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Dr. Shi is a fourth-year Resident at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. She received her medical degree from Beijing Medical University in 1991, and PhD degree from Brown University in 1998. She will begin a Body MR Imaging fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA in 2003.
Dr. Mitchell is a Professor of Radiology and the Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Division, Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of coronary artery disease has emerged during the past decade because of high-field strength magnets, improved high-gradient hardware, and fast imaging techniques. It provides crucial information on cardiac anatomy and function including wall motion, response to stress, myocardial perfusion, viability, and coronary morphology. This report reviews the current MR applications in ischemic heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, 1 accounting for 22% of all deaths. In patients who have myocardial infarction, approximately one-third die from the event. Owing to associated high morbidity and mortality, early detection and treatment is imperative. The mainstream treatments for coronary artery disease are coronary angioplasty, stent, or coronary bypass graft, along with medical management. Clinical decision of coronary angioplasty or bypass surgery relies on information of regional tissue perfusion, viability, and coronary arterial morphology. Traditionally, evaluation of ischemic heart disease requires multiple imaging modalities, including radionuclide stress test, stress echocardiogram, positron-emission tomography (PET), and coronary artery angiography. The stress studies provide functional information such as wall motion abnormality, perfusion defect, and viability of the myocardium, whereas invasive coronary angiography offers information about the coronary vascular flow compromise. In spite of all these tests, distinguishing between viable and infarcted myocardium within the region of abnormal wall motion has remained elusive.
During the past decade, the rapid advances in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging hardware and techniques made MR evaluation of ischemic heart disease feasible today. MR imaging is potentially superior to the traditional modalities, such as echocardiography and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), because of its high spatial and temporal resolution. It allows the most comprehensive anatomical and functional evaluation of coronary artery disease, including ventricular morphology, wall motion, response to stress, perfusion, myocardial viability, and coronary artery stenosis. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the current MR imaging techniques and their clinical applications.
The greatest challenge of cardiac MR imaging is motion artifact from the heart, adjacent vascular structures, and respiration. The obstacles of cardiac MR imaging have been overcome by cardiac gating, suspension of breathing, or adaptation to diaphragmatic motion, along with the availability of high field strength magnets, advanced gradient hardware, and fast imaging pulse sequences.
Most cardiac MR imaging is currently performed on 1.5 T scanners. Although different coils or coil combinations can be used, a torso or cardiac phase-array coil is generally applied to the chest. Electro-cardiography triggering is essential to ensure data acquisition at the same appropriate point of each cardiac cycle in order to offset cardiac motion and match each image to the desired cardiac phase. Breath-holding is frequently required, although nonbreath-holding techniques have been developed that are based on precise monitoring of diaphragmatic motion. 2,3 For improved breath-holding, nasal cannular oxygen should be supplied to allow longer and steadier breath-hold.
Prescribing imaging planes
Cardiac imaging planes are prescribed using the axes of the heart as references. The main imaging planes are the short-axis, 4-chamber, and vertical long-axis views. After a coronal sub-second T2-weighted single-shot fast-spin-echo localizer, standard axial images through the chest are obtained. Then, an oblique plane is positioned parallel to the ventricular septum to obtain a 2-chamber scout, which depicts the left ventricle and the left atrium. From the 2-chamber scout axial views, slices perpendicular to the long axis of the heart in both planes are used to prescribe the short-axis view. From the short-axis view, the long-axis 4-chamber view can be prescribed by indicating a slice that bisects the left ventricle. Lastly, the vertical long-axis 2-chamber view is prescribed by choosing a vertical plane that bisects the left ventricle.
Pulse sequences
Today many different cardiac sequences are used to evaluate ischemic heart disease. The two main categories are black-blood and white-blood sequences. The black-blood technique is typically an electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated fast-spin-echo technique with double or triple inversion recovery (IR). The optimal soft-tissue contrast with double IR fast-spin-echo sequence is best for evaluation of anatomy. One particularly interesting application is to detect vessel wall atherosclerosis using high-resolution technique before narrowing can be depicted by X-ray angiography. 4
The white-blood technique refers to a variety of gradient-echo cine images obtained throughout the cardiac cycle. These sequences are useful for evaluating parameters such as ventricular mass, chamber volumes, and ejection fraction, etc. Recently, balanced steady-state free precession technique (SSFP) was applied to cardiac imaging because of its high temporal and spatial resolution as well as its motion-independent depiction of blood as high signal intensity, allowing a consistently high blood myocardial contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). 5,6
The SSFP pulse sequence is designed to maintain the transverse magnetization in a steady state from one repetition time (TR) to the next 6 (Figure 1). It uses ultra-fast TR (<3 ms) and echo time (TE) (1.5 to 1.6 ms), with TE exactly half that of TR, which allows fast imaging and real-time evaluation of the beating heart. In comparison with other fast gradient-echo sequences, balanced SSFP imaging has a shorter acquisition time, which renders breath-holding more feasible, which is of particular interest for patients whose respiratory function is impaired.
Myocardial function can be assessed by careful viewing of cardiac motion on cine-loop display. More precise evaluation of transmural motion is facilitated by the use of MR tagging. MR tagging uses a grid of magnetic saturation produced by applying a sequence of radiofrequency (RF) pulses, with magnetic field gradients switched on while they are applied. 7 The saturation RF pulses are followed by a bright blood cine-imaging sequence. This creates a low-signal grid of intersecting low-signal intensity lines superimposed on the bright blood images. This grid is deformed as the myocardium moves; therefore, this technique can be used to track myocardial motion. With a high-density grid, regional myocardial contractility can be determined. Postprocessing software may be used to obtain highly accurate estimates of tag displacement--as little as 0.1 mm. 8 Tagging with rapid breath-hold imaging allows 3D reconstruction with improved accuracy if orthogonal planes are acquired from a sufficient number of imaging planes. 9
Several other important technical advances have been made to accelerate the data acquisition, maintain high image resolution, and eliminate the motion artifact. Spiral imaging samples k-space along trajectories that start at the center of k-space, where the power spectrum is highest, and spiral outward to create high sample density in the center. Spiral imaging is robust for cardiac imaging, particularly coronary angiography, which is attributed to its insensitivity to flow and motion artifact and high data acquisition efficiency. Parallel imaging, ie, sensitivity encoding and simultaneous acquisition of spatial harmonics, uses arrays of simultaneously operated receiver coils to reduce scan time by a factor of 2 or higher without compromising spatial resolution, although at a cost of lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Parallel imaging and SSFP are a good combination because the latter has high SNR and CNR. Using parallel imaging real-time acquisition, it is possible to measure wall motion at rest and stress without ECG or respiratory trigger. 10,11 For longer acquisitions, navigator technique overcomes limitations of breath-holding. It uses a navigator MR device to track the diaphragmatic position, which is shown to correlate closely with the position of the heart. This can be used to gate coronary MR angiography acquisition without breath-holding.
The early MRCA studies used 2D spoiled gradient-recalled echo with segmented acquisition and breath-holding. 12 Although a noncontrast-enhanced 2D time-of-flight technique has been used, intravenous injection of gadolinium provides better vessel contrast. Spiral imaging, balanced SSFP, 13,14 and/or parallel imaging can improve acquisition quality and efficiency. Imaging acquisition of MRCA is performed during diastole when cardiac motion is minimal and coronary arterial flow is maximal.
Myocardial injury due to coronary artery disease can cause ventricular wall thinning, chamber dilatation, and abnormal wall motion. MR imaging offers superior anatomical detail and soft-tissue contrast compared with echocardiography, especially when cine techniques, real-time imaging, and tagging are used.
Dobutamine cardiac MR stress test
Dobutamine or adenosine stress echocardiography and stress nuclear cardiography have been used routinely for evaluating ischemic coronary artery disease by detecting wall motion abnormality during stress.
Dobutamine stresses the myocardium by increasing both heart rate and contractility, thereby inducing ischemia in regional myocardium supplied by stenotic coronary artery. Dobutamine stress echocardiography has been shown to have sensitivity of 72% to 89% and specificity of 83% to 85%. 15-17 One limitation of dobutamine stress echocardiography is that 10% to 15% of patients have suboptimal or nondiagnostic images, primarily of the basal lateral and inferior segments. The quality of imaging is especially poor in patients who have emphysema or are obese. Additionally, the study interpretation is operator dependent.
The dobutamine cardiac MR stress test applies the same pharmacologic and pathophysiologic principles, but provides improved spatial resolution and tissue contrast. Unlike echocardiography, in which the image quality is limited by the acoustic viewing window, MR images can be obtained with good reproducibility, independent of the patient's condition and the experience of the examiner. Direct comparison of stress echocardiography and stress MR cardiography by Nagel et al 18 showed that dobutamine MR stress cardiography had improved sensitivity (83%) and specificity (86%) for detecting ischemic heart disease compared with those of stress echocardiography, which were 74% and 70%, respectively.
The protocol for dobutamine cardiac MR stress tests has been described. 18 To perform the test, dobutamine is infused intravenously from 0 mg/kg per minute to 5, 10, 20, and 40 mg/kg per minute, with 3 minute intervals at each level. At each stress level, multiple MR images can be acquired. The location and orientation of repetitive images are highly reproducible because identical spatial coordinates, rather than visual assessment, are used for repetitive imaging. The patient is monitored with ECG, and blood pressure is checked frequently during the study. The stress test is terminated if the patient has new onset of symptoms including chest pain or dyspnea, decrease in systolic pressure >40 mm Hg, arterial hypertension (blood pressure >240/120 mm Hg), severe arrhythmia, or if the target heart rate of 85% of the maximum predicted heart rate has been reached. In addition, cardiac wall motion is monitored by the physician throughout the examination, and the test is considered positive if wall motion abnormality occurs. Monitoring of ventricular systolic thickening is particularly important because the ST segment is altered by the magnetic field, and monitoring ECG for ischemia is therefore not possible. Atropine may be administered in 0.3 mg increments every 30 seconds up to a total dose of 1.5 mg to augment heart rate. Regional wall motion is assessed in a 16- or 17-segment model as performed by echocardiography. Figure 2 shows hypokinesia at the septal, apical-lateral, and mid-lateral wall induced by dobutamine.
Contrast-enhanced MR cardiography
The most frequently used contrast agents for evaluating enhancement of ischemic or infarcted myocardium are gadolinium chelate, such as gad-opentetate dimeglumine. Gadolinium enhances the proton relaxation, shortening T1. After intravenous administration of gadolinium, normal myocardium will show increased signal intensity on the first pass, and then decreasing signal intensity on delayed images after washout of the contrast. The dose of the gadolinium is usually 0.2 mmol per kilogram body weight.
MR detection of perfusion defect
Clinical decisions regarding revascularization rely on the evaluation of coronary anatomy, regional myocardial tissue perfusion, and assessment of the amount of the ischemic and infarcted myocardium. Single-photon emission computed tomography has played a key role in assessment of perfusion, although it is limited by attenuation artifact and radiation to the patient. Attenuation artifact can be corrected on improved PET imaging, which also allows for the quantification of perfusion; however, this modality is not widely available. MR imaging has been shown to detect the region of perfusion defect during the first pass of contrast, correlating with ischemia or infarction, where there is a slow upslope, decreased peak intensity, or lack of uptake of the gadolinium 19,20 (Figure 3).
The sensitivity and specificity of first-pass bolus MR imaging for depiction of perfusion defects are 74% to 92% and 87% to 96%, respectively, using results of conventional coronary angiography as a reference. This is superior to the sensitivity of 65% to 82% and the specificity of 75% to 81% found with the scintigraphic studies. 21,22 The MR imaging perfusion measurements can be performed during rest as well as during maximal hyperemia induced with either adenosine or dipyridamole. MR first-pass measurements can also discern collateral flow in myocardium and are able to identify small changes in myocardial blood flow and myocardial perfusion reserve (the ratio of stress blood flow over resting).
Accurate characterization of regional myocardial perfusion requires repeated imaging of the entire heart during the first pass of gadolinium. Current technology permits 2 to 6 image acquisitions in 1 cardiac cycle, sufficient to track the contrast bolus through the myocardium. Moreover, the spatial resolution (in-plane spatial resolution <3 mm) is sufficient to differentiate between subendocardial perfusion and subepicardial perfusion. In SPECT, however, the wall perfusion defect is an 'all or none' phenomenon, and subendocardial or subepicardial defects cannot be distinguished.
Determining the viability of ischemic myocardium is important in patients with left ventricular dysfunction due to coronary artery disease. Ischemic but viable myocardium will likely benefit from coronary revascularization; however, revascularization of nonviable tissue will fail to improve the ventricular function, and surgery bears significant morbidity and mortality.
Single-photon emission CT, stress echocardiography, and PET scan are currently used noninvasively to evaluate myocardial viability. One common limitation of these studies is the inability to detect the transmural extent of ventricular wall viability.
With high spatial resolution, contrast-enhanced MR imaging can detect the necrotic tissue in both acute and chronic myocardial infarction, which correlates with histology in animal study. 23 On delayed postcontrast MR images, infarcted tissue hyperenhances, reflecting its composition of fibrous tissue and reduced cellularity. In contrast, viable myocardial regions do not hyperenhance, even after severe transient ischemia with concomitant regional dysfunction. 23 The location and transmural extent of healed Q-wave and nonQ-wave myocardial infarction can also be accurately determined by contrast-enhanced MR. 24 The reported sensitivity for detecting healed infarction by MR was 91% at 3 months and 100% at 14 months, and specificity was 100%. Kim et al 25 showed that regional contractile function recovered in patients who did not have hyperenhancement of the dysfunctional region before revascularization, but did not recover in patients who had extensive hyperenhancement (Figure 4). Furthermore, the transmural extent of hyperenhancement was significantly related to the likelihood of improvement in contractility after revascularization; contractility in myocardium with hyperenhancement of 50% to 75% of regional tissue did not improve after revascularization. Recently Klein et al 26 reported that in severe ischemic heart failure, MR imaging hyperenhancement as a marker of myocardial scar closely agrees with PET data. Although hyperenhancement correlates with areas of decreased flow and metabolism, MR imaging identifies scar tissue more frequently than PET, reflecting the higher spatial resolution.
Although the previously discussed data support the correlation of delayed hyperenhancement and irreversible myocardial injury, other investigators found that hyperenhanced regions had partially reversible dysfunction after acute infarction. 27,28 Additional research needs to be conducted to elucidate this issue.
Invasive X-ray coronary angiography, the current gold standard for assessing coronary patency, is both costly and associated with a low risk of morbidity. Among patients undergoing coronary artery catheterization, only 50% have hemodynamically significant stenosis and are treated with coronary angioplasty, stent, or coronary bypass. Twenty percent of the patients undergoing coronary artery catheterization have normal coronary artery anatomy, and 30% have coronary artery disease but no intervention is performed. 29 A noninvasive assessment of coronary arteries by MRCA would reduce the number of patients undergoing unnecessary coronary catheterization.
The clinical applications of MRCA in ischemic heart disease include coronary lesion detection, assessment of coronary bypass graft patency, and vessel patency after stent placement. The added advantages of MRCA are that an iodinated contrast agent is not required, there is no radiation exposure, and the study can be performed as part of comprehensive MR imaging evaluation of anatomy and ventricular function.
Owing to differences in technique, study design, small sample size from each center, the reported sensitivity and specificity of MRCA are variable, ranging from 60% to 98% for proximal and middle coronary arteries. 30 A large-scale multicenter trial recently showed that MRCA had an overall accuracy of 72% in diagnosing coronary artery disease compared with conventional X-ray coronary angiography (Figure 5). 31 Among patients with left main coronary artery or 3-vessel disease, the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were 100%, 85%, and 87%, respectively. The reported negative predictive values for any coronary artery disease and for left main artery or 3-vessel disease were 81% and 100%, respectively. This study confirms that noninvasive MRCA provides accurate identification and exclusion of left main coronary artery or 3-vessel disease. However, the accuracy of MRCA for detecting left circumflex artery disease was low, probably related to its small caliber.
Acute coronary syndromes often result from rupture of a mildly to moderately stenotic vulnerable plaque. 32,33 X-ray angiography provides information of luminal diameter, but not the composition of the atherosclerotic plaque. Vulnerable plaques tend to have a thin fibrous cap and a large lipid core, which can be depicted by MR imaging. Using high-resolution black-blood spin-echo technique, coronary vessel wall and plaque morphology can be assessed. 33,34 This may allow identification of the vulnerable plaques before they rupture.
Even though MR imaging can provide more comprehensive examination of coronary artery disease than any other single imaging modality, it has its own limitations. Although the hardware and software are commercially available, all centers do not have the resources to perform cardiac MR imaging. Patients cannot be scanned if they have claustrophobia or metallic implants such as pacemakers, cardioverter-defibrillators, certain types of cardiac valves, ear implants, certain intracranial aneurysmal clips, etc. Optimal imaging quality cannot be achieved in patients who have severe arrhythmia and respiratory compromise.
With fast imaging techniques, noninvasive cardiac MR imaging provides information regarding not only the anatomy of the coronary arteries and cardiac chambers, but also functional information such as wall motion abnormality, myocardial contractility, myocardial perfusion, reaction to stress, and tissue viability. Cardiac MR imaging is expected to become a cost- effective one-stop-shop for the evaluation of coronary artery disease in clinical practice in the near future.


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Northland snowstorm, by the numbers
By now, most Northland residents have heard the impressive snow totals from this week's storm. On Friday, St. Louis County offered another set of impressive numbers relating to work completed by the Public Works Department and Sheriff's Office.
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Ice crystal sky
Two brilliant sundogs, a halo and a colorful circumzenithal arc (top) light up the sky around the sun Friday from Aurora, Minn. The phenonomena are caused by billions of pencil and plate-shaped, six-sided ice crystals suspended in the bitter cold air that refract light like miniature prisms. (Bob King / email@example.com)

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I'll go with "make sense".
I'll go with "make sense".
"realize you're an elitist cunt that treats those that you feel are beneath you like trash"
"...admit you were bald pre-chemo"
call out Howard on his Dlist wife and that stupid vanity project, the NSAL calendar??
I have nothing clever to say...
tell us why jim florentine left your fat ugly ass!
...tell the truth."
....go back to Africa?
Beware Of Fat Greasy Italians Bearing Olive Branches
"...admit you weren't really just about to say that."
"...admit your impressions suck?"
"...stop cracking lame jokes after the first 20 fail?"
"...admit you hate Jackie because he didn't want to fuck you."
"...admit you were jealous of Allison."
"I always picked up a vibe that he (Howard) was slightly homo." -Fred.
1. Admit you're wrong about anything?
2. Admit you don't know the answer to a question?
3. Pick an interest and stick with it?
4. Start a sentence without "I"?
5. Smile genuinely so your face doesn't look all scrunched up like Predator?
6. Pick one way of laughing and stick with it for life like a normal human being?
7. Stop lying?
8. Send a "thank you" card?
9. Stop falling for nonsensical new life philosophies?
10. Realize you've been obese for (almost) your entire life and will never not be obese?
Completely stopped listening to the trainwreck called THSS in January 2012 except for turning it on in the bathroom when I shit or shower and I wish I'd pulled the plug the day Artie left. It's so bad that I've actually gotten out of the shower to turn it the fuck off.
why did she rip off that poor conn. woman's face off?
Robin why dont you ever...EARN your paycheck!!??
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Joel Cohen uses the tools of mathematics to deconstruct questions of life.
Joel Cohen uses the tools of mathematics to deconstruct questions of life.
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The state assembles a task force to try to slow the growth of burgeoning populations of the ecologically destructive invasive species.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute this week released three short films to teach students about evolution and speciation.
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New evidence indicates that invasive Asian carp have bred in the Lake Erie basin.
Researchers show that genetic enhancer elements likely contribute to face shape in mice.
The European Parliament rejected a proposal designed to fund the construction of new fishing boats, instead opting to fund a project that aims to curtail overfishing.
Of the STEM fields, biology and chemistry positions tend to pay less than jobs in technology, engineering, and math, according to a new survey.
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All tropical storm and tornado warnings have expired for the Tampa Bay area as Isaac continues to move further west over the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said Monday.
The good news for Tampa Bay means bad news for the northern Gulf coast, as Isaac is expected to reach hurricane strength over the next 48 hours as it approaches the Florida Panhandle and Louisiana.
The National Hurricane Center warns of significant storm surge in the northern Gulf coast region, where several tropical storm and hurricane warnings are in place.
The storm was about 250 miles south of Apalachicola at 11 a.m. Monday and moving at about 14 mph. It had maximum sustained winds of up to 65 mph, forecasters said.
Locally, bands of heavy rain and wind gusts are still expected throughout the day, according to Bay News 9 meteorologist Josh Linker, but the region seems to have escaped Isaac's worst effects.
In Pinellas County, beachgoers were warned to watch out for in the Gulf.
Public schools were closed in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Sarasota counties Monday.
And the Republican National Convention opened Monday morning in downtown Tampa but with an abbreviated schedule due to the threat of the storm. The convention runs through Thursday.


text: Honorary Degree Dinner Audio Hear David Simon's remarks from the honorary degree dinner (10:19) Hear selected clips from the honorary degree dinner (3:30) Listen to other remarks from the honorary degree dinner (35:37)David Simon, author, journalist, and television writer-producer, began as a police reporter at the Baltimore Sun. His experiences on the crime beat led to his Edgar Award-winning book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, an account of the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit that became the basis for NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street. Simon co-wrote and produced the Emmy-award winning miniseries The Corner for HBO and recently completed the fifth season of HBO's The Wire. Simon has received three George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting, a Writers Guild Award for best writing in an episodic drama, and a Humanitas Award in the same category. Simon currently freelances for the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Details magazine. By the authority of the Board of Trustees of Colby College, I confer upon you, David Simon, the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. The hood with which you have been invested and this diploma which I place in your hand are visible symbols of your membership in this society of scholars, to all the rights and privileges of which I declare you entitled. Conferred May 25, 2008 |


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A Puffin Comeback
Atlantic puffins had nearly vanished from the Maine coast until a young biologist defied conventional wisdom to lure them home
- By Michelle Nijhuis
- Photographs by Jose Azel
- Smithsonian magazine, June 2010, Subscribe
Impossibly cute, with pear-shaped bodies, beak and eye markings as bright as clown makeup and a wobbly, slapstick walk, Atlantic puffins were once a common sight along the Maine coast. But in the 19th and early 20th centuries people collected eggs from puffins and other seabirds for food, a practice memorialized in the names of Eastern Egg Rock and other islands off the coast of New England. Hunters shot the plump birds for meat and for feathers to fill pillows and adorn women's hats.
By 1901, only a single pair of Atlantic puffins was known to nest in the United States—on Matinicus Rock, a barren island 20 miles from the Maine coast. Wildlife enthusiasts paid the lighthouse keeper to protect the two birds from hunters.
Things began to change in 1918, when the Migratory Bird Treaty Act banned the killing of many wild birds in the United States. Slowly, puffins returned to Matinicus Rock.
But not to the rest of Maine. Islands that puffins had once inhabited had become enemy territory, occupied by colonies of large, aggressive, predatory gulls that thrived on the debris generated by a growing human population. Though puffins endured elsewhere in their historic range—the North Atlantic coasts of Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Britain—by the 1960s the puffin was all but forgotten in Maine.
In 1964, then 18-year-old Stephen Kress was so smitten with nature that he signed up to spend the summer washing dishes at a National Audubon Society camp in Connecticut. There Carl Buchheister, president of the Audubon Society, entertained the kitchen crew with stories about his seabird research on the cliffs of Matinicus Rock. Kress, who had grown up in Columbus, Ohio, went on to attend Ohio State, where he earned a degree in zoology; he then worked as a birding instructor in New Brunswick, Canada, where he visited islands overflowing with terns, gulls—and puffins.
When, in 1969, Kress landed his dream job, as an instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp on the Maine coast, the islands he visited seemed desolate, with few species other than large gulls. He wondered if puffins could be transplanted so the birds might once again accept these islands as home. No one had ever tried to transplant a bird species before.
"I just wanted to believe it was possible," Kress says.
Though a handful of wildlife biologists supported him, others dismissed the idea. There were still plenty of puffins in Iceland, some pointed out; why bother? Others insisted the birds were hard-wired to return only to the place where they had hatched and would never adopt another home. Still others accused Kress of trying to play God.
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I love the "Sandwich" label on the rock. We used those labels to remember which loafing spot was where when we were assigned to monitor the puffin activity (and bands, LOTS of band number reading! You saw a lot of really fantastic examples of puffin behavior on top of those uric acid-iced rock slabs. I worked for 2 summers (2003 &2005) and can say that the puffins are a success story that I'm proud to have a tiny hand in. Thanks, Steve Kress. Thanks for lighting up my heart on Hog Island, when you told us we were field biologists. I'd achieved one of my life goals that day. I'm working now to continue Stacey M. Hollis Journalism Grad Student Field Biologist Nature Lover Reporter for Eugene Weekly Artist Photographer ..and my main, most important, greatest passion of all is for those feathered creatures that can take to the skies and soar above all the rest. Thanks :) ps. Impossibly cute, yes, but when you're head first, half-a-body-length down in the boulder jumbles craning every last muscle and the tips of your fingers hit soft down, you may just realize what you were put on this earth for. Check out their website, they always welcome volunteers (rookie birders and experts alike!! Just watch out for the beak, it packs a punch!! <3
Posted by Stacey Hollis on May 30,2012 | 01:15 PM
Posted by Danielle on March 8,2011 | 10:43 AM
I have been house-sitting off and on, over the years, at this home which is located a couple few miles off the back side of Cornell. And, in fact I am house-sitting right now at this very house while its owners are in Maine, where the husband has a position dealing with some birdies. Normally he is at the Ornithology Lab at Cornell, but in the summertime he always goes to Maine. So imagine my surprise when I was at my chiropractors' office last month, and on the table in one of her treatment rooms was a copy of the Smithsonian magazine with a cover displaying the very same birds which are portrayed all over the house, for which I was to house-sit; in short it's Steven Kress' abode, and I at last got a better idea of what this fellow has been doing with his life. As they said in the close of the article: "A puffineers' work is never done."
David Kauber, usually Aurora, NY
Posted by David Kauber on July 20,2010 | 11:20 PM
Great article, Steven. Thanks for all your continued hard work in not only bringing the puffins back to the coast of Maine, but maintaining an environment in which they continue to breed. You never cease to inspire and amaze me! You've given the term, "man with a mission" a whole new meaning!
Posted by Charleen Heidt on June 14,2010 | 05:35 PM
Posted by Claudia on June 8,2010 | 10:29 AM
Come see these beauties first hand! :)
Saturday, June 26: First Annual Pemaquid Watershed Association Puffin Sunset Cruise from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. with Hardy Boat Cruises. Sailing out of New Harbor to Eastern Egg Rock, we'll circle the island for great views of puffins, terns and other seabirds. A pass by the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point at sunset will combine birding with a lovely summer evening on the Maine coast. Cash bar; Desserts will be provided. Tickets are $30 each from PWA at 207.563.2196 or email@example.com.
Posted by Donna Minnis, PWA Executive Director on June 7,2010 | 03:01 PM
Thank you for sharing the information about Puffins
I have always wanted to see one in the flesh--s0 t0 speak--
Posted by Jean Scott on June 6,2010 | 10:08 PM
I remember one day when I was living in San Jose, California; I was washing dishes. I looked out the kitchen window in front of me. To my surprise I saw a Puffin bird sitting on the fence. San Jose is not a coastal city, but it is part of the San Francisco Bay Area. I have no clue where it came from.
Posted by Cynthia on June 3,2010 | 01:24 AM
There are so very many things that hold our attention and obscure the world of nature. Many thanks are due Dr. Kress for restoring this beautiful view and for bringing to our attention this magnificent creature and all the wondrous happenings that accompany the life of this gift of nature. Our lives are richer as the result of his efforts.
Posted by Miriam Wagner on June 3,2010 | 10:35 PM
Thats a great piece I really enjoyed it I have lived in maine most of my life I wonder if maybe they could put decoy chicks out that gave a shock to the gulls would work bet it would lol
Posted by mike townsend on June 3,2010 | 03:06 PM
What a heartwarming story! It's so wonderful to read of a successful attempt at restoring a species. Steve Kress deserves an award, along with his associates that believed in him. Fantastic work, Steve! These birds are adorable! Thanks to people like Steve Kress, there is always hope in the world.
Posted by Speddog on June 3,2010 | 01:18 PM
When I saw the puffins on the cover of the June issue of "Smithsonian," I immediately thought, "Stephen Kress," so I was delighted to read "Comeback!" I was privileged to hear a lecture Mr. Kress gave in April 2001 for the Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio. Mr. Kress, a birding authority nonpareil, kindly signed my copy of his book "The Bird Garden." In the author photo on the book jacket, he is wearing a tam o'shanter, and I've always wondered about that choice of hat. Now I know why he wears a pom-bedecked tam! Thanks so much for this excellent article and the marvelous photos.
Posted by Karen Ketchaver on June 3,2010 | 11:19 AM
What wonderful work and goals you have acheived in your lifetime. I am thrilled, and I beleive other class mates of yours from the " dark and frozen tundra of Bexley ", to know you and call you friend.
I hope others in your field and and related sciences will take notice of your success.
Posted by Garry Beim on June 3,2010 | 10:54 AM
Thanks for spotting, David - "careers" is actually the intended word, as in rushing in at full speed.
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These were a tremendous hit at my house over the weekend. Sometimes I bake and get to enjoy the treats for several days; these scones lasted for only 24 hours!
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Needs a thorough hardware roundup benchmarking session. So let me get this straight... with the Ice Storm benchmark, we can compare performance between ARM and x86 systems as well?
So it appears that AMD beats nVidia on this one, since i got 6632 score on fire strike with a normal 7970 card (13.2beta3 drivers) and an i7 930... I liked that the maximum VRAM load was 1700MB but i hope their limitations where not set by nvidia's 2GB ram for top GPUs. Also, the last Fire Strike combined test looks AMAZING, I hope we get to see games looking like that soon!
Time to make my PC sweat a bit again. Though i hate these space benchmarks. They are so lame. I still remember jaw dropping 3DMark2000, 2001 and 2003 tests. The Nature tests were so amazing. It was also the first time to see pixel shader power even though 3DM2000 rendered amazing water ripples even without any pixel shaders. All the grass, leaves, trees and glittering water. Aaaaaaah. I miss that. And the Max Payne sequence. That was also pretty amazing.
Mm yes because Atoms are very benchmark worthy. Especially when it comes to gaming. I mean I can get why but it's just so stupid.
seems its another cpu benchmark from 1050/1500 vs 1300/1950 not a big diffreance with the 3770k at stock clocks just on Fire Strike
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The Storyboard Artist: Guide to Freelancing in Film, TV, and Advertising by Giuseppe Cristiano.
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Storyboarding, or its predecessor, comic-book-like story sketches, is known to go back to silent films, but no examples of those have been saved. The earliest documented storyboards go back to Walt Disney in 1933. Wikipedia says, "According to Christopher Finch in The Art of Walt Disney (Abrams, 1974), Disney credited animator Webb Smith with creating the idea of drawing scenes on separate sheets of paper and pinning them up on a bulletin board to tell a story in sequence, thus creating the first storyboard. The second studio to switch from "story sketches" to storyboards was Walter Lantz Productions in early 1935. […] Gone with the Wind (1939) was one of the first live action films to be completely storyboarded."
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I found Phaedra's behavior at the African American Museum so be extremely offensive. She's an intelligent, educated woman. An attorney. Friend of the late Corretta Scott-King. For a woman like that to act like an insensitive, horny, giggly 11-year-old and fondle the loin cloth of a sculpture that exhibits the horrors of the slave trade is reprensible. Such behavior is beyond "fun crazy." It's boorish and embarrassing.
Phaedra is crazy like a fox. She misses nothing and cashes in on everything! I guess asking to have Kim off the show is unrealistic because she has a spin off. Well, when they divorce maybe you could do a show on that! It would be nice to see Kroy getting some common sense!
If you had told me last season that this season I would so love Phaedra I would not have believed you. That girl is a hoot! Kandi was right last season - Phaedra is the funniest girl in the city.
i love phaedra. just her giggle makes me feel good. i wish nene would cover up more. she does have beautiful skin but do we have to see so much of it?
yes i love to see the handsome Apollo & cute funny Pheadra..they make a good couple.. want to see of more of you and Cynthia n her husband Peter, maybe Peter can learn some pointers from Apollo.
I am glad someone is bogging! Thanks for the fun summary of last nights episode! Phaedra is truly a gem! She is witty & wise. She is the pefect kind of entertainment that I like to see on the housewives. Everybody knows Phaedra brings the fun & love to haterville!
Are the ladies all trying to see who will be the last to blog to prove that they are above BRAVO? or way tooooooo busy to blog??? I would think it would be part of their contract to blog on a weekly basis. It just goes to show that this series has run its course. My interest has slowly gone downhill...just like Nene's career.
Why aren't theses ladies blogging? They are always the only Housewives that don't bother to blog. Is is part of their contract? It is really annoying.
Please tell someone to have this cast start earning their salaries and start bloggin! No blogs from the majority of the cast for weeks and weeks is complete B.S.!!!!!!
can bravo make it mandatory that the housewives have to blog after each episode I mean it's ridiculous! No one blogs anymore! ugh
I want to know why none of them are blogging. Who do they think they are? The fans keep these women on the show. They are way to over themselves.
why don't any of the atlanta housewives ever keep their blogs current. they are the only ones who don't keep current. it is like a slap in the face to the people that actually watch this show.
I tried posting this yesterday, but I too am disappointed in the RHOA. I thought blogging was part of the gig and these ladies have all become slackers. I'm glad that several are trying not to have knock-down-drag-out fights anymore, but civility is more than sitting in the same room not speaking.
If Atlanta Housewives aren't into the gig, make room for others that would be.
Sheree of all people should be blogging, she is not doing anything else...cant wait for this season to end ....these ladies dont BLOG!
This show needs to go off of TV. Sheree is boring and a wannabe. Kim should just leave. NeNe is working on other shows, I still enjoy her. Kandi doesn't know what to do with herself. It's not fun watching her because everyone makes her look dumb. Cynthia has a good platform to move back to New York, Atlanta is not for you Boo! I think the show has ran it's course.
Whats up with the ladies not blogging? I understand that they're busy--we all are. But we make an effort to watch them. I do however see that they have time to tweet about other things. So many of us love to read their side of the story. The housewives of Beverly Hills always keep their viewers updated. Does the ATL ladies think they're too good for us now?
These ladies really need to blog! Atlanta used to be my favorite series but now NeNe's ego has gotten way too big. I USED TO love NeNe; however, she feels she is way bigger than Bravo now. Phaedra is now my favorite. There are so many other shows out there now, I doubt I'll even tune in to RHWO Atl next season. The egos are too big and apparently the ladies don't have time to blog. Reading the blogs made the series more interesting.
I am with the all of the others complaining about the lack of blogging. Every other HW show the "cast" members do it. I find it hard to beleive as boring as this season has been that they don't have the time. But thank you to Pheadra and Cindy who at least put fourth an effort.
I think, if any of the women, deserve a spin off, it is Phaedra. She has a sort of a Lucille Ball personality and I think it would be a hoot. Kim, needs to get over herself and fast. She thinks because she married a young professional football player that she is above it all. If she really looked in the mirror she would realize that she only has money because of men. Did she forget that Sheree took a poke at her too? I will not watch her spin off. NeNe is so over this show and it is obvious. She is doing other things and making some money (I don't think she is as wealthy as she professes to be). Sheree, what is she doing? Okay she is building a house and what else? I mean if she can barely support her children, then what does she do? YAWN! Cynthia protest too much how everything in her life is working out. I suspect we will hear of a divorce in her near future and the failing of her business. Kandi is all over the place from music to sex toys. She just seems so scattered this season. I suspect the women don't blog because they don't want to hear the truth about themselves.
Why are they now too good to blog? I think Jay should be blogging for them so we could at least have something entertaining to read.
Phaedra is hilarious! I adore her now. Her sense of humor is brilliant. I could watch her all day. And I love Apollo & adorable little Ayden, too.
Marlo - What the Hell? Kandi was right? She does need a muzzle. She got on my nerves with her etiquette comments. Instead of doing etiquette, she needs to focus on her pronounciations, because she sure as hell can't pronounce. The only time I liked her is for a split second when she and Sheree were arguing. She asked Sheree about buying a Porche and she doesn't have a house. I did almost crack a rib on that one. It was a low blow, but she had a point.
Sheree - fake. She knew good and well she didn't want Marlo to go so don't even tell her she can once you get confronted. Just keep it real and tell her no. Hell you don't even have to give her a reason why.


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To the Telegram: A letter writer from New Richmond believes he is owed an apology from Sen. Ron Johnson for referring to the electorate as "ignorant" for re-electing President Obama.
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A letter writer from New Richmond believes he is owed an apology from Sen. Ron Johnson for referring to the electorate as "ignorant" for re-electing President Obama.
Gentleman that he is, Sen. Johnson actually said that they weren't "properly informed". But he also could have used adjectives such as "masochistic", as there will be pain, or "suicidal" as in economic suicide.
Barack Obama's war on business and capitalism will be very painful for middle- and low-income workers trying to find jobs or keep jobs.
When Obama beats up employers with a cascade of regulations, taxes and demagoguery, do you think employers will be more likely or less likely to retain or hire workers? If you believe "more likely," as many voters apparently do, you are unquestionably ignorant.
When demand for workers is dropping like a stone, do you think wages will be more likely or less likely to increase? If you believe "more likely," you are seriously uninformed.
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are unsustainable and President Obama, like a deer in the headlights, offers nothing more than criticism of anyone trying to fix them.
The president's "solutions" are printing money, spending money and taxing "the rich." But printing and spending money in a declining economy only leads to inflation and corruption. Raising taxes on the "rich" and so-called "rich" results in less money to the government, as the genuinely rich have a great deal of control as to when they choose to realize income. Just ask Warren Buffett.
Obama is either intentionally or ignorantly destroying the economy, neither of which should lend comfort. If this continues, we will become Europe, complete with labor strikes, strife and street riots. Socialism always ends badly.
Many middle, low and no-wage voters were vulnerable to the deceit and demagoguery of President Obama and they marked their ballots accordingly. Unknowingly, they voted for higher unemployment, smaller paychecks and diminished purchasing power, harming themselves more than any other socio-economic group. Sadly, tragically, they weren't properly informed.
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Jester throws an acid cocktail at Hellbringer. The cocktail hits Hellbringer, then splits in 2. The two cocktail then fly simultaneously to different targets. Each new cocktail bounces a final time.
It seems like Hellbringer tried to cast Life Void at the moment the initial cocktail hit him. Maybe this has something to do with the glitch?
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The Lemelson–M.I.T. Program recognized four student inventors Wednesday poised to make a profound impact in the areas of disease diagnostics, drug development, assistive devices such as wheelchairs, and security screening for explosives. Each of the winners—from the California Institute of Technology; Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.); and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U.I.U.C.)—receives a $30,000 prize to help bring their emerging technologies to market.
This year, Lemelson–M.I.T. tipped its hat to a group of young entrepreneurs that includes Caltech's Guoan Zheng, Harvard–M.I.T.'s Alice Chen, R.P.I.'s Benjamin Clough and U.I.U.C.'s Scott Daigle.
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Zheng, a fourth-year electrical engineering PhD candidate at Caltech in Pasadena, is developing a low-cost, portable imaging device and software that can inexpensively turn a computer or smart phone into a high-resolution digital microscope. Such use of computers to enhance the quality of low-resolution images is familiar to fans of CSI and other TV police procedurals, where law enforcement lab technicians often crack a case by magnifying some small detail of a digital image pulled from grainy surveillance footage. "The trick they're using is the same trick I'm using, which is to use super-resolution technology to turn a sequence of low-resolution images into one high-resolution image," says the 26-year-old native of Guangzhou, China.
Zheng adapted super-resolution image-processing technology to create an on-chip microscope—a sub-pixel resolving optofluidic microscope (SROFM)—made up of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor connected via a USB port to a computer loaded with image-enhancing software. His primary objective is to provide doctors in developing countries with a means to scan residents for malaria at a cost of about 50 cents per blood sample. A SROFM device would use microfluidics channels (micrometer-size molded tubing and interconnects) to deliver a blood sample directly across the CMOS sensor, which would capture a series of low-resolution images for a mobile computer and reconstruct them as a single high-resolution image.
Last month, Zheng received a research grant from Qualcomm to develop a SROFM smart-phone application, which will make his on-chip microscope even more portable. He is hoping to have the application—which would enable the on-chip microscope to plug into an iPhone or a handset running Google's Android mobile operating system, for example—ready this summer and to begin field-testing the technology as soon as possible.
Zheng wants to wrap up his studies either late this year or in early 2012, at which time he hopes to focus on a start-up he formed with his advisor, Changhuei Yang, a Caltech professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering.
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Chen, a biomedical engineer and graduate student in the Harvard–M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was recognized for her work developing a new way to implant human cells in lab mice to better test the efficacy of new drug candidates. The result could shave time and money off of the process of developing new drugs, which can take a decade and cost tens of millions of dollars.
Drug developers often rely on in vitro cell-based microchips to test promising new chemical compounds. These chips are important for eliminating many early problematic amalgams, but animal tests are still needed to see how a drug is broken down by multiple organs in the body—the liver and gut, in particular—and how the broken-down metabolites circulate to other organs, the 29-year-old San Jose, Calif., native says.
Chen discovered a way to "humanize" a mouse with a tissue-engineered, humanlike liver to better determine how a real human liver might metabolize a particular chemical compound and respond to infectious disease. Differences between animal and human liver activity often result in under-reported human toxicities in preclinical animal testing of drug compounds. "Right now, we have this whole pipeline where drugs are developed, and animal toxicology models are a very important part of that," she says. "But they miss a lot of drug dangers and drug metabolites that then show up in clinical trials and can cause toxicities and adverse reactions and, in worst-case scenarios, deaths."
Chen's bioengineered liver does not actually resemble a human liver. It resembles a soft contact lens comprising a biomaterial matrix that encapsulates human cells in much the same way Jell-O can encapsulate fruit, she says. "It's tuned so that it connects to the mouse's circulatory system but will respond to drugs in a similar way to a human," she adds.
When Chen wraps up her studies at the end of this month, she plans to focus full time on Sienna Labs, a start-up she co-founded with fellow M.I.T. graduate Todd Harris. Although Sienna does not focus on humanized mice, it follows a similar thread in her career goal, which is to develop technologies that can improve existing medical treatments. Sienna's medical pigments designed to enhance microsurgeries for skin disease are expected to go into clinical trials this year, she says.


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