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My day in the studio with Caravan
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Posted: October 30 2013 at 06:51
Back in July when legendary Canterbury band Caravan announced they were to record a new studio album, I could scarcely have believed that in some small way I would be involved in this process, so when it was announced that the band were using the Pledge Music idea to launch and fund their new album I jumped at the chance to be involved. I was a little apprehensive at first having only a very limited musical ability but I though the opportunity to visit the band in their studio and sing or play percussion and get a credit on the album was just too tempting to turn down. Duly, I started to exchange emails with Pye Hastings and he finalized a date which as luck would have it, was a day I had already scheduled to be in the UK for the return of another legend of Progressive music, Camel at The Barbican. As I was due to be in the UK for a long family weeked, I explained to Pye that I didn't just want to abandon my wife and 3 kids in London, but no worries, Pye told me to bring them along too and that he would personally pick me up at the train station in Canterbury on the day.
And so the day came on Monday 28th October, I woke at 4.30 am to the sound of the Hurricane winds battering the windows of my London hotel room, I had been a little worried the night before that the storm might interfere with or worse still postpone the studio visit altogether and sure enough when I turned on the tv to see how the storm was progressing, it was all doom and gloom, all flights, sailings and trains had been cancelled, a live broadcast from the nearby Victoria station where my train was due to leave later that morning told of more than 70 trees that had fallen on the train lines in the immediate area of Kent, my heart sank, I was sure this meant the end of my day before it had even begun, to make matters worse my 9 year old son Max came into my room at 06.30, he looked upset and asked if this meant we weren't going to see Caravan, a band he genuinely likes ( he's an oddity for his age in that he has great taste in music, a fact I take great pleasure in), I told him it didn't look good but that after breakfast we would decide what to do and see if the storm calmed, which it duly did, so we made the decision that my family would stay in London but that I would bring Max on the 60 mile trek to Canterbury. When we arrived at Victoria station we soon realized that despite the calming weather conditions, the damage had been done, all trains for the next two hours at least, were cancelled, so more out of hope than belief, myself and Max traversed London in a chaotic rush hour to St Pancras station which also has a service to Canterbury, here I found that there were also major cancellations but there was to be a train to Canterbury at 10.42, It helped to ease a stressful situation somewhat but it still meant that we would be 2 hours late for our rendezvous with Pye Hastings in Canterbury, I frantically emailed Pye over and over hoping that he was still up for the visit and wasn't a little ticked off that I was running so late, however he told me not to worry and to just keep him informed on my progress and so we re-arranged to meet just before midday at the station in Canterbury West, however he also said that due to the storm there was no power at their studio and so we were going to go to Geoffrey Richardson's home, where he had his own private studio.
Finally on the train, (a ghost train really as there weren't any other passengers on board) we took our seats and hoped for the best. I then heard a womans voice behind me, I presumed as is the custom when boarding a train, that she was going to enquire of me if she was on the right train, but to my amazement she asked if my name was Mark??? Confused, I quickly thought I must have dropped some ID or my wallet or something, I hesitantly replied that I was indeed Mark, but to my undying surprise she introduced herself as Kathy Hastings, Pye's wife who does all the admin for CARAVAN, she was also stranded because of the storm and had heard from Pye that I was also travelling on that train and so it was that despite the horrible situation we found ourselves in, i had one of the most enjoyable train journeys as we chatted for more than an hour about Caravan and the music business, Kathy telling me in great detail the ups and downs of the music business, I certainly learned a thing or two, sadly not of all of it good.
Just after midday we arrived in Canterbury, Kathy was on the phone to Pye, so I knew he was waiting at the entrance for us, my conversation with Kathy on the train had relaxed me about the day ahead, so when I seen the tall figure of Pye wave to me smiling, any fear I had about the day was completely gone, he approached me, shook my hand and my sons and gave me the biggest bear hug, like we were dear old friends. A quick trip down the road, we parked near to Geoffrey's house and said our goodbyes to Kathy who was heading off to her hotel, then Pye led myself and Max down a picture postcard road full of Tudor style houses and promptly led to the front door of Geoffrey's house, Geoffrey opened the door himself and told us to watch our heads as the ceilings and doorways were very low indeed, so low that once in Geoffrey's small and cosy sitting room, Pye had to go around on his knees until a seat became available. So here I am in Geoffrey Richardson's front room, myself and the band are enjoying tea and biscuits, Geoffrey's new wife Liz fusses over us all and then promptly leaves us to get on with the business of the day. Jan Schelhaas sat to my left, Geoffrey to my right, Pye now seated by the fireplace next to Max and drummer Mark Walker standing in the window, seemed the most eager to discuss business with me, we chatted and laughed and decided what we would do, then it was more chat with the band about music, the 60's, exchanging WAV files, the new album etc, but tea finished Geoffrey invited Max and myself into the studio, it was small but rigged out with an unimaginable amount of mixing desks, computers, Violins, violas, guitars, gold discs on the wall and a sound system that would blow your head off, here Geoffrey told Pye what work he had been doing on the new songs, we then listened to four new tracks of varying degree of completion, where there were no lyrics Pye sang live to the backing tracks and gave us incite on the relevance of songs and meanings of the lyrics. Mark then came up with some ideas about what I could do, as it was a small studio and Geoffrey wasn't ready for any any huge recording session, I jumped at the chance of playing the Vibraslap which produces a very distinct sound and would be very noticable on the final recording, Geoffrey set up the mikes, gave me my cues and showed me where on the recording my part would go, we had a trial run and it sounded great, then we went live and it went even better. I'm sure fans of the band will be interested to know how the new songs are coming, well all I can say is that they sound amazing, the production is big, the songs have a big sound, very punchy, very moody, dark twisted lyrics with plenty of biting satire thrown in for good measure, this album is going to be a classic and hopefully brings them plenty of success, highlights for me were "Dead Man Walking" and "Farewell my old Friend" the latter Pye intimated might turn our to be dedicated to a dear friend of the band whom we all know, but I shall withhold here for obvious reasons. Recording finished, we listened back to the new recodings, they sounded great even if I do say so myself, Pye was was very eager to please on this special day and he then asked us if we would like to go to the local pub, The Dolphin and have a beer and some lunch, I jumped at the chance of more time with the band and certainly hadn't expected this generous offer. Mark and Geoffrey had to stay and try and finish some more recordings so as not to fall behind because the bands studio was out of action, so Jan and Pye led the way but not before we took the all important photos outside Geoffrey's house. At the pub we chatted in even more depth, Jan and Pye answering all my questions, Jan told me of his days in Thin Lizzy and how he recently found a black bag full of old unreleased cassettes that him and Phil Lynott had demoed, we all talked about Prog vs Progressive, what it all means, of course we all had different ideas, Pye for his part said Caravan weren't Prog and described their music simply as "Caravan music". We discussed past members of the band, how Jan and Andy Latimer have been recording together for the last 5 years and why Jan wasn't playing later that night with Camel...Oooh interesting, The whole Canterbury scene thing and how its all just Smoke and Mirrors and how the Pub licensing laws in the UK dealt a deathly blow to live music and killed the careers of many a talened group, but perhaps the most intriguing thing we discussed was how the band have been robbed and cheated out of not only money but also to the rights to their own music, image rights to past albums none of which they own. I asked Pye did he listen to modern progressive music he said "Oh Yes" he even admitted to loving heavy rock and metal, Porcupine Tree in particular, I asked if that was why Steven Wilson had remixed "In the Land of Grey and Pink" Pye said that he had only met Steven the once (same as me as it happens) but that he wanted to remix it himself and that because the band don't own the rights, they had no say in who remixed it, that said the band now has a solid idea of where they want to go and expect to embark on a bigger than usual tour with a much bigger range in merchandise proposed. Lunch finished I presumed that was that and I would be heading back to catch a train, but NO, Pye wouldn't hear of it he invited myself and Max to a guided walking tour of Canterbury, of course I jumped at the chance again, Jan and Pye led the way down 16th century streets, past the Cathedral, down alleyways that look like they're from a filmset, every so often Pye would stop and say this is where we did this or that, he pointed out a pub where he wrote "I'm on my way", The Marlowe theatre where they played many years before, we even stopped for a photo opportunity in front of the castle gate which adorned Blind Dog at St Dunstan's album cover, 40 minutes later we had come full circle and Pye with Jan in tow, drove us back to the train station, again though their thoughfulness again showed as they both got out of the car and insisted on walking with us into the train station to ensure there was a train running, there was, I thanked them for what was a very special day, we shook hands and exchanged bear hugs one more time and said our goodbyes... As the train left Canterbury, I could hardly believe the day that I had just experienced, the band were all just good fun and great company, myself and Max will treasure this memory for many years to come and I must say I have an even bigger respect for the band and their musical legacy because of it, a thing I thought wasn't possible.
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 07:41
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 07:50
^Indeed. That was a very nice write-up.
I'm so jealous.
I hope Secret Oyster does the same at some point
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 08:09
That was a great story and a pleasure to read, thanks for sharing!
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 09:47
Great story....great band.....and you are a lucky guy.
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 09:57
Wow, nice story. That must have been a brilliant day for you.
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 13:39
Thanks guys it was very very special, glad you liked it
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 14:17
wow, must have been so much fun
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 14:21
Very cool, but any chance you can break up that wall of text, so difficult/tiring to read.
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|Posted: October 30 2013 at 14:49
Lucky, lucky man
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|Posted: November 04 2013 at 19:42
That was such a great read, thanks for sharing.
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|Posted: November 10 2013 at 12:41
Indeed a great tale of a fine day in the midst.
It is inspiring to know that band members such as in Caravan are not so far removed from the real world.
Music fans tend very easily to build up in their own minds a fantasy world of what their favorite musician or group lives in. This account by the Winkler solidly tells that it is usually not the case.
Upon first getting into the 'biz' I had so many family and friends ask me questions about touring or recording studio life, it boggled my mind when hearing them !
"Do you really fly in a private jet ?" Huh?
or "can't you just call the limo ?" ahhh No .
"You must have alot of girlfriends?" Well kinda its a long story.....
"Did you go to the music awards?" ah rubbish !
"hows the mansion?" oh I'm working on it..
There is no fantasy life of a true musician.
Just being blessed to make fine music with friends and live/enjoy a healthy life
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|Posted: November 13 2013 at 12:28
I guess I'm as guilty as the next man for thinking the recording process and musicians were outside the norm, but Yes it was all very down to earth, in fact my son needed to use the bathroom but had to wait for Geoffrey, who was having a pee anyway it was great to see that they were/are real people, they were under no illusions, they were just ordinary guys making music, in fact they said they are now strangers in their home town of Canterbury, nobody recognizes them there now, in fact Pye told me they only sold one copy of their last album to someone from Canterbury and that was a download
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|Posted: February 01 2015 at 12:16
Late to the party here. ProgArchives just posted this on their Facebook.
What a great story. I would love to meet those guys. From what I can tell, Caravan weren't particularly "big" here in the US, and I don't find a ton of their music in second hand record shops. As a result, I'm happy I discovered them (I'm only 31).
I could think of a thousand things I'd want to talk to Pye Hastings about.
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|Posted: February 26 2015 at 20:06
I had a lot on tape but longed for the vinyl which i found in the discount bins of some very good record shops. Caravan definitely had(s) a following here in the States. Remember though at that time, mid 70s, there were numerous bands recording touring in progressive rock. We had alot of favorites back then
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|Posted: May 27 2015 at 16:57
Interesting story, thanks for sharing! (EDIT: And no thanks for your spam k)
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|Posted: May 28 2015 at 10:44
Very interesting. Have been a long time fan of Caravan and back in the early 1990s I had a solicitor called Kathy Hastings (Pye's wife) who was a charming woman. I believe that their son is was a well respected producer.
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|Michael Gambon
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|Years active
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Sir Michael Gambon (born on 19 October, 1940) plays Albus Dumbledore in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and all subsequent film adaptations of the Harry Potter books. Gambon was cast as Dumbledore after Richard Harris' death in 2002. Gambon would go on to be cast in all of the remaining Harry Potter movies.
Early yearsEdit
Gambon was born in Dublin during World War II. His father, Edward Gambon, was an engineer and his mother, Mary Hoare was a seamstress. His father decided to seek work in the rebuilding of London, and so the family moved to Mornington Crescent in north London, when Gambon was five. His father had him made a British citizen — a decision that would later allow Michael to receive an actual, rather than honorary, knighthood and CBE.[3] (although, under the British Nationality Act 1981 anyone born in Ireland before 1949 can still register as a British subject and, after five years' UK residence, as a British citizen).
Raised a strict Catholic, he attended St Aloysius Boys' School in Somers Town and served at the altar. He then moved to St Aloysius' College in Hornsey Lane, Highgate, London, whose former pupils included Peter Sellers. He later attended a school in Kent, before leaving with no qualifications at fifteen. He then gained an apprenticeship with Vickers Armstrong as a toolmaker. By the time he was 21 he was a fully qualified engineer. He kept the job for a further year – acquiring a fascination and passion for collecting antique guns, clocks and watches, as well as classic cars.
At age 19 he joined the Unity Theatre in Kings Cross. Five years later he wrote a letter to Michael MacLiammoir, the Irish theatre impresario who ran Dublin's Gate Theatre. It was accompanied by a CV describing a rich and wholly imaginary theatre career – and he was taken on.
Gambon made his professional stage début in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin's 1962 production of Othello, playing "Second Gentleman", followed by a European tour. A year later, cheekily auditioning with the opening soliloquy from Richard III, he caught the eye of star-maker Laurence Olivier who was recruiting promising spear-carriers for his new National Theatre Company. Gambon, along with Robert Stephens, Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay, was hired as one of the 'to be renowned' and played any number of small roles, appearing on cast lists as Mike Gambon. The company initially performed at the Old Vic, their first production being Hamlet, directed by Olivier and starring Peter O'Toole. Gambon played for four years in many NT productions, including named roles in The Recruiting Officer and The Royal Hunt of the Sun, working with directors William Gaskill and John Dexter.
After three years at the Old Vic, Olivier advised Gambon to gain experience in provincial rep. In 1967, he left the NT for the Birmingham Repertory Company which was to give him his first crack at the title roles in Othello (his favourite), Macbeth and Coriolanus.
His rise to stardom began in 1974 when Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich. A speedy transfer to the West End established him as a brilliant comic actor, squatting at a crowded dining table on a tiny chair and sublimely agonising over a choice between black or white coffee.
Back at the National, now on the South Bank, his next turning point was Peter Hall's premiere staging of Harold Pinter's Betrayal, an unexpectedly subtle performance — a production photograph shows him embracing Penelope Wilton with sensitive hands and long slim fingers (the touch of a master clock-maker). He is also one of the few actors to have mastered the harsh demands of the vast Olivier Theatre. As Simon Callow once said: "Gambon's 'iron lungs and overwhelming charisma are able to command a sort of operatic full-throatedness which triumphs over hard walls and long distances."
This was to serve him in good stead in John Dexter's masterly staging of The Life of Galileo in 1980, the first Brecht to become a popular success. Hall called him 'unsentimental, dangerous and immensely powerful', even the Sunday Times' curmudgeonly critic of the day called his performance 'a decisive step in the direction of great tragedy...great acting', while fellow actors paid him the rare compliment of applauding him in the dressing room on the first night.
From the first Ralph Richardson dubbed him The Great Gambon, an accolade which stuck, outshining his 1990 CBE, even the later knighthood, although Gambon dismisses it as a circus slogan. But as Sheridan Morley perceptively remarked in 2000, when reviewing Cressida: 'Gambon's eccentricity on stage now begins to rival that of his great mentor Richardson'. Also like Richardson, interviews are rarely given and raise more questions than they answer. Gambon is a very private person, a 'non-starry star' as Ayckbourn called him. Off-stage he prefers to back out of the limelight, an unpretentious guy sharing laughs with his fellow cast and crew.
While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll. There were also notable appearances in Old Times at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and as Volpone and the brutal sergeant in Pinter's Mountain Language.
David Hare's Skylight, with Lia Williams, which opened to rave reviews at the National in 1995, transferred first to Wyndhams Theatre and then on to Broadway for a four-month run which left him in a state of advanced exhaustion. "Skylight was ten times as hard to play as anything I've ever done" he told Michael Owen in the Evening Standard. "I had a great time in New York but couldn't wait to get back".
Gambon is almost the only leading actor not to grace Yasmina Reza's ART at Wyndham's. But together with Simon Russell Beale and Alan Bates he gave a deliciously droll radio account of the role of Marc. And for the RSC he shared Reza's two-hander The Unexpected Man with Eileen Atkins, first at The Pit in the Barbican and then at the Duchess Theatre, a production also intended for New York but finally delayed by other commitments.
In 2001 he played what he described as "a physically repulsive'' Davies in Patrick Marber's revival of Pinter's The Caretaker, but he found the rehearsal period an unhappy experience, and felt that he had let down the author. A year later, playing opposite Daniel Craig, he portrayed the father of a series of cloned sons in Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Royal Court, notable for a recumbent moment when he smoked a cigarette, the brightly lit spiral of smoke rising against a black backdrop, an effect which he dreamed up during rehearsals.
In 2004 he finally achieved a life-long ambition to play Sir John Falstaff, in Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre production of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, co-starring with Matthew Macfadyen as Prince Hal.
He made his film debut in the Laurence Olivier Othello in 1965 (in which Maggie Smith played Desdemona). He then played romantic leads, notably in the early 1970s BBC television series, The Borderers, in which he was swashbuckling Gavin Ker. As a result, Gambon was asked by producer Cubby Broccoli to audition for the role of James Bond in 1970, as a potential replacement for George Lazenby (ultimately, American John Gavin won the role, only to be replaced when Sean Connery agreed to return). His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor, although he won critical acclaim as Galileo in John Dexter's production of The Life of Galileo by Brecht at the National Theatre in 1980. But it was not until Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) that he became a household name. After this success, for which he won a BAFTA, his work includes films such as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover which also starred Helen Mirren.
In 1992 he played a psychotic general in the Barry Levinson film Toys and he also starred as Georges Simenon's detective Inspector Jules Maigret in an ITV adaptation of Simenon's series of books. He starred as Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the Hungarian director Károly Makk's movie The Gambler (1997) about the writing of Dostoyevsky's novella The Gambler.
Recent workEdit
In recent years, films such as Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) and Plunkett & Macleane (1998), as well as television appearances in series such as Wives and Daughters (1999) (for which he won another BAFTA), a made-for-TV adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (2001) and Perfect Strangers (2001) have revealed a talent for comedy. In 2004, he appeared in five films, including Wes Anderson's quirky comedy The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; the British gangster flick Layer Cake; theatrical drama Being Julia; and CGI action fantasy Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Perhaps his most significant role in 2004, however, was as Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts' headmaster in the third installment of J. K. Rowling's franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, taking over from fellow Irish actor Richard Harris, who had died of Hodgkins disease in 2002. (Harris had also played Maigret on television four years before Gambon took that role) and has reprised the role of Albus Dumbledore in every Harry Potter film release since.
In discussing his portrayal of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series, Gambon has given detailed accounts. Particularly, he was quoted as saying that when portraying Dumbledore, he does not necessarily "have to play anyone". He further states, "I just stick on a beard and play me, so it's no great feat. I never ease into a role – every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. I'm not really a character actor at all." This suggests that Gambon chooses to act his performance based on his own intuitive interpretations of how a character would respond to certain situations. In short, Gambon has not deliberately aimed to follow the specific characteristics of Dumbledore, as referenced in the books, but rather developed an acting style in which he combines his own personality with that of his character. Not only had Gambon not read the books before being cast in the role of Dumbledore, he chose to not read any of the books after receiving the role, as he felt that "Actors can get a bit miserable when they read the book and realise, 'Oh, my scene from the book has been cut.' That's not the point."[1]
Gambon, in comparison to Richard Harris, has portrayed Dumbledore as a more robust, vocal and rather eccentric wizard. Also highly noticable is Gambon's deviation from both the books' and Richard Harris's Dumbledore in terms of emotional composure. While Dumbledore is mostly described as "calm" in the books, Michael Gambon's Dumbledore appears far less so at times; on some occasions raising his voice in a threatening or angry manner. Richard Harris's interpretation differed in this respect, opting for a far calmer demeanour on his character's part. The films have, so far, not attempted to address this discrepancy between Gambon's portrayal and Harris' quieter, less physically abrupt performance. As such, the Harry Potter series has followed the same path as the 1960s magic-oriented sitcom, Bewitched, which likewise changed a lead actor with no explanation ever offered.
Most recently, he was Joe in Beckett's Eh Joe, giving two performances a night at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. He currently does the voice over to the new Guinness ads with the penguins.In 2007 he played major roles in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace, and the five-part adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Cranford novels, both for BBC TV.
In 2008 Gambon appeared in the role of Hirst in No Man's Land by Harold Pinter in the Gate Theatre, Dublin, opposite David Bradley as Spooner, in a production directed by Rupert Goold, which transferred to the London West End's Duke of York's Theatre, for which roles each received nominations for the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor. After Pinter's death occurred on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009.
In 2010, Gambon appeared in The Book of Eli, alongside fellow Harry Potter stars Gary Oldman and Frances de la Tour. The BBC has also announced that Gambon will guest star in the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas special. Gambon also appeared in the 2010 film The Kings Speech as King George V .[2]
Selected filmographyEdit
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011): Albus Dumbledore
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010): Albus Dumbledore
- Doctor Who (2010): Older Kazran Sardick / Elliot Sardick
- The King's Speech (2010): King George V
- The Book of Eli (2010): George
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009): Albus Dumbledore
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): Voice of Franklin Bean
- Brideshead Revisited (2008): Lord Marchmain
- Amazing Grace (2007) Lord Fox
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007): Albus Dumbledore
- The Good Shepherd (2006): Dr. Fredericks
- The Omen (2006): Bugenhagen
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005): Albus Dumbledore
- Layer Cake (2004): Eddie Temple
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004): Editor Paley
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004): Albus Dumbledore
- Path to War (2003) Lyndon Baynes Johnson, President of the United States
- Gosford Park (2001)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999): Baltus Van Tassel
- The Last September (1999)
- The Gambler (1997): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Othello (1965)
Personal lifeEdit
Gambon married Anne Miller when he was 22, but has always been secretive about his personal life, responding to one interviewer's question about her: "What wife?" The couple lived together in a country house near Gravesend in Kent, where Anne has her workshop. Gambon was invested by Prince Charles as a Knight Bachelor on 17 July 1998 for services to drama (Queen Elizabeth II's approval for the award was notified in the 1998 New Year Honours List) and his wife thus became Lady Gambon. The couple have a son, Fergus, who appears as an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.
While filming Gosford Park, Gambon brought Philippa Hart on to the set and introduced her to co-stars as his girlfriend. When the affair was revealed in 2002, he moved out of the marital home, but rather than moving in with his lover, he bought himself a bachelor pad. Philippa, who worked with Gambon on the film Sylvia in 2003, in late 2006 moved into a £500,000 terraced home in Chiswick, West London with her pet pug dog. In February 2007, it was revealed that Philippa was pregnant with Gambon's child, and gave birth to son Michael in May 2007. In October 2008, it was revealed that Philippa is pregnant with the couple's second child.
Gambon is a qualified amateur pilot, and his love of cars led to his appearance on the BBC's Top Gear programme. Gambon raced the Suzuki Liana and was driving so aggressively that it was launched into the air on the last corner of his timed lap. The final corner of the Dunsfold Park track has been named "Gambon" in his honour. He reappeared on the programme on June 4th, 2006, and set a time in the Chevrolet Lacetti of 1:50.3, a significant improvement on his previous time of 1:55. He clipped his namesake corner the second time, and when asked why by Jeremy Clarkson, replied that 'I dunno - I just don't like it'.
External linksEdit
- Michael Gambon at the Internet Movie Database
- Michael Gambon on http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]


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Lecture by David Turnbull
Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 12:30 - 2pm
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Call & Response
Tuesday, November 22 2011 at 12:30pm
Room 315, Foundation Building
7 East 7th Street NY, NY 10003
Listening, watching…talking with the children and teachers at a rural primary school in Kenya, I realized the transformative potential of traditional dance, and of call and response song formations, in particular. I felt that I should have thought about this before. After all, 'call and response' is one of the roots that nourish rock and roll, R&B, the rhythms of political process, of consensus building. It defines, surely, the cadence of a new collective unconscious in formation.
I imagined a current, a stream that might run above, below or even through the complexities that I had witnessed; tribal conflict, patriarchy, poverty, disease, and the dissipative inertia that comes from the persistent chatter of pessimists, as much as the hymnals of those who would do 'good'…
Listening, I heard the call. Anticipating the response, I heard another sound, low, as if caught in the throat of the caller. I saw the beginning of a movement, one person, then another, and another, and I heard the sound, increasing in volume, syncopated, polyphonic…but singular.
David Turnbull, professor in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture is a director of ATOPIA design<>communication<>urbanism (LLC), and a founder and Design Director of ATOPIA_RESEARCH (inc).
ATOPIA and ATOPIA_RESEARCH run on parallel paths, but knowledge migrates from one to the other. ATOPIA_RESEARCH, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation, supported by a major grant from The Annenberg Foundation, tends to work in some of the most ecologically challenging areas of the World, Sri Lanka (post Tsunami), Sudan (post Civil War), The Mississippi Delta (post Hurricane), The Ogalala Aquifer (ecological devastation caused by Agri-business), Sichuan, China and Haiti (post Earthquake). ATOPIA (for profit) tends to work on projects that have the potential for ecological or technological detournement in commercial or institutional environments.
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Hello, NOPO,
why in the "Galactic League" part, you just leave 1 commander?
What sould i do now to forward my post?..is it okay?
what level are you now?
my short answer is Caroline over Brian because in my experience in the Galaxy League Caroline kills faster than Brian. And you want to be the one killing.
Although Raksha would benefit from Brian's block buff, against Caroline fleet, being hit, will still mean, even invisible commanders of your fleet getting damage from the secondary damage of Caroline. However, if Raksha dodges an opponent's Caroline attack, no other commander of yours will get the secondary damage because it is a miss.
http://galaxylegend.tap4fun.com/foru...-Caro-or-Brian is a short thread on whether to get Caroline or Brian.
I do have both Caroline and Raksha and a dodgy Raksha can in a way prolong the battle against an opponent with Caroline.
Do get Krill and augment to +7 as fast as possible, as he will help turn back the clock for damage commander Krill is Lt on.
Hey mind giving me a little bit of quick advice, I'm just getting into gl my fleet is currently raksha Roxy brahm bones and
Hunter. I plan on buying either Caro or Brian and just wanted to know what you think would be the best bet out of these two to get first. I probably will buy the other ships slowly as I save up ect. Just want to get a real good attack ship then build up from there.


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Joyce's mode of punning is synthetic– proceeding by the concretion of words within words based on the basic logic of homophony.
The puns proceed like imagistic-collages. Think John Cage's "Imaginary Landscapes" of tape-collage. When I read, I try to create unfolding fields of meaning, imagistically, among other ways of feeling one's way through the text. It's not unlike experimenting with cognitive dissonance, a la Duchamp's "Anemic Cinema."
So, for example, a found-image interpretation of an early sentence from FW.
"Sir Tristram, violer d'amores,"
Making collages like this is a fun way to proceed. If you so choose, read a few pages, find a juicy pun, hemorrhaging with meanings, like a palmofgranite, and make a field for it (sound collages are also a possibility–or computer programming or flow-proofs in non-euclidean geometry). If a method like this isn't too constricting.


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NASHVILLE --- On Saturday, May 17, Tennessee State great Eldridge Dickey will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
In 1968, Dickey became the first African-American quarterback to ever get drafted by an AFL or NFL team. The Oakland Raiders used their first round pick on Dickey who had been an All-American his last two seasons.
While at TSU, Dickey set multiple records including the most passes attempted and the most passes completed with 805 and 430, respectively. He also set the career mark in career passing yards until Joe "747" Adams came along to break the record a decade later.
As a sophomore in 1965, Dickey led the Tigers to their fifth Black College National Championship and a perfect 9-0 regular season record. The Tigers played Ball St. in the Grantland Rice Bowl that year, tying the game at 14 apiece.
A year later, Dickey enjoyed his finest season- throwing for 1,812 yards and 25 touchdowns. Again, Dickey and the Tigers won the Black College National Championship with a 9-0 regular season. The Tigers started the year by beating North Carolina A&T and Texas Southern by a combined score of 107-0. Dickey followed those two games with a career-best 343-yard performance against Grambling.
In the final game of the 1966 season, the Tigers defeated Kentucky State 83-0- the fourth highest margin of victory in TSU history. After the game, the Tigers were invited to play in the Grantland Rice Bowl for the second time in as many years and this time the Tigers came out on top, beating Muskingum 34-7.
In 1967, Dickey was selected to Pittsburgh Courier's All-American team for the second consecutive year. The team went 6-3 that season, but the Tigers ended the year on a five game winning streak.
The Raiders used the 25th overall pick in the 1968 NFL Draft to select Dickey, but he ended up never playing a snap at quarterback as the coaches elected him to play receiver. Still, Dickey being chosen as a quarterback paved the way for other legendary African-American quarterbacks such as Warren Moon and Donovan McNabb.
In addition to Dickey, the 2014 induction class includes Carlton Flatt, Eddie George, Bridgette C. Gordon, Ronald "Popeye" Jones, Paul Naumoff, Claude Osteen, Carolyn Peck Allie J. Prescott III and Dorsey Sims Jr.


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A fellow blogger, Amy Coffin of WeTree Blog, wrote an article about her blog being included in Australia's Inside History Magazine's top 50 genealogy blogs. I went to Amy's blog to congratulate her, then headed off to see what other blogs made it to the list. I'm always looking for new genealogy blogs to follow.
Jill Ball, another fellow blogger whom I met at RootsTech 2010 wrote the article called "Entering the Blogosphere" which lists 50 top genealogy blogs organized by topic.
I did discover some blogs listed that I wasn't familiar with, so that was great. But much to my surprise, I also found my own Olive Tree Genealogy blog listed in the Top 50! I'm in the category of "must reads from overseas" That makes sense since the magazine is Australian based. So thank you to Jill and Inside History Magazine for this honour! I'm thrilled to be included in such good company and especially pleased since Australia has a special meaning for me.
My 2nd great grandmother Sarah Stead, nee Elvery headed to Australia from England to settle with her husband and four young children in 1867. Sadly the pregnant Sarah delivered her baby on board the ship and then died a few weeks later in quarantine in Sydney Harbour. She was only 32 years old. She's buried in the old Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney and the gravedigger was her husband's brother who lived in Sunny Corners.
Sarah's husband William Stead left two of his children behind with his brother and sailed back to England with the other two (the baby died at 9 months old and is also buried in Australia). One of the children he brought back to England was my great-grandmother. In fact I wrote a 5-part blog series called Abandoned in Australia chronicling my journey to find out what happened to the two boys left behind, and what happened to Sarah and her baby.
I also have many Simpson and Stead relatives in Australia, since my grandmother's brother and uncles settled there in the late 1800s. So you can see I have a strong emotional attachment to Australia. And being placed in the Top 50 Genealogy blogs means a lot to me.
May 12, 2012
Inside History Magazine and Top 50 Genealogy Blog List
A fellow blogger, Amy Coffin of WeTree Blog, wrote an article about her blog being included in Australia's
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- GeniAus said...
Lorine, Although I had read your Aussie posts when you wrote them I had forgotten about your family connections.
So much of what you write has international appeal and you share so generously. You already have many fans downunder and will no doubt have more thanks to our mates st Inside History.
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Shakira is backtracking on remarks she made about her "territorial" boyfriend Gerard Pique, insisting she was only joking about his video ban.
The pop star recently opened up to Billboard magazine and revealed the Spanish soccer star had told her she could no longer appear in sexy videos with men, but now Shakira has taken to her Facebook.com to clarify her comments.
She writes, "I recently said in some interviews that my man could be territorial. For the record, I was being humorous and now I see that some press took it very literally!
"The reality is that we have a beautiful relationship of mutual trust, and jealousy has never been an issue on either side.
"Next time I promise, I'll be more careful when attempting to use my sense of humor, as clearly it can be easily misinterpreted!"
Shakira made the comments in response to questions about her "Can't Remember to Forget You" video with Rihanna, which features the two sexy singers rolling around on a bed together wearing only lingerie.
Shakira suggested she would only be making videos with women due to her boyfriend's ban.


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What is Glance View?
1. To use Glance View, all you need to do is swipe downwards in sleep mode to access notifications—no need to wake or unlock!
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1.Glance View works best when initiated about 0.5 inches below the top of the display [Image 1].
2.When you drag your finger down on the screen over 0.4 inches, the backlight turns on [Image 2 & 3].
3.When you drag your finger down on the screen over 1 inch, glance view screen will be displayed [Image 4].
4.Glance view will not be activated when the screen lock is off.
5.Glance View may not work well in the following cases:
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Jennings sits with sore shoulder after superb catch
ARLINGTON -- Had the Rays won Tuesday night's game against the Rangers, Desmond Jennings would have been credited with a save based on the jaw-dropping catch he made in the eighth inning to rob Leonys Martin of extra bases and a go-ahead RBI.
Adrian Beltre drew a walk from Jeff Beliveau to start the Rangers' eighth and Jim Adduci's sacrifice bunt moved Beltre to second. Brad Boxberger took over for Beliveau and struck out J.P. Arencibia for the second out. Martin then hit a ball to deep center field.
Jennings got a good jump, closing on the drive at the warning track. The Rays center fielder then hauled in the drive one step before running into the wall for the run-saving third out of the inning.
Jennings knocked his hat off in the process, but the former football player never went down.
"The ball came off his bat a little harder than I expected," Boxberger said. "And to look up and see Desmond running that ball down and actually coming down with the catch and holding onto the ball after he ran into the wall is pretty impressive."
Boxberger applauded his teammate as he made his way to the Rays' dugout.
"Yeah, you have to. He saved the game for us at that moment," Boxberger said.
Jennings' left shoulder was a little sore, so he did not start Wednesday night. However, he was available to play and Rays manager Joe Maddon expects him to start Thursday.


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Topless women activists have pounded a huge church bell in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to "celebrate" the pope's resignation.
The nine women from Ukrainian feminist group Femen had their chests and backs emblazoned with the words "Pope No More." They didn't explain their action except to say they are "provocateurs" celebrating Pope Benedict XVI's decision to step down.
At one point the women rang an enormous bell on display in the hall of the landmark cathedral, part of a set of new bronze bells cast for Notre Dame's 850th anniversary this year. Cathedral staff turned off the church lights and pulled the women away.
The women say they're also protesting in support of gay marriage. France's lower house of parliament is voting Tuesday on whether to legalize it.


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Lenawee County's new 2-1-1 health and human services telephone line is expected to be ready for use in September.
Lenawee United Way director Kathleen Schanz told Morenci city council members Monday the program will offer 'round-the-clock service for less-than-emergency needs.
The program started 10 years ago nationally, Schanz said, and has operated out of the Jackson Call Center for several months. Lenawee will join several other southeast Michigan counties through the Jackson center.
Schanz listed three benefits of the service. The 2-1-1 line diverts many non-emergency calls from the 9-1-1 service and allows those personnel to do a more efficient job.
2-1-1 helps cut through red tape with a live responder assessing the situation and consulting a database.
"People get tired of hearing, 'We don't do that' when they call for help," Schanz said. "2-1-1 does do that."
Finally, she said, the service provides each participating community with a barometer to gauge the social needs of an area.
The need for the service appears to be growing, she said. The Jackson center received 27,000 calls in 2007. In the first three months of this year, nearly half that many calls have been made.
Morenci police chief Larry Weeks gave his support for the service.
"I don't know if people realize the number of calls that come to city hall," he said. "There are so many services that we aren't even aware of."


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For Justin Shoji, the Design and Management program was ideal, offering him "fluency in both the business and fashion worlds. I can crunch numbers and analyze spreadsheets, and I also appreciate creativity and design concepts." Although Justin developed many of these skills in the classroom, his experiences as an intern proved equally important in helping him choose a career.
Shoji interned at Fashion File TV, where he worked on broadcasts of events during New York Fashion Week. He also explored the world of event planning as an intern at Mark Stephen Enterprises. But Shoji's favorite internship, arranged by instructor and internship coordinator Steve Lindner, was at Diesel, the fashion retailer, which has an ongoing relationship with Parsons. There he joined the women's wholesale group and "gained incomparable hands-on experience. I was able to assist in appointments with buyers and attend trade shows. There's nothing better than seeing firsthand how things operate." After graduating, Justin parlayed this internship into a full-time job, and today he is happily employed as an account executive in womenswear for Diesel.


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A hip spacer mold forming a spacer with a spacer stem connected to a spacer head has a stem portion for forming a spacer stem. The hip spacer mold also has a plurality of interchangeable head modules configured for alternatively forming spacer heads of a plurality of different predetermined sizes. The head modules are configured to be disposed adjacent the stem portion.
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61/012,082, filed Dec. 7, 2007, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is directed to molds for forming orthopedic implants and, more particularly, to molds for forming temporary spacer orthopedic implants.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
From time to time, orthopedic implants such as knee or hip replacements and the tissue around the implant become infected. The infected implant is removed, and it conventionally takes 4 to 8 weeks or more to adequately treat the infection during which time the implant site is kept immobile. This may cause unused muscles to contract and shrink the space previously occupied by the joint implant that connected articulating bones such as the space between the shortened end of a femur and the acetabulum on the hip bone in the case of a hip replacement.
To prevent the shrinkage of the implant site, one treatment is to replace the infected permanent implant with a temporary implant or spacer made of an antibiotic-filled cement. The spacer preserves the distance between the adjoining bones so that muscle cannot overly contract while the infection is being cleared from the implant site. Additionally, once positioned within the body, the antibiotic leaches out of the spacer to treat tissue near the spacer and prevent further spreading of the infection. Once the infection is cleared, the spacer is replaced with a new permanent implant.
Some known spacers are pre-made and are provided to the physicians performing the surgery. This usually provides little or no opportunity for the physicians to significantly customize or modify the spacer to match the size of a patient's implant site during the surgical procedures for implanting the spacer.
Other spacers are molded by the physicians by filling molds with curable cement during the surgical procedure. In these cases, when hard molds are used, substantial customization is not possible when the wrong size mold is provided. Also, relatively cumbersome, time consuming, and messy procedures are used to fill the molds. For instance, such hard molds are usually filled by pouring the antibiotic filled cement into mold pieces and then placing the cement into all spaces in the mold by using a spoon or spatula.
Other known relatively soft silicone spacer molds are enclosed for injecting cement into the mold from a cement gun with a nozzle. To fill all of the spaces in the enclosed mold, extra time and effort by the physician is required to shift the nozzle of the cement gun in different directions within the mold. Thus, a spacer mold is desired that permits physicians to easily select and adjust the size of the spacer mold even during surgical procedures, and efficiently and cleanly fill the spacer mold.
Referring to
In one form, the stem portion 14 includes corresponding left and right stem members 18 and 20 that may be mirror images of each other or may have different shapes. The left and right stem members 18 and 20 are configured to mate and cooperatively define a main, longitudinally extending cavity or space 22 between them to form the spacer stem 204 in the cavity 22. The stem members 18 and 20 each have an aligning symmetrical groove 24 (only the groove 24 on the right stem member 20 is shown in
Referring to
Referring to
To properly match the actual size of a hip joint implant site, the stem portion 14 may be provided in different sizes. In one form, a plurality of stem portions 14 are available where each stem portion has a different predetermined inner diameter for the cavity 22, such as 12 mm, 14 mm, 16 mm, or 18 mm to name just a few examples, to mold spacers with those dimensions. In this case, the inner diameter may be a generally uniform diameter D1 (shown on
It will be understood that other dimensions may be varied on the stem portion 14 such as additionally or alternatively providing different axial lengths or a variation in any other dimension for the internal cavity 22 that would be convenient to have available in different sizes. A stem portion 14 with a desired size may be ordered from the manufacturer after the implant site is conveniently measured with X-rays, imaging, or other non-evasive scanning technology. Otherwise, in one example, a plurality of the stem portions 14 may be provided in a kit so that the surgeon can use the closest fitting stem portion during a surgical procedure when the implant site is open and accessible for measurement.
To add even further adaptability, the head modules 48 and 50 also are provided in different predetermined sizes and are interchangeable on the stem portion 14. In the illustrated form, head modules 48 and 50 each have a concave, arcuate, internal surface 57 (shown in
The internal surfaces 57 and 58 have a matching internal diameter D2 (shown on
In one embodiment, while the inner diameter D2 may vary from head module to head module (or from pair to pair of head modules), the head modules will all have the same or similar exterior dimensions so that they all fit on any size stem portion 14 to provide maximum adaptability. Of course, other configurations are contemplated where only certain head module sizes can be used with stem portions of a certain size.
Referring to FIGS. 3 and 6-7, the stem portion 14 also provides the cavity 22 with an adjustable length. Generally, the stem portion 14 has a first member, such as the stem-end mold piece 28, and a second member, such as the stem portion 14, where the first and second members are movable relative to each other to adjust the length of the stem mold cavity. To this end, the stem-end mold piece 28 is received, at least in part, into the stem member or members 18 and 20 and is adjustable to a plurality of positions. Each position forms a different length for the stem mold cavity 22 to mold a spacer stem 204 of a different length.
More specifically, the stem-end mold piece 28 has a cup-shaped portion 66 with an opening 68 that faces toward a section of the cavity 22 from which cement will be flowing to the stem-end mold piece. In this case, the opening 68 faces an intermediate section 69 (shown in
Referring to
The pin 76 has a connection portion 90 for releasably connecting the pin 76 to the stem portion 14. In one form, the connection portion 90 has two or more flexible fingers 92 with barbed ends 94. The fingers 92 are biased outward so that they can be flexed inward to move the pin 76 through the slot 84 and opening 80 on the handle portion 70. The slot 84 has a widened section 96 to provide clearance for the fingers 92 to shift back outward to their natural position once the pin 76 extends through the handle portion 70. In this position, the barbed ends 94 oppose tapered retaining surfaces 98 at the widened section 96 that retain the barbed ends 94 and in turn the pin 76 in the slot 84. This structure limits unintentional pull-out of the pin 76 from the slot 84 unless a user pulls on the grasping ring 78 with sufficient force. This cams the barbed ends 94 on the retaining surfaces 98 thereby transversely pressing the fingers 92 together to clear the retaining surfaces 98 and squeeze the pin 76 so that the pin 76 can be translated within the slot. The bottom 88 of the slot 84 limits further insertion of the pin 76 into the slot 84 as does a flange 100 on the pin 76 that has a width greater than the inner width of the slot 84.
As shown in
With the illustrated embodiment, the stem-end mold piece 28 is provided with at least two predetermined positions, one with the pin 76 engaged to the stem-end mold piece 28 (
With four different stem portion sizes, six different head module sizes, and two different stem length sizes, at least 48 different spacer mold sizes are provided. It will be understood that depending on the sizes offered and modifications of the structure as mentioned above, more or less spacer mold sizes may be provided. Thus, while in one embodiment all three of (1) the modularity of the head modules, (2) the modularity of the stem portion, and (3) the adjustability of the stem length are provided, it will be understood that only one or two of any of these features may be provided instead.
Referring to
The port 106 is sufficiently rigid to remain connected to the cement gun while the cement is injected under relatively high pressure, such as, in one form, at approximately 300 psi to 350 psi. The remainder of the spacer mold 10 including the port 106 also has a sufficient rigidity to receive the cement under high pressure without compromising an effectiveness of the spacer mold and unintentional disconnect of an injector from the port 106. In other words, the port 106 and the rest of the spacer mold 10 will not break, split, or crack when the pressurized cement impacts the spacer mold 10. For these purposes, in one form, high density polyethylene is used to make the spacer mold 10.
The port 106 is also configured to permit the cement gun 12 to be detached from the port 106 after filling is complete. Thus, the port 106 may include an internally threaded, rigid, cylindrical wall 110 that releasably receives the threaded nozzle 113 of the cartridge 12. In the illustrated example, the cylindrical wall 110 has a central axis C that extends transversely from a longitudinal axis L of the stem portion 14.
Referring to
Optionally, the stem portion 14 may have a second (or more) port 106a with its own plug 112a (shown in dashed line) spaced from port 106 along the stem portion 14 to provide the cement more directly to other parts of the cavity 22. This may better ensure the cement fills all parts of cavity 22. Also, since the cement has such a high viscosity, it is difficult for practitioners to comprehend that the cement gun creates sufficient pressure to place the cement throughout the spacer mold 10. Thus, a practitioner can use the open additional port 106a to determine by sight, if the cavity 22 is full, and then, if needed, provide extra cement to further fill other areas of cavity 22 around the additional port 106a such as by the lower end portion 56 of the stem portion 14 in the illustrated example.
The reinforcing bar 26 may be used to strengthen the spacer 200 and reduce the amount of cement material necessary to fill the spacer mold 10. To embed the reinforcing bar 76 in the spacer 200, the reinforcing bar 26 may be generally spaced from an interior surface 122 defining the cavity 22 so that cement can generally spread to all areas between the stem portion 14 and reinforcing bar 26. For this purpose, centering projections 124 extend outwardly from an outer surface 120 of the reinforcing bar 26 to engage the interior surface 122. Alternatively, the centering projections 124 are separate from the reinforcing bar 26 and extend from the stem portion 14 to hold the reinforcing bar 26 in the spaced position. At least one centering projection 126 extends from the reinforcing bar 26 and engages at least one corresponding, interiorly extending protrusion 128 extending from the interior surface 122 (or vice-versa) so that the reinforcing bar 26 is both centered away from interior surface 122 and is secured longitudinally, laterally, and/or rotationally relative to the stem portion 14. In one configuration, the protrusion 128 is generally ring shaped and receives the centering projection 126 in the protrusion's center. Here, two protrusion-projection engagements exist on opposite sides of the reinforcing bar 26. The reinforcing bar 26 is made of cast Co—Cr and has a generally widened disc-shaped, head portion 130 for extending into, and filling a portion of, the head molding chamber 46 as shown in
Alternatively, as shown in
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In the illustrated embodiment, the spacer mold 10 is provided to the physicians with the flanges 142 and 144, 146 and 148, pre-assembled to each other with the proper amount of tension to provide the vents 140 (and with the reinforcing bar 26 and stem-end mold piece 28 placed therein). Also in the illustrated form, flanges 142 and 144 on the left stem member 18 have an array of spaced fastener receiving collars 154 that extend transversely to the longitudinal axis L and align with collars 156 on the opposite corresponding flanges (144 and 148). The collars 154 and 156 receive and hold the fasteners 150. In the illustrated form, the spacer mold 10 has 15 fasteners 150 spread along the length of the spacer mold, although more or less could be used.
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The head modules 48 and 50 have opposing surfaces 166 (only one is shown in
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It will also be understood that venting of gases may take place at other locations as well, such as between the plug and port 106 (while the cement is setting), between the lower wall 104 of the stem portion 14 and the stem-end mold piece flanges 102 or 103, between the pin 76 and the slot 84, and between the cylindrical wall 42 of the stem portion 14 and the wall 160 of the securing member 54, for example.
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While in one form, the spacer mold 10 is completely assembled before the gun cartridge 12 is used to inject cement into the spacer mold 10. In an alternative form, cement is placed within sections of the spacer mold 10 before the spacer mold 10 is fully assembled. In this example, securing member 54 is placed upside-down and the head modules 48 and 50 are placed in the securing member 54. The head modules 48 and 50 are then filled with cement before attaching the head modules 48 and 50 and securing member 54 to the stem portion 14.
Similarly, the stem portion 14 may be at least partially filled with cement before the head portion 16 is attached to the stem portion 14. The stem portion 14 may be filled either through the port 106 or through an opening 198 (shown in
In one case, after both the head and stem portions 14 and 16 are separately filled with cement, the head portion 16 is connected to the stem portion 14 for integrally forming the spacer head 202 with spacer stem 204. Optionally, a cement gun may be connected to the port 106 to further fill the spacer mold 10 with cement after the stem portion 14 and the head portion 16 are connected together. This may collapse air pockets existing in the cement. In such a case, the cement may or may not be injected under relatively high pressure.
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While this invention has been described as having preferred embodiments, the present invention can be further modified within the spirit and scope of this disclosure. This application is therefore intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention using its general principles. Further, this application is intended to cover such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art to which this invention pertains and which fall within the limits of the appended claims.
1. A hip spacer mold for forming a spacer with a spacer stem connected to a spacer head, the hip spacer mold comprising:
- a stem portion defining a stem mold cavity and having a first member and a second member being movable relative to each other to adjust the length of the stem mold cavity.
2. The hip spacer mold of claim 1 wherein the first member is received at least in part into the second member and is adjustable to a plurality of positions, wherein each position forms a different length for the stem mold cavity for forming a spacer stem of a different length.
3. The hip spacer mold of claim 1 further comprising a retaining mechanism configured to releasably lock the first member in a selected position relative to the second member.
4. The hip spacer mold of claim 3 wherein at least a portion of the retaining mechanism is integrally formed with the first member.
5. The hip spacer mold of claim 3 wherein the retaining mechanism is a pin, and wherein the first member defines at least one surface for engaging the pin.
6. A mold for forming a temporary prosthesis comprising:
- a body defining an interior cavity for forming a temporary prosthesis and a port for accessing the interior, the port being sufficiently rigid for releasable connection to an injector of pressurized, curable material.
7. The mold of claim 6 wherein the port and the body are sufficiently rigid to receive curable material at least at approximately 300 psi without compromising an effectiveness of the mold and unintentional disconnect of an injector from the port.
8. The mold of claim 7 wherein the port and the body are sufficiently rigid to receive the material up to approximately at most 350 psi.
9. The mold of claim 6 further comprising a plug for closing the port so that the mold can be set in any orientation while the material is curing in the interior cavity.
10. The mold of claim 9 wherein the plug includes at least one surface configured for forming a surface of a prosthesis being formed in the interior cavity.
11. The mold of claim 6 wherein the body has at least one removable section and at least one grasping portion connected to the at least one removable section for pulling the at least one grasping portion to tear the at least one removable section from the body.
12. The mold of claim 11 wherein the at least one grasping portion is integrally formed with the removable section.
13. The mold of claim 11 wherein the grasping portion is generally annular.
14. The mold of claim 6 wherein the body further comprises an interior surface with at least one interiorly extending projection for supporting a reinforcing member generally spaced from the interior surface and for axially and rotationally fixing the reinforcing member relative to the interior surface.
15. A mold for forming a temporary prosthesis comprising:
- a body defining an interior cavity for forming a prosthesis and a port for access to the interior cavity for receiving pressurized curing material; and a compliance element being disposed within the interior cavity to be at least partially embedded within a prosthesis and being configured to compress when curing material is placed in the interior cavity and on the compliance element so that the compliance element applies a force to urge the curing material against the body while curing.
16. The mold of claim 15 wherein the compliance element includes at least one of a balloon and a spring.
17. A method of forming a one piece hip spacer with a spacer head integral with a spacer stem comprising:
- at least partially filling a head portion of a spacer mold with curable material for forming a spacer head;
- at least partially filling a stem portion of the spacer mold with a curable material for forming the spacer stem; and
- after both the head and stem portions separately receive the curable material, connecting the head portion to the stem portion for integrally forming the spacer head and spacer stem.
18. The method according to claim 17 further comprising continuing to fill the spacer mold with the curable material after the stem portion and the head portion are connected together.
19. The method according to claim 17 wherein the step of continuing to fill includes filling the spacer mold with pressurized curable material.
Type: Application
Filed: Dec 4, 2008
Publication Date: Jun 11, 2009
Patent Grant number: 7789646
Inventors: Sean HANEY (North Canton, OH), Scott M. Sporer (Wheaton, IL), Michael E. Hawkins (Columbia City, IN)
Application Number: 12/328,062
International Classification: B29C 39/02 (20060101);


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The Learned Treatise Exception Revisited: The Defense Perspective", Minnesota Defense, Col. 13, Issue 2. (Co-author)
"Ending Gender Inequity", Minnesota Defense, Vol. 14, Issue 1, Winter 1993.
"Review of the Bad Faith Law in Minnesota Both for First-Party Benefits and Excess Claims", Insurance Law Seminar - Sponsored by the Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, October 8 and 9, 1992
"Bad Faith Litigation" - Sponsored by the National Business Institue, Inc., February 3, 1993
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Womens Shoe Dictionary
Who knew there were so many shoe options for women?
Knowing what's out there is half the fashion battle we face every day when planning our outfits so consider yourself armed with this handy visual shoe dictionary infographic.
Includes the anatomy of a shoe at the bottom.


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SAS® Forecast Server
Forecasting software that automatically generates large numbers of high-quality forecasts.
Perform large-scale forecasting – no coding required. Choose an appropriate forecasting model. Optimize parameters. And produce huge volumes of high-quality forecasts. All automatically. With our forecasting software, there's no need for human intervention unless desired.
Don't write code – unless you want to.
Get easy access to our powerful forecasting software with the SAS Forecast Studio GUI. No need to manually code your models. And because our solution operates in both interactive and batch environments, user skills and needs determine whether the interface or a batch job is appropriate. More advanced users can access even more capabilities using the SAS programming language.
Reduce the chance of personal bias.
Generate millions of statistically based, trustworthy forecasts automatically. Because large forecasting processes are more manageable, analysts can focus on the most important (or problematic) forecasts. Large-scale automation also means less manual intervention. This reduces the chance that organizational politics or personal agendas will contaminate the forecasts.
Deliver forecasts that reflect reality.
The software automatically selects specific drivers, holidays or events that can affect the business forecasting process, so your forecasts better reflect the intricacies of your business. The most appropriate model for your data is built automatically, resulting in forecasts that are as accurate as can reasonably be expected, given the nature of the behavior being forecast.
Plan more effectively for the future.
A virtually unlimited model repository makes it possible to create more appropriate forecasting models for a wider range of behaviors. Planners can test what-if scenarios and determine how they are likely to affect future demand. And graphics help you visualize the effects of holidays, sales promotions and unexpected events so you can better plan future activities.
- Easy-to-use GUI. Provides the power of SAS forecasting models and analysis without having to know SAS programming.
- Scalability and modeling. Facilitates ongoing and repeatable forecasting throughout the entire organization.
- Easy manageability. Provides point-and-click access to powerful forecasting capabilities.
- Interactive time series exploration and analysis. Provides a graphical user interface for exploring and analyzing large volumes of time series data prior to forecasting.
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NEC Wrap & Tourney PreviewPosted by Brian Goodman on March 3rd, 2011
Ray Floriani of College Chalk Talk is the RTC correspondent for the NEC and MAAC conferences. With the tournament set to tip Thursday, get up to speed on the NEC with the following wrap-up and postseason preview.
The Northeast Conference postseason tournament tips off Thursday with four quarterfinal games. In the NEC, only the top eight finishers qualify for postseason play, and each game is played on the home court of the higher seed. On Sunday there will be two semifinals and the final will be aired on ESPN the following Wednesday.
Postseason Prospects
Aside from St. John's recapturing New York City, LIU might be getting headlines as the New York area's best shot at getting into the Big Dance. The Blackbirds are "flying" under the radar, but that's fine with coach Jim Ferry. They just go out and win. The first order of business is to win the conference tournament. The NEC is a one-bid league and even their 24 win season, impressive as it is, would not earn an at-large invite. LIU is an uptempo 75 possession team. Their TO rate is 21%, but they only force opponents into a 20% on the defensive end. Don't be fooled by that defensive number regarding turnovers. The Blackbirds play solid defense as shown by their 98 defensive efficiency. On the offensive end, their efficiency is a 109. The margin, offense minus defense, a very healthy +11 for all games. Another of the Four Factors that stands out is free throw rate. LIU checks in at 51% while opponents are 26%. Simply, Ferry's club does not allow their opponents to get to the line. Looking at individual pace, LIU dictates as a number of their games have been contested at a rapid 70 possession or more tempo.
Last year, the nation found out about the NEC as Robert Morris took second-seed Villanova to OT before losing in the NCAAs. Historically, teams representing the conference haven't been the easiest out for highly regarded opposition. LIU fits that mold perfectly.


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What else you should know about me
I started studying Management in Russia in order to learn the entrepreneurial way of thinking and to gain expert knowledge in economics. Unfortunately, studying in my home country was not challenging enough for me. I was one of the best students in my age group and had excellent marks, but I decided to find a more challenging place for me and to not wait too long.
These two and a half years at a Russian university had their purpose. I met many interesting people with whom I still keep in touch. I took currency trading courses and deepened my knowledge of this subject by myself. In Russia, I began to read different daily newspapers and journals of economics (Handelsblatt, The Economist, Bloomberg). Parallel to my studying, I was determined to improve my German in order to study in Germany.
In Freiburg I was much more challenged and had more fun while studying. During my time at the university in Germany I have started to learn English. After three and a half years of intensive learning, I passed my first academic IEALTS test with overall score of 7.5 and can now speak and write fluent in English. Because I am interested in politics, I also visited for a time the young liberals gathering in Freiburg. Because of that, I can better understand the German people and Germany now.


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CARMEL, IN — The mayor of Carmel, IN, is challenging his city's residents and employees to improve their fitness level and lead a healthier lifestyle. As part of the challenge, Clarian North Medical Center will sponsor health awareness seminars, and individuals will form teams and compete in a fitness challenge from Jan. 6-April 28. By becoming a healthier city, Carmel, IN, could have an advantage over other cities, says Jim Brainard, mayor.
"When site selectors go to look for places to put companies, regional headquarters and corporate headquarters, they are looking at the cost of health insurance. If we are unhealthy as a region or as a state, that's going to impact our economic development," he says in an article on Channel 8's wishtv.com.


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SkyMap was released on Windows 8 store. It can be installed for free on any
Windows 8 PC or tablet.
Here are a few instructions:
- activate point to sky by pointing the tablet above your head (start the motion
from under the horizon line)
- compass sensor on some Windows8 tablets are not very accurate - we hope
they'll be fixed by future driver updates; the sensor can be calibrated by
switching the tablet from portrait to landscape mode
- use Windows search and settings charms on sidebar interface to get more from
SkyMap app (swipe from right side of the screen or move the mouse there)
- click on a sky object to get details and click further on wikipedia link (for
some of them)
SkyMap Free for Windows 8 can be found here:
SkyMap Free for Windows 8
The latest update brings a completely new and modern graphics experience: a simulated virtual reality display of the night sky using a realistic Milky Way background and over 70 famous constellations drawings based on
Johannes Hevelius's work.
Click here for more details.
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