon be joined by The Warriors.
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Ico shown running on PSVita, Ueda seemingly baffled
Ico, the influential PS2 classic from the same team as Shadow of the Colossus, has been spotted running on a Vita.
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ESRB ratings suggest GTA III, Vice City headed to PSN
As spotted by PSNStores, the ESRB has re-rated Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Both titles are listed with PlayStation 3 as platform and Sony Computer Entertainment America as publisher, suggesting a PlayStation Network release. The lack of a double pack listing suggests we're probably looking at PS2 Classics re-releases rather than HD makeovers. I've sent Rockstar a gleeful fangirl email so fingers crossed for an official update soon.
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When you create a new connection, Couchbase Server needs to provide current server topology to the client instance and it may also need to perform authentication. All of this is more time consuming and resource intensive compared to when you perform a read/write on data once a connection already exists. Because this is the case, you want to try to reduce the number of times you need to create a connection and attempt to reuse existing connections to the extent possible.
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Shaheen's hindsight: Rethinking the medical device tax
On Dec. 4, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen signed a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to delay implementing Obamacare's 2.3 percent medical device tax, which is set to take effect on Jan. 1. It took her only two years, 8 months and 13 days to do it. That is how much time elapsed between her voting for Obamacare and signing the letter. The Senate has only 19 days left to act before the tax takes effect. Where, one wonders, has Shaheen been all this time?
Shaheen was one of 16 (14 senators and two senators-elect) to sign the letter. Among them were Sens. John Kerry and Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sens. Charles Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand of New York - all Democrats from states with a vibrant medical device industry, which is about to get whacked hard by the tax most of them voted for.
The Advanced Medical Technology Association says the tax will cost 43,000 jobs. It will also raise the cost of medical care, as manufacturers will of course pass the tax along to consumers. Tim Steele, owner and founder of Microspec in Peterborough, told the Union Leader last month, "Everyone is talking about medical care costs going up, and here is something that is making them go up even faster."
Such are the unintended, though perfectly predictable, consequences of wealth redistribution. That Shaheen is scrambling at the last minute to lighten the impact shows that she understands how harmful it is going to be. If only she had listened when this was pointed out at the time.
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The Tank Top Top
Here's what you'll need:
-a tank top
(I got mine at Target on sale in the pajama section, so it has one of those funky "built-in-bras." Don't let that throw you off in the pictures. You certainly don't need to have this kind of tank top. A regular one will do just fine.)
-1 yard of fabric for the "skirt" of the top
-1/4 yard of coordinating fabric for your hem
-general sewing supplies
All seam allowances are "lined up with the edge of my presser foot" (i.e. between 1/4" and 3/8") unless otherwise stated.
My fabric came from Cherry Lane Textiles. I really love both prints, but I just have to say that the gray fabric with the flowers is so soft. Like, I really don't know if I've ever had regular cotton fabric feel so wonderful and soft. And right now it's on sale! Anyway...
First, put your tank top on. Mark (in the center of your tank top) where you want the "skirt" of your top to start.
Now that you've decided where you want your skirt to start, decide how long you want your skirt to be. The bottom part of my tank top that I cut off was about 14". But I wanted my finished top to be a little longer than that. How do you know?
Do a rough measurement from the bottom of your bust line (or wherever your skirt is going to start) to wherever it is you'd like your finished top to reach. My rough estimate was for the skirt to be about 20" long, but, in the end, I made mine a little shorter than that--closer to 18" long.
Next, measure the width of your tank top. To do this I folded my tank top in half lengthwise and lined up the center fold with a line on my cutting mat. Then I could get an accurate measurement across (going by where I had already put my pin).
Multiply the width of your tank top by 1.5 to figure out how wide to cut your fabric. (For example, my tank top measured 16" across, so I knew that I would need to cut my fabric pieces to be 24" wide, plus 1" for seam allowance for a total of 25" wide.)
Now that you have your measurements, you're ready to begin cutting!
Cut two rectangles by the measurements you decided on. (Mine were 18" long and 25" wide.)
Then cut two strips of your coordinating fabric to be 2" long and as wide as your other fabric pieces. (Mine were 2" long and 25" wide.)
Next, cut your tank top a half an inch below the place where you decided you want your skirt to start.
We're finally ready to begin construction! Line up one strip of your coordinating fabric on the bottom edge of one of your skirt pieces, right sides together.
Pin as needed.
Sew skirt piece to coordinating fabric.
Press seam open. I find it's easiest to first press it open with my fingers and then with the iron.
Now, press both seam allowances toward the bottom (yellow fabric), so that the skirt seam allowance (gray with flowers) is on top.
I know what you're all thinking. You're thinking that I'm crazy. "Didn't she just tell me to press the seam open? Now she's telling me to press it closed again?" Yes, yes I am. Pressing the seam open first will make it so you have nice and crisp edges when you turn your fabric right side out and will prevent your seams from turning in on themselves. Just trust me on this one.
Your piece should now look like this (from the back).
To form the hem, fold the bottom edge of your coordinating fabric up to the edge of your seam allowance. Iron (with steam) in place so your fold will stay put.
Turn your newly folded edge up so that the edge of your fold rests just above the seam line.
Iron your new fold (using steam) so that your fold will stay in place.
It should look like this.
With the right side of your fabric facing up you are now going to "stitch in the ditch." What that means is you'll line your needle up with your existing seam and stitch a line as close to (but not on) your coordinating fabric as possible.
When you're done it should look like this on the front, with your row of stitching just barely showing above your hem.
This is what it will look like from the back side. Since you folded your fabric just over the seam, when you "stitched in the ditch" you caught your hem on the back. Nifty, huh?
Now, press your hem so it's nice and neat.
Repeat these steps with your remaining skirt and hem piece and we'll move on to gathers tomorrow.
If you're ready to move ahead, you can move on to Part 2 and Part 3. Happy sewing!


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As NASCAR heads to the first break of the season, what have we learned? Well for starters we've learned that it's good to be in a Ford Fusion these days. Ford drivers have one two of the first three races this season. But is Ford ready to finally knock Chevy off as top dog in the sport?
Part of the Blue Oval's early success seems to be due to the new engine. It was the rock star at Daytona, far and away the best in the two car draft. But also, no failures for them this season. Impressive when you are talking about a new engine.
"Doug Yates and those guys build great engines. I think that they had been doing a great job with the old engine. Now we have this new engine, we may have a lot to look forward to," said Las Vegas winner Carl Edwards. "I don't want to jinx it or anything, but I'm really excited to run that engine for the whole year."
And exciting time for Fords for sure. Now, reality check time. Look at the points. There are just two Fords (Edwards 3rd and AJ Allmendinger 9th) in the top 12. The bow tie brigade has 7. Of course, there are more Chevy drivers. And if the emphasis is on winning. Then maybe, just maybe this could be Fords year. They are off to a pretty good start.


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Canyon Ranch: A Life-Changing Experience
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Canyon Ranch is nominated for a Luxist Awards' Readers' Choice Award for Best Extended-Stay Spa. Canyon Ranch is the recipient of countless awards and accolades for its innovative approach to health, wellness and holistic and integrative care, as well as for the uniquely relaxing and inspiring experience it provides.
In 1978 Mel Zuckerman was 40 pounds overweight and had asthma, high blood pressure, a hiatal hernia, ulcers and diverticulitis. He had never exercised, had poor nutrition and his primary goal was to succeed in his home building business. His father had recently passed away as a result of cancer from smoking. His grief was mixed with the fear he was heading down the same path as his father.
Zuckerman checked himself into the Ojai Ranch & Spa for a 10 day stay to learn how to get on track. There, he exercised and ate right. He noticed how great he felt and extended his stay to a month. "After that I never looked back," he says. After he returned home, he and his wife, Enid, launched a dream to make healthy living their business---and hence Canyon Ranch was born.
Canyon Ranch opened in the Sonoran Desert and the mountains in 1979 in Tucson, Arizona. It was a radical idea at the time---a comprehensive, healthy living resort with no smoking or alcohol. Within a few years, Canyon Ranch had gained a strong reputation and was influencing the evolution of spas around the world.


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Being a responsible sitter means being prepared. It's very unlikely that you'll face an emergency. But knowing you're capable of handling problems allows you to relax and focus on the kids.
So before the parents leave, be sure you know these three things:
Check that you have the right phone numbers and contact information at the start of every job. You may have been babysitting the same kids for ages, but what if a parent got a new mobile number and forgot to tell you?
It also helps to get a backup number, like the number of a restaurant the parents will be at or a close neighbor's number, just in case their cell phone battery dies or there's no signal.
Ask parents if they have a file with information on a child's health issues, allergies, prescription medications, etc. Or create a form of your own and fill in the blanks when you meet with the family. Ideally, you'll want to get this information in advance so you have time to go over it and know what to expect.
It's a good idea for parents of small kids to keep a first aid kit so items like alcohol wipes, Band-aids, and antibacterial cream are in the same place. Know where the first aid kit is, what's in there, and how to use it. If you use items from the kit, let the parents know so they can restock them.
You'll need to know which items from the first aid kit you can use on kids and which you can't. For example, even if a first aid kit is stocked with pain medications, it doesn't mean you should use them for kids. Always ask a parent what medicines you can give their child (different parents have different rules). And never give aspirin — or medicines with aspirin in them — to a child.
If parents want you to give a child medicine, ask them to show you how. Always check the expiration date of the medicine before you give it. Be sure to close the medicine bottle tightly after after you've measured out the correct dose.
Some kids have allergies to foods and other things that can lead to reactions severe enough to require injectable epinephrine. Know where the family keeps the auto-injector and how to use it (it's really easy once you know how!).
Kids love to explore, and they can get into trouble fast. In fact, accidents are one of the leading reasons children end up in a doctor's office or emergency room. That's why supervision is key. Never leave young kids unattended, especially around water, heaters, appliances, and other hazards. And keep the medications mentioned above well out of the reach of kids.
When you're babysitting, avoid distractions like going online, texting, Snapchatting, etc. Kids need your full attention.
If parents want you to handle a task you haven't done before (like drive the kids someplace) ask them to go over all the steps. For example, when driving kids, you'll want to know which car seats they use and how to buckle them in properly. Ask the parents to do a demonstration of how to use their car seats correctly. Better still, find out if you can use the parents' car because it's safer and easier to use a car with the kids' car seats already installed.
Know where the family keeps safety and emergency equipment, like fire extinguishers, flashlights, and batteries. Emergencies are about more than having the right equipment, though: You need to know what to do, including when and how to use things like fire extinguishers.
Check with your local hospital or community center to see if they offer CPR or other emergency training, or take a babysitting course. It can give you the confidence to handle all sorts of situations, from a power outage to an emergency.
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Tracy police received 142 calls for service Wednesday, May 16. The following is a sample of those calls.
1:49 a.m.: A caller reported a man was in a hospital emergency room because he was beaten by his son with a baseball bat on the 2800 block of Funston Court. Police talked to the man, who denied the incident.
2 a.m.: A bar clerk reported a man outside Ralph's Club, 444 E. 11th St., was struck in the head with a beer bottle. The man was found a short time later at a local hospital emergency room. Police are investigating.
5:42 a.m.: Police arrested two men, ages 29 and 20, following a search on the 2300 block of Alamo Court. The arrests occurred after a caller reported two men loading up cars with duffle bags that emitted a strong odor of marijuana. No details were provided on the charges.
6:43 a.m.: A business owner called to report someone had broken the front door of a business on the 300 block of West Larch Road. Police are investigating.
8:35 a.m.: The driver's side window of a car was broken at Joe's Smog Shack, 500 E. 10th St. Nothing was reported stolen.
8:46 a.m.: Police received a call from a screaming boy near Alden Glen Drive and Sequoia Boulevard. Police called back and spoke to his mother. She told police the 4-year-old didn't want to go to school.
10:20 a.m.: A caller reported a man driving recklessly on the 3200 block of Ormonde Court. She said a driver did burnouts and then returned to his house. She said she confronted him and he threatened to vandalize her cars. Police talked to those involved and counseled them about reckless driving.
6:09 p.m.: A woman called to report her son was attacked by someone in the field behind Raley's, 2550 S. Tracy Blvd. Witnesses told police they could identify the attacker. The incident is under investigation.
9:44 p.m.: Police arrested a teen after a caller reported he was attacking family members on the 1300 block of Jones Lane. Police talked to a resident, who said the teen was arguing with his parents and he told them he was going to kill everyone.
10:08 p.m.: A caller reported a home burglary on the 100 block of Hawthorne Drive.
10:37 p.m.: A loud explosion was reported near Williams Middle School, 1600 Tennis Lane, but police were unable to find any cause for the noise.
10:44 p.m.: Police issued a warning to a group having a party at Talley Park, 1440 Dove Drive.
• This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher's daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. Charges may have been added or dropped as of press time, and all suspects are assumed innocent until proven guilty. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.


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Beaujolais Nouveau 2010 Ripe For Picking
Like millionaires are known to shop at Target and Costco, so too do the wealthy buy Beaujolais Nouveau when it arrives every November.
The bottles hitting retailers this month usually range from just $7.50 to $10.00, and are most welcome at Thanksgiving tables this week along with the rest of the Fall harvest.
Beaujolais Nouveau, made of the Gamay grape, has a thin skin and is low in tannins. The Nouveau has been fermented for just a few weeks. Beaujolais tends to be a very light red wine, with relatively high amounts of acidity and low alcohol levels.
Many serious wine drinkers do not like, nor do they drink Beaujolais Nouveau, calling it a marketing gimmick to sell bulk wine. Others, though, find it easy, light, agreeable and just the ticket for Thanksgiving tables that are often full of guests who just want a nice easy wine to drink with turkey.
In keeping with tradition, the first BNs were uncorked November 19, the third Thursday of November.
Dominique Capart, the head of Inter Beaujolais, an association promoting the wine, said that this year's wine is a real treat and that the red fruits, the black currant, and the raspberries can even be smelled, it is so crisp and smooth in the mouth.
I sampled two so far: George Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2010 and Rochette Beaujolais Nouveau 2010, and both were just as advertised: easy, warm, agreeable, with lots of raspberry, blackberry and currant.


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Clubhouse Insider Boston Red Sox News
Farrell talks shop with Coach K
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is no stranger to titles. He's won a slew of them collegiately and at the Olympics. Tonight on Coach K's show on SiriusXM College Sports Nation (Ch. 91) at 6 p.m. he'll be joined by Red Sox manager John Farrell. If you miss the interview live, it will be available on SiriusXM On Demand.
Anyway, the two covered a number of topics, which Sirius forwarded along.
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Read MoreDavid Ortiz wins sixth career Silver Slugger
The awards keep coming for David Ortiz.
One week after being named MVP of the World Series, Ortiz has won his sixth career Silver Slugger as the best designated hitter in the American League in a voting by managers and coaches. Ortiz tied Wade Boggs and Manny Ramirez for the most Silver Slugger wins by a Red Sox player. He already holds the record for most Silver Slugger awards for a DH, eclipsing Edgar Martinez and Paul Molitor, who won four apiece.
Dustin Pedroia set for thumb surgery on Nov. 12; Red Sox expect he'll be ready for next season
Dustin Pedroia is headed for offseason surgery.
David Ortiz visits with Kelly Ripa, Michael Strahan on "Live"
After appearing on "The Late Show With David Letterman" last night, David Ortiz continued his TV tour by visiting "Live with Kelly and Michael" this morning. In case you missed, here are a few highlights, courtesy of ABC:
On this year vs. last year for the Red Sox: "This year was different. This year, all we had to focus on, it was just play … we're just having fun and especially, you know, what we went through this year in Boston with the Marathon and the bombing and everything, kind of motivated the whole team."
Agent: Red Sox 'would be a consideration' for catcher Brian McCann
After being drafted in the first round by the Atlanta Braves in 2003, Jarrod Saltalamacchia's path to the majors was obstructed by fellow catcher Brian McCann.
Now, in the ultimate irony, McCann could replace Saltalamacchia with the Red Sox.
Sneak peek of David Ortiz on the 'Late Show With David Letterman'
If it seems like David Ortiz has been all over your television set today, well, it's because he has.
After shaving his beard, along with teammate Shane Victorino, this morning on "The Today Show" to raise $100,000 for The One Fund, Ortiz traveled to New York to appear on the "Late Show WIth David Letterman" tonight. The show will air at 11:35 p.m. on Channel 4, but here is a sneak peek, courtesy of CBS:
Quintin Berry, Brandon Snyder elect free agency
A few housekeeping matters with the Red Sox' 40-man roster:
Red Sox make qualifying offers to Ellsbury, Napoli, Drew; Cherington, Farrell discuss offseason
After 108 wins and a World Series title, Red Sox manager John Farrell and GM Ben Cherington would like nothing more than to get the band back together next season.
But they also know that probably won't happen.
Red Sox qualifying offers: Saltalamacchia unlikely to receive one
At 5 p.m. today, the Red Sox will face their first significant deadline of the offseason. By then, they must choose whether to tender $14.1 million qualifying offers to their seven free agents.


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For those who sincerely think HOW to innovate
This is a simple problem where Load Capacity of a vertical bar needs to be increased without increasing Lateral areas and Material. There is one proposed solution as shown below. I would like to check two things with you
1. Is the solution proposed really resolves the contradiction? (Load Capacity Vs Crossectional Area)
2. If yes, Which TRIZ principle helps to think of solution like this?
Hi Prakasan, Thanks for you guidance. Yes as you mentioned I am practicing it for variety of problems especially in automotive engineering and have developed significant insights with fairly concrete conclusion that TRIZ in it's original form is not adequete for engineers to sustain it's usage. TRIZ must have evolved or is evolving with higher functionalities (Higher ideality) and my curiousiy is to know the evolutionary versions of TRIZ (like ARIZ) with it's applications to industry problems. I have collected multiple problems (Contradictions) in automotive industry and would like to post them here to invite methods and solutions. Let me know your suggestions
I can definitely help you with that.. however, not sure what you meant by new TRIZ methods... If you look at the original TRIZ from Altshuller, the methods he used are fairly simple and easy to use (The Suddenly an Inventor Appeared time). He focuses on System operator, Resources, STC, SLP, Resources, Contradictions, Principles, Trends, and Su-field. If you are already known to all these, next could be ARIZ and 76 standards part of ARIZ.
From my experience the best way to learn for someone like you passionate about this is to learn by doing and experimenting. If you would like to pursue original TRIZ concepts (There are many other approaches where TRIZ is used with other concepts, TRIZ techniques being simplified for certain domains, TRIZ approaches integrated with the researcher who came out with new approach etc), the best way to start is from the original TRIZ literature from Altshuller and his disciples. Start with "Suddenly an inventor Appeared" , "Creativity is as an exact science" invention algorithm etc. There are certification available if you are a fan of that on TRIZ from MATRIZ and I know Shri Phadni did this sometime.
This platform has lot of people from the TRIZ world, and another way to learn is to use the wisdom from them.
Prakasan , Is there any way to learn about new TRIZ methods?
Tushar, Shri Phadni is right about ARIZ and contradiction matrix. ARIZ is advanced TRIZ eliminating most of the techniques in TRIZ which we (ordinary user) normally use. The algorithmic approach from ARIZ makes the contradiction matrix redundant, and get the solution through the approach. TRIZ fraternity says that if you reach the contradiction matrix after applying all other TRIZ concepts, you are about to generate a path breaking solution, or so to simplify, you rarely use contradiction matrix even in normal TRIZ application, because the solutions could have become obvious using other TRIZ concepts. You normally see lot of people talking TRIZ out there would always refer the contradiction matrix and 40 principles as TRIZ!
Hi Kumarasamy, Thanks for your comments and it helps to get it closer to proposed solution. Infact I also discussed this and similar other problem with Shree Phadnis (A Renowned TRIZ Practitioner in Pune) and he pointed out that contradiction matrix is phased out in ARIZ and is hardly being used. I am looking for learning more about TRIZ evolved version
Thank you, Professor. It looks like you have answered all the questions related this problem.
The load carrying capacity of the material is nothing but the strength of the material, which is one of the most important mechanical property of the material. The stress is nothing but the internal resistance offered by the body (Load acting divided by cross sectional area). In real situations, maximum stress in which the body is subjected to should be always less than strength of the material.
This condition constrain us not to increase the maximum stress. If we increase the load , the required cross sectional area also should be increased to maintain the same value of stress. In a typical optimizaion problem, we keep dimensions are the design variables and to increase the load carrying capacity , we simply change the design variables or Cross sectional area.
Since the cross sectional area should be maintained constant, we need some thing extra to take care of extra load carrying capacity. This is what TRIZ is trying to suggest us:
Improving 14: Strength without damaging 12: Shape
From the contradiction Matrix: Inventive principles are: 10, 30, 35, 40 .
This case, it is 10 as well as 40.
10. Perform, before it is needed, the required change of an object (either fully or partially)
40. Composite materials. Change from uniform to composite materials.
TRIZ always have generic solutions to solve these type of problems.
Dr G S Kumarasamy
Just seen your note I think it should fall into category of Segmentation. What do u say?
Tushar, I think force is distributed as tensions in attached strings while acting on same cross-sectional area and will increase the load carrying capacity. I am not sure which TRIZ priciples takes care of this but I would say its like transfer of load through another mechanism (strings and pully in this case). You have kept the constraint of not to change the material of rod and hence idea of composite material would be discarded. Similar principle is used in costruction buildings and bridges where beam will have hollow pipes with steel ropes passing through it to distribute the load (negative bending moment). Considering same principle we can have hollow rod with steel rope passing through it to keep the weight hanging (assuming one end is attached to rod) to distribute the load. Hope this makes sense to you. Any comments are welcome.
Hi Prakasan
Thanks for your comments and insights provided. In the contradction matrix I have used Force, Load, Pressure, Tension, Strength, Reliability Vs Area of stationary object
All the combinations leads to following set of principles
- Change of material
-Preliminary Counter action (It is like precompressing the bar with spring or something)
- Replace mechanical system (We can use magnetic field--- Solution near to IFR)
-Assymetry (Not sparking any idea for me)
- Segmentation (Not sparking any idea for me)
-Dynamicity (Not sparking any idea for me)
However none of the principle is enabling to have a solution like above.
Yes I am aware that I am not questioning the system requirement to check higher level needs. This excercise is just to check how TRIZ can help us to explore multiple solutions for given problem in it's stated form. Infact the solution proposed was not using TRIZ methodology.....can I say that TRIZ Principles are still evolving?
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I think as a middle name it is fine. Middle names are not often called out so it could be a cool mn for little Max! Good luck!
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